History Characters / Watchmen2019

Character page for HBO's ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'' series.

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcementAndGovernment Law Enforcement and Government]] [[note]]Angela Abar / Sister Night, Wade Tillman / Looking Glass, Red Scare, Pirate Jenny, Judd Crawford, Panda, Dale Petey, President Robert Redford, Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr, Senator Joe Keene, Jr.[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019ReturningCharacters Returning Characters]] [[note]]Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne, Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan, Nelson Gardner / Captain Metropolis[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019SeventhKavalry Seventh Kavalry]] [[note]]Carmichael, The Suspect, Renee[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]] [[note]]Cal Abar, Topher Abar, Will Reeves / [[spoiler:Hooded Justice]], June, Jane Crawford, Mr. Phillips, Ms. Crookshanks, The Game Warden, Lady Trieu, Bian (2019), Bian (1985)[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]] [[note]]Cal Abar, Topher Abar, Will Reeves / [[spoiler:Hooded Justice]], June Reeves, Jane Crawford, Mr. Phillips, Ms. Crookshanks, The Game Warden, Lady Trieu, Bian (2019), Bian (1985)[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcementAndGovernment Law Enforcement and Government]] [[note]]Angela Abar / Sister Night, Wade Tillman / Looking Glass, Red Scare, Pirate Jenny, Judd Crawford, Panda, Dale Petey, President Robert Redford, Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr, Press Secretary Ezra Klein, Senator Joe Keene, Jr.[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]] [[note]]Cal Abar, Topher Abar, Judd's family, Jane Crawford, Mr. Phillips, Ms. Crookshanks, The Game Warden, Will Reeves / [[spoiler:Hooded Justice]], Lady Trieu[[/note]]

As with the ''Characters/DoomsdayClock'' comics and [[Characters/Watchmen2009 the 2009 film]], tropes for the continuation of characters who originated in the source material have to be posted here instead of on the [[Characters/{{Watchmen}} sheet]] for the original ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' comic book.

Character page for HBO's 2019 ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'' series.

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]] [[note]]Cal Abar, Topher Abar, Judd's family, Jane Crawford, Mr. Phillips, Ms. Crookshanks, The Game Warden, Will Reeves, Lady Trieu[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019ReturningCharacters Returning Characters]] [[note]]Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne, Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019SeventhKavalry Seventh Kavalry]] [[note]]Carmichael, The Suspect[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019SeventhKavalry Seventh Kavalry]] [[note]]Leader, Carmichael, The Suspect[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019ReturningCharacters Returning Characters]] [[note]]Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019SeventhKavalry Seventh Kavalry]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcementAndGovernment Law Enforcement and Government]] [[note]]Angela Abar / Sister Night, Wade Tillman / Looking Glass, Red Scare, Pirate Jenny, Judd Crawford, Panda, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne, Dale Petey, President Robert Redford, Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr, Press Secretary Ezra Klein, Senator Joe Keene, Jr.[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019ReturningCharacters Returning Characters]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcementAndGovernment Law Enforcement and Government]][[note]]Angela Abar / Sister Night, Wade Tillman / Looking Glass, Red Scare, Pirate Jenny, Judd Crawford, Panda, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne, Dale Petey, President Robert Redford, Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr, Press Secretary Ezra Klein, Senator Joe Keene, Jr.[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcementAndGovernment Law Enforcement and Government]]

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!!Tulsa Police

[[folder:Angela Abar / Sister Night]]
!!Det. Angela Abar / Sister Night
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ReginaKing
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->''"There are people who believe that this world is fair and good. It's all lollipops and rainbows. We don't do lollipops and rainbows. We know those are just pretty colors that hide what the world really is: black and white."''

The main Protagonist. A Tulsa police officer who begins donning a mask after being targeted by the Seventh Kalvary.
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* ActionGirl: As a police officer, she regularly beats up terrorists.
* AgeGapRomance: Angela is married to Cal. In real life, King is fifteen years older than Cal’s actor, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
* BadassLongcoat: She wears one, [[InTheHood complete with hood]], as Sister Night.
* CrazyPrepared: Angela keeps a shotgun stashed behind the headboard of her bed, as well as a pistol for Cal to use in self-defence. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she was attacked and nearly killed in her own home by a racist terrorist group only three years ago.
* CreepyCatholicism: Her police persona of Sister Night is some sort of warrior nun complete with rosary.
* CoolCar: She drives a souped-up black Buick Grand National as part of her costumed persona.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her codename and evil nun persona she is one of the main protagonists.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Angela clearly does not take Wade's betrayal well.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: While no stranger to PoliceBrutality herself, she considers Red Scare's planned assault on Nixonville excessive.
* {{Foil}}: To Rorshach. She also thinks in "black and white", but it is ''not'' BlackAndWhiteInsanity, she is brutal in a fight but [[EveryoneHasStandards has moments she thinks applying said brutality in the quest to uphold law can go too far]], and overall is more heroic. [[spoiler:When she discovers the Klan outfit in Judd's closet, she takes it away and performs a secret investigation about it, starting with asking Reeves if he is framing Judd. Kovacs wouldn't have done that.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She states to her friend Judd that she has an accurate "nose for white supremacy", unaware that [[spoiler:Judd apparently has ties to the Ku Klux Klan]].
* LawOfInverseFertility: Considering that she has adopted three kids and is implied to be unable to have children, it's obvious that she really wanted to be a mother.
* NoSell: Laurie (Silk Spectre II) gave her a BreakingSpeech after an entire episode of running over people as well as tearing apart their worldview. Angela's reaction?
--> "Ooooooo."
* NunTooHoly: Her superhero identity is an evil nun. However she is ([[AntiHero ostensibly]]) good.
* PoliceBrutality: Our first look at her on the job is violently bringing a man in for questioning on zero evidence besides her gut, then literally beating the blood and piss out of him to get information on the Seventh Kavalry. Rorschach would be proud.
* RabidCop: She's enough of one that Judd holds off on informing her of the traffic stop shooting until the next day. Later she drives into a white shantytown, breaks into a random trailer without a warrant, and throws the occupant into her trunk with no mention being made of whether she read him his MirandaRights. Then, after Looking Glass's interrogation, she beats the suspect until he discloses where the Seventh Kavalry's hideout is. And even if she thinks the police arresting everybody in Nixontown is excessive, the moment a rioter tries to hit her she beats the everliving crap out of the guy (although that was definitely the stresses of the past couple of days making her careless).
* ShutUpHannibal: Laurie's BadassBoast about how she takes down superheroes and masks results in Angela shrugging it off, much to Laurie's surprise.
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[[folder:Wade Tillman / Looking Glass]]
!!Wade Tillman[=/=]Looking Glass
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/TimBlakeNelson & Philip Labes

->''"I'm gonna ask you a series of questions..."''

A Tulsa police officer who wears a reflective mask.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A couple of scenes featuring Glass leave a bit of room for interpretation.
** As he interrogates Sister Night in episode 2, she calls him "a [[TheStoic cold motherfucker]]". He replies "Then why am I crying under here?" As he's still wearing his mask, it's hard to see if he really is. Was that simple sarcasm, or was he [[NotSoStoic actually moved]] by [[spoiler:Judd's death]]?
** At the beginning of episode 5, he is shown working at his cover job as a market researcher. After a commercial is shown inviting people to [[AfterTheEnd post-squid New York]] and receives glowing scores from the test audience, he claims the viewers were actually still full of fear and not at all willing to come to the city. Was he being [[AwesomenessByAnalysis observant as usual]], or was he just [[PsychologicalProjection projecting his own paranoia onto them]]?
* AmbiguouslyBi: He shows clear attraction to women to the point of being married to one, but it's unclear what he's feeling while watching a televised portrayal of two past male superheroes having sex as well.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: {{Deconstructed}}. Glass is incredibly observant, perceptive to even the most minute details, like a suspect's expressions and involuntary reactions. He is also very distrustful of nearly everyone and everything, to the point of being a borderline ConspiracyTheorist (or at the very least, he's easily perceived as such). These qualities make him a highly effective interrogator, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane to the point where some viewers even suspect he might be psychic]]; but they also cause the failure of his marriage, and ultimately bring about his downfall when [[spoiler:he is lured into the Seventh Kavalry's HQ and blackmailed into turning in Sister Night]].
* BrokenPedestal: Finding out about Judd's klan robes doesn't faze him. Noticing [[spoiler: Senator Keene's]] voice behind a Kavalry mask barely surprises him. What destroys him? Finding out the squid attack that horribly traumatized him was staged by Ozymandias years ago. He can barely even bring himself to wear his foil-coated hat after that.
* CreepyGood: LG is a valued member of the police force, but he still has a steely, ambiguous personality (not helped by him almost always wearing his reflective mask) that can be unnerving, with Angela calling him a "cold motherfucker".
* CrazyPrepared: Emphasis on "crazy," as he is over-prepared even by prepper standards. He tests his alarm system so often it ''breaks down'' from overuse. This is probably the real reason he sits around home eating cereal with his mask on, because it (theoretically) would stop a psychic attack and he's ''not'' going to go through that ever again.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Wade just happened to be in the New York area during 11/2 (Adrian Veidt's squid attack) and was within the psychic shock zone. Because of this, he spends the next thirty years consumed by fear of the next major squidfall. To make matters worse, it happened directly after a deeply humiliating sexual incident.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Except for the Veidt segment, "Little Fear of Lightning" is told entirely from Wade's perspective.
* {{Expy}}: He carries a ''lot'' of Rorschach's mannerisms and personality traits, with his mask even being referred to as his "face." He also shares Rorschach's hangups about sex, albeit where Kovacs was disgusted by the act (associating it with his abusive prostitute mother), WordOfGod states that Wade feels ashamed by the act (associating it with being put in a humiliating position by a girl right before the squid dropped). While Looking Glass differs from Rorschach in role, Lindelof certainly drew a lot from Rorschach when writing LG.
* {{Foil}}: [[JustForPun There's of course the literal one]]. Then, like Rorschach, he has a full-face mask that is referred to ''as'' his "face," and in certain scenes dark splotches reflecting off the mask resemble the shifting inkblots of Rorschach's mask. He also seems to be MarriedToTheJob, to the point where he still wears his mask at home. Unlike Rorschach, he's no conspiracy theorist and swallowed the accepted truth about the New York incident. He also actually works with law enforcement rather than acting on his own as a vigilante.
* GutturalGrowler: He speaks in a raspy, low baritone that provides him with an aura of subtle menace.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to dating women. His ex-wife notes that he always picks the ones that are going to "kick [him] in the balls." Sure enough, the woman he dates in the same episode turns out to be a spy who is leading him into a trap.
* InSeriesNickname: "LG" or "Glass". Laurie also refers to him as "Mirrorguy/man" to piss him off.
* LivingLieDetector: Not quite infallible, but LG is an expert in detecting involuntary lying signs. This ability gets disarmed if he warms up to a lady emotionally, sadly.
* LoafingInFullCostume: He's shown at home still wearing his mask and only pulling it up halfway when about to eat dinner.
* MundaneUtility: In the first episode the Sheriff uses his reflective mask as a mirror to adjust his tie. In the third episode, Agent Blake checks her teeth in his mask. His LivingLieDetector ability is put to use in his civilian identity as a market research consultant, helping clients figure out if customers actually enjoy the commercials they are being shown (they don't, he reckons, with regards to a desperate New York tourism ad).
* MythologyGag: Visually, his costume most closely resembles Rorschach's, and some of the late vigilante's mannerisms are reflected in the character.
* NotSoStoic: His low, emotionless voice and tendency to constantly wear a featureless reflective mask means it's easy to mistake him as cold and scary, but in actuality he's a man with a host of emotional issues who's just barely holding it together and is grappling with long-lasting trauma.
** When accused of being heartless by Angela [[spoiler:when Judd's corpse is retrieved by the police]], he claims he's crying. However, given that he's wearing a mask it's impossible to say if he was being genuine or sarcastic.
** He's also clearly flustered when Angela asks him to call in a favor from his Ex-Wife who he once claimed was on [[AmicableExes good terms with.]] But judging by his reaction, this is far from the truth.
** Laurie is ''very'' good at getting under his skin, and he can barely contain his irritation when she makes fun of his mask and name.
* TheProfiler: Besides being the Tulsa Police's top interrogator, he is also a behavioral scientist.
* SecretKeeper: Despite their [[VolleyingInsults abrasive banter]] with one another, Angela trusts him enough to hide [[spoiler: Judd's Klan Robe]] from Agent Blake and to keep quiet about the potential implications it might have. [[spoiler: Angela's trust in Wade tragically backfires after he's forced by Keene to make a SadisticChoice between selling her out to Agent Blake or letting the Kalvary target her family again.]]
* SouthernFriedGenius: Speaks with the thickest accent out of all the main characters and is the most cerebral.
* SpockSpeak: LG has a habit of lapsing into thick police/scientific jargon.
* SurvivalistStash: Keeps loads of supplies in an underground backyard bunker that doubles as a photographic dark room.
* TheStoic: He has a laconic, half-bored demeanor that comes through even when he's conducting a very intense interrogation.
* TinfoilHat: Both his mask and the inner lining of his baseball cap are made of "[[AppliedPhlebotinum reflectatine]]", which ties into his anxieties about squids. Since being in a hall of mirrors apparently did save him from the psychic attack, it has some basis.
* TortureTechnician: He's the designated interrogator for the Tulsa Police Department, having a pod where suspects are bombarded with imagery to make them expose lies by involuntary reactions, though it generally seems like he only deploys mild ''psychological'' pressure on the perps, never laying a finger on them. Noticeably when things get physical it's always either Sister or Scare that does this.
* WhamLine: When he's confronted by the Kavalry.
-->'''Looking Glass:''' Are you even trying to disguise your voice, [[spoiler:Senator]]?
-->'''[[spoiler:Keene]]:''' Shit, am I still wearing my mask?
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:Even though Red Scare argues with him about whether he really is in charge, he basically becomes the unofficial ''de facto'' leader of the Tulsa Police following Judd’s death. This lasts until Agent Blake takes over.]]
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[[folder:Red Scare]]
!!Red Scare
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->'''Played by:''' Andrew Howard

A Tulsa police officer who wears a red ski mask.
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* ChummyCommies: PlayedWith. He is chummy only because he is in the side of the police and even then is not above committing PoliceBrutality.
* TheBigGuy: Is the most heavily armed of the main cop characters.
* DirtyCommunist: Inverted; a paparazzi calls him a Nazi for roughing him up, but Scare proudly replies that he's a Communist.
* InSeriesNickname: "Scare".
* RabidCop: He leads the rest of the Tulsa police into rounding up all of the residents of Nixontown and interrogate them all to see who is responsible [[spoiler:for Judd Crawford's murder]]. He also very visibly brings an assault rifle to the climactic raid of the first episode when Sister Night only brings a pistol.
* {{Ruritania}}: Has an undefined Slavic accent.
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[[folder:Pirate Jenny]]
!!Pirate Jenny
->'''Played by:''' Jessica Camacho

A Tulsa police officer who wears a beaded mask.
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* DisposablePilot: Averted. She is the designated pilot of the Archie airship owned by the Tulsa police that crashes in the very first episode in pursuit of a 7th Kavalry airplane but she survives mostly unscathed.
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[[folder:Judd Crawford]]
!!Chief Judd Crawford
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/DonJohnson

Chief of the Tulsa Police and the boss to Angela, Looking Glass, and Red Scare.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Will tells Angela that he killed Judd because he was a participant in a conspiracy and that he had "skeletons in his closet." This turns out to literally be the case when Angela discovers a Ku Klux Klan robe hidden in a secret compartment in Judd's closet.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:To Angela, when she finds Judd's secret Klan robe.]]
* DaChief: For the Tulsa PD, complete with a cowboy hat.
* DecoyProtagonist: The amount of screentime he receives in the pilot, along with his status as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, leads one to believe that he's one of the main characters. [[spoiler:He's not, dying at the end of the first episode.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:As a main character who dies at the start of the story and has the past of an AssholeVictim, Judd is one for the Comedian.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Part of what makes the discovery of his dark side so heartbreaking is because Judd was ''so'' likable; a charming man who was a loving husband, an HonoraryUncle to Angela's children and AFatherToHisMen who led from the front. It's little wonder that Angela is so conflicted upon discovering his KKK robe.]]
* HiddenDepths: He's surprisingly a pretty good singer. He's also conservative, judging by the radio show that he listens to while on a drive. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he may also be a member of the KKK, judging by the robes in his closet.]]
* HonoraryUncle: He's one to Angela’s children.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Being lynched by a black man who survived KKK violence in his youth is a fitting end for a Klansman.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Lets out a "Shit!" once he sees that his tires were popped by a spike strip and realizes he's about to be ambushed]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:He was a member, perhaps even leader, of the KKK. Joe Keene later claims that Judd was a Klan leader not because he was a racist at heart, but to "keep the peace". Looking Glass doesn't buy that particular line of nonsense.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:After being built up as one of the main characters, he dies at the end of the first episode to establish that, just like in the original comic, AnyoneCanDie.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Murdered at the end of the first episode.]]
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[[folder:Panda]]
!!Panda
->'''Played by:''' Jacob Ming-Trent

A Tulsa police officer who wears a panda mask.
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* FatBastard: He definitely is seen as a "bastard" by the rest of the Tulsa police, and is obese enough to make his nickname [[MeaningfulName meaningful]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He is openly disliked by the rest of the Tulsa police force for his actions below.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He abides by the rules to an unrealistic degree. He gets a police officer wounded by taking over a minute asking questions about whether the situation qualified releasing the officer's gun; by the time he released it (and this also took several attempts -- whether it was because of a malfunction with the holster or Panda being lazy is not explained, but there is plenty of evidence for both), the officer was fired upon. The next day he shows no remorse or conflict, quoting directly from the rulebook that releasing all firearms is only allowed if the majority of the police force feel threatened.
* RulesLawyer: ''Very'' obsessed with making sure the letter of the law is followed, regardless of whether the spirit is.
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!!FBI

[[folder:Laurie Blake [=/=] The Comedienne]]
!! Laurie Blake / The Comedienne
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeanSmart
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-->'''Laurie:''' ''Do you know how to tell the difference between a masked cop and a vigilante?''
-->'''Angela:''' ''No.''
-->'''Laurie:''' ''Me neither.''

Formerly known as Laurie Juspeczyk, a.k.a. Laurie Jupiter, a.k.a. Silk Spectre II. Former costumed adventurer turned investigator in the FBI's Anti-Vigilante Task Force.
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See also '''''Characters/{{Watchmen}}'''''
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: She finds [[AmbiguousSituation what's possibly Doctor Manhattan's response]] to her joke -- that is, to drop a car in front of her as a way of acknowledging her "falling brick" gag -- to be genuinely hilarious.
* AmicableExes: Averted in the case of her and Nite Owl. In the transcribed interrogation from after her capture, Laurie hints that she and Dan had a bad falling out. Still, she keeps an owl as a pet and Senator Keene implies she might be trying to maneuver a release for him.
-->JUSPECZYK: [[FamilyMan He wanted kids]] and [[DarkActionGirl I wanted guns]].
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She quickly figures out that [[spoiler:Judd's]] closet had a secret compartment, in part because [[CallBack one was found in her father's closet]], and deduces both that Angela had removed what was inside and that the Seventh Kavalry weren't involved in [[spoiler:Judd's murder]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Laurie has changed very significantly in the years since her comics appearance. She expresses contempt for "masks" in general, telling a cruel joke in her message to Doctor Manhattan showing this in contrast to her once proudly being Silk Spectre. She embraced being Edward Blake’s daughter sometime back, after having initially been very distraught that he turned out to be her birth father, calling him "my dad" and using his last name. It's also clear she's taken up a lot of his dark personality and nihilistic worldview, contrasting to how she once was.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Laurie is noticeably colder than she was in the comic, and has seemingly adopted her father's nihilistic worldview. She also shoots a fleeing vigilante in the back without knowing or caring whether he's wearing body armor. And then there's this line:
-->'''Laurie:''' Men who end up hanging from trees with secret compartments in their closets tend to think of themselves as good guys. And those who protect them think they're good guys too. But here's the thing about me, Sister Night: [[BadassBoast I eat good guys for breakfast.]]
* BoxedCrook: It’s implied she’s working with the FBI to avoid jail time for her actions as Silk Spectre and Keene implies she might also try to be working a release for Nite Owl as well.
* BreakingSpeech: Attempted one on Sister Night, was genuinely surprised when it didn't work.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Laurie keeps a huge blue vibrator seemingly for this purpose.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has developed her already snarky attitude in the thirty years since the events of the comics.
* HappyEndingOverride: Laurie and Dan spent ten years as outlaw superheroes until they were captured by the Feds. Dan is out of the picture because he is in federal custody, and Laurie stated during her interrogation that the two weren't talking anymore because of "irreconcilable differences".
* InspectorJavert: She fills this role as a member of the FBI's Anti-Vigilante Task Force, and sees no distinction between illegal costumed vigilantes or legal masked cops.
* {{Irony}}: Laurie spent much of the original comic despising Edward Blake, a.k.a. the Comedian, because of his attempted rape of her mother, unaware that the two later had a consensual affair and that Blake was her father. Laurie later adopted both her father's name and moniker, and by 2019 has become a government operative like he was. It also appears as if the Comedian's near-sociopathic personality has [[DarkerAndEdgier rubbed off on her somewhat]].
* LegacyCharacter: In the '80s, she took up her mother’s Silk Spectre identity. Before she joined the FBI, she has taken her father's alias, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS albeit with some liberties]], as an outlaw costumed crimefighter.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: After formerly taking up her father the Comedian's moniker, she also becomes a government agent with a misanthropic philosophy and a shoot-first-think-later mindset, just like he was. As if to emphasize this, her debut episode uses her telling a BrickJoke as a framing device.
* MayDecemberRomance: She has a one-night stand with her partner Agent Petey, who is half her age.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She appears to feel this way for Doctor Manhattan. She sometimes makes long-distance calls to Mars to leave messages for him, and carries around a humongous blue vibrator in her luggage along with a suggestive ''Esquire'' cover showing the two of them. She doesn't appear to have as much affection for Nite Owl by comparison.
* RabidCop: She's willing to shoot a fleeing Mister Shadow {{in the back}} without caring whether he will die. She also blows away a Seventh Kavalryman [[spoiler:who sneaked into Judd Crawford's funeral and is threatening everybody with a suicide vest he earns is wired with a heartbeat sensor deadman's switch, thinking it's a bluff -- the fact she sneaked a gun into an event that required all attendants to leave their firearms at the entrance speaks for itself. It's a good thing the bomb had a delay.]]
* RetiredBadass: As far as her costumed hero days as Silk Spectre are concerned -- she and Nite Owl had a good decade of heroic adventures after the tragedy in New York City before the feds caught up to them. She instead works as a government operative, ironically doing some of the same things that she did while wearing a costume.
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[[folder:Dale Petey]]
!! Agent Dale Petey
->'''Played by:''' Dustin Ingram

Agent on the FBI's Anti-Vigilante Task Force and Laurie's partner in the Tulsa investigation.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His awkward mannerisms and humorous exchanges with Laurie make him endearing.
* {{Fanboy}}: He is a college history [=PhD=] specializing in the costumed adventurers of years past, and as such cautiously probes Laurie with questions about her past career on the flight to Tulsa. He also includes an excerpt from Rorschach's journal in the FBI briefing to the annoyance of his superior.
* MayDecemberRomance: Has a one night stand with Laurie.
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!!Politicians

!!!'''The Redford Administration'''

[[folder:President Robert Redford]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/RobertRedford

The 39th, and longest-serving, President of the United States.
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[SubvertedTrope You would think so]], considering that he's served seven consecutive terms and is in the process of serving the eighth. However, given that the series is set in Oklahoma, his views are considered deeply controversial in that part of the United States.
* AsHimself: Robert Redford portraying a fictionalized version of himself, based entirely around a throwaway gag in the last page of the ''Watchmen'' graphic novel.
* ContentWarnings: He reads an FCC-mandated one before ''American Hero Story'', which is an [[OverlyLongGag overly-long]] case of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.
* NoPartyGiven: His stated policies are liberal, and in real life, Redford and the other known members of the administration are Democrats, but he’s never explicitly been called one on the show.
* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:Willingly or not, Robert Redford is fully aware of what Adrian Veidt has done, and is complicit in keeping the truth suppressed. An article covering Veidt's alleged death notes that there was a split between them following Redford being sworn into office, suggesting that he was horrified upon learning the truth.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Veidt set up his presidency, which he doesn’t learn until he was elected.]]
* TheVoice: His appearances in the first four episodes are a picture of him in an exhibit of "notable presidents" in the first episode and his narration of the [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad excessively extensive and detailed content warning]] that prefaces "American Hero Story" (and, presumably, similar shows) that appears in the second episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr]]

A former academic who took a job in the Redford Administration to help him pass his reparations plan.

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* AsHimself: Appears in the second episode at the museum dedicated to the Tulsa race massacre, helping the survivors and descendants to get tested to see if they qualify for reparations.
* TheCameo: Has maybe ten lines of dialogue and is just a hologram.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Press Secretary Ezra Klein]]
A liberal pundit/ journalist who’s now President Redford’s Press Secretary.

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* AllThereInTheManual: Is only ever mentioned in the supplemental material published on HBO’s website.
[[/folder]]

!!!'''U.S. Senate'''

[[folder:Senator Joe Keene, Jr.]]
->'''Played by:''' James Wolk

A conservative U.S. Senator who is campaigning to succeed President Redford.
----
* AmbiguouslyEvil: In the first four episodes, Junior gives off a SmugSnake vibe during his appearances, and documents in the Peteypedia files link his family and [[spoiler:Judd's]] to a white supremacist conspiracy, but in a story such as this it remains to be seen whether he's a knowing participant or a RedHerring. [[spoiler:The ambiguity is removed in Episode 5 when it's revealed that he's a leader in the Seventh Kavalry.]]
* EngineeredHeroics: Senator Keene is taken hostage by a Kavalryman during Judd's funeral and afterwards vows to a group of reporters that he will go to war with the Kavalry. [[spoiler:Since it's revealed that Keene is a leader of the Kavalry, the funeral incident was most likely staged.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted. [[spoiler:Judd's]] newspaper obituary mentions Keene and identifies him as a Republican.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Subverted. [[spoiler:Keene is in command of a white supremacist terrorist group, but he is quick to mock the "idiots" and "racist okies" under him and states that he is using the Kavalry for a loftier goal.]]
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:After revealing himself as a leader of the Seventh Kavalry, Senator Keene gives Wade an ultimatum: either sell out Angela to Laurie in order to get her out of the way of whatever the Kavalry is planning, or the Kavalry will gun for her family again. Wade reluctantly betrays Angela in the hopes of saving them.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Keene threatens to send the Kavalry to murder Angela and her entire family if Wade doesn't betray her, and states that it makes no difference to him whether it comes to that or not.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Keene sends a group of armed Kavalry to Wade's house, having used him to sell out Angela to Agent Blake.]]
[[/folder]]
----

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019LawEnforcement Law Enforcement]][[note]]Red Scare, Pirate Jenny, Panda, Dale Petey[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019SeventhKavalry Seventh Kavalry]][[note]]Carmichael, The Suspect[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019VeidtsCastle Veidt's Castle]][[note]]Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Crookshanks, The Game Warden[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Politicians Politicians]][[note]]Robert Redford, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ezra Klein, Joe Keene Jr.[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Civilians Civilians]][[note]]Cal Abar, Topher Abar, Jane Crawford[[/note]]

!!Adrian Veidt's Castle

[[folder:Adrian Veidt [=/=] Ozymandias]]
!! Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeremyIrons
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adrian_veidt_tv_series.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Nothing ever ends. It has only just begun..."'']]

->''"The only way to stave off mankind's extinction is with a weapon more powerful than any atomic device. That weapon is fear."''

A former costumed hero, turned millionaire businessman, turned mass-murderer that successfully prevented WorldWarIII. Currently declared legally dead.

See also '''''Characters/{{Watchmen}}'''''

* TheAtoner: He set up a hospital to deal with the survivors of his squid hoax, seemingly the only thing he could do to approach making up for it.
* AxCrazy: It's quite clear that Veidt's sanity had taken a dip for the last thirty years [[spoiler:if casually murdering scores of your clone servants would indicate quite well.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Since his servants are [[ExpendableClone Expendable Clones]], Veidt has no problem frequently killing them in horrible ways.]]
* BaitTheDog: In the first episode he seems like a good boss if eccentric, nice to his servants and wants them to star in a play he wrote. [[spoiler: The second episode turns this on it’s head, impatiently rushing them through the anniversary song, acts as a harsh director to his servants and is willing to have one of his expendable servants burned alive for his play.]]
* CabinFever: [[spoiler:The reason he's killing his cloned helpers with increasing severity is because he's been imprisoned in a pocket dimension on one of Jupiter's moons for the past several years.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has this exchange with a particularly dimwitted servant/[[spoiler:clone]] before the "Watchmaker's Son" performance.
-->'''Mr. Phillips:''' Oh sir -- forgive me, but I shall require the watch I gifted you. As a prop.
-->'''Veidt:''' Oh. Has it ever occurred to you, Mr. Phillips, that ''you'' are the prop?
-->'''Mr. Phillips:''' Would you like for it to occur to me, sir?
-->'''Veidt:''' There are ''so'' many things I would like to occur to you.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:He incinerates the first Mr. Phillips onstage basically because he was stupid.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: "[[AntiVillain Evil]]" might be too strong a word, but he still committed mass and petty murder in this continuity. Nonetheless, he's shown to be genuinely fond of his servants... though this becomes [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the reveal that [[spoiler:Veidt's servants are [[ExpendableClone Expendable Clones]] that he casually kills on a regular basis]].
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:After taking extensive measures to cut down every loose end, in order to ensure that nobody knows the truth about his role in the squid attacks, Adrian Veidt took the time to personally record a blackmail video message to Robert Redford explaining how he did what he did. This, of course, leads to the Seventh Kavalry eventually finding out about the truth decades later.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Since the whole "dropping a squid on New York City" thing that happened back in 1985 more or less created the world that the characters are living in now, and he's indirectly responsible for the Seventh Kavalry existing. [[spoiler:But it goes even deeper than that, as he engineered Robert Redford's election, and has engineered a world ruled by fear.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: When Rorschach's journal was revealed, Veidt managed to get off completely by dismissing it as the writings of a raving lunatic, and he got to live comfortably. However he has disappeared and is considered legally dead. [[spoiler:And the third episode reveals that the fancy European castle he lives in is a GildedCage. While he originally thought of it as a paradise, he grew to resent it as a prison and his attempts to come up with an escape have failed, to his frustration. Plus he grows increasingly impatient and furious with the cloned servants that serve as his company. After one escape attempt too many, the Game Warden puts him under arrest.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:After engineering the squid attack, Veidt facilitated President Redford's rise to power behind the scenes and, after Redford was elected, blackmailed him into advancing his utopian agenda.]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: Subverted and PlayedForHorror: in the first episode, the staff at Veidt's mansion seems pretty damn quirky but full of UndyingLoyalty to their master and Veidt seems to treat them like friends. [[spoiler:Then [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in the very]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk next episode]], he casually '''torches his butler to death''' and demonstrates that not only are they [[ExpendableClone Expendable Clones]], that are mass-produced, but he's also slaughtered so many of them that he's running out of room for the cadavers.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: In episode 5, we finally see why he’s been killing his servants and shooting them into the atmosphere while testing some kind of environmental protective suit: he’s in a pocket dimension on one of Jupiter’s moons. He uses the suit to move outside the atmosphere and then use the catapulted bodies to write “SAVE ME D—“ on the moon’s surface large enough for a passing satellite to capture.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: He withdrew completely from public view seven years prior to the start of the show and has just recently been legally declared dead, with numerous theories about how he was killed or that he's still alive.
* SmugSnake: His video for [[spoiler: a newly elected President Redford made on the eve of the New York attack and seven years before Redford was sworn in under Veidt’s machinations]] is dripping with self-satisfaction and egotism.
* TheSociopath: In the original comic, he engineered the deaths of millions to trick humanity into averting nuclear Armageddon. Here, [[spoiler: he casually murders Mr. Philips just for annoying him and apparently has plans for his charred corpse and the other servant/clones he’s killed.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: While the Veidt of 1985 was a mass murderer regardless of his disposition, he was still [[AffablyEvil genuinely pleasant to his opponents and seemingly remorseful of his actions]]. Time, [[spoiler:imprisonment on one of Jupiter's moons]], and poor company have made him much more irritable and callous, his congeniality [[FauxAffablyEvil little more than an act at this point]].

[[folder:Mr. Phillips]]
!!Mr. Phillips
->'''Played by:''' Tom Mison

One of Adrian Veidt's servants.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He somehow presents Veidt with a horseshoe rather than a knife when offering to cut his cake, to which Veidt responds with weary acceptance like this kind of thing happens a lot.
* TheChewToy: His lot in life seems to be [[spoiler:to die at Veidt's hands in various gruesome ways.]]
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Multiple versions of him exist, with one dying for the purpose of Veidt's play and another quickly taking his place.]]

[[folder:Ms. Crookshanks]]
!!Ms. Crookshanks
->'''Played by:''' Sara Vickers

One of Adrian Veidt's servants.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When she promises she'll shed real tears at a performance, she does so [[spoiler:by watching Mr. Philips burn to death.]]

[[folder:The Game Warden]]
!!The Game Warden
->'''Played by:'''

A mysterious figure who is an obstacle in Veidt's plans.

* DominoMask: Wears a Zorro-like mask.
* FriendlyEnemy: Despite being responsible for Veidt's captivity they're amazingly civil with each other. He sends a letter politely but sternly warning Adrian against his plans with him replying in kind. The Game Warden mentions he enjoyed the tomato Veidt sent him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Delivers two well-deserved kicks to Veidt's face after finally having enough of his antics in Episode 5.
[[/folder]]

!!Politicians

!!!'''The Redford Administration'''

[[folder:President Robert Redford]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/RobertRedford

The 39th, and longest-serving, President of the United States.
----
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[SubvertedTrope You would think so]], considering that he's served seven consecutive terms and is in the process of serving the eighth. However, given that the series is set in Oklahoma, his views are considered deeply controversial in that part of the United States.
* AsHimself: Robert Redford portraying a fictionalized version of himself, based entirely around a throwaway gag in the last page of the ''Watchmen'' graphic novel.
* ContentWarnings: He reads an FCC-mandated one before ''American Hero Story'', which is an [[OverlyLongGag overly-long]] case of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.
* NoPartyGiven: His stated policies are liberal, and in real life, Redford and the other known members of the administration are Democrats, but he’s never explicitly been called one on the show.
* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:Willingly or not, Robert Redford is fully aware of what Adrian Veidt has done, and is complicit in keeping the truth suppressed. An article covering Veidt's alleged death notes that there was a split between them following Redford being sworn into office, suggesting that he was horrified upon learning the truth.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Veidt set up his presidency, which he doesn’t learn until he was elected.]]
* TheVoice: His appearances in the first four episodes are a picture of him in an exhibit of "notable presidents" in the first episode and his narration of the [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad excessively extensive and detailed content warning]] that prefaces "American Hero Story" (and, presumably, similar shows) that appears in the second episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr]]

A former academic who took a job in the Redford Administration to help him pass his reparations plan.

----
* AsHimself: Appears in the second episode at the museum dedicated to the Tulsa race massacre, helping the survivors and descendants to get tested to see if they qualify for reparations.
* TheCameo: Has maybe ten lines of dialogue and is just a hologram.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Press Secretary Ezra Klein]]
A liberal pundit/ journalist who’s now President Redford’s Press Secretary.

----
* AllThereInTheManual: Is only ever mentioned in the supplemental material published on HBO’s website.
[[/folder]]

!!!'''U.S. Senate'''

[[folder:Senator Joe Keene, Jr.]]
->'''Played by:''' James Wolk

A conservative U.S. Senator who is campaigning to succeed President Redford.
----
* AmbiguouslyEvil: In the first four episodes, Junior gives off a SmugSnake vibe during his appearances, and documents in the Peteypedia files link his family and [[spoiler:Judd's]] to a white supremacist conspiracy, but in a story such as this it remains to be seen whether he's a knowing participant or a RedHerring. [[spoiler:The ambiguity is removed in Episode 5 when it's revealed that he's a leader in the Seventh Kavalry.]]
* EngineeredHeroics: Senator Keene is taken hostage by a Kavalryman during Judd's funeral and afterwards vows to a group of reporters that he will go to war with the Kavalry. [[spoiler:Since it's revealed that Keene is a leader of the Kavalry, the funeral incident was most likely staged.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted. [[spoiler:Judd's]] newspaper obituary mentions Keene and identifies him as a Republican.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Subverted. [[spoiler:Keene is in command of a white supremacist terrorist group, but he is quick to mock the "idiots" and "racist okies" under him and states that he is using the Kavalry for a loftier goal.]]
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:After revealing himself as a leader of the Seventh Kavalry, Senator Keene gives Wade an ultimatum: either sell out Angela to Laurie in order to get her out of the way of whatever the Kavalry is planning, or the Kavalry will gun for her family again. Wade reluctantly betrays Angela in the hopes of saving them.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Keene threatens to send the Kavalry to murder Angela and her entire family if Wade doesn't betray her, and states that it makes no difference to him whether it comes to that or not.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Keene sends a group of armed Kavalry to Wade's house, having used him to sell out Angela to Agent Blake.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Others

[[folder:Will Reeves]]
!!Will Reeves
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_reeves.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You think I can lift two hundred pounds?"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Louis Gossett Jr.

A mysterious, elderly man who survived the Black Wall Street Massacre nearly a century before the events of the series.
----
* ActionSurvivor: As a child he narrowly survived the Black Wall Street Massacre, with his parents placing him in a coffin alone when there wasn't room for them all.
* BlatantLies: He tells Angela he’s Dr. Manhattan. Naturally, Angela doesn’t buy it for a second and with minimal prodding, Will acquiesces that he isn’t Dr. Manhattan.
* CoolOldGuy: He's more than a hundred years old [[spoiler:and he's fighting a conspiracy that had at least the Chief of the Tulsa Police and the previous Governor of Oklahoma as members. He may also either have powers or is just really tough.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He doesn’t directly state it but the call Angela receives giving her the results of the test on Will's DNA reveals that he is her grandfather.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While in Angela's captivity, Will somehow drinks scalding hot coffee without a problem and later reaches into a boiling pot of water to grab an egg without even flinching. He also claims to be the one who [[spoiler: killed and hanged Judd Crawford]] despite being an old man bound to a wheelchair. Whether or not this actually means he has powers of his own remains to be seen. [[spoiler:Though as noted below, he's not actually crippled.]]
* MosesInTheBullrushes: His parents stuff him into a coffin in the back of a truck to get him out of the brunt of the massacre that claimed their lives. This is likely an homage to ComicBook/{{Superman}} who was meant to be an allegory to the Bibical story and his Jewish creators' experience as [[ImmigrantParents the children of immigrants]] who fled antisemitism in Victorian-era Eastern Europe.
* ObfuscatingDisability: A centenarian, Will is now wheelchair-bound. [[spoiler:However he shows little difficulty standing up and walking around in front of Lady Trieu.]]
* SarcasticConfession / ExactWords: He's fond of making statements that are seemingly either false or metaphorical, but later turn out to be much more literally true than expected.
** [[spoiler:When questioned about who he is, he readily admits to being Judd's murderer. Angela disbelieves him since he is seemingly wheelchair-bound; later we learn he is actually ObfuscatingDisability, making the confession much more plausible.]]
** At one moment, he remarks that he has "friends in high places". This turns out to be literal when [[spoiler: the car Angela puts him in is lifted from the ground by an aerial vehicle]].
** He claims that the pills he takes "help [him] get [his] memory". [[spoiler:Later we learn the pills are "Nostalgia", a product that can be fairly described as memories in pill form, which causes the subject to have vivid flashbacks.]]
** {{Subverted}} when he suggests he might be Doctor Manhattan, which a moment later he admits is false.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Will says that he has friends in high places, [[ExactWords he wasn't kidding.]] [[spoiler: Episode 4 reveals that one of these friends is none other than Lady Trieu, the Trillionare CEO who bought out Adrian Veidt's company.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lady Trieu]]
!!Lady Trieu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8728079.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Legacy isn't in land. It's in blood."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Hong Chau

A Vietnamese-born trillionaire and head of Trieu Industries, the company which bought out Veidt Enterprises.
----
* AnimalMotifs: Elephants. The ivory hourglass she carries around shows elephants, as does the tea set in her vivarium.
* CrazyPrepared: The "Millennium Clock" that she's building in Oklahoma is designed to survive anything short of a direct nuclear blast. It's in Oklahoma specifically because it's far from fault lines or other frequent natural disasters or end-of-the-world scenarios (and is far enough away from major city centers like New York or Los Angeles to be a target for some sort of strategic attack).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bian has a nightmare about being in a burning Vietnamese village and being forced to go on a death march during the war. The nightmare is hinted to be one of Trieu's memories.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can hold her own against Sister Night and Agent Blake.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We are first introduced to Lady Trieu when she arrives at the doorstep of a loving couple in the middle of night with the intention to buy their house and the forty acres it sits on. But when the couple attempts to reject her limited time offer on the grounds that the farm has been in their family for generations? Trieu immediately rips that defense apart with a BreakingSpeech that strikes at their insecurities over [[LawOfInverseFertility their failure to conceive]] and counters with the revelation that she's not offering money for their land but is instead offering a second chance to continue their legacy via a [[ArtificialHuman child artificially created from their DNA.]] Trieu also has her people bring the baby into the house as proof with the mention that she deposited 5 million dollars into a personal account to help cover their relocation costs and child-related expenses ''[[RefugeInAudacity just to help seal the deal.]]''
--> '''Lady Trieu:''' "When they harvested your eggs Mrs. Clark, you were told they were non-viable. Y'know what I say to that? I say '''[[PrecisionFStrike BULLSHIT!]]'''"
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:She has a secret alliance with Will Reeves and is heavily implied to be the one who imprisoned Adrian Veidt in a GildedCage. She is also revealed to be backing the Seventh Kavalry by supplying them with a teleporter.]]
* MeetTheNewBoss: She has bought Veidt's company in totality and like him, appears to have an affinity for genetic engineering, making bio-domes in the middle of nowhere (Oklahoma instead of Antarctica), preparing for a possible incoming apocalypse, and is smugly superficially charming.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after a 3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who was able to hold off a Chinese invasion. She is quoted as saying, [[BadAssBoast "I'd like to ride storms, kill sharks in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever man".]]
[[/folder]]
----

* [[Characters/Watchmen2019Main Main Characters]][[note]]Angela Abar / Sister Night, Wade Tillman / Looking Glass, Will Reeves, Lady Trieu, Judd Crawford, Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias, Laurie Blake / The Comedienne[[/note]]

!!Others

[[folder:Will Reeves]]
!!Will Reeves
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_reeves.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You think I can lift two hundred pounds?"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Louis Gossett Jr.

A mysterious, elderly man who survived the Black Wall Street Massacre nearly a century before the events of the series.

* ActionSurvivor: As a child he narrowly survived the Black Wall Street Massacre, with his parents placing him in a coffin alone when there wasn't room for them all.
* BlatantLies: He tells Angela he’s Dr. Manhattan. Naturally, Angela doesn’t buy it for a second and with minimal prodding, Will acquiesces that he isn’t Dr. Manhattan.
* CoolOldGuy: He's more than a hundred years old [[spoiler:and he's fighting a conspiracy that had at least the Chief of the Tulsa Police and the previous Governor of Oklahoma as members. He may also either have powers or is just really tough.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He doesn’t directly state it but the call Angela receives giving her the results of the test on Will's DNA reveals that he is her grandfather.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While in Angela's captivity, Will somehow drinks scalding hot coffee without a problem and later reaches into a boiling pot of water to grab an egg without even flinching. He also claims to be the one who [[spoiler: killed and hanged Judd Crawford]] despite being an old man bound to a wheelchair. Whether or not this actually means he has powers of his own remains to be seen. [[spoiler:Though as noted below, he's not actually crippled.]]
* MosesInTheBullrushes: His parents stuff him into a coffin in the back of a truck to get him out of the brunt of the massacre that claimed their lives. This is likely an homage to ComicBook/{{Superman}} who was meant to be an allegory to the Bibical story and his Jewish creators' experience as [[ImmigrantParents the children of immigrants]] who fled antisemitism in Victorian-era Eastern Europe.
* ObfuscatingDisability: A centenarian, Will is now wheelchair-bound. [[spoiler:However he shows little difficulty standing up and walking around in front of Lady Trieu.]]
* SarcasticConfession / ExactWords: He's fond of making statements that are seemingly either false or metaphorical, but later turn out to be much more literally true than expected.
** [[spoiler:When questioned about who he is, he readily admits to being Judd's murderer. Angela disbelieves him since he is seemingly wheelchair-bound; later we learn he is actually ObfuscatingDisability, making the confession much more plausible.]]
** At one moment, he remarks that he has "friends in high places". This turns out to be literal when [[spoiler: the car Angela puts him in is lifted from the ground by an aerial vehicle]].
** He claims that the pills he takes "help [him] get [his] memory". [[spoiler:Later we learn the pills are "Nostalgia", a product that can be fairly described as memories in pill form, which causes the subject to have vivid flashbacks.]]
** {{Subverted}} when he suggests he might be Doctor Manhattan, which a moment later he admits is false.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Will says that he has friends in high places, [[ExactWords he wasn't kidding.]] [[spoiler: Episode 4 reveals that one of these friends is none other than Lady Trieu, the Trillionare CEO who bought out Adrian Veidt's company.]]

[[folder:Lady Trieu]]
!!Lady Trieu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8728079.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Legacy isn't in land. It's in blood."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Hong Chau

A Vietnamese-born trillionaire and head of Trieu Industries, the company which bought out Veidt Enterprises.

* AnimalMotifs: Elephants. The ivory hourglass she carries around shows elephants, as does the tea set in her vivarium.
* CrazyPrepared: The "Millennium Clock" that she's building in Oklahoma is designed to survive anything short of a direct nuclear blast. It's in Oklahoma specifically because it's far from fault lines or other frequent natural disasters or end-of-the-world scenarios (and is far enough away from major city centers like New York or Los Angeles to be a target for some sort of strategic attack).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bian has a nightmare about being in a burning Vietnamese village and being forced to go on a death march during the war. The nightmare is hinted to be one of Trieu's memories.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can hold her own against Sister Night and Agent Blake.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We are first introduced to Lady Trieu when she arrives at the doorstep of a loving couple in the middle of night with the intention to buy their house and the forty acres it sits on. But when the couple attempts to reject her limited time offer on the grounds that the farm has been in their family for generations? Trieu immediately rips that defense apart with a BreakingSpeech that strikes at their insecurities over [[LawOfInverseFertility their failure to conceive]] and counters with the revelation that she's not offering money for their land but is instead offering a second chance to continue their legacy via a [[ArtificialHuman child artificially created from their DNA.]] Trieu also has her people bring the baby into the house as proof with the mention that she deposited 5 million dollars into a personal account to help cover their relocation costs and child-related expenses ''[[RefugeInAudacity just to help seal the deal.]]''
--> '''Lady Trieu:''' "When they harvested your eggs Mrs. Clark, you were told they were non-viable. Y'know what I say to that? I say '''[[PrecisionFStrike BULLSHIT!]]'''"
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:She has a secret alliance with Will Reeves and is heavily implied to be the one who imprisoned Adrian Veidt in a GildedCage. She is also revealed to be backing the Seventh Kavalry by supplying them with a teleporter.]]
* MeetTheNewBoss: She has bought Veidt's company in totality and like him, appears to have an affinity for genetic engineering, making bio-domes in the middle of nowhere (Oklahoma instead of Antarctica), preparing for a possible incoming apocalypse, and is smugly superficially charming.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after a 3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who was able to hold off a Chinese invasion. She is quoted as saying, [[BadAssBoast "I'd like to ride storms, kill sharks in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever man".]]

!!Others

[[folder:Will Reeves]]
!!Will Reeves
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_reeves.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You think I can lift two hundred pounds?"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Louis Gossett Jr.

A mysterious, elderly man who survived the Black Wall Street Massacre nearly a century before the events of the series.

* ActionSurvivor: As a child he narrowly survived the Black Wall Street Massacre, with his parents placing him in a coffin alone when there wasn't room for them all.
* BlatantLies: He tells Angela he’s Dr. Manhattan. Naturally, Angela doesn’t buy it for a second and with minimal prodding, Will acquiesces that he isn’t Dr. Manhattan.
* CoolOldGuy: He's more than a hundred years old [[spoiler:and he's fighting a conspiracy that had at least the Chief of the Tulsa Police and the previous Governor of Oklahoma as members. He may also either have powers or is just really tough.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He doesn’t directly state it but the call Angela receives giving her the results of the test on Will's DNA reveals that he is her grandfather.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While in Angela's captivity, Will somehow drinks scalding hot coffee without a problem and later reaches into a boiling pot of water to grab an egg without even flinching. He also claims to be the one who [[spoiler: killed and hanged Judd Crawford]] despite being an old man bound to a wheelchair. Whether or not this actually means he has powers of his own remains to be seen. [[spoiler:Though as noted below, he's not actually crippled.]]
* MosesInTheBullrushes: His parents stuff him into a coffin in the back of a truck to get him out of the brunt of the massacre that claimed their lives. This is likely an homage to ComicBook/{{Superman}} who was meant to be an allegory to the Bibical story and his Jewish creators' experience as [[ImmigrantParents the children of immigrants]] who fled antisemitism in Victorian-era Eastern Europe.
* ObfuscatingDisability: A centenarian, Will is now wheelchair-bound. [[spoiler:However he shows little difficulty standing up and walking around in front of Lady Trieu.]]
* SarcasticConfession / ExactWords: He's fond of making statements that are seemingly either false or metaphorical, but later turn out to be much more literally true than expected.
** [[spoiler:When questioned about who he is, he readily admits to being Judd's murderer. Angela disbelieves him since he is seemingly wheelchair-bound; later we learn he is actually ObfuscatingDisability, making the confession much more plausible.]]
** At one moment, he remarks that he has "friends in high places". This turns out to be literal when [[spoiler: the car Angela puts him in is lifted from the ground by an aerial vehicle]].
** He claims that the pills he takes "help [him] get [his] memory". [[spoiler:Later we learn the pills are "Nostalgia", a product that can be fairly described as memories in pill form, which causes the subject to have vivid flashbacks.]]
** {{Subverted}} when he suggests he might be Doctor Manhattan, which a moment later he admits is false.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Will says that he has friends in high places, [[ExactWords he wasn't kidding.]] [[spoiler: Episode 4 reveals that one of these friends is none other than Lady Trieu, the Trillionare CEO who bought out Adrian Veidt's company.]]

[[folder:Lady Trieu]]
!!Lady Trieu
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Legacy isn't in land. It's in blood."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Hong Chau

A Vietnamese-born trillionaire and head of Trieu Industries, the company which bought out Veidt Enterprises.

* AnimalMotifs: Elephants. The ivory hourglass she carries around shows elephants, as does the tea set in her vivarium.
* CrazyPrepared: The "Millennium Clock" that she's building in Oklahoma is designed to survive anything short of a direct nuclear blast. It's in Oklahoma specifically because it's far from fault lines or other frequent natural disasters or end-of-the-world scenarios (and is far enough away from major city centers like New York or Los Angeles to be a target for some sort of strategic attack).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bian has a nightmare about being in a burning Vietnamese village and being forced to go on a death march during the war. The nightmare is hinted to be one of Trieu's memories.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can hold her own against Sister Night and Agent Blake.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We are first introduced to Lady Trieu when she arrives at the doorstep of a loving couple in the middle of night with the intention to buy their house and the forty acres it sits on. But when the couple attempts to reject her limited time offer on the grounds that the farm has been in their family for generations? Trieu immediately rips that defense apart with a BreakingSpeech that strikes at their insecurities over [[LawOfInverseFertility their failure to conceive]] and counters with the revelation that she's not offering money for their land but is instead offering a second chance to continue their legacy via a [[ArtificialHuman child artificially created from their DNA.]] Trieu also has her people bring the baby into the house as proof with the mention that she deposited 5 million dollars into a personal account to help cover their relocation costs and child-related expenses ''[[RefugeInAudacity just to help seal the deal.]]''
--> '''Lady Trieu:''' "When they harvested your eggs Mrs. Clark, you were told they were non-viable. Y'know what I say to that? I say '''[[PrecisionFStrike BULLSHIT!]]'''"
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:She has a secret alliance with Will Reeves and is heavily implied to be the one who imprisoned Adrian Veidt in a GildedCage. She is also revealed to be backing the Seventh Kavalry by supplying them with a teleporter.]]
* MeetTheNewBoss: She has bought Veidt's company in totality and like him, appears to have an affinity for genetic engineering, making bio-domes in the middle of nowhere (Oklahoma instead of Antarctica), preparing for a possible incoming apocalypse, and is smugly superficially charming.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after a 3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who was able to hold off a Chinese invasion. She is quoted as saying, [[BadAssBoast "I'd like to ride storms, kill sharks in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever man".]]

HBO's ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'', being a continuation of the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} graphic novel of the same name]], naturally shares some characters with the source material.

As with the ''Characters/DoomsdayClock'' comics and [[Characters/Watchmen2009 the 2009 film]], tropes for returning characters have to be posted here instead of on [[Characters/{{Watchmen}} the sheet]] for the original ''Watchmen'' comics.

HBO's ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'', being a continuation of the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} graphic novel of the same name]], naturally shares some characters with the source material. As with the ''Characters/DoomsdayClock'' comics and [[Characters/Watchmen2009 the 2009 film]], tropes for returning characters have to be posted here instead of on [[Characters/{{Watchmen}} the sheet]] for the original ''Watchmen'' comics.