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The Disciples
In General
The Disciples in general
- Catchphrase: "For all mankind."
- The Needs of the Many: How their society works. Unlike the "selfish" love that the rest of humanity practices, which prioritizes the needs of an individual and those they care about, the Disciples believe in loving all of humanity equally and therefore they won't put the needs of themselves or any one person over the greater good for humanity.
- Technologically Advanced Foe: Easily the most technologically advanced faction seen on the show. Since they have been preparing for the "Last War" for all of their existence the Disciples have highly advanced weaponry and equipment such as energy guns and suits that reflect light in such a way as to make them invisible.
"The Shepherd"
Bill Cadogan/"The Shepherd"
Played by: John Pyper-Ferguson
- A God I Am Not: Surprisingly he is this since, despite having a bit of a God Complex due to believing he is the only one who can save humanity, he tells Gabriel that he doesn't believe himself to be a god or even believes in the concept of a god. He just believes that "Transcendence" is the ultimate and final stage of human evolution.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The founder and leader of the Disciples, and one of the main antagonists of Season 7 along with Sheidheda, though the two have different goals and are not working together.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He initially appears in a video file back in season 4 which gives Jaha the idea to hide in the Second Dawn's bunker in order to escape the Praimfaya wave. He then comes back to become one of the final antagonists of the final season.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Cadogen is shown to have loved his family even if he ultimately decided to give up familar bonds in order to lead the Disciples. He is shown feeling sadness at the thought that his son Reese was likely killed by his daughter Callie and, in the finale, the Judge takes on the form of his long-dead daughter Callie.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Zig-Zagged between these two tropes - Cadogan is responsible for most of the Myth Arc of the show, which is characteristic of an overarching villain, since the Grounders descend from Second Dawn defectors, however, he only appears in person for the final arc of the series. However, since he does appear in person, this runs somewhat contrary to the Greater Scope Villain criteria.
- Knight Templar: He believes that humanity will eventually ascend to a higher plan of consciousness after they win the "Last War" and any action taken in order to begin the war, no matter how violent it is, is a necessary evil in order to achieve that dream.
- Parental Favoritism: Is shown to have had a preference for his daughter Callie over his son Reese despite her often disagreeing with him and his ideals. This leads Reese to develop a bit of a complex and causes him to have some resentment for Callie.
Anders
Anders
Played by: Neal McDonough
- The Dragon: The figurehead of the Disciples, answering only to The Shepherd.
Levitt
Levitt
Played by: Jason Diaz
- Defecting for Love: Defects from the Disciples to assist Octavia and Clarke because he is in love with the former. Also refuses transcendence to stay on Earth with Octavia and her friends.
- Dogged Nice Guy
- Lima Syndrome: Falls for Octavia, the Disciples' captive, who he's required to Mind Rape for his superiors.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Didn't know any other way to live until he met Octavia, which then precipitates his Mook–Face Turn.
The Judge
The Judge
Played by: Iola Evans (as Callie Cadogan), Alycia Debnam-Carey (as Lexa), Paige Turco (as Abby Griffin)
The Judge is a higher being that determines if a species is worthy of transcendence or if they should be annihilated, and then passes down their fate depending on the test subject's success or failure.It only appears in the last episode of the series.
- Absent Aliens: The Judge is the reason no living advanced alien species are found in The 100 universe, as, when they discover the anomaly stone and its final code, they either transcend (like the Ethereans) or gets annihilated (like the Bardoans). As the Judge calls it “an evolutionary leap”, it seems that, eventually, all intelligent species will pass through the Test and meet its end in the physical universe, one way or another.
- Abusive Precursors: Although they can reward species with eternal life and peace, the Judge's species have destroyed countless civilizations through time because they did not answer their question satisfactorily, such as the Bardoans.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: While meeting lesser beings who take the test, the Judge reads its minds and takes on the form of a test subject's greatest teacher, the source of their greatest failure, or in the case of emotion-driven species like humanity, their greatest love.
- A God I Am Not: When Bill Cadogan asks if they are God, the judge responds that, for now, Bill can consider it his "judge".
- Ambiguous Gender: As a transcended being, the Judge probably doesn’t have a gender, at least not in the same way of the organic lifeforms do. However, it can take the form of any person in the mind of its subject(s), like Callie Cadogan, Lexa and Abigail Griffin.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: When an intelligent species finds one of the Anomaly Stones and discovers its "final code," the Judge tests them by asking a few questions. If the species succeeds, they leave their biological bodies and become one with a universal consciousness, where they will never die and life in eternal peace. However, if they fail, the Judge sends a chemical weapon called Gen-9 to destroy every individual of the species, making them extinct. In the series finale, humanity ascended and becomes one with the Judge.
- God: The closest thing The-100 universe have to a god. It, or it species, existed since the dawn of time and created the Anomaly Stones so the other mortal races of the universe could reach them and achieve transcendence.
- Hive Mind: The Judge is a member of a universal consciousness compromised of countless other species that ascended through time, who then adds knowledge and wisdom to the hive mind. When a race transcends, they are absorbed into it and now will live forever in peace.
- Humanity on Trial: In the series finale, it tests humanity to see if they are worthy of transcendence or if deserves to go extinct. At first, it dooms the human race after Clarke kills Cadogan during the Test, but it change its mind after Octavia stops the war between the Disciples and Wonkru and let mankind join the universal mind.
- Humans Are Flawed: Initially, the Judge sees humanity as a primitive race that only knows conflict and suffering, pointing out to Raven that, as they speak, the remnants of the species are on the verge of a war that could lead to their extinction. However, it was subverted when, through Raven and Octavia's efforts, the Judge became convinced and let humanity transcend, saying that they "already added to us so much" when they joined the hive mind.
- The Omniscient: The Judge seems to know everything that happened in the past, likely by absorbing the knowledge of countless transcended species and that is happening in the present, as watched with Raven the Disciples and Wonkru nearly going to war. When it meets with the Test subjects, the Judge read their minds and absorbs not only their knowledge (like learning to speak Trigedasleng by Clarke), but also their feelings and emotions.
- The Omnipresent: The Judge lives in another plane of existence where it meets the Test subjects when they cross the Anomaly through the Stones. As there are Anomaly Stones scattered throughout the Universe, the Judge can be wherever it wants, as when it met Raven 42 billion light years from Earth.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Clarke gives one to it when the Judge dooms humanity because she failed the Test, saying that Cadogan’s search for it lead to the creation of a society absent of love and that its species annihilated many civilizations that didn’t live up to their ideals.
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Judge’s species are probably the first to arise in the universe and the first to transcend their physical existent and become a cosmic hive mind. After that, they created the Anomaly Stone and scattered it through the galaxies so other civilizations could discover it and reach transcendence or face annihilation if they failed the Test.
- Time Abyss: The Judge says that it has been testing species since the dawn of time.
