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6	'''For characters from the remake, see ''Characters/{{V 2009}}''.'''
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9	!V (Original Series) Characters:
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11	[[foldercontrol]]
12
13	!!The Resistance
14
15	[[folder:Julie Parrish]]
16	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2143300_dr_julie_parrish_5.png]]
17
18	->'''Played by''': Creator/FayeGrant
19
20	* ActionGirl: She was among the first to lead the resistance.
21	* BrainwashResidue: She's rescued before full Conversion, but worries that maybe she was rescued too late.
22	* TheChainsOfCommanding: At one point she vents over the responsibilities (both administrative and military) of being a RebelLeader when you don't have the experience to back it up.
23	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Having to become TheHeart of the resistance kinda helps, especially as far as the fight against the Visitors are concerned.
24	* JustAKid: Donovan's reaction on being told she's the leader of their Resistance group.
25	* TheKirk: She's usually the one to mediate.
26	* MindRape: She's subjected to it.
27	* RebelLeader: She was at least competent in the first miniseries.
28	[[/folder]]
29
30	[[folder:Mike "Gooder" Donovan]]
31	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/v_80s_marc_singer.jpg]]
32	->'''Played by''': Marc Singer
33
34	%%* BornLucky
35	* {{Determinator}}: He will fight the Visitors as much as he has to in order to get his son back.
36	* GoodOldFisticuffs: Often engages in hand-to-hand combat with the Visitors when he's already carrying a gun and it would be much more prudent to do so.
37	* TheIdealist: Very much. His nickname was given to him by Tyler as a shortening of "Do-gooder."
38	%%* ImprobablePilotingSkills
39	* IntrepidReporter: His job, which he attempts to use to discover the Visitors' true motives.
40	* LargeHam: In fight scenes, he really oversells the whole thing. There's also [[{{Narm}} a hilarious scene]] where he walks into a room, shouts "They did what?!" and smashes a metal panel with his fist.
41	* TheMcCoy: He's the most emotional out of the resistance.
42	* PapaWolf: The reason he fights against the Visitors in the first place.
43	* RedOniBlueOni: The more emotional red to Tyler's stoic blue.
44	* VitriolicBestBuds: Becomes this with Tyler.
45	[[/folder]]
46
47	[[folder:Ham "The Fixer" Tyler]]
48	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/characters_v_ham_tyler2_9797.jpg]]
49
50	->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelIronside
51	-->''"Watch the shadows."''
52
53	* BerserkButton:
54	** [[TheBerserker It's simply better to be nowhere around]] if [[TranquilFury he thinks children have been hurt]] -- the [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge object of his fury ''will'' be beaten into the ground with extreme prejudice]].
55	** Also, don't kill anyone he's taken a liking to.
56	-->Tyler: "You're the punk who killed [[spoiler: Ruby]], huh? You like hurting little old ladies, eh punk?"
57	-->Daniel: "She was a spy, and I'm proud of what I did".
58	-->Caleb: "Are you gonna kill him?"
59	-->Tyler: "AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN!"
60	* CombatPragmatist: He's particularly fond on obtaining explosives for missions. [[CrazyPrepared He even keeps a small amount in his boot for whenever he gets captured]].
61	* TheCynic:
62	-->"You start believing in that 'peace on earth and goodwill stuff,' there's no telling how screwed up you'll be."
63	* FriendToAllChildren: He may be an asshole most times, but he has a soft heart for kids.
64	* HeartbrokenBadass: When he was a U.S. soldier in Vietnam he married a Vietnamese woman and had a daughter with her, but both were killed when the place where the U.S. army said they would be safe was napalmed by a U.S. plane.
65	* HeroicBSOD: After being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forced]] to (nearly) assassinate Donovan, he so completely shuts down that Farber practically has to carry him. He gets better, of course.
66	* HiddenDepths: He is an ardent fan of the theatre.
67	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Farber.
68	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Very much hidden. He's a cold, cynical mercenary who lost his wife and daughter, but he dresses up as Santa Claus for the children.
69	* KnightInSourArmor: Grows out of TheCynic and into one.
70	%%* TheLancer
71	* LonerTurnedFriend:
72	-->Donovan: "I would like you to meet Ham Tyler; master of covert operations, communications, and very bad relations."
73	* ManchurianAgent: In one episode, the Visitors capture him, MindRape him, and set him to assassinate Donovan when he heard a certain trigger phrase [[spoiler: (it was foiled)]].
74	* TheNicknamer: Nicknamed Donovan "Gooder" and Kyle "Ace."
75	* OddFriendship: With Ruby, [[spoiler: too bad she gets killed off.]]
76	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Donovan's red, but, funnily enough is also red oni to his friend Chris Farber's blue.
77	* TokenEvilTeammate: At least in the mini-series; for instance he prefers not to let the Fifth Column have a cure for the Red Dust.
78	* VitriolicBestBuds: Becomes this with Donovan.
79	[[/folder]]
80
81	[[folder:Elias Taylor]]
82	->'''Played by''': Creator/MichaelWright
83	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: His brother Ben was this to him.
84	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Get vapourised by a visitor laser while he and Willie are out scouting.
85	* TheScrounger: His past as a drug dealer comes in handy with underworld connections.
86	* SharpDressedMan: During the TV run.
87	* SiblingYinYang: His brother Ben was a responsible upstanding doctor. He was a drug dealing hoodlum.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:Willie]]
91	->'''Played by''': Creator/RobertEnglund
92	* AlienAutopsy: Is subjected to it, but fortunately not as thoroughly as certain members of The Resistance wanted.
93	* GoingNative: He joins the humans to fight against his own species due to his relationship with Harmony.
94	* HeroWorshipper: He has a lot of respect for Donovan. So much so that to emulate Donovan, he takes up an [=M1911A1=] pistol as his weapon.
95	%%* [[InnocentAliens Innocent Alien]]
96	%%* IntriguedByHumanity
97	* InterspeciesRomance: With Harmony, who's human.
98	* {{Malaproper}}: Was supposed to have been placed in the Middle East and so had learned Arabic, but paperwork got shuffled around and he ended assigned to the U.S. and had a very short time to learn English, leading to this trope.
99	%%* MookFaceTurn
100	* NiceGuy: Very nice, extremely kind, and almost invariably sweet.
101	* PunchClockVillain: Was a simple low-level grunt among the Visitors, doing as he was told (and actually genuinely friendly towards humans), until he was captured by The Resistance.
102	* VegetarianCarnivore: Becomes a vegetarian so as to distance himself from the Visitors.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Robin Maxwell]]
106	->'''Played By:''' Blair Tefkin
107	%%* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong
108	%%* HormoneAddledTeenager
109	* SmittenTeenageGirl: She fell hard for a young Visitor named Brian, who simply used her to impregnate her as an experiment.
110	%%* TeenPregnancy
111	* TestedOnHumans: Diana decides to [[MadScience find out if a human-Visitor hybrid could work]] and uses her as a test subject.
112	* TooDumbToLive
113	[[/folder]]
114
115	[[folder:Elizabeth Maxwell]]
116	->'''Played by''': Jenny Beck (pre-metamorphosis), Jennifer Cooke (post-metamorphosis)
117	* HalfHumanHybrid: She's the product of an affair between a human and a Visitor.
118	* InterspeciesRomance: With Kyle, much to the chagrin of her mother who's also crushing hard on him.
119	%%* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
120	* PsychicPowers: She's not called 'Starchild' for nothing.
121	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Due to her biology she rapidly aged as a child, by the time of the TV show she's about her Mother's physical age.
122	[[/folder]]
123
124	[[folder:Kyle Bates]]
125	->'''Played by''': Jeff Yagher
126	* DistressedDude: He gets captured by the Vistors a couple of times and has to be rescued by the resistance.
127	* InterspeciesRomance: With Elizabeth, much to the chagrin of her mother who's also crushing hard on him.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Chris Farber]]
131	->'''Played by''': Mickey Jones
132	%%* DemolitionsExpert
133	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tyler.
134	* RedOniBlueOni: Funnily enough, though Tyler plays blue to Donovan's red, Farber plays a blue to Tyler's red.
135	%%* StoutStrength
136	[[/folder]]
137
138	[[folder:Abraham Bernstein]]
139	->'''Played by''': Leonardo Cimino
140	%%* CoolOldGuy
141	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Ruby.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Harmony]]
145	->'''Played by''':
146	* InterspeciesRomance: With Willie.
147	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Doesn't faze her when she finds out Willy is really reptilian; she fell in love with his sweetness and kindness.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Ruby Engels]]
151	->'''Played by''':
152	%%* CoolOldLady
153	* OddFriendship: Starts one with Tyler.
154	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Abraham.
155	%%* WigDressAccent
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	!!The Visitors
159
160	[[folder:Supreme Commander John]]
161	->'''Played by''': Richard Herd
162	* BigBadWannabe: He figured that he was the Supreme Commander who would win the campaign on Earth for their Leader. Diana eventually reminds him that he was just a useless figurehead.
163	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's disgusted with Diana when she tries to annihilate all life on Earth with a nuclear bomb during the Visitors' retreat.
164	* EvilOldFolks: His real age is unknown, but his human guise is old enough to have completely white hair. He's also the regional leader of a fascistic alien invasion force.
165	* FauxAffablyEvil: Adopts a kind, benevolent facade that makes him a perfect frontman for the visitor's true intentions. Contrasted to Diana who couldn't hide her evil bitchiness even if she wanted to.
166	* ManipulativeBastard: He presents himself as a benevolent alien who has come to mankind for help. His real plan is to install a puppet regime on Earth so he and his men can slowly drain Earth of its resources -- food and water. And the "food" happens to be those humans who aren't drafted as shock troops in their other campaigns.
167	[[/folder]]
168
169	[[folder:Diana]]
170	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/characters_v_diana2_1955.jpg]]
171	->'''Played by''': Jane Badler
172
173	* EightiesHair: Her massive perm from the tv series.
174	%%* AlphaBitch
175	* BadBoss: She has no problems with killing her subordinates in a variety of cruel ways.
176	* BigBad: She eventually gets complete control over the Visitor Fleet after she kills John, to whom she initially served as the DragonInChief.
177	* TheBaroness: Sexpot variety, although the fact that she's a lizard underneath tends to disgust her opponents quite a bit.
178	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She ''will'' murder other Visitors who threaten her position.
179	* DragonInChief: She was the real orchestrator of the Visitor invasion despite only being the second or third person in the chain of command of the Visitor Fleet orbiting Earth. She eventually points this out to Supreme Commander John, and he spitefully notes that she can reign all she wants over a destroyed Earth.
180	* ForTheEvulz: She insists on performing her terrifying [[{{Brainwashed}} conversion procedure]] herself simply because she likes to see [[MindRape people's minds break down in abject horror]].
181	* KlingonPromotion: She murders several of her superiors in cold blood to usurp their position, arguing that she favors a "more direct approach" to behind-the-scenes schemes among the officer staff.
182	* MadScientist: She regularly performs "experiments" on captured prisoners. Donovan sees the gruesome results to one of his friends of one such experiment. She's also stated to be the one who invented the method for preserving humans as food for the Visitors and came up with the plan to harvest humanity.
183	* MindRape: She perfected the process with the conversion procedure. The subject is tortured with vivid, nightmarish hallucinations until they either become completely docile or are turned into a drooling vegetable.
184	* TheMistress: She was a mistress to the Visitors' Leader to advance her own career.
185	* MsFanservice: Donovan gushes over her (before finding out she's FanDisservice underneath) and the other Visitors are well aware that she's the chosen concubine of the Leader.
186	* {{Sadist}}: She ''really'' enjoys hurting people.
187	* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Diana boasts that she got her position in the invasion fleet because she's one of the Visitor dictator's favorite mistresses. However Pamela points out that the Leader has become wary of Diana's ambition, is rumored to have found a younger HotConsort, and the fact that Diana has been sent billions of light years away to Earth hardly implies that the Leader can't bear to be without her.
188	* TortureTechnician: She perfected a brainwashing procedure that plays on the subject's primal fears and which she often carries out herself, both for her expertise and [[ForTheEvulz fun]].
189	* TheVamp: She usually doesn't fool anyone, given that most people are aware that she's a reptilian alien underneath her human suit. However, in the weekly series she seduces a random driver to kill him and steal his car while she's on the run.
190	* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted. She exits the second miniseries by taking an escape pod, but in the weekly series Donovan quickly catches on and chases her down to stand trial for war crimes.
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder:Brian]]
194	->'''Played by''': Peter Nelson
195	* AmbitionIsEvil: A young, opportunistic Visitor who rises quickly through the ranks
196	* DistaffCounterpart: While not as vicious, he is every bit as ambitious as his Superior Diana
197	* OddFriendship: Became close friends with Daniel.
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder:Lydia]]
201	->'''Played by''': June Chadwick
202	* EightiesHair: One of the most egregious offenders is that blonde hair metal cut, topped only by Diana.
203	* AlphaBitch: Not as much as Diana, but she can be just as cruel and selfish.
204	* CaptainObvious: When she and Diana are preparing to duel to the death, she states that she has never been defeated in mortal combat. Diana lampshades this by calling her an idiot.
205	* TheStarscream: Seems to be this for Diana.
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:Charles]]
209	->'''Played by''': Duncan Regehr
210	* TheCasanova: He has both Lydia and Diana scrambling over each other for him.
211	[[/folder]]
212
213	[[folder:Philip]]
214	->'''Played by''': Frank Ashmore
215	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Even when they wear human-like masks.
216	* HeelFaceTurn: Joins the resistance as TheMole when he realises that Diana killed Martin.
217	%%* NobleDemon
218	* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Towards Diana.
219	[[/folder]]
220
221	!!Collaborators/Others
222
223	[[folder:Eleanor Dupres]]
224	->'''Played by''': Neva Patterson
225	-->''"I know the Visitors aren't saints. But they're in power! They'' are ''power..."''
226
227	* EvenEvilHasStandards: As Donovan points out, she wouldn't shoot her own son.
228	* TheQuisling: Played entirely straight -- she joins them purely because they're the new power in the land.
229	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A Visitor officer pleads with her to intercede with the Resistance surrounding her house. She runs out and [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder tells the Resistance she's being held prisoner]] only to get shot InTheBack by the pissed-off Visitor.
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder:Nathan Bates]]
233	->'''Played by''': Creator/LaneSmith
234	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive
235	%%* ManipulativeBastard
236	* PapaWolf: Even though he and his son pretty much disagree on everything, and he's more than willing to set Mr. Chiang on his son to teach him a 'lesson', he'll do anything to protect Kyle from any trouble he gets into with the Visitors.
237	* TheQuisling: Strikes a deal with the Visitors and maintains control of Los Angeles as a result.
238	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dies saving his son.]]
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder:Mr. Chiang]]
242	->'''Played by''': Ali Aleong
243	* TheDragon: To Nathan Bates.
244	%%* DragonAscendant
245	* TheStarscream: Betrays Nathan, killing him. Before he dies, Nathan lampshades it, noting that Chiang was "hungry."
246	%%* TortureTechnician
247	[[/folder]]

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