Special Agent Dale Bartholomew "Coop" Cooper

• Agent Cooper: Co-Trope Namer
• Badass
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Badass in a Nice Suit
  • Cultured Badass
• Big Eater: Sheriff Truman remarks that he must have the metabolism of a bumblebee.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While he may be on the eccentric side, he really is a good detective.
• Cassette Craze: Diane.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander
• Dreaming The Truth: A trait he has possessed since childhood and inherited from his late mother (similar to Sarah and Laura), according to The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper.
• Expy: Partly a more morally upright version of Kyle MacLachlan's role as Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet.
• Grand Theft Me
• The Hero
• Hyper Awareness: Very little escapes Cooper's attention. Sometimes his eccentricity can overshadow the fact that he is a remarkably good detective.
• Idiot Ball: Holds onto it pretty tightly during the last three or four episodes. May be a case of Love Makes You Stupid, as most of his sudden incompetence is centered around Annie.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Arguably, given how Season 2 ends. But who can forget his response to Audrey Horne's question "Don't you have any secrets?"
  Agent Cooper: No.
• Must Have Caffeine: Though he doesn't seem to be addicted to it, rather he really loves coffee.
  • "Damn good coffee!"
• Nice Guy: The guy is incredibly friendly and polite, which makes BOB's possession of him at the end of the show all the more tragic.
• Occult Detective
• Scarily Competent Tracker
• Sense Freak: Particularly, taste.
• Sharp Dressed Man
• Sherlock Scan
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Though oddly not Dreaming of Things to Come.
• Turn In Your Badge: After solving the Laura Palmer case, he is put on trial for crossing national boarders as part of his investigation. He's acquitted when it is shown that his accuser is impersonating a mountie and is part of an international drug smuggling ring.
• We Used To Be Friends: With Windom Earle
• Would Hit a Girl: Which he does in the process of saving Audrey, so a bit more understandable.

Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Even when compared with Agent Cooper himself.
  COOP, TODAY YOU REMIND ME OF A SMALL MEXICAN CHIHUAHUA.
• Creator Cameo: Played by David Lynch himself. He shouts a lot and babbles almost incoherently.
• Da Chief: Completely averted.
• Department of Redundancy Department: AND SOMETIMES SUGGESTS THAT THEY DO THE ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THING RATHER THAN THE MISHEARD ONE.
• The Faceless: Watching his early "appearances" over the phone, and knowing Lynch doesn't plan things out, it's clear that the casting was originally something of a joke.
• Large Ham: And not just because he always speaks loudly. A lot of the things he says come off as quirky, if not outright eccentric at times, and it's this combined with his lack of an indoor voice that tends to make him come off as very bombastic. In a good way of course.
• Malaproper: HE ALSO MISHEARS THINGS!
• No Indoor Voice: AGENT GORDON COLE IS ALMOST DEAF. THIS CAN LEAD TO FUNNY SITUATIONS WHEN HE NEEDS TO SPEAK PRIVATELY. PERHAPS THAT'S WHY HE'S SO ABSTRUSE.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Diane (Cooper's secretary)

• The Ghost

Former Special Agent Windom Earle

• Arch-Enemy
• Ax Crazy
• Big Bad Wannabe
• Chess with Death: He plays a Chess game with Cooper. Every piece Earle takes, he kills someone.
• The Chessmaster: Literally and figuratively.
• Crazy People Play Chess
• Cultured Badass
• Evil Counterpart: A fallen version of Coop himself. Coop even blames himself for it, poor guy.
• Face Heel Turn
• Fallen Hero
• Kick the Dog: The way he treats the mentally impaired Leo Johnson is needlessly cruel.
• Large Ham: Is he ever!
• Laughably Evil: He may be someone you don't want to screw with, but some of the weird things he does (like walking through the woods in a horse costume) are so ridiculous you can't help but laugh.
• Love Makes You Crazy
• Master of Disguise
• Manipulative Bastard
• We Used To Be Friends: With Cooper.
• Your Soul Is Mine: In the series finale. And it's Double Subverted. He tries to steal Cooper's soul — then BOB steals Earle's for breaking the rules of the Black Lodge. Then Cooper's soul is trapped in the Lodge anyway.

Agent Albert Rosenfield

• Actual Pacifist: He became an FBI Medical Examiner to fight against violence in a way that would never make him have to use violence. His deep commitment to pacifism results in a warming in his relationship with Sheriff Truman. Spoilered because it's quite a twist when it finally appears.
• Agent Scully
• The Coroner: A medical examiner, actually. He clashes with actual Coroner "Doc" Hayward the instant he sets foot in Twin Peaks. He's a perfect example of the character type though.
• The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: He objects emphatically when Cooper allows the body of Laura Palmer to be buried without a complete autopsy.
• City Mouse: To the extreme displeasure of the natives of Twin Peaks and Special Agent Cooper.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dr. Jerk
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Only Sane Man: Doesn't work too well in Twin Peaks though.
• The Smart Guy/Sixth Ranger
• Took a Level in Kindness: After his pacifism was revealed.

Agent Dennis "Denise" Bryson

• Camp Straight: Don't let the cross-dressing fool you. He likes the ladies.
  • Possibly averted: if Bryson is Transsexual then she is gay.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Fox Mulder him or herself.
• Transsexual or Transvestite: It isn't made clear which, though the first is suggested. The idea that transvestites are always gay is averted, though.
• Wholesome Crossdresser

Sheriff Harry S. Truman

• Agent Scully: Though at first he seems to be set up for this, Sheriff Truman deeply respects Agent Cooper. However, when evidence seems to point at Ben Horne Truman expresses exasperation with Cooper's eccentricity, in this case Cooper was right.
• Badass
• Drowning My Sorrows: He does this after Josie "dies". Although he gets better in the next episode.
• Fair Cop
• Jurisdiction Friction: None, with Sheriff Truman going so far as to describe Agent Cooper as "The finest lawman I've ever known".
• Fake American: Michael Ontkean is actually Canadian.
• The Lancer
• Mr. Fanservice
• Name's the Same
  Cooper: "I'm supposed to meet with a Sheriff Harry S. Truman. Shouldn't be too hard to remember that."
• Nice Hat
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• The Sheriff
• The Watson

Deputy Andy Brennan

• The Big Guy: Shared with Hawk.
• Butt Monkey
• Clueless Deputy
• The Ditz: Most of his time is spent doing pratfalls.
• Good Is Dumb: Andy's a good-hearted person, even if he isn't the brightest bulb on the tree.
• Lovable Coward
• Simpleton Voice
• Who's Your Daddy?: Is he the father of Lucy Moran's child? We don't find out, but Lucy decides that, since Brennan would make a better father than Dick Tremayne, she will marry him.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Lucy for most of the series.

Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill

• Badass: One of the biggest in the show.
  • Badass Longhair
  • Badass Native
• The Big Guy: Shared with Andy.
• Fair Cop
• The Ghost: His veterinarian girlfriend.
• Magical Native American: Of course, in Twin Peaks, his beliefs are downright mundane.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Number Two: Most of the series has him as back up to Sheriff Truman.
• Scarily Competent Tracker

Lucy Moran

• The Chick
• The Ditz: She's a bit flighty, but her magnifies it.
• Sassy Secretary: Usually not very sassy, but all the other stereotypical secretary traits (nasal, watches soap operas).
• Will They or Won't They?: With Andy for most of the series.
• Woman Child

The Briggses

Major Garland Briggs

• Awesome McCoolname
• Badass
• Bald of Awesome
• Cool Old Guy: More like "Cool Middle-aged Guy", but close enough.
• Eagleland: Flavor 1.
• Hey, It's That Guy!
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: What more can you say about a man who's greatest fear is the "possibility that love is not enough"?
• Spock Speak: One of the causes of the distance between himself and his son.

Robert "Bobby" Briggs

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as next to her he was both weak and innocent.
• Dawson Casting: Bobby is about 17 or 18 years old. Dana Ashbrook was in his mid-20s when he played the character.
• Get Rich Quick Scheme: Spends most of his time coming up with these, and he's terrible at it.
• I Am Not My Father
• Jerk Jock
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He mellows out over the course of the show.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's very, very pretty.
• Rebellious Spirit: Very different from his wholesome parents
• Tweener
• Villain Protagonist

The Haywards

Donna Hayward

• The Chick
• Dogged Nice Girl
• Donna, I Am Your Father: In the season finale, we find out that her biological father is actually Benjamin Horne.
• Morality Pet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie.
• Not Herself: At the beginning of season 2.
• The Other Darrin: In the movie.
• Smoking Is Cool: Starting with season 2.
• Star-Crossed Lovers

Eileen Hayward

• Cut Short: We'll never know all the details of her relationship with Ben Horne. Even though they're pretty obvious.
• Hot Mom: What else would you expect from the mother of Zooey Deschanel?

Gersten Hayward

• Bifauxnen
• Closing Credits: She gets to interrupt Falling to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.

William "Doc" Hayward

• Cool Old Guy
• The Coroner
• Real-Life Relative: Will's actor, Warren Frost, is the father of series co-director Mark Frost.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: While he's generally a calm and reasonable man, he still has his limits, as demonstrated by his altercation with Albert early on, where he gets infuriated that Albert insists on keeping Laura's body for the upcoming funeral to perform an autopsy.

The Hornes

Audrey Horne

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.
• Beauty Mark: Next to her left eye.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Annie's Betty.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Mostly in the early episodes.
• Dawson Casting: Sherilyn Fenn was in her mid-20s when she played 18-year-old Audrey.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Inverted - A majority of the time, her shenanigans are done to spite Ben, directly or indirectly. For a laugh in the earlier episodes, anyway.
• Fille Fatale
• Hidden Heart of Gold
• I Am Not My Father -> Generation Xerox: Becomes every bit as conniving as her father as the series goes on.
• Lonely Rich Kid
• Ms. Fanservice
• Seemingly Wholesome '50s Girl
• Smoking Is Cool: Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season.

Benjamin "Ben" Horne

• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Donna, I Am Your Father: Revealed in the series finale.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He usually smokes cigars, signifying his role as a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Heel Face Turn
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Beymer played Tony - a completely different type of character - in the West Side Story movie from 1961.
• Smug Snake
• Took a Level in Kindness
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until he inherited his family's company.
• Villain Decay
• Villainous Breakdown: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when he loses One-Eyed Jack's.

Jerry Horne

• Big Eater/Obsessed With Food: He fell in love Brie-on-baguette sandwiches when he went to Paris on a business trip for Ben. He brings home no less than four of them and insists that Ben try one.
  • As a rule, he winds up developing a taste for at least one exotic or unusual dish from every foreign country he's been to, and likes to tell people about them in great detail.
• Casanova Wannabe
• Smug Snake
• Sunglasses at Night

The Hurleys

"Big" Ed Hurley

• Henpecked Husband: He definitely doesn't have it as bad as Pete, but he still gets his share of beleaguerment from Nadine and her antics.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: His voice in the Japanese dub is none other than Norio Wakamoto. DEFINITELY Playing Against Type!
• Nice Guy
• The Quiet One

James Hurley

• Cool Bike
• The Danza
• The Ditz: Almost astonishingly stupid. As Laura Palmer says in one of her tapes, "James is sweet, but he's so dumb."
• The Drifter
• Dull Surprise
• Likes Older Women: If his affair with the 30-something Evelyn March is any indication...
• Morality Pet: For Laura Palmer in the prequel movie.
• Put on a Bus
• Star-Crossed Lovers
• Troubled, but Cute

Nadine Hurley

• Badass Normal
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Doesn't even begin to describe her!
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength
• Eyepatch of Power
• Fiery Redhead
• Large Ham
• Super Strength

Dr. Lawrence Jacoby

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Dr. Jacoby was born in Hawaii and has had an obsession with the place all his life, dressing in tropical shirts and decorating his entire home with Polynesian kitsch.
• Cool Shades: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Played Luke Sanderson in the original 1963 version of The Haunting 1963.
  • He was Riff, the Jets' leader, in the West Side Story movie.
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Dr. Jacoby isn't so much "ugly" as he is quirky and unattractive. However, he's married to a pretty Hawaiian woman who seems to be a couple years younger than him.

The Jenningses

Hank Jennings

• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: His domino key-chain.
• The Dragon: To several villains throughout the series.
• Might As Well Not Be In Prison At All
• Obviously Evil
• Smug Snake

Norma Jennings

• Cool Big Sis: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn.
• Fanservice with a Smile: She is played by Peggy Lipton after all.
• Greasy Spoon: Runs her own diner.
• Hey, Its That Girl

The Johnsons

Leo Johnson

• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Well ... sort of. He is aggressive and does sell drugs to high school kids, but they seek him out to buy them.
• Ax Crazy: He takes this trope to a literal degree when he awakens from his coma in the middle of season 2 and the first thing he tries to do is murder Shelly with an ax.
• Badass Longhair
• The Brute
• Crazy Jealous Guy: When he finds out that Shelly has been having an affair with Bobby, he tries to murder both of them even though he generally treats Shelly horribly and doesn't really give her a reason to love him to begin with.
• Butt Monkey: In the second season.
• Convenient Coma: Well, he does clearly have some brain damage, but it's only convenient for some, who would have preferred him dead.
• Jerkass
• No Indoor Voice: Not as bad as Gordon, but you have to admit, the guy likes to yell a lot, especially at poor Shelly.
• Red Herring: Despite his sadism, violence, frequent cold-blooded killing and being present at the scene of her murder, Leo did not kill Laura Palmer.
• Redemption Equals Death: Releases Major Briggs from captivity so he can warn Shelly. Windom Earle leaves him in a situation he's highly unlikely to have survived.
• Villain Decay: Leo has the bad luck of being the absolute middle man. Terrifying to the teenagers who are dabbling, easily manipulated by the real powers in Twin Peaks.

Shelly Johnson

• Author Appeal : She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue Crowning Momentof Funny when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in.
  Gordon Cole : You are witnessing a front three-quarter view of two adults sharing a tender moment. [to Shelly] Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.
  Dale Cooper : Uh, Gordon…
  Gordon Cole : [to Bobby] Take another look, sonny! It's gonna happen again.
• Domestic Abuse : Her husband forces her to do all the chores, beats her with a soap in a sock at one point, and is deeply jealous.
• Fanservice with a Smile
• Ms. Fanservice: Not as much as Audrey, but she has her moments. And being played by Mädchen Amick doesn't hurt.
• Smoking Is Cool

Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Hoo boy...
• Companion Cube: Her log.
• Consulting Mister Puppet
• Mad Oracle
• Non Sequitur: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."

The Martells

Catherine Martell

• Evil Redhead
• Faking the Dead
• Fiery Redhead
• Latex Perfection: After faking her death, she disguises herself as a Japanese businessman named Mr. Tojamura in order to trick Ben.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: When she poses as Mr. Tojamura.

Pete Martell

• Butt Monkey
• Chess: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle.
  • His Crowning Moment of Awesome involves playing three simultaneous games of chess and winning all of them.
• Cool Old Guy: In a friendly, kinda-dorky way.
• Hen Pecked Husband: Catherine just won't cut the guy a break.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Henry Spencer himself.
• Nice Guy

The Milfords

Mayor Dwayne Milford

• Dirty Old Man

Dougie Milford

• Hey, It's That Guy!: Played by the late Tony Jay.
• Out with a Bang

Lana Budding Milford

• Hello, Nurse!
• Heroes Want Redheads: Considering how Coop, Truman, Andy, and Hawk react when around her...
• Informed Attractiveness: Whether you find her attractive or not, it's very difficult to say in all honesty that she's as attractive as every male in Twin Peaks finds her.

Mike Nelson

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Jerk Jock
• Likes Older Women: Eventually falls for Nadine in the second season.
• Name's the Same: No, his name doesn't have anything to do with the guy from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The Packards

Andrew Packard

• Faking the Dead
• Not Quite Dead
• Posthumous Character: ...or not.

Jocelyn Packard

• Creator's Pet: David Lynch liked Joan Chen's performance, which is why she gets a lot of focus despite not being very popular with fans.
• Dragon Lady
• Femme Fatale
• What Could Have Been: Josie was originally going to be an Italian woman whose real name was Giovanna. She was also going to played by Isabella Rossellini, who was dating David Lynch at the time.
• Your Soul Is Mine: Later in the second season, BOB apparently steals and traps her soul in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern or something like that.

The Palmers

Laura Palmer

• Acting for Two: With her cousin Maddy.
• Brown Note / Interface Screw: The cause and effect of her attack as an enemy in the fan made Atari-esque game 'Black Lodge'
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Darker and Edgier: In the prequel movie, Fire Walk With Me.
• Dysfunction Junction
• Go Getter Girl: Laura subverts this as we get a glimpse of the darkness behind her seemingly perfect facade.
• Missing White Woman Syndrome: Ending each episode with a still picture of her dressed as a prom queen was surely meant to evoke this.
• Ms. Vice Girl
• Parental Incest
• Posthumous Character
• Really Gets Around
• Seemingly Wholesome '50s Girl
• Stepford Smiler: Type A.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Sheryl Lee played both Laura and her cousin Madeline.

Leland Palmer

• Demonic Possession
• Dying as Yourself
• Enemy Within
• Killed Off for Real
• Locked into Strangeness: His hair turns white after he murders Jacques Renault.
• Parental Incest
• Walking Spoiler: Hoo boy!
• Wangst: Done intentionally in Season 1.

Sarah Palmer

• Big "NO!"
• Hysterical Woman
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone
• The Scream

Harold Smith

• Driven to Suicide
• Freak Out: Gets hit HARD with this when he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary.
• Hikikomori: Due to having agoraphobia.
• Pretty Boy

Dick Tremayne

• British Stuffiness: A goofier example.
• The Dandy
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his shortcomings, he's not a bad guy.
• Sharp Dressed Man: Well, he does run a men's clothing department.
• Ted Baxter
• Upper Class Twit

Annie Blackburn

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Audrey's Veronica.
• Fan Service With A Smile
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has one on her wrist that's never explained, but presumably from a suicide attempt.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
• Hey, It's That Girl: Played by a young Heather Graham.
• Nice Girl

Blackie O'Reilly

• Depraved Bisexual
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Killed Off for Real
• Woman in Black

Thomas Eckhardt

• Cool Shades
• Evil Brit
• Hey, It's That Guy: Played by David Warner.
• Love Makes You Evil

Madeline "Maddy" Ferguson

• Alone with the Psycho
• Author Appeal: Maddy's hometown is Missoula, Montana, which is also the birthplace of David Lynch.
• Backup Twin: Backup Cousin, actually.
• Killed Off for Real
• Meganekko: Although she ditches the glasses later on.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: To her cousin Laura Palmer.

Evelyn Marsh

• Blondes are Evil
• Lady in Red
• The Vamp

The Renault Brothers

Jacques Renault

• Fake Nationality: He's a French-Canadian played by an American.
• Fat Bastard
• Killed Off for Real

Jean Renault

• Blade Below the Shoulder: He uses it to kill a random strawberry and Blackie, the madam of One Eyed Jacks.
• Evil Redhead
• Fake Nationality: Just like his brother, he's a French-Canadian played by an American.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Some might recognize him as recurring Quentin Tarantino character Sheriff Earl McGraw.
• Revenge: He blames Cooper for the death of his brothers.

John Justice Wheeler

• The Ace
• Hey, It's That Guy
• Put on a Bus: Or, rather, put on a plane.

Killer BOB

• Ax Crazy: Now, when most people say that one character is a trope, they don't really mean it...
• Big Bad
• Blooper: Silva is barely visible in the mirror behind Mrs. Palmer when she has her vision of the necklace being found at the end of the pilot. Appropriately, he is even more visible in the mirror in the corresponding scene in the international version of the pilot where she has a vision of BOB instead.
• Body Snatcher: Of the Demonic Possession variety.
• Evil Laugh
• Grand Theft Me: To Cooper.
• Guttural Growler
• The Heartless: Albert speculates that BOB is "the evil that men do".
• Hidden Villain: He's seen from time to time during the first season, but it's not until the second that we learn unambiguously that his name is BOB, and much later till we learn his role in the story.
• Humanoid Abomination
• Knight of Cerebus: Whenever he gets involved at any point in the show, things are guaranteed to get pretty bad. Not to mention frightening. In fact, BOB is arguably single-handedly responsible for most of the darkest elements in the show and most definitely in the the prequel film. Plus, if you look at the Nightmare Fuel page for the show, he's responsible for at least 80% of the entries, being the main reason most of those scenes are considered scary.
• Large Ham: Justified (sort of) in that he is not played by a professional actor but by a set dresser who happened to find himself accidentally foreshadowed in certain scenes.
• Limited Wardrobe
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: While BOB is pure evil and scares the crap out of fans, the late Frank Silva was actually a very nice, funny, pleasant man in real life.
• Mind Rape:To his direct victims, actual rape for the others.
• Recursive Acronym: Beware Of BOB.
• Serial Killer
• Slasher Smile: Just look at his picture!
• Tom The Dark Lord
• The Unfettered: "You may think I've gone insane, but I Swear I Will KILL AGAIN!"
• Wild Hair: Long, grey, and messy.

The Giant

• Arc Words: "The Owls are not what they seem."
• Bald of Awesome
• Body Snatcher: However, it's clear he has stayed in the same body for a long, long time.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: "The things I tell you will not be wrong."
• Cryptic Conversation: Less so than The Man From Another Place, giving one straightforward clue - "Without chemicals, he points."
• Gentle Giant: His speaking voice is pleasant, and he's dressed smartly. It's difficult to imagine him hurting a fly.
• Hey, It's That Guy!

Jimmy Scott

• Cool Old Guy
• Disability Superpower: Jimmy Scott was born with Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his growth and he never went through puberty. This left his beautiful voice unbroken.
• One-Scene Wonder: Only shows up in the last episode — in one of the most haunting scenes in the entire series.

The Man From Another Place

• Ambiguously Evil
• Arc Words: He's the source of many of them.
  • "That gum you like is going to come back in style."
  • "I am the arm."
  • "Let's rock!"
• The Cast Showoff: Since Michael J. Anderson can talk backwards, he did so and his voice was reversed.
  • Technically, the idea came first and was expanded when David Lynch discovered this proficiency.
• The Chessmaster: May or may not be controlling everything, even BOB.
• Cryptic Conversation: Oh my yes...
• Leitmotif: ''Dance of the Dream Man'', which plays whenever something mysterious is happening.
• Little People Are Surreal
• Louis Cypher: With the red three piece suit, maybe...
• The Nameless: Some contend that he is MIKE.

MIKE/Phillip Michael Gerard

• Body Snatcher: MIKE is a being like BOB.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After the Laura Palmer mystery is resolved, he never appears in the show again.
• Heel Faith Turn: Long before the series, he saw the face of God.
• Red Right Hand: He's missing his left arm, which he cut off to rid himself of his "Fire Walk With Me" tattoo.

Pierre Tremond/Chalfont

• Creepy Child
• The Other Darrin
• Real-Life Relative: His first actor, Austin Jack Lynch, is David Lynch's son.