History Characters / KillingEve

* AbusiveParents: Discussed. Villanelle's [[spoiler:mother]] is a narcissist who hurls verbal abuse at her children...but only in private. In [[StepfordSmiler public, she's very graceful and kind.]]

* PetTheDog: Sparing [[spoiler:her little brothers]] from her arson rampage and leaving them thousands of dollars so that they can go and see Elton John.

* TheSociopath: Complete lack of empathy? Check. Highly immature at times, and often does what she does ForTheEvulz as much as she does for the money? Check. Able to convince an ex-girlfriend to turn on her partner, promise her a life she deserved and then crush her under her car, all in the same scene? Check.

* AgeInappropriateDress: In the first season she wears a pink chiffon dress that looks like something a small child would wear. It hints at her overall (lack of) emotional maturity.

* BiTheWay[=/=]DepravedBisexual[=/=] PsychoLesbian: Villanelle is up for having sex with both sexes, but has only been shown to become infatuated with women.

* BiTheWay: Diego's current girlfriend and Villanelle's former girlfriend.

* BiTheWay: She had an affair with Villanelle, but she also speaks of her late husband--"my Maxi"--lovingly.

* KilledOffForReal: Having unexpectedly survived ''multiple'' run ins with Villanelle, [[spoiler:Dasha finally brutally kills him in Season 3.]]

* NotQuiteSavedEnough: Villanelle feels like she can't kill him because she made that mistake before with Anna's husband Max, which keeps Niko safe throughout Season 1 and 2. [[spoiler:Until he gets killed by Dasha in Season 3.]]

!!Dasha

! Others

[[folder: Aaron Peel]]
!! Aaron Peel
!!! '''Played By:''' Henry Lloyd-Hughes
A young tech genius and multibillionaire computer mogul with a secret weapon that he plans to sell to the Twelve.

* VillainousAromaticAsexual: He has no interest in sex at all and is repulsed when Villanelle asks him about it, and he's a supervillain. It's even more noticeable since he does seem to [[HasAType have a type]]: pretty young women with long hair. However, he never has sex with them or shows anything like physical attraction to them--he "just" slashes their throats and rewatches it on his cameras.

[[folder: Frank Haleton]]
!! Frank Haleton
!!! '''Played By:''' Darren Boyd

-->''"Thank you for giving us your Saturdays. Turns out people are still murderous bastards on the weekend."''

Eve and Bill's superior within [=MI5=]. [[spoiler: Also, a mole for (who he thought was) the Russians]]. Also, a dick-swab.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Frank is an utter dickswab of course, but he didn't deserve to die at Villanelle's hands. He spends his last episode explaining his motives for turning mole and coming across as an utterly pitiable figure.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:Frank is found at his safe house after Villanelle chopped his knob off and dressed his corpse in one of the dresses she bought Eve]]. It was likely this was done to send Eve a message.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Villanelle chops his todger off. Fortunately for Frank, it was post-mortem.]]
* IHaveAFamily: He pleads to Villanelle that he has children. Villanelle is predictably unmoved, at first thinking he was trying to barter his children.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Frank is very selfish. Although he's remorseful for helping the Twelve and had understandable reasons for doing so, he's still lost in self-pity, incredibly ungrateful to Eve and Elena after they saved his life and only seems to think about how things are affecting him. The whiny way he says about the Twelve, "They know everything about me" is very telling.
* {{Jerkass}}: Let's just say there's a reason everyone thinks he's a dick-swab. As a boss, Frank is incompetent, condescending and cold and in the face of danger and adversity, his authoritative demeanour quickly cracks to reveal the cowardly {{Manchild}} within. See below.
* {{Manchild}}: He's emotionally immature, petulant, whiny and basically just a weak, pathetic man. After Eve and Elena save his life and even take him for dinner at a roadside cafe, [[UngratefulBastard he actually whines about not having the sauce he wants for his chips]]!
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He was being paid to leak confidential information to persons whom he believed were agents of the Russian SVR]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He ''really'' didn't want Eve to investigate the murders she was convinced was the work of a single assassin, to the point where he lied about the existence of evidence that disproved her theories. [[spoiler:Possibly because he was working for people other than [=MI5=], who may not have wanted anyone to investigate further]].
* PetTheDog: He has kids whom he loves but as Eve says, you have to feel sorry for them, having to put up with a {{Jerkass}} like him for a father.
* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Frank ''is'' a petty dick, but it's also not very nice to watch Eve and Bill laughing over the fact that they didn't realize his wife had died.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He was [[spoiler:a mole for Russian intelligence - or so he thought; he was actually reporting to the Twelve]], but the minute it looked like Frank was getting found out, [[spoiler:the Twelve sent Villanelle after him and, when he didn't die the first time, tracked him to the safe house where she managed it. Gruesomely, but, in her words, "nicely".]]
* UndignifiedDeath: One which he ''definitely'' didn't deserve.

[[folder: Hugo]]
!! Hugo
!!! '''Played By:''' Edward Bluemel

Eve's new co-worker.

* AnythingThatMoves: He constantly makes crude sexual jokes, and he has sex with [[spoiler:Eve]].
* DisneyDeath: At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:he seems to be shot by Villanelle's people, and begs Eve to stay with him when she finds him. She ignores him and that's... the last we see of him in that season.]]
* EvilCounterpart: He's a ReplacementGoldfish to Kenny, but unlike Kenny, he's very smooth and kind of a dick.
* {{Foil}}: To Kenny.
* PutOnABus: A throwaway line in Season 3 reveals that [[spoiler:he survived being shot, sued [=MI5=], won, and left.]]
* UpperClassTwit: He's a Cambridge and Eton graduate who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

[[folder:Gemma]]
!!Gemma
!!! '''Played By:''' Emma Pierson

A teacher at Nico's school.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is ridiculously complimentary to Eve, but as Eve rightly susses, only so she can worm her way in with Nico.
* CrazyCatLady: Not in actuality, but she has a cat and Villanelle lampshades this trope.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:We don't actually know if she died like that, but her eyes are wide open when Niko finds her body.]]
* DisposableLoveInterest: To Nico, although whether he actually has feelings for her or is just using her as a LivingEmotionalCrutch after the breakdown of his marriage to Eve is a mystery.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That she has a crazy crush on Nico.
* NothingIsScarier: We don't see how [[spoiler:Villanelle kills her]], but we do see [[spoiler:her body afterward, and it's pretty gruesome looking.]]
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! Characters Associated with Villanelle

[[folder: Konstantin Vasiliev]]
!! Konstantin Vasiliev
!!! '''Played By:''' Kim Bodnia

Villanelle's handler, Konstantin is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] who recruits and runs assassins [[spoiler: for a shadowy organization known only as The Twelve]], telling them who to kill and then paying them after the deed is done.

* AffablyEvil: So far. He is unfailingly polite and funny to Eve, even after she's figured out his huge secret. Even after [[spoiler: Villanelle shot him]] he was still willing to (mostly) let it go and move on.
* AmicableExes: He lives with his past lover Carolyn in Season 2.
* CoolOldGuy: Even when Villanelle is acting up and generally being a dick, Konstanin takes it in his stride and can banter back.
* DrivenToSuicide: At gunpoint. [[spoiler:Not that it worked out for Villanelle]].
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: If you believe that he loves Villanelle, as he tells her he does. He also seems well-loved by his daughter and wife.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** When Konstantin tries to rein Villanelle back from her obsession with Eve Polastri, she responds by subtly threatening his daughter. He is shocked that she actually knew he had a child and that she knew where she was to threaten her.
** He also says that he genuinely loves Villanelle and goes to great lengths to help her out, despite the fact that she shot him.
* EvilMentor: Deconstructed. While he is Villanelle's mentor in murder (and trained her, as Eve figures out), Villanelle has done plenty of evil without Konstanin, and he mostly just gave her an outlet for it.
* EvilOldFolks: He looks like somebody's favorite uncle, but he is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] that runs a network of assassins [[spoiler: for The Twelve]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He says this more or less verbatim: [[spoiler: "To dignity in death!"]] Ultimately subverted, however, as Konstantin was merely pretending. However, he nevertheless does seem totally willing ''to'' do so at any given moment, which is necessary in his profession.
* TheFagin: He recruited and trained Villanelle, who was in prison as a teenager at the time.
* FamilyMan: He was one before, and his family goes into protection in Season 2 which devastates him.
* FriendlyEnemy: To everyone--he's funny and polite to Eve even after she's discovered his secret connection to The Twelve, and he, of course, stays this to Villanelle even when she's ''trying to kill him''.
* TheHandler: He is this for Villanelle, Nadia, Diego and perhaps more.
* InformedAttractiveness: Despite being a heavy set older man he is referred to by multiple female characters as sexy both in photographs as a younger man and by those who have seen him recently.
* NotQuiteDead: Villanelle shoots him in the heart at the end of Season 1. And he survives with apparently no physical effects.
* OhCrap:
** When Villanelle makes a thinly veiled threat to him about the daughter she wasn't supposed to know he has.
** And again in "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms":
-->'''Villanelle:''' [[spoiler: What number are you? [...] You're not Twelve.]]\\
'''Konstantin:''' Oh, dear.
* PapaWolf: He's very protective of his daughter, [[AintTooProudToBeg begs Villanelle with dignity not to kill them]], and is only determined to be reunited with them in Season 2.
* ParentalSubstitute: Konstantin is possibly the closest thing Villanelle has to family. Not that it ever stopped her from openly defying him and threatening his child.
* PragmaticVillain: Konstantin is not a psychopath, he’s more pragmatic and self-interested than that. He merely does whatever he needs to survive.
* SoProudOfYou: He says this to Villanelle [[spoiler: even as she is forcing him to commit suicide by pills]]. Doesn't stop him from throwing a whiskey glass in her face and [[FlippingTheBird giving her the finger]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Villanelle. She's always criticizing what he wears and disobeying him, and it gets significantly more vitriolic after [[spoiler:she perceives him to have betrayed her at the end of Season 2]], but he actually wins her back over, because he just knows her too well.
* WildCard: Who's side is Konstantin on? Even he doesn't really seem to know, or maybe just doesn't care.
* WorthyOpponent: To Villanelle.

[[folder: Nadia]]
!! Nadia
!!! '''Played By:''' Olivia Ross
A Russian assassin in the employ of Konstantin, sent with her boyfriend Diego and Villanelle to eliminate a member of British Intelligence. She is also Villanelle's ex-girlfriend.

* AmicableExes: Averted like hell. The first thing Nadia does upon seeing Villanelle, is try to kill her.
* BiTheWay: Diego's current girlfriend and Villanelle's former girlfriend.
* DepravedBisexual: An assassin that was in a relationship with Villanelle and is now in a relationship with Diego.
* TheDogBitesBack: As evidenced by her killing of Diego.
* DomesticAbuse: It's implied by her behavior and the small flinches she gives whenever Diego touches her that the relationship she has with him is an abusive one.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: She was crushed under Villanelle's car in the same episode she was introduced. Twice. ''[[MadeOfIron And she survived.]]''
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Yes, Nadia. Trust the woman you knew, ''quite intimately'', and hated enough to try to kill her on sight not to run you over with her car. [[SarcasmMode What could possibly go wrong]]?
* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Set up to be in one of these between herself, Diego and Villanelle. Subverted when she kills Diego and is then later crushed under a car by Villanelle.

[[folder: Irina Vasiliev]]
!!Irina Vasiliev
!!! '''Played By:''' Yuli Lagodinsky
Konstantin's beloved daughter. By his description, she's amazing... but annoying. So, ''so'' annoying.

* BrattyHalfPint: Even Konstantin agrees she can be pretty hard to deal with.
* DaddysGirl: It's clear Konstantin adores her.
* LittleMissBadass: Well, not many tween girls would respond to being kidnapped by a psychopath with ''annoying the crap out of her''. She also shows remarkably little fear, given the situation.
* LittleMissSnarker: As Villanelle finds out the hard way.
* MafiaPrincess: She appears to have a pretty comfortable life, thanks to Daddy's work with [[spoiler:the Twelve]]. It's unclear if she knows ''exactly'' what he does, but she does seem to know it's something illegal.
* MoralityPet: Konstantin genuinely loves her, and seems to be a genuinely pretty good father.
* OneSceneWonder: She appears only in 1.08, and is an absolute joy in it.
* PityTheKidnapper: She has ''no'' problem mouthing off at Villanelle, and in general makes the experience just as (if not more) miserable for Villanelle as it is for her. Konstantin even lampshades it.
-->'''Konstantin:''' I need to find my daughter. She's going to drive that woman ''crazy''.
* {{Polyglot}}: She speaks Russian, English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Justified, since children pick up languages very easily, and Konstantin clearly made a point of teaching her.
* TheStoic: Nothing seems to frighten her.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that Konstantin ''has'' a daughter is a surprise.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She's pretty damn smart, speaking multiple languages and being ''way'' more emotionally mature than Villanelle.

[[folder: Anna]]
!!Anna
!!! '''Played By:''' Susan Lynch
A language teacher in Russia.

* ADeadlyAffair: Anna and Oksana's affair culminated with Oksana murdering Anna's husband, Max.
* BiTheWay: She had an affair with Villanelle, but she also speaks of her late husband--"my Maxi"--lovingly.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anna shoots herself rather than shooting Villanelle.]]
* FirstLove: She was Villanelle's, and became the [[ReplacementGoldfish prototype]] for Villanelle's [[HasAType type]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: What Oksana did to her husband, Max.
* NonAnswer: When Eve is questioning her.
-->'''Anna:''' She had a... fixation.
-->'''Eve:''' Was it reciprocated?
-->'''Anna:''' I was her teacher; I was married.
-->'''Eve:''' But... was it reciprocated?
* TeacherStudentRomance: She and Oksana had an affair when Oksana was her student.

[[folder:Raymond]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Adrian Scarborough

Villanelle's new handler after she escapes from Julian in Series 2, until Konstantin takes back over.

* AnAxeToGrind: His preferred weapon, if the Season 2 finale is any indication.
* AxCrazy: The first thing he does when he sees Villanelle is choke her out, ForTheEvulz. And he comes back to kill her just because he hates her. And all with an ax!
* EvilCounterpart: A very relative example to Konstantin. Konstantin and Villanelle are VitriolicBestBuds and he is a borderline ParentalSubstitute (of a dark variety) to her who lets her get away with far more than he should. Raymond doesn't care for her, is extremely ruthless, and will kill her at the drop of a hat.
* EvilRedhead: He has ginger hair and is brutal even by the Twelve's standards.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Even Villanelle is surprised when he turns out to be so aggressive and vicious.

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[[folder:Dasha]]
!!Dasha
!!! '''Played By:''' Harriet Walter

Villanelle's former handler, who has returned to lure Villanelle back to the Twelve in Season 3.

* BrokenPedestal: Villanelle greatly admired her at one time.
* EvilOldFolks: She is on the older side and she worked for the Twelve. It's made clear that she has always been that way, though, killing her past lover/mentor during a gymnastics training session.
* EvilMentor: Dasha was a former mentor of Villanelle's, but betrayed her.

[[/folder]]

! Others

[[folder: Aaron Peel]]
!! Aaron Peel
!!! '''Played By:''' Henry Lloyd-Hughes
A young tech genius and multibillionaire computer mogul with a secret weapon that he plans to sell to the Twelve.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: He loves watching Villanelle kill people.
* {{Asexual}}: Has a VillainousCrush on Villanelle but it seems to be more of a case of InLoveWithYourCarnage than anything else. He never touches her, and is disgusted when she asks him if he's ever desired intimacy.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Plays this role with Villanelle in Season 2.
* BigBrotherBully: Towards his little sister.
* TheBully: As pointed out by Villanelle, right before she breaks his nose with a book.
* CompositeCharacter: Of Charles Augustus Magnussen and Mark Zuckerberg.
* ControlFreak: His whole modus operandi. The fact that he can spy on pretty much anybody in the world at any time means that he can blackmail them into doing whatever he wants and he revels in having this power over others. While Villanelle stays in his hotel, he lavishes her with gifts but takes great pleasure in ordering her around, to the point of making her spit out food he doesn't like and making her sit in the same position while he leaves the room until he gets back.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He inherited the company started by his father, Anthony Peel after [[SelfMadeOrphan having him assassinated by the Ghost]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Is prone to snarky moments, particularly when mocking Eve about how [=MI6=] is an anachronism and asking her if she wants to search his office for any "weapons-grade plutonium."
* DiabolicalMastermind: He's basically a Bond villain!
* EvilIsPetty: Despite being a brilliant computer hacker, he screams at Villanelle for wearing the clothes he gave her "wrong" and… eating orange chocolates. He makes her spit it out.
* EvilPlan: To weaponize information by keeping files on all of the world's most powerful people and selling it to the Twelve. It's essentially the same plan Blofeld and C. have in SPECTRE.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very polite and charming towards Villanelle whilst she stays in his hotel and ultimately Eve when she arrives but it doesn't conceal the fact that he's an AxeCrazy, sociopathic ControlFreak.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A sociopathic CEO who wears little glasses and has a very blank stare.
* GoOutWithASmile: He smiles as Villanelle cuts his throat [[ForcedToWatch in front of a mirror]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: He has a machine that manages to keep track of everyone.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason behind his obsession with Villanelle whom he sees as a kindred spirit.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's obnoxiously arrogant, to the point that Jess and Eve fantasize about him falling out of a window and landing face-first on a railing. In addition to this, he's a megalomaniacal psychopath.
* KarmicDeath: Villanelle slashes his throat. [[TooKinkyToTorture He doesn't seem to mind.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Really? Do we need to say any more at this point?
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses his knowledge of people's private lives to threaten and control them.
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: He looks, dresses and acts like a stereotypical, harmless computer nerd but is actually a deranged supervillain.
* ThePeepingTom: He records Villanelle at all times when she's in Budapest [[spoiler:which it turns out he did to several other women before her]].
* PsychopathicManChild: All over the place. He's a supervillain who likes to play children's games with his younger sister and a SerialKiller who nevertheless flips out when Villanelle mixes up the clothes he gave her and ''wears it with a belt.''
-->YOU'VE RUINED IT!
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, [[GoOutWithASmile even when being killed]].
* {{Sadist}}: Revels in using his power and knowledge to humiliate others and loves killing people, filming himself doing it, watching them being killed or ordering assassinations.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Wears a pair of them.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He hired the Ghost to kill his father, who was a single parent after his mother's death from an illness.
* SerialKiller: Ultimately revealed to be this.
* SmugSnake: Very smug and thinks he has Villanelle completely under his control. [[EvilIsNotAToy He's wrong]].
* TheSociopath: Or psychopath at any rate, as Eve surmises. He uses his [[TheDragon Dragon]] to assassinate his own father, along with anyone close to him at the company so that he could take control of it, uses his tech skills to spy on people's private lives and blackmail them with it and, it's ultimately revealed, personally kills people just for sport so that he can film himself doing it.
* SoftSpokenSadist: The revelation that [[spoiler:he likes to cut women's throats]] turns him into this.
* StalkerWithACrush[=/=]VillainousCrush: Towards Villanelle, albeit more in a sadistically cerebral and mostly [[{{Asexual}} non-sexual]] way. He also has a really creepy love of watching her eat.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Although he's initially shocked when Villanelle slashes his throat, [[NightmareFuel he grins as he dies]].
* VillainousAromaticAsexual: He has no interest in sex at all and is repulsed when Villanelle asks him about it, and he's a supervillain. It's even more noticeable since he does seem to [[HasAType have a type]]: pretty young women with long hair. However, he never has sex with them or shows anything like physical attraction to them--he "just" slashes their throats and rewatches it on his cameras.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers Villanelle the world if she becomes his partner-in-crime. She refuses when he presses her BerserkButton by telling her to kill Eve. [[TheDogBitesBack She's also had enough of being ordered around by him at this point]].
* WickedCultured: Despite his fairly bland, but not scruffy dress sense, he owns fancy hotels and dines on the finest food.

[[folder: The Ghost]]
!! The Ghost
!!! '''Played By:''' [[spoiler:Jung Sun Den Hollander]]
Another female assassin in operation.
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* BadassOnPaper: Despite her famed reputation for her discretion, [[spoiler:Villanelle makes very quick work of her when they meet]].
* BeneathSuspicion: How she manages to kill people with high security, posing as a cleaner and other menial workers.
* TheDragon: To Aaron Peel.
* DragonLady: An Asian woman who is very serious, viciously sharp, and mostly silent.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eve first meets her picking her kids up from school. She gets her to come with her by threatening to shoot her in front of her kids if she refuses.
* EvilCounterpart: To Eve. Both are middle-aged Asian women who are overlooked by the large companies and interests they serve due to their age, race, and discretion.
* EvilIsSexy: Not as obvious as Villanelle but she's definitely a good-looking lady.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Villanelle. While Villanelle is a theatrical, attention-seeker when it comes to her kills, the Ghost is subtle and does not draw attention to her kills. Where Villanelle makes some of her kills explicitly look like murder, the Ghost does the best to make her own look innocuous. Villanelle is a young white woman, while the Ghost is a middle aged Asian woman.
** Also to Eve. Both are disrespected Asian women who are frequently dismissed at their jobs and talented at discretion, but the Ghost kills for money and Eve catches killers.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Keeps a low profile and goes about her killings as discretely as possible, never leaving blood or a mess.
* NotSoStoic: Despite her usually cold, unflappable demeanour, even when Eve threatens to shoot her in front of her kids, she's tortured for information by Villanelle to the point that she's left in tears, calling Eve "[[YouMonster a monster]]".
* PaperTiger: The Ghost ''can'' be vicious, but [[spoiler:Villanelle tortures her with ease and so she never really threatens Villanelle or Eve]].
* PunchClockVillain: She kills people for Aaron Peele, but unlike Villanelle, she gets no pleasure out of killing and is only InItForTheMoney.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In contrast to Villanelle, The Ghost is totally able and willing to blend in.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn that [[spoiler:she has children and she was a nurse]]… and that's about it before [[spoiler:she's captured]].
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[[folder:Amber Peel]]
!! Amber Peel
!!! '''Played By:''' Shannon Tarbet

Aaron's sister.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The "foolish" to her brother's "responsible."
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Very bullied by her brother but a genuinely sweet, kind person.
* SiblingYinYang: Kind, supportive, and sympathetic to Aaron's bullying, cold, arrogant demeanor.
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[[folder: Carolyn Martens]]
!! Carolyn Martens
!!! '''Played By:''' Fiona Shaw

-->''"They all think we're having affairs before they think we're secret agents."''

A member of [=MI6=] and the leader of a secret task force she set up with the purpose of tracking down and catching the assassin known as Villanelle.

* AbusiveParents: Played with. She doesn't actually hurt Kenny [[spoiler:yet]] but she says that she doesn't love him that much (to Konstanin's horror). She is shown to be emotionally distant, emotionally negligent and is domineering towards him that despite his gift for hacking which makes him employable, he is dependent on her emotionally and financially which makes him answer to her beck and call and doesn’t allow him to subvert her even if he objects to her actions. He also admits to being frightened of her.
* TheAce: She is famous for her heroism as a member of [=MI6=].
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: She spends the entirety of Season 2 playing Eve like a fiddle while letting Eve think that she's acting against her wishes.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: You wouldn't think at first glance that the quiet, 50-something woman who might have been your next-door neighbor would actually be a ruthless spymaster, would you?
* BigEntrance: One reviewer pointed out that Carolyn has an interesting variant on this, in that she has a habit of dramatically waiting in rooms which Eve is about to enter: there’s always a shot of Carolyn standing ominously in front of a fireplace or sitting at a table with her eyes closed, although Eve is the one who actually enters, usually nervous and flustered.
* CoolOldLady: Both Eve and Elena think she is this for different reasons: Eve, because Carolyn was the first to believe her and Elena because she is her biggest fan.
* DeadpanSnarker: Emphasis on the deadpan, but she has a few drily humourous lines here and there.
* DirtyOldWoman: At times gives the impression of being obsessed with sex. Also does anyone actually know what a "butterfly bead" is? Does anyone want to know? Thought not.
* EvilCounterpart: Amazingly, to ''Konstanin'' (and also a DistaffCounterpart). Both Konstanin and Carolyn are ruthless killers (when they need to be), ex-lovers, and secret agents. But Konstanin adores his wife and daughters and even ''Villanelle''. Carolyn says that she was always careful not to love Kenny too much, to Konstanin's visible shock.
* EvilMentor: Somewhat. She's more or less extremely unpredictable (which is a necessity in her job) but she will behave coldly and ruthlessly when she needs to.
* ExpansionPackPast: We know she had ''many'' missions across the globe, but we only ever really hear about her trips to Russia.
* IronLady: Zigzagged. She is a no-nonsense leader when she's in London, but [[spoiler: in Russia, she tangles with two of her former boyfriends and is clearly enjoying being back in Moscow. Several rounds of strong alcohol certainly help matters. However, when she and Eve visit the prison where Nadia is, she is back to her professional self.]]
* KavorkaMan: Certainly not ugly but definitely not an example of SilverVixen either; she probably gets around more than anyone else on the show, including Villanelle!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Although she is in her fifties, Carolyn is extremely competent and extremely experienced.
* NiceHat: Wears a fancy fur hat throughout the trip to Russia, and looks damn good in it.
* NotSoStoic: Although most people think she's alarmingly cold in the wake of her son's death, she's shown to be heavily depressed and trying to avoid it.
* PowerHair: A powerful M16 agent with short dark hair.
* TheQuietOne: She only has a handful of lines in each episode, sometimes she only speaks one or two lines in the scene she's in. She also never raises her voice at anyone but it's clear to the rest of the task force that whenever she opens her mouth it would be wise to listen to her.
* ReallyGetsAround: To Eve's shock. It comes out piece by piece that Carolyn has had (and in some cases, still ''is having'') sex with [[spoiler: Vlad, Konstantin, and the Nigerian ambassador]] as well as having had 3 husbands in the past.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: She chooses Eve and is a famed ''savior of the world''.
* SavedTheWorld: Carolyn is said to have done this on several occasions.
* SecretlyRelated: Kenny is introduced as Carolyn's hacker; we (and Eve) later learn he's her son, too.
* TheSociopath: Shows signs of it at times; superficial charm, above average intelligence, manipulative behaviour, lack of empathy and remorse, fantastic and uninviting behaviour with drink and sometimes without, sexual promiscuity. Still waiting on grandiose sense of self worth.
* TheSpymaster: Is basically this for her secret task force, and she is essentially TheHandler for Eve in general even to the point of meeting her in some pretty public places such as stores and butcher's shops to discuss work. She has also been mentioned to have cultivated one of [=MI6=]’s most valuable assets when she was a young agent in Moscow.
* StepfordSnarker: Downplayed, but Carolyn is visibly affected when she admits to being careful not to love Kenny too much.
* TheStoic: Carolyn never shows much overt emotion.
* TranquilFury: Even when very angry with Eve, she remains outwardly calm and unflustered. She says being angry actually makes her tired and when Eve leaves the room she yawns.
* XanatosGambit: Turns out to have been pulling one with the Rome operation in Season 2. [[spoiler: She sends Villanelle to steal Peel’s data with Eve as her off-the-books handler, and tells Eve repeatedly that Villanelle is not to kill anyone. However, she does this knowing full well that Villanelle might kill Peel anyway, in which case things still work out in MI6's favor.]]

[[folder: Bill Pargrave]]
!! Bill Pargrave
!!! '''Played By:''' David Haig

Eve's colleague and closest friend, Bill is a weary [=MI5=] security officer whose wife and newborn child have run him to the ground. When Eve proposes he join her in a secret assassin tracking unit with [=MI6=], he discovers he may have some life left in him yet.

* TheBeard: Although they do have sex on occasion (when the conditions are right), Bill's marriage to his wife is one of convenience as both wanted a child. Interestingly, while he doesn't advertise that he was actually bi, Bill didn't care if anyone knew.
* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: The episode where we find out Bill is gay? [[spoiler:It's the same one he dies in]].
* DeadFriendMotivation: Provides this for Eve after Villanelle kills him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Probably the snarkiest member of the cast, aside from Villanelle and Carolyn.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Sort of. [[spoiler: The audience is introduced to Bill's lovely baby and some of his personal backstory. Of course, he doesn't make it to the next episode]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:After his death in Season 1, Eve wants to avenge Bill but she more or less forgets about it in Season 2, to the point that when Kenny brings it up as a reason he doesn't trust Villanelle, Eve effectively fires him on the spot.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: He was already fully ready and willing to resign (and call Frank a dick-swab) for Eve's sake, and he doesn't hesitate when she invites him to the task force.
* MarriageOfConvenience: Bill is in one of these because both of them wanted a child. It's even mentioned by Bill that his wife has her own "arrangements."
* ReallyGetsAround: Implied. It's pretty telling that an old colleague of his would call him an old tart. He then later explains that he lived in Germany for eight years and said yes to everything for five of them. Take from that what you will.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death serves as the moment that really commits Eve to finding and hurting Villanelle.]]
* StraightGay: Much to the surprise of Eve, despite working with him for ten years.
* UndyingLoyalty: When Eve is fired from [=MI5=] Bill is the first to quit alongside her. Though he claims he just wanted an excuse to call his boss a "dick-swab," to which Eve beat him to it. And again when he decides to follow a ''dangerous assassin'' on his own when he sees that she was following Eve. [[spoiler:Sadly, this got him killed]].

[[folder: Elena Felton]]
!! Elena Felton
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste

Another one of Eve's colleagues in [=MI5=]. When Eve is recruited into the secret task force, Elena is the first to jump ship and join her--all for the opportunity to be close to Carolyn Martens, her idol.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: She has a bit of ShipTease with Kenny, but also doesn't deny it when Eve says she has a crush on Carolyn.
* DeadpanSnarker: Maybe not quite at the level of Bill, but she's got some pretty good moments when it comes to the snark. [[spoiler: She may possibly take on the mantle of snarkiest character after Bill's murder, however]].
* {{Fangirl}}: Elena is one of these toward Carolyn, and she's a big enough fan that Eve straight up says that Elena had a crush on her.
* HeroWorshipper: To Carolyn.
-->'''Elena:''' [=MI6=] Russia Desk. I'd nail a cousin to work with that woman. Stone-cold badass.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Eve only has to mention Carolyn's name to get Elena to resign from [=MI5=] and come join the task force.
* OnlySaneMan: After [[spoiler:Bill dies]], she's easily the most functional and levelheaded of the main characters.
* PutOnABus: Doesn't appear in Season 2 because "she doesn't want to get murdered".
* SassyBlackWoman: Will tell Eve the truth, no matter what.

[[folder: Kenny Stowton]]
!! Kenny Stowton
!!! '''Played By:''' Sean Delaney

Kenny is a bonafide computer whiz and gamer, low on social skills but brilliant at what he does. Kenny works in the task force as their hacker and general information gatherer. He is also Carolyn's son.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Asperger's?
* BasementDweller: Is implied to be this to Carolyn.
* ConnectedAllAlong: Downplayed. [[spoiler: While the audience knows from the beginning that Kenny is Carolyn's subordinate, the real surprise comes from finding out that he is also her son.]]
* TheCracker: As a character, Kenny falls between this and PlayfulHacker. He's lighter, nicer, and more moral than the average [[TheCracker evil hacker]], but his mission with [=MI6=] means that he's also on too many serious missions to qualify fully as a PlayfulHacker.
* DoingResearch: This is basically his whole job for the task force.
* HollywoodNerd: He's pretty funny and very kind, but everyone roughly treats him as a loser with NoSocialSkills.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls hard the moment he meets Elena, and it completely freaks him out.
* MissionControl: When he's not researching Villanelle's activities and whereabouts, he serves as this for Eve when she's out in the field.
* MoralityChain: Tries to be this to Eve in Season 2, but [[KickTheDog she coldly and insensitively tells him to leave it]].
* NoSocialSkills: According to his bio, Kenny mainly exists online and he rarely gets a chance to socialize. He is also desperate for the attention of the opposite sex.
* NonActionGuy: Kenny basically lives behind a desk and solves problems from his computer.
* [[spoiler: StuffedIntoTheFridge]]: [[spoiler: He is killed in the Season 3 premiere by being thrown off a roof by an unknown person.]]

[[folder: Niko Polastri]]
!! Niko Polastri
!!! '''Played By:''' Owen [=McDonnell=]

Eve's husband. Niko is a Polish maths teacher and Bridge tutor who worries about his wife's new job. He has an aversion to violence, and can’t understand Eve’s fascination with darkness and criminality.

* ButNotTooForeign: He is Polish but according to his backstory he was born in England.
* MoralityChain: Seems to keep trying to be one to Eve, although it doesn't really work, especially in Season 2.
* MoralityPet: To Eve. Even after they separate in Season 2, Eve cares for him and wants him to be okay.
* NiceGuy: One of the nicest characters in the main cast. Also, the most boring.
* NonActionGuy: He has no interest in physically defending himself, even when Villanelle appears to threaten him both in Oxford and at home.
* OnlySaneMan: Often represents this to the cast in general as he genuinely appears pretty appalled by the violence and cruelty Eve indulges.
* {{Pacifist}}: Niko has a strong aversion to violence, and though he perhaps can’t admit it to himself he prefers it if his wife is working in a boring desk job than in close proximity to danger.
* PlotArmor: Unusually, recognized in-universe by Villanelle. She'd like nothing more than to kill him as she did with Max (her last major crush's husband) but she knows Eve would never forgive her. So she [[spoiler:kills Gemma instead]].
* PornStache: And boy is Niko's truly glorious. Villanelle at one point says he looks like "someone put a mustache on some fudge."
* RuleOfEmpathy: Played with. Niko is not ''that'' popular due to being one of the main obstacles between Villanelle and Eve, but in-universe, Villanelle recognizes he has to survive because it would be a MoralEventHorizon for her in Eve's eyes.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the first series he has a normal London accent but come Season 2 and he's inexplicably speaking with a posh upper-class accent.

[[folder: Frank Haleton]]
!! Frank Haleton
!!! '''Played By:''' Darren Boyd

-->''"Thank you for giving us your Saturdays. Turns out people are still murderous bastards on the weekend."''

Eve and Bill's superior within [=MI5=]. [[spoiler: Also, a mole for (who he thought was) the Russians]]. Also, a dick-swab.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Frank is an utter dickswab of course, but he didn't deserve to die at Villanelle's hands. He spends his last episode explaining his motives for turning mole and coming across as an utterly pitiable figure.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:Frank is found at his safe house after Villanelle chopped his knob off and dressed his corpse in one of the dresses she bought Eve]]. It was likely this was done to send Eve a message.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Villanelle chops his todger off. Fortunately for Frank, it was post-mortem.]]
* IHaveAFamily: He pleads to Villanelle that he has children. Villanelle is predictably unmoved, at first thinking he was trying to barter his children.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Frank is very selfish. Although he's remorseful for helping the Twelve and had understandable reasons for doing so, he's still lost in self-pity, incredibly ungrateful to Eve and Elena after they saved his life and only seems to think about how things are affecting him. The whiny way he says about the Twelve, "They know everything about me" is very telling.
* {{Jerkass}}: Let's just say there's a reason everyone thinks he's a dick-swab. As a boss, Frank is incompetent, condescending and cold and in the face of danger and adversity, his authoritative demeanour quickly cracks to reveal the cowardly {{Manchild}} within. See below.
* {{Manchild}}: He's emotionally immature, petulant, whiny and basically just a weak, pathetic man. After Eve and Elena save his life and even take him for dinner at a roadside cafe, [[UngratefulBastard he actually whines about not having the sauce he wants for his chips]]!
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He was being paid to leak confidential information to persons whom he believed were agents of the Russian SVR]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He ''really'' didn't want Eve to investigate the murders she was convinced was the work of a single assassin, to the point where he lied about the existence of evidence that disproved her theories. [[spoiler:Possibly because he was working for people other than [=MI5=], who may not have wanted anyone to investigate further]].
* PetTheDog: He has kids whom he loves but as Eve says, you have to feel sorry for them, having to put up with a {{Jerkass}} like him for a father.
* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Frank ''is'' a petty dick, but it's also not very nice to watch Eve and Bill laughing over the fact that they didn't realize his wife had died.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He was [[spoiler:a mole for Russian intelligence - or so he thought; he was actually reporting to the Twelve]], but the minute it looked like Frank was getting found out, [[spoiler:the Twelve sent Villanelle after him and, when he didn't die the first time, tracked him to the safe house where she managed it. Gruesomely, but, in her words, "nicely".]]
* UndignifiedDeath: One which he ''definitely'' didn't deserve.

[[folder: Hugo]]
!! Hugo
!!! '''Played By:''' Edward Bluemel

Eve's new co-worker.

* AnythingThatMoves: He constantly makes crude sexual jokes, and he has sex with [[spoiler:Eve]].
* DisneyDeath: At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:he seems to be shot by Villanelle's people, and begs Eve to stay with him when she finds him. She ignores him and that's... the last we see of him in that season.]]
* EvilCounterpart: He's a ReplacementGoldfish to Kenny, but unlike Kenny, he's very smooth and kind of a dick.
* {{Foil}}: To Kenny.
* PutOnABus: A throwaway line in Season 3 reveals that [[spoiler:he survived being shot, sued [=MI5=], won, and left.]]
* UpperClassTwit: He's a Cambridge and Eton graduate who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

[[folder:Jess]]
!! Jess
!!! '''Played by''': Nina Sosanya

Eve's new boss, another recruit of Carolyn's.

* BrutalHonesty: Jess always says what she thinks.
* ButNotTooBlack: Jess is mixed race, in comparison to Elena's dark skin.
* CunningLinguist: An InformedAttribute as we've never seen her use it (yet), but she speaks Arabic.
* PregnantBadass: She ''is'' pregnant, but her badassery is [[InformedAttribute alleged rather than seen]], especially as it occurs mostly a convenient excuse on Eve's part to keep her out of the field in Budapest.
* PutOnABus: As a result of Eve's team being disbanded in Season 3.

[[folder:Gemma]]
!!Gemma
!!! '''Played By:''' Emma Pierson

A teacher at Nico's school.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is ridiculously complimentary to Eve, but as Eve rightly susses, only so she can worm her way in with Nico.
* CrazyCatLady: Not in actuality, but she has a cat and Villanelle lampshades this trope.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:We don't actually know if she died like that, but her eyes are wide open when Niko finds her body.]]
* DisposableLoveInterest: To Nico, although whether he actually has feelings for her or is just using her as a LivingEmotionalCrutch after the breakdown of his marriage to Eve is a mystery.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That she has a crazy crush on Nico.
* NothingIsScarier: We don't see how [[spoiler:Villanelle kills her]], but we do see [[spoiler:her body afterward, and it's pretty gruesome looking.]]

! Characters Associated with Villanelle

[[folder: Konstantin Vasiliev]]
!! Konstantin Vasiliev
!!! '''Played By:''' Kim Bodnia

Villanelle's handler, Konstantin is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] who recruits and runs assassins [[spoiler: for a shadowy organization known only as The Twelve]], telling them who to kill and then paying them after the deed is done.

* AffablyEvil: So far. He is unfailingly polite and funny to Eve, even after she's figured out his huge secret. Even after [[spoiler: Villanelle shot him]] he was still willing to (mostly) let it go and move on.
* AmicableExes: He lives with his past lover Carolyn in Season 2.
* CoolOldGuy: Even when Villanelle is acting up and generally being a dick, Konstanin takes it in his stride and can banter back.
* DrivenToSuicide: At gunpoint. [[spoiler:Not that it worked out for Villanelle]].
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: If you believe that he loves Villanelle, as he tells her he does. He also seems well-loved by his daughter and wife.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** When Konstantin tries to rein Villanelle back from her obsession with Eve Polastri, she responds by subtly threatening his daughter. He is shocked that she actually knew he had a child and that she knew where she was to threaten her.
** He also says that he genuinely loves Villanelle and goes to great lengths to help her out, despite the fact that she shot him.
* EvilMentor: Deconstructed. While he is Villanelle's mentor in murder (and trained her, as Eve figures out), Villanelle has done plenty of evil without Konstanin, and he mostly just gave her an outlet for it.
* EvilOldFolks: He looks like somebody's favorite uncle, but he is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] that runs a network of assassins [[spoiler: for The Twelve]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He says this more or less verbatim: [[spoiler: "To dignity in death!"]] Ultimately subverted, however, as Konstantin was merely pretending. However, he nevertheless does seem totally willing ''to'' do so at any given moment, which is necessary in his profession.
* TheFagin: He recruited and trained Villanelle, who was in prison as a teenager at the time.
* FamilyMan: He was one before, and his family goes into protection in Season 2 which devastates him.
* FriendlyEnemy: To everyone--he's funny and polite to Eve even after she's discovered his secret connection to The Twelve, and he, of course, stays this to Villanelle even when she's ''trying to kill him''.
* TheHandler: He is this for Villanelle, Nadia, Diego and perhaps more.
* InformedAttractiveness: Despite being a heavy set older man he is referred to by multiple female characters as sexy both in photographs as a younger man and by those who have seen him recently.
* NotQuiteDead: Villanelle shoots him in the heart at the end of Season 1. And he survives with apparently no physical effects.
* OhCrap:
** When Villanelle makes a thinly veiled threat to him about the daughter she wasn't supposed to know he has.
** And again in "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms":
-->'''Villanelle:''' [[spoiler: What number are you? [...] You're not Twelve.]]\\
'''Konstantin:''' Oh, dear.
* PapaWolf: He's very protective of his daughter, [[AintTooProudToBeg begs Villanelle with dignity not to kill them]], and is only determined to be reunited with them in Season 2.
* ParentalSubstitute: Konstantin is possibly the closest thing Villanelle has to family. Not that it ever stopped her from openly defying him and threatening his child.
* PragmaticVillain: Konstantin is not a psychopath, he’s more pragmatic and self-interested than that. He merely does whatever he needs to survive.
* SoProudOfYou: He says this to Villanelle [[spoiler: even as she is forcing him to commit suicide by pills]]. Doesn't stop him from throwing a whiskey glass in her face and [[FlippingTheBird giving her the finger]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Villanelle. She's always criticizing what he wears and disobeying him, and it gets significantly more vitriolic after [[spoiler:she perceives him to have betrayed her at the end of Season 2]], but he actually wins her back over, because he just knows her too well.
* WildCard: Who's side is Konstantin on? Even he doesn't really seem to know, or maybe just doesn't care.
* WorthyOpponent: To Villanelle.

[[folder: Nadia]]
!! Nadia
!!! '''Played By:''' Olivia Ross
A Russian assassin in the employ of Konstantin, sent with her boyfriend Diego and Villanelle to eliminate a member of British Intelligence. She is also Villanelle's ex-girlfriend.

* AmicableExes: Averted like hell. The first thing Nadia does upon seeing Villanelle, is try to kill her.
* BiTheWay: Diego's current girlfriend and Villanelle's former girlfriend.
* DepravedBisexual: An assassin that was in a relationship with Villanelle and is now in a relationship with Diego.
* TheDogBitesBack: As evidenced by her killing of Diego.
* DomesticAbuse: It's implied by her behavior and the small flinches she gives whenever Diego touches her that the relationship she has with him is an abusive one.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: She was crushed under Villanelle's car in the same episode she was introduced. Twice. ''[[MadeOfIron And she survived.]]''
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Yes, Nadia. Trust the woman you knew, ''quite intimately'', and hated enough to try to kill her on sight not to run you over with her car. [[SarcasmMode What could possibly go wrong]]?
* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Set up to be in one of these between herself, Diego and Villanelle. Subverted when she kills Diego and is then later crushed under a car by Villanelle.

[[folder: Irina Vasiliev]]
!!Irina Vasiliev
!!! '''Played By:''' Yuli Lagodinsky
Konstantin's beloved daughter. By his description, she's amazing... but annoying. So, ''so'' annoying.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Even Konstantin agrees she can be pretty hard to deal with.
* DaddysGirl: It's clear Konstantin adores her.
* LittleMissBadass: Well, not many tween girls would respond to being kidnapped by a psychopath with ''annoying the crap out of her''. She also shows remarkably little fear, given the situation.
* LittleMissSnarker: As Villanelle finds out the hard way.
* MafiaPrincess: She appears to have a pretty comfortable life, thanks to Daddy's work with [[spoiler:the Twelve]]. It's unclear if she knows ''exactly'' what he does, but she does seem to know it's something illegal.
* MoralityPet: Konstantin genuinely loves her, and seems to be a genuinely pretty good father.
* OneSceneWonder: She appears only in 1.08, and is an absolute joy in it.
* PityTheKidnapper: She has ''no'' problem mouthing off at Villanelle, and in general makes the experience just as (if not more) miserable for Villanelle as it is for her. Konstantin even lampshades it.
-->'''Konstantin:''' I need to find my daughter. She's going to drive that woman ''crazy''.
* {{Polyglot}}: She speaks Russian, English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Justified, since children pick up languages very easily, and Konstantin clearly made a point of teaching her.
* TheStoic: Nothing seems to frighten her.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that Konstantin ''has'' a daughter is a surprise.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She's pretty damn smart, speaking multiple languages and being ''way'' more emotionally mature than Villanelle.

[[folder: Anna]]
!!Anna
!!! '''Played By:''' Susan Lynch
A language teacher in Russia.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Anna and Oksana's affair culminated with Oksana murdering Anna's husband, Max.
* BiTheWay: She had an affair with Villanelle, but she also speaks of her late husband--"my Maxi"--lovingly.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anna shoots herself rather than shooting Villanelle.]]
* FirstLove: She was Villanelle's, and became the [[ReplacementGoldfish prototype]] for Villanelle's [[HasAType type]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: What Oksana did to her husband, Max.
* NonAnswer: When Eve is questioning her.
-->'''Anna:''' She had a... fixation.
-->'''Eve:''' Was it reciprocated?
-->'''Anna:''' I was her teacher; I was married.
-->'''Eve:''' But... was it reciprocated?
* TeacherStudentRomance: She and Oksana had an affair when Oksana was her student.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raymond]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Adrian Scarborough

Villanelle's new handler after she escapes from Julian in Series 2, until Konstantin takes back over.

* AnAxeToGrind: His preferred weapon, if the Season 2 finale is any indication.
* AxCrazy: The first thing he does when he sees Villanelle is choke her out, ForTheEvulz. And he comes back to kill her just because he hates her. And all with an ax!
* EvilCounterpart: A very relative example to Konstantin. Konstantin and Villanelle are VitriolicBestBuds and he is a borderline ParentalSubstitute (of a dark variety) to her who lets her get away with far more than he should. Raymond doesn't care for her, is extremely ruthless, and will kill her at the drop of a hat.
* EvilRedhead: He has ginger hair and is brutal even by the Twelve's standards.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Even Villanelle is surprised when he turns out to be so aggressive and vicious.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dasha]]
!!Dasha
!!! '''Played By:''' Harriet Walter

Villanelle's former handler, who has returned to lure Villanelle back to the Twelve in Season 3.

* BrokenPedestal: Villanelle greatly admired her at one time.
* EvilOldFolks: She is on the older side and she worked for the Twelve. It's made clear that she has always been that way, though, killing her past lover/mentor during a gymnastics training session.
* EvilMentor: Dasha was a former mentor of Villanelle's, but betrayed her.

[[/folder]]

! Others

[[folder: Aaron Peel]]
!! Aaron Peel
!!! '''Played By:''' Henry Lloyd-Hughes
A young tech genius and multibillionaire computer mogul with a secret weapon that he plans to sell to the Twelve.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: He loves watching Villanelle kill people.
* {{Asexual}}: Has a VillainousCrush on Villanelle but it seems to be more of a case of InLoveWithYourCarnage than anything else. He never touches her, and is disgusted when she asks him if he's ever desired intimacy.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Plays this role with Villanelle in Season 2.
* BigBrotherBully: Towards his little sister.
* TheBully: As pointed out by Villanelle, right before she breaks his nose with a book.
* CompositeCharacter: Of Charles Augustus Magnussen and Mark Zuckerberg.
* ControlFreak: His whole modus operandi. The fact that he can spy on pretty much anybody in the world at any time means that he can blackmail them into doing whatever he wants and he revels in having this power over others. While Villanelle stays in his hotel, he lavishes her with gifts but takes great pleasure in ordering her around, to the point of making her spit out food he doesn't like and making her sit in the same position while he leaves the room until he gets back.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He inherited the company started by his father, Anthony Peel after [[SelfMadeOrphan having him assassinated by the Ghost]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Is prone to snarky moments, particularly when mocking Eve about how [=MI6=] is an anachronism and asking her if she wants to search his office for any "weapons-grade plutonium."
* DiabolicalMastermind: He's basically a Bond villain!
* EvilIsPetty: Despite being a brilliant computer hacker, he screams at Villanelle for wearing the clothes he gave her "wrong" and… eating orange chocolates. He makes her spit it out.
* EvilPlan: To weaponize information by keeping files on all of the world's most powerful people and selling it to the Twelve. It's essentially the same plan Blofeld and C. have in SPECTRE.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very polite and charming towards Villanelle whilst she stays in his hotel and ultimately Eve when she arrives but it doesn't conceal the fact that he's an AxeCrazy, sociopathic ControlFreak.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A sociopathic CEO who wears little glasses and has a very blank stare.
* GoOutWithASmile: He smiles as Villanelle cuts his throat [[ForcedToWatch in front of a mirror]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: He has a machine that manages to keep track of everyone.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason behind his obsession with Villanelle whom he sees as a kindred spirit.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's obnoxiously arrogant, to the point that Jess and Eve fantasize about him falling out of a window and landing face-first on a railing. In addition to this, he's a megalomaniacal psychopath.
* KarmicDeath: Villanelle slashes his throat. [[TooKinkyToTorture He doesn't seem to mind.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Really? Do we need to say any more at this point?
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses his knowledge of people's private lives to threaten and control them.
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: He looks, dresses and acts like a stereotypical, harmless computer nerd but is actually a deranged supervillain.
* ThePeepingTom: He records Villanelle at all times when she's in Budapest [[spoiler:which it turns out he did to several other women before her]].
* PsychopathicManChild: All over the place. He's a supervillain who likes to play children's games with his younger sister and a SerialKiller who nevertheless flips out when Villanelle mixes up the clothes he gave her and ''wears it with a belt.''
-->YOU'VE RUINED IT!
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, [[GoOutWithASmile even when being killed]].
* {{Sadist}}: Revels in using his power and knowledge to humiliate others and loves killing people, filming himself doing it, watching them being killed or ordering assassinations.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Wears a pair of them.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He hired the Ghost to kill his father, who was a single parent after his mother's death from an illness.
* SerialKiller: Ultimately revealed to be this.
* SmugSnake: Very smug and thinks he has Villanelle completely under his control. [[EvilIsNotAToy He's wrong]].
* TheSociopath: Or psychopath at any rate, as Eve surmises. He uses his [[TheDragon Dragon]] to assassinate his own father, along with anyone close to him at the company so that he could take control of it, uses his tech skills to spy on people's private lives and blackmail them with it and, it's ultimately revealed, personally kills people just for sport so that he can film himself doing it.
* SoftSpokenSadist: The revelation that [[spoiler:he likes to cut women's throats]] turns him into this.
* StalkerWithACrush[=/=]VillainousCrush: Towards Villanelle, albeit more in a sadistically cerebral and mostly [[{{Asexual}} non-sexual]] way. He also has a really creepy love of watching her eat.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Although he's initially shocked when Villanelle slashes his throat, [[NightmareFuel he grins as he dies]].
* VillainousAromaticAsexual: He has no interest in sex at all and is repulsed when Villanelle asks him about it, and he's a supervillain. It's even more noticeable since he does seem to [[HasAType have a type]]: pretty young women with long hair. However, he never has sex with them or shows anything like physical attraction to them--he "just" slashes their throats and rewatches it on his cameras.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers Villanelle the world if she becomes his partner-in-crime. She refuses when he presses her BerserkButton by telling her to kill Eve. [[TheDogBitesBack She's also had enough of being ordered around by him at this point]].
* WickedCultured: Despite his fairly bland, but not scruffy dress sense, he owns fancy hotels and dines on the finest food.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Ghost]]
!! The Ghost
!!! '''Played By:''' [[spoiler:Jung Sun Den Hollander]]
Another female assassin in operation.
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* BadassOnPaper: Despite her famed reputation for her discretion, [[spoiler:Villanelle makes very quick work of her when they meet]].
* BeneathSuspicion: How she manages to kill people with high security, posing as a cleaner and other menial workers.
* TheDragon: To Aaron Peel.
* DragonLady: An Asian woman who is very serious, viciously sharp, and mostly silent.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eve first meets her picking her kids up from school. She gets her to come with her by threatening to shoot her in front of her kids if she refuses.
* EvilCounterpart: To Eve. Both are middle-aged Asian women who are overlooked by the large companies and interests they serve due to their age, race, and discretion.
* EvilIsSexy: Not as obvious as Villanelle but she's definitely a good-looking lady.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Villanelle. While Villanelle is a theatrical, attention-seeker when it comes to her kills, the Ghost is subtle and does not draw attention to her kills. Where Villanelle makes some of her kills explicitly look like murder, the Ghost does the best to make her own look innocuous. Villanelle is a young white woman, while the Ghost is a middle aged Asian woman.
** Also to Eve. Both are disrespected Asian women who are frequently dismissed at their jobs and talented at discretion, but the Ghost kills for money and Eve catches killers.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Keeps a low profile and goes about her killings as discretely as possible, never leaving blood or a mess.
* NotSoStoic: Despite her usually cold, unflappable demeanour, even when Eve threatens to shoot her in front of her kids, she's tortured for information by Villanelle to the point that she's left in tears, calling Eve "[[YouMonster a monster]]".
* PaperTiger: The Ghost ''can'' be vicious, but [[spoiler:Villanelle tortures her with ease and so she never really threatens Villanelle or Eve]].
* PunchClockVillain: She kills people for Aaron Peele, but unlike Villanelle, she gets no pleasure out of killing and is only InItForTheMoney.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In contrast to Villanelle, The Ghost is totally able and willing to blend in.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn that [[spoiler:she has children and she was a nurse]]… and that's about it before [[spoiler:she's captured]].
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[[folder:Amber Peel]]
!! Amber Peel
!!! '''Played By:''' Shannon Tarbet

Aaron's sister.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The "foolish" to her brother's "responsible."
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Very bullied by her brother but a genuinely sweet, kind person.
* SiblingYinYang: Kind, supportive, and sympathetic to Aaron's bullying, cold, arrogant demeanor.
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** ButNotTooBi: Eve becomes obsessed with Villanelle, and Bill suggests that she is physically attracted to her, which is hardly subtle. However, Eve has not (yet) shown attraction to any other women, nor has she acted physically on her attraction to Villanelle.

* TheSociopath: Shows signs of it at times.

* ButNotTooBi: Eve becomes obsessed with Villanelle, and Bill suggests that she is physically attracted to her, which is hardly subtle. However, Eve has not (yet) shown attraction to any other women, nor has she acted physically on her attraction to Villanelle.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Seems to take them off whenever she's indoors and at one point even walks around the office barefoot.

* TheNicknamer: Eve decides to call the assassin she is chasing “Villanelle” after a bottle of La Villanelle perfume that was sent to her, though she was unaware that Villanelle was her actual codename.

-->Like us, you mean.

* RaceLift: The books' Eve is a white Englishwoman. The TV Eve is Asian-Canadian, and played by Creator/SandraOh.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:In Season Two, she admits most of her entire ''existence'' is this. She feels nothing and is perpetually bored and listless, and doesn't understand why everyone else seems genuinely happy. She buys something she wants? Suddenly, she doesn't want it anymore. She kills someone? She doesn't still doesn't feel anything. She wakes up in the morning? Her first thought is, "I have to do this ''again''?" Villanelle feels almost no true emotions, has no genuine connection to most people, and gains no real, lasting pleasure from anything she does, and this is how she feels ''all the time''. Even her enjoyment of her [[ProfessionalKiller job]] seems to come more from the fact that it's a break from all the monotony than anything. This revelation leads to what is probably the most heartwarming and most ''honest'' thing Villanelle has ever said to Eve.]]

* BiTheWay[=/=]DepravedBisexual: Villanelle is up for having sex with both genders, but has only been shown to become infatuated with women.

* {{Polyglot}}: She can speak Russian (though she refuses to when she has the choice), English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and is currently learning Mandarin.

* PsychoLesbian: She may be bisexual, but she appears to have a stronger preference toward women. Also, she's a total psychopath complete with SlasherSmile.

* PlotArmor: Unusually, recognized in-universe by Villanelle. She'd like nothing more than to kill him as she did with Max, her teacher's husband, but she knows Eve would never forgive her so she [[spoiler:kills Gemma instead]].

* DisneyDeath: At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:he seems to be shot by Villanelle's people, and begs Eve to stay with him when she finds him. She ignores him and that's...the last we see of him in that season.]]

* AmicableExes: He lives with his past mistress Carolyn in Season 2.

* FriendlyEnemy: To everyone - he's funny and polite to Eve even after she's discovered his secret connection to The Twelve, and he, of course, stays this to Villanelle even when she's ''trying to kill him''.

* DroppedABridgeOnHer: She was crushed under Villanelle's car in the same episode she was introduced. Twice. ''[[MadeOfIron And she survived]]''.

* {{Asexual}}: Has a VillainousCrush on Villanelle but it seems to be more of a case of InLoveWithYourCarnage than anything else as he never touches her and is disgusted when she asks him if he's ever desired intimacy.

* EvilIsPetty: Despite being a brilliant computer hacker, he screams at Villanelle for wearing the clothes he gave her "wrong" and...eating orange chocolates. He makes her spit it out.

* KarmicDeath: Villanelle slashes his throat. [[TooKinkyToTorture He doesn't seem to mind]].

* PsychopathicManChild: All over the place. He's a supervillain who likes to play children's games with his younger sister and a SerialKiller who nevertheless flips out when Villanelle mixes up the clothes he gave her and ''wears it with a belt.

* StalkerWithACrush / VillainousCrush: Towards Villanelle, albeit more in a sadistically cerebral and mostly [[{{Asexual}} non-sexual]] way. He also has a really creepy love of watching her eat.

* VillainousAromaticAsexual: He has no interest in sex at all and is repulsed when Villanelle asks him about it, and he's a supervillain. It's even more noticeable since he does seem to [[HasAType have a type]]: pretty young women with long hair. However, he never has sex with them or shows anything like physical attraction to them - he "just" slashes their throats and rewatches it on his cameras.

** To Villanelle. While Villanelle is a theatrical, attention-seeker when it comes to her kills, the Ghost is subtle and does not draw attention to her kills. Where Villanelle makes some of her kills explicitly look like murder, the Ghost does the best to make her own look innocuous.
** Villanelle is a young white woman, while Eve theorises that the Ghost is a middle aged woman of colour. She's ultimately proven to be right as the Ghost is an Asian lady.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn that [[spoiler:she has children and she was a nurse]]...and that's about it before [[spoiler:she's captured]].

* TheStoic: Even being angry makes her ''tired'', so Carolyn never knows much overt emotion.

* DeadpanSnarker: Probably the snarkiest member of the cast.

* {{Jerkass}}: Let's just say there's a reason everyone thinks he's a dick-swab. Frank is incompetent, condescending and cold.

!!! '''Played by''': Nina Sosanaya

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:HVillanelle chops his todger off. Fortunately for Frank, it was post-mortem.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi[=/=] IfItsYouItsOkay: Bill suggests Eve is bi because of how she recalls Villanelle, despite not showing any real categorical inclination toward women. [[spoiler:By the end of Season 1, nearly everyone is assuming Eve is crushing on Villanelle. By the end of season 2, she seems pretty honest about it with herself.]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Often literally in leather pants, Villanelle is a seductive, attractive, and vicious psychopath.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Konstantin tries to rein Villanelle back from her obsession with Eve Polastri, she responds by subtly threatening his daughter. He is shocked that she actually knew he had a child and that she knew where she was to threaten her.