History Characters / TheManInTheHighCastle

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Note that, because trope titles are not whited out, there may be spoilers if you read past the character descriptions. The TV series has [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeries its own character sheet]].

!!Characters from the novel:

[[folder:Rocky Mountain States residents]]

!!Joe Cinnadella

A truck driver who fought with the Italians during WWII.

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Juliana kills him after discovering he is a Nazi agent.]]

!!Charley

The cook/manager of a diner.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Charley puts on an 'asian' accent to tease Juliana.

!!Juliana Frink

A Judo instructor formerly married to Frank Frink.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:When she discovers that Joe Cinnadella, with whom she has been in a sort-of relationship for most of the book, is a Nazi agent, she does not take it well and it ends with his SlashedThroat.]]
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: In the last scene of the book the ''I Ching'' tells her [[spoiler:and Abendsen that ''The Grasshopper'' is actually true: Germany and Japan really lost the war.]]

!!The Man in the High Castle [[spoiler:aka Hawthorne Abendsen]]

The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RMS for writing an anti-fascist book.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: He's a minor character.
* ShroudedInMyth: He's known for writing a 'fictional' anti-fascist book where the Nazis and Japanese lose WWII.
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[[folder:Japanese Pacific States residents]]

!!Frank Frink aka Frank Fink

The ex-husband of Juliana Frink. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.

* PassFail: Frank Frink is actually Jewish, with the birth name "Frank Fink".

!!Ed [=McCarthy=]

A colleague of Frank Frink in a San Francisco factory, he works in creating replica American souvenirs for Japanese residents to buy a relic of American history.

!! Mr [=Wyndam-Matson=]

A manager of the factory where Frank works.

!!Robert Childan

A dealer in Americana who owns a world famous store.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While outwardly he is quite sycophantic toward the occupying Japanese (and has gone so far as even ''thinking'' like them according to an introduction included with some editions of the book), inwardly he is quite racist and regards German culture as superior, with all the implications this brings.

!!Nobusuke Tagomi

A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.

* DealWithTheDevil: Minister Tagomi and Kotomichi have to do this when they learn about the impending [[spoiler: nuclear destruction of Japan]] at the hands of the German Army.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given the minister's position as a Trade Minister representative in the JPS.
* PrecisionFStrike: The reserved Tagomi saying "Chicken shit" in the middle of an intense political discussion.
* PreventTheWar: Tagomi wants to prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: He never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.
* TookALevelInBadass: Mr. Tagomi uses a (replica) Civil War revolver to kill two American Nazi agents. He has a HeroicBSOD following this.
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Near the end of the book [[spoiler:he's temporarily drawn into what is either our universe or the universe of ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' after focussing on a piece of American folk art.]]

!! Paul Kasoura

A young Japanese national working for the Standard of Living for Unfortunate Areas Planning Commission of Inquiry, and living in the San Francisco area.

!! Betty Kasoura

The wife of Paul, she shares his interest in American culture.

!!Kotomichi

A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.

* DealWithTheDevil: Like his superior, he understands the reluctance of Tagomi when [[spoiler:he learns of the Nazi plans to destroy Japan with nukes.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given his position as a Trade Ministry employee in the JPS.

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[[folder:German Residents]]

!!Rudolph Wegener

A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back.

* CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name.
* MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany.
* PassFail: Wegener is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan". An ever-present theme in the book is, at which point do you become what you're pretending to be? Although he may have been lying about that, to mess with Lotze. Or was he?
* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: Like Tagomi, he never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.

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Note that, because trope titles are not whited out, there may be spoilers if you read past the character descriptions.

!!Characters from the live-action series:

[[folder:Greater Nazi Reich residents]]

!!Joe Blake

A native of New York who has his life changed forever when he joins with an anti-government guerrilla group. He starts by fleeing the Greater Nazi Reich to reach the Rocky Mountain States. [[spoiler:He happens to be working for the Waffen SS.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:He's conflicted about his duties as a Nazi agent and eventually abandons his position to go on the run to Mexico. His book counterpart, Joe Cinnadella, has none of this.]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: He has some problems regarding who he should be loyal to.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Of a sort. When he's told by Smith to not follow orders from Heydrich's faction, he decides to escape from the GNR by hitching a ride to Central America.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In the TV series, during Blake's road trip, he is represented by a red line (compared to Juliana's blue one) and you can hear Wagner's music playing in the background. Both of these details serve as hints to where his loyalties truly lie.]]
* KarmicJackpot: He saves Juliana multiple times which leads her to save him in turn including [[spoiler:giving him another chance when his identity as a Nazi spy is revealed and helping him escape when the Resistance wants to kill him.]]
* LaResistance: He joins one in the pilot episode.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Goes hand-in-hand with AdaptationalHeroism. [[spoiler:Because Joe Blake effectively undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, Juliana gives him help and he escapes to Mexico. His book counterpart, Joe Cinnadella, does no such thing, and Juliana kills him herself.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Colt [=M1911A1=] given to him by Don.
* WhiteMaleLead: He suits the part as a male, heterosexual, square-jawed American hero. [[spoiler: The trope is then decked in the face when it's revealed he's actually a Nazi agent.]]

!!Don Warren

The manager of an industrial factory. He's secretly an anti-GNR resistance fighter.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by the SS while under detention.]]
* LaResistance: Heads an anti-GNR faction in New York City.
* RebelLeader: Is this for the eastern part of New York.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death spurs the American resistance in the GNR to conduct more attacks against GNR military officials and soldiers.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: He speaks very openly about the horrible things he saw in combat during the German invasion to Joe Blake. For him, it's all the more reason to hate Nazis.

!!John Smith

A SS Obergruppenführer placed in charge of investigating and weeding out any anti-government resistance against the GNR.

* AntiVillain: Ruthless and a firm believer of Nazi values, but he has virtues like loyalty, kinship towards his compatriots, and love for his family.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: On the receiving end. "Then why don't you sail anymore?", says Rudolph (after Smith explains he used to sail for soul searching before the War). Smith is clearly taken aback by the observation.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [=Obergruppenfuhrer=] Smith comes across as firm, professional, and a dedicated family man. In the book, we see none of the Nazi officers this closely, and all the ones we do see are implied to be monsters.
** When he realizes that Heydrich's faction may be up to no good, he tells Helen to take care of the kids and avoid any contact with him or his subordinates in case he's dead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Smith clearly abhors betrayal or treachery of any sort.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: He is ready to die proudly standing by Hitler, as Heydrich does his coup. A counter-coup on Hitler's part (and a well-placed sniper) save him from such end, however.]]
* HyperAwareness: Smith often picks up on extremely minor details that no one else could notice. Like how his assistant knows how Heydrich takes his coffee ahead of schedule, which is the strand of information that allows him to uneveil Heydrich's entire plot.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: In his view, he (and Nazi Germany in general) did heinous acts, but it was all necessary to stop the Semites from ruling the world.
** Wegener almost gets him to admit that his conscience is not as clear as he claims about the things they did.
* ManipulativeBastard: Smith often plays people's feelings like a fiddle.
* OminousMundanity: Obergruppenführer John Smith.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: His preferred method of dealing with any anti-GNR guerrilla fighters in custody.
--> '''Smith''': (After being told that the fighter is permanently unconscious) Your orders were to flog this man until he answered your questions... Do as you're told.
** It should be noted that given the circumstances, it was [[JustifiedTrope entirely justified]]: the SS already had all of the information they needed, they just needed to get the resistance to think they ''didn't''. [[BatmanGambit How better than to convince them that the potential leak was beaten to death without giving them anything?]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Towards Hitler, as [[TheStarscream Heydrich]] learns.
* VillainProtagonist: Smith protagonizes a plotline of his own, and he can be safely defined as a villain, even if a AntiVillain.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Walther P38 as his sidearm.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Smith has this with [[spoiler: Rudolph, whom he considers a traitor.]]
* WorthyOpponent: After being ambushed and nearly killed, Smith rejects the characterization of his opponents as insects.
--> They did us great damage today.

!!Erich Raeder

A SS officer working under Smith, he serves as his personal aide in the GNR military.

* {{Irony}}: He shares his name with Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the head of the ''Kriegsmarine'' at the beginning of WWII. ''Grossadmiral'' Raeder [[TeethClenchedTeamwork openly despised the Nazi Party]], [[OnlySaneMan opposed going to war in the first place]], [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight often defied Hitler]], [[AFatherToHisMen and tried to protect Jewish sailors from the Gestapo]]. He was sacked in 1942 and replaced with the much-more-manageable Admiral Karl Dönitz. This Raeder, on the other hand, has none of the Grand Admiral's redeeming qualities.
* NumberTwo: Acts under Smith when he's not around.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Smith to the point that he's told to bring evidence to Hitler in case something should happen to him.

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[[folder:Japanese Pacific States residents]]

!!Juliana Crain

A native of the JPS in San Francisco, she seems to be happy living under Japanese rule. She's the half-sister of Trudy Walker.

* ChekhovsSkill: Juliana uses her Aikido moves to [[spoiler: throw an undercover SS intelligence agent over a bridge when he tries to kill her and steal the film]].
* HonorBeforeReason: She refuses to abandon her comrades like Joe despite it would be more pragmatic to just leave them.
* {{Xenafication}}: The Juliana in the series is far more assertive, independent and self-driven than the character in the book.

!!Trudy Walker

A native of the JPS in San Francisco and half-sister of Juliana Crain, she secretly works with an anti-government guerrilla group to overthrow JPS rule.

* LaResistance: She's with an underground anti-JPS group.
* SacrificialLamb: Her death in many ways kicks off Juliana's character arc and the swift disintegration of her 'normal' life.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Trudy dies after being shot by Kempeitai soldiers during a chase.

!!Frank Frink aka Frank Fink

The boyfriend of Juliana Crain. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.

* BreakTheCutie: Being tortured breaks Frank's NiceGuy behavior for quite some time.
* ChekhovsSkill: Frank works at a factory making replica pre-war Colt revolvers to sell to Japanese tourists and collectors. In "The Illustrated Woman", he uses those skills to make a functioning pistol to [[spoiler: take his revenge against the Japanese]], presumably as it would be difficult for a civilian to acquire a weapon in the strictly controlled JPS.
* CosmicPlaything: The world seems to hate him. [[JustifiedTrope Of course]], he's a Jewish man living in a world where the Nazis won.
* InformedJudaism: Justified. He has Jewish blood, but he does not practice Judaism (though he seems to still hold on to its beliefs to some extent) due the obvious fact of living close to a Nazi occupied America.
* NiceJewishBoy: He's a NiceGuy and Jewish. Subsequently he's this.
* NiceGuy: Up until the point [[BreakTheCutie he is tortured]], he's very polite and friendly.
* PassFail: Frank Frink is actually Jewish, with the birth name "Frank Fink".
* TraumaCongaLine: Oh ''boy'' things go wrong for him, to a tragic degree.

!!Laura Frink

* SacrificialLamb: Her death sparks Frank's anti-Japanese occupation thoughts, which includes trying to assassinate the Crown Prince.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Laura and her two children [[spoiler: die in the same episode they are introduced.]]

!!Ed [=McCarthy=]

A colleague of Frank Frink in a San Francisco factory, he works in creating replica American souvenirs for Japanese residents to buy a relic of American history.

* AFriendInNeed: Despite the risk of being caught by Kempeitai soldiers, he offers money to Frank and Juliana, as well the opportunity of disposing of the revolver Frank made in the factory.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:After his attempt to dispose of the revolver fails, he ends up sacrificing his life by framing himself for the assassination attempt on the Crown Prince]].
* {{Scapegoat}}: [[spoiler:Offers to be one to get the Kempeitai off Frank's back.]]

!!Nobusuke Tagomi

A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.

* ActualPacifist: His philosophy.
* AlmightyJanitor: He's a Trade Minister, a relatively high rank, but still seems to have more influence than he should, as observed by the fact ''The Crown Prince of Japan'' (and particularly the Princess) seem to rely a lot on his advice.
* BenevolentBoss: Treats all his workers with respect and dignity, as well as acting very personable and friendly, often having more casual chats with them.
* TheChessmaster: Tagomi operates quite the gambit in an attempt to PreventTheWar between Japan and Germany.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He confirms Victore Baynes' identity as Rudolf Wegener when he arrived at the JPS since both their leaders will sentence them to death if they knew about their secret meetings.]]
* GuileHero: His cleverness aids his heroism.
* HeroAntagonist: He is technically an antagonist to [[LaResistance the Resistance]], but there's no doubt he's a heroic character.
* HeroicBSOD: Tagomi starts breaking down when he begins to wonder if all his efforts won't be fruitless, but he snaps out when one of his coworkers reminds him the good things he has done.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: All he seeks to avoid the loss of lives.
* TheLostLenore: His wife died during the war, a fact which he's clearly not over yet.
* OddFriendship: With Rudolph. They bond over how both break rules to maintain peace.
* OnlySaneMan: Tagomi seems to be the only one to fully realize a war with Germany is a ''terrible'' idea, both because they'd lose and because of the loss of lives.
* RealWorldEpisode: Season one ends with [[spoiler:him being drawn into what appears to be our universe: the Allies won the war, the United States still exists, and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is president. It could also be the universe of ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' or one of the other, as yet unseen newsreels from the show.]]
* PreventTheWar: He wants to prevent a war between the GNR and JPS by any means necessary.
* PunchClockVillain: Tagomi is by all accounts a stand-up person, he just happens to be working for a ruthless, tyrannical Empire.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As he admits, what he's doing (i.e consulting with a Nazi officer and sharing state secrets with him without authorization) amounts to high treason, but he's doing to avoid a nuclear war between Japan and Germany.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Much like Rudolph is "the Good Nazi", Tagomi is "the good Imperial Japanese".

!!Kotomichi

A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.

* EveryScarHasAStory: Juliana notices he has a scar on his wrist. [[spoiler:Interestingly, they look like radiation scars. He also mentions that he came from Nagasaki -- one of the two cities which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on during the Second World War. Some have suggested the burns imply Kotomichi is actually from the alternate history where the Allies won. This is supported by the sad look he puts on when Tagomi describes Nagasaki as a beautiful city.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given his position as a Trade Ministry employee in the JPS.
* NumberTwo: Is this to Tagomi in the Trade Ministry.

!!Robert Childan

An antique dealer of pre-19th century goods in the JPS.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He agrees to help fund Frank's escape from JPS territory by convincing him to make accurate replicas of pre-19th century items to sell to upper-class Japanese clients.
* PretenderDiss: Is on the receiving end of that by the Japanese people whose culture he gleefully adopts. It is obvious that he wants the Japanese people to see him as one of them and a particularly nasty rebuff from an upper-class Japanese couple he hoped to befriend is enough to convince him to help Frank.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Robert Childan tries to sell a necklace supposedly from a famous Native American Chief to the Kasouras, who are American Memorabilia collectors. Mr Kasoura at first thinks the necklace is a fake, but Mrs Kasoura is convinced the necklace is genuine as she feels the owner's pain and suffering of his people. [[spoiler:The necklace is a fake, but the part of the pain and suffering is correct albeit it's about the creator Frank and his people, the Jews.]]

!!Colonel/Chief Inspector Hidetoshi Kido

The head of the Kempeitai's San Francisco branch.

* AffablyEvil: Is very nice to the people he meets, but he won't hesitate to execute or lock up anyone if he deems it to be necessary.
* AntiVillain: While he's in charge of putting doing resistance in the JPS, he does it with dedication that he'll even refuse a bribe from yakuzas.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's very polite and friendly towards Frank's sister and her children just before he has them [[spoiler: locked in a room and gassed to death]].
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:He spares Frank from facing a firing squad, but after gassing his sister Laura and her two small children to death, he forced Frank to live this fact along getting vindictively {{Misblamed}} in-universe by his widower brother-in-law Ben for their deaths and being hated by [[JerkassWoobie Ben]] because of that as well.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His glasses enhance his icy demeanor.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Pilot", [[http://postimg.org/image/jrtbyq1pj/ Kido shows off his Kempeitai ID, which reveals his full name.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: He believes in the traditional Japanese ritual suicide, the ''Sepukku'', and if he fails, he won't hesitate to do it.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Appears to hold the authority to detain, judge and execute anyone who threatens the government, at least in milder cases. Justified that the Kempeitai did this in occupied territories in the Asia-Pacific region in real life.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Kido does things even he would normally consider amoral for the sake of his country. Even after he [[spoiler:has Laura and her children gassed to death]], he claims that he did not enjoy it. He's also perfectly willing to sacrifice his own life if it will help his country.
* RabidCop: Investigates any subversive activities in the JPS, with all the brutality necessary.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: From time to time, when the lightning is just right.
* TortureTechnician: He oversees the torture of subversives to the state.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate in the JPS.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Or specifically gas Laura to death.]]

!!Sergeant Yoshida

An officer stationed in the Kempeitai's San Francisco branch and the subordinate of Kido.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He doesn't like the idea of Kido's plans to cover up the Nazi Reich's involvement in attempting to murder the Crown Prince.]]
* NumberTwo: To Kido in Kempeitai operations.
* RabidCop: Investigates any subversive activities in the JPS, with all the brutality necessary.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate in the JPS.

!!Taishi Okamura

A yakuza oyabun living in the JPS, he owns legitimate businesses in the occupied territories.

* AffablyEvil: Okamura is very polite and soft-spoken, even as he's threatening to kill people. Even with Kido, who explicitly hates his guts and is trying to bring him down, he's always genuinely courteous.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He offers to give Kido information on the actual assassin who shot the Crown Prince.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: A more mundane form. He observes that organized crime cannot be destroyed, like light cannot destroy the shade.
* TheDon: A very classic Yakuza one, with suit and polite manners.

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[[folder:Rocky Mountain States residents]]

!!Kitty Owens

A fellow bus passenger that Juliana meets on the way to the Neutral Zone.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The theft of the films carried by Juliana led to her arrest by Kempeitai soldiers, which "clears" Frank of any wrongdoing. This was also the reason why Frank had began to harbor anti-Japanese occupation thoughts.

!!Lemuel Washington

The cook/manager of Sunrise Diner.

* [[InformedJudaism Informed Islam]]: Lem briefly talks about being Muslim with the Marshall. He's not seen performing any Islamic rites or practices, so it's not entirely clear if he's actually Islamic, which the occupiers don't particularly care about, or if he's using it as a cover for Christianity or even Judaism, which are both [[{{Understatement}} frowned upon by the Nazis and Japanese]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Washington's highly abrasive and aggressive, but he's still fighting for what's good and can give people a chance.
* RaceLift: In the book, his character is Irish (and named Charley), but is black in the TV series.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Heads an anti-occupation resistance holdout in the neutral zone.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Juliana is hardly the ideal job candidate, but he gives her a chance anyway.

!!The Marshal

A bounty hunter working for the Germans who stylizes himself after wild west sheriffs. He is he closest thing to law and order in the Rockies.

* {{Badass}}: Asshole or not, he's an expert marksman with no fear of death.
* BadassLongcoat: A duster fits his fearsome look.
* BountyHunter: A very old-west-ish one, complete with cowboy hat.
* CoolGuns: Mainly uses a sawed-off lever action shotgun.
* CoolHat: Wears a snazzy 1940s-style flat-brimmed cowboy hat.
* CreepySouvenir: The Marshal collects the fingers of every man and woman he kills.
* TheDragon: The highest authority existing within the lawless Rocky Mountain Neutral Zone, and directly answering to the Nazis.
* TheDreaded: This dude is bad news. Most people tend to get scarce when he comes to town. He likes it that way.
* ImplacableMan: More mundane the most, but the man is still pretty unstoppable when it comes to finding his targets.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Despite being a ruthless enforcer for the Nazis and being ''very'' openly racist, he comes off as more curious than hateful towards those he sees as "lesser". He has trouble grasping the concept of a Muslim dealing with pork (it's clarified that there AintNoRule in the Quran against ''selling it''), and notes with amusement that albinism being "bad", despite whiteness being "good", seems like too much of a good thing more than anything else.
* KarmaHoudini: The Marshal faces no repercussions for his crimes, [[CrapsackWorld as expected]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Frequently comments on others racial and religious status, usually with a superior attitude towards it. Oddly enough, he seems to do it more out of bemusement than hatred.
* {{Sadist}}: He is shown to enjoy hunting down his targets, as seen when he comes after Juliana.
** The way he messes with [[spoiler: Carl the bookshop owner (real name David Frees)]] is just downright cruel. The poor guy wasn't even part of the Resistance, he was just minding his own business trying to make a living and stay under the radar. His only "crime" was escaping from a nazi death camp ten years earlier. After several minutes of interrogation and thinly-veiled threats, the Marshall announces that he knows who [[spoiler: Carl]] really is, then adds, "I'm gonna kill you now, and there's nothing you can say or do to change that."
** Then we see him pursue Juliana twice. Both times, he moves at a leisurely pace, gleefully taunting her. The second time, she's frantically trying to start a car while the Marshall approaches menacingly, brandishing the shotgun he fully intends to blow her head off with. The creepy bastard actually yells at her to take her foot off the gas pedal, because she's flooding the motor. Then he doesn't even drive fast in pursuit. He's ''savoring'' her fear every step of the way. Seriously, the guy's a fucking ''disease''.

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[[folder:German Residents]]

!!Rudolph Wegener

A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back.

* TheAtoner: World War Two and the subsequent genocides clearly left Rudolph guilty, and he seeks to atone for it.
* CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:His book counterpart survives the events of the book. He is DrivenToSuicide in the final episode of the first season.]]
* MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany.
* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Is provided one first by Heydrich (kill Hitler or lose everything you love), and then much more effectively by Hitler (kill Hitler and get solace for previous genocides he had participated in, or kill himself and keep solace in the fact that he is not causing an even worse genocide of the Japanese).]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: The war left some massive psychological scars on him.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the "good" Nazi of the show, being moral and seeing the errors of Nazi ideology. He knows that he's definitely ''not'' a good man after the things he's done, and [[TheAtoner he wants to make it right any way he can]].
* YourCheatingHeart: He appears to have extra-marital affairs, though in his defense it seems his wife and he are separated in all but name.

!!Reinhard Heydrich

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, his faction is [[spoiler:the faction that opposes a nuclear war with Japan]]. Here, he's depicted as a complete sociopath. This may not necessarily be much of an upgrade in villainy, since his book counterpart is more like the least evil of a number of evil Nazi factions rather than not being evil at all.
* TheChessmaster: Slowly orchestrating a coup against the Fuhrer.
* TheDreaded: Everyone treats him with a heavy dose of fear.
-->'''Helen''': Heydrich scares me, John. H-He says it's for the glory of the Reich, but he enjoys the things that he does.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* RedBaron: "The Man Without A Heart", Smith dubs him, and he confesses he proclaims to wear the title proudly.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Heydrich attempted Coup to overthrow Hitler gets undone by Hitler himself since he already knew the coup was coming thanks to the film reels.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In a manner of speaking. In real life, Heydrich was killed by the Czech resistance ''in 1942'', before the Germans even began to lose the war, while in this universe he's still alive literally twenty years later, in 1962.
* TheStarscream: He doesn't hide the fact that he wants to overthrow Hitler in a coup.

!!Adolf Hitler

* BarrierMaiden: Him being alive is the only reason the alternate 1962 is still peaceful and not a nuclear wasteland. Japan and Germany are still at peace, because Hitler respects the Japanese and sees them as equals. Should Hitler die, his successor, probably Himmler or Goebbels, would definitely attack the Japanese Empire in an attempt at full world domination, resulting in another but more devastating war.
* BreakThemByTalking: Shows his skill with this in the finale as he [[spoiler: manages to stop Rudolph from assassinating him through a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* NervesOfSteel: stays completely calm when being held at gunpoint, despite knowing the wielder of the gun clearly intends to kill him.
* ProperlyParanoid: Hitler stays in a fortified castle far away from urban areas and is always guarded by a SS contingent 24/7. He even keeps pistols within reach in his room.
--> '''Heydrich''': Our leader's paranoia at least has one advantage. He hides weapons everywhere.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Everyone talks about how he does not have long to live, but he himself acts like nothing is wrong.

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!!The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RPS for creating anti-fascists movies to distribute them to anti-government groups secretly.

* BigGood: It's revealed that the American resistance is kept aloft by his aid, which they strangely enough get just by sending him the Grasshopper film reels. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's heavily implied that the reason this can work is because the Man is in fact ''Adolf Hitler'', meaning the BigGood of the resistance is the BigBad responsible for making the world the way it is. It is, however, worth noting that the creators have claimed the identity of the Man in the High Castle is not revealed in season one, but whether this is a case of LyingCreator remains to be seen.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Considering that Hitler currently lives in a castle very high and far from the public, it makes potential foreshadowing that he's the man himself. This may, however, end up being subverted; see the BigGood spoiler entry.]]
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: He's a minor character.
* ShroudedInMyth: He's known for making anti-fascist movies and distributes them to anti-government forces. Or so it seems. Resistance members later reveal that he doesn't create the films, he ''collects'' them. It seems that most resistance members have no more clue about him than anyone else, only sending the films via third party. [[spoiler:Disturbingly enough, the end of season one implies that he may in fact be ''Hitler'', who has been collecting film reels for some unknown purpose.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As attested to how much of this entry is whited out, it's difficult to discuss him without the inevitable possibility that in the TV show, Hitler's the man himself. Which is done on purpose by the production crew.]]

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* RedRightHand: His wrists and presumably more of his body [[spoiler:bear radiation burns. The burns and the way his expression breaks when Tagomi calls Nagasaki "a beautiful city" hint that he comes from ''our'' reality or at least another one in which Nagasaki was nuked.]]

* EveryScarHasAStory: Juliana notices he has a scar on his wrist. [[spoiler:Interestingly, they look like radiation scars. He also mentions that he came from Nagasaki -- one of the two cities which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on during the Second World War. Some have suggested the burns imply Kotomichi is actually from the alternate history where the Allies won.]]