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Money Heist Main Character Index
Main series: Criminals | Police & Military | Hostages
Other media: Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area

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In general:

In General

• Action Girl: The women are capable of using weapons just as well as the guys, perhaps even moreso after training for months.
• The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of the second season, they succeeded in printing a billion Euros and getting away from the police, with the exception of Oslo, Moscow and Berlin, who died during the heist.
• Battle Couple:
  • Both Tokyo/Rio and Denver/Stockholm have their moments.
  • Averted with The Professor and Raquel, being the brains of the team.
• Caper Crew:
  • Intially in the first two seasons, the Professor is the Mastermind while the rest of the heist team have defined specializations: Berlin and Tokyo are thieves, Rio is a hacker, Nairobi is a forger, Moscow is a machinery expert, and Denver, Oslo, and Helsinki are muscles. Berlin also acts as the Partner-In-Crime.
  • In the Bank of Spain heist, Raquel and Palermo replace Berlin as joint Partners-In-Crime, alongside several additions: Mónica as the New Kid, Bogotá as both a Safe-Cracker and machinery expert (replacing Moscow in the latter role), Marseille as the Coordinator, and Manila as an Inside Man (although she's directly part of the crew rather than mainly an employee or regular costumer of the Bank). There's also an assisting squad of unnamed people from Pakistan serving as Fixers. Benjamín and Matías join midway through the heist as another machinery expert and New Kid, respectively.
• Criminal Found Family: In spite of personal relationships being forbidden by the crew's three main rules written out by the Professor, all of them come to treat each other as close friends and family, with several romantic couples forming between them.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Helsinki and Palermo are both gay, Manila is transgender, and Berlin is terminally ill.
• Everyone Has Standards: Most of the robbers do their best to avoid physically harming any of the hostages, and are even concerned about inflicting harm on the police. The only member who doesn't have such standards (for the most part, at least) is Berlin.
• Freudian Excuse: For a variety of different reasons. All of the robbers are messed up in some way, which always involves a Dark and Troubled Past.
• Given Name Reveal: Most of the group reveals their real names over the course of the series. A particularly dramatic instance is when Moscow is dying and reveals his name as part of his last will.
• Incompatible Orientation: A couple of instances. Nairobi (straight woman) eventually develops feelings for Helsinki (gay man), while Palermo (gay man) was completely in love with Berlin (straight man). Although both couples manage to work things out as Platonic Life-Partners, it still creates some distress for Nairobi, and A LOT for Palermo.
• Just Like Robin Hood: This is an explicitly stated rule that the robbers try to follow. As long as no one gets hurt, the public will be more likely to support them.
  The Professor: Be very careful, because the moment that there is a single drop of blood, this is very important, we will stop being Robin Hood and just become regular motherfuckers.
• Karma Houdini:
  • They get away unscathed with their Royal Mint of Spain heist at the end of Season 2 (save for Oslo, Moscow and Berlin). Denver even finds himself a girlfriend in the form of Mónica, one of the hostages.
  • Happens again in the series finale where, now with Sierra as well, the heist team become free to start new lives with different identities (but at the cost of the lives of Nairobi and Tokyo).
• Location Theme Naming: With the exception of the Professor, all of the robbers have codenames based off of cities, as part of the Professor's rules regarding how they'd refer to each other and the limits of their relations.
• The Most Wanted: Robbing 2.4+ billion euros makes the heist team an objective of Europol and puts them in international search and capture. It also provides the robbers with much better resources for the Bank heist compared with what they had before, like having a team of 65 Pakistanis remotely doing what Rio did by himself in the Mint heist.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: One of the rules established at the beginning. Aside from the related members like Moscow & Denver and Helsinki & Oslo, the Professor is the only one who knows everyone else's identities. This progressively falls apart as several members get to know each other quite well with strong relationships (mainly romantic ones), such as Tokyo & Rio, Denver & Stockholm, and the Professor himself & Lisbon.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're all criminals hailing from different backgrounds and have different reasons for their criminal history.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tokyo and Nairobi are both The Lad-ette type, in contrast to Monica/Stockholm and Raquel/Lisbon, who are more conventionally feminine.
• Two Girls to a Team: In the first two seasons, Tokyo and Nairobi are the only female robbers. Averted from Season 3 onward, when Mónica and Raquel join the team as Stockholm and Lisbon. After the deaths of Nairobi and Tokyo, Raquel, Monica, Manila and Sierra (the latter of whom joined midway through the second heist) end up being the remaining female members, which still amounts to four.
• Villain Protagonist: They're the protagonist collective of the series, with almost all the promotional material being centered on them; it wasn't until around Season 5's promotions that a few other characters got their fair share.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Following the Mint heist, they end up having a lot of supporters due to their Robin Hood-esque goals, with their only notable opposers being the fans that Arturo has gotten upon becoming a celebrity in the meantime. In Season 3, when they publicise Rio's torture at the hands of the police, thousands of protesters march to the Bank of Spain to try to stop the police from arresting the group. It grows to the point when Lisbon and Rio inform that their actions have resulted in the deaths of many soldiers (thus directly contradicting Rule #1), they still support the heist group, and only leave when Tamayo and the Professor fake their deaths.

Royal Mint of Spain Heist (Seasons 1 & 2):

The Professor

The Professor/Sergio Marquina

Played by: Álvaro Morte

Voiced by: Todd Haberkorn (English)

A mysterious man with no known past who recruits a Heist Team to carry out the plan he has developed.

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• Affably Evil: Acts really kind and generous. However, he's willing to put many lives in danger to get what he wants.
• Badass Bookworm: He's a highly-learned individual and polyglot, and in Season 2 he gets in a wins a fight against Raquel's ex, a police officer, in about two moves and without getting touched.
• Batman Gambit: He's very good at predicting the police's plans and using it to his advantage.
• Big Little Brother: He's taller than Berlin, who's slightly older than him.
• Character Tics: He adjusts his glasses by pushing them back to his nose when he's explaining something or pandering his thoughts.
• The Chessmaster: He has plans within plans, can come up with workable ideas on the fly and prepares for (almost) any eventuality.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Besides his love interest Raquel, both Tokyo and Nairobi have tried to flirt with him, despite his awkwardness with women.
• Crazy-Prepared: His plan takes into account almost every possibility that may happen - in fact, potential failures and mistakes are also part of the plan.
• Connected All Along: Andrés and him are brothers, as revealed in the finale of Season 2.
• Dating Catwoman: Somewhat. He knows perfectly well that Raquel is the cop tasked with bringing the bank robbers down, but he falls in love with her anyway.
• Did Not See That Coming: While he planned the first heist down to the smallest detail, he did not expect to develop feelings for the negotiator, Raquel. He also didn't expect a vengeful Sierra tracking him and his men down, only getting saved because of Sierra going into labor.
• A Father to His Men: To the entire heist team, but specially to Tokyo, who calls him his "guardian angel".
• Heroic BSoD: A couple of them.
  • One in the Season 3 finale, when he believes Suárez has executed Raquel. Not only does it make him to have a breakdown, but also makes him to think below his usual potential until Tokyo suggests, with a sound argument, that she may not be dead after all, which gives him back his focus.
  • In Season 4, Nairobi's death actually has the opposite effect. He was having problems concentrating to elaborate the next plan, but after receiving the news, he is filled with a Tranquil Fury that sharpens his wits once again.
  • In Season 5, when Tokyo sacrifices herself to take out Gandía and several other soldiers, he gets another serious breakdown. Sierra takes this as an opportunity to escape, after which the Professor manages to snap out of it.
• It's All About Me:
  • In a rare moment of self-admission, during Season 5, when Sierra probes about his real reason for the second heist and says he did it for the thrill, the Professor realises she is absolutely right.
  • By the Grand Finale, he openly admits he's playing up the Robin Hood shtick just to fool their fans, and he is a thief through and through.
• Manipulative Bastard: Not only does he makes plans within plans, he is also quite capable of making things on the fly.
  • In the Season 2 premiere, when he goes to the police's discovery of the heist team's plotting refuge for the Mint heist, and sees Alberto taking one of the few legitimate pieces of evidence in it back to Madrid, the Professor manages to get himself in Alberto's car and, after driving the latter mad by bringing up his past abuse of Raquel and attempted affairs in the second episode, effortlessly knocks him out, giving him time to change the proof with something meaningless.
  • Then, as Alberto naturally arrests him for aggresion towards authority, he calls Raquel in the third episode and exploits an optional bathroom break to give himself several bruises, so he can play a Wounded Gazelle Gambit and make it look like he just defended himself from Alberto engaging in Police Brutality.
  • When it is revealed that Ángel is about to return from his coma, the Professor knows it's a trap, but cannot be sure of that - so he gets dressed as a clown and publishes a fake advert to flood the hospital with clowns while he sneaks around and gives a toy with a camera to one of the children in the hospital, sending him to scout.
  • His plan for when things start to go down the drain is to free some hostages and invite a journalist and camera in — so the heist team can use it to turn public opinion in their favor, invoking Underdogs Never Lose.
• Mysterious Past: At the beginning, no one knows anything about him. His name, his age, where he comes from — it's all a mystery. This is progressively subverted over the course of the series, as his identity and backstory are slowly revealed.
• Nice Guy: He might be planning a great robbery, but he insists on making sure no one gets injured, and when he personally meets Raquel, he's sincere in their interactions.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He always wears a good suit, no matter the situation.
• Sherlock Scan: As Tokyo puts it, he can’t be Superman using X-Ray Vision, so he settles on being Sherlock Holmes, and he lives up to it. Just as Lisbon was though to have died, he searches for context clues in the Bank of Spain to prove that she's alive and sees multiple evidences, namely Angel not being mournful, the van that was chasing them having mud on its wheels, and lastly seeing Sierra, the negotiator collaborating with Angel.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The nerdy Sensitive Guy to Berlin's arrogant Manly Man.
• Shout-Out: The false name he uses during the Mint heist towards Raquel is Salvador Martí, just like the man in charge of The Ministry of Time (another Netflix-broadcast Spanish TV show).
• Smarter Than You Look: He appears to be an nerdy meek guy that would not hurt a fly. Behind those glasses is a brain that developed an incredibly complicated plan to carry out a heist that would steal more than two thousand million Euros and later gold worth 5 billion Euros and get away with it, and he is fit enough to knock out a trained cop with a Pressure Point without suffering an injury.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: If it wasn't obvious already.
• Strong Family Resemblance: From the little visual material we see of his father, it's already made clear that the Professor takes much of his appearance.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: In the Season 1 finale, he attempts to kill Raquel's mother by pouring dioxin into a coffee she was going to drink, when he came to visit her after finding out she had heard an archived phone call of Ángel exposing his identity as the Mint heist's mastermind. He ultimately doesn't go with it, throwing the cup from the mother's hands before she can begin drinking it, and is relieved when he sees that she thought she had accidentally dropped it herself (due to her prominent memory problems).
• Tranquil Fury: Whenever he gets really angry, it almost always manifests as this. The stand-out moments would be when he faces Alberto, Raquel's abusive ex-husband, in Season 1, and his reaction when he learns about Nairobi's death in Season 4.
• Villain Protagonist: He's the overall main protagonist of the show and the leader of a heist.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: His speciality. His solution to every misstep or failed plan is to improvise with another plan. When that fails, he improvises with another plan. And the cycle goes on until he gets what he wants.

Berlin

Berlin/Andres de Fonollosa

Played by: Pedro Alonso

Voiced by: Christopher Corey Smith (English)

Appearances: Money Heist | Berlin

The Lancer, a veteran jewel robber who became a criminal to sustain his expensive lifestyle. A Soft-Spoken Sadist, he looks down on the rest of the group, but hides it behind his fine manners.

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• Affably Evil:
  • He is quite courteous with the hostages — as long as they follow his orders, of course.
  • He's much more friendly and likable in the flashbacks (excluding a notable Kick the Dog moment where he castrates a man with a fork) than he was during the first heist.
• Big Bad: He serves as the main antagonist for Season 1 and most of Season 2, wherein he causes much of the internal conflict among the gang.
• Breakout Character: He proofed to popular enough with fans to be brought back in season 3 and beyond despite dying at the end of season 2, being featured via flashbacks which are heavingly connected to the main storyline of season 3 till 5. In 2023 he also got his own spin-off series, simply called Berlin.
• Character Tics: While apples are not stated to be his Trademark Favorite Food, he's commonly seen eating apples at the Mint.
• Cloudcuckoolander: A sinister example. It's almost impossible to have a serious conversation with him as he constantly spouts factoids, jokes, historical tidbits or metaphors, to the point of almost being non-sequiturs at times.
• Connected All Along:
  • He and the Professor go way back, and are hinted to be even related. In Season 3, it turns out they're actually brothers.
  • Season 5 reveals that he's Rafael's father.
• Convenient Terminal Illness: A variant in that he willingly goes ahead with the sacrifice with the other members never thinking about it in the first place. In the final Season 2 episode, Berlin is the only member who fights against the incoming armored police squad to give time for the rest of the robbers to run to the exit from the Royal Mint of Spain they made. He ends up being shot down by the squad.
• Cultured Badass: He's sophisticated, charming, often seen well-dressed, and in flashbacks he has shown an interest in art as well. He's also a tough criminal.
• Deadpan Snarker: He often mocks other people with sarcasm.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In a flashback, he stabs a man in the balls with a fork because he made fun of his bowtie.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being described as The Sociopath, he loves his brother Sergio, his best friend Palermo and his son Rafael.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be a sociopathic thief who isn't above executing hostages and rapes one of them regularly, but he won't stand for being accused of white slavery and pimping.
• Frame-Up: On the receiving end of it in Episode 8 of Season 2, when the Spanish National Police state he has been involved in white slavery and child abuse upon publishing his identity, in an attempt to make the Heist Team's image go down the drain. It bites them in the ass later in Episode 4 of Season 2, when Berlin uses an interview with journalists planned by them to mention the frame-up live and the journalists dig up the truth.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Gets into harsh arguments with almost everyone in the team, especially Tokyo, Denver, Rio, and Nairobi.
• Genre Savvy: In the second episode of Season 1, Berlin points out to Arturo how blatantly he's wearing the "Hate Sink" sign around his neck (and what usually happens to those guys) by giving him the following "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  Berlin: You ever seen horror films? (Arturo says he does) Well, you've always seen that one guy that appears, that you can tell right away that he smells like a dead man walking? It always happens, it never fails. Arturito... you smell like a dead man walking.
• Hypocrite: Berlin looks down on everyone else, but even he is not above having defects, such as raping one of the hostages.
• Lack of Empathy: It's explicitly stated in his psych evaluation in Season 1. Indeed, he doesn't feel much remorse for his cruel actions.
• The Last Dance: He's terminally ill with Helmer's Myopathy and sees the heist as a way to be remembered by the public.
• The Lancer: He's pretty much the leader of the group within the mint and the Professor's de facto second-in-command. Regardless, they have different leadership styles.
• Lima Syndrome: He grows genuinely attached to the hostage Ariadna and believes she's in love with him. Ariadna begs to differ.
• Master Actor: When the journalist comes in, Berlín manages to play his role as someone who has been driven to do something desperate and angry for being framed of actions that sicken him so well that it turns public opinion in the heist team's favor.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: How he dies by the GEO team raiding the Mint in the Season 2 finale.
• Mysterious Past: He is Sergio's brother, and the two have been in contact but separated for much time. Three years before Season 1, he and his friend Martín developed a plan to take all the gold in the Spanish National Bank - which the Professor uses in Season 3 to both honor his brother and to save Rio.
• Nice to the Waiter: Inverted. Berlin's a criminal, but is shown to be friendly with the monks in flashbacks from Season 3.
• Not So Stoic: He's calm and cool most of the time, which can occasionally be every and disturbing, but he can break if pushed too far. He nearly kills Nairobi via strangling when his civilian identity is outed and he is falsely accused of human trafficking. He also snaps when Nairobi chews him out for surrendering Tokyo to the authorities.
• Not The Illness That Killed Them: He's ultimately killed not by his Helmer's Myopathy, but being gunned down by the police in order to give his cohorts time to escape the Royal Mint at the end of Season 2.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After committing so many crimes all across Europe and getting away with it, he broke the mirror of a bar just with an irrational act of vandalism, and let himself be taken by the police. Why? Because he could accept that his girlfriend leaves him, that his son betrays him, but both things combined are too much, even for him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Makes some sexist remarks towards Tokyo and Nairobi during their arguments.
• Posthumous Character: After his death in the season 2 finale, he's still frequently mentioned and appears in many flashbacks. The second robbery was actually planned by him.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He tells the hostages that they will not be harmed, and that the robbers will take care of them, as the hostages are (a) the only reason the police aren't assaulting the place and (b) the only means to ensure they can later escape. It does not mean he is not willing to hurt or kill (or, rather, force others to do it) so as to make his point through.
• Properly Paranoid: He definitely made a good point that they should kill Gandia before he causes any trouble.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The arrogant Manly Man to the Professor's nerdy Sensitive Guy.
• Serial Romeo: He was married five times, stating each time he thought he found his One True Love. He states to Rio he was quite a romantic guy in his youth truly, truly believing in the concept of love. The later seasons reveal via flashbacks he lost his faith in love when his wife left him for his own son.
• Serial Spouse: He's throught five marriages and five divorces.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Outside of his red jumpsuit heist uniform, he's almost always seen wearing an impeccably tailored three-piece suit.
• The Sociopath: Literally unable to empathize with other people - although, surprisingly, he also has an almost pathological need to please others.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Is the most ruthless and evil out of the gang and is also very collected and calm, often in in creepy way.
• Terminally-Ill Criminal: He has Helmer's Myopathy, which is mentioned to give him around two years of remaining life. Because of this, he's prompted to die as heroically as possible while fending off the armored police team pursuing the escaping robbers at the end of the second season, so as the make sure that the public remembers him well. Flashbacks featuring him in the following seasons delve further into how the illness motivated him to plan the Bank of Spain heist with Palermo and spend his life to his fullest.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's the only robber willing to harm hostages, and even tries to kill Rio for betraying him.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Tatiana leaving him for Rafael is heavily implied to have made Berlin what he was during the first heist.
• Villainous Legacy: He led the groundworks for the second heist.
• Wicked Cultured: One of the most sociopathic characters, while also being a witty, eloquent Cultured Badass.
• Would Hit a Girl: Or kill a girl, even if she's pregnant. Just ask Monica.
• Your Days Are Numbered: He has an illness that will kill him in a couple of years.

Tokyo

Tokyo/Silene Oliveira

Played by: Úrsula Corberó

Voiced by: Cristina Valenzuela (English)

The Character Narrator. A young, tough, impulsive bank robber, she has been alternating legal work with several robberies, the latest of which went awry and ended with the death of two cops and her boyfriend - and she has been on the run ever since.

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• Action Girl: Her main role within the team. Though she is at times The Millstone, she's most effective when it comes to shootouts and confrontations. She's one of the robbers to hold down the GEO team in Season 2, and manages to incapacitate Gandia by thrusting a grenade sharpnel in his back in Season 5.
• Age-Gap Romance: She has had two of these.
  • Her first boyfriend was about 14 years older than her.
  • There are plenty of comments on the 10+ year age gap between her and Rio.
• Ambiguously Bi: She makes out with Allison in Season 1, but it's not clear whether that's because she's attracted to her or whether it's just a move to show her power over the hostages.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She correctly deduces that Lisbon is still alive due to a lack of publication regarding her supposed "death", how they imprisoned and tortured Rio without legal authority, and because she constantly witnessed how sound is constantly used to fool people into believing something else is happening.
• Boyish Short Hair: Keeps her hair short starting Season 3 and is an Action Girl.
• Character Development: Becomes much less reckless as season 3 and 4 go on and even takes over leading the team quite effectively, deposing Palermo.
• Character Narrator: She doubles as a narrator for much of the series' episodes, narrating specific moments from time to time.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Tokyo gets rather angry when she notices Rio is getting closer to Allison Parker.
• Dead All Along: It's revealed that she is narrating the series posthumously from the afterlife.
• Death by Flashback: A lot of her backstory is given before her last stand.
• Decoy Protagonist: At first she was made out to be the lead character as she was the one who narrated the series from her point of view. But after her death, it is clear that Sergio/The Professor is the true lead character.
• Defiant Captive: When she's captured by the very dangerous Gandia, she's not scared of him at all. While her hands are tied, it doesn't stop her from insulting him and trying to kick him.
• Defiant to the End: Takes down Gandia and other Spec Ops soldiers with her grenades rather than allowing them to kill her.
• Disappeared Dad: As she explains to Rio in a flashback from Episode 5 of Season 1, she grew up without a father, with her mother only taking care of her. Because her mother had no babysitter or caretaker to trust, she often left a young Tokyo (8 to 9 years old, as Tokyo herself cites) alone at home whenever she went to her factory job.
• Disowned Parent: In the flashback to the first season's fifth episode wherein the Professor assigns Rio and Tokyo to conduct an initial survey of the Royal Mint of Spain, Tokyo asks the Professor if it's because he thinks she's not good enough as a member of the heist team before following up with her mother, to which the Professor tells her that she died of a heart attack the previous day, and was worried about informing her because she wouldn't have been able to farewell her by that point. Tokyo tells him that she had effectively disowned her mother after her last call with her back at the beginning of the first episode, claiming that she was essentially trying to bring her to the police. She regrets her claim not long after, though, as she talks to Rio about her in a subsequent flashback.
• Dude Magnet: She's considered irresistible by men, especially Rio, Denver, and even Gandia. Even Berlin states he finds her attractive in one of the first episodes, even if he usually doesn't get along with her.
• Fearless Fool: By far the bravest of the robbers, which is best seen by her being the only one to not fear Gandia. However, this very bravery leads to her making incredibly reckless decisions that endanger the plan.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Tokyo denies she is in a relationship with Rio, saying he is a kid - even though they have been having sex for several months already. This leads Rio to tell Tokyo that he should be with a girl of his own age, instead of her. However, they later make up and confirm their love for each other.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nairobi.
• Hidden Depths: Though considered by some as The Millstone, she actually learns from the Professor's lessons when push comes to shove. She follows his tip to stall for time when she gets captured, which eventually leads to her returning to the bank, and manages to rightly assume that Raquel is still alive because, as the Professor taught her, sound can be a tool of deception. The best part is the Professor heeds Tokyo's suggestion and creates a plan out of this, with the result of successfully sneaking Raquel into the bank.
• Hot-Blooded: Her impulsive actions endanger the plan multiple times, and cause a lot of problems within the team.
• Idiot Ball: The worst offender of the team, as she often tends to act before thinking. It often happens for the sake of the plot, such as Rio being captured in season 3 because of Tokyo's actions.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's often short-tempered, selfish, and unreasonable, but it's shown many times that she cares about the other members of the team. Despite her thoughtless actions, she's not malicious.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Denver. They are similar in many ways and Denver admits in Season 5 that Tokyo is like a sister to him. Besides the Professor (father figure), Rio (Love Interest), and Nairobi (best friend), Denver is the closest to her.
• Lovely Angels: With Nairobi in Season 3 first episodes combined with Back-to-Back Badass.
• The Millstone: Her impulsivity has made things worse for the team many times.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's certainly beautiful in face and body, which is acknowledged a fair amount of times, and has a few almost naked scenes.
• The Narrator: Her voice over starts and ends every episode. After the Part 5 mid-season finale, she is revealed to be a posthumous narrator.
• Sacrificial Lion: Literally when she blows herself up and takes down Gandia with her.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: She's the tough Strong Girl, while her love interest Rio is considered the weakest member of the team but is a Teen Genius hacker.
• Taking You with Me: When cornered in the kitchen of the Bank of Spain, she is too injured to climb down the dumbwaiter, so she chooses to stay behind to cover for Manila and Denver. When the military squad gets to her, she manages to cook all the grenades she carries, and the ensuing explosion takes out 5 squad members, including Gandia.
• The Tease: She's a Ms. Fanservice who likes to flirt with men and sometimes even women.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While she doesn't hurt people intentionally, she tends to cause serious troubles to people close to her, like Moscow's death, or Rio being captured, which was the catalyst for the second storyline. The second heist later leads to Nairobi's death, Helsinki being critically injured, and her own death. The only positive thing to come out of it is Sierra allying with the heist team and Gandia getting a Karmic Death after his bloody rampage.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Tokyo goes berserk after Helsinki beats the crap out of Rio, telling the Professor that, if it happens again, she will kill him (or Berlin, or Helsinki).

Moscow

Moscow/Agustín Ramos

Played by: Paco Tous

Voiced by: Michael Sorich (English)

A former miner who became a locksmith after illness forced him to leave his job, he started to use his skills to rob bank vaults and jewelries to feed his family. He has been in and out of prison for this.

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• The Conscience: Calls Tokyo out on her petty and thoughtless actions.
• Cool Old Guy: The most seasoned and pragmatic of the original team, preferring to follow the plan and avoid the conflicts that ensare the other members. When he's not under stress, he's shown to be fun-loving and can rock a beret like no one else.
• Dark Secret: He has been hiding the fact that he abandoned Denver's mother to a life of drug dealing after her failed attempts at rehab drained his savings multiple times for years. Of course, after he admits it, he is fatally shot.
• Good Parents: He cares a lot about Denver and wants him to have a better life. Despite their mistakes and being a Dysfunctional Family, he and his son have a great relationship.
• Irony: He left the mine because he suffers from claustrophobia. His robberies have sent him to prison several times.
• It Has Been an Honor: His last words.
• Never Going Back to Prison: Moscow was in prison and would rather die than go back.
• Nice Guy: A polite and reasonable person, and one of the most approachable members of the team since the beginning, as lampshaded by Tokyo in her narration.
• Papa Wolf: Moscow's weakness is stated to be Denver. He brought him into the plan because he screwed up with some drug-dealers, and has an anxiety attack when Denver kills a hostage (or so he thinks).
• Significant Birth Date: In the beginning of the Season 2 finale, wherein Moscow's funeral is held by the robbers following his death at the end of the previous episode, it's revealed that he was born on International Labor Day, something Mónica comments on because of him being an ex-laborer.
• Team Dad: A father figure not just to his son Denver, but also to other members of the team, like Tokyo and Rio.
• Tunnel King: His criminal specialty and the reason he was drafted into the team — he's an important part of the getaway plan as a result.

Denver

Denver/Daniel Ramos

Played by: Jaime Lorente

Voiced by: Doug Erholtz (English)

Moscow's son, he spent most of his life as a thug who fights in disco brawls and regularly consumes drugs, which has left him with a Hair-Trigger Temper and bad disposition that he only relaxes around his father.

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• Bash Brothers: With Rio.
• Berserk Button:
  • He is possessive of Monica and their son, which Arturo knows and uses to get a rise out of him. Denver beats him bloody when he mentions wanting to know his son and his past relationship with Monica.
  • In the Season 2 premiere, the Professor telling him that he needs to get involved in another heist also gets him really mad.
• Book Dumb: The most ignorant member of the team, and his father mentioned he always had troubles at school.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Is a trigger happy thief with a temper, but he also has no issues showing his father how much he loves him, crying over his death or being concerned for Monica and their son.
• Cock Fight: In Episode 12 of Season 1, Arturo deliberately starts a physical one against him in an attempt to get Mónica back. Arturo ends up failing quickly, without landing any hit on Denver before the latter overpowers him and sends him begging Denver to not punch him in the face.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Deconstructed. In the third and fourth seasons, Denver gets incredibly protective over Stockholm, acting much more erratically and even lashing out at Arturo and Rio out of paranoia that she's cheating on him with them, or otherwise threatened her safety. Unfortunately, this only serves to push Stockholm even further away from him, as his actions and behavior only terrify and alienate her even more than before.
• Disowned Parent: Late in the Season 2 finale, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother alone at a drug market because she was always high on heroin and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being a Domestic Abuser who abandoned them herself (this lie being among his many attempts to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he sees Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.
• Doting Parent: He loves Cincinnati, even if he is not biologically his and dreads the thought of leaving Cincinnati fatherless, like what happened to him upon Moscow's death.
• Dumb Muscle: Not very smart, and part of the muscle.
• Give the Baby a Father: Ends up becoming the father to Mónica's baby.
• Good Parents: So far, despite his impulsiveness, he seems to be, and clearly loves his son. Fatherhood has made him noticeably softer: he is uneasy with leaving the baby alone, or that he might become an orphan, and he gives the hostages that are parents the chance to speak to their children, despite it not being in the plans.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: A life of thuggery and drug-taking have left their mark on him. Backfires heavily in Season 3 when he almost kills the National Bank Governor when he refuses to collaborate.
• Insecure Love Interest: Initially to Monica. It doesn't help that everyone else thinks that Monica fell for him only because of Stockholm Syndrome and even his father tells him that she's out of his league. This makes him believe that a smart and beautiful woman like her would never genuinely love him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a bit of an asshole, but he loves his father and cares for Mónica.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Tokyo. They are similar in many ways and Denver admits in season 5 that Tokyo is like a sister to him.
• Lima Syndrome: Ends up falling in love with Mónica.
• Odd Name Out: Downplayed. While most of the gang's nicknames are capitals (Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, Helsinki, Oslo, Nairobi) or at least one of the most populated and renowned cities of their country (Rio), Denver isn't a particularly outstanding city in the United States.
• Papa Wolf: To Mónica's son, whom he has adopted. When Arturo, Cincinnati's biological father and a prick, goads Denver into thinking he will meet his son after the heist, Denver loses it and beats him bloody.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The brash Manly Man to Rio's naive and innocent Sensitive Guy.
• Signature Laugh: His distinguishable laughter has a punctuated sound on the "h" part, and he laughs quite a lot.
• Smoking Hot Sex: In Episode 11 of Season 1, he smokes after having sex with Mónica for the first time.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He absolutely adores his father Moscow and considers himself a disappointment as he doesn't have any standout skills compared to him. Moscow, of course, begs to differ.
• Would Harm a Senior: He decks (and almost accidentally kills) Mario because he refused to cooperate with the gang in the Bank heist.

Rio

Rio/Aníbal Cortés

Played by: Miguel Herrán

Voiced by: Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

A somewhat immature, but nice Playful Hacker and Teen Genius. Before becoming part of the heist team, he used to be chief technician in a security company, but ended up on the Interpol watchlist when he started hacking and cracking security systems.

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• Affectionate Nickname: As first given by Tokyo through narration in Season 1's tenth episode, his mother called him "Rayo" ("Lightning" in Spanish) as a child because she thought he'd want to become an athlete, until he proved otherwise be spending much of his time playing video games. Near the end of the episode, when he watches a video tape of his parents sneaked into him by Raquel, his mother is seen using "Rayo" repeatedly towards him.
• Bash Brothers: With Denver.
• Break the Cutie: Goes through a very traumatic experience after being brutally tortured by Alicia Sierra.
• Didn't Think This Through: Rio's capture in the Season 3 premiere happened because he used a connection between a pair of satellite-based phones to communicate with Tokyo during her stay in Panama's mainland. He didn't consider how such a means of phone communication (and likely every other one possible) could be easily detected by the Interpol's network, even if he and Tokyo had bought the phones from a black market.
• Distressed Dude: Him being captured by the authorities and his friends wanting to rescue him kicks off the plot in season 3.
• The Load:
  • Rio is initially seen as a downplayed case of this by the Professor, because he's young, immature, and has less experience than the others, with only his hacking expertise coming in handy. He eventually proves himself to be more competent overall as the Mint heist progresses.
  • He becomes a straighter example between Seasons 3 and 4, because his trauma from the torture he got at the beginning of the former season makes him ineffectual once he comes to the Bank of Spain.
• Nice Guy: He's the one who has the most empathy with the hostages. Deconstructed because this ends up leading to the police learning Tokyo and him are in the heist.
• Playful Hacker: He learned how to program at age 6, and was hired by a security company, but then he was asked to hack a system belonging to a mansion in Geneva, and he's been on the Interpol list ever since.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The naive and innocent Sensitive Guy to Denver's brash Manly Man.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: His love interest Tokyo is a tough Strong Girl, while Rio is considered the weakest member of the team but is a Teen Genius hacker.
• Teen Genius: The youngest member of the team and an expert hacker.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The second heist is only possible due to his capture.

Helsinki

Helsinki/Mirko Dragic

Played by: Darko Peric

Voiced by': Jamieson Price (English)

One of The Brutes of the group. Little is known of this Serbian beyond the fact that he comes from a violent past, not helped by the fact that he speaks little, letting his weapons and partners do the talking.

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• Bald Head of Toughness: Bald and the strong Big Guy of the group.
• Balkan Bastard: Subverted. When introducing the team, Tokyo specifically points to Helsinki being Serbian as proof he'd be great muscle. Despite being a former soldier who's seen some shit, however, Helsinki is very affable and caring to those close to him.
• Big Fun: When not part of the heist, Helsinki is a laughable, joyful man who loves his friends dearly.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a sensitive and caring man under all of the muscle and silence.
• Divergent Character Evolution: He and Oslo start off as Those Two Guys. After Oslo's death, Helsinki slowly starts to reveal his Hidden Depths, especially after he befriends Nairobi.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In Episode 7 of Season 1, when the Professor asks him if he had gotten their stakeout car destroyed and brought the 1000 euros the Professor gave him so the scrapyard worker would not ask any questions, Helsinki answers that he sent the money to his family and just left the car at the scrapyard, not taking into consideration that there was a good reason the car had to be destroyed.
• Gay Best Friend: Becomes this to Nairobi in season 3 and 4.
• Gentle Giant: The biggest member of the group, and a softy towards the all the people he cares about.
• Manly Gay: He's a gruff, strong and muscular soldier, and later revealed to be gay.
• Mercy Kill: Does this to Oslo via Vorpal Pillow in the Season 2 premiere, after seeing the latter won't be able to recover from his head trauma.
• Nice Guy: Introduced as The Brute, but is eventually revealed to be one of the kindest characters.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Professor gave Helsinki 1000 euros to get a scrapyard's worker to destroy a car that had some of the team's fingerprints on it, no questions asked. Not only did Helsinki not get the car destroyed — he sent the cash to his family — he didn't even think of cleaning the fingerprints. By the time the Professor asks him about it in Episode 7 of Season 1, the former is forced to risk being identified and his life to find the car and clean it himself before the cops find it.
• Platonic Life-Partners: After the Time Skip between Seasons 2 and 3, he becomes this with Nairobi, although she also develops romantic feelings for him. Although he doesn't return them, he still care about her deeply, to the point of being the most affected by Nairobi's death by Ghandia's hands.
• Straight Gay: He has no stereotypical gay traits, to the point where Nairobi has to be explicitly told by both Tokyo and Helsinki himself that he's queer.
• Vorpal Pillow: How he Mercy Kills Oslo in the first episode of Season 2.

Oslo

Oslo/Radko Dragic

Played by: Roberto García

Voiced by: Joseph Whimms (English)

The other Brute of the group, and Helsinki's cousin. Much like Helsinki, not much is known about his past, and he doesn't talk much.

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• Advertised Extra: Even though he's long dead in Season 5 and doesn't appear in it at all (alongside the two previous Bank heist seasons, barring a few flashbacks where he only has a background role), Oslo got his own character poster for the season.
• Dead-Hand Shot: In the Season 2 premiere, Oslo's left hand ceasing to shake is what shows that Helsinki's Mercy Kill of him was successful.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Helsinki, though the latter is not heterosexual. As Helsinki says it to Arturo in the Season 1 finale, they were together in war, in peace, in crime and in prison.
• Mercy Kill: After seeing he won't be able to recover from his head trauma, Helsinki puts him out of his misery via Vorpal Pillow in the Season 2 premiere.
• Out of Focus: He talks and is seen the least out of the crew by a large margin. Even some of the more minor hostages have more lines and a larger role than him.
• The Quiet One: Tokyo calls him such. Indeed, he barely utters a word during the first season, and doesn't say anything in flashbacks from later seasons. A comment by Nairobi in Season 1 implies that this is due to him not being fluent in Spanish, whereas Helsinki is.
• The Stoic: He laughs and smiles much less than Helsinki does.
• Those Two Guys: With Helsinki for most of Season 1, before his severe injury near the end of said season and subsequent death in the next one.
• Vorpal Pillow: How Helsinki Mercy Kills him in the first episode of Season 2.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He has about 5 lines before being knocked out in the penultimate episode of Season 1 and then dying in the first episode of Season 2.

Nairobi

Nairobi/Agata Jimenez

Played by: Alba Flores

Voiced by: Cherami Leigh (English)

A happy-go-lucky woman that became a counterfeiter after her boyfriend left her pregnant and abandoned her. Her aim is to use the money she gains so as to regain her son's custody and retire somewhere else.

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• Action Mom: Although the "mom" part is quite complicated, she embodies the "action" part very well.
• Battle Cry: After her death at the hands of Gandia, the Robbers yell the Bank heist is for her.
  Gang: FOR NAIROBI!
• Benevolent Boss: Torres, an elderly Mint employee that she enlists to mass-produce the money the robbers are going to take (with the hostages also having a choice to get some themselves), says she's the best boss he's ever had in Episode 13 of Season 1, as his reasoning for picking the "money" option when given the choice of choosing liberty or money.
• Brutal Honesty: She has no problem speaking her mind.
• Character Death: Killed by Gandia towards the end of Season 4.
• Freudian Excuse: She got into the plan because she wants to get her kid back.
• The Heart: Pretty much the crew's cheerful spirit, even during hard times and is loved by (almost) everyone
• Incompatible Orientation: Develops feelings for Helsinki, who is gay.
• Informed Flaw: Tokyo's narration introducing each of the robbers in the first episode describes Nairobi as "crazy", but for all her hamminess and cheerfulness, she's actually Closer to Earth than most people around her, including Tokyo herself.
• Lovely Angels: With Tokyo in Season 3's first few episodes, combined with Back-to-Back Badasses.
• Ms. Fanservice: Not as much as Tokyo, but she also has had several scenes where she only wears underwear or a bikini.
• Missing Mom: To her unseen son Axel.
• My Greatest Failure: She regards abandoning her son Axel to be this, and wants to rectify this by being a good mom to her future kids. Too bad she got killed by Gandia before she got the chance to.
• Nice Girl: She's usually kind, friendly, and caring to everyone, and only gets angry if she has a good reason to be upset.
• Only Sane Woman:
  • Has shades of this, especially after Berlin starts going off the rails.
  • Seems the most reasonable person every time she argues with each character. Especially when compared to Tokyo.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Becomes very close to Helsinki in Seasons 3 and 4. While Episode 7 of Season 1 previously revealed that Nairobi has romantic feelings for him, Helsinki admits he only loves her like a sister. And he's by far the most devastated when Nairobi is gunned down by Gandia.
• Sacrificial Lion: Gandia makes a show of killing her right in front of the heist members to emphasize just how much of a dangerous and insane monster he truly is.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'9"^note 175 cm and visibly towers over other girls like Tokyo and Allison.
• Stepford Smiler: Zig-zagged. She's fun and bubbly much of the time, but can be more somber when she talks about how she lost custody of her child and really wanted to be a mother, as Tokyo's curiosity in a flashback from the first season's fifth episode prompts her to. The "Stepford" part seems to fade away chronologically, though, as her positive mood appears to be pretty genuine, and doesn't get in the way of anything serious that pops up in her mind.
• The Tease: Not the extent of Tokyo, but she can be a bit of a flirter at times.
• You Monster!: She calls Berlin a pig, among other things, as she hears the large plethora of his past crimes (including plenty of false ones, much to Berlin's anger) mentioned on the news about him in Episode 8 of Season 1.

Bank of Spain Heist (Seasons 3, 4, & 5):

Lisbon

Lisbon/Raquel Murillo

Played by: Itziar Ituño

Voiced by: Cindy Robinson (English)

Appearances: Money Heist | Berlin

Raquel was the Spanish National Police inspector leading the case of the first heist, and was responsible negotiating with the mysterious Professor. She falls in love with a guy in the bar, Salvador, not realizing that he is the Professor. She ends up joining the crew for the second heist under the codename of Lisbon.

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• Broken Bird: She has a troubled personal life. Her mother suffers from dementia and her ex-husband was abusive.
• Character Tics: Ties her hair with a writing instrument whenever she's about to get down to business.
• Chessmaster Sidekick: In the second heist, she's this assisting the Professor (who's the resident Chessmaster and leader of the group) in strategies, plots and schemes while the other member are almost entirely in the frontline.
• Damsel in Distress: During the second heist, after being caught by the authorities in season 4.
• Dating Catwoman: She didn't know that the nerdy Nice Guy who loaned her his phone is the mastermind who assembled the Caper Crew behind the robbery she is working at.
• The Dog Bites Back: After being almost constantly belittled by most of her partners and superiors, blamed for things that are the fault of others (such as the failed attempt to get several hostages out, with Prieto ordering her to pick Allison Parker instead of the eight she would have picked), accused of being The Mole and threatened with the loss of her child if she does not cooperate, Raquel delays revealing what she has found long enough to allow the heist team to escape, and when she leaves the police corps she heavily criticizes the National Intelligence Center for the way they interfered in her work. Then she joins the Professor to further disgrace the system she used to work for.
• Domestic Abuse: Raquel suffered physical abuse at the hands of her now ex-husband Alberto. Unfortunately, few people believed her when she reported it, due to Alberto's positive reputation among the national police force.
• Dope Slap: In the Season 3 premiere, Raquel gives one to Tokyo on their first encounter since the Mint heist, in response to Tokyo's initial anger towards her and disbelief that she would become one of the heist team's members without betraying them at a later point.
• Driven to Suicide: In the Season 1 finale, Raquel attempts to get herself killed by the robbers after she learns that Ángel was not a mole for them like she suspected, and reads through all the exasperated calls he did to her just before his car crash in her voicemail. She walks into a close area to the Mint where she could easily be shot; just as Helsinki aims a sniper rifle at her, Suárez and Prieto run to save Raquel by bringing her back to the tent, with the latter telling her that she deserves to take a break.
• Fair Cop: She's attractive-looking and a pretty good police leader.
• Groin Attack: In the Season 2 finale, in her brief fight against the Professor's Serbian auxiliary team, Raquel does this to a member who manages to grab her and take her pistol in order to free herself from him. She's quickly defeated just after that, when she's held at a gunpoint by the other members that she can't escape from this time around.
• Heel–Face Turn: At the end of Season 2, she chooses to hold back revealing where the heist team is meeting long enough to help them escape. In Season 3, she becomes a full-fledged heist team member under the codename Lisbon. Might count as a Face–Heel Turn in how the robbers are viewed.
• Hero Antagonist: In the first two seasons, she's the antagonist cop to the main criminal characters. Even if the audience is supposed to root for the criminals, she gets a lot of Sympathetic P.O.V..
• Hourglass Plot: She goes from confronting the robbers in the first heist to becoming one of the robbers by the second one, complete with the defining red jumpsuit and Dali mask. Both Sierra and the Professor lampshade this.
• Man Bites Man: In the Season 2 finale, after she's caught trying to personally arrest the Professor and put on restraining suspension by the Serbian auxiliary team, Raquel tries to bait the Professor into telling her that she needs medication to help her with a fake stomach pain, and bites his hand just as he offers him a pill and a glass of water. Given the circumstances she's in, it proves to be rather useless.
• Multigenerational Household: During the first two seasons, she resides in a shared household with her daughter Paula and her mother Mariví. When they move to vacational places with the robbers afterwards, Raquel gets her own residential place apart from Mariví and Paula, although it's still close to theirs.
• The Scapegoat: She ends up being blamed for the heist team's escape, as well as several other problems that were actually caused by Prieto or others.
• Shared Family Quirks: Discussed by her mother in Episode 7 of Season 2, when she gives her a set of markers owned by Paula to use on her map for her personal manhunt on the Professor and remarks that Paula chews on the marker's caps, much like how Raquel used to do.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Her role in the first two seasons, as the inspector who leads the case against the Villain Protagonist robbers during that time.
• Taken Off the Case: In Episode 7 of Season 2, she's taken off her position of lead inspector in the Mint heist's investigation once the police identify the Professor and discover the relationship Raquel had with him. In reaction, Raquel tells them that they can go on without her as she angrily lends her badge and the pistol she had in hand by then to them, determined to go on a manhunt for the Professor on her own.
• Was It All a Lie?: Played for Drama in the middle of Season 2, when she realizes that "Salva" is actually the Professor and takes him to the farm to interrogate him, broken down because she thinks he only got close to her to use her. The Professor tells her that he did initially, but actually fell in love with her as he got to know her.

Stockholm

Stockholm/Mónica Gaztambide

Played by: Esther Acebo

Voiced by: Anne Yatco (English)

Initially one of the hostages at the Royal Mint. She's Arturo's lover and secretary who is pregnant with his son. After forming a connection with Denver, she switches sides and joins the robbers as Stockholm.

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• But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Inverted. She tells Arturo that she's pregnant and he's the father but Arturo badgers her that there's no way it can be his because of his low fertility.
• Character Development: She start as a dominated woman with little control in her life to a rebellious one who fights for what she believes in.
• Defecting for Love: She ends up switching sides and joining the thieves because of her love for Denver.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: When Arturo tells Mónica he does not plan to divorce his wife, she requests an abortive pill. Denver convinces her not to take it, at least for a while.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She genuinely liked Arturo in the beginning. She gets better, but you have to wonder what she has ever seen in him in the first place.
• Mama Bear: Is enraged when Julia reveals herself as one of them to the hostages, therefore no longer the viable option to raise Cincinnati if something happens to both her and Denver.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: Discussed in-universe when she falls in love with Denver. Her city nickname even becomes Stockholm to reference the Stockholm Syndrome when she officially joins the crew.
• Morality Pet: To Denver, when he starts to show his caring side around her in season 1.
• Nice Girl: Lampshaded by Rio who becomes close to her, since she was the only one able to comfort him after his traumatic tortures.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Is the one to remove Arturo from the heist for good by shooting him.
• Pregnant Hostage: During the Mint heist.
• Sexy Secretary: She has been in a relationship with Arturo for several years by the time the series begins.
• Sleeping with the Boss: At the beginning of the series, Arturo has had an affair relationship with her for several years, with Tokyo narrating that Mónica had made him feel young again ever since his marriage to his wife Laura 14 years ago. During the Mint heist, she finds Denver to be a better boyfriend for her and leaves Arturo while defecting to the heist team at the end.
• Uptown Girl: Lampshaded. Moscow tells Denver she is out of his league in almost every way and compares her to his past girlfriends, citing she is more educated, kind and beautiful than any of them.
• Women Are Wiser: Keeps her cool after Nairobi dies and takes over parts of the operation.

Palermo

Palermo/Martín Berrote

Played By: Rodrigo De La Serna

An old friend of Berlin. He helped him to come up with the plan to take the gold in the Spanish National Bank. Originally from Argentina, but he lived in Palermo, Italy, in the years prior to the heist, hence why it took that city as his nickname.

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• Accent Relapse: When he impersonates a Spanish soldier while leading the infiltration to the Bank of Spain, Palermo imitates a Spaniard accent quite convincingly. It's only when the entire team is inside the facility and the hostages have been taken care of that he drops it and goes back to his natural Argentinian accent. Right when he reveals himself and his team as the robbers in front of the hostages, for dramatic effect^note Of course, unless their Spanish level is high enough to recognize accents, this is something that gets Lost in Translation for non-native Spanish speakers, both in dub and sub.
• The Atoner: In the aftermath of Gandia's rampage through the Bank of Spain after setting him loose, Palermo promises to Helsinki that he will stand with him to repay for what he's done.
• Camp Gay: He's quite effeminate in his behavior, and first flirts and then has sex with Helsinki.
• Catchphrase: Him and Helsinki coin the term "Boom-Boom Chau" to describe the act of two men having casual sex.
• Character Development: He gets one of the biggest character arcs in the second storyline. He starts off as an egomaniac who only cares about the plan, and only if he's in charge of it at that. But over the course of the story, particularly after Nairobi's death, something he feels personally responsible for, he starts to care about his teammates, specially Helsinki. He even recovers the optimism he lost after Berlin's death.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite his betrayal that caused a lot of trouble to the others, he's very soon reintegrated into the group.
• Evil Genius: Not to the level of the Professor, of course, but he did plan for all the technicalities for the second heist, which is so valuable the Professor tells him the real endgame of the heist.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For the most part, he's a Jerkass who doesn't care much about the rest of the crew. He's only loyal to the plan, because it was made by the person he truly loved, Berlin.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He's the Token Evil Teammate and also has a deep voice.
• Eye Scream: He gets crystals in his eyes during a shootout, leaving him partially blind.
• Foil: To Berlin from the first two seasons. Both of them are massive jerkasses who insist on sticking with the plan set in motion, while being openly disliked by the rest of the crew. However, while Berlin was always a self-serving sociopath, Palermo was much more easy-going (if obnoxious) until he's ultimately rejected by Berlin. Palermo also holds the Professor and his crew in a much lower regard than Berlin does, in part because he believes the Professor to be partially responsible for Berlin's death.
• Freudian Excuse: Albeit he's already portrayed as a bit of a narcisist in flashbacks, he states that his personality started to really rot out of grief for Berlin's death.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: To the other members of the team who didn't want him as a leader and replaced him with Tokyo. He didn't take it well.
• Gone Horribly Right: Palermo's idea to get himself back into the leadership role of the heist is to set Gandia free, and let him wreak havoc in the Bank of Spain until the crew turns to him for help. Well, Gandia wreaks havoc alright. He manages to capture and imprison Tokyo, establish connection with the outside world to give the Spanish government an advantage against them, and ends with him gunning down Nairobi in front of everyone before anyone can make a move to stop him, and indirectly responsible for Tokyo's death as she took herself out alongside him.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Starts off as a team member, turns into an enemy for some episodes, and eventually goes back to the main character's side at the end of season 4.
• Heel Realization: Even if helping Gandia to escape was a deliberate Kick the Dog moment, he feels guilty when the latter kills Nairobi.
• His Heart Will Go On: Was in love with Berlin, who never returned his romantic feelings and then died.
• Hypocrite: Upon Tokyo being promoted to being the head of the heist, Palermo flips his shit, complaining that Tokyo is unfit to lead due to her acting based on emotion instead of sticking to the plan. He then goes on to free Gandia out of a selfish need to be placed back in control, which derails the plan even further than anything Tokyo could've done.
• Incompatible Orientation: He had romantic feelings for Berlin, who was straight.
• It's All About Me: Following his usurpation from Tokyo, he proceeded to generate chaos for the heist team to try to get back in control. Specifically, he allows Gandia to free himself and start terrorizing the heist crew.
• Love Makes You Evil: He admits that losing Berlin turned him into the horrible person he is now.
• Meaningful Name: He's one of the few members of the gang who apparently chose his city name for a particular reason, namely that Palermo is the city he used to live in before the heist.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Palermo only realizes the extent of how horrible his decision of helping Gandia escape and cause chaos for the heist members was after Nairobi dies.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because of his actions, Palermo is directly responsible for allowing Gandia to interfere with the heist's plan, and murder Nairobi in cold blood. He realizes this shortly after. Even worse, this gives the police enough incentive to storm the Bank without care for the civilians, resulting in Helsinki's serious condition and Tokyo's death.
• Pet the Dog: He's much nicer in the season 4 finale, especially when he has a heart to heart talk with Helsinki.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's a chauvinist and a misogynist.
• Shout-Out: Palermo's real name is Martín and he's Argentinian. Martín Palermo is a famous Argentinian former soccer player and current coach.
• Token Evil Teammate: Like Berlin before him, although he's less of a sociopath, but still a Jerkass to everyone, and even ends up betraying the crew when Tokio takes over leadership in a dispute over how to treat Nairobi's gunshot wound.

Bogotá

Bogotá/Santiago López

Played by: Hovik Keuchkerian

The expert in charge of the efforts to open the bank vault. Quite rough around the edges, but is quite the nice guy.

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• And This Is for...: During his fight against Gandía (see Curb-Stomp Battle below), he gives him a blow for every single slur he uttered to his team mates, leaving for last breaking Gandía's neck for avenging Nairobi's death. However, Tokyo manages to step in and make him snap out of it, claiming that's not what Nairobi would have wanted.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He beats Gandia up senselessly when the latter tries to escape after killing Nairobi.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Of all people, he gives one to Gandia. After Gandia tries to escape once more, Bogotá holds him down and knocks him before Gandia can even land a hit back.
• A Girl in Every Port: When he talks to Denver about his many children, each is from a different mother, and each lives in a different country.
• Gentle Giant: He's one of the group's tallest members, yet is soft-spoken and obedient.
• Real Men Eat Meat: He's a tough guy who complains when the robbers are served vegetables on Stockholm's birthday in a flashback from "Everything Seemed Insignificant", even if she is vegan. He extols going out to eat meat with friends, saying it brings people together.
• Shout-Out: In several flashbacks, Bogota is seen wearing various T-shirts of Slayer, one of which features the cover of the band's album Divine Intervention.

Marseille

Marseille/Jakov

Played by: Luka Peros

A man with a mysterious past who serves as the Professor's right-hand man outside the bank during the second heist.

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• Animal Lover: He refuses to cut open a pig because of his hatred of animal cruelty and also has a pet ferret. He also reveals that he had a pet dog while serving in the army, yet lost it due to boys in a village pelting it with rocks.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's very much implied his military tour didn't end well.
• Distressed Dude: Briefly, when Sierra captures him alongside Benjamin and the Professor himself.
• Jack of All Trades: He speaks eight languages, is excellent at fighting, can stage a car crash, and knows how to operate many manned vehicles. This is all probably acquired from his military service, but it's badass nonetheless.
• The Quiet One: According to Marseille himself, he's not mute, just quiet.

Manila

Manila/Julia Martínez

Played by: Belén Cuesta

An associate of Denver and Moscow who poses as one of the hostages to keep an eye on them.

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• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: She kneecaps Arturo after he attacks Matías and proves that he is indeed a rapist.
• Knee-capping: She shoots Arturo in the knee.
• Love Triangle: A minor one between her, Denver and Stockholm. She even tries to convince Denver that he's not following his nature when he's with Stockholm, but eventually backs down when she realizes that Denver truly loves her.
• The Mole: She poses as yet another hostage in order to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't try to organize a rise against the robbers.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that most of her tropes have spoilers makes her this.

"Logroño"

Benjamín Martínez/"Logroño"

Played by: Ramón Agirre

Father of Manila and Moscow's old colleague. He joins the heist as part of the excavation team, and later on as part of the team responsible to turning the gold from nuggets back to ingots.

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• Character Development: He starts the story being a bit meek, but becomes more and more confident as the story progresses. In the end, he's more than capable of grabbing a gun and pointing hostages without hesitation, albeit it's always Played for Laughs.
• Lost in Translation: Of the cultural type. He actually starts off without a city name, but later on receives "Logroño" from Sierra, who chooses that city as a bit of a joke that gets lost for most non-Spaniard audiences. Namely, that Logroño is stereotypically perceived as one of the more country-side and aged cities in Spain.
• Older Sidekick: He's by far the oldest member of the gang, but he proves himself to be surprisingly useful.

Pamplona

Pamplona/Matías Caño

Played by: Ahikar Azcona Albizu

An old associate of Bogotá. He enters the Bank of Spain passing himself as a costumer, so the team could pretend to force him into labour in front of the rest of the hostages, thus intimidating them without really hurting anyone. After that, he's taken down the Bank, next to he gold vault as part of the team in charge of melting the gold into nuggets.

He's the only member of the team that actually starts without a city name, only chosing Pamplona in the final stages of the heist.

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• Amazon Chaser: He feels attracted to Lisbon...after seeing her reducing Rio to the floor.
• Bad "Bad Acting": When Nairobi and Bogotá try to make it look like they are "forcing" him into stepping as a volunteer, instead of going along as they rehearsed, he decides to go off-script and refuses multiple times "for the sake of believability". Nairobi, and specially Bogotá AREN'T happy about it afterwards.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: The reason why he eventually decides to finally give himself a city name is because he thought that, if the whole plan went South, he'd look like the fucking intern when in the news they'd say the city names of the rest of the band, while he'd be the only one called by his actual name.
• The Mole: He enters the Bank of Spain pretending to be a regular costumer, and then a hostage when the heist begins.
• Odd Name Out: He's the only team member who chose for himself an actual Spanish city^note Logroño is also a city in Spain, but the alias was given by Alicia, not chosen by Benjamín. The rest of the gang even tease him for being such a mundane choice (from a Spaniard perspective). However, he manages to change their minds explaining to them that it's an awesome city that even Ernest Hemingway praised in some of his novels.

Santiago

Santiago/Rafael de Fonollosa

Played by: Patrick Criado

Berlin's son, whom he recruited several years ago.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: He is first mentioned by Berlin in Season 4 when scouting the Bank of Spain, and makes his first appearance in a flashback being recruited by his father, and makes his present-day appearance in the ante-penultimate episode.
• Connected All Along: He is Berlin's son and the Professor's nephew.
• Spanner in the Works: Intervenes in the Bank of Spain heist by stealing all the gold.

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