A list of the characters appearing in the Spanish series Estoy Vivo and the tropes applying to them.
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Main cast
Márquez
Manuel Márquez / Andrés Vargas
Played by: Roberto Álamo (Vargas) and Javier Gutiérrez (Márquez)
- Action Dad: Even if his daughters don't know it anymore.
- Cold Ham: A very expressive and emotional man who in turn rarely lifts his voice, which makes him sound appropriately bitter.
- Cowboy Cop: Becomes technically this upon his return to Earth, as he is forced to break laws a few times to do his supernatural job.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He is very short-tempered, noticeably more as Márquez than as himself, which is quite understandable given his situation.
- Healing Factor: His new body has a regenerative ability, making him effectively immortal. He is shown to be able to heal from headshots, supernatural poisons and falls from great weights, and it could probably go down to From a Single Cell if the occasion required it.
- Hot-Blooded: A version who manages to be impulsive and somber at once.
- Internal Affairs: Subverted. It is not really the case, but his arrival to the police station and subsequent behavior around gave this impression, making Santos and the locals suspect he might be an internal affairs agent send to investigate them.
- Perma-Stubble
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Márquez proves to be it, as in his fistfight with the much taller and stronger David, he manages to eat a punch, break his grip and land a solid hook before they are separated.
Iago
The Liaison / Iago Márquez
Played by: Alejo Sauras
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Is always in a pimpy two-piece white suit. Interestingly, upon closer inspection his attire actually reveals his Cloudcuckoolander status, as he wears sockless sneakers along with the suit.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He has little knowledge about the human world and is quite enthusiastic towards everything related to it, and one gets the impression he actually enjoys annoying Márquez with his antics.
- The Gadfly: Although he is very supportive of Márquez's new life, he seems unable to stop himself from angering him (and other people) with his gleeful lack of diplomacy.
- Genius Bruiser: A self-described expert in science and technology who was introduced as incredibly good in hand-to-hand fighting.
- Glass Cannon: Unlike Márquez, he has no Healing Factor. That means that, although he has the advantage of being (sometimes) physically superhuman, he can die for real.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: To emphasize his otherworldy and naive nature.
- Mr. Exposition: Of supernatural affairs, helped by his holograms.
- Manchild: Constantly, due to his childlike approach to his new world.
- Never Gets Drunk: Subverted. He claims to be immune to alcohol, but in reality gets quite shitfaced while drinking with Susana. Interestingly, by the end of the night he seems to be only slightly drunker than her despite being a total novice in the custom, meaning his biology might actually be more resistent to alcohol after all, only not completely immune.
- No Social Skills: He is very fresh and confident in his interactions, but clearly has trouble understanding how the human world works.
- Not Afraid to Die: Looks almost perplexed by Márquez's worry when he informs him (while held in gunpoint) that Walkway workers like him can die. Given that accompanying people to death is actually his job, it makes sense that the process doesn't bother him.
- Older Than They Look: According to his references to famous people whose souls he guided to afterlife, he is clearly much older than the twenty-something years old he seems to be. He is still a case of Immortal Immaturity, though.
- Satellite Character: At least to everybody's eyes, he is one to Márquez, as he is constantly by his side with the excuse of being his criminologist nephew.
- Special Person, Normal Name: He is an angel incarnate that goes under a rather peculiar, almost redneck-ish name ("Iago" is a Spanish Galician variation of "James" that is stereotypically associated to the region's country).
- Strong as They Need to Be: Sometimes, he is a superb martial artist whom not even guns can stop. Other times, he is a full Non-Action Guy who gets captured and taken out with ease.
Susana
Susana Vargas Bertrán
Played by: Anna Castillo
- Action Girl: She tries, even although she is often Overshadowed by Awesome due to the literal angels and demons running around her.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Mildly, towards everybody but her family.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: In the series's prologue, and she doesn't completely outgrow it.
- Cool Big Sis: Towards Bea.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards all the weirdness she finds.
- Naïve Newcomer: Hates being labelled as such, both in the police force and in life, but she is a bit of both.
- Standard Cop Backstory: Her father was a cop who was killed by a serial killer. Nuff said.
Vargas family
Laura
Arturo
Arturo Vargas
Played by: Zorión Eguileor
- Cool Old Guy: He is, and tries to be, as long as his advanced age allows it.
- Doting Grandparent: He's loving and supportive, and especially close to Bea.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Played for drama, as he has Alzheimer's.
- Put on a Bus: After being sent to a nursing home.
Bea
Beatriz Vargas Bertrán
Played by: Lucía Caraballo
- Brainy Brunette: Dark-haired and a TV Genius.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: When she sees her mother being kissed by Santos, she is both uncompromising and unforgiving, telling her that she's forgetting her husband.
- Child Prodigy
Police force
Santos
Óscar Santos García
Played by: Fele Martínez
- The Atoner: Although it is not a big part of his character as in Sebas or Laura, it's shown from the start that Santos does feel remorse for letting Vargas die. It is showcased much more in early episodes.
- By-the-Book Cop: He's very strict in his job, possibly because he's overcompensating for his personal flaws.
- Catchphrase: "Be careful! They don't give candy out there" whenever the cops part to their missions.
- Da Chief: To the rest of cops.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Out of the few people who formed his circle of childhood friends, Sebas claims Santos has been an ass through his entire life, and Andrés certainly doesn't have a good memory of him either. The flashbacks confirm that although they were all friends, he wasn't easy to hang out with.
- Inspector Javert: Nothing indicates he is not a dutiful cop, if only a bit of a pompous jerk, but he starts the series becoming an enemy of Márquez due to the latter's admittedly shady ways and improbable knowledge about the Vargas case. It turns worse because they both pin for the same woman with good reasons and after Márquez lets her down.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is cocky and conceited and clearly likes too much to be the boss, but Santos is still a relatively good police chief and a dedicated husband.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Definitely tries to be, but circumstances and personal troubles are against the idea.
- Romancing the Widow: Towards Laura.
David
David Aranda
Played by: Alfonso Bassave
- Dumb Muscle: Not overly, but his characterization (classically handsome and muscled, significantly taller than most characters, quick to anger and a bit of a womanizer) does paint him as the kind of cop who is more cut for the physical aspect of his job.
- Inspector Javert: He might be the protagonist of his own Spanish police procedural series, but here he is a perennial enemy to Márquez due to how often the latter intrudes in his relationship with Susana.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite Márquez's understandable reserves, and against David's general stuffiness, he does prove to be a nice boyfriend to Susana and a good cop.
María
María Fernández
Played by: Goizalde Núñez
- Genki Woman: The sassiest and happiest in the police force.
- The Coroner: Her role in the police station.
- The Pollyanna: Happy, optimistic and chipper, always trying to heighten Laura's mood.
Supernatural beings
The Butcher
The Butcher
Played by: Mon Ceballos
- Evil Teacher: Poses as a teacher in Bea's school.
- Our Demons Are Different: He is a "hostile agent", a being of chaos and evil.
- The Stoic: His external demeanor is basically emotionless, to the point that most of his students are actually more amused than scared for how serious he was.
The Chairwoman
The Chairwoman
Played by: Julia Gutiérrez Caba
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's the Liaison's superior in the Walkway.
Other characters
Sebas
Sebastián Rey
Played by: Jesús Castejón
- The Big Guy: Once he joins Márquez and Iago.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's grumpy and very hot-tempered, but kind of a softie.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Was this with Vargas.
- Hot-Blooded: Usually played for drama, as he doesn't have much filter between his heart and his mouth.
- The McCoy: Towards Márquez's The Kirk and Iago's The Spock after learning the truth.
- Nice Guy: A gruff but generally nice bartender.
- Stout Strength: He's quite rotund and a surprisingly good hand-to-hand fighter.
Patri
Patricia
Played by: Ángela Arellano
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: The first subject on her mind when she wants to distract Bea is boys, and she is shown to rank them, flirt with them and make some dirty comments towards them.
- Lovable Coward: She's very supportive of Bea, but more terrified of her bullies than Bea is.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: She blackmails rather aggressively a fellow female classmate with telling everybody she had sexual contact with a boy in order to silence her. The victim gets the trope painted in her face when she replies to it.
John
John
Played by: Iván Mendes
- Everything Is Racist: He snarkily asks Márquez if he believes John is bad for Bea only because he's black. Márquez curtly replies it is rather because John works with sleazy people.
- The Quiet One: Talks little and with some accent, implying he was brought up abroad and doesn't talk Spanish as well as he would like.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Doesn't speak much and is more than a head taller than Bea, who is crushing hard on him. (And is black, as in literally dark.)
- Token Minority: He's black, which is quite rare in Spain.
Fani
Fani
Played by: Sara Jiménez
Ms. Samper
Ms. Gloria Samper
Played by: Carolina Lapausa