Characters / The Sea Beyond

Characters who appear in the teen drama The Sea Beyond (Mare Fuori).

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Male Inmates

Carmine Di Salvo

Played by: Massimiliano Caiazzo

A boy born into an infamous Camorra family, but wants nothing to do with it, and only wants to live a honest life. He is in prison for killing a guy who was raping his girlfriend (the reputation of Carmine's family didn't help him with the judges).

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Most characters treat him like dirt, and think he is just a coward and a "sheep". Not just his own family, but also the other criminal families in town. When he went to prison, everyone thought he was destined to die soon.
• Animal Motif: Often compared to a sheep because the villains consider him a coward for his mild and reserved nature. He may be a Nice Guy but he's very brave and tough when the situation calls for it, actually.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Rosa in season 3. She initially wants to kill him as she believes he killed her brother, but they are obviously attracted to each other.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the kindest characters in the series, but he will undoubtedly stand up for the ones he loves and kills the criminal who was assaulting and raping his girlfriend.
• Butt-Monkey: He never catches a break, being loathed, insulted, and picked on by many characters who also want to kill him.
• Byronic Hero: A heroic example but he qualifies: he committed an error which sent him to prison, suffers terribly, has a Dark and Troubled Past which makes him lonely and brooding, and is physically attractive.
• Cartwright Curse: He has not much luck with women. His first girfriend is killed on their wedding day. His second girlfriend leaves him at the altar.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first two seasons, he's a brooding and reserved loner who prefers to avoid his enemies, except when he's very angry. Starting in season 3, he becomes snarky, carefree, with a random Running Gag of him giving candy to other people, and even playfully flirts with Rosa in an almost trollish way.
• Deadpan Snarker: After overcoming his grief and loneliness for all that happened to him, he shows a sarcastic and playful side, especially around Rosa Ricci. He often makes remarks around her which leave her annoyed, at least at first.
• Disappeared Dad: His dad Gabriele has never been around in the Di Salvo family as he was arrested before the start of the story.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: He's released from prison to raise alone his daughter Futura, with a new identity.
• Establishing Character Moment: When it's shown the money he used to buy a new shirt were from his job as a hairdresser, and not as a drug dealer as his brother would have liked. It shows his honest nature.
• Excellent Judge of Character: In spite of Rosa Ricci's antagonism towards him at first, he pretty much falls in love with her from the first time he meets her. And he tells Filippo that she's just a lonely girl who genuinely needs to be loved and has a big heart despite her attitude. He's right.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's the Responsible Sibling who wants to find an honest job and future, while his brother Ezio is a criminal involved with the family business.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main male friends quartet, he's the Melancholic. He's rather brooding, troubled and sad because of his origins and the crime he felt forced to commit to defend his girlfriend, but he's a kind, caring and good-hearted guy who wants to live a peaceful life with the ones he loves. With that being said, he becomes a lot more cheerful and playful since the start of S3.
• Friendless Background: He never had friends before going to prison and meeting Filippo. He had a girlfriend, though.
• The Gadfly: Shows a somewhat mischievous sense of humor since he Took a Level in Cheerfulness. Especially around Rosa Ricci.
• Guile Hero: He makes the plan to save Naditza from her Arranged Marriage and make Filippo reunite with her. Though he also sacrifices himself in the process, letting himself get arrested to allow their escape.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-lethal example. He lets himself get arrested again to let Filippo and Naditza escape.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: He doesn't have a good reputation because of his infamous Camorra family and because of the guy he killed in the first episode. It's the main reason why he's in prison, despite the fact that he just killed a rapist to defend his girlfriend.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Filippo. They become close almost immediately in prison. In season 1, they can only count on each other.
• Hunk: He looked slightly more awkward in S1, but he becomes definitely more muscular later, and overall he looks handsome and manly.
• Jerkass Ball: Justified Trope. As Nina dies, he temporarily becomes more standoffish and rude, even to Filippo who tries to support and help him. And he even plans to kill Pirucchio, thinking he's the one who killed Nina, though he stops himself from doing it. He gets better, though.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's quite the hunk and the series isn't shy about showing him shirtless.
• My Greatest Failure: Not managing to protect Nina as she got hit by the car that killed her, which makes him feel deeply depressed, angry and like he doesn't have a reason for living anymore.
• Nice Guy: In spite of his many troubles and infamous origins, by nature he's a kind and honest guy with a good heart, and he's very loyal and protective.
• Papa Wolf: He would do everything to protect his daughter, Futura. Even when his mother tries to take Futura from him.
• Revenge Before Reason: In season 2, he's determined to kill whoever killed his girlfriend Nina, and spends a long part of the season trying to understand who is the killer and plot his revenge. He changes his mind eventually, because he understands If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!, spares Pirucchio despite thinking he's guilty, and forgives Totò when he discovers the truth.
• The So-Called Coward: He's nicknamed "sheep" by the criminals who consider him a coward. He's actually one of the bravest characters, since he stands up for his beliefs and constantly rejects the criminal world, going against people who could easily kill him, especially in prison.
• Second Love: With Rosa. It doesn't work out in the end as she leaves him at the altar.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Appearance-wise, he's the hunky Manly Man to Filippo's more delicate-looking Sensitive Guy. Personality-wise, though, they're similar, with both sensitive and manly traits.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Played With; he's a genuinely Nice Guy at heart but due to his many troubles he becomes more sullen and cynical. He becomes more cheerful and playful later on thanks to genuine friendships which give him a reason to be happy again, especially Filippo.
• Sympathetic Murderer: He clearly didn't kill a person for the sake of evil: he ended up in prison for killing a criminal who was raping and torturing his girlfriend Nina in front of him. The criminal he killed was also surrounded by his gang, when this happened.
• Took a Level in Badass: He becomes more skillful and tough as the series progress.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In the first two seasons, he's a troubled loner with a bitter and pessimistic attitude most of the time, and understandbly so. By the end of season 2, his friends Filippo and Naditza made him happier. Starting in season 3, he's more carefree, sociable, and snarky.
• Tough Love: To Filippo, at times, to make him face the truth and make him tougher.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Despite all his anger and suffering, he eventually forgives Totò for killing Nina at the end of season 2. He also becomes friends with Gaetano in season 3, after the latter's Heel–Face Turn.
• Troubled, but Cute: A brooding loner who belongs to a criminal family, but is still a nice person with a very troubled and traumatic life. He's also good-looking and has girls in love with him, like Nina and Rosa.
• The Unfavorite: His mother considers him a disappointment for refusing to be a criminal, and has never tried to understand him.
• White Sheep: Carmine hates the criminal business of his family, and is against violence and murder.

Filippo Ferrari

Played by: Nicolas Maupas

A rich boy from Milan. He is in prison for accidentally killing one of his friends after taking drugs at a party.

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• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Naditza in most of season 1. They don't like each other at first, and Naditza is a Tsundere. They get together in the season 1 finale.
• Big Damn Heroes: Twice at the end of season 1. He saves Pino who wanted to kill himself. And he saves Carmine from being killed by Ciro.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He killed Ciro at the end of season one in order to protect Carmine. He also attacked Gaetano twice in season two.
• Break the Cutie: He's introduced as a mellow Nice Guy and a talented piano player. Near the end of the first episode, he accidentally kills his best friend, and this leaves him broken, quiet, and nervous, especially when he ends up in prison.
• Broken Ace: A well-educated, rich, handsome, and talented boy with a bright future. Until he accidentally kills his friend and ends up in prison.
• Butt-Monkey: In the first half of season 1, he is often bullied and beaten up by other inmates. He gets better.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Filippo is rather awkward and naive, with insecurities to overcome, and due to the situations he's clearly not accustomed to, he sometimes makes bad and inconsiderate choices. That said he's a good person at heart and absolutely brave and heroic when the situation calls for it.
• Decoy Protagonist: In season 1, he's the main protagonist who gets more focus than everyone, even Carmine. In season 2, he and Carmine are equal protagonists. However, Filippo ends up Out of Focus in season 3 and is eventually Put on a Bus in season 4.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: He was in the juvenile prison for three seasons until he got release from prison. Other than Gemma, he was the second person to survive in there.
• Fish out of Water: In season 1, his main storyline is him being a Naïve Newcomer in prison. He has always been a spoiled rich boy who is oblivious to the criminal world, which makes him an easy target for the other inmates.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic of the main male friends quartet. He's an artistic, thoughtful, kind, peaceful and generally quiet guy by nature, but also rather shy and insecure.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Carmine. They become close almost immediately in prison. In season 1, they can only count on each other.
• In-Series Nickname: He is called "Chiattillo" (meaning "preppy rich boy") more often than not. While the nickname was initially given to him by the antagonists, it's often used even by his friends Carmine, Gianni, Pino and by the adults in a benevolent way.
• Morality Pet: Becomes one to Pino starting in season 2. Pino Took a Level in Kindness after Filippo saved his life.
• Maybe Ever After: With Naditza.
• Momma's Boy: His mother seems to have a preference for him, which frustrates his sister Anita. This is largely due to his piano skills and his mother counting on him, as she was a talented pianist herself but didn't manage to start a prolific career with that.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He's desperate and genuinely feels like his life has come to an end given that he accidentally killed a close friend.
• Nice Guy: He has a bit of a temper in season 1, due to the frustrating prison life that was new to him and being surrounded by violent criminals who beat him up. But after his friendship with Carmine grows stronger, he accepts the situation, and he's constantly nice in season 2 and 3 (despite being somewhat prone to make bad choices at times).
• Out of Focus: In season 3, he and his girlfriend Naditza are not as prominent characters as they were in the first two seasons.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He gets better later, but says "filthy gypsy" after the Romani girl Naditza steals his wallet and his watch, and it's the reason why she dislikes him initially. They end up falling in love, though.
• Put on a Bus: He's later released from prison towards the end of season 3.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Initially, since he has always lived a privileged life, he doesn't know how to deal with the other inmates, which cause him a lot of trouble. After a few bad experiences, he becomes much wiser.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Appearance-wise, he's the more delicate-looking Sensitive Guy to Carmine's hunky Manly Man. Personality-wise, though, they're similar, with both sensitive and manly traits.
• Token Good Teammate: In season 1, during the brief period of "friendship" with Ciro's gang. He only hangs out with them to have a sort of protection since he was tired of being bullied. However, when Ciro makes his intentions clear, he's shown to firmly stay on Carmine's side.
• Took a Level in Badass: After being a foolish Sheltered Aristocrat for most of season 1, he kills Ciro to save Carmine in the season 1 finale.
• Turn the Other Cheek: In season 2, he immediately accepts Pino as his friend, even though Pino spent most of season 1 being cruel to him.
• Uptown Boy: To Naditza, while he's the rich guy and she's the poor one.

Pino Pagano

Played by: Artem Tkachuk

A rather unstable Ax-Crazy boy who loves dogs and only lives with his mom. He's in prison for killing his mom's boyfriend, who secretly forced Pino's dog to fight in a dog fighting ring, leaving the animal hurt.

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• Ambiguously Bi: While he generally seems to be attracted by girls, he forces Filippo to jerk him off. It's not clear why he did that, though, and again he's not exactly the sanest guy around.
• Animal Lover: While dogs are his favorites, he seems to have a soft spot for animals in general.
• Animal Motifs: Dogs. His love for dogs is one of his main characteristics since season 1, and in season 3 he compares himself to a dog, when talking about his Undying Loyalty to his loved ones.
• Anti-Hero: Clearly on the side of good after his Heel–Face Turn, but he's still rather violent and unstable in the first three seasons.
• Anti-Villain: In the first season he's a bully with an antagonistic role, but he isn't really evil as he is instead emotionally unstable, possessive and very violent when he feels the situation calls for it, and yet he's an extremely loyal individual with his own noble side.
• Ax-Crazy: In his worst moments, he's cabable of extreme violence and even murder.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's one of the goofiest characters in the series, but he could get aggressive and violent like the rest of the characters, and he's easily one of the most menacing in a physical fight.
• Break the Haughty: In the mid season 2, after he found out that Gaetano killed his dog.
• Bully Turned Buddy: Was a bully to Filippo in season 1, he becomes one of his closest friends in season 2 and 3.
• Character Development: More than anyone arguably. He goes from a rude, obnoxious bully with Ax-Crazy and violent tendencies to a cheerful, goofy and friendly Nice Guy. His loyalty is pretty much the only thing he still maintains.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Easily one of the most eccentric characters. While he's shown to be quite Ax-Crazy at first, though, he later becomes a positive example, being a goofy and playful Nice Guy.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: In season 3, he gets insanely jealous when another guy shows interest in Kubra. Averted in season 4, where he's a little jealous in the beginning, but eventually accepts his break-up with Kubra in a mature way, and even becomes friendly with his romantic rival Diego at the end of the season.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: He's not an emotionally stable person at first, and can be a goofball. However, in season 2, when his friends are discussing if Sasà is actually guilty of rape or just wrongly accused, Pino points out that if such a rich, privileged young boy like Sasà ends up in prison, there's a good chance that he really did something bad. He was right, as proven a few episodes later.
• Defrosting Ice King: Although he's definitely a rude and angry hotheat instead of being cold or aloof. Though, in season two, he warms up to Filippo after saving his live and showing interest in Kubra makes him a better, nicer person.
• Driven to Suicide: He hangs himself after Gaetano kills his dog. Filippo saves him in time.
• Easily Forgiven: By Filippo, who becomes his friend in season 2. Pino didn't even apologize for the cruel way he treated Filippo in season 1, even forcing him to jerk him off in one scene.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite his frequent arguments with his mom and hating all her boyfriends, he still cares for her. His mother loves him too.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Evil is a stretch as he never was malevolent to begin with, but he's an aggressive Anti-Villain in the first season and yet he loves his mom (deep down) and his dog.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main male friends quartet, he's the Choleric, being usually angry, violent, unstable, aggressive, Ax-Crazy and yet extremely loyal. Subverted later on as he just becomes cheerful, goofy and friendly.
• Heel–Face Turn: He spends most of season 1 being an aggressive and violent bully who works for Ciro, with his only good trait being his love for dogs seen in a flashback. At the end of the season, Ciro turns against him while Filippo saves Pino's life. Starting in season 2, Pino becomes friends with Filippo and Carmine, is much more caring and affectionate (he even falls in love with a girl), and his violent Ax-Crazy side only shows up rarely.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Though he is more of an Anti-Hero given his violent temper, but there's no doubt he loves dogs. Played straignt in S4 where he's firlmy established as a heroic character.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Has blue eyes, is tough and a violent person.
• Innocent Bigot: Falls in Love at First Sight with a black girl named Kubra, but the first two meetings with her weren't great. He tries to compliment her beauty by calling her "the queen of the jungle", and she obviously doesn't react well. Then he tries to apologize with "I know you are black but I like you anyway". When they start a real relationsip, he's shown to be very sweet to her (if clingy and jealous).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: By the time in season two, he may be violent, rough and nasty around the edges. But he cares for his mom, his friends and Kubra. He finally drops the "jerk" part in season 4, showing his Character Development.
• Loon with a Heart of Gold: From season 2 onwards. He still has a violent streak but is a loyal friend to Filippo (and later Carmine), and is deeply in love with his girlfriend Kubra. By season 4, he's not violent anymore and he's just as nice as Carmine and Gianni.
• Nice Guy: After he overcomes his violent temper and Ax-Crazy attitude, Pino is ultimately shown to be a kind and loyal friend, with a very playful and goofy side.
• Noble Demon: At first he's this. He's violent and unstable, and introduced as rather antagonistic, but he does have his values and is pretty much the personification of Undying Loyalty.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Especially after he Took a Level in Kindness (in season 1, he has his moments, but his "craziness" is mostly about him being a violent jerk and a Mood-Swinger). In season 3 and 4, he's the goofiest character on the show, and especially in the latter he's firmly a Nice Guy.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Zig-zagged. He's madly in love with Kubra, a black girl. But in season 3, when a black guy also becomes attracted to Kubra, Pino gets so crazily jealous that he calls him the N-word, leaving Kubra disappointed. Pino is a mentally unstable Lower-Class Lout, so he just used the most offensive insult he could come up with, mainly because of jealousy. He gets much better in S4, though.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Very much so. Starts off as a violent and unstable bully who doesn't get along with anyone, and becomes a nice, caring, loyal and goofy good guy in S4.

Gianni "Cardiotrap" Russo

Played by: Domenico Cuomo

An aspiring singer. He's in prison for robbery, but he's a friendly, decent and morally good guy who doesn't want to harm others.

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• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Gianni is one of the nicest guys in the series, but you don't want to piss him off. He also has no problem getting into a fight with Fabio, a much older and bigger guy than him who's also very violent. He also accidentally pushes Fabio off the balcony while defending himself.
  • He is also really furious to learn that Giulia stole his song after hearing the song on the radio.
• Birds of a Feather: With Gemma. Both are insecure Broken Birds who have to deal with a violently abusive person in their life. They have a relationship.
• Break the Cutie: He's already broken at the start of the series because of his Dark and Troubled Past, but at least tries to be positive in prison thanks to his friendliness and love for music. But after his Accidental Murder of Fabio at the end of season 2, he becomes nervous, angry, and frustrated.
• Excellent Judge of Character: In season 4, Alina is seen by everyone as a psychopath, with some characters even saying she's worse than Giulia or even Viola. Gianni is the only one who immediately understands that she's just scared and lonely.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine of the main male friends quartet. He's kind, friendly, cheerful, creative and optimistic, spreading positivity around despite everything that happened to him. He temporarily becomes somewhat bitter, sadly, but he gets better again.
• Has a Type: He has a soft spot for girls who are quiet and troubled Broken Birds who are too scared to express their feelings, like Gemma and Alina.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: In S3, he bluntly rejects Gemma and acts far more aloof and bitter than his usual friendly self. He actually means well and wants the girl to be free.
• Insecure Love Interest: To Gemma. He thinks she deserves better than him and it's also one of the reasons for their break-up.
• In-Series Nickname: He's often referred to as "Cardiotrap", his Stage Name.
• It's All My Fault: He felt horrible about killing Fabio.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In season 3, he breaks up with Gemma after she's released from prison, so she can have happy life without him.
• Jerkass Ball: Justified. He's more bitter and angry in season 3, because he feels guilty for his Accidental Murder of Fabio, even though it was self-defense, and Fabio was a horrible man. He gets better again in season 4.
• Justified Criminal: Not even a criminal, but a Nice Guy who committed one crime. He comes from a poor family and his father beats his mother, but he's the only one who works in the house. Seeing how his mother is suffering, Gianni tries to keep her away from his father, by bringing money quickly by himself without his father's help. That's why he reluctantly gets involved in a robbery.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • His backstory. After being involved in a robbery and seeing an old woman having a heart attack, he comes back to her house to help her. That's how he gets caught by the police.
  • His Accidental Murder of Fabio at the end of season 2. While Fabio deserved to die, Gianni feels awful for a long time.
• Nice Guy: One of the most well-meaning and morally correct characters, who wants to help others. Especially evident after becoming friends with Filippo and Carmine, and becoming interested in Gemma.
• Token Good Teammate: In the first few episodes, he's seen casually hanging out with Ciro's gang, but he never joins in their violence and never laughs at Filippo's humiliations along with them. He's actually one of the few people who are genuinely friendly to Filippo since the beginning. When we learn more about him and he becomes friends with Filippo, Carmine and Pino, it becomes clear that he has nothing to do with Ciro and his friends.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • Justified. He was (understandably) about to hit Giulia after she stole his song and acted smug about it.
  • He slaps Gemma once, but just to show her how bad and toxic her relationships with Fabio is. Just like Gianni's mother, Gemma has always been in a violent, abusive and toxic relationship.

Ciro Ricci

Played by: Giacomo Giorgio

The son of Camorra boss Salvatore Ricci, trained to follow in his footsteps since he was very young. He's in prison for killing his friend Francesco, under the orders of his father.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: In the season 1 finale, after Filippo stabs him to save Carmine, the mortally wounded Ciro tells Massimo "Tell my father I wasn't scared" before breaking down crying "I don't want to die", and then he dies in Massimo's arms.
• Big Bad: The main villain in season 1, and the main threat to both Carmine and Filippo. He actively tried to kill them in the season 1 finale, but gets killed by Filippo who's saving Carmine from him.
• The Bully: To Filippo, although more in a Faux Affably Evil way. He pretends to be "nice" to Filippo, but he's just trying to manipulate him into doing some dirty work for him. Filippo is terrified of him.
• Cool Big Bro: His younger sister Rosa adores him and later tries to avenge his death.
• The Corrupter:
  • In Gaetano's backstory, we learn that Gaetano has become a cruel delinquent under the Toxic Friend Influence of Ciro.
  • In season 1, he tries to corrupt and manipulate Filippo into becoming another one of his minions. He fails.
• The Dreaded: According to Carmine, the only reason why Ciro is respected in prison is because of fear. The only people who don't fear him are Pino and Viola.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He clearly didn't want to kill his friend Francesco, and felt horrible for it. He only did it beacuse his father wanted to. He's also very close to his family and gang friends.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Ciro is easily the most cruel among the guys and yet he has his own noble side. He isn't as ruthless as his father and wonders how he could never shed a tear since his mother died. Until it's revealed she's alive and Salvatore forced her into a psychiatric hospital. And, unlike complete sociopath Viola, at least he does have genuine feelings for someone.
• Evil Counterpart: To Carmine. While both were born into powerful Camorra families, Carmine is against the criminal "family business", while Ciro is all for it.
• Faux Affably Evil: His "friendliness" to Filippo and his willingness to let him join his gang. He only wants to manipulate him and involve him in his shady business, even forcing him to do the dirty work.
• Has a Type: A season 3 flashback reveals that he has a thing for redheads. This explains his crush on the horrible Viola in the first season.
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • He tries to turn Filippo into another member of his gang, thinking that this would have helped him to defeat Carmine. This was Ciro's downfall, as Filippo was too good-natured and close to Carmine to do that.
  • He's genuinely attracted to Viola, and thinks it can be mutual. While they have a lot in common, especially their ruthless and sadistic traits, Viola is a sociopath who has no feelings for anyone and only wants to manipulate Ciro, while at least Ciro did have feelings for her.
• Jerkass: Clearly an unpleasant, manipulative and power hungry jerk, on top of being a ruthless criminal of course.
• Karmic Death: At the end of season 1, Filippo kills him to save Carmine. Since Ciro was actually trying to kill Carmine, the death is karmic. Not to mention that, even before that, Ciro was a ruthless thug who was terrorizing everyone in the prison.
• The Leader: He has a good numbers of henchmen in prison who see him as their boss.
• Noble Demon: Ciro is easily the most cruel, ruthless and sadistic one among the villainous boys, is very capable of being murderous and, again, he's a feared delinquent. With that being said, he really does have a noble side, shown towards the people he cares for, and he's especially loyal to his family. He's also the one who discovers that his mother is alive and he frees her - with a new identity - from the psychiatric hospital his father Salvatore forced her into, making his children believe she was dead.
• Obliviously Evil: He wouldn't have been a bad person at all if it wasn't for being the son of the main of The Don in the series and wasn't so blindly loyal to him.
• Posthumous Character: He dies at the end of season 1. After his death, the other characters keep mentioning him all the time in season 2 and 3, and he also appears in some flashbacks.
• Toxic Friend Influence: To Edoardo, Gaetano, Totò and all his friends. Much of their cruelty is just them trying to impress Ciro or get his respect, or just following his lead. Gaetano has a Heel–Face Turn not much time after Ciro's death.
• Universally Beloved Leader: A villainous example. His henchmen seem to be completely and utterly devoted to him, even after his death.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks in season 4 show that he was an innocent kid, before he starts to embrace the criminal life of his father.
• Villainous Friendship: With Edoardo. They are close friends who are slowly planning to take over Naples when they will be older and out of prison.

Edoardo Conte

Played by: Matteo Paolillo

A street thug who is Ciro's longtime friend and a notable henchman of the Ricci family. Unlike the other inmates, we never learn the specific reason why he ended up in prison.

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• Animal Motifs: Tigers, due to their ferociousness. He has a big tiger tattoo on the chest, he goes to pet a tiger at the zoo in a season 1 episode (and the tiger accepts it), he possibly owns a tiger poster, and the first thing he say to his newborn baby was "You're like me, a tiger".
• Anti-Villain: He's on Ciro's side, which makes him villainous, and can be cruel. But he's not completely terrible and he has his Pet the Dog moments.
• Asshole Victim: At the end of season 4, someone hits him on the head with a shovel and leaves him semi-conscious in a graveyard. We don't know who did that, but several characters have reasons to dislike him or hurt him.
• Breakout Character: Due to his huge popularity with viewers. He's only a background character in the first half of season 1, but starts to get his own subplots in the second half. In season 2, he gets even more focus, replacing Ciro as the leader of the antagonists. Starting in season 3, he has a more prominent role than everyone else, along with Carmine and Rosa.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite being a Hot-Blooded thug who lacks proper education, he's shown to be intelligent, creative and good at poetry.
• Byronic Hero: A troubled, physically attractive, intelligent, talented and rebellious individual. And he's an Anti-Villain example.
• Card-Carrying Villain: In one season 3 episode, he yells in front of everyone that he's not like Carmine or like Gaetano and that he has no problem killing anyone he wants. He mainly fears that the others don't take him seriously like they previously did with Ciro and tries hard to keep his "bad guy" status until he gets shot.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Shown to be a guy with very quirky ideas, such as going to pet a tiger at the zoo at night. His thinking outside the box, compared to the other criminals, also makes him creative, needless to say - among the gang mates, he's indeed the only one interested in artistic topics.
• Consummate Liar: He lies to everyone, even the ones who are close to him. Just a minor example from season 1: he gives Teresa a necklace and tells her that it's a special gift from his mother that he had since he was a child... in reality, Edoardo stole that necklace from a cellmate just the day before.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He beats a guy to a bloody pulp just because he was hanging out with Teresa. Oh, and also because the guy had red hair, just like a redheaded kid who mistreated Edoardo in his childhood, with no evidence at all that he was the same person.
• Dead Guy Junior: He named his baby son Ciro.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's not a good person most of the time, but he has a positive relationship with his mom, who is very supportive of him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While not outright evil, he's an Anti-Villain who has a Villainous Friendship with Ciro and Totò. He also has a close bond with the Ricci family and he is deeply hurt when Salvatore Ricci betrayed him. Also, his love for Teresa was genuine, despite lying to her and never telling her he already has a wife and a baby.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Evil may be a stretch, again, but has no problem with torture, extreme violence, and even murder if he feels it's necessary (such as in the case of Don Salvatore), and yet he would never physically hurt women (though his actions are often emotionally hurtful to women) or children.
  • He's particularly disgusted by rapists indeed - which leads him to beat up Sasà as the truth about him is revealed. And, when he discovers Carmela's father attempted to abuse her
• Evil Counterpart: As an Anti-Villain example, he can be seen as this to Carmine. Both are young guys who had children early, handsome, intelligent and Troubled, but Cute (albeit for different reasons). But, while Carmine is a kind, loyal Nice Guy who comes from a criminal family yet wants to live an honest and peaceful life, and has a troubled relationship with his mother, Edoardo is quite the arrogant jerkass who's unfaithful to his girlfriend, has a good relationship with his mother despite being a delinquent, and frequently gets into trouble.
• Freudian Excuse: He comes from a poor family. When he was a kid, a rich little boy framed him for theft, causing Edoardo's mother to be fired. He also mentions that he was frequently beaten up as a child, though it's not clear if he was a Bully Magnet or simply got into many fights with children.
• The Gadfly: He's very mischievous and loves to provoke others.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his "bad boy" Lower-Class Lout characterization, he's shown to be creative and surprisingly good at poetry in season 1. The adults also consider him very smart, despite his lack of proper education.
• Hypocrite:
  • For a guy who claims that "women should always be treated like queens", he still thinks there's nothing wrong with lying and cheating on two women at the same time, even if one of these women is your pregnant wife.
  • He takes family values seriously. Except when he's too busy sleeping with Teresa, while knowing that his wife Carmela is giving birth to their baby in the hospital. He also got a permission to leave the prison to attend the baptism of his child... but he didn't go because he wanted to see Teresa instead.
• Informed Attribute: He's stated many times to be a Chick Magnet and The Casanova who is obsessed with women, and he also seems quite proud of it. But throughout the series, he has never shown attraction to other girls (not even in the flashbacks) other than Carmela and Teresa, and he has genuinely loved both of them at different times. So, he's not exactly the womanizer he's supposed to be, but just a two-timing jerk who keeps lying to the same two women.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Edoardo is a jerkish, brash, insensitive, cocky, self-absobed and violent thug who repeatedly cheats on his wife Carmela with Teresa, and he's quite neglectful to his baby son too. Though, he does have several redeeming qualities, and has a caring and noble side. He also has friends he cares for and is especially close with Totò.
• The Leader: Replaces Ciro as the leader of the prison gang after Ciro's death.
• No Sympathy: Towards Sasà, given that he raped his girlfriend. He also draws a penis on Sasà's back with his knife.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He makes some homophobic remarks about Luigi in season 4. Ironically, he makes them when talking with Milos, unaware of the fact that Milos is gay too. He also seems to be a little racist, it's given by the fact that he said the n word and making rude gestures at Kubra (a black girl) when she arrived in prison.
• Smug Smiler: He often has a smug grin on his face - even in the last scene of season 4 - which reflects his cocky and mischievous nature.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He was hardly nice in season 1. But in season 2, he gets more focus and there are more scenes that show him to be an amoral Jerkass, even to his own family. Less so in season 3: he starts off as an antagonist in the first half, but in the second half, he becomes a Tragic Villain who is portrayed in a more sympathetic light. He's still a smug jerkass in season 4, as he keeps doing bad things and has no Character Development, even after his traumatic experience of the previous season.
• Tragic Villain: His troubled past and traumatic experiences portray him in a sympathetic light.
• Troubled, but Cute: He's a cheeky and rebellious delinquent, but has a Hidden Heart of Gold and sympathetic moments, is good-looking and charming enough to attract girls, and later episodes put increasingly more focus on his troubled life.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While he was a little rough, he was a fairly good-natured kid who genuinely tried to befriend a kid in a childhood flashback - sadly, the latter turned out to be an arrogant jerk and framed him.
• Villain Protagonist: He's the most important male character along with Carmine of the series as a whole, especially starting in season 3. He gets many of the most important storylines and Sympathetic P.O.V., but mostly he's still an amoral criminal who cheats on his wife.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He's against raping, beating, or killing women. He punished Sasà when he found out that he raped his girlfriend, in a Pay Evil Into Evil way. He also criticized one of his henchmen when he believed he killed Nina, because "you should never touch a woman".
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He's shocked and angry when Viola threatens to throw a baby off the roof.

Totò Ascione

Played by: Antonio Orefice

An obnoxiously loudmouthed boy and the Plucky Comic Relief of Ciro's gang. He's in prison for trying to blow up his house after a massive fight with his family.

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• Anti-Villain: He reveals that he never wanted to be evil. He sure did bad deeds in name of his Villainous Friendship with his boss Ciro.
• Ascended Extra: Is a Satellite Character in season 1, but has his own story arc in season 2 where we also learn about his backstory.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being a goofy jokester, he's just as aggressive and mean as the rest of Ciro's gang. And he's capable of murder to avenge his boss.
• Black Sheep: A screwed-up troublemaker adopted by a family of respectable people.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He takes his Villainous Friendship with Ciro and Edoardo very seriously.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish troublemaker to his adopted brother Mario, a Teen Genius.
• Freudian Excuse: We see it in a flashback. While his adoptive parents are nice, his adopted brother Mario hates him, belittles him, and tells him that he's just a criminal who doesn't belong to the family.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's often obnoxious and violent, but he does have redeeming qualities and friends he cares for. He's particularly close with Edoardo.
• Laughably Evil: He's one of the goofiest villainous characters in the series.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He deeply regrets killing Nina, though he actually wanted to kill Carmine, not her. At the end of season 2, he has an emotional breakdown and Heel Realization.
• Plucky Comic Relief: With his weird jokes and loudmouthed personality, he's the only member of Ciro's gang whose behavior is often Played for Laughs. Until the the last few episodes of season 2, when his character becomes Darker and Edgier, before being Put on a Bus.
• Must Make Amends: At the end of season 2, he's willing to confess to Nina's murder after a Heel Realization.
• Put on a Bus: After season 2. He's transferred to another prison after confessing to Nina's murder.
• Stepford Smiler: Behind his loudmouthed jokester demeanor, he has a Dark and Troubled Past and feels guilty for his horrible actions.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He never wanted to kill Nina. She just got in the way when he was trying to kill Carmine to avenge Ciro's death.

Gaetano "Pirucchio" Sannino

Played by: Nicolò Galasso

Ciro's (formerly) cruel Yes-Man who worships Ciro because he's a feared criminal, and hates his nice parents for being "weak". He's in prison after kneecapping a man with a gun, following the suggestion of Ciro.

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• Abusive Offspring: He loathes his parents for being too weak and soft. This all changes when he became very humble to them, but it doesn't really last long when he died.
• Anti-Villain: Ultimately revealed to do bad deeds only to impress Ciro. He has always been his clingy Yes-Man, after all. And he firmly becomes a good guy in the end, which lasts until his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Ascended Extra: Like Totò, he's only a Satellite Character in season 1, but has his own story arc in season 2 where we also learn about his backstory.
• The Atoner: In the season 2 finale, he has a Heel Realization, realizes that the criminal life is not for him, makes peace with his parents, and decides to stay away from Edoardo's gang.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In season 1, he kills Pino's dog Tyson when he gets a permission to leave the prison, as revenge for Pino supposedly betraying Ciro.
• Bully Turned Buddy: He's a bully in the first two seasons. He becomes Carmine's friend in season 3, even if they used to hate each other.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the first two seasons, he has longish hair, usually tied up in a low ponytail. After his Heel–Face Turn, his hair is shorter in season 3.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • He appears to be even more ruthless and cruel than Edoardo. In season 2, Gaetano is ready to kill Filippo to avenge Ciro's death while Edoardo doesn't want to, although mostly for Pragmatic Villainy reasons.
  • Inverted in season 3. Gateano wants to give up his criminal life, while Edoardo still wants to use him to kill another person. When Gaetano refuses, Edoardo mocks him for being The Atoner.
• Fat Bastard: An overweight guy who's incredibly cruel at first. He becomes a Gentle Giant in season 3.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While he hangs out with Ciro's gang, even the other gang members don't really care for him, and he knows it. He and Edoardo particularly dislike each other. Later on, things change as he becomes friends with Carmine and gets along with the other good characters.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the first two seasons, he's a horrible person, and cruel enough to be one of the most prominent Hate Sink. After his Heel Realization, he turns into a much nicer character in season 3.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He lets himself be killed by Mimmo in the middle of season 3, as a self-sacrifice to save Mimmo's life and his parents's life.
• Hidden Depths: He's a really good cook and likes making pizza.
• In-Series Nickname: Usually called "Pirucchio", meaning "louse" in Neapolitan. Nickname given to him by Ciro, because Gaetano is too clingy.
• Nice Guy: After his Heel–Face Turn, he becomes a genuinely nice and affable guy who's on friendly terms with Carmine and the other heroic characters. He's also selfless and sacrifices himself to save his parents and Mimmo.
• Supreme Chef: After his Heel–Face Turn, he decides to use his talent for cooking to become a pizza maker. It doesn't last long, because of his death.
• That Man Is Dead: In the first two seasons, he's Only Known By His Nickname "Pirucchio". After his Heel–Face Turn, he prefers to go by his real name Gaetano because, in his own words, "Pirucchio is dead".
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starting in season three, he changed his ways and became a good person, sadly it didn't last long when he died.
• Undying Loyalty: The reason for his villainy is his loyalty to Ciro to the point of being his Yes-Man.
• Yes-Man: He would do anything for his boss Ciro. After Ciro dies, and Edoardo becomes the new leader, it becomes a problem, as Gaetano doesn't really respect Edoardo and even tells him that he's nothing compared to Ciro.

Milos

Played by: Antonio D'Aquino

Another member of Ciro's gang. He's in prison for willingly taking the blame for a murder committed by a person he loved.

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• Anti-Villain: He's pretty much portrayed as a villain in name only: the reason for his antagonistic role is his friendship with Ciro and his gang. Otherwise, he's a fairly mellow guy and isn't a bad person, just going along with what his friends are doing.
• Ascended Extra: He barely has any lines in the first two seasons. He's still a minor character in season 3 and 4, but we learn more about his backstory and love life.
• Gayngst: A closet gay who, unlike Luigi, never comes out, likely because he fears he'll lose his friends, especially Edoardo.
• The Generic Guy: It's hard to find an adjective to describe his personality, because he doesn't have many lines.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-lethal example. He assumes the responsibility of the murder when Luna, a trans girl he loved, killed an ex who became her stalker, letting himself get arrested.
• Only Friend: By season 4, he's this to Edoardo. After Luigi turns against Edoardo, Raffaele and Diego eventually decide to stay on Luigi's side, while only Milos remains on Edoardo's side. It's also unlikely that Rosa will remain Edoardo's friend after the revelation.
• Only Sane Man: In Ciro's gang, he's the most calm, and the least likely to get in trouble, mainly following the others.
• The Quiet One: He doesn't talk much. In the first two seasons, he's usually seen hanging out with his friends without doing or saying anything.
• Satellite Character: He's the least developed of Ciro's gang by a large margin. In season 2, he's supposed to be one of Ciro's closest friends along with Edoardo, Totò, and Gaetano, but he's just there. Even after the introduction of new characters in the gang, he's still the most Out of Focus in the group.
• Straight Gay: He's later revealed to be gay, but he doesn't have any stereotypical mannerisms.

Salvatore "Sasà" Baldi

Played by: Filippo Soave

A rich young boy who is accused of rape by his ex-girlfriend, but he denies it.

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• Abusive Parents: While not evil, his mother is definitely a classist, very overwhelming, overprotective and really doesn't let Sasà have his own personal space. And she doesn't want him to confess his crime, either. She's very much the wealthy, arrogant and manipulative type of woman who genuinely believes she can do anything with money.
• Butt-Monkey: Very much so. He's cruelly bullied by Edoardo and his gang since the beginning. This only gets worse when they find out that he's accused of rape.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The season 2 finale has him admitting guilt in court for raping a girl, after denying it for many episodes. And then in season 3... he disappears without explanation, and we never find out what happens to him.
• Extreme Doormat: He's constantly bullied but he can't stand up for himself, and Lino intervenes to defend him quite a few times.
• Fake Guest Star: In season 2, his actor's name is only listed among the guest stars in the closing credits, despite being a major character in the entire season (although his face is seen in the opening along with the other protagonists).
• Freudian Excuse: His mother is controlling, snobby, and a very bad influence on her son, forcing him to follow her questionable orders to save her family's reputation.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Very skilled with technology and informatics.
• Jerkass Realization: By the end of the season, thanks to Lino's advice, Sasà realizes how horrible he has been, by forcing himself on his girlfriend Erika. He ends up confessing his crime.
• Morality Pet: Lino, the most cynical and corrupt of the guards, has a soft spot for him. Actually, both are this to each other: Lino convinces Sasà to do the right thing, while Sasà is the only inmate Lino is genuinely nice to. It helps that they have a few things in common.
• Nice Guy: He likely never really wanted to do the crime he did as he was blatantly influenced by his friends about having to sink the pink with Erika and really is a kind, shy guy who's happy to help Filippo and Gianni with his technology skills.
• Troubled Abuser: He really raped Erika. But his arrogant and manipulative mother, as well as his school friends, are quite toxic, and after going to prison, he gets bullied and humiliated regularly.
• You Remind Me of X: When he arrives, due to being a well-off and naive boy, the delinquents suddenly compare him to Filippo.

Mimmo

Played by: Alessandro Orrei

A guy from a very poor family. He's involved with the Camorra business by his own choice, to improve his quality of life.

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• Anti-Villain: He's antagonistic towards Edoardo, Gaetano, and Rosa only because he works for Wanda Di Salvo. But he's not portrayed as a bad person, just as an unhappy guy who makes bad choices.
• Ascended Extra: Like Rosa, he's introduced near the end of season 2. He's a major character in season 3.
• Butt-Monkey: In season 3 and especially season 4, he may be the most unlucky and mistreated character in the series. Even after his Heel–Face Turn, he seems to have the world against him.
• Captured on Purpose: In season 2, he is purposely imprisoned to help Edoardo escape. Only that it's revealed to be a scam to actually kill him.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He abandoned his own family to work for the Camorra. He's introduced as a henchman of the Ricci family, but later we found out that he was actually working against them, following the orders of Wanda Di Salvo. And the Di Salvo family is the main opponent of the Ricci family.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Mimmo's decision to work for the Camorra is due to his hard life, since he grew up in an extremely poor family. But when he tries to make peace with his mother, she didn't forgive him. His parents were poor but honest people, and he had no right to abandon them.
• Heel–Face Turn: He is involved with the Camorra to have a better life, initially following the orders of Wanda Di Salvo. After killing Gaetano in self defense, Mimmo feels extremely guilty, starting his gradual Heel Realization, and he ends up confessing the truth to Gaetano's parents. He also tries to make peace with his own family, although his mother never forgave him for abandoning her.
• I Have No Son!: He tries to make peace with his mother but she kicks him out, because her own husband killed himself after being abandoned by Mimmo in the past.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: He had a bad childhood because his parents were too poor and unintentionally neglectful. He starts to work for Wanda Di Salvo, because he genuinely sees her as a good mother figure.
• Killing in Self-Defense: Mimmo kills Gaetano, because he thought the latter was about to shoot him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He still feels extremely guilty for killing Gaetano, especially when he learns that Gaetano never wanted to kill him for real, and his gun was unloaded.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: He starts appearing in season 2, and his actor's name is added to the opening credits in season 3.
• Would Hit a Girl: He tries to kill Rosa, under the orders of Wanda Di Salvo. Carmine saves Rosa in time.

Luigi Di Meo

Played by: Francesco Panarella

One of the three newcomers in seasons 3, Captured on Purpose to help Edoardo.

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• Affably Evil: Not really evil, but despite being a delinquent who works for the Camorra, he's mostly a meek Mellow Fellow who doesn't want his little brother to get in trouble. He even apologizes when his brother acts like a brat.
• Anti-Villain: Luigi is tecnhically a delinquent but he isn't a bad person, just a poor, unhappy guy who makes wrong choices for survival, similar to Mimmo. By nature he is also rather meek and quiet, and very caring towards his brother and his friend Diego.
• Cool Big Bro: His little brother Raffaele looks up to him until he finds out about Luigi's homosexuality at the end of season 3. They make peace in the second half of season 4.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Again, not "evil" but despite being a young delinquent, at least, he has a much greater sense of loyalty than Edoardo. He may be a criminal who wants to take over Edoardo's position (because he knows that Edoardo is not reliable), but at first he was willing to give his loyalty to Rosa. Only after Rosa tells him that she's no longer interested in her father's "family business" and dirty money, he starts to make a plan to take the money by himself and become the new leader. By contrast, Edoardo was willing to screw over Rosa and just keep lying to her.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's the mature older sibling, while his little brother Raffaele is a complete brat.
• Gayngst: He's in the closet at first, and unhappy because his secret boyfriend was killed by his homophobic father. Luigi himself has a homophobic brother, and is too scared to come out. Subverted in S4 as he admits to all the other inmates he's gay, and genuinely thinks there's nothing wrong with it.
• Ironic Nickname: He's nicknamed "Cucciolo" (meaning "Puppy"). He's actually a big and tall guy.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: A good-looking long-haired boy who could easily attract the young ladies. He's gay, though.
• Mellow Fellow: A rather quiet and affable guy with a generally peaceful demeanor despite being a delinquent.
• Straight Gay: Nobody suspects that he's gay. He definitely doesn't have the mannerisms and his little brother has even made a joke about Luigi potentially being a "ladies man".
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He's more arrogant and ambitious in season 4, where he even wants to steal Edoardo's position. He has his reasons though.

Raffaele Di Meo

Played by: Giuseppe Pirozzi

Luigi's little brother, and one of the three newcomers in seasons 3, Captured on Purpose to help Edoardo.

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• Accidental Murder: In S4, he accidentally kills attorney Alfredo and feels terrible about it.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: He acts like a hyperactive brat and constantly irritates his older brother Luigi. They are still close though, until the end of season 3 where Raffaele checks Luigi is gay, but then after the issue is solved, they become very close again despite everything.
• Anti-Villain: He's a bratty jerk, and like his brother he's a delinquent, but not really a bad person - instead they come from a very poor background and make bad choices to live a better life.
• Big Brother Worship: Despite their fights in season 4, he still loves his older brother Luigi.
• Broken Pedestal: Raffaele has always looked up to his brother Luigi, but when he sees Luigi kissing Milos, he turns against him. He gets better at the end of season 4.
• Character Development: Over the course of season 4, he gets over his homophobia and accepts his gay brother.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He may be homophobic, but not racist. We see in a flashback that he accepted token black guy Diego as his friend immediately. He also stops being homophobic at the end of season 4, after realizing that he can't hate his brother, no matter his sexual orientation.
  • He's part of a criminal gang, but when he accidentally kills Alfredo, he feels terrible.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's immature and annoying, while his older brother Luigi is more calm and serious.
• Freudian Excuse: Both he and his brother come from a very poor Dysfunctional Family. It's not hard to see why they are delinquents.
• Hot-Blooded: He's a loud and very temperamental young boy, who near constantly acts on impulse.
• In-Series Nickname: He's also known as "Micciarella" due to his temperamental nature.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has an incredible temper, is rude, obnoxious, cocky, unpleasant and constantly causes mischief and provokes other people, but he does have redeeming qualities and genuinely cares for his friends. He's also egalitarian and stops being homophobic.
• Keet: The kid is unstoppable, it's pretty hard to calm him down.
• Laughably Evil: While he's overly mischievous and unpleasant instead of evil, due to his age, nobody takes him seriously, despite his troublemaking behavior and (former) homophobia.
• Only Friend: The only one who's genuinely fond of Crazy J and has a genuinely friendly relationship with her.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: A younger examples than most, but he's introduced as a rather negative character and extremely homophobic. Subverted later on, thankfully.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Despite still being an antagonist, in the second half of season 4 he's no longer homophobic and he has his Pet the Dog moments with Giulia.

Diego

Played by: Salahudin Tijani Imrana

A Nigerian immigrant and a friend of the Di Meo brothers. He's one of the three newcomers in seasons 3, Captured on Purpose to help Edoardo.

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• Anti-Villain: Even more of a Villain In Name Only than Milos. Diego is a good-natured guy who becomes a delinquent due to his friendship with the Di Meo brothers, the ones who saved the poor guy from pretty much being a slave.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a black guy with a much darker skin than kubra, and has a somewhat somber appearance, but he's not a bad person by any means.
• Freudian Excuse: He's an immigrant, all his family members are dead, and suffered some racism in the past. Probably because of his Dark and Troubled Past, he starts to get involved in the illegal trade.
• Hidden Depths: He's a very good portraitist, and was able to make a nice portrait of Kubra.
• In-Series Nickname: He's also known as "Dobermann".
• Jerkass to One: While he's generally a pretty mellow and affable guy, he's more jerkish to Pino, provoking him given that they are in love with the same girl. However, they are on friendly terms by the end of the series.
• Nice Guy: Despite being a member of a delinquent group, he's a pretty friendly, affable and nice person, and a loyal friend as well. Sadly, when the members of the gang he belongs to behave badly, he engages in bad activities.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's not as smart as Kubra, and has little to no education due to his upbringing. But with help of Kubra, he eventually gets his middle school diploma in prison.
• Token Minority: The only African of the guys, and one of the two notable African inmates along with Kubra.
• Token Minority Couple: Downplayed. He gets some Ship Tease with the other token black girl Kubra, and he's clearly attracted to her, much to Pino's jealousy. While Kubra thinks Diego is nice and starts bonding with him, she's already in a relationship with Pino.

Female Inmates

Naditza

Played by: Valentina Romani

A Romani girl who is Captured on Purpose to escape her parents who want to force her into an Arranged Marriage.

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• Anti-Hero: Zig-Zagged. In her early incarnation, she's a little rude, cynical, has been in prison several times, has the nerve to be angry at Filippo after she stole his watch and his wallet (while pretending to be friendly), mocks him about it in front of everyone, uses a homophobic slur against Pino, and often lashes out at Filippo when he's just trying to help her. However, she has a good heart deep down and loves her friends. Jerk with a Heart of Gold is the best way to describe her... Though, she becomes kinder later on, but then, sadly, she abandons Filippo in season 3 after getting angry with him another time, instead of trying to communicate with him.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She's very intuitive and perceptive, and can play the piano just using her intuition and perfect pitch. And from the first time she meets Viola, she hates her from the start, and is right about it.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Filippo in most of season 1. They don't like each other at first, and Naditza is a Tsundere. They get together in the season 1 finale.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a good-hearted person and generally friendly and pleasant, but she has an attitude and especially when facing Viola's cruelty she understandably becomes violent and angry towards her. She's also often rude and angry to her Love Interest Filippo (even unfairly and disproportionately) in all three seasons.
• Bully Hunter: She tries to protect weak-willed girls like Serena and Gemma from Viola's cruelty. Key word: try.
• Byronic Heroine: Portrayed in an overall positive light, and not self-destructive as many examples, but as cheerful as she may seem, she definitely has several traits - intelligent, talented, attractive, passionate, rebellious and a hard life due to her horrible family.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She's rather perky and eccentric, and very much a lateral thinker. This is not a negative trait since she's very creative, innovative and very much able to solve problems by thinking outside the box, despite being a bit of a loon.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Her father doesn't approve of her relationship with Filippo, because he wants her to get married to another guy.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's easily the most sarcastic character in the series and has a mischievous sense of humor.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She goes from disliking Filippo to falling in love with him.
• Excellent Judge of Character: Suddenly guesses right about Viola being very evil.
• Fiery Redhead: She's a redhead and quite Hot-Blooded.
• Foil: Pretty much represents everything that Viola is not. Naditza is a Hot-Blooded Fiery Redhead and yet a Loon with a Heart of Gold and a friendly, pleasant, lovable Nice Girl with a strong sense of honor, selflessness and does what's right. Meanwhile, Viola is an Ax-Crazy, calculative, cold-hearted, unemotional sociopath and sadist, and on top of that she's also incredibly petty and a Faux Affably Evil jerkass.
• Freudian Excuse: While she has an attitude, it's understandable considering that her father is a Jerkass who wants to decide everything for her (even selling her to an older man) and has probably forced her to steal since she was a child.
• The Gadfly: She has a rather mischievous attitude and likes to tease others, though she's very well-meaning and has a kind heart.
• Genki Girl: A wild, cheerful, friendly and energetic girl, despite everything that happens to her.
• Good Is Not Nice: Downplayed - at first she has an attitude and is harsh at times, but she's a good person at heart who cares about her friends in prison. She Took a Level in Kindness though, and deep down she's a very friendly and kind girl if you look beyond her troubles.
• Hates Their Parent: Naditza hates her parents, especially her father, because they want to force her to marry an older guy even though Naditza is not interested.
• Hidden Depths: Her incredible piano skills, something she has in common with Filippo.
• Hot Gypsy Woman: A very pretty Romani girl who attracts Filippo, and there is also another man who wants to marry her.
• Insecure Love Interest: She belongs to a horrible family and is aware of the bad reputation of the Romani culture, so she feels unworthy of Filippo's love.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is a thief (initially), and has a rebellious and short-tempered personality. But she also has a good heart, as seen in her genuine friendships with the girls in prison. Later she's mostly a Nice Girl, though.
• Loon with a Heart of Gold: She's not the most normal person around and is quite perky and eccentric. There's no doubt that she has a kind heart and is a good friend, though.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Played With; she is a tough and troubled girl, while Filippo is an endearing, good-natured guy... However, she's not exactly a tomboy and Filippo is not feminine, just quiet and rather shy.
• Nice Girl: Ignoring her short temper and brash attitude, Naditza is kind, selfless and caring, and she mellows out later on.
• No Listening Skills: When she gets angry at Filippo, she doesn't even let him explain what's up.
• Out of Focus: In the first two seasons, she's the most important female character. In season 3, she only appears in some scenes with Filippo outside of the prison, but is later Put on a Bus.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: She's a homophobic slur against Pino in season 1. Ironically, she's often the victim of this, since her Romani culture is often discriminated.
• Put on a Bus: She leaves Filippo in the middle of season 3, when they are escaping from prison. Filippo comes back to prison alone.
• The Rival: She really hates Viola. She's the first girl who tries to stand up to her, although ineffectively.
• Roguish Romani: She's referred to as a "gypsy", and she's also a pickpocket (initially) who has been in prison several times. While she's still portrayed in a sympathetic light, her parents are horrible people and show all the negative stereotypes.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her love interest is Nice Guy Filippo.
• Stepford Smiler: Acts like a friendly and fun-loving girl around the other girls in prison (except her Arch-Enemy Viola). While she genuinely reacts with positivity to things that happen to her, she's still trying to run away from her horrible family.
• Tsundere: She often switches between being friendly and angry, especially with Filippo. It gets worse in season 3, see Took a Level in Jerkass.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In season 3. Just because she thinks Filippo is changing, she abandons him on an island, after everything they have been through together, instead of trying to reason with him. This is especially sad, since it's her last appearance in the series.
• Ungrateful Bitch: When Filippo saved her life after the gang of girls tries to kill her, she completely scolded him and brushes him off.

Viola Torri

Played by: Serena De Ferrari

An extremely sadistic girl who is hated by everyone. She's in prison for brutally killing her "best friend" because of a petty argument.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: In her last episode "L'età dell'innocenza", we learn about her Fredian Excuse. She's heavily implied to be mentally ill, and she also admits that she stopped having feelings since the first time her father whipped her. In her last scene, we see Paola hugging her and promising to help her, but Viola jumps to her death anyway.
• Ambiguously Gay: Viola isn't attracted to any of the guys in prison, not even Ciro since she rejects his advances in season 1. She kisses Gaetano in one episode but only to give him a knife to kill Filippo. She seems to be attracted to a few girls, since she kisses both Rosa and Paola in season 3, although it's not clear if the kisses are sincere or just her usual way to provoke people.
• Animal Motifs: Snakes. She's a dangerous, sadistic, devious, cruel and slimy - a textbook Smug Snake. And she has a snake tattoo on her stomach.
• Ax-Crazy: She's a dangerous psychopath who should be in a mental institution rather than a juvenile prison. In a flashback, she killed her best friend with a knife and Slasher Smile for no reason, if not that she had sex with a boy in the caravan they lived in.
• Blatant Lies: Viola says she's good with kids. At the end of the same episode, she tries to throw an infant off the roof.
• Bullying a Dragon: In season 3, she repeatedly taunts Rosa about her brother's death. Telling her that Ciro deserved to die because he was a "loser", and burning Ciro's picture in Rosa's room. Rosa is a dangerous Mafia Princess, so you can imagine her reaction.
• Byronic Heroine: A villainous example. Intelligent, aloof, arrogant, extremely manipulative, mentally and emotionally unstable, absurdly self-destructive, cynical, physically attractive, concerned with personal interests and ultimately full of troubles and very depressed.
• Cloudcuckoolander: A dramatically villainous example. She's a being of pure evil and revealed to be very mentally twisted since childhood, while killing chickens alongside her Imaginary Friend Martina and saying crazy stuff while talking to her mother. However, while she's definitely crazy and lives in her own world, she's also an excellent manipulator.
• Driven to Suicide: In season 3, she kills herself by jumping off a roof.
• Emotionless Girl: She's apathetic and never shows any emotion aside from hatred and sadism. This is because she stopped feeling emotions as a younger girl.
• Enfant Terrible: As we see in a flashback, she was terrible even as a child, since she enjoyed killing animals, especially chickens.
• Evil Redhead: The redheaded Viola is the most sadistic and cruel character, and loves to manipulate and torture people.
• Eviler than Thou: While some guys (especially Ciro) are villainous characters, they still have kind of a code of honor and someone they care for. Viola instead is a complete psychopath who doesn't care for anyone and acts For the Evulz.
• Evil Wears Black: She normally wears black and is very evil.
• False Friend: To Serena and Gemma. She pretends to be her friend but is just toxic and cruel to them, playing with their emotional fragility.
• Faux Affably Evil: She pretends to be nice to Serena and Gemma, while trying to destroy them For the Evulz.
  • She manipulates Serena into a drug relapse by giving her heroin, as Serena is trying to recover from her addiction.
  • She contacts Gemma's violent and abusive ex-boyfriend to keep him in touch with her, because she knows Gemma is a Love Martyr who is still in love with that guy and can't say "no" to him.
• Fille Fatale: In season 1, she uses her dark feminine appeal to seduce Ciro, who is clearly attracted to her. In season 2, she gives Gaetano a passionate kiss out of nowhere (and he seems to enjoy it) only to put a knife in his pocket, so he would have been able to kill Filippo.
• Foil: Pretty much represents what Naditza is not. Naditza is a Hot-Blooded Fiery Redhead and yet a Loon with a Heart of Gold and a friendly, pleasant, lovable Nice Girl with a strong sense of honor, selflessness and does what's right. Meanwhile, Viola is an Ax-Crazy, calculative, cold-hearted, unemotional sociopath and sadist, and on top of that she's also incredibly petty and a Faux Affably Evil jerkass.
• For the Evulz: Her reason for living. She's evil to everyone just because she likes being evil, for no reason whatsoever.
• Freudian Excuse: She had abusive parents who never gave her psychological help, despite her obvious mental illness. Her father used to beat her with a whip, with the encouragement of Viola's cold and verbally abusive mother.
• Friendless Background: Zig-Zagged. The most recent flashback shows that she used to have a friend (eventually killed by Viola herself) before going to prison. But in the older flashbacks about both her childhood and high school years, she didn't have any friends at all, aside from her Imaginary Friend Martina when she was a kid.
• Hated by All: All the girls in prison hate her for being twisted and sociopathic. Gemma is the exception initially, but even she starts to hate her in season 3. Giulia, another ruthless girl, briefly befriends Viola in one episode, but breaks the friendship when she sees Viola bullying Rosa for no reason.
• Harmful to Minors: When she was child, her worst experience is when she was whipped by her father. It's the main reason why she is the way she is.
• Hate Sink: While most of the inmates have done horrible things, they all have sympathetic traits, genuine bonds with other people, and Character Development, even the most villainous ones. Except for Viola, whose only defining trait is being an irredeemably evil and sadistic creep who hates everyone and enjoys hurting people for no reason.
• Jerkass: She's cruel, sociopathic, unsympathetic, and very harmful to other girls. She never has Pet the Dog moments until she says some genuinely nice words to Paola in a vulnerable moment, before killing herself.
• Jerkass to One:
  • Downplayed as she's very much a jerk to everyone, but while she pretends to be nice towards characters such as Ciro, Serena and Gemma, she's particularly smug and obnoxious towards Naditza, knowing that the latter hates her from the start and provoking her short temper.
  • Viola hates everyone and is always cruel to everyone, but in early episodes her favorite targets are naive Extreme Doormats like Serena and Gemma. Then in season 3, she starts picking on Mafia Princess Rosa Ricci, which is not exactly a smart move.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In the two first seasons, she gets away with almost everything she does. In season three, she gets her comeuppance in the form of Rosa brutally attacking her and she ends up killing herself in the middle of the season.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Very much so. Every time she seems to help insecure and fragile characters such as Gemma or Serena, and seems to have nicer moments, she's just revealed to manipulate them and is shown to be just acting For the Evulz.
• Lack of Empathy: She doen't feel any remorse or sympathy whenever she watches people suffer, since she finds it satisfying.
• Manipulative Bitch: She's able to manipulate other girls, especially the naive ones like Serena and Gemma. She pretends to help her during their vulnerable moments, while she's just trying to ruin their lives even more.
• More Hateable Minor Villain: While Ciro is the main villain (who targets the two main heroes) and Viola is a minor villain (who is just there to create chaos among secondary characters), Viola is written to be the most loathsome character. Ciro is cold and ruthless in his Camorra business, but he does have some bonds with other people, and feels horribly guilty when he's forced to kill his best friend in a flashback. In contrast, Viola is only motivated by sadism, Hates Everyone Equally, and gleefully kills her best friend without remorse. Also, Ciro genuinely likes Viola, while Viola coldly calls Ciro a "loser" after he dies.
• Odd Name Out: She has a more modern name than all the other characters, since Viola has become a popular name in Italy only in the late 2000s and even more in the 2010s, but it was rarely used before. The other female characters (aside from the foreign ones) have more old-fashioned names like Gemma, Rosa, Teresa, and Carmela. Even Silvia, while less outdated than these four, is a name that peaked in the 70s and 80s.
• Redheads Are Uncool: Despite being an attractive and tough girl with strong manipulative skills, she is hated by everyone and is a loner in a juvenile prison.
• The Rival:
  • To Naditza in season 1, although indirectly. Naditza hates Viola because the latter bullies Naditza's friends. Viola couldn't care less about Naditza's hatred and actually finds it satisfying.
  • To Rosa in season 3, much more directly. Viola openly antagonizes Rosa, which results in violent fights between the two.
• Sadist: The only thing that makes her happy is watching other people suffer.
• Smug Snake: She's an egotistical, arrogant, cruel, smug and devious villainess, and again she even has a snake tattoo.
• Token Evil Teammate: She is the only evil one in the group of girls, as the other girls are mostly portrayed in a sympathetic light or Anti-Hero at worst. Even if you count the guys, while several of them are villainous, they have some honorable qualities, while Viola is irredeemable and manages to be more evil than all of them.
• Would Hurt a Child: She tried to throw baby Futura off the roof. Thankfully, Rosa saved Futura in time.

Gemma Doria

Played by: Serena Codato

A girl in an abusive relationship with a guy named Fabio. She's in prison for shooting Fabio after the latter threw acid into the face of Gemma's sister Ambra (mistaking her for Gemma herself).

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• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • She's a good person, shy and generally very kind, but she shoots Fabio after the latter's Acid Attack on Ambra.
  • In season three, she finally stands up to Viola after finding out the latter sets up Fabio's meeting with her. Again, Viola deserves it.
• Break the Cutie: The poor girl couldn’t catch a break, it all involves around her storyline with her abusive and violent boyfriend, Fabio.
• Broken Bird: Her relationship with Fabio leads her to be shy, sad, and traumatized.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Her mother hates Fabio and wanted to stay away from Gemma.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite having broken up with Gianni, she could forever be free from the Fabio drama and reunite with her sister, when she's released from prison.
• Extreme Doormat: A dramatic example. She's submissive because she loves Fabio and keeps forgiving him for his abusive behavior.
• Good Is Dumb: Though, rather than outright stupid, she's extremely naive and easy to manipulate, but she is a well-meaning Nice Girl. If she's dumb in many of her choices, it's because Love Makes You Dumb. She gets better when Fabio is accidentally killed by Gianni.
• Good Is Not Soft: She doesn't hesitate to shoot Fabio in her backstory, underneath her soft and pleasant personality.
• Grew a Spine: In Season 3, she finally stood up to Viola after finding out she set Fabio up just so he could stalk Gemma and then make her fall in love with him.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She still believes in "true love" between her and Fabio, who is a violent domestic abuser. In the early episodes, she also trusts the Obviously Evil Viola, even if Naditza warned her many times to stay away from her. She starts to hate Viola in season 3, though.
• The Ingenue: Not a bad person by any means, but her naivety and tendency to trust the wrong people are huge Fatal Flaws.
• It's All My Fault: She blames herself for making bad decisions of her love life.
• Little Sister Instinct: She shoots Fabio after he poured acid on her older sister, Ambra's face.
• Love Makes You Dumb: She often makes idiotic choices due to her love for violent and murderous Jerkass Fabio.
  • She's still in love with Fabio (and willing to forgive him) even after the latter tries to kill her with a Acid Attack, causing Gemma's sister Ambra to be attacked with acid in her place and ending up with a disfigured face.
  • In season 2, she starts a relationship with Gianni (a Nice Guy who genuinely loves her), and yet she cheats on him with Fabio during her temporary release from prison. She gets beaten up once again.
• Love Martyr: She always wants to give Fabio another chance. Her mother and her sister only want her to stay away from Fabio, but Gemma somehow remains devoted to him. While Gemma shoots Fabio after the latter almost kills her sister, she later starts missing him again in prison.
• Nice Girl: A kind and morally good person, sadly with a tendency to trust others even to a fault.
• Prone to Tears: She cried easily when people told her off and even cries when she feels bad.
• Put on a Bus: She was released from prison to be reunited with her sister and it includes breaking up with Gianni for good.
• Shrinking Violet: She's a shy girl who lacks self-confidence and is easy to manipulate.
• Single Woman Seeks Goodman: She develops a relationship with Nice Guy Gianni, who cared for her and helped her understanding how toxic her relationship was.
• Super Gullible: Sadly, she's extremely easy to manipulate, due to her naive and emotionally fragile nature.
• Uptown Girl: She is implied to be well-off, and has a relationship with Gianni, who is from a poor family.
• What Does She See in Him?: It's not clear what she exactly sees in Fabio. Everyone else hates him.

Serena Rizzo

Played by: India Santella

A girl who struggles with drug addiction and is often bullied by Viola. She was arrested for armed robbery.

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• Break the Cutie: Taking advantage of Serena's passivity, Viola manipulates her into falling back on her drug addictions. Viola also forces Serena to cut herself as a punishment for not following Viola's orders. It's shown how much Serena is suffering, both physically and mentally.
• Character Death: Even after she tries to start a new life outside of prison, she suffers from a heroin relapse and dies at the end of season 1.
• Daddy's Girl: She has a very loving father who tries to help her in every way.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Sadly subverted. Serena gets out of prison and tries to start a new life. Near the end of episode 11, she suffers from a heroin relapse and dies.
• Extreme Doormat: Like Gemma, a dramatic example. She's very submissive to Viola.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: She's a close friend of Naditza and Silvia, but after her death, she's never mentioned again. By contrast, other more villainous inmates like Ciro, Gaetano, and Viola are mentioned many times after their death.
• Nice Girl: She's a genuinely well-meaning and kind character, though her depression, addiction and naive nature get the better of her.
• Super Gullible: Just like Gemma, she's dramatically easy to manipulate, being equally naive and emotionally fragile.

Silvia Scacco

Played by: Clotilde Esposito

A somewhat vapid but friendly girl. She is in prison after being framed for transporting cocaine by her ex-boyfriend.

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• Age-Gap Romance: She has this relationship with Alfredo who is a grown man, and she is already 18.
• Alliterative Name: Silvia Scacco
• Ascended Extra: She's a Satellite Character in season 1. Starting in season 2, she gets more development and we learn about her backstory.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': She tries to steal a dress from Viola in one episode. When Viola discovers it, she makes her pay for it, obviously in a cruel way.
• Disappeared Dad: In her backstory, her father died when she was a child.
• Dumb Is Good: Downplayed; she's one of the nicest characters and is boy-crazy and somewhat shallow. But she's not stupid.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: She is kind and loving to pretty much everyone but crearly dislikes Viola. Understandable, given we're talking about Viola.
• Genki Girl: She's very cheerful, outgoing and energetic, with an optimistic and positive nature.
• Good Bad Girl: She's very boy-crazy and knows how to attract men with her physical appearance. But she's also a very good-natured Nice Girl who has a good friendship with all the girls in prison (except, for obvious reasons, Viola).
• Heroic Bastard: She's the daughter of a rich man and his mistress, as her father was married to another woman and also had children with her.
• Hidden Depths: While she's fun to be around, cheerful, optimistic, flirty and a little bit shallow, she reveals that indeed she's very private and reserved about her feelings.
• Horrible Judge of Character: In her backstory, she falls in love with a guy older than her who gave her a fake name and framed her for transporting cocaine after a brief relationship.
• Likes Older Men: She was first attracted to a older guy in her backstory, they remain friends for a while, and when she gets out of prison, they seemingly start dating again. In season 3, there's also a random scene where she kisses Lino, one of the guards.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Silvia is quite obsessed with attractive men and often makes jokes about sex, but she's also one of the kindest characters in the series.
• Ms. Fanservice: She often wears rather revealing clothes and sleeps in underwear. And, on top of that, she's very flirty.
• Nice Girl: She's very friendly, cheerful and affable.
• The Pollyanna: She’s rarely has any negative bone in her body, until she (sort of) Took a Level in Cynic in season 4.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Downplayed, but in S4 she becomes more of a realist and less frivolous all in all.

Kubra Hailo

Played by: Kyshan Wilson

A girl of African descent. She's in prison after stabbing her own mother after the latter wanted to force her into prostitution.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: A tall, attractive, black-skinned and dark-haired girl who is rather standoffish and closed-off, at least at first.
• Amazonian Beauty: A Statuesque Stunner with a very fit, athletic and pretty muscular physique.
• Animal Motifs: Compared to a panther for being a black girl who's also among the hottest females in the series.
• Book Smart: Pretty much the only character in prison who is interested in academics. She eventually gets her high school diploma in prison, and with a perfect score.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's initially cold and angry to almost everyone, especially the men. Later on, she warms up to Pino, becomes nicer to Beppe, and decides to forgive her mother. Sadly, her mother died before they could make peace.
• Dude Magnet: She attracts Pino (who is crazy about her), Diego (who is willing to fight to have her), and one of her mother's clients (unfortunately).
• Even the Girls Want Her: Even according to Silvia, Kubra is "smoking hot", and she admits that if she was homosexual she would have fallen in love with her.
• Freudian Excuse: She's an underage girl who grew up in poverty, and neglected by her mother who was too busy working as a prostitute, something Kubra hated. When her mother asked her to do "a favor" for a client who was attracted to her daughter, it was the last straw.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Doesn't appear in season 1, but is one of the main female characters in season 2, 3, and 4.
• It's All My Fault: She feels guilty for her mother's death.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She eventually softens up and becomes less angry, especially after she starts dating Pino. Pino himself, the first time he has a conversation with her, says she has a good heart deep down despite her attitude. And just like Pino, she becomes a Nice Girl in S4.
• Mommy Issues: She has a difficult relationship with her mother due to her working as a prositute. However, Kubra does try to make peace with her, but it was too late for as her mother dies.
• Ms. Fanservice: A very attractive girl with a well-built physique who near constantly wears belly shirts.
• Nice Girl: Introduced as angry and standoffish, Kubra becomes this in S4 nonetheless. She's overall levelheaded, kind and decides to become a law student to help others.
• Only Sane Woman: Not really in the beginning, but in season 3 and 4, she's the most normal and reasonable of the female characters, by the standard of this series. She still has her faults, but they are relatively minor in later episodes.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: She's a Fake Guest Star in season 2 (probably because she's introduced in the third episode of this season, despite being a major character since her introduction). The name of the actress is added to the opening credits in season 3.
• Sassy Black Woman: She's a black girl with a temper and has a straight up attitude.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Kubra is definitely attractive and gets attention from men which she doesn't want at all, especially her mother's sleazy client. Also, Diego's interest in her in season 3 ends up messing with her relationship with Pino.
• Statuesque Stunner: Tall, beautiful and has a very well-built figure.
• Token Minority: Initially the only black character in the cast, until a black inmate named Diego is introduced in season 3.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Very much so, especially in S4.

Rosa Ricci

Played by: Maria Esposito

Ciro's sister and Don Salvatore's youngest child. She's Captured on Purpose to avenge the death of her brother Ciro, by killing Carmine.

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• Alliterative Name: Rosa Ricci.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair, and on the surface, she mixes a haughty and aloof attitude with a hot temper and willingness to avenge her brother.
• Anti-Villain: At first she's this. Rosa is not evil, she just wants to avenge her brother and clearly has a strong sense of loyalty towards her villainous family. After her Heel–Face Turn, of course, she's firmly on the side of good.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Inverted Trope - Rosa often wears midriff-baring tops, but very much in Tank-Top Tomboy fashion rather than to accentuate feminine appeal.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Carmine. She wants to kill him, but they are obviously attracted to each other.
• Big Brother Worship: She deeply loved and respected her older brother Ciro. Insulting him is a Berserk Button for her.
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves the life of Futura, Carmine's baby daughter, when Viola tries to throw the baby off the roof.
• Breakout Character: Best example on this show, next to Edoardo. After her introduction in the last two episodes of season 2, she becomes very popular. Starting in season 3, she becomes the female lead and Carmine's Love Interest.
• Broken Bird: She becomes broken in season 4 after her father's death, and she breaks up with Carmine. Even more so at the end of the season, when she finds out that her close friend Edoardo was the one who killed her father.
• Daddy's Girl: As a Mafia Princess, she has a close relationship with her father. By the end of the season, she finds out that her father Don Salvatore tried to kill their close family friend Edoardo, causing a Broken Pedestal about her relationship with him.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Usually wears black clothes fitting her status as The Lad-ette, but she's on the side of good.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She goes from hating Carmine to falling in love with him.
• Full-Name Basis: She's often referred to as "Rosa Ricci" on the show, and many viewers also refer to her as such.
• Good Is Not Nice: She is often hostile, tough and aloof, but she'll protect anyone she cares for from being hurt. And despite being the daughter of a Mafia boss, she isn't a bad person by any means.
• Heel–Face Turn: She starts off as a Mafia Princess and Dark Action Girl who wants to kill Carmine. But she ends up falling in love with him and saving the life of Carmine's daughter.
• Iconic Sequel Character: She's introduced near the end of season 2, but has a very big role in season 3, and now she's one of the most famous characters on the show.
• Ironic Name: Her name sounds feminine (in Italian, Rosa means both "pink" and "rose") but Rosa herself is The Lad-ette who usually wears black. Although one episode shows that her bedroom has a rose-themed bed and one of her tattoos is also a rose.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all her violence and her brash, tough and aloof attitude, Rosa is also a loyal and protective girl at heart.
• The Lad-ette: She smokes, swears (with a Neapolitan accent), is violent, can use weapons, has tattoos, and often wears black outfits and tanktops.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Edoardo, her brother's best friend (and her best friend Carmela's romantic partner). They seem to be close, and Edoardo loves her like a sister.
• Little Miss Badass: A darker example, but she's very involved with the family business, respected by everyone, and is a tough fighter who isn't afraid of anything.
• Mafia Princess: The daughter of Camorra boss Don Salvatore Ricci. Judging by her house and her bedroom, she lives in luxury.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's attractive, if tomboyish, and often wears skimpy clothes.
• Ms. Vice Girl: She's tattooed, smokes and swears, but has a good heart and is loyal and caring deep down.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: She makes two appearances in season 2. The name of the actress is added to the opening credits in season 3.
• Second Love: After Nina's death, she's the second woman Carmine falls in love with. She's also the opposite of the wholesome Nina, and it makes their Star-Crossed Lovers relationship even more unlikely.
• Sole Survivor: By season 4, she's the only survivor of the Ricci family, or so she believes since her father and both her brothers were killed. But her mother is actually still alive.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She alternates between a tough, standoffish and aloof demeanor and a Hot-Blooded and brash one, but she still is a good person at heart and definitely has a soft side towards the people she cares about.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She's quite The Lad-ette and usually wears black tank tops.
• Token Religious Teammate: Among the girls, she's the only one who often goes praying in the jail's chapel. And she's proud to believe in God like her father did.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to her friend Carmela's Girly Girl. Rosa is a tough Little Miss Badass who wears black, has many tattoos, and isn't afraid of fighting and using violence. Carmela may be kind of a hothead but is more conventionally feminine and is happy with her role as Edoardo's wife.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her black clothes, tattoos, fighting skills, and tough personality, she's still a Mafia Princess and the "princess" part is proven by her jewelry, makeup, and over-the-top pink bedroom, where even her bed is filled with flowers (roses, specifically, it's even in her name).
• Undying Loyalty: To her father, sadly. Rosa is not evil but is still unwaveringly loyal to her father despite his villainy.
• Uptown Girl: To Carmine. While she and Carmine are both children of Camorra bosses, the Ricci family appears to be much richer than the Di Salvo family... at first sight. Season 3 reveals that the Di Salvo family is actually the most powerful Camorra family in town, so it's possible that Wanda Di Salvo is just keeping low profile.
• White Sheep: The only heroic individual in her family, despite her initially antagonistic role.

Giulia "Crazy J" Bertolacci

Played by: Clara Soccini

A trap artist who was also the leader of a gang of young delinquents. She's in prison for vehicular homicide.

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• Ambiguously Evil: Clearly not a positive character, but rather than outright evil she just seems to be very twisted and with a distorted outlook.
• Ambition Is Evil: She stole Gianni and Filippo's song after Valentina convinced her to, she wanted to be on herself on the radio.
• Anti-Villain: She doesn't act for the sake of evil. She's just insane and twisted.
• Ax-Crazy: In the flashbacks of her backstory, she wanted to set a guy on fire. Even the members of her gang abandoned her, letting the poor guy run away. That said, she probably was heavily under drugs and alcohol rather than acting For the Evulz, but for sure she's quite insane and violent.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Her principle is to be yourself and not to please others for who they want you to be. The problem is that she couldn't care the less if she causes damage to others living by that principle.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Since she starts her life as a bad girl, she snarks and behaves badly at her mother according to her backstory. Though it's understandable to an extent, given her mother represents her Freudian Excuse, given her cold and judgemental nature.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Very negative example. Her ideas are definitely insane, such as her willingness to set a guy on fire and her actually setting a recording studio on fire, putting other's lives as well as hers at risk. As she did the latter, after Gianni confronts her, she still thinks she did the right thing.
• Dark Is Evil: Near constantly wears dark clothes, dark makeup on top of that, and if not straight-up evil she's still an insane and twisted creep.
• Emotionless Girl: After she has sex with a guy for the first time and he publishes the video everywhere, with her judgemental mother just being cold to her after that, she becomes a cold, apathetic bad girl.
• Even Evil Has Standards: If not outright evil, she's clearly an arrogant jerk, not the most morally upstanding character in the series, and neither psychologically well-balanced, to put it mildly. But at least she has some standards.
  • While she's willing to befriend the Ax-Crazy Viola at first, this doesn't even last one episode, after Giulia sees Viola trying to strangle Rosa. Giulia comes to Rosa's defense and immediately ends her friendship with Viola.
  • She's initially reluctant to steal Gianni's song and thinks it's not fair. Unfortunately, Valentina convinces her.
• Freudian Excuse: She comes from a strict, bigoted family, and when she has sex with a guy she was dating for the first time, the latter publishes the video. Her mother being cold, judgemental and unsupportive of her during that moment turns her into the twisted person she is.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to her very twisted nature, except Raffaele who is clearly attracted to her, nobody seems to like her. Even the guards such as Massimo are happy when they have to transfer her to a prison in Milan, after she sets the recording studio on fire, and they all think she's dangerous for both herself and others.
• Girlish Pigtails: She often wears her hair in high breaded pigtails, and is definitely an immature and bratty teenager.
• Good Girl Gone Bad: In season 4, we learn that she used to be a goody two-shoes who followed the rules of her religious mother, before turning into a bad girl and The Lad-ette.
• Hated by All: Given her twisted nature, no one likes her among her inmates. Except Raffaele.
• In-Series Nickname: She's often referred to as "Crazy J", her Stage Name.
• Jerkass: She may not outright act For the Evulz like Viola, but she's generally unpleasant and violent, not to mention she's also very arrogant and mentally unstable.
• Karma Houdini: In season 3, she has suffered no consequences for stealing Gianni's song. The one who did was instead music producer Valentina, thankfully.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In season 4, she's frustrated with her new music producer and eventually she's the one who sets the recording studio on fire. She's Put on a Bus after that.
• The Lad-ette: And how, mainly because of her outfit, attitude, and her voice.
• Makeup Is Evil: Starts to wear dark makeup while changing her lifestyle and becoming a bad girl.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: In the middle of season 4, she is transferred to another prison and leaves the IPM without any music contract, after being rejected by Gianni, and with almost all the characters hating her. At least, she has a nice goodbye scene with Raffaele, the only character who still likes her and respects her.
• Statuesque Stunner: Despite her rude and tomboyish attitude, she's very attractive, and is also tall and physically fit.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Performer to Gianni's Technician. Gianni is a better songwriter but, according to Valentina, he lacks Giulia's singing talent. That's why Valentina convinces Giulia to steal Gianni's song.
• Token Evil Teammate: After Viola's death, she's the most cruel and antagonistic of all the girls in prison.
• Tomboy: One of the most tomboyish girls in the cast, because of her outfits, confrontational attitude, liking trap music, and her backstory showing her to be One of the Boys with a young gang of thugs (she was even the leader).

Alina

Played by: Yeva Sai

An Ukrainian refugee who is in prison for killing a man (it's later revelaed to be self-defense).

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• Accidental Murder: By defending herself from a man who assaulted her. She pushed him and he fell off a hut.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: She's mute initially, but becomes extremely aggressive to anyone who tries to talk to her, except Gianni eventually. She gets better though.
• Creepy Loner Girl: How others do see her due to her status as a loner and her violent reactions. She's not a bad person by any means though, just a lonely and scared girl.
• Cute Bruiser: She's stronger than she looks, and proves to be able to beat up Giulia (the ruthless bad girl of the prison) twice.
• Cute Mute: While she refuses to talk to anyone, her interactions with Gianni show she's just a lonely and vulnerable girl who had a hard life, and her closeness to him makes her become more endearing. However, she stops being mute in the second half of season 4.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: A very standoffish and angry girl who never talks to anyone at first, but she gets much better at the end of season 4, thanks to her friendship with Gianni.
• The Dreaded: According to the other inmates, she's even more creepy and scary than Viola. But unlike Viola, Alina is not an evil psychopath, just wants to be left alone, and leaves people alone if they don't bother her or Gianni.
• Freudian Excuse: She's a war refugee who was separated from her younger brother, since the latter was adpoted by an Italian family. Her main plot is about her desperate need to see her brother again. That's why she's so hostile.
• Last Episode, New Character: Introduced in the last episode of season 3, where she's only seen in one scene. She's one of the main characters in season 4.
• Ship Tease: With Gianni. While they are just friends, they become so close that a possible relationship in the future is very likely.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She was angry and cynical at the beginning, but at the end of season 4, she warms up to Gianni and is shown not to be a bad person by any means.
• The Speechless: She doesn't say a single word in the first half of season 4. In the second half, she starts to speak.

Prison Staff

Paola Vinci

Played by: Carolina Crescentini

The director of the prison.

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• Amicably Divorced: Her ex-husband is a Nice Guy and they are still friendly to each other.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's stern and uptight for most of season 1. She softens up a lot in later episodes, due to her interaction with the prison commander and the inmates.
• Freudian Excuse: In season 1, she has strict personality, even to the point of being a little rude. Until we learn she lost her child when she was pregnant due to a tragic accident, and she's no longer able to have children.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: After her Defrosting Ice Queen in season one, she's one of the most heroic and supportive adults in the series.
• Handicapped Badass: She has a limp, but has an important position in her job as the director, and is a respected figure.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Not exactly a hooker, but for a brief time after her dramatic accident, she fights her depression with promiscuity.
• Nice Girl: Especially post-Character Development. Early on, she's somewhat of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, undoubtedly a good person who strives to do the right thing but is a bit too strict and frank, and obsessed with rules. Later on, though, she softens a lot and becomes much friendlier and empathizes a lot with the young inmates.
• Parental Substitute: For a period, she takes custody of baby Futura, Carmine and Nina's child. This happens because of Nina's death and Carmine being still devastated and unable to take care of her.
• Put on a Bus: In season 3, she is forced to leave the prison after Viola's suicide.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Especially after her Character Development. She always tries to be hepful and is respected by everyone.
• Ship Tease: With Massimo, the prison commander. They get together, but end their relationship after she is Put on a Bus.
• Team Mom: She evolves into a mother figure due to her genuine love for the young inmates.

Massimo Esposito

Played by: Carmine Recano

The commander of the penitentiary police.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: He is a good guy, but he gets pissed off when kids in prison starts misbehaving.
• Jerkass Ball: In season 4, for understandable reasons since his wife was raped by the henchmen of Carmine's mother, and he undergoes a pretty hard family crisis with his wife and his son. He becomes cold and angry to all the inmates, including Carmine, although he gets better by the end of the season.
• Married to the Job: Due to Massimo spending too much time at work, his wife Consuelo feels neglected and they end up separating in season 2.
• Nice Guy: He's portrayed as a good-natured character since the beginning.
• Parental Substitute: To Carmine. Due to Carmine's strained relationship with his own family, Massimo tries his best to be a father figure to him.
• Parents as People: He genuinely loves his son Pietro and they have a decent relationship, but he's so Married to the Job that he doesn't spend much time with him.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's always trying to support and understand the young inmates, and make them realize their mistakes. He's only strict when he needs to be.
• Ship Tease: With Paola, the director. They get together, but end their relationship after Paola is Put on a Bus.
• We Used to Be Friends: Massimo has a Dark and Troubled Past because his former best friend Antonio turned out to be a murderer and a Camorra boss. It was Massimo himself who reluctantly reported him to the police.

Liz Centola

Played by: Anna Ammirati

A female guard.

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• Ascended Extra: A Satellite Character in season 1. We learn more about her in season 2, and has an important role in the Edoardo storyline in season 3.
• Good Is Not Soft: She really cares for Edoardo. But when Edoardo is being a Jerkass, when she has no problem calling him out on his behavior.
• Nice Girl: She's a kind and supportive person who wants to help and protect others.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Elisabetta, but everyone calls her Liz.
• Parental Substitute: While he makes her angry at times, she's this to Edoardo, especially in their season 3 interactions when she keeps a seriously injured Edoardo hidden in her apartment.

Beppe Romano

Played by: Vincenzo Ferrera

The educator of the prison.

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• Ascended Extra: A Satellite Character in season 1. Starting in season 2, we learn about his family and backstory, and he gets his own story arc involving Latifah and Kubra.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He finally gets mad at his brother, after learning that the latter framed Latifah.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: It's later revealed that he is the real father of Latifah's daughter Kubra.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He deeply regrets the fact he believed his brother who said that Latifah was a prostitute, and has let her go instead of protecting her and stand up for her against the man.
• My Greatest Failure: He should've protected Latifah in their backstory but instead he believed his brother Alessandro. When he learns the truth he's devastated, angry and sad.
• Nice Guy: Probably the nicest character in the series, to the point that he's an All-Loving Hero who always sees the best in people.
• Non-Idle Rich: He comes from a very rich family, but doesn't care about money, and dedicates his life to helping the others.
• Parental Substitute: Tries to be this to all the young inmates. He especially becomes close and supportive of Pino, his daughter's boyfriend, in season 4.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He has a good approach with the inmates and is always trying to bring their positive side.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Beppe is an All-Loving Hero and Nice Guy who falls in love with Latifah, a black woman, doesn't care about being rich and wants to help others. His brother Alessandro is an arrogant and racist Jerkass who hates Latifah and only cares about money.

Lino

Played by: Antonio De Matteo

One of the guards. Initially corrupt, but he has a nice side.

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• Ascended Extra: In season 1, he's mostly a Satellite Character who gives secret informations to Ciro. In season 2, he has his story arc involving his Dark and Troubled Past and interactions with Sasà. He's less prominent in season 3, though.
• Character Development: In season 2, he's shown to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold thanks to his role in the Sasà story. In season 3, he's no longer corrupt, or so it seems.
• Deadpan Snarker: His snarky and cynical remarks when he interacts with the inmates already show that he's the least nice of the prison staff. He becomes nicer, though.
• Freudian Excuse: When he was a teenager, he was in the car with his father who accidentally ran over a woman and then ran away rather than helping her. That woman died. Lino still feels guilty for this accident and thinks he should have helped her, but his father forced him to keep the secret.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts off as cynical and corrupt, but becomes more honest in season 2, when he helps Sasà do the right thing.
• Morality Pet: As Sasà is one to him, he counts as one to the guy. Lino convinces him to confess his crime and do what's right.
• My Greatest Failure: When he was a kid, his father fell asleep while driving and hit a young woman. Lino wanted to save her, but his father ordered him to run away with him and so they let her die. Lino still regrets this.
• Pragmatic Hero: At first, unlike the other guards who want to do what's right, he cares more about maintaining balance among the inmates at any cost.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's not evil, but is the only corrupt adult in the prison staff, at least in season 1. He's no longer this in the following seasons, though.

Sofia Durante

Played by: Lucrezia Guidone

A new educator who is later reavealed to be a supervisor for the prison's management. Eventually replaces Paola as the new director.

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• Action Girl: She has combat skills and is not afraid of showing them against the inmates, at least in season 3. In season 4, she doesn't do any physical fight.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: She's a cold, cynical woman and the opposite of Team Mom Paola, whom she replaces. Athough, like Paola before her, she turns into a Defrosting Ice Queen in the next season.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Even more than Paola, she starts off as a hardass who is hostile towards the young inmates. After her Freudian Excuse is revealed, she softens up and becomes a more caring authority figure.
• Freudian Excuse: Like almost all the characters in this series, she has a Dark and Troubled Past. In her case, she saw her sister dying in front of her, killed by a group of delinquents, which is the reason why she's quite violent and initially hostile towards the inmates.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She makes several good points about the prison being badly managed in season 3, especially after Viola's suicide. Massimo and Paola were too idealistic in believing that all the young inmates can grow into better people: Viola was very obviously a dangerous psychopath who should have been transferred to a mental institution immediately, instead of keeping her in the juvenile prison.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's rather cynical, rough around the edges and can be cold and violent, but she's a good person at heart and strives to do the right thing.
• Opposites Attract: With Beppe, who is from the start likely the nicest and most idealistic man in the prison staff. They have a lot of Ship Tease in season 4.
• Parental Substitute: In season 4, she becomes a mother figure to Rosa, mirroring Massimo's father figure relationship with Carmine.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The reason why she is interested in Beppe. Despite calling him a doormat and a teddy bear (and him calling her out on her Lack of Empathy), they finish in bed together that day.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starts off as the most cynical guard, being quite cold, rough and violent and hostile towards the inmates. However, she becomes much nicer and empathetic thanks to the influence of Beppe, Rosa and Massimo.
• Tsundere: Both in a romantic and non-romantic way. She really does care for others, she's just bad at showing it due to her heavy repression of feelings and empathy. She gets better eventually.

Other Characters

Nina

Played by: Greta Esposito

Carmine's initial girlfriend (later wife) and the mother of baby Futura.

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• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Has this dynamic with Carmine. She's a gentle and cheerful girl, while Carmine is a brooding, melancholic guy who wishes to have nothing to do with his family of criminals.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She saves Carmine and Futura from getting run over by a car, dying for this.
• Kill the Cutie: The sweet, wholesome Nina ends up being murdered at her own wedding.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Carmine. She's the person who makes him always feel fine and happy, and he's noticeably more cheerful around her.
• The Lost Lenore: Carmine spends most of season 2 in despair and mourning Nina's death. He was even plotting to kill her murderer.
• Nice Girl: She's a sweet girl and a very loyal girlfriend to Carmine.
• Satellite Love Interest: All her scenes revolve around her boyfriend Carmine, since she's not one of the main characters.
• The Pollyanna: She's an optimistic and all around positive girl, despite her boyfriend's troubled life.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: One of the few completely innocent characters. She ends up being accidentally killed by a criminal who wanted to kill her boyfriend Carmine instead.

Teresa Polidori

Played by: Ludovica Coscione

A rich student who does voluntary work in prison. Edoardo falls in love with her, and she loves him back.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: After a few episodes of Edoardo hitting on her, she also falls in love with him, even though Edoardo is a cocky delinquent - though, he isn't exactly evil. Downplayed as she doesn't even consider him a bad boy, at least not at first.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Played straight at first but later downplayed. She's a beautiful, dainty looking girl and starts off as one of the kindest characters in the series. While she's not a bad person by any means later on, she still Took a Level in Jerkass, becoming more selfish and willing to stay with Edoardo no matter what.
• Betty and Veronica: Played With in regards to Edoardo. Teresa would be the Veronica technically speaking, as she's Edoardo's mistress while Carmela is his long time love interest and wife. But she's the Betty personality wise, as she's meek, kind and naive, while Carmela is Hot-Blooded, cynical and a little arrogant.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A mild example after she Took a Level in Jerkass. She is polite, well-mannered, and all in all she is portrayed as a good person and her kindness is genuine, but she also becomes more questionable and selfish in season 4, where she sleeps with Edoardo on his hospital bed and still wants Edoardo for herself, all while knowing that Edoardo already has a depressed wife and a child. That said, it's also a moment of Love Makes You Dumb and genuinely thinking that Edoardo has chosen her, but if Teresa really wanted a serious relationship with Edoardo, she could have told him to be honest to his wife and break up, but Teresa simply acts like Carmela doesn't exist.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Her father actually confiscates her phone to make her stay away from Edoardo.
• Ditzy Genius: She's overall an intelligent, intellectual girl who does well in her studies and also has very high emotional intelligence and empathy. But Dear God is she naive. At least at first...
• Dumb Blonde: Zig-zagged and very much a Downplayed Trope. She is blonde, intellectual, and a serious student, but still naive enough to think that dating a Lower-Class Lout from a juvenile prison could be a good idea, and genuinely thinks of him as a good person, so she can qualify more as a Ditzy Genius.
• Everyone Has Standards: She was horrified to learn that Edoardo has a girlfriend and son, so she decides to end things with him. Until season 4.
• Extreme Doormat: Double Subverted. She definitely has issues saying no to Edoardo despite his blatantly rude and cocky personality. Then, things change as she learns the truth, but in S4 she acts like Carmela doesn't exist and wants to be with Edoardo again.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is a very nice person. However, she dyed her hair red in the late season three, and in the 4th she Took a Level in Jerkass.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She genuinely thought Edoardo was a good guy and a faithful boyfriend. After she learns the truth, she's devastated. And even when she believes in the end Edoardo will be with her and has become faithful to her, she's wrong again.
• The Ingenue: Naive enough to fall in love with Edoardo... until she finds out that Edoardo lied to her since the beginning, and he already has a long-time girlfriend and a baby. She's also shocked when she discovers Edoardo's violent side. Later on, it seems she stops being naive as she's determined to have Edoardo all for herself... But then again, despite being sure about being Edoaardo's choice, the guy leaves her and she is still shown to be naive.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Out of Edoardo's two love interests, she's the Light Feminine (naive and well-mannered) to Carmela's Dark Feminine (catty and Hot-Blooded).
• Love Makes You Dumb: She was an intelligent and priviliged rich girl with a bright future, but she's ready to give up everything in her life for Edoardo, who is a criminal heavily involved with Camorra, currently in prison, already married to another woman, and he has a child too. Even Teresa's father points out how stupid and self-destructive her behavior is. Unsurprisingly, as seen at the end of season 4, her father turns out to be right.
• Love Makes You Evil: Not evil, but falling in love with Edoardo makes her more unfettered and selfish. In the long run, she has no qualms stealing Edoardo from Carmela, as she feels like being Edoardo's choice through and through.
• The Mistress: To Edoardo, without even knowing about it at first. In season 4, she fits the trope much better, because she knows Edoardo has a wife and a family.
• Nice Girl: She's very polite, doesn't mind Edoardo's abrasive personality, and is hands down one of the kindest and most selfless characters in the series who volunteers to help the imprisoned. Sadly, she Took a Level in Jerkass in season 4, where she continues her affair with Edoardo, even though she knows Edoardo's wife is on the verge of a mental breakdown.
• No Sympathy: Zig-Zagged - as she learns the truth, Teresa does show sympathy towards Carmela at first, but in the long run she fundamentally doesn't gives a damn about the girl's feelings, as she genuinely believes Edoardo has chosen her, and keeps spending time with him.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy: She's the kind and soft-hearted puppy while Edoardo is the abrasive and cocky pitbull.
• Satellite Love Interest: She never has any storyline that doesn't involve Edoardo. Even in season 4, where she gets her first A Day in the Limelight, all her scenes are about her relationship with Edoardo, and the only thing we learn about her story is that she used to have a generic boyfriend in the past, but he barely appears. In season 4, we also get to know her parents, but only to see how they react to Edoardo in Teresa's life.
• Second Love: To Edoardo, after his long-time girlfriend/wife Carmela. Despite being married to Carmela, he's still in love with Teresa, although he tries to hide it in season 3 and 4, for the sake of his marriage.
• Secretly Selfish: Easily a consequence of Love Makes You Dumb - she has been portrayed as an overall selfless character, but after falling in love with Edoardo, aside from the fact she Took a Level in Jerkass, she clearly reveals a more unfettered and self-centered side, wanting him all for herself.
• Slut-Shaming: She got this from Carmela when she arrived at the hospital to see Edoardo.
• Spoiled Sweet: She came from the rich family, but she's kind and a friendly person. Although, again, she becomes more questionable in season 4.
• Teen Pregnancy: Edoardo gets her pregnant.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In early seasons, she's a Nice Girl who has an affair with Edoardo due to her naivety, since she doesn't know that Edoardo has a wife and a child. In season 4, she doesn't have this excuse anymore: she knows Edoardo is married, she knows Edoardo's wife is a Broken Bird on the verge of a mental breakdown due to her husband's cheating on her, but Teresa continues having an affair with Edaordo, even having sex with him on his hospital bed. Obviously, Edoardo is just as guilty as her, to say the least.
• The Unfettered: Becomes this in regards to having Edoardo all for herself. When facing Carmela, she just tells her Edoardo has made his choice, namely Teresa.
• Unknown Rival: She is this to Carmela due to her affair with Edoardo.
• Uptown Girl: Teresa is a well-mannered and ladylike rich girl who is romantically involved with Lower-Class Lout Edoardo.

Carmela Valestra

Played by: Giovanna Sannino

Edaordo's girlfriend (later wife) and the mother of baby Ciro.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Downplayed Trope - Carmela is attractive, has dark hair and is a fairly proud, tough and cynical girl. But she's more brash and hotheaded than aloof.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Her main love interest is Edoardo, although she has no problem taking him back.
• Ascended Extra: In the first two seasons, she is Edoardo's Satellite Love Interest and doesn't appear very often. In season 3, she's far more prominent and fleshed out, and before season 4, she is the only character outside the prison who has ever got her own A Day in the Limelight.
• Betty and Veronica: Played With in regards to Edoardo. Technically, she'd be the Betty since she's his long-time love interest, wife and is going to have a child with him. But she has more the personality of the Veronica, as she's tough , Hot-Blooded and somewhat cocky, while Teresa is meek, kind and naive.
• Break the Haughty: Between seasons 3 and 4, Carmela was stuck in the wringer of this, first she got cheated on by her boyfriend/husband Edoardo, then seeing him at the hospital after he was shot had made her worried and emotional, now she found out that Edoardo got Teresa pregnant.
• Broken Bird: She has a terrible backstory due to losing her mother as a child, her father being sexually abusive, and being adopted by the Ricci family. In her adult life, she still suffers and has to deal with her husband cheating on her.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Initially she forgives Edoardo after finding out he cheated on her with Teresa. But when she actually meets Teresa, she starts screaming against her. In season 4, she gets livid at Edoardo for impregnating Teresa.
• Everyone Has Standards: She may be a Clingy Jealous Girl who is willing to attack Teresa, but she stops when Teresa tells her that she's pregnant.
• Freudian Excuse: While not a bad person, she's not particularly nice and is rather hostile and cynical, but in season 3 we find out that she has no mother and her father tried to sexually abuse her.
• Good Is Not Nice: In a very similar way to her best friend Rosa, Carmela is quite brash, hostile, tough and cynical, but is very loyal to her loved ones.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Rosa. They are like sisters since Carmela was welcomed by Rosa's family after running away from home. They are still very close in season 3 and 4, despite Edoardo's drama with Rosa's father.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Carmela doesn't have to be so mean to Teresa, but it's understandable after learning that Teresa is the mistress of Edoardo, so she is definitely allowed to get upset at her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a little rude, arrogant, haughty, short-tempered and cynical, but is also very loyal and cares for her loved ones.
• Lady Macbeth: In season 4, she has a role in convincing Edoardo to kill Don Salvatore because she thinks he can be a danger to their family.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Out of Edoardo's two love interests, she's the Dark Feminine (catty and Hot-Blooded) to Teresa's Light Feminine (naive and well-mannered). An odd case because, in the Betty and Veronica situation, she (technically) would be the Betty.
• Love Martyr: She's madly in love with Edoardo and he's the only one she wants, no matter how many times he cheats on her with Teresa. In fact, she blames only Teresa for their affair. Somewhat justified in that she had a very hard life and Edoardo was her first love.
• Missing Mom: It's implied that her mother is deceased.
• Official Couple: With Edoardo. They have a baby together, and they already consider each other "married", before actually getting married in season 3. They are both close to the Ricci family, and Carmela is also close to Edoardo's mother.
• Satellite Love Interest: In the first 2 seasons, she's this to Edoardo. She's no longer this in season 3: we learn about her backstory, and her friendship with Rosa and the Ricci family.
• Slut-Shaming: She does this to Teresa after Edoardo's affair with her.
• Stepford Smiler: She acts like Edoardo's confident and assertive girlfriend, but actually has a Dark and Troubled Past. She also forgives Edoardo for his cheating and pretends it's not important, but deep down she's insecure and jealous.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In season 4. She convinces Edoardo to kill Don Salvatore to protect her own family (since Don Salvatore has tried to kill Edoardo before), without thinking that he's also the father of Rosa, Carmela's best friend. Also, when Edoardo finally decides to break up with her because he loves Teresa more, Carmela uses blackmail to persuade Edoardo to stay with her, because she's the only one who knows where is the Ricci family's dirty money, and basically tells Edoardo "If you choose Teresa, you will have none of the money".

Fabio De Gregorio

Played by: Stefano Rossi Giordani (Season 1) & Alessio Del Mastro (Season 2)

Gemma's abusive love interest.

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• Asshole Victim: He is an awful guy who abuses Gemma, so there's no chance of him getting sympathy when Gianni accidentally kills him.
• Hate Sink: Since he's a violent abuser, he only appears to be hated by the audience. Unlike the teenagers in prison, he doesn't appear to have a Freudian Excuse either.
• Jerkass: He's one of the biggest assholes in the series.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Every moment where he lets Gemma believe he has redeemed himself, he's constantly shown to actually manipulate her and be the same violent, abusive and possessive guy he's always been.
• Karmic Death: At the end of season 2, Fabio was about to beat Gianni to death. While trying to defend himself, Gianni accidentally pushed Fabio off the balcony, killing him.
• Loners Are Freaks: A dramatic and very dark example. He's a twisted psychopath with no social contacts, except Gemma. The only "friend" he seems to have is Viola, who's pretty much like him and helps him with his manipulation of Gemma.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's able to manipulate Gemma into thinking there's real love between them, even after abusing her.
• Satellite Love Interest: All his scenes revolve around Gemma, and he rarely appears.
• The Sociopath: Unscrupolous, selfish, possessive, manipulative, violent, narcissistic, asocial and psychotic. That's what he is in spades.
• Small Role, Big Impact: A minor character who doesn't appear often, but he has ruined Gemma's life and he's the reason why she's in prison. His death also has an impact on Gianni in season 3.
• Would Hurt a Child: He was implied to be much older than Gemma, but he tries to beat Gianni to death during the fight, but it failed because Gianni pushed Fabio off the balcony and killed him.
• Would Hit a Girl: He abuses Gemma a lot. He also pours acid on Gemma's sister Ambra on her face, mistaking her for Gemma.

Alfredo D'Angelo

Played by: Giuseppe Tantillo

Silvia's love interest. A very dishonest and opportunistic lawyer involved in crime.

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• Amoral Attorney: He's a corrupt, dishonest lawyer who is involved in the illegal trade of criminals. He's also the only one who knows where are Don Salvatore's money.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He was charming and friendly to Silvia at first, until he gave her a fake name and framed her for coke which leads her getting arrested.

Anita Ferrari

Played by: Chiara Primavesi

Filippo's older sister.

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• Big Sister Instinct: She's very supportive of Filippo ever since he was sent to prison.
• Nice Girl: One of the kindest and most benevolent characters in the series. Besides the support she gives to her brother since he's sent to jail, she's also shown to be very helpful towards Carmine, Naditza and Nina.
• The Unfavorite: Feels like this in regards to her mother, since the latter seems to prefer Filippo, largely due to the fact she counts on the latter's piano skills.

Donna Wanda Di Salvo

Played by: Pia Lanciotti

Carmine's mother and a very feared female mafia boss.

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• Big Bad Ensemble: She and The Don Salvatore Ricci are the main villains in S3, and work against each other.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's a very ruthless mafia boss with a violent and even murderous personality, but she loves her family, even Carmine despite despising his peaceful nature.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's totally disgusted as she discovers her henchmen raped Massimo's wife Consuelo. She had ordered them to scare her.
• Put on a Bus: She gets arrested towards the end of S4.

Valentina

Played by: Selene Caramazza

An unscrupulous music producer and songwriter who convinces Giulia to steal Gianni's song.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts friendly at first but is actually a nasty opportunist, only concerned with personal gain.