History Characters / LesRevenants

* ThatManIsDead: quite literally. He tells [[spoiler: his mother, after her return,]] that his name is Victor, having embraced his relationship with Julie.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: She's the revenant's leader. But for all we know, she could be either the BigGood or the BigBad.]]

!!Thomas

!!Toni

!!Victor / [[spoiler: Louis]]

* CuteMute: Subverted. He's not technically mute, just refuses to speak.

* 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!!!]]

* RedHeadedHero

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler: He kidnaps Léna and takes her clothes, replacing them with [[GoGoEnslavement a skimpy dress] and later forces her to have sex with him, all in his [[AffablyEvil polite, gentlemanly way.]]]]

* 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 !]])

* OnlySaneMan : Well, only ''appropriately freaked out'' woman, since she is the only person who reacts to Camille's return with shock and fear, initially refusing to accept her.

* 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 !!!]]

* ShovelStrike: Does this on Serge ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Cannibal]] !) when he realises he's back.

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]: To Chloé. Since he died before she was born and hasn't aged since, he is in his early twenties while is daughter is around ten.

** Camille looks like a harmless lost teen, but why did she trash Lena's room and then denied it ? Also, [[spoiler: what was that dead animal in the bin]] ?

* FilleFatale: Invoked. She tries as hard as she can to seduce Frederic (who's four or five years older than her) 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.

!!Simon Delaitre

Adèle's fiancee 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.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Jump from the dam in the end of the first episode.

* 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 on the day of the accident.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: She apparently survived the Cannibal's attack thanks to regenerative powers, but it's unclear if she's just a special living, if she ways killed and came back as a returned, or if she was ''already'' a returned before being stabbed.]]

* NotSoSmallRole: [[spoiler: She's killed in the first episode and is absent for most of the season, but eventually comes back as the Revenants' leader.]]

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 gossiping extraordinaire and loves to intrude in other people's private lives; she's also kind of a cougar.

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 Chloe. [[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.]]

* [[spoiler: BuriedAlive]]: [[spoiler: How he died.]]
* [[spoiler: ButForMeItWasTuesday]]: [[spoiler: When he finally meets Julie again in the last episode, seven years after he almost killed her, he dosn't recognize her. Actually, she was cosplaying Catwoman the first time, but still...]]

* [[spoiler: {{Autocannibalism}}]]: [[spoiler: By the end of the season, he proceeds to eat ''his own rotting flesh''.]] [[{{Squick}} Enjoy.]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: He doesn't remember why.

* [[spoiler: MasterOfIllusion]]: [[spoiler: In a truly nightmarish way: it's probably how he caused Mlle Payet's suicide, and he later tries the same with Toni. He also terrifies Pierre with an illusion of the night he died and makes Chloé faint with an image of her mother's suicide attempt.]]

* [[spoiler: PsychicChildren]]
* TagalongKid
* UndeadChild
* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]]: [[spoiler: Seeks revenge after he saw his entire family murdered by burglars.]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: It didn't work though.
* [[spoiler: FetusTerrible]]: [[spoiler: Simon gets her pregnant after he's back from the dead. The result ? A half-human, half-undead fetus, apparently powerful enough to be demanded by the Horde.]]

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

* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents]]: [[spoiler: Jérôme hit her on at least one occasion.]]

* [[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 on the day of the accident.]]

* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyEvil]]: [[spoiler: She's the revenant's leader. But for all we know, she could be either the BigGood or the BigBad.]]
* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyHuman]]: [[spoiler: She apparently survived the Cannibal's attack thanks to regenerative powers, but it's unclear if she's just a special living, if she ways killed and came back as a returned, or if she was ''already'' a returned before being stabbed.]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad]]: Starting to seem like this by the finale.
* [[spoiler: DeusSexMachina]]: [[spoiler: She's some kind of medium who can communicate with dead people... but only ''during'' sexual intercourse.]]

* [[spoiler: NotSoSmallRole]]: [[spoiler: She's killed in the first episode and is absent for most of the season, but eventually comes back as the Revenants' leader.]]

* [[spoiler: DarkAndTroubledPast]]: [[spoiler: He was one of the burglars who killed Victor/Louis and his family. While he tried to protect Victor, he also didn't prevent the other man from shooting him.]]

* [[spoiler: WouldHurtAChild]]: He was a participant in [[spoiler: the burglary that resulted in the death of Victor and his family.]]

** Victor is the ultimate CreepyChild. We'd be there all day if we had to describe all the scary things he does, but [[spoiler: causing Julie's neighbour's and Toni's suicide by hallucination surely stands out.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil

* OlderThanTheyLook : The actress is 17 and the character is 14, but she could pass for even younger.

* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyHuman]]: [[spoiler: She apparently survived the Cannibal's attack thanks to regenerative powers, but it's unclear if she's just a special living, if she ways killer and came back as a returned, or if she was ''already'' a returned before being stabbed.]]

** PickyPeopleEater: Only their entrails, though.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Player for drama : Camille and her user to be identical twins. It's when Camille sees Lena is now much older that she realizes she's actually been dead for years.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Much to Camille's shock.

* CopBoyfriend: To Adèle.

!!Madame Costa

Owner of "La Main Tendue" (The Helping Hand), a homeless shelter connected with the local church. A devout man with a charismatic persona, he annoys Jérôme to no end and has become Claire's best friend and confidant. [[spoiler: In the seventies, he took part in a burglary at Louis's house. His partner killed the whole family and then Victor himself. Pierre did not want their deaths but did not do anything to prevent them either. His guilt is probably the reason he grew so religious, as a way to atone for his sins.]] He's quite confident that the return of the dead is a signal for a great divine intervention on a larger scale.

* [[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...]]

A friend of Claire who too lost a child in the bus crash ; she's currently pregnant.

Chief of the town's police department and current fiancé of Adèle, he's lived with her for quite some time and has raised Simon's daughter as if she were his own. A bossy and competent officer, he is nonetheless 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 possible return would jeopardize everything he built in his life and he arbors considerable hatred towards him for having made Adèle an emotional wreck. [[spoiler: He determined that his cause of death was suicide, but hid from Adèle to "ease her psychological recovery"]]

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 her and killed him himself, though he didn't have the courage to reveal the truth to the police. Knowing this, their mother died of grief soon after.]] He's a hard but ultimately fair man who's clearly coping with the impossibility of atoning for something. [[spoiler: He now wonders if killing Serge was the right thing to do after all and blames himself for the death of their mother. He will do anything and everything to fall back in their good graces.]]

* 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.

Separated husband of Claire, father of Léna and Camille. Unable to recover from Camille's death, he succumbed to alcoholism and violence and was kicked out of the house by Claire. [[spoiler: It is also revealed that he hit Léna on at least one occasion.]] He is slowly recovering, but his plans to reconnect with his wife and daughter do not prove successful. He despises Pierre, both for the emotional connection he has with Claire and his born-again religious outlook, which Jérôme suspects to hide fraudulent motives. His brutal honesty and tendency to scream aloud the uncomfortable truths everyone dares not speak test the patience of the other characters. He is however willing to repair his mistakes by doing the very best he can for Camille once she returns from the dead. [[spoiler: He once had an extra-conjugal liaison with Lucy who claimed she could hear Camille telling him not to give him. This is probably the point when he started to clean up.]]

Monsieur Costa's nurse and Laure's past lover. [[spoiler: She is the last known victim of the Cannibal, 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 her agression and because of that theorizes 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 from where he came. [[spoiler: She keeps deep scars cut on her belly from the Cannibal's knife ; supplementary materials inform us that she is now unable to bear a child and this may explain why she feels the irrational need to protect and care for Victor.]]

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

A police officer under Thomas's command, she's Julie's past lover. Possibly the most stable and level-headed characters of the series, though that's not saying much. She's quite dedicated to her job but seems to go 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 he was innocented years ago.

Daughter of Claire and Jérôme, twin sister of Camille. Four years have passed since her sister's death and she is now a full-grown woman in her last year at high school. Foul-mouthed, wild and sexually promiscuous, she only keeps a very loose relationship with her parents ; Claire has given up trying to discipline her and Jérôme [[spoiler: hit her before he left the house]]. Under the party-girl attitude clearly lies a lot of unresolved pain and anger. Unlike her parents, she reacts to her twin's return with shock, fear and complete rejection. [[spoiler: Her inability to face Camille may stem from survivor guilt, since she was supposed to board the school bus with her sister the day it crashed. Instead she faked an illness and stayed at home, using the opportunity to seduce the boy Camille was in love with (Frédéric) and whom she had promised her not to date.]]

* DrinkingContest: She wins one on her first apparition.

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

* [[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.

A waitress at the Lake Pub, the bar which Toni runs. She is killed by the Cannibal (Serge) in the first episode. [[spoiler: she survives, though, and seems to have regenerative powers.]] Not much is known about her except the fact she arrived one year ago in town without a dime in her pocket and that she frequently had sex with customers. [[spoiler: It is revealed she's a medium who can communicate with the dead through sexual intercourse with her clients, one of whom was Jérôme. After she heals completely, she escapes the hospital and takes an active interest in the Revenants' doings. At the end of the first season, she even seems to lead them, or maybe they've chosen her as their spokeperson.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: She's got the front place on the show's poster, is introduced as a main character...only to get gruesomely stabbed the next minute. [[spoiler: Subverted : she's taken to the hospital and back for the finale.]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad]] Starting to seem like this by the finale.
* [[spoiler: DeusSexMachina]]: [[spoiler: She's some kind of medium who can communicate with dead people...but only ''during'' sex.]]

* [[spoiler: NotSoSmallRole]]: [[spoiler: 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.]]

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 gossiping hen extraordinaire and loves to intrude other people's private lives ; she's also kind of a cougar.

Owner of "La Main Tendue," a homeless shelter connected with the local church. A devout man with a born-again charismatic persona, he annoys Jérôme to no end and has become Claire's best friend and confident. [[spoiler: in the seventies, he took part in a burglary at Louis's house. His partner killed the whole family and then Victor himself. Pierre did not want their deaths but did not do anything to prevent them either. His guilt is probably the reason he grew so religious, as a way to atone for his sins.]] He's quite confident that the return of the dead is a signal for a great divine intervention on a larger scale.

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, Adele suffered from depression and hallucinations, claiming she could hear him whisper to her. Despite psychiatric care and a new life with Thomas, she tried to commit suicide two years before.]] She's visibly torn apart between the two lives she lived before and after Simon's death and her feelings towards him are still quite apparent. Unlike the other characters, she rather believes Simon to be a ghost whom 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...

Simon's and Adèle's daughter, she's had Thomas as a surrogate father ever since Simon's death. Simon never saw her birth. A calm, charming child on first appearances, she displays surprising matury for her age. [[spoiler: Having witnessed your mother's suicide attempt can do that to you.]] She feels strongly protective of her family.

* NightmareFuelColoringBook: What kind of 10 years-old little girl ''enjoy'' to draw [[spoiler: pictures of her Dad's suicide]] ?

Wife of Jérôme, mother to Léna and Camille. After Camille's death, she saw the rest of her family crumble and this has left her with a sentiment of powerlessness. Her relationship with Léna is strained and she forced Jérôme to move out of their house when his alcoolism became too much to handle. She found an unexpected savior in Pierre, who provided her the emotional support she wanted so desperately. Their relationship is ambiguous (though it seems platonic at the moment) and she has grown very religious. She prayed every day for Camille to come back and interprets her return as God fulfilling her greatest wish.

An elderly retired schoolteacher who taught most of the older characters from the series, his medical exams are regularly done by Julie. His wife Madame Costa died in the seventies ; when she comes back, he immediately proceeds to kill her by fire only to take his own life after that. Supplementary materials reveal he was also mayor of the town at the time his wife originally died.

* 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.]]

Léna's current on-again off-again boyfriend. Used to fançy Camille when he was younger, a crush that was reciprocated.

The local catholic priest, always speaking in a moderate and condescending tone. He seems to prefer the mysteries of the Faith to actual supernatural happenstances.

Husband of claire, father of Léna and Camille. Unable to recover from his daughter's death, he succombed to alcoolism and was kicked out of the house by Claire. [[spoiler: It is also revealed that he hit Léna on at least one occasion.]] He is slowly recovering, but his plans to reconnect with his wife and daughter do not prove succesful. He despises Pierre, both for the emotional connection he develops for his wife and his born-again religious outlook. His brutal honesty and tendancy to scream aloud the unconfortable truths everyone dares not speak test the patience of the other characters. He is however willing to repair his mistakes by doing the very best he can for Camille once she returns from the dead. [[spoiler: He once had an extra-conjugal liaison with Lucy who claimed she could hear Camille telling him not to give him. This is probably the point when he started to clean up.]]

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

* [[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.

* BigEater: Refusing to give him food is generally [[BerserkButton a bad idea]]. [[spoiler: Borders on ExtremeOmnivore levels when he even eats his own flesh out of hunger.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied. There are hints that something happened to him in his youth ("You know my story") and that it's why [[spoiler: nobody's surprided about his suicide.]].
* [[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.

A strange solitary little boy who refuses to speak and follows Julie home, compelled to always stay by her side for some reason. His cause of death is not revealed for quite some time. [[spoiler: He lived in the time when the dam broke. Some time later, burglars broke into his home and killed his entire family. One of them tried to tell him to stay calm and forget what he just witnessed, but the other shot him]]

* 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 through illusions.]]

* [[spoiler: MasterOfIllusion]]: [[spoiler: In s nightmarish way : that's probably how he caused Mlle Payet's suicide. And he later did the same to Toni.]]

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

[[spoiler: The many, many other people who resurrected at the same time as the other characters. Most of them seem to have died when the dam broke and flooded the old town in the seventy. Unlike the others Revenants, they seem to have absolutely no interest in getting back in touch with their loved ones and stay together, hiding in the woods. They have a sullen, silent behaviour which makes them look like zombies (although extremely well-behaved ones) and at least one of them has gone completely feral. They seem to arbor a vendetta against the living and plot their conspiracy, staying in shadow for the greater part of the season. One of their objectives is to reunite all the Revenants in their midst.]]

Simon's past fiancée. Seven years after his death (the day they were supposed to marry), she has raised his child and found love again in Thomas, whom she's about to marry soon. [[spoiler: After Simon's death, Adele suffered from depression and hallucinations, claiming she could hear him whisper to her. Despite psychiatric care and a new life with Thomas, she tried to commit suicide two years before.]] She's visibly torn apart between the two lives she lived before and after Simon's death and her feelings towards him are still quite apparent. Unlike the other characters, she rather believes Simon to be a ghost whom only she can see. She works at the town's media center.