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Just be aware this was a show where AnyoneCanDie And Almost Everyone Did so DeathTropes will be visible even if the circumstances are spoilered. You were warned.

For an index of the actors and actresses who have a dedicated page, see [[UsefulNotes/BlakesSevenActors here]].
!The Original Seven

[[folder:Roj Blake]]
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->''It's time we really hurt the Federation. Oh, we've been hitting at the fingers, the arms. I want to hit at the heart.''

-->Played by: Creator/GarethThomas (1978-9, 1980, 1981)

The show's original protagonist, the leader of a rebellion against the oppressive Federation ([[BackStory twice]]) who escaped from a prison ship and now leads a small cell of rebels.
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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Witnessing the massacre of the rebels in the pilot episode brings back memories of his previous capture and brainwashing. Although the Federation doctor claims the process is infallible in a healthy mind, trauma can make the process unreliable. It's for this reason they decide to frame him instead. A few episodes later, Blake has regained enough memory to [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon recall his fatal encounter with Travis]].
* AntiHero: Usually Disney or Pragmatic but toes the boundary of Unscrupulous[=/=]Nominal in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E13StarOne Star One]]" where he knowingly commits to a scheme that will result in the death of millions and only backs out because a race of genocidal aliens conveniently beat him to it.
* BackForTheDead: He is brought back in the show's very last episode, only to get bloodily shot dead.
* BadassArmfold: Frequently assumes this pose when being manly and uncompromising.
* BountyHunter: In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E13Blake Blake]]", we find out that he's been doing this for years on Gauda Prime.
* {{Brainwashed}}: The series opens with him being informed that he was once a RebelLeader who was captured and brainwashed until he was willing to publically denounce his own rebellion. His memories were then altered so he remembered nothing about his past. However the Federation is worried that Blake will regain his memories, so they frame him and have him deported to a penal colony, setting off the events of the series.
* TheBusCameBack: After leaving as a regular cast member at the end of the second season, he reappears in the final episodes of the third (as part of what turns out to be a simulation) and fourth (for real) seasons.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: He often gets sidetracked from the overall rebellion to help individual people or cultures in trouble.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments.
* DesignatedHero: In-universe example, to the Resistance, as he isn't treated as particularly moral by the programme itself. He tends to range between 'Idealistic', AntiHero, and WellIntentionedExtremist; Gareth Thomas describes him, variously, as "a pillock" and "vicious but honourable", so he's probably somewhere between the two.
* DistressedDude: For a fearless RebelLeader, he gets [=kidnapped/captured/tortured/brainwashed/generally=] put in mortal peril and in need of being rescued ''a lot''. Typically it serves as cue for someone else to pull a BigDamnHero moment, usually [[FireForgedFriends Avon]].
* EyeScream: When he reappears in the finale, he has a large, puckered scar over his left eye. [[spoiler: "Blake's Story" reveals he cut it out himself.]]
* FakeMemories: Had these implanted into him before the start of the series so he thinks he's just an average citizen until he sees a massacre of some rebels that were trying to continue his cause and his real memories return to him.
* FamedInStory: Problems come when he starts believing those stories.
* {{Frameup}}: The Federation got Blake sentenced to Cygnus Alpha by implanting FakeMemories in children of Blake molesting them.
* GentlemanSnarker: Is generally polite, but can slip in an extremely precise snark, even occasionally outsnarking Avon.
-->'''Avon''': "I'm finished. Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer feel capable."
-->'''Blake''': "Now you're just being modest."
* GiantPoofySleeves: Blake's bat-wing sleeves. Not an ImpracticallyFancyOutfit apparently, as Gareth Thomas found them easy to move around in.
* GirlyRun: Thomas wasn't a trained athlete, and the lack of space on the sets prevented a lot of running.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: When Blake reappears as a more morally-ambiguous figure in the finale, he has a livid scar running down across his left eye. [[spoiler: Per "Blake's Story", it's really more of a good scar - he cut his own bionic eye out after learning it was spying on him.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Generally the trajectory of his character arc. Compare the Blake who gave up on his mutiny to stop Raiker shooting unarmed prisoners in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E2SpaceFall Space Fall]]", to the Blake willing to let millions of Federation citizens die to bring the government down in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E13StarOne Star One]]", let alone the ruthless bounty hunter [[spoiler:(but not really)]] in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E13Blake Blake]]".
* TheHeroDies: Gets brutally gunned down at the end of the series. [[spoiler: By Avon, no less.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After putting all his hopes into smashing the Federation by destroying [[spoiler:their MagicalComputer that monitors and relays all communications]] and failing.
* TheIdealist: Deeply committed to the rebellion, in contrast to most of the people he's leading who just want to stay alive and not get recaptured.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Blake hates Travis because Travis personally killed many of Blake's followers during the previous rebellion after they surrendered. Travis in turn hates Blake because a shot fired by Blake destroyed his hand and eye.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Creator/TerryNation saw the series as Myth/RobinHood in space, so Blake fits the role of the outlaw fighting the corrupt institution on behalf of the people.
* KnightInSourArmor: He becomes increasingly grim and willing to engage in DirtyBusiness as the show progresses.
* TheKirk: The overall moral hero who tends to take a middle path between emotion and pragmatism.
* LivingLegend: He's already famous at the start of the series after leading a previous failed rebellion.
* MakeSureHesDead: [[spoiler:An out-of-universe, behind-the-scenes example. Gareth Thomas knew that the final episode was to be shot in an ambiguous open-ended fashion but wanted to be done with the role of Blake forever. He was adamant about making sure that there was no way that Blake could survive. This is why he requested for a different type of gun to be used: specifically, a gun that could not be mistaken for a stun-type weapon. This also explains the addition of the {{Squib}} which was usually omitted due to the show's notoriously low budget. His death was bloodier than normal for the timeslot. Notice that apart from pure acting, no one else in the final scene shows squibs or any other visual evidence of being shot. But this was with the intention that those who wished to return for a possible fifth season might credibly survive. However, there is a Blake clone still running around from Season B. Maybe it was the clone who died.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Depending on your interpretation of the character, though he would just say he's good at inspiring people.
* MoleInCharge: During his "lost years" away from ''Liberator'' in the episode "Blake's Story", [[spoiler: he discovered that ''he'' was the mole and why all his attempts at revolution failed - the replacement eye he'd gotten not long after "Warship" was transmitting information back to the Federation.]]
* PrinciplesZealot: Slides into this at times in his single-minded goal to destroy the Federation.
* PutOnABus: He and Jenna are separated from the others in the big battle at the end of the second season. He takes two full seasons to encounter them again.
* RebelLeader: He led two separate major rebellions against the dictatorial Federation.
* RedOniBlueOni: He is the volatile, charismatic moral lead to Avon's chilly pragmatism.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: He belongs to the [[FantasticCasteSystem Alpha grade]], a privileged group within the Federation.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: TheFederation MindRaped him into condemning his own revolution, imprisoned him, drugged him to keep him docile, murdered his family and eventually framed him for child molestation and sent him to a prison planet. His decisions subsequently are driven at least in part by a desire for some payback.
* RousingSpeech: Prone to these, much to Avon's annoyance.
* ShroudedInMyth: In-universe.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: By the end of the second season he is willing to potentially plunge the whole Federation into logistical collapse in order to win, which he has been warned could potentially lead to mass catastrophe.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is on the receiving end of this more frequently as the series goes on.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Constantly tussles with Avon over whether to go for moral or pragmatic strategies or tactics, even though they stay allies for a long time.
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[[folder:Kerr Avon]]
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->''"I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going."''

-->Played by: Creator/PaulDarrow (1978-81)

A computer fraudster who was part of the crew who Blake escaped with. A cold and snarky man who becomes the show's second protagonist.
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* AccidentalAimingSkills: In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E13Orac Orac]]", he shoots off Travis' arm.
-->'''Blake''': "Good shot, Avon".
-->'''Avon''': "I was aiming for his head".
* AntiHero: Unscrupulous, tending almost towards AntiVillain at times. He's usually apathetic and selfish but has moments of decency and even nobility (in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E9Countdown Countdown]]" he chooses to defuse a bomb that's seconds away from wiping out the whole planet even though he could just teleport away). On the other hand, he can be extremely ruthless when pushed (like "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E11Orbit Orbit]]", when he tries to kill [[spoiler:Vila]] to save his own life), and he has many personality traits that are typical of many DiabolicalMastermind EvilGenius-type villains, such as being attracted to power and believing he is smarter than everyone.; the fact that ''[[BigBad Servalan]]'' treats him as almost a kindred spirit really says it all.
* BackToBackBadasses: When going out on a mission, he has a tendency to pair himself with whoever is the most badass from among whatever crewmembers that are available that he also finds least annoying, leading him to often be paired with either [[BloodKnight Dayna]] or [[TheGunslinger Soolin]] and -- more often then not -- fighting back to back with them.
* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: He finds people annoying and too emotional, and prefers the company of machines -- though his dislike for ''certain'' members of his own species declines somewhat as the series goes on.
* BigDamnHero: Because he's both the other biggest badass on the ship and because he's reluctant to personally back Blake's fanatical schemes (and so often stays behind on the Liberator), he often (if reluctantly and with a great deal of "I told you so's") is this.
* BreakoutCharacter: A clear fan favorite character who already overshadows Blake before taking command of the Liberator in Season 3.
* BrutalHonesty: Regularly tells the rest of the crew (and most villains) exactly what he thinks of them.
-->'''Avon''': "No, the point is Vila won't trust you whereas he will trust Cally and me."
-->'''Tarrant''': "Cally yes, but why you?"
-->'''Avon''': "Because he knows what I think of him."
-->'''Tarrant''': "You despise him."
-->'''Avon''': "''Right'', but at least I'm consistent about it."
* ByronicHero: Definitely has shades of this.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Though power and control attracts him, he tends to reject taking full control because when he is in charge of people he actually feels responsible for their welfare (as evidenced early on with his [[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E12Deliverance discomfort with Meegat's reliance on him]]) and this leaves him heavily stressed and strung between self-interest and the responsibility he feels a person in that position has; this is a major factor in his SanitySlippage after becoming leader of the crew.
* ChallengeSeeker: Avon solves a [[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E7MissionToDestiny murder-mystery]] and helps Vila [[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E11Gambit rob the Freedom City casino]] entirely to amuse himself.
* ChangingOfTheGuard: Becomes the main protagonist in series C when the group gets broken up and Blake cannot be found (really because Gareth Thomas wanted to go on to other things and Paul Darrow was still enthusiastic about his role and Avon was such a big hit with fans).
* CombatPragmatist: ''Any'' dirty trick in the book, as long as it finishes combat quickly with him as the winner.
* TheCracker: Was one. He hacked into the Federation banking system and stole 5 million credits before the start of the series, and would have gotten away clean but for "relying on other people", as he put it.
* TheCynic: He can always be relied upon to argue for the ruthless but survival-oriented choice, and constantly mocks others' moral pretensions.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His lover and partner in crime was apparently tortured to death by the Federation when they were captured...and when he finally gets around to investigating further, the revelations end up making things even worse for him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snark is his native tongue and even in those rare times when he's not speaking it, the accent is apparent in every word.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Snarkily explaining how the door panels work, thus showing off his love of computers and his love of [[TheSnarkKnight being rude to people]] he thinks are dumber than him. (Which is, of course, everyone.)
* EvilIsHammy: "Evil" is an open question, but it's certainly true that the more embittered and compromised Avon becomes, the more studs he wears, poses he strikes, and lines he delivers in staccato barks.
* FireForgedFriends: With Blake, eventually becoming WithFriendsLikeThese, and arguably with the others to varying levels.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: He shows strong signs of sexual attraction to Servalan in the later seasons. In that they make out [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E1Aftermath multiple]] [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E12DeathWatch times]].
* ForgetsToEat ...and sleep when he's obsessed with something.
* GirlyRun: Not really a trained athlete - he can be rather ungainly when moving fast.
* GoodIsNotNice: Avon does not like to kill unnecessarily (he is seen to discourage the killing of disabled enemies). He is against the taking of innocent life (but if you're playing the game, you're fair game). He objects to Blake's more blatantly terrorist-style plans such as destroying the computer system that controls planetary environments. He also does not like dealing with the [[SpacePirates Space Mafia]] and he dislikes psychological manipulation (the reason for Blake's phenomenal success). Avon ''is'', however, a condescending {{Jerkass}}, and he really does think he's smarter than you are.
* GoodWithNumbers
* HardHead: For such a badass and paranoid character, he gets knocked out by a TapOnTheHead a ridiculous amount of times, only once ("[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E1Aftermath Aftermath]]") with any after-effects whatsoever.
* HellBentForLeather: Even by the standards of this show, his fondness for tight black or red leather costumes is notoriously fetishistic.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Very, very hidden under lots of snark and cynicism and even pretended self-interest. Watch what he does, not what he says (usually, anyway).
* IGaveMyWord: Despite his more pragmatic approach and [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids contempt]] for all things [[HonorBeforeReason honorable before reason]], he does not give his word lightly and will not break it once he has given it.
** MetaphoricallyTrue[=/=]ExactWords: He may not break his word, but unless you are someone he respects or have solicited a ''very'' specific and well-worded promise from him, he can find some way around it.
-->'''Shrinker''': "We had a deal."
-->'''Avon''': "Did we?"
-->'''Shrinker''': "We did. A way out you promised me."
-->'''Avon''': "And I'm a man of my word. In the end, that's all there is, really."
-->Avon throws a blaster on the floor a little ways away from Shrinker.
-->'''Shrinker''': "What's that?"
-->'''Avon''':" ''That's'' your '[[LeaveBehindAPistol way out]].' It's a better deal than you gave any of your victims."
* ISurrenderSuckers: Occasionally plays gambits in which he allows himself to be captured.
* InsufferableGenius: At the beginning he is a pure example of this, being incredibly obnoxious and tolerated by the others for his technical skills. After CharacterDevelopment it becomes clear that he cares for the others (well, sort of, when he's in a good mood) and vice-versa, but he never becomes exactly amiable.
* InsultBackfire: Pretty much any insult thrown at him regarding his callousness and coldness.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Has a habit of aggressively manhandling women who try to manipulate or deceive him. In one case he's in a life-and-death struggle with a female villain (including her hitting him in the groin) and after subduing her says, "You better get her out of here, I really rather enjoyed that."
* ItsAllAboutMe: He pretends to be this.
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Avon definitely does not suffer from Blake's hero complex. Even when he continues the fight after taking control of the Liberator.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Avon spends most of Series 1 and 2 trying to get everyone to try a pair on, with varying success.
* JustAMachine: His view on Zen and Orac. It bothers him to no end that they talk back and don't always obey orders (as computers should), and he's threatened Zen with reprogramming more than a few times. He's also the only one who consistently refers to Zen, Orac, and Slave as "it" rather than "he" like the others do. Yet despite this, he and Orac are each the only person the other has any intellectual respect for. In the audio episode "Fractures" he even explicitly lists Orac as one of the two people he actually trusts. The other, of course, is himself.
* TheLancer: A pure example of this trope in the first two seasons, as Blake's often-combative, and more ruthless and unpleasant, second lead.
* LaughingMad: At the end of [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E10Gold Gold]]"]] when he finds out that, instead of inconveniencing and ripping a whole lot of money off of her, Servalan has manipulated him into doing something that benefited her immensely.
* LeaningOnTheFurniture: He practically never fully sits on anything. (Allegedly, this was sometimes because the notorious leather trousers were so tight that he couldn't actually bend at the hips.)
* LicencedSexist: He [[OutOfCharacter becomes a hardcore sexist in any episode written by Ben Steed]]. The most blatant instance is in the episode "Power," where he actually lectures a female villain on how women are inherently less strong than men, and how they should learn their proper place in society. Fortunately the other writers treated Avon in a much more even-handed way, letting him show respect for his female colleagues and even Servalan to a certain extent.
* LonerTurnedFriend: "Friend" might be stretching it, depending on your definition of "friend." If, for instance, he and a crewmate are on an overloaded spaceship that is going to blow up unless the approximate weight of a human disposed of and there's no way out of the situation, he's going to dump the crewmate; however, if there is the slimmest possible chance to save them, he will do everything Avonly possible for his crewmates.
* TheLostLenore: His girlfriend and partner-in-crime Anna Grant, who he believes was tortured to death by the Federation after they were captured.
* TheMadHatter: As the series goes on he becomes increasingly mentally unstable and shows it. During the final episodes, he starts deliberately playing it up to intimidate people, and in the very last episode describes himself as a psychopath.
* MeaningfulName: ''Avon: A Terrible Aspect'' (by Paul Darrow) reveals "Kerr" (or "Ker", in the book), is short for Kerguelen, meaning "devastation". (The connection is the Kerguelen Islands - among the most remote places on Earth - which are also known as the Desolation Islands. Kerguelen was actually the name of their discoverer, though. Whether the "Kerguelen=desolation" mistake is on Darrow's part or a natural historical error in the fictional future is unclear.)
* MisanthropeSupreme - Avon certainly pretends to be this, but seems to care about people more than he claims.
* MrFanservice: TallDarkAndSnarky Paul Darrow in tight leather? He has [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys a lot of fans.]]
* NominalHero: At the start he takes up with Blake purely so that he can escape from prison, and stays with Blake because he thinks his chances are better. After he becomes more committed to the rebellion and the other characters, he becomes an UnscrupulousHero.
* OddCouple: Whenever he goes on a mission with Vila.
* OddFriendship: With Cally (with some [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] involved). While being on opposite ends of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism and often calling each other out on their differing value systems, they build up rather a good friendship (by "Blake's 7" and Avon's standards), initially because they are both outsiders, but largely because (as Paul Darrow put it) they see exactly what the other is and are willing to accept each other even when they disagree. He respects her opinion and tends to lend it more consideration, she's the only person on the Liberator he exhibits patience with, the only crewmember he directly expresses concern over if they are in trouble, and whose emotional well-being he actually considers and asks about.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E10Breakdown Breakdown]]", Avon shows open panic when he realises the Liberator has lost all computer control.
** In Season 4, Avon shows increasing SanitySlippage under the strains of a HopelessWar and TheChainsOfCommanding, which conflict with his self-interest.
* PetTheDog: He has his moments.
* ThePowerOfTrust: For someone who frequently says that trusting is stupidity and gets people killed, trust means an awful lot when given to him by someone he respects and he will go through hell and high water to save them, avenge them, or do something they ask of him (if that something is within reason). Conversely, it carries an incredible amount of weight those rare times when he (who frequently warns his crewmates not to trust anyone, especially him) [[RememberThatYouTrustMe asks his crewmates to trust him]].
* PsychoSidekick: At the beginning Blake knows just how ruthless he is and tolerates his more vicious actions, because he's so useful.
* PsychoticSmirk: Paul Darrow has one of the most frightening and ambiguous smiles in TV history. The audience can never tell what it means or portends.
* RebelLeader: From Series 3 onwards, not that he wants to be.
* RebelliousSpirit: Intensely dislikes anyone or anything that tries to control him, and can reliably be counted on to snark at any authority figure whether or not it's good for his health.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Blake's Red.
* ReverseArmFold: When he's not LeaningOnTheFurniture.
* SarcasticDevotee
* SanitySlippage: He has one during the final series. The final straw comes with [[spoiler:Blake's (apparent) betrayal]]. Considering what he's been through, the only wonder is it didn't happen sooner.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The manly man to Vila's sensitive guy.
* ShipTease: With Cally, though the extent of his feelings is kept ambiguous.
* SlasherSmile: More and more, the more insane he becomes.
* TheSnarkKnight: Constantly snarks at others for being herd followers and cannot stand idiocy, and he especially snarks at people in leadership positions, constantly pointing out how they fail at being a leader, but he is just as hard on himself when in a leadership position.
* SourOutsideSadInside
* SourSupporter: Just 'cause he's (almost) TheLancer to Blake, doesn't mean he has to like it.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Starts wearing them in the third series, right about when he starts to [[MadHatter lose it]]. (They actually caused a minor behind-the-scenes controversy, and many of his spikier outfits were replaced with studded ones next series).
* TheSpock: The logical and cold-blooded team member.
* SpockSpeak
* TheStarscream: Avon makes no secret to Blake that he wants the Liberator, though unlike other examples of this trope is unwilling to backstab him over it.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: The "sugar" part is extremely repressed and restrained, even when it appears, but that makes it even more meaningful.
* SurvivorGuilt: For being the one who survived when Anna Grant didn't.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Not so much the tall part, but he makes up for it with a triple helping of snark.
* ThinkingTic: If he's not leaning on Orac, he tends to roll game pieces in his hands while thinking when he's on the bridge.
* TookALevelInBadass: His initial role in the group is as the computer specialist, but as the series goes on (and he eventually winds up in command of Liberator) he spends less time working on computers and more time shooting baddies.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After showing some signs of compassion in Season 3, the final season has Avon taking a headlong dive into callousness, possibly due to SanitySlippage.
* TragicHero: His twin [[FatalFlaw Fatal Flaws]] of cynicism and distrust (amped up to eleven by [[spoiler: his finding out his lover, Anna Grant, had really been planted on him, then being forced to kill her when she pulled a gun on him]] - a tragedy in itself) [[TragicMistake lead him to kill]] [[spoiler:[[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged Friend]], Blake, believing Blake betrayed him]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Fanon would have you believe that ''Avon'' is a male version.
* VerbalTic: Has a tendency to start out sentences with a sardonically seasoned "well."
* WouldHitAGirl: Doesn't care if you're male, female, alien, etc.; if someone is threatening his welfare or that of his companions, he doesn't hesitate to hit, stab/shoot in the back, or kill anyone. He also has a tendency to aggressively manhandle women whom he realises have tried to deceive him. Needless to say this leads to a lot of BelligerentSexualTension with Servalan.
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[[folder:Jenna Stannis]]
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->''"We're free. We've got a ship. We can go anywhere we like."''

-->Played by: Creator/SallyKnyvette (1978-9)

A smuggler and professional criminal, the only female member of Blake's original crew.
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* AcePilot: She is introduced as this, although as the seasons progress ''Liberator'' becomes too obviously self-willed for her [[InformedAbility to be able to show it]].
* ActionGirl: Usually one of the more effective characters in a fight. The tendency of some writers to portray her as a FauxActionGirl was actually the main factor in Knyvette leaving the series - she'd signed on to play a badass space pirate, and got tired of getting yet more NeutralFemale scripts or being OutOfFocus.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Avon.
* BusCrash: Blake announces she's dead in the final episode, though he may have been lying to gauge the crew's reaction. The Big Finish episode "Jenna's Story" eventually revealed [[spoiler:he was telling the truth - Jenna's dead.]]
* {{Chickification}}: Sally Knyvette complained that she went from tough space pirate to housewife aboard the Liberator. This led to her leaving the series.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E11Bounty Bounty]]" focuses on her.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments.
* DrugsAreBad: Smuggled anything that could be sold on the black market, but drew the line on drugs and Shadow in particular.
* FantasticRacism: She's intially distrustful of Cally, questioning the wisdom of having aliens onboard the ''Liberator''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Though Sally Knyvette never opted to return to the series after being PutOnABus and Jenna was later the victim of a BusCrash, more recent tie-in novels and Creator/BigFinish audio productions in collaboration with Knyvette make it clear that she got up to quite a few heroic deeds of her own off-screen.
* HellbentForLeather: One outfit in particular.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: ''All the time''.
* MachineEmpathy: She can tell the hyperdrive of the ''London'' "needs restressing, by the feel of things."
* MissingMom: In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E2SpaceFall Space Fall]]" she sees a vision of her mother being dragged off by Federation soldiers. It's not very clear what happened, but it's implied this is part of why she's receptive toward Blake's calls for revolution.
* MsFanservice
* OutOfFocus: Was sadly under-utilised as the series went on. This caused Sally Knyvette to leave. Creator/BigFinish went out of their way to avert this, filling out her backstory and giving her meatier dramatic roles in their episodes, which she says she's very happy about.
* PutOnABus: She and Blake are separated from the others in the chaos of the space battle at the end of the second season.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Blake.
* VenturousSmuggler: A member of the elite Alpha class, Jenna was a beautiful but cynical smuggler/self-styled "free trader".
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[[folder:Vila Restal]]
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->''"I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person."''

-->Played by: Creator/MichaelKeating (1978-81)

A likeable (if self-serving) professional crook who becomes, surprisingly, the emotional core of the crew.
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* TheAlcoholic: Becomes one as the series goes on, largely to deal with his stress and after [[spoiler: Gan]] dies.
* AmazonChaser: Tends to be attracted to women who could easily wipe the floor with him.
* ButtMonkey: Is constantly the butt of jokes and snarking, even from Cally.
-->'''Vila:''' Why do I get all the dirty jobs?
-->'''Soolin:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Type-casting?]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first episode implies that he's a kleptomaniac, as opposed to the professional thief of later episodes. On the other hand it would be entirely like the Federation to have classified habitual criminality as a mental aberration like being a [[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E4"Horizon Resister]].
* ChivalrousPervert: Shows unsubtle interest in the female characters, but he's never indecent about forcing his attentions on anyone.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Openly lacks courage or very much morality, and often ends up on the receiving end of others' disdain.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "City on the Edge of the World" is largely centred around him. He accidentally leads an alien race to their Promised Land, gets to show off just how good a safecracker he actually is, and has sex for the only time in the season.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Vila suffers from this the most. How intelligent, capable, brave and sober he is depends on who's writing; Creator/TerryNation or Creator/ChrisBoucher.
* {{Delinquent}}: Started his career in crime at a young age, [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook including several juvenile detention centres]].
* TheEeyore: Very pessimistic. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Not without good reason, mind.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Trying to take Blake's watch shows he's a thief, though it's [[CharacterizationMarchesOn presented initially]] as being a compulsive behaviour rather than something he does because he's good at it, as in later episodes.
* IfIWereARichMan: Though it's pointed out that he'd soon become bored and start looking for something to break into. This is shown in "City on the Edge of the World" when he chooses to [[LeaveYourQuestTest go back to his old life]] rather than retire with the GirlOfTheWeek on a new world.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He acts very self-centred, and it's only a mild exaggeration.
* LittleGuyBigBuddy: His and [[GentleGiant Gan's]] friendship looks rather like this. Vila is the shortest member of the crew, whose MotorMouth and kleptomania tend to get him into trouble; the friendship he strikes up with Gan, who is more than happy to prove his friendship by intimidation or violence, is often protective.
* MasterOfUnlocking: He can get through practically any lock in the universe, and is very proud of it.
* TheMcCoy: Generally the member of the central trio who reacts emotionally to things.
* MotorMouth: When he's extremely frightened.
* NonActionSnarker: While often the target of snarking, he frequently gets in some of his own.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Is the only member of the crew who never bothers with the pretense that they're rebels.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His favourite tactic for avoiding dangerous situations. Unfortunately this is DependingOnTheWriter as he is often shown to actually be an idiot in many cases, overindulging in drink and thinking wrong-headedly. But when it comes to being a thief and especially dealing with security systems he seems to have a touch of genius.
* OneLiner: Loves using these.
* PlayingDrunk: At one point, he pretends to be drunk so he can make a suggestion on how to fix the current problem (atmosphere leaking out of a hole in the hull) in the form of a rambling reminiscence, but not be called on to undertake the repair himself (because you couldn't give such a dangerous task to someone who was obviously drunk).
* PluckyComicRelief: Taking "plucky" in its vaguest sense.
* SarcasticDevotee
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The sensitive guy to Avon's manly man.
* TheSoCalledCoward: He's [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not in it for Blake's revolution]] and knows that most of his comrades think he's cowardly, incompetent and generally expendable, but he's surprisingly brave (and badass) when someone who's shown him some respect is in trouble.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Olag Gan]]
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->''"Well, ''I'm'' with you."''

-->Played by: Creator/DavidJackson (1978-79)

A convicted murderer who acts as Blake's primary muscle, despite an essentially phlegmatic personality.
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* TheBerserker: When his limiter implant malfunctions and does the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do, sending him into an [[FriendOrFoe indiscriminate homicidal rage.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A generally kind, affable fellow, he'll also cheerfully rip through anyone who threatens his friends, and then there's the times his limiter implant malfunctions... To put it this way, it took the combined effort of the rest of the crew to bring him down.
* TheBigGuy: Unfortunately this includes the BigGuyFatalitySyndrome, as he sacrifices himself to save the others in [[spoiler: "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E5PressurePoint Pressure Point]]".]]
* DumbMuscle: Subverted. He's a simple man who does the heavy lifting, however this is not due to a lack of intelligence, just from [[GentleGiant his personality]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Affably threatening to tear a guard's hand off in order to make him open a door.
* GentleGiant: He's actually a very NiceGuy.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Hailing from and AgriWorld that kept to the GoodOldWays, Gan wasn't very technically adept, nor was he a guile schemer. However, he had a rustic common sense that allowed him to see a more straightforward approach than his more educated colleagues who might overthink situations. He also often gains the trust of strangers who might not be as receptive to his more cynical comrades.
* TheHeart: Shares this role with Cally up until [[spoiler:his death]]. Particularly notable in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E2Shadow Shadow]]", where he's the only one to try and reason Blake out of his plan to ally with the Terra Nostra, on moral grounds.
* HeroicSacrifice: Dies to allow the rest of the characters to escape a bad situation in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E5PressurePoint Pressure Point]]".]]
* MoralityChip[=/=]RestrainingBolt: His "limiter" implant, which prevents him from killing.
* OutOfFocus: Got the least development of the original crew.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Went on one of these [[BackStory before the series began]], at a Federation soldier who raped and killed his girlfriend.
* SacrificialLion: The first regular character to die, but [[AnyoneCanDie definitely not the last.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Blake, if you are an idealist. If, however, you are like Avon you will see Gan's loyalty to Blake as BlindObedience.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cally]]
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->''"My people have a saying: A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken."''

-->Played by: Creator/JanChappell (1978-80)

A telepathic alien rebel who joined Blake's crew after the rest of her team were killed.
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* ActionGirl: Sometimes (see DependingOnTheWriter).
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's an Auron, but what that means varied from one series to the next, from an alien to an artificially advanced clone.
* {{Badass Pacifist}}: Her characterization tends to round out to this.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** In the reverse of the usual convention, she's able only to talk to non-telepaths, not to hear them or read their minds. This is occasionally useful for secret communication, but mostly her telepathy translates into being vulnerable to getting possessed or [[{{MindRape}} Mind Raped]] with disturbing frequency.
** Cally also suffers from loneliness, being stuck on a spaceship with non-telepaths she can't share her emotions with.
** Due to her alien biology, she's the only survivor of a planet where the Federation used biological weapons. [[SurvivorGuilt She's not happy about this]] and is actually planning a SuicideByCop before her future crewmates arrive.
%%* BrainyBrunette
* {{Chickification}}: Was introduced as a kickass fighter, but gets handed the DistressBall often enough that this is toned down a bit. In fairness she did state that she was a CommunicationsOfficer in her introductory scene, but this only means she's stuck as [[BridgeBunnies Bridge Bunny]] even more than Jenna.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: In one of the hardest-SF portions of the show, she and her clone-sister Zelda are quite clearly different people with different personalities and motivations.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E5TheWeb The Web]]", "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E2Shadow Shadow]]", "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E7ChildrenOfAuron Children of Auron]]" and "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E9Sarcophagus Sarcophagus]]" all focus on her.
* DeathSeeker: Cally is introduced as the SoleSurvivor (due to her alien biology) of a planet where the Federation wiped out LaResistance with biological weapons. Due to a combination of SurvivorGuilt and YouCantGoHomeAgain, she plans to attack the nearest Federation base and destroy everything she can until she's killed. [[TakingYouWithMe "There will be companions for my death."]] The arrival of Blake gives her another option, and she becomes the final member of the Seven.
* DependingOnTheWriter: She's always on the idealistic side of the crew, but depending on the episode this means she's either a passionate fighter or a passionate pacifist.
* DesignatedVictim: Cally was often perceived as either a threat (due to her telepathy) or a vulnerability (due to her loneliness) by MonsterOfTheWeek aliens, who would then target her.
* TheEmpath: Though she can't read non-telepaths, she can occasionally pick up the feelings and intentions of others.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Knocking Blake over with her gun, and speaking to him telepathically combines her fighter nature with her dislike of actual violence, and demonstrates her telepathy.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: She should never be left to guard anyone who should be restrained.
* TheHeart: Easily the most compassionate of the crew.
* HumanAliens: Though whether she's a human-looking alien or a species that evolved from humans is also DependingOnTheWriter.
* TheIdealist: The only crew member besides Blake who believes in fighting against the Federation because it is corrupt and oppressive, rather than because it inconveniences her personal freedom, and operates from a moral centre that extends mercy (even though she recognizes that it is not always the practical thing to do) to enemies. She also questions and ends up eschewing Blake's "the end justifies the means" approach.
* TheLancer: After Blake is gone, [[spoiler:and until her death]], she tends to have this role to Avon.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Can sense danger on occasion, though always concerning some malevolent alien force rather than human evildoers.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She's the most reserved member of the crew, but even she can't resist snarking at Vila.
* OddFriendship: With Avon (with quite a bit of [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] on her end). She holds quite a bit of respect for him and his abilities and never snarks about them, only about his more selfish and pragmatic value system. Compared to in many cases with the others where she objects to more pragmatic measures purely on moral grounds, when it is something he posits forth she tends to object based on how it might affect him (like how far he's willing to go to avenge Anna Grant). She's also the only one who shows awareness and consideration for his HiddenHeartOfGold.
* TheOnlyBeliever: In the third season she is the only remaining character in the crew who politically believes in the revolution. Her death leaves them as an entire team of {{Nominal Hero}}es.
* OnlyOneName: Seemingly a thing with Auronar.
* PsychicPowers: Telepathy and (when her powers are boosted by other telepaths) some telekinesis.
* PsychicRadar: She pulls this trick to sneak up on Blake when she's introduced.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Early drafts of her first episode describe Cally as resembling the young female Israeli suicide terrorists.
* ShipTease: With Avon.
* SurvivorGuilt: Her initial reason not to want to return home, after she was the only one of a rebel squad to survive. This was later [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into her having been exiled and [[MultipleChoicePast not wanting to admit it to the others]].
* TelepathicSpacemen: Though downplayed as she can only communicate with other telepaths. She can send non-telepaths messages however, which comes in handy when she's been captured and can't talk openly.
* TokenNonHuman: The only member of the crew described as alien, though how alien depends on the writer.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: When she does go back to Auronar, [[spoiler:it's to witness the genocide of her people and death of her sister. She doesn't even stay with the few survivors who are trying to reestablish their race.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zen/Liberator]]
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->''"Information..."''

-->Voiced by: Creator/PeterTuddenham (1978-80)

An incredibly powerful alien battleship that Blake and Jenna stumbled on and befriended.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: The visual interface Zen provides for the crew is a suitably alien hexagon-shaped screen with blinking lights.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Zen scanned Jenna's mind and took the name Liberator from there (the vessel had liberated them from prison, after all). Presumably Zen as well, given that it's a MeaningfulName.
* CatchPhrase: On carrying out an order, "Confirmed." And "Information..." whenever it has something to tell the crew.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Zen displays lights on an hexagonal screen on the flight deck when speaking. "Your species requires a visual reference point."
* InfiniteSupplies: The Liberator is self-regenerating and has enough concentrated food to last one person a thousand years.
* LightningBruiser: ''Liberator'' is faster than any known ship [[spoiler: (until ''Scorpio'' is souped up)]], has insanely good firepower and shields, and even has auto-repair systems that start repairing damage the moment it is made, making it the most fearsome ship in the galaxy.
* LiteralMinded: The automatic repair systems can't stop a TimeBomb because the ship hasn't been damaged until the bomb explodes. Zen refuses to reprogram them as it's against his core directives not to interfere in the activities of its crew (as a member of the crew placed the bomb while under alien possession). Zen has its moments of LiteralistSnarking as well.
-->'''Servalan:''' So tell me, Zen, how does one operate this craft?
-->'''Zen:''' One manipulates the controls, and the craft functions accordingly.
-->'''Servalan:''' Yes, and I've heard of your impudence. Now perhaps you will tell me ''how'' to manipulate the controls.
* MeaningfulName: Zen is a mysterious possessor of great knowledge, who leaves its students to work out their own meaning from obscure hints, much like the popular view of Zen Buddhism.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Zen using "I" when telling the crew how sorry he is [[spoiler:that he has failed them as he is dying as ''Liberator'' is being destroyed.]]
* RestrainingBolt: In early episodes, something stops him being too helpful to the crew, although this mostly ends after the encounter with ''Liberator's'' creators.
* SapientShip: The Liberator is fully sapient but entirely mechanical. In the recent audiobook remake/reboot of the series, the ship is at least partly [[OrganicTechnology biological]] and [[spoiler:considerably more sinister, attempting to assimilate the crew into itself and being rather predatory in its attempts to survive.]]
* SelfHealingPhlebotinum: Has self-repair circuits allowing the ship to repair itself without help from the crew. The speed of repair generally depended on the level of damage; the worse the damage, the faster the repairs. Justified by minor damage being harder to locate.
* StarshipLuxurious: The ''London'' is dwarfed when docking with the ''Liberator'', whose facilities include a spacious flight deck with MasterComputer, a full-equipped surgical bay, an armory, a teleport system, {{Escape Pod}}s, an UnlimitedWardrobe and a treasure room holding more wealth than you'd find in the entire Federation banking system (according to Avon). No reason for the latter is ever given.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted; despite not being actively malevolent, it refuses to intervene in the affairs of the crew when an alien-possessed Cally plants a bomb, thus breaking the First Law (causing harm by inaction). Yet Zen also shuts down to stop the crew of the Liberator entering a ForbiddenZone, violating the Second Law. It's also willing to kill (using a hallucination-type Booby Trap) to protect its own existence, violating the Third Law.
[[/folder]]

!The Federation

[[folder:Servalan]]
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->''"Your time is running out, Blake. Your time and your luck."''

-->Played by: Creator/JacquelinePearce (1978-81)

The utterly ruthless and self-centred head of the Federation armed forces, and later the Federation itself. You might think that she's the kind of sexy female villain who is just looking for a man to seduce and reform her. You would be very, very wrong.
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* BadBoss: She habitually bullies her staff and occasionally kills them for failure or simply because it's convenient for her schemes.
* TheBaroness: One of the typical examples of the coldly ruthless female villain whose sexiness is almost entirely manipulative.
* BestHerToBedHer: She only shows interest in men who can outwit her and/or show no fear of her power, however she's only interested for as long as they can keep ahead of her and death is the consequence of not being able to do so.
* BigBad: In the first two seasons she is the highest ranking on-screen member of the Federation, and by the third season she has become President. Even after being deposed, she's still makes a regular appearance to stymie our heroes.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is this to Space Command staff, most of whom seem to find her a charming lady. (Until she [[MagnificentBastard outmanoeuvres]] them.
* BodyguardBabes: Often guarded by female mutoids.
* BondVillainStupidity: She benefits from a heroic version of this, especially from Tarrant in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E9Sand Sand]]", when she was responsible for [[spoiler:his brother's death]] in the previous season. The reverse is also true thanks to her love of EvilGloating.
* BoyishShortHair: She has cropped black hair, but rather than being TheLadette combines it with her glamorous {{Impractically Fancy Outfit}}s. The cropped hair was originally part of a more military appearance including helmet and uniform, but Jacqueline Pearce decided to emphasize her femininity instead, creating an iconic sci-fi villainess.
* BreakoutVillain: She was originally supposed to appear in just one episode. She proved good enough to become the main villain of the series.
* TheChessmaster: Servalan's very good at playing the political game and pitting people against each other.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: If only on-screen appearances count, being her minion, informant or fellow conspirator is statistically more deadly than being on her hit list. Avon wisely turns down a WeCanRuleTogether offer for this reason.
* {{Cornered Rattlesnake}}: Normally Servalan leaves the fighting to her minions while she schemes from a distance. However, after she's ousted from her position and forced to rough it, she proves to be just as deadly.
* DeadpanSnarker: Just as much as Avon.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Her entire goal [[ItsAllAboutMe is her own advancement]], and some of her schemes seriously harm Federation interests.
* DirtyCoward: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. [[CorneredRattlesnake She's not a physical coward]], but because ItsAllAboutMe she loses several encounters with the Liberator's crew because they're willing to risk everything and she is not.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Likely because she regards everyone as equally expendable pawns, so FantasticRacism is hardly a factor for her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Very charming and polite, even when killing and torturing people.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: With Avon in the later seasons. It becomes especially clear when he plants a half-sincere, half-TakeThatKiss on her, and she '''doesn't kill him'''. Which for Servalan is the equivalent of the average woman ripping her clothes off and leaping on him.
* FreudianExcuse: When she was eighteen Servalan was abandoned by her lover Don Keller.
-->'''Servalan:''' He left me. I grew up. Power became my lover. Power is like a drug. [[EvilFeelsGood It is beautiful. Shining.]] I could destroy a planet by pressing a button. I loved him.
* FrontlineGeneral: This trope backfires on Servalan when she turns up at the end of a battle against alien invaders hoping to get some propaganda kudos, only to be ambushed and shot down. By the time she gets back to Star Command, the Federation has disintegrated and she has to become a FrontlineGeneral for real, rallying TheRemnant to save what's left of her VestigialEmpire.
* HotConsort: As Travis notes, she has a tendency to "surround herself with beautiful men".
* KarmaHoudini: She is left entirely free and active at the end of the show.
* LadyInRed: Only in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E11Gambit Gambit]]" when she attends a MasqueradeBall in a ViceCity outside the Federation.
* ManipulativeBitch: Screws with people to get what she wants from them.
* MarriedToTheJob: She states that "power became [her] lover" when her boyfriend left her.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
* NonActionBigBad: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she's a politician and not a soldier. However she's more than capable of killing when required; Vila comes across a field of dead bodies she's left behind in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E11Moloch Moloch]]".
* PresidentEvil: Eventually.
* PrettyInMink: Quite frequently wears fur coats.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Travis' Red.
* RichBitch
-->'''Kasabi:''' But don't try and browbeat me Servalan. Or have you forgotten that I knew you as a cadet? You were a credit to your background: spoilt, idle, vicious. ''[Pushes Servalan to the floor. To Travis.]'' My confidential assessment listed her as unfit for command. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections But I forgot how well-connected she was.]]
* SleazyPolitician: Egotistical, power-hungry, entirely self-serving, and keeps a retinue of attractive male staffers.
* TheSociopath: Cares about no-one's suffering except her own, yet is entirely capable of superficial charm and is an expert manipulator.
* {{Unperson}}: In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E13Terminal Terminal]]", she's overthrown by the Federation High Council while hunting the Liberator to replace the Federation fleet. They install a new government dominated by the secret police instead of the military, and officially erase her from existence and pretend her period as President did not occur. She hides under an assumed name as Commissioner Sleer and manages to become a high ranking secret police commander and oversees a program of retaking Federation colonies that declared independence after the alien invasion using mind control drugs. People recognize her and she murders them as needed to hide her true identity.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: She is classy but utterly vicious and ruthless, and dresses entirely in white for most of the first two seasons (until they changed the costume designer).
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Subverted; it's the AmbiguouslyEvil Avon and Tarrant who catch Servalan's interest, not the noble Blake.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Seemingly part of her UST with Avon -- in "Death Watch" she says she doesn't see him as an enemy, but as a future partner.
* WidowsWeeds: Changes to black after losing her cloned embryos in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E7ChildrenOfAuron Children of Auron]]".
* WomenPreferStrongMen: Quite enjoys getting a ForcefulKiss and being physically manhandled by Jarvik or Avon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Travis]]
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->''"You'd better kill me, Blake. Until one of us is dead, there'll never be a time when I won't be right behind you."''

-->Played by: Creator/StephenGreif (1978); Creator/BrianCroucher (1979)

A senior Federation military officer, soaked in blood and desperate to shed some of Blake's.
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* ArmCannon: His left arm was blown off by Blake in the incident which made him intent on revenge, and he gets outfitted with a prosthetic arm that has blasting capabilities.

* ArchEnemy: To Blake. Creator/GarethThomas even compared his rivalry with Blake to Literature/SherlockHolmes and Professor Moriarty. A better comparison would be Myth/RobinHood and Guy of Gisborne.
* TheArtifact: {{Averted}}. He was KilledOffForReal at the end of season two because it was felt that with Blake leaving, Travis no longer served any purpose.
* AxCrazy: Even other Federation officers regard him as a butcher, and that's before his SanitySlippage.
* BadassArmfold: Plus the occasional DynamicAkimbo.
* BadBoss: Treats his [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Mutoid followers very badly]]. A human soldier who was once under his command thinks highly of him, though.
* BloodKnight
* TheDragon: To Servalan, initially.
* EyepatchOfPower
* GirlyRun: From the hips down (he was being doubled by another actor); in a documentary on the series, they point out that the director wanted a pell-mell run, but the set was so small that doing that would have resulted in smacking into (or, just as likely, straight through) the far wall. The attempt to find a compromise between artistic vision and safety results in sort of a bouncy, skipping... thing...
* HellBentForLeather
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Travis hates Blake because Blake inflicted the injuries that cost him his eye and hand. Never mind that Travis had just massacred his friends after they'd surrendered.
* MisanthropeSupreme: In his final episode [[spoiler:he sells out humanity to a genocidal alien invasion to get revenge on the Federation that cast him out.]]
* OnlyOneName
* PaintedOnPants: His leather trousers are ''really'' tight.
* PerspectiveFlip: Travis is the [[DefectiveDetective emotionally-scarred]] yet [[TheDeterminator dedicated investigator]] with [[CowboyCop no patience for politicians or bureaucrats]], hunting down a [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters gang of terrorists and criminals]] by [[IDidWhatIHadToDo any means necessary]]. Or he would be if this wasn't ''Blake's Seven''.
* ThePlotReaper: Loses his PlotArmour in the same episode where Blake gets PutOnABus, as there's no dramatic need for an ArchEnemy obsessed with catching Blake.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Not any reflection on the actors, but when the character was recast his makeup was also heavily redesigned to make him look much less facially disfigured.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Servalan's Blue.
* RedRightHand: Travis refused cosmetic surgery, preferring to keep his eyepatch because he wanted Blake to remember him and what he'd done. It also sets him apart from the PrettyBoy staff men that Servalan uses.
* RogueAgent: Because it didn't seem plausible for TheDragon to keep pursuing and losing Blake without consequence, in Season B the writers had Travis go renegade to avoid court-martial by the Federation. Servalan decides to aid him covertly just in case he does manage to get Blake or the Liberator, but in the season finale [[spoiler:it turns out that Travis is a genuine rogue and OmnicidalManiac as he's helping an AlienInvasion that will KillAllHumans.]]
* SanitySlippage: He starts off as ruthless, cruel and obsessive, but fairly rational. By the end of S2, he's completely AxCrazy.
* TwoFaced: Though only in his original look; half his face has been destroyed and replaced with a black mask/eyepatch.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: He benefits from this, because Blake knows that he can beat Travis, and as long as Travis is alive he'll be the one the Federation sends.
[[/folder]]

!Later recruits to the Seven

[[folder:Orac]]
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->''"There seems little point in wasting time on such an explanation since you will be incapable of understanding it."''

-->Voiced by: Derek Farr (1978); Creator/PeterTuddenham (1979-1981)

A supercomputer with a very human personality. Unfortunately, not a '''nice''' human personality.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: While Orac he doesn't have homicidal tendencies, he is frequently reluctant to follow orders given to him, dismissing them as irrelevant waste of time.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Fascinating! Truly fascinating!"
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: On a couple of occasions.
* EverythingIsOnline: As explained under MagicalComputer below, he can access just about any electronic system in the universe, sometimes remotely.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In its introductory episodes Orac is shown to be capable of extrapolating the future, and destroying hostile vessels by detonating their missiles before they are launched. Both would have been very useful abilities when fighting the Federation...if they'd ever been used again.
* InsufferableGenius: He's very clever, but don't expect him to be useful unless he feels like it, and he loves rubbing how clever he is into the faces of the inferior meatbags.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Hardly ever shows any sign of mellowing or actually caring about people.
* MagicalComputer: Orac has the ability to take over any computer that utilizes "tarriel cells", which includes all Federation computer systems and, oddly, those of Zen and The System as well. Justified in terms of Federation ones, since his creator Ensor designed the key component used in all those systems and secretly installed a backdoor into it. Orac is also able to operate the teleport without human assistance, even though Zen who is ''integrated into the ship itself'' cannot.
* MeaningfulName: Orac is a contraction of oracle. He has a predictive capability and can predict the future with great accuracy, such as in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E13Orac Orac]]", when he predicted the destruction of the ''Liberator''.
* NominalHero: Not totally indifferent to the Seven, but has no interest in their cause. When Orac is captured by Federation soldiers in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E3Volcano Volcano]]", he has no problem instructing them in the best way to attack a neutral planet.
* PickYourHumanHalf: Physically, he's a perspex box of lights and circuitry. But personality-wise ([[JustAMachine and despite what Avon will tell you]]) he's a RidiculouslyHumanRobot -- [[SecondLawMyAss arrogant, lazy, sarcastic, amoral, and rarely willing to do anything helpful]] without protracted begging and flattery.
* SoleSurvivor: Only regular character to [[spoiler: definitely survive the final TV episode - if only because he wasn't actually there at the time.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His whereabouts at the end of the series are unknown. Presumably, Avon hid him somewhere.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dayna Mellanby]]
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->''I like the ancient weapons: the spear, the sword, the knife. They demand more skill. When you fight with them, conflict becomes more personal... More exciting.''

-->Played by: Creator/JosetteSimon (1980-1)

A weapons enthusiast whose father was murdered by Servalan, causing her to join Avon's crew purely because it seemed the best chance of getting revenge on her.
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* ActionGirl
* BloodKnight: She's a weapon designer who loves guns and making them more powerful but also enjoys melee weapons because they're "more personal, more exciting". Her official motivation throughout is trying to get revenge for the death of her father, but she's strongly implied to just like fighting in general.
* BoyishShortHair
* CrazyPrepared: Usually has the correct weapon or bomb needed, which she's built herself.
* ADayInTheLimelight: #"[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E5Animals Animals]]" focused on her.
* DudeMagnet: All three of the men she's on board with show some interest in her. Avon quite appreciates her kissing him in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E1Aftermath Aftermath]]". Vila has a [[AbhorrentAdmirer firmly unrequited]] crush on her that forms a RunningGag. And she and Tarrant have enough ShipTease it crosses over into ImpliedLoveInterest territory.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Saving Avon from some angry natives with her bow and arrow.
* {{Expy}}: Her introduction compares her to Miranda from ''Theatre/TheTempest'', although her personality turns out to be completely the opposite.
* FauxActionGirl: Dayna swings between this and ActionGirl, however much of the time it's justified as she's still the youngest and least experienced member of the crew, and can get nervous when she's unarmed or dealing with things that she's not familiar with.
* GeniusBruiser: Is not only an expert with any weapon one could name, she is also a brilliant designer and builder of new ones.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Most notoriously in one episode where she produces ''a heat-seeking self-propelled bomb on wheels the size of a Roomba'' between two shots, while wearing a skintight leather catsuit and not carrying any kind of container.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Albeit an extremely downplayed version. Her father invented weapons, but had little interest in actually using them, to Dayna's annoyance.
* StepfordSmiler: Usually she appears to be a very cheerful BloodKnight... until Servalan pops up, in which case it becomes clear that the grief and rage she feels over her father's murder is quite undiminished.
* TwoferTokenMinority
* YouKilledMyFather: Dayna's reason for joining the Liberator crew is to get revenge on Servalan for killing her father.
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[[folder:Del Tarrant]]
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->''"What are you doing on my ship?"''

-->Played by: Creator/StevenPacey (1980-1)

A charming, questionably moral guy who thinks he's a sexy, charismatic space hero. Unfortunately, that isn't the kind of universe he lives in.
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* AcePilot: Unlike Jenna, he's actually allowed to show it.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: He and his brother Deeta.
* CreatorThumbprint: Creator/TerryNation had an odd attachment to the surname Tarrant, and very frequently included a character of that name in his works.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E12DeathWatch Death-Watch]]" and "Sand" focused on him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Albeit not to the same extent as Avon.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Whether or not he's a cold, calculating mercenary or a heroic and chivalrous sort. (This wasn't really the fault of the writers, as there were major changes in the conception of the character after Steven Pacey was cast, and the characterisation depended on which edition of the show bible the writer got.)
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Disguised as a Federation officer, he introduces himself to Avon and Dayna and demands to know what they're doing on ''his'' ship.
* HonorBeforeReason: DependingOnTheWriter, at least. It's particularly noticeable in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E4DawnOfTheGods Dawn of the Gods]]", where he prevents [[PragmaticHero Avon]] abandoning ship with the only spacesuit, because they should [[TogetherInDeath all die together]], and in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E12DeathWatch Death Watch]]", where he cannot bring himself to shoot his opponent in a duel InTheBack - even though said opponent is [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman an android]].
* ImprobableAge: Has supposedly served as a Federation captain, then deserted to work as a smuggler and mercenary before taking part in the fight against Andromeda and then joining Blake's crew. It doesn't help that this BackStory was originally written for an older actor, but it's implied InUniverse that Tarrant might be lying about some of it. He was definitely a former Federation officer, so he could just be a deserter who made up the appropriate background to fit in with this gang of rebels and former criminals.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Smug, cocky and arrogant, but jovial and loyal to a fault.
* TheLancer: To Avon, whenever it isn't Cally instead.
* LeaderWannabe: Pretty much names himself leader off the bat and is extremely frustrated that the others only listen to him when they feel like it or he actually suggests something useful and that they usually follow Avon's lead over his.
* MrFanservice: Quite consciously if you believe WordOfGod.[[invoked]]
* OneSteveLimit: A different character named Tarrant appeared in the show's very first episode, as the Federation's AgentProvocateur within the rebels. This is due to Terry Nation's [[CreatorThumbprint trademark use of the name]].
* PrettyBoy: Or, as Servalan puts it, "decorative."
* PunchClockVillain: As a Federation officer, until he decided ScrewThisImOuttaHere, went AWOL, and became a...
* SpacePirate: Worked as a smuggler and mercenary before joining the Liberator crew.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Nominally for Blake, but as many wags over the years have pointed out, as the blond ace space pilot with lots of EightiesHair he's more one for Jenna.
* TooCleverByHalf: He ''is'' quite good at his specialties, and he knows it (not forgetting to make sure others know it), however he doesn't have the wisdom and experience that could save him from making rather large oversights in the enthusiasm for his audacious plans.
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[[folder:Soolin]]
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->''"I don't give my allegiance at all. I sell my skill."''

-->Played by: Creator/GlynisBarber (1981)

A cold and emotionally scarred gunslinger who joins the Seven after her boyfriend tried to kill them (and also her).
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* ActionGirl
* BackToBackBadasses: Pretty frequently with Avon.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Although you need to piece things together from lines in different episodes. When she was a child her [[HarmfulToMinors family were slaughtered in front of her]] in a [[DoomedHometown Federation-sponsored attack on her colony]], the guy who killed them kept her as a child SexSlave, and she finally killed him after convincing him she had StockholmSyndrome and getting him to teach her to fight.
* DoomedHometown: Grew up on an agricultural planet that turned out to have extensive mineral wealth. In order to remove the settlers who had a legal right to the land, the High Council declared it an Open Planet with all law suspended. In the subsequent state of legal anarchy, her parents were murdered by the HiredGuns of a mining company.
* FlatCharacter: Without doubt the least developed of the main characters. This was because the early season episodes where her character would normally be established were originally written for Cally, and had to be hastily rewritten when Jan Chappell elected to leave the series. And when Creator/BigFinish revived the series, rights issues meant they couldn't use the character of Soolin, meaning she couldn't be developed further there either.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Implied to have this relationship with Avon in a few episodes.
* TheGunslinger:
** QuickDraw: Her specialty. She even out-drew herself once (ItMakesSenseInContext), and another time shot two guards that were trying to sneak up on her and Avon before Avon (who had been the fastest on the draw until she joined) could even draw his gun.
** SurpassedTheTeacher
-->'''Dorian:''' Soolin was taught by the best.
-->'''Soolin:''' The second best actually.
-->'''Dorian:''' ''(laughs)'' Oh, of course you killed him, didn't you? He was one of the men [[YouKilledMyFather responsible for the death of her family]]. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge She killed all the others too.]] She's a formidable enemy.
* HiddenDepths: Soolin shows she's more than DumbMuscle when she realises what the VillainOfTheWeek is up to before Avon does in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E7Assassin Assassin]]" and "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E12Warlord Warlord]]". Unfortunately this is towards the end of the series, so her character never really has a chance to develop.
* IceQueen: Is in a relationship with Dorian, but his betrayal and death have little impact on her.
* LiteralistSnarking: Her particular brand of snark.
%%* OnlyOneName
* SuddenNameChange: Her boyfriend Dorian pronounces her name as a Deep South style "Sue Lynn". Everybody else, including her, pronounces it as one word with the stress on the first syllable.
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[[folder:Slave/Scorpio]]
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->''Yes, Master.''

-->Voiced by: Creator/PeterTuddenham (1981)

The ludicrously subservient MasterComputer of ''Scorpio'', the second spacecraft acquired by our anti-heroes.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Spaceship]]: ''Scorpio'' is an ordinary planethopper rather than a sleek alien spaceship. However the Seven are surprised to find that its owner has given it some highly advanced upgrades, like a sentient computer and a teleporter (albeit non-operational at first). Later it's equipped with a spacedrive that can outrun any Federation vessel.
* ApologisesALot: He's programmed with a cringing sycophantic personality, so this trope happens constantly. Tarrant finds his servility less than convincing however.
-->'''Tarrant:''' That's no problem so long as Slave can match vectors.\\
'''Dayna:''' Well, he says he can.\\
'''Tarrant:''' He says he's sorry most of the time. [[ServileSnarker I don't believe that either.]]
* FragileSpeedster: After they install the new drives, ''Scorpio'' is even faster than ''Liberator'' was but can't take a hit like ''Liberator'' could, lacking its self-repairing technology and forceshields.
* HappinessInSlavery: He has been programmed with a ludicrously fawning and servile personality by his villainous former owner Dorian.
* IDontPayYouToThink: "It is beyond my humble capacity to offer an opinion, Master."
* SapientShip: Like Zen/Liberator, he is definitely an artificial consciousness.
* SycophanticServant: Constantly fawns over everyone.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Calls Tarrant by name with its dying words, instead of "Master".
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