Line #63 Characters/Roswell


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4	!!Main Characters
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6	[[folder:Liz Parker]]
7	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shiri_appleby_liz_parker_green_1_dvdbash.jpg]]
8	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ShiriAppleby
9
10	-> '' "It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life." ''
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12	Considered to be the main character along with Max Evans. Liz is your typical girl next door. She's a beautiful human girl. The show centers around her life being saved unexpectedly by the mysterious Max Evans. She feels an instant and undeniable connection to him and realizes that he has felt the same about her from afar for years. Much of the show is dealing with the consequences of falling in love with an alien.
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14	%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Tess feels this way about her.
15	* AmicableExes: Eventually achieves this with Kyle.
16	* AnchoredShip: Good God, Max and Liz went through almost every variety of this trope
17	%%* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Max
18	%%* BadassBookworm: Definitely has her moments in season three.
19	%%* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Max's Archie. While Tess filled the Veronica role.
20	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't try to hurt Max or any of her friends and she will retaliate. Tess found this out the hard way.
21	* BrainyBrunette: Wants to be a molecular biologist.
22	* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Liz did this with Max in season one by breaking up with him so that he could follow his destiny and again in season two when future Max asked her to do so in order to change everyone's bad future.
23	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Liz is the gentle girl to Max's brooding boy. Max is the mysterious guy from and exotic place who risks exposure to save Liz's life. She's the only one who can really get him to relax and let loose without feeling guilty about it.
24	* CameBackWrong: It's discovered that Liz developed alien powers from being brought back to life by Max in the pilot.
25	* CassandraTruth: Warned her friends that something about Alex's death was not right and that he was killed by an alien. She was right.
26	%%* CatFight: With Tess in Four Aliens and A Baby. Tess didn't know what hit her.
27	* {{Determinator}}: During her investigation into Alex's death. Liz didn't let anything prevent her from finding the truth, not even her relationship with Max.
28	* EasilyForgiven: Max forgives her pretty quickly after she "slept" with Kyle. He loves her too much not to.
29	* TheFettered: Liz has a strong sense of right and wrong and along with Max and is often the one who encourages the group to do the right thing.
30	%%* GirlNextDoor: Liz is this from the start.
31	* GoodGirlGoneBad: A somewhat minor example in the season three episode Busted!, Liz helps Max rob a liquor store so that he could get to the spaceship underneath. Her parents certainly think this of her afterwards and try to limit her interaction with Max as a result.
32	* HeroicBSOD: After she learns that Alex has been killed in a car accident. She becomes obsessed with the idea that he was killed by an alien. It completely consumes her and makes her act very out of character until she finds out the truth.
33	%%* HighSchoolSweethearts: With Max.
34	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Maria and Alex before his death.
35	* HumanAlien: Sort of. No one is quite sure why Liz has developed powers only that she has.
36	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Liz goes through a bout of this in season three when she starts to develop alien powers of her own. She gets better.
37	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Liz is willing to push Max towards Tess even if he hates her for it and even though it breaks her own heart because Max asked her to.
38	* InterspeciesRomance: Human Liz has this type of romance with Max the alien/human hybrid. A big source of conflict in the early stages of their relationship.
39	* LoveInterest: Liz is the main love interest of Max.
40	* MainCharacters: The show is told mostly from her point of view with help from her journal entries.
41	* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: The series opens with Liz introducing herself and telling us that "five days ago I died".
42	* Narrator: Liz is the narrator for the series, especially in the first season where her journal entries open the episodes.
43	* NiceGirl: Liz is the nicest out of the group except maybe Alex. She's very down to earth and easy to talk to. In the face of everything that Tess has done to her and her friends, she is not willing to have her killed for it.
44	* OfficialCouple: Max and Liz.
45	* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: Everything from predestined love interests, kidnapping, torture, murder plots, an illegitimate child, and even death has not been able to keep them apart for long.
46	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: She was this before Max saved her life.
47	%%* RedOniBlueOni: Liz is the blue oni to Maria's red oni.
48	* RescueRomance: Max heals Liz after she is shot. Their romance commences soon after that.
49	* TheSmartGuy: Liz is very studious and smart. She was very interested in science and was determined to become a molecular biologist after high school.
50	%%* StarCrossedLovers: With Max.
51	%%* WhatTheHellHero: To Max when she found out that Tess was pregnant with his child.
52	[[/folder]]
53
54	[[folder:Max Evans]]
55	[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/promotional_photos_season_1_max_evans_roswell_13659549_316_386.jpg]]
56
57	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JasonBehr
58
59	-> '' "Well I'm not from around here." ''
60
61	Arguably the main character along with Liz. Max Evans is the human alien hybrid that jump started the whole show. Max seems like a somewhat unassuming, mysterious guy to Liz Parker before he uses his alien powers to save her life. Max is known as the responsible one. He is seen to be kind, caring, heroic and often selfless. He's the leader of his people reincarnated and it shows in his actions. He has loved Liz Parker from afar his whole life and he couldn't bear to see her die so he saved her life.
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63	* ActionHero: Not really by choice but his actions are the catalyst for most of the action in the series
64	* ActualPacifist: Max doesn't like to kill people. It actually becomes a plot point later in the series when he has to make difficult decisions for his family on earth and on his own planet.
65	%%* AnchoredShip: With Liz for all three seasons.
66	%%* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Liz
67	* TheAtoner: Had a major case of this in "A Roswell Christmas Carol."
68	* BadActorGoodLiar: : Max is an alien/human hybrid who is able to pass as a regular, if somewhat shy human. In "Secrets and Lies", he auditions for a small role on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' and is told by Creator/JonathanFrakes and Creator/JohnBillingsley that he isn't convincing as an alien.
69	* BerserkButton: Don't hurt Liz or any of his friends.
70	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
71	%%* BettyAndVeronica: The Archie to Liz's Betty and Tess' Veronica
72	%%* BigBrotherInstinct: To Michael sometimes
73	%%* BroodingBoyGentleGirl
74	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Can get completely drunk from one sip of alcohol
75	* ClarkKenting: Max along with Isabel and Michael work really hard to keep their alien identities to themselves. With good [[TheyWouldCutYouUp reason]].
76	* TheComicallySerious: Max has a very dry sense of humor
77	* ControlFreak: To an extent. His friends have called him out on it a couple times and he usually tries to rein himself in.
78	%%* {{Dandere}}
79	%%* DespairEventHorizon: When he is taken captive by Pierce and tortured.
80	%%* {{Determinator}}: Especially in later seasons
81	%%* Deuteragonist: With Liz.
82	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Max's crush on Liz is obvious to everyone but her. Maria lampshades it in the pilot episode:
83	->'''Maria:''' You are sooo bad girl. Oh, and Max Evans is staring at you again.
84	->'''Liz:''' No way. Maria, that is so in your imagination.
85	->''[Liz looks at Max who is sitting at a booth with Michael at the far end of the restaurant. He looks at her and then quickly away]''
86	->'''Liz:''' Max Evans? This? No, un uh... it's not...
87	->'''Maria:''' And with those cheeks! Preciosita tan linda!
88	->'''Liz:''' Maria!
89	->'''Liz:''' And, and even if it weren't I'm going out with Kyle. I mean, he's steady and loyal, and he appreciates me.
90	->'''Maria:''' Sounds like you're describing a poodle.
91	* TheFettered: Max often feel the pressure of doing the right thing for himself and for everyone else too. It something he really struggles with throughout the series.
92	* {{Foil}}: To Michael. Michael is hot headed and impulsive in comparison to Max's calm and level headed demeanor.
93	* GuiltComplex: Max feels guilty about not being able to save everyone and not being to be the leader others expect him to be.
94	* HealingHands: This is Max's special alien ability. He can heal any wound but it takes a lot of energy to do so. He can even heal death but at great cost.
95	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Michael
96	%%* HumanAlien
97	* InterspeciesRomance: Max is a human alien hybrid in love with human Liz Parker
98	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Felt this keenly in season one. Came to terms with it by the end of the series.
99	* ItsAllMyFault: Feels guilty for endangering his friends and especially Liz with his secret.
100	* KnightInShiningArmor: To Liz definitely. Is willing to risk it all for her before they were even a couple.
101	* TheKirk: Max plays this role with Isabel (TheSpock) and Michael (TheMccoy). He's usually the decision maker between their two vastly different objectives.
102	* TheLeader: Reincarnated leader of his alien planet. Struggles with the responsibility of it on earth.
103	* LoveInterest: Mainly to Liz. Briefly so with Tess.
104	* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Tess leave with his unborn child in season two. He spends most of season three trying to fix it.
105	* MysteriousProtector: For Liz when she got shot in the crashdown cafe and he healed her before running away.
106	* NiceGuy: Max is one of the nicest characters on the show. He is always willing to help someone, sometimes to his own detriment.
107	* NotHimself: When Nasedo pretends to be him in "Max to the Max."
108	* OfficialCouple: Briefly with Liz in season one and then again in season three.
109	%%* PerpetualFrowner
110	* PowerOfLove: Max is able to fight basically being possessed because his love for Liz is too strong to be forgotten.
111	%%* RedOniBlueOni: To Michael and sometimes Isabel too
112	* RescueRomance: Max heals Liz from a gunshot wound, starting a relationship with her soon after.
113	* SecretIdentity: Max keeps his alien nature secret from everyone including his parents.
114	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Max is the Sensitive Guy (kind, compassionate, empathetic, gentle) to Michael's Manly Man (aggressive, passionate, impulsive, strong).
115	%%* ShirtlessScene: Max has gotten a couple of these throughout the seasons.
116	%%* SiblingTeam: With Michael and Isabel.
117	* StarCrossedLovers: With Liz. They have to overcome several hurdles and setbacks before they can be together.
118	* SupportingProtagonist: With Liz. The series is centered mostly around their romance.
119	%%* TookALevelInJerkass: In season two.
120	* TrueCompanions: With Michael and later with Maria and Alex.
121	* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Liz in the first season and with Tess when she was first introduced although that was mostly due to her mindwarp abilities.
122	* WhatTheHellHero: Gets at least one a season. A notable one from Maria after he and Liz get arrested for holding up a liquor store.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:Michael Guerin]]
126	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1675892299318.jpg]]
127	[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
128	->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrendanFehr
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130	* AbusiveParents: Michael's adoptive "father" is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who is verbally abusive and also beats him.
131	%%* HumanAlien
132	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
133	* ParentalAbandonment: Michael's recklessness in uncovering his roots is informed by his lack of parents and familial love.
134	[[/folder]]
135
136	[[folder:Isabel Evans]]
137	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isabel5.jpg]]
138
139	->'''Played by:''' Creator/KatherineHeigl
140
141	-> '' "We're just as human as you are..." ''
142
143	Isabel Evans is an alien-human hybrid like her brother Max Evans and best friend Michael Guerin. She and Max were found as six-year-old children wandering in the desert by Philip and Diane Evans, who adopted them. Isabel is a very visible, popular girl at school. She hides her kind side beneath a front of haughtiness and cold unfeeling—she is the perfect, unknowable, unobtainable beauty. On the outside, she is the most outgoing of the three hybrids and blends in with the human society with ease. On the inside Isabel is probably the most vulnerable of the three. She so wants to be accepted for her alien side as much as her human side.
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145	* AlphaBitch: SubvertedTrope Isabel puts on this front to protect herself and her secret, terrified of letting anyone in. She eventually lets Alex in and they fall in love.
146	* DreamWalker: Isabel's special alien ability is the ability to enter someone's dream. It's unclear if she can manipulate dreams as well.
147	* HumanAlien: Although how much human and how much alien is unknown, until WordOfGod on the subject is available, and if she even has an alien form.
148	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Isabel doesn't relent on this until the last episode of the series, where the Pod Squad goes on the run from the FBI
149	* SecretIdentity: Hiding her true identity.
150	* StarCrossedLovers: With Alex. They suffer from bad timing and being chased by the FBI, as well as the above, but when Isabel is ready and they finally get together, Alex is killed by Tess.
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Alex Whitman]]
154	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ColinHanks
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156	* ButtMonkey: SubvertedTrope Alex is left out of the loop by Maria and Liz early on and even commits a crime giving his blood to pass of as Max's without a thank you ("Blood Brother"), but Alex stands up for himself and ends his friendship with Liz briefly when she refuses to tell him the truth. Eventually Alex is let in ("Heat Wave") and becomes a part of the Pod Squad.
157	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Tess kills him when she mindwarps him one final time after severely damaging his mind.]]
158	%%* LoveInterest: With Isabel.
159	* MomentKiller: Alex has this with Isabel because of Tess, who interrupts Alex trying to ask out Isabel. ("Crazy")
160	%%* NiceGuy
161	%%* PluckyComicRelief
162	%%* StarCrossedLovers: With Isabel
163	[[/folder]]
164
165	%%Needs at least one trope with context[[folder:Maria DeLuca]]
166	%%->'''Played by:''' Creator/MajandraDelfino
167	%%* BestFriend: Mostly serves this purpose to Liz
168	%%* BrutalHonesty
169	%%* DeadpanSnarker
170	%%* RedOniBlueOni: She and Liz Parker.
171	%%[[/folder]]
172
173	[[folder:Kyle Valenti]]
174	->'''Played by:''' Creator/NickWechsler
175	%%* LovableJock: Post-CharacterDevelopment
176	* PluckyComicRelief
177	* TookALevelInKindness
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:Sheriff Jim Valenti]]
181	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/WilliamSadler
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183	* HeelFaceTurn: Starts supporting the group after Max saves his son.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Tess Harding]]
187	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1675892164009_3.jpg]]
188	[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
189	->'''Played by:''' Creator/EmilieDeRavin
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191	* DudeMagnet: Says herself that guys are always after her and Kyle remarks on how she's hot, along with some other guys at Prom later on
192	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Kyle refers to her as a "knockout"
193	* HandsOffParenting: Essentially grew up without any parental restrictions – or family of any kind.
194	%%* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:At the end of Season 3.]]
195	%%* HumanAlien
196	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In the penultimate episode of the series, she sacrifices herself by blowing up the base with her inside.]]
197	* MasterOfIllusion: Tess's main power is to make people see what she wants them to see, hear, feel, etc. She uses this power on Alex so much that he dies as a result.
198	* NewTransferStudent: Arrives late in Season 1
199	%%* ParentalAbandonment:
200	* ReincarnationRomance: Max and Tess were together before they died on Antar. Nasedo and Tess are hoping that this will be the case with their reincarnated forms on earth.
201	[[/folder]]
202
203	%%[[folder:Jesse Ramirez]]
204	%%-> '''Played by:''' Adam Rodriguez
205	%%[[/folder]]
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207
208	%%[[folder:Family]]
209	%%!Amy [=DeLuca=]
210	%%-> '''Played by:''' Creator/DianeFarr
211
212	%%!Nancy Parker
213	%%-> '''Played by:''' Jo Parker
214
215	%%!Jeff Parker
216	%%-> '''Played by:''' John Doe
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218	%%!Phillip Evans
219
220	%%!Diane Evans
221
222	%%!Sean DeLuca
223	%%-> '''Played by:''' Devon Gummershall
224
225	%%[[/folder]]
226
227	[[folder:Allies]]
228
229	!Nasedo
230	-> '''Played by:''' Jim Ortlieb
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232	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Killed in the first episode of Season 2.]]
233	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He gets fatally injured by the Skins in Season 2, and dies in Max’s arms.]]
234	* TheMole: [[spoiler:Revealed to have been working for the Kivar.]]
235
236	!Courtney Banks
237	-> '''Played by:''' Sara Downing
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239	* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:Kills herself rather than be forced to reveal Max and the others’ identities.]]
240	* KilledOffForReal
241
242	!Kal Langley
243	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/JoePantoliano
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245	* IrrationalHatred: He despises Max before they even meet, and actually tries to kill him during their first meeting, only stopping because he is literally programmed not to.
246	* UndyingLoyalty: Invoked. He’s been programmed to do everything Max says. Of course, this doesn’t stop him from harboring a burning hatred for Max, but there’s very little he can do about it,
247
248	%%!Brody Davis
249	%%-> '''Played by:''' Desmond Askew
250	[[/folder]]
251
252	[[folder:Government Antagonists]]
253
254	!Agent Daniel Pierce
255	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/DavidConrad
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257	* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Michael accidentally kills him when he uses his powers to stop Pierce from killing Valenti.]]
258	* AxCrazy: It boggles the mind that someone as blatantly psychotic, sadistic, and murder happy as Pierce made it into the FBI.
259	%%* BigBad: Of Season 1.
260	%%* InspectorJavert: A very, very deranged and unethical one.
261	* KillerCop: There is no way in hell this man should have been made a federal agent.
262	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Michael inadvertently kills him when he uses his powers to stop Pierce from killing Valenti, and Valenti, Max, and Michael burn the body and bury it in the desert.]]
263	* KnightTemplar: He is a deranged fanatic doggedly determined to protect Earth from aliens, and his go-to solution to people getting in his way is to either torture them or kill them.
264
265	!Agent Kathleen Topolski
266	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/JulieBenz
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268	* HeelFaceTurn: After realizing what a psycho Pierce is, she decides to help the aliens.
269	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Pierce kills her and burns down the mental institution she was incarcerated in.]]
270
271	!Agent John Stevens
272	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/RichardSchiff
273
274	%%!Agent Burns
275
276	%%!Major Pete Carlson
277
278	%%!'Viceroy'
279	[[/folder]]
280
281	[[folder:Alien Antagonists]]
282
283	!Kivar
284	-> '''Played by:''' Spence Decker
285
286	!Nicholas Crawford
287	-> '''Played by:''' Miko Hughes
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289	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Tess turns him into ash inadvertently while trying to mindwarp him for torturing Max.]]
290
291	!Vanessa Whitaker
292	-> '''Played by:''' Gretchen Egolf
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294	* ArcVillain: For the first three episodes of Season 2.
295	%%* KilledOffForReal
296	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Only around for three episodes before being killed off.]]
297
298	%%!Rath
299	%%-> '''Played by:''' Creator/BrendanFehr
300
301	%%!Lonnie
302	%%-> '''Played by:''' Katherine Heigi
303
304	%%!Ida Crawford
305
306	%%!Walt Crawford

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