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[[folder:Bower]]
!!Corp. Bower
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_bower.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey, listen... I get it. You did what you had to do. You made it. No one's gonna judge you... You are a survivor and right now we have to reset the reactor."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenFoster

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* ActionSurvivor: Bower's not some superhero. But, he makes it out alive by quick thinking and a lot of luck.
* AllLovingHero: Bower is selflessly brave as he tries to save as many people he can and doesn't want to leave people behind to die. Though he does becomes apathetic at one point in the film.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Bower seems to value the life of his wife more than anything else and hopes to find her before the Hunters do.
* ArmCannon: His main weapon.
%%* BigGood
* BreakTheCutie: Bower is a Boy Scout who slowly loses his sanity throughout the film.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Suffers from it, as shown from his panic attacks when trapped in hypersleep and when he gets stuck when traveling through the ship's vents.
* CowardlyLion: Bower is a shaking mess throughout most of the movie. Doesn't stop him from giving it his all.
* DespairEventHorizon: When he finds out that his wife is dead, he almost gives up on saving the ship.
--> '''Bower''': There's nothing left! It's gone! There's nothing left to go back to...
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: There was nothing left for him on Earth, so he enlisted on the Tanis mission.
* FaceYourFears:
** Bower is a claustrophobe, but being on a ship with cramped corridors and tight vents, he doesn't have much of an option but to face down his phobia.
** Especially towards the end where [[spoiler:Gallo tries to drive him insane by exploiting this fear. He opens up the control room window revealing nothing but pitch black. Bower has another panic attack due to there apparently being no escape.]]
--> '''Gallo''': Let go of your fear!
* GoalInLife: Bower's reason for going on the ship is to find a place in history.
* HappyFlashback:
** Has one about his childhood, where he watches TV with his parents when Tanis is discovered and being inspired by the idea of sending people there.
** He does remember his wife, Evalon, mouthing the words "I love you". Also flashes back to moments with him holding her hand.
* TheHeart: Bower acts as this to Nadia, Manh, and Leland. He tries to convince everyone to stop fighting each other and start working together, since they're going to die otherwise.
--> '''Bower''': I know it's felt like every man for himself. But a little fucking solidarity goes a long way.
* TheIdealist: Bower is a Boy Scout, as Payton calls him. He believes there will always be law and says that a little solidarity goes a long way.
* LoserProtagonist: [[spoiler: His wife left him and there was really nothing left for him on Earth.]]
* MadeOfIron: He continually gets damaged and wounded but powers through.
%%* NonActionGuy
* OntologicalMystery: He remembers his training and mundane details, but not much in the way of his past.
* TheParalyzer: What his arm cannon operates as. However, like any real riot-control weapon, it can be very dangerous if used up close.
* RunningGag: He falls A LOT through out the film.
%%* TheProtagonist
* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: He was in cryo-sleep while everything aboard the ship was going to pot.
* SuperWristGadget: His ArmCannon.
* TragicHero: [[spoiler:Turns out that the woman he remembers isn't his wife but his ''ex'' wife, who stayed on Earth. After the divorce he had nothing left and enlisted on the flight to find a place in history. He obviously still loves her as he had kept a photo of the woman. Worse is that Earth mysteriously vanished, meaning that she did as well.]]
%%* UnlikelyHero
* WouldHitAGirl: Has a quick fight with Nadia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Payton]]
!!Lt. Payton
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_payton.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, alone or not, we can't assume help will be coming."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DennisQuaid

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* AloneWithThePsycho: The psycho in this case is Gallo. [[spoiler:Or rather, it was never anybody at all, since ''he'' is the psycho.]]
* TheHeart: When Bower has his claustrophobic panic attack when traveling through the vent he lightens the mood by joking that he got the door open. Also, acting as the voice of reason when Bower becomes desperate to find his wife Payton tells him that he should focus on the ship first.
-->'''Payton''': ''"We save the ship, we save them."''
** He also tries to act as the voice of reason to Gallo.
* MissionControl: Payton stays in the cryosleep chamber for pretty much the entire film, directing Bower and helping him when he can.
* OntologicalMystery: He's suffering from short-term amnesia from the cryo-sleep, and [[spoiler:his conflict with Gallo on the bridge is his mind trying to resolve this.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Between the fearful Bower, the crazy Gallo and all the self-interested survivors on the ship, Payton remains relatively calm, focused and maintains the voice of reason. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope. Given he ''is'' Gallo, he's probably the craziest one in the crew.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gallo]]
!!Corp. Gallo
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_gallo.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you know the symptoms of Pandorum?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Cam Gigandet

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* AxCrazy: Gallo becomes increasingly unhinged and violent.
* LargeHam: You could say crazy is hammy.
-->'''Gallo''': You're killing us! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, CORPORAL!!"
* ItsAllAboutMe: He consistently tries to get Payton to abandon Bower and launch themselves out into space before the ship shuts down, buying them a few more days to be rescued.
* MrFanservice: Gallo played by pretty boy Cam Gigandet is naked in this. May be a case of FanDisservice, too, considering he emerges from a creepy hole in the wall while covered in slime and gibbering in terror.
* NakedOnArrival: He pops out of a hole in the wall covered in slime and without a stitch on.
* SanitySlippage: Progressively goes through this on the bridge with Payton.
* SlasherSmile: He starts sporting these as his mask of sanity slips.
* UnreliableExpositor: Gallo claims that [[spoiler:the rest of his flight team succumbed to Pandorum and he killed them in self-defense; it's strongly implied that the reverse is true. He also claims that the ship is lost in space when it's actually crash-landed on Tanis.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nadia]]
!!Nadia
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_nadia.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey, we were meant to go on and we were meant to survive."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AntjeTraue

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* ActionSurvivor: Nadia came out of cryosleep months before Bower, and she's turned into a hardened survivor with battle-damaged clothing and shivs. It's not clear whether she was that tough before cryosleep or months of living on the run from the Hunters toughened her up (although the former is hinted somewhat more than the latter). She's also a "survivor" in the sense that she was originally part of a ''team'' of crewmembers from the biology crew who all woke up at once, but who got picked off one at a time.
* BadassBookworm: She's pretty athletic and knows how to fight. Before the flight she was a part of the Brandenburg Institute genetic sampling team located in Germany.
* BarefootPoverty: Only walks around in tattered socks exposing her toes and heels. She is not comfortable with it and tries to mug Bower for his boots when she attacks him the first time.
* BizarreTasteInFood: She eats grasshoppers for the protein. TruthInTelevision, as grasshoppers actually contain disproportionately high levels of protein for human consumption. Also considering that there's little edible food left on the ship, it's a clever survival tactic. Given that they obviously didn't just leave grasshoppers alive for a thousand years on the ship, she must have hatched the grasshoppers out of cryosleep, intentionally raising them as a food source.
* CharacterDevelopment: She drops her egocentric mindset and shows some "fucking solidarity", in that she starts to care about Bower's search for his wife. This happens after Bower saves her from being eaten a couple of times.
* ClothingDamage: She sustains a fair bit of it. Her tank top and pants are tattered and filthy, and her vest has also seen better days.
* DarkActionGirl: Initially acts as an antagonist to Bower.
* DeusAngstMachina: Nadia broods about her state of amnesia.
-->'''Nadia''': It only comes in pieces. I know everything about this vault and its systems. But I still can't remember where I grew up... or my brother's name.
%%* {{Deuteragonist}}
* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: She doesn't trust Bower or Manh at first. Judging from guys like Leland, you can see why.
* GratuitousGerman: Nadia's primary language is German, though she knows fluent English. Sometimes when she curses she falls back into untranslated German.
* GrudgingThankYou: To Bower.
* HatesBeingTouched: Puts a knife to Bower's neck when he touches her.
* HomeBase: Nadia actually has a very nifty hiding place, compared to other crewmembers who just wander the halls after they wake up and then get picked off by the Hunters. As the head of the Biology crew, she has access to the restricted "Noah's ark" vault containing thousands of biological samples. Because it's restricted to her palm-print it's one of the few areas in the ship that the Hunters can't get into. This also means that it's still relatively clean, and hasn't been worn down from years of Hunters crawling through it (unlike the grime-covered other sections of the ship). When she takes Bower and Manh in there, it's one of the few times that they actually feel momentarily safe. The downside is that while Nadia is keyed for access to the Biology section, she can't get into any of the sensitive areas like the bridge or reactor, which are keyed for Flight crew only - that is, until Bower shows up.
* TheHeart: She keeps Bower motivated to save the ship.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Due to the fact that there is no rescue, no turning back, and everyone on the flight crew is either dead or stuck in cryosleep, Nadia has developed an "every man for himself" attitude. She mugs Bower for his supplies (and shoes) and is willing to leave Manh behind in the Hunters' hunting ground because he is slowing her down.
* JustifiedCriminal: During the first mugging she says that she'll gut Bower if he resists. However, during her second mugging attempt, where Bower resists and falls from a great distance she asks him if he is okay instead, indicating that what she said was an empty threat.
%%* MinoredInAssKicking
* MsFanservice: Has torn clothing and sweaty cleavage, and her face is easy on the eyes. Not that her outfit is particularly revealing.
* SirSwearsALot: More notably in the Spanish dub, although she does the same in her native language in the original.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler:Becomes this when it's revealed that Bower's wife is not on the ship.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: A tough girl without problem for cursing and eating disgusting things.
* TookALevelInKindness: She gives Bower emotional support and helps him remain optimistic [[spoiler: after he remembers that his wife actually left him and vanished along with Earth.]] This is right after he saves her from being eaten by Leland and this her way of showing gratitude.
--> '''Nadia''': Well... she saved your life.
** She also offers him grasshoppers and he accepts, which disgusts Manh.
** Also tries to keep Bower from going insane and defending him from Gallo.
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Type A
* {{Workaholic}}: Her motive for enlisting on the mission was that it didn't feel right just handing off the genetic samples of Earth's biosphere that she'd spent seven years collecting. So she volunteered to go along with it and still protects it when the ship goes to hell.
* UnreliableExpositor: [[spoiler:Nadia thinks that the creatures are crew/passengers who have transformed, but they are actually evolved descendants of the crew and passengers.]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: Stops Manh from attacking the Hunter child, thinking it's human at first.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manh]]
!!Manh
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_manh.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Ship? Reactor?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Cung Le

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* TheBigGuy: He's the best fighter of the main trio, as well as the most good-natured (aside from Bower) and the least intellectual (he's an agriculturist, not a spaceship pilot like Bower or a biologist like Nadia).
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He hesitates when he sees the Hunter child. [[spoiler: It costs him his life.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Every time the Hunters corner him he puts up a fight, even though he is physically outmatched.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He lures the Hunters away while Bower resets the reactor, resulting in his death.]]
* MinoredInAssKicking: Manh is an agricultural worker who also just happens to be a martial arts expert, both with and without weapons (played by professional fighter Cung Le).
* NiceGuy: Manh is by far the kindest and most noble character. He saves Bower twice, once from the Hunters and once from Nadia. He offers to guide Bower through danger to the reactor with only the slightest clue as to Bower's mission. He's easily the team's most capable fighter and never leaves Bower or Nadia behind (despite the two of them leaving him behind on more than one occasion). He holds the broken catwalk when it breaks. And, finally, he distracts the Hunters and lures them away while Bower resets the reactor.
* OnlySaneMan: Manh is only person Bower encounters on the ship that doesn't need to be persuaded to help him restart the reactor and save the ship.
* PetTheDog: Refusing to kill the Hunter child is rather sweet. [[spoiler:Too bad it gets him killed.]]
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: All of Manh's dialogue is in untranslated Vietnamese. He has to point and mime for Bower and Nadia to understand what he's trying to say.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He becomes conflicted by the idea of killing a Hunter child.
* WouldHitAGirl: Has a quick fight with Nadia as well and lands some serious hits on her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leland]]
!!Leland
[[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_leland.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:339:''"And I'm sorry, but I'm a little too old and a little too tired for the honorable way of hunting game."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Eddie Rouse

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He’s murdered by Gallo, but it’s hard to actually feel bad for a craven cannibal. Bower and Nadia don’t care at all.]]
%%* BeneathTheMask
* DespairSpeech: He has a very pessimistic view of the situation. There's no rescue and no way to reach their destination, since Earth is gone and they've long since lost control of the ship. So there is nothing left to live for other than survival instinct.
-->'''Leland''': I wouldn't have survived this long if I had a heart. You know, a strange thing, the survival instinct. I mean, there's nothing really left to live for.
* DirtyCoward: Leland is very quick to abandon the others.
* DoesntTrustThoseGuys:
-->'''Leland''': You don't survive this long trusting strangers.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Gallo rams a syringe into his eye.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts very considerate and helpful at first.
* ImAHumanitarian: He has no choice other than a little bit of algae to make herbs with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His schtick.
* MrExposition: He's the one to explain some of the mysteries of the ship.
* PluckyComicRelief: Tries to be funny and friendly... at first.
* SurvivorGuilt: Leland feels ashamed of what he has done to survive and doesn't want to be judged for it.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Says that he wouldn't survive this long if he had a heart.
-->'''Leland''': Its just survival of the fittest... or maybe the brightest.
* WhatTheHellHero: Leland does this to Bower when he gives up on saving the ship.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hunter-Leader]]
!!Hunter-Leader
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_hunderleader.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' André Hennicke

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* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Since the Hunters value strength and are known to eat each other, you only get to be the leader by being the smartest, most badass hunter of them all.
* BigBad: The leader of the Hunters. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. Gallo is the BigBad.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:Manh kills him in one-on-one combat.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The Hunters are a cannibal clan, after all.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers Manh to be one, [[spoiler:giving him a weapon for their fight.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shepard]]
!!Shepard
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_shepard.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Shepard - team six, sir."]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NormanReedus

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's nice and cooperative with Bower for maybe a minute until learning he isn't a part of a rescue team. Then he immediately becomes hostile and dismissive of Bower's mission.
-->'''Shepard''': You're late. There's no fucking C.O. on this ship. Fuck you.
* ClusterFBomb: He rivals Bower in the sheer amount of f-bombs dropped.
* DirtyCoward: The primary reason he refuses to help Bower is out of fear of the Hunters, despite the fact that everybody's dead anyway if Bower doesn't fix the ship.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He dies mere minutes after cursing out Bower, refusing to help him and abandoning him to the Hunters - after Bower saved him from a Hunter trap.]]
* UngratefulBastard: He abandons Bower after he's saved by him.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He's only in the movie for maybe four minutes.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:SPOILER]]
!!Payton/Gallo
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandorum_gallopayton.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am offering you the kingdom and all that's holding you back is your own fear."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DennisQuaid & Cam Gigandet

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* AffablyEvil: Gallo is very likable when he thinks he's Payton and at the end tries to convince Bower to willingly join his side.
* AGodAmI[=/=]DevilComplex: Gallo takes it upon himself to be the new God, creating the Hunters to demonstrate his brutal philosophy, and the new Devil, mocking and destroying pluralism and morality. Leland sums it up nicely.
-->'''Leland:''' [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks He was both God and the Devil!]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: Payton goes from a helpful professional and MissionControl to an AxCrazy BigBad after he remembers he's Gallo.
* AxCrazy: Gallo started suffering from pandorum after the transmission from Earth, and went completely insane. He slaughtered his crewmates and crowned himself king of the ship for an unspecified length of time.
* BigBad: Everything going wrong on the ship is due to Gallo: the power loss, the abandonment of the original mission... He even created the Hunters.
* CrazySurvivalist: Gallo is fixated on survival of the fittest, and set himself up as the king of his new world after catching the SpaceMadness.
%%* TheCynic:
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The "real" Payton is likely dead, since Gallo went on to use his hibernation pod. Due to the post-hypersleep amnesia, [[BecomingTheMask he initially believes himself to be Payton]].
* DrivenToMadness: Learning of Earth and the human race’s destruction pushed him over the edge, leading him to murder the rest of his flight team and start ruling over the ship as a twisted, mad king.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: It absolutely baffles him why Bower doesn't want to stay on the ship and eat people.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Is this to some degree.
--> '''Gallo''': This ship is a seed from which we can create a new world! Raw! Natural state! Beautiful! Perfect!
* GodIsDead: This is Gallo's claim and his justification.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:He doesn't take the news of Earth's apparent destruction well]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: To say his reasoning has... gaps... in it is a bit of an understatement. He doesn’t seem to grasp that the world he’s created aboard the ship is as destructive and self-defeating as the one they all left behind. Probably more so, in fact.
* ManipulativeBastard: Gallo managed to influence an entire culture through his insane rantings and control of the ship.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Gallo rants about how aspects of human civilization such as law, order, and morality are petty and self-defeating concepts which led to overpopulation. He then declares they should create a new world to replace humanity with the ship in a natural state, which is an obvious reference to the tribal Hunters.
* MotiveRant: He gets a downright impressive rant during the climax.
-->'''Gallo''': "You have to let go of your petty concept of reality. That's just baggage from the old world and we both know that didn't work out very well now, did it? They fucked up our planet. Life eats life. And all that's left is what is."
* OrderVersusChaos: The battle between Payton and Gallo, sanity and insanity, the person he once was and the person he became.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Gallo believes that literal dog eat dog tactics would prevent overpopulation from happening again.
* SpaceMadness: What drove him crazy was the onset of pandorum.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: What transpires between Payton and Cam!Gallo is basically Gallo's evil Id and dutiful Superego fighting each other. The evil Id wins.
* StrawNihilist: [[spoiler:After Earth's destruction, Gallo took on the view that morality was as dead as humanity]]. He also tells to Bower that once free of morality, he will be like him: "absolutely free".
* {{Ubermensch}}: To him human morality is but a hollow illusion and he seeks to develop and live out his philosophy by playing God with the rest of the crew.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gallo is constantly having one, his erratic behaviour making him jump from rant to rant.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cooper]]
!!Cooper
->'''Played By:''' David P. Johnson

The third member of Bower and Payton's flight crew, who is missing when they wake up.
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* DoomedPredecessor: Bower finds his long-dead body not far from the bridge, and a short film in the bonus features shows Cooper allying with two of Nadia's team before the hunters get them.
[[/folder]]
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