History Characters / Billions

A list of characters for ''Billions''. There will be '''spoilers.''' '''Only spoilers for Seasons 4 and 5 will be whited out.'''

[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's a small group who can do the math. There's an even smaller group who can explain it. But those few who can do both, they become billionaires."'' [[note]]From left to right: Taylor Mason, Mike "Wags" Wagner, Robert "Axe" Axelrod, Wendy Rhoades, Charles "Chuck" Rhoades Jr., Michael Prince and Kate Sacker.[[/note]]]]

* [[Characters/BillionsMainCharacters Main Characters]][[note]]Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Chuck Rhoades, Wendy Rhoades, Taylor Mason, Mike "Wags" Wagner, Chuck Rhoades Sr., Bryan Connerty, Kate Sacker, Lara Axelrod[[/note]]

* [[Characters/BillionsRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Ira Schermer, Adam [=DeGiulio=], Terry and Johnny Burke, "Buffalo Bob" Sweeney, Todd Krakow, Lawrence Boyd, "Black Jack" Foley, Grigor Andolov, Jackie Connerty, Rebecca Cantu, Mike Prince, Catherine "Cat" Brant[[/note]]

* [[Characters/BillionsRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]]

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!!Bobby Axelrod and family


[[folder:Rebecca]]
!!Rebecca Cantu
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/NinaArianda
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Most people are self-absorbed, narcissistic assholes.'']]

Wealthy venture capitalist who becomes Axe's new girlfriend in Season 4.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Bobby first meets Rebecca at a pitch meeting for a new advanced robot. Rebecca (who was raised by a mechanic) immediately calls bullshit on the pitch after hearing the robot emit a hum, which tells her both that the robot has an internal combustion engine and is only metastable, neither of which make it a good investment.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:She makes a deal with Taylor, thinking this is good for business and that it would smooth things over between them and Bobby. Instead it enrages Bobby and makes him turn on Rebecca. The result is that Rebecca makes a billion dollars, but loses control of her company and that the relationship between her and Bobby is destroyed.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her AwesomenessByAnalysis moment described above -- also her very first scene -- establishes that she has intelligence on par with Axe, shares a blue-collar background with Axe, and is tough enough to see and cut through bullshit.
* SlasherSmile: She is capable of giving genuine, warm smiles, but when she pulls this one off (and she does it often), You. Are. Fucked!
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* [[Characters/BillionsDepartmentOfJustice Department of Justice]][[note]]Lonnie Watley, Oliver Dake, Jock Jeffcoat[[/note]]
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[[folder:Axe]]
!!Robert "Axe" Axelrod
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DamianLewis
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"What's the point of having 'fuck you' money if you never say 'fuck you?'"'']]

-->''"What have I done wrong? Really? Except make money. Succeed. All these rules and regulations - arbitrary."''

Bobby is a billionaire hedge-fund owner, but has humble beginnings. Born in Yonkers to a blue-collar family, he enjoys the good life his money now gives him, along with doing whatever he can to ''keep'' said money.

* AmbiguousDisorder: In "Magical Thinking", Bobby figures out the question he's been having trouble asking, even to himself - "People who have the capacity to feel nothing, they call them sociopaths. Is that what I am?" Wendy says a real sociopath wouldn't manifest guilt or punish himself. Apparently he is somewhere in-between.
* AntiHero: He's a white collar criminal, an economic terrorist, and a person who casually destroys people's dreams and livelihoods if they get in his way for any reason. But he shows genuine respect for his family and a few select employees of Axe Capital, and has moments of regret over how he treats others. However, [[CharacterDevelopment over time]] he discards his family, increasingly ignores his better angels, and will betray even the people closest to him if it means prevailing against his enemies. By the end of Season 4 he openly admits to Taylor that he sees them, Chuck, and presumably everyone else as tools to help himself advance.
* AntiVillain: He's ruthless and has no qualms about breaking the SEC's laws to make money, but his attitude is a result of a rough childhood in a working class community and he has several PetTheDog moments that prove he's not completely heartless.
* ArchEnemy: His two biggest being Chuck and Taylor.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Exhibits a photographic memory that aids him greatly when he's charged with assaulting a man in his backyard, and recalls a girl nearby whose [=iPhone=] video of the encounter will show that the man had been driving drunk with Bobby's kids in the car.
** Bobby hears news of an earthquake in Mozambique and knows that Axe Capital's investment will be negatively affected when the resulting tsunami eventually hits Brazil. Subverted in that Bobby has been forced to give up his trading license, so he is unable to do anything about it.
** His photographic memory is used speculatively in "Flaw in the Death Star" when Bobby "rewinds" his perception of Dr. Gilbert, the doctor who he talked out of saving Donnie Cahn's life and who he used to create the Ice Juice toxin. Bobby uses his memory to run through scenarios of what Gilbert may or may not have done with the toxin slide with Bobby's fingerprints on it.
* BadassBoast: "When I pull a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind."
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Axe has several chances to turn away from trading, but he never takes that path because he doesn't see anything fundamentally wrong in what he does and because seeking edges and making even more money really is the passion of his life.
* BerserkButton: Several:
** Being one-upped by anyone, but particularly Chuck.
** Being betrayed by anyone, but particularly Taylor and [[spoiler:Rebecca]].
** Being reminded of his terrible childhood in Yonkers or the abusive asshole of a father who eventually walked out on him. Axe can't bring himself to have dinner with the current occupants of his childhood home because of the memories associated with the place, and eventually buys the house himself (moving the family to a more affluent neighborhood) so that it can be never inhabited again. In the same episode, Axe learns that his mother recently got in touch with his father and gave him her Lexus SUV (which was originally a gift from Axe). Axe threatens to cut off his mother if she ever speaks to his father again and has the Lexus crushed into a cube, which is delivered to his father's house.
* BrokenAce: Axe is an undisputed master of the financial world, but he is also a deeply insecure man. His father leaving at age 12 deeply traumatized him, so much so that anybody who betrays or turns against him causes him to go off the deep end. Axe leaves a series of increasingly angry voicemail messages to Lara when she leaves him with his kids, devotes his firm's resources to screwing over Taylor when they leave to start their own fund, and [[spoiler:destroys his relationship with Rebecca because she went over his head to find a diplomatic solution with Taylor]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much his default mode of communication.
* DisappearedDad: Bobby's father walked out on him when he was 12. He himself gradually spends less and less time with his own two sons after he and Lara divorce, apparently not even saying goodbye to them when he agrees to let the three of them move to California.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Not one for half-measures. His boast about Nagasaki is barely hyperbolic. When someone crosses his path in an antagonistic way, Axe's goal in response is nothing short of total annihilation, and more often than not, he achieves it against small to medium targets. And absolutely no one is exempt from this -- [[spoiler:Rebecca finds this out the hard way.]]
-->'''Wendy:''' He registers all threats as existential.
* DomesticAbuse: Was raised in an abusive household, and often engaged his father in fights so that he wouldn't beat his mother (and not always succeeding). Axe feeling powerless as a child, and resolving to put himself in a position where he would never be powerless again, made him the man he is today.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: When Taylor identifies as non-binary, Bobby doesn't even bat an eyelid, and makes it very clear to everyone that the only thing he cares about is whether Taylor will be an asset to the company or not.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He refuses to let Dollar Bill [[spoiler:intentionally contaminate the ''entire country's'' chicken supply]] just so Axe Capital could ensure would get a huge payout for their position in the industry.
* Fiction500: Besides his titular "billions" in income and assets, Bobby also has the pull to fuck with currency in Nigeria, tweak entire banking systems in Europe, and literally buy the Chrysler Building. According to Todd Krakow, Bobby's net worth is somewhere in the vicinity of $12 billion.
* GreenEyedMonster: There is definite sexual tension between him and Wendy, and when she begins seeing Nico Tanner he uses the surveillance camera to the front door of Nico's apartment to monitor how long they spend time together.
* HeelRealization: Seems to have one in the season two finale when he visits the 9/11 memorial and laments to Wendy that he feels every decision he's made since that day has been the wrong one. He also feels guilty about exploiting Donnie's final weeks to undermine Rhoades. It seems to have been temporary, though: at the start of Season 3 he's back to his defiant, self-righteous self, but then it comes back when he beats the indictment but doesn't feel happy. [[spoiler:Subverted in the Season 4 finale when he tells Rebecca that he knew full well that he was sacrificing their future together by liquidating Saler's from under her, and chose to do it anyway because his desire for revenge against Taylor was stronger than his feelings for Rebecca.]]
* HiddenDepths: Seems to be genuinely concerned about Donnie, and genuinely sad when he dies.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: According to Wendy, Bobby has trouble seeing anyone as an intellectual equal. He can put on a good show, but he doesn't truly have many friends. Taylor is the first person he thinks could be an equal and that's why he takes them under his wing.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His family were the only people he had genuine affection for, but he essentially abandons them after his divorce from Lara. By the end of Season 4, Axe all but explicitly states to Taylor that he's come to see anyone and everyone else as tools he can use for his own self-advancement.
* KubrickStare: His eyebrows speak for themselves.
* ManipulativeBastard: When three of his protégés leave to start their own fund, he tricks them into bankrupting themselves, then offers to keep them afloat as a vassal fund that's totally dependent on him. They take the deal.
* NeverMyFault: Subverted. While he is mad at Chuck for the Ice Juice play that resulted in his indictment, he does admit that him allowing his emotions to cloud his judgement also played a role.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Bobby's play with the Churchill books gives Chuck the idea employing the BatmanGambit with Ice Juice.
* OpportunisticBastard: His defining trait, when he sees an angle, he goes all-in. Best exemplified by the origin of his fortune, short selling aviation stock during 9/11, while his then-co-workers were dying in the World Trade Center. He will use anything and anyone to make sure his own plans succeed.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Lara finds out from Wendy that Bobby lied to her and leaves him without warning in Season 2, Wendy remarks that it's the first time she's ever seen him afraid. He's so rattled that he turns up outside Wendy's house with his personal fixer to demand an explanation and genuinely frightens her with how erratic and dangerous he is at that moment.
* PapaWolf: ''Never'' threaten his kids. He tends to go ballistic. Not even Grigor Andolov, who Bobby's mysterious fixer ''openly fears'', gets away with it.
-->'''Grigor:''' "I'm a fucking businessman. And a real sweetheart. I'm Casper the Friendly Ghost."
-->'''Bobby:''' "Me, too. And if you mention my kids like that again you’ll find out how fucking friendly."
** Also, never compromise the safety of his kids as he punched an associate for driving drunk with Gordie and Dean in his car.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Wendy Rhoades, one of the very few people to know and trust him before 9/11, who knows precisely how he made his money, and is incredibly loyal to him. Bobby relies on her heavily, enough that he can request an all-night intensive therapy session and she'll drop everything. The idea of her betraying him causes him to lose his cool in a way few others can cause. Eight months after she quits, he still refers to her office as "hers", and engineers a class-action lawsuit against Chuck so that he can drop it as a condition of Wendy coming back. And when Spyros backstabs Wendy by turning evidence of her Ice Juice short over to Connerty, Axe is ''livid'' and becomes willing to partner with Chuck to protect her. [[spoiler:This goes out the door in episode 10 of seaosn 5.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: He's very good at reading people who is up to no good against him. After making an enemy of [[ShameIfSomethingHappened Grigor Andolov]], Axe buffs up his personal security considerably.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: For most of Axe Capital, he's firmly in BadBoss territory, having a "sink-or-swim" attitude. With Taylor, however, he sees someone incredibly similar to himself, and decides to mentor them.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Wendy identifies Bobby's overwhelming desire to always get back at his enemies as his biggest flaw, and the thing that most often gets him into trouble. Bobby seeing an opportunity to screw over Chuck just for the sake of it was what led to his arrest in the Ice Juice scandal. During his war with Taylor in Season 4, Axe begins making decisions that might inconvenience Taylor's business, but puts Axe Capital at such a disadvantage that even loyalists like Wags and Dollar Bill question his judgment. [[spoiler:And when Rebecca makes an altruistic deal with Taylor without Bobby's knowledge, he reacts by liquidating Saler's right from under her and knowingly destroying their relationship in the process.]]
* SawStarWars27Times: ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', seven times. It comes up rarely and his actual fountain of references is ''Film/TheGodfather'', which implies this trope for that other saga too.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As he so eloquently puts it, "what's the point of having 'fuck you' money, if you never say fuck you?"
* SeductionProofMarriage: Played straight in season one, where despite attraction to a beautiful singer, Bobby turns her down, saying he's married and "it's real". Deconstructed in season two, where when Lara leaves and his fear of losing her causes him to veer into paranoia, he leaves her multiple voicemails claiming that he was completely faithful to her, but he shouldn't have been, and it wasn't worth it.
* SlasherSmile: Has a rather menacing and unsettling grin.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Generally, Axe feels that someone with his intelligence and skills should be allowed to make as much money as they want and most of the SEC's laws are arbitrary and designed to keep people like him from succeeding. However, he does show a few moral restraints and doesn't approve of outright immoral tactics like stealing.
* SoleSurvivor: Part of Bobby's public image is that he's a benevolent philanthropist with survivor's guilt for being the only guy in his company to survive the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In actuality, Bobby had been fired from the firm and was at his lawyer's office finalizing the severance package paperwork. He made a fortune short selling aviation stock right after witnessing the first plane hitting the North Tower.
* StalkerWithACrush: Bobby is incredibly possessive of the two most important women in his life. He had people follow and keep tabs on Lara in season two. He's escalated to having cameras installed outside Tanner's loft to spy on when and how long Wendy goes to see him.
* TakingYouWithMe: Is fond of answering seemingly unassailable threats with this one of his own, quickly digging up dirt from his adversaries.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: According to Wendy, Bobby actually liked Chuck when she first started dating him and the two bonded over how smarter they were than everyone else. Then when Chuck accepted a job at the U.S. Attorney's office and started going after white-collar criminals, their relationship deteriorated. Bobby and Chuck then rekindle their friendship when they both reach low points in their lives and plot together against their enemies.
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[[folder:Lara]]
!!Lara Axelrod
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MalinAkerman
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[[caption-width-right:300:...]]

Lara is Bobby's wife, a former ER nurse at New York Presbyterian. Like Bobby, she is a blue-collar girl at heart, with a large extended family and a take-no-prisoners attitude.

* AlphaBitch: She bullies and threatens her own friends and isn't shy about openly insulting people she dislikes.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lara seems friendly and sweet, right up until you stand in the way of her or her husband.
* BoyishShortHair: In season one.
* DemotedToExtra: From series regular and major behind-the-scenes player to supporting character after separating from Bobby. She only appears once in Season 4.
* GoldDigger: Subverted. When accused of this by a former boyfriend, she points out that she started dating Bobby before he became wealthy. Additionally, when they separate after his indictment, it has more to do with her being fed up with the lies and schemes rather then the threat of losing their fortune.
* TheLadEtte: Will try to drink you under the table and likes to hang out in bars.
* LadyMacbeth: After Sandicot loses the gaming license and Axe Capital is about to take a huge loss, the team comes up with a plan to save their quarter performance, namely by forcing the town to pay the firm back which will bankrupt it. Bobby is morally conflicted about this since he knows how hard it is growing up poor and doesn't want to screw the townspeople over. Lara ultimately convinces him to do it by telling him the town can find their way out like they did growing up.
* MamaBear: Is just as protective of her kids as Bobby. When she decides that the school nurse isn't up to her standards, she immediately forces the principal to fire and replace the woman to ensure that her kids aren't in danger while attending class.
* PutOnABus: Bobby eventually allows her and the kids to move to California.
* RichBitch: Surprisingly, she subverts it. Her bitchiness has nothing to do with her money, and everything to do with her tough, working-class background.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Bobby has lied to her and effectively gaslighted her into staying with him, the truth about Ice Juice comes out, and the feds are gunning for Axe Cap and Bobby. Lara clears out their savings and starts shopping around for divorce lawyers. In addition, she doesn't pick Bobby up from jail, telling their kids that Bobby's a fraud and they're better off forgetting about him.
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!!Chuck Rhoades and family
[[folder:Chuck]]
!!Charles "Chuck" Rhoades Jr.
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulGiamatti
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hey, you're a smart man. So you know when I bring an action, it's not some county or even state -- it's the United States versus. Now don't give me a reason."'']]

-->''"A good matador doesn't kill a fresh bull. You wait until he's been stuck a few times."''

Chuck Rhoades is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the most prestigious law gig in the U.S, specializing in prosecuting high profile Wall Street and white-collar crime. Married to Wendy, with two kids, he's got his sights set on bringing down Bobby Axelrod. Is elected attorney general of New York State after being fired as U.S. Attorney.

* AggressiveSubmissive: Chuck likes talking trash and winning arguments, but Wendy's the one in charge in the bedroom.
* AmbitionIsEvil: The Governorship of New York is the only thing in his mind that can come near taking Axelrod down, and Chuck's political course is as shady and paved with misconduct as the rest of his corrupt career. Later averted when Chuck puts his gubernatorial ambitions aside once Wendy convinces him that he's running to satisfy Foley and Chuck Senior's aspirations for him, not his own.
** [[spoiler:Chuck later puts his marriage with Wendy on the line when Foley tries to blackmail him with his S&M lifestyle on the eve of the state attorney general election, outing the couple as sadomasochists to the world against Wendy's pleas just so he can win office.]]
* AntiVillain: You can sympathize with his goal to take down Axe, but in the process Chuck corrupts a legal high office and commits a series of criminal frauds that should lead to disbarment and indictment several times over.
* BadassBureaucrat: Being the head of the Southern District of New York makes him one of the most powerful lawmen in the country, and he consistently uses his federal power to crush most of the adversaries who cross his path.
* BerserkButton: He won't stand for anyone accusing him of not being his own man and just answering to his wife or father.
* BlueBlood: Comes from a very wealthy New York family, but disagrees with how his father utilizes his wealth to control others. Ironically, Wendy is better off financially than he is.
* BrainsAndBondage: Chuck and his wife are into the BDSM lifestyle.
* BrokenAce: A hotshot U.S. Attorney with an impressive 81-0 record in court. But he has multiple personality issues and it turns out he only picks sure-win cases.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Waffles between doing this and being TheDutifulSon.
* TheChessmaster: He's always running some gambit or another. Wendy defines him as the best at breaking down a strategy. At times, Chuck verges on MagnificentBastard (case in point, what he does to Judge Wilcox), but is a little too vengeful and obsessed with beating Bobby to truly succeed.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Takes advantage of Wendy's position at Axe Capital and looks into her confidential files to gather incriminating information on Bobby. Also talks his father and his best friend into making disastrous investments that decimate their fortunes in order to entrap Bobby. Wendy also gets caught up in this scheme, though Chuck initially doesn't know it. He ''badly'' overreaches himself when he tries to do it to Jock Jeffcoat.
** [[spoiler:Chuck does this ''twice'' to Wendy in Season 4 -- first when he tells the press about his BDSM lifestyle with Wendy without her consent in order to win the election, and then when he passes up an offer by Connerty to help Wendy out with the medical board when she is in danger of losing her license just to spite Connerty and Jeffcoat (and lying to her about it afterward). Not surprisingly, Wendy divorces him.]]
* TheComicallySerious: He'll give long detailed speeches to people doing even the ''tiniest'' things such as not cleaning after their dog or cheating on a game of chess.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Chuck often finds himself fighting for survival as a consequence of his perilous schemes, and rising to the occassion.
-->You know, the only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources... is one with nothing to lose. And that is what you are looking at right here.
* CorruptBureaucrat: He's very competent, too bad he begins to use and taint the Attorney's office to advance and protect his own schemes and ambition.
* TheDutifulSon: As the object of all of his father's thwarted ambitions.
* ExactWords: A masterful rules lawyer, Chuck utilizes this trope quite often, adhering to the letter of the law (or a given proposition or deal) when it suits him.
* FanDisservice: Whenever he’s the submissive during his and Wendy’s BDSM sessions.
* FatalFlaw: His obsession with nailing Axe has taken a toll on his personal and professional life, but he refuses to relent.
* GoodParents: Wants to be the exact opposite of his own father, and seems to be succeeding. Whatever his other flaws, Chuck is a really good father, splitting childcare duties with Wendy, reassuring his kids during the separation, and always making sure to keep his work life separate from his kids.
* GreenEyedMonster: It's all but stated that his obsession with bringing down Axelrod has less to due with any of the latter's alleged law breaking and more to do with his jealousy over the bond Wendy has with him.
* HannibalLecture: Rhoades lives by this trope. No episode is complete without a long, pointed monologue, usually involving a personal anecdote. (Mercifully, this situation abates somewhat in season 3.)
* {{Hypocrite}}: Best summed up by Bryan in "Victory Lap", when he points out that for all of Chuck's talk about the importance of duty to the law and how nobody should be above it, he has no problem breaking the law and abusing his position of U.S. Attorney to suit his own ends.
** In addition, he frequently mistrusts his wife and calls her a criminal for working at Axe Capital (where she isn't directly party to wrongdoing), yet he breaks the law and betrays Wendy numerous times, and becomes just as ruthless as the man he despises.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:When Chuck sees that Bobby influenced the medical board's decision to spare Wendy's license by giving them a $25 million donation, he blames Bobby for his marriage being busted (again) and decides to secretly conspire against him with Taylor. He sidesteps the fact that he had spent all of the season leading up to this violating Wendy's trust and putting his needs ahead of her own.]]
* ItsPersonal: His prosecution of Axelrod does have legal foundations and boundaries at first, but it soons spirals out of control and becomes an obsession.
* KnightTemplar: He's perfectly fine with breaking all kinds of laws and moral codes in his crusade against Axelrod.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Conspires with Bobby to thwart Connerty's prosecution of the Ice Juice case after he turns up evidence against Wendy, then unceremoniously fires Connerty from the Southern District. Connerty turns around and conspires with Jeffcoat to thwart Chuck's case against Jeffcoat and his brother for money laundering, which ends with Chuck getting fired and Connerty getting Chuck's job on an interim basis.
* MoralityPet: Ira seems to be this to Chuck. Chuck still screws over Ira in the Ice Juice affair but it is the one thing that Chuck actually feels guilty about. When Ira turns the tables on Chuck and sides with Axelrod, Chuck uncharacteristically accepts that he deserved that and does not hold a grudge. When Chuck later discovers that Ira's marriage and finances are in serious trouble, he pulls out all the stops to help Ira while making sure that Ira never knows about the help.
* MoralMyopia: Chuck frequently pulls the same kind of maneuvers and schemes that Axe does. The only difference is that Chuck works for the government so, in his mind, he's the one who is "right".
-->'''Chuck:''' I work for the public good.\\
'''Wendy:''' No, you work for the good of Chuck Rhoades. Maybe ''sometimes'' they intersect.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's clear at the start of Season 3 that he feels terrible for his antics. He even gets Wendy to describe a fantasy cheating scenario as part of a kink session, knowing she really did sleep with someone else, and his expression makes it clear he feels like he deserves it.
* Outgambitted: His plot against Jeffcoat gets [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome negated]] when a coalition of former allies turn against him.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: When Chuck decides to start approaching the job in shades of gray, he takes the rest of Southern down with him.
* PostStressOvereating: Ice cream in season one, poutine and deli sandwiches in season two.
* SharpDressedMan: Always dresses in suits, even at home, and not as a manifestation of a natural refinement but because his insecurities make him feel he has something to prove. This is a major contrast with Axelrod, who is almost always in casual wear.
* TakeAThirdOption: By the middle of Season 3, Chuck is faced with two choices: either let Connerty send him to prison for his role in the Ice Juice affair in exchange for Wendy getting off (albeit with her medical license revoked), or plant a slide of the Ice Juice contaminant in Bobby's apartment to deflect suspicion off of him and Wendy. Instead of taking either option, [[EnemyMine Chuck hands the slide over to Bobby and forms an alliance with him to thwart Connerty]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: By season two, he is so obsessed with catching Axe that he is willing to bankrupt his best friend and father to do so.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Becomes a prominent point during the Rhoades's marriage counseling in Season 2, with Chuck throwing out WhatDoesSheSeeInHim as the reason why he always dresses in suits, even for casual dinners: he wants to at least ''look'' like someone Wendy would be with.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Axe, of all people, when he first started dating Wendy. As recounted by Wendy later on, Chuck initially had no problem with Axe's business or lifestyle, and they actually bonded over how smarter they were than everyone else. However, this changed once Chuck accepted a job at the U.S. Attorney's office. Bobby and Chuck then rekindle their friendship when they both reach low points in their lives and plot together against their enemies.
* WorthIt: Used as a BadassBoast when he puts Axe in jail, reasoning that even if it becomes a PyrrhicVictory that also brings Chuck down in the process, it would still be worth it.
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[[folder:Wendy]]
!!Wendy Rhoades
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MaggieSiff
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"My files are confidential, and you're not seeing them. You can call the Attorney General if you want - tell her I said hi, we had dinner last month - otherwise, fuck off."'']]

-->''"I built this company just as much as you did. Cut me out again, and I'm gone."''

Wendy is both the wife of Chuck Rhoades and the in-house performance coach and therapist at Axe Capital. In addition, she and Bobby have an unspecified relationship that goes back to 2001.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: When not around Bobby or Chuck, Wendy seems to have cultivated this persona.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: In "Sic Transit Imperium", after finding out Bobby has claimed their no-sessions policy was ''his'' idea - and not a boundary Wendy set - she tells a smug, patronizing Lara about the lie. Later, she regrets the selfish action, but notes that it felt really good getting one over on Lara.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: If you piss Wendy off, kiss your ass goodbye.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Taylor, who seems to connect with Wendy as one of the only other non-male finance bro types around Axe Cap. This ends when Taylor spins off their own hedge fund and gives Wendy a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, after which she encourages Bobby to "fuck them over."
* BrainyBrunette: Probably the brainiest around.
* BrainsAndBondage: Has a doctorate. Likes BDSM and serves as a dominant.
* CoDragons: Often shares the role with Wags when discussing strategic actions and problems faced by Axelrod.
* ConflictingLoyalty: In season one, a major plotline was where her loyalties really lay - with her husband and the State Attorney's office, or with Bobby, her patients, and her place of work.
* TheConsigliere: To Bobby, Chuck, Wags, and Taylor, counseling each of them, somewhat shielded from the murkier side of what they do.
* DeadpanSnarker: One of the few to keep up with Bobby and Wags.
* {{Dominatrix}}: Serves as one to Chuck.
* FaceHeelTurn: When she [[spoiler:destroys Taylor's relationship with their father]].
* FamilyVersusCareer: Her father-in-law seems to think she needs to choose between Chuck and her children, or her career, and would like to stress how important her image as a wife and mother is if Chuck becomes governor. Even Chuck is displeased with how seriously she takes her career and that she earns more money than he does.
* TheFashionista: Has a ''killer'', high-end wardrobe, including her dominatrix outfits.
* TheHeart: To most of Axe Cap, reminding them that there's a human cost to what they do. Becomes subverted by Season 4 when she acquiesces to Axe's harsh treatment of his employees (like [[spoiler:Rudy's firing]]) and [[spoiler:uses Taylor's old therapy notes to sabotage them]]. However, being given a ReasonYouSuckSpeech by [[spoiler:Mafee]] causes her to feel guilty to the point where [[spoiler:she confesses her misdeeds to the medical board even though will likely mean her license being revoked]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Being hit with the ReasonYouSuckSpeech by Mafee seems to cut her deep, later causing her to have an emotional breakdown. When she faces the medical board, she quickly confesses to her actions towards Taylor and accepts the likely revocation of her license.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Wendy rightfully chews out Chuck in Season 1 for using her confidential therapy notes to target Bobby. [[spoiler:Then in Season 4, Wendy uses her old therapy notes with Taylor to hatch a plan that will drive a wedge between them and their father Douglas in order to sabotage an invention they are working on. It may not be as illegal as when Chuck did it, but it's no less unethical for Wendy.]]
* IronLady: She can dominate both Axe and Chuck, and ''at the same time''.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At the start of "Not You, Mr. Dake," Chuck and Bobby debate whether they really want Wendy involved in their plot to frame a third party for the Ice Juice poisoning. Cue Wendy walking into the room and simply asking, "So, who's going to be our patsy?"
* LadyMacbeth: Evolves into one in Season 3. After laying into both Bobby and Chuck for getting her roped into Connerty's Ice Juice investigation, she goes along with their subsequent plan to frame Dr. Gilbert and [[ManipulativeBitch exploits Mafee's crush on her]] in order to make him corroborate her cover story. Then, after Chuck Senior and Black Jack Foley invade her and Chuck's sex dungeon as a power play, she helps convince Chuck to turn against their political aspirations for him while ''using Hall'' to make her own move against Senior. Finally, she encourages Bobby to "fuck [Taylor] over" when they stab him the back to start their own hedge fund.
--> '''Bobby:''' Different from "look inward."
--> '''Wendy:''' [[TookALevelInJerkass Yeah, well ''I'm'' different]].
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Always on the brink of it thanks to her supportive, indispensable work at Axe capital enforcing its cutthroat practices, she crosses the line when she [[spoiler:uses Taylor's medical confidentiality against them, which gets Wendy in hot water with the medical board]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When she hears about the Ice Juice situation - with the best of intentions - she goes to Chuck and admits Axe Cap is going to short the stock. She tells him to sell his shares in the company, she knows it's going to tank. Chuck, being [[XanatosGambit ten steps ahead of her]], digs in, getting into an argument with her and claiming she underestimates him. In retaliation, Wendy buys a big share of the short... which is going to reflect really badly when the government goes after Axe Cap for the fraud, and potentially land her in jail.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She's known Bobby for over fifteen years, considering they were friends - and possibly already business partners - when 9/11 happened. She's the first person he runs to when he feels uncertain, and relies heavily on her for advice. Chuck thinks she's been cheating on him with Bobby, they're so close. After she leaves Axe Capital, he spends a lot of time and effort (which everyone picks up on) trying to "win her back". [[spoiler:This trope leaves the building in episode 10 of season 5.]]
* PragmaticHero: Not only does she use Hall to help her bring Charles Sr. to heel, she actually tells him, "It's good to have you back." For Wendy, of all people, to embrace Hall's way of doing business is chilling.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:After Taylor offers emotional support to Wendy following Chuck's press conference, Wendy and Axe hatch a plan where Axe uses a government contact to hold up the invention they are working on with their father in bureaucratic red tape -- effectively giving Taylor a SadisticChoice between protecting the interests of their father (with whom they have a strained relationship) or protecting their fund. Wendy's role in this is to win the confidence of both Taylor and Mafee and milk enough information out of them to make the scheme successful. It works.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In "The Third Ortolan", after Connerty finds out about her Ice Juice short, she quite rightfully rips into both Chuck and Axe for letting their mutual obsession with beating each other draw in their friends and loved ones and put them in the crossfire.
* TheShrink: In-house therapist for Axe Capital in season one, strikes out on her own in season two, back at Axe Cap by 2.08.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's very cool, mannered and graceful, but has an iron will and immense ambition.
* TeamMom: To Axe Capital, frequently having to yank the juvenile traders and their egos back in line.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As a result of finding herself in Connerty's crosshairs.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her defining color (mirroring Bobby and not her husband), is blue.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In Season 2, Wendy is brought in by Craig Heidecker to evaluate a female astronaut who he is considering to man his privately-funded rocket launch to Mars. At episode's end, Wendy advises Heidecker to nix the astronaut from the mission. Wendy goes on to have a one-night stand with Heidecker, who replaces the female astronaut on the rocket launch -- that ends in disaster when the rocket explodes after liftoff, killing Heidecker.
* WomenAreWiser: Provides counsel for the staff at Axe Cap, both on and off the clock.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rhoades, Sr.]]
!! Charles Rhoades, Sr
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffreyDeMunn
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Nobody gets to fuck 'em all."'']]

Charles Rhoades Senior is a New York blue blood with a thwarted political career and a lot of connections. He wants nothing more than for his son to succeed in life.

* AgeGapRomance: In Season 4, Senior begins a relationship with a Native American woman named Roxanne, who is old enough to be his granddaughter, which eventually produces Chuck's (who is middle-aged) baby sister. Season 5 opens with Senior and Roxanne's wedding, after Senior has divorced [[ExtremeDoormat Chuck's mother]].
* AmbitionIsEvil: By proxy in the present day, no deed is dishonest enough if it takes Chuck a step closer to get into high office.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Senior has spent all of Chuck's life pushing his son to seek higher political office, often with opportunistic gambits. He didn't count on Chuck talking him into dumping all of his money into a disastrously bad investment as part of his own opportunistic gambit against Axe.
* BlueBlood: "Indian Four" reveals he went to Yale and was a Whiffenpoof, which places him as quite high on the social ladder. His varying connections at the highest levels of power cement it.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: His speech to Taiga about marriage.
-->'''Senior''': You give a marriage seven years before you even entertain the notion of a divorce. From the day the Dorsey Brothers showed that Presley boy swiveling his hips, there’s been a slow but steady erosion of the family. Well, here is how you keep one going: you find a group of friends better than you, find one worse, bitch about them to each other, and then when you’re all bitched out, run ten miles a day. Take your birth control pills and flush ‘em, and make that kid your project together. And if Ira doesn’t know how to fuck you, you teach him. I’m not done. One more thing. Give yourself the lime test. You stick your finger in lime juice and put it up inside and if it stings, get yourself cleaned out. Do not bring the clap home to your husband-it’s uncivil.
* DomesticAbuse: Chuck relates how Senior systematically used wanton violence once or twice every year against his wife just to make a point.
* EvilIsPetty: Jumped aboard his son's "destroy Bobby Axelrod" campaign largely because Bobby meddled in Senior's relationship with his mistress and beat him on a trucking deal.
** When Chuck tricked him into making a bad investment that ended up destroying his fortune, Senior presented him with photographic proof that Wendy had cheated on him. He even told Chuck to open the envelope in front of him, just so he could see his reaction.
* EvilMentor: Always willing to counsel his son towards amoral, self-serving actions.
* {{Jerkass}}: A reprehensible individual. His offensive demeanor and lack of good taste sometimes can come off as [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilarious]], nevertheless.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Senior is poised to bring Chuck down with him when Connerty learns of their involvement in the Ice Juice affair. However, Chuck and Foley threaten to withdraw the casino project from Kingsford, which would put Senior further in the red. Senior ends up denying Chuck's involvement in Ice Juice.
* ManipulativeBastard: Especially with Chuck. Senior has spent Chuck's entire life trying to revive his political career vicariously through his son, often by manipulating Chuck and other people. Then, when Chuck backstabs him in the Ice Juice scandal, Senior devotes his effort to manipulating ''against'' Chuck.
* MayDecemberRomance: Senior begins a relationship with a Native American girl named Roxanne, who is old enough to be his granddaughter, and has a baby with her. They marry in Season 5 after Senior secures a quickie divorce from Chuck's mother.
* MeddlingParents: Dear God, yes.
* MyBelovedSmother: It doesn't matter that he's Chuck's father; the dynamic works the same way.
* OldMoney
* OpportunisticBastard: If given the chance to advance his son's career and/or rescue his own damaged reputation, Rhoades Senior will not only jump, he'll succeed. The crowner might be finding out about Bobby's plan on buying Sandicot and convincing the casino to build elsewhere, ensuring that not only does his son come out clean, Bobby's $5 million down and looking at a full quarter loss. This has the bonus effect of turning public opinion in Chuck's favor in the ''one'' area of New York state that Chuck wasn't polling well in.
* PetTheDog: He seems genuinely affectionate towards his mistress Roxanne and quickly takes a protective stance towards her [[spoiler:and their baby when their hotel room is raided by the FBI]]. He also balks when Chuck dismissively refers to her as his "consort." They marry at the start of Season 5 after Senior divorces from Chuck's mother.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Most of his jaw-dropping rudeness comes from not giving a damn anymore.
* StayInTheKitchen: Had this mentality with his wife and wishes that Wendy would step aside and not interfere with Chuck's career and ambitions.
* SurpassedTheTeacher: First when Chuck uses Senior to entrap Axe in the Ice Juice gambit, which turns Senior against his son. Then when Chuck forces Senior to not implicate him by holding the Kingsford casino hostage, Senior complies and seems to gain a begrudging respect for Chuck's manipulative abilities. After the Ice Juice case is dismissed, father and son seem to bury the hatchet.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Senior doesn't disown Chuck for purposefully making him collateral damage in the Ice Juice scheme, but he still makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with him. They eventually get better, though.
* VicariouslyAmbitious: Perhaps his most defining characteristic is finding ways to push Chuck towards higher office, after seeing his own political ambitions thwarted.
[[/folder]]

!!Axe Capital / Axe Holding Company

[[folder:Wags]]
!!Mike "Wags" Wagner
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidCostabile
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wags.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You are here to keep the Visigoths outside the city walls. Not to impugn the judgment of the Caesar."'']]

-->''"Your feelings aren't a fucking priority."''

Wags is Bobby's right hand man and the COO of Axe Capital. He seems like just a party guy in season one, but in season two, Wags's personal life takes a hit, and he goes off the rails. He has more HiddenDepths than you might expect, but don't tell him that.

* AssholeVictim: Let's face it, if the Yosemite Sam tattoo and blackout incident had happened to anyone besides Wags, we'd find it horrible instead of funny. Wags has been careening toward something like this all series.
* BatmanGambit: He drags Mafee to a pitch meeting with a new brokerage firm (i.e., a rival to Spartan-Ives), knowing that:
** The account reps think he's a careless drunk (and thus an easy sale);
** Mafee will try to get him to stop drinking, thus selling the careless-drunk idea, and
** His account rep at Spartan-Ives frequents the club where they're meeting, and will see them there. Then he uses the meeting to extort a huge price cut from Spartan-Ives. Kinda brilliant.
* BrokenPedestal: Experienced this when he bumped into his old mentor on the street only to discover the man has early onset Alzheimer’s and doesn’t even recognize him, losing his job and his family along with his memories.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to have slid into this in season two.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A minor example: he is clean shaved in the pilot, he only starts sporting his devilish goatee in the second episode.
* CoDragons: With Wendy for Axe. They serve as his two primary advisors and the two people he trusts above all others.
* TheCreon: A loyal number two with no desire or ambition to supplant Bobby.
* DeadpanSnarker: Constantly making snarky comments and jokes at others' expense
* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: The one kid of Wags' that he seems to be sure of is his eldest son George. When George shows up at the end of "Beg, Bribe, Bully", Wags assumes it's because he's interested in finance and hedge funds, but George is really a born-again Christian, come to try and save Wags.
* TheDragon: Wags is usually Bobby's first and last line of defense whenever a threat appears.
* DrillSergeantNasty: According to Dr. Gus, virtually the entire firm hates Wags' guts for being Bobby's drill sergeant. It says a lot considering Bobby himself is pretty drill-sergeanty to them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Beyond their working relationship, Bobby and him go way back and are perhaps the only genuine friends they respectively have in the business.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath the profane party-guy, Wags has some depth. He deeply respects the art of sushi-making (including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-FAcSJ7tbA nearly beating another guy up for disrespecting his favorite sushi chef]]) and while he's the resident drill sergeant and somewhat of a chauvinist, he treats Taylor and Wendy with complete respect, knowing they both have strengths and value he does not.
** In "The Chris Rock Test", Wags discovered he has failed the titular test when he sees [[spoiler: his previously-unknown daughter working as a stripper, and addicted to drugs. Wags ''immediately'' tanks the business deal he's there to close and packs his daughter up for a hotel room and rehab.]]
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: His arc in Season 5. Realizing that his absent parenting has left him with no meaningful ties to any offspring who can follow in his footsteps (with his daughter being a drug-addicted stripper and his son being a Christian missionary), Wags prowls a dating app looking for a woman who can bear him a child he can raise as an heir. His search leads him to a blonde girl who is old enough to be his daughter.
* IOweYouMyLife: Metaphorically speaking. Wags feels he owes everything to Bobby after Bobby urged him to leave his former job at Lehman Brothers before the bank collapsed.
* LargeHam: Very loud and aggressive when dealing with subordinates and such, he's usually more restrained among equals.
* LifeOfTheParty: Takes the traders out for body sushi, orders $15,000 bottles of scotch, and has an IV drip hangover cure on speed dial.
* LivingLieDetector: Bobby calls Wags his "personal bullshit detector".
* OddFriendship: With Wendy, who he calls his "trench buddy", as they are the two highest-ranking employees at Axe Capital and must lead the firm when Bobby is arrested. In season three, Wendy spills to Wags her fears about the Chuck vs. Axe battle, and in season four, Wags takes her to Bar Boulud after the medical board hearing to get drunk and feel better.
* NumberTwo: To Bobby.
* PapaWolf: Of a sort to the people at Axe Capital. When Wags takes Taylor to a Turkish bathhouse to talk business, one of the other patrons -- who is clearly beefier than both of them and sports tattoos implying he's in TheMafiya -- starts giving Taylor grief. Wags sticks up for them by getting into the guy's face and basically telling him to step off.
* ParentalObliviousness / ParentalNeglect: We find out in season 5 that Wags is not only a father, he's got a ''lot'' of children. He just hasn't really cared to get to know any of his kids. He finds out in "The Chris Rock Test" that [[spoiler: one of his daughters has fallen on hard times and become a stripper]], and the Gordie-Axe relationship in "Beg, Bribe, Bully" inspires Wags to get in touch with nearly all of his kids. Finding out that the one kid willing to talk to him is on a Jesus kick causes him to desperately seek a new mate on a dating app who might produce him a child that he will raise right.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Beware if and when he starts constructing a very formal, ornate phrase. He will drop an amusingly offensive and crude bomb in the middle of it without missing a beat or changing his tone.
* WorkHardPlayHard: Wags is a party animal, but he usually doesn't let his excesses interfere with his professionalism.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dollar Bill]]
!!"Dollar" Bill Stern
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KellyAuCoin
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm Keyser Soze, motherfucker."'']]

-->''"...I am not uncertain."''

Stern is a trader at Axe Capital, and one of the guys who have been with Bobby the longest. His loyalty is beyond question.

* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: More like thinning but it's doable.
* BerserkButton: He will move heaven and earth to find the person responsible for stealing his lucky dollar.
* CrimeAfterCrime: When his Chicken Man insider trading scheme backfires, he has a VillainousBSOD and decides to escalate all the way to [[spoiler: bio-terrorism by infecting a chicken farm with bird flu]].
* EvilIsPetty: In "Flaw in the Death Star" he plumbs the very depths of pettiness, stealing a newspaper from a vending machine and then destroying Spyros's car because Spyros inconvenienced him.
* {{Flanderization}}: Zig-zagged. In season 1, Bill is just your basic amoral trader. By season 3, he descends briefly into self-parody (see EvilIsPetty above) before forming a [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic alliance]] with Spyros in order to make more money.
* HiddenDepths: Seeming at first like the epitome of the ruthless, macho, double-dealing lifestyle of their firm, with nothing more than his (very well-compensated) loyalty to Axe as a redeeming feature, his changing conduct towards Taylor in Season 2 shows there is more to him than that.
* LargeHam: Not one for subtlety or a plain tone. As seen in the right image, "over the top" is his default state.
* ManipulativeBastard: His out-gambitting of Chuck Rhoades: "I'm Keyser Soze, motherfucker."
* PaperTiger: Bill loves to yell and scream and bluster, but it's mostly noise.
** Has a tantrum when Axe gives the second Alpha Cup seat to Taylor, but Axe shuts him down fast.
--> '''Bill:''' That's ''my fucking seat!''
--> '''Axe:''' I paid for it; it's ''my'' fucking seat. I can give it to whoever the fuck I want!
** In "Icebreaker" (s03e09), gets shown up by ''three'' lower-ranking employees at different times. Only one pays for it, and that one is punished by Wags, not Bill.
** In "Fight Night" (s04e08), getting his ass handed to him by Bonnie (who is half his size) during an impromptu training session turns him into a weeping, blubbering mess. [[spoiler:His big boxing match with Mafee ends in an underwhelming draw]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At the start of Season 2, he very nearly calls Taylor a freak for identifying as non-binary, and only a sharp look from Axe stops him. To give him his due, once Taylor proves to be a major asset to the company, he shows genuine respect and loyalty.
* PetTheDog: Despite his earlier contempt towards Taylor, once they have shown their worth to the company and proven willing to engage in the cut-throat aspects of the Wall Street lifestyle, he treats them as a valued colleague, gives them a large off-the-books cash sum and some completely sincere advice about how it's always a good idea to have cash hidden away in case all hell breaks loose. At the end of the season when Taylor is made [=CIO=] instead of him, he accepts it as a good call and asks them what he can do to help.
* {{Pride}}: Takes great pride in being "not uncertain" and has an ego the size of the Moon. Hurting either will cause him to go overboard. Being forced to publicly apologize to Spyros causes him to wreck Spyros' Porsche. Finding himself unable to rig the chicken pricing scheme causes him to [[spoiler:steal an [=H1N1=]-infected chicken and attempt to plant it in a chicken farm, which would have caused a serious health crisis if Bobby and Wags hadn't stopped him in time]].
* TheRival: In "Flaw in the Death Star", he and Ari Spyros' mutual dislike spills into genuine hatred, with Bill eventually ramming his car into Spyros' prized Porsche.
* TheScrooge: His nickname comes from the fact he's a tightwad despite being a multi-millionaire hedge fund analyst.
** His frugality begins to make more sense with the post-arrest revelation that he's supporting two families.
* StupidCrooks: Usually averted, as his schemes are well thought-out and tend to insulate him and Axe Capital from the main criminal activity. However, when the Chicken Man scheme backfires, he has a VillainousBSOD and in desperation attempts to [[spoiler:infect a chicken farm with bird flu]]. He does the deed personally and seems unconcerned about fingerprints and security cameras. He also seems completely oblivious to the fact he is engaging in [[spoiler:bio-terrorism]] and could kill people.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Axe. In Bill's words "they fuck you, they fuck me!".
* VillainousBSOD: Has one after [[spoiler:he fails to rig the chicken pricing scheme in Arkansas.]]
--> '''Bill:''' I'm the guy who ''DELIVERS!''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bach]]
!!Orrin Bach
->'''Played By:''' Creator/GlennFleshler
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There's a reason you retained me: me. I look far enough down the road to let you avoid the speed traps."'']]

-->''"You do your three or five or ten years here, then you flip to our side, cash seven figures from the same big funds you're trying to bring down."''

Bach is the in-house lawyer for Axe Capital, and used to teach law at NYU.

* AmoralAttorney: As Bobby's attorney, he advises Bobby on how to deal with Chuck's investigation and is often privy to his client's schemes to dodge scrutiny.
* AffablyEvil: Maybe not "evil"...at least compared to people like Hall. But he is probably the most level-headed person on Axe's team, and remains cordial with his former student Bryan Connerty even though they are on opposite sides of the Axe-Rhoades feud.
* FaceHeelTurn: He taught Connerty that a lawyer's calling was about serving the spirit of the law beyond mere recompense, but one day he sold out and started playing for the defence and [[EvilPaysBetter its seven figures per year]].
* HonestAdvisor: Is this to Bobby.
* TheMentor: Interestingly enough, to Connerty, who was his law student.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Does not waver from his support of Bobby, through investigations and allegations and all the might of the U.S. Attorney's office gunning for him. His loyalty is to Bobby and Bobby alone, even when Lara tries to bribe him and consult him for divorce advice. He turns her down flat, reminding her Bobby pays him well enough that she'd have to triple the bribe just to get his attention.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spyros]]
!! Ari Spyros
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephenKunken
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The Answer Man is here!"'']]

SEC official who is a thorn in Chuck's side at the Attorney General's office. He later becomes the compliance officer at Axe Capital.

* BrickJoke: In season 2, he bullies Chuck with the Cortado Gambit (see [[EvilIsPetty Evil Is Petty]] below). In his first appearance in season 3, he swaggers into Axe's office holding... a cortado.
* CoolCar: Owns a sleek red Porsche convertible. Which Dollar Bill [[ThePreciousPreciousCar totals]].
* EvilIsPetty: Makes Chuck send his secretary out for a cortado, then refuses to drink it.
* FaceHeelTurn: From the Securities and Exchange Commission to Axe Capital, a major rules violator. He tries to present his role there as responsible of compliance as enforcing good practice, with little success.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Ari gets on the nerves of everyone in Chuck's office by butting into their investigations, and is especially loathed by Chuck after he finds out that Ari [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped a classmate in college]]. When Ari leaves the SEC for Axe Capital, his new co-workers also regard him with disdain.
* GloryHound: This is really what all his [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]] is about.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance:
** "This is a case of what I like to call... The Prisoner's Dilemma." Chuck immediately snaps and retorts that's just how it's called.
** Bursts into Axe's office warning of a "[[DefconFive DEFCON 6]]" situation, only for Taylor to correct him about how the DEFCON scale really works.
* IncitingIncident: He's the one who brings Axe's insider trading into Rhoades' attention. Chuck initially refuses to take action because he doesn't want to mess with a Bobby who is like "Tyson in his prime."
* {{Irony}}: As an SEC representative, Ari was the person who originally put Bobby on Chuck's radar and set the whole premise of the series into motion. By the start of the third season, he has left the SEC and become one of Bobby's advisors after his indictment.
* {{Jerkass}}: A colossal stuck up, ridiculous asshole.
* KarmaHoudini: Sure, Chuck manages to get the better of him, eventually. But Spyros just moves over to Axe Cap, where, ironically, Chuck can't do much to him.
** Subverted in "All the Wilburys." Bobby fires Ari for backstabbing Wendy, but Dollar Bill gets Ari his job back when he finds a useful moneymaking scheme.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Triumphantly announces himself to Axe Cap: "The Answer Man is here!" Cue eye-rolls from the actual smart people in the room.
** Becomes a B plot in Season 5, when this tendency by Spyros (including wearing a fake Mensa lapel pin) tanks Axe's meeting with the SEC chairwoman. Spyros becomes determined to show off his intellect by taking Mensa's online questionnaire so that he can join for real. Mafee rigs the questionnaire so that Spyros passes (knowing that he would spitefully flag Axe Cap's trades if he flunked) but immediately regrets it when Spyros rubs his apparent triumph in everyone's faces.
* MustHaveCaffeine: If there is one characteristic Spyros has besides his douchiness, it's his love of exotic coffee.
* TheRival: Hates Dollar Bill and everything he stands for, but must work with him after being ordered to by Bobby. After Ari gloats over Bill's forced-apology, Bill rams his car into Ari's prized Porsche. Subverted in that Dollar Bill helps get Ari his job back after Bobby fires him, but he makes it clear that it's a one-time deal.
* SmartBall: Despite his asinine obnoxiousness, he can come up with an useable idea every now and then.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Hoping to help out Axe and impress him, he tells the NSA about the trade Wendy made during the Ice Juice ICO, giving Connerty what he needs to go after Chuck and Wendy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ben Kim]]
!! Ben Kim
->'''Played by:''' Creator/DanielKIsaac

* ExtremeDoormat: Constantly struggles with his lack of ability to stand up for himself in the pressure cooker of Axe Capital.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Declines to join Taylor's new hedge fund, remaining with Axe Capital.
* NiceGuy: Along with Mafee, he's the only one of the top traders who considers the ethics of some of the fund's moves. He is also one of the few people who isn't celebrating Heidecker's death.
* TookALevelInBadass: After two and a half seasons as a doormat, he finally grows a spine when Dollar Bill tries to bully him.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:Is delighted to have Taylor and Mafee back in Axe Capital, at the end of season 4.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Donnie]]
!! Donnie Caan
->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidCromer

* TheAtoner: Believes he owes everything to Axe Capital (and Bobby in particular).
* BuryYourGays: Dies of cancer by the end of the season for plot purposes
* FakeDefector: He's the double-agent in the Southern District, with Bobby feeding him information to distract Chuck.
* IllBoy: Contracts terminal cancer and quickly succumbs to it.
* NiceGuy: One of the few genuine ones in Axe Cap, and a big reason why everyone in the firm loves him.
* StraightGay: No one would have pegged him for gay, until his husband shows up.
* TagalongKid: On paper, not a great fit at Axe Cap: too little machismo and too much conscience. But the entire firm loves him and is distraught when he dies. Even Rhoades shows up to his funeral.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Danzig]]
!!Mick Danzig
->'''Played by:''' Creator/NathanDarrow

* TheBusCameBack: Returns to Axe Cap in Season 4 after interviewing for Taylor's fund.
* HiddenDepths: Initially seems to be a macho jerk just like the other traders at Axe Capital, but is horrified when Axe Cap considers inflicting crippling austerity measures on Sandicot to get Bobby's money back after the casino snafu. It eventually causes him to quit.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Left Axe Cap because of moral qualms over the Sandicot debacle, only to come back over a season later.
* PutOnABus: Quit Axe Capital over the Sandicot issue in Season 2 and wasn't seen again until Season 4.
* RecklessGunUsage: Is arrested during the first season for firing his machine gun at deer on his front lawn in the middle of the night. Bobby helps cover up the incident.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rudy]]
!! Peter "Rudy" Miranda
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChrisCarfizzi

Consistently the worst-performing trader at Axe Capital.

* ButtMonkey
* HiddenDepths: Is a magnificent singer.
* IdiotBall: Grabs it when he steals Dollar Bill's lucky dollar in "Icebreaker." [[spoiler:Does it again by attending a Mase Cap party without Bobby's knowledge, which gets him fired.]]
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Taylor catches him doing it, because "Nessu Dorma" is about somebody hiding something.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Victor]]
!!Victor Mateo
->'''Played by:''' Creator/LouisCancelmi

* TheBusCameBack: A few times. After lying low for a while, he reappears to open a satellite fund where Axe can profit from his dark dealings; after [[spoiler:Victor gets in trouble with the SEC]], he reappears again when Axe shuts down the satellite and [[spoiler:punishes him by bringing him back in house to work off his debt.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Gets publicly fired by Axe after making one shady trade too many.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bonnie]]
!!Bonnie Barella
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SarahStiles
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/billions_309_1834r.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I hit like the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Purple People Eaters]], so be careful what you wish for."'']]

--> ''"Take one more step toward me, Bill, and I will fuck you up."''

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Is introduced near the end of Season 3 without much characterization beyond being TheLadette on the Axe Cap trading floor. During Season 4 she evolves into Wendy's female confidante at Axe Capital, and someone who is both mentally and physically formidable for her size.
* LustObject: Has a history of being hit on or pursued by men, which she is not comfortable with. Spyros in particular has a creepy infatuation with her. [[spoiler:Which makes it all the more surprising when she reciprocates Dollar Bill's advances and starts an affair with him.]]
* TeamMom: While Wendy is TheShrink at Axe Capital, Bonnie is this for the traders. It is Bonnie who organizes a labor action amongst the traders to protest the Flagship fund, which turns out to be the result of a psy-op by Taylor Mason Capital partly designed to recruit her. Axe recognizes Bonnie's qualities and, to keep her at Axe Cap, includes her in the fund.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: [[spoiler:Her affair with Dollar Bill.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ayles]]
!! Sean Ayles
-->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackGilpin

Something between an IR man and a fixer for Axe Cap.

* AmoralAttorney: Not an attorney, but certainly amoral.
* TheFixer: A very specialized kind. Whereas Hall focuses on espionage, blackmail, and general skullduggery, Ayles handles donations, endowments, and outright bribery.
* HonestAdvisor: In his own words, "You're paying me enough so that I have to be."
* IAmWhatIAm: He has no illusions about who and what he is, nor any ambition to be something more. This means that even though he's a pretentious {{Jerkass}}, his paradoxical humility makes him easy to work with.
* UpperClassTwit: Tweed suits, elaborate diction, patrician demeanor, etc.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steph]]
!! Stephanie "Steph" Reed
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ShaunetteReneeWilson
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[[caption-width-right:300:...]]

Bobby's Chief of Staff in season two, brought in as part of Bobby's obsession with tightening security and transparency.

* BewareTheHonestOnes: Has no qualms about telling Bobby precisely what she thinks of his decisions, and reminding him of past boneheaded decisions.
* BlackBossLady: To the employees at Axe Capital, as Bobby's new chief of staff.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Bobby treats her terribly, causing her to have no qualms becoming a witness for the Southern District.
* MookFaceTurn: Bobby's firing of her causes her to turn state's witness against Axe Capital, and point the finger straight at Taylor for the current illegal goings-on.
* OnlySaneEmployee: Steph frequently mediates between the volatile traders and Bobby.
* PutOnABus: Gets fired and leaves Axe Capital, with only a single fleeting appearance thereafter.
* SexySecretary: Only a secretary in the sense that she functions as a legal check on Bobby doing any more insider trading and therefore must attend and take notes at every meeting.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: All the possibilities for her helping Bobby go legit go out the window when he fires her, saying [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he's a Terminator and he needs Wags, not her]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't seen or referred to again after she agrees to turn state's witness for Connerty in Season 2.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hall]]
!! Hall
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TerryKinney
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hall.jpg]]

-->''"You don't have to outswim the shark. You just have to outswim the guy you're scuba diving with."''

Bobby's "fixer". You listen to him, or you go down in flames.

* BeardOfSorrow: Grows one while he hides out in Nova Scotia. He gets rid of it when he returns to Bobby's service.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever went down with him and Bobby in Reykjavik, it affected all of their dealings afterward. Bobby trusts him implicitly, and has Hall's number in his phone listed as "Iceland".
* {{Fetish}}: Hall is seen taking a phone call at a sauna while a dwarf woman with a riding crop waits for him to follow her somewhere. It's stated that not even Wags can stomach to guess what Hall does in his off-hours.
--> '''Hall:''' "What gets me off would disturb you on such a deep level, you'd be best served never to think about it again."
* OnlyOneName: "Hall" is the only name we have for him. Bobby seems to address him as "Neil" in the Season 3 finale.
* PutOnABus: Quickly makes himself scarce when the Ice Juice scandal breaks at the end of season 2. He is not seen for the first half of Season 3 and Bobby takes on two new fixers dubbed "the new Halls". However, TheBusCameBack in "Not You, Mr. Dake" to help Bobby beat Connerty's charges against Wendy and sabotage his case.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the season two finale, Hall disappears without a trace, apparently reading the writing on the wall in regards to the Ice Juice scandal, the U.S. Attorney's office heading for Axe Capital, and Bobby's impending arrest.
* TheSpook: We initially know nothing about his background, personal life, qualifications - just that he's Bobby's "fixer" and that he has pull in every corner of the globe. It's strongly implied he was on Langley's payroll in the past.
* WorfEffect: To a degree. Hall is such an intimidating figure that Wags, Wendy and Boyd are all wary of him. But when Andolov backhands him with no repercussions, it shows who the ''real'' badass is between them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The New Halls]]
!! The New Halls
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/TomLipinski & Creator/BrianWiles

Axe's anonymous new fixers and counter-intel experts, derisively dubbed "the new Halls" by Wags. Younger, sleeker, and higher-tech than their predecessor.

* AmbiguouslyGay: They're joined at the hip and seem to share a very close relationship, but it hasn't been explicitly shown that they're a couple. It's rather telling that they introduce each other rather than themselves when first establishing their bona fides.
* ContinuityNod: As Hall was "Iceland" in Bobby's phone contacts, the new Halls are dubbed "Greenland".
* DeadpanSnarker: Wags tries to bully and intimidate the New Halls. They are unimpressed.
--> '''Wags:''' Why should I trust you to do anything other than point me to the nearest avocado toast?
--> '''New Hall no. 1:''' Smashed spring pea toast is the new avocado toast.
* GeniusBruiser: They're both highly intelligent and combat-trained spies for hire.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: They're also referred to as "the Winkelvii", due to their physical resemblance to the Winklevoss twins.
* TheSpock: They're not even [[RedOniBlueOni Red Oni, Blue Oni]]; it's more like Blue Oni, Bluer Oni.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They disappear from the narrative completely after Hall comes back.
[[/folder]]

!!Taylor Mason Capital / Taylor Mason Carbon

[[folder:Taylor]]
!!Taylor Mason
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AsiaKateDillon
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taylor.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You worry about my soul, and I'll just keep doing my job."'']]

-->''"Hello. I'm Taylor. My pronouns are 'they,' theirs,' and 'them.'"''

An intern at Axe Capital who is gender non-binary. They spot things that no one but Bobby ever thinks to look for, so Bobby takes them under his wing. Goes on to found their own hedge fund, Taylor Mason Capital.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Taylor's past experiences of playing poker at university have left them with painful memories due to other students treating them as an outsider, but they generally get treated quite well at Axe Cap. However, they are fully aware that this is only because Bobby has openly taken an interest in them, rather than because the people at Axe Cap are nicer or more open-minded than people anywhere else.
* AmbiguousDisorder: There's some talk about Taylor being on the spectrum. However, in interviews and on their personal Twitter, Dillon denied that Taylor is "autistic," "on the spectrum," or has Asperger syndrome.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Is able to deduct Rudy's duplicity because he's singing "Nessun Dorma", which is about somebody hiding something.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: They were previously involved in Occupy Wall Street, but now works for one of Wall Street's biggest hedge funds because their vocation (analyzing data) gives them their sense of purpose. Explored further when they are given the task of firing someone from Axe Capital, which gets personal for Taylor since their mathematician father being laid off from his job led to a bad home life.
** Goes back the other way after leaving Axe Cap and starting their own fund, as they try to garner support by claiming their former ruthlessness was the result of the toxic culture at Axe Cap, and they have no intention of engaging in such morally dubious behaviour in their own company. [[spoiler:This being ''Billions'', that kind of promise doesn't last long.]]
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: Seems to view Wendy as theirs, in regards to their personal conduct (as opposed to Bobby as a business mentor). Taylor looks to Wendy for support and counsel, and when taking over as CIO, wants Wendy's approval first and foremost. [[spoiler:Which makes Wendy's deep betrayal all the more horrific.]]
* BrutalHonesty: While courteous, Taylor is perfectly blunt about calling out any behaviour that doesn't make sense. They also refuse Wendy's advice to tell Mafee that he's doing a good job, as they know that he isn't, and believe lying makes everything more complicated.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: ''Taylor'', of all people, describes the fund's performance in graphically sexual terms.
--> '''Taylor:''' As our friend Wags would say, it's up like his morning wood.
* [[DidNotGetTheGirl Did Not Get the Guy]]: Oscar agrees to invest money in Taylor's hedge fund after the indirect role they played in Bobby shafting him, but makes it clear to them that the two no longer have a relationship.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Taylor initially wanted to call a truce between themselves and Bobby, but the successful sabotage of their invention (along with their relationship with Douglas) makes them colder and more willing to take the vindictive route with Bobby.]]
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Any of Taylor's interactions with Andolov give off this vibe; even Axe is scared of the man, and Taylor doesn't have anywhere near his experience or resources, leaving Taylor with little more than gumption to bring to bear against someone who has already offered to have them assassinated.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: A variation; after betraying Bobby and leaving Axe Cap, Taylor specifically mentions the public and private humiliations as reasons for their actions, but claims they interpreted them as warning signs of an incoming attack that Taylor wished to pre-empt, rather than the reason in themselves.
* EtTuBrute: In response to [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal mistreatment by Bobby]], they go behind his back to get enough seed money from Grigor Andolov to start their own breakaway hedge fund, costing the firm Grigor's investment and recruiting Mafee in the process. Bobby and Wendy are both furious when they find out about it.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: When Taylor's father appears, he mentions in passing to Mafee that a six-year-old Taylor once said they wanted to marry him, and he's not quite sure what to make of that. Taylor (having approached unseen) says it was nothing more than affection, and an indicator of how few children their own age they knew.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: In matters where Axe uses people they are close to, Taylor will choose their friends. They suspect that Axe and Wendy are somehow planning on emotionally manipulating Mafee in order to beat the Ice Juice charges. They show up in Wendy's office and make it clear they object to whatever Axe and Wendy are planning. It's both this incident and Bobby's backstabbing of Oscar that makes Taylor decide to start a hedge fund outside of Axe Capital, which costs the firm Mafee and several investors, including Andolov.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Intern to analyst to lead trader to CIO all in under a year. Later breaks away from Axe Capital to start their own hedge fund.
* GoodWithNumbers: Makes precise economic calculations in a split second.
* HatesBeingTouched: Visibly struggles to maintain their composure when touched unexpectedly, and while they do respond to a fist-bump correctly, it is clearly with some distaste.
** That said, after falling for Oskar, they are perfectly proactive in instigating a sexual relationship, and don't appear to have any trouble with intimate contact on their own terms.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: A trait they share with Bobby, with the added difficulty of being far more socially awkward than he is. Their extremely keen perception causes him to take an interest in them and convince them to take a full-time position so he can be their mentor.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Bryan tries to warn them that Axe will make them do this, but by this point Taylor has (after some initial struggles) accepted the shady trader lifestyle, and values the purity and focus of doing a good job over more moral considerations.
* LivingLieDetector: Downplayed. They are the best poker player in the company, though that's as much to do with their enormous skill for calculating numbers and observing patterns of behavior as for reading faces. More noticeably, when Dollar Bill (who has both prejudice and his own self-advancement as reasons to want Taylor to fail) attempts to give them a large cash bonus and some advice on how to survive in their legally dubious line of work, Taylor states, with a little surprise, that he's not lying.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Bobby's dickish behavior after he beats the Ice Juice charges -- namely his decision to end Taylor's quant experiment and use their knowledge to screw over their boyfriend -- drives Taylor to leave Axe Capital and start a new hedge fund with Mafee, taking Grigor's investment with them.
* MysteriousPast: Downplayed; they twice refer to having had over 900 hours of therapy, but do not elaborate on the circumstances and reasons. Even mentioning this at all is simply to inform their new therapists that they shouldn't waste time on the more basic forms.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Agrees to become this for Chuck when he turns against Bobby at the end of Season 4, returning to Axe Capital while secretly working with Chuck behind the scenes to bring Bobby down. Unbeknownst to Chuck, however, Taylor [[TheStarscream plans to play both sides until they destroy each other]] and they are allowed to go on their merry way.]]
* NervesOfSteel: Barely shaken when Connerty ambushes them at a coffee shop and later their apartment building. Instead, they school him on the dichotomy of right and wrong, stock market, and movie references.
* NotSoStoic: Their normally perfect composure cracks when touched (though they regain control quickly) and they also give a striking smile at the end of Season 2 when Dollar Bill accepts their being made [=CIO=] as a good call and pledges his full support. Grigor [[spoiler:being forced to withdraw his money and protection from Mase Cap]] causes them to stress-vomit.
* OddFriendship: With Mafee, whom you'd expect to be a typical macho trader. Mafee actually takes Taylor seriously, and gives them full credit for their ideas in front of Axe even when they were just a lowly intern under his supervision. When Mafee's performance falls, Taylor sees Wendy to ask for advice about how to make him feel better (which Wendy says would seem like a practical joke coming from anybody else at the firm) and buys him an autographed wrestling poster. Taylor also correctly deduces that Axe and Wendy are using Mafee to get out of the Ice Juice case, and they personally try to get Wendy to back off. By the end of Season 3, they both leave Axe Capital and start their own hedge fund.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Taylor seems positively smitten by Oskar Langsraat. The sight of them smitten by ''anyone'' raises the JustForFun/HolyShitQuotient, but when it's a VC (a profession Taylor dismisses as "hedge funders who have read the Tibetan ''Book of the Dead''"), well... That's some serious OOC.
** Another example is after Bobby screws Oscar and his VC fund out of a huge deal by using knowledge gleaned from Taylor, they show up in Wendy's office visibly upset for the first time, and wordlessly ask Wendy for a hug.
* PapaWolf: In so far as the term applies to non-binary characters. They exhibit this where Mafee is concerned, as despite being significantly younger and less experienced, their intelligence and analytical ability are such that they end up in the protective role.
* PetTheDog: Allows Rudy to stay at Axe Capital despite his lagging performance, since he is committed to the firm and popular in the office. They fire a more deserving brown-noser instead.
** After [[spoiler: Chuck publicly admits to being a masochist, and draws attention to Wendy's role as his dominatrix after she has specifically told him she didn't want him to]], Taylor calls Wendy and offers support, despite their animosity. The next episode reveals that Taylor has also been actively defending Wendy online against people mocking her. While Wendy's wounded pride causes her to interpret it as Taylor not seeing her as a threat anymore, Axe recognises the strength of character it shows from Taylor.
** [[spoiler:Even after Wendy betrays Taylor's trust by attacking their relationship with their father, Taylor eventually agrees not to testify against Wendy before the medical board and declines to celebrate when Wendy confesses to her misconduct, stating simply that she did the right thing.]]
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:How they intend play both Bobby and Chuck after they find themselves forced to return to Axe Capital as [[TheMole Chuck's mole]].]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Taylor's level of cursing is noticeably lower than many of their fellow traders, meaning that it is used for sincere emphasis when it does happen.
* ProperlyParanoid: A requirement to stay alive when you are at war with Bobby Axelrod.
* [[SheCleansUpNicely They Clean Up Nicely]]: When Wags sees them dressed in a wig and traditionally feminine garb to court investment from some Middle-Eastern players, he stutters a few times over how beautiful they looked.
* ShutUpHannibal: Delivers subdued versions of this to Bobby and Wendy at the end of Season 3. Bobby makes a euphemism comparing Taylor's new position to the "death zone" of Mount Everest, to which they reply, "Young lungs." Wendy lashes out at Taylor for betraying Bobby, claiming that "lasting relationships, true loyalty, real trust" are the most valuable commodities in their business; Taylor replies that money can buy all those things, and that the people who taught them that [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech are Bobby and Wendy themselves]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift:
** Taylor's BadassLongcoat in season 3 indicates that they have grown and matured.
** It also seems to be an indicator of mood: they wear their shorter, more casual jacket when feeling more open or vulnerable (e.g., with Oskar), and the long coat when kicking ass.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Acknowledges that it is "offensive" to think of innocent, working-class people losing everything while the company makes money off asset-stripping a poor town, but considers it even more offensive for a town to systematically mismanage itself for years and expect a bailout at the expense of those who have invested their own hard-earned money into it. They justify the asset-stripping with the knowledge that the town will either find the strength to rally and recover, or won't and fade away, but either outcome will be entirely natural in their eyes.
** On the flip-side, their analysis of who to fire does take other factors into account beyond simple performance, and they believe in giving hard workers of lower competence a chance to prove themselves.
* TheSpock: Nearly unflappable, except when you touch them.
* SpockSpeak: Practically all the time, especially when they talk business. They also disapprove of Axe and Wags' "jailhouse movie" references. However, they can also drop a PrecisionFStrike.
* StartMyOwn: Hedge fund, that is.
* StressVomit: The loss of Andolov's protection and money (and subsequent lack of interest from other investors) provoke this reaction.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mafee]]
!! Dudley Mafee
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanSoder
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[[caption-width-right:300:...]]

* AlwaysSecondBest: Not as smart as Axe, not as tough as Dollar Bill, not as funny as Wags, not as intuitive as Taylor. Mafee is a solid employee, but he doesn't excel in the way that most of the others at Axe Cap do.
* BumblingSidekick: To Axe and Wags, and later Taylor.
* ButtMonkey: Someone makes a joke at his expense at ''least'' once an episode.
* CharacterDevelopment: In Season 4; now occupying a position of trust and responsibility at Taylor's hedge fund, Mafee is given free reign over the hiring of an old friend, and regretfully rejects him because Mafee recognises that he simply isn't very good at his job.
* {{Flanderization}}: Mafee is more of a frat dude in the early episodes, but as time goes on, he becomes increasingly bumbling and childlike.
** Season 4 starts to reverse this, however.
* EtTuBrute: Leaves Axe Capital to join Taylor's new hedge fund.
* LastNameBasis: Oddly, the only other character subject to this trope is Hall, who is Mafee's antithesis in nearly every way.
* ManChild: He has the dopey personality and taste of a teenager.
** Season 4 shows some change here; during the CharacterDevelopment moment above he specifically talks about putting away childish things for the sake of being a man who's good at his job.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Being manipulated by Wendy into perjuring himself to help her, and consequently being forced to pay an SEC fine while previously priding himself on his ethical track record, plays a role in his decision to leave Axe Capital and join Taylor's fund.
* NiceGuy: Taylor states that he has a strong sense of honor, and he's one of Axe Capital's most moral members, showing more empathy and less sadism than most other employees. He also has no problem whatsoever acknowledging the much younger Taylor is vastly smarter than him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Stupidly gives Wendy enough information about Taylor and Douglas's invention to allow her and Axe to engineer its sabotage.]]
* OddFriendship: With Taylor. Most of the men at Axe Cap wouldn't have even given Taylor a chance to shine, but when Taylor's star begins to rise, Mafee doesn't get jealous and continues to support Taylor. The two eventually go into business together by starting a breakaway hedge fund from Axe Capital.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and is the only one of his friends who does not live there or have to worry about pocket money anymore.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mafee is probably the mellowest guy on the show. But [[spoiler:after he learns about how Wendy used him to sabotage the Masons' invention, he shows up at Axe Cap to deliver a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Wendy and gets into a scuffle with Dollar Bill]].
* OnlyOneName: His first name isn't given until the third season.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an absolutely '''brutal''' one to [[spoiler:Wendy]] in "Infinite Game", which causes her to break down crying by the end of the episode:
--> '''Mafee:''' ''You!'' Do you have any fucking idea what you've done? I used to think you were this idealized version of a person with all the answers and the ability to make each of us the best of who we could be! I trusted you - we all did - because you charmed, manipulated, worked us too! All with that bullshit Buddha smile! And now, I know what was behind that smile wasn't some serene and wise teacher! It hid a sick, vicious phony! Now I know what you really are: a goddamn monster!
* WellDoneDadGuy: Craves Taylor's approval.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Craves Bobby's approval.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara Hammon
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/SamanthaMathis
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[[caption-width-right:300:...]]

Chief Operating Officer at Taylor Mason Capital.

* ActionGirl: Her introductory scene has her allude to a past career in the Navy, and Taylor specifically mentions having hired her because of her reputation for being fearless.
* TheCreon
* TheDragon: Fills the same role at Mase Cap that Wags does at Axe Cap.
* NumberTwo
* UndyingLoyalty: To the point of [[spoiler:reporting Wendy to the medical board and having her license held up in review after the Douglas incident, without Taylor's knowledge]]. Eventually she gives up on Taylor, after they allow their feelings to get in the way of making good deals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lauren]]
!!Lauren Turner
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JadeEshete

Mase Cap's investor relations expert.

* OfficeRomance: With [[spoiler:Taylor]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Winston]]
!!Winston
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/WillRoland
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/winston_2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Q is for 'quantitative' baby!"'']]

Mase Cap's main quant.

* TheAce: Although his abrasiveness caused him to fail his interview and later caused the other quants to quit, Winston was still hired and kept on by Taylor due to his incredible quantitative skills and his impressive algorithm.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although Winston can sometimes be a bit abrasive and rude, he really does seem to care about TMC and his coworkers there. He also claims that he is trying his best to be better, but can't promise that he will never backslide.
* PrideBeforeAFall: When he first interviews for Axe Cap, Winston tries to turn his interview on its head and makes a lot of cocky and obnoxious remarks before he is quickly shut down by Taylor.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Although he is told off by Mafee for a lack of loyalty, when he complains about [[spoiler:Taylor's decision on compensation]], Winston makes a valid argument. This is somewhat later validated in show when [[spoiler:Taylor apologizes to their employees and says they were wrong and blindsided by the desire for revenge]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite being one of Taylor's core employees, Winston is frequently ganged up upon and treated as an outsider. Some of this he brings upon himself through his frequent snark and occasional genuinely mean comments ([[NoSocialSkills although to what extent he intends to be mean is often unclear]]), but Winston's outsider status is often through no fault of his own.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Although Winston often struggles to have positive interactions with the others, he clearly wants to form friendships with them and frequently tries to joke around with them or share his passions with them.
* BadassMustache: As of season 5.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rian]]
!!Rian
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/EvaVictor

A new quant hired at the formation of [[spoiler:Taylor Mason Carbon]]

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: [[spoiler:Wendy’s initial plan for Rian was to take Winston's place as the main quant for Mase Carbon. However, Taylor and Wendy ultimately decided that it made more sense to keep both Rian and Winston as their contrasting views and personalities would be beneficial to the company.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Douglas]]
!!Douglas Mason
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinPollack

Taylor's father, also an intelligent mathematician.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Douglas denounces Taylor for caring only about money after they agree to sell his invention to the Defense Department, then immediately hesitates tearing up the $1.3 million payout check Taylor gave him.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Douglas' justification for being held back in his aerospace career was that he refused to allow his work to be exploited by the military. [[spoiler:The truth was that he refused to collaborate on his projects, and got fired because he tried to sell one such project to a competitor rather than let his supervisor "screw it up." Taylor uses a SecretTestOfCharacter to glean that Douglas was only ever using them to get his invention off the ground, and was never interested in a sincere re-connection with his child.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Being of an older generation, Douglas struggles to understand Taylor's gender identity and has a difficult time using "they/theirs/them" pronouns instead of "she/her". That said, he doesn't reject Taylor because of this, and does seem to make an effort. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he's only trying to reconnect to get his invention off the ground, and their relationship is destroyed as a result, but Taylor's gender identity doesn't seem to be a part of their re-estrangement]].
* {{Pride}}: It's Douglas's pride in his own intelligence, rather than his struggle with Taylor's gender identity, that ultimately [[spoiler:destoys the relationship between the two]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: Douglas thinks he's smarter than everyone else and resents not being given what he thinks is his due, and resists Taylor being given shared credit for their invention. [[spoiler:Taylor finds out that he wasn't laid off from his aerospace job as he originally claimed, but was fired after he refused to collaborate with his co-workers on a project, then tried to take the project to a competitor because he thought his own company would screw it up.]]
** Called out when he's annoyed with Taylor, and Mafee tries to cool him down by drawing on his own experiences of realising he's not the smartest guy in the room. Douglas replies, as if dismissively stating an obvious fact, that he's always the smartest guy in the room. Mafee just tells him that if he still thinks that while he's in a room with Taylor, there's not a lot that can be done. To be fair to Douglas, he does seem to take this onboard, and acknowledge Taylor's genius properly [[spoiler: though it's not enough to save their relationship]].
* WellDoneDadGuy: Seems to want Taylor's approval, as part of a reconnection with them, but they realise that this isn't true when they see him for what he is.
[[/folder]]

!!U.S. Department of Justice

[[folder:Bryan]]
!!Bryan Connerty
->'''Played by:''' Creator/TobyLeonardMoore
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There's the way things look and the way things are."'']]

Bryan is Chuck's right hand man, a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's office. He is ambitious, but will not let his ambition get in the way of his sense of what is right. Becomes the U.S. Attorney for the SDNY after Chuck is fired.

* BeingGoodSucks: Bryan has a genuinely close friendship with his mentor Chuck Rhoades and helps him pursue Bobby Axelrod, only to gradually realize that Chuck is just as corrupt as Bobby and actually set Bobby up in the Ice Juice case. Then, with coaxing from Wendy, Chuck and Bobby form a temporary alliance and manage to destroy said case. Then Connerty is sent back to the SDNY, where Chuck viciously fires him in front of the entire office. Poor, poor Bryan.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler:As soon as he starts breaking the rules, Chuck entraps him and destroys his career.]]
* ChickMagnet: Sleeps with both Agent [=McCue=] and Kate Sacker in Season one. The two hit on him. Flirts with a flight attendant in season two and is later revealed to be sleeping with her. He's dating her (while supporting her law school career) in season three.
* DemotedToExtra: Has a major downgrade from series regular in Season 4 to one scene in Season 5 after [[spoiler:being sent to prison]].
* TheDogBitesBack:
** Gets back at Chuck at the first opportunity, and gets rewarded by Jeffcoat with Rhoades' former job for it.
** [[spoiler:Does it again in a more literal manner in Season 5. Bryan has Jackie approach Chuck telling him that he had a message to give in exchange for a transfer to a better prison. When Chuck visits Bryan in jail, Bryan punches him in the face without saying anything.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The conclusion to Bryan's arc in Season 3. He tries to build a case against Chuck and Wendy, only for them to successfully team up with Axelrod to thwart the prosecution. Then Bryan is sent back to Southern and is fired by Chuck in the most humiliating fashion. But when Chuck tries to go after Jeffcoat on money laundering, Bryan colludes with Jeffcoat to thwart Chuck and have ''him'' fired. Jeffcoat rewards Bryan with the position of Interim U.S. Attorney.
* GoodIsDumb: One of the most moral in the series, but quick on the uptake this guy is not. He's usually the one who [[TheWatson needs something explained to him]].
* GoodIsNotSoft: Bryan gets much more ruthless in season three, getting into a fistfight with a couple Inwood gangsters for making him look foolish in front of Dake. He's also turned his focus onto bringing down the real corruption in the SDNY: Chuck Rhoades.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After spending three seasons being one of the few ethically upright characters on the show, Bryan becomes so obsessed with sending the Rhoades family to prison that he goes along with Jeffcoat's political agenda and [[spoiler:enlists his criminal older brother to break into Chuck Senior's safe]].
* HeroAntagonist: By Season 3, he's the only legal officer with a working moral compass, to the point that Axelrod and Rhoades have to team up against him to cover their own asses.
* JurisdictionFriction: Played with Chuck as attorney general of New York, as sometimes it is invoked as a step or feign of some BatmanGambit or another, [[GambitPileup at both ends]].
* JustFollowingOrders: How he justifies compliance with Jeffcoat's iffy dictations. He's called out on it [[GodwinsLaw automatically]] by Sacker.
* KnightTemplar: Grows into one in Season 4 as he becomes increasingly obsessed with bringing down Chuck following his election as state attorney general.
* LargeAndInCharge: He becomes U.S. Attorney and is one of the few people almost as tall as A.G. Jeffcoat.
* NiceGuy: Bryan has morals, and has turned down promotions and job offers from Bach and Axe numerous times. Plus, he's just plain honest.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When attempting to recruit Bryan, Axe appeals to their shared backgrounds of being lower-class boys in a white-collar world, and that someone with Chuck's privilege and complacency can never understand Bryan's drive and determination.
* NumberTwo: To Chuck. At first.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:His reaction upon hearing Chuck and Co. address him directly as the "idiot" on the unredacted audiotape, with Chuck stating that he could only be listening to this privileged conversation illegally and that he is moments away from being arrested.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Occasionally this to the team at the Southern District, questioning Chuck's labyrinthine plans.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: Unlike the other attorneys, he comes from a working class background. Notably, he's an alumnus of Fordham University instead of an UsefulNotes/IvyLeague institution like his more privileged colleagues.
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Upon learning about Chuck's involvement in the Ice Juice sabotage from Ira, Bryan decides enough is enough and that Chuck needs to answer for his actions just as much as Axe does.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's an amateur go player, but Chuck, who was a competitive chess player in his youth, is better at it than him, even though it's not really Chuck's game.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: From Season 3 onwards, he has Chuck in his sights permanently, and with good reason, as the Rhoades are quite the corrupt family.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: On account of being played by Toby Leonard Moore with his soft-spoken charm.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the Season 3 finale, he finally succeeds in taking down Chuck by colluding with Jeffcoat to thwart yet another of Chuck's gambits, and gets rewarded with the job of Interim U.S. Attorney for his troubles.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Is by far the most honest member of the Southern Distract and refuses to compromise his principles like his colleagues. Once he learns the true extent of Chuck's law breaking, he decides to pursue him as well as Axelrod.
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Becomes more arrogant and abrasive in Season 4 as he becomes increasingly obsessed with bringing down Chuck, and becomes more willing to disregard his ideals (like colluding with Jeffcoat and breaking the law as Chuck would do) to do so.]]
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[[folder:Kate]]
!!Kate Sacker
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CondolaRashad
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Guys who sit in Chuck's chair become mayor, governor. We have to be beyond reproach."'']]

-->''"I will use all at my disposal to win."''

A deputy prosecutor of Chuck's, who is from a wealthy background. Chuck has become somewhat of a mentor to her.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Even more so than Chuck. Kate is a gradually unfettered careerist who plans on one day becoming President. It's implied that Chuck renouncing his bid to become governor plays a big role in Kate jumping ship and backstabbing him.
* BastardUnderstudy: Much more willing than Bryan to get her hands dirty, and she's learning from one of the best in Chuck Rhoades.
* BlackBossLady: She becomes head of criminal law at the U.S. Attorney's office. [[spoiler:After joining Chuck's staff at the New York Attorney General's office, she makes plans to run for Congress.]]
* BlueBlood: Her father is a wealthy lawyer, and Kate graduated from an Ivy League law school. She also owns her own Manhattan home and has a trust fund.
* CassandraTruth: Warns Chuck, Connerty, and her dad against shady actions that can get them in trouble. [[spoiler:And is perfectly willing to backstab each of them when they don't listen.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrays Chuck to Connerty and Jeffcoat in Season 3. [[spoiler:Betrays ''Connerty and Jeffcoat to Chuck'' in Season 4. Then ''betrays her own father'' to Chuck in Season 5 when he becomes a partner in Axe's banking venture.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Starts as a young, smooth but principled public servant, just to follow Rhoades way down in the hole.
-->'''Connerty:''' I used to admire your political fluidity. I thought it was sophistication. Now I realize you're just completely bankrupt.
** However, Kate gradually becomes a subversion of the trope. She is unwilling to help Connerty kowtow to Jeffcoat's political agenda for the sake of taking down Chuck, and repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) warns Connerty against breaking the law to that same end. It turns out that while Kate is a ruthless careerist, she's a ruthless careerist [[EveryoneHasStandards who still has standards]].
* DeadpanSnarker: The resident snarker of Southern district.
* EtTuBrute: Conspires with Connerty, Dake, and Epstein to betray Chuck to Jeffcoat. [[spoiler:Then conspires with Chuck to take down Connerty and Jeffcoat. And while she loves her father, not even ''he'' is safe after he goes into business with Axe on his banking venture.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Kate is a calculating careerist who is (mostly) willing to let Chuck get away with breaking the law, she does it with higher ideals in mind. Unlike Connerty, she is not willing to go along with Jeffcoat's far-right agenda and [[spoiler:commit brazen acts such as breaking and entering or violating attorney-client privilege]] just to undermine Chuck.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Learns from Connerty about Chuck's shady dealings with Boyd, but ultimately doctors legal notes to support Chuck's rationale for releasing Boyd from prison. Subverted in Season 5 where she makes clear she will tolerate Chuck's shenanigans, but only to a point.
* {{Irony}}: Kate's first scene in the pilot, as seen in her picture caption, is to admonish one of her co-workers to be on the ethical up-and-up so that that reflects well on Chuck in his future career. By Season 3, Kate actively aids and abets Chuck's dirty dealings in the Axelrod case, which as Bryan warns could scandalize and destroy the Southern District. She also ends up helping backstab Chuck, costing him his job.
** [[spoiler:Kate and Connerty end up switching places in Season 4, with Connerty going off the deep end in his quest to bring down Chuck and Kate constantly warning him to follow the law.]]
* OfficeRomance: With Connerty, but it fizzles out.
* OnlySaneEmployee: While she is not afraid to get her hands dirty in order to further her career, [[EveryoneHasStandards she has her limits]] and is able to spot when her bosses are JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. If they ignore her warnings, she has no qualms about turning on them and finding someone saner to follow. In season 5, Chuck has specifically tasked her with telling him when he is going too far. When she colorfully informs him that he is about to "take off his pants and throw them in the fire", he immediately backs down from his newest scheme.
* PuppyDogEyes: Her rather adorable eyes convey innocence and integrity. Too bad she started working under Rhoades and that's all she wrote...
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[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!Lonnie Watley
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MalachiWeir

A prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office, shuttling from Southern to Eastern quite often.

* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be this to Kate Sacker, but she's got a more powerful mentor in Chuck.
* ButtMonkey: Compared to Bryan and Kate, who are clearly Chuck's favorites and will be mentored by him into higher positions, Lonnie is hung out to dry by Chuck multiple times, even for things that are Chuck's fault. The latest is Chuck promoting Bryan to lead prosecutor at Eastern District and Kate to head of criminal prosecution at Southern, leaving Lonnie where he is - a deputy prosecutor forced into increasingly more illegal actions.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By Season 4 he has become thoroughly fed up with the Rhoades family, and agrees to help Taylor prepare for their testimony against Wendy before the medical board.
* PutOnABus: After failing to secure either a position at Eastern or the head of crim position at Southern, Lonnie is nowhere to be found until the latter half of Season 3, when he's moved to the private sector.
* TokenMinority: The only black male regular in the cast.
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[[folder:Dake]]
!! Oliver Dake
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherDenham
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[[caption-width-right:300:...]]

A member of Internal Affairs, he is sent by the Attorney General to investigate the Southern District's handling of the Axelrod case from season one. He is meticulous, ruthless, and absolutely focused on ferreting out the corruption, starting with Chuck Rhoades.

* BeardOfSorrow: Connerty finds him wearing one after being fired by Jeffcoat and exiled to UVA.
* CorruptBureaucrat: Not as bad as Chuck but Dake certainly falls into Rhoades' web of prevarication.
* DesignatedVillain: Dake is an ambitious young man, dedicated to clearing the government of corruption. It's just that he opposes our "heroes" at the Southern District.
* EnemyMine: After 2.09, the AG will not allow him to go after Chuck Rhoades after Chuck announces his run at the governorship, so Dake slinks back to Washington. In 2.11, it's revealed that part of Chuck's plan to tank Ice Juice involves him handing over Eastern District to Dake, to prosecute Bobby. In return for the job, Dake must agree to work with Chuck and take Bryan as his deputy.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His horn-rimmed specs just make him that much more unnerving. He loses them by the third season, however.
* TheFundamentalist: Interestingly, he seems pretty self-aware about it. When Rhoades calls him a Calvinist crusader, Dake bristles, but then concedes the point.
* InspectorJavert: Assigned by the AG to root out the corruption at Southern.
* MarriedToTheJob: He has a wife in DC, or so he says, but he pretty clearly puts his career first. In fact, there's a whiff of [[GirlfriendInCanada Girlfriend In Canada]] whenever someone brings up his marriage.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Railroads Connerty's investigation, ignoring, dismissing or outright forbidding several key elements to the case to make sure Rhoades and his family are off-limits.
* PutOnABus: Chuck mentions that Dake is outside the political-judiciary circus and is teaching law in season four.
* YouHaveFailedMe: On the receiving end of this when the Ice Juice case collapses, courtesy of Jeffcoat.
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[[folder:Jeffcoat]]
!! Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ClancyBrown
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"All right. Any way we can take some scalps?"'']]

-->''"Well, somebody's gotta fry..."''

Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat is the new U.S. Attorney General, starting in Season 3.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jeffcoat finds Chuck cursing him in Italian hilarious, even though he doesn't know what Chuck said.
* BadassBaritone: He has a very commanding, deep speaking voice and is the chief lawyer of these United States.
* TheBadGuyWins: Comes out on top at the end of Season 3. Chuck thinks he has Jeffcoat nailed on money laundering and obstruction of justice, only to realize that Epstein, Dake, Bryan and ''Kate'' have all betrayed him. Jeffcoat promptly fires Chuck as U.S. Attorney. [[spoiler:In season 4, he loses in the final episode.]]
* CorruptChurch: Jock's brother is a famous televangelist. Turns out both brothers are laundering money through the TV ministry to shore up their fortune, making Jock several times richer than publicly thought.
* TheDreaded: Every interaction with this General is filled with apprehension, as his subordinates fear and know they could be fired on the spot.
* GoodOlBoy: Cowboy-boots-wearing, gun-toting, hillbilly-accented redneck and proud of it. Makes his introduction with a highly disgusting stallion-and-mare metaphor.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Jeffcoat is a native of the Lone-Star State and stands at a towering 6'4.
* GratuitousSpanish: This Señor likes to insert some Spanish palabras every now and then.
* HangingJudge: One step removed. He's notoriously harsh and unrelenting in his prosecutorial agenda, perfectly willing to indict and punish to the end any kind of wrongdoers, even the seemingly innocent ones.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's quite overbearing and obnoxious, in a raw, archaic and [[CrossesTheLineTwice almost endearing way]].
* KarmaHoudini: Fires Chuck before he can bring charges related to Jeffcoat's money laundering.
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Is blackmailed by Chuck into resigning when he produces audio evidence that Jeffcoat ordered Connerty to violate attorney-client privilege.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: His towering presence adds another layer of superiority around him.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jeffcoat is loosely based on Jeff Sessions, on the basis of being an ultraconservative, southern-born Attorney General for a new Republican administration, with both of them pushing racist policies and inaugurating their appointments with the dismissal of almost every sitting U.S. Attorney.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has no desire to get Maria Gonzalez back into the country to testify in the Ice Juice case, citing her being a "three-times illegal." Tries to make Chuck prosecute cases against ethnic minorities to appease Jeffcoat's ''Breitbart''-reading base, but balks when Chuck wants to prosecute white prison guards for the murder of a Hispanic inmate. Dislikes visiting New York because he thinks certain areas are "shitholes."
* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a devout Christian.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first scene]], he boasts about his firing of every U.S. Attorney except for seven since he was appointed, and not only does he discourage Chuck's office from pursuing investigations into Wall Street, he's also a brutal micro-manager. It's telling that he doesn't talk about a new "administration", he instead uses the term new ''regime''.
* UndisclosedFunds: He has more than a quarter billion, but people think his net worth is just a tiny fraction of what it really is.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He always makes very clear to his underlings that heads will roll if they displease him. As does Dake's after the Ice Juice fiasco. And Chuck's when Jeffcoat finds out about his attempted putsch.
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!!Recurring Characters

[[folder:Ira]]
!! Ira Schermer
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/BenShenkman
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[[caption-width-right:276:...]]

Ira is the personal attorney to the Rhoades family, and a good friend of Chuck's for many years.

* AscendedExtra: The character becomes much more prominent in season two.
* EtTuBrute: He is incredibly hurt after Chuck sabotages the Ice Juice [=IPO=] to trap Axe, which costs Ira his fortune, reputation, and his career. Even though Ira could sue for damages, it would take years and might not even work.
* MealTicket: Dates a staggering number of young blondes after his divorce, and he's quite aware that they're only interested in his money, stating, "You put the Porsche in the Tinder photo. You can't be subtle." However, he confesses that he'd much rather just have a stable, loving relationship like Chuck. He ultimately falls in love with a girl, but seems completely oblivious to the fact that she's also just interested in his money. It turns out that she's in fact been conning him to outright steal his money, but he knew and was hoping that she'd just learn to love him.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: After Chuck's sabotage of the Ice Juice [=IPO=] puts a huge strain on his finances, Axe offers Ira $30 million in exchange for not testifying against Axe. Ira agrees and proceeds to reveal Chuck's involvement to Bryan after being called to testify.
* NiceGuy: Seems a bit too mild to be a lawyer.
* TookALevelInCynic: After the Ice Juice situation, Ira has lost all trust in Chuck, even going so far as to testify against Chuck.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Chuck, as a result of losing his money and livelihood in the Ice Juice fiasco. Ira agrees to not tell anyone about it, but tells Chuck that this is the last conversation they will ever have, which will end at that moment. Subverted later in Season 3 where Ira is willing to bury the hatchet with Chuck, though it is going to be a long time before he can really trust him again.
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[[folder:[=DeGiulio=]]]
!! Adam [=DeGiulio=]
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RobMorrow

->''"I'm here to ask you the promise you made to me, that there was no favor you'd refuse"''

A deputy to the Attorney General, later becomes the federal judge who replaces Wilcox

* DeadpanSnarker: he cracks quite a lot of jokes while on the bench.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Very sarcastic and skeptical, but open to heed good arguments and rule in consonance.
* WhamLine: In "All the Wilburys": "I need you to stay U.S. Attorney."
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[[folder:Terri]]
!!Terri [=McCue=]
-->'''Played By''': Creator/SusanMisner

An FBI agent working with Chuck and the United States attorney’s office on the Axelrod case

* FairCop
* FBIAgent
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[[folder:Terry & Johnny]]
!!Terry & Johnny Burke
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelStoyanov & Creator/KevinBreznahan

Childhood friends of Lara from the mean streets, now petty criminals and owners of a [[BadGuyBar Bad Guy Bar]].

* LoanShark: They're leg-breaking loan sharks who are able to extort their deadbeat debtors into some extreme measures.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: They look remarkably similar in spite of not being played by brothers.
* SmugSnake: Times two.

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[[folder:Sweeney]]
!!"Buffalo" Bob Sweeney
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattServitto

Mayor of Buffalo. Later elected as Governor of New York.

* DarkSecret: Bob sent his son to a "pray away the gay" camp. Chuck initially uses this to deter Bob from competing with him for the governorship.
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[[folder:Krakow]]
!!Todd Krakow
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/DannyStrong

Head of a hedge fund in competition with Axe Capital. Later appointed as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

* JerkAss: He's a cocksure little sleazeball.
* MisterBig: Played by the 5'2" Danny Strong and runs his own hedge fund and, later, the Treasury Department.
* TheNapoleon: His detractors mention his short height as being one of the reason's he's so overbearing.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Starts out loosely based on Martin Shkreli, then evolves into a stand-in for Steve Mnuchin, Creator/DonaldTrump's Treasury Secretary, when he takes the same cabinet post.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Lashes out at Taylor and calls them a "freak" and "[[ItIsDemeaning it]]" when he loses the poker tournament.
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[[folder:Boyd]]
!! Lawrence Boyd
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/EricBogosian

Lawrence Boyd is one of the founding partners of Spartan Ives, the prime broker to Axe Capital. A highly sought-after mind in the finance world, Boyd becomes an ally of sorts to Bobby once Southern starts investigating him.

* EvilMentor: To Bobby.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: As Spartan Ives is an Expy of Goldman Sachs, Lawrence Boyd is one for their longtime CEO, Lloyd Blankfein.
* SurpassedTheTeacher: When Chuck and the Southern District turn their eye on Boyd, he goes to Bobby and begs for his help in outwitting Chuck Rhoades (as Bobby beat the charges in season one).
* TheNicknamer: Likes calling Bobby "Roberto".
* TreacherousAdvisor: Shoulda been more careful who you backstabbed, Bobby. Boyd turns state's witness and cooperates with Chuck, playing a big role in the Ice Juice gambit.
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[[folder:Foley]]
!! "Black" Jack Foley
-->'''Played By''': Creator/DavidStrathairn

Jack Foley is one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful men. The "Kingmaker" of the political scene, it is he who Chuck has to go to for a chance at winning the governorship. He sinks the Sandicot deal as a favor to his old friend, Rhoades Senior.

* BlueBlood: His fortune is at least six generations old.
* TheChessmaster: His influence seems to be having an effect on Chuck as well.
* KingmakerScenario: He's the deciding factor in every political appointment in New York, and the one who awards the casino deal to a different city, landing Sandicot in debt to Axe Capital.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Upon being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Foley attempts to torpedo Chuck's run for state attorney general by leaking his knowledge of Chuck's sadomasochism to Jeffcoat. Unfortunately for Foley, the move backfires badly when Chuck end-runs him by publicly coming clean about his kinks.]]
* UnclePennybags: Foley's power comes more from connections and influence rather than straight wealth, but he is still extremely wealthy. He's a BlueBlood who makes a killing in steel. Ben Folds plays at his dinner party.
* WorthyAdversary: Is impressed by Chuck's maneuvering against him, calling it downright gubernatorial.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Andolov]]
!! Grigor Andolov
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnMalkovich
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Survival, in this world, is all."'']]

-->''"If you want to kill the meat, kill the meat. If you only want to eat the meat, get someone else to do the killing."''

Russian oil oligarch and organized crime figure whom Bobby wants to invest $20 billion in Axe Capital.

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: He tells a grim story about a Russian child and its mother, which Bobby later deduces was Grigor himself and his own mother.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: While Grigor did not get where he is by being easily distracted in business dealing, he has reached a level of wealth and power where he treats a multi-billion dollar investment as a form of entertainment. Bobby lampshades the fact that if there is no conflict to entertain him, Grigor's attention will soon shift to other business opportunities and he will pull his money out of his current project -- in this case Taylor's fund.
* BaldOfEvil
* BeardOfEvil: A goatee in Season 3, developed into a full beard in Season 4.
* CoolOldGuy: An evil example. His EstablishingCharacterMoment comes when Bobby finds him practicing hockey with the New York Islanders, wearing a custom-made jersey.
* DealWithTheDevil: He's the devil in Bobby's situation.
-->How can I keep my money with a man who won't kill for it?
* TheDreaded: Grigor's reputation is such that even ''Hall'' fears him.
* {{Expy}}: Basically an even more powerful and intimidating version of Malkovich's character "Teddy KGB" from the film ''Film/{{Rounders}}''.
* Fiction500: Comes with the territory if you're a Russian oligarch. He's rich enough that he's considering a purchase of a sports franchise, as Bobby tried to do in Season 2.
* TheMafiya: Besides being an oligarch, he's also an international figure in organized crime whose power is so vast that Hall states he won't be able to help Bobby if things go south.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: One of his specialties, so refined that Hall can't help but praise it. Bobby is offered Andolov's "services" to get rid of Taylor. He refuses them.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Has the archetypal HadToBeSharp mentality and has disdain for what he views as recurrent American whining.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Underscores this several times when he starts dealing with Bobby.
* PlayingBothSides: Agrees to invest in Taylor's new hedge fund at Bobby's expense, while giving Bobby the offer to have Taylor killed for revenge. Bobby doesn't take the offer.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Downplayed. Grigor at one point refers to Taylor as "she" rather than their preferred pronoun, which is very much in line with how an old-school Russian oligarch would likely treat a non-binary American. He later does use their preferred pronouns after getting into business with them, which shows that he can be quite progressive for his background if his money is involved.
* PutOnABus: Chuck forces Grigor to return to Russia as a favor to Axe after [[spoiler:Axe helps Chuck rig the primary election for attorney general.]]
* TheRival: Axe views Grigor as the first fellow oligarch who actually overmatches him.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: While Axe and Rhoades aren't above thuggery to achieve their goals, it pales in comparison of Grigor's level of ruthlessness.
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[[folder:Jackie]]
!! Jackie Connerty
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelRaymondJames

Bryan Connerty's older brother, a professional safe-cracker.

* TheCharmer: Manages to land his brother's ex, Kate, despite him being a criminal and her an assistant to the state attorney general.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Connerty and the rest of his family have been estranged from Jackie thanks to his criminal lifestyle.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Bryan's responsible. Bryan is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, while Jackie is a career criminal who seemingly lives in the margins of society. Interestingly, their dynamic is briefly inverted in "Lamster" when Jackie tries to discourage Bryan from having him [[spoiler:break into Chuck Senior's safe]] out of concern for Bryan's career.
* FightingIrish: His introductory scene has him being involved in a bar fight with Bryan stepping in as his backup, and with a loud Irish background score to match.
* NiceGuy: Despite his introductory scene having him start a bar fight, and despite being the black sheep of the Connerty family, Jackie is proud of what Bryan has achieved in his legal career and initially declines Bryan's job offer because he doesn't want to endanger that.
* {{Safecracking}}: Jackie's specialty.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prince]]
!! Michael Prince
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyStoll

An Indiana-based business tycoon who butts heads with Axe in Season 5.

* AffablyEvil: Possibly. We have yet to see Prince do anything particularly immoral (and what he alludes to in his past seems to be more along the lines of narcissism and selfishness rather than anything truly harmful) but Axe is convinced that this is what he is.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: The reason Axe seems to hate him more than any other competitor is his constant attempts to claim the moral high ground, while Axe publicly calls himself "a carnivorous fucking monster" and never pretends to be otherwise. However, it's not clear whether Prince is truly and nobly trying to overcome his own monstrous side (which he freely admits he has) or if he's just too weak to admit it to himself.
* ConsummateLiar: Possibly. In the middle of Season 5, he and Taylor decide to [[spoiler: stay jointly invested in a solar-panel manufacturing company that is going to experience some short-term losses due to having to find a new tin supply]] and both Taylor and Wendy, after some initial suspicion, leave the meeting convinced that he is being honest with them. Axe is convinced he manipulated them, but if that's true, it would mean Prince successfully lied to Wendy's face while she was actively looking for falsehood, which is not something we've seen anyone else do.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:Prince's partner, David Fells, owned shares in their first company together but had problems with drugs and alcohol. Prince offered $200,000 to David in return for control of the company on the condition that he sober up, with the promise that would start another company after David recovered. The catch was that Prince was aware that the company they already controlled was about to be purchased by Microsoft, meaning that that $200,000 was a fraction of what David could have made. Prince's betrayal caused David's substance abuse to escalate, leading to his death in a car crash a month later.]]
* TheDreaded: Axe quickly admits that Prince is too big to get back at directly over the ''Vanity Fair'' stunt, calling him a "grizzly bear, Kodiak Island-sized".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first episode he tells Axe how important it is to work as part of a team... right before he manages to weasel his way into taking over the cover of the ''Vanity Fair'' issue at Axe's expense.
* GracefulLoser: Zigzagged. After Axe wins the Yonkers deal, Prince calls him to let him know that he's withdrawing and won't fight him anymore on this, with a "well played" tone of voice. However, after Axe responds in a decidedly ungracious manner, Prince then passive-aggressively brings up how he didn't stand a chance against Axe in Yonkers... because Axe grew up there, which anyone can see from looking at him, triggering all of Axe's insecurities about coming from the "dipshit town".
* {{Narcissist}}: Prince is fully aware that he has these tendencies, and makes many self-condemning comments about this aspect of himself, both in public and private conversations. However, these conversations always seem to spend a lot of time on how awesome and celebrated he was at high-school basketball, and how altruistic and self-improving he is now, and he often seems to not be fully aware that he's doing it. As of the middle of Season 5, it's not clear whether he is genuinely trying to be better and unconsciously backsliding, or if he is still an unrepentant narcissist who's found a different way of getting the adulation he craves.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Makes a big show of appearing altruistic, but Axe points out that he still named a major financial conference ("The Mike") after himself.
** A later conversation between Prince and Chuck suggests that he is fully aware of this, and is truly trying to be a better man than he used to be, but it's not clear how much is sincere and how much is hypocrisy.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: We've never seen Prince openly angry, but he gets his jabs in through soft-spoken targetting of his enemies' personal insecurities, while being friendly and affable to everyone else.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Just as good at this as Axe in Season 5, successfully gazumping him with Chief Longriver, but narrowly losing the Yonkers deal, as he doesn't have Axe's roots in the neighbourhood.
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!! Catherine Brant
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JuliannaMargulies

->''"Holy shit, guys! And yeah -- guys. I’m calling all of you guys -- males, females, and enbies. And I have tenure. So suck it if you don’t like it."''

An Ivy League sociology professor and bestselling author. She finds a kindred spirit - and more - in Chuck while at Yale.

* BrainyBrunette: Doctor of Sociology and very, very good at her job.
* {{Foil}}: Of Wendy, verging on SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute. Both women are tall, brunette, highly educated, work in the psychology field, have deadpan senses of humor, and [[spoiler: serve as a sexual dominant to Chuck]].
* PsychologistTeacher: Her class at Yale seems to be the opposite of Chuck's, where she forces her students to engage in dialogue and ignore the conventional rules of class.
* PutOnABus: Chuck confirms their relationship is over by the second half of Season 5.
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!!Taylor Mason Capital / [[spoiler:Taylor Mason Carbon]]

!!Axe Capital

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Wendy Rhoades, one of the very few people to know and trust him before 9/11, who knows precisely how he made his money, and is incredibly loyal to him. Bobby relies on her heavily, enough that he can request an all-night intensive therapy session and she'll drop everything. The idea of her betraying him causes him to lose his cool in a way few others can cause. Eight months after she quits, he still refers to her office as "hers", and engineers a class-action lawsuit against Chuck so that he can drop it as a condition of Wendy coming back. And when Spyros backstabs Wendy by turning evidence of her Ice Juice short over to Connerty, Axe is ''livid'' and becomes willing to partner with Chuck to protect her.

* PlatonicLifePartners: She's known Bobby for over fifteen years, considering they were friends - and possibly already business partners - when 9/11 happened. She's the first person he runs to when he feels uncertain, and relies heavily on her for advice. Chuck thinks she's been cheating on him with Bobby, they're so close. After she leaves Axe Capital, he spends a lot of time and effort (which everyone picks up on) trying to "win her back".

* SheCleansUpNicely: When Wags sees them dressed in a wig and traditionally feminine garb to court investment from some Middle-Eastern players, he stutters a few times over how beautiful they looked.

** [[spoiler:Chuck does this ''twice'' to Wendy in Season 4 -- first when he tells the press about his BDSM lifestyle with Wendy without her consent in order to win the election, and then when he passes up an offer by Connerty to help Wendy out with the medical board when she is in danger of losing her license just to spite Connerty and Jeffcoat (and lying to her about it afterward). Not surprisingly, Wendy ends up leaving him again.]]

* NotSoDifferent: When attempting to recruit Bryan, Axe appeals to their shared backgrounds of being lower-class boys in a white-collar world, and that someone with Chuck's privilege and complacency can never understand Bryan's drive and determination.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Wendy identifies Bobby's overwhelming desire to always get back at his enemies is his biggest flaw, and the thing that most often gets him into trouble. Bobby seeing an opportunity to screw over Chuck just for the sake of it was what led to his arrest in the Ice Juice scandal. During his war with Taylor in Season 4, Axe begins making decisions that might inconvenience Taylor's business, but puts Axe Capital at such a disadvantage that even loyalists like Wags and Dollar Bill question his judgment. [[spoiler:And when Rebecca makes an altruistic deal with Taylor without Bobby's knowledge, he reacts by liquidating Saler's right from under her and knowingly destroying their relationship in the process.]]

* GracefulLoser: Zigzagged. After Axe wins the Yonkers deal, Prince calls him to let him know that he's withdrawing and won't fight him anymore on this, with a "well played" tone of voice. However, after Axe responds in a decidedly ungracious manner, Prince then passive-aggressively brings up how he didn't stand a chance against Axe in this... because Axe grew up there, and which anyone can see from looking at him and he's now back there, triggering all of Axe's insecurities about coming from the "dipshit town".

* {{Transgender}}: Taylor is non-binary. Their pronouns are they, theirs, and them.

A list of characters for ''Billions''. There will be '''spoilers.''' '''Only spoilers for Season 4 will be whited out.'''

* DomesticAbuse: Chuck relates how Senior sytematically used wanton violence once or twice every year against his wife just to make a point.

* SmartBall: Despite his asinine obnoxiousness, he can come up with an usuable idea every now and then.

* TheFixer: A very specialized kind. Whereas Hall focuses on espionage, blackmail, and general skulduggery, Ayles handles donations, endowments, and outright bribery.

* BrutalHonesty: While courteous, Taylor is perfectly blunt about calling out any behaviour that doesn't make sense. They also refuse Wendy's advice to tell Maffee that he's doing a good job, as they know that he isn't, and believe lying makes everything more complicated.

* GoodWithNumbers: Makes precise economic calciulations in a spit second.

* SpockSpeak: Practially all the time, especially when they talk business. They also dissaprove of Axe and Wags' "jailhouse movie" references. However, they can also drop a PrecisionFStrike.

* ThrowTheDogABone: In the Season 3 finale, he finally suceeds in taking down Chuck by colluding with Jeffcoat to thwart yet another of Chuck's gambits, and gets rewarded with the job of Interim U.S. Attorney for his troubles.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Even moreso than Chuck. Kate is a gradually unfettered careerist who plans on one day becoming President. It's implied that Chuck renouncing his bid to become governor plays a big role in Kate jumping ship and backstabbing him.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By Season 4 he has become thoroughly fed up with the Rhoadeses and agrees to help Taylor prepare for their testimony against Wendy before the medical board.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Very sarscastic and skeptical, but open to heed good arguments and rule in consonance.

* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: As Spartan Ives is an expy of Goldman Sachs, Lawrence Boyd is one for their longtime CEO, Lloyd Blankfein

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: One of his specialities, so refined that Hall can't help but praise it. Bobby is offered Andolov's "services" to get rid of Taylor. He refuses them.

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Jeffcoat is a native of the Lone-Star State, and he stands at a towering 6'4.

* WellDoneDadGuy: Taylor wants his approval, but grows past this (though not without a lot of pain,) when they see him for what he is.

* MamaBear: If the term applies to non-binary characters. They exhibit this where Mafee is concerned, as despite being significantly younger and less experienced, their intelligence and analytical ability are such that they end up in the protective role.