History Characters / MCUUnitedStatesGovernmentMilitary

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!United States of America
!!White House

[[folder:President Matthew Ellis]]
!!''President Matthew Ellis''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You elected me on a single platform: I will defend this country at all cost."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamSadler
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

The President of the United States. As part of his personal vow of protecting America from all threats, President Ellis decides to take a proactive approach in dealing with the Mandarin and the Ten Rings organization, particularly by rechristening Lt. Col. James Rhodes as the Iron Patriot. During the emergence of Inhumans, he allies with Phil Coulson's underground S.H.I.E.L.D., providing them secret support.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when threatened [[spoiler:by Savin wearing the Iron Patriot armor]], Ellis doesn't cower and instead tries to pull a gun in the face of his situation.
* DistressedDude: In ''Film/IronMan3'', he is abducted by Aldrich Killian.
* TheGhost: Although he is seen on video for the Captain America exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution, he is still unseen in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' when [[spoiler:HYDRA targets him and others during Project: Insight]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: What [[spoiler:Killian]] tries to invoke by having the President [[spoiler:die in the suit of armor that the President commissioned for Rhodes while set on fire by oil]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The man he chose as his Vice-Presidential running mate joined a conspiracy to assassinate him, and he made "Thunderbolt" Ross, of all people, Secretary of State.
* TheLeader: He's the leader of the USA. Based on what we see of him, he cuts a Charismatic type figure.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent:
** He's President Personable, who later becomes President Target by [[spoiler:Killian]]. Likely would have become President Action given [[spoiler:he was wearing the Iron Patriot armor]], but never got a chance to use it.
** Becomes President Target again [[spoiler:when HYDRA starts Project: Insight]].
* PuppetKing: Subverted. ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' at first implies that he is this to [[spoiler:Rosalind Price, but it turns out they were simply friends.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: President Ellis allows Coulson to continue his work with the Inhumans even though he can't officially support him.
* ShoutOut: His name is one to Creator/WarrenEllis, who wrote the Extremis arc that ''Iron Max 3'' takes inspiration from.
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[[folder:Vice President Rodriguez]]
!!''Vice President Rodriguez''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MiguelFerrer
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

The Vice President of the United States. Rhodey and Stark hear him mentioned in Killian's evil plan, and call Rodriguez to warn him that he's a target. However, it turns out Rodriguez is actually not just in on the plot, but Killian has bankrolled him into providing assistance.
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* BaldOfEvil: Once his true colors are revealed, that bald dome marks a contrast.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Once he becomes President he'll still technically answer to Killian, making him the real leader.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Working to use Extremis to have his daughter's leg regenerated]].
* NumberTwo: He's the second in command of the United States.
* PresidentEvil: He's working with Killian to kill the president, in order to [[spoiler:have his daughter's leg regenerated]].
* TheStarscream: The plan is for President Ellis to be killed and Vice President Rodriguez to take his place.
* TraitorShot: Once he was finished talking with Rhodes and Stark, another man asked if something was wrong, leading to the above tropes.
* TwentyFifthAmendment: He was to ascend to the office of president once [[spoiler: Killian]] had killed Ellis.
* WalkingSpoiler: There's really no way to talk about him without spoiling his morality, since he only made one brief appearance before that particular reveal.
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!!Department of State

[[folder:Secretary Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]]
!!''Secretary [[ComicBook/RedHulk Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"In the past four years, you've operated with unlimited power and no supervision. That's an arrangement the governments of the world can no longer tolerate."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamHurt
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' | ''Film/TheConsultant''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Incredible Hulk''[[/note]] | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

-->''"Tell me, Captain, do you know where Thor and Banner are right now? 'Cause you can bet if I misplaced a couple of 30 megaton warheads, there'd be consequences."''

A General who hunts down Bruce Banner claiming him to be a threat - in truth, he's after Banner's blood in order to perfect a new SuperSoldier serum. Following a heart attack and retirement from the army, he has become the United States Secretary of State.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Ross considers the Hulk a threat, and hunts him in order to stop him. In ''The Incredible Hulk'', he is indirectly responsible for Bruce turning into the Hulk by lying about what the experiment was about, and afterwards knows perfectly well that Banner would prefer not to fight, but wants the Hulk to make more SuperSoldier serum. However, ''Civil War'' seems to [[CharacterRerailment rerail]] him to his comic book incarnation that believes that super-powered beings are threats and he's doing all he can to protect the world from them.
* BigBad: All the conflict of ''The Incredible Hulk'' is because he wants to dissect Bruce and all the soldiers attacking Bruce answer to him. However, he is then upstaged by Emil Blonsky.
* TheBusCameBack: While he was never really put on a bus to begin with due to ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' never receiving a sequel (one could say the whole franchise was PutOnABus), his return in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' marks the longest gap between appearances by a character in the MCU at 8 years.
* CompositeCharacter:
** His desire to capture and dissect the Hulk echoes that of General John Ryker, another Hulk villain.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', he essentially gets Maria Hill's role as the government representative trying to force the Avengers into registration (though Maria Hill still exists as a separate character).
* {{Determinator}}: For better or worse, he does ''not'' know when to give up.
* DrowningMySorrows: In TheStinger of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' after he had a '''really''' rough day: his star soldier Blonsky went psycho and became the Abomination, his daughter severed her ties with him, and he was forced to release Banner to defeat Blonsky. As ''Film/TheConsultant'' reveals, his day will only get worse.
* EnemyMine: He temporarily releases Banner from custody and allows him to become the Hulk in order to fight off the Abomination and save the city.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Of a sort. While he claims to be hunting down the Hulk just for the public's safety, he's more interested in dissecting Banner in order to discover the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica formula.
* {{Expy}}: WordOfGod[[invoked]] has directly compared Thunderbolt Ross's role in the film to Colin Powell, being a military general turned Secretary of State.
* FantasticRacism: He sees superheroes less as people and more as weapons who happen to be alive.
* GeneralRipper: His obsession with capturing Banner leads him to create violent and unnecessary situations, such as bringing helicopters to a college that, until that point, was not experiencing Hulk problems.
* GodzillaThreshold: He's willing to use an uncompleted serum on his star soldier in order to take down the Hulk. When that goes wrong, he sets Banner free to become the Hulk in order to save Harlem from the Abomination.
* HateSink: Goes from being the BigBad in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' to this in ''Civil War'', as while he is not the main villain this time, he is still designated to be booed by the audience for being an ObstructiveBureaucrat obstacle for the Avengers. He may not be a villain, but he is one of the most despicable characters in the MCU.
* HeroAntagonist: Subverted. In ''Civil War'', it seems that he's aware of the potential danger the Avengers are to society and lays out the Sokovia Accords to keep them in check. However, it becomes clear that he just wants to be in control of them and will not hesitate to arrest them for any reason and imprison them in "The Raft."
* {{Hypocrite}}: He chastises the Avengers for all the collateral damage that happens in their fights while showing them footage of it, and wants them to be held accountable for their actions. Yet conveniently (or perhaps deliberately) never brings up the [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk the battle in Harlem, New York between the Hulk and Abomination]] which ''he'' was responsible for and refuses to be held accountable for it. He also criticizes Bruce's actions when the only reason Bruce was infected was because HE lied to Bruce about what they were doing.
* InspectorJavert: An outside observer would see a general tracking a defector/monster in order to bring him in for custody. Also in ''Civil War'', he believes that super-powered beings are threats that should be keep an eye on to protect the world.
* {{Jerkass}}: He treats Banner like property and disrespects others. He gets better somewhat in ''Civil War'', but still disrespect others like the Avengers, only this time he has a [[JerkassHasAPoint very good reason]] unlike his first appearance.
* JerkassHasAPoint: During ''Civil War'' he rhetorically asks Captain America where Hulk and Thor are now and brings up that if he lost two nuclear warheads, he would surely not get away without consequences. Subverted in that he himself lost track of Banner for five years and lost control of Blonsky and was never reprimanded.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Ross makes his reappearance in ''Civil War'', he initially interacts with the Avengers by casually telling them a story of his heart attack during a round of golf and undergoing a triple bypass, [[HopeSpot seemingly appearing to have]] TookALevelInKindness in contrast to the last time we saw him in ''The Incredible Hulk''. He also appears to be more rational as when he lays out the Accords, he brings up [[JerkassHasAPoint good reasons]] behind them like the damage the Avengers done during their missions. However, notably during his briefing, he did not bring up about his own mistake back in Harlem. Also, when he [[spoiler:assigned Tony to arrest Captain America and Bucky, he gives out a short deadline otherwise he would have Stark prosecuted for his failure. Even after Bucky is proven innocent for the bombing, Ross refuses to listen to Stark to release the anti-Accords Avengers due to Stark's failure to arrest Steve and Bucky.]] Despite have better manners and being more subtle in attitude, Ross has not changed his mindset one bit.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite being behind the experiment that turned Bruce into Hulk and being responsible for Harlem being torn apart it doesn't hamper his career and he eventually ends up as Secretary of State. Of course, his relationship with his beloved daughter has been extinguished.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Downplayed with Ross, but he's very genial in his conversation with Cap. [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame The feeling isn't mutual.]]
* KnightTemplar: Ross is unwavering in his beliefs, despite claiming at one point to have gained "perspective". As noted by Samson, despite what Ross himself thinks, he's a bigger threat to Betty's safety than the Hulk.
* NeverMyFault: The experiment that turned Bruce into the Hulk was headed by him, but refuses to take responsibility for what happened to him or his daughter. He didn't even tell them what they were actually doing, creating a new Super Soldier instead of radiation resistance. Betty calls him out on it.
-->'''Betty:''' I will never forgive you for what you've done to him.
-->'''General Ross:''' He's a fugitive...
-->'''Betty:''' You ''made'' him a fugitive, to cover your failures and to protect your career. [[IHaveNoSon Don't ever speak to me as your daughter again]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By giving Blonsky the prototype remade SuperSoldier serum, he essentially created the Abomination by proxy. He's essentially responsible for creating the kind of violent, rampaging beast he considers Bruce to be. The only reason Bruce was transformed in the first place was because he lied to Bruce about what they were doing. Had he been more honest Bruce probably would never have become the Hulk.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In ''Civil War'', when he is promoted to Secretary of State and lays out the Accords to place a strict eye on the superheroes.
* OverprotectiveDad: One of his other reasons for tracking Banner; Betty was injured during Bruce's first ever HulkOut.
* ParentsAsPeople: He focuses so much of his time on getting the Hulk/Bruce Banner that it damages his relationship with his daughter.
* PetTheDog: He admits to the Avengers that the world owes them a debt and that they have done some good, and seems to be sincere about it. He also doesn't want to shut the Avengers down or dissect them much like you would expect of Ross given his characterization in ''The Incredible Hulk'', instead favoring the relatively reasonable Sokovia Accords.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted. [[spoiler:In ''Civil War'' he seems to have [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk softened up since his heart attack, but when the chips are down it's clear his beliefs haven't shifted much]]. Even though it's eventually proven that Zemo bombed the UN building and framed Bucky for it in order to tear the Avengers apart, he still keeps those heroes who hampered Bucky's arrest locked up in the Raft.]]
* RedBaron: He's primarily known as "Thunderbolt" to the extent that his real first name is rarely used.
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed in ''Civil War'', Ross mellowed out in contrast to his last appearance, but he still is in opposition against super-powered humans and his beliefs has not shifted as much.
* WhatTheHellHero: He's been on both ends of this. When he receives them, he never listens.
* WrittenInAbsence: He's first shown on-screen in ''Civil War'' relating an anecdote about the heart attack and triple bypass he had "five years ago" during a round of golf, keeping him out of active service while he recuperated and later relegating him to a larger role behind the front lines.
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[[folder:Miriam Sharpe]]
!!''Miriam Sharpe''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlfreWoodard
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

-->''"You think you fight for us? You just fight for yourself. Who's going to avenge my son, Stark? He's dead. And I blame you."''

A woman who works in human resources at the State Department and the mother of Charlie Spencer, who was killed in the [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Battle of Sokovia]].
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* AgeLift: The comics version of Miriam Sharpe is much younger, being the mother of a young boy instead of a college student.
* IdenticalStranger: Creator/AlfreWoodard later would appear in ''Series/LukeCage2016'' as Mariah Dillard
* RaceLift: The comics version of Miriam is Caucasian.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Iron Man, whom she blames along with the rest of the Avengers, for the death of her only son.
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!!Congress

!!!'''Senate'''

[[folder:Senator Stern]]
!!''Senator Stern''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Ooh, sorry... funny how annoying a little prick can be, isn't it?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Garry Shandling
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''

-->''"My priority is to get the Iron Man weapon turned over to the people of the United States of America."''

A United States Senator who tries unsuccessfully to get Tony Stark to provide Iron Man suits for the military. He makes a cameo appearance in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.
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* CanonForeigner: Was created specifically for ''Film/IronMan2'', and thus has no comic book equivalent.
* CerebusCallback: His appearance in ''Iron Man 2'' becomes one after the events of ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier''. [[spoiler:It is entirely possible that the reason why the government wanted Tony's Iron Man armor was because of Stern's allegiance to HYDRA.]]
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:He's an undercover HYDRA member.]]
* DirtyOldMan: When speaking to Sitwell in ''The Winter Soldier'', he mentions a constituent he works with, describing her as "really hot, wants to be a reporter, but who listens by that point?"
* {{Expy}}: He bears a lot of similarity to Senator Harrington Byrd, a character from the early Iron Man books who would constantly be calling for Stark Enterprises to hand the Iron Man tech over to the US Gov't and was generally obnoxious to Tony Stark. [[spoiler: That being said, Byrd was ultimately harmless and uninvolved with any evil organizations like HYDRA.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's a jerk about it, it's hard to argue that he's wrong to be worried about leaving technology as sophisticated and dangerous as the Iron Man suits in the hands of a {{Manchild}} like Tony Stark. [[spoiler: Granted, he probably wanted to hand it over to [=HYDRA=] for their goals, but that doesn't actually disprove his point.]] Though his point is a little harder to accept considering said {{Manchild}} is literally the INVENTOR of said tech, and basically the only one who really understands it.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: When he's roped into giving Tony and Rhodey medals for stopping Ivan Vanko, he deliberately messes up pinning Tony's medal so that it jabs him at the same time. Pretty mean but, as he puts it, Tony had been "a little prick" to him, so it's getting even.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Within the United States Congress, until he gets discovered and arrested.]]
* NoPartyGiven: We never learn if he's Republican, Democrat, or an independent. [[spoiler:His real allegiance turns out to be HYDRA.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's a Senator who tries forcing Tony Stark back into weapons contracting.
* ProperlyParanoid: Stern feels the suits should be granted to the US so they can defend against enemy ones, but Tony assures him that there's no danger of rival armor suits to counter his, and that all attempts are decades behind. However, Ivan Vanko soon arrives to provide some doubts about that. [[spoiler: {{Downplayed}} since, as a member of HYDRA, Stern ''is'' an enemy himself all along.]]
* ShoutOut: His name is a reference to Creator/HowardStern, who heavily promoted the first ''Iron Man'' film [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow on his radio show]], even interviewing director and casual friend Jon Favreau.
* StealthInsult: To Tony: "Funny how annoying a little prick can be."
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[[folder:Senator Boynton]]
!!''Senator Boynton''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' James Eckhouse
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''

A United States Senator at the time of the Chitauri attack on New York.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: His comic book counterpart has long, white, curly hair. MCU Boynton is balding and has graying hair.
* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor example. The comic books counterpart of Boynton was part of a plot to destroy Iron Man. In the MCU he simply calls for the registration of superpowered individuals.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even though the Avengers save New York, Boynton calls them "so-called heroes".
* SuperRegistrationAct: He argues for one in the wake of the destruction left behind following the fight between the Avengers and the Chitauri.
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[[folder:Senator Christian Ward]]
!!''Senator Christian Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"When evil sits to one's own heart, that is when the surest hand must cut it out."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tim [=DeKay=], Alex Neustaedter (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell Episode 8: "The Well"]]'' (young), ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse Episode 28: "A Fractured House"]]'' (adult))

Grant Ward's abusive older brother, who has become a U.S. Senator.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: According to Christian, Grant's stories about him being abusive are all lies, and that Grant himself is the insane one who abused their youngest brother under the delusion that Christian was forcing him to do so. Flashbacks have been shown to Christian's abuse but only from Ward's perspective, possibly indicating a dose of UnreliableNarrator; however, it was mentioned that Christian campaigned to have Ward tried as an adult when Ward nearly killed him as a teenager. Despite Christian seemingly expressing concern for Grant when he heard Coulson held him prisoner, his plan is to execute him so that he can win public support for his political campaign and it's ambiguous how much his crusade against [=SHIELD=] was done out of a sincere belief that they're terrorists or whether their downfall would be good PR for him. Overall, the simultaneous discussions shown between Grant and Skye and Christian and Coulson are shot in such way that's meant to cast doubt on which brother is telling the truth, and which is the truly evil one (assuming they're not ''both'' evil). Turns out they were ''both'' telling the truth. Both of them are right about the other one. In Season 3, [[spoiler:Thomas confirms that while Christian really did all this, Grant became much worse than both him and their parents afterwards]].
* AssholeVictim
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: The key difference between him and Grant. He admits he did horrible things, unlike Grant who blames everyone else for his problems.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wanted Grant and he got him, all right. Except it's not how Christian imagined it would turn out.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Turns out, Thomas was the only child their mother didn't torture, and both Christian ''and'' Grant were so much TheUnfavorite that Christian plotted Thomas's murder just to get back at their mother.
* BigBrotherBully: To Grant and their younger brother, Thomas. He's first seen forbidding Grant from throwing a rope down to Thomas at the bottom of a well. He also forced Grant to beat up Thomas, or at least Grant claims so, but chances are he was more willing to follow Christian's lead than he remembers. [[spoiler: Turns out it was true, but Thomas still believes that he and their parents didn't deserve to be killed by Grant.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: According to Ward, he'll smile and "bare his soul" when he's suckering you into believing his lies.
* CharacterDeath: Killed along with his mother and father in an act of arson in "The Things We Bury".
* ConsummateLiar: Ward, a liar himself, calls him this and says Christian is better at it.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: His tormenting Grant has been hinted to be a factor in his murder-by-arson attempt, which led directly to his recruitment by Garrett. In fact, learning that Grant was more willing to follow him despite the abuse than Grant had let on would make Christian essentially a proto-Garrett.
* DirtyCoward: He turns into a simpering coward when Grant abducts him. He also admits he didn't have the personal courage to hurt and kill Thomas himself and needed to bully Grant into doing it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he makes a promise, he'll do his utmost to follow through with it, as demonstrated when he concedes to the world that there's a difference between S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA in exchange for Grant. He also considers HYDRA to be a genuine enemy. He's also appalled at Grant's NeverMyFault mentality.
* EvilCounterpart: He's set up to be this to fellow InspectorJavert Talbot, who at least seems to have been a bit more reasonable and amicable towards Coulson by the present point in the series; plus, whereas Talbot genuinely cares about his family, so far we've only seen Senator Ward's nasty side towards his siblings. However, judging from what we see in the present day (even if he does [[YourCheatingHeart cheat on his wife]]), he's clearly mellowed with age, with no memories of his past sins until Grant takes him back to the well.
* InspectorJavert: Like Talbot, he believes S.H.I.E.L.D. to be a terrorist organization.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Christian's pursuit of SHIELD appears to be less about mistakenly thinking they're as evil as HYDRA, and more because he could suffer political embarrassment if it came out that his brother was an agent of HYDRA.
* KillItWithFire: Grant tried this. It didn't work. At least, not the first time around.
* NoPartyGiven: Averted. He's shown to be a Republican by an (R) after his name during a TV appearance in "A Fractured House".
* NotSoDifferent: Coulson tells his brother at the tail end of a harsh talkdown in "A Fractured House" that the two may have too much in common.
-->'''Coulson''': Your brother saw the same angles. Maybe you are more alike than you think.
* SuddenNameChange: He was originally credited as "Maynard Ward" in "The Well".
* TheUnfavorite: In "The Things We Bury", he admits that the reason he made Grant torment their brother was because Thomas was the only Ward sibling their mother ''didn't'' abuse, and this was his way of making her suffer.
* UnreliableNarrator: He claims all of Grant's stories about making him torture their brother are false, and that Grant did it of his own free will. It's not clear which brother is lying, but the only evidence that clearly supports either one of them favors Grant's version of events. Grant eventually manages to get him to admit the truth.
* UpToEleven: Ward describes him as "like me but worse". [[spoiler:But Thomas believes that Grant is more horrible than Christian.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: He has a wife, but blows her off to make arrangements with his mistress at the Ward family cabin, just so we don't feel ''too'' sorry for him when Grant gives him what he deserves.
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[[folder:Senator Randolph Cherryh]]
!!''Senator Randolph Cherryh''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jonathan Walker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

A United States Senator involved in Wilson Fisk's plot to seize and gentrify Hell's Kitchen.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's more handsome and better dressed than his comic book counterpart.
* CorruptPolitician: Cherryh is on Fisk's payroll. His role is to alter zoning regulations so Fisk can complete his goal of turning Hell's Kitchen into residences for the rich.
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[[folder:Senator Ellen Nadeer]]
!!''Senator Ellen Nadeer''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Parminder Nagra
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E3Uprising Episode 69: "Uprising"]]'')

-->''"It was only a matter of time before this happened. We can no longer pretend like the Inhuman threat doesn't exist. Each and every one of them is a lethal weapon and now those weapons are aimed directly at us. Make no mistake; this is an act of war. Unless we take a stand and fight back now while we can, we will be complicit in our own extinction."''

A United States Senator from New York who is highly vocal about the Inhuman "threat" in the wake of Hive's rampage and Quake becoming a fugitive. She's the leader of the Humans First Movement and a secret collaborator of the Watchdogs
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* AssholeVictim: After her screen time was spent being blatantly racist toward Inhumans, annoyingly smug toward the Team Coulson, [[spoiler:killing [[KickTheMoralityPet her own brother for being a Inhuman]],]] and generally getting away at every turn, it's really hard not to cheer when [[spoiler:she gets blown up.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Presents a law-abiding if strident voice to the American people, while she is secretly aiding and abetting the Watchdogs' campaign against Inhumans. Daisy even lampshades this.
-->'''Daisy:''' [[spoiler:Well, we can't be too sad. She did try to have you killed.]]
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: She sees herself as the one protecting the people and S.H.I.E.L.D. as the problem, ignoring the fact that they are the ones usually saving the day while she's the one working with a terrorist group. Her brother accuses her of "painting with a broad brush again," suggesting she has a habit of such thinking.
* CurseCutShort: Comes close to calling a Watchdog [[spoiler:that had been infected by the Terrigen mist]] a "son of a bitch" as [[spoiler:she goes up in a successful and explosive assassination attempt]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. [[spoiler:She almost has her own brother killed by the Watchdogs for becoming an Inhuman, but after he begs for his life, she decides not to go through with it. She finally follows through with it personally at the end, but if they were in each other's shoes he would've done the same to her--after all, they had made a promise to each other.]]
* {{Expy}}: Her anti-Inhuman demagoguery and extremist attitude make her a very close DistaffCounterpart for Senator Robert Kelly from [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the X-Men film series]].
* FantasticRacism: She appears to be outspokenly anti-Inhuman, [[spoiler:even enough that midway through "Broken Promises" she's an eyelash away from having her brother killed by the Watchdogs as he's begging her to call off the ambush]].
* {{Foil}}: To Mariah Dillard. Both are [[CorruptPolitician corrupt politicians]] who are openly against [[FantasticRacism anyone with powers]], work with a criminal syndicate, (Stokes-Dillard crime ring and Watchdogs respectively), and have [[spoiler: killed a member of their own family.]] However, Mariah is emotional, hot-head, and impulsive, but proves to be [[NotSoHarmlessVillain much more dangerous than she appears to be]] and eventually takes over the Stokes-Dillard ring, while Nadeer acts emotionless, cold, and calculated, but proves [[SmugSnake to be not as dangerous as she led herself to believe]] and is eventually disposed by The Watchdogs.
* FreudianExcuse: Her views on the Inhumans seem to be motivated by the fact that her brother was seemingly [[TakenForGranite killed or incapacitated]] by Terrigenesis. [[spoiler:It's more of a general hatred of ''all'' "aliens", sparked by the loss of her mother in the [[Film/TheAvengers2012 battle with the Chitauri]].]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Is blown up in her own office while goading to the Watchdogs that she doesn't have the Inhuman gene.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: She blackmails S.H.I.E.L.D. director Jeffrey Mace with incriminating footage of Coulson and May with Daisy and Ghost Rider to get his cooperation.
* MeaningfulName: Her surname is pronounced the same as "nadir", meaning a lowest point -- mirroring the public hatred towards Inhumans and other powered persons, along with how her FantasticRacism stems from losing her own brother to Terrigenesis [[spoiler:and their mother in the Chitauri attack on New York]].
* TheMole: Apart from her views, she is coordinating with the Watchdogs to stoke anti-Inhuman hatred.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Her demagoguery and deeply racist views about "aliens", coupled with her status as a prominent politician, are more than a little reminiscent of the positions held by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and his inner circle (though in Nadeer's case, taken to [[UpToEleven much greater extremes]]).
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Parminder Nagra's natural British accent occasionally slips through.
* SuddenNameChange: She was originally credited as "Rota Nadeer" in "Uprising".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Is a prominent U.S. Senator while she seeks to use the Watchdogs to wage a campaign of fear and discrimination against Inhumans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In "Broken Promises", she claims to do what she does to protect "her people".
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Shockley teases that because her brother is an Inhuman, she may or may not carry the gene in her DNA too. [[spoiler: This is surprisingly subverted when Shockley sets off a Terrigen crystal in her office, only for him to undergo Terrigenesis instead while Nadeer remains unaffected.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Senator Stan Ori]]
!!''Senator Stanley "Stan" Ori''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Rick Holmes
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

A United States Senator who has developed a reputation for his pro-gun control views.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: As unlikeable as he is, his comic book counterpart was incredibly corrupt, with links to organized crime and dirty cops.
* DirtyCoward: When [[spoiler:Lewis Wilson]] comes to assassinate him, he weeps openly and begs for his life. While that's understandable, his cowardice becomes disgusting when he throws Karen to the assassin so he could escape, in spite of the fact that she begged for his life seconds earlier.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Karen points out how despite his advocacy for gun control, Stan is hiring Billy Russo's company to provide him security. He actually declined Russo's offer at first for this very reason, but Russo correctly pointed out he is not the kind of person to die for his conviction.
* PompousPoliticalPundit: He uses the shock and anger of Wilson's bombings to rile up patriotic fervor, labeling the government and police as cowardly and useless (because, after all, they can't stop Frank) and himself as the "only solution".
* SleazyPolitician: It's made pretty obvious that he's only using his gun control platform and the social outrage of Wilson's bombings as a reason to get more money and increase the chances of getting votes.
* UnreliableNarrator: Ori's account of the attempt on his life paints him in a positive light, saying he fired a few shots at his would-be assassin before running to get help. Karen says it's all bullshit, he cried and begged for his life, then threw Karen to the assassin to save himself. He also says Frank Castle tried to kill him, even though Castle was not only there to save him, but Frank actually took a bullet meant for him.
[[/folder]]

!!United States Military

!!!'''United States Army'''

[[folder:General Joe Greller]]

!!''General Joseph "Joe" Greller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peter Mensah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''

-->''"I pulled you one Ace. Emil Blonsky, born in Russia, raised in England, and on loan from SOCOM from the Royal Marines."''

An officer of the U.S. army tasked with putting together a taskforce to capture the Hulk when Thunderbolt Ross tracks Bruce Banner to Rio de Janeiro.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's an African American bald general.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colonel Chester Phillips]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lt. Colonel Eric Savin]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Steve Rogers / Captain America]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Captain America]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sgt. James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gilmore Hodge]]
!!''Pvt. Gilmore Hodge''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hodge.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"What's with the accent, Queen Victoria? I thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Lex Shrapnel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''

->'''Colonel Phillips:''' Hodge passed every test we gave him. He's big, he's fast. He obeys orders, he's a soldier.
->'''Abraham Erskine:''' He's a bully.

A member of the United States Army during World War II, assigned to the Strategic Scientific Reserve.
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* TheBully: Hodge enjoys picking on people he considers beneath him, like Steve.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a sexist bully with a vicious streak.
* JustFollowingOrders: Phillips singles him out as a preferred candidate for Erskine's serum due to his ability to follow orders.
* PetTheDog: He isn't above applauding his former bullying victim after Steve rescues [=POWs=].
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Hodge isn't much of a hero, but he's not exactly on the Nazi level. All the same, he's a crude sexist who belittles Peggy Carter with lewd comments but respectfully obeys Colonel Phillips.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pvt. Lorraine]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colonel Bennett]]
!!Colonel Morty Bennett
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Andrew Polk
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

The Colonel in charge of Fort Bryant, in on Rawlins, Russo, and Schoonover's criminal activities.
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* BaldOfEvil: A balding man in league with a GovernmentConspiracy.
* BondageIsBad: Bennett entertains every Saturday night at home like clockwork. When Frank finds Bennett, he's in the middle of being "punished" by a dominatrix. His preferences are subject to much mockery.
-->'''Frank Castle:''' Well shit, Morty. Looks like I got here just in time.
* TheCoroner: Used to work in an army mortuary in Afghanistan.
* DesecratingTheDead: He, Rawlins and Schoonover smuggled heroin by stuffing it inside the bodies of [=KIAs=].
* DirtyCoward: The reason Rawlins doesn't warn him that Frank is after him is because he has "the instincts of a rat and the courage of a rabbit." Judging from his reaction when Frank comes calling, it wasn't an inaccurate assessment. Of course, Bennett isn't too happy with Russo and Rawlins for keeping him in the dark.
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Russo, who kills him by stabbing him in the stomach several times. As well as the dominatrix who had been used by Russo as a spy.]]
* MeaningfulName: He worked in the mortuary and his name "Mort" means "Death."
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Russo murders him on Rawlins's orders after Frank went after him and he's no longer useful as bait.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ellen Brandt]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jack Taggart]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lewis Wilson]]
!!''Lewis Wilson''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lewiswilson.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Daniel Webber
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

A young veteran struggling to adjust to civilian life.
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* AccidentalMurder: Nearly shoots and kills his dad reflexively after waking up from a bad PTSD-induced dream.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:While it was hard to see him as an AntiVillain, Lewis was utterly irredeemable. However, his death was played out to show that he had become so broken down when he killed himself.]]
* BadDreams: Suffers from these after returning home. A symptom of his PTSD. It's not a stretch to infer hallucinations while hypnogogic: it certainly explains his almost-fatal misfire.
* BloodKnight: Frank deduces that Lewis joined the Army because he wanted to fight and had a taste about how it feels, more than just serving the country.
* TheCorruptible: Poor Lewis was not in a sound enough headspace to resist O'Connor's spiel. However, this doesn't mean corrupting vulnerable veterans is a safe pastime for would-be manipulators. PTSD is not a toy.
* DisproportionateRetribution: O'Connor [[PhonyVeteran lying about his service]] and using it to belittle actual combat veterans suffering from PTSD is heinous to be sure, [[spoiler: but Lewis probably didn't need to stab him to death over it]]. Then again, O'Connor ''did'' [[spoiler:reach for the knife first]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Lewis ultimately blows himself up after Frank gets him away from Karen and locks him inside a freezer. LampShaded by him reciting the Kipling poem 'The Young British Soldier' which is about a soldier in Afghanistan being encouraged to kill himself to spare himself from a worse fate.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: For somebody talking so much about rights (including his freedom of assembly when he's arrested on the steps of the courthouse), Lewis seems pretty set on killing Karen because "she should not be allowed to write what she did."
** What makes this hypocrisy especially galling is that all military personnel have to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment, which explicitly covers both ''Freedom of Speech'' and ''Freedom of the Press,'' making him as Un-American as such [[SarcasmMode "Patriots"]] get.
* MadBomber: He sets off several bombs targeted at law enforcement and then mails a manifesto to Karen. Later, he tries to target Karen and Senator Ori during an interview.
* MadnessMantra: Begins to recite poems to try and keep his mind in balance the more unhinged he became.
* MenDontCry: Well, they refuse to take the real help when offered it. Staying with the group and taking Curtis' "touchy-feely" advice to work on himself would have been the better thing to do than Just Blame Everybody.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Frank explains to Lewis that his crimes have ensured his father's life will be ruined, it reduces him to a complete breakdown capped off by suicide.
* NeverMyFault: Frank remembers him as a kid who blames everyone else for his problems.
* NotSoDifferent: Lewis argues that he and Frank are a lot of like, both are men using violence to "fight injustice." Frank's having none of it and is insulted by the comparison. [[spoiler: However, he does try to stay with Lewis for as long as possible as he attempts suicide -- ''by explosion''. Lewis was brother enough, despite their differences.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepunisher/comments/7xipul/spoiler_a_list_of_similarities_between_lewis_and/ Lewis appears to be heavily inspired]] by Oklahoma City bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=].
* PetTheDog:
** Frank is actually able to convince him to tell him which wire to cut so he can save Curtis' and his own life.
** After he kills an Anvil employee at his home, he notices two budgies in a cage and spends a good while trying to convince them to fly away to freedom.
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Lewis's subplot is, on the face of, very detached from the main story arc of the first season which centers on Frank's revenge against a GovernmentConspiracy, with just a few interactions with the A-plot. However, it does illustrate what Frank maintained in ''Daredevil'' -- his is not ''simply'' a case of willfully-ignored PTSD gone terroristly ballistic.
* PrefersRocksToPillows: One of the early signs he's becoming unhinged is that he cannot sleep well on his home's bed, so he digs a ditch on the backyard and sleeps there (even if it's November and it's freezing outside, as Curtis points out when he finds him there).
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: His entire subplot is his road to becoming one of these, from regular "something is not right with my life" pitiful veteran through "loose-cannon risk" veteran (which prevents him from being hired by Anvil) and straight to "the system is shit and it's best I kill everything that I think is corrupt" veteran.
* SanitySlippage: He grows more and more unhinged on account of his [=PTSD=], eventually becoming a mass murdering terrorist who's convinced himself he's a freedom fighter.
* ShadowArchetype: The entire purpose of his subplot seems to be an answer to the accusations of fascism that the Punisher has long faced, letting Frank himself refute this ideology and show what makes him someone worth rooting for on some level.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He's having difficulty getting readjusted to life back home, and is attending Curtis Hoyle's support group. He eventually loses his chance to work for [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Anvil]] because Curtis sees all of the signs of severe (as in "on the road to becoming a SociopathicSoldier") PTSD and warns Russo of it.
* ShoutOut
** Veteran soldier that drives a taxi in New York City and becomes increasingly unhinged because his shell-shock is making it hard for him to adapt back into society and decides to commit a violent act on a politician to show he's fed up? [[Film/TaxiDriver Now where have we heard that before]]? ([[InUniverse Curtis even asks Frank]] [[LampshadeHanging if that rings any bells to him]] when he first talks about Lewis).
** Daniel Webber's performance also calls back to his portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald in ''[[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree 11/22/63]]''
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Lewis begins believing [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic O'Connor's]] rhetoric about the decline of their country and the need to change it. WordOfGod even says things might've turned out differently for him if he hadn't met O'Connor.
* TragicVillain: It's made very clear that Lewis' fate was all but sealed overseas; he was never going to get better without ''ridiculous'' amounts of help, and sans that he was headed for suicide [[spoiler:and almost did before going ballistic instead]]. In-universe, he's never regarded by other soldiers with hatred, only anger and pity.
* WesternTerrorists: He eventually becomes one, hoping to use fear to tear down what he views as a corrupt system.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It really is hard not to pity Lewis on some level as his descent into villainy and mass murder is primarily fueled by being a genuinely [[TheMentallyIll mentally ill]] veteran who falls prey to his [=PTSD=] and delusions. Might also qualify as a JerkassWoobie, since Lewis is offered support from multiple people, but refuses to seek help even as he goes more and more insane.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:O'Connor]]
!!''O'Connor''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Delaney Williams
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

Another member of Curtis Hoyle's support group who claims to be a Vietnam veteran who won the Silver Star.

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* AngryWhiteMan: He claims that the suppressed minority in America are the Christian white males and that the government is planning to take their guns. He also says that the Jews are controlling the internet.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The first casualty of Lewis' rampage, when Lewis confronts him over his stolen valor. If not for the fact that Lewis then decides to use his house as the lab where he creates various explosive devices that hurt innocent people, absolutely nobody would have cared about his end.]]
* BlatantLies: When Lewis confronts him with the fact he never served in Vietnam or ever saw combat, O'Connor randomly blurts the Jews altered his military record. Moments later when he doesn't know the name of an air base in Vietnam and Lewis tells him, he acts like he knew all along.
* TheCorrupter: Whatever he was getting out of going to the support group, the result was preying on vulnerable people to make himself feel more important. However... [[GoneHorriblyRight veterans are not toys that meet regulatory safety standards]] for use by any old SmugSnake.
* DirtyCoward: When he and Lewis are handing out NRA pamphlets at a government building, he walks away inmediatly and leaves Lewis to deal with the cop that then arrests him.
* HateSink: There is no redeeming value whatsoever about his character, who even leaving aside his deplorable political views is a cowardly PhonyVeteran who criticizes actual combat veterans of being weak for suffering from post-traumatic stress.
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: When Wilson asks him where he was stationed while confronting him over his [[PhonyVeteran Stolen Valor]], his response is awkward silence. He only makes up excuses ''after'' Lewis answers the question for him.
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:His eventual fate.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: This PhonyVeteran who never saw combat yet belittles real veterans dealing with PTSD as being 'pussies'.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: A manipulative liar and a racist.
* PhonyVeteran: Curtis is suspicious enough of O'Connor to look his record up after Lewis is arrested, and determines that he never served in Vietnam, as he didn't sign up until 1977 and in fact has never seen combat, let alone anything worth a Silver Star.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: He passes himself off as one of these. Turns out he's not the badass he claims to be, lied about almost everything about his service, and is apparently just using the support group to find others to recruit into whatever the hell he thinks he's doing.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He's a very toxic influence who is largely responsible for pushing Lewis Wilson into becoming a bombmaking terrorist.
* TheVietnamVet: Invokes it to lend credence to his rethoric, but it is a lie. He never served in Vietnam or ever saw combat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Bruno]]
!!''John Bruno''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jamal Duff
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A former military assassin put under psychiatric custody after S.H.I.E.L.D. deemed him too dangerous and unstable because he grew obssessed with finding creative ways to kill.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Despite being a dangerous killer, he turns out to be no match for Bobbi Morse.
* PsychoForHire: His job description.
* ScaryBlackMan: An african-american assassin who is so dangerous that he's put in custody by the very people he worked for.
[[/folder]]

!!!'''United States Air Force'''

[[folder: Major General Meade]]
!!''Major General Meade''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Eric L. Haney
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

An Air Force Major General and commading office of James Rhodes.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor example. In the comics he's part of a plot to destroy Iron Man. In the MCU he orders James Rhodes to deliver the Iron Man: Mark II armor to Justin Hammer.
* DemotedToExtra: From a minor antagonist to a single scene.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Brigadier General Glenn Talbot]]
!!''Brigadier General Glenn Talbot''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1c5e6d346f9aa0d209f75d253e91a34d.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"We cut down the tree, we pulled up the roots, but let's just say I'll rest easier when we throw it all on the bonfire."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AdrianPasdar
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E18Providence Episode 18: "Providence"]]'')

Talbot is an officer of the U.S. Air Force assigned to investigate the depth of HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. Although he was initially hostile to Phil Coulson's reformed S.H.I.E.L.D., he eventually came to respect them and become their allies in the fight against HYDRA.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Put in critical condition when a Daisy LMD shoots him in the brain with the intention of framing S.H.I.E.L.D. in a similar fashion to how Daisy had been framed for Mace's murder.]]
* ButtMonkey: Every time he meets Team Coulson, it doesn't go over well for him. It's not like we [[AssholeVictim feel sorry]] when he's knocked out and/or [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up somewhere else]]. [[spoiler:But when Malick uses his son to blackmail him into helping him...]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Originally quite hostile to Coulson and his team, he grows to respect and slowly realizes that they are not the bad guys.
* CompositeCharacter: He's ''Major'' Talbot only in name. Motive-wise he's closer to General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. This is probably why he gets promoted.
* {{Determinator}}: He simply won't give up his hunt for Coulson, especially after being humiliated in Canada.
* FriendOnTheForce: Though "friend" is stretching it, Coulson presses him into this role as S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer has the resources to contain gifted prisoners like Carl Creel. He becomes this more willingly as season 2 progresses.
* GeneralRipper:
** When he mentions "peacekeeping" troops, Coulson remarks that since Talbot's in charge, they'll be anything but.
** Coulson speculates that the worse case scenarios for his team and the surviving agents at the Hub are that he'll either lock them all up without trial or have them executed.
** When he finally catches up to them, he comes after them (a small group of four or five agents) with an '''army''' guns blazing and all, and threatens to make their lives a living hell unless they cooperate, and even if they do, they don't get to walk off.
** He literally becomes this in Season Two when he's promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General, though he soon knows his enemy well enough to recognize that the UN attack may not have been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s doing.
* HeroAntagonist: A fair number of people InUniverse would agree that going after rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents is a heroic act, considering how many of them are actually bad guys. However, he seems keen to focus on agents for whom he has a personal dislike, or even those he knows are innocent but believes can be threatened for information, meaning that this trope has a limit on it.
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:The only reason why he's Malick's inside man at the symposium in the first place.]]
* InspectorJavert: He admits in "Nothing Personal" that he never liked S.H.I.E.L.D. to begin with, hence why he's so keen to prosecute them, even if it means going across borders (Canada, specifically). [[spoiler: He gradually begins to warm up to them as the series goes on, but still ends up misunderstanding the situation half the time]].
* ItsPersonal: He never liked S.H.I.E.L.D, and there appears to be some history between him and Coulson.
* {{Jerkass}}: From the small conference call Team Coulson had with him, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment he patronized Coulson, questioned his capabilities as a leader and is ordering his men to practically invade the Hub]]. Coulson's annoyed expression when the call starts says it all.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he may not trust Coulson, he has a son and a wife he cares about very much proving he's not entirely heartless.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Nobody has an idea just how far HYDRA has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and letting them continue onward as if nothing happened should be out of the question for governments who nearly became victims of S.H.I.E.L.D. without some severe investigation and interrogation of those who remain, with their suspicions justified in Ward being a HYDRA agent who is allowed to roam free because nobody is questioning his loyalty.
** Later, in "Wake Up", he flat-out says that the current incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't exist if not for him, and considering he produced a trustworthy powered individual when none was available (the only option in that regard, Daisy, had gone rogue in her grief over losing Lincoln) he's more or less right.
** In "The Return", though he's initially hostile in his next encounter with Team Coulson, it's because he'd rather not risk the encounter being with phonies instead of the real deal; he'd already been fooled twice, so shame on him for how the Bakshi breakout was handled, and he's not about to let himself risk being fooled a third time. He does calm down a bit so that Coulson can explain just what the hell happened.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: When the team first meets Talbot, Coulson says the best case scenario resulting from Talbot's investigation will be the team being tied up in court hearings for the next six months.
* PapaWolf: He doesn't like it when Coulson mentions his son, thinking that Coulson was threatening him.
* PetTheDog: He expresses regret when May tells him that six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents died in "A Fractured House", saying he knows how it feels to lose good soldiers. Then they shake hands.
* RankUp: By Season Two, he's been promoted from a Colonel to a Brigadier General.
* ReflexiveResponse:
** He reacted immediately to May's call of "Watch your six!", despite the fact that he didn't see her, didn't know who she was, and didn't truly believe that he was in danger. His proper response gave him just enough time to evade Carl Creel's attack.
** On the flip side, in "The Return" he's so thoroughly fooled by the LMD infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. that the next time he and Coulson meet, he immediately assumes he's talking to an LMD.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He is pretty much a stand-in for General "Thunderbolt" Ross for ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', being an obstructive InspectorJavert for the heroes. [[spoiler: Subverted, however, because [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Talbot is much nicer underneath his tough exterior than Ross is]]. At the end of the day, all Ross wanted was the Hulk's power for himself, while Talbot actually has good intentions. He's just not quite imaginative enough to deal with the crazy things SHIELD has to deal with on a daily basis, which is why he ends up as a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist half the time that simply happens to be a bit WrongGenreSavvy. {{Jerkass}} he may be, he does have a HiddenHeartOfGold.]]
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: In Season 2, he starts to grow shades of this; for example, in "A Fractured House", he has doubts about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s involvement in the attack on the UN and even tells Senator Ward that he doesn't think S.H.I.E.L.D. was responsible. By "Aftershocks", he seems to be much closer to this role.
* VitriolicBestBuds: His relationship with Coulson has developed into this, more or less, by Season 3; they disagree a lot but also have come to rely on and trust each other. In season 4, "Wake Up", they lament how their clashing views make them argue and he is upset (rather than angry) that Coulson accused him of being a leak.
* WorthyOpponent: He and Coulson see this as each other. For his side, Coulson impressed him by successfully hiding from him for a winter season, and later admits that he has "big brass ones". He's functionally allies with S.H.I.E.L.D. by mid-Season two.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He has a pretty bad day when Agent 33 infiltrates his base. His attempt to BluffTheImposter goes nowhere as he fails to consider that she might be disguised as a ''male'' soldier, and then he puts himself in the marital doghouse when he mistakes his ''wife'' for her.[[spoiler: He becomes this again near the end of season 4, when SHIELD's entire base is destroyed, the team mysteriously goes missing, and he has no idea what's going on. Because all the evidence he has is a handful of busted LMD remains, he assumes that Coulson and his team have been replaced by robots (and while that did happen, Talbot only catches on after the LMD arc had ended). Talbot seems to be warming up to Coulson again when an LMD of Daisy puts him in critical condition, framing her for attempted murder just like the bad guys intended.]]
* YouRebelScum: His initial attitude towards Coulson's team can be summed up as this. He takes offence when they use the term "agent" to describe one of their own, because that makes it sound like they're still part of a legitimate agency. This has vanished entirely by season 4 and been replaced with a good deal of respect.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler:His reaction to Malick reneging on their deal for his own self-serving reasons.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: General Hale]]
!!''General Hale''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Catherine Dent
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E5Rewind Episode 93: "Rewind"]]'')

A high-ranking officer who takes charge in investigating S.H.I.E.L.D. when Talbot ends up in a coma.
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* AbusiveParent: [[spoiler:She keeps her "disappointing" teenage daughter locked up in some military base, when she's not having her do missions as covert assassin.]]
* BadBoss: Breaks multiple laws regarding human rights, and kills two subordinates for failing her. Oh and she has her teenage daughter working as a black ops assassin.
* BigBadEnsemble: In Season 5, Kasius and the Kree are the threat in the future, she's the threat in th present. [[spoiler: She's left as the sole Big Bad of Season 5, following Kasius' death and Team Coulson's return to the present.]]
* GeneralRipper: She was originally content with imprisoning Team Coulson. But after Fitz escaped, she's modified her orders to "shoot to kill"
* InspectorJavert: She leads the investigation to track down Team Coulson, and has zero redeeming qualities. In fact, she's more villainous than the TropeNamer as her goal is not actually to capture S.H.I.E.L.D. but eliminate them.
* MutantDraftBoard: Wants Robin Hinton "controlled" because her powers might uncover secrets.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: In her first two appearances alone she does things that would get any officer court-martialed.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Takes Talbot's role while he's in a coma. While Talbot is a {{Jerkass}}, he was not entirely unreasonable and had his PetTheDog moments and did every by the book; Hale actively disregards human rights and kills her own people, amongst other violations of military law.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Shoots Evans and Lucas dead after failing to get answers, completely unconcerned with facing any repercussions for such a blatant breach of military law.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colonel James Rhodes]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lt. Evans]]
!!''Lieutenant Evans''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Zibby Allen
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E22WorldsEnd Episode 88: "World's End"]]'')

Talbot's aide, who later is tasked with tracking down the missing members of S.H.I.E.L.D..
----
* InspectorAntagonist: She arrests Fitz in order to find Team Coulson and when convinced he doesn't know where they are, she grants him his requests of books and a TV to ensure his cooperation.
* YouHaveFailedMe: She gets a [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot from Hale]] after Fitz and Hunter steal the Zephyr One and a Cryo-Freeze Chamber.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Samuel Wilson]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Will Daniels]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Cosmic]] page
[[/folder]]

!!!'''United States Navy'''

[[folder:Jason Wilkes]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lt. Jack Thompson]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Curtis Hoyle]]
!!''Curtis Hoyle''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jason R. Moore
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

-->''"Do me a favor, Frank: don't be a wallowing asshole. Before I have to take this fake leg off and beat you to death with it. Just imagine your tombstone: 'Frank Castle lost an asskicking contest to a one-legged man.' I'll do it."''

A former Navy SARC and friend of Frank Castle. These days, he's an insurance salesman by day, and by night runs a support group for veterans with PTSD.
----
* AnArmAndALeg: Curtis lost the lower part of his left leg to a suicide bomber, and now gets by on a prosthetic.
* BlackBestFriend: One of Frank's closest allies.
* CruelToBeKind: Curtis tells Russo to not hire on Lewis at Anvil, because Lewis doesn't understand that the Anvil gig is the worst thing that could happen to him.
* DisabledSnarker: Having a prosthetic for his lower left leg doesn't take away his ability to snark.
* HandicappedBadass: He puts up a good fight against Lewis and nearly overcomes him, even if he's ultimately beaten up with his own fake leg.
* TheMedic: Curtis was a hospital corpsman, and Micro summons him to treat Frank's injuries after he's wounded in his encounter with Gunner.
* NiceGuy: Very much. He's nonjudgmental and only wants the best for Frank and Lewis.
* RaceLift: Curtis was white in the comics, and in the show is an African-American.
* SecretKeeper: Frank has maintained contact with Curtis since his presumed "death" on the Blacksmith's boat.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Curtis tries to help other vets getting out of it. He briefly lapses back to it when [[spoiler: Lewis beats him]] as losing to a kid reminds him of how helpless he was when he lost his leg.
[[/folder]]

!!!'''United States Marine Corps'''

[[folder:Colonel Schoonover]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsNewYork New York Criminals and Terrorists]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gosnell]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsNewYork New York Criminals and Terrorists]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lt. Frank Castle]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUDefendersAllies Defenders Allies]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lt. Billy Russo]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giyera]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUHYDRAOperatives HYDRA Operatives]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carl Lucas]]
--> See Luke Cage in the [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gunner Henderson]]
!!''Gunner Henderson''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jeb Kreager
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

A Marine who was part of Frank Castle's team in Operation Cerberus.
----
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He frequently quotes Literature/TheBible. The first time he meets Frank, he intentionally exploits this trope in the extreme to troll him into thinking he's a nutjob, before making clear he's just screwing with him.
* CrazySurvivalist: He's living completely off the grid by the time Frank and Micro come looking for him, living in his family's cabin in the Kentucky mountains. He's got no electricity, no credit cards, no car, not even running water.
* DeepSouth: Gunner's got a Kentucky drawl.
* DueToTheDead:
** A young marine loaned Gunner his knife after Gunner lost his own. After the young man was killed, he went to return the knife and pay his respects to the dead marine. What he found was Colonel Bennett and Agent Orange stuffing bags of heroin into [=KIAs=]. So Gunner made a tape of Orange executing Ahmad Zubair, and sent it to Micro. The rest is history...
** Even earlier he is upset that Frank desecrates Zubair's body by removing the bullet that killed him with pincers, pointing out that this kind of stuff is not what clear conscience military does.
** [[spoiler: As he lays dying, the only thing he can say to Frank is to desperately ask him to bury him. While Frank is unable to do so himself due to his own injuries, Micro calls the local police to his location to ensure his body is found and given due rites.]]
* ReligiousBruiser: Subverted, he tries to look like a fanatic version of one when he introduced himself to Frank only to admit he was just trolling him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in two episodes, yet Gunner's decision to record the Zubair assassination kicked off the events of ''Daredevil'' season 2.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The one named member of Operation Cerberus outside of Frank who isn't in on the conspiracy. He even expresses doubts about their actions earlier than Frank does, and is the one to leak video of Rawlins's torture.
* WeaponOfChoice: A hunting bow after retiring from the military.
[[/folder]]

!!Department of Homeland Security
[[folder:Dinah Madani]]
!!''Special Agent Dinah Madani''
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[[caption-width-right:300:"The people he's up against, he's going to get himself killed, Billy. Neither of us want that, right?"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Amber Rose Revah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

A Department of Homeland Security agent whose investigations abroad lead her to cross paths with Frank Castle.
----
* CanonForeigner: Like Sam Stein, Dinah has no comics counterpart.
* DatingCatwoman: Madani is quickly seduced by Billy Russo and begins an affair with him. She weans herself off him once she learns he's dirty and also [[spoiler: killed Stein]].
* {{Determinator}}: Dinah will let nothing stop her from exposing the GovernmentConspiracy and avenging the murder of her former partner, Ahmed Zubair, [[spoiler: and later that of Sam Stein.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' Season 1.
* {{Expy}}: Jeph Loeb has likened her to [[Film/TheFugitive Samuel Gerard]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: She takes to her bed for a week after Sam's death. On the plus side, this convinces Frank she's on the level.]]
* HurtingHero: Ahmed Zubair, her first partner, was killed in Afghanistan.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Her parents immigrated from Iran and Dinah herself is now in the service of the US government.
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler: Frank saved her life after Micro rammed her car, and she later repays the favor, saving Frank's life by bringing him to her father, who's a doctor. She later makes a deal with her superiors to let Frank go free.]]
* ItsPersonal: Her interest in Frank Castle is because he's one of the soldiers involved with the unit that tortured and killed Ahmed Zubair. [[spoiler: Things get even moreso when Billy kills Stein and several other DHS agents in the midst of a shootout.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's kind of abrasive and doesn't always keep Sam in the loop, but she's fundamentally on the side of good.
* MadeOfIron: Not quite to the same level as Frank, but he's quite impressed that she survived [[spoiler: getting shot in the head]].
* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: [[spoiler: Russo shoots her in the head but she survives, which impresses Frank.]]
* TheWarOnTerror: She's part of the DHS and recently has returned home from service in the Middle East
* YouAreInCommandNow: She takes over as SAC after Wolf gets killed by Frank.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam Stein]]
!!''Special Agent Samuel "Sam" Stein''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samstein.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Nathanson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

Madani's partner.
----
* CanonForeigner: Just like Dinah
* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:You should have patted down Billy for weapons when you got the drop on him, Stein.]]
* TheMentor: Puts Madani through the ropes on her transfer in to New York City.
* NumberTwo: He's Madani's second-in-command after she takes command.
* SarcasticDevotee: He's ultimately loyal to Madani, but not afraid to let her know when he disagrees with her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carson Wolf]]
!!''Special Agent in Charge Carson Wolf''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' C. Thomas Howell
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security's New York City field office
----
* AssholeVictim: No one sheds a tear when Frank kills him.
* BadassGrandpa: Wolf appears to be in his 50s or 60s, but still proves himself to be a tough opponent for Frank.
* DirtyCop: Rawlins and Russo paid him to murder David. He later coerced Mitchell Ellison into burying the story about David, and he was one of those who planned out the Central Park deal that ultimately killed Frank Castle's family.
* NeckSnap: Frank snaps his neck at the end of his torture session.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rafael Hernandez]]
%%[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_dinah_madani.png]]
%%[[caption-width-right:281:some caption text]]
!!''Operations Director Rafael "Rafi" Hernandez''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Tony Plana
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

Operations Director of the Department of Homeland Security and mentor of Dinah Madani.
----
* AffectionateNickname: Dinah calls him "Rafi".
* CoolOldGuy: Unlike Wolf, Hernandez has a pretty fatherly relationship with Madani
* TheMentor: He's the one who brought Dinah into Homeland Security and mentored her.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Only to a degree, as he doesn't understand Madani's actions because he's LockedOutOfTheLoop and he wants her to succeed in her career
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He wants to help Madani succeed in her career and only antagonizes hen he feels her actions threaten this or the Department. Once he learns [[spoiler:of the bug planted in her office]] he grows more supportive. In the end he also [[spoiler:agrees to give Frank a clean slate as a reparation for his losses and the service he's provided.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU)

[[folder:Rosalind Price]]
!!''Rosalind Price''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The laws of nature have changed. And until the laws of man change to reflect that, we can only do what we feel is right."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ConstanceZimmer
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature Episode 45: "Laws of Nature"]]'')

Head of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU).
----
* AlmightyJanitor: She's a shady intelligence officer who happens to have considerable influence over the President.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It ''seems'' she just wants to protect humanity... but her "relationship" with the President makes her motives suspect to say the least. [[spoiler: It turns out she's in league with Gideon Malick. However she's completely unaware that he's HYDRA until she and Coulson put the pieces together.]]
* BadassBoast: When Coulson asks who she answers to, she simply replies "People answer to ''me''." As in, the freaking President.
* CynicismCatalyst: Her husband died of cancer, which is why she puts the captured Inhumans in stasis. As far as she's concerned, they're victims of a disease that makes them a danger to themselves and others, so it's no different than putting someone in a medically induced coma until a cure is found.
-->'''Rosalind:''' I would have given anything to be able to do this for him. Just... put him to sleep for a while.
* DeadpanSnarker: She gives as good as she gets from Coulson.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Coulson. Both heads of intelligence agencies, similar taste in cars, and similar banter.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Though she's willing to authorize lethal force, she clearly wants to capture most of the Inhumans alive. She's quite aghast at the trail of bodies left by Lash, though she spends most of her first episode believing Coulson is responsible.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "I get my weekly reports... from [[spoiler:Malick]]..."
* FantasticRacism: Towards superpowered individuals, though not overly so. She is annoyed that they're being murdered before she can capture them, and lethal force is only considered an option, not a first resort.
* IHaveManyNames: She has used a number of aliases within various agencies. Even "Rosalind Price" is an alias.
* KnowledgeBroker: She's able to dig into '''S.H.I.E.L.D.'s''' secrets... including T.A.H.I.T.I., which wasn't part of the public data dump in ''Winter Soldier''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Is hinted to have ''the President of the United States'' wrapped around her finger.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that Gideon Malick is with HYDRA.]]
* MysteriousPast: Coulson's background check on her revealed she worked for multiple government agencies under an alias.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She can't resist making a HurricaneOfPuns about Coulson's hand. She also hints that, like Coulson, she treats her own classic car as a CompanionCube.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show strongly implies that "Rosalind Price" is simply another alias.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Believed that Coulson was behind a rash of dead Inhumans, not suspecting a third party was involved.
* RomanticFalseLead: For Coulson, until her death.
* SkilledButNaive: "A Wanted Inhuman" proves that she is able to match Coulson in the world of espionage but she makes the critical error of publicizing her organization and its goals, something that SHIELD and HYDRA knew to avoid because of the problems that doing so would cause.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Ward snipes her in the neck as she dines with Coulson, specifically because he wants to hurt him.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She had been unknowingly collaborating with HYDRA through her correspondence with Gideon Malick.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to eliminate the threat posed by the newly-emergent Inhumans by any means necessary.
* WorldHalfEmpty: She points out for every Daisy there's a Lash, which is why they have to contain them until they can be sorted out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luther Banks]]
!!''Luther Banks''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Andrew Howard
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature Episode 45: "Laws of Nature"]]'')

An agent of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit and the right-hand man of Rosalind Price. He leads the unit's operations.
----
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:His own gun is turned on him not long after Rosalind is killed.]]
* GutturalGrowler: His voice has a rather notable rasp to it.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Actually for real a good person, but positively '''looks''' like a HYDRA {{Mook|s}}. Which may or may not have been deliberate casting. It doesn't help that his backstory makes him seem way more suspicious.
* NoodleIncident: Was discharged from the USMC "with cause", but we never learn what exactly.
* NumberTwo: To Rosalind. He leads the ATCU's operations to capture (or eliminate) Inhumans. Daisy even says this trope's name word for word in "Among Us Hide".
* RedHerring:
** [[spoiler:Despite what Hunter thinks, Banks isn't actually Lash - or even Inhuman - after all.]]
** [[spoiler:During the ambush at the Distant Star facility, it initially looks like he's TheMole. Instead, Giyera took control of his gun.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Central Intelligence Agency

[[folder:Marion James]]
!!''Marion James''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

Deputy Director of the CIA, due to move up to the Director's chair.
----
* CIAEvilFBIGood: Zig-zagged with her. Even if she's the most honorable member of the Agency to appear on-screen and is horrified about Rawlins' "shit-show" (her own words), she still does everything possible to keep the whole mess from becoming public, [[spoiler:including allying herself with Rawlins (and then again, [[BlackmailBackfire she makes it perfectly clear to him, when he points out that this alliance could be used as leverage over her when she tells him he'll be forced to retire after getting rid of the loose ends]], that she will have him arrested by Homeland Security if he tries, her own career be damned)]].
* KarmaHoudini: While she has morals she'll likely keeps her career despite giving a mass murderer a new identity so he doesn't expose the dealings of Agent Orange and won't get any comeuppance for allying with him solely because she and the Agency will look bad if they didn't pay attention to their agent doing war crime (it's only when she sees the full picture she stops covering Agent Orange and even then she was willing to let him walk scott-free and put everything on Russo).
* NumberTwo: She's the second in command of the CIA, though she's about to become the new Director.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When she's in a position to eliminate the last loose ends of Rawlins' conspiracy, Frank, she opts to set him up with a new life and cut him loose.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Orange (Bill Rawlins)]]
!!''William J. "Bill" Rawlins III''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Men like me make the plans, men like you shed the blood."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Paul Schulze
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/ThePunisher2017''

->''"I've watched friends die and I've left good men behind in shitty countries because that was the home they were born to. I don't know a single operative with any years under their belt who hasn't had to do something that gave them nightmares. But we endure those nightmares, embrace them, even so that the rest of America can sleep peacefully."''

The CIA's Director Of Covert Affairs, involved in Frank's activities in Afghanistan.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[DownplayedTrope By comparison only.]] Both comic and show versions are amoral villains, but comic Rawlins was also obnoxious, smug, sexist, and racist.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Compaired to his roguish-looking comic incarnation who slept around with men and women, the show's Rawlins is very plain, balding and a little overweight. Instead of the badass-looking eyepatch of the comics, MCU Rawlins openly displays his injured eye.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Rawlins was a deep-cover CIA operative with absolutely uncanny skill in intelligence work and [[CorneredRattlesnake utterly lethal when pressed]]; among his accomplishments were subverting a Middle Eastern terrorist cell to carry out a SuicideAttack ''on demand'' and killing a Spetznaz and a Russian Army general -- ''at the same time'' -- with nothing but a pocketknife. In comparison, "Agent Orange" is not only such an incompetent analyst he gets most of Frank's team killed by sending them into an ambush [[IgnoredExpert Frank]] saw coming just from pictures of the target, he's ''completely incapable'' of fighting anyone who's ''not'' restrained; after rescuing his team from the ambush, Frank is able to permanently blind him in one eye with a single telegraphed blow, and [[spoiler:Frank ultimately kills him with his bare hands ''despite'' injuries received from several hours of torture by Rawlins]].
* AgeLift: He looks older than his comic counterpart.
* AssholeVictim: Frank punches him in the face, [[EyeScream leaving him permanently blind out of one eye]], because he ordered Castle's unit to walk straight into an ambush because he didn't interpreted his intelligence correctly [[SmugSnake and refused to hear everybody else's warnings out of spite]]. [[spoiler:When Frank finally gets his hands on him and tears him apart, everybody else is more sickened (or in the case of Russo, amused) at Frank's brutality than the fact Rawlins has died.]]
* BaldOfEvil: A war criminal with a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture who has a shiny dome.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In ''The Punisher'' Season 1, along with [[spoiler:Billy Russo]]. Rawlins is the one who originally set up the Blacksmith's heroin operation, using it to finance illegal CIA operations to eliminate threats to American interests (or people who got in their way; Rawlins doesn't really seem to see much of a difference between the two). Interestingly, Rawlins arrogance leads him to believe that he is the sole BigBad who makes the plans and [[spoiler:Russo]] is TheDragon who does the dirty work, but it's clear that [[spoiler:Russo]] is an equal partner at this point.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Bugs Dinah's office to silence any leads she may find.
* ChewingTheScenery: Based on his character's uncharacteristic enthusiasm in the scene where Rawlins [[spoiler:tortures Frank]], Paul Schulze clearly got a kick out of [[EvilIsHammy being hammily evil]].
* CIAEvilFBIGood: Rawlins participated in a variety of atrocious war crimes overseas, took part in the smuggling of heroin in the corpses of fallen soldiers and ordered the assassination of Frank and his family when he thought Frank was going to go public about them.
* CompositeCharacter: With Robert Bethell, another CIA officer from the MAX series. In truth, he's probably more similar to Bethel, in temperment, and in being behind a drug-smuggling through dead servicemen plot. The "Agent Orange" alias comes from the codename of two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Frank's punishment is ''exceptionally'' brutal. [[spoiler:First, he cuts into his side [[LodgedBladeRecycling using the same knife he had just used to stab Frank]], then he follows it up by stabbing him in the chest ''at least'' ten times in quick succession, twisting the knife high up, [[SlashedThroat slashing across his throat]], and before he bleeds out, [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge repeatedly punching him in the face]] before finally finishing him off by [[EyeScream gouging his eyes out with his thumbs]].]]
* DirtyCoward: Russo comments to Rawlins about this at one point, noting Frank goes berserk on him he notes that Rawlins had the same fear that his torture victims had, and that the "only reason that you ever wanted Frank dead was so that you could pretend that he never made you feel like a man about to die".
* EvilIsPetty: Russo suggests the entire reason Rawlins targeted Frank and his family is revenge for Frank giving him his milky eye and making him feel genuine fear for his life.
* EyeScream: He lost the sight in his left eye when a pissed off Frank punched him after the ambush. Rawlins later lies about how he got his injury, saying that he was "wounded in the line of duty", receiving a medal for it. [[spoiler:Later on, Rawlins meets his end by Frank gouging his eyes out.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: To the Punisher arc in ''Daredevil'' Season 2, as he targeted Frank Castle in an attempt to kill him, believing that he was the one who leaked [[spoiler:the murder of Zubair]] to Micro and he was also part of [[spoiler: Schoonover's heroin operation]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a permanent dent in his face below his injured left eye from where Frank punched him.
* HateSink: He seems to have been written to be as loathsome as possible.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The man tries to make it look like everything he's done is for the sake of America's security. Emphasis on ''tries''.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His speech to some CIA agent initiates is pretty much that not only is he a living example of the "[[CIAEvilFBIGood evil CIA Agent]]" archetype, but he's proud of being so because [[NecessaryEvil protecting America requires the occasional hard decision]] and he expects them all to become this as well and use this mentality to stave off the nightmares.
* InNameOnly: Played with. There were a few characters in the comics with the codename of Agent Orange; a telepathic S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who specialized in MindManipulation, a [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] Avengers, and a PoweredArmor user. In the show, the name is likely inspired by the source of the name of those characters; a chemical herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam War, infamous for its effect on both local population and US servicemen.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His career and reputation.
%%* IvyLeagueForEveryone: According to his profile, he went to Yale, then attended Harvard Business School.
* KnightOfCerebus: Fitting as he led the Cerberus Squad, but every time he shown up in the show, Rawlins is a dangerous and unhinged opponent that rivals how Frank was on Daredevil Season 2, and is easily one of the more frightening villains of the MCU Netflix serieses.
* LackOfEmpathy: Rawlins shows little concern for the soldiers under his command, at one point writing off Frank's ([[CassandraTruth accurate]]) suspicions that their mission is an ambush. When the traumatized and wounded survivors return, Rawlins only looks at them with a bored expression and asks if they neutralized their target. When he sends some of Billy's operatives after Gunner and Frank in the forest, he watches through their helmet-cams and shows no emotion when they're picked off, only switching feeds to still living soldiers.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His "Agent Orange" codename, which is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange infamous chemical]] used for herbicidal warfare by the United States during the Vietnam War, which has caused severe health problems in millions of individuals over the course of decades.
* NonActionBigBad: He's one half of the first season's BigBadDuumvirate but unlike the other half, Rawlins only relies on his "grunts" to handle the field work. The only time he gets his hands dirty is when it's time to torture prisoners, which he takes disturbing enjoyment in.
* NotSoStoic: He tortures and reacts to an assassination attempt with a really composed manner except when he sees Frank, as Frank is the one that gave him his milky eye.
* RaceLift: He was half-Egyptian in the comic, enabling him to pass as a native when he worked in the middle east. In the show, he's caucasian.
* RedRightHand: If it wasn't for his injured eye, he'd pass as an example of TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse.
* RichBitch: Because UpperClassTwit doesn't cover how much of a jerk he is, and he come from a wealthy background, bordering on AristocratsAreEvil.
* SexIsViolence: Russo accuses him of actually getting off on beating prisoners with his bare hands. At first it just seems like an insult, but when Rawlins is torturing [[spoiler:Frank]] later on, he does seem to be deriving [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything way too much pleasure from it.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: His links to the CIA, Homeland Security, and others let him set up Schoonover's heroin operations, to the point that the authorities could not only not stop them, they didn't even know about them. Even working outside the law made little impact; not only were Daredevil and the Punisher barely able to make a dent in the operation, but not even ''[[TheDreaded Madame Gao]]'', one of the founders of [[AncientConspiracy the Hand]], could do much to rival their operation.[[note]]Though it's implied that Madame Gao wasn't doing much to fight him.[[/note]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He comes from very old Virginia money.
* SmugSnake: He is a true-blue scumbag that cares nothing about the opinions of other people even if hearing them could prevent deaths, ''especially'' not from 'grunts', as he believes that he himself is ''far'' above them and sees soldiers as nothing more than weapons to point and dispose of once used (even saying as much to their faces ''multiple times''). Russo also at one point gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech where he says that Rawlins seemed to get borderline sexual pleasure out of the torturing he did as part of Task Force Cerberus, but when Frank attacked him and he had to confront his own mortality, he was just as afraid of dying as those he tortured. Its shown during his torture sessions with Frank later that, while he's a sadist who loves dealing out damage and pain, he ''can not'' take any himself as, whenever Frank gets just a ''little bit'' free, he turns into a screaming, begging mess, powerless to stop him.
* TortureTechnician: A very good one, his preferred method being simple fists.
* VillainousBreakdown: After Deputy Director Marion James learns about his illegal operations, she informs him that [[spoiler:his name will be kept out of official inquiry, and Schoonover and Russo will take the blame for the deaths that happened, but Rawlins will be forced to retire]]. And then James warns him that if he doesn't go along with this, [[spoiler:she will turn him over to Homeland Security herself]]. Having lost [[spoiler:his entire career]], Rawlins looses all traces of sanity, and settles for just gaining petty revenge against Frank for taking his eye.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He murders Colonel Bennett once his usefulness as bait has come to an end, as well as a prostitute he was using as a spy to alert him of Frank's presence. [[spoiler:He later plans on throwing Russo under the bus to save his career.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Rawlins was the one behind the deaths of Frank's children, [[spoiler:and he later kidnaps and threatens to kill Micro's son.]]
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[[folder:Sharon Carter]]
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!!Deparment of Damage Control
[[folder:Anne-Marie Hoag]]
!! Anne-Marie Hoag
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tyne Daly
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''

The director of ComicBook/DamageControl, a U.S. government department operated by Stark Industries that's tasked with cleaning up collateral wreckage caused by superhuman activity.
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* CleanUpCrew: A non-villainous example. Their goal is to clean up and repair the damage left behind by superhero activities and salvage materials and weapons from the battles.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As the head of Damage Control, she oversees the logistics of cleaning up sites affected by superhuman battles, which makes Adrian Toomes' business redundant.
* PowerHair: She wears her hair at a medium length, reflecting her position of power.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in the prologue of ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', but her actions inadvertently turn Toomes towards villainy.
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* {{Expy}}: Her anti-Inhuman demagoguery and extremist attitude make her a very close DistaffCounterpart for Senator Robert Kelly from [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesHumansOriginalTimeline the X-Men film series]].

* {{Foil}}: To Mariah Dillard. Both are [[CorruptPolitician corrupt politicians]] who are openly against [[FantasticRacism anyone with powers]] and work with a criminal syndicate. For the former point, Mariah eems to use this stance to support her political campaign and is rather ambiguous whether or not she means it, while Nadeer makes it clear that she genuinely means it, [[spoiler: blaming them for the death of her mother in the Incident.]] For the latter point the crime syndicate Mariah works with is her family, hence the "Stokes-Dillard gang", but wants to further isolate herself from them, claiming not to be like them, while Nadeer has no familial background to the crime syndicate she works with, The Watchdogs, but wants to further integrate herself, due to similar stance that she believes the Watchdogs and her shares. Both have also [[spoiler:killed their relatives.]] However [[spoiler: Mariah killed Cottonmouth out of a emotional and impulsive rage, while Nadeer killed her brother Vijay, off a promise they made long ago, not trying to show her emotions and reluctance in doing so.]] Also while their views on their crime syndicates are different, so are their methods of dealing them. Despite Mariah claiming not to be the rest of her family, after the influence of Shades and Diamondback, she further delves into the criminal dealing and accepts the fact that she may [[NotSoDifferent not be as different as the rest of her family as she led her self to believe]] and eventually [[spoiler: becomes the head of her syndicate.]] On the other hand Nadeer prefers not to get into the shadier dealings of the Watchdogs, causing massive mistrust on the latter end, despite her pleas that they are alike, and eventually [[spoiler: gets killed by them.]]

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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Incredible Hulk''[[/note]] | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

* DrowningMySorrows: In TheStinger of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' after he had a '''really''' rough day: his star soldier Blonsky went psycho and became the Abomination, his daughter severed her ties with him, and he was forced to release Banner to defeat Blonsky. As ''[[Film/MarvelOneShots The Consultant]]'' reveals, his day will only get worse.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Takes Talbot's role while he's in a coma. While Talbot is a {{Jerkass}}, he was not entirely unreasonable and had his PetTheDog moments; Hale actively disregards human rights and kills her own people.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Zig-zagged with her. Even if she's the most honorable member of the Agency to appear on-screen and is horrified about Rawlins' "shit-show" (her own words), she still does everything possible to keep the whole mess from becoming public, [[spoiler:including allying herself with Rawlins (and then again, [[BlackmailBackfire she makes it perfectly clear to him when he points out that this alliance could be used as leverage over her when she tells him he'll be forced to retire after getting rid of the loose ends]] that she will have him arrested by Homeland Security if he tries, her own career be damned)]].

* CompositeCharacter: With Robert Bethel, another CIA officer from the MAX series. In truth, he's probably more similar to Bethel, in temperment, and in being behind a drug-smuggling through dead servicemen plot. The "Agent Orange" alias comes from the codename of two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents

* AbusiveParent: [[spoiler:She keeps her "disappointing" teenage daughter locked up in some military base, when she's not having her do missions as an illegal assassin.]]

* InspectorJavert: She leads the investigation to capture Team Coulson, and has zero redeeming qualities. In fact, she's more villainous than the TropeNamer

* AbusiveParent: She keeps her "disappointing" teenage daughter locked up in some military base, when she's not having her do missions as an illegal assassin

* BadBoss: Breaks multiple laws regarding human rights, and kills two subordinates for failing her.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Shoots [[spoiler: Evans and Lucas]] dead after failing to get answers, completely unconcerned with facing any repercussions for such a blatant breach of military law.