History Characters / DaysofourLives

* BlackBestFriend: When first introduced he was seen as this to Roman's white guy. Though he moved on from it into the TokenMinority role.

->Played by: Various Child Actors (1984-92), Jensen Ackles (1997-2000)

->Played by: Andrea Barber (1982-86), Christie Clark (1986-91/1992-99/2005-06), Tracy Middendorf (1992)

%%* BackFromTheDead: In 2004. The one in 2010 is going to stick, we think.
%%* CoolOldLady

%%* ThePatriarch

* AbsenteeActor: Though he stopped appearing regularly in 2006, Mickey was supposed to still live in Salem at his house with Maggie until his death.

%%* SiblingRivalry: With Bill.

* TheBusCameBack: Has returned occasionally, usually for big events like weddings and funerals, and even then seldom. For a while this was because all of the actors who played Bill had died, but in 2010 with Alice's funeral they finally decided they couldn't not include Bill and after fifteen years finally recast him. He may make more appearances now.

* PutOnABus: Has been living in Africa for twenty years, as a conveniently far away place to explain why he seldom returns for visits.
%%%%%* SiblingRivalry: With Mickey.

%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 2004.
%%%* FarmersDaughter

%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 1991, 2004, and 2005.

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%%%%* TheShrink

%%%%%%* OutOfFocus

%%%%%%%%%%%* FamilyBusiness: The Salem Police Department .

%%%%* HotBlooded

%%* BackFromTheDead: In 1994.

* SplitPersonality: In the 1990s as Art-thief and [=DiMera=] pawn, Princess Gina. In 2010 as "Nighttime Hope" who attacks and mugs powerful men.

%% * BigBad

%%* BackFromtheDead: In 2004.
%%%%* BlackBestFriend: To Roman.

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%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 2004. The one in 2010 is going to stick, we think.
%%%* CoolOldLady
%%%* GrannyClassic
%%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness
%%%%%* NeverMessWithGranny

%%%%* ThePatriarch

%%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: Upon his introduction in 1967.

%%%%%* SiblingRivalry: With Bill.

%%%* ActionGirl
%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 1994.

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%%%%%* SpoiledSweet

%%%%%* BigBad

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%%%%%%%%%%* DiabolicalMastermind

->Played by: Lisa Rinna (1992-95/2002-03), Krista Allen (1996-99), Julie Pinson (2004-08)

* IncestisRelative: Basically Tommy's only story of note was coming back to Korea with amnesia and plastic surgery and hooking up with his sister Marie without knowing it was her.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Following the death of her performer, after 45 years.

* SiblingRivalry: With Bill.
* SuperCouple: With Maggie.

* TheShrink

* BadassDecay: In the 1980s, he used to be a leather-wearing motorcyle-riding hoodlum who once [[MomentOfAwesome knifed out his best friend's eye]]. By the 1990s, he was now a police officer, but of the "I play by my own rules!" variety and he still wore leather. He was a husband and father, but he lived on a boat so he was still anarchic. Now he's a middle-aged police commissioner who lives in a domesticated house and if he wears leather at all, it's rare.

* BadassDecay: In the 1980s-90s, Stefano was the most dastardly villain this show had ever seen. Since his return in 2007, he's been significantly less diabolical. They even gave him diabetes.

* BackFromtheDead: In 2004.
* BlackBestFriend: To Roman.

* IntrepidReporter
* OppositesAttract: With shady anti-hero Jack Deveraux.
* MoralityPet: For Jack
* ParentalAbandonment / RaisedbyGrandparents: Though both her parents are alive, her mother was in an institution for most of her childhood while her father was usually off in third-world countries providing medical aid.
* PluckyGirl

* SuperCouple: With Jack.
* WideEyedIdealist

* ActionHero: Days has never had such a flamboyant example.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome

* TheHero: After Bo, he's probably ''Days''' biggest.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* LargeHam: That's a fact!
* MultipleChoicePast: Good lord....
* MysteriousPast
* ShirtlessScene
* SuperCouple: With Marlena.

* BackFromTheDead: In 2006.
* BadassDecay: By the end of his run, the only reason you'd have to suspect that this guy may be a badass is the fact that he's missing an eye.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Was supposed to be a quick minor villain to Bo, he eventually grew to be a hugely popular character and took over Bo's place as the main hero of ''Days'' when he left temporarily in 1987.

* EyepatchOfPower

* SuperCouple: With Kayla.

* TheAtoner
* BackFromTheDead: In 2004, '05, ''and'' '06. Yeah.
* TheCharmer
* CloudCuckooLander: Occasionally.
* ConMan: Occasionally written as this.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Originally brought on as an interloper for supercouple Steve and Kayla, Jack ultimately wound up spending more time on the show than Steve and Kayla put together.
* IntrepidReporter
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LoveRedeems
* LovableRogue
* OppositesAttract: With good girl Jennifer.
* ParentalAbandonment
* RapeAsDrama: One of his first acts on the show was to rape Kayla Johnson.
* ReformedButRejected: Initially; eventually, people accepted him.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: ...Until he didn't.

* SuperCouple: With Jennifer.
* TroubledButCute

* BadassDecay: Has more in common with Oscar the Grouch than his former arch-villain self.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Expy}}: When Stefano left the show, Victor came on as basically just a Greek version of him.
* GrumpyBear
* GrumpyOldMan
* MagnificentBastard
* OppositesAttract: Both with Caroline Brady and Maggie Horton.
* SharpDressedMan
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney

* BackFromTheDead: In 2004. The one in 2010 is going to stick, we think.

* CoolOldLady
* GrannyClassic
* IncorruptiblePurePureness
* NeverMessWithGranny

* ThePatriarch

* BackFromTheDead: Upon his introduction in 1967.

* SiblingRivalry: With Mickey.

* SuperCouple: Doug and Julie are often cited as daytime's first.

* BackFromTheDead: In 2004.
* [[FarmBoy Farm Girl]]
* FieryRedhead (when she wants to be)
* SuperCouple: With Mickey.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: She's either an AttentionWhore Diva or a lovable heroine, depending on who you ask.
* BackFromTheDead: In 1991, 2004, and 2005.
* CanonSue
* EvilTwin: Samantha (not to be confused with Hattie Adams, who also looks exactly like her but is not actually her twin).
* LargeHam
* SerialKiller: Really wasn't her fault, though.
* SuperCouple: With Roman and John.

* BackFromTheDead: Oh, so many times - 1991, 1997, 2004, 2005.
* ByTheBookCop: Generally only when compared to Bo.
* CowboyCop: Generally only when compared to Abe.
* DemotedToExtra

* TheHero: In the 1980s. By the 1990s, this had been taken by his little brother Bo and doppelganger John.
* OutOfFocus

* CowboyCop
* FamilyBusiness: The Salem Police Department
* FormerTeenRebel
* TheHero: Has essentially been the main male protagonist since the early 1980s and is almost always the one called upon to save the day.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With John.
* HotBlooded
* OppositesAttract: With his "Fancy Face" Hope.
* ShirtlessScene: He's had tons over the years.
* SuperCouple: With Hope (arguably the most famous pairing of the show's run).
* TroubledbutCute: In the 1980s. He's not really troubled anymore.

The daughter of Doug Williams and Addie Horton. A spoiled princess turned police officer, and one half of supercouple Bo and Hope. One of ''Days''' biggest heroines.

* ActionGirl
* BackFromTheDead: In 1994.

* TheSquadette
* SpoiledSweet
* SuperCouple: With Bo.

* BigBad

* ChronicVillainy

* DiabolicalMastermind

* KarmaHoudini
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SharpDressedMan: In the 1990s he was a bit more casual, often going with a black leather jacket, but for the most part he's rarely seen out of his suit.

* DaChief: Before he became the Mayor, Abe was usually the by-the-book boss trying to

* Out of Focus: See above

* JerkassFacade

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* HotScoop

* {{Badass}}: So many examples, but most notably the dude KNIFED OUT HIS BEST FRIEND'S EYE. Also, most of the time he lived on a boat.

* {{Badass}}: He has a variety of super-spy skills that he doesn't know how he came by.

* {{Badass}}: Especially in the early years.

* CharacterDiedWithHim: Following the death of her performer, after 45 years.

* BackfromtheDead: Upon his introduction in 1967.

* CainandAbel: When Mickey learned Bill was the biological father of his son Mike, Mickey went temporarily insane and tried to kill Bill.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: In spite of all that, Bill really does mean well.
* PutonaBus: Has been living in Africa for twenty years, as a conveniently far away place to explain why he seldom returns for visits.

* CommutingonaBus: Though she and Doug have technically been on recurring status since 1999, we see them very rarely as they seem to be constantly on a world cruise. They tend to just pop up when there's a holiday, big family event or Hope's got some sort of crisis.

* Fiery Redhead (when she wants to be)

* BackfromtheDead: In 1991, 2004, and 2005.

* Family Business: The Salem Police Department is often derided as the Brady Police Department, because Bradys make up more than half of it.

* HijackedbyGanon: Evil schemes that were originally the machination of someone else (Ernesto Toscano, Lawrence Alamain, etc.) often turn out to somehow really have been done by Stefano.

* Da Chief: Before he became the Mayor, Abe was usually the by-the-book boss trying to

* Expy: Even the show has admitted, he's a fairly blatant rip-off of Jason Bourne.

* Expy: Though this one hasn't been admitted, he'd appear to be a blatant rip-off Snake Plissken from ''Escape from New York''. Hell, some consider him just a blonde Bo Brady with an eyepatch. His rise to to a main hero pretty much coincided with Bo's departure.
* EyepatchofPower

* SharpDressed Man

* CartoonishSupervillainy: Often accused of this in the 1990s.

* LargeHam: Brace yourself, because that's a fact!

* LargeHam: That's a fact!

* HotMom: More when Shawn was a kid.

* KilledOffForReal: ''Highly'' unlikely that he's coming back, since he died in such a normal way (heart attack) and since John Clarke is retired and no recasts have really worked out.

* KilledOffForReal: Following the death of her performer, after 45 years.

* KilledOffForReal: In 1994.

* KilledOffForReal: One of the few deaths not necessitated by that of the character's iconic performer which immediately stuck and has never been retconned. Yet.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold

* RapeasDrama: One of his first acts on the show was to rape Kayla Johnson.

* TroubledbutCute

* CainandAbel: When Mickey learned Bill was the biological father of his son Mike, Mickey went temporarily insane and tried to kill Bill.

* VictimFallsForRapist: With Laura.

* DarkandTroubledPast

* HairofGold

'''Stefano DiMera'''

Known as "The Phoenix", Stefano is the arch-villain of ''Days'' and patriarch of the DiMeras, an Italian mafia family with a long-standing vendetta against the Bradys.

* FamilyBusiness: DiMera Enterprises, and the continuation of the vendetta against the Brady family.

The longest-running African-American character on television, Abe's initial role on the series was as Roman's token black best friend and partner, but he eventually grew into Commander and then Commissioner of the Salem Police Force, making him the de-facto leader of the good guys. Though he's married to Stefano DiMera's daughter, Abe is perhaps one of the most honorable and decent characters in the series. He recently resigned as Commissioner of the Police Force and successfully ran for Mayor of Salem, a position he holds today.

Also known as Ryan DiMera, Forrest Alamain, Roman Brady and the Pawn, John's backstory has been constantly reinvented. John showed up in Salem with amnesia and was believed by everyone for years (for some reason that made sense at the time) to be the presumed dead Roman Brady with plastic surgery. When the real Roman was discovered alive, it was accepted that John was really someone else...and it took them like forever to figure out who. The current accepted story is that he's Stefano's younger-half brother, the product of an affair between Santo DiMera and Colleen Brady, which began the Brady/DiMera rivalry.

'''Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Roberts DiMera'''

'''Nicole Walker DiMera'''

'''Elvis Aron "E.J." DiMera'''

->Played by: Wayne Northrop (1981-84/1991-94), Josh Taylor (1997-2004/2004-)

The first member of the Brady clan that would essentially take over the show in the 1980s, a hard-nose no-no-nonsense police officer. Most famous for his love story with Marlena in the early '80s, basically his entire identity would eventually be stolen by John Black.

* BackFromTheDead: Oh so many times - 1991, 1997, 2004, 2005.

* DemotedtoExtra
* OutofFocus

* FamilyBusiness: The Salem Police Department
* FormerTeenRebel

This is a character sheet for the soap opera DaysofourLives. As with any long running soap opera there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so let's try to only have this include fairly significant ones. In order to not make this a massive info dump, it will be split up into folders based on when the character first appeared on the show. For characters that were born on the show, they'll be included in the folder where they first became non-child recurring characters, and were actually teens or older and part of the plot.

[[folder:1960-1979]]

The matriarch of the Horton family and, really, Salem in general, Alice and her portrayer Frances Reid was one of the few mainstays of the series, appearing from the show's first episode until Christmas of 2007 when Frances Reid became too ill to appear anymore. A wise and loving woman, her death in June of 2010 (coinciding with the death of Frances Reid) was the end of an era both for Days and the soap opera world in general. But she left behind children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-''great''-grandchildren almost all of whom have been the recipient of some of her patented Horton advice-and-doughnuts at some point or anothr.

* BackfromtheDead: In 2004. The one in 2010 is going to stick.

* KilledoffforReal: Following the death of her performer, after forty-five years.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Not really her favorite food, but Alice Horton is eternally connected to her doughnuts.

->Played by: Macdonald Carey (1965-1994)

->''“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives....”''

Alice's loving husband until his death in 1994, coinciding with Macdonald Carey's. Essentially take everything that Alice was, make it male, and you have Tom Horton. Infinitely wise, patient and paternal, Tom was the Chief of Staff of University Hospital where he was always on-hand to advise the younger doctors or just anyone who happened to pass through the doors.

* Killed off for Real: In 1994
* The Patriarch

->Played by: John Lupton (1967-1972, 1975-1979, 1980)

Tom and Alice's eldest son. He began the series as missing and presumed dead from the Korean War but eventually returned with amnesia. And really didn't do much of anything. And now he's pretty much doesn't exist and everyone pretends Tom and Alice had four kids.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: At one point in the 70s went upstairs and didn't come back down for years. He also hasn't been seen or mentioned since about 1980, even when his parents died. Mickey was referred to as Tom and Alice's eldest son at Tom's funeral, when that was supposed to be Tommy.

->Played by: Patricia Huston (1965-1966)
->Played by: Patricia Barry (1971-1974)

Tom and Alice's eldest daughter and Tommy's twin sister. She actually spent very little time on the show actually alive, and is primarily remembered nowadays as being the deceased mother of current characters Julie and Hope. And for having her younger daughter with her elder daughter's love interest.

* KilledoffForReal: One of the few deaths (not necessitated by the death the character's iconic performer) that immediately stuck and has never been retconned.

->Played by: John Clarke (1965-2004)
->Played by: John Ingle (2004-2006)
->Played by: Kevin Dobson (2008)

Tom and Alice's [[strike:middle]] eldest son. Like Alice he was on the show pretty much forever, and like Alice he was killed off in 2010. Mickey was an attorney and the golden boy and good son of the Hortons. Most famously and long-lastingly played by John Clarke, upon Clarke's retirement they had difficulty recasting him and finally just had him die off screen so they could move his wife onto other stories and stop awkwardly pretending he was in the other room or away on business.

Though his first big pairing was with Laura, with whom he was in a decade-long triangle with his younger brother Bill; Mickey is far more famously known for his later pairing with Maggie, which lasted over three decades.

* AbsenteeActor: Though he stopped appearing regularly in 2006, Mickey was supposed to still live in Salem at his house with Maggie until his death

* KilledOffForReal: Highly ''highly'' unlikely that they bring Mickey back, since he died in such a normal way (heart attack) and since John Clarke is retired and no recasts have really worked out.
* TheArtifact: Mickey lasted until very recently on Days, but never really had anything to do since the 1980s, minus little minor stories here and there. He would generally just be around for family events and to be everyone's lawyer should they need one.
* TheDutifulSon: For the vast majority of Days, Mickey was the only Horton child in Salem and was usually the good, stable, dependable one.
* SiblingRivalry: With Bill
* SuperCouple: With Maggie

->Played by: Paul Carr (1965-1966)
->Played by: Edward Mallory (1966-1980, 1991-1992)
->Played by: Christopher Stone (1987-1988, 1994-1995)
->Played by: John Martin (2010)

Tom and Alice's youngest son. He began the series as a med student and grew to be a successful doctor, spending much of his career fighting AIDS in Africa, where he remains to this day. Bill has always been the troubled Horton son, and has a tendency to do things that on paper would make him sound like total Jerkass. But for the most part, he means well. Though he's only appeared in occasional guest spots since the 80s, Bill remains a prominent part of the landscape by being the father of Mike, Jennifer and Lucas, all three of whom arguably went on to become more prominent Days character than Bill himself.

* {{Jerkass}}: Raped Mickey's wife, Laura, got her pregnant (Mike) and eventually stole her away from his brother and had another kid with her (Jennifer), only to cheat on her with Kate and conceive a childhood out of wedlock (Lucas), driving Laura insane and causing her to abandon infant Jennifer on a bus and get carted off to an asylum. Then, rather than take responsibility and raise his kids, he pawns Jennifer off on his parents, leaves poor Kate to become a prostitute to provide for her infant son and goes gallivanting around the world.
** Oh, and years later he stole his son's girlfriend from him too. Bill is a ''douche''.
* JerkwithaHeartofGold: In spite of all that, Bill really does mean well.

* SiblingRivalry: With Mickey
* VictimFallsForRapist: With Laura

->Played by: Charla Doherty (1965-1967)
->Played by: Catherine Dunn (1967)
->Played by: Catherine Ferrar (1967-1968)
->Played by: Susan Seaforth Hayes (1968-1984, 1990-1995, 1999-present)

Tom and Alice's eldest grandchild, Addie's eldest daughter, and Salem's original It-Girl. In Salem's forty-five year history she's grown from a teenage girl to a woman approaching senior citizenship and has even graced the cover of Time Magazine

* TheArtifact: Julie essentially ruled this show in the 1970s and hasn't really had a storyline since then, but is usually a part of the show in some capacity just because she's Julie.

->Played by: Suzanne Rogers (1973-1984, 1985-2003, 2004-present)

* BackfromtheDead: In 2004

* TheArtifact: Played straight and then finally Subverted. This was the case for her for over twenty years, until Alice died and she was able to take over the role as the show’s Matriarch. To the fandom’s rejoicing, Maggie now has a huge role on the show for the first time since the early 80s.

* SuperCouple: With Mickey

->Played by: Deidre Hall (1976-1987, 1991-2009, 2011-present)

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Marlena’s either an AttentionWhore Diva or a lovable heroine depending on who you ask.
* BackfromtheDead: In 1991, 2004 and 2005.

* EvilTwin: Samantha (not to be confused with Hattie Adams, who also looks exactly like her but is not actually her twin)

* SerialKiller: Really wasn’t her fault though.
* SuperCouple: With Roman and John

[[folder:1980-1984]]

->Played by: Wayne Northrop (1981-1984, 1991-1994)
->Played by: Josh Taylor (1997-2004, 2004-present)

* BackfromtheDead: Oh so many times - 1991, 1997, 2004, 2005.

* TheHero: In the 80s. By the 90s, this had been taken by his little brother Bo and doppelganger John.

->Played by: Peter Reckell (1983-1987, 1990-1992, 1995-present)
->Played by: Robert Kelker-Kelly (1992-1995)

* BadassBeard: Though beards were fairly common in the 80s when Bo came around, we're long past the point where anything above PermaStubble is common for a leading character. But Bo Brady's holding on to his beard 'til the bitter end.
* BadassDecay: In the 1980s, he used to be a leather-wearing motorcyle-riding hoodlum who once [[CrowningMomentofAwesome knifed out his best friend's eye.]] By the 1990s, he was now a police officer, but of the "I play by my own rules!" variety and he still wore leather. He was a husband and father, but he lived on a boat so he was still anarchic. Now he's a middle-aged police commissioner who lives in a domesticated house and if he wears leather at all, it's rare.

* TheHero: Has essentially been the main male protagonist since the early '80s and is almost always the one called upon to save the day.

* SuperCouple: With Hope (Arguably Days' most famous)
* TroubledbutCute: In the 80s. He's not really troubled anymore.

->Played by: Child actresses (1974-1983)
->Played by: Kristian Alfonso (1983-1987, 1990, 1994-present)

The daughter of Doug Williams and Addie Horton. A spoiled princess turned police officer, and one half of supercouple Bo and Hope. One of Days' biggest heroines.

* BackfromtheDead: In 1994

* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: Basically every guy she's been paired with who's not Bo has turned out to be evil.

* SplitPersonality: In the 1990s as Art-thief and DiMera pawn, Princess Gina. In 2010 as "Nighttime Hope" who attacks and mugs powerful men.

* SuperCouple: With Bo (Arguably Days' most famous)

->Played by: Joseph Mascolo (1982-1985, 1988, 1993-2001, 2007-2008, 2008-present)

Known as "The Phoenix", Stefano is the arch-villain of Days of our Lives and patriarch of the DiMeras, an Italian mafia family with a long-standing vendetta against the Bradys.

* ArchEnemy: To almost all of Salem, but particularly Shawn Brady Sr., John Black, Roman Brady, Bo Brady and Marlena Evans.
* BackfromtheDead: Over ten times. His nickname is "The Phoenix" for this very reason.
* BadassDecay: In the 80s and 90s, Stefano was the dastardly villain this show had ever seen. Since his return in 2007, he's been significantly less diabolical. They even gave him diabetes.

* CartoonishSupervillainy: Often accused of this in the 90s.

* TheChessmaster: Both literally (he's fond of and constantly plays chess) and figuratively (a manipulator events, uses other people as pawns... in fact his nickname for half-brother/former-henchman-turned-hero John Black is "Pawn")

* SharpDressedMan: In the 90s he was a bit more casual, often going with a black leather jacket, but for the most part he's rarely seen out of his suit.

->Played by: James Reynolds (1981-1990, 1991-2003, 2004-present)

* BackFromtheDead: In 2004
* BlackBestFriend: To Roman

* DemotedtoExtra: Though it's not quite that bad, in the past few years Abe's role on the show. has been severely downgraded.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Though lot of good characters do this, Abe is often cited as one of the moral centers of Days.

* TokenMinority: Abe and his wife Lexie have often been accused of being this for Days.

[[folder:1985-1989]]

->Played by: Melissa Reeves (1985-1995, 2000-2006, 2010-present)
->Played by: Stephanie Cameron (1995-1998)

The daughter of Bill and Laura Horton, and one of Days' biggest heroines of the past twenty-five years.

* ParentalAbandonment: See "Raised by Grandparents"

* RaisedbyGrandparents: Though both her parents are alive, her mother was in an institution for most of her childhood while her father was usually off in third world countries providing medical aid

* SuperCouple: With Jack

->Played by: Drake Hogestyn (1986-2007, 2008-2009, 2011-present)

Also known as Ryan DiMera, Forrest Alamain, Roman Brady and the Pawn, John's backstory has been constantly reinvented. John showed up in Salem with amnesia and was believed by everyone for years (for some reason that made sense at the time) to be the presumed dead Roman Brady with plastic surgery. When the real Roman was discovered alive, it was accepted that John was really someone else... and it took them like forever to figure out who. The current accepted story is that he's Stefano's younger-half brother, the product of an affair between Santo DiMera and Colleen Brady, which began the Brady/DiMera rivalry.

* TheHero: After Bo, he's probably Days' biggest

* LargeHam: That’s a fact!

* SuperCouple: With Marlena

->Played by: Stephen Nichols (1985-1990, 2006-2009)

Best friend/former rival of Bo Brady's. A badass leather-jacket wearing hooligan with one eye (knifed out by Bo.) Though he was a villain at first, he became a good guy fairly early on and even became the good counterpart to his darker younger brother. He controversially returned to life sixteen years after being killed off.

* {{Badass}}: Especially in the early years
* BackfromtheDead: In 2006

* BrokenBase: Since his second run from '06 to '09 was generally uneventful, many fans think it diminished the iconic nature of the character to have negated his deah, taking him from an 80s icon unsullied by poorer writing of recent decades to a far more forgettable characters. Others were just so happy to have him back they didn't care.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Was supposed to be a quick minor villain to Bo, he eventually grew to be a hugely popular character and took over Bo's place as the main hero of Days when he left temporarily in 1987.
* Expy: Though this one hasn't been admitted, he would appear to be a blatant rip-off Snake Plissken from Escape from New York.
** Hell, some consider him just a blonde Bo Brady with an eyepatch. His rise to to a main hero pretty much coincided with Bo's departure.

* ParentalAbandonment: When he was a boy, his mom put him and his infant brother Billy in an orphanage to protect them from their abusive father. Because Billy was just a baby he was adopted fairly quickly by a wealthy politician, the older Steve (who was midway through his childhood) wasn't so lucky. Steve resented his family because of it.
* SuperCouple: With Kayla

->Played by: Joseph Adams (1987)
->Played by: James Acheson (1987)
->Played by: Matthew Ashford (1987-1993, 2001-2003, 2004-2006, 2007, 2011-present)
->Played by: Mark Valley (1994-1997)
->Played by: Steve Wilder (1997-1998)

* The Atoner
* BackfromtheDead (In 2004, 2005 ''and'' 2006...yeah)

* CloudCuckooLander: Occasionally
* ConMan: Occasionally written as this

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Originally brought on as an interloper for supercouple Steve and Kayla, Jack ultimately wound up spending more time on the show than either put together

* Opposites Attract: With good girl Jennifer.

* RapeasDrama: One of his first acts on the show was to rape Kayla Johnson.
* ReformedbutRejected: Initially, eventually people accepted him
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: …Until he didn’t

* SuperCouple: With Jennifer

->Played by: John Aniston (1985-1997, 1998-2004, 2004-present)

Greek business tycoon and occasional crimelord, Victor is the biological father of Bo Brady. Though originally just a Greek version of Stefano, the character eventually became slightly redeemed in his old age to be less of a villain and more just a jerk.

* OppositesAttract: Both with Caroline Brady and Maggie Horton

[[folder: 1990-1994]]

->Played by: Crystal Chappell (1990-1993, 2009-2011)

->Played by: Louise Sorel (1992-2000, 2009-2011)

->Played by: Patrick Muldoon (1992-1995, 2011-present)
->Played by: Austin Peck (1995-2002, 2005-2006)

->Played by: Lisa Rinna (1992-1995, 2002-2003)
->Played by: Krista Allen (1996-1999)
->Played by: Julie Pinson (2004-2008)

->Played by: Andrea Barber (1982-1986)
->Played by: Christie Clark (1986-1991, 1992-1999, 2005-2006)
->Played by: Tracy Middendorf (1992)

->Played by: various child actresses (1984-1992)
->Played by: Alison Sweeney (1993-present)

->Played by: Bryan Dattilo (1993-2001, 2002-2011)

->Played by: Deborah Adair (1993-1995)
->Played by: Lauren Koslow (1996-present)

->Played by: Eileen Davidson (1993-1998)

[[folder: 1995-1999]]

->Played by: various child actors (1984-1992)
->Played by: Jensen Ackles (1997-2000)

->Played by: Arianne Zucker (1998-2006, 2008-present)

->played by: various child actresses (1993-1999)
->played by: Kirsten Storms (1999-2004)
->played by: Charity Rahmer (2004)
->played by: Martha Madison (2004-2008)

->played by: various child actors (1987, 1990-1999)
->played by: Jason Cook (1999-2006)
->played by: Brandon Beemer (2006-2008)

[[folder: 2000-2004]]

->played by: various child actors (1995-1999)
->played by: Brandon Tyler (1999)
->played by: Jay Kenneth Johnson (1999-2002, 2007-2011)
->played by: Kyle Brandt (2003-2006)

->played by: Nadia Bjorlin (1999-2003, 2004-2005, 2007-2011)

->played by: various child actors (1992-1999)
->played by: Kyle Lowder (2000-2005)
->played by: Eric Martsolf (2008-present)

[[folder: 2005-2009]]

->played by: Mandy Musgrave (2004-2005)
->played by: Rachel Melvin (2005-2009)

->played by: various child actors (1997-1998)
->played by: James Scott (2006-present)

->played by: Shawn & Taylor Carpenter (1995-2002)
->played by: Darian Weiss (2002-2003)
->played by: Christopher Gerse (2003-2007)
->played by: Dylan Patton (2009-2010)
->played by: Chandler Massey (2010-present)

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->Played by: Deidre Hall (1976-1987, 1991-2009)

->Played by: Drake Hogestyn (1986-2007, 2008-2009)

->Played by: Matthew Ashford (1987-1993, 2001-2003, 2004-2006, 2007)