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[[folder:Bella Cullen, née Swan]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/KristenStewart

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Isabella "Bella" Swan is the main heroine of ''The Twilight Saga''. After her mother gets remarried, she moves from Arizona to Forks to live with her father. Having gone in only expecting another [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary stay]] at the town, she's met with a heavenly surprise when she spots an impossibly gorgeous group of newcomers known as [[TheBeautifulElite the Cullens]] at her high school. And among them, she meets her subsequent [[SatelliteLoveInterest soulmate]], [[StalkerWithACrush Edward Cullen]]. It's only through a [[RescueRomance sequence of contrived events]], she discovers that these God-like beauties are actually a clan of fabled creatures known as vampires. But, [[TooDumbToLive rather than being shocked]] by this discovery, instead she decides she's in love with Edward leading them to hook up and venture into a forbidden love. She describes herself as being klutzy, easily bruised and of weak constitution. She also [[InformedFlaw claims to be quite plain in appearance]], but takes pride in being [[InformedAbility very well read]], and even moreso in being able to [[BlatantLies function by herself]] and having the [[InformedAbility wisdom of a woman twice her age]].
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* ActionMom: After she has a child and [[spoiler:becomes a vampire]], in that order. Subverted in that [[spoiler:she never actually gets to do any fighting in the end]], and at most she hunts some mountain lions and deer which are no match at all for her vampire strength. Played straight in the climax of the final film.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Bella thinks of herself as rather plain and unfashionable, while Kristen Stewart plays her in the movies. Then again, considering how much of a DudeMagnet she seems to be at her high school, she's presumably [[IAmNotPretty more attractive than she lets on]].
* AdaptationalBadass: In the films, she gets a few moments that make her more badass than she was in the books. In ''Twilight'', when she's surrounded by creeps in Port Angeles she manages to [[GroinAttack knee one of them in the groin]] before Edward swoops in. She later uses pepper spray on James; it doesn't do much, but points for trying. In ''Eclipse'', she cuts her arm with a rock to distract Victoria and Riley to help Edward (in the book, she merely contemplates ''stabbing'' herself with it, but the fight is over pretty quickly before she can do anything). Finally, in ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'', she actually gets to participate in the battle with the Volturi and takes out several vampires, including [[spoiler: [[BigBad Aro himself]] with Edward's help, even though it does turn out to be only a vision]].
* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the novel, she's described as having silky straight hair. Creator/KristenStewart sported a wavy hairstyle in the films.
* AfraidOfBlood: It causes her to faint in the first book, though there is nothing delicate about it and her description of the incident. Bella herself, though, is pretty delicate: she nearly fainted just from ''smelling'' a few drops of blood from part-way across the room.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She wants to date Edward even though he is "dangerous," and also starts to gain interest in Jacob only ''after'' he becomes a werewolf. She is put off by Edward when he first acts gruff with her, but, weirdly enough, is never deterred by him [[StalkingIsLove stalking]] or manhandling her, nor by the knowledge that he has killed hundreds of people. However, she doesn't seem to use the stereotypical justifications ("[[ICanChangeMyBeloved I can change you]]", "He was just having a bad day"), and is (as noted) originally creeped out by Edward's hostile behavior towards her (though she is, amusingly, always DistractedByTheSexy). Her reaction to Jacob's change of personality is basically: "How dare you abandon me after making me emotionally dependent on you? Also, I think you joined a cult. Also, that's hot."
* AllMythsAreTrue: Bella wonders if this is the case after learning about werewolves.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Just ''try'' coming up with an instance where Bella ''doesn't'' mention Edward's impossible beauty within the same vicinity as him. Better yet, [[{{Drinking Game}} bring a beer along]] and [[{{Schmuck Bait}} see how it goes]]. Also, between her and Edward, Bella is the one who repeatedly pushes for more physical intimacy in their relationship (mostly in taking things to [[TheirFirstTime the next level]]), but gets rebuffed each time. Knowledge that Edward can very easily lose control and kill her during sex never stops her for long.
* AmbiguousDisorder: In ''New Moon'':
** She becomes [[HeroicBSOD very depressed]] after Edward leaves her: she suffers from horrific nightmares, becomes apathetic about everything, withdraws from others and even seems to harbour suicidal thoughts, believing her life isn't worth continuing without Edward. This continues for months on end; even a year later, she's only slightly improved.
** She also begins [[HearingVoices hearing Edward's voice]], and in the film adaptation she outright [[HelpfulHallucination hallucinates him]]. This is usually only when she's engaged in risky behaviour, causing her to start pulling stunts like approaching random bikers (one of whom she actually mistakes for her ''would-be rapist''), jumping off cliffs into the ocean, hiking in the woods by herself whilst a killer is on the loose, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riding a motorcycle without a helmet]] just so she can hear Edward. There is no suggestion that there is a supernatural cause for this.
* AnalogyBackfire: In ''Eclipse'', Bella compares herself to Cathy of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' and her love for Edward to Cathy's love for Heathcliff, seemingly forgetting there is actually an Isabella in the same novel who ''does'' marry Heathcliff... [[DomesticAbuse to disastrous effect.]]
* AntiMagic: Bella has a pretty minor version of this, but most vampire powers (not counting purely physical ones) don't seem to work well on her, even while she's still human. Edward for instance can read nearly every mind but hers, and she can't be found directly with clairvoyance.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** When she finds out Edward has [[StalkerWithACrush broken into her house]] more than once, even before they were dating, to sit in her bedroom and watch her sleep, Bella is more concerned that he heard her talking in her sleep.
** Upon discovering that Edward is a vampire and can read minds, she freaks out... because he says he can't read hers, which makes her think that she's the freakish one. This is {{Lampshaded}}.
** Bella is disturbed to find out that [[spoiler:Jacob has imprinted on her daughter]], but manages to keep her self control about it. Until she finds out [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne he nicknamed her "Nessie",]] [[DisproportionateRetribution at which point she attacks.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: Confirmed by the author. According to many fans, this is what made Twilight so "magical", since they could live vicariously through Bella and experience Edward's devotion, and the thrill his vampirism offers, for themselves.
** Further delved into by [[https://youtu.be/K4uuGvmAxTI The Oatmeal]], stating that not having her physical appearance conclusively described combined with her insecure personality makes her more of a roleplaying placeholder that any human female who's experienced puberty can identify with and become.
* AuthorAvatar: An image circulates on the web of how Bella's in-universe description almost exactly matches how Creator/StephenieMeyer [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Wraxo-hP7o/TKKqejQI4mI/AAAAAAAACT0/WzRRiHjcYZU/s1600/hii.jpg looks in real life]]. Meyer has also stated that she partly based Bella upon her own experiences in school/college.
* BadassPacifist: Mostly nonviolent and a NeutralFemale, but has her badass moments.
* BadLiar: The author frequently states that Bella is a horrible liar, and in the second book she literally proves she couldn't lie to save her life during her meeting with Laurent. When she tries to convince him that the Cullens still keep tabs on her and would avenge her death at his hands, Laurent easily sees through her transparent lies. On the other hand, Bella spends most of her time lying to other characters with them very rarely catching on to it, so it's partly an InformedAttribute.
* BattleCouple: With Edward in ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'', [[spoiler: though [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] later on when we learn that the battle didn't actually happen.]]
* BeautifulDreamer: Invoked with Edward sneaking into Bella's house at night to watch her sleep. It continues after the two start a relationship and she is allows him to snuggle with her every night and watch her sleep.
* BerserkButton: Turns out that [[spoiler:Jacob calling Renesmee "Nessie"]] was a HUGE berserk button for her, since he's nicknaming [[spoiler:her daughter]] after the Loch Ness Monster. She eventually lightens up about it.
* BetterAsFriends: With Jacob. Knowing that Jacob has feelings for her and knowing that he's going to go into battle and get himself killed, Bella kisses Jacob. When Edward asks Bella if she loves Jacob, she tells him that she loves him (Edward) more. Later, Jacob is accepted as part of the family despite the romance between Bella and Jacob.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Archie for Jacob's Betty and Edward's Veronica. She chooses Edward.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She can have a pretty fierce temper if you get on her bad side, especially when she becomes a vampire.
* BirthdayHater: She hates the attention and how it reminds her that she still ages while Edward doesn't. She gets somewhat better in ''Breaking Dawn'', though: she still freaks out a bit when Alice wishes her a happy nineteenth birthday, but calms down since she doesn't actually age anymore. Furthermore, she gets her own dream cottage as a birthday present, and loves it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Almost certainly unintentional, but she often comes off as this due to her poor treatment of others and rather uncharitable thoughts about others appearances. Combines with RonTheDeathEater in some circles.
* BloodKnight: After becoming a vampire, she's more than eager to tear the Volturi apart and set them on fire herself and even gives off a couple of uncharacteristic {{Slasher Smile}}s at the thought.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: In the film adaptation of ''Breaking Dawn'', she ends up wearing one in a dream sequence.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Bella sometimes uses Jacob's "Sure, sure."
* BrainyBrunette: Despite coming off as TooDumbToLive to many readers, she gets good grades in school.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gentle Girl to Edward's Brooding Boy.
* ButICantBePregnant: In ''Breaking Dawn''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]--she had previously thought male vampires were sterile.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: She calls both of her parents by their first names, or at least she does so mentally or when talking about to others with her father; to his face she calls him dad.
* ChildhoodFriend: To Jacob. He'd like to be more than friends, but she prefers Edward.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In regards to Edward. Though she's not as bad as him, she gets quite jealous if any other women show him attention and tends to think catty things about them. She's even reluctant to invite Tanya to their ''wedding'' because she used to have a crush on Edward; she only relents when Edward points out Tanya and the Denalis are the closest thing he has to family and he wants them to be there.
* CluelessDudeMagnet: She seems pretty oblivious to all the attention she gets from men. When she does notice (like with Tyler in ''Twilight''), she gets annoyed.
* CoolCar: Drives a 1963 Chevy stepside pickup. In BD, her pickup crashes, and she gets a Mercedes Guardian and later a Ferrari.
* CoolLoser: Bella is an inversion. She's socially awkward, clumsy and generally uncool, but everyone warms up to her the minute she gets to town and soon enough she has her own little circle of friends.
* CrocodileTears: She pulls these on Jacob after Leah stands up to her on his behalf. [[UngratefulBastard Jacob immediately sides with Bella and vilifies Leah for upsetting her.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dying because your baby has ''broken your spine as it tries to get out of you'' is a [[IncrediblyLamePun bloody]] gruesome way to die. Of course, she [[EmergencyTransformation gets]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent "better"]], but still!]]
* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:Now that she's become a vampire in ''Breaking Dawn Part 2''.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She's a brunette with chocolate brown eyes. [[spoiler: Subverted when she becomes a vampire; her eyes turn red and eventually amber, and she has to wear contacts to make her eyes appear brown]].
* CuteBookworm: By Meyer's standards at least. Her only hobby is reading books, especially classics.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Known for being TheKlutz which is seen as [[CuteClumsyGirl cute]] in the books. This is heavily downplayed in the movies, she only has two clumsy moments in the first movie, but she's far from being klutzy like her book counterpart.
* {{Dandere}}: Bella is definitely shy and mostly inexpressive but she is more "dere" toward Edward.
* DamselInDistress: Bella is ineffectual against a group of rapists and Edward must swoop in to save her. Prior to this, Edward had to save her from a careening truck. Later in the book, she is ineffectual against a vampire, and Edward and his family must swoop in to save her. Subsequent books have the same formula, right down to warring factions — werewolves and vampires — putting aside their differences to save Bella. Bella herself is absolutely useless in a fight until she herself gets cool powers.
* DeadpanSnarker: In the books, Bella tells a number of dry jokes with such a straight face that the others can't tell if she's trying to be funny.
* DeathByChildbirth: She is reborn as a vampire after [[spoiler: her daughter's birth]].
* DescriptionInTheMirror: This is Bella's way of describing her own appearance. She considers her appearance [[ImNotPretty unremarkable]], but the description she gives suggests good looks, similar to those of the author.
* DesignatedVictim: Frequently the victim of any sort of imaginable bad happening.
** She gets it again [[spoiler: after she has become a vampire]], only this time she ''does'' consider herself pretty.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it at a regular basis. Whenever a crisis rears its ugly head Bella's first instinct is to give up, telling the reader over and over that all hope is lost. The biggest is probably in ''New Moon'', where she spends about a year doing nothing but pining for Edward and lamenting the fact he [[BlatantLies apparently]] no longer loves her, even engaging in ''suicidal behaviour''.
* DevotedToYou: It seems like every man who falls for her ends up crazy about her, ''especially'' Edward and Jacob.
* DistractedByTheSexy: A RunningGag around Edward. Around Jacob too, though she doesn't acknowledge it as easily.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: After her transformation into a vampire, she kicks off her shoes before her first hunt, probably implying that she's getting into the same habit of going barefoot that the vampires from James' coven had. In Breaking Dawn Part 1, she goes barefoot for the first half of the movie, even asking if she can get married barefoot, which Alice forbids.
* DoNotCallMePaul: She corrects anyone who calls her by her first name, Isabella.
* DoomMagnet: For decades, the Cullens have lived in relative peace and routine. Since Bella's introduction, over the span of 2 years they have been involved in vampire wars, worked with werewolves to thwart repeated attempt's on Bella's life, and nearly come to blows with the powerful Volturi.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In the first book of ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella has a dream about the Volturi coming to kill her and the Cullens. Bella narrates the exact same thing happening in the preface of the third book--literally: Meyer just copy-pasted Bella's dream into the preface.
* DreamingTheTruth: Used after Bella learns Edward is a vampire. Even though Dream-Edward is attempting to lead her to her doom, Bella realizes she doesn't care if Edward's a vampire as she's more upset that Dream-Edward is about to be attacked. The same dream with a slight twist is used in ''New Moon'' so she can realize Jacob is a werewolf.
* DudeMagnet: She is very popular among the opposite sex. Apparently even [[HotForStudent her science teacher]] fancies her.
* DullSurprise: Bella in the movie never has a discernible reaction to anything much, from death threats to getting married. The only time she reacts to anything is when she breaks her hand by hitting someone.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Was described as such in the first three books, but [[spoiler: even moreso when she becomes a vampire herself]].
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Bella hates math; it's her worst subject.
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:Edward has to turn her into a vampire quickly after she suffers fatal injuries from childbirth complications, including a pulverized pelvis, shattered spine, and the hole her husband bit in her uterus to get the baby out.]]
* EmoTeen: Bella becomes one for a while after Edward leaves her in ''New Moon''.
* EternalLove: She aspires for this with Edward [[spoiler: and gets her wish as of ''Breaking Dawn'', now that she is also a vampire]].
* TheEveryman: She's intended to be a very average teenage girl caught up in extraordinary events, although her being a DudeMagnet, her highly-appealing blood and her resistance to vampire mind powers suggests there's more to her. [[spoiler:It's subverted after she becomes a vampire]].
* ExtremeDoormat: In the first three books she has issues standing up for what she wants in the face of what Edward wants and is very averse to conflict. It's not until ''Breaking Dawn'' that she starts to show some ability in sticking to her guns.
* {{Fainting}}: Bella has an extremely weak constitution, and faints at the smell of blood, when feeling overpowered, or even when Edward ''breathes on her''! This isn't fake fainting to look delicate, nor a deliberate ploy from the author to make her look this elegant. She mentions without much restraint that she came ''that'' close from throwing up on one occasion. This is just Stephenie Meyer's way to remind us that Bella is very fragile.
* FairytaleWeddingDress: Wears one in ''Breaking Dawn'' when she [[spoiler: marries Edward]]. In the film adaptation, she has ''two'' (one of them is worn in a dream sequence).
* FanservicePack: [[spoiler: After becoming a vampire, she becomes stunningly beautiful like the other Cullens; even she - the poster girl of IAmNotPretty - thinks so]].
* FatalFlaw: According to WordOfGod, her lack of self-knowledge/awareness, which prevents her from realising her true potential, recognizing others' feelings for her and vice versa, and seeing the value in herself that others do.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Bella is a typical girl who cooks for her father.
* FirstNameBasis: With her father, to whom she consistently refers as "Charlie", despite trying to call him dad. They don't see each other often so she is sometimes unable to say it.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic
* FriendlessBackground: Though her own will. She doesn't mind being alone, to say the least.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: [[spoiler:Joins the Cullens as a "vegetarian" vampire after she is turned by Edward. Despite being a newborn, she has a shockingly good amount of self-control.]]
* GirlinessUpgrade: At the start of the series, Bella tends to constantly wear jeans, loose-fitting shirts, outdoor boots, and sneakers; in the films, she often wears a big yellow raincoat. She states she owns only one skirt, rarely dresses up with make-up and fancy hair, and avoids high heels like the plague on account of her klutziness. After meeting the Cullens, Alice makes it her mission to introduce Bella to high fashion, putting her in heels and dresses at every opportunity. By the end of the series, Bella's wardrobe is a lot more glamorous and feminine compared to her earlier, more tomboyish look.
%%* GrewASpine: See ExtremeDoormat.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:In case you haven't noticed, [[AuthorFilibuster Meyer is a Mormon.]] The subject itself is never treated as a moral dilemma. Bella loves her baby, so she keeps it. But then, the message was perhaps Good Girls Want Children, which would be all the more shocking.]]
* GotOverRapeInstantly: In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Bella is cornered by a group of men who verbally harass her before being saved by Edward who indicates they would have assaulted her. She exhibits no symptoms of stress or trauma and shows even more interest in Edward. The ordeal is never mentioned again.
* GrowingUpSucks: Bella thinks that she should not be any older than Edward physically when she becomes a vampire despite the fact that being slightly older than Edward would not cause too many negative effects for her if she was also a vampire. However, she more or less drops this opinion in ''Breaking Dawn'', after figuring out how great sex is as a human. She's [[spoiler:turned into a vampire not long after]] and still thinks it's fantastic.
* HappilyMarried: To Edward in ''Breaking Dawn''.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Edward, sort of. His hair is a coppery color.
* HeroicBSOD: She's going through one for the majority of ''New Moon''.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: One of Bella's primary traits is her extremely low self esteem.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: All Bella does is obsess over Edward and how perfect he is.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Either this or HypocriticalHumor, but Bella looks down on Jessica for admiring Edward's looks, yet she herself can't stop describing every inch of his body and swooning over him.
* IAmNotPretty: The poster girl. Her general physical description, the fact she has boys fawning over her constantly and the choice of casting suggests she's attractive, but she sees herself as plain and mousey. She doesn't truly believe she's beautiful until ''Breaking Dawn'' [[spoiler:after she becomes a vampire, which makes her even more attractive]].
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: It takes Bella three books to stop talking like this. Heck, she continues to go on about it ''at her damned wedding'', wondering why Edward would have picked her over the more attractive Tanya or Rosalie.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She desperately wants to become a vampire before she gets too old for her boyfriend, who became a vampire when he was 17. She won't settle for anything less, finding the idea of living a normal life highly unappealing.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Bella is a very good example of type A.
* InformedAbility:
** She is supposedly wide-read, but never references more than a small handful of books, and they're only the kinds any high schooler had to read in English 101 and are never talked about or analyzed in any depth by her. {{Subverted}} in ''Midnight Sun'', when she is seen reading Sense And Sensibility for fun.
** In the first book she mentions, several times, that she thinks of her mother, Renee, as her best friend. However she barely thinks about her mom after moving to Forks and neglects to e-mail her when she arrives, acting exasperated that hey, after two or three days Renee is getting kind of worried.
** She thinks of herself as very mature and others claim she behaves like a much older person, yet she throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way, often moaning how something "[is] not fair!" and actually stomping her foot on one occasion, indulges in her impulses to the point that she spends money saved for college to pay for bikes she's not legally allowed to own or ride, has zero plans or ambitions for her future, skips school, often right-out ''refuses'' to even consider the consequences of anything going on, and is happy to recklessly engage in all kinds of dangerous activities for the sake of a kick.
* InformedFlaw: Bella spends so much time talking about how "plain" she is. However, boys are still all over her. Chalk it up to the writer's not so subtle way to try and make us believe that Bella is modest.
* InSeriesNickname: Bella is her preferred name in the series as opposed to her full name Isabella. Some of Bella's other nicknames in the series include Bells and Bell (both used by Charlie Swan and Jacob Black), Arizona (used by Mike Newton), Spider Monkey (used by Edward Cullen), Vampire Girl (used by Emily Young and Embry Call), Leech Lover (used by Leah Clearwater and Paul Lahote), and Swan Girl (used by Emmett Cullen).
* InstantExpert: Sure [[spoiler: as a human]] Bella is a hopeless klutz. But, [[spoiler: once she's a vampire]] she's free of any of the consequences faced by [[spoiler: most newborns, such as the insatiable desire for human blood]].
* InterClassRomance: With Edward. While Bella is from a working class status, Edward comes from a wealthy background.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Edward [[spoiler: before she is turned into a vampire by Edward in ''Breaking Dawn''.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** Bella is afraid of blood, but wants to be a vampire.
** Bella also hates cold and cloudy weather, then falls in love with a man who is literally cold as ice and can't go out in direct sunlight.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Bella gets in to Dartmouth with very little effort.
* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Bella cries because she is so upset that Edward woke her up from an EroticDream she was having about him and her.
* TheKlutz: She is notoriously clumsy, frequently knocing into things or tripping over; her clumsiness even leads to her being injured. She hates it and mocks herself for it, providing the funniest parts of the book for people who get annoyed by the romance. [[spoiler: She loses this after becoming a vampire, who have supernatural gracefulness and agility]].
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Believes that immortality is far more amazing and wondrous than mortality.
* LivingMacGuffin: In the last third of ''Breaking Dawn''. Her shield ability - which blocks other vampires' mental powers - is integral to the Cullens' defense in the confrontation with the Volturi, as it allows her to block the abilities of the Volturi's trump cards, Jane and Alec.
* TheLoad: She doesn't do anything remotely useful until ''Breaking Dawn'' and it's because of her that bloodthirsty monsters keep showing up and attacking people in the surrounding areas. In the first book, James is attracted to her scent. In the second, so is Laurent. In the third, Victoria wants revenge for James. In the fourth, it's her daughter that causes the Volturi to come. Every major monster clash in all the books is a result of Bella.
* LonersAreFreaks: Subverted. Bella is a loner who is well liked and doesn't want friends.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Played with. A loner, especially in the first book, but meets Jacob and her friends in school.
* LoveHungry: Especially in regards to Edward.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Particularly lampshaded in the parts of the story (New Moon) where Bella is [[spoiler:involuntarily separated from Edward for a prolonged period. She starts seeing visions of him, hearing voices, and even intentionally putting herself in harm's way to evoke these reactions]].
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Fits the bill whenever her emotions get out of control. The first book hits the nail on the head when she [[spoiler:can't tell the difference between a recording of her mother's voice in a home video playing on a VCR in the background and her mother's actual voice calling for help]], though this is arguably justified because of her anxiety and everything that just happened up to that point.
* LoveMartyr: She is even explicitly compared to a legendary LoveMartyr from a true story. She exploits this because things worked out for the LoveMartyr's loved ones because of her attitude.
* MamaBear:
** In ''Breaking Dawn'', she flies off the handle when she learns that [[spoiler: Jacob imprinted on Renesmee.]]
** Bella does everything in her power to ensure that [[spoiler: her daughter]] stays alive in ''Breaking Dawn''. That includes letting a dozen or more strangers risk their lives to protect [[spoiler: Renesmee]].
* MartyrWithoutACause: Bella is a variant. It's not that she wants to be a hero, it's that, as other characters sometimes lampshade, she blames herself for anything and everything that goes wrong. This leads to the same type of self-hatred (if not the same quantity) as TheAtoner, and while she doesn't often have the opportunity to risk her life, she clearly considers herself more expendable than those around her, particularly Edward, but also her mother, father, and [[spoiler:unborn baby]].
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Bella is almost a century younger than Edward. Bella is 18 and Edward is over 100.
* MeaningfulName:
** ''Bella'' is Latin for 'beautiful', although pulcher/pulchra is the typical Latin word for "beautiful". In most Latin texts "bella" is the plural of "bellum" and means "wars". Her name is "beautiful swan"—i.e., what the Ugly Duckling grows up into.
** Probably unintentional, but given the conflicts she ends up causing, one considers the most common Latin translation of "bella": ''wars''.
** Also probably unintentional, but it is still interesting to note that Bella's last name, Swan, has a meaning in the real-life vampire subculture. Swan is used to refer to people involved in the vampire community, but who are not vampires themselves.
* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse.
** Bella's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' comparisons, where she is Juliet, Edward is Romeo -- and Jacob is, for some reason, Paris -- which indicate that she has not actually understood the play... [[FridgeLogic Just like a large number of teen girls]].
** Bella is a serial offender at this. In ''Breaking Dawn'', she reads Tennyson's 'Song of the Lotus-Eaters' to lull Renesmee to sleep because she thinks the poem feels restful and peaceful. Tennyson's poem is designed to be the precise opposite, conveying the nightmarish, drug-induced torpor that causes the Lotus-Eaters to forget everyone they love and everything that matters to them.
** In ''Eclipse'' she kept fantasizing that she was the Cathy Earnshaw to Edward's Heathcliff, despite Heathcliff being a violent and abusive man and Cathy a WomanChild who never learned to make her own decisions.
* MustNotDieAVirgin: Bella wants to experience sex with Edward while she is still human, before she gets changed into a vampire. Doubles as a case of TooDumbToLive, since Edward explicitly warns her that because of his super-strength, the experience will quite likely be extremely traumatic or even [[OutWithABang fatal]].
* NarratingTheObvious: Has a habit of pointing out the obvious in her narration.
* NeutralFemale: See NonActionGuy.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Arguably, Bella's ability to suppress vampires' powers.
* NewTransferStudent: In the beginning of the series.
* NightmareFetishist: Subverted. On the one hand, Bella only falls in love with monsters and doesn’t even seem happy with the thought of dating a normal boy. On the other hand, Bella does get freaked out a few times in the books, just not as much as an average girl would.
* NonActionGuy: Mainly due to her clumsiness and weak constitution.
* NotGoodWithRejection: When Edward tells her he doesn't love and dumps her in ''New Moon'', she has a [[HeroicBSOD complete breakdown]], becoming depressed and almost catatonic for months, believing life isn't worth living and even hallucinating Edward's voice out of desperation to be near him. She has a similar reaction when Jacob stops hanging out with her too.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played straight with Bella, who, despite having yummy blood, does not trigger a vampire feeding frenzy once a month. Handwaved by saying that menstrual blood is 'dead blood'.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Bella in the movies. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but has Californian Creator/KristenStewart's natural accent.
* NotSoWeak: She saved Edward before his suicide and distracted Victoria to save him once again.
* OccultDetective: Bella in the first two books. In the first book, Bella knows that there is something not quite right about Edward and becomes consumed with discovering what his secret is. The same thing happens in ''New Moon'' when Jacob becomes a werewolf.
* OfficialCouple: With Edward.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: At least she was supposed to be one.
* PinballProtagonist: Despite being the main protagonist and narrator, she actually does very little to move the plot forwards of her own accord, mostly just reacting to events around her whilst the others characters (mostly Edward or Jacob) resolve conflict for her. This may be ''partly'' justified in that she's human and so stands little chance against supernatural enemies; case-in-point, she only actively starts contributing to the plot of her own volition towards the end of ''Breaking Dawn'', after she's [[spoiler: turned into a vampire]].
* TheProtagonist: The story centres on Bella and her relationships with other characters. However, she can also be considered as SupportingProtagonist.
* PsychicBlockDefense: Bella is completely immune to powers that affect the mind, and it's implied she inherited a more powerful form of this ability from her father Charlie. After becoming a vampire, she can also extend her mental shield to protect others or retract it to allow certain powers (like Edward's telepathy) to affect her.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Bella has prophetic dreams. Meyer tries to HandWave this by explaining that the dreams are just Bella's mind sorting out everything she knows... apparently into convenient and highly symbolic visions of the future.
* TheQuietOne: Not an outgoing person at all, rather unfriendly as well.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Bella is described as having a very pale complexion with long, straight, dark brown hair. Even [[spoiler:before she became a vampire and inherited god-like beauty]], Bella was rather pretty, as she unintentionally attracted the attention of several boys in school, not just Edward.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:After she first woke up as a newborn vampire.]]
* SecretKeeper: Bella to both the Cullens and the Quiletes in the first three books. Until she becomes a vampire herself.
* ShrinkingViolet: Bella describes herself as such and so do her friends. She is often very shy, timid, self-conscious and insecure of herself.
* SilkHidingSteel: Seemingly weak and fragile but defended herself and saved Edward's life.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Variant: most ''attractive'' guy, whom all the other girls obsess over.
* SkewedPriorities: In ''New Moon'', she's initially hesitant about telling the wolf pack what she knows about vampires, because it feels like she would be betraying the Cullens. Even though the Cullens haven't contacted her for about a year, telling the wolves how to defeat vampires will help them protect innocent people from being massacred by Victoria ''and'' is in her own best interests, seeing as Victoria is after Bella to get revenge on Edward for killing James.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: At least she knows it. And makes fun of it while regretting nothing.
* SmugSnake: Most noticeable after she becomes a vampire she becomes more arrogant, see TookALevelInJerkass below.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She states that she looks a lot like her mother, [[IAmNotPretty but less pretty]].
* StupidSacrifice: Bella attempts this several times. Most prominent is ''Eclipse'', when she [[spoiler: cuts herself to distract Victoria and Riley from trying to kill Edward and Seth....only to learn after the fact that they were both ''winning'' and she had actually made things harder for them.]] The film adaptation changes this by [[spoiler: having Edward and Seth legitimately about to be killed, making her using herself as bait more meaningful.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: [[spoiler:After she adopts the vegetarian diet like all of the other Cullens.]]
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: [[spoiler: A double whammy. Due to being in her late teens when she gave birth then stopped aging, and Renesmee aging faster than a human (within a few months she looks like a seven year old), Bella looks way too young to be her mother. She tells her father that she and Edward adopted Renesmee and he [[SelectiveObliviousness chooses to accept this explanation]]]].
* SupportingProtagonist: Yes, she's the protagonist but Edward is TheHero and does all the heroic stuff [[spoiler:up until the end of ''Breaking Dawn'']].
* TheTalk: Has an exceptionally awkward one with Charlie in ''Eclipse''. In the novel it just comes across as fairly uncomfortable, but in the movie Kristen and Billy make it hilarious.
* TalkingInYourSleep: And Edward listening while he watches her sleep.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: She gets pregnant at 18 and gives birth a few days before she turns 19]].
* TookALevelInBadass: After she changed into a vampire.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After Jacob tells her that he imprinted on Renesmee and nicknamed her "Nessie", she becomes slightly hostile and cruel towards him. She even goes as far to try to kill him, but Seth gets in the way and saves him. And top of that, she won't let ANYONE nickname Renesmee "Nessie" because it's derived from the Loch Ness Monster. She eventually gets over all that, though.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Bella begins wearing blue quite a bit after beginning her relationship with Edward, as he thinks she looks pretty in the color. Notable examples include her prom dress and the cocktail dress Alice dresses her in when she first awakens as a vampire.
* UndeadBarefooter: She kicked off her shoes before her first hunt, signifying that she may be getting into the habit of going barefoot.
* UnwantedHarem: A female example of this with a total of five guys in love with her, two of them supernatural. And she didn't have any boyfriends before moving to Forks.
* UselessProtagonist: Due to her being TheLoad, SupportingProtagonist, and NeutralFemale.
* ViralTransformation: [[spoiler: In ''Breaking Dawn: Part 1'', Bella was changed into a vampire by Edward.]]
* VirginInAWhiteDress: In ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella ends up being a virgin [[spoiler: on her wedding day]] only because Edward was too gentlemanly to have sex with her before they're married.
* WeakButSkilled: Bella is weak in almost everything except her 'shield'.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Her first love and boyfriend turns out to be a vampire, her best friend becomes a werewolf. A vicious vampire sets a whole army to kill her, and the leader of the vampire royalty Aro, places his eyes on her.
* WhatMeasureIsAHuman: She doesn't show much concern over the past murders caused by the other Cullens, most notably Edward's during his vigilante days. Notably, Edward himself thinks what he did was unforgivable, regardless of whether or not he was targeting criminals.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Bella faints a lot and gets overwhelmed easily.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Having learned to take care of her mother over the years and being naturally responsible, Bella had developed into a very mature person, especially for her age. She even starts out ''Twilight'' by telling us that she's prepared to die in the place of someone she loves. She is, however, prone to lapses in judgement. She also occasionally throws tantrums (such as sulking about Edward taking her to prom and literally stamping her foot during an argument with Jacob), becomes near suicidal after her boyfriend of a few months dumps her, and does some very reckless and illogical things that put her in danger. She's also got ''major'' issues with getting old, even though she's barely out of her ''teens''. Her self-sacrificing tendencies also seem to stem from her [[MartyrWithoutACause utter lack of self-esteem and tendency to blame herself for anything that goes wrong]].
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She pulls this off by pulling CrocodileTears after Leah calls her out for mistreating Jacob, making the others ([[UngratefulBastard including Jacob]]) believe that [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass Leah hurt her feelings]].
* YouAreGrounded: Bella gets grounded by her dad from the last chapter of ''New Moon'' to the first chapter of ''Eclipse''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edward Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/RobertPattinson

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A 108 year old vampire gifted with the ability to read minds. Having first encountered Bella in biology class, he's quick to discover that her floral scented blood evokes an [[HorrorHunger intense, lethal craving]]. But rather than giving in, he settles for [[StalkingIsLove sneaking into her room at night]], intrigued by the fact that he can't read her mind. Though he resists the urge to eat her, he'll stop at nothing to claim he's a [[InformedFlaw soulless monster]] unworthy of redemption. And despite his claims of being a threat to her life, he (a century old vampire) decides it's fine to pursue [[SingleTargetSexuality a relationship]] with a [[MayflyDecemberRomance 17 year old girl]] anyway. He was turned when he was 17 and dying of [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish flu]].
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* TheAce: How Bella sees him, but apparently all the vampires qualify compared to the humans. Oddly, even his adoptive mother Esme refers to him as "the best of [them]" without really backing up this statement.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Before meeting Bella, he was this in the Cullen coven, since his adoptive parents and siblings were all already in a relationship.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: The meadow scene, which is what Meyer dreamed about and also the first scene she wrote.
* TheAtoner: Edward was a rebellious vampire before he learned the error of his ways.
* BadassDriver: As a result of being able to read the other drivers minds, and (as shown in Midnight Sun) especially when he has Alice and her precognition next to him.
%%* Bastard Boyfriend: Edward tries his best not to be, but unfortunately, he often failed miserably.
* BattleCouple: Becomes this with Bella in ''Breaking Dawn Part 2''.
* TheBeautifulElite: All of the Cullens are supernaturally beautiful beings who are also filthy rich, due to Alice often correctly predicting how the stock market would pan out.
* BerserkButton: When Bella is in danger.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Jacob's Betty for Bella's Archie. He wins.
* BigManOnCampus: Played with. He's a bit of a loner, however he's considerd the most attractive and desirable guy in the school, as well as the smartest (he and the other Cullens are all perfect students).
* BishieSparkle: Famously so, being one of the faces of the series.
* {{Bookworm}}: Edward loves reading and literature, though we only ever witness him commenting on well-known classics that are standard mandatory reading for US high school students.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Edward breaks into Bella's room at night. Infamously, he doesn't feed on her blood; he watches her sleep. A month before they met, too.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Edward is the Brooding Boy to Bella's Gentle Girl.
* ByronicHero: Edward is lonely but can't stand how much he wants Bella and her blood.
--> '''Edward:''' Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer, Bella.
* CelibateHero: Until he met Bella. Before he married Bella, Edward was a virgin.
* ChickMagnet: Just about any woman in the series acknowledges that he's attractive, including Bella's human friends.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Edward attracts girls but he seems to be completely oblivious to it.
* CockFight: With Jacob over the affections of Bella.
* CoolCar: Edward drives a Volvo [=S60R=], Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. Subverted in the New Moon movie with Edward's Volvo [=XC90=]. Why such a soccer-mom car?
* CrazyJealousGuy: Make a move on Bella, and he won't be very happy with you.
* CursedWithAwesome: He's a telepathic vampire ... who has fallen in love with a living, breathing, blood-filled human whose mind he cannot read, at all. We'll let you figure out why that's so awful.
* CurseThatCures: This is how Edward views vampirism. On the bright side, he was saved from a horrible, wasting death from the Spanish influenza and is now [[TheBeautifulElite impossibly beautiful]]. On the negative side, he is hard as rock and cold as ice, dead, can't go out in direct sunlight, constantly thirsts to kill people, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has to go to high school for the rest of his life]] ([[{{Immortality}} which is forever]]). This is why he is unwilling to make Bella a vampire, despite the fact that she wants to be one.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Edward has done some things that he is not proud of.
* DeadpanSnarker: To Bella, sometimes.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Edward is from the early 1900s. Some of what he does was perfectly acceptable in his native time. Other parts of his behavior, like sneaking into a girl's room every night to "protect" her, would have gotten Victorian/Edwardian fathers to take out the shotgun (or send the footman with a club).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Edward is this to Bella's TheProtagonist.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: One of the few things Bella actually finds scary about him.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Edward's struggling with whether to drink Bella's blood.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Towards Bella oh-so-much.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: After decades of practice, he is an accomplished classical pianist.
* EmergencyTransformation: Just another victim of the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.
* EternalLove: With Bella as of ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'' [[spoiler: now that she is a vampire herself.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Like all vampires in the Twilight universe, he sparkles in the sunlight.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Eclipse", as much as he loves Bella, he would never touch her without her permission, which is why he threatens Jacob when he kissed Bella ''without her consent'' and decide to give Jacob a clue: Wait for Bella to say the words.
--> '''Edward:''' (to Jacob) If you ever touch her against her will again...
--> '''Jacob:''' She's not sure what she wants.
--> '''Edward:''' Let me give you a clue: Wait for her to say the words.
--> '''Jacob:''' Fine, then she will.
* FatalAttractor: Edward would like to believe he is this.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Well, he's more of a ''surly'' neighborhood vampire, having dealt with the crushing guilt of [[spoiler: having killed people]] in an earlier time, but he's quite firmly on the side of good once the chips are down. His entire family qualifies as this as well.
* HappilyAdopted: Loves his adoptive parents, Carlisle and Esme.
* HappilyMarried: To Bella in ''Breaking Dawn Part 1''.
* TheHero: Although the story is told from Bella's point of view, Edward is the one who does most of the heroic deeds in the earlier books, due to the fact that he's a vampire and the threats they come across are supernatural themselves.
* HeroicBSOD: Edward also has one when [[spoiler: Bella tells him she is pregnant.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Edward's resistance of Bella's blood makes him the poster boy for this trope. Of course, both Edward and Bella have to resist their regular sexual lust too, for reasons of safety and morality.
* HorrorHunger: For Bella's blood. The scent of Bella's blood drives him crazy.
* IAmAMonster: Struggles with this, especially since he's murdered people in his past. However, they were all criminals, and, as Bella points out, he probably saved more lives than he took.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: He has to go to the Volturi in order to commit suicide.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He wishes he could relate to Bella the way a normal guy would, without the blood lust and super strength getting in the way.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: He's attracted to Bella because of her mysteriousness.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: [[spoiler:He is the one who turns his love interest, Bella, into his vampire mate, per her request.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Other names used for Edward in the series include Cullen (used by Mike Newton), Mr. Edward (used by J. Jenks), and The Hair (used by Jessica Stanley).
* InformedFlaw: His "dangerous" nature.
* InterClassRomance: With Bella. Edward is from a wealthy family and Bella is from a working class background.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Bella [[spoiler: before she became a vampire in ''Breaking Dawn Part 2''.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: Edward attempts this on ''New Moon'' when he thinks his beloved Bella is dead.
* InsecureLoveInterest: In New Moon, Edward leaves Bella because of this, resulting in much [[{{Wangst}} angst]] from both of them.
* InvincibleHero: Vampire skin is supposedly as hard and tough as granite, and he takes a few heavy hits in the movie without even flinching. Furthermore, vampires in this universe lack most of the traditional vampire weaknesses and can even regenerate from decapitation. Their only major weakness seems to be fire, which is one of the few things that can kill them.
* InvisibleToNormals: Edward's stopping of the van about to crush Bella with his bare hands with no one but Bella realizing could fall under this, and it is even mocked in Mark Reads Twilight, where he says this is part of an overused idea he calls "The 'I Am Going To Do Something Spectacular And Clearly Attention-Grabbing In Front Of Plenty Of People, Yet No One Is Going To Notice Except (Conveniently) The Main Character' Phenomenon."
* ImNotAHeroIm: ''"What if I'm not a superhero? What if I'm the bad guy?"''
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Even when Bella is with Jacob.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was initially very aloof and rude to Bella but it's because he really wanted her.
* KissOfTheVampire: Edward's make out sessions are tame for this reason.
* KnightInShiningArmor: To Bella.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Rosalie, although there are quite a few fans who may disagree.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Bella. More like Love At First Smell in Edward's case.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: To the point where he stalks and controls Bella.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Like all of the other Cullen males.
** Failed example, given how the same holds truth for the Cullen females, and all vampires in general, no matter their gender.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Edward has almost a century on Bella in regards to age. Edward is over 100 years old and Bella is 18.
* MeaningfulName: The name Edward means '''"wealthy guardian"'''. Also Edward's last name Cullen ("culling"), which is for a family of predators.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: His telepathy is strongly hinted at as one of the reasons he's so alone prior to Bella's coming to Forks. He's rich, handsome, smart, strong, and wanted by every woman who comes in contact with him (it seems), but he ends up falling in love with a rather dull, uninspiring, self-described plain girl whose distinguishing feature is the fact that ''he can't read her mind.''
* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse. Edward draws a comparison between imprinting and the love spells in Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream -- though whether he is secretly taking a jab at the lack of consent on the part of the imprintees is anyone's guess.
* MoodSwinger: He has a rather disturbing proclivity to switch between a romantic gentleman to a frothing lunatic at any resistance on [[ExtremeDoormat Bella's]] part.
* MrFanservice: Considering the series is largely from Bella's POV, and she's madly in love with him.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He's the skinniest of the Cullens and yet still managed to lift a full-sized van off of Bella, thanks to his SuperStrength.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''New Moon'', when Bella gets a small paper-cut, Edward punts Bella away to prevent Jasper attacking her in a blood-frenzy. This, however, causes her to lacerate her arm.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Edward is the Noble Male to Jacob's Roguish Male. Where Jacob is a cocky, reckless, hotblooded, bad-boy werewolf, Edward is a cultured, thoughtful, overprotective and somewhat repressed gentleman vampire,
* NoodlePeople: Despite Bella's insistence that he's muscular, in his actual descriptions he comes off as being very skinny with almost no muscle tone.
%%* NotSoStoic: In Book Two of Breaking Dawn.
* OfficialCouple: With Bella.
* OldSchoolChivalry:
-->'''Edward Cullen:''' I'm from a different era, things were a lot less complicated. And if I'd met you back then I would have courted you, would've taken chaperoned strolls, iced tea on the porch and... I may have stolen a kiss or two, but only after asking your father's permission. I would have got down on one knee and I would have presented you with a ring.\\
''[he puts a small ring box in her hand and kneels in front of her]''
* PapaWolf: He's very protective of Bella and his family.
* PrettyBoy: He's tall, slender, with delicate features and a borderline-androgynous build. According to Carlisle and WordOfGod, Edward takes after his mother.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: There exists a list of traits that marks an abuser. If you get ''any'', then that person is dangerous. Edward Cullen [[http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/books-to-read/articles/13699/title/why-edward-cullen-spouse-abuser-why-should-care gets almost all of them]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He looks 17, but is really 108 years old.
* RedOniBlueOni: Calm, soft-spoken Edward is the Blue Oni to brash, thrill-seeking Jacob's Red Oni.
* RescueRomance: Edward and Bella were already secretly interested in each other, but it was Edward saving Bella from Tyler's out-of-control van that laid the groundwork for their relationship.
* RomanticVampireBoy: Bella considers him to be a kindhearted and protective vampire.
* {{Sadist}}: He gleefully fantasizes about torturing Mike Newton because of Mike's crush on Bella.
* SerialKillerKiller: When Edward was younger, he rebelled against Carlisle's animal blood philosophy, so he used his mind-reading powers to only feed on rapists and murderers. But even that proved to be too much for his conscience.
* SexGod: PlayedWith. He and Bella have some issues with him bruising her during sex because he DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength in the heat of the moment - Bella enjoys it just fine, but Edward feels guilty about hurting her accidentally. Once they are [[EternalLove both immortal]] this trope is played straight and their sex is so good, Bella wonders how they will be able to ''stop'' [[InsatiableNewlyWeds constantly having sex]] with plenty of DestructoNookie, considering that [[VampiresAreSexGods vampires never get tired and don't even sleep]].
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Bella. Edward is fascinated by even the most mundane things about Bella and she gushes about how gorgeous he is every time he enters her field of vision and once even swoons over how good his breath smells.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: In his human life.
* SingleTargetSexuality: The only girl he has ever dated or fallen in love with is Bella.
* SmugSnake: Despite all the brooding he does about how horrible it is to be a vampire, and how miserable his life has become since then, Edward really does consider himself far superior to those around him.
%%* SoBeautifulItsACurse
* TheSociopath: He has little regard for human life, and claims to be a very good torturer. In "Midnight Sun", he casually ponders committing genocide of the Quileute because Jacob has ''unwittingly'' broken the contract by telling Bella the old vampire-related legends of his people.
* SpikyHair: In the graphic novel adaptation.
* StalkerWithACrush: Constantly stalks his girlfriend.
* StalkingIsLove: One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} acts he does in the name of "love" is breaking into Bella's room every night to watch her sleep. And he did this ''before'' they were a couple.
* TheStoic: There's very little that causes him to raise his voice above the soft whisper he often uses.
* SuicideBySunlight: Played with. Although Meyer's vampires don't burn in the sun, their skin sparkles like hundreds of diamonds, therefore disrobing in front of a crowd would reveal to the public that something isn't quite right with him and attract the Volturi's attention.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cold towards Bella at first, but soon warms up.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Any vegetarian vampire has this, but Edward's are mentioned so often that they deserve a place in here.
* SuperSpeed: He's the fastest vampire among the Cullens.
* SuperStrength: His vampire abilities along with speed and PsychicPowers.
* SupportingProtagonist: While Bella is no doubt the protagonist of the series, Edward is TheHero and does all the heroic stuff [[spoiler:up until the end of ''Breaking Dawn'']].
* SympatheticMurderBackstory: At least to [[UnreliableNarrator Bella]] [[IdiotHero Swan]], who thinks his actions were perfectly reasonable and even romanticized the idea of him murdering people.
* {{Telepathy}}: A weak version, but telepathy nonetheless.
* TroubledButCute: Edward is constantly described as being very good-looking, but is also quite broody, due to his past as a murderer, albeit one who only took out rapists and serial killers. He understandably relaxes more after [[spoiler: he and Bella can finally be together, and their entire family is safe from the Volturi.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Has a pretty nasty case of this, mostly in regards to his own family -
** Says that Carlisle changed him due to him being special, when in reality, it was because his mother begged him to.
** Says that Carlisle only changed Rosalie due to seeing her as a potential mate for him when in reality, he only changed Rosalie due to feeling that she had barely lived her life and in fact told her that she was free to leave the Cullen's if she wished.
* ViralTransformation: When he was dying of the Spanish influenza, his mother-who knew what Carlisle was-begged him to save her son. Carlisle, who was immensely lonely after years of being alone, agreed.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Bella often describes his eyes as being like liquid gold.
* WhatTheHellHero: In "Eclipse", he gives one to Jacob and threatens him by saying if he ''ever'' touches Bella without her consent again and tells him to wait for Bella to say the words to which Jacob agreed to.
* WifeBasherBasher: After "rebelling" against Carlisle to try out a more "traditional" vampire lifestyle, his first act was to track down, torture, and murder Esme's abusive ex-husband before escalating to judge, jury and executioner of anyone he deemed "evil".
* WritersCannotDoMath: Edward claims that he was born in 1901 and that that was 107 years ago, but when you look it up in the timeline you find that the year in which ''Twilight'' took place was 2005, effectively putting Edward in his 104th year.
* {{Yandere}}: Besides being a CrazyJealousGuy, he'd kill off any love rivals... if Bella didn't stop him.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Edward's broodiness and fatalism has been linked to the fact that he has never had sex in almost a century. Once he gets married and does the deed he certainly becomes less stressed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jacob Black]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/TaylorLautner

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Jacob first knew Bella when they were just children, and they lost contact for years while she was away. He tried to push for a more romantic relationship, but by the time he made his intentions clear, she only had eyes for Edward. He became a werewolf in ''New Moon''.
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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the books Jacob grows his hair long again at some points when he runs away or stops taking care of himself, but in the movies, from ''New Moon'' onwards he keeps his hair cropped short. A probable factor is that Creator/TaylorLautner hated wearing a long wig.
* AscendedExtra: He has a minor role in ''Twilight''. In the following books, he becomes the {{Tritagonist}}.
* BadassBiker: Jacob had an interest in fixing and riding motorcycles before he became a werewolf, and over the course of three books, he cements his status as a badass werewolf who rides bikes.
* BarbarianLonghair: To contrast the "perfect" Cullens. He gets a haircut after he starts phasing, to stop his fur becoming too long.
* BerserkButton: Jacob loses it when he discovers that Bella wants to be a vampire. He also loses it when he finds out that Bella plans to lose her virginity to Edward while she is still a human, but it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as he fears that the superhumanly-strong Edward will either hurt or kill her in the process.
* BetterAsFriends: With Bella. [[spoiler: Ultimately, Jacob imprints on Bella's daughter, Renesmee.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Edward's Veronica for Bella's Archie. [[spoiler: He loses.]]
* TheBigGuy: At least in the books. He stands 6'7". Subverted in the film, as he's only 5'8".
* BoisterousBruiser: Like Emmett, Jacob is very proud and he loves a good scrap. In fact, one of the only things he enjoys about becoming a werewolf is his newfound status as a tough guy who can take on vampires. In both ''Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn'', Jacob has to accept that not all his problems can be solved with pure brawn.
* BrutalHonesty: Jacob tends to not sugarcoat things. Though he does try to be softer with the people he cares about, his default reaction is still blunt honesty, a flaw that's juxtaposed with Edward's (who's often more secretive).
* CatchPhrase: "Sure, sure."
* CharacterDevelopment: Jacob goes from being a friendly but mild-mannered and non-confrontational teenager to an aggressive, hotheaded BoisterousBruiser after he transforms into a werewolf and becomes part of Sam's pack. He butts heads with Edward numerous times out of jealousy and mutual FantasticRacism, but gradually overcomes his prejudices towards the Cullens so he can help Bella, even after he's already become the loser in their love triangle, and he gradually comes to accept the Cullens as friends and allies [[spoiler: during Bella's pregnancy. After being the cocky, reckless, rebellious bad boy of Sam's pack for several books, Jacob has to mature and deal with a brand new set of responsibilities when he becomes alpha of his own little pack, consisting of Leah and Seth, which results in him becoming a more responsible and authoritative werewolf, if still irritable. He finally mellows out entirely once he finds his own imprint]].
* ChildhoodFriends: With Bella.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Bella again.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: Jacob in the third book suffers from [[DerailingLoveInterests derailment]]: he goes from a friendly, devoted guy to a possessive jerk to better enable the canon couple. Then, in the last book, he imprints on Bella's newborn baby, is conveniently is no longer at all attracted to Bella, and mellows out considerably. In fact, with the notable exception of Leah, basically every major character is wonderfully paired off by the end of the series.
* CockFight: With Edward over the affections of Bella; their mutual prejudice towards each other's species contributes to it. Jacob winds up being the loser in the love triangle, though they do eventually become friends later as they put aside their differences for Bella's sake in the second half of ''Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn''.
* CoolBike: He drives one throughout the entire series.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jacob is very snarky and sardonic, especially as he grows increasingly cynical about his life and his place in the supernatural world from ''New Moon'' to ''Breaking Dawn''.
* {{Determinator}}: Jacob is very stubborn and rarely ever gives up on the things he considers to be worthwhile. This is a both a strength and a flaw, depending on the situation.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: While he was heartbroken with Bella's choice of marrying Edward, he ''was'' willing to accept it and reluctantly agreed to stop coming between them.
* DistressBall: Jacob ends up grabbing this when he shoves Leah out of the way just to be crushed by a newborn vampire. The book attempts to make it out that Leah was the one in distress because she was fighting the vampire alone to begin with, but both she and her little brother have defeated newborns in single combat before, and nothing about this fight really necessitated Jacob shoving her out of the way. [[TheScapegoat Of course, all the blame for this goes to Leah]]. Not to mention the entire reason Jacob gets hurt is that he was too slow for the vampire - Leah is the fastest werewolf.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Alice has called Jacob "mutt" and Rosalie has called Jacob "dog."
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After he starts phasing, he chops his long hair off. It's because long hair equals long fur as a wolf.
* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: Jacob has to submit to the will of Sam, the Alpha Wolf. When Sam orders him to help destroy the Cullens (and Bella), he remembers that he was born to be the Alpha but he had voluntarily given up the birthright. Choosing to become the Alpha frees Jacob from obeying Sam's orders.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.
* HairTriggerTemper: Justified due to his werewolf gene. Jacob was already hotheaded as a human, but this trait is amplified after his transformation into a werewolf, leading him to worry at times about turning into Sam.
* HopelessSuitor: To Bella.
* HormoneAddledTeenager
* HotBlooded: Literally. His body temperature is about 108.1 at rest. The reasons behind it verge into [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Artistic License]] territory, but they're not unreasonable.
* ImportantHaircut: It marks his transformation into a werewolf.
* {{Imprinting}}: [[spoiler: He imprinted on Renesmee in ''Breaking Dawn Part 1''.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Other than Jake, which is what Bella and everyone else often calls him, some of Jacob's other nicknames in the series include Chief Jacob (used by Bella Swan), Uncle Jay (used by Claire Young), and Jacob Wolfe (used by Bella Swan).
* IntimateHealing: Jacob has a higher body temperature than normal, so he's the obvious choice to help Bella avoid hypothermia.
* TheJailBaitWait: [[spoiler: He's imprinted on Renesmee and will only be seen as her brother until she comes of age. Whether they develop romantic feelings for each other has yet to be seen.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jacob can be selfish, rude, and hotheaded, and once he becomes a werewolf he's often characterized as a NobleBigot. Jake is also strong, loyal and courageous, a true friend, and is often willing to put his own feelings and needs aside for the bigger picture, making him worthy of his eventual status as [[spoiler: pack alpha]].
* JustFriends: With Bella.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Bella after Edward briefly leaves in the second installment.
* MrFanservice: Those abs...
* TheNicknamer: Jacob has a variety of different nicknames for basically every single character in the series.
* NobleBigot: After Jacob becomes a werewolf and discovers all the Quileute legends are real, he starts to despise vampires, particularly the Cullens because of Bella's relationship with his romantic rival, Edward. Jacob freely admits to enjoying being able to fight and kill amoral, carnivorous vampires who try to hunt on the reservation, though he nevertheless honors the peace treaty the Cullens have with the tribe, and is willing to team up with the Cullens whenever Bella is in danger. A large part of Jacob's character development in "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn" is letting go of his resentment towards the Cullens and realizing, like Bella did, that they try to be good people in spite of their vampiric nature.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Jacob is the Roguish Male to Edward's Noble Male. Where Edward is a cultured, thoughtful, overprotective and somewhat repressed gentleman vampire, Jacob is a cocky, reckless, hotblooded, bad-boy werewolf.
* OddFriendship: He forms one with Alice in the fourth book. Both of them initially hated [[spoiler: the fetus growing inside Bella.]] She also starts hanging around him more, seeing as him being a werewolf numbed the psychic headaches she was getting from constantly trying to see Bella's future.
--->'''Alice:''' I have to admit, it's a relief having you close by-in spite of the wet dog smell. Everything goes away. Like having my eyes closed. It numbs the pain.
--->'''Jacob:''' Happy to be of service, ma'am.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jacob (as well as his pack) is more of a skinwalker or a shapeshifter than a traditional werewolf. He transforms into a full (albeit giant-sized) wolf instead of a biped hybrid, and he can bring on the transformation at any time of the day instead of just turning on the full moon.
* PluckyComicRelief: Until he starts taking a more dramatic role, he is the funniest character in the book.
* RedOniBlueOni: Jacob is the Red Oni to both Bella's and Edward's Blue Oni.
* RefusalOfTheCall: As a descendant of Ephraim Black, an old chief and the alpha of the tribe's first werewolf pack, Jacob was actually supposed to lead the new pack when it resurfaced in "New Moon", but he hated being a werewolf, he didn't want the job, and he wasn't ready, so he handed the responsibilities over to Sam. Jacob does wind up regretting this later, when he has to follow Sam's orders to the word. [[spoiler: Jacob winds up answering the call anyway and rebelling when Sam tries to force him to do something he considers to be abhorrent, striking off on his own and unwittingly creating his own faction of Quillette werewolves: his own pack.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In ''Breaking Dawn'', Jacob decides that [[spoiler:Bella's baby]] must die because Bella [[spoiler:apparently died giving birth to her]]. He goes to find her and kill her himself, only to [[spoiler:imprint when he actually looks into the baby's eyes]].
* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:To Edward for Bella.]]
* ShirtlessScene: According to the Seattle Times, Jacob takes his shirt off thirteen times total in the movies; out of which, three times were in the rain, and not happening at all in the first movie.
* SquaringTheLoveTriangle: When Jacob ends up falling in love with Renesmee.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Even before he became a lupine shape-shifter, Jacob was pretty tall, clocking in at ‎6'7 feet, and Bella describes him as being a beautiful man several times. This trope is downplayed in the films, where Taylor Lautner is nine inches shorter than book Jacob.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Jacob is frequently described as being tall and handsome in the books, and after he becomes a werewolf, his personality starts to become sardonic, sarcastic, and self-deprecating.
* TookALevelInBadass: When he became a werewolf. Jacob starts the series as an ordinary and unassuming, if remarkably tall, lovesick teenager. However, over time, he becomes a super strong, super fast werewolf who has hunted down and killed vampires; [[spoiler: eventually leading his own splinter pack of shapeshifters]].
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: After becoming increasingly cynical, frustrated and aggressive in ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn'' about how being a werewolf has permanently changed his life for the worse, along with his unrequited feelings for Bella, imprinting helps to relieve a lot of the tension in Jake and leads him to becoming a more amiable and laidback person once more.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Twilight'' and the first half of ''New Moon'' he was a [[NiceGuy sweet, amiable guy]] with a simple crush on Bella that she [[BitchInSheepsClothing selfishly exploited]]. But, once he becomes a werewolf, he's a surly, petulant NobleBigot with no qualms about [[ForcefulKiss forcing himself]] on Bella.
* {{Tritagonist}}: He's the third most important character after Bella and Edward from ''New Moon'' onwards.
* UngratefulBastard: His response to Leah telling off Bella for the way she (Bella) has been treating him? He ''immediately'' jumps to Bella's defense when she starts crying, and gets mad at Leah for upsetting her, even though ''she stood up for him''.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[DidNotGetTheGirl Sadly, he did not end up with Bella, his childhood friend.]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Once Jacob transforms into a werewolf, he's almost always shirtless whenever he appears, to the point where it almost becomes a running gag in the franchise. Lampshaded by Edward in ''Eclipse'', when he grouses "Doesn't he own a shirt?"
* WhatTheHellHero: He was given one by Edward in "Eclipse", after he forcefully kisses Bella against her will. He later agrees with Edward that he will wait for Bella to give him consent.
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler:Jacob imprinted on Renesmee the moment she was born in ''Breaking Dawn Part 1''. He becomes a sort of uncle/older brother figure to the her, and it's assumed that of course, she'll want to marry him once she's of age.]]
* WorkingClassWerewolves: Jacob and his packmates come from a rather modest, working-class background on a reservation, compared to the most lavish and indulgent lifestyles the vampires in the franchise partake in, from the Cullens to the Volturi.
[[/folder]]

!Humans

!!Bella's Family

[[folder:Charlie Swan]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/BillyBurke

[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlieS_8070.jpg]]
Charlie is Bella's father and the police chief of Forks. He is quiet and a bit of a loner, who enjoys watching sports and drinking beer. He mostly leaves Bella up to her own devices. He will occasionally try to interact with Bella, but she usually is too busy protecting him from the horrors he is not aware of to actually spend time with him as well.
----

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books, Bella frequently uses rather unflattering terms to describe Charlie's appearance. Billy Burke, however, is fairly attractive.
* AdultsAreUseless: Bella's going through all of this, and Charlie barely steps in. When she becomes a vampire, he ends up keeping his knowledge of what has happened on a need-to-know basis. It has to be said, though, that this is only ''partly'' due to his discomfort with the strange goings-on; Bella and the Cullens know that if the Volturi find out he knows about vampires, they will either kill him or force the Cullens to turn him.
* AmicablyDivorced: From Renee. They mainly split up because Renee couldn't stand Forks, and Charlie didn't want to leave. They're shown to be in communication regarding Bella, and on the rare occasion that they are together, they are quite friendly with each other.
* FirstNameBasis: Bella almost always calls him "Charlie" instead of "Dad". She only uses "Dad" when she's particularly emotional or upset.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Is the police chief of Forks and has the mustache to back it up.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Frequently seen drinking a tall can of beer when going through stressful times with Bella, which is often.
* LethalChef: Many fans wonder how he even managed to survive before Bella moved in. He can't even use a microwave properly!
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Until ''Breaking Dawn'' when he begins to learn a bit of the world around him. He invokes this trope by asking Jacob and Bella not to tell him any more than the basic essentials.]]
* OnlySaneMan: The most rational character who doesn't get involved in the crazy melodrama and love affairs.
* PapaWolf:
** The fact that Bella's moving to Forks was presumably the first time he'd seen her in several years did nothing to stop him from looking out for her. An example: When meeting Edward for the first time in the film, he's carrying a shotgun with him. Granted, it would have done nothing to Edward, but you've gotta give the guy points for trying.
** Arguably subverted in ''Eclipse''. Charlie barely reacts when he learns Jacob forced a kiss on Bella. Then again, he was also aware Bella punched Jacob in response (even if she broke her own hand doing so), so maybe he felt the situation resolved itself.
* ParentalObliviousness: Arguably [[JustifiedTrope justified]], considering Bella actively tries to exclude him from anything supernatural, for his own safety.
* PoliceAreUseless: {{Justified|Trope}}. There really isn't a practical way for the police to respond to vampire activity. He probably does okay against the everyday, run-of-the-mill crime, it just isn't shown because it isn't part of the story.
* PornStache: In the movie.
* PsychicBlockDefense: Downplayed. He doesn't entirely block out attempts at reading his mind like Bella does, but in ''Midnight Sun'', Edward finds his thoughts to be very muted, vague, and hard to read.
* SecretKeeper: Jacob told him he's a werewolf.
* TheTalk: Has an exceptionally awkward one with Bella in ''Eclipse''. In the novel it just comes across as fairly uncomfortable, but in the movie Billy and Kristen make it hilarious.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Drinks Rainier beer in the movies, which is accurate to the Pacific Northwest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Renée Dwyer]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/SarahClarke

Bella's flighty, fun-loving mother, ex-wife of Charlie, now married to Phil Dwyer.
----

* AdultsAreUseless: She isn't involved very much in Bella's life.
* AmicablyDivorced: Fron Charlie. They mainly split up because Renee couldn't stand Forks, and Charlie didn't want to leave. They're shown to be in communication regarding Bella, and on the rare occasion that they are together, they are quite friendly with each other.
* CharmPerson: According to Edward, Renée (like her ex-husband and daughter) is a gifted human. Her ability is to subconsciously project her thoughts to others, drawing them to her and making them anxious to help or assist her.
* CloudCuckoolander: Is rather haphazard.
* HappilyMarried: To Phil.
* WomanChild: To the point where Bella claims to be the mom of the relationship.
[[/folder]]

!!Bella's Classmates

The human students at Forks High School. The most prominent ones are Mike Newton, Jessica Stanley, Angela Weber, Eric Yorkie, Tyler Crowley, and Lauren Mallory.

[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Angela hooks up with Eric in the movies even though she didn’t in the books.
* CasanovaWannabe: Tyler and possibly Mike, if you trust ''Midnight Sun''.
* CompositeCharacter: In the movies, Lauren is merged with Jessica and Ben is merged with Eric.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Eric, Tyler, and especially Mike were this to Bella.
* EveryoneMustBePaired: Mike gets with Jessica, Tyler with Lauren, and Angela with Ben (Eric in the films).
* GreenEyedMonster: Besides [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Angela]], the girls are all jealous of Bella.
* HopelessSuitor: Most of the boys seem to be crushing on Bella. Of course, normal high school boys have no shot with a girl who hangs out with sparkly vampires and buff werewolves.
%%* LovableJock: Tyler.
* RaceLift: The movies turn these characters into a FiveTokenBand.
* SatelliteCharacter: All of them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mike Newton]]
->Portrayed by Creator/MichaelWelch

* AbhorrentAdmirer: While not unattractive, Mike has an obsessive crush on Bella but she has no interest.
* CovertPervert: Listening to his thoughts is Edward's equivalent of a MindRape, so he tries to concentrate on Angela's, whose head he says is an "easy place to be."
* LovableJock: Mike is both nice and a jock.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: To Bella, Mike is a perfectly likable, popular, athletic, nice guy but he comes off as totally useless since Edward Cullen is around.
* TheGenericGuy: Subverted when it comes to ''Midnight Sun''.
* StalkerWithACrush: Mike obsesses over Bella, following her like a 'dog'.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jessica Stanley]]
->Portrayed by Creator/AnnaKendrick

* AttentionWhore: Allegedly. See FalseFriend.
* FalseFriend: [[InformedFlaw Apparently]]. Exploited in ''Midnight Sun''. She keeps thinking that Bella isn't that interesting and decides to befriend Bella to create an interesting GirlPosse to bring attention to her. However, Breaking Dawn heavily implies that though self-centered and oblivious to Bella's feelings, she has come to genuinely like her.
* HiddenDepths: In the movies, at least. Listen to Jessica's rambling about the zombie apocalypse genre, and you'll find that it's actually quite thoughtful -- it just happens to be in ValleyGirl speak. This was thanks to Creator/AnnaKendrick being allowed to improvise a bit. Amusingly, at this point in the book, Bella admits that Jessica is going on about something, but she's not listening to her and has no clue what she's even talking about. For all we know, this ''might'' be what she was saying.
* InformedFlaw: The narrative frequently accuses Jessica of being a FalseFriend, but no evidence actually exists to prove this. It comes to light in ''Midnight Sun'', when we can see inside her head.
* MotorMouth: When will she not talk?
* SmarterThanYouLook: Shallow "chatterbox" and AttentionWhore Jessica was smart enough to be valedictorian of her class (but only in the film; in the books ''Eric'' was valedictorian). A cropped scene from the books has Bella explicitly state that Jessica has better marks than herself.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Bella's friendship with Jessica, especially the scene where Bella walks willingly into a dangerous situation without caring that she puts Jessica, who's quite reasonably panicking, at risk at well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Angela Weber]]
->Portrayed by Creator/ChristianSerratos

* HugeSchoolgirl: Angela is 6'1" and her height makes her self-conscious.
* NiceGirl: Angela, who is Bella's closest human friend in the novels, is repeatedly shown to be quite selfless and pleasant in contrast to the others who come off as overbearing. Even Edward thinks highly of her in contrast to his opinions of Bella's other human friends as he finds her unusually kind, with ''Midnight Sun'' showing her thoughts to be genuine towards Bella.
* ShrinkingViolet: In the books, she was described as being quite tall (around 6'1), which attracted so much unwanted attention that she became shy and timid.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: In the books, she is tall and gets together with Ben Cheney, who is described as little next to her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eric Yorkie]]
->Portrayed by Justin Chon

* AsianAndNerdy: In the films. In the first book, Bella describes him as looking like "the overly helpful, chess club type." Eric in the films is played by Korean-American Justin Chon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lauren Mallory]]
* AlphaBitch: Popular and bitchy Lauren.
* DisproportionateRetribution: WordOfGod says Lauren fell prey to a modeling scam that cost her over a thousand dollars and a good chunk of her hair. What made her deserving of this? She made one relatively minor sarcastic comment about Bella.
[[/folder]]

!!Jacob's Family

[[folder:Billy Black]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/GilBirmingham

Jacob's father.
----

* AlliterativeName: '''B'''illy '''B'''lack.
* HandicappedBadass: He uses a wheelchair, though it's implied that he was once a formidable member of the Quileute tribe.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: ''Midnight Sun'' gives a look into some of his thoughts and just seeing Edward puts him on edge and hearing from Carlisle- who is as agreeable and accommodating as ever- practically puts him in a state of despair. [[JustifiedTrope Not that he hasn't good reason to distrust "cold ones"]] but one would think he'd know by now that the Cullens aren't like most vampires.
[[/folder]]

!Vampires

[[folder:In General]]
* BerserkButton: Vampires in general in this series are not forgiving by nature. And, as shown throughout the series, unless you want to face a vengeful wrath, never kill their loved ones, or their mate.
* BishieSparkle:
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] do this in the sunlight.
** The climax of ''New Moon'' revolves around this, where Edward tries to step into the sunlight in the Volturi's city, which would get him noticed by the humans and [[ICannotSelfTerminate killed by the Volturi]].
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Within the Twilight universe, vampires in general do not value much of human life let alone see humans as equals. They apparently think nothing much of taking a human life particularly if it means ''sustaining'' themselves with ''human'' blood which is said to be more appealing than that of blood from an animal. Even ones who don't feed on humans for moral reasons of their own usually have some feeling of superiority and don't think much of other vampires feeding on humans. The Cullens seems to be perfectly content with letting their non-veggie friends murder humans while they're visiting, as long as it's not anyone from Forks.
* CursedWithAwesome:
** Vampirism comes with a lot of upsides and few downsides, especially if you live on a diet of animal blood. You get an eternity of youth, beauty, strength, and possibly some sort of superpower, and you can do it without harming humans as long as you're willing to live on something that tastes gross. Despite this, a few vampires, most notably Edward, regard their status as a curse, and wish they could have lived out human lives instead.
** The movies give us another example when Edward shows Bella [[BishieSparkle what happens]] when a vampire is in direct sunlight. When she says it's beautiful, he responds with this frequently-quoted line:
--->'''Edward''': "This is the skin of a killer, Bella."
* DaywalkingVampire: Played with. Vampires aren't harmed by sunlight itself, but it does make their nonhuman status [[BishieSparkle obvious]], which ''is'' dangerous since it can get them KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. Because of this, vampires do have to avoid sunlight, but only when there are humans around to see them.
* DestructoNookie: Vampires all have SuperStrength so they have destructive sex; Emmett says that he and Rosalie have broken multiple houses.
** [[spoiler: Edward breaks the bed while having honeymoon sex with Bella.]]
* GlamourFailure: Vampires avoid sunlight because it causes their skin to sparkle.
* {{Immortality}}: All vampires are TheUndead and the LifeDrinker. They are incapable of physically aging and have the ability to live forever without getting sick or dying.
* KillItWithFire: The only known way to get rid of vampires for good. But just fire isn't enough: first you have to rip them up into pieces (which is kind of difficult, considering that their flesh is as hard as stone) and then scatter the ashes. However, since their bodily fluids are flammable, once you have them in little pieces setting them on fire is pretty easy.
** A simple way for them to get set on fire would be through the mouth. And considering the most physically supreme coven in existence (the Romanians) died from regular arson (by the Volturi, but still just arson), they are obviously not nearly as impervious as they seem.
** The reason why vampires have to be in pieces before they can be burned is because otherwise they can put the flames out, which is largely helped by their Super Speed. Even if a vampire were to be set on fire through the mouth, all he or she would have to do to extinguish the flame would be to close their mouth.
* LightIsNotGood: Let's see... The vampires have [[BishieSparkle sparkly skin]], [[KnightTemplar religious dogmatism]] ([[AuthorTract which the author sanctions]]), [[FantasticRacism a smug sense of superiority towards other races]], the [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience predominant colors]] [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white and gold]] and [[LightTheWay solar associations]].
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Vampires don't have periods, because their bodies are unchanging (this ties into the whole "can't bear children" thing).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rather than being harmed by sunlight, vampires in ''Twilight'' sparkle unnaturally in the sun. They also lack fangs (even [[CuteLittleFangs cute little ones]]), are not bothered by holy symbols or garlic, and each vampire has his or her own one unique special psychic ability, in addition to SuperToughness, SuperSpeed, and SuperStrength.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Recently turned vampires (called newborns) have these, as do those that continue to feed on human blood.
* SexGod: VampiresAreSexGods is very literally in play. Being amazing at sex is just a common vampire trait in this universe.
** Edward and Bella quickly become InsatiableNewlyweds. Edward even has to warn Bella that she can't just have sex 24/7. To the point where Bella is having so much fun having sex with Edward she forgets about her newborn daughter.
** The whole HappilyMarried Cullen family: Bella even marvels, once she realizes how great vampire sex is, why they aren't having sex all the time.
-->'''Emmett Cullen:''' Did Edward tell you how [[DestructoNookie many houses Rose and I smashed]]?
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: "Vegetarian" vampires, who drink animal blood rather than human blood, have these.
[[/folder]]

!!The Cullens

[[folder:Carlisle Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/PeterFacinelli (movies), Justin Rose (''Turncoats''), James Physick (''Masque'')

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The patriarch of the Cullen clan, Carlisle's been around for centuries. The son of an Anglican pastor in the 1600s, Carlisle was turned after a fateful encounter while hunting vampires. [[WhatHaveIBecome Initially horrified]], he tries many times to kill himself before succumbing to his thirst by drinking animal's blood. After being revived, he goes on to live out his immortal lifespan as a doctor and helper, and eventually decides to create a companion for his growing loneliness. The rest is history.
----

* TheAce: At least in the medical field. Being a vampire with more than a century's worth of experiences in the field, Carlisle hardly needs any sleep or rest, making him the perfect on-site physician, what with his stamina, appearance, and kindly nature. He's also one of the few members of his kind who have ''completely'' overcome their thirst for human blood.
* ActionDad: Carlisle always knows what's going on and gets quite involved. Even if he hates violence and fighting.
* AlliterativeName: '''C'''arlisle '''C'''ullen.
* TheAtoner: Became a doctor to save lives as a compensation for, well, being a vampire.
** Alternatively, he is trying to compensate for the lives taken by the vampires he created. Indirectly, he does have a lot of blood on his hands. However, he only created family members from people who were sure to die if he didn't turn them immortal.
* BadassBookworm: Carlisle is extremely well-read, having lived through decades of literature, and is a vampire who doesn't hesitate to fight if his loved ones are in danger.
* BadassPacifist: Hardly ever seen fighting, and the only vampire (other than [[spoiler: Bella]]) to have never been confirmed to have killed a human.
* TheBeautifulElite: Along with his family.
* BigGood: Treated as such.
* CulturedBadass: Very well-read, if the description Bella gives of his study is any indication. He is also well-traveled.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: At least in his vampire life. After he decided to become a 'vegetarian' vampire, he has [[SupernaturalGoldEyes gold eyes]] and golden hair.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Him and his whole family.
* GoodParents: Along with Esme.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: His main personality trait is compassion.
* HappilyMarried: He and his wife Esme are an extremely close and happy couple.
* HeroicWillpower: According to Edward, it's taken at least 200 years for Carlisle to control his thirst. Now, he's completely immune to the smell of human blood.
* HospitalHottie: A doctor, and as beautiful as any vampire.
* HunterOfMonsters: As a human, Carlisle was the son of a 17th century ChurchMilitant pastor who led like-minded individuals in hunts for vampires, witches, and werewolves, with his efforts mostly resulting in BurnTheWitch fates for innocent people while the real monsters eluded them. When Carlisle takes over from his father, Edward notes "At first Carlisle was a disappointment; he was not quick to accuse, to see demons where they did not exist. But he was persistent, and more clever than his father. He actually discovered a coven of true vampires that lived hidden in the sewers of the city." He and his fellows went after the vampires with TorchesAndPitchforks but were badly outmatched, and it's not clear whether they killed any of the vampires due to their enemies' superior strength, speed, and durability. Carlisle was bitten in the fight, and became the first-known VegetarianVampire, leading to the events of the main series centuries later.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: Carlisle was the one who turned his wife Esme into a vampire.
* InSeriesNickname: Jacob has called Carlisle "Dr. Fang".
* TheMedic: He's a doctor.
* NiceGuy: Pretty much always well-intentioned, very helpful, warm, and kindhearted.
* ThePatriarch: Of the Cullen family.
* ReluctantWarrior: Never wanted to be a vampire. Jacob also lampshades this when the pack is planning to strike the Cullens in ''Breaking Dawn'', thinking that the reason they'll be able to kill Carlisle is because he will be hesitant to fight back even when his life is at stake.
* TheSmartGuy: Appears to be the most knowledgeable of the Cullens. He's also a doctor.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TeamDad: The "father" among the Cullens, and his personality fits.
* TechnicalPacifist: He dislikes violence of any type. He'll fight to protect his family, but he won't enjoy it.
* VampireDoctor: Carlisle Cullen has managed to attain such perfect control over his blood lust that he can operate as a medical doctor for humans without issue, despite it being incredibly difficult for vampires to hold themselves back from attacking when they smell human blood.
* VampireHunter: Before he became a vampire himself.
* ViralTransformation: From human to vampire.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In this case his power is compassion, which kind of pales in comparison to some of the more awesome powers.
** That said, [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower it does give him an edge on resisting the desire to drink human blood]], to the point that he is able to effectively operate in an environment where he is constantly exposed to it (namely a hospital), which combined with his centuries of medical experience, makes him an exceptional surgeon.
** May also have something to do with why the Quileutes have agreed that Carlisle is the lowest priority target should they ever go to war with the Cullens.
** Also, the majority of the vampires willing to witness for and defend the Cullens are Carlisle’s friends. People have to care about you a whole awful lot to sign up for a doomed battle on your behalf. Particularly people who aren’t prone to social bonding by nature.
* WorstAid:
** Despite supposedly being a great doctor, Carlisle does things like cleaning the shrapnel from Bella's wound at the beginning of ''New Moon'' in the very dining room where it happened, and stocking up on the rarest kind of blood from the Forks blood bank to make sure Bella has nourishment handy during her first few days as a vampire. When Bella's pregnancy is killing her, he even exclaims "I can't figure out what it ''wants''!" He can't figure out that the offspring from a human x vampire copulation could, possibly, be part-vampire and have a vampire's dietary needs.
*** Not to mention that freaking ''morphine'' is his go-to drug, even in circumstances where a much less potent painkiller could have been used.
*** And the fact that he applies antiseptic ''after'' suturing Bella's wound, not before.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong: He is said to have been a disappointment to his father.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Esme Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/ElizabethReaser (movies), Sara Akay (''Masque'')

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The matriarch of the Cullen clan and Carlisle's wife, Esme's beauty is matched only by her gentle nature and great capacity for love. After meeting and forming a crush on Carlisle as a young girl, she later married another man who turned out to be an [[{{Jerkass}} abusive jerk]]. She managed to escape, while pregnant, but her child died shortly afterwards, robbing her of the will to live. After a near successful suicide attempt, Carlisle, who recognized her, transformed her. She fell in love all over again, and has since found solace in her big family of immortal adopted kids.
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* ActionMom: The Cullen family's matriarch, and also a vampire.
* TheBeautifulElite: Along with her family.
* EmergencyTransformation: Attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff after the death of her young son. She was found and transformed by Carlisle.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: One of the friendliest, in fact.
* GoodParents: Along with Carlisle.
* HappilyMarried: To Carlisle.
* TheHeart: Of the Cullens.
* HiddenDepths: According to the official guide, Esme's interests involved architecture, interior design, and house flipping.
* InterruptedSuicide: Nearly committed suicide due to the death of her child, but was interrupted by Carlisle who turned her into a vampire, whom she fell in love with later on.
* NiceGirl: As seen with her vampire power.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The trigger of her attempted suicide was the death of her young child.
* OutOfFocus: Definitely the least developed of the Cullen family. Also gets the least lines in the movies.
* ProperLady: She has all the personality traits: hardworking, mature, gentle, very competent in housework, sweet, maternal, and devoted to those she loves.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her entire role is basically to serve as the Cullen's designated mom.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TeamMom: She's ''designated'' as the Team Mom, but never actually displays any of the traits of one. She generally just follows Carlisle's lead and does little on her own.
* ViralTransformation: Per usual, for vampires.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Her vampire power is the ability to love passionately. Although you can argue that her (and her husband's) real power is the ability to hold such a large group of vampires together, [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower which makes them effectively the most powerful coven in North America by numbers alone.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alice Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/AshleyGreene (movies), Paloma Kwiatkowski (''The Mary Alice Brandon File''), Emma Tremblay (young, ''The Mary Alice Brandon File''), Sara Yoko Howard (''The Groundskeeper''), Maddisyn Carter (''We've Met Before'')

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One of Edward's many adopted siblings, Alice used to be in a mental institution because she claimed to see the future. After being transformed into a vampire to save her from a sadistic hunter, she managed to find Jasper and the Cullens and has lived with them since. She is funny, happy in nature, and well adapted to living as a vampire. Aside from Emmett, she is Edward's closest relative and ally. She adores Bella even before she meets her, just because she knew she would love her.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the books she's described as having black hair, but in the films it's reddish-brown.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sometimes acts like this, particularly towards Edward.
* BadassAdorable: Seems to fit, as she's constantly described as "tiny" and "pixie-like".
* TheBeautifulElite
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She has been known to display a temper every so often, such as when Emmett and Jasper are restraining James and she leaps onto his shoulders and tears his head off. In the film of ''Breaking Dawn'', Jane kills Jasper. Alice's response is to grab Jane and drag her to Wolf!Sam's waiting jaws. [[spoiler:AllJustADream, lucky for Jane.]]
** Typical of her clan, she's especially hostile to members of the Quileute tribe.
* BloodKnight: Shows shades of this in "Eclipse" when she finds out that [[spoiler:Edward]] will be sitting out of the fight with the newborn army at [[spoiler:Bella's request]], even stating that he is going to be missing all of the fun.
* BoyishShortHair: During her time in the asylum, Alice's hair was shaved off for "treatments" and was growing it back when one of the caretakers-a vampire who had grown fond of her-bit her to save her life. Since vampires and all their features stop growing completely after they transform, her hair has simply stayed that way since. In the films, her hair starts out as a [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/9b/54/ca9b54ce2b72da3c27b9294b54eedeb4.jpg choppy, feathered bob]] in "Twilight", then [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33900000/Alice-New-Moon-alice-cullen-33976394-470-456.png a longer, straighter bob]] in "New Moon", [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33900000/Alice-Eclipse-alice-cullen-33977204-470-467.png a slightly shorter bob]] in "Eclipse", and finally ends up as an [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/26100000/New-Breaking-Dawn-Part-1-Promotional-Pics-alice-cullen-26182238-288-360.jpg actual pixie cut]] in "Breaking Dawn".
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Alice is the Gentle Girl to Jasper's Brooding Boy.
* TheChessmaster: Due to her clairvoyance.
* CloudCuckooLander: Gives off this vibe.
* TheCutie: Generally acts like this, despite being a vampire.
* CuteBruiser: Fairly cute, but also a badass.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: ''The Official Illustrated Guide'' for ''Twilight'' revealed that Alice had seen her father kill her mother, but her father had her declared insane and locked away in a mental institution, so no one believed her. At the institution, she underwent shock treatment and lost all memories of who she was(this is a documented side effect of shock treatment). She ''also'' ended up being hunted by James, which made the vampire taking care of her decide to force a (painful) transformation on her while she was in this state, only for James to kill him and leave Alice without any guides when she awoke as a vampire. Additionally, it's not touched upon in the series, but her time at the institution must have been doubly unpleasant, considering conditions at the time. Perhaps its for the best that she doesn't remember any of it.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not to the extent of many other characters, but she has her moments.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: A trait she shares with her adoptive brother, Edward.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: A vampire with black hair.
* TheFashionista: Loves dressing people up and throwing parties, [[LesYay especially if Bella's involved]]. She not only organized Bella's wedding, but packed her honeymoon suitcase, dressed her up in a cocktail dress and stilettos [[spoiler:for her first post-vamp hunt]], and filled up her closet at home with more clothes than Bella felt she could wear for a while.
* FragileSpeedster: Although her size gave her a significant amount of speed, it also made her a target for unfriendly parties who were gunning for the tiniest-and therefore weakest-ones first.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Like all of the Cullens.
* GenkiGirl: She's extremely energetic.
* GirlyBruiser: She has an immense appreciation for the world of fashion, but also seemed very excited at the prospect of a fight in the third installment.
* HappilyAdopted: By the Cullens.
* HopeBringer: She represents hope for Jasper.
* InSeriesNickname: Some of Alice's nicknames in the series include Shortie (used by Jacob Black), Little Freak (used by Edward Cullen), Frightening Little Monster (used by Jasper Hale), and Psychic (used by Jacob Black).
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Alice is the Light Feminine to Rosalie's Dark Feminine.
* MagicAIsMagicA: How Alice's precognition worked seemed to vary each time it figured into the plot. Sometimes her visions are infallible, other times unreliable, and sometimes people can avoid showing up on her radar if they know the right tricks. Sometimes she can get visions of things she specifically wants to see, other times what she sees and when she sees it are totally random. Generally the only thing consistent is her power goes dark if the future involves a species she's never been, like a werewolf or half-vampire. Except when it doesn't.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Jasper.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Alice being able to see the future (Specifically how well it works goes up and down depending on how handy it is or isn't to the plot for her power to work. And not just how well it works at the moment, how well it's ''always'' worked and how much the Cullens have ''always'' depended on it changes to reflect how well it works in any particular scene).
* NiceGirl: Alice is known to be really friendly towards everyone.
* PerpetualSmiler: Bella often describes her to be overly-energetic.
* PluckyGirl: It takes a ''lot'' to get her down, with ''a lot'' being a pack of vampires coming for her family.
* ThePollyanna: Despite her DarkAndTroubledPast, Alice doesn't seem to have any issues in the present day. Granted, this may be because she doesn't remember any of it, but it's probably for the best as well.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: The ivory skin is a staple of all vampires and her short hair is naturally black.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: She and Jasper have this dynamic.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TeensAreShort: Alice is the smallest of the Cullen women.
* ViralTransformation: A vampire caretaker transformed her in order to save her life.
* WaifFu: Pulls off a lot of insanely cool moves throughout the series.
* WaifProphet: She is described as pixie-like and has visions of the future.
* {{Womanchild}}: She's often described as being rather child-like, due to her short stature and overwhelmingly positive nature. This may be because she was transformed at nineteen, and vampires don't progress past the mental state they were in when they were bitten.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emmett Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/KellanLutz

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Adopted into the Cullen family after Rosalie, Emmett is a fairly jolly guy. Found by Rosalie after getting [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by a bear]], they saved his life by transforming him and has been inseparable from her and the Cullens since then.
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* AnimalMotifs: Bella often likens him to a bear, due to his large, muscular build and dark eyes. A wild bear was also what caused his EmergencyTransformation, deciding his future as a member of the Cullen clan.
* TheBeautifulElite: Like every Cullen.
* TheBigGuy: He is even described as stronger than an average vampire.
* BoisterousBruiser: He loves fighting, even seeming excited for the battle against [[spoiler:the Volturi]] in BD.
* BrilliantButLazy: Has repeatedly (and, on Meyer's part, probably unintentionally) proven himself to be actually pretty smart or at least very sensible, as he's pointed out multiple ways to avoid conflict all throughout the series (see also TheStrategist below). That being said, he appears to have zero interest in his education, and has never finished any particular degree simply because it bored him.
* {{Determinator}}: Known to demand a rematch for every fight he loses, even if there's little to no chance he'll win next time.
* DoubleEntendre: Constantly makes jokes about Edward and Bella's sex life, and around Charlie no less!
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Dark-haired and a vampire.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Not exactly friendly to everyone he meets, but one of the nicer vampires nonetheless.
* GentleGiant: Despite his deceiving build, Emmett is naturally cheerful and childish. He becomes something of a surrogate big brother to Bella, giving her giant hugs that tended to sweep her off her feet more often than not.
* HappilyAdopted: He's the one who seems to enjoy being a vampire the most.
* HeroicBuild
* InSeriesNickname: Emmett's nicknames include Em (used by all of the Cullens) and Monkey Man (used by Rosalie Hale).
* ManChild: Physically the oldest of the Cullen "children" and actually pretty mature in a lot of ways, but he still has a tendency to act kind of childish.
* NiceGuy: Despite his BigGuy build, he is normally friendly and cheerful.
* PerpetualSmiler: Has zero problems with being a vampire and doesn't seem at all haunted by his past.
* RescueRomance: With Rosalie, who saved him from a bear.
* SoreLoser: A mild version, Emmett's reaction to losing is to keep asking for rematches until he wins.
* StoutStrength: Not necessarily overweight, but still bulkier than the other Cullens.
* TheStrategist: Downplayed because it's only there for a single chapter, but the fourth book, ''he'' is the one to come up with a plan to [[spoiler: defeat the Volturi, or at least keep them from killing the Cullens. And, at the end, it actually works.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Also qualifies as TallDarkAndSnarky.
* ViralTransformation: Emmett was once the breadwinner of his family. One day, while out hunting, a black bear mauled him and left him for dead. Rosalie then found him and brought him to Carlisle to save his life. The rest is history.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosalie Hale]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/NikkiReed

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The second kid to be adopted into the family. Rosalie is stunningly beautiful, even for a vampire, but she's really had a hard life. She grew up during the Great Depression, but managed well, and was even poised to marry a man who still had his money in those tough times, even though she didn't love him. She was then beaten and gang-raped by her fiancé and his friends while they were drunk off their rockers, and was left for dead in an alley. Taking pity on her, Carlisle transformed her. Being with Emmett gave her a reason to keep going on. Initially cold towards Bella, [[DefrostingIceQueen she grows to respect and like her]], and even protects her when [[spoiler: Edward wants to abort the then-unborn Renesmee.]]
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* AdaptationDyeJob: As a human, her eyes are described as being violet/blue in the books, but are brown in the movies.
* AffectionateNickname: Emmett calls Rosalie "angel" and "babe."
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: A ''very'' strange example: while she insists that Edward is like a brother to her, she also confesses that the fact that he was never interested in her hurt her vanity, especially when he fell in love with Bella. As Edward himself puts it in ''Midnight Sun'':
--> '''Edward''': Rosalie was mortally offended that I found some insignificant human girl more appealing than her.
* TheBeautifulElite: Unlike the other Cullens, she was this even before she became a vampire, having been the daughter of a noveau riche family who planned to use their daughter's extreme beauty for further social advancement.
* BeautyIsBad: Averted. The only reason she was ever mean towards Bella was because she envied the latter's mortality and ability to have children. She was also mad about the fact that Bella was willingly giving all that up, just to be a vampire, while Rosalie never even wanted to be a vampire in the first place.
* BeneathTheMask: During her heart-to-heart with Bella in ''Eclipse'', she reveals a very sensitive, caring side of herself.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: DefiedTrope. After becoming a vampire, she took revenge by killing her rapists -- a group that included her would-be fiancé -- while wearing a wedding dress (not hers, but one she had stolen for the occasion; she said she was quite melodramatic back then). However, she was very careful not to actually spill any of their blood because she knew she wouldn't be able to resist it and she didn't want any of them to be a part of her, so the dress went unstained.
* BrokenBird: Most of her bitchy behaviour towards others, primarily Bella, is because of what happened to her in her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Like Carlisle, Rose has golden hair and golden eyes.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It was revealed that Rosalie was gang-raped and left for dead before she was turned into a vampire.
* DefrostingIceQueen: At first, she came off as very cold towards Bella. She eventually mellows out towards her though.
* {{Determinator}}: ''Usually'' around blood. While she momentarily loses focus when [[spoiler:helping perform Bella's c-section]], she's rather proud of the fact that she's never once tasted human blood. That ''includes'' the time she carried a bloodied, bear-mauled Emmett ''hundreds of miles'' to Carlisle to change. She didn't try to turn Emmett herself because she didn't trust herself to be able to stop if she actually sunk her fangs in him.
* EmergencyTransformation: Was dying right before her transformation.
* FreudianExcuse: Rosalie is not a villain, but she is the only member of the Cullen family who seems to dislike Bella, and is semi-antagonistic towards her. Her behavior is explained in ''Eclipse'' as being the result of having been deprived of everything she ever wanted by her transformation into a vampire, right when she was about to achieve it. The reason she is so angry at Bella is that Bella is ready to throw her entire future as a human away to become a vampire with a long, repetitive life ahead of her, without so much as a second thought. The [[RapeAsBackstory events]] leading up to Rosalie's transformation might also have something to do with her anger.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Has never once drunk human blood.
* HappilyAdopted: Though she isn't as vocal about it as her siblings, Rose really loves Carlisle, Esme, and the rest of her family.
* HiddenDepths: Though she's initially presented as a stone-cold bitch, it's revealed that Rosalie has a deep maternal instinct and loves children. Also, despite her appearance, she loves getting her hands dirty when it comes to cars. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the official sourcebook]] she also has at least two masters' degrees (one in mechanical engineering), as well as a medical degree that Carlisle specifically asked her to get in order to keep his knowledge current.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She wants nothing more than to be able to have children and grow old with Emmett and would give up her beauty and immortality just for that chance. As such, she isn't thrilled with Bella's seemingly off-hand dismissal of potential motherhood.
* ImmortalInfertility: Being a vampire renders a person "frozen in time" and therefore unable to become pregnant. Before her vampire transformation, she wanted children and now cannot have them. This is a source for a lot of her hostility towards Bella, because Bella wants to be a vampire and would willingly give up the one thing Rosalie truly wants and cannot have.
* InSeriesNickname: Rosalie's nicknames include Rose (used by the Cullen family), Kitty (used by Carlisle Cullen), Babe (used by Emmett Cullen), Blondie (used by Jacob Black), Ice Cold Barbie (used by Jacob Black), and Angel (used by Emmett Cullen).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rosalie can be cold, unsympathetic, and bitterly cynical. She still cares about those she loves, though. And eventually, she starts to treat Bella like a sister-in-law after Renesmee's birth.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Alice's light.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Edward, although there are some fans who would disagree with this.
* PerpetualFrowner: You can pretty much count the times she isn't frowning or sulking in the series on one hand.
* {{Pride}}: She (quite justifiably) thinks she's just about the most beautiful thing that ever existed, and she usually enjoys the attention she gets for it.
* RapeAndRevenge: She killed the men who gang-raped her and beat her almost to death.
* RapeAsBackstory: One night, Rosalie was walking home when she ran into her drunken fiancé and his buddies, who gang-raped her and left her for dead in the streets. This story is used to shed light on Rosalie's bitterness and make her more sympathetic to Bella and to fans.
* TheResenter: In the beginning, towards Bella. But it was mostly out of jealousy of the fact that Bella was a human and Rosalie has always desired to be human again.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In regards to her relationship with Emmett. Rosalie admitted that, after the trauma she went through, her life got better after she met Emmett.
* TheSnarkKnight: Rosalie is rather snide, especially whenever Bella is around.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her social climbing parents basically treated her like a trophy to be married off so as to elevate themselves. Rosalie was so naive at the time that she didn't realize it. Later, she also came to blame her looks for her getting raped.
* {{Socialite}}: Back during her human days.
* StatuesqueStunner: She is the tallest of the Cullen women. Averted in the movies.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cold at first, but more kind later on.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TokenEvilTeammate: As mentioned above, she's not really evil, but she is the only one of the Cullens to ever be openly antagonistic towards Bella.
* TookALevelInKindness: She becomes Bella's guardian when she gets pregnant with Renesmee. She was mostly focused on the latter, though. And after Renesmee's birth, she finally accepts Bella as a member of the Cullen family.
* {{Tsundere}}: Cold towards Bella just because she was jealous of her.
* ViralTransformation: She was gang-raped and left for dead in a ditch by her would-be husband and his friends. Carlisle, taking pity on her, transformed her.
* WightInAWeddingDress: She deliberately invokes this trope to scare her ex-fiance and rapist after becoming a vampire.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Rosalie is described as being the most beautiful woman in the world.
* WrenchWench: Likes her [[CoolCar flashy cars]] and also fixes them up herself. According to the sourcebook, at one point she even got a college degree in mechanical engineering.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jasper Hale]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/JacksonRathbone (movies), Liam Johnson (''We've Met Before'')

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Born in the DeepSouth, Jasper participated in the Civil War before being transformed. He lived out his early days training an army of vampires, but after the stress proved too much for him, he left, and later met the love of his existence, Alice, and has lived a peaceful existence with the Cullens since then.
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* AloofBigBrother: To Edward, Emmett, and Rosalie. He is the eldest of the Cullen children.
* TheAtoner: Jasper used to be a troubled vampire who endlessly killed others for sport. He has since learned the error of his ways, thanks to Alice and his love for her.
** This is subverted in ''Midnight Sun,'' ''Eclipse,'' and the ''Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.''
** In "Midnight Sun", he had no issue with murdering Bella, an innocent girl in cold blood to [[LoveMakesYouEvil "protect"]] Alice and the family's secret from what he deemed to be "a slight danger."
** Then in ''Eclipse,'' he had no issue with suggesting (and if Carlisle had not been against it) that the entire Cullen Clan eat innocent people to be stronger for their battle with the [[spoiler: newborn army]].
** [[spoiler:In "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner," he shows that he had no issue with [[MindRape abusing]] his power to entice Bree into attacking him so he could have an excuse to kill her after Carlisle offered her asylum.]]
* TheBerserker: When he was an emotionless SuperSoldier who killed endlessly.
* BloodKnight: Struggled with this.
* BloodLust: Jasper lost control and almost killed Bella when she cut her finger.
* TheBore: He can use his power to invoke this on himself as well as others to make others overlook the selected individuals. In ''Midnight Sun'', Edward looks at him during the meeting with James' coven and finds himself feeling incredibly bored, despite how alarming Jasper's scar-ridden appearance ought to be. Though it's not foolproof and the moment James can smell Bella, he looks past the invoked feelings of boredom to see Bella for what she is.
* BreakTheCutie: His whole past qualifies as this.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Jasper is the Brooding Boy to Alice's Gentle Girl.
* TheCorruptible: To Maria.
* CorruptTheCutie: Maria did this to Jasper by turning him into a vampire and using him to become a killing machine.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jasper was transformed by Maria, a vampire, who only wanted him as an errand boy and nothing less. It was also during around this time that Jasper killed tons of people, some of which for sport.
* TheEmpath: His main power set. He can both sense and influence emotions, and even manipulate people into feeling what he wants them to feel.
* EmotionEater: Of a sort. In ''Midnight Sun'', Edward notes him hanging around him and Bella just to get high off the intense feelings of attraction the two have with one another. In ''Breaking Dawn'', he feels drawn towards Bella because she was so happy all the time with Edward stating he can't resist an emotionally healthy environment.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: He's not really the chatty kind, but he and his family ''do'' refrain from killing people for their blood.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Jasper can control the emotions of those around him, and according to Bella, it's impossible to feel anything but what he wants you to feel. It's also not a matter of discussion or [[MindRape consent]].
-->'''Jacob:''' Bloody annoying, that's what it is, only you can't be annoyed until after.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The good kind.
* HappilyAdopted: By Carlisle and Esme.
* HiddenDepths: Jasper may look stoic but he actually has a rather dark and troubled past. He was used by a woman named Maria and was basically a killing machine for a long time until he discovered her ulterior motives.
* HorrorHunger: Jasper still has issues with human blood. He even admitted that he was tempted to kill Bella because of her blood.
* LoveHurts: He initially believed that Maria, the vampire who had turned him, truly returned his affections. However, she was still hung up over losing her mate, and since vampires mate for life, he knew it would literally take ''forever'' for her to get over him.
* LoveRedeems: In regards to his relationship with Alice, who completely changed Jasper's dreary outlook on life.
* MeetCute: Alice and Jasper first met in a diner in Philadelphia, after at least a ''century's'' worth of depression on the latter's part. Due to her psychic powers, Alice already knew they were destined for one another, and when he walked in, she teased him by saying that he'd been keeping her waiting for a long time. Despite his initial surprise, Jasper "bowed his head like a good Southern gentleman and answered, "I'm sorry, ma'am." The two left the diner together, fell in love, found Carlisle, and the rest is history.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Jasper has little to say throughout the movies until the TrainingMontage in ''Eclipse''. Up until then, he has a rather generic American accent, but in Eclipse he remembers he was a Civil War veteran from Texas replete with a... jarring southern accent.
* TheQuietOne: In his family, he often speaks the least.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Savvy Guy to Alice's Energetic Girl.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He later became a SuperSoldier after he was turned by Maria.
* SouthernGentleman: He was born in Houston, Texas, and still carries the manners of his time to the present.
* TheStoic: He's rarely smiling, except when he's around Alice.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Ice towards Bella and other newcomers; sugar when he starts warming up to them.
* SuperSoldier: To some extent.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like all of the other Cullens.
* TroubledButCute: Like Edward before him, Jasper actively killed people before transitioning into the "vegetarian" lifestyle. ''Un''like Edward, Jasper killed whoever got in his way, regardless of their innocence. He also found out that his vampire sire, Maria, wasn't as in love with him as he thought, and was basically using him for her convenience. This led him to leave her coven and wandering about until he finally met Alice, who had been waiting for him all long, thanks to her psychic powers.
* WhenHeSmiles: Jasper only smiles whenever Alice is around, and it's truly something to behold.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Renesmee Cullen]]

--> Portrayed by Creator/MackenzieFoy (young!Renesmee) and Christie Burke (teenage!Renesmee)

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Edward and Bella's vampire-human hybrid daughter, conceived, carried and given birth to by Bella while she was still human, and Jacob Black's imprintee.
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* AgeLift: In a sense. While she's literally the same age as her book counterpart, she's played by then-12-year-old Mackenzie Foy, in contrast to the toddler she was described to look like in the novel.
* BrainyBaby: She was able to speak only ''seven'' days after her birth. Although she enjoys bedtime stories like most children, Bella notices that she doesn't like it when they read the same story twice and shares a love for literature with her mother.
* ChildProdigy: As a vampire-human hybrid, Renesmee has ''way'' more intelligence than the average child, even during her time ''in Bella's womb.'' During this period, she discovered that her sudden movements hurt her still-human mother immensely and tried to lessen it to ease Bella's pain. A few days after her birth, the Cullens discover that she has a photographic memory and can control her thirst even better than most vampire adults. In the films, she also learns how to play the piano after a few lessons from her father.
* CreepyChild: She almost never speaks except through tactile telepathy and has a disturbing level of awareness and intellect despite being only a few months old.
* {{Dhampyr}}: Although the word is never used in-series, she is the daughter of a human woman and a vampire.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-vampire, half-human, all impossible.
* InSeriesNickname: Jacob Black gives her the nickname "Nessie" because he thinks her full name, Renesmee Carlie Cullen, is a "mouthful". At first, Bella refuses to use this nickname because of the obvious allusion to the Loch-Ness Monster, but by the end of the series she eventually warms to it. Before long everyone thinks of her as Nessie. Other nicknames include Ness (used by Charlie Swan and Jacob Black), Vanessa Wolfe (by Bella Swan), E.J. (meaning Edward Jacob; used by Bella Swan), Bebe Linda (used by Carmen), and Little Nudger (used by Bella Swan).
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: She is born in the last book.
* LivingMacGuffin: Her birth is the very reason the Volturi comes for the Cullens in the fourth book.
%%* QuirkyCurls: How her hair is described in the books.
* TouchTelepathy: She can project thoughts, images, and emotions into people through physical contact.
* UnstablePoweredChild: Averted, but other characters immediately assume that she is this, mistaking her for an immortal child.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: After she was born, Renesmee learns the vampire laws and limitations very quickly and understands their consequences. She can perfectly memorize anything she sees or experiences, and understands people without much problem. Bella comments that she is already more intelligent than most adults, and has better control over her thirst than any of them.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She ages at an increased rate, able to speak by one week after birth and learning to walk after three. It's said she will reach full physical maturity by age seven.
[[/folder]]

!!The Volturi

An ancient coven of vampires living in Volterra, Italy. They consider themselves the rulemakers of the vampire world and purveyors of the arts. They are a large group, headed by the Big Three: Aro, Caius and Marcus, and have many scouts and guards. They are considered the antithesis of the Cullens.

[[folder:In General]]
* AntiVillain: They keep other vampires in line, enforce the laws and put down any threat to the secrecy of vampires which, inadvertently, protects humanity as well.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the books, the Volturi hierarchy is determined by the color of their cloak. The actual coven and Chelsea (the linchpin for both the coven and guard) wear pure black, the permanent members of the guard wear shades of grey with Jane and Alec wearing the darkest shade, and the transitory members wear light gray.
* DeflectorShield: Renata, Aro's personal bodyguard, whose talent is to project a psychic wave that repels an attacker by sending them off in another direction with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of what they were doing in the first place]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Aro and Caius, despite their shared ambition and thirst for power, actually value the lives of their wives Sulpicia and Athenodora, ensuring that they are perfectly protected at all times.
* EvilCounterpart: The Volturi are collectively presented as one to the Cullens as the only coven large enough to rival the Cullens in size. A few of the individual members of the Volturi are even presented as counterparts to individual members of the Cullens, such as Felix to Emmett as each is TheBigGuy of his respective coven.
* FreudianTrio: [[TheMcCoy Caius]] is the Id, [[TheKirk Aro]] is the Ego and [[TheSpock Marcus]] is the Superego.
* HumansAreSpecial: Although they tend to see humans only as food, and don't care much about their human servants, they do appreciate art, literature, and music. They also acknowledge that taking over and ruling the planet is impossible.
* MindRape: The majority of the Volturi's supernatural talents are versions of this trope which add to the coven's formidability. Notable examples include Aro, Jane, Alec and Demetri.
** Chelsea's power of manipulating relationships is used to create and sustain the slave-like devotion and loyalty the guard display towards the leaders even when they had no previous interest in joining the Volturi.
** Heidi's ability to appeal physically to others, human or vampire, also works inside the mind.
** Renata's DeflectorShield works against potential attackers by implanting a thought inside a charging attacker to go some other way with a confused memory of the reason why they were doing so.
* MoreThanMindControl: Two permanent members of the guard, Chelsea and Corin.
** Chelsea can influence the emotional relationships between individuals: she can strengthen, weaken, or completely sever them. In battle, her power is mainly used to disband the allegiances between the Volturi's enemies. Also, when Aro wants a specific vampire to join the guard, she creates the loyalty that vampire feels towards the Volturi which makes them want to join the guard willingly. Her power is also the glue that keeps the coven functional.
** Corin can induce others with a drug-like influence that keeps people satisfied no matter their circumstances, so her primary job is to keep the Volturi wives content with their prison-like circumstances.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The Volturi enforce laws that all other vampires must follow: any humans who learn of vampires must be turned into vampires or killed, do not turn babies or toddlers into vampires, do not make alliances with werewolves, do not hunt in Volterra, do not lie to or defy the Volturi. The punishment is death, but the Volturi often bend the rules and invites vampires with special talents to join them.
* PragmaticVillainy: The laws they enforce indirectly protect humans, but they do it to keep their power over the vampires and to protect TheMasquerade, not out of the goodness of their hearts.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Justified since they are Vampires.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: They have red eyes as they feed off human blood.
* RedRightHand: Due to centuries of being waited upon and never acting of their own volition, the oldest Volturi's bodies are starting to ''crumble''.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Heidi, whose beauty is comparable to Rosalie's. Her attractiveness, as well as her psychic talent to physically appeal to others, is why Heidi is the Volturi's 'fisher', who lures human victims to Volterra for the sustenance of the coven.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aro]]
--> Portrayed by Creator/MichaelSheen (movies), Jeff Riberdy (''Consumed'')
* AffablyEvil: Actually, make that FauxAffablyEvil, since Aro is "never more dangerous than when he was gracious."
* AmbitionIsEvil: Aro holds power over anything and is willing to do anything even commit the unspeakable to secure his status over the vampire world. He [[spoiler: secretly murdered his own sister Didyme to keep her husband Marcus from leaving the Volturi because Marcus' gift was too integral to his plans to lose]].
* BigBad: Aro in the fourth book and the fourth and fifth films.
* BigBadEnsemble: Aro with Victoria in New Moon.
* BigBadFriend: Aro is this to Carlisle, though after the events of the fourth book, their friendship is strained, and Aro sees his coven as a threat, though he does express his hope Carlisle will in time forgive him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''Breaking Dawn - Part 1'', Aro orders the death of the secretary because she misspelled "Carlisle" in a note.
-->"''Carlisle? Which is spelt with an S. Sweet, Bianca.''"
%%* EccentricMentor: Aro, again.
* FamilialFoe: Aro is out to destroy the Cullen Family (although, unlike most examples of the trope, they are an adoptive family), except for their most talented members, who he wants to forcibly recruit. The whole family comes to loathe him as a result of his actions.
* GrammarNazi: In ''Breaking Dawn - Part 1'', Aro commands Demetri and Felix to kill Bianca, the Volturi's most recent human secretary, simply because of her atrocious spelling and grammar.
* ItMustBeMine: He covets vampires with unique supernatural gifts to add to the guard and to his own power. In the present day, he has invited Edward, Bella and most especially, Alice to join the guard several times.
* LargeHam: Aro in the movies. Michael Sheen clearly had too much fun playing him!
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses Marcus' gift for his own ends while also [[spoiler:having killed his wife Didyme, Aro's own ''sister'' without Marcus knowing]].
** ''The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide'' reveals [[spoiler: he employs Chelsea to use her ability to manipulate relationships on all members of the Volturi coven to sustain their ability to co-exist together (i.e. their loyalty and subservience to him). At the same time (as Chelsea is the vampire he is the most dependent on and vulnerable to), he secretly ensures she is regularly exposed to Corin's gift of addictive content meaning Chelsea would have a hard time abdicating her role as the Volturi's linchpin]].
* TouchTelepathy: This is Aro's special ability, which allows him to hear the thoughts of whomever he comes into physical contact with. His gift is far more powerful than Edward's standard {{telepathy}} as while Edward hears only an individual's thoughts at the present time, Aro hears every thought a person has ever had.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caius]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: When Caius and Athenodora first met Aro and Marcus, Caius was interested in Aro's plans for dominating the vampire world and the idea of joining forces with the two immensely gifted vampires. In return, Aro was drawn to Caius' ambition and capacity to hate.
* BloodKnight: Caius is easily the most cruel of the Volturi and enjoys abusing his power over the vampire world. He is satisfied to spend his time heading the punitive expeditions of the Volturi's rule, and whenever the opportunity occurs, he always advocates for the most draconian methods of getting things done, usually in favor of executions or bloodletting.
** In ''New Moon'', he is in favor of executing Bella, Edward and Alice when they are brought before them citing Bella's knowledge of the vampire world.
** In ''Breaking Dawn'', Caius has Irina executed (see YouHaveFailedMe) under the excuse of providing false information in an attempt to ignite a bloodbath between the Volturi and the Cullens' allies. When the leaders cast their votes regarding Renesmee, he immediately votes to kill the child and anyone who protect her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite Caius' lust for blood and hateful personality, he ensures his wife Athenodora is perfectly protected at all times, showing he does value her life.
* FantasticRacism: Caius almost lost a fight with a werewolf (actual lycanthropic werewolves, not the Quileute shapeshifters) centuries ago and has spearheaded the Volturi to hunt them into near extinction. Upon witnessing the Cullens' alliance with the Quileute pack, he pushes for that to use as an excuse for a bloodbath during Renesmee's 'trial'.
* FunctionalAddict: According to ''The Twilight Saga: the Official Illustrated Guide'', he frequently uses Corin's drug-like gift to mitigate his boredom between punitive missions and battles.
* {{Sadist}}: He enjoys using Jane's gift to punish offenders of the Volturi's laws before he has them executed.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Caius.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Caius doesn't handle disappointment well, [[spoiler:as Irina learns fatally.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marcus]]
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Technically, Marcus is a leader of the Volturi but it’s easy for Aro and Caius to outvote him to further their ambition and bloodlust, and we get the sense that they do this often. When Marcus votes to leave the Cullens alone at the end of ''Breaking Dawn'' no one shows any reaction to this, being well aware that his opinion isn’t the one that will matter.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Implied in the ''Breaking Dawn'' movie; when the Romanians go for him, he doesn't bother fighting, merely stands and says quietly to himself, "Finally."]]
* TheEeyore: Marcus, [[spoiler: since his wife Didyme, which was Aro's sister, had been murdered and he never found the culprit (Aro)]].
* TheEmpath: Marcus' talent is seeing and identifying relationships between people.
* TheQuietOne: Marcus doesn't talk much. Justified, [[TheEeyore since he is depressed and bored most of the time]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Marcus has little interest in forcibly absorbing other Covens and is willing to listen to the arguments put before the coven, such as whether or not to kill Bella or Renesmee, and make lenient decisions that both Bella and the readers find a little relief in. Unfortunately [[AmbitionIsEvil Aro]] and [[BloodKnight Caius]] tend to subvert this and can easily outvote him.
* TokenGoodTeammate: relatively speaking, for the same reasons listed under ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jane and Alec]]
--> Portrayed by: Creator/DakotaFanning and Cameron Bright (movies), Elizabeth Kenney and Zach Shearon (adolescent, ''Consumed''), Alyssa Emily Marvin and Pharaohe Rosado (young, ''Consumed'')
* AdaptationalExplanation: The ''Consumed'' segment of ''The Storytellers'' gives an explanation as to why the twins were condemned. Jane was picking flowers in a field one day and was harassed by three local boys, which caused her to lose control of her powers and attack (and possibly kill) them. When questioned, she could not remember what had happened to them, causing the villagers to claim she and Alec had killed them.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Bella described Jane as having short, pale brown hair in the books. In the movies, she has long blonde hair tied in a bun.
* AgonyBeam: Jane's gift allows her to inflict a burning pain onto someone with a mere glance. More a case of MindRape since her talent is described to work inside the mind like most of the Volturi's talented members.
* BerserkButton: Jane really does not take well to her power being rendered useless.
* BurnTheWitch: They were accused of being witches and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Aro arrived just in time to halt the execution and turned them into vampires.
* CreepyChild: The twins were born with psychic talents which were evident even in their human state, and were heavily suspected of being witches by their town's superstitious villagers.
* CreepyTwins: Jane and Alec are twins and can be very creepy, both individually and together.
* TheEmpath: Jane seems like an inversion, as she can make you feel pain but seems unable to feel other people's pain, but it is at least somewhat plausible that she started out a regular empath who devoted her abilities to torturing people for Aro, and now that seems to be all she does.
* LittleMissBadass: Jane. Despite being a little girl changed at the age of 12, she is feared and respected by other vampires.
* PrimAndProperBun: Jane's hair is styled into one in the movies.
* MindRape: Jane and Alec's respective powers are described as abilities that trick the mind and work inside it for their gifts to take.
* {{Sadist}}: Jane enjoys the fear and respect her [[AgonyBeam power]] gives her.
* SenseLossSadness: Alec's gift is total sensory deprivation. He can cut off all five senses of his targets, supernatural or not.
* UndeadChild: Jane and Alec, the youngest and smaller vampires of the series, twins turned at around age twelve by Aro Volturi. (Exact ages for what constitutes as an Immortal Child was never explicitly stated. It is assumed that if the child in question is able to follow the laws set by Volturi, then they will be allowed to continue their existence.)
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Felix]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the novels, Felix is described as having short cropped black hair. In the movies, however, he is portrayed as having dark brown layered hair.
* TheBigGuy: Felix is this for the Volturi guard.
* BloodKnight: He shows an eagerness for combat as displayed in 'New Moon'' when Edward aggressively steps forward in defense of Bella multiple times. Felix is also always part of the Volturi's punitive missions, being their primary physical enforcer and a keen executioner.
* TheBrute: Felix is a huge, muscular vampire whose physicality and SuperStrength exceeds that of most vampires. He rivals Emmett in terms of strength and size. His intimidating appearance is described by Bella as being like that of an iron-spiked cudgel.
* RedOniBlueOni: Cocky, aggressive and being something of a flirt, Felix is the RedOni to Demetri's BlueOni.
* SoleSurvivor: Felix, possibly in ''Breaking Dawn - Part 2''. When Alice shows Aro her vision of how the battle of the Volturi vs. the Cullens and their allies would play out if it actually happened, Felix is the only named character on the Volturi side who is not explicitly killed onscreen in the battle.
* StrongAndSkilled: WordOfGod has stated that Felix's talents are his unrivaled fighting skills as well as his SuperStrength, that no matter how good someone else is in combat, Felix always stays one or more steps ahead of them.
* SuperStrength: His superpower, even by vampire standards. According to ''The Twilight Saga: the Official Illustrated Guide'', Felix is the physically strongest vampire the Volturi have encountered.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He and Demetri are commonly seen together for missions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Demetri]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Demetri has dark wavy hair that reaches his shoulders in the novels. In the movies, his hair is cropped short and coloured frosted brown/blonde.
* TheLancer: He is the Volturi's tracker and therefore one of their main combatants.
* LeanAndMean: Demetri is tall, being described as hard and lean as the blade of a sword by Bella and being the Volturi's tracker, he is the main threat to those who wish to evade the Volturi's wrath.
* MindRape: Like most of the Volturi members' supernatural talents, Demetri's [[ScarilyCompetentTracker tracking gift]] is based on this. He captures the "essence" of someone's mind when he meets them, or through someone else who met them in the past, and then follows that essence like tracking a scent over any distance.
* RedOniBlueOni: Demetri is rather calm and formal, to the point of being polite at times being the BlueOni to his outspoken partner Felix's RedOni.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Demetri, with heavy emphasis placed on how much more gifted he is at tracking than James. While James has to be relatively close to his victim, Demetri could track people from all across the world.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He and Felix are commonly seen together, as both are always part of the Volturi's more violent missions.
[[/folder]]

!!James' Coven

The first adversary encountered in the first book. They first started out as a small group of hunters and nomads who just lived to drink good blood. Things went from bad to worse when Bella and her rich blood came into the picture. James was offed in ''Twilight'', followed by Laurent in ''New Moon'', and then Victoria and her giant army of newborns in ''Eclipse''.

[[folder:In General]]
* BigBad: James in the first book and the first movie. Victoria in the second and third books and the third movie.
* BlondBrunetRedhead: In the movies, James is blond, Laurent is the brunet, and Victoria is the redhead.
* TokenTrio: In the movies. James is white, Victoria is a woman, and Laurent [[RaceLift is black]].
* UndeadBarefooter: They hunt barefoot; justified, since they don't feel pain, and it allows them to run faster.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:James]]
-> Portrayed by Creator/CamGigandet (''Twilight''), Jesse Lehman (''The Groundskeeper'')

* AdaptationDyeJob: Described as having light brown hair in the books, but blond in the movie.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: James is described as being very unremarkable in appearance, but in the movie, he's played by [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/13/c9/fa13c954ab8a5761db46b4d9cbf46c08.jpg this attractive guy]].
* ChallengeSeeker: ''Midnight Sun'' gives a look into his thoughts as heard by Edward. He's only momentarily enraged when Edward blocks him from getting at Bella at the field, then he becomes quite excited for the challenge ahead.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His gentle and almost polite amusement makes his cruelty even worse.
* ForTheEvulz: He often torments his victims before killing them, [[{{Sadist}} seemingly only for the amusement.]]
* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: His primary reason for torturing Bella. Getting her alone and all to himself was too quick and too easy for him, so he hopes to get Edward to chase him.
* {{Sadist}}: He gleefully records himself torturing [[spoiler: Bella]], for starters!
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: His vampire superpower is tracking.
* WouldHitAGirl: He [[spoiler: breaks several of Bella's ribs, gives her a head wound, and breaks one of her legs]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Victoria]]
-> Portrayed by Creator/RachelleLefevre (first two movies), Creator/BryceDallasHoward (''Eclipse''), Sophie Labell (''The Groundskeeper'')

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* AxCrazy: Stay far, far away from Victoria.
* BigBadEnsemble: In the second film, with the Volturi.
* TheChessmaster: Victoria's power is enhanced self-preservation, which allows her to instinctively know exactly what moves to make to evade danger.
* CrusadingWidow: She plans to kill Bella so that Edward will feel the same pain that she felt when James died. Doubles as AvengingTheVillain.
* EvilRedhead: Victoria is bloodthirsty and ruthless, with fiery red hair to match.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Before she fell in with James, she qualified as one, surprisingly enough. In her [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]] she was a mistreated servant girl who was turned by her sister Anne and joined a coven of outcasts that included her sister’s creator. Two years later, the Volturi attacked them; Victoria and Heidi were the only survivors, and the latter was taken into the coven under Chelsea’s influence.
* ManipulativeBitch: In New Moon and Eclipse. She gets Riley to do her bidding all the way to the end by pretending to be in love with him, and gets Laurent to spy on the Cullens and Bella for her by pretending to be friendly to him in spite of his earlier betrayal.
* MoralMyopia: Victoria's reason for wanting to kill Edward and Bella is to avenge James. It was never brought up that the only reason Edward killed James was because he thought it was good idea to make Bella his next prey, ignoring the Cullens' warning that Bella was under their protection, and thus off limits.
* RevengeByProxy: Victoria's search to harm Bella after [[spoiler:the Cullens kill her mate James]].
* TheVamp: She uses Riley as a tool while making him believe she loves him.
* VocalDissonance: When Bella finally hears her speak in ''Eclipse'', she is shocked by her soft, high voice and how it contrasts with her fierce looks.
-->Her voice was not the strong, wild, catlike growl I would have put with her face and stance. It was soft, it was high -- a babyish, soprano tinkling. The kind of voice that went with blond curls and pink bubble gum. It made no sense coming through her bared, glistening teeth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Laurent]]
-> Portrayed by Creator/EdiGathegi

* AffablyEvil: Laurent is the most civilized of his coven, but still a dangerous killer.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In the first novel he warns the Cullens about James, and doesn't take part in his hunt for Bella. However, in ''New Moon'' he agrees to Victoria's request to spy on the Cullens for her. It could be argued that he was doing this out of fear of her, but he also admitted to wanting to drink Bella's blood.
* KilledOffscreen: He's hunted down by the Uley pack and ripped to shreds shortly after his encounter with Bella in ''New Moon'', said fate only being revealed when she sees Jacob later.
* MercyKill: Laurent claims this is his motivation for trying to kill Bella in New Moon: If he kills her, it'll be quick and painless. If Victoria kills her, it won't.
* OhCrap: It's the last expression on Laurent's face after he encounters the wolf pack.
* RaceLift: In the books, he's described as olive-skinned. In the movies, he's black.
[[/folder]]

!Werewolves

!!The Wolf Pack

[[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent Wolf-like changelings]] ([[InsistentTerminology not werewolves]]) of the series. They are members of the Quileute tribe and are trained to protect humans from vampires. Members include Sam Uley (alpha), Paul Lahote, Jared Cameron, Embry Call, Quil Ateara V, Seth and Leah Clearwater, and Jacob.

[[folder:In General]]

* {{Animorphism}}: Aro says that they aren't really werewolves; just shapeshifters who ''take'' the form of wolves. However, it's what Meyer has been calling them since the second book, and so the term sticks.
* BlessedWithSuck: Unfortunately, their HealingFactor can sometimes cause their injuries to heal too fast, which is why Jacob needs his bones to be ''re-broken over and over'' to prevent them from knitting in the wrong shape.
* CanisMajor: The Quileute shapeshifters in the sequels turn into wolves as big as horses.
* FantasticRacism: Towards vampires. To be fair, aside from the Cullens, most of the vampires they encounter kill innocent people (and if the stories are to be believed, two vampires slaughtered many of their tribe centuries ago).
* TheGenericGuy: Apart from Seth and Sam, they really don't have much to distinguish themselves from one another, and only Paul has a personality trait as a hothead.
* HairTriggerTemper: Many of them suffer from this to a dangerous degree since they can transform as a result and become ten times more deadly. Sam even left horrific scars on Emily's face when they got into a fight.
* HealingFactor: All Quileute werewolves have this.
* HotBlooded: Paul, though he settles down in ''Breaking Dawn'' after imprinting on Jacob's sister offscreen.
* ImportantHaircut: If they have long hair, they chop it off after they start phasing because it means shorter fur as a wolf.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: At first. Once they gain enough control, it becomes VoluntaryShapeshifting, although they might accidentally phase anyway if they lose their tempers.
* LightningBruiser: Most of the wolves fight like this.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: The werewolves can be counted as part of this trend, given their common ethnicity.
* MenOfSherwood: Jake's [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wolf pack]] is constantly growing over the last three books and has several members who get little or no focus or development. They protect the area from hostile vampires, ultimately avoid coming to blows with the {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampire}}s, and survive every battle or showdown they have with vampires without losing a single shapeshifter.
* MindlinkMates: A non-romantic version. Those in the same pack can hear each other's thoughts when they're in wolf form.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Quileute wolves (also referred to as shape-shifters) are purely hereditary, have higher body temperatures in human form, and can transform at will as long as there's a nearby vampire presence.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Most of them have Old Testament names (Jacob, Seth, Leah, Sam, Paul, Rachel, and Rebecca).
* TeamMom: Emily. She gives them a home to rest in, clothes them, and feeds them, which is no easy task to do, considering how the entire pack are a bunch of {{BigEater}}s.
* ThemeNaming: Four of them (Jacob, Seth, Emily, and Paul) are named after Meyer's siblings.
* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Though they're often mistaken as such throughout the series, the pack are not in fact werewolves, but [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters.]] The difference between the two winds up being crucial when [[spoiler: Caius from the Volturi accuses the Cullens of allying themselves with werewolves, which has been against the Volturi's rules since they attempted to hunt werewolves to extinction. However, since the pack aren't actually werewolves, the Cullens and their allies get off scot-free.]]
* WifeHusbandry: A bad side effect of imprinting, as Quil and Jacob learn. Jacob is initially slightly Squicked to think about how this relates to Quil and Claire, but after he [[spoiler: imprints on Renesmee]], the process is detailed more; his primary concern is for her to be "safe and happy", and if they eventually hook up, well, that's just a bonus.
* WorkingClassWerewolves: Jacob Black and the rest of the werewolves (although they're technically "[[TotallyNotAWerewolf shapeshifters who can turn into wolves]]") live on a Native American reservation (which are notorious for high poverty rates) in rather rundown houses (or at the very least, Jacob's house is quite humble) and often wear little but denim cut-offs. This a sharp contrast to the vampiric Cullens who regularly show off their wealth with their CoolCars and BigFancyHouse, and own an entire island off the coast of Brazil. It even comes up in the VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle; Jacob gives Bella a second-hand truck he fixed up and a handmade wolf charm on a bracelet as gifts, whilst Edward gives her an Audi and a diamond heart charm. In the film adaptations, this trope is fully taken advantage of by the filmmakers to give [[MrFanservice Jacob]] an opportunity to strip off or [[WalkingShirtlessScene walk around shirtless]] in just about every scene he's in.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leah Clearwater]]
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->Portrayed by Creator/JuliaJones

Daughter of Sue and Harry Clearwater and one of Jacob's close friends in the Uley Pack.
----
* ActionGirl: After becoming a werewolf, she fights vampires with the rest of the pack. This is even more prominent in the films, as we see more of the fights onscreen.
* AdaptedOut: In the film version of ''New Moon'', though she shows up in ''Eclipse'' like in the books.
* AffectionateNickname: Sam used to call her "Lee-Lee". Jared later refers to her by the nickname in an attempt to get her to [[spoiler: return to Sam's pack]], which just pisses her off.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She is still in love with Sam, but he left her for Emily due to imprinting on her.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Emily's Betty for Sam's Archie.
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards her little brother Seth.
* BlessedWithSuck: How she generally views being a werewolf. To be fair to her, it's made her life much more difficult and causes her a lot of suffering she could otherwise avoid.
* BoyishShortHair: After becoming a werewolf, she wears her hair in a pixie cut to avoid having longer fur. In the films, it's a slightly longer bob cut.
* BrokenBird: Perpetually bitter and angry about [[TraumaCongaLine various incidents in her life]].
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Seth.
* ChildhoodFriend: To her cousin Emily, even thinking of her as a sister. Until the incident with Sam, at least.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her boyfriend, whom she loved very much and thought she'd spend the rest of her life with, disappeared for weeks and then came back a changed person, without explanation. Unbeknownst to her at the time, he had started phasing, and due to tribe laws, could not tell her his secret, even though he wanted to. He then unexpectedly dumped her and started pursuing her cousin Emily, whom she was very close to. Although she tried to fight the feeling for a while, Emily eventually got with Sam, leaving Leah feeling utterly betrayed and devastated. Not too long after, Leah found out she was a werewolf which [[BlessedWithSuck completely mucked her life up]]; even worse, the first time she phased was during an argument with her father, [[spoiler: shortly after which he suffered a fatal heart attack, which she now believes [[ItsAllMyFault is her fault]]]]. Subsequently, she's stuck in a pack where no one else likes her, has to obey the commands of her ex, and watch him and her cousin be googly-eyed over each other.
* DeadpanSnarker: One of her most defining traits is her snarkiness.
* DeathByAdaptation: Somewhat. In ''Breaking Dawn: Part 2'', [[spoiler: she is killed after she pulls one of the Volturi off Esme and falls into a fiery chasm, which didn't happen in the book. However, it then turns out the battle was only one of Alice's visions and Leah is fine after all]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: Thanks to having some time apart from Sam in the last book, Leah warms up to [[BirdsOfAFeather Jacob]] and becomes much happier and calmer than she used to be.
* DieChairDie: The first time she phased, she shredded a couch.
* DoubleStandard: Leah is a bitch who is ruining the lives of everyone because she can't get over being dumped by her fiance for a girl [[StrangledByTheRedString he'd literally just met]], and having to mentally listen to him hate her, with no way to escape. When Jacob is the same because [[spoiler:Bella married her boyfriend instead of him]], Sam (the fiance who dumped Leah) tells Leah to be nice to Jacob, because he's had a much rougher time than she has. As if that wasn't enough, the girl Sam left Leah for was her own ''cousin'', Emily, whom Leah was very close to, and when Emily told Sam to go back to Leah he snapped and mauled her face so badly that she bears horrific scars that everyone can see.
* EtTuBrute: Her initial reaction to Emily getting with Sam. She is more forgiving towards her after she finds out about the whole werewolves and imprinting business, though they're still not as close as they once were.
* FirstLove: For Sam. Then he met [[LoveAtFirstSight Emily]]...
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: All the other shapeshifters think she's a complete bitch. To be fair to them, she does try to stir up trouble by purposefully bringing up painful subjects, but still, it's not hard to sympathize with her due to everything that happened to her.
* HeroicSacrifice: Film only. In ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'' [[spoiler: she sacrifices herself to save Esme, [[TakingYouWithMe launching herself and a few other vampires over a cliff edge]] to prevent Esme from being dragged over]].
* HopelessSuitor: To Sam. Especially after she became a werewolf, she knows she has no hope of ever being with him, because he imprinted on Emily.
* HowlOfSorrow: In ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'', she lets out one when she sees [[spoiler: Seth]] killed in front of her.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Subtle, but she clearly hates having to live with a pack that makes it clear she's not welcome. In ''Breaking Dawn'', she says she almost wishes she could imprint on someone just so she'd [[LoveHurts stop loving Sam]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She wants to stop phasing, and plans on stopping ASAP and going to community college.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Her perspective on Sam/Emily. She loves Sam and wants the best for him; she just doesn't want to have to stick around to watch them be together. She even agrees to be Emily's bridesmaid at their ''wedding''.
* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for [[spoiler:her father's death]] in ''New Moon'' because [[spoiler:it happened as the result of a heart attack he got from seeing her [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting phase]] for the first time]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Her [[WhatTheHellHero calling Bella out for stringing Jacob along]] in "Breaking Dawn" [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome (off-screen)]] is supposed to make readers feel sorry for Bella, who breaks down into tears over it, except Leah is completely right and only does so to defend [[DoggedNiceGuy Jacob]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be rather unsympathetic, cold, and bitterly cynical, but she still cares about those she loves and defends her tribe and other innocent people from vampires. Eventually, her protection extends to said vampires as well.
* TheLancer: [[spoiler:Jacob promotes her to his beta when he forms his own pack]].
* LawOfInverseFertility: Downplayed, as she's isn't overly fixated on having kids, but in ''Breaking Dawn'' she is upset that she's stopped menstruating due to the phasing, as she worries this means she may never actually be able to have biological children if/when she wanted to. She even wonders if this is why Sam didn't imprint on her.
* LightningBruiser: She's the fastest of the pack; her speed is just about the only thing about being a shapeshifter that she likes.
* LoveHurts: She hates still having feelings for Sam, because she knows he no longer feels the same way, but due to being a werewolf, she's stuck working with him ''and'' gets to have front row seats to his HappilyEverAfter with Emily. It's one of the sources for her ongoing emotional pain.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. It's mentioned that she stopped cycling when she phased, even though it freaks the guys out to talk about it.
* NoSympathy: She's one of the few protagonists who doesn't show much sympathy for Bella, especially in ''Breaking Dawn'' where she gives her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She gives one to Bella (off-page) in ''Breaking Dawn'', in particular chewing her out for stringing Jacob along with little regard to his feelings.
* SiblingYinYang: With her younger brother Seth. He's a very cheerful, idealistic, and friendly boy, while she's usually quite bad-tempered, cynical and snarky.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the sole female werewolf not only in her pack, but in HISTORY.
* SlutShaming: Leah is the only woman in the series who's been confirmed to have had premarital sex. Jacob says she got worried when she stopped getting her period and might be having a freak werewolf pregnancy since she hasn't had sex with anyone since Sam. She's also the only woman in the series to get hit with these tragedies specifically related to her love life and is one of the only prominent characters in the series to not end it in a relationship.
* SourOutsideSadInside: Her abrasiveness is due to her grief and turmoil over the various things that have gone wrong with her life.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's said to be very beautiful and stands 5'10" in the books.
* StupidSexyFlanders: In the epilogue for ''Eclipse'', Leah complains that Jacob's feelings for Bella are making her dream about kissing Bella through their PsychicLink. Of course, [[YuriFan some fans]] don't buy that explanation.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type 1. She's generally bitter, sarcastic, and abrasive, but has a softer side that comes out around her [[BigSisterInstinct little brother]] and eventually Jacob.
* TraumaCongaLine: In a rather short space of time, she loses her boyfriend to her cousin/best friend (and so loses her friendship too), becomes a werewolf which upends her life, and if that wasn't enough, she loses [[spoiler: her dad, too]]. It's not all that surprising she's a bit jaded.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this type of friendship with Jacob in ''Breaking Dawn''.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Leah is more than a little pissed at Emily (her cousin/best friend, who was like a sister to her) for giving in and getting together with Sam. To be fair to Emily, however, imprinting isn't exactly something you can fight, and on the very last time she tried sending Sam away-notably by pushing his BerserkButton of being compared to his deadbeat father-Sam phased and scarred her horrifically for life. So. You know. It's pretty much painful for all parties involved.
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[[folder:Seth Clearwater]]
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->Portrayed by Creator/BooBooStewart

Leah's little brother who looks up and idolizes Jacob.
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* CheerfulChild: Seth is a teenager, but definitely fits this trope.
* TheLancer: Seth plays this role for Jacob after they split from Sam's group.
* NiceGuy: Seth. Edward even mentions that his mind is one of the purest and kindest he's ever read.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Seth leaves Sam's pack when they decide to attack the Cullens, citing this as the reason. Leah to a certain extent leaves for the same reason, but moreso to protect Seth.
* SiblingYinYang: With his older sister Leah. He's a very cheerful, idealistic, and friendly boy, while she's usually quite bad-tempered, cynical and snarky.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Seth becomes less nice in ''Breaking Dawn'' for a little while, due to jumping on the DoubleStandard bandwagon against his sister, but thankfully, he (unlike most other characters) gets over it fairly quickly.
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[[folder:Sam Uley]]
->Portrayed by Creator/ChaskeSpencer

The pack's alpha.
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* BerserkButton: Most of the wolves have a HairTriggerTemper that causes them to shift, but Sam has an especially bad one: comparing him to his father, who left them at a young age. The last time anybody used this against him, said person got mauled horrifically, giving them lasting scars.
* TeamDad: Sam. Considering he was the first one who ever phased, the boys tend to see him as a de facto Alpha, and he tends to help out the newer ones with their tempers so as not to trigger any accidents.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Quileute wolves (also referred to as shape-shifters) are purely hereditary, have higher body temperatures in human form, and can transform at will as long as there's a nearby vampire presence.* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Most of them have Old Testament names (Jacob, Seth, Leah, Sam, Paul, Rachel, and Rebecca).

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Alice being able to see the future (Specifically how well it works goes up and down depending on how handy it is or isn't to the plot for her power to work. And not just how well it works at the moment, how well it's ''always'' worked and how much the Cullens have ''always'' depended on it changes to reflect how well it works in any particular scene).* NiceGirl: Alice is known to be really friendly towards everyone.

* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse;
** Bella's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' comparisons, which indicate that she has not actually understood the play... [[FridgeLogic Just like a large number of teen girls]].

* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse; Bella's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' comparisons, which indicate that she has not actually understood the play... [[FridgeLogic Just like a large number of teen girls]].

* StupidSacrifice: Several times.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Most of them have Old Testament names (Jacob, Seth, Leah, Sam, Paul, Rachel, and Rebecca).