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Main Cast
Yorick
Yorick Brown
- Played by: Ben Schnetzer
- Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed: comic Yorick was a more conventional Nice Guy who turned out to be a bit of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing; the series Yorick is more upfront in his self-centeredness, openly insults his sister to her face while asking her for money, and then complains about having missed a day working on his act by preparing dinner for Beth.
- Adaptation Personality Change: This Yorick lacks his comic-self's Grammar Nazi, Sad Clown, pop-culture references, or Survivor Guilt tendencies. He's much more of The Everyman here, as a result.
- It's All About Me: As 355 tells him, he's spent his whole life assuming he's the most important person in a room. Now that he actually is, it's time he acts like it.
- Lazy Bum: Until the Event, it's clear he was coasting through life with no ambition or responsibility.
- Living Prop: He doesn't have much characterization beyond being the last living man with a Y chromosome.
- Sucks at Dancing: As shown in "Peppers", when he asks 355 to dance with him.
355
355
- Played by: Ashley Romans
- Adaptation Name Change: Overlaps with Named by the Adaptation. The comics version of Agent 355 never had her full name revealed. In the show, her name is Sarah Burgin.
- Adaptational Villainy: A lot more ruthless than the comics' 355, who never did anything like the show 355's implied murder of two army pilots.
Hero
Hero Brown
- Played by: Olivia Thirlby
- Accidental Murder: She got in a fight with her married boyfriend, accidentally killing him. And then the gendercide happened meaning almost everyone else with a Y chromosome followed him the next day leaving Hero in the clear.
- Adaptational Expansion: Her indoctrination into the Daughters of the Amazon's is shown in the series rather than skipped over.
- I Am a Monster: Though the gendercide allowed her to escape justice for killing her boyfriend, she is haunted by her guilt for it.
- Shoo the Dog: When she realizes the man the Amazons are after is Yorick, she drives him off at gunpoint and kills the only other witness rather than be a party to his probable execution.
- The Unfavorite: She tells the Amazons that she grew up believing her parents favored Yorick over her, despite him being a Lazy Bum with no ambition.
President Brown
Jennifer Brown
- Played by: Diane Lane
- Adaptational Job Change: She goes from congresswoman to speaker of the house, and shortly to president. In the comics, she became Secretary of the Interior.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She brings to mind presidential hopefuls Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She yells at Beth for attacking the Pentagon and basically dismantling whatever semblance of order was left in America, depriving millions of people of the emergency services and structures they desperately depended on.
Nora
Nora Brady
- Played by: Marin Ireland
- Canon Foreigner: Subverted, her real name is Victoria and she takes control of the Amazons in the finale.
- Decomposite Character: With Roxanne, of Victoria.
- Mama Bear: Very protective of her daughter Mack. She kills Roxanne, mostly because she realized how nuts she and she wanted to protect her daughter from being indoctrinated.
- Only Sane Man: Tries to stop the Daughters of the Amazon when they raid another group and start knocking down water bottles and destroying food.
- The Starscream: A successful and unselfish one. In the finale, she guns Roxanne down in front of the other Amazons and seized control.
Sam
Sam Jordan
- Played by: Elliot Fletcher
- Canon Foreigner: The comic didn't have any prominent transgender characters and did not explore what life was like for men without Y chromosomes.
- Nice Guy: He's friends with Hero, and remains so for a long time even when it's logically against his best interests. When he hears that terrorists have attacked the Pentagon, he gives up a relatively safe haven at an elementary school with a teacher that accepts him, just to go on a potentially futile mission to rescue Jennifer Brown.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Sam knows that even though Roxanne is letting him stay with the others at the wholesale stare, he is not welcome. When Hero refuses to leave with him, he goes off by himself.
Kimberly
Kimberly Campbell
- Played by: Amber Tamblyn
- Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: She has pretty conservative views and is blonde.
- Canon Foreigner: She's original to the series.
- Female Misogynist: She shows shades of this before the Gendercide. Afterward, she outright says that women have no purpose in life other than motherhood.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Amber Tamblyn said she's heavily inspired by Meghan McCain.
- Outliving One's Offspring: She witnessed her three sons all die in front of her.
- Trauma Conga Line: She lost her father, husband, and three sons in the gendercide, and then her mother killed herself out of grief a month later. It's this last one that sends Kim over the edge. And when she learns of Yorick's existence, she becomes obsessed with the idea of mothering his children.
Allison
Dr. Allison Mann
- Played by: Diana Bang
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the comic, her biggest personality trait was her being an eternal sourpuss. She was introduced by having spent her days since The Plague trying to cure Breast Cancer, fatalistic helping The Last Generation the best she could before the end of Humanity, but in the show, she is introduced drunk off her ass, drawing dicks on paintings. The Comic also made her sexuality a reveal a year in, but it is one of the first things she casually mentions in the show.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: She seems to have inherited Comic!Yorick's status as the comic relief, with her being much blunter and scatter-brained than in the source material.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Has experimented on herself in some way, and has the scars to show for it. It is unknown what experiments they were and if they're the same as the one she did in the comic.
Amazons
In General
- Adaptational Nice Guy: The Amazons killed trans men in the comic. In the show, while they aren't nice to Sam, they don't harm him. Roxanne even allows him to leave peacefully with a few days worth of supplies.
- Does Not Like Men: One thing they have in common with their comic counterparts, they really despise men. When they first meet Sam, one of them actually asks him why he'd "choose to be a man" and almost kills him on sight.
- Mugging the Monster: Roll up into a small town with guns, horses, and attitude to seize it from the presumed housewives and execute the fellow they are sheltering. How did that go again?
Roxanne
Roxanne
- Played by: Missi Pyle
- Adaptational Name Change: Victoria in the comic. Roxanne in the show. Subverted in the finale where it is revealed she's a Decomposite Character of Victoria, along with Victoria/ Nora Brady.
- Adaptational Sympathy: Victoria's backstory was not revealed. Here, Roxanne was a lowly put-upon worker at a minimum wage job whose husband left her after she got breast cancer.
- Decomposite Character: Of Victoria, with Nora Brady.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Shot by Nora, rather than axed in the head by Sonia.
- Does Not Like Men: She bases her entire commune around the philosophy of some pseudo-female empowerment, and is very disdainful of the concept of men (though, it's implied that she's just playing up her misandry to manipulate people). However, she also shows some toxic masculine tendencies, such as looking down on women whom she feels are "weak," and always projecting an unnecessarily aggressive attitude.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Before the event, she was just an assistant manager at a "Costco" style store that nobody took seriously or respected. When we meet her, she's the leader of a violent group of women.
- Impersonating an Officer: Stole a dead cop's badge to pose as a police detective.
- Manipulative Bitch: She pretended to be a cop who offered the girls protection after running off two shooters who attacked their home. There were no shooters; she fired the shots herself.
Other Characters
Beth
- Played by: Juliana Canfield
- Adaptational Villainy: She's working with a militia to break into the White House.
- Bomb Throwing Anarchist: After the event, she apparently falls into a group of radical anarchists who believe that the "old system" needs to be torn down for something better to take its place.
- Race Lift: White in the source material, black in the series.
Regina Oliver
- Played by: Jennifer Wigmore
- The Coup: Eventually launches one with Kimberly and other allies to remove Jennifer from the presidency purely on the basis that she was higher in the line of succession despite being assumed to be dead when Jennifer became president.
- Dirty Coward: She has been openly belligerent toward Jennifer, believed she would have done a better job as President, frequently claimed the job should have been hers purely by virtue of the line of succession and even launched a coup to that effect. All of that didn't stop her from telling the militiawomen that had her hostage that Jennifer was still the president to convince them not to execute her. It didn't work.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: A rather shameless caricature of right-wing female politicians, specifically Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She is presumed dead as a result of the Event when her plane crashes.
- Succession Crisis: Occurs when she wakes up from her coma and is reported alive. Jennifer Brown has been the Acting President since the Event, but she ranks below Regina (a Member of the Cabinet) in the succession line.
