Line #216 Characters/StrikeBack


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3	[[folder: Section 20]]
4	!!Sergeant John Porter
5	Played by: Creator/RichardArmitage
6
7	* DefiantToTheEnd: His last words aren't just a profanity-laced tirade against his captors, but also a code that Scott is able to interpret warning about Project Dawn.
8	* KilledOffForReal: Very early on by Latif's followers.
9	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Which results in Section 20 recruiting Damien Scott.
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11	!!Sergeant Michael Stonebridge
12	Played by: Creator/PhilipWinchester
13
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Michael seems pretty even-keeled, but ''don't'' give him a reason to kill you.
15	* BrokenAce: A level-headed, consummately-professional SAS soldier who [[spoiler: cheats on his wife with Kate]] and lets things get way too personal.
16	* DentedIron: Sometimes has to fight through debilitating injuries.
17	* {{Determinator}}: Lots of things get in his way over the course of the series. Few of them stay in his way for long.
18	* MrFanservice: Often seen with his shirt off.
19	* ItsPersonal: He lets things get to him. Of course, [[spoiler: the murder of his wife]] would get to anyone, but the list doesn't end there.
20	* StuffyBrit: Comes off this way sometimes, especially in comparison to Scott, but has a pretty sharp sense of humor underneath. His patience also has its limits.
21	-->'''Scott:''' Oh, yeah, [[MistakenForGay he's not gay.]] He's British. Easy mistake to make.
22	-->'''Stonebridge:''' Fuck you.
23	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Scott
24	* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Craig Hansen
25
26	!!Sergeant Damien Scott
27	Played by: Creator/SullivanStapleton
28
29	* BadassAndChildDuo: Spends a significant portion of the hotel siege protecting a little girl, including making sure she doesn't [[HarmfulToMinors see her father's bullet-riddled body]].
30	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Scott is an irreverent smartass who also happens to by extremely competent and lethal in the field.
31	* ChivalrousPervert: Scott is surprisingly sensitive to women for a guy who [[TheCasanova screws his way around the world.]]
32	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Stonebridge recruits him in Jakarta, [[FallenOnHardTimesJob where Scott is the loser in rigged prize fights for a local gang lord]]. He used to be a member of Delta Force, but was framed for drug possession and dishonorably discharged from the US Army after he started asking too many questions about a joint US/British/Pakistani operation in Iraq. Afterwards, he did some dirty work for the CIA for a while before becoming disillusioned with it.
33	-->'''Scott:''' When I got back, they found ten keys of coke in my locker.
34	-->'''Stonebridge:''' So you got what you deserved.
35	-->'''Scott:''' [[CaptainObvious The dope wasn't mine, dickhead!]]
36	* EveryoneHasStandards: Will happily bang just about anyone with a two X-chromosomes, but gives Stonebridge a solid WhatTheHellHero about his extramarital affair.
37	* HiddenDepths: Amongst other things, he has a nearly eidetic memory, enough that (with some difficulty) he's able to repeat a very long hacking code sequence that he was only able to briefly glance at. Even more impressive considering that he "doesn't speak Geek."
38	* ReallyGetsAround: To the point that [[CreatorBacklash Sullivan Stapleton was getting tired of it]].
39	* SirSwearsALot: "Fuck me!" is practically his CatchPhrase.
40	* TokenMinority: An American ex-Delta shooter on a British black ops team.
41	* TwoFirstNames: "Damien" and "Scott".
42	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Stonebridge
43	* WouldNotHurtAChild: Not on purpose, anyway. The accidental death of a target's son during his time with the CIA weighs heavily on him
44
45	!!Sergeant Julia Richmond
46	Played by: Michelle Lukes
47
48	* ActionGirl: Can be very handy in combat when she needs to.
49	* MsFanservice: Usually downplayed (though she certainly makes British Army camo fatigues look good), but missions in Somalia and Colombia feature her in a bikini and short skirt, respectively. She also ends up having a very explicit sex scene.
50	* MissionControl: Her usual role in the Crib. She can put rounds on target when the need arises, too.
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52	!!Major Hugh Collinson
53	Played by: Creator/AndrewLincoln
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55	!!Colonel Eleanor Grant
56	Played by: Amanda Mealing
57
58	* TheAtoner: She planned and led the joint operation that ruined Damien Scott's career and much of his life. When circumstances lead her to recruit him into Section 20, it eventually becomes clear that she wants to make it right.
59	* BigDamnHeroes: Rescuing Scott from a Nigerian hospital, despite being the only white woman in the building and multiple armed guards in the way.
60	* ColonelBadass: Though she usually [[MissionControl runs things from the Crib]], when she feels the need to handle something herself, she proves quite adept at sneaking in, blending in, killing somebody who needs to die, and disappearing again.
61	* [[spoiler: DeathEqualsRedemption: Though Scott tries hard to save her, she kills herself [[TakingYouWithMe and Latif]] by detonating an explosive in her pocket.]]
62	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Trojan Horse, and Scott's career being destroyed.
63	* TwoFirstNames: "Eleanor" and "Grant".
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65	!!Major Rachel Dalton
66	Played by: Creator/RhonaMitra
67
68	* {{Determinator}}: The woman ''does not'' give up.
69	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It looks like she's going to end up the same as Colonel Grant when Knox shoots her, but she survives. [[spoiler: Then she gets KilledOffForReal halfway through the next season.]]
70	* SanitySlippage: Becomes increasingly obsessive after the death of [[spoiler: Sergeant Baxter.]]
71	* WorstAid: Patches her own obviously-painful wounds in a filthy hideout in Beirut.
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73	!!Major Oliver Sinclair
74	Played by: Rhashan Stone
75
76	* BlackAndNerdy: Possesses a surprising level of hacking skill.
77	* [[spoiler: DeathIsDramatic: His execution by ex-Apartheid mercenaries working for Knox is truly heartbreaking. Richmond empties a whole extra magazine into the guy who did it.]]
78	* NonActionGuy: Averted. When Latif's henchmen find the Crib, Sinclair saves Richmond and shoots some bad guys.
79	* NumberTwo: To Grant and later Dalton.
80
81	!!Captain Kate Marshall
82	Played by: Eva Brithistle
83
84	* ActionGirl: Her primary role is trigger-puller and assault team leader.
85	* FightingIrish: From Ulster. Connelly has some things to say about that. Kate’s not terribly concerned with the opinion of a terrorist-for-hire whose body count consists mostly of his fellow Irishmen.
86	* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: By Connelly, [[ILied despite his promising otherwise.]]]]
87	* TwoFirstNames: "Kate" and "Marshall".
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89	!!Colonel Alexander Coltrane
90	Played by: Creator/JamieBamber
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92	* AntiHero: He's one of the good guys, but he can be as ruthless as the villains.
93	* ColonelBadass: Every action sequence he's in has him kicking ass either physically or with a gun, and in some cases, both.
94	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He misjudged a situation, resulting in the deaths of the men in his command. He responded by developing a drinking problem and getting out of the field.
95	* {{Expy}}: He's described as "What if Franchise/JamesBond became "M"?", though he's seen out in the field along with his team more often than not.
96	* {{Fanservice}}: Being played by Jamie Bamber guarantees him at least one ShirtlessScene, making it quite clear that Bamber is a very handsome man, and still sporting the "Bamberceps", as his arms were dubbed during his ''BSG'' days. Zarkova lampshades this by deliberately gushing about him:
97	--> '''Zarkova''': ''(to Novin)'' "You've seen his cheekbones, his tight little butt, his strong arms, really strong arms. . ."
98	--> '''Novin''': "All ''right''."
99	* {{Hypocrite}}: He's blasted subordinates for disobeying orders, but then done so himself. He also shot Mac's killer within minutes of talking Novin out of doing it. On a milder note, during a bar fight, he invokes "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Queensberry_Rules Queensberry Rules]]" with his opponent (in other words, "let's fight fair"), then violates them two seconds later so that he can knock the guy out.
100	* ImprobableAge: His backstory includes an especially traumatic mission as a lieutenant in the Balkans in 1992. At that time, his portrayer would only have been 19 and couldn't possibly have been ranked that high.
101	* InformedFlaw: [=McAllister=] reveals to the team that he's an [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]] and a ShellShockedVeteran (after he misjudged a situation and got his team killed), but neither of those tropes is very evident. He's even seen ordering whiskey in a bar at one point, even though most alcoholics shun any kind of liquor upon recovery.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder: Project Dawn]]
105
106	!!Latif
107	Played by: Creator/JimiMistry
108
109	* BadBoss: He'll keep you alive as long as you're useful. After that...
110	* BigBad
111	* TheChessmaster: Repeatedly orchestrates decoy terrorist attacks in such a way that the response works in his favor. His plans also have multiple redundancies and backups in the event of a SpannerInTheWorks like Stonebridge and Scott.
112	* MagnificentBastard: Quietly charismatic and utterly ruthless.
113	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Impersonates an ISI officer sent to assist Section 20 in order to infiltrate the Crib.]] It helps that he's former ISI himself.
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115	!!Mahmoud/[[spoiler: Dr. Iman Zuhari, [=PhD=]]]
116	Played by: Sasha Behar
117
118	A British national who formerly fed WMD secrets to the Pakistani ISI. [[spoiler: ''She'' claims to be the wife of the spy to try to stay under the radar, but Latif knows who she really is. She wants to surrender to MI-6 in exchange for protection from Latif.]]
119	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The attractive English/Middle Eastern woman who brushes off Scott at the hotel bar turns out to be the spy he and Stonebridge are there to extract. And the one the terrorists in the hotel are after.]]
120	* [[spoiler: DamselInDistress:]] [[spoiler: She's a spy in the "left state secrets in a trash can for someone to find" sense, as opposed to the James Bond variety. She [[TheLoad panics]] when things get violent and is generally no help at all to the men trying to keep her alive.]]
121	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Latif wants Mahmoud's information about Trojan Horse, and intends to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ensure nobody else can find that information afterwards.]] [[spoiler: He succeeds on both counts.]]
122	* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Section 20 inadvertently hands her over to Latif, who interrogated her and leaves her dead on the side of the road.]]
123
124	!!Crawford
125	Played by: Creator/IainGlen
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127	* [[spoiler: DeathEqualsRedemption]]: In his daughter's eyes apparently. [[spoiler: He and Stonebridge are able to rescue her, but he dies in her arms.]]
128	* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: He sells arms to African warlords. His daughter is a doctor who cares for the victims of those warlords. He's pretty much [[IHaveNoSon dead to her]] as far as she's concerned, but Crawford loves his daughter nonetheless and is genuinely proud of her.
129	* FallenHero: Formerly an officer in the Royal Marines, now an unscrupulous international arms dealer.
130	* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Daughter]]: Agrees to give Section 20 all the information he has on Latif in exchange for their help rescuing his daughter from a Sudanese warlord.
131	* PapaWolf: His daughter may despise him, but he'll still go to war to keep her safe.
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133	!!Daniel Connelly
134	Played by: Creator/LiamCunningham
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136	* HeroKiller: Responsible for the death of [[spoiler: Captain Kate Marshall]].
137	* ILied: Has a history of pulling this.
138	* LaserGuidedKarma: Section 20 hunts him down, and Grant herself [[BoomHeadshot shoots him in the face]].
139	* WesternTerrorists: Former [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]], now freelancing for the highest bidder.
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141	!!Hasani
142	Played by: Mel Raidio
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144	* BalkanizeMe: An Islamic Kosovar Albanian mob boss and drug dealer who runs a criminal empire in Albania [[spoiler: and has some corrupt KFOR peacekeepers in his pocket]].
145	* ILied: Intends to kill his hostages after their ransom money comes in. Except for the young Dutch woman, who will be forced into sex slavery.
146	* YouHaveFailedMe: Latif is not happy with the attention Hasani's actions have attracted, though [[EvenEvilHasStandards he doesn't seem to like him much anyway.]]
147	[[/folder]]
148
149	[[folder: Vengeance]]
150
151	!!Conrad Knox
152	Played by: Creator/CharlesDance
153
154	* TheAtoner: Knox is actually English, but [[SinsOfOurFathers his father was a banker for the South African Apartheid regime]]. His deepest motivation is to do right by ''all'' of the people in Africa to make up for it.
155	* AxeCrazy: The end result of his SanitySlippage. Knox [[spoiler: decides to give his nuclear warheads to a Congolese terrorist group, then tries to nuke Johannesburg when that fails.]]
156	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction after he has his men assassinate his Walter Lutulu. This leads to his SanitySlippage and eventual VillainousBreakdown.
157	* WellIntentionedExtremist: His ultimate goal is to unite most, if not all, of Africa under one flag. This unified African nation would be (in his hopes, at least) a world superpower whose people enjoy safety, prosperity, and a high standard of living.
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159	!!Craig Hanson
160	Played by: Shane Taylor
161
162	* FallenHero: Former SAS operator turned murderer, terrorist, and PsychoForHire.
163	* ItsPersonal: Due to the incident with his little brother.
164	* NeverMyFault: Pulled a YouOweMe on Stonebridge to convince him to push his little brother through SAS Selection against Michael's better judgement. When his brother, a ShellShockedVeteran with a drug addiction, suffers a psychotic break during a live-fire exercise and starts shooting his teammates, Michael has to kill him to protect the others. Hanson blames Stonebridge and [[spoiler: murders his wife as revenge]].
165	* PsychoForHire: Offers his services to Conrad Knox, quickly proving that no job is too dirty.
166	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Served with Stonebridge in Iraq, and saved his life at one point.
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168	!!Karl Matlock
169	Played by: Vincent Reagan
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171	* TheAtoner: He regrets having taken part in UN peacekeeping missions during his time as a Legionnaire, since they didn't actually help anyone and at best only delayed the violence they were ostensibly there to stop. As disillusioned as he is, he believes in Knox's vision of a United Africa.
172	* IntergenerationalFriendship: With the much-younger Jessica Kohl. Exactly how close they are is unclear, but he trusts her with his life and she's comfortable being topless around him.
173	* NobleDemon: He's a mercenary willing to kill if he must, but he's working for Knox out of idealism, doesn't care for vendettas, tries to avoid any unnecessary violence, and when taking a young child and his mother hostage, tries to shield them from violence and treats them as well as he can, even going out of his way to let the kid play soccer on a World Cup field.
174	* NotWhatISignedOnFor: [[spoiler: Refuses to go along with it when post-VillainousBreakdown Knox decides to just start nuking cities. Unfortunately, Hanson enforces the ResignationsNotAccepted policy.]]
175	* OldSoldier: An American veteran of the French Foreign Legion, highly-decorated at that.
176	* TokenGoodTeamMate: Follows Knox because he believes in his vision and wants to apply his skills to do some good in the world.
177
178	!!Jessica Kohl
179	Played by: Natalie Becker
180
181	* ColdSniper
182	* DarkActionGirl: Beautiful and deadly.
183	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Although it's unclear if they are a couple or JustFriends, she's very close to Matlock, who is significantly older.
184	* MsFanservice: Is perfectly comfortable letting Matlock (and the audience) see her topless.
185
186	!!Rebekah Levy
187	Played by: Lyne Renee
188
189	* BadassIsraeli: Mossad assassin
190	* DarkActionGirl: Utterly loyal to her country, to the point of murdering innocent people if [[IDidWhatIHadToDo she thinks it's necessary to get to her target]]. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is when she kills a poor airport security monitor to gain access to his system.
191	* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Shadow Warfare''
192	* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: In ''Shadow Warfare'']]
193
194	!!Christy Bryant
195	Played by: Stephanie Vogt
196
197	* FemmeFatale
198	* TheManBehindTheMan: She "suggests" several of Knox's moves, most notably [[spoiler: the assassination of Walter Lutulu.]]
199	* RogueAgent: [[spoiler: A CIA field officer in Africa who assisting Knox. It turns out the CIA was not supporting Knox and was only interested in recovering the stolen nuclear warheads. Langley disavows her once they realize what she's been up to.]]
200	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Was Scott's handler when he did wetwork for the CIA, while also having an affair with him. She claims the affair was genuine, while Scott bitterly describes it as "A couple of killers fucking between marks." Nevertheless, [[DatingCatwoman she's still able to manipulate Scott through his attraction to her.]]
201
202	!!Walter Lutulu
203	Played by: Creator/EamonnWalker
204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder: Shadow Warfare]]
207	!!Leo Kamali
208	Played by: Zubin Varla
209
210	* TheChessmaster
211	* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent
212	* FamilyMan: He may be the world's top terrorist, but he loves his daughter. Mess with Ester and you're dead-- or worse.
213	* FamilyValuesVillain
214	* BeardOfEvil: He shaves it off after he [[spoiler: fakes his own death.]]
215	* BaldOfEvil
216	* EvilSoundsDeep
217	* EvilSoundsRaspy
218	* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: The entirety of Shadow Warfare sets him up as the potentially back-stabbing crony of terrorist mastermind Al-Zuhari, only to reveal that Al-Zuhari has been [[spoiler: dead for years, with Kamali carrying out all of his work alongside maintaining an image of Al-Zuhari's still being alive.]]
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220	!!James Leatherby
221	Played by: Creator/DougrayScott
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223	* AxeCrazy: "Violent and unstable" would be an understatement.
224	* BraveScot: Not so much brave as psychotic, but he’s immensely proud of his Scottish Heritage. Stonebridge quickly starts calling him “Braveheart” [[{{Troll}} just to piss him off]].
225	* DepravedHomosexual: His monologue during his sex scene makes it clear just how sadistic and racist he is. Each successive scene sees him more violent and unhinged.
226	* FallenHero: Former SAS, now a terrorist for hire.
227	* GreenEyedMonster: He thinks his boyfriend ''might'' have cheated on him. How does he react? He [[{{Fingore}} shoots his boyfriend through the hand]], then shoots the guy who Leatherby thinks he might have cheated with.
228	* {{Hypocrite}}: Blatantly hits on Stonebridge, then tortures his own boyfriend on the mere suspicion of infidelity.
229
230	!!Ulyanov
231	* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Gives zero fucks about his associate's ideology and motivations, he initially cooperated to make a ton of money. This led to his son's death, which made it [[ItsPersonal personal]].
232	* TheMafiya: Russian Mob boss who’s working with Al Zuhari/[[spoiler: Kamali]].
233	* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Son]]: His [[HookersAndBlow coke-snorting prick]] of a son Viktor was killed in Colombia by Scott and Stonebridge, who took him for just another cartel mook. Ulyanov wants payback.
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235	[[/folder]]
236
237	[[folder: Legacy]]
238
239	!!Ambassador Robin Foster
240
241	!!Mei Foster
242
243	!!Chloe Foster
244
245	[[/folder]]
246	[[folder: Revolution]]
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