History Characters / MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve

* TheObiWan: To Steve; mentoring, empowering, death; the whole nine yards.

* ActionGirl: Does a pretty good job of DrillSergeantNasty to US Army recruits. She stands in front of a moving car to shoot down a Nazi spy and goes into battle with Captain America at a time in history when women were not typically allowed in front-line combat.
** Throwing punches and shooting guns are her preferred ways of beating her enemies. She's extremely dissatisfied with being stuck doing paperwork in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, so she [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] all the agents in the Zodiac hideout.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: She dies of old age in her sleep in ''Captain America Civil War''. Her funeral happens in her native England, and Steve is one of the pallbearers.]]

** In ''Ant-Man'' she appears in a flashback in 1989, as one of the leaders of SHIELD.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She and Steve bond over facing prejudice; him for being a small, sickly guy, her for being a woman. When she finds him, post-enhancement, kissing a hot blonde, she refuses to listen to him telling her it's NotWhatItLooksLike (the blonde came onto him) and lumps him in with the other horndog soldiers.
** And then in the second season she gets angry at Sousa for [[spoiler: telling Wilkes the location of the uranium rods]] in order to save her life, when for the entire season she repeatedly takes huge risks to save the lives of her friends and allies. Sousa calls her out on it in the final episode (though that was at least partly to make her admit [[spoiler: she's fallen for him]]).

-->'''Peggy''': To you, I'm... the girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She tells Steve this to motivate him when he's dissatisfied with his propaganda work.
-->'''Steve:''' Phillips would have had me stuck in lab.\\

* YouAreInCommandNow: Her cameo in ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' shows her leading the Howling Commandos after Cap's supposed death.

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!!''Chief Daniel Sousa''

!!''Chief Jack Thompson''

* TokenMinority: The only Asian-American agent seen in the SSR. Actually, he's the only named Asian man to appear at all in the first two seasons.

* TokenMinority: The only Latino seen in the SSR. Or in the first two seasons.

* OneOfTheBoys: With the Howling Commandos. They tease her, she teases back, they don't doubt her abilities, and even offer to make her a full time member. Seeing them treat her with such respect surprises Thompson [[spoiler:but it must have rubbed off on him because by the end of the episode he too asks her to come along for drinks with the guys.]]

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Steve prefers to use only his shield when in combat while Peggy is quite the crack shot. Averted in the one-shot and ''Series/AgentCarter'' TV-series though, where's she arguably ''more'' dangerous in hand-to-hand than with firearms.

* DeadStarWalking: Billed as a regular but suffers CharacterDeath in the penultimate episode.

!!''Agent Margaret Elizabeth [[ComicBook/PeggyCarter "Peggy" Carter]]''

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Wields a shotgun during the assault on Schmidt's base during the climax.

* BreakoutCharacter: When Peggy Carter debuted in the comics, it was to be a TemporaryLoveInterest to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica during his time in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but she debuted in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, [[{{Retcon}} long after]] Cap's regular WWII war stories were over. At first she appeared only in {{Flashback}}s (in her first story she wasn't even named!). Under these circumstances, she's rarely been anything more than a SatelliteLoveInterest in the comics. But when ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' came out, since 99% of the film takes place during the War, she naturally had a [[AscendedExtra much bigger role]]. She took center stage in the [[Film/MarvelOneShots Marvel One-Shot]] ''Film/AgentCarter'', which was such a huge hit that it [[SpinOff spun off]] into [[Series/AgentCarter her own regular TV series]]. It's worth noting that the filmmakers have tried to use Peggy in every single (Earth-bound) MCU vehicle after ''The First Avenger'' [[spoiler: until ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', shere she died offscreen of old age]]. Creator/JossWhedon wrote a scene for her in ''The Avengers'', and she has cameos in ''The Winter Soldier'', ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', ''Age of Ultron'' and ''Ant-Man''.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: His name "Abraham", his resemblance to UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, and his wife having been confirmed as Jewish in the tie-in comic all suggest this.

* TheAce: In every way; fighter, detective, secret agent, etc. but her co-workers are too stupid to realize it.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"All we can do is our best. And sometimes, the best we can do is to start over."'']]

* ActionHeroine: Throwing punches and shooting guns are her preferred ways of beating her enemies. She's extremely dissatisfied with being stuck doing paperwork in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, so she [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] all the agents in the Zodiac hideout.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: After being captured thanks to [[spoiler:Dottie]] in "A Sin to Err", she gives Dooley, who had dared tell [[spoiler:her interrogators]] not to go easy on her [[KickTheDog just because she's a girl]], a dirty look, feeling that "don't go easy on her" was enough and "just because she's a girl" was pushing it, if not uncalled for.

* OneWomanArmy:

* BrokenAce: Thompson secretly confided in Peggy that [[spoiler:he killed Japanese soldiers that he assumes were about to surrender and covered it up, and feels great remorse over his actions]].

* IgnoredEpiphany: Thompson starts to become more respectful of Peggy and recognizing of her abilities as the season goes on. But in the final episode [[spoiler:he's mistakenly credited for saving the city when Peggy and Sousa did most of the work. Rather than point the praise to them, he takes all the credit once again for something he didn't do.]]

* DeadStarWalking: Billed as a regular but suffers CharacterDeath in the penultimate episode.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Dr. Samberly and Howard seem to think so. Samberly not-so-subtly has crush on her, while [[TheCasanova Howard]] shamelessly flirts with her while [[GreenEyedMonster Samberly]] watch.

* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: He feels like because he is not a field agent, his work isn't given the appropriate recognition. He isn't entirely wrong.

* SniperPistol: She uses a ''[[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Walther PPK]]'' to [[ColdSniper calmly]] pull off some very accurate, long range shots.

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* WhiteKnighting: Although he tells off agents who insult her, Peggy tells Sousa he shouldn't, as she's plenty capable of dealing with petty taunts.

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!!Howard Stark

See [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse his character tropes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe page]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: She dies of old age in her sleep in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[KilledOffscreen offscreen]]. Her funeral happens in her native England, and Steve is one of the pallbearers.]]

[[folder:Agent Daniel Sousa]]
!!''Chief Daniel Sousa''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You think because I'm wearing a suit and I got a clean shave, we're different? We're not. We're both people nobody cares about."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EnverGjokaj
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An injured veteran working at the SSR, and probably Peggy's OnlyFriend in the department. Becomes Chief of the LA office in Season 2.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Thompson and Dooley are openly jerks, but their condescension toward Peggy causes them to often miss her covert actions. Sousa, however, is kind to her and believes she's competent, which means he doesn't underestimate her and [[spoiler:thus is the one to discover she's a double agent]]. While normally he's the "good cop" during interrogation, he turns out to be pretty aggressive if he believes you personally betrayed him.
* BrainyBrunette: Sousa is a lot more competent than his colleagues give him credit for.
* CaneFu: Can use his crutch as a weapon.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times, mostly about his sexist coworkers.
-->'''Sousa:''' ''[of Jack Thompson]'' Poor guy. I hear he got his personality shot off in Iwo Jima.
* DisabledSnarker: He was injured during WWII, and as established, he's a DeadpanSnarker.
* GoodCopBadCop:
** He's the Good Cop when interrogating a homeless bum in "Time and Tide". Sadly, he finds that being empathetic to the man's plight just gets him rebuffed over and over, while Thompson's bribery approach immediately gets the guy talking.
** In "SNAFU", he instead falls into the Bad Cop trope when [[spoiler:interrogating Peggy, as he feels personally wronged by her perceived betrayal.]]
* FairCop: Former Edition. Daniel was a police officer before WWII; it's the reason he's a better investigator than anyone else in the SSR New York Office (except for possibly Peggy). Might even be a ShoutOut to Enver Gjokaj's cameo role in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' (he's one of the NYPD cops that Steve co-ordinates with during the Chitauri invasion).
* HandicappedBadass: During WWII his leg was injured to the point where he's permanently crippled, getting around with the aid of a crutch. That doesn't stop him from easily taking out a homeless veteran with said crutch when the latter becomes aggressive. He even manages to hold his own and survive against [[spoiler:Dottie]], the first character to do so in a straight-up fight.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Thompson and Dooley are the ones in charge, but Sousa surpasses them both in terms of detective skill and cunning.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Sousa is hinted to have a crush on Peggy, but Krzeminski tells him to stuff it, claiming she'd never look at a cripple like him when she's dated ''Captain America''.
-->'''[[WordOfStPaul Gjokaj]]''': I think there’s definitely a situation where... if she hadn’t dated Captain America, he might ask her out for a drink. It's like if your new girlfriend dated Creator/RyanGosling. It's going to make you sweat a bit.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Deconstructed. Sousa tells a story of being applauded while entering a diner but another GI was not. That was when he realized they were applauding him out of pity for his disability.
-->'''Sousa:''' So, I walk into this diner. This isn't a joke. I walk into this diner, and everybody starts clapping. And I look around at first, confused, and then I realize, oh, they're clapping for me, in my dress uniform, 'cause I served and came back alive, like you...So, I pretended to curtsy. Played it off as a joke, and then I'm working on my meal. I look up. I see another G.I. walk in. So, I put down my fork, put down my knife, get ready to clap. And nobody else does a thing. Silence. That's when I realized they weren't clapping for me. They were clapping for this and this. (''gestures to leg and crutch'') Clapping because I make them feel guilty, and they want to feel good.
* {{Irony}}: His brightness and willingness to see Peggy as the competent agent that she is, rather than dismiss her as just a SexySecretary... leads him to be perhaps the biggest threat to her cover when she's working to clear Stark's name.
* ItsPersonal: When Peggy was accused as traitor in "SNAFU", he feels personally betrayed so he becomes the bad cop and is the most aggressive in interrogating her, while Thompson and Chief Dooley are more composed in doing so.
* JerkassBall: In "SNAFU", Sousa [[spoiler:accuses Peggy of sleeping with Howard, saying that he's "as good as they say" and that he "scrambled her brain"]]. This goes away again after Peggy comes clean about her own interrogation and [[spoiler:possessing a vial containing Steve's blood]], with him trying to convince Dooley to believe her.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Peggy diagnoses him as having one regarding her; he idolizes her, [[spoiler:but turns against her when she's revealed to be a double agent and accuses her during the interrogation of having been been seduced by Howard.]]
-->'''Peggy''': [To you, I was] the girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore.
* NiceGuy: Supportive to Peggy in contrast to his co-workers. This is initially [[JerkassBall averted]] in "SNAFU", however, with him being the most aggressive interrogator out of him, Thompson and Dooley.
-->'''Sousa''': You're an agent, but they treat you like a secretary.
* NotSoAboveItAll: A rather depressing reveal. Sousa took Peggy's part against the rest of the [=SSR=]'s sexism, but while his opinion of Peggy is more benevolent, it's just as sexist in a ''different'' way: by idolizing Peggy, he set himself up to be disappointed when it looked like she wasn't the perfect woman he envisioned, [[spoiler:and he turned on her pretty viciously. While he was initially reluctant to believe she was a traitor, the fact that he assumes she's only doing it because she's sleeping with Howard Stark is the nail in the coffin here]]. To his credit, though, the ''instant'' Peggy starts laying down all her cards, he believes her, so much so that Thompson says it's because of his crush on her.
* NWordPrivileges: Freely jokes about his lost leg, but is annoyed when others make jabs about it.
* OnlyFriend: He's the only one to accept Peggy as a SSR agent, mostly because of his feelings for her. [[spoiler: Because of this he feels particularly betrayed when he assumes her guilt in "SNAFU", leaving her with zero friends, until she was able to convince him and his colleagues of her innocence.]]
* RankUp: Gets promoted to being chief of a new branch of the SSR on the West Coast between seasons.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To Peggy in season two.
* ReturningWarVet: Lost the use of his leg during the Siege of Bastogne.
* UndyingLoyalty: Season 2 gives him this towards Peggy, even as powerful forces threaten both of them and Peggy herself tells him to save himself from the sure-to-come fallout.
-->'''Daniel:''' I'm in this with you 'til the end, Peggy.
* UtilityWeapon: He sometimes uses his crutch as a weapon. It even gave him an edge when throwing down with [[TheDragon Dottie]].
* WhiteKnighting: Although he tells off agents who insult her, Peggy tells Sousa he shouldn't, as she's plenty capable of dealing with petty taunts.

[[folder:Agent Jack Thompson]]
!!''Chief Jack Thompson''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChadMichaelMurray
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Something you learn in war: Not every battle you win is a notch on your belt."'']]

->''"Poor guy. I hear he got his personality shot off in Iwo Jima."''
-->--'''Daniel Sousa'''

One of Peggy's coworkers at the SSR. He's sexist, but competent. Becomes Chief of the New York City office in Season 2.

* TheAce: Thompson is a competent SSR worker, was awarded the Navy Medal during the war, and is also quite handsome.
* AmbitionIsEvil: In Season 2, he seems content to turn a blind eye to corruption in exchange for a high position in a new agency when the SSR is fully dissolved. Subverted, though, as he also thinks to be protecting his subordinates from accusations as communist spies, which in those days were career-killers regardless of innocence. [[spoiler:Not only that, but it turns out he was unaware Vernon Masters was even corrupt to begin with.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: A serious moment between him and Dooley has Dooley out right saying he has a crush on Peggy, which Thompson doesn't refute, implying he demeans and dismisses her to cover it up.
* BloodKnight: Subverted. While he takes pleasure out of his JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, and Sousa implies that he was quite the killer back in the war, when seen in an actual firefight Thompson gets overcome by fear rather than by bloodlust. Rather than look back fondly on his time in the war, he seems to hold it in shame.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:While she may not quite be Cthulhu, Dottie Underwood is certainly on another level from Thompson and he legitimately broke his hand punching her out, while she ultimately escaped.]]
* BrokenAce: Thompson secretly confided in Peggy that [[spoiler:he killed Japanese soldiers that he assumes were about to surrender and covered it up, and feels great remorse over his actions]].
* CannotSpitItOut:
** Covered up [[spoiler:that the soldiers he killed he thinks were trying to surrender and later just could not bring himself to admit it]].
** He can't admit his romantic feelings for Peggy, though this is more out of his arrogant and sexist attitude.
* CharacterDevelopment: Started out as a StrawMisogynist, but has gradually come to respect Peggy; his entire character arc by the end of the first season is described in detail by ''Agent Carter'' Executive Producer and Screenwriter, [[WordOfGod Michelle Fazekas]]:
-->“The interesting thing, for instance about Thompson, is Thompson has actually learned nothing. Which is an overstatement - He’s learned something. I know this is a different topic entirely but his theme at the end of the show… We always thought of as this is the moment you decide how the rest of your life is going to go. And he thinks about it and he knows what the right to do is and he chooses to do the thing that benefits him the most. I think I’m actually probably wrong when I say he hasn’t learned something. He’s learned something, but now it’s almost worse that he’s actually making the active choice, like, “I’m going to screw a bunch of people over because it benefits me.” I find that really interesting because it’s growth, in a way, because he’s taking charge. But it’s growth in the wrong direction.”
** In the second season, Thompson initially sides with the villainous Vernon Masters, but learns to set aside his own ambitions when it comes time to do the right thing. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he's then shot, and his fate is unclear.]]
* CorruptCop: In Season Two, due to influence from Vernon Masters. [[spoiler: He knows everything that Peggy's saying about him and the Arena Club is true, but Thompson doesn't seem to care.]]
* DarkSecret: Thompson won a Navy Cross for rescuing his sleeping camp from a Japanese ambush. [[spoiler:Only after he killed them did he began to think the enemy troops had come to surrender, as they were carrying a white flag. He buried it before any of his fellow soldiers saw it, and has had to live with the guilt of his presumed mistake ever since the war]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Thompson is a sexist jerk who is constantly being condescending towards Peggy, but even ''he'' doesn't approve of Krzmenski's attitude.
* FakeUltimateHero: Was given the credit for stopping Leviathan's plan by the government (apparently because he was the senior agent involved), when he probably was the person whose contributions were the least important to preventing [[spoiler:the gassing of Times Square]].
* GoodCopBadCop:
** The Bad Cop to Dooley's Good Cop. As we see when he interrogates Jarvis, he's very good at this even when he doesn't resort to physical force.
** However, it's flipped in "SNAFU" when he plays the Good Cop to Sousa's Bad Cop [[spoiler:while interrogating Peggy]]. It stands out even more because at the start of the series [[spoiler:he had no empathy for Peggy]] and no reluctance for using violence.
* HiddenDepths: When they finally interact in private, he surprisingly reveals to Peggy he's not blind to her abilities, and even appends the aforementioned observation about her perceived inequality by stating that it is unfair. The fact that he still does nothing to deter the sexism or help her, even when in a position to do so in Dooley's absence, implies he's quite defensive about maintaining his "image" as a "man's man". In ''The Iron Ceiling'', we find out he is [[spoiler:haunted both by killing enemy soldiers he thought were surrendering ''and'' lying about it to save face]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When Sousa implies that Thompson was rather bloodthirsty during the war, he plays it off like this.
-->'''Thompson:''' Something you learn in war: Not every battle you win is a notch on your belt.\\
'''Sousa:''' The way I hear you fought, I'm surprised there's any belt left to notch.\\
'''Thompson:''' Just doing what needed to be done.
* IOweYouMyLife: Peggy saves him in "The Iron Ceiling" when he freezes up during a firefight. After that he's much more respectful to her, and even tells her [[spoiler:after her arrest that it's why he doesn't believe she's a bad guy, as a Leviathan agent would have no reason to save someone she hates.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: Thompson starts to become more respectful of Peggy and recognizing of her abilities as the season goes on. But in the final episode [[spoiler:he's mistakenly credited for saving the city when Peggy and Sousa did most of the work. Rather than point the praise to them, he takes all the credit once again for something he didn't do.]]
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He uses a liberal dose of it to extract information from the Roxxon Oil inside man.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is sexist and dismissive of Peggy, even more than the other SSR agents, and outright tells her that she is not going to be thought of as the equal of the men.
** Subverted in him actually respecting Peggy's abilities but not thinking they will be recognized by the present attitude towards women.
* JerkassFacade: In two parts.
** Towards Peggy, he's a condescending, sexist jerk. But as pointed out by Dooley, this may be just a way for him to hide his crush on her.
** In general, he's an arrogant, smug jerk to everyone in the SSR (sans Dooley). However, it's implicitly stated that it's how he deals with [[spoiler:him killing Japanese soldiers that he believes were about to surrender and then covering it up.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Thompson may be a complete jerk but he does make some good points once in a while.
** When Sousa interrogates a homeless man who was a witness to the events on the Heartbreak, he tries to appeal to his better nature by pointing out how they're both war veterans rejected by society. But the man refuses to care, so Thompson enters and tries a different tactic: bribing the man with a burger and bottle of scotch. Sure enough, the guy springs for it and starts talking, with Thompson telling Sousa, "Not everyone wants a hug."
** Thompson later makes an unfortunately accurate for the times speech to Peggy about her efforts to prove herself are doomed because of her gender - which still doesn't justify why neither he nor Dooley has ever allowed her an opportunity to ''try''.
** In Season 2, he clearly tries to weasel the SSR out of pursuing the Isodyne investigation, but he's right in calling Peggy out for not having any hard evidence and for taking the whole thing too personally after Jason Wilkes (supposedly) got killed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ''Very'' hard to see, but Thompson eventually proves he's not entirely a jerk. He does notice Peggy's skills, [[spoiler:has genuine remorse over accidentally killing Japanese soldiers who he believes were about to surrender]], and after a mission with the Howling Commandos, Thompson ''finally'' shows Peggy some respect. Continues in "SNAFU", where he's arguably the least aggressive towards [[spoiler:Peggy during the SSR's interrogation of her, and indicates he does not want to use his JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on her. And while he doesn't stick up for her as vocally afterwards as Sousa, he privately admits to Sousa that he too supports her]].
* MeaningfulName: "Jack" is a slang word meaning "man", perfectly embodying his "macho-y" nature.
* {{Nepotism}}: His rapid rise in the SSR is in part due to his father's political connections.
* NumberTwo: He is Roger Dooley's ''de facto'' second-in-command, being in charge of the office in Dooley's absence.
* PetTheDog: In Season Two, even though he's become corrupt he does his best to protect Sousa and Peggy from Masters's wrath by trying to get them to drop the Arena Club investigation, lest they become the victims of a smear campaign.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Genuinely traumatized by being [[spoiler:rewarded for killing enemy soldiers he thinks were attempting to surrender. The fact that he buried their white flag and didn't tell anyone the truth has messed him up quite a bit]], since everyone expects him to be this ultra-manly war hero.
* ReturningWarVet: Like much of the cast. He is implied to have served in Iwo Jima.
* ShellShockedVeteran: During the team's firefight in Russia he freezes up, leading Peggy to snap him out of it. He also dislikes talking about his wartime in the Pacific, despite having earned a medal there [[spoiler:since only he knows it was from a presumed surrender.]]
* SlutShaming: Asks if Peggy is used to serving ''under'' Captains. She says she's not used to serving with ''boys''.
* StepfordSnarker: Very snide, especially when it comes to his war record. In front of Dooley, he snarks that the reason Sousa is willing to believe Peggy is because he's carrying a torch for her, but when he and Sousa are alone, he admits he believes her, too.
* TookALevelInKindness: While he's not entirely "cured" of his sexism, Thompson gradually stops the sexist quips directed at Peggy and begins to respect her skills. He even is the more sympathetic to her when [[spoiler:interrogating her after she's arrested]]. But that doesn't stop him from [[spoiler:taking the credit for her accomplishments. He knew it was wrong, just like he knew it was wrong to hide the Japanese soldiers' white flag, and he may well be just as haunted by it in the future. But it didn't stop him from choosing to snub her.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: His coworkers don't think much of his leadership style while he is in charge.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Temporarily while Chief Dooley is away interrogating a Nazi war criminal, and then [[spoiler:for real after Dooley's death in "SNAFU"]].

[[folder:Deputy Director Roger Dooley]]
!!''Deputy Director Roger Dooley''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I buried myself deep in this job the day that I started."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SheaWhigham
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The chief of the New York City SSR branch, where Peggy works.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He's blond in the comic.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The thing Dooley is known for is that he was a corrupt and depraved S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who had sexually harassed ComicBook/SheHulk. He's still a jerk in the show, but not anymore so than the typical male of the era.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Compared to his comic counterpart, Dooley is treated as a good guy, a mostly-competent chief of the SSR and dies heroically saving his employees from a bomb explosion.
* AgeLift: In as much as he was originally depicted in the comics' present-day, but the show shows him as the same age, or older, shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* AndStarring: Shea Whigham gets this treatment in the OBB.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Dr. Fennhoff hypnotizes him in episode 7, causing Dooley to lock up Peggy and Jarvis, steal a Stark invention for the doctor, and put on an explosive vest threatening to blow up the whole office.
* DaChief: He's the classic hard-ass chief, though with a counter-intelligence organization rather than a police one.
* DeadStarWalking: Billed as a regular but suffers CharacterDeath in the penultimate episode.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry wit and a tendency to snark at the more outlandish things his job meets.
-->'''Dooley:''' (''after finding [=McFee=] fleeing while tied to a chair'') Do I even need to ask?\\
'''[=McFee=]:''' Ask what?\\
'''Dooley:''' Yeah, I guess you're right. I used to strap a chair to my ass and take long walks around the neighborhood, too.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When Thompson makes a crack about Peggy after she leaves during a tense moment Dooley not so subtly tells him to shut it.
* FamousLastWords: "Atta girl." ''(to Peggy)''
* AFatherToHisMen: After Krzeminski's death, he vows to not lose another one of his agents and to get the man responsible. He gets a similar treatment from the rest of the SSR after his CharacterDeath.
* FightingFromTheInside: Downplayed. Dooley shows mild awareness he's doing something wrong while hypnotized and at one point is reluctant to hand Fennhoff the invention. When we see inside his mind, he admits he knows he let a criminal get away but he couldn't find the will in himself to snap out of the trance and arrest him.
* FreudianExcuse: Dooley's casual sexism towards Agent Carter apparently stems from his wife's infidelity.
* HappyPlace: Imagining he's with his family is how Fennhoff keeps him delusional and under his control.
* HeroicSacrifice: After being fitted with an explosive vest, Dooley shoots a window and jumps out of it to prevent the SSR from being destroyed with him.
* HiddenDepths: His sexism seem to have been the result of his wife's infidelity. As a result, he distrusts women.
* InspectorJavert: Dooley fully believes (incorrectly) that Howard is a traitor to his country and is hellbent on proving it, but he's just misguided rather than unsympathetic. Eventually, as he uncovers more on the Finow massacre, he even comes to question his views towards Stark.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dooley is rather sexist and dismissive of Peggy, but he's a dedicated lawman who cares about his agents and his country.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: He treats Carter with the same casual sexism as most of her colleagues and tends to dismiss her input if it's not convenient to him, but he's genuinely committed to serving and protecting his country, and according to Whigham, cares more deeply for his agents (including Peggy) than he feels capable of showing.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When evidence comes to light that implies Stark is being set up he immediately starts looking into discovering it. [[spoiler: He also recognizes Peggy's competence just before his death.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The local BigGood dies in "SNAFU".]]
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Press materials said he would be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who would be supportive of Peggy and appreciative of her accomplishments. In the series itself he appears to be just as sexist as the rest of the SSR.

[[folder:Rose Roberts]]
!!''Rose Roberts''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lesley Boone

An SSR employee who operates phones and watches the front.

* ActionGirl: Rose shows off her combat skills in season 2.
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ose '''R'''oberts.
* AscendedExtra: She's a BitCharacter in the first season, but has an increased role in the second.
* BitCharacter: Initially; shows up a couple of times only in Season 1, prior to becoming an AscendedExtra.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Dr. Samberly and Howard seem to think so. Samberly not-so-subtly has crush on her, while [[TheCasanova Howard]] shamelessly flirts with her while [[GreenEyedMonster Samberly]] watch.
* HiddenBadass: She appears to be just a phone operator in her first few appearances but carries a gun and is ready to use it to protect the SSR headquarters. In addition to that, she is quite proficient in hand-to-hand combat.
* NumberTwo: Rose becomes Sousa's unofficial right-hand woman when he is appointed head of the LA office.

[[folder:Agent Ray Krzeminski]]
!!''Agent Ray Krzeminski''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Kyle Bornheimer

A dim but strong agent of the SSR.

* AlasPoorScrappy: In-universe example. His coworkers are saddened by his death even if he wasn't the nicest to them. Even Peggy is confused at why she's unhappy about his death.
* AssholeVictim: A case where neither the "asshole" nor "victim" part is downplayed. While during his screentime he's constantly rude, dimwitted, and cheating on his wife, his coworkers are saddened by his death even if he wasn't the nicest to them. But he's still "one of [them]", and part of Peggy's unhappiness about his murder is that she suspects the assassin meant to take out her.
* ButtMonkey: Not particularly well-respected by his coworkers. While they investigate a explosion at a Roxxon refinery, he's assigned the menial task of prying apart the wreckage.
* DeathBySecretIdentity: The arrested thug tells him a female agent with a British accent beat him up. If he wasn't killed, chances are he would have figured out he was talking about Peggy.
* DumbMuscle: Not the smartest agent, but very strong. When looking over the compacted Roxxon remains, he wonders out loud if the bomb had a magnetic effect. When Thompson corrects him and points out that magnets don't pull wood and concrete, Ray gets miffed and chides him for being "Isaac Newton".
* FatBastard: Alongside Thompson, he's one of the most abrasive of the agency.
* FatSlob: Heavier than his fellow agents and, in his first scene, has a mustard stain on his shirt. [[spoiler:After his death, his desk is strewn with roses but nobody bothered to wipe up his breadcrumbs.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one at the SSR seems to like him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mocks Peggy for supposedly [[ReallyGetsAround getting around]] during the war but cheats on his wife with a girlfriend and at least one prostitute.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mocks Carter for being a woman and Sousa for being a cripple. Even [[{{Jerkass}} Thompson]] [[EveryoneHasStandards doesn't like him.]]
* KavorkaMan: The rudest, most misogynistic ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance which is really saying something]]), least intelligent, least attractive man in the SSR...and he still managed to get both a wife [[YourCheatingHeart and a girlfriend]]. Even the hooker was oddly enthusiastic about seeing him around.
* KickTheDog: When he notices Sousa has feelings for Carter, he cruelly tells him she'd never love a cripple after being with Captain America.
* MauveShirt: He has a name and a basic personality but that's about it.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He is the first SSR agent to be killed on the show. And Dooley doesn't want to lose anyone else.]]
* SlutShaming: Implies Peggy [[ReallyGetsAround really got around during the War]] (for which the audience nor the SSR has no evidence that this was true).
* StoutStrength: Pries apart the fused wreckage of the refinery.
* YourCheatingHeart: Was cheating on his wife with another woman. And on top of that he was implied to frequent prostitutes.

[[folder:Agent Yauch]]
!!Agent Yauch
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Alexander Carroll

An agent of the SSR assigned to protect Dr. Ivchenko.

* FightingFromTheInside: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Though seemingly a faithful puppet of Ivchenko/Fennhoff, he refuses to take him to the lab with Stark's confiscated weapons, because Dooley ordered all agents to stay out of there.]]
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Dr. Ivchenko pegs him as a middle child as he's eager to please while competing with his siblings for the attention of his parents. Ivchenko notices a similar dynamic between Yauch, [[TheAce Thompson]], and [[TeamDad Chief Dooley]].
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler:Ivchenko]] uses hypnosis to send him to his favorite bar and get one last drink before walking into traffic.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Dr. Fennhoff]] hypnotizes him into helping Leviathan and then walking in front of a car.
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:He's killed to show just how dangerous Dr. Fennhoff can be.]]
* SpottingTheThread:
** Early on he notices that Dooley's been taking a ''really'' long time talking with Ivchenko, until Thompson urges him not to bother.
** [[spoiler:When Fennhoff starts hypnotizing him, Yauch looks suspiciously at his hypno-ring, but ultimately his attention drifts back to the doctor.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After telling the doctor everything he can about the SSR headquarters, he's ordered to kill himself so that the SSR doesn't learn about his hypnotizing.

[[folder:Agent Mike Li]]
!!''Agent Mike Li''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Eddie Shin

An SSR agent who accompanies Carter and Thompson to Russia.

* CharacterDeath: He's killed by Black Widow in-training Eva in "The Iron Ceiling".
* DeathNotification: He had a wife, who Dooley had to notify after his death.
* KilledMidSentence: During a firefight with Leviathan guards.
%%* RedShirt
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never been seen or mentioned before "The Iron Ceiling" but has apparently been an agent of the SSR the whole time.
* TokenMinority: The only Asian-American agent seen in the SSR. Actually, he's the only named Asian man to appear at all in the first two seasons.

[[folder:Agent Rick Ramirez]]
!!''Agent Rick Ramirez''
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-> '''Portrayed By:''' Greg Serano

An SSR agent who accompanies Carter and Thompson to Russia.

* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ick '''R'''amirez.
* AscendedFanboy: An admirer of the Howling Commandos who gets to work with them in "The Iron Ceiling."
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never been seen or mentioned before "The Iron Ceiling" but has apparently been an agent of the SSR the whole time.
* TokenMinority: The only Latino seen in the SSR. Or in the first two seasons.

[[folder:Dr. Aloysius Samberly]]
!!''Dr. Aloysius Herbert Samberly''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Matt Braunger

A scientist working in the SSR's LA office.