!!Duncan Macleod
* BadassLongcoat: Usually a black one. It's used to {{Handwave}} where he keeps his sword.
* BadassLonghair
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Duncan seems to appear everywhere important in the past four hundred years knowing Lord Byron, and the Dali Lama, having fought in the civil war, and numerous other historical events.
* BigBrotherMentor to Richie
* BigDamnHeroes: ''All'' the time.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: It doesn't matter if they're a complete stranger he's never met, Duncan will attempt to help them.
* CulturedBadass: He runs an antique store, can speak multiple languages, has excellent taste in wine and art, and is an expert swordsman.
* DatingCatwoman: He's the Batman to Amanda's Catwoman, but they do get along fairly well nonetheless.
* [[spoiler: DevourTheDragon]]: in Endgame
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: He fights shirtless several times, and gives a full view of his backside at least once(twice if you count Endgame)
* HairDecorations: He occasionally wears a engraved metal hair clip , and is fond of wearing a decorative button of some kind on his hair tie.
* {{Hammerspace}}: There was times in the show he pulled his sword out between cuts when he had no place to conceal it.
* HappilyAdopted: Duncan didn't even know he was a foundling until his first death. After he was banished from the clan, his mother still insisted "It matters not who bore you, you ARE my son!" Even 400 years later, Duncan's recollections of his parents are loving and respectful. He even still wears his clan name as a badge of honor and saves the modern members of his clan from a evil immortal out of a sense of duty, despite them banishing him as a demon.
* HonorBeforeReason: Duncan has such a strong code of honour that he's walked into things he knows are traps rather than violate it.
* IAmXSonOfY
--> I am Duncan [=McLeod=] of the Clan [=McLeod=].
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Played with, it's not outwardly stated, but his sword has broken at least two other blades and chopped a desk in half with no signs of damage. The swords first owner even makes a comment stating how much better it is than his European steel(it cut the blade right off it like a peice of bamboo) and Duncan is pretty amazed by it even though he grew up a warrior and probably handled all kinds of swords up to that point.
* NiceGuy
* NotHimself: The Dark Quickening.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Like Connor, is still astoundingly a devout Catholic in spite of being banished by the xenophobia of his Catholic kin.
* SlipknotPonytail
* TheCoatsAreOff
* TheStoic
* StraightMan
* WarriorPoet: Much like Connor, he is a patron for music, poetry, fine arts, not to mention wine and fine cooking.

!!Methos
* BigBrotherMentor: To Duncan, when Duncan will actually listen.
* [[spoiler:BrokenPedestal: When Duncan found out the atrocities he committed as one of the Four Horsemen]]
* CombatPragmatist[=/=]FightingDirty: Including tactics such as [[MoreExpendableThanYou shooting Duncan in the back]] when Duncan is being a little too brash due to HonorBeforeReason, or [[GroinAttack stabbing an opponent in the groin]] with a concealed dagger.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: see BrokenPedestal above]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially when someone implies his age should make him a wise man.
* TheFogOfAges[=/=]TimeAbyss: Methos isn't even sure how old he is. His memory goes back five thousand years and "before that, it all starts to blur." Joe Dawson describes him as "An Immortal who's so old, he can't remember the time of his birth."
* GoodIsNotNice: Fights even dirtier then some of the villains, and even kills a evil female immortal when Duncan's sense of chivalry won't let him finish the job
* HeroicSelfDeprecation[=/=]CowardlyLion: Whenever Macleod seeks his advice on matters of honour, Methos always advises him to run away, insisting that he himself wouldn't risk his life for anybody. Yet at the same time he is risking his life to bring Mac back from the Dark Quickening, and duelling immortals on his behalf. Methos talks like a coward, but he doesn't act like one.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Under the alias of [[MeaningfulName Adam]], he joins the Watchers, and gets himself assigned to tracking down... himself.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: manages to pull of false FaceHeelTurn and plane the fall of the Horsemen from the inside]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Alexa, who only had a year to live when they met.
* TheOlderImmortal: The oldest living man on earth at 5000+ years, even other immortals thought him a myth.
* RetiredBadass: Or wants to be, anyway.
* [[spoiler:RetiredMonster: Even has one of the page quotes. However unlike the classic RetiredMonster he ''is'' sorry and wants to atone by destroying his comrades.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Even amoung immortals he's considered a urban legend.
* TimeAbyss: Can't remember much before his first quickening.
* TricksterMentor: To pretty much everyone. He never teaches a lesson straight out if he can help it.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Several people have underestimated him because he usually avoids conflict. In one case, a possessive immortal who hates that Methos slept with his slave tracks him down in the present day, using both Joe Dawson and [[spoiler:Joe's daughter]] as bait. Said immortal thinks Methos is a weakling and a coward, and expects to easily beat him. Instead Methos [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps him]], and the last words the other immortal hears is Methos saying "Just because someone doesn't ''like'' to fight doesn't mean they ''can't''." You've also got to remember that this is the man who, as a member of [[spoiler:[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]]]], took the moniker of [[spoiler:Death]].
** Also, in the bad timeline shown in the last episodes where [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Duncan was never born]], Methos went on one ''hell'' of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when the Watchers are taken over by Horton, who begins slaughtering immortals and kills Methos' mortal lover in an attempt to get to him. Methos promptly teams back up with his old partner Kronos and begins leading the war against the Watchers. Their actions are described thusly: "They made [[TheMafiya the Russian Mafia]] look like choir boys."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Methos was slated to die but the producers like what the character brought to the series and he became a recurring character.
* WouldHitAGirl: He has been alive for thousands of years before the idea of chivalry, after all.
** He might have done this for fun when he was [[spoiler:Death of the Horsemen]], but in the present? They're gonna need to deserve it a lot.
*** Kristin doesn't count as a contemporary example?

!!Amanda
* BettyAndVeronica: with Tessa
* ClassyCatBurglar
* FemmeFatale
* KillSteal: In her first appearance she decapitates a disarmed immortal seconds before Duncan would have killed him.
* MamaBear: To Kenny

!!Tessa
* BettyAndVeronica: While Amanda is the much older, far more dangerous and glamorous thief, Tessa is sweet
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's sweet, artistic, non-violent, and feminine.
** except when she threatens to burn off your face with a welding torch
* KilledOffForReal: She's killed in the first season in the same mugging that makes Richie Immortal.
* TheLostLenore: With her early death, she has more impact on Duncan's motivations dead than alive.

!!Richie
* AxCrazy: After Duncan is afflicted by the Dark Quickening and [[spoiler: tries to kill him]], Richie decides to devote himself to The Game, and goes on a nationwide Immortal killing spree.
* BadassAdorable: He didn't take many heads on-screen, but the Immortals he ''did'' defeat included [[BountyHunter Mako]] (~700 years), [[TheMafiya Ivan Kristov]] (~400 years), and [[HoYay Carter Wellan]] (~1000 years). And he [[http://swordforum.com/fall99/ssw-stan-kirsch.jpg looks like this]].
* DawsonCasting: Not so noticeable at first, but by the end of [[spoiler: Richie's time on]] the show, Stan Kirsch was pushing thirty. Richie became Immortal at age nineteen.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim]]: [[spoiler: Richie stumbles across Duncan while the latter is under the influence of Ahriman's hallucinations. Thinking that Richie is an enemy, Duncan decapitates him.]]
* FosterKid: As immortals are all foundlings, Richie wound up in the foster system.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Inverted. [[spoiler: It's Richie who dies. Not Duncan.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: When Duncan takes Richie in, he has no idea that he's a pre-immortal or that immortals even exist.
* {{Sidekick}}: He serves as a sidekick to Duncan giving him another set of hands and someone to bounce ideas off of.
* StreetUrchin: Starts out this way before Duncan and Tessa take him in after they catch him breaking into the antique shop.
* TrainingMontage: There are a number of these with Duncan teaching him how to wield a sword.

!!Joe Dawson
* BadassNormal: Even more impressive than usual as he manages to be this trope while a [[HandicappedBadass double amputee]].
* CoolOldGuy: Joe Dawson is epitome of coolness.
* GangstaStyle
* HandicappedBadass: Joe Dawson has no legs and can still kick your ass all day long.
* MrExposition
* {{Muggles}}
* PermaStubble
* TheWatcher: Well, one of them.

!!Darius
* ActualPacifist
* TheAtoner
* BadassPreacher
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: Werner Stoker, the actor who played him died during the filming.]]
* RetiredBadass

!!James Horton
* BigBad: In Season 2.
* FantasticRacism: He believed immortals were a crime against God, and that the prize for being the last was the domination of humanity. So he sought to hunt down and kill every last one.
* ManipulativeBastard: The whole time he was hunting immortals, he and his men lead double lives as part of the watchers(who took a vow to only observe immortals and never interfere with them) and used the watchers resources to assist in his mission.
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]: Several times.
* TheWatcher: The renegade one.

!!Kalas
* Badass: He actually ''beats'' Macleod in their first fight.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: In Season 3.
* GutturalGrowler: Had his throat slashed by Mac in the '20s. He survived; his singing career did not.
* RevengeByProxy: He would kill or frame anyone who is somehow related to Macleod.
* [[SinisterMinister Sinister Monk]] He lived in a monistary where immortals took refuge when weary of the game, and killed out of practice immortals as they left holy ground. The head priest banished him when Duncan caught him in the act.
* WickedCultured
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