Line #75 Characters/DollhouseRossum


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6	!The Rossum Corporation
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8	[[foldercontrol]]
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10	!Founders
11	[-Note that the other Rossum co-founder is on a different page for spoilery reasons.-]
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13	[[folder:Clyde Randolph]]
14	!!Clyde Randolph
15	!!!'''Played By:''' Adam Godley
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17	The inventor of the imprinting process and co-founder of Rossum. OriginalRecipe Clyde was betrayed by his business partner and became the attic's first occupant-victim. An imprint of him, modified to be unambitious and obedient, now runs things at Rossum.
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19	* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Arcane." Lampshaded: "I thought it sounded badass."
20	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He's killed off-screen in the Attic.]]
21	* FateWorseThanDeath: What he considers the Attic to be, and let's face it, he's right.
22	* KnightTemplar: In the Attic, original Clyde is killing people (a) to put them out of their misery, and (b) to help take down the computer mainframe their brains comprise.
23	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His realization after being placed in the Attic.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	!Leadership
27
28	[[folder:Clive Ambrose]]
29	!!Clive Ambrose
30	!!!'''Played By:''' Philip Casnoff, Creator/EnverGjokaj & Nate Dushku
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32	->''"You won't give up this body. That's fine, I won't resist. Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Dollhouses around the country."''
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34	Face of the Rossum Corporation.
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36	* BodySurf: As of "Epitaph One," he's in at least eleven separate human bodies. Later he joins Harding in constantly jumping from body to body to maintain his power over the ruined world of "Epitaph Two: Return."
37	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive
38	* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a way. He disapproves of Harding destroying his 'bodysuits' through excess.
39	%%* {{Jerkass}}
40	%%* PragmaticVillainy
41	%%* SmugSnake
42	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His original body was allergic to shellfish, so after that's no longer a concern, he develops a real sweet tooth for them.
43	[[/folder]]
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45	[[folder:Matthew Harding]]
46	!!Matthew Harding
47	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harding_matthew_8017.jpg]]
48	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while."'']]
49	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KeithCarradine & Noah Harpster
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51	Adelle's direct superior in the Dollhouse.
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53	* BigBad: Even though Clyde and [[spoiler: Boyd]] are the true heads of the corporation, Harding is always the more immediate and driving threat throughout the series.
54	* BodySurf: As of "Epitaph Two: The Return", he and Clive Ambrose have apparently been switching bodies repeatedly.
55	* CigarChomper: See the picture.
56	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive
57	%%* DeadpanSnarker
58	%%* DirtyOldMan
59	* FatBastard: In the future.
60	%%* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
61	* TheHedonist: After the apocalypse, he throws himself into this role. He stuffs his face and quickly 'ruins' bodies. Aside from that, he's also even more of a chain smoker than usual, and the attractive woman he's accompanied by suggests that he's also engaging in HookersAndBlow.
62	* JabbaTableManners In the dystopian future, Harding completely lets his appetites run amok once he gains the ability to shed old bodies and inject his mind into new ones. He even jokes about "blowing up" his latest "suit" (to the tune of 300 pounds or so) in "Epitaph Two: Return."
63	* VillainousGlutton: In the future, since he can get away with overeating when he has another body-suit waiting for him.
64	%%* SharpDressedMan
65	%%* SmugSnake
66	[[/folder]]
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68	[[folder:Nolan Kinnard]]
69	!!Nolan Kinnard
70	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/VincentVentresca
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72	Highly skilled neuro-chemist working for the Rossum Corporation. Knew Priya before she became a doll; when she refused his advances, he drugged her to make her appear psychotic and manipulated the Dollhouse into taking her on as a "humanitarian" case.
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74	* DefiantToTheEnd: Refuses to apologize or back down, even when his death is imminent.
75	* EvilGenius: A brilliant doctor and chemist, but totally amoral, willing to ruin a woman's life just because she bruised his ego.
76	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He must not have been paying attention to that "First, do no harm" part of the Hippocratic Oath.
77	* NotGoodWithRejection: Rejected by a girl you like? Better destroy her entire life, drug her to the point of appearing insane, erase her entire personality and use her as a sex toy to rape and brutalize.
78	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[VillainProtagonist Adelle and Topher]] are both horrified by his actions. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Adelle goes so far as to look the other way when Topher temporarily uploads Priya and Anthony into their own bodies so they can kill Kinnard and dispose of his body.]]
79	%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
80	* SmugSnake: When Priya asks why he had her drugged and sent to the Dollhouse, he replies "You said no to me. No one says no to me."
81	* StalkerWithACrush: Engineered Priya's torment in the Dollhouse simply because she refused his sexual advances.
82	* TemptingFate: Taunts Priya that she won't kill him. [[spoiler:Turns out he's wrong.]]
83	* {{Yandere}}: For Sierra.
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	!Dollhouse Staff
87
88	[[folder:Laurence Dominic]]
89	!!Laurence Dominic
90	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ReedDiamond
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92	->''"It's easy to be attached to your assigned active. In fact it's necessary, but don't think of them as children; think of them as pets. When your child starts talking for the first time, you feel proud. When your dog does, you freak the hell out."''
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94	The Dollhouse's original head of security and [=DeWitt=]'s number two. He takes his job very seriously but is contemptuous of the dolls themselves. Saves a special dislike for Echo, whose autonomy he considers a security risk. [[spoiler:Revealed to be TheMole for the NSA, wiped and put in The Attic.]]
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96	* DeadpanSnarker: 90 percent of his dialogue post Spy In The House of Love counts as this.
97	%%* DevilInPlainSight
98	%%* FateWorseThanDeath
99	* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Dang that pesky lack of SympatheticPOV.]]
100	* HeelFaceTurn: His motivations don't really change between the first season and the second, but the torture and wet works aspects of his personality are downplayed and he stops trying to kill Echo, making him more of a straight-up heroic character.
101	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Shoots eight rounds at his target from point-blank range and doesn't hit her once.
102	* {{Jerkass}}: An utterly unpleasant man, even after his HeelFaceTurn.
103	%%* KnightTemplar
104	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Absolutely ''loathes'' Adelle and would literally be anywhere else in the world than work with her. Even after the world goes to shit, he makes his distaste for her known.
105	* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Conquers his nightmares to become self-aware within the attic, sets himself to hunt down the attic's resident serial killer, remains behind when the others escape to [[Film/TheMatrix free the minds]] of the attic's prisoners, manages to kill and revive himself to escape the attic.]]
106	%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Dr. Claire Saunders]]
110	!!Dr. Claire Saunders
111	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saunders_claire_3778.jpg]]
112	[[caption-width-right:350:''"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?"'']]
113	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AmyAcker
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115	Chief medical officer at the Dollhouse, she was attacked by Alpha during his composite event and left with bad facial scarring. She is the Dollhouse employee with the most concern for the emotional well-being of the actives. [[spoiler:Revealed to be Whiskey, a doll, implanted with a personality based partially off the previous (male) Dr. Saunders, who was killed by Alpha.]]
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117	* BrokenBird: As of her discovery that [[spoiler:she's a former doll]].
118	%%* ButtMonkey
119	%%* ChewToy
120	%%* CorruptTheCutie
121	* DeadpanSnarker: Half of her dialogue is snark aimed at Topher's expense.
122	%%* FaceHeelTurn
123	%%* FallenHero
124	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:In 1x08, Caroline demands the release of all the dolls. Guess who's quite casually at the front of the crowd.]]
125	** [[spoiler:In another episode, Mr Dominic seems to ask for a strong drink while panicking. Nope, he's just calling "Saunders" under the name he associated her with most.]]
126	* HospitalHottie: Despite the facial scarring.
127	* {{Jerkass}}: She hides it under a veil of care and kindness, but she deeply resents nearly everything about her life and passive-aggressively takes it out on those around here, especially Topher. It culminates with her actively psychologically abusing him in Season 2.
128	%%* LockedOutOfTheLoop
129	%%* TheMedic
130	* TheMole: [[spoiler:For Boyd.]]
131	* MomentKiller: [[spoiler:''Literally''. Poor Bennett...]]
132	%%* ReplacementGoldfish
133	%%* SanitySlippage
134	* ScarsAreForever: Averted in "Epitaph One." Her face has been healed.
135	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: She despises Topher. She believes this is a result of [[spoiler:Topher's programming, but he reveals she very much hates him of her own free will.]]
136	* {{Troll}}: And not at all played for laughs. She continually plays one prank after another on Topher, each one more cruel than the last in an effort to torture him.
137	%%* TomatoInTheMirror
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Ivy]]
141	!!Ivy
142	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LizaLapira
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144	-> ''"My talents go beyond asking if he wants chocolate chip or oatmeal."''
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146	Topher's assistant in the imprint room. She thinks she's here to use her knowledge and technical skills to work the cutting-edge imprinting technology. Topher thinks she is here to bring him snacks.
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148	%%* GirlishPigtails
149	* MesACrowd: In the comic series, as shown by [[http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/18-758 this cover]].
150	* TheIgor: Played with in that even though she's Topher's assistant, she's very attractive and far from subservient.
151	* OnlySaneMan: Easily the most stable programmer we meet.
152	* PunchClockVillain: To the point where you forget she's moaning about not being allowed to Strip people of different identities and create {{Sex Slave}}s.
153	%%* ScrewYourself
154	* ShipTease: Between her and Topher.
155	%%* YouGetMeCoffee
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder:Dr. Saunders]]
159	!!Dr. Saunders
160	!!!'''Played By:''' Joe Howard
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162	%%* NiceGuy
163	%%* PosthumousCharacter
164	[[/folder]]
165
166	[[folder:Blevins]]
167	!!Blevins
168	!!!'''Played By:''' Marco Sanchez
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170	%%* EyeScream
171	%%* TheHandler
172	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He thought Whiskey was a bad influence on Alpha.
173	%%* PosthumousCharacter
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Sophie Alvarez]]
177	!!Sophie Alvarez
178	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AngelDesai
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180	* TheHandler: She was in charge of the Active known as Whiskey [[spoiler: before she was imprinted with the Dr. Saunders personality.]]
181	[[/folder]]
182
183	[[folder:Joe Hearn]]
184	!!Joe Hearn
185	!!!'''Played By:''' Kevin Kilner
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187	%%* TheHandler
188	%%* {{Jerkass}}
189	[[/folder]]
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191	[[folder:Selena Ramirez]]
192	!!Selena Ramirez
193	!!!'''Played By:''' Valerie Cruz
194	[[/folder]]
195
196	[[folder:Stewart Lipman]]
197	!!Stewart Lipman
198	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RayWise
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200	* GroinAttack: Courtesy of Adelle.
201	* {{Jerkass}}: He's dismissive and condescending to Adelle.
202	* {{Slimeball}}: He shifts fully into this mode when Adelle briefly flirts with him.
203	[[/folder]]
204
205	[[folder:Bennett Halverson]]
206	!!Bennett Halverson
207	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/halverson_bennet_7019.jpg]]
208	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now's not the time for 'why.' I like this void. This evil, simple world. Just pain. Over and over again. No reason, no end, no in-between. You can't even pass out. We shut down everything that stands between you and blinding, searing pain."'']]
209	!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SummerGlau
210
211	Topher's counterpart at the Dollhouse located in Washington, D.C. A former friend of Caroline, who was left to die by her in the past[[note]]okay, not really; Caroline had Bennett's best interests in mind--it's complicated[[/note]], which has made her bitter - understandable since Caroline's abandonment left Bennett with a paralyzed left arm. Extremely shy and awkward, and has a ''huge'' geek-crush on Topher.
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213	* AxCrazy: Just a bit.
214	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How she's killed by Saunders.]]
215	* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has her ... quirks, but it's obvious everyone puts up with her because of her genius.
216	* ColdBloodedTorture: Subjects Echo to this, as revenge for leaving her to die.
217	* FakeMemories: Well, kind of. The memory of the night Caroline left her behind in the Rossum lab isn't ''entirely'' fake, but it is distorted by Bennet's unstable mind. [[spoiler: Caroline ''did'' leave her behind, but she pinned her Rossum Corp badge on her and told her to tell security that she was working late when Caroline broke in, sparing her from being outed as an accomplice. When Caroline told Bennett that only one of them had to get caught, she was referring to ''herself.'']]
218	%%* HeelFaceDoorSlam
219	* HotLibrarian: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Topher.
220	%%* MadScientist
221	%%* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
222	* PetTheDog: Advising her assistant not to question Rossum's motives, and attempts to comfort Madeline Costly.
223	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Oh so averted. When Dr. Saunders kills her, the exit wound splatters both Topher (who was standing behind her) and a computer screen across the room.
224	* RedRightHand: Or, in this case, Black Left Hand.
225	* {{Revenge}}: On Caroline.
226	%%* ShrinkingViolet
227	* SlapSlapKiss: With Topher, though kind of delayed. He punched her, she returned the favor with a ''hell'' of a right hook, and cue the kissing.
228	%%* TortureTechnician
229	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / DollhouseRossum