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[[folder:Liv]]
!!Dr. Olivia "Liv" Moore
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When you die, life goes on without you. If you're among the living dead, you're around to watch."'']]
->'''Played By:''' [=Rose McIver=]

-->''"I wanted to do something with my life. I wanted to help people. Not necessarily as a zombie psychic who eats murder victim brains, but still, I so nailed it today."''

The protagonist of the show, Liv is an ex-medical resident who died and woke up as a zombie. As a result, at least once a month, she must feed on brains to survive. She works at the King County Medical Examiner's Office in order to have access to the brains she needs. With each brain eaten, she absorbs new memories and traits.

She then begins to solve the deaths of the victims whose brains she's eaten with the help of her boss, Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, the only one who knows her secret. She also turns to Seattle PD Detective Clive Babineaux who thinks these visions Liv has are psychic powers.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Forced on her by an irritated Clive. After a vigilante's brain causes her to take a risky, one-woman assault on a criminal warehouse, leading to her being injured and left unconscious, Clive says he's done working with her. Just one episode later, an actor on [[ShowWithinAShow Zombie High]] is killed and her [[{{Fangirl}} immense knowledge]] of it makes her useful enough that Clive agrees to partner up with her on exception. After solving the case together he just officially agrees to work with her again.
* ActionDuo: Despite officially being a medical examiner, she often works with Clive on cases and gets in on the action with him to catch the killers. Demonstrated in the first episode when Clive chases Pratt out of the house he takes the call girls hostage in and Liv pursues him by '''jumping on his escape car'''.
* ActionFashionista: Becomes one thanks to eating the brain of a vain wealthy housewife. Gaining the woman's sense of style, Liv begins wearing glamorous outfits around the police station and although she gets such a pampered personality that she asks Clive to drive his car up to a building to save her walking a few steps, she ends up taking down the VillainOfTheWeek (in Full-on Zombie Mode, no less) while all dressed up.
* ActionGirl: As seen in the pilot, after Liv witnesses the horrible death of the woman whose brain she eats, she says she's got to catch the bastard who did it and shows her devotion when she jumps on to the roof of the fleeing murderer's car, while he's shooting through the roof at her and uses the steering wheel to drive him off the road.
* ActionSurvivor: Subverted on the boat party. As a human, she stands up to Blaine, splashing her drink on him after he slaps her ass and dives off the boat when things go to hell but Blaine managed to scratch her and she drowns in the water. Thankfully, becoming a zombie means death isn't so permanent.
* {{Adorkable}}: She has her moments, and depending on the brain she eats it can be magnified. After she eats the brain of a preschool teacher, she finds herself asking people what they're good at, chastising swearing and yelling and leaving a note for her LoveInterest [[spoiler:Justin]] to mark a 'yes' or 'no' on whether or not he likes her.
* AdultFear: After her brother Evan is left fighting for his life in a hospital bed after the Meat Cute building explodes with him right outside, Liv has to refuse letting him take her O-negative blood, risking turning him into a zombie and the two being discovered. Following this, she can do nothing but watch as the doctors (fortunately successfully) struggle to save her brother.
* AlmightyJanitor: Although Liv has a medical degree and was once on the route to be a successful doctor before 30, she chooses to work in the morgue as an assistant medical examiner to have easy access to brains and to avoid having to be around people, both results of her unfortunate zombification.
* AmicableExes: Before her revolving door romance dynamic begins going with Major, she remains on friendly terms, even after breaking off their engagement and largely isolating herself due to her infection.
* ArchEnemy: Liv despises Blaine for purposely turning her into a zombie and his abhorrent business involving murdering teenage runaways and turning them into high-priced zombie food. When he [[spoiler:loses his memory]] in the second season, she's the most reluctant to believe him and always ready to fight him at any sign of aggression.
* AttractiveZombie: Aside from her pale skin and occasionally her eyes, Liv is quite attractive.
* BadassAdorable: Liv is a cute, attractive and somewhat dorky medical examiner whose zombie powers means she can knock out people twice her size.
* BadassBookworm: Liv is a remarkably intelligent young woman, who would have been a successful doctor if not for her zombification. Posthumously, she uses her brain-eating and medical skills to help catch killers and is more than capable of getting in on the action fighting the bad guys thanks to her enhanced zombie strength and durability.
* BadassInDistress: After eating the brain of a vigilante crime fighter, Liv becomes incredibly headstrong and reckless, attacking a warehouse full of armed criminals to save a restrained woman who turns out to be the VillainOfTheWeek and promptly knocks Liv down before getting ready to shoot her before Mr. Boss of all people shows up and guns the villainous woman down.
* BadDreams: After being turned into a zombie by Blaine she finds herself unable to sleep for months and when she finally does fall asleep she has a nightmare about Blaine sitting at the foot of her bed before attacking. Afterwards, Liv gives an unamused monologue about the bitter irony of a zombie dreaming about being attacked by a zombie.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Liv has a HorrorHunger to devour the brains of the living, lest she become a mindless Romero zombie. She still finds a way to do this ethically and even beneficially to society by consuming the brains of murder victims and using the memory flashes she gets from doing so to solve crimes.
* BeingGoodSucks: Liv is a very noble and morale person and her unwillingness to accidentally infect her patients as a doctor, or sexually transmitting it to her lover leads her to leave her promising career as a doctor and call off her engagement with her beloved fiancé.
* BigEater: She acknowledges that she's always hungry, although chooses to only eat minimal amounts of brain matter to conserve her food supply. However, in one episode, she eats the brain of an overweight internet {{troll}} and quickly finds herself addicted to junk food, seen playing video games with a pile of empty pizza boxes next to her while she gorges on cheesy snacks.
* BlatantLies: Liv's zombie powers allow her to jump on to the roof of [[StarterVillain Pratt's]] car, which causes him to shoot through the roof, trying to hit her, before she grabs the wheel from him and causes him to crash and her to be thrown into a forest by the road. Once Clive shows up at the scene, Liv humorously tries to write off what happened as her adrenaline allowing her to catch up to Pratt's car, whom she claims was celebrating "drunk cowboy style" by shooting his gun into the roof of his car and crashing moments before she arrived at the scene.
* BrainyBrunette: At least she was before the zombieism set in. In fact her introductory scene of her pre-zombiefied we see her choose not to wait for a more senior doctor and take matters into her own hand with a dying patient, knowing the decision to make to sae his life.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Called off her engagement to Major, knowing full well that he would still stay with her if she told him she was a Zombie, effectively putting his life, his libido, and his dreams of being a dad, in jeopardy.
* BreakTheCutie: Already hit by becoming a zombie and being forced to call off her engagement to Major, the series isn't particularly kind to Liv. In the first season she manages to find a new lover in the form of Lowell, a fellow zombie, until he's killed by Blaine, driving her deeper into depression. By the end of the start of the second season her family no longer speaks to her after she doesn't want to give her zombie blood to her critically injured brother and later in the same season, she loses [[spoiler:another lover when Vaughn's experiments turn Drake into a mindless Romero zombie]], forcing her to put him down.
* BrokenBird: For the majority of the pilot especially. The majority of her character development arc is devoted to finding hope again.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Although all zombies get the same skills, personality and memories of the people they eat, Liv is the only one we see putting it to use by allowing said memories to guide her while solving the murder of her meals.
* CannotSpitItOut: The first season sees her acting very conflicted around Major, as she still loves him deeply but doesn't want to risk turning him into a zombie or dealing with the implications of dragging him into her new world.
* CartwrightCurse: By the end of Season 2, Liv has lost two boyfriends and almost lost her ex-fiancé.
* CelibateHero: Keeps herself away from Major out of fear for infecting him with the zombie virus and initially the only other zombie she knows is Blaine, who she detests for turning her. The intense feelings of loneliness because of it show on her until she meets fellow zombie Lowell, ending this trope.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Has shades of this depending on the brain she is on, becoming extremely suspicious of Drake when he shows up late to dates, eventually going so far as to place a tracker on him while on scientist brain.
* CoolBigSis: To Evan. When their mom is being hard on him she's willing to let him crash at her place and tells her she's told their mom the apartment's in a dead cell zone and is fiercely protective of him. Tragically, this dynamic gets severed at the end of Season 1 when Evan needing a blood transfusion from Liv has her refuse without explaining why, due to her being an undercover zombie. Since then, both Evan and her mother Eva refuse to see Liv.
* CreepyGood: Clive even refers to her as "Dark Princess" in the first episode. When cross examining a child, the five-year old immediately asks why she is so white. Others have been off-put by her appearance.
* CrusadingWidow: Liv starts out very much as an AllLovingHeroine, wanting to help save people as a doctor and now stop them from getting hurt by solving crimes as a zombie. She even finds herself unable to take out [[BigBad Blaine]] when she's got him dead to rights but angrily decides he must die once he kills her then-boyfriend Lowell.
* CursedWithAwesome: Despite lamenting the diminished to taste food beyond spice and brains, as well as the unpleasant side effect of absorbing the personality of whomever's brain she eats, Liv is essentially impervious to all damage except for her brain and is able to gain memories of the deceased's brains she eats to help solve crimes.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Aside from her pale skin and occasionally her eyes, Liv is quite attractive.
* CynicismCatalyst: Thanks to the boat party turning her into a zombie, Liv begins the series quite pessimistic, feeling no one will be able to understand her problem, shutting herself away from the world and saying she feels the world is going on without her as she watches from un-death. Fortunately, this quickly fades once Ravi discovers her predicament and proves himself a supportive friend.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Has one in the form of the boat party that turned her into a zombie and gave her PTSD from the killings she witnessed. Feeling she has to bear the burden alone drives her to break up with her ideal dream man of a fiancé, push away her family and quit her well-progressing job at the hospital. The fallout of this event keeps coming back to haunt her in the form of the Romero zombie version of Marcy and her run-ins with Blaine, whose turning of her soon makes him Liv's ArchEnemy. Being a zombie is never something comfortable for Liv, she tells Ravi that she fears the day they're discovered, worrying for her safety.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Undead, somewhat creepy looking, but genuinely happy that she can use her zombie-ness to solve murders and help people.
* DatingCatwoman: Appears to be in such a relationship with Drake, who works with Blaine and Mr. Boss but subverted when he's revealed to be an undercover agent tracking both groups.
* DeadpanSnarker: She can snark with the best of them, in glorious troves.
* DespairEventHorizon: :After she kills Drake to save Clive, Liv has a bit of a breakdown and collapses. When Vaughn gasses the room Liv almost lets herself die, only getting up because Clive reminds her that she has the training of a soldier and has to keep moving.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Her state in the pilot. Lost and without knowing what to do with her undead life and unable to feel anything but hunger, she spends her days moping around and watching TV. She comes around through the Pilot, in which she learns she can use her powers to catch murderers and help her fellow undead.
* DisappearedDad: Three seasons into the show and although we've met her Mom and brother, ''iZombie'' has made no mention of whoever Liv's father might be, leaving his whereabouts and situation unknown.
* DudeMagnet: Although she's got bigger fish to fry than looking for a mate, Liv is [[CuteMonsterGirl extremely attractive]] and this gets noted by many, many male characters who hit on her. Also, for someone not looking, she ends up having quite a few boyfriends as a result.
* {{Expy}}: Blonde, snarky woman, who went through a traumatic event and now solves crime, who is written by Rob Thomas? [[Series/VeronicaMars Sounds familiar.]] Even lampshaded by Liv, who thinks she found a kindred spirit in [[Creator/KristenBell Kristen Bell]].
* {{Fangirl}}: She has a near-childlike love of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Zombie High]]''.
* FeelNoPain: Being a zombie, Liv only feels a numbed sense of pain and can survive a stab in the chest with the same amount of damage a normal person would get from a relatively weak punch.
* {{Flanderization}}: In Season 3, Liv gets much more affected by the personalities of the brain's she eats than ever before, to the point she struggles to act as herself. This is justified after she eats the brain of a delusional man and a hallucinated [[spoiler:conversation with her deceased ex-boyfriend, Drake, reveals she's been diving into the personalities of others to avoid dealing with the guilt she feels at his death]].
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: After battling off some of her depression by solving the call girl's murder and saving another two in the first episode, Liv happily shows up to her mother's haunted house dressed as, what else? A zombie. When her friends comment on how awesome her costume is, Liv half-jokingly makes remarks that the commitment involves a difficult lifestyle.
* FreakinessShame: Can't hardly blame her for this--multiple times she belabors the point that even with her cravings, eating human brains still sucks. If one reads between the lines of when Major confronts her in the final episode about lying to him for the whole season, it would seem that one of the reasons she didn't let Major love her was because she couldn't love herself, at least not completely. Once more, aside comments and her dialog patterns reveal that Liv really does think of herself a monster.
* FreudianTrio: She is one all by herself. Her insatiable zombie appetite is the id, her driven nerdy personality the superego, and she strives to balance the two and remain human as the ego.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: She gets her brains from the corpses that come into the morgue specifically so she won't go all monster-movie zombie and start harvesting from living victims. She also takes advantage of the side-effect of her brain-eating (a PsychicPowers-esque ability to see the victims' last memories) to solve their murders.
* GallowsHumor: Liv has a cynical sense of humor, as seen in ''Flight of the Living Dead'', when her and Ravi make jokes about different food served on sticks, in reference to the impaled sky diver's whose brains she's going to eat. Of course, the laughter ends as soon as Liv discovers the deceased was her former sorority sister.
* {{Hallucinations}}:
** Scott E's brain causes her to constantly hallucinate that the devil is talking to her, which ends up being a representation of the person who killed him and clue in his murder.
** In Season 3 she consumes the brain of a delusional man to help solve a string of murders. This brain, combined with Liv's guilt over having to [[spoiler: kill Drake results in her beginning to see him everywhere she goes, until she manages to make peace with him]].
* HealingFactor: She can take bullets or a ''brass knuckles'' punch in the face without getting any scars.
* TheHeart: Liv is a very empathetic person and through all the personalities and trials she goes through, remains consistent on her hope for humanity and to make people happy.
* HeartbrokenBadass:
** In Season 1, her and her lover Lowell hatch a plan to kill Blaine, only for Blaine to turn the tables and off Lowell, sending Liv into a depression fuelled by feeling responsible and a deep-seeded hatred and determination to kill Blaine.
** In the season finale of Season 2, Liv gets hit with another dose when she discovers [[spoiler:Drake has been turned into a Romero zombie and is forced to kill him]]. This leads to her diving deeply into the brains she eats in Season 3, working tirelessly to solve cases and escape being herself to run away from her guilt.
* HeroicAlbino: The UndeathlyPallor, white hair, and red circles around her eyes make her look like one.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Liv and Peyton. The two of them occasionally flirt with each other, but it's all in good fun.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Usually not, but depending on the brain, she may trust people she would usually find suspicious. Completely averted regarding her love interests. All of her boyfriends are genuinely good guys, who fell in love with her.
* HorrorHunger: She's a zombie... so, yeah. Also, certain lines imply that Liv is not ever truly sated but merely more able to operate after feeding (in the third episode Liv refers to herself as a stomach and "hunger incarnate"). Once more, this hunger is explicitly shown to efface her humanity if left unfed.
* HospitalHottie: She's a former Hospital-Resident, and even being one of the undead can't detain from the fact that she is quite pretty.
* HowsYourBritishAccent: A visual example rather than an accent-related one. There occasionally come scenarios where she has to pose as human in environments where people are looking for zombies, which serve primarily as an excuse for Rose [=McIver=] to show off her natural appearance sans zombie makeup.
* IAmAMonster: Liv initially detests herself for what she has become, explaining in a monologue that for all the things she was as a human, all she believes she is now is a ravenous, unending hunger. Her friends and loved ones help her lighten up once they discover she's a zombie but she still yearns for the day she can be human again.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Liv doesn't trust Blaine, despite his initial seeming friendliness, for turning her into a zombie. As she learns that he kills people and extorts money from victims he turns into zombies, her animosity towards him only increases.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Liv wishes more than anything to be human again and only finds solace in being a zombie from the visions that help her solve murders from eating brains.
* ImportantHaircut: Shown early on after the intro to the show with her as a human. In addition to the lightening of her hair color, Liv has also cut it noticeably shorter, as her body changes to that of an undead and her mind to that of a lonely cynic.
* IronicName: It sounds like "Live more," and she's undead. Also counts as a PunnyName.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: After eating the brains of [[TheSociopath Marvin Webster]], Liv's resulting apathy nearly leads to Ravi being killed by a zombified Marcy. Although Ravi points out the obvious problems with acting while having adopted the personality of an emotionless monster, Liv chastises herself for waiting so long to save Ravi and for killing what was left of Marcy, even though being a Romero zombie meant Marcy's original personality was long gone.
* ItsPersonal: She was never Blaine's biggest fan due to him making her a zombie but his lies that it was unintentional and that he had forgotten mean this event isn't what really sets her off. Later, when she and Lowell plot to kill Blaine and Blaine ends up killing Lowell, Liv really gets set off and is since out for blood after the psychotic zombie.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Liv pulls this in an extremely dark way--telling a recently zombified Max Rager fixer who just confessed to accidentally murdering his aunt in a fit of overwhelming hunger that it was odd because she never ate anyone she didn't want to. Sure the guy was a complete nut even before his undead days, but he had practically destroyed his own world right there and was literally on the verge of tears that time.
* KinkySpanking: In Season 3, after Liv eats the brain of a man [[spoiler:believed to have killed a dominatrix he was a client of]], she gains his submissive fetishes and tries to get Peyton to trigger a vision for her by spanking her with a fly swatter while posed suggestively.
* {{Ladette}}: Becomes this under the influence of frat-guy brain. So much so that she even plays beer pong with the guys while visiting the fraternity house.
* LackOfEmpathy: After consuming the brain of a sociopathic hitman, Liv finds herself struggling to care about the deaths involved in the case or the people around her. She throws rocks at the now Romero zombified Marcy, her former friend and later almost leaves Ravi to die when he falls in the pit with Marcy. Horrified at what the brain did to her, Liv has to fight to overcome the deceased man's ruthlessly uncaring nature.
* LoveHurts: While being a zombie has made her physically NighInvulnerable, the difficulties of Liv’s unlife have seen her go through hell in terms of emotional turmoil:
** First Liv is zombified, forcing her to break off her relationship with her fiancé, whom she is still very much in love with. Throughout the first season, Liv can do nothing but watch as Major moves on, unable to tell him the truth. Even as they both remain alive and well, the couple are unable to maintain a lasting relationship for a variety of cruel twists thrown their way.
** Meeting her first zombie lover, Lowell, Liv tries to free him from Blaine’s controlling brain business and plans to assassinate Blaine with Lowell. When she finds herself unable to follow through with the plan, Lowell tries to take matters into his own hands and dies to the much more combat-hardened Blaine, leaving Liv absolutely devastated.
** In Season 2, Liv begins dating Drake and although the relationship goes well, Liv becomes concerned with his criminal activities. Fortunately, it turns out Drake is an undercover cop. Unfortunately, Drake’s a zombie on [[BigBad Vaughn Du Clark’s]] hit list and although Major tries to freeze and hide Drake’s body safely, Vaughn finds Major’s warehouse stash and brings Drake in for experimentation, turning him into a Romero zombie and forcing Liv to kill her brain-dead lover.
** Liv begins happily dating [[spoiler:Justin]] in Season 3 and although the relationship seems to be going smoothly for much of the season, during the two-part finale Liv has to eat the brain of a [[spoiler:flirtatious scientist, leading to her cheating on Justin with Chase and him breaking up with her. Justin’s final scene with Liv is him catching her in a facility run by his organization, Fillmore Graves and quickly signaling to his comrades he’s spotted an intruder, all of them charging after Liv with machine guns, highlighting his anger at her]].
* LyingToThePerp: A vision from the VictimOfTheWeek lets Liv know the a garbage man witnessed her and Clive's suspect parked next to each other. Although the garbage man didn't actually hear any of the conversation between the two, Liv is able to convince the suspect he did by quoting specific lines from the conversation and having Ravi dressed as the garbage man in another room, leading to the suspect's conviction.
* MamaBear: For Evan; threatening him has turned her from scared and afraid (i.e. victim) to stone cold and deadly (i.e. monster). To a (presumably) lesser extent, she is shown to be protective of Ravi. on a more humorous note, Liv on Mama Brain is this for everyone to a hilarious degree.
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: A particularly depressing situation with Major, in which she goes from being unable to be with him out of fear of infecting him as a zombie, to him discovering she's a zombie and angrily leaving for her not trusting him with that.
* MeaningfulName: {{Lampshaded}} in episode 5, a zombie name Liv Moore who wishes to live more.
* TheMedic: Before her undeath she was an up and coming heart surgeon, now she is an assistant medical examiner. Notably she seems to be more versed in dealing with living patients than Ravi is, so she's often the one providing first aid to others.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Although Liv likes solving crimes for the good of humanity, she often finds the visions of death painful and the personalities from certain brains affecting her to be incredibly unpleasant.
* MsFanservice: Because the show is formatted to "Brain of the Week," the writers can often find a reason to give sensible Liv a more sensual and erotic side, be it a stripper, a sexually repressed erotic author, call girl or dominatrix (and later a sexual submissive), and a chance to promote just how gorgeous and nicely shaped Rose [=McIver=] really is.
* MyBelovedSmother:
** Eva has her heart in the right place but doesn't deal with her daughter's PTSD in a beneficial manner for Liv. Instead of trying to understand Liv or giving her space, Eva tries to constantly insert herself in Liv's life, telling her she should get back together with Major and trying to get her to join in on her own socials. This takes a tragic turn when Liv being unable to provide Evan with a blood transfusion and unable to explain why destroys her relationship with Eva, who now wants nothing to do with Liv.
** Liv herself becomes a de facto one after eating the brain of a mother-to-be and starts chiding Ravi and Clive, forcefully trying to get them to get keep good posture and eat well.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Becoming a zombie greatly increased Liv's alcohol tolerance, as seen in Season 2's ''Zombie Bro'', where she eats the brain of a frat boy and is able to consume vast amounts of alcohol at a party.
* NiceGirl: Her being an undead brain eater may have made her moody, ''literally'', but that hasn't changed her from being the kind, good-hearted person who simply wants to do her part to help others.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She reveals to Blaine that he can turn people into zombies, something he seemingly didn't know before, as he believed he was the only one. This gives him the idea to start turning innocent people and essentially become the zombie version of a drug dealer. In her defense, she didn't know his nature at the time.
* NightmareFetishist: Liv's constant hunger for brains can make her almost giddy at the prospect of finding new murder victims for her to consume, as noted by Ravi and Clive.
* NoSocialSkills: Bright and full of life as a human, Liv purposely puts this on to keep people away from her as she dwells in her misery as a zombie. In the first episode, her ex-fiancé, roommate and family note how withdrawn she has been, no longer taking part in social events or even regularly communicating with anyone.
* OddNameOut: Compared to the rest of her family, '''Eva''' and '''Evan''' Moore.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: In season 2, Liv asks her friends to spend the day with her, although none of them probably knew it was her birthday. The people who do know do not talk to her, [[spoiler: and the person who decides to spend time with Liv turns out to be the culprit of the week. It looks like a sad, lonely birthday, that Liv celebrates with a bottle of whiskey, until she finds a birthday cake in the fridge and finds out that [[Heartwarming/IZombie it was her best friend, Peyton, who came over earlier to deliver it.]]]]
* PerkyGoth: Comes across this way as many characters take her hair and appearance as a style choice. Despite the look, she's very friendly.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Utopium turned her into a zombie, and she is actively trying to avert a ZombieApocalypse.
* PhonyPsychic: Technically; her visions are very real, but they're not the product of psychic powers. That's her cover story with the police.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Her zombie powers make her far stronger than a look at her small body would give the impression of. She can chase down cars and overpower much larger men who try and attack her.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Ravi, her fellow medical examiner, whose relationship never goes beyond anything other than strictly a good friendship. When Liv [[spoiler:eats the brains of a woman who had sex with Ravi]], the resulting sexual images leave her thoroughly sickened and unable to look at Ravi for a bit.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: PlayedForLaughs when she eats the brain of a murdered old man who disliked minorities. At one point, Liv rants to the Asian Ravi about how her ride back to the office was slow because of an elderly Asian female driver. At another, a black inmate makes a pass at Liv and when Clive stands up for him, Liv refers to him as "one of the good ones", much to his disbelief.
* RaceFetish: Plays having one in an episode to gain intel on a suspect in an Asian gang when she and Ravi go to investigate a store the gang runs.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The main indicator of when she TurnsRed.
* ReluctantPsycho: She eats brains because she needs to, and they prevent her from turning feral. Her sense of taste is dulled, but even she doesn't "like" eating brains, saying that the texture and consistency is revolting.
* RunningGag: People mentioning her complexion and a need to tan and paint her hair is extremely common, even among the zombies themselves.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Not in real time, of course, as Liv has to eat the brain of the person in question to get visions of their past, helping her solve many murders. Although this is an ability all zombies have, Liv is almost exclusively the only one to use it because of the show’s focus on her.
* SelfHarm: Near the end of Season 2, Liv stabs herself in the chest with a kitchen knife to get [[spoiler:Clive to believe she a zombie]] after finally telling him the truth.
* SituationalSexuality: Under the effects of the Brain-Of-The-Week, her sexuality can change. Such as in episode 2 where after eating the brain of a sex addict she openly lusts after his female lovers.
* StickyFingers: During the pilot episode, Liv eats the brain of a kleptomaniac call girl which causes her to begin stealing an assortment of random objects, including Clive's stapler, a picture of Pratt's family, Peyton's pens and eyeballs from her mother's Halloween haunted house.
* SuperStrength: When full-on zombie mode.
* SupremeChef: Makes food made with brains look absolutely delicious. Even Ravi has to admit that the brains she cook look very appetizing.
-->'''Ravi:''' Dear god, that smells sensational. ''(Said about some fried bite sized snacks)''
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Both in season two and season three, whenever she's forced to partner up with Blaine.
* TookALevelInBadass: After becoming a Zombie. She can ingest the right brains to become an expert soldier or a talented martial artist, also she can go into "full on zombie mode" which makes her noticeably more deadly (read: understatement). She was the first person in the show whom we see drop a zombie-body, and by the end of the first season, she takes out a zombie-hitman in possibly the greatest fight of the series--thus far.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: As it turns out, brains are still treated as the most disgusting food ever, and Liv says that eating them "Sucks beyond words" and that she finds herself disgusting for having to eat them. However, Liv (and all other zombies) love extremely spicy foods because it is all that they can taste. As such, Liv keeps a number of different chili peppers on hand and has even been seen swigging out of a bottle of hot sauce.
* TurnsRed: Getting too upset causes her to go into "full-on zombie mode". According to herself, that is a reaction to a threat to her survival.
* UsedToBeMoreSocial: While parties were never her thing, Liv was much more lively as a human, having been a sorority sister and very involved according to her mother. Post-zombie, Liv's depression and shock at the night of the boat party have led her to live a much quieter life.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Due to having eaten the brain and absorbed the personality of a hit man who she quickly realizes was a sociopath, Liv finds herself doing some morally questionable things. First mocking Clive for him being unwilling to make a risky move in the case, she monologues to herself about the horrific realization that she genuinely doesn't care about the violence in the case. Ravi also calls her out a second time when she finds a Romero mode of her former friend Marcy, whom she coldly throws rocks at and later tries to off without remorse.
** Later in Season 1, she (without the excuse of a brain) is on the receiving end of one from Major, after her neglecting to tell him that she's a zombie leads to him thinking he's mentally ill and even checking himself into a mental health hospital. Despite being worried she would pressure him, Major calls Liv out for thinking they didn't share a strong enough bond for him to be trusted with that information.
* WhenSheSmiles: In the pilot, at least. After her transformation, it is especially prominent when Liv smiles because she just doesn't anymore.
* YourCheatingHeart: Eating the brain of the flirtatious [[spoiler:Dr. Kupps]], Liv finds herself to fight off the urge to flirt with men as she goes to a bar her brain doner used to frequent, even though she's dating [[spoiler:Justin]]. Barely pulling herself away from one man after an intense make-out session in the elevator, Liv eventually [[spoiler:gives in to her urges and cheats on Justin with Chase, leading to Justin breaking up with her at the end of Season 3]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ravi]]
!!Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Brain-eating, being undead, these are things you can discuss at length with me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Rahul Kohli

-->''"A call girl gets murdered, you eat her brains, help find her killer. It's like that Elton John song."''

A medical examiner and Liv's boss, he knows that Liv's a zombie and tries to help cure her of her condition as well as provides her access to brains on the job. After being introduced to him by Liv he eventually becomes Major's roommate and Best Friend.
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* ActualPacifist: Being that he took the Hippocratic oath, he's very dedicated to preserving life, even zombie life. He goes out of his way to save anyone he can, even people he hates like Blaine and Don E, to the point he was willing to die to save Don E. The one time he ''does'' fight, its to save Liv, and he's freaked out when it results in the man's death. The only time he willingly plans violence is to save Peyton, but he ends up waiting in the car while Blaine handles it.
* {{Adorkable}}: More than a little eager about zombies, and gets all giddy when discovering something new about the zombie condition. He also seems to have an interest in magic tricks and vigilante super heroes.
* BadassBeard: He has an impressively thick one.
* BetaCouple: Becomes this with Peyton after they start dating.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty for Peyton's Archie, vs Blaine's Veronica.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Has a very noticeable brotherly love for Liv, and is extremely protective of her. He's noticeably angry any time someone makes a comment about her appearance, and his efforts to make a cure for the virus, a task which would be incredibly difficult with his limited resources, are stemmed from wanting to help her.
* BollywoodNerd: To a lesser extent. He was able to make the deductive leap that Liv was a zombie because he actually believes in zombies, and got fired from the CDC because of it.
* TheCoroner: Is Liv's boss and a talented medical examiner.
* DeadpanSnarker: He could probably rival [[VeronicaMars Logan Echolls]].
* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]] He has this reaction when a know-nothing medical examiner makes a joke about Liv's albino appearance.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Quickly became this to Major, something both like to lampshade and joke about.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Accused of this by Peyton, who tells that, while she was kidnapped, Ravi can only focus on the fact that he did nothing and that she and Blaine are getting closer, making the fact she almost died about his ego.
* MadScientist: Considering the amount of research he's casually performed on zombieism, Ravi certainly has the makings of one.
* MuggleBestFriend: Has recently become this for Liv, as he's the only human who is aware of her secret and is the main person she talks to about it. But Ravi also shares this role with Peyton - while he is the one Liv talks to about zombie stuff Peyton helps her deal with her relationship drama. Serve as this to Major as well, after he reverts back when the cure wears off.
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, the fact he failed in taking action while Blaine saved Peyton is something the others love to joke about, particularly Major, much to his disdain.
* NiceGuy: He' not freaked out that Liv is a zombie, in fact he finds it cool. And he's also helping her find a cure--and shows that he is concerned with her in the manner of a friend, more so than a science experiment.
* NonActionGuy: Ravi has a hard time actually putting up a fight and doesn't seem to know the first thing on how to fight. This comes back to bite him when Peyton gets kidnapped and he stays in the car doing nothing and scared while Blaine goes there and rescue her by himself.
* OpenHeartDentistry: A lesser example. He is a practicing medical practitioner well-versed in surgery, just not on living patients. Good thing Liv is not ''living''. It should also be noted that Liv herself ''was'' a heart surgeon.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Liv, his fellow medical examiner.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: At the end of season 3, he decides that [[spoiler: the best way to test his newly developed zombie vaccine is to take it himself and have Liv scratch him. The consequences of this are unknown.]]
* SmartGuy: Compared to Clive and Liv (both of whom are by no means unintelligent) he has been shown to notice things they would not. Once more, he is scientifically savvy enough to successfully develop a Zombie cure, without the use of high tech equipment or funding for research, largely doing so in his spare time.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's a towering 6"4, dark-haired and quite good-looking. Also overlaps with [[TallDarkAndSnarky]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Has a bit of a breakdown when he accidentally [[PhlebotinumOverdose overdoses and kills]] Janko during their fight. He gets over it quickly, although he is still shaky.
* TheyCalledMeMad: He was kicked out of the CDCC for his obsessive beliefs that zombies could be used as biological weapons. Liv's plight vindicates him.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed, but still there. he becomes mopier and snarkier after Peyton gets closer and dates Blaine in season 3, realizing he lost his chance with her by sleeping with someone else.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clive]]
!!Detective Clive Babineaux
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm really gonna need a hand with this, so let me know when things get extrasensory."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Malcolm Goodwin

A detective at the Seattle Police Department who thinks that Liv's a psychic. He gets help from Liv in order to solve crimes.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: He questions Liv's input a lot, despite her being right nearly all of the time. In fairness, he's reluctant to listen to her mostly because the information she gives him puts him in the spotlight and ruffles a lot of feathers in his department, especially with his captain.
* BadassNormal: During the Season 2 finale, Clive is able to score several headshots on a horde of Romero Zombies that are specifically targeting him, escaping without a scratch. In general, although he only fights when he needs to, he has never lost a single fight he's in, either hand to hand or with guns, and typically [[CurbStomp Curb Stomps]] the other guy.
* BerserkButton: Played for laughs. "The Hurt Stalker" reveals that a good way to piss him off is to ask him what Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is doing right now. ("Not writing.") He also doesn't appreciate being teased for his Cajun cooking.
** More seriously, his FriendToAllChildren nature means that any form of child abuse triggers him. At one point he [[CurbStomp Curb Stomps]] an abusive dad, knowing he might get in trouble for it, and when his former neighbors are murdered, he's more focused on avenging the son Wally, than his mother, whom he was romantically involved with.
* BlackAndNerdy: He's a Series/GameOfThrones fan. As of Season 3, he is also into ''D&D''.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ms. Moore, please". Lampshaded by Liv, something he usually says when the quirky personalities Liv incorporates act out during an investigation.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He previously worked undercover in taking down gangs, and did some violent things for said cover. He also punched the shit out of a guy when he found out he was a child abuser, which may also imply he might have suffered something similar.
** The reason why is explained in "Zombie Knows Best" (see PapaWolf).
* DeadpanSnarker: Compared to other characters, his snarkiness is more prominent. This is usually about him jabbing at Liv's "psychic" abilities and the ridiculous things she asks him to do, most of which might put a dent in his career.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Loses his chance with Bazzio after he releases Major from prison. When they meet again by season three, he makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, that she completely turns down.
* FriendOnTheForce: While Clive has not been read-in on the whole "Zombie" thing, he does find her seemingly psychic abilities useful enough to drag her along on cases.
* FriendToAllChildren: Clive hits it off really easy with kids, and becomes extremely protective of them very quickly. Most notably Wally, whom he manages to befriend in less than a minute of meeting.
* HardboiledDetective: Clive is more akin to this than the more traditional Sherlock Holmes.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After Bozzio leaves him, and again when Wally's family is killed.
* HiddenDepths: Clive plays the piano, is a skilled Cajun style chef and is a huge ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fan. In general he can quite easily become HotBlooded when it comes down to fantasy settings. He quickly got addicted in a heated game of Dungeons and Dragons in season 3.
* LyingToThePerp: Along with Liv when her vision allows her to know a garbage man was present when the suspect and victim were talking. By having Liv quote the conversation to the suspect and Ravi dressed up as the garbage man (who actually heard nothing), Liv and Clive are able to get a conviction.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The only main character to not learn that Liv is a zombie. That is, until Liv confesses everything to him, even stabbing herself in the ''chest'' to prove her story, so she can get Major out of jail at the end of season 2. He participates in Major and Liv's raid of Max Rager to save Drake and the other Zombies that Major was forced to lock away.
* MrFanservice: He's quite fond of wearing tight sweaters that show off his incredibly muscular physique.
* NiceGuy: He's a bit distant at first but Clive eventually shows that he's one of these.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Acts as one to Liv, being her close partner, but it's clear they are just friends and both have real LoveInterests in other characters.
* PapaWolf: In "Love & Basketball," Clive finds out one of the kids on the basketball team is being physically abused by the father. Clive then drives onto his lawn, calls the bastard out, and [[CurbStompBattle pounds the shit out of him.]]
** In season 3 it's revealed that when he was undercover in vice, he lived next door to a kid named Wally Reed, whose father was an abusive drunk. One night Clive intervened when the father was being particularly violent and had him arrested. After that he became a [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate father figure]] to Wally until he and his mother moved away, fearing for their safety when Wally's father was close to getting out of prison.
* RealMenWearPink: Defied, he cooks and is very good and proud of it, but he dislikes when that is considered cute, that's why he avoids tell Ravi and Liv about it.
* StraightMan: Clive often plays this to Liv when she's being affected by the brains of the victim of the week, who tend to be very colorful people.
* SupremeChef: The food he sometimes brings to Liv and Ravi, which they love, wasn't bought, he made it himself.
* TranquilFury: Clive's moods range from indifferent to weirded out (especially when he's with Liv), all with the same look on his face. When he's actually angry, he gets quieter, softer and will punch out a dude without loosening his tie.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Clive is too much of a straight-laced hard-ass for all this absurdity and bloodshed around him, but that's what happens when your favorite sidekick is a zombie with wildly varying personalities.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Major]]
!!Major Lilywhite
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's the world that's crazy, and I've got proof."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Robert Buckley

Liv's fiancé, until she broke up with him after she became a zombie. He also becomes roommate and best friend to Ravi after Liv introduces them.
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* {{Adorkable}}: The guys always got a cute quip to break the tension, likes spending time playing video games and shares a lot in common with Ravi in this regard.
* AnAxToGrind: Major grabs a fire ax during the Season 2 finale to fight off a group of rabid zombies. He later uses it to break through a glass window in Max Rager's basement to save himself and Rita from a dangerous gas.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Three times, first in the season one finale when Liv scratches him to save his life, although he is cured soon afterwards. A longer and possibly more permanent change occurs in "Pour Some Sugar, Zombie" when he is confronted by Ravi about being the chaos killer, revealing that the cure has been nullified when he goes full zombie from the stress. He isn't really happy about this. By the time he gets cured again (to prevent the first cure from killing him) he is isolated from non-zombies (thanks to being the Chaos Killer) and has comraderie with actual zombies (from joining Filmore-Graves) so that when his friends are killed, he actively asks to be made into a zombie again so he can protect the ones that are left.
* AttractiveZombie: Much like Liv, the being living dead thing hasn't taken away his good looks. Maybe even more so, given that his body hasn't really deteriorated as much, remaining the same skin tone, and blonde hair.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an incredibly compassionate person, who will fight tooth and nail for the people he cares about.
* BoomerangBigot: Downplayed. In season 1, when he found out about zombies he was determined to kill them all, assuming they're all monsters like Blaine. As he learns about Liv's zombism and bonds with the innocent zombies he's charged with kidnapping, as well as slowly turns back into one, he empathises with them to the point he quickly signs up with Fillmore Graves, and sticks with them even after being cured. By the end of Season 3, when asked to 'pick a side' between humans and zombies, he declares its not even close and is firmly on the zombies' side. [[spoiler:However, he's clearly troubled by Fillmore Graves taking over Seatle in what's essentially a military dictatorship occupying via blackmail.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Investigating kids' disappearances did no favors for his mental stability.
** His life doesn't get any easier come Season 2 when Vaughn contracts him because of his Zombie sensing powers to assassinate the other remaining zombies threatening to have Liv killed if he doesn't comply.
** Season 3 ups the ante by having him deal with the fallout of being publicly outed as a suspected serial killer.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently delivers.
--->'''Clive''': As long as I've got you, I had a few more questions about the Meat Cute incident. \\
'''Major''': Oh, did you get re-assigned to the Solved Crime squad?
* {{Determinator}}: When asked to describe her former Fiancé, the first word Liv says is "Determined". Cue screen cut to Major watching hours of skating videos to find just one man in the crowd.
* DescentIntoAddiction: As a result of killing off any zombies that Max Rager deems fit, and his renewed feelings for Liv Major falls prey to the allure of Utopium.
* DisposableFiance: Played with. Liv dumps him at the start of the series in order to embrace her new life, and at first glance he seems like an archetypal "bland perfection" type who just can't keep up with the supernatural and is doomed to be LockedOutOfTheLoop. Then he starts hunting zombies, and by the second season he and Liv seem to be back together -- and, while he's still pretty perfect, he's no longer bland.
* DistressedDude: Much of season 1, until in "Blaine's World" he shakes this status off with a particularly gory RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* FearlessFool: Shows shade of this as time goes on, doing some downright dumb things in the pursuit of his mission.
* FriendToAllChildren: He was a youth counselor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Quickly became this to Ravi, something both like to lampshade and joke about.
* HeroesLoveDogs: He takes care of a dog, whose zombie-owner he took out. He is genuinely fond of the dog, but neglects him, and ultimately decides to leave it on a bus in hopes that the dog gets a better owner. Unfortunately, this backfires on him.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Major is genuinely good-natured and abhors killing innocent people. When Major is tasked with taking out Seattle's zombies, he instead only kidnaps them and freezes them up until Ravi can come up with a cure. When he gets arrested for his "murders" as the "Chaos Killer", he is shamed by the whole city, even when the public later learns that he didn't kill anyone. Now he is "merely" a mass-kidnapper as he puts it, but it doesn't help him much and everyone still seems to think he killed people. His reputation is ruined.
* HiddenDepths: The seemingly normal, well-adjusted social worker knows where to go and who to talk to to set up a weapons deal in the middle of the night. Presumably, the knowledge comes from his work with troubled kids.
* InsertGrenadeHere: Kills the Candyman by shoving a grenade into the broken window of the Meat Cute's freezer.
* {{Irony}}:
** In season 1, Blaine points out the irony how Seattle's zombie hunter didn't see that his own beloved was a zombie, too.
** In season 2, Major is looking for drugs and is given some by one of the teenagers he once tried to help. This is when he realizes that he needs help.
* KnightTemplar: Once he discovers that zombies are real, he declares he is going to kill them all. By the season 3 finale, after spending the season being ostracised by the human population with only the Fillmore Graves zombies accepting him, even after finding out he's human, he seemingly switches into being this for the zombies.
* LovableJock: Was one of the Star Football players in college, but according to Liv the reason she fell in love with him was when she realized he never took anything for granted after admitting he wanted to become a social worker after he finished school as his way to give back.
* MrFanservice: Well built body, handsome face, chiseled jaw, plus the guy's played by Robert Buckley, so it comes with the territory.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler: As of season 2 the zombies of Seattle refer to him as The Boogeyman, while the police call him The Chaos Killer.]]
* NiceGuy: He's quite a friendly person, and seems to be on [[AmicableExes good terms with Liv despite breaking up with her.]] He also works with teenage runaways at a halfway house. Liv even describes him as "sweetness and light" incarnate.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Gives one to Julien before dropping a grenade during the Meat Cute attack: "Walk away from this."
* PrettyBoy: Straight out called one by his Gym Trainer. Pretty much the easiest way Julien figures out someone is talking about Major is when they mention how pretty he is.
* PunnyName: Paired with the dog he takes in, Minor.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the season one finale. After escaping the freezer of the Meat Cute using a lighter and frozen urine, Major retrieves his cache of weapons from his truck and proceeds to [[Awesome/IZombie kill every member of Blaine's operation]] besides Blaine himself.
* SadClown: In the first few episodes, as he constantly cracks jokes around Liv as if he is desperate to make her smile. Appears to be a coping mechanism for him.
* SanitySlippage: Almost. Finding no logical explanation to the supernatural things he experiences in season 1, Major thinks he's going crazy and checks himself into a mental hospital, where he finally finds the answer, when a fellow inmate approaches him and tells him about zombies.
* SelectiveObliviousness: A case of LoveMakesYouDumb. Blaine lampshades this at the end of season 1. Major knew that the massacre at Lake Washington was caused by zombies, yet he somehow didn't make the connection that his ex-fiancé, who dramatically changed after said massacre, turned into a zombie.
* ShipperOnDeck: To Peyton/Ravi, specially when he gets in Teenage Girl Brain in season 3 and elects [[Music/KatyPerry "The One That Got Away"]] as their theme song.
* StarCrossedLovers: No matter what happens, the universe doesn't seem to want Liv and Major to be together, when they get over their differences.
** It starts with Liv becoming a zombie and her consequently calling off the engagement with Major, as she knows that sex and having children is important to him (even if she made this decision without informing him about her). However, she turns Major into a zombie to save his life, and promises him that they can be together now. [[WhatTheHellHero Major calls her out on her hypocrisy]], leading to Liv using Ravi's prototype cure to turn Major back into a human.
** When they reconcile in season 2 and want to get back together, Ravi has to inform them that sex, even with protection, is impossible without turning Major into a zombie. They thus break up again and Liv gets together with Drake.
** In season 3, [[spoiler: when Major receives Ravi's reworked cure that completely turns him back into a human without any consequences, Liv is unable to turn back as well, because all other doses were either stolen or given away, this leads Liv to start dating Major's friend, Justin.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In a [[IncrediblyLamePun major way]], from distressed social worker to fearsome zombie-hunter.
* TrappedInVillainy: At the start of Season 2, Max Rager has blackmailed Major into being their hitman using Liv's life as collateral. Subverted as instead of killing the Zombies, he's revealed to have been placing them in deep freeze stasis after kidnapping them, until Ravi perfects the cure.
** Happens again at the end of season 3; [[spoiler: he signed up to rejoin Fillmore Graves in order to do what was necessary to protect the zombies, just as Fillmore Graves is forced into taking over Seattle when the masquerade is broken. Now he's trapped mowing down rebellious humans trying to fight against the zombie army that took over.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His rampage at Meat Cute ultimately keeps Liv from using the cure for herself - which keeps her from saving her brother's life at the conclusion of Season 1.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Gives one of these to Liv when he's turned by her at the end of the first season.
** Receives one from Ravi when [[spoiler:Major loses the dog while high on Utopium.]]
* WorkoutFanservice: So if Liv is pulling in the males, how do the writers get even more females with Major? Make him a personal trainer in season 2, and give ample chance to show him sweaty and shirtless even more than before.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blaine]]
!![=Blaine McDonough=]
!!!Blaine [=DeBeers=], John Deaux
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There are some things worse than death."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidAnders

->''"Has over-saturation buried us? I don't know. I think we're gonna surprise some people. I mean, what did LL Cool J say? 'Don't call it a comeback,' right?"''

A drug dealer-turned-zombie, as well as the person who turned Liv into a zombie in the first place. Blaine was also at the boat party when the zombie outbreak occurred; the drug he was dealing, Utopium, actually caused the zombie outbreak.
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* AbusiveParents: in season 3, we find out that his father used to beat him.
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Deliberately turns rich people into zombies, then charges them through the nose for the [[BrainFood steady supply of brains]] they need in order to stay sane.
* AmnesiacHero: After taking the second cure he loses a large majority of his memories. He seems to be becoming this trope, helping get brains to Major when he is in jail and saving Peyton from several of Mr. Boss's men. [[spoiler: Turns out he's faking it. He did lose his memories for a while, but he kept up with the charade to try and change his life and how people viewed him.]]
* BigBad: Of Season 1. His brain-dealing operation is the biggest threat to the main characters and puts all of them in a lot of danger.
* BadassDecay: Invoked. Blaine observes that he was far more effective as a zombie than a human.
* BadBoss: He's been shown to kill any of his goons or clients who go off the rails. One episode has him knife a goon's throat when a supply of expensive brains goes missing, though it was nonlethal since the goon was a zombie. However he later spares Don E. after the latter betrayed him, showing he has softened.
* BastardBoyfriend: While Blaine was nothing but affectionate towards Peyton and made a genuine attempt to change, their relationship was still born out of a lie.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:In season 3, once he regains his memories.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Ravi's Betty in terms of Peyton's Archie.
* BreakTheBadass: Blaine's return to villainy is informed by his losing everything precious to him. His relationship with Peyton, the loyalty of his former crew, his business, and very nearly his life after his father orders him shot.
* BuriedAlive: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:When he is kidnapped by Mr. Boss, he has already regressed into a zombie, making him technically undead. Then Mr. Boss slits his throat and buries him in the forest, intending to hide Blaine's (supposedly) dead body. Except Blaine isn't dead and merely digs himself out in the morning.]]
* CardCarryingVillain: Blaine flat out stating his reasons for his actions are "Daddy issues. Megalomania. Greed."
* CatchPhrase: Blaine frequently refers to zombies as 'Team Z', which Liv initially mocks him for. None the less, the cast has been referred to as such in episode promos.
* CryfortheDevil: When we learn of his childhood abuse.
* DeadpanSnarker: All consumingly.
* EnemyMine: He and Liv are not on friendly terms, but if anyone threatens to expose or kill their mutual friends or fellow zombies, the two of them work together. In Season 2, when Major's "killing" (actually kidnapping) of zombies ordered by Max Rager threatens Blaine's business, Blaine comes up with an arrangement that is mutually beneficial for Blaine and Major.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Seems to have genuinely loved his grandfather, who raised him until his father had him committed to take over his business. [[spoiler:Especially considering his tears after smothering him with a pillow]]. It's implied in "Eat A Knievel" that he also cared for his mother who was as abused as him by his father.
** He also appears sincerely heartbroken over losing Peyton. Despite his sense of self preservation, he previously risked his own life to save hers.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Blaine resents his father for not doing more to prevent his mother's suicide, for which she used his pistol. He also accuses him of having psychologically abused her. Angus mocks his love for her by joking that he had an Oedipus complex.
* FakingAmnesia: Blaine loses his memories thanks to Ravi's cure in Season 2 but [[spoiler:quickly recovers them, continuing to fake his amnesia to try and change his life and how people viewed him. As a result, he was able to win Peyton's affections]].
* {{Fanboy}}: He's one for Nirvana, such as buying memorabilia and remembering vividly what he was doing when Kurt Cobain died.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is perfectly capable of being charming, even sympathetic in the face of his and Liv's shared condition; however, he is also perfectly willing to infect people with the zombie virus in order to blackmail them for money in exchange for brains. How he initially got those brains? Murdering homeless runaways and turning thugs into zombies for muscle.
* FeelsNoPain: His pain resistance is notable even for a Zombie, seeing as he has taken bullets to the throat without flinching.
* FreudianExcuse: The more we learn about his relationship with his father, the more abuse we learn he suffered at the man's hands. In addition to having beaten Blaine, he also allowed their housekeeper to take away Blaine's pet dog, with the implication he had her kill it. Furthermore, Blaine also had to see Angus put his beloved grandfather in a nursing home to wrestle control of the family company and emotionally abuse his mother. Oddly enough, he chooses [[DisposableVagrant teenagers who have had the same terrible upbringing as himself and had run away from abusive homes]] to feed his rich clients. His victims from season one [[{{Irony}} were people like him , killed and served up to people of wealth and power like his Father.]]
* GenericName: Slightly modified by Blaine, as one of his alias is "John Deaux" (pronounced the same as "Doe").
* GivenNameReveal: It's not until season 2 that we find out his real last name - [=McDonough=]. [=DeBeers=] is just a nickname for being the guy who could supply beer for under-age drinkers.
* {{Greed}}: In "Blaine's World" he admits to this being one of his flaws along with "daddy issues" and "megalomania."
* HeartbrokenBadass: After Peyton leaves him in season three, Blaine spends an entire episode drunkenly moping about.
* TheHeavy: Only the BigBad of the first season but throughout the show, he proves to be the most [[ItsPersonal personal]] antagonist to Liv for his role in turning her into a zombie and even as her occasional reluctant ally, he's got a variety of nefarious schemes going on and is the most frequent foe to clash with the heroes.
* TheHedonist: One of the reasons speculated for his BadassDecay. Blaine enjoys booze, women, drugs and various combinations thereof, but as a zombie he had no particular desire for them.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Blaine in Season Two, after becoming an amnesiac. He is horrified to learn of his past crimes; and later seeks to aid Liv and puts himself in danger to save Peyton. This skirts the DeathOfPersonality trope, as Blaine still retains his wit; and his proficiency with firearms, implying retrograde amnesia. This is confirmed in the third season, and the character remains a hero for the first half the season. He later confesses he feigned the true duration of his memory loss in attempt to change his life and how people viewed him. He returns to his old ways after Peyton leaves him (his deception precluded Major and Liv from being cured) and his father has him shot while also stealing his business. Though the uneasy friendship he forms with the group falls apart, both he and Don E. assist Liv and Clive on an investigation.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Don E. The latter to the point Blaine offers Don a partnership after he betrayed him, despite killing other henchman in the first season for attempting to start their own business.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:After briefly being killed and returning to life as a zombie, Blaine develops a cough that Ravi thinks means his body is degenerating. Blaine takes a second cure when the cough begins to get worse. This is actually more realistic than most, as the cause of death is lungs filling up with fluid.]]
* JokerImmunity: Even once he reverts to human status.
* KarmaHoudini: He is [[SerialKiller personally responsible for the murder of dozens of teenagers.]] Profiting from their death, his infecting of the rich and others lead to the rise of Zombie's. Ruining tens of thousands of lives in the process. He had a low point after he lost his original business, and lost Peyton. But bounced back with a bigger business then before and even more power and influence. Ending season three on a high note [[SmugSnake smirking at a club full of new clients.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Blaine decides to [[spoiler: smother his catatonic grandfather to put him out of his misery, and so he can give his brains to his father.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:After taking the second cure, Blaine loses a majority of his memories. He seems to regret his previous actions and is trying to be a better person. It's later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he turns out to have only had it for a few days after taking the cure - everything afterwards is just an act, though he ''was'' trying to be a better person. He later seems to have reverted to his old ways, however.]]
* MadeofIron: Both in the first season finale, and midway through the third season, Blaine suffers gunshot wounds while human. Despite bleeding out he manages to get himself treatment, be it at a vet's office or having another zombie scratch him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Very much so.
* MercyKill: Although he did intend feed his father his brains, [[spoiler: killing his grandfather]] can be interpreted this way given his vegetative state.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His amnesia in the latter half of season 2 leads him to become incredibly disturbed at the life he once lived.
* PetTheDog: In Season 2, [[spoiler:when Blaine believes he may be dying. He has a chat with Chief and Don E, giving them the reigns of the organization in the case of his death, even giving them advice about the future.]]
* PopCulturedBadass: An unusual hybrid of this and WickedCultured. He's a huge fan of Nirvana.
* ProperlyParanoid: Reacts instantly to a surprise attack from someone he has no reason to suspect is plotting against him.
* ReformedbutRejected: By Peyton, he did try to start a new life with her. But after she discovered that he lied about being a new man and felt like he used her. She rejected him due to his past crimes.
* ReformedCriminal: Blaine in the first half of season three. Even when the truth about his amnesia is revealed, he states he wanted to change his life and how people viewed him.
* RetiredMonster: Blaine after Liv cured him in "Blaine's World". While he still runs shady operations and returns to selling utopium for a time, he is no longer the murderous villain he was in Season 1. That is not to say he has no problem killing anyone who gets in his way like his father’s minions or Zombie truthers if convenient. He is more than happy to profit from those turned into zombies without their consent.
* SuddenlyBilingual: Don E., Blaine, and their clients at The Scratching Post speak Bangladesh after eating the brains shipped from a high fatality hospital.
* SupervillainLair:
** Season One: Blaine's "Meat Cute" Butcher shop.
** Season Two: Moves his business to Shady Plots funeral home.
** Season Three: Initially, still working out of Shady Plots, but after taking out Angus, moves into the Scratching Post.
* TokenEvilTeammate: In season 2, none of the others are happy about it, but he's their only link to tainted utopium and they are the only ones who can reign him in.
* TokenHuman: [[spoiler:Becomes this after taking the second cure, at least among the characters at Shady Plots. In season 3, after being dumped by Peyton, he willingly turns back into a zombie.]]
* TookaLevelinBadass: Blaine in the season two finale, taking out Mr. Boss' men. He killed people previously, but tended to rely on henchman to do a lot of his dirty work. Here he was willing to risk his own life to save Peyton's, despite the fact he was outnumbered.
* WickedCultured: Surprisingly. Blaine has a fondness for fine wine and regrets not being able to taste it after becoming a zombie.
* WildCard: Blaine in season 2, and especially in season 3 when he takes back his business. At that point he is no longer murdering, nor dealing drugs. He is simply trying to earn a profit.
* VorpalPillow: Blaine uses a pillow to smother his vegetative grandfather, hoping to feed his brain to Angus so that they can both have revenge.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Blaine played the organ in his boxers for an entire scene and was promptly taken out into the woods for Mr. Boss' attempted mob hit.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Peyton]]
!!Peyton Charles
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charles_peyton17.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I so want to write you off [...] But you're my freaking heart... So if you could step up, I'd really appreciate it!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/AlysonMichalka Aly Michalka]]

Liv's roommate and best friend from college. She works as an Assistant District Attorney, and later is promoted to Mayor Baracus's chief of staff.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Peyton and Blaine's relationship plays into this trope. She fell for him initially while thinking he was simply a reformed drug dealer, and again when she believed him to be a changed man due to amnesia.
* AscendedExtra: While present in season 1, she wasn't really that important and didn't have any plotline besides reminding Liv of her old life. After learning about the zombies, she gets the Stacey Boss Subplot in season 2 and be the center of a LoveTriangle in season 3, in the same season, she also gets to appear in the opening.
* BetaCouple: Becomes this with Ravi after they start dating. By season 3, this develops in a LoveTriangle between her, Ravi and Blaine. She and Blaine become the beta couple for the first half of season 3, until she leaves him when he reveals his feigned the duration of his memory loss.
* BrainyBrunette: Downplayed, she has a hazel colored hair that sometimes seems blonde, but she is a brunette and one of the smartest characters in the main group.
* TheBusCameBack: She comes back in early season 2.
* DamselInDistress: In the season two finale, while Liv, Clive and Major are dealing with raging undead at the Max Rager party, Blaine and Ravi are busy rescuing Peyton from Mr. Boss.
* ForgivenbutNotForgotten: With Blaine in the first half of Season Three, when it's believed his amnesia was lasting. Peyton develops feelings for him in spite of his past crimes. Even Major empathizes with his not wanting to remember. Ravi brings up Blaine's crimes in the same scene; clearly not forgetting and questioning if he has actually earned forgiveness, to which Peyton defends him. When Blaine confesses he feigned the duration of his amnesia, Peyton beats herself up over giving him another chance.
* HelloAttorney: She's the Assistant District Attorney and is extremely attractive, as is noted by many other characters.
-->'''Liv:''' Ravi, she's a lawyer who looks like Victoria's Secret model.
-->'''Gilda:''' Some chick came by, waited around for a bit, but then she had to fly. Sorry, I use the names part of my brain to store body envy. This girl had several parts I'd kill for. And a beauty mark right where I wanted to punch her.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Liv and Peyton. The two of them occasionally flirt with each other, but it's all in good fun.
* LoveTriangle: Peyton finds herself in one with Blaine and Ravi.
* MuggleBestFriend: She and Ravi share this role. While Ravi knows about Liv's secret and helps her on her cases, Peyton has personal history and she's the one Liv talks to about the continuing interpersonal drama between her and Major. Later on, she finds out about Liv's zombie status, and they become best friends again after reflecting and understanding why Liv changed so much.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She sleeps with Blaine in season 2, by the end of the episode, she finally learns what he has done to Liv, Major, the street boys and so many others, leading her to a breakdown when Liv confirms these things to her.
* NerdsAreSexy: A gorgeous ADA dated a geeky Medical Examiner.
* OutOfFocus: She often falls in this, since she is not directly connected to the zombie situation and the Mr.Boss investigation plot is just a subplot. She becomes more prominent with time, specially in season 3, in which she is officially an AscendedExtra.
* PutOnABus: On episode 11 of season 1.
* RescueRomance: With Blaine, at the end of season 2.
* RuleOfEmpathy: During [[PutOnTheBus her time away]], she states she could understand how difficult the past year had been to Liv by putting herself in her shoes, and comes back understanding that she could be more supportive to Liv, despite everything that has happened.
* ShaggyDogStory: Her Stacey Boss investigation. She is threatened by the man himself, attacked left and right, only to ultimately be a moot point, since her only witness gets amnesia and the whole case falls to the ground.
* ThatDidntHappen: Peyton initially proposes that Blaine could regain all his memories, yet stay the new improved version of himself. Though he maintains this is what happened, she leaves him anyway, due to his feigning the prolonged memory loss and the consequences of said lie. Though it should be noted he lied not to screw her friends over, but more due to his own fear of rejection.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Up until the boat party, she and Liv were extremely close and shared everything with each other. Now Peyton is completely unaware that her best friend is a zombie, despite the obvious visual cues like the sudden albinism and white hair. The unwitting part no longer applies as of "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat."
* UnwittingPawn: Blaine uses her to take down his competition, the drug empire run by Mr. Boss.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She dates Ravi, who is an {{Adorkable}} sweet guy. She later initiates a relationship with Blaine, when he tries to reform. The relationship ends when he confesses he feigned the true duration of his memory loss.
* SlutShaming: After being rescued from Mr. Boss' men, Ravi seems to care more about the fact she slept with Blaine than the fact she almost died. He kept using the present tense as well, much to Peyton's dismay. Peyton later calls him out on it, telling him his opinion on her sleeping with Blaine is irrelevant.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's rather tall in addition to being ridiculously beautiful.
* WhatTheHellHero: In "The Exterminator," she's pissed at Liv for not only peeking at her case file, but for finding out that the defendant on trial wasn't the killer. Happens again when she finally learns Liv's secret.
[[/folder]]

!Liv's family and lovers

[[folder:Lowell]]
!![=Lowell Tracey=]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tracy_lowell.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"The zombie thing is a bitch. Your world shrivels down to a dot."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Bradley James

A British musician sponsored by Max Rager Energy Drinks who becomes involved in Liv's life after a mutual friend of theirs is murdered.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His attempts to hit on Liv are spurned early on (usually by one of her cases) but it doesn't stop him from being a great guy none the less while he can tell she still struggles with her lost humanity.
* BoomHeadshot: After he tried to stab him in the head with a barbecue fork, Blaine responds by shooting him in the head.
* NonActionGuy: He admits to Liv that he's not the type of guy who'd usually be willing to do anything that could risk breaking his fingers, never mind kill a guy. He's willing to attempt to do it for Liv, though.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Decides to help Liv end Blaine out of guilt. It doesn't go well for him.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He claims he gets his brains by bribing a mortician at a local funeral home. Turns out he's actually been getting them from Blaine, but he ''thought'' Blaine was getting them from a funeral home.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: With shades of TallDarkAndSnarky as well. Liv is quite taken with him and she and Ravi discuss at length about how good-looking he is.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Seriously, he was turned in the first place by Blaine because Blaine liked his music and then when he finally finds out the truth of how Blaine acquired the brains he sold to other zombies, including him, he tries to kill Blaine but Blaine is quicker to the punch.
* TroubledButCute: Has the image of one - tends to be a loner who also is a dark-haired brooding musician. But in his interactions with Liv he can also be quite charming and affable.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Drake]]
!!Drake Holloway
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holloway_drake.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Greg Finley

An undercover cop and secret member of Blaine's crew (as a mole in Stacey Boss' organization), he is turned into a zombie by Liv to save his life. Liv's LoveInterest in season 2.
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* BoomHeadshot: Liv is forced to kill him this way when he goes Romero and tries to kill Clive.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He's very close to his mother, and brings Liv to meet her.
* GoodAllAlong: Liv has serious misgivings about him, wondering just how deep his criminal connections go. He's actually working undercover, and is one of the good guys.
* HeroicSacrifice: Offers himself up as the next cure tester among the other zombies in Max Rager's basement, knowing full well it probably won't work.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Subverted. Viewers might assume that him offering himself as a guinea pig for Max Rager's cure testing won't be met with a lethal ending, but it does. I.e. his death, while noble, could totally have been averted hadn't he tried to pull aforementioned HeroicSacrifice.
* MommasBoy: A positive example. He did time in prison for beating the shit out of her abusive boyfriend (maybe?) and talks on the phone with her several times a day, but isn't whipped, nor is their relationship toxic.
* MrFanservice: A lot of focus is given on how attractive he is, especially without his shirt.
* ReverseMole: He's actually an undercover officer, infiltrating Mr. Boss's organization.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of Blaine's crew.
* WifeBasherBasher: He spent time in prison on an Assault charge, after beating up and hospitalizing his mother's abusive boyfriend.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Justin]]
!!Justin Bell
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izombie_justin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''I've been meaning to tell you, we're zombies'']]
->'''Played By:''' Tongayi Chirisa

A former DJ who was turned into a zombie at a Fillmore Graves picnic. A friend to Major, and eventual love interest to Liv.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's not clear [[spoiler:how involved he was in Carey's plans, since he was in the security of the school where the vaccine was being tainted and even called other mercenaries to goa after Liv. Its very likely he was JustFollowingOrders.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Fits the stereotype to Major's arc, but he is far more well developed than the general trope.
* BrosBeforeHoes: He actually asks for Major's permission and blessing before he even attempts to start anything with Liv, only when Major gives him his ok and even turns out to be a ShipperOnDeck, he starts making a move at her.
* NiceGuy: The first and best friend Major makes at Fillmore Graves.
* RomanticFalseLead: [[spoiler:He and Liv break up when she cheats on him by the end of season 3. At least he hasn't died like the other two]].
* SecretKeeper: He is the only one at Fillmore Graves' military that [[spoiler:knows that Major has been cured and is human again]]. Until the finale that is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Evan]]
!!Evan Moore
->'''Played By:''' Nick Purcha

Liv's younger brother.
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* ABNegative: Revealed to have O-negative blood when he's critically injured in the hospital. Liv's believed to be the only one with his blood type present but refuses to turn him into a zombie after what happened with Major. Fortunately a doctor in the hospital saves Evan's life with his own blood but he detests Liv for her decision.
* AmbiguouslyGay: A meta example. There is a deleted scene of season 2 in which he confronts Liv about the events of early season 2/end of season 1, learning she is a zombie. As a result, he comes out to her. Because it's a deleted scene, the canon status of his sexuality is unknown.
* DeadpanSnarker: Seeing as how he's related to [[TheSnarkKnight Liv]], that's no surprise.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Liv's Responsible, being a slacker while Liv is gainfully employed.
* OutOfFocus: He and his mother were never that important, but they pretty much all but disappear come Season 2.
* PutonaBus: Both he and his mother disappear after the second season premiere.
** TheBusCameBack: Only in a deleted scene on the Season 2 DVD release. After conferring with his therapist, Evan confronts his sister and learns she is a zombie, before coming out to her in turn. As this was cut, it's status as canon is uncertain.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eva]]
!!Eva Moore
->'''Played By:''' Molly Hagan

Liv's mother.
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* GoodParents: She's genuinely concerned for her children's well-being and tries to push them to be better than who they can be.
* MeddlingParents: Downplayed example. Liv mother has a ''very'' active presence in her life to say the least - she pops into her apartment with little to no warning and has held an intervention for Liv to discuss getting Liv back into medicine and repairing her and Major's relationship. Though of course she had good intentions - one of the former occasions was due to hearing Liv was sick and she came to take care of her and the latter was after the traumatic boat party and much like her other friends and family she was very concerned.
* OutOfFocus: Becomes estranged from Liv because of her refusal to donate blood to Evan at the end of Season 1. During Season 2 she and Evan are hardly figured into plots at all.
[[/folder]]

!Major's lovers

[[folder:Natalie]]
!!Natalie
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izombie_natalie.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''I have sex for food. Try to live with that for a while.'']]
->'''Played By:''' Brooke Lyons

A prostitue whom Blaine turned into a zombie and forced to accept his clients as her own, in exchange for the brains she needed to survive. She was contemplating suicide when Major encountered her and froze her, promising to unfreeze her when he could offer her a better life. He was eventually able to offer her a cure for the zombie virus.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Inverted. By the time Major meets her again by the end of season 3, she is human again]].
* DrivenToSuicide: By the time Major finds her, she is attempting to kill herself with a bullet in the head. he amanges to stop her by convincing her he can make her sleep while he attempts to find a cure.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler:Abruptly killed by Johns' bomb]].
* HighClassCallGirl: prior to becoming a zombie and being under Blaine's thumb, she was this. She was happy with her life and nostalgicly recalls trips to Japan and other countries with her clients.
* HumanPopsicle: Kept as one by Major.
* RescueRomance: Her storyline with Major has shades of this, as he attempts to help her out and becomes obsessed with saving her by season 3. [[spoiler:They even sleep together near the end of season 3]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:She was happy with her life as a call girl, but she is forced to become a hooker to Blaine's clients when he turns her into a zombie, which drives her to attempt to kill herself. She is stopped by Major, who freezes her but is unable to rescue her from Vaughn as she was already kidnapped by a lover and kept as his private mistress. When Major finally finds her, he has to leave her with a cure that might cause amnesia. She does manage to become human and the side effect is gone, but she is finally free, finally human when she is killed by John's bomb]].
* ShowerOfAngst: She implies she does this a lot.
-->'''Natalie:''' I spend the rest of my time hating myself... and showering.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Corrine]]
!!Corrine
->'''Played By:''' Elise Gatien

Major's girlfriend after Liv breaks off her engagement with him.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She gets frustrated at Major's obsession with investigating Dupont and eventually dumps him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shawna]]
!!Shawna
->'''Played By:''' Sarah Jurgens

A woman who starts a relationship with Major after he is exposed as the Chaos Killer.

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* StopHelpingMe: Her efforts to rehabilitate Major's image are not appreciated, and he dumps her after he learns about them.
[[/folder]]

!Ravi's lovers

[[folder:Katty]]
!!Katty Kupps
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izombie_katty.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''So now, Seattle is Ground Zero for this investigation.'']]
->'''Played By:''' Christina Cox

Ravi's former boss. She uses his medical examiner's office as a laboratory while she is doing work in Seattle as part of a investigation on the Aleutian Flu and the strange symptoms she see on zombie corpses she examined.

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* AmicableExes: Friendly with Ravi even after their relationship ended.
* ChekhovsGunman: A recurring character that played as mostly Ravi's past fling and a one night stand [[spoiler:turns out her brain gives vital information towards the final of the season]].
* LovableSexManiac: 'Lovable' might be stretching it, but its revealed she was addicted to anonymous sex. [[spoiler:She passes this trait to Liv for a while, after her death]]. Ravi is apparently the only lover she's had which she had a personal connection to.
* MauveShirt: A character with ties to the zombie mystery and Ravi's complicated relationship with Peyton, [[spoiler:turns out to be season 3's final VictimOfTheWeek]].
* NiceGirl: A very pleasant woman, specially with Ravi, but she does berates him for the zombie theories.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:The investigation on her death triggers the investigation on the relation between Fillmore Graves and the Aleutian Flu, which becomes the final arc of the season and reveals Carey Gold as the season's BigBad]].
* SheKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Killed by Carey's daughter, Patrice, when she sees her and Tatum eating brains through the window. That is not even to get on the fact she was investigating the Aleutian Flu and a possible act of bioterrorism]].
* VictimOfTheWeek: [[spoiler:She is the one to the Season 3's two part finale "Looking for Mr.Goodbrain", killed by Patrice and disposed by Carey]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steph]]
!!Steph
->'''Played By:''' Debs Howard

Ravi's girlfriend for a short while before Peyton returns.

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* [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Pretty Fly For An American Girl]]: In order to grow closer to Ravi, she clumsily attempts to show off elements of British culture she barely understands. This culminates in her throwing him a 'Guy Fawkes Party' that completely bewilders Ravi.

[[/folder]]

!Police and FBI

[[folder:Suzuki]]
!!Lieutenant Suzuki
->'''Played By:''' Hiro Kanagawa

Clive's boss and the man in charge of Seatle's Homicide Division, and a zombie, transformed by Blaine in order to have control over the police.
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* AntiVillain: He doesn't '''want''' to be a zombie or a CorruptCop, but he's blackmailed by his need for brains. When given the chance, he covers up Lowell's death in a way to remove Liv as a murder suspect. He also covers up the attack on the Meat Cute, and sacrifices himself to both escape the brain-craving and make it look like he was responsible, while implicating Blaine.
* {{Blackmail}}: How Blaine controls him; Suzuki clearly doesn't want to work for him, but has no other alternative to keep his need for brains in check.
* CorruptCop: Well, even if he doesn't want to be, he is still covering up Blaine's murders.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Blaine did not kill the people in the Meat Cute, but Suzuki makes sure the police get Blaine, by writing his name with blood on the wall. Too bad the second name was unreadable, due to the explosion he caused.
* HeroicSacrifice: The Season 1 finale, him covering up Major's attack on Blaine's men and giving his life to implicate him instead, but not until after trying to identify Blaine as the ring-leader.
* PetTheDog: Two points in particular.
** As well as generally just being nicer to Liv than he is to Clive or his other detectives, when Blaine kills Lowell and orders him to cover it up, and the police seem to think Liv was involved, rather than let Liv take the blame, he instead pushes to have it labelled a suicide and personally tells her she's free to go.
** Secondly, as mentioned above, after Major leads a one-man attack on the Meat Cute, Suzuki covers up the attack and blows the place up, with himself still inside, to make it look like he was the one responsible.
* ThanatosGambit: His aforementioned HeroicSacrifice.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He didn't realize that Liv's brother Evan was standing outside the deli at the same time that he was trying to blow it up, and his last act unknowingly sent Evan to the hospital with severe injuries.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Devore]]
!!Lieutenant Devore
->'''Played By:''' Marci House

Suzuki's replacement as the lieutenant in charge of the homicide unit.

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* BlackBossLady: She's black, and she's in charge of the homicide department.
* OutOfFocus: While Suzuki was a fully developed character in his own right, Devore is virtually a cypher.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cavanaugh]]
!!Detective Cavanaugh
->'''Played By:''' Robert Salvador

Another detective in Clive's unit.

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* JurisdictionFriction: Is very protective of his cases, even getting mad when he learns Clive is investigating one of them behind his back.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lou]]
!!Detective Lou Benedetto
->'''Played By:''' Enrico Colantoni

A vice detective. He oversees Drake Holloway and also maintains an unofficial network of confidential informants among the local teenage populace.

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* CowboyCop: He enlists a bunch of local teenagers in his war on drugs by forcing them to become confidential informants for him. This falls apart when one of his informants continues to deal drugs, then kills another informant who finds out about it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pratt]]
!!Detective Pratt
->'''Played By:''' Ty Olsson

A detective in Clive's homicide unit, and one of the first killers that Olivia helps Clive bring down.

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* DivorceAssetsConflict: His motivation for attacking several prostitutes is that he knows one of them stole his wedding ring and he needs to get it back before his wife finds out, divorces him, and takes half his paycheck.
* StarterVillain: The first VillainOfTheWeek.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Jimmy]]
!!Jimmy
->'''Played By:''' Ryan Beil

A police sketch artist.

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* ButtMonkey: Is called in whenever Liv is on a particularly eccentric brain, the first time being when Liv ate the brain of a pretentious artist and she gives Jimmy abstract descriptions rather than actual concrete facial features for him to draw. Or who can forget Liv on dominatrix brain and she bullies him relentlessly.
* EmbarrassingSlide: Has a sketch of Liv dressed provocatively in his notebook.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Steve]]
!!Steve
->'''Played By:''' Kett Turton

A forensic technician. Also known as "Vampire Steve."

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* {{Goth}}: Very much so, even dressing all in black and speaking in low, portentous tones. [[spoiler: He was originally a blond and only got into goth and vampire fiction because a girl in his Dungeons & Dragons group was into the same thing.]]
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: For an IT guy, he speaks with flowery and ominous language.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bozzio]]
!!Agent Dale Bozzio
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bozzio_dale.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Jessica Harmon

An FBI agent, assigned to investigate the disappearance of the wealthy in Seattle, by a person dubbed the Chaos Killer. Unbeknownst to her is the fact that all the victims are zombies.
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* {{Adorkable}}: She has a surprisingly fun way of flirting with Clive and generally has a very off-beat personality.
* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie: She received a dose of Aleutian Flu vaccine tainted by Fillmore Graves, transforming her into a zombie. This occurs on the same day she finds out about their existence.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Dale is usually a male name.
* PutOnABus: After Clive throws the cases for The Chaos Killer and The Meat Cute Massacre, Bozzio returns to her old position when all her work turns up nothing. She also breaks up with Clive when he wouldn't justify his reasoning for throwing the cases.
** TheBusCameBack: She is called back to Seattle in "Twenty-Sided, Die" to investigate a possible Russian angle to the victim was murdered.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: She's trying to take down the Chaos Killer (Major) and from the information she has, she's entirely justified.
[[/folder]]

!Seattle government

[[folder:Baracus]]
!!Mayor Floyd Baracus
->'''Played By:''' Kurt Evans

Seattle's District Attorney, he's scratched by Blaine and is forced to support his brain-dealing operation with the power of his office. He eventually runs for mayor and wins after surviving an apparent assassination attempt.

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* CorruptPolitician: He succumbs to Blaine's blackmail, but demands that Blaine himself pay him to pursue to case against Boss so that he can bribe a number of cops and judges. This trope is also teased and subverted in season three, when Peyton is led to believe Baracus is behind the murder of a dominatrix and the related cover-up.
* CrusadingLawyer: He appears to be this in leading the charge against Boss, but he's just being blackmailed by Blaine and doesn't actually want to pursue the case.
* GoodParents: His main worry at all times is his kid. When he nearly gets kidnapped, his worry is that he will never be able to see his kid again if it gets revealed that he has killed three man, even if it is in self-defense.
* PapaWolf: When a bullet aimed at him almost hits his own son, he goes into full-on zombie mode and almost loses it, weren't for Liv there to calm him down and Carey to secure his child.
* TakingTheBullet: Shields his son Buck with his body during an apparent assassination attempt. His popularity skyrockets after this incident.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Season 3 has the investigation of the murder of a dominatrix, during the investigation, it's revealed he was among her clients and apparently, besides being really into the whole thing, has been for a while.
[[/folder]]

!Media

[[folder:Johnny Frost]]
!!Johnny Frost
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DaranNorris

The local weather man at KTSW.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Cutting in line in front of worried residents made him one of the first people to receive a dose of the tainted Aleutian Flu vaccine and thus one of the first to realise some of the zombie symptoms. Liv finds him and makes him [[WhamLine reveal the existence of zombies on live television as a result]].
* ComicRelief: Until "Looking for Mr. Goodbrain, Part 2"
* RunningGag: Whenever a female sex worker of some kind is killed he is almost guaranteed to be in the episode.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Flipped. Although Frost was a comical character in all previous encounters, the finale of season 3 has his becoming a zombie played entirely seriously, and he is the one to announce to the world that zombies are real.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rachel]]
!!Rachel Greenblatt
->'''Played By:''' Ella Cannon

A writer for a local newspaper. Her investigation into the rumors of zombies in Seattle brings her into contact with Ravi.

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* IntrepidReporter: Goes to great lengths to break the zombie story, including forming a relationship with Ravi and witnessing the Johns brothers' attempts to torture and kill Don E.
* TheVamp: While she's not evil or villainous per se, there's some immorality there with her charming Ravi and getting him to spill the beans on the big zombie secret.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chuck]]
!!Chuck Burd
->'''Played By:''' Aaron Douglas

A radio host.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: He believes the stories of zombies living in Seattle, based on nothing more than a security guard saying he saw zombies at the Max Rager facility.
* ShockJock: Describes his program.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeremy]]
!!Jeremy Chu
->'''Played By:''' Patrick Gallagher

A reporter who is turned into a zombie by Blaine. In exchange for brains, he uses his position on a prominent newspaper to keep Blaine informed on various developments.

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* AssholeVictim: He's unquestionably a victim of Blaine's schemes, but he's also a horrible person. He's one of the 'clients' who rapes Natalie, the prostitute that Blaine zombified and forced to accept his clients as her own in exchange for the brains she needs to survive.
* BullyingADragon: When Natalie goes missing, Jeremy calls up Blaine and threatens to harm his interests unless Blaine finds him another zombie prostitute. Blaine, in response, just has Major knock Jeremy out and stick him in a freezer.

[[/folder]]

!Lawyers

[[folder:Brandt]]
!!Brandt Stone
->'''Played By:''' Ken Marino

A high-powered and expensive lawyer that Max Rager hires to defend Major when he is arrested for his work in dealing with Seattle's zombies.

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* AmoralAttorney: Doesn't care that Major may well be guilty of killing dozens of people. He's been paid to defend Major, and defend him he will.
* CasanovaWannabe: He's been flirting with Peyton for ages, to no success.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Donald]]
!!Donald Thorne
->'''Played By:''' Serge Houde

A high-priced defense attorney.

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* AmoralAttorney: He is loyal to his employers, not his client. He manipulates James Weckler into taking a bad plea deal rather than turn over evidence in exchange for a better deal, as the people paying for him would be implicated in the evidence Weckler has.

[[/folder]]

!Meat Cute

[[folder:Julien]]
!!Julien "Candyman" [=DuPont=]
->'''Played By:''' Aleks Paunovic

A zombie and brain pusher in Blaine's employ.
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* TheBigGuy: Not as big as Cheif from season 2, but the largest guy in season 1, and packing quite a lot of muscle. Major, before finding out about zombies, believes that his size is why he's trafficking human brain.
* TheDragon: In Season 1 Julien acts as Blaine's most competent and trusted enforcer and is the one used to neutralize Major when he becomes a problem. At the end of the season, he's also the last of Blaine's zombies killed before he attacks Major himself.
* GeniusBruiser: 'Genius' might be stretching it, but he avoids being DumbMuscle, as seen by how he handles Major's attempts at investigating him.
* InsertGrenadeHere: Major kills him by throwing a grenade into the Meat Cute's freezer, killing him instantly.
* PostModernMagik: Tans extensively and dyes his hair black to hide the fact he's a zombie.
* TheRedBaron: "The Candy Man". Given he wasn't unfrozen until ''after'' Blaine had killed the kids Major knew, its likely this name was originally referring to Blaine until Major and Julien crossed paths.
%%* TheRival: To Major.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: He attacks Major in his own home.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luta]]
!!Luta
->'''Played By:''' Darryl Quon

One of Blaine's minions at Meat Cute. His mistakes help Major realize the truth about Seattle's zombie populace.

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* ButtMonkey: He gets robbed by Major, stabbed in the throat by Blaine, and then killed when Major locks him in a freezer and shoots him in the face.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cissie]]
!!Cissie
->'''Played By:''' Tanja Dixon-Warren

The chef at Meat Cute.

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* ISurrenderSuckers: She begs Major for mercy and he agrees to let her leave unharmed. Then she tries to kill him with a cleaver, and he throws her into a meat slicer.
* SupremeChef: Brought on to create brain delicacies for zombies.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Davis and Dante]]
!!Martin Davis and Dante
->'''Played By:''' Frank Ferrucci (Martin Davis) and Sean Millington (Dante)

Two delivery drivers working for Blaine's Meat Cute operation.

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* BullyingADragon: Their boss turned a bunch of people into zombies, but they still thought they could start up a new business and steal all his customers. When Blaine found out, he shot them both.
* StartMyOwn: They try to set up their own brain supply operation, figuring that they can undercut Blaine's exorbitant prices.

[[/folder]]

!Shady Plots Funeral Home

[[folder:Don E]]
!!Donald "Don E." Everhart
->'''Played By:''' Bryce Hodgson

The twin-brother of Scott E.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: He asks Chief to turn him to make him practically invincible when the time came to take on Mr. Boss.
* BatmanGambit: Pulls it off against Mr. Boss' man, Kenny. Don E. asks him for a [[BoomHeadshot quick and painless kill]], but [[ReversePsychology taunts him so much that Kenny wants to let him suffer]] by shooting him several times in the body. Of course bodyshots can't kill a zombie.
* BigBadWannabe: He has no real plans himself, but when Blaine loses his memory, Don usurps his role as boss through trickery. He proceeds to run the business into the ground, showing no foresight and making stupid decisions. He releases and allies himself with Blaine's father Angus, only to be treated as an errand boy.
* BriarPatching: As mentioned above, Don E asks Kenny to shoot him in the head, rather than gut shot him (to make it painless) which is actually the only way to kill him. Sure enough Kenny gut shots him instead, which allows Don E. to survive.
* BullyingTheDragon: He taunts a guy with a gun pointed at him, asking him if this is his first time killing someone and laughing at him. Naturally, the guy shoots him, although he survives thanks to being a zombie. Of course, he was intentionally goading the hitman into shooting him in the chest to make things more painful, knowing that he'd survive.
* DudeInDistress: In season three [[spoiler:he is kidnapped by a group of Zombie Truthers that intend to document his starvation and subsequent transformation in a Romero Zombie]].
%% * EnemyMine: After accusing Blaine of faking his amnesia, he turns to Blaine's father for support. When Angus treats him even worse than Blaine ever did, he switches sides again.
* EvilTwin: Of his more good-hearted but insane brother, Scott E.
* OpportunisticBastard: When Blaine lost his memory, Don seizes the chance to become head of the operation through trickery. He also frees Angus from imprisonment, and forces him to listen to a business proposal at gunpoint.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Chief spend a lot of time together, both acting as Blaine's most visible crew members in the second season, managing the brain-dealing business, and playing music together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chief]]
!!Chief
->'''Played By:''' Andre Tricoteux

* BoomHeadshot: Gets shot in the eye by one of Angus' henchmen. He doesn't survive a bullet from one of Mr. Boss' hitmen.
* TheBrute: He's very large, and does Blaine's dirty work.
* TheBusCameBack: [[DecapitationPresentation He comes back carrying the severed head of the guy that shot him.]]
* EyePatchOfPower: After Angus has him shot in the eye, he returns wearing a spiky eye patch.
* EyeScream: Gets shot in the eye by Angus' henchmen.
* PutOnABus: He disappears for awhile after his eye gets shot out.
* SilentAntagonist: Downplayed; he isn't scary and doesn't come into conflict with our main characters, but he still works for Blaine and kills people for him.
* TheSpeechless: He never talks, and only communicates by texting on a smartphone.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Tries this over text, but is cut off by Blaine.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Don E spend a lot of time together, both acting as Blaine's most visible crew members in the second season, managing the brain-dealing business, and playing music together.
* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Gets shot in the eye by one of Angus' henchmen, but survives. He isn't so lucky the next time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Candy]]
!!Candy Baker
->'''Played By:''' Carrie Anne Fleming

A woman working for Blaine. Her responsibilities include doing his makeup so he doesn't look like a zombie when out in public.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Is accidentally turned into one after Blaine and her have sex while he was in the process of reverting back to Zombie'ism.
* DumbBlonde: She isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
* {{Fingore}}: Gets her fingers cut off when Blaine's father pays a visit.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Speedy Pete]]
!!Speedy Pete
->'''Played By:''' Paul Anthony

A drug dealer working for Blaine.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blaine has him enlist some local rich, white kids as subordinate drug dealers. Pete thinks this is so he can set up his own operation, but in reality it's just because Blaine knows Stacey Boss will kill them and thus provide a pretext for the District Attorney's office to go after him. Once Pete learns his drug dealers have been killed, he calls Blaine and begs for help, but Blaine just lets Pete be killed by Boss's goons since he's of no more use.

[[/folder]]

!Scratching Post

[[folder:Angus]]
!!Angus [=McDonough=]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcdonagh_angus.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Immortality suits me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertKnepper

Blaine's millionaire father. Don E persuades him to invest in creating Seattle's first zombie pub, the Scratching Post.

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* AbusiveParent: A lot of Blaine's issues come from him. Not only he ignored his issues, specially being abused by his nanny, but as Blaine puts it, he would humiliate and beat Blaine as well, not to mention psychologically torture his mother.
* ArchnemesisDad: To Blaine; they despise each other and Angus makes it clear he's perfectly willing to have his son killed.
* BadassinaNiceSuit: Save the instance when he was kidnapped by Major, it's all he ever wears.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite writing off his son as an ingrate, Blaine is a more intelligent criminal than Angus and when they come to conflict, Blaine [[spoiler:easily dismantles his organization, traps Angus in a well and takes over his club]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He thinks nothing of having people killed on his orders, in addition to having acquired his company in a less-than-ethical way.
* CulturedBadass: Recounts Greek myth to his son on multiple occasions, while viciously targeting anyone who crosses him.
* DeadpanSnarker: It isn't hard to see where Blaine gets his sense of humor from. Being played by Robert Knepper helps.
* {{Jerkass}}: He handed his son off to his father to raise instead of raising Blaine himself and would rather hand his entire estate to his housekeeper than his own son. It's later revealed he beat Blaine and psychologically tortured his wife. Blaine tossed a penny down a wishing well each time either happened, and estimated there was over a dollar and forty-two cents at the bottom.
* HateSink: An abusive parent who tortured Blaine and his mother, happily partake in the shadiest of bussiness and whenever onscreen, is only there to inflict psychological pain on Blaine.
* KickTheDog: He had his will prepared in a way that'd screw Blaine over - Blaine would be left the balance of Angus' properties, but only in the event that Angus died some form of a natural death. Even if Blaine couldn't possibly have been involved in the event that there was some suspicion of foul play, accidental or otherwise, Blaine would get nothing.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Angus is perfectly happy with his zombie status, even if he hates being under his son's thumb. He thinks immortality suits him.
* Narcissist: To the point where Blaine and Major discuss how he has a bust of himself.
* NeverMyFault: He refuses to accept any responsibility for his wife's suicide, despite not keeping his weapon locked up and not helping her through her depression at all.
* OffingtheOffspring: He orders Dino to kill Blaine, and upon learning that he failed demands that he be brought his head with the next attempt.
* ParentalNeglect: Toward Blaine, at least in Blaine's estimation. He did nothing to stop Blaine's childhood nanny from beating him, and was later revealed to have beat Blaine himself.
* PutOnABus: Twice. In the second season he is re-frozen off screen by Blaine and disappears for the rest of the season. In the third season, Blaine imprisons him at the bottom of a well on their family estate.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: In their first scene together, Angus and Blaine go to war with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as weaponry.
* VisionaryVillain: in the third season, Angus plots the increase of the zombie population and worldwide brain distribution; stating that 'The Future is Brains!'
* WellDoneSonGuy: Angus has spent a lifetime being disappointed by his party boy drug dealing son, and they've built up deep reserves of resentment toward each other.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After being tortured by Candy and Chief, he disappears without audience knowledge of if he made a new video will for Blaine. [[spoiler:He's later revealed to still be in the morgue, frozen and unresponsive until Don E defrosts him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tanner]]
!!Tanner
->'''Played By:''' Nathan Barrett

A college student recruited by Don E to help sell brains.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Makes a brief appearance in another case involving drug dealing before Don E recruits him and turns him into a zombie.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dino]]
!!Dino
->'''Played By:''' Ryan Booth

One of Angus' minions. He signs on with Blaine after Blaine traps Angus in a well.

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* ProfessionalKiller: His job was initially to kill people and collect their brains for zombies to eat. It's unknown if he carries out this role once Blaine takes over the Scratching Post; as it's never mentioned and he's mostly seen lounging around the bar unpacking crates of brains and overseeing the deliveries.

[[/folder]]

!Max Rager

[[folder:Vaughn]]
!![=Vaughn Du Clark=]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duclark_vaughn.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"We played a big part in creating this problem. And we are gonna be very aggressive in cleaning it up."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Steven Weber

CEO of Max Rager, an energy drink company currently under investigation for its questionably safe product.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: He desperately begs Major to save him in the Season 2 finale. It doesn't work.
* AnAxToGrind: Painfully subverted in the Season 2 finale. Trapped in an elevator and about to be killed by his daughter, Major hands him a fire ax to give him a chance of survival. He doesn't last long.
* AssholeVictim: No one will miss him.
* BadBoss: He's about as easy to work for as any psychotic CEO experimenting with zombies; he endangers his employees frequently and has them killed on a whim.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He comes across as a little scatter-brained, has a goofy sense of humor and is into weird New Age rituals. However, when he becomes truly angry, he shows his terrifying true colors.
* BigBad: After being the GreaterScopeVillain for Season 1, he steps up as the main antagonist of Season 2. The majority of horrible events that occur can be traced back to him in some way, save for the events caused by Mr. Boss.
* TheCasanova: Vaughn enjoys having sex with other men's wives.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's the CEO of Max Rager and a remorseless murderer who lacks the morals God gave a tree frog.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry, understated sense of humor that comes across as downright passive-aggressive.
* DeathByIrony: He is killed and eaten by his daughter, Rita, who he left to die earlier and then later [[OffingTheOffspring tried to kill her.]]
* DevouredByTheHorde: Of zombie variant.
* DirtyCoward: When a zombie in the Max Rager secret basement escapes, [[spoiler:Vaughn runs for the elevator and shuts it... before his own daughter can get to safety.]]
* DirtyOldMan: As noted above, he sleeps around a lot, makes implied sexual advances towards Liv, and even tries spanking Rita when she's leaning over. The latter example is particularly gross since we learn a few episodes later that she's his ''daughter''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: A blogger in Thailand slams Max Rager, a comment that gets only 11 views. Vaughn has him killed in a traffic accident. From halfway around the world. On video. For an ''online slam.''
* DrowningMySorrows: After he [[spoiler:leaves Rita to die,]] Vaughn returns to his office and shakily pours himself a drink.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He does seem to care about his daughter to an extent; when she's hurt by Liv, he freaks out and screams at Major. [[spoiler:It's later subverted when he leaves her to die, although he's clearly shaken and ashamed of his actions, then completely averted later when, after fully going off the deep-end, retorts to Rita's question on if he ever really cared about her by yelling at her for 'making it all about her'.]]
* EvilIsPetty: Sure, he's an incredibly rich and powerful CorruptCorporateExecutive who aims to make untold millions from his schemes... but he'll still make time to read negative customer reviews of his products online and fume over each and every one them, [[spoiler: and later arranging for one of the reviewers to be killed.]] Even Rita is exasperated at what a waste of time and energy it is.
* EvilOldFolks: Downplayed as he's more middle-aged but he's significantly older than the main cast and a complete bastard.
* FatalFlaw: Lampshaded by Rita, he tends to easily lower his guard when around people capable of praising him.
-->'''Rita:''' "Vaughn [=DuClark=], smartest man in the world until you stroke his ego. Then he is like all the rest."
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sure, he might be the neglectful and horribly corrupt head of a corporation whose tainted drinks caused both numerous deaths and certain people to develop zombie-ism, but doesn't he just seem like the type of guy you could go bowling with?
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of Season 1; He is indirectly responsible for all the major events of the series, but unlike Blaine doesn't take any personal action against the heroes. The only exception is when the info that Max Rager has caused numerous psychotic breakdowns and he sends a hitman to recover the flash drive containing it.
* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler:Major]] shoots Vaughn through the hand when he tries to [[spoiler: kill Major and Rita.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lives this trope to an extreme degree, not caring even about his own daughter as long as he gets what he wants. Nothing sums it up more than in the season 2 finale when he rants about [[spoiler: the zombies escaping to the zombified Rita.]]
-->'''Rita''': Did you ever care about me?
-->'''Vaughn''': Do you hear yourself? (Going berserk) DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF!?! Making this moment about you! Cause I'm the one who stands to lose a billion dollars tonight and 100 employees! You think Twitter is going to be kind tonight?
* {{Jerkass}}: He continually drifts between FauxAffablyEvil and acting like a complete and utter tool.
* KarmicDeath: After [[spoiler:leaving Rita to die]] in a previous episode, Vaughn gets trapped in the exact same elevator by Major, [[spoiler: getting messily devoured by Rita.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Vaughn has the reach and the will to impact hundreds of lives, and does so.
* NonActionBigBad: Vaughn takes the reigns as the biggest threat in Season 2 but his plot to push his dangerous energy drink and make billions is a feat of his brains and resources, the one time he handles a weapon himself [[spoiler:he dies pathetically against his zombified daughter]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Or at least tried to.]]
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Vaughn's brains]] are messily devoured by [[spoiler:his daughter Rita.]]
* PapaWolf: Zigzagged. When Rita is injured by Liv, he freaks out and goes into a rage. [[spoiler:However, he later shows that he's a coward, and leaves her to die when a zombie breaks out of his lab, though she survives (but gets infected). Later he's willing to invest a lot of money and research into finding a cure for her, but only once his other problems are resolved. And then that goes out the window, when he tries to kill her along with Liv and Major.]]
* SanitySlippage: As his plans become grander and grander, his mind goes farther and farther into mania. [[spoiler: When everything he built falls apart within minutes after the Zombie Massacre that occurs during his kick-off party in ''Salvation Army'', his mind snaps, and he pretty much gives in completely to his growing madness.]]
* SmugSnake: Vaughn clearly thinks that he's a mastermind who everyone is naturally in awe of. In reality, while he's certainly [[BewareTheSillyOnes smarter than he looks,]] he's decidedly sloppy, over-confident and solves most of his problems by throwing money at them rather than by any particular brilliance.
* TheSociopath: Vaughn is entirely concerned with himself, possesses superficial charm and kills without hesitation.
* TheUnfettered: He will do anything to develop his energy drinks and cover up their side effects.
* VisionaryVillain: The guy sure has grandiose ambitions for a ''beverage'' CEO - best summed up in his quote "I will be to serotonin what Milton Hershey was to chocolate."
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: And he's desperate to keep it that way. [[spoiler:Fortunately no longer the case as of the first season finale, although his company is still doing well as of Season 2 and he seems to still hold some public sway.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: In the Season 2 finale. He'd shown traces of this but, when his launch party is ruined and he is about to have Major and Rita killed, he really goes off the deep end with all traces of his usual oily superficial charm gone. Then there's his breakdown when he's trapped in the elevator with his own zombies coming for him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rita]]
!!Rita Du Clark (also known as Gilda)
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gilda19.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"So, how many zombies removals can I put you down for this week?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Leanne Lapp

Vaughn's assistant who is tasked with spying on Liv while posing as her roommate.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The escape of a Romero Zombie leads to [[spoiler:her being scratched and turning.]]
* AttractiveZombie: She may be just as much of a bitch as before, but the Zombieism hasn't detracted from her looks.
* BastardBastard: She is Vaughn Du Clark's daughter, born from an affair.
-->'''Vaughn:''' If it weren't for my habit of sleeping with other men's wives, you wouldn't exist.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Doesn't come off as too nice even when she's moonlighting as Liv's roomie, but she's playing this card with Liv, which Liv is more susceptible to since there are no other ladies for Liv to interact with for a significant length of time.
* BoomHeadshot: Major shoots her when she tries to attack Liv and Clive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Delivers some of the best lines in the series in a cast full of snarkers.
* EvilRedhead: Red-headed and a highly competent henchwoman for Vaughn and Max Rager.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She had to convince her father to use Major as a human Zombie detector instead of his original plan, to invite ''everyone'' on the list, even the humans, to a free cruise, then scuttle the ship.
-->'''Rita''': ''(to Major)'' Like it or not, you're saving lives.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She's a rather cold and ruthless individual, but she's also excellent at coming across as trustworthy and innocent; she knows how to be disarmingly personable.
* GreenEyedMonster: She's noticeably irked at the idea of Major breaking off their status as sex buddies in favour of getting back together with Liv.
* TheMole: She becomes Liv's new roommate to keep an eye on her and be within killing distance at all times.
* MsFanservice: She's sinfully sexy and has the wardrobe to show that fact off.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kills her father during the Season 2 finale, eating his brains.
* ShoutOut: Her real name is Rita and she goes by the alias of Gilda. This is a shout out to actress Rita Hayworth and her most famous role as the title character in ''{{Gilda}}''.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Frequently, with Vaughn. Because he's her father and they have differing ideas of how to deal with Max Rager's scams.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She doesn't think that zombies are human beings anymore, and is indifferent to Major's moral dilemma in killing zombies for Max Rager.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Janko]]
!!Janko
->'''Played By:''' Colin Lawrence

An ex-soldier, who works as Vaughn du Clark's personal bodyguard and hitman.
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* BaldOfEvil: He's bald and evil.
* TheBrute: For Vaughn and Max Rager.
* PhlebotinumOverdose: During a fight with Ravi, he is injected with an overdose of a paralysis drug, killing him.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: He was a mercenary before working for Vaughn.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sebastian]]
!!Sebastian Meyer
->'''Played By:''' Matthew [=MacCaull=]

A wet works man for Max Rager, who kills off whistleblowers and anyone else who is in the way.
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* AxCrazy: He really enjoys his job, and when Liv survives his attack, he's delighted to have someone to gloat to as he disposes of another body.
* BackFromTheDead: It looked like he got gibbed when Liv chopped him with the boat motor, but because he tasted some of Liv's blood, he's now a zombie.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares deeply for his Aunt.
* {{Expy}}: Becomes one of sorts to the killer from ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He kills the one girl who knows about the memo stating that Max Rager is a PsychoSerum, then tries to kill Liv for not only finding her for him, but for also learning all about it.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Liv stabs him in the brain during their fight.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: He confesses to killing his aunt during a fit of hunger, and she was like a mother to him.
* RasputinianDeath: The dude was shredded by a boat, hit by a car, and finally stabbed in the head by Liv.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yeltsin]]
!!Doctor Yeltsin
->'''Played By:''' Raymond Sammel

The leader of Max Rager's zombie research division. He attempts to interview the zombie Sebastian Meyer, but is brutally murdered.

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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Barely introduced before being killed off and replaced by Holland.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Holland]]
!!Doctor Holland
->'''Played By:''' Brian Markinson

A scientist that Vaughn Du Clark brings in to Max Rager to lead the zombie research division. He is hired after Sebastian brutally beat the previous head zombie researcher to death.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: He is turned into a zombie in a 'lab accident' sometime after being hired.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eleanor]]
!!Doctor Eleanor Cash
->'''Played By:''' Karin Konoval

A scientist at Max Rager working under the name of "Dr. Irving" to hide her past, in which she was found responsible for a research accident which disfigured a test subject. Cash is promoted to head of the zombie research division after Holland is turned into a feral zombie in a lab accident.

Of the four scientists who lead Max Rager's zombie research division in succession, she is the only one not to be killed by a zombie.

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* TheBusCameBack: A posthumous version. She appears in an early season 2 episode as a Max Rager scientist, then reappears much later as a corpse for Liv and Clive to investigate.
* KarmicDeath: Her research disfigured a test subject. The subject's sister then burned her face off, both disfiguring and killing her.

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[[folder:Lockett]]
!!Doctor Lockett
->'''Played By:''' Chris Shields

A scientist at Max Rager who is promoted to head of the zombie research division. Like both of his predecessors, he is promoted following the death of the last scientist to hold the position.

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* KarmicDeath: He conducted monstrously unethical experiments on Max Rager zombies, and was ultimately killed by one of said zombies.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lockett pretends to be one, telling Major that he's going to reveal the truth of Max Rager's zombie experiments to the world. This turns out to be a test of Major's loyalty, which Major passes when he turns Lockett in to Vaughn.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rob Thomas]]
!!Rob Thomas
->'''Played By:''' Music/RobThomas

A musician hired by Max Rager to play at a staff party.

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* AsHimself: Rob Thomas (the musician) plays Rob Thomas (a musician).
* DeathByCameo: Rob Thomas and his crew show up to perform at a Max Rager party, and then immediately get killed by zombies.

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!Fillmore Graves Enterprises

[[folder:In General]]
!!Fillmore Graves Enterprises

A private military contractor represented by Vivian Stoll, largely built up of zombies.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: When first presented, they're teased as a villainous group, but when we see their operations they appear to be altruistic and the missions their soldiers are sent on are based on rescuing people. However, they behead their kills so as to use their brains for food (which they need to, but is shown to be quite disturbing a practice which they treat quite lightly), and seem to not really are for the humans well beings as much.
* BigGood: Although some of their methods are harsh, their leadership act as this to the zombies, protecting Liv and even employing Major. While they show signs of extremism this is revealed to be the work of [[spoiler:Carey Gold, who is acting against the wishes of the higher ups]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Their struggle is very similar to the struggle of any social minority, being socially portrayed as such. They hide themselves, fear the reaction of the majority upon noticing them, have an offensive slang to identify them (brain-eaters), are victims of hate crimes and the faction against them is heavily portrayed as the stereotypical racist and violent.
* EvilAllAlong[=/=]GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:In the most, the zombies seem on board with the plan of relocating and self-segregating and are genuinely well meaning, specially those under Chase and Vivian's command, but those under Carey Gold want to take over Seattle, keeping the entire town as a hostage to make the country provide brains to the zombies]].
* MeaningfulName: They're a private defense contractor, IE, they fill graves. Subverted as they appear to be a rather heroic organisation, despite their zombism.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three heads of the enterprise, Vivian is the In Between to Fortesan's head's mean and Carey's nice. [[spoiler:With the revelations of the end of the season, it seems she was actually the Nice to Fortesan's In Between and Carey's Mean, when the latter's true colors come out.]].
* PragmaticHero: While AmbiguouslyEvil, they do care and try to help the zombies, so they are the heroes of the zombie society, but they do not shy away from doing what's necessary.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Part of their job description. Unlike most examples they're shown in a heroic, sympathetic light, shown to be taking good care of their employees' families, and their missions seem to be primarily based on hostage extraction and protecting people, rather than being presented as a band of cut-throat mercs performing shady tasks.
* ProperlyParanoid: Seemingly so; they're concerned at the idea of humans discovering their existence and hunting them down, so they've began steps to build their own society away from humanity and develop means to protect themselves and others. While Liv and Clive are sceptical of this, she's proven right when one of the zombie families they protect are killed in an anti-zombie hate crime.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vivian]]
!!Vivian Stoll
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9_6.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Someday soon, Seattle's gonna be the capital of the zombie homeland, and a lot of people aren't gonna wanna see that happen."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Andrea Savage

The CEO of the paramilitary organization Fillmore Graves. After purchasing the Max Rager company, it is revealed that Vivian and her employees are zombies.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Vivian certainly seems to have good intentions, and appears to be a pragmatist rather than a self-absorbed villain like Vaughn was. [[spoiler:Indeed, it was revealed after her death that like Chase, she strongly disliked the idea of causing an increase in the zombie population and preferred the zombie island arrangement. This led to her associate Carey ordering her helicopter to be blown up.]]
* BadassInCharge: She's the CEO of a private military company and is quite possibly the toughest person there. She kills a horde of zombies surrounding Clive, Liv, and Major with just a pair of pistols. The knowledge that she is a zombie increases her badass credentials.
* BigDamnHeroes: She comes in at the last minute to save Liv, Clive, and Major.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler:An helicopter she is on with her number two explodes and she dies, leaving Chase in charge]].
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Vivian considers the company to be her family, and seems to know the names of everyone involved. They adore her in return.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fortesan]]
!!AK Fortesan
->'''Played By:''' Mike Dopud
Vivian's right hand man and leader of Fillmore Grave's army

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Dies in the helicopter crash with Vivian]].
* TheLancer
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[[folder:Chase]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izombie_chase.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''We are protecting the zombies who came out of the basement of the Max Rager... why aren't we?'']]
!!Chase Graves
->'''Played By:''' Jason Dohring

Vivian's brother-in-law, and the one to take over Fillmore Graves after her demise.

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Even more than Vivian, considering that he is far more brutal in his methods and far more driven. Liv openly states that she can't make an opinion about him. [[spoiler:He presents himself as a PragmaticHero in the end, though Liv claims he's holding the city hostage for the nation's brains]].
* CrazyPrepared: Carries a second Glock for when he's busy cleaning his first Glock.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shooting Justin in the chest due to him taking cans of Max Rager for a date with Liv after interrupting the crew's party and canceling their day off.
* FantasticRacism: He seems uncomfortable with Liv trusting Ravi, a human scientist, to work with zombies.
* MrFanservice: Especially towards the end of season 3, there's a scene of him getting spray tanned while completely naked and another with him only in his underwear [[spoiler:after sleeping with Liv]].
* HeroesLoveDogs: He turns out to have a dog with him.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Most of his appearances in season 3 set him up as a shady and unscrupulous man who would kill anyone for his goals, but it turns out he is just stoic and creepy mannered, but his intentions were always to make zombies live peacefully on Zombie Island while Carey Gold was the one who wanted to take down humans. It should be noted however, she used his contingency plan]].
* ShirtlessScene:
** In "Return of the Dead Guy", he gets spray tanned while naked in front of Zack and Carey.
** Again in "Looking For Mr. Goodbrain", in his hotel room after [[spoiler:sleeping with Liv]].
* TheStoic: Hardly ever shows emotion and stays unfazed through most of his actions, it's not until near the end of the third season he starts to show emotion.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: He is far less kind than Vivian, but he is command now.
* WhenHeSmiles: He is such a grouchy stoic guy, but when he smiles he is shown to be able to charm anyone, even [[spoiler:Liv]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carey]]
!!Carey Gold
->'''Played By:''' Anjali Jay

A teacher within Fillmore-Graves and confidante to Vivian Stoll and Chase Graves.

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Shares the same worldview as her bosses being a zombie and all. [[spoiler: The Ambiguously term is shaken off in the season 3 finale]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:All of her actions came from the fact that Zombie Island would make them an easy target were the humans to ever want to eliminate all zombies, simply they just had to drop a nuke on the island]].
* BigBad: In the Season 3, she's [[spoiler:responsible for the deaths of Wally and his family, as well as the outbreak of disease to provide zombies with a constant food source]]. When the higher ups at Fillmore-Graves don't want to [[spoiler:take such a violent method, she murders Vivian and later attempts to take out her replacement]].
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Her fate in Chase's hands]].
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:She was the one behind Wally's murder and Vivian's death and even the Aleutian Flu and the poisoning of the vaccines, making her the BigBad of season 3]].
* NonActionBigBad: Similar to Vaughn before her, Carey [[spoiler:does very little personally, relying on manipulation to set her plan into action and once Chase figures out what she's up to, she doesn't make it through the scene]].
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Ordered the deaths of not only Wally and his family, but also oversaw the helicopter explosion that killed Vivian. This forces Chase to abandon the idea of a zombie island.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Carey is trying to save zombies from being hunted and provide them with a constant food source but to do so she [[spoiler:sacrifices many zombies and tries to kill thousands of people to protect her kind]].
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[[folder:Zack]]
!!Zack Stoll
->'''Played By:''' Aidan Kahn

A soldier in Major's unit.

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* AllThereInTheManual: Zack shares a surname with Vivian and was intended to be connected to her, but this never made it into the show.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: After being blown up by Johns' bomb, he loses his legs but manages to drag himself out of the ruined house with his arms. He is then run over by a truck.

[[/folder]]

!Wham Bam Shooting Range

[[folder:Harley]]
!!Harley Johns
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izombie_305_spanking_the_zombie_johns.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's only one option: bullet to the head."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Andrew Caldwell

A conspiracy theorist who was ProperlyParanoid about the existence of zombies.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: His fate at the end of "Conspiracy Weary".]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The leader of the anti-zombie movement, Johns is set up to be a major antagonist and killer of Wally and his family. It's revealed that [[spoiler:Carey was responsible and Johns is killed an episode before the second half of the two-part finale]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cannot bring himself to kill Ravi, when Ravi tries to stop him from using Don E. Instead he pistol whips him into submission.
* FantasticRacism: After his brother's death he believes all zombies to be abominations and wants to exterminate them, regardless of their individual morality.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: His intentions seem to be to protect the world because he genuinely thinks all zombies are bad and unable to be humans, however, the more he dwells in zombie hunting, the more he is willing to make awful things. When he accidentally hits Justin with his truck he seems disturbed for a moment, while after [[spoiler:kidnapping Don E.]] he seems willing to kill Ravi when he gets in the way. [[spoiler:In a more literal sense, his fight against zombies ends with him becoming a zombie as well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After looking at Clive with disdain he sees Liv's appearance and smugly says "white power". As the line would imply, he's soon revealed to be a paranoid, violent redneck out to cause mayhem.
* ProperlyParanoid: He is entirely correct about the existence of zombies, but he is in the wrong that zombies have no intention of start the apocalypse and work even harder than him to stop it. Downplayed however, on the sense that zombies have as little interest in a zombie apocalypse as him, if not more and are seeking ways to live peacefully with humans.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:He really had nothing to do with the Tuttle-Reid murders. He intended to kill them, but got beat to the punch by someone else, who killed them under the orders of Carey Gold]].
* SmarterThanYouLook: A rambling, racist, conspiracy theorist, Harley comes across as a stupid, prejudiced man until he's able to [[spoiler:outmaneuver and kill many Filmore Graves operatives]], hinting that there's a lot more thoughtfulness underneath than is usually let on.
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:His final move is to explode himself in a party full of the Fillmore Graves zombie mercenaries]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Harley just wants to protect humanity from what he sees as an unstoppable threat.
* YouKilledMyFather: His brother died at the hands of zombies on the Super Max Massacre, so he is dedicating himself to hunt zombies down.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bo]]
!!Bo Johns
->'''Played By:''' James Pizzinato

One of Harley's brothers. Bo is a paranoid man who sees conspiracies everywhere. He's also a fierce advocate of his brother's crusade to expose and exterminate Seattle's zombie population.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Believes that zombies were sent to Seattle by the Shah of Iran, among other things.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Billy]]
!!Billy Cook
->'''Played By:''' Keith Dallas

A former Max Rager security guard until he saw a hoard of zombies devouring members of the staff. He fled Max Rager and later fell in with Harley's group.

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* SpannerInTheWorks: When he goes on a radio broadcast and tells the world that zombies exist, he inadvertently spurs on Harley Johns and his zombie 'truthers,' which causes problems for the rest of the cast.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Huntsman]]
!!Mr. Huntsman
->'''Played By:''' Peter Kelamis

A neighbor of the Tuttle-Reids and an initial suspect in their murders. Huntsman was innocent of those killings, but he did join Harley Johns' group of people seeking to find and exterminate all zombies in Seattle.

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* KarmicDeath: He helped Harley in his crusade to exterminate all zombies--and was ultimately killed by a zombified Harley.

[[/folder]]

!Organized crime

[[folder:Mr. Boss]]
!!Stacey Boss
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boss_stacey_6.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I own this city. So, let's take our victory lap."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Eddie Jemison

A crime lord that controls much of the utopium trade. He has also bribed a great deal of Seattle's public servants.
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* TheDreaded: Absolutely everybody is terrified of him, right down to their bones. Even when offered lower sentences, Utopium dealers would rather stay in jail than draw his wrath. Even the arrogant Blaine can barely contain his fear of him during a face-to-face.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's distraught by the death of his nephew and his first thought is to call his sister.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Boss is very genial and a pleasant conversationalist, despite having a reputation for ruthlessness.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: He ''is'' the Boss of Seattle's drug ring, thus making his name appropriate.
* PutonaBus: He's said to have left the country after the second season finale.
* TheBusCameBack: He comes back mid way through the third season to exact revenge on Blaine, though he is ultimately intimidated into his service.
* SadisticChoice: He seems to have a penchant for these, gleefully describing such a situation.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He has a very gentle, unassuming voice for a feared drug lord.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Boss has a rather innocuous, even nebbishy appearance. His cover is as an accountant, and he fits right in.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He acts like the villain in a gritty CriminalProcedural and he would be very effective and terrifying as one too. Unfortunately for him, this is a sci-fi/horror show, and some of those enemies he had so confidently whacked are not as dead as he thinks they are.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kenny and Howard]]
!!Kenny and Howard
->'''Played By:''' Bradley Stryker (Kenny) and Jason Simpson (Howard)

Two enforcers working for Boss.

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* DumbMuscle: They carry out beatings, assaults, and even murders for Boss, but they aren't very bright.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:AJ]]
!!AJ Jin
->'''Played By:''' Tim Chiou

Leader of the Blue Cobras, Seattle's most significant Asian gang.

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* TheBusCameBack: He's arrested after his appearance as the VillainOfTheWeek in an early season 1 episode. He returns much later to help identify James Weckler's killer in exchange for leniency.

[[/folder]]

!Other victims of Blaine

[[folder:Jackie]]
!!Jackie
->'''Played By:''' Sarah-Jane Redmond

Blaine's first victim. He scratches her, then charges her exorbitant prices for brains like his other customers. She doesn't lose her fondness for him however, willingly becoming his booty call and alerting him to the fact his employees intended to start their own business. However, when his delivery guy forgets to bring her the brains one day, she kills him and thus endangers Blaine's operation.

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* BadLiar: Her efforts to explain to Blaine what happened to her delivery immediately arouse his suspicions, and her story falls apart the moment Blaine shows up and begins to question it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jerome]]
!!Jerome
->'''Played By:''' Christopher Meyer

A boy who was mentored by Major until he fell into Blaine's clutches.

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* HumanResources: Blaine killed him and sold his brain to Jackie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gabriel]]
!!Gabriel
->'''Played By:''' Yani Gellman

The drug dealer who cut the utopium Blaine provided for the boat party with an unknown substance that, in combination with the Max Rager energy drink, made zombies of those who took it. Blaine later tracked him down only to find that Gabriel had abandoned drug dealing and become devoutly religious. As Gabriel refused to discuss any details from his drug-dealing days, Blaine turned him into a zombie to make him more tractable.

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* ButtMonkey: Blaine repeatedly humiliates and torments him. He has Gabriel beaten, turns him into a zombie, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking interrupts his sermon with dumb jokes]].
* TheSoulsaver: Becomes this after he converts to Christianity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marcy]]
!![=Marcy Khan=]
->'''Played By:''' Aliza Vellani

A fellow resident at Liv's hospital and the person who invited her to that fateful boat party. While she may not have been directly scratched by Blaine, she was turned into a zombie as a result of the tainted utopium he provided.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Was developing this with Liv before the boat party. Then she became a zombie.
* MercyKill: Liv bashed her brains in to protect Ravi and put her out of her misery.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alan]]
!!Alan York

An astronaut and national hero. Blaine kills him in order to sell his brain to rich zombies who want to have visions of being in outer space.

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* TheGhost: Never actually appears (except for bits of his brain).
* HumanResources: Killed so his brain can be eaten by zombies.

[[/folder]]