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For characters from the original, see V (1983).


V (2009) Series Characters:

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    The Resistance and Fifth Column 

Erica Evans

  • Anti-Hero: Becomes this after Her ex husband dies and Tyler leaves her for the Space Pilot Program.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She may have killed most of Anna's eggs, but all this did was make Anna go berserk and proceed with the main plans for humanity way ahead of schedule (Marcus says as much), meaning that the entire plan to stop the Fifth Column from being wiped out and Joshua's sacrifice may have been completely for naught.

Ryan Nicols

Played by: Morris Chestnut

  • Mook–Face Turn: He's a V turned traitor. He was once simply a sleeper agent no different than any of the countless others, but John May got through to him. While Ryan (apparently) killed John May himself, he made sure to spare May's adopted family and later took his words to heart.

Jack Landry

Played by: Joel Gretsch

George Sutton

Kyle Hobbes

Played by: Charles Mesure

Joshua

Played by: Mark Hildreth

  • Brainwashed and Crazy: At the start of Season 2. He apparently has no memories of being a Fifth Columnist. Later in said season, he FINALLY gets his memory back and helps Lisa.

Dr. Leah Pearlman

Played by: Lexa Doig

John May

Played by: Michael Trucco

    The Visitors 

Anna

Played by: Morena Baccarin

  • Abusive Parents: Depending on her relation to the V race in general, this might tie in with Bad Boss. Otherwise, her treatment of Lisa in "Hearts & Minds" definitely counts.
  • Bad Boss: You get a suicide pill if you're even suspected of being a traitor, skinned alive if she knows for sure.
  • Big Bad: As the queen of Visitors, she is the one who planning to take the world's resources and to destroy the Resistance.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Sports a pixie cut.
  • Mama Bear: In contrast to the above, when her eggs are destroyed by the Fifth Column, she gets extremely pissed and apparently poisons the entire damn planet.
  • Uncanny Valley Girl: Looks like a very beautiful human woman, but there's always something very off about her. And that's BEFORE she reveals her true form.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She seems to honestly believe that everything she is doing is for the survival and protection of her species, and says as much to her people.

Lisa

  • Grand Theft Me: In a sense. An Evil Twin of herself has assumed her identity, and she is locked away and unable to do anything.

Diana

Played by: Jane Badler

  • Adaptational Heroism: In the original series, Diana was the leader of the Visitor forces on Earth and led the invasion, but in this series, she is a more benevolent ruler to her people.
  • Humanity Is Infectious: Diana began experiencing human emotion which was why her daughter, Anna, locked her away. She knows that Anna is now experiencing human emotion and tells Anna it'll only get worse.
  • In the Back: Diana tells Anna, she did this to her by taking the throne from her.
  • Mad Woman In The Attic: Anna put her mother in a secret part of the ship for fifteen years. She did this because Diana experienced human emotions which Anna arguably considers a sickness.
  • Man in the Iron Mask: Everyone believes Diana is dead, but what really happened is Anna imprisoned her mother and told everyone she was dead. Anna did this because it was not time for her to take the throne, but she felt it necessary because of Diana's experience of human emotion.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: Until the season 2 finale.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Diana leaped into this category in the season 2 finale by very publicly taking back the throne even AFTER learning that the plan to assassinate Anna failed. Diana knew full well that Anna would kill her; yet she took no precautions to prevent this.

Marcus

  • Audience Surrogate: He tends to ask Anna what she's planning near the end of some episodes, mostly for the benefit of viewers who didn't figure it out sooner.

    Others 

Tyler Evans

Played by: Logan Huffman

  • Accomplice by Inaction: Tyler blames his mother for his dad's death for not doing enough.
  • Brainwashed: Anna uses her bliss on Tyler, which she can now use on any human.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Why he joins up with the Vs.
  • Disappeared Dad: Part of why Tyler has stepped up his rebellious teenage son game.
  • Jerkass: Has recently stepped into this category .
  • The Quisling: As Erica puts it, he seems to think the Vs are Gods.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: And gets you killed.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: An inversion. Tyler learns that the man he thinks is his father isn't, though Erica swears up and down that the test was wrong and he is. Turns out, Tyler's genome has been manipulated by the Vs and lacks certain genetic markers, which is why the blood test incorrectly said his dad wasn't his father.
  • Naïve Newcomer: To the Peace Ambassadors and the V culture as a whole.
  • Tagalong Kid: A rare case of the villains getting their own Tag Along Kid, but that's just because he's...
  • Too Dumb to Live: While many are taken in by the Vs, Tyler wins the award for being frankly the dumbest character in the main cast for the entire series in that he finds nothing suspicious about the Visitors at all.
  • Troubled, but Cute: Understandably, the rebellious teenage son role was cast with an actor who isn't too hard on the eyes.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Due to finding nothing suspicious about the Vs and seeing the Peace Ambassador program as a place to belong, he ends up easily manipulated by the Vs.

Valerie Stevens

Chad Decker

Played by: Scott Wolf

  • Intrepid Reporter: When he isn't pretending to be part of the Vs' PR machine, he's getting to the bottom of what they're doing.
  • Unwitting Pawn: But only mildly. At the very least, he is making an effort to get as much out of the relationship as Anna is. Still, Anna knows how to play him when she needs to. Now that Anna knows he's part of the Fifth Column, he might be expendable.


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