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A list of characters in the Canadian television series ''Series/{{Continuum}}''. '''Warning!''' Unmarked spoilers ahead!

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!Main characters

[[folder:Kiera Cameron]]
!!Kiera Cameron
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/RachelNichols

Kiera is a police officer with the Vancouver City Protective Services (CPS) in the year 2077 who was sent back into the year 2012 along with the members of [=Liber8=] during their aborted execution.
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* ActionGirl: In addition to being a police officer, Kiera is a military veteran with combat experience. She demonstrated her hand to hand fighting skills in numerous episodes.
* AlliterativeName: Her name and last name begin with the same sound.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Being tall, beautiful and dark haired, she fits the physical description. And her personality has been shown to be quite severe and reserved, except when the stress makes her crack.
* AntiHero: [[UnscrupulousHero Unscrupulous Heroine]] with hints of [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic Heroine]].
* AntiVillain: Kiera is initially a [[WellIntentionedExtremist Type III]]. She believes in doing what is right (to an extent) and desires to enforce the law and protect civilians from the dangerous and radical [=Liber8=] and "criminals" who threaten them... however, she works for a brutal police state that is run by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporations]] that have stripped people of their free will and civil rights and the "law" she is enforcing is meant to keep people under their control. [[MyCountryRightOrWrong She nevertheless believes in the system]] and that it is the best for the people. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even if she does not always agree]] with their methods.
* BlackSheep: "Minute Man" shows Kiera joined the military and later CPS because she genuinely believed in the system. Her mother and sister, by contrast, see the system for what it is and are disappointed that Kiera's going along with it. So on the one hand, Kiera is rebelling against her mildly criminal relatives, but on the other, she's doing it by joining the evil corporate system.
%%* ByronicHero
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Her CPS uniform grants her enhanced strength, speed, and reflexes, along with numerous technological tools.
* DatingCatwoman: Possibly invoked on her part. She sleeps with Kellogg in the penultimate episode of season 1. Whether or not she did this to gain access to the stole piece of the time-travel device which was in his possession, or she slept with him out of [[SexForSolace loneliness]] and getting the stolen piece back was secondary is up for interpretation.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments.
* EnemyMine: Attempts this with [=Liber8=] in the pilot to hitch a ride with them back to 2077. [[spoiler:As expected, the truce falls apart spectacularly when their plan to return to the future backfired.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Just about the first thing we see Kiera do is perform a cybernetically assisted SherlockScan to spot a man who's wanted for [[FelonyMisdemeanor painting graffiti]], and then deliver a [[CurbStompBattle brutally efficient smackdown]] on him when he resists arrest. This tells us that Kiera is an extremely tough and capable ActionGirl with augmented capabilities, but also that she's a devoted lawkeeper in a society where the laws are of questionable morality.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While no saint herself, Kiera clearly is disturbed and disgusted with many of the more severe methods of [=Liber8=] and her own government. While willing to resort to rather questionable actions herself, it's clear that she has lines she won't cross.
* FairCop: On top of being played by a former model, Kiera’s looks have garnered unwanted attention from a friend of her husband’s.
* FakeAmerican:
** In-universe, Kiera is a Canadian pretending to be an American while working with a Canadian police department.
** To make things even more brain-bendy, Rachel Nichols is herself American, playing someone from Vancouver.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: It takes her quite a while to adjust to life in 2012.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Kiera has a somewhat bad case of this. Her primary goal is ensuring that she returns to her happy life in the future, regardless of any political or social ramifications of maintaining the status quo. This is a sore point between her and Alec in the third season, since [[spoiler:she treats his temporal meddling to save Emily as a huge betrayal because of the risk it poses to her own future]].
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Performs this on Garza to get her to give up information on Travis and [=Liber8=]. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't work]] as [[TooKinkyToTorture well as she had hoped]].
* KillAndReplace: After she arrives in Alec's new timeline, her counterpart is killed, so she has to essentially dispose of her own body and take her place.
* KnightTemplar: See [[AntiVillain Anti Villainess]] for more details.
* NominalHero: Shades into this as Season 3 comes on. The process begins with her [[spoiler:endorsing Julian's torture]] in Season 2, but her increasingly sour attitude and the increasing moral ambiguity of everyone's aims make her less "the hero" and more "the viewpoint character", although she remains relatively sympathetic.
* PosthumousCharacter: In Season 3, [[spoiler:in a sense. There are Red and Green versions of both Kiera and Alec, but while Green Alec is a major character, Green Kiera's first appearance is directly after being killed. Her corpse, however, continues to play a major role.]]
* StatuesqueStunner: Besides being gorgeous, Kiera stands 5'10"(178cm) and towers over every other female character on the show and most of the male ones as well.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of CPS, to a degree. Through multiple flashbacks it has been shown that despite enforcing their laws and working for them, even believing wholeheartedly in the system and the "law" that she enforces. On multiple occasions she has shown displeasure, or mild disgust, with many of the more brutal or unethical methods of her higher-ups against the populace.
* TrappedInThePast: And desperate to get back.
* TragicTimeTraveler: She starts the series being stuck in the past and wanting desperately to go back to her timeline, and ends with her [[spoiler:succeeding in going back to the future, but with her son having a new mother in an alternate version of herself, leaving Kiera a woman out of time.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Unintentionally about future history. She just repeats the distorted version of it that she was taught in school.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Resorts to some questionable actions in her efforts to stop [=Liber8=] and get back to her family in 2077.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Gets a very well deserved one from Alec when she stands idly by while two detectives torture [[spoiler:his stepbrother Julian]] for information on [=Liber8=].
** She also gets called out by Carlos as well for her [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique extreme interrogation techniques against Garza]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alec Sadler]]
!!Alec Sadler
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[[caption-width-right:250:Alec, prior to Season 3 [[labelnote:Click to see Alec in Season 3]][[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_alec6.jpg]][[/labelnote]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ErikKnudsen & Creator/WilliamBDavis

A TeenGenius who grows to become the most powerful man in the future Kiera comes from. Kiera's first and most useful ally in 2012.

In the season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Alec uses the time travel device to take himself back a week; he arrives in 3x01 "Minute by Minute", slightly prior to the events of 2x11 "Second Guess". The timeline created by Alec's time jump is known as the Green timeline, and it contains two Alecs - the one who jumped back, Red Alec (sometimes also called Scar Alec), and the one whose future changed as a result, Green Alec (sometimes also called Other Alec). For convenience, this folder contains tropes pertaining to Alec before and after he becomes Red Alec, while Green Alec gets his own folder.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: Implied in the season 2 finale but turns in season 3. Somewhat. [[spoiler:Once Green Alec Sadler had taken over PIRON, he had become an insufferable prick, driving away a lot of people, including Kellog. But then, he started to use stuff that shouldn't have been created in the first place, leading Red Alec to go and stop him, which leads to Green Alec's death. The worst part is that he even gloats to Kiera that without him, her future dies with him and removes the shard of time travel device that had been impaled in his throat by Red Alec.]]
* FutureBadass: Alec Sadler from 2077.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: In Season 3, [[spoiler:Alec takes a bullet graze just as he jumps back in time, leaving a short scar above his left eyebrow. It fades through the season, but for the first couple of episodes it's a very bold identifying mark for Red Alec.]]
* HollywoodHacking: He's shown to out-hack technology he shouldn't even be able to understand.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Red Alec kills Green Alec with the same time travel device that Red Alec used to create the Green timeline.]]
* ManipulativeBastard[=/=]TheChessmaster: Future!Alec has been shown to be the master mind behind [=Liber8=]'s TimeTravel escape and by extension all the events of the show, manipulating Theseus, Kagame and Garza towards different aims.
* OneManIndustrialRevolution: The first season heavily implies that he was responsible for most of the technological developments in Kiera's future.
* TeenGenius: Not only does he invent most of the major technologies of the next 65 years, he's running systems capable of interfacing with that tech from his personal workshop in the present. Also, [[DuelingHackers he can out-hack a trained engineer from that time.]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: For Kiera in 2012. [[spoiler:In the third season, he is forced to avert this so that Green Alec cannot monitor Kiera and discover his tampering with the timeline.]]
[[/folder]]

![=Liber8=]

A terrorist group from the future. Their use of time travel to escape their execution sets the show's plot in motion.

[[folder:Kagame]]
!!Edouard Kagame
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TonyAmendola

The founder and Leader of [=Liber8=].
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* AFatherToHisMen: Most of [=Liber8=]'s core members view him this way, seeing him as the man who opened their eyes to the injustices of the Corporate Congress. Travis and Sonya in particular see him as a paternal mentor.
* AffablyEvil: He is the mastermind behind the murder of tens of thousands of people, but he's impeccably charming and polite.
* BackForTheFinale: He shows up in the new 2077 where Kiera arrives at the end of the series, alive and a good man.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Occurs in the Season 1 finale, when he triggers a suicide bombing on the day of his birth. He even instructs Sonya to visit the hospital the day of to ensure his family (and baby him) are well looked after following his death.
* ChekhovMIA: Arrived to 2012 a few days (and episodes) later than the rest of [=Liber8=], as he was slightly farther from the time-travel device when it was activated.
* TheChessmaster: Prefers subtler, more psychological means of winning new supporters instead of outright violence.
* ManipulativeBastard: In "Waning Minute", he ultimately wins over Sonya by arranging the destruction of an off-grid farming community, all just to demonstrate to her the brutality of the NAU.
* MinoredInAsskicking: The 65-year-old Kagame is able to briefly hold his own in hand-to-hand combat against Kiera, a highly trained and much younger Protector. It helped that her Protector suit had been damaged previously.
* NobleDemon: To a certain extent. While he is perfectly willing to kill huge numbers of people to further [=Liber8=]'s agenda, he does possess a very strict set of morals, most prominently including IGaveMyWord.
* PosthumousCharacter: He turns up numerous times after dying as a [[SuicideAttack Suicide Bomber]] at the end of Season 1, both in Flashbacks and Hallucinations. He finally appears for real chronologically after his death in the new Timeline, as a genial old man with no terrorist inclinations.
* ThanatosGambit: Sacrifices his life in the first-season finale in order to pave the way for [=Liber8=].
* UngratefulBastard: The Gleaner community risked utter annihilation to give him shelter. [[spoiler:He repays them by making sure they ''do'' get annihilated, all so he can recruit Sonya into [=Liber8=].]]
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: The reason he looks down on the Gleaners. He believes that accommodating the Corporate Congress by [[TakeAThirdOption bargaining with them]] is wrong.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Travis]]
!!Travis Verta
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/RogerCross

A former Captain in the Corporate Congressional Military, before being experimented on and becoming a Super Soldier. A high ranking member of [=Liber8=] and Kagame's right-hand man. He later becomes the joint leader of [=Liber8=] with Sonya following Kagame's death.
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%%* BloodKnight:
* TheBrute: [=Liber8=]'s main enforcer, he originally fulfills this role, but as the series progresses he becomes more of a thinker.
* BadBoss: To any follower who is not a member of the original [=Liber8=] team. He is perfectly willing to sacrifice them at a moment's notice to further their goals.
* BadassLongCoat: Sports a leather one every once in a while.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT tell Travis you agree with his views while he's got you at gunpoint. Do NOT get a member of the original [=Liber8=] killed due to your own idiocy, and for god sakes, DO NOT SHOOT HIM IN THE BALLS.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Enough bullets will do this to him, but will not stop him. Exemplified when Carlos shoots him five times, including through the chest, shoulder, leg, and arm, and it barely slows him down during their ensuring fight. Later, he shrugs off multiple machine gun slugs to the chest during his DyingMomentOfAwesome.
* ClarkKentOutfit: A subtle version. Despite being a supersoldier with guns of steel, he doesn't go to great lengths to show off his impressive physique, usually letting his imposing height and Badass Longcoat do most of the intimidating.
* CursedWithAwesome: His addiction to the Super Soldier Drug. It increases his strength, durability, and speed tenfold, but he needs to take it at regular intervals or else face withdrawal, the effects of which are lethal and not pleasant to watch.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A downplayed example. It is heavily implied that a combination of psychological trauma, the Super Soldier Drug, and his military-grade CMR turned the once kind and shy family man into the psychopathic terrorist he is today.
->''"(Alec) designed this chip that kills compassion and accelerates aggression. Turns ordinary soldiers into extraordinary killers."-->-- '''Travis'''
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Not friendship exactly, but his respect for Carlos jumps several levels after Carlos survives two fights with him. [[spoiler: He even dies to save Carlos' life.]]
* DistaffCounterpart[=/=]EvilCounterpart: Throughout the course of Season 2 and 3, he is revealed to be one to Kiera. They both are former soldiers with a CMR implanted in their brains, both are acting from a skewed view of morality based on their experiences in the future, both have super-powers granted from advanced technology, and both have young children that were erased from existence the moment they time-traveled.
* DragonInChief[=/=]DragonWithAnAgenda: He was Kagame's [[TheDragon dragon]], but even when the old man was alive, he showed a tendency to do what he thought was best.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Dies in a TakingYouWithMe attack on a heavily armored future commando who has just slaughtered half the police force]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He deeply loves Sonya, and flashbacks show that he intentionally allowed himself to be captured and imprisoned indefinitely to save his ex-wife and daughter from being implicated in his crimes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he’s usually the one generating this reaction in his colleagues, "Minute to Win It" shows he’s very uncomfortable with turning people into PeoplePuppets, as he considers this to be one of the primary atrocities of the bad future they came from.
* FirstNameBasis: Like most of the members of [=Liber8=], he is almost exclusively referred to by his first name. Even when discussed by the police and politicians who have never met him, he is still called "Travis".
* ImplacableMan: Even Kiera in her full [[PoweredArmor Protector Suit]] has a hard time fighting him. Once he gets his own suit, all she can do is run.
* InsistentTerminology: He almost always refers to Kiera by her title of "Protector", which he uses ironically. When he calls her by name, it is usually when trying to have a sympathetic conversation with her.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: He pulls this during a prison brawl while protecting Julian, shattering one assailant's arm and using the protruding bone to slash another's throat.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He toys with it at the end of Season 3, having allied with Kiera in order to stop an even worse future than the one they came from. Eventually cemented during his DyingMomentOfAwesome when he allows himself to be blown up to save Carlos and the surviving members of the Vancouver PD]].
* HealingFactor: Originally only implied after he survives (barely) Sonya shooting him point-blank four times in the heart, and is back on his feat within the week. Later confirmed to be part of his cybernetic enhancements and based on nanotechnology.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Garza.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In the penultimate episode of season four]].
* NoSell: Kiera freaks out when she discovers he can do this with headshots once he gets a Protector suit. Without it, he treats bullets more like AnnoyingArrows.
* MadeOfIron: He can pretty much ignore anything short of a bullet, and even shooting him barely slows him down.
* MagicalDefibrillator: [[spoiler: Turns out, he's got a built in one.]]
* MrFanservice: Downplayed. He rarely takes his shirt off, but is chiseled like a marble statue underneath.
* PsychoticSmirk: He rarely smiles, but when he does, run.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Gets this twice. In the first timeline, Kiera shoots him in the balls, electrocutes him with a live wire, and throws him down an elevator shaft, and he later shown to be on life-support in the Freelancer prison, before being erased along with the timeline. In the new Green Timeline, he gets shot four times in the chest with a machine gun, brawls with the shooter, and detonates multiple grenades in his face before finally going down]].
* StartingANewLife: He attempts to persuade Sonya to start over in a cabin in the mountains, once they know they have successfully changed the future. She gives him a noncommittal answer, then becomes a suicide bomber without telling him, leaving Travis devastated.
* ScaryBlackMan: Being the tallest and most physically imposing member of [=Liber8=], he doesn't hesitate to scare and intimidate people into compliance.
* SuperSoldier: He was one of the prototypes for a program that was latter abandoned.
* SuperStrength: Comes with being a Super-soldier. He tosses people around like rag dolls.
* RefugeInAudacity: How he ends the gang war in Vancouver. He waltzes into a gang bar unarmed, informs the members that their boss isn't coming, gives them a speech about how WeCanRuleTogether, orders them to stop the war, then presents their superiors' severed heads to their scared {{Mooks}}, gets about ten guns drawn on him, then offers to let them join him. They do.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Pulls an epic one during the climax of the penultimate episode. Having slaughtered the majority of the Vancouver Police Department, Kellog's Commando finally faces Travis and cannot defeat him in a fight, despite superior weaponry and technology. Travis proceeds to arm-lock him, then detonate all 4 grenades on the commando's bandolier at once. The resulting explosion destroys and Police HQ.]]
* TattooAsCharacterType: The tattoo on his neck signifies his service in the military. "Third Airborne, RRF Brigade, Captain...AWOL".
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Kellog explicitly threatens to do this to him when he is imprisoned, as he both hates Travis and wants to profit from reverse engineering the advanced technology inside him. This is one of the final factors cementing Travis's eventual HeelFaceTurn.
* TranquilFury: His go-to mode. In fact, he only seems to turn it off when alone with Sonya.
* UnholyMatrimony: Travis and Sonya have this relationship during the first season. [[spoiler:And again by the end of the second.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Gets hit hard when he hears the news that Sonya committed suicide. He arguably never recovers.]]
* WasOnceAMan: He has shades of this, and flashbacks show that he used to be almost a completely different person prior to being experimented on. He partially blames the CMR on this personality change:
->''"(Alec) designed that too."-->-- '''Travis'''
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: His usual argument to get people to agree with his motives, and sincerely tries to explain it to Kiera multiple times. She doesn't seem to really understand until the end of Season 3. He uses it successfully, along with a healthy dose of DecapitationPresentation, to unite the Vancouver organized crime rings under the leadership of [=Liber8=].
* WouldHitAGirl: Kills several young women in the effort to eliminate Kiera's grandmother, [[spoiler:before killing Kellog's grandmother instead]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sonya]]
!!Sonya Valentine
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LexaDoig

A member of [=Liber8=] and Kagame's chosen successor.
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* OutWithABang: She kills a guy like this in episode 3.
* DarkActionGirl: Although she doesn't get as many chances to show it off, she's a good enough fighter to go toe to toe with Garza.
* DragonAscendant: After [[spoiler:Kagame's death]].
* EvilGenius: It's not brought up very often, but she was the architect of the SuperSoldier program.
* TheMedic: She’s usually the one patching up her fellow [=Liber8=] members, and is the one to manufacture Travis' super soldier drug.
* PurpleProse: Her preferred writing style, to the point that in "So Do Our Minutes Hasten" Kiera is able to determine that a [=Liber8=] press release wasn’t written by Sonya because it wasn’t pompous enough.
* RedBaron: Known as "the Queen of Hearts" in Kiera's future ([[DontExplainTheJoke doubtless because her surname is Valentine]])
* TakeAThirdOption: When offered a morally reprehensible position in the SuperSoldier program that she knew she couldn’t safely refuse she decided to neither accept nor decline but just disappear instead. Later, after infiltrating the project, she is given a choice between killing the test subject (Travis) when the experiment is deemed a failure, or possibly facing jail time or execution for refusing, and decides to kill her superior and escape with Travis.
* TakingYouWithMe[=/=]Suicide Attack: Does this [[spoiler:to Dillon, effectively killing her and doing unknown damage to him.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Sonya's loyalty to Kagame is absolute.
* UnholyMatrimony: Travis and Sonya have this relationship during the first season. [[spoiler:And again by the end of the second.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Before joining [=Liber8=] she vehemently disagreed with the NAU and its SuperSoldier program, but placed more emphasis in helping the sick.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Garza]]
!!Jasmine Henry Garza
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LuviaPetersen

A soldier and member of [=Liber8=].
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* BloodKnight: She enjoys the fighting a little too much.
%%* TheBrute
* DarkActionGirl: A former soldier, and extremely good fighter.
* DepravedBisexual: She's a bisexual terrorist who's also a BloodKnight.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: In one of the Season 3 webisodes, Ingram reveals to her that he knows her password is "Henry", her middle name. She says it's a family name and threatens him if he tells anyone.
* KarmaHoudini: Of all of [=Liber8=], she seems to most enjoy killing people. Despite her considerable body count over the course of the show, she's the only member of the group left alive (and free) at the end of the series finale.
* LastNameBasis: Her first name is brought up so little that the casual viewer wouldn't know it was Jasmine.
* MoralityChain: To [[spoiler:Alec]], in a very twisted variation. [[spoiler:At the request of his future self]], she is his "fail-safe" in that if he starts to go down the road that will lead to the corrupt future they came from, she will kill him. Even though she didn't do it the first time (it ended up being more of a ScareEmStraight tactic), it is clear that it's not over yet.
* MsFanservice: "Second Listen" has a full-body shot of Garza naked from behind.
* TattooedCrook: It's mostly because Luvia Petersen has them (she co-owns a tattoo shop), but they fit her character.
* VillainousCrush: She gets extremely flirty with Kiera (although she may be just trolling her).
* WorthyOpponent: She develops a level of respect with Kiera in the third season premiere.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kellog]]
!!Matthew Kellog
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->'''Played By:''' Stephen Lobo

A former member of [=Liber8=] who deserts from the group in Season One.
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* AffablyEvil: charming and charismatic, even when he has a grenade in the table.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout the course of the series Kellog betrays every single person and faction in the story. ''Multiple times''. Taken to the next level in season four, when [[spoiler:he realises his future self is planning on travelling back in time to ''steal his own kidneys''.]]
* DatingCatwoman: He and Kiera sleep together in the season one finale, before she realises just how untrustworthy he really is.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: As soon as he gets settled in 2012, Kellog looks up the woman who will be his grandmother and tries to help her and her family. He takes it quite badly when [[spoiler:Travis kills her]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: One of the reasons that drive him to leave [=Liber8=].
* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:His future self is planning to come back and murder him to steal his organs. Later, he intends to become this to an even farther-back version of himself, meaning to pull off a KillAndReplace.]]
* TheHedonist: Once he gets enough money, Kellog enjoys all the luxuries 2012 has to offer to the fullest.
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: Becomes his main motivation once he breaks off from [=Liber8=].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: Does this in the final episode, when he decides to cut his losses and use the time portal to go back to the date he originally travelled to, and kill murder every one of his teammates and allies (including Kiera) when he arrives]].
* LastNameBasis: You can count the number of times he's been called Matthew on one hand.
* MagnificentBastard: ZigZagged. Tries to be this during the majority of the series, and usually fails. However, he finally succeeds by tricking Green Alec to sign over control of Piron to him, apparently by burying the damning documents in a mountain of paperwork he gets Alec to sign.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Is attempting to become this for Alec and his future corporation, Sadtech.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:He kills his future daughter by burying a corkscrew in her back]]. In his defense, he didn't know about the relationship at the time.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: His final moments are an epic one.]]
* PsychoticSmirk: Originally just annoyingly smug, he begins to develop one towards the end of Season 3, and it's damn near his constant expression come Season 4.
* SmugSnake: He could practically be the TropeCodifier for this one. The man NEVER stops smirking at just about everyone, and seems to revel at the chance to flash his pearly whites.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler: His final fate in the series finale. Alec and Kellog arrange for him to be sent back to pre-Columbian times, where he's unlikely to survive for long]].
* {{Turncoat}}: Kellog offers to betray [=Liber8=] in exchange for Kiera letting him stay in 2012.
* WildCard: He will side with Kiera or [=Liber8=] depending on what benefits him at the moment. Come season 3, [[spoiler:he becomes something like Alec Sadler in another timeline, and takes over Alec's job to boot.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lucas]]
!!Lucas Ingram
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->'''Played By:''' Omari Newton

A member of [=Liber8=] and former [=SadTech=] engineer.
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* BlackAndNerdy: The only member of [=Liber8=] that could be considered a nerd, he also happens to be black.
* TheEngineer: His actual job description when he worked for [=SadTech=]; he handles all the technical aspects of [=Liber8=]'s operations.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Some of his colleagues' tactics disturb him.
** Averted after his SanitySlippage and institutionalization; eventually ''his'' tactics -- [[PeoplePuppets remote-controlling unwilling bank robbers]] through [[GrandTheftMe primitive CMR technology]] -- start to disturb even ''[[BloodKnight Travis]]''.
* EvilGenius: He's one of the smartest characters in the show and he puts those brains to the service of a terrorist organization.
* GadgeteerGenius: To escape from a mental hospital he kitbashes the TV remote so it can be used to lock or unlock every door in the place -- and also, somehow, transform a therapy dog into an attack dog.
* ISeeDeadPeople: First implied with Kagame then confirmed with Chen. It's suggested to be a side-effect of time travel.
* SanitySlippage: Apparently as a result of TemporalSickness.
* TheUnfettered: After his SanitySlippage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jaworski]]
!!Stefan Jaworski
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->'''Played By:''' Mike Dopud

A member of [=Liber8=].
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* TheBrute: The only characterization that he got before being killed was that of brutal, bullheaded enforcer.
* DeadpanSnarker: Revealed in flashbacks to be perhaps the snarkiest member of [=Liber8=], although you would never know it from his personality prior to this.
* KilledOffForReal: In the second episode. The Freelancers appropriated his body from the morgue and have it hooked up to some kind of life-support, though.
* PosthumousCharacter: He gets most of his CharacterDevelopment via flashback in "Waning Minute", long after he was killed.
* TheQuietOne: Zigzagged trope. He barely says two words in the first two episodes he appears, but in "Waning Minute" it's revealed he is quite the DeadpanSnarker who won't shut up unless inclined.
* SacrificialLion: Killed in the second episode, and one of the very few characters to not get resurrected (although he does play a major role in season three's WholeEpisodeFlashback).
* SmugSnake: His characterization while alive in "Waning Minute".
* TattooedCrook: Has a very distinctive tattoo over his right eye.
* SuperSoldier: Implied to have been experimented on by the same program as Travis.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The first member of [=Liber8=] to die in 2012.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Curtis]]
!!Curtis Chen
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TerryChen

A member of [=Liber8=].
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* BackFromTheDead: Much to Kiera's consternation.
* TheBrute
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler: the Traveller.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: How he gets killed in the first place. Basically, he believed threatening Kellog would be a good idea, and that by killing Kiera he could assume leadership of [=Liber8=]. However, he underestimated Kellog's deviousness and Kiera's ingenuity in a fight.
* HeroKiller: He's the one who killed the Kiera from the new timeline, though he had some help.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Both Kiera and [=Liber8=] believe him to be just another anti-corporate terrorist; in fact, he's a member of an ancient cult/secret society dedicated to protecting the space-time continuum.
* TheMole: He's shown to have been a Freelancer before [=Liber8=] went back in the past, though it's not clear why exactly he went back with them. His explanation for not stopping them is a vague insistence that it would have violated his beliefs.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: While not stupid per se, he originally presents himself as an overly ambitious [=Liber8=] muscle with little thought beyond power and his BloodKnight tendencies. It is later revealed that he is actually a religious fanatic who is far more aware of the realities of the situation with time-travel than any of the other characters.
* SacrificialLion
* UnexplainedRecovery: He reappears at the end of the second season, somehow alive and a Freelancer. "3 Minutes to Midnight" implies that he's from an alternate future, but "The Dying Minutes" shows that in fact his dead body was taken from the morgue by the Freelancers and resurrected by a mysterious cloaked figure by ''merging'' him with someone else, probably his other self from another timeline.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The second member of [=Liber8=] to die in 2012. However, he comes BackFromTheDead later.
[[/folder]]

!Vancouver Police Department

[[folder:Carlos]]
!!Detective Carlos Fonnegra
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/promo_carlos_s2_02_2039.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/VictorWebster

Kiera's partner with the present-day police.
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* ByTheBookCop: With shades of CowboyCop. While he more or less plays by the rules, he is willing if necessary to go beyond the rules or at least bend them to get justice.
* {{Expy}}:
** His development (honest cop struggling against his own darker nature as well as the corruption of the department) mirrors that of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Commissioner Gordon]]. Especially obvious when Kiera's doing her [[VigilanteMan Batman thing]].
--->'''Kiera:''' I'll let you know when I'm ready. Wait for my signal.\\
'''Carlos:''' Heh, will it take the shape of a giant bat against the moonlit sky?\\
''[looong pause]''\\
'''Kiera:''' '''''[[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure WHAT]]!?'''''\\
'''Carlos:''' Seriously? Forget it.
** By the end of the third season, not only is he in charge of the department while Dillon recovers, he's taken to dressing in a big trenchcoat like Gordon.
--->'''Carlos:''' So this is how it's gonna be from now on? I'm Commissioner Gordon and you're--\\
'''Kiera:''' Ooh, wait, I ''know'' this one...\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Carlos:''' ...forget it.
* FairCop: Other characters comment on how handsome he is.
* FrameUp: He was nearly killed to cover up the affair and murder of a young reporter and friend of his to keep his SleazyPolitician of a [[WeUsedToBeFriends former]] [[ChildhoodFriend friend]], Jim Martin, had with her so that he could stay in the running for union president so [=Liber8=] could use his position to control all the activity in the port. They nearly succeeded.
* FriendOnTheForce: Becomes partner and confidant to Kiera in the police force.
* FullFrontalAssault: Wages a defensive one when [[spoiler:Garza]] decides to attack him in [[ShowerScene mid-shower]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Doesn't find out the truth about TimeTravel until half-way through season 2.
* MrFanservice: The only reason the scene where [[spoiler:Garza]] tries to kill him takes place while he's in the shower.
** {{Lampshaded}} in season 3:
---> Betty: I guess dental isn't the only perk
* NiceGuy: Very much so. Despite his and Kiera's rocky start, and the subsequent issues that follow throughout their partnership and the problems that follow their investigation into [=Liber8=]. He has proven himself to be nothing more then an honest, trustworthy, loyal and fair cop and genuinely an all around good guy.
* SilverFox: Begins to develop this in Season 3, and it becomes full blown Salt and Pepper in Season 4.
* TokenGoodTeammate: In a show in which characters range from well-intentioned but misguided to full-on sociopathic, Carlos stands out as probably the only character to never compromise his morality or break the rules.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his childhood friend [[SleazyPolitician Jim Martin]]; whom he would do anything for, even lie for, if necessary to protect him. [[SubvertedTrope That is until it is]] revealed he had an affair with a young reporter, an affair that got her killed and nearly got him killed as well. To top it all off he later found out that [[spoiler: Martin was receiving campaign contributions from [=Liber8=]]] so they can use his position to control port activity. ending their friendship for good.
** And, to some extent, to Kiera as well. Despite her initially dishonesty with him he still goes to bat for her whenever someone questions her credibility as his partner and his [[FireForgedFriends friend.]] Even if he isn't sure at times that he can completely trust her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Betty]]
!!Betty Robertson
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_betty_01_5643.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Jennifer Spence

A colleague of Det. Fonnegra, who generally handles the computer side of their cases.
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* ChessmasterSidekick: To Carlos — it's a combination of her actually being that good and wanting to impress him.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:To an extent. Betty doesn't seem to have considered herself ever to be working against the VPD, but Dillon, Carlos and Kiera are just starting to accept her again when Nealon kills her in 3x08 "So Do Our Minutes Hasten".]]
* InstantDeathBullet: She falls victim to a street hit in the Season 3 timeline.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea about the TimeTravel aspect of [=Liber8=]'s activities.
* TheMole: Eventually, she starts feeding information to [=Liber8=] from inside the VPD.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dillon]]
!!Inspector Jack Dillon
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6a01348361f24a970c01901d1d9b69970b-320wi_5768.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Brian Markinson

Carlos and Betty's superior officer at the VPD.
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* AFatherToHisMen
* BenevolentBoss
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Becomes one for Green Alec during Season 3, and in Season 4 very reluctantly for Kellog.]]
* {{Expy}}: Originally starts out as a relatively generic DaChief, but eventually becomes one for Jordan Durham, Markinson's character from ''Series/{{Caprica}}''.
* KnightTemplar: He starts to become this in season two, willing to do whatever is necessary to take down [=Liber8=] and bring order to the city.]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea about the TimeTravel aspect of [=Liber8=]'s rampage.
* PapaWolf:It is rather unwise to screw with anyone under Dillon's command.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To some extent. He is rather tolerant of Kiera and Carlos' antics and is willing to let Kiera work in his department, despite her mysterious background, due to her extensive knowledge of [=Liber8=]. Recognizing what a useful asset she would be to his department in their manhunt for them. This is eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he starts to JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope in the second season.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Dillon is hospitalised by Sonya blowing herself up less than a foot away from him in 3x13 "Last Minute". Carlos oversees the precinct while he recovers.]] [[TheBusCameBack The bus comes back]] in Season 4.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:He finally disavows himself from Kellog and the Escher protocols that he helped to write, gives Carlos enough evidence to arrest and prosecute Kellog, is finally let into the loop regarding the time travel plot, and then is promptly killed during the assault on the time travelling commandos' compound in Season 4.]]
* StartOfDarkness: His inability to properly deal with [=Liber8=], then losing his job over it, pushes him along a dark path.
* TwoFaced: [[spoiler:After Sonya literally explodes in his face, the entire left side of his body is covered in scars, and he is forced to walk with a cane. Doesn't stop him from being a badass though.]]
* TheStoic: Always has a calm, unflappable, professional, and serious demeanor.
** NotSoStoic: Although he has his moments; such as whenever Kiera or Carlos disobey his direct orders, or when he comes to blow with Agent Gardiner over his continuous accusations over Kiera's trustworthiness.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: After his StartOfDarkness, he becomes increasingly willing to use whatever means at his disposal to make Vancouver a safer city. These methods include JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, using his own daughter as a mole in [=Liber8=], and even approving of the health-monitoring HELO bracelets (which can also be used to subtly mind-control anyone wearing them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Starts to become this by the end of season 2.
[[/folder]]

!Kiera's Family

[[folder:Greg]]
!!Greg Cameron
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_greg_01_5569.png]]
->'''Played By:''' John Reardon

Kiera's husband. He is an executive at [=SadTech=].
----
* LivingWithTheVillain: Greg's revealed to have been involved in the conspiracy to send [=Liber8=] back in time, hence his major OhCrap during the series premiere when he realized that Kiera was present in the execution chamber.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Sam Cameron
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_sam_01_3543.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Sean Michael Kyer

Kiera's son.
----
* ChildrenAreInnocent: He's a very sweet, gentle, and loving little boy.
* LivingMacguffin: Getting back to him is Kiera's main motivation throughout the series.
* RetGone: Referenced - Kiera has no idea how time travel works in her universe, and is therefore constantly terrified that she's going to wipe Sam from existence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hannah]]
!!Hannah
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hannah_6200.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Max Chadburn

Kiera's sister, who died before the events of the series.
----
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: How Kiera viewed her when they were teens.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied, though she was under the influence of Flash at the time.
* DrugsAreBad: Her addiction to the drug Flash eventually killed her.
%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lily Jones]]
!!Lily Jones
->'''Played By:''' Katie Findlay

Kiera's grandmother.
----
* GrandfatherParadox: [=Liber8=] tries to get rid of Kiera by killing her.
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: Kiera gives her some advice.
[[/folder]]

!Alec's Family

[[folder:Ann]]
!!Ann Sadler
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_ann_01_3087.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Janet Kidder

Alec's mother and Julian's stepmother
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* LoveMartyr[=/=]ExtremeDoormat: She went along with Roland's anti-corporate grassroots campaign to support her husband, willingly chose to commit perjury in order to protect Julian, who was on trial for shooting a cop and ''domestic terrorism'', and later turns out to have once been married to Mr. Escher (aka Marc Sadler).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roland]]
!!Roland Randol
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_roland_01_1025.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Michael Rogers

Ann's husband and Alec's stepfather. An anti-corporate grassroots campaign organizer.
----
* AlliterativeName
* AssociationFallacy[=/=]GuiltByAssociation: He is mistaken as the leader of the hostage takers in "Family Time", due to being [[spoiler:an anti-corporation demonstrator]], when he's actually one of the hostages himself. [[spoiler:He ends up being killed by an [=ERT=] team as a result]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:He is gunned down by the police]] due to a series of fumbled attempts at communication that left them under the impression that he was masterminding a hostage situation, rather than [[spoiler:his son Julian]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Julian]]
!!Julian Randol [[spoiler:a.k.a. Theseus]]
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->'''Played By:''' Richard Harmon

Alec's stepbrother.
----
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Kiera fears this might be true after she tortured and nearly killed him. [[spoiler:It actually leads to the opposite because he makes a total HeelFaceTurn afterwards.]]
* BombThrowingAnarchists: During Season 1. He later makes a HeelFaceTurn.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: [[spoiler:He will become the future mass murderer/terrorist Theseus.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts being against violence and for educating people after [[spoiler:he gets tortured and nearly killed by the police.]]
* KarmaHoudini: On more than one occasion.
* ManipulativeBastard: Pretends like he's helping the police to stop the chaos in the city [[spoiler:while he actually manipulated Lucas into starting it.]]
* NeverMyFault: Refuses to accept that it was his own actions that led to [[spoiler:his father's death.]]
* PoliceBrutality: Is a victim of this after he gets out of prison.
* PrisonRape: Implied in season 2. Is being seen with bruises on his face and arms, flinches when another inmate approaches and reacts with fear and submissive behavior when someone comes close to him in the bathroom.
* RivalsTeamUp: [[spoiler:Starts working together with his stepbrother in Season 4.]]
* TheMole: Gets hired by Alec as an advisor for social and political responsibilty [[spoiler:while actually spying for Sonya and Carlos.]]
* TookALevelInBadass[=/=]TookALevelInKindness: Manages to combine both of these, when he rejects the violence of [=Liber8=] and wholeheartedly embraces the ideals of non-violence his father stood for. In doing so, he also is able to shift the focus of his entire youth terrorist organization to a legitimate civil disobedience movement. Carlos of all people is so impressed he even joins the movement in one timeline.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Begins the series as this, to the point that he very nearly becomes a suicide bomber for [=Liber8=]. Snaps out of it after major CharacterDevelopMent kicks in.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: By 2077, he is a legend among [=Liber8=], while he has been built into a virtual Satan by the Corporate Congress.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emily]]
!!Emily
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->'''Played By:''' Magda Apanowicz

Alec's girlfriend.
----
* ActionGirl: She demolishes and kills a Freelancer that comes snooping around Alec's house.
* BecomingTheMask: She was just supposed to be TheMole but as of "Second Wave" she's fallen in love with Alec for real.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Up until "Second Degree" she seemed be a rather ordinary girl whose main talent is being TheMole. Then, when a stranger accosts her in Alec's home, she kills him in the ensuing brawl with skill and experience.
* TheCutie: Her beauty tends to extreme adorableness. She's also Alec's love interest.
* DealWithTheDevil: Twice. First, she signs on with Escher to watch Alec, apparently to escape her DarkAndTroubledPast. In the season 3 timeline, Kellog recruits her to assassinate Escher, then hits her with the revelation that Escher was Alec's father to keep her under his control by threatening to tell Alec what Emily did.
* FootFocus: While she sneaks down a flight of stairs in "Second Degree".
* HookedUpAfterwards: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series shows that she and Alec got back together and lived their whole lives with one another]].
* InLoveWithTheMark: Emily legitimately falls for Alec. When she admits this to Escher, he actually views it as a plus for her work, and uses it to manipulate her into doing as he says so Alec doesn't learn the truth.
* TheMole: She was assigned by Mr. Escher to keep tabs on Alec.
* MsFanservice: Particularly in "[[VaporWear Second]] [[SexyShirtSwitch Degree]]".
* WaifFu: Not that she's much of a waif, but the {{Mook}} she [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] was much taller, larger and better-armed than she was.
* WalkingSpoiler: She factors into seasons 2 and 3 in a pretty big way, if somewhat indirectly for the latter.
[[/folder]]

!Assorted Time Travelers

[[folder:Mr. Escher]]
!!Mr. Escher
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_escher_01_7378.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HughDillon

An ex-Freelancer, he's a shadowy figure with powerful connections, who appears to know something about [=Liber8=] and Kiera's true origin.
----
* BadBoss: To Emily, whom he is threatening towards when she questions his plans.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he is killed in season 3.]]
* CutLexLuthorACheck: It's implied that he reverse-engineered future technology recovered during his time as a Freelancer to found his multinational company Piron. Also a more literal example, as he greatly resembles the TropeNamer in both appearance and occupation.
* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: Uses his knowledge of the future to build a corporate empire. His company, Piron, still exists in 2077.
* EvilMentor: To Alec and Dillon.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: His motives remain totally unknown until the season 2 finale: he is Alec's father and desires control over time, calling it "the family business".
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In season 3, by Emily under orders from Kellogg.]]
* MysteriousBacker: Although it's clear he has his own ulterior motives, he is honestly pretty helpful to Kiera and, to an extent, the police department. Later less helpful than detrimental, as he becomes Dillon's Evil Mentor and leads him (and the entire police department) on a gradual StartOfDarkness towards a DayOfTheJackboot-style dystopian path.
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler: His ultimate goal is to control time alongside Alec, calling it "The Family Business."]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He is Marc Sadler, Alec's father]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jason]]
!!Jason [[spoiler:Sadler]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/IanTracey

Claims to have been an employee of the same prison where [=Liber8=] escaped from, thrown back in time to 1992, rather than 2012.
----
* CloudCuckooLander[=/=]SanitySlippage: The effects of TimeTravel on his mind have made him ... ''odd''. Doubled when he's given the first HALO bracelet. It initially makes him appear totally sane, and he even gets a makeover. And then he beats the crap out of a random guy, thinking him to be a Freelancer, and tries to murder Julian to stop Theseus.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He initially appears to be a schizophrenic homeless man wandering the streets of Vancouver. Turns out, he's actually a genius-level engineer and time-traveler, and can handle himself ably in a fight
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Gets a major makeover after being mellowed out by the HALO Bracelet, including haircut, shave, and becomes a BadassInANiceSuit.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Because of the memory recall drug Flash, Alec comes to believe Jason is his father, Marc Sadler. Turns out to be subverted, however; Alec only assumed Jason was his father due to the DNA match, and the season 2 finale reveals that Jason is in fact his son.
* TemporalSickness: Jason spent some time in a mental institution after being stranded in 1992. [[spoiler:It's implied his mental health was not aided by being locked up by the Freelancers for some time.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: He's Alec's son.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elena]]
!!Elena
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->'''Played By:''' Caitlin Cromwell

Kiera's Protector partner in 2077. [=Liber8=]'s time travel escape sent her back in time to the year 1975.
----
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Her Protector uniform has all the same abilities as Kiera's.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Had it even worse than Kiera, having been sent back to the ''1970s'' instead of 2012.
* TemporalSickness: Implied to have suffered this, similar to several other people displaced by the time jump. It may be what led to her contracting Alzheimer's Disease by the time of her death.
[[/folder]]

!The Freelancers

A militant order dedicated to stopping time travelers from changing history.

[[folder:Freelancers in general]]

Tropes that apply to the Freelancers as a group.
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* AncientConspiracy: A secret order founded in the 12th century by a time traveler from the 22nd.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They find the merging process used to resurrect [[spoiler:Curtis]] highly distasteful.
* GlassyPrison: Where they keep temporal violators that they capture.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Throughout the second season. Their origin and motivation are revealed in the Season 3 premiere.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Kiera accuses them of this for not sacrificing one of their own to stop [=Liber8=] from time traveling in the first place.
* KnightTemplar: Kiera even outright calls them a "cult", given their apparent single-minded focus on preserving some sort of "orthodox" timeline.
* TheMenInBlack: Their uniform is a black suit with a dark shirt and black tie. Their behavior usually also matches this trope to a T.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Played with. Due to RubberBandHistory, thousands of people can die without greatly affecting the timeline, which they take as ''carte blanche'' to be extremely TriggerHappy. However, certain individuals have such a profound effect in history that the Freelancers have to be extremely careful around them.
* NonindicativeName: Despite being called ''"freelancers"'' by everyone in and out of universe, they are anything but. In fact, they’re the most disciplined and cohesive organization in the show, with a rigid hierarchy.
* TheOrder: Explicitly described as one by the Freelancers themselves.
* TimePolice: The closest thing the setting has to one. They’re dedicated to neutralizing time travelers, but they themselves avoid TimeTravel as much as possible and members are locally recruited.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their goal of preventing time travelers from tampering with history is pretty reasonable and even praise-worthy. However, they resort to some pretty horrific methods to achieve it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Catherine]]
!!Catherine
->'''Played By:''' Rachael Crawford

The head Freelancer of the chapter active in 2012 Vancouver.
----
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She’s nowhere near as quick as her subordinates to resort to lethal force.
* EnemyMine: In season 3 she and Kiera are working together to preserve the future Kiera comes from.
* MrExposition: She's the first person to give any kind of explanation about what the rules of TimeTravel are in the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Traveller]]
!!The Traveller
->'''Played by:''' Vladimir Ruzich

Implied to be the time traveller who went back to the 12th Century to found the Freelancer Order, he has access to technology beyond anything else seen in the show.
----
* BackFromTheDead: His technology has the ability to do this, apparently by "merging" the corpse with someone else. In "The Dying Minutes" we see him do it to [[spoiler:Curtis]].
* BlackCloak: His outfit, on which TronLines appear when he uses his technology.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: When he uses his technology to [[spoiler:resurrect Curtis]] he looks like a sorcerer straight out of a fantasy story.
* TheFaceless: His hooded cloak and beard prevent any identification. The audience can only be sure that he's male.
* InTheHood: His cloak incorporates a convenient hood that conceals his face.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: If he really is the Founder of the Freelancers, that means that by 2012 he’s almost a thousand years old. On the other hand, the very fact that he's a time traveller means he doesn't have to have actually ''lived'' through all that time. (On the gripping hand, it could mean he's actually even ''older''.)
[[/folder]]

!Kellog's Commandos

A group of soldiers from 2035 who have come back in time as a result of Brad's failure to change the timeline. In their future, Kellog is their leader.

[[folder:"John Doe"/Brad Tonkin]]
!!Brad Tonkin
->'''Played By:''' Ryan Robbins

An amnesiac time traveller from 2035 whose only memory is the name "Kiera Cameron".
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* AmnesiacDissonance: A generally friendly guy when he doesn't have his memories, and forms a fast bond with Kiera when they meet on account of shared experiences. Was in fact sent back to fix his future, and killed Past!Kiera when she stumbled upon him and Chen. When he learns the truth, he opts out.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: He has distant and confusing memories of the future, which serves only to convince him that he may be crazy.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: He was sent back in time to stop [=Liber8=] and Kiera from inciting a war which tears civilization apart. Turns out [=Liber8=]'s preferred outcome is much ''worse'' than Kiera's time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marcellus]]
!!Marcellus
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TyOlsson

Brad's commanding officer, the one who sent him back in time.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Lucas puts one through his skull as he's about to stab Kiera.]]
* TheLeader: He is the commanding officer of the 2035 commandos.
* PoweredArmor: He arrives to the present wearing one that puts Kiera's Protector Suit to shame.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vasquez]]
!!Vasquez
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KyraZagorsky

A tough female soldier from 2035.
----
* DarkActionGirl: She effortlessly demolishes Kellog's bodyguards with her bare hands as means of introduction.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:She dies when Kellog stabs her in the back with a corkscrew]].
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:She's Kellog's daughter, as she tells him right after he's fatally stabbed her]].
* TheQuietOne: She doesn't say much, even by the standards of her taciturn colleagues.
[[/folder]]

!Others

[[folder:Agent Gardiner]]
!!CSIS Agent Gardiner
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photo_gardiner_01_2110.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NicholasLea

A Canadian intelligence agent who is deeply suspicious of Kiera due to her anomalous background.
----
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The means of his demise at the hands of the Freelancers.]]
* TheDeterminator: Say what you want about Gardiner, the man is not the type to give up when he believes something is amiss.
* GoodIsNotNice: He genuinely wants to solve crimes and do his job to his fullest. Although, he isn't exactly all that nice or polite about how goes about doing it.
* HeroAntagonist: Towards Kiera. Although the 'hero' part is a matter of perspective; on one hand, Gardiner is simply doing his job. On the other hand, he sometimes goes so far in prying into Kiera's past that it seems he really has it out for her.
* InspectorJavert: He's sure Kiera's not on the level, and is itching to prove it.
* {{Jerkass}}: If his rude, antagonistic personality doesn't convince you; then taking away the only thing (a little animated toy soldier) a [[TimeTravel time traveling]] [[FishOutOfTemporalWater cop]] has left to remember her son from the future by, and then [[KickTheDog mocking]] her with it to goad information out of her, sure will.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:When his investigations get too close to uncovering the Freelancers.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Was starting to finally build something resembling mutual respect with Kiera.

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[[folder:Jim Martin]]
!!Jim Martin
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TahmohPenikett

A politician and Carlos's childhood friend.
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* DrivenToSuicide: He is implied to have killed himself after [[spoiler: his association with [=Liber8=]]] came to light and torpedoed his career.
* KilledOffForReal: By his own hand in "Minute Man".
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He thought he could con both Travis and Sonya into [[LetsYouAndHimFight eliminating each other]] for him. When they realized they had been played, they decided to end their feud with each other and [[EnemyMine joined forces]] to get revenge.
* SleazyPolitician: He will do anything and get in bed with anyone if it means getting elected Mayor. [[spoiler:Including [=Liber8=].]]
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[[folder:Diana Bolton]]
!!Diana Bolton
->'''Played By:''' Michelle Harrison

A popular news anchor in 2012 Vancouver. She has her own TV show.
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* EvilRedhead: She's a redhead and seems more interested in the ratings than in anything else.
* PompousPoliticalPundit: A frequent fixture on her show.
* TalkShow: Her show is part this and part actual news show.
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!!Alec Sadler, CEO of Piron (Green Alec or Other Alec)
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->'''Played By:''' Erik Knudsen

Alec jumps back in time using the time travel device in the Season 2 finale. He arrives chronologically slightly prior to 2x11 "Second Guess" - obviously there is an Alec already present. That Alec is Green Alec, who becomes a different person as the result of the events of 2x11 playing out differently to how they originally did, thanks to the interference of the time-travelling Alec (Red Alec).

As a result of finding out about Emily's betrayal while she was alive, and finding out about Escher being his father only after Escher was killed, Green Alec is significantly less sympathetic toward Emily and more attached to what he imagines Escher to have been.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: After Escher's assassination, Green Alec inherits his controlling interest in Piron. As a result of this and other factors in play, he develops into an increasingly unsympathetic character (although the corruption is less of the 'legally corrupt' school and more of the 'ruthlessly pragmatic and self-interested' school).
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Red Alec leaves his hair natural, and, while he wears a lot more black, he wears the same casual-to-semi-formal kinds of clothes he wore prior to the divergence. Green Alec, on the other hand, styles his hair and wears mostly business suits.
* FaceHeelTurn: Green Alec becomes disaffected from Kiera and begins to work toward a different future, setting off a sequence of events which ultimately lead him into evil.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: This is apparent within minutes of their first meeting in the [=SadTech=] lab - after a tense discussion with Red Alec, Green Alec deliberately jostles him while departing. It goes downhill from there, culminating with Green Alec trying to kill Red Alec in 3x13 "Last Minute", a fight Red Alec wins by stabbing him in the neck.
* UnstoppableRage: In 3x13 "Last Minute", Green Alec is in this state from the moment he's rushed off the stage at the keynote. It starts out as TranquilFury, but this is the moment at which he goes from attempting to (violently) warn Red Alec off to actively killing the shit out of him.
* WhatTheHellHero: Alec drills into Green Kiera's corpse and takes her CMR. Red Kiera realises this when her CMR fails to detect Green Kiera's at the latter's Viking funeral.
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