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* BeardOfSorrow: Grows one at the start of Season 7, after his fund with Dollar Bill ended.
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He's just really good with math. The Ace is about a guy who's great at many things. He is great with math and a loser at most other things.
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* 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.
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* TheAce: GoodWithNumbers: 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.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Stupidly gives Wendy enough information about Taylor and Douglas's invention to allow her and Axe to engineer its sabotage.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Stupidly Stupidly gives Wendy enough information about Taylor and Douglas's invention to allow her and Axe to engineer its sabotage.]]
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* 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]].
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mafee is probably the mellowest guy on the show. But [[spoiler:after 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]].Bill.
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* 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:
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an absolutely '''brutal''' one to [[spoiler:Wendy]] Wendy in "Infinite Game", which causes her to break down crying by the end of the episode:
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Is one of two employees who walk away after [[spoiler: Prince takes over Axe Capital]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Is one of two employees who walk away after [[spoiler: Prince [[spoiler:Prince takes over Axe Capital]].Capital]], starting his own shop with [[spoiler:Dollar Bill]].
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* 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.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To the point of [[spoiler:reporting reporting Wendy to the medical board and having her license held up in review after the Douglas incident, without Taylor's knowledge]].knowledge. Eventually she gives up on Taylor, after they allow their feelings to get in the way of making good deals.
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* OfficeRomance: With [[spoiler:Taylor]].
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* OfficeRomance: With [[spoiler:Taylor]].
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* 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]].
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Although he is told off by Mafee for a lack of loyalty, when he complains about [[spoiler:Taylor's Taylor's decision on compensation]], compensation, Winston makes a valid argument. This is somewhat later validated in show when [[spoiler:Taylor Taylor apologizes to their employees and says they were wrong and blindsided by the desire for revenge]].revenge.
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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.]]
* 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.]]
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A new quant hired at the formation of [[spoiler:Taylor Taylor Mason Carbon]]
Carbon.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter:[[spoiler:Wendy’s 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 decide that it made makes more sense to keep both Rian and Winston as their contrasting views and personalities would be beneficial to the company.]]
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* {{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]].
* 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]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Douglas 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.]]
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 The truth was that he refused to collaborate on his projects, 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.]]
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]].
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 destroys the relationship between the two]].
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 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.]]
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]].relationship.
* 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.
* 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.
* {{Pride}}: It's Douglas's pride in his own intelligence, rather than his struggle with Taylor's gender identity, that ultimately
* 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.
** 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
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* 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.
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* 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, employee (with Axe even noting offhand that he "loves" Mafee), but he doesn't excel in the way that most of the others at Axe Cap do.do.
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* BadassMustache: As of season 5.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Is one of two employees who walk away after [[spoiler: Price takes over Axe Capital]].
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[[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/{{Billions}}'' '''[[Characters/{{Billions}} Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/BillionsMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/BillionsAxeCapital Axe Capital]] | '''Taylor Mason Capital''' | [[Characters/BillionsDepartmentOfJustice Department of Justice]] | [[Characters/BillionsRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]]-]]]]]
[[Characters/BillionsMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/BillionsAxeCapital Axe Capital]] | '''Taylor Mason Capital''' | [[Characters/BillionsDepartmentOfJustice Department of Justice]] | [[Characters/BillionsRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]]-]]]]]
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[[folder:Mafee]]
!! Dudley Mafee
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanSoder
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mafee.jpg]]
[[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.
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[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara Hammon
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/SamanthaMathis
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samantha_mathis_on_billions_season_4_trailer.jpg]]
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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.
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[[folder:Lauren]]
!!Lauren Turner
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JadeEshete
Mase Cap's investor relations expert.
* OfficeRomance: With [[spoiler:Taylor]].
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[[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.
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[[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.]]
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[[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.
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[[folder:Mafee]]
!! Dudley Mafee
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanSoder
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mafee.jpg]]
[[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
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samantha_mathis_on_billions_season_4_trailer.jpg]]
[[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.
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[[folder:Lauren]]
!!Lauren Turner
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JadeEshete
Mase Cap's investor relations expert.
* OfficeRomance: With [[spoiler:Taylor]].
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[[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.
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[[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.]]
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[[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.
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