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Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness, Marvel witch created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #94 (1969), governess to Franklin Richards and Darkhold-linked sorceress, adapted as Kathryn Hahn's villain in WandaVision and Agatha All Along.
Ali Abdul
Ali Abdul (알리 압둘, علی عبدل), Player 199, is a Pakistani migrant worker character in Squid Game season 1, played by Anupam Tripathi, who saves Gi-hun and dies betrayed by Sang-woo in the Marbles game.
Bea Smith (Wentworth)
Bea Smith is the lead character of seasons 1-4 of the Australian prison drama Wentworth (2013-2021), a reimagining of Prisoner: Cell Block H. Played by Danielle Cormack, the hairdresser convicted of attempting to murder her husband rises to Top Dog and is killed by Joan Ferguson in the season 4 finale.
Beverly Crusher
Beverly Crusher, born Beverly Howard, is the chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its films, played by Gates McFadden.
Bobby Briggs
Robert "Bobby" Briggs, Twin Peaks character created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, played by Dana Ashbrook; Laura Palmer's boyfriend and murder suspect turned sheriff's deputy in the 2017 revival.
Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers, protagonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its 1992 film, is the Slayer, a Chosen One fighting vampires in Sunnydale; played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, analyzed as an Adventurer-Hero archetype, she is a landmark feminist television heroine.
CeCe Drake
CeCe Drake, aka Charlotte DiLaurentis born Charles, is the transgender villain A of Pretty Little Liars, played by Vanessa Ray and revealed in the 2015 finale Game Over, Charles.
Connor (Angel)
Connor (Angel) is the son of Angel and Darla in the TV series Angel, also called Connor Reilly, Steven Franklin, and The Destroyer; played by Vincent Kartheiser, raised by Holtz in Quor'toth, sank Angel in the ocean, and had his memories rewritten by Wolfram & Hart.
Daemon Targaryen
Daemon Targaryen, the Rogue Prince, is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood and HBO's House of the Dragon, played by Matt Smith; brother of Viserys I, rider of Caraxes, husband of Rhaenyra.
Dalek
Dalek: the armoured mutant villains of Doctor Who, created by Terry Nation with designer Raymond Cusick, first appearing December 1963; Kaled mutants built by Davros on Skaro, famous for "Exterminate!" and Dalekmania, distinct from the arXiv agent machine of the same name.
Dana Evans (The Pitt)
Dana Evans is a fictional charge nurse in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, played by Katherine LaNasa. Based on nurse Kathy Garvin, she runs the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center ER, survives a patient assault in Season 1, and won LaNasa an Emmy.
Deep Throat (The X-Files)
Deep Throat is a recurring X-Files character played by Jerry Hardin: a shadowy CIA-linked informant who feeds classified information to Fox Mulder, named for the Watergate source, killed in the season 1 finale with the words "Trust no one".
Dennis Whitaker
Dennis Whitaker, nicknamed Huckleberry, is a fictional medical student turned first-year resident in HBO Max's The Pitt, played by Gerran Howell; a farm boy from Broken Bow, Nebraska, with a theology degree, he sleeps at the hospital in season 1 and mentors med students in season 2.
Dustin Henderson
Dustin Henderson, played by Gaten Matarazzo, is the bard and science nerd of the Party in Stranger Things; known for cleidocranial dysplasia, Dart, Steve's friendship, Eddie's death, and a valedictorian finale.
Elizabeth McCord (Madam Secretary)
Elizabeth McCord is the fictional Secretary of State, later President, played by Téa Leoni in CBS's Madam Secretary (2014–2019, 120 episodes), a former CIA analyst loosely inspired by Hillary Clinton.
Elsbeth Tascioni
Elsbeth Tascioni, the quirky attorney-detective played by Carrie Preston in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and the 2024 CBS series Elsbeth; female Columbo, Emmy-winning guest role, NYPD spin-off lead.
Emily Prentiss
Emily Prentiss is a fictional FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit agent on Criminal Minds and Evolution, played by Paget Brewster; she joined in 2006, faked her death in the Ian Doyle arc, led Interpol's London office, and became BAU Unit Chief and Section Chief.
First Evil
The First Evil, or the First, is the incorporeal personification of evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, debuting in "Amends" and serving as the final season's Big Bad, acting through Bringers, Turok-Han, and Caleb.
Florence Cassell
Florence Cassell is a fictional police detective in the BBC drama Death in Paradise. She serves on the Honoré Police team on the Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
Front Man (Squid Game)
Front Man (프론트맨), real name Hwang In-ho (황인호), is the masked overseer of the games in Netflix's Squid Game, played by Lee Byung-hun; a former police officer and 28th-game winner, brother of Jun-ho, and Season 2's Player 001 "Young-il."
Gabriel Stokes (The Walking Dead)
Father Gabriel Stokes is a fictional priest in AMC's The Walking Dead, played by Seth Gilliam from season 5's 'Strangers' (2014) onward. A guilt-ridden survivor who once shut his congregation out, he becomes a fighter and community leader, outlives his comic counterpart, and returns in The Ones Who Live.
Gemma Scout
Gemma Scout is a fictional character in Apple TV+'s Severance, Mark Scout's wife, believed dead but alive on Lumon's Testing Floor, where her innie Ms. Casey and other severed personas endure painful test rooms, culminating in the Cold Harbor file and a brief season 2 finale reunion.
Harmony Cobel
Harmony Cobel (alias Mrs. Selvig) is a fictional character in Apple TV+'s Severance, played by Patricia Arquette. Former manager of Lumon's Severed Floor and, per Season 2, the true inventor of the severance procedure, credited to Jame Eagan.
Harry S. Truman (Twin Peaks)
Harry S. Truman is the fictional sheriff of Twin Peaks, Washington, in David Lynch and Mark Frost's series, played by Michael Ontkean. Cooper's partner in the Laura Palmer case, Bookhouse Boy, brother Frank replaces him in The Return.
Hong Du-sik (홍두식)
Hong Du-sik (홍두식), or Chief Hong, is the male lead of the 2021 tvN drama Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (갯마을 차차차), played by Kim Seon-ho: a Seoul National University engineering graduate and former asset-management employee who returned to Gongjin as its jack-of-all-trades fixer, distinct from the 2004 film version played by Kim Ju-hyuk.
Hoshi Sato
Hoshi Sato (佐藤星), fictional communications officer and exolinguist of Enterprise NX-01 in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), played by Linda Park; first human to speak Klingon and creator of the linguacode universal translation matrix.
Jeffrey Sinclair
Jeffrey Sinclair is the fictional first commander of the Babylon 5 station in the TV series Babylon 5, played by Michael O'Hare; a Battle of the Line survivor who later becomes the Minbari leader Valen.
Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska
Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska are identical twin Joker-precursor villains in Fox's Gotham, both played by Cameron Monaghan; Jerome is a theatrical chaos-agent killed in season 4, Jeremiah a calculating engineer obsessed with Bruce Wayne.
Jessica Jones (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Jessica Jones (MCU) is the superpowered private investigator of Alias Investigations, played by Krysten Ritter in Marvel's Jessica Jones (Netflix, 2015-2019), The Defenders (2017), and Daredevil: Born Again season 2 (2026), distinguishing her from the comics character created in Alias.
Ji-yeong (Squid Game)
Ji-yeong (지영), Player 240 in Squid Game season 1, is a young ex-convict who killed her abusive father, befriends Sae-byeok, and sacrifices herself in the marbles game; played by Lee Yoo-mi, who won a 2022 Emmy for the role.