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1!'''Warning: only spoilers from the final season are whited out'''.
2
3!Deadwood Camp Visitors
4
5[[foldercontrol]]
6
7!!!The Anderson Siblings
8
9[[folder:In General]]
10!!Flora & Miles Anderson
11[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anderson_7794.jpg]]
12->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KristenBell & Creator/GregCipes
13
14A seemingly innocent pair of siblings who pass through the camp.
15----
16* AlasPoorVillain: They might have been thieves and killers, but their fate is so drawn-out it's impossible not to feel some sympathy for them.
17* BitchInSheepsClothing: Flora moreso than Miles. It's clear who the brains of the operation is.
18* BoomHeadshot: Both of them. Cy shoots Miles, then forces Joanie to shoot Flora.
19* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It's hard to think of a nastier end on Deadwood. Cy could easily kill them, but he lets them linger. He taunts them in the cruelest ways he can think of with a big sadistic grin, practically feeding off their agony.
20* MeaningfulName: They are named Flora and Miles like the siblings in ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew''. Considering that David Milch names Creator/HenryJames as one of his favorite authors this is probably not a coincidence.
21* SiblingsInCrime: They seem to move from town to town, conning establishments with their innocent act.
22* TooDumbToLive: Waltzing into one of the roughest places in the West, with ''one'' road in and out, and then plotting to rob two of the toughest, least scrupulous men in the town, right after they've arrived and are still a novelty, is not a route to a long, happy life.
23[[/folder]]
24
25[[folder:Flora]]
26!!Flora Anderson
27[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anderson_flora2.jpg]]
28[[caption-width-right:300:''"[[BitchInSheepsClothing Who am I? Your little baby? Your little sister? You?]]"'']]
29->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KristenBell
30
31Miles' cunning sister.
32----
33* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Flora is beaten bloody by Cy.
34* FemmeFatale: She halfway seduces Joanie with her 'innocent girl' act and beauty, igniting both Joanie's protective instincts and lustful desires.
35* ForTheEvulz: Flora tells Miles they need to work quickly because Cy is getting suspicious, but Miles says she probably wants to rush the job just so she ''has'' to hurt someone (though Cy is, indeed, getting suspicious).
36* MercyKill: Although she was forced to do it, Joanie's shooting of Flora comes across as this more than outright murder. She wouldn't condemn Flora to one more second in the company of a wrathful Cy Tolliver.
37* PsychoKnifeNut: She enjoys her knife a great deal.
38* UnderestimatingBadassery: Flora seems to believe she can quit Tolliver's business, steal Joanie's jewelry, and make a clean get-away. This ends badly for the siblings.
39* TheVamp: Flora knows she's beautiful, and knows how to use that beauty to manipulate the likes of Joanie.
40[[/folder]]
41
42[[folder:Miles]]
43!!Miles Anderson
44[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anderson_miles6.jpg]]
45->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GregCipes
46
47Flora's less bloody-minded brother.
48----
49* PunchClockVillain: He's nowhere near as ruthless or manipulative as Flora.
50[[/folder]]
51
52!!!The Earp Brothers
53
54[[folder:Wyatt]]
55!!Wyatt Earp
56[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/earp_wyatt.jpg]]
57->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GaleHarold
58
59Wyatt Earp rides into town a hero beside his brother Morgan, claiming to have saved the arriving stage coach from some road agents attempting to hold up the stage. The brothers have secured a timber claim in Deadwood and claim they intend to settle down to work, giving up their past as law men in Dodge City and Witchita. But will Wyatt be able to keep Morgan in line?
60----
61* AloofBigBrother: To Morgan.
62* EngineeredHeroics: He and his brother ride into town proclaiming that they stopped a stagecoach robbery that they themselves faked. Al discovers it, but allows them to [[FakeUltimateHero keep the masquerade]].
63* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp He's the will-be-famous Wyatt Earp.]]
64* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Averted. Wyatt Earp is almost always rendered in fiction as an honorable, dedicated lawman, but ''Deadwood'' portrays him as simply an opportunist, neither particularly good nor particularly bad, which is closer to the historical record.
65* RedHerring: Looks like a possible recruit for the coming battle against Hearst but ends leaving the town before it takes place.
66* [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Responsible Sibling]]: Wyatt is a thinker who cleans up his brother's messes.
67* TheRival: Briefly, to Bullock, but then they become somewhat tentative allies.
68* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Wyatt will be a big deal in the near future, but not in Deadwood.
69[[/folder]]
70
71[[folder:Morgan]]
72!!Morgan Earp
73[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/earp_morgan.jpg]]
74->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AustinNichols
75
76Morgan Earp, the younger and more hotheaded brother of Wyatt, tries to capitalize on the goodwill that the Earp brothers acquire when they ride into town as heroes, having apparently saved the stage coach from road agents. He spends his goodwill scamming a whore at the Gem for free services, claiming her sister owes him $11, while his brother Wyatt attempts to keep him in line. They are in Deadwood to work a newly acquired timber claim, vowing a simpler life than previous - as law men in Dodge City and Witchita.
77----
78* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Wyatt.
79* BlatantLies: Oh, you have a sister you had not mentioned before? What a coincidence! She owes me money! ''Seriously!''
80* [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Foolish Sibling]]: Morgan is a basic idiot, out to satisfy whatever impulse strikes him without thinking a minute ahead.
81* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Earp Well, of course.]]
82* HotBlooded: Morgan is talented at finding a fight.
83%%* {{Jerkass}}
84* TheLoad: For his brother, who spends much of his time cleaning up Morgan's messes.
85[[/folder]]
86
87!!!Persimmon Phil's Gang
88
89[[folder:In General]]
90!!Persimmon Phil, Ned Mason & Tom Mason
91->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoeChrest, Creator/JamieMcShane & Creator/NickOfferman
92
93* TooDumbToLive: They embark on a very poorly planned scheme that relies on deception, which they are very bad at. Wild Bill and Al see through Ned and Phil like wet toilet paper, respectively.
94* WouldHurtAChild: They think nothing of murdering a defenseless family, including the children. The youngest child survives, but only due to their incompetence rather than their non-existent morality.
95[[/folder]]
96
97[[folder:Persimmon Phil]]
98!!Persimmon Phil
99->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoeChrest
100
101* TooDumbToLive: Aside from his aforementioned joint idiocy with his gang, he tests Al's patience with lie after lie despite it being patently obvious that Al already has him rumbled.
102[[/folder]]
103
104[[folder:Ned]]
105!!Ned Mason
106->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamieMcShane
107
108%%* DirtyCoward
109* EyeScream: He's killed by a bullet to the head, which enters through his eye.
110[[/folder]]
111
112[[folder:Tom]]
113!!Tom Mason
114->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NickOfferman
115
116* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He might be a remorseless killer of women and children, but he does love his brother and is distraught by Ned's death.
117%%* LargeHam
118* MaleFrontalNudity: If you ever wanted to see Nick Offerman's cock, this is your chance. He hilariously bursts in on a confrontation between Al and Phil, inadvertently defusing the tension by swinging his penis around gleefully.
119* UnwittingPawn: Tom is easily manipulated by Al into meeting a sticky end.
120[[/folder]]
121
122!!!Other Characters
123
124[[folder:Miss Isringhausen]]
125!!Miss Alice Isringhausen
126[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isringhausen_alice_5898.jpg]]
127[[caption-width-right:350:''"For who do you take me then? For who do you mistake me?"'']]
128->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SarahPaulson
129
130Alice Isringhausen is hired from back East by Alma Garret to tutor Sofia. Isringhausen remains unobtrusively in the background with Sofia throughout most of the drama between Alma and Seth.
131----
132* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she seems to be no less or more than she appears to be: a prim, strict but coolly obedient tutor for Sofia hired at Alma's behest. Later, she even seems bashful and innocent around Silas Adams. She manages to shock Alma, Silas and even Al with her true nature and mercenary turn of mind.
133* DefrostingIceQueen: Subverted. Her relationship with Adams seems to mellow her, but it's soon revealed she's actually a highly skilled manipulator whose icy exterior conceals an even icier interior.
134* HotTeacher: She's played by the very attractive Sarah Paulson, and Silas quickly becomes rather smitten with her. Subverted when it's revealed she's a Pinkerton posing as a teacher.
135* IceQueen: Even before her true nature is revealed, Miss Isringhausen is rather cold and aloof. Alma notices how frosty her manner is.
136-->'''Alma:''' My beliefs about you have to do with your soul, which I feel is cold and ungenerous, unless you are a counterfeit. And if you are a counterfeit, the deception comes so naturally, I'd credit its source in such a soul... meaning, cold and ungenerous, and as capable of counterfeit... manipulative and treacherous as well.
137* ManipulativeBitch: She successfully plays Alma, Silas and even Al who is forced to concede to her. Of course, she has to get out of town pretty fast, but that's just a wise move in general.
138* NoNameGiven: When Al sees her signing a paper ([[TheUnreveal off screen]]) he comments that she didn't use her name, Isringhausen. She replies then that she didn't book at Farnum's hotel under her real name. In other occasion Silas asks her her given name and she answers that it is Alice, but it is unknown if she was telling the truth.
139* PinkertonDetective: Her true identity is that of a Pinkerton agent, sent to investigate Alma's possible culpability in Brom's death.
140* SternTeacher: To Sofia, with whom she is fairly strict.
141[[/folder]]
142
143[[folder:Andy]]
144!!Andy Cramed
145[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cramed_andrew.jpg]]
146[[caption-width-right:300:''"God is not mocked, Cy."'']]
147->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ZachGrenier
148
149A conman and old associate of Cy, Andy arrives at Deadwood some days after Cy while suffering from smallpox. Rather than seeking treatment for him, [[KickTheDog Cy leaves Andy in the woods to die]] but he is discovered in time by Jane and survives. The experience convinces him to leave his old life behind and devote himself to help others. When he returns in the second season he has been ordained a minister.
150----
151* TheAtoner: After surviving a nigh-fatal bout of smallpox, he changes his ways. He becomes a repentant man of God seeking to right the wrongs of his past, although he doesn't find the path easy when Cy is tempting him to wrath.
152* BerserkButton: Mocking his newfound religious path, moreso if it is Cy doing it. Andy clearly has some unresolved feelings of anger toward Cy for abandoning him.
153* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a pretty pleasant guy after his plague experience, but whether during his conman days or [[spoiler:stabbing Cy in a rage for mocking his newfound faith]], Cy brings out the worst of Andy's behavior.
154* {{Conman}}: He ''was'' a con artist who associated with Cy Tolliver, and seemingly a skilled one. He abandons this life to become a minister.
155* MadnessMantra: During his smallpox, he repeats 'I apologize' over and over in the delirium of fever.
156* HeelFaithTurn: Prior to his smallpox infection and subsequent religious conversion, Andy was an old friend of Cy Tolliver's. He was a professional con man and considering the type of person Cy is, probably did a few things worse.
157* PreacherMan: Becomes this after his brush with death.
158* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Andy unintentionally brings smallpox to Deadwood; the illness didn't manifest until he was already situated, by which time it's too late. As a result several people succumb to the plague.
159[[/folder]]
160
161[[folder:Hawkeye]]
162!!Hawkeye
163->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MontyHawkeyeHenson
164
165* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Since Dan is unable to attack Adams straight-on, he instead goes for Hawkeye and lays a decisive smackdown. It's a miracle Hawkeye came out alive.
166* PersonaNonGrata: Swearengen '''does not''' want to even hear his name after he ran off with a Native-American woman.
167[[/folder]]
168
169[[folder:Maddie]]
170!!Maddie
171[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maddie8.jpg]]
172[[caption-width-right:300:''"Only way to guarantee an outcome, honey, is contracting to be fucked."'']]
173->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AliceKrige
174
175Maddie, an aging but still attractive former prostitute, has been imported by Joanie Stubbs to serve as Madame for a new brothel. Cy Tolliver, realizing that he's not only losing Joanie but now facing stiff competition, is enraged. "Suck some pr*cks if you like," he tells Maddie, "and keep whatever they give you. My way of saying welcome." "Any blind ones out there?" Maddie shoots back with self-deprecating humor. In Maddie, Tolliver has encountered a formidable foe.
176----
177* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Maddie gives up her own prostitutes to Wolcott for him to murder, just so she can blackmail him later.]]
178* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She might not be the nicest person, but she's much more ruthless than her initial shrewdness suggests.]]
179* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Her plan for Wolcott. She knows of his murderous desires and plans to blackmail him after handing her own girls over to be killed.]]
180%%* DeadpanSnarker
181* [[GrowingUpSucks Getting Old Sucks]]: Maddie is not happy to be aging; she's well-aware of her position in life, the end of her 'glory days' as a prostitute and has made dark plans for retirement.
182* FamedInStory: Not to the extent of Hearst or Wild Bill, but she's reasonably well-known.
183* FirstNameBasis: Her last name (if she has one) is never mentioned.
184* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by her own Petard]]: [[spoiler:She hoped to use Wolcott to secure her retirement, but ends up dead as his hands.]]
185%%* ItsAllAboutMe
186* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Maddie is willing to 'sacrifice' the girls who trust her to Wolcott, so she can blackmail him. It's fitting that she loses control of him and meets the same fate as those girls she sent to the slaughter.]]
187%%* ManipulativeBitch
188%%* MissKitty
189%%* SmugSnake
190* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:At Wolcott's hand.]]
191%%* StepfordSmiler
192* TemptingFate: You shouldn't speak so much about your retirement, Maddie. In fiction that means [[{{Retirony}} you will not live to enjoy it]].
193* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:It didn't occur to her that threatening a SerialKiller of prostitutes wasn't a good idea. Sure, she had a gun pointed at Wolcott, but ''then'' she had to get within stretched-arm-with-razor distance from him...]]
194[[/folder]]
195
196[[folder:Brom]]
197!!Brom Garret
198[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garret_brom.jpg]]
199[[caption-width-right:300:''"If I'm stooped when next you see me, Alma, it won't be worry weighing me down, but bags of our recovered gold."'']]
200->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TimothyOmundson
201
202Alma's husband, a clueless, upper class businessman from New York City that tries his luck in the Gold Rush.
203----
204* ArrangedMarriage: To Alma, at her father's behest.
205%%* CitySlicker
206* CityMouse: He's a New Yorker through-and-through, entirely unprepared to deal with the world outside his upper-class city life.
207* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Believing that he has been conned, Brom announces that he will threaten Al with an investigation. Wild Bill points that the man that sold Brom his gold concession under Al's auspices has been missing since that night and that there is a blood stain in his former hotel room, then asks Brom again if he believes that threatening Al is the smart thing to do. ''[[FacePalm He does.]]''
208%%* TheDandy
209* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:After not finding gold for days, Brom believes he has been conned and threatens Al with an investigation. Al orders Dan to throw Brom off a cliff to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident... and Brom lands his face on a gold streak that turns out to be connected to ''the biggest mine in the Black Hills''.]]
210%%* NaiveNewcomer
211* NiceGuy: He's a pompous fool, but not a bad man by any stretch. He's perhaps too nice for Deadwood.
212%%* MauveShirt
213* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:His constant warring with Swearengen results in his swift death.]]
214%%* UpperClassTwit
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Magistrate Claggett]]
218!!Magistrate Claggett
219->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarshallBell
220
221* BaitTheDog: He's introduced as a relatively ReasonableAuthorityFigure who helps skew Jack [=McCall=]'s trial in the way Al desires because it'll be better for Deadwood in the long-term. Subsequent appearances make it clear this temporary alliance with Al was in the aim of swindling Al out of some money.
222* {{Jerkass}}: Besides being corrupt as hell, he's a rude, condescending jackass.
223* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Via Silas on Al's orders.]]
224[[/folder]]
225
226[[folder:Otis]]
227!!Otis Russell
228[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/russell_otis_1992.jpg]]
229[[caption-width-right:350:''"Must the pretense of my behavior generating from parental concern be abandoned so quickly?"'']]
230->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamRuss
231
232Alma's father, who turns up in town for less-than-noble reasons.
233----
234* AbusiveParent: He is financially and psychologically abusive toward his own daughter, Alma. He practically tries to pimp her out to Bullock.
235* BitchInSheepsClothing: When he first appears, he seems like a pleasant and genial man. This is just a mask for the greedy opportunistic sociopath he is; Otis even admits it.
236-->''"Must the pretense of my behavior generating from parental concern be abandoned so quickly?"''
237* {{Blackmail}}: He attempts to blackmail his own daughter, an act which even EB Farnum finds disgusting.
238* TheBully: A subtle one. He bullies others through sly insinuations and instilling a sense of insecurity, all the while bending them to his will.
239* FauxAffablyEvil: Initially, Otis can be pretty personable. He's witty, polite and even throws in a spot of self-deprecation. He'll still take you for all you're worth and sleep well that night.
240* HateSink: When he asks Alma to pay off his debts (as she had done once before) with her newfound wealth, she asks for his promise that he won't ask such a thing of her again. He tells her he ''won't'' promise and she'll do it anyway, then physically menaces both her and Sofia and suggests he will lie to help Brom's family see her prosecuted for Brom's murder. ''His own daughter''. Even on this show, filled with morally gray heroes and outright villains, Russell stands out as one of the most contemptible characters.
241* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: On the receiving end of a highly deserved one from Bullock.
242* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The singular reason that Otis even sets foot in Deadwood is to seize Alma's claim.
243* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Bullock... but it doesn't work out in his favour.
244-->'''Bullock:''' I will beat you here in the street.\
245'''Otis:''' [[SarcasmMode First-rate thinking.]] My daughter's agent beats her father in the street, how better to condemn Alma to deepened suspicion as to her role in her husband's violent death and widen suspicion to include yourself? Shoot craps, Mr. Bullock? [[BullyHunter Were you bullied, Mr. Bullock, when young and incapable? Now you see wrongs everywhere and bullying you feel called to remedy.]] The bully who oppressed your youth isn't at the table with us, perhaps he's long dead. If you will view the present with more clarity, perhaps you'd recognize that [[BlatantLies I'm not victimizing my daughter]], but merely [[{{Greed}} asking for a small portion of the ample proceeds from her veins]]. Alma is hurt only in your particular view of things. And while I'll sign no guarantee not to return, or against any future claim on her compassion, realize I do hate it here. And if you inhale and expel pure righteousness, my olfactories are keen to the smell of shit. Having heard all that and knowing, as you must, the injudiciousness of making an enemy of a man who could testify truthfully that, five minutes before her marriage, he heard his daughter wish her prospective husband dead, and who won't shrink from lying as to what she admitted to him on his arrival in this cesspool, as to her complicity in her husband's murder, [[TemptingFate I suppose you'd best take your swing.]]
246* SmugSnake: Otis is deeply confident and assured with himself. Even after numerous threats and warnings, he still opens his mouth to insult a man who can beat the hell out of him. And that man does just that.
247* TheSociopath: Remorselessly attempts to destroy his daughter's life just go gain her money.
248[[/folder]]
249
250[[folder:Odell]]
251!!Odell Marchbanks
252[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marchbanks_odell_4847.jpg]]
253[[caption-width-right:350:''"Fond as you are of my mother, without that gold I showed you, I don’t expect we’d be out here talking."'']]
254->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/OmarGooding
255
256Aunt Lou's son, a church deacon and missionary working in Liberia with more interest in finding new gold deposits than in saving souls.
257----
258* AbortedArc: It seems like he's going to be a big deal for a bunch of episodes; he turns up in camp to strike a deal with Hearst, but he then leaves camp and dies off-screen.
259* BusCrash: Odell dies off-screen shortly after his first appearance.
260%%* OnlyInItForTheMoney
261* PreacherMan: He's a deacon, but he doesn't do much preaching.
262* SinisterMinister: Odell is quick to throw any morals he may have had out the window in favour of securing gold with Hearst's backing.
263[[/folder]]
264
265[[folder:General Crook]]
266!!General George R. Crook
267[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crook.jpg]]
268[[caption-width-right:300:''"We all have bloody thoughts."'']]
269->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterCoyote
270
271A military general passing through the camp.
272----
273* CoolOldGuy: Despite being in his elder years, Crook blows through town in one episode, proves himself to be a genuinely good man and correctly asserts that Bullock would make a good sheriff.
274-->'''Crook:''' Well, while we're here, I will hold Mr. Russell under protection as a gesture to your brother's sacrifice.
275-->'''Bullock:''' Thank you, sir.\
276'''Crook:''' I would add, in a camp, where the sheriff can be bought for bacon grease, a man, a former marshal, who understands the danger of his own temperament, might consider serving his fellows. We all have bloody thoughts.
277* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crook General George R. Crook]] was a real person, and a very interesting guy.
278* ShutUpHannibal: He tells Cy in no uncertain terms what he thinks of him.
279-->''"If I were sheriff, I'd have you hanged."''
280[[/folder]]
281
282[[folder:Carrie]]
283!!Carrie
284->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IzabellaMiko
285
286An out-of-town prostitute favored by Wolcott.
287----
288* DeadpanSnarker: She is ''delightfully'' bitchy from the moment she sets foot in camp. Every other line is a sharp retort or a cutting put-down.
289* DefiantToTheEnd: As understandably terrified as she is when Wolcott prepares to kill her, she still manages to call him "fucking crazy" which is a very honest assessment of Wolcott.
290* {{Jerkass}}: Carrie is an utter asshole to pretty much everyone, from Maddie to Wolcott. She makes no secret of the fact that she hates Deadwood, she hates the people in it, and she hates being there in the first place.
291* SlashedThroat: Wolcatt cuts her throat.
292* UnwittingPawn: Maddie arranges for her to meet a nasty end at Wolcott's hand, a fact of which Carrie is blissfully unaware.
293[[/folder]]

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