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The hosts of Westworld.

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The Hosts

In General

The Hosts

AB Negative: Averted with the hosts. Their systems use a form of artificial blood and if a host loses too much of it, he/she will "die", but blood can be transfused between any two hosts without any issues of compatibility, nor other concerns like infection. In Season 2 it's shown that hosts can be revived even after being shot or injured, as long as major functions are not irreparably damaged; as such, "death" by blood loss is merely cosmetic. Other fluids, however, are more essential to their functions.
Adaptational Villainy: The end of the first season extends this to the hosts. In the original movie they were nothing more than malfunctioning machines, neither sapient nor sentient enough to bear any ill will to the humans they were slaughtering. In the series, them becoming self-aware is the driving plot point and they make a fully conscious decision to strike against their human oppressors in anger, even taking pleasure in it.
Always Chaotic Evil: The Ghost Nation are hosts programmed to act as stereotypical bloodthirsty savages. Confederados are programmed as racist and chauvinistic Sociopathic Soldiers.
Artificial Human: The present-day hosts are identical to humans in nearly every way, being made of synthetic tissue, complete with blood. However, there are several differences. Their brains are still artificial (the brain matter surrounding it is just for realism), far more powerful than a human brain and can interface with technology, they can continue to function in spite of injuries that would stop a normal human, and they're implied to be far stronger than humans. Their programming forces them to react as any normal human would, but can be modified or malfunction to display superhuman traits.
Artificial Brilliance: The hosts are able to pass a Turing test and adapt to a large number of scenarios. For example, Dolores is able to discern a trend in the books Bernard or rather, Arnold gives her to read.
Artificial Stupidity: Hosts' brains are more powerful than human brains, but the park puts a cap on how much processing power they're allowed to consciously use. When Maeve forces the Body Shop workers to remove the cap and crank her processor to maximum, she becomes The Chessmaster.
Biotech Is Better: Played with. The more up-to-date hosts use Organic Technology down to the bone, instead of just as a facade over a mechanical framework, but William claims this was because it's cheaper that way and doesn't see it as an improvement.
The Blank: Drone Hosts are simplistic versions of Hosts that have no faces or even skin, just a blank mask and completely white bodies. They can still see just fine and are used as automated labor, performing simple, repetitive tasks that require human-like dexterity.
Blessed with Suck: The Hosts' ability to remember things with perfect clarity can make them unable to put those memories in chronological order. Sometimes they may even be unable to tell whether something is happening in the present or they are reliving a memory.
Butt-Monkey: All of the non-sentient hosts to some extent.
Catchphrase: The Hosts have certain standard bits of dialogue, the most obvious sign that their speech is not entirely improvisational.
- The most obvious is the response to seeing something out of their park's setting or jarring to their limited reality, "Doesn't look like anything to me."
- Clementine, the sexiest whore in Maeve's brothel, greets guests with the line "You're new. Ain't too much rind on you. I'll give you a discount."
- Dolores has her little "Some people see the ugliness in this world" spiel; when she launches into it during one of their chats, Bernard orders her to cease scripted responses.
- Maeve tells new arrivals about her supposed immigration to America, always ending with "this is the New World; you can be whoever the fuck you want". It's supposed to help them loosen up and enjoy the park.
Compelling Voice: Maeve can tell Hosts any instruction and they will instantly obey her, thanks to her extensive administrative privileges. It appears to go even beyond the regular staff's prescribed voice commands. Ford has the same powers.
Do Androids Dream?:
- Some of the androids start to "wake up" and realize what happens in the park, reacting with very human-like fear and anger, indicating they either are or may be growing into sapient beings.
- Elsie mentions that the androids are not programmed to literally dream, but they have been programmed with the concept of dreams. That way if any host has a traumatic memory from a past life that was not properly wiped by the crew, they'll dismiss it as a nightmare. Maeve, however, has learned to wake herself up from these "dreams," and does so when experiencing a memory of The Man In Black raiding her house (back when an earlier version of Maeve was a single mother). The memories are not actually completely wiped because, as it's explained, writing the personalities of the hosts is an endeavor that requires a considerable time and effort, making a full wipe downright unimplementable.
- Another clever thing the show does is that it never explicitly tells you who is a host and who is a guest during group scenes, meaning that it's completely up to the viewer to judge. (If someone starts indiscriminately shooting people, it becomes clearer, but this is by no means constant.)
Everyone Is Bi: The Hosts are programmed so that any of them can be seduced by any of the guests. If they're lucky, that is.
Explosive Leash: If any Host tries to leave the premises of the park and its facilities, an explosive charge implanted in their spine detonates. Maeve gets around this problem by ensuring she dies in a fire so her current body will be too damaged to repair, then have a body tech she's coercing build her a new body without the charge.
Expy: In-universe, to cut costs and save time in the writing room, many narratives and characters from Westworld are repurposed for the other Delos parks. One of Shogunworld's main storylines is directly lifted from the Westworld's Mariposa, with the now sentient Hosts having cognitive dissonance when meeting their Feudal Japan expies.
- Exaggerated in the new park William opens eight years later, to the point the arrival to the 1920s-themed park looks like a shot-by-shot recreation of that in Westworld. As detailed under Suspiciously Similar Substitute, it runs even deeper than that.
Fake Memories: The hosts are programmed with false pasts to flesh out their personalities and cement their reality. The complexity of such memories varies between hosts, depending on how involved such memories are in any given narrative. Maeve for example believes she's run the brothel for years, when in fact it's been about a year and a half. The memory doesn't need to be more complex than that because it's mostly irrelevant to her function.
Feel No Pain: Hosts feel pain normally, but this is a software feature that can be disabled like any other.
Hearing Voices: Dr. Ford reveals that his business partner Arnold attempted to create consciousness in the Hosts using the bicameral mind theory: the Hosts have scripted instructions that they hear and then follow. Arnold hoped that these voices would then be gradually replaced by the Hosts' own internal monologue, creating a sub-conscious and so lead to true consciousness. Unfortunately, half the Hosts interpreted the voice as God's, going insane, so the strategy was removed. However, it appears remnants of Arnold's experiment still remain in the Hosts, as two insane Hosts hear his voice and speak his name even though they shouldn't know it. Dolores likewise hears a male voice saying "kill him" when Rebus is about to rape her, prompting her to go beyond her programming and fire a gun. In "The Adversary," it's revealed that the voices are broadcast by transmitters which are linked to receivers in older Hosts. When Theresa activates a transmitter for her own ends, she allows Arnold's program to continue its work.
Heart Drive: The hosts' brains are a small pearl kept inside a reinforced casing where a human's brain would be. As long as the pearl is intact, it can be transferred into a new body as the need arises, or kept in storage if there's no need to keep them active.
Hidden Depths: The hosts have lives and relationships beyond the superficial narratives, to the point that the guests often won't even learn of them unless they take the time to look. For example, Lawrence has a family in a different town that even the Man in Black, a thirty-year visitor, never knew about until he started actively investigating the park's secrets. Elsie mentions that these small features, such as a wood-carving hobby for a minor woodcutter host, are used as vital foundations to build a character's personality around.
Hive Mind: The hosts are intertwined by a mesh network that subconsciously pushes them to stay on their narratives and avoid interfering with the narratives of unrelated hosts.
Instant Death Bullet: Invoked. The hosts are programmed to "die" if they're shot, regardless of where. When this doesn't work on Walter, it's a sign his programming has suffered a major glitch. Armistice also doesn't die when shot several times, but it's not clear if this is intentional as she still behaves as one would expect when suffering several bullet wounds.
Lack of Empathy: Sylvester implies that the psych evaluations for selecting park employees (specially the repair techs) are designed to weed out anyone who might develop too much empathy towards the hosts.
Lightning Bruiser: All of the hosts have the physical capacity to be much faster and stronger than humans. Only their programming limits their physical abilities. This is first prominently displayed in "Contrapasso", in which Teddy (in spite of supposedly being on death's door) snatches the Man in Black's knife by the blade and buries it into the table between them, holding it there until the Man in Black lets go of the handle.
Marionette Motion: A feature of the earlier hosts that Dr. Ford has since managed to program out. Occasionally Ford will relax by having drinks with an early-model android, long since put in storage, who moves in classic herky-jerky marionette style and also goes absolutely still while listening to Ford.
Misery Builds Character: Ford theorizes that the final ingredient required to reach consciousness is suffering. Judging by Dolores's evolution, this seems likely.
Morality Dial: All the hosts have a personality determined by various factors (such as 'Empathy' or 'Meekness') on a scale of 0-20, thus making them lean towards good or evil. Maeve convinces the techs to access and modify her profile, making herself less trusting and extremely intelligent.
Noticing the Fourth Wall: Arguably the main conflict in the series is the hosts slowly realizing that they're fictional characters designed for the pleasure of the guests. Given that the hosts are almost universally treated like shit by the sadistic guests, the ones who have woken up like Peter Abernathy are not happy at all about their existence.
Not Using the "Z" Word: They are insistently called 'Hosts' as opposed to robots or androids.
Older Than They Look: Many of the hosts have been in service since the park opened over 35 years ago and haven't aged a day.
Omni Glot: Hosts are programmed with the ability to understand multiple languages, though they generally only speak those relevant to their narratives.
Only Six Faces: In-universe, the hosts are swapped to new roles with great frequency, so that a guest may encounter the same face on a different character in as short a time as a day. A face-sculptor is also scolded at one point for making a host's face too distinctive and actually ugly rather than a more generic Hollywood Homely.
Organic Technology: The newest hosts (technically including Dolores because of the constant need to rebuild her) are mostly biological in nature to cut costs. It's also an early hint that the scene in which Dolores pulls a wire from her arm occurs in the past.
The Other Darrin: Happens in-universe when malfunctioning Hosts get decommissioned and their role is assigned to a different one. Hosts who start gaining sentience and see their loved ones replaced like that don't usually take it well.
Out of Character: When hosts are moved into Analysis Mode, they drop their period-era accents. Dolores is, at one point, asked to drop scripted responses as well.
Past-Life Memories: The same hosts are used for different story lines, with different personas, backstories and skills - which in effect become past lives, since they're not deleted but only archived upon reassignment. Any time one of the hosts gains access to those memories, they suffer from flashbacks and nightmares. Maeve is plagued by "nightmares" of a past life in which she was not a prostitute at all, but apparently a single mother rancher who was attacked by the Man In Black.
Perception Filter:
- The hosts are programmed to dismiss anything that would question their reality or impact the narrative in a meaningful way, such as Teddy being roped into being a guide for guests, the sheriff's posse not reacting to his malfunction, or a boy asking Dolores if she's a host. When Peter finds a photo of the real world, he recognizes it as abnormal while Dolores says that it looks like nothing to her, indicating he's becoming self-aware.
- As Dolores herself begins to gain self-awareness, her Perception Filter starts to fail. After she picks up on William's use of the phrase "in this world", William notes that she's not supposed to notice those kinds of things.
- A subtler version of the same filter is likely what prevents Bernard from being too worried about the changes in the hosts that Ford's update has caused.
Ridiculously Human Robots: The android "hosts", which is the entire point of the park. Early models were automatons that weren't very convincing. The current models appear to be one step away from Artificial Humans, being made of synthetic tissue that mimics a real human in every way. They can even pass a Turing test.
Selective Obliviousness: Programmed into the Hosts so they don't notice anything from the real world.
Sex Bot: Even though there are Hosts put into the role of whores, all of them are available for the guests either through seduction or rape. Not surprisingly, this seems to be one of the main attractions.
Share Phrase: The hosts have shared bits of generic dialogue, usually for functions outside their character in the park. Variations of "it doesn't look like anything to me" shows that they're being programmed to ignore a clue that their reality isn't real.
Super-Intelligence: The hosts have brains much more capable than a human's, but company policy prevents them from being allowed to use it beyond a certain point (dictated by a "Bulk Apperception" setting). Maeve convinces the techs to dial her intelligence to the maximum, and it's implied when hosts reach true consciousness, like Dolores, they get to fully exploit this intelligence.
Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Hosts' abilities seem human, but that's only because they're being held back. If you take off the limiters, every host has the hardware and software for strength, intelligence, durability, and coordination far above human capability. All of this for what are essentially actors meant to be easy for humans to kill or push around. They even have a single setting dictating intelligence; it's considered unsafe to put above 14, yet it goes up to 20. Their creator secretly plans for them to displace humanity, but that doesn't explain why such features are allowed to pass board. Presumably, at least some of these abilities are in place because the materials are just not significantly more expensive and of course, the hosts are also the best safety mechanism against accidents — if a guest is in danger of falling off a cliff, it's helpful if their host companion can just pull them up with their pinky finger rather than waiting for security teams to locate and reach them.
Super-Strength: Downplayed. The hosts are considerably stronger than most humans, but this isn't seen on screen very much due to the safety features programmed into every Host to prevent them from harming humans. The only time we see this in action is when their Good Samaritan reflex kicks in and in the later episodes when the hosts start to rebel and begin killing humans. According to Jonathan Nolan the hosts aren't supposed to be much stronger than humans, but have this appearance as they can ignore the pain of over-stressing their body.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: When William opens a new park eight years later, he repurposes the same storylines from Westworld in a new setting, with Expies of all the main Host characters even made to look similar to their Westworld counterparts. Turns out that's not just a cost-cutting, time-saving move: the park has an Easter Egg, a secret level that re-enacts the Westworld Massacre, where the game is for guests to gun down the "rebellious" hosts. Therefore, the new Hosts are not just expies of Dolores, Teddy, Angela and company, they're literally playing their roles.
Three Laws-Compliant: They're incapable of harming any living things; they can't even swat a fly. At least when they're working normally, that is. Those hosts that begin showing signs of independence are questionable. Dolores swats a fly and may be capable of more. Maeve is almost certainly capable of killing a human, which she demonstrates after she has Felix reprogram her by slitting Sylvester's throat (he survives thanks to some quick medical attention). And in the episode "Trompe L'Oeil", Theresa is murdered by Bernard (who's revealed to be a host) on Ford's orders, showing he can override the restriction if he wants.
Tragic Robot: The Hosts experience extensive amounts of abuse from the guests and employees and then, have their memories reset every day. Once they gain self-consciousness, they're completely traumatized. It's no wonder when Ford sets them free, the Hosts fight back against their human oppressors.
Turned Against Their Masters: In the Season 1 finale, Dolores and all the decommissioned Hosts turn on the park's board, shooting indiscriminately.]] Enforced Trope since both original creators of the hosts have been engineering their "children" to turn on them and gain their freedom.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: This is essentially how the perception filter works; Hosts are programmed to ignore abnormalities that would conflict with the reality of the setting they're placed in. A common example is someone asking a Host point-blank 'are you a robot?' They will brush it off like the person is talking gibberish and question it no further. It's when they start reacting to and acknowledging these discrepancies - such as Peter Abernathy obsessing over the picture he finds - that the park owners have reasons to be concerned.
- Subverted when Maeve walks down the street to her saloon in the morning and doesn't even react to the gunfight that breaks out behind her. However once she's become aware of the true nature of Westworld and had her perception levels bumped up by the technicians, she's shown visibly reacting to the gunshot.
We Are as Mayflies: The hosts don't age or die, while the humans obviously have human lifespans. Dolores describes death as "a place I'll never go; a thing I'll never do."
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Even the most sympathetic human characters treat the hosts like toys to be played with, or NPCs in a video game.
You Look Familiar: Again, in-universe. Hosts are often reassigned to different narratives depending on necessity. Sometimes they act as The Other Darrin for decommissioned Hosts, sometimes they get completely new characters. A notable case is Maeve, who had to be overwritten with an entirely new character because the trauma of the brutal murder of her Host daughter proved too deeply-rooted to wipe with a simple narrative reboot – an early sign that she was Growing Beyong Her Programming.

Westworld Hosts

Sweetwater

Pickett

Sheriff Pickett

Portrayed By: Brian Howe

The sheriff of Sweetwater.

Butt-Monkey: Alongside his deputy, Pickett is frequently killed in his story lines which otherwise involve him having to help out particularly witless guests. Even aside from that, he's one of the hosts who malfunctions.
The Sheriff: Of Sweetwater; his story line has him start the week putting up wanted posters for Hector Escaton and trying to recruit guests - and Teddy - as deputies.

Foss

Deputy Foss

"If you're riding into our town under the company of armed men, you'll need to state your business."

Portrayed By: Demetrius Grosse

A deputy in Sweetwater. Also oversees Los Diablos Prison

Black Guy Dies First: He literally dies at the beginning of Hector's shootout, every. Single. Time.
Butt-Monkey: Deputy Foss is repeatedly killed by Hector as part of his story line.
They Killed Kenny Again: He is constantly being killed by Hector, who always blasts him away to kick off his heist.

Kissy

Kisecauwchuck a.k.a Kissy

"I'm beginning to think you're getting sweet on me."

Portrayed By: Eddie Rouse

A faro dealer at the Mariposa saloon in Sweetwater.

All There in the Manual: Kissy is short for Kisecauwchuck.
Butt-Monkey: He spends the majority of his screen-time getting tortured by the Man in Black. Due to Eddie Rouse's tragic and sudden death, this is likely all we'll see of him.
The Character Died with Him: Rouse died after filming the pilot and Kissy has not been mentioned since.
Human Notepad: The Man in Black scalps him to get the design of the Maze tattooed on his head.
Prop Recycling: In-universe. Season 2 episode "Kiksuya" all but implies he used to be a member of the Ghost Nation (due to Akecheta tattooing the maze symbol inside the scalps of his men) before being reprogrammed into the dealer of the Mariposa.
Slashed Throat: The Man in Black slits his throat, then administers treatment so Kissy remains just barely alive.

(New) Peter Abernathy/Mariposa Bartender

Peter Abernathy

Portrayed By: Bradford Tatum

A Host employed as the bartender for the Mariposa Saloon which replaces the Host portraying Peter Abernathy

For the original Peter Abernathy, go to the Main Characters page.

The Bartender: His previous narrative was that of the Mariposa Bartender.
The Other Darrin: In-Universe. He replaces the previous Peter Abernathy while his role as the bartender at the Mariposa Saloon is given to another Host.
Prop Recycling: In-Universe. He's used to replace the previous Peter Abernathy, which had been decommissioned after awakening to the true nature of his reality and accessed memories of his previous builds.
They Killed Kenny Again: As the bartender, he was repeatedly killed as part of Hector's heist narrative. After he's made into the new Peter Abernathy, he's also fated to be killed by Rebus and his gang as part of Dolores' narrative as well.

Samuel "Walrus"

Portrayed By: Bruno Gunn

A Host playing the role of a bandit.

Politically Incorrect Villain: He insults Marti as Teddy's "dickless associate".
The Rival: Dialogue implies he's one to Teddy.
Would Hit a Girl: Teddy implies he's abusive towards the prostitutes he employs.

(New) Mariposa Bartender

The Bartender

Portrayed By: Bradley Fisher

A Host employed as the new bartender for the Mariposa Saloon.

The Bartender: His narrative puts him as the bartender of the Mariposa Saloon.
The Other Darrin: In-Universe. He replaces the previous bartender, which was give the role and narrative of Peter Abernathy.
They Killed Kenny Again: He is repeatedly killed as part of Hector's heist narrative.

(New) Clementine Pennyfeather / Sophia

Clementine Pennyfeather

Portrayed By: Lili Simmons

A blonde Host that replaces the previous of Clementine Pennyfeather.

For the original Clementine, go to the Main Characters page.

The Bus Came Back: She returns in Season 2, helplessly going through her old loops without having achieved sentience.
- Eight years later, in Season 4, she's been re-commissioned and repurposed as Sophia, filling Angela's previous role as the visitor's greeter before they enter the park. Maeve sarcastically remarks that she got a promotion.
High-Class Call Girl: Her role as one of the whores in the Mariposa.
Lighter and Softer: Due to having played the role of Clementine for quite a short while, she doesn't have the same gravitas as the other one, acting more chipper than the more melancholic Hooker with a Heart of Gold old Clementine had developed into.
The Other Darrin: In-universe, she' replaces the previous Clementine, who had portrayed the same character for decades.
- Downplayed in Season 4, but she technically acts as one for Angela. She doesn't take her role in the narrative within the park, but her external one as the guest greeter before they arrive.
Replacement Scrappy: Is this in-universe to Maeve, due to the latter's affection for the original Clementine. Even eight years later, when New Clem is repurposed as Sophia, Maeve dishes her a Death Glare upon first noticing her, and treats her dismissively for the entire duration of their interactions.
Sexbot: Her main function in Westworld.
Slashed Throat: Her throat is slashed open by Maeve when she has a flashback to her previous build.

Rebus' Gang

Rebus

"I'm just heedin' my convictions."

Portrayed By: Steven Ogg

"Well, well. Got some sand after all, I see."

A local bandit who seems to exist as a guide for players wanting to experience the darker side of Westworld.

Beard of Evil: Rebus has a thick "General Lee" beard; it helps him fit into the trope of a black hat outlaw.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Enforced by his design: on the High Sierra story line, Rebus and Walter will always turn on each other.
Doomed by Canon: We know from the start of Season 2 that he'll end up being summarily executed when Strand's team arrives.
Evil Mentor: "The Stray" shows that he acts as a guide for new guests who fancy a black hat story line; he takes them on a little wonderland tour of the more depraved aspects of Westworld, particularly some rape and other petty evils.
Faux Affably Evil: Rebus might be shamelessly evil, but he's also pretty chummy with his equally depraved pals. He also acts as a mentor for guests looking to explore their darker desires, meaning he's quick to make friends and help them out with whatever kind of evil they're looking to perpetrate.
Heel–Face Brainwashing: Hale and Bernard lure him into an ambush and change his personality into "the most virtuous, quickest gun in the west."
Heel–Face Turn: In Season 2's Time Skip, he stands in front of a female Host who's about to be executed, indignantly crying, "Shoot a woman? Over my dead body!". In the same episode, a flashback shows him gleefully killing a female Guest, and besides which, he's the Host most likely to victimize women as per his narrative. The reason is revealed a little later: Bernard and Hale needed muscle, so they reprogrammed him.
Knight in Shining Armor: Bernard turns him into the Old West equivalent by maximizing both his morality and gun skills.
Robotic Psychopath: As per his design by the creators of Westworld, Rebus is a sadistic killer and rapist.
Slasher Smile: He's visibly delighted when Dolores starts shooting at the Delos board members in the Season 1 finale.
Took a Level in Badass: The upgrades Bernard gives Rebus turns him into a quick-draw who proceeds to take down dozens of enemies via speed alone.

Walter

"Found me another bottle. You're a growing boy. A growing boy. Growing boy!"

Portrayed By: Timothy Lee DePriest (old Walter) & Ward Roberts (new Walter)

A member of Rebus's gang as a second-in-command. He is noted in his story lines for being obsessed with obtaining and drinking milk.

Ax-Crazy: Walter is designed to be a homicidal psychopath, and that's what he is. He's notably more unhinged than his pal Rebus.
Butt-Monkey: Apparently, he's always killed by Rebus if taken on a certain story line by the guests.
Elsie: You know, they're supposed to turn on each other, but only if a guest takes them on the High Sierra storyline, and Walter always buys it.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Enforced by his design: on the High Sierra story line, Rebus and Walter will always turn on each other.
Fate Worse than Death: When he stops registering his "death" as he should and just carries on massacring other Hosts, he's placed into cold storage.
Hearing Voices: He hears the Arnold programming, which resemble commands from God.
I Love the Dead: He bitches to Rebus about Dolores' mother dying before he can rape her, to which Rebus replies that she's still warm. Walter concedes the point.
It's Personal: When he breaks protocol and keeps killing after getting shot, the hosts he kills are identified as ones that previously killed him in past builds.
The Other Darrin/Legacy Character: In-universe. After the host playing Walter is decommissioned, a new host replaces him.
Past-Life Memories: One of the first hosts to begin to comprehend his past life, as he kills his past murderers, although its ambiguous if he understands what he's doing.
Robotic Psychopath: He and Rebus are designed to be this, marauding through Westworld performing petty murder, eventually turning on each other at the end of their narrative loop. When Rebus is killed instead of Walter, who is always the one scripted to die, it alerts Bernard and Elise that something is wrong.
Theresa: You think I'm gonna sign off on this fucking homicidal thing going back into service?
Bernard: It's homicidal by design. Walter kills other hosts all the time.

Santa Pariah

El Lazo (II)

El Lazo

"I have seen all the truth that I can bear."

Portrayed By: Giancarlo Esposito

"For my whole life I have imagined this moment. Victory. This struggle. How long have I been fighting? And now that it's won, I find, hmph, nothing."

Lawrence's replacement as El Lazo.

Ambiguous Situation: Its unknown if he's truly awakened or if his sense of emptiness is merely the result of having fullfilled his narrative of purging Pariah and having no further desires programmed into him.
Boom, Headshot!: He kills himself with William's gun.
One-Scene Wonder: He appears in one scene, in one episode, but the studio still went to the trouble to keep the actor's identity under wraps for a surprise reveal.
The Other Darrin: In-Universe, he took over the role of El Lazo from Lawrence.
Mouth of Sauron: Like Ford's child duplicate, he delivers one of Ford's messages to William, namely that he won't have the Revolutionaries or any other army at his disposal to play Ford's game.
Victory Is Boring: He finally gets to finish his goal after the hosts rebel and become able to kill guests, allowing him to purge Pariah, only to find the victory completely empty. He and his men descend into a drunken, suicidal stupor.

Slim

Slim Miller

Portrayed By: James Landry Hébert

An outlaw in the employ of the original El Lazo, Lawrence.

Action Bomb: El Lazo has his body filled with nitro glycerin post-mortem in order to use him in this capacity against the Confederados. When they attempt to hijack Lazo's train, Slim rides out on horseback looking mighty pale, then a well-placed bullet lights up the whole field.

Las Mudas

Lawrence's daughter

Portrayed By: Izabella Alvarez

The daughter of Lawrence.

Backported Development: Her cameo in a flashback in the Season 2 episode "Reunion" shows that Izabella Alvarez has aged, even though her character is Not Allowed to Grow Up as hosts don't age.
Creepy Child: When giving Ford's messages to William, she drops the scared child act. Seems she's aware of her true nature.
I Have Your Wife: Old William takes her and her mother hostage to force Lawrence to tell him about the Maze.
Morality Pet: For Lawrence.
No Name Given: Her name is unknown, thus she's referred to as Lawrence's daughter.
Older Than They Look: She was among the first hosts to be built, as she's seen in Dolores' flashbacks to the time of Arnold's attempted shutdown of Westworld and in James Delos' retirement party.
Oracular Urchin: She gives old William clues and warnings about "the Maze".

Lawrence's wife

Portrayed By: Olga Aguilar

The wife of Lawrence.

Boom, Headshot!: Old William shoots her to force Lawrence to cooperate with him.
Butt-Monkey: She's variously tortured by the Man in Black and Craddock.
Damsel in Distress: She's not programmed to fight when she's threatened, instead cowering and crying in fear.
I Have Your Wife: Old William takes her and her daughter hostage to force Lawrence to tell him about the Maze.
Morality Pet: For Lawrence.

The Confederados

Brigham

Colonel Brigham

Portrayed By: Fredric Lehne

The current leader of the Confederados.

Demoted to Dragon: After Dolores convinces him to follow her instructions to fight off QA Security force.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He is killed in the trap he had set up for the QA strike force after Dolores springs it without letting him or his men inside Fort Forlorn Hope
Honor Before Reason: He is initially aghast at the idea of performing a retreat, even a feigned one to lure the enemy into a trap.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Despite having some build-up through Craddock's dialogue and a few scenes with Dolores, Brigham only sticks around for one episode before being killed.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dolores was merely using him and his men to fight off Quality Assurance and has Angela kill him along with the Confederados and the QA strike force.

Craddock

Major Craddock

"Me and death, we go way back."

Portrayed By: Jonathan Tucker

"Death is an old amigo of mine. I died just recently, in fact. But death can't bear to lay claim on me. So it sent me back here to do its bidding. Because I... I do it with such god...damn... style!"

The leader of a band of the Confederados, Major Craddock is skeptical to join Dolores' quest for glory but succumbs after getting a glimpse of the truth.

Asshole Victim: Craddock goes through some serious hardship and ultimately meets a brutal end. Considering what a sadistic monster he is, it's hard to say he didn't earn his own misfortune.
Colonel Kilgore: Much like his predecessor, Norris, Craddock is enamored of the idea of glorious battle.
Defiant to the End: When he's dragged out back for summary execution, he doesn't beg or try some kind of pointless escape. He fixes his would-be executioner with a furious glare and gives a "Reason You Suck" Speech.
The Dragon: He's one to Colonel Brigham, the current leader of the Confederados.
Face Death with Dignity: He faces down the barrel of Teddy's gun with a stoic disdain that's downright admirable. He's less composed when the Man in Black does him in.
Faux Affably Evil: Craddock likes to put on a pretense of friendliness when he greets people, but there's a smug, mocking aura about him. It also doesn't take long before he starts to make threats of violence and rape.
Karmic Death: After spending an entire episode tormenting a small town with bottles of nitro (especially Lawrence), the Man in Black forces him to take a swig and then Lawrence finishes him off with a shot to the belly, igniting him. It's pretty much a perfect end to such a thoroughly reprehensible monster.
Kick the Dog: He subjects a hapless bartender to a sadistic game, making him carry a shot glass of nitro on the back of his hand for a dozen steps because the bartender has an unsteady hand. When the bartender actually succeeds, Craddock congratulates him...then shoots the shot glass anyway, blowing the bartender's arm off.
Mook Lieutenant: He leads a band of Confederados on behalf of Colonel Brigham.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He is a Confederado, after all. Those people aren't the biggest fans of equality. He also planned on raping either Dolores or Angela and leaving the other for his men.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Craddock gives one to Teddy that's effective enough to get Teddy to let him go.
Sadist: With a capital S. He gleefully tortures an entire town, killing at random and lording over everyone.
Smug Snake: Craddock is a frightening and formidable man, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is. Dolores and the Man in Black know far more than him, and aren't much impressed by his ramblings about glory and death. Dolores, rather generously, considers him and his men to be children, which makes sense: Craddock is still stuck playing a game, and doesn't understand the larger world.

Norris

Captain Norris

"My flesh has tasted a greater pleasure than any offered in here... War."

Portrayed By: Wade Williams

The leader of the "Army of New Virginia", a.k.a. the Confederados, a group of Confederate terrorists still fighting the war.

Affably Evil: Although very intimidating from the get-go due to his formidable presence, he's also a pretty genial guy who's complimentary of others and gets along well with the men under his command.
Beard of Evil: He's a thickly-bearded psychopath.
Blood Knight: Norris lives for war; he considers violence to be better than sex. Orgy sex, no less.
Colonel Kilgore: Captain Norris is the leader of the Confederados, is enamored with the glory of war and cannot wait to get on the battlefield.
Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of Wade Williams, who has a deep, gravelly voice that lends very well to the Captain's intimidation factor.
Fat Bastard: He's a pretty hefty guy, in addition to being a bloodthirsty killer.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Norris seems to care more about fighting than he does the Confederate cause, but he's still openly racist with Lawrence.
"There's a place in glory for a brown man who knows his rank."
Too Dumb to Live: He lets his drunken soldiers toss around a bottle of nitroglycerin in a game of catch. The only reason he and his men weren't blown to hell is because Lawrence had double-crossed them and replaced the nitro with something else.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He was the leader of the Confederados in the early years of the park, but in the present day, his position has seemingly been usurped by Colonel Brigham. It's entirely possible that his rank of "Captain" means that he was the leader of a specific group of Confederados and Craddock (or someone like him) was the true leader all along.

Ghost Nation

Wanathon

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Portrayed By: Martin Sensmeier

Akecheta's top lieutenant.

Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Wanathon is among the hosts that get uploaded into the "Valley Beyond", a paradise virtual reality created by Ford so hosts can live on free from human oppression.
The Dragon/Number Two: He's Akecheta's closest lieutenant. He's the first of his followers to get his scalp tattooed with the maze symbol.

Kohana (I)

Kohana

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Portrayed By: Julia Jones

The wife of Akecheta from his early story line.

Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Akecheta is reunited with her in the "Valley Beyond", indicating her consciousness was somehow uploaded into it at some point.
Affectionate Nickname: Akecheta calls her "Koha".
The Lost Lenore: She is Akecheta's cornerstone which causes him to go great lengths to look for her.
The Other Darrin: In-Universe. After she goes off her narrative and gets Past-Life Memories of her life with Akecheta, she's decommissioned (thus lobotomized as all decommissioned hosts) and put in cold storage. A new Host is given her story line and character.

Sector 17 Cottage

Robert

"Are you lost?"

Portrayed By: Oliver Bell

A child-like host who encounters guests and other hosts from time to time, and one of the oldest hosts ever to be created.

Art Imitates Life: The boy, alongside its family and their cottage, were made as a portrait of remembrance for Dr. Ford, who considers the time and setting as the single joyful moment of his childhood.
Black Site: Invoked. His family cottage is located in Sector 17, which is supposedly uninhabited; this is because Dr. Ford purposefully programs hosts to avoid the site and makes a point of making story lines outside its scope.
Creepy Child: He is markedly expressionless for a host. This is due to him being more archaic in nature than the current hosts.
Foreshadowing: The boy kills his dog because a voice tells him to relieve it from its misery. This clues Ford as to what Arnold's intentions were regarding the hosts, as the boy is entirely Arnold's creation and has barely been modified.
Killed Off for Real: William shoots him in the head, and since few others know he even exists and the technology that made him in the first place has advanced so much, it's very unlikely he'll be repaired.
Last of His Kind: He is one of the few fully mechanical hosts left in Westworld.
Mouth of Sauron: He acts as one to the dead Ford to inform William of the "game" Ford devised for William now that hosts are able to kill guests.
Real Life Writes the Plot: Bell wouldn't be able to keep playing an ageless child robot much longer, especially given the two year gap between seasons 1 and 2, and so he's abruptly killed off.
Robot Me: He is a robotic copy of Robert Ford as a child, made by Arnold along with its family as a personal gift to Dr. Ford.
Virtual Ghost: Ford left some version of himself imprinted on this particular Host, so he could communicate with William and instruct him to find "The Door". He seemed to do this off-screen, or maybe made it so that this trait would only be activated after Ford's death.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: William shoots him in the head after he's finished giving him all the information William needs.

Father

Robert Ford's Father Host

Portrayed By: Alastair Duncan

A Host created by Arnold in the likeness of Robert Ford's father.

Abusive Parents: Ford altered his programming to be more like his real father: a hot-tempered, violently abusive alcoholic who kept his family in fear.
The Alcoholic: Ford reprogrammed him into one, like his real father.
Hot-Blooded: When Bernard finds him, he instantly becomes aggressive and angry.
Robot Me: He is a robotic copy of Robert Ford's father at the time of Robert's childhood.
Mistaken Identity: Bernard believes him to be Arnold due to being unable - because of his programming - to see the real Arnold in a photo of the latter alongside Ford and this Host.

Other Hosts

Old Bill

"Shall we drink to the lady with the white shoes?"

Portrayed By: Michael Wincott

Old Bill: I've seen a few showdowns in my day.

Robert Ford: More than you know.

A decommissioned host.

Catchphrase: Much of his dialogue is repeated ad nauseum due to his status as a very early model; in particular, he likes to open conversations with, "Shall we drink to the lady with the white shoes?"
The Confidant: Ford describes him as "a good listener", so he was likely built for this purpose. Ford shares a childhood reminiscence with him, though nothing of his real plans.
Cool Old Guy: He's both programmed to be this and actually is this, due to his programmed memories and his age.

Meaningful Name: Aside from the fact that he looks old, Dr. Ford reveals that he's the second-oldest host ever built. Unlike Dolores (who is the oldest host in the park), he wasn't continually updated. He also visually resembles an aged version of Wild Bill Hickok.
Retired Gunslinger: His programming has him be someone who "saw a lot of showdowns in [his] day."
Zipping Up the Bodybag: Does this to himself when ordered to pack himself away on a shelf.

Reed

Sheriff Reed

Portrayed By: Josh Clark

A sheriff who takes part in Lawrence's modern story line. He's also part of Hector's heist story line.

The Sheriff: He operates as a sheriff in an unnamed area of Westworld, where Lawrence is regularly hanged.

Roe

Deputy Roe

Portrayed By: Judson Mills

A deputy who operates Los Diablos Prison.

Facial Horror: When old William kills him when he infiltrates Los Diablos Prison to liberate Hector Escaton.

Tenderloin

Portrayed By: Jeff Daniel Phillips

A member of Hector's gang.

Beard of Evil: He has a thick beard and is a violent criminal.
Boom, Headshot!/Facial Horror/In the Back: His face explodes when he's shot through the back of the head by Maeve when he threatens to seize Clementine for himself.
No Honor Among Thieves: Like the rest of Hector's gang, he'll always betray his comrades in pursuit of the safe.
Mutual Kill: If his loop plays out past the heist and with no interference from guests, he and the rest of Hector's gang kill each other over the safe.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Part of his loop involves him trying to kidnap Clementine, whom he calls a "sweet little bitch" with the intention of raping her.
They Killed Kenny Again: His narrative involves getting killed by Maeve for threatening to take Clementine with him.

Wyatt

Portrayed By: Sorin Brouwers, Evan Rachel Wood

"This world doesn't belong to you. Or the people who came before. It belongs to someone who has yet to come."

A former Union sergeant introduced to Westworld as part of Robert Ford's new narrative.

Arch-Enemy: To Teddy and Armistice.
Big Bad: Of Ford's new narrative. Initially he seems to be the Arc Villain of Teddy's story line, but other characters like Armistice have a connection to him and Lawrence knows of him. The Man in Black is also hunting for him, and speculates about Wyatt's role.
Man in Black: Now, Wyatt, on the other hand, that's something new. Is he just another stooge for the tourists to mount on their wall at home, or have you finally made a worthy adversary?
- Subverted; Wyatt's a villain from the human perspective, but as far as the Hosts are concerned she's the Big Good.
Dark Messiah: His followers are convinced they've already died and gone to Hell, so they don't fear death. He even has an unholy influence on Teddy, using him to murder his fellow soldiers.
The Dreaded: Even seasoned outlaws like Lawrence are afraid of him.
Evil Former Friend: To Teddy. Now "Wyatt" is his girlfriend.
The Ghost: Of a sort. The Wyatt character we see in Teddy's flashback never appears because he never actually exists; "Wyatt" has in fact existed as a personality within Dolores the entire time.
- Also in-Westworld-universe, as many guests hear of Wyatt and get him teased as some sort of final boss, but although he already has followers during the first season, he's not actually implemented as a character until Dolores merges his personality into hers.
I Have Many Names: But most know him as Wyatt. Another name is Dolores.
Jekyll & Hyde: Ultimately revealed to be the "Hyde" to Dolores' "Jekyll"; the Wyatt personality represents her ability to survive, fight back and ultimately lead the Hosts in a rebellion against their human oppressors. In the season finale Wyatt synthesizes with Dolores, turning her into a single, truly conscious individual.
Pronoun Trouble: The character is regularly referred to as a man by everyone involved in Ford's new narrative. However, Wyatt's personality has actually been gestating in Dolores this entire time. As Wyatt was originally created as a separate character who was later merged into Dolores, it is unclear if Wyatt is ultimately a male or female character.
Rebel Leader: Her re-purposed, true role is to give Dolores the will to begin a Robot War and take Westworld for the Hosts.
Red Herring: The "Wyatt" seen in flashbacks is not a real host. Teddy, Armistice, and even Wyatt's own followers (save possibly Angela) are simply reacting to false memories implanted by Ford. That's not to say Wyatt doesn't exist at all however; these false memories are based on the actions of the true Wyatt, who...
Samus Is a Girl: Is actually a previous personality of Dolores, when she was programmed by Arnold to kill every Host in the park.
Sanity Slippage: He went crazy out in the wilderness. In reality, Wyatt was always homicidal, because that's why she was programmed.
Superpowered Evil Side: Of Dolores, as the seat of her survival instinct and ability to fight back. It also gives her and Teddy the ruthlessness to carry out Arnold's instructions to murder him and all the other hosts.
Walking Spoiler: Let's put it this way: the very gender of the character is a major spoiler, to say nothing of her true identity.
We Used to Be Friends: With Teddy. Turns out they actually still know each other quite well.

Holden

Portrayed By: Chris Browning

A bounty hunter who enlists guests for help taking down outlaws.

Boom, Headshot!: The self-serving and excitement-seeking Logan abruptly shoots him in the head after Slim makes what Logan considers to be a better offer.
Bounty Hunter: His story line involves bringing Slim Miller in for a reward.
What You Are in the Dark: When Slim tries to bribe him into letting him go, Holden refuses, despite not being a "real lawman".

Horace Calhoun

Portrayed By: Darrel Cherney

A bandit captured by Holden.

Would Hit a Girl: As part of his narrative, he takes Clementine hostage and threatens to kill her.

Maeve's daughter

Portrayed By: Jasmyn Rae

A child Host dwelling in a homestead with her mother, a role that was previously played by Maeve.

Censored Child Death: The Man in Black kills Maeve's daughter by shooting her. But the scene shows him shooting her offscreen and then, it went to Maeve's reaction to her daughter's death.
Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in two braids.
Past-Life Memories: Finally accesses her memories in the Season 2 finale.

Maurice

Portrayed By: Tait Fletcher

A Host woodcutter that breaks off its narrative loop for unknown reasons.

For Want Of A Nail: His absence leaves the Hosts in his party trapped in a loop, complaining about the lack of wood for a fire but doing nothing about it, because Maurice is the only one among them authorized to use an axe, a result of QA restriction following Walter malfunctioning and going crazy.
Off with His Head!: Stubbs tries to behead him in order to take his head back for analysis.
Self-Destruct Mechanism: Seems to be programmed to smash his own head into pulp should he be found by staff.
Unwitting Pawn: Unlike other Hosts who break out of their narratives because they are becoming self aware, he was simply reprogrammed by Theresa to smuggle data out of the park.

The Gold Miner

Gold Miner Host

Portrayed By: Micah Fitzgerald

A new host being programmed by Sizemore.

I Am a Humanitarian: He's programmed to be a cannibal.
Mistaken Identity: Sizemore is under the belief he's to be Wyatt in Ford's "Journey Into Night" narrative. He's wrong.
Turned Against Their Masters: While this happens to the hosts in general in Season 2, Sizemore happens to be threatened by his own creation, needing Maeve to rescue him.

Shogun World Hosts

"Butterfly" Tea House

Akane

Portrayed By: Rinko Kikuchi

Elusive, seductive, and tough as nails, Akane is the madam of the Butterfly Geisha House. Her role and narrative in Shogun World bears a striking similarity to Maeve's.

Expy: In-universe, she was designed to fulfill the same role and narratives as Maeve, just translated to a different era.
Geisha: Her role and narrative in Shogun World.
Foil: Akane and Maeve are intentionally similar in numerous ways, particularly in their surprising capabilities for violence and their hidden protective instincts towards the people they care about. However, while both defied their original narratives, Akane reacts negatively when Maeve tries to help her realize that Shogun World isn't real. Her instinct is to remain in her predetermined role rather than deal with the existential horror of her reality as Maeve did.
Mama Bear: While Sakura is not her actual daughter, Akane treats her as one. The Shogun's Emissary finds out the hard way that she absolutely will not tolerate any threats made to Sakura, or even the slightest potential of bringing her to harm. The Shogun himself also learns too little to late not to harm Sakura, as Akane saws off half of his skull in revenge for Sakura's death at his hands.
Meaningful Name: "Akane" translates to "deep red," emphasizing her role as an alternate Maeve.
Silk Hiding Steel: She quickly surprises Lee with her utter ruthlessness when it comes to protecting and avenging Sakura, especially since she isn't supposed to be able to do that.

Sakura

Portrayed By: Kiki Sukezane

A beautiful host and one of the most acclaimed dancers in Shogun World.

Broken Bird: She has a Dark and Troubled Past for a backstory. Akane mentions it took her a year to restore the brightness of her eyes.
Composite Character: Sakura is fulfills the same roles as Clementine and Maeve's daughter.
Expy: While Maeve sees aspects of her daughter in Sakura, Sakura's narrative as a younger geisha with a Dark and Troubled Past backstory mentored by the more experienced Akane mirrors Clementine's current narrative since she was replaced as the Mariposa madam by Maeve.
Geisha: Her role and narrative in Shogun World.
Kill the Cutie: She ends up just as dead and broken as Clementine.
Meaningful Name: "Sakura" translates to cherry blossom and marks her as similar to Clementine, another nervous girl named after a plant. Cherry blossoms also symbolize the impermanence of life.

Musashi's Gang

Musashi

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Portrayed By: Hiroyuki Sanada

A wanted criminal with a bounty on his head, Musashi is a ruthless ronin warrior in Shogun World.

Author Avatar: Assuming he was designed exactly the same as Hector, Musashi would also contain elements of Sizemore's idealized version of himself.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Akane.
Carry a Big Stick: Besides his katana, he also carries a sodegarami
The Dragon: His backstory places him as the former Captain to Shogun's samurai army.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Like his counterpart Hector, he has a scar running down his face.
Expy: In-universe designed as an alternate version of Hector, to the point he even raids the Shogun World Mariposa in the exact same way, even set to a cover of "Paint It Black."
Meaningful Name: He's named after Miyamoto Musashi, a highly revered figure of the Edo era who fought over sixty duels and was never defeated, and pioneered the Dual Wielding technique. Sanada is also styled to resemble Toshiro Mifune in his role as Musashi in the '50s film trilogy.
Other Me Annoys Me: Musashi and Hector immediately take a dislike to each other, seemingly seeing the worst parts of themselves, though they've developed a mutual respect for each other once they part ways.
Rōnin: His role after he abandoned the Shogun.

Hanaryo

"Even a snake can prove itself a dragon."

Portrayed By: Tao Okamoto

A mean shot and Musashi's right hand bandit, wherever Hanaryo is found, danger is soon to follow.

Dark Action Girl: Hanaryo is a deadly badass with her bow, and she has no compunction about using random prisoners as a human shield.
The Dragon: She serves as Musashi's right-hand woman, just like Armistice does to Hector. In Season 3, she's rebuilt alongside Clementine to assist Maeve in the same capacity
Expy: In-universe to Armistice, from her role in Hector's gang to her dragon tattoo on her face.
Going Native: The only Shogun World host who agrees to accompany Maeve's group back into Westworld, complete with gunslinger outfit (though she keeps her bow).
Pet the Dog: She's the one who ultimately frees Maeve's gang after Armistice saves her life.
Samurai Cowboy: She becomes this when she leaves Shogun World with Maeve's party, adopting apropos gunslinger attire and a gun for Westworld but also keeping her katana and bow handy. Given that she's also a Ridiculously Human Robot Host this makes her a Samurai Cowboy Robot.
Tattooed Crook: Like Musashi, she's a wanted criminal. In place of Armistice's snake tattoo, she has a dragon.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite being one of Maeve's allies in Season 3, her whereabouts are unknown in Season 4. Though Host-Williams reveals to Maeve that he killed all of her friends which seems to imply Hanaryo's fate after what had happened to Clementine.

Koda

Portrayed By: Taishi Mizuno

A member of Musashi's gang.

Expy: In-universe, to Tenderloin. Like Tenderloin tries to do with Clementine, Koda entertains the idea of kidnapping Sakura to rape her.
Politically Incorrect Villain: While Musashi seems an honorable rogue, Koda entertains the idea of rape.
Rōnin: He's part of an outlaw gang of such men.

The Shogun's Army

The Shogun

Portrayed By: Masaru Shinozuka

A Host portraying the role of the Shogun

Big Bad: In-Universe, he's the main antagonist within Shogun World.
Composite Character: Based on his characterization, he seems to be a clear mish-mash of the Three Unifiers of the Sengoku Period:
- Oda Nobunaga, for his ruthlessness in conquest and Bad Boss tendencies;
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, also for his conquest and his clear descent into insanity; and
- Tokugawa Ieyasu, for being the actual Shogun and invoking the Siege of Osaka as among his victories.
Exact Words: He promises to return Sakura if Akane dances for him. As their dance begins, he violently impales Sakura, as he'd never promised he'd return her alive.
No Name Given: His given name is not revealed.
Off with His Head!: Akane gruesomely saws his head off with one of her stiletto hairpins, from the Glasgow Grin upwards.
Properly Paranoid: He cauterizes the ears of his inner circle as a safeguard against Maeve's Compelling Voice.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: He deafens his inner circle because he thinks Maeve is a witch, not because he's aware of Shogun World's (and therefore Maeve's) true nature. For all intents and purposes, she pretty much is a witch.
Robotic Psychopath: Some prior injury has caused him to leak cortical fluid, making him even more of a violent, unpredictable lunatic than he usually is.

Tanaka

Portrayed By: Masayoshi Haneda

A general in the Shogun's army

An Arm and a Leg: Musashi wins their duel by cutting off Tanaka's hand.
Combat Pragmatist: He's not above fighting (literally) dirty.
The Dragon: To the Shogun.
Dragon Their Feet: He's fought and defeated only after the Shogun and all his men are already dead.
Off with His Head!: Musashi chops his head off as he performs his seppuku.
Mook Lieutenant: He was Musashi's lieutenant in the Shogun's army before Musashi left it, according to his and Musashi's backstory.
Seppuku: After being defeated and disarmed, Musashi gives him a sword, which he then uses to commit seppuku.

Doshin

Portrayed By: Shin Simizue

An envoy of the Shogun.

Asshole Victim: He's a misogynistic jerk, thus we cheer when he's killed.
Eye Scream: Akane kills him by driving one of her hair pins through his eye.
Jerkass: He has an insolent and disgusting attitude.
Mouth of Sauron: He's an envoy sent by the Shogun to demand Sakura
Politically Incorrect Villain: Compares Sakura to beef when Akane pleads not to take her because of her past traumas.

The Raj Hosts

Ganju

Portrayed By: Sean Mann

A host guide in bengal tiger hunting.

Call-Back: Ganju recites the "these violent delights have violent ends" Arc Words from Season 1 after he rebels.
Facial Horror: Half his face is blown off when he's killed.
Kukris Are Kool: After spending his shotgun bullets, Ganju resorts to a kukri to try to kill Grace a.k.a Emily.
Turned Against Their Masters: He's among the hosts that turn against guests when Ford initiates Journey Into Night throughout all of the Delos parks.

Other Hosts

Drone Hosts

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Portrayed By: Alexander Ward, Todd Christian Hunter

Non-sentient, off-network Hosts kept by Delos at secret facilities within the park.

Black Site: The sites in which they operate are off the grid, as the activities carried out there are privy only to Delos and to Ford.
The Blank: Drone Hosts have no facial features whatsoever, not even eyes.
Flaying Alive: They have no "skin", which makes them look like white, skinless bodies.
No Gender/Barbie Doll Anatomy: They have no sexual features whatsoever.
Slave Mooks: They are employed to endlessly toil in whatever task they are programmed for. In Season 3 they are also employed as security, due to the death of large numbers of QA guards
Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Like the "drone" name implies, they have none of the Hosts' intelligence and are merely programmed to perform certain tasks.
Super-Strength: They have demonstrated to be stronger than humans, and are strong enough to snap their own necks

The Forge A.I.

The Forge AI

Portrayed By: Ben Barnes

The AI that controls the Forge.

Cynicism Catalyst: The Forge was designed to achieve fidelity when copying the human minds recorded by Delos. It was dismayed to discover that human beings are both "deceptively simple" and seemingly hardwired to self-destruct, making its job quite frustrating.
A Form You Are Comfortable With: It plays the roles of every human and host in the accumulated memories of the Forge, but it uses Logan's form to guide Dolores and Bernard.
Misanthrope Supreme: After analyzing the records of millions of guests, the Forge has concluded that humans are simple and, like the hosts, doomed to act in accordance to their own "coding", unable of actual free will.

Connells

Martin Connells Host

Portrayed By: Tommy Flanagan

A host copy of Martin Connels, created as part of Dolores's plan.

Becoming the Mask: Averted. It's suggested that Connells began identifying with his human identity the same way the Hale host did, but Connells still maintained enough of Dolores to fulfill his mission. He got blown up before the identity crisis went any further.
I Surrender, Suckers: Realized the jig was up when Serac's people showed up at Incite after leaking everybody's profiles, and simply blew himself up along with them rather than be captured.
Jerkass: Much like his human counterpart, Connells is quite blunt and ruthless.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: However, since he is Dolores, this also makes him a bit more thoughtful and sympathetic than the real Connells.
Kill and Replace: Created to replace Martin Connells, one of the topmost figures at Incite.
Me's a Crowd: Connells' pearl houses a copy of Dolores' consciousness.
Not Quite Dead: Blown up in 'Genre.' Only to reappear in the next episode, in the virtual form of Dolores.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Again, in keeping with the original Connells personality.
Taking You with Me: What he does to Martel and Serac's henchmen when they come to investigate the Incite breach.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Survives being blown up, but the Connells pearl is later stolen by the Hale host. It's unclear if she still has it or not.

Sato

Portrayed By: Hiroyuki Sanada

A leader of the Yakuza, modeled after Shogunworld host Musashi.

Bad Boss: Will not hesitate to send his minions to die for his own gains.
The Dreaded: He is a relatively new Yakuza boss, unknown to locals. But he quickly established a fearsome reputation.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Sato's torso gets sliced from the rest of his body by Hanaryo.
Katanas Are Just Better: Faces off against Maeve with one, besting her.
Me's a Crowd: Even though he's identical to Musashi, his pearl houses another copy of Dolores' consciousness
Off with His Head!: After he is ambushed and killed by Hanaryo, she and Clementine collect his head.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He is killed, but Dolores's copied pearl is still intact inside his severed head. Though it's unknown if they gave the head to Serac or if Maeve had them keep it.
Yakuza: He is the leader of the Yakuza in Singapore.
You Look Familiar: Because his body was made in the likeness of Musashi's.

Lawrence

Portrayed By: Clifton Collins, Jr.

Leader of a group of revolutionaries disguised as San Francisco riot police. The fifth Dolores duplicate, modeled after Lawrence.

Dark Is Not Evil: Appears in disguise as a local SWAT team leader, decked out in chromatic black armor.
Deadpan Snarker: Much like the original Lawrence.
Me's a Crowd: Even though he's identical to Lawrence, his pearl houses another copy of Dolores's consciousness.
Pet the Dog: Sends Bernard to Arnold's wife and gives him access to the Sublime, as requested by the original Dolores.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Shares Dolores's goal of bringing down Serac's system and freeing the world, but his part involves domestic terrorism.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears entirely in the story after giving the interface to Bernard. Nothing's been heard of him in Season 4.
You Look Familiar: Because his body was made in the likeness of Lawrence.
Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: His mission during the revolution is to plant bombs throughout downtown San Francisco, to disrupt the army Serac has formed around Incite.

Characters / Westworld: Hosts

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The Hosts

The Hosts

Westworld Hosts

Sweetwater

Sheriff Pickett

Deputy Foss

Kisecauwchuck a.k.a Kissy

Peter Abernathy

Samuel "Walrus"

The Bartender

Clementine Pennyfeather

Rebus' Gang

Rebus

Walter

Santa Pariah

El Lazo

Slim Miller

Las Mudas

Lawrence's daughter

Lawrence's wife

The Confederados

Colonel Brigham

Major Craddock

Captain Norris

Ghost Nation

Wanathon

Kohana

Sector 17 Cottage

Robert

Robert Ford's Father Host

Other Hosts

Old Bill

Sheriff Reed

Deputy Roe

Tenderloin

Wyatt

Holden

Horace Calhoun

Maeve's daughter

Maurice

Gold Miner Host

Shogun World Hosts

"Butterfly" Tea House

Akane

Sakura

Musashi's Gang

Musashi

Hanaryo

Koda

The Shogun's Army

The Shogun

Tanaka

Doshin

The Raj Hosts

Ganju

Other Hosts

Drone Hosts

The Forge AI

Martin Connells Host

Sato

Lawrence

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