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18	As with any long-running soap opera, there's many characters, so this will try to only include fairly significant ones. In order to not make this a massive info dump, we've split it up into folders based on when the character first appeared on the show. For characters that were born on the show, they'll be included in the folder where they first became non-child recurring characters, and were actually teens or older and part of the plot.
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22	[[folder:1965-79]]
23	'''Alice Grayson Horton'''
24	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frances_2.jpg]]
25	->Played by: Frances Reid (1965-2007)
26
27	The matriarch of the Horton family (and, really, Salem in general), Alice and her portrayer Frances Reid was one of the few mainstays of the series, appearing from the premiere until Christmas 2007 when Reid became too ill to appear anymore. A wise and loving woman, her death in June 2010 (coinciding with that of Reid) was the end of an era both for ''Days'' and the soap opera world in general.
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29	She left behind children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-''great''-grandchildren...almost all of whom have been the recipient of some of her patented Horton advice-and-doughnuts at some point or another.
30	* BackFromTheDead: In 2004 Alice Horton was killed off by the Salem Stalker. However she was revealed alive on Melaswen.
31	* BigGood: Alice served as this role to the show as the pure moral center who could be turned to for comfort and heart warming moments.
32	* CoolOldLady: Had phases of his when helping out Bo and Hope.
33	%%* GrannyClassic
34	%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness
35	* KilledOffForReal: Following Fraces Reid's real death Alice Horton as killed off in 2010 likely for good.
36	%%* NeverMessWithGranny
37	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Not really her favorite, but Alice Horton is eternally connected to her doughnuts.
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39	'''Dr. Thomas "Tom" Horton Sr.'''
40	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carey_8.jpg]]
41	->Played by: Creator/MacdonaldCarey (1965-94)\
42	->''"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the [[TitleDrop days of our lives]]..."''
43
44	Alice's loving husband until his death in 1994, coinciding with Carey's. Essentially take everything that Alice was, make it male, and you have Tom. Infinitely wise, patient and paternal, Tom was the Chief of Staff of University Hospital where he was always on-hand to advise the younger doctors or anyone who happened to pass through the doors.
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46	* ThePatriarch: The father figure of the Horton clan.
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48	'''Dr. Thomas "Tommy" Horton Jr.'''
49	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_lupton.jpg]]
50	->Played by: John Lupton (1967-72/1975-79/1980)
51
52	Tom and Alice's eldest son. He began the series as missing and presumed dead from the Korean War, but eventually returned with amnesia. And really didn't do much of anything. And now he pretty much doesn't exist and everyone pretends Tom and Alice had four kids.
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54	%%* BackFromTheDead: Upon his introduction in 1967.
55	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: At one point in the 1970s, Tom went upstairs and didn't come back down for years. He also hasn't been seen or mentioned since about 1980, even when his parents died. Mickey was referred to as Tom and Alice's eldest son at Tom's funeral, when that was supposed to be Tommy.
56	* SurpriseIncest: Basically Tommy's only story of note was coming back to Korea with amnesia and plastic surgery and hooking up with his sister Marie without knowing it was her.
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58	'''Adelaide "Addie" Horton Olson/Williams'''
59	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/addiehorton.jpg]]
60	[[caption-width-right:175:As portrayed by Barry.]]
61	->Played by: Patricia Huston (1965-66), Creator/PatriciaBarry (1971-74)
62
63	Tom and Alice's eldest daughter and Tommy's twin sister, she actually spent very little time on the show actually alive, and is primarily remembered nowadays as being the deceased mother of current characters Julie and Hope. And for having her [[LoveDodecahedron younger daughter with her elder daughter's love interest]].
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65	* CharacterDeath: One of the few deaths not necessitated by that of the character's iconic performer which immediately stuck and has never been retconned. Yet.
66	* HeroicSacrifice: Her death was one. Already knowing she was ill with leukemia, she pushed her nine day-old daughter's trolley out of the way from an speeding car, being hit and killed in the process.
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69	'''Michael "Mickey" Horton Sr.'''
70	[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/191022112055_john_clarke_restricted_super_tease.jpg]]
71	[[caption-width-right:205: As portrayed by Clarke.]]
72	->Played by: John Clarke (1965-2004), Creator/JohnIngle (2004-06), Kevin Dobson (2008)
73
74	Tom and Alice's middle son. Like Alice, Michael was on the show pretty much forever, and like Alice he was killed off in 2010. Mickey was an attorney and the golden boy and good son of the Hortons. Most famously and long-lastingly played by John Clarke, upon Clarke's retirement they had difficulty recasting him and finally just had him die offscreen so they could move his wife onto other stories and stop awkwardly pretending he was in the other room or away on business.
75
76	Though his first big pairing was with Laura, with whom he was in a decade-long triangle with his younger brother Bill, Mickey is far more famously known for his later pairing with Maggie, which lasted over three decades.
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78	* TheArtifact: Lasted until 2010, but never really had anything to do since the 1980s, minus little minor stories here and there. He would generally just be around for family events and to be everyone's lawyer should they need one.
79	* CainAndAbel: When Mickey learned Bill was the biological father of his son Mike, Mickey went temporarily insane and tried to kill Bill.
80	* TheDutifulSon: For the vast majority of ''Days'', Mickey was the only Horton child in Salem and usually the good, stable, dependable one.
81	* SiblingRivalry: With Bill. Mickey being the good son and moral figrure. Bill being a very big magnet of trouble for the family.
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84	'''Dr. William "Bill" Horton'''
85	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mallory_3.jpg]]
86	[[caption-width-right:175: As portrayed by Mallory.]]
87	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stone_20.jpg]]
88	[[caption-width-right:175: As portrayed by Stone.]]
89	->Played by: Paul Carr (1965-66), Edward Mallory (1966-80/1991-92), Christopher Stone (1987-88/1994-95), John Martin (2010)
90
91	Tom and Alice's youngest son. He began the series as a med student and grew to be a successful doctor, spending much of his career fighting AIDS in Africa, where he remains to this day. Bill has always been the troubled Horton son, and has a tendency to do things that on paper would make him sound like total Jerkass. But for the most part, he means well. Though he's only appeared in occasional guest spots since the 80s, Bill remains a prominent part of the landscape by being the father of Mike, Jennifer, and Lucas, all three of whom arguably went on to become more prominent ''Days'' characters than Bill himself.
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93	* CainAndAbel: When Mickey learned Bill was the biological father of his son Mike, Mickey went temporarily insane and tried to kill Bill.
94	* BlackSheep: It just goes to show how perfect the Horton family is if a respected doctor and humanitarian is the family's black sheep. But in fairness, he ''is'' a douchebag.
95	* TheBusCameBack: Had returned occasionally, usually for big events like weddings and funerals, and even then seldom. For a while this was because all of the actors who played Bill had died, but in 2010 with Alice's funeral they finally decided they couldn't not include Bill and after fifteen years finally recast him. He may make more appearances now.
96	* {{Jerkass}}: Raped Mickey's wife, Laura, got her pregnant (Mike) and eventually stole her away from his brother and had another kid with her (Jennifer), only to cheat on her with Kate and conceive a childhood out of wedlock (Lucas), driving Laura insane and causing her to abandon infant Jennifer on a bus and get carted off to an asylum. Then, rather than take responsibility and raise his kids, he pawns Jennifer off on his parents, leaves poor Kate to become a prostitute to provide for her infant son and goes gallivanting around the world. Oh, and years later he stole his son's girlfriend from him too. Bill is a ''douche''.
97	* JerkWithAHeartOFGold: In spite of all that, Bill really does mean well.
98	* KilledOffForReal: Bill was finally killed off off-screen in 2020.
99	* PutOnABus: Had been living in Africa for twenty years, as a conveniently far away place to explain why he seldom returns for visits.
100	* SiblingRivalry: With Mickey the two never fully got along..
101	* YoungestChildWins: Though Mickey and Bill have a younger sister Marie, between the two of them Bill's the youngest. And he stole Mickey's wife, turned out to be the father of his only son, and is the only one of the two still alive.
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104	'''Marie Horton'''
105	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marie_18.jpg]]
106	[[caption-width-right:175: As portrayed by Cheatham.]]
107	->Played by: Maree Cheatham (1965-73, 1994-2010), Kate Woodvile (1977), Lanna Saunders (1979-85).
108
109	The youngest Horton sibling, defined mostly by her [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unlucky love life]]. She starts the show as a biochemistry graduate having recently broken her engament to a wealthy man and engaged to Tony Meritt ─though they would never marry. Two of her most representative early plots are her romance with [[IncestIsRelative her brother Tommy]] (though they didn't know they were siblings by then), and her becoming a nun after several love and life ups and downs. Nowadays she's recurrently mentioned.
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111	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Seriously, nearly every love affair she starts ends up on a dud. Most notable are her engagement to Tony Merrit (who breaks it up once he learns he's mortally ill), and [[LoveTriangle her entanglement with brothers Alex and Haley Marshall]]. No doubt she decided to became a nun!
112	* CommutingOnABus: Like all her siblings, she tended to come and go through Salem. Notably, she spent almost a decade out of the show.
113	* TheDanza: Almost, when portrayed by Cheatham. Their names can be pronunced the same, though they are not equally written.
114	* TheOtherDarrin: An interesting case, since role originator Maree Cheatham left the show on 1973 but returned on 1994 and stayed for almost 20 years, so it could be thought as an inversion of the trope.
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117	'''Julie Olson Williams'''
118	[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/susan_hayes_4.jpg]]
119	[[caption-width-right:205: As portrayed by Seafoth Hayes.]]
120	->Played by: Charla Doherty (1965-67), Catherine Dunn (1967), Catherine Ferrar (1967-68), Susan Seaforth Hayes (1968-84/1990-95/1999-)
121
122	Tom and Alice's eldest grandchild, Addie's eldest daughter, and Salem's original It-Girl. In Salem's ling history, she's grown from a teenage girl to a woman approaching senior citizenship and has even graced the cover of Time Magazine
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124	* TheArtifact: Julie essentially ruled the show in the 1970s and hasn't really had a storyline since then, but is usually a part of the show in some capacity just because she's Julie.
125	* CommutingOnABus: Though she and Doug have technically been on recurring status since 1999, we see them very rarely as they seem to be constantly on a world cruise. They tend to just pop up when there's a holiday, big family event or Hope's got some sort of crisis.
126	* NeverMessWithGranny: Julie may be old but hell hath no fury like Julie mad at you. She still gets into plenty of spats with other characters.
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128	'''Margaret "Maggie" Simmons Horton'''
129	[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rogers_5.jpg]]
130	->Played by: Suzanne Rogers (1973-84/1985-2003/2004-)
131
132	Mickey's wife and recent widow. Began the show as a young naive farm girl and has grown to become the beloved matriarch of Salem following Alice's death.
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134	* TheAlcoholic: Recovering, which allows her to mentor all alcoholics and drug addicts that followed her.
135	* TheArtifact: Played straight, then finally subverted. This was the case for her for over 20 years, until Alice died and she was able to take over the role as the show's matriarch. To the fandom's rejoicing, Maggie now has a huge role on the show for the first time since the early 1980s.
136	* BackFromTheDead: In 2003 Maggie was another victim of the Salem Stalker. In 2004 she was revealed alive on Melaswen.
137	* BigGood: Maggie has been seen as taking this role on from Alice as a matriarchal figure even if she does get into some more trouble than Alice did via her marriage to Victor.
138	* DecemberDecemberRomance: With Victor following Mickey's death.
139	* FarmersDaughter: This served as her back story of how she met Mickey when he turned up with amnesia on her farm.
140	%%%* FieryRedhead
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142	'''Dr. Marlena Evans Brady/Black'''
143	[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marlena.jpeg]]
144	->Played by: Deidre Hall (1976-87, 1991-2009, 2011-)
145
146	Initially introduced as Mickey's psychiatrist, Marlena would become one of the heroines of the show and, conversely, one of the most well-known characters. She has survived a lot of kidnappings, killers and even [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext demonic posessions]]. One of her most remembered stories ([[ReallyGetsAround and partnerhoods]]) would be hers with John Black, with whom she formed a supercouple from the 80's onwards.
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148	* BackFromTheDead: Marlena was supposedly dead multiple times. She was believed dead in a plane crash in 1987 only to return in 1991. In 2004, she was believed dead again after being outted as the Salem Stalker but of course was alive. She was then presumed dead again in 2005 after failing to get off the island in 2005. However in the last case the audience knew she was alive, but the rest of the cast did not.
149	%%%%%%%%* EvilTwin: Samantha (not to be confused with Hattie Adams, who also looks exactly like her but is not actually her twin).
150	* DemonicPossession: In a ''very'' well remembered plot of 1992, she gets drugged by BigBad Stefano Di Mera and this, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext somehow]], makes her susceptible to the Devil entering her body and starting wrecking havoc on Salem. At the time this was seen as a ridiculous plot development, but it's been somewhat VindicatedByHistory.
151	** The Devil would give her a second round on 2021.
152	* DudeMagnet: And how. She's been mostly associated with John Black, but that hasn't stopped several men from Salem to try to seduce her. She initially started a relationship with Roman Brady, but was pursued for most of the 80's by Stefano Di Mera, while she was in a commited relationship with John.
153	%%%%%* LargeHam
154	* SerialKiller: Marlena was the Salem Stalker though she was [[spoiler: drugged]] by Tony Dimera to be so. The killer was really [[spoiler: Andre]].
155	* TheShrink: Salem's resident shrink who is most often called in to do such roles when the plot demands.
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder:1980-84]]
159	'''Roman Augustus Brady'''
160	->Played by: Wayne Northrop (1981-84/1991-94), Josh Taylor (1997-2004/2005-)
161
162	The first member of the Brady clan that would essentially take over the show in the 1980s, a hard-nose no-nonsense police officer. Most famous for his love story with Marlena in the early '80s, basically his entire identity would eventually be stolen by John Black.
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164	%%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: Oh, so many times - 1991, 1997, 2004, 2005.
165	%%%%%%* ByTheBookCop:
166	%%%%%%* CowboyCop:
167	%%%%%%%* DemotedToExtra
168	* FamilyBusiness: The Salem Police Department is often derided as the Brady Police Department, because Bradys make up more than half of it.
169	* OutOfFocus: Roman hasn't been the main focus of storylines for a long time. For a while he was basically just the extra cop until settling into his current role of guy who runs the Brady Pub.
170	* TheProtagonist: In the 1980s. By the 1990s, this had been taken by his little brother Bo and doppelganger John.
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172	'''Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady'''
173	->Played by: Peter Reckell (1983-87/1990-92/1995-), Robert Kelker-Kelly (1992-95)
174
175	Roman's younger brother, Bo showed up as a leather-wearing no good hoodlum who was always getting in trouble but had a [[JerkWithaHeartofGold heart of gold]]. He eventually became a police officer, husband and father and over the years, Bo has grown to become the de-facto main male character of Days of our Lives.
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177	* TheBusCameBack: Bo was written off as just having kind of disappeared from taking his mother for treatment. He returned with it having been revealed he had been stuck in captivity all that time by men working for Deimos Kiriakis who was taking on the odd job for Yo Ling.
178	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Often accused of having this by the women in his life... particularly if he's saving other women.
179	%%%%%%%%%%* CowboyCop
180	* FamilyBusiness: The Salem Police Department contained a lot of Bradys in it that Bo seemed to be an example even if the Brady Pub is the real family business..
181	%%%%%%%%* FormerTeenRebel
182	%%%%%%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With John.
183	* HotBlooded: Bo always had a temper and was quick to rush in to getting into a fight.
184	* KilledOffForReal: Bo's last return to settle his storyline ended with Bo learning he had a brain tumor that took him down.
185	%%%%%* OppositesAttract: With his "Fancy Face" Hope.
186	* TheProtagonist: Has essentially been the male main character since the early 1980s and is almost always the one called upon to save the day.
187	%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "He's had tons over the years." is not context.
188	%%%%%%%* ShirtlessScene:
189	* TroubledbutCute: In the 1980s, he made a lot of trouble. . He's not really troubled anymore, but still cute.
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191	'''Hope Alice Williams Brady'''
192	->Played by: Various Child Actresses (1974-83), Kristian Alfonso (1983-87/1990/1994-)
193
194	The daughter of Doug Williams and Addie Horton. A spoiled princess turned police officer. One of ''Days''' biggest heroines.
195
196	%%* ActionGirl
197	* BackFromTheDead: In 1994 Hope had been presumed dead when Ernesto Toscano blew up a cave she was in. She returned back with one of her SplitPersonality alters.
198	* OppositesAttract: With bad boy from the wrong side of the track, Bo.
199	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Basically, every guy she's been paired with who isn't Bo has turned out to be evil.
200	* SplitPersonality: Two examples
201	** In the 1990s as Art-thief and [=DiMera=] pawn, Princess Gina. This persona returned in 2019.
202	** In 2010 as "Nighttime Hope" who attacks and mugs powerful men.
203	%%* TheSquadette
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205	'''Stefano [=DiMera=]'''
206	->Played by: Joseph Mascolo (1982-85, 1988, 1993-2001, 2007-08, 2008-)
207
208	Known as "The Phoenix", Stefano is the arch-villain of ''Days'' and patriarch of the [=DiMeras=], an Italian mafia family with a long-standing vendetta against the Bradys.
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210	* ArchEnemy: To almost all of Salem, but particularly Shawn Brady Sr., John Black, Roman Brady, Bo Brady, and Marlena Evans.
211	* BackFromTheDead: Over ten times. His nickname is "The Phoenix" for this very reason.
212	* BigBad: Served as this for the show where nearly every bad thing imaginable fell back to the ChessMaster himself Stefano Dimera.
213	* CartoonishSupervillainy: Often accused of this in the 1990s. For God's sake, the man had a magician henchman who could turn into a raven, a German mad scientist with his own domed island laboratory, and he actually ''called his plans "evil plans."''. Even people who were sick of the Brady drama couldn't help but be entertained by a villain this absurd.
214	%% * ChronicVillainy
215	* TheChessmaster: Both literally (he's fond of and constantly plays chess) and figuratively (a manipulator events, uses other people as pawns...in fact, his nickname for half-brother/former-henchman-turned-hero John Black is "Pawn").
216	%% * DiabolicalMastermind
217	* FamilyBusiness: [=DiMera=] Enterprises, and the continuation of the vendetta against the Brady family.
218	* HijackedByGanon: Evil schemes that were originally the machination of someone else (Ernesto Toscano, Lawrence Alamain, etc.) often turn out to somehow really have been done by Stefano.
219	%%%%%%* KarmaHoudini
220	%%%%%%%%%* LargeHam
221	%%%%%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
222	%%%%%%%%* SharpDressedMan: In the 1990s he was a bit more casual, often going with a black leather jacket, but for the most part he's rarely seen out of his suit.
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224	'''Abraham Washington "Abe" Carver'''
225	->Played by: James Reynolds (1981-90, 1991-2003, 2004-)
226
227	The longest-running African-American character on television, Abe's initial role on the series was as Roman's token black best friend and partner, but he eventually grew into Commander and then Commissioner of the Salem Police Force, making him the de-facto leader of the good guys. Though he's married to Stefano [=DiMera=]'s daughter, Abe is perhaps one of the most honorable and decent characters in the series. He recently resigned as Commissioner of the Police Force and successfully ran for Mayor of Salem, a position he holds today.
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229	* BackFromtheDead: Abe was the first victim of the Salem Stalker in 2003 and was revealed to be alive on Melaswen in 2004.
230	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Was the first casualty of the Salem Serial Killer in 2003. Though it turned out none of those characters actually died at all, and two of the ten victims (Andre and Alice) have since died for real, prior to the still-living Abe.
231	* BlindBlackGuy: Intermittently from 2004 to 2006. Eventually Abe received the eyes of Bo's dead son Zack, which has cured him.
232	* DaChief: Before he became the Mayor, Abe was usually the by-the-book boss trying to be.
233	* DemotedToExtra: Averted in recent years. Once he became Mayor he was put into the forefront of a lot more storylines after over a decade of being a recurring character.
234	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Though a lot of good characters do this, Abe is often cited as one of the moral centers of ''Days''.
235	%%%%* Out of Focus:
236	* TokenMinority: Abe and his wife Lexie have often been accused of being this for ''Days''.
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder:1985-89]]
240	'''Jennifer Rose Horton Deveraux'''
241	->Played by: Melissa Reeves (1985-95/2000-06/2010-), Stephanie Cameron (1995-98)
242
243	The daughter of Bill and Laura Horton, and one of ''Days''' biggest heroines.
244
245	%%%* IntrepidReporter
246	%%%%%%* OppositesAttract: With shady anti-hero Jack Deveraux.
247	%%%%* MoralityPet: For Jack
248	* ParentalAbandonment: Though both her parents are alive, her mother was in an institution for most of her childhood while her father was usually off in third-world countries providing medical aid.
249	%%%%* PluckyGirl
250	* RapeasDrama: Her rape by Lawrence Alamain caused both drama for her, and for her ex-rapist love interest, Jack.
251	%%%%* WideEyedIdealist
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253	'''John Black'''
254	->Played by: Drake Hogestyn (1986-2007, 2008-09, 2011-)
255
256	Also known as Ryan [=DiMera=], Forrest Alamain, Roman Brady, and the Pawn. John's backstory has been constantly reinvented. John showed up in Salem with amnesia and was believed by everyone for years (for some reason that made sense at the time) to be the presumed dead Roman Brady with plastic surgery. When the real Roman was discovered alive, it was accepted that John was really someone else...and it took them like forever to figure out who. The current accepted story is that he's Stefano's younger-half brother, the product of an affair between Santo [=DiMera=] and Colleen Brady, which began the Brady/[=DiMera=] rivalry.
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258	%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "Days has never had such a flamboyant example." is not context.
259	%%%%%%* ActionHero:
260	* CatchPhrase: "That's a fact!"
261	%%%%%%* ChronicHeroSyndrome
262	* {{Expy}}: Even the show has admitted, he's a fairly blatant rip-off of Jason Bourne.
263	%%%%%%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
264	%%%%%%%% "That's a fact!" It may be a fact but we need context. Facts should have evidence
265	* LargeHam: His facial expressions alone are hammy.
266	%%%%* MultipleChoicePast:
267	%%%%* MysteriousPast
268	%%%%%* ShirtlessScene
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270	'''Steven Earl "Patch" Johnson'''
271	->Played by: Stephen Nichols (1985-90, 2006-09)
272
273	Best friend/former rival of Bo Brady's. A badass leather-jacket wearing hooligan with one eye (knifed out by Bo). Though he was a villain at first, he became a good guy fairly early on and even became the good counterpart to his darker younger brother. He controversially returned to life sixteen years after being killed off.
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275	%%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 2006.
276	* BrokenBase: Since his run in the 2000s was generally uneventful, many fans think it diminished the iconic nature of the character to have negated his death, taking him from a 1980s icon unsullied by poorer writing of recent decades to a far more forgettable character. Others were just so happy to have him back, they didn't care.
277	* {{Expy}}: Though this one hasn't been admitted, he'd appear to be a blatant rip-off Snake Plissken from ''Escape from New York''. Hell, some consider him just a blonde Bo Brady with an eyepatch. His rise to a main hero pretty much coincided with Bo's departure.
278	%%%%%%%%%* EyepatchOfPower
279	* ParentalAbandonment: When he was a boy, his mom put him and his infant brother Billy in an orphanage to protect them from their abusive father. Because Billy was just a baby he was adopted fairly quickly by a wealthy politician, the older Steve (who was midway through his childhood) wasn't so lucky. Steve resented his family because of it.
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281	'''Jack Harcourt Deveraux'''
282	->Played by: Joseph Adams (1987), James Acheson (1987), Matthew Ashford (1987-93/2001-03/2004-06/2007/2011-), Mark Valley (1994-97), Steve Wilder (1997-98)
283
284	Born Billy Johnson, Jack is the long-lost younger brother of Steve Johnson, adopted by the wealthy Harper Deveraux and raised in wealth and extravagance, turned him into an arrogant manipulative prick. Though he was a despised villain in his earlier years, he ultimately became one of Days' most popular heroes.
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286	%%%%* TheAtoner
287	%%%%* BackFromTheDead: In 2004, '05, ''and'' '06. Yeah.
288	%%%%%%* TheCharmer
289	%%%%%%%%* CloudCuckooLander:
290	%%%%%%% "sometimes written as this" is an incomplete sentence and a ZCE.
291	%%%%%%%%%* ConMan:
292	%%%%%* DeadpanSnarker
293	%%%* IntrepidReporter
294	%%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
295	%%%%* LoveRedeems
296	%%%%* LovableRogue
297	%%%%%* OppositesAttract: With good girl Jennifer.
298	%%%%%* ParentalAbandonment
299	%%%%* RapeAsDrama: One of his first acts on the show was to rape Kayla Johnson.
300	%%%%%%* ReformedButRejected:
301	%%%%%%%%%% "Until he didn't" doesn't say anything beyond implying that he losses money at some point.
302	%%%%%%%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
303	* SharpDressedMan: In his twenties he never wore anything but a suit, but he grew more casual in his thirties and forties.
304	%%%%%%%%* TroubledButCute
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306	'''Victor Kiriakis'''
307	->Played by: Creator/JohnAniston (1985-97, 1998-2004, 2004-22)
308
309	Greek business tycoon and occasional crimelord, Victor is the biological father of Bo Brady. Though originally just a Greek version of Stefano, the character eventually became slightly redeemed in his old age to be less of a villain and more just a jerk.
310
311	%%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive
312	* DeadpanSnarker: While Victor always specialized in stinging remarks, this became his main trait in his later years.
313	-->'''Victor''': (''shouting back in the house after he sees Eve standing on his front porch'') Anybody order a hooker?
314	%%%%* {{Expy}}: When Stefano left the show, Victor came on as basically just a Greek version of him.
315	%%%%* GrumpyOldMan
316	%%%%%* OppositesAttract: Both with Caroline Brady and Maggie Horton.
317	* SharpDressedMan: He was almost never seen in anything less than an impeccably-tailored suit.
318	%%%%%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
319	[[/folder]]
320
321	[[folder:1990-94]]
322	'''Carly Manning'''
323	->Played by: Crystal Chappell (1990-93, 2009-11)
324	----
325	'''Vivian Alamain'''
326	->Played by: Louise Sorel (1992-2000, 2009-11)
327	----
328	'''Austin Reed'''
329	->Played by: Patrick Muldoon (1992-95/2011-), Austin Peck (1995-2002/2005-06)
330	----
331	'''Billie Reed'''
332	->Played by: Lisa Rinna (1992-95/2002-03), Creator/KristaAllen (1996-99), Julie Pinson (2004-08)
333	----
334	'''Caroline Anna "Carrie" Brady Reed'''
335	->Played by: Creator/AndreaBarber (1982-86), Christie Clark (1986-91/1992-99/2005-06), Tracy Middendorf (1992)
336	----
337	'''Samantha Gene "Sami" Brady'''
338	->Played by: Various Child Actresses (1984-92), Alison Sweeney (1993-)
339	----
340	'''Lucas Desmond Horton'''
341	->Played by: Bryan Dattilo (1993-2001, 2002-11)
342	----
343	'''Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Roberts [=DiMera=]'''
344	->Played by: Deborah Adair (1993-95), Lauren Koslow (1996-)
345	----
346	'''Kristen Blake'''
347	->Played by: Eileen Davidson (1993-98)
348	[[/folder]]
349
350	[[folder:1995-99]]
351	'''Eric Brady'''
352	->Played by: Various Child Actors (1984-92), Creator/JensenAckles (1997-2000)
353	----
354	'''Nicole Walker [=DiMera=]'''
355	->Played by: Arianne Zucker (1998-2006, 2008-)
356	----
357	'''Greta Von Amburg'''
358	->Played by: Julianne Morris (1998-2002)
359	----
360	'''Belle Black Brady'''
361	->Played by: Various Child Actresses (1993-99), Kirsten Storms (1999-2004), Charity Rahmer (2004), Martha Madison (2004-08)
362	----
363	'''Shawn-Douglas Brady'''
364	->Played by: Various Child Actors (1987/1990-99), Jason Cook (1999-2006), Brandon Beemer (2006-08)
365	[[/folder]]
366
367	[[folder:2000-04]]
368	'''Philip Robert Kiriakis'''
369	->Played by: Various Child Actors (1995-99), Brandon Tyler (1999), Jay Kenneth Johnson (1999-2002/2007-11), Kyle Brandt (2003-06)
370
371	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Had one after suffering injuries in the war to resemble his original actor (Johnson) again after Brandt left the role.
372	----
373	'''Chloe Lane'''
374	->Played by: Nadia Bjorlin (1999-2003, 2004-05, 2007-11)
375	----
376	'''Brady Victor Black'''
377	->Played by: Various Child Actors (1992-99), Kyle Lowder (2000-05), Eric Martsolf (2008-)
378	[[/folder]]
379
380	[[folder:2005-09]]
381	'''Chelsea Brady'''
382	->Played by: Mandy Musgrave (2004-05), Rachel Melvin (2005-09)
383	----
384	'''Elvis Aron "E.J." [=DiMera=]'''
385	->Played by: Various Child Actors (1997-98), James Scott (2006-)
386
387	* BackFromTheDead: Was shot by accident during a confrontation with Clyde Weston. He was later revealed to have been given Rolf's serum and had been alive in the Nashville warehouse all along.
388	* EvilBrit: He played up this trope during his most evil antics.
389	----
390	'''William Robert "Will" Horton'''
391	->Played by: Shawn & Taylor Carpenter (1995-2002), Darian Weiss (2002-03), Christopher Gerse (2003-07), Dylan Patton (2009-10), Chandler Massey (2010-)
392	[[/folder]]

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