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[[folder:Sgt. Brett Mahoney]]

!!''Benjamin 'Ben' Urich''

!!Karen Page

!!Jeryn "Jeri" Hogarth

!!Pam

!!Franklin Percy "Foggy" Nelson

!!Elena Cardenas

!!Malcolm Ducasse

!!Robyn

!!Ruben

!![[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Patricia "Trish" Walker]]

!!Dorothy Walker

* BromanticFoil: ZigZaggedTrope. Foggy comes across as a [[GoldFever money-obsessed]] UnluckyEveryDude, and LovableCoward compared to the morally-upright, ChickMagnet, and [[TheStoic stoic]] Matt, and is often used as comic relief. In later episodes ([[spoiler:especially after his and Matt's falling out)]], it's revealed that he's not quite any of those things. Under the right conditions, Foggy is far more selfless, attractive, and brave than the average person. However, he still fits this trope in comparison to Matt, so he acts as a competent foil.

* MythologyGag: His casual clothes and hairstyle are nearly identical to Steve Rogers off duty look in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier.'' [[spoiler: It serves as a reference to his comic counterpart, who was an attempt to make a new Captain America in the 1960's.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Justified in that he's typically under the influence of something that overrides his natural temperament when attacking Trish and Jessica.

* RaisedCatholic: PlayedForLaughs. She notes she's Catholic as her only excuse for not accepting [[RefugeInAudacity Jeri's wedding proposal before the divorce from Wendy]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Really great job bringing Urich to that hospice upstate, Karen. Really great job. Also, great job doing so all to talk to Fisk's mother, which Fisk learned about and decided to murder Ben for.

* WideEyedIdealist: Undoubtedly the most idealistic of all the characters and this manifests in her determinator style dedication to bringing down people like Fisk. It's dangerous, it doesn't pay well but it needs to happen because Wilson Fisk is a dangerous criminal. [[spoiler: Subverted all through season 2, from the crumbling friendship between Foggy and Matt to convincing herself that Frank could be a good person after all the pain he's caused. By the end of Season 2, with the firm dismantled and The Punisher confirming her fear that he is too far gone to be saved.]]

* {{Badass}}: Utilizing his training in the Special Forces, he manages to nearly kill Trish despite her extensive self-defense training. When attacked by Kilgrave's bodyguards, he manages to handle multiple opponents.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Takes a combination of SuperSerum and PsychoSerum to match Jessica in strength and toughness.

* {{Badass}}: He was tough as nails in the boxing ring, noted to specialise in soaking up punches until his opponent tires. In his last fight he beat Creel, a superhuman at least half his age.

* HeroicSacrifice: He decides not to go down in the fifth as ordered to so that his son can hear the crowd cheering for him one more time. He is predictably killed for it.

* {{Badass}}: Melvin proves to be a very physical threat when he attacks Matt for breaking into his workshop, being strong enough to throw him around like a ragdoll. He also demonstrates decent aim and a killer throwing arm when he hurls a buzz-saw with deadly force at Matt's head.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted; Robyn's emotional, financial, and verbal abuse towards Ruben are treated as ''very'' wrong and she's called out on them, with Jessica physically threatening her to shut up (though, mostly because she's finding the noise annoying), while both Jess and Malcolm seem to view Ruben as TheWoobie. She's still treated sympathetically when [[spoiler: he dies]] and she's left struggling to deal without him in her life though.

* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:Well, given how bitter Robyn is, not that "happy". But surviving a forced self-hanging does make her value her own life.]]

* ActionGirl: To a lesser extent than Jessica, but she can still hold her own in a fight.

* {{Badass}}: Despite several characters (including the antagonist) having superpowers that vastly outclass her, Trish manages to be useful to Jessica and other characters through her [[RealLifeSuperpowers other traits]], such as [[GuileHero guile]], [[TheFace fame]], and [[CrimefightingWithCash money]]. She's also learned Krav Maga to be useful in a fight against other normals.

* MoralityPet: For Jessica.

* WorfEffect: Despite her extensive training in Krav Maga, Simpson ''easily'' beats the shit out of her while under Kilgrave's compulsion. {{Justified|Trope}} as it's later revealed that Simpson was a special forces operative.

* AgeLift[=/=]YoungerAndHipper: Seems like Aunt May [[http://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Aunt-May.jpg gets a decade younger with each adaptation]] ([[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Rosemary Harris]] was in her seventies, [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan Sally Field]] in her sixties, and Marisa Tomei was only 50.)[[note]]At least it's not an ImprobableAge, given Tom Holland is [[DawsonCasting 19]].[[/note]]

* CoolAunt: Of course. So much so that, when Peter comes back bruised from an obvious fight, instead of telling him the usual shtick of "fighting is wrong", she asks him if he at least got some hits in.
* LethalChef: At least according to Tony Stark.

* WidowWoman: We all know [[DeathByOriginStory what happened]] [[ItWasHisSled to her late husband]]. While it wasn't directly stated, Peter implies during his conversation with Tony about his guilt regarding his Uncle Ben's death.

!!Franklin "Foggy" Nelson

!!New York City Police Department

* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, his name is ''Frank'' Simpson. It might be a case of OneSteveLimit across the Netflix MCU, to avoid conflict with Frank Castle (AKA The Punisher) in Season 2 of Daredevil.

* TheAtoner: Kilgrave brainwashed him into trying to kill Tricia.

A pair of crooked NYPD detectives on Fisk's payroll.

* KillerCop: Besides their murder of the Russian in the interrogation room, they also execute the Russians that survived the bombings

* DefiantToTheEnd: Keeps resisting and yelling as he's arrested by the FBI
* DirtyCop: He's one of the units Fisk sends to kill the survivors after the massive bombings of [[spoiler:the Ransakhov brothers' bases]] and later sends him leading a group of officers to find and kill [[spoiler: Hoffman.]]

* KnightInSourArmor: In his prime, Ben was a crusading reporter who singlehandedly brought down corrupt institutions wherever he saw them. He still is, but he deeply regrets the mistakes he's made along the way, is a lot more jaded about the way the world works and isn't the idealist he once was: to the point where he actively discourages others from doing what he does.

* EtTuBrute: Urich accuses Ellison of being paid off by Fisk and ensuring that his remaining career is limited to fluff pieces. After Urich's death, Karen angrily confides in Matt that Ellison shouldn't have even been at Urich's funeral pretending to be his friend. The arrests, however, prove he's not complicit.

The office secretary at Nelson & Murdock.

* TheCharmer: It's noted that she has a tendency to bat her "big blue eyes" at people and convince them to help her. She's about as good at it as Matt and Foggy, who are, you'll recall, ''lawyers''.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: There's implied to be ''something'' in her past, which Ben Urich managed to dig up. One of the reasons she pushes Ben so hard [[spoiler: to write and publish the piece that details how Fisk killed his father]] is that she believes that she can't go public with any kind of story herself. Karen implies that whatever Ben dug up about her past makes her an unreliable witness... and Ben seems to silently agree. [[spoiler:And right before she kills Wesley, she says,]] "Do you really think this is the first time I've ever shot someone?"

* DrowningMySorrows: After killing Wesley, she spends several hours drinking every piece of alcohol in her apartment. Matt and Foggy notice, but don't know why.]] In fact, it's implied that this happens quite a lot.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: What would have happened to her in prison, if she hadn't gone for Farnum's eyes and then screamed.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Though he could be a jerk, Jeryn Hogarth was a relatively NiceGuy who looked out for [[ImmortalIronFist Danny,]] was loyal to him and his friends, and was a highly moral figure. Jeri, on the otherhand, is considerably less moral, cheats on her wife, engages in criminal behaviour and [[spoiler: betrays Jess to Kilgrave ''without'' Kilgrave using his powers on her, resulting in three people's deaths.]] The latter events seem to shake her considerably though, and she seems to be going through CharacterDevelopment by the end, so she'll likely be more like Jeryn in time for ''Iron Fist.''

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Foggy's appeals to the fact that she used to "have a soul" get the better of her and she begins to question her superiors and collaborate with Foggy and Matt.]]

* MookFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Foggy convinces her that her bosses are corrupt, she gets Matt and Foggy information of Fisk's dealings with Landman & Zack.]]

Matt's friend and fellow lawyer, who works with Matt at their shared practice: "Nelson and Murdock".

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite looking like a pushover, he's willing to stand up and deliver a TheReasonYouSuck speech to bullies.

* TheHeart: Matt outright calls him this in ''The Dark At The End Of The Tunnel''. He was always the one who would stand up for anybody and appeal to the inner goodness of each and every person.

** [[spoiler: Sadly subverted as season two goes on. Due to the strain of representing Frank Castle and Matt's Daredevil work, the two of them have a huge falling-out and eventually decide to move on from the firm and each other.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Early on he seems more interested in money than in helping people, but he's immediately uncomfortable with dealing with the mob and a man who's obviously a dangerous psychopath, and goes out of his way to help others who are being pushed around by shady people, even outside of work. He even spends an episode working on an old woman's plumbing.

* LovableCoward: ZigZaggedTrope. He's not very eager to put himself in danger, but he can easily be persuaded to do the right thing to help people, and he risks his life to save others during the [[spoiler:Fisk/Russian gang war]].

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Less than Matt, but it is there. When Wesley hires them to defend Healy, Foggy wanted to accept simply due to the size of their check. Once he meets [[TheSociopath Healy]], he quickly realizes the man is a career criminal and he doesn't want anything to do with him, money be damned.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[spoiler: After Nelson and Murdock is dissolved and he accepts a job at [=HCB=], he starts wearing smarter, more formal clothing and slicking his hair back.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: He really comes into his own as a lawyer when he defends Frank Castle, more or less by himself, since Matt was busy investigating the Hand. And though he loses the case, he impresses Marci's employer so much that he's offered a job there by the end of the season.]]

* WasItAllALie: Is understandably hurt [[spoiler:when he learns Matt is a vigilante]], and asks if he's been lying about his blindness since they met.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Seems far more in control of his faculties in season 2, now that he isn't getting pressured by Fisk or withheld his medication. He also has a better understanding of how dangerous associating himself with Daredevil is and doesn't trust him blindly.
* DumbassNoMore: Without the stress of working under Fisk's threats he is not as fragile mentally as in Season 1 where he started sobbing when Daredevil defeated him. He even guessed right that the Punisher did not try to kill Matt on purpose and can even snark at him.

* DemotedToExtra: In Season 1, he's a supporting character. In Season 2, he appears in one scene and [[spoiler:his most impactful line was in the trailer]].

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:She is killed soon after Foggy convinces her to stand firm and refuse another buyout offer.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Once she decides to exact revenge on Jessica, [[spoiler:she releases Kilgrave mistaking him for just another guy Jessica was abusing. Among the bad things that ensue, this backfires on Robyn's face as the ManipulativeBastard makes her nearly hang herself if not for Jessica's intervention...]]

* RealityEnsues: Trish has trained extensively to become a formidable combatant but when she comes up against a mind controlled Will, an individual with considerable military training and superior strength, she finds herself easily overpowered during their confrontation and is nearly strangled to death.

* StageMom: Entirely responsible for Trish's childhood career, as well as all the bruises, bulimia and drug problems.

* ShipTease: ...particularly as he goes on to flirt with her. (not [[Film/OnlyYou the first time Downey Jr.]] [[Film/{{Chaplin}} and Tomei were together]], mind you)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Angela Reed & Phyllis Somerville

* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:After young Wilson beats his father to death, she holds him as he sobs and says it'll be all right...then calmly tells him to get a saw so they can dispose of Bill's corpse. No one found out the truth of Bill's death, assuming he'd moved to escape the mob.]]

* AbusiveParent: To his son, Wilson. His idea of "making a man" out of his son involves demeaning him, teaching him to blame others for his problems (including blaming Wilson himself for his own problems) and playing cruel jokes on him.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked. When he goes missing, everyone assumes that he did this to get away from the mobsters to whom he owed money or, alternatively, that the mobsters caught him attempting to do this and killed him. His wife and son do nothing to dissuade people from this assumption since [[spoiler:Wilson killed him to protect his mother and they both disposed of the body]]. It helps that everyone knew Bill was just the type of DirtyCoward to abandon his family in order to save himself.

* WouldHurtAChild: In addition to the verbal and psychological abuse he levels at Wilson, he beats up a teenager for knocking down his signs. This was ''after'' the election was over, ''and'' he forces his son to participate.

* AbortedArc: A tie-in comic establishes he was taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. shortly after the events of ''The Incredible Hulk'', but any influence he may have on future Marvel protects is dubious since he otherwise hasn't been mentioned. This also makes it unlikely he's going to become Mastermind any time soon.

* DumbassNoMore: Without the stress of working under Fisk's threats he is not as fragile mentally as in Season 1 where he started sobbing when Daredevil defeated him. He even guessed right that the Punisher did not kill Matt on purpose and can even snark at him.

* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler:Stephen Rider is in the opening credits for every episode that Tower is in, but Tower himself doesn't do much other than share scenes with Reyes and act as a FriendOnTheForce for Nelson & Murdock. He leaves town after Reyes' death and has a much smaller role than Royce Johnson's role as Brett, even though Brett has never been in the opening credits.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:They care for each other, having a genuine friendship. Hoffman is plagued with guilt and doubt when Fisk pays him to kill Blake, since they've known each other for over 35 years.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:His comics counterpart is alive and well.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: In Season 2, he's far more helpful towards Karen's investigation and willing to investigate the truth, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute conveniently filling in]] for the now-late Ben Urich.

* ActionSurvivor: She barely survives the murder attempt in a jail by clawing at Farnum's eyes hard enough to draw blood from one of them. Later, [[spoiler:Wesley underestimates just how far she'd be willing to go to protect her friends and family, and she steals his gun and empties it into him.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Outwardly kind and compassionate, but physically attacking her is a ''very'' bad idea. [[spoiler:Four times in the first season, she was physically attacked. Only half of those times did someone else save her. The other two times, [[DamselOutOfDistress she saved herself.]] On all four occasions, she made her attackers '''suffer'''.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Her discovery of corruption at Union Allied was the reason why Fisk was so determined to have her killed or discredited.

* HateSink: Smug, vindicative, frequently abusing her power, ready to do anything (including endangering other people's lives) to preserve her career, and trying to make her way to the town hall by by promoting a struggle against vigilantes (including people like Daredevil and Jessica Jones), she comes out as designed to be as unlikable as possible.

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: From a certain point of view, her sting operation did eventually (and indirectly) lead to the downfall of the Blacksmith. Just not remotely in the way she would have wanted and at cost of her own life. To wit: the disastrous operation caused the death ofFrank Castle's family, pushing him to become the Punisher and hunt down all those responsible for their deaths. For added irony, while Reyes is murdered by the Blacksmith to silence her, Castle ends up unwittingly avenging her death by killing the Blacksmith at the end.]]

A corrupt officer in the NYPD in Fisk's payroll.

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Is murdered by Fisk in the penultimate episode, as Fisk becomes increasingly desperate to keep his secrets hidden.]]

The editor-in-chief at the New York Bulletin.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's trying his best to keep the NY Bulletin in business in the face of online media and the growing disinterest in important stories. This brings him into conflict with Ben.

* DarkSecret: At the end of the season, no one else knows [[spoiler:that she's the one who killed [[TheDragon Wesley.]]]]

* {{Deuteragonist}}: While Matt takes on Fisk as Daredevil, Karen brings together other allies and determinedly chases down evidence against him the old fashioned way. They only find out they're WorkingTheSameCase well into the season.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Kills Wesley when he abducts and threatens her, in the third attempt on her life that Fisk's men have made.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler:After killing Wesley, she spends several hours drinking every piece of alcohol in her apartment. Matt and Foggy notice, but don't know why.]] In fact, the ShownTheirWork below implies she might do this quite a lot.

* GenreBlind: She's quite naive at first about how dangerous going after her former employers will be, until Urich sets her straight. Played straight again later in the season, when [[spoiler: she fails to consider what Fisk will do when he learns that she and Urich found and spoke with Fisk's mother. Namely, he decides to murder Ben for his temerity. She also tricked Ben into going with her, telling him that they were going to a hospice that might be good for Ben's Alzheimer's-suffering wife, meaning he didn't even know what he was getting into until he had already started speaking with Fisk's mother, and by then it was too late for him to save himself.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It's why she was framed and why TheSyndicate keep trying to kill or discredit her.

* MsFanservice: Gets a few scenes of undress, especially a gratuitous one in the pilot.

* NeutralFemale: She averts it. After what happened to her at Union Allied she becomes feverishly devoted to exposing Fisk and ending corruption in Hell's Kitchen, single-handedly pushing Foggy and Ben into helping her uncover Fisk's secrets and expose him. [[spoiler:She ends up feeling guilty later on about Ben though, since she's blames herself for pushing Ben into writing about Fisk and therefore his death]], but it doesn't stop her from fighting on.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Really great job bringing Urich to that hospice upstate, Karen. Really great job. [[spoiler: There, she and Ben found and spoke to Fisk's mother, which Fisk learned about and decided to murder Ben for.]]

* SexySecretary: Both Matt and Foggy are attracted to her.

* StatuesqueStunner: In addition to being breathtakingly beautiful, at 5' 10'' she’s by far the tallest female character on the show.

** In season 2 it's strongly hinted that the reason she is so convinced Frank is a good person is because she needs to believe it's possible to be a good person after killing people.

* WideEyedIdealist: Undoubtedly the most idealistic of all the characters and this manifests in her determinator style dedication to bringing down people like Fisk. It's dangerous, it doesn't pay well but it needs happen because Fisk is a dangerous criminal. [[spoiler: Subverted all through season 2, from the crumbling friendship between Foggy and Matt to convincing herself that Frank could be a good person after all the pain he's caused. By the end of Season 2, with the firm dismantled and The Punisher confirming her fear that he is too far gone to be saved.]]

* AmoralAttorney: She's willing to hire a clearly unstable Jessica Jones as a PI (even wants to bring her in-house); why would anyone be surprised that she'd try [[spoiler: and take advantage of Kilgrave's powers?]] Even her girlfriend / mistress ends up disgusted with her.

* PutOnABus: Inverted; The rest of the cast (and the show itself) hopped a bus to LA, leaving Angie behind.

* CoolAunt: Of course. She even cares about his safety.

!!''Detective Oscar Clemmons''

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As soon as [[spoiler: he has witnessed Kilgrave's powers with his own eyes]], he is fully willing to help Jessica. [[spoiler: He also admits to Simpson that he might have a point in claiming that Kilgrave is too dangerous to stand a normal trial, but he also points out that it still doesn't give Simpson nor himself the right to take the law into their own hands by killing him. Too bad Simpsons disagrees.]]

!!Other New York City Citizens
!!!Modern Day

[[folder:Dr. Samuel Sterns]]
!!''Dr. Samuel Sterns''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samuel_sterns_hulk_1617.png]]

->'''Portrayed By''': Tim Blake Nelson
->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''

->''"I've always been more curious than cautious, and that's served me pretty well."''

A scientist who helps Bruce under the moniker "Mr. Blue". Bruce communicates with him wirelessly while in Brazil in hopes of developing a cure for his condition, but necessary ingredients for the formula require him to return to the United States. There, he discovers that Sterns has more than just curing the Hulk on his mind.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Well, not the ''actual'' Abomination, who he's pretty horrified by, but Sterns is in complete awe of Banner as the Hulk, calling it "god-like" and "Olympian", and comparing Bruce to Prometheus giving man fire.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Samuel Sterns is an eccentric and careless, but mostly harmless scientist in this movie who tries to cure Banner, while in the comics, he is one of the more diabolical villains in that universe. The comic tie-in shows he eventually turned evil, so it's more like his origin story than a true morality shift.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Instead of working at a nuclear facility as a mentally handicapped janitor, he's already a science genius and university professor.
* AlliterativeName: First and last names starts with S.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's an odd scientist to be sure.
* CassandraTruth: When Blonsky demands to have the Hulk's blood and gamma radiation applied to him, Sterns argues against it, claiming that the gamma-blood combined with Blonksky's experimental super-serumed body might turn him into "an abomination". Blonsky doesn't care, and holds Sterns at gunpoint to transform him anyway.
* CodeName: Mr. Blue.
* ForScience: Downplayed. While he is fascinated by Hulk blood he is ''thrilled'' by its practical applications.
* {{Keet}}: ''Very'' hyperactive, especially when it comes to science.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[spoiler:He wants to cure Banner and find similar cures for diseases but wants to use gamma-irradiated blood to do so which always has unfortunate consequences.]]
* MotorMouth: He can get carried away discussing the merits of Hulk Blood; the result is a fast-flowing stream of science.
* MyBrainIsBig: [[spoiler: Caused by Banner's irradiated blood falling into an Abomination-caused head wound.]]
* NiceGuy: Other than Bruce, he knows how dangerous Hulk blood is better than anyone but instead of treating Bruce like a menace he's 'hail fellow scientist! Well met!'
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:To Black Widow when she finds him in ''Fury's Big Week''. She responds by shooting him in the knee and taking him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.]]

[[folder:May Parker]]
!!''May Parker''

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarisaTomei
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''

-->''"Yeah, [aunts] come in different shapes and sizes."''

Comicbook/SpiderMan's aunt, with whom he lives in Queens.

* AgeLift[=/=]YoungerAndHipper: Seems like Aunt May [[http://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Aunt-May.jpg gets a decade younger with each adaptation]] ([[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Rosemary Harris]] was in her seventies, [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan Sally Field]] in her sixties, and Marisa Tomei was only 50.)[[note]]At least it's not an ImprobableAge, given Tom Holland is [[DawsonCasting 19]].[[/note]]
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: A given when you cast [[https://twitter.com/superherofeed/status/618848552362508288 Marisa Tomei]] as a character who's usually a CoolOldLady. Even more than the YoungerAndHipper ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version! This is Lampshaded to hell and back in her cameo in ''Captain America: Civil War'', with Tony practically having his tongue hanging out while talking to her.
* CoolAunt: Of course. She even cares about his safety.
* LethalChef: At least according to Tony Stark.
* {{Nephewism}}: She raises Peter.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Tony asks how she's Peter's aunt...
* ShipTease: ...particularly as he goes on to flirt with her. (not [[Film/OnlyYou the first time Downey Jr.]] [[Film/{{Chaplin}} and Tomei were together]], mind you)
* StacysMom: Tony even describes her to Peter as "Aunt Hottie".
* WidowWoman: We all know [[DeathByOriginStory what happened]] [[ItWasHisSled to her late husband]]. While it wasn't directly stated, Peter implies during his conversation with Tony about his guilt regarding his Uncle Ben's death.

[[folder:Colonel Schoonover]]
!!''Colonel Ray Schoonover''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClancyBrown
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

* AnArmAndALeg: His arm was blown off during a botched mission.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Throughout his testimony, he makes reference to an idiotic commanding officer who foolishly endangered his men. When Reyes questions how he could know such details without being there, he comments that he ''was'' the idiotic commanding officer.
* CoolOldGuy: He's a deep-voiced war veteran who takes responsibility for his past mistakes and is the only person to have something nice to say about Frank.
* MilesGloriosus: He implies this was the reason he walked his men into am ambush.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marlene Fisk]]
!!''Marlene Fisk''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marlene_fisk_mcu.png]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Angela Reed & Phyllis Somerville
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

Wilson Fisk's beloved mother, who suffered under an abusive husband for years.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:After young Wilson beats his father to death, she holds him as he sobs and says it'll be all right...then calmly tells him to get a saw so they can dispose of Bill's corpse. No one found out the truth of Bill's death, assuming he'd moved to escape the mob.]]
* BrokenBird: Due to the abuse suffered at Bill Fisk's hands. She tries to raise their son with gentleness and compassion, but Bill thinks it makes him too soft and less of a man.
* DomesticAbuse: On the receiving end of this from her husband, Bill, both verbally and physically.
* IncompatibleOrientation: With her second husband, it seems.

[[folder:Bill Fisk]]
!!''Bill Fisk''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Domenick Lombardozzi
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

Wilson Fisk's abusive father, who beat - both physically and verbally - his wife and son for every minor perceived weakness.

* AbusiveParent: To his son, Wilson. His idea of "making a man" out of his son involves demeaning him, teaching him to blame others for his problems (including blaming Wilson himself for his own problems) and playing cruel jokes on him.
* AdaptationalHeroism: While he's definitely no hero Bill never became a part of the mafia like his WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries counterpart.
* AssholeVictim: When he goes missing, everyone who knows him assumes that he left the city to get away from mobsters to whom he owed money, or that the mobsters killed him and buried him on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Either way, no one loses sleep over it and there didn't seem to be much investigation into the disappearance.
* CorruptPolitician: He has the aspiration to be one, which is why he runs in the local elections. He funds his campaign by borrowing money from Rigoletto with the understanding that if elected he will repay the money through kickbacks. However, he loses and Rigoletto wants his money back.
* DomesticAbuser: He beats his wife savagely, in addition to being verbally abusive.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Bill desperately wants to be respected, to be a powerful man, and expects it without giving it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He lectures his son about giving respect to get it, but shows nobody respect while expecting it from others.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For every time he gives a nugget of advice to his son or shows affection, there's an imminent swing in the opposite direction, or it's at the expense of his wife.
* KarmicDeath: You wanted to toughen your son up, Bill? [[SarcasmMode Congratulations!]] You did exactly that, and he has your blood on his hands to prove it! To add insult to injury, your biggest wish about being known and respected? Well, Wilson's had all public records of you erased, making sure no one remembers you.
* NeverMyFault: He believes that the reason he lost the local election is because his wife and son don't show him enough respect at home. Not because he's a vile, vicious, petty loser.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked. When he goes missing, everyone assumes that he did this to get away from the mobsters to whom he owed money or, alternatively, that the mobsters caught him attempting to do this and killed him. His wife and son do nothing to dissuade people from this assumption since [[spoiler:Wilson killed him to protect his mother and they both disposed of the body]]. It helps that everyone knew Bill was just the type of DirtyCoward to abandon his family in order to save himself.
* {{Unperson}}: His son had all public records of Bill erased. It is so thorough that even Ben Urich has trouble finding any records or photos of him.
* WouldHurtAChild: In addition to the verbal and psychological abuse he levels at Wilson, he beats up a teenager for knocking down his signs. This was ''after'' the election was over, ''and'' he forces his son to participate.

[[folder:Wendy Ross-Hogarth]]
!!Wendy Ross-Hogarth
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->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/RobinWeigert
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/JessicaJones2015''

A New York City doctor and Jeri's estranged wife.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Said almost word-for-word when Jeri asks why Wendy married her, knowing she was a ruthless bitch. She was a bitch to everyone, ''except'' Wendy. Later on, Pam says something similar.
* BreakTheCutie: She was once a devoted and (apparently) loving wife, and then she found out her partner was cheating on her with a much younger and prettier woman, flat out didn't love her anymore, and sent a superpowered "thug" to serve her the divorce papers. [[spoiler: And then her ex-wife literally brings Kilgrave to her door.]]
* FootDraggingDivorcee: She demands a portion of Jeri's assets in the divorce, and won't sign the divorce papers without a settlement.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler: It's hard not to feel sorry for Wendy after everything she's put through, and the way she dies.]]
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Defied. Jeri tries repeating the same romantic gestures she used with Wendy on her new squeeze, Pam, but Wendy calls her out on this ''in front of Pam'' and lets the latter know she's getting a "leftover romance."

!!!1940s New York City

[[folder:Angela Martinelli]]
!!''Angie Martinelli''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LyndsyFonseca
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An aspiring actress who works as a waitress at an automat Peggy frequents, who invites her to stay at the Griffith Hotel.

* TheBroCode: Gender-flipped. Her previous best friend abruptly left her after getting married, so Angie is distrustful of friends who appear to be dating. At times she raises suspicion about Jarvis, but Peggy reassures her that they're just business partners.
* DeadpanSnarker: She always has a sarcastic remark ready.
-->'''Dottie:''' ''[about the boarding house]'' This place is pretty swell, huh? Seems like one big happy family.\\
'''Angie:''' That wears off.
* DemotedToExtra: Her role had to be significantly reduced in Season 2 as Fonseca got a role on another show.
* DramaQueen: Peggy calls her this when she says she's "too consumed by ennui" to go to work.
* FakeGuestStar: Lyndsy Fonseca regularly appears and yet she's not included in the "regular cast" line-up.
* LargeHam: She '''''is''''' an actress after all. Her acting comes into play when she [[spoiler:helps Peggy in evading the SSR.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She had no idea about Peggy’s double life until “A Sin To Err”, although she claims that she suspected something was off.
-->'''Angie:''' I knew you didn't work for the phone company!
* MuggleBestFriend: She quickly becomes Peggy's closest friend but she has no idea about the world of espionage she's involved in. After what happened to Colleen, though, Peggy is reluctant to let her any closer.
* NiceGirl: Very friendly, cheerful and helpful to Peggy.
* TheNicknamer: She calls Peggy "English," refers to Jarvis as "Mr Fancy," and calls Dottie "Iowa."
* TheNotLoveInterest: Fulfills several of the roles typical of love interests in action, spy, and superhero films. She gets annoyed when the hero's double-life keeps them from spending time together, provides Peggy with emotional support after [[spoiler:Ray is killed]], and helps Peggy [[spoiler:escape from the SSR agents hunting her without ever questioning her innocence]].
* PutOnABus: Inverted; The rest of the cast (and the show itself) hopped a bus to LA, leaving Angie behind.
* SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. All her previous auditions went badly too, and Angie seriously considers quitting acting and going into secretary school. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn on the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WaitingForABreak: She works as a waitress in a restaurant while waiting for her big break in show business.

[[folder:Miriam Fry]]
!!''Miriam Fry''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Meagen Fay
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The owner of the Griffith Hotel, a boarding house for women in which Peggy Carter lives.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she seems like a strict but fair landlady, then we realize she's anything but.
* ControlFreak: Has a strict curfew for her residents and insists that no gentlemen callers are allowed above the first floor.
* CrankyLandlord: Strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor.
* FemaleMisogynist: She treats her tenants (all grown women with jobs) like particularly dim children, because she doesn't believe they're capable of knowing what's best for them. She also seems to believe that once a lady ''has'' compromised her virtue, she's unworthy of basic respect.
* GrandeDame: Not an aristocrat, but she's very concerned with respectability and a bit of a snob as well, and she has the overbearing attitude.
* HiddenDepths: She tries to bring up UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud to rationalize her oppressive rules.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite knowing who Sigmund Freud is, she claims its "unbecoming" of a lady to know about him.
* {{Jerkass}}: At breakfast she publicly humiliates a tenant who had a gentleman caller in her room and evicts her on the spot, to serve as an example to the others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She forbids men above the first floor of the Griffith because she believes women cannot control their sexual urges until they are married or reach a certain age. She's pretty nasty about this, but when Peggy sneaks Howard into the building, he quickly becomes ''acquainted'' with many of the residents, and he implies that this is not his first time at the Griffith Hotel. She was also AccidentallyAccurate in keeping Mr. Mink from seeing Peggy, not that it stopped him from breaking in.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: She treats the tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own.
* SatelliteCharacter: Is only relevant to the story as Peggy's landlady. Once Peggy moves out, she ceases to be important and stops appearing.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Basically one rule and that rule is "no men above the first floor ever".
* SkewedPriorities: She's more affected by Peggy making a hole on her wall than about having a tenant who [[spoiler:is being pursued by federal agents]].
* SlutShaming: Public evictions for... ''daring'' to have a man in your room.
* SourPrude: She believes that AllWomenAreLustful so they are incapable of controlling their urges until they’re married or reach a certain age. Hence why they need someone like her to keep them in line.
* SpearCounterpart: As much a FemaleMisogynist as she is, she's also living proof that misogyny isn't the only brand of sexism to be featured in the series.

[[folder:Colleen O'Brien]]
!!''Colleen O'Brien''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ashley Hinshaw
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Peggy's first roommate.

* CharacterDeath: Ruben is [[spoiler: killed by Kilgrave]] when the former finds the latter snooping in Jessica's apartment.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Ruben admits to being in love with Jessica, who doesn't return the affection.

* NiceGuy: For all of his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentricities]], Rueben is far easier to be around than his sister. Robyn even says as much [[spoiler: after his death.]]

!!Hogarth, Chao and Benowitz

[[folder:Jeri Hogarth]]
!!Jeryn "Jeri" Hogarth
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CarrieAnneMoss
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' | ''Series/Daredevil2015'' | ''Series/IronFist''

-->''"The real world is not about happy endings. It's about taking the life you have, and fighting like hell to keep it."''

A name partner attorney at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz LLP and recurring client of Alias Investigations.

!!Hell's Kitchen

[[folder: Jack Murdock]]
!!''Jack Murdock''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Just once I want Matty to hear people cheer for his old man. Just once."'']]

->'''Portrayed By:''' John Patrick Hayden
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

->''"Never got knocked out, my dad. Knocked down, sure, but he, uh, always got back up. He was always on his feet when he lost."''
-->-- '''Matt Murdock'''

Matt's father, who was a boxer. He died before the start of the series, not long after Matt lost his sight.

* ADeathInTheLimelight: Is heavily featured in flashbacks in the second episode, and dies at the end of it.
* {{Badass}}: He was tough as nails in the boxing ring, noted to specialise in soaking up punches until his opponent tires. In his last fight he beat Creel, a superhuman at least half his age.
* BookDumb: Acknowledges himself as only good for his fists, and thus pushes Matt to try hard in school so he doesn't end up like him.
* DeathByOriginStory: His death is a major part of Matt's backstory.
* TheDeterminator: Matt got the trait from him. He never was knocked out in the ring.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He faces his impending demise with no fear, knowing that his son had got to hear the crowd cheer for him one last time.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. He knew fully well that not throwing the match would have fatal results, but he wanted his son to be proud of him, at least once.
* HeroicSacrifice: He decides not to go down in the fifth as ordered to so that his son can hear the crowd cheering for him one more time. He is predictably killed for it.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Stick suggests that Jack was at least partly motivated in his sacrifice to earn respect and glory for the first time in his life. The fact that Jack stops in his escape from the gym changing room to soak in the crowd's cheering suggests it played a part.
* {{Jobber}}: Took falls for a living.
* NiceGuy: A devoted father and all-around nice guy.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: His defeat of Carl "The Crusher" Creel, mentioned in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' to have turned his hands to steel during his fights.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died long before the start of the series and is only shown in flashbacks.

[[folder:Melvin Potter]]
!!''Melvin Potter''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm good at making things."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MattGerald

A somewhat mentally challenged craftsman, with a talent for making light-weight armor, in the forced employ of Wilson Fisk.