History Characters / BabylonFiveTheShadows

* HeroesWantRedheads: She's a redhead who was the wife of John Sheridan.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:For a single night, anyway. He came back on the Brakiri Day of the Dead, to warn Lennier that he would soon betray the Rangers and die shortly thereafter. His warnings fell on deaf ears, and so Morden spent much of his brief resurrection reading a newspaper.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: He killed a woman Londo loved; it took a while, but Londo got even.

* MysteriousPast: Justin's background is unknown. According to WordOfGod he was not part of the IPX expedition with Morden and Anna and arrived to Z'ha'dum at a later time.

* HealingFactor: At the beginning of Season 4, his body is covered in [[BodyHorror horrific burns]] due to his proximity to Sheridan's nuclear attack against Z'Ha'Dum, and he's flaking bits of charred skin everywhere. However, just a few episodes later, he's shown to be completely healed, with no signs of scarring or even a hair out of place. Presumably this is courtesy of the Shadows, since he was originally just a normal human. However, as demonstrated later in the same episode, it doesn't work on [[OffWithHisHead beheading]].

->[[NonAnswer ''I am with them. Same group, different department. Think of me as a sort of middle man. And the name is Justin...'']]

* RealLifeRelative: When Beth Toussant was unavailable to return as Sheridan's wife, they decided to hire Bruce Boxleitner's real-life wife to play the part. Their real wedding photo was even used in one scene.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: They were a little-known species commonly considered a legend by the Centauri and who largely sat out the Shadow War. Once [[spoiler: the Shadows leave, they become TheManBehindTheMan of the Centauri and nearly wipe out all life on Earth.]]
* PuppeteerParasite: They use a species of one, called "Keepers," as part of their modus operandi. [[spoiler: They use them to control the Centauri Republic from behind the scenes.]]
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler: They're one of the last notable Shadow allies left in the galaxy after their masters and the Vorlons leave.]]

* CastTheRunnerUp: In a sense. According to JMS on his Patreon commentaries, Wasser wasn't originally intended to be Morden's actor. He was a script reader who read as Morden for auditions during Season One (and had already appeared as a CIC tech in the pilot movie). However, JMS liked Wasser's readings as Morden more than the actual actors who were auditioning for Morden. So Wasser got the role. [[invoked]]

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/WayneAlexander also portrayed Sebastian (aka Jack the Ripper), G'Dan of the Narn Resistance, Lorien, and the Drazi prisoner in "Intersections in Real Time". [[invoked]]

[[folder: Mr Morden (Ed Wasser)]]

* BackFromTheDead: For a single night, anyway. He came back on the Brakiri Day of the Dead, to warn Lennier that he would soon betray the Rangers and die shortly thereafter. His warnings fell on deaf ears, and so Morden spent much of his brief resurrection reading a newspaper.

[[folder:Justin (Jeff Correy)]]

[[folder: Anna Sheridan (Beth Toussant, Melissa Gilbert)]]

!!The Drakh Entire

[[folder: Shiv'kala (Wayne Alexander)]]

* ImmortalApathy ties into their {{Hypocrite}} trope: The Shadows [[spoiler:like the Vorlons]], manipulate the younger races but don't seem to care for their fates. They have sold themselves to their human [[LesCollaborateurs collaborators]] and the younger races as providing strength or "releasing their potential". In reality it's a DealWithTheDevil and the Shadows will do as they please without regard to the fates of the younger races.

* HotScientist: She's a very attractive scientist.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Once they realized that Anna was the wife of their biggest enemy, they removed her from the Shadow vessel she was integrated in. Unfortunately, joining with a Shadow's ship leaves a person never whole again, and her original personality was left destroyed. The Shadows replaced it with a new one that was completely subservient to their cause.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Forcibly placed in a Shadow vessel. Her personality was completely [[EmptyShell erased]] and replaced with one subservient to the Shadows. The novels show that she doesn't actually remember much of her original life and had to be coached into how to interact with people, with that whole speech she gave Sheridan to lure him to Z'ha'dum being something she learned to repeat rote.

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Can normally only be seen by telepaths.

* CastTheRunnerUp: In a sense. According to JMS on his Patreon commentaries, Wasser wasn't originally intended to be Morden's actor. He was a script reader who read as Morden for auditions during Season One. However, JMS liked Wasser's readings as Morden more than the actual actors who were auditioning for Morden. So Wasser got the role. [[invoked]]

* EnigmaticMinion: Whether its shared belief in their ideology, self-interest or self-preservation, his exact reasons for joining the Shadows are never revealed in the show.

* UltimateEvil: [[spoiler:Again, a subversion. It's heavily implied the feud between the Vorlons and the Shadows is rapidly descending into childish tantrums, and Lorien treats both races like children needing gentle but firm guidance.]]

* BadassInANiceSuit

%% There doesnt' seem to be an exagerated reaction. * Berserk Button: A minor one, but the "Vorlon question" vexes him so he [[{{Doublespeak}} doesn't give a straight answer]].

* ArmourPiercingQuestion / BerserkButton: "Who are you?" At best you'll get an evasive non-answer to this question. At worst...

* BerserkButton: A minor one, but the "Vorlon question" vexes him so he [[{{Doublespeak}} doesn't give a straight answer]].

* EvilEyebrows[=/=]BigOlEyebrows