Quarantine (2008) / Characters

This is a list of characters from Quarantine (2008) and its sequel Quarantine 2: Terminal.

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Introduced in Quarantine

Angela Vidal

The leading character of the first film, Angela is the sympathetic hostess of a TV reality show about people working night jobs. While shooting an episode following a fire squad in Los Angeles, she ends up quarantined with her cameraman in an apartment building overtaken by a terrifying virus.

Adaptational Modesty: Downplayed. The original wears her tank top under her jacket and a pink overshirt. She strips down to her tanktop in order to give her pink overshirt to the first injured policeman to use as a pillow, but the remake version has her only strip down to the shirt. She still takes the shirt off later on, after it's stained with blood from an infected woman, and spends the remainder of the film in a white tanktop like her original counterpart.
Alone with the Psycho: Left alone, in the dark, with the Thin Man at the end of the first movie.
Audience Surrogate: She discovers the firemen's routine, the building, and the outbreak at the same time as the audience.
Celebrity Survivor: In-universe. Being a TV hostess, however unknown, she's the most famous person in the building.
Death by Adaptation: Angela is revealed to have survived in the Spanish sequel, but Quarantine 2 says there were no survivors.
Deadline News: A local TV reporter, unwittingly chronicling a deadly outbreak from the front line until not even she is left.
Final Girl: She's the last human character left in the movie.
Freak Out: Angela has two meltdowns in the film. The first after the infected escape the building and force the survivors to take refuge in the vacant apartment, she goes off after hearing Yuri say that the government will evacuate them, because she thinks they won't. The second happens when she wrongly believes Sadie bit her.
Hotter and Sexier: She's flirty while at the fire station, unlike in the original film, and doesn't wear Girlish Pigtails.
Hysterical Woman: See Freak Out.
Ms. Exposition: Angela, being a TV host, is lured to explain everything that we see to the camera.
Ms. Fanservice: Like her original counterpart, she's left in a white tank top after discarding layers of clothing through the film.
Oh, Crap!: Has this when she makes the connection between Briana's story of her sick dog, Max, and the health inspector's story about the infected dog who became violent...
Tank-Top Tomboy: She wears a white tank top by the end of the film.

Scott Percival

Portrayed by: Steve Harris

Angela's cameraman, who is quarantined in the building with her.

Adaptational Badass: He gets to kill an infected rat and Elise Jackson in the remake.
Camera Abuse: He is both the only camera in the first film and a survivor running for his life, so this is a given. He also defends himself by using the camera itself as a weapon.
The Faceless: Averted, unlike in the original. The movie almost seems to actively look for excuses to show the cameraman, starting by having him fix Angela's hair in the first scene.
Improvised Weapon User: In what's undoubtly the most talked scene, for good or bad reasons, he uses the camera itself to kill Elise Jackson.
The Lancer: Angela's loyal and protective second to the end of the first film.
Meaningful Name: Intended or not, Percival, is the name of one of King Arthur's loyal knights. Coincidentally, Scott acts as Angela's protective and ever loyal champion.
Race Lift: To African-American.
The Watson: Serves both as the audience's eye and someone for Angela to talk to when all others are... unavailable.

Jake

Portrayed by: Jay Hernandez

One of two firemen dispatched to help in a domestic disturbance call, ending trapped in the building when it is quarantined.

Adaptational Explanation: His original counterpart is infected offscreen. Here, he's infected by Yuri.
Age Lift: The original version is the older, more experienced fireman in [REC]. In Quarantine, Jake is the younger of the two, while the older fireman (Fletcher) kicks the bucket early.
Casanova Wannabe: While still at the fire station, he bets his comrades that he will sleep with Angela before the night ends.
First-Name Basis: Despite having the most exposure of the four 'authorities' trapped in the building, he is the only one to not receive a surname.
Hotter and Sexier: In addition to being younger and more conventionally handsome, Jake flirts with Angela and makes a bet that he will sleep with her.
Interservice Rivalry: He has some with the cops at times.
Neck Snap: Does one to the infected African man.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His idea of collecting the tenants to give them instructions at once, instead of touring the apartments and telling people to wait in their own homes, leads to a lot more people being killed.
Race Lift: Not much, but Jake is on the brown side of Hispanic.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Unlike Wilensky, he does not accept the outside's order to quarantine and joins the residents in trying to find a way out.

Danny Wilensky

Portrayed by: Columbus Short

The younger half of a police patrol come to investigate the same disturbance as the firemen accompanying the TV crew.

Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. Short asked to play the character as less of a jerk, and he is not as repeatedly hostile to the camera in the remake, but he does more or less the same things in both movies.
Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop/Police Are Useless: Let's say... he screws up a lot during the fateful night.
Interservice Rivalry: Some with the Fire Department.
Killing in Self-Defense: He shoots Mrs. Espinoza when she charges at him after killing another woman. Somehow, she does not stay dead.
Lethally Stupid: He runs after the infected Briana, leaving her handcuffed mother to be Eaten Alive by rabids as he holds the only key. Then he tries to sweettalk Briana despite being obviously gone, and ends getting infected by her.
Race Lift: Like Scott, to African-American.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He won't point his gun at children.
You Shall Not Pass!: To everyone else, he does point his gun when he wants them to step aside from a window in the quarantined building and stop trying to leave it.

George Fletcher

Portrayed by: Johnathon Schaech

The other half of the firemen accompanied by the TV crew for the night.

Age Lift: His counterpart is the younger fireman in the original movie, but Fletcher is the older fireman here.
Alone with the Psycho: Stays to attend Mrs. Espinoza after all others leave to evacuate McCreedy. Doesn't end well.
Body Horror: Gets an ugly impact wound in his face and a broken leg courtesy of Mrs. Espinoza, which he tries to walk on despite having the broken bone visible from the outside. Then the CDC's doctor drills his skull for a cerebrospinal fluid sample.
Disney Villain Death: Mrs. Espinoza throws him over the staircase's railway after attacking him.
Porn Stache: He has one.
Sacrificial Lion: His fall from the stairs is the moment the audience knows that all bets are off in the movie.

James Mc Creedy

Portrayed by: Andrew Fiscella

Wilensky's partner in the local police department.

Adaptational Nice Guy: His remake counterpart is nowhere near as jerkish and foul-mouthed as the original. Nor memorable.
Age Lift: An old cop close to retirement in the original, here he is of similar age to Wilensky.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He is the first person attacked by an infected, almost as soon as the TV crew arrives.
Zombie Infectee: Becomes one after being attacked by Mrs. Espinoza and the government quarantines the building. Once turned, he helps kill Lawrence and Kathy.

Mrs. Espinoza

Portrayed by: Jeannie Epper

An elderly woman living in one of the building's apartments. The landlord calls the police and firemen on her after they hear her yelling crazily in the night.

Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the original, her survival after being shot several times can be blamed on satanic posession, but it's unknown why she comes back here since she's just a rabid Technically-Living Zombie.
Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls her Mrs. Espinoza.
Suicide by Cop: Shot by Wilensky when she charges at him after killing the cleaning lady. Somehow, she comes back from that and Jake has to hit her with the hammer.
Unexplained Recovery: Appears again, apparently unharmed after being shot several times by Wilensky and presumed dead.

Lawrence

Portrayed by: Greg Germann

A veterinarian who lives in que quarantined building.

Adaptational Explanation: In the original, it is not clear if he was bitten before being locked in the workshop. In the remake, he is.
Adaptational Job Change: Changed from a hospital intern to a veterinarian in order to make him more experienced with rabies.
Blood from the Mouth: Spits blood on the workshop's door to sign that he's beyond the point of no return.
Decomposite Character: He's the medical half of Guillem from the original, while the latter's administrator duties are transferred to Yuri.
I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before: Says this at first, but then he identifies the outbreak as a form of super-rabies.
The Medic: Closest Thing We Got in the quarantined building.
Mr. Exposition: Gives exposition on the disease.
The Smart Guy: He identifies the disease all by himself and does something to treat it. He's also either the only other tenant who is aware that the Africans are three instead of two, or who can figure what the African woman is saying.
Zombie Infectee: He protests that he isn't infected when he's locked in the workshop, but he can be seen being bitten by Fletcher before that.

Yuri Ivanov

Portrayed by: Rade Šerbedžija

The building's landlord.

Adaptational Badass: Compared to his loose original counterpart, who was a Scatterbrained Senior, he saves several people by opening the vacant apartment to them, and hatches a new plan to escape the building. Plus, as an infected he kills Jake.
Adaptational Explanation: Shown being infected, which was only assumed in the original.
Age Lift: His vague counterpart in the original is in his 80s, he looks about 60.
Ascended Extra: The old man in the original was just another tenant. Here, Yuri is the owner of the building, the one who calls police and the fire department (and waits for them outside, since it's his property), and is given all exposition about the building that was done by Guillem and César in the original. He's also infected onscreen and even gets to kill the most valuable player, Jake.
Composite Character: Combines the old man, Guillem, and César from the original, although without replacing the latter two completely (what's left of them becomes Lawrence and Bernard).
Death by Adaptation: Sort of. Everyone assumes the old man in the original dies, but it isn't shown onscreen unlike Yuri.
Happily Married: He's protective and affective to his wife onscreen, while their loose counterparts were a bickering old coupe.
Too Dumb to Live: Despite being alerted that the CDC doctor has been infected by the man himself, he stands right on the see-through door separating them and with his back turned, with predictable results.

Wanda Marimon

Portrayed by: Elaine Kagan

Yuri's wife.

Adaptational Explanation: Shown being infected, which was only assumed in the original.
Age Lift: Her vague counterpart in the original is in her 80s, she looks about 60.
Ascended Extra: Though she's mostly an appendix to her husband in the movie, the remake shows her during and after her infection, unlike the original film.
Death by Adaptation: Like her husband, she's only assumed to die in the original, whereas it is shown in the remake.
Happily Married: To Yuri, despite not taking his surname.
Harmless Villain: Once infected, she makes no attempt to attack anyone.
Mythology Gag:
- Hard to find any significance, but Wanda is the only character in the remake besides Angela and the dog Max who shares a name with a character in the original (in this case, Guillem's surname).
- While fleeing the infected at the end, Angela, Scott, and Jake run past her in the dark, but she just stands there with a shocked expression instead of attacking them. This is how all infected behaved in a Deleted Scene of the original after being left in pitch darkness.
Senseless Sacrifice: She refuses to leave her husband as he is grabbed and bitten by the infected CDC doctor, leading to her being infected by Sadie.

African family

Portrayed By:: Jermaine Jackson (Nadif) & Sharon Ferguson (Jwahir)

An immigrant family in the building who doesn't speak English.

Adaptational Explanation: Unlike their counterparts in the original, who appear infected without a clue of how it happened, they are infected by Lawrence.
Adapted Out: The original family's son.
Demoted to Extra: They didn't have a big part in the original, but they don't get the interview or real lines in the remake. Also, they stay in their apartment way longer in the remake, while in the original they were already down when the camera arrives.
Disney Villain Death: Jwahir is thrown over the railing by a fireman. Kind of ironic because the original counterpart was traumatized by the other fireman's fall.
Fake Nationality: Both actors are American.
The Ghost: The woman's father lives in the building with them but is never seen.
Neck Snap: Jake does one to the infected husband after losing his hammer.
Non-Specifically Foreign: Characterized as "foreign" but not from any specific place besides Africa.
Race Lift: East Asian in the original, (West?) African in the remake.

Kathy

Portrayed by: Marin Hinkle

A tenant with a young daughter, Briana.

Adaptational Heroism: See Mama Bear.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Way, way less hystrionic, obnoxious and jerkass-y in the remake.
Death Trap: The CDC doctor has her handcuffed to the stairs railing after her daughter spits blood on her face. Unfortunately, Wilensky has the only key and he runs after the daughter. Then the infected in the workshop escape.
Demoted to Extra: She's more passive and uninvolved in the remake. In the original, it was her who called the police, and she also wants the TV crew to tape everything (likely because she intends to sue).
Eaten Alive: Invoked by Ángela after she sees Kathy being bitten by several infected as she is handcuffed to the railing. However, they leave her before her flesh is too damaged.
Humiliation Conga: Her daughter is sick when the crisis happens, her husband can't support her because he was sealed out, the daughter is infected, spits blood on her face and runs away. This makes the CDC cuff her to the railing, which in turn makes her unable to run from the infected when they escape, and dies alone without her family. Even after she's infected, she's still cuffed to the railing while the rest are free to move in the building. What did she do to deserve all of that?
Hypocrite: She blames the African woman's father for the outbreak as soon as she learns that he is sick and argues against moving him downstairs with the others, all while her own daughter is also sick and down with them.
Implausible Deniability: Insists that her daughter only has bronchitis after everyone else has a massive Oh, Crap! from realizing that the dog mentioned by the CDC was Briana's pet.
Mama Bear: A last-ditch, insane version of this, as she yells her infected daughter to run in order to save her from harm, when she's infected with an incurable disease and a threat to all others.
Sealed Evil in a Can: As a result of becoming infected while chained to the stairs railing.

Briana

Portrayed By: Joey King

A five-year-old resident and the daughter of Kathy.

Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the original, her turning so late compared to others, in the most dramatic moment, and choosing to run instead of attacking right away, is easily attributed to the demonic nature of The Virus, but it's just a special strain of rabies in the remake.
Age Lift: Seven in the original, five in the remake.
Blood from the Mouth: Spits blood on her mother's face when her transformation is complete.
Killer Rabbit: Once infected, she kills Wilensky.
Littlest Cancer Patient: Subverted. She's a Zombie Infectee.
Zombie Infectee: It wasn't bronchitis.

Bernard

Portrayed by: Bernard White

An opera teacher who shares an apartment with his student.

Adaptational Sexuality: Possibly. His loose counterpart in the original, César, is a Camp Gay hairstylist. While Bernard also has an Always Camp occupation and is somewhat soft spoken, he's not flamboyant and has a younger female student as a roommate.
Adaptational Nice Guy: There is no trace of the original's hypocrite and jerkass moments.
Age Lift: 60's in the original, 40's in the remake.
Boom, Headshot!/Suicide by Cop: Shot by a sniper when he panics and tries to exit through a window.
The Danza: Character shares name with actor.
Decomposite Character: Though a loose counterpart to César, he does not share the same fate, which is transferred to Yuri.
Race Lift: The actor is from Sri Lanka.
Starving Artist: He lives in a small apartment with a different entry through the workshop, his old TV having bunny ears instead of cable is a plot point, and he's implied to traffic Vicodin.

Sadie

Portrayed by: Dania Ramirez

Bernard's student and roommate.

Animal Lover: Has a spoiled pet dog named Martini.
Ascended Extra: She's actually a named and trully characterized version of the Colombian girl from the original, who was only seen as infected. Their last scenes are virtually identical.
Decomposite Character: Since the virus in Quarantine is not supernatural, she's also not the woman who dies in Mrs. Espinoza's home. That one stays dead.
Fingore: As she loses it due to the infection, she switches from biting her nails to biting her fingers.
Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: Falls into this as the situation in the building spirals out of control.

Randy

Portrayed by: Denis O'Hare

A lawyer who lives alone in the building.

The Alcoholic: The outbreak surprises him drunk.
Death by Pragmatism: He follows his own advice of leaving the group and returning to his apartment, where he was untroubled before, with the intention of locking himself in. Unfortunately, he walks into an infected dog just as he leaves the elevator.
Eaten Alive: Gets more damaged than anyone else due to being locked with a rabid dog in the elevator, as the main characters discover later on.
Gory Discretion Shot: His death is offscreen due to the elevator closing behind him and his attacker.
Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being drunk and unpopular, he makes the great point that if the disease is only transmitted by bites, then people would be safer by separating and locking themselves in their apartments, instead of concentrating in the workshop.
Original Character: He has no equivalent in the original.

Elise Jackson

Portrayed by: Stacy Chbosky

A woman who lives alone in the building.

Forgotten Fallen Friend: Nobody seems to mind that she left the workshop to attack the group in Bernard's apartment, where she was killed by Scott.
Original Character: She has no equivalent in the original.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She's already infected and semi-unresponsive when the camera finds her.

Cleaning lady

Portrayed By: Rosine 'Ace' Hatem

A maid employed in the building.

Age Lift: 40's vs 20's in the original.
Composite Character: She replaces "the Colombian girl" in her first scene of [REC]. There is also a cleaning lady in [REC]'s building, but she's not working when the outbreak happens (however, most fans misremember the Colombian girl as being also the cleaning lady, due to their lack of characterization and the fact that they are mentioned around the same time).
Death by Adaptation: Unlike the original cleaning lady, she's in the building during the outbreak. And unlike the Colombian girl, she does not come Back from the Dead.
Decomposite Character: She stays dead, leaving the Colombian girl's later role to be played by Sadie.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
We Hardly Knew Ye: The camera arrives just as she drops dead.

Hazmat doctor

Portrayed by: Craig Susser

A government doctor that enters the building to take samples from the people inside.

Call It Karma: Traps people on suspicion of being zombie infectees, traps himself after becoming one.
Decomposite Character: Subverted. He enters the building alone in the original, and with another companion dressed the same way in the remake. That companion is immediately killed.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Unlike in the [REC] series, he is never named.
Hazmat Suit: Wears a white one.
Mr. Exposition: Drops information on the reason for the quarantine and the virus inside.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His cuffing of Kathy to the railing as a precaution leads to her being unable to flee and becoming infected, then a threat for anyone wanting to use the stairs.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Tries to become this after noticing that he has been bitten.
This Is a Drill: Drills Fletcher's skull for a cerebrospinal fluid sample, since finding rabies antibodies there is the only way to diagnose rabies with absolute certainty.
Zombie Infectee: Becomes one, but to his credit he tries to isolate himself.

Thin infected man

Portrayed by: Doug Jones

A tall mysterious creature locked in the building's attic.

Adaptational Modesty: Still dressed in his underwear, but since he's male in this version he has no woman breasts hanging free.
Author's Saving Throw: The original's backstory is not referenced in either Quarantine or its sequel, and the change to the virus' origin risked turning into a plothole his prolonged survival in captivity, ability to handle a weapon, and active search for people in the dark. The sequel clarifies that he was actually a test subject for the cure to the virus, and that he was watched over until just hours or minutes before the first film.
CDC #3: They ran a clinical trial in that lab, on humans. We found a test subject. A survivor... if you could call it that. Whatever they were given, it was making it worse.
Final Boss: Of the movie.
Gender Swap: His counterpart in [REC] is female, despite being also played by a male actor.
Hero Killer: He kills Scott, and apparently also Angela in this continuity.
Humanoid Abomination: And yet he's still more human-looking than in [REC].
It Can Think: Only infected that seems capable of higher thinking, using a hammer and looking for his victims in the darkness.
Lean and Mean/Noodle People: He's tall and emaciated.
No Name Given: Unlike in the original.
Was Once a Man: According to a character in the sequel, whatever they gave him just made it worse than the super-rabies.

Introduced in Quarantine 2

Jenny

Portrayed by: Mercedes Mason

The film's main character, a young flight attendant.

Action Survivor: Over the course of the film, she graduates from a post-adolescent scream queen to a team leader that kills rabid people with a wrench.
And Then John Was a Zombie: Despite her best efforts, she becomes infected at the end.
Daddy's Girl: She's very close to her father, who wants her to become a pilot like himself.
Dating Catwoman: Has feelings for Henry, who is responsible for the plague onboard.
Double Standard: Falls briefly victim to this, with people questioning that she should be the group's leader due to her young age, even though she's the only member of the crew left at that point.
Everyone Can See It: Everyone can see that she's attracted to Henry. Including Henry himself, which he uses to manipulate her.
Field Promotion: Becomes the most senior member of the crew by virtue of being the only one left.
Final Girl: Downplayed as she doesn't survive the movie. But she's the last adult left, and the only human infected to leave the terminal.
Heroic Sacrifice: May have survived the movie if she didn't come back to rescue George from Henry.
It May Help You on Your Quest: Hands the night vision equipment to George when he's afraid of crawling in a dark tunnel.
I Will Only Slow You Down: Tells Shilah to go after suffering a concussion. Later does it again to George, after they realize she's been bitten.
Ms. Fanservice: The movie begins with her half-dressed and putting on her stewardess uniform while riding a cab to the airport, as she's almost late. Later, she takes off her uniform's jacket and scarf, and lets her hair loose after being pucked on by Ralph. She spends most of the movie this way.
Plot Armor: She fends some big, burly men in the movie (Ralph, Captain Forrest, Henry) without being overpowered nor bitten by sheer miracle. Unfortunately, she runs out of luck eventually.
Right Behind Me: The most notable scene in the movie that wouldn't work with the first person POV of the first. After seeing the infected Willsy crawling in the back of the plane, she turns back, finding the infected Forrest.
Screaming Woman: The most screaming non-infected in the movie.
Sexy Stewardess: A pretty and sexually adventurous flight attendant (by her own admission).
Team Mom: Takes on a protective role for the other characters, and particularly the minor, George.
This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Implied when she takes the wrench from Ed and steps forward to kill her infected friend, Paula.
Thousand-Yard Stare: Falls into this for a scene after being attacked by the infected Captain Forrest and watch him being gunned down.
Zombie Infectee: In her last scene, she encourages George to crawl until reaching the end of the corridor while getting herself worse from the virus.

Henry

Portrayed by: Josh Cooke

A schoolteacher traveling with several hamster cages. So he says.

Adaptational Villainy: Technically a version of Father Albelda from the [REC] movies, except he's very much on board with synthetizing the plague and spreading it, not stopping it.
Big Bad: The Reveal sets him as the big bad of both films.
Canon Character All Along: The Reveal identifies Henry as the "man from Boston" who rented the apartment in the attic from the first film's building, making him a version of the "man from Madrid" from the [REC] movies, and the only character in this film with a counterpart in that series.
Consummate Liar: He doesn't flinch when accused of bringing lab rats aboard instead of hamsters, making a claim on the spot that they are a breed of long-tailed Ecuadorian hamsters.
Death from Above: After Jenny climbs down the stairs to reach George, the infected Henry makes his presence known by dropping blood and/or saliva from the top of it.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: His loose counterpart in [REC] is a Posthumous Character.
Doing In the Wizard: Even compared to Quarantine, he seems to lack any religious inclination. He claims that the government lies about his group being a cult, and the way he talks about it sounds more like a genocidal version of the Earth Liberation Front than a religious group that uses bioterrorism, like Aum Shinrikyo or the Rajneesh.
Eye Scream: He must inject the antidote under his eye. When it fails, his eye gets an appearance of dryness, and it pops out when Jenny bashes his head in with a wrench.
False Friend: Pretends to be a helpful Nice Guy, but only wants to get out of the plane and terminal so he can wipe out most of humanity.
Final Boss: Last infected confronted by Jenny and likely the one to infect her.
Gone Horribly Right: The Virus created by his group mutates so fast that it cannot be neutralized by the cure they themselves created, leading to Henry (and potentially other members of the group) becoming infected and dying just like everyone else.
I Have Your Wife: He tries to make George cooperate by threatening to shoot Jenny and then to get away by taking George himself hostage.
It's All About Me: When watching with knowledge of his identity, it is clear that everything he does is motivated by helping himself and his goal of wiping out humanity except for a selected few.
Just One Little Mistake: Trying to load a rat cage in the plane cabin causes one to infect Ralph, which in turn causes the plane and Henry in it to be quarantined, which means he can't fly to Kansas City and spread the plague there as he wanted, and eventually results in his own infection and death. However, he might have got another ground zero in Vegas by the end of the film.
Karmic Death: Falls victim to his own plague, and his cure fails.
Mad Scientist: He's the owner of the lab in the first movie's penthouse.
Misanthrope Supreme: He thinks most humans are worthless and that their race is destroying the planet, so it should be culled via super-rabies.
One Dialogue, Two Conversations:
- Jenny catches Henry watching a news broadcast on the Los Angeles outbreak and asks what's going on. He replies that they don't know. He does know, of course.
- When they take the third CDC guy hostage, Henry asks "what does the CDC know?" Obviously, because he wants to know how close the government is to the truth, instead of what is going on, which he already knows too well.
Shirtless Scene: He loses his shirt after becoming infected.
Villainous Rescue: He helps kill infected and rescue survivors multiple times, but that's only because he needs them to survive and escape himself. When the survivors get on the way, he has no qualms about threatening or killing them.
We Are Everywhere: Henry is just one member of the Doomsday Cult. Others helped him pass airport security and are waiting for him in Kansas City, the plane's original destination.
We Can Rule Together: He's impressed enough with George to offer him a place in his terrorist group, but he tells him to fuck himself.
Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: He tries to make George cooperate by telling him to not "force" him to shoot Jenny.

George

Portrayed by: Matty Liptak

A 12-year-old boy traveling alone, from mom's home to dad's.

Cassandra Truth: He pegs Henry as a liar and the origin of The Virus in the plane from almost the start, but nobody believes him.
Chekhov's Gun: His blue hoodie saves his life when the infected Jenny tries to bite him, but gets the hood instead.
Deadpan Snarker: Always ready to deal some snark.
Hot-Blooded: He's quick to jump to help restrain an infected or to go exploring for a way out, even though he's actually of little help due to his small size and lack of wisdom.
Improbable Infant Survival: First and only human to escape either of the two outbreaks, and the only character under 18 in the second film.
In the Hood: He wears a blue hoodie and likes putting on the hood when staying indoors.
My Beloved Smother: Actually calls his step-mother "smother".
The Load: Due to his young age, he becomes one for the other survivors and Jenny in particular.
Parent with New Paramour: His dad remarried to a woman of Jenny's age, and he doesn't get along with her.
Sole Survivor: Of the film.
Too Dumb to Live: He endangers himself rather stupidly several times, though none as much as near the end when he refuses to leave an infected Jenny behind despite her telling him she's been bitten and encouraging him to do so.

Ed Ramirez

Portrayed by: Ignacio Serricchio

A jetway operator in Las Vegas airport, who gets trapped with the other characters when the plane and terminal are quarantined.

Fatal Family Photo: He wears a pog with a photo of his three-year-old daughter on his uniform.
Gratuitous Spanish: Lets out some Spanish sentences from time to time.
Heroic Sacrifice: He is shot by Henry when he threatens Jenny and George with a gun.
Mr. Exposition: Of everything to do with the airport's back area.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Jake. Both are young, uniformed Hispanic men who get engulfed in the crisis because of responding to it, have valuable knowledge that helps other people survive, wield a blunt weapon to fend off the infected, and die to save others.

Shilah Washington

Portrayed by: Noree Victoria

A paramedic traveling in the plane.

Heroic Sacrifice: Once bitten, she gives the night goggles to Jenny, tells her the way out, and attracts the infected's attention to herself to give Jenny a better chance to escape.
It May Help You on Your Quest: She goes back to retrieve the CDC's night goggles from the truck and hands them to Jenny.
I Will Only Slow You Down: She refuses to follow Jenny after being bitten.
The Medic: She's the only trapped character with medical knowledge and uses it to help the others.
Mr. Exposition: Of most plot-relevant medical-related stuff.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Lawrence, being the medical expert of the group and the most familiar with rabies.
Verbal Tic: She keeps calling Jenny "Honey".
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Subverted. She's afraid of flying, but the plane lands safely. Then the scary happens on the ground and out of the plane.

Paula

Portrayed by: Bree Blair

Jenny's friend and fellow flight attendant aboard.

Disney Villain Death: Jenny throws her from a high area when she attacks the group.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She is infected when she helps Ralph return to a seat and put on a safety belt during a premature landing.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Put on a cargo holding area as a precaution, but the CDC men take her out almost immediately.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like McCreedy, she's the first uniformed "responder" to the crisis and gets bitten by the first infected when trying to help, spending much of her remaining screentime as a gravely injured Zombie Infectee.
Zombie Infectee: Spends most of the movie injured from being bitten by Ralph.

Preston

Portrayed by: Lamar Stewart

A passenger on the plane.

Black Guy Dies First: To a ridiculous degree. He's the only guy killed of the group that returns to the plane, and it happens offscreen.
Too Dumb to Live: He returns to the plane to get his laptop. There was no reason he couldn't have taken his laptop when he got off the plane. Then he decides to go back despite knowing by this point that there is a dangerous outbreak in the plane. In the most dangerous case, the laptop itself could be a hazard and better left where it is; if not, he would be given it back after everything blew over. Either way, it was stupid for him to go back for it.
Workaholic: He has "his whole career" in a presentation in the laptop and he wants to keep working on it no matter what.

Ralph Bundt

Portrayed by: George Back

A golfer passenger who becomes the first human infected on the plane.

Big Fun: He's the most obese person in the plane and a Nice Guy when first introduced, appreciating the suggestion to sit in the empty back where he would have more space instead of taking offense from it. Unfortunately, he quickly becomes Not Himself when The Virus kicks in.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Bitten by a rat after offering to help Henry load his cage in the baggage area.
Patient Zero: First human to become infected in the plane.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Trapped in the bathroom until the plane lands.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Mrs. Izquierdo/Espinoza. They are obese (less so Mrs. Espinoza), mostly called by their surnames, the first human infected each group comes across with, attack three times per movie, and disappear from their holding location between the second attack and the third.
Zombie Infectee: Before the symptoms fully kick in.

Nial and Susan Britz

Portrayed by: Phillip DeVona and Julie Gribble

A young married couple aboard, expecting their first child.

As You Know: Nial's first line in the movie is him telling his wife that he's "going to be a daddy." This isn't even a new development as she's already six months pregnant.
Gratuitous Spanish: Nial calls Ed amigo sarcastically.
Henpecked Husband: Hilariously implied in the one scene Susan has as a central character, when she tries to force Nial to support her skepticism about taking the shots of the CDC. Before that, Nial had been such a bully to every other character that it would have been not a surprise if he was also an abusive husband. Unfortunately, he kills her anyway.
Imperiled in Pregnancy: Susan is six months pregnant.
Jerkass: Nial is constantly picking on pointless fights with other people.
This Is My Boomstick: Invoked by Nial when he tries to dispute Jenny's leadership under the reasoning that he has the only gun in the quarantined area. She doesn't bulge.
Throw It In!: Presumably how the infamous line "I'm gon... I'm gonna be a daddy!" ended up in the film.
Together in Death: Nial infects Susan. They later attack the remaining survivors together, and are shot by Henry.
Zombie Infectee: Nial gets infected after getting in contact with fluids from Captain Forrest, taking a considerable time longer to turn than the bitten characters.

Nicca and Hvorst

Portrayed by: Erin Áine and Tyler Kunkle

A couple of young European tourists aboard.

Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: After becoming infected, Nicca bends her back completely to see what is behind her without turning her head.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Nicca and Hvorst are not names in any European language. They could be Nicole and Horst if they were German.
Europeans Are Kinky: Jenny scolds them for having oral sex in the cabin.
Fake Nationality: Both are played by American actors.
Funny Foreigner: The quirky, sometimes lost type of tourist.
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Downplayed by Hvorst, who wears a faded, but multicolor "Venice Beach" shirt and tries to capture the crisis with his handheld camera (but stops filming when told to).
Hope Spot: Jenny sees Nicca standing before the holding area's door after losing contact with her but she's already turned.
Non-Specifically Foreign: Nothing more specific than "non-British European".
Poor Communication Kills: Though they speak English, they sometimes have trouble fully grasping what is going on. Notably, Hvorst is shot when he disobeys the authorities' orders and runs to them, which is something tourists to the USA are warned not to do in reality.
Superpowered Evil Side: Infected Nicca gains the power to smell people from afar and bend over backwards without breaking her spine.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the non-English speaking couple from the other film.
The Nose Knows: Infected Nicca smells Jenny from the other side of the room.

Doc and Bev Kingston

Portrayed by: Tom Thon and Lynn Cole

A retired doctor who is paralyzed due to Parkinson's disease and his wife, traveling to meet their newborn granddaughter.

And I Must Scream:
- Doc's mind is intact but he is almost completely paralyzed and unable to flee from danger or ask for help. He's abandoned in the dark plane by his wife, and is miraculously not killed by Ralph or the pilots. Later, he can only hopelessly watch as an infected rat approaches and bites him.
- Bev is among the first people infected and doesn't understand what is happening to her. She cries and asks Jenny for help before totally losing it and attacking her.
Killer Rabbit: Doc, an until then paralyzed old man, gets the most gruesome bite out of a CDC man.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Bev runs from the plane leaving her paralyzed husband behind.
Sealed Evil in a Can: The survivors lock Doc in a holding area after he becomes infected, despite some of them believing it to be pointless and cruel. The CDC then has him unlocked almost immediately and learn why they shouldn't almost as soon as they do.
The Speechless: Doc lost his speech as a result of Parkinson's. He can barely make himself understood by moving his eyes.
Superpowered Evil Side: Somehow, The Virus gives Doc the ability to stand up, grab with his arms, and bite. It's not known if he could also walk, as he's shot by the CDC immediately.

Louise Treadwell

Portrayed by: Sandra Lafferty

An elderly woman traveling with her pet cat.

Chekhov's Gunman: Not so much Louise as the cat, who infects her and is seen escaping to Vegas in The Stinger.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Not to Mrs. Izquierdo, the old Crazy Cat Lady from [REC], but in a weird way to Mari Carmen/Kathy. Both carry a small creature beneath suspicion (young girl, cat), who becomes infected non-violently and attacks the woman caring for them when the CDC are talking to the quarantined people inside.
Zombie Infectee: Again, the cat. It is infected not by a bite but from eating Ralph's vomit from the plane's floor.

Forrest and Willsy

Portrayed by: John Curran and Andrew Benator

The plane's pilot and co-pilot.

Bulletproof Human Shield: Involuntary version when the infected Forrest is gunned down by Nial, and miraculously none of the bullets hit Ed who was struggling with him.
Death from Above: Willsy attacks Ed through an opening on the roof of a truck box.
Disposable Pilot: Both are taken out shortly after landing.
Primal Stance: When Jenny finds Willsy as an infected, he's crawling in the floor of the plane like an animal.
The Unreveal: Willsy believes he caught some disease from his dog, and says that all dogs in his neighborhood are sick. It is never learned if this means Willsy was a Zombie Infectee when he boarded the plane and it was him who infected Forrest, allowing Ralph to escape, or if Willsy's disease was just a coincidence and it was Ralph who escaped and infected both.

The CDC men

Portrayed by: Jason Benjamin, Beau Turpin, and Neko Parham

Three armed men in hazmat suits that enter the quarantined terminal to assess the situation and give instructions.

Author's Saving Throw: For viewers who had trouble reconciling the heavy handed methods used in the movies with the CDC's playbook, the sequel says that they are only pretending to be CDC.
Death by Irony: They are gunned down by their own colleagues when they try to breach the quarantine they themselves are enforcing.
Driven to Suicide: The surviving CDC man shoots himself in the mouth after telling the survivors the truth about the virus' origin and the Los Angeles outbreak.
Failed a Spot Check: One is bitten by Doc after turning his back on him.
Gory Discretion Shot: In contrast to every other kill in the movie, the camera turns when the third CDC man commits suicide by gunshot.
Hazmat Suit: Same as in the previous movie.
More Dakka: They enter with assault rifles and fire them on the cat, Doc, and the door's lock when they try to escape after being attacked.
Mr. Exposition: The third CDC guy reveals the truth about the virus and the Los Angeles outbreak.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: They take the infected out of the holding area, with predictable results. Then they run outside where they are shot by their own colleagues, ensuring that their weapons can't be used by the quarantined people to defend themselves in the process.
Red Shirt Army: They come in with an arsenal and are taken out almost immediately.
Sequel Escalation: Two men enter the building in Quarantine. Three do in Quarantine 2, and this time get to use their toys (and also die by them).
Shoot Out the Lock: They fire their weapons at one of the locked doors to escape the quarantined building.
State Sec: They are not CDC despite claiming so, but from the bioterrorism task force of Homeland Security.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Their part is identical to the CDC people in the first film. They come in, refuse to explain the situation claiming that it will happen later on, examine the two Zombie Infectees and inject them with something, witness the suddenly infected small creature attacking their 'mother', then get attacked by the fully turned infectees. One flees inside with the survivors, reveals what they know about The Virus, and dies.
What Is One Man's Life In Comparison?: Their heavyhanded dealing with the survivors is excused as not risking the virus escaping containment and spreading among the general population.
You Have Failed Me: They are gunned down by their own colleagues after one is bitten and they try to run away.

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