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16* ActionGirl: The women are capable of using weapons just as well as the guys, perhaps even moreso after training for months.
17* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the second season, they succeeded in printing a billion Euros and getting away from the police, with the exception of [[spoiler:Oslo, Moscow and Berlin, who died during the heist]].
18* BattleCouple:
19** Both Tokyo/Rio and Denver/Stockholm have their moments.
20** Averted with The Professor and Raquel, being the brains of the team.
21* CaperCrew:
22** Intially in the first two seasons, the Professor is the Mastermind while the rest of the heist team have defined specializations: Berlin and Tokyo are thieves, Rio is a hacker, Nairobi is a forger, Moscow is a machinery expert, and Denver, Oslo, and Helsinki are muscles. Berlin also acts as the Partner-In-Crime.
23** In the Bank of Spain heist, Raquel and Palermo replace Berlin as joint Partners-In-Crime, alongside several additions: Mónica as the New Kid, Bogotá as both a Safe-Cracker and machinery expert (replacing Moscow in the latter role), Marseille as the Coordinator, and Manila as an Inside Man (although she's directly part of the crew rather than mainly an employee or regular costumer of the Bank). There's also an assisting squad of unnamed people from Pakistan serving as Fixers. Benjamín and Matías join midway through the heist as another machinery expert and New Kid, respectively.
24* CriminalFoundFamily: In spite of personal relationships being forbidden by the crew's three main rules written out by the Professor, all of them come to treat each other as close friends and family, with several romantic couples forming between them.
25* EqualOpportunityEvil: Helsinki and Palermo are both gay, Manila is transgender, and Berlin is terminally ill.
26* EveryoneHasStandards: Most of the robbers do their best to avoid physically harming any of the hostages, and are even concerned about inflicting harm on the police. The [[TokenEvilTeammate only member who doesn't have such standards]] (for the most part, at least) is Berlin.
27* FreudianExcuse: For a variety of different reasons. All of the robbers are messed up in some way, which always involves a DarkAndTroubledPast.
28* GivenNameReveal: Most of the group reveals their real names over the course of the series. A particularly dramatic instance is when [[spoiler:Moscow is dying and reveals his name as part of his last will.]]
29* IncompatibleOrientation: A couple of instances. Nairobi (straight woman) eventually develops feelings for Helsinki (gay man), while Palermo (gay man) was completely in love with Berlin (straight man). Although both couples manage to work things out as PlatonicLifePartners, it still creates some distress for Nairobi, and A LOT for Palermo.
30* JustLikeRobinHood: This is an explicitly stated rule that the robbers try to follow. As long as no one gets hurt, the public will be more likely to support them.
31-->'''The Professor:''' Be very careful, because the moment that there is a single drop of blood, this is very important, we will stop being Robin Hood and just become regular motherfuckers.
32* KarmaHoudini:
33** They get away unscathed with their Royal Mint of Spain heist at the end of Season 2 (save for [[spoiler:Oslo, Moscow and Berlin]]). Denver even finds himself a girlfriend in the form of Mónica, one of the hostages.
34** Happens again in the series finale where, [[spoiler:now with Sierra as well, the heist team become free to start new lives with different identities (but at the cost of the lives of Nairobi and Tokyo)]].
35* LocationThemeNaming: With the exception of the Professor, all of the robbers have codenames based off of cities, as part of the Professor's rules regarding how they'd refer to each other and the limits of their relations.
36* TheMostWanted: Robbing 2.4+ billion euros makes the heist team an objective of Europol and puts them in international search and capture. It also provides the robbers with much better resources for the Bank heist compared with what they had before, like having a team of 65 Pakistanis remotely doing what Rio did by himself in the Mint heist.
37* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: One of the rules established at the beginning. Aside from the related members like Moscow & Denver and Helsinki & Oslo, the Professor is the only one who knows everyone else's identities. This progressively falls apart as several members get to know each other quite well with strong relationships (mainly romantic ones), such as Tokyo & Rio, Denver & Stockholm, and the Professor himself & Lisbon.
38* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They're all criminals hailing from different backgrounds and have different reasons for their criminal history.
39* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tokyo and Nairobi are both TheLadette type, in contrast to Monica/Stockholm and Raquel/Lisbon, who are more conventionally feminine.
40* TwoGirlsToATeam: In the first two seasons, Tokyo and Nairobi are the only female robbers. Averted from Season 3 onward, when Mónica and Raquel join the team as Stockholm and Lisbon. [[spoiler: After the deaths of Nairobi and Tokyo, Raquel, Monica, Manila and Sierra (the latter of whom joined midway through the second heist) end up being the remaining female members, which still amounts to four.]]
41* VillainProtagonist: They're the protagonist collective of the series, with almost all the promotional material being centered on them; it wasn't until around Season 5's promotions that a few other characters got their fair share.
42* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Following the Mint heist, they end up having a lot of supporters due to their Robin Hood-esque goals, with their only notable opposers being the fans that Arturo has gotten upon becoming a celebrity in the meantime. In Season 3, when they publicise Rio's torture at the hands of the police, thousands of protesters march to the Bank of Spain to try to stop the police from arresting the group. It grows to the point when [[spoiler:Lisbon and Rio inform that their actions have resulted in the deaths of many soldiers (thus directly contradicting Rule [=#1=]), they ''still'' support the heist group, and only leave when Tamayo and the Professor fake their deaths.]]
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45!!Royal Mint of Spain Heist (Seasons 1 & 2):
46
47[[folder:The Professor]]
48!!The Professor/Sergio Marquina
49[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_prof_8.png]]
50!!!'''Played by''': Álvaro Morte
51!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToddHaberkorn (English)
52
53A mysterious man with no known past who recruits a HeistTeam to carry out the plan he has developed.
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55* AffablyEvil: Acts really kind and generous. However, he's willing to put many lives in danger to get what he wants.
56* BadassBookworm: He's a highly-learned individual and polyglot, and in Season 2 he gets in a wins a fight against [[spoiler:Raquel's ex]], a police officer, in about two moves and without getting touched.
57* BatmanGambit: He's ''very'' good at predicting the police's plans and using it to his advantage.
58* BigLittleBrother: [[spoiler:He's taller than Berlin, who's slightly older than him.]]
59* CharacterTics: He adjusts his glasses by pushing them back to his nose when he's explaining something or pandering his thoughts.
60* TheChessmaster: He has plans within plans, can come up with workable ideas on the fly and prepares for (almost) any eventuality.
61* CluelessChickMagnet: Besides his love interest Raquel, both Tokyo and Nairobi have tried to flirt with him, despite his awkwardness with women.
62* CrazyPrepared: His plan takes into account almost every possibility that may happen - in fact, potential failures and mistakes are also part of the plan.
63* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:Andrés and him are brothers, as revealed in the finale of Season 2.]]
64* DatingCatwoman: Somewhat. He knows perfectly well that Raquel is the cop tasked with bringing the bank robbers down, but he falls in love with her anyway.
65* DidNotSeeThatComing: While he planned the first heist down to the smallest detail, he did ''not'' expect to develop feelings for the negotiator, Raquel. He also didn't expect [[spoiler: a vengeful Sierra tracking him and his men down, only getting saved because of Sierra going into labor.]]
66* AFatherToHisMen: To the entire heist team, but specially to Tokyo, who calls him his "guardian angel".
67* HeroicBSOD: A couple of them.
68** One in the Season 3 finale, when [[spoiler:he believes Suárez has executed Raquel]]. Not only does it make him to have a breakdown, but also makes him to think below his usual potential until [[spoiler:Tokyo suggests, with a sound argument, that she may not be dead after all, which gives him back his focus]].
69** In Season 4, [[spoiler:Nairobi's death]] actually has the ''[[SubvertedTrope opposite]]'' effect. He was having problems concentrating to elaborate the next plan, but after receiving the news, he is filled with a TranquilFury that sharpens his wits once again.
70** In Season 5, when [[spoiler:Tokyo sacrifices herself to take out Gandía and several other soldiers]], he gets another serious breakdown. [[spoiler:Sierra takes this as an opportunity to escape]], after which the Professor manages to snap out of it.
71* ItsAllAboutMe:
72** In a rare moment of self-admission, during [[spoiler:Season 5, when Sierra probes about his real reason for the second heist and says he did it for the thrill, the Professor realises she is absolutely right.]]
73** By the GrandFinale, he openly admits [[spoiler:he's playing up the Robin Hood shtick just to fool their fans, and he is a thief through and through.]]
74* ManipulativeBastard: Not only does he makes plans within plans, he is also quite capable of making things on the fly.
75** In the Season 2 premiere, when he goes to the police's discovery of the heist team's plotting refuge for the Mint heist, and sees Alberto taking one of the few legitimate pieces of evidence in it back to Madrid, the Professor manages to get himself in Alberto's car and, after driving the latter mad by bringing up his past abuse of Raquel and attempted affairs in the second episode, [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly knocks him out]], giving him time to change the proof with something meaningless.
76** Then, as Alberto naturally arrests him for aggresion towards authority, he calls Raquel in the third episode and exploits an optional bathroom break to give himself several bruises, so he can play a WoundedGazelleGambit and make it look like he just defended himself from Alberto engaging in PoliceBrutality.
77** [[spoiler:When it is revealed that Ángel is about to return from his coma, the Professor [[GenreSavvy knows it's a trap]], but cannot be sure of that - so he gets dressed as a clown and publishes a fake advert to flood the hospital with clowns while he sneaks around and gives a toy with a camera to one of the children in the hospital, sending him to scout.]]
78** [[spoiler:His plan for when things start to go down the drain is to free some hostages and invite a journalist and camera in -- so the heist team can use it to turn public opinion in their favor, invoking UnderdogsNeverLose.]]
79* MysteriousPast: At the beginning, no one knows anything about him. His name, his age, where he comes from -- it's all a mystery. This is progressively subverted over the course of the series, as his identity and backstory are slowly revealed.
80* NiceGuy: He might be planning a great robbery, but he insists on making sure no one gets injured, and when he personally meets Raquel, he's sincere in their interactions.
81* SharpDressedMan: He always wears a good suit, no matter the situation.
82* SherlockScan: As Tokyo puts it, he can’t be Superman using XRayVision, so he settles on being Sherlock Holmes, and he lives up to it. [[spoiler:Just as Lisbon was though to have died, he searches for context clues in the Bank of Spain to prove that she's alive and sees multiple evidences, namely Angel not being mournful, the van that was chasing them having mud on its wheels, and lastly seeing Sierra, the negotiator collaborating with Angel.]]
83* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The nerdy Sensitive Guy to Berlin's arrogant Manly Man.
84* ShoutOut: The false name he uses during the Mint heist towards Raquel is Salvador Martí, just like the man in charge of ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' (another Netflix-broadcast Spanish TV show).
85* SmarterThanYouLook: He appears to be an nerdy meek guy that would not hurt a fly. Behind those glasses is a brain that developed an incredibly complicated plan to carry out a heist that would steal more than two thousand million Euros and later [[spoiler:gold worth 5 billion Euros]] and get away with it, and he is fit enough to knock out a trained cop with a PressurePoint without suffering an injury.
86* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: If it wasn't obvious already.
87* StrongFamilyResemblance: From the little visual material we see of his father, it's already made clear that the Professor takes much of his appearance.
88* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the Season 1 finale, he attempts to kill Raquel's mother by pouring dioxin into a coffee she was going to drink, when he came to visit her after finding out she had heard an archived phone call of Ángel exposing his identity as the Mint heist's mastermind. He ultimately doesn't go with it, throwing the cup from the mother's hands before she can begin drinking it, and is relieved when he sees that she thought she had accidentally dropped it herself (due to her prominent memory problems).
89* TranquilFury: Whenever he gets really angry, it almost always manifests as this. The stand-out moments would be when he faces Alberto, Raquel's abusive ex-husband, in Season 1, and his reaction when he learns about [[spoiler:Nairobi's death]] in Season 4.
90* VillainProtagonist: He's the overall main protagonist of the show and the leader of a heist.
91* XanatosSpeedChess: His speciality. His solution to every misstep or failed plan is to improvise with another plan. When that fails, he improvises with another plan. And the cycle goes on until he gets what he wants.
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94[[folder:Berlin]]
95!!Berlin/Andres de Fonollosa
96[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_berlin_3.png]]
97!!!'''Played by''': Pedro Alonso
98!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith (English)
99!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Money Heist'' | ''Berlin''
100
101TheLancer, a veteran jewel robber who became a criminal to sustain his expensive lifestyle. A SoftSpokenSadist, he looks down on the rest of the group, but hides it behind his fine manners.
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103* AffablyEvil:
104** He is quite courteous with the hostages -- as long as they follow his orders, of course.
105** He's much more friendly and likable in the flashbacks (excluding a notable KickTheDog moment where he castrates a man with a fork) than he was during the first heist.
106* BigBad: He serves as the main antagonist for Season 1 and most of Season 2, wherein he causes much of the internal conflict among the gang.
107* BreakoutCharacter: He proofed to popular enough with fans to be brought back in season 3 and beyond despite [[spoiler:dying at the end of season 2, being featured via flashbacks which are heavingly connected to the main storyline of season 3 till 5]]. In 2023 he also got his own spin-off series, simply called ''Berlin''.
108* CharacterTics: While apples are not stated to be his TrademarkFavoriteFood, he's commonly seen eating apples at the Mint.
109* Cloudcuckoolander: A sinister example. It's almost impossible to have a serious conversation with him as he constantly spouts factoids, jokes, historical tidbits or metaphors, to the point of almost being non-sequiturs at times.
110* ConnectedAllAlong:
111** [[spoiler:He and the Professor go way back, and are hinted to be even related]]. In Season 3, [[spoiler:it turns out they're actually brothers]].
112** Season 5 reveals that [[spoiler:he's Rafael's father]].
113* ConvenientTerminalIllness: A variant in that he willingly goes ahead with the sacrifice with the other members never thinking about it in the first place. In the final Season 2 episode, Berlin is the only member who fights against the incoming armored police squad to give time for the rest of the robbers to run to the exit from the Royal Mint of Spain they made. He ends up being shot down by the squad.
114* CulturedBadass: He's sophisticated, charming, often seen [[SharpDressedMan well-dressed]], and in flashbacks he has shown an interest in art as well. He's also a tough criminal.
115* DeadpanSnarker: He often mocks other people with sarcasm.
116* DisproportionateRetribution: In a flashback, he [[GroinAttack stabs a man in the balls with a fork]] because he made fun of his bowtie.
117* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being described as TheSociopath, he loves [[spoiler:his brother Sergio, his best friend Palermo and his son Rafael]].
118* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a sociopathic thief who isn't above executing hostages and rapes one of them regularly, but he won't stand for being accused of white slavery and pimping.
119* FrameUp: On the receiving end of it in Episode 8 of Season 2, when the Spanish National Police state he has been involved in white slavery and child abuse upon publishing his identity, in an attempt to make the Heist Team's image go down the drain. [[spoiler:It bites them in the ass later in Episode 4 of Season 2, when Berlin uses an interview with journalists planned by them to mention the frame-up ''live'' and the journalists dig up the truth.]]
120* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Gets into harsh arguments with almost everyone in the team, especially Tokyo, Denver, Rio, and Nairobi.
121* GenreSavvy: In the second episode of Season 1, Berlin points out to Arturo how blatantly he's wearing the "HateSink" sign around his neck (and what usually happens to those guys) by giving him the following TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
122-->'''Berlin''': You ever seen horror films? (Arturo says he does) Well, you've always seen that one guy that appears, that you can tell right away that he smells like a dead man walking? It always happens, it ''never'' fails. [[TermsOfEndangerment Arturito]]... ''you smell like a dead man walking''.
123* {{Hypocrite}}: Berlin looks down on everyone else, but even he is not above having defects, such as raping one of the hostages.
124* LackOfEmpathy: It's explicitly stated in his psych evaluation in Season 1. Indeed, he doesn't feel much remorse for his cruel actions.
125* TheLastDance: He's terminally ill with Helmer's Myopathy and sees the heist as a way to be remembered by the public.
126* TheLancer: He's pretty much the leader of the group within the mint and the Professor's de facto second-in-command. Regardless, they have different leadership styles.
127* LimaSyndrome: He grows genuinely attached to the hostage Ariadna and believes she's in love with him. Ariadna begs to differ.
128* MasterActor: When the journalist comes in, Berlín manages to play his role as someone who has been driven to do something desperate and angry for being framed of actions that sicken him so well that it turns public opinion in the heist team's favor.
129* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:How he dies by the GEO team raiding the Mint]] in the Season 2 finale.
130* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:He is Sergio's brother, and the two have been in contact but separated for much time. Three years before Season 1, he and his friend Martín developed a plan to take all the gold in the Spanish National Bank - which the Professor uses in Season 3 to both honor his brother and to save Rio.]]
131* NiceToTheWaiter: Inverted. Berlin's a criminal, but is shown to be friendly with the monks in flashbacks from Season 3.
132* NotSoStoic: He's calm and cool most of the time, which can occasionally be every and disturbing, but he can break if pushed too far. He nearly kills Nairobi via strangling when his civilian identity is outed and he is falsely accused of human trafficking. He also snaps when Nairobi chews him out for surrendering Tokyo to the authorities.
133* NotTheIllnessThatKilledThem: [[spoiler:He's ultimately killed not by his Helmer's Myopathy, but being gunned down by the police in order to give his cohorts time to escape the Royal Mint]] at the end of Season 2.
134* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After committing so many crimes all across Europe and getting away with it, he broke the mirror of a bar just with an irrational act of vandalism, and let himself be taken by the police. Why? [[spoiler:Because he could accept that his girlfriend leaves him, that his son betrays him, but both things combined are too much, even for him.]]
135* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Makes some sexist remarks towards Tokyo and Nairobi during their arguments.
136* PosthumousCharacter: After his death in the season 2 finale, he's still frequently mentioned and appears in many flashbacks. The second robbery was actually planned by him.
137* PragmaticVillainy: He tells the hostages that they will not be harmed, and that the robbers will take care of them, as the hostages are (a) the only reason the police aren't assaulting the place and (b) the only means to ensure they can later escape. [[spoiler:It does not mean he is not willing to hurt or kill (or, rather, force others to do it) so as to make his point through.]]
138* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:He definitely made a good point that they should kill Gandia before he causes any trouble.]]
139* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The arrogant Manly Man to the Professor's nerdy Sensitive Guy.
140* SerialRomeo: He was married five times, stating each time he thought he found his OneTrueLove. He states to Rio he was quite a romantic guy in his youth truly, truly believing in the concept of love. The later seasons reveal via flashbacks he lost his faith in love [[spoiler:when his wife left him for his own son]].
141* SerialSpouse: He's throught five marriages and five divorces.
142* SharpDressedMan: Outside of his red jumpsuit heist uniform, he's almost always seen wearing an impeccably tailored three-piece suit.
143* TheSociopath: Literally unable to empathize with other people - although, surprisingly, he also has an almost pathological need to please others.
144* SoftSpokenSadist: Is the most ruthless and evil out of the gang and is also very collected and calm, often in in creepy way.
145* TerminallyIllCriminal: [[spoiler:He has Helmer's Myopathy, which is mentioned to give him around two years of remaining life. Because of this, he's prompted to [[TheLastDance die as heroically as possible]] while fending off the armored police team pursuing the escaping robbers at the end of the second season, so as the make sure that the public remembers him well. [[PosthumousCharacter Flashbacks featuring him]] in the following seasons delve further into how the illness motivated him to plan the Bank of Spain heist with Palermo and spend his life to his fullest.]]
146* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only robber willing to harm hostages, and even [[spoiler:tries to kill Rio for betraying him]].
147* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Tatiana leaving him for Rafael is heavily implied to have made Berlin what he was during the first heist.]]
148* VillainousLegacy: He led the groundworks for the second heist.
149* WickedCultured: One of the most sociopathic characters, while also being a witty, eloquent CulturedBadass.
150* WouldHitAGirl: Or kill a girl, even if she's pregnant. Just ask Monica.
151* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:He has an illness that will kill him in a couple of years]].
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154[[folder:Tokyo]]
155!!Tokyo/Silene Oliveira
156[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_tokyo.png]]
157!!!'''Played by''': Úrsula Corberó
158!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)
159
160The CharacterNarrator. A young, tough, impulsive bank robber, she has been alternating legal work with several robberies, the latest of which went awry and ended with the death of two cops and her boyfriend - and she has been on the run ever since.
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162* ActionGirl: Her main role within the team. Though she is at times TheMillstone, she's most effective when it comes to shootouts and confrontations. She's one of the robbers to hold down the GEO team in Season 2, and [[spoiler:manages to incapacitate Gandia by thrusting a grenade sharpnel in his back]] in Season 5.
163* AgeGapRomance: She has had two of these.
164** Her first boyfriend was about 14 years older than her.
165** There are plenty of comments on the 10+ year age gap between her and Rio.
166* AmbiguouslyBi: She makes out with Allison in Season 1, but it's not clear whether that's because she's attracted to her or whether it's just a move to show her power over the hostages.
167* AwesomenessByAnalysis: [[spoiler:She correctly deduces that Lisbon is still alive due to a lack of publication regarding her supposed "death", how they imprisoned and tortured Rio without legal authority, and because she constantly witnessed how sound is constantly used to fool people into believing something else is happening.]]
168* BoyishShortHair: Keeps her hair short starting Season 3 and is an ActionGirl.
169* CharacterDevelopment: Becomes much less reckless as season 3 and 4 go on [[spoiler:and even takes over leading the team quite effectively, deposing Palermo]].
170* CharacterNarrator: She doubles as a narrator for much of the series' episodes, narrating specific moments from time to time.
171* ClingyJealousGirl: Tokyo gets rather angry when she notices Rio is getting closer to Allison Parker.
172* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: It's revealed that she is narrating the series posthumously from the afterlife.]]
173* DeathByFlashback: [[spoiler: A lot of her backstory is given before her last stand.]]
174* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: At first she was made out to be the lead character as she was the one who narrated the series from her point of view. But after her death, it is clear that Sergio/The Professor is the true lead character.]]
175* DefiantCaptive: When she's captured by the very dangerous Gandia, she's not scared of him at all. While her hands are tied, it doesn't stop her from insulting him and trying to kick him.
176* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Takes down Gandia and other Spec Ops soldiers [[TakingYouWithMe with her grenades]] rather than allowing them to kill her.]]
177* DisappearedDad: As she explains to Rio in a flashback from Episode 5 of Season 1, she grew up without a father, with her mother only taking care of her. Because her mother had no babysitter or caretaker to trust, she often left a young Tokyo (8 to 9 years old, as Tokyo herself cites) alone at home whenever she went to her factory job.
178* DisownedParent: In the flashback to the first season's fifth episode wherein the Professor assigns Rio and Tokyo to conduct an initial survey of the Royal Mint of Spain, Tokyo asks the Professor if it's because he thinks she's not good enough as a member of the heist team before following up with her mother, to which the Professor tells her that she died of a heart attack the previous day, and was worried about informing her because she wouldn't have been able to farewell her by that point. Tokyo tells him that she had effectively disowned her mother after her last call with her back at the beginning of the first episode, claiming that she was essentially trying to bring her to the police. [[SubvertedTrope She regrets her claim]] not long after, though, as she talks to Rio about her in a subsequent flashback.
179* DudeMagnet: She's considered irresistible by men, especially Rio, Denver, and even Gandia. Even Berlin states he finds her attractive in one of the first episodes, even if he usually doesn't get along with her.
180* FearlessFool: By far the bravest of the robbers, which is best seen by her being the only one to not fear Gandia. However, this very bravery leads to her making incredibly reckless decisions that endanger the plan.
181* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Tokyo denies she is in a relationship with Rio, saying he is a kid - even though they have been having sex for several months already. [[spoiler:This leads Rio to tell Tokyo that he should be with a girl of his own age, instead of her. However, they later make up and confirm their love for each other.]]
182* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nairobi.
183* HiddenDepths: Though considered by some as TheMillstone, she actually learns from the Professor's lessons when push comes to shove. [[spoiler:She follows his tip to stall for time when she gets captured, which eventually leads to her returning to the bank, and manages to rightly assume that Raquel is still alive because, as the Professor taught her, sound can be a tool of deception. The best part is the Professor heeds Tokyo's suggestion and creates a plan out of this, with the result of successfully sneaking Raquel into the bank.]]
184* HotBlooded: Her impulsive actions endanger the plan multiple times, and cause a lot of problems within the team.
185* IdiotBall: The worst offender of the team, as she often tends to act before thinking. It often happens for the sake of the plot, such as Rio being captured in season 3 because of Tokyo's actions.
186* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's often short-tempered, selfish, and unreasonable, but it's shown many times that she cares about the other members of the team. Despite her thoughtless actions, she's not malicious.
187* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Denver. They are similar in many ways and Denver admits in Season 5 that Tokyo is like a sister to him. Besides the Professor (father figure), Rio (LoveInterest), and Nairobi (best friend), Denver is the closest to her.
188* LovelyAngels: With Nairobi in Season 3 first episodes combined with BackToBackBadass.
189* TheMillstone: Her impulsivity has made things worse for the team many times.
190* MsFanservice: She's certainly beautiful in face and body, which is acknowledged a fair amount of times, and has a few almost naked scenes.
191* TheNarrator: Her voice over starts and ends every episode. [[spoiler: After the Part 5 mid-season finale, she is revealed to be a [[PosthumousNarration posthumous narrator]].]]
192* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Literally when she blows herself up and takes down Gandia with her.]]
193* StrongGirlSmartGuy: She's the tough Strong Girl, while her love interest Rio is considered the weakest member of the team but is a TeenGenius hacker.
194* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: When cornered in the kitchen of the Bank of Spain, she is too injured to climb down the dumbwaiter, so she chooses to stay behind to cover for Manila and Denver. When the military squad gets to her, she manages to cook all the grenades she carries, and the ensuing explosion takes out 5 squad members, including Gandia.]]
195* TheTease: She's a MsFanservice who likes to flirt with men and sometimes even women.
196* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While she doesn't hurt people intentionally, she tends to cause serious troubles to people close to her, like Moscow's death, or Rio being captured, which was the catalyst for the second storyline. The second heist later leads to [[spoiler: Nairobi's death, Helsinki being critically injured, and her own death. The only positive thing to come out of it is Sierra allying with the heist team and Gandia getting a KarmicDeath after his bloody rampage.]]
197* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Tokyo goes berserk after Helsinki beats the crap out of Rio, telling the Professor that, if it happens again, she will kill him (or Berlin, or Helsinki).
198[[/folder]]
199
200[[folder:Moscow]]
201!!Moscow/Agustín Ramos
202[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_moscow_4.png]]
203!!!'''Played by''': Paco Tous
204!!!'''Voiced by''': Michael Sorich (English)
205
206A former miner who became a locksmith after illness forced him to leave his job, he started to use his skills to rob bank vaults and jewelries to feed his family. He has been in and out of prison for this.
207----
208* TheConscience: Calls Tokyo out on her petty and thoughtless actions.
209* CoolOldGuy: The most seasoned and pragmatic of the original team, preferring to follow the plan and avoid the conflicts that ensare the other members. When he's not under stress, he's shown to be fun-loving and can rock a beret like no one else.
210* DarkSecret: He has been hiding the fact that [[spoiler:he abandoned Denver's mother to a life of drug dealing after her failed attempts at rehab drained his savings multiple times]] for years. Of course, after he admits it, [[spoiler:he is fatally shot.]]
211* GoodParents: He cares a lot about Denver and wants him to have a better life. Despite their mistakes and being a DysfunctionalFamily, he and his son have a great relationship.
212* {{Irony}}: He left the mine because he suffers from claustrophobia. His robberies have sent him to prison several times.
213* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:His last words.]]
214* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Moscow was in prison and would rather die than go back.
215* NiceGuy: A polite and reasonable person, and one of the most approachable members of the team since the beginning, as lampshaded by Tokyo in her narration.
216* PapaWolf: Moscow's weakness is stated to be Denver. [[spoiler:He brought him into the plan because he screwed up with some drug-dealers, and has an anxiety attack when Denver kills a hostage ([[FakingTheDead or so he thinks]]).]]
217* SignificantBirthDate: In the beginning of the Season 2 finale, wherein Moscow's [[spoiler:funeral is held by the robbers following his death at the end of the previous episode]], it's revealed that he was born on International Labor Day, something Mónica comments on because of him being an ex-laborer.
218* TeamDad: A father figure not just to his son Denver, but also to other members of the team, like Tokyo and Rio.
219* TunnelKing: His criminal specialty and the reason he was drafted into the team -- he's an important part of the getaway plan as a result.
220[[/folder]]
221
222[[folder:Denver]]
223!!Denver/Daniel Ramos
224[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_denver_2.png]]
225!!!'''Played by''': Jaime Lorente
226!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/DougErholtz (English)
227
228Moscow's son, he spent most of his life as a thug who fights in disco brawls and regularly consumes drugs, which has left him with a HairTriggerTemper and bad disposition that he only relaxes around his father.
229----
230* BashBrothers: With Rio.
231* BerserkButton:
232** He is possessive of Monica and their son, which Arturo knows and uses to get a rise out of him. Denver beats him bloody when he mentions wanting to know his son and his past relationship with Monica.
233** In the Season 2 premiere, the Professor telling him that he needs to get involved in another heist also gets him really mad.
234* BookDumb: The most ignorant member of the team, and his father mentioned he always had troubles at school.
235* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Is a trigger happy thief with a temper, but he also has no issues showing his father how much he loves him, crying over his death or being concerned for Monica and their son.
236* CockFight: In Episode 12 of Season 1, Arturo deliberately starts a physical one against him in an attempt to get Mónica back. Arturo ends up failing quickly, without landing any hit on Denver before the latter overpowers him and [[AintTooProudToBeg sends him begging Denver to not punch him in the face]].
237* CrazyJealousGuy: Deconstructed. In the third and fourth seasons, Denver gets incredibly protective over Stockholm, acting much more erratically and even lashing out at Arturo and Rio out of paranoia that she's cheating on him with them, or otherwise threatened her safety. Unfortunately, this only serves to push Stockholm even further away from him, as his actions and behavior only terrify and alienate her even more than before.
238* DisownedParent: Late in the Season 2 finale, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother alone at a drug market because she was always high on heroin and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being a DomesticAbuser who abandoned them herself (this lie being among his many attempts to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he sees Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.
239* DotingParent: He loves Cincinnati, even if he is not biologically his and dreads the thought of leaving Cincinnati fatherless, like what happened to him upon Moscow's death.
240* DumbMuscle: Not very smart, and part of the muscle.
241* GiveTheBabyAFather: Ends up becoming the father to Mónica's baby.
242* GoodParents: So far, despite his impulsiveness, he seems to be, and clearly loves his son. Fatherhood has made him noticeably softer: he is uneasy with leaving the baby alone, or that he might become an orphan, and he gives the hostages that are parents the chance to speak to their children, despite it not being in the plans.
243* HairTriggerTemper: A life of thuggery and drug-taking have left their mark on him. [[spoiler:Backfires heavily in Season 3 when he almost kills the National Bank Governor when he refuses to collaborate.]]
244* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially to Monica. It doesn't help that everyone else thinks that Monica fell for him only because of UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome and even his father tells him that she's out of his league. This makes him believe that a smart and beautiful woman like her would never genuinely love him.
245* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a bit of an asshole, but he loves his father and cares for Mónica.
246* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Tokyo. They are similar in many ways and Denver admits in season 5 that Tokyo is like a sister to him.
247* LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ends up falling in love with Mónica.]]
248* OddNameOut: Downplayed. While most of the gang's nicknames are capitals (Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, Helsinki, Oslo, Nairobi) or at least one of the most populated and renowned cities of their country (Rio), Denver isn't a particularly outstanding city in the United States.
249* PapaWolf: To Mónica's son, whom he has adopted. When Arturo, Cincinnati's biological father and a prick, goads Denver into thinking he will meet his son after the heist, Denver loses it and beats him bloody.
250* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The brash Manly Man to Rio's naive and innocent Sensitive Guy.
251* SignatureLaugh: His distinguishable laughter has a punctuated sound on the "h" part, and he laughs quite a lot.
252* SmokingHotSex: In Episode 11 of Season 1, he smokes after having sex with Mónica for the first time.
253* WellDoneSonGuy: He absolutely '''adores''' his father Moscow and considers himself a disappointment as he doesn't have any standout skills compared to him. Moscow, of course, begs to differ.
254* WouldHarmASenior: He decks (and almost accidentally kills) Mario because he refused to cooperate with the gang in the Bank heist.
255
256[[/folder]]
257
258[[folder:Rio]]
259!!Rio/Aníbal Cortés
260[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_rio_3.png]]
261!!!'''Played by''': Miguel Herrán
262!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (English)
263
264A somewhat immature, but [[NiceGuy nice]] PlayfulHacker and TeenGenius. Before becoming part of the heist team, he used to be chief technician in a security company, but ended up on the Interpol watchlist when he started hacking and cracking security systems.
265----
266* AffectionateNickname: As first given by Tokyo through narration in Season 1's tenth episode, his mother called him "Rayo" ("Lightning" in Spanish) as a child because she thought he'd want to become an athlete, until he proved otherwise be spending much of his time playing video games. Near the end of the episode, when he watches a video tape of his parents sneaked into him by Raquel, his mother is seen using "Rayo" repeatedly towards him.
267* BashBrothers: With Denver.
268* BreakTheCutie: Goes through a very traumatic experience after being brutally tortured by Alicia Sierra.
269* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rio's capture in the Season 3 premiere happened because he used a connection between a pair of satellite-based phones to communicate with Tokyo during her stay in Panama's mainland. He didn't consider how such a means of phone communication (and likely every other one possible) could be easily detected by the Interpol's network, even if he and Tokyo had bought the phones from a black market.
270* DistressedDude: Him being captured by the authorities and his friends wanting to rescue him kicks off the plot in season 3.
271* TheLoad:
272** Rio is initially seen as a downplayed case of this by the Professor, because he's young, immature, and has less experience than the others, with only his hacking expertise coming in handy. He eventually proves himself to be more competent overall as the Mint heist progresses.
273** He becomes a straighter example between Seasons 3 and 4, because his trauma from the torture he got at the beginning of the former season makes him ineffectual once he comes to the Bank of Spain.
274* NiceGuy: He's the one who has the most empathy with the hostages. {{Deconstructed}} because this ends up leading to the police learning Tokyo and him are in the heist.
275* PlayfulHacker: He learned how to program at age 6, and was hired by a security company, but then he was asked to hack a system belonging to a mansion in Geneva, and he's been on the Interpol list ever since.
276* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The naive and innocent Sensitive Guy to Denver's brash Manly Man.
277* StrongGirlSmartGuy: His love interest Tokyo is a tough Strong Girl, while Rio is considered the weakest member of the team but is a TeenGenius hacker.
278* TeenGenius: The youngest member of the team and an expert hacker.
279* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The second heist is only possible due to his capture.
280[[/folder]]
281
282[[folder:Helsinki]]
283!!Helsinki/Mirko Dragic
284[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_helsinki_5.png]]
285
286!!!'''Played by''': Darko Peric
287!!!''Voiced by''': Creator/JamiesonPrice (English)
288
289One of {{The Brute}}s of the group. Little is known of this Serbian beyond the fact that he comes from a violent past, not helped by the fact that he speaks little, letting his weapons and partners do the talking.
290----
291* BaldHeadOfToughness: Bald and the strong BigGuy of the group.
292* BalkanBastard: Subverted. When introducing the team, Tokyo specifically points to Helsinki being Serbian as proof he'd be great muscle. Despite being a former soldier who's seen some shit, however, Helsinki is very affable and caring to those close to him.
293* BigFun: When not part of the heist, Helsinki is a laughable, joyful man who loves his friends dearly.
294* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's a sensitive and caring man under all of the muscle and silence.
295* DivergentCharacterEvolution: He and Oslo start off as ThoseTwoGuys. After Oslo's death, Helsinki slowly starts to reveal his HiddenDepths, especially after he befriends Nairobi.
296* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Episode 7 of Season 1, when the Professor asks him if he had gotten their stakeout car destroyed and brought the 1000 euros the Professor gave him so the scrapyard worker would not ask any questions, Helsinki answers that he sent the money to his family and just left the car at the scrapyard, not taking into consideration [[NiceJobBreakingItHero that there was a good reason the car had to be destroyed]].
297* GayBestFriend: Becomes this to Nairobi in season 3 and 4.
298* GentleGiant: The biggest member of the group, and a softy towards the all the people he cares about.
299* ManlyGay: He's a gruff, strong and muscular soldier, and later revealed to be gay.
300* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Does this to Oslo via VorpalPillow in the Season 2 premiere, after seeing the latter won't be able to recover from his head trauma.]]
301* NiceGuy: Introduced as TheBrute, but is eventually revealed to be one of the kindest characters.
302* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Professor gave Helsinki 1000 euros to get a scrapyard's worker to destroy a car that had some of the team's fingerprints on it, no questions asked. Not only did Helsinki not get the car destroyed -- [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes he sent the cash to his family]] -- he didn't even think of cleaning the fingerprints. By the time the Professor asks him about it in Episode 7 of Season 1, the former is forced to risk being identified and his life to find the car and clean it himself before the cops find it.
303* PlatonicLifePartners: After the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3, he becomes this with Nairobi, although she also develops romantic feelings for him. Although he doesn't return them, he still care about her deeply, to the point of being the most affected by [[spoiler: Nairobi's death by Ghandia's hands.]]
304* StraightGay: He has no stereotypical gay traits, to the point where Nairobi has to be explicitly told by both Tokyo and Helsinki himself that he's queer.
305* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:How he {{Mercy Kill}}s Oslo in the first episode of Season 2.]]
306[[/folder]]
307
308[[folder:Oslo]]
309!!Oslo/Radko Dragic
310[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_oslo_4.png]]
311!!!'''Played by''': Roberto García
312!!!'''Voiced by''': Joseph Whimms (English)
313
314The other [[TheBrute Brute]] of the group, and Helsinki's cousin. Much like Helsinki, not much is known about his past, and he doesn't talk much.
315----
316* AdvertisedExtra: Even though he's long dead in Season 5 and doesn't appear in it at all (alongside the two previous Bank heist seasons, barring a few flashbacks where he only has a background role), Oslo got his own character poster for the season.
317* DeadHandShot: In the Season 2 premiere, [[spoiler:Oslo's left hand ceasing to shake is what shows that Helsinki's MercyKill of him was successful]].
318* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Helsinki, though the latter is not heterosexual. As Helsinki says it to Arturo in the Season 1 finale, they were together in war, in peace, in crime and in prison.
319* MercyKill: [[spoiler:After seeing he won't be able to recover from his head trauma, Helsinki puts him out of his misery via VorpalPillow in the Season 2 premiere.]]
320* OutOfFocus: He talks and is seen the least out of the crew by a large margin. Even some of the more minor hostages have more lines and a larger role than him.
321* TheQuietOne: Tokyo calls him such. Indeed, he barely utters a word during the first season, and doesn't say anything in flashbacks from later seasons. A comment by Nairobi in Season 1 implies that this is due to him not being fluent in Spanish, whereas Helsinki is.
322* TheStoic: He laughs and smiles much less than Helsinki does.
323* ThoseTwoGuys: With Helsinki for most of Season 1, before [[spoiler:his severe injury]] near the end of said season and subsequent [[spoiler:death]] in the next one.
324* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:How Helsinki {{Mercy Kill}}s him in the first episode of Season 2.]]
325* WeHardlyKnewYe: He has about 5 lines before [[spoiler:being knocked out]] in the penultimate episode of Season 1 and then [[spoiler:dying]] in the first episode of Season 2.
326[[/folder]]
327
328[[folder:Nairobi]]
329!!Nairobi/Agata Jimenez
330[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_nairobi_4.png]]
331!!!'''Played by''': Alba Flores
332!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
333
334A happy-go-lucky woman that became a counterfeiter after her boyfriend left her pregnant and abandoned her. Her aim is to use the money she gains so as to regain her son's custody and retire somewhere else.
335----
336* ActionMom: Although the "mom" part is quite complicated, she embodies the "action" part very well.
337* BattleCry: [[spoiler:After her death at the hands of Gandia, the Robbers yell the Bank heist is for her.]]
338-->'''Gang:''' [[spoiler:FOR NAIROBI!]]
339* BenevolentBoss: Torres, an elderly Mint employee that she enlists to mass-produce the money the robbers are going to take (with the hostages also having a choice to get some themselves), says she's the best boss he's ever had in Episode 13 of Season 1, as his reasoning for picking the "money" option when given the choice of choosing liberty or money.
340* BrutalHonesty: She has no problem speaking her mind.
341* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by Gandia towards the end of Season 4.]]
342* FreudianExcuse: She got into the plan because she wants to get her kid back.
343* TheHeart: Pretty much the crew's cheerful spirit, even during hard times and is loved by (almost) everyone
344* IncompatibleOrientation: Develops feelings for Helsinki, who is gay.
345* InformedFlaw: Tokyo's narration introducing each of the robbers in the first episode describes Nairobi as "crazy", but for all her hamminess and cheerfulness, she's actually CloserToEarth than most people around her, including Tokyo herself.
346* LovelyAngels: With Tokyo in Season 3's first few episodes, combined with BackToBackBadasses.
347* MsFanservice: Not as much as Tokyo, but she also has had several scenes where she only wears underwear or a bikini.
348* MissingMom: To her unseen son Axel.
349* MyGreatestFailure: She regards abandoning her son Axel to be this, and wants to rectify this by being a good mom to her future kids. [[spoiler: Too bad she got killed by Gandia before she got the chance to.]]
350* NiceGirl: She's usually kind, friendly, and caring to everyone, and only gets angry if she has a good reason to be upset.
351* OnlySaneWoman:
352** Has shades of this, especially after Berlin starts going off the rails.
353** Seems the most reasonable person every time she argues with each character. Especially when compared to [[LeeroyJenkins Tokyo]].
354* PlatonicLifePartners: Becomes very close to Helsinki in Seasons 3 and 4. While Episode 7 of Season 1 previously revealed that Nairobi has romantic feelings for him, Helsinki admits he only loves her like a sister. And he's by far the most devastated when [[spoiler: Nairobi is gunned down by Gandia]].
355* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Gandia makes a show of killing her right in front of the heist members to emphasize just how much of a dangerous and insane monster he truly is.]]
356* StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'9"[[note]]175 cm[[/note]] and visibly towers over other girls like Tokyo and Allison.
357* StepfordSmiler: Zig-zagged. She's fun and bubbly much of the time, but can be more somber when she talks about how she lost custody of her child and really wanted to be a mother, as Tokyo's curiosity in a flashback from the first season's fifth episode prompts her to. The "Stepford" part seems to fade away chronologically, though, as her positive mood appears to be pretty genuine, and doesn't get in the way of anything serious that pops up in her mind.
358* TheTease: Not the extent of Tokyo, but she can be a bit of a flirter at times.
359* YouMonster: She calls Berlin a pig, among other things, as she hears the large plethora of his past crimes (including plenty of false ones, much to Berlin's anger) mentioned on the news about him in Episode 8 of Season 1.
360[[/folder]]
361
362!!Bank of Spain Heist (Seasons 3, 4, & 5):
363
364[[folder:Lisbon]]
365!!Lisbon/Raquel Murillo
366[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_lisbon.png]]
367!!!'''Played by''': Itziar Ituño
368!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CindyRobinson (English)
369!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Money Heist'' | ''Berlin''
370
371Raquel was the Spanish National Police inspector leading the case of the first heist, and was responsible negotiating with the mysterious Professor. She falls in love with a guy in the bar, Salvador, not realizing that he ''is'' the Professor. She ends up joining the crew for the second heist under the codename of Lisbon.
372----
373* BrokenBird: She has a troubled personal life. Her mother suffers from dementia and her ex-husband was abusive.
374* CharacterTics: Ties her hair with a writing instrument whenever she's about to get down to business.
375* ChessmasterSidekick: In the second heist, she's this assisting the Professor (who's the resident {{Chessmaster}} and leader of the group) in strategies, plots and schemes while the other member are almost entirely in the frontline.
376* DamselInDistress: During the second heist, after being caught by the authorities in season 4.
377* DatingCatwoman: She didn't know that the nerdy NiceGuy who loaned her his phone is the mastermind who assembled the CaperCrew behind the robbery she is working at.
378* TheDogBitesBack: After being almost constantly belittled by most of her partners and superiors, blamed for things that are the fault of others (such as the failed attempt to get several hostages out, with Prieto ordering her to pick Allison Parker instead of the eight she would have picked), accused of being TheMole and threatened with the loss of her child if she does not cooperate, Raquel [[spoiler:delays revealing what she has found long enough to allow the heist team to escape, and when she leaves the police corps she heavily criticizes the National Intelligence Center for the way they interfered in her work]]. Then she joins the Professor to further disgrace the system she used to work for.
379* DomesticAbuse: Raquel suffered physical abuse at the hands of her now ex-husband Alberto. Unfortunately, few people believed her when she reported it, due to Alberto's positive reputation among the national police force.
380* DopeSlap: In the Season 3 premiere, Raquel gives one to Tokyo on their first encounter since the Mint heist, in response to Tokyo's initial anger towards her and disbelief that she would become one of the heist team's members without betraying them at a later point.
381* DrivenToSuicide: In the Season 1 finale, Raquel attempts to get herself killed by the robbers after she learns that Ángel was not [[TheMole a mole for them]] like she suspected, and reads through all the exasperated calls he did to her just before his car crash in her voicemail. She walks into a close area to the Mint where she could easily be shot; just as Helsinki aims a sniper rifle at her, Suárez and Prieto run to save Raquel by bringing her back to the tent, with the latter telling her that she deserves to take a break.
382* FairCop: She's attractive-looking and a pretty good police leader.
383* GroinAttack: In the Season 2 finale, in her brief fight against the Professor's Serbian auxiliary team, Raquel does this to a member who manages to grab her and take her pistol in order to free herself from him. She's quickly defeated just after that, when she's held at a gunpoint by the other members that she can't escape from this time around.
384* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of Season 2, she [[spoiler:chooses to hold back revealing where the heist team is meeting long enough to help them escape]]. In Season 3, she becomes a full-fledged heist team member under the codename Lisbon. Might count as a FaceHeelTurn in how the robbers are viewed.
385* HeroAntagonist: In the first two seasons, she's the antagonist cop to the main criminal characters. Even if the audience is supposed to root for the criminals, she gets a lot of SympatheticPOV.
386* HourglassPlot: She goes from confronting the robbers in the first heist to ''becoming'' one of the robbers by the second one, complete with the defining red jumpsuit and Dali mask. Both Sierra and the Professor lampshade this.
387* ManBitesMan: In the Season 2 finale, after she's caught trying to personally arrest the Professor and [[UnwillingSuspension put on restraining suspension]] by the Serbian auxiliary team, Raquel tries to bait the Professor into telling her that she needs medication to help her with a fake stomach pain, and bites his hand just as he offers him a pill and a glass of water. Given the circumstances she's in, it proves to be rather useless.
388* MultigenerationalHousehold: During the first two seasons, she resides in a shared household with her daughter Paula and her mother Mariví. When they move to vacational places with the robbers afterwards, Raquel gets her own residential place apart from Mariví and Paula, although it's still close to theirs.
389* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:She ends up being blamed for the heist team's escape, as well as several other problems that were actually caused by Prieto or others.]]
390* SharedFamilyQuirks: Discussed by her mother in Episode 7 of Season 2, when she gives her a set of markers owned by Paula to use on her map for her personal manhunt on the Professor and remarks that Paula chews on the marker's caps, much like how Raquel used to do.
391* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Her role in the first two seasons, as the inspector who leads the case against the VillainProtagonist robbers during that time.
392* TakenOffTheCase: In Episode 7 of Season 2, she's taken off her position of lead inspector in the Mint heist's investigation once the police identify the Professor and discover the relationship Raquel had with him. In reaction, Raquel tells them that they can go on without her as she angrily lends her badge and the pistol she had in hand by then to them, determined to go on a manhunt for the Professor on her own.
393* WasItAllALie: PlayedForDrama in the middle of Season 2, when she realizes that "Salva" is actually the Professor and takes him to the farm to interrogate him, broken down because she thinks he only got close to her to use her. The Professor tells her that he did initially, but actually fell in love with her as he got to know her.
394[[/folder]]
395
396[[folder:Stockholm]]
397!!Stockholm/Mónica Gaztambide
398[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stockholm.png]]
399!!!'''Played by''': Esther Acebo
400!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AnneYatco (English)
401
402Initially one of the hostages at the Royal Mint. She's Arturo's lover and secretary who is pregnant with his son. After forming a connection with Denver, she switches sides and joins the robbers as Stockholm.
403----
404* ButICantBePregnant: Inverted. She tells Arturo that she's pregnant and he's the father but Arturo badgers her that there's no way it can be his because of his low fertility.
405* CharacterDevelopment: She start as a dominated woman with little control in her life to a rebellious one who fights for what she believes in.
406* DefectingForLove: She ends up switching sides and joining the thieves because of her love for Denver.
407* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: When Arturo tells Mónica he does not plan to divorce his wife, she requests an abortive pill. Denver convinces her not to take it, at least for a while.
408* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She genuinely liked Arturo in the beginning. She gets better, but you have to wonder what she has ever seen in him in the first place.
409* MamaBear: Is enraged when Julia reveals herself as one of them to the hostages, therefore no longer the viable option to raise Cincinnati if something happens to both her and Denver.
410* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Discussed in-universe when she falls in love with Denver. Her city nickname even becomes Stockholm to reference the UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome when she officially joins the crew.
411* MoralityPet: To Denver, when he starts to show his caring side around her in season 1.
412* NiceGirl: Lampshaded by Rio who becomes close to her, since she was the only one able to comfort him after his traumatic tortures.
413* PayEvilUntoEvil: Is the one to [[spoiler:remove Arturo from the heist for good by shooting him.]]
414* PregnantHostage: During the Mint heist.
415* SexySecretary: She has been [[SleepingWithTheBoss in a relationship with Arturo]] for several years by the time the series begins.
416* SleepingWithTheBoss: At the beginning of the series, Arturo has had an affair relationship with her for several years, with Tokyo narrating that Mónica had made him feel young again ever since his marriage to his wife Laura 14 years ago. During the Mint heist, she finds Denver to be a better boyfriend for her and leaves Arturo while defecting to the heist team at the end.
417* UptownGirl: Lampshaded. Moscow tells Denver she is out of his league in almost every way and compares her to his past girlfriends, citing she is more educated, kind and beautiful than any of them.
418* WomenAreWiser: Keeps her cool after [[spoiler:Nairobi dies]] and takes over parts of the operation.
419[[/folder]]
420
421[[folder:Palermo]]
422!!Palermo/Martín Berrote
423[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_palermo.png]]
424!!!'''Played By''': Rodrigo De La Serna
425
426An old friend of Berlin. He helped him to come up with the plan to take the gold in the Spanish National Bank. Originally from Argentina, but he lived in Palermo, Italy, in the years prior to the heist, hence why it took that city as his nickname.
427----
428* AccentRelapse: When he impersonates a Spanish soldier while leading the infiltration to the Bank of Spain, Palermo imitates a Spaniard accent quite convincingly. It's only when the entire team is inside the facility and the hostages have been taken care of that he drops it and goes back to his natural Argentinian accent. Right when he reveals himself and his team as the robbers in front of the hostages, for dramatic effect[[note]]Of course, unless their Spanish level is high enough to recognize accents, this is something that gets LostInTranslation for non-native Spanish speakers, both in dub and sub[[/note]].
429* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: In the aftermath of Gandia's rampage through the Bank of Spain after setting him loose, Palermo promises to Helsinki that he will stand with him to repay for what he's done.]]
430* CampGay: He's quite effeminate in his behavior, and first flirts and then has sex with Helsinki.
431* CatchPhrase: Him and Helsinki coin the term "Boom-Boom Chau" to describe the act of two men having casual sex.
432* CharacterDevelopment: He gets one of the biggest character arcs in the second storyline. He starts off as an egomaniac who only cares about the plan, and only if he's in charge of it at that. But over the course of the story, particularly after [[spoiler:Nairobi's death, something he feels personally responsible for]], he starts to care about his teammates, specially Helsinki. He even recovers the optimism he lost after [[spoiler:Berlin's death]].
433* EasilyForgiven: Despite his betrayal that caused ''a lot'' of trouble to the others, he's very soon reintegrated into the group.
434* EvilGenius: Not to the level of the Professor, of course, but he ''did'' plan for all the technicalities for the second heist, which is so valuable [[spoiler:the Professor tells him the ''real'' endgame of the heist.]]
435* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For the most part, he's a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't care much about the rest of the crew. He's only loyal to the plan, because it was made by the person he truly loved, Berlin.
436* EvilSoundsDeep: He's the TokenEvilTeammate and also has a deep voice.
437* EyeScream: He gets crystals in his eyes during a shootout, leaving him partially blind.
438* {{Foil}}: To Berlin from the first two seasons. Both of them are massive jerkasses who insist on sticking with the plan set in motion, while being openly disliked by the rest of the crew. However, while Berlin was always a self-serving sociopath, Palermo was much more easy-going (if obnoxious) until he's ultimately rejected by Berlin. Palermo also holds the Professor and his crew in a much lower regard than Berlin does, in part because he believes the Professor to be partially responsible for Berlin's death.
439* FreudianExcuse: Albeit he's already portrayed as a bit of a narcisist in flashbacks, he states that his personality started to really rot out of grief for [[spoiler:Berlin's death]].
440* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To the other members of the team who didn't want him as a leader and replaced him with Tokyo. He didn't take it well.
441* GoneHorriblyRight: Palermo's idea to get himself back into the leadership role of the heist is to set Gandia free, and let him wreak havoc in the Bank of Spain until the crew turns to him for help. Well, Gandia wreaks havoc alright. He manages to capture and imprison Tokyo, establish connection with the outside world to give the Spanish government an advantage against them, and ends with him [[spoiler: gunning down Nairobi in front of everyone before anyone can make a move to stop him, and indirectly responsible for Tokyo's death as she took herself out alongside him]].
442* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Starts off as a team member, turns into an enemy for some episodes, and eventually goes back to the main character's side at the end of season 4.
443* HeelRealization: Even if helping Gandia to escape was a deliberate KickTheDog moment, he feels guilty when [[spoiler: the latter kills Nairobi.]]
444* HisHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:Was in love with Berlin, who never returned his romantic feelings and then died.]]
445* {{Hypocrite}}: Upon Tokyo being promoted to being the head of the heist, Palermo flips his shit, complaining that Tokyo is unfit to lead due to her acting based on emotion instead of sticking to the plan. He then goes on to free Gandia out of a selfish need to be placed back in control, which derails the plan ''even further'' than anything Tokyo could've done.
446* IncompatibleOrientation: He had romantic feelings for Berlin, who was straight.
447* ItsAllAboutMe: Following his usurpation from Tokyo, he proceeded to generate chaos for the heist team to try to get back in control. Specifically, he allows Gandia to free himself and start terrorizing the heist crew.
448* LoveMakesYouEvil: He admits that losing Berlin turned him into the horrible person he is now.
449* MeaningfulName: He's one of the few members of the gang who apparently chose his city name for a particular reason, namely that Palermo is the city he used to live in before the heist.
450* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Palermo only realizes the extent of how horrible his decision of helping Gandia escape and cause chaos for the heist members was after [[spoiler: Nairobi dies.]]
451* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because of his actions, Palermo is directly responsible for allowing Gandia to interfere with the heist's plan, [[spoiler: and murder Nairobi in cold blood]]. He realizes this shortly after. Even worse, this gives the police enough incentive to [[spoiler: storm the Bank without care for the civilians, resulting in Helsinki's serious condition and Tokyo's death.]]
452* PetTheDog: He's much nicer in the season 4 finale, especially when he has a heart to heart talk with Helsinki.
453* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a chauvinist and a misogynist.
454* ShoutOut: Palermo's real name is Martín and he's Argentinian. Martín Palermo is a famous Argentinian former soccer player and current coach.
455* TokenEvilTeammate: Like Berlin before him, although he's less of a sociopath, but still a {{Jerkass}} to everyone, and even ends up betraying the crew when Tokio takes over leadership in a dispute over how to treat Nairobi's gunshot wound.
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Bogotá]]
459!!Bogotá/Santiago López
460[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_bogota.png]]
461!!!'''Played by''': Hovik Keuchkerian
462
463The expert in charge of the efforts to open the bank vault. Quite rough around the edges, but is quite the nice guy.
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465* AndThisIsFor: During his fight against Gandía (see CurbStompBattle below), he gives him a blow for every single slur he uttered to his team mates, leaving for last [[spoiler:breaking Gandía's neck for avenging Nairobi's death. However, Tokyo manages to step in and make him snap out of it, claiming that's not what Nairobi would have wanted]].
466* BewareTheNiceOnes: He beats Gandia up senselessly when the latter tries to escape after [[spoiler:killing Nairobi]].
467* CurbStompBattle: Of all people, he gives one to ''Gandia''. After Gandia tries to escape once more, Bogotá holds him down and knocks him before Gandia can even land a hit back.
468* AGirlInEveryPort: When he talks to Denver about his many children, each is from a different mother, and each lives in a different country.
469* GentleGiant: He's one of the group's tallest members, yet is soft-spoken and obedient.
470* RealMenEatMeat: He's a tough guy who complains when the robbers are served vegetables on Stockholm's birthday in a flashback from "Everything Seemed Insignificant", even if she is vegan. He extols going out to eat meat with friends, saying it brings people together.
471* ShoutOut: In several flashbacks, Bogota is seen wearing various T-shirts of Music/{{Slayer}}, one of which features the cover of the band's album ''Divine Intervention''.
472[[/folder]]
473
474[[folder:Marseille]]
475!!Marseille/Jakov
476[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_marseille.png]]
477!!!'''Played by''': Luka Peros
478
479A man with a mysterious past who serves as the Professor's right-hand man outside the bank during the second heist.
480----
481* AnimalLover: He refuses to cut open a pig because of his hatred of animal cruelty and also has a pet ferret. He also reveals that he had a pet dog while serving in the army, yet lost it due to boys in a village pelting it with rocks.
482* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's very much implied his military tour didn't end well.
483* DistressedDude: Briefly, when [[spoiler: Sierra captures him alongside Benjamin and the Professor himself]].
484* JackOfAllTrades: He speaks eight languages, is excellent at fighting, can stage a car crash, and knows how to operate many manned vehicles. This is all probably acquired from his military service, but it's badass nonetheless.
485* TheQuietOne: According to Marseille himself, he's not mute, just quiet.
486[[/folder]]
487
488[[folder:Manila]]
489!!Manila/Julia Martínez
490[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_manila.png]]
491!!!'''Played by''': Belén Cuesta
492
493An associate of Denver and Moscow who poses as one of the hostages to keep an eye on them.
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495* {{Kneecapping}}: She shoots [[spoiler:Arturo]] in the knee.
496* LoveTriangle: A minor one between her, Denver and Stockholm. She even tries to convince Denver that he's not following his nature when he's with Stockholm, but eventually backs down when she realizes that Denver truly loves her.
497* TheMole: She poses as yet another hostage in order to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't try to organize a rise against the robbers.
498* PayEvilUntoEvil: She kneecaps [[spoiler:Arturo after he attacks Matías and proves that he is indeed a rapist]].
499* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that most of her tropes have spoilers makes her this.
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:"Logroño"]]
503!!Benjamín Martínez/"Logroño"
504[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_logrono.png]]
505!!!'''Played by''': Ramón Agirre
506
507Father of Manila and Moscow's old colleague. He joins the heist as part of the excavation team, and later on as part of the team responsible to turning the gold from nuggets back to ingots.
508----
509* CharacterDevelopment: He starts the story being a bit meek, but becomes more and more confident as the story progresses. In the end, he's more than capable of grabbing a gun and pointing hostages without hesitation, albeit it's always PlayedForLaughs.
510* LostInTranslation: Of the cultural type. He actually starts off without a city name, but later on receives "Logroño" from [[spoiler:Sierra]], who chooses that city as a bit of a joke that gets lost for most non-Spaniard audiences. Namely, that Logroño is stereotypically perceived as one of the more country-side and aged cities in Spain.
511* OlderSidekick: He's by far the oldest member of the gang, but he proves himself to be surprisingly useful.
512[[/folder]]
513
514[[folder:Pamplona]]
515!!Pamplona/Matías Caño
516[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_pamplona.png]]
517!!!'''Played by''': Ahikar Azcona Albizu
518
519An old associate of Bogotá. He enters the Bank of Spain passing himself as a costumer, so the team could pretend to force him into labour in front of the rest of the hostages, thus intimidating them without really hurting anyone. After that, he's taken down the Bank, next to he gold vault as part of the team in charge of melting the gold into nuggets.
520
521
522He's the only member of the team that actually starts ''without'' a city name, only chosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamplona Pamplona]] in the final stages of the heist.
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524* AmazonChaser: He feels attracted to Lisbon...after seeing her reducing Rio to the floor.
525* BadBadActing: When Nairobi and Bogotá try to make it look like they are "forcing" him into stepping as a volunteer, instead of going along as they rehearsed, he decides to go off-script and refuses multiple times "for the sake of believability". Nairobi, and specially Bogotá AREN'T happy about it afterwards.
526* IJustWantToBeBadass: The reason why he eventually decides to finally give himself a city name is because he thought that, if the whole plan went South, he'd look ''like the fucking intern'' when in the news they'd say the city names of the rest of the band, while he'd be the only one called by his actual name.
527* TheMole: He enters the Bank of Spain pretending to be a regular costumer, and then a hostage when the heist begins.
528* OddNameOut: He's the only team member who chose for himself an actual Spanish city[[note]]Logroño is also a city in Spain, but the alias was given by Alicia, not chosen by Benjamín[[/note]]. The rest of the gang even tease him for being [[BoringInsult such a mundane choice]] (from a Spaniard perspective). However, he manages to change their minds explaining to them that it's an awesome city that even Creator/ErnestHemingway praised in some of his novels.
529[[/folder]]
530
531[[folder:Rafael]]
532!!Rafael de Fonollosa
533!!!'''Played by''': Patrick Criado
534
535Berlin's son, whom he recruited several years ago.
536----
537* ConnectedAllAlong: He is Berlin's son and the Professor's nephew.
538* SpannerInTheWorks: Intervenes in [[spoiler:the Bank of Spain heist by stealing all the gold.]]
539[[/folder]]

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