The Tail

One Tail.

The Tail is located on the furthest end of Snowpiercer. The residents here are the stowaways, more commonly referred to as Tailies, who boarded the Snowpiercer without tickets. Due to not being considered passengers, they do not have any rights or have permission to visit other cars except on rare occasions. They live in near-constant darkness, with only half-functional lights and candles in-between, and it has been stated that these people have not seen the sun since first boarding the train seven years ago. The Tailies are packed like sardines, fed the bare minimum to avoid starvation, are belittled by the staff and treated as subhuman work slaves, even though there's enough room and food on the train to provide for them decently if it were distributed more evenly. So it's no surprise the Tailies want to change that; they've led numerous rebellions over the years, all of which have ended in failure and catastrophic deaths so far.

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General Tropes

An Arm and a Leg: Every time a revolt goes belly up, one or more Tailies have their dominant arm put through a porthole until it's frozen, then shattered as punishment.
Dark and Troubled Past: Two to three years after Snowpiercer left Chicago, there was a killing cult; said cult killed and ate anyone regardless of their age or gender to survive. Before the cult could kill everyone else, Layton took it upon himself to take out the leader and his followers. After the deed was done, he took the leader's heart, split it, and ate the pieces alongside everyone else as a way to show that none of them was innocent. There hasn't been an act of cannibalism ever since.
Fantastic Slurs: Referred to as "Tailies" by those above them, though they themselves take it as a badge of honor as it's who they are now.
Fantastic Underclass: All those who live in the Tail are treated like garbage and used as slave labor; notably in Sanitation, where they have to clean the piss and shit in the train. Even after the success of Layton's revolution, Wilford is able to stir up so much resentment against them that the other classes on the train turn on them.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Layton makes the point when trying to win over the assembled population of Third that as unappealing as the Tail may seem to them, who would they rather have in charge; them or First? It does the trick. Until the following season, at least.
I Am a Humanitarian: Layton bluntly tells the Snowpiercer staff that the Tail resorted to cannibalism in the early days, with fanatic cults arising and terrorizing the rest. He eventually killed one of its leaders and had his supporters eat a piece of his heart to remind themselves that none of them are innocent.
Population Control: The women are forcibly sterilized every now and then. Josie even claims that there hasn't been a child born in the Tail in five years.
Reduced to Ratburgers: Aside from the protein bars (which the film shows are just insects ground up into paste) that they're given for food, they've kept a surplus of rats in a metal cage for consumption.
Slave Liberation: They are all sick and tired of being treated nothing more than laborers and being on the constant brink of extinction, so it's no surprise that they want to free themselves of their shitty situation. However every revolt they've led all end in failure, death, and the aforementioned An Arm and a Leg above. Even after Layton leads them in successful revolution, it's all too easy for Wilford to turn Third and other disaffected sections of the train against them.
Spanner in the Works: Melanie's flashbacks reveal they were this to the whole train system; their storming the gates made Wilford prioritize security over Melanie's geneticists, having them all killed - in turn leading to her deciding to take the train without him or her family.
The Illegal: All residents of the Tailies are this, as they boarded the train in desperation in order to survive seven years ago.
Out of Focus: Aside from Layton and Josie they're surprisingly absent from the finale.

Leadership

Andre Layton

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Portrayed By: Daveed Diggs

The unofficial leader of the Tail and main protagonist. Thoughtful and intelligent, Layton has managed to lead the Tail through Snowpiercer's journey. But it's his former life as a homicide detective that sees him exposed to the outside Train for the first time - a journey that has serious consequences for Snowpiercer.

Amicable Exes: He has a lot of ups and downs with Zarah, but eventually the two come to terms with raising their daughter together, even if they don't love each other romantically any more.
Batman Gambit: Outs Melanie's secret to L.J. Folger, knowing it'll distract First with their revolt as the Tail's own gets going.
Berserk Button: Terence merely implying he'd sell out Josie as Layton's spy in Big Alice is enough for him to order the King of the Janitors killed.
The Chains of Commanding: He's in charge of the train following the defeat of Grey and the Folgers - and judging by episode 10, isn't finding it any easier than Melanie did. The start of season 2 has him reluctantly declaring martial law until the threat of Big Alice and Wilford is over, something that makes him very unpopular with some of the Third Class fighters that supported him, while his Tail-first policies rebound on him hugely later in the series. By the end of 2x08, Layton loses Snowpiercer to Wilford, gets arrested, and is sent to Big Alice as a prisoner.
Didn't Think This Through:
- His plan to distract Melanie and First by outing her as Wilford end with the Folgers starting their own revolution. While he's able to defeat Nolan in the Night Car, he didn't expect Nolan to be ruthless (or stupid) enough to resort to gassing the rest of the train, and ends up reluctantly teaming with Melanie to get rid of him and the Folgers for good.
- He also seems to have failed to anticipate that after years of starving in the Tail, many of his people would go on the rampage, looting the vital food cars Snowpiercer needs to stay alive.
Dreadlock Warrior: While he may not be the Tail's best fighter, he can hold his own in a fight.
Earn Your Happy Ending: While it likely isn't the end of the raod for him yet, after all the crap he had to deal with across three seasons, including several betrayals, Layton and those with him find out that his New Eden actually exists, and are able to disembark from the train for the first time in years and actually enjoy the outside world.
Enemy Mine: Very reluctantly ends up teaming with Melanie to get rid of Grey and the Folgers.
Good Is Not Soft: The struggle against first Grey and the Folgers, then Wilford, increasingly has him heading this way. He sacrifices a car full of prisoners to ensure the former are eliminated for good, while some of his moves against the latter include coercing Audrey back into a clearly toxic relationship with him, lying to the train about Melanie's possible demise in order to keep hope alive, and having Pike kill Terence when he threatens to sell Josie out to Wilford as Layton's spy.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Upon assuming leadership of the train, stresses the importance of democracy and the train's people being free to choose their own leaders. By series' end they irrevocably choose Wilford, leading to his own leadership of the train collapsing.
Irony: His original stint as train leader started when he exposed the huge lie of Melanie's posing as Wilford. In season 3, his second run starts with his imposing another huge lie - Asha being from New Eden - on the unwitting populace to keep them united. Gets even more ironic when it's Melanie, of all people, that exposes his deception to the train.
I Shall Return: Vows this to Zarah as the pirate train plan comes to formation; as she's unwilling to join him with a child on the way, he gradually accepts it, then promises he'll be back for her.
Last-Name Basis: Almost everyone calls Andre by his last name, save for a few.
Messianic Archetype: Andre has MANY parallels between him and Jesus. Let’s look at the details:
- He becomes the leader of a group of followers whom all look to him for guidance and disobey the normal religious rules.
- He tries to reason with all enemies and allies of the train, even if he is antagonized and doesn’t agree with him.
- He comes from a much poorer part of the civilization that is frequently persecuted.
- He has long hair that flows to his shoulders, similar to iconic paintings of Jesus.
- When he meets with LJ to give her important truthful information, he wears a hood over his head like His cloak.
My God, What Have I Done?: A combination of killing Pike to uphold his own lie and a tortuous trip through his own psyche (including the spectre of his daughter's death) leave him wondering if he's really done the right thing peddling the myth of New Eden to Snowpiercer.
Odd Friendship: With Melanie in season 2; despite their many earlier differences, the two seem to reach a mutual understanding based on their experiences leading the train. Lampshaded by both Wilford himself, when he comments how odd it is to see them breaking bread together despite one overthrowing the other, and Josie, who explodes at Layton for working with the woman who maimed her.
Out-Gambitted: His plan to have Wilford fix the problems with the Engine in episode 8 without any fanfare might actually have worked but for a modification of Melanie's causing the original fix to fail - allowing Wilford to use his engineering knowledge to improvise a new solution while broadcasting his instructions to the rest of the train. Consequently Wilford is seen as a hero and Layton ends up a prisoner.
Panicky Expectant Father: Poor Zarah has to send him to personally investigate an arson attempt to kick him out of the medical car and get a break from his rumblings. It's partly justified, though, as the baby had been experimented on genetically during the gestation to give her cold immunity, and no one has a precedent for that kind of birth.
The Peter Principle: His arc in season 2 shows that while Wilford's manipulation of events isn't helping matters, there's a strong implication that without Melanie he tends to still act like he's just the Tail leader rather than leader of a whole train; talk of equality for all is well and good, but he tends to put the Tail first in his decision making and keeps allies who could be useful or loyal (like Ruth or Till) out of his inner circle unless he has no other choice. Season 3 qualifies this; he's a very effective fighter and solid general in the finale, but as a politician his leadership is built on the kind of lies he hated Melanie for.
Reasonable Authority Figure: To the extent where Melanie recognises his leadership after her own so catastrophically failed, knowing that he'll at least be fair towards everyone.
Rebel Leader: He is pretty much in charge of the Tail and is planning the rebellion against Mr. Wilford. Eventually succeeds after a lot of twists and turns, and is in charge by episode 10.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The quiet, thoughtful blue to Pike's red.
Sadistic Choice: He reluctantly sacrifices a car full of prisoners to ensure the success of the rebellion.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Not quite money, but he rejects LJ's offer to provide maps of the train and even a gun to the Tail because at the end of the day he's still a cop at heart and she's murdered two men out of boredom and spite.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While he loathes Melanie over Josie's death, he works with her to ensure the defeat of Grey and the Folgers, knowing their rule would be far worse than anything Melanie could do.
Token Good Cop: While most law-enforcers aboard the train work to keep the elite in power and the lower classes and stowaways in line through intimidation and occasional brute force, Andre is belatedly and grudgingly assigned to the police force to investigate a murder, due to none of the other ex-cops on the train having homicide investigation experience. He uses this position to serve as The Mole for the downtrodden Tail residents, as well as as an Internal Reformist, gradually winning over some colleagues.
Turn the Other Cheek: While he's got a lot to be angry about, he realizes that change over order has to be real, consequently forgiving both Melanie and Zarah for their roles in Josie's death and ensuring no reprisals are taken after the revolution.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Zigzagged. Pike says he's this, but his actions during and after the Night Car battle directly defy this. It's not until Grey and the Folgers start threatening to gas the entire train - something everyone thinks is mad due to the slaughter of Snowpiercer's work force - that he folds. Melanie also sees it as a flaw - neglecting to tell him of the prisoners in the classroom cars when he disconnects the Folgers in case he jeopardises their plan by trying to save everyone. But he does do it, much as he hates himself for it.

Pike

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Portrayed By: Steven Ogg

A hardened and battle-scarred leader in the Tail and a warrior of his people. He was a career convict, serving time in Cook County Jail for armed robbery at the time of the Freeze, but escaped.

Ambiguous Situation: He's taken from the drawers by Grey and gives him information on Layton in exchange for the luxuries of First, but it's unclear if he is truly a turncoat or is simply stringing Grey along. The former seems to be the case when he admits to loving the joys of proper food for the first time in years. Events conspire to keep him from facing any consequences either way.
Dark and Troubled Past: According to his official character profile he was a career criminal who'd escaped just prior to the Freeze, just in time to board the Tail as Snowpiercer left. This lends new light to his desperation to escape the Tail, as he'd essentially traded one form of incarceration for another.
Debt Detester: Though he feels indebted to Layton for saving his life in the past, he deeply resents that his service to Layton reminds him of it. Layton's absence between seasons 2 and 3 only amplifies this, driving him to assassinate Layton to reset back to a time where he felt like a partner to Ruth.
Defector from Decadence: Inverted: when a staggered Layton asks why he is now helping Grey and the Folgers, he replies honestly; clean sheets and actual good food after years living on scraps in terrible conditions in the Tail. After the revolution ends he helps himself to the Folgers' luxuries, much to L.J.'s horror.
Didn't Think This Through: Believes he'll be safe from the anti-Tail riots because, without his beard and hair, no-one will recognise him. He's very, very wrong.
Dying Curse: "I hope you find it frozen!" He dies knowing that Asha is not from New Eden, and The Promised Land Layton convinced the Snowpiercer to head towards might be nothing but a Hope Spot.
Everyone Has Standards:
- While he kills numerous people in combat during the first episode rebellion, he seems to have a strong aversion to outright murder. When he goes to kill Terence, he offers him a shiv so he at least has a chance to fight back. When that ends up a brutal and messy death, he's left psychologically cracked for the rest of the season.
- When his assassination attempt is revealed while he's with Layton and his family, Pike seems genuinely distraught that they think he could hurt baby Liana. While there's pretty much no way back for him and Layton, that doesn't mean he wants Zarah or the baby hurt.
Heroic BSoD: Breaks down when he realizes so many of his followers have been killed in the episode 1 rebellion for the gain of only a single train car.
Hot-Blooded: Pike is someone who tends to act without thinking of the consequences. The first episode rebellion happens mainly because Layton wasn't around to restrain him after Old Ivan's death.
Hypocrite: In season 1. When Layton's taken uptrain Pike rails against his selling them out for comfort, something Josie vehemently and accurately) denies. But when Grey and the Folgers offer him fresh food and a clean bed to sell out Layton he doesn't hesitate even slightly.
Important Haircut: Shaves himself bald and cuts off his beard after killing Terence on Layton's orders, symbolizing his shame at what he's had to do.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a resolute asshole, but he has genuinely noble intentions, is a true believer in rebellion against his oppressors, and isn't afraid to fight alongside those he would put in danger. Subverted later when the promise of good food and clean living after years of the Tail prompts him to help Grey and the Folgers - even knowing it'll end in Layton's execution. It's played straight again when it's revealed that Pike is actively trying to be a better person as penance for something that happened in the Tail's past.
Karma Houdini: Sells out Layton to Grey and gives him information on how to blunt Layton's strategies, yet not only survives Grey's defeat but manages to set himself up in the Folgers' old carriage afterwards. L.J. even lampshades how he sold out all the people now adulating him just before he throws her out her home.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Gives teen sociopath L.J. a nasty speech about how she no longer matters as she has no friends, shortly before kicking her out her own home to survive alone in the lower classes. To be fair, his expression immediately afterwards indicates he didn't enjoy it.
Killed Off for Real: After his ill-fated attempt to kill Layton, demands a duel to the death in old Taillie fashion. When it becomes obvious he'll spill the secret of New Eden being a lie, Layton ends up stabbing him to death.
Must Make Amends: Despite his selfish actions, such as selling out Layton's Rebellion in exchange for a better life, Pike's trying to be a better person as penance for a past event. Years ago, Pike was one of the cannibals that plagued the Tail; everyone wanted to hang him, but Layton saved his life, and he's been trying to be better ever since.
Number Two: In the absence of Layton and Josie he becomes this to Ruth in her attempts to lead a resistance against Wilford.
Put on a Bus: For most of the first season. He and two other Tail section rebels, Z-Wreck and Strong Boy, are consigned to the Drawers after the rebellion in the first episode. Grey reawakens him to provide information on how Layton thinks in episode 8, a.
Rank Up: With Layton's express approval, takes over the Big Alice weed trade, killing Terence so he can rule the train's black market trade.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The brash, aggressive red to Layton's blue.
Sanity Slippage: Has clearly cracked in the aftermath of killing Terence, leading Layton to comment he's accidentally broken his former comrade.
Spotting the Thread: While it's clear when he interrupts Asha's initial meeting with Snowpiercer's department heads that he's suspicious of her, his later finding her in a dark hidey-hole away from everyone else - and liking it - confirms that the bright greenery of New Eden is bunk.
Undying Loyalty: Season 2 expands on why Layton and Pike keep trusting each other despite everything; Layton saved Pike from being hung for cannibalism back when they were all crammed in the Tail, something he's never forgotten. Finally runs out in season 3, when Layton's lying about New Eden proves the straw that breaks the camel's back.
The Starscream:
- Grey awakens him from the drawers to provide information on Layton during the rebellion.
- He tries to blow up Layton in season 3 after Layton takes charge once more, seemingly in the belief that Ruth, content to simply work in Hospitality, would step up in his absence as she did when Layton was running the pirate train.
We ARE Struggling Together: Pike and Layton do not get along, with the aggressive Pike clashing with the more cerebral Layton. Yet, they're still allies and understand that they need to work together. Layton even talks him into surrendering.
Wild Card: He talks a big game regarding freedom and leading the Tail, but his selling out Layton for comfort and later becoming part of Terence's contraband chain show if he can make his own life a little easier he'll do pretty much anything.

Josie

Josie Wellstead

Portrayed By: Kate McGuiness

A strong, no-nonsense woman who lives in poverty at the tail of the train. One of the leaders of the Tail, she's Layton's significant other and Miles's foster mother.

Big Damn Heroes: Sides with Layton when Boki is unable to separate the cars, destroying the aquarium to forcibly create the pirate train.
Came Back Wrong: Being physically rebuilt with the ability to survive the cold is a great boon in season 2, but it leaves her increasingly unable to feel not just pain, but any physical sensation.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: Shatters her own hand to escape her restraints and attack Melanie.
Empowered Badass Normal: She was already a formidable Tail leader, but when the Headwoods fix her frostbite they turn her into an improved version of Icy Bob, allowing her to survive the cold on top of the train.
Fingore: Loses a finger to Melanie's icy torture when she proves unwilling to rat out the Tail's plans.
Heroic Sacrifice: Knowing Melanie will kill her for what she knows and will use Miles to make her talk, she gives her life in an attempt to kill Melanie. Even though she doesn't succeed, it denies Melanie any leverage her life might have.
The Leader: In the absence of both Layton and Pike she emerges as the Tail's leader.
Mama Bear: She'll do anything to protect Miles.
Not Quite Dead: In season 2, she turns out to have survived the freeze in Melanie's office, but she is severely frostbitten, leaving her so disfigured that nobody can identify her until Zarah stumbles upon her while working in the clinic.
Number Two: Generally Layton's right-hand woman.
Parental Substitute: She becomes this to Miles after the Jackboots throw his actual mother off the train in the chaotic rush to departure, forming a strong bond in the years after departure. He even refers to her as his "Tail Mom".
What the Hell, Hero?: Gives a searing one to Layton when he visits her in the infirmary, blasting him for working with Melanie and selling out his original goals.

Old Ivan

Portrayed By: Mark Margolis

An 84 year-old former piano tuner and a leader of the Tail.

Cool Old Guy: Ivan is one of the oldest people in the Tail, if not the oldest at 84. He lost an arm for taking part in a prior rebellion and is one of the more insightful members of the faction.
Driven to Suicide: He hangs himself on his birthday after a bout of depression in the pilot.
Plot-Triggering Death: While the story with Layton and the Third murders is underway by that point, Ivan's death motivates the Tail to rebel without him, leading to major consequences later on.
The Promised Land: He saw the front section once when brought there to perform some work and is an advocate of the tail pushing forward.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the pilot, leaving the rest of the Tail to carry on in his name.

Other Tailies

Miles

Portrayed By: Jaylin Fletcher

One of the few children in the tail end of the train. Whip smart and talented, he has the intelligence to potentially move up the train if he can get a coveted apprenticeship.

Affectionate Nickname: Everyone refers to him as Miles and Miles; when he moves up to Third Class and eventually the Engine, they still call him that.
Child Soldier: Sees himself as such in service to the Tail, though Bennett just thinks he's tragic.
Commuting on a Bus: After appearing in all of season 1, Jaylin Fletcher's growth spurt and other acting commitments led to his appearing in only one episode of seasons 2 and 3, with the explanation that he'd moved from Engineering to Life Systems, working on technology to let the passengers move outside once more.
The Mole: Melanie lets him into the Engine as a unwitting hostage to use against Layton, but Miles knows the score and uses his position to further Layton's plans.
Orphan's Ordeal: His dad and sibling were unable to make onto the train in time and his mother was thrown off. It looks like he loses his surrogate mother Josie as well before the series is out, but it turns out she's Not Quite Dead in season 2.
Put on a Bus: Due to Jaylin Fletcher working on other projects in the timeframe season 2 was shot; at some point between seasons 1 and 2 he's promoted from Engineering to Life Systems, working on getting the first colonists back outside. As such, he's only seen when Josie is moved to Big Alice to heal her frostbite wounds.
Replacement Goldfish: It's implied in their scenes together that Melanie sees him as - at least partially - this for her long-dead daughter Alex.
Teen Genius: Despite being a kid he's incredibly adept at mathematics and technical problem-solving - so much so that Melanie's making him an Engineer seems as much motivated by genuine abiity as it is using him against Layton.

The Last Australian

Portrayed By: Aaron Glenane

A scrappy Tailie charmer from Perth with an intense desire to survive because, as far as he knows, he is the last Australian.

Big Damn Heroes: Leads Strong Boy and Z-Wreck to save Layton and Roche from Grey and the Jackboots literally seconds before Layton's execution.
Killed Offscreen: He and Amelia die of influenza sometime between the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3.
Last of His Kind: It's right there in the name: he's the Last Australian left alive, at least as far as he knows. In season 2 one of Wilford's crew, Amelia, turns out to be Australian too, much to his delight.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Everybody, even Layton, always refers to him as the Last Australian. He's gobsmacked when Miss Audrey turns out to know his real name - Murray.

Big John

Portrayed By: Jonathan Lloyd Walker

A tail section passenger sometimes drafted to perform harsh labor up-train.

Courier: Layton slips him a message to take back to Josie and the others at one point.
Heroic Sacrifice: Dies giving the other revolutionaries time to get away once the ammo for their ballista runs out.
Hold the Line: During the Rebellion in episode 8 he's assigned to barricade the tail and fight back any brakemen and jackboots trying to get through.

Patterson

Portrayed By: Dylan Schmid

A young tail section man living with his mother and sister.

Mauve Shirt: A constant presence throughout the season before dying in the Rebellion near the end of it.
Sexual Extortion: He's a victim of this, forced to service Oz to help his family.

Strong Boy

Portrayed By: Kurt Ostlund

One of the Tail's primary fighters.

Big Damn Heroes: He, the Last Australian and Z-Wreck save Layton and Roche from Grey and the Jackboots literally seconds before Layton's execution. He even personally beats Grey into submission.
The Big Guy: The largest and most physically imposing of the Tail's inhabitants. Justified in that many of the other Taillies give up their rations to keep him well fed in case they need him in combat.
Killed Off for Real: After starting a fight with the jackboots as a distraction for Pike to escape, he's tortured to death by Kevin.
Suddenly Voiced: He's the epitome of the strong, silent type - until being woken up from the Drawers when he's suddenly yelling in Mandarin, a language he apparently hadn't known beforehand.

Santiago

Portrayed By: Michael Issa Rubio

A Tailie rebel living with his grandmother.

Face Death with Dignity: Calmly takes in the success of the rebellion and comforts a fellow prisoner while facing near-certain death from the cold.
Fire-Forged Friends: Melanie has been the Tail's enemy for a long time but they talk while prisoners together. Melanie confirms there's an ocean uptrain to comfort him, and he in turn offers to say a prayer for her as she's taken to be executed. It doesnt stop her knowingly having Layton sacrifice him and the rest of the prisoners to get rid of the Folgers and Grey.
Perma-Stubble: He has a somewhat scraggly, unshaven face.
Signature Headgear: He wears a baseball cap on backwards.
Uncertain Doom: While a prisoner of the First Class he's in a car detached from the tail and almost certainly freezes to death afterwards.
The World Is Just Awesome: He shows interest in seeing an ocean uptrain (probably the Aquarium Jinju works in).

Winnie

Portrayed By: Emma Oliver

Patterson's younger sister.

Affectionate Nickname: Her real name is Winnipeg, but everyone just refers to her as Winnie.
The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest of the regular Tail Section characters.
Courier: By season 2, Winnie has become this, smuggling messages from a contact on Big Alice to Layton.
Girlish Pigtails: She has a braided pigtail on either side of her head.
Little Miss Badass: She tries to help out during Pike's rebellion by grabbing a severed hand and racing to the door to use it as a Borrowed Biometric Bypass.
Oh, Crap!: Understandably freezes in terror when she opens the door to the next car with a Jackboot's severed hand - only to find Grey and a mass of fully armed soldiers on the other side.

Z-Wreck

Portrayed By: Kwassi Thomas

Another of the Tail's fighters.

Big Damn Heroes: He, the Last Australian and Strong Boy save Layton and Roche from Grey and the Jackboots literally seconds before Layton's execution.
I Have a Family: Says he has a wife and child as he realises the consequences of Pike's failed rebellion, though we never see them.
New Job as the Plot Demands: Once Layton retakes the train from Wilford he starts running a speakeasy type bar in the Market catering to Tailies.
Only Known by Their Nickname: For some reason he's named after a Dr.Z amp, and his real name has never been revealed.

Mia

Mia Kaicheck

Portrayed By: Carolyn Yu

Another tail section child who is given an apprenticeship at the same time Miles is.

Suzanne

Portrayed By: Sarah Stranger

The mother of Patterson and Winnie.

Doomed Hurt Guy: After her arm is shattered she lasts for several episodes as the others care for her, but eventually dies.
Mama Bear: She takes a shattered arm for Winnie and is concerned about the implications that Patterson is giving sexual services for her medicine.

Mama Grande

Portrayed By: Renee Victor

Santiago's grandmother.

Killed Offscreen: She dies sometime between the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3.

Lights

Portrayed By: Miranda Edwards

One of the tail section spokespeople and fighters.

Fingore: In season 2, unknown assailants chop off her pinkie and thumb, leaving her hand in a grim parody of the Wilford salute.
Parental Substitute: Becomes this to Winnie in the aftermath of the deaths of her mother and brother.
The Smart Guy: The closest thing to an Engineer in the Tail. She's smart enough to rig a pulley-lift out of what's on hand, sets up a machine repair stall in the market after Layton's victory and Pike sells her to Ruth as being smart enough to disable Wilford's EMP weapon. Which she is.

Asha

Portrayed By: Archie Panjabi

A scientist who is found surviving with the heat of a nuclear reactor and joins Layton and his allies.

Hope Bringer: Her survival outside of the train, combined with a Motivational Lie or two, provide a lot of hope to the people onboard the Snowpiercer about their ability to survive elsewhere.
Sole Survivor: She is the last survivor of the 34 people who have been using a nuclear reactor to survive the ice age, and quite possibly the only surviving human out of everyone who didn't get on one of Wilford's trains. Then she has to make a Heroic Sacrifice late in season 3.
We Hardly Knew Ye: The show touted her addition and Archie Panjabi was listed among the main cast, but she faded into the background before leaving after a few episodes.

Characters / Snowpiercer (2020): Tail

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