History Characters / LesRevenants

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 before swerving 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.

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 original cause of death remains unknown.

* MeaningfulName: Her first name is Viviane, which derivates from the french word for "living".
* KillItWithFire: After coming back from the dead, her husband tries to re-kill her that way. [[spoiler: She survives anyway.]]

He's Toni's brother and a serial-killer known for attacking young women at knife-point and eating their entrails. The murders stopped with his own death a few years before, but the police still ignores who caused it. [[spoiler: Toni discovered his brother's criminal activities and killed him to stop the murders.]] Now, he's back, and so are the murders... He attacks Lucy at the end of the first episode.

* AffablyEvil: The kind of psycho who says things like "Shhh it's okay" or "Calm down, it's over..." even WHILE stabbing you. Actually, the contrast between his brutal murders and his comforting attitude makes it even more disturbing.
* AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://lesrevenants.canalplus.fr/#!/ interactive website]] has his [[http://ledebut.free.fr/FORUM/journalserge.jpg diary]] as a hidden bonus. It kinda explains his StartOfDarkness by his relationship whith [[FreudianExcuse girls, his mother and his brother.]]

* [[spoiler: BuriedAlive]]: [[spoiler: How he died in first place.]]
* TheButcher: "The Cannibal".

* InTheHood: Wears it everytime he's about to kill someone.

Adele's past fiancee before his untimely death, the very day they were supposed to marry. He was a musician with a troubled past, very much in love in Adele before he died in a car accident ten years ago. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that the police strongly supported the hypothesis of a suicide. Simon however has no idea why he would have killed himself because he does not remember the few hours preceding his death]]

!!All of them

A group of men an women trying to return their homes in the town. They don't know each other and have nothing in common, except one thing : they all died sevral years ago, and no one is excepting them back.

* BackFromTheDead

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They look just like normal living people, haven't aged and don't know about their death.

Teen daughter of Claire and Jérôme, twin sister to Léna. Camille died four years ago in a bus crash, an incident which broke her family apart as she fourteen at the time. [[spoiler: she unwillingly caused that crash. Because they're twins, Léna and Camille are able to feel what the other feels in times of great emotion. In the bus, "she felt" her sister Léna engaging in sexual intercourse with the boy she was in love with (Frédéric) and whom Léna had promised her never to date. Feeling violated and betrayed, she tried to force the driver to stop the bus in a frenzy. This succession of event made the bus take a wrong turn]] She returns four years later to a changed family and a now-adult Léna who she barely recognizes. Although she is immediately accepted, the "reintegration" proves to be a painful one.

* ActingForTwo: In the flashbacks where she and Léna were still the same age, both are played by Yara Pilartz.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Lena.
* FilleFatale: Invoked. She tries as hard as she can to seduce Frederic (who's around four or five years older) by dressing provocatively and acting like a stereotypical "bad girl", but fails. She also pretends to be Simon's ex just to boast around Léna's friends, while he's twenty-two and she's fourteen.
* HopeBringer: What Pierre wants her to be for the living. [[spoiler: And after everyone discovers her true identity, she decides to take this role to the parents of the kids who died with her, and tries to convince them that they'll be together again.]]
** NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: ...As a consequence, said parents proceed to kill themselves to join their kids.]]

* TwinTelepathy: Her special link with Léna. [[spoiler:As noted above, it's revealed to be the cause of her death.]]

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 somewhere in the seventies. When he sees her back from the dead, her husband quicly 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 towars the living, saying the Revenants don't have to fear them anymore and that don't even need the Revenants to hurt them. Flashbacks show that she survived the great dam rupture that flooded the town and suggests she knew something about it not being accidental]]. Her original cause of death is as of yet unknown.

* [[spoiler: NotSoSmallRole]]: [[She's killed in the first episode and is absent from most of the season, but she come back as the revenant's spoke person.]]

* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler: If you saw the promotional photos, it's pretty obvious she survives the Cannibal's agression.]]

* OnlySaneMan : Well, more only ''appropriatly freaked out'' woman, as she is the only person who reacts to Camille's return with shock and refuses to accept her.

!!Adèle Werther

* AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://lesrevenants.canalplus.fr/#!/ interactive website]] has his [[http://ledebut.free.fr/FORUM/journalserge.jpg diary]] as a hidden bonus. It kinda explai his StartOfDarkness by his relationship whith [[FreudianExcuse girls, God, his mother and his brother.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Her last name was never seen or pronounced in the show. It's only revealed in her medical report, one of the bonus found in the interactive site.

* CreepyChild: Where to start ? First, he is seen wandering alone in the town at night, which itself can give every overprotective parent nightmares. Then the first time he really appears on screen, we see him stalking a woman who doesn't even knows him. He almost never speaks (but when he does it's even creepier) and disappears everytime you stop looking at him. And finally the most terrifying part : [[spoiler: this kid apparently has the power to make you kill yourself.]]

!!Julie

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Has some shades of this, but [[AbusiveParents given]][[AngstySurvivingTwin the context]] it's perfectly justified.

!!Pierre

* OurZombiesAreDifferent : They look just like normal living people, haven't aged and don't know about their death.
* RevenantZombie : Duh.

* ActingForTwo : In the flashbacks where she and Léna were still the same age, both are played by Yara Pilartz.
* FilleFatale : Invoked. She tries as hard as she can to seduce Frederic (who's around four or five years older) by dressing provocatively and acting like a stereotypical "bad girl", but fails. She also pretends to be Simon's ex just to boast around Léna's friends, while he's twenty-two and she's fourteen.
* HopeBringer : What Pierre wants her to be for the living. [[spoiler: And after everyone discovers her true identity, she decides to take this role to the parents of the kids who died with her, and tries to convince them that they'll be together again.]]
** NiceJobBreakingItHero : [[spoiler: ...As a consequence, said parents proceed to kill themselves to join their kids.]]

* TwinTelepathy : Her special link with Léna. [[spoiler:As noted above, it's revealed to be the cause of her death.]]

* KillItWithFire : After coming back from the dead, her husband tries to re-kill her that way. [[spoiler: She survives anyway.]]

* AffablyEvil : The kind of psycho who says things like "Shhh it's okay" or "Calm down, it's over..." even WHILE stabbing you. Actually, the contrast between his brutal murders and his comforting attitude makes it even more disturbing.

* [[spoiler: BuriedAlive]] : [[spoiler: How he died in first place.]]
* TheButcher : "The Cannibal".
* ImAHumanitarian : There's a reason why he was nicknamed "The Cannibal"...
** PickyPeopleEater : Only their entrails, though.
* InTheHood : Wears it everytime he's about to kill someone.

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]] : To Chloé. Since he died before her birth and hasen't aged since, he looks in his early twenties while is daughter is around ten.
* [[spoiler: {{Autocannibalism}}]] : [[spoiler: By the end of the season, he proceeds to eat ''his own rotting flesh''.]] [[{{Squick}} Enjoy.]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]] : [[spoiler: Quite probably his cause of death, as suspected by the police.]]
* LookalikeLovers : With Adèle : same height, and both has got 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.]]

* TheLostLenore : To Adèle.
* TallDarkAndHandsome : More like ''short'', dark and handsome, but aside from that he fits both in looks and personality.
* TroubledButCute : Had this reputation before his death.

* CreepyChild : Where to start ? First, he is seen wandering alone in the town at night, which itself can give every overprotective parent nightmares. Then the first time he really appears on screen, we see him stalking a woman who doesn't even knows him. He almost never speaks (but when he does it's even creepier) and disappears everytime you stop looking at him. And finally the most terrifying part : [[spoiler: this kid apparently has the power to make you kill yourself.]]
* CuteMute : Subverted. He's not technically mute, just refuses to speak.

* MeaningfulName : Although it's not his real name, it's easy to make a parallel with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron Victor, the wild boy of Aveyron]], who was found alone in the forest and never learned how to speak.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname : "Victor" is actually just the name Julie gave him since he refused to tell her his real name. [[spoiler: It's Louis.]]

* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]] : [[spoiler: Seeks revenge after he saw his entire family getting killed by burglars.]]

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

* SecondLove : Thomas.

* 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...

* DrivenToSuicide : Jump from the dam in the end of the first episode.
* KillItWithFire : He's terrified of his wife as she came back to life, and thus tries to kill her that way to [[KilledOffForReal make her stay dead.]]. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]

* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents]] : [[spoiler: To Léna, when he hit her.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : OK, he may be a alcoholic, tactless jerk [[spoiler: who beats his daughter]], but deep down he really cares for his family.

* ParentalSubstitute : to Victor.
* ScarsAreForever : [[spoiler: The multiple scars on her belly, after the Cannibal's aggression.]]

* InspectorJavert : She is totally (and wrongly) convinced that Toni is the Cannibal and will do anything to prove it. [[spoiler: Turns out she's not so far from the truth since the real Cannibal, Serge, is actually Toni's brother.]]

* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents]] : [[spoiler: Jérôme hit her on at least one occasion.]]
* AngstySurvivingTwin : After Camille's death. [[spoiler: And the fact that she (even indirectly) caused her death sure doesn't help.]]

* MessyHair : It looks almost like a real life version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]]'s. (No, [[http://i-cant-hear-the-people-sing.tumblr.com/post/48733447102/i-see-a-perfect-cosplay-here really !]])

* SheIsAllGrownUp : Much to Camille's shock.
* [[spoiler: SurvivorGuilt]] : [[spoiler: Feels this way about Camille's death, since she stayed at home and broke her promise about Frederic instead of taking the bus with her the day of the accident.]]
* TwinTelepathy : With Camille, who can "feel" what each other's feelings.
* UnkemptBeauty : Wild curly red hair, no make up, simple clothes and still the cast's MsFanservice.

* [[spoiler: DarkAndTroubledPast]] : [[spoiler: He was one of the burglars who killed Victor/Louis and his family. Actually, he tried to protect Victor, but didn't prevent the other man from shooting him.]]
* WhamLine : [[spoiler: ''"Think of a song that makes you happy. Maybe you learned one in school?”''. Sounds like an innocent line, right ? Until you remember [[YouKilledMyFather whose]] CatchPhrase it was...]]

* MeaningfulName : Just like in the Bible, the guy named Thomas is the one to doubt about dead people coming back.
* SecondLove : To Adèle.

* BadAss : How do you react to the sudden and unexplained resurrection of your serial killer brother [[spoiler: that you buried alive]] ? [[ShovelStrike SMASH HIS HEAD WITH A SHOVEL !!!]]

* TheLoad : He knows how to use a riffle and can look quite badass at first, but in the forest with Serge the only thing he does is slowing him down and getting tired easily.
* ShovelStrike : Does this on Serge ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Cannibal]] !) when he sees he's back.