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    Faber 

Major Mike Faber

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  • Parental Substitute: To Brody's children. Openly for Chris, it takes Dana some time to admit it.
  • Promoted to Opening Titles / Demoted to Extra: Klattenhoff is promoted to series regular for season 2, but goes back to being a guest star with greatly reduced screen time for season 3 after getting a starring role in NBC's The Blacklist.
  • Put on a Bus: It is implied that between Seasons 2 and 3, he offers to move in with the Brodys, but Jessica turns him down.
  • Rank Up: Promoted from Captain to Major at some point.
  • The Reliable One: He's always there to help.
  • Romancing the Widow: After several years of mourning, turns out Jessica is not a widow.
  • Romantic Runner-Up: Played straight after Brody returns from captivity. A new situation, still untold, arises after Brody's marriage falls apart.
  • Semper Fi: As the one Marine without a deep trauma, he's the only straight and proud example among the main characters.

    Vice President Walden 

Vice President William Walden

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"And fire someone. I don't care who."
Played By: Jamey Sheridan

  • Alliterative Name
  • Ambition Is Evil: The head of an unfeterred family that engages in very reprehensible deeds, because the Presidency means everything.
    Fuck your family [...] The highest office in this land. You don't walk away from that.
  • Asshole Victim: He's a jerk, not to mention a war criminal, until the very end.
  • But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Averted, he went to great lengths to conceal a life-changing drone attack on Iraq and years later the cover-up is still one of his concerns.
  • Create Your Own Villain: He's responsible or at least has a role in Brody turning terrorist due to a drone attack with civilian casualties.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: He's betrayed and metaphorically killed by Brody, who as far as Walden knows, is only his political son and protege.
    Brody: You still don't get it, do you? I'm killing you
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Averted. He's never seen any combat, yet he's perfectly willing to order drone strikes regardless of civilian (including children) casualties and pass it off as "collateral damage" and even claim that these deaths are fabrications of terrorist organizations.
  • Karmic Death: He had a very bad heart, both literally and metaphorically, and dies when Abu Nazir tampers with his pacemaker.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: A cross between George HW Bush (director of the CIA and Vice-President who succeeded his President) and popular perceptions of Dick Cheney. He also looks A LOT like Mitt Romney.
  • No Party Given: It's not explictly stated but it's suggested he is a Democrat, as the disgraced Congressman quickly replaced by his protégé Brody is also one. There's nothing to rule out the Invisible President is Obama.
    • Walden could just as easily be a Republican—House vacancies are filled in a special election, which Brody presumably won between seasons. During season two, it is mentioned that there is a constituent event in Culpeper, Virginia. In real life, Culpeper is in Virginia's 7th District, which is fairly conservative; from 1971-2019 the district was represented exclusively by Republicans, and the district's current representative Abigail Spanberger is both rather conservative for a Democrat and won the seat in a Democratic wave election. All else being equal, that area of Virginia is more likely to elect a Republican than a Democrat in a special election, though with Brody's war-hero backstory and the support of the White House, it probably wouldn't matter much.
  • Promoted to Opening Titles: In Season 2
  • Smug Snake: He has the fewest redeeming features of anyone on this show, including Nazir. His last scene consists of him telling Brody "Fuck your family, nothing's more important than a high office."
  • The Sociopath: He is cold enough to reduce childrens lives to collateral damage just to catch one terrorist leader, with no sense of guilt. When his long time friend Elizabeth Gaines is killed right in front of him, he doesn't get emotional and is quick to brush it of. His reaction to her death is more akin to that of a really expensive furniture getting ruined than a friend getting killed.

    Finn 

Finn Walden

  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's introduced offering a blindly gung-ho opinion during a debate, later on he looks like a pleasant kid to date, by his spoiled and selfish tendencies become clearer over time and he is revealed to be exactly like his father's son when he refuses to own up a hit-and-run.

    Lauder 

Lauder Wakefield

Played By: Marc Menchaca

  • The Cassandra: Realizes immediately the falsity of Brodie's public-relations created image as gung ho war hero, and he correctly assesses Brodie's motives in the second season, unlike most other people who interact with Brodie While the exact theory he reaches isn't accurate, he is completely correct that Brodie is up to no good and had something to do with Walker's terrorist plot/Walker's death.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Rebukes Brody for becoming a propaganda icon for a war they both grew to despise

    Lynne 

Lynne Reed

Played By: Brianna Brown

    Mira 

Mira Berenson

Played By: Sarita Choudhury

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