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Allie Pressman
Played By: Kathryn Newton
Cassandra's younger sister and best friend to Will. She was always overshadowed by her older sister, and wants a chance to prove herself.
- Anti-Hero: Even though she is trying to make the town a better place, she is forced to be the ruler due to Cassandra's death and makes some questionable decisions.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She was frustrated with being in her sister Cassandra’s shadow. She gets thrust into the spotlight after Cassandra is murdered. Needless to say, this isn’t at all how she wanted it to happen, and she also has difficult coping with the mental stresses of leadership.
- The Chains of Commanding: She's faced with many difficult decisions over the course of the season.
- Didn't Think This Through: One of her critical character flaws is her lack of foresight, often not considering all the potential consequences of her choices.
- Fatal Flaw: Improvidence. While Allie is arguably the best possible leader after Cassandra, she has a hard time making decisions for the sake of the town. She either thinks too hard or too little about how she should run the town and what rules to enforce, and Will often has to provide her with foresight but Allie rarely listens. As a result, her questionable decisions have lost some favor with the town and ultimately it enabled rabble-rousers like Harry, Campbell, Lexie and the Guard to eventually overthrow her and Will.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She might be moody at times and harsh when making tough decisions but at the end of the day she's the best choice for a leader after Cassandra because she has a strong sense of justice that comes with wanting to grant everyone their rights, genuinely desires to help the people of their town and can be sympathetic towards her friends, loved ones and those she knows are going through hard times, especially Elle.
- More Deadly Than the Male: She's probably the deadliest female character on the show so far, as she decides to execute Dewey when Grizz is unable to.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her dismissal of the Guard's poor treatment of Lexie leads to her retaliation and the events of the finale.
- Power Corrupts: A less severe version. She’s initially reluctant and struggles with the mental stresses of power. Later on, she becomes more focused on staying in control, ignores serious complaints from citizens, and acts entitled to win the election. However, she still genuinely wants what’s best for the town. She eventually accepts that she will lose the vote, but a coup deposes her before election day anyway.
- Reluctant Ruler: She's pushed into taking over after Cassandra is killed, and doesn't much like the job because it puts everything on her shoulders. As Power Corrupts, however, she becomes more invested into holding onto her position.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: She is alternately admires and is jealous of Cassandra. The latter’s academic success and natural leadership skills make Allie feel inferior and causes some tension in their relationship.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She serves as the Tomboy to either Helena or Elle's Girly Girl.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: In the first episode. She states explicitly that it's important to know your role in the story, and she's not the protagonist of this one because Cassandra is. She's wrong about both of them.
Cassandra Pressman
Played By: Rachel Keller
Allie's sister and the class president. A bossy girl, but the only one with a good head on her shoulders when things go haywire.
- Arch-Enemy: Harry treated her as such but Cassandra notably tried to be more mature about it. She herself doesn't want to have anything against Harry and is willing to let him be a part of their committee so he can offer to help, but Harry let his hate for her blind him to any sort of reason.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Her death is what causes Allie to grow more jaded and become the leader.
- Decoy Protagonist: She's introduced as the main character, with Allie being her Deuteragonist and Gordie being her Love Interest, but she's killed in episode 3.
- Nice Girl: While she might have had something of a bossy and know-it-all demeanor, she always had her head on straight and never acted selfishly, only wanting the best for the town as she was well-liked by the majority of the town because they realized that she only acted bossily out of compassion. Really the only people who didn't like her were Harry, Campbell and some guys and that was purely out of bias or misogyny rather than because of any unpleasantry from Cassandra's end.
- Only Sane Man: Cassandra was the first example and the first leader because she immediately knew that the only possible way everyone was going to survive was by working together as a unit and she always stuck on the straight and narrow.
- Student Council President: She was before the students were exiled. This leaves her as the only one with any sort of authority, putting her into the role of the students’ leader.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Allie accuses Cassandra of stringing Nice Guy Gordie along, but she actually has real feelings for him and the two begin a relationship right before she’s murdered.
Will Leclair
Played By: Jacques Colimon
One of Allie's closest friends, a foster child who lived in poverty outside city limits.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he’s harsh and cynical at times, he genuinely cares for his friends.
- Supreme Chef: He's the town's best cook, on account of having learned how to take care of himself in the foster system.
- Token Minority: Will's the only explicit boy of color we see in the town.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Though initially hesitant, he and Allie eventually begin a relationship.
Kelly Aldrich
Played By: Kristine Froseth
A friend of Allie and Will, and girlfriend to Harry. Takes on many responsibilities in the town early on, in contrast to her boyfriend.
- Foil: To Harry. They're both some of the richest, most popular students in school but when they enter a new world their differences are highly emphasized to the point where it causes enough friction for them to break up.
- In the new world, Kelly doesn't hesitate to abandon her old privilege and is more than happy to work hard and take responsibility. Harry is too selfish to cope with his loss of privilege and when he has to work hard, he falls into a depression.
- Kelly admits that she's lucky and it encouraged her to help other people and share what she has. Harry has no such desire to help other people and does anything he can just to maintain his possessions rather than be of any real help.
- Kelly puts the people of the towns first and wants to figure out what happened to them. Harry would rather just goof off and puts his own petty desires over the needs of his own friends.
- Kelly quickly matures and abandons any sort of superficial or classist beliefs she has. Harry not only doesn't change, but he still thinks that he's above people enough to still be an ass to the likes of Cassandra or Will.
- Kelly at heart is sweet, thoughtful and genuinely likable as a person. Harry is arrogant, self-centered and it becomes clear that he was only liked in high school for his parties and wealth and not actually because people liked him for who he was.
- The Medic: She becomes this alongside Gordie when the two start running the hospital.
- Morality Chain: She tries to be this for Harry and even tries to help him out of his depression but he's just too self-centered to be grateful or even try to get out his funk.
- Nice Girl: While in high school it's implied that she wasn't the nicest person in the world, when things get serious Kelly proves that she is exceptionally compassionate and considerate and she truly wants to help other people and admits that while she wants to keep what she has that she isn't against helping other people who aren't as lucky as she is. She's considerably well-liked by the townsfolk.
- Not to mention she goes out of her way to help Becca (a girl she never even talked to before) with her pregnancy and they become close friends.
- Romantic False Lead: She breaks off her relationship with Will after realizing he has feelings for Allie.
- Took a Level in Kindness: It’s implied that she wasn’t particularly nice in high school, but after breaking up with Harry and siding with Allie, proves herself to be very sweet, supporting Becca in her pregnancy and teaching herself alongside Gordie how to be a doctor.
Harry Bingham
Played By: Alex Fitzalan
A once-popular student at West Ham with a reputation for parties. He does not cope well with the transition to the new society.
- All Work vs. All Play: When the town discovers that they're cut off from the rest of the world, Harry doesn't entertain the idea of even trying to figure out what's happened or what they could do to find a way home, preferring to throw parties and play games of Fugitive. In fact, when he is forced to work, he all but falls into a depression as he's never had to work before and has no intention of even trying to get used to it and accept the new ways.
- Arch-Enemy: When Cassandra was still alive, he treated her as such. Any instance he was around her put him in a foul mood and he was always rude to her. He also stubbornly refuses to listen to her valid ideas simply because she's the one suggesting rules and ideas.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He wishes that somebody would shut Cassandra up, and she gets murdered. He tries to get power over the town, and does so with the help of Campbell, becoming his puppet.
- Despair Event Horizon: He reaches this by 01x07. Being unable to deal with the erosion of his privilege in a healthy way, and suffering crippling drug and alcohol addiction, he winds up confining himself to his room and staying in bed all day. Campbell whips him back into mental shape somewhat, but not for altruistic reasons.
- Dirty Coward: Harry might not seem like it at first but it becomes clearer with each episode that he's pretty spineless, Will calls him a pussy and Campbell notes that he's afraid of the whole world. Each statement is painfully true as Harry refuses to admit that he (albeit unknowingly) gave Dewey the idea to kill Cassandra and when push comes to shove, Harry ends up tossing his former friends to the wolves when Campbell's coup takes over the society and starts a mob.
- Entitled Bastard: He is very used to his privilege but once they enter a new world and that all goes away, Harry attempts to argue that he deserves to keep everything he has and has no desire to share what he has, instead bitching to Kelly about how unfair it is for him to share his house with others and claiming that they take what they want as if his desires don't matter. Pretty rich coming from a spoiled kid who had everything handed to him since birth.
- Everyone Has Standards: He says he'd wished Cassandra was dead, and said some other horrible things about her, but the moment Dewey confides in him that he killed her and got him the 'peace and quiet' that he wanted, Harry is understandably shaken and moments later he immediately tells Kelly that Dewey killed Cassandra. For all that he despised her and even if he wished she were dead, it's clear it was just a bad thought and took no pleasure in her death.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: During high school he was the most popular kid because of his rich parents and him throwing huge parties at his home. However, once all of that went away, many of the students in town want nothing to do with him, even the ones he thought were his friends, because they now see how selfish he is. There are scenes where teens won't even bother with him, unless he promises them something, like letting them borrow one of his fancy cars. This on top of having to share his assets with other teens has led him into a deep depression, which Campbell later uses to manipulate him into helping him take over the town at the end of Season 1.
- Humiliation Conga: In the normal world, Harry was rich, popular, and had a beautiful girlfriend. He loses all of these things in the first few episodes. He also develops a crippling drug addiction and severe depression. All of this leaves him very vulnerable to Campbell’s manipulations.
- It's All About Me: Harry is almost virtually incapable of putting the needs of others before his petty desires to the point that being forced to do so causes a Despair Event Horizon rather than Character Development.
- Jerkass: He's entitled, selfish and completely unwilling to share his resources with other people, including his own friends and holds some classist views as he not only mocks Will for being poorer than him, but also prefers to keep all of his possessions to himself without even caring about the fact that others have less than he does.
- While he's not particularly nice to anyone, he's especially an ass to Cassandra and Will.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Harry starts off as a jerk, but the events of episode three, in which he is forced to conform to the new society and share what he has, aside from losing his girlfriend, causes him to slowly start to lose it as he starts to want revenge on Cassandra for creating this new society.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction when he realizes that him complaining about Cassandra and wishing she was dead inspired Dewey to actually kill her.
- Never My Fault: He takes no responsibility for any unsavory thing he's done or for his snobby attitude. He refuses to admit that he wished Cassandra was dead, in fact Dewey was the one who had to say what Harry said.
- He also constantly prefers to blame Cassandra for supposedly "humiliating him over and over again" rather than reflect on his own shortcomings.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Born to wealthy parents (even by the town’s standards), he is lacking in good judgement and work ethic, as his wealth always got him by in the past.
Gordie Moreno
Played By: Jose Julian
A bookish and intelligent student, Gordie investigates the town’s disappearance and researches medicine.
- Informed Judaism: He mentions having a Bar Mitzvah and inviting Cassandra when they were young, but that's all we hear about his religion.
- The Medic: He becomes this alongside Kelly when they start running the hospital.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He's very close with Bean, but they’re just friends. Bean even gives him advice on his date with Cassandra.
- The Smart Guy: He shares this distinction with Bean.
- Twofer Token Minority: Gordie's Jewish and implied to be Latino as well (his actor is Latino, and his surname— Moreno— is a Spanish and Sephardic Jewish surname common in Latin America, indicating that he is probably Sephardic Jewish).
Campbell Eliot
Played By: Toby Wallace
One of the two Eliot brothers, Campbell has a manipulative and violent disposition. Most of the town finds him intimidating.
- 0% Approval Rating: Almost everyone finds him frightening and unlikable. The only people who really tolerate him are his girlfriend Elle and client Harry.
- Ax-Crazy: It's implied throughout Season 1 that Campbell is a textbook psychopath and he does nothing to make people think any different (in fact, he is often brutally honest about his nature), and even recognizes that most people are afraid of him.
- Birds of a Feather: He and Elle aren't the friendliest people in high school and are fairly reserved and detached from others, something Campbell realizes and takes a liking to her for it, saying that they're 'the same' and it enables them to begin a relationship. However, it becomes the opposite when it's shown that while Elle is aloof and distant that she's nonetheless a good person with a good heart and cares about other's well-being while Campbell shows no empathy or remorse for anyone other than himself and starts to abuse Elle moments after they begin a relationship.
- Cassandra Truth: Campbell is most certainly crazy enough to potentially murder someone, but he's telling the truth when he says that he had nothing to do with Cassandra's murder.
- Clashing Cousins: A more tense example than normal, Campbell and Sam are cousins to Allie and Cassandra, and while the two girls naturally get along with the sweet-natured Sam, they're rightfully more fearful and wary of Campbell, whom neither get along with. It gets worse over time when Cassandra and Allie take on leadership roles and Campbell later stages a coup to overthrow Allie.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Campbell is clearly more competent than Harry, the Guard, and even Lexie who he convinces to take control but they’re all clearly his puppets who he only needs because no one will support him alone due to his 0% Approval Rating with the masses.
- Faux Affably Evil: He presents himself as laid back, honest, and cooperative. Most people don’t buy it, nor should they. He acts respectfully towards Elle early on in their relationship, but this is just to lure her in. After she moves in with him, he begins abusing her almost immediately.
- For the Evulz: He merely wanted to take control of New Ham just to cause chaos for his own sadistic amusement.
- Hate Sink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning his own brother Sam from their house (calling him a homophobic slur in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (because Campbell supplies him with drugs).
- Hidden Depths: Somewhat. Campbell actually seems pretty self-aware and knows that people are afraid of him, and also admits to Elle that he's pretty observant of others and notes that he notices other people's emotions and was fascinated by how they could feel happiness and love, but notes that while he can model those emotions, he could never feel those emotions.
- The Man Behind the Man: Campbell makes himself this, after he successfully overthrows Allie's rule and puts Harry and Lexie out in front as his puppets to lead the townspeople.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's very good at emotionally manipulating people. Sam warns Allie that he’s still dangerous even when chained up because his biggest weapon is his words.
- Practically Joker: He is born a psychopath, wants to rule New Ham and cause chaos For the Evulz, abuses Elle and becomes obsessed with imprisoning and torturing Allie.
- Sadist: Sam relates that Campbell once tortured a bird to death for fun, while Elle says he's inflicted pain on her for pleasure since their relationship began.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Sam. Campbell is controlling, harsh, and manipulative while Sam is sweet, caring and honest.
- The Sociopath: He was diagnosed as one and it shows. This scares his brother, Sam as he lampshades this by pointing out how he can fake human emotions but doesn't really feel any of it, and is a master manipulator. Campbell, himself, admits this to Elle during the Thanksgiving episode. He makes Elle his personal punching bag, is implied to have abused Sam in the past and even sets up a coup and becomes a tyrant and possibly makes Allie his slave like Elle. Sam tells a story about how he cut off the wings of the family's pet bird just to watch it struggle as it died.
Elle Tompkins
Played By: Olivia DeJonge
Somewhat haughty and stand-offish, Elle is unpopular with many of the other female students. However, she catches the eye of Campbell.
- Alone with the Psycho: The whole relationship between Elle and Campbell is this. Campbell both physically and mentally abuses her and keeps her for having any kind of social life outside of being with him, not even with pets. It's clear she doesn't love him or want to be with him, but is afraid of what he might do if she tries to leave him.
- Break the Cutie: Her entire relationship with Campbell results in this.
- Bungled Suicide: After she fails to stop the guests at the Thanksgiving feast from partaking in the poison pie meant for Campbell, she quickly devours the rest of the pie with her fingers, both out of guilt and as an attempt to stop anyone else from partaking. She becomes very sick, but Kelly and Gordie are able to save her, much to her dismay.
- Bunker Woman: Of a sort. While not physically imprisoned, Campbell heavily implies he will harm her if she leaves the house without him, and she complies. When she finally does leave, he stalks her to the point that she asks Allie to literally imprison her to keep him away.
- Domestic Abuse: After she moves into Campbell’s house, their relationship becomes highly abusive, both emotionally and physically. One of the first things Campbell does is strangle her to assert his dominance over her.
- Get into Jail Free: After leaving Campbell, she turns herself in and asks to be imprisoned over the pie incident, so that Campbell won’t be able to kill her.
- Jerk With A Heartof Gold: She was more aloof and reserved than a jerk, and at her core she is quite soft-hearted and cares about the well-being of other people.
- Supporting Protagonist: She serves as this with her arc of trying to run away from Campbell paralleling with Allie's rise and downfall of power.
Sam Eliot
Played By: Sean Berdy
The younger brother of Campbell. Deaf since his early childhood, Sam is almost a complete inverse of his sibling, being calm, friendly, and unambitious.
- Break the Cutie: Living with a brother who is a total sociopath would obviously break a cutie like him, as seen in 1x04, he was on the verge of tears while he told everyone about Campbell.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has shades of this, which often ends with Becca telling him Dude, Not Funny!.
- The Not-Love Interest: He plays this role to Becca, supporting her and acting as the father of her child, but they're Platonic Life-Partners.
- Nice Guy: One of the sweetest characters in the entire series, if not the sweetest as he's shown to be friendly with everyone (sans his older brother for completely justified reasons) and is a wonderful, supportive and loving friend towards his best friend Becca.
- The Pollyanna: Despite the situation he is stuck in, he still remains positive and chirpy.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Becca.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Campbell. Sam is friendly, compassionate, and soft while Campbell is cruel, selfish and manipulative.
- Straight Gay: He's an openly gay boy, displaying no stereotypical traits.
- Twofer Token Minority: Sam is a deaf teen, and he's also the only openly gay guy in the town.
Becca Gelb
Played By: Gideon Adlon
Sam's best friend since childhood. Fluent in sign language, she often acts as his interpreter.
- The Beard: A particularly unique inversion in which Sam pretends he’s not gay and says he’s the father of Becca’s baby because Becca doesn't want to admit she was knocked up in a random one-night stand. This causes some confusion among the town since Sam was openly gay beforehand.
- Camera Fiend: When the kids have a massive party their first night alone in the town, she stays on the side and records it. She's later seen taking pictures of events in the town so that the kids' history is recorded.
- One Drink Will Kill the Baby: She gets angry at Sam for giving her rum and coke because of this.
- One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: It's something she's ashamed about, which leads to her and Sam pretending it's his.
- Shrinking Violet: She usually stays on the sidelines and tries not to get involved with stuff like prom and big parties. It's reinforced since the seemingly only time she went out to cut loose resulted in her pregnancy via a one-night stand.
- Teen Pregnancy: She got pregnant shortly before everyone was taken to New Ham.
Helena Wu
Played By: Natasha Liu Bordizzo
A Christian girl from the town and a friend of the Pressman family. She tries to keep religion going as a form of giving everyone hope.
- Brainy Brunette: She's not one of the town's science experts, but she's very clever and logical when it comes to issues the town faces.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A milder version, but it still applies. Helena's very calm, composed, sweet and mild-mannered. But she knows how to shoot a gun and even stood up to Campbell when he came to her house looking for Elle, where she tells Campbell to 'Fuck off' and that he's 'not welcome here [at her home]'. And she wasn't there when Sam told Allie and the rest of her friends what Campbell's capable of, so it goes to show just how brave she is as well. The audience also learns that she knows how to use a gun because her dad taught her.
- The Heart: She’s considered the moral center of the town, and tends to be a voice of compassion and mercy. It's for this reason that Allie calls on her to act as Dewey's lawyer and later moderate the mayoral debate.
- Let's Wait a While: She insists on not having sexual intercourse with Luke because she's saving herself for marriage. Downplayed in that she's fine giving him oral sex, and they end up only waiting until their engagement.
- Nice Girl: While occasionally haughty and direct, she is compassionate towards almost everybody.
- Only Sane Man: She is quick to point out various problems with the plans of others, such that attempting to confiscate all the guns would be pointless because anyone who wanted to hide one would be able to do so with ease.
- Slut-Shaming: She once mocked Elle as a "thot". She regrets this and later apologizes to her.
- Technical Virgin: At first, she won’t have penetrative sex with Luke, but she does go down on him. Luke points out how silly this is, but she stands her ground. They finally do have intercourse once they’re engaged.
- Token Religious Teammate: She's the most religious member of the group, and makes an effort to keep the church going.
- Twofer Token Minority: Helena is a Christian girl who's mixed race in a largely secular, White town.
Luke Holbrook
Played By: Alexander MacNicoll
The former quarterback of the school’s football team and boyfriend to Helena, Luke is highly popular and well-liked. One of the founding members of the Guard, he strives to keep peace in the town.
- Book Dumb: He's not well-read, but he has more emotional intelligence and better instincts than many people in the town.
- Forced into Evil: He's coerced into joining the coup plot despite his reservations. This is in contrast to the the rest of the Guard, who join in willingly. He fears that Campbell will hurt Helena if he doesn't do what he's told.
- Lovable Jock: He’s a good-hearted, friendly guy who wants to do what’s best for everyone.
- The Quarterback: Subverted—while this was his position, he rarely called the plays. It mirrors how he's the face of the Guard in New Ham, but ends up having to follow Jason and Clark's lead because he can't take charge.
- Token Good Teammate: Alongside Grizz, he's the nicest guy on the football team and later the Guard. This changes when he helps the Guard, Campbell, and Harry stage a coup.
Gareth "Grizz" Visser
Played By: Jack Mulhern
A former member of the West Ham football team, Grizz is a member of "The Guard", an organization formed by several school athletes to keep order in the town. Despite the reputation of the athletes, Grizz is quite intelligent and cultured.
- Academic Athlete: He was on the football team but is also very into literature.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- He's introduced in the middle of a tense argument between Cassandra and Harry, where he compliments Cassandra (who is widely disliked by the people he hangs out with) on her performance in the school play. This sets him up as the Nice Guy who gets along with everyone.
- The next day, he also translates the graffiti on the church and recognizes it as a quote from the Bible, indicating his intelligence.
- Gentle Giant: He's very tall, and very caring about the people around him.
- Lovable Jock: He's kind, caring, and knowledgeable about many topics, it's no wonder so many people gravitate towards him.
- Nice Guy: He rarely insults people, instead giving them reassurance in the form of compliments and quotes from his favorite works.
- Only Sane Man: He's one of the few voices of reason in town.
- Straight Gay: Gwen is surprised to find out he's gay and when Grizz admits he didn't approach Sam in high school because he was pretending to be straight, Sam tells him he was very convincing.
- Token Good Teammate: Of the Guard.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: We get a full shot of Grizz' Stress Vomit near the end of episode 6.
Lexie Pemberton
Played By: Grace Victoria Cox
An unfriendly girl, who dislikes the way things are being run in the town.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Lexie believes Allie leads the town like a dictatorship and runs to beat her in an election for Mayor. She gets most of the people's support and seems like she will win, only to experience what a true coup and dictatorship looks like when Campbell takes over the town by force when he gets the Guard on his side, and makes himself the undisputed ruler with her and Harry as his puppet front men.
- Didn't Think This Through: Lexie was clearly acting on her anger when she takes Allie's leadership and by the time she and Harry take over New Ham, it's clear she has no idea what the hell she's doing and will have hell to pay. Allie even warns her about the dangers of having real power and Lexie looks nothing short of horrified at the revelation.
- Dirty Coward: As soon as Campbell combats her flawed logic she quickly goes along with his plan out of fear despite talking a big game.
- Entitled Bitch: She acts like she deserves better and claims that Allie's rules are unfair even though it just comes off as petty complaining and believes that because she doesn't like the rules that it gives her the right to become the new mayor despite knowing next to nothing about real leadership.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first time we hear directly from her, she's freaking out about the rest of the town's "disappearance" and being dismissive of Cassandra's leadership while on a call with Gwen.
- Evil Is Petty: It's apparent that she'd drive the society into the ground just to spite Allie.
- Hypocrite: She claims that she hates Allie's rules and wants to make New Ham a better place, but as soon as Campbell's coup starts and instigates a mob, Lexie does try to stop it but rather than follow through with her promises she says that everything is going to stay the same with yet another weak promise that things are slowly going to change.
- She has a legitimate reason to hate the Guard and to refuse working with them, yet once Campbell tells her all of the flaws in her logic, she decides to keep them even though those are the same boys who humiliated her.
- Kick the Dog: She hijacks the improv skit at Thanksgiving dinner to mock Allie.
- Jerkass: She's rude, aloof and impetuous. Even mocking Cassandra's death to Allie's face during an improv skit and claiming it was a political statement even though it was completely callous. Even to other people she's not very nice, dismissing a compliment from Harry and pretty much doing nothing but complaining instead of trying to be helpful.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Her criticisms of the Guard are valid, considering they abused people within their custody several times with no consequence.
- Non-Answer: When asked real questions on exactly what she plans to do, she always avoids giving a proper answer and it becomes clear that she's only trying to take Allie's position for no other reason than spite and has no idea what she's even doing.
- Revenge Before Reason: After Allie lets the Guard get away with their harsh (admittedly violating) interrogation of Lexie, the latter decides to usurp her and take over the town with Harry, Campbell and the rest of the Guard for no other reason other than to spite Allie. However, while Lexie raises some valid concerns and criticisms, she offers no true solutions to the issues faced by the new society and it's clear that she only usurped Allie out of revenge rather than to actually help the rest of their peers.
- Smug Snake: Allie admits that Lexie has valid points about how the town is run and Lexie arrogantly tells her that she's going to lose, but once she's faced with real logic and real power from Campbell, Lexie buckles under pressure and shows that she's merely an indignant voice but not at all a leader.
- Stupid Evil: Evil is a bit of a stretch, but Lexie doesn't think things through at all and her actions have done more harm than good. Campbell even calls her a moron, which is pretty valid because all Lexie does is act on her emotions and pettiness.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She was always unfriendly and cold, but by the end of Season 1 she takes over New Ham just to spite Allie.
Clark Beecher
Played By: Spencer House
Another ex-Football player and member of the Guard, Clark is more arrogant and violent than his compatriots.
- Big Brother Instinct: When he and the Guard arrest Dewey for murdering Cassandra, he goes to his cell alone and unauthorized to beat him up in order to get answers from him, but his beating also gets more violent as he angrily notes that Dewey treated his sister badly and acted like he was better than her.
- Dumb Muscle: He's almost worse than Jason. He's often drunk and comes up with terrible ideas.
- Power Corrupts: He first shows this when he beats up Dewey while they're in custody, hoping to get a confession but mainly just because he can. When he and Jason realize that the guard has been doing all of Allie's dirty work, they try to seize power for themselves and ignore anyone pointing out that it's a bad idea for what counts for the military to take over the government.
- Evil Is Petty: He and Jason join the coup to depose Allie merely out of spite.
Gwen Patterson
Played By: Olivia Nikkanen
Clark’s girlfriend and a friend of Kelly’s. Gwen is not a very friendly person, though she has her softer moments.
- Hidden Depths:
- She seems unfriendly, but her heart of gold still shows as before the show she had done a public service program where she went to Haiti to help build houses.
- She also seems to have an adventurous side as she joined Grizz's outdoor expedition teams both times to seek more things outside of their town in the seemingly never-ending forest.
- Incompatible Orientation: She comes onto Grizz, who's gay and admits as much.
- Jerkass with a Heart of Gold:
- While she has her Jerkass moments (such as refusing to let Elle hang out with her friends, talking suggestively about her friend Kelly's boyfriend and dismissing Cassandra's concerns about the boys' violent behavior as bitterness that no-one wanted to date her in high school), she's still shown to be a good person despite this.
- She also mentions that she was in a public service program that allowed her to help others build houses in Haiti, and she also taught a young boy how to swim one summer.
Jason Alvarado
Played By: Emilio Garcia-Sanchez
Another former member of the West Ham football team and member of the Guard.
- The Ditz: While not totally clueless, he’s probably the dumbest member of the main cast. For example, his entirely serious suggestion on how to hold Dewey is to lock him in a car and crack the window.
- Dumb Muscle: He rarely thinks anything through, and even though he complains about always having to follow orders he usually ends up doing so repeatedly.
- Power Corrupts: When he and Clark realize that the guard has been doing all of Allie's dirty work, they try to seize power for themselves and ignore anyone pointing out that it's a bad idea for what counts for the military to take over the government.
- Evil Is Petty: He and Clark join the coup to depose Allie merely out of spite.
Bean Akkad
Played By: Salena Qureshi
An intelligent and upbeat student at West Ham High. She focuses on researching the town's disappearance, but also provides advice to Allie and Gordie.
- Asian and Nerdy: She's West Asian rather than East Asian, but otherwise plays this straight. She's the main science person alongside Gordie.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first time we hear directly from her, she's figured out that their town is now completely cut off from the rest of the world, without internet or any kind of telecommunications, not even 911.
- Platonic Life-Partners: She's very chummy with Gordie, but they show no romantic interest in one another.
- The Smart Guy: She shares this role with her friend, Gordie.
- Token Religious Teammate: Bean is Muslim. She wears a hijab, and can be seen praying from time to time. However, her religious beliefs are out of focus compared to Helena’s.
- Twofer Token Minority: She's a Muslim girl of West Asian descent.
Greg Dewey
Played By: Seth Meriwether
An unassuming and somewhat meek kid, Greg is considered beneath notice by most of the community. He tries to fit in with Harry and his friends, with limited success.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Moments before he's about to be executed by Allie and the Guard he's blubbering, sobbing and begging for his life and even swearing not to kill anyone again. It doesn't work.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He appears to just be a nobody, a quiet dork in a town full of big personalities. He’s Cassandra’s murderer.
- He-Man Woman Hater: He seems to be one as he blames the women in the society for the issues and even beforehand Clark notes that Dewey treated his sister badly, implying that he was a misogynist before and after they got trapped in the new society.
- Loners Are Freaks: Several people note him to just seem a little weird. He’s more than a little weird, he’s a murderer. Subverted, as he’s not a complete loner, just a bit detached, and there are other withdrawn characters in the series who are more well-adjusted.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: During his prosecution he reveals himself to have some pretty misogynistic views as he rants about the women in the society, blaming Cassandra, Allie and the other women, and is possibly somewhat racist as he made a point to address Will as Allie's 'black boyfriend'.
