History Characters / HighlanderTheSeries

-> Played By: Creator/MarcSinger

-> Played By: Marc Singer

* AnAxeToGrind: And it's a huge one straight out of an over the top fantasy novel.

* AnAxeToGrind: He claims to have wielded the same axe for centuries, and after losing it, spent centuries more looking for it.

* AnAxeToGrind: Implied to be his weapon of choice.

The leader of the Four Horseman (Pestilence), a band of Immortals that ravaged the world in the Bronze Age. Cruel, remorseless, and obsessed with holding power over the world, he has continued to ride with outlaws and brigands through the ages, but thinks of it all as a pale imitation of his days as a Horseman. Duncan briefly encountered him in the WildWest as the leader of one such band, and in the present he's eager to reunite the Horsemen and use a deadly biological weapon to bring about a new age of chaos that they can control.

* AnAxeToGrind: He wields a realistically sized axe as his WeaponOfChoice.

* CombatPragmatist: Lures enemies into a base with tons of booby traps and other surprises. This also makes up for the fact that he's a soldier from the era where guns are the WeaponOfChoice rather than swords.

* HeroKiller: Discussed in one episode of the series and expanded upon in the novel Shadow of Obsession. Darius killed the oldest Immortal of the era (410 AD), a holy man named Emrys who sought to protect the city of Paris. The resulting Quickening led to his

* AngryBlackMan: In his first appearances. As his life starts to improve, he mellows out.

* KnifeNut: Part of his MO as a serial killer. He's introduced threatening a woman with an extremely large knife, which he then uses to stab Duncan.

* CorruptHick: He's the local sheriff, has a thick southern accent, and has zero qualms about framing an innocent man for a murder he committed.

* BastardBoyfriend: He's the lover of Maurice's niece Simone, a beautiful but troubled young woman who makes ends meet by prostitution. He uses her in his robbery schemes, murders people behind her back and ends up murdering her when she refuses to help him lure Duncan into a trap.

* SimpleStaff: His weapon of choice. He easily bests Duncan in a sparring session, and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Duncan's expression]] just before the sparring began indicates that Duncan expected exactly that outcome.

* NiceHat: Pretty much never seen without his brown fedora.

* NiceHat: Caleb makes his first appearance wearing one. He takes it off when speaking to Tessa and it's never seen again.

* NiceHat: We see him in both a fedora and ushanka.

* NiceHat: A cool top hat, which he mockingly places on [=MacLeod=]'s drawn sword before their first duel. Matlin catches it and holds it during the fight.

* NiceHat: When Duncan first meets him.

* CombatPragmatist: He leads Richie through some building renovations and throws debris at him, strikes from hiding, and in general tries to make use of the terrain. It ends poorly for him.

* KnightTemplar: Mako's only dedication is to the letter of the law. He feels no remorse for anything he does in that pursuit.

* CombatPragmatist: He leads Richie through some building renovations and throws debris at him, strikes from hiding, and in general tries to make use of the terrain. [[IHaveTheHighGround It ends poorly for him.]]

* ConsumateLiar: Easy way to tell if Amanda is lying? Her mouth opens and words come out. Even knowing this, good luck trying to figure out precisely what she's lying about, or what the lie actually is. Typically, by the time someone (usually Duncan) figures the truth, Amanda's already gotten what she wanted.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Played with. Duncan points out that while some of his methods are horrible, Kenny has as much right to fight and survive as any other Immortal, in any way that he can. But when he learns that Kenny murdered Dallman Ross' wife after she stopped him from killing Ross, Duncan quickly decides that Kenny is just another evil Immortal. The fact that Kenny also tried to kill Anne Lindsay, Duncan's lover, just cements his decision.

* MasterSwordsman: Duncan is an incredible swordsman, even for an Immortal. If it has a hilt and a blade, he can wield it.

* MultiMeleeMaster: Proficient not only with a claymore and katana, but various other swords as well in addition to knives, axes and spears.

* SpotOfTea: He finds it vastly preferable to alcohol.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: He feigns a romantic interest in Duncan's female companion in the 20s, but that's just so he can get her alone and try to strangle her for revenge against Duncan. Later, he captures [[HeroicSeductress Amanda]], and basically tells her she's wasting her time using her "not inconsiderable talents" on him. Kalas ''did'' spend most of his long life in a monestary, so at the very least, he's accustomed to going without.

* SkunkStripe: It's very prominently displayed in present day, though flashbacks to the 1890s reveal that he used to dye it.

* SkunkStripe: Specifically mentioned in dialogue as an identifying feature.

[[folder: Dallman Ross]]
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An Immortal pursuing Kenny. It turns out that Ross and his wife were duped into acting as Kenny's protectors, and that Kenny killed Ross' wife while trying to claim his head.

-> Played by Alastair Duncan

-> Played By: Roger Daltrey

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Duncan seems to appear everywhere important in the past four hundred years. For just a few examples: he's fought in the Jacobite rebellions, he was at Waterloo, fought for the Union in American Civil War and been imprisoned in the infamous Andersonville prison camp, partied with Cossacks in Russia, took alchemy and martial arts lessons in China, washed up in Tokugawa era Japan in a shipwreck, lived on the plains with a tribe of the Sioux, was a stretcher bearer in WWI, etc.

The main character and protagonist of the show, Duncan was raised as the son of the chief of clan [=MacLeod=] until his Immortality was revealed and he was cast out. He lived for some years in the Scottish wilderness before rumors of his existence reached the ears of his elder and kinsman, Connor [=MacLeod=]. Connor found Duncan and began teaching and training the younger [=MacLeod=], traveling throughout Europe. Duncan would return to Scotland several times through the ages to help them overthrow British rule, but the defeats suffered by the Scots eventually made him give up. He then traveled all throughout the world, often serving again as a soldier until an encounter with the monk Darius convinced him to begin rethinking living a soldier's life forever and moving into more peaceful trades. In the present he splits his time between Paris and the (fictional) city of Seacouver, working as an antiques dealer.