History Characters / TrueBloodMainHumansAndWitches

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!!Arlene Bellefleur (neé Fowler)

%%* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten

* [[YouCanRunButYouCantHide: She runs to hide in a wine storage room when the yakuza come looking for her in season 7.]]

* OhCrap: [[When the yakuza announce they are looking for her in episode 3 of season 7.]]

** [[TheImmodestOrgasm NAMASTE!]]

* TheBusCameBack: For Season 6. [[And again in Season 7.]]

** [[TheImmodestOrgasm: NAMASTE!]]

* TheBusCameBack: For Season 6.

%%* AscendedExtra
%%* {{Hypocrite}}
%%* LargeHam

[[folder:Drew Marshall]]

[[folder:Governor Burrell]]

* AbusiveParent: To Tara, who she abuses physically, verbally and emotionally.

%%* {{Jerkass}}

%%* ItsAllAboutMe

A waitress at Merlotte's, previously in a relationship with Jason.

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** Shoot a werewolf with a shotgun. ''Twice''. [[spoiler:Only the second time, it was Debbie and she shot her head clean off.]]

** Stake [[spoiler: ''Bill'' when he's about to kill Eric. It doesn't work, due to him being possessed by the progenitor of the vampire race, but still.]]

The current owner of Bellefluer's (formerly Merlotte's) and friend to Sookie Stackhouse. Married 5 times, she has 3 children, Coby, Lisa and Mikey.

Although it has never been addressed directly, Arlene seems to be a medium, albeit one of far less power than Lafayette Reynolds. She was able to see the ghosts of Rene, Mavis and Zaafira.

The boyfriend of Tara Thornton and murder weapon of choice of Maryann Forrester.

Prior to his "new life" Eggs lead a violent and dangerous life, growing up in foster homes and witnessing a man die after a gunfight. He eventually ended up under a bridge after two stints in jail (for drug dealing, drug possession and assault, respectively) and was taken in by Maryann Forrester and her servant Karl. Maryann promised Eggs he would get back on his feet during his stay with her, but in reality she never intended for him to leave her.

An Iraq war veteran who was Sgt. to Private Terry Bellefleur.

A brujo of Mexican origin, he was employed as a medical nurse for Lafayette's mother Ruby Jean. He discovered that Lafayette was "powerful" and carefully introduced him to witchcraft, magic and mediumship.

** BadassInCharge

* ButtMonkey: In season 2 and 4 especially.

* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He really is just trying to do his job and help people despite all the crap he put Jason through.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From time to time though not at all so far in season 4.
* ThoseTwoGuys : With Jason.
%%* TooManyBabies
%%* TookALevelInKindness

!!Arlene Bellefleur (nee Fowler)

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In season 5, she dismisses Terry's talk of the fire demon as nonsense. Holly, a witch, calls her on it.

* FetusTerrible: She believed this while pregnant with Rene's baby, thinking Rene's evil is InTheBlood.

* SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer: Almost. She was engaged to Rene before TheReveal.

** TheBusCameBack: In season 5.

* TheSheriff: Literally.

%%* YourCheatingHeart

%%* HolierThanThou

%%* DumbBlonde

%%* PluckyComicRelief

!!Rene Lenier/Drew Marshall

A Cajun resident of Bon Temps. He is a co-worker and close friend of Jason's. He becomes engaged to Arlene and is widely respected in Bon Temps. Unbeknownst to the locals, however, Rene is actually Drew Marshall, who had previously lived in Bunkie, Louisiana and fled that town after killing his sister Cindy in a rage after he found out she was a "fang banger".

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Rene/Drew actually appears to be the nicest, most affable guy in the supporting cast until TheReveal.

%%* EvilAllAlong

* OffWithHisHead: By Sookie.

* StarterVillain: The first BigBad of the show.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Doesn't especially look like a murderer.

* TheBusCameBack: For season 6.

* {{Jerkass}}: In Season 6.

* TheAtoner: It doesn't work out, and we never find out about the details of his troubled past either.
%%* BoomHeadshot
%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast

%%* MysteriousPast
%%* NiceGuy
%%* SuicideByCop

* BetaCouple: In season 4 with Jesus.

* EvilAllAlong

* DumbBlonde: Although she isn't exactly 'dumb' she's not particularly savvy or intelligent. When stopped in her tracks in a TV debate with Nan Flanagan, the best retort she can summon up is, 'I hate your hair.'
** Averted in season 6, where she has since become very savvy, cunning, and quick to adapt.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In season 6. She keeps the...

* GroinAttack: Gives one to Jason, courtesy of a paintball gun.[[spoiler: Later suffers one herself at the hands of the CEO of the TrueBlood Company in Season 6.]]

* TheDragon: For Maryanne.
* {{Gang Banger|s}}: Before Maryanne took him in.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In a world flooded with vampires, he chooses not to believe in the existence of [[spoiler:a rampaging fire demon even though he saw it with his own eyes.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ho boy.

* IHaveYourWife: Pulls this on Terry.
* JustFollowingOrders

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's an antagonist to our characters, but we've yet to see him operate outside of the law and considering the recent vampire attacks, it's tough to blame him for being so hardline in dealing with them.[[spoiler:This is just a facade, having created a death camp for vampires and planning on infecting the entire vampire population with True Blood laced with Hepatitis V]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely loves his daughter and was mortified when [[spoiler:she became a vampire]]. He still loved her very much.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His reason for the "government bailout" for the True Blood company. Except that his true goal is to spread True Blood laced with Hepatitis V.

* urprisinglySuddenDeath: Delivered by Bill midway through season 6.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His methods may be extreme, but his loyalty appears to be to the people of Louisiana.
* YourCheatingHeart: According to Willa, [[spoiler:his wife had an affair with a vampire.]]

* BigBad: Of season 4.

%%* CharacterDeath

* FromNobodyToNightmare

->'''Played By:''' [[HomeAndAway Ryan Kwanten]]

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Lettie Mae and Tara's pastor.

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!Other Characters

[[folder:Lafayette]]
!!Lafayette Reynolds
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't possible to live unless you crossin' somebody's line."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nelsan Ellis

->''"Well, hey there sweetness. You ready to party?"''

A short order cook at Merlotte's, a drug dealer, a member of Jason Stackhouse's road crew, and Tara's cousin.
!!!Tropes
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He's not really that aggressive, but just don't get on his bad side.
* AscendedExtra: In the first season, he had a much smaller role, and by the third his is one of the main stories.
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** BadassBoast
%%** BadassGay
%%** BadassNormal
* BetaCouple: In season 4 with Jesus.
* BlessedWithSuck: Congratulations Lafayette! [[PowerSource You have just discovered that your body has more supernatural energy than a whole Witch circle combined]] and you can see and channel spirits. Of course this also means [[BodySurf that said spirits can also take over your body without as much as a pretty-please .]] And go on wacky fun adventures like kidnapping and engaging in tense hostage situations...
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* TheChewToy
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Done to him by angry spirits who got some unfinished business, ''thrice''.
* HomoeroticDream: Allegedly with Eric. It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't [[FoeYay hate/fear Eric]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}
%%** JerkassFacade
%%** JerkassHasAPoint
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MagicalNegro: One of the wisest and kindest characters on the show and hinted to have some kind of [[TheEmpath supernatural sense]], [[SubvertedTrope but also]] self-centered and, of course, a drug dealer.
%%* MagicalQueer
%%* MrFanservice
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Gay]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novels he died early on.
* StereotypeGay
** CampGay: In the novels definitely, in the TV series he seems to be a mixture of this and...
** MachoCamp: All those muscles ain't just for picking up guys, though they're certainly a plus.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay man of color.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Despite his talk of getting around, he's one of the very few characters never seen having sex on the show, not even with Jesus. [[ButNotTooGay As for why...]]
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[[folder:Bud Dearborne]]

[[folder:Jesus]]
!!Jesus Velasquez
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You can’t trade magic like fucking pokemon cards!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Kevin Alejandro

A brujo of Mexican origin, he was employed as a medical nurse for Lafayette's mother Ruby Jean. He discovered that Lafayette was "powerful" and carefully introduced him to witchcraft, magic and mediumship.
!!!Tropes
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Abuelo]]: He was raised by his uncle, who trained him in BloodMagic and tried to use him as a weapon.
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** BadassGay
* BetaCouple: With Lafayette.
* BloodMagic: What his grandfather trained him in.
* BuryYourGays: He's murdered in the fourth season finale.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeadPersonConversation: With Lafayette.
* EthnicMagician: He was trained as a witch by his grandfather.
%%* TheHeart
* HospitalHottie: He's a nurse working at the psychiatric center where Lafayette's mom lives. And he's hot.
%%* HotWitch
* MeaningfulName: Blood magic or no blood magic, he's one of the few members of the cast who is consistently kind, loving, and compassionate. He then allows himself to be sacrificed in the hopes that doing so will keep a then-possessed Lafayette from being harmed. And then he returns as a spirit, still just as full of love and compassion as ever.
%%* TheMedic
%%* NiceGuy
* SexyMentor: He is trying to get Lafayette to use his powers as a medium.
* StraightGay: You wouldn't know he's gay unless he's making out with Lafayette.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Actually a threefer, being gay, Latino, and Wiccan.
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[[folder:Marnie]]
!!Marnie Stonebrook
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"No one lives forever, not even you!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Fiona SHaw

->''"Fate brought us together to fight evil. Did you really think no one was gonna get hurt?"''

A very powerful medium who served as a leader of a Wiccan coven at the Moon Goddess Emporium.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was treated as a freak for much of her life due to her status as a spirit medium.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: She peacefully passes on into the afterlife after Antonia and Adele convince her to abandon her quest for revenge against the vampires. This makes her the first (and so far, only) season villain to have a happy ending.
* BerserkButton: Being bullied and threatened by others. It seems those years of feeling like an outcast and a misfit eventually ate away at her psyche; she's homicidal and vengeful toward anyone who attacks her.
* BigBad: Of season 4.
* BloodMagic: Occasionally seen cutting herself in an attempt to invoke Antonia.
* BoomHeadshot: Delivered by Bill.
* BullyingADragon: Sort of. The vampires attacked her because her practices meant she had the potential to one day act against them. And since being oppressed is her berserk button, that's exactly what made her snap and start her genocidal crusade against them in the first place.

* DemonicPossession: Subverted. While Antonia was possessing her at first, it eventually became more of a melding of consciousness before culminating in Marnie actually binding Antonia and gaining full control of her powers. Also, after her death, Marnie possesses Lafayette.
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* TheFundamentalist: For her, those caught in the middle are not even CollateralDamage but LesCollaborateurs to vampires.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The reason she talked to the dead was because they were her only friends. She was shunned by other people all her life because of her powers.
* IneptMage: Her powers are pretty hit-or-miss unless she's being possessed by Antonia.
* InformedLoner: She claimed to be a lifelong outcast despite leading a coven that loved her (until she she started going off the deep end) and considered Holly and Jesus personal friends.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Her most consistent ability when she's not possessed. Apparently, constantly hearing the voices of the dead contributed to her neurotic mental state.
* {{Necromancer}}: The reason the vampires see her as a threat--with the power to control the dead, she could potentially control them too.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's revealed that she is doing this when she is egging Antonia on to continue against the vampires and is not a naive witch and helpless victim of possession she came off as.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The magical barrier she erects around her shop harnesses the power of the sun, killing any vampire that touches it.
%%* PowersViaPossession
%%* SanitySlippage
%%* SoulPower
* StartOfDarkness: While it's hinted that she was a bit mentally unstable all along, she bears no nefarious intentions until after the vampires antagonize her and Antonia shows her visions of the witches' persecution during the Inquisition.
* SympatheticMurderer: The show doesn't paint her murderous actions in a positive light, but the motive behind them is treated much more tragically.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Sookie tries to win her over by telling her that she understands how it feels to be ostracized and picked on. This seems to reach Marnie, until Bill challenges her to come out by calling her a coward. In the finale, she is also portrayed in a very sympathetic light as Antonia and Adele convince her to abandon her quest for revenge so she can be at peace.
* TooDumbToLive: Her downfall can be traced directly to her not knowing what "cauterize" means. As in, Jesus and Lafayette grabbed a few vials of herbs saying they were going to "cauterize" the wounds of the girl Marnie stabbed, even though it simply means burning a wound to seal it.
* {{Wicca}}: Although many of her practices go against some of Wicca's fundamental ethics.
* WillingChanneler: She allows Antonia to possess her in order to protect herself and her coven from the vampires.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's implied at various points throughout the season and finally stated in "Soul of Fire" that Marnie is acting out because she perceives herself as everyone's punching bag and is using Antonia's power as a means to lash out and assert herself. This hardly justifies her actions, but it at least makes them somewhat more understandable. There's also the fact that she was originally just a lonely old woman, who turned to necromancy because she couldn't find meaningful relationships among the living. If the vampires had just left her alone, she would never have become their enemy, but instead they attacked her based on the possibility that she might one day pose a threat to them.

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!!Nicole Wright
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"They're coming for you next!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jurnee Smollett-Bell

A key member of a band of well-meaning (if TooDumbToLive) liberal advocates. The gang models itself after the civil rights activist Freedom Riders of the 1960s, a group of progressive protesters who rode buses from state to state, challenging racial segregation and Jim Crow travel laws.

* ButNotTooBlack: Justified due to being being the granddaughter of an interracial marriage.
* MessyHair: As the picture shows. The werewolves even remember her as "the one with the crazy hair."
%%* NiceGirl
* TooDumbToLive: She is deeply and powerfully stupid. Nicole has made it her mission to unite supernatural creatures in the name of racial harmony, but to do this she confronts a group of werewolf rednecks, talks down to them and videotapes them while making it clear she intends to 'out' them whether they like it or not.
* WideEyedIdealist: She thinks that she'll unite all supernatural creatures and that they'll do this willingly. Even the average person living in the show's world should know how incredibly stupid this idea is, especially considering how she goes about it.

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!!Patrick Devins
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->'''Played By:''' Scott Foley

An Iraq war veteran who was Sgt. to Private Terry Bellefleur.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In a world flooded with vampires, he chooses not to believe in the existence of [[spoiler:a rampaging fire demon even though he saw it with his own eyes.]]
%%* BadBoss
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
%%* CharacterDeath
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ho boy.
%%* DirtyCoward
* FalseReassurance: Blaming what happened in Iraq on other things such as the situation they were in and the drugs they had taken.
%%* GreyAndGreyMorality
* IHaveYourWife: Pulls this on Terry.
* JustFollowingOrders
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He seems prejudiced about Muslims, claiming that 'suicide is for Muslims'.
%%* ShellShockedVeteran

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!!Governor Truman Burrell
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's time for humans to bite back!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Arliss Howard

A 'good ol' boy' politician with a bigoted vendetta against vampires. Governor Burrell is a politically savvy and perhaps overly ambitious man who tends to let his personal aspirations overshadow his humanity. Like virtually all right-wing conservative politicians, he sees vampires are monsters and does not see them as people despite knowing that they were once human.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's an antagonist to our characters, but we've yet to see him operate outside of the law and considering the recent vampire attacks, it's tough to blame him for being so hardline in dealing with them.[[spoiler:This is just a facade, having created a death camp for vampires and planning on infecting the entire vampire population with True Blood laced with Hepatitis V]]
%%* BaldOfEvil
* AmbitionIsEvil: According to his character description, although we don't see much of it. Burrell never seems to seek more power, he just wants to eliminate vampires.
* {{Badass}}: He shows absolutely no fear of Billith, accepting his death with defiance.
* BigBadDuumvirate: From the humans' side in Season 6 with Sarah Newlin.
** DiscOneFinalBoss: He's murdered by Bill halfway through his season.
* CharacterDeath: Bill tears his head off.

%%* DefiantToTheEnd
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely loves his daughter and was mortified when [[spoiler:she became a vampire]]. He still loved her very much.
* FantasticRacism: He's very much against vampires.
%%* KarmicDeath
* KnightTemplar: He's willing to die for his cause.
* NightmareFetishist: Gets excited at the prospect of Eric and Pam killing each other, and when Eric and Pam kill a camp guard instead he gets even more excited.
* OffWithHisHead: He tells Bill that 'remove the head, two more will grow in it's place'. Bill removes the head.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His reason for the "government bailout" for the True Blood company. Except that his true goal is to spread True Blood laced with Hepatitis V.
%%* PapaWolf
* RousingSpeech: As seen in the promotional videos.
* SouthernGentleman: Part of his political image, but it isn't only that. He's a 'good ol' boy'.
* urprisinglySuddenDeath: Delivered by Bill midway through season 6.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His methods may be extreme, but his loyalty appears to be to the people of Louisiana.
* YourCheatingHeart: According to Willa, [[spoiler:his wife had an affair with a vampire.]]

[[folder:Rev. Daniels]]
!!Rev. Daniels
->'''Played By:''' Gregg Daniel

Lettie Mae and Tara's pastor.

%%* {{Hypocrite}}
%%* LargeHam
* RousingSpeech: He has a talent for these.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on his wife with Lettie Mae, who he later marries.

[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Burley
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am an organic vegan and my carbon footprint is miniscule."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Lizzy Caplan

Jason's bohemian, V-addicted love interest. Hailing from Storrs, Connecticut, she meets Jason in vampire bar Fangtasia. After learning he is looking for more V to use, she comes to his house and uses V together with him. She starts a relationship with Jason, who thinks that she might be "the one", and becomes a waitress at Merlotte's.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amy charms just about everyone she meets, but the reality is that she's an extremely selfish and ruthless individual.
* CharacterDeath: She's one of Rene's many victims.
* DeathIsDramatic: Her death is pretty important to the plot, is it give evidence for Jason [[MistakenForMurderer as the murderer]].
* FunctionalAddict: At first, then we really see how far she's willing to go to fulfill her addiction.
** FantasticDrug: She's addicted to "V" or Vampire Blood.
* GranolaGirl: She's an 'organic vegan'.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all her ranting about being a vegetarian earth-conscious hippie, she's much more willing to kill than Jason.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She went to the really fancy-shmancy Wellesley College.
* ManipulativeBitch: She plays Jason like a fiddle.
* MysteriousPast: We really have no idea why she was hanging around Bon Temps in the first place, or if anything she said about her past was true.
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[[folder:Dawn]]
!!Dawn Green
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->'''Played By:''' Lynn Collins

A waitress at Merlotte's, previously in a relationship with Jason.
!!!Tropes
* CharacterDeath: She's murdered off-screen by Rene Lenier/Drew Marshall.

* MaleGaze: Via Jason, focused very much on her ass.
%%* MsFanservice
* SacrificialLamb: Despite being credited as a regular character, Dawn is killed early on to establish that nobody is safe from the SerialKiller.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: She gets little to no character aside from being Jason's ex, and then gets killed.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dawn is sadly short-lived, dying not long into the series.

[[folder:Lafayette Reynolds]]

* FanNickname: "Lala" (his mom calls him this as well) and "Laffy".
** AscendedFanon: From season three on, other characters call him Lala as well.

[[folder:Hoyt Fortenberry]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: Ironically, Fiona Shaw is perhaps best known for playing Film/HarryPotter's magic-hating aunt Petunia.

* WalkingShirtlessScene

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandma
** BadassNormal
* CoolOldLady
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeadPersonConversation
* GrannyClassic
* KindHeartedCatLover

* NeverMessWithGranny
* PromotionToParent

[[folder:Andy Bellefleur]]

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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: When his faerie daughters first go missing. Turns up to eleven when Jason brings up the fact that faeries are like 'catnip' to vampires. Becomes awfully realized as he storms into Bill's mansion and finds three of his daughters dead and one barely alive.]]

* ByTheBookCop

* TheChewToy

* PapaWolf

* TooManyBabies
* TookALevelInKindness

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* ActionMom
* ActionSurvivor
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In season 5, she dismisses Terry's talk of the [[spoiler: fire demon]] as nonsense. Holly, a witch, calls her on it.

[[folder:Terry Bellefleur]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast
* [[spoiler:DiesWideOpen: With Arlene at his side.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: He asks another marine buddy to kill him in a way he won't see coming.]]
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: He's just had his old demons from the war glamored away, and as he slips away Arlene tells him to think of all the good things in his life.]]

* [[spoiler:InstantDeathBullet: After he paid another marine to kill him in a way he wouldn't see coming.]]

The [[spoiler:surviving]] Halfling daughter of Andy Bellefleur and Maurella.

* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor: Of the quadruplets.]]

* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
* DeadpanSnarker

* GranolaGirl
* HotWitch
* NiceGirl

* TheStoner

->'''Played By''': Aaron Christian Howles

->'''Played By''': Noah Matthews

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* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast
** BadassGay
** BadassNormal

* ButtMonkey
* TheChewToy
* DeadpanSnarker

* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassFacade
** JerkassHasAPoint
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* MagicalQueer
* MrFanservice

* TraumaCongaLine

* AscendedExtra

* HeroesWantRedheads

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope

* LoveMartyr

* MyBelovedSmother

** Until he TookALevelInJerkass after Jessica and Jason hooked up.

* OnlySaneMan
* SingleTargetSexuality: for Jessica "Other women don't even EXIST to me!"

* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]: [[spoiler:He returns as TheDragon for his mistress' BigBad in a plot to kill all shifters in season 5. In the books, he was pretty much a bit character dropping by to comment on things, who never retired and was mostly GoodIsNotNice.]]
* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead]]
* ByTheBookCop

* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]
* DirtyOldMan
* [[spoiler:TheDragon: To Sweetie Des Arts, whose nickname is ironically "The Dragon".]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: See AdaptationalVillainy.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Newhart}} Sherrif Larry should have appointed his brother Daryl and his other brother Daryl deputies.]]
** [[Film/BladeRunner Or built a few replicants to round out the Bon Temps police department.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouCrazy]]

* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist: At the end, he wanted to wipe out all vampires and other "supes" like shifters so that normal humans wouldn't have to fear being their victims any more. With vampires you can sort of see why he'd eventually get frustrated enough to turn into a full-blown bigot, since he'd seen his share of vampire-committed crimes. With the others, not so much.]]
* YourCheatingHeart

* AbusiveParent
* AlcoholicParent

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve
* TheFundamentalist
* HolierThanThou
* HotForPreacher
* {{Hypocrite}}
* {{Jerkass}}

* ItsAllAboutMe
* KarmaHoudini

* NeverMyFault

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Abuelo]]
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGay
* BetaCouple: With Lafayette

* DeadpanSnarker

* TheHeart

* HotWitch

* TheMedic
* NiceGuy

* ButtMonkey
* ChewToy
* DumbBlonde
* HystericalWoman
* PluckyComicRelief
* RunningGag
* TookALevelInBadass: Helping to kill [[spoiler:Elijah.]]

->'''Played By:''' [[{{Terriers}} Michael Raymond-James]]

* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: of Season 1.
* BitchInSheepsClothing

* [[spoiler:BigBadDuumvirate]]: From the humans' side in Season 6 with Truman Burrell. After [[spoiler:his death, she becomes the new BigBad.]]
* BlondesAreEvil
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten

* CatFight: Does everything in her power to stop Ms. Suzuki from exposing the Tru Blood operation, [[spoiler: including killing her]].
* CrisisOfFaith
* [[spoiler:DragonAscendant: After Burrell's death she plots to keep his death in secret and takes control of the vampire death camp]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch
* DrivesLikeCrazy

* SanitySlippage: While she wasn't quite allright in Season 2, her monologue in front of [[spoiler:Burrell's severed head]] in 6x07 or her [[spoiler: violent killing of Ms. Suzuki after admitting she's "getting there"]] in 6x08 (including a prayer afterwards) makes one wonder how long it will take until she loses it completely.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* ShoeSlap: [[spoiler: Kills Ms. Suzuki this way]].
* StepfordSmiler
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When instructing a pair of agents to dispose of [[spoiler: Truman's body]], she says she doesn't want to know how they do it, though she hears acid is very effective.

* YourCheatingHeart: She sleeps with Jason while married to Steve. [[spoiler:And again, with Jason while in a relationship with Truman.]]

* BoomHeadshot
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* ButtMonkey
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]

* MindControlEyes

* MysteriousPast
* NiceGuy
* SuicideByCop

[[folder:Marnie Stonebrook]]

->'''Played By:''' [[Film/HarryPotter Fiona Shaw]]

* PowersViaPossession
* SanitySlippage
* SoulPower

* NiceGirl

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In a world flooded with vampires, he chooses not to believe in the existence of [[spoiler: a rampaging fire demon even though he saw it with his own eyes.]]
* BadBoss
* BitchInSheepsClothing

* DirtyCoward

* GreyAndGreyMorality
* IHaveYourWife

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=]PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He seems prejudiced about Muslims, claiming that 'suicide is for Muslims'.
* ShellShockedVeteran

* [[spoiler:BaldOfEvil]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: According to his character description.
* {{Badass}}: He shows absolutely no fear of [[spoiler:Billith, accepting his death with defiance.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: From the humans' side in Season 6 with [[spoiler:Sarah Newlin]]
** [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd]]

* FantasticRacism: He's very much against vampires. Unless they pay taxes.
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]
* [[spoiler:KnightTemplar: a concentration camp for vampires]].
* NightmareFetishist:[[spoiler: Gets excited at the prospect of Eric and Pam killing each other, and when Eric and Pam kill a camp guard instead he gets even more excited.]]
* [[spoiler:OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Bill.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His reason for the "government bailout" for the True Blood company.[[spoiler: except that his true goal is to spread True Blood laced with Hepatitis V]]
* PapaWolf

* [[spoiler:SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Delivered by Bill midway through season 6.]]

* TheDanza: Surname version, only missing the 's'.
* {{Hypocrite}}
* LargeHam

* BitchInSheepsClothing
* DeathIsDramatic: Her death is pretty important to the plot, is it give evidence for Jason [[MistakenForMurderer as the murderer]]

* GranolaGirl
* {{Hypocrite}}

* TheSociopath: She exhibits all the symptoms.

* DeadpanSnarker
* MaleGaze
* MauveShirt
* MsFanservice
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
* WeHardlyKnewYe

[[folder:Sookie Stackhouse]]

->Played By: Creator/AnnaPaquin

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her love interests are [[ManipulativeBastard Bill]] and [[PunchClockVillain Eric]]. [[DoggedNiceGuy Sam]] never was, [[spoiler: even before his anger issues]], neither is Alcide.
** [[spoiler: Alcide isn't, at least not until a drunken Sookie starts coming onto him in "We'll Meet Again".]]
** [[spoiler: In season six, she finally admits to Warlow (and herself) that she's a 'danger whore' when it comes to men, right before they drink each other's blood and have sex.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AlliterativeName
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:vWith both Bill and Eric.
* ApologisesALot
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: See OffingTheOffspring below]]
* {{Badass}}
** HeartbrokenBadass
** TookALevelInBadass

* BrokenBird
* BrownEyes
* TheChick

* CovertPervert
* DamselInDistress
* ADateWithRosiePalms

* DrowningMySorrows
* DudeMagnet: [[spoiler: At least of a supernatural kind. It's one of her powers.]]

* FakeAmerican: Anna Paquin is Canadian/Kiwi in real life.

* GirlNextDoor

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Girl]]: It's [[Film/{{X-Men}} Rogue!]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal

* LoveHurts
* MamaBear: Towards her brother Jason. She's protective of him.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With both Eric and Bill. Bill is over a century older than Sookie and Eric is 900+ years older than Sookie.
** [[spoiler: And now with Warlow, who is canonically the oldest vampire on the show, having been turned in ''3500 BC.'']]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Eric tries to use her on Bill this way in the season 5 finale. It doesn't work out, and it's actually looking like [[KickTheMoralityPet Bill is going to try and attack Sookie]].]]

* MindOverManners
* MsFanservice

* NiceGirl

** [[spoiler: Then with Alcide at the end of Season 6 after he comes back to his senses.]]
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring: Halfway through season six, she discovers that her parents were going to ''kill her'' on the night they were murdered by Warlow. The reason they did this was so he wouldn't turn her into a vampire once she came of age, but ''still''...]]

* PluckyGirl
* ThePollyanna

*** And as of season six, [[spoiler: a faerie vampire that wants to turn her.]]

[[folder:Jason Stackhouse]]

* TheCasanova
* ChewToy
* ChickMagnet

* DumbBlonde
* FairCop
* FantasticRacism: After getting mistakenly zapped by fairy power, he shows noticable hatred towards vampires killing them out of absolute delight.

* TheHedonist

* {{Hunk}}

* ImprobableAimingSkills

* MrFanservice

* ReallyGetsAround

[[folder:Lafayette Reynolds]]
!!Lafayette Reynolds
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reynolds_lafayette_4133.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't possible to live unless you crossin' somebody's line."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nelsan Ellis

->''"Well, hey there sweetness. You ready to party?"''

A short order cook at Merlotte's, a drug dealer, a member of Jason Stackhouse's road crew, and Tara's cousin.
----

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He's not really that aggressive, but just don't get on his bad side.
* AscendedExtra: In the first season, he had a much smaller role, and by the third his is one of the main stories.

** BadassBoast
** BadassGay
** BadassNormal
* BetaCouple: In season 4 with Jesus.
* BlessedWithSuck: Congratulations Lafayette! [[PowerSource You have just discovered that your body has more supernatural energy than a whole Witch circle combined]] and you can see and channel spirits. Of course this also means [[BodySurf that said spirits can also take over your body without as much as a pretty-please .]] And go on wacky fun adventures like kidnapping and engaging in tense hostage situations...
* ButtMonkey
* TheChewToy

* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Done to him by angry spirits who got some unfinished business, ''thrice''.
* FanNickname: "Lala" (his mom calls him this as well) and "Laffy".
** AscendedFanon: From season three on, other characters call him Lala as well.
* HomoeroticDream: Allegedly with Eric. It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't [[FoeYay hate/fear Eric]].
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassFacade
** JerkassHasAPoint
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MagicalNegro: One of the wisest and kindest characters on the show and hinted to have some kind of [[TheEmpath supernatural sense]], [[SubvertedTrope but also]] self-centered and, of course, a drug dealer.
* MagicalQueer
* MrFanservice
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Gay]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novels he died early on.
* StereotypeGay
** CampGay: In the novels definitely, in the TV series he seems to be a mixture of this and...
** MachoCamp: All those muscles ain't just for picking up guys, though they're certainly a plus.
* TraumaCongaLine
* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay man of color.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Despite his talk of getting around, he's one of the very few characters never seen having sex on the show, not even with Jesus. [[ButNotTooGay As for why...]]

[[folder:Adilyn]]
!!Adilyn Bellefleur
->'''Played By''': Bailey Noble

The [[spoiler:surviving]] Halfling daughter of Andy Bellefleur and Maurella.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Part human, part faerie.
* OverlyLongName: Adilyn Brylynn Charlaine Danica Bellefleur.
* RapidAging: Like the other quadruplets, she goes from baby to toddler to teenager very quickly.
* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor: Of the quadruplets.]]

!!Governor Truman Burrell
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/burrell_truman_9619.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's time for humans to bite back!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Arliss Howard

A 'good ol' boy' politician with a bigoted vendetta against vampires. Governor Burrell is a politically savvy and perhaps overly ambitious man who tends to let his personal aspirations overshadow his humanity. Like virtually all right-wing conservative politicians, he sees vampires are monsters and does not see them as people despite knowing that they were once human.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's an antagonist to our characters, but we've yet to see him operate outside of the law and considering the recent vampire attacks, it's tough to blame him for being so hardline in dealing with them.[[spoiler:This is just a facade, having created a death camp for vampires and planning on infecting the entire vampire population with True Blood laced with Hepatitis V]]
* [[spoiler:BaldOfEvil]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: According to his character description.
* {{Badass}}: He shows absolutely no fear of [[spoiler:Billith, accepting his death with defiance.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: From the humans' side in Season 6 with [[spoiler:Sarah Newlin]]
** [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]

* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely loves his daughter and was mortified when [[spoiler:she became a vampire]]. He still loved her very much.
* FantasticRacism: He's very much against vampires. Unless they pay taxes.
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]
* [[spoiler:KnightTemplar: a concentration camp for vampires]].
* NightmareFetishist:[[spoiler: Gets excited at the prospect of Eric and Pam killing each other, and when Eric and Pam kill a camp guard instead he gets even more excited.]]
* [[spoiler:OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Bill.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His reason for the "government bailout" for the True Blood company.[[spoiler: except that his true goal is to spread True Blood laced with Hepatitis V]]
* PapaWolf
* RousingSpeech: As seen in the promotional videos.
* SouthernGentleman: Part of his political image, but it isn't only that. He's a 'good ol' boy'.
* [[spoiler:SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Delivered by Bill midway through season 6.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His methods may be extreme, but his loyalty appears to be to the people of Louisiana.
* YourCheatingHeart: According to Willa, [[spoiler:his wife had an affair with a vampire.]]



!!Sheriff Bud Dearborne
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bud_830.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This town's a hell of a mess and I'm man enough to know I can't shoulder it myself."'']]
->'''Played By:''' William Sanderson

->''"Every time we clear one murder, two more spring up. It's like crab grass."''

The sheriff of Renard Parish and an old friend of Sookie and Jason's deceased parents. While he is well respected in the town of Bon Temps, he goes out of his way to show his distaste for vampires and vocally objects to Sookie's relationship with Bill.

* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]: [[spoiler:He returns as TheDragon for his mistress' BigBad in a plot to kill all shifters in season 5. In the books, he was pretty much a bit character dropping by to comment on things, who never retired and was mostly GoodIsNotNice.]]
* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead]]
* ByTheBookCop
* CluelessDetective: Though usually just because he doesn't understand the full scope of the situation.
** Was more inclined than Andy to think the serial killing of fang bangers was the work of vampires despite the fact that [[IdiotBall none of the killings resembled vampire attacks.]]
* CynicalMentor: To Andy Bellefleur in the first season though eventually gives up on it because he's getting too old for this.
* DeadpanSnarker

!!"Eggs" Benedict Talley
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Benedict_7348.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're all luckier than we can imagine."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Mehcad Brooks

->''"You know it took me a long time to stop looking over my shoulder too. But there's good people in this world. Sometimes, good shit happens."''

* TheAtoner: It doesn't work out, and we never find out about the details of his troubled past either.
* BoomHeadshot
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* ButtMonkey
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]
* TheDragon: For Maryanne.
* {{Gang Banger|s}}: Before Maryanne took him in.
* MindControlEyes
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He's horrified when he discovers that Maryanne used him to do her dirty work, even though everyone--even the police--insist that he isn't a killer and was acting under her mind control.
* MysteriousPast
* NiceGuy
* SuicideByCop

!!Patrick Devins
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Patrick_3521.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Scott Foley

An Iraq war veteran who was Sgt. to Private Terry Bellefleur.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In a world flooded with vampires, he chooses not to believe in the existence of [[spoiler: a rampaging fire demon even though he saw it with his own eyes.]]
* BadBoss

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ho boy.
* DirtyCoward
* FalseReassurance: Blaming what happened in Iraq on other things such as the situation they were in and the drugs they had taken.
* GreyAndGreyMorality
* IHaveYourWife
* JustFollowingOrders
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=]PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He seems prejudiced about Muslims, claiming that 'suicide is for Muslims'.
* ShellShockedVeteran

!!Amy Burley
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AmyBurley_5370.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am an organic vegan and my carbon footprint is miniscule."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Lizzy Caplan

Jason's bohemian, V-addicted love interest. Hailing from Storrs, Connecticut, she meets Jason in vampire bar Fangtasia. After learning he is looking for more V to use, she comes to his house and uses V together with him. She starts a relationship with Jason, who thinks that she might be "the one", and becomes a waitress at Merlotte's.

* DeathIsDramatic: Her death is pretty important to the plot, is it give evidence for Jason [[MistakenForMurderer as the murderer]]
* FunctionalAddict: At first, then we really see how far she's willing to go to fulfill her addiction.
** FantasticDrug: She's addicted to "V" or Vampire Blood.
* GranolaGirl

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She went to the really fancy-shmancy Wellesley College.
* ManipulativeBitch: She plays Jason like a fiddle.
* MysteriousPast: We really have no idea why she was hanging around Bon Temps in the first place, or if anything she said about her past was true.
* TheSociopath: She exhibits all the symptoms.

!!Rocky Cleary
->'''Played By''': Aaron Christian Howles

!!Wade Cleary
->'''Played By''': Noah Matthews

!!Rev. Daniels
->'''Played By:''' Gregg Daniel

Lettie Mae and Tara's pastor.

* TheDanza: Surname version, only missing the 's'.
* {{Hypocrite}}

!!Holly Cleary
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HollyCleary_5511.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"There ain't no spell that can't be undone if you got the juice."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Lauren Bowles

A waitress at Merlotte's introduced in the third season. She is very friendly and a single mother of two, and is also a devoted Wiccan.

* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
* DeadpanSnarker
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being a strong character in the third season and central to the plot in the fourth, her significance is quickly reduced from then on to simply being Andy's girlfriend. It is telling that she hasn't done anything magic-related since the fourth season.
* {{Determinator}}: Never gave up when trapped by Marnie.

* HotWitch
* NiceGirl
* RapeAsBackstory: She was once raped by a co-worker, and helps Tara get over her own experience with Franklin.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TheStoner

!!Jesus Velasquez
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HeyZeus_8891.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You can’t trade magic like fucking pokemon cards!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Kevin Alejandro

A brujo of Mexican origin, he was employed as a medical nurse for Lafayette's mother Ruby Jean. He discovered that Lafayette was "powerful" and carefully introduced him to witchcraft, magic and mediumship.

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Abuelo]]
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGay
* BetaCouple: With Lafayette
* BloodMagic: What his grandfather trained him in.
* BuryYourGays: He's murdered in the fourth season finale.

* DeadPersonConversation: With Lafayette.
* EthnicMagician: He was trained as a witch by his grandfather.
* TheHeart
* HospitalHottie: He's a nurse working at the psychiatric center where Lafayette's mom lives. And he's hot.
* HotWitch
* MeaningfulName: Blood magic or no blood magic, he's one of the few members of the cast who is consistently kind, loving, and compassionate. He then allows himself to be sacrificed in the hopes that doing so will keep a then-possessed Lafayette from being harmed. And then he returns as a spirit, still just as full of love and compassion as ever.
* TheMedic
* NiceGuy
* SexyMentor: He is trying to get Lafayette to use his powers as a medium.
* StraightGay: You wouldn't know he's gay unless he's making out with Lafayette.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Actually a threefer, being gay, Latino, and Wiccan.

!!Dawn Green
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DawnGreen_8025.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Lynn Collins

A waitress at Merlotte's, previously in a relationship with Jason.

* DeadpanSnarker

[[folder:Drew Marshall]]
!!Rene Lenier/Drew Marshall
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rene_4613.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I ain't gonna hurt you, chère."'']]
->'''Played By:''' [[{{Terriers}} Michael Raymond-James]]

->''"No, you're the freak Cindy, you're the damn freak fucking freak fuck! Spread your legs for a dead man! Momma would roll over in her grave!"''

A Cajun resident of Bon Temps. He is a co-worker and close friend of Jason's. He becomes engaged to Arlene and is widely respected in Bon Temps. Unbeknownst to the locals, however, Rene is actually Drew Marshall, who had previously lived in Bunkie, Louisiana and fled that town after killing his sister Cindy in a rage after he found out she was a "fang banger".

* AmericanAccents: Cajun. A fake one, anyway.
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: of Season 1.
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* ClusterFBomb: Drops a massive one when Sookie is trying to get into his head. Adds in [[CountryMatters a couple of other stuff]] too.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Knows Sookie is a telepath and is able to hide his darkest thoughts from her. Even after his facade is exposed and she's trying to hide from him, is able to project the thought, "I'll go look for her in the woods" while creeping up on her actual hiding place (not in the woods).
* EvilAllAlong
* FantasticRacism: He hates vampires, yeah, but what he ''really'' hates are "fang-bangers".
* FauxAffablyEvil: Seemed like a nice guy at first.
* HiddenVillain: No one even suspected he was really the murderer until at least halfway through the season.
* OffWithHisHead: By Sookie.
* RaginCajun: Subverted. He's not actually Cajun.
* SerialKiller: Nothing supernatural about him or his crimes. Still plenty evil, though.
* SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer: Where he's the Axe Murderer who almost married Arlene.
* StarterVillain: The first BigBad of the show.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Doesn't especially look like a murderer.
* WasItAllALie: Averted. For some reason, no one bothered to wonder later. They were probably all too creeped out.

[[folder:Marnie Stonebrook]]
!!Marnie Stonebrook
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Marnie_7138.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"No one lives forever, not even you!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' [[Film/HarryPotter Fiona Shaw]]

->''"Fate brought us together to fight evil. Did you really think no one was gonna get hurt?"''

A very powerful medium who served as a leader of a Wiccan coven at the Moon Goddess Emporium.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was treated as a freak for much of her life due to her status as a spirit medium.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: She peacefully passes on into the afterlife after Antonia and Adele convince her to abandon her quest for revenge against the vampires. This makes her the first (and so far, only) season villain to have a happy ending.
* BerserkButton: Being bullied and threatened by others. It seems those years of feeling like an outcast and a misfit eventually ate away at her psyche; she's homicidal and vengeful toward anyone who attacks her.
* BigBad: Of season 4.
* BloodMagic: Occasionally seen cutting herself in an attempt to invoke Antonia.
* BoomHeadshot: Delivered by Bill.
* BullyingADragon: Sort of. The vampires attacked her because her practices meant she had the potential to one day act against them. And since being oppressed is her berserk button, that's exactly what made her snap and start her genocidal crusade against them in the first place.
* DemonicPossession: Subverted. While Antonia was possessing her at first, it eventually became more of a melding of consciousness before culminating in Marnie actually binding Antonia and gaining full control of her powers. Also, after her death, Marnie possesses Lafayette.
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* TheFundamentalist: For her, those caught in the middle are not even CollateralDamage but LesCollaborateurs to vampires.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Ironically, Fiona Shaw is perhaps best known for playing Film/HarryPotter's magic-hating aunt Petunia.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The reason she talked to the dead was because they were her only friends. She was shunned by other people all her life because of her powers.
* IneptMage: Her powers are pretty hit-or-miss unless she's being possessed by Antonia.
* InformedLoner: She claimed to be a lifelong outcast despite leading a coven that loved her (until she she started going off the deep end) and considered Holly and Jesus personal friends.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Her most consistent ability when she's not possessed. Apparently, constantly hearing the voices of the dead contributed to her neurotic mental state.
* {{Necromancer}}: The reason the vampires see her as a threat--with the power to control the dead, she could potentially control them too.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's revealed that she is doing this when she is egging Antonia on to continue against the vampires and is not a naive witch and helpless victim of possession she came off as.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The magical barrier she erects around her shop harnesses the power of the sun, killing any vampire that touches it.
* PowersViaPossession
* SanitySlippage
* SoulPower
* StartOfDarkness: While it's hinted that she was a bit mentally unstable all along, she bears no nefarious intentions until after the vampires antagonize her and Antonia shows her visions of the witches' persecution during the Inquisition.
* SympatheticMurderer: The show doesn't paint her murderous actions in a positive light, but the motive behind them is treated much more tragically.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Sookie tries to win her over by telling her that she understands how it feels to be ostracized and picked on. This seems to reach Marnie, until Bill challenges her to come out by calling her a coward. In the finale, she is also portrayed in a very sympathetic light as Antonia and Adele convince her to abandon her quest for revenge so she can be at peace.
* TooDumbToLive: Her downfall can be traced directly to her not knowing what "cauterize" means. As in, Jesus and Lafayette grabbed a few vials of herbs saying they were going to "cauterize" the wounds of the girl Marnie stabbed, even though it simply means burning a wound to seal it.
* {{Wicca}}: Although many of her practices go against some of Wicca's fundamental ethics.
* WillingChanneler: She allows Antonia to possess her in order to protect herself and her coven from the vampires.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's implied at various points throughout the season and finally stated in "Soul of Fire" that Marnie is acting out because she perceives herself as everyone's punching bag and is using Antonia's power as a means to lash out and assert herself. This hardly justifies her actions, but it at least makes them somewhat more understandable. There's also the fact that she was originally just a lonely old woman, who turned to necromancy because she couldn't find meaningful relationships among the living. If the vampires had just left her alone, she would never have become their enemy, but instead they attacked her based on the possibility that she might one day pose a threat to them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sarah Newlin]]
!!Sarah Newlin
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When God's message is this clear, I am a truly unstoppable woman."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AnnaCamp

->''"Don't bullshit a bullshitter. I'm in politics now."''

The wife of Rev. Steve Newlin. She claims to have originally supported vampire rights, but that she had an epiphany after her fangbanger sister disappeared. She argues with her husband frequently because he will not give her more of a leadership role in the Fellowship of the Sun. She has a strong attraction to Jason Stackhouse, and moves him from the Fellowship camp into her home so that she can be close to him.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Like her husband, she's quick to use Bible quotes to back up her political beliefs.
* TheBeard: Unknowingly for Steve Newlin.
* BerserkButton: '''Hates''' being called ex-wife of Steve Newlin.
* [[spoiler:BigBadDuumvirate]]: From the humans' side in Season 6 with Truman Burrell. After [[spoiler:his death, she becomes the new BigBad.]]
* BlondesAreEvil
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* TheBusCameBack: For season 6.
* CatFight: Does everything in her power to stop Ms. Suzuki from exposing the Tru Blood operation, [[spoiler: including killing her]].
* CrisisOfFaith
* [[spoiler:DragonAscendant: After Burrell's death she plots to keep his death in secret and takes control of the vampire death camp]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch
* DrivesLikeCrazy
* DumbBlonde: Although she isn't exactly 'dumb' she's not particularly savvy or intelligent. When stopped in her tracks in a TV debate with Nan Flanagan, the best retort she can summon up is, 'I hate your hair.'
** Averted in season 6, where she has since become very savvy, cunning, and quick to adapt.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In season 6. She keeps the...
* FreudianExcuse: Her sister was killed by vampires when they were both crusading for vamp equal rights.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: While not a nobody per se, she didn't have much of a role in season two. Season 6 however...''holy shit''.
* GodIsGood: Her whole reason for living.
* GroinAttack: Gives one to Jason, courtesy of a paintball gun.[[spoiler: Later suffers one herself at the hands of the CEO of the TrueBlood Company in Season 6.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: In Season 6.
* LadyMacbeth: To Governor Truman Burrell. She encourages his prejudice, and it's heavily implied that the camp was her idea. In recent episodes she additionally adapted the Trope Namer's insanity.
* LargeHam: "This is all part of God's plan, and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GOD. IS. GOOD.]]"
* MissionFromGod: She believes she's on one, and takes it to new levels in season 6.
* MsFanservice: Her introduction involves an extended fantasy sequence of her behaving seductively.
* NeedAHandOrAHandjob: She gives Jason a hand while he's in the bath.
* OffScreenBreakup: Between seasons, she and Steve get divorced due to a possible combination of her adultery, his homosexuality and/or vampirism, and basically the hollow disaster that their marriage is.
* SanitySlippage: While she wasn't quite allright in Season 2, her monologue in front of [[spoiler:Burrell's severed head]] in 6x07 or her [[spoiler: violent killing of Ms. Suzuki after admitting she's "getting there"]] in 6x08 (including a prayer afterwards) makes one wonder how long it will take until she loses it completely.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* ShoeSlap: [[spoiler: Kills Ms. Suzuki this way]].
* StepfordSmiler
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When instructing a pair of agents to dispose of [[spoiler: Truman's body]], she says she doesn't want to know how they do it, though she hears acid is very effective.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 6, she's become much more brutal and ruthless.
* YourCheatingHeart: She sleeps with Jason while married to Steve. [[spoiler:And again, with Jason while in a relationship with Truman.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Adilyn]]
!!Adilyn Bellefleur
->'''Played By''': Bailey Noble

The [[spoiler:surviving]] Halfling daughter of Andy Bellefleur and Maurella.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Part human, part faerie.
* OverlyLongName: Adilyn Brylynn Charlaine Danica Bellefleur.
* RapidAging: Like the other quadruplets, she goes from baby to toddler to teenager very quickly.
* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor: Of the quadruplets.]]
[[/folder]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe

[[folder:Lafayette Reynolds]]
!!Lafayette Reynolds
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't possible to live unless you crossin' somebody's line."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nelsan Ellis

->''"Well, hey there sweetness. You ready to party?"''

A short order cook at Merlotte's, a drug dealer, a member of Jason Stackhouse's road crew, and Tara's cousin.
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He's not really that aggressive, but just don't get on his bad side.
* AscendedExtra: In the first season, he had a much smaller role, and by the third his is one of the main stories.

** BadassBoast
** BadassGay
** BadassNormal
* BetaCouple: In season 4 with Jesus.
* BlessedWithSuck: Congratulations Lafayette! [[PowerSource You have just discovered that your body has more supernatural energy than a whole Witch circle combined]] and you can see and channel spirits. Of course this also means [[BodySurf that said spirits can also take over your body without as much as a pretty-please .]] And go on wacky fun adventures like kidnapping and engaging in tense hostage situations...
* ButtMonkey
* TheChewToy

* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Done to him by angry spirits who got some unfinished business, ''thrice''.
* FanNickname: "Lala" (his mom calls him this as well) and "Laffy".
** AscendedFanon: From season three on, other characters call him Lala as well.
* HomoeroticDream: Allegedly with Eric. It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't [[FoeYay hate/fear Eric]].
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassFacade
** JerkassHasAPoint
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MagicalNegro: One of the wisest and kindest characters on the show and hinted to have some kind of [[TheEmpath supernatural sense]], [[SubvertedTrope but also]] self-centered and, of course, a drug dealer.
* MagicalQueer
* MrFanservice
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Gay]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novels he died early on.
* StereotypeGay
** CampGay: In the novels definitely, in the TV series he seems to be a mixture of this and...
** MachoCamp: All those muscles ain't just for picking up guys, though they're certainly a plus.
* TraumaCongaLine
* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay man of color.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Despite his talk of getting around, he's one of the very few characters never seen having sex on the show, not even with Jesus. [[ButNotTooGay As for why...]]

[[folder:Arlene Bellefleur]]
!!Arlene Bellefleur (nee Fowler)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm sorry you fell in love with a serial killer, alright, but honestly, who here hasn't?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Carrie Preston

->''"Vamp club not all it was made out to be, huh?"''

* ActionMom
* ActionSurvivor
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In season 5, she dismisses Terry's talk of the [[spoiler: fire demon]] as nonsense. Holly, a witch, calls her on it.

** BadassNormal
** TookALevelInBadass: Against Patrick.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* ButtMonkey: She simply can't catch a break, though this might be because she's hilarious when she's high-strung.
* TheChewToy: See ButtMonkey
* DeadpanSnarker: Just look at her caption.
* EyeScream: She bursts a vessel in her eye due to stress, but thinks baby Mikey did it when he looked at her.
* FatalAttractor: Her last Love interest was a SerialKiller and we don't know about her ex-husbands but they must be exes for a reason.
* FetusTerrible: She believed this while pregnant with Rene's baby, thinking Rene's evil is InTheBlood.
* FieryRedHead: Although she only dyes her hair.
* HappilyMarried: Arlene and Terry, in the fourth season.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She dyes her hair red, claiming some study that redheaded waitresses get bigger tips.
* HystericalWoman: Lapses into this at times.
* IHaveYourWife: Patrick kidnaps her to force Terry's hand.
* MistakenForRacist: Frequently.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She's a divorced mom with two kids who just can't seem to catch a break.
* SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer: Almost. She was engaged to Rene before TheReveal.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Andy Bellefleur]]
!!Sheriff Andy Bellefleur
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I just want to say that I’m sober, and I’m lonely, and I can be good to someone if they let me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Chris Bauer
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: When his faerie daughters first go missing. Turns up to eleven when Jason brings up the fact that faeries are like 'catnip' to vampires. Becomes awfully realized as he storms into Bill's mansion and finds three of his daughters dead and one barely alive.]]
* TheAlcoholic: His drinking becomes more and more prevalent as the series progresses and he feels increasingly out of his depth.
* {{Badass}}

[[folder:Terry Bellefleur]]
!!Terry Bellefleur
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like feeling the pressure."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Todd Lowe

->''"Your Mama just gets a little crazy sometimes, which means we just have to love her that much harder."''