History Characters / TheExpanseTVTheBelt

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The only people upset when he shot [[spoiler:Dresden]] were [[WideEyedIdealist Holden]] and [[AmbiguouslyEvil Fred]], and they only really cared about losing a potential advantage over the protomolecule than anything else.
--> '''Miller:''' I killed the mad scientist. Boo hoo.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: When Holden finds him, he is wandering around his quarters in bare feet through piles of soil from the plants he destroyed.

Most Belters at any one time actually live on their ships, mining resources in the asteroid belt. Several of the larger asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta are major hubs for shipping and commerce, as well as a few large artificial habitats such as Tycho Station. Full scale agricultural colonies also exist in the Jupiter and Saturn systems, though these outer planets get lumped in with the Belters as well due to their very low gravity. In the Jupiter system, Ganymede and Europa are major breadbaskets, while Callisto is the location of a major MCRN shipyard (the fourth major moon, Io, wasn't heavily colonized due to volcanic activity). In the Saturn system, Titan is a major settled colony as well. Numerous smaller mining and scientific outposts are scattered throughout the other smaller moons and into the Uranus and Neptune systems -- but just "outposts", not big enough to be considered colonies.

In the first episode, Ceres and the rest of the belt are technically a United Nations protectorate governed by Earth, though everyone fears that Mars is imminently going to make a push to capture the belt from Earth -- and Earth will launch a full scale war in retaliation to take it back. The winner of such a fight is uncertain, but the Belters will lose either way. Meanwhile, an underground resistance/terrorist movement has gained widespread popularity in the Belt, wanting to set themselves up as a third independent nation known as the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA).

** Asteroid mining can be quite dangerous and loss of limb accidents are not uncommon, resulting in a disproportionately large number of Belters using prosthetic limb replacements. Keep in mind, the technology to completely regrow a severed limb ''exists'' back on Earth, but it's too expensive for hardscrabble miners in the asteroid belt to afford -- another reason why prosthetic limbs are disproportionately common.

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:He returns near the end of Season 4, quite some time after he died saving Earth from Eros, when the real Miller wrests control of The Investigator's construct, after the latter made it very clear he doesn't give two shits about the lives of everyone on Ilus. The return was short-lived though, as he needed to shut down Ilus's structures and prevent mass deaths. With Elvi Okoye's help, he "possesses" one of the protomolecule robots and jumps inside a Void Bullet shutting down the protomolecule structures, but very definitively and permanently dies as a result.]]

* BrilliantButLazy: He's widely regarded as an incompetent joke, but he turns out to be a ''very'' competent detective when he has reason to to do his job.

** In the following episode, "Home", [[spoiler:he talks Julie Mao, who has been assimilated by the protomolecule on Eros and is now guiding the asteroid, into diverting its course into Venus. He stays with her and even infects himself just before they crash]].
** Following the events of "Home", Miller's consciousness is adapted by the protomolecule to be a tool to figure out why it's creators aren't responding. This causes problems for the people on Ilus when his random switch-flipping triggers a planet-wide tidal waves that wipes out the settlement and forces everyone into the alien structure for shelter, as well as shutting down all fusion in orbit causing ships to lose altitude. The real Miller is eventually able to reassert himself and break free of the protomolecule's programming, and he uses that freedom to disable the protomolecule once and for all by linking it up to all of the tech on Ilus, then passing through the "artifact" which kills anything protomolecule-related. Including himself.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's abrasive and corrupt, but he occasionally shows a gentler side and there are limits as to how much illegal activity he'll ignore. He genuinely tries to reform himself during his search for Julie, although [[ShaggyDogStory considering how that turned out]] it's an open question whether any of it will stick.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted. Despite being on the side of good (albeit very much an AntiHero), Miller has probably the highest personal body count of any lead, and doesn't hesitate to shoot first and attack by surprise.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed when he joins the crew of the ''Roci''. Miller's by no means ''evil'', but he's far more willing to kill than anyone else on the crew, with the exception of Amos.

* WorkingTheSameCase: Miller and the crew of the ''Rocinante'' become entangled in the same mystery (of what happened to the ''Scopuli'' and the ''Canterbury''), but approach it from different angles.

Miller's green new partner on Ceres. Unlike everyone else on the station, he's an idealistic. Which also makes him the only clean cop around.

* NiceGuy: As a naive young cop, he seems genuinely interested in helping the people of Ceres station, and tries to learn Belter Creole to better understand and communicate with the people. When [[spoiler:Miller threatens Gia, Havelock, recovering from being impaled, struggles and fails to get up to protect her.]]

The med-tech aboard the Pur'N'Kleen ice hauler ''Canterbury'' (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). Even though he's closer to an EMT than a doctor, Shed is all the crew has got as he's called upon for everything from social diseases to life-or-death surgeries. When the ''Canterbury'' was gutted to clear the way for cargo, the medical bay was removed, so Shed now has to operate at a dining table in the galley. In addition to his official medical duties aboard the ship, Shed also provides more 'recreational' supplies to the crew.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Shot up his entire quarters with a revolver, and damn near shot Jim too.

** He kills a shady Eros civilian traveling with the group to the ''Roci'' on the mere suspicion that the man had become infected. Thing is, the guy almost certainly was really infected with the Protomolecule, and given how contagious it can be, not doing something about him would have more or less guaranteed a horrifying death for the entire group. And given the guy in question had first used a child that wasn't his to win sympathy points with the crew and then acted indifferent to the girl's fate afterwards, [[AssholeVictim nobody was really inclined to speak up for the guy after Semi reveals what he did]].

A Belter botanist on Ganymede Station. When Ganymede is caught in the crossfire of a Earth and Mars battle, he finds himself taken to Tycho station and begins a search to find his daughter, Mei.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's perhaps tied with Anna as the kindest character in the entire series, but will not hesitate to put down anyone who stands in his way of getting his daughter back.
* TheChewToy: Life is not kind to him. His daughter contracts a rare disease, he's taken millions of miles away during an attack, leaving Mei alone [[spoiler: with a doctor who may have been using her for his own experiments. Then he watches a group of Inners get shoved out the airlock.]] And that's ''before'' he encounters the crew of the ''Rocinante''.

* OddFriendship: The peaceful botanist Prax with the hardened, violent Amos. Prax learns to become tougher thanks to Amos, and Amos sees Prax as a new moral center. By saving Prax's soul by stopping him from killing Strickland, Amos also discovers that he doesn't need to rely on Holden or Naomi as a moral guide, but can act as one himself (as he does for Clarissa in Seasons 5 and 6).

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Never seems to recognize how truly horrific her current circumstances are, simply concerned reuniting with her father.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that after bonding with her that Jules-Pierre Mao starts to see her as a potential one for Julie.

* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted. His suicide attack on ''Scipio Africanus'' barely dents the hull and he's promptly torpedoed for it. However, Diogo later explains that he was found and rescued by another ship that noticed the ruckus. This saved Diogo from certain death on an MCRN-forced detour that would have outlasted their ship's supplies.

* Irony: The Martian ship that he attacks, ''Scipio Africanus'', would later become the Free Navy destroyer ''Koto''.

* SenelessSacrifice: Subverted. His suicide attack on ''Scipio Africanus'' barely dents the hull and he's promptly torpedoed for it. However, Diogo later explains that he was found and rescued by another ship that noticed the ruckus. This saved Diogo from certain death on an MCRN-forced detour that would have outlasted their ship's supplies.