History Characters / FireflyOther

* DyingRace: The pilot reveals they fly without any reactor containment, meaning they're likely all suffering some degree of radiation poisoning. They also don't seem to breed and are unable to build any kind of culture, so the only method of creating new Reavers is to drive people insane. Ignoring these "new" Reavers, they realistically cannot last more than a generation.

* KarmaHoudini: He slips away at the end of “War Stories” and doesn’t face any punishment.

* SharpDressedMan: It’s even reflected in how he’s credited.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He gets pretty slut-shamey with Banning, but since she's a rich snob and bully, it's hard to muster up much sympathy for her.

An old ally of Mal's, who apparently shot him once. Owns a moon by the time the series starts.

* EvilOldFolks: Elderly, affable and ruthless.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Referenced. Mal arrives expecting to deal with a man named Kessler. The Well-Dressed Man says Kessler worked for him, while he stayed in the shadows, but that he has to handle that himself because Higgins had Kessler killed.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He’s only in two brief scenes, but his smuggling contract brings the crew to the moon in the first place. Could also count as an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom.

!!!Heart of Gold Planet

[[folder:Nandi]]
!!Nandi
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MelindaClarke

A former Companion who knew Inara on Sihnon before they both left the planet. Nandi gave up her life as a Companion--having concluded that it was too restrictive--to become a brothel madam, overseeing common prostitutes on one of the outer planets. When Petaline, one of her girls, becomes pregnant with the son of a local landowner, the richest, most powerful man on the small planet, she calls Inara to see if the crew of ''Serenity'' can help against the baby's father, Rance Burgess.

* TheDreaded: Burgess might be something of a rich dandy, but his single-minded ruthlessness make him such a dangerous enemy that even the not-easily-intimidated Mal recognizes him as a threat. After meeting him once, his first course of plan is to get the hell away as soon as possible.

[[folder:Stitch]]
!!Stitch Hessian
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KevinGage

An old crime buddy of Jayne's.

* AlasPoorVillain: Knowing how utterly screwed over he was by Jayne, and the resulting torture, one can't help but feel slightly sorry for him.
* AntiVillain: Stitch is a vengeful, vicious crook, but given that he never really commits any major villainy onscreen, it's hard not to side with him when he (rightfully!) seeks revenge on Jayne for betraying him and leaving him to be captured and tortured by Magistrate Higgins for years.
* BeardOfBarbarism: He's grown one after years of isolation and torture.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Jayne has to beat him to death in self-defense.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's ''outraged'' that Jayne shoved him overboard, and is even more insulted when Jayne says Stitch would've done the same to him.
--> '''Stitch:''' We dumped the fuel reserves, dumped the life support, hell we even dumped the seats! There's Jayne, the money, and me... there was no way he gonna drop that money.
--> '''Mudder:''' He did. He dropped it on the mudders.
--> '''Stich:''' By accident you inbred dunghead! He tossed me out first! For six months we run together, and he turned me out before I could scream!
--> '''Jayne:''' You'd have done the same.
--> '''Stitch:''' No. ''Never.'' You protect the man you're with. You watch his back. Everybody knows that!
* EyeScream: One of his eyes was torn out, probably in the near-fatal fall from the hovercraft he and Jayne used for the robbery.
* HandCannon: He wields a shotgun with one hand.
* HonorAmongThieves: He may be a crook, but he's a firm believer in protecting the people you work with and ''never'' betraying them.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After he learns that Simon is associated with Jayne, he starts giving out one of these to Simon, in order to force Simon to help him find Jayne. It would have gone on much longer, and been much nastier, if Stitch hadn't heard the mudder chanting for Jayne and realized that Jayne was just outside.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against Jayne.
* SealedEvilInACan: He was a pretty vicious crook ''before'' being hunched up in an overheated chicken coop for a few years. By the time he gets out, he's gone a little AxCrazy.
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[[folder:Early]]
!!Jubal Early
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Does that seem right to you?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RichardBrooks

->'''Simon:''' You're out of your mind.\\
'''Early:''' That's between me and my mind.

Shows up in the final episode, "Objects In Space." When we first meet him, he proves to be more than a match for Mal and company, but it isn't long before [[PsychoForHire his true colors become apparent]].
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: InUniverse. The speed in which Saffron's demeanor goes from meek to manic depending on who has got the upper hand, leads some characters to suggest she honestly might be mentally ill.

* HollywoodDateless: Fess is a pretty handsome 26-year-old virgin that still can't get any women. Of course, the only people around are mudders, who are all but slaves of his father, so either he doesn't want to take advantage of them or they're afraid of facing the magistrate's brutal punishments -- such as having their hands and feet amputated and thrown into the bog -- if they displease (in reality or just assumed) his son.

* BadassBaritone: Has a deep, almost charming voice, and is tough enough to beat Mal in a one-on-one fight, get the drop on Book, disable Inara and Kaylee, shoot Simon, and have River warn Zoe and Wash (the former of whom is as tough as Mal, if not more) to not confront him. The only one we don't see interacting with him is [[AndZoidberg Jayne]]. If he were mentally stable and River weren't psychic, he would have succeeded.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Shows signs of schizophrenia: some of his stranger points of conversation could be interpreted as talking back to voices that only he can hear.
--> '''Early:''' I don't ''think'' of myself as a lion. You might as well, though; I have a mighty roar.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The speed in which her demeanor goes from meek to manic depending on who has got the upper hand, leads some characters to suggest she honestly might be mentally ill.

* ItCanThink: Sure, they're insanely and indiscriminately violent, but that doesn't make them ''stupid''. What little is seen of their methods hints at excellent hunting skills -- which typically rely on stealth, patience, and subtlety. When they aren't relying on traps or surprise, they use high-tech (and non-lethal) methods for disabling and capturing fleeing ships. And in the end, they can always fall back to strength in numbers.

A robot clone of Wash that was meant to trap Zoe but its programming with wash’s memories and personality causes it to protect her instead.

* BrokenAce: Saffron is strikingly beautiful, deviously clever, and well-versed in a variety of disciplines, including martial arts, gunplay, ship tech, and Companion training. She's also a twisted, manipulative, and possibly genuinely mentally-ill woman with no real emotional connections due to her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. In "Trash", Mal even admits that she's beautiful and brilliant while calling her an evil double-crossing snake in the same breath.

* WeaponOfChoice: A variant, with them being pretty much the only faction in TheVerse that prioritizes melee and close-quarters combat ([[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale well, in terms of space battles, at least]]) over ranged weaponry and strategy. By extension, their ships almost ''only'' use harpoons instead of the rockets and torpedoes used by the Alliance, Independents, and various criminal organizations.

* InsaneEqualsViolent:[[spoiler:Inverted: they're insane ''because'' their aggressor instincts were heightened to a truly ridiculous level.]]

* TheUsualAdversaries: Reaver attacks are rare, but the crew (and, in fact, everybody in the outer worlds) always keeps an eye open for them.

* TheSavageIndian: A ''very'' dark SpaceWestern interpretation of this trope, with them being in part meant to represent how Western settlers stereotyped Native Americans during the expansion west. The show gets away from the UnfortunateImplications involved, though, both by giving the Reavers more of a ''Film/{{Mad Max}}''-style aesthetic than anything else and them being [[spoiler:the result of the Alliance's experimentation rather than "inherent savagery" or anything like that]].

* NiceHat: Subverted; he ''thinks'' his black bowler is one of these, but it's a shabby, dirty thing which makes him look even more like TheNapoleon.