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* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Saint's attacks always hit, and always kill. Here, he misses Jesse and hits bystanders, and occasionally people survive his hits.

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* AdaptationalWimp: Relatively speaking, anyway. In the comics, the Saint's attacks always hit, and always kill. Here, he misses Jesse and hits bystanders, and occasionally people survive his hits. hits.
** Jesse manages to trap The Saint inside an armored van in "Sokosha", and he is utterly unable to escape until he's freed. A far cry from the comic's version of The Saint, who kicked tanks over and would have laughed at that trap.
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* DomesticAbuser: To his wife. In a stroke of luck for Donnie, she derives gratification from being hurt.

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: To his wife. In a stroke of luck for Donnie, she derives gratification from being hurt.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Immune to the Word, unlike his comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Saint in the comics typically only attacks people defending Jesse, in self-defense, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking if they insult him.]] This Saint casually kills and maims people who get in his way.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Saint's attacks always hit, and always kill. Here, he misses Jesse and hits bystanders, and occasionally people survive his hits.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Aside from his life of crime, TV Jesse is much more callous in his use of the Word than his comic counterpart. For instance, when a cop gruffly arrests Jesse and Tulip for a police chase Jesse initiated, Jesse tells him to [[DisproportionateRetribution mace his balls.]] He finds it funny when the cop, obviously suffering, [[GroinAttack can't stop until the can's emptied.]]


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** Also subverted in that Jesse himself uses Genesis to bully others for his amusement, much to Tulip's chagrin.


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* AdaptationalHeroism: Cassidy's significantly more concerned with keeping Jesse on his path than he was in comics, even trying to protect Eugene when the comic version just thought Arseface was funny to laugh at. He also wants to tell Jesse about his fling with Tulip, where the comic version went out of his way to try to hide it.


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* ShesGotLegs: A slow motion sequence during a gun fight shows her running in a billowing skirt, showing her legs.


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* AdaptationalHeroism: Hugo Root was a complete bastard in the comics, but here is genuinely upset at his son's disappearance.


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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, he simply survived a suicide attempt. Here, he's a jilted lover who tried to kill the object of his affection, merely [[FateWorseThanDeath lobotomizing her instead.]]
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* SmokingIsCool: Jesse is both a {{Badass}} fighter and seems to smoke in places that are just odd, such as church when he's praying to God.

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* SmokingIsCool: Jesse is both a {{Badass}} badass fighter and seems to smoke in places that are just odd, such as church when he's praying to God.

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* BadassDriver: Fights a thug trying to strangle her by rigging the drive, beating the shit out of him and then driving her car to a stop before finishing him off.

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* BadassDriver: Fights She fights a thug trying to strangle her by rigging the drive, beating the shit out of him and then driving her car to a stop before finishing him off.



* TheCorrupter: She's hell-bent on returning Jesse to his violent, criminal ways.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She's introduced fighting and killing a thug twice her size in a moving vehicle. She promptly teams up with two children, jovially constructing a homemade bazooka before taking down a helicopter with a smile on her face. Everything about it establishes Tulip as resourceful, intelligent, shady, affable and volatile.



* {{Troll}}: She likes fucking with people, especially Jesse.



* TheMenInBlack: Appears during the aftermaths of the power targeting preachers and being able to enter the crime scene displays his level of government authority.

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* TheMenInBlack: Appears He appears during the aftermaths of the power targeting preachers and being able to enter the crime scene displays his level of government authority.



* TheAtoner: Although a good kid, he's still tormented by his attempted suicide and feels he needs to atone in the eyes of God.



* NiceGuy: Supportive of Jesse and even respectful of his own {{Jerkass}} father's wishes for him to stay out of church out of embarrassment.

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* NiceGuy: Supportive He's supportive of Jesse and even respectful of his own {{Jerkass}} father's wishes for him to stay out of church out of embarrassment.



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* TheBully: Donnie's the bully of the town, picking on anyone and everyone.
* BullyingADragon: He attacks Jesse for interfering with his marriage. His bullying tactics and threats are ineffective and he roundly gets his ass kicked.
* DomesticAbuser: To his wife. In a stroke of luck for Donnie, she derives gratification from being hurt.
* TheDragon: To Odin Quincannon.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a sadistic, violent bully.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Confederate sympathizer.
* {{Sadist}}: Donnie is a sadist of the highest order; he loves hurting people, regardless of who it is. He even breaks the nose of an underling just to make himself feel better and get through the day.



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* CoolShades: Grabs a pair to deal with the rising son after escaping from the crashing plane. Since Cassidy is a drug-loving vampire, this attire makes sense.

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* CoolShades: Grabs a pair to deal with the rising son sun after escaping from the crashing plane. Since Cassidy is a drug-loving vampire, this attire makes sense.
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* BadassNormal: Able to take out multiple opponents with his fists, while a [[OurVampireAreDifferent vampire]] with SuperStrength watches from a payphone. All this was before he even became a host to [[CompellingVoice Genesis]].

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* BadassNormal: Able to take out multiple opponents with his fists, while a [[OurVampireAreDifferent [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] with SuperStrength watches from a payphone. All this was before he even became a host to [[CompellingVoice Genesis]].
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* BadassNormal: Able to take out multiple opponents with his fists, while a [[OurVampireAreDifferent vampire]] with SuperStrength watches from a payphone. All this was before he even became a host to [[CompellingVoice Genesis]].
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only ever referred to as "Arseface" in the original comic but given the first name "Eugene" in the show.
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* WifeBasherBasher: Although he's unwilling to attack Betsy's husband at first, wanting him to go to the police and still reluctant to hit him back when Betsy makes it clear she doesn't want Jesse involved, he eventually breaks her husband's arm when his threat to assault his own son sets Jesse off beyond what he's willing to sit by.


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* TheMenInBlack: Appears during the aftermaths of the power targeting preachers and being able to enter the crime scene displays his level of government authority.


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* TheMenInBlack: Along with Deblanc, he is a mysterious figure who shows up following sightings of the strange power that seems to target preachers.


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* NiceGuy: Supportive of Jesse and even respectful of his own {{Jerkass}} father's wishes for him to stay out of church out of embarrassment.
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* MacGyvering: Makes uses of numerous miscellaneous farm equipment, including tape, to make a bazooka which she uses to shoot down a helicopter.

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* BareYourMidriff: Tulip wears a cut-off shirt that exposes her stomach. As a law breaking and immodest young woman, this suits her personality.
* MacGyvering: Makes uses of numerous miscellaneous farm equipment, [[DuctTapeForEverything including tape, tape]], to make a bazooka which she uses to shoot down a helicopter.
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* AmicableExes: While he refuses to do a job for Tulip, Jesse states he bears no ill will and speaks to her in a friendly tone.


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* AmicableExes: Although she says she hates Jesse, she speaks playfully and without animosity to him, only showing mild irritation when he refuses to do a job for her.
* BadassDriver: Fights a thug trying to strangle her by rigging the drive, beating the shit out of him and then driving her car to a stop before finishing him off.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: After literally crashing into Annville, Cassidy comes to the bar Jesse's in and requests his whiskey of choice, before declaring he'll drink rat water if it's all they've got.

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* RaceLift: Tulip is a white blonde in the comic, but African-American in the TV show.




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* BloodKnight: Although he tries to avoid violence, Jesse can be seen smiling while beating up the thugs in the bar, seeming very at home in the chaos.
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* SmokingIsCool: Jesse is both a {{Badass}} fighter and seems to smoke in places that are just odd, such as church when he's praying to God.
* TechnicalPacifist: Jesse believes that violence just breeds more violence but will fight if it means defending innocent people.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: His lower body is reduced to exposed entrails and paste after jumping out of a crashing aircraft. Fortunately, his vampiric powers help him get better.
* HealingFactor: Falling from a plane and splattering on the ground leaves him only temporarily immobilized until he gets an unwitting cow to approach him and drink its blood to heal.


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* SuperStrength: Injured and in sunlight, Cassidy lifts and drags a cow closer to himself to drink its blood, even after being so injured that half his body is just a bloody paste.
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* MrViceGuy: Cassidy loves partying, taking all kinds of drugs and has no problem killing people if it's necessary. Despite this, he takes care of Jesse when he's injured.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Cassidy burns in the sun and drinks blood but religious symbols have no effect on him. A vampire slayer tries pouring holy water on him, comically to no effect.


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* {{Jerkass}}: Sheriff Root shows a disgusting lack of concern for Betsy when her husband beats her. He also seems to think of his son as a family shame, not wanting him to attend church with the family.
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* BadassBeard
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* BullyHunter
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BadassPreacher: A man of the cloth and against violence unless innocents are being threatened, Jesse shows he can also kick ass in a bar fight against multiple opponents.
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BullyHunter: Despises people who pick on those weaker than them and a father threatening to hurt his own son is what set Jesse off to break his arm.
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* HeroesFightBarehandedHeroesFightBarehanded: While [[PragmaticHero Cassidy]] uses a chair to trip up an opponent in a fight, Jesse uses confrontational and very straight-forwarded battle tactics, rarely using weapons and preferring to bash people with his fists.



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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doesn't look anywhere ''close'' to as bad as he did in the comics in the AMC series.
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!Jesse Custer
--> Played by: Dominic Cooper

* BadassBeard: In the TV show, perhaps as not to interfere with Dominic Cooper's role in ''{{LiveActionTelevision/Agent Carter}}''.
* BadassCreed: Jesse Custer learned his from his father, cribbed from JohnWayne;
-->'''John Custer''': ''Don't take no shit off fools. Judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the '''right thing'''. Be one of the good guys. 'Cause there's way too many of the bad.''
* BadassNormal: Before being possessed by Genesis.
* BadassPreacher: Even though he never wanted to be a preacher, he still wears the collar even after his church is incinerated.
* BerserkButton: Be it animals, women, or children; DO NOT abuse the defenseless in his presence.
* BullyHunter
* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually stops seeing the world in such a black-and-white viewpoint.
* CombatPragmatist: He won't hesitate to go for a nutshot in a fight.
* CompellingVoice: due to being possessed by Genesis
* EyepatchOfPower: After he inexplicably [[spoiler:loses his eye]] in the War In The Sun arc.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Jesse's preferred fighting style, but can also be a CombatPragmatist when the situation calls for it.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Although he's a crackshot with a gun, he prefers to stick to his fists.
* LikesOlderWomen: Tulip is three years older than him.
* LiteralGenie: All orders that Jesse issues using his "Word of God" power are interpreted this way.
* MoralityChain: For [[spoiler: Cassidy, [[TookALevelInJerkass whose nasiter side shows once Jesse seemingly dies.]] Tulip, while depressed, does attempt to move on eventually.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Jesse is this in relation to everyone else in the book, except maybe Tulip. WordOfGod says this is why he's the hero of the piece.
* PapaWolf: Not too pleased when he finds out De Sade is trying to use a child in his porno.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: His childhood kind of soured him on the idea of a loving God, and he intended to make God answer for the state of the world even before he found out all of the things he's responsible for.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He gets these whenever he uses the Word.
* SemiDivine: As the result of having the "Word of God."
* SignificantAnagram: Jesse Custer = Secret Jesus. Also, of course, his initials.
* SouthernGentleman: Has some elements of this, which are a source of endless entertainment for Amy and Tulip.
* StoryBreakerPower: "The Word" has the potential to be this, allowing Jesse not only to control someone's mind but their bodies as well [[spoiler: such as when he caused his grandmother's enforcers to spontaneously combust just by telling them to "burn".]] However, Garth Ennis managed to avoid this by giving Jesse's power some very believable limitations. 1) They have to be able to hear him 2) They have to be able to understand him; making the word powerless against those who don't speak English, animals who aren't trained to respond to verbal commands, or those who are either deaf or can drown out his voice.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks a lot like his father, but has his mother's eyes and some of her body language.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Large brown eyes, which some of the female characters are all too happy to comment on. They automatically draw the readers' attention, a handy thing when they indicate his powers by turning red.

!Tulip O'Hare
--> Played by: Ruth Negga

* ActionGirl: She's Hell with a firearm.
* AudienceSurrogate: Somewhat, since she's the only non-supernatural protagonist and has the most normal backstory.
* BadassNormal: Unlike Jesse or Cassidy, she has no powers. She still manages to fight her way through anything they encounter.
* DaddysGirl: She was very close with her father, and considers him one of the most decent guys she's ever met.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: She hated guns for a time because her dad was shot in a hunting accident. She rediscovers her love for him when she's forced to use them to fight the Grail's assassins.
* DoesNotLikeMen: She generally had bad experiences with men until she met Jesse. She got worse after he apparently dumped her, although she was unaware that it was against his will.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Amy does.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As a child, the girls didn't want her because she liked boy things, and the boys didn't want her because she was a girl.
* MissingMom: Due to DeathByChildbirth.
* RaisedByDudes: Raised by her dad, and influenced by his buddies.
* StrawFeminist: At her worst. Although she has been messed with a lot by men.
* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Her hand is stabbed and stuck to a dashboard with a knife, but she still gets up to warn Jesse. And she later overcomes drug addiction with sheer willpower.]]
* TheGunslinger: But she's [[DarkAndTroubledPast reluctant to pick up a gun again]] at the start of the story.
* RaceLift: Tulip is a white blonde in the comic, but African-American in the TV show.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Amy's girly girl, though it's downplayed.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Mess with her man and you'll find out.
** Platonically for Amy.

!Cassidy
--> Played by: Joe Gilgun

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: After being brought back to life as a human in the final issue, Cassidy decides to follow Jesse's example and "act like a man".]]
* CarFu: Attempted to drive a pickup into the Saint Of Killers, to no effect.
* CoolShades: Never seen without his sunglasses. [[spoiler: They cover up his wrinkled, bloodshot eyes.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: His view of being a vampire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's experienced a lot of trouble over his long life, most of it self-inflicted.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's well-aware most of the time, but [[spoiler: in the past, smacked a woman across the face, breaking her jaw. The shock on Cassidy's face implies he didn't mean to go that far.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Horrified by the Reaver-Cleaver's actions, even vowing to kick his ass when he finds one of the mutilated (and still living) victims. And this is before he realizes [[spoiler: the Reaver-Cleaver has hurt Tulip.]]
** He was disgusted to find out that Eccarius was feeding on his own followers, and killed him by putting him out in the sun.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 at the age of 16. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. Turns out he [[UnreliableNarrator missed a few details]], though.
* FaceHeelTurn
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He takes [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] in stride. This is [[BlessedWithSuck used against him]] when Herr Starr, furious at the depth of his error in kidnapping Cassidy instead of Jesse, calls in his old friend [[TortureTechnician Frankie]] to continuously shoot him to near-death, then wait for him to heal, then repeat.
* HiddenDepths: Some better than others, but a more benign example would be that a note he leaves for Tulip [[spoiler: apologizing for his actions]] reveals he has really nice handwriting.
* KarmaHoudini: After all of the skeletons in his closet are revealed at how much a monster he is, he pulls it off by [[spoiler:making a deal with God to capture Genesis. The last pages show him alive, with his curse removed.]] To be fair, he also demanded that [[spoiler: Jesse would survive no matter what happened]] as one of the conditions. He also lets himself [[spoiler: burn to "death" in the sunlight]]. Before that, [[spoiler: Jesse beats the shit out of him]]. It doesn't really make up for everything he did in the past, but at least he doesn't get away without ''some'' pain.
** He's also going to have fun [[spoiler: dodging the ''many'' enemies he made around the country when he was too strong to care, now that he's relinquished that super-strength]].
* ManChild: Cassidy is impulsive, arrogant, self-centered, and hedonistic.
* NeverMyFault: When called out on his actions, he likes to gripe about living with the guilt and experiences of the things he's done, ignoring that most of it is his own fault. As [[spoiler: Jesse]] says, "Way you make it sound, you had alla that done to you. 'Steada you bein' the one that did it."
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loves garlic, is unaffected by holy water and crosses and survives decapitation. He can also enter a church, can't turn into ''anything'', and doesn't need invitations to enter anyplace. He doesn't even have any fangs, just regular teeth. The sun's a killer, though.
** "I tried (turning into a bat) once. Broke both my legs."
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: He decides that the evil he's done can't be forgiven, and that he has to burn it out. After committing suicide by standing in the sun, he's brought back to life as a human, and intends to be a better person.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does this repeatedly, causing much grievous harm to other people. When Jesse calls him out repeatedly, he gets self-righteous.
* SuicideBySunlight: Subverted. [[spoiler: He appears to do this, but it turns out he already made a deal with God that will ensure his survival.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Especially after the events of War In The Sun
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "So I got kind of a question. [[spoiler: 'Proinsias'?"]][[labelnote:*]]It's, incidentally, the Irish for Francis[[/labelnote]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He has a bad history of domestic abuse, and because of his strength, usually ends up crippling the girl.]]

!The Duke
* TheFaceless: His face is always kept in shadow.
* ImaginaryFriend: He likely isn't real, but Jesse still uses him for support.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: We never see his face, and he's only referred to by name once.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: We never find out for sure if he's a hallucination or the actual ghost of John Wayne. However, Jesse admits that he started seeing him four years before John Wayne passes away, so it seems more likely that Jesse developed him as a coping mechanism.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Guy's a dead ringer for Creator/JohnWayne.
* TheObiWan: Sort of became this after [[spoiler: Jesse was possessed by Genesis.]]

!Saint Of Killers
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* AntiVillain: As frightening as he is, he makes no excuses for what he's done [[spoiler: and it's thanks to God himself that he lost his family, and any good he may have had left in him]].
* BadassBoast: "There ain't worse than me in all of Hell. Go an' look." (Gunshot)
* BadassGrandpa: He was old even before he became immortal, but you wouldn't want to have messed with him then, either.
* BadassLongcoat: Always wearing an old fashioned duster.
* BottomlessMagazines--His guns never need reloading, never miss, never jam, and with the exception of Cassidy, every shot is fatal.
* DeathGlare: He scares the hell out of people who don't know anything about what he is, just by having a very mean stare.
* TheDeterminator: He never gives up. Ever.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He shot the Devil in the face, and [[spoiler:God]] as well.
* TheDreaded: Even Jesse-whose entire goal is to find and call out God for the shape of the world-is terrified of him.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: The Saint Of Killers got a four-issue mini-series all of his own to tell us about his mortal life in the Civil War and the terrible winter of 1878. He dumps a silver dollar with just that date on the counter of a bar in ''Gone To Texas,'' too.
* GunAndSword: When he was mortal, he sometimes fought with a pistol in one hand and a saber in the other.
* ImplacableMan: Nothing can stop him.
* InstantDeathBullet: Nothing that gets shot by him survives. [[spoiler: Unless they're already dead.]]
* NighInvulnerable: Minus the "Nigh." Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, harms him, not even [[spoiler:having a nuke dropped on him.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: The hate he had for his killers is what allowed him to keep his sanity when he went to Hell. His hate ended up freezing the entire place, and not even being tortured by Satan could drive the hate from his heart.
* QuickDraw: The Saint of Killers can draw his guns faster than a man can see. He uses this to shut down Jesse's Word the second time they meet.
-->'''Saint of Killers''': "I'm bettin' I can clear holster 'fore your words hit the breeze, preacher. First twitch I see...that's what I'm gonna do."
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After Jesse reveals to him his backstory.
* TheSixthRanger: Becomes this to Jesse and his group after meeting the angel who sired Genesis in Vol 3.
* SuperStrength: In addition to the invulnerability and magic guns, he's much stronger than the average person too.

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* AintTooProudToBeg: When [[spoiler: The Saint finally cornered him, he begged for his life]]
* BigBad: ''Everything'', [[spoiler:Genesis coming into Jesse]], the war with the Grail, was all done as a long-winded way for God to see [[spoiler:how loved and adored he was]].
* DirtyCoward: If it would mean any possible harm to him, he won't take a chance facing it
* GodIsFlawed: It is eventually revealed that all of the world's problems are caused by being created by a guy who grew up in total solitude (because there wasn't any universe yet!) and thus developed what could be considered a narcissistic personality disorder as well as any number of related mental problems.
* JerkassGod: The world's a shithole because God's a dick.
* LetsGetDangerous: You really do '''not''' want to piss Him off.
* LoveHungry: God's fatal flaw.
* PetTheDog: He really didn't have to keep up his end of the bargain and [[spoiler: Resurrect Cassidy and Jesse]] but he did anyway [[spoiler: and even restored Cassidy's humanity as well]].

!Herr Starr

* ButtMonkey: Undergoes a HumiliationConga like no other. At the time of his death, this is the sum total of his injuries (deep breath:) [[spoiler: One of his eyes is blind, one of his ears was shot off, a scar was carved over his head making it look like a gigantic penis, cannibals ate his leg and a rottweiler bit off his genitals. Oh, and he's bald and has a harsh voice, too. Since childhood. He literally becomes this when he is anally raped by Bill Glover.]]
* CompensatingForSomething: After [[spoiler:losing his genitalia]] Herr Starr feels the need to get a bigger gun. And then stand in front of a mirror with it, [[MadnessMantra muttering]] "''Doom''cock. '''''Doomcock'''''."
** In a way, that turns out to be his downfall: [[spoiler: if he was still using his old nine-millimeter pistol, he wouldn't have run out of ammunition in his final gunfight with Tulip.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Hops his way out of the desert on one leg, falling every few steps.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Got his scar, voice, and baldness from a childhood incident where [[spoiler: a gang of schoolboys cut his eye out with a piece of glass. They all ended up dead before his tenth birthday.]] This incident got him the job as the Sacred Executioner of the Grail.
* TheStarscream: To D'Aronique, who thinks being GenreSavvy about this will make using him anyway less risky.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He started out as one. He hated the chaos of the world, and he would kill anyone to bring about his vision of order.

!Arseface
--> Played by: Ian Colletti

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doesn't look anywhere ''close'' to as bad as he did in the comics in the AMC series.
* AppropriatedAppellation: He took his name from a comment from Cassidy. Even though he didn't know what an "arse" was.
* CigaretteBurns: His dad put a cigarette out on his arm after he caught him with marijuana on his shirt.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never do learn what he was called before he took on the name "Arseface". All we can say for sure is that his last name is probably Root. The AMC series reveals his real name to be [[spoiler: Eugene]].
* HappilyFailedSuicide: Arseface tried to kill himself because he was sad and lonely, and his idol KurtCobain and his only friend had both just killed themselves and the friend had told him to do the same. After the failed suicide attempt, he does all he can to turn his life around, but can never get away from his face being horribly mutilated by the shotgun blast that so fortunately missed his brain.
* NameFaceName: Arseface. Or as he would say it, "Uhfuh!"
* NauseaFuel: Was this InUniverse to most people he met, causing them to involuntarily vomit upon seeing him.
* TheUnintelligible: Thanks to his facial injury, he's hard to understand.

!Allfather D'Aronique

* AdiposeRex: The leader of the Grail, and so fat that he needs his follows to help carry him.
* TheDreaded: Is this to his own people as well as major world leaders, requiring them to call him daily and thank him for allowing them to remain in power. Starr himself, despite his revulsion towards D'Aronique, has good reason to be scared shitless of him.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Jesse's grandmother Marie L'Angelle was Allfather D'Aronique's aunt.]] It turns out that one of the reasons the Grail leadership supported Starr's pursuit of Jesse was because [[spoiler: D'Aronique wanted to punish Jesse for killing his "Aunt Marie".]]
* FatBastard: Very fat, and very evil.
* GenreSavvy: Despite his appearance, D'Aronique is not only a sadist but is ruthlessly clever, knowing that Starr intends to assassinate him but keeps him close anyway to better keep an eye on him and allowing him to pursue Jesse so he could pursue his own retribution against him.
* JabbaTableManners: He's usually seen eating. And he's bulimic to boot.
* VillainousGlutton:
-->'''Marseilles''': God he (D'Aronique) disgusts me, what do you suppose he's thinking about?
-->'''Starr''': His favorite subjects-mass murder and big pies.

!Marie L'Angelle

* TheDreaded: Was this to Jesse his entire life. Just hearing her name mentioned in the first volume was enough to make him freeze in terror.
* EvilMatriarch: The head of the L'Angelle line, and determined to make Jesse follow the path she's chosen for him.
* EvilOldFolks: She's around a century old.
* ImprobableAge: Had Jesse's mother at 60, and is likely over 100 in the current story. To put it in perspective, she's older than Cassidy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only cruel to Jesse-[[spoiler: her idea of diciplining Jesse as a child was to lock him inside of a coffin and submerging it at the bottom of a river with only an airhose to keep him alive]], but was to his mother, ''her own daughter'', too.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: After all of her KickTheDog moments, [[spoiler: watching her flaming corpse getting blasted into the sky when the fire Jesse set to her house blows up her oxygen tanks]] is EXTREMELY gratifying.

!Jody

* BadassNormal: [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement Once killed a gorilla with a baseball bat]].
* CorruptHick
* EvilMentor: To Jesse.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is completely loyal to Marie and hates those who don't stand by their own.
* LackOfEmpathy: He called Jesse a crybaby after he shot his dad in the head, and didn't understand why Jesse got so upset when he nailed his dog to a fencepost. He also resents Jesse because he feels that Marie never showed Jody the same "kindness" she showed Jesse.
* MadeOfIron: Even in his current advanced age, he can still tank a ton of hooks to face, kicks to the stomach, and ''being set on fire''. Even ''having nails'' '''''puncture his jaw''''' doesn't make him look more than mildly annoyed. It takes Jesse [[spoiler: breaking his spine in half]] to keep him down for good.
* PetTheDog: An extremely minor one. When Jesse tells him he caved [[AnythingThatMoves T.C.'s]] head in, Jody stops talking and looks honestly upset.
* PsychoForHire: His family worked for the L'Angelle's and he's devoted to Marie.
* SoProudOfYou: To Jesse [[spoiler:right after Jesse breaks his back]]. Doubles as his FamousLastWords.
* VillainProtagonist: Along with T.C. in the one-shot "The Good Old Boys."

!T.C.

* AnythingThatMoves: And in some cases, anything that doesn't.
* AxCrazy: He's pretty sadistic, and a lot more outspoken than Jody.
* BadassNormal: He and Jody show an uncanny knack for surviving in the swamp, if need be.
* PsychoForHire: Like Jody, he does any dirty work Marie needs.

!Jesus De Sade

* AnythingThatMoves: Quite literally. In his first appearance he was about to have intercourse with [[spoiler: an armadillo.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Well, Depraved Omnisexual may be a better way to put it.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is stark white, and he's very pale as well.

!Odin Quincannon

* BaldOfEvil: Not a hair on his head.
* CorruptHick: A native Texan, and a nasty son of a bitch.
* EvilOldFolks: It's not obvious, but he's seventy-five years old.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: To the point that even some of his fellow Klansmen were disturbed.
* TheNapoleon: He's about four feet tall, but that doesn't stop him from throwing his weight around.
* RagsToRiches: In his own words:
-->''Ol' Odin never had no fancy education, no sir! Odin Quincannon started out so poor he had to wipe his ass with his hand! But he pulled himself up by his bootstraps an' made something of his life, an' by God he did it alone! Odin cleans his crack with smoothest silk today, an' he didn't get there by exploiting' contacts an' callin' in favors from no faggy fuckin' law school! He got there by hard fucking' work!''
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to his brother Conan's blue.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He likes referring to himself in the third person. Jesse finds it annoying.

!Conan Quincannon

* TheAtoner: Comes to Salvation to [[spoiler: help atone for the damage his brother, Odin, caused.]]
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler: Offers Arseface a job]] simply because Lorrie asked him to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Odin's red.

!Hugo Root

* AbusiveParents: He regularly beat his son whenever he pissed him off.
* AteHisGun: In his last encounter with Jesse, he uses The Word to tell him to go fuck himself. He does just that with his own severed penis. He asks his son to hand him his pistol, and blows his brains out right in the ambulance. [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment Eventually, this is one of the factors]] that leads Jesse to be more discriminating with the use of his power in future.]]
* {{Badass}}: As much of an asshole as he was, he was no coward. He doesn't take shit off of an FBI agent who makes fun of his story about Jesse and the Saint, and he gets the drop on Jesse and Tulip and threatens to shoot either of them if they don't surrender. The only person who manages to scare him is the Saint of Killers.
* ConspiracyTheorist: He thinks the FBI is hiding a ship with a dead Martian in it, and stayed up firing his rifle into the sky to scare off any aliens who tried to abduct him. He also thinks that Jesse's Word and the Saint of Killers are the result of government experiments.
* CorruptHick: Because of his position as sheriff, nobody in town could do anything to stop him from assaulting suspects or beating his son.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He regularly beat his son with his belt whenever he was angry with him.
* HairTriggerTemper: He once hit his son just for starting a sentence with "I don't see".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He likes to talk about the threat of "Martian niggers", and doesn't seem too fond of the regular kind either.
* TeenyWeenie: When he wife left him, she ended her note by telling him that she lied--three inches ''is'' below average.

!Jacob "Jake" O'Hare

* ClusterFBomb: Somewhat averted, as he never really drops the f-bomb:
--> "Damn wife died. Damn baby's a girl."
* CutenessProximity: After meeting his daughter for the first time:
--> "Aw, so you're a girl. That needn't be so bad."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's redneck as you can get, and he's not one for political correctness. But he was a very loving father to Tulip.
* PapaWolf: Even though he wanted a son at first, he never failed to stand up for his daughter when necessary.
* RatedMForManly: A guy who liked hunting, fishing and sports. He and his friends laughed at the idea that his wife would ever have a girl.
* VerbalTic: "Damn" among his friends, although he avoids it when speaking to Tulip.

!Satan

* AffablyEvil: Established in his first appearance where he's seen playing cards with the Angel of Death.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The man he brutally admonishes for freezing his kingdom by retaining strong feelings of hatred asks him how to let go of it; he is taken aback and confesses he doesn't know.
* InformedAbility: Implied to have some kind of power the way the narration stressed that ''nothing'' happens in his realm without his command. But he does a shoddy job in repairing the Saint of Killers' wounds (with a needle and thread) and puts up no defense whatsoever when the aforementioned guns him down.
* PunchClockVillain: All in all, he takes his work as a job he's good at that keeps him busy.

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!Jesse !Main Cast

[[folder:Jesse]]
!!Jesse
Custer
--> Played by: Dominic Cooper

* BadassBeard: In the TV show, perhaps as not
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DominicCooper

Trying
to interfere with Dominic Cooper's role in ''{{LiveActionTelevision/Agent Carter}}''.
* BadassCreed:
fulfill a promise to his dead father, former criminal Jesse Custer learned has returned to his from hometown of Annville, Texas, to lead his father, cribbed from JohnWayne;
-->'''John Custer''': ''Don't take no shit off fools. Judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the '''right thing'''. Be one of the good guys. 'Cause there's way too many of the bad.''
* BadassNormal: Before being possessed by Genesis.
* BadassPreacher: Even though he never wanted to be a preacher, he still wears the collar even after his
father’s church is incinerated.
* BerserkButton: Be it animals, women, or children; DO NOT abuse
as the defenseless in his presence.
* BullyHunter
* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually stops seeing the world in such a black-and-white viewpoint.
* CombatPragmatist: He won't hesitate to go for a nutshot in a fight.
* CompellingVoice: due to being possessed by Genesis
* EyepatchOfPower: After he inexplicably [[spoiler:loses his eye]] in the War In The Sun arc.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Jesse's preferred fighting style, but can also be a CombatPragmatist
town preacher. But when the situation calls for it.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Although he's a crackshot with a gun, he prefers to stick to his fists.
* LikesOlderWomen: Tulip is three years older than him.
* LiteralGenie: All orders that Jesse issues using his "Word of God" power are interpreted this way.
* MoralityChain: For [[spoiler: Cassidy, [[TookALevelInJerkass whose nasiter side shows once Jesse seemingly dies.]] Tulip, while depressed, does attempt to move on eventually.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Jesse is this in relation to everyone else in the book, except maybe Tulip. WordOfGod says this is why he's the hero of the piece.
* PapaWolf: Not too pleased when he finds out De Sade is trying to use a child in his porno.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: His childhood kind of soured him on the idea of a loving God, and he intended to make God answer for the state of the world even before he found out all of the things he's responsible for.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He gets these whenever he uses the Word.
* SemiDivine: As the result of having the "Word of God."
* SignificantAnagram: Jesse Custer = Secret Jesus. Also, of course, his initials.
* SouthernGentleman: Has some elements of this, which are a source of endless entertainment for Amy and Tulip.
* StoryBreakerPower: "The Word" has the potential to be this, allowing Jesse not only to control someone's mind but their bodies as well [[spoiler: such as when he caused his grandmother's enforcers to spontaneously combust just
he’s inhabited by telling them to "burn".]] However, Garth Ennis managed to avoid this by giving Jesse's power some very believable limitations. 1) They have to be able to hear him 2) They have to be able to understand him; making the word powerless against those who don't speak English, animals who aren't trained to respond to verbal commands, or those who are either deaf or can drown out his voice.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks
a lot like his father, but has his mother's eyes and some of her body language.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Large brown eyes, which some of the female characters are all too happy to comment on. They automatically draw the readers' attention, a handy thing when they indicate his powers by turning red.

!Tulip O'Hare
--> Played by: Ruth Negga

* ActionGirl: She's Hell with a firearm.
* AudienceSurrogate: Somewhat, since she's the only non-supernatural protagonist and has the most normal backstory.
* BadassNormal: Unlike Jesse or Cassidy, she has no powers. She still manages to fight her way through anything they encounter.
* DaddysGirl: She was very close with her father, and considers him one of the most decent guys she's ever met.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: She hated guns for a time because her dad was shot in a hunting accident. She rediscovers her love for him when she's
mysterious entity, he’s forced to use them to fight the Grail's assassins.
* DoesNotLikeMen: She generally had bad experiences with men until she met Jesse. She got worse after he apparently dumped her, although she was unaware that it was against his will.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Amy does.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As a child, the girls didn't want her because she liked boy things, and the boys didn't want her because she was a girl.
* MissingMom: Due to DeathByChildbirth.
* RaisedByDudes: Raised by her dad, and influenced by his buddies.
* StrawFeminist: At her worst. Although she has been messed
wrestle with a lot by men.
* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Her hand is stabbed and stuck to a dashboard with a knife, but she still gets up to warn Jesse. And she later overcomes drug addiction with sheer willpower.]]
* TheGunslinger: But she's [[DarkAndTroubledPast reluctant to pick up a gun again]] at the start
new kind of the story.
* RaceLift: Tulip is a white blonde in the comic, but African-American in the TV show.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Amy's girly girl, though it's downplayed.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Mess with her man and you'll find out.
** Platonically for Amy.

!Cassidy
--> Played by:
mission.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cassidy]]
!!Cassidy
->'''Played By:'''
Joe Gilgun

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: After being brought back to life as a human in the final issue, Cassidy decides to follow Jesse's example is an Irish vagabond, a glutton for every possible vice, and "act like a man".]]
* CarFu: Attempted to drive a pickup into the Saint Of Killers, to no effect.
* CoolShades: Never seen without his sunglasses. [[spoiler: They cover up his wrinkled, bloodshot eyes.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: His view of being a vampire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's experienced a lot of trouble over his long life, most of it self-inflicted.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's well-aware most of the time, but [[spoiler: in the past, smacked a woman
when he stumbles across the face, breaking her jaw. The shock on Cassidy's face implies weird town of Annville, he didn't mean to go that far.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Horrified by the Reaver-Cleaver's actions, even vowing to kick his ass when he finds one of the mutilated (and still living) victims. And this is before he realizes [[spoiler: the Reaver-Cleaver has hurt Tulip.]]
** He was disgusted to find out that Eccarius was feeding on his own followers, and killed him by putting him out in the sun.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 at the age of 16. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. Turns out he [[UnreliableNarrator missed a few details]], though.
* FaceHeelTurn
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He takes [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] in stride. This is [[BlessedWithSuck used against him]] when Herr Starr, furious at the depth of his error in kidnapping Cassidy instead of Jesse, calls in his old friend [[TortureTechnician Frankie]] to continuously shoot him to near-death, then wait for him to heal, then repeat.
* HiddenDepths: Some better than others, but a more benign example would be that a note he leaves for Tulip [[spoiler: apologizing for his actions]] reveals he has really nice handwriting.
* KarmaHoudini: After all of the skeletons in his closet are revealed at how much a monster he is, he pulls it off by [[spoiler:making a deal with God to capture Genesis. The last pages show him alive, with his curse removed.]] To be fair, he also demanded that [[spoiler: Jesse would survive no matter what happened]] as one of the conditions. He also lets himself [[spoiler: burn to "death" in the sunlight]]. Before that, [[spoiler: Jesse beats the shit out of him]]. It doesn't really make up for everything he did in the past, but at least he doesn't get away without ''some'' pain.
** He's also going to have fun [[spoiler: dodging the ''many'' enemies he made around the country when he was too strong to care, now that he's relinquished that super-strength]].
* ManChild: Cassidy is impulsive, arrogant, self-centered, and hedonistic.
* NeverMyFault: When called out on his actions, he likes to gripe about living with the guilt and experiences of the things he's done, ignoring that
quickly becomes Jesse’s most of it is his own fault. As [[spoiler: Jesse]] says, "Way you make it sound, you had alla that done to you. 'Steada you bein' the one that did it."
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loves garlic, is unaffected by holy water and crosses and survives decapitation. He can also enter a church, can't turn into ''anything'', and doesn't need invitations to enter anyplace. He doesn't even have
wild-ass, bestest friend. Up for any fangs, just regular teeth. The sun's a killer, though.
** "I tried (turning into a bat) once. Broke both my legs."
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: He decides that the evil he's done can't be forgiven, and that he has to burn it out. After committing suicide by standing in the sun, he's brought back to life as a human, and intends to be a better person.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does this repeatedly, causing much grievous harm to other people. When Jesse calls him out repeatedly, he gets self-righteous.
* SuicideBySunlight: Subverted. [[spoiler: He appears to do this, but it turns out he already made a deal with God that will ensure his survival.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Especially after the events of War In The Sun
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "So I got
kind of a question. [[spoiler: 'Proinsias'?"]][[labelnote:*]]It's, incidentally, the Irish for Francis[[/labelnote]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He has a bad history of domestic abuse,
adventure, his hedonistic lifestyle and because humanist views are constantly at odds with Jesse’s faith.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tulip]]
!!Tulip [=O'Hare=]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RuthNegga

A volatile, hell-raising force
of his strength, usually ends up crippling the girl.]]

!The Duke
* TheFaceless: His face
nature, Tulip O’Hare is always kept in shadow.
* ImaginaryFriend: He likely isn't real, but
Jesse still uses him for support.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: We never see his face,
Custer’s ex-girlfriend and he's only referred one true love. She’s also a gifted criminal who’s not afraid to by name once.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: We never find out for sure if he's a hallucination
steal, cheat or the actual ghost of John Wayne. However, Jesse admits that he started seeing him four years before John Wayne passes away, so it seems more likely that Jesse developed him as a coping mechanism.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Guy's a dead ringer for Creator/JohnWayne.
* TheObiWan: Sort of became this after [[spoiler: Jesse was possessed by Genesis.]]

!Saint Of Killers
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saint_of_killers.jpg]]

* AntiVillain: As frightening as he is, he makes no excuses for
kill to get what he's done [[spoiler: she wants.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emily]]
!!Emily Woodrow
->'''Played By:''' Lucy Griffiths

A young widow
and it's thanks to God himself that he lost his family, and any good he may have had left in him]].
* BadassBoast: "There ain't worse than me in all
single mother of Hell. Go an' look." (Gunshot)
* BadassGrandpa: He was old even before he became immortal, but you wouldn't want to have messed with him then, either.
* BadassLongcoat: Always wearing an old fashioned duster.
* BottomlessMagazines--His guns never need reloading, never miss, never jam, and with the exception of Cassidy, every shot is fatal.
* DeathGlare: He scares the hell out of people who don't know anything about what he is, just by having a very mean stare.
* TheDeterminator: He never gives up. Ever.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He shot the Devil
three, Emily excels in the face, practicalities of life, juggling several jobs and [[spoiler:God]] as well.
* TheDreaded: Even Jesse-whose entire goal is to find and call out God
upholding her church duties for the shape of the world-is terrified of him.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: The Saint Of Killers got a four-issue mini-series all of his own to tell us about his mortal life in the Civil War and the terrible winter of 1878. He dumps a silver dollar with just that date on the counter of a bar in ''Gone To Texas,'' too.
* GunAndSword: When he was mortal, he sometimes fought with a pistol in one hand and a saber in the other.
* ImplacableMan: Nothing can stop him.
* InstantDeathBullet: Nothing that gets shot by him survives. [[spoiler: Unless they're already dead.]]
* NighInvulnerable: Minus the "Nigh." Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, harms him, not even [[spoiler:having a nuke dropped on him.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: The hate he had for his killers is what allowed him to keep his sanity when he went to Hell. His hate ended up freezing the entire place, and not even being tortured by Satan could drive the hate from his heart.
* QuickDraw: The Saint of Killers can draw his guns faster than a man can see. He uses this to shut down Jesse's Word the second time they meet.
-->'''Saint of Killers''': "I'm bettin' I can clear holster 'fore your words hit the breeze, preacher. First twitch I see...that's what I'm gonna do."
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After
Preacher Jesse reveals to him Custer, but simmering beneath the surface are a whole lot of dark and debased desires.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Root]]
!!Sheriff Hugo Root
->'''Played By:''' Creator/WEarlBrown

Sheriff Root is Annville’s local lawman, a tough, conservative redneck who loves
his backstory.
* TheSixthRanger: Becomes this to Jesse
deformed son but is dubious of Eugene’s faith in Preacher Custer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deblanc]]
!!Deblanc
->'''Played By:''' Anatol Yusef

Strangely mysterious government agents Deblanc
and his group after meeting the angel who sired Genesis in Vol 3.
* SuperStrength: In addition
Fiore are heading up a top-secret investigation that has led them right to the invulnerability doorstep of Jesse Custer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fiore]]
!!Fioere
->'''Played By:''' Tom Brooke

Strangely mysterious government agents Deblanc
and magic guns, he's much stronger than the average person too.

!God

* AintTooProudToBeg: When [[spoiler: The Saint finally cornered him, he begged for his life]]
* BigBad: ''Everything'', [[spoiler:Genesis coming into Jesse]], the war with the Grail, was all done as
Fiore are heading up a long-winded way for God to see [[spoiler:how loved and adored he was]].
* DirtyCoward: If it would mean any possible harm to him, he won't take a chance facing it
* GodIsFlawed: It is eventually revealed
top-secret investigation that all of has led them right to the world's problems are caused by being created by a guy who grew up in total solitude (because there wasn't any universe yet!) and thus developed what could be considered a narcissistic personality disorder as well as any number doorstep of related mental problems.
* JerkassGod: The world's a shithole because God's a dick.
* LetsGetDangerous: You really do '''not''' want to piss Him off.
* LoveHungry: God's fatal flaw.
* PetTheDog: He really didn't have to keep up his end of the bargain and [[spoiler: Resurrect Cassidy and Jesse]] but he did anyway [[spoiler: and even restored Cassidy's humanity as well]].

!Herr Starr

* ButtMonkey: Undergoes a HumiliationConga like no other. At the time of his death, this is the sum total of his injuries (deep breath:) [[spoiler: One of his eyes is blind, one of his ears was shot off, a scar was carved over his head making it look like a gigantic penis, cannibals ate his leg and a rottweiler bit off his genitals. Oh, and he's bald and has a harsh voice, too. Since childhood. He literally becomes this when he is anally raped by Bill Glover.]]
* CompensatingForSomething: After [[spoiler:losing his genitalia]] Herr Starr feels the need to get a bigger gun. And then stand in front of a mirror with it, [[MadnessMantra muttering]] "''Doom''cock. '''''Doomcock'''''."
** In a way, that turns out to be his downfall: [[spoiler: if he was still using his old nine-millimeter pistol, he wouldn't have run out of ammunition in his final gunfight with Tulip.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Hops his way out of the desert on one leg, falling every few steps.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Got his scar, voice, and baldness from a childhood incident where [[spoiler: a gang of schoolboys cut his eye out with a piece of glass. They all ended up dead before his tenth birthday.]] This incident got him the job as the Sacred Executioner of the Grail.
* TheStarscream: To D'Aronique, who thinks being GenreSavvy about this will make using him anyway less risky.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He started out as one. He hated the chaos of the world, and he would kill anyone to bring about his vision of order.

!Arseface
--> Played by:
Jesse Custer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arseface]]
!!Eugene Root / "Arseface"
->'''Played By:'''
Ian Colletti

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doesn't look anywhere ''close'' to as bad as he did in Teenager Eugene Root has the comics in the AMC series.
* AppropriatedAppellation: He took his name from
heart of a comment from Cassidy. Even though he didn't know what an "arse" was.
* CigaretteBurns: His dad put a cigarette out on his arm after he caught him with marijuana on his shirt.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never do learn what he was called before he took on the name "Arseface". All we can say for sure is that his last name is probably Root. The AMC series reveals his real name to be [[spoiler: Eugene]].
* HappilyFailedSuicide: Arseface tried to kill himself because he was sad and lonely, and his idol KurtCobain and his only friend had both just killed themselves
saint and the friend had told him to do the same. After the failed suicide attempt, he does all he can to turn his life around, but can never get away from his face being horribly mutilated of a monster. Despised by the shotgun blast that so fortunately missed his brain.
* NameFaceName: Arseface. Or as
most, he would say it, "Uhfuh!"
* NauseaFuel: Was this InUniverse to most people he met, causing them to involuntarily vomit upon seeing him.
* TheUnintelligible: Thanks to his facial injury, he's hard to understand.

!Allfather D'Aronique

* AdiposeRex: The leader of the Grail, and so fat that he needs his follows to help carry him.
* TheDreaded: Is this to his own people as well as major world leaders, requiring them to call him daily and thank him for allowing them to remain
finds solace in power. Starr himself, despite his revulsion towards D'Aronique, has good reason to be scared shitless of him.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Jesse's grandmother Marie L'Angelle was Allfather D'Aronique's aunt.]] It turns out that one of the reasons the Grail leadership supported Starr's pursuit of Jesse was because [[spoiler: D'Aronique wanted to punish Jesse for killing his "Aunt Marie".]]
* FatBastard: Very fat, and very evil.
* GenreSavvy: Despite his appearance, D'Aronique is not only a sadist but is ruthlessly clever, knowing that Starr intends to assassinate him but keeps him close anyway to better keep an eye on him and allowing him to pursue Jesse so he could pursue his own retribution against him.
* JabbaTableManners: He's usually seen eating. And he's bulimic to boot.
* VillainousGlutton:
-->'''Marseilles''': God he (D'Aronique) disgusts me, what do you suppose he's thinking about?
-->'''Starr''': His favorite subjects-mass murder and big pies.

!Marie L'Angelle

* TheDreaded: Was this to Jesse his entire life. Just hearing her name mentioned in the first volume was enough to make him freeze in terror.
* EvilMatriarch: The head of the L'Angelle line, and determined to make Jesse follow the path she's chosen for him.
* EvilOldFolks: She's around a century old.
* ImprobableAge: Had Jesse's mother at 60,
Jesse’s sermons and is likely over 100 in the current story. To put it in perspective, she's older than Cassidy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only cruel to Jesse-[[spoiler: her idea of diciplining
new preacher’s biggest fan.
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!Recurring

[[folder:Donnie]]
!!Donnie Schenck
->'''Played By:''' Derek Wilson

Quincannon’s right-hand man, Donnie is all brawny ambition. When Preacher
Jesse as a child was to lock him inside of a coffin Custer resurfaces and submerging it at publicly undermines Donnie’s role as the bottom of a river town bully, Donnie becomes hell-bent on evening the score.
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[[folder:Vyla]]
!!Vyla Quinncannon
->'''Played By:''' Elizabeth Perkins
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[[folder:Betsy]]
!!Betsy Schenck
->'''Played By:''' Jamie Anne Allman
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[[folder:Odin]]
!!Odin Quincannon
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackieEarleHaley

A small, decrepit man
with only an airhose to keep him alive]], but was to his mother, ''her own daughter'', too.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: After all of her KickTheDog moments, [[spoiler: watching her flaming corpse getting blasted into
the sky when unscrupulous iron will necessary to be the fire Jesse set to her house blows up her oxygen tanks]] is EXTREMELY gratifying.

!Jody

* BadassNormal: [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement Once killed a gorilla with a baseball bat]].
* CorruptHick
* EvilMentor: To Jesse.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is completely loyal to Marie and hates those who don't stand by their own.
* LackOfEmpathy: He called Jesse a crybaby after he shot his dad
most powerful man in the head, and didn't understand why Jesse got so upset when he nailed his dog to a fencepost. He also resents Jesse because he feels that Marie never showed Jody the same "kindness" she showed Jesse.
* MadeOfIron: Even
Annville County, Texas. The chief employer in his current advanced age, he can still tank a ton of hooks to face, kicks to the stomach, and ''being set on fire''. Even ''having nails'' '''''puncture his jaw''''' doesn't make him look more than mildly annoyed. It takes Jesse [[spoiler: breaking his spine in half]] to keep him down for good.
* PetTheDog: An extremely minor one. When Jesse tells him he caved [[AnythingThatMoves T.C.'s]] head in, Jody stops talking and looks honestly upset.
* PsychoForHire: His family worked for the L'Angelle's and he's devoted to Marie.
* SoProudOfYou: To Jesse [[spoiler:right after Jesse breaks his back]]. Doubles as his FamousLastWords.
* VillainProtagonist: Along with T.C. in the one-shot "The Good Old Boys."

!T.C.

* AnythingThatMoves: And in some cases, anything that doesn't.
* AxCrazy: He's pretty sadistic, and a lot more outspoken than Jody.
* BadassNormal: He and Jody show an uncanny knack for surviving in the swamp, if need be.
* PsychoForHire: Like Jody, he does any dirty work Marie needs.

!Jesus De Sade

* AnythingThatMoves: Quite literally. In his first appearance he was about to have intercourse with [[spoiler: an armadillo.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Well, Depraved Omnisexual may be a better way to put it.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is stark white, and he's very pale as well.

!Odin Quincannon

* BaldOfEvil: Not a hair on his head.
* CorruptHick: A native Texan, and a nasty son of a bitch.
* EvilOldFolks: It's not obvious, but he's seventy-five years old.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: To the point that even some of his fellow Klansmen were disturbed.
* TheNapoleon: He's about four feet tall, but that doesn't stop him from throwing his weight around.
* RagsToRiches: In his own words:
-->''Ol'
town, Odin never had no fancy education, no sir! Odin runs Quincannon started out so poor he had to wipe his ass with his hand! But he pulled himself up by his bootstraps an' made something Meat & Power, a 125-year-old family run cattle slaughterhouse business
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[[folder:Saint
of his life, an' by God he did it alone! Odin cleans his crack with smoothest silk today, an' he didn't get there by exploiting' contacts an' callin' in favors from no faggy fuckin' law school! He got there by hard fucking' work!''
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to his brother Conan's blue.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He likes referring to himself in the third person. Jesse finds it annoying.

!Conan Quincannon

* TheAtoner: Comes to Salvation to [[spoiler: help atone for the damage his brother, Odin, caused.]]
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler: Offers Arseface a job]] simply because Lorrie asked him to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Odin's red.

!Hugo Root

* AbusiveParents: He regularly beat his son whenever he pissed him off.
* AteHisGun: In his last encounter with Jesse, he uses The Word to tell him to go fuck himself. He does just that with his own severed penis. He asks his son to hand him his pistol, and blows his brains out right in the ambulance. [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment Eventually, this is one of the factors]] that leads Jesse to be more discriminating with the use of his power in future.]]
* {{Badass}}: As much of an asshole as he was, he was no coward. He doesn't take shit off of an FBI agent who makes fun of his story about Jesse and the Saint, and he gets the drop on Jesse and Tulip and threatens to shoot either of them if they don't surrender. The only person who manages to scare him is the
Killers]]
!!The
Saint of Killers.
* ConspiracyTheorist: He thinks the FBI is hiding a ship with a dead Martian in it, and stayed up firing his rifle into the sky to scare off any aliens who tried to abduct him. He also thinks that Jesse's Word and the Saint of Killers are the result of government experiments.
* CorruptHick: Because of his position as sheriff, nobody in town could do anything to stop him from assaulting suspects or beating his son.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He regularly beat his son with his belt whenever he was angry with him.
* HairTriggerTemper: He once hit his son just for starting a sentence with "I don't see".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He likes to talk about the threat of "Martian niggers", and doesn't seem too fond of the regular kind either.
* TeenyWeenie: When he wife left him, she ended her note by telling him that she lied--three inches ''is'' below average.

!Jacob "Jake" O'Hare

* ClusterFBomb: Somewhat averted, as he never really drops the f-bomb:
--> "Damn wife died. Damn baby's a girl."
* CutenessProximity: After meeting his daughter for the first time:
--> "Aw, so you're a girl. That needn't be so bad."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's redneck as you can get, and he's not one for political correctness. But he was a very loving father to Tulip.
* PapaWolf: Even though he wanted a son at first, he never failed to stand up for his daughter when necessary.
* RatedMForManly: A guy who liked hunting, fishing and sports. He and his friends laughed at the idea that his wife would ever have a girl.
* VerbalTic: "Damn" among his friends, although he avoids it when speaking to Tulip.

!Satan

* AffablyEvil: Established in his first appearance where he's seen playing cards with the Angel of Death.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The man he brutally admonishes for freezing his kingdom by retaining strong feelings of hatred asks him how to let go of it; he is taken aback and confesses he doesn't know.
* InformedAbility: Implied to have some kind of power the way the narration stressed that ''nothing'' happens in his realm without his command. But he does a shoddy job in repairing the Saint of Killers' wounds (with a needle and thread) and puts up no defense whatsoever when the aforementioned guns him down.
* PunchClockVillain: All in all, he takes his work as a job he's good at that keeps him busy.
Killers
->'''Played By:''' Graham [=McTavish=]
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!Jesse Custer
--> Played by: Dominic Cooper

* BadassBeard: In the TV show, perhaps as not to interfere with Dominic Cooper's role in ''{{LiveActionTelevision/Agent Carter}}''.
* BadassCreed: Jesse Custer learned his from his father, cribbed from JohnWayne;
-->'''John Custer''': ''Don't take no shit off fools. Judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the '''right thing'''. Be one of the good guys. 'Cause there's way too many of the bad.''
* BadassNormal: Before being possessed by Genesis.
* BadassPreacher: Even though he never wanted to be a preacher, he still wears the collar even after his church is incinerated.
* BerserkButton: Be it animals, women, or children; DO NOT abuse the defenseless in his presence.
* BullyHunter
* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually stops seeing the world in such a black-and-white viewpoint.
* CombatPragmatist: He won't hesitate to go for a nutshot in a fight.
* CompellingVoice: due to being possessed by Genesis
* EyepatchOfPower: After he inexplicably [[spoiler:loses his eye]] in the War In The Sun arc.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Jesse's preferred fighting style, but can also be a CombatPragmatist when the situation calls for it.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Although he's a crackshot with a gun, he prefers to stick to his fists.
* LikesOlderWomen: Tulip is three years older than him.
* LiteralGenie: All orders that Jesse issues using his "Word of God" power are interpreted this way.
* MoralityChain: For [[spoiler: Cassidy, [[TookALevelInJerkass whose nasiter side shows once Jesse seemingly dies.]] Tulip, while depressed, does attempt to move on eventually.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Jesse is this in relation to everyone else in the book, except maybe Tulip. WordOfGod says this is why he's the hero of the piece.
* PapaWolf: Not too pleased when he finds out De Sade is trying to use a child in his porno.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: His childhood kind of soured him on the idea of a loving God, and he intended to make God answer for the state of the world even before he found out all of the things he's responsible for.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He gets these whenever he uses the Word.
* SemiDivine: As the result of having the "Word of God."
* SignificantAnagram: Jesse Custer = Secret Jesus. Also, of course, his initials.
* SouthernGentleman: Has some elements of this, which are a source of endless entertainment for Amy and Tulip.
* StoryBreakerPower: "The Word" has the potential to be this, allowing Jesse not only to control someone's mind but their bodies as well [[spoiler: such as when he caused his grandmother's enforcers to spontaneously combust just by telling them to "burn".]] However, Garth Ennis managed to avoid this by giving Jesse's power some very believable limitations. 1) They have to be able to hear him 2) They have to be able to understand him; making the word powerless against those who don't speak English, animals who aren't trained to respond to verbal commands, or those who are either deaf or can drown out his voice.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks a lot like his father, but has his mother's eyes and some of her body language.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Large brown eyes, which some of the female characters are all too happy to comment on. They automatically draw the readers' attention, a handy thing when they indicate his powers by turning red.

!Tulip O'Hare
--> Played by: Ruth Negga

* ActionGirl: She's Hell with a firearm.
* AudienceSurrogate: Somewhat, since she's the only non-supernatural protagonist and has the most normal backstory.
* BadassNormal: Unlike Jesse or Cassidy, she has no powers. She still manages to fight her way through anything they encounter.
* DaddysGirl: She was very close with her father, and considers him one of the most decent guys she's ever met.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: She hated guns for a time because her dad was shot in a hunting accident. She rediscovers her love for him when she's forced to use them to fight the Grail's assassins.
* DoesNotLikeMen: She generally had bad experiences with men until she met Jesse. She got worse after he apparently dumped her, although she was unaware that it was against his will.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Amy does.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As a child, the girls didn't want her because she liked boy things, and the boys didn't want her because she was a girl.
* MissingMom: Due to DeathByChildbirth.
* RaisedByDudes: Raised by her dad, and influenced by his buddies.
* StrawFeminist: At her worst. Although she has been messed with a lot by men.
* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Her hand is stabbed and stuck to a dashboard with a knife, but she still gets up to warn Jesse. And she later overcomes drug addiction with sheer willpower.]]
* TheGunslinger: But she's [[DarkAndTroubledPast reluctant to pick up a gun again]] at the start of the story.
* RaceLift: Tulip is a white blonde in the comic, but African-American in the TV show.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Amy's girly girl, though it's downplayed.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Mess with her man and you'll find out.
** Platonically for Amy.

!Cassidy
--> Played by: Joe Gilgun

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: After being brought back to life as a human in the final issue, Cassidy decides to follow Jesse's example and "act like a man".]]
* CarFu: Attempted to drive a pickup into the Saint Of Killers, to no effect.
* CoolShades: Never seen without his sunglasses. [[spoiler: They cover up his wrinkled, bloodshot eyes.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: His view of being a vampire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's experienced a lot of trouble over his long life, most of it self-inflicted.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's well-aware most of the time, but [[spoiler: in the past, smacked a woman across the face, breaking her jaw. The shock on Cassidy's face implies he didn't mean to go that far.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Horrified by the Reaver-Cleaver's actions, even vowing to kick his ass when he finds one of the mutilated (and still living) victims. And this is before he realizes [[spoiler: the Reaver-Cleaver has hurt Tulip.]]
** He was disgusted to find out that Eccarius was feeding on his own followers, and killed him by putting him out in the sun.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 at the age of 16. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. Turns out he [[UnreliableNarrator missed a few details]], though.
* FaceHeelTurn
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He takes [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] in stride. This is [[BlessedWithSuck used against him]] when Herr Starr, furious at the depth of his error in kidnapping Cassidy instead of Jesse, calls in his old friend [[TortureTechnician Frankie]] to continuously shoot him to near-death, then wait for him to heal, then repeat.
* HiddenDepths: Some better than others, but a more benign example would be that a note he leaves for Tulip [[spoiler: apologizing for his actions]] reveals he has really nice handwriting.
* KarmaHoudini: After all of the skeletons in his closet are revealed at how much a monster he is, he pulls it off by [[spoiler:making a deal with God to capture Genesis. The last pages show him alive, with his curse removed.]] To be fair, he also demanded that [[spoiler: Jesse would survive no matter what happened]] as one of the conditions. He also lets himself [[spoiler: burn to "death" in the sunlight]]. Before that, [[spoiler: Jesse beats the shit out of him]]. It doesn't really make up for everything he did in the past, but at least he doesn't get away without ''some'' pain.
** He's also going to have fun [[spoiler: dodging the ''many'' enemies he made around the country when he was too strong to care, now that he's relinquished that super-strength]].
* ManChild: Cassidy is impulsive, arrogant, self-centered, and hedonistic.
* NeverMyFault: When called out on his actions, he likes to gripe about living with the guilt and experiences of the things he's done, ignoring that most of it is his own fault. As [[spoiler: Jesse]] says, "Way you make it sound, you had alla that done to you. 'Steada you bein' the one that did it."
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loves garlic, is unaffected by holy water and crosses and survives decapitation. He can also enter a church, can't turn into ''anything'', and doesn't need invitations to enter anyplace. He doesn't even have any fangs, just regular teeth. The sun's a killer, though.
** "I tried (turning into a bat) once. Broke both my legs."
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: He decides that the evil he's done can't be forgiven, and that he has to burn it out. After committing suicide by standing in the sun, he's brought back to life as a human, and intends to be a better person.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does this repeatedly, causing much grievous harm to other people. When Jesse calls him out repeatedly, he gets self-righteous.
* SuicideBySunlight: Subverted. [[spoiler: He appears to do this, but it turns out he already made a deal with God that will ensure his survival.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Especially after the events of War In The Sun
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "So I got kind of a question. [[spoiler: 'Proinsias'?"]][[labelnote:*]]It's, incidentally, the Irish for Francis[[/labelnote]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He has a bad history of domestic abuse, and because of his strength, usually ends up crippling the girl.]]

!The Duke
* TheFaceless: His face is always kept in shadow.
* ImaginaryFriend: He likely isn't real, but Jesse still uses him for support.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: We never see his face, and he's only referred to by name once.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: We never find out for sure if he's a hallucination or the actual ghost of John Wayne. However, Jesse admits that he started seeing him four years before John Wayne passes away, so it seems more likely that Jesse developed him as a coping mechanism.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Guy's a dead ringer for Creator/JohnWayne.
* TheObiWan: Sort of became this after [[spoiler: Jesse was possessed by Genesis.]]

!Saint Of Killers
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* AntiVillain: As frightening as he is, he makes no excuses for what he's done [[spoiler: and it's thanks to God himself that he lost his family, and any good he may have had left in him]].
* BadassBoast: "There ain't worse than me in all of Hell. Go an' look." (Gunshot)
* BadassGrandpa: He was old even before he became immortal, but you wouldn't want to have messed with him then, either.
* BadassLongcoat: Always wearing an old fashioned duster.
* BottomlessMagazines--His guns never need reloading, never miss, never jam, and with the exception of Cassidy, every shot is fatal.
* DeathGlare: He scares the hell out of people who don't know anything about what he is, just by having a very mean stare.
* TheDeterminator: He never gives up. Ever.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He shot the Devil in the face, and [[spoiler:God]] as well.
* TheDreaded: Even Jesse-whose entire goal is to find and call out God for the shape of the world-is terrified of him.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: The Saint Of Killers got a four-issue mini-series all of his own to tell us about his mortal life in the Civil War and the terrible winter of 1878. He dumps a silver dollar with just that date on the counter of a bar in ''Gone To Texas,'' too.
* GunAndSword: When he was mortal, he sometimes fought with a pistol in one hand and a saber in the other.
* ImplacableMan: Nothing can stop him.
* InstantDeathBullet: Nothing that gets shot by him survives. [[spoiler: Unless they're already dead.]]
* NighInvulnerable: Minus the "Nigh." Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, harms him, not even [[spoiler:having a nuke dropped on him.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: The hate he had for his killers is what allowed him to keep his sanity when he went to Hell. His hate ended up freezing the entire place, and not even being tortured by Satan could drive the hate from his heart.
* QuickDraw: The Saint of Killers can draw his guns faster than a man can see. He uses this to shut down Jesse's Word the second time they meet.
-->'''Saint of Killers''': "I'm bettin' I can clear holster 'fore your words hit the breeze, preacher. First twitch I see...that's what I'm gonna do."
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After Jesse reveals to him his backstory.
* TheSixthRanger: Becomes this to Jesse and his group after meeting the angel who sired Genesis in Vol 3.
* SuperStrength: In addition to the invulnerability and magic guns, he's much stronger than the average person too.

!God

* AintTooProudToBeg: When [[spoiler: The Saint finally cornered him, he begged for his life]]
* BigBad: ''Everything'', [[spoiler:Genesis coming into Jesse]], the war with the Grail, was all done as a long-winded way for God to see [[spoiler:how loved and adored he was]].
* DirtyCoward: If it would mean any possible harm to him, he won't take a chance facing it
* GodIsFlawed: It is eventually revealed that all of the world's problems are caused by being created by a guy who grew up in total solitude (because there wasn't any universe yet!) and thus developed what could be considered a narcissistic personality disorder as well as any number of related mental problems.
* JerkassGod: The world's a shithole because God's a dick.
* LetsGetDangerous: You really do '''not''' want to piss Him off.
* LoveHungry: God's fatal flaw.
* PetTheDog: He really didn't have to keep up his end of the bargain and [[spoiler: Resurrect Cassidy and Jesse]] but he did anyway [[spoiler: and even restored Cassidy's humanity as well]].

!Herr Starr

* ButtMonkey: Undergoes a HumiliationConga like no other. At the time of his death, this is the sum total of his injuries (deep breath:) [[spoiler: One of his eyes is blind, one of his ears was shot off, a scar was carved over his head making it look like a gigantic penis, cannibals ate his leg and a rottweiler bit off his genitals. Oh, and he's bald and has a harsh voice, too. Since childhood. He literally becomes this when he is anally raped by Bill Glover.]]
* CompensatingForSomething: After [[spoiler:losing his genitalia]] Herr Starr feels the need to get a bigger gun. And then stand in front of a mirror with it, [[MadnessMantra muttering]] "''Doom''cock. '''''Doomcock'''''."
** In a way, that turns out to be his downfall: [[spoiler: if he was still using his old nine-millimeter pistol, he wouldn't have run out of ammunition in his final gunfight with Tulip.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Hops his way out of the desert on one leg, falling every few steps.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Got his scar, voice, and baldness from a childhood incident where [[spoiler: a gang of schoolboys cut his eye out with a piece of glass. They all ended up dead before his tenth birthday.]] This incident got him the job as the Sacred Executioner of the Grail.
* TheStarscream: To D'Aronique, who thinks being GenreSavvy about this will make using him anyway less risky.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He started out as one. He hated the chaos of the world, and he would kill anyone to bring about his vision of order.

!Arseface
--> Played by: Ian Colletti

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doesn't look anywhere ''close'' to as bad as he did in the comics in the AMC series.
* AppropriatedAppellation: He took his name from a comment from Cassidy. Even though he didn't know what an "arse" was.
* CigaretteBurns: His dad put a cigarette out on his arm after he caught him with marijuana on his shirt.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never do learn what he was called before he took on the name "Arseface". All we can say for sure is that his last name is probably Root. The AMC series reveals his real name to be [[spoiler: Eugene]].
* HappilyFailedSuicide: Arseface tried to kill himself because he was sad and lonely, and his idol KurtCobain and his only friend had both just killed themselves and the friend had told him to do the same. After the failed suicide attempt, he does all he can to turn his life around, but can never get away from his face being horribly mutilated by the shotgun blast that so fortunately missed his brain.
* NameFaceName: Arseface. Or as he would say it, "Uhfuh!"
* NauseaFuel: Was this InUniverse to most people he met, causing them to involuntarily vomit upon seeing him.
* TheUnintelligible: Thanks to his facial injury, he's hard to understand.

!Allfather D'Aronique

* AdiposeRex: The leader of the Grail, and so fat that he needs his follows to help carry him.
* TheDreaded: Is this to his own people as well as major world leaders, requiring them to call him daily and thank him for allowing them to remain in power. Starr himself, despite his revulsion towards D'Aronique, has good reason to be scared shitless of him.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Jesse's grandmother Marie L'Angelle was Allfather D'Aronique's aunt.]] It turns out that one of the reasons the Grail leadership supported Starr's pursuit of Jesse was because [[spoiler: D'Aronique wanted to punish Jesse for killing his "Aunt Marie".]]
* FatBastard: Very fat, and very evil.
* GenreSavvy: Despite his appearance, D'Aronique is not only a sadist but is ruthlessly clever, knowing that Starr intends to assassinate him but keeps him close anyway to better keep an eye on him and allowing him to pursue Jesse so he could pursue his own retribution against him.
* JabbaTableManners: He's usually seen eating. And he's bulimic to boot.
* VillainousGlutton:
-->'''Marseilles''': God he (D'Aronique) disgusts me, what do you suppose he's thinking about?
-->'''Starr''': His favorite subjects-mass murder and big pies.

!Marie L'Angelle

* TheDreaded: Was this to Jesse his entire life. Just hearing her name mentioned in the first volume was enough to make him freeze in terror.
* EvilMatriarch: The head of the L'Angelle line, and determined to make Jesse follow the path she's chosen for him.
* EvilOldFolks: She's around a century old.
* ImprobableAge: Had Jesse's mother at 60, and is likely over 100 in the current story. To put it in perspective, she's older than Cassidy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only cruel to Jesse-[[spoiler: her idea of diciplining Jesse as a child was to lock him inside of a coffin and submerging it at the bottom of a river with only an airhose to keep him alive]], but was to his mother, ''her own daughter'', too.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: After all of her KickTheDog moments, [[spoiler: watching her flaming corpse getting blasted into the sky when the fire Jesse set to her house blows up her oxygen tanks]] is EXTREMELY gratifying.

!Jody

* BadassNormal: [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement Once killed a gorilla with a baseball bat]].
* CorruptHick
* EvilMentor: To Jesse.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is completely loyal to Marie and hates those who don't stand by their own.
* LackOfEmpathy: He called Jesse a crybaby after he shot his dad in the head, and didn't understand why Jesse got so upset when he nailed his dog to a fencepost. He also resents Jesse because he feels that Marie never showed Jody the same "kindness" she showed Jesse.
* MadeOfIron: Even in his current advanced age, he can still tank a ton of hooks to face, kicks to the stomach, and ''being set on fire''. Even ''having nails'' '''''puncture his jaw''''' doesn't make him look more than mildly annoyed. It takes Jesse [[spoiler: breaking his spine in half]] to keep him down for good.
* PetTheDog: An extremely minor one. When Jesse tells him he caved [[AnythingThatMoves T.C.'s]] head in, Jody stops talking and looks honestly upset.
* PsychoForHire: His family worked for the L'Angelle's and he's devoted to Marie.
* SoProudOfYou: To Jesse [[spoiler:right after Jesse breaks his back]]. Doubles as his FamousLastWords.
* VillainProtagonist: Along with T.C. in the one-shot "The Good Old Boys."

!T.C.

* AnythingThatMoves: And in some cases, anything that doesn't.
* AxCrazy: He's pretty sadistic, and a lot more outspoken than Jody.
* BadassNormal: He and Jody show an uncanny knack for surviving in the swamp, if need be.
* PsychoForHire: Like Jody, he does any dirty work Marie needs.

!Jesus De Sade

* AnythingThatMoves: Quite literally. In his first appearance he was about to have intercourse with [[spoiler: an armadillo.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Well, Depraved Omnisexual may be a better way to put it.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is stark white, and he's very pale as well.

!Odin Quincannon

* BaldOfEvil: Not a hair on his head.
* CorruptHick: A native Texan, and a nasty son of a bitch.
* EvilOldFolks: It's not obvious, but he's seventy-five years old.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: To the point that even some of his fellow Klansmen were disturbed.
* TheNapoleon: He's about four feet tall, but that doesn't stop him from throwing his weight around.
* RagsToRiches: In his own words:
-->''Ol' Odin never had no fancy education, no sir! Odin Quincannon started out so poor he had to wipe his ass with his hand! But he pulled himself up by his bootstraps an' made something of his life, an' by God he did it alone! Odin cleans his crack with smoothest silk today, an' he didn't get there by exploiting' contacts an' callin' in favors from no faggy fuckin' law school! He got there by hard fucking' work!''
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to his brother Conan's blue.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He likes referring to himself in the third person. Jesse finds it annoying.

!Conan Quincannon

* TheAtoner: Comes to Salvation to [[spoiler: help atone for the damage his brother, Odin, caused.]]
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler: Offers Arseface a job]] simply because Lorrie asked him to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Odin's red.

!Hugo Root

* AbusiveParents: He regularly beat his son whenever he pissed him off.
* AteHisGun: In his last encounter with Jesse, he uses The Word to tell him to go fuck himself. He does just that with his own severed penis. He asks his son to hand him his pistol, and blows his brains out right in the ambulance. [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment Eventually, this is one of the factors]] that leads Jesse to be more discriminating with the use of his power in future.]]
* {{Badass}}: As much of an asshole as he was, he was no coward. He doesn't take shit off of an FBI agent who makes fun of his story about Jesse and the Saint, and he gets the drop on Jesse and Tulip and threatens to shoot either of them if they don't surrender. The only person who manages to scare him is the Saint of Killers.
* ConspiracyTheorist: He thinks the FBI is hiding a ship with a dead Martian in it, and stayed up firing his rifle into the sky to scare off any aliens who tried to abduct him. He also thinks that Jesse's Word and the Saint of Killers are the result of government experiments.
* CorruptHick: Because of his position as sheriff, nobody in town could do anything to stop him from assaulting suspects or beating his son.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: He regularly beat his son with his belt whenever he was angry with him.
* HairTriggerTemper: He once hit his son just for starting a sentence with "I don't see".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He likes to talk about the threat of "Martian niggers", and doesn't seem too fond of the regular kind either.
* TeenyWeenie: When he wife left him, she ended her note by telling him that she lied--three inches ''is'' below average.

!Jacob "Jake" O'Hare

* ClusterFBomb: Somewhat averted, as he never really drops the f-bomb:
--> "Damn wife died. Damn baby's a girl."
* CutenessProximity: After meeting his daughter for the first time:
--> "Aw, so you're a girl. That needn't be so bad."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's redneck as you can get, and he's not one for political correctness. But he was a very loving father to Tulip.
* PapaWolf: Even though he wanted a son at first, he never failed to stand up for his daughter when necessary.
* RatedMForManly: A guy who liked hunting, fishing and sports. He and his friends laughed at the idea that his wife would ever have a girl.
* VerbalTic: "Damn" among his friends, although he avoids it when speaking to Tulip.

!Satan

* AffablyEvil: Established in his first appearance where he's seen playing cards with the Angel of Death.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The man he brutally admonishes for freezing his kingdom by retaining strong feelings of hatred asks him how to let go of it; he is taken aback and confesses he doesn't know.
* InformedAbility: Implied to have some kind of power the way the narration stressed that ''nothing'' happens in his realm without his command. But he does a shoddy job in repairing the Saint of Killers' wounds (with a needle and thread) and puts up no defense whatsoever when the aforementioned guns him down.
* PunchClockVillain: All in all, he takes his work as a job he's good at that keeps him busy.

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