History Characters / TheExpanseTVTheBelt

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Diogo's relationship with his Uncle Mateo was largely vitrolic in life. After his death, Diogo ''idolizes'' Mateo and his SenselessSuicide against the Inners.

[[folder:Havelock]]
!!Dmitri Havelock
->'''Played By:''' Jay Hernandez
* OldCopYoungCop: young to Miller's old.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Got injured during Belter uprising in Ceres.]] Miller left him behind [[spoiler:before he himself leaves for Eros Station.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Set up in the first episode like he's going to have some influence on Miller's character arc, but ultimately doesn't have all that much.]]
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* CorruptCop: Like most of Star Helix, she's more beholden to profit than justice. [[spoiler: She's also working for Dawes.]]
* DaChief: of the local Star Helix garrison.

[[folder:Octavia]]

* [[spoiler:DyingAlone]]: [[spoiler:Dies alone, begging for her mother.]]

** [[spoiler:That said, when he riles up the CPM mob at the end, he drops back into thick Belter Creole and deftly taps into the crowd's mood.]]

* BornLucky: In the first season, he's thrown out the airlock in the middle of deep space with nothing but the air in his suit tank to sustain him, yet he's eventually picked up by a passing ship. In the second season, he's shot in the head and survives because his opponent was using a gel gun designed for crowd control.
* ChekhovsGunman: Seems to be just a hapless criminal that clues Miller in on the fact Ceres gangs leaving the station. Then he gets a subplot later in the season and turns up again in season 2.

* ChekhovsGunman: Seems to be just a hapless criminal that cue Miller in on the fact Ceres gangs leaving the station. Then he gets a subplot later in the season and turns up again in season 2.

* TooDumbToLive: More than a few people have this opinion of Diogo. Miller considers him to be a naive idiot for attempting to steal water from right under the nose of the ''Governor of Ceres'' in the middle of the territory of one of the station's most vicious gangs.

* TooDumbToLive: More than a few people have this opinion of Diogo. Miller considers him to be a naive idiot for attempting to steal water from right under the nose of the ''Governor of Ceres'' in the middle of territory of one of the station's most vicious gangs.

* TheButcher: Some people know him as the "Butcher of Anderson Station" from when an indiscriminate UNN assault on a Belter station resulted in the deaths of all those on board, including young children.

* CoolHat: His fedora.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:He is killed on Eros Station in ''Leviathan Wakes'' (the first book in the series). He ends the season severely wounded, but still escapes the Station alongside the rest of the cast.]]

* LivingMacGuffin: She's primarily a plot device and not a character in her own right.

!!Shaddid

[[folder: Johnson]]

!Crew of the ''Rocinante''

[[folder:''Rocinante'']]
!!''Rocinante''

A gas hauler for Beratnas Gas. Or so her crew would have you believe.

The ''Rocinante'' began her life as the MCRN ''Tachi'', a Martian Navy corvette that operated out of the MCRN ''Donnager'', the Martian Navy's flagship. In the wake of the ''Donnager'''s destruction, the ''Canterbury'' survivors claimed the ''Tachi'' as their own and re-christened her as the ''Rocinante''[[note]]Spanish for "Work Horse" as well as the name of Literature/DonQuixote's horse, see Jim Holden's entry below[[/note]]. She's given a superficial makeover while at ''Tycho'' to look like a common gas hauler, but still retains her original arsenal of weapons.

* MeaningfulReName: Originally the MCRN ''Tachi''. Holden renames her the ''Rocinante'' after Literature/DonQuixote's horse, reflecting his own tendency to get caught up in situations he has no business being involved in.
* StealthInSpace: Discussed. Actually hiding isn't an option, so the ship needs to appear to be something else. Repainting the hull and gluing a bunch of freighter parts on her helped, but no one would mistake the ship as anything but a Martian Navy vessel if they actually got on board.

[[folder:Jim]]
!!James "Jim" Holden
->'''Played By:''' Steven Strait

Jim Holden is 2nd Officer of the ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). This position offers him freedom and a minimum of responsibility. A Montana native, he is the only child born to eight parents as part of a genetic collective. At a time when Earth's population is over 30 billion, there are big incentives for people not to have children. Holden's family is fighting to preserve one of the last undeveloped wildernesses in Montana; a losing battle that Holden joined Earth's Navy to escape. In the UN Navy he served as a First Lieutenant until an ideological conflict turned into a physical confrontation, and Holden was made to face court martial. After being dishonorably discharged from the Navy, Holden took a contract with Pur'n'Kleen (owner of the Canterbury), looking to get as far from home as possible.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Other characters note that he hasn't been back to Earth in years and asks why he hasn't visited. He points out that he wouldn't be working on an ice freighter if he thought he'd be welcome back home.
-->'''Miller''': How could you ever leave a place like Earth?\\
'''Holden''': Everything I loved was dying.
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: He has five fathers and three mothers who run a farm on Earth. He was conceived through a combination of all eight parents' genetic profiles and was subsequently carried to term by his mother with the widest hips.
* FreudianExcuse: Holden's need to do the right thing stems from having been told since birth that he was meant to prevent injustice[[note]]he was specifically conceived because his parents wanted to lay a generational claim on their land and prevent the Earth government from seizing it[[/note]] and he identified with ''Literature/DonQuixote'' after having been read the story by Mother-Elise as a child.
* MamasBoy: Holden has eight parents (three of them mothers) but Elise, the mother who carried him to term, says that he's really her baby. He left Earth because Elise told him to and only keeps in contact with her.
* MustHaveCaffeine: A minor sub-plot is Holden's quest for a decent cup of coffee. He finally finds a stash of beans aboard ''Tachi'' and indulges himself.
* RightManInTheWrongPlace: He and his crew have managed to land themselves smack in the middle of a vast conspiracy simply by virtue of Holden being too noble to ignore a distress call.

[[folder:Alex]]
!!Alex Kamal
->'''Played By:''' Cas Anvar

A pilot for the Pur'n'Kleen ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). Having grown up in Mars' Mariner Valley, Alex was raised with the incongruous Texas drawl that has caught on among the largely Indian and Chinese population who live there. Unlike the rest of his sizable family on Mars, Alex looked at the generations-long terraforming project with a sense of restlessness and dread. He just couldn't bear the thought of whiling his life away on a project he would never see completed. With dreams of flying fast attack gunships, he enlisted in the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. After his tour ended the call of adventure proved too strong to resist. Signing up with Pur'n'Kleen gave him the chance to visit the farthest reaches of the solar system.
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* AcePilot: Subverted. He had aspirations to fly gunships for the Martian Navy but the MCRN deemed that he wasn't the right fit and assigned him to fly transports. That eventually led him to becoming ''Canterbury'''s pilot. A series of tragedies leads to his achieving his dream and becoming the pilot of a MCRN corvette
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: ''Caliban's War'' described him as being in his 50s and balding.
* NotSoStoic: He normally speaks in a deadpan drawl but he's also prone to panic faster than his shipmates.

[[folder:Naomi]]
!!First Officer Naomi Nagata
->'''Played By:''' Dominique Tipper

Growing up on poor Belter mining ships meant that Naomi's early life was lived on a knife's edge: nearly suffocating, starving, and becoming marooned were regular occurrences throughout her childhood. Self-educated with multiple advanced degrees, and having risen to the rank of Chief Engineer aboard the ice hauler Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents), she appears to be a model Belter success story, though she carries with her a secret pain. She is cagey about her past, even with her closest friends. She abhors violence, but has witnessed enough injustice to understand the necessity of it. Her complicated relationship with violence and her troubled history have lead to an unlikely friendship with the Canterbury's mechanic, Amos Burton.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: What it is hasn't been confirmed yet, but she's believed to be a former OPA agent, who got sick of the death brought about by following causes.
* WrenchWench: Other characters rely heavily on her mechanical knowledge. She becomes angry at how well ''Tachi'''s fully-automated engineering system works because it means there's nothing for her to do.

[[folder:Amos]]
!!Amos Burton
->'''Played By:''' Wes Chatham

Mechanic on the Pur'n'Kleen ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). He's an Earther who doesn't talk about his past – but knows a lot about brothels and Baltimore. He's eerily comfortable, and even cheerful, at the prospect of violence.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: He says that he grew up rough and more or less admits that he used to be a hooker. Subverted in that he isn't that ashamed of this and claims that it isn't a bad way to live as long as all those involved look out for one another.
* DissonantSerenity: Amos is soft-spoken and friendly, and obviously has no problems at all with killing anyone except Naomi - such as when he calmly tells Holden that he's trying to come up with a decent reason why he shouldn't just murder him, then politely asks him to pass a wrench so he can keep fixing the oxygen regulator on the ''Knight''.

!Belters

[[folder:Belters in general]]
!!General

Belters are the hardscrabble colonists who work in the asteroid belt, harvesting minerals and ice (for water). Very much the proverbial Third World of the solar system after Earth and Mars, the two superpowers which have become dependent on their resources but give little in return. Their capital and largest port is Ceres, the dwarf planet/largest object in the belt. Routine mining runs also harvest ice from Saturn's rings, and there appear to be installations in the Jupiter and Saturn systems.

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).

* AsteroidMiners: Belters have this as one of their major occupations. Poorer Belters work as "rock hoppers" moving from asteroid to asteroid to try and find enough harvest-able material to sell in order to survive.
* BioAugmentation:
** Belters have to resort to drugs or hormones to compensate for growing up in microgravity, and they don't always work well. Detective Joe Miller has ridges along part of his spine where the bones didn't quite grow properly, for example.
** 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.
* ConLang: The Belters speak a patois that features words from Russian, Turkish, German, and others (Chinese is also heard in station announcements) with incorporated hand gestures ([[AllThereInTheManual due to the need to communicate in spacesuits]]). Officially it is called "Belter Creole". They also continue to speak English, using an accent that sounds vaguely Afrikaans.
* FantasticSlurs: While officially called "Belters", people from the inner planets also use the less polite terms "Skinnies" and "Long Bone" for them, referring to how they grow tall and thin from living in microgravity.
** On the flip side, Belters refer to people from Earth and Mars as "inners" and "inyalowda."
* LightWorlder:
** Belter stations like Ceres and Eros are artificially "spun up" to maintain an internal gravity of 0.3-g and most native-born Belters will never experience anything stronger. Inhabitants require hormone boosters to increase bone-density and muscle mass (although brittle bone disease continues to be a problem).
** Belters who haven't received hormone treatments have long and thin bones and are significantly taller than the average human.
** Smaller Belter settlements don't even have gravity and some Belters will spend their entire lives in zero-g. There are numerous adverse health effects that come from such lifestyles and most die young.
** Because Belters can't handle Earth's gravity for long, gravity torture is sometimes used against suspected Belter terrorists (despite it being in contravention to human rights laws).
* NoOSHACompliance: The Earth corporations that the Belters work for cut corners ''everywhere'', resulting in very unsafe work conditions, particularly for asteroid miners. Basic necessities such as water and air are tightly controlled and constantly being shorted. The Earth corporations so frequently outfit Belter habitations with crappy third-rate air scrubber units, which barely recycle air to breathable levels, that it is ''not uncommon'' for many Belter children to receive irreversible brain damage from hypoxia.
* TattooAsCharacterType: cultural. Several Belters such as Naomi have a stylized tattoo around their necks that feature an off-center gap, symbolizing contact burns from the helmet connection collars of older space suits that Anderson Dawes sports.
** At least two other Belters have the stylized anarchy symbol of the OPA on them.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The OPA (Outer Planets Alliance) claims to fight for the Belters, but Earth considers them to simply be a terrorist group.

!Star Helix Security

[[folder:Miller]]
!!Detective Josephus Miller
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ThomasJane

A detective with the Star Helix aboard Ceres Station. A native Belter who's never been off Ceres, he dresses like an Earther and has a certain amount of disdain towards his own kind.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The pilot has him accepting bribes to look the other way for someone who is using shoddy air filters, then threatening to space the man when people become deathly ill as a result. In the books the man who got spaced after tampering with air filters was a story that Miller told after the fact to demonstrate how heinous this was from a Belter perspective, and Miller never solicited or accepted bribes in the book.
* TheAtoner: He treats his increasingly-personal search for Julie Mao as a way to make up for his crimes, symbolically cashing in the poker chips he had collected as bribes to pay for his trip to Eros.
* BoomerangBigot: He dresses as if he's from Earth, works for Star Helix (an Earth corporation), and generally behaves as if he's superior to most Belters despite being a Belter himself.
* CoolHat: His fedora.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Miller has ridges along his spine, the result of his bones not fusing properly due to his being given cheap medication as a child and are the mark of someone who was raised as a ward of the state. He later tells Holden that he was a street kid who would steal chips from pachinko parlors to survive. He eventually joined the Star Helix because he decided that he'd prefer being the one handing out beatings rather than the one receiving them.
* DirtyCop: He's happy to take bribes from slum lords and to hand out gratuitous beatings.
* HardBoiledDetective: Dresses the part, complete with trilby, and drinks like one.
* 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.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: When scavenging weapons at the Blue Falcon on Eros, Miller throws away a semi-automatic in favor of a revolver[[note]]a Mateba 2006M that's shown to be loaded with some sort of fictional futuristic ammunition[[/note]].

[[folder:Havelock]]
!!Dmitri Havelock
->'''Played By:''' Jay Hernandez
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[[folder:Shaddid]]
!!Shaddid
->'''Played By:''' Lola Glaudini
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[[folder:Octavia]]
!!Octavia Muss
->'''Played By:''' Athena Karkanis
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[[folder:Garvey]]
!!Shed Garvey
->'''Played By:''' Paulo Costanzo

Shed Garvey the med-tech aboard the Pur'N'Kleen ice hauler, the 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.

* ActorAllusion: to ''Series/RoyalPains'', being affiliated with medicine.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Joined the ''Canterbury'' crew to get away from a drug dealer he owed money to.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Gets his head blown off during the attack on the ''Donnager'', in the middle of trying to calm down Alex.]]
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!Outer Planets Alliance

[[folder:Dawes]]
!!Anderson Dawes
->'''Played By:''' Jared Harris

As a Belter, the world of politics has never been open to him, but this Ceres Liaison to the Outer Planets Alliance works tirelessly behind the scenes to rally the laborers and other less legitimate elements behind the cause.

A true Belter down to his brittle bones, Anderson Dawes' neck is scarred from early model space suits whose contact points would cook the skin beneath them. Having grown up on Belter ships in some of the worst poverty found anywhere in the solar system, he has seen the toll that exploitative corporations and debilitating taxation can take on human life. As a result, he is determined to right the wrongs visited upon Belters ... and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty in the process.

After Col. Fred Johnson committed one of the worst acts of brutality in Belter history, it was Anderson Dawes who found him, saved his life, and gave him purpose advocating for Belters.
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* BadBoss: He never responds to Julie's distress call after she winds up stranded on Eros, and it's heavily implied that he ignored it either because [[YouHaveFailedMe she had failed in her mission]], or because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he just didn't think she was valuable enough to rescue]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's introduced, after ''Canterbury'''s destruction, stopping a Belter assault on a Martian deckhand, saying that Belters must try and show the rest of the Solar System that they are civilized people to be taken seriously and not animals. In private, however, he is cruel and vicious and has no qualms about summarily executing people if he believes they won't be of use to him.
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[[folder: Johnson]]
!!Frederick "Fred" Johnson
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChadLColeman

The Chief of Operations at Tycho Station's colossal mobile construction platform, Frederick Lucius Johnson oversees the construction of space stations, the spinning up of asteroids, and in recent years the construction of mankind's first generation starship: the Nauvoo.

A retired Colonel with the UN Marines, Fred is notorious for his involvement in a UN military action that will live on in infamy. Since his disgrace he has sought solace and penance working to better the life of Belters all over the system.

Fred is an outspoken advocate for the Outer Planets Alliance, a Belter advocacy group who seek legitimacy, but are often accused of terrorism.
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* TheAtoner: The events at Anderson Station troubled him so much that he turned his back on the UN and Earth and joined the OPA, becoming one of its leading figures.
* TheButcher: Some people know him as the "Butcher of Anderson Station" from when an indiscriminate UNN assault on a Belter station resulted in the deaths of all those on board, including young children.
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[[folder:Julie]]
!!Juliette Andromeda Mao
->'''Played By:''' Florence Faivre

The high-society daughter of one of Earth's wealthiest and most powerful people, Julie was never content with the life of a socialite or cutthroat enough for business. A champion light spacecraft pilot, she became well-known after garnering a number of wins on the Near Space Regatta circuit. After a falling out with her father, she rejected all of his wealth and support in order to start a new life out in the Belt. Joining a student organization – The Far Horizons Foundation – with ties to the Outer Planets Alliance, she worked tirelessly for the betterment of Belters … right up to the day she went missing.
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