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Members
Shaw
Miles Shaw
Played by: Jordan Bolger
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Chaotic Good: Shaw follows his conscience, which gets him into trouble on more than one occasion. First, 100 years ago, when he helped start the mutiny on the ship rather than abandon the prisoners and second, when he locked the missile system so Diyoza couldn't destroy the bunker. - Character Death: While his group is being chased by carnivorous bugs, he runs into a radiation fence and gets electrocuted. He later dies from the injuries.
- Disposable Pilot: Completely subverted. Shaw betrays the crew by aiding Raven and Murphy, but has to be kept alive because he is the only person who can fly the ship.
- High-Voltage Death: Dies by getting electrocuted thanks to the radiation fence.
- So Happy Together: Ends up in a loving relationship with Raven, then when they're at their happiest, he goes out on a mission and dies.
- Sole Survivor: Is the only member of the original Eligius crew to still be alive in the present day thanks to siding with the prisoners in the past and serving as their pilot.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Despite surviving the Season he's introduced in and being Raven's new love interest he is apprubtly killed in the first episode of the next Season.
- Token Good Teammate: He's this to the Eligius crew.
Prisoners
Diyoza
Charmaine Diyoza
Played by: Ivana Miličević
- The Ace: She's outright the most clever of any of the characters, and brilliant when it comes to both combat and tactics.
- Armor Is Useless: Notably averted in a show that usually plays it straight. She's shown taking a couple of bullets in various fights, all of which are stopped or at least slowed by her body armor. Without it she wouldn't have made it even halfway through Season 5.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: She was caught when the military sent the very Navy SEALs she trained after her.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Octavia and McCreary for Season 5 since all three want the valley and are willing to do whatever is necessary to control it. She ends up losing this position after her side of the Enemy Civil War is wiped out by McCreary's men
- Character Death: Diyoza ends up dying in the episode "A Little Sacrifice" after catching the Gen-5 that Hope used to try and poison the Disciples water supply and being turned to crystal.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: She's crystallized from the inside by the GEM 9 toxin that her own daughter tried to unleash on a colony of cultists.
- Defector from Decadence: She was a Navy SEALs officer and wanted to help people before she defected and became a terrorist, or in her words, a freedom fighter against the fascist United States government.
- Enemy Mine: Forms one with former Big Bad Duumvirate Octavia in Season 6, and surprisingly, they end up forging an Intergenerational Friendship on the basis of being similar.
- Every Scar Has a Story: She has a thin scar on her neck, courtesy of cutting her own throat as a suicide attempt to escape the authorities. It didn't take. She also has a nasty burn scar that only partially covers a US flag tattoo, implying she tried to remove a symbol of her previous allegiance after going rogue.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: She wanted Hope to grow up normally and to not pursue violence. When Hope pursues that darker path, Diyoza tells her that and that she was the first person to not see her as a monster, and her last words to her are telling her to be better than her.
- Famed In-Story: Or was, at least. Prior to the first apocalypse, she was a notorious terrorist, with an infamy apparently on par with Hitler and bin Laden. However, by the time she returns to Earth a century later, very few records of that time still exist, and so no one knows who she is at first. The Primes, having been alive during that time, do recognize her, and promptly send her into exile.
- Genre Savvy: By far the most outright of any of the characters, which makes her both an incredibly dangerous foe and an exceedingly useful ally. She's exceedingly quick on the uptake, and an outright brilliant strategist.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Her death is this; sacrificing herself for the most important person in her life: Hope.
- I Am a Monster: She admits to having done terrible things in the past, like killing innocent people.
- I Did What I Had to Do: She's not entirely evil, and considers her more extreme actions merely done for survival.
- Longest Pregnancy Ever: Though it's only about a month for the characters between when she shows up and when we finally see Hope, thanks to the cryopods, Diyoza spent 234 years pregnant with her.
- My Secret Pregnancy: Was pregnant with Mc Creary's child before she was put into cryo and is roughly 5 months pregnant with a healthy baby girl during Season 5. She reveals this slowly to certain characters (Abby, Kane) but not to her crew.
- Odd Friendship: After spending Season 5 being the opposing Big Bad to Octavia, they forge an Enemy Mine in Season 6 and it ends up becoming an Intergenerational Friendship. Then comes Season 7, where they end up raising Hope together for ten years and are probably one of the most closest characters in the show.
- Pregnant Badass: In the 5x09 episode, despite being in the fifth stage, she is able to fight and knock out five armed soldiers (including McCreary).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: To an extent. She is willing to work with Wonkru and listens to Kane's reasoning. However, Octavia's hostility eventually leads her to act against them.
- Sex for Services: She slept with McCreary to get him and his men on her side for the mutiny aboard the Eligius III, getting pregnant in the process. She's not particularly proud of it after the fact, but she didn't have a lot of options at the time.
- Ship Tease: She appears to flirt with Kane multiple times throughout Season 5. It ends up going nowhere since, while they may be in a rough patch, he's already taken and she never sees him again after that season due to her exile and Kane's death.
- Storybreaker Power: She's given a hiatus in Season 6 because of this, as massive amount of experience and smarts means she'd pretty much be able to annihilate the threat of Sanctum and the Primes with ease.
- Uncertain Doom: Walks into the mysterious Anomaly, which no one has ever returned from. However, Octavia tries to chase her and walks out of it just fine. It's eventually revealed in Season 7 that she got transported to another planet and spend ten years living there with Octavia before the two were send to Bardo. The only reason Octavia doesn't remember any of that is because the time dilation of the Anomaly erased her memories.
- Written by the Winners: Implied. She's apparently as bad as Hitler and bin Laden, but she considered herself a freedom fighter against a fascist government and she admits with guilt that she killed innocent people. Season 7 gives more weight to her side of the story, as we learn in flashbacks that the U.S. became a corrupt authoritarian regime that even considered environmental activist groups to be terroristic.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: She is referred to as a terrorist in the files Raven and Murphy find on her, but she refers to Clarke, Bellamy, and their group as terrorists for attacking them and holding her people hostage, and has many Pet the Dog moments throughout the season.
McCreary
Paxton McCreary
Played by: William Miller
- Beard of Evil: Sports an impressively well-groomed one, considering the circumstances and the less flattering rest of his appearance.
- Big Bad: While he is initially in a Big Bad Ensemble with Diyoza and Octavia, he comes out on top and becomes the season's final and most destructive villain
- Chaotic Evil: He really doesn't have a plan for what to do when in charge, besides exterminate all of his enemies.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Is shown to engage in this multiple times (shocking Clarke repeatedly, dousing Raven in water and threatening to shock her, holding a knife to Murphy's throat to make Raven talk) and clearly enjoys it.
- Delinquent Hair: His greasy lopsided undercut serves well in making him look like the psychopath he is.
- Evil Is Petty: Combined with If I Can't Have You…. He ends up triggering the Damocles bomb, which destroys the last habitable part of Earth, essentially dooming the human race, after realizing he cannot win the battle against Wonkru.
- Secretly Dying: He is one of the prisoners dying from lung disease. However, he is later cured by Abby.
- The Sociopath: Referred to by the director as one of the only truly evil characters in the show's history.
- Tattooed Crook: Like pretty much all Eligius prisoners, McCreary is heavily inked.
- Villain Respect: He actually seems to like Murphy, and pulls an Enemy Mine with Spacekru at one point when Shaw leaves him for dead.
Vinson
Michael Vinson
Played by: Mike Dopud
- Affably Evil: He is soft-spoken and polite to everyone. He's also a vicious Serial Killer.
- Creepy Souvenir: According to Shaw, before his imprisonment by Eligius, he would cut off the hands and feet of his victims and keep them as trophies.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His glasses give him the look of a friendly paternal figure. He's actually quite vicious.
- Genre Refugee: He's a cannibalistic serial killer that you'd more likely see in a Police Procedural.
- Gentle Giant: Subverted. He SEEMS like this whenever he is with Abby, but only because of the shock collar he wears.
- Horror Hunger: He describes his desire to kill people as this, and takes a liking to Abby because of her addiction to painkillers, seeing them as kindred spirits.
- I'm a Humanitarian: He takes a bite out of one of the other prisoners to save Abby, and later attacks Kane the same way.
- Restraining Bolt: He's the only prisoner to still wear the shock collars fitted on by the prison guards. He does so voluntarily to keep himself from randomly killing people.
- Secretly Dying: He is one of the prisoners dying from lung disease, and Abby experimenting on him allows her to develop an effective treatment.
Nikki
Nikki
Played by: Alaina Huffman
- Berserk Button: She certainly has a temper.
- Death Glare: She’s pretty much glaring in every scene she’s in.
- Delinquent Hair: Her long blond hair is tied into tight corn rows on the right side of her head only, giving her a wild and almost tribal appearance.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's madly in love with her husband Hatch and thus takes his death very poorly.
- The Lost Lenore: She’s never really the same after her husband dies.
- This Means War!: When her husband, Hatch dies, she loses it, going as far as attacking Raven and blaming her for his death.
Hatch
Hatch
Played by: Chad Rook
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to the rest of the Eligius prisoners and even his wife Nikki, Hatch is a rather mellow fellow who talks a big game but is actually quite reasonable and opposed to senseless violence.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He willingly sacrifices his life repairing Sanctum's nuclear reactor so his wife and all his friends can live.
- Morality Pet: For Nikki. Whenever she's about to go ballistic on someone over perceived slights, asking her if Hatch would've wanted her to do this is almost guaranteed to give her pause.
- Only in It for the Money: He was a bank robber back on Earth, but unlike his sadistic wife he only got into this life to get rich.
- Villainous Valor: He's the only one of the criminals Raven sends into the reactor who realizes he's not going to survive this assignment. He still finishes the job with the last of his strength to save his friends and family from being vaporized in a nuclear inferno.
- Villain Respect: For a given definition of villainy. He and the still decidedly amoral Murphy get along quite well, to the point that Murphy expresses heartfelt condolences to Nikki and praises Hatch's valor following his death.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies in the same episode that gives him some characterization beyond "selfish criminal".
