Line #35 Characters/Undercover2011


1	%% Under construction
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3	Character list for the Bulgarian series ''[[Series/Undercover2011 Pod prikritie]]''
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7	[[folder: Law enforcement]]
8	!! Undercover Officer[[spoiler: (later Inspector)]] Martin Hristov
9	->'''Portrayed by:''' Ivaylo Zahariev
10	The main protagonist, young officer Popov met at a borstal. He's been trained since he was a child and now Popov has him infiltrate Djaro's group.
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12	* BecomingTheMask: Zigzagged. He never abandons his post, but he becomes deeply entrenched with the criminal world, perpetrates a lot of heavy crimes to protect his cover, and sometimes plays for himself or does favors to his friends in the underworld, risking Popov's wrath or the success of a mission.
13	* PoliceBrutality: He picks up this habit when interrogating criminals.
14	--> '''Todorov:''' You're doing like [[CowboyCop Neshev]] [[spoiler:, rest his soul]]!
15	* TykeBomb: First his father trained him to be a thief, then Popov trained him to be an elite police officer.
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17	!! Chief Inspector[[spoiler: (later Commissar)]] Emil Popov
18	->'''Portrayed by:''' Vladimir Penev
19	The head of an inspection team at GDBOP (General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime) at the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior. His main concern is the criminal group around his former coworker, Peter "Djaro" Tudjarov.
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21	* ByTheBookCop: Downplayed, see DaChief below. He still retains his aspects of the trope, such as getting angry at a stripper dressed as a (US) cop for making a mockery of the uniform, although it may have to do with the stripper lap-dancing for his wife.
22	* DaChief: He doesn't care much for protocol, except for when someone goes ''really'' out of line. Popov likes to maintain a professional attitude and work ethic, but is willing to bend the rules if it means he'll get closer to catching Djaro. He's in an odd position of coming off as a CowboyCop to his boss and playing ByTheBookCop to his team of {{Cowboy Cop}}s, especially later on.
23	* KickedUpstairs: [[spoiler: Djaro tries to move some levers to get Popov promoted to a thankless managerial position and thus take his own case from him. Popov's boss hears about it and resigns, putting Popov in his place and in high command of the team he just left.]]
24	* KnightTemplar: Putting Djaro behind bars is his obsession and he will do anything within the confines of his legal authority to keep pursuing the case, even against his higher-ups.
25	* LikeASonToMe: Popov has practically raised him and considers him as a son. Notably, he [[IfItsYouItsOK condones Martin dating his daughter]], whom he's otherwise very protective of. [[spoiler: Erol is like a son to him, too.]]
26	* MarriedToTheJob: His marriage suffers from his relentless pursuit of his arch-enemy.
27	** WhyDontYouMarryIt: Margarita once outright tells him to marry Djaro.
28	* PapaWolf: He's very protective of Zori, sometimes to her annoyance, but at other times [[ProperlyParanoid with very good reason]]. [[spoiler: He gets utterly broken when she gets killed in a shootout because of him.]] He also considers Martin as close as a son [[spoiler: and is heartbroken when he dies]]. [[spoiler: Same with Erol.]]
29	* TragicKeepsake: An old, battered ''Zippo'' firecracker. It's what [[spoiler: he thinks]] Djaro used to set his friends on fire and escape with confiscated money.
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31	!! [[spoiler:Chief ]]Inspector Vassil Nikolov
32	->'''Portrayed by:''' Deyan Donkov
33	* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler: He's TheMole for Djaro in Popov's team.]] [[spoiler: Which turns out to be his cover, since he's employed by the US Secret Service to spy on Djaro.]] [[spoiler: But as Popov correctly figures out, the Americans only used him because he was already corrupt and with ties to Djaro.]] [[spoiler: It turns out that Djaro has some dirt on him and holds his loyalty this way, so the only way for Nikolov to do his job is as a deep-cover double agent.]]
34	* RightHandVersusLeftHand: [[spoiler: He and Martin obstruct each other's job, since they're TheMole and a fake TheMole, respectively.]]
35	* WalkingSpoiler: His entry has spoilers divided in ''four'' to keep twists from being uncovered at once.
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37	!! Inspector Mihail Zarev
38	->'''Portrayed by:''' Plamen Manasiev
39	* NumberTwo: He's the one Popov usually commands to manage things for him.
40	* StraightMan: He's the most level-headed of the team.
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42	!! Inspector Atanas Kirov
43	->'''Portrayed by:''' Yosif Shamli
44	* TheBigGuy: He's one of the more physically imposing members of the team and good at PerpSweating, although he's not excessively violent.
45	* DueToTheDead: When confronted by Benishev about the cavalier attitude of a fallen colleague, he refuses to listen to any badmouthing and lights up a cigarette in his memory.
46	--> '''Benishev:''' I see you're all used to disrespecting rules in this team. Smoking is not permitted here.
47	--> '''Kirov:''' I'm not smoking. This one's for [[spoiler: Neshev]]. ''(places the cigarette on top of his glass and leaves)''
48	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: He gets killed in action.]]
49	* GoodCopBadCop: With Zarev. Kirov is the bad cop.
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52	!! Inspector Todor Todorov
53	The newest member of Popov's team.
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55	* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: When a angry Popov demands to know his password, he blurts out "sexgod34".
56	* {{Nepotism}}: He was assigned to the team thanks to his grandfather, a general. However, he's capable and loyal and quickly learns to work with the team.
57	* NewMeat: He's young and cocky, which often earns him a scolding.
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59	!! Inspector Ivo Manolov
60	The youngest member of the team.
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62	* FriendlyFire: [[spoiler: Martin inadvertently kills him when he misses on purpose to spare Tisho and fires on a nearby door.]]
63	* FatalFamilyPhoto: When he goes on a mission with Martin, he's texting his girlfriend and talks about their upcoming date. [[spoiler: He never goes on that date.]]
64	* OneSteveLimit: Averted, obviously, with him and Ivo Andonov.
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66	!! [[spoiler:Chief ]]Inspector Momchil Neshev
67	->'''Portrayed by:''' Peter "Chocho" Popyordanov
68	A detective from the Sofia City Police Department, transferred to head Popov's team[[spoiler: after Nikolov's death]].
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70	* CowboyCop: He's a grizzled cop who plays rough and gets results quickly.
71	* TwerpSweating: He excels at more brutal forms of this.
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73	!! Erol Metin
74	->'''Portrayed by:''' Boyko Krustanov
75	Another undercover cop who's infiltrated Faruq Aykan's organization on Popov's orders. He gets tasked by Popov with assisting Martin in bringing down Ivo Andonov.
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77	* MirrorCharacter: From Martin, of whom he's something of a JuniorCounterpart despite them being roughly the same age. [[spoiler: They both infiltrate a mob boss' group, win his trust by excelling at various criminal tasks, start an affair with his lover and bring down the group, all the while mentored by someone with a fierce vendetta against the mob boss.]]
78	* PassingTheTorch: He is "the torch" Popov passes to Martin.
79	* ThereIsAnother: Popov reveals his existence to Martin [[spoiler: when he himself retires]].
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81	!! Inspector Yana Taneva
82	The team's criminal psychologist, eho gets assigned in Season 5.
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84	* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: She starts an affair with Hook who seduces her during and in-between interrogations.]]
85	* ReversePsychology: She likes to employ that during interrogations.
86	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Aside from the secretary, she is the only woman on the team. The men belittle her and order her around until she finally proves her mettle.
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88	!! Commissar Slavov
89	The head of GDBOP.
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91	* BeleagueredBoss: He's sympathetic with Popov's plight, but comes under a lot of pressure from the Ministry's Chief Secretary when Popov gets outwitted on several occasions, in what would have been some very public police actions.
92	* BenevolentBoss: He does what he can to help Popov in his job.
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94	!! Commissar Bogdan Benishev
95	A high-ranking officer from the [[StateSec State Agency for National Security]] who temporarily replaces Popov.
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97	* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: turns out to be one, working with a businessman in Ivo Andonov's circle and getting money, ostensibly for forensic equipment, but he gets to keep the lion's share.]]
98	* InterserviceRivalry: He looks down on GDBOP personnel and considers them "dumb cops".
99	** JurisdictionFriction: He is sometimes the source or simply the messenger for this when DANS tries to take Djaro's case from Popov.
100	* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: He takes pride in having served with the US Secret Service and won't shut up about it, peppering his speech with Anglicisms and bemoaning how GDBOP is "stuck in communist times" (read: obsolete).
101	* TheNeidermeyer: He alienates the team by acting superior the moment he arrives.
102	* SlaveToPR: He plans on staging spectacular actions just to get the media's attention.
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104	!! Inspector Krustan Grigorov
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106	* TheMole: He sells information to Ivo Andonov.
107	[[/folder]]
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109	[[folder: Judicial system]]
110	!! Boyana Vassileva
111	->'''Portrayed by:''' Koina Ruseva
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113	Djaro's attorney and part-time lover.
114	* AmoralAttorney: She arranges that Djaro has no trouble with legal authorities.
115	* NewOldFlame: As per her words, she and Djaro "finished a story long in the writing".
116	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When she can no longer help Djaro out and her blunders start costing him, he orders her dead.]]
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118	!! Prosecutor Dorotheya Terziyska
119	->'''Portrayed by:''' Boika Velkova
120	An elderly prosecutor at the Sofia City Court who starts an affair with Popov.
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122	* ActionGirlfriend: Downplayed. She isn't a cop and doesn't fight, but she helps Popov via her connections in court, which is an environment as dangerous as the police. She's contrasted with Margo, Popov's WetBlanketWife.
123	[[/folder]]
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125	[[folder: Bulgarian underworld]]
126	!! Peter "Djaro" Tudjarov
127	->'''Portrayed by:''' Mihail Bilalov
128	A former police officer in a team which included Popov and Mironov, Petar Tudjarov is now a shady businessman and crime boss who's at the top of Bulgaria's mafia hierarchy.
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130	%% I deliberately separated the spoilers here into several tags as plot elements are revealed consecutively over the seasons. Please do not merge.
131	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: What is publicly known and verifiable is that he's a ruthless owner of a construction firm who doesn't care if he'll pour his asphalt over a 2000-year-old Thracian tomb as soon as he gets his money. In reality, that's the least ruthless thing he's done.
132	* DomesticAbuser: He's only a gentleman for show. If you're a woman and get him angry by spying on him, failing him or refusing to cooperate,he will knock you down to the floor with a slap. [[spoiler: When he gets high on coke after ordering Boyana's death, he orders Asya and when she refuses to snort some, he rapes her and violently kills her.]] [[spoiler: When ''that'' is what Elitza walks in on, he rapes and murders her too.]]
133	--> '''Elitza Vladeva:''' [[spoiler: Do you kill every woman you fuck?]]
134	* TheDon: Owing to his cunning, viciousness and tenacity, he's considered a first among equals by the rest of the Bulgarian mob bosses.
135	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Rumored to be one of real-life oligarch [[https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2 Vasil "Skull" Bozhkov]], the wealthiest Bulgarian businessman with a shady past, who's also an avid antique collector.
136	* EvilFormerFriend: To Popov. Djaro's flashback reveals that he actually started resenting Popov, calling him a sycophant, when the latter was considered for promotion.
137	* LawmanGoneBad: Popov reveals that they used to be on the same team [[spoiler: until he betrayed them and left the other two (Mironov and Stenli) for dead in order to steal some gangsters' money for himself]]. [[spoiler: It later turns out that he and Mironov planned the theft together, but Mironov was the one who shot Stenli, while Djaro would have just made off with the money.]]
138	* {{Leitmotif}}: ''Traviata''.
139	* RabidCop: He was sadistic even when he was still one.
140	* SuddenlyShouting: He usually speaks in a low purr, even [[TranquilFury when angry]]. However, sometimes he BURSTS into a roar either when he's about to kill someone, or just to scare them shitless.
141	* WickedCultured: A textbook example. He collects (read: steals) ancient artifacts and medieval katanas, knows his wine and loves listening to Verdi.
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143	!! Ivo Andonov
144	->'''Portrayed by:''' Zahary Baharov
145	A young mobster who's Djaro's right hand and runs most of his operations.
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147	* BaldOfEvil: He's always with a shaved head and he's a ruthless mob boss.
148	* TheBerserker: He's introduced with "That's Ivo. They say he's crazy". Stabbing him won't get him killed, it'll get ''you'' killed, more brutally than he would have otherwise.
149	* DeadpanSnarker: When he's [[TranquilFury mad]], he can deliver some snark before he loses his temper.
150	--> '''Ivo:''' What was your Bulgarian language grade in school? Cause either I'm not speaking correctly, or you cannot understand me.
151	* TheDon: He becomes the undisputed head of the Bulgarian mafia[[spoiler: after Djaro's death]].
152	* TheDragon: To Djaro. [[spoiler: Until he turns on him.]]
153	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: You'd think that after watching Djaro have his group torn apart by some young, suspiciously capable and charming guy who came out of nowhere, is suspected multiple times to be TheMole but somehow always comes out clean, but ultimately turned out to really be an undercover agent, he'd not let the same happen to him. Then Erol turns up, pulls all kinds of stunts and quickly earns the trust of Ivo [[HistoryRepeats just like Martin had earned Djaro's]], and Ivo doesn't suspect until the very end.
154	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: He has been taking Djaro's mistrust for a while, along with his favoritism for Martin, but he snaps when Djaro orders him dead out of paranoia.]]
155	--> '''Djaro''': [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids We were never like a family.]]
156	--> '''Ivo''': [[CallingTheOldManOut We were never like a family because we never had a father!]]
157	* TheSociopath: Ivo has complete LackOfEmpathy, only cares about power and sees people only as tools to use and then dispose of when they are no longer useful. The sole exceptions are his mother [[spoiler: after whose murder he starts exhibiting those traits more]], Sunny and Hook, who is the only person Ivo considers a friend.
158	* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[EvilerThanThou A villainous version.]] Whether Djaro was on a more equal footing with the other mob bosses and didn't needlessly antagonize them, instead counting on the respect he had earned with his cunning to stay as a first among equals, Ivo just murders whoever stands in his way, brutally, until everyone is either dead or paying tribute to him. Then again, he's having to prove himself.
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160	!! Rossen "Hook" Gatzov
161	->'''Portrayed by:''' Marian Valev
162	A gangster high in the hierarchy of Djaro's group who's basically the third-in-command.
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164	* FamilyValuesVillain: He's the only one out of Djaro's gang who is a family man. He cares deeply about his wife and son. [[spoiler: After they get brutally assassinated, he spends two seasons on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
165	* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Only his wife, Ivo and Djaro can address him by his given name instead of "Hook" and in the case of Djaro, only because he's his boss.
166	* TheMafia: Unlike most characters, he is much more similar to an Italian gangster than an Eastern European one.
167	* LawmanGoneBad: [[LostInTranslation "Hook" is Bulgarian slang for cop]], which he used to be.
168	* NobleDemon: Hook insists that he's an "honest gangster" - he won't turn on his "brothers" and won't engage in needless killing or things such as trafficking of underage girls. He also keeps a life debt and respects people on the other side if he has seen that they're decent. That said, killing other mobsters or cops [[NothingPersonal that he doesn't know personally]] as part of the business is fine by him.
169	* ReligiousBruiser: He suddenly becomes a devoted Christian after he gets [[spoiler: falsely]] diagnosed with terminal cancer.
170	* SharpDressedMan: He's one of the two gangsters on the show that almost always wears suits. The other is Djaro, but unlike him, Hook wears a suit when he's out doing the dirty work.
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172	!! Zdravko "Hair" Kiselov
173	->'''Portrayed by:''' Alexander Sano
174	The guy responsible for female trafficking.
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176	* IOweYouMyLife: Martin got close to him by saving his life while in jail. He then gets even more indebted to Martin after he saves him from being wrongfully executed on suspicions of betraying Djaro.
177	* LadykillerInLove: He has no problem picking up a girl, but he has little luck hitting on Adriana, the bartender at Djaro's bar (even if that violates TheBroCode that she used to be Ivo's mistress). She doesn't get together with him until he gets honest about his feelings for her.
178	* UnluckilyLucky: His nickname, "Hair" comes from his tendency to get away from trouble by a hair's breath (or, since in Bulgarian the expression is tied to Damocles' sword, of his life hanging by a thread of hair). [[spoiler: When he dies, his last words are "the hair snapped".]]
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180	!! Nikolai and Tihomir "The Twins"
181	* TheBrute: They are Djaro's heavy hitters, more skilled than the average thug, but not good at anything else.
182	* CantKIllYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: After they kill his mother]] Ivo won't forgive Tisho but has to employ him because he can't afford to waste a good thug, so he demotes Tisho to his chauffeur and constantly humiliates him by ordering him around.
183	* DumbMuscle: They sometimes don't know the meaning of basic terms.
184	* HeterosexualLifePartners: They aren't actually brothers, but they could as well be. [[spoiler: After Nicki's death, Tisho mourns him.]]
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186	!! Angel "Gele" Yakimov
187	->'''Portrayed by:''' Stanislav Ianevski
188	Djaro's bodyguard.
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190	* SacrificialLamb: He doesn't have much of an influence of the plot[[spoiler:, besides his assassination makes everyone realize that Djaro is paranoid and causes them to abandon him.]]
191	* TheStarscream: Gele attempts to be a small-time version, selling drugs behind Djaro's back. It gets nowhere.
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193	!! Krum
194	Ivo's go-to thug.
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196	* BrainsAndBrawn: With Rafael.
197	* DumbMuscle: He's only good for violence.
198	* WeHaveReserves: When[[spoiler: Hook]] kills him, Ivo flatly says he won't miss Krum.
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200	!! Rafael
201	Ivo's right-hand man who used to be in Metho's employ.
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203	* TheEvilGenius: He's Ivo's tectical genius and organiser.
204	* SilkHidingSteel: He's effeminate, but he still packs a punch when necessary.
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206	!! General Penev
207	An elderly general formerly from the communist intelligence services, he has a great deal of influence over underworld bosses such as Djaro, Ivo and Mironov.
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209	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Supposedly of real-life ''DS'' general Lyuben Gotzev who's rumored to have orchestrated the rise of Bulgaria's greatest crime syndicates.
210	* FormerRegimePersonnel: He served in [[StateSec DS]], which was a dreaded spying agency.
211	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When Ivo starts getting less benefits and more lectures from him, he has him gunned down outside the restaurant where they had an argument.]]
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214	!! Alexander Mironov
215	->'''Portrayed by:''' Hristo Mutafchiev
216	A former teammate from Popov and Djaro's unit, presumed murdered by Djaro years ago when Djaro defected to escape with money confiscated from some Serbian gangsters.
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218	* BitchInSheepsClothing: He shows up to Popov, who has been grieving him and Stanley for years, and promises him to help against Djaro. [[spoiler: He was the one responsible for the whole tragedy, and the one who killed Stanley.]]
219	* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: He is a crime boss who works with General Penev to undermine Djaro's illicit construction deals and orders several people's brutal assassinations to do so.]] Then an even more gruesome revelation is made. [[spoiler: The idea of taking money from Serbian smugglers was his and not Djaro's. When Stanley was about to alert Popov to the theft, it was Mironov who shot him.]]
220	* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: It turns out that it was him who killed the fourth team member, Stanley, in order to escape with the money. Djaro, who never planned to turn on his team, shot him in disgust and fled.]]
221	** EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Djaro hunted him down and tried to assassinate him, which Mironov presented to Martin as something of a sob story.]]
222	* HisNameIs: [[spoiler: He gets shot by Martin just before he can reveal to Djaro that the former is an undercover agent, and thus ruinPopov's plans.]]
223	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: He didn't get burned alive in the police car by Djaro. Instead, Djaro shot him and escaped, after which Mironov woke up, faked his death and lit the car on fire, using a gangster's body to fill in for his own.]] His appearsnce shocks both Djaro and Popov.
224	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Djaro and Mironov both can only think about him when he sends them origami swans, which they know he used to make.
225	* UnfriendlyFire: In Djaro's flashback, it's shown how he shoots Mironov with the words "I should have done this a long time ago". [[spoiler: This gets presented in a [[AntiVillain whole new light]] when it's revealed that moments ago Mironov was the one who turned on their coworker and murdered him in cold blood.]]
226	* WalkingSpoiler: His role reveals a lot of details about Popov and Djaro's vendetta.
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228	!! Anton Damyanov
229
230	!! Ventzislav "Vein Ventzy" Venev
231	A mob boss with a huge share in Bulgaria's drug market.
232	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: His assassination kicks off Djaro's downfall.]]
233
234	!! "Metho the Powerlifter"
235
236	!! "Lizard"
237	An uncouth mob boss.
238	* BraidsOfBarbarism: he wears his hair in a long one.
239	* CasualSportsJersey: He always wears one of the team he owns, with his nickname (''GUSHTERA'') on it.
240	* FootballHooligans: He dresses like one.
241
242	!! "Greasy"
243	Another mob boss.
244	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Ivo kills him when he takes over, to show that he isn't screwing around and allowing anyone to make deals behind his back.]]
245
246	[[/folder]]
247
248	[[folder: Turkish underworld]]
249	!! Faruq Aykan
250
251	!! Bardem Aykan
252
253	!! Ak Hassan
254	A Turkish assassin.
255	----
256	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: He gets decapitated with a katana by Hook for doing the same to his wife and son.]]
257	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's called "White Hassan" for his white hair. He also brutally murdered a woman and a child on Faruq's orders.
258
259	[[/folder]]
260
261	[[folder: Other criminals]]
262	!! Kiril "Kiro the Legend" Hristov
263	Martin's father, a notorious thief.
264
265	!! The Hackers
266
267	!! Spas
268
269	[[/folder]]
270
271	[[folder: Others]]
272	!!Margarita Popova
273
274	!! Zornitza Popova
275
276	!! Silvia "Sunny" Veleva
277
278	!! Adriana
279
280	!! Tzveta Andonova
281
282	!! Ana Nedelcheva
283
284	!! Zhelev
285
286	!! Chilingirov
287
288	!! Asya Panteva
289
290	!! Elitza Vladeva
291
292	!! Nia Tudjarova
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