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* TranslationConvention: When the sensates meet for the first time, they're unable to understand each other because they're each speaking their native language (Korean, Swahili, Hindi, Spanish, German etc.) Afterwards, all conversations between them are in English, indicating that they've overcome the language barrier and can communicate freely among themselves.
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!!Felix
->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Mauff
Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Mauff
Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.
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* AxCrazy: Wolfgang is a little too comfortable with murder. He's also the one Will calls upon when he wants to do something reckless and nigh-suicidal.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Despite knowing that Kala doesn't love her fiancé, he asks her to marry him because he thinks he's no good for her.
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* IllBoy: In a way. [[spoiler:After having made eye contact with Whispers, its implied he now has to be kept heavily medicated or unconscious at all times to stop him from being a threat to the rest of the cluster]].
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* TheDeterminator: Won't give up without a fight, [[spoiler: even against Jonas and Angel's advice.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Is not above using his father's reputation and benefits to do what needs to be done.
* FamilyOfChoice: Felix is this to Wolfgang.
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* WomanInWhite
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* ThePollyanna: Never fails to be amazed and impressed by the surrounding surroundings his cluster take for granted.granted.
* PunchClockVillain: Downplayed - he is forced to work for a drug lord for his mother's medicine, but only [[spoiler: insofar as he's serving as a chauffeur cum bodyguard for the man's sick daughter]].
* PunchClockVillain: Downplayed - he is forced to work for a drug lord for his mother's medicine, but only [[spoiler: insofar as he's serving as a chauffeur cum bodyguard for the man's sick daughter]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Riley has scars on her wrist from a failed suicide attempt, self-medicates, has high self-loathing and continued suicidal desires, and [[spoiler: has repeated flashbacks in the last few episodes to her husband and daughter's deaths]].
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Jonas's exact motives are hard to pin down. [[spoiler: Is he atoning for working with Whispers? ''Did'' he work with Whispers? He convinced Angel to kill herself to awaken the new cluster and tried to convince Riley and Will to do the same to protect theirs.]]
* FantasticRacism: Downplayed, as he still considers sensates human (if a different kind of human), but is dismissive of 'regular' humans and their culture and very likely thinks they're incapable of true empathy.
* FantasticRacism: Downplayed, as he still considers sensates human (if a different kind of human), but is dismissive of 'regular' humans and their culture and very likely thinks they're incapable of true empathy.
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* ParentalIssues: Wolfgang's dad was physically abusive before his death, Nomi's mom is emotionally abusive even to the present, Will's dad is a drunk who rags on him for not letting a shot child die for being part of a gang (but their relationship is comparatively friendly), Sun's father was negligent and dismissive (while her mother died), Riley believes she's responsible for her mother's death, and there's no mention of Lito's family. Averted with Capheus and Kala, who have entirely loving parents.
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* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita, b) features in the same two "psychic orgy" scenes teased in the trailers as Will, and c) is a blogger and hacktivist (so enough said about the 'Nerd' half of the trope).
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* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita, b) features in the same two "psychic orgy" scenes teased in the trailers as Will, and c) is a blogger and hacktivist (so enough said about the 'Nerd' half of the trope).
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* PlayfulHacker: After a checkered teenage past, Nomi alternates between hacking for security companies and later hacking for her cluster.
* PlayfulHacker: After a checkered teenage past, Nomi alternates between hacking for security companies and later hacking for her cluster.
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* TheBigGuy: Of the cluster, she is the one most frequently called on for help in fights.
* ConsummateLiar: As an actor, this is imperative to his job. It's also what he most frequently loans to his cluster.
* ThePollyanna: Never fails to be amazed and impressed by the surrounding his cluster take for granted.
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!!Wolfgang Bogdanow
* TokenEvilTeammate: While other cluster members have criminal records, Wolfgang does it professionally and exclusively. [[spoiler: He's also the one with the highest body count, starting with his own father.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: Narratively, Whispers is this to Jonas - they're both looking for the main eight for very different reasons. [[spoiler: This extends to his abilities - somehow, through the lobotomy procedure he forces on potential sensates, he can turn them into his PeoplePuppets]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Has a tendency to tell his sensate prey he's looking forward to meeting them in the most terrifying way possible.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Has a tendency to tell his sensate prey he's looking forward to meeting them in the most terrifying way possible.
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* SuperEmpowering: Though great emotional duress, Angel (and presumably other sensates) can (and did) awaken a new cluster.
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* SmugSnake: Steiner thinks he is far more clever than he is. Wolfgang shows him up from their first conflict.
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** EveryoneIsBi: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]], the intimate nature of the link allows for an emotional honesty and new perspective that results in characters who may have even assumed themselves to be nothing but straight to consider sexuality as more fluid.
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* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and IllGirl: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The doctors (and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita and b) features in herself) believe that the same two "psychic orgy" scenes teased in manifestation of her sensate abilities are the trailers as Will.symptoms of a brain tumour that will kill her.
* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita, b) features in the same two "psychic orgy" scenes teased in the trailers as Will, and c) is a blogger and hacktivist (so enough said about the 'Nerd' half of the trope).
* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita, b) features in the same two "psychic orgy" scenes teased in the trailers as Will, and c) is a blogger and hacktivist (so enough said about the 'Nerd' half of the trope).
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TheMentor: He's the voice of experience to the main eight, as a sensate of a prior cluster, and the only one who can assure them that they aren't succumbing into psychosis.
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* SkunkStripe: Much like Riley, Amanita has blue sections in her braided hair.
* DeadpanSnarker: Our first look at him in the trailers is his snarkily informing Daniela that Lito's 'problem' with hooking up with her is her lack of a penis.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: At least at first, Daniela is very interested in being more than Lito's screen partner.
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!!Githu
->'''Portrayed By:''' Lwanda Jawa
The leader of Superpower, a vigilante gang.
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The leader of Superpower, a vigilante gang.
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!Others
!!Amanita
->'''Portrayed By:''' Freema Agyeman
Nomi's girlfriend.
* FamilyOfChoice: She's all Nomi has, seeing as how she doesn't get along with her transphobic family.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: She seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.
!!Hernando
->'''Portrayed By:''' Alfonso Herrera
Lito's secret boyfriend.
!!Daniela
->'''Portrayed By:''' Eréndira Ibarra
Lito's cover to hide his sexual orientation.
* TheBeard
!!Steiner
->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Oliver
A Russian mobster who also happens to be Wolfgang's cousin.
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!Others
!!Amanita
->'''Portrayed By:''' Freema Agyeman
Nomi's girlfriend.
* FamilyOfChoice: She's all Nomi has, seeing as how she doesn't get along with her transphobic family.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: She seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.
!!Hernando
->'''Portrayed By:''' Alfonso Herrera
Lito's secret boyfriend.
!!Daniela
->'''Portrayed By:''' Eréndira Ibarra
Lito's cover to hide his sexual orientation.
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!!Steiner
->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Oliver
A Russian mobster who also happens to be Wolfgang's cousin.
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* CarFu: He's your go-to guy for car chases.
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!Other Known Sensates
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!!Jonas
->'''Portrayed By:''' Naveen Andrews
A sensate of another cluster who appears to each member of the main eight and guides them.
* TheMentor
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!!Mr. Whispers
->'''Portrayed By:''' Terrence Mann
A former Sensate who turned against his own kind. He leads a group of people who want to capture and experiment on or kill sensates.
*HunterOfHisOwnKind
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!!Angel
->'''Portrayed By:''' Daryl Hannah
A sensate of another cluster whose suicide kickstarts the events of the series.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Her death creates the main cluster, empathetically linking them together. The first visions the eight share are of her death.
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!!Jonas
->'''Portrayed By:''' Naveen Andrews
A sensate of another cluster who appears to each member of the main eight and guides them.
* TheMentor
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!!Mr. Whispers
->'''Portrayed By:''' Terrence Mann
A former Sensate who turned against his own kind. He leads a group of people who want to capture and experiment on or kill sensates.
*HunterOfHisOwnKind
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!!Angel
->'''Portrayed By:''' Daryl Hannah
A sensate of another cluster whose suicide kickstarts the events of the series.
* MeaningfulName
* PosthumousCharacter: Her death creates the main cluster, empathetically linking them together. The first visions the eight share are of her death.
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* SituationalSexuality: The possibility that sensates absorb aspects of each other's sexual orientations is very real. This would explain why otherwise seemingly straight characters like Wolfgang and Will are seen in sexually charged scenes with Lito in the trailers.
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* FiveTokenBand: More like eight-token band, but no two sensates are from the same part of the world, and more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and four women (one trans).
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* FiveTokenBand: More like eight-token band, but no two sensates are from the same part of the world, and no more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and four women (one trans).
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* NerdsAreSexy: Jamie Clayton is a beautiful woman and Nomi a) is in a relationship with Amanita and b) features in the same two 'psychic orgy' scenes teased in the trailers as Will.
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* TakingTheHeat: Sun takes sole responsibility for the embezzlement scheme to save her family's company. This lands her in prison.
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These tropes apply to every member of the main sensate cluster.
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* FiveTokenBand: More like eight-token band, but no two sensates are from the same part of the world, and more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and four women (one trans).
* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
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These tropes apply to every member of the main sensate cluster.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals
* FiveTokenBand: More like eight-token band, but no two sensates are from the same part of the world, and more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and four women (one trans).
* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
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A Chicago cop who is the first one to connect with Jonas, [[TheMentor Jonas]], the man who guides the eight new sensates toward answers. Will has a connection to a unsolved murder, which still haunts him and causes him to have migraines and visions.
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!!Will Gorski
->'''Portrayed By''': Brian J. Smith
A Chicago cop who is the first one to connect with Jonas, the man who guides the eight new sensates toward answers. Will has a connection to a unsolved murder, which still haunts him and causes him to have migraines and visions.
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* FairCop: Will is a member of the Chicago police department and apparently very attractive to the other members of his cluster, based on the sexually charged scenes in two of the trailers.
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!!Nomi Marks
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jamie Clayton
A trans woman blogger and "hacktivist" from San Francisco.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Nomi's transphobic mother insists on calling her by her birth name, Michael, which Nomi hates.
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!!Sun
->'''Portrayed By:''' Doona Bae
A businesswoman from Seoul who gets caught up in her family's embezzlement scheme. She's also a burgeoning star in the world of underground kickboxing.
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* ActionGirl: When the other seven get into fights, they draw on her combat skills.
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!!Lito Rodriguez
->'''Portrayed By:''' Miguel Ángel Silvestre
A closeted Mexican telenovela star, who fears his sexuality and relationship with his boyfriend Hernando could ruin his career.
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!!Capheus
->'''Portrayed By''': Aml Ameen
A bus driver who knows every back alley of his native Nairobi. He's desperately trying to earn money for medicine for his dying mother.
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!!Kala
->'''Portrayed By''': Tina Desai
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''
A religious pharmacist from India about to marry a man she’s not truly in love with, which is particularly problematic because her soon-to-be father-in-law owns the pharmaceutical company where she works.
* YourCheatingHeart: There's a lot of sexual tension between Kala and Wolfgang. Too bad she's about to get married.
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!!Wolfgang
->'''Portrayed By''': Max Riemelt
A world-class jewel thief with daddy issues who happens to be involved in organized crime.
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!!Riley
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tuppence Middleton
A famous Icelandic DJ currently living in London. She ran away from home and is now heavily involved in the drug trade.
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!The 8
[[folder:Will Gorski]]
!!Will Gorski
->'''Portrayed By''': Brian J. Smith
A Chicago cop who is the first one to connect with Jonas, the man who guides the eight new sensates toward answers. Will has a connection to a unsolved murder, which still haunts him and causes him to have migraines and visions.
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* FairCop: Will is a member of the Chicago police department and apparently very attractive to the other members of his cluster, based on the sexually charged scenes in two of the trailers.
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!!Nomi Marks
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jamie Clayton
A trans woman blogger and "hacktivist" from San Francisco.
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!!Sun
->'''Portrayed By:''' Doona Bae
A businesswoman from Seoul who gets caught up in her family's embezzlement scheme. She's also a burgeoning star in the world of underground kickboxing.
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* ActionGirl: When the other seven get into fights, they draw on her combat skills.
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!!Lito Rodriguez
->'''Portrayed By:''' Miguel Ángel Silvestre
A closeted Mexican telenovela star, who fears his sexuality and relationship with his boyfriend Hernando could ruin his career.
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!!Capheus
->'''Portrayed By''': Aml Ameen
A bus driver who knows every back alley of his native Nairobi. He's desperately trying to earn money for medicine for his dying mother.
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!!Kala
->'''Portrayed By''': Tina Desai
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''
A religious pharmacist from India about to marry a man she’s not truly in love with, which is particularly problematic because her soon-to-be father-in-law owns the pharmaceutical company where she works.
* YourCheatingHeart: There's a lot of sexual tension between Kala and Wolfgang. Too bad she's about to get married.
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!!Wolfgang
->'''Portrayed By''': Max Riemelt
A world-class jewel thief with daddy issues who happens to be involved in organized crime.
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!!Riley
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tuppence Middleton
A famous Icelandic DJ currently living in London. She ran away from home and is now heavily involved in the drug trade.
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