Characters from the Philippine drama series The Killer Bride. Beware of unmarked spoilers.
Dela Torre family
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As a whole
- Ambiguously Brown: Obviously mestizo as a whole, even though Tati doesn't look it, with her brown skin and classically Southeast Asian beauty.note
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: A rich and deeply fucked-up family. Lampshaded when Emma, possessed by Camila, says that her arrival to Las Espadas has not caused any problems in the family that weren't already there.
- The Beautiful Elite: Like the dela Cuestas, the members of these families are quite aristocratically beautiful. This is punctuated by the fact that the dela Torre sisters Tati and Alice are played by real-life beauty queens Ariella Arida and Lara Quigaman; the household matriarch Lola Guada is also played by a beauty queen, Aurora Sevilla.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Their Old Money status and implied mestizo (mixed native Filipino and white Spanish) background provide some context, however. They are also based on characters from Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo, the protagonist of which is mestizo.
- Old Money: Banana plantation-old, with strongly implied Filipino-Spanish ancestry to boot.
Camila dela Torre
- Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: After Javier's real killer knocks her with a handkerchief of drugs, she wakes up to find his blood all over her wedding dress.
- Dying Curse: Moments before she's seemingly burnt to a crisp in a prison fire, Camila swears vengeance against the conspirators responsible for Vida's murder.
- First Love: To Vito.
- Frame-Up: Camila is set up to take the fall for Javier's murder.
- Ghostly Goals:
- Camila wants revenge against those responsible for Vida's death, using Emma as an Unwitting Pawn in her scheme. "Face of Fear" shows that Emma is actually the accomplice of an alive Camila.
- Once she becomes an actual ghost, though, she desires vengeance against Alice.
- Good Is Not Soft: Camila is quickly established as this after her survival is made known.
- Killed Off for Real: Alice kills Camila in "Deadly End," resulting in her becoming the Vengeful Ghost she initially pretended to be.
- Protagonist Title: She's the series' eponymous character.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The residents of Las Espadas truly believed Camila to be dead after the fire. However, she went along with the assumption for over 18 years before finally resurfacing.
- Second Love: Fabio becomes this for Camila.
- Unfinished Business: Aside from her desire to kill Alice, Camila also wants to find Vida before passing on.
- Vengeful Ghost: Camila pretends to be this from "First Meet" to "Face of Fear" before truly becoming one in "Deadly End" courtesy of Alice.
Guada dela Torre
Tatiana dela Torre
- Anti-Villain: Not the best of people, but certainly not the worst. Although she plays a fairly antagonistic role up until the end, she doesn't qualify as a villain and ends up completely fine in the finale even without a major redemption arc.
- Proud Beauty: Tati is gorgeous and she knows it.
- Rape as Backstory: Justino, alias J raped her when she was a teenager and he was already an adult.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Tati was raped as a teenager by Justino, alias J, who recalls her beauty as an underage girl with unsettling fondness.
- Statuesque Stunner: Downplayed. Not superhuman or Amazonian, but her 5'7" stature makes her tower over all of the other women in the show. Especially because it's the Philippines, a nation well-known for having mostly short residents.
Luciano dela Torre
- Always Someone Better: His brother Renato eclipsed him at every turn... even in death.
- Disc-One Final Boss: His death eventually leads to The Reveal of the series' overarching villain and True Final Boss.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He was utterly devoted to Alice before he died.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Towards both Renato and Camila. Alice didn't help with that at all.
- The Lost Lenore: Shockingly enough, it's revealed that he is this to Alice. His death practically drives the woman to insanity.
- Obviously Evil: It's all too obvious that he's almost never up to anything good.
- The Unfavorite: He was this even after Renato died. This is also his Freudian Excuse.
Juan Felipe dela Torre
- Destructive Romance: With Alice.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Downplayed. His vicious strongman tactics are obviously meant as a jab at President Duterte and a critique of machismo in general, but pretty much nothing else resembles him.
- Testosterone Poisoning: His father always beat him up for being effeminate, so Juan Felipe overcompensated via violent hypermasculinity.
Alice dela Torre
- Destructive Romance: With Juan Felipe.
- Nice Guy: Alice quickly proves herself to be a compassionate woman who isn't afraid of speaking her mind.
- Odd Name Out: She has an Anglo name, unlike the other members of the family with their Spanish names (Guada, Camila, Renato, Luciano, Juan Felipe, Tatiana, Luis). This obviously serves to distinguish her as the outsider, not a blood member of the clan.
- Only Sane Man: Alice can certainly be this, especially compared to her husband and some of her unscrupulous in-laws.
- The Reveal: Surprise! She is the killer groom.
Luis dela Torre
- Accidental Pervert: Elias is deeply alarmed when Luis remarks that girls are the most fun when they're drunk. Nothing comes of it, so Elias probably just took a poorly phrased comment the wrong way.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: After Alice's affair with Luciano is revealed, Luis becomes unsure who his biological father is. Even Juan Felipe doesn't know. The father is Juan Felipe.
- White Sheep: He is probably the nicest, sanest, most virtuous member of the whole family left alive.Luis: It doesn't matter who my father is. I'm still the son of a murderer!Juan Felipe: You're right, but you're not like us. I've always known that. For many years... I forced you to be like me. I punished you every time you refused to be like me. But I've realized how wrong I've been. [...] You're the only good thing left in my life... and our family.
Dela Cuesta family
As a whole
Vito dela Cuesta
Javier dela Cuesta
The Young Adults
As a whole
A group of young college-aged adults, led by Luna.
Emma Bonaobra
Debuting in "First Meet," Emma is a young woman who arrives in Las Espadas 18 years after Camila's death to work as a mortuary makeup artist at the Dako Pa Roon Funeral Home. However, she soon finds herself tormented by Camila's unseen and vengeful ghost.
- Adoptive Name Change: Born Vida dela Torre-dela Cuesta, her name was changed to Emma Sharon Serrano when Camila and Fabio adopted her. Neither of them were aware of her true identity at the time.
- Damsel out of Distress: Surprisingly, Emma is able to kick the shit out of a creep who won't take no for an answer at a nightclub. She'd been trained for years by a world-beaten Camila how to fight and such, so it's not that surprising in retrospect.
- Demonic Possession: Camila's ghost just won't stop leaving her alone and asking for her help in avenging her death. However, in "Face of Fear," it's revealed to be an act she was putting up.
- Love Interest: To Elias.
- Psychotic Smirk: "Face of Fear" has her pulling one off after Camila reassures her that nobody else is present at their meeting place.
- The Reveal:
- In "Face of Fear," Emma is revealed as a willing conspirator in a plan for revenge orchestrated by Camila, who is very much alive.
- The biggest twist of all is that she is Camila and Vito's long-lost daughter Vida.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Emma was actually born Vida dela Torre-dela Cuesta.
- Unwitting Pawn: She seemingly becomes one to Camila's vengeful ghost.
Elias Sanchez
- Happily Adopted: By Aran and Ingrid Sanchez.
- Love Interest: To Emma.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He often ties his in a man-bun.
Luna C. dela Cuesta
- played by: Alexa Ilacad
- Alpha Bitch: She leads a band of rich friends.
- Anti-Villain: She can be a petty bitch, sure, but she isn't evil. From her perspective, Emma is just some weird girl claiming to be possessed by her father's dead First Love, and her father was already quite negligent before Emma's arrival breathed new life into his enduring obsession with Camila. Her behavior isn't treated as all too unreasonable, in all fairness.
- Like Brother and Sister: Elias sees her like a sister; she doesn't, and pursues him romantically.
- Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed. She's not that provocative for her age, but she is pretty vampy. In her first appearance, she offhandedly mentions sleeping with hot guys during a trip abroad, which is considered rather out of the ordinary in conservative, Catholic-dominant Philippine society — especially for someone who is still 18 or 19. This speaks to her more "liberated," Western mindset.
- Pet the Dog: Catty as she may be, Luna has no ulterior motives for making Mildred her friend. She simply wants Mildred to be her friend, enjoys her company, and even uses her Alpha Bitch status to defend Mildred from the other members of their clique. This is implied to be because Luna has a soft spot for underdogs, given that her own father is too obsessed with his dead first love to be a good parent to her.
Mildred
- played by: Vivoree Esclito
Mildred is a girl from the province whom Luna takes under her wing, much to the dismay of her rich friends. She is considerably nicer and more sympathetic than most of them, although this also means that she's subject to the cruelty of her own "friends."
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Mildred is a very wholesomely pretty girl. She's also the most decent member among her social circle (a bunch of rich, spoiled bullies, essentially).
- Laser-Guided Karma: She talks about karma as more and more of her friends die. Being probably the only member who actually owns up to the clique's actions and guilt, however, Mildred is bestowed with a positive example of the trope: she becomes one of the very few members of this clique who live until the end of the story.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: She gets this treatment from the other people in Luna's clique, barring Luna herself.
- Nice Girl: She's very friendly and does not approve of her friends' bullying. In one instance, however, she is forced to trick Emma, but it doesn't happen again.
- Token Good Teammate: Time and time again, she proves herself to be the only member of her social circle with a healthy conscience (and common sense).
- Token Minority: Apart from being the Token Good Teammate, Mildred is also marked as the odd one out by her rich brown complexion and visibly native Filipino features. In contrast, the other people in Luna's social circle are obviously mestizo like Luna herself.
Other Characters
Vida dela Torre-dela Cuesta
Born in "First Curse," Vida was Camila and Vito's daughter. However, after catching a fever, she ended up dying in the fire which was deliberately sparked in the episode's climax. Her murder drives Camila into making her infamous Dying Curse.
- Born Unlucky: Vida catches a fever and then dies in a fire hours later. NOPE! She's alive and well.
- Death of a Child: Vida's crib in the prison's infirmary is shown surrounded by flames which obscured her corpse. The flames weren't obscuring anything, as Vida was actually taken to safety.
- Kill It with Fire: You can thank the conspirators for the fire which killed her. They failed, as one of their own decided to save Vida from what was to come.
- Posthumous Character: Even after her death, Vida is mentioned several times by other characters. One of them is Luciano, who drops the mind-twisting bomb that she is alive.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Vida became better known as Emma Sharon Serrano and Emma Bonaobra.
- Walking Spoiler: Vida becomes this after Luciano gleefully tells Camila in a video that she is alive.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: "First Curse" largely revolves around her birth, her short life, and her death. Later episodes divulge that she survived.
Marichu Sagrado
- played by: Malou de Guzman
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Everybody simply refers to her as Manay Ichu or Ichu. Her full forename is Marichu.
- White Sheep: She's related to Andres, who happily whipped a girl he fully believed to be innocent just to go scaremongering for his own gain, and the unhinged Agnes. Yet Ichu is an uncompromisingly decent person.
Agnes Dimaguiba
Agnes is Camila's best friend who is later relieved to find out that she's alive.
- Love at First Sight: Agnes is a beautiful woman with whom Iking is instantly smitten.
- Lust Object: One of the reasons Camila was indicted was that Javier Dela Cuesta was sexually harassing her. Then, in the present day, Iking lusts after her.
Tsoknat Tumulak
- Cassandra Truth: She has great intuition, but even she doesn't trust herself enough for her good judge of character to pay off particularly well.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Despite being a frivolous goof, she's surprisingly astute about most situations.
Spoiler Characters
The Killer Bride
Even though Camila survived the fire which supposedly killed her, it turns out that someone also made sure that the killer bride wasn't so fictitious after all.
- Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: It's a must for this particular disguise.
- The Dragon: Agnes served as this for both Luciano and the killer groom.
- Evil Former Friend: To Camila after her Face–Heel Turn.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Agnes' intense jealousy of Camila drives her to betray her.
The Killer Groom
Debuting in "DilEMMA," the killer groom is a man who suddenly begins killing people close to Camila dela Torre following Luciano's death. Initially believed to be one of Luciano's surviving henchmen, Camila then surmises that the groom's motives are quite personal.
- Abusive Parents: Alice's father Rafael chronically abused her, resulting in her eventual Face–Heel Turn later in life.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: After terrorizing Las Espadas for so long from behind the scenes, Alice is shot dead by Luis while she is preparing to fatally shoot Emma.
- Arc Villain: Alice serves as this from "DilEMMA" to "The Killer Finale."
- Ax-Crazy: From "Friday the 13th" onwards, it's no secret how many screws are loose in Alice's mind.
- Bait the Dog: Everything about Alice being a nice woman was all a façade she put up.
- Berserk Button: Speaking badly about Luciano and mentioning her father's abuse is sure to quickly rile her up.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Nothing about Alice's so-called "benevolence" is sincere.
- The Corrupter: To Luciano and Juan Felipe.
- Destructive Romance: Alice had one with Juan Felipe given his affair with Ivan and his abuse of her.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She spends her dying moments in Luis' arms.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Who would have initially thought that a woman like Alice would be capable of bringing about so much tragedy in the name of supposed "greatness?"
- Evil Makeover: Alice is demure and pretty in daily life... but when she's her true murderous self, she wears leather Painted-On Pants and darker clothes.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Alice's mask likely has a voice changer that allows her to pull this off.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Compare Alice's beauty to the crimes that can be tied to her.
- Face–Heel Turn: At some point in the past, her father's abusive behavior towards her eventually drove her to villainy.
- Faux Affably Evil: As Camila learned in the harshest ways possible, Alice is the kind of woman who can act friendly to you after she's already convinced your uncle to get rid of you in the name of "greatness."
- It's Personal: Camila correctly guesses that the groom's grudge against her seriously runs deep.
- Lady Macbeth: Alice corrupted Luciano into executing his scheme to frame Camila for murder. She then subtly pulls Juan Felipe's strings as well.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Luciano and Juan Felipe.
- Master Actor: Alice is just that good at pretending to be an innocent woman caught up in the aftermath of the killer groom's numerous crimes.
- Motive Rant: In "Ultimate Attack," she rants to Luis, Guada, and Tatiana about why she became the mastermind behind many of Las Espadas' tragedies.Alice: What? Don't look at me like that! Don't! If it weren't for me, the dela Torres would've long been wiped off the map of Las Espadas! Let's be real! How do you think Luciano was able to grow your wealth? Juan Felipe... he reigned over this town for many years! All because of me! They listened to everything I whispered in their ears! I... I pushed them to greatness! I was the reason why this family is still up on a pedestal!
- Mummies at the Dinner Table: Alice is avenging Luciano, with whom she had a passionate affair. Part of her Sanity Slippage includes stealing his corpse and acting as if he were still alive.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By murdering Camila, Alice accidentally initiates the chain of events that ultimately culminate in her own death.
- One True Love: Alice was this to Luciano.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Alice goes on one after Luciano's death as her way of exacting vengeance against Camila.
- Samus Is a Girl: The killer groom is Alice dela Torre.
- Sanity Slippage: Having lost the only person who really loved her, Alice snaps and goes on a murderous rampage.
- Spree Killer: He becomes one after Luciano dies.
- True Final Boss: Aside from being the series' overarching villain, Alice is also its final antagonist.
- Villainous Breakdown: Following her Motive Rant in "Ultimate Attack," Luis calls Alice out for corrupting Luciano and Juan Felipe into becoming murderous criminals. She does not take it well.Alice: I should've known! You will never understand me. [...] There was only one person who understood me, and you're nothing like him... because you're not his son! Oh, I wished... I wished you were his son... but you're not... because you are Juan Felipe's son! This family... this family has always, always needed me... but now, I don't need any of you anymore! I don't need any of you anymore!
- Villain with Good Publicity: She is Alice after all.
- Walking Spoiler: It's obvious from all the white spaces that he's far more important that he may first seem.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Luis acknowledges that Alice was a victim of chronic abuse at the hands of her father and that someone should've helped her.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A favorite trick of the groom when he's out of costume. For instance, Alice pulls this off after murdering Camila and Matias. However, it's also worth noting that Juan Felipe's abuse of her was all too real.
