History Characters / TheBridgeUS

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Kills Graciela and Tim.

->'''Played By:''' Bruno Bichir

* RatedMForManly:
-->'''Agent Mackenzie:''' Are you an ogre man or a troll man, Rivas?
-->'''Agent Rivas:''' I like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and pussy.

* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: As a drug lord, he exerts his territory through force.

* AnAxeToGrind: Uses one to kill one of her former captors.

%%* KnifeNut %%Needs more context

* TheDon: La Jefa]]: She smuggles people, not narcotics. She's not above smuggling weapons, though.

->'''Played By:''' Diane Delano

%%* StuffedIntoTheFridge %%Needs more context

%%* BadassBeard: In Season 2. %%Needs more context

* NotSoDifferent: When Sonya opens up about how hard her AmbiguousDisorder makes it for her to read people, he reminds her that he's the one who brought her flowers she didn't want.

* GoodParent: Probably his only redeeming quality, lampshaded by Eva and Linder when they spy him playing basketball with his sons.

* NoCelebritiesAreHarmed: He is this show's version of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, a real-life Mexican drug lord. Both of them are rough-and-tumble criminal bosses who eschew overt display of wealth, could move as they please in their stronghold cities, and are willing to use brute force to eliminate their rivals.

* AmbiguousDisorder: WordOfGod says it's UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. The closest that the show has come short of spelling it out was when a federal agent asks her why she doesn't take medication for her condition.

->'''Played By:''' Abraham Benrubi

->'''Played By:''' Brian Van Holt

->'''Played By:''' Emily Wickersham

->'''Played By:''' Ramón Franco

->'''Played By:''' Eric Lange

->'''Played By:''' Stephanie Sigman

->'''Played By:''' Jon Gries

* [[PapaWolf Surrogate-Father-Figure Wolf]]: Very protective of Sonya (she came under his care after Lisa's murder and before she was put into foster care), and extends this to Eva.

* [[ImportantHaircut Important Shave]]: In "The Beholder," he gets one from Eva.

* OffWithHisHead
* [[SexTourism Sex Tourist]]: Visits prostitutes in Mexico, one of whom include the young woman whose legs were placed on the Bridge of the Americas.

%%* [[TheDon El Jefe]] %%Needs more context

* [[TheDon La Jefa]]: She smuggles people, not narcotics. She's not above smuggling weapons, though.

* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: Treats her stepson Gus like her own, even after she kicks Marco out of the house for cheating.

* [[MafiaPrincess Sicario Princess]]: As Hector's girlfriend, she is this to him. Of course, this is also the type of life she is trying to escape.
* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]] / RoaringRampageOfRevenge: She and Linder have taken up this path against those who wronged her.

* [[LonelyFuneral Lonely Cremation]]: His cremation is attended by exactly two people (not counting the cremator), his younger brother and the sister of the woman he murdered.

* [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have You Tried Not Being Gay?]]: How she approaches her daughter's sexual orientation. It leads to conflict.

* ByTheBookCop: Sonya ''hates'' it when other cops cut corners. Of course, when [[spoiler:Marco gives her a gun in Mexico and she fires a shot at a police officer to protect Marco, she is understandably mortified.]]
** She is similarly horrified when she learns that Hank, her father figure/mentor/reason why she became a police officer [[spoiler: shot Jim Dobbs while he was unarmed]]

* EroticAsphyxiation: Has taken to experimenting with this after [[spoiler:Jim Dobbs dies]]. Her obsession with asphyxiation is especially unnerving, because that's how her sister Lisa died at the hands of Jim Dobbs.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction when [[spoiler:she fires a shot at a Juarez cop who was snooping around the prosecutor's hotel room.]] While this may not seem so important as she and Marco were in danger, [[spoiler:not only is she not authorized to use a firearm outside her jurisdiction, she was carrying one in a foreign country and actually fired it, and Sonya is very much by-the-book, no-nonsense rules cop.]]

A homicide detective for the Policía Estatal (State Police) of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Despite having no obligation or expectation to do so, he returns a suitcase full of money to a ruthless drug lord. And then, just to make it clear that he's not a CorruptCop, he turns down a reward from said drug lord.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope:[[spoiler:In the last scene of the first season, he asks Fausto to help him get at David Tate so he can kill him personally.]] Subverted in that, when the opportunity becomes available, [[spoiler:Marco ultimately rejects the easier choice of killing David and instead puts his thumb in Tate's already injured eye, while damning him to suffer longer.]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives one to a fellow officer in front of the entire precinct. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the officer in question tried to kill him during a raid.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: Most of her CharacterDevelopment is geared towards evolving away from this trope, whether for her late husband, for Graciela Rivera, for her stepdaughter Kate, or for Ray, towards a woman who makes her own decisions for her own destiny. Occasionally it resurfaces, as when [[spoiler:Ray tries to haul ass to Alaska.]]

* [[spoiler:KickTheSonOfABitch: Kills Graciela and Tim.]]

%%* [[spoiler:StartOfDarkness]] %%Needs more context

%%* [[spoiler:WhyDontYaJustShootHim]] %%Needs more context

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Subverted. He survives his shooting by Captain Robles.]] Ironically, Mexico's Office of the General Prosecutor was already after the latter's ass to serve justice.
* VigilanteMan / RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After [[spoiler:Eva kills one of her attackers,]] he and Eva skip town and begin one against those who wronged the latter.

A newspaper reporter whose once-promising career has been derailed by a life of parties and substance abuse. Midway through Season 2 [[spoiler:his editor fires him on the spot for attempting to publish a damaging story about Grupo Clio without any named witnesses and for insubordination.]]

* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:He takes some of the blame for the deaths of David Tate's family.]]

%%** He finds out that Adriana [[spoiler:tried to take her own life two years ago]] and surreptitiously checks up on her well-being.

* [[spoiler:TakeThisJobAndShoveIt:]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And does he ever.]]

A mostly corrupt captain of the Chihuahua State Police. Marco's boss. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 2, he is a wanted fugitive for kidnapping, rape, and abuse of power.]]

* DirtyCop: He is not the least bit ashamed of his connections to Fausto Galván and regularly abuses his authority.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Usually puts on a magnanimous appearance for the public and for the Americans but can be downright apathetic to civilians and contemptuous of his American counterparts. [[spoiler:He also takes part in "parties."]]

* HazyFeelTurn: He drops the ball quite quickly. [[spoiler:He is kidnapped by the Marinas of the SEMAR (Mexican Marines) and quickly divulges Fausto Galván's hideout.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: As soon as [[spoiler:he outs Fausto's location, Marco submits Presecutor Pintado's affidavit to Mexico City, and the Attorney general files charges on his crimes.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Goes on the run after Fausto Galvan is captured and before he himself can be dismissed from the Chihuahua State Police and tried for kidnapping and rape.]]

%%* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot]] %%Needs more context

%%* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] %%Needs more context

%%* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]] %%Needs more context

* TheConfidant: Marco entrusts her with several of his personal belongings and important documents [[spoiler:before he is snuck into a federal prison to meet David Tate.]]

* [[SexTourism Sex Tourist]]: Visits prostitutes in Mexico, [[spoiler:one of whom include the young woman whose legs were placed on the Bridge of the Americas.]]

A DEA agent who is involved in an elaborate scheme to capture leading figures in the narcotics trade, one of which is Fausto Galván. Appears to have suffered a setback from less-involved cooperation from Mexico's new Attorney General.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: In the Red Ridge View shootout]]
* [[spoiler:MysteriousInformant: Has secretly been leading Daniel and Adriana about the Millie Quintana house case.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Killed in the Red Ridge View shootout.]]

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Agent Buckley and the CIA are in cahoots with the whole money-laundering scheme between Rayburn National Bank and Grupo Clio. He also hires an assassin to take out Raúl Quintana after the latter squawks to the El Paso Times.]]
* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard: Handpicking Fausto Galván as the successor to the Juarez cartel and resorting to bureaucratic secrecy has resulted in messy consequences on both sides of the border. He is eventually even killed by the same hitman that he himself hired to silence witnesses on the order of his superior.]]
%%* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] %%Needs more context
* [[spoiler:ManBehindTheMan: He was the one who handpicked Fausto as the cartel leader because he thought Fausto would be manageable.]]

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: To Agent Mackenzie and the DEA. He tells them they can continue to investigate, so long as they go nowhere near [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sebastian Cerisola and his corporation Grupo Clio]]. [[spoiler:Turns out they're in cahoots.]]

* [[spoiler:YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His ultimate fate at the hands of his CIA superiors.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Couldn't bring himself to kill his good friend Tim, even after he's found out to be a criminal informant.]]

%%* [[spoiler:BigDamnHeroes]] %%Needs more context

* [[spoiler:PunchClockVillain]]: Quite reluctant, seeing as [[IHaveAFamily he has a family of his own]].

A powerful drug lord in Mexico. In Season 2, he spends much of his time in hiding because a change in government resulted in a greater crackdown on crime by the new authorities. [[spoiler:Midway through Season 2, his hideout is raided and he briefly becomes a fugitive from justice before he is outwitted and captured alive by Marco.]]
->'''Played By:''' Ramón Franco

* BigBadFriend: To Marco, although in truth there is no one person who fits the role of the BigBad in this series. [[spoiler:Their fathers started the business together and they grew up together.]] And while they are on opposite sides of the law and have never explicitly called each other friends, their close connection appears to say otherwise.
** After Fausto [[spoiler:hires a hitman to kill Sonya for meddling]], all bets are off and he turns into an EvilFormerFriend.
* [[spoiler:DragonInChief: He is really this, having been chosen by the CIA to lead the cartel because he was perceived as the one most likely to acquiesce to their demands. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Too bad for them...]].]]

* DotingParent: To his eldest son Ángel, long after the latter is dead. He leaves all sorts of presents at the tomb. He even gives his son [[OffWithHisHead the head of his killer]], [[{{Squick}} almost perfectly preserved in a jar]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When the Marinas raid his hideout, he immediately knows that someone snitched, and to make his circle of associates smaller, he kills his other bodyguards except for Obregon.]]

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:When she loses her ledger, she loses her cool]].
* [[spoiler:RapeAsBackstory: She grew up in some sort of devout religious community where her father raped her repeatedly as a child. Eventually, the community found out, and rather than punish him, they punished her, casting her out. She was then taken in by Fausto Galvan, who offered her vengeance by arranging for her mother to be murdered and her father to be castrated and then locked up in a hole in the ground. In exchange, she became his loyal bookkeeper.]]

* [[spoiler:WouldHurtAChild:]] Zigzagged. While she had no qualms offing [[spoiler:Kyle the overeager teenager]], she does spare his younger brother and his friend Dex, because she saw an innocence in him (he didn't want to touch her and he wet his bed.)

%%* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] %%Needs more context

* {{Determinator}}: Almost nothing will stop him from finding his girlfriend Eva. [[spoiler:Who knew a hot flatiron would?]]
%%* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] %%Needs more context

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%%* [[spoiler:StuffedIntoTheFridge]] %%Needs more context

%%* [[spoiler:DamselInDistress]] %%Needs more context

!! Kenneth Hastings/[[spoiler:David Tate]]

* [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: in "Eye of the Deep".]]
* [[spoiler:DisproportionateRetribution: Against everyone who unknowingly had a hand in the deaths of his wife and son.]]

* [[spoiler:EyeScream / EyePoke: In the appropriately named "Eye of the Deep." Twice. ''In the same eye''.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: The deaths of his wife and son turned him from a dedicated FBI agent into a serial killer.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: He is quietly poisoned on Fausto's orders after Marco had a change of heart.]]
%%* [[spoiler:Revenge]] %%Needs more context
%%* [[spoiler:SerialKiller]] %%Needs more context

%%* [[spoiler:XanatosGambit]] %%Needs more context

* AnAxeToGrind: Uses one to [[spoiler:kill one of her former captors.]]

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:After Linder informs her of Hector's death, she returns to Juárez and begins work at a maquiladora. One day after work, a driver in a red car offers her a ride, which she accepts with hesitation. Later, she is seen at the police station to report being kidnapped, but then the police drug her and take her to a party to be raped. Another police officer is tasked to kill her in the desert, but he has a change of heart and leaves her at a nun's monastery.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: when she faces off [[spoiler:her former captor who is now bound in Bob's shack and is taunting and attempting to humiliate her.]]

%%* [[spoiler:RedHerring]] %%Needs more context

* ChekhovsGun: Those drawings that he made for Sonya? Including the ones on her fridge? [[spoiler:Two of them lead to a water tower with a body buried underneath in the dirt.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead (obviously) long before the events of the first season. The upper half of her body was dumped in a house that was filled with the dismembered corpses of cartel men (one of whom was Fausto Galván's brother), and her other half was preserved until they were placed on the Bridge of the Americas with the judge's upper half.

Introduced in Season 2, he is the newly assigned prosecutor for the State of Chihuahua and has arrived in Juárez to shake things up.

* [[spoiler:BodyguardBetrayal: His hired private security man deserts him just before he is kidnapped.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadGuyOnDisplay / ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His body is staged to look as if it had been thrown out of the vehicle he was riding in a car accident.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: He is abducted and murdered in broad daylight by Juárez police because he was coming too close to exposing the abductions, rapes, and murdered conducted by police officers and had procured a signed affidavit from one of their surviving victims.]]

* WideEyedIdealist: Is intent on ridding corruption from the Chihuahua State Police, starting with Captain Robles and working his way to Fausto Galván, and tries to convince Marco to assist him.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: It's not known to what extent his relationship with Fausto Galván goes, but seeing how chummy they are with each other, you can expect some shady dealings. [[spoiler:He brokered a deal with the Attorney General of Mexico to shut the DEA out of Juárez in return for less violence.]]

"Franco is a pseudonym. [[spoiler:He is an assassin.]]
->'''Played By:''' Júlio Cedillo

* TheAtoner: Played straight after [[spoiler:immediately killing Raúl Quintana and seeing Jesus on his cross in the same room, he becomes guilt-ridden and later decides to "confess" to the El Paso Times reporters (who are wearing hoods) in a local chapel. Ironically, talking to reporters was exactly the reason why his last victim was murdered.]] Ultimately this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] as [[spoiler:he is sent by the CIA station chief to silence Agent Buckley.]]

* [[spoiler:DontFearTheReaper: As the role of the Reaper, he is this to his victims.]]

* [[spoiler:ProfessionalKiller: He is hired by Agent Alex Buckley of the CIA to kill Raúl Quintana for talking to the El Paso Times. He also murdered Raúl's friend Chuchito. He claims to have killed at least 243 people.]]

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* {{Determinator}}

* FairCop
* GoodIsNotNice

* CruelMercy: See under JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* DeadpanSnarker

* NiceGuy

* OnlySaneMan

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* [[spoiler:StartOfDarkness]]
* TrophyWife
* [[spoiler:WhyDontYaJustShootHim]]

** BadassBeard: In Season 2.
* BodyguardCrush

* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl

* NiceGuy
* NoSocialSkills

* ICouldaBeenAContender

* JadedWashout --> IntrepidReporter
* JerkAss --> JerkWithAHeartOfGold
** He finds out that Adriana [[spoiler:tried to take her own life two years ago]] and surreptitiously checks up on her well-being.
* MoralityPet: Adriana

* DeadpanSnarker

* IntrepidReporter

* LipstickLesbian

* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot]]
* CloudCuckooLander
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* TheLoad
--> '''Sheriff Stokes:''' Detective! I don't know if you've noticed, but I got my braces removed.

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* WalkingSpoiler

* AffablyEvil

* OnlyInFlorida
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
--> '''Ray:''' One of these days I'm gonna learn how to speak Mexican, Cesar.

* BattleButler
* [[spoiler:BigDamnHeroes]]
* DeadpanSnarker

* OnlySaneMan

* [[TheDon El Jefe]]

* TattooedCrook
* TranquilFury

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* KnifeNut
--> "Shall we start with the face?"

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* TheDragon

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler:StuffedIntoTheFridge]]

* WhenYouComingHomeDad

* [[spoiler:DamselInDistress]]

* DoggedNiceGuy

* [[spoiler:Revenge]]
* [[spoiler:SerialKiller]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler:XanatosGambit]]

* DamselInDistress

* CloudCuckoolander

* [[spoiler:RedHerring]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
--> "I was trying to shoot the Mexican."

* CloudCuckooLander
* GoodShepherd

* WalkingSpoiler

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:A past love affair is what turns David Tate into a killer.]] Also cheats on his wife in the first season.

* YourCheatingHeart: Only after discovering Marco's infidelity.

->'''Played By:''' Demián Bichir

->'''Played By:''' Annabeth Gish

->'''Played By:''' Matthew Lillard

->'''Played By:''' Lorena McGregor

->'''Played By:''' Ted Levine

* PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead (obviously) long before the events of the first season. THe upper half of her body was dumped in a house that was filled with the dismembered corpses of cartel men (one of whom was Fausto Galván's brother), and her other half was preserved until they were placed on the Bridge of the Americas with the judge's upper half.

* [[spoiler:TakeThisJobAndShoveIt:]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And does he ever.]]

* HiddenDepths: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He enjoys erotic vampire romance novels]]. He and Eleanor bond well.

* MeaningfulName: Shares his name with the [[{{Faust}} titular character]] from the TropeCodifier of DealWithTheDevil, although his actual role in the deals would be the inversion.

-->'''Played By:''' Franka Potente

* {{Badass}}

* FauxAffablyEvil