Line #59 Characters/PreacherSeries


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3	!Main Cast
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5	[[folder:Jesse]]
6	!!Jesse Custer
7	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/custer_jesse.jpg]]
8	->'''Played By:''' Creator/DominicCooper
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10	Trying to fulfill a promise to his dead father, former criminal Jesse Custer has returned to his hometown of Annville, Texas, to lead his father’s church as the town preacher. But when he’s inhabited by a mysterious entity, he’s forced to wrestle with a new kind of mission.
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13	* AdaptationalVillainy: Aside from his life of crime, TV Jesse is much more callous in his use of the Word than his comic counterpart. For instance, when a cop gruffly arrests Jesse and Tulip for a police chase Jesse initiated, Jesse tells him to [[DisproportionateRetribution mace his balls.]] He finds it funny when the cop, obviously suffering, [[GroinAttack can't stop until the can's emptied.]]
14	* AmicableExes: While he refuses to do a job for Tulip, Jesse states he bears no ill will and speaks to her in a friendly tone.
15	* BadassNormal: Able to take out multiple opponents with his fists, while a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] with SuperStrength watches from a payphone. All this was before he even became a host to [[CompellingVoice Genesis]].
16	* BadassPreacher: A man of the cloth and against violence unless innocents are being threatened, Jesse shows he can also kick ass in a bar fight against multiple opponents.
17	* BloodKnight: Although he tries to avoid violence, Jesse can be seen smiling while beating up the thugs in the bar, seeming very at home in the chaos.
18	* BullyHunter: Despises people who pick on those weaker than them and a father threatening to hurt his own son is what set Jesse off to break his arm.
19	** Also subverted in that Jesse himself uses Genesis to bully others for his amusement, much to Tulip's chagrin.
20	* CompellingVoice: Gains the power of Genesis, similar to the other preachers, though he survives and is seen using it to convince Ted to "[[ExactWords open his heart]]" to his mother.
21	%%* GoodOldFisticuffs
22	* HeroesFightBarehanded: While [[PragmaticHero Cassidy]] uses a chair to trip up an opponent in a fight, Jesse uses confrontational and very straight-forwarded battle tactics, rarely using weapons and preferring to bash people with his fists.
23	* SmokingIsCool: Jesse is both a badass fighter and seems to smoke in places that are just odd, such as church when he's praying to God.
24	* TechnicalPacifist: Jesse believes that violence just breeds more violence but will fight if it means defending innocent people.
25	* WifeBasherBasher: Although he's unwilling to attack Betsy's husband at first, wanting him to go to the police and still reluctant to hit him back when Betsy makes it clear she doesn't want Jesse involved, he eventually breaks her husband's arm when his threat to assault his own son sets Jesse off beyond what he's willing to sit by.
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28	[[folder:Cassidy]]
29	!!Cassidy
30	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cassidy_1.jpg]]
31	->'''Played By:''' Joe Gilgun
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33	Cassidy is an Irish vagabond, a glutton for every possible vice, and when he stumbles across the weird town of Annville, he quickly becomes Jesse’s most wild-ass, bestest friend. Up for any kind of adventure, his hedonistic lifestyle and humanist views are constantly at odds with Jesse’s faith.
34	* AdaptationalHeroism: Cassidy's significantly more concerned with keeping Jesse on his path than he was in comics, even trying to protect Eugene when the comic version just thought Arseface was funny to laugh at. He also wants to tell Jesse about his fling with Tulip, where the comic version went out of his way to try to hide it.
35	* CoolShades: Grabs a pair to deal with the rising sun after escaping from the crashing plane. Since Cassidy is a drug-loving vampire, this attire makes sense.
36	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: His lower body is reduced to exposed entrails and paste after jumping out of a crashing aircraft. Fortunately, his vampiric powers help him get better.
37	* HealingFactor: Falling from a plane and splattering on the ground leaves him only temporarily immobilized until he gets an unwitting cow to approach him and drink its blood to heal.
38	* INeedAFreakingDrink: After literally crashing into Annville, Cassidy comes to the bar Jesse's in and requests his whiskey of choice, before declaring he'll drink rat water if it's all they've got.
39	* MrViceGuy: Cassidy loves partying, taking all kinds of drugs and has no problem killing people if it's necessary. Despite this, he takes care of Jesse when he's injured.
40	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Cassidy burns in the sun and drinks blood but religious symbols have no effect on him. A vampire slayer tries pouring holy water on him, comically to no effect.
41	* SuperStrength: Injured and in sunlight, Cassidy lifts and drags a cow closer to himself to drink its blood, even after being so injured that half his body is just a bloody paste.
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44	[[folder:Tulip]]
45	!!Tulip [=O'Hare=]
46	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ohare_tulip.jpg]]
47	->'''Played By:''' Creator/RuthNegga
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49	A volatile, hell-raising force of nature, Tulip O’Hare is Jesse Custer’s ex-girlfriend and one true love. She’s also a gifted criminal who’s not afraid to steal, cheat or kill to get what she wants.
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51	* ActionGirl: Introduced fighting a man while also driving a car and after killing him, takes out a helicopter with a homemade bazooka.
52	* AmicableExes: Although she says she hates Jesse, she speaks playfully and without animosity to him, only showing mild irritation when he refuses to do a job for her.
53	* BadassDriver: She fights a thug trying to strangle her by rigging the drive, beating the shit out of him and then driving her car to a stop before finishing him off.
54	* TheCorrupter: She's hell-bent on returning Jesse to his violent, criminal ways.
55	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She's introduced fighting and killing a thug twice her size in a moving vehicle. She promptly teams up with two children, jovially constructing a homemade bazooka before taking down a helicopter with a smile on her face. Everything about it establishes Tulip as resourceful, intelligent, shady, affable and volatile.
56	* MacGyvering: Makes uses of numerous miscellaneous farm equipment, [[DuctTapeForEverything including tape]], to make a bazooka which she uses to shoot down a helicopter.
57	* RaceLift: Tulip is a white blonde in the comic, but African-American in the TV show.
58	* {{Troll}}: She likes fucking with people, especially Jesse.
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61	[[folder:Emily]]
62	!!Emily Woodrow
63	->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucyGriffiths
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65	A young widow and single mother of three, Emily excels in the practicalities of life, juggling several jobs and upholding her church duties for Preacher Jesse Custer, but simmering beneath the surface are a whole lot of dark and debased desires.
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68	[[folder:Root]]
69	!!Sheriff Hugo Root
70	->'''Played By:''' Creator/WEarlBrown
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72	Sheriff Root is Annville’s local lawman, a tough, conservative redneck who loves his deformed son but is dubious of Eugene’s faith in Preacher Custer.
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74	* AdaptationalHeroism: Hugo Root was a complete bastard in the comics, but here is genuinely upset at his son's disappearance.
75	* TheSheriff: Of Annville.
76	* {{Jerkass}}: Sheriff Root shows a disgusting lack of concern for Betsy when her husband beats her. He also seems to think of his son as a family shame, not wanting him to attend church with the family.
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79	[[folder:Deblanc]]
80	!!Deblanc
81	->'''Played By:''' Anatol Yusef
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83	Strangely mysterious government agents Deblanc and Fiore are heading up a top-secret investigation that has led them right to the doorstep of Jesse Custer.
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85	* TheMenInBlack: He appears during the aftermaths of the power targeting preachers and being able to enter the crime scene displays his level of government authority.
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88	[[folder:Fiore]]
89	!!Fioere
90	->'''Played By:''' Tom Brooke
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92	Strangely mysterious government agents Deblanc and Fiore are heading up a top-secret investigation that has led them right to the doorstep of Jesse Custer.
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94	* TheMenInBlack: Along with Deblanc, he is a mysterious figure who shows up following sightings of the strange power that seems to target preachers.
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97	[[folder:Arseface]]
98	!!Eugene Root / "Arseface"
99	->'''Played By:''' Ian Colletti
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101	Teenager Eugene Root has the heart of a saint and the face of a monster. Despised by most, he finds solace in Jesse’s sermons and is the new preacher’s biggest fan.
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103	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doesn't look anywhere ''close'' to as bad as he did in the comics in the AMC series.
104	* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, he simply survived a suicide attempt. Here, he's a jilted lover who tried to kill the object of his affection, merely [[FateWorseThanDeath lobotomizing her instead.]]
105	* TheAtoner: Although a good kid, he's still tormented by his attempted suicide and feels he needs to atone in the eyes of God.
106	* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only ever referred to as "Arseface" in the original comic but given the first name "Eugene" in the show.
107	* NiceGuy: He's supportive of Jesse and even respectful of his own {{Jerkass}} father's wishes for him to stay out of church out of embarrassment.
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110	[[folder:Donnie]]
111	!!Donnie Schenck
112	->'''Played By:''' Derek Wilson
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114	Quincannon’s right-hand man, Donnie is all brawny ambition. When Preacher Jesse Custer resurfaces and publicly undermines Donnie’s role as the town bully, Donnie becomes hell-bent on evening the score.
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116	* TheBully: Donnie's the bully of the town, picking on anyone and everyone.
117	* BullyingADragon: He attacks Jesse for interfering with his marriage. His bullying tactics and threats are ineffective and he roundly gets his ass kicked.
118	* DomesticAbuse: To his wife. In a stroke of luck for Donnie, she derives gratification from being hurt.
119	* TheDragon: To Odin Quincannon.
120	* {{Jerkass}}: He's a sadistic, violent bully.
121	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Confederate sympathizer.
122	* {{Sadist}}: Donnie is a sadist of the highest order; he loves hurting people, regardless of who it is. He even breaks the nose of an underling just to make himself feel better and get through the day.
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125	[[folder:Saint of Killers]]
126	!!The Saint of Killers
127	->'''Played By:''' Graham [=McTavish=]
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129	* AdaptationalBadass: Immune to the Word, unlike his comic counterpart.
130	* AdaptationalVillainy: The Saint in the comics typically only attacks people defending Jesse, in self-defense, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking if they insult him.]] This Saint casually kills and maims people who get in his way.
131	* AdaptationalWimp: Relatively speaking, anyway. In the comics, the Saint's attacks always hit, and always kill. Here, he misses Jesse and hits bystanders, and occasionally people survive his hits.
132	** Jesse manages to trap The Saint inside an armored van in "Sokosha", and he is utterly unable to escape until he's freed. A far cry from the comic's version of The Saint, who kicked tanks over and would have laughed at that trap.
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135	!Recurring
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137	[[folder:Vyla]]
138	!!Vyla Quinncannon
139	->'''Played By:''' Elizabeth Perkins
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142	[[folder:Betsy]]
143	!!Betsy Schenck
144	->'''Played By:''' Jamie Anne Allman
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147	[[folder:Odin]]
148	!!Odin Quincannon
149	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackieEarleHaley
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151	A small, decrepit man with the unscrupulous iron will necessary to be the most powerful man in Annville County, Texas. The chief employer in town, Odin runs Quincannon Meat & Power, a 125-year-old family run cattle slaughterhouse business

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