History Characters / TheManInTheHighCastleSeries

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* [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesAlternateRealities Alternate Realities]]

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!Main Characters

[[folder:Juliana]]
!!Juliana Crain
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not here to kill Nazis. I'm here because I need answers, and I'm not leaving until I get them."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlexaDavalos

A native of the JPS in San Francisco, she seems to be happy living under Japanese rule. She's the half-sister of Trudy Walker.
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* ActionGirl: While she is not very good with a gun, she's a very good Aikido practicioner.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Juliana in the series is far more assertive, independent and self-driven than the character in the book.
* AllLovingHero: Her main trait is her sympathy and kindness for all, even her enemies.
* BeingGoodSucks: Life is really terrible to the poor girl, despite her kindness.
* BreakTheCutie: Her involvement with the Resistance and the powerplays between the Nazi and the Japanese slowly crack her idealism.
* BrokenBird: The ugliness and horrors she finds and experiences gradually come close to breaking her. Smith [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that she comes across as being exactly this, but is skeptical whether it's genuine or an act.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** Juliana uses her Aikido moves to [[spoiler: throw an undercover SS intelligence agent over a bridge when he tries to kill her and steal the film]].
** Happens again in season 2. [[spoiler:During the finale the New York Resistance break their word of helping her escape and tries to kill her for Karen's death, she uses her Aikido again to break free and kill her assassins]].
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:At the very end of season 3, she gains the ability to travel to alternate worlds, escaping from confinement in a secret Nazi base just as Smith shoots her in the shoulder in an attempt to stop her.]]
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Both she and Frank started off as fairly similar people, characterized by their kindness and idealism. But while Juliana's arc is about sticking to her idealism through the horror, Frank's arc is about abandoning it.
* DotingParent: In the [[spoiler: alternate universe, she is shown to be a loving mother, which moves Tagomi into accepting her into his family]].
* DrivenToSuicide: She is shown [[spoiler: intentionally stepping in front of a bus]] in a flashback. When asked about [[spoiler: her hip fracture, she explains it away as an "accident."]]
* DumbassNoMore: She's very naive at first, but she quickly learns of the world's cruelty and how to plan around it.
* TheFettered: Juliana is big on morality and steadfastly refuses to sink to morality level of the Nazis or the Imperial Japanese, even if it risks her life.
* ForWantOfANail: In an alternate history encountered in Season 2, [[spoiler:Tagomi discovers that Juliana became his daughter-in-law.]]
* GoingNative: While her parents hate the Japanese due to the US losing the war, Juliana admires their culture and even practices Aikido. This is actually illustrated when we see [[spoiler: her alternate reality counterpart, who acts and looks much more "American" than Juliana, but still follows Japanese culture and language, and married into a Japanese-American family]].
* GoodIsNotDumb: After experiencing the evil of the Nazis, she starts to catch on their techniques and plans around them.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Kind she may be, but she can also put her foot down and take you down if you cross her.
* TheHero: Juliana is the show's main protagonist and champion of righteousness.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Juliana's tendency to spare her enemies means the Resistance suspect her of being a Nazi sympathizer.
* HonorBeforeReason: She refuses to abandon her comrades like Joe despite it would be more pragmatic to just leave them.
* HopeBringer: [[spoiler:The Man In The High Castle reveals Juliana is this. Due to her kindness and willingness to see the good in all people, her friendship with Tagomi, helping Joe escape from the Resistance and stopping them from exposing the truth about Smith's son's condition help prevent Heusmann from starting World War 3]].
* TheIdealist: Her defining trait is idealism. Considering this is a world run by ''The Nazis'' and ''Imperial Japan'', two of the most genocidal systems in the history of humanity, this is quite remarkable.
* ImportantHaircut: In season 2 she cuts her hair after [[spoiler:she defects to the GNR.]]
* LaResistance: By season 3, she joins with guerrilla forces in the Neutral Zone.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Obergruppenfuhrer Smith mentions to her that one of the requirements for a female to enter the GNR is to produce children. He expresses some concern when he [[spoiler: discovers her hip fracture from her suicide attempt]], but quickly writes it off because he prioritizes her presence under his control over her ability to give birth. It is interesting since she [[spoiler: is shown to have a child in the Alternate Universe where the Allies won the war]].
* MeaningfulName: Crain, like the bird, just different spelling. To the Japanese, the crane symbolizes good luck and long life, and she needs plenty of both. In a different context, the bird also is a symbol of peace and victims of war, which also apply.
* NiceGirl: Juliana is unusually kind and friendly with everyone she meets.
* ThouShallNotKill: She absolutely refuses to kill another human being. [[spoiler:When she finally does in late season 2, she breaks down in tears and spends the entire rest of the episode in a state of emotional despair. By the third season, she kills without hesitation.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: At season 2's conclusion, with Juliana breaking down into a HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:the Man in the High Castle approaches and presents Trudy, alive.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: By early season 1 she's a normal girl with some Aikido skills, but by mid season 2 she's quite adept at surviving no matter the difficulty of the odds and season 3 sees her actively participating in firefights.
* TraumaCongaLine: Juliana's sister dies and she goes to seek the truth. Her life does not improve from then on: Betrayals, several murder attempts, coercion into morally ambiguous acts, death of her friends and loved ones, are some of the things that befall her.
* WideEyedIdealist: Juliana is kind and tries to see the good in everyone, which makes her very unique in such a ruthless world. [[spoiler: The Man in the High Castle even observes this as her main advantage over everyone else.]]
* WildCard: She works with all three factions in the world at different points (the Japanese, the Resistence, and the Nazis). Curiously, this is not because she's some kind of machiavellian player, but simply because of circumstance and her WideEyedIdealist tendencies making so that she is willing to see the good in all the factions.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Juliana, through George Dixon, continues to help the Resistance after [[spoiler:helping Joe Blake escape and being blamed for Karen's death, however, once her job is done, she will still receive the death penalty nonetheless by the Resistance, who viewed her as permanently irredeemable. At the end of the second season, Juliana managed to escape the attempt on her life after accomplishing her mission]].
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[[folder:Frank]]
!!Frank Fink a.k.a. Frank Frink
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->'''Played By:''' Rupert Evans

The boyfriend of Juliana Crain. He is secretly Jewish and hides his real name and heritage for fear of being arrested and executed by the Kempeitai.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Fr'''ank '''Fr'''ink.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He occasionally alludes to the Torah.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Comparing the nice and friendly Frank pre-Resistance with the ruthless and merciless Frank post-Resistance is quite shocking. The show even illustrates this by including flashbacks to his happier days, so we can see how the war damaged him.
* TheBlacksmith: He's a weaponsmith and a excellent one at it. His skill with tools comes up quite often.
* BreakTheCutie: Being tortured breaks Frank's NiceGuy behavior for quite some time.
* CharacterDevelopment: And not necessarily for the better: Frank starts as a meek, kind and NiceJewishBoy whose suffering at the hands of the Japanese slowly turn him into a more serious and ruthless man decided to bring as much suffering to the Japanese as possible.
* ChekhovsSkill: Frank works at a factory making replica pre-war Colt revolvers to sell to Japanese tourists and collectors. [[spoiler:In "The Illustrated Woman", he uses those skills to make a functioning pistol to take his revenge against the Japanese, presumably as it would be difficult for a civilian to acquire a weapon in the strictly controlled JPS.]]
* CosmicPlaything: The world seems to hate him. [[JustifiedTrope Of course]], he's a Jewish man living in a world where the Nazis won.
* TheCynic: After his CharacterDevelopment, Frank became a very bitter man driven by revenge against the Japanese. But separating himself from the resistance allows Frank to mellow and become more appreciative of his lot in life, more remorseful about his mistakes, and more loving towards those around him..
* DareToBeBadass: His arc is all about learning to fight back against his tyrants. [[spoiler:In death, the propaganda images he created end up becoming symbols for fomenting a rebellion]].
* DeathSeeker: His will to live is slowly sapped away until vengeance against the Japanese is all he has left.
* DecoyProtagonist: He acts as the {{Deuteragonist}} of the show during the first two seasons, [[spoiler:but by the third season, he is executed by Kido.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: To Juliana, the love of his life. [[spoiler:However, [[DecoyProtagonist after he is killed by Kido]] in Season 3, [[VillainProtagonist John]] [[NaziProtagonist Smith]] took over this role from him.]]
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Both he and Juliana started off as fairly similar people, characterized by their kindness and idealism. But while Juliana's arc is about sticking to her idealism through the horror (despite gaining some cold, hard lessons in pragmatism), Frank's arc is about abandoning it [[spoiler:...and eventually recovering it by reflecting on past mistakes]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:After he's recaptured by Chief Inspector Kido, his nemesis takes him to the former site of a Japanese internment camp to personally execute Frank, who calmly accepts his fate, stating that he's long since lost the fear of death.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: He is willing to undergo a mission that will likely kill him to bring harm to the Japanese. [[spoiler: And it does result in him blowing up at the end, although he survives with heavy scarring.]]
* JadeColoredGlasses: Frink's niceness gives way to a hardcore cynicism.
* HopeBringer: By Season 3, Frank's become a propagandist--painting symbols reflective of the oppressive state imposed by the Japanese and the Nazis and encouraging thoughts of an uprising. [[spoiler:One of his paintings ends up becoming the symbol of an up-and-coming rebellion by the end of the season]].
* InformedJudaism: Justified. He has Jewish blood, but he does not practice Judaism (though he seems to still hold on to its beliefs to some extent) due the obvious fact of living close to a Nazi occupied America.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: He expresses frustration at the [[{{Inverted}} inversion]] of this trope, where [[spoiler: Sarah is expected to be dominant toward him in public. One of his motivating factors against the JPS is the blatant racism they show toward whites and the subsequent societal roles he is expected to fulfill]].
* NiceJewishBoy: He's a NiceGuy and Jewish. Subsequently he's this.
* NiceGuy: Up until the point [[BreakTheCutie he is tortured]], he's very polite and friendly.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:He's beheaded by Chief Inspector Kido with a katana in a ceremonial execution.]]
* PassFail: Frank Frink is actually Jewish, with the birth name "Frank Fink".
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He even alludes to the famous biblical event of this, "bringing plague to the pharaohs."
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:He falls into a romance with a Japanese-American resistance fighter after Juliana leaves for the GNR, but ends up separated from her and the Resistance after planting a bomb which kills General Okada as well as a number of Kido's men. He reunites with Juliana in Season 3.]]
* TeachHimAnger: On the receiving end. The Resistance more or less teaches him how to channel his anger into actions.
* TookALevelInBadass: After all the pain he suffered, he starts dishing a lot of pain out once he joins the Resistance.
* TookALevelInCynic: Frink becomes a cynic after [[spoiler:the death of his sister and nephews]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: The horribly traumatic experiences he suffers make him a lot more dour towards people. However...
* TookALevelInKindness: Separating himself from the toxic KnightTemplar influence of the Resistance enables Frank to reflect on his past misdeeds. Though he still chooses to fight against the regimes of both the Nazis and the Japanese, he does so through propaganda and non-violent means, stirring up thoughts of rebellion.
* TraumaCongaLine: Oh ''boy'' things go wrong for him, to a tragic degree.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:By Season 3, Frank is finally KilledOffForReal.]]
* UncertainDoom: The last we see of him in Season 2, [[spoiler: he was inside a building which exploded, and the explosion seems to have engulfed the place he was in, but we never see his body or any confirmation of his death]]. In season 3, it's revealed that he survived, albeit with heavy burns, and has taken refuge with an underground Jewish community in the Neutral territories.
* WorthyOpponent: Chief Inspector Kido eventually comes to regard Frank as such, [[spoiler:giving Frank what Kido considers an honorable death by driving him out into the desert, donning his military dress uniform, and beheading Frank while he kneels down.]]
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[[folder:Joe]]
!!Joe Blake/[[spoiler:Josef Heusmann/Joe Cinnadella]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not afraid to die."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Luke Kleintank

A native of New York who has his life changed forever when he joins with an anti-government guerrilla group. He starts by fleeing the Greater Nazi Reich to reach the Rocky Mountain States.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The show gives him a lot more to do.
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:He's conflicted about his duties as a Nazi agent and eventually abandons his position to go on the run to Mexico. His book counterpart, Joe Cinnadella, has none of this. Subverted in the third season, following the death of his father, he begins to follow more closely to his counterpart, right down to adapting the fake last name Cinnadella like in the original book.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:In Season 3, he is killed by Julianna after viewers got to know him sympathetically in the past seasons before his complete FaceHeelTurn. As he dies, the expression on his face is one of pure agony, regret, and shame.]]
* AntiVillain: Sympathetic and not without moral compass, Joe is definitely one of the more complex characters on the Nazis' side. [[spoiler:Sadly, when his eventual brainwashing by Himmler renders him fully subservient to the Reich's cause (and drives him insane), Juliana is forced to kill him in self-defense]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He is killed by Julianna in self-defense, but at this time any sympathy that viewers and Julianna herself had for him has vanished when he became just another sociopathic and unapologetic Nazi scumbag antagonist, even if he was BrainwashedAndCrazy.]]
* AwfulTruth: Much to his disgust, Joe learns that he was part of a SuperBreedingProgram called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn Lebensborn]] whose aim was to birth racially pure Aryans. His mother, a participant of the program, grew disgusted with the Nazis and fled Germany to America.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:In Season 3, his torture leads to his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:By Season 3, the Joe from the last two seasons is gone and is nothing, but a facade that hides the sociopathic and deluded fanatic he has turned into.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: After being arrested on suspicion of involvement in his father’s conspiracy, Joe suffers weeks of physical and psychological torture at the hands of the Gestapo and Josef Mengele, culminating in being forced to execute his father. He is then released to become one of Himmler’s ''lebensborn'' assassins. It quickly becomes clear that the Joe Blake of Season 3 is [[ThatManIsDead no longer the man from the last two and nothing more, but a soulless shadow]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:He becomes this to Julianna after his FaceHeelTurn, with Julianna finally realized it was dire mistake to spare his life and help him escape at the end of Season 1 that especially got her in trouble with the resistance in Season 2 and she should have all along carry out her original given mission to have him executed, which she accomplishes by slashing his throat.]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: He has some problems regarding who he should be loyal to.
* ContinuityNod: His fake identity in season 3 while he's stationed as a spy in San Francisco, Joe Cinnadella, is the name of his book counterpart.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Admits as much to Juliana in season 3. It's likely this is genuine, considering that the death of his father was a major tipping point in Joe's sanity and morality]].
* DecoyProtagonist: In the first two seasons, he acts as one of the protagonists, even after being revealed as a NaziProtagonist in the first episode. [[spoiler:However, after his father's death and getting tortured, he becomes just another Nazi antagonist and is killed by Julianna in the third season. TheReveal in the show's premiere as a Nazi mole likely foreshadowed him being this for the entire show this whole time and had always destined to be one of the show's antagonists before meeting his eventual end.]]
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:His birth name turns out to be Josef Heusmann. His German father, who was never around to raise him, is now a current member of Hitler's cabinet. Joe doesn't have any warm feelings for the man when his dad calls him to Berlin for a face to face meeting.]]
* DoubleAgent: Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Of a sort. When he's told by Smith to not follow orders from Heydrich's faction, he decides to escape from the GNR by hitching a ride to Central America. Then subverted when he's drawn back into Smith's orbit.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joe may tacitly support the Nazi system but he tends to be very big on loyalty and helping his friends. He also detests nuclear weaponry. [[spoiler: He's also dismayed when the Nazis blow up the ship that holds him for ransom instead of paying them as they promised in "The Tiger's Cave", and is clearly disturbed when he discovers he is the product of a breeding program meant to produce pure Aryan children. In Season 3, despite his FaceHeelTurn, he cannot bring himself to kill Tagomi.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: The downfall and subsequent execution of his father, with Joe obligated to literally deliver the shot himself, and his imprisonment and torture break him of any hope or belief that anything other then the Nazi regime would win and succeed, and begins to follow it as a cold, sociopathic and hardened killer without reluctance or questioning.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the TV series, during Blake's roadtrip, he is represented by a red line (compared to Juliana's blue one) and you can hear Wagner's music playing in the background. Both of these details serve as hints to where his loyalties truly lie.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Season 1 gave him the chance to start anew at its season finale, but by the next two seasons, he finds himself TrappedInVillainy and eventually becomes a full-blown villain who is killed by Julianna.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Joe keeps swinging between vaguely supporting the Nazis and working against them, [[spoiler:and it takes him being indoctrinated with months of torture into choosing the Nazis.]]
* KarmicJackpot: He saves Juliana multiple times which leads her to save him in turn including [[spoiler:giving him another chance when his identity as a Nazi spy is revealed and helping him escape when the Resistance wants to kill him.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He was conceived as part of a Nazi breeding program to birth pure Aryans yet he respects and gets along with other races and hates the things the Nazis have done]].
* LaResistance: He joins one in the pilot episode.
* TheMole: He was this for the Nazis when he was sent to infiltrate the resistance cell.
* NaziProtagonist: He's a Nazi spy for much of the series, but his faith in the Nazi cause is shaken on several occasions as he witnesses more of its crimes. [[spoiler:By season 3, when he truly becomes [[VillainProtagonist totally and blindly committed to the Reich, he's more of an]] [[DecoyProtagonist antagonist]].]]
* PetTheDog: In Season 3, despite [[spoiler:his FaceHeelTurn, he was hesitant to kill Tagomi despite the orders to do so]].
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Due to serving the Nazi Party to begin with, the series follows Joe's eventual destiny [[spoiler:to become one of the show's main antagonists in season 3]].
* PureIsNotGood: He was part of the Lebensborn program, a breeding program that puts emphasis on racial purity. While this is subverted in the first two seasons since Joe is a reasonable protagonist, [[spoiler:this is played more straight after his FaceHeelTurn and brainwashing in season 3.]]
* RedemptionFailure: Julianna helping him flee into hiding at the climax of Season 1 would have opened the door for him to start over and redeem himself, but by the next couple of seasons he finds himself TrappedInVillainy [[spoiler:before getting tortured, then pull a FaceHeelTurn into a complete Nazi bastard villain before getting killed in self-defense by Julianna, who realized that what she suffered at the hands of the HeroAntagonist resistance in Season 2 for trying to help Joe escape was to be AllForNothing upon learning Joe's betrayal.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: Gets arrested when it is revealed that his biological father, whom he had just recently met and acknowledged, is taken in for plotting against Hitler. [[spoiler:After months of torture, he is ultimately pardoned after he personally executes his father.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:In season 3, Juliana cuts his throat with a straight razor after he confirms his loyalties to the Reich and reveals their plans to invade other dimensions.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Joe becomes this after his FaceHeelTurn, especially with no qualms of threatening Julianna at gunpoint.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Goes hand-in-hand with AdaptationalHeroism. Because Joe Blake effectively undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, Juliana gives him help and he escapes to Mexico. His book counterpart, Joe Cinnadella, does no such thing, and Juliana kills him herself. [[spoiler:Subverted in the third season, as he is still killed by Julianna after his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Juliana. Both she and he admit to harboring feelings for one another, despite being on opposing sides. [[spoiler:By the time Joe goes BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Himmler]], she and he end up [[spoiler:exploiting each other for information to use for their respective factions]], but it's clear there's genuine mutual affection in their interactions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Joe's brainwashing is so ingrained within him, and Juliana's desire for freedom so strong, that LoveCannotOvercome and Juliana is forced to kill Joe when push comes to shove]].
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:By Season 3, Joe is finally KilledOffForReal.]]
* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: [[spoiler:By Season 3, Joe becomes an absolute antagonist.]]
* SuperBreedingProgram: He was part of the Lebensborn program.
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:By Season 3, Joe is no longer the sympathetic PunchClockVillain character, driving further by adapting the new identity as Joe Cinnadella.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:After his father's death drove him to have a FaceHeelTurn.]]
* {{Tritagonist}}: He was initially believed to be this of the show. [[spoiler:Then comes his FaceHeelTurn in season 3, afterwards Tagomi took this role over from him.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: The only reason John Smith took Joe under his arm years ago was so that Smith could potentially use him to influence Reichsminister Heusmann. It pays off.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Colt [=M1911A1=] given to him by Don.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Says something to this extent when [[spoiler:the depths of his FaceHeelTurn becomes apparent to Juliana, inviting her to join the Nazi Regime alongside him because the freedom she seeks is something he believes is impossible in a world ruled by the Reich]].
* WhiteMaleLead: He suits the part as a male, heterosexual, square-jawed American hero. The trope is then decked in the face when it's revealed he's actually a Nazi agent. Not only that, his father is one of the most senior Nazis in the Reich, and another his godfather. And even further, he looks the way he does because he is a product of the Lebensborn program.
* YourCheatingHeart: In season 1, Joe is hitting on Juliana for the entire time they’re in Canon City. When he returns to New York, we find out that he has a girlfriend. Then, when he’s ordered to follow Juliana to San Francisco, he still keeps hitting on her, right down to asking her to go to Mexico with him. Juliana and Rita only find out about each other’s existence later, and not because Joe tells them.
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[[folder:Ed]]
!!Ed [=McCarthy=]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DJQualls

A colleague of Frank Frink in a San Francisco factory, he works in creating replica American souvenirs for Japanese residents to buy a relic of American history.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: As Childan (somewhat bluntly) observes, his relationship with Frank is very unequal.
* BiTheWay: His only relationship shown in the series is with Jack, but he’s also hinted to have feelings for Juliana.
* LesCollaborateurs[=/=]TheMole: [[spoiler:Kido forces him to become one and report on the Yakuza activities.]]
* AFriendInNeed: Despite the risk of being caught by Kempeitai soldiers, he offers money to Frank and Juliana, as well the opportunity of disposing of the revolver Frank made in the factory.
* GuileHero: Repeatedly shown to be very good at thinking on his feet, making him a resourceful survivor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Frank, but their relationship slowly starts to crack.
* HiddenDepths: Childan pretty much even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this about Ed.
* NiceGuy: Genuinely the most selfless person in the show.
* OddFriendship: He starts a kinship with Childan.
* {{Scapegoat}}: [[spoiler:Offers to be one to get the Kempeitai off Frank's back.]]
* RegretfulTraitor: He collaborates with the Japanese to some extent, but the guilt heavily looms over him.
* StraightGay: He's actually gay, but he has to keep his business private because it's frowned upon by the Japanese occupiers.
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[[folder:Tagomi]]
!!Nobusuke Tagomi
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Peace is not a weakness."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa

A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.
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* ActualPacifist: His philosophy.
* AlmightyJanitor: He's the Trade Minister, a relatively high rank in the Japanese government, but still seems to have more influence than he should, as observed by the fact ''The Crown Prince of Japan'' (and particularly the Princess) seem to rely a lot on his advice. Akihito and Michiko seem to regard him as an old mentor, which combined with his far-reaching influence seem to indicate that he probably is (or was) close to the Emperor. His [[ActualPacifist pacifism]] has a very tragic quality to it, [[TheAtoner like he adopted it after he lost something dear to him]], especially when he visits the shrine to his wife and son (who is pictured in an Imperial Army uniform). Perhaps Tagomi wasn't always a diplomat.
* TheAtoner: It's implied his pacifism is driven by this mindset. And [[spoiler: in the alternate timeline, he tries to make up for his counterpart's abuse to this version of his family. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments He ultimately succeeds in earning their forgiveness.]]]]
* BadassGrandpa: Manages to disarm, fight off, and kill a man much younger and larger by using [[ChekhovsSkill his bojutsu skills]].
* BenevolentBoss: Treats all his workers with respect and dignity, regardless of race, as well as acting very personable and friendly, often having more casual chats with them. As a result, Kotomichi is unflinchingly loyal to him, and Juliana sympathizes very deeply with him. Even [[RabidCop Chief Inspector]] [[JerkAss Kido]] of the ''[[StateSec Kempeitei]]'' seems to hold him in high regard.
* ChekhovsSkill: Shown to be a practitioner of bojutsu and might even be at a master's level, [[spoiler:which saves his life against a [[AssassinOutclassin would-be assassin's]] attack]].
* TheChessmaster: Tagomi operates quite the gambit in an attempt to PreventTheWar between Japan and Germany.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He confirms Victore Baynes' identity as Rudolf Wegener when he arrived at the JPS since both their leaders will sentence them to death if they knew about their secret meetings.]]
* CultureClash: Tagomi's ideals are very rooted in Japanese culture, so he runs into problems when dealing with American culture from time to time. [[spoiler: This is even more pronounced when he ends up in our alternate reality, where he's positively alien in 1960's American culture.]]
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:Learns how to travel to alternate timelines by meditating, a skill passed to him by his assistant Kotomichi.]]
* GuileHero: His cleverness aids his heroism.
* HeroAntagonist: He is technically an antagonist to [[LaResistance the Resistance]], but there's no doubt he's a heroic character.
* HeroicBSOD: Tagomi starts breaking down when he begins to wonder if all his efforts won't be fruitless, but he snaps out when one of his coworkers reminds him the good things he has done.
* TheLostLenore: His wife and son died during the war, a fact which he's clearly not over yet.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Tagomi still owes his loyalty to Japan, despite its awful atrocities. Tagomi is actually a good example of the second half of the trope-naming quote being put into action: "My country right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; if wrong, ''to be set right''."
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Conquest and power don't even cross Tagomi's mind. All he seeks to avoid the loss of lives.
* OddFriendship:
** With Colonel Rudolph Wegener of the ''Waffen''-SS. They bond over how both break rules to maintain peace.
** Then with Juliana, as both are fighting to save the world from another war, and ForWantOfANail they would have been family.
* OnlySaneMan: Tagomi seems to be the only one to fully realize a war with Germany is a ''terrible'' idea, both because they'd lose and because of the loss of lives.
* PapaWolf: Becomes this to Juliana in Season 3 [[spoiler:since learning that in another life she would have been his son's wife and mother of his grandchild]].
* PreventTheWar: He wants to prevent a war between the GNR and JPS by any means necessary.
* PunchClockVillain: Tagomi is by all accounts a stand-up person, he just happens to be working for a ruthless, tyrannical Empire.
* RealWorldEpisode: Season one ends with [[spoiler:him being drawn into what appears to be our universe: the Allies won the war, the United States still exists, and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is president. It could also be the universe of ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' or one of the other, as yet unseen newsreels from the show.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As he admits, what he's doing (i.e consulting with a Nazi officer and sharing state secrets with him without authorization) amounts to high treason, but he's doing to avoid a nuclear war between Japan and Germany.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Much like Rudolph is "the Good Nazi", Tagomi is "the good Imperial Japanese".
* {{Tritagonist}}: It's made increasingly and abundantly clear that he is intended to be this of the show this whole time, [[spoiler:especially after the death of [[DecoyProtagonist Joe Blake]], who was initially thought to be this, but is eventually revealed in season 3 to be designated to be an antagonist the whole time]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He fears being one (and to some extent he is) after knowing that his actions may well cause a nuclear war instead of preventing it since [[spoiler:the Japanese military, especially following the assassination attempt, have no interest in avoiding a war. Instead, now that they have the secrets of the Heisenberg Device (the official name for the Atomic Bomb in ''The Man in the High Castle'' timeline), they may launch a Nuclear first strike against the Nazi Empire.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: His attempts to bring peace in season 1 only slow down the inevitable conflict escalation, and in season 2, [[spoiler: travelling to a alternate dimension where his family lived shows that he was a terrible man in that world, so his family is estranged from him, and just as he starts patching things up, he realizes he has to return to his reality to avoid a nuclear war.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Smith]]
!!SS Obergruppenführer[[spoiler:/Reichsmarschall]] John Smith
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smith_john.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Satisfy yourself with following orders."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Rufus Sewell

An SS Obergruppenführer placed in charge of investigating and weeding out any anti-government resistance against the GNR.
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* AntiVillain: Ruthless and a firm believer of Nazi values, but he has virtues like loyalty, kinship towards his compatriots, and love for his family.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: On the receiving end. "Then why don't you sail anymore?", says Rudolph (after Smith explains he used to sail for soul searching before the War). Smith is clearly taken aback by the observation.
* BrokenAce: As the series goes on, Smith witnesses horrible atrocities and supernatural events. He pretends that it doesn't concern him in the least, but any night he doesn't obsess over the alternate reality films of better alternatives is spent with nightmares of his dead son and all the people he murdered. [[spoiler:In the Season 3 Finale, his wife has left him and taken the kids. Right after Himmler was shot on his watch on public television.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: It's made increasingly and abundantly clear that [[VillainProtagonist he]] is intended to be this of the show this whole time coupled with being TheHeavy, [[spoiler:especially after the deaths of Joe Black and [[DecoyProtagonist Frank Fink]], the original holder of this trope, at the hands of of his personal ArchEnemy Kido in season 3]].
* TheDragon: In season 3 he becomes the trusted right-hand man of the new Führer, Heinrich Himmler, who is grooming Smith as his successor.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [=Obergruppenführer=] Smith comes across as firm, professional, and a dedicated family man. In the book, we see none of the Nazi officers this closely, and all the ones we do see are implied to be monsters. When he realizes that Heydrich's faction may be up to no good, he tells Helen to take care of the kids and avoid any contact with him or his subordinates in case he's dead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Smith clearly abhors betrayal or treachery of any sort.
** He is stunned into stony silence [[spoiler:when he sees the remains of the three "volunteers" who did not make it through the portal, and realizes the plan to keep trying until the process is perfected.]]
* EvilVirtues: As mentioned, despite being a ruthless Nazi, he is loyal, loves his family, and stands up for his compatriots.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: He is ready to die proudly standing by Hitler, as Heydrich does his coup. A counter-coup on Hitler's part (and a well-placed sniper) save him from such end, however.]]
* FallenHero: A former member of the United States military during the Second World War, who joined the SS after the Axis victory and occupation.
* FamilyValuesVillain: He projects the image of a StandardFiftiesFather... who's also a cold-blooded Nazi.
* FourStarBadass: Obergruppenführer is the SS equivalent of general rank, and he certainly handles himself well in fights against New York assassins and [[spoiler: Heydrich.]]
* TheHeavy: He is a Nazi main character who acts as the enemy to the resistance while serving the higher ups like Himmler.
* HumiliationConga: Suffers a major, multi-layered one in season 3. [[spoiler:His wife and children leave him due to his strict adherence to the Nazi ideology ruining any chance at healthy communication between the two--any successes he obtains as Reichsmarshall become instantly more hollow as a result. Later on, the Nazis manage to create a device for interdimensional conquest, but Juliana brings up to Smith the wee fact that the Nazis clearly [[DidntThinkThisThrough aren't anticipating the apparent dangers of going to war against other dimensions]] (especially those that have [[HereWeGoAgain toppled the Nazis already]]), and are unable to choose which dimensions to invade anyway due to the limitations of the device]]. Smith remains afloat despite all these revelations, [[spoiler:then Führer Himmler gets shot on his watch, and the Man in the High Castle reveals that no one can travel to another dimension without their AlternateDimensionCounterpart being dead first, meaning that any attempt at an interdimensional invasion will likely result in mass Nazi deaths]]. And ''then'' [[spoiler:Juliana wills herself to travel to another dimension right in front of Smith's eyes, ''right'' as he shoots her in the chest, causing the once stoic Reichsmarshall to [[NotSoStoic fall slack-jawed]]]].
* HyperAwareness: Smith often picks up on extremely minor details that no one else would notice. Like how his assistant knows how Heydrich takes his coffee ahead of schedule, which is the strand of information that allows him to unveil Heydrich's entire plot.
* {{Hypocrite}}: John Smith enables the Nazi agenda of ethnic cleansing and euthanization of the disabled. ''But'' when those agendas affect his family, he suddenly breaks the very rules he upholds to save them.
** His hatred of betrayal and claims of loyalty and integrity ring hollow considering he’s a former US Army officer who betrayed his country and broke his Oath by joining the invading nazis.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: In his view, he (and Nazi Germany in general) did heinous acts, but it was all necessary to stop the Semites from ruling the world. However, Wegener almost gets him to admit that his conscience is not as clear as he claims about the things they did.
* IveComeTooFar: After he grows to doubt the Nazi ideals when their eugenics policies negatively affect his own family and his rivals in the Reich are plotting to remove him from power, Smith concludes that he's too deeply involved in the regime at this point and the only way out is to continue climbing the hierarchy.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He is very much a Nazi, but unlike [[spoiler: Heusmann and his co-conspirators]], Smith is opposed to war with Japan and the massive loss of life that would entail, and as an American he is far more sympathetic to the plights and needs of the Reich's territories than the top brass in Berlin.
* LesCollaborateurs: One of the most prominent examples in the series; he was actually a U.S. Army officer during the war (the flashback to the destruction of Washington DC shows him wearing an Army uniform with captain's bars and Signal Corps insignia) before the Axis powers invaded. Smith then joined the SS and managed to rise to the highest echelons of the expanded Reich by enthusiastically embracing the Nazi ideology.
* LikeASonToMe: Smith tells Joe that he regards him as a son in some ways.
* ManipulativeBastard: Smith often plays people's feelings like a fiddle.
* NaziProtagonist: A high-level Nazi official and one of the main characters.
* NotSoStoic: Typically TheStoic, but it's possible to get a major rise out of him. Losing [[spoiler:his son]] clearly takes a toll on his mental state, as does the HumiliationConga he faces throughout the final episodes of Season 3, wherein [[spoiler:Fuhrer Himmler gets shot, he realizes the futility of Die Nebenwelt, he ends up losing his family due to his adherence to Nazism, and ends up losing Juliana to another dimension when he had her right in his grasp.]]
* OminousMundanity: Obergruppenführer John Smith.
* PapaWolf: Subverts the law of the Reich and kills a man in order to protect his son's life.
* RankUp: [[spoiler:In season 3, Himmler promotes John Smith to Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer, replacing Heydrich, and making him second only to Himmler himself in the SS chain of command. Later that same season, Smith replaces George Lincoln Rockwell as Reichsmarshall (governor) of North America after the latter is ousted from his position.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Usually wears his black ''Waffen''-SS uniform, which were manufactured by none other than Hugo Boss.
* StandardFiftiesFather: With a twist. A devoted father and loving husband with a strong work ethic, who just happens to be a high-ranking officer of the SS. May be even a TakeThat towards the trope as his values are what make him so efficient as an SS officer. It also serves as a deconstruction of naziism, as Smith doesn’t indulge in any of the personal depravity that was common among most of the nazi leadership, and his family life is exactly what the nazis claimed as their ideal. Yet despite going all-in for Hitler, the nazi regime still takes away everything he loves.
* SoftSpokenSadist: ''Sadist'' may be a stretch, but you don't get to be a general in the ''Waffen''-SS without having done a lot of horrible things to earn it, and we see several glimpses of Smith's utter ruthlessness. But Smith never raises his voice (even in a gunfight for his life), and rarely deviates from his Upper-Middle-Class politeness.
* StateSec: He is a general in the most infamous real-life example of this trope.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Among the I-Love-Me wall decorations in his office is Smith's Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal from the US Army, a memento of his combat experience against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he switched sides. When Kido notices it, Smith claims that he keeps it as a reminder of the consequences of bad command decisions.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: His preferred method of dealing with any anti-GNR guerrilla fighters in custody.
--> '''Smith''': (After being told that the fighter is permanently unconscious) Your orders were to flog this man until he answered your questions... Do as you're told.
** It should be noted that given the circumstances, it was [[JustifiedTrope entirely justified]]: the SS already had all of the information they needed, they just needed to get the resistance to think they ''didn't''. [[BatmanGambit How better than to convince them that the potential leak was beaten to death without giving them anything?]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Towards Hitler, as [[TheStarscream Heydrich]] learns.
* VillainProtagonist: Smith protagonizes a plotline of his own, and he can be safely defined as a villain, even if an AntiVillain.
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Suffered from this after the death of his son, his wife leaving him and then slack-jawed at seeing Julianna disappeared right before his eyes.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He appears to undergo this in Season 3 after losing his family and then suffer a HumiliationConga up to Julianna disappearing into another dimension right before his eyes.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Walther P38 as his sidearm.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Smith has this with [[spoiler: Rudolph, whom he considers a traitor.]]
* WorthyOpponent: After being ambushed and nearly killed, Smith rejects the characterization of his opponents as insects.
--> They did us great damage today.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kido]]
!!Colonel/Chief Inspector Hidetoshi Kido
[[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kido.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am not a monster."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joel de la Fuente

The ruthless, efficient head of the Kempeitai's San Francisco branch.
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* AffablyEvil: Is very nice to the people he meets, but he won't hesitate to lock up, torture, and execute anyone if he deems it to be necessary, including [[IHaveYourWife completely-innocent relatives of suspects]].
* AntiVillain: While he's in charge of putting down resistance in the JPS, he does it with such dedication that he'll even refuse a bribe from the {{Yakuza}}. Somewhat like Tagomi, he's also wary of a war with Germany.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's very polite and friendly towards Frank's sister and her children just before he has them [[spoiler: locked in a room and gassed to death]].
* ColonelBadass: He's a colonel in the [[StateSec Kempeitai]] and you really do not want to get on his bad side.
* CreateYourOwnHero: His torture of Frank Frink and execution of Frank's sister, niece, and nephew over something Frank really wasn't involved in (transporting one of the films) left an embittered man desperate to hurt the Japanese any way he could. Frank went on to make a functional weapon out of one of the nonfiring Colt Peacemaker replicas he fabricated for a living, acquires some ammo, and sets out to assassinate the Crown Prince, though he changes his mind at the last second. When the Crown Prince is shot by a Nazi officer, Kido must use the mysterious "gunman in the crowd" as a scapegoat. This leads to Frank's best friend Ed [=McCarthy=] being caught with the gun and [[HeroicSacrifice claiming he was the shooter]] to protect Frank. Frank then comes to Kido's office and insists that ''he'' is the assassin (which is 98% true) to save Ed. When Kido brushes him off, Frank grabs his sleeve and begs Kido, saying "I'm the one who's supposed to die!" Frank eventually becomes an active member of the resistance [[spoiler:and sets off a bomb in the building with himself, Kido, and General Ogusa inside]].
* CruelMercy: He spares Frank from facing a firing squad, but after gassing his sister Laura and her two small children to death, he forces Frank to live with this fact along getting vindictively {{Misblamed}} in-universe by his widower brother-in-law Ben for their deaths and being hated by [[JerkassWoobie Ben]] because of that as well. Frank proceeds to become a massive thorn in Kido's side afterwards, plotting to kill the Japanese Crown Prince, bombing the Kempeitai headquarters with Kido inside, and spreading resistance artwork. [[spoiler:When Kido finally recaptures Frank, he admits that he erred once before and executes Frank for real.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a wife and children back in Japan that he loves dearly but doesn't want to see them confronted with his work.
* EvilVirtues: Despite his ruthlessness, he is completely unwilling to accept bribes even from the {{Yakuza}}, and respects Tagomi enough to cover up his involvement with a German agent, which could otherwise result in Tagomi's execution for treason.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His glasses enhance his icy demeanor. Notably, whenever Inspector Kido is feeling more emotionally vulnerable, he takes off his glasses.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In "The New World", [[https://postimg.cc/image/ls0b7pdfv/ Kido shows off his Kempeitai ID, which reveals his full name.]]
* TheHeavy: He shares this with Smith, as the show's secondary antagonist with the healthy amount of screen time.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: An unusual variant of this trope in that his alignment never changes; it's rather a matter of which other main character he interacts with. With Frank, he's pretty much the BigBad. But at the same time, he respects Minister Tagomi enough to cover up his involvement with a German agent (that Tagomi and Wegener are trying to save Japan wouldn't matter; their association alone could result in Tagomi's execution for treason), and supports his cause enough to destroy all evidence of Nazi involvement in the assassination attempt and is [[HeroicSacrifice willing]] to commit ''[[RitualSuicide seppuku]]'' in order to PreventTheWar.
* HiddenDepths: First seen in the Season Two premier, when Frank begs Kido to arrest him and let Ed go. Though he composes himself after a few seconds, for a moment Kido has a look on his face revealing that he feels downright shitty over everything that he's done to an innocent man, and that he knows that whatever Frank has done since then is the direct result of Kido and the ''Kempeitei'' pushing him over the edge. An escort later raises an interesting theory about Kido: That his icy cold demeanor and detachment is not a result of sociopathy, but a way to detach himself from his work because he actually despises it and does not wish to confront it. Kido himself seems taken aback by this observation. Indeed, later on we see he can be actually friendly with people in some situations, so he's not ''all'' ruthlessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: He believes in the traditional Japanese ritual suicide, the ''Sepukku'', and if he fails, he will do it.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He simply tells Frank that he's "free to go" after having his sister, niece, and nephew killed. When questioned about it, he claims, "I am not a monster." Yeah, asshole, keep telling yourself that.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Appears to hold the authority to detain, judge and execute anyone who threatens the government, at least in milder cases. Justified that the Kempeitai did this in occupied territories in the Asia-Pacific region in real life.
* MarriedToTheJob: Kido has no personal life other than his profession. He technically ''does'' have a wife and family, but they're in Japan, so in America he's all business.
* MillionToOneChance: Kido is shot fifteen seconds before a bomb explodes under his feet, and he lives with minor injuries. There's a plane-sized hole where he was standing and Kido was pushed into a relatively safe corner of the room despite being shoved into the stairs by the gunshot.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Kido does things even he would normally consider amoral for the sake of his country. Even after he [[spoiler:has Laura and her children gassed to death]], he claims that he did not enjoy it. He's also perfectly willing to sacrifice his own life if it will help his country.
* PrinciplesZealot: Very big on the principles of Imperial Japan, to a fanatic degree.
* RabidCop: Investigates any subversive activities in the JPS, with all the brutality necessary.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: From time to time, when the lightning is just right.
* SharpDressedMan: He's always dressed in an impeccable suit to depict him as the height of bureaucratic evil. On more formal occasions, such as when he's summoned by his superiors, he wears his military uniform.
* StateSec: The Kempeitai (Military Police Corps) is the Japanese equivalent of the SS.
* StraightEdgeEvil: Kido doesn't really enjoy drinking or partying.
* TortureTechnician: He oversees the torture of subversives to the state.
* TragicBigot: Some of his particularly hardline stances towards the conquered Americans seem to have some origin in his experiences during the war, as he describes how he was part of the liberation of the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar. According to Sarah (who was locked up at Manzanar), however, Kido's feelings were not representative of the rest of the Japanese army, who regarded Neisei as traitors and didn’t particularly care about them.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate in the JPS.
* WouldHitAGirl[=/=]WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Or specifically gas Laura and her two children to death, even though he knows they are uninvolved and unaware of any resistance activity.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: In late season 2 [[spoiler: a bomb attack wipes out most of the Pacific State Japanese leadership, leaving Chief Inspector Kido as their provisionary leader]].
[[/folder]]

!The Resistance

[[folder:Warren]]
!!Don Warren
->'''Played By:''' Michael Rispoli

The manager of an industrial factory. He's secretly an anti-GNR resistance fighter.

* RebelLeader: Is this for the eastern part of New York.
* LaResistance: Heads an anti-GNR faction in New York City.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death spurs the American resistance in the GNR to conduct more attacks against GNR military officials and soldiers.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: He speaks very openly about the horrible things he saw in combat during the German invasion to Joe Blake. For him, it's all the more reason to hate Nazis.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trudy]]
!!Trudy Walker

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ConorLeslie
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trudy_walker_main.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:I found... the reason.]]
A native of the JPS in San Francisco and half-sister of Juliana Crain, secretly works with an anti-government guerrilla group to overthrow JPS rule.

* DisneyDeath: Trudy comes back from the dead in second season finale, although it's later revealed that she's from another timeline where Juliana died.
* LaResistance: She's with an underground anti-JPS group.
* SacrificialLamb: Her death in many ways kicks off Juliana's character arc and the swift disintegration of her 'normal' life.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While she dies in the first episode and only appears in a handful of episodes after her return, Trudy initiates Juliana's story.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Trudy dies after being shot by Kempeitai soldiers during a chase before reappearing from another timeline.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karen]]
!!Karen Vecchione

->'''Played By:''' Camille Sullivan

A leading figure of the Resistance in the Pacific States.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She was against Gary's plan to kill Juliana, yet her death was blamed on Juliana and made her an enemy to the Resistance.]]
* RebelLeader: She's a figure of authority in the Resistance, on par with Lem.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She dies in the season 2 premiere in a shootout with the Kempeitai.]]
* {{Scapegoat}}: Kido [[spoiler:pins the shooting of the Crown Prince on her after being forced to release Ed.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gary]]
!!Gary Connell

->'''Played By:''' Callum Keith Rennie

The leader of the West Coast Resistance

* AntiHero: Gary is trying to take down a tyrannical regime, but his take-no-prisoners approach is very scary.
* ArcVillain: He acts as the secondary antagonist of Season 2 only.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He is stated to have been executed in the first episode of Season 3. Given his callous methods, having manipulated Frank until he TookALevelInJerkass and having unapologetically put Julianna through hell by ordering her execution for assisting in Joe Blake's escape and falsely causing Karen's death which was actually his doing than hers, he would not be missed.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Axis Powers, but mostly towards Julianna in Season 2.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite seemingly being part of the BigBadEnsemble, [[spoiler:he is swiftly taken out off-screen at the beginning of Season 3]].
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: For Gary you're either with the Resistance or you're against it.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:He is stated to have been executed off-screen in the first episode of Season 3.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He is not seen again in Season 3.
* TheCorrupter: When he takes Frank under his wing to adapt the HeWhoFightsMonsters way to fight totalitarianism.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and fighting for a good cause, however he is merciless when it comes to his approach on how to fight the Japanese.
* GutturalGrowler: He speaks with a low, raspy voice.
* HateSink: With his goals for freedom aside, it is eclipsed by the fact he is an unsympathetic, cruel, and hateful man who disregard nearly all consequences of his actions, even those that affect innocent civilians and his fellow Resistance members, claiming that they are all for the good of the movement. Ironically, despite being opposed against the Axis Powers, Gary is more of a villain with his personality and reckless actions than characters such as Smith or Kido. He is so despicable that most of the show's DarknessInducedAudienceApathy is traced back to him and [[spoiler:his offscreen death at the beginning of Season 3 is considered to be cathartic like putting down a mad dog]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He's just as ruthless as the Japanese, though admittedly far less genocidal.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Towards Juliana, who is viewed as a traitor for helping Joe Blake and causing Karen's death]].
* {{Jerkass}}: He is an unsympathetic, cruel, and hateful man who disregard nearly all consequences of his actions.
* InspectorJavert: He staunchly views Juliana as a traitor who needs to be taken down no matter what.
* KilledOffscreen [[spoiler:He is stated on Kido's board of suspects to have been executed in Season 3.]]
* KnightTemplar: Unlike Karen or Lem he's much more willing to commit murder for the cause.
* ManipulativeBastard: He corrupts Frank to adapt the KnightTemplar methods to fight the Axis oppression.
* NeverMyFault: Gary is the one who caused [[spoiler:Karen]] to killed, but pins the blame on Juliana.
* NiceHat: He has quite a snazzy fedora.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:He tried to kill Juliana because she had seen The Man in The High Castle's face, despite the latter having ordered Gary to spare her. Juliana then tried to escape the Resistance, leading to a shootout between Gary's group and the Kempeitai which caused Karen's death and ended with Juliana defecting to the Nazis]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Gary's resistance movement is more driven by this of the Axis Powers, rather than ThePowerOfLove for his country.
* RebelLeader: He's the leader of the resistance in the West Coast.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He is the most despicable, amoral and cruelest member of the resistance.
* UngratefulBastard: He allows Juliana to help the Resistance in New York, but she will still get what he and his allies believe she deserved for [[spoiler:Karen's death]].
* UnscrupulousHero: Gary is willing to do any kind of evil as long as it helps to destroy the Japanese.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Gary may be ruthless, but he's trying to free the West Coast from a tyrannical Empire.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: His perspective of the world.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Though unlike his fellow resistance comrades, Gary is more of a terrorist than any of them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sarah]]
!!Sarah

->'''Played By:''' Cara Mitsuko

A Japanese-American member of the Resistance and survivor of the Manzanar internment camp.

* BusCrash: [[spoiler:She is stated to be dead in the first episode of Season 3.]]
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Subverted. She is a resistance fighter against the Empire and has Japanese parents, but considers herself an American. The Japanese occupiers actually perceive immigrants who settled there prior to the war as traitors.
* TokenEnemyMinority: Thanks to her race, she is able to blend in areas where non-Japanese are usually not allowed.
* UncertainDoom: The last we see of her [[spoiler: she was shooting soldiers alongside Frank inside a building which exploded, and the explosion engulfed the place she was in, but we never see their bodies or any confirmation of their deaths. On Kido's board at the first episode of Season 3, she is listed to be dead.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hagan]]
!!Hagan

->'''Played By:''' Michael Hogan

A former reverend and member of the Resistance in the Pacific States.

* BadassPreacher: A freedom fighter and former preacher. He still conducts memorials for fallen members of the resistance.
* RebelLeader: He's another authority figure in the Resistance.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Susan]]
!!Susan

->'''Played By:''' Valerie Mahaffey

A leading member of the Resistance in the GNR.

* AssholeVictim: She is strangled to death by Juliana after trying to kill her for [[spoiler:Karen's death instead of helping her escape]].
* EveryScarHasAStory: Part of her face and neck is covered with scar tissues from radiation burns from the atom bombing of Washington D.C.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Towards Juliana, who is blamed for Karen's death]].
* IronLady: She's a tough woman and freedom fighter.
* RebelLeader: She's an authority figure in the Resistance.
* TwoFaced: Her facial scars are symbolic of her [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing duplicitous nature]].]]
* UngratefulBitch: Despite the work Juliana did for the Resistance, she still tried to have her [[spoiler:killed for Karen's death]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wyatt]]
!!Wyatt Price

->'''Played By:'''

An Irish immigrant and former U.S. soldier turned black market operator, he joins with Juliana and becomes inspired by her to carry on the Resistance.
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* CynicismCatalyst: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when he sees Juliana's film. He decides he has something to believe in again, and takes up the fight again.
* FightingIrish: Wyatt fought the Nazis in his native Ireland before crossing the Atlantic to join the US Army. When the Axis Powers won, he fought with the American Resistance Army until it fell apart. His gun fighting skills are quite lethal.
* GoodIsNotNice: A given in this CrapsackWorld, but Wyatt makes it perfectly clear to one of his Nazi contacts that he will take vengeance on the man's family if he tries to screw him over.
* HyperAwareness: Being good at reading people is a necessity in his line of work. Wyatt is quite observant of people's behavior and is able to spot two SD agents based on a momentary glance from a contact he doesn’t trust.
* ItsPersonal: Reveals to Juliana that the nazis killed half of his family in Ireland and the other half in New York.
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:After Juliana is captured by the Nazis in the finale of season 3, he immediately takes up her mantle of spreading the alternate timeline reels to the rest of occupied America and begins the next round of major resistance against the fascist occupiers.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: He appears to build up to be this for Julianna, [[spoiler:especially following the deaths of the latter's original lovers Frank and Joe]].

[[/folder]]

!Greater Nazi Reich Residents

[[folder:Helen]]
!!Helen Smith
->'''Played By:''' Chelah Horsdal

John Smith's wife.
----
* AdultFear: Taking a gun to [[spoiler:be ready to kill her own children when she fears her husband has been killed by Heydrich and the rest of the family is next]], and later [[spoiler:watching as her son delivers himself to the authorities to be euthanized.]]
* FallenHero: "Hero" maybe a stretch, but during the Second World War, while her husband John was an officer in the U.S. military, she was just another InnocentBystander loyal to the U.S. Government, however, by yet time of the series, she is in league with the Nazi system like her husband and the rest of her family.
* HappilyMarried: She enjoys a happy marriage with John. [[spoiler:It gets tested in season 3, and seemingly falls apart by the finale.]]
* HouseWife: It is expected that women in the Reich should fulfill this role, and Helen exemplifies it to a T, with the twist that she's also "queen bee" of the American Nazi social scene.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Her estrangement with her husband's attitude with protecting their family, coupled with her increasing mental trauma from losing Thomas drives her to take the rest of her children and run away by the end of season 3.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Resorts to it to keep [[spoiler:Gerry's murder, Thomas's condition and John's plan to make Thomas disappear in secret.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thomas]]
!!Thomas Smith
->'''Played By:''' Quinn Lord

John and Helen's only son and their eldest child.

* TheAllAmericanBoy: In keeping with his parent's portrayal as the typical 1950s-style married couple with a fascist twist, Thomas is a polite and dutiful son who loves sports and outdoor activities, who just happens to believe wholeheartedly in Nazi ideas about politics and racial hygiene.
* DrivenToSuicide: After watching his father being [[spoiler:honored by the Nazi leadership for bringing down Heusmann, he delivers himself to the authorities to be euthanized for suffering an incurable genetic disorder.]] Also a situation of HonorBeforeReason, [[spoiler:as Thomas appears to do it as his responsibility to his family and the Nazi laws that they and their society follow]].
* NiceGuy: If you take apart the Nazi indoctrination he has been raised in since birth, which is hardly his fault, Thomas is a genuinely nice boy.
* PrecociousCrush: Thomas appears to be developing this towards Juliana.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:He doesn't take it well when he finds out he suffers from an incurable genetic disorder that, according to Nazi ideology and laws, make him a "useless eater".]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jennifer]]
!!Jennifer Smith
->'''Played By:''' Genea Charpentier

John and Helen's eldest daughter and their second child.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Smith
->'''Played By:''' Gracyn Shinyei

John and Helen's second daughter and their youngest child.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rita]]
!!Rita Pearce

->'''Played By:''' Jessie Fraser

Joe Blake's on-and-off girlfriend.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Buddy]]
!!Buddy

->'''Played By:''' Carter Ryan Evancic

Rita's son.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Adler]]
!!Dr. Gerald "Gerry" Adler

->'''Played By:''' Kevin [=McNulty=]

The Smith family doctor and a close friend of John and Helen.
----
* AffectionateNickname: His friends call him "Gerry"
%%* HappilyMarried: With Alice.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: His wife thinks he's this trope since she believes her husband is "helping the community" by euthanizing the undesirables and gets death threats and called a murderer for this.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:[[spoiler:He's killed by the same poison that he gave to John to euthanize his son]].
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade:[[spoiler:John kills him to prevent Dr Adler from revealing his son's medical condition to the GNR authority]].
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: While he understands most parents hate euthanizing their children, he still does it since it's the law of the GNR. [[spoiler:Unfortunately his decisions to stick to the law by not keeping Thomas medical condition a secret and almost revealing the boy's condition to the authorities if John doesn't euthanize his son first ends up getting him killed by John to keep it a secret]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alice]]
!!Alice Adler

->'''Played By:''' Gillian Barber

Dr. Adler's wife and a close friend of Helen.
----
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She is killed by Helen in self-defense when trying to strangle her in a rage in retaliation for Helen slapping her and to avenge her husband's death after spitefully pointing out Helen's daughters possibly inheriting defects like the late Thomas and should be reported in the name of the Reich to join their brother in death and calling out the Smiths for their hypocrisy in terms of their loyalty to the Reich.]]
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Helen accidentally kills her while confronting her to stop spreading "rumors" about Gerry's death. John later breaks into her home to stage a robbery and make it seem like she was killed by a burglar]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:She lusts to seek justice for and to avenge her husband Gerry's death by spreading "rumors" and even threatened Helen to report her daughters for possibly carrying defects out of spite and revenge.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:She almost had an investigator examine her husband's body since she correctly believed he was poisoned and not dead from a heart attack, thereby revealing the truth about his death. To prevent that, John orders that Dr. Adler's body be "accidentally" cremated]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:The more suspicious she is about the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death, the more antagonistic she is towards the Smiths for their involvement in Season 3]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Was a close friend of Helen, until her husband's death and her suspicions about the Smiths being involved made her turn against her.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lucy]]
!!Lucy Collins
->'''Played By:''' Emily Holmes

A close friend of Helen and wife to Henry Collins, the Deputy Minister of Information of the GNR.
----
* FunctionalAddict: She consumes a number of drugs - all prescribed by Dr. Adler - Pervitin for fatigue (methamphetamine), Obetrol for weight control (amphetamine), eukodal (Oxycodone, an opioid) and cocaine for the sinuses.
* StepfordSmiler: Resorts to this to keep her inability to have children and her husband's resulting contempt a secret.
* IHaveYourWife: The Resistance kidnaps her to blackmail Henry into collaborating with them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her fate after [[spoiler:being kidnapped by the Resistance is not touched upon. With Henry killed after revealing the truth about Hitler, and knowing of the Resistance attitude towards Nazis, even civilians, she very well may have fallen to YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]] Her fate is ultimately revealed in Season 3 as it was confirmed that she is still alive.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Collins
->'''Played By:''' Kurt Evans

Deputy Minister of Information of the GNR and head of the [[PropagandaMachine Greater Nazi News Service]]. Husband of Lucy.
----
* AssholeVictim: The man's a complete tool, so his death doesn't really sadden anyone.
* LesCollaborateurs: Like John Smith, he's American but came to serve the Nazi Regime.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's gunned down whilst forcibly telling the public the truth after a entire career of lies.]]
* IHaveYourWife: The Resistance [[spoiler:kidnaps Lucy to blackmail Henry into collaborating with them. He refuses, however, until Dixon tells him she's pregnant.]]
* MouthOfSauron: As head of the PropagandaMachine, he selects and delivers the official news of the GNR.
%%* NumberTwo: To Joseph Goebbels.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raeder]]
!!SS ''Haupsturmführer'' Erich Raeder
->'''Played By: Aaron Blakely'''

A SS officer working under Smith, he serves as his personal aide in the GNR military.
----
* {{Irony}}: He shares his name with Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the head of the ''Kriegsmarine'' at the beginning of WWII. ''Grossadmiral'' Raeder [[TeethClenchedTeamwork openly despised the Nazi Party]], [[OnlySaneMan opposed going to war in the first place]], [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight often defiedHitler]], [[AFatherToHisMen and tried to protect Jewish sailors from the Gestapo]]. He was sacked in 1942 and replaced with the much-more-manageable Admiral Karl Dönitz. This Raeder, on the other hand, has none of the Grand Admiral's redeeming qualities.
* NumberTwo: Acts under Smith when he's not around.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Killed by Joe Blake on Himmler's orders because HeKnowsTooMuch about Smith, particularly the abandoned escape plan for Thomas Smith, and as a reminder to Smith that no loose ends are acceptable as Himmler grooms him for higher positions.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Smith to the point that he's told to bring evidence to Hitler in case something should happen to him. Later, Raeder helps Smith in setting up his plan to attempt to save his son by smuggling him away. [[spoiler:That would cost Raeder his life.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keller]]
!!SS Gruppenführer Keller
->'''Played By:''' Stephan Goldbach

A Gruppenführer of the SS sent by Heusmann to support John Smith.
----
* BaldOfEvil: A bald Nazi officer of the SS
* TheBrute: He commands Nazi SS forces, though he's of a rank subordinate to John Smith, and advocates razing an entire city in response to the Resistance uprising.
* FallenHero: Like Smith, he was a former member of the United States military during the Second World War, who joined the SS after the Axis victory.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:George]]
!!George Dixon
->'''Played By:''' Tate Donovan

A man that shows up a few of the alternate universe films. He's [[spoiler: the real father of Trudy]].
----
* AlmightyJanitor: Not only has military training, but is also an expert in wiretapping and audio surveillance.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gets killed by Juliana, who just escaped from an attempt on her life by his allies]], after admitting to her the Resistance needs to be worse then the Nazis and refusing to hand her the tape.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: To him, anyone who is associated with the Nazis are bad guys that deserve to be killed, even if they are just innocent civilians or even children.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The fight against the Nazis has led him to believe that in order to defeat them, the Resistance must become worse than them.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His plan to get Thomas - and Smith - killed by the GNR health authorities by exposing his medical condition as payback against his father John Smith gets him killed by Juliana who cared deeply about Thomas]].
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Gets shot after turning his back on Juliana.]]
* MoleInCharge: His cover as a telephone repairman gives him access and control of bugged phone lines and buildings, such as Juliana's apartment in NY.
* RebelLeader: He's a high-ranking member of the New York branch of the Resistance.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least would allow a Nazi child get killed by the state.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rockwell]]
!!George Lincoln Rockwell
->'''Played By:'''
----
* AssholeVictim: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Other Nazis don't like him very much]], and he gets humiliatingly deposed and exiled to Cuba by Smith, who follows up by [[spoiler: having him assassinated a few weeks later]].
* HateSink: Even among the Nazis, he's a particularly disreputable character, having been named Reichsmarshall because [[LesCollaborateurs he founded the American Nazi Party]], and is also arrogant, smug, and sleazy.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the post-war American Nazi Party, a supporter of racial segregation and Holocaust denier, and was assassinated in 1967.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Smith sends his regards via a large knife through his torso while Rockwell is watching a live sex show]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}:
%%* KarmicDeath:
* OutGambitted: He spends season 3 plotting against Smith to have him removed and nip his ascendency in the Reich's chain of command in the bud. [[spoiler:This plan falls apart when Smith blackmails Rockwell's co-conspirator Hoover into framing Rockwell.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hoover]]
!!''ARBI''[[note]]American Reich Bureau of Investigation[[/note]] Director J. Edgar Hoover
->'''Played By:''' William Forsythe
----
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey first time William Forsythe collaborated with the Nazis on TV]].
* LesCollaborateurs: He's an American serving the Nazi state as an autority.
* TheDragon: To George Lincoln Rockwell in his plot to bring down Smith
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Hoover was the founder of the FBI. Here, he is a collaborator with the reigning Nazis.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: Smith notes that Hoover will side with whoever has more power [[spoiler:after Smith gets evidence of Hoover's own sordid secrets that would surely get him executed, he joins Smith to bring down Rockwell]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: For much of season 3, he's scheming with George Lincoln Rockwell to have Smith removed from power. However, Smith [[spoiler:blackmails Hoover with his own sordid private life that would get him in hot water with the Reich, so he helps Smith frame Rockwell instead. From that point onwards, Hoover becomes a loyal servant of Smith.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Mengele]]
!!Dr. Josef Mengele
->'''Played By:''' John Hans Tester
----
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Josef Mengele was an SS "doctor" (in the loosest sense of the word) who conducted horrifying medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.
* MadScientist: As if Mengele would have any other profession. Here he [[spoiler:experiments on people who travel from alternate worlds]].
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The real Mengele studied medicine and carried out human experiments on death camp prisoners with little to no scientific purpose behind them. Here, he's apparently also an engineer capable of constructing an InterdimensionalTravelDevice.
** At the very least, it's clear that he's experimenting on captured travelers and [[spoiler:organizing the test subjects]].
[[/folder]]

!Japanese Pacific States Residents

[[folder:Laura]]
!!Laura Frink
->'''Played By:'''
----
* SacrificialLamb: Her death sparks Frank's anti-Japanese occupation thoughts, which includes trying to assassinate the Crown Prince.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Laura and her two children [[spoiler: die in the same episode they are introduced.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arnold]]
!!Arnold Walker
->'''Played By:''' Daniel Roebuck

A resident of San Francisco, he is Juliana Crain's step-father and Trudy Walker's father [[spoiler:in name, but unknowingly not her biological father. He secretly works as a senior staffer in the JPS government's wiretapping and audio surveillance department.]]
----
* LesCollaborateurs: He [[spoiler:spies on his own people on behalf of the Japanese Empire]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He repeatedly insists this; [[spoiler:that he's worked for the Japanese authorities for 16 years to provide for his family, and to shield and protect them from the Kempeitai]]. It didn't help Trudy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kotomichi]]
!!Kotomichi
->'''Played By:'''

A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.
----
* DimensionalTraveler: Though he seems to have found one that he likes.
* EnigmaticMinion: Despite his position as an underling of Tagomi, it becomes apparent from his burn scars and his enigmatic smile when Tagomi [[spoiler: disappears into the alternate universe]] that he has his own secrets that tie him to the events of the show. This is confirmed when he admits to Tagomi that [[spoiler: he originates from an alternate universe where the bombing of Nagasaki took place]].
* EveryScarHasAStory: Juliana notices his wrist is covered with burn scars. [[spoiler: He got them in an alternate timeline (possibly our own) during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, where his entire family was killed. In his grief, he found a way to travel to a timeline where his family survived due to Japan winning the war.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given his position as a Trade Ministry employee in the JPS.
* NumberTwo: Is this to Tagomi in the Trade Ministry.
* UndyingLoyalty: to his BenevolentBoss Tagomi.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Childan]]
!!Robert Childan

An antique dealer of pre-19th century goods in the JPS.
----
* BoomerangBigot: He has a very contradictory perspective in that he both admires the Japanese culture and resents them because he's not one of them, thus hating Americans at the same time he is also an American.
* CategoryTraitor: An American man who sucks up to the Japanese to a disturbing degree.
* ForeignCultureFetish: Childan's obsessed with Japanese culture.
* HeelFaceTurn: Seems on the way to this in the finale of Season 3, after Ed gives him a TheReasonYouSuck lecture [[spoiler:and reveals that Frank was executed]], along with his own ''What Have I Done?'' actions.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He's not a ''complete'' asshole, as he develops quite a liking for Ed.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His exact words [[spoiler:when he realizes Ed and his friends will be found and likely killed because he spilled his guts out under Kempeitai interrogation]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: It's revealed in "Land O' Smiles" that he's not opposed to smoking the occasional joint, his "one vice" as he describes it. Helps that the Japanese have much more liberal attitudes towards marijuana than the Americans did.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He agrees to help fund Frank's escape from JPS territory by convincing him to make accurate replicas of pre-19th century items to sell to upper-class Japanese clients.
* {{Otaku}}: Childan is a sort of proto version of the trope with his obsession with Japanese culture and tendency to lapse into Japanese terms apropos to nothing.
* PretenderDiss: Is on the receiving end of that by the Japanese people whose culture he gleefully adopts. It is obvious that he wants the Japanese people to see him as one of them and a particularly nasty rebuff from an upper-class Japanese couple he hoped to befriend is enough to convince him to help Frank.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Robert Childan tries to sell a necklace supposedly from a famous Native American Chief to the Kasouras, who are American Memorabilia collectors. Mr Kasoura at first thinks the necklace is a fake, but Mrs Kasoura is convinced the necklace is genuine as she feels the owner's pain and suffering of his people. [[spoiler:The necklace is a fake, but the part of the pain and suffering is correct; however, it's on the part of the creator Frank and his people, the Jews.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yoshida]]
!!Sergeant Yoshida
->'''Played By:''' Lee Shorten

A non-commissioned officer of the Kempeitai stationed in their San Francisco office, and a subordinate of Kido.
----
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He doesn't like the idea of Kido's plans to cover up the Nazi Reich's involvement in attempting to murder the Crown Prince. This is partially due to the fact that Kido will have to commit ''seppuku'' to preserve the cover-up.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Yoshida [[spoiler: saves Kido from gunfire and then an explosion, but dies in the process.]]
* NumberTwo: To Kido in Kempeitai operations.
* OnlyFriend: Kido's only true confidant. [[spoiler: His death really shakes Kido.]]
* PetTheDog: Yoshida [[VillainousRescue finds Ed and Childan locked in the freezer]] during the Kempeitai's raid on the Yakuza bar. He obviously recognizes Ed from his previous arrest for the assassination attempt on the Crown Prince, though he's also one of the few who know that the real shooter was a ''Waffen-SS'' officer. After a moment's hesitation, he deduced that the two are somehow in over their heads with the Yakuza and certainly not involved in the sale of Grasshopper films to the Nazis, and lets them go.
* PunchClockVillain: Though he's part of one of the most notoriously-brutal StateSec organizations in history, Yoshida never displays any kind of sadism.
* RabidCop: Investigates any subversive activities in the JPS, with all the brutality necessary.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate in the JPS.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Okamura]]
!!Taishi Okamura
->'''Played By:''' Hiro Kanagawa

A {{Yakuza}} oyabun living in the JPS, he owns legitimate businesses in the occupied territories.
----
* AffablyEvil: Okamura is very polite and soft-spoken, even as he's threatening to kill people. Even with Kido, who explicitly hates his guts and is trying to bring him down, he's always genuinely courteous.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He offers to give Kido information on the actual assassin who shot the Crown Prince.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: A more mundane form. He observes that organized crime cannot be destroyed, like light cannot destroy the shade.
* TheDon: A very classic {{Yakuza}} one, with suit and polite manners.
* PlayingBothSides: He provides information for both the Japanese Kempeitai and the Nazi SS. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it his association with the latter that gives Kido justification to kill him and his men]].
* SharpDressedMan: Regardless of whether he's in his office on the docks, in a dark alley, or at his LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub, he's always wearing a fancy suit.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kasoura]]
!!Paul Kasoura
->'''Played By: Louis Ozawa Changchien'''

A wealthy lawyer for the [[spoiler: Yakuza]] and collector of pre-war Americana.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark]]
!!Mark Sampson
->'''Played By:''' Michael Gaston
A friend of Frank and secret Jew.
----
* OldSoldier: A US Army vet who fought in WWII and initially joined the Resistance, he eventually gave it up to provide for his children and try to keep his religion and culture alive in secret.
* TheRemnant: Both a Jew and a former US Soldier.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reiss]]
!!Hugo Reiss
->'''Played By:''' Bernhard Forcher

The GNR Ambassador to the Pacific States.
----
* CulturalPosturing: Looks down his nose at all things Japanese.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When an SS attaché explains the concept of ''chi'', he scoffs at "superstitious slant-eyed crap."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Diels]]
!! Oberführer Oliver Diels
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlexZahara

An SS Oberführer stationed at the GNR embassy in San Francisco
----
* DefectorFromDecadence: Defects to the Japanese Empire in the aftermath of Hitler's death. [[spoiler:He and other Nazi defectors are later tracked down by assassins from the Reich and killed.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Onada]]
!!General Onada
->'''Played By:''' Tzi Ma

Commander of Japanese military forces in the Pacific States.
----
* DirtyOldMan: He's fond of visiting a "hostess" (escort) bar. Kido uses this to get Onada really drunk so he will sign an order without really looking at it.
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: He generally walks around with a holstered katana, the common practice of Imperial Japan army officers.
* {{Jerkass}}: Onada's a very overbearing asshole who treats people very condescendingly.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: While Tagomi and Kido seem more loyal to the general idea of Japan, Onada talks more of the Emperor itself as his guiding deity and driving force.
* NotAfraidToDie: Onadas's very clear on the fact he's likely going to die in the incoming war against Germany, but he's okay with it, in keeping with the contemporary interpretation of ''bushido''.
* PetTheDog: Onada may be a dick but he does make an effort to be friendly to Kido and compliments his abilities from time to time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Inokuchi]]
!!''IJN'' Admiral Inokuchi
->'''Played By:'''

Appointed the new overall commander of the JPS since the headquarters bombing.
----
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Instructs Kido to rein in the reprisal killings and resort more to "soft power" and "hearts and minds" efforts to bring the population over to their side.

[[/folder]]

!Rocky Mountain States residents

[[folder:Kitty]]
!!Kitty Owens
->'''Played By:'''

A fellow bus passenger that Juliana meets on the way to the Neutral Zone.
----
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The theft of the films carried by Juliana led to her arrest by Kempeitai soldiers, which "clears" Frank of any wrongdoing. This was also the reason why Frank had began to harbor anti-Japanese occupation thoughts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lemuel]]
!!Lemuel Washington
->'''Played By:'''

The cook/manager of Sunrise Diner.
----
* [[InformedJudaism Informed Islam]]: Lem briefly talks about being Muslim with the Marshall. He's not seen performing any Islamic rites or practices, so it's not entirely clear if he's actually Islamic, which the occupiers don't particularly care about, or if he's using it as a cover for Christianity or even Judaism, which are both frowned upon by the Nazis and Japanese.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Washington's highly abrasive and aggressive, but he's still fighting for what's good and can give people a chance.
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler:Along with Karen, they are the only members of the Resistance who wanted Juliana spared unlike the rest of their group who wanted her killed]].
* RaceLift: In the book, his character is Irish (and named Charley), but is black in the TV series.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Heads an anti-occupation resistance holdout in the neutral zone.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Juliana is hardly the ideal job candidate, but he gives her a chance anyway. Also, as as one of the Resistance leaders, he is against Juliana [[spoiler:being executed for their cause despite being angry at her for helping Joe Blake]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Marshal]]
!!The Marshal
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BurnGorman

A bounty hunter working for the Germans who stylizes himself after wild west sheriffs. He is the closest thing to law and order in the Rockies.
----
* BadassLongcoat: A duster fits his fearsome look.
* BountyHunter: A very old-west-ish one, complete with cowboy hat.
* CoolGuns: Mainly uses a sawed-off lever action shotgun.
* CoolHat: Wears a snazzy 1940s-style flat-brimmed cowboy hat.
* CreepySouvenir: The Marshal collects the fingers of every man and woman he kills.
* {{Determinator}}: An unsettlingly dark example, there is very little that will stop him from finding his targets.
* TheDragon: The highest authority existing within the lawless Rocky Mountain Neutral Zone, and directly answering to the Nazis.
* TheDreaded: This dude is bad news. Most people tend to get scarce when he comes to town. He likes it that way.
* ImplacableMan: More mundane the most, but the man is still pretty unstoppable when it comes to finding his targets.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Despite being a ruthless enforcer for the Nazis and being ''very'' openly racist, he comes off as more curious than hateful towards those he sees as "lesser". He has trouble grasping the concept of a Muslim dealing with pork (it's clarified that there AintNoRule in the Quran against ''selling it''), and notes with amusement that albinism being "bad", despite whiteness being "good", seems like too much of a good thing more than anything else.
* KarmaHoudini: The Marshal faces no repercussions for his crimes, [[CrapsackWorld as expected]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Frequently comments on others racial and religious status, usually with a superior attitude towards it. Oddly enough, he seems to do it more out of bemusement than hatred.
* {{Sadist}}: He is shown to enjoy hunting down his targets, as seen when he comes after Juliana.
** The way he messes with [[spoiler: Carl the bookshop owner (real name David Frees)]] is just downright cruel. The poor guy wasn't even part of the Resistance, he was just minding his own business trying to make a living and stay under the radar. His only "crime" was escaping from a nazi death camp ten years earlier. After several minutes of interrogation and thinly-veiled threats, the Marshall announces that he knows who [[spoiler: Carl]] really is, then adds, "I'm gonna kill you now, and there's nothing you can say or do to change that."
** Then we see him pursue Juliana twice. Both times, he moves at a leisurely pace, gleefully taunting her. The second time, she's frantically trying to start a car while the Marshall approaches menacingly, brandishing the shotgun he fully intends to blow her head off with. The creepy bastard actually yells at her to take her foot off the gas pedal, because she's flooding the motor. Then he doesn't even drive fast in pursuit. He's ''savoring'' her fear every step of the way. Seriously, the guy's a fucking ''disease''.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: As mentioned above, he is extremely skilled at finding his targets.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Origami Man]]
!!The Origami Man

->'''Played By:''' Allan Havey
----
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:When he's exposed as a Nazi agent, Juliana and Joe drop him off a dam.]]
* NoNameGiven: His true name is never mentioned. He's dubbed after the origami he makes to call Juliana's attention.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carl]]
!!Carl[[spoiler:/David P. Frees]]

->'''Played By:''' Allan Havey

A bookstore clerk in Canon City
----
[[/folder]]

!German Residents

[[folder:Wegener]]
!!SS ''Standartenführer'' Rudolph Wegener
->'''Played By:''' Carsten Norgaard

A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back.
----
* TheAtoner: World War Two and the subsequent genocides clearly left Rudolph guilty, and he seeks to atone for it.
* CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:His book counterpart survives the events of the book. He is DrivenToSuicide in the final episode of the first season.]]
* MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany.
* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Is provided one first by Heydrich (kill Hitler or lose everything you love), and then much more effectively by Hitler (kill Hitler and get solace for previous genocides he had participated in, or kill himself and keep solace in the fact that he is not causing an even worse genocide of the Japanese).]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: The war left some massive psychological scars on him.
* ShutUpHannibal: When Hitler says that Wegener was lost when he lost his faith in the Reich, Wegener snarls, "I was lost the first time I committed evil in your name!"
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the "good" Nazi of the show, being moral and seeing the errors of Nazi ideology. He knows that he's definitely ''not'' a good man after the things he's done, and [[TheAtoner he wants to make it right any way he can]].
* YourCheatingHeart: He appears to have extra-marital affairs, though in his defense it seems his wife and he are separated in all but name.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heydrich]]
!!UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich
->'''Played By:''' Ray Proscia

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, his faction is [[spoiler:the faction that opposes a nuclear war with Japan]]. Here, he's depicted as a complete sociopath. This may not necessarily be much of an upgrade in villainy, since his book counterpart is more like [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the least evil of a number of evil Nazi factions]] rather than not being evil at all.
* CardCarryingVillain: When Smith recites his nickname, the "Man with the Iron Heart", Heydrich admits that he's particularly fond of that one.
* TheChessmaster: He's slowly orchestrating a coup against the Führer.
* TheDragon: Turns out he didn't plan on becoming Führer himself but was acting on under the orders of [[spoiler:Heusmann.]]
* TheDreaded: Everyone treats him with a heavy dose of fear.
-->'''Helen''': Heydrich scares me, John. H-He says it's for the glory of the Reich, but he enjoys the things that he does.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Heydrich was a real person, and was even more monstrous in reality. This is the man who ''thought up the Holocaust''.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: By his own admission to Schmidt's children, he's proud to have literally hunted down "subhumanoids" in Africa.
* RedBaron: "The Man Without a Heart", Smith dubs him, and he wears the title proudly. Also counts for the historical Heydrich, who was dubbed "The Butcher of Prague". Hitler himself called Heydrich "The Man with an Iron Heart", and a common joke before Heydrich's death was that he served as "Himmler's Brain".
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Heydrich's attempted coup to overthrow Hitler gets undone by Hitler himself, who already knew the coup was coming thanks to the film reels.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In a manner of speaking. In real life, Heydrich was killed by the Czech resistance ''in 1942'', before the Germans even began to lose the war, while in this universe he's still alive literally twenty years later, in 1962.
* TheSociopath: He is planning to start a nuclear war that would kill millions in the process and doesn't show a single ounce of regret or remorse for that matter.
* TheStarscream: He doesn't hide the fact that he wants to overthrow Hitler in a coup.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hitler]]
!!Führer UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler
->'''Played By:''' Wolf Muser


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* AdaptationalHeroism: ''The Man in the High Castle'' may be the only form of media ever to portray Hitler as [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the lesser of two evils]]. (By comparison, in the original novel, he was locked in lunatic asylum by his own allies).
* AntiVillain: It tells you a lot about the world of ''The Man in the High Castle'' that Adolf Hitler qualifies as an Anti-Villain. Hitler is the only thing stopping the Nazis from going out and bombing the Japanese.
* BarrierMaiden: Him being alive is the only reason the alternate 1962 is still peaceful and not a nuclear wasteland. Japan and Germany are still at peace, because Hitler respects the Japanese and sees them as equals. Should Hitler die, his successor, probably Himmler or Goebbels, would definitely attack the Japanese Empire in an attempt at full world domination, resulting in another but more devastating war.
* BigBad: He's the man most responsible for the horrors of the setting, including the multiple genocides, atomic bombings, and state-driven terrorization and repression of its own people. [[spoiler:This becomes a subversion after the reveal that his more hardline followers want to start another war with Japan, whereas [[EvenEvilHasStandards he is opposed to such action]].]]
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Just like in real life, Hitler's greatest weapon was his oratory powers. He shows his skill with this in the finale as he manages to stop Rudolph Wegener from assassinating him through a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Slipping into a coma from poison administered on behalf of Martin Heusmann, Hitler dies in his sleep in Season 2's end.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He opposes a nuclear war with Japan, because he correctly recognizes the devastation it would cause to the entire world.]]
* EvilVirtues: He may still be a genocidal warlord in this setting, but [[spoiler:he respects the Japanese enough to oppose a nuclear war that would in all likelihood destroy the planet.]] Plus, he's completely unshaken even while being held at gunpoint, and unwilling to let his apparently deteriorating health affect his actions in any way.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: This is fairly self-evident.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Purely on the basis of [[spoiler:not favouring a nuclear war with Japan]], he astonishingly manages to be less evil than other Nazi factions.
* NervesOfSteel: Stays completely calm when being held at gunpoint, despite knowing the wielder of the gun clearly intends to kill him.
* OlderAndWiser: A twisted and darker example of this trope. [[spoiler: Thanks to the ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' movies, this Hitler seems aware of his fate and the Third Reich's fate in other realities, and here he is trying to preserve his legacy by trying to prevent a nuclear war between Germany and Japan.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He has largely secluded himself to his mountainside castle, not involving himself much with the day-to-day running of the empire he built. The main threat of the series is the SuccessionCrisis that would result in the event of his death leading to a possible nuclear war with Japan.
* ProperlyParanoid: Hitler stays in a fortified castle far away from urban areas and is always guarded by a SS contingent 24/7. He even keeps pistols within reach in his room.
--> '''Heydrich''': Our leader's paranoia at least has one advantage. He hides weapons everywhere.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Everyone talks about how he does not have long to live, but he himself acts like nothing is wrong.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Himmler]]
!!Reichsführer SS[[spoiler:/Führer]] Heinrich Himmler
->'''Played By:''' Kenneth Tigar

Hitler's number two.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: In an ironic twist, at the end of season 2 he makes a big speech about [[spoiler:Heusmann]]'s betrayal of Hitler being an abominable act. The historical Himmler tried to make a deal with the Allies behind Hitler's back at the end of the war in a pathetic attempt to save his own skin.
* BigBad: After Hitler's death and Heusmann's arrest, Himmler is left leading the Reich and takes center stage as the main antagonist, being behind much of the conflict of season 3.
* CastingGag: Kenneth Tigar played the old man in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' who refused to kneel to Loki, essentially saying that he (Loki) was like the Nazis.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Himmler is portrayed with quite a deep, booming voice.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Like his historical counterpart he has round glasses which enhance his icy demeanor.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Himmler was the Reichsführer-SS, Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Likely on purpose. In real life, Himmler attempted to sell Hitler's skin to save his own life, while in the show he seems a steadfast supporter. However, this is likely because the Nazis ''won'' in this world, so Himmler had no reason to falter in his loyalty. The fact that his rival Hermann Goering was executed in this timeline for attempting a coup against Hitler also presumably dissuaded Himmler.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has Nicole arrested and sent to a [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace "re-education facility"]] for her bisexual lifestyle, specifically calling it "perversion." Himmler is suspected to have been bisexual himself, though unlike his archenemy Ernst Röhm, he seems to have kept quiet about it. Such hypocrisy would not be unusual for the nazi leadership.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Subverted. Initially Himmler appears to be a saner option compared to Heusmann, but it's later revealed that Heusmann's ambition to TakeOverTheWorld pales in comparison to Himmler's ambition to [[MultiversalConqueror Take Over ALL Worlds]].
* MultiversalConqueror: He orders the construction of the ''[[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Nebenswelt]]'' so that the Nazis can expand their empire across the multiverse.
* RankUp: He becomes the new Fuehrer after Hitler's death and Heusmann's arrest for his murder.
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler:He concluded Joe's assassin brainwashing by forcing Joe to shoot his own father, which went too far and turned Joe into a SerialKiller. After Jarr Null concludes with the destruction of the Statue of Liberty, Himmler doesn't bat an eye or clap his hands. It's only after the pro-Nazi riots start burning down buildings and beating civilians on the street to death, that he starts ''smiling and laughing'' and comparing it to how he enjoyed Kristallnacht, preventing public services from stepping in, and standing on the open sidewalk to watch it firsthand. [[LaserGuidedKarma This gets him shot]].]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He's shot by the resistance at the end of season 3. His fate is uncertain as Smith states he's still in the middle of surgery.]]
* VillainousRescue: Himmler's arrest of Heusmann is what stops the world from entering into a nuclear war.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heusmann]]
!!Reichsminister Martin Heusmann
->'''Played By:''' Sebastian Roché

A minister of Nazi Germany
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* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Seemingly appeared as the BigBad at the end of Season 2, after assassinating Hitler, however, at the beginning of Season 3, he is executed by his own son]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He pretended to lack ambition and look weak so that Hitler would choose him as his successor as acting Chancellor. In fact, he was plotting against Hitler all along and even poisoned him to take over.]]
* TheChessmaster: In actuality he has been [[spoiler: playing a long gambit to put himself in charge and destroy Japan, the sole remaining rival to absolute Nazi [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].]]
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:He's Joe's father who was always absent. Subverted in that he claims he didn't abandon Joe, his mother took their son with her to the United States when she became disgusted with the Nazi ideology.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Heusmann is a unrepentant genocidal Nazi, but he does actually seem to care for his son and wishes to make amends. He also talks with sorrow about having lost his wife and other children during the war.
* KnightTemplar: Never doubts that he's entirely right in his quest to wipe out the lesser races so the Aryan race can live in absolute harmony.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Heydrich, who plotted to overthrow Hitler and declare war on Japan, was actually working for Heusmann, making him a GreaterScopeVillain for season 1.]]
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He's possibly a stand-in for Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect (and self-claimed "only friend"), as Speer's fate in this alternate history is not elaborated upon anywhere so far, or else Heusmann was Speer's successor.
* TheStarscream: He was the mastermind and benefitiary of [[spoiler:Heydrich's plot to overthrow Hitler.]]
* VisionaryVillain: He aims to end conflict from Earth by [[spoiler:committing genocide against the Japanese so only the "Master Race" remains and may live in peace.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nicole]]
!!Nicole Dormer
->'''Played By:''' Bella Heathcote

The daughter of a wealthy farmacist
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* AntiNihilist: Takes delight in the mortality of all men and how utterly meaningless their endeavors are. Mainly in that the mistakes of one generation cannot last forever.
* TheBeautifulElite: Like Joe, Nicole is very pretty [[spoiler:and a product of the Lebensborn.]]
* BiTheWay: She's a love interest for Joe, but also seduces a female reporter in season 3.
* BourgeoisBohemian: She's part of a nascent subculture among the German youth (Nazi hippies!) that enjoys the luxuries of the Reich but is also beginning to question their parents' generation and exploring with drugs and free love. Despite this she remains a firm follower of Nazi ideology.
* HoneyTrap: Joe deduces that his meeting Nicole was no chance encounter. She confirms his suspicions when she tells him that his father, a high ranking Nazi, set her on Joe to give him another reason to stay in Berlin. [[spoiler: This ends up working a little too well, as they actually start liking each other, and by the end of the second season it's implied that they've begun a relationship.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: For Joe, though a twisted example given she's a Nazi. He is about to go back to New York after his disillusionment with his position in the German power pyramid before Nicole becomes his new love interest and renews some energy in him.
* {{Nepotism}}: She clarifies that she's Joseph Goebbels's niece [[NonAnswer "in a manner of speaking"]]. Given Goebbels's penchant for philandering and that she is ''lebensborn'', it's likely that she is actually his bastard daughter. In any case, she isn't afraid to use his position as Reichsminister of Propaganda to get herself a lucrative propaganda film project.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: She's able to get out of being arrested under the GNR's anti-homosexuality laws when she's caught in a police raid on a lesbian bar by using her position in the Nazi Propaganda Ministry and status as a German national. [[spoiler:However, this only gets her so far, since it turns out that the raid was ordered by Himmler himself, who then has her shipped back to Germany for "re-education".]]

[[/folder]]

!Japan Residents

[[folder:The Crown Prince]]
!!Akihito
->'''Played By:''' Daisuke Tsui

The Crown Prince of the Japanese Emprie and heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like in real life, he's the son of Emperor Hirohito
* NoNameGiven: His name is not mentioned, presumably to enforce NoCelebritiesWereHarmed without resorting to change his name, since Akihito is still alive and is the current Emperor of Japan.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Crown Princess]]
!!Michiko Shōda
->'''Played By:''' Mayumi Yoshida

The Crown Prince's wife
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like in real life, she's the wife of Akihito
* NoNameGiven: Her name is not mentioned, presumably to enforce NoCelebritiesWereHarmed without resorting to change her name, since Empress Michiko is still alive.

[[/folder]]

![[spoiler:Alternate San Francisco]] residents

[[folder:Michiko]]
!!Michiko Tagomi
->'''Played By:''' Yukari Komatsu

Tagomi's wife. She's [[spoiler:alive in an alternate reality in which the Allies won the war.]]
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* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. [[spoiler:She's dead in Tagomi's native "Axis victory" reality, but alive in the alternate "Allied victory" reality.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nori]]
!!Noriyuke Tagomi
->'''Played By:''' Eddie Shin

Tagomi's son. He's [[spoiler:alive in an alternate reality in which the Allies won the war. And married to Juliana Crain]]
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* {{Eagleland}}: Proudly declares himself an American citizen to his father.
* HappilyMarried: With [[spoiler: Juliana in the alternate timeline]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. [[spoiler:He's dead in Tagomi's native "Axis victory" reality, but alive in the alternate "Allied victory" reality.]]
* WarIsHell: Just like his wife, both protest America's involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[[spoiler: Alternate Juliana]]]]
!! Juliana Tagomi
An alternate version of Juliana Crain, married to Tagomi's son. Here she is seen leading a protest against atomic bombs, during the Cuba missile crisis.

* HappilyMarried With Noriyuke in the alternate timeline.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to her main series counterpart. While the Juliana in the Axis victory timeline is a BrokenBird due to living in a CrapsackWorld and killed several people out of necessity, this Juliana is happily married and has a child.
* WarIsHell: She is an activist protesting America's involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[[spoiler: Alternate Tagomi]]]]
!! Alternate Nobusuke Tagomi
An alternate version of Tagomi. It is implied he was disgruntled by the victory the Americans had over the Japanese Empire in his timeline. Therefore, he took out this frustration on his family, estranging them from him. The Tagomi from the series' timeline temporarily takes his place though his dimension traveling.

* TheAlcoholic: Appears to drink pretty heavily and when he does this things get rather unpleasant (see DomesticAbuse below)
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Implied [[spoiler: Julianna tells the original timeline version of Tagomi that she was worried he'd died after he disappeared into the fog one night and didn't return for months.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: He is either close to it or already passed it. He never got over the loss his country suffered against the Americans, while his son married the American Juliana Crain and is embracing the American culture more and more, distancing himself from his Japanese heritage. As a result, Nobusuke became a violent and unpleasant man, to the point where his wife wants to divorce him. It is implied he tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge.
* DomesticAbuse: Seeing as his wife wants to divorce him and his son does not let him near his grandson, this Tagomi doesn't seem like a nice guy to his family.
* GrumpyOldMan: Because his country lost World War II and his son is forsaking the Japanese traditions he values, his disposition is not a very bright one.

[[/folder]]

!Others

[[folder:The Man in the High Castle]]
!!The Man in the High Castle / [[spoiler:Hawthorne Abendsen]]
->'''Played By:''' [[spoiler:Stephen Root]]

The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RMS for creating anti-fascist movies to distribute them to anti-government groups secretly. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he doesn't create them; he collects them, and uses the knowledge he attains from them in an attempt to avert nuclear war.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Lies to Juliana at the beginning of Season 2 knowing from the films that she will disregard his instructions and kill George, indirectly saving the world by preventing John Smith from getting arrested.]]
* BigGood: It's revealed that the American resistance is kept aloft by his aid, which they strangely enough get just by sending him the Grasshopper film reels. In fact, [[spoiler: the Resistance may ''only'' exist because The Man in the High Castle finds them useful, as his analysis of the films does much more to help save the world than their guerrilla tactics.]]
* TheChessmaster: He has seen so many films from so many realities his plans and endgame have an almost incomprehensible depth and complexity to them.
* HumbleBeginnings: He was originally just a projectionist who decided to create a fake film, using cut-and-paste headlines and older victory parades, to create a fake news-reel that shows The Allies winning the war. Later, when showing the original to Julia, [[spoiler:she sees a clip of herself as a little girl and realizes that she is in all the films that have been brought over.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: He sings random hymns and marching songs to himself [[spoiler:during his incarceration by the Nazis in season 3. Himmler is not fooled one bit and orders his underlings to keep a close watch on him.]]
* TheOmniscient: Of the functional variety. The films have given him such a depth of understanding in the causes and effects of alternate timelines that he knows exactly what has to be done to alter the entire course of history.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: [[spoiler: He doesn't appear at all in the first season and has a small amount of screen time in the second and third]], but he's one of the most important characters in the show.
* ShroudedInMyth: He's known for making anti-fascist movies and distributes them to anti-government forces. Or so it seems. Resistance members later reveal that he doesn't create the films, he ''collects'' them. It seems that most resistance members have no more clue about him than anyone else, only sending the films via third party. [[spoiler:Disturbingly enough, the end of season one implies that he may in fact be ''Hitler'', who has been collecting film reels for some unknown purpose. This is subverted when he's revealed to be a different person in the season two premiere. Hitler doesn't even know who or where he is. Strangely, this episode also reveals that Hitler and the Man in the High Castle share at least one common goal: both are working to avert a nuclear war.]]
* StopOrIShootMyself: [[spoiler:Threatens to do this when the Nazi agents reveal themselves at his farm with his wife Catherine held hostage. He stands down after Smith makes it very clear that AFateWorseThanDeath awaits his wounded wife should he go along with it.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: He's so integral to the meaning and mystery of the films that it's almost impossible to discuss him without spoiling something.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[[spoiler: Alternate Trudy]]]]
!!Alternate Trudy Walker
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/425627.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:210:Hey, sis.]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ConorLeslie

An alternate version of Juliana Crain's deceased half-sister Trudy. [[spoiler:She has come to the Axis-ruled reality, and Abendsen brings her and Juliana together.]]
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* BrokenBird: Much more so than Juliana and seemingly the late Trudy. The death of her Juliana, experiencing life in totalitarian worlds, and learning of what happened to her own counterpart, clearly becomes traumatic for her. And it doesn't help that living in a world she doesn't belong in is making her sick.
* PutOnABus: She's forced to return to her own timeline when Juliana's timeline makes her ill.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fatima]]
!!Fatima Hassan
->'''Played By:''' Dianne Greenwood

A woman kept and experimented on in a Reich laboratory [[spoiler:by Dr. Mengele, after being captured and identified as a DimensionalTraveler from an alternate reality]].
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Kept in an induced coma, Hassan is awake for only a moment and speaks a single word [[spoiler:before vanishing right in front of Mengele and Obergruppenführer Smith, escaping to another reality]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Alternate John Smith]]
!!John Smith
->'''Played By:''' Rufus Sewell

John Smith in an alternate reality where the US still exists. He is first seen in Season 3 through film reels the main John Smith is watching.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Alternate Thomas Smith]]
!!Thomas Smith
->'''Played By:''' Quinn Lord

Thomas Smith in an alternate reality where the US still exists. He is first seen in Season 3 through film reels the main John Smith is watching.
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[[/folder]]
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!!SS Obergruppenführer John Smith

* {{Deuteragonist}}: It's made increasingly and abundantly clear that [[VillainProtagonist he]] is intended to be this of the show this whole time coupled with being TheHeavy, [[spoiler:especially after the death of [[DecoyProtagonist Frank Fink]], the original holder of this trope, at the hands of of his personal ArchEnemy Kido in season 3]].
* TheDragon: In season 3 he becomes the trusted right-hand man of the new Fuehrer, Heinrich Himmler, who is grooming Smith as his successor.

* FallenHero: A former member of the United States military during the Second World War, who joined the SS after the Axis victory.

* HumiliationConga: Suffers a major, multi-layered one in season 3. [[spoiler:His wife and children leave him due to his strict adherence to the Nazi ideology ruining any chance at healthy communication between the two--any successes he obtains as Reichsmarshall become instantly more hollow as a result. Later on, the Nazis manage to create a device for interdimensional conquest, but Juliana brings up to Smith the wee fact that the Nazis clearly [[DidntThinkThisThrough aren't anticipating the apparent dangers of going to war against other dimensions]] (especially those that have [[HereWeGoAgain toppled the Nazis already]]), and are unable to choose which dimensions to invade anyway due to the limitations of the device]]. Smith remains afloat despite all these revelations, [[spoiler:then Fuhrer Himmler gets shot on his watch, and the Man in the High Castle reveals that no one can travel to another dimension without their AlternateDimensionCounterpart being dead first, meaning that any attempt at an interdimensional invasion will likely result in mass Nazi deaths]]. And ''then'' [[spoiler:Juliana wills herself to travel to another dimension right in front of Smith's eyes, ''right'' as he shoots her in the chest, causing the once stoic Reichsmarshall to [[NotSoStoic fall slack-jawed]]]].

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the post-war American Nazi Party, and was assassinated in 1967.

%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder:

!!UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler

!!Heinrich Himmler

* BourgeoisBohemian: She's part of a nascent subculture among the German youth (Nazi hippies!) that enjoys the luxuries of the Reich but is also beginning to question their parents' generation and exploring with drugs and free love.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: [[spoiler:He falls into a romance with a Japanese-American resistance fighter after Juliana leaves for the GNR, but ends up separated from her and the Resistance after planting a bomb which kills General Okada as well as a number of Kido's men. He reunites with Juliana in Season 3.]]

* ReplacementLoveInterest: He appears to build up to be this for Julianna, [[spoiler:especially following the deaths of the latter's original lovers Frank and Joe]].

* LikeaSontoMe: Smith tells Joe that he regards him as a son in some ways.

%%* LesCollaborateurs:

* Sadist: [[spoiler:After Jarr Null concludes with the destruction of the Statue of Liberty, Himmler doesn't bat an eye or clap his hands. It's only after the pro-Nazi riots start burning down buildings and beating civilians on the street to death when he starts ''smiling and laughing'' and comparing it to how he enjoyed Kristallnacht, preventing public services from stepping in, and standing in the middle of the street to watch it firsthand. [[LaserGuidedKarma This gets him shot]].]]

* AntiVillain: Sympathetic and not without moral compass, Joe is definitely one of the more complex characters on the Nazis' side. [[spoiler:Sadly, when his eventual brainwashing by Himmler renders him fully subservient to the Reich's cause, Juliana is forced to kill him in self-defense]].

!!John Smith
->'''Played By:''' Quinn Lordl

* BrokenBird: Much more so than Juliana and seemingly the late Trudy. The death of her Juliana, experiencing life in totalitarian worlds, and learning of what happened to her own counterpart, clearly becomes traumatic for her.