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Mayer / Delfino / Bremmer family
Susan
- See Housewives.
Mike
Michael "Mike" Delfino
Played by: James Denton
Introduced as the new neighbor in the series' pilot, Mike moved to Wisteria Lane from Los Angeles shortly before Mary Alice's suicide and one year after the death of his wife, Amy. Mike rents the Simms' house, and works as a plumber, and is also hired by the father of his missing ex-fiancée Deirdre, Noah Taylor, to investigate the lane and its neighbors hoping to find out what happened to her. He soon meets Susan Mayer and they subsequently fall in love. They later get married and have a son, MJ.
- Absent Animal Companion: His dog Bongo is his Morality Pet throughout Season 1, but has disappeared in Season 2 and onwards.
- Back for the Finale: He dies about two-thirds in season 8, and he is among the ghosts who appear on the lane and watch Susan as she leaves it forever in the final episode.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Mike survives all the earlier scrapes he gets into, but then is abruptly shot and killed by Donny.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Mike is attractive to everyone, but he very rarely does anything to encourage them.
- Divorce Is Temporary: He ended up remarrying Susan.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He is abruptly shot dead by Donny the Loan Shark in season 8.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Nobody can resist Mike.
- Heel–Face Turn: He was initially working for Noah to avenge Deidre's death, but he opted not to punish Paul for it since he realized Paul had been a generally good father to Mike's own son Zach and Mary-Alice herself was dead.
- Hot Men at Work: A bit downplayed since he doesn't work shirtless, but still present since he is a plumber and has the build.
- Hunk: Definitely fits the stereotype.
- Killed Off for Real: Partway through Season 8.
- Love Triangle: With Susan and Katherine in Season 6, and Susan and Edie in Season 1. Naturally, he and Susan get together every time.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He is Zach's father.
- Mr. Fanservice: Undoubtedly one of the most attractive men in the series.
- Mysterious Parent: He is this to Zach.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He was understandably frustrated and annoyed with Katherine's antics, but going over to a mentally-unstable woman's house (a woman you almost married, mind you), telling her you never loved her and that the entire relationship was a lie? Not a good idea. Katherine responds by stabbing herself in the gut and blaming it on Mike, and his fingerprints are on the knife he was holding.
- Only Sane Man: Not counting Bob Hunter and Lee McDermott, he's the most psychologically well-balanced out of all the men in Wisteria Lane, despite his Dark and Troubled Past. And he's this in a couple of courses, with the unstable Susan.
- Papa Wolf: Especially in season 5 when MJ is threatened by Dave Williams, and to a lesser extent when Katherine Mayfair tries to use MJ to be with him again.
- The Quiet One: He doesn't speak much or very descriptively. Overlaps with Beware the Quiet Ones.
- Second Love: He is the second love of Susan's life and her second husband.
- The Stoic: Although he does get several moments of being Not So Stoic.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He calls Susan out when Susan steals a necklace from Katherine that Mike bought her, thinking it's why they can't afford school fees for MJ, pointing out that he'd never put his new girlfriend over his son and telling Susan that he works his ass off and if they're struggling to pay for MJ's education, it's Susan who isn't pulling her weight, not Mike.
Julie
Julie Alexandra Mayer
Played by: Andrea Bowen
The daughter of Susan and Karl Mayer and older half-sister of M.J.
- The Ace: Frequently hailed as the "perfect" daughter, being kind, smart and pretty and very different from Bree's rebellious, resentful teenagers and Lynette's rambunctious, out-of-control children. Paul even tells Zach Julie is "way out of your league."
- All Girls Want Bad Boys:
- Zach in Season 1, though it doesn't last.
- Edie's nephew Austin in Season 3, though initially she was dismissive of him - she only grew to really like him when he protected her during the shooting.
- Nick Bolen in Season 6.
- Broken Ace: Goes from being a perfect straight-A daughter to a pregnant Jaded Washout that drops out of school and has an affair with a married man.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Noticeable in that, when she has an affair with Nick Bolen and gets strangled, she has dark hair.
- Ivy League for Everyone: She goes to Princeton.
- Jaded Washout: She became one of these in Season 6, where she had an affair with a married man after dropping out of med school, getting pregnant, and being left as a single mother. She got back on track come the Season 8 finale, though.
- Little Miss Snarker: When she was younger, mostly to deal with the ridiculous antics of Susan.
- May–December Romance: She had an affair with Nick Bolen, who's over twice her age.
- Nice Girl: For the most part in the early seasons, she's certainly the nicest of the housewives' children.
- Promotion to Parent: Kind of, especially pre-Season 1 when Susan was still devastated by her and Karl's divorce, but she still plays this role from time to time.
- Odd Friendship: Inexplicably was friends with the vapid, skanky, selfish Danielle. It helps that they're the same age and that their mothers are friends.
- Only Sane Woman: On several occasions.
- She's All Grown Up: Bowen wasn't recast between the Time Skip, so the effect is less striking than, say, the Scavo twins, but young and pretty Julie is acknowledged as a bombshell by the sixth season. Not incidentally, this is when her romance subplot intensifies.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: With Susan being wacky, and Julie being serious.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She calls Susan out on how irresponsible a parent Susan was (and still is) to her, pointing out that after her parents got divorced, she had to balance the checkbook, cook dinner and make her own doctor's appointments.
M.J.
Maynard James "M.J." Delfino
"Boy, the stuff I do for macaroons..."
Played by: Mason Vale Cotton
The son of Susan and Mike Delfino and younger half-brother of Julie.
- Dead Guy Junior: He is named after Mike's deceased grandfather, Maynard.
- Elmer Fudd Syndrome: He speaks like this, probably to make him sound cuter.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Aside from the drama over him being called Maynard, he's always called "M.J." by everyone.
- Shipper on Deck: He starts being rude and aggressive towards Katherine (even dropping a bowling ball on her foot) because he wants Mike and Susan to get back together. Oddly, he didn't do this with Jackson Braddock when he was dating Susan.
- Spoiled Brat: His parents never punish him for anything, even when he starts attacking Katherine just because he doesn't want her dating Mike.
Sophie
Sophie Flickman, born Bremmer
Played by: Lesley Ann Warren
Susan's mother.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: She's even flightier than Susan and causes her a lot of embarrassment.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She doesn't always seem to be quite "there" and she can be quite naive. Especially notable in comparison to Susan, who is not the most responsible either.
- Shared Family Quirks: Susan definitely got the ditziness, It's All About Me tendencies and immaturity from her.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: She's the wacky parent to Susan's serious child, although Susan isn't that much more serious, merely less naive.
Karl
Karl Mayer
Played by: Richard Burgi
Dubbed by: Bernard Lanneau (European French)
Susan's promiscuous ex-husband and the father of Julie.
- Amoral Attorney: Going against the law is not out of his realm of possibilities, such as when he helps Bree setting up a fake robbery against Orson in season 5.
- Back for the Finale: He is among the ghosts who appear on the lane and watch Susan as she leaves it forever in the final episode.
- Handsome Lech: He's irresistible and he knows it, and piles up affairs with women. Even Bree falls for his sleazy charm.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Just as he and Orson are fighting over Bree in a Christmas hut, the small plane Karl hired to make a surprise to Bree crash-lands in Wisteria Lane and destroys the hut, killing Karl.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More in the first seasons.
- Killed Off for Real: He is one of few characters to really die over the series, being hit by the small plane that he hired for Bree.
- Mr. Fanservice: By far the most likely husband to strut around shirtless or in a loosely-tied robe.
- Papa Wolf: He can definitely be protective of his daughter Julie and a very smooth negotiator when it comes to helping Evan (his second son) socialize.
- Really Gets Around: The list of women he slept with is... pretty long, both during and out of his married life.
Scavo / Lindquist family
As a whole
- Alliterative Family: All of the children of Lynette and Tom have names starting with the letter "P".
- Lynette's generation also has this with her sisters being named Lydia and Lucy.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Only Penny and Paige are not screwed up in some manner (the latter because she's, well, still a baby). Everyone else is, grandparents, parents and boys included.
Lynette
- See Housewives.
Tom
Thomas "Tom" Scavo
Played by: Doug Savant
Dubbed by: Emmanuel Curtil (European French)
Lynette's husband. Like Lynette, he once gave up his job to raise the kids. Unlike her, he can be quite immature and take irrational decisions.
- Aesop Amnesia: How many times does Tom need to learn that he has a purpose in his life and to choose his family over his more selfish impulses?
- A Day in Her Apron: He is frequently subject to this, and nearly always fails.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He doesn't take well Carlos saw Lynette naked helping her after her fall in the shower and was very jealous of her relationship with Rick Coletti (his employee at the pizzeria).
- Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: His main problem, which gets him and Lynette into trouble many times. He's constantly changing what he wants to do and expects her to go along with it.
- Flanderization: Both he and his wife suffered this a lot in season 5, going from a couple that had their problems but could still work through them together, to a couple that argued every other episode over the smallest most insignificant problems (well, insignificant compared to a tornado, a psychopathic child from a previous relationship, and cancer). He also became even more irrational and childish.
- Henpecked Husband: He's never been really happy about Lynette being the one who's really in charge in the household, although his immature tendencies prevented a better alternative from rising.
- Lazy Husband: This is Lynette's main problem with him, or specifically, that he's lazier than she is.
- Manchild: He often lacks common sense and is carefree to the point of being irresponsible after giving up his advertising job. He constantly concocts harebrained moneymaking schemes without thinking them through. And he whines to Lynette about how emasculated he feels when she becomes the breadwinner by getting a sensible job, and had some really childish angsts at times.
- Mama's Boy: His spoiled relationship with his mother affects his and Lynette's relationship, especially when she visits.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Though he's not especially feminine, he's definitely the more passive and willing to negotiate than the controlling, no-nonsense Lynette.
- Men Can't Keep House: Although he actually does look after their kids in a couple of storylines when Lynette goes back to work, she is constantly irritated by how little he cleans the house.
- Mr. Fanservice: In one memorable scene, Tom wears nothing but a leopard-print thong, and while Doug Savant does a good job of making the situation quite awkward, one cannot deny that he is one hell of a hunk.
- Papa Wolf: He won't hesitate to step up against anything looking like a threat to his children alongside Lynette.
- Stoners Are Funny: Drugs himself with medical weed in early season 7, until Lynette makes him stop.
- Teeny Weenie: Has some issues on that subject with Lynette in season 7.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He calls Lynette out on catfishing Porter, telling her that a few minutes of feeling close to him aren't going to help when he never trusts her again.
Porter and Preston
Porter and Preston Scavo
Played by: Brent and Shane Kinsman (season 1 to 4), Charlie and Max Carver (season 5 to 8)
The twin firstborns of Lynette and Tom.
- Always Identical Twins: They're identical twins.
- Dumbass Teenage Son: To Lynette and Tom. Poor life choices, slow on the uptake, they've got it all.
- He Is All Grown Up: They grow up from mildly podgy little boys to quite attractive young men. So attractive that one of them ends up in an affair with a much older woman.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: There really isn't much to tell them apart... at least until Preston grows a big Pornstache by season 6.
- Identical Twin Mistake: Their parents (usually) know how to differentiate them, but most people don't.
- Likes Older Women: A 18 year old Porter has an affair with Anne Schilling (who's over 40) in season 5.
- Not Helping Your Case: In season 5, Porter is suspected of setting Warren Schilling's club on fire. The fact that, mere minutes before the fire, Porter has basically threatened to kill Warren after learning of the latter's Domestic Abuse on Anne then fled from Wisteria Lane really doesn't help matters...
- Pornstache: Preston grew a rather ridiculous one in Europe and comes back proudly sporting it in season 6. Lynette hates it, of course.
- The Scapegoat: In season 5, Dave Williams sets Warren Schilling's club on fire to cover up the murder of Dr. Heller, and makes sure Porter is suspected of it.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: By season 7, they're just over 18 and Lynette really wants them to go, but they're clearly not ready or even intending to do so. They do briefly quit the Scavo home... by renting Karen McCluskey's upper floor rooms, on the other side of the street, which prompts Lynette to scheme to have them go away from there.
- Twin Switch: In season 5, Porter manages to convince Preston to replace him at his trial as he's been (wrongfully) accused of setting Warren Schilling's club on fire. Lynette and Tom figure the switcheroo out too late, but Bob Hunter is able to secure them 48 more hours so they can find Porter.
Parker
Parker Scavo
Played by: Zane Huett (season 1 to 4), Joshua Logan Moore (season 5 to 8)
The third son of Lynette and Tom.
- Dirty Kid: At one point when he was still child-aged, he paid a girl cookies to look up her skirt.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: At age 16 in season 6, he goes as far as offering money to Robin Gallagher to have sex with him so he won't be mocked by his schoolmates.
- Nice Guy: Far moreso than his brothers. For example, he's wanting to help do something nice for Ida after she protected him and his siblings during the hurricane.
- Out of Focus: After the five years time-skip. Especially in comparison to his brothers.
- The Peeping Tom: From his bedroom, he has a nice view on the window of the bathroom in which Robin Gallagher takes her shower, and takes advantage of this with his school buddies.
- The Runt at the End: He gets this treatment from his older brothers.
Penny
Penelope Lynn "Penny" Scavo
Played by: Dylan and Jordan Cline (season 1), Darien and Kerstin Pinkerton (season 2 to 4), Kendall Applegate (season 5 to 6), Darcy Rose Byrnes (season 7 to 8)
The eldest daughter of Lynette and Tom.
- Forgotten Birthday: Both Lynette and Tom forget about Penny's eleventh birthday, much to her dismay.
- Only Sane Woman: Her older brothers go through a number of dumb young boys/dumb teenagers antics. Compared to them, she behaves more reasonably and more wisely.
- Red Herring: She's not the baby that got switched.
- The Runaway: She briefly runs away from home in season 6 out of jealousy for the incoming baby. Lynette finds Penny in a hotel, and the two reconcile there.
Paige
Paige Scavo
Played by: Emmett, Hudson and Noah Greenberg (season 6 and 7), Isabel and Samantha Kahle (season 8)
The youngest child of Lynette and Tom.
- Alone with the Psycho: Just minutes before her water breaks, Lynette finds herself alone with Eddie Orlofsky at his home, now knowing that he is a Serial Killer. Fortunately, Eddie can't bring himself to hurt Lynette because she's been nice to him, and helps her giving birth to Paige instead.
- Getting the Baby to Sleep: Sometimes she cries and doesn't want to sleep.
- Infant Sibling Jealousy: Penny has this in Season 6 when Lynette is pregnant but does later come to accept Paige.
Stella
Stella Kaminsky, formerly Lindquist and Wingfield
Played by: Polly Bergen
The inappropriate, drug-taking mother of Lynette and her sisters.
- Abusive Parents: She was abusive towards her daughters, hence Lynette's beef with her.
- Cool Old Lady: A bit too cool. She's quite liberal about recreational drugs and even bakes a weed brownie to Lynette so she will feel better while fighting cancer.
- Gold Digger: Even at her age, believe it or not. She marries Frank Kaminsky so she can inherit his fortune, although she provides him real affection beforehand. He probably knows it and he doesn't mind, as he adores her. And his death happens pretty quickly after their wedding, luckily for her.
- Hidden Depths: She was awful to her children, but she comes back at a cancerous Lynette to help her in her fight against the illness, telling her that she can fight either her mother or the cancer, but she won't have the strength to fight both.
- Lady Drunk: She used to be constantly inebriated.
Allison
Allison Scavo
Played by: Lois Smith
Rodney Scavo's ex-wife and the mother of Tom.
- Housewife: She enjoys housework and cooking much more than Lynette and doesn't understand why modern women need to be so active outside of home.
- My Beloved Smother: This attitude towards Tom being a major point of contention between her and Lynette.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Definitely Played for Drama. The fact that she doesn't remember who Penny is at some point is the first indicator that she has Alzheimer's disease, and it gets worse as the seventh season unfolds.
- Stay in the Kitchen: She thinks all women should.
Solis/Marquez family
Gaby
- See Housewives.
Carlos
Carlos Solis
"Carlos Solis was used to sitting in a position of power. Whether it was behind the wheel of a powerful car, at the head of a power-lunch, or at the helm of a powerful company."
Played by: Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Dubbed by: Bernard Gabay (European French)
Gabrielle's husband.
- The Atoner: In season 2.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Although every couple are prone to this, Gaby and Carlos get it more so because they're extremely fiery.
- Big Damn Heroes: He occasionally needs to do this for Gaby. Notably, he fights off Victor in Season 4 when Victor is threatening him with a gun, and he kills Alejandro when he's assaulting Gaby.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Carlos over Gabrielle in Season 1. She was cheating on him, but he ended up physically assaulting the wrong man twice (both of them turning out to be gay) and getting a prison sentence for it.
- Dashing Hispanic: An updated version.
- Deadpan Snarker: What else would you expect with Gaby's husband?
- Divorce Is Temporary: After he and Gaby split in Season 3, they start having an affair soon after and get back together for good in Season 4.
- Domestic Abuse: At one point, he tampers with his wife's birth control pills in order to get her pregnant, despite her clearly expressing her aversion at the idea of becoming a mother. It works and Gaby becomes pregnant, but she is understandably furious at this betrayal and breach of trust. This is something that real-life abusers do, in order to either keep their partners by their side or simply because they do not have any respect for their wishes. He also forces Gaby to sign a prenup by twisting her arm until she's nearly in tears.
- Gaby gives as much as she takes though, she constantly hits him (It's often Played for Laughs, but at one point it got so bad she actually pushed him out of a second-floor window), she's very manipulative and emotionally abusive towards him (Especially on matters concerning money and his mother) and spent the majority of the first two seasons cheating on him with their 17 year-old gardener; eventually they more or less decide they're even and their relationship gets considerably better.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite knowing that Gaby has cheated on him in the past and being something of a Mama's Boy himself, when Carlos attempts to fix the relationship between Gaby and her mother, he is quietly appalled when Gaby's mother reveals she knew about her husband sleeping with daughter and coolly insists that "no-one was raped" and that Gaby (who was fifteen) "seduced" him. Carlos returns to Gaby and comforts her and never brings up the subject of her mother, or forgiving her, ever again.
- "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: It turns out when the doctor said he was permanently blind, what he really meant was only for half of a season.
- Averted in-universe, since he actually spent 6 years blind (there was a 5 year time-skip between seasons 4 and 5) and this very much affected his and Gabrielle's dynamic permanently despite being later cured.
- Good Parents: He genuinely adores Juanita and Celia and raises them largely with a better attitude than Gabrielle, though he spoils them and he's the reason they're obese.
- Hot-Blooded: Just see how many of these tropes relate to his temper.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Huge Guy to Gaby's Tiny Girl. Carlos isn't even especially tall but Gaby is so short he can pick her up with one arm.
- Hypocrite: When Gaby offers to donate her eggs to Bob and Lee, Carlos is indignant and angry because he says half of Gaby's reproductive organs belong to him and he doesn't want her selling them out. Pretty rich considering he once tampered with Gaby's birth control pills, tried to pressure her into having a baby for two seasons straight, spoils his own daughters and overrides most of Gaby's parenting decisions and demanded they take in the extremely bratty and annoying Ana against Gaby's wishes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Season 1, then downplayed heavily until it returns more in Season 7. He has softer moments when he shows how much he loves his mother, but he becomes much nicer and more relaxed with time, except when he returns to his old ways with Lynette working for him in Season 6.
- Latin Lover: Comes with being a Mr. Fanservice of Mexican origins.
- Macho Latino: Tends to play this card sometimes (sometimes at Gaby's own request), but inevitably comes to compromise with Gaby. He mellows down even more after becoming a father.
- Mama's Boy: Towards his mother, Juanita, for whom he names his daughter and over whose death he nearly kills Andrew.
- Marriage Before Romance: He married Gaby because of her beauty, but they grow to have the most solid and happy marriage on the Lane after a lot of hardship.
- Mistaken for Racist: Mistaken For Homophobic. At one point he beats up two separate men he suspects Gabrielle is cheating on him with. Unfortunately for him, both of these guys happened to be gay.
- Mr. Fanservice: In between his stints as a businessman, Carlos' wardrobe often consists of sleeveless shirts.
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: To the point that Gaby thinks, with a good reason, that Carlos may kill John if he finds out about their affair.
- He also flips out and attacks Danny Bolen when he catches him about to have sex with his niece, even though Ana was the instigator.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: At least until Season 5, when they lost a lot of their money, this was his and Gaby's attitude to whatever problem they had.
- Spicy Latina: A male version.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: In season 4, Carlos sinks their savings in an embezzlement scam, and then loses the papers for the offshore account. He does, however, return to his normal ways in Season 5 and retains his cunning, so he got better.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In Season 6, he is ridiculously aggressive, with his behavior deeply discriminatory and illegal, towards Lynette. However, the writers dialed it right back in Seasons 7 and 8.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After appearing to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in Season 1 (which never fully goes away), he becomes much nicer and more mellowed in following seasons, to the point where he and Gaby often seem to have the most loving and stable relationship in the series.
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!:Gabrielle: Go on, go all cholo on his ass!
Juanita
Juanita Solis
Played by: Madison De La Garza
The biological daughter of Hector and Carmen Sanchez and the legal daughter of Carlos and Gabrielle Solis.
- Big Eater: She's always hungry.
- Book Dumb: She has a learning lag with reading and spelling initially. She gets much better by the end of season 6.
- The Bully: She bullied MJ Delfino initially, but they eventually became friends.
- Daddy's Girl: Carlos loves her and spoils her as a result, bordering on overprotection.
- Dead Girl Junior: She's named after Carlos' late mother, Juanita "Mama" Solis.
- Fat Bastard: Juanita's weight is often correlated with her bad attitude and Spoiled Brat ways despite the fact that she's just a child.
- Spoiled Brat: She's spoiled by her father and makes her mother's life a hell. She never really grows out of it, either, since Carlos always takes Juanita's side over Gaby's.
- Switched at Birth: She was switched at birth with Grace Sanchez by nurse Teresa Pruitt.
- Weight Woe: She's obese and it bothers her mother to no end. The fact that she's mocked at school and being the daughter of a former model only makes things worse (though it's eventually revealed she has no genetic material from her parents).
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: When she is competing with MJ over selling the most chocolate bars, she admits to Susan that she just wants Gaby to be proud of her.
Celia
Celia Solis
Played by: Daniella Baltodano (4-year-old), Karolinah Villarrea (11-year-old), Gloria Garayua (30-year-old, alternate future)
The second daughter of Carlos and Gabrielle Solis.
- Alternate Timeline: Following the plane crash, Gaby stays at the hospital with Celia. She falls asleep and dreams of a crappy future in which she's old, single, poor and obsessed with getting acting auditions for a 30-year-old Celia.
- Flat Character: She has very few characterization and no Establishing Character Moment. Especially blatant when compared to Juanita.
- Out of Focus: Save for the Alternate Timeline dream mentioned above, she has no arc to speak of, with the focus of the Solis children always being on Juanita.
- The Voiceless: She's never heard speaking in her early childhood.
Mama
Juanita "Mama" Solis
Played by: Lupe Ontiveros
The mother of Carlos.
- Artistic License – Biology: Juanita is able to walk rather easily after waking up from her five-month coma, despite the fact that her limb muscles would have been too weak from lack of use.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: She survived being hit by Andrew's car in and was in a coma for several months. She wakes up intending to tell Carlos of his wife's infidelity only to die from a fall down the stairs.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: Just as she finds out about Gabrielle's affair with John Rowland, she's accidentally run over by Andrew Van de Kamp. She survives in a coma and wakes up intending to tell Carlos of his wife's infidelity, only to die from a fall down the stairs.
- The Gambling Addict: She has a bad gambling problem, which Gabrielle exploits to get her off her case.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She's not wrong when suspecting Gabrielle of cheating on Carlos.
- My Beloved Smother: She's very protective of Carlos. She goes as far as spying on Gabrielle, having always accused her of being nothing but a Gold Digger.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: She has never liked Gabrielle, and makes her life a hell.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Had Juanita simply waited until the next morning when the doctors informed Carlos she was awake, she would have lived to tell him about Gabrielle's affair. Instead, she tries to leave the hospital immediately after waking up, only to slip on a wet floor and fall down the stairs. She tries to tell a nurse who finds her to inform Carlos, but the nurse doesn't hear what she has to say because she is wearing headphones.
Ana
Ana Solis
Played by: Maiara Walsh
Carlos' niece.
- Brainless Beauty: She only dreams of becoming a model.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Well, bratty teenage niece, anyway.
- Fille Fatale: She is supposed to be very seductive and attractive despite being under eighteen.
- I Just Want to Be You: She aspires to be a model like Gaby.
- Ms. Fanservice: A lot of attention is paid to her skimpy outfits.
- Put on a Bus: At the end of season 6.
- Shoo Out the New Guy: She showed up in Season 6, seemingly for the long haul, but was gone by the end of the season.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's infuriated when Danny Bolen prefers Julie over her because she thinks she's prettier and is utterly convinced she's going to make it as a model. She only drops this attitude when Gabrielle tells her that while she may have some talent, she's also a spoiled, whiny brat and needs to dial back the attitude or people won't want to work with her. She listens and that's when she finally gets to start working legitimately.
Lucia
Lucia Perez/Marquez
Played by: Maria Conchita Alonso
Gaby's mother.
- Affably Evil: She seems very friendly and charming, but she's a monster who let Alejandro molest her daughter and shows no remorse for it.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Lucia appears for one episode and then is not mentioned again, despite Alejandro's important role in Seasons 7 and 8.
- Gold Digger: Lucia is introduced having broken up with her wealthy boyfriend, whose worth is in the high six figures.
Van de Kamp / Hodge / Weston family
Bree
- See Housewives.
Rex
Dr. Rex Van de Kamp
Played by: Steven Culp
Bree's first husband and the father of Andrew and Danielle.
- Back for the Finale: As a ghost.
- Brains and Bondage: He is a doctor, and he is secretly into BDSM. Bree tries to blame his mother for this but when we meet her she is nothing but loving and affectionate.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: He survived his first heart attack even after Bree left him there for a while...however, he has another at the end of Season 1 due to George tampering with his medication.
- Deadpan Snarker: He can keep up very well with Bree and his kids in this way.
- Doting Parent: Bree likes to think she's a nurturing mother, but it's actually Rex who was the one who met his children's emotional needs and after he dies, Andrew and Danielle's resentment towards Bree reaches boiling point.
- Guest Host: After his death, instead of Mary-Alice Young, he gets to narrate one episode, which focuses on the men of the series.
- Henpecked Husband: Has shades of this. When Mary Alice first meets the Van de Kamps, Rex appears tired and resigned to his fate. Shown in spades with his death as he believes that Bree is poisoning him, though he can see why.
- Hollywood Heart Attack: Dies from one.
- Karmic Nod: His death note to Bree he "understands" why she poisoned him. She isn't.
- Medication Tampering: George does this to his medication, leading to his death.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: He's the victim in this case, with George Williams lusting after Bree and tampering with his medicines to the point of killing him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He writes a note to his wife forgiving her for poisoning him as he genuinely believed it...but she didn't, and the police find the note.
- Only Sane Man: Despite having some secrets of his own, Rex actually genuinely tries to soften Bree and mediate between her and their kids. This often fails.
Orson
Orson Hodge
Played by: Kyle MacLachlan
Dubbed by: Patrick Poivey (European French)
The man who's at the center of Season 3's main mystery, and later Bree's second husband.
- Affably Evil: The "evil" part is subverted once it turns out that he didn't kill his wife. However, in season 8 he's clearly this.
- Butt-Monkey: His mother made him think he had led his father to suicide, he was institutionalized after falling into depression, he got his mistress killed by his mother and managed to save his wife from a similar death at the last moment. Not to mention that his first ex-wife drugged and raped him. Once things seemed to be settled, he went into prison and lost his job as a dentist, his wife cheated on him and he ended up paralyzed in a plane crash.
- Death Seeker: Briefly during season 6 in his first days as a handicapped man.
- Evil Cripple: Played with. He was evil prior to his handicapping in Season 6, then appears to - briefly - improve after his disability, but then he becomes even more evil and manipulative on return in Season 8.
- Gentleman Snarker: He's cultured, gentlemanly and very snarky. Quite a match for Bree.
- Has a Type: His two wives are both red-haired: Alma and Bree. Plus his mistress, Monique, was also a redhead. Alma even lampshades this trope when she meets Bree.Alma: So, Orson. What exactly is it with you and redheads?
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: In Season 3, he seems to be a good guy but he has dark secrets. Except he's still the good guy. By Season 5, he is an Unwanted Spouse who makes Bree miserable. Then in Season 6, he seems to recover some niceties — for a short while, before cheating on Bree and leaving her. Then he returns to blackmail her, which nearly drives her to suicide, and pretends to be her white knight.
- Henpecked Husband: During season 5.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: His secret that his mother murdered his mistress.
- Like Parent, Like Spouse: Both his wives bear a passing resemblance to his mother, as very domestic, highly-strung women. However, he genuinely loves Bree, not Alma.
- Mommy Issues: As a result of his Control Freak mother.
- Moral Myopia: He is outraged when Bree cheats on him with Karl, conveniently forgetting that he was blackmailing her into staying married to him and that he's hardly one to talk about cheating, since he had an ongoing affair with Monique when he was with his first wife, Alma.
- Mr. Fanservice: While living with Susan Orson has a bout of nude sleepwalking, which shows that, beneath the old man sweaters and polo shirts, Orson has a fairly muscular body.
- Mysterious Protector: It's him who drove the car that ran over and killed Detective Chuck Vance, who was investigating the disappearance of Ramòn Sanchez (Alejandro Perez) and had high suspicions over Bree.
- Neat Freak: He's just as obsessed as Bree in regards to cleanliness.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While he nearly drove Bree to suicide with the notes, he did help her and the other housewives out by running over Chuck Vance.
- Prison Rape: Referenced to, and (luckily) averted.
- Same Character, But Different: After Season 5. He's neurotic, extremely bitter, charmless, and abusive.
- Spear Counterpart: To Bree. Like her, he had a difficult, abusive background, was the target of unwanted affections by a psychotic love interest, and was also a Neat Freak and extremely domestic person.
- Stepford Smiler: Second only to Bree.
- Sticky Fingers: He becomes kleptomaniac mid-season 5, to piss Bree off because of her lack of attention to him.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: When he was married to Alma.
- Took a Level in Jerkass:
- In Season 5, where he is extremely jealous of Bree's career and success following his prison sentence.
- He then takes another level in Jerkass in Season 8, where he blackmailed Bree and drove her to the point of suicide.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never know what happened to him after he mailed the evidence against Bree to the police. Might well be Karma Houdini.
- Unwanted Spouse: Although initially a perfect husband for Bree, he becomes this towards the end.
Andrew
Andrew Van de Kamp
Played by: Shawn Pyfrom
The firstborn son of Bree and Rex Van de Kamp.
- Abusive Offspring: Andrew was already starting to turn out this way towards Bree before Rex died; he kicked her when she got in the way of the TV and constantly criticizing her. However, after Rex's death, he threatened to falsely accuse her of molestation and slept with her boyfriend because she wouldn't buy him a car and caused his grandparents to take away his trust fund. However, after she abandoned him at the end of Season 2 and he returned in Season 3, he became an inversion bordering on being an Extremely Protective Child.
- Calling The Old Lady Out: Blames the majority of his problems on his mother.
- Coming-Out Story: His first character arc is about coming out as gay, and Bree being, well, Bree, doesn't take it well at all. Then she mellows down to it and eventually accepts it.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's more than a match for Bree in this way.
- Gayngst: Subverted. Though his sexuality caused drama within his family due to Bree's homophobia, Andrew himself was not shown to experience any self-loathing or doubt regarding his identity.
- Jerkass: With varying levels. In the first season he seemed to be just a teenager with attitude problems, until he ran over Carlos' mother while drunk-driving, and his only reaction was "She's already lived enough, I'm young and might go to jail for this, and that'll ruin my life". It went downhill from there until Season 3, where, after spending some time living in the streets, he mellowed down quite a bit and became a much better person.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Bree refuses him to let him go live with his grandparents (thereby gaining access to his trust fund), Andrew points out they are both miserable living together and it would be much easier if she just let him leave, but she's too proud to admit any kind of failure. Bree holds steady in her refusal and even goes as far as to plant gay porn among his belongings for his grandparents to find, which causes them to refuse to take Andrew in and revoke his trust fund. Andrew later retaliates for this by sleeping with Bree's boyfriend, which proves to be the breaking point in their relationship.
- Manipulative Bastard: He learned it from Bree and even as a teenager he's good enough at this trope for her to seriously struggle handling him.
- Mr. Fanservice: Spends a fair amount of time in speedos in the first couple of seasons, and then turns into the most handsome and well-groomed businessman ever.
- No Bisexuals: Andrew, who had been openly gay for many years, returned to Bree's house having gotten engaged to a young woman. Bree is flabbergasted and quickly suspects (correctly) he is marrying the woman for her money. Again at no point is the idea that Andrew might be bi even raised as a possibility — Andrew himself even tries to insist his homosexuality was "a phase".
- Rape Portrayed as Redemption: After being a total Enfant Terrible in Seasons 1-2, he is forced into underage prostitution after Bree abandons him following one threat too many. He then becomes a much nicer character, and even agrees that Bree was right to do it.
- Straight Gay: In comparison to more Camp Gay characters like Lee and Vern. He isn't very 'stereotypical' and likely doesn't set many gaydars off.
- Took a Level in Kindness: By Season 3 onwards, he's much nicer to Bree after previously being an Enfant Terrible.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: During season 6, when it seemed Bree was replacing Andrew with the son she always wanted.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: He got along better with his selfish and vapid sister before he Took a Level in Kindness.Danielle: I liked you better when you were a psychopath!
- What Happened to the Mouse?: During season 8, he comes back to his mother's house... and then, nothing. He completely disappears from the radar, and isn't even present during the season finale. Please note that he should be living with his mother at this point, in her house, while she's put on trial. But he doesn't show up at all, not even for the trial. It seems that the screenwriters completely forgot his existence.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After Bree slaps him for mocking her drinking habits, he pays his friend Justin to beat him up and claims a drunken Bree attacked him. It's so good that even Lynette has doubts about Bree.
Danielle
Danielle Van de Kamp
Played by: Joy Lauren
The daughter of Bree and Rex Van de Kamp.
- Bourgeois Bohemian: She is this trope in full swing during Season 5, where she has married a doctor and gained some views that Bree finds extremely grating.
- Brainless Beauty: She's attractive, but far from being the sharpest knife in the drawer. This is source of endless snark from her mother.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: And how. She doesn't even really grow out of it.
- Butt-Monkey: Bree and Andrew constantly snark at her or ignore her and mock her for being shallow and dim. Rex is the only member of the immediate family who was ever nice to her.
- Commuting on a Bus: Danielle apparently doesn't live too far from Bree and Orson but she never visits for that long - which may be justified in that she took her baby back.
- Easily Forgiven: Any feelings of betrayal Julie feels towards Danielle for having sex with Austin aren't really explored. A season later, Julie is emailing, calling, and asking after her absent friend as if nothing had happened.
- Embarrassing Nickname: She is known as Little Miss Van de Tramp. Apparently, she made it up herself, but only because it was nicer than the other things her schoolmates were calling her.
- The Ghost: Joy Lauren didn't appear in season 6, but it is still told that Danielle participated in the dinner Bree organized for Sam, the bastard son of Rex. And she made him some confessions that he uses to blackmail Bree.
- Hot for Teacher: For two episodes in season three, done out of spite more than anything else.
- Jerkass: Blackmailed Julie's boyfriend into continuing to sleep with her.
- And if she hadn't, she wouldn't have gotten pregnant (assuming she wasn't already pregnant at the time, that is).
- Jerkass Has a Point: She may be a Spoiled Brat but she brings up the very good point that Bree was a very cold mother and an equally cold wife to Rex and she doesn't see why she would want her son raised by the woman who constantly emotionally abuses and undermines her.
- Odd Friendship: With the smart, sensible Julie.
- Out of Focus: In the first seasons it's easy to forget Bree has a daughter and she's pushed into the background during much of the Bree vs. Andrew conflict. It's only after seeing Matthew and after Bree abandons Andrew that Danielle gets her own storylines.
- Popular Is Dumb
- Put on a Bus: And she takes her son away on one, too.
- Spoiled Brat"I don't care as long as I have my own bathroom..."
- Teen Pregnancy: Seasons three and four.
Phyllis
Phyllis Van de Kamp
Played by: Shirley Knight
The mother of Rex Van de Kamp.
- Faux Affably Evil: She smiles quite a lot and exhibits a nice façade to the rest of Wisteria Lane, and she never stops being obnoxious to Bree.
- My Beloved Smother: She's always been overprotective of Rex, as much as she's always hated Bree.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: She's a pretty awful mother-in-law to Bree, to put it plainly.
Trip Weston
Trip Weston
Played by: Scott Bakula
A successful lawyer who defends Bree when she is accused of having killed Ramón Sanchez (Alejandro Perez). He ends up marrying her.
- The Ace: Said to be ridiculously good at winning the cases he defends.
- Happily Ever After: He is Bree's final husband, and by the look of it, both are happily married in Mary Alice's final narration.
- Last Episode, New Character: He is the very last important character and Love Interest of a housewife to be introduced in the series, in episode #19 of season 8 (out of 23).
- Plausible Deniability: The clothes worn by Alejandro when he was buried have Bree's fingerprints on them? Trip advises her to say it's just clothes she donated.
Young family
Mary Alice
- See Housewives.
Paul
Paul Young
Played by: Mark Moses
Mary Alice's widowed husband.
- Arch-Enemy: Felicia's.
- The Atoner: His final fate.
- Blackmail: He blackmails Susan into selling him her house in season 7, knowing that she works on a porn cam site.
- The Bus Came Back: He came back to Wisteria Lane just as season 6 was closing.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His life took a pretty ugly turn when his wife killed the mother of Zach.
- Faux Affably Evil: None of the Wisteria Lane neighbors who knew him before the time he spent in prison is duped by his Nice Guy demeanor upon his return.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: In late season 7. He's genuinely trying to be a better person, and Susan believes he has it in him, but circumstances conspire to relapse his curmudgeonly behavior.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Zigzagged in an interesting way. He spares Felicia at Susan's urging, as his final friend on the lane has begun to see a nobler side to Paul and is certain he's not the killer Felicia has made him out to be. He actually is, but in that moment he relents and decides to face the music for his earlier murder.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: He had to cover his wife and her Dark Secret for years, and it all went downhill from there.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- While he's certainly delighted by the outcome, he's right when he points out to Lynette that the riot during the Mayor's speech was caused by her people.
- It's also repeatedly pointed out that, while he wasn't right to kill her, Martha Huber was an asshole.
- Kick the Dog: He can be pretty nasty to Zach when he's trying to keep him under his thumb, like pointing out that Julie is "out of your league" and nastily reminding Zach his own birth mother sold him when Zach expresses curiosity about his biological parents.
- Love Makes You Evil: He helps to cover up Deidre's murder despite being genuinely horrified and more clearly, kills Martha Huber after learning that she blackmailed his wife to suicide.
- Mr. Fanservice: Gets several shirtless scenes in Season 7.
- Papa Wolf: He did quite horrible things to protect his family.
- Revenge: The reason behind his return to Wisteria Lane in season 7. That revenge consists in disturbing the street's tranquility and making real estate prices drop like stones by turning his house into a center for reintegration of former convicts. He buys as much houses of the street as possible so he will have the right to build the center, and the neighbors soon turn against each other as a result of his offer.
Zach
Zach Young (born Dana Taylor)
Played by: Cody Kasch
The biological son of Deirdre Taylor and Mike Delfino. Deirdre had Angela Forrest (Mary-Alice Young) raise him when she was unable to do so due to drug rehab. When she came back to reclaim him, Mary-Alice killed Deirdre, and Dana (Zach) remained with Mary-Alice and Paul.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Frequently comes to blows with his father, Paul.
- The Dog Bites Back: After taking plenty of lies and verbal abuse from Paul, when Zach is left everything by his maternal grandfather and more than wealthy enough to pay Paul's bail, he chooses to let Paul rot in there instead.
- Gag Penis: According to Carlos, he's very well endowed.
- Gender-Blender Name: His real name, Dana, is usually used on girls, leading people to assume Mary Alice had a daughter she never told anyone about.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Paul and Mary-Alice are affluent, but he swings fully into this after inheriting his grandfather's money.
- Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: He's very unstable, possibly as a result of Deirdre's drug abuse, and he lashes out extremely violently.
- Mysterious Past: As a result of being Mary-Alice and Paul's adopted son.
- Put on a Bus: At the end of Season Three.
- Self-Made Orphan: A variant. He tries to kill Paul several times, and leaves him to rot in prison after leaving his grandfather to die.
- Stalker with a Crush: He stalks Julie Mayer and, on a lesser note, Gabrielle Solis.
Beth
- See Housewives.
Applewhite family
Betty
- See Housewives.
Matthew
Matthew Applewhite
Played by: Mehcad Brooks
The son of Betty Applewhite and brother of Caleb. He dated Melanie Foster before her death.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Betty and Danielle are both devastated by his death.
- Big Brother Instinct: The reason he murdered Melanie Foster was because she threatened to send his brother to prison.
- Karmic Death: After the murder he committed and all the trouble he caused afterwards, even almost getting his innocent brother euthanized by their mother, he gets shot by a police sniper just as he was threatening Bree.
- The Unfavorite: He's always felt that his mother loved his brother Caleb more than him, which is something she doesn't even try to deny. When Betty believed that Caleb was the one who killed Melanie Foster, she did everything in her power to keep him safe, but as soon as she discovers that Matthew is the true killer, she promptly reports him to the police.
- Villain Has a Point: When Betty calls him out on having framed his brother Caleb for the murder he committed, Matthew retorts that he only did it because he knew she would protect Caleb but not him. Considering she calls the police on him immediately afterwards, it kinda proves his point.
- Would Hit a Girl: He killed Melanie Foster by beating her to death, and he later threatens to shoot Bree.
Caleb
Caleb Applewhite
Played by: NaShawn Kearse
The other son of Betty Applewhite and brother of Matthew. He is simple-minded and his mother keeps him locked up.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: Outside of the brawl with Melanie Foster where he hit her back, he is not violent by nature.
- Mad Woman In The Attic: Betty kept him locked in the basement and then the attic upon believing he killed Melanie Foster.
Mayfair family
Katherine
- See Housewives.
Dylan
Dylan Mayfair
Played by: Lyndsy Fonseca
Dubbed by: Adeline Chetail
The daughter of Katherine.
- The Bus Came Back: She pretty much disappears from the show after the end of Season 4, but she comes back for one episode during Season 6.
- Identical Stranger: When she was a kid, she looked exactly like the real Dylan, which is why Katherine adopted her as her replacement.
- Replacement Goldfish: After the death of her daughter, Katherine adopted her to take her place.
- Revealing Injury: Inverted. The original Dylan had a scar on her arm due to a childhood bike injury. Wayne Davis realizes the adult Dylan is not his actual daughter when he notices the absence of scar on her arm.
Adam
Adam Mayfair
Played by: Nathan Fillion
- Good Parents: He was a much better parent to Dylan than Katherine ever was, only lying to her reluctantly at Katherine's behest and providing her with a lot more comfort and affection than her uptight, controlling mother.
- Moral Myopia: It's treated as if he was forced to cheat on Katherine with his patient.
- Nice Guy
- Put on a Bus: At the end of season 4.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When confronted with his wife Katherine.
Bolen / de Luca family
Angie
- See Housewives.
Nick
Dominic "Nick" Bolen
Played by: Jeffrey Nordling
The husband of Angie.
- Characterisation Marches On: We don't see much of his affair with Julie, but it's said he's willing to end his marriage to be with her. This doesn't really jive with what we see of him later in the season, which plays up his intense devotion to Angie and Danny.
- May–December Romance: He is twice the age of Julie Mayer.
- Put on a Bus: Literally, at the end of season 6.
- Red Herring: For a while, it seems like he's the strangler of Fairview, but it turns out he is not.
Danny
Daniel "Danny" Bolen (born Tyler de Luca)
Played by: Beau Mirchoff
The son of Angie Bolen. Revealed to be the son she's had with Patrick Logan.
- Dumbass Teenage Son: More like "very naive" teenage son.
- Gender Flip: Of Dylan Mayfair from the previous season, a troubled teenager kept in the dark about their mother's Dark and Troubled Past and a father who is the Big Bad of the season.
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased: He is very put off by Ana at first and only becomes interested in her when she drops her flirty act and demands to know why he doesn't like her.
- Put on a Bus: Literally, at the end of season 6.
Orlofsky family
Barbara
- See Housewives.
Eddie
Edward "Eddie" Orlofsky
Played by: Josh Zuckerman
A young mechanic with a troubled childhood and an alcoholic mother.
- Affably Evil: He's a Serial Killer of young women, but he comes across a genuinely "nice" person aside from that.
- Arc Villain: He is the mysterious strangler of Fairview girls in season 6.
- Ax-Crazy: He's profoundly deranged and strangles women when they mock or reject him.
- Berserk Button: Don't laugh at him. Also, don't be mean to Lynette in front of him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He can be nice and snap the next second for something as insignificant as a disparaging remark to a woman he considers as his Parental Substitute.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: He tries stand-up comedy at the beginning of season 6. Unsuccessfully.
- Delivery Guy: Bonus points for the "Fairview Strangler" having to save Lynette's baby from being strangled by her umbilical cord!
- Freudian Excuse: His mother's abuse (from lack of love to having sex with a man and not caring that he would show up and see it) shaped his twisted psyche.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: The lack of love from his mother contributed to make him the monster that he is. So much so that Lynette's kindness briefly makes her a Parental Substitute for him.
- Insane Equals Violent: He is not sane, and strangles girls.
- Matricide: He ends up killing his own mother. She deserved it.
- Mommy Issues: Oh, where to begin...
- No Social Skills: Behind his seemingly affable demeanor, he has no clue about many social conventions, such as genuinely believing he could marry Susan after befriending her over a common interest in drawing or offering flowers to a prostitute.
- Not Good with Rejection: Not even remotely. He strangled Julie because he mistook her for Susan, who "rejected" him in his mind by remarrying Mike. He also strangled Irina when she told him she was far too good for a "little greasy boy" like him.
- Prone to Tears: Given how crappy his life is, Eddie is very emotional and prone to crying, especially when his mother savagely mocks him for being interested in Danielle Van De Kamp or his mother calling him a monster.
- Remember the New Guy?: He grew up in Wisteria Lane, but only appeared onscreen in Season 6.
- Self-Made Orphan: His mother is the only parent in his life, and he strangles her at the end of his Day in the Limelight.
- Serial Killer: The strangler of Fairview is revealed to be him.
- Start of Darkness: The entire "Epiphany" episode is about his miserable childhood, when his mother abused him and neglected him, which contributed a great deal in making him the monster he is.
- Sympathetic Murderer: He's had a truly miserable childhood, and considering that two of his four victims (his mother and Irina) were complete assholes. He also helps Lynette giving birth to her baby even after she's figured out the truth about his nature.
- Tragic Villain: Let's just say his backstory is one big Tearjerker.
- Visible Victimology: Played with. At first, Eddie the Fairview Strangler seems to kill dark-haired women (both Julie, his attempted victim, and Emily Portsmith fit this description). However, it turns out that he merely prefers dark haired women that look like his extremely neglectful mother. After he kills the blonde Irina, it's revealed that he lashes out violently at women that reject him and, specifically, laugh at him. He wasn't even trying to kill Julie; he thought she was Susan (who laughed off his proposal gently, not realizing he was serious, and didn't intend to reject him). However, Susan, Julie, Emily, and Eddie's mother Barbara do all have dark hair.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's had a miserable childhood, and became a Serial Killer.
- Would Hit a Girl: He's a Serial Killer who strangles women to death.
Sanchez family
Hector
Hector Sanchez
Played by: Rolando Molina
The biological father of Juanita Solis, the husband of Carmen Sanchez and the legal father of Grace Sanchez.
- The Illegal: He is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. And he gets arrested thanks to an ill-advised driving maneuver by Gabrielle, then gets deported to Mexico by the I.C.E.
- Penny Among Diamonds: All of the Sanchezes are reluctantly this to the Solises.
Carmen
Carmen Sanchez
Played by: Carla Jimenez
The biological mother of Juanita Solis, the wife of Hector Sanchez and the legal mother of Grace Sanchez.
- The Illegal: Like her husband, she is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: She apparently shares most of her character traits with Juanita.
- Penny Among Diamonds: She is reluctantly this amongst the Solises.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to Gabrielle Solis as Gabrielle offers to keep Grace at her home while Carmen would flee as the I.C.E. is looking for her. Carmen refuses, citing the fact that Juanita is a Spoiled Brat and that Grace would avoid becoming this when living a harsh life with illegal immigrant parents.
Grace
Grace Sanchez
Played by: Cecilia Balagot
The biological daughter of Carlos and Gabrielle Solis and the legal daughter of Hector and Carmen Sanchez.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter:
- The first time Carlos and Gabrielle meet her, she behaves like a Spoiled Brat. Which is very much a character trait of Gabrielle, her biological mother.
- Likewise, Gaby is proud to tell the other housewives that Grace found out her handbag was expensive just by touching it, implying she could grow to be as materialistic as she is.
- Switched at Birth: Grace and Juanita Solis were switched at birth by nurse Teresa Pruitt.
