Character page for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon and its expanded universe.
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The Veldt Rebellion
In General
- Dark and Troubled Past: The night before the Battle of Veldt they speak of their tragic backstories which led to them either deserting or siding against the Imperium.
- Experienced Protagonist: Most of the group, such as Kora, Titus, and the Bloodaxes are already experienced in varying areas relevant to the plot from the beginning.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Among the members of the main group are the rogue daughter of the Regent, a former Imperium general, a mercenary pilot, a robot knight, and a warrior with cybernetic arms.
- La Résistance: They're a group of people from various corners of the universe fighting against the empire who oppresses them.
Kora
Played by: Sofia Boutella
Dubbed by: Carla Castañeda (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A former soldier of the Imperium, adopted daughter of the Regent who retreated to the moon called Veldt to start anew, now the recruiter of the Rebellion. Also widely known as Arthelais and infamously as Scargiver.
- The Ace: described by Balisarius as one of the most dangerous warriors in the history of armed conflict. She's proficient with any weapon and a capable pilot.
- Action Girl: She's a military veteran who is known as "the Scargiver" and able to defeat several soldiers on her own.
- Action Heroine: Kora is good at beating up opponents, even when outnumbered.
- Animal Motifs: The flag she was gifted depicts a wolf.
- Bullying a Dragon: The Imperium soldiers think Kora is just "dessert" when she screams at them to stop trying to assault Sam and threaten her to hand over her axe. She proceeds to hack, slash, stab and shoot the lot of them.
- Combat Pragmatist: Kora isn't averse to using anything within reach to level the playing field, including tossing sand in the eyes of the opponent, groin attacks and stabbings and clubbings with the enemy's own weapons.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She delivers a well deserved beatdown on Noble in the third act, including breaking his arm in multiple places, and ending in knocking his teeth out with the remnants of his bone staff.
- Dangerous Deserter: She deserted from the Imperium military but she is still a formidable fighter and she is leading fighters to protect her new home from the Imperium.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Kora had short hair during her time as an officer of the Imperium. After defecting she let it grow out both to avoid being recognized and to symbolize her newfound pacifism. When the Imperium declare war on Veldt, Kora cuts it short once more, symbolizing her return to war as well as allowing her to sneak onto the dreadnought incognito.
- Good Is Not Soft: Kora's goodness doesn't deter the punishing lengths she goes to, to inflict damage when fighting her opponents.
- Groin Attack: Performed on Noble in their first match.
- In the Hood: She wears a white-and-gold hooded cloak.
- The Leader: The de facto leader and mastermind behind the rebellion as she recruits warriors in a fight against the Regent.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She's also known as the Scargiver for a yet unspecified reason.
- No Holds Barred Beat Down: Subjects Noble to this, after sufficiently crippling his ability to fight back by punching him in the groin, breaking his arm, stabbing him in the leg, then breaking the same arm again.
- Pursued Protagonist: Admiral Noble describes her as the most wanted fugitive in the known universe.
- Red Baron: Her nickname is the Scargiver.
- These Hands Have Killed: Kora personally assassinated Issa under orders of Balisarius. She's been living with the guilt ever since, which is what motivated her to defect and live with the farmers on Veldt.
General Titus
Played by: Djimon Hounsou
Dubbed by: Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A former general of the Imperium who now spends his days as a gladiator.
- Beard of Sorrow: After his men were killed by the Imperium soldiers, he let his beard grow until it became a goatee by the time Kora meets up with him.
- Beyond Redemption: Upon hearing Kora's offer to redeem himself, he says this word-for-word to describe their actions during their time in their Imperium.
- Dangerous Deserter: He is described as an "AWOL general"
as well as being a skilled gladiator and strategist. - Dare to Be Badass: Pretty much every time he speaks to the farmers, he's rousing them into being warriors.
- Heroic BSoD: "Hero" may be an ambiguous term, being a former member of the Imperium but whatever made him leave has left him a sad, lonely and bitter man, who wants nothing to do with anyone.
- Manly Tears: Titus sheds them while listening to his fellow rebels speak of their lost loved ones.
- Surrender Backfire: He mentions his Dark and Troubled Past in the middle act of The Scargiver: he rose to rebel against the Motherworld and led his army, but once he figured out how absurdly long the odds of winning were, he negotiated his surrender in exchange for his men being left alone. The Motherworld's forces nuked Titus' men to oblivion as punishment for everybody's defiance and forced Titus to watch.
Jimmy
Played by: Dustin Ceithamer (on-set actor), Anthony Hopkins (voice)
Dubbed by: José Luis Orozco (Latin American Spanish), Frédéric Cerdal (European French)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
An android of the Mechanicum Militarus Class, Model: JC-1435, that was supposed to serve as a knight to the past king of the Motherworld.
- Advertised Extra: Jimmy doesn't join the Rebellion in the first film despite being depicted alongside them in promotional images.
- Battle Butler: What he and the rest of the Jimmys were essentially programmed to be before the royal family was slain.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Sam shows him compassion and helps him clean himself after he is harassed by a brutish Imperium soldier, and Imperium soldier Aris is the only one to treat him with an ounce of dignity. He later repays them by betraying and killing his commander to save Sam and Aris, who had taken Sam as a Human Shield after a fight and demanded he kill Aris and Kora.
- Immune to Bullets: A hail of bullets can knock him down, but he gets up shortly afterwards none the worse for wear.
- The Juggernaut: Despite his dislike of combat, when James is given enough motivation he's completely unstoppable. When he finally decides to fight with the farmers and rebels, he manages to deal as damage to the Imperium's ground army as all of them combined.
- Last of His Kind: Jimmy is from an order of robot knights, most of whom are gone following the royal family's death.
- Luminescent Blush: When Sam caresses his face, The lights surrounding Jimmy's optic sensors flare up.
- Race-Name Basis: He's one of the few remaining "Jimmys", a type of robotic warrior.note
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When going into combat mode, the sensors on his face turn bright red and he's a full-blown juggernaut.
- Shoot the Hostage Taker: How he saves Sam from the Imperium commanding officer who intended to rape her.
- These Hands Have Killed: Jimmy shoots one of the Imperium's commanding officers when he threatens to kill Kora and rape Sam. Once the deed is done, he drops the blaster and runs away in shame. Likely also because he's broken the oath to no longer fight, post the royal family's deaths and has destroyed the one purpose he has left, doing menial labor for the Imperium.
- Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: He and any other of his fellow Jimmys who are still active are stated to be undergoing this, after the royal family they were programmed to serve is murdered.
- You Cannot Kill An Idea: He expresses this view when talking about the previous king.Jimmy: A king is a man and a man can fail. But a myth is indestructible.
Gunnar
Played by: Michiel Huisman
Dubbed by: Noé Velázquez (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A farmer from Veldt.
- Audience Surrogate: He is meant to be this for the audience, according to Zack Snyder. He acts as someone that Kora can talk to and explain her backstory to, while also asking questions so the lore can be explained.
- Dogged Nice Guy: He has feelings for Kora, but isn't regarded as anything more than a comrade due to Kora's views on romance being corrupted by the Imperium. By Part 2 Kora realises that she has feelings for him.
- Farm Boy: Gunnar grew up in a farming village and is naive to the world outside his moon.
- Non-Action Guy: A meek farmer with no combat experience who nonetheless joins the fight.
Tarak
Played by: Staz Nair
Dubbed by: Luis Fernando Orozco (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A blacksmith with the ability to bond with animals.
- Animal Motifs: The flag Sam gifts him depicts a stag.
- Barbarian Longhair: He's a muscular, shirtless individual with dark long hair.
- The Beastmaster: Tarak is a barbarian warrior with a bond to a gryphon-like creature called a Bennu. Zack Snyder revealed that the Bennu belongs to Tarak's boss and nobody has been able to tame it until until Tarak does a "horse whisperer vibe" with it.
- Indentured Servitude: He became the indentured servant of a rancher after the Motherworld invaded his homeworld.
- Riches to Rags: He went from a wealthy noble to an indentured servant after his home planet was razed by the Imperium.
- Tempting Fate: He muses that it's too bad Kora killed Noble and they don't have to fight the Imperium anymore, since Veldt would've been a beautiful place to fight and die on. Cue Noble being retrieved and resuscitated with Motherworld technology.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Doesn't have a shirt throughout the entire movie.
Nemesis
Played by: Bae Doona
Dubbed by: Irina Índigo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A cyborg and master swordswoman.
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: Most images of her show her wearing a red bandana. Sometimes she wears a hat over it.
- Cyborg: Nemesis has amputated her biological limbs and replaced them with metal gauntlets. It was the only way to successfully wield the molten metal blades of her people.
- Establishing Character Moment: Nemesis is first shown confronting Harmada over a hostage. At first she tries bargaining with the creature, but when Harmada goes on the offensive Nemesis reluctantly engages her. After killing her opponent, Nemesis rebuffs all praise out of shame for having kill a foe with a very sympathetic motivation.
- Handicapped Badass: She had both her arms amputated and replaced with cybernetics. This is both a rite-of-passage for all warriors on her world and a requirement to be able to handle and wield the deadly hot blades due to their heat that normal hands wouldn't be able to sustain.
- Hot Blade: Nemesis' favorite weapons, as shown in Empire Magazine.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: She sometimes fights without activating her molten metal swords to toy with or stave off killing her opponents.
- Martial Pacifist: In spite of her combat skills, Nemesis abhors violence and killing.
- These Hands Have Killed: Taking lives is not something Nemesis considers admirable.
Darrian Bloodaxe
Played by: Ray Fisher
Dubbed by: Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe | Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
An insurgent fighting the Imperium.
- BFG: Uses a four-foot long rifle.
- Brother–Sister Team: With his sister Devra.
- Determinator: After taking a blast to the abdomen, Darrian still has enough fight in him to kill his opponent moments before he expired.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His surname is Bloodaxe.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Devra is the leader of a revolutionary group while Darrian is the more passionate "fighting spirit" of the revolution.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- His and Devra's acts of insurgency against the Imperium is why Admiral Noble is in Veldt's corner of the universe and why the plot kicks off.
- King Levitica's kindness and sheltering of the Bloodaxes leads to his being killed and his planet being razed by Noble in retaliation.
Devra Bloodaxe
Played by: Cleopatra Coleman
Dubbed by: Rosalba Sotelo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe | Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Darrian's sister as well as his fellow insurgent.
- Brother–Sister Team: With her brother Darrian, according to the Vanity Fair article.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Her surname is Bloodaxe.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Devra is the leader of the revolutionary group while her brother is the more passionate "fighting spirit" of the revolution.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Hers and Darrian's acts of insurgency against the Imperium are why Admiral Noble travels to Veldt's corner of the universe and why the plot kicks off.
- King Levitica's acts of kindness in sheltering the Bloodaxes leads to him being killed and his planet completely razed by Noble.
Milius
Played by: E. Duffy
Dubbed by: Karla Falcón (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A refugee turned warrior. They joined the Bloodaxe's rebellion after the Imperium decimated their village.
- Big "NO!": They let out one after seeing Darrian die.
- Genocide Survivor: Milius is a refugee from a world similar to Veldt. Their world was destroyed when they did not resist the Imperium, motivating Milius to join the fight.
- Line in the Sand: When Darrian joins Kora's group, he asks for volunteers from his army to join him. Milius is the first to join him.
- My Greatest Failure: Milius volunteers for the Veldt mission to keep an eye on Darrian and make sure he returns in one piece. He never makes it to Veldt alive.
- Shout-Out: Named after John Milius, whose 1982 film Conan the Barbarian was heavily influential on Zack Snyder.
- Survivor Guilt: How they feel after Kai betrays the group and sees Darrian and the other members of the Bloodaxe insurgency die.
- Undying Loyalty: They join the fight on Veldt to make sure Darrian comes back in one piece.
The Imperium/Motherworld
In General
- Armies Are Evil: The Imperium in a nutshell.
- The Assimilator: What they do to the planets they conquer, how they replenish their forces, and how Kora and Titus became their soldiers in the first place.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Enforced. Romantic relationships are encouraged between soldiers so that soldiers will always have something to fight for even if they lose sight of their greater purpose.
- Expy: Of the Galactic Empire of Star Wars fame, as a brutal and tyrannical spacefaring regime the heroes are rebelling against. In fact, Snyder once pitched the movie to be set in the Star Wars universe. Their name and aesthetic also bring to mind the Imperium of Man.
- From Bad to Worse: If Kora's memories are any indication, Motherworld was already an expansionist empire before Balisarius took the helm.
- Galactic Conqueror: They have taken over a sizable amount of worlds, and they show no sign of slowing down. The Opening Narration of A Child of Fire states that they've conquered over a thousand worlds.
- Inappropriately Close Comrades: Inverted. The Motherworld actually encourages romantic relationships between their soldiers so that even if they lose sight of what they're fighting for, they will still fight for their comrades.
- Planet Looters: The Motherworld plunders other worlds for resources through use of its massive Imperium forces.
- Sigil Spam: As shown in the official teaser, their symbol, which consists of a golden eye with a Single Tear coming out of it, is displayed not only in the face bags covering a group of prisoners, but also on the masks covering the violinists.
- Superpowered Mooks: Among their forces is a special class of soldier called Krypteian, who have Super-Strength and wield heated blades of their own.
Regent Balisarius
Played by: Fra Fee
Dubbed by: José Antonio Macías (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A general who took the throne of the Imperium from the royal family for himself and Kora's adopted father.
- Archnemesis Dad: Kora reveals to Gunner that he raised her after her family's death. At the end of A Child of Fire, he tells Noble to bring Kora to him alive so he can crucify her.
- Ax-Crazy: Relished personally eviscerating all opposition; fighters and innocent civilians alike, right on the ground of the battlefield, instead of bellowing orders from a command post in his youth, to the point he is introduced covered in blood. Then there's him testing a young Kora to see if she had a killing instinct, which is the only reason she survives the massacre of her planet. The reason he led an insurrection and murdered the king? The king decided to stop expanding the kingdom's territory.
- Bad Boss: Threatens to torture and kill Noble in front of the Senate if he fails to bring Kora back to him alive or crush the rebellion to the last man. Notably the only evil Imperium character to treat another evil Imperium character like this.
- Big Bad: Noble may be the main force that is fighting against the insurgents but make no mistake, Balisarius is the one who behind everything.
- Blood Knight: Loves combat, blood and killing. Anyone who is willing to kill is likely to impress him as well. He is utterly disgusted by mercy or "weakness".
- Drama Queen: Prone to histrionics and grandiose declarations, but what takes the cake is bringing a string quartet to play background music during the assassination of the royal family.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. He still considers Kora his daughter, but not only does he unhesitatingly used her as a weapon of assassination and Fall Guy for the slain king's death but he wants her taken alive so he can crucify her in front of the court.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The primary antagonist of the saga, whose takeover of the Imperium in the wake of the royal family's demise is the reason why it became what it is today.
- Just the First Citizen: He's the Imperial Regent of Motherworld, making him Emperor in all but name. However, he does not take a royal title for himself and all his actions are officially done on behalf of the "slain king".
- The Kingslayer: Arranges the assassination of the royal family to seize power for himself, and personally murders his own king.
- Klingon Promotion: Regent for the "slain king" he killed personally.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His decision to spare Kora and raise her into a weapon of the Imperium to feed the future designs he had to get close to the royal family, ends up creating the future rebel who'll gather fighters to oppose him and give the Motherworld its first true defeat in centuries.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: It's all but stated that the reason Kora was chosen to be the assassin of the royal family and Fall Guy for the whole coup is because she is an off-worlder, or as Balisarius calls her, "a cancer of ethnic impurities".
- The Sociopath: A ruthless, maniacal general, turned dictator, who cares about no one but himself, and won't hesitate to slaughter entire worlds who get in his way.
- Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Implied to be the reason why he "adopts" Kora as his daughter and prized officer. Kora as a child pulled the trigger when he directed an unloaded gun at his own face, proving her "willingness to kill" in his twisted eyes.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Sometime before the beginning of the first film, he assumes power after the death of the royal family, turning an already imperialistic and brutal empire into a nightmarishly totalitarian force of destruction.
- The Unfought: The Regent spends all of Part 1 being a shadowy figure whose will is carried out by Admiral Noble, so the protagonists never get to confront him directly. Part 2 keeps the Regent out of the main plot as well, since the focus is on liberating one planet rather than the entire galaxy.
- Would Hurt a Child: He attempts to have the young Princess Issa assassinated.
Admiral Atticus Noble
Played by: Ed Skrein
Dubbed by: Carlo Vázquez (Latin American Spanish), Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Admiral of the Imperium Army.
- Above Good and Evil: Ed Skrein has stated in an IGN interview that Noble chooses to live above all concerns of morality.
- Ambition Is Evil: Part of his ruthlessness is motivated by a desire to improve his standing in the Imperium and avoid being sent to the edges of the galaxy any further, first by quelling the Bloodaxe siblings' insurgencies, then later by bringing Kora to Balisarius.
- And I Must Scream: Subjects a prisoner to this, severing their spine cord and destroying their cervical vertebrae with a bolt gun, after initially agreeing to set them free.
- Ax-Crazy: Once his politeness facade is dropped, this is his true nature.
- Bad with the Bone: According to Zack Snyder, he carries a staff designed to look like the femur of an ancient animal that supposedly carried the first king across the desert. The staff however, only carries a small piece of bone from the actual animal. In A Child of Fire, he bludgeons Sindri to death with it, and later kills King Levitica in the same manner. During his climactic fight with Kora, she breaks it in half, stabs him, and bashes him in the face with it before falling to his supposed death.
- Big Bad: Of both A Child of Fire and The Scargiver.
- Boldly Coming: Spends his downtime having trysts with a tentacled creature in his private quarters.
- Brain Uploading: How he engages in conversation with Balisarius himself in the final scenes of A Child of Fire, while the Priests work on bringing him back to life.
- Breaking Speech: Delivers a particularly cruel one to Levitica, criticizing him for taking in known enemies of the Motherworld on grounds of honor and charity, then dismisses the act of charity itself as the unforgivable sin Levitica committed, because such notions got the Motherworld's king killed, which taught the Imperium a very important lesson about its dangers and thus, the same fate must now be visited on Levitica. When he's done, Levitica is all but blubbering. He also gives one to Kora at the very beginning of the battle in "The Scargiver" that makes her almost surrender to him hoping that he will leave the farmers alone even after hearing the night before the first-hand accounts of various survivors of the Motherworld's atrocities that make clear this is not an option.
- Commissar Cap: Wears one as part of his uniform and symbolizes his stature as a powerful military officer.
- Cyborg: He's had modifications of unknown extent. He has a plug in his left rib for inhaling a drug directly to his lungs and has hollow little craters all over his body. He also has a metal cranial shell directly underneath his skin for communication with Balisarius.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially prominent during his second arrival on Veldt, where Noble feigns disappointment that nobody's greeting him with a hug or a free pint. He also scoffs at Kora's demands to back down since there's no way an admiral is going to walk away empty-handed.
- Dirty Communists: The outfit he usually wears, consisting of a dark green trenchcoat and an officer's hat (both having red colored trim), he wouldn't be out of place as a Commissar in Soviet Russia.
- Disney Villain Death: He falls off the platform where he and Kora were fighting in the climax of A Child of Fire, but he's resurrected in time by the Priests at the very end.
- Erotic Asphyxiation: If that tentacle wrapped around his neck is any clue, Noble has a choking fetish.
- Exact Words: He promised to set a prisoner free in exchange for information on the Bloodaxe's whereabouts. But he never said anything about the condition that freedom would come in, so he puts them in a vegetative state via bolt gun to the nape. Either he set the prisoner "free" by trapping them in their body or he set them free by releasing them post-crippling, either way, he made good on his promise.
- Faux Affably Evil: He may act friendly and calm towards others, but he shows no mercy in his pursuit of glory. He greets Sindri with a hug, only to bludgeon him to death minutes later.
- Four-Star Badass: While an Admiral and not a General, Noble is an utter beast in combat.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: After getting stabbed by Gunnar and hanging on the edge of a doorway shaft, Kora closes the door on his torso, likely bisecting half his body a moment back before Kora finishes Noble off by decapitating him.
- The Heavy: Balisarius is the one in command of the Motherworld's armies, but Atticus is the primary threat to Kora and the village.
- The Hedonist: Surprisingly, Noble has a streak of this, smoking directly into his lungs and engaging in sexual escapades with a tentacled beast.
- In the Back: He gets stabbed through the chest with a sword from behind by Gunnar, when Noble tries to strangle Kora.
- Interspecies Romance: With a tentacled being.
- Ironic Name: His surname is Noble, which doesn't exactly fit his personality.
- Lean and Mean: He has a very thin build, and he's also absolutely ruthless.
- Looks Like Cesare: Noble has very gaunt features with unnaturally pale skin and dark hair.
- Not Quite Dead: Kora and the surviving rebels are certain that he's been dealt with by the end of A Child of Fire, except they're not aware he's rescued and brought back to life by the Imperium.
- Off with His Head!: The battle ends with Kora lopping Noble's head off with a sword.
- One-Man Army: Whenever he enters close-quarter combat, Noble is borderline unstoppable.
- Precision F-Strike: He refers to the villagers as "fucking farmers" while taunting Kora.
- Pride: Makes a big speech about the rewards he will get for bringing in Darrian, Titus, Tarak and the handful of insurgents he's captured. Even mentions songs being written about his "feats of courage" for capturing Kora specifically. Even Kai feels the need to point out he did all the work.
- The Sociopath: He's the most pronounced example of this out of everyone in the Imperium. Except maybe, Balisarius.
- Teeth Flying: In the climax of A Child of Fire, Kora bashes a few teeth off of him with the remains of his own staff.
- Undignified Death: After ploughing through several resistors with frightening ease and proving an even match to the Scargiver, Noble meets his end when Gunnar, the least experienced member of the main cast, stabs him from behind and Kora slices his head off while Noble is caught between two sliding doors (which possibly may have bisected him as a result).
- Visual Pun: His talk with Balisarius towards the end of A Child of Fire has them standing on a frozen lake, which shatters with each strike of Balisarius' staff until it breaks and sends Noble drowning in the cold water. In other words, he's walking on thin ice (i.e. in serious trouble) with the Regent.
- We Have Reserves: As his fellow officers soon learn, Noble wouldn't think twice about firing on his own men, stating that the consequences are "less mouths to feed".
Princess Issa
Played by: Stella Grace Fitzgerald
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (Flashbacks)
Princess of the Motherworld, also called the Redeemer, who was murdered along with the King and the rest of her family.
- The Chosen One: Issa had miraculous healing powers and her father believed her reign would bring an age of peace to the entire universe due to having compassion that he had long forgotten after being hardened by war.
- Death of a Child: She was killed, along with her family, before she could come of age.
- Healing Hands: Brings a dead bird back to life in Kora's flashback.
- Hope Bringer: It was said that she had the power to stop all conflicts and bring peace across the known universe as her father's successor.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Her backstory sets her up as a Space Opera version of Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, as the beloved daughter of a royal family wiped out by insurrection and who has taken on a messianic quality after her (supposed) death.
- Not Quite Dead: Titus states that Issa's powers allowed her to survive Kora's assassination of her. The only issue is that since her body is physically dead, there's no telling where her spirit currenlty resides.
- Posthumous Character: She is dead by the time the story begins.
- Reincarnation: Believed to be the reincarnated essence of a mythical, ancient Motherworld queen bearing the same name, with the unique ability to restore life to the dead, and whose rule always ushered in eras of peace and tranquility.
- Reincarnation-Identifying Trait: The only sure-fire way to confirm the reincarnation of the ancient queen in any era, is her ability to give life to the dead or dying. A trait Kora implies she possessed.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Life giving.
The Slain King/King Athander
Played by: Cary Elwes
Dubbed by: Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (Flashbacks)
The previous ruler of the Motherworld, whose throne was taken over by Balisarius after his death.
- Forced to Watch: Balisarius kept him alive just long enough to witness his daughter being murdered.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: With his daughter drawing so much from Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, he resembles her father, Czar Nicholas II.
- No Name Given: The film never reveals his name; he's only referred to as the "slain king." in the House of the Bloodaxe comic, he is named Athander.
- IronicName: his name was revealed to be Athander in House of the Bloodaxe comic, which means " immortal man" in Greek. you can guess what happens next.
Motherworld Priests
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
The religious sect of the Imperium, who serve Noble during his sojourns.
- The Faceless: Their face is never seen, only the masks they wear constantly.
- The Stoic: They say nothing
- The Quiet One: Again, they don't speak a word.
Veldt
Sindri
Played by: Corey Stoll
Dubbed by: Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
The leader of Kora's village.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He attempts to deceive Admiral Noble by downplaying how fertile their lands are. He's executed to show how dangerous and evil the Imperium is.
Hagen
Played by: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Dubbed by: René García (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A farmer in Veldt who took Kora into their village when she first arrived.
- Parental Substitute: To Kora.
Sam
Played by: Charlotte Maggi
Dubbed by: Casandra Acevedo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A young woman living on Veldt.
- Attempted Rape: She's the victim of this from Imperium soldiers. Kora, Jimmy, and Aris save her.
- Beta Couple: Aris develops romantic feelings for her and it's implied they'll form a relationship by the end of Part 2.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She is the first to recognize that Jimmy is a good person and gifts him with a flower crown.
Other Characters
Kai
Played by: Charlie Hunnam
Dubbed by: Irwin Daayán (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A mercenary pilot.
- Ace Pilot: A skilled pilot, according to Snyder.
- Complexity Addiction: Instead of simply handing Kora over to the Mother World while she was vulnerable on his ship and getting rich of the bounty, Kai hatches a complicated plan to have her recruit a collection of the Imperium's most wanted foes in order to fatten the pot a whole order of magnitude more.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Han Solo he is not. Or rather, he is Han Solo if he was really as mercenary as Leia accused him of being.
- Evil Counterpart: He's this to the entire rebel team, as they all mentioned in their backstories that the Imperium's invasion of their worlds drove them to resist or defect out of honor for their communities while Kai decided to side with the Imperium and save his own skin.
- Freudian Excuse: When explaining why he's actually been working with the Imperium all along, Kai explains that the Imperium mercilessly razed his home planet, convincing him to "never be on the wrong side of history."
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Agrees to help Kora "for a small fee".
- Sadistic Choice: He tries to force Gunnar to sever Kora's spine with a gas powered boltgun, telling him he might survive if he complies, calling him a "coward" when Gunnar initially calls him out and generally "encouraging" him to comply. Backfires when Gunnar aims under his jaw and shoots the bolt into his brain, however.
Harmada
Played by: Jena Malone
Dubbed by: Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A warrior that resembles a humanoid spider.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: She is first introduced with a child in her arms.
- Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: She kidnaps children to compensate for her own infertility.
- Revenge Before Reason: Harmada wants justice, is consumed with making every mother on Daggus feel the pain of a child's loss, after her body is poisoned beyond the ability to produce viable eggs by the constant mining of the planet and thus, refuses to listen to reason. This however gives Nemesis no pleasure in killing her to protect a child, as she wasn't malicious beyond her desire for revenge.
- Spider People: Her species is a race of half human/half spiders.
- Take That!: She's named for Walter Hamada, the former head of DC Films, with whom Snyder frequently clashed during the making of Zack Snyder's Justice League.
- Tragic Villain: The only thing that makes Harmada a villain, is her warped desire for justice, by avenging herself on every mother via killing their child in return for the planet's constant mining poisoning her eggs.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She steals and kills the children of humans because they polluted her world to the point where her own eggs cannot hatch.
- Would Hurt a Child: She kidnaps and murders human kids as payback for the pollution caused by their parents, which rendered her infertile.
Aris
Played by: Sky Yang
Dubbed by : Aidan Vallejo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A private in the Mother World army and part of the squad that Noble leaves behind to occupy Veldt.
- Beta Couple: He celebrates Veldt's victory over the Imperium by kissing Sam.
- Defector from Decadence: He betrays his comrades when they try to rape Sam.
- Mirror Character: He resembles Kora during her days as an officer in the Imperium, establishing that there some soldiers can be Punch Clock Villains capable of changing sides.
- The Mole: Aris keeps his defection a secret from his superiors so that they'll leave the veldt farmers alone until it's time for their grain to be collected. Eventually they get suspicious that he's the only officer they regularly hear from.
- Token Good Teammate: The only member of the Mother World army who shows any sense of compassion.
Levitica
Played by: Tony Amendola
Dubbed by: Humberto Solórzano (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
The king of Sharaan who harbors the Bloodaxe siblings and their freedom fighters.
- Honor Before Reason: Takes in, feeds and finances the Bloodaxes because their way of life is built on notions of honor and charity. Noble cruelly mocks this viewpoint by pointing out the ruin charity wrought on the Imperium and by extension, what ruin it has brought to Sharaan now.
- The Team Benefactor: To the Bloodaxes and their army.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He appears in only a couple of scenes, and ends up being killed by Noble.
Hickman
Played by: Ray Porter
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
The rancher who holds Tarak's debt.
- Do with Him as You Will: After taming the Bennu, Tarak leaves it with Hickman. Hickman tries to ride it but the Bennu kills him. Tarak doesn't seem to mind.
- Graceful Loser: He loses his bet and gladly frees Tarak.
- Indentured Servitude: Tarak has a debt to him and works for him as a blacksmith. He's kept chained to an anvil.
- Scary Teeth: His teeth are as rotten as his soul.
Hawk Shaw
Appears in: Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
A bounty hunter alien, in league with the Motherworld and often allying with Kai.
- Bounty Hunter: A villainous example. Their job is to hunt bounties for the Imperium.
- Expy: Of the Uruk-Hai in the Lord of the Rings films.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Their fate at the hands of Nemesis, including nearly being bifurcated sideways.
- Lured into a Trap: Successfully connived with Kai to subject Kora, Darrian and the other rebels to this.
