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10[[folder:The Adamas]]
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12!!Joseph Adama
13-> '''Played By:''' Creator/EsaiMorales
14
15Father of William and Tamara Adama, an attorney working for the Tauran mafia in Caprica City.
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17* AmoralAttorney: He's a mob lawyer.
18* BumblingDad: When it comes to Willie, Joseph generally is unsure of how to proceed. It's clear from early on his relationship with his son is strained, all the more so because he's preoccupied with [[DaddysGirl Tamara]]. His brother calls him out on it several times, even basically taking custody of Willie when Joseph really hits bottom.
19* DealWithTheDevil: The [[TheMafia Ha'la'tha]] paid for his college and law school education.
20* PapaWolf: At least when it comes to Tamara. He will go to ''any'' lengths necessary to protect her. Somewhat {{Deconstructed}} in that it turns out she neither needs his protection nor wants it (since it's ruining his life and causing him to neglect her brother).
21
22!!Sam Adama
23-> '''Played By:''' Creator/SashaRoiz
24
25Joe's brother, a legbreaker and assassin for the Tauran mob.
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27* AntiVillain: He's a hitman, but sees his job as being part of the protection of the Tauron immigrant community on Caprica.
28* CoolUncle: To Willie, whom he'd really rather not involve in criminal activity, though his nephew really wants to learn the family business.
29* DeadpanSnarker: Has a bone-dry wit.
30* [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]]: Tauron immigrants treat him with respect and see the Ha'la'tha as protecting their interests from the Capricans who look down on them.
31* {{Gayngster}}: He's homosexual and married to a man, and is a button man for organized crime.
32* ManlyGay: He's a mob hitman for the gods' sake! Neither Sam nor his husband ever act effeminate or stereotypically gay. In many episodes, it's easy to miss his orientation entirely.
33* ParentalSubstitute: Towards William, ''particularly'' since Shannon and Tamara's deaths and Joseph's subsequent lapse into deep depression.
34%%* SenseiForScoundrels: Again, towards William.
35* TattooedCrook: Has a series of elaborate tattoos across his torso, all of which have specific meanings in Tauron culture. The markings on his chest indicate his allegiance to the Ha'la'tha while another marking indicates his relationship with his husband.
36
37!! William Adama
38-> '''Played By:''' Creator/SinaNajafi
39Joe's young son.
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41* ForegoneConclusion: He will live on to shake off his Ha'la'tha roots and become an AcePilot. [[spoiler:Except he doesn't, since he's a different William Adama--Bill's older brother.]]
42* DyeingForYourArt: Averted, which also [[spoiler:gave away the twist at the ending of the season. The actor of Old!William, Edward James Olmos, was dark-eyed but intentionally wore blue contacts for the role. So William#1 having a distinct Southern appearance with dark eyes already indicates that something is off here - why wasn't he outfitted with the same contacts if his older version had to do it? And lo and behold, the ''actual'' Young!William in the last episode has piercing blue eyes.]]
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44!!Tamara Adama
45-> '''Played By:''' Creator/GenevieveBuechner
46
47* Joe's teenage daughter.
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49* ActionGirl: In the "New Cap City" V-World MMORPG.
50%%* BrokenBird
51%%* CuteGhostGirl
52* DeathByOriginStory: The original, human Tamara is killed in the maglev bombing.
53%%* TookALevelInBadass
54* VirtualGhost: Her Avatar lives on in V-World after the original Tamara's death.
55* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Is said to be present but offscreen in the second-last episode, and not mentioned in the last episode or its "five years later" epilogue, leaving her fate up in the air.
56
57!!Ruth
58-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KarenAustin
59Joe's mother-in-law.
60
61* NeverMessWithGranny: "Tauron children play jacks with the bones of Tauron children who lose at jacks."
62* RetiredBadass: She used to be a Ha'la'tha assassin.
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64[[/folder]]
65
66[[folder:The Graystones]]
67
68!!Daniel Graystone
69-> '''Played By:''' Creator/EricStoltz
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71* CorruptCorporateExecutive: To some degree. He's much, ''much'' more human than your average CCE, however. At least until he lost his company whereupon he [[spoiler: [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with the H'la'tha]]]] and JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope
72* GenreBlind: Oh no, creating a sentient slave race of war robots isn't going to have any consequences up the line. Well, [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 okay, yes it does]], [[SarcasmMode just a few]]. [[spoiler:Psychologically torturing your already-estranged daughter who just happens to be inside the prototype of that race probably didn't help, either.]]
73* JerkassHasAPoint: When he points out that a virtual avatar that feels and thinks identically to his late daughter ''still isn't her'' and isn't ever going to be.
74* MadScientist: To beat Vergis in winning the Caprican military contract, he performs twisted experiments on his daughter's virtual avatar even while insisting that she ''is'' his daughter and eventually creates a humanoid robot out of her.
75* SupremeChef: How does Dan Graystone relax? He makes dinner.
76
77!!Amanda Graystone
78-> '''Played By:''' Creator/PaulaMalcomson
79
80* FamilyVersusCareer: Somewhat unfairly, Zoe accuses her of being ''both'' a trophy wife ''and'' a distant parent because she has a career as a plastic surgeon.
81* HospitalHottie: She's an M.D. and she's beautiful.
82* NiceGirl: Would normally be Daniel's MoralityChain, were she not having an emotional breakdown over the fact that her daughter was a terrorist, being distracted by the ghost of her brother and Clarice's manipulation.
83* NoSympathy: Towards Zoe, initially. But Amanda remembers life before they were rich, and regarded Zoe as more than a little spoiled.
84
85!!Zoe Graystone
86-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AlessandraTorresani
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88%%* ActionGirl: In the V-World
89* AntiVillain: Thinks she is going to lead a benign religious mass-conversion.
90* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lives in a mansion custom-designed to accommodate her claustrophobia, has just about anything she wants, her parents are busy but not hostile. Yet she behaves like an abused, neglected, child and acts out by joining a terrorist group. {{Deconstructed}} somewhat in that her parents were self-involved enough to not even realize she had a boyfriend and part of Zoe's anger at them came from genuine disgust at the corruption of Caprican society and lack of interest in their wealth.
91* CameBackWrong: The avatar did not actually possess all of Zoe's memories. For example, she does not know what Zoe's plan for her was, or why Zoe didn't trust Clarice. This causes her to improvise dangerously.
92%%* CuteGhostGirl
93* DaddysGirl: Her relationship with her father is very fraught, but she's visibly closer and has more in common with him than her mother and appears to have idolized him somewhat before she grew older and became disillusioned with his career.
94* DeathByOriginStory: The original, human Zoe is killed in the maglev bombing at the start of the show.
95%%* IdiotBall: Somehow never saw anything suspicious about the fact that her boyfriend's private V-World room was designed as a ruined city where the only intact building was a temple to the "One True God".
96* RobotGirl: In both the U-87 and later her gynoid body.
97* TeenGenius: Hands down the best computer programmer in the Colonies.
98%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: To Lacy's Tomboy.
99* TouchedByVorlons: It is strongly implied that Zoe's incredible intellect was cultivated by the Messenger that had been interacting with her since childhood.
100* VirtualGhost: The real Zoe dies in the maglev bombing, leaving only her virtual avatar alive in V-World.
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102[[/folder]]
103
104[[folder:Others]]
105
106!!Lacy Rand
107-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MagdaApanowicz
108
109* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Well, Athenian Academy girls.
110%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: To Zoe's Girly Girl.
111* TookALevelInBadass: From "Blowback" onward, and increasing every episode thereafter.
112%%* WrenchWench
113
114!!Sister Clarice Willow
115-> '''Played By:''' Creator/PollyWalker
116
117* BadHabits: Poses as a priestess of Athena, while actually being a senior cleric in a terrorist monotheist group.
118* BigBad: Is the mastermind behind the terrorist attack at Atlas Arena in the finale. The epilogue montage hints that she may have been influential in the Cylon rebellion.
119* DepravedBisexual: To the point where even attempting to seduce Lacy, a teenage girl (and getting her handsome young husband Nestor to help), is not beyond her.
120* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though she orders the death of Obal Ferras, Willow has a look of absolute shock and horror as she watches Diego and the rest of the Conclave stab the old man repeatedly.
121* FunctionalAddict: Her opium-smoking doesn't usually affect her life otherwise, apart from one very unfortunate verbal slip.
122* ManipulativeBitch: Even her devotion to her religion is tainted by her personal ambition and cutthroat behavior.
123* {{Polyamory}}: She's in a group marriage with several other men and women. They're all secret monotheists, although it's not only monotheists who have group marriages.
124* WellIntentionedExtremist: Or so she sees herself. Actually closer to a KnightTemplar.
125
126!!Philomon
127-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AlexArsenault
128
129
130!!Tomas Vergis
131-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JohnPyperFerguson
132
133* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:After he realizes the Ha'la'tha are going to kill him, he tries to get Daniel to kill him. When Daniel refuses, he ''forces'' Daniel to kill him by forcing him to grip a knife and then plunging the knife into himself.]]
134* TheChessmaster: He really knows how to get people to do exactly what he wants them to do.
135* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He had his own dealings with the Ha'la'tha before the series.
136* AFatherToHisMen: His biggest reason for seeking revenge on Daniel Graystone is that two of his employees were killed when the Ha'la'tha stole the meta-cognitive processor, one of whom was his godsson.
137* {{Revenge}}: He wants to take everything Daniel loves from him for stealing his technology and murdering two of his friends.
138
139!!Drew
140-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JamesPizzinato
141
142* AssholeVictim: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Even though he doesn't die, he gets his fingertip chopped off by Zoe-A. It is hard to feel sympathy for him, given his treatment of Zoe-A.
143* {{Fingore}}: Gets his middle fingertip cut off by Zoe-A while trying to fix her. A few episodes later, he is shown with a splint on his middle finger.
144
145!!Barnabas Greeley
146-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JamesMarsters
147
148%%* BadBoss
149* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Clarice straps him to a bomb and detonates it, but we don’t get to see the bomb detonate of kill Greeley.]]
150* PsychoForHire: He is absolutely out of his mind, and works for Lacy Rand for a bit.
151* TheStarscream: To Clarice, who he is constantly trying to betray so that he can go on with his much more violent and attention grabbing methods.
152* ToThePain: He believes that pain is a pathway to clearer thinking, and he sure practices what he preaches, what with the self-flagellation and all.
153
154!!Evelyn / Emanuelle
155-> '''Played By:''' Creator/TerylRothery & Creator/LeahGibson
156
157* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:She will indeed be William Adama's mother, and Joseph Adama's wife.]]
158* HiddenDepths: In order to help Joseph get over the death of his daughter, when his obsession with finding her avatar-copy in New Cap City was ruining his life, she disguised herself and entered the game to help him find Tamara. She found her first, and both agreed that it was for the best that Joseph not waste his life, after which Tamara killed his avatar to prevent him from going back. And this was all from someone presented (at first) to just be his secretary, albeit a loyal one.
159
160!!Baxter Sarno
161-> '''Played By:''' Creator/PattonOswalt
162
163%%* MrExposition
164* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Imagine Creator/JonStewart meets Jay Leno, with shades of Bill Maher.
165* RunningGag: Caprican college students get most of their news from him. He also jokes that his audience is stoned (a reference to an old [[AppropriatedAppellation appropriated]] [[FanCommunityNicknames nickname]] for the ''Daily Show'' fandom, "Stoned Slackers").
166%%* ShowWithinAShow
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