History Characters / InterStellar

* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, he seems like the heroic man everyone described. [[spoiler:He isn't, at all- he is a DirtyCoward who would kill an innocent man to save himself.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: He was once a respected man who was seen as a hero who sacrificed himself for the good of humanity. Then the crew find him and turns out to be very different]].

-->'''Mann''': There is a moment-!

** On an even greater scale, she gets so bogged down in the details that she fails to see the bigger picture ''twice'': first, she doesn't make the connection that the YearInsideHourOutside level of time dilation means that Miller has barely been on the planet longer than they have; and second, that a mountain-sized tsunami sweeping across the planet would render any attempt at colonization utterly futile. Cooper calls her out on this after the fact.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Well, generation at least. He's an innovator and explorer in a time those ideals are discouraged in favor of getting enough food to eat. It gets lampshaded in-universe by his father-in-law Donald.

* TranquilFury: When the teachers responsible for his daughter's education deeply disappoint him. He himself notes that he would have preferred if his poor wife was still alive, because she was always the calmer one when called to a parent-teacher association. His frustration at the beliefs of Murph's educators is all the greater when he notes that their anti-research stance is what made the medical equipment that could have saved his wife's life become unavailable to the public.

* FireForgedFriends: She gains a great deal of respect for Cooper later in the film, before they part.

** What is interesting is by expressing disapointment when having their humor setting lowered, it implies a level of autonomy and internal personality with the Morality Dial simply being them adjusting how they externally express themselves or how they appropriately adjust their behaviour to stimuli.

* TheQuietOne: CASE, who pretty much only speaks when spoken to or when giving necessary updates/information while piloting the crafts, and probably has the least amount of dialogue of the entire crew (excepting perhaps [[spoiler:Doyle, who dies pretty early on in the story]]). When this is lampshaded by Cooper, CASE explains "TARS talks plenty for both of us.", implying he isnt above jokes and isnt empty inside, just quiet and reserved.

* BoringButPractical: She's large and comfortable enough for her tiny crew of four astronauts, but the conditions aboard are fairly spartan. Her design is simple and compact, in order to waste as little space and resources as possible. Almost the entirety of the ship's contents consist of the modules mounted on the rotating ring she uses to generate artificial gravity. This includes the four main engine pods! The outsides of some of the modules are equipped with strategically placed solar panels to produce electricity from whatever solar energy can be scrounged up even in deeper space.

A scientist who stood at the creation of the Lazarus exploratory missions. He was previously sent through the wormhole to search for habitable planets, but is the only one still transmitting data.

* {{Foil}}: To Romilly. Both show the flipsides of how isolation with minimal hope of ever seeing a human again can affect someone.
** In terms of viewpoint and life circumstances, he embodies a startling contrast to Cooper. Cooper was a test pilot who initially missed his chance to go into space and eagerly leaps at the chance, but ultimately cares about the people back on earth. Mann was already renowned and respected before he was sent to his planet, [[spoiler:but his isolation and ego drive him to complete the mission no matter the cost]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Gets blown up and blown out into space during his attempt to hijack the ''Endurance''. This is due to his less than perfect docking with the mothership and unwillingness to listen to Cooper's and Brand's warnings against using the airlock improperly.]]

* PunnyName: It is intentional. His full name is Hugh Mann, because he embodies humanity's worst aspects.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In several ways. He is onto Professor Brand's true plan, as they both share a pessimistic outlook on the possible success rate of either of the two contingency plans. Then, in something of a subversion of this trope, [[spoiler:he falsifies the data he sends to Earth about his planet, because he's lonely and scared after finding it barren and too inhospitable for life and just wants to lure in a newer interstellar mission [[DirtyCoward so they could rescue him and he would be able to carry on with 'Plan B' by himself]]]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Tom mentions in a message to his father that Murph crashed Donald's car one time and she's got no problem blindly swerving into corn fields.

* BadAssDriver: Chasing down a drone while narrowly avoiding a head-on with a combine and able to brake just before the edge of a cliff while maintaining one's composure is pretty impressive.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't see a full resolution to Tom's life (when Cooper finally reunites with the elderly version of Murph, neither of them even mentions Tom at all during their brief conversation), but we do get to see his reconciliation with his sister over their father, after she makes her big discovery.

* IWantGrandkids: Tells Cooper to be nice to the attractive teacher he's going to talk to, because he has to do his bit to repopulate the human race. Cooper is not interested and ends up losing his temper at her anyway.

Scientist and former acquaintance of Cooper from back when they worked at NASA. He recruits Cooper for the expedition.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:He confesses to Murph that he believed Plan A to be an impossible dream all along and had kept it from the public in order to keep morale high. However, the pedestal turns out to be more on the low side; it's just that he died believing the mathematical equation which could save humanity was impossible, but Murph soon starts to believe there may be a way to work it out that he never really lived to solve.]]

* GeniusCripple: As time goes on, he ends up wheelchair bound.

Murph's co-worker and a doctor called in to check-up on Tom's family.

--->I have a cue light I can use when I'm joking, if you like. [...] Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock. (cue him turning on said light but only after a very poignant pause)

--->'''Mann''': There is a moment-!

* MeaningfulName: Of the RuleOfSymbolism kind. Mann is (of course) German for "man", and given the themes of the film and Mann's behavior once he shows his true colors, it represents how HumansAreFlawed.

* PunnyName: It is intentional. See MeaningfulName.

* GenderBlenderName: Lampshaded by her father, who notes that they were originally expecting a son, [[HeirClubForMen but gave her the name anyway]] once she was born, as they thought of it as unisex-enough and having a bit of RuleOfSymbolism in it (under Murphy's Law, anything could happen - bad ''as well as'' good).
** This is because Murph was GenderFlipped from the [[http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Interstellar.html 2008 script]].
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: She's extremely intelligent and imaginative already at a young age and her father encourages her to become a scientist or researcher one day. After her father leaves, Professor Brand picks up on her talents and offers her an opportunity to receive higher education at the NASA facility, as his young protege.

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewMcConaughey [[labelnote]]Foreign [=VAs=]Creator/BrunoChoel (European French)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AnneHathaway [[labelnote]]Foreign [=VAs=]Creator/MaryanaSpivak (Russian)[[/labelnote]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/BrunoChoel (European French)

--> ''"We used to look up and wonder about our place in the stars. Now all we do is look down and worry about our place in the dirt."''

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/AnneHathaway
-> '''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MaryanaSpivak (Russian)

!! Doyle
-> '''Played by:''' Creator/WesBentley

-> '''Played by:''' David Gyasi

-> '''Operated by:''' Creator/BillIrwin
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BillIrwin (TARS) and Creator/JoshStewart (CASE)

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/MattDamon

->'''Played By:''' N/A

->'''Played By:''' N/A

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/MackenzieFoy (''young Murphy''), [[Creator/JessicaChastain Jessica Chastain]] (''middle-aged Murphy''), Creator/EllenBurstyn (''old Murphy'')

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/TimotheeChalamet (''teenage Tom''), Creator/CaseyAffleck (''middle-aged Tom'')

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/JohnLithgow

->'''Played By:''' Lean Cairns

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelCaine

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

* OnlyOneName: Cooper's first name is never stated during the film. People familiar with him call him, "Coop," instead of being on a first-name basis.

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* {{Deuteragonist}}: She might not seem like one at the start, but over the course of the storyline, she develops into this role in relation to her father.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't see a full resolution to Tom's life, but we do get to see his reconciliation with his sister over their father, after she makes her big discovery.

* MoralityDial: They have adjustable settings for at least honesty, humor, discretion, and trust, and possibly more. They can show an indicator light when they're joking. Set humor too high, and they will turn it off if they think it's funnier. TARS even delays turning it on after making a morbid joke to enhance the delivery of the joke.

* FireForgedFriends: By the end of the film, he's become firm friends with Dr. Brand and even with TARS.

* GenerationXerox: As said above, he is a scientist, as are his parents.

--->''Mann'': There is a moment-!

- ->''Mann'': There is a moment-!

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Subverted. [[spoiler:He dies second, after Doyle.]]

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Dies early in the film to convey the danger involved in the mission.]]

* MadeOfIron: Whatever they're constructed from is enough for TARS to survive [[spoiler: the explosion that kills Romilly.]] [[JustifiedTrope Cooper mentions that they were originally designed for military operations]].

* OhCrap: TARS reacts appropriately when Romily is accessing Mann's robot and it's about to explode
--> '''TARS''': "STEP BACK, PROFESSOR! STEP BACK!"

---> '''TARS''': Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?

---> I have a cue light I can use when I'm joking, if you like. [...] Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock. (cue him turning on said light but only after a very poignant pause)

* TheAce: The other scientists describe him in inspirational terms, and he was apparently the best scientist working on the Lazarus Project. [[spoiler: He turns out to be a BrokenAce.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Seems genuinely regretful he has to kill Cooper, and even offers to stay on his comm channel to comfort him and keep him company until he runs out of oxygen, at least until he decides he can't bear hearing Cooper die.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, he seems like the heroic man everyone described. [[spoiler: He isn't, at all- he is a DirtyCoward who would kill an innocent man to save himself.]]

* ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler: It's just one lie after another with this guy, both to the crew of the ''Endurance'', and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies to himself]]. He dies this way too; in the middle of telling another lie.]]

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Old Murph is introduced to Cooper and the viewer, surrounded by her children and grandchildren.]]
* BigDamnKiss: Gives one to [[spoiler: Getty]] near the end of the movie.

* {{Foil}}: Their interaction is relatively brief, but his viewpoint is contrasted with Dr. Brand's. While the former is concerned primarily with the day-to-day earth affairs, Brand is concerned with settling somewhere else, [[spoiler: completely at the expense of those who are still on earth.]]

![=NASA=]

* TheMacCoy: DownplayedTrope, while he raises the question of whether to [[spoiler: reveal [[AwfulTruth Dr Brand's lie]] to the people who hold on to it]], he isn't shown to be emotional to a fault.

* OhCrap: When Murph tells him that [[spoiler: Brand had faked his research]].
* ShipTease: He's always around Murph and they seem to get along very well. [[spoiler: Murph's BigDamnKiss at the end]] probably helps too and makes the tease stronger.
* TheWatson: Serves as this immediately after [[spoiler: Dr Brand's death.]]

* ComputerVoice: Subverted. Despite ''looking'' very obviously inhuman, TARS and CASE both have perfectly normal human voices and intonations, to the point that viewers who have gotten used to expecting synthesized monotones might have a difficult time at first telling when the robots are speaking and when the people do.

* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: They are in fact deliberately programmed in this role, to make them more personable.