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Fleabag
Fleabag
Fleabag
Portrayed By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist.
The protagonist, a lonely woman who runs an unsuccessful cafe in London.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Although both of them are adult women, Fleabag delights in being an immature Gadfly to the uptight Claire.
- Anti-Heroine: In the Classical Anti-Hero mould; she caused her best friend's suicide with her sleeping around, she pushes everyone away from her, she breaks Harry's heart, but she's also seriously wounded by the death of her mother and her father's remarriage, which drives most of her less moral actions. And the audience are always very close to her.
- Aside Comment: One of her main modes of communication with the audience.
- Aside Glance: Her other main mode of communication.
- But Not Too Bi: She impulsively kisses Belinda in Series 2, who she has known for all of two minutes, and is very evasive when Belinda asks her if she's ever been interested in women before. The answer seems to be yes, but we never see her with anyone except men.Belinda: Are you a lesbian?
Fleabag: [With a smirk] Not strictly. - Chew Toy: Justified. Fleabag can't make good decisions.
- Deadpan Snarker: Her favourite brand of humour.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The "foolish" to Claire's "responsible." Though they swap places a bit in the second series.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: Not only does she constantly break the fourth wall, but the reason she does turns out to be an important plot point. Ultimately the character serves as a Deconstruction of this trope as we realise that we the audience are her Living Emotional Crutch.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Big time in Series 1, but she's trying to cut down by Series 2.
- Has a Type: Harry aside. Fleabag mainly goes for aloof alpha-males.
- Hot for Preacher: In Series 2, she falls hard for the Priest, even though his occupation is obviously a hurdle.
- The Lad-ette: Hard-drinking, hyper-sexual, foul-mouthed, perverted, and tortures Claire with her farts and letting her walk into a loo she'd just shat in.
- Little Sister Instinct: Same goes to Claire for her. No matter how much tension there is between them, they'll always help each other out.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Played with. Fleabag is a sex maniac, and she's an endearing character who the audience is encouraged to like. But even though we like Fleabag, the show doesn't pretend that her behavior is healthy. Her inability to reign herself in sexually destroyed her most significant relationship with her dead best friend Boo, and secondarily with her boyfriend Harry. So then Fleabag is alone, and she sleeps around more because she is alone and wants to connect with people, but hookup culture will never provide her with meaningful connections. Spelled out painfully in the Season 1 finale when she has a breakdown and tearfully vents to the Bank Manager.Fleabag: Sometimes I wish I didn't even know that fucking existed. And I know that my body as it is now really is the only thing I have left, and when that gets old and unfuckable, I may as well just kill it. And somehow, there isn't anything worse than someone who doesn't want to fuck me. I fuck everything. [...] Either everyone feels like this a little bit, and they're just not talking about it, or I am completely fucking alone. Which isn't fucking funny.
- No Name Given: No one ever refers to her by her first name, or in fact by any name at all.
- Sad Clown: In a meta twist, her audience is...us. She's constantly trying to make us laugh, even when it destroys her relationships with others.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: She has dark brown hair, is very tall, and Really Gets Around (her physical appearance is why one of her lovers calls her a "sexy board"). Not an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl to the audience, though, with whom she shares even her worst moments.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Very much so, with bordering on Boyish Short Hair.
- This Loser Is You: Both emotionally repressed and stunted, grief-stricken, uses Sex for Solace, runs an unsuccessful company, and communicates directly with us to cope.
- Womanchild: Although she's starting to get her act together by Series 2, she was this purely in Series 1, with mountains of debt, immature relationships, and being unable to confront her feelings.
Fleabag's Family
Dad
Dad
Portrayed By: Bill Paterson
Fleabag's grieving but well-meaning dad.
- Age-Gap Romance: When he and Godmother met, she was his wife's student; now, they're getting married. It isn't said what their in-universe age difference is, but Bill Paterson is 29 years older than Olivia Colman.
- Bumbling Dad: Lets Godmother chip away at his relationship with Fleabag and doesn't know how to help her.
- Emotionally Tongue-Tied: He's very bad at talking to his daughters and connecting with them on an emotional level, often stammering around his words or stopping short of saying something meaningful: it's implied that this is the result of his grief over losing his wife.
- Has a Type: His first and second wives are both women of an artistic bent.
- Henpecked Husband: They aren't married yet, but it's a Running Gag that Dad never finishes a sentence with Godmother around.
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Jerkass Woobie: Often rude to Fleabag, but it's clear it comes from a place of deep grief over her mother. - No Accounting for Taste: Lampshaded; in the flashback episode to the funeral, he doesn't even like Godmother. No one else likes her, but it's not known how, when, or if this changed for him.
- Unnamed Parent: Even Godmother. i.e. his soon-to-be-wife. doesn't use — or, apparently, know — his name.Godmother: I just, I always call you "darling".
- Useless Bystander Parent: Again, he's clearly grieving, but he has a hard time sticking up for his girls whenever Godmother starts picking on them.
Godmother
Godmother
Portrayed By: Olivia Colman
It's about power.
Fleabag's godmother, and their father's girlfriend.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Fleabag's Dad goes missing before the wedding, she begs Fleabag and Claire to help her find him.
- Attention Whore: She finds a way to make everything about herself; even, of all days, at Fleabag and Claire's mother's memorial lunch, which she happily dominates.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Although she's too much of a bitch to fool Fleabag (or Claire), she often pretends to be a sheep in public, but her true nature always comes through.
- Control Freak: She needs virtually everything to be under her control, and has found an unhappy, spineless pawn in Fleabag's Dad, who she treats more like a servant than a spouse.
- Drama Queen: Overlapping with her narcissistic, attention-seeking behaviour.
- Driven by Envy: Implied with Fleabag: she doesn't like having a reminder of Fleabag's mother around, so her worst passive-aggressive bullying is directed at her.
- It's All About Me: She's concerned only with herself, and if she senses even the slight possibility she'll be excluded in even some minor way, she forcefully steers everything back to focus on her. For God's sake, the woman made an art exhibition celebrating her own body.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: There are moments when she shows she might have some heart or behave decently for a change, but nope, she always behaves like a bitch. The worst moments are the ones where she makes jibs about Claire and Fleabag's dead mother.
- Karma Houdini: She's cruel, cold and condescending. But ultimately ends the series with everything she wanted.
- Large Ham: Olivia Colman is having a lot of fun as the sociopathic Godmother, particularly noticeable when she screams "WHAT A CUNT!" at the Priest when he withdraws from officiating her wedding.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She says "please" not once, but twice, when she asks Fleabag and Claire to go find Dad when their wedding is about to start and he's nowhere to be found.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: She's an expert at this. Godmother smiles brightly and on paper, is rather sweet, but every word is a cloaked jab at Fleabag, and her interactions are layered with hatred and spite. She holds back her vitriol just enough to let Fleabag know just how much she despises her.
- The Prima Donna: Although she is a well-known artist and not showbiz-famous, Godmother epitomises this trope, hiding behind an Eccentric Artist facade but actually only being interested in herself.
- The Sociopath: A rare realistic example, Godmother seems to care for no one but herself (especially not Fleabag's father) and is extremely narcissistic.
- Wicked Stepmother: Fleabag says that "she's not a wicked stepmother, she's just a cunt." She's however horrible to Fleabag and Claire, always. Now that she and Dad are engaged and eventually marry, she's both. Fleabag and her sister Claire are adult women so she can't make their lives as miserable as if they were still kids living in the same house as their father, but she's difficult to deal with.
Claire
Claire
Portrayed By: Sian Clifford
Fleabag's older sister, and Martin's wife.
- Actually Pretty Funny: At the silent retreat, she actually laughs very loudly at one of Fleabag's jokes. It even surprises (and delights) Fleabag.
- Aloof Big Sister: In contrast to the irreverent Fleabag, Claire rarely cracks a smile and is often irritated.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Across Series 2 her and Fleabag slowly repair their relationship, and in the final episode she finally admits how much her sister means to her.Claire (to Fleabag): The only person I'd run through an airport for is you.
- Big Sister Instinct: A very downplayed example as she actually scapegoats Fleabag a lot throughout Series 1, but by Series 2, it becomes slightly more apparent.
- Control Freak: Her most prominent feature (at least before Beneath the Mask in Series 2). She can't even get a surprise party: she organizes her surprise party by herself and then invites the others.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Mostly only defrosts towards Fleabag when she needs her help. By Series 2 they have a much healthier relationship, with Claire stating how she considers Fleabag the most important person in her life in the finale.
- Did You Think I Can't Feel?: After the awards ceremony, Claire admits to Fleabag how she envies Fleabag's charming and humorous personality, and chides her sister for not taking Claire's feelings into account. Fleabag seems genuinely taken aback by this.
- Emotionless Girl: Claire rarely shows any major emotion.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The "responsible" to Fleabag's "foolish". Although this is getting murkier in Series 2 when Fleabag pulls herself together and Claire's ordered life begins to fall apart.
- Go-Getter Girl: A grownup version, but nonetheless, Claire is wealthy and successful in contrast to Fleabag.
- Hidden Depths: Her reaction after the awards ceremony shows how insecure and self-conscious she feels about not having any of Fleabag's natural humor and charisma.
- Important Haircut: The bizarre bob she gets for her father's wedding is initially played only as a gag, but it eventually becomes this when her love interests Klare unironically digs it. Simbolically, Claire ditches the extensions she was using to masquerade the bob when she decides to chase after Klare before he leaves.
- Informed Attribute: Fleabag mentions several times that Claire's breasts are bigger than her own, but there is no obvious difference in the series between the actresses.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Claire can be snappy, snide, and uptight, especially with Fleabag, but she loves Fleabag very much and is clearly suffering from grief over her mother, too.
- Stepford Smiler: When she's not being a Stepford Snarker, she's being one of these, especially around Dad and Godmother, who she never confronts (unlike Fleabag, who does).
- Stepford Snarker: Is very abrasive towards Fleabag, but mostly to hide her unhappiness with Martin and stepson Jake.
Martin
Martin
Portrayed By: Brett Gelman
Claire's husband.
- Adaptational Nationality: He's Scottish in the play, but is played by American Brett Gelman with accent intact in the show. This means he switches from being an implicitly Violent Glaswegian to a boorish American.
- The Alcoholic: Martin is usually either drunk or on his way there.
- Arch-Enemy: To Fleabag in Series 2 when he tries to sue her. Their personal enmity is basically a battle for Claire's soul, with Fleabag urging her to follow her own happiness while Martin wants to keep her locked to him.
- Beard of Evil: Very sleazy and unlikeable, and has a beard.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He's appalled when Fleabag thinks he's threatening Hillary, Fleabag's guinea pig, seemingly offended by the very notion.
- Hate Sink: Not only does he cheat on Claire, he's so rude, obnoxious, and aggressive to everyone that he falls under this.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Really terrible to both Fleabag and Claire, making the latter get on her knees to ask him to leave her because he assumed she had too much pride to do that.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: There are occasional moments when he appears he might be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, such as an Anguished Declaration of Love for Claire, but it seems mostly that he doesn't want her to leave him rather than actually wanting her around.
- Kick the Dog: Martin has a habit of doing this to most people, though Fleabag is his preferred target. In the Series 2 premiere, Martin mocks Fleabag for suffering a miscarriage. That's bad enough, but since Fleabag is actually covering for Claire, Martin's insult unknowingly wounds his wife.
- Pet the Dog: He's actually very sweet to Hillary the guinea pig.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's extremely misogynistic to Fleabag.
- Sleeps with Everyone but You: He makes a pass at Fleabag, which she rejects. He mocks her for her promiscuity but she enforces this trope.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He's an average-looking guy with a hideous personality. Claire is way out of his league.
Jake
Jake
Portrayed By: Angus Imrie
Claire's stepson, Martin's son.
- Antagonistic Offspring: He does not like his father. Martin claims Jake never likes to see him, and Jake even quietly urges Fleabag to get Claire to leave Martin.
- Creepy Monotone: He always speaks in a flat, emotionless tone.
- Enfant Terrible: He's a teenager so this trope shouldn't apply, but everyone's secret conviction that he is going to kill someone one day falls under this.
- Hidden Depths: He's disgusted with his father's horrible treatment of Claire and wishes that she would divorce him.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A mother-son variety. He urges Fleabag to encourage Claire to leave Martin. Sure, he might miss her but he knows she isn't happy with his father.
Friends, Lovers & Others
Boo
Boo
Portrayed By: Jenny Rainsford
Fleabag's best friend, who died before the events of Series 1.
- Accidental Suicide: Boo walked into traffic in the hopes that she'd get injured, which would convince her cheating boyfriend to stay with her. Instead, she died after being hit by a car.
- Animal Lover: Boo loved the guinea pig she got from Fleabag.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Boo is dreamy and sweet, and a huge fan of guinea pigs.
- Driven to Suicide: Zigzagged. While she does die and it does look like suicide, Fleabag calls this a cry for help and attention to bring her boyfriend back rather than a serious attempt. Unfortunately, it killed her.Fleabag: She accidentally killed herself. Wasn't her intention, but it wasn't a total accident. She didn't actually think she'd die. She just... found out that her boyfriend fucked someone else and wanted to punish him by ending up in hospital, not letting him visit her for a bit.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde curls and she is an extremely sweet, kind (albeit needy) person.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Fleabag was indirectly responsible for Boo's suicide, and it continues to haunt her even after she's come to accept her mother's death in Series 2. Exactly why she died is one of the driving questions of Series 1.
- Kick the Morality Pet: Fleabag did this to her in-universe, when she slept with Boo's adored asshole boyfriend in the backstory, and drove Boo to suicide (although she didn't know it was Fleabag).
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Fleabag. It seems to be why Fleabag never communicates with the audience in flashbacks, only after Boo's death.
- Posthumous Character: She has already committed suicide by the first episode, but still remains a significant part of the story.
- Replacement Goldfish: Although she and Fleabag were best friends (and she never really replaces her), Boo suggests that Fleabag should give the love she couldn't give to her mum to Boo.
- Yandere: While not intending to kill herself (as told by Fleabag and by Boo herself in a flashback), she did intend to seriously injure herself to regain her boyfriend's interest.
Harry
Harry
Portrayed By: Hugh Skinner
Fleabag's on-again off-again boyfriend.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Not him, but the plaster cast scuplture of him at Godmother's "Sexhibition".Harry: ...Where's my penis?Fleabag: Oh, it's on the wall over there, second from the left.
- Destructive Romance: With Fleabag. He's far too high-strung for her, she isn't as emotionally involved with him as he is with her, and much of the time this manifests in Fleabag being fairly dismissive of him and him being far too short-tempered with her.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed. He certainly thinks he's this, but he's often condescending and short-tempered with Fleabag. He also overreacts like crazy to virtually everything she does and treats her masturbation as some kind of personal offense worth throwing a hissy fit over, he's unsupportive, Wants a Prize for Basic Decency, is overly-controlling and there are a few hints of genuine misogyny that leak out. Not to mention he apparently saw as no problem being asked by Godmother to pose in her garden naked, erect and covered in plaster for several hours, taking at face value Godmother's lie that Fleabag was okay with it.
- Love Martyr: To Fleabag as she struggles with her grief. He does eventually give up, though.
- Love Will Lead You Back: Fleabag believes this of him in the later part of Series 1, but it doesn't work. Though there will always be fondness and warmth between them: in Series 2, when he has a new partner and a child and meets Fleabag at a church fundraiser, he seems genuinely pleased to see her.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: His dynamic with Fleabag. He's a lot softer and more emotional than she is.
- The One That Got Away: Series 1 makes it clear he is this to Fleabag when he finally breaks up with her and moves on.
- Understanding Boyfriend: Played straight for a lot of Series 1, but subverted when she pushes him too far.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Often throws the support he gives Fleabag in her face.
The Priest
The Priest
Portrayed By: Andrew Scott
The priest marrying Godmother and Dad, and Fleabag's new love interest across Series 2.
- The Alcoholic: It's never remarked upon, but he's at minimum tipsy in most of his scenes, and takes up every offer for a drink. At one point he refuses a drink of water because he wants "a clear head".
- Betty and Veronica: The "Betty" to most of Fleabag's other love interests, particularly Hot Misogynist, who Fleabag was about to sleep with before the priest stopped by.
- Endearingly Dorky: The Priest is quite awkward and straight-laced, but extremely sweet and charming because of it: despite finding him attractive, Fleabag only realizes she has a crush on him after he makes a rather silly pun in front of her.The Priest: I-I write restaurant reviews for the parish magazine, I was just finishing up the last one: I actually just came up with a really good title. [...] "I'd Spend 40 Days and 40 Nights In That Dessert."Fleabag: ...Oh God, I fancy a priest.
- The Fashionista: Downplayed example — he dresses normally while out on the town, but he also jokes that he’s only into priesthood for all the fancy robes he gets to wear, and he does wear several pimped-out robes through the second series.
- Irish Priest: Played by Irish actor Andrew Scott using his own accent.
- Jesus Was Way Cool: Fleabag scorns him for arguing this in his first appearance, although she comes around to seeing him pretty differently.
- Medium Awareness: He's the only other person who notices Fleabag talking to the audience.
- Nice Guy: One of the few characters that can uncontroversially be called a good person, and the only one of Fleabag's love interests. His life can be defined by love: loving his parishioners as a father, loving God, and loving Fleabag.
- No Name Given: Like Fleabag herself.
- Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Realistic example. He needs to remain chaste because of his religious calling, but his attraction to Fleabag brings that into question. In Series 2, Episode 5, they have sex. It's framed as a Love Triangle of sorts, and he ultimately chooses God, breaking it off with Fleabag to recommit himself to his calling.
- Sexy Priest: Fleabag thinks so, as to a lesser extent does Claire, and probably Godmother.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Even counting how much everyone swears.
- Uptight Loves Wild: While the Priest isn’t uptight necessarily, he’s still a fairly straight-laced man of faith, optimist, and nice person, who is falling for Fleabag, who is very flawed, sleeps around, is an atheist, and has a much more jaded and cynical viewpoint than him.
- The Vicar: Less silly than this trope usually is, but still.
- White Sheep: Apparently his brother is a paedophile and his parents are violent alcoholics. Although he is a Functional Addict (or so the amount of booze he drinks would indicate), he's also a genuinely good-hearted person.
Bank Manager
The Bank Manager
Portrayed By: Hugh Dennis
The manager who interviews Fleabag when she applies for a loan for her struggling café.
- The Atoner: He truly does feel terrible about his past actions and is genuinely trying to better himself. He shows how far he's come when he performs the key act of kindness in Series 1: urging Fleabag to forgive herself, and giving her a second chance with the cafe.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Returns in a single episode of Series 2. He's happier, reconciled with his wife and has got a new job.
- Hidden Depths: After a disastrous first meeting in which he appears to be a garden-variety jerk, he reappears and actually bonds with Fleabag. He admits that he's fucked up the good life he once had with his sexual impropriety and yearns to just go home. In return to his outpouring of honesty, Fleabag is sincerely honest with him, and he silently assures her that he won't tell anyone her truth.
- No Name Given: Credited as his professional role.
- Nice Guy: One of the handful of characters who actually tries to better himself. In his lone appearance in Series 2 he even covers for Fleabag at the café when she has to deal with Claire's haircut-induced meltdown.
- Odd Friendship: With the thirtysomething Fleabag by the end of Series 1. He even keeps an eye on her cafe in one Series 2 episode.
- Took a Level in Kindness: The essence of his arc throughout Series 1.
Arsehole Guy
Arsehole Guy
Portrayed By: Ben Aldridge
A very handsome (and very vain) guy that Fleabag dates throughout Series 1.
- Ambiguously Bi: He states that his mouth is watering when he sees the wall of penises at Godmother's Sex-hibition.
- Ambiguously Gay: His admission that he finds large breasts distracting, likes Fleabag because she's a "sexy plank", the aforementioned fascination with the wall of penises, and maybe even his insistence on anal intercourse may all point out to him being deeply in the closet.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Inverted. He's constantly commenting on how attractive he finds Fleabag's small breasts. Fleabag seems to take it as a backhanded compliment, although he's very sincere in it.Arsehole Guy: Physically she [my girlfriend] just never satisfied me, she has these really massive, bouncy tits that really don't do anything for me. And you just kept turning up like this sexy... plank.
- Friends with Benefits: He has this type of relationship with Fleabag.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: He's a Proud Beauty who's vain and self-involved and ends up being dull in bed.
- No Name Given: Known only as "Arsehole Guy" because he's into anal sex.
- Running Gag: People commenting on how attractive he is — mostly Godmother.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: He's extremely handsome and he's very aware of it. While he's happy enough with it to have a big photo of himself on his bedroom wall, he also implies it isn't always a good thing.Fleabag: When did you realise you were so good-looking?
Arsehole Guy: I knew I was different when I was about 9... but shit got real around 11. Aunts got... weird.
Bus Rodent
Bus Rodent
Portrayed By: Jamie Demetriou
A guy that hits on Fleabag on a bus. She later calls him back to be her date for Claire's birthday party.
- British Teeth: He has huge comedic buck teeth, which are not the actor's.
- Hidden Depths: For almost the entirety of his appearance, he's portrayed as a blundering, oblivious dumbass who always does or says the wrong thing and cannot read a room to save his life. In his last scene, however, he reveals that he might be more shrewd than he lets on when Fleabag fakes an orgasm and responds with:Bus Rodent: Okay, you don't go through life with teeth like these and not know when someone's pretending.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: He's an awkward and posh Upper-Class Twit who seems clueless about anything related to sex, not even knowing what to do with a vibrator. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be awful in bed.
- Upper-Class Twit: He's an idiot with a very posh, plummy voice.
Counsellor
Fleabag's Counsellor
Portrayed By: Fiona Shaw
The therapist whose voucher was gifted to Fleabag by her dad for her birthday. Initially intending to exchange the voucher for money, Fleabag ends up attending a counselling session after all.
- Actor Allusion: Her complaint of having dry forearms is shared by Shaw's character in Killing Eve (which was also created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
- Armor-Piercing Question: She throws these out like she gets a free ice cream every time she causes a client to question themselves.
- Brutal Honesty: Her stock in trade, it seems.
- Not So Stoic: She doesn't react at all to Fleabag's charm or jokes, instead remaining coolly professional. Eventually, though, she does get a bit fed up with Fleabag and it shows on her face.
Belinda
Belinda Friers
Portrayed By: Kristen Scott Thomas
A professional acquaintance of Claire's who attends her office party.
- Honest Corporate Executive: She's a successful and honest businesswoman, who's introduced to the story winning an "Women in Business" award. She also takes Fleabag's clumsy replacement of the award statue in good sport.
- Nice Girl: Honestly bonds with Fleabag after the award mixup and shares her wisdom with her.
- You're Not My Type: Gently rebuffs Fleabag when the latter makes a pass at her, telling her to go back to the party and find someone she would actually be with (but also because Belinda is tired as balls).
Klare
Klare Korhonen
Portrayed By: Christian Hillborg
Claire's business partner from Finland and eventual love interest.
- Gender-Blender Name: Enough to get accidentally nominated for a "Women in Business" award. The fact that his name has the exact same pronounciation as Claire causes awkwardness to no end for the latter.
- Nice Guy: Genuinely nice and always excited to see Claire.
Hot Misogynist
Hot Misogynist a.k.a. David
Portrayed By: Ray Fearon
The lawyer hired by Claire to defend Fleabag when Martin sues the latter for assault.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Hot Misogynist is so nicknamed because he gets laid a lot, despite being a huge misogynist.
- Amoral Attorney: He is a lawyer whose speciality is getting rapists acquitted.
- The Casanova: Despite being a misogynist, he's also The Charmer and a major ladies man and has no problem getting them into bed.
- Only Known By His Nickname: Fleabag (and the credits) always calls him "Hot Misogynist", but he actually has a proper name (David, mentioned by Claire in his first scene) unlike many other characters.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He gets rapists acquitted. Although he's not overly nice, he is very honest about the nature of his work and very charming. Even Fleabag sleeps with him.
- Sex God: Fleabag is both upset and surprised to find he's actually obnoxiously good in bed when she sleeps with him, making her orgasm nine times in a single night, and she's stuck exhausted and limping the next day. Doesn't stop her from not wanting to see him again.Fleabag: You know that feeling when the hot misogynist — who might not be a misogynist — is turning up at your house for the second time in 48 hours to give you nine orgasms you don't want?
