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David McIntyre

David McIntyre AKA "King Arthur"

Played by: Michael York

No man takes Excalibur away from me and lives!

• Bash Brothers: Briefly fights some toughs with G'Kar. Evolves into Fire-Forged Friends when McIntyre, having gained closure and resumed his normal identity, leaves the station with G'Kar to help aid and advise the Narn Resistance.
• Bully Hunter: "And they made a very satisfying thump."
• Forgiveness: Between him and Delenn. He was actually the gunnery sergeant who was ordered to fire the first shot of the Earth-Minbari War (thus killing her mentor Dukhat) and she was the deciding vote for the Minbari declaration of war.
• Just Following Orders: When he fired on the Minbari fleet.
• King in the Mountain: Subverted. He only thought he was King Arthur. Marcus Cole did suggest that he might actually be King Arthur, preserved by the Vorlons, but that was a red herring (though given that this had actually happened just under a year ago with Jack the Ripper, it wasn't outside the realm of possibility.) Franklin points out he wouldn't be speaking modern English if he were.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: As the trigger man for the naval batteries that savaged the Minbari ship where the Grey Council was convening, he had a hand in igniting the Earth-Minbari War (which effectively was a Minbari slaughter upon the Humans), even though he was Just Following Orders. His guilt was so overwhelming that it psychologically broke him and made him turn into a Death Seeker at the Battle of the Line and later retreat into the fantasy that he was King Arthur.

Lorien

Lorien

Played by: Wayne Alexander

Why are you here?

• A Form You Are Comfortable With: The humanoid form he's seen in seems to be a facade, with his real form being an orb of light with tentacles of light.
• Big Good: Helps Younger races to stand against Vorlons and Shadows and convinces the latter two to leave.
• Benevolent Abomination - under his humanoid form is a being unlike any of the younger races and one older than many of the First Ones. Unlike the First Ones, he comes around to the side of the younger races and helps end the Shadow War.
• Deus ex Machina: Quite literally turns out of nowhere and brings Sheridan back to life.
• Energy Being: He is one.
• Figure It Out Yourself: Much like Kosh, his favored way of mentoring is via asking questions, making people figure out their own answers, rather than just giving information - this ultimately symbolized by his own defining question "Why are you here?".
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Lorien recognizes that the feud between the Vorlons and Shadows is hindering the growth of the younger races, and steps in where necessary to help put an end to it. But he also recognizes when it's better to step back and let the younger races Figure It Out Yourself, and doesn't interfere any more than he believes is needed.
• Immortality: Of the unaging but vulnerable to disease or injury kind. His race was born naturally immortal. Their immortality eventually faded away with later generations, except for those who came first like Lorien, and most of the rest of those have since either died off through other means or left the galaxy to explore the rest of the universe.
• Immortal Apathy: Lorien was this trope until he met Sheridan and then decreed to help him end the Shadow war.
• Inconspicuous Immortal: While most of the "First Ones" either left the galaxy or manipulated the younger races, Lorien stayed behind in hiding. Lorien is so old that he claims to be one of the first sentient beings in the galaxy, and was living in self-imposed exile on Za'hadum when Captain Sheridan found him; the Shadows knew of his presence, but Lorien wanted nothing to do with them. However, when Lorien meets and saves Sheridan, he decides to end his exile and become a Greater-Scope Paragon - but only to aid the Army of Light and end the war, after which he convinces the older races to exit the galaxy, leaves with them, and becomes Shrouded in Myth.
• Last of His Kind: And the first of his kind. The rest of his kind died by violence or sickness, old age when they became mortal, or left the galaxy.
• The Older Immortal: The first of his species were born immortal and he is the oldest of them and claims to be the first sentient being in the galaxy.
• Precursors: (Lorien has referred to himself as the First One. His race was the one that taught and guided the races that eventually became known as the First Ones.)
• Reasonable Authority Figure: To the First Ones, as he is the first of them. He realises how Vorlons and Shadows are degraded into petty struggles and grew uncaring about really teaching, so he helps Younger races to convince both races stop their war and quit, leaving the galaxy.
• Really 700 Years Old: "Lorien is... older than he looks."
• Time Abyss:
  • He claims to be the first sentient being in the galaxy and to remember when the Earth was forming.
  • Babylon 5 spends a lot of time setting up the incredible gulf between the "Younger Races" (mankind etc.) and the First Ones. While in most science fiction "the ancients" suffer from rapid villain decay even if made out to be vastly superior technologically at the beginning, in Babylon 5 there is never any question of the Younger Races challenging the First Ones. They can turn planets to rubble by the dozens and wipe away the Younger Races' fleets without even trying very hard... And to Lorien, they are still just barely more than children.
• Time Stands Still: One of his abilities, is to keep people "between moments" between the "tick and the tock (of a clock)". He does talk to talk to a dead/dying Sheridan, before he finally decides to bring him back to life.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He notes to Ivanova that being immortal sucks. Even with his own race, many died, or just left, and ultimately he's alone, and over time you come to avoid forming relationships because you know they can't keep existing.
  "To live on as we have is to leave behind joy and love and companionship because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that most precious of illusion."

Tessa Halloran

Theresa "Tessa" Halloran

Played by: Marjorie Monaghan

• Everyone Loves Blondes: At least Stephen did.
• Nom de Guerre: "Number One", her real name being kept secret due to her being a Rebel Leader.
• Rebel Leader: Of the Mars Resistance.
• Red Baron: She's better known as "Number One". In fact, her real name wasn't given until Season Five, long after she'd become a major recurring character.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: She resisted the efforts of the most extremist members to turn the Resistance into the terrorist organization EarthGov wanted them portrayed as
• Statuesque Stunner: Her actress is 6 feet tall, and it really shows in some shots.
• The Spymaster: Becomes the head of Interstellar Alliance Covert Intelligence after Garibaldi retires.

Draal

Draal

Played by: Louis Turenne, John Schuck

I don't like surprises!

An old mentor of Delenn's who visits her on Babylon 5 to tell her he's going to "go to the sea" (a tradition where elderly Minbari go on one final journey through space at the end of their lives). Instead, he becomes the new caretaker of the Great Machine on Epsilon 5 as the previous caretaker, Varn, is dying and the Machine is experiencing dangerous fluctuations.

• Humanity Is Infectious: He likes the hokey-pokey after hearing it just once.
• Large Ham: Louis Turenne as Draal is rather subtle, but John Schuck loves to project his voice.
• Man in the Machine: Draal replaces the caretaker of the Great Machine of Epsilon 3 which the station is close to and takes his job seriously.
• The Nth Doctor: First played by Louis Turenne, but in future appearances by John Schuck because Turenne was unavailable. It is explained that the Great Machine has rejuvenated his body and restored him to a younger appearance.

Zathras

Zathras

Played by: Tim Choate

No one listens. It is good that Zathras does not mind, he has even come to like it.

• Backup Twin: Ten, well nine Zathrases are alive. After one went back in time with Valen, the other nine remained in the present. All look the same and all named Zathras. The one who died in the past, "Zathras warn Zathras, but Zathras never listen to Zathras."
• Ditzy Genius: To whom else could anyone entrust a time machine but a rambling, easily distracted engineer?
• The Eeyore
  Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. At least there is symmetry.
• Harsher in Hindsight: One of Zathras's most memorable lines is "[Zathras] probably have very sad death." The actor playing him, Tim Choate, died in a motorcycle accident.
• Lost in Translation: Zathras's attempts to explain that his name is pronounced slightly differently from his brother's, Zathras.
• Non Sequitur: In one scene, he's trying to explain to Ivanova that they can't possibly run out of time, because time is infinite, and only the people doing things in time are finite, while also sorting through a chest of tools. He then switches between sentences from philosophy to shop talk when he comments in the exact same tone and cadence that he has picked up the wrong tool.
  Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This... is wrong tool.
• Planet of Steves: Zathras is one of many brothers in the family Zathras, all named Zathras. One of them claims each of their names is pronounced slightly differently... and then in his demonstration pronounces them all exactly the same (as far as humans can hear). In "War Without End", the first Zathras is seen with another of his race whom the credits identify as "Spragg", so presumably there are other families on the planet with similar naming schemes.
• The Reliable One: Zathras was crucial in the mission to send Babylon 4 to the past, and elected to stay there himself in order to see the mission through, meaning that the outcome of *both* Shadow Wars were due primarily to his efforts.
• Thinking Out Loud: A lot of Zathras's lines come across as him talking to himself at normal conversation level. Perhaps Justified, as his brother Zathras later says that they lead rather lonely lives.

William Edgars

William Edgars

Played by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

"The telepath prob- The telepath problem...will finally be over."

The head of an extremely powerful corporation headquartered on Mars and the new husband of Garibaldi's Old Flame Lise Hampton after her divorce from her first one.

• Affably Evil: Very kind to his employees and other associates, apparently a loving husband to Lise, and he even feels compassion for the telepaths he's using as test subjects.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Of Edgars Industries, a major pharmaceutical company.
• Dirty Business: He's conducting horrendous experiments on telepaths to test out his anti-teep plague. He considers it necessary, but not the suffering these experiments are causing. Once it becomes apparent that the virus really does kill telepaths with no hope of recovery if the infection isn't treated daily with a drug manufactured specifically for the task, he orders the test subjects euthanised to minimise their pain.
• Heel Realization: The hesitation he says with the "telepath problem" is an Actor Allusion as well as a reference to Word of God. Edgars is Jewish according to JMS and realized what he was saying, only to continue. invoked
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: For his first few appearances, only his voice was heard. He didn't actually appear onscreen until most of the way through season 4.
• I Did What I Had to Do: He believes the development of the telepath virus (and its antidote) is necessary for "mundanes" to have a fighting chance in the telepath war he sees coming.
• Restraining Bolt: Wants to inflict a biological one on the telepaths with a manufactured disease that is harmful only to them. The only treatment is a drug that must be taken daily or the infection kills the subject. With this in place, telepaths would go from being an existential threat to a slave race or even extinct.
• Villain Has a Point: While his actions are extreme and unethical, even the heroes like Sheridan believe Edgars was right about there being a telepath war coming and that the Psi Corps is a sinister organization controlled by horrible people like Bester.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He became the influential head of a pharmaceutical MegaCorp solely to accomplish the creation of a virus (and corresponding antidote) exclusively fatal to telepaths. He does this not For the Evulz or even out of a sense of Fantastic Racism, but because he knows a war with telepaths is inevitable and wants to give “mundanes” a fighting chance. He doesn't even like taking the steps he feels he has to take, and tries to lessen the suffering of those he's testing his drugs on as much as possible. He himself realizes the historical parallels, but still takes his actions because he deems them necessary.

Lise Hampton-Edgars

Lise Hampton-Edgars

Played by: Denise Gentile

A woman on Mars who Garibaldi romanced but was unable to commit to, with them parting ways for what they assume will be for good late in season one, only to end up in contact again as the show continues.

• Cartwright Curse: She has it just as bad as some of the leads, between breaking up with Garibaldi and her first husband and being widowed after her second husband turns out to be evil.
• First Girl Wins: She and Garibaldi were a couple prior to any of his doomed relationships in seasons 1-3, and they reconcile and marry in season 5.
• Honest Corporate Executive: She helps William run his company but is unaware of his Telepath fenocide plan and, after inheriting control of the company when he dies, the amount of corruption involved in the business makes her decide to leave active management at the first opportunity.
• Missing Mom: She says she is unlikely to ever see her oldest daughter after infancy, although it isn’t by choice (a bigoted judge gives her unfaithful husband sole custody when they divorce and he lets their daughter think his second wife is her birth mother).
• Mouth of Sauron: She visits Babylon 5 on behalf of her second husband William and his corporate interests when he is unable to come himself.

Brother Theodore

Brother Theodore

Played by: Louis Tourenne

"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn all those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them."

• Deadpan Snarker: Snarks beautifully, and at one point manages to silence Sheridan with an eyebrow.
• Good Shepherd: Brother Theodore is a genuinely devout and caring man, who tends to his flock well.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With a Baptist minister who visits Babylon 5 for an ecumenical conference. The subdued and contemplative Brother Theodore snarks habitually at his loud, ebullient colleague, but the two otherwise seem to get on fairly well.

Jane

Played by: Maggie Egan

The main anchor for Interstellar Network News.

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• Intrepid Reporter: She is willing to report on President Clark ordering the murder of civilians on Mars even while his troops have the building surrounded. That being said, she is too frightened to mention the presence of those troops and shows alarm when one of her co-anchors does so, getting them in even worse trouble with Clark.
• Only One Name: She appears in all 5 seasons but never gets a surname.
• Put on a Prison Bus: In midway season 3, she gets a potential Deadline News scene when Clark's men storm the ISN building, and she doesn't reappear until near the end of season 4, having just been released from jail and making an emotional return to reporting by talking about the significance of Sheridan's liberation of Earth.
• This Just In!: Her main role is to provide exposition about events that reach outside of Babylon 5 and are important enough to get on the news.

Aldous Gajic

Played by: David Warner

A religious pilgrim who seeks the Holy Grail to heal the wounds of mankind. He has taken the search to alien worlds and makes an ill-fated (from a certain perspective) visit to Babylon 5 to meet the alien ambassadors there in furtherance of his quest.

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• Good with Numbers: He is a former accountant for a major corporation and recalls happily immersing himself in the numbers at work before the loss of his family.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He lost his wife and daughters in an earthquake when the girls were young.
• Passing the Torch: As he dies, he inspires his new friend and Protectorate (a construction worker who sees himself as a Doom Magnet) to take up his search, although he may not have done so intentionally.
• Seeker Archetype: Seeking the Holy Grail gives him purpose and perspective about a lot of things and he has broad-minded ideas about how to conduct the search.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He is a patient, kindhearted, nurturing man who dies in his first episode
• Warrior Monk: He is a robed man who has spent decades looking for a religious artifact and helping anyone he can, but he is also capable of beating up assailants with his walking stick and faces down a dangerous alien while unarmed and being held prisoner.

Amis

Played by: Dwight Schultz

A traumatized veteran of the Minbari War whose trauma isn't rooted in any encounter with the Minbari, but rather a brutal creature in service of the Shadows. He develops an Odd Friendship with Garibalid while living on Babylon 5 as a lurker and faces off with his old tormentor once more.

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• The Bait: He charges into the open to make the Soldier of Darkness attack him (he survives) so it won't stay hidden and escape Sheridan's search.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: He has a psychic connection to a dangerous alien and is prone to making flamboyant and disjointed statements about its presence that are accurate and insightful once looked at in the right light.
• Harbinger of Impending Doom: When he senses the Soldier of Darkness (and, by extension, its masters, the Shadows) coming, he makes intense speeches about this throughout the station while in a disheveled state.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Amis is a homeless former Earthforce soldier who was tortured by a demonic alien who killed the rest of his unit. He is prone to rambling about evil forces, and while much of his Doomsayer dialogue falls under The Cuckoolander Was Right, he dreams about being on the battlefield and struggles to remember some of his experiences and admits that "life is, in general, much easier if I forget most of the things that happen to me."
• Sole Survivor: He is the only man from his 47-man unit who wasn't killed by the Soldier of Darkness.
• Weight Loss Horror: He spent weeks being drained of life by the Solider of Darkness and weighed only eighty-five pounds when he was rescued.

The Raiders

The Raiders

Loosely organized pirates who prey on civilian shipping lines. Most Raiders seen are human.

• Combat Pragmatist: They are badly outmatched in any fight with Earthforce. Thus, they prefer hit-and-fade attacks against soft targets such as merchant ships, and will only fight Earthforce units if they have no other choice or if they have overwhelming numbers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • The first time the Shadows make an appearance.
  • Most times that we ever see them get cornered into a fight with Earthforce crews. The Starfury is shown to be far superior in pretty much every aspect to their ships. Word of God is that the Raider ships, unlike the Starfuries, are built to maneuver in atmosphere as well as space, while the standard Starfury was built specifically for space.
• Gunship Rescue: Invoked twice, when a larger ship is brought in to reinforce them or to help them escape. Both ships are destroyed or disabled soon after.
• Starter Villain: In Season 1, most of the times that Babylon 5's Starfuries are deployed in combat, it's to engage Raiders who are either attacking the station or stalking merchant vessels in a nearby system. While they appear a COUPLE of times afterwards (including the movies Thirdspace and The Legend of the Rangers), they stop being a major threat after the Shadows appear.

The Streib

The Streib

Their last expedition was into Minbari space. We tracked them back to their homeworld...and made sure they understood the depth of their mistake.

Aliens who kidnap others in order to experiment on them.

• Mugging the Monster: Both when trying to kidnap Minbari and trying to kidnap humans. The Minbari were rather vindictive about it.
• Too Dumb to Live: Backed into a corner and massively outgunned, they are ordered to release their prisoners. For some reason they felt the smart response was to eject said prisoners into space, simultaneously removing any impediment stopping the joint Earthforce and Minbari forces blowing them to dust and making them very, very angry. The result is quite predictable.

David Sheridan II

David Sheridan II

The son of John Sheridan and Delenn.

• The Ghost: David never actually appears onscreen. Delenn is pregnant with him in the latter part of Season 5 and he's absent from Sheridan's final celebration with his friends in the series finale "Sleeping in Light" because he's in Ranger training and Sheridan wants him to remember his father as he was. Given that Sheridan is human and Delenn is visibly half-human half-Minbari, this led to a lot of speculation from fans about David's appearance, and indeed, part of the reason he wasn't shown was because the writers weren't sure what they wanted him to look like. The canonical Legions of Fire novels confirm that he lacks a bone crest and looks fully human externally, but internally his physiology is unique enough that Dr Franklin was called in as a specialist in human-Minbari hybrids when he was under treatment.
• Uneven Hybrid: He's effectively 3/4 human and 1/4 Minbari, since his father is human and his mother is a Minbari who became half human through the Chrysalis device.

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