History Characters / Sense8

* [[Characters/Sense8Other Other Characters]] [[labelnote:Character List]]Nyx[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/Sense8AugustEigthCluster The August 8th Cluster]] [[labelnote:Character List]]Will, Nomi, Lito, Sun, Kala,
Capheus, Wolfgang, Riley[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/Sense8AugustEigthCluster The August 8th Cluster]]
* [[Characters/Sense8OtherSensates Other Sensates]]
* [[Characters/Sense8BPO BPO]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Chicago Chicago]]
* [[Characters/Sense8SanFrancisco San Francisco]]
* [[Characters/Sense8MexicoCity Mexico City]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Berlin Berlin]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Seoul Seoul]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Mumbai Mumbai]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Nairobi Nairobi]]
* [[Characters/Sense8Other Other Characters]]

!Homo Sensorium

!Homo Sapiens

[[folder:Agent Bendix]]

!!Agent Jeffrey Bendix

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Cistaro

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Stiles]]


[[/folder]]

!!Berlin

[[folder:Felix]]
!!Felix Brenner

->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Mauff

Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.
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* AFriendInNeed: As seen in the Christmas special, while on the run from gangbangers with Wolfgang, despite after ''already'' surviving being shot before, and even with Wolfgang demanding he split off and get to safety, Felix staunchly refuses to abandon Wolfgang.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Wolfgang have had each other's backs since they were kids.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Wolfgang has to protect him after he's shot by Steiner. He ends the first season comatose in a private hospital.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Wolfgang, since childhood.
* MomentKiller: He's the one who interrupts Wolfgang and Kala's AlmostKiss.
* NouveauRiche: [[spoiler: After stealing the diamonds Steiner had planned to steal,]] Felix gets excited about all the money he and Wolfgang are going to get for them. When they go to dinner at a fancy restaurant, Felix orders "the most expensive wine [they] have".
* OnlyFriend: Wolfgang mentions that Felix was the only kid who didn't hate him.

[[folder:Steiner]]
!!Steiner Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Oliver

A Russian mobster who also happens to be Wolfgang's cousin.
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* BaldOfEvil: Steiner doesn't have a single hair on his head or a single moral in his body.
* BigBrotherBully: He has this dynamic with Wolfgang, though technically they're cousins. However they were raised together after Wolfgang's father died, so Steiner is more like a (terrible) brother than a cousin.
* GanglandDriveBy: [[spoiler:This is how he shoots and nearly kills Felix]].
* HairTriggerTemper: His self-control is practically non-existent. There's not a single scene with him in which he doesn't threaten, insult, or shout at someone.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a violent, vulgar, and all-around unpleasant thug.
* LargeHam: Tends to deliver his lines in an over-the-top manner, often accompanied by similarly [[MilkingTheGiantCow melodramatic hand gestures.]] Actor Christian Oliver clearly has a lot of fun with his role.
* OhCrap: He has an appropriately epic reaction to [[spoiler:Wolfgang shooting a rocket at him.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He makes a few homophobic comments when Lito in Wolfgang's body lies to him about how they obtained the diamonds. For bonus points, Lito is a ''gay man'' (although Steiner's unaware of his presence).
* SirSwearsALot: His speech is riddled with obscenities.
* SmugSnake: Steiner thinks he is far more clever than he is. Wolfgang shows him up from their first conflict.
* TattooedCrook: His bald head lets him display his [[TattooAsCharacterType neck tattoo]] of the Virgin Mary holding a gun.

[[folder:Sergei]]
!!Sergei Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed by''': Sylvester Groth

Wolfgang's paternal uncle and father to Steiner, seemingly the head of the organized crime unit Wolfgang works in.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When Wolfgang comes to kill him, Sergei desperately tries to bargain for his life, first by apologizing for ignoring the abuse Wolfgang was subjected to as a child, then by offering him money. It doesn't save him]].
* AffablyEvil: In stark contrast to his thuggish son, Sergei is unfailingly polite in his interactions with Wolfgang.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The cause of his death, although it's not a single shot, but a whole magazine worth of bullets. The result isn't a pretty sight.]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Wears a bulletproof vest ''at home''. Wolfgang immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how unlikely this is]].
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Sergei is genuinely horrified when Wolfgang betrays him and admits to killing Steiner and his own father]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He obviously cares deeply about Steiner and has stated that he wants nothing more than to get revenge for whoever killed his brother (Wolfgang's father).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a ruthless mobster, but he draws the line at killing family members. [[spoiler:He is accordingly shocked when Wolfgang confesses that he killed both Steiner and his own father]].
* LikeASonToMe: Implied as much; Sergei tells Wolfgang that he doesn't want to choose between Steiner and Wolfgang (who does not reciprocate the feeling).
* TheMafiya: A high-ranking member of the Russian mob in Berlin.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He lives in a huge, opulently furnished mansion, smokes fine cigars, and wears expertly tailored bespoke suits.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: Wolfgang riddles him with bullets to prove to Kala that he's a terrible person]].
* SoftspokenSadist: He rarely raises his voice, which only makes him more threatening.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Once it dawns on him that Wolfgang killed Steiner, his self-control rapidly fades, until he's firing wildly at Wolfgang while screaming in rage and grief]].
* WickedCultured: Seems to be a lover of the fine arts, judging by the numerous paintings in his mansion.

[[/folder]]

!!Nairobi

[[folder:Shiro]]
!!Shiro
->'''Portrayed by''': Chichi Seii

Capheus's mother.
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: She had to leave Capheus's younger sister at a shelter because she couldn't keep both her children alive.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In a flashback, when enemies of Capheus's 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's is working to obtain medication for her. [[spoiler:She gets better when she starts dating Kabaka, and he gives her access to medication.]]
* MamaBear: Shown in a flashback where Capheus's 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.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jela]]
!!Jela
->'''Portrayed by''': Paul Ogola

Capheus's best friend and partner in the bus service.
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* AFriendInNeed: After Capheus resolves to go after the gang that robbed his bus, Jela says, without a hint of hesitation, "I'm coming with you." Capheus doesn't let him, but it's clear that Jela has no reservations about marching into hell with his friend.
-->'''Jela:''' I'd follow you anywhere.
* ChildhoodFriends: Jela states he has known Capheus since they were 10.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Capheus are very close and look out for each other.
* IOweYouMyLife: In a throwaway line, Jela once in the first season jokingly tells Capheus "you save my life ''again'', my friend" [[InvokedTrope implying]] there is some unknown history between them.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one of these to Capheus after the latter reveals that he's in Silas Kabaka's service.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Githu]]
!!Githu

->'''Portrayed By:''' Lwanda Jawa

The leader of Superpower, a vigilante gang.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A vicious criminal and killer. He also had a younger sister whom he loved and adored. When he and crime boss Silas Kabaka had a falling out, [[spoiler: Silas had his sister brutally murdered.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: In Season 2 he starts defending Capheus against the people trying to kill him, having realized that their rivalry is giving him far more of a reputation than he ever could have achieved on his own.
* RevengeByProxy: Initially intended to [[spoiler:kill Amondi as revenge for his sister's death at Kabaka's hands]].
* WouldHurtAChild: In episode eleven, [[spoiler: he originally intended to murder Silas' daughter in front of him.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kabaka]]
!!Silas Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Peter King Mwani

The head of a powerful criminal syndicate.
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* BadBoss: Zigzagged. He treats Capheus with respect and pays him well enough to provide for his ill mother. On the other hand, he shows absolutely no mercy to traitors, cutting off a subordinate's hands for stealing from him.
* TheDreaded: Just the mention of his name causes everyone in the vicinity to freeze up.
* DotingParent: Amondi is his whole world; everything he does, he does for her sake.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He may treat his subordinates like crap, but he loves and adores his daughter Amondi.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When [[spoiler: Capheus is being forced at gunpoint to nearly kill him]], he responds by simply telling him to do it quickly and exposes his neck.
* GrossUpCloseUp: When he cuts off one of his subordinate's hands.
* HeelFaceTurn: Becomes a loyal ally to Capheus in season 2, even warning him of a bounty placed on his head.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Alive and well at the end of Capheus's storyline. Probably for the best, though, at least for Amondi's sake.]]
* LoveIsAWeakness: Defied. He explains to Capheus that, contrary to what his rivals believe, love for another person can be someone's greatest strength and motivator.
* MacheteMayhem: Cuts off a traitorous underling's hands with a machete to demonstrate why Capheus shouldn't try to double-cross him.
* ScaryBlackMan: A large, intimidating Kenyan crime lord.
* SecretlyDying: Shiro reveals that Kabaka is willing to date her because [[spoiler:he, too, is infected by HIV.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amondi]]
!!Amondi Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Rosa Katanu

Silas' young daughter.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:She convinces her father to give Capheus a brand new modern bus for his birthday as thanks for taking care of her, even picking it out herself.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Amondi is totally oblivious to the darker side of her father's dealings and considers him an unquestionable hero. Capheus doesn't have the heart to correct her.
* DaddysGirl: She clearly adores her dad.
* IllGirl: She requires special treatment at a hospital, so Silas enlists Capheus to act as her driver.
* MafiaPrincess: Possibly. She doesn't seem aware of where her father's money comes from, and acts sweet and nice to everyone.
* MoralityPet: Her otherwise sketchy father only has her well-being in mind.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite having a heinous father and clearly being spoiled by him, she is very nice and quickly strikes up a friendship with Capheus.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zakia]]
!!Zakia
->'''Portrayed by''': Mumbi Maina

A reporter who interviews Capheus on his exploits, and later takes an interest to him.
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:She confesses to Capheus about having dated both women and men.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Is initially standoffish and critical about Capheus's love of Jean Claude Van Damme, but is eventually won over by his optimism and sincerity.
* HotScoop: Jela tries to catch her attention at first, but to no avail.
* UptownGirl: Obviously lives in a modern, wealthy part of Nairobi, in total contrast to Capheus's background. However, she has no qualms about dating him, having been won over by his heart and personality.

[[/folder]]

!!Mumbai

[[folder:Rajan]]
!!Rajan Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Purab Kohli

Kala's fiance.
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* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ajan '''R'''asal.
* BettyAndVeronica: The nice, sweet Betty to Wolfgang's dangerous Veronica for Kala's Archie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Ultimately averted. Though Kala realizes that there is corruption in the company, he initially brushes off her concerns, assuring her that, while they were indeed selling useless medication, it was fine, as they weren't selling it to "their people" -- it was being sold to "faraway places like China or Africa," meaning that Capheus's mother was likely getting faulty drugs. However, within the same episode he realizes he's in the wrong, shares his feelings about the company with Kala, and expresses his sincere determination to put the company on the right path and stop the corrupt practices.]]
* {{Cuckold}}: Not only is he completely unaware that Kala is a sensate, he's also unaware of her UnresolvedSexualTension with Wolfgang, whom she truly loves. [[spoiler:Put UpToEleven in season two, when Kala and Wolfgang enjoy some one-on-one sex in her very marriage bed. Presumably she's also having sex with Rajan, given his response the next morning that the previous night was fantastic... and he's totally unaware that Wolfgang is psychically still in bed holding Kala, and when Rajan leans in to kiss her, he unsuspectingly kisses Wolfgang instead. And then in the finale, he sends her to an apartment in Paris for her safety, not knowing that it will presumably become a love nest for his wife and Wolfgang.]]
* DisposableFiance: Kala isn't totally excited to be getting married to him, and starts falling for Wolfgang hard. When she faints at her and Rajan's wedding before it's finished, it definitely seems to lead to this. [[spoiler:Ultimately averted, as they do get married, though by the Christmas special, they still haven't consummated the union, and Kala still feels torn, though she chooses to stay even when he offers to annul the marriage.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Was apparently head-over-heels in love with Kala and didn't know how to talk to her before he started courting her.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Got to ask Kala out by filling her office with flowers on her birthday.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:He's fine with the company sending faulty drugs to "faraway places" like Africa, unaware that one of Kala's clustermates lives in Kenya, and whose mother may be directly affected by the practice.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:On their honeymoon, he picks up on Kala's mixed feelings and offers to annul the marriage, acknowledging that the strength of his feelings for her might not have been reciprocated and that he wants her to be happy. She turns the annulment down, though.]]
* LoveTriangle: Both he and Wolfgang love Kala, though Rajan himself is unaware that he's even ''in'' a LoveTriangle.
* NiceGuy: Rajan is extremely supportive, loving, and understanding towards Kala. Though she doesn't truly love him, Kala does respect and like him, and when prompted early in season two to think of someone she loves, she thinks of him as well as OneTrueLove Wolfgang.
* UptownGirl: He's [[InterclassRomance far wealthier]] than Kala is. This is one of the reasons Kala's nervous about their marriage.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manendra]]
!!Manendra Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Darshan Jariwala

Rajan's father, and owner of the pharmaceutical company where Kala works.
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* CulturalCringe: He hates Indian food, almost gets assassinated due to his efforts to ban Hindu ceremonial rites, and is never seen wearing traditional Indian garments. One of the Hindus who later has a hand in his assassination attempt earlier said he wants India to be like America.
* HollywoodAtheist: Rajan's father isn't content to personally disbelieve in gods and miracles, but backed a bill to outlaw harmless religious rituals like offering fruit to Ganesha. This enrages some Hindus to the point they attempt to assassinate him.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Subverted. He disapproves of Kala marrying Rajan and even tells her as much, but Rajan assures her later that he'd known about his father's disapproval and went ahead with the proposal anyhow. Also, Manendra doesn't bring it up to Kala until he senses her own reluctance to go through with the marriage; he's trying to give her the out she wants.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kala's family]]
!!The Dandekars
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/AnupamKher (Sanyam), Natasha Rastogi (Priya), and Huzane Mewawala (Daya)

Kala's family, consisting of her father Sanyam, mother Priya, and sister and fellow pharmacist Daya.
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* GoodParents: Kala's parents are extremely supportive of her and her decisions. Kala is the only protagonist whose parents are both alive and have a good relationship with her.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Implied as much; Priya tells Kala that she's the first in the family to marry out of love, implying their marriage was arranged. Despite this, they have a healthy and loving relationship.
* SupremeChef: Everyone has nothing but praise for Sanyam's cooking.

[[/folder]]

!!Seoul

[[folder:Kang-Dae]]
!!Kang-Dae Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Geung-young

Father to Sun and Joong-ki as well as a powerful businessman based in Seoul.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Just as he decides to [[spoiler: come clean about the embezzlement and get his daughter out of prison, Joong-ki murders him.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He comes to this realization after [[spoiler:convincing Sun to go to prison for his and Joong-ki's sake]]. When he visits her, he admits he hasn't been taking care of himself at all out of shock.
* ParentalFavoritism: He pretty clearly favors his son over his daughter, which his children are very aware of. In fact, he acknowledges his daughter so little that this is basically the entire reason the plan for Sun to [[spoiler: take the fall for the embezzlement]] works - despite being his child and employee, there's almost no public connection between them.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joong-ki]]
!!Joong-ki Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Ki-chan

Sun's younger brother who also shares a high position in their father's company.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His embezzlement is what gets the company into trouble in the first place.
* CrocodileTears: When he tells Sun that [[spoiler: their father killed himself]] and she promptly replies by [[spoiler: accusing Joong-Ki of murdering him]], all pretense of grief immediately fades.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first appearance is him arriving late to a meeting with a client, whom his sister has to deal with as a result; he also cheerfully ignores the sexist way the client treats Sun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joong-ki is a freeloader who causes all of his family's problems, which Sun has to clean up [[spoiler: by going to prison for his embezzlement]].
* HookersAndBlow: The second time we see Joong-ki is at a sex club where he and his friends are pawing at the performers and getting drunk.
* {{Jerkass}}: Constantly insults and dismisses Sun, and has no qualms about transparently trying to manipulate her into [[spoiler: going to jail for him]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Come the Season 1 finale, all he has to show for what he's done is an ass-kicking from Sun.]]
** [[spoiler:In Season 2, he still manages to escape justice because Sun spares his life, and an [[GreaterScopeVillain influential politician]] has his back to ward off corruption charges.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Sun suspects that [[{{Patricide}} he murdered their father]] to spare his own reputation. His reaction suggests she's right.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Joong-ki has clearly developed no accountability as a result of his father's favoritism, blaming his father for [[spoiler: his embezzling of millions from the family company]] because their father "[[NeverMyFault taught [him] how to bend the rules]]".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Sun takes the blame for his embezzling and no one suspects him of killing his father. As of the Christmas special, he gets both praise for "saving" the company and sympathy for having an "unstable" sister. When Sun tries but fails to kill him in the season 2 finale, he gets ''even more'' sympathy and she's labelled a dangerous fugitive]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mi-Cha]]
!!Mi-Cha Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Hye Hwa Kim

Sun and Joong-ki's deceased mother.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She was kind, gracious, and supportive of Sun, in stark contrast to Sun's father.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While [[ThickerThanWater close familial ties]] are valued across all cultures, the promise Sun made to her to always look after her brother and father is very clearly based on a more East Asian view.
* MissingMom: She died of illness (implied to be cancer) when Sun was a child.
* ParentalFavoritism: She was closer to Sun than to Joong-ki as a result of her husband preferring him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Min-Jung]]
!!Min-Jung
->'''Portrayed by''': Yuh-jung Youn

One of Sun's fellow inmates, [[spoiler:who later helps her escape from prison]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: Decided to poison her husband when she had enough of his abusive behavior. [[spoiler:She spots the same attitude in the thugs Joong-ki dispatches to kill Sun, and thus decides to help her fight back.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Opts to return to prison after having a taste of freedom, rather than burden Sun on her quest for revenge.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: Besides poisoning her husband, [[spoiler:she also kills one of Sun's would-be assassins with a broken mop handle, single-handedly thwarting their almost successful attempt.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Detective Mun]]
!!Detective Kwon-Ho Mun[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Sukku Son

A detective from Seoul Metropolitan Police working on Sun's case.
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* AmazonChaser: Sun's ability to kick his ass every time they fight only makes him more interested in her.
* DatingCatwoman: Played with. Technically Sun's not really a criminal, but [[spoiler: she's being hunted by police after escaping jail. Despite having the obligation to arrest her, Mun believed her when she told him that her brother was the real crook]].
* FairCop: A handsome policeman in tight clothes who falls in love with Sun.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He actually fought Sun in a taekwando competition when they were younger (she won, of course), but she doesn't seem to remember. (Note that he's a ''different'' guy than the one we saw her beat in a taekwando competition when she was younger and later hook up with in the locker room.)
* MeaningfulName: A bit of a pun here, as he is the cool and jovial Mun (moon) to her quiet but intense Sun, although Mun is technically his family name while Sun is her given name.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:Somehow survives a bullet to the gut, fired by Joong-ki as he prepares to arrest the latter for money laundering.]]

[[/folder]]


!!Others

!!!Reykjavik
[[folder:Riley's father]]
!!Gunnar
->'''Portrayed by''': KK (Kristján Kristjánsson)

Riley's father. A pianist and Riley's musical inspiration.
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* GoodParents: He's a genuinely good and caring father, Riley loves and adores him and the problems in her life have nothing to do with their relationship.
* HippieParents: He's seen smoking a joint with his band mates before a concert and accepts ecstasy from Riley.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sven]]
!!Sven
->'''Portrayed by''': Eythor Gunnarson

An old family friend who owns a boat. Riley was actually born in his house.
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* UndyingLoyalty: He cares deeply for Riley. When he heard she was coming home, he dropped everything to act as her chauffeur (since she can't drive), and later [[spoiler:helps Riley and Will escape on his boat]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Magnús and Lúna]]
!!Magnús Þórsson and Lúna Magnúsdóttir
->'''Portrayed by''': Thor Birgisson (Magnus), Ishildur Erla Kemp (Luna)

Riley's husband and daughter.
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* AdultFear: Their deaths are absolutely dripping in this.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: Riley gave birth to Lúna shortly after Magnús's death.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Their deaths are what caused Riley to become closed off, attempt suicide and move away from Iceland.
* TheLostLenore: Magnús for Riley.

[[/folder]]

!!!London
[[folder:Nyx]]

!!Nyx
->'''Portrayed by''': Joseph Mawle

A drug dealer in London.
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* AffablyEvil: Nyx is very personable in both his season one appearances. He even manages to be charming in a creepy way when suffocating Riley.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He attempts to suffocate Riley with a plastic bag when she doesn't return his money]].

[[/folder]]

!BPO
[[folder:Ruth El-Saadawi]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Croome]]

!!Richard Wilson Croome
->'''Portrayed by''': Clive Wood

A high-ranking executive in the BPO.
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* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Croome reveals that he is part of a faction within the BPO secretly fighting its current purpose.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Just as Croome prepares to make a deal with Will, Whispers uses a lobotomized sensate to stab him repeatedly in the neck.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Chairman]]

!!The Chairman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jason Thorpe

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Stiles]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Bendix]]

!!Agent Jeffrey Bendix

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Cistaro

[[/folder]]

!!San Francisco

[[folder:Amanita]]
!!Amanita Caplan

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreemaAgyeman
[[quoteright:319:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2206.jpg]]

Nomi's girlfriend.

* ActionSurvivor: For a girl who's worked at a bookstore for the past ten years, Amanita is a badass, coming up with on-the-fly plans to subvert BPO (like using cough syrup to fake a tampon change and squick the federal agents after Nomi) and defend herself (including the threat of an AerosolFlamethrower).
* BiTheWay: Her dreadlocks are the color of the bi flag and she's in a relationship with a woman.
* DreadlockRasta: She wears her hair in multicolored dreadlocks, which serve to emphasize her understanding, liberal nature. In addition, she clearly puts Nomi over any authoritarian figures.
* FamilyOfChoice: She's all Nomi has, seeing as how she doesn't get along with her transphobic family.
* HasTwoMommies: As shown in the Christmas Special, Amanita has three fathers. Explained as they do not know who is her biological father, but they all love her just the same.
* MeaningfulName: ''Amanita muscaria'' (also known as fly agaric or fly amanita) is a mushroom that contains a potent psychedelic and is often used for mind-expanding trips and religious experiences. A radical '60s academic like Amanita's mother would likely have been very inspired by it.
* MixedAncestry: Her mother turns out to be white (and Jewish, though not [[JewishMother stereotypical]]). Her father is black.
* MulticoloredHair: Amanita has blue, pink, and purple sections in her dreads, styled after the bisexual pride flag.
* PyroManiac: She delays Nomi's lobotomy by triggering the hospital's fire alarm. Not by pulling the lever, but by actually starting a fire. She also primes an AerosolFlamethrower to answer a suspicious door knock.
* SecretKeeper: She knows that Nomi is a Sensate and is helping her both come to terms with it and help other members of the cluster.
* TrueCompanions: So much that she's the only one outside the cluster who's invited along on their mission at the end of Season 2.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Amanita is black and bisexual.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: GenderFlipped. She seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people. She also puts herself at risk to keep Nomi and the other sensates safe.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Don't even ''think'' of laying a hand on Nomi.
-->'''Amanita''': I will burn this building down before I let anyone touch that beautiful brain.

[[folder:Bug]]
!!Bug
->'''Portrayed by''': Michael X. Sommers

A hacker friend of Nomi's who also deals with hardware.

* 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 insensitive.
* ChivalrousPervert: He's very lecherous when it comes to women he finds attractive but will stop when someone simply tells him to and is very loyal to Nomi and Amanita.
* DeusExMachina: In the first-season 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.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He 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.
* 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.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't revealed within the story so far.
* PlayfulHacker: He seems even less concerned with the possible repercussions of hacking than Nomi is.

[[folder:Nomi's family]]
!!The Markses
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sandra Fish (Janet), Annie Munch (Teagan), Mark Withers (Lawrence)

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

* AbusiveParents: Janet is a piece of work and Nomi's father is no better, forcing a child with body dysphoria to join a swim team where group showering was mandatory in an attempt to man her up from liking dolls.
** [[spoiler: Her father at least starts to come around when Bendix is foiled from arresting Nomi, threatening to end his career if he doesn't leave and calling Nomi his daughter for the first time.]]
* HateSink: Not only is Janet a transphobe, she's a condescending ass who's clearly enjoying having financial power over her daughter when they just received (false) news that she'll ''die'' without a surgery she can't afford without her mother's insurance.
* IHaveNoSon: Inverted, as Nomi is the one to disown them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Janet is homophobic and transphobic.
* RichBitch: Janet lords the fact that Nomi will need her insurance to afford brain surgery over her.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The whole reason Nomi took the fall for Bug's hacking the Pentagon and got a sentence of probation and community service, in addition to being a minor at the time.
* 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 honor. It's also revealed that she discovered Nomi had forged her mother's signature for the operation and could have stopped it, but didn't despite them having a nasty fight over it the night before.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Nomi's parents reject every part of her identity, even mocking her name. Even before coming out, Nomi was the "problem child" and her parents wanted her to be more like Teagan.

[[folder:Metzger]]
!!Dr. Metzger
->'''Portrayed by''': Adam Shapiro

The doctor who diagnoses Nomi with a disease that requires a lobotomy.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: This is how Whispers kills him]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's offed by Whispers in the body of a sensate Metzger previously lobotomized]].
* MeaningfulName: Metzger is German for "butcher," which is apt considering what he does to sensates.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's in league with BPO and is one of the doctors who [[spoiler: lobotomize sensates for Whispers to use as PeoplePuppets]].
* OhCrap: He has this reaction [[spoiler:when he realizes Nomi's just made it clear to Whispers that he's been compromised.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Whispers has him killed after Nomi contacts him with Metzger's information.]]

!!Mexico City

[[folder:Hernando]]
!!Hernando Fuentes

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlfonsoHerrera

Lito's secret boyfriend.

* DeadpanSnarker: Case in point: he snarkily informing Daniela that Lito's 'problem' with hooking up with her is her lack of a penis.
* HotTeacher: He lectures professionally on art and Lito and Dani certainly find him attractive.
* MoralityChain: He is one for Lito. [[spoiler:This eventually leads to their temporary breakup because he could not stand to let Daniela get hurt just so Lito can protect his career.]].
* NerdsAreSexy: Wears glasses all the time, reads lots of books, and went to an art exhibit with Lito on his first date with him. And he's extremely attractive.
* NiceGuy: Hernando is so sweet and passionate about everything that even Dani falls a bit in love with him.
* ThePhilosopher: On their first date together Lito and Hernando share an intellectual moment talking about the nature of freedom and love in front of Diego Rivera's artworks.
* RealMenCanCook: Daniela thinks he's good enough to open a restaurant.
* SecretRelationship: With Lito.
* StraightGay: He fits this better than Lito, who is more ManlyGay.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Hernando ends their relationship after Lito allows Daniela to reenter an abusive relationship to protect his career.]]

[[folder:Dani]]
!!Daniela Velasquez

->'''Portrayed By:''' Eréndira Ibarra

A friend of Lito's who's acting as his beard for the public.

* AffectionateNickname: "Dani."
* TheAtoner: Becomes this when [[spoiler: she goes back to Joaquin to keep him from blackmailing Lito.]]
* TheBeard: She was this unwittingly, unaware of Lito's intentions with their flirtation. When she finds out, however, she's down with pretending to be Lito's girlfriend, as it keeps her away from her abusive ex-boyfriend ''and'' she believes in GuyOnGuyIsHot.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: While watching Hernando and Lito have sex.
* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler: She returned to Joaquin for Lito's sake, but was more than ready to leave when Lito came for her. She even hit Joaquin with a shovel.]]
* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Lito has to rescue her from Joaquin]].
* FagHag: Is a little overly keen about getting to stay with two attractive gay men.
* FamilyOfChoice: She has a strained relationship with her parents and chooses to remain with Lito and Hernando when they come to bring her home.
* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Believes in this to an extreme degree, to the point where she will masturbate while Hernando and Lito have sex. [[spoiler:This actually becomes a plot point when Joaquin steals her phone, which has pictures of Hernando and Lito having sex on them]].
* IncompatibleOrientation: At least at first, Daniela is very interested in being more than Lito's screen partner.
* MafiaPrincess: It's heavily implied that her father runs a drug cartel.
* MsFanservice: She spends a lot of time hanging around Lito's house in her underwear.
** StockingFiller: Dani plays a nun in Lito's telenovela, and in one scene is shown wearing thigh-highs under her tattered habit.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Taking pictures of Lito and Hernando for her own [[GuyOnGuyIsHot entertainment]] comes back to bite them in the ass when [[spoiler: Joaquin steals her phone and threatens to leak the pictures if Daniela doesn't get back together with him.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By getting carried away and snapping photos of Lito having sex with Hernando, she puts all three of them in jeopardy when Joaquin steals her phone.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: She is definitely pushing for Lito and Hernando to be together and have happy memories.
* SunglassesAtNight: Wears them when she moves out of Lito and Hernando's place and meets them to get her luggage. [[spoiler: It's to hide the bruises Joaquin's left on her face]].
* YourCheatingHeart:
** She admits to Lito and Hernando that she slept with Joaquin's best friend.
** Before that, she was totally down with having sex with Lito even after he protested he was taken.

[[folder:Joaquin]]
!!Joaquin Flores
->'''Portrayed by''': Raul Mendez

An ex-boyfriend of Daniela's.

* CrazyJealousGuy: He has it out for Lito, the guy the public thinks is Daniela's new boyfriend.
* DomesticAbuser: He beat Daniela while they were together [[spoiler: and does this again when he blackmails her into getting back together with him.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he first meets Lito he holds a knife to Lito's jugular, explaining that's the best way to kill a man.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He physically abused Daniela and chalked it up to Mexican machismo, and calls Lito a "faggot" when he comes to rescue Daniela.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: GenderFlipped. He's clearly not over Daniela leaving him, and even ''breaks into Lito's house'' just so he can ask what he did wrong. (Daniela helpfully reminds him it may have had something to do with ''the physical abuse.'') [[spoiler: He later blackmails her into getting back together with him and still treats her badly after she agrees.]]

!!Berlin

[[folder:Felix]]
!!Felix Brenner

->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Mauff

Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.

* AFriendInNeed: As seen in the Christmas special, while on the run from gangbangers with Wolfgang, despite after ''already'' surviving being shot before, and even with Wolfgang demanding he split off and get to safety, Felix staunchly refuses to abandon Wolfgang.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Wolfgang have had each other's backs since they were kids.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Wolfgang has to protect him after he's shot by Steiner. He ends the first season comatose in a private hospital.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Wolfgang, since childhood.
* MomentKiller: He's the one who interrupts Wolfgang and Kala's AlmostKiss.
* NouveauRiche: [[spoiler: After stealing the diamonds Steiner had planned to steal,]] Felix gets excited about all the money he and Wolfgang are going to get for them. When they go to dinner at a fancy restaurant, Felix orders "the most expensive wine [they] have".
* OnlyFriend: Wolfgang mentions that Felix was the only kid who didn't hate him.

[[folder:Steiner]]
!!Steiner Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Oliver

A Russian mobster who also happens to be Wolfgang's cousin.

* BaldOfEvil: Steiner doesn't have a single hair on his head or a single moral in his body.
* BigBrotherBully: He has this dynamic with Wolfgang, though technically they're cousins. However they were raised together after Wolfgang's father died, so Steiner is more like a (terrible) brother than a cousin.
* GanglandDriveBy: [[spoiler:This is how he shoots and nearly kills Felix]].
* HairTriggerTemper: His self-control is practically non-existent. There's not a single scene with him in which he doesn't threaten, insult, or shout at someone.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a violent, vulgar, and all-around unpleasant thug.
* LargeHam: Tends to deliver his lines in an over-the-top manner, often accompanied by similarly [[MilkingTheGiantCow melodramatic hand gestures.]] Actor Christian Oliver clearly has a lot of fun with his role.
* OhCrap: He has an appropriately epic reaction to [[spoiler:Wolfgang shooting a rocket at him.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He makes a few homophobic comments when Lito in Wolfgang's body lies to him about how they obtained the diamonds. For bonus points, Lito is a ''gay man'' (although Steiner's unaware of his presence).
* SirSwearsALot: His speech is riddled with obscenities.
* SmugSnake: Steiner thinks he is far more clever than he is. Wolfgang shows him up from their first conflict.
* TattooedCrook: His bald head lets him display his [[TattooAsCharacterType neck tattoo]] of the Virgin Mary holding a gun.

[[folder:Sergei]]
!!Sergei Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed by''': Sylvester Groth

Wolfgang's paternal uncle and father to Steiner, seemingly the head of the organized crime unit Wolfgang works in.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When Wolfgang comes to kill him, Sergei desperately tries to bargain for his life, first by apologizing for ignoring the abuse Wolfgang was subjected to as a child, then by offering him money. It doesn't save him]].
* AffablyEvil: In stark contrast to his thuggish son, Sergei is unfailingly polite in his interactions with Wolfgang.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The cause of his death, although it's not a single shot, but a whole magazine worth of bullets. The result isn't a pretty sight.]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Wears a bulletproof vest ''at home''. Wolfgang immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how unlikely this is]].
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Sergei is genuinely horrified when Wolfgang betrays him and admits to killing Steiner and his own father]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He obviously cares deeply about Steiner and has stated that he wants nothing more than to get revenge for whoever killed his brother (Wolfgang's father).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a ruthless mobster, but he draws the line at killing family members. [[spoiler:He is accordingly shocked when Wolfgang confesses that he killed both Steiner and his own father]].
* LikeASonToMe: Implied as much; Sergei tells Wolfgang that he doesn't want to choose between Steiner and Wolfgang (who does not reciprocate the feeling).
* TheMafiya: A high-ranking member of the Russian mob in Berlin.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He lives in a huge, opulently furnished mansion, smokes fine cigars, and wears expertly tailored bespoke suits.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: Wolfgang riddles him with bullets to prove to Kala that he's a terrible person]].
* SoftspokenSadist: He rarely raises his voice, which only makes him more threatening.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Once it dawns on him that Wolfgang killed Steiner, his self-control rapidly fades, until he's firing wildly at Wolfgang while screaming in rage and grief]].
* WickedCultured: Seems to be a lover of the fine arts, judging by the numerous paintings in his mansion.

!!Nairobi

[[folder:Shiro]]
!!Shiro
->'''Portrayed by''': Chichi Seii

Capheus's mother.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: She had to leave Capheus's younger sister at a shelter because she couldn't keep both her children alive.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In a flashback, when enemies of Capheus's 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's is working to obtain medication for her. [[spoiler:She gets better when she starts dating Kabaka, and he gives her access to medication.]]
* MamaBear: Shown in a flashback where Capheus's 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.

[[folder:Jela]]
!!Jela
->'''Portrayed by''': Paul Ogola

Capheus's best friend and partner in the bus service.

* AFriendInNeed: After Capheus resolves to go after the gang that robbed his bus, Jela says, without a hint of hesitation, "I'm coming with you." Capheus doesn't let him, but it's clear that Jela has no reservations about marching into hell with his friend.
-->'''Jela:''' I'd follow you anywhere.
* ChildhoodFriends: Jela states he has known Capheus since they were 10.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Capheus are very close and look out for each other.
* IOweYouMyLife: In a throwaway line, Jela once in the first season jokingly tells Capheus "you save my life ''again'', my friend" [[InvokedTrope implying]] there is some unknown history between them.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one of these to Capheus after the latter reveals that he's in Silas Kabaka's service.

[[folder:Githu]]
!!Githu

->'''Portrayed By:''' Lwanda Jawa

The leader of Superpower, a vigilante gang.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A vicious criminal and killer. He also had a younger sister whom he loved and adored. When he and crime boss Silas Kabaka had a falling out, [[spoiler: Silas had his sister brutally murdered.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: In Season 2 he starts defending Capheus against the people trying to kill him, having realized that their rivalry is giving him far more of a reputation than he ever could have achieved on his own.
* RevengeByProxy: Initially intended to [[spoiler:kill Amondi as revenge for his sister's death at Kabaka's hands]].
* WouldHurtAChild: In episode eleven, [[spoiler: he originally intended to murder Silas' daughter in front of him.]]

[[folder:Kabaka]]
!!Silas Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Peter King Mwani

The head of a powerful criminal syndicate.

* BadBoss: Zigzagged. He treats Capheus with respect and pays him well enough to provide for his ill mother. On the other hand, he shows absolutely no mercy to traitors, cutting off a subordinate's hands for stealing from him.
* TheDreaded: Just the mention of his name causes everyone in the vicinity to freeze up.
* DotingParent: Amondi is his whole world; everything he does, he does for her sake.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He may treat his subordinates like crap, but he loves and adores his daughter Amondi.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When [[spoiler: Capheus is being forced at gunpoint to nearly kill him]], he responds by simply telling him to do it quickly and exposes his neck.
* GrossUpCloseUp: When he cuts off one of his subordinate's hands.
* HeelFaceTurn: Becomes a loyal ally to Capheus in season 2, even warning him of a bounty placed on his head.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Alive and well at the end of Capheus's storyline. Probably for the best, though, at least for Amondi's sake.]]
* LoveIsAWeakness: Defied. He explains to Capheus that, contrary to what his rivals believe, love for another person can be someone's greatest strength and motivator.
* MacheteMayhem: Cuts off a traitorous underling's hands with a machete to demonstrate why Capheus shouldn't try to double-cross him.
* ScaryBlackMan: A large, intimidating Kenyan crime lord.
* SecretlyDying: Shiro reveals that Kabaka is willing to date her because [[spoiler:he, too, is infected by HIV.]]

[[folder:Amondi]]
!!Amondi Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Rosa Katanu

Silas' young daughter.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:She convinces her father to give Capheus a brand new modern bus for his birthday as thanks for taking care of her, even picking it out herself.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Amondi is totally oblivious to the darker side of her father's dealings and considers him an unquestionable hero. Capheus doesn't have the heart to correct her.
* DaddysGirl: She clearly adores her dad.
* IllGirl: She requires special treatment at a hospital, so Silas enlists Capheus to act as her driver.
* MafiaPrincess: Possibly. She doesn't seem aware of where her father's money comes from, and acts sweet and nice to everyone.
* MoralityPet: Her otherwise sketchy father only has her well-being in mind.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite having a heinous father and clearly being spoiled by him, she is very nice and quickly strikes up a friendship with Capheus.

[[folder:Zakia]]
!!Zakia
->'''Portrayed by''': Mumbi Maina

A reporter who interviews Capheus on his exploits, and later takes an interest to him.

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:She confesses to Capheus about having dated both women and men.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Is initially standoffish and critical about Capheus's love of Jean Claude Van Damme, but is eventually won over by his optimism and sincerity.
* HotScoop: Jela tries to catch her attention at first, but to no avail.
* UptownGirl: Obviously lives in a modern, wealthy part of Nairobi, in total contrast to Capheus's background. However, she has no qualms about dating him, having been won over by his heart and personality.

!!Mumbai

[[folder:Rajan]]
!!Rajan Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Purab Kohli

Kala's fiance.

* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ajan '''R'''asal.
* BettyAndVeronica: The nice, sweet Betty to Wolfgang's dangerous Veronica for Kala's Archie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Ultimately averted. Though Kala realizes that there is corruption in the company, he initially brushes off her concerns, assuring her that, while they were indeed selling useless medication, it was fine, as they weren't selling it to "their people" -- it was being sold to "faraway places like China or Africa," meaning that Capheus's mother was likely getting faulty drugs. However, within the same episode he realizes he's in the wrong, shares his feelings about the company with Kala, and expresses his sincere determination to put the company on the right path and stop the corrupt practices.]]
* {{Cuckold}}: Not only is he completely unaware that Kala is a sensate, he's also unaware of her UnresolvedSexualTension with Wolfgang, whom she truly loves. [[spoiler:Put UpToEleven in season two, when Kala and Wolfgang enjoy some one-on-one sex in her very marriage bed. Presumably she's also having sex with Rajan, given his response the next morning that the previous night was fantastic... and he's totally unaware that Wolfgang is psychically still in bed holding Kala, and when Rajan leans in to kiss her, he unsuspectingly kisses Wolfgang instead. And then in the finale, he sends her to an apartment in Paris for her safety, not knowing that it will presumably become a love nest for his wife and Wolfgang.]]
* DisposableFiance: Kala isn't totally excited to be getting married to him, and starts falling for Wolfgang hard. When she faints at her and Rajan's wedding before it's finished, it definitely seems to lead to this. [[spoiler:Ultimately averted, as they do get married, though by the Christmas special, they still haven't consummated the union, and Kala still feels torn, though she chooses to stay even when he offers to annul the marriage.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Was apparently head-over-heels in love with Kala and didn't know how to talk to her before he started courting her.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Got to ask Kala out by filling her office with flowers on her birthday.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:He's fine with the company sending faulty drugs to "faraway places" like Africa, unaware that one of Kala's clustermates lives in Kenya, and whose mother may be directly affected by the practice.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:On their honeymoon, he picks up on Kala's mixed feelings and offers to annul the marriage, acknowledging that the strength of his feelings for her might not have been reciprocated and that he wants her to be happy. She turns the annulment down, though.]]
* LoveTriangle: Both he and Wolfgang love Kala, though Rajan himself is unaware that he's even ''in'' a LoveTriangle.
* NiceGuy: Rajan is extremely supportive, loving, and understanding towards Kala. Though she doesn't truly love him, Kala does respect and like him, and when prompted early in season two to think of someone she loves, she thinks of him as well as OneTrueLove Wolfgang.
* UptownGirl: He's [[InterclassRomance far wealthier]] than Kala is. This is one of the reasons Kala's nervous about their marriage.

[[folder:Manendra]]
!!Manendra Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Darshan Jariwala

Rajan's father, and owner of the pharmaceutical company where Kala works.

* CulturalCringe: He hates Indian food, almost gets assassinated due to his efforts to ban Hindu ceremonial rites, and is never seen wearing traditional Indian garments. One of the Hindus who later has a hand in his assassination attempt earlier said he wants India to be like America.
* HollywoodAtheist: Rajan's father isn't content to personally disbelieve in gods and miracles, but backed a bill to outlaw harmless religious rituals like offering fruit to Ganesha. This enrages some Hindus to the point they attempt to assassinate him.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Subverted. He disapproves of Kala marrying Rajan and even tells her as much, but Rajan assures her later that he'd known about his father's disapproval and went ahead with the proposal anyhow. Also, Manendra doesn't bring it up to Kala until he senses her own reluctance to go through with the marriage; he's trying to give her the out she wants.

[[folder:Kala's family]]
!!The Dandekars
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/AnupamKher (Sanyam), Natasha Rastogi (Priya), and Huzane Mewawala (Daya)

Kala's family, consisting of her father Sanyam, mother Priya, and sister and fellow pharmacist Daya.

* GoodParents: Kala's parents are extremely supportive of her and her decisions. Kala is the only protagonist whose parents are both alive and have a good relationship with her.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Implied as much; Priya tells Kala that she's the first in the family to marry out of love, implying their marriage was arranged. Despite this, they have a healthy and loving relationship.
* SupremeChef: Everyone has nothing but praise for Sanyam's cooking.

!!Seoul

[[folder:Kang-Dae]]
!!Kang-Dae Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Geung-young

Father to Sun and Joong-ki as well as a powerful businessman based in Seoul.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Just as he decides to [[spoiler: come clean about the embezzlement and get his daughter out of prison, Joong-ki murders him.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He comes to this realization after [[spoiler:convincing Sun to go to prison for his and Joong-ki's sake]]. When he visits her, he admits he hasn't been taking care of himself at all out of shock.
* ParentalFavoritism: He pretty clearly favors his son over his daughter, which his children are very aware of. In fact, he acknowledges his daughter so little that this is basically the entire reason the plan for Sun to [[spoiler: take the fall for the embezzlement]] works - despite being his child and employee, there's almost no public connection between them.

[[folder:Joong-ki]]
!!Joong-ki Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Ki-chan

Sun's younger brother who also shares a high position in their father's company.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His embezzlement is what gets the company into trouble in the first place.
* CrocodileTears: When he tells Sun that [[spoiler: their father killed himself]] and she promptly replies by [[spoiler: accusing Joong-Ki of murdering him]], all pretense of grief immediately fades.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first appearance is him arriving late to a meeting with a client, whom his sister has to deal with as a result; he also cheerfully ignores the sexist way the client treats Sun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joong-ki is a freeloader who causes all of his family's problems, which Sun has to clean up [[spoiler: by going to prison for his embezzlement]].
* HookersAndBlow: The second time we see Joong-ki is at a sex club where he and his friends are pawing at the performers and getting drunk.
* {{Jerkass}}: Constantly insults and dismisses Sun, and has no qualms about transparently trying to manipulate her into [[spoiler: going to jail for him]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Come the Season 1 finale, all he has to show for what he's done is an ass-kicking from Sun.]]
** [[spoiler:In Season 2, he still manages to escape justice because Sun spares his life, and an [[GreaterScopeVillain influential politician]] has his back to ward off corruption charges.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Sun suspects that [[{{Patricide}} he murdered their father]] to spare his own reputation. His reaction suggests she's right.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Joong-ki has clearly developed no accountability as a result of his father's favoritism, blaming his father for [[spoiler: his embezzling of millions from the family company]] because their father "[[NeverMyFault taught [him] how to bend the rules]]".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Sun takes the blame for his embezzling and no one suspects him of killing his father. As of the Christmas special, he gets both praise for "saving" the company and sympathy for having an "unstable" sister. When Sun tries but fails to kill him in the season 2 finale, he gets ''even more'' sympathy and she's labelled a dangerous fugitive]].

[[folder:Mi-Cha]]
!!Mi-Cha Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Hye Hwa Kim

Sun and Joong-ki's deceased mother.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She was kind, gracious, and supportive of Sun, in stark contrast to Sun's father.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While [[ThickerThanWater close familial ties]] are valued across all cultures, the promise Sun made to her to always look after her brother and father is very clearly based on a more East Asian view.
* MissingMom: She died of illness (implied to be cancer) when Sun was a child.
* ParentalFavoritism: She was closer to Sun than to Joong-ki as a result of her husband preferring him.

[[folder:Min-Jung]]
!!Min-Jung
->'''Portrayed by''': Yuh-jung Youn

One of Sun's fellow inmates, [[spoiler:who later helps her escape from prison]].

* TheDogBitesBack: Decided to poison her husband when she had enough of his abusive behavior. [[spoiler:She spots the same attitude in the thugs Joong-ki dispatches to kill Sun, and thus decides to help her fight back.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Opts to return to prison after having a taste of freedom, rather than burden Sun on her quest for revenge.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: Besides poisoning her husband, [[spoiler:she also kills one of Sun's would-be assassins with a broken mop handle, single-handedly thwarting their almost successful attempt.]]

[[folder: Detective Mun]]
!!Detective Kwon-Ho Mun[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Sukku Son

A detective from Seoul Metropolitan Police working on Sun's case.
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* AmazonChaser: Sun's ability to kick his ass every time they fight only makes him more interested in her.
* DatingCatwoman: Played with. Technically Sun's not really a criminal, but [[spoiler: she's being hunted by police after escaping jail. Despite having the obligation to arrest her, Mun believed her when she told him that her brother was the real crook]].
* FairCop: A handsome policeman in tight clothes who falls in love with Sun.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He actually fought Sun in a taekwando competition when they were younger (she won, of course), but she doesn't seem to remember. (Note that he's a ''different'' guy than the one we saw her beat in a taekwando competition when she was younger and later hook up with in the locker room.)
* MeaningfulName: A bit of a pun here, as he is the cool and jovial Mun (moon) to her quiet but intense Sun, although Mun is technically his family name while Sun is her given name.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:Somehow survives a bullet to the gut, fired by Joong-ki as he prepares to arrest the latter for money laundering.]]

!!Others

!!!Reykjavik
[[folder:Riley's father]]
!!Gunnar
->'''Portrayed by''': KK (Kristján Kristjánsson)

Riley's father. A pianist and Riley's musical inspiration.
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* GoodParents: He's a genuinely good and caring father, Riley loves and adores him and the problems in her life have nothing to do with their relationship.
* HippieParents: He's seen smoking a joint with his band mates before a concert and accepts ecstasy from Riley.

[[folder:Sven]]
!!Sven
->'''Portrayed by''': Eythor Gunnarson

An old family friend who owns a boat. Riley was actually born in his house.
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* UndyingLoyalty: He cares deeply for Riley. When he heard she was coming home, he dropped everything to act as her chauffeur (since she can't drive), and later [[spoiler:helps Riley and Will escape on his boat]].

[[folder:Magnús and Lúna]]
!!Magnús Þórsson and Lúna Magnúsdóttir
->'''Portrayed by''': Thor Birgisson (Magnus), Ishildur Erla Kemp (Luna)

Riley's husband and daughter.
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* AdultFear: Their deaths are absolutely dripping in this.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: Riley gave birth to Lúna shortly after Magnús's death.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Their deaths are what caused Riley to become closed off, attempt suicide and move away from Iceland.
* TheLostLenore: Magnús for Riley.

[[/folder]]

!!!London
[[folder:Nyx]]

!!Nyx
->'''Portrayed by''': Joseph Mawle

A drug dealer in London.
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* AffablyEvil: Nyx is very personable in both his season one appearances. He even manages to be charming in a creepy way when suffocating Riley.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He attempts to suffocate Riley with a plastic bag when she doesn't return his money]].

[[/folder]]

!BPO
[[folder:Ruth El-Saadawi]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Croome]]

!!Richard Wilson Croome
->'''Portrayed by''': Clive Wood

A high-ranking executive in the BPO.
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* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Croome reveals that he is part of a faction within the BPO secretly fighting its current purpose.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Just as Croome prepares to make a deal with Will, Whispers uses a lobotomized sensate to stab him repeatedly in the neck.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Chairman]]

!!The Chairman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jason Thorpe

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Stiles]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Bendix]]

!!Agent Jeffrey Bendix

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Cistaro

[[/folder]]

!!Chicago

[[folder:Diego]]
!!Diego Morales
->'''Portrayed by''': Ness Bautista
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1499911_1438951048054_full.png]]

Will's partner on the force.

* BestFriend: To Will, which is why he was extremely angry and hurt when Will [[spoiler:just left without warning for a year and never called]].
* ByTheBookCop: He's seriously against the more extreme measures Will takes to close cases.
* SarcasticDevotee: After Will shows Diego proof that something strange is going on, the latter finally believes him and accompanies him on his quest to find answers. However, that doesn't stop Diego from either constantly asking questions or rolling his eyes.

[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara Patrell
->'''Portrayed by''': Margot Thorne

A young girl who went missing when Will was a child.

* CreepyChild: In Will's visions of her, she appears as the age she disappeared, where she tells him not to tell anyone he's seeing her.
* PosthumousCharacter: Will's father was never able to find her after she went missing, as she was killed by Whispers.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An in-universe case, as she would have been part of the cluster if Whispers hadn't gotten to her while she was still a child.

[[folder:Will's Father]]
!!Michael Gorski
->'''Portrayed by''': Joe Pantoliano

Will's father. A highly-respected retired police captain, his access and reputation buy Will a lot of leeway in the Chicago PD.

* AlcoholicParent: He's portrayed as a mean drunk during Will's childhood and Will was often forced to care for him.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: He has a fall and dies while Will is in Amsterdam. Riley is present, having gone to Chicago for information on Angelica, and is Will is able to be there for his dad by Visiting her. Despite being initially confused because he didn't recognize Riley, in his final moments, Mr. Gorski is able to feel Will's presence]].
* DadTheVeteran: He's a retired Chicago PD captain and Will takes advantage of it for all he's worth.
* SoProudOfYou: He tells Will this during the Fourth of July celebration, which comes on the heels of him berating Will for getting himself suspended.

!!San Francisco

[[folder:Amanita]]
!!Amanita Caplan

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreemaAgyeman
[[quoteright:319:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2206.jpg]]

Nomi's girlfriend.

* ActionSurvivor: For a girl who's worked at a bookstore for the past ten years, Amanita is a badass, coming up with on-the-fly plans to subvert BPO (like using cough syrup to fake a tampon change and squick the federal agents after Nomi) and defend herself (including the threat of an AerosolFlamethrower).
* BiTheWay: Her dreadlocks are the color of the bi flag and she's in a relationship with a woman.
* DreadlockRasta: She wears her hair in multicolored dreadlocks, which serve to emphasize her understanding, liberal nature. In addition, she clearly puts Nomi over any authoritarian figures.
* FamilyOfChoice: She's all Nomi has, seeing as how she doesn't get along with her transphobic family.
* HasTwoMommies: As shown in the Christmas Special, Amanita has three fathers. Explained as they do not know who is her biological father, but they all love her just the same.
* MeaningfulName: ''Amanita muscaria'' (also known as fly agaric or fly amanita) is a mushroom that contains a potent psychedelic and is often used for mind-expanding trips and religious experiences. A radical '60s academic like Amanita's mother would likely have been very inspired by it.
* MixedAncestry: Her mother turns out to be white (and Jewish, though not [[JewishMother stereotypical]]). Her father is black.
* MulticoloredHair: Amanita has blue, pink, and purple sections in her dreads, styled after the bisexual pride flag.
* PyroManiac: She delays Nomi's lobotomy by triggering the hospital's fire alarm. Not by pulling the lever, but by actually starting a fire. She also primes an AerosolFlamethrower to answer a suspicious door knock.
* SecretKeeper: She knows that Nomi is a Sensate and is helping her both come to terms with it and help other members of the cluster.
* TrueCompanions: So much that she's the only one outside the cluster who's invited along on their mission at the end of Season 2.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Amanita is black and bisexual.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: GenderFlipped. She seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people. She also puts herself at risk to keep Nomi and the other sensates safe.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Don't even ''think'' of laying a hand on Nomi.
-->'''Amanita''': I will burn this building down before I let anyone touch that beautiful brain.

[[folder:Bug]]
!!Bug
->'''Portrayed by''': Michael X. Sommers

A hacker friend of Nomi's who also deals with hardware.

* 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 insensitive.
* ChivalrousPervert: He's very lecherous when it comes to women he finds attractive but will stop when someone simply tells him to and is very loyal to Nomi and Amanita.
* DeusExMachina: In the first-season 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.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He 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.
* 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.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't revealed within the story so far.
* PlayfulHacker: He seems even less concerned with the possible repercussions of hacking than Nomi is.

[[folder:Nomi's family]]
!!The Markses
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sandra Fish (Janet), Annie Munch (Teagan), Mark Withers (Lawrence)

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

* AbusiveParents: Janet is a piece of work and Nomi's father is no better, forcing a child with body dysphoria to join a swim team where group showering was mandatory in an attempt to man her up from liking dolls.
** [[spoiler: Her father at least starts to come around when Bendix is foiled from arresting Nomi, threatening to end his career if he doesn't leave and calling Nomi his daughter for the first time.]]
* HateSink: Not only is Janet a transphobe, she's a condescending ass who's clearly enjoying having financial power over her daughter when they just received (false) news that she'll ''die'' without a surgery she can't afford without her mother's insurance.
* IHaveNoSon: Inverted, as Nomi is the one to disown them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Janet is homophobic and transphobic.
* RichBitch: Janet lords the fact that Nomi will need her insurance to afford brain surgery over her.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The whole reason Nomi took the fall for Bug's hacking the Pentagon and got a sentence of probation and community service, in addition to being a minor at the time.
* 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 honor. It's also revealed that she discovered Nomi had forged her mother's signature for the operation and could have stopped it, but didn't despite them having a nasty fight over it the night before.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Nomi's parents reject every part of her identity, even mocking her name. Even before coming out, Nomi was the "problem child" and her parents wanted her to be more like Teagan.

[[folder:Metzger]]
!!Dr. Metzger
->'''Portrayed by''': Adam Shapiro

The doctor who diagnoses Nomi with a disease that requires a lobotomy.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: This is how Whispers kills him]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's offed by Whispers in the body of a sensate Metzger previously lobotomized]].
* MeaningfulName: Metzger is German for "butcher," which is apt considering what he does to sensates.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's in league with BPO and is one of the doctors who [[spoiler: lobotomize sensates for Whispers to use as PeoplePuppets]].
* OhCrap: He has this reaction [[spoiler:when he realizes Nomi's just made it clear to Whispers that he's been compromised.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Whispers has him killed after Nomi contacts him with Metzger's information.]]

!!Mexico City

[[folder:Hernando]]
!!Hernando Fuentes

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlfonsoHerrera

Lito's secret boyfriend.

* DeadpanSnarker: Case in point: he snarkily informing Daniela that Lito's 'problem' with hooking up with her is her lack of a penis.
* HotTeacher: He lectures professionally on art and Lito and Dani certainly find him attractive.
* MoralityChain: He is one for Lito. [[spoiler:This eventually leads to their temporary breakup because he could not stand to let Daniela get hurt just so Lito can protect his career.]].
* NerdsAreSexy: Wears glasses all the time, reads lots of books, and went to an art exhibit with Lito on his first date with him. And he's extremely attractive.
* NiceGuy: Hernando is so sweet and passionate about everything that even Dani falls a bit in love with him.
* ThePhilosopher: On their first date together Lito and Hernando share an intellectual moment talking about the nature of freedom and love in front of Diego Rivera's artworks.
* RealMenCanCook: Daniela thinks he's good enough to open a restaurant.
* SecretRelationship: With Lito.
* StraightGay: He fits this better than Lito, who is more ManlyGay.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Hernando ends their relationship after Lito allows Daniela to reenter an abusive relationship to protect his career.]]

[[folder:Dani]]
!!Daniela Velasquez

->'''Portrayed By:''' Eréndira Ibarra

A friend of Lito's who's acting as his beard for the public.

* AffectionateNickname: "Dani."
* TheAtoner: Becomes this when [[spoiler: she goes back to Joaquin to keep him from blackmailing Lito.]]
* TheBeard: She was this unwittingly, unaware of Lito's intentions with their flirtation. When she finds out, however, she's down with pretending to be Lito's girlfriend, as it keeps her away from her abusive ex-boyfriend ''and'' she believes in GuyOnGuyIsHot.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: While watching Hernando and Lito have sex.
* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler: She returned to Joaquin for Lito's sake, but was more than ready to leave when Lito came for her. She even hit Joaquin with a shovel.]]
* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Lito has to rescue her from Joaquin]].
* FagHag: Is a little overly keen about getting to stay with two attractive gay men.
* FamilyOfChoice: She has a strained relationship with her parents and chooses to remain with Lito and Hernando when they come to bring her home.
* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Believes in this to an extreme degree, to the point where she will masturbate while Hernando and Lito have sex. [[spoiler:This actually becomes a plot point when Joaquin steals her phone, which has pictures of Hernando and Lito having sex on them]].
* IncompatibleOrientation: At least at first, Daniela is very interested in being more than Lito's screen partner.
* MafiaPrincess: It's heavily implied that her father runs a drug cartel.
* MsFanservice: She spends a lot of time hanging around Lito's house in her underwear.
** StockingFiller: Dani plays a nun in Lito's telenovela, and in one scene is shown wearing thigh-highs under her tattered habit.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Taking pictures of Lito and Hernando for her own [[GuyOnGuyIsHot entertainment]] comes back to bite them in the ass when [[spoiler: Joaquin steals her phone and threatens to leak the pictures if Daniela doesn't get back together with him.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By getting carried away and snapping photos of Lito having sex with Hernando, she puts all three of them in jeopardy when Joaquin steals her phone.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: She is definitely pushing for Lito and Hernando to be together and have happy memories.
* SunglassesAtNight: Wears them when she moves out of Lito and Hernando's place and meets them to get her luggage. [[spoiler: It's to hide the bruises Joaquin's left on her face]].
* YourCheatingHeart:
** She admits to Lito and Hernando that she slept with Joaquin's best friend.
** Before that, she was totally down with having sex with Lito even after he protested he was taken.

[[folder:Joaquin]]
!!Joaquin Flores
->'''Portrayed by''': Raul Mendez

An ex-boyfriend of Daniela's.

* CrazyJealousGuy: He has it out for Lito, the guy the public thinks is Daniela's new boyfriend.
* DomesticAbuser: He beat Daniela while they were together [[spoiler: and does this again when he blackmails her into getting back together with him.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he first meets Lito he holds a knife to Lito's jugular, explaining that's the best way to kill a man.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He physically abused Daniela and chalked it up to Mexican machismo, and calls Lito a "faggot" when he comes to rescue Daniela.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: GenderFlipped. He's clearly not over Daniela leaving him, and even ''breaks into Lito's house'' just so he can ask what he did wrong. (Daniela helpfully reminds him it may have had something to do with ''the physical abuse.'') [[spoiler: He later blackmails her into getting back together with him and still treats her badly after she agrees.]]

!!Berlin

[[folder:Felix]]
!!Felix Brenner

->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Mauff

Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.

* AFriendInNeed: As seen in the Christmas special, while on the run from gangbangers with Wolfgang, despite after ''already'' surviving being shot before, and even with Wolfgang demanding he split off and get to safety, Felix staunchly refuses to abandon Wolfgang.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Wolfgang have had each other's backs since they were kids.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Wolfgang has to protect him after he's shot by Steiner. He ends the first season comatose in a private hospital.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Wolfgang, since childhood.
* MomentKiller: He's the one who interrupts Wolfgang and Kala's AlmostKiss.
* NouveauRiche: [[spoiler: After stealing the diamonds Steiner had planned to steal,]] Felix gets excited about all the money he and Wolfgang are going to get for them. When they go to dinner at a fancy restaurant, Felix orders "the most expensive wine [they] have".
* OnlyFriend: Wolfgang mentions that Felix was the only kid who didn't hate him.

[[folder:Steiner]]
!!Steiner Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Oliver

A Russian mobster who also happens to be Wolfgang's cousin.

* BaldOfEvil: Steiner doesn't have a single hair on his head or a single moral in his body.
* BigBrotherBully: He has this dynamic with Wolfgang, though technically they're cousins. However they were raised together after Wolfgang's father died, so Steiner is more like a (terrible) brother than a cousin.
* GanglandDriveBy: [[spoiler:This is how he shoots and nearly kills Felix]].
* HairTriggerTemper: His self-control is practically non-existent. There's not a single scene with him in which he doesn't threaten, insult, or shout at someone.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a violent, vulgar, and all-around unpleasant thug.
* LargeHam: Tends to deliver his lines in an over-the-top manner, often accompanied by similarly [[MilkingTheGiantCow melodramatic hand gestures.]] Actor Christian Oliver clearly has a lot of fun with his role.
* OhCrap: He has an appropriately epic reaction to [[spoiler:Wolfgang shooting a rocket at him.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He makes a few homophobic comments when Lito in Wolfgang's body lies to him about how they obtained the diamonds. For bonus points, Lito is a ''gay man'' (although Steiner's unaware of his presence).
* SirSwearsALot: His speech is riddled with obscenities.
* SmugSnake: Steiner thinks he is far more clever than he is. Wolfgang shows him up from their first conflict.
* TattooedCrook: His bald head lets him display his [[TattooAsCharacterType neck tattoo]] of the Virgin Mary holding a gun.

[[folder:Sergei]]
!!Sergei Bogdanow

->'''Portrayed by''': Sylvester Groth

Wolfgang's paternal uncle and father to Steiner, seemingly the head of the organized crime unit Wolfgang works in.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When Wolfgang comes to kill him, Sergei desperately tries to bargain for his life, first by apologizing for ignoring the abuse Wolfgang was subjected to as a child, then by offering him money. It doesn't save him]].
* AffablyEvil: In stark contrast to his thuggish son, Sergei is unfailingly polite in his interactions with Wolfgang.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The cause of his death, although it's not a single shot, but a whole magazine worth of bullets. The result isn't a pretty sight.]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Wears a bulletproof vest ''at home''. Wolfgang immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how unlikely this is]].
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Sergei is genuinely horrified when Wolfgang betrays him and admits to killing Steiner and his own father]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He obviously cares deeply about Steiner and has stated that he wants nothing more than to get revenge for whoever killed his brother (Wolfgang's father).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a ruthless mobster, but he draws the line at killing family members. [[spoiler:He is accordingly shocked when Wolfgang confesses that he killed both Steiner and his own father]].
* LikeASonToMe: Implied as much; Sergei tells Wolfgang that he doesn't want to choose between Steiner and Wolfgang (who does not reciprocate the feeling).
* TheMafiya: A high-ranking member of the Russian mob in Berlin.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He lives in a huge, opulently furnished mansion, smokes fine cigars, and wears expertly tailored bespoke suits.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: Wolfgang riddles him with bullets to prove to Kala that he's a terrible person]].
* SoftspokenSadist: He rarely raises his voice, which only makes him more threatening.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Once it dawns on him that Wolfgang killed Steiner, his self-control rapidly fades, until he's firing wildly at Wolfgang while screaming in rage and grief]].
* WickedCultured: Seems to be a lover of the fine arts, judging by the numerous paintings in his mansion.

!!Nairobi

[[folder:Shiro]]
!!Shiro
->'''Portrayed by''': Chichi Seii

Capheus's mother.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: She had to leave Capheus's younger sister at a shelter because she couldn't keep both her children alive.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In a flashback, when enemies of Capheus's 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's is working to obtain medication for her. [[spoiler:She gets better when she starts dating Kabaka, and he gives her access to medication.]]
* MamaBear: Shown in a flashback where Capheus's 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.

[[folder:Jela]]
!!Jela
->'''Portrayed by''': Paul Ogola

Capheus's best friend and partner in the bus service.

* AFriendInNeed: After Capheus resolves to go after the gang that robbed his bus, Jela says, without a hint of hesitation, "I'm coming with you." Capheus doesn't let him, but it's clear that Jela has no reservations about marching into hell with his friend.
-->'''Jela:''' I'd follow you anywhere.
* ChildhoodFriends: Jela states he has known Capheus since they were 10.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Capheus are very close and look out for each other.
* IOweYouMyLife: In a throwaway line, Jela once in the first season jokingly tells Capheus "you save my life ''again'', my friend" [[InvokedTrope implying]] there is some unknown history between them.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one of these to Capheus after the latter reveals that he's in Silas Kabaka's service.

[[folder:Githu]]
!!Githu

->'''Portrayed By:''' Lwanda Jawa

The leader of Superpower, a vigilante gang.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A vicious criminal and killer. He also had a younger sister whom he loved and adored. When he and crime boss Silas Kabaka had a falling out, [[spoiler: Silas had his sister brutally murdered.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: In Season 2 he starts defending Capheus against the people trying to kill him, having realized that their rivalry is giving him far more of a reputation than he ever could have achieved on his own.
* RevengeByProxy: Initially intended to [[spoiler:kill Amondi as revenge for his sister's death at Kabaka's hands]].
* WouldHurtAChild: In episode eleven, [[spoiler: he originally intended to murder Silas' daughter in front of him.]]

[[folder:Kabaka]]
!!Silas Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Peter King Mwani

The head of a powerful criminal syndicate.

* BadBoss: Zigzagged. He treats Capheus with respect and pays him well enough to provide for his ill mother. On the other hand, he shows absolutely no mercy to traitors, cutting off a subordinate's hands for stealing from him.
* TheDreaded: Just the mention of his name causes everyone in the vicinity to freeze up.
* DotingParent: Amondi is his whole world; everything he does, he does for her sake.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He may treat his subordinates like crap, but he loves and adores his daughter Amondi.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When [[spoiler: Capheus is being forced at gunpoint to nearly kill him]], he responds by simply telling him to do it quickly and exposes his neck.
* GrossUpCloseUp: When he cuts off one of his subordinate's hands.
* HeelFaceTurn: Becomes a loyal ally to Capheus in season 2, even warning him of a bounty placed on his head.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Alive and well at the end of Capheus's storyline. Probably for the best, though, at least for Amondi's sake.]]
* LoveIsAWeakness: Defied. He explains to Capheus that, contrary to what his rivals believe, love for another person can be someone's greatest strength and motivator.
* MacheteMayhem: Cuts off a traitorous underling's hands with a machete to demonstrate why Capheus shouldn't try to double-cross him.
* ScaryBlackMan: A large, intimidating Kenyan crime lord.
* SecretlyDying: Shiro reveals that Kabaka is willing to date her because [[spoiler:he, too, is infected by HIV.]]

[[folder:Amondi]]
!!Amondi Kabaka
->'''Portrayed by''': Rosa Katanu

Silas' young daughter.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:She convinces her father to give Capheus a brand new modern bus for his birthday as thanks for taking care of her, even picking it out herself.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Amondi is totally oblivious to the darker side of her father's dealings and considers him an unquestionable hero. Capheus doesn't have the heart to correct her.
* DaddysGirl: She clearly adores her dad.
* IllGirl: She requires special treatment at a hospital, so Silas enlists Capheus to act as her driver.
* MafiaPrincess: Possibly. She doesn't seem aware of where her father's money comes from, and acts sweet and nice to everyone.
* MoralityPet: Her otherwise sketchy father only has her well-being in mind.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite having a heinous father and clearly being spoiled by him, she is very nice and quickly strikes up a friendship with Capheus.

[[folder:Zakia]]
!!Zakia
->'''Portrayed by''': Mumbi Maina

A reporter who interviews Capheus on his exploits, and later takes an interest to him.

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:She confesses to Capheus about having dated both women and men.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Is initially standoffish and critical about Capheus's love of Jean Claude Van Damme, but is eventually won over by his optimism and sincerity.
* HotScoop: Jela tries to catch her attention at first, but to no avail.
* UptownGirl: Obviously lives in a modern, wealthy part of Nairobi, in total contrast to Capheus's background. However, she has no qualms about dating him, having been won over by his heart and personality.

!!Mumbai

[[folder:Rajan]]
!!Rajan Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Purab Kohli

Kala's fiance.

* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ajan '''R'''asal.
* BettyAndVeronica: The nice, sweet Betty to Wolfgang's dangerous Veronica for Kala's Archie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Ultimately averted. Though Kala realizes that there is corruption in the company, he initially brushes off her concerns, assuring her that, while they were indeed selling useless medication, it was fine, as they weren't selling it to "their people" -- it was being sold to "faraway places like China or Africa," meaning that Capheus's mother was likely getting faulty drugs. However, within the same episode he realizes he's in the wrong, shares his feelings about the company with Kala, and expresses his sincere determination to put the company on the right path and stop the corrupt practices.]]
* {{Cuckold}}: Not only is he completely unaware that Kala is a sensate, he's also unaware of her UnresolvedSexualTension with Wolfgang, whom she truly loves. [[spoiler:Put UpToEleven in season two, when Kala and Wolfgang enjoy some one-on-one sex in her very marriage bed. Presumably she's also having sex with Rajan, given his response the next morning that the previous night was fantastic... and he's totally unaware that Wolfgang is psychically still in bed holding Kala, and when Rajan leans in to kiss her, he unsuspectingly kisses Wolfgang instead. And then in the finale, he sends her to an apartment in Paris for her safety, not knowing that it will presumably become a love nest for his wife and Wolfgang.]]
* DisposableFiance: Kala isn't totally excited to be getting married to him, and starts falling for Wolfgang hard. When she faints at her and Rajan's wedding before it's finished, it definitely seems to lead to this. [[spoiler:Ultimately averted, as they do get married, though by the Christmas special, they still haven't consummated the union, and Kala still feels torn, though she chooses to stay even when he offers to annul the marriage.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Was apparently head-over-heels in love with Kala and didn't know how to talk to her before he started courting her.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Got to ask Kala out by filling her office with flowers on her birthday.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:He's fine with the company sending faulty drugs to "faraway places" like Africa, unaware that one of Kala's clustermates lives in Kenya, and whose mother may be directly affected by the practice.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:On their honeymoon, he picks up on Kala's mixed feelings and offers to annul the marriage, acknowledging that the strength of his feelings for her might not have been reciprocated and that he wants her to be happy. She turns the annulment down, though.]]
* LoveTriangle: Both he and Wolfgang love Kala, though Rajan himself is unaware that he's even ''in'' a LoveTriangle.
* NiceGuy: Rajan is extremely supportive, loving, and understanding towards Kala. Though she doesn't truly love him, Kala does respect and like him, and when prompted early in season two to think of someone she loves, she thinks of him as well as OneTrueLove Wolfgang.
* UptownGirl: He's [[InterclassRomance far wealthier]] than Kala is. This is one of the reasons Kala's nervous about their marriage.

[[folder:Manendra]]
!!Manendra Rasal
->'''Portrayed by''': Darshan Jariwala

Rajan's father, and owner of the pharmaceutical company where Kala works.

* CulturalCringe: He hates Indian food, almost gets assassinated due to his efforts to ban Hindu ceremonial rites, and is never seen wearing traditional Indian garments. One of the Hindus who later has a hand in his assassination attempt earlier said he wants India to be like America.
* HollywoodAtheist: Rajan's father isn't content to personally disbelieve in gods and miracles, but backed a bill to outlaw harmless religious rituals like offering fruit to Ganesha. This enrages some Hindus to the point they attempt to assassinate him.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Subverted. He disapproves of Kala marrying Rajan and even tells her as much, but Rajan assures her later that he'd known about his father's disapproval and went ahead with the proposal anyhow. Also, Manendra doesn't bring it up to Kala until he senses her own reluctance to go through with the marriage; he's trying to give her the out she wants.

[[folder:Kala's family]]
!!The Dandekars
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/AnupamKher (Sanyam), Natasha Rastogi (Priya), and Huzane Mewawala (Daya)

Kala's family, consisting of her father Sanyam, mother Priya, and sister and fellow pharmacist Daya.

* GoodParents: Kala's parents are extremely supportive of her and her decisions. Kala is the only protagonist whose parents are both alive and have a good relationship with her.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Implied as much; Priya tells Kala that she's the first in the family to marry out of love, implying their marriage was arranged. Despite this, they have a healthy and loving relationship.
* SupremeChef: Everyone has nothing but praise for Sanyam's cooking.

!!Seoul

[[folder:Kang-Dae]]
!!Kang-Dae Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Geung-young

Father to Sun and Joong-ki as well as a powerful businessman based in Seoul.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Just as he decides to [[spoiler: come clean about the embezzlement and get his daughter out of prison, Joong-ki murders him.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He comes to this realization after [[spoiler:convincing Sun to go to prison for his and Joong-ki's sake]]. When he visits her, he admits he hasn't been taking care of himself at all out of shock.
* ParentalFavoritism: He pretty clearly favors his son over his daughter, which his children are very aware of. In fact, he acknowledges his daughter so little that this is basically the entire reason the plan for Sun to [[spoiler: take the fall for the embezzlement]] works - despite being his child and employee, there's almost no public connection between them.

[[folder:Joong-ki]]
!!Joong-ki Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Lee Ki-chan

Sun's younger brother who also shares a high position in their father's company.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His embezzlement is what gets the company into trouble in the first place.
* CrocodileTears: When he tells Sun that [[spoiler: their father killed himself]] and she promptly replies by [[spoiler: accusing Joong-Ki of murdering him]], all pretense of grief immediately fades.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first appearance is him arriving late to a meeting with a client, whom his sister has to deal with as a result; he also cheerfully ignores the sexist way the client treats Sun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joong-ki is a freeloader who causes all of his family's problems, which Sun has to clean up [[spoiler: by going to prison for his embezzlement]].
* HookersAndBlow: The second time we see Joong-ki is at a sex club where he and his friends are pawing at the performers and getting drunk.
* {{Jerkass}}: Constantly insults and dismisses Sun, and has no qualms about transparently trying to manipulate her into [[spoiler: going to jail for him]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Come the Season 1 finale, all he has to show for what he's done is an ass-kicking from Sun.]]
** [[spoiler:In Season 2, he still manages to escape justice because Sun spares his life, and an [[GreaterScopeVillain influential politician]] has his back to ward off corruption charges.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Sun suspects that [[{{Patricide}} he murdered their father]] to spare his own reputation. His reaction suggests she's right.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Joong-ki has clearly developed no accountability as a result of his father's favoritism, blaming his father for [[spoiler: his embezzling of millions from the family company]] because their father "[[NeverMyFault taught [him] how to bend the rules]]".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Sun takes the blame for his embezzling and no one suspects him of killing his father. As of the Christmas special, he gets both praise for "saving" the company and sympathy for having an "unstable" sister. When Sun tries but fails to kill him in the season 2 finale, he gets ''even more'' sympathy and she's labelled a dangerous fugitive]].

[[folder:Mi-Cha]]
!!Mi-Cha Bak[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Hye Hwa Kim

Sun and Joong-ki's deceased mother.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She was kind, gracious, and supportive of Sun, in stark contrast to Sun's father.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While [[ThickerThanWater close familial ties]] are valued across all cultures, the promise Sun made to her to always look after her brother and father is very clearly based on a more East Asian view.
* MissingMom: She died of illness (implied to be cancer) when Sun was a child.
* ParentalFavoritism: She was closer to Sun than to Joong-ki as a result of her husband preferring him.

[[folder:Min-Jung]]
!!Min-Jung
->'''Portrayed by''': Yuh-jung Youn

One of Sun's fellow inmates, [[spoiler:who later helps her escape from prison]].

* TheDogBitesBack: Decided to poison her husband when she had enough of his abusive behavior. [[spoiler:She spots the same attitude in the thugs Joong-ki dispatches to kill Sun, and thus decides to help her fight back.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Opts to return to prison after having a taste of freedom, rather than burden Sun on her quest for revenge.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: Besides poisoning her husband, [[spoiler:she also kills one of Sun's would-be assassins with a broken mop handle, single-handedly thwarting their almost successful attempt.]]

[[folder: Detective Mun]]
!!Detective Kwon-Ho Mun[[note]]Name is in Western order[[/note]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Sukku Son

A detective from Seoul Metropolitan Police working on Sun's case.

* AmazonChaser: Sun's ability to kick his ass every time they fight only makes him more interested in her.
* DatingCatwoman: Played with. Technically Sun's not really a criminal, but [[spoiler: she's being hunted by police after escaping jail. Despite having the obligation to arrest her, Mun believed her when she told him that her brother was the real crook]].
* FairCop: A handsome policeman in tight clothes who falls in love with Sun.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He actually fought Sun in a taekwando competition when they were younger (she won, of course), but she doesn't seem to remember. (Note that he's a ''different'' guy than the one we saw her beat in a taekwando competition when she was younger and later hook up with in the locker room.)
* MeaningfulName: A bit of a pun here, as he is the cool and jovial Mun (moon) to her quiet but intense Sun, although Mun is technically his family name while Sun is her given name.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:Somehow survives a bullet to the gut, fired by Joong-ki as he prepares to arrest the latter for money laundering.]]

!!Others

!!!Reykjavik
[[folder:Riley's father]]
!!Gunnar
->'''Portrayed by''': KK (Kristján Kristjánsson)

Riley's father. A pianist and Riley's musical inspiration.

* GoodParents: He's a genuinely good and caring father, Riley loves and adores him and the problems in her life have nothing to do with their relationship.
* HippieParents: He's seen smoking a joint with his band mates before a concert and accepts ecstasy from Riley.

[[folder:Sven]]
!!Sven
->'''Portrayed by''': Eythor Gunnarson

An old family friend who owns a boat. Riley was actually born in his house.
----
* UndyingLoyalty: He cares deeply for Riley. When he heard she was coming home, he dropped everything to act as her chauffeur (since she can't drive), and later [[spoiler:helps Riley and Will escape on his boat]].

[[folder:Magnús and Lúna]]
!!Magnús Þórsson and Lúna Magnúsdóttir
->'''Portrayed by''': Thor Birgisson (Magnus), Ishildur Erla Kemp (Luna)

Riley's husband and daughter.

* AdultFear: Their deaths are absolutely dripping in this.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: Riley gave birth to Lúna shortly after Magnús's death.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Their deaths are what caused Riley to become closed off, attempt suicide and move away from Iceland.
* TheLostLenore: Magnús for Riley.

!!!London
[[folder:Nyx]]

!!Nyx
->'''Portrayed by''': Joseph Mawle

A drug dealer in London.
----
* AffablyEvil: Nyx is very personable in both his season one appearances. He even manages to be charming in a creepy way when suffocating Riley.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He attempts to suffocate Riley with a plastic bag when she doesn't return his money]].

!BPO
[[folder:Ruth El-Saadawi]]

[[folder:Croome]]

!!Richard Wilson Croome
->'''Portrayed by''': Clive Wood

A high-ranking executive in the BPO.
----
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Croome reveals that he is part of a faction within the BPO secretly fighting its current purpose.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Just as Croome prepares to make a deal with Will, Whispers uses a lobotomized sensate to stab him repeatedly in the neck.]]

[[folder:The Chairman]]

!!The Chairman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jason Thorpe

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Stiles]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Bendix]]

!!Agent Jeffrey Bendix

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Cistaro

[[/folder]]

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He actually fought Sun in a taekwando competition when they were younger (she won, of course), and later took her virginity.

!!Croome
->'''Portrayed by''': Joseph Mawle

->'''Portrayed by:''' Sandra Fish (Janet), Annie Munch (Teagan)

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

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Nomi's parents reject every part of her identity, even mocking her name. Even before coming out, Nomi was the "problem child" and her parents wanted her to be more like Teagen.

* NeverMessWithGrandma: Besides poisoning her husband, [[spoiler:she also kills one of Sun's would-be assassins with a broken mop handle, single-handedly thwarting their almost successful attempt.]]

* {{Cuckold}}: Not only is he completely unaware that Kala is a sensate, he's also unaware of her UnresolvedSexualTension with Wolfgang, whom she truly loves. [[spoiler:Put UpToEleven in season two, when Kala and Wolfgang enjoy some one-on-one sex in her very marriage bed. Presumably she's also having sex with Rajan, given his response the next morning that the previous night was fantastic... and he's totally unaware that Wolfgang is psychically still in bed holding Kala, and when Rajan leans in to kiss her, he unsuspectingly kisses Wolfgang instead.]]

!!Detective Mun

* FairCop: A handsome policeman who falls in love with Sun.

* NiceGuy: Rajan is extremely supportive, loving, and understanding towards Kala.

!!San Fransisco

* SecretlyDying: Shiro reveals that Kabaka is wlling to date her because [[spoiler:he, too, is infected by HIV.]]

!Supporting Characters

!!Will's circle

!!Nomi's circle

!!Lito's circle

[[folder:Hernando]]
!!Hernando Fuentes

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlfonsoHerrera

Lito's secret boyfriend.

!!Wolfgang's circle

!!Capheus's circle

!!Kala's circle

!!Sun's circle

!!Riley's circle

[[folder:Nyx]]

!!Nyx
->'''Portrayed by''': Joseph Mawle

A drug dealer in London.

* AffablyEvil: Nyx is very personable in both his season one appearances. He even manages to be charming in a creepy way when suffocating Riley.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He attempts to suffocate Riley with a plastic bag when she doesn't return his money]].

[[folder:Magnús and Lúna]]
!!Magnús Þórsson and Lúna Magnúsdóttir
->'''Portrayed by''': Thor Birgisson (Magnus), Ishildur Erla Kemp (Luna)

Riley's husband and daughter.

* AdultFear: Their deaths are absolutely dripping in this.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: Riley gave birth to Lúna shortly after Magnús's death.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Their deaths are what caused Riley to become closed off, attempt suicide and move away from Iceland.
* TheLostLenore: Magnús for Riley.

!!BPO

!!Others

[[folder:Metzger]]
!!Dr. Metzger
->'''Portrayed by''': Adam Shapiro

The doctor who diagnoses Nomi with a disease that requires a lobotomy.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: This is how Whispers kills him]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's offed by Whispers in the body of a sensate Metzger previously lobotomized]].
* MeaningfulName: Metzger is German for "butcher," which is apt considering what he does to sensates.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's in league with BPO and is one of the doctors who [[spoiler: lobotomize sensates for Whispers to use as PeoplePuppets]].
* OhCrap: He has this reaction [[spoiler:when he realizes Nomi's just made it clear to Whispers that he's been compromised.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Whispers has him killed after Nomi contacts him with Metzger's information.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jonas]]
!!Jonas Maliki

->'''Portrayed By:''' Naveen Andrews
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A sensate of another cluster who appears to each member of the main eight and guides them.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Jonas' 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 protect the new cluster and tried to convince Riley and Will to do the same.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Seems to have crossed this when [[spoiler: Will makes eye contact with Whispers]], telling him he's lost and Whispers has won.
* {{Determinator}}: Yrsa describes losing a cluster-mate as the worst pain she's ever experienced. We see Jonas a day or two after Angelica's death, and he is perfectly functional.
* 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. It's especially driven home by his constant use of the word "them" when describing normal humans.
* GenerationXerox: He tells Will that his relationship with Riley is very much like Jonas's own relationship with Angelica. Its also quite possibly mirrored by Kala and Wolfgang, but they haven't interacted with Jonas yet.
* 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.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: {{Zigzagged}}. The FBI considers Jonas a dangerous terrorist, but (as we see again with Nomi) the BPO's reach is wide enough to run a smear campaign to help capture him, which seems the case when he helps Will and Nomi. [[spoiler: Of course, then Yrsa reveals that he and Angelica worked for Whispers, so he might not have ever precisely qualified as a hero.]]
* MeaningfulName: Possibly. [[spoiler: Jones can mean 'destroyer' or 'he who oppresses', which is fitting for a man who used his gift to hunt down other clusters for Whispers.]]
* 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 to psychosis.
* 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.
** Suffers this for real midway through Season 2. [[spoiler:[[SubertedTrope Almost.]]]]

[[folder:Mr. Whispers]]
!!Mr. Whispers

->'''Portrayed By:''' Terrence Mann
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A sensate who turned against his own kind. He leads a group of people who want to capture and experiment on or kill sensates.

* BadDreams: [[spoiler: Whispers's entire cluster is dead and Angelica tells Will he still talks to them in his sleep.]]
* BigBad: He's the man behind the organization hunting the eight mains.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Will confronts him about Sara Patrell, Whispers responds "Who?"
* TheDreaded: Falling into Mr. Whispers' clutches is considered so awful that some prefer suicide to the possibility. [[spoiler:Somewhat justified in that his organization radically lobotomizes the sensates they catch and he uses them as {{Meat Puppet}}s. Plus, falling into his hands gives him access to other sensates through them.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Revealed in the Christmas special that he has a daughter and is quite possibly married. Downplayed, somewhat, in that he spends Christmas day tormenting Will instead of spending time with his family.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may have tried to have her lobotomized, but Whispers never fails to use Nomi's proper pronouns and name - especially noteworthy considering it's more than her own mother can manage.
* 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]].
* EvilOldFolks: Terrence Mann is nearly twenty years older than even Naveen Andrews; Whispers seems to be about the same age, as he looks the same now as he did when Will was a child and witnessed what he did to Sara Patrell.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Has a tendency to tell his sensate prey he's looking forward to meeting them in the most terrifying way possible.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Adding to the motif of sensates needing to avoid his eyes, Whispers has clear spectacles in front of his dead hunter gaze.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Whispers ruthlessly exploits his ability to Visit other sensates through eye contact to use their senses and manipulate them into revealing the identities of the rest of their clusters.
* IHaveManyNames: Besides Whispers, a name given to him by Angelica, he has gone under the alias Dr. Ellison, Dr. Matheson, and Dr. Friedmann. Dr. Metzger called him Milton when [[spoiler: he was begging for his life.]] Will also calls him Milton during the Christmas special, suggesting that is his true first name.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's used the title of Doctor in three of his aliases; presumably, he actually has it, considering he was photographed as having met Metzger in medical school.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Another name he goes by in Sensate circles is The Cannibal.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Appropriately for a man called Whispers, he rarely (if ever) raises his voice.
* StepfordSmiler: Yrsa called losing a cluster-mate the worst pain she's ever known. [[spoiler: Whispers's entire cluster is dead and, according to Angelica, this troubles his sleep.]]
* TomTheDarkLord: Paradise Lost allusions aside, Milton is not a threatening name, [[Film/OfficeSpace even if you stole his stapler]].
* VillainousBreakdown: He goes through a slow one throughout Season 2 as the heroes get closer to taking him down, becoming more willing to slaughter innocent people and even profanely yelling at his wife and daughter when he'd earlier proudly said they were a completely happy family.
* VillainousCrush: His language and demeanour in the opening scene serves to darkly mirror Jonas's love for Angelica - he calls her "my dear", calls her a liar when she tells Jonas she loves him (and refers to the lie as a secret between them as if they had a romantic history behind Jonas's back), and (despite the white van and men in Hazmat suits with guns) tells her that she's "coming home" rather than being abducted. He even brushes off her last threat of suicide the way an emotionally abusive lover would.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: It's the result of age; that doesn't make him kinder.
* WouldHurtAChild: Sara Patrell was barely ten, but Whispers hunted and dissected her like any other sensate.
* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler:The sensate rules are not well-defined, true, but Whispers still shattered them over his knee through [[LogicalWeakness logical]] and [[CuttingTheKnot brutal]] means. The lobotomy procedure Dr. Metzger performs on sensates is essentially a surgical ''execution'' - the result is an EmptyShell a trained Sensate such as Whispers can use as a {{People Puppet|s}}. By Visiting a lobotomized Sensate, Whispers can exert total control over all their actions despite their not being part of his cluster and there being no possibility of positivity or consent, simply because there's nobody home to disagree with his commands - even if he chooses to have them ''shoot themselves in the head.'']]

[[folder:Bolger]]
!!Niles Bolger

->'''Portrayed By:''' Tim Lajcik
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sense8_1.jpg]]

A former sensate, subjected to the brain-destroying surgery that Dr. Metzger tried to force on Nomi.

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: After shooting Metzger, Whispers makes Niles shoot himself through the back of the head.]]
* TheBrute: [[spoiler: The surgery Metzger did to Bolger allows Whispers to use him in this capacity to kill Metzger.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Bolger serves as a physical embodiment of Whispers's return, highlighting his dangerous powers and ruthless approach.]]
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Bolger is one for Whispers.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: Bolger was essentially already dead, but Whispers still made him shoot himself to cover any potential BPO tracks.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: No one (especially not Nomi) expected Bolger to be anything but an example of BPO's lobotomies, never mind seeing him act as a [[spoiler: walking murder weapon for Whispers.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-universe. Nomi is brought to tears at the sight of Niles, literally saying, "That could have been me."

[[folder:Yrsa]]
!!Yrsa
->'''Portrayed by''': Lilja Þórisdóttir
[[quoteright:237:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yrsa.png]]

A sensate of an unknown cluster. She is a middle-aged Icelandic woman who seems particularly invested in protecting the sensates.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Yrsa manipulated a confused child into thinking she was hexed (giving her lifelong guilt issues and self-loathing) for the greater good of not letting her be dissected by Whispers.
* JadeColoredGlasses: She doesn't have as glowing a view of sensate abilities as Jonas does. She also swore to never have children for fear they would inherit those abilities, and she also has extremely negative opinions regarding intra-cluster relationships, calling them narcissistic and pathological (whereas Jonas says Angel called it "love in its purest form").
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She tried to protect Riley and get her out of Iceland by telling her she was hexed, causing Riley to struggle with crippling survivor's guilt and other kinds of emotional damage when bad things ''did'' start happening to her.
* WhamLine: Delivers one by telling Riley that [[spoiler:Jonas and Angel worked for Mr. Whispers]].

[[folder:Angel]]
!!Angelica Turing

->'''Portrayed By:''' Daryl Hannah
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A sensate of another cluster whose suicide kickstarts the events of the series.

* HeroicSuicide: Angelica shot herself to prevent Whispers from getting other sensates through her.
* HotScientist: Angelica Turing was professionally an ecologist and Jonas and Whispers both found her beautiful.
* LoveTriangle: Whispers's overly affectionate language, declaration that Angelica was lying about loving Jonas (and that it was "[their] little secret"), and the way he referred to her returning with him as 'coming home' suggests that either Angelica had an affair with Whispers or Whispers was romantically obsessed with her.
* MeaningfulName: A blonde woman in white who appears in a vision? What else could she be called but Angel? Her last name of Turing could also qualify; the human brain is the greatest super-computer and she reprogrammed the main eights' brains by birthing them as sensates.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Angelica expressed a fear that "anyone else" would die because of her and Whispers says that she threatened suicide many times before the beginning of the series. [[spoiler: This lends a fair bit of credibility to Yrsa's claim that she and Jonas were working for Whispers.]]
* TheOphelia: At the end of her life, Angelica was fragile physically and emotionally, addicted to drugs to block Whispers, and dressed in flowing white.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Her death creates the main cluster, empathetically linking them together. The first visions the eight share are of her death.
* PosthumousCharacter: She dies [[StartsWithASuicide in the opening]], but we see her numerous times in the echos she leaves on the cluster, and a lot of her actions in life have a huge impact on the cluster.
* SuperEmpowering: Through great emotional duress, Angel (and presumably other sensates) can (and did) awaken a new cluster. [[spoiler: Played rather darkly later on, as Yrsa claims Angel used her ability to birth new clusters so Whispers could hunt them down.]]
* WomanInWhite: She wears a white dress during her suicide and when the main 8 experience visions of her, emphasizing her mysterious nature.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Before fleeing from Whispers, Angelica was said to have seen the beauty in everything to the point of being an ecologist. [[BreakTheCutie Fleeing Whispers took a heavy toll on this]].

[[folder:Puck]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lila]]
!!Lila Facchini

->'''Portrayed by''': Valeria Bilello

A sensate from Naples, Italy who belongs to another cluster, first introduced to Wolfgang as Sebastian Fuchs's right-hand woman.

* ActionGirl: Appears to be a proficient assassin who expertly wields guns, even without the rest of her cluster's skills. (The main hand-to-hand combatant appears to be another cluster member.)
* FemmeFatale: She is first introduced sprawled on Fuchs's couch in a short dress, and then proceeds to continuously flirt psychically with Wolfgang. Later, she is also shown to be a highly effective killer.
* SmugSnake: At no point does she actually display anything other than sheer arrogance to Wolfgang and the rest of the character.
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad: Lila's cluster seems to be ObviouslyEvil, concerned primarily with survival and expanding their influence.
* TheUnapologetic: Shows zero qualms about screwing others over when they don't give her what she wants, such as [[spoiler:betraying Wolfgang's location to Whispers.]]

[[folder: The Old Man of Hoy]]
!!The Old Man of Hoy

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

* PrecisionFStrike: His first line "Holy shit!" doesn't stand out much on the show itself, but after [=McCoy=] had spent a half-century spanning career always being kid-friendly, it's a huge shock.
* ProperlyParanoid: After 30 years on the run from BPO, it takes a ''lot'' to convince him the cluster is trustworthy.

[[folder: Raoul]]
!!Raoul Pasquale

A reporter and senate birthed by Angela. He had earlier interviewed Lito from before he became a sensate himself.

* StraightGay: He had a sexual encounter with Lito, but showed no stereotypical traits of a gay man.
* NeverFoundTheBody: He disappeared years ago and no trace of him had ever been found.

[[folder: Todd]]
!!Todd

A sensate who wanted to become an ordinary human.

* TheBrute: [[spoiler: He underwent the same precedure that Bolger did, with the same results. Whispers used him to assassinate an academic and then commit suicide.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He hated being a sensate and wished to be a regular human.
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Like Bolger, he was one for Whispers.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: Under the control of Whispers, he opened fire during a lecture and tried to shoot himself before being apprehended. Soon afterwards he committed suicide in his cell.]]

[[folder: Tree Tattoo Monk]]
!!Real Name Unknown

A monk who visits Riley on a plane.