History Characters / Sense8

* WhamLine:
** Delivers one by telling Riley that [[spoiler:Jonas and Angel worked for Mr. Whispers]].
** [[spoiler: Her cynicism leads her to conclude that Riley will lead the BigBad straight to her and being captured is a FateWorseThanDeath. So after explaining the situation to Riley she calmly takes out a gun and informs her that since she returned to Iceland despite her warnings, Yrsa will have to kill herself before she is found. ]]

** [[spoiler: Her cynicism leads her to conclude that Riley will lead the BigBad straight to her and being captured is a FateWorseThanDeath. So after explaining the situation to Riley she calmly takes out a gun and informs her that since she returned to Iceland despite Yrsa's warnings, Riley must now die. ]]

* DrivenToSuicide: In the past, she apparently attempted suicide [[spoiler: after the deaths of her husband and newborn daughter]], bur survived.

* DaddysGirl: She clearly adores her father.

* DespairEventHorizon: Crossed it in her backstory during her traumatic experience on the mountain, and her entire arc in the first season is working towards recovery.

* SecretKeeper: Knows that Nomi is a Sensate and is helping her both come to terms with it, and help other members of the cluster.

* HasTwoMommies: As shown in the Christmas Special, Amanita has three fathers. Explained as that they do not know who is her biological father but they all love her just the same.

* AccidentalMisnaming: He knew Nomi before she transitioned and hadn't known about it, so he refers to her as "Mike", but he apologizes, indicating it's more force of habit than being outright malicious.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Misnames Nomi a couple of times, and makes a very lecherous comment about her to Nomi and Amanita's discomfort, but quickly and genuinely apologizes.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't revealed within the story.

Nomi's family in only the biological sense, consisting of her mother Janet, her sister Teagan, and her unseen and unnamed father.

* SlidingScaleOfParentShamingInFiction: Type III. Nomi's parents actually do care about her but because they won't or can't acknowledge her as trans they only alienate her and make her miserable. [[CondescendingCompassion They just think they're doing it for a wayward son's own good.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Teagan is the only member of Nomi's family shown to respect her pronouns and name. She even wants Nomi to be her maid of honour. It's also revealed that she discovered Nomi had forged her mother signature for the operation and could have stopped it, but didn't despite them having a nasty fight over it the night before.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Teagan is the only member of Nomi's family shown to respect her pronouns and name. She even wants Nomi to be her maid of honour.

* PowerPerversionPotential: As we see in episode 6, sex becomes a lot more... complicated, when you're telepathically linked to seven other people.

*** Arm-locking the gang member surrounding Capheus' bus and getting him a weapon.

!!Capheus' circle

Capheus' mother.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: She had to leave Capheus' younger sister at a shelter because she couldn't keep both her children alive.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In a flashback, when enemies of Capheus' father tried to murder his son, she stared them down with only a knife. They backed down because they knew that, while they ''could'' kill her, she'd kill at least one of them in return before dying, and none of them were willing to risk it.
* IllGirl: In the present day, she's very ill and Capheus' is working to obtain medication for her.
* MamaBear: Shown in a flashback where Capheus' father's enemies came knocking at their door. Shiro knew she couldn't take them all but was determined to take down at least one of them with her.

Capheus' best friend and partner in the bus service.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Alive and well at the end of Capheus' storyline. Probably for the best, though, at least for Amondi's sake.]]

* ChekovsSkill: Will's ability to break out of handcuffs keeps coming up.

*** Perhaps at its most brazen, the Season 1 finale establishes that this is also his FatalFlaw, since even though it [[spoiler:saves Riley, and thus the rest of the cluster, from Mr. Whispers, it's why he has to remain in a drug-induced coma for the foreseeable future. Though the Christmas special shows that he can remain conscious, and even visit the others in short bursts if he thinks it's safe.]]

* WhiteMaleLead: He's one of the two white men in the cluster, the only one to get anything resembling training in his abilities, wants to save everybody he can, verbalizes that he will always be there for the others, and is the first to meet another member of his cluster in the flesh. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the others get a handle on their powers not too long after, freely help each other with little to no involvement on his part, and play crucial parts in rescuing Riley when he charged in without a plan. Oh, and he ends the season as TheLoad due to making eye contact with Whispers. Though the Christmas special implies being mentally linked with Whispers could be key to defeating him, given Will's AwesomenessByAnalysis abilities.]]

* PyroManiac: She delays Nomi's lobotomy by triggering the hospitals fire alarm. Not by pulling the lever, but by actually starting a fire. She also primes an AerosolFlamethrower to answer a suspicious door knock.

->'''Portrayed by''': [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy]]

->'''Portrayed by''': Sylvester McCoy

*** Perhaps at its most brazen, the season 1 finale establishes that this is also his FatalFlaw, since even though it [[spoiler:saves Riley, and thus the rest of the cluster, from Mr. Whispers, it's why he has to remain in a drug-induced coma for the foreseeable future. Though the Christmas special shows that he can remain conscious, and even visit the others in short bursts if he thinks it's safe.]]

* TheCharmer: Required, given his job. In the first season finale he gets Riley's room number just by charming the pants off a clueless nurse.

* MoralityPet: She tries to be this for Wolfgang in the finale, telling him she cares deeply about him and begging him not to slaughter his family in revenge. He responds by killing his uncle more brutally than necessary in front of her to show her why he's no good for her.

* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:In the season 2 finale he's captured by BPO and ends the season still in their grasp with the cluster coming to get him.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Invoked in the season 1 finale by [[spoiler:brutally murdering his uncle in front of Kala to convince her he's a monster.]]

* HeroicSuicide: He is a firm believer in this in order to keep the cluster safe. He convinces Angel to do this at the beginning of the series, and [[spoiler: almost convinces Will to do so as well in the season one finale.]]

** Suffers this for real midway through season 2. [[spoiler:[[SubertedTrope Almost.]]]]

* DeusExMachina: In the finale, Nomi's stuck at her apartment with no resources and no way to help Will and Riley. Cue Bug coming in with a box full of equipment [[IOweYouMyLife in thanks for Nomi helping him back when he was facing imprisonment.]]

* IOweYouMyLife: His reason for coming to Nomi's aid in the season 1 finale - she took the fall for him when he hacked into the Pentagon on the basis that her family would be able to bail her out of trouble.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Come the season 1 finale, all he has to show for what he's done is an ass-kicking from Sun.]]

* HasTwoMommies: As shown in the Christmas Special, Amanita's father is still a part of her life and happily married to another man.

* PosthumousCharacter: She dies [[StartsWithASuicide in the opening]], and we learn about her primarily through Jonas.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A rare, non-fatal variation. After Will and Riley escaped Iceland, BPO no longer considers it worth the hassle to allow Jonas to visit Will. As such, they now keep him medicated to prevent him from visiting altogether. It's only in the rare moments where the meds wear off that he can contact Will or Nomi.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother died in her youth, which she blames herself for. And then, as an adult, her husband [[spoiler:died in a car crash while driving her to the hospital to give birth to their daughter.]] Her daughter [[spoiler:then died of exposure in the Icelandic winter.]] At some point after this she ran away to London and became a DJ.