History Characters / FireflyAlliance

-> '''Played by:''' Andy Umberger

-> '''Played by:''' Kevin Will

-> '''Played By:''' Blake Robbins

->'''Played By:''' Michael Hitchcock

* VillainRespect: He is openly respectful of his targets' potential. This, unfortunately, only drives him to greater ruthlessness.

* ByTheBookCop: He grills all the members of the crew according to procedure: their reactions range from Wash's cheerful (but irrelevant) blather to Jayne's contemptous and silent glare.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [=McGinnis=] tries to avert this by not interrogating his high-profile prisoners until the MenInBlack come to pick them up, but just talking to them at all is enough to get him and his men killed for being liabilities.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The first people we see them kill are [[spoiler:the same Alliance crew members that were going to turn River and Simon back to the Academy -- the ones who double-crossed Jayne (though Jayne probably had it coming)]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Paralyzing a government scientist and then leaving him helpless to stop himself from being impaled would normally be a KickTheDog. But Dr. Matthias is a specialist in mutilating brains and [[MindRape implanting subliminal programming]] in innocent youngsters. Let's just say nobody was going to miss him.

* {{Hypocrite}}: An elected body of government that thought the outer worlds should be part of their Union.... whether they wanted to or not.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: They began as an effort to squash conflicts over trade and resources on the Core Worlds by forming a union in order to regulate such matters. Then they began to think that ''everyone'' should be part of this union, then they began to think of ways to "improve" life by controlling it....

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[WordOfGod Whedon]] says they aren't evil or malevolent, just "meddlesome". An example of a bureaucracy so vast that horrendous evils are being done through sheer lack of oversight.

* {{Determinator}}: Practically to a Mal Reynolds degree.
** VillainousValour: It makes him borderline unstoppable in a straight-up fight.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In the post-film comics, he joins with the crew of ''Serenity'' at Mal's request in order to help them rescue Zoe and deal a blow against the Alliance.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Even after everything he himself has done, once he sees [[TheReveal the truth of what happened to Miranda,]] he’s ''horrified.'']]

* KnightTemplar[=/=]WellIntentionedExtremist: He really does believe he's helping to create a better world, even if, in Creator/JossWhedon's words, it "does involve a ''certain'' amount of genocide."

* NoNameGiven: Although in earlier drafts he was given the name "Jude".

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffRicketts & Dennis Cockrum

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Hands of Blue subject him to an agonizingly painful death that provides the ImageSource for BloodFromEveryOrifice.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffRicketts & Creator/DennisCockrum

--> '''Played by:''' Andy Umberger

--> '''Played by:''' Kevin Will

[[folder:McGinnis]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/BlakeRobbins

->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelHitchcock

* BigBad: They're the governing body of the Alliance, and are responsible for the 'Academy' that River was sent to, the Blue Gloves, Jubal Early's contract, the Operative and - indirectly - even [[spoiler:the Reavers.]]

* EvilIsPetty: EU materials state that the former Independent Planets are in such bad shape becuase the government refuses to give them the necessary resources to rebuild from the war out of spite because they were "rebels". Likewise the former Browncoats (and their supporters) [[InsaneTrollLogic are not allowed to vote in elections since they are not "full citizens" because they fought on the wrong side and so "logically" they can't be trusted to vote for the right candidate]] (although it's only supposed to be a 10 year ban, there is no oversight to prevent them from extending it).

* AmbiguousEnding:[[spoiler: In post-Serenity comics, he's last seen holding a gun and staring down Zoe, who has politely informed him that she blames him for Wash's death. Zoe's seen afterwards, but he is not.]]

* CombatPragmatist: Despite his veneer of 'honor' there is nothing - ''nothing'' - this man won't do to win.

* KilledOffscreen:[[spoiler: His implied fate, at the hands of Zoe, in post-Serenity comics]].

* WouldHurtAChild: One of the people on Haven is a little kid Kaylee plays with. The kid was killed in the Operative's attack. Many more such dead children are implied, and the Operative - with regret - makes it clear that this is not a first for him.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The first people we see them kill are [[spoiler:the same Alliance crew members that were going to turn River and Simon back to the Academy - the ones who double-crossed Jayne (though Jayne probably had it coming)]].
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Killed in a comic that was set between the film and the movie: they were trying to board Serenity from another craft, and caught the full force of her thrusters.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They don't appear in the movie. Spin-off material eventually explains that they were killed in deep space while trying to board ''Serenity,'' thus forcing the Alliance to call in a new agent - the Operative.

* PunchClockVillain: He's pretty much just a regular policeman doing his job - frustrated by a lack of information from the higher-ups and trying to do what's right.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He just wants to figure out what happened, and has no evident corrupt or fascistic traits. Most of the evidence available to him suggests the ''Serenity'' crew murdered the colonists in order to rob them, and that some or all of them are sadists. He dismisses their claim of "Reavers" because (as Simon demonstrated in the pilot) people much higher up in the Alliance have kept everyone ignorant of the Reavers' creation - and it seems other criminals caught red-handed have used such excuses before.
** In the boardgame, he's even a source of missions, and sells you fuel and helps you get around customs if you're on good terms with him. His missions tend to be BoringButPractical - transporting settlers or running supplies isn't as flashy or valuable as pulling the big mine job, but you don't have to rely on the tender mercies of the Misbehave deck.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Harken won't be winning any personality contests anytime soon, but he's far from a bad person even if he is on the opposing side to Serenity's crew.

A corrupt Alliance federal agent who pursued Tracey and the crew of Serenity. Although he claimed to be chasing Tracey because he was a criminal, which was true, he actually wanted to catch him because he was smuggling Womack's goods. He was ''supposed'' to be a recurring villain, but due to ''Firefly'''s cancellation, he became a one-off villain.

* JurisdictionFriction: PlayedWith. Book does some research on Womack, and learns that he has wandered ''far'' from his own legitimate area of authority in pursuit of Tracey. He points out that if Serenity's crew shot him and left his corpse where it landed, nobody would care.

* SpitefulSpit: When forced to leave Serenity, he spits in the cargo bay in frustration.

--->'''Dr. Matthias:''' ''[Recording]'' Key members of Parliament have personally observed this subject. I was told that the Alliance's support—

* ApocalypticLog: She leaves one behind, which is found by the Serenity crew.

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