History Characters / LesRevenants

* HeroesWantRedheads: Caught in a love triangle between two redhead twins.

* YouGotSpunk: Shown to be attracted to Léna, his captive, because of this.

* JoinOrDie: He thinks the reason he has returned is to [[spoiler: KillEmAll in order to make everyone a Returned.]]

* KnifeNut
* MurderersAreRapists
* SerialKiller
* TokenEvilTeammate

14-year-old daughter of Claire and Jérôme, twin sister to Léna. Camille died four years ago in a bus crash, an accident which tore her family apart and which [[spoiler: she may have unwittingly caused via her TwinTelepathy with Léna. In the bus, Camille somehow senses her sister having sex with Frédéric, the boy Camille was in love with and whom Léna promised never to date. Feeling violated and betrayed, she becomes hysterical and tries to force the driver to stop, distracting him long enough to miss Victor standing in the road which causes him to swerve off a cliff.]] She returns four years later to a changed family and a now-adult Léna who she barely recognizes. Although she is immediately accepted, her "reintegration" proves to be a painful one.

Toni's brother and a violent serial-killer, known for attacking young women in a town underpass and eating their entrails. [[spoiler: Julie]] is one of his surviving victims. While the police never knew that Serge was the culprit, [[spoiler: Toni discovered his brother's criminal activities and killed him to stop the attacks.]] Now, seven years after his death, Serge is back, and so are the murders... He attacks [[spoiler: Lucy]] at the end of the first episode.

* CreepyBlueEyes

Adèle's fiancée before his untimely death on their wedding day, and father of their daughter Chloé. A former musician with a troubled past, Simon was deeply in love with Adèle before he was killed in a car accident ten years ago. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that Simon committed suicide, a fact hidden from Adèle to protect her in her vulnerable state; Simon, however, has no idea why he killed himself and does not remember his death.]]

* LookalikeLovers: With Adèle : same height, and both have short curly black hair.
* MaleFrontalNudity: ''Twice''. First during [[spoiler: his autopsy, after being shot by Thomas.]]. And then again during a sex scene with [[spoiler: Lucy.]]

* TallDarkAndHandsome: More like ''short'', dark and handsome, but aside from that he fits both in looks and personality.

A strange, solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side because [[spoiler: he thinks she's a "fairy" sent by his mother to protect him]]. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: Around the time the first dam broke, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family; while one of them tried to reassure and protect him, the other promptly shot him in cold blood.]] In the second season, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he is not the Lewanski's biological son, and was probably already a Returned. He appeared on their doorstep one night with no explanation, after he unsuccessfully tried to convince Étienne Berg not to build the dam; after he returned from the shooting that killed his mother and brother, he hid with his father for 35 years, until the night when other people began returning. ]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Some of his drawings did predict future, fatal events, such as the dam breaking and Mme Costa's death, but it is unknown whether the others were drawn before or after the events portrayed.]]

Apparently the Revenant whose death goes the farthest back. She was the wife of the now elderly schoolteacher Mr Costa and it is assumed she died sometime in the seventies. When he sees her back from the dead, her husband quickly proceeds to kill her by trapping her in their burning house. [[spoiler: Of course this doesn't stop her from coming back.]] Throughout the series, she displays an extremely cynical attitude towards the living, saying the Revenants don't have to fear them anymore and that they don't even need the Revenants to hurt them. Flashbacks show that [[spoiler: she survived the dam rupture that flooded the original town, and suggesting she knew something about it not being an accident]]. Her cause of death remains unknown until Episode 05 of the second series, when it is revealed that [[spoiler: she drowned in the frozen lake that formed after the first dam broke, three months after the catastrophe.]]

->'''Played By:''' Armande Boulanger
->'''Centric Episodes:''' 2x02

Another student dead in the bus accident, and Audrey's boyfriend. [[spoiler:He returns not long after Audrey and joins her in Camille and Claire's new house.]]

One of Serge's victims, who died 10 years before the events of the series, she returns along with the other seven in the second season. She worked at the local bank and was a frequent customer of Toni's.

The Lewanski's neighbour, and an engineer who built the upper dam, the one which collapsed and drowned several people 35 years prior. [[spoiler:Out of guilt for this tragedy, he joined Milan's cult.]] In the present, he lives in the Returned domain and helps Claire and Camille.

!![[spoiler: Milan Garrel]]

[[spoiler: Serge and Toni's father, who returns at the beginning of the second series. He was the leader of a murderous cult in the Seventies, when the first dam broke, of which M. Costa and the teenaged Pierre were a part. He apparently killed Lucy and his boyfriend Morgane, and engineered the burglary at the Lewanski's home which resulted in the death of (almost) all of Louis/Victor's family. He was shot in the head by Pierre after finishing off all members of the suicide cult, including Étienne Berg and Simon's parents.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Gets tied down with weights and dumped into the water to ensure he can't come back. Considering the Returned simply revive a short time later after being "killed" while already dead, he's going to spend his days reviving and drowning, over and over...]]

[[spoiler: Lucy's boyfriend 35 years ago. They barely survived the breaking of the first dam, only to be both abducted and killed by Milan.]]

->'''Centric Episodes:''' 2x01

A teenager who disappeared 35 years ago, and who debuts in the second season. [[spoiler: He was kidnapped by Milan to "cleanse him of his sins" and kept locked in the cellar. The little Serge let him out, but he fell in a bear trap in the forest and was mauled by the wild animals. Milan finds him and puts him out of his misery, while forcing Serge to watch.]]

!!Adèle

Simon's former fiancée. Ten years after his death on their wedding day, she has raised his child and found love again in Thomas, whom she's about to marry. [[spoiler: After Simon's death, Adèle suffered from depression and hallucinations, claiming she could hear him whispering to her. Despite psychiatric care and her love for Thomas and Chloé, she tried to commit suicide at least once.]] When Simon returns, Adèle is visibly torn between her old feelings for Simon and her new life with Thomas. Unlike the other characters, she believes Simon to be a ghost who only she can see. She works at the town's media center.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Vertère? Verterre? Verthaire? Werther? It was never spelled in French (only pronounced), and the Italian subtitles say Werther while the Spanish ones say Vertère, so...
* StatuesqueStunner

!!Chloé

->'''Played By:''' Brune Martin

->'''Played By:''' Anne Consigny

!!Monsieur Costa

->'''Played By:''' Claude Lévèque

->'''Played By:''' Matila Malliarakis

* SiblingTriangle

->'''Played By:''' Jérôme Kircher

->'''Played By:''' Frédéric Pierrot

Monsieur Costa's nurse and Laure's past lover. [[spoiler: She is the last known victim of the Cannibal, and the only one who (just barely) survived his attack. Although she would rather die than admit it, Julie was left traumatized and pushed Laure away from her for this reason. She confesses that she feels "dead" since the attack and thinks that she may be one of the "Revenants." She was indeed "clinically dead" for two seconds as she laid on the operating table, but her theory remains as of now unconfirmed.]] Little Victor follows her home and she feels compelled to care for him, although she cannot determine who he is or where he came from. [[spoiler: She bears deep scars on her abdomen from the Cannibal's knife; supplementary materials relate that she is now unable have children and this may explain why she feels the irrational need to protect and care for Victor.]]

->'''Played By:''' Alix Poisson

->'''Played By:''' Jenna Thiam; Yara Pilartz (in flashbacks)

A waitress at the Lake Pub, the bar which Toni runs. She is brutally attacked by the Cannibal (Serge) in the first episode. [[spoiler: She survives, and seems to have regenerative powers.]] Not much is known about her except that she arrived in town one year ago without a dime in her pocket and that she frequently had sex with customers. [[spoiler: It is also revealed that she's some kind of medium who can communicate with the dead during sexual intercourse with their relatives; one of her clients was Jérôme. After she heals completely, she escapes the hospital and joins the Revenants; by the end of the first season she even seems to be their leader, or is at least chosen as their spokesperson. A flashback in the second season reveals that she was apparently killed by Milan shortly after the first dam broke, and returned at least a year before the events in the present.]]

Julie's annoying next door neighbour. Has a lot of cats and is constantly peeping through the keyhole to spy on the other inhabitants of the building. She's a gossip extraordinaire and loves to intrude in other people's private lives; she's also kind of a cougar.

->'''Played By:''' Jean-François Sivadier

->'''Played By:''' Constance Dollé

->'''Played By:''' Samir Guesmi

* AmbiguouslyBrown
* ControlFreak

He runs a bar called The Lake Pub which many of the characters frequent. He's Lucy's boss and Serge's brother. [[spoiler: One night, he saw his brother attacking Julie. Realizing he was the Cannibal, he saved Julie and killed Serge himself, though he didn't have the courage to reveal the truth to the police. Knowing this, their mother died of grief soon afterwards.]] He's a hard but ultimately fair man who's clearly coping with deep guilt; [[spoiler: he now wonders if killing Serge was the right thing to do and blames himself for the death of their mother. He will do anything and everything to fall back in their good graces.]]

* TheBartender

!!Berg

->'''Played By:''' Laurent Lucas

* LastNameBasis

->'''Played By:''' Pauline Parigot

* {{Seer}}: Was this even before his death. [[spoiler: He has nightmares which predict tragedies, including the first dam breaking and stuff happening years in the future, which he then reproduces as drawings.]]

[[folder:The Revenants]]

!!In General

* ActingForTwo: In flashbacks to when Camille and Léna were the same age, both are played by Yara Pilartz.

!!Viviane Costa

Apparently the Revenant whose death goes the farthest back. She was the wife of the now elderly schoolteacher Mr Costa and it is assumed she died sometime in the seventies. When he sees her back from the dead, her husband quickly proceeds to kill her by trapping her in their burning house. [[spoiler: Of course this doesn't stop her from coming back.]] Throughout the series, she displays an extremely cynical attitude towards the living, saying the Revenants don't have to fear them anymore and that they don't even need the Revenants to hurt them. Flashbacks show that [[spoiler: she survived the dam rupture that flooded the original town, and suggesting she knew something about it not being an accident]]. Her cause of death remains unknown until Episode 05 of the second series, when it is revealed that [[spoiler: she drowned in the frozen lake that formed after the first dam broke, three months after the catastrophe.]]

->'''Played By:''' Laetitia de Fombelle
->'''Centric Episodes:''' 01

* LastNameBasis: Everyone simply calls her Mrs Costa.
* MeaningfulName: Her first name is Viviane, which derives from the French word for "living".
* KillItWithFire: After she comes back from the dead, her terrified husband tries to re-kill her in a house fire. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Does this in the second series after [[spoiler: living for six months with Julie and Victor, becoming a confidant for the former and another ParentalSubstitute for the latter.]]

!!Esther

One of Serge's victims, who died 10 years before the events of the series, she returns along with the other seven in the second season. She worked at the local bank and was a frequent customer of Toni's.

->'''Played By:''' Mélodie Richard
->'''Centric Episodes:''' 2x06

* RevenantZombie: More so than the other Returned. [[spoiler: She speaks again only after she has returned to the place of her death, and Serge has apologised to her for what he did.]]

!!Morgane

[[spoiler: Lucy's boyfriend 35 years ago. They barely survived the breaking of the first dam, only to be both abducted and killed by Milan.]]

->'''Played By:''' Vladimir Consigny
->'''Centric Episodes:''' 2x03

* AdvertisedExtra: Downplayed, but glaring given that he has one entire episode to his name. His whole character is ancillary to [[spoiler: Lucy's]], his death flashback actually serves to further her backstory, and after his return he never speaks, only having sex with her and following her around. [[spoiler: Except at the end of the season.]]
* GenderBlenderName: {{Lampshaded}} by Lucy.

[[folder:The Living]]

* LookalikeLovers: With Simon : same height, same hair.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS : Vertère ? Verterre ? Verthaire ? Werther ? It was never spelled in French (only pronounced), and the Italian subtitles say Werther while the Spanish ones say Vertère, so...

!!Berg

A dam engineer who arrives in the city [[spoiler: six months after the flood to investigate its causes.]] His father Étienne, also an engineer, built the first dam. He joins Jérôme in his quest to find answers. [[spoiler: Berg father and son were the Lewanski's neighbours, and were visited by Victor warning them not to proceed with the construction of the dam.]]

->'''Played By:''' Laurent Lucas

* LastNameBasis
* MeaningfulName: His surname translates from German as "mountain", which is fitting given that dams are often built in alpine regions.

* ParentalSubstitute: to Victor.

->'''Played By:''' Jenna Thiam

!!Ophélie

A kind nurse who cares for [[spoiler: Mr. Lewanski]] while he is in a coma at the hospital. She assists Julie when she has to stay hidden in one of the unused wards.

->'''Played By:''' Pauline Parigot

* SecondLove: [[spoiler: To Julie.]]

A friend of Claire who also lost a child in the bus crash; she's pregnant [[spoiler: but later miscarries]].

Chief of the town's police department and current fiancé of Adèle, he's lived with her for several years and has raised Simon's daughter as his own. A highly competent officer, he is also quite the control-freak. [[spoiler: He had their whole house monitored by hidden cameras without Adèle's knowledge, though he claims he only did it to make sure she didn't try to commit suicide when he wasn't around.]] Simon's return jeopardizes everything that Thomas has built in his life with Adèle and so he is extremely hostile towards him, considering him a threat to both Adèle and Chloé. [[spoiler: He also blames Simon for leaving Adèle as an emotional wreck, knowing that Simon committed suicide but hiding this fact from Adèle to ease her psychological recovery.]]

A strange, solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side because [[spoiler: he thinks she's a "fairy" sent by his mother to protect him]]. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: Around the time the first dam broke, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family; while one of them tried to reassure and protect him, the other promptly shot him in cold blood.]] [[spoiler: In the second season, it is revealed that he is not the Lewanski's biological son, and was probably already a Returned. He appeared on their doorstep one night with no explanation, after he unsuccessfully tried to convince Étienne Berg not to build the dam; after he returned from the shooting that killed his mother and brother, he hid with his father for 35 years, until the night when other people began returning. ]]

* TagalongKid: Starts following Julie one night for apparently no reason.

[[spoiler: A classmate of Camille and Léna, and girlfriend of Esteban, who perished as well in the bus accident. She returns in the first episode of the second season, and is bewildered to find the city flooded and under military control. Lucy finds her and brings her where all the Returned are, leaving her in the care of Claire and Camille.]]

[[spoiler: Another student dead in the bus accident. He returns not long after Audrey and joins her in Camille and Claire's new house.]]

A police officer under Thomas's command, she's Julie's past lover. One of the most stable and level-headed characters of the series. She's very dedicated to her job and even seems over-zealous when it comes to the Cannibal, which, [[spoiler: given he tried to kill Julie, is understandable.]] She's notably adamant on Toni being the main suspect despite the fact that he was proven innocent years ago.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Did I mention she's Léna's twin ? Oops.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: She's Camille's twin sister.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Averted. ''Simon'' died on their wedding day, not her.

* WomanInWhite: Seems to be associated with wedding dresses. She wears one the first time we see her, and the promotional art pictures [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3IkBTm3rdm4/ULIrf6G-IFI/AAAAAAAAXhc/4pnkji8v0UU/s1600/Les-revenants-mariee.jpg her with one too ]]. Justified, considering [[DespairEventHorizon what actually happened]] on her wedding day...

* LesbianCop

* LesCopsSportif

* LesCopsSportif

* BigEater: Perhaps the only difference between them and the living. Looking for food is literally the first thing they do after coming back to life.

%%* TagalongKid

%%* UndeadChild

!![[spoiler: Audrey Sabatini]]

* Squick: [[spoiler: She becomes feral after being locked in the basement of the Helping Hand, and when her mother lets herself die, she cannibalises her.]]

!![[spoiler: Esteban Koretzky]]

* RevenantZombie: More so than the other Returned. [[spoiler: She speaks again only after she has returned to the place of her death, and Serge has apologised to her for what she did.]]

* GenderBlenderName: {{Lampshaded}} by [[spoiler: Lucy]].

* BigBad: Starting to seem like this by the finale.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: He goes through shooting himself in front of Milan, 35 years after he didn't have the courage to do it, in the second season finale.]]

* {{Seer}}: Was this even before his death. [[spoiler: He has nightmares which predict the death of every Returned, including the first dam breaking and stuff happening years in the future, which he then reproduces as drawings.]]

* BigSisterInstinct: Is fiercely protective of Camille since the later part of Series One, after [[spoiler: she escapes Serge's captivity.]]

* AscendedExtra: In the first season, she acts as the doubter of the group, mistrusting Camille and blaming her for [[spoiler: her miscarriage.]] In the second one, she is given her subplot concerning [[spoiler: her manipulation on Pierre's part and the return of Audrey.]]

A strange, solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side because [[spoiler: he thinks she's a "fairy" sent by his mother to protect him]]. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: Around the time the first dam broke, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family; while one of them tried to reassure and protect him, the other promptly shot him in cold blood.]] [[spoiler: In the second season, it is revealed that he is not the Lewanski's biological son, and appeared on their doorstep one night with no explanation, after he unsuccessfully tried to convince Étienne Berg not to build the dam.]]

A strange, solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side because [[spoiler: he thinks she's a "fairy" sent by his mother to protect him]]. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: Around the time the first dam broke, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family; while one of them tried to reassure and protect him, the other promptly shot him in cold blood.]] [[spoiler: In the second season, it is revealed that he is not the Lewanski's biological son, and appeared on their doorstep one night with no explanation.]]

[[spoiler: Serge and Toni's father, who returns at the beginning of the second series. He was the leader of a murderous cult in the Seventies, when the first dam broke, of which M. Costa and the teenaged Pierre were a part. He apparently killed Lucy and his boyfriend Morgane, and engineered the burglary at the Lewanski's home which resulted in the death of (almost) all of Louis/Victor's family.]]

* AdvertisedExtra: Downplayed, but glaring given that he has one entire episode to his name. His whole character is ancillary to [[spoiler: Lucy's]], his death flashback actually serves to further her backstory, and after his return he never speaks, only having sex with her and following her around.

A dam engineer who arrives in the city [[spoiler: six months after the flood to investigate its causes.]] His father Étienne, also an engineer, built the newer dam. He joins Jérôme in his quest to find answers.

* BigSisterInstinct: Is fiercely protective of Camille in the later part of Series One, after [[spoiler: she escapes Serge's captivity.]]

* StockholmSyndrome: Subverted. She pretends to develop feelings for him, even agrees to have sex with him, so that he trusts her and she can make her escape at the right moment.

* TheLostLenore: Oddly enough, he becomes this for [[spoiler: Adèle]] late in the second season, when [[spoiler: what appears to be his body is found]], switching positions with [[spoiler: Simon]].

* OneSteveLimit: ZigZagged. His name translates as "Stephen", just like Étienne, another character debuting in the second season.

* RevenantZombie: More so than the other Returned. [[spoiler: She speaks again only after she has returned to the place of her death, and Serge has apopogised to her for what she did.]]

!!Sandrine

!!Serge

A strange, solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side because [[spoiler: he thinks she's a "fairy" sent by his mother to protect him]]. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: Around the time the first dam broke, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family; while one of them tried to reassure and protect him, the other promptly shot him in cold blood.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Victor" is actually just the name Julie gave him since he refused to tell her his real name. [[spoiler: It's Louis.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Partially subverted. His name translates as "Stephen", just like Étienne, another character debuting in the second season.

A teenager who disappeared 35 years ago, and who debuts in the second season. [[He was kidnapped by Milan to "cleanse him of his sins" and kept locked in the cellar. The little Serge let him out, but he fell in a bear trap in the forest and was mauled by the wild animals. Milan finds him and puts him out of his misery, while forcing Serge to watch.]]

Apparently the Revenant whose death goes the farthest back. She was the wife of the now elderly schoolteacher Mr Costa and it is assumed she died sometime in the seventies. When he sees her back from the dead, her husband quickly proceeds to kill her by trapping her in their burning house. [[spoiler: Of course this doesn't stop her from coming back.]] Throughout the series, she displays an extremely cynical attitude towards the living, saying the Revenants don't have to fear them anymore and that they don't even need the Revenants to hurt them. Flashbacks show that [[spoiler: she survived the dam rupture that flooded the original town, and suggesting she knew something about it not being an accident]]. Her cause of death remains unknown.

* NightmareFuelColoringBook

!!Laure

[[spoiler: Serge and Toni's father, who returns at the beginning of the second series. He was the leader of a murderous cult in the Seventies, when the first dam broke, of which M. Costa and the teenaged Pierre were a part of. He apparently killed Lucy and his boyfriend Morgane, and engineered the burglary at the Lewanski's home which resulted in the death of (almost) all of Louis/Victor's family.]]

->'''Centric Episodes''': 2x02

A waitress at the Lake Pub, the bar which Toni runs. She is brutally attacked by the Cannibal (Serge) in the first episode. [[spoiler: She survives, and seems to have regenerative powers.]] Not much is known about her except that she arrived in town one year ago without a dime in her pocket and that she frequently had sex with customers. [[spoiler: It is also revealed that she's some kind of medium who can communicate with the dead during sexual intercourse with their relatives; one of her clients was Jérôme. After she heals completely, she escapes the hospital and joins the Revenants; by the end of the first season she even seems to be their leader, or is at least chosen as their spokesperson.]]

* AssholeVictim