History Characters / QueenOfTheSouth

* TheBeard: Sometime in the past, she had a relationship with a man that produced her daughter, Samara.

* TheChick: She is not an ActionGirl by any stretch of the imagination.

* GroinAttack: Her SignatureScene is her shooting a neo-Nazi in the crotch.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: At first, it seems like for all of his corruption, Lafayette is a decent father who genuinely cares about his {{Ambiguous Disorder}}ed son Davis, but it's later revealed that Davis' mental illness is the product of years of his father's abuse and {{gaslighting}}. [[spoiler:He is, however, genuinely heartbroken when Davis commits suicide in the season finale... though not enough to restrain himself from pinning Davis' death on Marcel Dumas.]]

* CorruptHick: His war against La Comision is sold to the public as a righteous battle against evil foreign drug smugglers. In reality, it's just a front for squeezing La Comision for a cut of their profits.

* BornLucky: Can give [[Franchise/{{Tintin}}]] a run for his money in terms of things going her way in the most unexpected or unlikely circumstances, especially in the early seasons where she's constantly fighting for her life and is struggling to carve out her empire.

* BornLucky: Can give [[Franchise/Tintin Tintin]] a run for his money in terms of things going her way in the most unexpected or unlikely circumstances, especially in the early seasons where she's constantly fighting for her life and is struggling to carve out her empire.

* BornLucky: Can give Franchise/Tintin a run for his money in terms of things going her way in the most unexpected or unlikely circumstances, especially in the early seasons where she's constantly fighting for her life and is struggling to carve out her empire.

* BornLucky: Can give [[ComicBook/Tintin Tintin]] a run for his money in terms of things going her way in the most unexpected or unlikely circumstances, especially in the early seasons where she's constantly fighting for her life and is struggling to carve out her empire.

* AntiHero: The ClassicalAntiHero type, as to be expected when the titular protagonist is the head of ''the'' most powerful drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere.

* Anti-Hero: The ClassicalAntiHero type, as to be expected when the titular protagonist is the head of ''the'' most powerful drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere.

* AFatherToHisMen: He genuinely cares about his men, to the point that, when Teresa accidentally kills one of his men, he starts a brutal retaliation campaign against her. [[spoiler: [[GoodIsNotNice However, he mercilessly caps a cocky hood rat who tries to call the shots on his own when he keeps disrespecting him, even after he tried to show him mercy with all his might.]]]]

* CareerEndingInjury: His career as a ''sicario'' ended when he was tortured, resulting in nerve damage to his dominant hand that has made it harder for him to shoot straight. Fortunately for him, Teresa appreciates loyalty, and she keeps him on as an adviser.

* Deuteragonist: Arguably the character with the second longest screentime after Teresa herself, and the main focus of the finale after [[spoiler:Teresa's faked death]].

* AFatherToHisMen: He genuinely cares about his men, to the point that, when Teresa accidentally kills one of his men, he starts a brutal retaliation campaign against her.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When faced with the choice of either facing Teresa again who had outsmarted her. or giving up her empire, Camila decides to retire from the drug trade for good and returns with her daughter to Sinaloa.

[[folder:The Queen's Cartel]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:She contemplates killing herself after Guero is killed.]]

* FutureMeScaresMe: She has not yet embraced her role as the Queenpin that she sees in her visions.

* StartOfDarkness: In season 4, [[spoiler:the death of Tony does some serious damage to her moral compass.]]

The former right-hand of Camila Vargas, and now an ostensibly-loyal enforcer in Teresa's cartel. [[spoiler:Also a mole for Devon Finch.]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After leaving at the end of season 3, he suddenly returns in the final moments of season 4 with a visible gunshot wound in his chest.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He is spying on Teresa for Devon Finch.]]
* PutOnABus: He leaves at the end of season 3, ostensibly because he's tired of Teresa questioning his loyalty. [[spoiler:In reality, Finch had him re-assigned.]]

* TheAlcoholic: In season 3, she starts hitting the bottle pretty hard in order to cope with her torture at the hands of Devon Finch, and her guilt at [[spoiler:becoming his mole. In season 4, she's cleaned up her act.]]

* GeniusDitz: In spite of her naivete and poor judgment, she is a brilliant accountant and lawyer. [[spoiler:This helps her earn her way back into Teresa's empire, when she notices that Teresa's accountant has been stealing from her and helps Teresa recover the money.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: She is extremely good at playing dumb, because she had to be in order to survive living with her abusive husband.
* PromotedToParent: [[spoiler:Her penance for betraying Teresa and not having the good sense or decency to disappear is to take care of Tony.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:After being exposed as a mole and "executed", she chose to return to Texas and watch over Tony on Teresa's behalf, despite knowing that Teresa would have had her killed if she found out.]]
* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler:Her punishment for cheating death and trying to negotiate her way back into Teresa's cartel is to be assigned to care for Tony... which effectively puts her back in Teresa's cartel. Eventually, Teresa drops the act entirely and rehires Kelly Anne as her new accountant.]]

!!Javier Gallegos
-->'''Played by: Creator/AlfonsoHerrera

Boaz Jimenez's cousin, a ''sicario'' from the Jimenez Cartel. Now on loan to Teresa as part of the treaty between her and Boaz.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:He dies after managing to pull Randall Green into the trunk of a burning car with him.]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: As a ''sicario'' for the Jimenez Cartel, his employment, and thus his life, was always subject to the whims of Boaz.
* TheLoad: His poor decisions create a lot of problems for Teresa.
* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: [[spoiler:He is carrying on a secret affair with Boaz's ex-fiance Emilia.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's basically a replacement for James Valdez. Lampshaded in the season finale, when Pote and Teresa wonder if they've had a blindspot for Javi's antics because they were so desperate to replace James.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nearly every setback that besets Teresa in season 4, from her war with Marcel to [[spoiler:the death of Tony]], stems from Javi killing Rene Bardot in a bar brawl and trying to cover it up.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler:To Emilia, his ex-fiancee. She fled to New Orleans to escape him, and fell in love with Javier.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He hates being Teresa's subordinate, but he gave his word that he would serve her, and he does not go back on his word.

* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler:In response to his failed attempt to take over the cartel while Teresa was in a coma, Teresa puts him in charge of Miami. In theory, it's a punishment because he's no longer in charge of Sinaloa, which he has long believed is his rightful territory, and because it will be harder for him to make mischief when he has no local allies, but there are far worse places to do penance than Miami.]]

!!Tony Parra
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JulianSilva

Teresa's godson, and the son of her best friend Brenda and her husband Chino.

* MoralityPet: Tony is the closest thing Teresa still has to family, and she tries to be a good ''tia'' for him. [[spoiler:His death moves her much closer to becoming the brutal Queen seen in the flash-forwards.]]

* TheBeard: She had a

* WorthyOpponent: He has a grudging respect for Javier and Cedric, his counterparts in Teresa's cartel and Marcel's gang. [[spoiler:This proves to be his undoing, as Cedric leads him into an ambush with Teresa's cartel, and Javier manages to kill him when he pauses during his execution to say a final word for him.]]

-->'''Played by:''' Jamie Hector

!!Kostya

Oksana's cousin, a Russian-born coke dealer.

* TheGhost: He has yet to appear onscreen.
* ProperlyParanoid: He avoids doing business in person. Given his conflicts with the Dominicans, this is not an entirely stupid policy.

A Dominican barbershop owner, Kostya's main competition in the cocaine business, and Teresa's latest ally.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Once Teresa figures out what will get him off of her ass, he quickly becomes a loyal ally.

* FriendlyAddressPriveleges: He is the only person who can still get away with calling Teresa "Teresita".

* FriendlyAddressPrivelege: He is the only person who can still get away with calling Teresa "Teresita".

* SadClown: In season 4, while he still tries to maintain his party-animal facade, he's heartbroken over Bilal's death, and no longer at the top of his game. [[spoiler:Teresa contemplates sending him off on a scouting trip to Belize in the hopes that it'll clear his head.]]