Characters from Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
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The Hateful Eight
In General
The Hateful Eight
Tropes about the titular "Hateful Eight".
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Ruth, Warren, and Mannix are far from clear-cut heroes, but the others are either part of or aiding a band of ruthless criminals.
- Anti-Hero: They all count as either this or Anti-Villain.
- Anyone Can Die: The only members who don't die on-screen are Mannix and Warren, who are dying from their wounds.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Even the most morally upright characters in the lodge (which isn't saying much) are rather dark characters.
- Dysfunction Junction: Very few of these people are at peace with themselves, let alone each other. And they're stuck together.
- The Notable Numeral: They are, of course, the H(8)ful Eight.
- The Smurfette Principle: Daisy is the only woman present outside of flashbacks.
- Spanner in the Works: Warren and Mannix are both unexpected members and only came to present because they hitchhiked with Ruth. They end up destroying the entire gang.
- Unreliable Narrator: It's unlikely anyone is telling the whole truth in there, and by the end it's left ambiguous how much of anything that was said was true.
- World of Jerkass: Most of the characters aren't generally good people. Even the lovable Minnie apparently discriminates against Mexicans.
- World of Ham: They are all remarkably over-the-top people in their own ways, particularly Daisy and Warren.
The Bounty Hunter
Major Marquis Warren
"Got room for one more?"
Played By: Samuel L. Jackson Other Languages
"Move a little strange, you're gonna get a bullet. Not a warning, not a question. A bullet."
A former black Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter.
- Affably Evil: He really isn't a very good person and regularly kills for money. However, he's very easy to root for compared with some of the other characters in the movie. He can cross into Nominal Hero territory if only half of what he says to goad the general is true.
- Assassin Outclassin': He's gained a legendary reputation for killing each and every person who has tried to collect the Confederate bounty on his head.
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses: He's introduced sitting on three outlaws he killed and was bringing to Red Rock as proof of death to collect a bounty.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: It's great fun watching him put the pieces together to figure out who is involved with Daisy's escape plot. He spots thread after thread after thread in a truly impressive series of Sherlock Scans that leads to the unraveling of pretty much every aspect of the plan. The one thing that undoes him is the one thing he couldn't predict — another man hiding under the floorboards.
- Bash Brothers: With Chris, eventually. Between the two of them, they basically get the entire situation under control in short order.
- Berserk Button: He keeps a letter from Abraham Lincoln in his pocket and does not like to see it get damaged. After all, he's trying to convince other people that it's real.
- Bounty Hunter: One of two in the movie. Unlike his counterpart John Ruth, Warren is somewhat more pragmatic and prefers his bounties dead for transportation to the gallows whenever possible. He's introduced sitting on top of three of them.
- Combat Pragmatist: He has no problem shooting someone in the back, holding multiple guns on people, or shooting if someone moves strangely. And in this situation, he has every right to be. Unfortunately, it gets turned on him near the end.
- Consummate Liar: One of his most defining traits is that he's lying practically half the time, either to drop folks' guards or test them. His Lincoln letter is a fake, designed to get people to respect a black man of authority. His details about Minnie are grossly exaggerated (if you don't believe him), created to get Bob to blow his cover. And his story of how he killed the General's son is suspect at best, spun to get him to try to kill him.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Getting shot in the groin, then slowly bleeding out in agonizing pain has to suck.
- Deadpan Snarker: Of the harshest kind.
- Evil Laugh: Especially when he goes into detail about how he supposedly killed Smithers' son.
- Expy: The Hateful Eight was originally intended to be a sequel to Django Unchained titled Django in White Hell. It's clear that Marquis is based on Django, if far less moral.
- Face Death with Dignity: The movie ends with him and Chris lying on a bed, calmly waiting to bleed out from the wounds they have incurred.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Chris. They hate each other at the start of the movie but eventually band together to take down Jody's gang and develop a mutual respect.
- Great Detective: Samuel L. Jackson has compared Warren to Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, piecing together the truth. Brilliantly subverted when, for all his deductions, he is shot during the summation by the one person he failed to detect, who is literally right under his nose.
- Groin Attack: He's on the receiving end of a brutal one via Jody shooting him in the balls from under the floor.
- Guile Hero: When John Ruth and O.B. are killed via mysterious poisoning, Warren can quickly take control of the spiraling situation through quick deductive reasoning and observation.
- Guns Akimbo: He most notably does this during his "Move a little strange." monologue above, and finishes off Bob with two simultaneous shots to the head.
- The Hero: He's the closest thing the movie has to one.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: His utter callousness towards everybody makes up much of the movie's humor.
- Jerkass: He's not a very nice person, though he's capable of being civil to those who he trusts.
- Karmic Death: Depending on whether or not his oral rape of Smithers' son actually happened; he's castrated by a bullet to the groin and bleeds out.
- Knight of Cerebus: A rare case where it's one of the heroes who sets up the dark tone of the latter half. While not exactly peachy keen, The Hateful Eight doesn't get exactly gory or dark until Warren tells his story in an attempt to goad Smithers into shooting him. Not only does this cause the first onscreen death in the film, but as revealed later, it proves to be a good enough distraction for Joe Gage to slip poison into the coffee, leading to not just the deaths of John Ruth and O.B., but also the confrontation between Warren and the gang.
- Knight Templar: During the Civil War, he developed such a reputation for this that it eventually got him stripped of his commission.
- Large Ham: You can just tell Samuel L. Jackson was having fun with this one. Of note is the scene where he describes raping and murdering Smithers' son.Warren: AND CHESTER. CHARLES. SMITHERS. SUCKED!!!!! ON THAT WARM... BLACK... DINGUS... FOR LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG AS HE COULD! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WOO!!!
- Nominal Hero: Unlike John Ruth, he just wants to get paid for his work and has no interest in lofty ideals of 'justice' for his bounties. He's also kind of an asshole.
- Old Soldier: Samuel L. Jackson was in his late sixties when he filmed the movie. Warren is still the most badass character in it.
- One-Man Army: He boasts about having killed countless Confederates during the Civil War and is pointed out by Mannix to have killed many Native Americans after that. And that's without counting his burning of a POW camp, in which 47 Confederate troops were killed.
- Pet the Dog: Rather cruelly subverted; he offers General Smithers some stew and sits down to eat with him despite their initial animosity and asks him about his family. It turns out he's just using it as an opportunity to twist the knife and gloat about how he killed his son.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He doesn't deny Mannix's accusation that he killed "redskins" back in the day. He also states he joined the war to "kill Southern crackers".
- Post-Rape Taunt: He tells Sandy Smithers a story about how when Sandy's son came to collect the bounty on his head, Warren stripped him naked, walked him through the snow for hours, and then forced him to give him a blowjob in exchange for a blanket, which he didn't even give to him before killing him. This story successfully provokes Sandy into going for his gun so that Warren can kill him in self-defense.
- Price on Their Head: Warren mentions that the Confederates put a $30,000 bounty (it later fell to "only" $5,000) on his head, and it drew a lot of people, typically ex-Confederates, to his location looking for fortune.
- Punch-Clock Hero: He really doesn't want to be here.
- Quick Draw: As can be expected from someone who once had a $30,000 bountynote on his head and is still alive to talk about it. He gets to put it to good use more than once.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: As it turns out, this is what happened to General Smithers' son, shortly before he was executed by Marquis (who is also the said rapist), if his monologue to Smithers wasn't made up to bait the General into attempting to shoot him. If it is true, his eventual death by having his testicles shot off and the resulting blood loss is definitely a Karmic Death.
- Scary Black Man: A given for a bounty hunter played by Samuel L. Jackson.
- Sociopathic Hero: He's absolutely ruthless and uncaring, but (more or less) a heroic figure.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Mannix accuses him of this for his brutality against white soldiers in general, claiming that Warren burnt down a Confederate POW camp, killing both Confederate rookies and Union POWs.
- Spanner in the Works: Not only was his presence at the haberdashery not expected, but actively helping Ruth and raising the tension by killing the general changed the gang's patience game to "let's kill them before more shit hits the fan".
- Spotting the Thread: He is the one to uncover most of the crucial clues that lead to the discovery of who is involved with Daisy's escape attempt.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: Him being of the Union army and General Sanford Smithers of the Confederate army both continue to wear their colors after the war had ended. They find out they fought on opposite sides of the same battle. Naturally they don't get along too well.
- The Unfettered: He is single-minded in pursuit of his principles and in following up on his suspicions. He joined the Union Army to kill white folks, and did not let a small detail like setting his fellow prisoners alight interfere with his escape plans when he was captured.
- Unreliable Expositor: It is not known whether the story he tells regarding the fate of Smithers' son was true or a lie he made up just to piss off Smithers. Warren had already established with the Lincoln letter that he has no compunctions about lying to get what he wants. And the story was clearly calculated to enrage Smithers so much that he'd lose control and try to shoot Warren. It's easy to imagine that he either made up the whole story, or at least wildly embellished it.
- Villain Protagonist: Depending on how much of his backstory is true, most notably whether he really raped Smithers' son and whether he really did burn 37 Union soldiers to death to save himself.note
- Would Harm a Senior: He knowingly provokes the elderly General Smithers into attacking him so that he can have a reason to shoot him. Arguably downplayed since Warren is an old man himself.
- Would Hit a Girl: He punches Daisy and threatens to kill her at various points.
- Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: He claims to have tortured, raped, and killed General Smithers' son after he came to kill him, trying to provoke Smithers into shooting him so he can gun him down in self-defense. It's left ambiguous how much of it is true.
The Hangman
John "the Hangman" Ruth
"You really only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards you need to hang!"
Played By: Kurt Russell Other Languages
"When that sun comes out, I'm takin' this woman to hang!"
A bounty hunter known for capturing fugitives alive, always, so they can be hanged.
- Always Gets His Man: Played with. He is called "the Hangman" because he always takes his targets alive rather than dead, so they always hang.Warren: When the handbill says "Dead or Alive", the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth the Hangman catches you, you hang.
- And it's still played straight, as Daisy is indeed hanged to death at the end of the film. John Ruth isn't alive to see it happen, but both Warren and Mannix are happy to hang her in respect for him.
- Decoy Protagonist: John "The Hangman" Ruth. He's a badass, crazy-prepared bounty hunter who seems like he can handle anything, including the trap he knows he's walking into. He wasn't expecting poison, however, and dies of it halfway through the film. Warren and Mannix take his place.
- Big Good: Downplayed, but he's the only member of the Eight who is neither a vicious psychopath nor violently racist. He is somewhat casually racist, but most people were at this time.
- Blood from the Mouth: He projectile vomits blood after drinking the poisoned coffee.
- Bounty Hunter: One of two in the movie, although unlike most (including his counterpart Warren), he captures his targets instead of straight up killing them so that they can face the end of a noose.
- Broken Pedestal: Discovering that Warren lied about the Lincoln letter wounds him severely.
- Chained Heat: He is chained together with his prisoner, Daisy, to prevent her from escaping.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: After drinking the poisoned coffee, he vomits up an absolutely insane amount of blood before finally getting shot in the chest by Daisy.
- Death by Irony: Even though he went out of his way to disarm everyone else at the haberdashery besides Warren, he ends up dying by a gun. His own gun.
- Decoy Protagonist: He lasts longer than most examples, but is the second character to die.
- Defiant to the End: Even after discovering he’s been poisoned and beginning to vomit up his own blood, he spends his dying moments trying to beat Daisy to death and bring her down with him.
- Face Death with Dignity: While he's certain he'll die, he spends his last moments saving Mannix from suffering his fate and beating up Daisy, and when he realizes she'll shoot him dead for good, his only reaction is a disappointed sigh rather than despair.
- Full-Name Basis: John Ruth is, with very few exceptions, always called John Ruth.
- Guile Hero:Mannix: Like I said, friend. You got me at a bit of a disadvantage.
Ruth: Keeping you at a disadvantage is an advantage I intend to keep. - Hero-Worshipper: He appears to hold a truly massive appreciation for Abraham Lincoln.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He's shot with his own gun by Daisy.
- Honor Before Reason: Contrasting Warren, who sees his work as a way to earn a living and never bothers to take his bounties alive, Ruth takes his job as a servant of the court very seriously. His bounties hang because that's justice, damn it!
- Innocently Insensitive: Unlike most characters, he isn't actively prejudiced and tries his best to be tolerant. However, he's not immune to some period racism. In one instance, he rather humorously chastises Daisy for using a racial slur while using a racial slur.Daisy: Howdy, nigger.
Ruth: She's a pepper, ain't she? Now girl, you know the darkies don't like being called niggers? They find it offensive. - Ironic Name: "Ruth" means "kindness and mercy", virtues that John, objectively speaking, has neither of.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's arguably the most heroic of the eight protagonists. That said, that doesn't mean he's an entirely nice person. Also, as unnecessarily violent as he is towards Daisy, he does show signs of warming up to her over the course of the film; he voluntarily unchains her at dinner and lets her play the guitar, and even shows some appreciation for her song. But when he asks if there's a second verse, she simply threatens him. Back in chains she goes.
- Large Ham: Kurt Russell obviously had a blast.
- Meaningful Name: The word "ruth" means mercy; John is certainly much more honorable and merciful than other members of his profession.
- Old Soldier: Like Warren, he is an aging bounty hunter who still is very good at what he does.
- Only Friend: In the beginning at least, he's the only member of the titular Eight who treats Warren as more or less an equal friend.
- Patriotic Fervour: Ruth is a Hero-Worshipper of Lincoln and refuses to so much as socialize with Mannix at first because he's a Confederate veteran.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His personal philosophy:"You really only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards, you need to hang."
- Pet the Dog: While he insists that Mannix is a liar through and through, he does agree with him when he compliments O.B.'s driving skills, saying that's the only true thing he's said. He also occasionally treats Daisy with civility, but it usually ends poorly.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He uses some racial slurs, though not as often as other characters, and he never directly calls Warren "nigger" (only ever repeating it after other people say it). He does later paints the black race as untrustworthy after Warren reveals his Lincoln letter is fake, but nevertheless, his attitude is more
Fair for Its Day, seeing as how he genuinely comes to trust and respect Warren, clearly hates slavery, and chastises Daisy for calling Warren a nigger. Even his labeling blacks as untrustworthy is more because of the betrayal than him sincerely thinking it. - Principles Zealot: He insists on capturing criminals alive so that they can hang. He does this for the sake of justice, but it ultimately gets him killed when his latest prisoner has a gang lying in wait to liberate her.
- Properly Paranoid: He is the first character to figure out that one of the eight is in cahoots with Daisy. Justified since he knows that the reason Daisy's bounty is so amazingly high is because she is part of an infamous outlaw gang, so he knows accomplice is a possibility.
- Red Baron: John Ruth, "the Hangman", because of his trademark of capturing his targets alive and then bringing them to hang (and subsequently staying to watch the hanging). Several characters remark on and discuss his alias.
- Sacrificial Lion: His death marks the point when shit really starts hitting the fan.
- Taking You with Me: As mentioned above, even when poisoned, he attempts to strangle Daisy before dying. Alas, Daisy got the gun in time.
- Token Good Teammate: He's not quite a "good" person, but he's the least bigoted and most principled of the titular eight.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His insistence on bringing Daisy in alive, despite lots of warnings otherwise, leads to the events of the entire film and numerous deaths, including his own.
- Would Hit a Girl: Repeatedly, for no real reason other than his own claims that she is a "mean bastard". Which, in his defense, she is.
The Prisoner
Daisy Domergue
"When ya get to hell, tell 'em Daisy sent you."
Played By: Jennifer Jason Leigh Other Languages
A fugitive wanted either dead or alive for murder who has been captured by Ruth.
- Agony of the Feet: Warren shoots her in the foot.
- Alliterative Name: Daisy Domergue.
- Asshole Victim: A thoroughly unpleasant and racist criminal, she is subjected to much physical abuse over the course of the movie. She is lynched at the end by the surviving characters.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. Daisy Domergue's face starts off severely bruised and only gets worse, the screenplay mentioning a "once sexy smirk" at one point.
- Chained Heat: She is chained to Ruth to ensure she doesn't escape him.
- The Chew Toy: Daisy Domergue enters the film with a black eye and receives a constant barrage of blows, pistol whippings, and an elbow to the face, and she is shot three times. Her face is hit with blood, brain matter, stew, and bloody projectile vomit. This thread is played for laughs. Finally her slow death by hanging is seen as a joke by the two final survivors. This ongoing thread approaches a Trauma Conga Line.
- Damsel in Distress: A villainous example.
- Dark Action Girl: The members of the Jody Domergue gang readily accept her as a leader after Jody is killed. She's also fairly handy with a machete.
- Death by Racism: In a roundabout way. She's so contemptuous of Warren that she never tries to get him to help her (though he killed her brother before she felt like bargaining, so she does have valid reasons), only appealing to Mannix... which seals her doom when he sides with Warren instead.
- Death Is Dramatic: The extended and detailed sequence of Daisy's violent lynching is the climax to which the film's narrative is leading. This Cruel and Unusual Death is supposedly justified by Daisy's criminal nature and/or the act of racial reconciliation involved in her execution — especially as she is a racist, so it can be interpreted as Laser-Guided Karma.
- Defiant Captive: Even with John Ruth as her captor, absolutely nothing can shut her up for long.
- Dies Wide Open: After being hanged.
- The Dragon: To her brother Jody.
- Dragon Ascendant: After Jody is killed, she proclaims herself the new leader of his gang. Fortunately, she herself is killed only minutes later.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her brother Jody. She also cares for her niece(s) and/or nephew(s) enough to want to make sure they are cared for after Jody is killed.
- Evil Laugh: Like many other characters. Hers is a distinctively insane, Wicked Witch-style laugh.
- Face Death with Dignity: In the climax, when Warren points his revolver at her to finish her off, she closes her eyes and patiently awaits the bullet. However, Dramatic Ammo Depletion allows her to live a little longer...and suffer a Cruel and Unusual Death by hanging instead.
- Faux Affably Evil: Daisy can be quite jovial, but at the same time, she is very much a murderer sentenced to hang and is as monstrous as that implies.
- Females Are More Innocent: Inverted. She's arguably the worst out of anyone at the haberdashery.
- The Gadfly: Daisy does this constantly. While John Ruth is making his big announcement to the rest of the Eight about her, Daisy seems to be doing whatever she can to non-verbally poke fun at the subject matter. "This is Daisy Domergue!" Daisy waves to everybody. "I'm taking this woman to be hanged!" Daisy holds her arm up, tilts her head to the side, and sticks out her tongue. Her first words to Major Warren?Daisy: Howdy, nigger!
- Hidden Depths: She's a surprisingly talented singer and guitarist.
- Jerkass: All the rest of the Eight, except the Hangman, are either violent criminals, vicious racists, or just general jerks. Daisy is all three.
- Karmic Death: Daisy is finally hanged by the film's climax, the fate she spent the whole movie trying to avoid, courtesy of Warren and Chris after she and her gang killed Ruth and many other people. The two men hang her instead of blowing her brains out as a mark of respect to Ruth.
- Large Ham: She manages to stand out in a movie full of them.
- Laughably Evil: Daisy is a vile, racist sociopath, but she sure is fun to watch.
- Macho Masochism: Daisy reacts to her beatings with laughter, derision, and by savoring the taste of her own blood. That said, most of her gleeful reactions seem to be deliberate attempts to act crazy. Otherwise, she reacts with genuine pain, and the entire plot is kicked off by her desire to avoid a hanging.
- Made of Iron: In the real world, next to nobody could still be walking and talking after getting the severe beatings Daisy endures back-to-back.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her decision to continue taunting Ruth after she's seen him drink the poison leads to him re-cuffing her. This means that she's still chained to his dead body for the climax, which leaves Mannix ample time to recover enough to shoot her while she attempts to free herself.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She becomes much more lucid when bargaining with Mannix.
- Pet the Dog: She is clearly horrified and saddened when her brother is killed.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Her first line is to call Warren a nigger.
- Psychopathic Woman Child: She does childish things occasionally like catching snowflakes with her tongue, and is very flippant about everything. While she's a lot more direct and clear when trying to bargain with Mannix, she's still an Ax-Crazy gang member and murderer.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The hammy, gadflyish red to Jody's blue.
- Smug Snake: She's happy to engage in "defiant madwoman" displays... as long as she's confident Jody and friends will save her from the gallows in the end. When their plan falls apart, and it becomes evident that her life is in serious danger, all her "quirks" go right out the window, and she resorts to a desperate combination of bargaining and threats.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the main cast.
- The Sociopath: Sadistic, violent, and manipulative, Daisy shows a lot of signs of being one. While hysterically horrified at first, she very quickly gets over her brother's death and goes right back to trying to save her own skin at all costs.
- Spiteful Spit: She proudly hocks on the Lincoln letter.
- Teeth Flying: When Ruth discovers he is dying of poison in the coffee he drank with her knowing all along, he starts beating up Daisy and knocks out her front teeth. She proceeds to spit said teeth at him and continues laughing.
The Sheriff
Chris Mannix
"WHOO HAW! Now we're talkin'!"
Played By: Walton Goggins Other Languages
A Southern renegade claiming to be Red Rock's new sheriff.
- Anti-Hero: He is an unapologetic racist but is overall a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Badass Longcoat: He claims Smithers' as his own after he is killed by Warren.
- Bash Brothers: He and Warren manage to take on Jody's whole gang by themselves, despite being outnumbered and having the disadvantage of not knowing what the hell is going on.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: When Daisy claims that Jody has preemptively set fifteen more men to wait in Red Rock, Chris ultimately reveals that he doesn't believe a word of it. And the second that Daisy refers to the remaining gang members as an army, Chris compares the handful of dead criminals on the floor around them to the four hundred Confederate zealots that his father commanded and held together well after the point when Chris himself called their cause doomed. And, on a broader level, after multiple characters express skepticism that he would even be considered for the position of sheriff, he shows that he's capable of looking past personal prejudices and examining hard facts when he dismantles Daisy's threat as well as the sincerity of her offer of mercy.
- By-the-Book Cop: For most of the film, which is one of his more redeeming traits. While he's clearly a fan of General Smithers and warns him against reacting to Warren's provocations, he doesn't indicate that he'll prosecute Warren after he shoots Smithers in (technical) self-defense.note He also holds his fire, in the heat of the moment, when Grouch shows that he's unarmed. In the end, Mannix resorts to dishing out "frontier justice" against Daisy to avenge Ruth and O.B, but that's only because he's not in a position to serve justice legally (and even then, as the sheriff of Red Rock, it could be argued he has the authority to hang her anyway).
- Character Development: He's the only character in the film who not only changes but changes for the better. He starts out as a rather dim racist, but by the end he allies with Warren and works out for himself that Daisy's offers and threats are hollow, proving he had real potential as a lawman.
- Face Death with Dignity: The movie ends with him and Warren lying on a bed, calmly waiting to bleed out from their gunshot wounds.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Warren. They start out as enemies, but the events of the film turn them into allies.
- Good All Along: For a certain value of good, anyway. It turns out Chris really is the new sheriff of Red Rock. At the climax of the film, Daisy offers him a boatload of cash if he lets her go. He considers it for a second before calling her out as a lying piece of trash who was happy to let him die earlier on.
- Hero-Worshipper: To General Smithers when they first meet, owing to the latter's legendary reputation as a Confederate officer.
- Hidden Depths:
- When John Ruth threatens to leave him to die in the blizzard because Chris refuses to part with his weapon, Chris quickly points out that doing so for simply that reason would make him and Warren complicit in Chris' almost certain subsequent demise, which causes Ruth to relent. This subtly displays that Chris is much smarter than he seems. Smart enough to, say, figure out that Warren's Lincoln letter is fake, and that Daisy is bullshitting him during the climax of the film.
- It's mentioned that he is the youngest of his father's sons, his father being the titular leader of Mannix's Marauders. Depending on how old he is and how far from the Civil War the film takes place, it is possible that his earlier war criminal past happened when he was still fairly young.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: He points out that Warren killed Native Americans during the war, in addition to many Union POWs as collateral damage during his escape. Ruth says that Mannix, a former Confederate bushwhacker gang member, is the last person to call out someone's wartime atrocities, but Mannix's point still stands.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is racist and antagonistic when first introduced, but ultimately turns out to be one of the only characters who told the truth about his background, and even forms a friendship with Warren.
- Keet: He's a much happier and more outgoing person than everybody else in the haberdashery. He also spends most of his time socializing with the others.
- Large Ham: Like you wouldn't believe.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: He's a huge racist who was part of a rebel gang that killed freed slaves, but he is still a better guy than most of the people in the cabin.
- Meaningful Name: Mannix is a very excitable, or "manic", fellow.
- My Country, Right or Wrong: He's an avid believer and supporter of the Confederate cause even though it's long lost, mostly due to being the son of a Confederate officer who continued to fight on with his men after the war as a renegade band of guerrillas called 'Mannix's Marauders'.
- Noble Bigot: He is a horrible racist and former Confederate war criminal, but aside from that, he is willing to buy drinks for Ruth and Warren (who is black, and Mannix has other valid reasons to despise him) for picking him up, praise O.B's talent as stagecoach, assist in putting a rope road, and in general is a jovial fellow. He also doesn't shoot Gage (though he really wanted to), since he surrendered, and ends up siding with Warren.
- The Only One I Trust: At one point Major Warren ends up holding the rest of the bar at bay with his pistols when bounty hunter John Ruth has just drunk poisoned coffee and died a violent death. The only other person Warren trusts in the bar is Mannix because while Mannix has established himself as a racist and Warren doubts his claim to be a new sheriff, Mannix almost drank the same poisoned coffee that killed Ruth, which he would hardly have done just to establish his credentials.
- Pet the Dog: He is a racist asshole, but he does offer to buy both John and, notably, Marquis dinner and drink with them when they get to Red Rock in gratitude for them saving his life. As he's one of the only characters who isn't lying about who they really are, he is being entirely genuine.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: While he ultimately turns out to be on the side of good, he is still a racist and former Confederate war criminal.
- Post-Victory Collapse: He faints from blood loss and adrenaline rush after siding with Warren against Daisy.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: What he ultimately turns out to be.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a scathing one to Daisy in the end, calling her bluff, telling her she's a (paraphrased) 'pathetic, no good, lying whore,' and finishing off by claiming he's going to kill her and there is absolutely nothing in this world she can say that's going to stop him from doing just that.
- Red Herring: As it turns out, he is one of the only main characters who was honest and not involved with Jody's gang in any way.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Played for laughs, as Mannix says that Joe is Daisy's accomplice because he's the "ugly one." It becomes this trope when Joe reveals he poisoned the coffee.
- The Sheriff: Or so he claims to be. Turns out he was telling the truth.
- Shoot the Dog: He mentions having to kill his horse on the way to Red Rock.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: He delivers one to Daisy by revealing that he doesn't believe her claim that 15 more of Jody's gang are waiting in Red Rock to take revenge if he kills her, and points out she didn't warn him about the poisoned coffee that he nearly drank.
- Smarter Than You Look: It'd be easy to assume Mannix is a dim-witted racist in his introductory scene but he proves time and again to be one of the smarter characters throughout the film. He's quick to point out that leaving a man in a snowstorm that would almost certainly result in death would be considered a crime, he's the only one to figure out Warren's Lincoln letter is fake, is wise to Warren's attempts to provoke Smithers into grabbing a gun so he can kill him in "self-defense", and ultimately figures out Daisy is lying to save her own skin at the end. He even figured out that Joe Gage was behind the coffee poisoning, though his reason (i.e., he's ugly) for believing so was hilariously off the mark.
- Sole Survivor: A good contestant for the position. Unlike the rest of the characters, Chris receives a nasty yet not completely fatal bullet wound and makes it to the end of the film alongside Warren. While Warren will most likely bleed out from his... cracked huevos, Chris might have a chance to tend to his wound. The movie ends before we find out.
- Spanner in the Works: Like Warren, he was not expected at the haberdashery, and his team-up with a person he hates allow them to get the upper hand on the gang.
- Spotting the Thread: He completely destroys Warren's credibility on the Lincoln letter by pointing out that a man who was pen pals with the president would almost certainly not be drummed out of the military for war crimes.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After Warren starts to trust him.
- Uncertain Doom: Context implies Chris bleeds to death with Warren, but his bullet wound isn't necessarily fatal (the same likely can't be said of the gallons of blood Warren loses to his "huevos" being gunned into pulp). The movie ends before we can find out for certain.
- Unscrupulous Hero: Between his bigotry and shady past, he is clearly a deeply flawed man, but what sets him aside from Warren is that Chris is actually fighting to uphold the law, what with Jody's gang being murderous outlaws who could pose a danger to the town he's supposed to be protecting.
- Would Hit a Girl: The one to shoot Daisy and ultimately hang her (along with Warren).
The Mexican
Bob / Marco the Mexican
"Are you actually accusing me of murder?"
Played By: Demián Bichir Other Languages
The caretaker of Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Affably Evil: The guy is pretty funny and goofy, even for a murderer.
- Alliterative Name: Of a sort, when we discover that his real name is Marco, since his alias is "the Mexican".
- Asshole Victim: Warren kills him in spectacularly violent fashion after exposing his secret.
- Bad Liar: Out of everyone in Jody's gang, he is the worst at hiding his secret, and doesn't fool Warren for a second. He does have the hardest role compared to the others, though.
- Bait the Dog: Of the funny variety. Bob is an odd character who provides a decent amount of the film's humor, and then he's hit with the reveal. His Moral Event Horizon is even partly characterized by him screwing up and failing to kill someone, just before he violently knifes Dave to death.
- Bandito: His character seems like something of a throwback to this archetype, though it's not immediately obvious that he's an outlaw.
- Beard of Evil: He's got the largest beard in the cast, and is a ruthless Bandito.
- Berserk Button: Don't call him a liar. Even though he totally is one.
- Boom, Headshot!: After shooting him in the chest twice, Warren shoots him in the face with both of his pistols, completely disintegrating his head.
- Butt-Monkey: Most of his comedic scenes come at his own expense.
- The Caretaker: Not of any specific person, but he has been entrusted to watch Minnie's Haberdashery while the owner is away. Or so he claims.
- Death Glare: He tries giving one to Warren at several points. It doesn't frighten him in the least.
- Evil All Along: He was working with Jody's gang the whole time.
- Funny Foreigner: His somewhat goofy nature makes him this. Until the truth about him is revealed.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: How he busted the door's lock. He was trying to gun down Charly, the stable hand at the lodge.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: One of the biggest clues that leads to Warren figuring things out is his claim that Minnie, who famously hated Mexicans, left the haberdashery in his care.
- Large Ham: Like most of the other characters.
- Latino Is Brown: Subverted. He's a fair-skinned Mexican. Presumably he took advantage of his skin and stayed quiet in order to get close enough to kill Minnie, as in the flashback, she doesn't kick him out despite Warren's claims that she hates Mexicans passionately.
- Left the Background Music On: For the first half of Warren's story about his encounter with Chester Charles Smithers, Bob is playing "Silent Night" on the piano. (And swearing whenever he gets a note wrong.)
- No Kill like Overkill: Warren shoots him twice in the chest and twice in the head, blowing his head apart.
- Only One Name: He's only known as Bob and doesn't have any given last name. His real name is Marco, and there's still no last name.
- Out of Focus: He gets the least characterization out of the eight, reducing him largely to a stereotype.
- Pet the Dog: Despite planning to eventually kill him along with the lawmen, Bob is one of the only two inhabitants (along with Chris) of the Haberdashery to check on O.B. after he almost freezes to death, even offering to bring him a bowl of hot stew while he warms up in front of the fire.
- Plucky Comic Relief: One of the more amusing characters in the film. Except he's actually a villain.
- The Sociopath: He's probably just as bad as the rest of his gang.
- Token Minority: Of Jody's gang.
- We Have Reserves: He ultimately ends up dying because Jody does nothing to help him.
- Your Head A-Splode: Courtesy of Warren.
The Little Man
Oswaldo Mobray / Pete Hicox
"The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man. And that dispassion is the very essence of justice."
Played By: Tim Roth Other Languages
The hangman of Red Rock.
- Accent Relapse: A same-language variant. He fakes an upper-crust English accent, but is pure cockney when he drops the act.
- Actor Allusion: Once again, a character played by Tim Roth in a Tarantino film ends up being shot in the stomach and slowly bleeding out to death.
- Affably Evil: Despite the nature of his job, he is incredibly polite, well-spoken, and charming. Even when it's revealed that he's a murderer.
- Asshole Victim: Warren kills him while he tries to negotiate with Chris.
- Bait the Dog: Of the likable variety. He's the friendliest of the people encountered at the lodge and actively participates in discussions with the main characters. He's also got the second-highest bounty of Jody's gang and kills Gemma with the same creepy dispassion he spoke of earlier.
- Blood from the Mouth: After being shot by Chris.
- Consummate Liar: Oswaldo's a naturally charming and witty man and unlike Bob, a Bad Liar, and Joe, who keeps acting suspiciously aloof, Oswaldo is the best at keeping up the charade.
- Crazy-Prepared: Careful enough to carry documentation proving his identity, though it is implied it was falsified.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He doesn't die immediately even after being shot a second time, instead rolling on the ground in agony for several minutes before bleeding out.
- Dastardly Dapper Derby: He wears one, as befits his Quintessential British Gentleman tendencies.
- Deadpan Snarker: When John asks his name "What's your name, 'buster'?", Oswaldo responds dryly, "Well, it certainly isn't 'buster'".
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is shown hugging Bob/Marko and wishing him luck as John Ruth and company arrive.
- Evil All Along: He was working with Jody the whole time.
- Evil Brit: Very much so. It turns out his accent is fake, but he's still English; he just happens to speak with a working-class Cockney accent rather than the upper-crust RP he was speaking before.
- The Evil Genius: Out of Jody's gang, he's the most quick-witted and very good at keeping up his friendly facade, as well as his fake upper-class accent.
- The Executioner: As a hangman, and therefore an executioner, he kills people for a living. Oswaldo speaks in favor of the professional and apathetic types because, in his words, "For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice."
- Expy: He is strikingly similar to Doctor King Schultz in terms of looks and personality. Both are charismatic and well-spoken bearded gentlemen even though they kill people for a living. Subverted in the end. Unlike Schultz, Oswaldo is a complete fake.
- Face Death with Dignity: He grimly acknowledges that he has little chance of survival after Chris shoots him in the stomach, and continues trying to bargain with the survivors for Daisy’s life as he lies bleeding out in a chair.
- I Am Very British: He speaks with a very high-class, Received Pronunciation accent. After his cover is blown, he switches to his real, more working-class (though still English) accent.
- Kill and Replace: Warren lists him as a potential suspect even though he has documentation suggesting he pulled this. Considering his real identity, this is likely true.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Warren finishes him off with a second shot to the stomach while he is talking to Chris.
- Large Ham: He's very theatrical. Just look at him suggest dividing the haberdashery in half, with wide, sweeping arm motions.
- Nothing Personal: He explains to Ruth that he never takes any satisfaction in hanging criminals, as it is simply his job. Though he's not actually a hangman like he claims to be.
- Only Sane Man: He acts as a mediator between the various characters as tensions rise in the lodge. Of course, this is subverted after the reveal.
- Pet the Dog: He gives Bob A.K.A. Marco the Mexican a hug and wishes him luck before he heads outside to greet John Ruth.
- The Smart Guy: He essentially styles himself as the "neutral party" amongst the factions in the room, offering rational and diplomatic "solutions" to the tensions and so on. It's all an act.
- The Sociopath: He shows no emotion when gunning down a young woman at Minnie's.
- Stiff Upper Lip: He calmly talks, negotiates, and acknowledges the fact that he probably won't survive very long while already bleeding to death from a stomach bullet wound.
- The Stoic: Even getting shot doesn't faze him much.
- Would Hit a Girl: He killed one of the female workers at Minnie's.
The Cow Puncher
Joe Gage / Grouch Douglass
"You know, looks can be deceiving."
Played By: Michael Madsen Other Languages
A mysterious cow puncher.
- Asshole Victim: Warren and Chris gun him down, but seeing as he was a member of a murderous gang of criminals, nobody will mind.
- Bait the Dog: Downplayed. Gage is the most prickly of the folk encountered in the lodge, always seeming like he's going to start a fight. Then the reveal happens, and there's a cruelty to Gage's murders that the rest lack, from letting Judy flounder on the ground in pain after shooting her to having a casual stroll and taking his time killing the coachman. It was also he who sentenced OB and Ruth to a painful death via poison.
- Beard of Evil: Averted; he's the only one of Jody's crew who doesn't have a beard.
- Blown Across the Room: When Warren and Chris gun him down, Warren's shot sends him across the haberdashery and into a table at the other end, breaking it.
- Cowboy: Ruth immediately points out how much he resembles one with his clothing and hat.
- Dirty Coward: When it's revealed he's an imposter, he surrenders as Chris Mannix is about to shoot him, placing his hands on the wall and yelling that he is unarmed. In the very next chapter, the story flashes back several hours to when Joe/Grouch had a worker at the lodge, Charly, at his mercy with a double-barrelled hotgun. Charly begs for his life, but Joe just shoots him dead. And he smiles as he does it.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite his shady nature, he is passing through Red Rock to visit his mother. This turns out to be a lie.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While the story about his mother is a lie, he does seem to care about Daisy. When Warren threatens to pour the poisoned coffee down Daisy's throat, Joe admits he poisoned the coffee, giving himself up as her co-conspirator.
- Evil All Along: He was working with Jody the whole time.
- Expy: Of Mr. Blonde. Both are played by Michael Madsen. Both are soft-spoken and polite at first, but are revealed to be cold-blooded psychopaths and are gunned down in cold blood. He also bears a resemblance to Budd.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's polite to the people he meets, compliments them nicely (namely Minnie on her lodge), and thanks them for the things they do for him, like rolling him a cigarette. But make no mistake, he's a cold-blooded killer, and all of his charm doesn't stop him from blowing the top of Minnie's head off and gunning down everyone at the lodge.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: He wears leather gloves, a leather vest, and leather boots.
- Hidden Depths: His reason for being in the lodge is that he's both on his way to visit his mother and writing his life story. It's a lie, of course.
- Jerkass: Even from the start, he isn't the most pleasant guy.
- Not Helping Your Case: Joe doesn't do himself any favors by acting suspiciously aloof when Ruth tries to talk to him. In retrospect, this makes him seem rather stupid, as his job was to avoid suspicion.
- Obviously Evil: He acts abrasive and suspicious when talked to, wears dark clothing, has a raspy voice, and is intimidating in general, to the point that it seems obvious that he'll be a Red Herring. He isn't.
- The Quiet One: He's described as this by Oswaldo, though he isn't really that quiet.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: He wields a shotgun and uses it to kill Charly.
- The Sociopath: He shoots Six-Horse Judy and Charly in cold blood, remaining completely stoic despite their begging.
- The Stoic: Calm and composed to a creepy extent; in a movie full of characters hamming it up, this is noticeable. He starts to lose his cool toward the end.
- Would Hit a Girl: He mercilessly shoots and kills Six-Horse Judy.
- Write What You Know: In-Universe, he claims to be writing "the only thing I'm qualified to write about... my life story."
The Confederate
General Sanford "Sandy" Smithers
"I don't know that nigger. But I know he's a nigger. And that's all I need to know."
Played By: Bruce Dern Other Languages
Marquis Warren: You captured a whole colored command that day... but not one colored trooper made it to camp, did they?
Sandy Smithers: We didn't have the time or the food...nor the inclination to care for northern horses! And least of all, northern niggers! So we shot 'em where they stood!
Sandy Smithers: We didn't have the time or the food...nor the inclination to care for northern horses! And least of all, northern niggers! So we shot 'em where they stood!
An old Confederate general who is (in)famous for his brutal treatment of black Union soldiers during the Civil War.
- Alliterative Name: Complete with matching nickname.
- Aside Glance: He shares a brief one with the camera while John and Daisy kick off the film's Running Gag of going through the long rigamarole of having to nail the door shut.
- Asshole Victim: He gets killed by Warren, but he was a deeply racist former Confederate general who spouts racial slurs and ordered the deaths of black Union soldiers he had captured for no reason other than racism, so nobody much will miss him.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has an exasperated, rude sense of wit.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His son Chester. Warren uses this fact to provoke him into drawing first, thus allowing him to kill the General in self-defense.
- Evil Old Folks: He is quite old and a racist Confederate who ordered the massacre of black Union soldiers. He also doesn't care at all when Minnie and her family are murdered right in front of him, and readily offers his cooperation in exchange for his life.
- Expy: Visually, his silver hair and whiskers make him resemble Robert E. Lee
himself. His backstory of involvement in murdering African-American soldiers and other war crimes seems to suggest inspiration from Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was involved in the Fort Pillow massacre. That said, Forrest was considerably more competent (if not a good deal overrated), and the mistreatment (ranging from murder and torture to re-enslavement) of black prisoners was endemic throughout the Confederate armed forces, so he may simply be a generic Confederate who takes his look from Lee. - Grumpy Old Man: The demeanor he gives off.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The original cut of the movie shows mutual respect between him and Chris Mannix. However, the extended version shows him disparaging Mannix for offering him a bowl of stew from the table Warren was seated at.
- Jerkass: He's hostile and mean to almost everyone he meets.
- Karmic Death: A horrible white supremacist is killed by a black man — the same man who claims to have killed his son, no less.
- Kick the Dog: His massacre of black POWs during the battle of Baton Rouge.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He has a dead son. Said son had a fatal encounter with Warren. Apparently.
- Pet the Dog: He is nice to Chris and shows some respect for Warren when he offers him some stew.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's an evil, racist man. Although not directly involved, he's also in on the plot to murder Ruth and Warren.
- Racist Grandpa: Is a racist Confederate general who doesn't like to speak to Warren directly. He once captured a group of black Union soldiers and massacred them all because he couldn't be bothered to drag them to a prison camp.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He's the first of the eight to die.
- Secret-Keeper: He's forced into this role by Jody and his gang.
- Stealth Pun: He fulfills both definitions of "confederate". Obviously, he was an officer in the Confederate army, but "confederate" can also mean an accomplice or someone who is in on a secret or deception. Despite playing no part in it, he is fully aware of Jody's plan.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: Him being of the Confederate army and Major Marquis Warren of the Union army both continue to wear their colors after the war had ended. They find out they fought on opposite sides of the same battle. Naturally they don't get along too well.
- Take No Prisoners: This was his policy towards colored POWs during the Civil War.
- Villain of Another Story: His military days are long behind him, and he only ends up involved in Jody's plot to kill Ruth and Warren due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Other Characters
O.B.
O.B. Jackson
Played By: James Parks Other Languages
The man escorting Ruth and Daisy to Red Rock via stagecoach.
- Blood from the Mouth: While dying from the poison, he projectile vomits blood.
- Butt-Monkey: He's forced to go outside in the blizzard to throw the guns into the outhouse and comes back damn near frozen to death, insisting he won't go outside again. After Smithers is shot, everyone draws straws to help Joe get rid of the body outside; guess who draws the shortest. Then to top it all off, he gets an excruciating death via projectile-vomiting blood after drinking the poisoned coffee.
- Cool Shades: A pair of round dark glasses, presumably to overcome snow blindness.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Thanks to Joe's poison.
- The Driver: He's responsible for getting Ruth, Warren, Daisy, and Chris to Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Due to the Dead: Despite being something of a Butt-Monkey in life, both Mannix and Warren speak highly of him after his death. Mannix treats his death as a Kick the Dog moment for Joe Gage and asks Warren if he can kill him right before Jody shoots Warren in the groin.
- Nice Guy: He's one of the few characters not to refer to Warren by racial slurs, and is generally amiable and trustworthy. Appropriately, he isn't one of the Hateful Eight.
- To be fair, he does initially refer to Warren as "smoke" upon meeting him, although it isn't meant to be derogatory and is considerably less offensive than some other slurs he might have chosen. Plus, he's happy to give Warren a free ride to Red Rock, only hesitating because Ruth had paid for a private trip.
- Red Shirt: He has almost no characterization or impact on the plot, hence why the movie is not called The Hateful Nine.
- Token Good Teammate: He seems to be the only character in the movie who isn't at least somewhat of a Jerkass, to the point that the grumpy John Ruth admits that he "kinda sorta" trusts him.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Lampshaded by Mannix.
Mannix: (speaking to Joe) You killed O.B.? He's worth ten of you!"
The Jody Domingre Gang
Jody
Jody Domingre
Played By: Channing Tatum Other Languages
Daisy's brother, who, with the help of his gang consisting of Joe, Bob, and Oswaldo, planned on freeing Daisy from Ruth.
- Affably Evil: He switches between this and Faux Affably Evil.
- Asshole Victim: Warren takes him out with a bullet to the head.
- Ax-Crazy: He shot Minnie in the face without a second's hesitation.
- Bad Boss: He does nothing to stop Bob's death at the hands of Warren.
- Bait the Dog: Poor Minnie. He chats nicely with her, even flirting a bit, and teaches her some French before coolly and casually gunning her down to begin the plot to rescue Daisy.
- Big Bad: He is ultimately the instigator of all the conflict in the movie.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He comes off as friendly until he shoots Minnie in the face.
- Big Brother Instinct: While it's unclear if he's the older or younger sibling (and certainly Channing Tatum is considerably younger than Jennifer Jason Leigh), Jody did all of his heinous, inhuman acts to save his sister.
- Boom, Headshot!: Courtesy of Warren to the back of his head. It's an appropriate Karmic Death, as he shot Minnie in the face.
- The Chessmaster: He's responsible for a majority of the film's events, manipulating those around him to pull off the plan.
- Combat Pragmatist: Which allows him to get the drop on Warren. In fact, this is the first thing we see of him.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The leader of the outlaws and the mastermind behind the plot to free Daisy. He is also the second of the five gang members to be killed off, leaving his Dragon Ascendant sister and the other two bandits as the remaining villains.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He finally shows himself to the group and then unceremoniously gets the top of his head blown off shortly thereafter.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first thing we see him do is give Warren a Groin Attack, by shooting them.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His entire motivation is to save his sister from being hanged. Daisy also mentions that he has kids somewhere.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: He flirts with Minnie by speaking to her in French.
- Eviler than Thou: To Smithers, who is easily intimidated by him.
- Evil Genius: His plan would've gone off without a hitch... if Warren and Mannix didn't hitch a ride with Ruth.
- Evil Versus Evil: Well, if you consider Warren and the others "evil".
- Faux Affably Evil: He acts incredibly charming and sweet to Minnie before slaughtering her and everyone else in the haberdashery.
- Groin Attack: He announces his presence in the movie by shooting Warren in the nuts.Jody: Say adios to your huevos.
- The Heavy: He gets props for being this, while the audience doesn't even know he exists, but literally nothing would have gone wrong if Warren and Mannix hadn't been involved.
- He Was Right There All Along: He's been hiding under the floorboards for pretty much the entire movie up until his first appearance, waiting for a moment to strike. Considering how long and eventful that time is before he decides to show up, he does have some patience.
- Hidden Villain: Quite literally, since the audience is given absolutely no indication that he even exists before his appearance.
- Jerkass: He killed a lodge full of innocent people. This is the nicest way to describe him.
- Kick the Dog: He really didn't need to kill everyone in Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Lack of Empathy: Like brother, like sister.
- Omniglot: He speaks fluent English, Spanish, and French.
- Pet the Dog: He clearly loves his sister — in fact, it's what motivates him to kick off all of the events of the movie.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He refers to the black people he killed in Minnie's Haberdashery with the N-word while convincing the equally racist General Smithers to join in on his plot.
- Ragin' Cajun: Implied. He has a thick New Orleans accent and speaks fluent French.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The patient, stoic blue to Daisy's red.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears toward the end of the movie, but the entirety of the plot wouldn't have happened if it weren't for him.
- The Stoic: His expression doesn't change when he shoots Minnie and the guy standing next to her in the face.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: When Warren orders him to come out of the basement by holding Daisy hostage, the siblings share an "it's going to be okay" smile as they look at each other... then Warren blasts his head off.
- The Unfettered: He's willing to kill a haberdashery full of people to save his sister.
- Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about him without revealing his role in the plot.
- We Wait: His plan is to wait for Ruth to drop his guard and kill him since he knows he is dangerous. He was hiding in the basement for hours, waiting for a moment to strike.
- Wicked Cultured: He's fluent in French and Spanish.
- Would Hit a Girl: He shoots Minnie with no hesitation.
- Would Hurt a Child: The girl working at Minnie's was clearly below the age of 18, and he has no problem seeing her shot.
- Your Head Asplode: His head is obliterated by Warren.
Minnie's Haberdashery
In General
Minnie's Haberdashery Staff
The staff of Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Boom, Headshot!: How most of them are killed.
- Dead All Along: They were murdered by Jody and his gang, and their bodies were dumped in the well several hours before the main characters arrived at the haberdashery.
- Instant Death Bullet: Averted with Gemma (Minnie's assistant) and Six-Horse Judy, who need to be shot again by Oswaldo and Joe after surviving the first shots.
- Nice Guy: All of them are kind and hospitable, which makes it sadder when we see them get slaughtered.
- Sugarbowl: Before the Domergue Gang arrives, except for the unwanted General Smithers, everyone in the Haberdashery appears upbeat and happy.
- Posthumous Character: All of them, as we find out toward the end.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: They're the unambiguously nicest characters in the movie, so naturally they were all violently murdered before the story even started.
Minnie
Minnie Mink
Played By: Dana Gourrier
The owner of Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Alliterative Name: Minnie Mink.
- The Ghost: Minnie is constantly referred to by Warren, unaware she's literally become one.
- Informed Flaw: She is said to hate Mexicans to the point that she put up a sign banning them from her haberdashery. However, the flashback reveals that she let Bob inside with no complaints and displays a chipper, accommodating personality at odds with Warren's description. It's possible that she doesn't know he's Mexican: he appears white, uses an Anglo-sounding name, and speaks little enough that she may not have caught his accent.
- Moe Greene Special: Minnie is shot through the eye by Jody.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: If Warren's claim that she despised Mexicans is true.
Six-Horse Judy
Six-Horse Judy
Played By: Zoë Bell
A stagecoach driver in Minnie's employ.
- The Driver: Six-Horse Judy drove Jody, Oswaldo, Joe, and Bob to Minnie's Haberdashery.
- Genki Girl: Six-Horse Judy is highly energetic and enthusiastic in her short screentime.
- Kill the Cutie: She is quite the beauty but it doesn't save her from getting brutally shot by Gage.
Sweet Dave
Sweet Dave
Played By: Gene Jones
An old man who loves to play chess.
- In the Back: He is stabbed repeatedly in the back by Bob.
- Lazy Bum: According to Warren. It's one of the things that clues him in on something being amiss.
- This Is My Chair: He would have never willingly parted from it, which is another clue to Warren that something is not right in the haberdashery.
Charly
Charly
Played By: Keith Jefferson
A worker at the Haberdashery.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs for his life when Joe discovers his hiding spot. It doesn't work."Look, I just started working here. Whatever Minnie did to make y'all mad, I had nothing to do with it."
- Hope Spot: For a couple of minutes, it seems as if he'll escape until Joe tracks him to his hiding place by the blood spots he left and kills him.
- Your Head Asplode: Most likely, since Joe points his shotgun four inches from his head.
Gemma
Gemma
Played By: Belinda Owino
A worker at the Haberdashery..
