Abdullah Bentarek (Ap)
Played by: Mimoun Oaïssa
The main protagonist of the movie and series. He is a very ambitious man and is looking forward to achieve things in his life in the Dutch society.
- Ambition Is Evil: Ap isn't afraid to plot illegal schemes in order to achieve his dreams.
- Back for the Finale: In "Een ring is een ding", Ap finally returned from Morocco with the money that his friends had invested, being present at the wedding.
- Category Traitor: There are many moments in the series where he had moments where he turns against his friends or/and culture, mostly if it benefits himself
- In the episode "Mario", being denied from every career because of his ethnicity eventually gave him the idea to pose as an Italian named Mario in order to get a job as a nightclub security, to make matters worse, he even agrees with his boss's favor to turn away people of his nationality who want to enter the club.
- In the episode "Tussen kunst en niets", when lacking catering papers, he decides to join the heist in order to get Robbie's painting back, however he took advantage of the situation to sell a fake painting for money in order so he can start his business.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He holds high regard for his mother Khadija despite his schemes, in one episode, he even shoo'ed off a guy who wanted to court his mother, threatening that if he doesn't leave, he'll fly out.
- The Comically Serious: Being a really sane person, his anger can make us laugh.
- Cultural Rebel: Aside from his friends who just prefer to stay pooling with each other and not do anything better with their lifes. Ap here is actually willing to take a step forward to get a career and manage business plans, however it's not that easy, not even due to his Moroccan nationality.
- Deadpan Snarker: He is quick to point out the stupidity and recklessness of his friends
- Hiding Your Heritage: Greatly emphasized in "Mario", after being denied in job interviews due to his ethnicity, he decides to pose himself as an Italian to successfully get a job at a nightclub.
- Only Sane Man: Compared to Rachid, Robbie, Mussi, Driss and Boerman, he is the only person that actually knows what's best.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: In the movie, he shows absolute disgust with his sister's activities and is quick to join his father in reprimanding her for it, even goes to the extreme to beat Leila up.
- Runaway Fiancé: He was supposed to be marrying someone in the movie, but he eventually bailed off from the wedding, his absence was discovered too.
- Surrounded by Idiots: With the exception of Samira and Alex. This is the reason why he often has to lead the plans and schemes.
- Would Hit a Girl: In the movie when he was quarreling with his sister Leila, he finally reaches his breaking point and uses violence towards her.
Rachid Boussabon
Played by: Mimoun Ouled Radi
A main character and the member of the friend group.
- Berserk Button: Whenever anyone points out his weight, he does not take kindly to it.
- Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Once hearing that Mussi will be getting married to a Dutch lady, he had his objections to it, even going as far as intending to not show up for the wedding and teaching a couple of Moroccan kids to marry a Moroccan.
- Big Eater: For a man like him, he has a soft spot for pizza, and other fast food.
- Fat Idiot: He's fat, and his senses? Well they're really thin.
- Insufferable Imbecile: Despite being not smart at all, he can be short-tempered and rude.
- Manchild: He's very prone to act immature.
- Mistaken for Terrorist: In "Missing Man" and "Operation Backpack"
- You Are Fat: He's the butt of this many times, for an example when Driss was encouraging Robbie in the fasting, his words were that if Rachid can handle fasting, so can he.
Mustapha (Mussi)
Played by: Mohammed Chaara
A main character and the member of the friend group.
- Brainless Beauty: Despite his charms with the ladies, he is still prone to follow along with the gang's reckless schemes.
- The Casanova: Mussi is known to be a ladies-man, as in several episodes he's been seen courting females, and that includes Samira. Eventually in the series finale, he manages to get married.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Once discovering that Samira's fitness teacher whom she has an eye on is gay, he takes many crazy steps to prove her.
- Even the Guys Want Him: It wasn't only Samira's love interest in "Body Fight", but also a guy who had dressed up the same as Mussi's sultry attire got attracted to him.
- Faux Yay: In "Body Fight", in order to prove Samira that her love interest is gay, he goes as far to make a sultry picture of himself and send it to the man, the man eventually manages to be attracted to Mussi.
- Porn Stash: Implied in "Body Fight", when Driss asked what's going on, the answer he got was it was one of Mussi's videos, resulting in Driss dropping his curiousity in disgust, already guessing what type of video he thinks they mean.
- Revenge Before Reason: In "Oog om oog, brand om brand", once seeing his car having caught fire during the riots, he is already filled with revenge that he joins the Neighborhood Watch in order to find the culrpit, once discovering the culprit, he attempts to burn his car, but the police have managed to caught him.
Robbie ter Heert
Played by: Leo Alkemade
A main character and the member of the friend group. He is the only person in the gang who does not have a Moroccan heritage.
- Dumb Blonde: He isn't a smart person at all, but is blonde.
- Going Native: He tried that many times, even joining in on living with the Moroccan culture, this was heavily emphasized in "Robbie's Roots".
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Despite not being the smartest of the gang, he is more friendlier than Rachid and Mussi appear to be.
- Mistaken for Foreigner: Whenever people point the gang out as Moroccans, they don't point out that he's the only Dutch person, a child even called him "The Moroccan with the glasses".
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Real Life Writes the Hairstyle: His hairstyle is progressively different in each seasons, in the movie and Season 1 he was completely bald, in Season 2 he had dreads, in Season 3, his hair was just normal-looking. - Repression Never Ends Well: Though this was encouraged by Samira in "Operation Backpack", it ultimately went too far that even Samira realizes he's crossing the line.
- Teach Him Anger: Samira in "Operation Backpack" does that to Robbie after showing sympathy for him because his friends forgot his birthday.
- Token White: This entirely is his role in the group.
Samira Saleh
Played by: Maryam Hassouni
A main character and a friend of the gang. She is a girl with more freedom despite her culture's principles.
- Actor Allusion: Her mother is played by Rachida Laalla, who had played the mother of Maryam's character in Dunya & Desi and Meskina as well.
- Chuck Cunning Ham Syndrome: She was completely absent in the third season.
- Dude Magnet: She's had several guys have an eye on her, and that includes Mussi.
- Good Parents: At least just Samira's father, who is implied to be aware of her more free actions but does not mind it at all.
- One of the Boys: She is in a way apart of the gang.
- The Smurfette Principle: In the gang, she's the only female friend in the adventures.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is this to Leila, a character in the movie who hasn't returned in the series. However she isn't Ap's sister.
Driss Bentarek
Played by: Illias Ojja
The younger brother of Ap, he works as a pizza delivery guy.
- Ascended Extra: As the seasons progresses, he got his own credits in Season 2, and is apart of the gang in Season 3.
- Blackmail Backfire: His way of gaining money is to take pictures of Moroccan girls without their hijab in school, and asks them for money if they don't want the incriminating evidence to be shown to their fathers. Driss eventually got caught by the principal, and ironically, his father got angry at him.
- Delivery Guy: His occupation is literally to deliver pizza.
- Dreadful Musician: He was once trying to pursue into the rap game, but.. It can be better, at least there was improvement in the finale song.
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the family, and of the gang.
- Hidden Depths: In "Coming Man", he is able to speak French to the foreign ladies that Rachid, Mussi and Robbie were courting, whereas they had to take advantage of his talent but at the same time leave him out of the dates.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the movie, when things start to go entirely wrong with the family, he consoles Leila by promising not to blackmail her ever again and actually helps her sneak out for free.
- Tactful Translation: In the movie, while the principal was talking with Ali about his son's behavior at school; Driss manages to tell his dad that he's been doing a good job at school, while Driss tells his principal that his father apologizes for his son's schemes. This act was eventually discovered by a Moroccan janitor, who steps in.
Henk Boerman
Played by: Rob van de Meeberg
The old next-door neighbor of the family Bentarek, he is very prone to make prejudices and racial remarks.
- Ascended Extra: In Season 3.
- Cranky Neighbor: He fits this trope really well, to make matters worse, he's a politically incorrect one too.
- Grumpy Old Man: He's old, but he's also hotheaded and snarky.
- Intergenerational Friendship: At least in later seasons, he became more closer to the gang.
- Racist Grandma: In the earlier seasons very much, but as the show progresses he manages to get along with Ap and his friends, but still holds on to his conservative beliefs.
- Right-Hand Cat: Despite being snarky, grumpy and bigoted, he shows his love for the cat he owns.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Driss
Roy
Played by: John Wijdenbosch
Alex
Played by: Jelka van Houten
Jürgen
Played by: Dennis Rudge
Khadija Bentarek
Played by: Zohra Slimani (movie), Nuzha Salah (TV-series)
Ali Bentarek
Played by: Salah Eddine Benmoussa
The late father of the Bentarek family, he makes no appearance in the series due to his death in the movie, he is unhappy with his marriage and his place in the society.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: From a death of a important member of the family, the other family members weren't that devastated about it, they were also quick to move on.
- Abusive Dad: Emotionally to Leila, but with Driss, he reprimands him from his acts by throwing shoes at him.
- Butt-Monkey: Mostly triggered by his wife, which eventually leads to his demise.
- Dirty Old Man: Like Ap said, he feels more at home in the Netherlands with the ladies wearing revealing clothes, he even often hallicunates and dreams about women around him.
- Give Away the Bride: In several scenes of the movie, he is talking with the potential candidates to marry his daughter, however Leila does not want to take apart in this all.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When his wife was pushing him on the wheelchair, he complains about the state of his family, mentioning the flaws of each family member which ultimately results in his wife purposefully releasing the wheelchair, pushing him to a billboard.
Leila Bentarek
Played by: Touriya Haoud
Ap's younger sister, and the only daughter of the Bentarek family, only appears in the movie.
- Brainy Brunette: She has a way to sneak out of the house, though she has to pay Driss first.
- Calling the Old Man Out: She is not afraid to talk back to her father, often mentioning that she'll marry who she wants.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She doesn't appear in the TV series at all without mention of why she hasn't returned, and instead a character identical to her spiritually takes her place, which is Samira.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: The candidates to marry her by her father's arrangement all are Moroccans, instead Leila preferrably wishes to spend time with a Dutch boyfriend, much to her father and Ap's chargin.
- Dude Magnet: That includes her lover, and the candidates of the arranged marriage, oddly enough her own father mistakes her for a virgin when he was on his death bed.
- The Fashionista: There's a reason she took fashion school.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Despite talking back to her father and brother numerous times in the movie, in the fight with Ap she reminded him of his own flaws in his life.
- The Un-Favourite: At least to her father, Ap and Driss in the beginning of the movie, who do not appreciate Leila's lifestyle in the Dutch society.
Samir Bentarek (Sam)
Played by: Najib Amhali
The oldest brother of the Bentarek family, works as a police officer and is actually integrated into the Dutch society.
- Big Brother Instinct: He treats Leila much better than his other brothers do.
- Cultural Rebel: His whole character represents this, he is fully apart to the Dutch society and it's culture and even managed to get a job as a police officer.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: This in the TV series, however his character was replaced by Karim, who instead of being the oldest, is the cousin of the Bentarek family.
- Hypocrite: He gets it on with a colleague's lover, but when his colleague gets too close with dancing with his lover Naima, it angers him, it was even pointed out.
- Minority Police Officer: Which isn't a surprise either considering he managed to adjust himself to the values of the country.
- White Sheep: He's the only member of the family that actually holds his honor.
Karim Bentarek
Played by: Nasrdin Dschar
