History Characters / KillingEve

* 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.

* TheHandler: He is this for Villanelle, Nadia, Diego and perhaps more.

* 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]].

[[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.
* 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.
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[[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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* {{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.

* 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.

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.

* AmbiguouslyBi[=/=] IfItsYouItsOkay: Bill suggests Eve is bi because of how she recalls Villanelle, despite not showing any real categorical inclination toward women, although she does give Jess a foot massage in the office. [[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.]]

* DaddysLittleVillain: Discussed in Season 3. Villanelle worshipped her dad, who died when she was young and describes him as the person who helped her to understand herself and taught her to fight. However [[spoiler:her mother - also not a reliable narrator - insists that Villanelle ruined their marriage and her dad only took her away not because of favoritism but because he was afraid she would hurt one of them.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The show flirts with the idea that Villanelle has one, that would make her more sympathetic or explain why she is how she is. In episode 1.05, Eve says, "I know something happened to you." Ultimately it is {{Subverted|Trope}}--her background wasn't ''great'', no, but nothing "made her" this way.
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEh7PekJA8 Ideas At Play]]:''' Maybe Villanelle has a tragic backstory that will explain everything? She doesn't, and if she did, it wouldn't change anything. Eve--and we as an audience--keep expecting something in this equation to change. Either Villanelle will become less likable and [[MoralEventHorizon cross some kind of line]], or we will come to understand this tortured soul and save her. But ''Killing Eve'' isn't interested in playing that game. It has put all of its cards out on the table. Villanelle will always be likable and enjoyable. She can't cross a line because she's already way too far past it.
** [[spoiler:Called into question again in season 3 with the introduction of her abusive mother.]]

-->'''Eve:''' What do you want? ''Honestly''--don't be a dick.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: Villanelle steals Eve's luggage, then returns the bag--now full of personally-selected designer clothes and shoes. After that, she spies on Eve trying on a dress. Unbeknownst to Eve, Villanelle picks her out and leaves her a belt to match.

* MultipleChoicePast: Not acknowledged in-universe, but some of the details of Villanelle's season 1 backstory and season 3 OriginsEpisode don't quite add up.

** [[spoiler:In the Season Three finale, she offers, with total sincerity and no strings attached, to walk out of Eve's life forever if that's what Eve truly wants. It's easily the most selfless thing we've ever seen her do, and it's a stark contrast to her attitude in Season Two, where she angrily declared "You're mine!" when Eve rejected her.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: During season 2, [[spoiler: Niko's job is nearly compromised when Villanelle starts spreading rumors of Niko having a relationship with Gemma. After murdering Gemma, Villanelle locks Niko in a storage unit with Gemma's corpse]]. By season 3, things are still no better: [[spoiler: Niko is suffering from PTSD, and decides to leave Eve in London and head home to Poland. After he is nearly murdered by Dasha (in an attempt to frame Villanelle in front of Eve), he is hospitalized and unable to speak. After everything that's happened, its no surprise that he wants nothing to do with his estranged wife]].
* 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.

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.

* 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.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Throws himself into this when [[spoiler:Carolyn]] threatens to shoot him in season 3, a marked difference from his attitude in earlier seasons (see FaceDeathWithDignity below)

* 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''.

* 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.

* AbusiveParents: Abandoned Oksana in an orphanage, verbally and psychologically abuses her youngest son, B'orka, after he fails in a carnival game and tries to throw Villanelle out of the house at the end of the episode.

* 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.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: 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.

* WickedCultured: Despite his fairly bland, but not scruffy dress sense, he owns fancy hotels and dines on the finest food.

* NotSoDifferent: Villanelle lampshades this but whether it's fully true remains to be fully seen.

* RealityEnsues: Season 2 is largely about Eve getting so swept up in the romance and excitement of her [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Villanelle]] that she's blindsided by consequences of her actions that ought to have been obvious, from [[spoiler: her husband choosing to leave her rather than thinking it's cool that an assassin is helping them spice up their marriage]] to [[spoiler: Villanelle shooting her in the back when she rejects her.]]

* SweetTooth: Villanelle treats herself to ice cream and values high-quality pastries, such that she barely managed to hide her dislike of the heated fruitcake served by Frank’s mother.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Is seen as a pillar of the local community.

* RealityEnsues: Season 2 is largely about Eve getting so swept up in the romance and excitement of her FoeYay relationship with Villanelle that she's blindsided by consequences of her actions that ought to have been obvious, from [[spoiler: her husband choosing to leave her rather than thinking it's cool that an assassin is helping them spice up their marriage]] to [[spoiler: Villanelle shooting her in the back when she rejects her.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: He smiles as Villanelle cuts his throat [[ForcedToWatch in front of a mirror]].

* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, [[GoOutWithASmile even when being killed]].

** 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 (except for a comment about [[Series/DoctorWho Rose Tyler]]).

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Seems to take them off whenever she's indoors and at one point even walks around the office barefoot. Likely more a Korean cultural thing than a personal quirk.

* ButNotTooBi: Villanelle is up for having sex with both sexes, but has only been shown to become infatuated with women.

* DepravedBisexual: Villanelle, who shows attraction to both sexes and is a trained, ruthless assassin.

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

* EvilIsSexy: Feels this way about Villanelle.

* EvilIsSexy: Not as obvious as Villanelle but she's definitely a good-looking lady.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:In Season 2, 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.]]

* NotQuiteDead: Villanelle shoots him in the heart at the end of Season 1. And he survives with apparently no physical effects.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Plays this role with Villanelle in Season 2.