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3!!!Theo & Kee
4
5[[folder:Theo]]
6!!Theo Faron
7[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Theo_6804.jpg]]
8[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can't really remember when I last had any hope, and I certainly can't remember when anyone else did either."'']]
9!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CliveOwen
10
11A former activist who was devastated when his child died during a flu pandemic.
12----
13* ActionSurvivor: He's had no combat experience, and his only real credentials are that he was a protester with Julian. Still, he manages to make it through an active warzone and [[spoiler: the Fishes trying to kill him at every turn]] through pure determination and guile.
14* AdaptationalNameChange: A minor one: while he's called Theo in both the book and the film, it's short for Theodore in the book and Thelonius in the film.
15* TheAlcoholic: A subtle example. Despite this, he still [[HeroicSacrifice uses up the last of his alcohol]] to [[spoiler: sterilize his hands before delivering Kee's baby.]]
16* AgonyOfTheFeet: PlayedForDrama after Theo [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle loses a sandal]] due to a scuffle with [[spoiler:Syd.]] He proceeds to cut his foot on some scrap metal, then hops and limps his way through the rest of the journey.
17* BadassLongcoat: In keeping with the realism of the film, Theo's coat is pretty shabby and worn. It's pretty badass though. While Theo undergoes multiple wardrobe changes in the film, for better or for worse, the coat is a constant.
18* CigaretteOfAnxiety: [[spoiler: After Julian's death; his hands are shaking and he can't even light it.]]
19* TheCynic: He's extremely embittered by the world and his own hardships, as exemplified by his conversation with Jasper.
20-->'''Jasper:''' So, the Human Project is havin' this dinner and all the wisest men in the world are there...
21-->'''Theo:''' Human Project, why do people believe this crap? You know even if these people existed with these facilities in these secret locations, fuck me, that's strong! Even if they discovered the cure for infertility, doesn't matter! Too late. World went to shit. Know what? It was too late before the infertility thing happened, for fuck's sake.
22-->'''Jasper:''' ...I was just tryin' to tell a joke, mate.
23* DeadpanSnarker: He is extremely acerbic.
24* DeliveryGuy: Theo helps Kee deliver her baby in a rundown building [[spoiler: in the middle of a war-torn refugee camp.]]
25* DespairEventHorizon: Went through it years prior to the film after the death of his son.
26* DoesNotLikeGuns: A bit more subtle than most, but throughout the film, Theo never once picks up one of the ''numerous'' firearms around. Hell, when he [[spoiler: kills Syd,]] he uses a blunt object.
27* EmptyShell: How he gets through the days at the start of the film.
28* FriendToAllLivingThings: As a Biblical allusion, animals love him and are attracted to him. Lampshaded when he visits the farm and dogs that are said to hate everyone happily come up to him with wagging tails. Not too soon after, a kitten latches itself onto him and crawls up his pant leg.
29* FunctionalAlcoholic: His mild alcoholism doesn't really impede him in any way. He drinks to dull his pain, not to get drunk.
30* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Theo takes a bullet during the gunfight with Luke, and right before the Human Project arrives to pick him, Kee, and the baby aboard, he slumps over and goes quiet, with Kee not being able to wake him.]]
31* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He makes damn sure that Kee gets to the Human Project, surviving numerous assassination attempts, crossing an active warzone alone, and even taking a fatal bullet to save her and baby Dylan.]]
32* KnightInSourArmour: Theo is a bitter, alcoholic cynic but he ultimately has a good heart and will do the right thing.
33* NonActionProtagonist: He is a cynical bureaucrat tasked with protecting the world's first pregnant woman in 18 years, no easy task when crossing dystopian England with trained soldiers shooting at them from one side and armed militants shooting back on the other. Theo himself never even picks up a gun and survives mostly by guile and a good running start (although once he smashes someone's face with a car battery).
34* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His and Julian's young son Dylan died during the flu pandemic.
35* PermaStubble: He sports a constant unshaven look.
36* TechnicalPacifist: Theo bashes a couple of heads in self-defense (with a [[CarFu car]] [[ToyotaTripwire door]] and [[ImprovisedWeapon car battery]], respectively), but not once during the course of the film does he ever pick up a gun from any of the dead guys he passes by.
37* UnlikelyHero: Theo. He begins the movie as an incredibly apathetic bureaucrat, feeling nothing but contempt for the world around him besides his love for a select few, such as Jasper, his wife, and Julian. However, throughout the film, he is shown to be genuinely kindhearted, which distinguishes him from so many post/pre-apocalyptic story protagonists.
38* WorkingWithTheEx: When he agrees to help Julian.
39[[/folder]]
40
41[[folder:Kee]]
42!!Kee
43[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kee_9691.jpg]]
44!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Clare-Hope Ashitey
45
46An illegal immigrant and the first pregnant woman in eighteen years.
47----
48* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Her and baby Dylan wind up being the only major characters to make it out to the end of the film.]]
49* DeadpanSnarker: She's pretty snarky.
50* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: She and baby Dylan wind up being the only ones surviving the escort mission.]]
51* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is something of a bitch to Theo at first but quickly warms up to him, the two of them being able to joke around and tease each other.
52* HopeBringer: She and her baby are this for the entire world and Theo in particular, as no one has given birth in nearly 18 years.
53* LivingMacguffin: The entire story is basically driven by the attempts of various characters to save or capture her.
54* MeaningfulName: She is the ''key'' to humanity's survival.
55* MundaneMacGuffinPerson: Theo and Miriam have to try to keep her (and the baby) alive and out of the wrong hands.
56%%* PregnantBadass: Her pregnancy is the driving point of the film. - ZCE, explain how she is a badass (I don't think she is)
57[[/folder]]
58
59!!!The Fishes
60
61[[folder:Julian]]
62!!Julian Taylor
63[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Julian_1351.jpg]]
64!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulianneMoore
65
66The leader of the Fishes and Theo's estranged wife.
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68* CompositeCharacter: In the book, Theo had an ex-wife named Helena and was contacted by a former student of his named Julian, who is involved with a group of rebels that her husband, Rolf, leads. In the movie, all three roles are taken by Julian.
69* DeadpanSnarker: No wonder her and Julian were happily married, since they share the same brand of sarcasm.
70* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:Probably the biggest name in the film aside from Michael Caine, but she dies early on to help set the plot in motion.]]
71* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Survived the book, but died in the movie.]]
72* DecompositeCharacter: Her role as the last mother on the planet is given to Kee.
73* FieryRedhead: Averted. She's rather cool and careful, although she's still a RebelLeader with big plans.
74* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her and Theo's young son Dylan died during the flu pandemic. He accuses her of having gotten over it too quickly, which she denies, saying that she lives with it and thinks of their son every day.
75* RebelLeader: Of the 'Fishes', a terrorist/rebel group fighting for the right of immigrants.
76* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:She dies before the film hits the halfway mark, shot in the neck by Patric.]]
77* WorkingWithTheEx: She needs Theo's cousin's connections to transport Kee.
78[[/folder]]
79
80[[folder:Luke]]
81!!Luke
82[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LukeCoM_9355.jpg]]
83[[caption-width-right:350:''"...how can it be peaceful when they try to take away your dignity?!"'']]
84!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor
85
86A member of the Fishes and the second-in-command to Julian.
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88* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:He goes from a GoodShepherd in the book to a fanatical terrorist in the film, although it is a very loose adaptation.]]
89* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Luke comes across as pathetic and human as anyone else in his final scene, pinned down with no way out, seemingly having a mental breakdown and tearfully recalling his (implied to be dead) sister.]]
90* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: He genuinely believes he's doing the right thing for Kee, her baby, the rest of Britain, and presumably humanity.]]
91* BigBad: [[spoiler:Luke is the most persistant antagonist, forcing Theo and Kee to go on the run, murdering Jasper and dogging them every step of the way.]]
92* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:To Julian, who of course never discovers that Luke arranged her murder.]]
93* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Seemingly one of the more reasonable characters, he actually orchestrated Julian's death]].
94* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Mentions near the end that he had a sister who died.]]
95* DeceptiveDisciple: [[spoiler: Seems to be loyal to Julian and appears to be genuinely panicked and grief-stricken when she's assassinated, but it's revealed to Theo that he planned for her to get killed so he could use Kee's unborn baby as a symbol for The Fishes and their Uprising. He never believed that the revolution against the totalitarian British government could be peaceful like Julian thought, so he took matters into his own hands.]]
96* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Even after the reveal, Luke's demeanor doesn't really change.]]
97* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: He truly believes he is doing the right thing.]]
98* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Julian. He plotted her demise and made it seem like it was a random attack; that is, until Theo overhears him talking about it.]]
99* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He is blown up during the firefight with the soldiers immediately after shooting Theo.]]
100* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:There's no big showdown between Luke and Theo, which is probably good for Theo. Rather, Luke is killed by the British Army while still screaming at Theo to bring the baby back to him.]]
101* WalkingSpoiler: Look at all the spoiler tags.
102* WellIntentionedExtremist: As with the rest of the Fishes. They want to eliminate Britain's horrible oppression of refugees. Their solution? Use Kee's newborn baby as a trump card. The Fishes certainly don't object to killing whoever gets in their way [[spoiler: including ''their own leader''.]]
103* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Threatens Patric with this and tells him that he won't be allowed to screw up again.]]
104[[/folder]]
105
106[[folder:Miriam]]
107!!Miriam
108!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Pam Ferris
109
110A member of the Fishes who joins Theo and Kee.
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112* CondescendingCompassion: She often rubs hardened cynic Theo the wrong way, trying to sincerely offer aid in the form of her everything-happens-for-a-reason spirituality. Her least sympathetic moment might be when Theo overhears her saying that his and Julian's son died for a reason, when in reality it was a pointless tragedy.
113* GranolaGirl: Miriam is a little kooky and very spiritual, practising what appears to be tai-chi in the forest and performing a laying of hands on Julian's body before covering her with a funeral shroud.
114* HeroicSacrifice: She goads the soldiers into taking her off the bus to be executed, rather than having them discover Kee's pregnancy.
115* TheLoad: While she means well, she often panics when things become chaotic. She redeems herself with her HeroicSacrifice.
116* MsExposition: She drops occasional {{Info Dump}}s for us to fill in the blanks about events leading up to the present situation.
117* MyGreatestSecondChance: Invoked: she was a midwife in the days before the fertility crisis. It's implied she sees helping Kee's child as making amends for all the babies she couldn't save.
118* ObsoleteOccupation: Used to be a maternity nurse before people stopped having children. Naturally, she had plenty of time on her hands afterwards, and with her past experience, became a natural candidate to help shepherd Kee, the world's last known fertile girl, to the Human Project.
119* TokenGoodTeammate: When she learns of Luke's treachery, she cannot bring herself to go along.
120[[/folder]]
121
122[[folder:Patric]]
123!!Patric
124!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlieHunnam
125
126A particularly aggressive and dim-witted Fish.
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128* AxCrazy: Patric is an aggressive, bloodthirsty asshole who takes pleasure in violence and is ''very'' eager to kill.
129* TheDragon: [[spoiler: To Luke.]]
130* DreadlockWarrior: He sports impressive blond dreadlocks.
131* DroppedABridgeOnHim: It's set up like there's going to be a climactic fight between Theo and Patric, but [[spoiler: he is shot in the heart before that can happen]].
132* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He did love his cousin, and is outraged when [[spoiler:Theo kills him in self-defense.]] See MoralMyopia.
133* HotBlooded: His default mode seems to be 'psychotically angry.'
134* InstantDeathBullet: [[spoiler: During the firefight in Bexhill, he gets shot straight in the heart.]]
135* {{Jerkass}}: Patric is an aggressive, violent jackass with virtually no intelligence and has the impulse control of a toddler.
136* MoralMyopia: Patric wants to kill Theo because Theo mortally injured his cousin, who was trying to murder Theo at the time. All Theo did was open his car door to knock the motorcycle down, which hilariously enough works ''again'' when Patric tries catching up
137* NumberTwoForBrains: He's a ''moron''. Patric is impulsive, stupid and mean. His inability to just think things through and show even a hint of Luke's cunning or patience results in Kee's escape.
138* PsychoForHire: It's hard to imagine Patric was hired for anything other than his ability to shoot guns indiscriminately.
139* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Theo notes that he has horrible breath early on.
140* YouHaveFailedMe: Luke threatens him with this after he massively screws up by coming back to the Fishes' hideout to get first aid for one of his gang-members, thus alerting Theo and allowing him to escape with Kee. He manages to avoid such a fate, possibly because Luke can't really go killing able bodies unless they prove themselves to be a truly excessive hindrance.
141[[/folder]]
142
143!!!The Palmers
144
145[[folder:Jasper]]
146!!Jasper Palmer
147[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jasper_7567.jpg]]
148[[caption-width-right:350:''"Your baby is the miracle the whole world has been waiting for."'']]
149!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelCaine
150
151Theo's aging hippie friend, a former editorial cartoonist who cares for his catatonic wife.
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153* AdaptationalHeroism: The Jasper in the books is a rather unpleasant misogynist who signs his wife up to Quietus against her will; Jasper here is a CoolOldGuy with little in the way of serious character flaws.
154* AdaptationalNameChange: Jasper Palmer-Smith in the novel.
155* CoolOldGuy: The epitome of this. He is a cheerful, intelligent, old-school hippie who spends his time listening to heavy metal and growing and smoking copious amounts of weed. He's a devoted husband to his catatonic wife, shelters Theo and Kee, uses his contacts to arrange for them to escape to Bexhill, and rather fearlessly [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to keep them safe when the Fishes come calling.]]
156* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: You wouldn't expect an aging hippie stoner to be as brave as he is.
157* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:He makes jokes to Luke's face, mocking him even after being shot.]]
158* EruditeStoner: He's very intelligent.
159* GallowsHumour: Jasper runs on it, almost to the point of being a SadClown. He's always joking with Theo and his guests (and his wall of GloryDays memorabilia shows he made a career of it), hides his bitterness over the treatment of him and his wife [[spoiler:and exits the film making a fart joke with his executioner]].
160* GranolaGirl: A male example. He grows weed out in his house in the woods, some of which has different flavors, the one he's most proud of being strawberry.
161* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Stays behind to distract Luke so that Theo, Miriam and Kee can escape. Luke ends up killing him]].
162* HippieParents: Although not biologically related to Theo, the Palmer's can be seen as this. Jasper is an aging GranolaGuy, living in the woods ''naturally'' with his wife, growing a [[strike:new]] immensely popular variety of pot that has a strawberry flavor. It is implied that he was left without a choice but to withdraw from society after his wife was tortured by the government and became catatonic as a result. Jasper himself had a career as a famous political cartoonist, which also didn't exactly fly under Britain's new authoritarian regime.
163* NiceGuy: Jasper is an all-around awesome person.
164* NewAgeRetroHippie: Doing the math that if Jasper is meant to be as old as his actor was, in his 70s in 2027, he's ''far'' too young to have been part of the original hippie movement given he would have been born in the 1950s, which means he likely got into it well after the heyday that happened in the 1960s and 70s.
165* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As part of his hippie image, he looks much like an aged Music/JohnLennon.
166* OddFriendship: The fact that he deals pot to [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Syd,]] who he openly calls a fascist pig as an inside joke, is peculiar.
167[[/folder]]
168
169[[folder:Janice]]
170!!Janice Palmer
171!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Philippa Urquhart
172
173Jasper's catatonic wife.
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175* EmptyShell: She ended up a vegetative in a wheelchair after being tortured for questioning the British regime.
176* IntrepidReporter: She was an award winning photojournalist who bravely questioned the British government's actions towards refugees in her reporting before the events of the film. It resulted in her getting tortured by [=MI5=] and becoming catatonic.
177* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Jasper gives her suicide pills to prevent her from being cruelly murdered (or tortured) by Luke.]]
178[[/folder]]
179
180!!!Other Characters
181
182[[folder:Syd]]
183!!Syd
184!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterMullan
185
186A border guard who buys weed from Jasper.
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188* CorruptCop: He's blatantly corrupt, breaking government protocol by allowing the protagonists to enter Bexhill in exchange for a large amount of Jasper's weed.
189* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Theo follows Jasper's orders and tells Syd he's a fascist pig as a code word, Syd pulls out a baton and pretends like he's going to beat Theo over the head with it as a [[{{Troll}} "joke"]]. Having just met him, in an abandoned school in the middle of absolute nowhere, where no-one would ever find his body. This scene serves to establish him as a dark-humored, corrupt and untrustworthy man with a sadistic streak.
190* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Syd makes a passing mention that he loves his mum, though it doesn't come off as sincere as he thinks it might be.
191* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Theo smashes his face with a car battery as he tries to squeeze out through a blocked doorway.]]
192* FauxAffablyEvil: He makes jokes and plays a horrible prank on Theo early on. His idea of what's funny is clearly only funny to him.
193* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Syd is a helpful enough guy at first and seems like he might be a good man at heart, but the reality is that he's a craven opportunist, only helping in exchange for Jasper's weed, and attempts to bring in Theo, Kee, and her baby for a reward when he finds out that they're wanted by The Fishes and the British government.
194* LaughablyEvil: Syd might be a sadistic, self-serving bastard but his ThirdPersonPerson style of speaking, dark sense of humor and Peter Mullan's joyously evil performance all conspire to make him a joy to watch.
195* OddFriendship: Though they never appear onscreen together, it's odd that Jasper knows and trusts him, considering Jasper's a NiceGuy and Syd is a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, although it's possible that he wasn't aware that Syd was ''that'' bad of a man.
196* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He's perhaps notable in that he's the only character whose ''sole'' motivation is self-interest, which in his case, is cash.
197* ThirdPersonPerson: Syd refers to himself in such a way.
198-->"Syd doesn't know why they want to get inside the camps. Syd doesn't want to know. Syd doesn't care."
199* {{Troll}}: As evidenced in his first encounter with Theo; he plays a terrifyingly sadistic prank on him.
200* ViolentGlaswegian: [[spoiler:He fits this trope to a T after he betrays Theo for his own profit. He shows himself to be fairly trigger-happy.]]
201[[/folder]]
202
203[[folder:Marichka]]
204!!Marichka
205!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Oana Pellea
206
207A Romanian lady who acts as Theo and Kee's guide once they're in the camp.
208----
209* CanineCompanion: Has a little dog that goes everywhere with her and that she carries through the warzone and gunfire.
210* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She seems cold and indifferent to Theo and Kee's plight at first. However, once she discovers the baby, she still guides them to safety even though she's not expecting any sort of material reward and the heat surrounding Kee is massive. She attempts to warn them about Syd's true nature through her extremely limited English, and when he turns on them, she beats him with a heavy stick, shouting, "BAD! BAD! BAD!" She ultimately finds them a boat to escape the camp and sends them off, despite Theo imploring her to come along.
211* LetsGetDangerous: Marichka cowers when Syd pulls out a gun and starts firing to intimidate her, Theo, and Kee. But when it becomes clear Syd will likely hurt Kee or her baby before he hands them over to the Fishes, she knocks him down with a 2x4 and whales on him repeatedly, giving them all an opportunity to evade him.
212* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: It isn't shown whether Marichka survives the bombing of Bexhill by the RAF. It could be inferred that she did given that she was last seen in an underground tunnel shortly before the bombing began... although that doesn't exclude the possibility of the British army sweeping through afterwards and putting all the remaining refugees and rebels to the sword.]]
213* TheUnintelligible: She speaks in her native tongue and none of it is translated. Most of the dialogue was improvised by the actress.
214[[/folder]]
215
216[[folder:Nigel]]
217!!Nigel
218!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DannyHuston
219
220Theo's cousin and a high-ranking government official. Nigel runs a Ministry of Arts programme "Ark of the Arts", which "rescues" works of art such as Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}}'s ''Art/{{David}}'' (albeit with a broken leg), Creator/PabloPicasso's ''Art/{{Guernica}}'', and Banksy's ''British Cops Kissing''. He mentions that he tried to save Michelangelo's ''Pietà'', but a mob destroyed it before he could.
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222* CollectorOfTheStrange: Nigel runs a programme known as "Ark of the Arts" which involves salvaging (or stealing) works of great art from around the world to prevent them from being destroyed in country-wide riots and the like. He has Michelangelo's ''David'', for example, with a piece of its leg having been destroyed during a riot.
223* GrailInTheGarbage: His job is to collect pieces of art that run the risk of destruction by angry mobs. He couldn't save ''Piéta'', but managed to save Michaelangelo's ''David'', give or take a chunk of leg.
224* NiceGuy: Nigel might be sitting happily in his ivory tower while the world burns around him, but that doesn't change that he's an affable guy who seems overjoyed to see Theo again, to the point of helping him acquire transit papers on Theo's word, at no small risk to himself.
225* SelectiveObliviousness: Nigel's focus is on recovering art for its own sake, while actively choosing not to dwell on the fact that within a generation, there won't be a soul left alive to enjoy any of it.
226-->'''Theo:''' You kill me. A hundred years from now, there won't be one sad fuck to look at any of this. What keeps you going?
227-->'''Nigel:''' You know what it is, Theo? I just don't think about it.
228* StepfordSmiler: Nigel is chummy and ever-smiling, but there are more than a few hints that his seemingly charmed life has problems of its own. His son has mental issues, his wife is off busying herself with some animal charity, and Nigel himself is seen taking an unidentified pill while cheerily telling Theo he simply doesn't think about mankind's approaching extinction.
229* SuddenlyShouting: One hint that not all is well in Nigel's world is the moment when, despite otherwise being disarmingly pleasant, he aggressively barks at his son to take his pills when Alex isn't heeding him quickly enough.

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