History Characters / ChuckTheRing

The Director is the [[IncrediblyLamePun direct]] head of The Ring - of seemingly equal authority as The Elders, he is the driving force of many, if not all of their operations. He somehow obtained surveillance footage of [[spoiler:Sarah's red test, and was directly responsible for Shaw's FaceHeelTurn.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Of the Season 4 finale and the majority of the first half of Season 5. While he's the one who blackmailed Decker into hounding Team Bartowski, he doesn't personally get involved until "Chuck Versus the Santa Suit", after which he slips back into this role for "Chuck Versus the Baby", being the one who siccs Riker on Emma and Molly.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Of "Chuck Versus the Baby", being the one who siccs Riker on Emma and Molly.]]

* TheAce: Is said to be the greatest swordsman in the world. And true enough, Chuck (with the Intersect) could only beat him by burying him in falling luggage. ...Twice.

* BareFistedMonk: Implied to be a master of hand-to-hand combat. He's in truth a master ''swordsman'', but still good enough in CQC to best Chuck.
* TheBigGuy: He's played by ''Stone Cold Steve Austin''. Out of all The Ring operatives that Team Bartowski encounter, Hugo is by far the most physically imposing.

* AwesomeMcCoolName [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast To Run Away From Really Fast]]: When a giant guy named "Hugo Panzer" walks in, you'd damn better run away...

!!!''Portrayed by Scott Holroyd''

* DragonInChief: After becoming an agent for the Ring, Shaw is nominally subservient to the Director and the Elders, but he's an infinitely greater threat than them to the point where he fits the role of the third season's BigBad better than either of the other two. Not only does Shaw's hero status make it easy for him to stage an attempted coup of the CIA and NSA, but his already considerable knowledge and fighting skills are bolstered when he becomes the show's second living Intersect.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Chuck Versus the Other Guy", Shaw drugs Sarah so she won't feel any pain when he drowns her. He also spares Chuck's life because he played no part in Evelyn's death and reveals he has kept Chuck's identity as the Intersect secret from his Ring handlers.
** Averted when he returns in "Chuck Versus the Subway", where all pretence of having standards disappear.

* DragonInChief: As of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead", he has an Intersect.

* HeartbrokenBadass: He never got over the murder of his wife.
* HiddenDepths: He's apparently a ''spectacular'' cook. He managed to salvage [[CordonBleughChef Chuck's infamous chicken-pepperoni]] into something edible and in record time. Sarah is later seen buying him a [[ProductPlacement Crockpot]] as a present.

* ManipulativeBastard: He was always a little bit of this, but his post-FaceHeelTurn cranks it way up, willing to use even Ellie to hurt Chuck.

* AntiHero: Starts off this way.
* AntiVillain: Type II, mid-way through.

* BackFromTheDead: DoubleSubversion. Morgan {{lampshades}} his NeverFoundTheBody death, and then Chuck and Sarah learn that the Ring was after his will-thing so they assume he is dead.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Shaw pulls off a rare non-fighting example in "Chuck Verses the Subway". [[spoiler: Chuck notices he has an Intersect and tries to prove this in front of the CIA by throwing a knife at him to prove the SuperReflexes that the Intersect gives him. Shaw manages to turn this around by ''letting himself be impaled by the knife'' and uses this incident to prove that Chuck is insane]].

%%* ObviouslyEvil

Justin was a CIA agent and security coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who truly worked for The Ring. He poisoned Awesome, and got close to Ellie to manipulate her into giving away her father's location. [[spoilers:He was captured whilst escorting the Elders to safety.]]

* AffablyEvil: Presents himself as a kind person when he's anything but.

* TheDragon: To Shaw.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A respected CIA officer on the surface, he's a imbedded Ring agent.

->''"Now ''this'' is brazen."''

* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil: It's hard to tell given that he's played by Creator/MarkSheppard.

* DiabolicalMastermind: He's probably the straightest example of the trope in the show after Volkoff. He's the head of a covert multi-national criminal and terrorist organization complete with an army of evil spies, a worldwide web of information and high tech gadgetry such as a hyper-realistic holograms and [[spoiler:his own Intersect]]. His secretary rattles off a list of nefarious deeds his organization is performing like a daily itinerary at an office job.

* BriarPatching: While being held at gunpoint by Sarah and Chuck, the Director tells them that "obviously" spies of their caliber have figured out that the Ring is building an Intersect but that they'll never get the cypher for it. Cue Chuck and Sarah getting the cypher from his associate. [[spoiler:After the cypher is delivered to the CIA, they're able to determine that the Ring is behind in their version of the Intersect. Which is exactly what the Director wanted because now he knows how to perfect it.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's built up as the main leader of the Ring and he's responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw's StartOfDarkness]]. However, he only plays a role in two episodes before being arrested, leaving the Elders [[spoiler:and Shaw as their DragonInChief]] as the real threat of Season 3.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Turns Shaw evil by revealing that Sarah killed his wife.]]

* SchmuckBait: Easily pulls one on Chuck and Sarah.

* BigBad: Of the first half of Season 3. He's the leader of the Ring, and the one responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw's StartOfDarkness.]]

They were captured at the end of Season 3 by Team Bartowski.

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkSheppard''

The Director is the [[IncrediblyLamePun direct]] head of The Ring - of seemingly equal authority as The Elders, he is the driving force of many, if not all of their operations. He has somehow obtained surveillance footage of Sarah's red test, and was directly responsible for Shaw's FaceHeelTurn.

He was soon captured by the then civilian Casey, who traded him to earn back his rank, a new Crown Victoria, and making Morgan an official spy of Team Bartowski.

->''"Sometimes he sounds like Bond, other times it's like a Jerry Lewis movie."''

''Portrayed by Creator/BrandonRouth''

Mid-season, he was shot and [[DisneyDeath killed]] by Chuck, but ultimately survived - cementing his status as the season's BigBad. He was finally beaten and apprehended at the end of Season 3.

He makes a return during the fifth season, and reveals himself to be the BigBad once again, having blackmailed Decker and Cunnings to be his [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. His plan was to use the Omen virus to pilfer then destroy every government database in the world, and use the information to update his own Intersect and become America's single most valuable asset. He was however OutGambitted by Chuck, and later knocked out by Ellie.

''Portrayed by Scott Holroyd''

Justin was a CIA agent and security coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who truly worked for The Ring. He poisoned Awesome, and got close to Ellie to manipulate her into giving away her father's location.

In the end, he was captured whilst escorting the Elders to safety.

''Portrayed by [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]]''

The Elders are the high leaders of the criminal organization The Ring. They lead also Fulcrum and McTiernan Industries. All of the elders are high-ranking members of the CIA or the NSA. The Ring serves them for their personal interests.

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* EvilOldFolks: After TheReveal, most of them have been shown to be nothing but a bunch of helpless old farts.

* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: A good deal of their screen time includes their faces being completely shadowed out.

* {{Adorkable}}: While he tries to hide it under a sheet of stoicism and professionalism, he's socially awkward like Chuck. His attempts to hit on Sarah range from hopeless to annoying. He loses all his dorky, endearing traits following his SanitySlippage.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Largely averted, although he did come in very conveniently after Bryce's death. While WordOfGod has it that the character was only created after Creator/MattBomer became unavailable, Shaw's relationships with the other characters is vastly different. And whilst their personalities are similar, both being a RomanticFalseLead for Sarah who are aloof spies with hidden {{Adorkable}} qualities, the progression of their narratives diverge heavily since [[spoiler: Shaw undergoes a FaceHeelTurn whilst Bryce made a HeroicSacrifice because of his UndyingLoyalty.]]