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5	!!Original Series
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7	[[folder:The Black Lodge and The White Lodge]]
8	!!The Black Lodge and White Lodge
9
10	Enigmatic supernatural entities who live in the woods around Twin Peaks.
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12	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: All of them speak in a strange distorted cadence that was produced by having the actors record their lines backwards and then reversing the recording.
13	* AlienFairFolk: They were researched by the Project Blue Book, and in an abandoned version of Season 3 script, at least BOB and MIKE were intended to be aliens who came from a planet made of creamed corn. Besides, they are obviously influenced by the {{Ultraterrestrials}} described by John Keel and Jacques Vallee (like the Mothman, Men in Black, etc.)
14	* BlackSpeech: Their distorted, reversed voices can be considered a variant of this trope.
15	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They have their own strange code of ethics that make no sense on a human level. Although the White Lodge appears to be wanting to protect humanity from being exploited and preyed upon by the Black Lodge.
16	-->'''Douglas Milford:''' ...By our meager moral definitions, they may both be "good" and "evil," and those precious distinctions of ours mean nothing to them.
17	* CreationStory: In ''The Return'', they get one to rival most classic myths.
18	* CrypticConversation: They speak mainly in vague hints and omens.
19	* DemonicPossession: At least two of the Lodge creatures assume human form in the personality of an existing person, manipulating their actions.
20	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Everyone and everything in the White Lodge shows up in black and white. Of course, so do the woodsmen whenever they show up.
21	* DreamWeaver: Seemingly their main way of communicating with mortals.
22	* EldritchAbomination: They're spiritual beings from another plane of reality who frequently possess and manipulate human beings.
23	* ElectromagneticGhosts: Only a couple of them are implied to be the spirits of dead people, but they're all incorporeal beings who can travel along electrical currents and cause power outages, among other things.
24	* EmotionEater: The beings from the Black Lodge feed on "garmonbozia", the pain and suffering of mortal beings.
25	* EnergyBeings: They can apparently travel through electricity.
26	* TheFairFolk: They're not ''fairies'' per se, but they certainly fit the spirit of the trope. In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Douglas Milford speculates that their interactions with humanity throughout history might be the reason why the trope came into existence in-universe.
27	* FireWaterJuxtaposition: Is associated with fire and smoke, which is often mentioned in connection to him, [[spoiler: and is temporarily driven out of Leland's dying body by the water from an overhead sprinkler.]]
28	* HumanoidAbomination: Most of them appear this way, though it may be a case of AFormYouAreComfortableWith.
29	* KarmicReformHell: Local folklore surmises that the Black Lodge is supposed to be a place where the souls of the dead pass through and endure the evil things that live within it and achieving perfection at the very end. How accurate this is to the real thing is debatable.
30	* LightIsNotGood: Their presence is typically heralded by bright flashing lights and electrical noises.
31	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: An effect of their RealityWarper traits -- they once lived above a convenience store on a floor that no longer exists and are implied to have abducted an entire trailer park (assuming it wasn't aliens).
32	* NatureIsNotNice: The Lodge denizens have a strong connection with nature. BOB is frequently compared to owls, while the entrance to the lodges on Earth is a ring of ageless stones deep in the forest. Hawk explains that the White Lodge is where ''nature and man meet'', where the Black Lodge is the place you must "go through" to reach the White Lodge.
33	* NonLinearCharacter: Let's just say that the concept of time doesn't appear to have quite the same meaning to the denizens of the Lodge as it does to humans. To them past, present, and future appear to be very bendable, if not outright fluid terms.
34	* RealityWarper: They have the power to possess human hosts, create doppelgangers of people who enter the Black Lodge and unleash them on the world (sometimes making it appear as if they were there all along), and make entire houses and floors of buildings disappear and/or reappear. Electricity also starts acting in strange ways whenever they're present.
35	* RaygunGothic: The apparent wardrobe and aesthetic choices of the White Lodge.
36	* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Douglas Milford speculates that they are basically this (with some heavy elements of CosmicHorrorStory) in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'':
37	-->'''Douglas Milford:''' I believe that they are a multitude and that their true nature is singular and energetic, not physical, evolved in some way light-years beyond our ability to understand, and as a consequence our limited, linear sense of time means nothing to them. [...] I believe that all these phenomena that our puffed-up egos and busy ant mind persist in trying to label, categorize, penetrate, and comprehend, all spring from this same uncanny source. This is the mother of all "others", and were we ever able to set our eyes on its ultimate nature we would find it as foreign, incomprehensible, and indifferent to us as ours would be to bacterial microbes swimming in a drop of water.
38	* {{Ultraterrestrials}}: Heavily implied in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Both Douglas Milford and the Archivist come to believe that whatever they are, they have been around on Earth long before the early mankind walked out of woods (and maybe mankind even left the woods in the first place out of fear for them), and have been behind a lot -- if not all -- of recorded paranormal activity through human history.
39	-->'''Douglas Milford:''' They may once have been our "neighbors" from some distant star, but I believe they were here before us. I believe that were we able to look deeply into the whole of human history we would see that they have always been here. I believe they have observed, helped, haunted, tormented, and teased us since the beginning of our time for reasons entirely their own.
40	** One of the original projects Lynch and Frost planned was a series about the ancient Lemurians, who would have been portrayed as immensely powerful and evil.
41	* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: They seem to have implemented two.]]
42	** [[spoiler: Episode 8 of ''The Return'' seems to imply that before the main events of the series The Giant/The Fireman and Señorita Dido, upon learning about the forces of evil like BOB who were born from the Trinity nuclear tests, created Laura Palmer through divine immaculate conception to combat BOB's evil so that she would die a martyr and create a legacy that would lead to BOB's defeat.]]
43	** [[spoiler: The Lodge appears to have implemented a second gambit in ''The Return'' with their release of Cooper from his lengthy stay in the Black Lodge and how they have gone out of their way towards guiding EmptyShell Cooper to fulfill their as of yet unrevealed plans.]]
44	[[/folder]]
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46	[[folder:BOB]]
47	!!Killer BOB
48	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bob.PNG]]
49	->Played by: Frank Silva, Creator/RayWise, and Creator/KyleMacLachlan
50
51	->''"Catch you with my ''death'' bag. You may think I have gone ''insane'', but I ''promise''. I ''will'' kill again!"''
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53	The show's [[BigBad main villain]]. He is the chief suspect for the murder of Laura Palmer for much of the early season until it is discovered things are much more complicated than that.
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55	* AnimalMotifs: He's associated with owls.
56	* AnthropomorphicPersonification:
57	** [[spoiler:Given his possession of Leland and his role in Leland's backstory, it's not hard to read BOB as the personification of child abuse.]]
58	** ''The Return'' then loosely extends this once [[spoiler:his origin is revealed: He also therefore represents the "rape" of the environment by nuclear testing and the defilement of humanity by the H-bomb.]]
59	* AxCrazy: Now, when most people say that one character ''is'' a trope, they don't mean it this literally...
60	* BadassBoast:
61	** "You may think I've gone insane, but I promise. I! WILL! KILL! AGAIN!"
62	** "I have the fury of my own momentum."
63	* BigBad: One way or another, Twin Peaks' problems are his doing.
64	* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:With the Döppelganger in ''The Return.'' While he lets him do most of the physical work, he still has a large role in his existence and the two appear to share garmonbozia.]]
65	* BodySnatcher: Of the DemonicPossession variety.
66	* CardCarryingVillain: Not in the main series, but in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', he implicitly admits that he enjoys causing her suffering.
67	* ContinuitySnarl: His origins are given in ''Part 8'' of ''The Return'' while also being included in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks.'' Both are contradictory while also being canon. [[spoiler: ''The Return'' claims Bob was created by the Trinity nuclear tests while TSHOTP claims the owl-shaped spirit has existed far longer. This could be a SubvertedTrope in the most bizarre way, though. Given time doesn't exist in the Black Lodge and the tests could have just allowed him in, these aren't necessarily contradictory. The TSHOTP is also an in-universe document that has other contradictions to the show deliberately put inside it.]]
68	* TheCorrupter: His speciality. He inhabits Leland and constantly nudges him into doing evil, despicable acts that inflicts pain, misery and fear upon others. In ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', he takes pride in having turned the young Laura to a self-destructive life of sex and drugs just so she could avoid being "pure" enough for him to want to rape.
69	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with, in that he "gets to know" those he possesses and controls their base desires. In the original run this takes the form of [[spoiler: Leland]]'s darker and more harmful abusive sexual urges, represented by BOB's chaotic style of raping and murdering his victims to take garmonbozia from them. It therefore makes sense that 25 years later, while [[spoiler: possessing Cooper]], BOB takes on some of [[spoiler: Cooper]]'s highly controlled and logical personality and channels it into more elaborate, long-term strategies to harvest garmonbozia from his victims. Also arguably justifiable as him trying to stay further off of the Black Lodge's radar, although [[spoiler:he seems to genuinely enjoy playing with his food]].
70	* DarkIsEvil: His true form or essence appears to be [[spoiler: a floating orb of black goo with his face visible inside]].
71	* DemonicPossession: When he isn't murdering or terrorizing his future victims, BOB takes special interest in hot wiring the body and mind of whoever is unfortunate enough to be his vessel. [[spoiler:Just ask poor Leland.]]
72	* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Aside from sexually abusing Laura through his possession of Leland, it is implied that he also molested Leland when he was younger, and according to the tapes of Dale Cooper, tried to get into his bedroom when he was a kid too.]]
73	* TheDreaded: No one that knows BOB wants anything to do with him, even his Black Lodge friends.
74	* EmotionEater: He feeds on the pain and suffering of humans.
75	* EvilLaugh: Tends to laugh maniacally during his crimes, in a way that sounds more like barking than laughing.
76	** In the Black Lodge, he laughs ''backwards''. It is very unsettling.
77	* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: A deleted scene from ''Fire Walk With Me'', which was released in ''The Missing Pieces'', sees BOB in control of [[spoiler:the Doppleganger's]] body and trying to emulate [[spoiler:Cooper's]] sense of humor, and... not really doing a good job of it. The fact that BOB was featured heavily in the scene and [[spoiler:the Doppleganger's]] imitation is largely different, this does seem to just be BOB screwing around.
78	-->[[spoiler:'''Possessed-Cooper:''' I slipped and hit my head on the mirror. The glass broke when my head struck it... ''(with an ominous smile)'' It struck me as funny, Harry. ''(with a sudden vague hint of threat in his voice)'' Do you understand ''me''? It ''struck'' me as ''funny''.]]
79	* EvilIsHammy: Nearly everything he says is delivered in an over-the-top style, and when he's not talking we often seem him grinning or screaming maniacally.
80	-->"I! WILL! KILL! AGAIN!"
81	-->"WHAT HAPPENED TO [[spoiler:DEAD JOSIE]], COOP?"
82	* EvilSmellsBad: A sign of BOB's presence is an inexplicable smell of burning motor oil or gasoline.
83	%%* EvilSoundsDeep: When he's not laughing maniacally, BOB has a deep voice.
84	* EvilerThanThou: He manages to violate even the morals of the Black Lodge, a realm of ''pure evil'', to the point where the other Lodge spirits try to capture him.
85	* FauxAffablyEvil: His behavior while possessing [[spoiler: Leland]] exemplifies this.
86	* ForTheEvulz: The only reason he does anything. He feeds on pain and suffering, after all.
87	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: It seems that the other residents of the Black Lodge, including his former partner in evil MIKE are pretty fed up with BOB's antics either because he's somehow violating the Lodge's BlueAndOrangeMorality or because he is hogging all of the garmonbozia for himself.
88	* FusionDance: Happens twice:
89	** His face appears on [[spoiler:Leland's]] body during his [[spoiler:rape of Laura]] in ''Fire Walk With Me''.
90	** [[spoiler: A chilling image of BOB's face mixed with Evil Cooper's face in episode 5 of ''The Return'' seems to imply that BOB has merged with the Evil Doppelganger of Cooper that he created but leaves the Coopelganger in control while residing dormant within him.]]
91	* GrandTheftMe: To [[spoiler:Leland]] and later [[spoiler:Doppelganger Cooper]]. Although in the case of the latter, [[spoiler:appears to only have hijacked his body for a short period of time before letting him drive]].
92	* TheHeartless: Albert speculates that BOB is "the evil that men do" and can't really be destroyed AsLongAsThereIsEvil.
93	* HiddenVillain: He's seen from time to time during the first season, but it's not until the second that we learn unambiguously that his name is BOB, and much later till we learn his role in the story. [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' it appears that BOB is laying low in the body of Doppel Coop.]]
94	* HumanoidAbomination: BOB is obviously a demon, but he looks like a perfectly average human.
95	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:[[spoiler:After getting away with his crimes for all of three seasons, he is finally smashed to pieces by Freddie courtesy of a PowerFist, and is likely dead for good.]]
96	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After screwing around with the rules of the Black Lodge and its other inhabitants in order to stay in the mortal plane, it is very karmic that said inhabitants in turn successfully plot to put an end to him, courtesy of using Freddie Sykes as a proxy, and to make it even more karmic, he dies the same way Maddy was killed at his hand: [[KarmicDeath by being beaten to death.]]]]
97	* LargeHam: Justified (sort of) in that he is not played by a professional actor but by a set dresser who happened to find himself [[ThrowItIn accidentally foreshadowed in certain scenes]].
98	* LimitedWardrobe: Always seen in the same denim vest and jeans.
99	* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:He emerges from Doppel Coop's body as an orb, and is smashed to pieces courtesy of Freddie's PowerFist.]]
100	* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Not even technically an actor as Frank Silva was just a film crew member who was added to the cast after a ThrowItIn. But behind the scenes interviews show the late Frank Silva in full BOB garb (messy hair and denim vest) as soft spoken and thoughtful in all his responses.
101	* MeaningfulName: BOB's name is all but stated in ''The Final Dossier'' [[spoiler: to be a corruption of either "Baal" or "Beelzebub"]].
102	* MindRape: To his direct victims, actual rape for the others.
103	* MirrorMonster: One of the most iconic in television history. Amusingly, that first shot of him as a reflection was an ''accident''; during the filming of the last shot of the pilot, Frank Silva happened to stand in such a way that his reflection showed up on-camera, and David Lynch (who'd wanted to put Silva into the show somehow) decided to build an entire character and the ''main through-line of the show's plot'' from it.
104	* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Whenever he's possessing someone, his reflection shows up in mirrors in place of the victim's.
105	* MultipleChoicePast: BOB has multiple origins that, due to the non-linear temporal nature of the Black and White Lodges, are all considered canon.
106	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: How he kills [[spoiler: Maddy. Twenty five years later he receives one of his own from Freddy Sykes and his PowerFist]].
107	* OminousOwl: A dream sequence pretty overtly aligns him with the owls [[ArcWords not being what they seem]].
108	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied - the creatures in the Black Lodge feed off pain and suffering, which suggests that BOB's predilection for rape (not to mention [[spoiler:incest]]) is partly motivated by the level of suffering it causes in the victim.
109	* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: The Black Lodge seems to automatically create doppelgangers on its own but ''The Return'' heavily implies that BOB was able to conjure up his own doppelganger of Cooper, Dougie Jones, to trick the Black Lodge and avoid being sucked back in.]]
110	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Kind of. Frank Silva was barely but ''clearly'' visible in a certain shot in the pilot [[note]]In the reflection of the mirror at the top right of the shot, when Sarah Palmer wakes up and screams at the end of the episode[[/note]]. They easily could have done another take, but David Lynch decided to ThrowItIn and build an entire terrifying character around a single bad take.
111	* RecursiveAcronym: '''B'''eware '''O'''f '''B'''OB.
112	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: In the middle of Season 2 after Cooper and Co. have cracked the Laura Palmer case and have Leland dead to rights, BOB taunts everyone and hightails it out of Leland's body but not before making Leland bash his head in as a parting gift.]]
113	* SerialKiller: Or rather, turns people into one.
114	* ShoutOut: A messy haired, HumanoidAbomination that rocks a denim vest and jeans with a hobby for appearing in your nightmares? Are we sure BOB's initials aren't [[Literature/TheStand R.F]]?
115	* SlasherSmile: Just look at his picture!
116	-->'''MIKE:''' He is BOB, eager for fun. He wears a smile, everybody run.
117	* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Unlike with Leland who he controlled mercilessly, BOB seems to have this kind of relationship with the Evil Dale Cooper doppelganger he created. They both share the same goal of collecting garmonbozia and work together to avoid being sucked back into the Black Lodge. Doppel Coop does all of the physical work while BOB remains mostly dormant but influences Doppel Coop's physical appearance and helps maintain the Doppelganger's status as TheDreaded.]]
118	* TomTheDarkLord: He is a demonic entity who feeds on fear and pleasure and comes from an alternate plane of reality that consists of pure evil. He goes by the name BOB. WordOfGod says this was intentional, as David Lynch points out in multiple interviews that he wanted to give the show's ArcVillain a name that didn't sound threatening.
119	* {{Ubermensch}}: BOB seems to view himself this way, as he openly defies the arcane laws of the Black Lodge to slake his own desires.
120	--> "I have the fury of my own momentum."
121	* TheUnfettered: "You may think I've ''gone insane'', but '''I promise, I will''' '''''KILL AGAIN!'''''"
122	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Implied to be the case with the owls, and certainly the case with his human hosts, who can appear as themselves or as BOB depending on what he feels like doing.
123	* VillainousBreakdown: BOB never was the type of person to be mentally stable even on his best days, [[spoiler:but when he's forced out of the body of Cooper's doppelganger, he savagely attacks Freddie while screaming incoherently.]]
124	* WouldHitAGirl: And he'll do it with someone else's hands too.
125	* WeUsedToBeFriends: With MIKE; before MIKE's HeelFaceTurn, the two had a VillainousFriendship.
126	* WildHair: Long, graying, greasy, and messy. [[spoiler: Given enough time, the hair of the Cooper doppelganger he creates becomes extremely similar.]]
127	* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler: Extracts Windom Earle's soul from his body in the last episode of Season 2 after Earle breaks the rules of the Lodge. BOB also leaves Cooper and apparently Leland's souls in the Lodge to rot for all eternity.]]
128	[[/folder]]
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130	[[folder:MIKE]]
131	!!MIKE/Phillip Michael Gerard
132	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-MIKEDream_6513.jpg]]
133	->Played by: Al Strobel
134
135	->''"I too have been touched by the devilish one. Tattoo on the left shoulder... Oh, but when I saw the face of God... I was changed. I took the entire arm off."''
136
137	Bob's former partner in murder and chaos who has since repented.
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139	* TheAtoner: He claims to be this, although the final scenes of the movie throw a bit of doubt on this claim.
140	* BodySnatcher: MIKE is a being like BOB who can possess a human host to interact with the world beyond the Black Lodge. But unlike BOB, who frequently {{Body Surf}}s, MIKE seems to prefer staying in the same body, that of shoe salesman Phillip Gerard, so much so the audience never gets to see MIKE's [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm true form]].
141	* TheBusCameBack: After Laura's killer is discovered, MIKE just leaves the show, not even coming back when Cooper revisits the Black Lodge near the end. He finally does come back in ''The Return'' and plays a more active role in helping Cooper.
142	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After the Laura Palmer mystery is resolved, he never appears in the show again. He had a fairly prominent part in ''Fire Walk With Me'', however and appears once again to help Cooper in ''The Return''.
143	* HeelFaithTurn: Long before the series, he saw the face of God, and the moment inspired him to turn his back on his partnership with BOB and instead work against him. Although, considering where MIKE is from, "God" may be another Black Lodge entity.
144	* HorrifyingTheHorror: He is the only thing that BOB fears.
145	* RealityWarper: Capable of summoning Doppelgängers like BOB and other Lodge spirits. [[spoiler:He also remanufactures Cooper's other Doppelgänger Dougie Jones upon Cooper's urging.]]
146	* RedRightHand: He's missing his left arm, which [[spoiler:he cut off to rid himself of his "Fire Walk With Me" tattoo]].
147	* TomTheDarkLord: A former example, since he used to be BOB's partner-in-crime but goes by the equally unimpressive name MIKE.
148	* WeUsedToBeFriends: With BOB; the two were evil spirits and partners in serial murder. After committing several rape/murders with BOB, MIKE claims to have had a religious epiphany and repented.
149	[[/folder]]
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151	[[folder:The Man From Another Place/The Arm]]
152	!!The Man From Another Place/The Arm
153	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/man_form_another_place.PNG]]
154	[[caption-width-right:350:"Let's rock!"]]
155	->Played by: Michael J. Anderson
156
157	->''"Do you know who I am? I am the Arm. And I sound like this..."''
158
159	A being who often takes the form of a strange little man in an all red suit. Appearently, he was created from MIKE severing his arm to remove his Fire Walk With Me tattoo. Despite this, the Arm seems to be on the side of Cooper.
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161	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Mainly from the fact that judging from his name, he was the evil part of MIKE, who he left behind by cutting off his arm. He never overtly opposes Cooper and seems to want to stop BOB, but he's also a resident of the Black Lodge and there's a very sinister air to all of his scenes.
162	** He works with BOB in [[spoiler:killing Josie Packard and claiming her soul]].
163	** He later actively helps Cooper in his quest to escape the Black Lodge and survive assassination attempts against him in ''The Return.''
164	* ArcWords: He's the source of many of them.
165	** "That gum you like is going to come back in style."
166	** "I am the arm."
167	** "Let's rock!"
168	** When he speaks the arc words of the entire series, "Fire walk with me", [[TrippyFinaleSyndrome the series ends in a deluge of nonsense.]]
169	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His new form in ''The Return'' is pretty freaky looking. For context, he looks like a tree with a human brain on the top which is powered by electricity.]]
170	* TheChessmaster: May or may not be controlling everything, even BOB.
171	* CrypticConversation: Oh my yes... The fact that Cooper keeps seeing him in his dreams, where nothing has to really make sense, just makes things more ''sinister''.
172	* EldritchAbomination: The Arm becomes this in the time between the original series and ''The Return''.
173	* HeroicNeutral: One interpretation of the character is that he's friends with MIKE and BOB both due to being the part of Mike which was "touched by the Devilish one."
174	* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKBRyNNW3u0 ''Dance of the Dream Man'']], which plays whenever something mysterious is happening.
175	* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: One of the more memorable instances. [[spoiler:In ''Twin Peaks: The Return'', he's ditched his dwarf form and evolved into something even more surreal.]]
176	* MeaningfulName: He is "The Arm" [[spoiler: in one somewhat more literal sense, given he is implied to be MIKE's arm]], but is also the arm in the sense of a weapon (his [[spoiler: advanced form]] has weaponized traits) and in the sense of The Black Lodge's "long arm of the law" and the main enforcer of its rules.
177	* NoNameGiven: It's not known if he even has a name. [[WildMassGuessing Some]] contend that he is [[spoiler:MIKE]]. Others suspect that the "I am the arm" statement implies that [[spoiler: he's the evil part that MIKE left behind when he decided to atone.]]
178	* NeutralNoLonger: [[spoiler: This is finally resolved in ''The Return'' when he's actively working against BOB and to draw him back into the Black Lodge.]]
179	* WiseTree: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'', he's metamorphosed into something resembling a skeletal tree with a weird, fleshy growth acting as its face]].
180	[[/folder]]
181
182	[[folder:The Giant/???????/The Fireman]]
183	!!The Giant/???????/The Fireman
184	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_giant.PNG]]
185	->Played by: Carel Struycken
186
187	->''"Don't search for all the answers at once. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time."''
188
189	A mysterious godlike being who contacts Cooper during a NearDeathExperience. He turns out to be instrumental in solving the Laura Palmer case.
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191	* ArcWords: "The Owls are not what they seem."
192	* AndAnotherThing: "You forgot something..."
193	* BigGood: Unlike the MFANP who displays AmbiguouslyEvil and ChessMaster traits when speaking to Cooper, the Giant seems to sincerely want to help Cooper with the Laura Palmer case by giving him honest and slightly less cryptic clues. It comes across less like he's actually ''trying'' to be cryptic and more that, for whatever reason, he ''can't'' be more straightforward.
194	* BodySnatcher: However, it's clear he has stayed in the same body for a long, long time.
195	* CannotTellALie: "The things I tell you will not be wrong."
196	* TheChooserOfTheOne: ''The Return'' implies this is his role [[spoiler: to Laura]], assuming he's not her "father" in some spiritual sense such as immaculate conception, using humans as a vessel, or similar.
197	* CoolHouse: Lives in a {{Retraux}} Raygun Gothic mansion that looks straight out of the imagination of Georges Melies or William Wallace Denslow.
198	* CrypticConversation: Less so than The Man From Another Place, giving one straightforward clue -- "Without chemicals, [[YouKnowTheOne he]] points." Some of his dialogue indicates that he genuinely wants to make more sense, but his ability to do so is somehow limited by forces out of his control.
199	* GentleGiant: His speaking voice is calm and pleasant, and he's dressed smartly. It's difficult to imagine him hurting a fly. That said, he is a creature of the Black Lodge, a world of pure evil... but is also clearly a major figure in the White Lodge whenever he appears in black and white, so his [[{{Pun}} true colors]] are unknown.
200	* GoodCounterpart: To the Man From Another Place. He seems to be much more benevolent in his aims, and speaks normally and pleasantly in contrast to the Man's BlackSpeech. His gigantism also contrasts the Man's dwarfism. In his role as The Fireman, he also acts as the face and main representative of the White Lodge the same way that TMAP does for the Black Lodge.
201	* GreaterScopeParagon: Is apparently something like the Aslan of the Twin Peaks universe.
202	* TheMaker: ''The Return'' strongly implies [[spoiler:that he, or a spirit who created him in his image, had a role in the creation of the Black Lodge and its denizens, if not the entire world itself]].
203	* MeaningfulName: His name is revealed as [[spoiler: The Fireman]] later on in ''The Return''. He [[spoiler:is present at the creation of BOB and appears to be involved in the birth of Laura Palmer. Both of whom are associated with fire.]] So if he isn't a god, he is at the very least a kind of Prometheus figure.
204	** An alternate interpretation is that his role is similar to a fireman's in "putting out" the uncontrolled fire of BOB and the Black Lodge. The phrase "fire walk with me" is often interpreted to mean some form of demonic possession or influence, like what Bob did to Leland. The Fireman could be some force that seeks to combat such occurrences. He could also be seen as the main bane of the Woodsmen as [[FridgeBrilliance fire destroys wood]].
205	* NoNameGiven: Officially credited as "''[[MyNameIsQuestionMarks ???????]]''" in ''The Return''. [[spoiler: Averted when he reveals himself as The Fireman.]]
206	* NotSoStoic: Looks genuinely despairing when he tells Cooper "it is happening again".
207	[[/folder]]
208
209
210	[[folder:Mrs. Tremond/Chalfont]]
211	!!Mrs. Tremond/Chalfont
212	->Played by: Frances Bay
213
214	A Black Lodge spirit that resides in Twin Peaks. She's the grandmother of Pierre.
215	-----
216	* TheDragon: Implied to be one for JUDY in ''The Return''. When Dale Cooper tries to reconnect Carrie Page with the Palmer's house, it's revealed that the seller of the house went by the name "Chalfont". Common fan theory is that Cooper is stuck in a parallel world of JUDY's making, with Mrs. Chalfont pulling strings to put him in a checkmate.
217	* TheGhost: She never appears in ''The Return'', but both of her names are brought up when Cooper investigates the Palmer house in the finale.
218	* WillfullyWeak: Donna meets her while providing a meals on wheels service. Her appearance in ''Fire Walk With Me'' in broad daylight hints that she's not as frail as she initially presented herself to be.
219	[[/folder]]
220
221	[[folder:Pierre Tremond/Chalfont]]
222	!!Pierre Tremond/Chalfont
223	->Played by: Austin Jack Lynch (TV show), Jonathan J. Lepell (''Fire Walk With Me'')
224
225	A Black Lodge spirit who dresses in a mask and tuxedo.
226	-----
227	* TheBlank: His mask's only feature is a long, needle-like nose.
228	* CreepyChild: He's scary even in comparison to the other Black Lodge creatures, which is saying ''a lot''.
229	* {{Foreshadowing}}: His little magic trick with creamed corn along with the old woman's CrypticConversation foreshadow the importance of Garmonbozia, the pain and suffering entities like them live off of that is usually represented by creamed corn.
230	* LeftHanging: Who the Tremonds, or Chalfonts, are is left completely ambiguous, along with their alignment. It is strongly implied that both Pierre and his grandmother are agents of the Black Lodge, especially in the film. However, in "The Return", [[spoiler: Judy seals Cooper and Carrie Page, who actually is Laura, inside of some sort of alternate reality, and when Cooper brings Carrie to her childhood home, they instead encounter a woman who states her last name is Tremond, and that she and her husband bought the house from the Chalfont family. So, Judy has planted the Tremond, or Chalfont, family in the home to block off the confrontation between Laura and herself, as well as the reunion between Laura and Sarah.]]
231	* SharpDressedMan: His cool tuxedo.
232	* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Wears a spooky [[TheBlank blank]] mask.
233	[[/folder]]
234
235	[[folder:Jimmy Scott]]
236	!!Jimmy Scott
237	->Played by: [[AsHimself Jimmy Scott]]
238
239	Jimmy Scott playing a Black Lodge spirit who has assumed the form of Jimmy Scott.
240	-----
241	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Implied as with all Black Lodge creatures.
242	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Invoked with his song.
243	* CoolOldGuy: A cool, old jazz singer.
244	* DisabilitySuperpower: Jimmy Scott was born with Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his growth and he never went through puberty. This left his beautiful voice unbroken, effectively making him a cruelty-free [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato castrato]].
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:The Jumping Man]]
248	!!The Jumping Man
249	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jumpingman.jpg]]
250	->Played by: Carlton Lee Russell
251
252	A Black Lodge resident named for his hyperactive movements.
253	-----
254	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Whether or not he's allied with BOB is never made clear. He never takes any direct action against the protagonists, but his presence above the convenience store hints that BOB considers him some kind of ally.
255	* AnimalMotifs: His pointed nose, jumping, the twig-like object in his hand and chirping sounds bring to mind various species of birds.
256	* FacialHorror: He has a mask similar to Pierre's but it's permanently merged with his face.
257	[[/folder]]
258
259	[[folder:Angels]]
260	!!Angels
261	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angel_in_red_room_0.jpg]]
262	->Played by: Karin Robinson & Lorna [=MacMillan=]
263
264	Beings that resemble conventional angels and provide solace for distressed individuals.
265	-----
266	* ChekhovsGunman: In ''Fire Walk With Me'' Laura talks about angels and expresses a cynical view of them as not caring about humanity. A painting showing an angel that inexplicably fades away seemingly affirms this belief. By the end of the movie, an angel appears before Laura, which makes her realise she was wrong to doubt them.
267	* {{Foil}}: Could be seen as one for the Woodsmen. They wear immaculate white robes to contrast the Woodsmen's dirty black clothes. They're all depicted as female, while the Woodsmen are all male. They save people (or at least provide them comfort), while the Woodsmen harm people.
268	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Similar to the other supernatural beings, it's possible their angelic forms are just glamour to reassure the people who see them.
269	* HopeBringer: One appears right when Laura Palmer is being killed and is implied to save Ronette Pulaski. Another appears before Laura when her spirit is trapped in the Black Lodge and her very presence makes the cynical Laura cry TearsOfJoy.
270	* LightIsGood: A very blunt example.
271	[[/folder]]
272
273	!!The Return
274	[[folder:The Experiment]]
275	!!The Experiment / Judy
276	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twin_peaks_judy.png]]
277	->Played by: Erica Eynon
278
279	The... [[HumanoidAbomination thing]] that appeared inside the glass box and killed Sam and Tracey. Philip Jeffries doesn't want to talk about her.
280	----
281	* AncientEvil: As revealed in ''The Final Dossier'', Judy has appeared under many names in quite a few cultures throughout history. Common for all those cultures is the fact that her appearance is always associated with something highly unpleasant.
282	* AxCrazy: We can see where BOB got his brand of madness from. She attacks and kills two people for no reason whatsoever when she manifests for the first time.
283	* BodyHorror: Its arms are twisted backwards and it is seen [[spoiler: vomiting out BOB in a giant stream of garmonbozia]].
284	* DemonicPossession: Takes control [[spoiler: of Sarah Palmer]], who while possessed ends up sealed through some sort of Lodge magic [[spoiler: by the Chalfonts/Tremonds]].
285	* TheDevil: According to ''The Final Dossier'' Judy might actually be this, or least have been the inspiration for the archetype.
286	* EldritchAbomination: Even moreso than the other spiritual beings in the series. It looks ''nothing'' like a human being besides [[HumanoidAbomination its shape]], violently kills the only people unfortunate enough to meet it, and is heavily implied to be [[spoiler: the creator/mother of BOB]].
287	* EyelessFace: Doesn't appear to have any eyes.
288	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Alluded to by Philip Jeffries. While BOB, whom Judy birthed, has appeared here and there to wreak havoc, Judy/Jowday is an omnipresent villain who has appeared as an unspeakable evil in legends throughout history]].
289	* TheGreys: It somewhat resembles this kind of alien, and ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' implies that it was the inspiration for this trope InUniverse.
290	* HornedHumanoid: Has two small horns on top of its head. [[spoiler: They make it resemble the symbol on the card Mr. C carries around]].
291	* HumanoidAbomination: It looks humanoid, but we can safely assume that it's anything but human.
292	* MeaningfulName: 'Jowday' is phonetically identical to 'jiao de'(叫的) - which is Chinese for 'screamed'. Ominous.
293	** It has also been interpreted as "Jiao Dai"(交代), meaning "to explain" or "to finish", which would fit well with Lynch's attitude toward explaining his work.
294	** ''The Final Dossier'' also ties her name to a race of female SoulEating carrion ghouls from Sumerian myth.
295	** "JUDY" could also be a reference to Creator/JudyGarland, whose life story Lynch has cited as a major inspiration for Laura Palmer. This would seem to position her as an EvilCounterpart to Laura.
296	* TheReveal: In the finale, The Experiment is revealed [[spoiler:as Judy]].
297	* TomTheDarkLord: Like BOB and MIKE, she goes by the very mundane name JUDY.
298	* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: It's never faced by any of the protagonists, though it doesn't seem like there's much they could even ''do'' to it to begin with.]]
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Naido]]
302	!!Naido / Diane
303	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/naido.png]]
304	->Played by: Nae Yuuki
305
306	An eyeless woman who dwells in a bizarre steampunk house afloat in a cosmic void. She aids Cooper in his flight from the Black Lodge, against the wishes of her unseen "mother", but is ejected into space in the process. She later reappears in Twin Peaks when the police go to a set of coordinates left in a capsule by Major Briggs, and is taken into their protection. Is eventually revealed to be the true Diane, who was transformed into Naido by the Woodsmen after being raped by Mr. C. After he and BOB are finally destroyed, she is able to finally return to her human form.
307	----
308	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Like Cooper, she was trapped in the Black Lodge for 25 years, all while forced into a body that wasn't hers and possibly unaware of her original identity]].
309	* BlackSpeech: Has the normal Black Lodge voice at first, [[spoiler: but can only speak in weird, animalistic chirps and barks when she reappears on Earth]].
310	* BodyHorror: Her eyes appear to have been ''melted'' shut.
311	* EyelessFace: Has what look like surgical scars covering her eyes.
312	* MysteriousWaif: Becomes this after she appears in the forest.
313	* NakedOnArrival: [[spoiler: Is nude when discovered in the forest.]]
314	* TheOphelia: Gives this impression while in the jail, where she spends most of her time waving her arms through the air as though channeling some sort of energy while making strange chirping noises with her mouth, and generally appearing to be very afraid of her surroundings.
315	[[/folder]]
316
317	[[folder:Señorita Dido]]
318	!!Señorita Dido
319	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/senorita_dido.png]]
320	->Played by: Joy Nash
321
322	A close compatriot of the Fireman, exact relation unknown although she appears to be family either by marriage or blood. So far, she has appeared to express shock and terror at the fate of a New Mexico town at the hands of an atomic bomb, and eventually The Woodsmen.
323	----
324	* BigGood: Is clearly indicated as a (silent but expressive) voice of morality among the story's supernatural beings.
325	* HeroicMime: Imagine an immensely supernaturally powerful silent movie starlet, and you've got Dido.
326	* HotWitch: A {{Retraux}} example, she recalls L. Frank Baum's Good Witch of the South in the original ''Oz'' novels.
327	* LightIsGood: Her shining wardrobe is clearly meant to evoke this.
328	* RaygunGothic: Her expressionist makeup and extravagant costume recall the surreal and flamboyant aesthetics of silent science fiction cinema such as ''Metropolis'' and ''A Trip to the Moon''. Hers and the Giant's mansion is also built in a Deco-esque science fiction style.
329	[[/folder]]
330
331	[[folder:The Woodsmen]]
332	!!The Woodsmen
333	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lincoln_6.png]]
334	[[caption-width-right:350: "Got a light?"]]
335	->Played by: Robert Broski (''The Return: Part 8''), and Creator/JurgenProchnow and David Brisbin (''Fire Walk with Me'' and ''The Missing Pieces''). Others portrayed by Stewart Strauss (''The Return: Parts 2 and 8''), Gabriel Lane, Christian Calloway, and three unidentified performers (all in ''The Return: Parts 7, and 8'')
336
337	A group of ObviouslyEvil aliens, demonic sprites, or [[MindScrew something]], who take the form of homeless vagrants and lumberjacks. Known to participate in carjackings, murders, parasitic invasions, and other general mischief. They nearly ''always'' appear in pure black and white and may have a connection to the Black Lodge and/or BOB. One in particular credited as "The Woodsman" appeared in New Mexico during the 1950s to dish out some good old fashioned unspeakable terror.
338	------
339	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: As with the appearance of any supernatural character, their exaggerated appearance as lumberjacks and vagrants is strongly implied to be because that's the closest thing our minds can make sense of how they actually look.
340	* ArcWords: For [[EliteMooks The Woodsman]]:
341	** ''"Got a light?"''
342	** ''"This is the water, and this is the well \
343	Drink full, and descend \
344	The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."''
345	* AshFace: A non-comedic example. They appear to be covered in ash or soot, which makes sense considering they apparently first entered this world through the Trinity Nuclear Tests.
346	* BeardOfEvil: The woodsmen have straggly matted facial hair. Some of them even appear to wear large, obviously fake beards.
347	* BlackSpeech: Their voices are weirdly distorted.
348	* BrownNote: Their above mentioned BlackSpeech seems to have this effect at least for that unfortunate middle-aged couple they accosted. Their incantation also puts everyone who hears it to sleep.
349	* DarkIsEvil: With the exception of their milky white eyes they are covered head to toe in pitch, ash or something unidentified and unlike most supernatural beings (save BOB) who operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality, the Woodsmen seem set on committing evil deeds.
350	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: In ''The Return'' the woodsmen ''always'' appear in pure black and white, whether they are in the past or the present. In ''Fire Walk With Me'', one appears in full color, though fans often speculate that he is different in some way.
351	* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Fire Walk With Me'', during the Phillip Jeffries scene where reality breaks down and flashes to BOB, The Arm and other Black Lodge spirits converging in the [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday convenience store]], beings who resemble the Woodsmen (and are credited as such) can be seen sitting in the background. A terrified old lady who may or may not be a woodsman also briefly appears at the Fat Trout Trailer Park, complete with jarring BrownNote and general sense of unease, while Chet and Stanley stop by to ask about Teresa Banks.
352	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The Woodsman that appears in Fire Walk With Me doesn't have the same ash black face as the rest of them, nor is he DeliberatelyMonochrome.
353	* EldritchAbomination: They are quite unnerving and clearly otherworldly powerful.
354	* EliteMooks: For the Black Lodge, [[MindScrew we think.]]
355	* EmotionEater: Swarm around the convenience store built on the ground originally used for nuclear bomb testing like locusts, presumably to feast on all the suffering that resulted from this location.
356	* EnigmaticMinion: They appear to be servants of the Black Lodge, but their exact motives are as unclear as...anything else related to the Black Lodge, and given their appearance at the Trinity test site, may actually be ''older'' than the rest of its inhabitants, with the possible exception of [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Judy]]]].
357	* EvilSoundsDeep: All the ones who speak have inhumanly deep, gravelly voices.
358	* GlamourFailure: They wear human clothes, are humanoid, and ask people "Gotta light?" implying they're making ''some'' effort to blend in -- [[HughMann but they fail on just about every level]].
359	* {{Hobos}}: They ''look'' like these, but they're really much worse.
360	* HumanoidAbomination: They look like homeless vagrants or lumberjacks covered in grime but they're clearly something different.
361	* TheLegionsOfHell: May or may not be the equivalent of cockroaches from the Black Lodge. They certainly give Ray this impression when they creepily appear out of thin air and stampede towards the recently killed Doppel Dale.
362	* {{Leitmotif}}: Theirs is "[[PsychoStrings Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima]]".
363	* LivingShadow: They can materialize or float away in a cloud of vapor/smoke.
364	* MadnessMantra: The weird incantation they repeat over the radio, which causes all who hear it to lose consciousness.
365	-->'''Woodsman:''' This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
366	* MookLieutenant: The Abraham Lincoln-looking Woodsman [[https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/59508834da8352406a418907/master/pass/Lincoln.png played by Robert Broski]] is the most prominent of their number, and (since he's the one to invade the radio station and kill its inhabitants) appears to have something of a leadership role.
367	* MythologyGag: Anyone familiar with Lynch's other work will certainly have unpleasant memories of [[Film/MulhollandDrive whatever the hell that thing outside Winkie's was]] resurface.
368	* NightmareFace: What's Black and White and eerily expressionless all over?
369	* NuclearMutant: It's ''very'' strongly implied their existence is somehow connected to nuclear tests that knocked out part of America's desert wilderness, making [[MindScrew various strange and usually bad things happen]].
370	* ObviouslyEvil: Their entire appearance is hinted at with a BrownNote, and they help out the BigBad of the series while giving anyone else who sees them the heebie jeebies at best and a caved in skull at worst.
371	* OminousWalk: They never move any faster than a slow walk.
372	* PuppeteerParasite: They work in tandem with one in New Mexico, hypnotizing everyone in town into sleep so that the newborn parasite can crawl into a human host.
373	* RealityWarper: As with the Lodge creatures. They are hinted to be connected to an invasion of parasitic aliens in 1940s/50s New Mexico. They also appeared to revive Mr. C from the dead.
374	* SerialKiller: A deserted New Mexico town becomes their bloody playground. Oh, does it ever.
375	%%* SmokingIsCool
376	* SuperStrength: They can crush people's skulls with their bare hands.
377	* UncannyValleyMakeup: A subtle example: all of their faces are covered with a layer of thick blast ash or grime, and some of them have large, obviously fake beards.
378	* TheUnfought: They are never confronted by the heroes in the same way BOB and Mr. C are, and continue existing to wreak havoc after they're killed.
379	* WordSaladHorror: They can use hypnotism through nonsense-sounding phrases to both knock out anyone who hears them and command a parasite to infest a human host.
380	* YourHeadASplode: They can crush human skulls with one hand. It seems to be their preferred method of murder.
381	* ZombieGait: They walk around like stereotypical movie zombies.
382	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / TwinPeaksSupernaturalEntities