Characters / Bitten

The North American Pack

In General

• Good Is Not Nice: They kill humans and wolves alike when their rules are broken, are willing to torture for information, and keep a cage in their basement.
• Family of Choice: They function as this to each other, albeit not without some dysfunction. Elena even calls them one outright in her Rousing Speech when she becomes Alpha.
  "No more Packs. We are a found family."
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: The change is usually voluntary. However, as Elena demonstrates in the first episode, if you go too long without changing, it will happen whether you want it to or not. Pain can also trigger an involuntary change.
• Painful Transformation: Though the Pack appears to enjoy being wolves, the actual transformation looks uncomfortable at best. The first time can be fatal.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: And as such, it is chock full of (mostly male) Fanservice.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The involuntary part makes the change look kind of like eating or sleeping. You can do it as you want, or you can wait until it happens to you like it or not.

Elena Michaels

Played By: Laura Vandervoort

• Action Girl: She's a werewolf, the best tracker in the pack, and capable of holding her own against other members of the pack.
• Adaptational Job Change: Elena in the books is a journalist. Here, she is a photographer.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Savannah has a vision of her standing inside Stonehaven as it burns down, which frightens both her and Elena. In season three, Elena herself begins to have visions of the event. In "Truth, Changes, Everything," the vision comes true: she is given Jeremy's blessing to burn Stonehaven to the ground in order to destroy all records of werewolf bloodlines, giving Pack and non-Pack werewolves alike the freedom to make their own choices and not be forced into loyalty.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Ever since her first kill, she's been unhappy about her werewolf status. She even says this word-for-word in "Summons."
• Missing Mom: Her foster mother died when she was a child. Later, it's revealed that this is also the case with her biological mother.
• Ms. Fanservice: As a healthy, sexually active adult and the only female werewolf, she has a habit of getting naked.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Rachel's girly girl.

Clayton Danvers

Played By: Greyston Holt

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. In the novels, Clay came from an abusive household, but this is not the case in the series. Also played straight: in the series, Malcolm killed his mother after biting him, and his father killed himself after assuming Clay was also dead. In the novels, nothing is mentioned about his family's fate after he was bitten.
• Betty and Veronica: The dark, broody, violent Veronica to Philip's Boy Next Door Betty, both to Elena's Archie. On the other hand, Clay is the "safer" romantic choice for Elena as he knows about her past and is also a werewolf, making him the Betty. Philip is a far more dangerous romantic choice as he is human and has no knowledge of her secret, making him the Veronica.
• The Big Guy: He's the best fighter among the pack, and generally wants to get physical against any threat to the pack.
• Byronic Hero: Clay is broody and tortured by the things Jeremy has made him do in the name of protecting the pack, and constantly struggles to find a balance between his better nature and his total loyalty to Jeremy.
• Genius Bruiser: He's big, ridiculously toned, and the acknowledged champion at hand-to-hand combat among the werewolves. He's also Dr. Danvers, professor of anthropology.
• The Lancer: To Jeremy.
• Military Brat: His biological father served in the military.

Jeremy Danvers

Played By: Greg Bryk

• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novels, Jeremy has black hair and eyes. In the series, he has lighter hair and blue eyes.
• Adaptation Species Change: In the novels, Jeremy is a werewolf-kogitsune hybrid. Here, the latter is Adapted Out.
• Big Good: He and Antonio fought their way up the ranks of the Mutts in order to force them to accept Pack rules. They still enforce those rules, to the death.
• Cultured Badass: In a backwoods Canadian kind of way. He's an artist by trade, dresses well, lives in a big fancy house, and is very polite when he's not ordering executions. Or even when he is.
• A Father to His Men: As the alpha of the pack, and even outside of that he generally tries to be reasonable.
• Lightning Bruiser: Where Clay is big, he's quick. He barely had to lay a hand on a Mutt challenging him for the position of Alpha.
• Race Lift: Described as having Asian features in the novels, played by Canadian Greg Bryk in the series.

Antonio Sorrentino

Played By: Paulino Nunes

• The Consigliere: Jeremy's adviser, going back quite a long while.
• Death by Adaptation: Antonio is still alive in the novels.
• Number Two: Again, going back a while.

Nick Sorrentino

Played By: Steve Lund

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He has a brief romance with Paige, which never happened in the books. By the end of the show, he also strikes up a reletionship with Rachel.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: To Paige in "Scavenger's Daughter."
• Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed. He opens the series quietly (or not so much) jealous of Clay's fighting ability and his relationship with Elena.
• Really Gets Around: He's had a string of lovers.

Logan Jonsen

Played By: Michael Xavier

• Disappeared Dad: He dies before he can meet his infant son, Rocco.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he dies, courtesy of Aleister.
• There Are No Therapists: Logan is a psychologist and a werewolf, averting both this and All Therapists Are Muggles.
• Token Minority: The black member of the Pack.

Mutts

Karl Marsten

Played By: Pascal Langdale

• Accent Adaptation: Karl is not described as speaking with an accent in the books, though Hope notes upon meeting him in Chaotic that he seems like the type of person that would have one. In the series, his actor gives him his natural English accent, further adding to his "upper class" persona. However, considering mimicking accents is among Karl's many talents in the books and he's also established as being well-traveled due to his lifestyle, it's possible that it isn't his natural accent and that he picked it up during his travels.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Black-haired in the novels, brown-haired in the show.
• Adaptational Wimp: His fighting skills and Manipulative Bastard tendencies are downplayed compared to the books. Logan is able to catch him by surprise in "Settling", he gets captured and curb stomped by the Albino in the third season, and is killed after being outnumbered and surrounded by Konstantin's men. He's also never seen assuming his wolf form, even in situations where it would be advantageous to do so.
• Affably Evil: He's genuinely charming and affable, which carries over into his Heel–Face Turn.
• Anti-Hero: Becomes one after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Every scene he's in has him wearing a suit.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He is loyal to Jeremy because he showed him mercy.
• Big Damn Heroes: When LeBlanc tries to stab Elena, Karl catches his arm and throws him into some glass, allowing Elena to kill him.
  Karl: It's not because she's a prize. It's because she's a lady!
• Butt-Monkey: In the third season. He gets kidnapped, beaten by the Albino, and dies in the series finale.
• The Charmer: He can be quite charming when he wants to be.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Just like the books, Karl has a reputation for this. Daniel calls him out on his tendency to play the "long con" in an attempt to make him look untrustworthy, and Jeremy asks him if he can be sure that his apparent Heel–Face Turn isn't temporary. It's also the reason Clay suspects him of working with the Spanish alpha in "Bad Dreams".
• Cigar Chomper: He's introduced smoking a hand-rolled Casanegra cigar, and often carries them with him.
• Deadpan Snarker / Gentleman Snarker: In his introduction, he gives this dry remark to Nick about his club:
  "You called? If it were for my design advice, I would suggest starting with a blowtorch."
• Death by Adaptation: Karl survives the entirety of the Otherworld books, but is killed by Konstantin's men in "Truth, Changes, Everything".
• Demoted to Extra: He appears in a majority of the first season, but only appears once in the second season due to the plot being more focused on the witches.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For a given value of "evil," given he's not working against the Pack because they did anything to him, but because they also haven't done anything for him (i.e. not granting him territory, which forces him to move constantly under Pack law). He's consistently annoyed by LeBlanc's violent and misogynistic tendencies and both his and Daniel's obsession with Elena. He's also not pleased when Daniel reveals he's kidnapped Clay. Eventually, this causes him to turn on them.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • When confronted by Jeremy, he stops Elena from defending him and says that all he asks for is a swift death. He's visibly surprised when Jeremy decides to leave him alive.
  • Again in season three, when he's cornered by Konstantin's men. When they tell him they'll let him live if he pledges loyalty to Konstantin, he refuses.
• Gentleman Thief: He's Affably Evil and a thief.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "Ready," he helps Elena kill Thomas LeBlanc and corners Daniel Santos for the Pack to deal with him. Cemented in season 3, when he officially joins the Pack.
• Last-Name Basis: Most characters call him Marsten. Elena, Nick and Jeremy occasionally use his first name.
• Noodle Incident: When explaining the hierarchy of Roman's pack to Nick and Jeremy, he mentions that he met Konstantin two years earlier while trying to steal money from the niece of a Russian oligarch.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only member of the uprising (aside from Cain) that's not Ax-Crazy, and avoids being violent for the sake of it. He's quick to point out to Daniel that attacking Stonehaven with only three mutts is a suicide mission.
• Redemption Earns Life: His Heel–Face Turn and honesty when faced with death ultimately causes Jeremy to decide to spare his life. Following Malcolm's death, Karl and Cain are the only members of the uprising to still be alive.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Like his novel counterpart, he's rarely if ever not wearing a nice suit.
• Slashed Throat: How he dies.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome / Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's portrayed by the dark-haired and handsome Pascal Langdale, and can be quite snarky.

Daniel Santos

Played By: Michael Luckett

• Ax-Crazy: He takes a sadistic glee in watching a captive Clay struggle.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the books, LeBlanc slices Daniel's throat when Elena surrenders to him in exchange for Clay. In the series, Elena kills him by tearing his heart out once he's cornered by the Pack.
• Dirty Coward: He doesn't want to face the Pack himself during the attack on Stonehaven, forcing the other mutts to deal with them themselves. Karl calls him out on it.
  Karl: A true king leads the first wave.
  Daniel: I don't see you up there.
• Evil Is Hammy: His Villainous Breakdown in "Ready".
  Daniel: You think [Karl] is of use to you? LOOK AT WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF! I created an empire of mayhem. And you…you never even saw it coming.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one after Karl betrays him.

Zachary Cain

Played By: Noah Danby

• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He wants to settle down and raise a family with his girlfriend, Amber. Tragically, he is forced to take her off of life support after she is bitten and left brain-dead with no hope of recovery.
• Heel–Face Turn: He joins the Pack to help fight Aleister and Clara.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Fine Temporum," he takes several bullets for Clay so that he can rescue Elena. He survives.
• Redemption Earns Life: He survives his above Heroic Sacrifice after helping the pack fight Aleister and Clara, making him and Karl the only members of the first season's Mutt uprising to still be alive. Cain becomes the sole survivor after Karl is killed in the series finale.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He was killed by Clay in the first book. In the series, everyone thinks he's dead after he's attacked by Clay, but the second season reveals him to be alive and he ends up surviving past the series finale.

Thomas LeBlanc

Played By: Curtis Caravaggio

• Actually Pretty Funny: Karl's dry wit tends to annoy him, but he can't help but chuckle when Karl insults Daniel's "Italian leather" shoes.
• Ax-Crazy: He's a deranged, misogynistic Serial Killer and Serial Rapist.
• Brief Accent Imitation: He makes fun of Karl's British accent at one point in "Ready".
  LeBlanc: Have you gone bonkers on us, Mr. Marsten?
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Elena killed him alone and in her wolf form in the books. In the series, Elena and Karl team up to kill him, with both in their human forms.
• Evil Is Petty: He forms a vendetta against Elena for breaking his wrist.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and tells Elena that he has no morals.

Humans

Philip McAdams

Played By: Paul Greene

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Clay's Veronica, both to Elena's Archie. Alternatively, Philip is the more dangerous romantic choice as he has no knowledge of Elena's past, making him the Veronica and Clay the Betty.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Elena has successfully kept him in the dark about her past and werewolf nature. Not so much after he sees her in wolf form.
• Muggle and Magical Love Triangle: He's human, and Clay and Elena are both werewolves.
• My Beloved Smother: Neither he nor his sisters are particularly happy with their mother.

Rachel Sutton

Played By: Genelle Williams

• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: She's excited to become a mother after becoming unexpectedly pregnant. Subverted when she tells Logan that she got an abortion because she cannot deal with the new supernatural aspects in her life after discovering he (and by extension their son) is a werewolf, then double subverted when it's revealed that this was a lie.
• Mama Bear: To her son, Rocco.
• Superhuman Transfusion: She becomes a witch after being injected with Savannah's blood.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Elena's tomboy.

Witches

Savannah Levine

Played By: Kiara Glasco

• The Chosen One: In the prophecy, she is the one who takes "the poison" (Elena's blood) to start the Undoing.
• Cute Witch: She's a young, yet powerful witch.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is naive and kind.
• Trigger Phrase: Aleister brainwashes her with the phrase "I am the lock," to which she responds "I am the key."