| 1 | [[center: [-[[Characters/TwinPeaks Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TwinPeaksFBI FBI]] | [[Characters/TwinPeaksPolice Police]] | '''Residents''' | [[Characters/TwinPeaksResidentsTheReturn Residents in The Return]] | [[Characters/TwinPeaksOutsiders Outsiders]] | [[Characters/TwinPeaksSupernaturalEntities Supernatural Entities]]]]-] |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 5 | ! The original series |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!The Palmers |
| 8 | [[folder:Laura Palmer]] |
| 9 | !!Laura Palmer |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laura_palmer.PNG]] |
| 11 | ->Played by: Creator/SherylLee |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The most popular female student and the Homecoming Queen of the Twin Peaks High School, Laura was seen as an exemplary and beloved member of the local community. But her sudden murder and the subsequent investigation brings many of the dark secrets surrounding her to light, revealing that behind her pretty, wholesome and seemingly perfect surface she was in reality a severely troubled and lonely young woman deeply embroiled both in Twin Peaks' seedy underbelly as well as the town's more strange and unearthly happenings. |
| 14 | ----- |
| 15 | * AntiHero: In ''Fire Walk With Me''. She's filled with nihilism and self-loathing, but nonetheless fights against BOB's attempts to corrupt her. |
| 16 | * BerserkButton: ''Fire Walk With Me'' shows that even in her darkest moments of apathy and hedonism, the prospect of Donna being corrupted or coming to any sort of harm would bring her back around screaming and fighting. |
| 17 | * BrokenBird: The biggest example in the whole series. Thanks to years of [[spoiler: sexual abuse by her demonically possessed father]], she ends up filled with self loathing and hatred, descending into drug addiction and prostitution in the process. |
| 18 | * TheChosenOne: ''The Return'' strongly hints that [[spoiler: The Giant created her through some sort of indirect immaculate conception to suffer at the hands of BOB and die a martyr]], or something similar anyway. |
| 19 | * CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler: If the theory that Laura was designed by The Giant/????? to combat BOB by becoming a martyr and setting off a chain of events that lead to BOB's downfall is correct, then the poor girl literally had cosmic beings ensure that she was destined to be ''molested and killed''.]] |
| 20 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:For several years before murdering her, at least since her mid-adolescence, Laura's father Leland had been molesting her while possessed by BOB.]] |
| 21 | * DarkerAndEdgier: In the prequel movie, ''Fire Walk With Me'', we see fairly little of her happy, well-adjusted public face. |
| 22 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the series as a whole, right next to Cooper. She takes the spotlight of the prequel movie, and has her own book, same as Coop. |
| 23 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has shades of this, but is far less comedic than other examples. |
| 24 | * DysfunctionJunction: ''Wow'' does it make sense why she went as wrong as she did. |
| 25 | * GiveGeeksAChance: Even the timid, mentally fragile shut in Harold Smith managed to get a piece of Laura when they made out and almost had sex in ''Fire Walk With Me.'' |
| 26 | * GoGetterGirl: Laura subverts this as we get a glimpse of the darkness behind her seemingly perfect facade. |
| 27 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Played with. Her blonde hair is one of the main attributes demonstrating that she is the most popular girl in town, and she tries to be sweet and wholesome, but she also has a major dark side. |
| 28 | * HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:She suffers a ''major'' one in the prequel film when she finds out (or at least strongly suspects at the time) that BOB is possessing her dad, Leland.]] |
| 29 | * HeroicSacrifice: ''The Return'' puts a new spin on her death - [[spoiler: she is TheChosenOne and must die as a martyr to help the Black Lodge rein in BOB]]. |
| 30 | * HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Laura Palmer was one of the prostitutes at One Eyed Jacks. |
| 31 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Reconstructed. Is believed to have this after her murder, but Cooper unravels the altogether darkness side of her psyche -- then ''Fire Walk With Me'' and ''The Return'' imply that, in spite of all the horror and despair in Laura's life, she still retained her strength and purity, which made her the perfect sacrifice for the Black Lodge. |
| 32 | * ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: A backstory-heavy but highly cryptic sequence from ''The Return'' implies that this is her role that resulted in her ''murder''. |
| 33 | * LovedByAll: When her body is found in the first episode, ''everyone'' in town is consumed with grief - even the crime scene photographer. |
| 34 | * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Ending each episode with a still picture of her dressed as a prom queen was ''surely'' meant to evoke this. |
| 35 | ** While the events that follow Laura's muder definitely follow some of the patterns of what's now called "missing white woman syndrome," that particular phenomenon wasn't identified until 2003, more than 10 years after ''Twin Peaks'' aired, so it isn't likely something the creators were trying to evoke. |
| 36 | * MrViceGuy: Laura Palmer turns out to have been involved in cocaine, prostitution, and [[spoiler:demonic possession]]. She was still struggling valiantly to keep onto any semblance of normality and even [[spoiler:her own humanity and soul]] until the very end. |
| 37 | * NotHerself: At the end of ''The Return'', Laura [[spoiler: has been replaced by an identical stranger who may or may not actually be her]]. Cooper [[spoiler: thinks she is and tries to bring her to the Palmer family house to fulfill her destiny as the ChosenOne]]. |
| 38 | * ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:BOB's main pleasure in possessing Leland seems to have been having him molest Laura.]] |
| 39 | * PosthumousCharacter: We see her alive in ''Fire Walk With Me'', but in the series proper she only shows up in recordings and flashbacks, but she is one of the most important characters in the Twin Peaks-verse nonetheless. |
| 40 | * PromiscuityAfterRape: She was raped [[spoiler:by her father]] and she ReallyGetsAround. |
| 41 | * RapeAsDrama: Over and over again, at the hands of [[spoiler: her own father, possessed by BOB]]. |
| 42 | * RapeLeadsToInsanity: Exaggerated and probably justified. While Laura's issues are obviously explained by [[spoiler:her rape at the hands of her own father]], this is depicted in ''Fire Walk With Me'' and ''The Return'' as being part of the ''intention'' behind her rape. |
| 43 | * ReallyGetsAround: It's probably quicker to count up the characters in Twin Peaks at the time of Laura's murder who ''weren't'' in love with and/or sleeping with her. ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', she makes a list of the initials of 40 people (besides some strangers at orgies) and at that was ''before'' she was hired as a prostitute at One Eyed Jack. |
| 44 | * SecretSexWorker: Laura Palmer is the SchoolIdol of her high school, so her little town of Twin Peaks is turned upside down when her body turns up wrapped in plastic, her having been murdered. Over the course of the series, you learn that hidden from her friends and family, Laura was a drug-addicted, TroubledTeen prostitute. |
| 45 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Very much has this attitude, thanks to her screwed up idea of sexual relations. |
| 46 | * ShipperOnDeck: In ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', she's fine and even supportive of her boyfriend Bobby seeing Shelly Johnson. |
| 47 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Her story arc in ''Fire Walk With Me''. [[spoiler:She manages to save her soul, but not her life, at the end]]. |
| 48 | * StepfordSmiler: Type A. She kept up a very good and wholesome image while her life and sanity was falling apart at the seems. |
| 49 | * StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: And how. [[spoiler:Leland]] is possessive of her due to abuse, and Laura has an entire well-hidden life because of it. |
| 50 | * TeenPregnancy: According to ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer''. Laura found out that she was seven and a half weeks pregnant on her sixteenth birthday. She then had an abortion. |
| 51 | * TraumaCongaLine: Her entire life is pretty much this, but especially her last week alive, where she [[spoiler: witnesses a murder during a drug trade, nearly gets Donna raped, finds out that her father's been sexually abusing her all these years, and all of this capped off with her ''very'' brutal death.]] |
| 52 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Sheryl Lee played both Laura ''and'' her cousin Madeline. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Leland Palmer]] |
| 56 | !!Leland Palmer |
| 57 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Leland_Palmer_4702.jpg]] |
| 58 | ->Played by: Creator/RayWise |
| 59 | |
| 60 | The father of Laura Palmer, Leland is a well-respected lawyer in Twin Peaks. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | After hearing the news of his daughter's murder, Leland suffers a nervous breakdown, leaving in him in shambles and only barely able to contain his extreme grief which always threatens to bust out at the slightest provocation. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | At the beginning of season two, Leland awakens to find his hair has turned white. He becomes very upbeat, joyfully dancing and singing show tunes. However, it isn't long until he is arrested by Cooper and Truman, but is soon released due to being well-respected by the townsfolk. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | ----- |
| 67 | * AbusiveParents: He definitely isn't one himself, but [[spoiler:he becomes one whenever BOB is in control of him, including forcing him to commit ParentalIncest. ''Fire Walk With Me'' does however imply that there was [[TheCorruptible an abusive aspect to Leland's personality all along]], that BOB [[TheCorrupter was able to latch on to and intensify]].]] |
| 68 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: How much control he has over his actions while under BOB's influence is left up to debate. The original series makes it seem like he's merely a vessel for BOB (and possibly RaisedAsAHost to be one) but later materials suggest Leland was ''already'' an abuser and BOB merely fed on it.]] |
| 69 | * AndIMustScream:[[spoiler: In ''The Return'', an aged Leland appears to Cooper in the Black Lodge begging him to find Laura. This seems to imply that Leland's soul is trapped in the Black Lodge even after death.]] |
| 70 | * AmoralAttorney: When he goes back to working for Ben Horne, it is quickly revealed that his speciality is advising Ben on how to LoopholeAbuse his way out of paying taxes and how to whitewash his money. |
| 71 | * ArchNemesisDad: The series leaves some ambiguity about the extent to which he ever intended to hurt Laura. [[spoiler:''Fire Walk With Me'' shows Laura realising the threat that Leland poses to her, and ''The Return'' goes as far to suggest this was intentional on the part of the Black Lodge, to enable Laura to defeat BOB in death.]] |
| 72 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Starting in Season Two, he pivots from over-the-top grieving to wildly inappropriate dancing and singing. [[spoiler: It's implied that the wackier he acts, the more of a hold BOB has over him.]] |
| 73 | * DanceOfDespair: Several times after the death of Laura, and increased by the fact that [[spoiler:it also indicates BOB taking over him]]. |
| 74 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By BOB]]. |
| 75 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In the altered timeline Cooper created by preventing Laura's murder at the end of ''The Return'', Leland still dies, though under somewhat less dramatic circumstances. In February 1990, exactly one year after the mysterious disappearance of his daughter, he drives out to the White Tail Falls, where he parks his car and shoots himself. Werther BOB had any hand in it this time is ambiguous.]] |
| 76 | * DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: BOB leaves his body moments before his death and Leland has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction.]] |
| 77 | * EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:BOB, though ''Fire Walk With Me'' implies that he is more of a devil on Leland's shoulder.]] |
| 78 | * ExcessiveMourning: While Leland's grief over his daughter's death is understandable, it frequently goes so over-top that it crosses into the realm of the ridiculous, and some of the scenes he causes with his occasional breakdowns means that several townspeople can't help but make fun of him behind his back. |
| 79 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Not only was possesed by Bob, but after his death his soul appears to be trapped eternally within the Black Lodge in a similar manner to Cooper.]] |
| 80 | * HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:In Season 2 as Leland is about to die and overcome with horror over his actions, Cooper tries to comfort him and tells him to GoIntoTheLight towards what is implied to be the White Lodge. It seems to work on Leland as he apparently sees a vision of Laura and dies happy. Unfortunately in ''The Return'' Cooper see's an older Leland in the Black Lodge pathetically oblivious to Laura's fate.]] |
| 81 | * InelegantBlubbering: Frequently when he grieves over Laura. |
| 82 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turns white after [[spoiler:he murders Jacques Renault]]. |
| 83 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler: His sole appearance in the beginning of ''The Return'' replays towards the end of the series. His message to Cooper, "Find Laura" which originally seemed be the raving of a damned soul actually turns out to be Leland inspiring Cooper to go back and find Laura before she's killed.]] |
| 84 | * OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:He killed Laura.]] |
| 85 | * ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Has been molesting Laura under BOB's influence since her early adolescence]]. |
| 86 | * ThePollyanna: He becomes a weird, grown-up male version of this trope at the beginning of the second season after [[spoiler:he's killed Jacques Renault and BOB has taken more complete control of him,]] which literally prevents him from staying upset about anything, including tragic events, for too long and to frequently break into singing and dancing. |
| 87 | * MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:There some hints, especially in ''Fire Walk With Me'', that Leland's sexual abuse of Laura wasn't only down to BOB forcing Leland into doing it, but also that BOB was able to play on some repressed, dark urges already present in Leland.]] |
| 88 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After BOB makes him bash his head and hangs him out to dry, Leland has this moment where he reveals to Cooper all of the horrible things BOB has made him do and his horror upon remembering that he killed and molested his own daughter.]] |
| 89 | * SanitySlippage: He starts off pretty reserved and somber after Laura's death, only to become increasingly over-the-top in his mourning process. [[spoiler: And then we find out about the influence BOB's had on him.]] |
| 90 | * SymbolicBaptism: [[spoiler: dies while being showered with water from the police station's sprinkler, which leads to BOB vacating him long enough to have a HeelRealization.]] |
| 91 | * TroubledAbuser: Especially in ''Fire Walk With Me'', which implies that [[spoiler:he was first abused by BOB as a child, which allowed BOB to take him over in order to rape Laura.]] It's played both supernaturally and straight. |
| 92 | * VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:He raped his own daughter, and more importantly, both Laura and Leland treat this as the worst and most evil thing he could do.]] |
| 93 | * WalkingSpoiler: He is after all [[spoiler:the rapist and murderer of his own daughter]]. |
| 94 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Leland's hair turning white is a sign that [[spoiler:BOB has completely taken over.]] |
| 95 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Once he's arrested, making him useless to BOB, BOB forces him to kill himself by smashing his head against a wall]]. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Sarah Palmer]] |
| 99 | !!Sarah Palmer |
| 100 | ->Played by: Creator/GraceZabriskie |
| 101 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hqdefault333.jpg]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | The wife of Leland Palmer and the mother of Laura Palmer. |
| 104 | ----- |
| 105 | * TheAlcoholic: Spends most of her time in ''The Return'' getting drunk and watching TV, with seemingly nothing else to fill out the day. |
| 106 | * BigNo: Has a number of these reactions, not just over events in the series. |
| 107 | * BrokenBird: ''Quite'' thoroughly in ''The Return''. Considering all the shit she went through in the original, it's more than understandable. |
| 108 | * CloserToEarth: While still very shattered by her grief over Laura's death, she is not nearly the complete wreck that Leland is. [[spoiler: Subverted by the fact she missed her daughter was being sexually abused since puberty and had become a drug addicted prostitute.]] |
| 109 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Has either this or a SymbioticPossession going on. It's not really clear who or what is possessing her, other than that she has a very tough and violent inhabiting spirit (implied to be JUDY) that becomes active when she's threatened.]] |
| 110 | * FreakOut: Has one in the middle of a grocery store in ''The Return''. She gets worse as it's revealed that [[spoiler: not only is she an alcoholic, she is possessed by some kind of a demon, implied to be JUDY herself, and by the end of the series is desperately trying to destroy the series' iconic portrait of her daughter]]. |
| 111 | * GrumpyOldMan: Female version. She's quite cold and rude to everyone in ''The Return'', but it's pretty understandable considering the traumas she's suffered. |
| 112 | * HeadInTheSandManagement: Her ignorance to what was going on in her own household was tremendous. |
| 113 | * HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:All but confirmed in ''The Return.'' She takes her own face off, revealing a terrifying void behind it.]] |
| 114 | * HystericalWoman: As BOB taunts her. |
| 115 | * MustHaveNicotine: Especially pronounced in ''Fire Walk With Me'', where her ashtrays tends to be filled to the brim. |
| 116 | -->'''Donna:''' If I had a nickel for every cigarette your mom smoked, I'd be dead. |
| 117 | * NotHerself: [[spoiler: Possibly]]. |
| 118 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlives Laura, of course. Exaggerated as she ''also'' outlives every other member of her family. |
| 119 | * ParentsAsPeople: She seems to have been grossly ignorant of Laura's issues but was never malicious. |
| 120 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: She is frequently haunted by visions of BOB and the Pale Horse. |
| 121 | * TheScream: Completely breaks down when she discovers her daughter is dead. |
| 122 | * SanitySlippage: By the end of ''The Return'', she is not only an alcoholic and [[spoiler:possessed by JUDY]] but has been spiraling into an extended FreakOut that culminates in her [[spoiler:trying to destroy a portrait of her late daughter]]. [[DemonicPossession How much of this is her]] acting on her own is up to debate. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | !!The Briggses |
| 126 | [[folder:Garland Briggs]] |
| 127 | !!Major Garland Briggs |
| 128 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Garland-Portal_3003.jpg]] |
| 129 | ->Played by: Creator/DonSDavis |
| 130 | |
| 131 | ->''"There are powerful forces of evil in the world. It is some men's fate to confront great darkness. We each choose how to react. If the choice is fear, then we become vulnerable to darkness."'' |
| 132 | |
| 133 | A high ranking member of the Air Force involved in UFO investigations, spiritualism, and the White Lodge. He is also Bobby Briggs' father. |
| 134 | ----- |
| 135 | * ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' turns into this for him in its last chapter. The second to last entry has him describing his relief that Cooper has returned from the woods seemingly unscathed and he has asked sheriff Truman to tell Cooper to visit him once he recovers, before the entry cuts off with Briggs going down to greet Cooper who is ringing on his doorbell. The last entry has Briggs extremely worried, as Cooper was behaving very strangely during his visit. Briggs then writes that he needs to return to the listening post as quickly as possible, before the entry ends with "*M*A*Y*D*A*Y*"]] |
| 136 | * TheApprentice: [[spoiler:''The Secrety History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that he was this to Douglas Milford, who handpicked him to be his successor as "the Watcher in the Woods".]] |
| 137 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' if William Hastings questionable testimony is anything to go by then Hastings entered the Black Lodge and witnessed the spirit of Briggs ascend into what is implied to be the White Lodge while mentioning the name ''Cooper'' several times.]] |
| 138 | * BigGood: A mortal version of the trope like Cooper. |
| 139 | * BrokenPedestal: While he admits that any government body, especially a secretive one, could become corrupt, the Major asserts that the classified information he deals with is for a noble cause. [[spoiler: He quickly becomes disillusioned after realizing the Air Force has malicious plans for the White Lodge.]] |
| 140 | * BusCrash: [[spoiler:Dies in a mysterious fire after meeting with Cooper's Double. ''The Final Dossier'', however, implies that he was merely FakingTheDead, and actually died just before ''the Return'' proper began.]] |
| 141 | ** [[spoiler:An giant apparition of his head latter appears to Cooper in the Lodge saying "Blue Rose"]] |
| 142 | * TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler: Died in a fire some years prior to the TimeSkip]], as Don S. Davis sadly passed away in 2008. |
| 143 | * CoolOldGuy: More like "Cool Middle-aged Guy", but close enough. |
| 144 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Actually ''more so'' than [[spoiler: Cooper]]. Though it might be a result of [[spoiler:him being in on the (seemingly) BenevolentConspiracy]]. |
| 145 | %%* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 1. Down to his uniform being his attire of choice for seemingly everything. |
| 146 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: What more can you say about a man whose greatest fear is the "possibility that love is not enough"? |
| 147 | * HiddenDepths: He's first presented as a stuffy, pig-headed disciplinarian whose attempts to run his family like a military unit haven't worked so well. It's later revealed that Major Briggs is probably the only man in Twin Peaks who knows what's really going on with the Black Lodge, and most of his later scenes show him to be not only one of the town's most intelligent residents but also one of its most selfless, decent and caring. |
| 148 | * NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' he is revealed to be the mysterious "Archivist", the in-universe collector of the dossier the book is based on. It actually also brings DirectLineToTheAuthor into play, as it becomes gradually obvious that Briggs might have had a better understanding of the mysterious things going in Twin Peaks than most people, but even his perspective is shown to be flawed, limited and riddled with blind spots, and it is apparent he is ultimately missing several pierces of the different puzzles and have misunderstood certain events, as some of his conclusions contradicts events seen in the series and at several points he starts blatantly speculating and guessing about several things.]] |
| 149 | * NotSoStoic: His various [[spoiler: kidnappings]] take a serious toll on his psyche, to the point of stammering and shaking. |
| 150 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: In ''The Return'' the headless, vivisected corpse of a man identified as Major Briggs has apparently been popping up several times over the years with the Military covering it up. Tellingly it's Briggs' head that floats by Cooper in the Black Lodge.]] |
| 151 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Before he was killed by the Doppelganger, Briggs left instructions on how to enter the Black Lodge and coordinates that reveal the existence of two Coopers with his wife who passed it on to Sheriff Truman, Hawk and their son Bobby 25 years after Season 2. His legacy seems to be a key factor in the events of ''The Return''.]] |
| 152 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Emotional distance and weird formality aside, he makes every effort to respect that his son chooses a very different life from him. |
| 153 | ** During the first two seasons he works with a classified military project which monitors for potential extraterrestrial signals. When what is normally random radio noise suddenly shows Dale Cooper's name and a message, he deems it important enough that he breaches security and relays the information to Cooper. |
| 154 | * SharpDressedMan: Can't go wrong in a military uniform. |
| 155 | * SpockSpeak: One of the causes of the distance between himself and his son is just how bizarrely-eloquent he is. |
| 156 | * UnstuckInTime: [[spoiler:After Cooper's Double apparently murdered Briggs and burned his body, a mutilated corpse with his fingerprints has popped up several times over the past two decades. The most recent corpse had the coroner declare that the body had only been dead for a few days despite Briggs having died almost thirty years ago.]] |
| 157 | * WorkingTheSameCase: As Douglas Milford's apprentice, he was on the trail of the Black Lodge long before Truman and Cooper decided to look closer into to it. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Robert "Bobby" Briggs]] |
| 161 | !!Robert "Bobby" Briggs |
| 162 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bobby_briggs.jpg]] |
| 163 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bobby_briggs25.jpg[[/labelnote]] Twenty-five years later...]] |
| 164 | ->Played by: Creator/DanaAshbrook |
| 165 | |
| 166 | The captain of the Twin Peaks football team and a small time drug dealer. He's the son of Major Briggs and the boyfriend of Laura Palmer. |
| 167 | ----- |
| 168 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as [[spoiler:next to her he was both weak and innocent]]. |
| 169 | * BeingGoodSucks: Has cleaned up his act by ''The Return'' but that has actually ''alienated'' him from his ex-wife and daughter. |
| 170 | * BiggerIsBetterInBed: In ''Fire Walk With Me'', he wastes no time bragging about his "pocket rocket" to Laura. |
| 171 | * CryingAfterSex: [[spoiler:He cried after the first time he and Laura had sex. Laura mockingly laughed at him for it (though her secret diary reveals she did it deliberately because she was afraid of getting too close to him, and hated herself for it). ]] |
| 172 | * FairCop: [[spoiler: Twenty five years after Season 2, Bobby has joined the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department and his good looks have managed to stay intact in his older state.]] |
| 173 | * GetRichQuickScheme: Spends most of his time coming up with these, and he's ''terrible'' at it. |
| 174 | * HeelFaceTurn: Between Season 2 and ''The Return'', he goes from a drug dealing punk to [[spoiler: a cop who specifically catches the kind of criminal he once was.]] |
| 175 | * IAmNotMyFather: By a ''long shot''. [[spoiler: Ironically, he enters government work after his father's death.]] |
| 176 | * JerkJock: An enormous ass in high school as well as the town's top football player. |
| 177 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He mellows out over the course of the show [[spoiler: and the TimeSkip]]. |
| 178 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Cheats on Laura with Shelly, only to become enraged with James for having a relationship with her. |
| 179 | * LargeHam: Bobby can be quite hammy when he gets emotional. Some of the best examples can be seen in the pilot episode when he's both accused and later questioned about possibly murdering Laura Palmer as well as in the fourth episode with his big [[BigWordShout AAAAAAMEEEEN!!!]] at Laura's funeral, and earlier in the same episode when his father implies that he's afraid of said funeral (specifically the last part of his response to that). |
| 180 | -->'''Bobby Briggs:''' AFRAID?!! I'M GOING TO TURN IT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UP!!SIDE!!DOWN!!]] |
| 181 | ** And let's not forget the scene where he ''dances backwards'' into the school hallway when talking to Laura in TheMovie. |
| 182 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Ends up growing up into a ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to look out for his wayward offspring, much like his own father. |
| 183 | * TheLostLenore: While he loves Shelly, he is utterly devastated by Laura's death [[spoiler: and still cries thinking about her twenty-five years later.]] |
| 184 | * ManlyTears: [[spoiler: The sight of Laura Palmer's Homecoming Queen portrait in 2016 almost immediately brings him to tears.]] |
| 185 | * MrFanservice: He's very, ''very'' pretty. |
| 186 | * OlderAndWiser: By ''The Return'', [[spoiler:he's become a deputy helping protect Twin Peaks.]] |
| 187 | * RebelliousSpirit: ''Very'' different from his wholesome parents. [[spoiler: Until ''The Return''.]] |
| 188 | * ReformedButRejected: An odd example as Bobby's wife is implied to have left him because she found his new good guy attitude to be boring. |
| 189 | * SmokingIsCool: And as expected, his far more clean-cut father doesn't approve of it. |
| 190 | * StraightMan: His LargeHam traits get downplayed when he starts working for Horne, most likely because Ben's SanitySlippage is enough to give ''him'' pause. |
| 191 | * TookALevelInKindness: As the original series went on Bobby's good points were emphasized more and his relationship with his father get's a lot better. When he comes back in ''The Return'' he's a lot more mature and kinder than he was as a rebellious youth. |
| 192 | * WildCard: Screws up a number of really important criminal schemes by dangerous criminals as a teenager just by being ''that'' stupid. |
| 193 | * VillainProtagonist: We follow a number of his petty crimes across the original run, which include drug dealing, welfare fraud and, in ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'' [[spoiler:murder]]. This stops with ''The Return,'' where he's become a Sheriff's deputy. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | !!The Haywards |
| 197 | [[folder:Donna Hayward]] |
| 198 | !!Donna Hayward |
| 199 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donna_h.jpg]] |
| 200 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donna_h_m.jpg[[/labelnote]] ''Fire Walk With Me'']] |
| 201 | ->Played by: Creator/LaraFlynnBoyle (TV show), Creator/MoiraKelly (''Fire Walk With Me'') |
| 202 | |
| 203 | Laura Palmer's best friend and the daughter of the town doctor. She is romantically involved with James Hurley after Laura's death. |
| 204 | ----- |
| 205 | * BrainyBrunette: Played with, or perhaps InformedAttribute: Donna is supposed to be smart, sweet, and levelheaded in contrast to Laura. |
| 206 | * DoggedNiceGirl: For James. She starts to change with CharacterDevelopment and James status as an OutOfFocus character. |
| 207 | * DrivenByEnvy: While Laura's best friend, it's clear she also wanted many things Laura had like James as well as a confident sexual persona. |
| 208 | * FemmeFatale: Betrays her would-be lover in order to get the missing pages of Laura's diary. |
| 209 | * FallenPrincess: Donna is seen as pure and innocent during the majority of the series, [[spoiler: only to grow up to become an alcoholic and drug addicted fashion model, whose career is constantly overshadowed by fake news stories concerning her romantic life.]] |
| 210 | * GirlNextDoor: Donna is smart, charming, and pretty in the most sensible way, pure and innocent [[spoiler: in stark contrast to Laura, who lives a double life as a wholesome homecoming queen and the darling of her parents and the residents in Twin Peaks, while also being addicted to cocaine and working as a prostitue.]] This later goes out the window when [[spoiler: Donna begins wearing Laura's sunglasses, causing her to begin dressing in sexier outfits and behaving more like Laura. It's implied Laura knew this in the feature film, when she flips after seeing Donna with her jacket, screaming at her to never wear her clothes.]] |
| 211 | * TheHeart: One of the most emotional, heartfelt, and decent characters on the show. Sometimes. |
| 212 | * LukeIAmYourFather: In the season 2 finale, we find out that her biological father is actually [[spoiler:Benjamin Horne]]. |
| 213 | * MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie and ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.'' |
| 214 | * NotHerself: At the beginning of season 2. It is implied that she (either subconsciously or because of the Twin Peaks' general weirdness) is somehow absorbing some of Laura's personality traits from wearing her sunglasses. An alternate interpretation is she's simply enjoying taking a walk on the (slightly) wilder side. |
| 215 | * OnlySaneMan: One of the most normal people in Twin Peaks, which makes her frequently confused and bewildered by events around her. |
| 216 | * TheOtherDarrin: Moira Kelly in ''Fire Walk With Me'' was Lara Flynn Boyle's unpopular replacement. |
| 217 | * TheScully: Donna has as many Lodge encounters as Agent Cooper but misreads them as mundane events. |
| 218 | * SmokingIsCool: Starting with season 2. |
| 219 | * StarCrossedLovers: Donna imagines herself and James to be this but it's {{Subverted}} in the fact no one really seems to care at worst (except her boyfriend at the time) and many others actively support them. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Eileen Hayward]] |
| 223 | !!Eileen Hayward |
| 224 | ->Played by: Creator/MaryJoDeschanel |
| 225 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eileen.jpg]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | Donna's mother and the wife of Doc Hayward. She is paraplegic from an unknown accident. |
| 228 | ----- |
| 229 | * CutShort: We'll never know all the details of [[spoiler:her relationship with Ben Horne]]. [[SeasonalRot Even though they're pretty obvious]]. |
| 230 | * HappilyMarried: Subverted. At least at one point during her marriage. It's true in the present day. |
| 231 | * TheMistress: [[spoiler:Ben Horne treats his relationship with Eileen far more seriously than he does his other affairs.]] |
| 232 | * ParentsAsPeople: She's implied to be an excellent mother and NiceGirl who still had an affair [[spoiler: that birthed Donna.]] |
| 233 | * WhatTheHellHero: Accepts, unlike everyone else, Ben Horne has changed. Unfortunately, is the one most keenly aware his attempts to change, [[spoiler: specifically trying to start a relationship with his unknowing daughter,]] could destroy her family. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Harriet Hayward]] |
| 237 | !!Harriet Hayward |
| 238 | ->Played by: Creator/JessicaWallenfels |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harriet_hayward_7.jpg]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | The Hayward's middle daughter, a snarky aspiring poet. |
| 243 | ----- |
| 244 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: Snarky in a funny little way, as well as willing to help her sister sneak out. Averted when she caves immediately to her father asking where Donna went to. |
| 245 | * DemotedToExtra: Was only in two episodes of the show despite Donna's prominence. |
| 246 | * PerkyGoth: She first shows up in the 'Pilot' with a really short fuzzy haircut and dressed in all black clothes, but its very perky and funny, snarking up Donna and her father. Subverted later in the first episode of Season 2, where she wears lighter clothes and changed her hairdo. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Gersten Hayward]] |
| 250 | !!Gersten Hayward |
| 251 | ->Played by: Creator/AliciaWitt |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gersten_hayward.jpg]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | The Hayward's youngest daughter and a musical prodigy. Later Steven Burnett's extramarital girlfriend. |
| 256 | ----- |
| 257 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: A musical prodigy who is just damn adorable. |
| 258 | * ClosingCredits: She gets to interrupt [[InstrumentalThemeTune Falling]] to play a boogie-woogie number on piano. |
| 259 | * DemotedToExtra: Was only in one episode of the show despite Donna's prominence. Played straight in ''The Return'' as well where she doesn't get a speaking role but only shows up in a background shot. |
| 260 | * TheMistress: Steven is cheating on his wife Becky with her in ''The Return''. |
| 261 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: In ''The Return'', she's a rather tragic example as it's clear she never left Twin Peaks and dates scum like Steven. |
| 262 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Time has not served her well if she's hanging around with Steven in ''The Return.'' |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:William "Doc" Hayward]] |
| 266 | !!William "Doc" Hayward |
| 267 | [[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/120px-DocHayward_2607.jpg]] |
| 268 | ->Played by: Warren Frost |
| 269 | |
| 270 | Twin Peak's seeming only doctor who also serves as a makeshift coroner. |
| 271 | ----- |
| 272 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Struggles to cover his laughter when Mayor Dwayne threatens to sue Lana for "death by sex". |
| 273 | * TheCameo: In ''The Return'' he has a short appearance over Skype to talk to Sheriff Truman about the night that Cooper had returned to the lodge. |
| 274 | * CoolOldGuy: One of the nicest and most decent people in Twin Peaks. He is as vital to solving Laura's murder as Sheriff Truman. |
| 275 | * ClosestThingWeGot: He has to step up as TheCoroner, despite not being a forensic medical examiner -- Twin Peaks isn't the kind of place that needs one -- but he does alright. |
| 276 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: The resolution of his conflict with [[spoiler: Ben Horne]]. |
| 277 | * GenerationXerox: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that his father, Dan Hayward, was the town doctor before him. |
| 278 | * NiceGuy: The most decent person on the show after Cooper and Pete. |
| 279 | * NotSoStoic: While he's generally a calm and reasonable man, he still has his limits, as demonstrated by his altercation with Albert early on, where he gets infuriated that Albert insists on keeping Laura's body for the upcoming funeral to perform an autopsy. He also, as per ''The Final Dossier'', blows up at and nearly kills [[spoiler:Ben Horne.... but then saves his life at the last minute]]. |
| 280 | * PapaWolf: He completely blows up at [[spoiler: Ben Horne]] when he drives Donna to tears. |
| 281 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: His confrontation with [[spoiler: Ben]], although he saves his life [[spoiler: after nearly ending it]] and the relationship turns into one of DefeatMeansFriendship. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | !!The Hornes |
| 285 | [[folder:Audrey Horne]] |
| 286 | !!Audrey Horne |
| 287 | [[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/166px-Audrey_009a_8271.jpg]] |
| 288 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twin_peaks_audrey_mirror.jpg[[/labelnote]] Twenty-five years later...]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | ->Played by: Creator/SherilynFenn |
| 291 | |
| 292 | Daughter of Ben Horne, and seems to have made it her life's mission to act up and play the FemmeFatale. Has a crush on Cooper from the moment she sees him. |
| 293 | ----- |
| 294 | |
| 295 | * AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The ending of]] Part 16 (''The Return'') reveals that [[spoiler: she has been in a coma for the duration of the season, and every scene involving her up to that point was just part of a dream.]] |
| 296 | ** Played with. ''The Final Dossier'' clarifies that [[spoiler:she had indeed been married to a boring accountant -- probably Charlie -- and the dream was based on her daily life up to that point]]. |
| 297 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes. |
| 298 | * AttentionWhore: It is heavily implied in the show that her parents, Sylvia and Ben, never pay any attention to her, due to [[spoiler: Ben's involvement with One Eyed Jack's and his obsession with Laura Palmer, among other things.]] Sylvia blames Audrey for her brother, Johnny, being disabled, having accidentally pushed him down a flight of steps when she was only a toddler. Their ire for her causes Audrey to do things to get any attention from them, negative or otherwise. |
| 299 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Is openly cheating on her husband Charlie with another man and generally seems to hate how spineless and milquetoast he is. |
| 300 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Justified. Ben is highly corrupt and most of Audrey's brattiness is attempting to shed the family name, but she can appear like this to him and the rest of her family. |
| 301 | * BreakTheHaughty: Proudly manipulates her way into One-Eyed Jack's--and then, her experiences there [[OhCrap hits her hard with the realization that she's in over her head,]] leading to her privately shedding tears and praying for Cooper to save her. |
| 302 | * BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to have become this in ''The Return''.]] |
| 303 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mostly in the early episodes. |
| 304 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Inverted -- A majority of the time, her shenanigans are done to spite Ben, directly or indirectly. For a laugh in the earlier episodes, anyway. |
| 305 | * DomesticAbuse: Is outright stated in ''The Final Dossier'' as abusive to [[spoiler: Charlie]]. |
| 306 | * FateWorseThanDeath: ''The Final Dossier'' reveals that [[spoiler:four years prior to the beginning of ''The Return'', Audrey had some sort of mental breakdown and was admitted to some undisclosed sanatorium as a result]]. Her final appearance in ''The Return'' shows that [[spoiler:she is still in that sanatorium, caught in an delusion which resembles her unhappy daily life up until the point she was committed, which was presumably what drove her mad in the first place]]. |
| 307 | * FilleFatale: [[DownplayedTrope She's eighteen, actually.]] But her sexuality is of the "playful/childlike" quality, and she's a lot younger than Cooper. |
| 308 | * FemmeFatale: ''Loves'' to revel in the role, particularly for Cooper. As the first season progresses, we come to discover she's actually more of an HeroicSeductress, using her sexual antics to investigate and sabotage the corruption around her. |
| 309 | * GenerationXerox: Becomes every bit as conniving as her father as the series goes on. |
| 310 | * GoodBadGirl: Puts off a highlķy sexual airs, and generally acts pretty rebellious, but all in all she's quite moral, after all. |
| 311 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: It's implied her rebellious attitude stems out of disgust at her father's corruption. |
| 312 | * LadySwearsALot: Her first scene in ''The Return'' has her let loose on her husband Charlie. |
| 313 | * LonelyRichKid: Cooper appears to be the first person she's truly opened up to in a while. |
| 314 | * LovableAlphaBitch: Audrey can be cutting and sharp, especially to her peers like Donna, but she is obviously much kinder than she appears. |
| 315 | * MafiaPrincess: Ben is a corrupt hotelier, she is his only daughter. |
| 316 | * MsFanservice: Constantly goes out of her way to act "sexy"...down to showing up in Cooper's ''bed'' in one episode. |
| 317 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Her whole aesthetic. |
| 318 | * RebelliousPrincess: Not actually royalty, but Ben's high position in Twin Peaks ensures that she fits this type anyway. |
| 319 | * SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] -- she initially comes across as a stereotypical "bad" girl...but turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold. |
| 320 | * ShipTease: With Bobby in the second season although it doesn't go anywhere. |
| 321 | * SmokingIsCool: [[spoiler: Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season]]. |
| 322 | * StockholmSyndrome: In both ''The Return'' and ''The Final Dossier'', she is mentioned to display and treasure a portrait of Dale Cooper. Let's not forget that [[spoiler: his doppelganger sexually assaulted her in her sleep and gave her an unwanted child]]. And she's fully aware of it at that, and we never are told if she can tell between [[spoiler:the Doppel Cooper and the real Cooper]]..... |
| 323 | * TookALevelInJerkass: As of ''The Return'', it seems. |
| 324 | * UglyGuyHotWife: By the time of ''The Return'' Audrey has managed to retain her good looks but has found herself married to a man she openly loathes named Charlie who looks like a potato wearing glasses.[[note]] The actor suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [[/note]] |
| 325 | * TheVamp: Deconstructed. Audrey dresses like one and tries to act like one, but we learn that she's a much softer, more immature version. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Benjamin Horne]] |
| 329 | !!Benjamin "Ben" Horne |
| 330 | [[quoteright:224:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/224px-Twin_peaks_36_2797.jpg]] |
| 331 | ->Played by: Richard Beymer |
| 332 | |
| 333 | The millionaire hotel owner of the Great Northern and a land developer who hopes to turn the town into a tourist resort. He is the father of Audrey Horne as well as owner of the One Eyed Jacks brothel and casino. |
| 334 | ----- |
| 335 | * TheAtoner: According to Tammy Preston in ''The Final Dossier'', Ben has, by appearances, have become this in his twilight years; seemingly having turned into a sad old man who is considerably weighed down by and sincerely regrets the shady and dubious actions and decisions he has made throughout his life, now preferring to make overboard deals and trying desperately to make amends for his past transgressions, though in some cases it might be too late. |
| 336 | * AuthoritativeInPublicDocileInPrivate: As a millionaire hotel owner, he is one of the richest and most powerful people in Twin Peaks. He also has a markedly submissive relationship with Catherine Martell that involves [[IKissYourFoot him kissing her feet]] and her behaving condescendingly towards him. |
| 337 | * BigEater: He and and Jerry are usually eating or drinking in their scenes throughout the original trilogy. |
| 338 | * BecomingTheMask: Starts off using a conservation scheme to derail Catherine's real estate plans, but eventually takes it seriously and starts reflecting on the decisions of his past. |
| 339 | * CigarChomper: Helps portray him as a corrupt businessman. He's even seen with a cigar during a flashback to his childhood. After his HeelRealization, he starts to light up another cigar and then decides to stub it out. |
| 340 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Besides his legitimate company, which alone makes him the biggest business owner in Twin Peaks, he also got his finger in several more shady businesses, [[spoiler:such as One-Eyed Jacks]], and he is always plotting new ways to expand his business empire, usually through means that are extremely underhanded at best and outright illegal at worst. |
| 341 | * CutHimselfShaving: [[spoiler:The official explaination for the headwound he incurred during a confrontation with an angry Doctor Hayward at the Hayward residence? He became suddenly lightheaded during a conversation with Doctor Hayward in the latter's living room, and, as a result, he fell over and hit his head on the nearby fireplace.]] |
| 342 | * DeathGlare: A pretty hilarious version. One episode has a scene of Ben's 27 year old son Johnny running around outside in his Native American headdress playing Cowboys & Indians and emitting a childish war cry. Cue a shot of Ben looking out the window [[InadequateInheritor staring daggers into his only male heir]]. |
| 343 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: ''The Final Dossier'' wraps up one of the second season cliffhangers: he is almost killed by [[spoiler:Doctor Hayward, who treats Ben Horne himself after bludgeoning Ben to a pulp right after the end of the second season]]. |
| 344 | ** Displays a similar attitude towards Cooper and the local Sheriff's Department early in the series, and remembers them fondly later in life. |
| 345 | * {{Ephebophile}}: [[spoiler: He slept with the teenage Laura Palmer.]] |
| 346 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He kisses his mother's image while watching the old film. |
| 347 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his manipulations, he genuinely cares for Audrey and is clearly proud of her when she asks to work in his department store. |
| 348 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Though both of them are somewhat maniacal, Ben acts by and large as the Responsible Sibling to Jerry's Foolish. Interestingly enough, ''The Final Dossier'' speculates that Ben and Jerry might have invoked this as a deliberate business strategy: Jerry is the "advance man" who scopes out potential costumers and business partners lures them in with his "life of the party" attitude, while Ben is the "closer", who puts on airs of being a legitimate, trustworthy and responsible businessman who makes the actual deals. |
| 349 | * GoodFeelsGood: Deconstructed: when he starts to improve himself, Ben is clearly ecstatic to be doing the right thing for once. However, he doesn't take into the account the feelings of the people around him. For example, [[spoiler: revealing to Donna that he's her father may have been "right" but it completely tears apart her family in the season two finale.]] |
| 350 | * GoodCostumeSwitch: Wears what is very much an overdressed high powered 80s yuppie wardrobe in the original series, but has toned it down significantly by ''The Return''. |
| 351 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He usually smokes cigars, signifying his role as a CorruptCorporateExecutive. After [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn in the second season]], he seems to [[AddictionDisplacement switch to celery stalks and carrots]]. |
| 352 | * HandsomeLech: Has relationships with a large number of women in addition to the many prostitutes in his employ he sleeps with. Would be TheCasanova if not for the fact Ben is prone to corny oddball behavior (much like other Twin Peaks residents) and barely disguises his sleazier elements. |
| 353 | * KickTheDog: Refusing to send money to his wife after her grandson robbed her came off as rather cruel for a man who's mostly changed his ways. |
| 354 | * LargeHam: Especially in the middle-to-later episodes when things start to fall apart for him, which causes him to get much more dramatic and uncomposed, but especially so in the episodes after [[spoiler:he has a complete breakdown and starts acting and dressing like General Robert E. Lee]]. Even before that though, he fits the subtler variety of ham pretty well. His speech patterns can best be compared to that of Lionel Luthor from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in that both of them put emphasis on any words and parts of their lines that they feel are important. |
| 355 | * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Revealed in the season 2 finale to be Donna's father.]] |
| 356 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Especially prevalent in season 1 where Ben is a more serious and sinister character than most other Twin Peaks residents. He's not above his own bit of odd behaviors such as when his brother introduces him to baguettes or when Leland comes in singing and he and Jerry break out the celebratory dance moves. |
| 357 | * PetTheDog: When his daughter is taken hostage, Ben sends Cooper to make the drop, fully intending for him to die per the hostage negotiator's orders. He does also send Hank to follow them and while he wants Hank to bring back his money as well, Ben places the greater importance on his daughter's safety. |
| 358 | * PowerDynamicsKink: He has a relationship of this kind with Catherine Martell, which involves him [[IKissYourFoot kissing her feet]] and her [[RomanticRibbing replying to his compliments with sarcastic quips]]. [[spoiler:Exaggerated when he's accused of murder and arrested, and she visits him in the jail. She takes off her shoe, and he kisses her foot, pleading her to confirm his alibi.]] |
| 359 | * SharpDressedMan: In contrast to the retro-'50s style that most of the town dresses in, Ben favors '80s patterned ties and double-breasted suits. |
| 360 | * SmugSnake: Ben Horne is more intelligent than most of Twin Peaks criminals but he's brought low by Cooper and Truman. |
| 361 | * TookALevelInKindness: He starts the show as a manipulative businessman and cheating husband who exploited the girls at One-Eyed Jack's for his personal enjoyment. [[spoiler: Twenty-five years later, he openly criticizes Jerry for lusting after his married secretary and is clearly uncomfortable when Jerry points out that "never used to stop you".]] |
| 362 | ** In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' the Archivist notices that the shock of [[spoiler:Audrey getting seriously injured in the bank explosion]], caused a subtle, but profound change in Ben's behavior and outlook, leading him to gradually become a better and more caring person. |
| 363 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Until he inherited his family's company. |
| 364 | * VillainDecay: You don't get much lower than an extended plotline where you think you're General Lee. |
| 365 | * VillainousBreakdown: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when [[spoiler:he loses One-Eyed Jack's]]. |
| 366 | * WhatHaveIBecome: He asks himself this a few times, [[IgnoredEpiphany only to shrug it off again]]. It seems to finally have stuck after [[spoiler:Audrey got seriously injured in the bank explosion]]. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Jerry Horne]] |
| 370 | !!Jeremy "Jerry" Horne |
| 371 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jerry_horne.PNG]] |
| 372 | ->Played by: Creator/DavidPatrickKelly |
| 373 | |
| 374 | Ben Horne's sleazy brother. He actually doesn't have too big of a role in the show, but he occasionally helps Ben with his schemes. |
| 375 | ----- |
| 376 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Has become this to Ben by ''The Return'', which is hilarious as they're both over sixty. |
| 377 | * BigEater: He fell in love Brie-on-baguette sandwiches when he went to Paris on a business trip for Ben. He brings home no less than four of them and insists that Ben try one. As a rule, he winds up developing a taste for at least one exotic or unusual dish from every foreign country he's been to, and likes to tell people about them in great detail. |
| 378 | ** His first scene features Jerry bringing giant subway sandwiches for him and Ben to gobble down in the middle of a family dinner. He is almost always snacking on something in each of his scenes. |
| 379 | ** With the legalization of marijuana in Washington State, Jerry's taken to producing and selling his own edibles. His first scene in the third season introduces him chowing down on his own recipe for cannabis banana bread. |
| 380 | * CasanovaWannabe: Jerry, like his brother, is obsessed with women but unlike Ben doesn't seem able to get any love that isn't paid for. |
| 381 | * CloudCuckooLander: Already showed shades of this in the original series, but as of the return has seemingly become one of the loopier residents of Twin Peaks, doubtless due to his implied heavy use of weed. |
| 382 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Downplayed. When Ben starts losing his mind, Jerry considers using the situation to his advantage by going ahead with his own ventures until Audrey puts a stop to it. In spite of this Jerry is still concerned about his brother's mental health and is quite happy when he recovers. |
| 383 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Jerry isn't a very good lawyer, Coop notes he failed the Bar exam twice and graduated last in his class, but the advice he gives Ben when he's arrested [[spoiler:for Laura's murder]] is pretty sound (and his big plan is to get his brother a better lawyer). Mainly he keeps trying to stop Ben from [[DiggingYourselfDeeper yammering on and insulting everyone]] because he's just making himself look guilty, and everything he's saying can and will be used against him in court. Even when he gives the ultimatum: charge Ben or let him go... which results in them charging him; Jerry isn't in the wrong because that's just what the police have to do anyway. |
| 384 | ** In ''The Return'' Jerry also notes that he's making three times what his brother does with the Great Northern hotel as a legal marijuana grower. It should be noted Ben is a ''millionaire.'' |
| 385 | * EruditeStoner: Twenty five years after Season 2 he seems to have become one. By 2016, Jerry not only appears to be taking advantage of Ben's investment in the medical marijuana industry but his new favorite food is marijuana infused banana bread. |
| 386 | ** In ''The Final Dossier'', the "erudite" part is expounded on further: it is revealed that he is fluent in four languages and has a past as a bohemian socialite. |
| 387 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Though both of them are somewhat maniacal, Jerry acts by and large as the Foolish Sibling to Ben's Responsible. Interestingly enough, ''The Final Dossier'' speculates that Ben and Jerry might have invoked this as a deliberate business strategy: Jerry is the "advance man" who scopes out potential costumers and business partners lures them in with his "life of the party" and "funny guy" attitude, while Ben is the "closer", who acts as the legitimate businessman and makes the deals. |
| 388 | * InsaneTrollLogic: In addition to this being his main style of legal argumentation, Jerry once sought a special-exception prescription for cannabis..... to treat an addiction to cannabis. |
| 389 | * {{Keet}}: Jerry tends to get very enthusiastic when he discovers something he finds new and exciting, usually some kind of food, dresses in colorful clothes, and is notably more animated and active in how he moves than his more subdued brother. |
| 390 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Ben is falsely accused of Laura Palmer's murder, he seeks legal counsel from Jerry first. The first and only advice Jerry offers Ben is literally that he should find himself a better lawyer as quickly as possible. |
| 391 | * MarijuanaIsLSD: In ''The Return'', either he actually took some acid or he found himself a strain of marijuana that's powerful enough to hallucinate his foot talking to him. [[TheCloudCookoolanderWasRight Either that or his leg has been possessed by one of the demons living in the woods. The latter is entirely possible and probably the likeliest explanation.]] |
| 392 | ** Loosely justified in ''The Final Dossier'': he was experimenting with new strains that have a.... shall we say, very ''different'' effect from the normal stuff. |
| 393 | * NumberTwo: Of all Ben's associates, Jerry's the one who Ben confides in. Jerry acts as Ben's co-conspirator, and he's the one taking international trips to secure investors. |
| 394 | * OddFriendship: With Lawrence Jacoby, due to their common interest in cannabis. Tammy Preston notices in her report on him that Jacoby, by all appearances, is Jerry's OnlyFriend outside of the Horne family. |
| 395 | * ShadowArchetype: To his brother. He publicly displays all the traits Ben attempts to hide behind his everyday mask of sophistication, from flamboyance and quirkiness, up to womanizing and underhanded and aggressive business manners. This also shown in more obvious ways; where Ben is a SharpDressedMan who favors muted colors in his wardrobe, Jerry seems to attempt to always be dressed as bombastically as possible. |
| 396 | * SmugSnake: Is a villain in the fact he's a less effective and dumber version of his brother. |
| 397 | * TheStoner: In ''The Return'', where he now runs a legal marijuana dispensary and seems to be almost constantly high. By 2016, he greatly resembles the type of bearded, spaced out older guy you'd find at a Music/{{Phish}} concert. |
| 398 | * SunglassesAtNight: Wears these in ''The Return'' as part of his new stoner persona. |
| 399 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: As detailed under ShadowArchetype, Jerry embodies and brings out Ben's worst traits. [[spoiler: During the TimeSkip, Ben seems to have cut Jerry out of both the hotel business and most of his personal life, in his efforts at self-improvement.]] |
| 400 | ** By ''The Return'' their relationship has settled into a stable but strained relationship where Jerry regularly shows up to bother a visibly annoyed Ben. |
| 401 | [[/folder]] |
| 402 | |
| 403 | [[folder:Johnny Horne]] |
| 404 | !!Johnny Horne |
| 405 | ->Played by: Robert Davenport and Robert Bauer |
| 406 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnny_horne.jpg]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | Audrey's mentally handicapped brother. |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | |
| 411 | * InadequateInheritor: It is clear that Ben expected his sole son to take over the family business, and it disappoints him to no end that Johnny really is in no condition to do so. |
| 412 | * ManChild: As brought on by his condition. At the start of the series Johnny is "27 going on 6." |
| 413 | * SecurityBlanket: His Native American chief's headdress. Dr. Jacoby is able to convince him to take it off for Laura's funeral, but it takes much coaxing. |
| 414 | %%* ThereWasADoor |
| 415 | * {{Wallbonking}}: By the time of "The Return" this is what you risk whenever you let Johnny out. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | !!The Hurleys |
| 419 | [[folder:"Big" Ed Hurley Jr.]] |
| 420 | !!"Big" Ed Hurley Jr. |
| 421 | ->Played by: Creator/EverettMcGill |
| 422 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bigednewpic.jpg]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | A local mechanic and junk dealer trapped in an unhappy marriage. He is James Hurley's uncle and Nadine's husband. He's in an adulterous relationship with Norma Jennings. |
| 425 | ----- |
| 426 | |
| 427 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Ed loves Nadine but in a manner which makes it clear his marriage is miserable. |
| 428 | * ChildhoodSweetheart: To Norma. |
| 429 | * CloserToEarth: He's incomparably more sensible and down to earth than his wife Nadine. |
| 430 | * HenpeckedHusband: He may not have it as bad as Pete, but he still gets his share of beleaguerment from Nadine and her antics. |
| 431 | * LoveTriangle: Is part of one of the central ones in the show with it briefly becoming a love square. |
| 432 | * MrFixit: Ed is noted to be quite the talented mechanic. In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', it is noted that his main childhood hobby was taking apart toasters and vacuum cleaners and then putting them back together again; in perfect working condition no less. Deputy Hawk writes that already in his teenage years, Ed could put a Volkswagen together blindfolded. |
| 433 | * MultipleChoicePast: Either married Nadine because Norma Jennings had married Hank Jennings while he was in Vietnam or because he put out Nadine's eye accidentally during a hunting expedition. |
| 434 | ** ''The Secret Story of Twin Peaks'' kind of merges these two stories, by stating that Hank did indeed steal Norma away through manipulation while Ed was in Vietnam. Ed, depressed over having lost Norma, ended up marrying Nadine in a spur-of-the-moment decision, but very quickly came to regret it, resulting in him increasingly isolating himself from Nadine to go on hunting trips by himself. Nadine eventually grew suspicious of Ed, thinking that he was away all the time due to an affair with another woman, and decided to covertly follow him on one such hunting trip, which ended with Ed accidentally shooting her eye out. Before all of that Ed was actually planing to divorce Nadine, but after the hunting accident he felt so terrible over what he had that he inadvertently done to her, that he decided to stay with her out of deep guilt. |
| 435 | * NiceGuy: A Bookhouse Boy and doting uncle to James Hurley. |
| 436 | * QuestionableConsent: Sleeps with Nadine when she thinks she's seventeen. Of course, he does so mostly out of fear of her strength. |
| 437 | * TheQuietOne: So quiet and slow to move on his feelings that Hawk believes it'll take him ''decades'' to get back with Norma in "The Secret History of Twin Peaks". |
| 438 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that he and Norma still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson. By Episode 15 of the Return, they finally do get engaged after Nadine gives Ed permission.]] |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:James Hurley]] |
| 442 | !!James Hurley |
| 443 | ->Played by: Creator/JamesMarshall |
| 444 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twin_peaks_james_hurley.png]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | Big Ed's nephew and the youngest member of the Bookhouse Boys. James is a biker teen who lives with Ed and Nadine instead of his parents, who, he tells people, died in a car accident, and was in a secret relationship with Laura Palmer before her death. |
| 447 | ----- |
| 448 | * BadassBiker: James is always wearing a leather jacket, CoolShades, and riding his motorcycle, and he has a somewhat tragic and individualistic demeanor. He's generally seen as a cool rebel by other characters. Because of this, he frequently has encounters with the police, and is often a top suspect for crimes he didn't commit. Eventually he leaves town to [[WalkingTheEarth Walk the Earth]] just like the great '50s bikers. |
| 449 | * DiscoDan: Through his leather jacket, love for biking, and guitar playing, he seems to be a '50s greaser kid about 30 years too late. Downplayed as the entire town of Twin Peaks is rather behind the times in most areas. |
| 450 | * TheDitz: Almost astonishingly stupid. As Laura Palmer says in one of her tapes, "James is sweet, but he's ''so dumb''." ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' states more or less outright that he does have a learning disability of some sort. |
| 451 | * TheDrifter: Becomes one of these at the end of the original series when he is PutOnABus. |
| 452 | * DullSurprise: James never seems to have much of a reaction to anything even when he is stunned or heartbroken. |
| 453 | * GenerationXerox: A non-parent example with Ed, whom he views as a father figure. James has a similar outlook on life to his uncle, as well as a similar love for tinkering and anything with an engine. It becomes more obvious in the second season when he falls for Evelyn's ploy and fixes "her car." |
| 454 | * GeniusDitz: He may be gullible and somewhat socially inept, but he is a fantastic musician and very good with machines, a trait that he seems to have [[GenerationXerox inherited from his uncle]]. |
| 455 | * GoodIsDumb: He's a good person, but ''very'' gullible. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' expands more on this, as Deputy Hawk calls James "a nice kid," but notes that that he is often LateToThePunchline and had difficulty in school. |
| 456 | * LikesOlderWomen: If his affair with the 30-something Evelyn March is any indication... |
| 457 | ** In ''The Return'' he's gone the other way and is now pining after a woman younger than himself. |
| 458 | * MoralityPet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie. |
| 459 | * NeverLearnedToRead: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that while he can read, his skills lacks ''way'' behind his age. Deputy Hawk describes how Big Ed had to struggle pretty hard even get him to that point, and latter sarcastically adds that even into his teens, James' favorite book is still ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''. |
| 460 | * NiceGuy: One of the kindest people in the show. |
| 461 | * PutOnABus: Leaves the town of Twin Peaks midway through season 2, then leaves the show altogether to [[WalkingTheEarth wander the country]] after his disastrous affair with Evelyn. [[spoiler:Until ''The Return'']]. |
| 462 | * RuleAbidingRebel: Aside from the fact he drives a motorcycle, he is far nicer than Bobby (a man sleeping with a married woman while dealing drugs) and appreciated by some people in his community (Sherrif Truman, Dr. Hayward), yet is considered the outlaw of the two. |
| 463 | * ShoutOut: Possibly one to James Dean's character in Rebel Without A Cause, as he somewhat resembles him in style and shares the name. In contrast, he's not much of a rebel. |
| 464 | * StarCrossedLovers: Has this sort of relationship with Laura Palmer. Averted with Donna as she has no opposition from her parents who can tell James is a NiceGuy. |
| 465 | * TheBusCameBack: Returns in a brief scene in ''The Return'''s first episode, and then comes back again to play a small but important role in the second half of ''The Return''. |
| 466 | * TheQuietOne: Much like his uncle Ed. Shelly notes he's gotten even more quiet [[spoiler: after his accident during the TimeSkip.]] |
| 467 | * TroubledButCute: Seems to be from the wrong side of the tracks but is, otherwise, supportive and kind. |
| 468 | * VocalDissonance: In two separate ways: |
| 469 | ** His speaking voice is deeper than his youthful, gangly appearance would expect, but... |
| 470 | ** When performing his original song "Just You," he [[SingingVoiceDissonance sounds like a woman]]. |
| 471 | [[/folder]] |
| 472 | |
| 473 | [[folder:Nadine Hurley]] |
| 474 | !!Nadine Hurley |
| 475 | ->Played by: Creator/WendyRobie |
| 476 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nadine_hurley.jpg]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | The one-eyed, drape-obsessed housewife of Big Ed Hurley. |
| 479 | ----- |
| 480 | |
| 481 | * BadassNormal: She may not be connected to the supernatural ongoings in Twin Peaks, but her SuperStrength and overall athleticism come in handy from time to time. |
| 482 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.]] |
| 483 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Nadine is a strange woman. Even with her paranoia, mood swings, [[spoiler:thinking she was a teenager for a season]], and attentiveness to conspiracy theories, Nadine's got quite a lot going for her. She's incredibly strong because of her training regiment, she's managed to make a business out of her drape ideas, and [[spoiler:reveals that she knew Ed and Norma were having an affair, ultimately letting him go to her because he loved Norma over her]]. |
| 484 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Seems to be Doctor Jacobi's biggest fan in ''The Return.'' |
| 485 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn't even begin to describe her! |
| 486 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of season 1, she tries to overdose on pills out of depression when she can't sell any of of her cotton balls since not many people are interested in silent drape-runners, which she had just created with them, hoping they would make her and Ed rich. Thankfully though, it only sends her into a coma, which she awakens from a few episodes later.]] |
| 487 | * DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: [[spoiler:When she awakens from her coma, she sees herself as a dainty teenager, but still has all her previous strength and athleticism from her adult life.]] |
| 488 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: During the decades long interval between Season 2 and ''The Return'' it seems that Nadine has accomplished her dream of opening a successful silent drape business, Run Silent, Run Drapes. |
| 489 | * EyepatchOfPower: Her most prominent physical feature, which goes great with her extreme physical strength. She lost her eye due to a hunting accident when a shot pellet fired by Ed went right into it. |
| 490 | * FieryRedhead: Was subject to wild mood swings and had super-strength. |
| 491 | * GenkiGirl: [[spoiler:Post-coma in season 2, when she thinks that she's a teenager.]] |
| 492 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:After some self realization and some help thanks to Dr. Amps' show, she decided to let go of Ed and give him her blessing to be with Norma.]] |
| 493 | * LargeHam: Overreacts to the smallest things and is dramatic about everything from cheerleading to silent drapes. |
| 494 | * SelectiveObliviousness: A variant after her [[spoiler: coma]]. She admits that she knows about Ed and Norma's interest in each other and doesn't mind... as [[spoiler: Ed and Norma are naked, in bed with each other. Right in front of her.]] |
| 495 | * SuperStrength: She can effortlessly hurl a full-grown man over a whole sports field. |
| 496 | * WomanChild: [[spoiler:A [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. For some strange reason, she awakens from her coma near the beginning of season 2 thinking she's still a teenager in high school, and therefore, has the mindset of and acts like one. She gets better when a sandbag falls on her head in the final episode of the season.]] |
| 497 | * WaifFu: She's certainly not built like someone of her strength at all. As Dr. Jacoby points out, "that tissue's packed in there pretty hard". |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | !!The Jenningses |
| 501 | [[folder:Hank Jennings]] |
| 502 | !!Hank Jennings |
| 503 | ->Played by: Chris Mulkey[[labelnote:Dubbed by]]Creator/DaisukeGori (Japanese) [[/labelnote]] |
| 504 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hank_jennings.jpg]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | A ex-Bookhouse Boy and Twin Peaks most dangerous criminal. He is the recently paroled husband of Norma Jennings. |
| 507 | ----- |
| 508 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: His domino key-chain. |
| 509 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Hank Jennings, unlike Leo, was actually quite good at keeping up an AffablyEvil front and pretending at a HeelFaceTurn. This did not last. |
| 510 | * BullyingADragon: Hank has this attitude as he's incapable of treating anyone who he has momentary advantage of as anything other than garbage. This includes very dangerous people like Josie Packard and Ben Horne. Ironically, it's his wife that proves to be the most dangerous dragon he bullies. |
| 511 | * BusCrash: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals he was fatally wounded in prison by a Renault relative.]] |
| 512 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: To the point it actually serves as Hank Jenning's FatalFlaw. Hank turns on every single person he makes cause with as soon as something better comes along. The Bookhouse Boys, Josie, Ben Horne, Ernie, and more. As such, when his patron in Jean Renault is taken down, he's left with absolutely no one to turn to. |
| 513 | * TheDragon: To several villains throughout the series. |
| 514 | * FallenHero: Used to be a Bookhouse Boy. Truman grew up with him and thought he was one of their best, until he ended up in prison. |
| 515 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's friendly enough in casual conversation when he's working at the diner... but as soon as people turn their backs, he lets his distaste for his customers slip. He also can't hide his dark side from his wife for long. |
| 516 | * KarmicDeath: As per ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' [[spoiler: as he betrayed most of the town for Jean Renault, only to have the Renault family blame him for his death. They killed him in prison.]] |
| 517 | * LoserSonOfLoserDad: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' states that the town of Twin Peaks had viewed the Jenningses as losers and troublemakers for a long time, and that Hank was faced with plenty of mistrust already in his youth due to this. Notably, Hank's grandfather, Einer, was "amongst the leading candidates for town drunk" and his father, Emil, had already in his youth complied quite a rap sheet of various petty crimes and would eventually end up dying from passing out drunk in his bathtub and drowning. |
| 518 | * MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Had a very large number of contacts within the criminal underworld so that his prison stays were very comfortable. {{Subverted}} on his return when, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he was killed by the Renault family. |
| 519 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: He attempted this, according to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. [[spoiler: Knowing that he's pretty much doomed in prison, he wrote a full confession of his crimes and completely apologizes for betraying the trust of his friends and family.]] Its never made clear if anyone bought it. |
| 520 | * RelationshipSabotage: Hank had desired Norma throughout high school, despite her and Big Ed being very much in love with each other. When Big Ed went overseas for military service during the Vietnam War, Hank saw an opportunity to throw a kink in his and Norma's relationship, and took up a job at the Twin Peaks post office, and made sure that neither party saw any of the mail they attempt to send each other. With Norma thoroughly saddened that Ed never seemed to respond to any of her letters, Hank could then make his move and play the role as the nice, understanding friend with the shoulder to cry on. |
| 521 | * SmugSnake: While introduced as a much more dangerous criminal than Leo, he quickly found himself outsmarted at every turn. |
| 522 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' implies this. The Jennings family was mostly seen as drunks and losers in the Twin Peaks community, but Hank seemed for most of his adolescence to work hard at shaking off this reputation, even becoming a somewhat popular player on the local football team. The turning point seems to have been the team losing an important match, which was blamed on Hank. The event seems to have convinced him that he was never going to be accepted in the community no matter how hard he tried, as soon there after he began slumping on his school work and instead started doing various odd jobs for Ben Horne, and the rest is history. |
| 523 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: He brings his former cellmate back into the criminal life within hours of meeting him, despite the man having found himself in a very cushy position as well as possessing no desire to return to crime. |
| 524 | * TheWorfEffect: He's introduced taking down Leo Johnson, one of the show's most brutal criminals at the time, to establish himself as a badass. This quickly turns on him when it's he who get's his ass handed to him to establish the strength of other characters like Mr. Kumagai or Nadine. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Norma Jennings]] |
| 528 | !!Norma Jennings |
| 529 | [[quoteright:292:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norma_jennings.PNG]] |
| 530 | ->Played by: Creator/PeggyLipton |
| 531 | |
| 532 | The long-suffering owner of the Double R Diner and lover of Big Ed Hurley. The wife of Hank Jennings. |
| 533 | ----- |
| 534 | * BerserkButton: Being treated with disrespect, whether by Ed, Hank, or her mother. |
| 535 | * BigSisterInstinct: She feels extra obligated to protect and help her half-sister Annie any way she possibly can, due to Annie having had quite the rough childhood and youth and being rather emotionally fragile as a result. |
| 536 | * ChildhoodSweetheart: To Ed. |
| 537 | * CoolBigSis: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn. |
| 538 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Breaking all ties with her mother over a bad review. {{Justified}} as it was the straw that broke the camel's back after a lifetime of neglect. |
| 539 | * TheDogBitesBack: Hank Jennings really shouldn't have crossed her. |
| 540 | * FanserviceWithASmile: She ''is'' played by Peggy Lipton after all. |
| 541 | * GreasySpoon: Runs her own diner. |
| 542 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: One of the most loving and sympathetic characters in the show, she has distinctive blonde hair. |
| 543 | * InsecureLoveInterest: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', this was part of the reason she and Ed never got together in their teens. |
| 544 | * TheMistress: Is unhappily one of these to Big Ed due to his unwillingness to leave Nadine. |
| 545 | * ParentalSubstitute: Gradually morphs into this for Shelly and her daughter by the time of ''The Return'' since Shelly remains as mature as she was during the original series. |
| 546 | * ParentalNeglect: She's estranged from her mother due to Mrs. Jennings' commitment to her job over Norma. When she makes it clear that she considers Norma "overly emotional" about the matter, Norma cut ties with her completely. |
| 547 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout many episodes, it's very clear that she and Ed still have strong feelings for one another, but due to ending up with different people, they are constantly conflicted about whether acting on their feelings is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Later in the second season, they start getting much closer again when they drift further apart from Hank and Nadine respectively because of newer developments such as Hank going back to jail and Nadine falling in love with Mike Nelson. By Episode 15 of the Return, they finally do get engaged. ]] |
| 548 | [[/folder]] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | !!The Johnsons |
| 551 | [[folder:Leo Johnson]] |
| 552 | !!Leo Johnson |
| 553 | [[quoteright:226:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/226px-LeoJohnson_8838.jpg]] |
| 554 | ->Played by: Eric Da Re |
| 555 | |
| 556 | The abusive husband of Shelly Johnson and the local drug dealer. |
| 557 | ----- |
| 558 | |
| 559 | * AssholeVictim: The ''Final Dossier'' features Albert Rosenfeld's autopsy report, in which he repeatedly opines that Leo's death was an unqualified good thing. |
| 560 | -->'''Autopsy Report''': "It's not often I'm tempted to begin one of these things by saying "he made the world a better place by taking early retirement" but in his case I'm willing to make an exception." |
| 561 | * TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Sort of; despite his horrible treatment of Shelly, Leo shows obvious concern when Windom Earle states that he might kill her, and later tries multiple times to stop Earle's plans. His poor mental state doesn't allow him to do much, but he does manage to free Major Briggs so that the latter could help Shelly.]] |
| 562 | * AxCrazy: He takes this trope to a literal degree when [[spoiler:he awakens from his coma in the middle of season 2 and the first thing he tries to do is murder Shelly with an ax.]] |
| 563 | * BarbarianLonghair: He's the only male character who has a ponytail and he's an unlikeable thug. |
| 564 | * TheBrute: A violent thuggish man who abuses his wife and intimidates everyone around him. [[TheWorfEffect Except Hank Jennings.]] |
| 565 | * ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:In the second season.]] |
| 566 | * CrazyJealousGuy: When he finds out that Shelly has been having an affair with Bobby, he tries to ''murder'' both of them even though he generally treats Shelly horribly and doesn't really give her a reason to love him to begin with. |
| 567 | * ConvenientComa: Well, he does clearly [[spoiler:have some brain damage, but it's only convenient for some, who would have preferred him dead]]. |
| 568 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''The Final Dossier'' confirms what his last on-screen appearance clearly implied, namely that [[spoiler:Leo met his end at the hands of Windom Earle]]. It also reveals that [[spoiler:Windom took his sweet time to finish off the poor bastard; according to the autopsy report on Leo's body by Albert, Leo was eventually killed by five shots, four non-lethally close to the heart and a fifth straight in it to finish him off]]. |
| 569 | * HateSink: Leo is a drug dealer, domestic abuser, and all around {{jerkass}}. Viewers ''will'' loathe him. |
| 570 | * {{Jerkass}}: You ''will'' want to punch his punchable face. |
| 571 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: Madchen Amick (Shelly) in an interviewed described Eric Da Re as "really sweet" and admitted she had trouble remembering to be afraid of him. |
| 572 | * RedHerring: Despite his sadism, violence, [[spoiler:frequent cold-blooded killing]] and [[spoiler:being present at the scene of her murder]], Leo [[spoiler:did not kill Laura Palmer]]. |
| 573 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Releases Major Briggs from captivity so he can warn Shelly. Windom Earle leaves him in a situation he's highly unlikely to have survived.]] |
| 574 | * VillainDecay: Leo has the bad luck of being the absolute middle man. Terrifying to the teenagers who are dabbling, easily manipulated by the real powers in Twin Peaks. |
| 575 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Leo using his teeth to hold a cage full of poisonous spiders above his head via a contraption]]. Eric Da Re did not come back for ''The Return''. His fate is at last revealed in ''The Final Dossier'', where it turns out that [[spoiler:he was tortured and killed by Windom Earle]]. |
| 576 | * TheWorfEffect: Hank Jennings easily beats him up and intimidates him into submission. Windom Earle does the same. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:Shelly Johnson]] |
| 580 | !!Shelly [=McCauley=] Johnson/Briggs |
| 581 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shelly_johsnon.PNG]] |
| 582 | ->Played by: Creator/MadchenAmick |
| 583 | |
| 584 | A waitress at the Double R diner and wife to Leo. Later, she married Bobby Briggs. |
| 585 | ----- |
| 586 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Though she seems to be getting better with each try, from the downright abusive Leo, to the unstable and short-tempered Bobby, to... Gordon Cole. [[spoiler:In the ''Return'', her and Bobby are AmicableExes and is strongly indicated that their relationship fell part because Bobby cleaned up his act and got a respectable job, and that Shelly simply lost interest in him due to him graduating from "bad boy" to responsible adult. Instead, Shelly is shown to now have a thing for Red, a shady guy involved in the drug trafficking conspiracy with Renaults and Richard Horne.]] |
| 587 | * AmicableExes: [[spoiler: As revealed in ''The Return'', she and Bobby got married... and it didn't last, though she still carries his last name and they still seem to get along, at least where their daughter is concerned.]] |
| 588 | * AuthorAppeal: She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in. |
| 589 | -->'''Bobby:''' What the hell is going on?!\ |
| 590 | '''Gordon Cole''': YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT. ''(to Shelly)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.]]\ |
| 591 | '''Dale Cooper''': Uh, Gordon...\ |
| 592 | '''Gordon Cole''': ''(to Bobby)'' TAKE ANOTHER LOOK, SONNY! IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN. |
| 593 | * DomesticAbuse: Her husband forces her to do all the chores, has physically abused her on multiple occasions, and is deeply jealous. |
| 594 | * FanserviceWithASmile: Works as a waitress in Norma's diner. |
| 595 | * MsFanservice: Not as much as Audrey, but she has her moments. And being played by Mädchen Amick doesn't hurt. |
| 596 | * ParentsAsPeople: In ''The Return''. [[spoiler: She adores her daughter and is always ready to provide emotional or financial support. But her tendency to lean towards bad boys results in Shelly abandoning Becky, right after promising to spend the night after Becky's shooting spree. Bobby and Becky's dumbfounded expressions indicate this wasn't an unusual moment.]] |
| 597 | * ShipperOnDeck: For Ed and Norma, it seems [[spoiler: as she smiles when they kiss in The Return Part 15]]. |
| 598 | * SmokingIsCool: Though in her case, with her stress load, it makes sense. |
| 599 | * SympatheticAdulterer: Usually very friendly and largely means well (not to mention that Leo is an abusive husband and not faithful himself). |
| 600 | [[/folder]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | !!The Martells |
| 603 | [[folder:Catherine Martell]] |
| 604 | !!Catherine Martell, né Packard |
| 605 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CatherineMartell_276.jpg]] |
| 606 | ->Played by: Creator/PiperLaurie |
| 607 | |
| 608 | The wife of Pete Martell and accountant at the Packard Lumber Mill. |
| 609 | ----- |
| 610 | |
| 611 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Is having an affair with Ben Horne. |
| 612 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Despite often holding Pete in contempt and regarding him as a "soft, old fool", her planting a big, wet, long kiss on him when she reveals herself to him in her Mr. Tojamura disguise, shows that she does have some genuine affection for him.]] |
| 613 | ** [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' also reveals that she has disappeared from the public eye and become a recluse following Pete's death, implying that losing him really did hit her very hard.]] |
| 614 | * BigBadWannabe: Catherine isn't nearly as on the ball as she thinks since Ben Horne and [[spoiler: Josie Packard]] both run rings around her. |
| 615 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: She gives Ben Horne a serious run for his money. |
| 616 | * EvilRedhead: Piper Laurie was told to basically camp it up like a soap opera villainess. |
| 617 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:She seemingly is killed when Leo burns down the mill, but [[NeverFoundTheBody her body is never found]]. She later returns in disguise as a Japanese businessman named Mr. Tojamura as ploy to trick Ben.]] |
| 618 | * FieryRedhead: Is an attempted murderer, schemer, and extremely fierce. |
| 619 | * LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Her Mr. Tojamura disguise]]. |
| 620 | * ManipulativeBitch: Downplayed slightly. While she constantly schemes, she doesn't necessarily get very far with them. Ben even recognized her [[spoiler:"Mr. Tojamura" persona]] instantly in the second season. |
| 621 | * MeanBoss: Fires a guy in the pilot because he happened to be standing there when she was really pissed off. |
| 622 | * PowerDynamicsKink: She has a relationship of this kind with Ben Horne, which involves him [[IKissYourFoot kissing her feet]] and her [[DeadpanSnarker replying to his compliments with sarcastic quips]]. [[spoiler:Exaggerated when he's accused of murder and arrested, and she visits him in the jail. She takes off her shoe, and he kisses her foot, pleading her to confirm his alibi.]] |
| 623 | * SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:When she poses as Mr. Tojamura]]. |
| 624 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Catherine's life post season 2 is left up in the air. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' states she sold the mill and became reclusive [[spoiler:after her brother and husband died]]. Piper Laurie was perfectly willing to come back for ''The Return'' but Frost and Lynch ultimately couldn't find a way to write her character in. |
| 625 | * YellowFace: [[spoiler: When she's posing as Mr. Tojamura.]] |
| 626 | [[/folder]] |
| 627 | |
| 628 | [[folder:Pete Martell]] |
| 629 | !!Pete Martell |
| 630 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pete_Martell_561.jpg]] |
| 631 | ->Played by: Jack Nance |
| 632 | |
| 633 | The Packard Lumber Mill manager and a fishing enthusiast. He's the one who discovered Laura Palmer's body. He is also a chess grandmaster. |
| 634 | ----- |
| 635 | |
| 636 | * AwfulWeddedLife: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. He describes Catherine as "plain hell to live with" in the first episode, and finds it hard to cope with her ruthless, stubborn, and generally unpleasant nature, which runs counter to his own docile and kind demeanor. Despite this, he is shown to hold some kind of genuine (although mostly nostalgic) affection for her, and is most notably quite torn up about [[spoiler:her apparent "death"]]. Meanwhile, Catherine's absence in ''The Return'' is explained in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' to be a result of her becoming somewhat of a recluse following [[spoiler:Pete's death]], showing that she does love him, despite what she considered his "flaws" to be, and [[his death weighed heavily on her]]. |
| 637 | * ButtMonkey: A DownplayedTrope example as Pete is liked by everyone in town ''but'' his wife. However, he gets almost no respect despite being a hardworking plant manager, talented fisherman, and amateur chess master. |
| 638 | * CoolOldGuy: In a friendly, kinda-dorky way: he's an outdoorsman even in his old age, and a genius at chess. |
| 639 | * HenPeckedHusband: Catherine just won't cut the guy a break. |
| 640 | -->She was plain hell to live with. |
| 641 | * HeroicSacrifice : [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that, as he died in the bank explosion, his last act was saving Audrey's life by shielding her from the blast with his body.]] |
| 642 | * HiddenDepths: Pete actually proves to be an avid and very talented chess player. [[spoiler:He uses these skills to help Cooper against Windom Earle]]. |
| 643 | * NiceGuy: Possibly the [[SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample]] of nice guys on the show. He doesn't have a mean bone in his body. |
| 644 | * NoodleIncident: How ''did'' the fish get in the coffee pot? |
| 645 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle. At one point he plays three simultaneous games of chess and wins ''all'' of them. |
| 646 | * StarcrossedLovers: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', his relationship with Catherine was seen as plain weird and unlikely by the community of Twin Peaks back in the day, not only because they were complete opposites in terms of personality, but also because their respective families infamously hatred each other and regularly was at each other's throats. It is also markedly deconstructed with Pete and Catherine's marriage being noted to turn sour fairly quickly after they tied the knot. |
| 647 | * TokenGoodTeammate: In season 2, when he gets caught in Catherine and [[spoiler:Andrew]]'s scheme, he's the most moral of them and mostly just goes along because they're family. |
| 648 | * WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Downplayed. While he describes Catherine as "hell to live with" and she's a generally bitter, scheming woman, he still has some nostalgic love for her and tries to see the good in her. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' mentions that Andrew and Pete were childhood best friends, meaning that Pete may have known her, and been in love with her, since a young age. |
| 649 | [[/folder]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | !!The Milfords |
| 652 | [[folder:Dwayne Milford]] |
| 653 | !!Mayor Dwayne Milford |
| 654 | ->Played by: John Boylan |
| 655 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twin_peaks_milford_6.png]] |
| 656 | |
| 657 | The liberal Mayor of Twin Peaks. He has a long-standing feud with his brother. |
| 658 | ---- |
| 659 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Dawyne had five years seniority on Douglas, and for all their petty squabbling, arguing, and fighting way into their old years, he still loved his younger brother deeply. When Douglas dies, he is furious with grief and blames Lana for his death, even going so far as attempting to shoot her with a hunting shotgun, when the Twin Peaks Sheriff Department tried to explain to him that they could not find any cause to press charges against her. |
| 660 | * DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Hooks up with his brother's wife after his death.]] |
| 661 | * TheDutifulSon: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as such, following in his father's footsteps and taking over the family pharmacy business, in contrast to his brother, Douglas, who was seen as a rebellious troublemaker. |
| 662 | * RevengeBeforeReason: His desire to avenge his brother dying of sexual intercourse in his late seventies with a much-much younger woman. [[spoiler: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' says he's probably right.]] |
| 663 | ** [[spoiler: Subverted when he ends up with Lana himself.]] |
| 664 | * SignatureLaugh: "Ha-''[=HAh=]''!" |
| 665 | * SiblingRivalry: Dwayne is a Democrat and at least something of a liberal by the standards of a town full of rural whites. He and his more conservative brother hold an exactly opposite set of political views. |
| 666 | * SiblingYinYang: Plently of it with Douglas. Where Douglas is described by ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' to have been an impulsive, short-tempered guy, who got involved in several short-lived marriages, while Dawyne had a reputation as a reserved, level-headed, and trustworthy person, who was married to the same woman for 50 years. |
| 667 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Douglas's foolish. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Dawyne is described as always calm and reliable, even under pressure, is seen as a pillar of the community, and spend his youth studying with the goal of continuing the family business, while Douglas is HotBlooded and impulsive, and was seen as a troublemaker by both his family and the Twin Peaks community in his youth. It extends into their elder years, where Dawyne is known to be a frugal man with a modest and quiet lifestyle, while Douglas is infamous for being a spendthrift and serial divorcee. |
| 668 | * StrawPolitical: His outrage at his brother's defense of Nixon in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. |
| 669 | [[/folder]] |
| 670 | |
| 671 | [[folder:Douglas "Dougie" Milford]] |
| 672 | !!Douglas "Dougie" Milford |
| 673 | ->Played by: Creator/TonyJay |
| 674 | [[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/milford.png]] |
| 675 | |
| 676 | The mayor's younger brother, Dougie is the owner of the local paper and known around town as quite the an old, rich eccentric in his own right, mostly due to his constant petty feuding with his brother and his numerous marriages (and divorces). |
| 677 | |
| 678 | Douglas has quite the colorful past though, having served as a colonel in the US Airforce, having had personal close encounters with Twin Peak's paranormal forces, and being a secret ally of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and a collaborator with Gordon Cole. |
| 679 | ----- |
| 680 | * AllThereInTheManual: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' spells out the details of his bizarre and adventurous backstory. Specifically, among other things, that he founded TheMenInBlack and was aware of the supernatural. Oh, and he was a close friend and confidant of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. |
| 681 | * BlackSheep: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' describes him as this to the Milford family, being a rebellious troublemaker where his brother, Dawyne was TheDutifulSon. |
| 682 | * ConspiracyTheorist: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he proffers up a paranoid-sounding explanation for Nixon's impeachment involving a conspiracy against him. [[spoiler:His own experiences]] certainly factor into this, but his defense of Nixon in Twin Peaks' local paper swerves into the downright paranoid. |
| 683 | * DirtyOldMan: If the ''vast'' collection of sexual paraphernalia in his bedroom is any indication. |
| 684 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish sibling to Dawyne's responsible. Made especially clear in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. Douglas had a knack for getting into trouble in his youth, being described as impulsive and HotBlooded, and caused the Milford family no small bit of embarrassment as he was often observed being drunk in public and lived in "sin" with his girlfriend, while Dwayne was TheDutifulSon who continued the family's pharmacy business and get described by his peers as always calm and reliable, even in stressful situations. Even in old age Douglas manages to get himself a bit of reputation around town, as he lives a lavish lifestyle and goes through four short-lived marriages, again in contrast to Dwayne who is the town's highly respected mayor and leads a notably more modest lifestyle. |
| 685 | * TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' implies that he was the cause of the creation of this trope in-universe during his time as a government spook.]] |
| 686 | * NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: His backstory as described in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' has clear shades of it. In his youth, he was viewed by the Twin Peaks community as a drunken troublemaker, who lived in squalor and was quite the embarrassment to his family. After moving out from the town and joining the army, things started to look immensely up for him, as over the next two-and-a-half decades he rose through the ranks and became heavily involved with the GovernmentConspiracy. When he moved back to Twin Peaks in his older years, he once again became a bit of an outsider, although in a significantly more benign sense; by that time most townspeople had forgotten the tarnished reputation he had in his youth, and so instead came to see him as a rich, harmless eccentric. But he would prove to still be a bit of an embarrassment to his family, as with his new fortune, he started indulging in spendthrift behavior and went through several short-lived marriages with women much younger than him, which was seen as been at odds with not only his brother's, but most Twin Peaks citizen's more modest and straight-laced lifestyle. |
| 687 | * NoSuchAgency: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals [[spoiler: his direct involvement in a project involving [=UFOs=] and alien encounters, as a direct confidante of President Richard Nixon]]. |
| 688 | * OutWithABang: He has a fatal heart attack upon consummating his marriage to Lana. |
| 689 | * PhotographicMemory: In ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', he is noted to have this, which makes it somewhat hard for people who know him to entirely dismiss his claims of having seeing a "giant" and a "walking owl" in the forests surrounding Twin Peak during his time as a scoutmaster in his youth. It comes into play several times, as many documents describing of the stranger events during his time as a secret agent for the US Airforce, including many of his meetings with Senator and later President Richard Nixon, are accounts he has written down entirely based on his memory of these events. |
| 690 | * SiblingRivalry: He and Dwayne are 100% opposed on politics: Dwayne is a Democrat and a liberal and Doug is a Republican and a conservative. |
| 691 | * SirSwearsALot: Though it is downplayed in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', Douglas has a notable tendency to casually drop profanity in his speech. When he appears on a list of witness statements on UFO sightings, the other people on the list describe their encounters with [=UFOs=] in technical therms, using measurements to describe the size and speed of the objects when asked for details, Douglas describes the object he saw as "big as a f*** house" and "fast as s***". |
| 692 | * StrawPolitical: Is such a hardline Republican that he devotes an entire front page op-ed to insisting Nixon's impeachment was a conspiracy rather than a genuine resolution to corruption charges. |
| 693 | [[/folder]] |
| 694 | |
| 695 | [[folder:Lana Budding Milford]] |
| 696 | !!Lana Budding Milford |
| 697 | ->Played by: Creator/RobynLively |
| 698 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lana.jpg]] |
| 699 | |
| 700 | The lovely widow of Douglas Milford and a woman who briefly menaces Twin Peaks' male population. |
| 701 | ----- |
| 702 | * BlackWidow: Strongly hinted in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. |
| 703 | * CartwrightCurse: Claims to be this rather than a BlackWidow. Its never made clear if she's telling the truth [[spoiler: in spite of Briggs' suspicions.]] |
| 704 | * GoldDigger: Pretty clearly. According to ''The Final Dossier'', she even spent some time during the 1990s in a discrete relationship with wealthy businessman and future U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. |
| 705 | * HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Major Briggs, the in-universe writer of ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', suspects her of being a assassin who actually didn't marry Douglas for his money, but to get close to and kill him, speculating that she was hired by someone from Douglas' political past who thought [[HeKnowsTooMuch He Knew Too Much]]. Briggs, however, also notes that he has absolutely no way of proving this.]] ''The Final Dossier'' also hints that she was conducting blackmail and/or espionage on a future president she had an affair with. |
| 706 | * HospitalHottie: An extremely beautiful nurse. |
| 707 | * InformedAbility: While Robyn Lively is certainly an attractive woman, she's no more so than many of the other actresses on the show; therefore, it's hard for the audience to understand the power she has over so many of the male characters, especially when Cooper had no trouble [[AboveTheInfluence resisting Audrey.]] |
| 708 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: Without naming names, ''The Final Dossier'' all but states that she had an affair with the 45th president of the United States in the 1990s. |
| 709 | * SettleForSibling: After her husband Dougie dies, she gets engaged to Dwayne, his brother. That's kinda gross. [[spoiler:''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that it ultimately didn't last and she left Twin Peaks for good about six months later.]] |
| 710 | * TheVamp: Every man who meets her becomes putty in her hands. Even Dale Cooper had a hard time being impartial around her. |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | !!The Packards |
| 714 | [[folder:Andrew Packard]] |
| 715 | !!Andrew Packard |
| 716 | ->Played by: Creator/DanOHerlihy |
| 717 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrew_1.jpg]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | The former owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. He is the late husband of Josie Packard and brother of Catherine Martell. |
| 720 | ----- |
| 721 | |
| 722 | * AffablyEvil: He's as shifty as his sister but unfailingly polite to everyone. |
| 723 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: His former business partner turned enemy Eckhardt was a Hong Kong gangster. To what degree Andrew was directly involved in the black market is unclear, but his choice of business partners suggests that Andrew at least indirectly benefited from organized crime. |
| 724 | * BestFriendsInLaw: He and Pete were very close. At one point when serving breakfast the pair fool around with the food and Catherine grumpily notes that they bring out the worst in each other. |
| 725 | * CoolOldGuy: He's mentally and physically quite spry for a man in his 70's, and comes across as a charismatic, larger-than-life bon vivant. |
| 726 | * FakingTheDead: Though the series starts with him having been dead in a boating accident (set up by Hank), the series drops a number of hints that he may still be alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately he reveals that this was the case as he and his sister faked his death]]. |
| 727 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dying at the hands of Eckhardt's ThanatosGambit is a good fate for someone so confident in his intelligence. Shame about Pete, though.]] |
| 728 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:His treatment of Josie is rotten, though more than justified since she did try to kill him.]] |
| 729 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: His conflict with Eckhardt is clear EvilVersusEvil but of the two Andrew comes off as more personable and has more PetTheDog moments than Eckhardt. |
| 730 | * MayDecemberRomance: He was much older than Josie when they married. |
| 731 | * PetTheDog: |
| 732 | ** Andrew may be a corrupt and amoral man but even he has a soft spot for Pete and the two have a strong brotherly relationship. Even when he and Catherine start to go against each other he still trusts Pete and lets him in on his schemes. [[spoiler:Which unfortunately gets the pair killed]]. |
| 733 | ** He admits an admiration for Audrey's protest when he encounters her, complimenting her for sticking to her principles. |
| 734 | * PosthumousCharacter: Is originally believed to have died at some point before the start of the series. [[spoiler:Not really.]] |
| 735 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Gives one to Josie before saying they will never speak again.]] |
| 736 | * SmugSnake: Thinks he's got everyone wrapped around his finger but really just coasts along on Catherine's plans. |
| 737 | * WickedCultured: Quotes Marcus Aurelius when expressing his respect for Audrey's protest at the bank vault. |
| 738 | [[/folder]] |
| 739 | |
| 740 | [[folder:Jocelyn "Josie" Packard]] |
| 741 | !!Jocelyn Packard |
| 742 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josie_packard.PNG]] |
| 743 | ->Played by: Creator/JoanChen |
| 744 | |
| 745 | The beautiful Chinese American widow of Andrew Packard and current owner of the Packard Lumber Mill. She is currently lovers with Sheriff Harry S. Truman. |
| 746 | ----- |
| 747 | |
| 748 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: The show constantly goes between Josie being an innocent victim ForcedIntoEvil and a ManipulativeBitch. We never really get an answer up until [[spoiler: she dies.]] |
| 749 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: BOB binds her soul in wood, keeping her from ascending to the afterlife. From the look of thing, she's greatly distressed by it. With Truman retiring from the force due to cancer, there's no-one left who would care enough to try and save her.]] |
| 750 | * ConsummateLiar: Assuming she was faking her fear of Thomas Eckhardt or at least playing it up, she fools everyone in Twin Peaks except [[spoiler: Cooper.]] |
| 751 | * DaddysLittleVillain: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that her father was [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs a high ranking "Red Pole" in the Sui-wong triad]], and she clearly took after dear old dad, even in her youth. Already by the age of ''sixteen'', she was running a prostitution and drug ring out of the prestigious boarding school she studied at, while blackmailing several members of said school's staff, both in the administration and the faculty. |
| 752 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: Throws herself on the mercy of Catherine [[spoiler: and Andrew]]. She would have had more luck with Sherrif Truman and Coop. Hell, even Pete. |
| 753 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: She kills Thomas the moment she's alone with him.]] |
| 754 | * DragonLady: Possibly subverted in that she doesn't have nearly the self-assuredness one would expect from the trope. [[spoiler:Her chief motivation is simply survival as she is manipulated and bullied by almost everyone in her life (except Pete and Sheriff Truman).]] |
| 755 | ** Played straight as an arrow in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', [[spoiler:which reveals her real identity as Li Chun Fung, daughter of a Chinese gangster and a ferocious criminal in her own right, building up a multimillion-dollar fortune through drug and prostitution rings by the age of 21 and fleeing to America after her plan to assassinate her own father and take over his position went awry.]] |
| 756 | * DrivenToSuicide: WordOfGod was that she would have shot herself but they couldn't do it on camera. [[spoiler: So BOB and the Arm kills her instead.]] |
| 757 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Is trapped in a desk knob in the Great Northern hotel and according to Deleted Scenes the Black Lodge.]] |
| 758 | * FemmeFatale: Zig-Zagged. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor She seems to be one then turns kind and shy then is back to being a FemmeFatale]]. |
| 759 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Is Josie a victim? Evil? Both? |
| 760 | * KarmicDeath: After attempting to murder her husband and Agent Cooper, she finally meets a deserving end. |
| 761 | * LovableTraitor: Does a lot of shady stuff and even tries to kill Catherine Martell but no one seems to treat any of this as a big deal. |
| 762 | * MissingMom: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals that her mother was a prostitute who died from a drug overdose shortly after her birth. |
| 763 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Cooper never suspected Josie was EvilAllAlong or had any reason to go after him [[spoiler: until she shot him.]] |
| 764 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Speaks English pretty much perfectly with a fairly light accent, ''unless'' she wants to be perceived as an innocently charming FishOutOfWater, at which point the mangled metaphors come out. Especially around Pete. |
| 765 | * TheVamp: Has sex with Andrew, Thomas, Sheriff Truman, and Laura. |
| 766 | * VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: After she kills Thomas, she is killed by BOB and the Arm.]] |
| 767 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted. Except, she had the profoundly bad luck of being across the hall from Agent Cooper [[spoiler: when she killed Thomas.]] |
| 768 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Acting like a victim is pretty much her only trick aside from being TheVamp. |
| 769 | * YourSoulIsMine: Later in the second season, [[spoiler:BOB apparently steals and [[FateWorseThanDeath traps her soul]] [[AndIMustScream in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern]] [[MindScrew or something like that]]]]. |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | !!Other Twin Peaks residents |
| 773 | [[folder:Ronette Pulaski]] |
| 774 | !!Ronette Pulaski |
| 775 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ronettepulaski.jpg]] |
| 776 | ->Played by: Phoebe Augustine |
| 777 | |
| 778 | Ronette Pulaski was a teenage escort from One-Eyed Jack's. On the morning when Laura Palmer's body was discovered, Pulaski was found wandering out in the open in a catatonic state. |
| 779 | ---- |
| 780 | * BrokenBird: If her appearance in ''Fire Walk With Me'' is any indication, Ronette was always a basket case, albeit one that could have been rehabilitated. The events leading up to Laura's murder just broke her beyond repair. |
| 781 | * DisposableSexWorker: Narrowly averted. ''Fire Walk With Me'' reveals that [[spoiler: Leland/BOB]] kidnapped her with Laura and would have killed her too. Not that her current fate is any better. |
| 782 | * SatelliteCharacter: Ronette's role is never expanded upon outside of her relationship to Laura. |
| 783 | * ShadowArchetype: To Donna. In their relation to Laura Palmer, Ronette represents the corruption while Donna represents the purity. |
| 784 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: By wandering across the border between Washington and Idaho in her catatonic state, Ronette inadvertitely turns her own disappearance and Laura's murder into a federal case, prompting the arrival of Agent Cooper and basically kickstarting the events of the series. |
| 785 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Before avoiding a grisly murder, Ronette has a vision of an angel. It's deliberately left vague if she had completely cracked by this point or if she really was saved by some divine force. |
| 786 | [[/folder]] |
| 787 | |
| 788 | [[folder:Harold Smith]] |
| 789 | !!Harold Smith |
| 790 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Harold-Portal_3073.jpg]] |
| 791 | ->Played by: Creator/LennyVonDohlen |
| 792 | |
| 793 | Harold Smith is a horticulturist specialized in orchids and a close friend of Laura Palmer, who she met through working for the Meals-on-Wheels program. Harold [[{{Hikikomori}} never leaves his home]] as a result of having acute agoraphobia (a fear of open spaces). Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that Laura gave him her diary before her murder. Cooper and the Twin Peaks police use the diary to help find the identity of Laura's killer. |
| 794 | ----- |
| 795 | * TheConfidant: To Laura. He was also on the way to becoming this to Donna, but her interest in what Harold knew about the case ended up thrumphing this budding relationship. |
| 796 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Donna's betrayal leads him to hang himself.]] |
| 797 | * DyingAlone: "J'ai une âme solitaire." |
| 798 | * EndearinglyDorky: Donna quickly takes a liking to him after meeting him, as he might be quite awkward and shy, but he is also very polite, friendly, and has a poetic mind. |
| 799 | * EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Through their meetings, he had come to view Donna as a very close friend and one of the only people he truly trusted. When he realized that she had tricked him in attempt to steal Laura's secret diary from him, it utterly broke his already fragile spirit, resulting in his suicide.]] |
| 800 | * FreakOut: Gets hit HARD with this when [[spoiler:he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary]]. |
| 801 | * {{Hikikomori}}: Due to having agoraphobia. The guy cannot physically leave his house without suffering a crippling panic attack. |
| 802 | * NiceGuy: Despite his inherent uneasiness around people, he is quite friendly and polite. [[spoiler:At least until he [[FreakOut completely snaps]] when he finds out about Donna's betrayal.]] |
| 803 | * PrettyBoy: A feminine, gentle, and handsome young man. |
| 804 | [[/folder]] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[folder:Dick Tremayne]] |
| 807 | !!Dick Tremayne |
| 808 | ->Played by: Ian Buchanan |
| 809 | [[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1xrdmqst8rcjw4fg5aww_400x400.jpeg]] |
| 810 | [[caption-width-right:330:"Got a light?"]] |
| 811 | Dick Tremayne runs the clothing department at Horne's Department Store and was in an on-and-off relationship with Lucy. |
| 812 | ----- |
| 813 | * BritishStuffiness: A goofier example. |
| 814 | * CampStraight |
| 815 | * CasanovaWannabe: He fancies himself a suave ladies man, but his {{Fauxreigner}} schtick just makes him look pretentious. The one woman he's confirmed to have "charmed" -- Lucy -- was only into him because she considered him more interesting than Andy by comparison. |
| 816 | * TheDandy: He's a well-dressed, CampStraight man who considers himself more cultured than the rest of Twin Peak's population. |
| 817 | * ADickInName: Any time he fails to be useful or responsible, Lucy, and sometimes Andy, will put extra emphasis on calling him "Dick." |
| 818 | * {{Fauxreigner}}: It's heavily implied that he adopts the British accent purely to make himself appear cultured and interesting compared to the other townsfolk. Most damning of all is Dr Hayward's throwaway comment that he was the physician in attendance at Dick's birth -- meaning that Dick is almost certainly, in fact, a native of Twin Peaks. Ian Buchanan is actually British, though since he's specifically ''Scottish'' he's most likely not using his natural accent for the UpperClassTwit Dick, who's clearly going for [[IAmVeryBritish Southern-RP English]]. |
| 819 | ** To an English viewer his accent sounds like a North American stage/private school accent, particularly typical of Massachusetts, where people were taught to speak with those accents because they were considered 'educated', and they were typically heard in old films, as well as celebrities such as Kelsey Grammer and Paul Theroux having them. Certainly, Dick has all the hallmarks of a struggling actor. |
| 820 | * GracefulLoser: He and Andy compete for Lucy's affections, and even though she choses Andy over him; he respects her decision and hopes they have a good life together. Although as Lucy was pregnant at the time, part of this is likely relief from not being roped in to raise the child. |
| 821 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his shortcomings, he's not a bad guy. |
| 822 | * OddFriendship: Of all people, he and ''Andy'' bond over trying to learn about Little Nicky's past, despite their rivalry for Lucy's affections. |
| 823 | * SharpDressedMan: Well, he ''does'' run a men's clothing department. |
| 824 | [[/folder]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | [[folder:Lawrence Jacoby]] |
| 827 | !!Dr. Lawrence Jacoby |
| 828 | ->Played by: Creator/RussTamblyn |
| 829 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacobynew.jpg]] |
| 830 | |
| 831 | The eccentric psychologist who treated Laura Palmer for her many issues before falling in love with her. |
| 832 | ----- |
| 833 | * ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mental health version. Everything about how treats his patients save Johnny Horne. The fact he knew about Laura's many issues (which included active illegal activity) is especially noteworthy. |
| 834 | * BeyondTheImpossible: By 2016, Jacoby has a genuine chance of surpassing the Log Lady as the biggest CloudCuckooLander in all of Twin Peaks. |
| 835 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: In a town of weirdos who are great at their job, Doctor Jacoby is an awful-awful psychologist. Zig-Zagged as he does help Johnny Horne prepare for the funeral of Laura Palmer and cure Ben Horne's insanity. |
| 836 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dr. Jacoby was born in Hawaii and has had an obsession with the place all his life, dressing in tropical shirts and decorating his entire home with Polynesian kitsch. In ''The Return'', he's a ConspiracyTheorist with his own podcast/pirate radio show who sells spray painted "shit digging shovels" for 29.99 a pop. The |
| 837 | * CoolShades: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses. Twenty five years later in Season 3 he's shown to wear them even under larger sunglasses! |
| 838 | * ConspiracyTheorist: An overtly humorous example in ''The Return''. He runs a pirate radio station in which he advocates naturopathic medicine and anti-GMO conspiracy theories as a lead-in to making a pitch for his shovel business. |
| 839 | ** Notable for the fact TheMenInBlack, TheFairFolk, TheSyndicate, as well as an FBI conspiracy all exist in this universe. Yet, ''nothing'' Jacoby says is true. |
| 840 | * ForWantOfANail: In ''The Return'' he's started an online series where he rants about some vague elite keeping the rest of the populace from having a better life, which is little more than a ploy to sell gold-painted shovels. Nadine becomes a fan (and possibly a groupie), which compels her to use Jacoby's ill-defined advice to break things off with Ed so he can be happy with Norma, finally uniting the two lovers for good. |
| 841 | * GoodAllAlong: Jacoby turns out to have never actually slept with Laura Palmer or otherwise acted inappropriately around her. He was just completely unhelpful as a psychologist. |
| 842 | * JerkassBall: He frequently switches between trying to be genuinely helpful and acting extremely insensitive and dismissive. One particular example is after Laura's funeral, where he guiltily confesses to Cooper that he doesn't care about his patients, but wants to help find Laura's killer. He then proceeds to completely fail to offer anything of value and secretly keeps Laura's necklace for himself, rather than hand it over as evidence. |
| 843 | * HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' discusses the fact that he has always had an interest in tribal views on mental illnesses, and he would spend a good part of his youth seeking out various isolated tribes in South America and attempting to gain insight in how they understood the human mind by partaking in their rituals. Naturally, quite a few of these rituals involved the use of strong psychoactive drugs, and Jacoby insists in his journals that he is much the wiser for having gone through these experiences. |
| 844 | * ItAmusedMe: Doctor Jacoby seems to actively enjoy feeding his patient's neuroses like encouraging Ben Horne to act like General Lee and having Nadine enroll in high school. Given he confesses to Cooper he doesn't care about any of his patients, this is almost certainly deliberate. Also, he looks terribly amused whenever his patients are having complete breakdowns. |
| 845 | * ISeeThemToo: His book, ''The Eye of God: Sacred Psychology in the Aboriginal Mind'', implies that he had a first-hand encounter with the denizens of the White and Black Lodges in his time as college student, when he was during field work in South America. After winning the trust of a tribe to be let in on one of their "cleansing" rituals, he was giving a dose of drugs by the tribe's shaman. The resulting trip caused him to wake up in strange place where time had no meaning and was inhabited by strange humanoid giants. |
| 846 | * LargeHam: Gets ''really'' worked up while doing his radio show, often letting loose a ClusterFBomb for good measure. |
| 847 | * TheLastDJ: ''The Final Dossier'' notices that he has received several offers from mainstream media outlets to commercialize his highly successful podcast, ''The Dr. Amp Blast'' , but he has rejected them all because he refuses to comprise the integrity of his show and it already makes him enough money to support his rather modest lifestyle indefinitely. |
| 848 | * MakingASpectacleOfYourself: He always wears a pair of 3D glasses. ''Secret History'' reveals that this is part of a therapy technique he invented; he believes it could have helped Nadine with her issues, if not for her missing eye making it pointless. (Interestingly, wearing 3D glasses was thought, at one point, to be a possible treatment for dyslexia. However, like Jacoby's own methods, this was complete quackery.) |
| 849 | * MyGreatestFailure: How he views his failure to discover the truth about Laura and her dysfunctional family life and the sexual abuse she was subjected to. He very much blames himself for not noticing the symptoms during his sessions with her for the six months he treated her at her request. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' sees him openly admit to having failed as a psychologist as he throws himself at the mercy of the Washington State Medical Review Board in the wake of the Laura Palmer case and he quietly accepts it when the board decides to revoke his medical license. |
| 850 | * OddFriendship: ''The Final Dossier'' reveals that he is actually a pretty good friend of Jerry Horne due to their shared interest in cannabis. |
| 851 | * TheStoner: According to ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' and ''The Return'', he has been living a stoner lifestyle for a while, which [[CloudCuckooLander explains a lot]]. |
| 852 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Russ Tamblyn also modelled for Dr. Jacoby's older brother, Robert, who appears via picture in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', leading to Jacoby looking completely identical to his brother, save for the beard. |
| 853 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Dr. Jacoby isn't so much "ugly" as he is quirky and unattractive. However, he's married to a pretty Hawaiian woman who seems to be a [[MayDecemberRomance couple years younger than him]]. |
| 854 | * WorstAid: Doctor Jacoby is probably one of the worst psychologists in the world. His handling of just about everyone in the show is comically terrible. |
| 855 | [[/folder]] |
| 856 | |
| 857 | [[folder:Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman]] |
| 858 | !!Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman |
| 859 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/210px-Log_Lady_6578.jpg]] |
| 860 | [[caption-width-right:210:"I carry a log, yes. Is it funny to you? It is not to me."]] |
| 861 | ->Played by: Catherine E. Coulson |
| 862 | |
| 863 | ->''"Fire is the devil hiding like a coward in the smoke."'' |
| 864 | |
| 865 | Probably the most unusual of the Twin Peaks townsfolk, ([[QuirkyTown which is]] [[EccentricTownsfolk saying a lot]]). Margaret Lanterman, a/k/a "The Log Lady", is an [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] recluse who lives in a cabin in the forest. She is always seen carrying a [[CompanionCube log]] (hence her nickname), which is implied to either contain the spirit of her dead lumberjack husband or, as of ''Fire Walk With Me'', to serve as a link to him in the Black Lodge -- though she never voices either theory outright and is implied to be forbidden from doing so. Because of this, the other townsfolk think she's crazy. She was with Laura five days before her murder. |
| 866 | ---- |
| 867 | * AmbiguouslySentientObject: It's purported that Margaret's log may have some psychic link to the supernatural, ranging from Margaret's dead husband to [[EldritchLocation the Black Lodge]], and [[MadOracle she frequently conveys visions of clairvoyance]] that ''she'' doesn't personally understand and claims to come from the log, [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight which often turn out surprisingly prescient]]. Like with much of the series, whether or not the is log is haunted or supernatural in general is left uncertain. |
| 868 | * TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Catherine E. Coulson was sick with cancer during filming and passed away in 2015. Margaret was written with a terminal disease as well and passes away in Part 15. |
| 869 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hoo boy... She sticks out in Twin Peaks for this. |
| 870 | * CompanionCube: Her log, which she frequently talks to as though it's sentient. However, it's implied that it may actually be alive in some way by having a connection to the spirit of her dead husband. |
| 871 | * ConsultingMisterPuppet: She frequently defers to her log when questioned. |
| 872 | * TheDanza: Margaret's maiden name is revealed in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' to be Coulson, the surname of her actor. |
| 873 | * HugeSchoolgirl: She was noted to be quite tall for her age in Elementary School, and was a bit awkward as a result. |
| 874 | * IWasQuiteALooker: She was noted to be very pretty in her youth. Her old friend, Robert Jacoby, described her as a borderline StatuesqueStunner back in the day. |
| 875 | ** Photos of a young Catherine Coulson bear this out; they show a tall, leggy young woman with GirlNextDoor good looks and a [[WhenSheSmiles captivating smile]]. |
| 876 | * OddFriendship: By 2016, she seems to have formed one with Hawk. |
| 877 | * MadOracle: She's a more benign form of this, but is definitely strange and tends to speak in omens. |
| 878 | * NonSequitur: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."[[note]]There was a trout in the coffee, but the tea would have taken longer to make.[[/note]] |
| 879 | * TouchedByVorlons: ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals her weirdness might have been a result having been the victim of what appears to be an alien abduction in her childhood. It is implied that, other than her strange quirks, the incident left her with some strange kind of pre-cognition. |
| 880 | * WidowedAtTheWedding: Her husband, Sam, was a volunteer firefighter, and unluckily enough, a forest fire started during the newly wed couple's wedding reception. Sam quickly left the reception along with the rest of the brigade to fight it; he didn't make it back. |
| 881 | [[/folder]] |
| 882 | |
| 883 | [[folder:The Waiter]] |
| 884 | !!The Waiter |
| 885 | ->Played by: Hank Worden |
| 886 | |
| 887 | ->''"I've heard about you!"'' |
| 888 | |
| 889 | A mysterious old man who works at the Great Northern Hotel. |
| 890 | ----- |
| 891 | |
| 892 | * CaptainOblivious: He apparently doesn't realize that Agent Cooper has been shot when he brings him his warm milk, despite Cooper lying bleeding on the floor. He just goes about his business and asks Cooper to sign the bill for the room service, like everything is normal. |
| 893 | * CloudCuckoolander: Has extremely odd behavior possibly related to his old age. [[spoiler:Or it might be because the Giant is possessing him.]] |
| 894 | * GoodLuckGesture: Compliments a mortally wounded Cooper, winks and gives him a thumbs up three times. |
| 895 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he another spirit of the Black Lodge or is he really just some senile elderly waiter? He appears to Cooper in the Red Room during the last episode before being replaced by the Giant who say's "One and the same," so make of that what you will [[spoiler:Given that the Lodge spirits [[BodySurf possess bodies]] it's ''probably'' similar to MIKE's regular possession of Philip Gerard.]] |
| 896 | * WhamLine: [[spoiler:"That gum you like is going to come back in style."]] |
| 897 | [[/folder]] |
| 898 | |
| 899 | [[folder:Mike Nelson]] |
| 900 | !!Mike "Snake" Nelson |
| 901 | ->Played by: Gary Hershberger |
| 902 | |
| 903 | A football player for Twin Peaks high school and Donna Hayward's boyfriend (before she dumps him for James). |
| 904 | ---- |
| 905 | * {{Jerkass}}: He has almost no personality traits except being unpleasant to people as well as being Bobby's sidekick. |
| 906 | * JerkJock: Incredibly jerkish to almost everyone he meets. Also, a football player. |
| 907 | * LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler:Eventually falls for Nadine in the second season]]. |
| 908 | * OlderAndWiser: In ''The Return'' much like his friend Bobby, twenty five years after Season 2 Mike seems to have matured into a respectable member of society. |
| 909 | * OnlySaneMan: While not exactly a rational kid, his problems revolve more around getting laid and his reputation at school than the murder mysteries and get rich schemes of his friends. |
| 910 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Forms this with Bobby, with whom he is usually seen together. According to Mark Frost, although they weren't seen together in any scenes in ''The Return'', him and Bobby have remained good friends in their older days and are on the same bowling team. |
| 911 | [[/folder]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | [[folder:Robert Jacoby]] |
| 914 | !!Robert Jacoby |
| 915 | ->Played by: Russ Tamblyn (photograph), Ari Fliakos (voice) |
| 916 | |
| 917 | Dr. Jacoby's older brother. The long-standing chief-in-editor of the local Twin Peaks newspaper, the ''Twin Peaks Post'', he passed away three years prior to the series proper, and as such, pretty much all of the information about him is told in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks''. |
| 918 | ---- |
| 919 | * IntrepidReporter: He knew quite a lot about the town's secrets and history through his work as its resident journalist, having intimate knowledge of the stories of the Hornes, the Martells, and the Packards. |
| 920 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Like Dr. Jacoby, he is portrayed (in photograph) by Russ Tamblyn, effectively meaning that he looked downright identical to his brother. [[spoiler:Of course, the obvious implication is that he might actually be Dr. Jacoby's doppelganger, as Jacoby himself is strongly implied to have had a run-in with the Black and White Lodges in his youth.]] |
| 921 | * UnstuckInTime: ImpliedTrope. Looking over the different documents reveals that Robert's timeline is rather messy, with his age being inconsistent (most notably it appears that he was both attending third grate in elementary school, while apparently also being a 16 year old junior reporter for the ''Twin Peaks Gazette''), and his death date seem to have taken place at several points being listed happening as both in 1969 and 1986. [[spoiler:With ''The Return'' revealing that altering timelines is possible, the closest to an explantation to all of this is that something ''seriously'' screwed up must have happened to his personal timeline at some point.]] |
| 922 | [[/folder]] |
| 923 | |
| 924 | [[folder:Cyril Pons]] |
| 925 | ->Played by: Mark Frost |
| 926 | |
| 927 | A journalist and news reporter from Twin Peaks. |
| 928 | ---- |
| 929 | * CreatorCameo: Of series co-creator Mark Frost. |
| 930 | * RecurringExtra: He appears briefly in every season of ''Twin Peaks''. He even has a small role in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'', being the in-universe author of the article about the explosion at the Twin Peaks Savings and Loan Bank. |
| 931 | * RoleEndingMisdemeanor: An InUniverse example. According to Mark Frost, the reason why Pons has seemingly fallen on rather hard times in his small appearance in ''The Return'' (going from being a TV reporter to a inhabitant of a trailer park), is because he dropped an F-bomb during a live broadcast when an earthquake struck the studio. |
| 932 | [[/folder]] |
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