History Characters / MCUCriminalsTerroristsNewYork

* BaldOfEvil: He's a bald mob boss.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name isn't mentioned in the episode, just the nickname Mother Theresa which was given to him by the FBI. His back also has a big tattoo of her.

[[folder:Sissy Garcia]]
!!''Sissy Garcia''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Charleigh E. Parker

An inmate at the Northeastern Correctional Facility. She's hired by Hope Shlottman to get assaulted so Kilgrave's offspring is aborted.

* ButchLesbian: She's heavyset and tough, with a rather crude personality, and enjoys her fellow inmates.
* PrisonRape: It is implied she engages in it when she desires a fellow inmate.

[[folder:Shane Ryback]]
!!''Shane Ryback''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Eden Marryshow

An inmate imprisoned for assault that Inez Green claims was given the power to heal others by IGH.

* BeardOfEvil: has a thick beard and is a con man
* ConMan: While he's not imprisoned on those charges, he's one.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For conning Jeri, Jeri replies by conning Inez Green into murdering Shane.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's the one who gets the idea of conning Hogarth into believing he will heal her from her ALS only to ransack her apartment once she's distracted.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: For all his flaws, his killing of [[TheCorrupter O'Connor]] is very damn satisfying.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.

!!Billy Russo's Gang

A bunch of US military veterans, who band together under the leadership of Billy Russo to become a powerful criminal gang.

!!IGH

!!!Leadership
[[folder:Dr. Karl Malus]]
!!''Dr. Karl Malus''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CallumKeithRennie
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

The head scientist at IGH. He's a geneticist who developed a genetic editing therapy that saved Jessica.

* AccompliceByInaction: He denies that he told Alisa to kill anyone and although he took some measures to try to prevent her from killing, he ultimately did nothing more once the killings started.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Karl in the comics wasn't ugly but he wasn't as ruggedly handsome as Callum Keith Rennie.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: He has black hair in the comics, Here, he's blonde.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: His comic book counterpart never had any medical goals with his research.
* AdaptedOut:
** Unlike in the comics, this version of Malus does not appear to have anything to do with ComicBook/SpiderWoman, instead being more closely tied to Jessica Jones[[note]]That being said, it's worth noting that Jessica ''Jones'' was created as an {{Expy}} of Jessica ''Drew'', the first Spider-Woman[[/note.]]
** The comic version of Malus eventually acquired powers similar to those of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiotes]] after being ingested by ComicBook/{{Carnage}}. As Carnage does not appear to exist in this universe, this does not happen, and Malus dies without ever gaining said powers.
* AffablyEvil: He's a genuinely nice guy, and is doing all of his work to save lives. He just can't control the monsters he accidentally created with his revolutionary medical techniques.
* AntiVillain: Malus is more criminal than villain really. He went way too far in trying to save lives, even experimenting on people who couldn't consent on the justification that they would absolutely have died without his help. He isn't directly responsible for the murders and only covers them up to keep Alisa safe. By the time of the series he has admitted to himself that what he did was wrong and shut down the illegal experiments to focus on protecting Alisa. Even once he gets a ''willing'' subject to continue his work he tries to talk her out of it.
* TheAtoner: By present day, he has given up his life as a doctor and scientist and has devoted himself entirely to taking care of Alisa and trying to make her better, wracked with guilt over what he's done - but also because he's in love with her.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Alisa Jones in Season 2, though calling him a BigBad is ''very'' much pushing it. While he's done some seriously questionable things, he's done them for noble reasons and has in Alisa's words very much paid the price for them. That said, none of the events in the series would have taken place without his experiments, and it was his research that Kozlov appropriated for the military.
* BourgeoisBohemian: He lives with some comforts thanks to the support of Justis Ambrose, but still wears 70s bands t-shirts, smokes pot and holds progressive views like being against children taking drugs for supposedly having ADD.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** Unlike the nomadic Kilgrave, he's an established citizen of New York City with recorded accomplishments. While Kilgrave used his powers to control others, specially women, Malus makes use of drugs and withholds information from the people he takes advantage of. Finally, while Kilgrave sought self-gratification, Malus' goals were saving lives and then protecting Alisa. And Karl feels [[TheAtoner genuine remorse for his dubious actions]] and takes responsibility for people under his care while Kilgrave's defining trait was his [[NeverMyFault refusal to admit to his wrongdoing]] or [[ObliviouslyEvil see himself as a bad person]] and he never cared about anyone he hurt. Similarly, Kilgrave was [[HairTriggerTemper volatile and ill-tempered]] with [[NoSocialSkills terrible interpersonal skills]] while Karl is [[CoolOldGuy mellow and friendly with a very charming personality.]]
** Also while Kilgrave enjoyed forcing people to protect him and provide him with comfort, the numerous people who defend Malus and fund his research and life as a whole, even to the point of violence, really are doing it because [[IOweYouMyLife they are grateful for what he's done.]]
** Their relationships with the Jones women are also contrasts. Kilgrave initially controlled Jessica with his powers and she absolutely detested and eventually killed him despite his conviction that she really loved him. Alisa and Karl however really do have a mutually respectful and loving relationship and while he has to keep her locked up, he hates doing so and Alisa bears no ill will about it and understands why and Alisa is immensely grateful to Karl for all he's done for her, to the point of getting enraged when Jessica speaks about him as though he were just a deranged sadist.
** Even their appearances are polar opposites. Kilgrave was a young/middle-aged man with brown hair who wore expensive and colorful suits. Karl is an older man with blonde hair, a slightly unkempt appearance and who dresses mainly in casual clothes and band t-shirts.
* CoolOldGuy: He's extraordinarily patient, and is overall just very chill with a fondness for classic rock and weed.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Kills himself in the eleventh episode of the season.
* DrivenToSuicide: He eventually gives up on the notion that there are positive outcomes for his experiments and blows himself up along with the IGH facility and its genetic editing equipment.
* HeelRealization: The near death of Trish makes him come to the conclusion his experiments haven't done any good.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Taking terminal patients from the hospital to use for illegal genetic experiments was definitely not his best moment. On the other hand he definitely saved their lives and those of other patients who were taken to his clinic. By giving Jessica her abilities, he technically saved even more lives through her actions.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Between his shaggy hair, faded jeans and various rock T-shirts, he looks more like a 60's has-been than a brilliant geneticist. It does help with his image as an easy-going NiceGuy.
* NiceGuy: He genuinely wants to save lives and has devoted his entire life to it, even if his methods are extremely outside ethical boundaries. He is also unfailingly polite and noble and just comes off as extremely chill. The fact that he never once abandoned or considered abandoning an extremely unstable and volatile Alisa speaks volumes about him, even if Jessica refuses to admit it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast[=/=]NonIndicativeName : Subverted. Having a name that means "evil" and sounds like "malice" seems like a guarantee of being as bad as Kilgrave but while he's not a great person he's hardly dangerous.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the comics, he's more associated as a villain to ComicBook/SpiderWoman and ComicBook/SpiderMan, even becoming ComicBook/{{Carnage}} at one point.
* SecondLove: For Alisa.
* TheSmartGuy: He's humble and chill, but his research is groundbreaking to the point where it's on the same level as somebody like Wolfgang von Strucker. To record, his research not only heals people, but makes them superhuman.
* UndyingLoyalty: He has it among many former patients who provide him money to live off and protect his secrets.
* UnholyMatrimony: He and Alisa genuinely do love one another, to the point that the possibility of Malus being harmed in any way can drive Alisa to murderous violence.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He has experimented on comatose patients without their consent and covered up murder with the intention that his experiments will help save lives.
* VillainsNeverLie: When Jessica confronts him with the fact that Jeri is trying to use Shane's healing powers to save herself, he insists that he never created a healer, let alone performed experiments on someone named Shane. As it turns out, Shane is indeed a fraud who is manipulating Jeri. It's otherwise played with; while Karl rarely tells direct lies, he tends to leave important information unsaid and hides incriminating material.

[[folder:Dr. Miklos Kozlov]]
!!''Dr. Miklos Kozlov''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We're going to do important things together."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ThomasKopache
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A scientist working for IGH and leads the super soldier program to which Simpson belonged.

* AscendedExtra: In the comics, Miklos Kozlov is an obscure character that appeared in a single issue of ''Strange Tales'' in 1961.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: The comics version of Kozlov has nothing to with the origins of Nuke, the mainstream counterpart of Will Simpson.
* BusCrash: He was killed in a "car accident" shortly before the start of Season 2. Actually it was Alisa the one who killed him.
* DrJerk: More for his research than his behavior. He even tells Simpson that he'd better not take too many pills [[NoodleIncident after what happened in Damascus.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His funeral is packed to the brim with family, friends, and admirers who all speak of him in gushing terms.
* EvilCounterpart: To [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Dr. Erskine]], both being creators of American [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers.]] Unlike Erskine, however, Koslov isn't necessarily concerned with morality.
* OpportunisticBastard: Malus refers to him as such, citing he stole Malus' drugs to develop the combat enhancers for the military.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's a scientist who develops what amounts to a PsychoSerum.

[[folder:Dr. Leslie Hansen]]
!!''Dr. Leslie Hansen''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Renata Hinrichs
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A trauma surgeon that joined IGH.
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* TheGhost: She was a famous trauma surgeon in the 90s but after she joined IGH there's no record of her.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Alisa kills her to keep IGH secrets.
* KillAndReplace: Alisa briefly impersonates her to keep Jessica and and Trish from following IGH's trail.
* PosthumousCharacter: By the time Dr. Hansen's name comes up she's long dead, having already been killed and incinerated by Alisa some time ago.

!!!Employees

[[folder:Inez Green]]

!!''Inez Green''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LeahGibson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A nurse who once worked for IGH and now lives on the streets as a result of the downwards spiral caused by the trauma of her experience with one of IGH's test subjects.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She sleeps with Jeri Hogarth, but it may or may not have just been part of the ruse to get her actual boyfriend out of prison.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: Living in the streets has made her paranoid and a little violent. She justifies it because she's a woman trying to survive in the streets.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For conning Jeri, Jeri replies by conning Inez into murdering her boyfriend.
* ManipulativeBitch: After finding out that Jeri has ALS, she lies to her that there was a patient at IGH who could heal people, taking advantage of her desperation to find a cure, in order to get him out of prison. They then ransack Jeri's place while she's out.
* StickyFingers: The first thing she does when left alone in Malcolm's apartment is try to steal his television to pawn it off. Later, she starts rifling through Jeri's jewelry and medication, but opts not to go through with it when she realizes Jeri has ALS, seemingly out of pity. She was actually just playing the long game. Once she gets what she wants from Jeri, she makes sure to completely ransack the place on the way out.

[[folder:David Kawecki]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCitizensNewYorkCity Citizens - New York City]] page

!!!Subjects

[[folder:Alisa Jones]]
!!''Alisa Jones (neé Campbell)''
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[[caption-width-right:292:''"You should be thankful! You should be counting your goddamn stars!"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Miriam Shor, Janet [=McTeer=]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Jessica Jones's mother. Supposedly killed in a car accident, she survived with grievous injuries and was subject to similar treatments to the ones that gave Jessica her powers, only to a greater degree than her daughter and with a dangerous HairTriggerTemper.

* AdaptationalBadass: Her comic counterpart never survived the crash and never got superpowers.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, Jessica's mother's name is unknown. Campbell is not her maiden surname, but the surname of her husband. In an inversion, Jessica's adoptive mother in the comics went from NoNameGiven to Alisa following the series.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Amusingly enough. She rags on a cab driver for using his phone while driving with Jessica to her apartment, while Jessica tries to point out that they're supposed to be keeping a low profile. You can even see Jessica ''fuming'' when Alisa pokes out to complement Oscar on his painting of his daughter.
-->'''Alisa:''' ''(To a taxi driver on his phone while driving)'' Please get off your phone, that's dangerous.
-->'''Jessica:''' How about we don't draw attention to ourselves?
-->'''Alisa:''' No. I'm in the right.
* AntiVillain: She's willing to kill anyone she perceives as a threat, even outside of her rages, but it's all to keep herself, Jessica, and Malus safe. She's not a true villain and stops even being a true antagonist by the time her identity is revealed. Just a woman thrown into horrible, unfortunate situations.
* AxCrazy: She's very prone to violent outbursts.
%%* BaldOfEvil: She lost all of her hair from the accident, and even with her surgery still has scars all over the back of her head that she keeps hidden with wigs. She's far more ''complicated'' than evil, however.
* BerserkButton: She does not tolerate ''any'' disrespect of Karl or reference to him as though he were just a depraved sadist or some kind of mad scientist.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Once you get passed her homicidal rage issues, Alisa is actually a quite pleasant and reasonable lady to speak with. Provided you don't do or say anything that could even annoy her.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Karl Malus in Season 2. She is an AntiVillain who just wants to protect Malus, but her homicidal tendencies and HairTriggerTemper don't help matters.
* BodyHorror: She was revived by IGH after the car accident; however, her body, and especially her face, was burned and scarred beyond recognition to [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] proportions. She [[UnstoppableRage wasn't too happy]] when she caught a glimpse of her [[TomatoInTheMirror reflection]] while getting out of her hospital bed.
* BoomHeadshot: Tragically, by Trish. Right in front of Jessica.
* CameBackWrong: Of the DamagedSoul variety, with added superpowers.
* CompositeCharacter: Of both Jessica's biological (Mrs. Campbell) and adoptive (Alisa Jones) mothers in the comics.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Kilgrave, she has the same powerset as Jessica and has a familial relationship with her. While Kilgrave had no moral compass and was firmly in control of himself, Alisa suffers from violent rages during which she does things she later deeply regrets, and she's actively (though unsuccessfully) trying to control them. Also, where Kilgrave was always dapper, suave and charming, Alisa looks so disheveled that she was initially believed to be homeless and is prone to BrutalHonesty and angry outbursts, giving her a generally offputting demenour.
* DeadpanSnarker: As evident with Jessica, it's definitely hereditary.
-->'''Alisa:''' (''To Jessica'') ''Jesus'', you are good at shutting yourself down.
* DeathFakedForYou: Karl Malus had her declared dead so that he could perform sketchy lifesaving operations on her.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: She fails epically at making breakfast because of this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with her rampages, she's disturbed at the notion that she's anything like Kilgrave.
* HairTriggerTemper: It's very easy to set her off, usually with at best considerable property damage and at worst battered corpses lying around.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Just when she and Jessica are starting to reconnect, she's suddenly gunned down by Trish.
* HiddenDepths: She was a college math instructor before the accident, knows Spanish, and has a taste for art. Oscar's painting of Jessica reminded her of Helen Frankenthaler.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: She certainly has a lot in common with her daughter, like the ability to snap a man's neck with her bare hands.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Justified in the sense that she was ''horribly'' disfigured beyond recognition after the accident. She wears wigs to conceal the remaining scars on her head from the procedure.
* MamaBear: Deconstructed. When Alisa hears Stirling agreeing to let Jessica be used as gang muscle to pay off his debts, she smashes his head open against a wall. It's ambiguous as to whether he was serious or not, but it's another part of a long list as to why Jessica is as screwed up as she is now.
* NeverMyFault: Played in a weird way- she claims the car crash that killed her husband and son was her fault because her husband wouldn't let her drive, very clearly blaming it on him, but she only does so upon learning that Jessica has been blaming herself for the crash, so it could be an attempt to console her. In general, she considers herself to be smarter and overall superior to just about everyone else she meets and claims that everything that goes wrong is because someone else didn't listen to her or let her lead.
* TheNthDoctor: The change in her appearance due to casting [=McTeer=] is explained as the result of the extreme genetic editing performed on her rebuilt bone structure.
* ParentWithNewParamour: She became involved with Karl Malus in the years she remained hidden.
* PetTheDog: She helps find Oscar's kidnapped son.
* SexlessMarriage: Brian and Alisa were having marital problems and were taking a vacation with the family to help resolve them.
* ShadowArchetype: Becomes one to Jessica after the accident. She's more or less who Jess ''could'' have been without the influence of Trish in her life.
* SignificantAnagram: An unintentional one, but her first name is an anagram of Alias, a word that's key to her daughter's character. It's not the source of Alias Investigations' name, though, as Jessica actually named that after Stirling's proposed nightclub.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike her comic book counterpart, she survived the car crash, albeit without Jessica's knowledge. That being said, she still winds up dead at the end of the second season.
* SuperStrength: Twice as strong as Jessica.
* TragicMonster: She's not someone with villainous goals, just a woman who went through a horribly traumatic experience.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Named after Brian Michael Bendis' wife.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: There's a lot of things that set off Alisa's violent moodswings, but threats to Karl's life or freedom rank pretty high, just below threats to Jessica. When Karl dies in an explosion, she loses any semblance of restraint she once had and goes on the warpath.
* WickedCultured: Post-resurrection, she's shown drinking tea, teaching herself how to play the piano, and complimenting Oscar's painting.

[[folder:[=McManus=]]]
!!''[=McManus=]''
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' P.J. Griffith
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A member of IGH's super soldier program and one of Kozlov's enforcers.

* BoomHeadshot: How Will Simpson kills him.
* MouthOfSauron: He's sent by Kozlov to speak on his behalf and convince Simpson to re-join IGH.
* SuperSoldier: He's one of Kozlov's test subjects.

[[folder:Fortner]]
!!''Fortner''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Luke Lesko
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Another member of IGH's super soldier program and one of Kozlov's enforcers.

* InTheBack: Will Simpson shoots him while Fortner is trying to escape.
* TheQuietOne: Fortner remains silent while [=McManus=] is the one who does the talking.
* SuperSoldier: He's one of Kozlov's test subjects.

[[folder:Isaiah]]
!!''Isaiah''
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Joseph Castillo-Midyett
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A soldier of the US Army and a patient of Kozlov.
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* HandicappedBadass: Despite being paralyzed from the waist down, he's capable of fighting with a baton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Subjects]]
* [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]]
* [[Characters/MCUCitizensNewYorkCity Robert Coleman]]
* [[Characters/MCUCitizensNYPD Will Simpson]]
[[/folder]]

!!The Rivals

[[folder:In General]]

A now-defunct gang led by Shades, Comanche, and Romeo - the father of Zip, who would grow up to become a gangster working for Cottonmouth and Diamondback.
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* AdaptedOut: Cage and Diamondback were members in the comics.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
-->- Rivals?
-->- We ain't got none.
* DemotedToExtra: In the comics, they had a bigger role. In the MCU they are just part of Shades' and Comanche's backstory
* {{Gangbangers}}: They were a gang operating in New York.
* IronicName: Their name is a BadassBoast about no gang or antagonist being on their level.

[[folder:Romeo]]
!!''Romeo''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

Zip's father. A member of the Rivals along with Shades and Comanche. Also an ally of Turk Barrett.
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* DisappearedDad: He was Zip's father.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Shades and Turk view him in much higher regard than they do his son Zip.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's dead by the time of the series.

[[folder:Others]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristStokesDillardRing Stokes–Dillard Crime Ring]] page for Shades and Comanche
[[/folder]]

!!The Yardies

[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Yardies''

A Jamaican-American gang based in Brooklyn, planning to expand into Harlem.

* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: After Bushmaster kills Nigel, they are replaced by the Stylers.
* TheYardies: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, except this example operates in New York instead of the UK.

[[folder:Neville Barnwell]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristStokesDillardRing Stokes–Dillard Crime Ring]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nigel Garrison]]
!!''Nigel Garrison''
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[[caption-width-right:286:"Who you think you talking to? Me from the Rock too, y'know!"]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Macc Plaise

The head of the Yardies following the death of his brother Neville. He has a considerable turf that encompasses Crown Heights and Jamaica, Queens.

* DecapitationPresentation: Nigel's head is placed in one of the satchels of money Bushmaster delivers to Shades.
* EyeScream: Bushmaster kills him by slicing across his eyes with a knife.
* NotBloodSiblings: Inverted. He and Neville Barnwell are siblings despite their different surnames.
* ThreatBackfire: What gets him killed.
-->'''Nigel Garrison:''' Who you think you talking to?! Me from the Rock too, y'know!
-->'''Bushmaster:''' [[IAmTheNoun I AM the Rock.]] ''[attacks Nigel and his guards]''
* TrespassingToTalk: On the victim end of this from Bushmaster.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Nigel took over from Neville Barnwell after his brother's death at Diamondback's hands.

!!The Stylers

[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Stylers''

The DarkerAndEdgier and YoungerAndHipper offshoot of the Yardies.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: In contrast to the Stokes family's use of exclusively male foot soldiers, the Stylers have both men and women among their soldiers. They also have no problem with hiring American-born blacks, Latinos and even a handful of whites into their organization.
* FromBadToWorse: As D.W. puts it, if the Yardies are Al-Qaeda, the Stylers are ISIS.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: The gang use heavily-modified lowrider cars that are stereotypically suitable for drive-by shootings. Though this does give them an intimidation factor, Misty is eventually able to use this to track their movements.
* ItsPersonal: Played for laughs but they dislike Luke Cage because of a comment about him being faster than Usain Bolt.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They seem to have this reputation among the Harlem gangs, especially when decapitation becomes a regular thing for them. Ironically, as ruthless as they are under Bushmaster, Mariah proves to be ''far'' more willing to cross the line.
* SharpDressedMan: Many of the higher-ups wear business suits. To quote Bushmaster, "A Styler must style".
* TheYardies: They are an offshoot of the original Yardies, formed by a younger generation.

!!!Leadership

[[folder:John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]]]
!!''John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Harlem, is not yuh yard bwoy, it's ''mine''."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MustafaShakir

->''"Life has taught me this. You can't drown sorrow with tears. If you want to erase sorrow, you must burn it."''

A Jamaican gangster new to Harlem, who proves capable of taking on Luke Cage by himself.

* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. He lacks the exaggerated physique of his comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: Oddly enough, yes. The man might decapitate people and stick their heads on pikes, but he's generally fairly polite to friends and enemies alike, sincerely thanks Luke when he saves someone he cares about (which Luke points out he did because it was the right thing and Bushmaster's aunt was just a civilian caught in the crossfire), and remarks on several occasions that he and Luke could have 'brethren' in another life.
* AllForNothing: As soon as he finally defeats Mariah for good, he has to flee back to Jamaica due to the huge manhunt out for him.
* AnimalThemeNaming: Subverted, in the comic he is named after the type snake (in the same vein as Diamonback and Cottonmouth) but here it's an AppropriatedAppelation tangentially related to the snake.
* AntiVillain: His methods are incredibly brutal and he harbors aspirations for dominating Harlem's criminal underworld, but otherwise Bushmaster is only slightly worse than extreme anti-hero the Punisher, and possesses just as many redeeming qualities. It doesn't hurt that his primary goal is to murder a woman who slowly comes into her own as a monster far worse than him.
** Combined with VillainRespect in his relationship with his Uncle Anansi. Anansi pretty much hates everything John is doing and calls him out for it at every step, refusing to take money from him ''publicly''. Not only does John not deal with Anansi as brutally as he does others, he even shows shame when Anansi calls him out. ... Doesn't stop him, though.
* AppropriatedAppelation: His street name comes from the rum his father invented, the same rum in the Molotov cocktail that Mama Mabel's assassins used to kill his mother.
* AscendedExtra: Bushmaster is a rather low-tier villain in the comics. He's the main antagonist of Season Two, alongside Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez.
* BadassBoast: He's got plenty, but his MicDrop as he walks away after having knocked Luke out cold in their first fight stands at the top.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.\\
'''D.W.''': Who are you?\\
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He’s a powerful fighter who’s often decked out in nice suits, although his tend to be somewhat flashier and more colorful than the ones worn by Cottonmouth or Fisk.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: He kills Cockroach, freeing up Luke from his legal troubles and saving C.J. and Drea Powell from his DomesticAbuse.
* BerserkButton: Two major buttons in fact:
** It's Mariah ''Stokes'', '''not''' Dillard. He will repeatedly correct you on this, and angrily.
** Saying (or hearing) that Luke Cage is faster than Usain Bolt. To be fair, Luke ''himself'' didn't say this, but he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten isn't about to let him live it down regardless.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With Mariah in Season 2. They are on [[EvilVersusEvil opposing sides]] and Luke Cage is trying to stop both of them at different points in the season.
* BlasphemousBoast: Gives a good one when Anansi unknowingly echoes the words of Reverend Lucas.
-->'''Anansi:''' Vengeance belong ti di Lord.\\
'''Bushmaster:''' Well, di Lord can have it back when mi done wit it.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: His attempts to kill Mariah do a number on his body because of the continued use of Nightshade.
* ByronicHero: Bushmaster is the scion of the [=McIver=] family, who were betrayed and murdered by the Stokeses over rights to Harlem's Paradise. His quest for vengeance and his birthright puts him in conflict with both Black Mariah and Luke Cage. His own allies think his methods are too brutal, but his own code of honour pushes him forward. In any other show, he would be considered a VillainProtagonist at worst. That may even be the case here, considering how much worse Mariah becomes after Luke stifles his assassination attempt.
* CharacterTic: Has a tendency to suck his teeth at the end of a sentence from time to time.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Sheldon have known each other since they were eleven.
* CombatPragmatist: In his first fight with Luke, he comes out of nowhere to sucker punch him. In his second fight, when losing, he pulls out a handful of paralyzing powder and kicks Luke off a bridge into a river. In the third fight, the powder is an opening gambit that Luke counters to win.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Cottonmouth, he's able to fight Luke one-on-one. Unlike Diamondback, he doesn't need mechanical aids to do so.
* CulturalPosturing: A minor example, when he takes ''serious'' offence to Luke Cage claiming he's faster than Usain Bolt (he didn't, but the lie becomes truth faster than he can correct it).
* DanceBattler: Has a Capoeira fighting-style.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Effectively gets dropped from the running as the Big Bad after he goes into a coma. While he by no means stops being a major player, by the time he’s on his feet again Mariah has consolidated her forces and killed many of his supporters. The only reason Luke and others continue to oppose him is because they want Mariah to face justice legally.
* TheDreaded: Once people see the brutality of [[DecapitationPresentation the results]] of his decapitations, coupled with the video of him defeating Luke Cage on the street, they know he isn't someone to be messed with.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Even as a boy, he proved uncommonly strong and resilient when he alone managed to live through being poisoned with a faulty vaccine that poisoned hundreds of other children; when using Nightshade, his body is absolutely flooded with "cold energy", rendering him faster, stronger, and able to fight through getting peppered with bullets. Also deconstructed, as the drug slowly becomes more ineffective and the very thing wearing him down, while his natural physical strength is what keeps his body from deteriorating too quickly and prevents him from dying in agony during the healing process.
-->'''Sheldon:''' Nightshade don't give. Nightshade ''reveal.''
* EnemyCivilWar: He's involved in a major gang war with Mariah Dillard for control of Harlem at the same time that he's at war with Luke Cage.
* EnemyMine: ''Very'' briefly teams up with Luke towards the end of the season.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: His gang the Stylers includes female enforcers, and unlike any number of the show's villains, he never shows any sign of treating women as anything but equals.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He really loves his mother. That's his primary motivation for taking revenge against the Stokes clan.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loved his mother dearly, and is also very fond of his uncle and aunt.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He teams up with Luke to stop the drug trade under his name, orchestrated by Mariah, especially to protect the children of Harlem.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He doesn't quip too often, but he ''does'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny kind of enjoy it when it does.]]
-->'''''Luke:''''' ''I'm looking for Nigel, man.''
-->'''''Bushmaster:''''' ''Him gone. [[DecapitationPresentation Headed elsewhere.]] [laughs]''
* EvilIsPetty: The first time he fights Luke is to publically humiliate him because Luke's fans boasted that Luke was faster than Usain Bolt.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. No matter how many people tell him to end his crusade while he's ahead, no matter how many times he's told to stop using Nightshade before it catches up with him and destroys his body, he adamantly refuses to back down from killing Mariah, crushing the Stokes family, and avenging the [=McIver=] family name. He gets his wish, but at the cost of everything else; by the end, his actions have destroyed the Stylers and left most of his friends dead, caused Anansi's horrific murder, and completely and most likely irrevocably crippled him due to his overuse of Nightshade, and he didn't even get to kill Mariah directly - Tilda did it first.
* FinalBoss: While it’s only in the penultimate episode, and Luke still has to clean up the power vacuum left from Mariah’s arrest, Bushmaster is his last real opponent in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: He gets along rather well with the local kids in his neighborhood.
* GlassCannon: Only compared to Luke. He is [[LightningBruiser faster than Luke, equally strong]] and an [[StrongAndSkilled excellent martial artist]], but he can't take the same kind of punishment as [[MightyGlacier Luke.]] It's why he almost loses to Luke in their second fight: he lands more punches than Luke, but what few hits Luke gets in cause far more damage, and Bushmaster has to resort to his paralysis powder to win. Also, bullets ''can'' hurt him; they embed themselves half an inch in his skin like Kevlar rather than bouncing off harmlessly. This causes them to leave wounds, and it's implied that enough bullets will kill him.
* InsistentTerminology: He utterly refuses to accept Mariah's married name, angrily correcting it to "Stokes" every single time.
* ItsPersonal: He's here to settle an old score with Mariah, and the Stokes family.
* KarmaHoudini: Played with. Season 2 ends with Bushmaster managing to escape back to Kingston and his crimes go unpunished. However, his crusade has cost him most of his remaining family and left his body and mind a hollow shell of their former selves.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.
* KnightTemplar: He's aware of the brutality of his methods and (while he won't admit it to anyone) the likelihood that he's going to pay for his Nightshade abuse, but he's so consumed by his quest for vengeance and desire to restore the honor of the [=McIver=] family name that he will employ any method and pay any price he deems necessary to achieve his ends. He's unusually accepting of the input of others, however, as he is clearly deeply shaken by Anansi's harsh and unequivocal rebuke of his crusade and rationale, but he still refuses to abandon it or soften his approach.
* LeanAndMean: He has a thinner profile compared to Luke.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The crimelord that decapitates people proved to be more sympathetic than Mariah by the end. To the point Luke partners up with him to take out drugs on the streets that Mariah let roam.
* LightningBruiser: He has martial arts skills to rival Danny Rand, ''and'' can put Luke on his ass with just a couple hits.
* MadeOfIron: John was always remarkably hard to kill, with Nightshade enhancing his resistance. Unlike Luke who is NighInvulnerable to almost anything a human being can throw at him Bushmaster can be injured by bullets and explosions.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is left vague if Bushmaster is an enhanced individual, or using a form of HollywoodVoodoo. Needlessly to say, he packs enough punch to defeat Luke with ease first time round - and then give him a good fight the next couple of times - and able to take several bullets without them entering his body. As it is turns out, he gains his enhancement from Nightshade, but he is naturally able to weather its use in ways other aren't for reasons that are kept mysterious.
* MirrorCharacter: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He is roughly the same age as Mariah, but looks more around Luke's age.
* PowerAtAPrice: Bushmaster's enhanced strength and durability comes from a chemical cocktail that uses Nightshade as it source which allows him to go toe-to-toe with Luke Cage. However the more he uses it the less effective its powers become and they wear off faster. Not only that it also does damage to Bushmaster's mind and body the more he uses it. By the end of the season, after injecting himself with a concentrated source of Nightshade, he ends up almost completely catatonic and has to be send back to Kingston to try and fix what's left off his body and mind.
* PyrrhicVictory: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remaining family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.
* RevengeBeforeReason: It doesn't matter if he has reclaimed his birthright that was taken from him, that he has millions of dollars as well as vast power in the Harlem criminal world and that every use of the Nightshade is doing more and more damage to his body. He will ''never'' stop until Mariah is dead.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Though born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Jamaica, and setting up shop in Harlem, putting him at odds with Mariah and Shades.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: He's far more dangerous than both his predecessors Cottonmouth and Diamondback, being able to take on Luke in a fight and come out victorious.
* StrongAndSkilled: His biggest asset - he's almost as strong as Luke (though their second and third fight reveal that in a grapple, Luke's got the upper-hand, and he's not quite as invulnerable, as bullets manage to embed themselves in his skin rather than harmlessly bouncing off) but he's faster and has the fighting skills to better use his strength.
* VillainDecay: At the start of Season 2 of ''Luke Cage'', he seems effectively unstoppable, and mid-season he appears to hold all the cards. However, after that he starts taking some heavy losses and ends up looking almost like a VillainousUnderdog. Justified in that the only thing letting him go toe to toe with Luke is his use of nightshade, which is both hard to get hold of in the US and gets less and less effective the longer you use it.
* VillainousRROD: He is warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade will inevitably take a dangerous toll on his body. Regardless, he continues to use it because [[HourOfPower the power boost he gets from it]] is the only possible way he can defeat Luke and overcome Mariah's [[HomeFieldAdvantage entrenched power in Harlem]], eventually taking an incredibly high, super concentrated dose in a last ditch effort to defeat his foes. The attempt backfires, as the injuries he receives and the effects of the nightshade turn him into a physical wreck as soon as the effects wear off. In his last scene he's so broken and feeble he needs help to simply get out of one car and into another, and perhaps isn't even able to speak.
* VillainRespect: He develops a genuine respect for Luke, both for his strength/fighting ability, and his principles, sincerely thanking him for protecting his aunt after she survived Mariah's massacre.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes this offer to Luke once. It's unclear whether he means it, as he seems to regard Harlem as his birthright, but it's notable that on several occasions he remarks that in another life, he and Luke could have been brethren.

[[folder:Sheldon]]
!!''Sheldon''
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Me like fish."]]

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Mambo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Bushmaster's right hand man.

* ChildhoodFriends: He and Bushmaster have known each other since they were eleven. Sheldon is one of the few people that call him "John".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sheldon is in tears when he learns that Anansi and Stephanie are dead.
* HonestAdvisor: Much like Anansi, he sometimes questions Bushmaster's decisions. Unlike Anansi, however, he never questions his motivations and means, and even displays a "kill them just to be sure" mentality with some people.
* KarmaHoudini: He and Bushmaster don't get to enjoy the view at the top of the hill, having to flee the country after getting their revenge on the Stokes gang. However he also gets no comeuppance for their various deeds (including multiple murders of prominent people) and it's implied that they manage to successfully escape back to Jamaica.
* NervesOfSteel: Sheldon shows nothing but contempt towards Cage when Luke tries to get information out of him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation. He even ''does the countdown for Luke'', daring Luke to go through with the threat.
* NumberTwo: Right hand of Bushmaster.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's been with Bushmaster since they were kids, and stays by his side even when others take issue with his methods.
* VillainRespect: His last appearance has him show up at Pop's Barbershop, tell Luke and Co. they heard about Mariah's death, and tell them to "walk good" before leaving. No threats, no grudges, just respectful acknowledgement.

!!!Members

[[folder:Gideon Shaw]]
!!''Gideon Shaw''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' R.A. Guirand
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A childhood friend of Bushmaster and Sheldon and member of the Stylers.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Bushmaster and Gideon. He even refers to Bushmaster as [[AffectionateNickname "John-John".]]
* FelonyMisdemeanor: He faces deportation after being pulled for a broken tailight and a gram of weed.
* TheIllegal: He ended up at an ICE facility because he didn't have papers at the time of his arrest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stephanie Miller]]
!!''Stephanie Miller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tarah Rodgers
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Sheldon's younger cousin and an acquaintance of Bushmaster's family and gang.

* BoomHeadshot: How Mariah kills her at Gwen's
* HoneyTrap: Mariah uses her to blackmail Higgins.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration[=/=]TheMole: She gets herself hired on by Mariah at Harlem's Paradise to spy on them for Bushmaster.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being a relatively minor character, her role as a mole within Harlem's Paradise enables Bushmaster to have the upper hand on Mariah and make several strikes against her organization without her being able to exact much retaliation, including their severed head display as well as killing Piranha.

!!!Collaborators

[[folder:Anansi]]
!!''Paul "Anansi" Mackintosh''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sahr Ngaujah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Bushmaster's uncle and co-owner of Gwen's in Brooklyn.

* BrutalHonesty: As said under HonestAdvisor, he is not afraid to speak his mind to anyone, even if Mariah holds him hostagehe will still make it clear he thinks he might have been wrong in reining John in his revenge.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He raves in Mariah's face even after she douses him in alcohol and lights him on fire, and refuses to just die, so she decides to just shoot him. This proves to be Mariah's undoing, as the bullet connects Mariah's signature gun to the death of Candace Miller and becomes the key piece of evidence that puts her away.
* DisapprovingLook: Rarely has anything good to say about what John is doing, and expresses that verbally and physically.
* DyingCurse: He gives one to Mariah, while he's burning alive.
-->''"I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your days. You can eat, but you won't taste. You can sleep, but you won't rest! Everything you love, you're going to lose! You hear me?! You hear me?! You hear me?!"''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Supports his nephew but does take issue with John's RevengeBeforeReason. Once Mariah kidnaps him and he gets a chance to meet her, he decides that maybe John had a point. However he finds DecapitationPresentation distasteful.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even his own wife calls him Anansi. The audience doesn't learn his full name until "The Creator", after he's dead.
* HonestAdvisor: He's not afraid to question John's decisions and tactics. Bushmaster said that anyone else who questioned him like that would have at least gotten roughed up, but Anansi says that if he's afraid to speak his mind, God strike him dead.
* JustShootHim: He wants Bushmaster to just kill Mariah and be done with it instead of his long and barbaric crusade that makes the Jamaicans living in Harlem look bad. He won't deny Mariah doesn't have it coming but she is not worth John ruining his body with Nightshade and the police arresting any black man with dreads because they think he beheads people.
** Mariah invokes this on him when her preferred method of killing him, dramatically burning him alive, ends up taking too long for her liking, allowing him a fairly long DyingCurse. So she just shoots him... thus leaving behind a bullet at the crime scene that can be traced to her custom-made handgun and contributing to her downfall.
* ManOnFire: Mariah lights him on fire, then shoots him as he's burning up.
* MoralityChain: He ''tries'' to be this to his nephew John, often pointing out that he's going way too far in his crusade, but John usually rebuffs him and his arguments. While they still clearly love each other, Anansi is worried to see him going down a dark path.
* ParentalSubstitute: He and Ingrid took John in after Gwen was killed. He also served as a father-figure to Sheldon Shaw, given how torn up he is by his death.
* ReformedCriminal: Though he has a record in Jamaica, in NY he was an upstanding, law-abiding immigrant and worker.
* RetiredMonster: He has a record in Jamaica, but by all accounts he's been on the straight and narrow since coming to New York. He only gets involved with the Stylers more out of loyalty to John than any criminal intent.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Refuses Bushmaster's offered money, as he doesn't want any ill-gotten gains. Ingrid, however, is more than happy to take the money.

[[folder:Tilda Johnson]]
!!Matilda "Tilda" Maybelline Johnson (neé Dillard)
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have a feeling for healing people. And not just with medicine, but by using the earth the way it was intended."'']]

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleDennis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

->''"Being in the middle of nowhere, I just became fascinated with holistic medicine, and Mother Earth's unfiltered power. So I melded together ancient and modern medical practice into Mother's Touch. Mother Nature's Touch."''

Mariah Dillard's estranged daughter, the owner of holistic health store in Harlem, and eventually comes to Bushmaster's aid in his vendetta against her mother.

* AdaptedOut: Needless to say, this version of the character never seems to have turned [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica anybody]] into a werewolf... yet.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Becomes this to Mariah.
* AntiVillain: Like many other antagonists in the MCU, Tilda isn't strictly ''evil'', but more a victim of circumstance. She's certainly more nuanced than her counterpart in the comics, who eventually does undergo a [[HeelFaceTurn heel-face turn]] to join ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s ''ComicBook/OccupyAvengers'', and become the new Nighthawk, a vigilante superhero.
* ChildByRape: Her birth father is Uncle Pete (her great-granduncle), who sexually abused Mariah when she was young.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She doesn't actually call herself '(Deadly) Nightshade" in ''Luke Cage'', but she does use the nightshade flower to create the concoction that heightens Bushmaster's abilities.
* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: She didn't have much of a relationship with either of her parents growing up.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being used by her mother and being told that she was never loved (on top of countless utter horrible things), Tilda poisons Mariah.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She starts styling her fair into two afro puffs after the [[FaceHeelTurn face-heel turn.]]
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: The man she grew up believing to be her father, Jackson Dillard, wasn't. She's actually the biological daughter of Pistol Pete (who was also her great-granduncle), which Mabel and Mariah covered up by sending her to live with their cousins, the Johnsons.
* GreenEyedMonster: Despite Tilda's claims that she wants nothing more to do with the Stokes family, she's clearly furious when she learns that Mariah bequethed Harlem's Paradise to Luke instead of her and her last appearance in Season Two has her looking at Luke in envy of his position.
* KissOfDeath: How she administers the poison that kills Mariah.
* {{Irony}}: She named her business the ''very'' {{freudian|excuse}} Mother's Touch.
* LastOfHerKind: Much as she would like to deny it, as of the end of season 2, she is the last remaining member of the Stokes family.
* MythologyGag: When [[https://static3.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tilda-finale.jpg?q=35&w=864&h=432&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 we last see her in season two]], she resembles [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nightshade.png?q=35&w=864&h=560&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 her comic book counterpart]] quite closely.
* OlderThanSheLooks: If Mariah had her as a teen, Tilda is ''at least'' in her mid/late forties.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tilda has no blood relation to either Black Mariah or Cottonmouth.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being the daughter of the show's primary antagonist, she's never mentioned in the first season of ''Luke Cage'', but it's explained and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] after she first appears.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She poisons her own mother.
* ShedTheFamilyName: As a reflection of her fraught relationship with Mariah, she rechristens herself as Tilda ''Johnson'', in respect for the relatives who raised her as child.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Subverted. Mariah describes her as such, peddling holistic "cures" to people, but she really does have chemist know-how and aids Bushmaster in taking down both Luke Cage ''and'' Mariah.
* StockholmSyndrome: She gets accused of this after she willingly helps Bushmaster try to kill her mother after he previously had kidnapped and threatened her, at one point she's even referred to as "Harlem's own Patty Hearst."
* VillainousLineage: The daughter of two criminals, she ends up murdering her own mother.
* WhiteSheep: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] All in all, she's far less villainous than the rest of the Stokes clan, and is often horrified by everything her mother does...which causes her to ''kill'' her mother, pushing her into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. She also seemed to have a cordial relationship with Cornell, though she didn't know the extent of his criminal dealings (she knew he was a criminal, but never knew about his {{Arms Deal|er}}ing).

[[folder:Ingrid Mackintosh]]
!!''Ingrid Mackintosh''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Helena Alicia Simms
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Bushmaster's maternal aunt, wife of Anansi and co-owner of Gwen's, named after her late sister.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Calls the DecapitationPresentation barbaric, not knowing her nephew is behind it.
* ParentalSubstitute: She and Anansi took John in after Gwen was killed.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Despite knowing how John likely got that money, she isn't too proud to accept it.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After he husband is murdered, her restaurant becomes a crime scene, and with her nephew half dead, Ingrid just opts to take Bushmaster and Anansi's body back to Kingston.

!!Carbone Crime Family

[[folder:Rosalie Carbone]]
!!''Rosalie Carbone''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't know your price yet."'']]

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Italian-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AnnabellaSciorra
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A criminal leader with an eye on Harlem and Hell's Kitchen.

* AdvertisedExtra: She was announced early on for the second season of ''Luke Cage'' along with Bushmaster and Tilda Johnson, but she only appears in the last two episodes. Likewise, her role in the third season of ''Daredevil'' is also a very minor one.
* AgeLift: In the comics, Rosalie Carbone was in her mid twenties. Here, she's in her late 50s.
* CastingGag: Guess [[Series/TheSopranos Gloria Trillo]] moved out of Jersey to be become a crime boss elsewhere after being threatened and traumatized by Tony's goons.
* CulturalPosturing: Engages in a skewed version of this in her first appearance, extolling the greater competence of the Italians for organized crime when compared to African Americans.
* TheDon: She is one of the most important and influential crimeladies in Manhattan.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She's set up for her role in ''Daredevil'' season 3 through her appearances in the last two episodes of ''Luke Cage'' season 2.
* TheMafia: She's a mob boss of Italian origin.
* NervesOfSteel:
** She watches Luke Cage rip through her office and guards and never even flinches, despite watching Luke get brutal and knowing how easily he could do the same or worse to her. She stares him down and calls his bluff, getting Luke to make a deal with her instead.
** When Fisk has Dex kill a mouthy boss at his forced meeting of crimelords he's extorting [[ProtectionRacket protection money]] from, Rosalie barely flinches, compliments Fisk on his ability to put on a show, and inquires on how to transfer money to him.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She has a very low opinion of African Americans' competency vis-à-vis organized crime, and no scruples about telling Mariah Dillard this to her face.
* TheQueenpin: She's the boss of her own TheMafia crime family.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the comics, she's an enemy of Punisher. In the show, she's not involved with Frank in any form, instead getting tangled with Luke Cage and Mariah Dillard, and, later, with Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Ray Nadeem's dying confession is leaked and widely disseminated during Fisk's wedding, Carbone is the first person seen to be noping out of there before the NYPD move in to arrest him.
* VillainousCrush: [[RunningGag She wants to have coffee with Luke.]]
* VillainousLegacy: Shades claims that her main motivation for making moves on Harlem is to accomplish the conquest of the area that her father attempted and failed to complete back in the day due to the opposition of Mama Mabel.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: After Mariah goes to jail and the Stokes empire starts to crumble, Rosalie provides backing for Anibal Izqueda and the Puerto Rican mafia to assassinate Eric Hong ''and'' make a move on Harlem. She later becomes an associate of Fisk's empire when he gets out of prison.
* WomanOfWealthAndTaste: She is always dressed in fashionable clothes and lives in a massive loft full of exquisite artwork and so impeccably furnished that even Luke is impressed.

!!The Kitchen Irish
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Kitchen Irish''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

One of the crime syndicates operating in Hell's Kitchen. It is formed by Irish and Irish-Americans.
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* BusCrash: Nearly all of its remaining members are killed in between Punisher's last appearance in Season 2 of ''Daredevil'' and the first episode of ''The Punisher''.
* EvilPowerVacuum: They are one of the groups seeking to fill the vacuum left after Wilson Fisk is sent to prison and the Hand factions of Nobu and Gao retreat into the shadows.
* TheIrishMob: They are a crime syndicate formed by Irish and Irish-Americans and operate both in New York and Ireland.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the original [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX MAX comic arc]], the Irish gang wasn't named or mentioned and the arc name came from the fact a Hell's Kitchen Irish bar was bombed with the Punisher inside. Here, however, they are outright called the Kitchen Irish, with Finn Cooley leading the gang.
[[/folder]]

!!!Leadership

[[folder:Finn Cooley]]
!!''Finn Cooley''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Generosity is my defining trait."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TonyCurran

->''"Man takes my son. I lose a boy. He takes my money. I'm getting it back! We will beat every mother's son in this city till I have my money in my hands, and this shooter's on his knees, alive. Or there'll be more of you shining the inside of a box!"''

An Irish mobster with interests in both Ireland and New York.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Finn Cooley in [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX the comics]] was an ex-Irish Republican Army bomber who was disfigured by one of his own bombs. In the show, he looks normal. Although he does eventually get his face blown off like his comic book namesake, it's by a shotgun, and he doesn't survive it.
* AxCrazy: He comes off as more than a little unhinged when he suddenly and brutally murders an old friend at his son's funeral.
* BadBoss: The man does not give a solitary shit about the people under his command; he threatens them with death should they fail, and it's not an idle threat. Best demonstrated when he nonchalantly ''thanks'' Castle for "thinning the herd" after he kills a few of his men. Either because he's happy he has less overhead to pay off when he gets his money, or because he considered them weak and better off dead than a burden to him. Neither are hallmarks of [[AFatherToHisMen great leaders.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Finn is a violent, sadistic, psycho murderer with a full beard.
* BerserkButton: His son. He kills a friend who suggests he just accept his son's death, and takes a drill to Frank's foot when Frank implies he didn't care about his son.
* BoomHeadshot: Courtesy of Frank.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Replies to Frank asking who killed his family, his response is 'Who cares?' He might just be saying so as one last middle finger to him though.
* DecoyAntagonist: The manner of his arrival and his status as as TheLeader of the Kitchen Irish sets him up as a major antagonist for both Frank Castle and Daredevil. And then he's killed in the same episode.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when Frank turns the tables on him and has him at gunpoint demanding to know who killed his family, Finn doesn't flinch or beg.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He turns up at his son's funeral, stabs an underling through the eye with an ice pick before popping pills for his nerves, turns over a filled coffin, and shrieks that he wants his money back. All of this establishes him as psychotic, cruel, unhinged and greedy.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Finn wants his money back, and puts that first, but his son's death is still a ''very'' touchy subject.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Promises Frank a quick end if he does as he's told, and spares Frank's dog when he finally agrees to do so.
* EvilRedhead: He has red hair and is a violent crime boss.
* EyeScream: When Seamus tells him that his son's death was just an occupational hazard of the business, Finn proceeds to kill the guy by stabbing him in the left eye with an ice pick, driving it all the way into his skull. Finn meets his own end with a point-blank shotgun round to his left eye courtesy of Frank Castle.
* KickTheDog: A literal case; he breaks Frank by threatening to torture his dog in the same way he tortured Frank.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He makes it clear to everyone around him that he is displeased about his son's death. Of course, he is more concerned about his money than he is about his kid.
* SkewedPriorities: Subverted; despite how generally erratic and violent he is, he knows that no gang war could ever return his son, so instead he pursues his lost money, which he ''can'' get back, with the added zeal of a man avenging the death of a loved one.
* ThisIsADrill: In true IRA style he bores through Frank's foot with a drill.
* TooDumbToLive: He tells the guy with a shotgun point blank to your head on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for his family's death 'who cares' in response to being asked about said family's death. While getting mercy from the Punisher was highly unlikely, if he stalled for few seconds his minions would've been there.
* TortureTechnician: He's handy with a drill.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's killed in his first appearance. But damn if he didn't leave a memorable impression.
* WeHaveReserves: Naturally, when the Kitchen Irish corner Frank at the carousel, he manages to kill and wound a couple of them before they take him down with multiple tasers. Finn doesn't seem at all concerned about just having several of his men killed.
-->'''Finn:''' Thanks for thinning out the herd a little!

[[folder:Nesbitt]]
!!''Nesbitt''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nesbitt_mcu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Anyone crosses us, we'll paint the streets red with their blood."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Andy Murray

An Irish-American mob boss in Hell's Kitchen.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While he is a ruthless gang boss, he is nowhere near as disgusting as his comic counterpart, who was abusive to his relatives and sexually abusive to the female ones. He also never promises an inheritance that turns out to be explosives, instead that is vaguely adapted when the Punisher robs money from the Kitchen Irish after the massacre and booby traps it.
* AgeLift: He's a few decades younger than his comic counterpart.
* BadBoss: He clearly was about to use that bottle to kill an unruly member of the inner circle for an implied past betrayal, as a cap to his speech. He doesn't get the chance.
* BaldOfEvil: He's a high-ranking mobster with a balding head.
* BigBadWannabe: Nesbitt is an intimidating crime lord about to launch a campaign of violence to win back Hell's Kitchen for the Irish. The Punisher makes short work of him and his inner circle within a space of three minutes. Furthermore, during a prison conversation between Fisk and Stewart Finney later on, Fisk implies that when he was on the street, he never did business with the Kitchen Irish because Nesbitt was too problematic.
* NewEraSpeech: After the fall of Fisk, he gives a speech to his underlings about how the Irish will rise again and take control of Hell's Kitchen. He and all his men are then killed in a span of about five seconds.

[[folder:Cullen]]
!!''Cullen''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Stephen Lee Anderson

One of the bosses of the Kitchen Irish.

* BaldOfEvil: A mob boss with a heavily balding head.
* CategoryTraitor: Seems Nesbitt was about to hit him with a wine bottle before Frank attacked, indicating he's one of the Irish who had joined Fisk.
* VillainousFriendship: He's a close ally and friend of Nesbitt.

[[folder:Seamus]]
!!''Seamus''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' John Joseph Gallagher

One of the bosses of the Kitchen Irish.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: An ice pick through the eye, then plunged deeper into the skull to reach the brain sounds like a nasty way to die.
* EyeScream: Cooley stabs him through the eye with an ice pick, then plunges it deeper into his skull to kill him.
* TooDumbToLive: Trying to comfort an AxCrazy criminal who has lost a son by saying that death is part of business as usual is a sure way to get killed.

!!!Other Members

[[folder:Kelly Cooley]]
!!''Kelly Cooley''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Paul Drechsler-Martell
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

The son of Finn Cooley, following his father's footsteps as a member of the Kitchen Irish.

* AdaptationalBadass: Even though he's not particularly impressive the way he gets gunned down along with the other Kitcher Irish members, it's still better than his comics counterpart who screamed from just having his bandages torn off.
* AdaptationNameChange: His closest counterpart in the ''Punisher MAX'' comics is Peter Cooley.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Finn didn't want his son to follow in his criminal footsteps but Kelly insisted.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Punisher MAX'' comics, Peter is Finn Cooley's nephew instead of his son.

[[folder:Johnny]]
!!''Johnny''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Irish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Dann
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A member of the Kitchen Irish.

* BaldOfEvil: A mobster with a balding head.
* BeardOfEvil: A mobster with a mustache and beard.
* SirSwearsALot:
--> Johnny: ''Now you ya mangy shite. How's the view up Nesbitt's arse''.
* EvilRedhead: A redhead mobster.

[[folder:Grotto]]
!!''Elliot "Grotto" Grote''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grotto_mcu.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I got a pack of killers gunning for my men, my people think I'm a traitor or a rat."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Irish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' [=McCaleb=] Burnett
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

An Irish-American mafia grunt, who manages to escape the Punisher and contacts Nelson and Murdock for a protection deal.

* ConsummateLiar: When conversing with Nelson & Murdock, he greatly downplays his role in the Irish mob. So well in fact that Matt's lie detector abilities fail him. As a result, Matt is shocked when Frank Castle gets Grotto to reveal that he killed people on his boss's orders.
* ChurchgoingVillain: He was a Catholic that went to Matt's church every Sunday, and always donated, hoping for redemption.
* DeathByAdaptation: While a recurring character in the comics as a frequent partner to Turk Barrett, here he's killed off after three episodes.
* LonelyFuneral: Only Matt, Foggy, and Karen are at his funeral. Granted all his associates were dead.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He claims to be little more than a low-level thug who simply does some delivery work. Then Frank Castle manages to get him to admit to Matt that he has murdered under orders from his superiors and killed an old woman when she wouldn't keep quiet.
* ReformedCriminal: He wants to be this, but he's too weak and greedy to really be successful. Self-preservation is more of a motivator than any hope of redemption.
* RejectedApology: Rejects Karen's attempts to apologize for lack of foresight regarding Reyes' double-crossing
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He wants to get out of Hell's Kitchen before the Punisher gets to him.
* SoleSurvivor: When the Punisher massacres the Irish mob meeting, Grotto has the good sense to take cover behind the bar and play dead. He is hit by a piece of shrapnel but manages to survive. Doesn't buy him much more than a couple of days.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Matt feels terrible after failing to save him from the Punisher. Followed up in his funeral.

[[folder:George]]
!!''George''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Irish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' David [=McCrea=]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

->'''Nesbitt:''' It is also a moment for sober reflection.
->'''George:''' Sober my arse.

A member of the Kitchen Irish who abandoned his compatriots to work for Wilson Fisk and returned to them after Fisk's fall, only to get killed when the Punisher massacred most of the Kitchen Irish.

* TheAlcoholic: {{Implied|Trope}} by the way Cullen cuts him off, and his joke after Nesbitt mentions "sober reflection".
* CategoryTraitor: Nesbitt indirectly calls him out for having sided against his fellow Irish.
* EvilRedhead: A redheaded mobster.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: He abandoned his fellow Irish to join Fisk only returning after Fisk's downfall.
* TooDumbToLive: Returns to the Kitchen Irish who he betrayed, and makes jokes while Nesbitt was giving a speech. Needless to say he would have died even if The Punisher hadn't arrived.

[[folder:Rory]]
!!''Rory''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Irish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Joshua Bitton
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A member of the Kitchen Irish.

* BeardOfEvil: A violent mobster with a dark beard.
* TheBrute: Rory constantly resorts to violence when leading the rest of Cooley's thugs to track down the Punisher, killing or maiming someone in each attack.
* TheDragon: To Finn Cooley. After Cooley orders the lesser Kitchen Irish to find the Punisher, Rory leads the assaults on the leads.

[[folder:Mickey O'Hare]]
!!''Mickey O'Hare''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Irish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jon David Casey
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

The last surviving member of the Kitchen Irish.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a family of his own and appeals to that in an attempt to get the Punisher to spare him. He doesn't.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last member of the Kitchen Irish.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He sought to flee the USA to escape Frank. He fails.

!!Colon Crime Ring
[[folder:Domingo Colon]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristStokesDillardRing Stokes–Dillard Crime Ring]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Salvador Colon]]
!!''Salvador Colon''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American (ethnic Puerto Rican)
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

A leader of the Colon crime family during the time of Mama Mabel and Pistol Pete. Older brother of Domingo Colon

* TheCorrupter: He sought to get Pistol Pete and the Stokes into the drug business.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's dead by the first season of ''Luke Cage'', with Domingo as his sole successor.

[[folder:Ernesto & Ricardo]]
!!''Ernesto & Ricardo''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American (ethnic Puerto Rican)
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Roberto De Felice (Ernesto), Edward Torres (Ricardo)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Two Puerto Rican thugs working for Domingo Colon as his bodyguards.

* BeardOfEvil: Both are bearded criminals, with Ernesto having the thicker beard and Ricardo having a thinner and lighter one.

!!Korean Mob (Kkangpae)

[[folder:Peter Hong]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristStokesDillardRing Stokes–Dillard Crime Ring]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eric Hong]]
!!''Eric Hong''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Korean
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Marcus Choi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A Korean mobster, brother of the late Peter Hong and an ally of Rosalie Carbone.

* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: He's the leader of the Korean Mob.
* SharpDressedMan: Unlike his late brother, Eric wears an elegant striped suit and red tie.
* ReplacementGoldfish: For the later Peter Hong.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: His second appearance happens after he's already killed.
* YouAreInCommandNow: He took over the Korean after his brother Peter was killed by Diamondback.

!!Puerto Rican Mob

[[folder:Anibal Izqueda]]
!!''Anibal Izqueda''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American (ethnic Puerto Rican)
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Louie Gasparro
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A leader of the Puerto Rican mob.

* BaldOfEvil: He's bald and the head of a dangerous criminal organization.
* EvilWearsBlack: He's a mobster that wears all-dark clothing.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Based on his nationality, its likely he took over the place of Domingo Colón among the Puerto Rican crime organizations.

!!Albanian Syndicate

[[folder:Vic Jusufi]]
!!''Vic Jusufi''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Albanian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' James Biberi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

The leader of the Albanian Syndicate, currently incarcerated at Ryker's Island.

* BaldOfEvil: He's a bald mob boss.
* EnemyMine: Helps Matt escape the prison riot so he can help him take down Fisk.
* TheLeader: Of the Albanian Syndicate.
* TheRival: One of Wilson Fisk's rival mob bosses.
* TattooedCrook: A criminal with a number of tattoos on his arms and chest.

[[folder:'Mother Theresa']]
!!''"Mother Theresa"''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Albanian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ron Fehmiu
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A high-ranking member of the Albanian Syndicate, dubbed "Mother Theresa" by the FBI.

* BaldOfEvil: He's a bald mob boss.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name isn't mentioned in the episode, just the nickname Mother Theresa which was given to him by the FBI. His back also has a big tattoo of her.
* HookersAndBlow: One of his criminal enterprises is a whorehouse, which caters to a number of corrupt New York city officials.
* TattooedCrook: He sports a large tattoo of Mother Theresa on his back, hence his nickname.

!!!Associates

[[folder:Michael Kemp]]
!!''Michael Kemp''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Albanian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Luke Robertson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A small time criminal who briefly worked with the Albanians.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: MCU Kemp is blond whereas the original is red-headed.
* AdaptationalHeroism: He's much more sympathetic than his comic-books counterpart, a three-time felon that tried to kill Karen Page.

!!Jewish-American Mafia

[[folder:Latimer Zyl]]
!!''Latimer Zyl''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jewish-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Stephen Axelrod
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

The leader of the Jewish-American Mafia in New York.

* CanonForeigner: There's no Latimer Zyl in the mainstream comics.
* KosherNostra: A Jewish-American mob boss. He even wears the trappings of the Haredi, a fundamentalist branch of modern Judaism.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He's one of the mob bosses blackmailed by Fisk into his [[ProtectionRacket "protection tax"]] scheme.

!![[TheMafiya Russian Mafia]]

-->For the Russian Mobsters that collaborate with Kingpin, see the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsFiskCrimeRing Fisk Crime Ring]] article

[[folder:Kazan]]
!!''Kazan''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ilia Volok

A member of the Russian Mafia with ties to Nikolai Poloznev.
----
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's a criminal, but is genuinely concerned about his nephew, Sergei.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He gets killed by John Pilgrim because he knows the secret Anderson and Eliza Schultz are tryuing to keep hidden.
* LargeAndInCharge: He leads a group fo Russian mobsters and is large sized and strong.
* TheMafiya: A mobster of Russian origin.

[[folder:Sergei Konchevsky]]
!!''Sergei Konchevsky''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Alex Notkin

A nephew of Kazan, also involved with the Bratva.
----
* AffectionateNickname: Kazan refers to him as "Dima".
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He gets killed by John Pilgrim because he knows about the photographs Anderson and Eliza Schultz want found and destroyed.
* TheMafiya: A mobster of Russian origin.

[[folder:The Russian]]
!!''The Russian''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Keith Jardine

An enforcer of Kazan's.
----
* BaldOfEvil: A bald mobster.
* BludgeonedToDeath: The Punisher beats him to death with a bench press plate.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Concealed by the fact that he's surrounded by other Russian mobsters.
* TheDragon: To Kazan
* TattooedCrook: Sports a number of Russian Mafia tattoos, most notably a star on each shoulder.

[[folder:Vor]]
!!''Vor''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Oleg Prudius

Another of Kazan's enforcers.
----
* BeardOfEvil: A bearded mobster.
* TheBrute: One of Kazan's many enforcers.
* TattooedCrook: Sports a number of Russian Mafia tattoos, most notably a star on each shoulder.

!!Billy Russo's Gang

[[folder:In General]]
!!''Billy Russo's Gang''

A bunch of US military veterans, who band together under the leadership of Billy Russo to become a powerful criminal gang.
----
* BadassCrew: A bunch of ex-military guys with high-end weaponry. It's not surprise that they manage to quickly establish themselves in the New York underworld, and nobody except Frank Castle himself is much of a threat to them.
* BandOfBrothers: Due to their shared experiences both in war and in civilian life, they form a very strong bond, seeing each other as brothers.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The crew is composed by veterans of many races.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: They are all disaffected veterans who have turned to crime as a reaction to being forgotten by their government despite their military service.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: At first they take to wearing Halloween latex masks and such during their robberies. Later on, they all take to wearing [[WhiteMaskOfDoom White Masks of Doom]] like Russo.
* ReplacementGoldfish: For Billy, they fill the emotional role fullfilled by Anvil, his defunct PCM, a private army/family under his command.
* TheResenter: Many of them are resentful that they have been left out by society at large despite their service and believe they deserve better.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Some of them are members of Curtis' support group and have had trouble adjusting to civilian life away from war.
* SociopathicSoldier: They are military veterans with no qualms about injuring or killing civilians, even though they are the very people they were supposed to be protecting with their service.

[[folder:Billy Russo]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUOperationCerberus Operation Cerberus]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jake Nelson]]
!!''Jake Nelson''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jordan Dean

An ShellShockedVeteran in Curtis Hoyle's support group who introduces Billy to a number of like-minded veterans.

* TheAlcoholic: He has resorted to consuming alcohol, as well as meth, to cope with his traumatic war experiences.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Frank pulls this on him, [[ImpaledPalm nailing his hand to a table and twisting it]] in order to find out where Billy is.
* OneSteveLimit: With regards to Foggy Nelson and his family. They all share the Nelson surname but there's not indication Jake is in any way related to them.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: He doesn't participate in the gang's crime spree because he's abducted by Frank Castle and Curtis Hoyle for interrogation.

[[folder:José]]
!!''José''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Samuel Gomez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A United States Army veteran who joins up with Jigsaw's Crew, and quickly becomes Billy's most trusted comrade.
----
* BeardOfEvil: A criminal with a thick black beard.
* ItsPersonal: After Frank kills a large number of them and later escapes police custody, Jose wants to avenge his fallen brothers.
* KarmaHoudini: Gets away scot-free due to Billy providing him with a new identity and enough money to start a new life and urging him to leave town, so that Frank doesn't kill him.
* NumberTwo: To Billy.

[[folder:Bobby]]
!!''Bobby''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Charles Brice
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

Another ex-veteran and member of Billy's group, who participates in the group's robbery of the [=ReadyQuick=] Check Cashing.
----
* BoomHeadshot: How he meets his end at the hands of Billy, after questioning his leadership.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He tries to leave the gang out of fear for the Punisher.
* TooDumbToLive: Really, he should have known better than to mouth off to Billy like that, after clearly seeing that he was a deeply unstable individual.

[[folder:Anton Reed]]
!!''Anton Reed''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brendan Ryan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

Another veteran who joins up with Jigsaw's crew. He's also an employee of [=ReadyQuick=] Check Cashing.
----
* BoomHeadshot: How Russo dispatches him.
* TheMole: He's Jigsaw's inside man to pull the robbery of [=ReadyQuick=] Check Cashing.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He tries to leave the gang out of fear for the Punisher.

[[folder:Phillip]]
!!''Phillip''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brett Bartholomew
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

Another veteran and member of Billy's group, who tries to kill Curtis.
----
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Doesn't get any deeper characterization before Curtis kills him in self-defense.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Gets shot and wounded by Curtis and then bleeds out in his arms while the latter is trying to save him, causing Curtis great pain.

[[folder:Moke]]
!!''Moke''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brendan Ryan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

Another veteran who joins up with Jigsaw's crew.
----
* BeardOfEvil: An aggressive sexual harasser with a dark beard.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Frank takes a fingertip off his corpse to access his iPhone.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He sexually harasses the women that attend the parties at Valhalla, with only the threat of Russo stopping him from doing something worse.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not just a veteran-turned-criminal, but also a chauvinist and sexual harasser.

!!The Diablos

[[folder:In General]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

A now-defunct gang that Arturo Rey III belonged to.
----
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Diablos" means "Devils".
* PosthumousCharacter: The Diablos were driven away from Washington Heights by the Yardies.

!!Vulture's Gang

-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsVulturesGang Vulture's Gang]] page.

!Miscellaneous New York Criminals
!!Crime Bosses

[[folder:Dutton]]
!!''Dutton''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dutton_8.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamForsythe
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

->''"Cut the shit, fat man. I've known guys like you my whole life, I killed most of 'em. You ain't never seen a throne you didn't want to sit in. So I'm here to make myself crystal clear: there's only room for one of us in this prison and it ain't gonna be you, not ever. Because I'm the kingpin of this bitch."''

A successful drug dealer and an inmate at Rikers Island Correctional Facility who quickly becomes an enemy of Fisk's upon his arrival.
----
* BullyingADragon: He has the great idea to try intimidating Wilson Fisk. [[TheDogBitesBack Because his prison contraband ring totally outdoes Fisk's street smarts.]]
* CanonForeigner: There's no crime boss or Kingpin's enemy named Dutton in the comics.
* DyingAlone: Averted; after being mortally wounded by Frank Castle, he's left by prison doctors to die in a hospital bed, but Wilson Fisk decides to stay by his side and gloat while eating his meal.
* EvilVersusEvil: His conflict with Fisk boils down to a ruthless prison kingpin facing down a new, even smarter challenger.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dutton comes to Fisk with a smile and "friendly" advice, but it's blatant intimidation tactics.
* NumberTwo: The long-haired henchman who accompanies him when he greets Fisk and is seen in his cell when they are killed by Castle.
* TheRival: He treats Fisk as a potential rival.
* SmugSnake: He believes that with his limited resources, he can overthrow the criminal empire of Wilson Fisk. Unfortunately for him, his arrogance gets in the way of him giving [[MagnificentBastard Fisk]] as much credit as he should.
* VillainHasAPoint: He observes that Frank Castle's mission of revenge will never end. Frank, true to his nature, knows this, but doesn't care.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arturo Gomez III]]
!!''Arturo "El Rey" Gomez III''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2018_07_06_22h45m46s158.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Who are you supposed to be, the short arm of the law?"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Otto Sanchez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A Latino drug-runner and the owner of Merlin Discount Furniture. He uses his furniture chain to smuggle heroin.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Following the death of Domingo Colon at Diamondback's hands, El Rey takes over the Colon family's drug business, forcing Domingo's brothers to retire.
* BoomHeadshot: Shades shoots him in the head when he begins insulting Mariah and threatens to go to Misty with everything he knows.
* BullyingADragon: Yes Arturo, insulting Mariah to her right-hand and acknowledged lover's face was going to end well, said no one ever.
* CanonForeigner: While the Diablos also appear in the mainstream comics, Arturo hasn't.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's using his chain of furniture stores as a front for a drug trafficking operation.
* {{Gangbangers}}: He used to be a member of a Dominican gang called the "Diablos" (The Devils).
* IHaveManyNames: He goes by the aliases of "El Rey" (The King) and "El Tercero" (The Third). He was born Arturo Gomez III but had it legally changed to Arturo Rey III.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist against black people, judging by his tirade to Shades.
* ThemeNaming: The fact that the names of his legal and illegal businesses are connected to the Myth/KingArthur legend helps Luke to identify him.
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: The alias he is known by as the source of the "Luke Cage" heroin is ''"El Tercero"'', which is just a part of his name in Spanish: Arturo Gomez ''The Third''.
* TooDumbToLive: He ''really'' should have known better than to threaten to snitch and then go on a racist tirade about Mariah to Shades' face in the same breath.

[[folder:Don Rigoletto]]
!!''Don Rigoletto''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Italian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

A "retired" mafia boss who preceded Wilson Fisk. In the past, Fisk's father owed him money.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Silvio mentions he was cut to pieces.
* DeadlyEuphemism: When threatening Farnum into carrying out a hit on Karen, Wesley claims that Rigoletto "retired". Because yeah, that's totally what being hacked to pieces constitutes.
* TheDon: He was a mafia boss until Fisk had him killed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He was a member of the old-school mafia that believed in leaving made members' wives and kids out of the business.
* TheGhost: He's never seen, just mentioned. Justified, partially, because he has already been KilledOffscreen by the time he's first mentioned.
* LoanShark: Bill Fisk borrowed money from him for his city council run. When Farnum is approached by Wesley to be strongarmed into the first attempt on Karen, he thinks Wesley is an enforcer of Rigoletto's come to check on the $30,000 he owes in gambling debts, to which Wesley replies "Mr. Rigoletto has retired. His books have been acquired by my employer."
* TheMafia: He's a mob boss of Italian origin, even called "Don".
* PosthumousCharacter: It's implied he's already dead by the time Wesley mentions he's "retired".
* PredecessorVillain: He was the mob boss of Hell's Kitchen before Fisk "retired" him.

[[folder:Edgar Brass]]
!!''Edgar Brass''
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

A drug dealer with ties to the Kitchen Irish.

* TheButcher: He has the reputation of being a drug dealing butcher
* TheGhost: He's never seen, just mentioned. Also justified because the so-called sting operation to capture him using Grotto is actually a trap for the Punisher set up by DA Samantha Reyes.

[[folder:Prohashka]]
!!''Prohashka''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"This is how he negotiates, huh?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peter Claymore
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A mobster active in Hell's Kitchen.

* TheMafiya: His surname indicates he's Eastern European.
* TheRival: To the Ransakhov brothers, who take over his front taxi company, which competed with their own, after he's killed.
* VillainsOutShopping: His only scene is while he's bowling with his crew.
* VillainousValor: When Healy easily defeats his guards and comes at him, Prohashka puts up one hell of a fight. Even after getting his arm gruesomely broken, he just rams his forehead into Healy's nose.
* YourHeadAsplode: Prohashka gets his head smashed into pieces by a bowling ball.

[[folder:Everett Starr]]
!!''Everett Starr''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ned Van Zandt

An aged crime boss.
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* BaldOfEvil: A balding crime boss.
* BoomHeadshot: Dex beans him in the forehead with one of his batons as a message.
* EvilOldFolks: A mob boss in his sixties.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Thinks Fisk is simply a pampered informant, and refuses his proposed [[ProtectionRacket "protection tax"]], thinking Fisk will squeal on them to stay in the FBI's good graces. At this point Fisk has the FBI under his thumb and can prosecute them at his leisure. Fisk has Dex kill Starr immediately, then jacks up the tax rate to 25%, at which point everyone else at the table immediately gives in.

[[folder:John Hammer]]
!!''John Hammer''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ezra Knight
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

An African-American crime boss and owner of a chop-shop.

* BaldOfEvil: A bald gang leader.
* CanonForeigner: There's no John Hammer in the comics.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He's one of the crime bosses who is arrested by Kingpin's co-opted FBI taskforce and blackmailed into handing him 20% (then 25%) of all their profit in exchange of [[ProtectionRacket protection]] from federal prosecution. Later, he's also coerced into attending Fisk's wedding to Vanessa.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with regards to the overall MCU. He shares the surname (and even the J.H. initials) with [[Film/IronMan2 Justin Hammer.]]

[[folder:Sophia Carter]]
!!''Sophia Carter''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Cori Dioquino
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A crime boss operating in New York City.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her ethnicity is not exactly clear, though her actress is Filipino-American.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: She's one of the crime bosses who is arrested by Kingpin's co-opted FBI taskforce and blackmailed into handing him 20% (then 25%) of all their profit in exchange of {{protection|racket}} from federal prosecution.
* TheQueenpin: She's a crime boss in her own right, which is why she's arrested by Fisk's FBI cronies to be subjected to the Kingpin's extortion scheme.

[[folder:Nikolai Poloznev]]
!!''Nikolai Poloznev''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Dikran Tulaine
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A Russian oligarch and former policeman with ties to the Russian Mafia.

* DirtyCop: To rise from the police to an oligarch industrialist he had to be one.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: He has kept his daughter ignorant of his criminal activities and nurtures her dreams of becoming a violinist.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's an oligarch and businessman who seeks influence over the United States government by blackmailing the Anderson and Eliza Schultz, and their son through them.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When he was a 12 years old boy, Poloznev's father took him to the woods to teach him about justice by killing a rapist. Poloznev instead learned about power and vowed to never be the man facing the barrel of a gun.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being kidnapped by Frank Castle, he remains stoic and collaborative despite being certain his time has come. Later when John Pilgrim appears before him and executes his bodyguards, he calmly accepts his fate.
* NotInTheFace: He asks Frank not to shoot him in the face so he can be properly identified by his family.

!!Minor Gangsters and Criminals

[[folder:Lewis Wilson]]
!!''Lewis Wilson''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"All I know is that we risked our lives and we did terrible things and it meant nothing when we got home."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Daniel Webber
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

->''"I don't have nightmares out here. I should never have discharged, Curtis. None of it, the heat, cold, sand, noise, fifty guys stinking up a dorm it never kept me up. Never bothered me. I slept good."''

A young veteran with very severe PTSD struggling to adjust to civilian life.

* AccidentalMurder: Nearly shoots and kills his dad reflexively after waking up from a bad PTSD-induced dream.
* BadassBookworm: Is knowledgable about the American constitution as well as being an ex-soldier.
* BloodKnight: Frank deduces that Lewis joined the Army because he wanted to fight and had a taste about how it feels, more than just serving the country.
* TheCorruptible: Lewis was not in a sound enough headspace to resist O'Connor's spiel. However, this doesn't mean corrupting vulnerable veterans is a safe pastime for would-be manipulators. PTSD is not a toy.
* DirtyCoward: He is accused by Frank face-to-face, and by Karen on the radio, of rank cowardice for bombing innocent civilians from a safe distance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: O'Connor [[PhonyVeteran lying about his service]] and using it to belittle actual combat veterans suffering from PTSD is heinous to be sure, but Lewis probably didn't need to stab him to death over it. Then again, O'Connor ''did'' reach for the knife first.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lewis ultimately blows himself up after Frank gets him away from Karen and locks him inside a freezer. LampShaded by him reciting the Kipling poem 'The Young British Soldier' which is about a soldier in Afghanistan being encouraged to kill himself to spare himself from a worse fate.
* {{Foil}}: To his [[TheCorrupter corrupter]] O'Connor, who is undeniably [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist.]] Lewis himself isn't actually racist, but it looks as if he was one since some of his victims are minorities. He also at least recognizes that Curtis was trying to help on the behalf of Lewis's own father no less, even if Lewis [[MenDontCry stubbornly refuses the help.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: For somebody talking so much about rights (including his freedom of assembly when he's arrested on the steps of the courthouse), Lewis seems pretty set on killing Karen because "she should not be allowed to write what she did."
** What makes this hypocrisy especially galling is that all military personnel have to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment, which explicitly covers both ''Freedom of Speech'' and ''Freedom of the Press,'' making him as Un-American as such [[SarcasmMode "Patriots"]] get.
* InsaneTrollLogic: After realizing that O'Connor had lied about everything, one would think Lewis would re-evaluate his belief in O'Connor's "white Christians are oppressed, the government is coming for our guns" rhetoric. But no, after O'Connor was exposed, Lewis became even more dedicated to the views that he espoused, to the point of becoming a MadBomber.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The result of his crummy life as a veteran, PTSD flashbacks, and O'Connor's toxic influence and right-wing rethoric.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: For all his flaws, his killing of [[TheCorrupter O'Connor]] is very damn satisfying.
* MadBomber: He sets off several bombs targeted at law enforcement and then mails a manifesto to Karen. Later, he tries to target Karen and Senator Ori during an interview.
* MadnessMantra: Begins to recite poems to try and keep his mind in balance the more unhinged he became.
* MenDontCry: He refuses to take the real help when offered it. Staying with the group and taking Curtis' "touchy-feely" advice to work on himself would have been the better thing to do than Just Blame Everybody.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Frank explains to Lewis that his crimes have ensured his father's life will be ruined, it reduces him to a complete breakdown capped off by suicide.
* NeverMyFault: Frank remembers him as a kid who blames everyone else for his problems.
* NotSoSimilar: Despite claiming to Frank that they're [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]] Lewis never truly suffers ''real'' loss like [[CrusadingWidower Frank]] had and [[NeverMyFault never takes responsibility for his actions.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepunisher/comments/7xipul/spoiler_a_list_of_similarities_between_lewis_and/ Lewis appears to be heavily inspired]] by Oklahoma City bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=].
* PetTheDog:
** Frank is actually able to convince him to tell him which wire to cut so he can save Curtis' and his own life.
** After he kills an Anvil employee at his home, he notices two budgies in a cage and spends a good while trying to convince them to fly away to freedom.
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Lewis's subplot is, on the face of, very detached from the main story arc of the first season which centers on Frank's revenge against a GovernmentConspiracy, with just a few interactions with the A-plot. However, it does illustrate what Frank maintained in ''Daredevil'' -- his is not ''simply'' a case of willfully-ignored PTSD gone terroristly ballistic.
* PrefersRocksToPillows: One of the early signs he's becoming unhinged is that he cannot sleep well on his home's bed, so he digs a foxhole in the backyard and sleeps there (even if it's November and it's freezing outside, as Curtis points out when he finds him there).
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: His entire subplot is his road to becoming one of these, from regular "something is not right with my life" pitiful veteran through "loose-cannon risk" veteran (which prevents him from being hired by Anvil) and straight to "the system is shit and it's best I kill everything that I think is corrupt" veteran.
* SanitySlippage: He grows more and more unhinged on account of his [=PTSD=], eventually becoming a mass murdering terrorist who's convinced himself he's a freedom fighter.
* ShadowArchetype: The entire purpose of his subplot seems to be an answer to the accusations of fascism that the Punisher has long faced, letting Frank himself refute this ideology and show what makes him someone worth rooting for on some level.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He's having difficulty getting readjusted to life back home, and is attending Curtis Hoyle's support group. He eventually loses his chance to work for [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Anvil]] because Curtis sees all of the signs of severe (as in "on the road to becoming a SociopathicSoldier") PTSD and warns Russo of it.
* ShoutOut
** Veteran soldier that drives a taxi in New York City and becomes increasingly unhinged because his shell-shock is making it hard for him to adapt back into society and decides to commit a violent act on a politician to show he's fed up? [[Film/TaxiDriver Now where have we heard that before]]? ([[InUniverse Curtis even asks Frank]] if that [[LampshadeHanging rings any bells to him]] when he first talks about Lewis).
** Daniel Webber's performance also calls back to his portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald in ''[[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree 11/22/63]]''
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's small potatoes compared to Agent Orange and Billy Russo but his attack on the Senator is the catalyst that leads to Frank and Madani learning the truth about Russo as he attempts to kill both of them in the chaos of Lewis' bombing.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Lewis begins believing [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic O'Connor's]] rhetoric about the decline of their country and the need to change it. WordOfGod even says things might've turned out differently for him if he hadn't met O'Connor.
* WesternTerrorists: He eventually becomes one, hoping to use fear to tear down what he views as a corrupt system.

[[folder:Maximilian Tatum]]
!!''Max Tatum''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesMcCaffrey
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A movie director with a past preying on young actresses.

* CastingCouch: Dorothy Walker had Trish sleep with Max in order to get a movie role.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Clearly based on the likes of Harvey Weinstein or Creator/RomanPolanski.

[[folder:Jace Montero]]
!!''Jace Montero''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Chaske Spencer
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A real estate developer and arsonist.

* AintTooProudToBeg: He begs after Trish begins to beat him.
* AssholeVictim: An arsonist responsible for the deaths of fourteen people and gets beaten to death by Trish Walker. However, his murder is still treated as a wrong thing due to Trish going off the deep end.
* BatterUp: He uses a baseball bat to defend himself from Trish.
* CanonForeigner: There's no Jace Montero in the comics.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Through his company, Jace Montero Properties, he purchases buildings and secretly sets them on fire, disregarding who gets killed in the process, to then develop new projects.
* VillainousGentrification: His M.O. is a minor version of the same plans Wilson Fisk had for Hell's Kitchen. One of the buildings he burned down was a landmark building.

[[folder:Sal Blaskowski]]
!!''Sal Blaskowski''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Barbara Tirrell
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A bookie and loan shark to whom Erik Gelden is indebted.

* EvilOldFolks: She's in her sixties and a sadistic criminal.
* EvilRedhead: She's a redheaded criminal and loan shark.
* FatBastard: She's an overweight criminal who has those indebted to her weighed down into a pool to get tortured or murdered.
* LoanShark: She's a bookie but operates like a loan shark when her gamblers fail to pay their debts to her.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: She gets accidentally impaled on her own crowbar when Trish defends herself from Sal.

[[folder:Reid Pearson]]
!!''Reid Pearson''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Spencer House
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A rapist represented by Hogarth and Associates.

* DateRape: He's doing a six-years stint on date rape after Trish Walker trashes him and has his would-be-victim, Birdie, denounce him to the police.
* SerialRapist: Birdie wasn't his first victim. Prior to that, Hogarth had him avoid prison on a technicality.

!!!!'''[[AC:Brooklyn]]'''

[[folder:Lance]]
!!''Lance''
[[quoteright:312:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lance_0.png]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Chris Critelli

A construction worker who needlessly antagonizes Frank Castle.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Being hit with a sledgehammer crushes bravado too.
* AssholeVictim: He and his crew are brutally beaten to death by Frank, but their actions across the episode showed they deserved it.
* BaldOfEvil: A jerk thief and petty criminal willing to kill his own a accomplices, with a bald head.
* BigNo: Shouts one right before Frank finishes him off.
* BullyingTheDragon: Even without knowing "Pete Castiglione" was really a mass-murdering vigilante, he did know that Frank spent entire workdays tearing down concrete walls with just a sledgehammer. In fact, that is one of the things he chooses to pick fights with Frank over.
* CurbStompBattle: He and his men are very easily beaten and killed by Frank, even when one of them gets his gun back and tries to shoot him.
* DirtyCoward: He talks big, but folds easily when he is in trouble.
* JerkAss: Just a bullying dick and petty criminal, with no shown redeeming features.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Is perfectly willing to kill Donnie in order to cover his tracks. Is also on the receiving end of this when his surviving henchmen attempts to abandon him to die at Frank's hands.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ends up receiving a very nasty one from Frank after attempting to murder Donnie, getting his legs, arms and spine broken before Frank finally kills him by smashing his head in.
* OhCrap: Has two of them, first when Donnie accidentally drops his wallet while robbing the Gnucci's, and later when he's beaten within an inch of his life by Frank and is seconds away from being murdered by him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Though he's killed by the end of the first episode of the Punisher series, his actions lead to Frank killing the Gnucci's in order to protect Donnie, which catches Micro's attention and kicks off the plot for the rest of the season.
* SmugSnake: He thinks it's a smart idea to rip off the very loan shark he owes money to.
* StupidCrooks: Decides to rip off a bunch of Mafiosi in a badly-managed hold up, including bringing along Donnie, a civilian who clearly has no criminal experience (as a last minute replacement because the fourth man broke his arm in an accident on the work site earlier that day), who he then tries to kill when things go south.
* TooDumbToLive: Stealing from a poker game hosted by the Gnucci crime family probably would have qualified, had Frank Castle not run into them first.

[[folder:Paulie]]
!!''Paulie''
[[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paulie_21.png]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler Elliot Burke
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A co-worker of Lance who joins his plot to steal off the Gnucci Crime Family.

* BoomHeadshot: Gets one from Frank.
* DirtyCoward: While Paulie was unlikely to kill off Frank, the fact is that he was still willing to let his friend get killed by the vigilante while he rushed to his car in a vain effort to get away. Thankfully, Frank wasn't letting him get off that easy.
* EvilRedhead: He shares many of the same character tropes as Lance, being a jerk thief and petty criminal that goes along with the attempted murder of Donny Chavez, but he's a redhead instead of bald.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: His cousin is the one who gets the guns for the robbery of the Gnucci poker game.
* {{Jerkass}}: Same as Lance. He laughs his ass off when Lance needlessly harasses and teases Frank at the construction site in which they all work.
* LeanAndMean: Paulie is the skinniest of Lance's gang.

[[folder:Leo]]
!!''Leo''
[[quoteright:322:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leo_02.png]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jason Hite
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

Another co-worker of Lance who joins his plot to steal off the Gnucci Crime Family.

* BeardOfEvil: A jerkass petty criminal and would-be-murderer with a thick bird.

[[folder:Otto Mink]]
!!''Otto Mink''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/57b3dbe3dbb08e085bca7d39868e4cbe.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"The time for money has passed. No one crosses me."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Sporleder
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

->''"Well, Mr. Mink is a greedy, black-market smuggler, sure, but he got me back into the country, and he's predictable in his greed."''
-->-- '''Howard Stark'''

A smuggler hired to sneak Howard Stark back into the US. After Peggy and Jarvis defy his demand for a higher ransom, he goes hunting for them.

* BadBoss: Mink executes his own men for failing him.
* BigBadWannabe: He's a fairly intimidating criminal, but he's in way over his head when it comes to Carter's world of spies and subterfuge. In the end, he's killed off before Carter is even aware he's after her.
* CanonForeigner: He has no known counterpart in the comics.
* GatlingGood: Carries a weapon that resembles an old-fashioned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box pepperbox revolver]] but functions like a miniature Gatling gun.
* {{Greed}}: It's what prompts him into MovingTheGoalPosts. Howard Stark comments on his greed.
* HonorBeforeReason: He's more concerned with the issue of personal pride than money.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Demands more money than what was agreed upon after getting Stark into the country.
* NeckSnap: How he's killed by Dottie.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills two of his own men for getting beaten by Howard and Carter.

[[folder:Jerome Zandow]]
!!''Jerome Zandow''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not afraid to kill a woman!"'']]