| 1 | Character page for the Series/KillingEve series. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | '''Beware of spoilers!''' |
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| 5 | [[index]] |
| 6 | * [[Characters/KillingEveBritishIntelligence British Intelligence]] |
| 7 | * [[Characters/KillingEveTheTwelve The Twelve]] |
| 8 | [[/index]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ! Leads |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [[folder: Eve Polastri]] |
| 15 | !! Eve Polastri |
| 16 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/SandraOh |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eve_4.jpg]] |
| 19 | |
| 20 | -->''"Frankly, I don't give a shit anymore. She is outsmarting the smartest of us, and for that, she deserves to do or kill whoever the hell she wants. I mean, if she's not killing me, then, frankly, it's not my job to care anymore."'' |
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| 22 | One of series' two co-leads. Eve is a bored, desk-bound [=MI5=] security services officer with a fascination with female assassins. |
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| 24 | * AmbiguouslyBi[=/=] IfItsYouItsOkay: Bill suggests Eve is bi because of how she recalls Villanelle, despite not showing any real categorical inclination toward women, although she does give Jess a foot massage in the office. [[spoiler:By the end of Season 1, nearly everyone is assuming Eve is crushing on Villanelle. By the end of Season 2, she seems pretty honest about it with herself.]] |
| 25 | * BadassBoast: To Villanelle, [[spoiler:while at knifepoint]]: "I am gonna find the thing you care about... and I am gonna kill it." It loses a lot of its weight, however, when her husband comes home seconds later and Eve immediately starts sobbing and begging her not to do anything. |
| 26 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eve wanted a little excitement in her life and her job and she got both after being recruited into Carolyn's task force to chase down a psychopathic killer. Now [[spoiler: her friend is dead]] and she's being stalked by said killer, [[NightmareFuel who knows where Eve lives]]. |
| 27 | * BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Bill’s death]] is a sensitive topic for Eve to the extent that she attempted to stab Villanelle during dinner when she treated it with levity, and threatening someone that she’ll throw them out the window if they made a mockery of his death by making a joke. |
| 28 | * BileFascination: Eve has this for female assassins and serial killers, even to the point where she actually gave how she might murder her husband some serious thought. |
| 29 | -->'''Eve:''' I'd paralyze you with saxitoxin and suffocate you in your sleep, chop you into the smallest bits I can manage, boil you down, put you in a blender, then take you to work in a flask and flush you down a restaurant toilet. |
| 30 | * ButNotTooBi: Eve becomes obsessed with Villanelle, and Bill suggests that she is physically attracted to her, which is hardly subtle. However, Eve never shows attraction to any other women (except for a comment about [[Series/DoctorWho Rose Tyler]]). |
| 31 | * ButNotTooForeign: She speaks with an American accent and was raised in Connecticut, but it is stated that she was born in England. |
| 32 | * CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: [[spoiler:She loves Villanelle, but is afraid of what being around her brings out in herself. Ultimately, though, she can't give her up.]] |
| 33 | * ConsistentClothingStyle: Eve always wears plain, dark, and battered clothes: black trousers, a button-up shirt at work (a T-shirt at home), sometimes with a blazer, and always with her waterproof mac on top. This underlines when she wears the dress Villanelle bought for her or tries to channel Villanelle by wearing more feminine clothes (which never lasts), and to contrast her with Villanelle's UnlimitedWardrobe. |
| 34 | * EnemyEatsYourLunch: In "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms," Villanelle invades Eve's home just to have dinner with her. |
| 35 | * FairCop: Subverted. [[HollywoodHomely Not that Sandra Oh is in any way unattractive]], but Eve is not portrayed as a sexpot. Doesn't seem to stop her from catching Villanelle's eye, though. |
| 36 | * HappyEndingOverride: Season 2 is largely about Eve getting so swept up in the romance and excitement of her [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Villanelle]] that she's blindsided by consequences of her actions that ought to have been obvious, from [[spoiler: her husband choosing to leave her rather than thinking it's cool that an assassin is helping them spice up their marriage]] to [[spoiler: Villanelle shooting her in the back when she rejects her.]] |
| 37 | * HasAType: Blonde women apparently, as she is obsessed with Villanelle and finds Rose Tyler from Doctor Who to be adorable. |
| 38 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: While Eve is bored and unfulfilled at the beginning of the series, she seems genuinely surprised when she realizes how violent and alienated she's become. |
| 39 | * HollywoodHomely: The attractive 40-plus-year-old Sandra Oh plays Eve, who according to the book, is a frumpy, supposedly semi-attractive 40-plus-year-old woman with a fairly bad taste in clothing. This may be a case of AdaptationalAttractiveness to be fair. |
| 40 | * IgnoredExpert: Eve was convinced that the string of unattributed murders was the work of a single female assassin. She is correct, but with the exception of Carolyn nobody believed her, and accused Eve of merely adding a little spice to an otherwise boring job. |
| 41 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Several times, notably when she loses Villanelle in "The Hungry Caterpillar." |
| 42 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: With Villanelle's, although not as overly as Aaron Peele: she describes a lot of Villanelle's murders as beautiful and intelligent, which Villanelle ''loves''. |
| 43 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: She uses a toilet brush to try and defend herself from Villanelle. Suffice to say Villanelle was a little nonplussed as to why, and with Aaron Peele's letter opener in the Season 2 finale. |
| 44 | * ItsPersonal: Despite her fascination with assassins it becomes this [[spoiler:after Villanelle murdered her friend]]. |
| 45 | * JumpedAtTheCall: When Carolyn invites her to head up a task force dedicated to hunting Villanelle, her response is, essentially, "Hell yes!" |
| 46 | * KickTheDog: In Season 2 onwards, she gets more and more of these. |
| 47 | ** Telling Kenny bluntly to leave it when he reminds her of Bill and warns her not to take the job. |
| 48 | ** Leaving Hugo behind after he gets shot, as he begs her not to, to find Villanelle instead. |
| 49 | * NaiveNewcomer: Although she did work in intelligence, she has never done anything remotely as dangerous or high-stakes as the Villanelle case. |
| 50 | * NightmareFetishist: With Villanelle, she is completely obsessed and more than a little infatuated with her danger and violence. |
| 51 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Sandra Oh doesn't use a British accent despite playing an [=MI5=] agent, which is explained InUniverse by her character being a British citizen raised in North America. |
| 52 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Villanelle says this but whether it's fully true remains to be fully seen. |
| 53 | -->'''Villanelle:''' Like us, you mean. |
| 54 | * OhCrap: Twice in "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms," the first during a terrifying close call with Villanelle, and again when Villanelle invades her home while she was alone. |
| 55 | * ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The PIN to unlock her phone is 1-2-3-4. |
| 56 | * PlotArmour: [[spoiler:Villanelle shoots in ruins and, being a trained assassin, you'd think she'd have killed her given that she deliberately intended to. But nope, Eve survives.]] |
| 57 | * PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler: Eve manages to avoid being killed by a sniper thanks to Villanelle saving her life]]. |
| 58 | * ProperlyParanoid: She's always right about Villanelle's ManipulativeBitch tendencies, no matter how spurious it seems. |
| 59 | * RaceLift: The books' Eve is a white Englishwoman. The TV Eve is British Korean, and played by Korean-Canadian Creator/SandraOh. |
| 60 | * ReplacementGoldfish: She replaces Anna for Villanelle. Both are older women with long dark curly hair who show Villanelle a ''lot'' of attention. |
| 61 | * SheCleansUpNicely: When she decides to try on one of the dresses Villanelle sent her. |
| 62 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: She comes across this way during parts of Season 2. |
| 63 | * ThrillSeeker: Eve longs for a thrill, but when she gets it, she finds out she can't quite deal with it as she hoped. |
| 64 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 2, for some understandable and less understandable reasons. She struggles with the knowledge that she stabbed Villanelle, but she also aggressively pushes away Niko and Kenny in her desperate pursuit of her, even going so far as to be cruel to both when they won't help her. |
| 65 | * WorthyOpponent: She and Villanelle are this to each other, even if Villanelle is usually a step ahead. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder: Villanelle]] |
| 69 | !! Villanelle[=/=][[spoiler:Oksana Astankova]] |
| 70 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JodieComer |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/villanelle.jpg]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | -->''"Leave her alone. She's a parasite, Eve. She gets into your brain, she eats you up to make space for herself... burrowing in and creeping around... You still have something worth having - don't let her take it... You think she loves you? Then make her hate you. Hate is something she understands. It's manageable. Look what happens to the people she loves. She love you to death — same as Anna, Nadia, and look at me..."'' |
| 75 | --->-- '''Konstantin Vasiliev''' |
| 76 | |
| 77 | The series' other protagonist. Villanelle is a talented killer-for-hire who clings to the luxuries her violent profession affords to her. |
| 78 | ---- |
| 79 | |
| 80 | * AbusiveOffspring: Villanelle's mother, Tatiana, claims she was one of these, saying that she and Villanelle's now-dead father were so terrified of Villanelle's psychopathic urges that her father took her to Moscow in a desperate attempt to stop her from hurting or killing any other members of their family. [[spoiler:Tatiana herself is also shown to be emotionally abusive, though, and Villanelle denies that her father was scared of her, so it's highly ambiguous.]] |
| 81 | * AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Villanelle's mother is a narcissist who hurls verbal abuse at her children... but only in private. In [[StepfordSmiler public, she's very graceful and kind.]]]] |
| 82 | * AgeInappropriateDress: In the first season, she wears a pink tulle dress that looks like something a small child would wear. It hints at her overall (lack of) emotional maturity. |
| 83 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:In Season 2, she admits most of her entire ''existence'' is this. She feels nothing and is perpetually bored and listless, and doesn't understand why everyone else seems genuinely happy. She buys something she wants? Suddenly, she doesn't want it anymore. She kills someone? She still doesn't feel anything. She wakes up in the morning? Her first thought is, "I have to do this ''again''?" Villanelle feels almost no true emotions, has no genuine connection to most people, and gains no real, lasting pleasure from anything she does, and this is how she feels ''all the time''. Even her enjoyment of her [[ProfessionalKiller job]] seems to come more from the fact that it's a break from all the monotony than anything. This revelation leads to what is probably the most heartwarming and most ''honest'' thing Villanelle has ever said to Eve.]] |
| 84 | -->'''Villanelle:''' I feel things when I'm with you. |
| 85 | * AttentionWhore: One of Villanelle's worst traits is her desperate need for attention. It really comes back to bite her in Season 2 when she fails to blend in with the Ghost's very subtle kills. |
| 86 | * AxCrazy: Due to her unpredictably violent nature and psychopathy. |
| 87 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Not all of her nice clothes are dresses. She wears a beautiful patterned suit to kill Bill in. |
| 88 | * BigEater: Villanelle loves her food and is particularly fond of sweets, going so far as to put honey on the sausages that she’s cooking on a pan. |
| 89 | * BigSisterInstinct: She surprisingly shows this towards [[spoiler:her younger brothers.]] She only becomes determined to confront her [[spoiler:mother]] after finding out that she encouraged [[spoiler:her youngest brother]] to self harm. She then makes sure that they're both out of the house before she burns it down and she leaves them with [[spoiler:thousands, if not millions, to help them fulfil their dreams.]] |
| 90 | * BookDumb: Played with in Season 2. Villanelle is an extremely talented and resourceful assassin, but her cover gets blown quickly with Aaron Peele because she can't be bothered to read the book Eve gave her. |
| 91 | * BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Villanelle gets shot and killed by a sniper while saving Eve's life]]. |
| 92 | * ButtMonkey: She brings a lot of it on herself but she suffers a ''lot'' of brutal humiliation throughout the series, and lacks any respect from anyone. |
| 93 | * CardCarryingVillain: Although she does pretend to be moral and innocent in normal life, her tendency to be this is one of her biggest flaws. She likes to kill ostentatiously and elaborately, which draws attention when it shouldn't. Konstantin calls her out for this multiple times. |
| 94 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the early episodes of season 1, Villanelle shows some passing interest it men. It appears fairly superficial--nothing like the obsession she displays with women--but it is briefly present, before being dropped. |
| 95 | * TheCharmer: Villanelle is capable of being ''very'' charming, and uses that fact to get close to her victims, faking kindness, friendliness, and innocence effortlessly. Her actual personality is [[TheSociopath quite different]]. |
| 96 | * TheChewToy: It's says something when even she recognizes the shitty days she's been having throughout the show. |
| 97 | * ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Villanelle's one for Eve, who wasn't into women before meeting Villanelle]]. |
| 98 | * CuteButPsycho: As her outfits are designed to accentuate, Villanelle can look very cute when she wants to. |
| 99 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Discussed in Season 3. Villanelle worshipped her dad, who died when she was young and describes him as the person who helped her to understand herself and taught her to fight. However [[spoiler:her mother -- also not a reliable narrator -- insists that Villanelle ruined their marriage and her dad only took her away not because of favoritism but because he was afraid she would hurt one of them.]] |
| 100 | -->'''Villanelle''': He wasn't scared of me. |
| 101 | * DarkActionGirl: A trained assassin who is also a sociopath and has a dark, mysterious past. |
| 102 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: The show flirts with the idea that Villanelle has one, that would make her more sympathetic or explain why she is how she is. In episode 1.05, Eve says, "I know something happened to you." Ultimately it is {{Subverted|Trope}} -- her background wasn't ''great'', no, but nothing "made her" this way. |
| 103 | -->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEh7PekJA8 Ideas At Play]]:''' Maybe Villanelle has a tragic backstory that will explain everything? She doesn't, and if she did, it wouldn't change anything. Eve -- and we as an audience -- keep expecting something in this equation to change. Either Villanelle will become less likable and [[MoralEventHorizon cross some kind of line]], or we will come to understand this tortured soul and save her. But ''Killing Eve'' isn't interested in playing that game. It has put all of its cards out on the table. Villanelle will always be likable and enjoyable. She can't cross a line because she's already way too far past it. |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler:Called into question again in Season 3 with the introduction of her abusive mother.]] |
| 105 | * DevilInPlainSight: A major part of Villanelle’s M.O. As a woman, she’s the least likely person to be suspected of being an assassin. This is intentional according to the creator to demonstrate that psychopaths are walking among the people. |
| 106 | * DoNotCallMePaul: She dislikes being called by her real name, [[spoiler:Oksana]]. |
| 107 | * TheDreaded: The Ghost refers to her as “The Demon with No Face”. It is an allusion to Korean folklore known as the “Egg Ghost”, the faceless demon and the most fearsome spirit who brings death to anyone who faces them with no rhyme and reason. Villanelle may not kill out of nowhere and is quite deliberate in her killings but she’s certainly not one to be reasoned with when she’s intent on murder. |
| 108 | * EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: By Konstanin for shooting him.]] |
| 109 | * EnemyEatsYourLunch: In "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms," Villanelle invades Eve's home just to have dinner with her. |
| 110 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She's absolutely mortified when she's [[MistakenForPedophile mistaken for a pedophile]]. |
| 111 | * FakeBrit: In-universe. Villanelle can do a very good posh British accent. This is also put on Comer, who speaks with a Liverpool accent in real life. |
| 112 | * TheFashionista: According to Jodie Comer, since Villanelle doesn’t have friends, family or routine, she uses clothes to express herself and to finally have the life that she’s always wanted in order to dissociate herself from the difficulties she experienced in her early life. |
| 113 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She can be funny, friendly, and charming, but as her interactions with Anna showed us, even with those she claims to love most, these emotions can fade quickly and she will become just as ruthless and dangerous with them. Often, this doesn't even need to be the case; despite her obsession with Eve, she refuses to spare Bill, though she could easily have gotten away from him. |
| 114 | * FauxFluency: Jodie Comer isn't really fluent on many languages and it shows, particularly her German and Aussie accents. And while her French is... passable, her pronunciation and intonation are way off. There is not a chance that she would pass for someone that actually lives in Paris and is understood right away by French people. |
| 115 | * TheFightingNarcissist: Villanelle is beautiful and she knows it; she's also highly intelligent, manipulative, and a formidable fighter. Whenever her skills are questioned, she makes up for it swiftly and woe to the person who incurred her wrath. |
| 116 | * FreudianExcuse[=/=]FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Discussed. Villanelle's mother was a verbally abusive, bitter ControlFreak, but all the same, we see evidence that Villanelle was an extremely violent, out of control EnfantTerrible. Which was actually responsible for Villanelle's behavior is left very ambiguous. |
| 117 | * GroinAttack: She killed her first victim by castrating him. [[spoiler: She also did the same to Frank in "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms."]] |
| 118 | * HasAType[=/=]LikesOlderWomen: As evidenced by Eve [[spoiler: and Anna, her old language teacher]], it appears that Villanelle has a thing for awkward, smart, older women with thick, wavy hair. The physical traits are particularly emphasized with the woman whom she had pretend was Eve (1.03), and women on the street who she checks out (1.01 and 1.02). As well, another factor seems to be that Eve and Anna both paid ''lots of attention'' to Villanelle, which she clearly enjoys. When Eve goes to visit Anna, Anna explicitly tells Eve as she leaves: |
| 119 | -->'''Anna''': Now be careful. You're her type. |
| 120 | * TheHedonist: Every time she comes home from a successful hit she is seen always treating herself to designer clothing, expensive sweets or something else fancy. |
| 121 | * HumbleGoal: |
| 122 | -->'''Eve:''' What do you want? ''Honestly'' -- don't be a dick. |
| 123 | -->'''Villanelle:''' Normal stuff. Nice life. Cool flat. Fun job. Someone to watch movies with. |
| 124 | * ItAmusedMe: Villanelle would kill even if she didn't have to, as we learn, and when she has an advantage, she finds certain ways of killing ''funny''. |
| 125 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Which goes along with her being [[TheSociopath a sociopath]]. Villanelle cannot comprehend anyone else's real needs except for her own. |
| 126 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: Villanelle steals Eve's luggage, then returns the bag -- now full of personally-selected designer clothes and shoes. After that, she spies on Eve trying on a dress. Unbeknownst to Eve, Villanelle picks her out and leaves her a belt to match. |
| 127 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Whenever she has a PetTheDog moment it's most likely an act to get what she wants. |
| 128 | ** The first scene she appears in has her seeming being friendly towards a child, before messing up the child's ice cream. |
| 129 | * KarmaHoudini: She violently murders people in the most gruesome ways and gets away with it. ''[[JustifiedTrope Justified]]'' since she is a professional assassin. |
| 130 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Villanelle gets shot dead on orders given by Carolyn Martens in the final episode.]] |
| 131 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Villanelle always wears very beautiful clothes, even when she's on a job unless she needs to wear a uniform (such as in the prison). |
| 132 | * KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Villanelle is actually a codename, revealed in one episode to be a brand of perfume. [[spoiler: It is also revealed in a later episode that her real name is Oksana Astankova.]] (Amusingly, Eve decides to name her "Villanelle" all on her own after she receives a bottle of perfume from her.) |
| 133 | * LargeHam: Jodie Comer chews as much scenery as possible playing her. |
| 134 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFi5HbEy3iY This song]] is probably the closest thing to this for her. |
| 135 | * LikableVillain: She definitely is one, but the show avoids nailing down what kind. She's too cruel to be AffablyEvil, too genuine to be FauxAffablyEvil, not self-pitying enough to be a JerkassWoobie, and her FreudianExcuse may or may not exist because of her MultipleChoicePast. |
| 136 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: While she had a history of violence prior, Villanelle's first victim was her language teacher's husband, whom she killed and castrated because she was in love with his wife. |
| 137 | * MaskOfSanity: Villanelle has no trouble blending in with others (such as the boy she meets in Paris) despite the fact that she's a sadistic, extremely violent assassin who ''needs'' to kill. |
| 138 | * MasterOfDisguise: Villanelle loves to dress up to commit her murders. |
| 139 | * MultipleChoicePast: Not acknowledged in-universe, but some of the details of Villanelle's Season 1 backstory and Season 3 OriginsEpisode don't quite add up. |
| 140 | * NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: A highly trained assassin, she is also a huge Francophile, has an extremely feminine dress sense, including wearing couture gowns to her therapy sessions, and she's a psychopath with almost no empathy who enjoys killing people. |
| 141 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Comer's Russian accent (among many other accents) tends to noticeably slip a lot. |
| 142 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: After she murders her mother]], Villanelle starts to perform her murders less professionally and with far less enthusiasm. |
| 143 | * PetTheDog: |
| 144 | ** Sparing [[spoiler:her little brothers]] from her arson rampage and leaving them thousands of dollars so that they can go and see Elton John. |
| 145 | ** [[spoiler:In the Season 3 finale, she offers, with total sincerity and no strings attached, to walk out of Eve's life forever if that's what Eve truly wants. It's easily the most selfless thing we've ever seen her do, and it's a stark contrast to her attitude in Season 2, where she angrily declared "You're mine!" when Eve rejected her.]] |
| 146 | * {{Polyglot}}: She can speak Russian (though she refuses to when she has the choice), English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and is learning Mandarin. |
| 147 | * ThePowerOfActing: In addition to being fluent in multiple languages, Villanelle can do a perfect accent (English, Scottish, American, French, Italian) and it helps her to get close to her many victims. It's also shown that she can imitate a child's voice perfectly. |
| 148 | * PragmaticPansexuality: Villanelle seems to only be attracted by women, but will have sex with men if it aids her goals. |
| 149 | * ProfessionalKiller: She's an assassin. Though she'd probably be killing either way. |
| 150 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: To Anna. It's mentioned numerous times that she continued to write Anna letters for ''years'' after she went to prison for killing Anna's husband. |
| 151 | * PsychoLesbian: Villanelle, who is romantically attracted to women and is a trained, ruthless assassin. |
| 152 | * PsychoPink: Villanelle's first IconicOutfit is a puffy pink ballgown made by Molly Goddard that she wears to a psychiatrist's appointment while she's convincing the Twelve that she's still psychotic enough to kill anyone they want. It gets a CallBack in Season 2 when she wears a pink tutu and a pig mask to string up and kill an adulterous husband in Amsterdam. |
| 153 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: [[spoiler: As shown in her interactions with Irina (Konstantin’s daughter), Villanelle is this at her core: a petulant child who throws tantrums, screams, and reacts immaturely when frustrated, doesn’t get what she wants, or perceives that someone is actively putting obstacles on what she wants to do.]] |
| 154 | * PsychoticSmirk: Villanelle delivers a chilly one to Bill, [[spoiler: right before she turns the tables on him and kills him]]. |
| 155 | * ReallyGetsAround: She’s a woman who’s characterized by her big appetite. That includes having her bed as a rotation of beautiful men and women. |
| 156 | * {{Sadist}}: Villanelle rarely just kills her victims, instead preferring some pretty slow and horrific methods of assassination such as making an asthmatic asphyxiate to death after convincing her to try on poisoned perfume, or forcing a man to breathe in carbon monoxide while he is strapped helpless to a table. |
| 157 | -->'''Villanelle:''' You know I like the breathy ones! |
| 158 | ** Even more disturbing is that she enjoys watching the life slowly fade from her victims' eyes, too. |
| 159 | * TheScapegoat: Unbeknownst to her, she is being set up as this by the Twelve in Season 3 by pining Kenny and Niko's murders on her just so Eve would think she was responsible. |
| 160 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Although money isn't Villanelle's only motivation, it is one of her major ones. |
| 161 | * SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Villanelle kills her mother due to the latter rejecting her when they reconnect.]] |
| 162 | * SinisterSweetTooth: A ruthless killer with some very saccharine tastes, befitting her characterization as a PsychopathicWomanChild: she puts ''honey'' on frying sausages, treats herself to ice cream, and places such value on high-quality pastries that she barely manages to hide her dislike of the heated fruitcake served by Frank's mother. |
| 163 | * TheSociopath: Complete lack of empathy? Check. Highly immature at times, and often does what she does ForTheEvulz as much as she does for the money? Check. Able to convince an ex-girlfriend to turn on her partner, promise her a life she deserved and then crush her under her car, all in the same scene? Check. However, she does have people she seems to genuinely care about -- in her own, deeply unhealthy and terrifying way -- which hints she may not be a straight example. |
| 164 | * StalkerWithACrush: Villanelle develops as one for Eve, going as far as stealing her clothes, spying on her and asking a female sexual partner with similar thick wavy hair if she can call her 'Eve.' |
| 165 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'8". |
| 166 | * SuppressedMammaries: How she hides her identity with her first in-series kill. |
| 167 | * TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:''Very'' downplayed, as she's still an unrepentant murderer, and she's never really good or nice, but as the series goes on, she gets more humanizing moments and signs that she does care for Konstantin, Eve, and her family (besides her mother). Just as she brings out Eve's worse qualities, Eve brings out her humanity.]] |
| 168 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: She brings out and encourages Eve's darker qualities. However, said darker qualities were clearly always there, and even she eventually acknowledges that she can't blame it entirely on Villanelle's influence. |
| 169 | -->'''Villanelle:''' Do you think I'm a monster?\ |
| 170 | '''Eve:''' I think we all have monsters inside of us. It's just that most manage to keep theirs hidden.\ |
| 171 | '''Villanelle:''' Well, I haven't.\ |
| 172 | '''Eve:''' No. Neither have I.\ |
| 173 | '''Villanelle:''' I think my monster encourages your monster. Right?\ |
| 174 | '''Eve:''' I think I ''wanted'' it to. |
| 175 | * {{Troll}}: Villanelle takes pride in getting under people’s skin as much in her ability to charm and win them over. |
| 176 | * TheUnFavorite: When she found her mother, after thinking she was dead for years, she had three other children and made it clear she wanted nothing to do with her. |
| 177 | * TheUnfettered: Villanelle is completely unfazed by any block in her way, including being stabbed in the stomach, surrounded by armed guards, and nearly being killed. None of that will ever stop her. She doesn’t abide by any rules of society or any moral principle. She merely sees them as an interesting hurdle to ignore and something to actively subvert for no deeper reason that she sees herself as someone with no limits. |
| 178 | -->[[DissonantSerenity You need to calm down.]] |
| 179 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: So far, both of her major crushes on the show are generally moral, innocent older women (Anna and Eve). |
| 180 | * VillainousCrush: Villanelle has got it ''bad'' for Eve, and isn't shy about showing it. |
| 181 | * VillainProtagonist: We see as much of her as we see of Eve. |
| 182 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Konstanin. She's always criticizing what he wears and disobeying him, and it gets significantly more vitriolic after [[spoiler:she perceives him to have betrayed her at the end of Season 2]], but he actually wins her back over, because he just knows her too well. |
| 183 | * WhereIWasBornAndRazed: [[spoiler:Villanelle burns down her mother and remaining family's new house after killing her mother and kills her stepfather, stepbrother, and stepbrother's girlfriend in the process.]] |
| 184 | * WickedCultured: Stylish clothes, a fancy (if messy) Parisian apartment, an appetite for designer products and nice food, taste for classical music and able to speak several languages? Villanelle sure qualifies. |
| 185 | * WomanOfWealthAndTaste: Her job pays her ''very'' well, judging from her designer wardrobe, a gorgeous apartment, and taste for fine food. |
| 186 | * WouldHurtAChild: She'll certainly drag them into her assassinations and kidnap them, at least. Given her psychopathy, it's unlikely she sees children any more as people than she does adults. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | ! Characters Associated with Eve |
| 190 | |
| 191 | [[folder: Niko Polastri]] |
| 192 | !! Niko Polastri |
| 193 | !!! '''Played By:''' Owen [=McDonnell=] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | Eve's husband. Niko is a Polish maths teacher and Bridge tutor who worries about his wife's new job. He has an aversion to violence, and can’t understand Eve’s fascination with darkness and criminality. |
| 196 | ---- |
| 197 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Not physically, but Eve fantasizes about him and the other important people in her life as she's attempting to move on and find happiness in the series finale. That he's really gone tells her it's a part of her life she can never return to.]] |
| 198 | * ButtMonkey: His relationship with Eve collapses, she is only attracted to him when he's pretending to be a much darker person, she ultimately leaves him only to come back after nearly killing Villanelle, he's threatened multiple times by Villanelle, he gets pursued by Gemma despite only wanting things to go back to normal with Eve, he ultimately leaves Eve, Gemma gets killed in front of him by Villanelle, he ends up in psychiatric care due to it, and he gets stabbed with a pitchfork, nearly killed, and left almost unable to speak by Dasha. |
| 199 | * ButNotTooForeign: He is Polish but according to his backstory he was born in England. |
| 200 | * MoralityChain: Seems to keep trying to be one to Eve, although it doesn't really work, especially in Season 2. |
| 201 | * MoralityPet: To Eve. Even after they separate in Season 2, Eve cares for him and wants him to be okay. |
| 202 | * NiceGuy: One of the nicest characters in the main cast. Also, the most boring. |
| 203 | * NonActionGuy: He has no interest in physically defending himself, even when Villanelle appears to threaten him both in Oxford and at home. |
| 204 | * OnlySaneMan: Often represents this to the cast in general as he genuinely appears pretty appalled by the violence and cruelty Eve indulges. |
| 205 | * {{Pacifist}}: Niko has a strong aversion to violence, and though he perhaps can’t admit it to himself he prefers it if his wife is working in a boring desk job than in close proximity to danger. |
| 206 | * PlotArmor: Unusually, recognized in-universe by Villanelle. She'd like nothing more than to kill him as she did with Max (her last major crush's husband) but she knows Eve would never forgive her. So she [[spoiler:kills Gemma instead]]. |
| 207 | * PornStache: And boy is Niko's truly glorious. Villanelle at one point says he looks like "someone put a mustache on some fudge." |
| 208 | * RuleOfEmpathy: Played with. Niko is not ''that'' popular due to being one of the main obstacles between Villanelle and Eve, but in-universe, Villanelle recognizes he has to survive because it would be a MoralEventHorizon for her in Eve's eyes. |
| 209 | * TraumaCongaLine: During Season 2, [[spoiler: Niko's job is nearly compromised when Villanelle starts spreading rumors of Niko having a relationship with Gemma. After murdering Gemma, Villanelle locks Niko in a storage unit with Gemma's corpse]]. By Season 3, things are still no better: [[spoiler: Niko is suffering from PTSD, and decides to leave Eve in London and head home to Poland. After he is nearly murdered by Dasha (in an attempt to frame Villanelle in front of Eve), he is hospitalized and unable to speak. After everything that's happened, it's no surprise that he wants nothing to do with his estranged wife]]. |
| 210 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the first season, he has a normal London accent, but come Season 2 and he's inexplicably speaking with a posh upper-class accent. |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Gemma]] |
| 214 | !!Gemma |
| 215 | !!! '''Played By:''' Emma Pierson |
| 216 | |
| 217 | A teacher at Niko's school. |
| 218 | ---- |
| 219 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She is ridiculously complimentary to Eve, but as Eve rightly susses, only so she can worm her way in with Niko. |
| 220 | * CrazyCatLady: Not in actuality, but she has a cat and Villanelle lampshades this trope. |
| 221 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:We don't actually know if she died like that, but her eyes are wide open when Niko finds her body.]] |
| 222 | * DisposableLoveInterest: To Niko, although whether he actually has feelings for her or is just using her as a LivingEmotionalCrutch after the breakdown of his marriage to Eve is a mystery. |
| 223 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: That she has a crazy crush on Niko. |
| 224 | * NothingIsScarier: We don't see how [[spoiler:Villanelle kills her]], but we do see [[spoiler:her body afterward, and it's pretty gruesome looking.]] |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | ! Characters Associated with Villanelle |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder: Konstantin Vasiliev]] |
| 230 | !! Konstantin Vasiliev |
| 231 | !!! '''Played By:''' Kim Bodnia |
| 232 | |
| 233 | Villanelle's handler, Konstantin is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] who recruits and runs assassins [[spoiler: for a shadowy organization known only as The Twelve]], telling them whom to kill and then paying them after the deed is done. |
| 234 | ---- |
| 235 | * AffablyEvil: So far. He is unfailingly polite and funny to Eve, even after she's figured out his huge secret. Even after [[spoiler: Villanelle shot him]] he was still willing to (mostly) let it go and move on. |
| 236 | * AintTooProudToBeg: Throws himself into this when [[spoiler:Carolyn]] threatens to shoot him in Season 3, a marked difference from his attitude in earlier seasons (see FaceDeathWithDignity below) |
| 237 | * AmicableExes: He lives with his past lover Carolyn in Season 2. |
| 238 | * CoolOldGuy: Even when Villanelle is acting up and generally being a dick, Konstanin takes it in his stride and can banter back. |
| 239 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: |
| 240 | ** Subverted with his heart attack. Villanelle finds him having it, and cradles him for a minute before being distracted by Eve (and he doesn't die anyway). |
| 241 | ** [[spoiler:Pam kills him, but her immediate regret has her tearfully cradling him as he slowly passes away.]] |
| 242 | * DrivenToSuicide: At gunpoint. [[spoiler:Not that it worked out for Villanelle]]. |
| 243 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: If you believe that he loves Villanelle, as he tells her he does. He also seems well-loved by his daughter and wife. |
| 244 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 245 | ** When Konstantin tries to rein Villanelle back from her obsession with Eve Polastri, she responds by subtly threatening his daughter. He is shocked that she actually knew he had a child and that she knew where she was to threaten her. |
| 246 | ** He also says that he genuinely loves Villanelle and goes to great lengths to help her out, despite the fact that she shot him. |
| 247 | * EvilMentor: Deconstructed. While he is Villanelle's mentor in murder (and trained her, as Eve figures out), Villanelle has done plenty of evil without Konstanin, and he mostly just gave her an outlet for it. |
| 248 | * EvilOldFolks: He looks like somebody's favorite uncle, but he is a Russian [[spoiler: intelligence agent]] that runs a network of assassins [[spoiler: for The Twelve]]. |
| 249 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: |
| 250 | ** He says this more or less verbatim: [[spoiler: "To dignity in death!"]] Ultimately subverted, however, as Konstantin was merely pretending. However, he nevertheless does seem totally willing ''to'' do so at any given moment, which is necessary in his profession. |
| 251 | ** [[spoiler:When Pam slits his throat, he's instantly resigned to his fate, and only expresses how happy he is for her to have grown as a killer]]. |
| 252 | * TheFagin: He recruited and trained Villanelle, who was in prison as a teenager at the time. |
| 253 | * FamilyMan: He was one before, and his family goes into protection in Season 2 which devastates him. |
| 254 | * FriendlyEnemy: To everyone -- he's funny and polite to Eve even after she's discovered his secret connection to The Twelve, and he, of course, stays this to Villanelle even when she's ''trying to kill him''. |
| 255 | * TheHandler: He is this for Villanelle, Nadia, Diego, [[spoiler:Pam]], and perhaps more. |
| 256 | * InformedAttractiveness: Despite being a heavy set older man he is referred to by multiple female characters as sexy both in photographs as a younger man and by those who have seen him recently. |
| 257 | * NotQuiteDead: Villanelle shoots him in the heart at the end of Season 1. And he survives with apparently no physical effects. [[spoiler:Though his heart is significantly weakened in Season 3, leading one to wonder whether he'd have even had any heart problems if Villanelle hadn't shot him.]] |
| 258 | * OhCrap: |
| 259 | ** When Villanelle makes a thinly veiled threat to him about the daughter she wasn't supposed to know he has. |
| 260 | ** And again in "I Have A Thing About Bathrooms": |
| 261 | -->'''Villanelle:''' [[spoiler: What number are you? [...] You're not Twelve.]]\ |
| 262 | '''Konstantin:''' Oh, dear. |
| 263 | * PapaWolf: He's very protective of his daughter, [[AintTooProudToBeg begs Villanelle with dignity not to kill them]], and is only determined to be reunited with them in Season 2. |
| 264 | * ParentalSubstitute: Konstantin is possibly the closest thing Villanelle has to family. Not that it ever stopped her from openly defying him and threatening his child. |
| 265 | * PragmaticVillain: Konstantin is not a psychopath, he’s more pragmatic and self-interested than that. He merely does whatever he needs to survive. |
| 266 | * SoProudOfYou: |
| 267 | ** He says this to Villanelle [[spoiler: even as she is forcing him to commit suicide by pills]]. Doesn't stop him from throwing a whiskey glass in her face and [[FlippingTheBird giving her the finger]]. |
| 268 | ** He also expresses this after [[spoiler:Pam kills him, believing she's made the metamorphosis from a timid killer to a strong one.]] |
| 269 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Villanelle. She's always criticizing what he wears and disobeying him, and it gets significantly more vitriolic after [[spoiler:she perceives him to have betrayed her at the end of Season 2]], but he actually wins her back over, because he just knows her too well. |
| 270 | * WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: [[spoiler:Pam is genuinely sorry to have killed him, especially since she didn't need to; Helene hired her before she was killed.]] |
| 271 | * WildCard: Who's side is Konstantin on? Even he doesn't really seem to know, or maybe just doesn't care. |
| 272 | * WorthyOpponent: To Villanelle. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder: Irina Vasiliev]] |
| 276 | !!Irina Vasiliev |
| 277 | !!! '''Played By:''' Yuli Lagodinsky |
| 278 | Konstantin's beloved daughter. By his description, she's amazing... but annoying. So, ''so'' annoying. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: She doesn't have a specific reason to [[spoiler:run her stepfather over]], except causing more trouble, but she does [[spoiler:seconds before she and Konstanin are due to leave.]] |
| 281 | * BrattyHalfPint: Even Konstantin agrees she can be pretty hard to deal with. |
| 282 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: By the time she returns, she's a young teenager and she's seriously bratty, throwing tantrums over minor details and hating her stepfather who is actually very indulgent of her. |
| 283 | * TheBusCameBack: After appearing for only an episode, Irina returns to recur for a couple of episodes in Season 3, and then the penultimate episode, [[spoiler:Konstanin's final episode]], in Season 4. |
| 284 | * DaddysGirl: It's clear Konstantin adores her, [[spoiler:though he seems to finally disown her after she kills her stepfather.]] |
| 285 | * DaddysLittleVillain: [[spoiler:She abruptly runs her stepdad over in Season 3, killing him, in front of Konstanin.]] |
| 286 | * FaceHeelTurn: She abruptly [[spoiler:runs her stepfather over]] in Season 3. |
| 287 | * LittleMissBadass: Well, not many tween girls would respond to being kidnapped by a psychopath with ''annoying the crap out of her''. She also shows remarkably little fear, given the situation. |
| 288 | * LittleMissSnarker: As Villanelle finds out the hard way. |
| 289 | * MafiaPrincess: She appears to have a pretty comfortable life, thanks to Daddy's work with [[spoiler:the Twelve]]. It's unclear if she knows ''exactly'' what he does, but she does seem to know it's something illegal. |
| 290 | * MoralityPet: Konstantin genuinely loves her, and seems to be a genuinely pretty good father. |
| 291 | * OneSceneWonder: She appears only in 1.08, and is an absolute joy in it. |
| 292 | ** TheBusCameBack: She returns in Season 3 and recurs throughout it. |
| 293 | * PityTheKidnapper: She has ''no'' problem mouthing off at Villanelle, and in general makes the experience just as (if not more) miserable for Villanelle as it is for her. Konstantin even lampshades it. |
| 294 | -->'''Konstantin:''' I need to find my daughter. She's going to drive that woman ''crazy''. |
| 295 | * {{Polyglot}}: She speaks Russian, English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Justified, since children pick up languages very easily, and Konstantin clearly made a point of teaching her. |
| 296 | * TheStoic: Nothing seems to frighten her. |
| 297 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Seemingly through a combination of teenage hormones, being separated from Konstanin, and her parents' divorce, Irina has gone from being a stoic kid who insisted she could see good in Villanelle to someone who [[spoiler:killed her stepfather]] minutes before she's due to leave Russia. |
| 298 | * WalkingSpoiler: The fact that Konstantin ''has'' a daughter is a surprise. |
| 299 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: She's pretty damn smart, speaking multiple languages and being ''way'' more emotionally mature than Villanelle. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder: Anna]] |
| 303 | !!Anna |
| 304 | !!! '''Played By:''' Susan Lynch |
| 305 | A language teacher in Russia. |
| 306 | ---- |
| 307 | * ADeadlyAffair: Anna and Oksana's affair culminated with Oksana murdering Anna's husband, Max. |
| 308 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anna shoots herself rather than shooting Villanelle.]] |
| 309 | * FirstLove: She was Villanelle's, and became the [[ReplacementGoldfish prototype]] for Villanelle's [[HasAType type]]. |
| 310 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: What Oksana did to her husband, Max. |
| 311 | * NonAnswer: When Eve is questioning her. |
| 312 | -->'''Anna:''' She had a... fixation. |
| 313 | -->'''Eve:''' Was it reciprocated? |
| 314 | -->'''Anna:''' I was her teacher; I was married. |
| 315 | -->'''Eve:''' But... was it reciprocated? |
| 316 | * TeacherStudentRomance: She and Oksana had an affair when Oksana was her student. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Raymond]] |
| 320 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AdrianScarborough |
| 321 | |
| 322 | Villanelle's new handler after she escapes from Julian in Series 2, until Konstantin takes back over. |
| 323 | ---- |
| 324 | * AxCrazy: The first thing he does when he sees Villanelle is choke her out, ForTheEvulz. And he comes back to kill her just because he hates her. And all with an ax! |
| 325 | * EvilCounterpart: A very relative example to Konstantin. Konstantin and Villanelle are VitriolicBestBuds and he is a borderline ParentalSubstitute (of a dark variety) to her who lets her get away with far more than he should. Raymond doesn't care for her, is extremely ruthless, and will kill her at the drop of a hat. |
| 326 | * EvilRedhead: He has ginger hair and is brutal even by the Twelve's standards. |
| 327 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Even Villanelle is surprised when he turns out to be so aggressive and vicious. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Dasha]] |
| 331 | !!Dasha Duzran |
| 332 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/HarrietWalter |
| 333 | |
| 334 | Villanelle's former handler, who has returned to lure Villanelle back to the Twelve in Season 3. |
| 335 | ---- |
| 336 | * BrokenPedestal: Villanelle greatly admired her at one time. |
| 337 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely loves her [[spoiler:son]], but it doesn't stop her being a sadistic murderer who abused Villanelle. |
| 338 | * EvilOldFolks: She is on the older side and she worked for the Twelve. It's made clear that she has always been that way, though, killing her past lover/mentor during a gymnastics training session. |
| 339 | * EvilMentor: Dasha was a former mentor of Villanelle's, but betrayed her. |
| 340 | * FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:She stages a near-fatal attack on Niko in order to create a rift between Eve and Villanelle.]] |
| 341 | * MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Dasha is a firm believer in this, even going as far to expound such to the Spanish kids she teaches. |
| 342 | * TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: [[spoiler:Dasha is technically rescued by Eve after Villanelle brains her with a golf club and taken to hospital in London. Then, in the time it takes Konstanin to be taken there and get ready to discharge himself, she collapses and dies while asking for her son.]] |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder: Tatiana Astankova]] |
| 346 | !! Tatiana Astankova |
| 347 | !!! '''Played By:''' Evgenia Dodina |
| 348 | Villanelle's estranged mother. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * AbusiveParents: Abandoned Oksana in an orphanage, verbally and psychologically abuses her youngest son, B'orka, after he fails in a carnival game, and tries to throw Villanelle out of the house at the end of the episode. |
| 351 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems like a fun, loving, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and fun-loving]] family woman but despite the benevolent face she puts on for the community, she bullies and manipulates her family members. |
| 352 | * TheBully: Criticises B'orka so relentlessly that he's started self-harming. |
| 353 | * ConsummateLiar: Villanelle perceives her as this. |
| 354 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: While [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ranting at Villanelle]], Tatiana yells "''You and your dark ... darkness!''" |
| 355 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Left ambiguous. Despite her callous and abusive nature, she seems to weep genuine tears of joy upon seeing Villanelle having returned. |
| 356 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Accuses Villanelle of laughing at things that aren't funny, although as Villanelle points out, [[{{Hypocrite}} she does the same thing]]. |
| 357 | * EvilMatriarch: Rules her household with an iron fist. |
| 358 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: She just [[ThousandYardStare stares blankly]] into the distance after Villanelle says that she's going to kill her. Of course, she might not have believed her. But she probably did. |
| 359 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Dances happily after her family wins at a carnival, having told her youngest that he's an embarrassment to the family. |
| 360 | * GreenEyedMonster: One possible reason for her banishing Villanelle from the household: She's worried that her family will love her more than her. |
| 361 | * {{Hypocrite}}: As Villanelle points out, most of the traits she hates about her are traits that she herself possesses. |
| 362 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Only seems to care about herself, even seeing her family as little more than extensions of herself because she abandons them when she doesn't want them and punishes them if they perceivably embarrass her by failing at anything. |
| 363 | * {{Jerkass}}: As you've probably realised at this point, she's not a pleasant person. |
| 364 | * KarmicDeath: After she tries to send her own daughter away again, she knocks her unconscious and blows up the house with her in it. |
| 365 | * LackOfEmpathy: Is perplexed when Villanelle asks her to clean her face instead of doing it herself, just because she wants to feel mothered. |
| 366 | * {{Narcissist}}: Shows traits of it, seeing her family as little more than extensions of herself, presenting an image to the community of a fine, upstanding mother and wife and secretly berating her family members, even her children for something as minor as losing at a carnival game, saying that they are bringing shame on the family, by which she means herself, refusing to accept blame for any of her actions and seeking to alienate family members whom she perceives as a threat to her authority. |
| 367 | * NeverMyFault: Claims that she and her husband never loved Oksana because they thought that she was strange as a baby, due to never crying and justifies herself leaving her in an orphanage, saying that she did it to protect the family from Oksana's "darkness". As Villanelle points out, Tatiana is the real darkness in the family, not her. |
| 368 | * SilverVixen: Is old enough to have grown up children but is still quite good-looking. |
| 369 | * TheSociopath: Villanelle seems to think so, stating that she inherited her own "darkness" from Tatiana. |
| 370 | * UnreliableNarrator: Is anything of what she said about Villanelle true? It's left very ambiguous; Tatiana is clearly a huge {{jerkass}}, but Villanelle did ultimately turn out to be a serial killer. |
| 371 | * VillainousParentalInstinct: Invoked and probably subverted. Tatiana thinks she has this, sending Villanelle away as a young girl because she beat up B'orka despite being a malicious narcissist herself. |
| 372 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Is seen as a pillar of the local community. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder: Hélène]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | !! Hélène |
| 378 | -->Played by: Camille Cotton |
| 379 | |
| 380 | Villanelle's new handler in Season 3. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler: She gets her Achilles tendons slashed by Villanelle with a knife]]. |
| 383 | * BettyAndVeronica: She's the Veronica to Villanelle's Betty over Eve's Archie. Bonus points for both competitors being blonde and brunette. |
| 384 | * BodyMotifs: Feet in her case for some reason. Caroline accuses her of having a foot fetish for having a man’s feet cut off when she orders his death and two of her pivotal scenes with Eve and Villanelle are centred largely around her bare feet. Villanelle even slashes her ankles when she kills her. |
| 385 | * BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: The gay Helene gets her throat slashed by a jealous Villanelle]]. |
| 386 | * ButNotTooGay: She is revealed to be gay in Season 4, but is never shown with a woman and only kisses Eve once. |
| 387 | * DissonantSerenity: Whether she's hugging Villanelle while calling her a monster or invites Eve into her home, Hélène is generally unflappable. |
| 388 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Hélène is French, and people are frequently ArousedByTheirVoice when they meet her. She's also called sexy by Villanelle. |
| 389 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: She begs Villanelle to just "get it over with" and finish her off with the knife. Justified since she was in pain]]. |
| 390 | * HeelFaceTurn: In Season 3, she was working for the Twelve. In Season 4, for some reason, she tracks them down. |
| 391 | * ReplacementGoldfish: She tries being this as a substitute to Villanelle for Eve. It doesn't work. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | ! Others |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder: Aaron Peel]] |
| 398 | !! Aaron Peel |
| 399 | !!! '''Played By:''' Henry Lloyd-Hughes |
| 400 | A young tech genius and multibillionaire computer mogul with a secret weapon that he plans to sell to the Twelve. |
| 401 | ---- |
| 402 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: He loves watching Villanelle kill people. |
| 403 | * BigBad: He serves as this for Season 2. |
| 404 | * BigBrotherBully: Towards his little sister. |
| 405 | * TheBully: As pointed out by Villanelle, right before she breaks his nose with a book. |
| 406 | * CompositeCharacter: Of Charles Augustus Magnussen and Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 407 | * ControlFreak: His whole modus operandi. The fact that he can spy on pretty much anybody in the world at any time means that he can blackmail them into doing whatever he wants and he revels in having this power over others. While Villanelle stays in his hotel, he lavishes her with gifts but takes great pleasure in ordering her around, to the point of making her spit out food he doesn't like and making her sit in the same position while he leaves the room until he gets back. |
| 408 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He inherited the company started by his father, Anthony Peel after [[SelfMadeOrphan having him assassinated by the Ghost]]. |
| 409 | * DeadpanSnarker: Is prone to snarky moments, particularly when mocking Eve about how [=MI6=] is an anachronism and asking her if she wants to search his office for any "weapons-grade plutonium." |
| 410 | * DiabolicalMastermind: He's basically a Bond villain! |
| 411 | * EvilIsPetty: Despite being a brilliant computer hacker, he screams at Villanelle for wearing the clothes he gave her "wrong" and... eating orange chocolates. He makes her spit it out. |
| 412 | * EvilPlan: To weaponize information by keeping files on all of the world's most powerful people and selling it to the Twelve. It's essentially the same plan Blofeld and C. have in SPECTRE. |
| 413 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's very polite and charming towards Villanelle whilst she stays in his hotel and ultimately Eve when she arrives but it doesn't conceal the fact that he's an AxeCrazy, sociopathic ControlFreak. |
| 414 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: A sociopathic CEO who wears little glasses and has a very blank stare. |
| 415 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He has a machine that manages to keep track of everyone. |
| 416 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason behind his obsession with Villanelle whom he sees as a kindred spirit. |
| 417 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's obnoxiously arrogant, to the point that Jess and Eve fantasize about him falling out of a window and landing face-first on a railing. In addition to this, he's a megalomaniacal psychopath. |
| 418 | * KarmicDeath: Villanelle slashes his throat. [[TooKinkyToTorture He doesn't seem to mind.]] |
| 419 | * LackOfEmpathy: Really? Do we need to say any more at this point? |
| 420 | * ManipulativeBastard: Uses his knowledge of people's private lives to threaten and control them. |
| 421 | * NerdInEvilsHelmet: He looks, dresses and acts like a stereotypical, harmless computer nerd but is actually a deranged supervillain. |
| 422 | * ThePeepingTom: He records Villanelle at all times when she's in Budapest [[spoiler:which it turns out he did to several other women before her]]. |
| 423 | * PsychopathicManChild: All over the place. He's a supervillain who likes to play children's games with his younger sister and a SerialKiller who nevertheless flips out when Villanelle mixes up the clothes he gave her and ''wears it with a belt.'' |
| 424 | -->YOU'VE RUINED IT! |
| 425 | * PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, even when being killed. |
| 426 | * {{Sadist}}: Revels in using his power and knowledge to humiliate others and loves killing people, filming himself doing it, watching them being killed or ordering assassinations. |
| 427 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Wears a pair of them. |
| 428 | * SelfMadeOrphan: He hired the Ghost to kill his father, who was a single parent after his mother's death from an illness. |
| 429 | * SerialKiller: Ultimately revealed to be this. |
| 430 | * SmugSnake: Very smug and thinks he has Villanelle completely under his control. [[EvilIsNotAToy He's wrong]]. |
| 431 | * TheSociopath: Or psychopath at any rate, as Eve surmises. He uses his [[TheDragon Dragon]] to assassinate his own father, along with anyone close to him at the company so that he could take control of it, uses his tech skills to spy on people's private lives and blackmail them with it and, it's ultimately revealed, personally kills people just for sport so that he can film himself doing it. |
| 432 | * SoftSpokenSadist: The revelation that [[spoiler:he likes to cut women's throats]] turns him into this. |
| 433 | * TechBro: The CorruptCorporateExecutive version. A serial killer who masterminded a [[NewTechnologyIsEvil device that could track every single person in the world]], he [[spoiler:hired the Ghost to kill his father]] and took over his multi-billion company. He also however totally echoes the nerd archetype, too, even wearing NerdGlasses, having NoSocialSkills, and appearing to have HollywoodAutism, which crosses over uncomfortably with [[spoiler:him being revealed as a serial killer.]] |
| 434 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Although he's initially shocked when Villanelle slashes his throat, [[NightmareFuel he grins as he dies]]. |
| 435 | * VillainousCrush: Towards Villanelle, albeit more in a sadistically cerebral and mostly non-sexual way. He also has a really creepy love of watching her eat. |
| 436 | * WeCanRuleTogether: Offers Villanelle the world if she becomes his partner-in-crime. She refuses when he presses her BerserkButton by telling her to kill Eve. [[TheDogBitesBack She's also had enough of being ordered around by him at this point]]. |
| 437 | * WickedCultured: Despite his fairly bland, but not scruffy dress sense, he owns fancy hotels, and dines on the finest food. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder: The Ghost]] |
| 441 | !! The Ghost |
| 442 | !!! '''Played By:''' [[spoiler:Jung Sun Den Hollander]] |
| 443 | Another female assassin in operation. |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | * BadassOnPaper: Despite her famed reputation for her discretion, [[spoiler:Villanelle makes very quick work of her when they meet]]. |
| 446 | * BeneathSuspicion: How she manages to kill people with high security, posing as a cleaner and other menial workers. |
| 447 | * TheDragon: To Aaron Peel. |
| 448 | * DragonLady: An Asian woman who is very serious, viciously sharp, and mostly silent. |
| 449 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eve first meets her picking her kids up from school. She gets her to come with her by threatening to shoot her in front of her kids if she refuses. |
| 450 | * EvilCounterpart: To Eve. Both are middle-aged Asian women who are overlooked by the large companies and interests they serve due to their age, race, and discretion. |
| 451 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 452 | ** To Villanelle. While Villanelle is a theatrical, attention-seeker when it comes to her kills, the Ghost is subtle and does not draw attention to her kills. Where Villanelle makes some of her kills explicitly look like murder, the Ghost does the best to make her own look innocuous. Villanelle is a young white woman, while the Ghost is a middle aged Asian woman. |
| 453 | ** Also to Eve. Both are disrespected Asian women who are frequently dismissed at their jobs and talented at discretion, but the Ghost kills for money and Eve catches killers. |
| 454 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: Keeps a low profile and goes about her killings as discretely as possible, never leaving blood or a mess. |
| 455 | * NotSoStoic: Despite her usually cold, unflappable demeanour, even when Eve threatens to shoot her in front of her kids, she's tortured for information by Villanelle to the point that she's left in tears, calling Eve "[[YouMonster a monster]]". |
| 456 | * PaperTiger: The Ghost ''can'' be vicious, but [[spoiler:Villanelle tortures her with ease and so she never really threatens Villanelle or Eve]]. |
| 457 | * PunchClockVillain: She kills people for Aaron Peele, but unlike Villanelle, she gets no pleasure out of killing and is only InItForTheMoney. |
| 458 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In contrast to Villanelle, The Ghost is totally able and willing to blend in. |
| 459 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn that [[spoiler:she has children and she was a nurse]]… and that's about it before [[spoiler:she's captured]]. |
| 460 | [[/folder]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | [[folder:Amber Peel]] |
| 463 | !! Amber Peel |
| 464 | !!! '''Played By:''' Shannon Tarbet |
| 465 | |
| 466 | Aaron's sister. |
| 467 | ---- |
| 468 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The "foolish" to her brother's "responsible." |
| 469 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Very bullied by her brother but a genuinely sweet, kind person. |
| 470 | * SiblingYinYang: Kind, supportive, and sympathetic to Aaron's bullying, cold, arrogant demeanor. |
| 471 | [[/folder]] |
| 472 |
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