| 1 | This page is for the characters of the FX television show, ''Series/TheBridgeUS''. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !Main Cast |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Sonya]] |
| 8 | !!Det. Sonya Cross |
| 9 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DianeKruger |
| 10 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_sonya_1757.jpg]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:281:''"[[BlackAndWhiteMorality You either do the right thing or you don't]]!"'']] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | A member of the El Paso Police Department. Cross has Asperger syndrome. |
| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | * BrutalHonesty: Not the person you want notifying a victim's family. |
| 16 | * ByTheBookCop: Sonya ''hates'' it when other cops cut corners. Of course, when Marco gives her a gun in Mexico and she fires a shot at a police officer to protect Marco, she is understandably mortified. |
| 17 | ** She is similarly horrified when she learns that Hank, her father figure/mentor/reason why she became a police officer shot Jim Dobbs while he was unarmed |
| 18 | %%* {{Determinator}} %%Needs more context |
| 19 | * DueToTheDead: She volunteers to take Jim Dobbs' ashes after Jack refuses, but struggles to make a decision on what to do next. Sonya rather unceremoniously dumps the container into a dumpster. |
| 20 | * EroticAsphyxiation: Has taken to experimenting with this after Jim Dobbs dies. Her obsession with asphyxiation is especially unnerving, because that's how her sister Lisa died at the hands of Jim Dobbs. |
| 21 | %%* FairCop %%Needs more context |
| 22 | %%* GoodIsNotNice %%Needs more context |
| 23 | * LackOfEmpathy: This gets her thrown out of the house of the husband of the murdered judge. |
| 24 | * MissingMom: Her mother was an absentee junkie around the time that Lisa was murdered. In the present time, she is a homeless druggie who Sonya only rarely visits. |
| 25 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction when she fires a shot at a Juarez cop who was snooping around the prosecutor's hotel room. While this may not seem so important as she and Marco were in danger, not only is she not authorized to use a firearm outside her jurisdiction, she was carrying one in a foreign country and actually fired it, and Sonya is very much by-the-book, no-nonsense rules cop. |
| 26 | * NoSocialSkills |
| 27 | * ShooTheDog: After Hank nearly dies, Sonya makes an effort to visit and talk to her mother, buys her lunch, and gives her money to go away for some time before things become too dangerous. |
| 28 | [[/folder]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Marco]] |
| 31 | !!Det. Marco Ruiz |
| 32 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DemianBichir |
| 33 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_marco_9675.jpg]] |
| 34 | [[caption-width-right:281:''"Sometimes you say things that aren't true to make people feel good."'']] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | A homicide detective for the Policía Estatal (State Police) of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. |
| 37 | ---- |
| 38 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite his friendly demeanor, he's actually the bad cop of the GoodCopBadCop duo with Sonya. |
| 39 | * TheCasanova: Before he met Alma, and soon after their divorce is settled. |
| 40 | * TheConfidant: For Sonya, and over in Mexico, for people who see him as a man of honor, like his coworker Celia and the Prosecutor of Chihuahhua, Abelardo Pintado. |
| 41 | * CowboyCop: Relatively mild example. Given the state of the [[DirtyCop Mexican police]], breaking a few rules is practically the only way to get real detective work done. |
| 42 | %%* CruelMercy: %%Needs more context |
| 43 | %%* DeadpanSnarker %%Needs more context |
| 44 | * DisappearedDad: Marco's own father walked out on him and his mother to continue pushing drugs, and the true circumstances of his death were not what he had always been led to believe. |
| 45 | * HonorBeforeReason: Despite having no obligation or expectation to do so, he returns a suitcase full of money to a ruthless drug lord. And then, just to make it clear that he's not a CorruptCop, he turns down a reward from said drug lord. |
| 46 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope:In the last scene of the first season, he asks Fausto to help him get at David Tate so he can kill him personally. Subverted in that, when the opportunity becomes available, Marco ultimately rejects the easier choice of killing David and instead puts his thumb in Tate's already injured eye, while damning him to suffer longer. |
| 47 | * KnightInSourArmor: Admits that most murders aren't even investigated in Mexico, due to the sheer number of them. |
| 48 | * LawOfInverseFertility: His wife gets pregnant right before he has a vasectomy. |
| 49 | %%* NiceGuy %%Needs more context |
| 50 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives one to a fellow officer in front of the entire precinct. [[JustifiedTrope Justified in that the officer in question tried to kill him during a raid.]] |
| 51 | * OnlySaneEmployee: One of the few cops in his department who isn't corrupt. |
| 52 | %%* OnlySaneMan %%Needs more context |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Hank]] |
| 56 | !!Lt. Hank Wade |
| 57 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/TedLevine |
| 58 | [[quoteright:345:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_hank_6033.jpg]] |
| 59 | [[caption-width-right:345:''"One thing that this job teaches ya is that bad doesn't just happen: it's bred in."'']] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | A jaded El Paso cop and Detective Cross' supervisor. He finds himself often counseling Cross to be more diplomatic in her single-minded determination to catch the killer. |
| 62 | ---- |
| 63 | * AFatherToHisMen: To Sonya and Marco. |
| 64 | ** A [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] to some extent; his status as a surrogate father to Sonya can take him to unprofessional lengths, such as trying to strongarm Jim Dobbs' brother out of a relationship with her. |
| 65 | * BrokenPedestal: After Jack Dobbs reveals that Hank had attempted to kill an unarmed Jim Dobbs. It's even more heartbreaking because Hank was the reason that Sonya became a cop herself. |
| 66 | * {{Determinator}}: Continues to work even after being shot in the gut. He even lets himself out of the hospital even before he was completely healed! |
| 67 | * KnightInSourArmor: Hank's been wearing the badge for too many years, and is eager to retire. |
| 68 | * MyGreatestFailure: Hank fired the shot that turned Jim Dobbs into a zombie, and thus robbed Sonya of any hope for closure. She'll never be able to find out why Dobbs targeted her sister. |
| 69 | * OnlyFriend: Seems to be the only one who understands Sonya. |
| 70 | * PapaWolf: Very protective of Sonya (she came under his care after Lisa's murder and before she was put into foster care), and extends this to Eva. |
| 71 | ** As mentioned under AFatherToHisMen, this is deconstructed as well. The lengths he goes to in order to protect Sonya are very unprofessional and even unethical. He tried to kill Jim Dobbs, who was unarmed, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo only after he recalled Sonya's reaction to identifying her sister's body]]. After the discovery of Jim Dobbs' other victim, his first reaction on arrival was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to rush and beat Jack Dobbs senseless]]. |
| 72 | ---> '''Sonya:''' It wasn't your decision to make. |
| 73 | ---> '''Hank:''' Yes it was. |
| 74 | %%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure %%Needs more context |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Charlotte]] |
| 78 | !!Charlotte Millwright |
| 79 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AnnabethGish |
| 80 | |
| 81 | A wealthy widow whose rancher husband suffers a myocardial infarction on the Mexican side of the border and dies back in El Paso. Shocking secrets about his cross-border activities quickly come to light as Ruiz and Cross' investigation commences. |
| 82 | ---- |
| 83 | * DarkSecret: Discovers that her late husband smuggled illegals across the border through a tunnel to his ranch. |
| 84 | * ExtremeDoormat: Most of her CharacterDevelopment is geared towards evolving away from this trope, whether for her late husband, for Graciela Rivera, for her stepdaughter Kate, or for Ray, towards a woman who makes her own decisions for her own destiny. Occasionally it resurfaces, as when Ray tries to haul ass to Alaska. |
| 85 | * GoldDigger: What her stepdaughter thinks of her. |
| 86 | * KickTheSonOfABitch: Kills Graciela and Tim. |
| 87 | * NiceToTheWaiter: To her servant Cesar. |
| 88 | %%* StartOfDarkness %%Needs more context |
| 89 | %%* TrophyWife %%Needs more context |
| 90 | %%* WhyDontYaJustShootHim %%Needs more context |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Linder]] |
| 94 | !!Steven Linder |
| 95 | ->'''Played By:''' Thomas M. Wright |
| 96 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_steven_4901.jpg]] |
| 97 | [[caption-width-right:349:''"I'm just a person who helps people."'']] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | A lone wolf trying to survive in the lawless borderland. He's a volunteer at a homeless shelter, but also runs a side enterprise helping women escape from abusive spouses and lovers. |
| 100 | ---- |
| 101 | * AntiHero: Linder may be creepy as all hell, but he's genuinely trying to help people. |
| 102 | %%* BodyguardCrush %%Needs more context |
| 103 | * CreepyMonotone: It's reminiscent to the way [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Buffalo Bill]] talks. |
| 104 | * ImportantHaircut: In "The Beholder," he gets one from Eva. |
| 105 | * ImprovisedWeapon: On two occasions has used this trope |
| 106 | ** A hot clothes iron |
| 107 | ** A rock given by an enigmatic roadside salesman |
| 108 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: He escaped his abusive father as a youth, intending to return to rescue his sister; by the time he was able to, she had already died from a drug overdose at a homeless shelter in Tulsa. |
| 109 | %%* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl %%Needs more context |
| 110 | * MundaneUtility: Linder's beard affords him special powers... inscrutability, disguise, and deception. |
| 111 | %%* NiceGuy %%Needs more context |
| 112 | %%* NoSocialSkills %%Needs more context |
| 113 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: After he learns what Eva's captors did to her |
| 114 | --> '''Steven:''' Sunday school's over, Bob. |
| 115 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: Subverted. He survives his shooting by Captain Robles. Ironically, Mexico's Office of the General Prosecutor was already after the latter's ass to serve justice. |
| 116 | * VigilanteMan / RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Eva kills one of her attackers, he and Eva skip town and begin one against those who wronged the latter. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Frye]] |
| 120 | !!Daniel Frye |
| 121 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewLillard |
| 122 | [[quoteright:342:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_daniel_8892.jpg]] |
| 123 | [[caption-width-right:342:''"[[SmallNameBigEgo Listen, I've written for the'' New York Post, ''the'' Houston Chronicle, ''okay. So don't tell me how to deal with the goddamn editor.]]"'']] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | A newspaper reporter whose once-promising career has been derailed by a life of parties and substance abuse. Midway through Season 2 his editor fires him on the spot for attempting to publish a damaging story about Grupo Clio without any named witnesses and for insubordination. |
| 126 | ---- |
| 127 | * TheAlcoholic: It's no secret that Frye is an alcoholic. He's tried to get sober a few times, but it never seems to take. |
| 128 | * DeadpanSnarker: One of the series' most prolific. |
| 129 | %%* ICouldaBeenAContender %%Needs more context |
| 130 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: He takes some of the blame for the deaths of David Tate's family. |
| 131 | %%* JadedWashout --> IntrepidReporter %%Needs more context |
| 132 | %%* JerkAss --> JerkWithAHeartOfGold %%Needs more context |
| 133 | %%** He finds out that Adriana tried to take her own life two years ago and surreptitiously checks up on her well-being. |
| 134 | %%* MoralityPet: Adriana %%Needs more context |
| 135 | * SmallNameBigEgo: In his initial appearance, as seen in the character quote. His harrowing experience at the hands of the Bridge Butcher, his growing friendship with Adriana and his attempts to quit drugs and alcohol make this CharacterizationMarchesOn. |
| 136 | * TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And does he ever.]] |
| 137 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Adriana |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Adriana]] |
| 141 | !!Adriana Mendez |
| 142 | ->'''Played By:''' Emily Rios |
| 143 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_adriana_236.jpg]] |
| 144 | [[caption-width-right:349:''"It just doesn't feel like a coincidence."'']] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | A young reporter who works with Frye at the El Paso Times. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | %%* DeadpanSnarker %%Needs more context |
| 149 | * DeathGlare: Combined with TranquilFury. |
| 150 | %%* IntrepidReporter %%Needs more context |
| 151 | * ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After a failed hit on Adriana which results in her girlfriend being grievously harmed, Adriana decides to break up with Lucy to spare her from the danger that comes with investigating this story. |
| 152 | %%* LipstickLesbian %%Needs more context |
| 153 | * NiceGirl: She'd have to be one in order to put up with a pain in the ass like Frye. |
| 154 | * TranquilFury: During Marco's attempt to weed information out of the two journalists, witness her reaction when he deliberately invokes her missing sister Dani. |
| 155 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Frye. It's a wonder that she can tolerate him at all. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | !Other Characters |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Law Enforcement]] |
| 161 | !! Detective Tim Cooper |
| 162 | Part of the El Paso branch, he's one of the guys on the case. Calls out Sonya for receiving favoritism from Hank. |
| 163 | ->'''Played By:''' Johnny Dowers |
| 164 | |
| 165 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer / KickTheDog: His most substantial screentime is a scene in which he calls Sonya crazy in front of Hank, visibly humiliating and rattling her. |
| 166 | * HeroicBSOD: After the incident that led to the arrest of Jack Childress |
| 167 | * PetTheDog: Despite his clear resentment of Sonya receiving favoritism from Hank, he has had some softer moments, like looking after Maria in the desert after she's found and after capturing Jack Childress when he laments the death of Manny Stokes on whiskey and a banjo. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | !! Captain Alejandro Robles |
| 170 | A mostly corrupt captain of the Chihuahua State Police. Marco's boss. At the end of Season 2, he is a wanted fugitive for kidnapping, rape, and abuse of power. |
| 171 | ->'''Played By:''' Juan Carlos Cantu |
| 172 | |
| 173 | * DirtyCop: He is not the least bit ashamed of his connections to Fausto Galván and regularly abuses his authority. |
| 174 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Usually puts on a magnanimous appearance for the public and for the Americans but can be downright apathetic to civilians and contemptuous of his American counterparts. He also takes part in "parties." |
| 175 | * {{Good Parent|s}}: Probably his only redeeming quality, lampshaded by Eva and Linder when they spy him playing basketball with his sons. |
| 176 | * HazyFeelTurn: He drops the ball quite quickly. He is kidnapped by the Marinas of the SEMAR (Mexican Marines) and quickly divulges Fausto Galván's hideout. |
| 177 | * LaserGuidedKarma: As soon as he outs Fausto's location, Marco submits Presecutor Pintado's affidavit to Mexico City, and the Attorney general files charges on his crimes. |
| 178 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Goes on the run after Fausto Galvan is captured and before he himself can be dismissed from the Chihuahua State Police and tried for kidnapping and rape. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | !! Sheriff Manny Stokes |
| 181 | A bumbling El Paso County sheriff. |
| 182 | ->'''Played By:''' Larry Clarke |
| 183 | |
| 184 | %%* BoomHeadshot %%Needs more context |
| 185 | %%* CloudCuckooLander %%Needs more context |
| 186 | %%* KilledOffForReal %%Needs more context |
| 187 | %%* TheLoad %%Needs more context |
| 188 | %%--> '''Sheriff Stokes:''' Detective! I don't know if you've noticed, but I got my braces removed. |
| 189 | * RedHerring: If it weren't for the fact that he is so painfully naive, his ability to pop up at "the darnest times" would make him a prime suspect. |
| 190 | %%* ShootTheShaggyDog %%Needs more context |
| 191 | |
| 192 | !! Celia Delgado |
| 193 | One of Marco's colleagues. |
| 194 | ->'''Played By:''' Ellie Araiza |
| 195 | |
| 196 | * TheConfidant: Marco entrusts her with several of his personal belongings and important documents before he is snuck into a federal prison to meet David Tate. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | !! Kitty Conchas |
| 199 | The receptionist at El Paso PD's CAP. |
| 200 | ->'''Played By:''' Diana Maria Riva |
| 201 | |
| 202 | !! Richard Heller |
| 203 | An FBI agent, attached to the task force. |
| 204 | ->'''Played By:''' Alex Fernandez |
| 205 | |
| 206 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The FBI haul ass from the Bridge Butcher case after Agent Gedman is killed without explanation. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | !! Ralph Gedman |
| 209 | An FBI agent, attached to the task force. |
| 210 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidMeunier |
| 211 | |
| 212 | %%* OffWithHisHead |
| 213 | * SexTourism: Visits prostitutes in Mexico, one of whom include the young woman whose legs were placed on the Bridge of the Americas. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | !! Agent Joe Mackenzie |
| 216 | A DEA agent who is involved in an elaborate scheme to capture leading figures in the narcotics trade, one of which is Fausto Galván. Appears to have suffered a setback from less-involved cooperation from Mexico's new Attorney General. |
| 217 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AbrahamBenrubi |
| 218 | |
| 219 | * {{Expy}}: Of Hank Schrader from ''Series/BreakingBad'', a blustery DEA agent with a surprisingly geeky hobby. |
| 220 | * GoodIsNotNice: Even to people who are on his side, he usually comes off as a JerkAss. |
| 221 | * KilledOffForReal: In the Red Ridge View shootout |
| 222 | * MysteriousInformant: Has secretly been leading Daniel and Adriana about the Millie Quintana house case. |
| 223 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: While he seems perfectly willing to cooperate and let the local El Paso PD do most of the dirty work, he also deliberately withholds information from them. |
| 224 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Makes several insensitive sexist comments, like how women with tattoos are more sexually adventurous. |
| 225 | * RealMenWearPink: The nerdy variation: his hobby is painting gaming miniatures. |
| 226 | |
| 227 | !! Agent Pete Rivas |
| 228 | A DEA Agent, works for Agent Mackenzie. |
| 229 | ->'''Played By:''' Joseph A. Garcia |
| 230 | |
| 231 | * KilledOffForReal: Killed in the Red Ridge View shootout. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | !! Agent Alex Buckley |
| 234 | A CIA Agent. |
| 235 | ->'''Played By:''' Ian Hart |
| 236 | |
| 237 | * AssholeVictim: He was a corrupt asshole both personally and professionally. Shortly before his death, his bosses in Langely disavow any connection to him, claiming he was psychologically unstable. |
| 238 | * BigBad: As the face of the CIA in ''[[Series/TheBridgeUS The Bridge]]'', |
| 239 | * DirtyCop: Agent Buckley and the CIA are in cahoots with the whole money-laundering scheme between Rayburn National Bank and Grupo Clio. He also hires an assassin to take out Raúl Quintana after the latter squawks to the El Paso Times. |
| 240 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Handpicking Fausto Galván as the successor to the Juarez cartel and resorting to bureaucratic secrecy has resulted in messy consequences on both sides of the border. He is eventually even killed by the same hitman that he himself hired to silence witnesses on the order of his superior. |
| 241 | %%* KilledOffForReal %%Needs more context |
| 242 | * ManBehindTheMan: He was the one who handpicked Fausto as the cartel leader because he thought Fausto would be manageable. |
| 243 | * SmugSnake: The most annoying one in the series. |
| 244 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: To Agent Mackenzie and the DEA. He tells them they can continue to investigate, so long as they go nowhere near [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sebastian Cerisola and his corporation Grupo Clio]]. Turns out they're in cahoots. |
| 245 | %%* WalkingSpoiler %%Needs more context |
| 246 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Fancies himself as this, but in truth he is just a vain, arrogant DirtyCop who's in over his head and incapable of producing real results. Even his bosses eventually lose patience of him. |
| 247 | * YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His ultimate fate at the hands of his CIA superiors. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder: El Paso Ranch]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | !! Ray Burton |
| 254 | A friend and former lover of Charlotte. |
| 255 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrianVanHolt |
| 256 | |
| 257 | %%* AffablyEvil %%Needs more context |
| 258 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Couldn't bring himself to kill his good friend Tim, even after he's found out to be a criminal informant. |
| 259 | * FriendsWithBenefits: He's the guy Charlotte turns to for sex. |
| 260 | * IdiotHoudini: Somehow, ''somehow'', Ray has managed to avoid any consequences for his stupidity. So far. Even he seems to be amazed at how long he's lasted. |
| 261 | %%* OnlyInFlorida %%Needs more context |
| 262 | %%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain% %%Needs more context |
| 263 | %%--> '''Ray:''' One of these days I'm gonna learn how to speak Mexican, Cesar. |
| 264 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His friend Tim, an FBI informant, gets him guns to smuggle through Graciela with transmitters on them; when Graciela finds them, she assumes Charlotte is the informant. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | !! Cesar |
| 267 | Charlotte's servant at the ranch. |
| 268 | ->'''Played By:''' Alejandro Patino |
| 269 | |
| 270 | %%* BattleButler %%Needs more context |
| 271 | %%* BigDamnHeroes %%Needs more context |
| 272 | %%* DeadpanSnarker %%Needs more context |
| 273 | * HiddenDepths: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He enjoys erotic vampire romance novels]]. He and Eleanor bond well. |
| 274 | %%* OnlySaneMan %%Needs more context |
| 275 | * PunchClockVillain: Quite reluctant, seeing as [[IHaveAFamily he has a family of his own]]. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | !! Kate Millwright |
| 278 | Karl Millwright's daughter, Charlotte's stepdaughter. |
| 279 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilyWickersham |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder: The Cartel]] |
| 284 | !! Fausto Galvan |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[quoteright:348:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_fausto_9509.jpg]] |
| 287 | [[caption-width-right:348:''"Marco! You ever been to Norway?"'']] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | A powerful drug lord in Mexico. In Season 2, he spends much of his time in hiding because a change in government resulted in a greater crackdown on crime by the new authorities. Midway through Season 2, his hideout is raided and he briefly becomes a fugitive from justice before he is outwitted and captured alive by Marco. |
| 290 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/RamonFranco |
| 291 | |
| 292 | * AffablyEvil: A nice enough guy, for a drug lord |
| 293 | ** FauxAffablyEvil:... Until you piss him off, for whatever reason. |
| 294 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As a drug lord, he exerts his territory through force. |
| 295 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: A mild example; while he is a bit of a weird guy who has a tendency to have [[SeinfeldianConversation Seinfeldian Conversations]] with his [[TheDragon Dragon]], the show never downplays that he is a ''very'' dangerous guy. |
| 296 | * BigBadFriend: To Marco, although in truth there is no one person who fits the role of the BigBad in this series. Their fathers started the business together and they grew up together. And while they are on opposite sides of the law and have never explicitly called each other friends, their close connection appears to say otherwise. |
| 297 | ** After Fausto hires a hitman to kill Sonya for meddling, all bets are off and he turns into an EvilFormerFriend. |
| 298 | * DragonInChief: He is really this, having been chosen by the CIA to lead the cartel because he was perceived as the one most likely to acquiesce to their demands. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Too bad for them....]] |
| 299 | * DealWithTheDevil: Marco inevitably finds himself relying on Fausto for guidance more often than he likes. |
| 300 | * DotingParent: To his eldest son Ángel, long after the latter is dead. He leaves all sorts of presents at the tomb. He even gives his son [[OffWithHisHead the head of his killer]], [[{{Squick}} almost perfectly preserved in a jar]]. |
| 301 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He notes that he's not a serial killer, because he doesn't enjoy killing. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday It's just business]]. |
| 302 | %%* TheDon: El Jefe]] %%Needs more context |
| 303 | * MeaningfulName: Shares his name with the [[Myth/{{Faust}} titular character]] from the TropeCodifier of DealWithTheDevil, although his actual role in the deals would be the inversion. |
| 304 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is this show's version of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, a real-life Mexican drug lord. Both of them are rough-and-tumble criminal bosses who eschew overt display of wealth, could move as they please in their stronghold cities, and are willing to use brute force to eliminate their rivals. |
| 305 | * PragmaticVillainy: Fronts up ransom money for a woman kidnapped by the serial killer, just to get the Feds out of the picture and resume business |
| 306 | * PunchClockVillain: In a twist, ''he'' is the Jefe of his cartel. By mid-season 2, even he appears to tire of the drug lord life and hints at wishing to visit the fjords of Norway. Understandable as he has been in hiding from the authorities for the most of the season and feels cooped up. |
| 307 | * VillainsOutShopping: Usually seen doing this, but not enough to cross into [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Drug Lord Who Doesn't Do Anything]]. He has been seen shopping for new clothes with his girlfriend, paying a visit to another organized crime boss in a nail salon or attending his son's tomb. Important conversations do take place though. |
| 308 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Marinas raid his hideout, he immediately knows that someone snitched, and to make his circle of associates smaller, he kills his other bodyguards except for Obregon. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | !! Eleanor Nacht |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_eleanor_2225.jpg]] |
| 313 | [[caption-width-right:349:''"Do you want to be a pet?"'']] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | A creepy bookkeeper for the cartel. |
| 316 | -->'''Played By:''' Creator/FrankaPotente |
| 317 | |
| 318 | * BaitTheDog: At first she appears to express kindness by hiring a Mexican dayworker who seems to suffer from a mental disability, despite several others vying for her attention. But then she barks at him to walk faster. |
| 319 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Appears to operate on an entirely different plane of existence. Has no qualms of killing a teen and sticking his body in a drum filled with bleach, but takes the opportunity to build a makeshift headstone for a roadkill armadillo. |
| 320 | * CombatSadomasochist: To the extent that she'll ''jam a pin into her own chest'' just to get her rocks off. |
| 321 | * EvilCounterpart: To Sonya- they're both women with NoSocialSkills who were set on their respective paths when a surrogate father rescued them from their biological parents. |
| 322 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Appears polite and demure at first, but you'd better not set her off. |
| 323 | * HatesBeingTouched: As demonstrated when the bank intern tries to help her clean up the spill on her dress. |
| 324 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: You do NOT want her writing your name down in her ledger. |
| 325 | * NotSoStoic: When she loses her ledger, she loses her cool. |
| 326 | * RapeAsBackstory: She grew up in some sort of devout religious community where her father raped her repeatedly as a child. Eventually, the community found out, and rather than punish him, they punished her, casting her out. She was then taken in by Fausto Galvan, who offered her vengeance by arranging for her mother to be murdered and her father to be castrated and then locked up in a hole in the ground. In exchange, she became his loyal bookkeeper. |
| 327 | %%* TattooedCrook %%Needs more context |
| 328 | %%* TranquilFury %%Needs more context |
| 329 | * WouldHurtAChild: Zigzagged. While she had no qualms offing Kyle the overeager teenager, she does spare his younger brother and his friend Dex, because she saw an innocence in him (he didn't want to touch her and he wet his bed.) |
| 330 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Appears to be very fond of this. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | !! Graciela Rivera |
| 333 | An older Mexican woman who operates the tunnel under the Millwright ranch. |
| 334 | -->'''Played By:''' Alma Martinez |
| 335 | |
| 336 | * TheDon: La Jefa: She smuggles people, not narcotics. She's not above smuggling weapons, though. |
| 337 | %%* KilledOffForReal %%Needs more context |
| 338 | %%--> "Shall we start with the face?" |
| 339 | |
| 340 | !! Hector "Calaca" Valdez |
| 341 | One of Fausto Galvan's sicarios. His girlfriend, Eva Guerra, tried to escape from him by engaging the services of Steven Linder. |
| 342 | ->'''Played By:''' Arturo del Puerto |
| 343 | |
| 344 | * AxCrazy: Kills a woman in her apartment after she complained about his banging on her neighbor's door and threatened to call the police. Most likely also killed the homeless paint huffer as well in his search for Eva. |
| 345 | * {{Determinator}}: Almost nothing will stop him from finding his girlfriend Eva. Who knew a hot flatiron would? |
| 346 | %%* KilledOffForReal %%Needs more context |
| 347 | * StupidEvil: Fausto calls him this. He doesn't consider the consequences of the attention that his actions over the border have received. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | !! Obregon |
| 350 | One of Fausto Galvan's top enforcers. |
| 351 | ->'''Played By:''' Daniel Edward Mora |
| 352 | |
| 353 | * ButtMonkey: Regularly suffers verbal abuse from his employer. |
| 354 | %%* TheDragon %%Needs more context |
| 355 | * DumbMuscle: It works in his favor, however. Fausto trusts him entirely because he knows that he is too stupid to ever betray him. |
| 356 | * HiddenDepths / RealMenWearPink: Is a fan of Metallica and Taylor Swift. |
| 357 | * WouldHurtAChild: On Fausto's orders, he and some other sicarios retaliate against the teens who stole Fausto's heroin. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder: Others]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | !! Gustavo "Gus" Ruiz |
| 363 | Marco's son from a previous marriage. |
| 364 | ->'''Played By:''' Carlos Pratts |
| 365 | |
| 366 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With Sonya. |
| 367 | %%* KilledOffForReal %%Needs more context |
| 368 | * WhatTheHellHero: He calls out his dad for his extramarital affairs. |
| 369 | %%* WhenYouComingHomeDad %%Needs more context |
| 370 | |
| 371 | !! Alma Ruiz |
| 372 | Marco's current wife. |
| 373 | ->'''Played By:''' Catalina Sandino Moreno |
| 374 | |
| 375 | %%* DamselInDistress %%Needs more context |
| 376 | * GoodParents: Treats her stepson Gus like her own, even after she kicks Marco out of the house for cheating. |
| 377 | * PutOnABus: After the whole David Tate affair, she takes her daughters and obtains a divorce from Marco. She doesn't even show up to sign the divorce papers, instead handing that responsibility over to her lawyer. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | !! Kenneth Hastings/David Tate |
| 380 | Alma's colleague. |
| 381 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricLange |
| 382 | |
| 383 | * TheBusCameBack: in "Eye of the Deep". |
| 384 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Against everyone who unknowingly had a hand in the deaths of his wife and son. |
| 385 | %%* DoggedNiceGuy %%Needs more context |
| 386 | * EyeScream / EyePoke: In the appropriately named "Eye of the Deep." Twice. ''In the same eye''. |
| 387 | * FaceHeelTurn: The deaths of his wife and son turned him from a dedicated FBI agent into a serial killer. |
| 388 | * KilledOffForReal: He is quietly poisoned on Fausto's orders after Marco had a change of heart. |
| 389 | %%* Revenge %%Needs more context |
| 390 | %%* SerialKiller %%Needs more context |
| 391 | %%* WalkingSpoiler %%Needs more context |
| 392 | %%* XanatosGambit %%Needs more context |
| 393 | |
| 394 | !! Eva Guerra |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[quoteright:344:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_eva_9949.jpg]] |
| 397 | [[caption-width-right:344:''"[[ShutUpHannibal I'm a good person]]."'']] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | A young Mexican woman whom Steven Linder smuggles over the border to a safehouse. |
| 400 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephanieSigman |
| 401 | |
| 402 | * BeautyContest: This was her ticket out of her small village where she grew up and also how she met Hector. |
| 403 | %%* DamselInDistress %%Needs more context |
| 404 | * RapeAsDrama: After Linder informs her of Hector's death, she returns to Juárez and begins work at a maquiladora. One day after work, a driver in a red car offers her a ride, which she accepts with hesitation. Later, she is seen at the police station to report being kidnapped, but then the police drug her and take her to a party to be raped. Another police officer is tasked to kill her in the desert, but he has a change of heart and leaves her at a nun's monastery. |
| 405 | * ShutUpHannibal: when she faces off her former captor who is now bound in Bob's shack and is taunting and attempting to humiliate her. |
| 406 | * MafiaPrincess: As Hector's girlfriend, she is this to him. Of course, this is also the type of life she is trying to escape. |
| 407 | * VigilanteMan: She and Linder have taken up this path against those who wronged her. |
| 408 | |
| 409 | !! Jackson Childress |
| 410 | A disturbed, racist vigilante, kicked off the police force on disability. |
| 411 | ->'''Played By:''' Chris Browning |
| 412 | |
| 413 | %%* CloudCuckoolander %%Needs more context |
| 414 | * ConspiracyTheorist: He wrote a book titled "On the Alien Origins of the Mexican Race." |
| 415 | %%* RedHerring %%Needs more context |
| 416 | %%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain %%Needs more context |
| 417 | %%--> "I was trying to shoot the Mexican." |
| 418 | |
| 419 | !! Jim Dobbs |
| 420 | The man who raped and murdered Sonya's sister, Lisa. |
| 421 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BradWilliamHenke |
| 422 | |
| 423 | * ChekhovsGun: Those drawings that he made for Sonya? Including the ones on her fridge? Two of them lead to a water tower with a body buried underneath in the dirt. |
| 424 | * LonelyFuneral: His cremation is attended by exactly two people (not counting the cremator), his younger brother and the sister of the woman he murdered. |
| 425 | * RetiredMonster: A bullet to the head left him with severe brain damage, so he's unlikely to be a threat to anyone else. In the first season, he was still capable of making crude drawings, but by the opening of the second season, his condition has deteriorated to the point where he's bedridden. |
| 426 | |
| 427 | !! Gina Meadows |
| 428 | A young El Paso girl, first seen at the police station being held overnight for shoplifting. |
| 429 | ->'''Played By:''' Cole Bernstein |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !! Sofia Mendez |
| 432 | Adriana's mother. |
| 433 | ->'''Played By:''' Blanca Araceli |
| 434 | |
| 435 | * HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: How she approaches her daughter's sexual orientation. It leads to conflict. |
| 436 | * {{Hypocrite}}: While she berates Adriana for being a lesbian and encourages her to work less and marry a man, she and her lazy daughters were more than happy to live off of Adriana's paychecks until Daniela found work at a maquiladora. |
| 437 | |
| 438 | !! Daniela Mendez |
| 439 | Adriana's younger sister. She stopped going to school to work in a maquiladora. |
| 440 | ->'''Played By:''' Lorena [=McGregor=] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | !! Bob |
| 443 | The owner of a ranch that doubles as a safehouse for abused women. |
| 444 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonGries |
| 445 | |
| 446 | * TheAtoner: Bob sees his ranch as his way of making amends for the things he did back when he was a meth head. |
| 447 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Appears to be quite at ease when [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torturing Eva's captor]]. |
| 448 | %%* CloudCuckooLander %%Needs more context |
| 449 | %%* GoodShepherd %%Needs more context |
| 450 | * NoodleIncident: His past criminal history included felony assault. [[NoodleImplements There was a motorcycle involved.]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | !! Cristina Fuentes |
| 453 | A young Mexican woman, whose bottom half was found on the Bridge of the Americas. Came north to Juarez to work in the maquiladoras, but turned to prostitution. |
| 454 | ->'''Played By:''' Natalie Amenula |
| 455 | |
| 456 | * PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead (obviously) long before the events of the first season. The upper half of her body was dumped in a house that was filled with the dismembered corpses of cartel men (one of whom was Fausto Galván's brother), and her other half was preserved until they were placed on the Bridge of the Americas with the judge's upper half. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | !! Maria |
| 459 | A Mexican woman trying to cross the border. |
| 460 | ->'''Played By:''' Karen Sours |
| 461 | |
| 462 | !! Darcy |
| 463 | Steven Linder's coworker at the homeless shelter. |
| 464 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DianeDelano |
| 465 | |
| 466 | !! Monte P. Flagman |
| 467 | A mysterious lawyer, employed by Graciela Rivera, Charlotte's husband, and eventually Charlotte herself. |
| 468 | ->'''Played By:''' Lyle Lovett |
| 469 | |
| 470 | * AmoralAttorney: Sort of. He doesn't appear to be worse than any other lawyer; he just represents some '''very''' evil people. |
| 471 | * PunchClockVillain: He'll help anyone who can pay his fees. |
| 472 | |
| 473 | !! Jack Dobbs |
| 474 | Jim Dobbs' brother, who Sonya meets while Jim Dobbs is dying and with whom she forms a physical and emotional relationship. |
| 475 | ->'''Played By:''' Nathan Phillips |
| 476 | |
| 477 | * SecondFaceSmoke: Does this as a sign of defiance to Hank trying to meddle in his relationship with Sonya. |
| 478 | * ShirtlessScene: Almost every other onscreen appearance is this. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !! Abelardo Pintado |
| 481 | Introduced in Season 2, he is the newly assigned prosecutor for the State of Chihuahua and has arrived in Juárez to shake things up. |
| 482 | ->'''Played By:''' Manuel Uriba |
| 483 | |
| 484 | * BodyguardBetrayal: His hired private security man deserts him just before he is kidnapped. |
| 485 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay / ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His body is staged to look as if it had been thrown out of the vehicle he was riding in a car accident. |
| 486 | * FieldPromotion: He gets an impromptu promotion to Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua by the Mexican Attorney General in his first appearance onscreen. |
| 487 | * KilledOffForReal: He is abducted and murdered in broad daylight by Juárez police because he was coming too close to exposing the abductions, rapes, and murdered conducted by police officers and had procured a signed affidavit from one of their surviving victims. |
| 488 | * NaiveNewcomer: Treated this way by Captain Robles and everyone around him. |
| 489 | * WideEyedIdealist: Is intent on ridding corruption from the Chihuahua State Police, starting with Captain Robles and working his way to Fausto Galván, and tries to convince Marco to assist him. |
| 490 | |
| 491 | !! Sebastian Cerisola |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[quoteright:342:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebridge_sebastian_94.jpg]] |
| 494 | [[caption-width-right:342:''"In public, power is best wielded with a gloved hand, not a clenched fist."'']] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | The CEO of Grupo Clio Internacional, one of the largest holding firms in Mexico. |
| 497 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrunoBichir |
| 498 | |
| 499 | * AffablyEvil: Is quite friendly to Marco when he and Sonya pay his company a visit while investigating. |
| 500 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: It's not known to what extent his relationship with Fausto Galván goes, but seeing how chummy they are with each other, you can expect some shady dealings. He brokered a deal with the Attorney General of Mexico to shut the DEA out of Juárez in return for less violence. |
| 501 | * HazyFeelTurn: The repercussions of Prosecutor Pintado's murder, the Rayburn bank manager's suicide, and the murder of the teens who hit Fausto's cargo are so huge that Sebastian quickly dumps his support of Fausto and the Red Ridge money laundering as a liability. |
| 502 | * MoralityPet: Clearly loves his daughter Romina, who unfortunately is a junkie. |
| 503 | |
| 504 | !! "Franco" |
| 505 | "Franco is a pseudonym. He is an assassin. |
| 506 | ->'''Played By:''' Júlio Cedillo |
| 507 | |
| 508 | * TheAtoner: Played straight after immediately killing Raúl Quintana and seeing Jesus on his cross in the same room, he becomes guilt-ridden and later decides to "confess" to the El Paso Times reporters (who are wearing hoods) in a local chapel. Ironically, talking to reporters was exactly the reason why his last victim was murdered. Ultimately this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] as he is sent by the CIA station chief to silence Agent Buckley. |
| 509 | --> '''Agent Buckley:''' So how's Jesus? |
| 510 | * DontFearTheReaper: As the role of the Reaper, he is this to his victims. |
| 511 | --> '''"Franco":''' But I was gentle in the end. I listened to them, wiped their tears, and let them have their moment. |
| 512 | * ProfessionalKiller: He is hired by Agent Alex Buckley of the CIA to kill Raúl Quintana for talking to the El Paso Times. He also murdered Raúl's friend Chuchito. He claims to have killed at least 243 people. |
| 513 | %%* WalkingSpoiler %%Needs more context |
| 514 | |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
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