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Character page for ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''.
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[[folder:The Mariner]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinCostner

A lone drifter who's revealed to be a mutant who doesn't need to breathe underwater.
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* AntiHero: He spends most of the movie only acting in his own self-interest, but over time, he actively risks his neck to save Enola and get her and Helen to dry land.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: The "individual with special perk" kind. Though it was due to a mutation.
* ButNowIMustGo: Decides to leave the island because he's become used to the motion of the sea, and feels he belongs there due to having lived there his whole life.
* ChivalrousPervert: After their escape from the attack on the atoll, Helen offers herself to The Mariner so he won't leave her and Enola behind and The Mariner consider this, but changes his mind when he sees how uncomfortable Helen is over the situation. This even comes up later in the film.
--> '''Helen''': After the atoll, when I offered myself to you, why didn't you take me?
--> '''The Mariner''': 'Cause you really didn't want me. Not really.
* DefrostingIceKing: Start out as a cold and insensitive guy, but eventually comes to care for Helen and Enola.
* MysteriousPast: We learn very little about his past before the beginning of the movie. The most we get is his terse reply when Helen screams that people should have killed him when he was born.
-->'''The Mariner''': They tried.
* TheDrifter: Lives and travels by himself on his boat, and only interacts with civillization when he needs to do some trade.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starts off very frosty to everyone he meets, and treats Helen and Enola like shit for much of the film. Over time, however, he eventually forges enough of a bond with them that he ultimately becomes this.
* TheStateless: Has no nationality since his former nation was drowned by the waters.
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[[folder:Helen]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeanneTripplehorn

The woman who watches over Enola.
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* ActionSurvivor: Is fairly passive at the start of the film, but over time, actively tries to help the Mariner and Enola.
* LoveInterest: Despite a rocky start, she ultimately becomes one to the Mariner.
* MamaBear: Even though she's not Enola's biological mother, she demonstrates a fierce protective instinct towards her.
* MsFanservice: Gets a nude scene when she strips herself in front of the Mariner.
* SuddenlyShouting: When she's hungry, or to put in her words, when she wants some '''FOOD!'''
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[[folder:Enola]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TinaMajorino

A young girl with a mysterious tattoo on her back.
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* BrattyHalfPint: The Mariner sees her as this, until he warms up to her.
* TheDeterminator: If this kid wants to draw, she's gonna draw, period.
* LivingMacguffin: The tattoo on her back, which [[spoiler:is actually a map to dry land]], makes her this.
* MoralityPet: After a rocky start, she eventually becomes one to The Mariner.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: Her tattoo on her back. [[spoiler: Which ended up to be crucial to find dry land.]]
* SdrawkcabName: Enola spelled backwards is "alone" and given that she was orphaned, [[MeaningfulName it was rather fitting]]. It's also a hint as to how the [[spoiler: coordinates on her tattoo work]].
* SoleSurvivor: Enola is the only one left alive from Dryland.
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[[folder:The Deacon]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DennisHopper
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/BernardPierreDonnadieu (European French)

The ruthless leader of the Smokers.
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* BaldOfEvil: Has a completely bald head.
* BigBad: He's in charge of a band of pirates known as Smokers who regularly terrorize folks and plans on using Enola to get him and his pirates to dry land [[spoiler:(as the tattoo on her back is actually a map)]], and ends up chasing The Mariner across the ocean for her.
* DarkMessiah: The Smokers see him as their saviour and the one who will lead them to dry land.
* EvilIsHammy: Well it ''is'' Dennis Hopper playing him.
* EyepatchOfPower: Puts an eyepatch over the eye he lost in the explosion of his boat during the battle to conceal the horrific sight.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Like all the Smokers.
* HandicappedBadass: He doesn't sees much action, but he still pulls off two impressive sniper shots throughout the film, after losing one eye just a few days ago.
* NoNameGiven: Is simply referred to as The Deacon.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:His plane crashes to the ground with him inside to start off with. Then as he tries to climb into Gregors hot air balloon to get Enola, he is kicked off by The Mariner, and is finally killed when his jet ski crashes into two other Smokers while trying to get Enola.]]
* WastelandWarlord: As the despotic leader of the Smokers.
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[[folder:The Nord]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Gerrard Murphy

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* TheAlcoholic: He has a taste for "Black Death" Vodka. Enola mentions later in the film that she heard from Helen that his skin tone means one of two things: he either drinks too much[[note]]as in having cirrhosis of the liver[[/note]] or he has been too long in the sun.
* TheDragon: The second in command of the Smokers.
* NoNameGiven: Simply The Nord.
* SmugSnake: Right from his introduction, he acts insufferable to everyone around him. He even steals the Mariner's boots simply because ''the latter didn't want to buy him a drink''.
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[[folder:Gregor]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelJeter

An inventor living on the same atoll as Helen and Enola.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He shows up to rescue the Mariner and Helen after the Smokers destroy the trimaran]].
* CoolOldGuy: He is very nice to everybody, even shows astonishment at Mariner's mutation rather than loathing, and he creates a one-of-a-kind vehicle in his quest for Dryland... and oh yeah, he's the one who finally figures out the coordinates of Enola's tattoo, which involved teaching himself Chinese using scavenged texts among other things.
* DeusExitMachina: His hot air balloon flew up too early and he was absent for most of the movie.
* GadgeteerGenius: He created a hot air balloon all by his lonesome with whatever things he could scavenge from the atoll he lived in.
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