Characters from the series Scoundrels (2010).
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The West Family
Cheryl West
Cheryl West
Played By: Virginia Madsen
- Beware the Nice Ones: She might be a kind woman who doesn't wish to harm anyone, but she's not only a Mama Bear who is very protective of her family, but she also doesn't tolerate seeing injustice when she sees it, which often gets her in trouble in her many jobs, usually by standing up to her many Mean Bosses.
- Good Parents: She truly is; she loves her children more than anything, and will put them above anything, including her relationships with anyone else.
- Happily Married: Played With. She and Wolf had stable and loving marriage but her attempts at reforming their family after his arrest put them at odds, to the point she starts thinking he might be better off staying in jail.
- High-School Sweethearts: She and Wolf have been an Outlaw Couple since their high-school days.
- Mama Bear: Stopping her children from going to jail is Cheryl's primary motivation throughout the series.
- Only Sane Woman: Sometimes acts like this when compared to some of the other contestants.
- Nice Girl: Out of all the main characters she's by far the kindest, and the only one who doesn't like tricking or scamming people, as even Logan is prone to lying.
- Parents as People: She's a warm, loving and capable mother, but her struggle the reform her family on her own takes a toll on her, especially when so many of them, including her own husband, oppose it.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Despite Cheryl being serious about reforming herself and her family, she's still hounded by Sergent Mack who doesn't believe they can ever go straight, because of thievery in In the Blood for her family. "Once a West always a West". Once he sees that she really means it, he realizes how awful his attitude was and apologizes.
- Parental Favoritism: Downplayed. She's closer to her White Sheep son Logan and while she is constantly disappointed with her other children from straying from her attempts to reform the family, she never stops loving them and tries to help them whenever she can. But her other kids still can't help but think they're unfavored in their mother's eyes compared to Logan.
- Silk Hiding Steel: While she might look like a common housewife and has sworn away from a life of crime, she did use to work in the underworld, and can pull some dirty tricks when she needs to protect her family.
- Struggling Single Mother: Played With. With Wolf in jail, she has to take care of her family on her own for years, and her desire to reform the family out of their criminal life also means they're struggling more financially since they usually just stole stuff, but now they have to work. In order to support her family, she gets into various jobs, leading to a New Job Episode for her almost every episode.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: As she and Mack start interacting more and more as she struggles to reform her family, they begin to develop feelings for each other.
Wolf West
Wolfgang "Wolf" West
Played By: David James Elliott
- Can't Take Criticism: He's angrily dismissive whenever Cheryl or Logan criticize how his criminal life has badly affected their family.
- Con Man: He's a career criminal and many of his crimes involve scams and cons.
- Con Men Hate Guns: Wolf is a career criminal with a Code of Honour of "No violence and no drugs".
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Wolf becomes increasingly paranoid about his wife cheating on him while he's stuck in jail, especially when he learns she's working for an old associate of his that is a major sleazebag. So much so that he breaks his Code of Honour and snitches on him.
- Happily Married: Played With. He and Cheryl had stable and loving marriage but her attempts at reforming their family after his arrest put them at odds, to the point she starts thinking he might be better off staying in jail.
- High-School Sweethearts: He and Cheryl have been an Outlaw Couple since their high-school days, and in the present day they're Happily Married with adult children.
- Moral Myopia: He's very angry with his wife for trying to reform their family, as he genuinely thinks a life of crime is the only way to live.
- Papa Wolf: For all his defects, he's extremely protective of his children and is frustrated he can't protect them from jail.
- Parental Favoritism: He vastly favors Cal and Heather over his other children, and particularly dislikes his son Logan for having abandoned the "family business" to become a lawyer of all things.
- Smug Snake: He's extremely arrogant and thinks he's always right and is never getting caught for his many crimes. Even being arrested don't make him much more humble, and he constantly gives his family bad advice from prison.
- Villain Protagonist: He's one of the main characters, but due to opposing his wife attempts to reform the family, he's treated as an antagonist.
Logan West
Logan West
Played By: Patrick Flueger
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In Scoundrels he's blonde, while in Outrageous Fortune he was a brunette.
- Adaptation Name Change: His name was Jethro in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Logan in this adaptation.
- Amoral Attorney: Downplayed. While he's almost always a by-the-book lawyer and doesn't screw over people or his clients, he's not above using a few dirty tricks to get the edge on a case. Or getting his family to do it for him.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's intellectual and calm in comparison to his older brother who's foolish and impulsive
- Guile Hero: He's a smooth-talking, deceitful, and relies on his wit and intellect, but shown as being (mostly) moral.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Cal and Logan are identical twins with contrasting personalities: Cal is a thuggish deadbeat who wants to become a career thief and conman like his father, while Logal is a professional and driven lawyer who doesn't want to get involved in crime.
- Teacher/Student Romance: While Logan is the White Sheep of the family, he has one dirt secret: having an affair with his teacher Valerie Bottoms in high school, something his sister Hope has used for Blackmail.
- The Un Favourite: Logan is by far Wolf's least favorite child, due to forsaking the "business" and becoming a law-abiding lawyer. To the point Wolf thinks he only got 7 years in jail because Logan deliberately made a bad defense. When Logan complains Wolf won't say goodbye to him at Billy's funeral, Wolf tells him "There's nothing I love better than saying goodbye to you"
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Unlike Cal, he doesn't want to become a career criminal like his father, but he still desires his approval nonetheless and wants to prove to him the merits of living a straight life as a lawyer.
- White Sheep: Cheryl's desire to reform her family is inspired by her son Logan, who has distanced himself from the family business of petty crimes and has recently become a lawyer. His father Wolf on the other hand, who believes that crime is In the Blood for the Wests, views Logan as a Black Sheep and The Unfavorite for not only spurning the family business but for becoming a "do-gooder" lawyer of all things.
Cal West
Cal West
Played By: Patrick Flueger
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In Scoundrels he's blonde, while in Outrageous Fortune he was a brunette.
- Adaptation Name Change: His name was Van in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Cal in this adaptation.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Most of the time he's not even trying to attract girls, but his bad-boy attitude and good looks is enough to get the attention of several female characters.
- Chick Magnet: Despite being a dumb deadbeat, Cal attracts a lot of attractive women, such as Nina, Tanya, and Patty.
- Dumb Blonde: Cal and Heather are stereotypical ditzy blondes who constantly get attention from the opposite sex. Averted with Cheryl and Logan, who are blondes but fairly intelligent.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: He's a blonde with medium-length hair that's a Chick Magnet.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's foolish and impulsive in comparison to his brother Logan who's intellectual and calm.
- Mr. Fanservice: He gets a fair share of Shirtless Scenes throughout the show.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Cal and Logan are identical twins with contrasting personalities: Cal is a thuggish deadbeat who wants to become a career thief and conman like his father, while Logal is a professional and driven lawyer who doesn't want to get involved in crime.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He constantly seeks his father's approval and wants to follow in his footsteps to become a career criminal just like him.
- Work Off the Debt: Cal gets into trouble with the Hong family when he burglarizes their home and steals a family heirloom. To keep Call off jail, Cheryl orders Cal to work for the Hongs until the debt is fully paid.
Heather West
Heather West
Played By: Leven Rambin
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Pascalle in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Heather in this adaptation.
- Brainless Beauty: Heather is a Head-Turning Beauty, but is quite The Ditz and considered stupid by most of her family, especially Hope. But she does have moments to show she's not as dumb as she looks, such as when she scams her rapist Smooth-Talking Talent Agent and leaves him Chained to a Bed.
- Daddy's Girl: Heather is a daddy's princess and is clearly Wolf's favorite child.
- Dude Magnet: Heather has no trouble attracting boys and sometimes even took advantage of their interest in her to con them.
- Dumb Blonde: She's a stereotypical ditzy blonde girl who is a spoiled Brainless Beauty.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: She's a blonde bombshell who's a Dude Magnet and a Head-Turning Beauty.
- Femme Fatale: She can amp up her sex appeal and flirtation when she wants to manipulate men when she wants to scam them, distract them or doing her favors.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: She's beautiful, vain and ditzy in contrast with her younger sister Hope who's homely, awkward and smart. Both of them have quite a Sibling Rivalry and often insult each other.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Heather is a very attractive young woman, to the point it only takes one modeling photoshoot for her to attract modeling scouts.
- Ms. Fanservice: She gets quite a few scenes in swimwear or lingerie when she's posing for modeling shoots or working at the strip club.
- Single Mom Stripper: To better support her family, Heather first becomes a cocktail waitress at a strip club then upgrades to being a Family-Friendly Stripper on occasion at the club. Her mother is not happy about it when she finds out.
- Spoiled Brat: Has been a spoiled and bratty Daddy's Girl who gets her way for most of her life. Naturally she doesn't react well when she's forced to work.
Hope West
Hope West
Played By: Vanessa Marano
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Loretta in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Hope in this adaptation.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Her older siblings are often frustrated with her, due to her arrogant Little Miss Snarker attitude.
- Better as Friends: When she and Tad have their attempt at Their First Time, it ends awkwardly and prematurely when he calls her "Heather" when they start making out. She later forgives him and they reaffirm their relationship as Best Friends, though she still thinks he has awful taste in women for liking her sister.
- Brainy Brunette: Hope is a very intelligent, dark-haired girl who thinks she's too smart for school. It also contrasts with her older sister Heather who's a Dumb Blonde and a Brainless Beauty.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Hope is a young and smart Little Miss Snarker with a huge ego, which often annoys her older siblings.
- Brutal Honesty: She's honest to a fault, and often offends people with her brutal sarcastic remarks.
- Deadpan Snarker: Most of the sarcastic one-liners in the show come from her.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: She's the homely, awkward and smart in contrast with her older sister Heather who's beautiful, vain and ditzy. Both of them have quite a Sibling Rivalry and often insult each other.
- Little Miss Snarker: She is the youngest member of the West family and has a major sarcastic wit.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Her intelligence makes her arrogant, which won her few friends her age. Tad is portrayed as her Only Friend.
- Stepford Snarker: Deep down she's very insecure about her lack of tradional femininity and is deeply jealous of her Brainless Beauty sister, but she mostly hides her feelings via sarcastic remarks.
Herbert West
Herbert West
Played By: John Lawlor
- Adaptation Name Change: His name was Ted in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Herbert in this adaptation.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Granpa West used to be a master thief, but getting old has just made him an eccentric old man whose oddities are Played for Laughs, such as him burning down his own house to move in with his family.
- Retired Outlaw: He used to be a master thief and is the one who taught everything there is about thieving to Wolf. By the time the show starts, he's long been retired.
- Safecracking: His specialty as a thief was safecracking, which comes up in the Season Finale when Hope needs his help to break into a safe.
- Scatter Brained Senior: He has become somewhat delirious at his old age, burning down his old house and even thinking his wife is still alive.
The Police
Sergeant Mack
Sergeant Mack
Played By: Carlos Bernard
- Cowboy Cop: He doesn't mind doing illegal things for the "greater good". The Reveal of the Season Finale is that the evidence which got Wolf arrested was actually planted by him (although Wolf was guilty of the crime, he was just too good to get caught).
- Inspector Javert: He is a cop who acts as an antagonist that hounds the West family, knowing they're knee-deep in thievery and cons and has no ulterior motive other than keeping criminals in jail.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first he comes off as a Jerkass cop with a grudge against the West family, but when he realizes Cheryl's desire to reform the family is sincere, he becomes more sympathetic and helpful to their struggle.
- Love Interest: Becomes one for Cheryl, due to her marriage with Wolf slowly falling apart.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After he comes to sympathize with Cheryl and her plight, he often gives her advice and looks out for the West family.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: As he and Cheryl start interacting more and more as she struggles to reform her family, they begin to develop feelings for each other.
Detective Potts
Detective Potts
Played By: Creator/Alex Knight
- Accidental Pervert: When he tries to talk to Heather when she's doing laundry, he accidentaly grabs one of her panties, just as Cheryl walks in and makes him look like a Panty Thief.
- Butt-Monkey: He constantly tries to assert his authority on the West family, but they treat him like a joke and he's constantly humiliated by them.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has a hopeless crush on Heather, which only gets worse after he sees her doing a striptease at the strip club she works at.
The Hongs
Mr. Hong
Mr. Hong
Played By: George Cheung
- Benevolent Boss: While he threatens to castrate Cal if he gets involved with his wife and daughter he's overall a very nice boss to him, especially considering how much Cal screws up and that he's a gangster.
- The Don: It's ambiguous how high he is in his criminal organization, but the narrative at least portrays him being an influential crime boss.
- Emasculated Cuckold: He shows some paranoia about his wife cheating on him, yet never catches on that she's sleeping with Cal behind his back. And she successfully tricks into passing Cal's wife as his own.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: He's a very cultured and wealthy man, who enjoys fancy cuisine, is well-groomed, and likes to read.
- Only One Name: His first name is never given, and even his wife refers to him as only "Mr. Hong".
- The Triads and the Tongs: He's involved with the local Asian crime syndicate, who are much more dangerous than the West family, who always stuck to petty crimes.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Downplayed. He's a plain guy married to a Head-Turning Beauty Trophy Wife.
Patty Hong
Patty Hong
Played By: Jessalyn Wanlim
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Tracy in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Patty in this adaptation.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has a dry sarcastic wit, which he often uses when mocking Cal.
- The Fashionista: She's always switching her outfits, hairstyle and make-up, sometimes multiple times per episode.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She might be a bitch, but she doesn't want Cal to get killed by her father, even if it means trouble for her disliked stepmother.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Both Cal and Logan take notice of her good looks shortly after meeting her.
- High-Heel Power: Frequently fears high heels, to illustrate her bossy and arrogant Mafia Princess persona. She often gets a Feet-First Introduction when she walks into a scene too.
- Mafia Princess: Patty Hong, the beautiful, spoiled and bossy daughter of the Asian gangster Mr. Hong.
- Missing Mom: It's never mentioned what happened to her mother, presumably the first Mrs. Hong.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's The Fashionista who's often wearing luxurious and revealing clothing, as well as walking around in fancy swimwear around her home.
- Proud Beauty: She has an enormous ego, and thinks the world of her beauty and sex appeal.
- Pet the Dog: Patty might be a mean spoiled bitch Mafia Princess, but she doesn't tell on Cal for sleeping with her stepmother, because she knows her father would actually kill Cal if he ever found out.
- Rich Bitch: She's an unpleasant, rich and spoiled Mafia Princess.
- Sex Goddess: Patty brags to Cal that she's even better in bed than her stepmother, which is also how Cal finds out Logan slept with her while doing the Twin Switch. Cal pressures Logan into asking if it's true or not and gets jealous when Logan confirms she's indeed amazing at sex.
- Woman Of Wealth And Taste: She's always wearing expensive and luxurious clothing, and seems to have the same taste for reading and culture as her father.
Nina Hong
Nina Hong
Played By: Dina Meyer
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Suzy in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Nina in this adaptation.
- The Baby Trap: When she gets pregnant, it's revealed she never cared that much for Cal specifically, she just wanted to get pregnant to assure her gold ticket with her husband, who's likely infertile.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: When Cal is recounting his encounter with Nina Hong to his buddies, he mostly talks about how big her breasts are.
- Dominatrix: She's shown to be very sexually aggressive, and enjoys hurting Cal during sex. Her equestrian outfit is even designed to make her look like one, especially the whip.
- Gold Digger: She clearly doesn't love her husband the way he loves her, and seems to be married to him mostly for his money.
- Head-Turning Beauty: She's very attractive, and Cal gets Distracted by the Sexy very often in her presence.
- Mrs. Robinson: She seduces the younger Cal while he's working at her husband's house. And despite her age she's apparently such a Sex Goddess Cal struggles to keep up with her... though he gets a reminder of her true age when one Auto Erotica attempt ends with her hurting her back.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's Mr. Hong's sexpot Trophy Wife that's played up for fanservice everytime she's on screen, from her introduction doing a Sexy Surfacing Shot in a tiny bikini, to doing yoga in tight clothing or acting like a Dominatrix.
- Sex Goddess: According to Cal, Nina Hong is insatiable in bed and quickly has him exhausted having the best sex of his life, despite the big age gap between them and how badly she treats himCal: She may be mean, but she's got some skills.
- Trophy Wife: She's actually not that much younger than Mr. Young, but she still fits the stereotype of an incredibly attractive wife who married a less attractive but rich man who she clearly doesn't love.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The hot Trophy Wife to Mr. Hong's plain looks.
- Upper-Class Equestrian: She is an equestrian by hobby, although she also uses it as an excuse to drive there with Cal to sleep with him. She also deliberately uses the whip to make herself look like a .
- Wicked Stepmother: When Patty Hong tells Cal about her stepmother Nina, she literally calls her a "wicked stepmother", and it's clear the two don't have a good relationship, with Patty only seeing Nina as a Trophy Wife for her father.
- Woman Of Wealth And Taste: She clearly enjoys the luxurious life her husband can give her, always wears fancy clothing and has fancy hobbies such as equestry.
Other Characters
Michael
Michael
Played By: Michael Bowen
- Adaptation Name Change: His name was Eric in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Michael in this adaptation.
- Bad Guys Play Pool: He is often seen playing pool at a Bad Guy Bar whenever Cheryl meets him there.
- Honest John's Dealership: He runs a store of fenced and stolen goods.
- Number Two: Was Wolf's second hand man when it came to their criminal activities.
Valerie Bottoms
Valerie Bottoms
Played By: Jessica Collins
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Caroline Darling in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Valerie Bottoms in this adaptation.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: According to Cal she was a famous Hot Teacher at school due to being "top-heavy".
- Head-Turning Beauty: Heather is a very attractive young woman, to the point it only takes one modeling photoshoot for her to attract modeling scouts.
- Hot Teacher: She is incredibly hot and according to Cal a lot of students where attracted to her.
- Love Interest: She's introduced as Logan's longtime girlfriend... but then gets unceremoniously shoved aside when he starts to fall for Patty.
- Lysistrata Gambit: Valerie gets so tired of being Blackmailed by Hope that she withholds sex with Logan until he gets Hope to destroy the photos used to blackmail them.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a Hot Teacher and has some steamy scenes with her Love Interest Logan where she's in her underwear.
- Satellite Love Interest: Most of her character revolves around her affair with Logan.
- Teacher/Student Romance: She and Logan started dating back when she was his teacher in high school, something Hope has used to Blackmail Valerie into letting her skip school.
- Woman Scorned: Valerie is very pissed off when she finds out Logan slept with Patty Hong behind her back. When she dumps him she hands him a bill for all the tutoring that helped him pass the bar, plus interest for every year she "wasted" on him.
Tad
Tad
Played By: Scott Cooper Ryan
- Adaptation Name Change: His name was Kurt in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Tad in this adaptation.
- Best Friend: He's Hope's best friend and is almost always seen with her.
- Better as Friends: When he and Hope have their attempt at Their First Time, it ends awkwardly and prematurely when he calls her "Heather" when they start making out. She later forgives him and they reaffirm their relationship as Best Friends, though she still thinks he has awful taste in women for liking her sister.
- Commonality Connection: He became Best Friends with Hope due to their shared interest in cinema.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has a huge crush on Heather, who's barely aware he exists, and even when she does it's just so she get something from him and even then she still can't remember his name and calls him "Ted".
- The Movie Buff: He's just as huge of films as Hope is, and is a big part of the reason why he's her Best Friend. Although he doesn't constantly make references to them as she does.
Tanya Leterre
Tanya Leterre
Played By: Rachel Boston
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Draska Doslic in Outrageous Fortune, and changed to Tanya Leterre in this adaptation.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: When they start dating, she becomes incredibly obsessed and territorial with Cal. To the point that she changes his bed just so she can't be reminded he slept with other women in it.
- The Immodest Orgasm: According to Carl, she is incredibly loud during sex.
- Love Interest: She's Cal's romantic love interest for the latter half of season 1.
- Satellite Love Interest: Her entire character revolves around her relationship with Cal.
