History Characters / Evil2019

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!Main Crew

[[folder:Kristen]]
!!Dr. Kristen Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KatjaHerbers
-->''"Well, I heard a doctor today talking about prescribing chlorpromazine and aripiprazole and trauma exercises, and I realized it sounded just as much like leeches."''
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A forensic psychologist who has worked with the District Attorney's office and now serves as a psychriatic consultant for David's team. Kristen stays in New York to raise her four daughters while husband Andy works as a mountain guide. She's an accomplished mountain climber herself, but gave up on it after having her daughters.
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* ActionMom: Takes on the supernatural/psychopathic while raising her four daughters.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Finding out your daughter has been born from an invitro clinic that may or may not be controlled by demons]]. Getting [[spoiler: your hand scorched by a holy cross]] also isn't too great.
* BeingGoodSucks: By the end of the first season it is safe to say she has not exactly been rewarded by the universe for her good deeds.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT try to come after her children.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a kind person but she will also [[spoiler: stab or even supposedly kill you]] if you endanger the people she loves.
* BewareTheHonestOnes: She holds herself to a high moral standard and often says her allegiance is always to the truth. [[spoiler: By the end of the season however, she has used a deepfake in court, slashed a man's throat and even potentially murdered someone]].
* BigShutUp: Gives [[spoiler: Townsend]] one of these before she [[spoiler: she slices his neck]]
* BrokenBird: Shows signs of this even before the events of the show. She has weekly therapy sessions and has admitted to being 'too soft'. Her husband has left her to her own devices and her mother isn't much help either. Her overall demeanor also fits as she can be quite cynical and sarcastic, but she is very loving nonetheless.
* CatScare: The orange cat her and her husband find in their house really does not like Kristen. [[spoiler: This is most likely due to the cat sensing her inner corruption/evil]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The [[spoiler: burn mark of the holy cross]] recontextualises the series as us being witness to [[spoiler: the slow process of her possession]].
* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and phsyically assaulting him]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with Leeland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phonecall with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
* FaceYourFears: By the end of the first season [[spoiler: she stabs George to death in one of her night terrors]].
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Inverted. She is the one who is in the morally grey most of the time, not her coworkers.
* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch and she does not disagree.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end of Rose 390 the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
* MamaBear: In the pilot her daughter Lila tells her a man called to threaten her about her student loans. Kristen doesn't take too kindly to this and tells her former employer that they can go ahead and scare her, but NOT her children. The final catalyst for her in the series finale [[spoiler: snapping and possibly killing Orson [=Leroux=]]] also seems to be that [[spoiler: he broke into her house and left a gift basket there whilst her children were sleeping at home alone]].
* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[spoiler: Mira tells her Leroux is dead]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the one mostly having the moral high ground she obviously enjoyed her ReasonYouSuckSpeech and even goed as far as to call Townsend [[spoiler: impotent]]
* NightmareSequence: Though all her night terrors with George are already disturbing, she suffers through a particularly awful sequence of nightmares in nightmares where even the audience doesn't know what is real.
* GoodParents: She's trying to provide the best for her four daughters, even when she's basically living as a single mother while her husband is on the other side of the globe.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Where David's size and strength serve him well in rare physical fights, Kristen can be just feral. She slashes Leland's throat to keep him from dating her mother [[spoiler: alas, it doesn't work]] and in the first season finale it's implied that she [[spoiler: killed Orson [=LeRoux=] after he started hanging around her house]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: In the very last shot of the first season we see her [[spoiler: placing a rosary on her palm and getting burnt by it]]. The look she gives herself in the mirror is akin to this showing that there is at least hope for her.
* PragmaticHero: She allows Ben to create a deepfake of Townsend, ordinarily a profound violation of ethics, although the damning evidence he manufactures is a close paraphrase of what Townsend actually said.
* RaisedCatholic: She grew up in the Church but has had nothing to do with it since, which is one reason her husband is nonplussed that she's working for priests and would-be priests now.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a particularly brutal one to Leland.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler: by the series finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
* StrugglingSingleMother: She's not actually single, but faces many of the same situations because her husband is absent for much of the time and his income from guiding climbers in the Himalayas is unpredictable.
* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' her and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine leading them to almost kiss]].
* TeamMom: Gives Ben and David Christmas presents and checks up on Ben and his new lady.
* TearsOfFear: During her night terrors she can't do much else but this.
* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She has a revenge fantasy dream in which she [[spoiler: attacks Orson Leroux instead of him attacking her]]. This might be foreshadowing for the fact that she [[spoiler: could be the one who killed him]].
* YourWorstNightmare: Her night terrors with George are awful. This is true in particular in the pilot when she does not yet know if she is dreaming or not. He starts slicing her fingers off whilst mocking her with her own true or false questions.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The holy cross shaped incineration on her palm]].
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[[folder:David]]
!!David Acosta
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MikeColter

-->''"See, the problem with my job is that possession looks a lot like insanity, and...insanity looks a lot like possession. I need someone to help me distinguish between the two."''

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A priest in training who works for the New York diocese as an assessor, determining the validity of possessions, miracles, and other debatably supernatural occurrences. David had a conversion experience while on a publicized trip around the world.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: While the trio has what [[Series/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] would call "a flat team structure", clean-headed David is the one the Church vests authority in.
* CelibateHero: Due to his being in training for the Catholic priesthood. He still faces temptation, [[spoiler: and in one Season 1 episode, succumbs to it.]]
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in Rose 390. [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
* GeniusBruiser: His quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge are his chief weapons, but he's the likely winner of any one-on-one fight if it comes to it. Not for nothing did his actor play Series/LukeCage.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: He at least attempts to divine cosmic secrets as well as getting in touch with a fallen friend by taking illegal drugs.
* NiceGuy: Soft-spoken, respectful of differing opinions, and loyal to both friends and colleagues.
* [[TokenReligiousTeammate Token Christian Teammate]]: Of the trio out in the field he's the only one who actually follows Christianity. Kristen is an apostate, whereas Ben is a non-observant Muslim.
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[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben Shakir
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AasifMandvi

-->''"We live in a world that is made up of bits and pixels. And it is so easy to manipulate them and create whatever we want. And I hate that because it encourages superstition and conspiracy theories."''

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A carpenter and contractor who helps David by assessing whether seemingly uncanny events have mundane environmental causes.
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* AgentScully: He's the team skeptic, the first one to start advocating for a mundane explanation for the phenomena they investigate.
* BeneathNotice: A laborer who's around during investigations into demonic possession strikes most people as a non-factor. This cuts both ways. Ben overheard a killer calling the cops on his wife without being noticed, but was dismissed out of hand at David's deposition.
* BollywoodNerd: His primary occupation is contractor, but he's very good at figuring out computer systems, surveillance, etc.
* FriendToAllChildren: In his awkward way he tries to make Kristen's daughters happy and also protects them from a cyber-predator targeting them through hacked VR goggles. He has thus gained the loving nickname: Ben the magnificent
* JackOfAllTrades: For a man who identifies himself as a contractor/carpenter, he's got quite the eclectic skillset when it comes to debunking the supernatural. He has some knowledge of IT, plumbing, chemistry, and even film production. However, he freely admits when his knowledge reaches its limits, and will consult actual experts when necessary.
* LimitedWardrobe: Nearly always wears the same jeans and denim jacket.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: As a Muslim-raised atheist who doesn't really like authority he seems a strange fit for a Catholic Church job. As he tells Kristen, he doesn't work for the Church, he works for David, and he likes David. He also notes that he enjoys working with Kristen now too.
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!The 60 & Other Demons

[[folder:Leland]]
!!Leland Townsend/[[spoiler:Jake Perry]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelEmerson
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A rival forensic psychologist to Kristen, and someone whom David has long recognized as an enemy.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: At first it's unclear whether he's merely a psychotic human, or a demon taking human form, especially with his status as TheCorrupter. Gradually it becomes clear that he ''is'' a flesh and blood human, just with demonic connections.
* AsceticAesthetic: The show's production designer has explained that the heroes tend to live in warm and messy environments while the villains spend their time in sterile looking places. Leland's office is a prime example.
* TheCorrupter: He actively tries to get people to do evil, which he successfully did with wannabe serial killer Orson [=LaRoux=] and tried to do with a young defendant Kristen recommended not be tried as an adult, as well as a young HollywoodHomely budding incel.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a mask of benevolence for people in power, but revels in sadism when talking to the heroes.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Stylish glasses are a big part of his look.
* ForTheEvils: He doesn't seem to have any goal other than tormenting and corrupting people for the shear hell of it.
* ImaginaryEnemy: Sometimes. He often appears to verbally torment David in places he really shouldn't be, and David treats these instances as harmful hallucinations and tries to block them out.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: He appears to torment David in visions, but whether this is a matter of astral projection or David hallucinating is not clear at this point.
* {{Pornomancer}}: He's a weasily little man with a borderline CreepyMonotone, but has absolutely no problem seducing Sheryl.
* VillainousBreakdown: Pays for helping Orson [=LaRoux=] get out of jail by going through one briefly after taking Kristen's [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal browbeating]].
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[[folder:George]]
!!George
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MartiMatulis (motion), Euan Morton (voice)
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An Incubus-like demon who appears in Kristen's night terrors.
* ImaginaryEnemy: May be this to both Kristen and at least one of her daughters. He's only been seen in dreams and is a dead ringer for a character in a ShowWithinAShow horror web series.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he an actual demon haunting Kristen's night terrors, or simply a construct of them?
* TomTheDarkLord: "George" is a mundane name for a Gothic-looking nightmare demon.
* VocalDissonance: For a horrific-looking demon, he sounds more like a British academic. The mismatch makes his actions very unsettling, even when he occasionally seems almost-friendly.
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[[folder:Adam]]
!!Adam Gardner
->'''Portrayed By:''' Graham Rowat
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One of the 59 people who Leland says that he trusts, and one who's used his official position in ICE to further Leland's agenda.
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* MeaningfulName: Since Leland depends on people being fallible and [[TheCorrupter corruptible]], it makes sense his confederate would be [[Literature/BookOfGenesis an Adam associated with gardens]].
* ARealManIsAKiller: Tasked with training Sebastian in arms use, he assures the young man that you get better by killing people.
* TerseTalker: He's silent in his first appearance and still not very talkative in his second.
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!The Catholic Church

[[folder:Korecki]]
!!Monsignor Matthew Korecki
->'''Portrayed By:''' Boris [=McGiver=]

A monsignor[[note]]title applied to senior clergy in the Catholic Church[[/note]] who oversees David's mission.
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* TheAllegedBoss: Shows up once or twice an episode to tell the trio what their case is and listen to their ideas, but doesn't really direct them. He did have to approve Kristen's regular employment with them, though.
* BenevolentBoss: Overall seems understanding and amiable towards David and his crew.
* PutOnABus: He disappears from the show without much of an explanation when Bishop Marx turns up and becomes the gang's church contact.
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[[folder:Amara]]
!!Father Amara
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClarkJohnson
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A New York priest and exorcist.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Seems to be one for David. David's father is still alive, of course, but Father Amara is the one he turns to for advice specific to his priestly calling.
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[[folder:Marx]]
!!Bishop Thomas Marx
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterScolari

A Bishop reassigned to David's diocese when an exorcism by David and Father Amara is the subject of a lawsuit.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's just odd enough to make him seem a little creepy, and a little less than benevolent.
* MysteriousEmployer: Could just be a buttoned-up personality, but if he has an agenda, he's kept it secret.
* SlaveToPR: He's pretty unapologetically concerned about the public image of the church, and his first question when it comes to cases is usually to do with liability.
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!Family

!!!Kristen's Family

[[folder:Sheryl]]
!!Sheryl Luria
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChristineLahti
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Mother to Kristen, [[spoiler: lover and later fiancee to Leland.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Odd example since preppie Leland doesn't ''look'' like a bad boy, but she falls for him after he explains his anti-moral philosophy.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: If it were just a matter of dating Leland Townsend it could be written off as being a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, but she's gone as far as to advise Lexis to hit another girl in the face with a brick and lie about it, so she seems to be helping him in his "work" as well.
* HellBentForLeather: More often than not wears a leather jacket and leather pants, accented with loud animal print tops. Did she used to be a metal groupie?
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[[folder:Lynn]]
!!Lynn Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Brooklyn Shuck
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Kristen and Andy's oldest daughter.
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* PromotionToParent: As the eldest she has the most responsibilities over the others if/when both parents are absent.
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[[folder: Lila]]
!!Lila Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Skylar Gray
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Kristen and Andy's second daughter.
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* CheerfulChild: Has tended toward smiles and reassurance despite the weird and terrifying things surrounding her family.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lexis]]
!!Lexis Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Maddy Crocco
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Kristen and Andy's third daughter.
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* DesignerBabies: Possible, in that she was conceived after Kristen and Andy turned to a fertility lab, one that has since been linked to some sinister children on the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Laura]]
!!Laura Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dalya Knapp
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Kristen and Andy's youngest daughter.
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* IllGirl: She was born with a heart condition that the Bouchards were told could take her at any time. A serious illness happens near the end of the first season. Surgery and possibly a deal made by the Buddhist-curious Andy seem to stabilize her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Andy]]
!!Andy Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Brammall

Kristen's husband. Like her, he's an experienced mountain climber. Unlike her he spends relatively little time onscreen.
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* BadassBeard: Wears one when he gets back to New York City. Kristen makes him shave it off.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He lives for most of the year in the Himalayas and guides other people through the mountains.
[[/folder]]

!!!David's Family

[[folder:Leon]]
!!Leon Acosta
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/VondieCurtisHall
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David's father, a successful artist.
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* BourgeoisBohemian: He's made quite a lot of money, and his spread in Upstate New York allows him to duck any social rules he doesn't feel like accommodating.
* {{Polyamory}}: He seems to think he's effectively got two wives, although really it's more like a wife who has an open-minded girlfriend.
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!!!Ben's Family

[[folder: Karima]]
!!Karima Shakir
->'''Portrayed By:''' Sohina Sidhu

* BollywoodNerd: She's probably even more of a computer whiz than her brother, as that's how she makes her living. In any case he's been shown consulting her a couple of times.
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!Other Characters

[[folder:Dr. Boggs]]
!!Dr. Kurt Boggs
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KurtFuller
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Kristen's therapist and a sometime outside consultant to the trio.
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* AgentScully: As a scientist he doesn't believe in possessions or that demons can be exorcised. He does, however, grant the possibility that some exorcism subjects could derive a psychological benefit from believing they'd been freed.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: He's played by a Jewish actor, and his beard does create a visual tie with pioneering analyst UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, who was also Jewish. That said, his interests seem a little more [[UsefulNotes/CarlJung Jungian]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:It's impressive when he marches into David's hospital room and saves the day by being an outraged professional.]]
* NiceGuy: In the pilot he doesn't get mad when Kristen interrupts one of his other sessions and accuses him of leaking her notes. (In reality Leland stole them.) He later testifies to help David in "Exorcism Part 2."
* TheShrink: Specifically a shrink's shrink. Kristen is familiar with the lingo and concepts of psychiatry even if she doesn't work as a therapist herself.
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[[folder:D.A. Cormier]]
!!D.A. Lewis Cormier
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DannyBurstein

New York prosecutor and Kristen's employer at the start of the series.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Leland replaces Kristen as consulting forensic psychologist under Cormier's watch and sets about intentionally going for unjust results. This doesn't seem to trigger any alarms for Cormier.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Orson [=LeRoux=]]]
!!Orson [=LeRoux=]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DarrenPettie

Successful professional who starts committing murders in midlife.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Especially with his fake contrition when [[spoiler: he's released from prison.]]
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Both causes one and fakes one in "Justice x 2" when he [[spoiler: gets sprung from prison by claiming Kristen set him up for the murders he was caught for. Another killer willingly serves as FallGuy.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Under Leland's coaching he fakes demonic possession, which will be read as dissociative disorder in the modern legal system.
* SerialKiller: Breaks in and kills families.
* SmugSnake: He can barely contain his glee when reliving his murders, even as he [[BlatantLies claims point blank]] that he is innocent.
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[[folder: Sebastian]]
!!Sebastian Lewin
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NoahRobbins
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An IT consultant the trio encounter in an early case, later recruited by Leland into a misogynistic cult.
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* HeManWomanHater: Doesn't seem to be one at first, but exposure to Leland's teachings and the "Incel Army" brings out an increasingly anti-woman animus in him.
* IdiotSavant: Good with computers, questionable with other stuff. He not only has no moral problems with carrying out a mass shooting, but also believes it will make his life better, which any cursory study of past mass murderers would disprove.
* {{Nerd}}: Technically brilliant, unable to talk to women, coke bottle glasses. The whole package.
* RecklessGunUsage: Carelessly poses with multiple guns in front of the mirror [[spoiler: thus blowing his own head off before he can hurt anyone else]].
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Winds up blowing his own head off through his incompetent handling of guns before he can hurt anyone else.]]
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[[folder: [=Rose390=]]]
!![=Rose390=]/[[spoiler: Richard Ghana]]
->'''Played By''': Nora Murphy (as [=Rose390=])/[[spoiler: uncredited actor (as Richard Ghana)]]

Another young player that Kristen's daughters meet while playing a VR game bought for them by Sheryl. [[spoiler: In reality she's the projection of a psychopathic coder named Richard Ghana]].
* CreepyChild: Comes off as one, even though no such child exists in reality.
* CreepyMonotone: Doesn't speak with much inflection.
* DigitalAvatar: Ben guesses that she's "a pedophile with a voice modifier." If that's not the exact truth, he's not far off, either.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has a high contrast appearance with lank black hair and alabaster skin.
* PsychoSerum: [[spoiler: Ghana's ex-roommate reports that he's become addicted to flakka, a real life synthetic stimulant that can causes both bursts of extreme strength and paranoid delusions.]]
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[[folder: Grace Ling]]
!!Grace Ling
->'''Played By''': Li Jun Li
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A childcare provider who claims to have prophetic visions.
* SpiritAdvisor: She appears to David in the hospital after being deported back to China. Whether this is a dream or an actual spirit is left ambiguous. For that matter, she may well still be alive.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Detective Byrd]]
!!Detective Mira Byrd
->'''Played By''': Creator/KristenConnolly
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A detective in the NYPD homicide decision and friend of Kristen's.
* {{Expy}}: Blonde with a bird-themed surname and a job investigating murders, a la [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice Starling]].
* FriendOnTheForce: Downplayed. She and Kristen seem to be professionally at odds more often than not. While this strains their friendship the two continue to respect each other.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Renée Harris]]
!!Renée Harris
->'''Played By''': Creator/ReneeEliseGoldsberry
A lawyer hired by the diocese when an exorcism subject has second thoughts, and also an old friend of David's.
* DeadpanSnarker: As seen when she has fun with the plaintiff's attorney being named "Lemonhead".
* HelloAttorney: Attractive enough to [[spoiler: get David to break his chastity vows]].
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!Family Members

->'''Played By''': Brooklyn Shuck

* PromotionToParent: As the eldest she has the most responsibilities over the others if/when both parents are absent.

->'''Played By''': Skylar Gray

* CheerfulChild: Has tended toward smiles and reassurance despite the weird and terrifying things surrounding her family.

->'''Played By''': Maddy Crocco

* DesignerBabies: Possible, in that she was conceived after Kristen and Andy turned to a fertility lab, one that has since been linked to some sinister children on the show.

->'''Played By''': Dalya Knapp

Kristen and Andy's youngest daughter

* IllGirl: She was born with a heart condition that the Bouchards were told could take her at any time. A serious illness happens near the end of the first season. Surgery and possibly a deal made by the Buddhist-curious Andy seem to stabilize her.

->'''Played By''': Patrick Brammall

Kristen's husband. Like her, he's an experienced mountain climber. Unlike her he spends relatively little time onscreen.

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[[folder: Leon Acosta]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/VondieCurtisHall

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->'''Played By''': Sohina Sidhu

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!Other Characters
[[folder: Dr. Boggs]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/KurtFuller

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[[folder: D.A. Cormier]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/DannyBurstein

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->'''Played By''': Creator/DarrenPettie

Successful professional who starts committing murders in midlife.

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[[folder: Sebastian Lewin]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/NoahRobbins

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[[folder:Kristen Bouchard]]
!!Kristen Bouchard
->'''Played By''': Creator/KatjaHerbers

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[[folder:David Acosta]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/MikeColter

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[[folder:Ben Shakir]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/AasifMandvi

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[[folder:Leland Townsend]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelEmerson

* AmbiguouslyHuman: He's either a human sociopath or an actual demon. It's hard to tell, since his status as TheCorrupter could mean either or both.

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->'''Played By''': Creator/MartiMatulis (motion), Euan Morton (voice)

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[[folder:Adam Gardner]]

->'''Played By''': Graham Rowat

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!Church Figures
[[folder: Monsignor Korecki]]

->'''Played By''': Boris [=McGiver=]

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[[folder: Father Amara]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/ClarkJohnson

* ParentalSubstitute: Seems to be one for David. David's father is still alive, of course, but Father Amara is the one he turns to for advice specific to his priestly calling.

[[folder: Bishop Marx]]

-->'''Played By''': Creator/PeterScolari

* MysteriousEmployer: Could just be a buttoned-up personality, but if he has an agenda, he's kept it secret.

[[folder: Sheryl]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/ChristineLahti

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[[folder: Lynn]]

* BourgeoisBohemian: He's made quite a lot of money, and his spread in Upstate New York allows him to duck any social rules he doesn't feel like accomodating.

* BigShutUp: Gives [[spoiler: Townsend]] one of these before she [[spoiler: she slices his Beck]]

->'''Played By''': Marti Matulis (motion), Euan Morton (voice)

-->'''Played By''': Peter Scolari

* StrugglingSingleMother: She's not actually single, but faces many of the same situations because her husband is
absent for much of the time and his income from guiding climbers in the Himalayas is unpredictable.

->'''Played By''': Kurt Fuller

->'''Played By''': Noah Robbins

->'''Played By''': Danny Burstein

* {{Polyamory}}: He seems to think he's effectively got two wives, although really it's more like a {{bisexual}} wife who has an open-minded girlfriend.

* BigShutUp: The words: " don't you ever stop talking? " were an indication of the verbal takedown that was about to commence.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a kind person but she will also [[spoiler: stab or even potentially kill you]] if you endanger the people she loves.

* BigShutUp: The words: don't you ever stop talking? were an indication of the verbal takedown that was about to commence.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the one mostly having the moral high ground she obviously enjoyed her *ReasonYouSuckSpeech and even called Townsend impotent.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can -find someone else to lie for him on the stand- in front of the judge he was talking to.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She constantly gets driven into murkier and murkier moral territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler: by the series finale its clear that she has unknowingly opened herself to evil]].

* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' she and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine leading them to almost kiss]].

* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[Mira tells her Leroux is dead]].

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The holy cross shape incineration on her palm]].