History Characters / TimeAfterTime

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidWarner (film),

->'''Played By:''' Creator/FreddieStroma

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidWarner

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshBowman

->'''Played By:''' Josh Bowman

->'''Played By:''' Nicole Ari Parker

->'''Played By:''' Freddie Stroma

* {{Adorkable}}: H.G. is a charming puppy dog of a man. Even Jane says that he's cute.

* MarriedToTheJob: Was married before, but now determine to remain single and work on his first book.

* SerialKiller: One of the earliest and most famous examples.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Is very excited to be helping H.G. with the time traveling.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Is very charmed by H.G.

->'''Played By:''' Genesis Rodriguez

!!H.G. Wells

A prestigious surgeon who is a friend of budding writer H.G. Wells, who is also Jack the Ripper.

* HuntingtheMostDangerousGame: As it turns out, he killed not just prostitutes, but homeless people, because no one would notice.

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* Pride: He is not happy to know that he is forgotten in history while H.G. is a famed author.

* SerialKiller: One of the earliest and famous examples.

* JumpsAttheCall: Is very excited to be helping H.G. with the time traveling.

->''""Things have greatly changed since 1843. I can no longer make cultural and society assumptions."."''

MarriedToTheJob: Was married before, but now determine to remain single and work on his first book.

** Pride: He is not happy to know that he is forgotten in history while H.G. is a famed author.
** MadDoctor: He is a doctor and Jack the Ripper.
** SerialKiller: One of the earliest and famous examples.

[[folder: Todd Brotzman]]
!!Todd Brotzman

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElijahWood

An out of work bellhop who stumbles into a bizarre murder scene, and everything in his life drastically changes. A random encounter with the eccentric detective, Dirk Gently, draws him into a web against his will.

* {{Adorkable}}: Shows just about the same amount of shades of this as Dirk.
* AntiHero: Todd has a habit of lying and stealing and has a overall defeatist attitude towards life, but he has it in him to be a genuinely good man.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Ends up being part of the investigation whether he likes it or not.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Todd is remorseful for his landlord's death, feeling that his actions ultimately lead to it. [[spoiler:He also faked having pararibulitis when he was in college so his parents would give him money without him needing to work. And after he bled his parents dry (without realizing), Amanda started presenting real symptoms.]]
* IllBoy: Suffered from an illness back in college that made him hallucinate and have intense pain. [[spoiler:Or so he told his parents. By the end of the first season, however, he contracts the disease for real.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After faking pararibulitis to his family in order to get their money, and lying for years to his sister about being cured of it, he really contracts the disease.]]
* OnceMoreWithClarity: In the first episode, Todd sees himself in the hotel with a black eye, a shirt with the Stars & Stripes, and a fur coat. Later on, when Dirk gives him the shirt, Todd realizes that he will step into being the "other" Todd. [[spoiler:As of the seventh episode, he's got the black eye (from Estevez) and the fur coat (from Gordon Rimmer in the confusion).]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: After losing his job, becoming a murder suspect and have his apartment trashed, Todd sees that the lottery ticket he found is the winning one (not the jackpot, but enough to repair the apartment and his car).
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Dirk, who he tries his best to avoid being friends with in the first place.
* TheWatson: He is increasingly growing into this role as the first season progresses.
* WebOfLies: [[spoiler:He faked having pararibulitis in college so his parents would give him money, and flunked out of college due to spending all of his time with his band. Later he sold his band's instruments to pay off his apartment, told his bandmates that they were stolen, and pitted his family against his band so neither would SpotTheThread. When Amanda ''really'' contracted the disease, Todd faked being "cured" to stop the payments, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone but his parents had already gone broke without him realizing]]. He continued to claim he was cured of it to give Amanda hope for her own condition. It is soon after he confessed that he starts exhibiting symptoms for real.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Once he comes to terms with the existence of psychics, Todd believes he himself may have had a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone vision of the future]] back in the first episode. [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop is completely ignored as a possibility, and even ''after'' using the time machine, he still insists that he's one step ahead of Dirk because he had a vision.]]
* YouMonster: To Dirk [[spoiler:upon finding out the latter has lied to him about meeting with Future-Dirk beforehand and told him "3 Questions, One Answer" and to seek out Todd, and that Dirk was hiding the truth about knowing time travel was involved.]]
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[[folder: Amanda Brotzman]]
!!Amanda Brotzman
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->'''Played By:''' Hannah Marks

Todd's younger sister. She suffers from Pararibulitis, the same illness that Todd had.

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* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:After Todd confesses to his WebOfLies, Amanda angrily leaves his apartment and joins the Rowdy Three, insisting that Todd is exactly the asshole everyone says he is. She later calms down over this to a certain extent, but she continues to stay with the Rowdy Three.]]
* IllGirl: She currently suffers from pararibulitis, an illness that makes her hallucinate and have intense pain.
* JumpedAtTheCall: She desperately wants to help Dirk with his investigation.
-->'''Todd:''' I don't want to drag you into it.
-->'''Amanda:''' Drag me! I want to get dragged!
* {{Hikikomori}}: She has resolved to just stay in her house.
* MoralityPet: Todd would do anything for her.
** [[spoiler:She's also one for the Rowdy Three, who go out of their way to protect her. When the Project Blackwing agents come for them, Martin's first priority is getting her to safety.]]
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: [[spoiler:After meeting the Rowdy Three, her hallucinations start to include visions of the future.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: For Todd and Farah. She asks Todd to bring his "cool guy jacket" to impress her.
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[[folder: Farah Black]]
!! Farah Black
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->'''Played By:''' Jade Eshete

A neurotic, bad-ass security officer to a millionaire, Farah has brooding, nervous energy and an easy snarl that’s triggered at the slightest provocation. A tactical prodigy, Farah is a dominant figure who is also a bit odd… much more than she's prepared to accept. She subconsciously talks to herself and if provoked, unleashes a biting deadpan sarcasm. After her boss is killed and his daughter kidnapped, Farah is determined to solve the case alongside Dirk and Todd without the help of police. She makes every attempt to keep the group safe, even if she herself isn’t so sure she’s capable of doing so.

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* ActionGirl: She is able to take down even [[spoiler:Bart]] in this regard.
%%* {{Adorkable}}:
* AmbiguousDisorder: It's not entirely clear what psychological issues she's dealing with, but there obviously are some there.
* BadassInDistress: In her first appearance.
* BadassNormal: As much as she beats herself up about failing to protect the Springs, she is remarkably good at her job. [[spoiler:She even manages to take down ''Bart''.]]
* CrazyPrepared: She keeps lockpicks in her bra.
* DefiantCaptive: She spends the whole first episode trying to escape her captor's apartment.
* SpottingTheThread: Effortlessly dresses down a fake FBI agent who had been pestering Amanda.
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[[folder: Bartine "Bart" Curlish]]
!! Bartine "Bart" Curlish
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->'''Played By:''' Fiona Dourif

A holistic assassin who's on her way to kill Dirk Gently.

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* AffablyEvil: She is nice enough to Ken, despite being a serial killer who brutally murders anyone else she encounters.
* AntiVillain: She only kills bad people, but she is still completely remorseless about doing so.
* ArrowCatch: Part of her plot armor. [[spoiler: And since the drones use electrified crossbows she can make them break too.]]
* AxCrazy: She's introduced by getting out of her car and stabbing a man to death.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Whoever she encounters is who she's supposed to kill. [[spoiler:The strange thing is, she may actually be generally correct about this. Nearly everyone she has killed in the series to date was either already obviously a terrible person, or has been shown to have been after the fact. The only person she tries to kill who obviously isn't a terrible person is Dirk, and she doesn't succeed at killing him. Because she wasn't meant to.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A particularly dark example, although it does seem that a large number of her seemingly strange beliefs about the universe are in fact completely justified. Even with that in mind, she still qualifies.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a holistic ''assassin'' for a reason. She even takes down an entire gang to prove she isn't bluffing.
* {{Expy}}: She shares more than a few similarities with ''Series/OrphanBlack''[='=]s Helena [[spoiler:before the latter's HeelFaceTurn]], including her WildHair, her unflinching assassinations, and her lack of social skills. [[spoiler:She also shares some similarities with post-HeelFaceTurn Helena in that apparently, everyone she has killed was a terrible person.]] Given that the series are both BBC America productions, this may not be entirely coincidental.
* IgnoredEpiphany: During her VillainousBreakdown, she doesn't take the hint that [[spoiler:the universe prevented her from killing Dirk]] and shows interest in continuing. Ken shows doubts, however, and later points out that she was probably supposed to [[spoiler:protect Dirk]].
* ImmortalAssassin: No matter what situation she finds herself in, she manages to get out without a scratch and continue the hunt. [[spoiler:As long as she's supposed to ''hunt'', anyway. Her attempt to kill a target she's meant to protect makes her vulnerable.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Whether it's with a gun or a knife, she never misses; the universe guarantees that her targets will die, even if she didn't aim at them. In one instance, as Ken reminds her, she killed a man by ''waving at him''[[labelnote:*]] From across the street, prompting him to walk into oncoming traffic[[/labelnote]]. [[spoiler:This gets thrown completely into reverse when she finally catches up to Dirk, who manages to DodgeTheBullet several times in a row; her gun even jams at point-blank. It's later stated that Bart was (probably) supposed to ''protect'' Dirk.]]
* JokerImmunity: The universe basically prevents her from being harmed. [[spoiler:That is, until she tries to kill Dirk.]]
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: [[spoiler:Farah manages to stab her after the latter moves in to kill Dirk.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: How she chooses her targets -- she has psychic abilities that lead her to people who harm others. In her actress' words, she is "the Delete key of the universe".
* PlotArmor: The universe [[NighInvulnerability won't allow her to be harmed]], so for instance if she puts a gun to her head and pulls the trigger the gun will jam, then work perfectly well when she needs to use it to shoot somebody. One of her targets throws a knife at her at point-blank, but it hits pommel-first and bounces off, allowing a CatchAndReturn. [[spoiler:She suffers a VillainousBreakdown when Farah gives her a long-coming BeatDown, but even then, Ken notes that they still hadn't been ''caught'' all the way back to their hotel room, so the armor was still in effect.]]
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: All of her killing prowess comes with a certain level of isolation and childlike obliviousness. She doesn't understand getting what she needs/wants from anything other than murder.
* ShadowArchetype: Shares Dirk's "everything is connected" philosophy. [[spoiler:They each realize this about the other when she finally catches up to him, which leaves her bewildered.]]
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[[folder: Ken]]
!! Ken
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->'''Played By:''' Mpho Koaho

A nerdy, friendly-faced tech trapped in increasingly difficult and bloody circumstances, Ken’s side job as a hacker lands him face-to-face with some odious characters, including Bart, a self-identified holistic assassin.

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* ActionSurvivor: Slowly turns into one thanks to Bart's violent antics.
* AntiHero: Admits to helping criminals for money, but is ultimately a decent guy.
%%* AloneWithThePsycho: Yes, Bart is definitely a psycho.
* BlackAndNerdy: His first scene was of him doing a job on his laptop.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Once he gets on board with Bart, he's in charge of helping her navigate through civilization and making sure they don't get arrested.
* DistressedDude: Before he befriends Bart.
* GirlyRun: Seen when running away from Bart.
* OnlySaneMan: To be fair, anyone would look sane next to Bart.
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[[folder: Spoiler Character]]
!!Patrick Spring / Zachariah Webb

->'''Played By:''' Julian [=McMahon=]
An enigmatic recluse, murdered at the start of the series under mysterious circumstances.

* GadgeteerGenius: He built a time machine that doubles as an unlimited electrical supply and a soul transference device using 1880s technology.
* GunsAkimbo: He dual wields a pair of [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]] tricked out with extended drum magazines.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: His life is dedicated to fighting the body-swapping cult and ultimately meets the end of his life because of it.
* PosthumousCharacter: Subverted. His younger self is very much alive. [[TimeyWimeyBall Kinda.]]
* SteampunkGadgeteers: His armor resembles this.

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[[folder: The Rowdy Three]]
!!The Rowdy Three
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->'''Played By:''' Michael Eklund (Marty), Osric Chau (Vogle), Viv Leacock (Gripps) and Zak Santiago (Cross)

A group of four AxCrazy delinquents who feed on human emotions, particularly fear, by wreaking havoc to freak out their victims..

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* AxCrazy: All of them, but particularly Vogle and Cross.
* BatterUp: The group's weapon of choice.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They ''do'' appear to have a moral code; it's just incomprehensible to anyone not them.
* CrowbarCombatant: In addition to the above baseball bats, they're also fond of these.
* EmotionEater: They cause terror on humans by attacking them, then feed on their resulting panic. [[spoiler: This has the side effect of stopping Amanda's hallucinations.]]
* NonIndicativeName:
-->'''Dirk:''' The Rowdy 3!\\
'''Todd:''' There are ''four'' of them.\\
'''Dirk:''' I'm ''wildly'' aware!
* FiveTokenBand: The Rowdy Three have one white member, one black member, one Asian member, and one Latino member. They later end up getting a female member ([[spoiler: Amanda]]).
%%* AntiVillain
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Were some of the child subjects of CIA Blackwing project.
* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks with Hearts of Gold]]: The Rowdy Three might be ultraviolent anarchists, but they genuinely care about Amanda's well-being and will unload a van load of pain on anyone who tries to harm her.
* WindowPain: After Amanda gets fed up with them taunting her from their van outside her house, she throws a brick at them. Later, they return the brick to her, chucking it through her window with a note reading "Hi!" tied to it.