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[[spoiler:When he was a child, he met the evil spirit BOB and was possessed by him. After hearing the news of his daughter's murder, Leland suffers a nervous breakdown, which results in him killing murder suspect Jacques Renault at the end of season one.]]
[[spoiler:At the beginning of season two, Leland awakens to find his hair has turned white. He becomes very upbeat, joyfully dancing and singing show tunes. However, it isn't long until he is arrested by Cooper and Truman for Jacques Renault's murder, but is soon released due to being well-respected by the townsfolk.]]
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* BrokenBird: The biggest example in the whole series. Thanks to years of [[spoiler: sexual abuse by her demonically possessed father]], she ends up filled with self loathing and hatred, descending into drug addiction and prostitution in the process.
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The most popular female student of the Twin Peaks High School, Laura was seen as an exemplary and beloved member of the local community. But her sudden murder and the subsequent investigation brings many of the dark secrets surrounding her to light, revealing that behind her pretty, wholesome and seemingly perfect surface she was in reality a severely troubled and lonely young woman deeply embroiled both in Twin Peaks' seedy underbelly and as well the town's more strange and unearthly happenings.
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* BerserkButton: ''Fire Walk With Me'' shows that even in her darkest moments of apathy and hedonism, the prospect of Donna being corrupted or coming to any sort of harm would bring her back around screaming and fighting.
* BiTheWay: ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'' reveals that at least three of her numerous lovers were female: [[spoiler:Ronette Pulaski, Blackie, and Josie Packard]].
* TheChosenOne: ''The Return'' strongly hints that [[spoiler: The Giant created her through some sort of indirect immaculate conception to suffer at the hands of BOB and die a martyr]], or something similar anyway.
* CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler: If the theory that Laura was designed by The Giant/????? to combat BOB by becoming a martyr and setting off a chain of events that lead to BOB's downfall is correct, then the poor girl literally had cosmic beings ensure that she was destined to be ''molested and killed''.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:For several years before murdering her, at least since her mid-adolescence, Laura's father Leland had been molesting her while possessed by BOB.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: In the prequel movie, ''Fire Walk With Me'', we see fairly little of her happy, well-adjusted public face.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Wow'' does it make sense why she went as wrong as she did.
* GiveGeeksAChance: Even the timid, mentally fragile shut in Harold Smith managed to get a piece of Laura when they made out and almost had sex in ''Fire Walk With Me.''
* GoGetterGirl: Laura subverts this as we get a glimpse of the darkness behind her seemingly perfect facade.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:She suffers a ''major'' one in the prequel film when she finds out (or at least strongly suspects at the time) that BOB is possessing her dad, Leland.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Laura Palmer was one of the prostitutes at One Eyed Jacks.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: A backstory-heavy but highly cryptic sequence from ''The Return'' implies that this is her role.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Ending each episode with a still picture of her dressed as a prom queen was ''surely'' meant to evoke this.
* MrViceGuy: Laura Palmer turns out to have been involved in cocaine, prostitution, and [[spoiler: demonic possession.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:BOB's main pleasure in possessing Leland seems to have been having him molest Laura.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: We see her alive in ''Fire Walk With Me'', but in the series proper she only shows up in recordings and flashbacks.
* ReallyGetsAround: It's probably quicker to count up the characters in Twin Peaks at the time of Laura's murder who ''weren't'' in love with and/or sleeping with her.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Very much the case with Donna in ''Fire Walk With Me''.
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Played with -- the impression is not a sexually liberated young woman expressing herself under the safe cover of being a "good girl" as much as someone isolated and hurting in ways few people ever knew while she was alive.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A. She kept up a very good and wholesome image while her life was falling apart at the seems.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Sheryl Lee played both Laura ''and'' her cousin Madeline.
!!Leland Palmer
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->Played by: Ray Wise
The father of Laura Palmer, Leland is a well-respected lawyer in Twin Peaks.
[[spoiler:When he was a child, he met the evil spirit BOB and was possessed by him. After hearing the news of his daughter's murder, Leland suffers a nervous breakdown, which results in him killing murder suspect Jacques Renault at the end of season one.]]
[[spoiler:At the beginning of season two, Leland awakens to find his hair has turned white. He becomes very upbeat, joyfully dancing and singing show tunes. However, it isn't long until he is arrested by Cooper and Truman for Jacques Renault's murder, but is soon released due to being well-respected by the townsfolk.]]
[[spoiler:Not long after the trial, he brutally murders his niece Maddie Ferguson (who bears a strong resemblance to Laura) the day before she is supposed return to her hometown, Missoula. The police find out about the murder and, with help from the Giant, Cooper reveals that Leland is Laura's killer. When Leland is taken in for interrogation, BOB assumes full control over his body and forces him to commit suicide just before leaving. Leland tells of his tragic childhood and the murders he committed and, with Cooper's help, dies peacefully while seeing a vision of his daughter.]]
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* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler: In ''The Return'', an aged Leland appears to Cooper in the Black Lodge begging him to find Laura. This seems to imply that Leland's soul is trapped in the Black Lodge even after death.]]
* AmoralAttorney: When he goes back to working for Ben Horne, it is quickly revealed that his speciality is advising Ben on how to LoopholeAbuse his way out of paying taxes and how to whitewash his money.
* AbusiveParents: He definitely isn't one himself, but [[spoiler:he becomes one whenever BOB is in control of him, including forcing him to commit ParentalIncest. ''Fire Walk With Me'' does however imply that there was [[TheCorruptible an abusive aspect to Leland's personality all along]], that BOB [[TheCorrupter was able to latch on to and intensify]].]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By BOB]].
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: BOB leaves his body moments before his death and Leland has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction.]]
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:BOB, though ''Fire Walk With Me'' implies that he is more of a devil on Leland's shoulder.]]
* ExcessiveMourning : While Leland's grief over his daughter's death is understandable, it frequently goes so over-top that it crosses into the realm of the ridiculous, and some of the scenes he causes with his occasional breakdowns means that several townspeople can't help but make fun of him behind his back.
* FateWorseThanDeath:[[spoiler:Not only was possesed by Bob, but after his death his soul appears to be trapped eternally within the Black Lodge in a similar manner to Cooper.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: In Season 2 as Leland is about to die and overcome with horror over his actions, Cooper tries to comfort him and tells him to GoIntoTheLight towards what is implied to be the White Lodge. It seems to work on Leland as he apparently see's a vision of Laura and dies happy. Unfortunately in ''The Return'' Cooper see's an older Leland in the Black Lodge pathetically oblivious to Laura's fate.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: Frequently when he grieves over Laura.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turns white after [[spoiler:he murders Jacques Renault]].
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: Has been molesting Laura under BOB's influence since her early adolescence]].
* ThePollyanna: He becomes a weird, grown-up male version of this trope at the beginning of the second season after [[spoiler:he's killed Jacques Renault and BOB has taken more complete control of him,]] which literally prevents him from staying upset about anything, including tragic events, for too long and to frequently break into singing and dancing.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:There some hints, especially in ''Fire Walk With Me'', that Leland's sexual abuse of Laura wasn't only down to BOB forcing Leland into doing it, but also that BOB was able to play on some repressed, dark urges already present in Leland.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After BOB makes him bash his head and hangs him out to dry, Leland has this moment where he reveals to Cooper all of the horrible things BOB has made him do and his horror upon remembering that he killed and molested his own daughter.]]
* SanitySlippage: He starts off pretty reserved and somber after Laura's death, only to become increasingly over-the-top in his mourning process. [[spoiler: And then we find out about the influence BOB's had on him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Hoo boy! He is after all [[spoiler: the rapist and murderer of his own daughter]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Leland's hair turning white is a sign that [[spoiler:BOB has completely taken over.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Once he's arrested, making him useless to BOB, BOB forces him to kill himself by smashing his head against a wall]].
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''Fire Walk With Me'' [[spoiler: it's shown that Leland, either by himself or under the influence of BOB, frequented the prostitutes of Deer Meadows like Teresa Banks while still married to Sarah.]]
!!Sarah Palmer
->Played by: Grace Zabriskie
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The wife of Leland Palmer and the mother of Laura Palmer.
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* AdultFear: Has a fear her daughter is dead before its confirmed and later that her husband is going insane. [[spoiler: She's correct both times.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Spends most of her time in ''The Return'' getting drunk and watching TV, with seemingly nothing else to fill out the day.
* BigNo: Has a number of these reactions, not just with no over events in the series.
* BrokenBird: ''Quite'' thoroughly in ''The Return''. Considering all the shit she went through in the original, it's more than understandable.
* CloserToEarth: While still very shattered by her grief over Laura's death, she is not nearly the complete wreck that Leland is. [[spoiler: Subverted by the fact she missed her daughter was being sexually abused since puberty and had become a drug addicted prostitute.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Has either this or a SymbioticPossession going on. It's not really clear who or what is possessing her, other than that she has a very tough and violent inhabiting spirit that becomes active when she's threatened]].
* FreakOut: Has one in the middle of a grocery store in ''The Return''.
* GrumpyOldWoman: She's quite cold and rude to everyone in ''The Return'', but it's pretty understandable considering the traumas she's suffered.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Her ignorance to what was going on in her own household was tremendous.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:All but confirmed in ''The Return.'' She takes her own face off, revealing a terrifying void behind it.]]
* HystericalWoman: As BOB taunts her.
* NotHerself: [[spoiler: Possibly]].
* ParentsAsPeople: She seems to have been grossly ignorant of Laura's issues but was never malicious.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: She is frequently haunted by visions of BOB and the Pale Horse.
* TheScream: Completely breaks down when she discovers her daughter is dead.
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[[folder:The Briggses]]
!!Major Garland Briggs
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->Played by: Creator/DonSDavis
A high ranking member of the Air Force involved in UFO investigations, spiritualism, and the White Lodge. He is also Bobby Briggs' father.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: His lack of expression, odd SpockSpeak, and obsessive traits may not be only the result of a lifelong military career or working largely in secret, but possibly signs of some form of mental disorder.
* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' turns into this for him in its last chapter. The second to last entry has him describing his relief that Cooper has returned from the woods seemingly unscathed and he has asked sheriff Truman to tell Cooper to visit him once he recovers, before the entry cuts off with Briggs going down to greet Cooper who is ringing on his doorbell. The last entry has Briggs extremely worried, as Cooper was behaving very strangely during his visit. Briggs then writes that he needs to return to the listening post as quickly as possible, before the entry ends with "*M*A*Y*D*A*Y*"]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' if William Hastings questionable testimony is anything to go by then Hastings entered the Black Lodge and witnessed the spirit of Briggs ascend into what is implied to be the White Lodge while mentioning the name ''Cooper'' several times.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Neither Garland or Briggs is especially uncommon but together sounds like a comic book character.
* TheApprentice: [[spoiler:To Douglas Milford, who handpicked him to be his successor as "the Watcher in the Woods".]]
* BaldOfAwesome: This ''is'' Creator/DonSDavis, after all.
* BigGood: A mortal version of the trope like Cooper.
* BrokenPedestal: While he admits that any government body, especially a secretive one, could become corrupt, the Major asserts that the classified information he deals with is for a noble cause. [[spoiler: He quickly becomes disillusioned after realizing the Air Force has malicious plans for the White Lodge.]]
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Dies in a mysterious fire after meeting with BOB!Cooper]]
** [[spoiler: An giant apparition of his head latter appears to Cooper in the Lodge saying "Blue Rose"]]
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler: Died in a fire some years prior to the TimeSkip]], as Don S. Davis sadly passed away in 2008.
* CoolOldGuy: More like "Cool Middle-aged Guy", but close enough.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Actually ''more so'' than [[spoiler: Cooper]]. Though it might be a result of [[spoiler:him being in on the (seemingly) BenevolentConspiracy]].
* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 1. Down to his uniform being his attire of choice for seemingly everything.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: What more can you say about a man whose greatest fear is the "possibility that love is not enough"?
* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' he is revealed to be the mysterious "Archivist", the in-universe collector of the dossier the book is based on. It actually also brings the LiteraryAgentHypothesis into play, as it becomes gradually obvious that Briggs might have had a better understanding of the mysterious things going in Twin Peaks than most people, but even his perspective is shown to be flawed, limited and riddled with blind spots, and it is apparent he is ultimately missing several pierces of the different puzzles and have misunderstood certain events, as some of his conclusions contradicts events seen in the series and at several points he starts blatantly speculating and guessing about several things.]]
* NotSoStoic: His various [[spoiler: kidnappings]] take a serious toll on his psyche, to the point of stammering and shaking.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' the headless, vivisected corpse of a man identified as Major Briggs has apparently been popping up several times over the years with the Military covering it up. Tellingly it's Briggs' head that floats by Cooper in the Black Lodge.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Before he was killed by the Doppelganger, Briggs left instructions on how to enter the Black Lodge and coordinates that reveal the existence of two Coopers with his wife who passed it on to Sheriff Truman, Hawk and their son Bobby 25 years after Season 2. His legacy seems to be a key factor in the events of ''The Return''.]]
* RaisedCatholic: Briefly alluded to in the series (he and his wife wear a lot of cross iconography and keep an altar to Jesus in their house), but addressed further in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', which discusses his interest in religious mysticism as a product of having been brought up in a version of this trope that plays against type.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Emotional distance and weird formality aside, he makes every effort to respect that his son chooses a very different life from him.
* SharpDressedMan: Can't go wrong in a military uniform.
* SpockSpeak: One of the causes of the distance between himself and his son is just how bizarrely-eloquent he is.
* UnstuckInTime: [[spoiler: After BOB!Cooper apparently murdered Briggs in a fire, a mutilated corpse with his fingerprints has popped up several times over the past two decades. The most recent corpse had the coroner declare that the body had only been dead for a few days despite Briggs having died almost thirty years ago.]]
!!Robert "Bobby" Briggs
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bobby_briggs25.jpg[[/labelnote]] Twenty-five years later...]]
->Played by: Dana Ashbrook
The captain of the Twin Peaks football team and a small time drug dealer. He's the son of Major Briggs and the boyfriend of Laura Palmer.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as [[spoiler:next to her he was both weak and innocent.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: Has cleaned up his act by ''The Return'' but that has actually ''alienated'' him from his ex-wife and daughter.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In ''Fire Walk With Me'', he wastes no time bragging about his "pocket rocket" to Laura.
* FairCop: [[spoiler: Twenty five years after Season 2, Bobby has joined the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department and his good looks have managed to stay intact in his older state.]]
* GetRichQuickScheme: Spends most of his time coming up with these, and he's ''terrible'' at it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Between Season 2 and ''The Return'', he goes from a drug dealing punk to [[spoiler: a cop who specifically catches the kind of criminal he once was.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: By a ''long shot''. [[spoiler: Ironically, he enters government work after his father's death.]]
* JerkJock: An enormous ass in high school as well as the town's top football player.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He mellows out over the course of the show [[spoiler: and the TimeSkip]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Cheats on Laura with Shelly, only to become enraged with James for having a relationship with her.
* LargeHam: Bobby can be quite hammy when he gets emotional. Some of the best examples can be seen in the pilot episode when he's both accused and later questioned about possibly murdering Laura Palmer as well as in the fourth episode with his big [[BigWordShout AAAAAAMEEEEN!!!]] at Laura's funeral, and earlier in the same episode when his father implies that he's afraid of said funeral (specifically the last part of his response to that).
-->'''Bobby Briggs:''' AFRAID?!! I'M GOING TO TURN IT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UP!!SIDE!!DOWN!!]]
** And let's not forget the scene where he ''dances backwards'' into the school hallway when talking to Laura in TheMovie.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Ends up growing up into a ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to look out for his wayward offspring, much like his own father.
* TheLostLenore: While he loves Shelly, he is utterly devastated by Laura's death [[spoiler: and still cries thinking about her twenty-five years later.]]
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: The sight of Laura Palmer's Homecoming Queen portrait in 2016 almost immediately brings him to tears.]]
* MrFanservice: He's very, ''very'' pretty.
* OlderAndWiser: By ''The Return'', [[spoiler:he's become a deputy helping protect Twin Peaks.]]
* RebelliousSpirit: ''Very'' different from his wholesome parents. [[spoiler: Until ''The Return''.]]
* ReformedButRejected: An odd example as Bobby's wife is implied to have left him because she found his new good guy attitude to be boring.
* SmokingIsCool: And as expected, his far more clean-cut father doesn't approve of it.
* StraightMan: His LargeHam traits get downplayed when he starts working for Horne, most likely because Ben's SanitySlippage is enough to give ''him'' pause.
* WildCard: Screws up a number of really important criminal schemes by dangerous criminals as a teenager just by being ''that'' stupid.
* VillainProtagonist: We follow a number of his petty crimes across the series which include drug dealing and welfare fraud. This stops with ''The Return'' where he's become a Sheriff's deputy.
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[[folder:The Haywards]]
!!Donna Hayward
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donna_h_m.jpg[[/labelnote]] ''Fire Walk With Me'']]
->Played by: Lara Flynn Boyle (TV show), Moira Kelly (''Fire Walk With Me'')
Laura Palmer's best friend and the daughter of the town doctor. He is romantically involved with James Hurley after Laura's death.
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* TheChick: One of the most emotional, heartfelt, and decent characters on the show. Sometimes.
** Becomes TheDarkChick to an extent with many FemmeFatale qualities that, sadly, don't last.
* DoggedNiceGirl: For James. She starts to change with CharacterDevelopment and James status as an OutOfFocus character.
* DrivenByEnvy: While Laura's best friend, it's clear she also wanted many things Laura had like James as well as a confident sexual persona.
* FemmeFatale: Becomes one of these to get the missing pages of Laura's diary.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In the season 2 finale, we find out that her biological father is actually [[spoiler:Benjamin Horne]].
* MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie and ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.''
* NotHerself: At the beginning of season 2. It is implied that she (either subconsciously or because of the Twin Peaks' general weirdness) is somehow absorbing some of Laura's personality traits from wearing her sunglasses. An alternate interpretation is she's simply enjoying taking a walk on the (slightly) wilder side.
* OnlySaneMan: One of the most normal people in Twin Peaks, which makes her frequently confused and bewildered by events around her.
* TheOtherDarrin: Moira Kelly in ''Fire Walk With Me'' was Lara Flynn Boyle's unpopular replacement.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: ''Fire Walk With Me'' makes it clear that she and Laura were involved in one.
* TheScully: Donna has as many Lodge encounters as Agent Cooper but misreads them as mundane events.
* SmokingIsCool: Starting with season 2.
* StarCrossedLovers: Donna imagines herself and James to be this but it's {{Subverted}} in the fact no one really seems to care at worst (except her boyfriend at the time) and many others actively support them.
!!Eileen Hayward
->Played by: Mary Jo Deschanel
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Donna's mother and the wife of Doc Hayward. She is paraplegic from an unknown accident.
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* CutShort: We'll never know all the details of [[spoiler:her relationship with Ben Horne]]. [[SeasonalRot Even though they're pretty obvious]].
* HappilyMarried: Subverted. At least at one point during her marriage. It's true in the present day.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Ben Horne treats his relationship with Eileen far more seriously than he does his other affairs.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: She's implied to be an excellent mother and NiceGirl who still had an affair [[spoiler: that birthed Donna.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Accepts, unlike everyone else, Ben Horne has changed. Unfortunately, is the one most keenly aware his attempts to change, [[spoiler: specifically trying to start a relationship with his unknowning daughter,]] could destroy her family.
* YourCheatingHeart: Given Audrey and Donna are the same age, both she and Ben Horne were married when [[spoiler: Donna]] was conceived.
!!Gersten Hayward
->Played by: Creator/AliciaWitt
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The Hayward's youngest daughter and a musical prodigy. [[spoiler: Later Stephen's girlfriend.]]
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: A musical prodigy who is just damn adorable as well as willing to help her sister sneak out. Averted when she caves immediately to her father asking where Donna went to.
* ClosingCredits: She gets to interrupt [[InstrumentalThemeTune Falling]] to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.
* DemotedToExtra: Was only in two episodes of the show despite Donna's prominence. Played straight in ''The Return'' as well where she doesn't get a speaking role but only shows up in a background shot.
* TheMistress: Stephen is cheating on his wife Becky with her in ''The Return''
* SheIsAllGrownUp: In ''The Return'', she's a rather tragic example as it's clear she never left Twin Peaks and dates scum like Stephen.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Time has not served her well if she's hanging around with Steven in ''The Return.''
!!William "Doc" Hayward
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->Played by: Warren Frost
Twin Peak's seeming only doctor who also serves as a makeshift coroner.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Struggles to cover his laughter when Mayor Dwayne threatens to sue Lana for "death by sex".
* CoolOldGuy: One of the nicest and most decent people in Twin Peaks. He is as vital to solving Laura's murder as Sheriff Truman.
* ClosestThingWeGot: He has to step up as TheCoroner, despite not being a forensic medical examiner -- Twin Peaks isn't the kind of place that needs one -- but he does alright.
* NiceGuy: The most decent person on the show after Cooper and Pete.
* NotSoStoic: While he's generally a calm and reasonable man, he still has his limits, as demonstrated by his altercation with Albert early on, where he gets infuriated that Albert insists on keeping Laura's body for the upcoming funeral to perform an autopsy.
* PapaWolf: He completely blows up at [[spoiler: Ben Horne]] when he drives Donna to tears.
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[[folder:The Hornes]]
!!Audrey Horne
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->Played by: Sherilyn Fenn
Daughter of Ben Horne, and seems to have made it her life's mission to act up and play the FemmeFatale. Has a crush on Cooper from the moment she sees him.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Is openly cheating on her husband Charlie with another man and generally seems to hate how spineless and milquetoast he is.
* BeautyMark: Next to her left eye.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Annie's Betty. In a twist, she's actually sort of a better person than Donna.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mostly in the early episodes.
* BreakTheHaughty: Proudly manipulates her way into One-Eyed Jack's--and then, her experiences there [[OhCrap hits her hard with the realization that she's in over her head,]] leading to her privately shedding tears and praying for Cooper to save her.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Inverted - A majority of the time, her shenanigans are done to spite Ben, directly or indirectly. For a laugh in the earlier episodes, anyway.
* FilleFatale: [[DownplayedTrope She's eighteen, actually.]] But her sexuality is of the "playful/childlike" quality.
* FemmeFatale: ''Loves'' to revel in the role, particularly for Cooper. As the first season progresses, we come to discover she's actually more of an HeroicSeductress, using her sexual antics to investigate and sabotage the corruption around her.
* GenerationXerox: Becomes every bit as conniving as her father as the series goes on.
* GoodBadGirl: Puts off a highly sexual airs, and generally acts pretty rebellious, but all in all she's quite moral, after all.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: It's implied her rebellious attitude stems out of disgust at her father's corruption.
* LadySwearsALot: Her first scene in ''The Return'' has her let loose on her husband Charlie.
* LonelyRichKid: Cooper appears to be the first person she's truly opened up to in a while.
* MsFanservice: Constantly goes out of her way to act "sexy"...down to showing up in Cooper's ''bed'' in one episode.
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] -- she initially comes across as a stereotypical "bad" girl...but turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* SmokingIsCool: [[spoiler: Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season]].
* SweaterGirl: Some truly beautiful ones are worn by her during the show, many which accent her figure.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As of ''The Return'', it seems.
* UglyGuyHotWife: By the time of ''The Return'' Audrey has managed to retain her good lucks but has found herself married to a man she openly loathes named Charlie who looks like a potato wearing glasses.[[note]] The actor suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [[/note]]
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''The Return'', [[spoiler: she shamelessly reveals to her husband that she's having an affair with a man named Billy]].
!!Benjamin "Ben" Horne
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->Played by: Richard Beymer
The millionaire hotel owner of the Great Northern and a land developer who hopes to turn the town into a tourist resort. He is the father of Audrey Horne as well as owner of the One Eyed Jacks brothel and casino.
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* BecomingTheMask: Starts off using a conservation scheme to derail Catherine's real estate plans, but eventually takes it seriously and starts reflecting on the decisions of his past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Besides his legitimate company, which alone makes him the biggest business owner in Twin Peaks, he also got his finger in several more shady businesses, [[spoiler:such as One-Eyed Jacks]], and he is always plotting new ways to expand his business empire, usually through means that are extremely underhanded at best and outright illegal at worst.
* DeathGlare: A pretty hilarious version. One episode has a scene of Ben's 27 year old son [[AmbiguousDisorder Johnny]] running around outside in his Native American headdress playing Cowboys & Indians and emitting a childish war cry. Cue a shot of Ben looking out the window [[InadequateInheritor staring daggers into his only male heir]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He kisses his mother's image while watching the old film.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his manipulations, he genuinely cares for Audrey and is clearly proud of her when she asks to work in his department store.
* GoodFeelsGood: Deconstructed: when he starts to improve himself, Ben is clearly ecstatic to be doing the right thing for once. However, he doesn't take into the account the feelings of the people around him. For example, [[spoiler: revealing to Donna that he's her father may have been "right" but it completely tears apart her family in the season two finale.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He usually smokes cigars, signifying his role as a CorruptCorporateExecutive. After [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn in the second season]], he seems to [[AddictionDisplacement switch to celery stalks and carrots]].
* HandsomeLech: Has relationships with a large number of women in addition to the many prostitutes in his employ he sleeps with. Would be TheCasanova if not for the fact Ben is prone to corny oddball behavior (much like other Twin Peaks residents) and barely disguises his sleazier elements.
* KickTheDog: Refusing to send money to his mother after her grandson robbed her came off as rather cruel for a man who's mostly changed his ways.
* LargeHam: Especially in the middle-to-later episodes when things start to fall apart for him, which causes him to get much more dramatic and uncomposed, but especially so in the episodes after [[spoiler:he has a complete breakdown and starts acting and dressing like General Robert E. Lee]]. Even before that though, he fits the subtler variety of ham pretty well. His speech patterns can best be compared to that of Lionel Luthor from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in that both of them put emphasis on any words and parts of their lines that they feel are important.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Revealed in the season 2 finale to be Donna's father.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Especially prevalent in season 1 where Ben is a more serious and sinister character than most other Twin Peaks residents. He's not above his own bit of odd behaviors such as when his brother introduces him to baguettes or when Leland comes in singing and he and Jerry break out the celebratory dance moves.
* PetTheDog: When his daughter is taken hostage, Ben sends Cooper to make the drop, fully intending for him to die per the hostage negotiator's orders. He does also send Hank to follow them and while he wants Hank to bring back his money as well, Ben places the greater importance on his daughter's safety.
* SharpDressedMan: In contrast to the retro-'50s style that most of the town dresses in, Ben favors '80s patterned ties and double-breasted suits.
* SmugSnake: Ben Horne is more intelligent than most of Twin Peaks criminals but he's brought low by Cooper and Truman.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts the show as a manipulative businessman and cheating husband who exploited the girls at One-Eyed Jack's for his personal enjoyment. [[spoiler: Twenty-five years later, he openly criticizes Jerry for lusting after his married secretary and is clearly uncomfortable when Jerry points out that "never used to stop you".]]
** In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' the Archivist notices that the shock of [[spoiler:Audrey getting seriously injured in the bank explosion]], caused a subtle, but profound change in Ben's behavior and outlook, leading him to gradually become a better and more caring person.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until he inherited his family's company.
* VillainDecay: You don't get much lower than an extended plotline where you think you're General Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when [[spoiler:he loses One-Eyed Jack's]].
* WhatHaveIBecome: He asks himself this a few times, [[IgnoredEpiphany only to shrug it off again]]. It seems to finally have stuck after [[spoiler:Audrey got seriously injured in the bank explosion]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Possibly the biggest offender in the series. He's married to Sylvia but he has an affair with Catherine Martell, sees the prostitutes in One Eyed Jack, [[spoiler:was one of Laura's lovers]] and [[spoiler:is revealed to be Donna's real father at the end]].
!!Jerry Horne
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->Played by: David Patrick Kelly
Ben Horne's sleazy brother. He actually doesn't have too big of a role in the show, but he occasionally helps Ben with his schemes.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Has become this to Ben by ''The Return'', which is hilarious as they're both over sixty.
* BigEater: He fell in love Brie-on-baguette sandwiches when he went to Paris on a business trip for Ben. He brings home no less than four of them and insists that Ben try one. As a rule, he winds up developing a taste for at least one exotic or unusual dish from every foreign country he's been to, and likes to tell people about them in great detail.
** With the legalization of marijuana in Washington State, Jerry's taken to producing and selling his own edibles. His first scene in the third season introduces him chowing down on his own recipe for cannabis banana bread.
* CasanovaWannabe: Jerry, like his brother, is obsessed with women but unlike Ben doesn't seem able to get any love that isn't paid for.
* CloudCuckooLander: Already showed shades of this in the original series, but as of the return has seemingly become one of the loopier residents of Twin Peaks, doubtless due to his implied heavy use of weed.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Downplayed. When Ben starts losing his mind, Jerry considers using the situation to his advantage by going ahead with his own ventures until Audrey puts a stop to it. In spite of this Jerry is still concerned about his brother's mental health and is quite happy when he recovers.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Jerry isn't a very good lawyer, Coop notes he failed the Bar exam twice and graduated last in his class, but the advice he gives Ben when he's arrested [[spoiler:for Laura's murder]] is pretty sound (and his big plan is to get his brother a better lawyer). Mainly he keeps trying to stop Ben from [[DiggingYourselfDeeper yammering on and insulting everyone]] because he's just making himself look guilty, and everything he's saying can and will be used against him in court. Even when he gives the ultimatum: charge Ben or let him go... which results in them charging him; Jerry isn't in the wrong because that's just what the police have to do anyway.
** In ''The Return'' Jerry also notes that he's making three times what his brother does with the Great Northern hotel as a legal marijuana grower. It should be noted Ben is a ''millionaire.''
* EruditeStoner: Twenty five years after Season 2 he seems to have become one. By 2016, Jerry not only appears to be taking advantage of Ben's investment in the medical marijuana industry but his new favorite food is marijuana infused banana bread.
* {{Keet}}: Jerry tends to get very enthusiastic when he discovers something he finds new and exciting, usually some kind of food, dresses in colorful clothes, and is notably more animated and active in how he moves than his more subdued brother.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Ben is falsely accused of Laura Palmer's murder, his legal counsel is literally to get a better lawyer.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: In ''The Return'', either he actually took some acid or he found himself a strain of marijuana that's powerful enough to hallucinate his foot talking to him. [[TheCloudCookoolanderWasRight Either that or his leg has been possessed by one of the demons living in the woods. The latter is entirely possible and probably the likeliest explanation.]]
* NumberTwo: Of all Ben's associates, Jerry's the one who Ben confides in. Jerry acts as Ben's co-conspirator, and he's the one taking international trips to secure investors.
* ShadowArchetype: To his brother. He publicly displays all the traits Ben attempts to hide behind his everyday mask of sophistication, from flamboyance and quirkiness, up to womanizing and underhanded and aggressive business manners. This also shown in more obvious ways; where Ben is a SharpDressedMan who favors muted colors in his wardrobe, Jerry seems to attempt to always be dressed as bombastically as possible.
* SmugSnake: Is a villain in the fact he's a less effective and dumber version of his brother.
* TheStoner: In ''The Return'', where he now runs a legal marijuana dispensary and seems to be almost constantly high. By 2016, he greatly resembles the type of bearded, spaced out older guy you'd find at a Music/{{Phish}} concert.
* SunglassesAtNight: Wears these in ''The Return'' as part of his new stoner persona.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: As detailed under ShadowArchetype, Jerry embodies and brings out Ben's worst traits. [[spoiler: During the TimeSkip, Ben seems to have cut Jerry out of both the hotel business and most of his personal life, in his efforts at self-improvement.]] ** By ''The Return'' their relationship has settled into a stable but strained relationship where Jerry regularly shows up to bother a visibly annoyed Ben.
!!Johnny Horne
->Played by: Robert Davenport and Robert Bauer
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Audrey's mentally handicapped brother.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is unclear exactly what Johnny suffers from, but it causes him to be a silent, childish shut-in that sometimes makes weird outbursts. [[spoiler:A DeletedScene reveals that Johnny actually has a perfectly normal brain and intelligence, and his behavior stems from a serious trauma he experienced early in life, and Dr. Jacoby is optimistic about the prospects of unearthing this trauma.]]
* InadequateInheritor: It is clear that Ben expected his sole son to take over the family business, and it disappoints him to no end that Johnny really is in no condition to do so.
* ManChild: As brought on by his condition. At the start of the series Johnny is "27 going on 6."
* SecurityBlanket: His Native American chief's headdress. Dr. Jacoby is able to convince him to take it off for Laura's funeral, but it takes much coaxing.
* ThereWasADoor: Dammit Johnny you're not the Kool-Aid man...
* {{Wallbonking}}: By the time of "The Return" this is what you risk whenever you let Johnny out.
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[[folder:The Hurleys]]
!!"Big" Ed Hurley Jr.
->Played by: Everett [=McGill=]
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A local mechanic and junk dealer trapped in an unhappy marriage. He is James Hurley's uncle and Nadine's husband. He's in an adulterous relationship with Norma Jennings.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Ed loves Nadine but in a manner which makes it clear his marriage is miserable.
* ChildhoodSweetheart: To Norma.
* CloserToEarth: He's incomparably more sensible and down to earth than his wife Nadine.
* HenpeckedHusband: He may not have it as bad as Pete, but he still gets his share of beleaguerment from Nadine and her antics.
* LoveTriangle: Is part of one of the central ones in the show with it briefly becoming a love square.
* MrFixit: Ed is noted to be quite the talented mechanic. In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', it is noted that his main childhood hobby was taking apart toasters and vacuum cleaners and then putting them back together again; in perfect working condition no less. Deputy Hawk writes that already in his teenage years, Ed could put a Volkswagen together blindfolded.
* MultipleChoicePast: Either married Nadine because Norma Jennings had married Hank Jennings while he was in Vietnam or because he put out Nadine's eye accidentally during a hunting expedition.
* NiceGuy: A Bookhouse Boy and doting uncle to James Hurley.
* QuestionableConsent: Sleeps with Nadine when she thinks she's seventeen.
* TheQuietOne: So quiet and slow to move on his feelings that Hawk believes it'll take him ''decades'' to get back with Norma in "The Secret History of Twin Peaks".
* SympatheticAdulterer: YMMV may vary on this given he continues his affair with Norma while also continuing it with Nadine.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that he and Norma still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Is cheating on his wife with Norma Jennings, though it's never clear how physical their relationship is.
** Keeps up his sexual relationship with Nadine [[{{Squick}} even when she thinks she's a teenager.]]
!!James Hurley
->Played by: James Marshall
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Big Ed's nephew. A Biker teen who lives with Ed and Nadine instead of his parents, who, he tells people, died in a car accident.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Gender inverted, he's the Betty to Laura Palmer while Bobby's the Veronica.
* CoolBike: Somewhat deconstructed: his bike makes him easily identifiable by both the police and people hoping to frame him for their own crimes. [[spoiler: It also, eventually, get him in a motorcycle accident.]]
* DiscoDan: A 50's greaser kid about 40 years too late, at least in fashion (though Twin Peaks is rather behind the times in most areas).
* GoodIsDumb: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Deputy Hawk notes that James is a nice kid, but notes that that he is often LateToThePunchline and has a serious problem with reading anything more complicated than children's books.
* TheDitz: Almost astonishingly stupid. As Laura Palmer says in one of her tapes, "James is sweet, but he's ''so dumb''."
* TheDrifter: Becomes one of these at the end of the series when he is PutOnABus.
* DullSurprise: James never seems to have much of a reaction to anything even when he is stunned or heartbroken.
* LikesOlderWomen: If [[spoiler:his affair with the 30-something Evelyn March]] is any indication...
* MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie.
* NeverLearnedToRead: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that while he can read, his skills lacks ''way'' behind his age. Deputy Hawk describes how Big Ed had to struggle pretty hard even get him to that point, and latter sarcastically adds that even into his late teens, James' favorite book is still ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''.
* NiceGuy: Is one of the most decent people in ''Twin Peaks.''
* PutOnABus: Though, he seemed to came back to ''Twin Peaks'' during the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3.
* RuleAbidingRebel: Aside from the fact he drives a motorcycle and works instead of getting a high school education, he is far nicer a boy than Bobby (a man sleeping with a married woman while dealing drugs) yet is considered the outlaw of the two.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: His normal voice is rather deep. His singing voice literally sounds like a woman.
* StarCrossedLovers: Has this sort of relationship with Laura Palmer. Averted with Donna as she has no opposition from her parents who can tell James is a NiceGuy. Ironically, this seems to actually hurt his relationship with Donna.
* TheQuietOne: Much like his uncle. Shelly notes he's gotten even more quiet [[spoiler: after his accident during the TimeSkip.]]
* TroubledButCute: Seems to be a high school drop out and from the wrong side of the tracks but is, otherwise, supportive and kind.
* YourCheatingHeart: Is the other man in Laura's life than her boyfriend. Also, develops feelings for Maddie that end up ruining his relationship with Donna.
!!Nadine Hurley
->Played by: Wendy Robie
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The one-eyed, drape-obsessed housewife of Big Ed Hurley.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Accent on the ambiguous. In a town as quirky as Twin Peaks, it's hard to tell if Nadine's emotional issues and obsessiveness are due to having a condition of some sort or not. [[HollywoodPsych This is, of course, before she actually has amnesia that convinces her she's a high school senior against all evidence to the contrary.]]
* BadassNormal: She may not be connected to the supernatural ongoings in Twin Peaks, but her SuperStrength and overall athleticism come in handy from time to time.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: Seems to be Doctor Jacobi's biggest fan in ''The Return.''
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn't even begin to describe her!
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of season 1, she tries to overdose on pills out of depression when she can't sell any of of her cotton balls since not many people are interested in silent drape-runners, which she had just created with them, hoping they would make her and Ed rich. Thankfully though, it only sends her into a coma, which she awakens from a few episodes later.]]
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: [[spoiler:When she awakens from her coma, she sees herself as a dainty teenager, but still has all her previous strength and athleticism from her adult life.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: During the decades long interval between Season 2 and ''The Return'' it seems that Nadine has accomplished her dream of opening a successful silent drape business, Run Silent, Run Drapes.
* EyepatchOfPower: Her most prominent physical feature, which goes great with her extreme physical strength
* FieryRedhead: Was subject to wild mood swings and had super-strength.
* GenkiGirl: [[spoiler:Post-coma in season 2, when she thinks that she's a teenager.]]
* LargeHam: Overreacts to the smallest things and is dramatic about everything from cheerleading to silent drapes.
* SelectiveObliviousness: A variant after her [[spoiler: coma]]. She admits that she knows about Ed and Norma's interest in each other and doesn't mind... as [[spoiler: Ed and Norma are naked, in bed with each other. Right in front of her.]]
* SuperStrength: She can effortlessly hurl a full-grown man over a whole sports field.
* WomanChild: [[spoiler:A [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. For some strange reason, she awakens from her coma near the beginning of season 2 thinking she's still a teenager in high school, and therefore, has the mindset of and acts like one.]]
* WaifFu: She's certainly not built like someone of her strength at all. As Dr. Jacoby points out, "that tissue's packed in there pretty hard".
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[[folder:The Jenningses]]
!!Hank Jennings
->Played by: Chris Mulkey
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A ex-Bookhouse Boy and Twin Peaks most dangerous criminal. He is the recently paroled husband of Norma Jennings.
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* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: His domino key-chain.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Hank Jennings, unlike Leo, was actually quite good at keeping up an AffablyEvil front and pretending at a HeelFaceTurn. This did not last.
* BullyingADragon: Hank has this attitude as he's incapable of treating anyone who he has momentary advantage of as anything other than garbage. This includes very dangerous people like Josie Packard and Ben Horne. Ironically, it's his wife that proves to be the most dangerous dragon he bullies.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals he was fatally wounded in prison by a Renault relative.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: To the point it actually serves as Hank Jenning's FatalFlaw. Hank turns on every single person he makes cause with as soon as something better comes along. The Bookhouse Boys, Josie, Ben Horne, Ernie, and more. As such, when his patron in Jean Renault is taken down, he's left with absolutely no one to turn to.
* TheDragon: To several villains throughout the series.
* FallenHero: Used to be a Bookhouse Boy. Truman grew up with him and thought he was one of their best, until he ended up in prison.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's friendly enough in casual conversation when he's working at the diner... but as soon as people turn their backs, he lets his distaste for his customers slip. He also can't hide his dark side from his wife for long.
* KarmicDeath: As per ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' [[spoiler: as he betrayed most of the town for Jean Renault, only to have the Renault family blame him for his death. They killed him in prison.]]
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' states that the town of Twin Peaks had viewed the Jenningses as losers and troublemakers for a long time. Notably, Hank's grandfather, Einer, was "amongst the leading candidates for town drunk" and his father, Emil, had already in his youth complied quite a rap sheet of various petty crimes and would eventually end up dying from passing out drunk in his bathtub and drowning.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Had a very large number of contacts within the criminal underworld so that his prison stays were very comfortable. {{Subverted}} on his return when, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he was killed by the Renault family.
* PoisonousFriend: He brings his former cellmate back into the criminal life within hours of meeting him, despite the man having found himself in a very cushy position as well as possessing no desire to return to crime.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He attempted this, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. [[spoiler: Knowing that he's pretty much doomed in prison, he wrote a full confession of his crimes and completely apologizes for betraying the trust of his friends and family.]] Its never made clear if anyone bought it.
* RelationshipSabotage: Hank had desired Norma throughout high school, despite her and Big Ed being very much in love with each other. When Big Ed went overseas for military service during the Vietnam War, Hank saw an opportunity to throw a kink in his and Norma's relationship, and took up a job at the Twin Peaks post office, and made sure that neither party saw any of the mail they attempt to send each other. With Norma thoroughly saddened that Ed never seemed to respond to any of her letters, Hank could then make his move and play the role as the nice, understanding friend with the shoulder to cry on.
* SmugSnake: While introduced as a much more dangerous criminal than Leo, he quickly found himself outsmarted at every turn.
* TheWorfEffect: He's introduced taking down Leo Johnson, one of the show's most brutal criminals at the time, to establish himself as a badass. This quickly turns on him when it's he who get's his ass handed to him to establish the strength of other characters like Mr. Kumagai or Nadine.
!!Norma Jennings
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->Played by: Peggy Lipton
The long-suffering owner of the Double R Diner and lover of Big Ed Hurley. The wife of Hank Jennings.
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* BerserkButton: Being treated with disrespect, whether by Ed, Hank, or her mother.
* ChildhoodSweetheart: To Ed.
* CoolBigSis: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Breaking all ties with her mother over a bad review. {{Justified}} as it was the straw that broke the camel's back after a lifetime of neglect.
* TheDogBitesBack: Hank Jennings really shouldn't have crossed her.
* FanserviceWithASmile: She ''is'' played by Peggy Lipton after all.
* GreasySpoon: Runs her own diner.
* InsecureLoveInterest: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', this was part of the reason she and Ed never got together in their teens.
* TheMistress: Is unhappily one of these to Big Ed due to his unwillingness to leave Nadine.
* ParentalSubstitute: Gradually morphs into this for Shelly and her daughter by the time of ''The Return'' since Shelly remains as mature as she was during the original series.
* ParentalNeglect: She's estranged from her mother due to Mrs. Jennings' commitment to her job over Norma. When she makes it clear that she considers Norma "overly emotional" about the matter, Norma cut ties with her completely.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that she and Ed still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Johnsons]]
!!Leo Johnson
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->Played by: Eric Da Re
The abusive husband of Shelly Johnson and the local drug dealer.
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Well... sort of. He is aggressive and does sell drugs to high school kids, but they seek him out to buy them.
** Although, at the point of the sales, he doesn't do things by halves, and will straight-up threaten to kill his customers unless they fulfill their end of the deal.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Sort of; despite his horrible treatment of Shelly, Leo shows obvious concern when Windom Earle states that he might kill her, and later tries multiple times to stop Earle's plans. His poor mental state doesn't allow him to do much, but he does manage to free Major Briggs so that the latter could help Shelly.]]
* AxCrazy: He takes this trope to a literal degree when [[spoiler:he awakens from his coma in the middle of season 2 and the first thing he tries to do is murder Shelly with an ax.]]
* BiTheWay: His Flesh World ad mentions being open to encounters with men.
* TheBrute: A violent thuggish man who abuses his wife and intimidates everyone around him. [[TheWorfEffect Except Hank Jennings.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: When he finds out that Shelly has been having an affair with Bobby, he tries to ''murder'' both of them even though he generally treats Shelly horribly and doesn't really give her a reason to love him to begin with.
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:In the second season.]]
* ConvenientComa: Well, he does clearly [[spoiler:have some brain damage, but it's only convenient for some, who would have preferred him dead]].
* HateSink: Leo is a drug dealer, domestic abuser, and all around {{jerkass}}. Viewers ''will'' loathe him.
* {{Jerkass}}: You ''will'' want to punch his punchable face.
* RedHerring: Despite his sadism, violence, [[spoiler:frequent cold-blooded killing]] and [[spoiler:being present at the scene of her murder]], Leo [[spoiler:did not kill Laura Palmer]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Releases Major Briggs from captivity so he can warn Shelly. Windom Earle leaves him in a situation he's highly unlikely to have survived.]]
* VillainDecay: Leo has the bad luck of being the absolute middle man. Terrifying to the teenagers who are dabbling, easily manipulated by the real powers in Series/TwinPeaks.
* TheWorfEffect: Hank Jennings easily beats him up and intimidates him into submission. Windom Earle does the same.
!!Shelly Johnson[[spoiler: /Briggs]]
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->Played by: Mädchen Amick
A waitress at the Double R diner and wife to Leo. [[spoiler: Later, she married Bobby Briggs.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Though she seems to be getting better with each try, from the downright abusive Leo, to the unstable and short-tempered Bobby, to... Gordon Cole.
* AmicableExes: [[spoiler: As revealed in ''The Return'', she and Bobby got married... and it didn't last, though she still carries his last name and they still seem to get along, at least where their daughter is concerned.]]
* AuthorAppeal: She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue CrowningMomentOfFunny when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in.
-->'''Bobby:''' What the hell is going on?!\\
'''Gordon Cole''': YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT. ''(to Shelly)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.]]\\
'''Dale Cooper''': Uh, Gordon...\\
'''Gordon Cole''': ''(to Bobby)'' TAKE ANOTHER LOOK, SONNY! IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN.
* DomesticAbuse: Her husband forces her to do all the chores, beats her with a soap in a sock at one point, and is deeply jealous.
* FanserviceWithASmile: Works as a waitress in Norma's diner.
* MsFanservice: Not as much as Audrey, but she has her moments. And being played by Mädchen Amick doesn't hurt.
* SmokingIsCool: Though in her case, with her stress load, it makes sense.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Considering that Leo is an abusive husband and not faithful himself.
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[[folder:The Martells]]
!!Catherine Martell
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->Played by: Piper Laurie
The wife of Pete Martell and accountant at the Packard Lumber Mill.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Is having an affair with Ben Horne.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Despite often holding Pete in contempt and regarding him as a "soft, old fool", her planting a big, wet kiss on him when she reveals herself to him in her Mr. Tojamura disguise, shows that she does have some genuine affection for him.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Catherine isn't nearly as on the ball as she thinks since Ben Horne and [[spoiler: Josie Packard]] both run rings around her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She gives Ben Horne a serious run for his money.
* EvilRedhead: Catherine Martell was told to basically vamp it up like a soap opera villainess.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:She seemingly is killed when Leo burns down the mill, but [[NeverFoundTheBody her body is never found]]. She later returns in disguise as a Japanese businessman named Mr. Tojamura as ploy to trick Ben.]]
* FieryRedhead: Is an attempted murderer, schemer, and extremely fierce.
* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Her Mr. Tojamura disguise]].
* MeanBoss: Fires a guy in the pilot because he happened to be standing there when she was really pissed off.
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:When she poses as Mr. Tojamura]].
* YellowFace: [[spoiler: Posing as Mr. Tojamura. Not the series' finest hour.]]
!!Pete Martell
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->Played by: Jack Nance
The Packard Lumber Mill manager and a fishing enthusiast. He is also a chess grandmaster.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His love of fishing, affable demeanor, and lack of ambition put him at odds with everyone else's scheming. Especially his wife's.
* AwfulWeddedLife: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. He describes Catherine as "plain hell to live with", and finds it hard to cope with her ruthless, stubborn, and generally unpleasant nature, which runs counter to his own docile and kind demeanor. Despite this, he is shown to hold some kind of genuine (though mostly nostalgic) affection for her though, most notably he is quite torn up about [[spoiler:her apparent death]].
* ButtMonkey: A DownplayedTrope example as Pete is liked by everyone in town ''but'' his wife. However, he gets almost no respect despite being a hardworking plant manager, talented fisherman, and amateur chess master.
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks reveals that he died in the bank explosion at the end of the season 2 finale, as Jack Nance died in 1996, 5 years after the season 2 finale aired.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In a friendly, kinda-dorky way.
* HenPeckedHusband: Catherine just won't cut the guy a break.
-->She was plain hell to live with.
* HeroicSacrifice : [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' also reveals he shielded Audrey from the blast with his body.]]
* HiddenDepths: Pete actually proves to be an avid and very talented chess player. [[spoiler:He uses these skills to help Cooper against Windom Earle]].
* NiceGuy: One of the nicest in the series.
* NoodleIncident: How ''did'' the fish get in the coffee pot?
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle. At one point he plays three simultaneous games of chess and wins ''all'' of them.
* TokenGoodTeammate: In season 2, when Catherine, Josie, and [[spoiler:Andrew]] are all working/manipulating each other against Eckhardt or Horne, Pete's the most moral of them and mostly just goes along because they're all family.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Milfords]]
!!Mayor Dwayne Milford
->Played by: John Boylan
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The liberal Mayor of Twin Peaks. He has a long-standing feud with his brother.
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* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Hooks up with his brother's wife after his death.]]
* TheDutifulSon: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as such, following in his father's footsteps and taking over the family pharmacy business, in contrast to his brother, Douglas, who was seen as a rebellious troublemaker.
* RevengeBeforeReason: His desire to avenge his brother dying of sexual intercourse in his late seventies with a much-much younger woman. [[spoiler: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' says he's probably right.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted when he ends up with Lana himself.]]
* SiblingRivalry: Dwayne is a Democrat and at least something of a liberal by the standards of a town full of rural whites. He and his more conservative brother hold an exactly opposite set of political views.
* SiblingYinYang: With Douglas. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Dawyne is described as always calm and reliable, even under pressure, and is seen as a pillar of the community, while Douglas is HotBlooded and impulsive, and is seen as a troublemaker. It even extends to their political views.
* StrawPolitical: His outrage at his brother's defense of Nixon in ''The Secret History Of TwinPeaks.''
!!Douglas "Dougie" Milford
->Played by: Creator/TonyJay
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A former political ally of Richard Nixon and TheMenInBlack. He is mostly known in the series as the head of the local paper and for his feud with Mayor Milford.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' spells out the details of his bizarre and adventurous backstory. Specifically, among other things, that he founded TheMenInBlack and was aware of the supernatural. Oh and he was a friend with Nixon.
* BlackSheep: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as this to the Milford family, being a rebellious troublemaker where his brother, Dawyne was TheDutifulSon.
* ConspiracyTheorist: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he proffers up a paranoid-sounding explanation for Nixon's impeachment involving a conspiracy against him. [[spoiler: His own experiences]] certainly factor into this, but his defense of Nixon in Twin Peaks' local paper swerves into the downright paranoid.
* DirtyOldMan: If the ''vast'' collection of sexual paraphernalia in his bedroom is any indication.
* OutWithABang: He has a fatal heart attack upon consummating his marriage to Lana.
* TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' implies that he was the cause of the creation of this trope in-universe during his time as a government spook.]]
* NoSuchAgency: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals [[spoiler: his direct involvement in a project involving [=UFOs=] and alien encounters, as a direct confidante of President Richard Nixon]].
* SiblingRivalry: He and Dwayne are 100% opposed on politics: Dwayne is a Democrat and a liberal and Doug is a Republican and a conservative.
* SiblingYinYang: With Dawyne. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Douglas had a knack for getting into trouble in his youth, is prone to act on his impulses, and has quite the temper, where Dwayne is described by his peers as always calm and reliable, even in stressful situations. It even extends to their political views.
* SirSwearsALot: Though it is downplayed in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Douglas has a notable tendency to casually drop profanity in his speech. When he appears on list of witness statements on UFO sightings, the other people on the list describe their encounters with [=UFOs=] in technical therms, using measurements to describe the size and speed of the objects when asked for details, Douglas describes the object he saw as "big as a f*** house" and "fast as s***".
* StrawPolitical: Is such a hardline Republican that he devotes an entire front page op-ed to insisting Nixon's impeachment was a conspiracy rather than a genuine resolution to corruption charges.
!!Lana Budding Milford
->Played by: Robyn Lively
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The lovely widow of Douglas Milford and a woman who briefly menaces Twin Peaks' male population.
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* CartwrightCurse: Claims to be this rather than a BlackWidow. Its never made clear if she's telling the truth [[spoiler: in spite of Briggs' suspicions.]]
* HelloNurse: An extremely beautiful nurse.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Considering how Coop, Truman, Andy, and Hawk react when around her...
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Briggs, the in-universe writer of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', suspects her of being a assassin who actually didn't marry Douglas for his money, but to get close to and kill him, speculating that she was hired by someone from Douglas' political past who thought [[HeKnowsTooMuch He Knew Too Much]]. Briggs, however, also notes that he has absolutely no way of proving this.]]
* GoldDigger: Pretty clearly.
* InformedAttractiveness: Whether you find her attractive or not, it's ''very'' difficult to say in all honesty that she's as attractive as ''every male in Twin Peaks'' finds her.
* SettleForSibling: After her husband Dougie dies, she gets engaged to Dwayne, his brother. That's kinda gross. [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that it ultimately didn't last and she left Twin Peaks for good about six months later.]]
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[[folder:The Packards]]
!!Andrew Packard
->Played by: Dan [=O'Herlihy=]
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The former owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. He is the late husband of Josie Packard and brother of Catherine Martell.
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* AffablyEvil: He's as shifty as his sister but unfailingly polite to everyone.
* BestFriendsInLaw: In a stark contrast to Catherine, he and Pete were quite chummy. At one point when serving breakfast the pair fool around with the food and Catherine grumpily notes that they bring out the worst in each other.
* FakingTheDead: Though the series starts with him having been dead in a boating accident (set up by Hank), the series drops a number of hints that he may still be alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately he reveals that this was the case as he and his sister faked his death]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Dying at the hands of Eckhardt's ThanatosGambit is a good fate for someone so confident in his intelligence. Shame about Pete, though.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: His treatment of Josie is rotten even if she did try to kill him.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: His conflict with Eckhardt is clear EvilVsEvil but of the two Andrew comes off as more personable and has more PetTheDog moments than Eckhardt.
* MayDecemberRomance: He was much older than Josie when they married.
* PetTheDog:
** Andrew may be a corrupt and amoral man but even he has a soft spot for Pete and the two have a strong brotherly relationship. Even when he and Catherine start to go against each other he still trusts Pete and lets him in on his schemes. [[spoiler:Which unfortunately get the pair killed]].
** He admits an admiration for Audrey's protest when he encounters her, complimenting her for sticking to her principles.
* PosthumousCharacter: Is originally believed to have died at some point before the start of the series. [[spoiler:Not really.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Gives one to Josie before saying they will never speak again.]]
* SmugSnake: Thinks he's got everyone wrapped around his finger but really just coasts along on Catherine's plans.
!!Jocelyn Packard
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->Played by: Creator/JoanChen
The beautiful Chinese American widow of Andrew Packard and current owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. She is currently lovers with Sheriff Harry S. Truman.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The show constantly zig-zags between Josie being an innocent victim ForcedIntoEvil and a ManipulativeBitch. We never get a clear answer up until [[spoiler: she dies.]]
* BiTheWay: ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'' [[spoiler:reveals that she was one of Laura's lovers while Laura was her English tutor]].
* ConsummateLiar: Assuming she was faking her fear of David Eckhardt or at least playing it up, she fools everyone in Twin Peaks except [[spoiler: Cooper.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that [[spoiler:her father was [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs a high ranking "Red Pole" in the Sui-wong triad]], and she clearly took after dear old dad, even in her youth. Already by the age of ''sixteen'', she was running a prostitution and drug ring out of the prestigious boarding school she studied at, while blackmailing several members of said school's staff, both in the administration and the faculty]].
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Throws herself on the mercy of Catherine Martell [[spoiler: and her brother Andrew]]. She would have had more luck with Harry S. Truman and Coop. Hell, even Pete.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Josie kills David Eckhardt the moment she's alone with him.]]
* DragonLady: Possibly subverted in that she doesn't have nearly the self-assuredness one would expect from the trope. [[spoiler:Her chief motivation is simply survival as she is manipulated and bullied by almost everyone in her life (except Pete and Sheriff Truman).]]
** Played straight as an arrow in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', [[spoiler:which reveals her real identity as Li Chun Fung, daughter of a Chinese gangster and a ferocious criminal in her own right, building up a multimillion-dollar fortune through drug and prostitution rings by the age of 21 and fleeing to America after her plan to assassinate her own father and take over his position went awry.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: WordOfGod was that she would have shot herself but they couldn't do it on camera. [[spoiler: So BOB and the Arm kills her instead.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: is trapped in a desk knob in the Great Northern hotel and according to Deleted Scenes the Black Lodge.]]
* FemmeFatale: Zig-zagged as she seems to be one then turns kind and shy then is back to being a FemmeFatale.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Is Josie a victim? Evil? Both?
* LovableTraitor: Does a lot of shady stuff and even tries to kill Catherine Martell but no one seems to treat any of this as a big deal.
* MissingMom: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that [[spoiler:her mother was a prostitute who died from a drug overdose shortly after her birth]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Cooper never suspected Josie was EvilAllAlong or had any reason to go after him [[spoiler: until she shot him.]]
* TheVamp: Has sex with Andrew Packard, David Eckhardt, Sheriff Harry S. Truman, and Laura Palmer.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: After she kills David Eckhardt, she is killed by BOB and the Arm.]]
* WhyNotJustShootHim: Averted. Except, she had the profoundly bad luck of being across the hall from Agent Cooper [[spoiler: when she killed David Eckhardt.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Pretty much her only trick aside from being TheVamp.
* YourSoulIsMine: Later in the second season, [[spoiler:BOB apparently steals and [[FateWorseThanDeath traps her soul]] [[AndIMustScream in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern]] [[MindScrew or something like that]]]].
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[[folder: Other Twin Peaks residents]]
!!Harold Smith
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->Played by: Lenny Von Dohlen
Harold Smith is an orchid grower a close friend of Laura Palmer, who she met through working for the Meals-on-Wheels program. Harold [[{{Hikikomori}} never leaves his home]] as a result of having agoraphobia (a fear of open spaces). Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that Laura gave him her diary before her murder. When Harold finds out that Donna is trying to steal the diary, he [[FreakOut goes insane]] and soon [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]], leaving a suicide note which reads ""J'ai une âme solitaire." (French for "I am a lonely soul."). Cooper and the Twin Peaks police use the diary to help find the identity of Laura's killer.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Donna quickly takes a liking to him after meeting him, as he might be quite awkward and shy, but he is also very polite, friendly, and has a poetic mind.
* TheConfidant: To Laura.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Donna's betrayal leads him to hang himself.]]
* DyingAlone: ""J'ai une âme solitaire."
* FreakOut: Gets hit HARD with this when [[spoiler:he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary]].
* {{Hikikomori}}: Due to having agoraphobia. The guy cannot physically leave his house with suffering a crippling panic attack.
* NiceGuy: Despite his inherent uneasiness around people, he is quite friendly and polite. [[spoiler:At least until he [[FreakOut completely snaps]] when he finds out about Donna's betrayal]].
* PrettyBoy: A feminine and gentle but still handsome young man.
!!Dick Tremayne
->Played by: Ian Buchanan
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Dick Tremayne runs the clothing department at Horne's Department Store and was in an on-and-off relationship with Lucy Moran.
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* BritishStuffiness: A goofier example.
* CampStraight
* TheDandy
* FakeBrit: In-universe, it's heavily implied that he adopts the British accent purely to make himself appear cultured and interesting compared to the other townsfolk. Most damning of all is Dr Hayward's throwaway comment that he was the physician in attendance at Dick's birth - meaning that Dick is almost certainly, in fact, a native of Twin Peaks.
** Averted in that Ian Buchanan is actually British, though since he's specifically ''Scottish'' he's most likely not using his natural accent for the UpperClassTwit Dick, who's clearly going for [[IAmVeryBritish Southern-RP English]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his shortcomings, he's not a bad guy.
* MeaningfulName: Any time he fails to be useful or responsible, Lucy will put extra emphasis on calling him "Dick".
* OddFriendship: Of all people, he and ''Andy'' bond over trying to learn about Little Nicky's past, despite their rivalry for Lucy's affections.
* SharpDressedMan: Well, he ''does'' run a men's clothing department.
* SmallNameBigEgo
* UpperClassTwit
!!Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
->Played by: Russ Tamblyn
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The eccentric psychologist who treated Laura Palmer for her many issues before falling in love with her.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mental health version. Everything about how treats his patients save Johnny Horne. The fact he knew about Laura's many issues (which included active illegal activity) is especially noteworthy.
* BeyondTheImpossible: By 2016, Jacoby has a genuine chance of surpassing the Log Lady as the biggest CloudCuckooLander in all of Twin Peaks.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In a town of weirdos who are great at their job, Doctor Jacoby is an awful-awful psychologist. Zig-Zagged as he does help Johnny Horne prepare for the funeral of Laura Palmer and cure Ben Horne's insanity.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dr. Jacoby was born in Hawaii and has had an obsession with the place all his life, dressing in tropical shirts and decorating his entire home with Polynesian kitsch. Taken UpToEleven in ''The Return'', where he's a ConspiracyTheorist with his own podcast/pirate radio show who sells spray painted "shit digging shovels" for 29.99 a pop.
* CoolShades: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses. Twenty five years later in Season 3 he's shown to wear them even under larger sunglasses!
* ConspiracyTheorist: An overtly humorous example in ''The Return''. He runs a pirate radio station in which he advocates naturopathic medicine and anti-GMO conspiracy theories as a lead-in to making a pitch for his shovel business.
** Notable for the fact TheMenInBlack, TheFairFolk, TheSyndicate, as well as an FBI conspiracy all exist in this universe. Yet, ''nothing'' Jacoby says is true.
* JerkassBall: He frequently switches between trying to be genuinely helpful and acting extremely insensitive and dismissive. One particular example is after Laura's funeral, where he guiltily confesses to Cooper that he doesn't care about his patients, but wants to help find Laura's killer. He then proceeds to completely fail to offer anything of value and secretly keeps Laura's necklace for himself, rather than hand it over as evidence. In ''The Return'', he is an exploitative con man using a conspiracy podcast to get gullible townspeople to buy his overpriced painted shovels.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' discusses the fact that he has always had an interest in tribal views on mental illnesses, and he would spend a good part of his youth seeking out various isolated tribes in South America and attempting to gain insight in how they understood the human mind by partaking in their rituals. Naturally, quite a few of these rituals involved the use of strong psychoactive drugs, and Jacoby insists in his journals that he is much the wiser for having gone through these experiences.
* ItAmusedMe: Doctor Jacoby seems to actively enjoy feeding his patient's neuroses like encouraging Ben Horne to act like General Lee and having Nadine enroll in high school. Given he confesses to Cooper he doesn't care about any of his patients, this is almost certainly deliberate. Also, he looks terribly amused whenever his patients are having complete breakdowns.
* LargeHam: Gets ''really'' worked up while doing his radio show, often letting loose a ClusterFBomb for good measure.
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: he always wears a pair of 3D glasses.
* TheStoner: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' and ''The Return'', he has been living a stoner lifestyle for a while, which [[CloudCuckooLander explains a lot]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Dr. Jacoby isn't so much "ugly" as he is quirky and unattractive. However, he's married to a pretty Hawaiian woman who seems to be a [[MayDecemberRomance couple years younger than him]].
* WorstAid: Doctor Jacoby is probably one of the worst psychologists in the world. His handling of just about everyone in the show is comically terrible.
!!Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman
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->Played by: Catherine E. Coulson
Probably the most unusual of the Twin Peaks townsfolk, ([[QuirkyTown which is]] [[EccentricTownsfolk saying a lot]]). Margaret Lanterman, a/k/a "The Log Lady", is an [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] recluse who lives in a cabin in the forest. She is always seen carrying a [[CompanionCube log]] (hence her nickname), which is implied to either contain the spirit of her dead lumberjack husband or, as of ''Fire Walk With Me'', to serve as a link to him in the Black Lodge -- though she never voices either theory outright and is implied to be forbidden from doing so. Because of this, the other townsfolk think she's crazy. She was with Laura five days before her murder. Also, her husband is Jurgen Prochnow.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hoo boy... She sticks out in Twin Peaks for this.
* CompanionCube: Her log.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She frequently defers to her log when questioned.
* HugeSchoolgirl: She was noted to be quite tall for her age in Elementary School, and was a bit awkward as a result.
* IWasQuiteALooker: She was noted to be very pretty in her youth. Her old friend, Robert Jacoby, described her as a borderline StatuesqueStunner back in the day.
* OddFriendship: By 2016, she seems to have formed one with Hawk.
* MadOracle: She's a more benign form of this, but is definitely strange and tends to speak in omens.
* NonSequitur: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."[[note]]There was a trout in the coffee, but the tea would have taken longer to make.[[/note]]
* TouchedByVorlons: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals her weirdness might have been a result having been the victim of what appears to be an alien abduction in her childhood. It is implied that, other than her strange quirks, the incident left her with some strange kind of pre-cognition.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: Her husband, Sam, was a volunteer firefighter, and unluckily enough, a forest fire started during the newly wed couple's wedding reception. Sam quickly left the reception along with the rest of the brigade to fight it; he didn't make it back.
!!The Waiter
->Played by Hank Worden
A mysterious figure who works at the Great Northern Hotel.
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* CaptainOblivious: Ignores Agent Cooper having been shot when he tries to clean his room.
* CloudCuckoolander: Has extremely odd behavior possibly related to his old age. [[spoiler: Is actually the Giant in disguise.]]
* GoodLuckGesture: Compliments a mortally wounded Cooper, winks and gives him a thumbs up three times.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he another spirit of the Black Lodge or is he really just some senile elderly waiter? He appears to Cooper in the Red Room during the last episode before being replaced by the Giant who say's "One and the same," so make of that what you will.
** [[spoiler: The two are not necessarily mutually contradictory as the spirits of the Lodges need bodies to possess.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "That gum you like is going to come back in style."]]
!!Mike Nelson
->Played by: Gary Hershberger
A football player for Twin Peaks high school and Donna Hayward's boyfriend (before she dumps him for James).
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* {{Jerkass}}: He has almost no personality traits except being unpleasant to people as well as being Bobby's sidekick.
* JerkJock: Incredibly jerkish to almost everyone he meets. Also, a football player.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Even when he starts becoming interested in [[spoiler: Nadine]] he's still a ass. Notable when he calls in Steven in ''The Return'' 25 years later just to chew him out.
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler:Eventually falls for Nadine in the second season]].
* NamesTheSame: Not that other [[{{Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000}} Mike Nelson]].
* OlderAndWiser: In ''The Return'' much like his friend Bobby, twenty five years after Season 2 Mike seems to have matured into a respectable member of society. A DownplayedTrope example as he's still an incredible {{Jerkass}}.
* OnlySaneMan: While not exactly a rational kid, his problems revolve more around getting laid and his reputation at school than the murder mysteries and get rich schemes of his friends.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Forms this with Bobby, with whom he is usually seen together.
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!! The original series
[[folder:The Palmers]]
!!Laura Palmer
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->Played by: Sheryl Lee
The most popular female student of the Twin Peaks High School, Laura was seen as an exemplary and beloved member of the local community. But her sudden murder and the subsequent investigation brings many of the dark secrets surrounding her to light, revealing that behind her pretty, wholesome and seemingly perfect surface she was in reality a severely troubled and lonely young woman deeply embroiled both in Twin Peaks' seedy underbelly and as well the town's more strange and unearthly happenings.
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* BerserkButton: ''Fire Walk With Me'' shows that even in her darkest moments of apathy and hedonism, the prospect of Donna being corrupted or coming to any sort of harm would bring her back around screaming and fighting.
* BiTheWay: ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'' reveals that at least three of her numerous lovers were female: [[spoiler:Ronette Pulaski, Blackie, and Josie Packard]].
* TheChosenOne: ''The Return'' strongly hints that [[spoiler: The Giant created her through some sort of indirect immaculate conception to suffer at the hands of BOB and die a martyr]], or something similar anyway.
* CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler: If the theory that Laura was designed by The Giant/????? to combat BOB by becoming a martyr and setting off a chain of events that lead to BOB's downfall is correct, then the poor girl literally had cosmic beings ensure that she was destined to be ''molested and killed''.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:For several years before murdering her, at least since her mid-adolescence, Laura's father Leland had been molesting her while possessed by BOB.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: In the prequel movie, ''Fire Walk With Me'', we see fairly little of her happy, well-adjusted public face.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Wow'' does it make sense why she went as wrong as she did.
* GiveGeeksAChance: Even the timid, mentally fragile shut in Harold Smith managed to get a piece of Laura when they made out and almost had sex in ''Fire Walk With Me.''
* GoGetterGirl: Laura subverts this as we get a glimpse of the darkness behind her seemingly perfect facade.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:She suffers a ''major'' one in the prequel film when she finds out (or at least strongly suspects at the time) that BOB is possessing her dad, Leland.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Laura Palmer was one of the prostitutes at One Eyed Jacks.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: A backstory-heavy but highly cryptic sequence from ''The Return'' implies that this is her role.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Ending each episode with a still picture of her dressed as a prom queen was ''surely'' meant to evoke this.
* MrViceGuy: Laura Palmer turns out to have been involved in cocaine, prostitution, and [[spoiler: demonic possession.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:BOB's main pleasure in possessing Leland seems to have been having him molest Laura.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: We see her alive in ''Fire Walk With Me'', but in the series proper she only shows up in recordings and flashbacks.
* ReallyGetsAround: It's probably quicker to count up the characters in Twin Peaks at the time of Laura's murder who ''weren't'' in love with and/or sleeping with her.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Very much the case with Donna in ''Fire Walk With Me''.
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Played with -- the impression is not a sexually liberated young woman expressing herself under the safe cover of being a "good girl" as much as someone isolated and hurting in ways few people ever knew while she was alive.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A. She kept up a very good and wholesome image while her life was falling apart at the seems.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Sheryl Lee played both Laura ''and'' her cousin Madeline.
!!Leland Palmer
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->Played by: Ray Wise
The father of Laura Palmer, Leland is a well-respected lawyer in Twin Peaks.
[[spoiler:When he was a child, he met the evil spirit BOB and was possessed by him. After hearing the news of his daughter's murder, Leland suffers a nervous breakdown, which results in him killing murder suspect Jacques Renault at the end of season one.]]
[[spoiler:At the beginning of season two, Leland awakens to find his hair has turned white. He becomes very upbeat, joyfully dancing and singing show tunes. However, it isn't long until he is arrested by Cooper and Truman for Jacques Renault's murder, but is soon released due to being well-respected by the townsfolk.]]
[[spoiler:Not long after the trial, he brutally murders his niece Maddie Ferguson (who bears a strong resemblance to Laura) the day before she is supposed return to her hometown, Missoula. The police find out about the murder and, with help from the Giant, Cooper reveals that Leland is Laura's killer. When Leland is taken in for interrogation, BOB assumes full control over his body and forces him to commit suicide just before leaving. Leland tells of his tragic childhood and the murders he committed and, with Cooper's help, dies peacefully while seeing a vision of his daughter.]]
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* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler: In ''The Return'', an aged Leland appears to Cooper in the Black Lodge begging him to find Laura. This seems to imply that Leland's soul is trapped in the Black Lodge even after death.]]
* AmoralAttorney: When he goes back to working for Ben Horne, it is quickly revealed that his speciality is advising Ben on how to LoopholeAbuse his way out of paying taxes and how to whitewash his money.
* AbusiveParents: He definitely isn't one himself, but [[spoiler:he becomes one whenever BOB is in control of him, including forcing him to commit ParentalIncest. ''Fire Walk With Me'' does however imply that there was [[TheCorruptible an abusive aspect to Leland's personality all along]], that BOB [[TheCorrupter was able to latch on to and intensify]].]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By BOB]].
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: BOB leaves his body moments before his death and Leland has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction.]]
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:BOB, though ''Fire Walk With Me'' implies that he is more of a devil on Leland's shoulder.]]
* ExcessiveMourning : While Leland's grief over his daughter's death is understandable, it frequently goes so over-top that it crosses into the realm of the ridiculous, and some of the scenes he causes with his occasional breakdowns means that several townspeople can't help but make fun of him behind his back.
* FateWorseThanDeath:[[spoiler:Not only was possesed by Bob, but after his death his soul appears to be trapped eternally within the Black Lodge in a similar manner to Cooper.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: In Season 2 as Leland is about to die and overcome with horror over his actions, Cooper tries to comfort him and tells him to GoIntoTheLight towards what is implied to be the White Lodge. It seems to work on Leland as he apparently see's a vision of Laura and dies happy. Unfortunately in ''The Return'' Cooper see's an older Leland in the Black Lodge pathetically oblivious to Laura's fate.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: Frequently when he grieves over Laura.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turns white after [[spoiler:he murders Jacques Renault]].
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: Has been molesting Laura under BOB's influence since her early adolescence]].
* ThePollyanna: He becomes a weird, grown-up male version of this trope at the beginning of the second season after [[spoiler:he's killed Jacques Renault and BOB has taken more complete control of him,]] which literally prevents him from staying upset about anything, including tragic events, for too long and to frequently break into singing and dancing.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:There some hints, especially in ''Fire Walk With Me'', that Leland's sexual abuse of Laura wasn't only down to BOB forcing Leland into doing it, but also that BOB was able to play on some repressed, dark urges already present in Leland.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After BOB makes him bash his head and hangs him out to dry, Leland has this moment where he reveals to Cooper all of the horrible things BOB has made him do and his horror upon remembering that he killed and molested his own daughter.]]
* SanitySlippage: He starts off pretty reserved and somber after Laura's death, only to become increasingly over-the-top in his mourning process. [[spoiler: And then we find out about the influence BOB's had on him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Hoo boy! He is after all [[spoiler: the rapist and murderer of his own daughter]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Leland's hair turning white is a sign that [[spoiler:BOB has completely taken over.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Once he's arrested, making him useless to BOB, BOB forces him to kill himself by smashing his head against a wall]].
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''Fire Walk With Me'' [[spoiler: it's shown that Leland, either by himself or under the influence of BOB, frequented the prostitutes of Deer Meadows like Teresa Banks while still married to Sarah.]]
!!Sarah Palmer
->Played by: Grace Zabriskie
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The wife of Leland Palmer and the mother of Laura Palmer.
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* AdultFear: Has a fear her daughter is dead before its confirmed and later that her husband is going insane. [[spoiler: She's correct both times.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Spends most of her time in ''The Return'' getting drunk and watching TV, with seemingly nothing else to fill out the day.
* BigNo: Has a number of these reactions, not just with no over events in the series.
* BrokenBird: ''Quite'' thoroughly in ''The Return''. Considering all the shit she went through in the original, it's more than understandable.
* CloserToEarth: While still very shattered by her grief over Laura's death, she is not nearly the complete wreck that Leland is. [[spoiler: Subverted by the fact she missed her daughter was being sexually abused since puberty and had become a drug addicted prostitute.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Has either this or a SymbioticPossession going on. It's not really clear who or what is possessing her, other than that she has a very tough and violent inhabiting spirit that becomes active when she's threatened]].
* FreakOut: Has one in the middle of a grocery store in ''The Return''.
* GrumpyOldWoman: She's quite cold and rude to everyone in ''The Return'', but it's pretty understandable considering the traumas she's suffered.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Her ignorance to what was going on in her own household was tremendous.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:All but confirmed in ''The Return.'' She takes her own face off, revealing a terrifying void behind it.]]
* HystericalWoman: As BOB taunts her.
* NotHerself: [[spoiler: Possibly]].
* ParentsAsPeople: She seems to have been grossly ignorant of Laura's issues but was never malicious.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: She is frequently haunted by visions of BOB and the Pale Horse.
* TheScream: Completely breaks down when she discovers her daughter is dead.
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[[folder:The Briggses]]
!!Major Garland Briggs
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->Played by: Creator/DonSDavis
A high ranking member of the Air Force involved in UFO investigations, spiritualism, and the White Lodge. He is also Bobby Briggs' father.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: His lack of expression, odd SpockSpeak, and obsessive traits may not be only the result of a lifelong military career or working largely in secret, but possibly signs of some form of mental disorder.
* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' turns into this for him in its last chapter. The second to last entry has him describing his relief that Cooper has returned from the woods seemingly unscathed and he has asked sheriff Truman to tell Cooper to visit him once he recovers, before the entry cuts off with Briggs going down to greet Cooper who is ringing on his doorbell. The last entry has Briggs extremely worried, as Cooper was behaving very strangely during his visit. Briggs then writes that he needs to return to the listening post as quickly as possible, before the entry ends with "*M*A*Y*D*A*Y*"]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' if William Hastings questionable testimony is anything to go by then Hastings entered the Black Lodge and witnessed the spirit of Briggs ascend into what is implied to be the White Lodge while mentioning the name ''Cooper'' several times.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Neither Garland or Briggs is especially uncommon but together sounds like a comic book character.
* TheApprentice: [[spoiler:To Douglas Milford, who handpicked him to be his successor as "the Watcher in the Woods".]]
* BaldOfAwesome: This ''is'' Creator/DonSDavis, after all.
* BigGood: A mortal version of the trope like Cooper.
* BrokenPedestal: While he admits that any government body, especially a secretive one, could become corrupt, the Major asserts that the classified information he deals with is for a noble cause. [[spoiler: He quickly becomes disillusioned after realizing the Air Force has malicious plans for the White Lodge.]]
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Dies in a mysterious fire after meeting with BOB!Cooper]]
** [[spoiler: An giant apparition of his head latter appears to Cooper in the Lodge saying "Blue Rose"]]
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler: Died in a fire some years prior to the TimeSkip]], as Don S. Davis sadly passed away in 2008.
* CoolOldGuy: More like "Cool Middle-aged Guy", but close enough.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Actually ''more so'' than [[spoiler: Cooper]]. Though it might be a result of [[spoiler:him being in on the (seemingly) BenevolentConspiracy]].
* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 1. Down to his uniform being his attire of choice for seemingly everything.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: What more can you say about a man whose greatest fear is the "possibility that love is not enough"?
* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' he is revealed to be the mysterious "Archivist", the in-universe collector of the dossier the book is based on. It actually also brings the LiteraryAgentHypothesis into play, as it becomes gradually obvious that Briggs might have had a better understanding of the mysterious things going in Twin Peaks than most people, but even his perspective is shown to be flawed, limited and riddled with blind spots, and it is apparent he is ultimately missing several pierces of the different puzzles and have misunderstood certain events, as some of his conclusions contradicts events seen in the series and at several points he starts blatantly speculating and guessing about several things.]]
* NotSoStoic: His various [[spoiler: kidnappings]] take a serious toll on his psyche, to the point of stammering and shaking.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' the headless, vivisected corpse of a man identified as Major Briggs has apparently been popping up several times over the years with the Military covering it up. Tellingly it's Briggs' head that floats by Cooper in the Black Lodge.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Before he was killed by the Doppelganger, Briggs left instructions on how to enter the Black Lodge and coordinates that reveal the existence of two Coopers with his wife who passed it on to Sheriff Truman, Hawk and their son Bobby 25 years after Season 2. His legacy seems to be a key factor in the events of ''The Return''.]]
* RaisedCatholic: Briefly alluded to in the series (he and his wife wear a lot of cross iconography and keep an altar to Jesus in their house), but addressed further in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', which discusses his interest in religious mysticism as a product of having been brought up in a version of this trope that plays against type.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Emotional distance and weird formality aside, he makes every effort to respect that his son chooses a very different life from him.
* SharpDressedMan: Can't go wrong in a military uniform.
* SpockSpeak: One of the causes of the distance between himself and his son is just how bizarrely-eloquent he is.
* UnstuckInTime: [[spoiler: After BOB!Cooper apparently murdered Briggs in a fire, a mutilated corpse with his fingerprints has popped up several times over the past two decades. The most recent corpse had the coroner declare that the body had only been dead for a few days despite Briggs having died almost thirty years ago.]]
!!Robert "Bobby" Briggs
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bobby_briggs25.jpg[[/labelnote]] Twenty-five years later...]]
->Played by: Dana Ashbrook
The captain of the Twin Peaks football team and a small time drug dealer. He's the son of Major Briggs and the boyfriend of Laura Palmer.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as [[spoiler:next to her he was both weak and innocent.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: Has cleaned up his act by ''The Return'' but that has actually ''alienated'' him from his ex-wife and daughter.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In ''Fire Walk With Me'', he wastes no time bragging about his "pocket rocket" to Laura.
* FairCop: [[spoiler: Twenty five years after Season 2, Bobby has joined the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department and his good looks have managed to stay intact in his older state.]]
* GetRichQuickScheme: Spends most of his time coming up with these, and he's ''terrible'' at it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Between Season 2 and ''The Return'', he goes from a drug dealing punk to [[spoiler: a cop who specifically catches the kind of criminal he once was.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: By a ''long shot''. [[spoiler: Ironically, he enters government work after his father's death.]]
* JerkJock: An enormous ass in high school as well as the town's top football player.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He mellows out over the course of the show [[spoiler: and the TimeSkip]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Cheats on Laura with Shelly, only to become enraged with James for having a relationship with her.
* LargeHam: Bobby can be quite hammy when he gets emotional. Some of the best examples can be seen in the pilot episode when he's both accused and later questioned about possibly murdering Laura Palmer as well as in the fourth episode with his big [[BigWordShout AAAAAAMEEEEN!!!]] at Laura's funeral, and earlier in the same episode when his father implies that he's afraid of said funeral (specifically the last part of his response to that).
-->'''Bobby Briggs:''' AFRAID?!! I'M GOING TO TURN IT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UP!!SIDE!!DOWN!!]]
** And let's not forget the scene where he ''dances backwards'' into the school hallway when talking to Laura in TheMovie.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Ends up growing up into a ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to look out for his wayward offspring, much like his own father.
* TheLostLenore: While he loves Shelly, he is utterly devastated by Laura's death [[spoiler: and still cries thinking about her twenty-five years later.]]
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: The sight of Laura Palmer's Homecoming Queen portrait in 2016 almost immediately brings him to tears.]]
* MrFanservice: He's very, ''very'' pretty.
* OlderAndWiser: By ''The Return'', [[spoiler:he's become a deputy helping protect Twin Peaks.]]
* RebelliousSpirit: ''Very'' different from his wholesome parents. [[spoiler: Until ''The Return''.]]
* ReformedButRejected: An odd example as Bobby's wife is implied to have left him because she found his new good guy attitude to be boring.
* SmokingIsCool: And as expected, his far more clean-cut father doesn't approve of it.
* StraightMan: His LargeHam traits get downplayed when he starts working for Horne, most likely because Ben's SanitySlippage is enough to give ''him'' pause.
* WildCard: Screws up a number of really important criminal schemes by dangerous criminals as a teenager just by being ''that'' stupid.
* VillainProtagonist: We follow a number of his petty crimes across the series which include drug dealing and welfare fraud. This stops with ''The Return'' where he's become a Sheriff's deputy.
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[[folder:The Haywards]]
!!Donna Hayward
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donna_h_m.jpg[[/labelnote]] ''Fire Walk With Me'']]
->Played by: Lara Flynn Boyle (TV show), Moira Kelly (''Fire Walk With Me'')
Laura Palmer's best friend and the daughter of the town doctor. He is romantically involved with James Hurley after Laura's death.
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* TheChick: One of the most emotional, heartfelt, and decent characters on the show. Sometimes.
** Becomes TheDarkChick to an extent with many FemmeFatale qualities that, sadly, don't last.
* DoggedNiceGirl: For James. She starts to change with CharacterDevelopment and James status as an OutOfFocus character.
* DrivenByEnvy: While Laura's best friend, it's clear she also wanted many things Laura had like James as well as a confident sexual persona.
* FemmeFatale: Becomes one of these to get the missing pages of Laura's diary.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In the season 2 finale, we find out that her biological father is actually [[spoiler:Benjamin Horne]].
* MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie and ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.''
* NotHerself: At the beginning of season 2. It is implied that she (either subconsciously or because of the Twin Peaks' general weirdness) is somehow absorbing some of Laura's personality traits from wearing her sunglasses. An alternate interpretation is she's simply enjoying taking a walk on the (slightly) wilder side.
* OnlySaneMan: One of the most normal people in Twin Peaks, which makes her frequently confused and bewildered by events around her.
* TheOtherDarrin: Moira Kelly in ''Fire Walk With Me'' was Lara Flynn Boyle's unpopular replacement.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: ''Fire Walk With Me'' makes it clear that she and Laura were involved in one.
* TheScully: Donna has as many Lodge encounters as Agent Cooper but misreads them as mundane events.
* SmokingIsCool: Starting with season 2.
* StarCrossedLovers: Donna imagines herself and James to be this but it's {{Subverted}} in the fact no one really seems to care at worst (except her boyfriend at the time) and many others actively support them.
!!Eileen Hayward
->Played by: Mary Jo Deschanel
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Donna's mother and the wife of Doc Hayward. She is paraplegic from an unknown accident.
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* CutShort: We'll never know all the details of [[spoiler:her relationship with Ben Horne]]. [[SeasonalRot Even though they're pretty obvious]].
* HappilyMarried: Subverted. At least at one point during her marriage. It's true in the present day.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Ben Horne treats his relationship with Eileen far more seriously than he does his other affairs.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: She's implied to be an excellent mother and NiceGirl who still had an affair [[spoiler: that birthed Donna.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Accepts, unlike everyone else, Ben Horne has changed. Unfortunately, is the one most keenly aware his attempts to change, [[spoiler: specifically trying to start a relationship with his unknowning daughter,]] could destroy her family.
* YourCheatingHeart: Given Audrey and Donna are the same age, both she and Ben Horne were married when [[spoiler: Donna]] was conceived.
!!Gersten Hayward
->Played by: Creator/AliciaWitt
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The Hayward's youngest daughter and a musical prodigy. [[spoiler: Later Stephen's girlfriend.]]
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: A musical prodigy who is just damn adorable as well as willing to help her sister sneak out. Averted when she caves immediately to her father asking where Donna went to.
* ClosingCredits: She gets to interrupt [[InstrumentalThemeTune Falling]] to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.
* DemotedToExtra: Was only in two episodes of the show despite Donna's prominence. Played straight in ''The Return'' as well where she doesn't get a speaking role but only shows up in a background shot.
* TheMistress: Stephen is cheating on his wife Becky with her in ''The Return''
* SheIsAllGrownUp: In ''The Return'', she's a rather tragic example as it's clear she never left Twin Peaks and dates scum like Stephen.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Time has not served her well if she's hanging around with Steven in ''The Return.''
!!William "Doc" Hayward
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->Played by: Warren Frost
Twin Peak's seeming only doctor who also serves as a makeshift coroner.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Struggles to cover his laughter when Mayor Dwayne threatens to sue Lana for "death by sex".
* CoolOldGuy: One of the nicest and most decent people in Twin Peaks. He is as vital to solving Laura's murder as Sheriff Truman.
* ClosestThingWeGot: He has to step up as TheCoroner, despite not being a forensic medical examiner -- Twin Peaks isn't the kind of place that needs one -- but he does alright.
* NiceGuy: The most decent person on the show after Cooper and Pete.
* NotSoStoic: While he's generally a calm and reasonable man, he still has his limits, as demonstrated by his altercation with Albert early on, where he gets infuriated that Albert insists on keeping Laura's body for the upcoming funeral to perform an autopsy.
* PapaWolf: He completely blows up at [[spoiler: Ben Horne]] when he drives Donna to tears.
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[[folder:The Hornes]]
!!Audrey Horne
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->Played by: Sherilyn Fenn
Daughter of Ben Horne, and seems to have made it her life's mission to act up and play the FemmeFatale. Has a crush on Cooper from the moment she sees him.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Is openly cheating on her husband Charlie with another man and generally seems to hate how spineless and milquetoast he is.
* BeautyMark: Next to her left eye.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Annie's Betty. In a twist, she's actually sort of a better person than Donna.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mostly in the early episodes.
* BreakTheHaughty: Proudly manipulates her way into One-Eyed Jack's--and then, her experiences there [[OhCrap hits her hard with the realization that she's in over her head,]] leading to her privately shedding tears and praying for Cooper to save her.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Inverted - A majority of the time, her shenanigans are done to spite Ben, directly or indirectly. For a laugh in the earlier episodes, anyway.
* FilleFatale: [[DownplayedTrope She's eighteen, actually.]] But her sexuality is of the "playful/childlike" quality.
* FemmeFatale: ''Loves'' to revel in the role, particularly for Cooper. As the first season progresses, we come to discover she's actually more of an HeroicSeductress, using her sexual antics to investigate and sabotage the corruption around her.
* GenerationXerox: Becomes every bit as conniving as her father as the series goes on.
* GoodBadGirl: Puts off a highly sexual airs, and generally acts pretty rebellious, but all in all she's quite moral, after all.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: It's implied her rebellious attitude stems out of disgust at her father's corruption.
* LadySwearsALot: Her first scene in ''The Return'' has her let loose on her husband Charlie.
* LonelyRichKid: Cooper appears to be the first person she's truly opened up to in a while.
* MsFanservice: Constantly goes out of her way to act "sexy"...down to showing up in Cooper's ''bed'' in one episode.
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] -- she initially comes across as a stereotypical "bad" girl...but turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* SmokingIsCool: [[spoiler: Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season]].
* SweaterGirl: Some truly beautiful ones are worn by her during the show, many which accent her figure.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As of ''The Return'', it seems.
* UglyGuyHotWife: By the time of ''The Return'' Audrey has managed to retain her good lucks but has found herself married to a man she openly loathes named Charlie who looks like a potato wearing glasses.[[note]] The actor suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [[/note]]
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''The Return'', [[spoiler: she shamelessly reveals to her husband that she's having an affair with a man named Billy]].
!!Benjamin "Ben" Horne
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->Played by: Richard Beymer
The millionaire hotel owner of the Great Northern and a land developer who hopes to turn the town into a tourist resort. He is the father of Audrey Horne as well as owner of the One Eyed Jacks brothel and casino.
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* BecomingTheMask: Starts off using a conservation scheme to derail Catherine's real estate plans, but eventually takes it seriously and starts reflecting on the decisions of his past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Besides his legitimate company, which alone makes him the biggest business owner in Twin Peaks, he also got his finger in several more shady businesses, [[spoiler:such as One-Eyed Jacks]], and he is always plotting new ways to expand his business empire, usually through means that are extremely underhanded at best and outright illegal at worst.
* DeathGlare: A pretty hilarious version. One episode has a scene of Ben's 27 year old son [[AmbiguousDisorder Johnny]] running around outside in his Native American headdress playing Cowboys & Indians and emitting a childish war cry. Cue a shot of Ben looking out the window [[InadequateInheritor staring daggers into his only male heir]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He kisses his mother's image while watching the old film.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his manipulations, he genuinely cares for Audrey and is clearly proud of her when she asks to work in his department store.
* GoodFeelsGood: Deconstructed: when he starts to improve himself, Ben is clearly ecstatic to be doing the right thing for once. However, he doesn't take into the account the feelings of the people around him. For example, [[spoiler: revealing to Donna that he's her father may have been "right" but it completely tears apart her family in the season two finale.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He usually smokes cigars, signifying his role as a CorruptCorporateExecutive. After [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn in the second season]], he seems to [[AddictionDisplacement switch to celery stalks and carrots]].
* HandsomeLech: Has relationships with a large number of women in addition to the many prostitutes in his employ he sleeps with. Would be TheCasanova if not for the fact Ben is prone to corny oddball behavior (much like other Twin Peaks residents) and barely disguises his sleazier elements.
* KickTheDog: Refusing to send money to his mother after her grandson robbed her came off as rather cruel for a man who's mostly changed his ways.
* LargeHam: Especially in the middle-to-later episodes when things start to fall apart for him, which causes him to get much more dramatic and uncomposed, but especially so in the episodes after [[spoiler:he has a complete breakdown and starts acting and dressing like General Robert E. Lee]]. Even before that though, he fits the subtler variety of ham pretty well. His speech patterns can best be compared to that of Lionel Luthor from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in that both of them put emphasis on any words and parts of their lines that they feel are important.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Revealed in the season 2 finale to be Donna's father.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Especially prevalent in season 1 where Ben is a more serious and sinister character than most other Twin Peaks residents. He's not above his own bit of odd behaviors such as when his brother introduces him to baguettes or when Leland comes in singing and he and Jerry break out the celebratory dance moves.
* PetTheDog: When his daughter is taken hostage, Ben sends Cooper to make the drop, fully intending for him to die per the hostage negotiator's orders. He does also send Hank to follow them and while he wants Hank to bring back his money as well, Ben places the greater importance on his daughter's safety.
* SharpDressedMan: In contrast to the retro-'50s style that most of the town dresses in, Ben favors '80s patterned ties and double-breasted suits.
* SmugSnake: Ben Horne is more intelligent than most of Twin Peaks criminals but he's brought low by Cooper and Truman.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts the show as a manipulative businessman and cheating husband who exploited the girls at One-Eyed Jack's for his personal enjoyment. [[spoiler: Twenty-five years later, he openly criticizes Jerry for lusting after his married secretary and is clearly uncomfortable when Jerry points out that "never used to stop you".]]
** In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' the Archivist notices that the shock of [[spoiler:Audrey getting seriously injured in the bank explosion]], caused a subtle, but profound change in Ben's behavior and outlook, leading him to gradually become a better and more caring person.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until he inherited his family's company.
* VillainDecay: You don't get much lower than an extended plotline where you think you're General Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when [[spoiler:he loses One-Eyed Jack's]].
* WhatHaveIBecome: He asks himself this a few times, [[IgnoredEpiphany only to shrug it off again]]. It seems to finally have stuck after [[spoiler:Audrey got seriously injured in the bank explosion]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Possibly the biggest offender in the series. He's married to Sylvia but he has an affair with Catherine Martell, sees the prostitutes in One Eyed Jack, [[spoiler:was one of Laura's lovers]] and [[spoiler:is revealed to be Donna's real father at the end]].
!!Jerry Horne
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->Played by: David Patrick Kelly
Ben Horne's sleazy brother. He actually doesn't have too big of a role in the show, but he occasionally helps Ben with his schemes.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Has become this to Ben by ''The Return'', which is hilarious as they're both over sixty.
* BigEater: He fell in love Brie-on-baguette sandwiches when he went to Paris on a business trip for Ben. He brings home no less than four of them and insists that Ben try one. As a rule, he winds up developing a taste for at least one exotic or unusual dish from every foreign country he's been to, and likes to tell people about them in great detail.
** With the legalization of marijuana in Washington State, Jerry's taken to producing and selling his own edibles. His first scene in the third season introduces him chowing down on his own recipe for cannabis banana bread.
* CasanovaWannabe: Jerry, like his brother, is obsessed with women but unlike Ben doesn't seem able to get any love that isn't paid for.
* CloudCuckooLander: Already showed shades of this in the original series, but as of the return has seemingly become one of the loopier residents of Twin Peaks, doubtless due to his implied heavy use of weed.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Downplayed. When Ben starts losing his mind, Jerry considers using the situation to his advantage by going ahead with his own ventures until Audrey puts a stop to it. In spite of this Jerry is still concerned about his brother's mental health and is quite happy when he recovers.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Jerry isn't a very good lawyer, Coop notes he failed the Bar exam twice and graduated last in his class, but the advice he gives Ben when he's arrested [[spoiler:for Laura's murder]] is pretty sound (and his big plan is to get his brother a better lawyer). Mainly he keeps trying to stop Ben from [[DiggingYourselfDeeper yammering on and insulting everyone]] because he's just making himself look guilty, and everything he's saying can and will be used against him in court. Even when he gives the ultimatum: charge Ben or let him go... which results in them charging him; Jerry isn't in the wrong because that's just what the police have to do anyway.
** In ''The Return'' Jerry also notes that he's making three times what his brother does with the Great Northern hotel as a legal marijuana grower. It should be noted Ben is a ''millionaire.''
* EruditeStoner: Twenty five years after Season 2 he seems to have become one. By 2016, Jerry not only appears to be taking advantage of Ben's investment in the medical marijuana industry but his new favorite food is marijuana infused banana bread.
* {{Keet}}: Jerry tends to get very enthusiastic when he discovers something he finds new and exciting, usually some kind of food, dresses in colorful clothes, and is notably more animated and active in how he moves than his more subdued brother.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Ben is falsely accused of Laura Palmer's murder, his legal counsel is literally to get a better lawyer.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: In ''The Return'', either he actually took some acid or he found himself a strain of marijuana that's powerful enough to hallucinate his foot talking to him. [[TheCloudCookoolanderWasRight Either that or his leg has been possessed by one of the demons living in the woods. The latter is entirely possible and probably the likeliest explanation.]]
* NumberTwo: Of all Ben's associates, Jerry's the one who Ben confides in. Jerry acts as Ben's co-conspirator, and he's the one taking international trips to secure investors.
* ShadowArchetype: To his brother. He publicly displays all the traits Ben attempts to hide behind his everyday mask of sophistication, from flamboyance and quirkiness, up to womanizing and underhanded and aggressive business manners. This also shown in more obvious ways; where Ben is a SharpDressedMan who favors muted colors in his wardrobe, Jerry seems to attempt to always be dressed as bombastically as possible.
* SmugSnake: Is a villain in the fact he's a less effective and dumber version of his brother.
* TheStoner: In ''The Return'', where he now runs a legal marijuana dispensary and seems to be almost constantly high. By 2016, he greatly resembles the type of bearded, spaced out older guy you'd find at a Music/{{Phish}} concert.
* SunglassesAtNight: Wears these in ''The Return'' as part of his new stoner persona.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: As detailed under ShadowArchetype, Jerry embodies and brings out Ben's worst traits. [[spoiler: During the TimeSkip, Ben seems to have cut Jerry out of both the hotel business and most of his personal life, in his efforts at self-improvement.]] ** By ''The Return'' their relationship has settled into a stable but strained relationship where Jerry regularly shows up to bother a visibly annoyed Ben.
!!Johnny Horne
->Played by: Robert Davenport and Robert Bauer
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Audrey's mentally handicapped brother.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is unclear exactly what Johnny suffers from, but it causes him to be a silent, childish shut-in that sometimes makes weird outbursts. [[spoiler:A DeletedScene reveals that Johnny actually has a perfectly normal brain and intelligence, and his behavior stems from a serious trauma he experienced early in life, and Dr. Jacoby is optimistic about the prospects of unearthing this trauma.]]
* InadequateInheritor: It is clear that Ben expected his sole son to take over the family business, and it disappoints him to no end that Johnny really is in no condition to do so.
* ManChild: As brought on by his condition. At the start of the series Johnny is "27 going on 6."
* SecurityBlanket: His Native American chief's headdress. Dr. Jacoby is able to convince him to take it off for Laura's funeral, but it takes much coaxing.
* ThereWasADoor: Dammit Johnny you're not the Kool-Aid man...
* {{Wallbonking}}: By the time of "The Return" this is what you risk whenever you let Johnny out.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Hurleys]]
!!"Big" Ed Hurley Jr.
->Played by: Everett [=McGill=]
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A local mechanic and junk dealer trapped in an unhappy marriage. He is James Hurley's uncle and Nadine's husband. He's in an adulterous relationship with Norma Jennings.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Ed loves Nadine but in a manner which makes it clear his marriage is miserable.
* ChildhoodSweetheart: To Norma.
* CloserToEarth: He's incomparably more sensible and down to earth than his wife Nadine.
* HenpeckedHusband: He may not have it as bad as Pete, but he still gets his share of beleaguerment from Nadine and her antics.
* LoveTriangle: Is part of one of the central ones in the show with it briefly becoming a love square.
* MrFixit: Ed is noted to be quite the talented mechanic. In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', it is noted that his main childhood hobby was taking apart toasters and vacuum cleaners and then putting them back together again; in perfect working condition no less. Deputy Hawk writes that already in his teenage years, Ed could put a Volkswagen together blindfolded.
* MultipleChoicePast: Either married Nadine because Norma Jennings had married Hank Jennings while he was in Vietnam or because he put out Nadine's eye accidentally during a hunting expedition.
* NiceGuy: A Bookhouse Boy and doting uncle to James Hurley.
* QuestionableConsent: Sleeps with Nadine when she thinks she's seventeen.
* TheQuietOne: So quiet and slow to move on his feelings that Hawk believes it'll take him ''decades'' to get back with Norma in "The Secret History of Twin Peaks".
* SympatheticAdulterer: YMMV may vary on this given he continues his affair with Norma while also continuing it with Nadine.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that he and Norma still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Is cheating on his wife with Norma Jennings, though it's never clear how physical their relationship is.
** Keeps up his sexual relationship with Nadine [[{{Squick}} even when she thinks she's a teenager.]]
!!James Hurley
->Played by: James Marshall
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Big Ed's nephew. A Biker teen who lives with Ed and Nadine instead of his parents, who, he tells people, died in a car accident.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Gender inverted, he's the Betty to Laura Palmer while Bobby's the Veronica.
* CoolBike: Somewhat deconstructed: his bike makes him easily identifiable by both the police and people hoping to frame him for their own crimes. [[spoiler: It also, eventually, get him in a motorcycle accident.]]
* DiscoDan: A 50's greaser kid about 40 years too late, at least in fashion (though Twin Peaks is rather behind the times in most areas).
* GoodIsDumb: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Deputy Hawk notes that James is a nice kid, but notes that that he is often LateToThePunchline and has a serious problem with reading anything more complicated than children's books.
* TheDitz: Almost astonishingly stupid. As Laura Palmer says in one of her tapes, "James is sweet, but he's ''so dumb''."
* TheDrifter: Becomes one of these at the end of the series when he is PutOnABus.
* DullSurprise: James never seems to have much of a reaction to anything even when he is stunned or heartbroken.
* LikesOlderWomen: If [[spoiler:his affair with the 30-something Evelyn March]] is any indication...
* MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie.
* NeverLearnedToRead: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that while he can read, his skills lacks ''way'' behind his age. Deputy Hawk describes how Big Ed had to struggle pretty hard even get him to that point, and latter sarcastically adds that even into his late teens, James' favorite book is still ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''.
* NiceGuy: Is one of the most decent people in ''Twin Peaks.''
* PutOnABus: Though, he seemed to came back to ''Twin Peaks'' during the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3.
* RuleAbidingRebel: Aside from the fact he drives a motorcycle and works instead of getting a high school education, he is far nicer a boy than Bobby (a man sleeping with a married woman while dealing drugs) yet is considered the outlaw of the two.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: His normal voice is rather deep. His singing voice literally sounds like a woman.
* StarCrossedLovers: Has this sort of relationship with Laura Palmer. Averted with Donna as she has no opposition from her parents who can tell James is a NiceGuy. Ironically, this seems to actually hurt his relationship with Donna.
* TheQuietOne: Much like his uncle. Shelly notes he's gotten even more quiet [[spoiler: after his accident during the TimeSkip.]]
* TroubledButCute: Seems to be a high school drop out and from the wrong side of the tracks but is, otherwise, supportive and kind.
* YourCheatingHeart: Is the other man in Laura's life than her boyfriend. Also, develops feelings for Maddie that end up ruining his relationship with Donna.
!!Nadine Hurley
->Played by: Wendy Robie
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The one-eyed, drape-obsessed housewife of Big Ed Hurley.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Accent on the ambiguous. In a town as quirky as Twin Peaks, it's hard to tell if Nadine's emotional issues and obsessiveness are due to having a condition of some sort or not. [[HollywoodPsych This is, of course, before she actually has amnesia that convinces her she's a high school senior against all evidence to the contrary.]]
* BadassNormal: She may not be connected to the supernatural ongoings in Twin Peaks, but her SuperStrength and overall athleticism come in handy from time to time.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: Seems to be Doctor Jacobi's biggest fan in ''The Return.''
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn't even begin to describe her!
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of season 1, she tries to overdose on pills out of depression when she can't sell any of of her cotton balls since not many people are interested in silent drape-runners, which she had just created with them, hoping they would make her and Ed rich. Thankfully though, it only sends her into a coma, which she awakens from a few episodes later.]]
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: [[spoiler:When she awakens from her coma, she sees herself as a dainty teenager, but still has all her previous strength and athleticism from her adult life.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: During the decades long interval between Season 2 and ''The Return'' it seems that Nadine has accomplished her dream of opening a successful silent drape business, Run Silent, Run Drapes.
* EyepatchOfPower: Her most prominent physical feature, which goes great with her extreme physical strength
* FieryRedhead: Was subject to wild mood swings and had super-strength.
* GenkiGirl: [[spoiler:Post-coma in season 2, when she thinks that she's a teenager.]]
* LargeHam: Overreacts to the smallest things and is dramatic about everything from cheerleading to silent drapes.
* SelectiveObliviousness: A variant after her [[spoiler: coma]]. She admits that she knows about Ed and Norma's interest in each other and doesn't mind... as [[spoiler: Ed and Norma are naked, in bed with each other. Right in front of her.]]
* SuperStrength: She can effortlessly hurl a full-grown man over a whole sports field.
* WomanChild: [[spoiler:A [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. For some strange reason, she awakens from her coma near the beginning of season 2 thinking she's still a teenager in high school, and therefore, has the mindset of and acts like one.]]
* WaifFu: She's certainly not built like someone of her strength at all. As Dr. Jacoby points out, "that tissue's packed in there pretty hard".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Jenningses]]
!!Hank Jennings
->Played by: Chris Mulkey
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A ex-Bookhouse Boy and Twin Peaks most dangerous criminal. He is the recently paroled husband of Norma Jennings.
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* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: His domino key-chain.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Hank Jennings, unlike Leo, was actually quite good at keeping up an AffablyEvil front and pretending at a HeelFaceTurn. This did not last.
* BullyingADragon: Hank has this attitude as he's incapable of treating anyone who he has momentary advantage of as anything other than garbage. This includes very dangerous people like Josie Packard and Ben Horne. Ironically, it's his wife that proves to be the most dangerous dragon he bullies.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals he was fatally wounded in prison by a Renault relative.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: To the point it actually serves as Hank Jenning's FatalFlaw. Hank turns on every single person he makes cause with as soon as something better comes along. The Bookhouse Boys, Josie, Ben Horne, Ernie, and more. As such, when his patron in Jean Renault is taken down, he's left with absolutely no one to turn to.
* TheDragon: To several villains throughout the series.
* FallenHero: Used to be a Bookhouse Boy. Truman grew up with him and thought he was one of their best, until he ended up in prison.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's friendly enough in casual conversation when he's working at the diner... but as soon as people turn their backs, he lets his distaste for his customers slip. He also can't hide his dark side from his wife for long.
* KarmicDeath: As per ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' [[spoiler: as he betrayed most of the town for Jean Renault, only to have the Renault family blame him for his death. They killed him in prison.]]
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' states that the town of Twin Peaks had viewed the Jenningses as losers and troublemakers for a long time. Notably, Hank's grandfather, Einer, was "amongst the leading candidates for town drunk" and his father, Emil, had already in his youth complied quite a rap sheet of various petty crimes and would eventually end up dying from passing out drunk in his bathtub and drowning.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Had a very large number of contacts within the criminal underworld so that his prison stays were very comfortable. {{Subverted}} on his return when, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he was killed by the Renault family.
* PoisonousFriend: He brings his former cellmate back into the criminal life within hours of meeting him, despite the man having found himself in a very cushy position as well as possessing no desire to return to crime.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He attempted this, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. [[spoiler: Knowing that he's pretty much doomed in prison, he wrote a full confession of his crimes and completely apologizes for betraying the trust of his friends and family.]] Its never made clear if anyone bought it.
* RelationshipSabotage: Hank had desired Norma throughout high school, despite her and Big Ed being very much in love with each other. When Big Ed went overseas for military service during the Vietnam War, Hank saw an opportunity to throw a kink in his and Norma's relationship, and took up a job at the Twin Peaks post office, and made sure that neither party saw any of the mail they attempt to send each other. With Norma thoroughly saddened that Ed never seemed to respond to any of her letters, Hank could then make his move and play the role as the nice, understanding friend with the shoulder to cry on.
* SmugSnake: While introduced as a much more dangerous criminal than Leo, he quickly found himself outsmarted at every turn.
* TheWorfEffect: He's introduced taking down Leo Johnson, one of the show's most brutal criminals at the time, to establish himself as a badass. This quickly turns on him when it's he who get's his ass handed to him to establish the strength of other characters like Mr. Kumagai or Nadine.
!!Norma Jennings
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->Played by: Peggy Lipton
The long-suffering owner of the Double R Diner and lover of Big Ed Hurley. The wife of Hank Jennings.
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* BerserkButton: Being treated with disrespect, whether by Ed, Hank, or her mother.
* ChildhoodSweetheart: To Ed.
* CoolBigSis: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Breaking all ties with her mother over a bad review. {{Justified}} as it was the straw that broke the camel's back after a lifetime of neglect.
* TheDogBitesBack: Hank Jennings really shouldn't have crossed her.
* FanserviceWithASmile: She ''is'' played by Peggy Lipton after all.
* GreasySpoon: Runs her own diner.
* InsecureLoveInterest: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', this was part of the reason she and Ed never got together in their teens.
* TheMistress: Is unhappily one of these to Big Ed due to his unwillingness to leave Nadine.
* ParentalSubstitute: Gradually morphs into this for Shelly and her daughter by the time of ''The Return'' since Shelly remains as mature as she was during the original series.
* ParentalNeglect: She's estranged from her mother due to Mrs. Jennings' commitment to her job over Norma. When she makes it clear that she considers Norma "overly emotional" about the matter, Norma cut ties with her completely.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that she and Ed still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Johnsons]]
!!Leo Johnson
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->Played by: Eric Da Re
The abusive husband of Shelly Johnson and the local drug dealer.
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Well... sort of. He is aggressive and does sell drugs to high school kids, but they seek him out to buy them.
** Although, at the point of the sales, he doesn't do things by halves, and will straight-up threaten to kill his customers unless they fulfill their end of the deal.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Sort of; despite his horrible treatment of Shelly, Leo shows obvious concern when Windom Earle states that he might kill her, and later tries multiple times to stop Earle's plans. His poor mental state doesn't allow him to do much, but he does manage to free Major Briggs so that the latter could help Shelly.]]
* AxCrazy: He takes this trope to a literal degree when [[spoiler:he awakens from his coma in the middle of season 2 and the first thing he tries to do is murder Shelly with an ax.]]
* BiTheWay: His Flesh World ad mentions being open to encounters with men.
* TheBrute: A violent thuggish man who abuses his wife and intimidates everyone around him. [[TheWorfEffect Except Hank Jennings.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: When he finds out that Shelly has been having an affair with Bobby, he tries to ''murder'' both of them even though he generally treats Shelly horribly and doesn't really give her a reason to love him to begin with.
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:In the second season.]]
* ConvenientComa: Well, he does clearly [[spoiler:have some brain damage, but it's only convenient for some, who would have preferred him dead]].
* HateSink: Leo is a drug dealer, domestic abuser, and all around {{jerkass}}. Viewers ''will'' loathe him.
* {{Jerkass}}: You ''will'' want to punch his punchable face.
* RedHerring: Despite his sadism, violence, [[spoiler:frequent cold-blooded killing]] and [[spoiler:being present at the scene of her murder]], Leo [[spoiler:did not kill Laura Palmer]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Releases Major Briggs from captivity so he can warn Shelly. Windom Earle leaves him in a situation he's highly unlikely to have survived.]]
* VillainDecay: Leo has the bad luck of being the absolute middle man. Terrifying to the teenagers who are dabbling, easily manipulated by the real powers in Series/TwinPeaks.
* TheWorfEffect: Hank Jennings easily beats him up and intimidates him into submission. Windom Earle does the same.
!!Shelly Johnson[[spoiler: /Briggs]]
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->Played by: Mädchen Amick
A waitress at the Double R diner and wife to Leo. [[spoiler: Later, she married Bobby Briggs.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Though she seems to be getting better with each try, from the downright abusive Leo, to the unstable and short-tempered Bobby, to... Gordon Cole.
* AmicableExes: [[spoiler: As revealed in ''The Return'', she and Bobby got married... and it didn't last, though she still carries his last name and they still seem to get along, at least where their daughter is concerned.]]
* AuthorAppeal: She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue CrowningMomentOfFunny when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in.
-->'''Bobby:''' What the hell is going on?!\\
'''Gordon Cole''': YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT. ''(to Shelly)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.]]\\
'''Dale Cooper''': Uh, Gordon...\\
'''Gordon Cole''': ''(to Bobby)'' TAKE ANOTHER LOOK, SONNY! IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN.
* DomesticAbuse: Her husband forces her to do all the chores, beats her with a soap in a sock at one point, and is deeply jealous.
* FanserviceWithASmile: Works as a waitress in Norma's diner.
* MsFanservice: Not as much as Audrey, but she has her moments. And being played by Mädchen Amick doesn't hurt.
* SmokingIsCool: Though in her case, with her stress load, it makes sense.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Considering that Leo is an abusive husband and not faithful himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Martells]]
!!Catherine Martell
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->Played by: Piper Laurie
The wife of Pete Martell and accountant at the Packard Lumber Mill.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Is having an affair with Ben Horne.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Despite often holding Pete in contempt and regarding him as a "soft, old fool", her planting a big, wet kiss on him when she reveals herself to him in her Mr. Tojamura disguise, shows that she does have some genuine affection for him.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Catherine isn't nearly as on the ball as she thinks since Ben Horne and [[spoiler: Josie Packard]] both run rings around her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She gives Ben Horne a serious run for his money.
* EvilRedhead: Catherine Martell was told to basically vamp it up like a soap opera villainess.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:She seemingly is killed when Leo burns down the mill, but [[NeverFoundTheBody her body is never found]]. She later returns in disguise as a Japanese businessman named Mr. Tojamura as ploy to trick Ben.]]
* FieryRedhead: Is an attempted murderer, schemer, and extremely fierce.
* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Her Mr. Tojamura disguise]].
* MeanBoss: Fires a guy in the pilot because he happened to be standing there when she was really pissed off.
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:When she poses as Mr. Tojamura]].
* YellowFace: [[spoiler: Posing as Mr. Tojamura. Not the series' finest hour.]]
!!Pete Martell
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->Played by: Jack Nance
The Packard Lumber Mill manager and a fishing enthusiast. He is also a chess grandmaster.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His love of fishing, affable demeanor, and lack of ambition put him at odds with everyone else's scheming. Especially his wife's.
* AwfulWeddedLife: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. He describes Catherine as "plain hell to live with", and finds it hard to cope with her ruthless, stubborn, and generally unpleasant nature, which runs counter to his own docile and kind demeanor. Despite this, he is shown to hold some kind of genuine (though mostly nostalgic) affection for her though, most notably he is quite torn up about [[spoiler:her apparent death]].
* ButtMonkey: A DownplayedTrope example as Pete is liked by everyone in town ''but'' his wife. However, he gets almost no respect despite being a hardworking plant manager, talented fisherman, and amateur chess master.
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks reveals that he died in the bank explosion at the end of the season 2 finale, as Jack Nance died in 1996, 5 years after the season 2 finale aired.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In a friendly, kinda-dorky way.
* HenPeckedHusband: Catherine just won't cut the guy a break.
-->She was plain hell to live with.
* HeroicSacrifice : [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' also reveals he shielded Audrey from the blast with his body.]]
* HiddenDepths: Pete actually proves to be an avid and very talented chess player. [[spoiler:He uses these skills to help Cooper against Windom Earle]].
* NiceGuy: One of the nicest in the series.
* NoodleIncident: How ''did'' the fish get in the coffee pot?
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle. At one point he plays three simultaneous games of chess and wins ''all'' of them.
* TokenGoodTeammate: In season 2, when Catherine, Josie, and [[spoiler:Andrew]] are all working/manipulating each other against Eckhardt or Horne, Pete's the most moral of them and mostly just goes along because they're all family.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Milfords]]
!!Mayor Dwayne Milford
->Played by: John Boylan
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The liberal Mayor of Twin Peaks. He has a long-standing feud with his brother.
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* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Hooks up with his brother's wife after his death.]]
* TheDutifulSon: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as such, following in his father's footsteps and taking over the family pharmacy business, in contrast to his brother, Douglas, who was seen as a rebellious troublemaker.
* RevengeBeforeReason: His desire to avenge his brother dying of sexual intercourse in his late seventies with a much-much younger woman. [[spoiler: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' says he's probably right.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted when he ends up with Lana himself.]]
* SiblingRivalry: Dwayne is a Democrat and at least something of a liberal by the standards of a town full of rural whites. He and his more conservative brother hold an exactly opposite set of political views.
* SiblingYinYang: With Douglas. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Dawyne is described as always calm and reliable, even under pressure, and is seen as a pillar of the community, while Douglas is HotBlooded and impulsive, and is seen as a troublemaker. It even extends to their political views.
* StrawPolitical: His outrage at his brother's defense of Nixon in ''The Secret History Of TwinPeaks.''
!!Douglas "Dougie" Milford
->Played by: Creator/TonyJay
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A former political ally of Richard Nixon and TheMenInBlack. He is mostly known in the series as the head of the local paper and for his feud with Mayor Milford.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' spells out the details of his bizarre and adventurous backstory. Specifically, among other things, that he founded TheMenInBlack and was aware of the supernatural. Oh and he was a friend with Nixon.
* BlackSheep: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as this to the Milford family, being a rebellious troublemaker where his brother, Dawyne was TheDutifulSon.
* ConspiracyTheorist: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he proffers up a paranoid-sounding explanation for Nixon's impeachment involving a conspiracy against him. [[spoiler: His own experiences]] certainly factor into this, but his defense of Nixon in Twin Peaks' local paper swerves into the downright paranoid.
* DirtyOldMan: If the ''vast'' collection of sexual paraphernalia in his bedroom is any indication.
* OutWithABang: He has a fatal heart attack upon consummating his marriage to Lana.
* TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' implies that he was the cause of the creation of this trope in-universe during his time as a government spook.]]
* NoSuchAgency: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals [[spoiler: his direct involvement in a project involving [=UFOs=] and alien encounters, as a direct confidante of President Richard Nixon]].
* SiblingRivalry: He and Dwayne are 100% opposed on politics: Dwayne is a Democrat and a liberal and Doug is a Republican and a conservative.
* SiblingYinYang: With Dawyne. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Douglas had a knack for getting into trouble in his youth, is prone to act on his impulses, and has quite the temper, where Dwayne is described by his peers as always calm and reliable, even in stressful situations. It even extends to their political views.
* SirSwearsALot: Though it is downplayed in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Douglas has a notable tendency to casually drop profanity in his speech. When he appears on list of witness statements on UFO sightings, the other people on the list describe their encounters with [=UFOs=] in technical therms, using measurements to describe the size and speed of the objects when asked for details, Douglas describes the object he saw as "big as a f*** house" and "fast as s***".
* StrawPolitical: Is such a hardline Republican that he devotes an entire front page op-ed to insisting Nixon's impeachment was a conspiracy rather than a genuine resolution to corruption charges.
!!Lana Budding Milford
->Played by: Robyn Lively
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The lovely widow of Douglas Milford and a woman who briefly menaces Twin Peaks' male population.
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* CartwrightCurse: Claims to be this rather than a BlackWidow. Its never made clear if she's telling the truth [[spoiler: in spite of Briggs' suspicions.]]
* HelloNurse: An extremely beautiful nurse.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Considering how Coop, Truman, Andy, and Hawk react when around her...
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Briggs, the in-universe writer of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', suspects her of being a assassin who actually didn't marry Douglas for his money, but to get close to and kill him, speculating that she was hired by someone from Douglas' political past who thought [[HeKnowsTooMuch He Knew Too Much]]. Briggs, however, also notes that he has absolutely no way of proving this.]]
* GoldDigger: Pretty clearly.
* InformedAttractiveness: Whether you find her attractive or not, it's ''very'' difficult to say in all honesty that she's as attractive as ''every male in Twin Peaks'' finds her.
* SettleForSibling: After her husband Dougie dies, she gets engaged to Dwayne, his brother. That's kinda gross. [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that it ultimately didn't last and she left Twin Peaks for good about six months later.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Packards]]
!!Andrew Packard
->Played by: Dan [=O'Herlihy=]
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The former owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. He is the late husband of Josie Packard and brother of Catherine Martell.
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* AffablyEvil: He's as shifty as his sister but unfailingly polite to everyone.
* BestFriendsInLaw: In a stark contrast to Catherine, he and Pete were quite chummy. At one point when serving breakfast the pair fool around with the food and Catherine grumpily notes that they bring out the worst in each other.
* FakingTheDead: Though the series starts with him having been dead in a boating accident (set up by Hank), the series drops a number of hints that he may still be alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately he reveals that this was the case as he and his sister faked his death]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Dying at the hands of Eckhardt's ThanatosGambit is a good fate for someone so confident in his intelligence. Shame about Pete, though.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: His treatment of Josie is rotten even if she did try to kill him.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: His conflict with Eckhardt is clear EvilVsEvil but of the two Andrew comes off as more personable and has more PetTheDog moments than Eckhardt.
* MayDecemberRomance: He was much older than Josie when they married.
* PetTheDog:
** Andrew may be a corrupt and amoral man but even he has a soft spot for Pete and the two have a strong brotherly relationship. Even when he and Catherine start to go against each other he still trusts Pete and lets him in on his schemes. [[spoiler:Which unfortunately get the pair killed]].
** He admits an admiration for Audrey's protest when he encounters her, complimenting her for sticking to her principles.
* PosthumousCharacter: Is originally believed to have died at some point before the start of the series. [[spoiler:Not really.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Gives one to Josie before saying they will never speak again.]]
* SmugSnake: Thinks he's got everyone wrapped around his finger but really just coasts along on Catherine's plans.
!!Jocelyn Packard
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->Played by: Creator/JoanChen
The beautiful Chinese American widow of Andrew Packard and current owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. She is currently lovers with Sheriff Harry S. Truman.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The show constantly zig-zags between Josie being an innocent victim ForcedIntoEvil and a ManipulativeBitch. We never get a clear answer up until [[spoiler: she dies.]]
* BiTheWay: ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'' [[spoiler:reveals that she was one of Laura's lovers while Laura was her English tutor]].
* ConsummateLiar: Assuming she was faking her fear of David Eckhardt or at least playing it up, she fools everyone in Twin Peaks except [[spoiler: Cooper.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that [[spoiler:her father was [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs a high ranking "Red Pole" in the Sui-wong triad]], and she clearly took after dear old dad, even in her youth. Already by the age of ''sixteen'', she was running a prostitution and drug ring out of the prestigious boarding school she studied at, while blackmailing several members of said school's staff, both in the administration and the faculty]].
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Throws herself on the mercy of Catherine Martell [[spoiler: and her brother Andrew]]. She would have had more luck with Harry S. Truman and Coop. Hell, even Pete.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Josie kills David Eckhardt the moment she's alone with him.]]
* DragonLady: Possibly subverted in that she doesn't have nearly the self-assuredness one would expect from the trope. [[spoiler:Her chief motivation is simply survival as she is manipulated and bullied by almost everyone in her life (except Pete and Sheriff Truman).]]
** Played straight as an arrow in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', [[spoiler:which reveals her real identity as Li Chun Fung, daughter of a Chinese gangster and a ferocious criminal in her own right, building up a multimillion-dollar fortune through drug and prostitution rings by the age of 21 and fleeing to America after her plan to assassinate her own father and take over his position went awry.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: WordOfGod was that she would have shot herself but they couldn't do it on camera. [[spoiler: So BOB and the Arm kills her instead.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: is trapped in a desk knob in the Great Northern hotel and according to Deleted Scenes the Black Lodge.]]
* FemmeFatale: Zig-zagged as she seems to be one then turns kind and shy then is back to being a FemmeFatale.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Is Josie a victim? Evil? Both?
* LovableTraitor: Does a lot of shady stuff and even tries to kill Catherine Martell but no one seems to treat any of this as a big deal.
* MissingMom: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that [[spoiler:her mother was a prostitute who died from a drug overdose shortly after her birth]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Cooper never suspected Josie was EvilAllAlong or had any reason to go after him [[spoiler: until she shot him.]]
* TheVamp: Has sex with Andrew Packard, David Eckhardt, Sheriff Harry S. Truman, and Laura Palmer.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: After she kills David Eckhardt, she is killed by BOB and the Arm.]]
* WhyNotJustShootHim: Averted. Except, she had the profoundly bad luck of being across the hall from Agent Cooper [[spoiler: when she killed David Eckhardt.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Pretty much her only trick aside from being TheVamp.
* YourSoulIsMine: Later in the second season, [[spoiler:BOB apparently steals and [[FateWorseThanDeath traps her soul]] [[AndIMustScream in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern]] [[MindScrew or something like that]]]].
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[[folder: Other Twin Peaks residents]]
!!Harold Smith
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->Played by: Lenny Von Dohlen
Harold Smith is an orchid grower a close friend of Laura Palmer, who she met through working for the Meals-on-Wheels program. Harold [[{{Hikikomori}} never leaves his home]] as a result of having agoraphobia (a fear of open spaces). Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that Laura gave him her diary before her murder. When Harold finds out that Donna is trying to steal the diary, he [[FreakOut goes insane]] and soon [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]], leaving a suicide note which reads ""J'ai une âme solitaire." (French for "I am a lonely soul."). Cooper and the Twin Peaks police use the diary to help find the identity of Laura's killer.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Donna quickly takes a liking to him after meeting him, as he might be quite awkward and shy, but he is also very polite, friendly, and has a poetic mind.
* TheConfidant: To Laura.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Donna's betrayal leads him to hang himself.]]
* DyingAlone: ""J'ai une âme solitaire."
* FreakOut: Gets hit HARD with this when [[spoiler:he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary]].
* {{Hikikomori}}: Due to having agoraphobia. The guy cannot physically leave his house with suffering a crippling panic attack.
* NiceGuy: Despite his inherent uneasiness around people, he is quite friendly and polite. [[spoiler:At least until he [[FreakOut completely snaps]] when he finds out about Donna's betrayal]].
* PrettyBoy: A feminine and gentle but still handsome young man.
!!Dick Tremayne
->Played by: Ian Buchanan
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Dick Tremayne runs the clothing department at Horne's Department Store and was in an on-and-off relationship with Lucy Moran.
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* BritishStuffiness: A goofier example.
* CampStraight
* TheDandy
* FakeBrit: In-universe, it's heavily implied that he adopts the British accent purely to make himself appear cultured and interesting compared to the other townsfolk. Most damning of all is Dr Hayward's throwaway comment that he was the physician in attendance at Dick's birth - meaning that Dick is almost certainly, in fact, a native of Twin Peaks.
** Averted in that Ian Buchanan is actually British, though since he's specifically ''Scottish'' he's most likely not using his natural accent for the UpperClassTwit Dick, who's clearly going for [[IAmVeryBritish Southern-RP English]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his shortcomings, he's not a bad guy.
* MeaningfulName: Any time he fails to be useful or responsible, Lucy will put extra emphasis on calling him "Dick".
* OddFriendship: Of all people, he and ''Andy'' bond over trying to learn about Little Nicky's past, despite their rivalry for Lucy's affections.
* SharpDressedMan: Well, he ''does'' run a men's clothing department.
* SmallNameBigEgo
* UpperClassTwit
!!Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
->Played by: Russ Tamblyn
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The eccentric psychologist who treated Laura Palmer for her many issues before falling in love with her.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mental health version. Everything about how treats his patients save Johnny Horne. The fact he knew about Laura's many issues (which included active illegal activity) is especially noteworthy.
* BeyondTheImpossible: By 2016, Jacoby has a genuine chance of surpassing the Log Lady as the biggest CloudCuckooLander in all of Twin Peaks.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In a town of weirdos who are great at their job, Doctor Jacoby is an awful-awful psychologist. Zig-Zagged as he does help Johnny Horne prepare for the funeral of Laura Palmer and cure Ben Horne's insanity.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dr. Jacoby was born in Hawaii and has had an obsession with the place all his life, dressing in tropical shirts and decorating his entire home with Polynesian kitsch. Taken UpToEleven in ''The Return'', where he's a ConspiracyTheorist with his own podcast/pirate radio show who sells spray painted "shit digging shovels" for 29.99 a pop.
* CoolShades: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses. Twenty five years later in Season 3 he's shown to wear them even under larger sunglasses!
* ConspiracyTheorist: An overtly humorous example in ''The Return''. He runs a pirate radio station in which he advocates naturopathic medicine and anti-GMO conspiracy theories as a lead-in to making a pitch for his shovel business.
** Notable for the fact TheMenInBlack, TheFairFolk, TheSyndicate, as well as an FBI conspiracy all exist in this universe. Yet, ''nothing'' Jacoby says is true.
* JerkassBall: He frequently switches between trying to be genuinely helpful and acting extremely insensitive and dismissive. One particular example is after Laura's funeral, where he guiltily confesses to Cooper that he doesn't care about his patients, but wants to help find Laura's killer. He then proceeds to completely fail to offer anything of value and secretly keeps Laura's necklace for himself, rather than hand it over as evidence. In ''The Return'', he is an exploitative con man using a conspiracy podcast to get gullible townspeople to buy his overpriced painted shovels.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' discusses the fact that he has always had an interest in tribal views on mental illnesses, and he would spend a good part of his youth seeking out various isolated tribes in South America and attempting to gain insight in how they understood the human mind by partaking in their rituals. Naturally, quite a few of these rituals involved the use of strong psychoactive drugs, and Jacoby insists in his journals that he is much the wiser for having gone through these experiences.
* ItAmusedMe: Doctor Jacoby seems to actively enjoy feeding his patient's neuroses like encouraging Ben Horne to act like General Lee and having Nadine enroll in high school. Given he confesses to Cooper he doesn't care about any of his patients, this is almost certainly deliberate. Also, he looks terribly amused whenever his patients are having complete breakdowns.
* LargeHam: Gets ''really'' worked up while doing his radio show, often letting loose a ClusterFBomb for good measure.
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: he always wears a pair of 3D glasses.
* TheStoner: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' and ''The Return'', he has been living a stoner lifestyle for a while, which [[CloudCuckooLander explains a lot]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Dr. Jacoby isn't so much "ugly" as he is quirky and unattractive. However, he's married to a pretty Hawaiian woman who seems to be a [[MayDecemberRomance couple years younger than him]].
* WorstAid: Doctor Jacoby is probably one of the worst psychologists in the world. His handling of just about everyone in the show is comically terrible.
!!Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman
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->Played by: Catherine E. Coulson
Probably the most unusual of the Twin Peaks townsfolk, ([[QuirkyTown which is]] [[EccentricTownsfolk saying a lot]]). Margaret Lanterman, a/k/a "The Log Lady", is an [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] recluse who lives in a cabin in the forest. She is always seen carrying a [[CompanionCube log]] (hence her nickname), which is implied to either contain the spirit of her dead lumberjack husband or, as of ''Fire Walk With Me'', to serve as a link to him in the Black Lodge -- though she never voices either theory outright and is implied to be forbidden from doing so. Because of this, the other townsfolk think she's crazy. She was with Laura five days before her murder. Also, her husband is Jurgen Prochnow.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hoo boy... She sticks out in Twin Peaks for this.
* CompanionCube: Her log.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She frequently defers to her log when questioned.
* HugeSchoolgirl: She was noted to be quite tall for her age in Elementary School, and was a bit awkward as a result.
* IWasQuiteALooker: She was noted to be very pretty in her youth. Her old friend, Robert Jacoby, described her as a borderline StatuesqueStunner back in the day.
* OddFriendship: By 2016, she seems to have formed one with Hawk.
* MadOracle: She's a more benign form of this, but is definitely strange and tends to speak in omens.
* NonSequitur: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."[[note]]There was a trout in the coffee, but the tea would have taken longer to make.[[/note]]
* TouchedByVorlons: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals her weirdness might have been a result having been the victim of what appears to be an alien abduction in her childhood. It is implied that, other than her strange quirks, the incident left her with some strange kind of pre-cognition.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: Her husband, Sam, was a volunteer firefighter, and unluckily enough, a forest fire started during the newly wed couple's wedding reception. Sam quickly left the reception along with the rest of the brigade to fight it; he didn't make it back.
!!The Waiter
->Played by Hank Worden
A mysterious figure who works at the Great Northern Hotel.
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* CaptainOblivious: Ignores Agent Cooper having been shot when he tries to clean his room.
* CloudCuckoolander: Has extremely odd behavior possibly related to his old age. [[spoiler: Is actually the Giant in disguise.]]
* GoodLuckGesture: Compliments a mortally wounded Cooper, winks and gives him a thumbs up three times.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he another spirit of the Black Lodge or is he really just some senile elderly waiter? He appears to Cooper in the Red Room during the last episode before being replaced by the Giant who say's "One and the same," so make of that what you will.
** [[spoiler: The two are not necessarily mutually contradictory as the spirits of the Lodges need bodies to possess.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "That gum you like is going to come back in style."]]
!!Mike Nelson
->Played by: Gary Hershberger
A football player for Twin Peaks high school and Donna Hayward's boyfriend (before she dumps him for James).
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* {{Jerkass}}: He has almost no personality traits except being unpleasant to people as well as being Bobby's sidekick.
* JerkJock: Incredibly jerkish to almost everyone he meets. Also, a football player.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Even when he starts becoming interested in [[spoiler: Nadine]] he's still a ass. Notable when he calls in Steven in ''The Return'' 25 years later just to chew him out.
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler:Eventually falls for Nadine in the second season]].
* NamesTheSame: Not that other [[{{Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000}} Mike Nelson]].
* OlderAndWiser: In ''The Return'' much like his friend Bobby, twenty five years after Season 2 Mike seems to have matured into a respectable member of society. A DownplayedTrope example as he's still an incredible {{Jerkass}}.
* OnlySaneMan: While not exactly a rational kid, his problems revolve more around getting laid and his reputation at school than the murder mysteries and get rich schemes of his friends.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Forms this with Bobby, with whom he is usually seen together.
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