Line #297 Characters/REC


1	This is a list of characters from the ''Film/{{REC}}'' series.
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5	!!Introduced in ''[REC]''
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7	[[folder: Ángela Vidal]]
8	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Manuela Velasco
9	[[quoteright:804:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angela_vidal_rec_4.png]]
10	[[caption-width-right:869:''Good evening, this is Angela Vidal speaking. Tonight, as usual, we will share this time...'']]
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12	The leading character of the franchise appearing in three of the four movies, Angela is the sympathetic hostess of ''Mientras Usted Duerme'' ("While you are asleep"), a TV reality show about people working night jobs. While shooting an episode following a fire squad in Barcelona, she ends up quarantined with her cameraman Pablo in an appartment building overtaken by a terrifying virus.
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14	* ActionGirl: Slips into this at the end of the second movie, right before [[spoiler:you discover she is actually possessed by the demon that possessed Medeiros]].
15	* AloneWithThePsycho: Left alone, in the dark, with the Medeiros girl at the end of the first movie.
16	* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Ángela forgets [[spoiler:she was ever possessed by the demon once it leaves her body. It takes finding and recovering the footage for anyone to realize she was once the carrier.]]
17	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: Ángela has become the new host of the demon that possessed Medeiros, making her the lead carrier for the demonic plague. And she's now free to infect the entire world.]]
18	* AntiHero: Ángela takes some downright ruthless measures in her determination to escape in the fourth movie, including [[spoiler:releasing the infected cook on her armed pursuers.]]
19	* AudienceSurrogate: In the first film, she discovers the firemen's routine, the building, and the outbreak at the same time as the audience.
20	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wished the firemen got a call that night and they could film it. Well...
21	* BerserkButton: ''Don't touch the fucking camera!'' Ángela does not like people trying to mess with it.
22	* BrokenBird: Ángela is far more aggressive and brutal in the fourth movie. Given what she's been through, it's hard to blame her.
23	* CastingGag[=/=]CastTheExpert: Velasco was a real TV hostess at the time the first movie was produced. Though she had played bit parts in movies and TV series before, this film solidified her as a leading actress.
24	* CelebritySurvivor: In-universe. Being a TV hostess, however unknown, she's the most famous person in the building.
25	* DeadlineNews: A local TV reporter, unwittingly chronicling a zombie outbreak from the front line. [[spoiler:Ultimately [[SuvbertedTrope subverted]] as she's revealed to have survived in the second film, and ends surviving all movies she's in]].
26	* FanDisservice:
27	** The first film ends with Ángela and her generous cleavage looking at the camera. It's a sequence shot in night vision and completely, utterly terrifying.
28	** At the end of the second film, [[spoiler:a possessed]] Ángela straddles Owen after [[spoiler:beating the shit out of him, and mocks him before delivering the final blow.]]
29	* FinalGirl: Of every film she appears in. By the second film she's carrying some obvious PlotArmor.
30	* FromDressToDressing: She takes off both her jacket and pink shirt so it can be used to tend Vicente.
31	* FreakOut: Ángela has two meltdowns in the film. The first after the infected escape the building and force the survivors to take refuge in César's apartment, she goes off after hearing him say that the government will evacuate them, because she thinks they won't. The second happens when she wrongly believes that the Colombian girl bit her.
32	* GirlishPigtails: Wears them in the first movie before the real action starts to emphasize her innocence.
33	* HystericalWoman: In addition to the FreakOut, she spends much of the movie screaming Pablo's name or yelling at Sergio for telling them to stop filming.
34	* MsFanservice: Angela spends the three movies she appears in a [[LimitedWardrobe white tanktop]]; In ''[REC]'' and ''[REC]2'' she's down to her tanktop after giving her jacket and overshirt to the wounded Vicente and later in ''[REC]4'' she takes off her long sleeved shirt before picking up an axe.
35	** Even at the end of ''[REC]4'' she's running around in a wet soaked white tank top.
36	* MsExposition: Ángela, being a journalist, is lured to explain everything that we see to the camera.
37	* NiceCharacterMeanActor: She badmouths the firemens chief behind his back and can be rather unpolite to Pablo at times.
38	* OhCrap: Has this when she makes the connection between Jennifer's story of her sick dog, Max, and the health inspector's story about the infected dog who became violent...
39	* PlotArmor: [[spoiler:The series takes increasing pains to keep her alive and returning for three of the four films in direct continuity, which she survives.]]
40	* PrecisionFStrike: The [[FountainOfMemes meme-inducing]] line "Pablo, tape everything for your fucking mother's sake" (rendered "Tape fucking everything" in the subs).
41	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The second movie follows right from the end of the first, revealing that her apparent death wasn't so [[spoiler:because the Medeiros Girl didn't want to kill her.]]
42	* SleevesAreForWimps: In the fourth film she strips to her tank top before grabbing an axe to defend herself
43	* TankTopTomboy: She wears a white tank top in all three films she appears.
44	* TomboyishPonytail: She ties her hair into a ponytail halfway into the first film and likewise has her hair tied on a ponytail in the fourth film.
45	[[/folder]]
46
47	[[folder: Pablo Luque]]
48	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Pablo Rosso, Javier Coromina (voice)
49
50	Pablo is Angela Vidal's cameraman who ends up quarantined in the building with her after following a couple of firemen there.
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52	* CameraAbuse: Pablo is both the only camera in the first film and a survivor running for his life, so this is a given.
53	* HeroicSacrifice: Tells Ángela to run away while he distracts the Medeiros Girl.
54	* TheFaceless: Given that he's the one behind the camera. [[spoiler:Even after he's killed, we only see a bit of his back and shoulder.]] His face was finally shown in promotional material for the second film.
55	* TheLancer: Ángela's loyal and protective second to the end of the first film.
56	* TheWatson: Serves both as the audience's eye and someone for Ángela to talk to when all others are... let's say unavailable.
57	[[/folder]]
58
59	[[folder: Manu]]
60	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Ferran Terraza
61
62	One of two firemen dispatched to help in a domestic disturbance call, ending trapped in the building when it is quarantined.
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64	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: When Ángela and Pablo exit the upper floor, they call for Manu, their last ally left, only to discover that he has zombified offscreen. [[spoiler:This is the moment it becomes hopeless for both characters, as Manu and the rest of the zombies are blocking their way out of the building, and they barely make it back in the apartment before Sergio's zombie gets them.]]
65	* BaldHeadOfToughness: Manu is bald and also the most physically imposing and battleready of the survivors, being TheBigGuy.
66	* BloodFromTheMouth: There is blood dripping from his mouth when he is revealed to have turned into a zombie.
67	* TheBigGuy: The biggest muscle of the survivors group.
68	* DeadpanSnarker: When told that Ángela's show is called "While you are asleep", he snaps "So who watches then?"
69	* FireForgedFriends: Despite butting heads with the Police and the younger officer Sergio in particular, they bond to some degree during the crisis, with Manu even consoling him when he's forced to shoot [[spoiler:Mrs. Izquierdo]] in self-defense. You may even see them [[spoiler: chasing Ángela and Pablo after being zombified as a weird version of TogetherInDeath]].
70	* GoodOldFisticuffs: He also uses them to keep the infected at bay, when he can't reach the hammer.
71	* HeroicSacrifice[=/=]SenselessSacrifice: He refuses to enter Guillem's apartment, telling Ángela and Pablo that he will watch outside. In the dark. Some fans believe that he knew he was infected and was buying them time, but it's not confirmed onscreen.
72	* HumongousHeadedHammer: He uses a fireman's sledgehammer to hit door and infected alike. [[spoiler:And keeps using it after being zombified.]]
73	* IChooseToStay: His last words in the film are literally "I stay here".
74	* InterserviceRivalry: He butts heads with the police officers almost as soon as he arrives in the building.
75	* LargeAndInCharge: The tallest character in the first film and a natural leader who all but takes charge after Vicente is wounded.
76	* NeckSnap: Does it to the infected Asian man.
77	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Presumably, his first name is Manuel. His last name is unknown.
78	* OnlySaneMan: Faults aside, he does not fall into panic and keeps a rational position most of the time.
79	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Unlike Sergio, he does not accept the outside's order to quarantine and immediately joins the residents in trying to find a way out.
80	[[/folder]]
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82	[[folder: Sergio]]
83	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Jorge-Yamam Serrano
84
85	The younger half of a police patrol come to investigate the same disturbance as the firemen accompanying the TV crew.
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87	%% * BadCopIncompetentCop[=/=]PoliceAreUseless: Let's say... he screws up a lot during the fateful night.
88	* TheChainsOfCommanding: He does try, but the night is not easy, and his older partner's premature death forces him into a position of authority he's clearly not used to have.
89	* FieldPromotion: Vicente's premature departure forces Sergio to step in his place.
90	* HeroicSacrifice: He decides to stay behind and hold [[spoiler:Jennifer down after being bitten]] so he can win Manu and Pablo some time before [[spoiler:he turns.]]
91	* FireForgedFriends: Despite clashing several times, he bonds to an extent with Manu.
92	* InterserviceRivalry: With the Fire Department.
93	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He demands Pablo to stop working, points a gun at a crowd in order to keep them from a window, and essentially leaves [[spoiler:Guillem and Mari Carmen]] to die by imprisoning them with the infected. However, he's also shaken when he's forced to shoot [[spoiler: Mrs. Izquierdo]] in self-defense and endangers himself while trying to reason with [[spoiler:Jennifer]] instead of treating her like every other infected.
94	* KillingInSelfDefense: He thinks he did this when he's forced to shoot [[spoiler:Mrs. Izquierdo]] in self-defence, but her new self is tougher than that.
95	* LethallyStupid: He runs after the infected Jennifer, leaving her handcuffed mother to be EatenAlive by zombies. Then he tries to sweettalk her, despite being obviously gone, and [[TooDumbToLive turns his back on her]].
96	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Almost has a nervous breakdown over having to shoot [[spoiler: Mrs. Izquierdo]] in self-defense.
97	%% * OldCopYoungCop: Young cop to Vicente's old cop. He even gets credited as such (with Vicente being bizarrely credited as "adult" cop).
98	* WouldntHurtAChild: He won't point his gun at children.
99	* YouShallNotPass: To everyone else, he ''does'' point his gun when he wants them to step aside from a window in the quarantined building and stop trying to leave it.
100	[[/folder]]
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102	[[folder: Álex]]
103	-> '''Portrayed by:''' David Vert
104
105	The other half of the firemen accompanied by the TV crew for the night.
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107	* AloneWithThePsycho: Left behind to watch Mrs. Izquierdo alone after she attacks Vicente. Unsurprising it doesn't end well.
108	* BodyHorror:
109	** Gets an ugly impact wound in his face courtesy of Mrs. Izquierdo, which Guillem and Leandro later poke with syringes.
110	** A DeletedScene for ''[REC]2'' shows him having become bloated, completely gray/purple, bald, and with black eyes.
111	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Mrs. Izquierdo throws him over the staircase's railway after attacking him]].
112	* SacrificialLion: His [[spoiler:fall from the stairs]] is the moment the audience knows that all bets are off in the movie.
113	[[/folder]]
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115	[[folder: Vicente]]
116	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Vicente Gil
117
118	Sergio's partner in the local police department.
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120	* FalseFriend: Insults Mrs. Izquierdo while trying to confraternize with her.
121	-->"What's the fucking old woman's name? ''Conchita?'' Conchita...!"
122	%% * OldCopYoungCop: Old cop to Sergio's young cop.
123	* SirSwearsALot: He seems to drop profanity every third sentence.
124	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is the first person attacked by an infected, almost as soon as the TV crew arrives.
125	* ZombieInfectee: Becomes one after being attacked by Mrs. Izquierdo and the government quarantines the building. Once turned, he kills [[spoiler: Guillem and Mari Carmen]].
126	[[/folder]]
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128	[[folder: Conchita Izquierdo]]
129	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Martha Carbonell
130
131	An elderly woman living in one of the building's apartments. Her neighbors call police and the firemen after they hear her yelling crazily in the night.
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133	* {{Acrofatic}}: As a result of the infection, the portly Mrs. Izquierdo is capable of tirelessly running and sometimes apparent OffscreenTeleportation.
134	* AssholeVictim: She drags out an annoyingly persistent but torturous JumpScare for so long that in-universe, it's shown that nothing of value is lost and everyone's either relieved or apathetic when Manu hits her with the hammer in the face. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop her for long.]]
135	* CrazyCatLady: Said to live alone with her cats, though none is ever seen in her apartment or the building.
136	* FullFrontalAssault: Downplayed. She spends her entire time in the franchise dressed in a nightgown.
137	* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls her Mrs. Izquierdo, except when Vicente uses "Conchita" when he's trying to get her to cooperate.
138	* MadeOfIron: Mrs. Izquierdo is INCREDIBLY sturdy. After she bites Vicente she is punched in the face by the firefighters, yet she gets back up for more, takes five shots to the chest and seemingly goes down, yet later on is up and running again, at this point she takes A SLEDGEHAMMER TO THE HEAD by Manu, and apparently she's down for good, [[spoiler: but then in the sequel she is up AGAIN and attacks Larra, who manages to fire several rounds from his rifle into her chest. Just when you think she's finally down for good, less than 20 seconds later, she's up again and continuing her assault on Larra. DAMN!]]
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140
141	[[folder: Guillem Marimon]]
142	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Carlos Vicente
143
144	The president of the building's neighbors community, and a hospital intern.
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146	* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Locked with the zombified Vicente and Álex]], he does not last long.
147	* IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore: Says this word for word about the outbreak.
148	* TheMedic: ClosestThingWeGot in the quarantined building. Lasts only long enough to say that he has never seen anything like this, though.
149	* MrExposition: Gives exposition on the building, neighbors, and the disease.
150	* NiceGuy: The one tenant who is always nice, doesn't swear, doesn't talk ill of others, and is always ready to help.
151	* ZombieInfectee: Protests that he isn't infected as Leandro locks him in [[spoiler:the workshop with the zombified Vicente and Álex.]] Doesn't last long either way.
152	[[/folder]]
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154	[[folder: Elderly couple]]
155	-> '''Portrayed by:''' María Teresa Ortega & Manuel Bronchud
156
157	The oldest residents in the building, occupying another apartment.
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159	* NoNameGiven: Called "Grandmother" and "Grandfather" in the credits.
160	* ScatterbrainedSenior: A consistent source of comedy in the original film is that they never seem to completely grasp how dire the situation really is.
161	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The directors clearly didn't want to show anything bad happening to them on the screen, but their survival is unlikely.
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder: Asian family]]
165	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Akemi Goto, Chen Min Kao, & Daniel Trinh
166
167	An immigrant family in the building that doesn't speak Spanish, and the owners of the workshop in the ground floor.
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169	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The man and woman appear zombified at once, without a clue of how or when it happened.
170	* DemotedToExtra: The husband had scripted scenes and dialogue pre-infection but they were cut from the final film.
171	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: While struggling to speak Spanish with Angela, the woman fires a barrage in her own language to her husband.
172	* EthnicMenialLabor: Immigrants from a racial minority working textiles.
173	* FunnyForeigner: The woman trying to explain [[spoiler:the fireman]]'s fall in her limited Spanish is one of the most remembered comedic moments of the original film.
174	* TheGhost: The woman's father lives in the building with them but is never seen, as he is bedridden and is not brought downstairs.
175	* HenpeckedHusband: The woman yells at her husband to shut up when he tries to interfer in her interview.
176	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The credits call them Japanese and the woman speaks Japanese to her husband (also, she says her name is [[FamousNamedForeigner Mika Kobayashi]] in an extended scene). However, it is hard to believe that they were written as Japanese and this wasn't an ActorInspiredElement, because the kind of EthnicMenialLabor they exemplify is overhelmingly Chinese in Spain in real life, while Japanese are few and high-income. It was also more difficult to recruit Chinese or Chinese-descended actors in Spain when the movie came out than it is now.
177	* NeckSnap: Manu does one to the husband's zombie after losing his hammer.
178	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The son's fate is not shown.
179	[[/folder]]
180
181	[[folder: Mari Carmen]]
182	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Maria Lanau ([REC]), Anna García Cuartero ([REC]2)
183
184	A tenant with a young daughter, Jennifer.
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186	* DeathTrap: [[spoiler:Leandro has her handcuffed to the railing after her daughter spits blood on her face. Unfortunately, Sergio has the only key and he runs after the daughter. Then the infected in the workshop escape.]]
187	* EatenAlive: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Ángela after she sees Mari Carmen [[spoiler: being biten by several infected while she is handcuffed to the railing. However, they leave her before her flesh gets too damaged.]]
188	* HumiliationConga: Her daughter is sick when the crisis happens, her husband can't support her because he was sealed out while going to buy medicine, [[spoiler: the daughter is infected/possessed, spits blood on her face and runs away. This makes Leandro cuff her to the railing, which in turn makes her unable to run from the infected when they escape, and dies alone without her family.]] Even after she's zombified, [[spoiler: she's still cuffed to the railing while the rest are free to move in the building, and when she escapes and kills her husband, she's disposed of by one of TheScrappy teenagers by forcing her to chow on a rocket, which then explodes in her face]]. What did she do to deserve all of that?
189	* {{Hypocrite}}: After hearing that the Asian mother's father is sick, she blames him for the outbreak and speaks against bringing him down with other people, despite her own daughter being sick and with them.
190	* HystericalWoman: To a T. She's even credited as "Hysterical mother" in ''[REC]'' despite being named in the movie.
191	* ImplausibleDeniability: Insists that her daughter only has tonsilitis after everyone else has a massive OhCrap from realizing that the dog mentioned by Leandro was Jennifer's pet.
192	* {{Jerkass}}: In addition to the rest, César claims in a deleted scene that she's a serial cheater.
193	* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: She does not miss a beat to make a disparaging comment, be it about her HenpeckedHusband who [[WhenYouComingHomeDad works too much]] or anything else. She's also the first and only character to threaten lawsuits and going to the press.
194	* SealedEvilInACan: Briefly, as a result of [[spoiler:zombifying while chained to the stairs railing.]] However, when the GEO enters the building she's no longer there.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder: Jennifer]]
198	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Claudia Silva
199
200	A seven-year-old resident and the daughter of Mari Carmen.
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202	* BlackEyesOfEvil: Has these when she's found again after her transformation, which is noted by the characters.
203	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Possibly why it took the demon virus so long to turn her compared to everyone else.
204	* ItCanThink: Jennifer turning right when she did, [[spoiler:as if to maximize the tenants' fears despite carrying the virus for so long, and then ''running to Mrs. Izquierdo's apartment'' instead of blindly attacking like other infected up to this point]], pretty much settles that this is no ordinary virus.
205	* KillerRabbit: Once infected, [[spoiler:she kills Sergio]].
206	* LittlestCancerPatient: Subverted. She's a ZombieInfectee.
207	* RuleOfDrama: The other reason why it took her so long to turn, and why did she in that moment.
208	* ZombieInfectee: It wasn't tonsilitis.
209	[[/folder]]
210
211	[[folder: César]]
212	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Carlos Lasarte
213
214	An Argentinian hairstylist who lives alone in the building.
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216	* AccentAdaptation: A dub replaces his accent with a British one, in order to keep the hypocrisy of his hatred of immigrants.
217	* AlwaysCamp: A man who is a women's hairstylist.
218	* CampGay: He wears a colorful ascot, jewelry, and a Creator/JohnWaters-esque pencil-thin mustache, and works as a women's hairstylist. In his short interview, he mentions that he used to live with his mother and now lives alone, makes catty comments about the Asian family, fusses about his appearance, and hits on the cameraman.
219	* DeathByRacism: Seconds after he starts making racist comments about the Asian family, though [[spoiler: he does outlast them.]]
220	* FalseReassurance: After giving Leandro shelter in his home, he theorizes that even if the government intends to abandon the tenants to TheVirus, they will come to save one of their own, and thus will have to evacuate the survivors sheltered with him. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Leandro is already infected]].
221	* GossipyHens: He seems willing to share negative things about all the neighbors.
222	* HopeSpot: He tells Ángela, Pablo, and Manu that there might be a way out through the sewers but nobody is able to get there.
223	* {{Hypocrite}}: He blames the Asian immigrants for the outbreak, despite being an immigrant himself.
224	* {{Jerkass}}: In the extended interview scene, he claims to not conmingle with any other tenant because he sees all as "riffraff".
225	%% * MommasBoy: He shared the apartment "with Mom" until she died.
226	* TooDumbToLive: Despite being alerted that [[spoiler:Leandro]] has been infected by the man himself, he stands right on the fence separating them and with his back turned, with predictable results.
227	* {{Workaholic}}: In the extended interview, he claims to be all day at the hair salon and come home only late at night. However, the sequel changes the location of the hair salon to a room in his own apartment.
228	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Based on a real women's hairstylist known to a member of the crew.
229	[[/folder]]
230
231	[[folder: Colombian girl]]
232	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Ana Isabel Velásquez
233
234	A tenant living alone in the apartment next to Mrs. Izquierdo.
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236	* ForgottenFallenFriend: Despite being a tenant in the building, nobody gives too much thought to her and her death. In fact, it is just as typical to forget that she was in the movie, since she's always in the dark, under heavy monster makeup, or both.
237	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Never given a name, not even in supplementary material.
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder: Leandro]]
241	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Ben Temple
242
243	An agent of the Ministry of Health that enters the quarantined building to assess the situation, take samples, and give further instructions.
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245	* HazmatSuit: He enters the building wearing one, though he takes his mask off later.
246	* KarmicDeath: He imprisons [[spoiler:Guillem and Mari Carmen]] based on his suspicion that they are Zombie Infectees, which causes them to die if they were not. Later on, he imprisons himself after ''he'' becomes a ZombieInfectee. Double points because one of the [[TheUnreveal likeliest candidates]] to infect him is [[spoiler:Guillem]].
247	* MrExposition: Exposes the reason behind the building's quarantine and the unusual nature of the outbreak.
248	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Consider the possibility that neither [[spoiler:Guillem nor Carmen]] were really infected when he had them imprisoned. That would mean Leandro gave two people to the infection and caused the survivors to lose control of the building nearly all by himself.
249	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Temple, who is American, keeps his accent (maybe slightly subdued, at most) despite playing someone working for the Spanish Ministry of Health. Now, it would be rather easy to handwave him as foreign talent given how limited the pool of world emerging epidemics experts is, but the supplementary material also gives him a Spanish name.
250	* SealedEvilInACan: Attempts to become this by locking himself in a room after his infection.
251	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unlike other infected, he's never seen after ''[REC]'' despite being vaguely referenced in ''[REC]2'' and ''[REC]4''. Maybe he never escaped the fenced room where he locked himself in.
252	* ZombieInfectee: Becomes one after the infected escape the workshop. While he tries to isolate himself, this leads to [[spoiler:César]]'s death.
253	[[/folder]]
254
255	[[folder: Tristana Medeiros]]
256	-> '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JavierBotet
257
258	The PatientZero of the outbreak, a mysterious Portuguese girl turned into a hideous monster as a result of her long-time [[spoiler:posession]]. She is [[spoiler:locked in a room in the attic]].
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260	* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Killing her does nothing, because she's transferred the original demon to Ángela]].
261	* BodyHorror: In addition to being extremely deformed due to prolonged [[spoiler:posession]] as a teenager, her chest is cut open and poorly sewn back on (though this is hard to see in the films).
262	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How she dies in the second film.]]
263	* CastingGag: The images of Tristana in her previous form are of the niece of one of the directors.
264	* CrossCastRole: Botet kept the role even as the character went from male to female. Not that there were other candidates...
265	* DemonicPossession: She seems to have rose to some prominence and attracted the Vatican's attention because of claims of being possessed by a demon. [[spoiler:They are right]].
266	* FateWorseThanDeath: Her life is the scariest thing in the movie, and that's saying something. [[spoiler:Gang-raped at 13, possessed by a flesh-eating demon, kidnapped and experimented on by a priest, who keeps her naked and sealed in an attic of a foreign country under complete darkness, all while mutating into a hideously disfigured creature that is barely recognizable as human. Her death is nothing but liberating, moreso because she seemingly can't die of hunger and thirst.]]
267	* FinalBoss: Of the first film. [[spoiler:Seems so in the second too, but the demon is revealed to have hopped on someone else by then.]]
268	* FullFrontalAssault: Only wears a pair of loose underwear.
269	* HiveMind: The comics reveal that she can feel and control the other infected to a point.
270	* HumanoidAbomination
271	* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:A comic shows Father Albelda feeding her parts of a child. It is not clear why this is at all necessary]].
272	* ItCanThink: Uses a hammer as weapon and looks for his victims in the dark, unlike the infected.
273	%% * LeanAndMean[=/=]NoodlePeople: She's freakishly tall and emaciated.
274	* MadwomanInTheAttic: Barely recognizable as a woman, locked in [[spoiler:the attic.]]
275	* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Technically ''twice'' between both movies, but she recovers from both.]]
276	* PatientZero: Of the outbreak.
277	* RapeAsBackstory: A prequel comic reveals that she was [[spoiler:possessed]] after she was gang-raped by priests in a Catholic convent.
278	* SealedEvilInACan: She's locked up in [[spoiler: a room in the attic, with magical seals that prevent her from leaving or interacting with physical people except under pitch darkness.]]
279	%% * SeriesMascot: The only character that can be said to have appeared in all four movies, and one of the most remembered.
280	* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Unlike the others, [[spoiler:she is easily killed with a rifle. However, by that point she was no longer possessed by the demon, so that might have facilitated things.]]
281	* TragicMonster: See the FateWorseThanDeath entry. Medeiros has literally been through Hell in every conceivable way, and while her actions are atrocious, her pain is clear and it's easy to feel sympathy for her plight.
282	* WasOnceAMan: A young teenage girl in this case.
283	[[/folder]]
284
285	!!Introduced in ''[REC]2''
286
287	[[folder: Owen]]
288	-> Portrayed by: Jonathan Mellor
289	* BadassPreacher: Can be considered this, since he handles himself pretty well around the infected and, apparently [[spoiler:has faced the demon that started the outbreak before]]
290	* BoomHeadshot: Owen kills one of the infected children this way. Towards the end, [[spoiler:Ángela]] does the same to [[spoiler:Medeiros]]. [[spoiler:Shame Ángela was already possessed by this point.]]
291	* DetrimentalDetermination: His insistance on getting [[spoiler:Medeiros' blood to create a cure for the possession]] is what ultimately ends up dooming all of the involved in the mission.
292	* GoodScarsEvilScars: While Medeiros is horribly disfigured because of [[spoiler:the demon possesing her body]] and has a giant scar through her chest, Owen has a small scar that starts at his lower lip and ends at his cheek
293	* WouldHurtAChild: An infected one at least. To be fair, he doesn't seem any of the infected as humans anymore.
294	-----
295	[[/folder]]
296
297	[[folder: Fernández]]
298	-> Portrayed by: Óscar Zafra
299	* AFatherToHisMen: After it's abundantly clear the situation inside the building overwhelms them, Fernández puts the safety of his men before the mission.
300	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's only called "Jefe" ("Boss" in Spanish) by his team.
301	-----
302	[[/folder]]
303
304	[[folder: Larra]]
305	-> Portrayed by: Ariel Casas
306	* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Larra commits suicide by gunshot rather than be killed by the infected.]]
307	* MirthlessLaughter: After it's abundantly clear the situation inside the building overwhelms them and [[spoiler:finding out they're facing demon possessed people]], Larra can do nothing but laugh.
308	-----
309	[[/folder]]
310
311	[[folder: Martos]]
312	-> Portrayed by: Alejandro Casaseca
313	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Martos is the first (and only) member of the team to get taken out early on, getting infected barely fifteen minutes in.]]
314	-----
315	[[/folder]]
316
317	[[folder: Rosso]]
318	-> Portrayed by: Pablo Rosso
319	-----
320	[[/folder]]
321
322	[[folder: José]]
323	-> Portrayed by: Juli Fabregas
324	* BitchSlap: Gives one to Tito after he refuses to leave the building.
325	* HairTriggerTemper: Is very prone to fly into a rage, which can be explained by the situation he's in.
326	* HeroicSacrifice: Tries to do this before [[spoiler:accidentally getting killed by Mire.]] His last words are "Run away!"
327	* OnlySaneMan: Just as Manu in the first movie, José makes sure the three teens and Jennifer's Dad keeps their cool inside the building.
328	[[/folder]]
329
330	!!Unsorted
331
332	[[folder: Clara]]
333	-> Portrayed by: Leticia Dolera
334	-----
335	* ActionDressRip: Clara performs one. ''With a chainsaw.''
336	%%* ActionGirl
337	%%* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress
338	[[/folder]]
339
340	%%[[folder: Koldo]]
341	%%-> Portrayed by: Diego Martin
342	%%-----
343	%%[[/folder]]
344
345	%%[[folder: Rafa]]
346	%%-> Portrayed by: Ismael Martínez
347	%%-----
348	%%[[/folder]]
349
350	%%[[folder: Adrian]]
351	%%-> Portrayed by: Alex Monner
352	%%-----
353	%%[[/folder]]
354
355	%%[[folder: Atun]]
356	%%-> Portrayed by: Sr. B
357	%%-----
358	%%[[/folder]]
359
360	%%[[folder: Pepe Victor]]
361	%%-> Portrayed by: Emilio Mencheta
362	%%-----
363	%%[[/folder]]
364
365	[[folder: Guzman]]
366	-> Portrayed by: Paco Manzanedo
367	-----
368	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Guzman is now the demon's host, having exited Ángela's body and possessing him in the apartment complex.]]
369	[[/folder]]
370
371	%%[[folder: Ricarte]]
372	%%-> Portrayed by: Hector Colome
373	%%-----
374	%%[[/folder]]
375
376	%%[[folder: Nick]]
377	%%-> Portrayed by: Ismael Fritschi
378	%%-----
379	%%[[/folder]]
380
381	%%[[folder: Lucas]]
382	%%-> Portrayed by: Críspulo Cabezas
383	%%-----
384	%%[[/folder]]
385
386	%%[[folder: Ginard]]
387	%%-> Portrayed by: Paco Obregon
388	%%-----
389	%%[[/folder]]
390
391	[[folder: Ortega]]
392	-> Portrayed by: Mariano Venancio
393	-----
394	* {{Retirony}}: Captain Ortega keeps insisting it's his last voyage. It really, really ''is.''
395	[[/folder]]
396
397	%%[[folder: Edwin]]
398	%%-> Portrayed by: Cristian Aquino
399	%%-----
400	%%[[/folder]]
401
402	%%[[folder: Goro]]
403	%%-> Portrayed by: Carlos Zabala
404	%%-----

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