Warning: Only spoilers from Season 3 are whited out.
The employees and guests of Westworld.
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Westworld Staff
Park Founders
Dr. Robert Ford and Arnold Weber
See Westworld: Main
Quality Assurance
Benson
Benson
Portrayed By: Greg Audino
A member of the Westworld QA Security Force.
- Boom, Headshot!: He's shot in the head by Teddy.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Teddy kills him when it becomes clear he has no idea where Hale might have taken Peter Abernathy.
Jacobson
Jacobson
Portrayed By: Brian Ames
A security guard in Quality Assurance stationed at the Sector 19 Remote Refurbishment Facility.
- Asshole Victim: From the POV of the Hosts.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He's at the receiving end of this, when Angela puts his face inside the white substance used to create the muscle tissue of Hosts, which burns the skin.
- Facial Horror: Dolores dunks his face into the host-making chemical bath while interrogating him on how Delos will respond to the rebellion, to which he screams that it burns.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed in his second appearance, shot by Colonel Brigham.
Livestock Management
Felix
Felix Lutz
Portrayed By: Leonardo Nam
A tech who, along with his colleague Sylvester, fixes up Hosts who have been killed or injured and sends them back out.
- Asian and Nerdy: He's portrayed by an actor of Asian descent and, after Bernard, is probably the staff member most interested in the science behind the hosts.
- The Bus Came Back: After a two-episode absence, he returns in "Virtu e Fortuna".
- Extreme Doormat: He's very meek and easily dominated by stronger personalities like Sylvester and Maeve.
- The Farmer and the Viper: When Felix has Maeve at his mercy, he refuses Sylvester's plan to erase her data because he sees her as a person. She proceeds to torment numerous Hosts to test her powers, cause the deaths of dozens of humans, and betray even the Hosts recruited to her side. However Maeve does nothing to harm Felix himself, appreciating that his empathy makes him better than the other humans she's encountered.
- Horrible Judge of Character: He trusts and follows every word of Maeve to a point beyond reason, even when Maeve reminds him that she had him reprogram her to be less trustworthy.
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures:
- Sylvester accuses him of having a Hentai obsession at one point because of his interest in Maeve. However, Hentai is Japanese, not Chinese, making the statement come across as casually racist.
- When Maeve is unable to command the Shogun World hosts due to their malfunctioning multi-linguistic mechanism where they can only understand Japanese, Sylvester suggests Felix if he could talk to them. Felix is very offended with this suggestion, and unlike the previous example, he calls Sylvester out on it:Sylvester: Can't you just say something to them...?Felix: I'm from Hong Kong, you asshole!
- Nice Guy: Extremely so.
- The Quisling: He assists Maeve with escaping the park during the Host uprising even after he clearly realizes what is happening and knowing that Maeve considers humans fair game.
- Shout-Out: He and Sylvester are named after two of the most famous cartoon cats.
- Those Two Guys: With Sylvester; they work together, but they're not exactly friends.
- Token Good Teammate: Felix is one of the few lowly employees who doesn't act like a jerk/rapist, and he grows more invested in helping Maeve. This may have been by design. Delos's selection criteria during recruitment are supposed to weed people like he (i.e. those with normally functioning empathy) from the workforce, ASAP. Ford may have "let" a careful number through the net in specific workstations for his own reasons.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Parodied when he learns Bernard is a Host and starts looking at his own hands in horror. Maeve is quick to assure him that he's not one.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sylvester and Felix cover up Maeve's sudden wake up on the operating table out of fear of losing their jobs. Felix insists he wasn't responsible, but doesn't push the issue. When Maeve pulls this trick again, she's alone with Felix and much more aware of her situation than she was the last time. Subverted by the fact that Maeve's awakening was engineered by an outside party. He was just a pawn.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Nothing's been heard of him after Season 2 and he only appears in Season 3 as a simulation.
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: As Maeve leaves the elevator to get on the train out of the park, she says that Felix really is a "terrible human." Note that her view of humanity is as a bunch of violent oppressors, so this comes off as a veiled compliment.
- You Said You Would Let Them Go: Almost word-for-word when Maeve non-fatally slices Sylvester's throat, after a crucial reconfiguration which he only agreed upon after being promised that Maeve "wouldn't hurt anyone", much to his horror. Granted, Sylvester had it coming and she didn't kill him, but it wasn't the last death she would cause.
Sylvester
Sylvester
Portrayed By: Ptolemy Slocum
Armistice: This one has a guilty look.
Sylvester: No, that's just my face. Tell her, it's just my face!
A tech who, along with his colleague Lutz, fixes up Hosts who have been killed or injured and sends them back out.
- Asshole Victim: Sylvester gets put through the ringer by Maeve and Armistice, but considering how vile he is, it's hard to feel too sorry for him.
- Beard of Evil: He turns out to be worse than just an odious jerk, he's straight-up evil: he has an illegal side business in pimping out unconscious hosts to his colleagues.
- The Bus Came Back: After a two-episode absence, he returns in "Virtu e Fortuna".
- Butt-Monkey: From the moment Maeve wakes up, Sylvester's life takes a turn for the horrifying. He's caught between a rock and a hard place, gets threatened over and over, has his throat cut by Maeve (which almost kills him), is almost killed by Armistice, and is abandoned in the midst of the host rebellion. Season 2 shows that he has not fared much better off-screen; whereas Lutz doesn't seem to be in much immediate danger, Armistice had placed a live grenade between his chin and neck and only removes it safely when Maeve arrives. Then it's right back to being threatened into complicity. He arguably deserves every second.
- Dirty Coward: He works with Maeve entirely out of fear, and is happy enough to beg for his life.
- Jerkass: Sylvester is a very hard person to like. Even ignoring his side business in pimping out unconscious hosts to fellow techs, he's personally an overbearing, unpleasant and plain obnoxious man.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Sylvester may be crass, but Lutz's fiddling with a host bird's code to figure out how it works is bound to get him in trouble. Especially considering he's working for Delos, who have strict contracts against the smuggling of data out of their park. He is even more right about Maeve needing to be shut down before she will start hurting guests and staff, the first ending up being himself.
- Kiss Me, I'm Virtual: Sylvester has a lucrative sideline pimping the hosts to the techs by hacking their programs and wiping all traces afterwards. As it's not that different from her own profession, Maeve doesn't take offense, but finds it useful blackmail material.
- Oh, Crap!: He has several of these moments, in particular lobotomizing Clementine in front of Maeve followed by Maeve's threat to kill him.
- Only Sane Man: In comparison to Felix, Sylvester is the only person who believes that boosting Maeve's abilities is an incredibly bad idea. He's 100% right.
- Pet the Dog: He's not particularly nice to Felix, but does seem to protect him in his own way. When Maeve wakes up, Sylvester doesn't report it despite genuinely believing that it was Felix's error. This may just be Sylvester being worried about possible repercussions on his end, but when he finds that Lutz has stolen a bird host, he gives him a genuine if brusque warning instead of reporting him.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: When he finds Felix with a dressed Maeve, he snidely asks if it's something to do with hentai.
- Shout-Out: He and Felix are named after two of the most famous cartoon cats.
- Slashed Throat: He gets one courtesy of Maeve, though lucky for him he happened to be in just the right place for it to be sealed before he could bleed out.
- Those Two Guys: With Felix; they work together and they're rarely seen apart, but they're not exactly friends. Sylvester is yet to share a scene without Lutz.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sylvester and Lutz cover up Maeve's sudden wake up on the operating table out of fear of losing their jobs. In Sylvester's case, he just assumes Felix forgot to put her under properly despite Lutz's insistence. Rather than even entertain the possibility that Lutz is right, he tries to ignore the whole thing. When Maeve pulls this trick again, she's alone with Felix and much more aware of her situation than she was the last time. Like Felix, this is subverted by the fact that Maeve's awakening was engineered by an outside party and while they were unwilling, it was going to happen anyway.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Nothing's been heard of him after Season 2 and he only appears in Season 3 as a simulation.
Destin
Destin Levy
Portrayed By: Christopher Gerse
Another tech in the body shop, responsible for disposal.
- Depraved Bisexual: He rapes both female and male hosts.
- Covert Pervert: He seems normal enough, but he's been raping Hosts in sleep mode. In the context Destin is working in, "sleep mode" means "dead".
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Elsie blackmails him by revealing that she knows he has sex with inactive Hosts.
- Karmic Death: Hector kills him right after Destin tried to rape him.
- Oh, Crap!: Destin's face is a study in this trope when Elsie casually hands him her tablet, which is playing a video of his... "extracurricular activities" with a Host that's in sleep mode.
Phil
Phil
Portrayed By: Patrick Cage
Another body shop tech stationed at the Sector 19 Remote Refurbishment Facility.
- Butt-Monkey: Absolutely nothing goes right for this guy and his existence from his first moment of screen time is misery.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Let's see... we've got robots who dress like white Americans circa the Civil War forcing a black American to do their bidding under the constant fear of death if he falls out of line and keeping him bound. Huh.
- Leave Behind a Pistol: Teddy leaves him a gun with a single bullet after trapping him on the train, calling it his "last act of mercy".
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's just a tech that Dolores has kidnapped for her larger plans. Yet it's his technical expertise that allow Dolores to force Teddy to follow her murderous orders.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dolores has Teddy trap him on a doomed train car after she's finished using him.
Roland
Roland
Portrayed By: Aaron Fili
"Remember, there is no pleasure without pain."
A livestock technician.
- Beard of Evil: He has a light beard and zero empathy for the Hosts.
- Karmic Death: The Hosts he forced to butcher one another resurrect and cut open his neck with the little saw machine he was about to use on Maeve.
- Lack of Empathy: Roland seems unable to even conceive of the Hosts as living things, viewing them solely as machines to be pulled apart, repaired, reprogrammed or disposed of.
- Sadist: He's revealed to be one when he amps up the pain receptors for Maeve as preparation for her destruction. He explains that there can be no pleasure without pain.
Guests
In General
Westworld Guests
The various guests who come to Westworld, paying top dollar to experience the wild west and all its pleasures.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Fitting the Western theme, "white hats" are there to save the day while "black hats" are there to pillage and cause damage.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Most of the guests abuse and kill Hosts at their leisure. That said, some go out of their way to show basic decency and politeness to the Hosts.
- Idle Rich: A single day at the park, for one guest, costs $40,000.
- Obliviously Evil: The guests have been told that the hosts are merely robots who can't actually feel pain or suffering but merely simulate the appearance of a human having these emotions.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Enforced and encouraged by the staff. The whole point of the park is to let guests have free reign to do what they want. To quote the Westworld website itself, "there's no rule in Westworld that can't be broken".
- Secretly Wealthy: Played with. Within the park, the guests often come off as excitable tourists. Logan (and William) turns out to work for a corporation interested in raising stock with Delos, William married into Logan's rich family and became Delos's heir.
Craig & Lori
Craig & Lori
Portrayed By: Currie Graham & Lena Georgas
A whitebread guest couple.
- The Bus Came Back: They disappear after the first episode of Season 1, but as it turns out, they've been continuing their vacation in Westworld all the way up to the Host rebellion.
- Henpecked Husband: Craig tends to look to Lori for approval before embarking on one of Westworld's adventures. After the rebellion, she can't help nagging him about the trouble his wanting to play cowboy has gotten them in.
- Lack of Empathy: While they're no different from anyone else who views the Hosts as glorified toys, it's still creepy to see Craig gleefully pump Hector full of bullets and Lori make fun of Armistice's dying twitching and convulsions before both he and Lori get a photo taken with Hector's dead body...all while Dolores cries over Teddy's corpse a few feet away.
- Manchild: Craig is pretty childish and clueless, to the point of it actually being a little endearing.
- Not So Above It All: For much of their screen time, Lori acts snooty and impatient, as if she wishes she wasn't in Westworld at all. However, it seems she's taken in more than she realizes, and joyously celebrates Craig's victory over Hector.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Lori is noticeably younger and more attractive than Craig.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: They are last seen in the custody of the Ghost Nation. Based on the fact that they were not killing guests, it's likely they survived and were evacuated in the Season 2 finale.
Marti
Marti
Portrayed By: Bojana Novakovic
A guest who participates of some of the more adventurous story lines.
- Action Girl: All the story lines she participates in involve gunfights and shootouts with outlaws.
- Atomic F-Bomb: She let's out a pretty epic one when she realizes she's in way over her head in the Wyatt narrative:Marti: OH MY FUCKING GOD!
- Lipstick Lesbian: She's conventionally attractive and finds herself instantly drawn in by Clementine's wiles.
- Nice Girl: By the standards of the guests in any event. She does seem to like her gunfights, but she appears to be going "white hat" and fights alongside the sheriff and Teddy, and in general treats the hosts with some basic decency.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After escaping Wyatt's posse it's unknown what happens to her. Presumably as a guest she was protected by the park's various safety features. Though if she's still in the park after Ford initiates the Robot War and alters the park's protocols so humans can be harmed, she's going to have a hell of a time trying to get out. Season 2 doesn't reveal her fate. Season 3, however, states that most of the victims of the Host uprising were members of the Delos board.
Nicholas
Nicholas
"Maybe I miss taking my chances."
Portrayed By: Neil Jackson
A guest of The Raj, Nicholas is intrigued by Emily, who’s purpose at the British Colonial India-themed destination runs deeper than hunting game.
- The Charmer: It doesn't take him long to seduce Grace.
- Decoy Protagonist: He opens an episode and we spend a little time getting to know him, but then he's swiftly killed by a rampaging host.
- Great White Hunter: He goes to Rajworld to hunt Bengal tigers and act like a gentleman adventurer.
- Impostor-Exposing Test: Grace subjects him to one of these, which he passes. And by that, we mean "she shoots him and he doesn't bleed out on the floor".
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Despite being set up as a new main character, he's quickly caught off-guard and killed during the host rebellion.
