Characters / Preacher 2016 Supernatural Entities

God

The creator of the universe. God has abandoned His seat in Heaven and gone missing on Earth.

• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. He tries to outdraw the Saint of Killers with lightning in their final confrontation instead of just resorting to pleading in the comics.
• Adaptational Modesty: He is always seen clothed, when, in the source material God went around butt naked. However, His dog "suit" is skin-tight, leaving little to the imagination except the face.
• Adaptational Ugliness: The God of the comics was a muscular, angelic being that constantly radiated light. This God chooses to appear as an old man with an obviously fake wig and beard.
• Badass Biker: Known to go on road trips riding motorcycles.
• Berserk Button: Do not question His methods or insist that He has no grand plans. Another button of His is reminding Him that Genesis is more powerful than He is.
• Big Bad: Of the whole series. He is the one behind the Grail's schemes, using them as His tool to cause the Apocalypse in order to replace humanity with a new species tailor-made to love Him unconditionally.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: Of a sorts in Season 4, as He is seemingly directly working together with Herr Starr to make Jesse suffer.
• The Chessmaster: He orchestrates The Grail's plan to bring about the end of the world and was the main architect behind The Cowboy's downfall and subsequent transformation into the Saint of Killers.
  • Season 4 reveals that He caused most of (if not all) the tragic occurrences in Jesse and Tulip's lives to either test them or just fuck with them.
• Composite Character: As Eisenstein was Adapted Out, God takes on some of his traits by being the brains of the Grail in Season 4. He also inherits the use of a vicious canine (a pet rottweiler in Eisenstein's case and a compelled dingo in God's case) to take away Herr Starr's genitals.
• Deathless and Debauched: As of the start of the series, he's now roaming the Earth, casually screwing numerous women and enjoying jazz performances in New Orleans. He even spent time playing a dog in a BDSM gig... and as a result, his first appearance in Season 3 features him appearing before Tulip with Glowing Eyes of Doom and Voice of the Legion - but still wearing the dog costume.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In a flashback in "Masada", it's revealed that He caused the extinction of the dinosaurs just because He watched one of them eat its own poop.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: Or rather, the guy in the dalmatian suit was.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: When He first appears before Tulip without His mask on, he looks just like Fake God (AKA Mark Harelik). If we are to take His word literally, He chose this look. After Tulip angers Him, He grows larger to intimidate her.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He rationalizes that because He existed even when there was nothing and He created humanity to satisfy His loneliness, He deserves to be loved by His creations and that His creations deserve to be destroyed for not loving Him back. As both Jesse and Tulip point out, all this does is to make Him look like an entitled narcissist.
• God Is Evil: To say He has a very low opinion on humanity would be a massive understatement, and He acts in consequence. This despite His claims of being a loving god. His ultimate motivation is that He just wants every human being to love Him, but He will go so far as planning to Kill All Humans and replace them with another species that loves Him unconditionally. And all because God thinks that, in spite of how much humans already love Him, they don't love Him enough.
• God Is Flawed: God has abandoned Heaven and gotten into a dog-suit to take part in sex acts. When He reveals to Tulip that everything is by His design, including her family curse, she is not amused, thinking He's full of shit and is simply neglecting His role just to screw around. He also quickly reveals Himself to be a deeply petty individual, and He's revealed to be even worse in Season 4, where His motivation is revealed as, similar to the comic, He was around before Creation, and so his incredible loneliness led to His development of a host of personality disorders.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: His main motivation, to the point of wanting to destroy humanity because He doesn't feel they love Him enough.
• Jazz: Is such a huge fan of it, He takes up residence in New Orleans for an extended period so He could listen to live bands playing it all the time.
• Killed Off for Real: The Saint of Killers fatally shoots him in the series finale.
• King of All Cosmos: He's an eccentric deity that wanders among humanity dressed up in a dog-suit and has a taste for jazz, motorcycles, and Diet Dr. Pepper. After Tulip angers Him by questioning His plans, He gives Tulip plenty of reason not to doubt His omnipotence.
• Omniscient Morality License: He claims to be an all-loving god, but some of the things He claims are "by His design" could be easily considered undesirable. When He claims that the main characters' misfortunes are among these things (and insists that Tulip is destined for misfortune), Tulip is not having His platitudes.
• Physical God: God is both tangible and human-like, and He's just as powerful.
• Psychopathic Manchild: At His core, God is like a petulant child with way too much power. He existed at a time when there was nothing and created humanity to love Him, which eventually leads Him to trying to cause the Apocalypse just for them not loving Him enough. Before creating humanity, He caused the extinction of the dinosaurs over watching one eat its own feces. When it comes to humans, He treats their misfortune like a game, such as collaborating with Satan to orchestrate the deaths of the Saint of Killers' family. He also doesn't take it well when mortals insinuate He's not really as omnipotent as He claims, especially when compared to Genesis, and He really loses marbles when Jesse releases Genesis out into the wild in front of Him to humiliate Him, which leads Him to murdering at least some of the prototypes for His planned successor-species to humanity in a tantrum.
• Sanity Slippage: Herr Starr thinks that one of the reasons why he left Heaven to go trouncing around in New Orleans in a dog-suit is because he snapped under the stress of his job. Though considering he destroyed all of the dinosaurs for petty reasons, this is unlikely.
• The Sociopath: God is ultimately just a universal-scale narcissist. He claims to be a loving God, but really holds humanity in contempt. He specifically created humanity so they could love Him, but decided to cause the Apocalypse when it seemed they didn't love Him enough. He's also prone to anger when any mortal realizes that He's not the all-powerful entity He makes Himself out to be.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He regards Diet Dr. Pepper as one of his favorite creations.
• Voice of the Legion: Once He starts to speak in Season 3, He has a reverb to His voice.

DeBlanc & Fiore

Strangely mysterious government agents DeBlanc (right) and Fiore (left) are heading up a top-secret investigation that has led them right to the doorstep of Jesse Custer. They're quickly revealed to be angels, sent from Heaven to recapture the entity giving Jesse his power.

• Adaptation Personality Change: Less so than other cases in that they still had the same essential role in the story, but it's still there. The comic book versions of the two, while certainly incompetent, were a lot less loopy.
• Adaptational Sexuality: They are a gay couple in this continuity, when DeBlanc had sex with a woman near the end of the original comic.
• Ambiguously Gay: Fiore and DeBlanc are teased as a romantic couple, though the concept of angel sexuality makes this a bit nebulous. DeBlanc calls Fiore "my dear" and strokes him on the cheek. He also risks threatening the travel agent to Hell rather than let Fiore pay for their fare with sex. They both consider being separated from each other to be almost as bad as visiting Hell. In the season finale, after the bus drops Fiore off at the pick-up spot, he looks to be on the verge of tears, as DeBlanc may be dead. Made less ambiguous by Fiore in 2x02 when we see him having emotionless sex with a woman; later, when Cassidy asks if the two angels slept together, Fiore responds in the affirmative. Word of Gay also provided confirmation after the episode aired.
• An Arm and a Leg: Cassidy turns Fiore's own chainsaw on him to saw through his shoulder and chop off the arm, still gripping the weapon. Fiore's severed arm stays on task, keeping the chainsaw running directly across the floor at Jesse, and only gets stopped when Cassidy tackles it to turn off the saw.
• The Bus Came Back: Fiore seemingly shows up in Heaven after Jesse dies to ask him to take God's place on the throne, despite the fact supernatural beings killed by the Saint of Killers' bullets don't rejuvenate. This is subverted when it's revealed that Jesse's actually in Hell and that Fiore's presence is just a hallucination produced by Jesse's Hell Cell.
• Butt-Monkey: Fiore's turning into a little bit of one—he's been on the receiving end of not one, not two, but THREE Groin Attacks in the two major fights he and DeBlanc have been in, and he's had at least one more onscreen death than DeBlanc, more than a few of which were played for laughs.
• Bury Your Gays: DeBlanc is killed after affectionately calling Fiore "my dear" and cradling his face, and Fiore is killed a few episodes later after telling Cassidy he and DeBlanc slept together.
• Celebrity Is Overrated: After DeBlanc's death, Fiore becomes a Vegas sensation that cannot leave his hotel room without getting swarmed with fans. He's miserable.
• Cloudcuckoolander: They are both rather odd in mannerisms, mostly explained by the fact that they have little idea of how Earth's culture works. Fiore takes it beyond even that at times.
• Deadpan Snarker: DeBlanc is the more cynical and humorous of the two.
• Death Is Cheap: These two are pretty much butchered and have the crap fatally beaten out of them every single day, but the fact that they can resurrect after death simply means that for them, it's just another day. Their fight with the Seraphim takes this to absurd levels, being killed dozens of times over only to come back for round two with her within mere moments.
• Death by Adaptation: DeBlanc is seemingly killed permanently by the Saint of Killers. Fiore is also killed by the Saint at the beginning of season 2. In the comics neither of the two died.
• Driven to Suicide: Fiore commits suicide repeatedly at the beginning of "Mumbai Sky Tower" but because he is an angel, he keeps coming back. He ultimately successfully commits suicide via the Saint of Killers, while under the command of Genesis to "find peace".
• Killed Off for Real: DeBlanc gets shot by the Saint of Killers in "Finish the Song". He doesn't rejuvenate. Fiore was shot by the Saint at the end of "Mumbai Sky Tower", and he didn't rejuvenate either.
• Manchild: Fiore, who lacks social skills and needs looking after by DeBlanc.
• The Men in Black: They appear during the aftermaths of the power targeting preachers and being able to enter the crime scene displays their level of government authority. They are later revealed to be government representatives for Heaven.
• No Social Skills: DeBlanc is the talker of the two for good reason; Fiore is blunt, impatient and blank-faced, and usually ends up spilling more of the beans than intended.
• Not Quite Dead: A running theme:
  • Despite being killed and thoroughly dismembered via chainsaw by Cassidy, DeBlanc and Fiore both inexplicably return for the end of episode 2, talking with Sheriff Root.
  • After being killed again by Cassidy, this time via being run over by a van, they're back within moments, and even have a conversation with Cassidy next to their former corpses.
  • "Sundowner" opens with a brawl that results in them, and the Seraph sent to take them down, dying over and over, leading to their motel room being covered in a pile of corpses a few feet deep by the time the fight's over.
  • Averted after "Finish the Song" for DeBlanc and "Mumbai Sky Tower" for Fiore.
• Our Angels Are Different: The duo lack wings and seem to be of human-level strength and endurance. They also "respawn", which brings them back to life whenever they die, though there is variation in the time and place of their resurrection.
• Running Gag: Whenever asked for payment, they hand over their wallets. Also, many times when they're asked a question, they answer together... but Fiore always ends up telling the straight-up truth, while DeBlanc usually answers with a half-truth or outright lie; the discrepancy ends up making them explain what's really going on instead of covering things up.
• Suicide by Cop: In a manner of speaking. At the end of "Mumbai Sky Tower", Jesse uses Genesis on Fiore and tells him to "find peace". Fiore, still heartbroken over the loss of DeBlanc and fed up with his new life as a tourist attraction, asks the Saint of Killers to shoot him. The Saint obliges.
• Those Two Guys: They're always seen together, and they clearly have a very close relationship.
• Unreliable Expositor: DeBlanc informs Root that he and Fiore are "with the government" ... after we've seen them try to coax Genesis out of Jesse using an old can and a folk song, attempt to kill him with a chainsaw, and die. They do clarify this a bit when dealing with Cassidy; namely, it's not our government they work for. It's Heaven's.

Susan

A seraph from Heaven sent to track down Jesse.

• An Arm and a Leg: Fiore & DeBlanc hack her arms and legs off to restrain her but keep tourniquets on the stumps and place her in an ice bath so that she doesn't die.
• Glacier Waif: She's a Terminator in a soccer mom's body.
• Killed Off for Real: She ends up being the only survivor of the methane explosion that wipes out Annville. However, she is shot dead by the Saint of Killers while wandering the destroyed town. Since she fails to respawn, she appears to be dead for good, since the Saint's weapons are able to kill whomever or whatever the Saint wants dead.

Fake God, aka Mark Harelik

An actor who pretends to be God to hide from the world that He is missing.

• As Himself: He's basically Mark Harelik playing himself, who looks exactly like the real God....as played by Mark Harelik.
• Have You Seen My God?: He's put in place to hide that God is missing from anyone who asks.
• Not Quite the Almighty: In-universe example; the actual God has the actor pretend to be Him so he can be lazy.
• Not So Omniscient After All: Despite claiming to be the all-knowing creator, Jesse's questioning reveals this to be a front, as the stand-in had no idea about Genesis or Eugene being sent to Hell.
• Walking Spoiler: Being privy to the details of Heaven's running, shortly after he appears Jesse is able to discover that God is missing. Made more poignant in Season 2 when it's revealed he's actually an actor, Mark Harelik himself, who has been hired to play God and then killed to get him to Heaven.

Archangel

An Angel that was taken prisoner by the Grail and held in Masada.

• Death Is Cheap: Much like DeBlanc and Fiore before him, death is an inconvenience. He even uses his deaths to his advantage.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: His relationship with the Demon involves lots of fighting, with them even killing each other repeatedly. They can still be seen fighting at the Holy Bar and Grail three months later, and only stop when Jesse asks for their help to stop the apocalypse.
• Killed Off for Real: He and his Demon lover are both killed by the Saint of Killers in the series finale, preventing them both from resurrecting.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: The final two episodes reveal that he and his Demon lover are the father and mother of Genesis.
• No Name Given: He doesn't have a given name in the show, but he's based on Seraphim from the comic.

Jesus Christ

• Ascended Extra: Only mentioned in the comic, Jesus in the TV series shows up in a flashback in season two and receives opening credit status in season four.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: When Tulip meets him in Masada, he's very willing to help.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The source material states that he survived his crucifixion and started a family, only to get run over by an offal cart. The TV show has him survive by the end of the series.
• Technical Pacifist: He abhors violence, but Hitler eventually learns in the series finale that he is willing to end a fight when he has to, strangling the mad dictator to (a second) death.
• The Un Favourite: God prefers Humperdoo, which leads to Jesus becoming the:
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He is mainly motivated by fear of disappointing his Father.

Satan

Satan himself.

• Adaptational Badass: The comic version is a sullen, none-too-bright creature whose reign in Hell is disrupted by the Saint of Killers' very existence. This version is suave, in control and plans to capitalize on God's absence in a big way. As an example of the difference, both versions of Satan has the Saint brutally whipped, but Satan in the comics does it personally in a futile attempt to make the Saint feel anything other than hate, while in the show he has his assistant do it on general principle and For the Evulz while he happily sits back and watches.
• Bad Boss: As expected from the Devil. When he sees that his right-hand woman, Sydney, was missing her eyes, he gives a double take before moving on, remarking that she "probably deserved it".
• Big Red Devil: A red muscular humanoid with goat-like features and furred legs. The only way he could be more stereotypical is if he had a pitchfork.
• Big Bad Ensemble: In season 3, with Marie L'Angelle, Eccarius and Allfather D'Aronique.
• Boom, Headshot!: Once the Saint of Killers is given his guns back and learns of how both Satan and God engineered his family's deaths, he wastes no time putting one of his immortal-killing bullets in Satan's skull.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Unlike Mannering, his voice stays perpetually ethereally deep.
• Faux Affably Evil: He puts on a chummy, overly friendly demeanor, like an annoying corporate manager. He, however, makes no attempts to seem genuine and takes great pleasure in watching his victims suffer.
  "Just so you know, this is not my favorite part...hehehe...WHO AM I KIDDING! It totally is."
• Totally Radical: Uses outdated terminology to come off as chummy. Considering he's talking to a deceased cowboy, he's probably just trying to annoy him.
• You Wouldn't Shoot Me: A slightly downplayed example. He seems to find it absolutely unbelievable that the Saint would dare to even have the audacity to aim one of his immortal-killing revolvers at him.

Sydney

The Angel of Death and Satan's personal assistant.

• Adaptational Villainy: Aside from a case of Go-Karting with Bowser in the comic, there isn't any hint to villainy on part of the angel of death in the comic. On the show, she works for Satan full-time and is complicit in breaking the rules of who gets into Hell because of God's absence.
• Bullying a Dragon: On the bus trip back to Hell, she mocks the Saint of Killers by reminding him of what happened to his family. It should be noted that the Saint has killed angels before. He doesn't kill her because he doesn't have his guns at the time, but that doesn't stop him from finding other appropriate ways to punish her.
• The Dragon: Satan's most trusted servant.
• Eye Scream: After insulting him over how his family's corpses were picked apart by crows, the Saint of Killers gouges out her eyes.
• Gender Flip: The Angel of Death is male in the comics.
• The Grim Reaper: Satan refers to her as "the Angel of Death," suggesting that she's this trope.
• I Have Many Names: She lists a couple of them; Abaddon and Azrael, though she's called Sydney by Satan. She is also known by her job title.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Responds to Satan giving a film quote by asking if it was from "Midnight Runs".
• The Stoic: Shows almost no emotion during her first appearance, except for mild aggravation at not getting to the Saint of Killers during his torture session.
• Torture Technician: Puts a whip to good use for Satan's pleasure, flaying the Saint of Killers after prolonged torture.
• Whip of Dominance: She is Satan's personal assistant, taking the form of a cold and domineering woman known as "Sydney" who uses a whip for combat, subduing people, and torture.

Superintendant Mannering

The warden of Hell.

• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: She sternly informs Eugene that his Nice Guy tendencies will not be tolerated.
• The Baroness: She's the tough Rosa Klebb-type.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Herr Starr and the Saint of Killers in Season 2. She is the source of all troubles for Eugene in his Hell-subplot.
• Evil Is Petty: Wants to keep Eugene in Hell, despite knowing he doesn't belong there, out of pure spite for breaking her stuff.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Her voice sometimes drops into a distorted, guttural register, especially when threatening the damned.

Charon the Ferryman

The ferryman of the river Styx.

• Crossover Cosmology: In this series, Christianity is the most aligned cosmology, but Charon comes from Greek Mythology.
• The Ferryman: He takes souls to Hell on his boat.
• Punch-Clock Villain: In stark contrast to Mannering, he really seems just to do his job without any personal sense of cruelty, and he immediately complies with helping Eugene out of Hell when the latter tells him he doesn't belong there.
• Vocal Dissonance: He does not sound like you'd think he would. He only briefly goes into Evil Sounds Deep territory when Mannering oversteps her bounds.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets killed by Mannering after maybe 2 minutes of screentime.

Adolf Hitler

One of Hell's residents, who greets Eugene the moment he figures out where he is.

• Affably Evil: Hitler comes off a lot... nicer than you would expect, which is something Eugene questions him about.
• Ambiguously Evil: It seems that Hell has changed him, but how much is unclear. Given that he immediately runs off after being back in the world of the living, and even violently pushes a disabled man to the ground who wanted to help him, it's implied that he really wanted to save his own hide all along. Season 3 confirms that he is still the same old bastard, as he plans on building a Fourth Reich and exterminating the Jews after coming back from Hell.
• The Atoner: Maybe. He somberly tells Eugene that he has "done many terrible things," and he seems to be trying to stand up for the weaker of his fellow damned.
• The Corrupter: Spends much of Season 4 trying to sway Jesus to his side. Ultimately, Jesus declines and Hitler gets killed by him.
• Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven: Hitler hangs out in Hell, in this case.
• Defector from Decadence: Possibly. He claims that, upon arriving in Hell, Hell's management had high hopes for him and hired him. Somehow, he managed to wind up in an eternity of torture like most of Hell's residents instead. Whether this is because he tried to atone or tried to escape is unclear.
• Expecting Someone Taller: Tyler repeatedly expresses disgust at the evilest man of all time being just a scrawny middle-aged German without any fight left in him.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from a simple turned-down artist to one of history's most infamous dictators. After the Saint of Killers brings him back to Hell and kills Satan, Hitler takes up the throne of Hell.
• Hell Has New Management: When the Saint of Killers shoots and kills Satan at the end of Season 3, Hitler swiftly steps in to take over the running of Hell.
• Historical Domain Character: He is, by all accounts, Adolf Hitler.
• Ignored Epiphany: Even when he escapes Hell and decides to try and live life anew in America, he goes right back to trying to build a power-base and creating a new Reich out of America's disgruntled white-male population, never-mind the fact that it was that kind of living that condemned him to Hell in the first place.
• My Greatest Failure: Failing to stand up to the Communist Revolutionaries.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He tries to protect Eugene from Tyler, which gets him ganged up, knocked down, and kicked by Tyler and the rest of the inmates... and then by Eugene himself.
• Out of Focus: He is still billed as a main character in the Season 3 opening credits, but only starts appearing in the seventh episode, and hasn't had much screentime.
• Precision F-Strike: Hitler doesn't swear often, but when he does:
  Tyler: Why should we listen to you, Plum Cake?
  Hitler: Because, I'm... Adolf FUCKING Hitler!
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: He may be a Retired Monster, but he'll remind the prisoners that he's not the sort to be taken lightly.
• Retired Monster: Years of Hell have taken a mental toll on the former dictator, so much so that the viewer might actually sympathize with Adolf Hitler when he won't put up a fight against the other inmates.
• Start of Darkness: On a nondescript day in 1919, he suffered a Humiliation Conga. Being bumped into by a Jewish man, having his art rejected by a homosexual gallery owner, and cowering when trying to stand up to a violent group of communists. And then the Jewish man got the last slice of plum cake. The last bit is what finally makes him snap.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Granted, the guy before him wasn't much better to begin with, but he still ends up taking over Hell.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: His "worst memory" shows him as a timid artist in 1919 who's polite to a Jewish man and seems uncomfortable with expressing hostility towards Communists (but half-heartedly does it anyway when his date pressures him).
• Villain Decay: The dictator of Nazi Germany is now Hell's resident punching bag. In Season 3, he tries to build a Fourth Reich through working in a low-wage sandwich shop (both for funding and networking). This is then subverted when it's revealed that the Neo-Nazi supporters he gained from his networking have access to at least a tank, but even after they are wiped out by the Saint of Killers, he ends up becoming the lord of Hell after Satan is killed.
• Your Worst Memory: The aforementioned Start of Darkness, which he relives in Hell.

Tyler

An inmate of Hell, sent there for raping four different women.

• Actor Allusion: He's in Hell for raping four different women. Justin Prentice has experience playing a serial rapist.
• The Bully: He enjoys abusing other prisoners.
• Insistent Terminology: He didn't commit rape four times, it was Date Rape. He insists that because those women said yeah to a date he was entitled to have sex with them too.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: While he was alive, he got away with raping four different women with the help of his father's lawyers. But then he died, and, well... here he is.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's very telling that even in Hell, surrounded by thieves, murderers and worse (up to and including Adolf Hitler), this totally unrepentant serial rapist manages to be the most despised person in his cell block.
• Serial Rapist: The reason he's in Hell, for four different women.

Other Hell Inmates

Other inmates who share a common area with Eugene. They include a 1950's housewife, a samurai, a caveman, a "gypsy" and a nun.

• Fish out of Temporal Water: Hell has modern technology like TV, so the Caveman is still mystified by it after all this time.
• Kill It with Fire: How "50's Hair" killed her kids.
• Never My Fault: When they realize one of them isn't supposed to be there, each inmate assumes they're the one. "50's Hair" thinks she deserves to go to Heaven even though she murdered her children. She claims her killings were justified because she was just so stressed out by her constantly spoiled, needy children.
• Offing the Offspring: The reason the 50's housewife is in Hell.