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City Government
New York City Council
Councilwoman Mariah Dillard
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Councilman Damon Boone
Councilman Damon Boone
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Clark Jackson
Appearances: Luke Cage
- "You can't stay on top forever, Mariah. You're gonna fall. And I'll enjoy every second when you do."
A city councilman from Harlem and a political rival of Mariah Dillard.
- Category Traitor: Mariah considers him as such because of his Stanford education and the fact that he's not a Harlem native. She keeps referring to him as "carpetbagger".
- Corrupt Politician: Inverted. He has nothing but contempt for Mariah Dillard and her family's connection to organized crime.
- Just Between You and Me: Diamondback tells his whole backstory directly to Boone, as well as his true relationship with Luke. Damon realizes this and asks why he is doing this, and then Diamondback kills him with one hit.
- Megaton Punch: Diamondback kills him with his armored glove with such strength his entire chest gets caved in, both to incriminate Luke as well as cover up his own role in the hostage crisis.
- The Rival: Even though they're from the same party, Boone and Mariah are political enemies and can't stand each other.
New York County District Attorney's Office
Samantha Reyes
Manhattan District Attorney Samantha Reyes
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Michelle Hurd
Appearances: Jessica Jones | Daredevil
The District Attorney for Manhattan.
- Amoral Attorney: In contrast with Matt and Foggy, Reyes is ready to go through anything, including illegal measures, to get by. Matt says she wouldn't even buy a pack of gum if it didn't further her career.
- Ascended Extra: Has one scene in the last episode of Jessica Jones (Season 1) but is a supporting character in the second season of Daredevil.
- Asshole Victim: She's been nothing but a lying, manipulative careerist who pulled way too many strings to get what she wanted, threatened to tear down Nelson & Murdock, and initiated multiple scandals in the course of boosting her own career, the worst of which being getting Frank Castle's family killed after neglecting to clear out the park during the sting operation. After admitting her involvement in that, she gets riddled with bullets in her own office, and no one mourns at all.
- Big Bad Wannabe: She is an Amoral Attorney in position of power who wishes to promote a struggle against vigilantes like Daredevil, the Punisher or Jessica Jones, making it seem like she will be a major player in the show, and the 2017 mayoral cycle. However, in the end, she is completely overshadowed by other, bigger villains, and ends up gunned down by the Blacksmith's assassins before she can fully accomplish her ambitions.
- Break the Haughty: After Frank's escape from prison, Reyes is understandably terrified out of her wits.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: As Matt puts it, Reyes "wouldn't buy a pack of a gum if it didn't further her career" when Karen fills him in on Grotto's plea deal. Karen and Foggy are furious when they realize that Reyes tricked them into letting the NYPD use Grotto as bait for the Punisher rather than rat out a fellow dealer, especially as she acts all smug to them. Karen goes on the Internet, and does some basic digging, then goes straight to Blake Tower.Karen Page: Your boss said she could take down a firm like ours pretty quickly?Blake Tower: She wasn't lying.Karen Page: Huh. So... she could also take down someone like you? [takes some file folders out of her purse] ADA Elliott James. Took the fall after Reyes mishandled informants in the, uh, Teller case about a year ago. [passes another folder] Nicole Kent. Got booted from your office after she failed to quiet the Ensent scandal. [passes another folder] And Chris Davidson. Did you meet him? [beat] Fired after the State Supreme Court disqualified her entire office from the Pell case due to "widespread misconduct". Widespread! But not everyone got fired. See, Reyes walked out in one piece. She's good at throwing people to the wolves. So sure. She can take down Nelson & Murdock this month. But how long before you are getting pulled into the shit with the rest of us?
- Dark Secret: She admits that the Central Park massacre that took Frank Castle's family was in fact a sting operation that went awry. An operation that she let happen, despite the presence of civilians. Since then, she's been trying to have Frank killed so that the truth would die with him, and playing into Rawlins' and Russo's hands.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She appeared in the season finale for Jessica Jones before her proper introduction in Season 2 of Daredevil.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her one redeeming quality seems to be that she genuinely cares about her family. When Castle escapes jail, one of her last actions before being killed is to have her daughter moved outside New York to protect her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Having standards is just downright pushing it. Though despite being genuinely obnoxious and more concerned with her career, she does genuinely regret that Frank's family died in the crossfire of her sting. Subverted in that she only regrets it once what she did results in her losing total control of the situation.
- First-Name Basis: Reyes and Jeri Hogarth are implied to have some history, given that they refer to one another by their first names. However, Marci hints in "Kinbaku" that Jeri and Reyes have had a falling out in the aftermath of Kilgrave's death, given Reyes' anti-vigilante platform and efforts at persecuting Jessica.
- Foreshadowing: Karen discusses with Tower that Reyes has a long track record of throwing her co-workers under the bus whenever she mishandles a case and pins the blame on her own employees while walking away scot-free. Even when her scheme to have Grotto killed to get to the Punisher not only fails, she goes against the Grotto deal to put him in witness protection. Not very surprising that she gets so many people killed at Central Park along with Castle's family when she botches the entire sting operation on the Blacksmith case and tries to have Frank killed to cover her own mistake.
- Gone Horribly Right: From a certain point of view, her sting operation did eventually (and indirectly) lead to the downfall of the Blacksmith. Just not remotely in the way she would have wanted and at cost of her own life. To wit: the disastrous operation caused the death of Frank Castle's family, pushing him to become the Punisher and hunt down all those responsible for their deaths. For added irony, while Reyes is murdered by the Blacksmith to silence her, Castle ends up unwittingly avenging her death by killing the Blacksmith at the end, and then dismantles the other plotters in Operation Cerberus.
- Hate Sink: Smug, vindictive, frequently abusing her power, ready to do anything (including endangering other people's lives) to preserve her career, and trying to create a mayoral campaign platform for 2017 by promoting a struggle against vigilantes (including people like Daredevil and Jessica Jones), she comes out as designed to be as unlikable as possible.
- Ivy League for Everyone: She wears a Fordham Law (one of the "Catholic Ivies") sweatshirt in her death scene, implying she graduated from there.
- Karmic Death: What goes around comes around. Even if she managed to get Frank killed or sent to prison, it wouldn't really matter for her anyways because she's the only loose end left for Operation Cerberus to tie up, since Schoonover and Rawlins knew about the sting operation Reyes began before everything became a slaughterhouse, though she tries to cover her tracks by falsifying the evidence. Tower mentions that the trail just keeps on getting bigger and wider, which lead to him slipping the files to Karen since he really doesn't want to be dragged down along with Reyes considering that she has a habit of throwing her own employees to the wolves. See Laser-Guided Karma right down below.
- Laser-Guided Karma: She indirectly was responsible for the death of Frank's family because of her carelessness, and spends most of the season trying to get Frank executed, or at least sentenced to life in prison, just to cover up her own mistake. In the end, all of her actions just allow Schoonover and Rawlins (the very drug lord she was trying to catch by putting the Castle family at risk) to have her gunned down by killers, while putting the blame on Frank after he escaped from jail.
- Somewhat subverted when it's revealed that Schoonover and Rawlins set up the sting to kill Frank and make it look like collateral damage in a sting gone bad. Even so, her being threatened by someone completely beyond her ability to control or threaten was long overdue karma.
- Jerkass: Hoo, boy. Reyes is a smug, self-satisfied and politically-motivated corrupt hell-beast. She is very easy to dislike and even her own subordinate Blake Tower doesn't have any flattering things to say about her.
- Mama Bear: After finding a copy of Frank Castle's skull x-ray in her daughter's backpack, an indication that he's coming for her, she sends the daughter to a safe location "surrounded by men with guns" to keep her safe.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: Technically, she does succeed at getting Castle sent to jail and covering up the Dark Secret threatening her career... however, Castle escapes barely a few days later, and she's gunned down soon after, making the salvation of her job pointless.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's usually seen wearing a power suit and a smug, self-satisfied bitchy smirk. She's wearing a Fordham Law hoodie and jeans in her last appearance, as well as being scared out of her life.
- Properly Paranoid: Played with. As soon as she learns that Frank has escaped, she barricades herself in her office, believing that he's going to come after her. Though she does get gunned down, it's not Frank that pulls the trigger.
- Redemption Equals Death: Reyes is killed by the Blacksmith assassins when she confesses she was partly responsible for the deaths of Frank Castle's family in a undercover operation gone wrong. Though it's not all that redemptive, since she's not really remorseful about her crimes, just afraid of their consequences.
- Revealing Cover-Up: By episode 10 of the second season, we learn that she orchestrated a cover up of the fact that the shoot out at the carousel where the Castle family was murdered was instigated by police in a sting operation. It's a classic political fiasco, in that it was terrible politically, but not a crime... until she instigated the coverup. And then the cover up for the cover up. And then... etc..
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: To an absurd degree. She can eliminate files held not just at her own office, but at the courts and the U.S. Attorney's office. She can get a high-profile case with more than a hundred felony charges pushed up in the crowded courts to a week after the filing of the charges (rather than the months or years that should have been needed). She can even somehow get the poor and indigent clients crowding Nelson & Murdock to stay away. It's like she's a mutant whose superpower is manipulating the system.
Blake Tower
District Attorney Blake Tower
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Stephen Rider
Appearances: Daredevil | Luke Cage
Reyes' assistant district attorney, who later steps up to become District Attorney following her death.
- Ascended Extra: He has a larger part in Season 3 when Foggy is encouraged by Marci to run against him in a special election, although he only appears in the same number of episodes as he did in Season 2.
- Advertised Extra: Stephen Rider is in the opening credits for every episode that Tower is in, but Tower himself doesn't do much other than share scenes with Reyes and act as a Friend on the Force for Nelson & Murdock. He leaves town after Reyes' death and has a much smaller role than Royce Johnson's Brett Mahoney, even though Brett has never been in the opening credits. Blake does, however, come back during Luke Cage during Diamondback's hostage situation. He has a somewhat bigger role in Season 3, although his episode count stays the same.
- Friend on the Force: The lawyer equivalent, he acts as an insider at the District Attorney's for Karen, Foggy and Matt, albeit more reluctantly than most examples.
- Good Is Not Nice:Even though he agrees to help Foggy and Matt to help bring down Fisk, he is never gonna go easy on Ray Nadeem no matter how hard Matt and Foggy push for his immunity. The best he can do is offer him a five-year sentence where Ray accepts the deal and go through with it. Justified, given how Nadeem is solely and unwittingly responsible for Fisk being out of prison in the first place and has proven to be an accessory to multiple murders. Earlier, when Nadeem and Hatley are giving him a heads up about their plans to move Fisk out of prison to protect him, Tower bluntly tries warning Nadeem that cutting a deal with Fisk isn't going to end well, but Nadeem's pride keeps him from listening to Tower's advice.
- Hypocrite: Tower's attitude towards Nadeem's situation gets hypocritical whenone remembers that he stood idly by and let Reyes repeatedly abuse the office of District Attorney for her own gain without ever bothering to take her to the Bar Association. Matt's defense for Nadeem's complacency in Fisk's activities is just as applicable against Tower for his own complacency in Reyes' activities. Tower's cowardice is his most defining character trait, after all. Matt knows full well that Tower was in the same position as Nadeem and made the opposite choice, and he even tries to call Tower out on it without revealing it to Nadeem:Matt Murdock: He didn't say a damn thing because he was afraid for his family! Fisk tried to kill them all last night, and Agent Nadeem is here telling you everything. Can you say you'd do the same thing, Mr. Tower?
- Jerk Ass Has A Point: Not really a Jerkass per se. But in spite of Matt and Foggy's lawyering skills, truth be told Tower does have a point that people cannot walk away from murder after Nadeem confesses to be an accessory to several murders that Fisk has ordered other agents to commit for him. Full-immunity only works if it is a corruption or larceny case,note but there's no way Tower can overlook Nadeem acting as Dex's getaway driver in the church attack, an attack that ended with three people dead and several more injured. The best thing Tower can do is offer him a five year jail sentence, which Nadeem reluctantly agrees to, even if it means sacrificing his freedom for his family's safety.
- Only Sane Man: In season 3, the FBI come to him and the police commissioner to discuss the terms of Wilson Fisk's release, by having him put on house arrest and getting him back on the street if he continues on giving valuable information on other criminal organizations. Tower and the police commissioner begrudgingly agree to the FBI's request, although Tower attempts to warn Nadeem that it's incredibly foolish to think that anything good will come out of brokering a deal with Wilson Fisk given just what the crime boss is truly capable of when he's let out of his cage.
- Race Lift: He's white in the comics, but played by African-American Stephen Rider here.
- Rank Up: He becomes District Attorney after Reyes dies.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- He spends most of Diamondback's hostage situation warning about the consequences of Judas bullets getting out to the street, saying that if Frank Castle was capable of wiping dozens of people with regular bullets, exploding bullets would just make things worse.
- After a heated moment with Foggy in Season 3, he decides to hear him out on what he has to say when it comes to taking down Fisk and listen to what Nadeem has to testify about. After Fisk is put away again, he also happily agrees to Foggy's request to not pursue any charges against Foggy's family for the book-cooking that Fisk tricked them into committing.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Blake leaves town briefly after Reyes' death. But Luke Cage suggests he was only out for a week or so tops, returning right before Diamondback's hostage situation.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Subverted, even though when Fisk is out on the street and being called out by Foggy just for doing nothing and only concerned about gathering voters and being re-elected. Tower fires back at Foggy that the feds have Fisk under their thumb, and his hands are somewhat tied as a result. He does admit that it's a ridiculous idea for Nadeem to make a deal or give Fisk preferential treatment, which given what Fisk ultimately does, is a pretty reasonable opinion.
New York City Police Department
One Police PlazaOne Police Plaza (or 1PP) is the headquarters of the NYPD.
Commissioner Chris Dimolina
Commissioner Chris Dimolina
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Antoni Corone
Appearances: Daredevil
The commissioner of the NYPD.
- A Father to His Men: He's opposed to the FBI's plans to release Fisk to house arrest at the Presidential Hotel because of how Fisk bribed and murdered numerous cops.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Inverted. When he's told of Fisk having been shanked, he celebrates it because Fisk is a cop killer.
15th Precinct
The 15th Precinct covers Hell's Kitchen and most portions of Midtown Manhattan.
Brett Mahoney
Sergeant SDSnote Brett Mahoney
"Officer of the law. Defense attorney. We're supposed to be enemies."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Royce Johnson
Appearances: Daredevil | Jessica Jones | The Punisher | Daredevil Born Again
- "Why are you so certain he's innocent, huh? Come on. Help me see it. You want me to see this big picture here, then paint it for me."
A sergeant at the 15th Precinct, and Foggy's childhood friend.
- Arch-Enemy: While the feeling isn't exactly mutual, Mahoney clearly considers Frank Castle to be his white whale as he does not stop chasing after him. Despite being an excellent judge of character, his vision is completely skewed when the Punisher is concerned on account of the sheer number of bodies he leaves behind, refusing to even want to understand that there's anything more to him than a mass murderer, or that there are multiple conspiracies afoot. This eventually causes him to clash with Madani's own investigations as well.
- Ascended Extra: After being a somewhat minor recurring character in previous Defender seasons, he plays a much more prominent role in Season 2 of The Punisher.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Kilgrave makes him point a gun at Clemons.
- By-the-Book Cop: He is one of a few non-corrupt cops in the 15th Precinct, making him the one that Matt and Foggy turn Hoffman over to when he decides to rat on Fisk.
- Chekhov's Gunman: In Seasons 1 and 3 of Daredevil, Brett becomes crucial to the resolution in bringing down Fisk.
- In season 1, it's established early on that he's one of the few honest cops in the precinct, which is otherwise riddled by corrupt cops in Fisk's pocket. This makes him the officer that Matt has Carl Hoffman surrender to after tracking him down. Then, after Matt defeats Fisk and stops his attempt to escape, Brett is the first cop to arrive on the scene and takes Fisk back into custody.
- In season 3, Brett makes his initial appearance at a union event where he lets Foggy take a few minutes to rally the cops to support his district attorney campaign. He doesn't show up again until after Dex's attack on the church, where Ray Nadeem convinces him to take custody of Karen so that she won't be murdered by Dex or any of the other corrupt FBI agents in Fisk's pocket. He also gets to once again be the one to take Fisk back into custody.
- Childhood Friends: With Foggy. They are close enough that Foggy tends to get cigars for Brett's mother.
- The Commissioner Gordon: He ends up becoming this to Matt. Initially he's the cop friendliest with the Devil of Hell's Kitchen and would turn a blind-eye due to all the good he's done, but would still be willing to take Daredevil in. Eventually it gets to the point where he acts as Matt's informant and he lampshades the irony that the vigilante ends up being the only person he can trust.
- Deadpan Snarker: He engages in snarky combat with Foggy and Matt on a frequent basis. Really, most of his law enforcement colleagues get this, as his interactions with Dinah Madani show.
- Friend on the Force: He agrees to give Foggy a call if any interesting cases occur and immediately calls him when Karen Page is framed and arrested for murder. As one of the few cops in the precinct that Nelson & Murdock know for certain to be honest, he's the one they send Hoffman to when it's time to bring down Fisk's empire, and he's the one who delivers the message to the city that the Devil of Hell's Kitchen is a hero. In return for helping him, Matt allows Brett to take the credit for arresting Frank Castle, which nets him a promotion and puts him in a better position of authority within the NYPD. In Season 3, he gives Foggy the floor at a police union gathering so Foggy can convince the assembled cops to throw their support behind his impromptu district attorney campaign, knowing that they all despise Fisk for corrupting or murdering their colleagues. Following the church attack, Brett agrees to "arrest" Karen at Nadeem's behest so as to keep her from being killed by Dex, and he also takes in Nadeem's family after Fisk tries to have them killed.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure he may be incredibly grumpy more often than not and is never short on quips, but he is so by-the-book that it's unthinkable that he could be corrupt, or even think of doing anything but the right thing. That makes him one of an extremely few people Daredevil trusts completely, even though they're on opposite sides of the law.
- Jurisdiction Friction:
- Has this with Dex when "arresting" Karen at the church. Nadeem, who has grown a conscience after some words of wisdom from Sister Maggie, takes Brett aside, lets him know that Dex is working for Fisk, then lets Brett take Karen out of the church in handcuffs.
- He really doesn't see eye to eye with DHS Agent Madani, as he believes (correctly) that the explanation for the whole incident where Billy Russo was disfigured is a complete fabrication and that she is interfering with NYPD investigations.
- The Main Characters Do Everything: By Season 2 of Daredevil, he's appears to practically be the only cop in the 15th precinct, coincidentally being the only one to interact with the main characters. This includes justified examples where they're seeking him out, and more random encounters where he just happens to be the cop on duty or first to respond to every single major event. This is averted by The Defenders, where Brett doesn't show up at Midland Circle even though Midland Circle is within his precinct's jurisdiction. Nor in Jessica Jones Season 2, where all of Jessica's police involvement is through Detective Costa. Then played straight again in The Punisher Season 1 where he's the lead on-scene investigator of Lewis' attack on Karen and Senator Ori, where it's even repeatedly noted that he was on the original Punisher case. And it's averted in Daredevil Season 3 where he doesn't play an active role in bringing Fisk down until the church attack.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: It is strongly implied that after all their interactions, he has figured out that Matt is Daredevil.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: His promotion for arresting Frank Castle earns him a sideways transfer from Patrol into the Detective Bureau, so Brett loses the uniform and goes to suit and tie.
Foggy Nelson: Brett, you're wearing a tie, and it's...not a clip-on.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: To the Punisher. While Brett grudgingly tolerates Matt, he does not approve of Frank's murderous methods.
- Weirdness Magnet: His constant involvement with Matt's, Karen's and Foggy's escapades puts him firmly into this. He even lampshades Karen's tendency to get involved in deadly situations in Season 2.
Will Simpson
Sergeant William "Will" Simpson
"So what, you think because you have these abilities, you're a hero? I've seen heroes. You're not even close."
Species: Enhanced human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Wil Traval
Appearances: Jessica Jones
An NYPD sergeant from the 15th Precinct who is used by Kilgrave for an attempt on Trish. After being freed from Kilgrave's control, he becomes an ally to Jessica and Trish, although he's frequently at odds with Jessica.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, his name is Frank Simpson. It might be a case of One-Steve Limit across the Netflix MCU, to avoid conflict with Frank Castle.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: This version of Nuke doesn't have a huge American flag tattooed across his face, and he's much leaner than his bulky comic counterpart. The worst he gets is a pair of bloodshot eyes in Season Two as a result of his drug use.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, the pills used by Nuke were placebos that allowed him to unlock to adrenaline. The pills used here evidently increase his power and strength for real.
- Addled Addict: Already starts showing signs in Season 1, but during his brief appearance in Season 2 it's made even more clear, with his red eyes only disappearing after he uses his inhaler.
- Anti-Villain: He starts as an ally, but becomes increasingly insane after the trauma brought on by his experience with Kilgrave and eventually goes into a drugged out, Ax-Crazy rampage. Though Jessica and Trish acknowledge that he is out of his mind when he finally goes nuts, they have little pity in stopping him before he can kill them or anybody else.
- The Atoner: Kilgrave brainwashed him into trying to kill Trish so now he wants to protect Trish.
- Ax-Crazy: A side effect of Kozlov's treatment after the explosion set off by Kilgrave's bomb nearly kills him.
- Black-and-White Insanity: A source of conflict between him and Jessica, whose moral compass isn't as cut and dry as his own. For instance, he sees Kilgrave as an evil scumbag and therefore should be put down like a rabid dog (Jessica agrees with the first part and disagrees with the second).
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He's introduced trying to kill Trish under Kilgrave's influence, and it takes a good deal of effort to win her trust after he's released from it.
- Boom, Headshot!: He shoots Clemons in the head at the "sin bin" Kilgrave was held in, and then two of Kozlov's associates when they come to take him in.
- Canon Character All Along: Given his name change, it wasn't immediately apparent that Will Simpson would be based on previous Marvel characters. It's eventually revealed that he is MCU's version of Nuke, aka Frank Simpson.
- Chekhov's Gunman: When he first appears, he's just some random cop that Kilgrave orders to kill Trish, and then, upon informing Kilgrave of his success, Kilgrave makes him try to kill himself. After Jessica saves him, Simpson unexpectedly returns to Trish's place on his day off to make amends, and the two begin a relationship and he vows revenge against Kilgave with his unique resources. It's unknown if Kilgrave was aware of Simpson's background when he enslaved him.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Simpson wants to save people. When he can't, things go bad.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Especially given his name change, it isn't immediately apparent that he's the MCU version of the Daredevil villain Nuke, right down to the pills that give him super powers, until he utters the character's (in)famous catchphrase of demanding "Reds". After that, the Captain America parallels become much clearer.
- Cool Car: He takes great care of an old fashioned Oldsmobile Cutlass.
- Composite Character:
- While he is mostly based on the Marvel supervillain Nuke, he also has elements of another minor villain, Mad Dog. Like Mad Dog, he is a soldier that gains superpowers due to working with a shady corporation. Both characters also had a romantic relationship with Patricia Walker that turned violent. He also bears some resemblance to SHIELD agent Clay Quartermain, an ally of Jessica Jones in the comic book.
- He also bears elements of replacement Captain America's William Burnside (the '50s Cap and Grand Director) and John Walker (later the US Agent). As with both, he's a modern special operator with a very similar appearance to Steve Rogers, and a do-good approach. And both have Sanity Slippage and become Anti Villains. Specifically to Burnside, that switch comes from Simpson experiencing a Psycho Serum and mind control. Specific to Walker, his Sanity Slippage is triggered by being unable to save people.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Utilizing his training in the Special Forces, he manages to nearly kill Trish despite her extensive self-defense training. When attacked by Kilgrave's bodyguards, he manages to handle multiple opponents. Then he takes a combination of Super Serum and Psycho Serum to match Jessica in strength and toughness.
- Evil Counterpart: In a way, he's a much darker version of Steve Rogers: A clean-cut, wants-to-do-good former military man, even sporting a similar hairstyle. Except unlike Steve, when he gets exposed to enhancing drugs, he turns into a rampaging lunatic.
- Face–Heel Turn: He's more or less on the side of good when introduced, but he starts to go off the deep end after taking Dr. Kozlov's drugs.
- Fair Cop: He's a cop and has quite a few shirtless scenes. Trish definitely notices this in-universe.
- Feel No Pain: Thanks to his pills. As a result of this, he doesn't notice he burned his arm disposing of Clemons' body, and so doesn't cover it up, which gives Jessica an additional clue that he's not right in the head. He also doesn't flinch when Trish shoots him in the leg.
- Foil: To Jessica Jones. They both suffer from trauma caused by having been forced by Kilgrave to do horrible things. However, while Jessica isn't exactly dealing with her issues well, she's managed to remain functional by becoming a cynical, pragmatic Anti-Hero. Simpson tries to remain an idealistic, heroic figure, and succumbs to Black-and-White Insanity as a result - essentially, Jessica bends, and he refuses to bend and breaks. Also born out by their physical appearance, as he's a well-built blonde man, while Jessica is a sickly-looking dark-haired woman.
- Foreshadowing: When bonding with Trish, he tells her a story where as a kid he played rescue with a GI-Joe and his sister's Barbie doll. He got a bit too gung-ho, and in the end his sister's Barbie Playhouse was literally in flames — but at least the rescue was successful! It's a funny story at the time, but it directly foreshadows his later descent into madness and trail of destruction in his attempts to kill Kilgrave and protect Trish — which even includes him setting the heroes' headquarters on fire.
- Friend on the Force: One of the first things Jessica asks of him is to pull police surveillance feeds of places she's been so she can find Kilgrave's spy.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: Before becoming a cop, Simpson was part of Special Forces, after his Sanity Slippage and taking his "combat enhancers" again, he becomes a Vigilante Man and a murderer.
- Headbutting Heroes: Simpson and Jessica both have the same goal of stopping Kilgrave, but have wildly different ideas on how to do it and wind up impeding each other. Eventually, Simpson gets so fed up with Jessica that, while hopped up on combat-enhancers, he tries to kill her just for getting in his way.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Simpson is an edgy Empowered Badass Normal who often wears a leather jacket.
- Irony: Simpson's motivations in Season 1 boil down to protecting Trish. Yet in all three of Trish's closest brushes she has with death, he was a strong factor.
- Their first encounter is when Kilgrave sends him to Trish's apartment to kill her for insulting him on her show. To borrow the LAPD's motto, he is a police officer that is supposed to serve and protect, and nearly strangles her to death.
- He gives Trish an unregistered gun to protect herself from danger and later encourages her to use it to kill Kilgrave. She nearly does, but empties her gun before she can deliver a kill shot. Kilgrave then orders Trish to put a bullet in her head, something Trish only survives because the gun was empty, and she only gets out of Kilgrave's control when Jessica puts a bullet in her mouth to technically fulfill Kilgrave's command.
- Simpson goes back into a supersoldier program he was a former member of, in order to use their drugs to take care of Kilgrave. He goes off the deep end and attempts to kill Jessica, while trying to keep Trish out of the equation. However, Trish steals his pills, and takes them to help Jessica fight Simpson off. The pills nearly kill her before an EMT injects her with a counter to stimulant drugs.
- It's Personal: The fact that Kilgrave used him to attempt to murder Trish and was behind the death of two of his old friends is at least partly the reason why he wants to kill him so badly.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Simpson advocates right from the start that Kilgrave should be killed, not captured, as Kilgrave's powers make him extremely dangerous and killing him is the one thing that would make certain that he can't destroy any more innocent lives. In the end, for all her hard work, Jessica ends up having to kill Kilgrave. If she had done it earlier, many lives would have been saved.
- Last-Name Basis: Nobody ever refers to him by his first name, only ever calling him "Simpson."
- Mr. Fanservice: He shows off his body in a few scenes.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: He's strongly in favor of just straight up killing Kilgrave, rather than trying to bring him in alive. Come the finale, he's proven right.
- Mythology Gag: His casual clothes and hairstyle are nearly identical to Steve Rogers' off duty look in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It serves as a reference to his comic counterpart, who was an attempt to make a new Captain America in the 1960s. He also gets some nasty facial injuries that resemble Nuke's distinctive tattoo.
- Neck Snap: Alisa twists his neck in this way.
- Plot Armor: He survives a bomb explosion with few injuries, while his two friends who are behind him don't. Unfortunately, his luck runs out when Jessica's mom catches up to him.
- Psycho Serum: The pills given to Simpson by Dr. Kozlov send him into a bloody rage.
- Psycho Supporter: To Trish. While it seems at first that he's a decent guy, he rapidly becomes unstable in his determination to protect her. By the end, a combination of PTSD from Kilgrave's mind control and combat medication drives him completely insane, killing Clemons and attempting to kill Jessica. He still never stops caring about Trish.
- Pragmatic Hero: He thinks that Jessica should just murder Kilgrave and be done with this whole nightmare, despite the potential harm this could do to Kilgrave's victims.
- Redemption Equals Death: His brief appearance in Season 2 has him trying to genuinely atone for his misdeeds the prior season by protecting Trish from the new threat. He winds up getting killed protecting her and Jessica shortly thereafter.
- Sanity Slippage: He never truly recovers from Kilgrave ordering him to kill Trish in his first appearance. He is fixated with protecting her and Jessica from Kilgrave, but he becomes increasingly obsessed with killing him. At first his intentions are good and his methods just seem overly pragmatic, but when those fail he eventually takes "combat enhancers" that exacerbate his obsession and make him violently delusional, which leads to him killing Clemons and two of Kozlov's men, and attacking Trish.
- Stalker with a Crush: While his attraction to Trish is initially mutual, she starts to wean herself off him when he goes off the rails and assaults her.
- Stating the Simple Solution: When he hears about Jessica's complicated plan to capture Kilgrave alive, imprison him, and then somehow force him to provide enough evidence to clear Hope of murder charges, his reply is simple indeed: shoot him dead.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Doesn't feature very prominently in any of the pre-release promotional materials. Cleverly averted in the story trailer. He appears in silhouette, but given Jessica's voice over of the shot and the fact that he doesn't appear anywhere else, one would be forgiven for thinking that the shot was of Kilgrave instead. The shot only appears in the show right after Simpson's Face–Heel Turn.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He's killed two episodes into Season 2.
- Toxic Friend Influence: An unintentional example; Trish starts her relapse into addiction after taking Simpson's combat-enhancing drugs, something Simpson never wanted even at his lowest point. Even after he dies in Season 2, Trish keeps hold of his drug-filled inhaler and starts down the path to becoming a villain herself.
- Tragic Villain: He starts out with the best of intentions, wanting to protect Trish and stop Kilgrave, but he grows repeatedly unhinged and fanatical about it. Then, after being badly wounded by Kilgrave, he goes back on the Reds to be able to get out of a hospital bed and continue the fight, and they fully drive him out of his mind. In his last appearance in Season 1, he's become as his comics counterpart: a pitiable figure, but also too insane and violent to be reasoned with.
- Verbal Tic: When under the influence of the combat-enhancing 'Reds', he occasionally will-occasionally will repeat a word or phrase twice in quick succession, usually when-when trying to lie.
- Would Hit a Girl: He does attack both Trish and Jessica. On both occasions, he's under the influence of something that overrides his natural temperament - he is under Kilgrave's influence the first time he goes after Trish, and is having a negative reaction to his drugs the second time.
Oscar Clemons
Detective First Grade Oscar Clemons
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Clarke Peters
Appearances: Jessica Jones
An elderly NYPD detective who crosses paths with Jessica on more than one occasion.
- Actor Allusion: He has a fondness for antiquities.
- Boom, Headshot!: Simpson shoots him in the head.
- Death by Adaptation: His counterpart in the comics is still alive (which is notable, considering he was a Punisher character). His partner, on the other hand...
- Ink-Suit Actor: Kinda. Clemons in the comics was created in the likeness of Morgan Freeman. Clarke Peters bears just enough resemblance though to get a free pass.
- Inspector Javert: Subverted; when Jessica first mentions him, it's stated he once had suspicions about her. However, when she tries to take advantage of the trope so she can Get into Jail Free, he sees right away she is hiding something and doesn't take the opportunity to send her to jail.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's initially very unsympathetic due to his abrasive attitude and antagonism toward Jessica, but he reveals himself to be an honest and intelligent cop with a helluva clearance rate.
- Manly Facial Hair: Clemons is a tough, perceptive veteran detective with a prominent mustache.
- Red Right Hand: He breaks his right hand trying to free it from his handcuffs without unlocking the cuffs. This is how Jessica later identifies his body when searching the morgues.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As soon as he has witnessed Kilgrave's powers with his own eyes, he is fully willing to help Jessica. He also admits to Simpson that he might have a point in claiming that Kilgrave is too dangerous to stand a normal trial, but he also points out that it still doesn't give Simpson nor himself the right to take the law into their own hands by killing him. Too bad Simpson disagrees.
- Retirony: He signs his death warrant the moment he says he's two years away from mandatory retirement with full pension.
- Shout-Out: Just like Lester Freamon, Clemons is fond of antiques, as he says to break the ice in his interrogation of Jessica.
Christian Blake
Detective Christian Blake
"I'll call the ADA. But you take that tone with me again, I don't care if you're blind, I'll kick the shit out of you."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Chris Tardio
Appearances: Daredevil
- "How does it feel, Urich? Knowing your days have passed? You're like the freakin' dinosaurs watching that big rock crashing into them."
An NYPD detective on Wilson Fisk's payroll.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He's murdered in his hospital by his best friend, believing he's come to protect him. It's hard not to feel sorry for Blake, having to be murdered in his hospital bed by his own partner and best friend, who was coerced by Fisk into carrying out the deed under the threat of death.
- Bantering Baddie Buddies: Despite being a detective, Blake seems to enjoy doing his dirty work along with Hoffman and are the two quite fond of sharing darkly humorous quips about it.
- Beard of Evil: Blake has a very heavy five'o clock shadow.
- Butt-Monkey: Nothing ever goes right for Blake whenever he appears.
- In his first appearance, he gets utterly humiliated by Matt and Foggy's rule-fu regarding Karen's Union Allied case, so he's forced to let Karen go despite his employer wanting her dead.
- Matt breaks his right arm outside the precinct and steals his phone, containing list of the Russians' hideouts.
- Fisk decides that Blake is a liability and needs to be ridden of. Thus he orders an ESU sniper to gun Blake down outside the scene where Matt is holed up with Vladimir. But Blake manages to survive this. So his best friend/partner Hoffman is sent to poison him, finishing him off for good, and his death is treated as a tragedy.
- Dirty Cop: Blake kills Piotr in custody for saying Fisk's name and makes it look like Piotr jumped Hoffman. They later are among the dirty cops that Fisk sends to kill the survivors of Fisk's bombings.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Blake and Hoffman really care for each other, having a genuine friendship that goes back 35 years, to before the academy.
- Establishing Character Moment: Even before their revelation as Dirty Cops, it's clear that neither Blake nor Hoffman are the nicest people with the way they handle Karen's case. Blake even threatens physical violence on the blind Matt for taking a defiant tone with him, which is alarming enough to briefly give Hoffman pause.
- Four Is Death: He appears in four episodes (1, 5, 6, and 8) and dies in the fourth one.
- Jerkass: Blake is hostile with Matt and Foggy, and repeatedly mocks Ben Urich for his declining reputation.
- Killer Cop: He murders Piotr for saying Wilson Fisk's name in the interrogation room, and is one of the cops Fisk sends in to execute any Russians who survived the bombings.
- Last-Name Basis: Blake's first name 'Christian' is only mentioned in the Bulletin article Karen reads on the Internet about him regaining conscious after getting shot.
- Sickbed Slaying: After surviving getting shot, Fisk threatens Hoffman into poisoning him in the hospital.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His death proves to be the breaking point for Hoffman and is what gets Hoffman to decide he wants nothing more to do with Fisk.
- You Have Failed Me: Fisk could forgive Blake for being beaten up by Matt. But he cannot forgive Blake for letting his phone get stolen by Matt, which enabled Matt to track down Vladimir. So he orders a police sniper on his payroll to gun down Blake and a few other innocent cops on live TV. When Blake survives this, Fisk intimidates Hoffman into poisoning him in the hospital.
Carl Hoffman
Detective Carl Hoffman
"Out of turn? You shot him!"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Daryl Edwards
Appearances: Daredevil
Detective Blake's partner, who, like Blake, is also on Wilson Fisk's payroll.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He's forced to murder his best friend to avoid Fisk's wrath, and he's unable to hold back tears as he injects the syringe into Blake's IV line.
- Bald of Evil: In the service of Fisk.
- Bantering Baddie Buddies: He and Blake enjoy doing Fisk's dirty work, and are quite fond of sharing darkly humorous quips about it.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He goes ghost after killing Blake to avoid Fisk's wrath, having been scooped up by Owlsley. Ultimately, he comes back in the season 1 finale to rat Fisk out to the FBI, and he's also critical to directly linking Fisk to many of the murders he's ordered by virtue of the fact that Fisk directly gives him the order to kill Blake (as opposed to relay the order through Wesley).
- Dirty Cop: Helps Blake murder one of Vladimir's goons in custody for saying Fisk's name, and claims the man attacked him. Fisk later uses them to get rid of any Russians who survived the bombings.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They care for each other, having a genuine friendship that goes back 35 years, to before the academy. Hoffman is plagued with guilt and doubt when Fisk orders him to kill Blake. Fisk asking him point-blank how much the years are worth to him in dollars, notably makes him break down in tears.
- Even Evil Has Standards: A minor one, but even he takes pause at Blake's threats of physical violence against Matt.
- Establishing Character Moment: Even before it's revealed that they're corrupt, it's clear that neither he nor Blake are the nicest people with the way they handle Karen's case. That said, when Blake threatens physical violence against Matt, Hoffman visibly disapproves of Blake's words, showing that he has at least some lines he won't cross.
- Jerkass: Hoffman is hostile with Matt and Foggy, though not to the extent that Blake is.
- Last-Name Basis: Hoffman's first name "Carl" is only mentioned a few times, such as in a few of his interactions with Blake, and later when Corbin and the hit squad sent to kill Hoffman locate him.
- Living MacGuffin: Hoffman becomes this in the season's final episode, a crucial piece of evidence fought over by Fisk, Owlsley, and Matt. Matt wins, and Hoffman's confession brings down Fisk's empire.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Hoffman is very much aware that Fisk disposes of underlings when he has no further use for them. So when Fisk personally orders him to kill Blake, Hoffman pointedly asks how long it'll be before he does something that'll make Fisk decide he needs to go. This allows Leland to keep him hidden as a bargaining chip and later be threatened by Matt into turning state's evidence.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Hoffman becomes a liability after being forced to kill Blake, bitter over having to kill his partner and Fisk's role in it. Fisk tries to off him as well before he can cause any damage. Fortunately, Owlsley has already scooped him up and hidden him away to use as a bargaining chip. He is then saved by Matt, and helps bring down Fisk's empire.
Eddy Costa
Detective Edward "Eddy" Costa
"Are—are we supposed to knock or just come in? I—I never know with doors like this. Is this a business or a home?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: John Ventimiglia
Appearances: Jessica Jones
A detective at the 15th precinct who crosses paths with Jessica Jones.
- The Commissioner Gordon: In Season 3, he serves as this for Jessica and the police.
- Friend on the Force: He sometimes lets confidential info slip to Jessica, so she can help with her skills.
- Good Is Not Nice: By all means he's one of the most heroic police officers shown and is Jessica's closest ally within the precinct, but he's not completely forgiving of her more questionable actions and, after Alisa kills his partner, he all but severs all ties with Jess. At the same time he's also the only one trying to bring her in peacefully when she becomes tied up in Alisa escaping the border.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When he first appears, he's pretty nasty and stand-offish with Jessica. When he finds out Jessica is innocent, he's apologetic and even thanks her for killing Kilgrave.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In Season 2, he has a moment of this after Alisa kills Sunday in front of him.
- Pet the Dog: After he finds Jessica silently crying over her mother's bloody corpse, he immediately tells his men to lower their guns, as he assumes that Jessica was forced to kill her mother, offers her his sympathies and tells her that she did the right thing and had no choice. Given Jess is free at the end, it also seems he opted not to charge her with aiding and abetting.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's just doing his job for the most part, and he knows Jessica's trying to do good given that he was one of those cops victimized by Kilgrave. So he has more understanding of Jessica than his partner Sunday does.
- Straight Gay: Season 3 reveals he is married to a man and they are shown intending to adopt a child.
Ruth Sunday
Detective Ruth Sunday
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Lisa Tharps
Appearances: Jessica Jones
Costa's partner, a fellow detective at the 15th Precinct.
- Fantastic Racism: She greatly distrusts enhanced humans like Jessica. Even when there isn't any evidence to support this, she assumes Jessica is working with the killer and tries to spin any action she makes into somehow being warrant for arrest.
- Taking You with Me: Alisa makes her getaway from the hospital by jumping out the window using Sunday as a human shield. Sunday is killed by the fall.
Officer Corbin
Officer Corbin
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Angel Rosa
Appearances: Daredevil
A uniformed officer from the 15th Precinct on Fisk's payroll.
- Bald of Evil: He's got a receding hairline and is on the take.
- The Brute: He's less a cop and more a glorified henchman with an NYPD shield.
- Defiant to the End: Keeps resisting and protesting as he's arrested by the FBI
- Dirty Cop: Fisk uses him to kill the survivors after Fisk blows up Vladimir's stash houses, and later sends him leading a group of officers sent after Hoffman.
- Killer Cop: He kills Sergei, and some of the other bombing survivors. Later, he's sent by Fisk to eliminate Hoffman to keep him from turning on Fisk.
- Meta Casting: Angel Rosa is an actual NYPD cop who's had bit parts in a variety of cop shows that film in New York City.
Clyde Farnum
Clyde Farnum
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: J. Tucker Smith
Appearances: Daredevil
A cop at the 15th Precinct who is indebted to Fisk, and is hired to do a few favors.
- Apologetic Attacker: He's only trying to kill Karen because Wesley is threatening to have his daughter killed. As he's strangling Karen in her cell, he's on the verge of tears and whispering "I'm sorry!" repeatedly.
- Ate His Gun: What his murder is staged to look like.
- Dirty Cop: He's indebted to Fisk after the latter took over Don Rigoletto's territories and assets.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Wesley threatens him into carrying out a hit on Karen by showing him a live feed of his daughter in a park, with Rance not ten feet away and ready to kill her if Farnum doesn't do the job he's been asked to do.
- Eye Scream: Karen claws at his face hard enough to draw blood from his right eye. He's later shown still wearing an eyepatch bandage over said eye when he's killed.
- He Knows Too Much: He's killed, along with Rance and McClintock, after Karen delivers the flash drive of Union Allied evidence to the Bulletin.
- Never Suicide: The cover story for his murder is that he ate the barrel of his gun in his basement. When Ben Urich tells Karen about this, she quickly figures out what really happened.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: He owes $28,957 in debts to bookies in Fisk's employ.
Captain Strieber
Captain Strieber
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Ron Simons
Appearances: The Defenders | Daredevil
Captain Audrey's replacement at the 29th Precinct, in charge of an NYPD task force investigating the Hand, and later transferred to the 15th Precinct.
- Da Chief: He is a Captain, and has replaced Audrey in light of the corruption scandal with Scarfe. Later, he becomes boss to Brett Mahoney.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Matt, Jessica and Luke are reluctant to keep him in the loop about what they know about the Hand. Even Misty is doing this too in her efforts to stay loyal to Luke.
- Oral Fixation: He can be seen chewing on toothpicks even at crime scenes.
- Spell My Name With An S: His name is pronounced Streiber (s-try-ber) but spelled Strieber (s-tree-ber).
Officer O'Rourke
Officer O'Rourke
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Gene Gillette
Appearances: The Punisher
An officer of the 15th Precinct formerly involved with the Kitchen Irish.
- Dirty Cop: He used to be involved with the Kitchen Irish before they were wiped out by the Punisher.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: A cousin of his was also a member of the Kitchen Irish and got killed by Castle. O'Rourke wants to avenge him by killing Frank.
- Killer Cop: He's a cop that tries to collect the bounty on Frank Castle's head offered by John Pilgrim.
- Would Hurt a Child/Would Hit a Girl: He tries to choke Amy Bendix to death when she tries to save Frank from him.
Carl Nussbaumer
Carl Nussbaumer
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Larry Mitchell
Appearances: Jessica Jones
A decorated but secretly corrupt NYPD officer who is blackmailed by Eric Gelden.
- Asshole Victim: A dirty cop who murders teenage drug dealers whose deaths won't be minded by the criminal justice system because they'll be chalked up to gang violence. He gets blackmailed by Eric Gelden and, later, accidentally killed by Trish Walker.
- Accidental Murder: Trish accidentally kills Nussbaumer by hitting him against a wall.
- Dirty Cop: He killed drug dealers to steal their money and product and sell it himself, while passing off the murders as gang crime.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: His targets were teenagers mostly of Latino and African American origin, whose deaths wouldn't raise any waves.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He kept a pristine reputation in his twenty years of service, getting decorated and gaining the admiration of fellow officers and detectives, among them Detective Imada, whose life Nussbaumer saved while dealing with a criminal.
Officer Sullivan
Officer Sullivan
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Matthew Sean Blumm
Appearances: Daredevil
A rookie patrol officer in the 15th Precinct.
- Bound and Gagged: Matt gags him with duct tape and handcuffs him to a column to keep him out of the way as he tries to get information out of Vladimir. He's thus in no position to fight back when the corrupt ESU team show up to kill him.
- He Knows Too Much: The corrupt ESU team sent in to save him instead cut his throat, not knowing how much of Matt's conversations with Vladimir and Fisk he might've overheard.
- New Meat: He's only been on the job for two months, confirming for Matt that he's not in Fisk's pocket.
- Slashed Throat: The ESU officers who discover him cut his throat.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- Sullivan's radio ends up being how Matt has his first conversation with Fisk.
- Detective Blake and some of the other cops who respond to Sullivan's distress call are shot by a police sniper on Fisk's payroll, before the ESU team enter the building and kill Sullivan. In the short-term, the fallout from these killings allows Fisk to further spin the Devil of Hell's Kitchen as a terrorist; in the long-term, the fallout regarding Blake's shooting specifically leads to Fisk's downfall when Hoffman eventually turns on Fisk.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Upon discovering Matt and Vladimir, Matt subdues him and gets him to admit that he's an honest cop. Not understanding why Matt wants him to report his 10-10 call (potential criminal activity) as a false alarm, Sullivan instead makes a 10-13 call (officer in distress)... alerting Fisk's corrupt cops to Matt and Vladimir's location. By the time the night is over, Vladimir and three uniformed cops (including Sullivan himself) are dead at the hands of said corrupt cops, and Detective Blake is in a coma, which Fisk uses to further smear Matt's name in the press.
29th Precinct
The 29th Precinct covers Harlem above 116th Street.
Misty Knight
Rafael Scarfe
Detective Rafael Scarfe
"A clue is a clue, no matter how small."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Frank Whaley
Appearances: Luke Cage
Misty Knight's determined, but stubborn and corrupt police partner.
- Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Scarfe left his loaded gun out; his son played with it and accidentally shot himself. The boy's death was Scarfe's Cynicism Catalyst and the beginning of his descent into corruption.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Even though Misty knew he was corrupt, Scarfe's death devastated her.
- All for Nothing: None of the information he gives can be used against Cottonmouth because of his death.
- The Cynic: His rather bitter and callous worldview makes him a good foil to the more straight-edge Misty.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's extremely sarcastic, to say the least.
- Death Equals Redemption: Dies after a Heel–Face Turn against Cottonmouth.
- Didn't Think This Through: Yes, Rafael, totally a good idea to shake down a volatile gangster like Cottonmouth for money. Surely you didn't think he might try shooting you?
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Misty, Luke and Claire are there with him in his final moments.
- Dirty Cop: He secretly works for Cottonmouth and undermines investigations to destroy any incriminating evidence or witnesses.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Claims that he's this in comparison to Cottonmouth as he knows how volatile Cottonmouth is.
- Evil Vegetarian: Well, "evil" might be an exaggeration, but it's established in both scenes showing him and Misty eating that he's a vegetarian.
- Framing the Guilty Party: He plants a gun in Cockroach's apartment to get Cockroach arrested. Cockroach was guilty of other murders, but not the one Scarfe framed him for.
- Killer Cop: He kills Chico with his necktie.
- Last-Name Basis: Everyone just calls him Scarfe, with Misty only sporadically using his first name.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His young son died while fiddling with his gun.
- Sad Clown: It's implied that his constant jokes are attempts to distract himself from the death of his son. As Misty says to Perez, Scarfe jokes a lot but seldom smiles.
- Token White: For the main cast of Luke Cage, which is a first for an MCU cast. (While Theo Rossi is American of mixed descent, Shades is Latino)
- Villainous Legacy: Come Season 2, at least thirty criminals, including Cockroach, are unleashed onto the streets of Harlem because Scarfe tainted their convictions.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Misty. They bicker constantly (helped no little by Scarfe being on Cottonmouth's payroll most of that time), but at the end they care for each other.
Mark Bailey
Detective Mark Bailey
It's just a beautiful day at the office.
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Justin Swain
Appearances: Luke Cage
A friend of Misty Knight's in the Crime Scene Unit.
- Ascended Extra: He has a much larger presence in Season 2 compared to Season 1.
- Brutal Honesty: Misty trusts him to tell things like it is, and he is blunt when telling Misty that her disability and association with Scarfe is making her fellow officers uncomfortable.
- Fake Guest Star: In Season 2, Bailey is in nine episodes, yet Justin Swain doesn't get main credits billing.
- Friend on the Force: One of the few allies in the department that Misty still has by her side after Scarfe's death.
- Last-Name Basis: Misty always calls him Bailey.
- Rank Up: He is promoted to Detective in between Seasons 1 and 2 and partnered with Nandi. After Nandi is exposed as dirty, he's re-partnered with Misty.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bailey's promotion to Detective in Season 2 essentially sees him taking over Scarfe's former post as Misty's partner, especially after Nandi is outed as dirty.
Nandi Tyler
Detective Nandi Tyler
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Antonique Smith
Appearances: Luke Cage
A detective at the 29th Precinct and high school acquaintance of Misty Knight.
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Actor-Shared Background: Just like her actress, Nandi is pretty proficient in singing Broadway show tunes. - Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Nandi has cultivated a habit of betraying people to get what she wants since her youth. In high school, she manipulated her basketball teammate Tasha Bowles into getting caught for theft to eliminate her as a rival. As an adult, she proves to be a corrupt cop.
- Dirty Cop: She expresses frustration over Misty's working with Mariah, and retaliates by selling out Mariah to Bushmaster.
- Idiot Ball: She fails to cover her tracks after ratting out Mariah to Bushmaster, which leads to Ridley and Misty investigating how Bushmaster found her. Any cop would actually know better to check for surveillance littered around the city, which is how Nandi was caught.
- It's All About Me: No matter what platitudes she preaches about teamwork and integrity, the only person Nandi cares about is herself. In high school, she manipulated her basketball teammate into getting caught for theft of an iPod so she could take her position on the team. As Misty pointed out, they lost their away tournament in Philadelphia but Nandi didn't care as long as she got to shine as the team's MVP. In the present, Nandi tries to justify giving away Mariah's location to Bushmaster as her protecting Harlem but Misty doesn't buy it for one minute and calls her out for only wanting the money she made from that decision.Misty: "You almost had our blood on your hands, and look at you; even now, you won't own your shit!"
- Laser-Guided Karma: During a high school basketball tournament in Philadelphia, Nandi made a deal with her basketball teammate Tasha Bowles in which Nandi would steal some wallets and Tasha would steal an iPod. However, this was actually a set up; Nandi had no intention of stealing anything and instead told their coach Tasha had stolen the iPod, resulting in Tasha getting kicked off the team and Nandi taking her position. However, Nandi injured her knee during the tournament and was replaced by Misty Knight.
- Male Gaze: The camera actually lingers on her butt for a good few seconds while she's walking as she's being arrested.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Nandi justifies her actions in selling out Mariah's location to Bushmaster as necessary to eliminate a threat to Harlem. However, she doesn't care that Bushmaster is just as, if not more dangerous to Harlem than Mariah and is clearly more concerned about the money Bushmaster paid her than anyone who would be hurt by her actions.
- The Rival: Nandi and Misty have had an antagonistic relationship since high school, after Misty replaced her on the basketball team due to Nandi suffering an injury. She also set up another teammate to get kicked off the team along the way.
- Rival Turned Evil: Nandi resented Misty in high school for taking her position on the basketball team after Nandi suffered a knee injury during a match. As an adult, their rivalry turns to enmity as Nandi betrays her fellow officers to sell out Mariah to Bushmaster.
- Smug Snake: Even after she is exposed, she still tries to face off against Misty, it ends well as anyone expected.
- Too Dumb to Live: Nandi foolishly resists arrest and attempts to go toe-to-toe with Misty, all while having the ESU's guns trained on her at the aircraft hanger. Luckily for Nandi, they exercise restraint and let Misty take her down.
- We Used to Be Friends: Nandi and Misty had a bitter relationship that began in high school when Misty replaced her.
Betty Audrey
Captain Betty Audrey
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Sonja Sohn
Appearances: Luke Cage
The precinct commander at the 29th Precinct and Misty Knight's superior officer.
- Black Boss Lady: She's in charge of the 29th Precinct, and is therefore Misty and Scarfe's boss.
- Scapegoat: She gets transferred out by Inspector Ridley and Internal Affairs after Scarfe's death, due to the amount of corruption that happened on her watch.
Donnie Chang
Detective Donnie Chang
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Andrew Pang
Appearances: Luke Cage | Iron Fist
A detective at the 29th Precinct.
- The Mole: In Season 2 of Iron Fist, he's infiltrated the Golden Tigers, something Danny only learns after accidentally putting him in the hospital.
- Nice Guy: Chang is one of the first people to visit Misty in the hospital when she loses her arm.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: He's more restrained than most of the other cops when they think Luke is a murderer (thanks to Diamondback's frameup), and when witnesses he interviews indicate that Luke is innocent, Chang takes them seriously and tells Misty.
Lieutenant Perez
Lieutenant Perez
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Manny Perez
Appearances: Luke Cage
Shift lieutenant at the 29th Precinct.
- Accidental Public Confession: He tries to keep Misty away from Scarfe, knowing Scarfe will probably tell Misty about Perez's corruption. Misty stops the car, seemingly calls Scarfe, then hangs up claiming that Scarfe has told her Perez is dirty. In trying to discredit Scarfe, Perez claims the guy's deeper in Cottonmouth's pockets than he is...and then Misty reveals that she never called Scarfe, she just tricked him into confessing on tape.
- Dirty Cop: Like Scarfe, he's on Cottonmouth's payroll.
- Smug Snake: As soon as Misty notices that he is dirty, he starts gloating to her face. It bites him in the ass big time.
Priscilla Ridley
Inspector / Deputy Chief Priscilla Ridley
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Karen Pittman
Appearances: Luke Cage
The Inspector for Manhattan North, including the 29th Precinct.
- Black Boss Lady: She's in charge of the North precincts and is a no-nonsense boss too, in light of the corruption that's plagued the 29th.
- By-the-Book Cop: Makes her a foil to Misty.
- Category Traitor: Patricia Wilson accuses Priscilla of being "white" just because she bleeds "blue" (a cop) in response to Lonnie's beating in-custody.
- Da Chief: True, she's not the Commissioner, but as an Inspector, Ridley still invokes this in authority. She is promoted to Deputy Chief prior to Season 2 of Luke Cage.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Apparently she's been called "Inspector Gadget" behind her back ever since her promotion. She takes it in stride.
- Fake Guest Star: Given she's in every episode Diamondback is in but doesn't get main credits billing.
- Jerkass Has a Point: For much of her appearances, she seems to be the obstructive authority figure to Misty's Cowboy Cop. However, she makes reasonable points to Misty about her responsibilities as a cop.
- Rank Up: She's promoted to Deputy Chief in between Seasons 1 and 2.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- She could've had Misty suspended or terminated for roughing up Claire, but chose to put her in therapy.
- Immediately considers the possibility of Luke's innocence when evidence shows up, and also doesn't entirely trust Mariah Dillard.
- She has less headbutting with Misty in Season 2, in part thanks to Misty's maturing.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: She loses her curly hair between Seasons 1 and 2, concurrent with her promotion to Deputy Chief.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Given her disagreements with Misty, Ridley could be seen as a replacement for Scarfe. Just, minus the corruption.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Misty out when Misty takes Candace under her own protection rather than trust the NYPD, and this causes Candace to get killed by Shades, after he steals Misty's phone to lure her out of hiding, thus losing the only witness to the fact that Mariah killed Stokes.
Jake Smith
Sergeant Jake Smith
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Lee R. Sellars
Appearances: Luke Cage
A plainclothes sergeant at the 29th Precinct.
- Cowboy Cop: In the wake of Diamondback's murder of his co-worker Jackie Albini, he argues for the officers to show some aggression in their search for the suspect, Luke Cage.
Mario Green
Lieutenant Mario Green
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: P.J. Marshall
Appearances: Luke Cage
An Emergency Services Unit officer and close friend of Misty's.
- Blood Knight: Seems to have shades of this, wanting to directly take ESU into Harlem's Paradise and engage Luke, rather than wait patiently until they can get communication with the hostages
- Headbutting Heroes: Butts heads with Inspector Ridley during Diamondback's hostage situation.
Thomas Ridenhour
Captain Thomas Ridenhour
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Peter Jay Fernandez
Appearances: Luke Cage
The new captain at the 29th Precinct following Audrey's departure.
- Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: When Shades catches Ridenhour and Comanche meeting, Comanche shoots and kills Ridenhour. Shades, furious at Comanche's betrayal, proceeds to kill Comanche with Ridenhour's gun, and plants it on his body to make it seem like the two men killed each other. However, Shades gets too emotional and decides to give Comanche a merciful death by shooting him again with Ridenhour's gun, destroying the illusion.
- Dirty Cop: He's secretly trying to negotiate with Mariah, and also has Comanche as an off-the-books informant. Downplayed in that Ridenhour isn't really dirty, but just a desk jockey in over his head.
- Everyone Went to School Together: He was Mariah Dillard's high school sweetheart.
- Jerkass: He spends quite a lot of his screen time being unnecessarily antagonistic and unpleasant toward Luke and Misty. He sees it as justified because they don’t follow the rules, although as Misty points out, following the rules was getting them nowhere, making his point moot.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Mellows out toward Misty right before she quits her job, and even after that he isn’t quite as much of a jerk as he used to be. This doesn’t last very long though as he dies shortly after.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: ... in that what he wants is reasonable. He wants Misty not to be a Cowboy Cop. He wants Luke Cage not to be a vigilante. He wants to do things by the book! ...Except it's okay when he's the one breaking the rules.
- Secret-Keeper: He is one of the few who knows that Uncle Pete is Tilda's real father, since he was Mariah's confident in high-school.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He is one to regularly ream out Misty when she breaches protocol, like secretly talking to Arturo Rey after Arturo lawyers up, or going to crime scenes without authorization. While he'd like to suspend Misty for her constant insubordination, he can't because the brass at One Police Plaza have basically declared Misty the department's new public figurehead in light of her heroics at Midland Circle.
Officer Jackie Albini
Jackie Albini
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Gene Harrison
Appearances: Luke Cage
A police officer in the 65th Precinct, murdered by Diamondback just to frame Luke Cage.
- The Mentor: He trained Detective Dorsey.
- Megaton Punch: Diamondback kills him with a powered glove that caves in his chest.
- Redshirt: He's introduced just to get killed and open a plotline in which Luke Cage is hunted by the NYPD.
Detective Dorsey
Detective Dorsey
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: J. Bernard Calloway
Appearances: Luke Cage
A detective in the 65th Precint, mentored by the late Jackie Albini.
- It's Personal: The murder of Albini its a personal matter to him, because Albini had trained him.
- Police Brutality: He beats Lonnie Wilson, despite him being a minor, while interrogating him while investigating the murders of Cottonmouth and Officer Jackie Albini, of which Luke Cage was a suspect. This gets Dorsey suspended without pay.
65th Precinct
Tomas Ciancio
Detective Tomas Ciancio
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Rey Lucas
Appearances: Luke Cage
A detective in Brooklyn who works with Misty Knight.
- Friend on the Force: One of Misty's old friends from her earlier assignments.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Shares the same actor as Elias Spector.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: It's implied that he's the cop who leaked information to Karen Page at the Bulletin about Ingrid's survival, indirectly tipping Shades and Mariah off to it.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's more respectful towards Misty's disability than her colleagues at the 29th Precinct.
Other Police Officers
Irving Forbush
- See Stan Lee
Sergeant Silva
Sergeant Silva
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Robert Clohessy
Appearances: The Avengers
A sergeant of the NYPD who participated in the battle of New York.
- Ironic Echo: When Captain America tells him to put people in the buildings and cordon off the area, Silva asks why he should follow his orders. Some Chitauri attack and Captain America beats the tar out of them. Silva then orders his men to do exactly what Captain America said.
- Only One Name: He's only known as "Silva".
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After seeing Captain America's combat skills, Silva agrees to follow his orders for the evacuation of fhe civilians during the battle of New York.
Saunders
Saunders
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Enver Gjokaj
Appearances: The Avengers
A young patrolman during the Battle of New York.
- Armor-Piercing Response: When his boss asks if the army knows what's happening in New York, Saunders asks, "Do we?"
- Badass Normal: In several deleted scenes, he uses a Chitauri gun Cap tosses to him against the aliens while protecting civilians.
- Bearer of Bad News: He tells another officer that the army won't arrive for another hour.
- Identical Stranger: He's played by the same actor as Daniel Sousa, a major character in Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Only One Name: He's only known as "Saunders".
- Spared by the Cut: The scene in which he gets killed by the Chitauri was cut from the film, so we can assume that he's still alive.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In a deleted scene he's apparently shot by a Chitauri, but he may have only been wounded or ducking down.
Wendy Conrad
Officer Wendy Conrad
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Adetinpo Thomas
Appearances: Hawkeye
A police officer and member of the New York City Live-Action Role Players.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, she's a member of villain group the Death Throws, who specialize in juggling (no, really). In the show, Wendy is simply a member of the NYPD.
- Black and Nerdy: A black woman who is an avid LARPer.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Played with. Her bag does have "Bombshell" on it, but it's treated as more of a nickname than a codename (which this version of the character would not need).
- Race Lift: White in the comics, black here.
- Straight Gay: Aside from a brief mention of her wife, Wendy shows no obvious signs of being into women.
Rivera
Detective Rivera
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Franco Castan
Appearances: Hawkeye
A detective for the New York City Police Department.
- Gender Flip: In the comics, Rivera was a woman who worked for the New York department, while in the MCU, Rivera is a man.
New York City Fire Department
Grills
Grills
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Clayton English
Appearances: Hawkeye
A firefighter and a member of the New York City Live Action Role Players who stole the Ronin suit from Kate Bishop's apartment.
- Abled in the Adaptation: He needed glasses in the comics. Here, he doesn't.
- Adaptational Badass: Comic Grills' occupation was unknown, and he was overweight and wore thick glasses, indicating poor eyesight. Here, Grills is a physically fit firefighter with no glasses.
- Adaptational Curves: Grills in the comics is fat while MCU Grills is lanky.
- Age Lift: In the Fraction comics, Grills is middle-aged, while here he appears to be in his 20s.
- Ascended Extra: In the comics, he was Clint's chummy neighbor who never got involved with his superhero business (until he was murdered by the Clown, that is). In the show, he actively supports Clint and Kate in their fight against the Tracksuit Mafia, and even joins them during the final mission.
- Ascended Fanboy: He got to meet an actual Avenger, beat him in a fight and (pretend to) kill him. As far as he's concerned, it was the best day of his life. Later, he and a few of his friends actually help the Hawkeyes on a mission during the finale, where they use their LARPing skills to evacuate civilians and knock out a few Tracksuit Mafia members. When they are seen speaking to the police at the scene afterwards, they explain that they are with Hawkeye, which means they are "basically Avengers".
- Bavarian Fire Drill: With their attempts to guide the panicked crowd fleeing the Christmas party to safety not having much success, Grills and his fellow LARPers change from their maître d' outfits to their LARPing costumes. The switch apparently succeeds in making them appear to be superheroes to the crowd, who then listen to their instructions.
- Black and Nerdy: A black firefighter who enjoys LARPing, geeks out over a cool ninja costume he found (read: stole), and is ecstatic to meet a real-life Avenger.
- Canon Character All Along: His name, or at least nickname, is only revealed when he and Clint bid farewell to each other. Although eagle-eared viewers can hear him say his nickname earlier in the scene where Clint sees he has the Ronin suit.
- Composite Character: He's a combination of two of Clint's neighbors from the comics; he has the same name and role as Grills, but is an African-American man like Deke
. - Emergency Services: While their preferred pastime renders them kind of goofy looking at first glance, Grills' LARPing guild consists exclusively of off-duty firefighters, police officers, and EMTs, and they quickly adapt to working with the Hawkeyes in a life or death situation.
- I Just Want to Be Special: He remarks that LARPing is the closest he'll ever come to being a real superhero like Clint and asks to kill him in a roleplay.
- In Name Only: Ultimately, Grills shares absolutely nothing with his comics counterpart apart from his name and association with Clint.
- Nice Guy: When Clint demands him to return the Ronin suit, Grills only asks for a small favor in exchange. Later episodes have him aiding Clint and Kate in their quest, even helping them to watch over Lucky.
- Race Lift: Grills is a black man here, while he was a white man in the Fraction comics.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the Fraction series, Grills was infamously killed by Kazi halfway through the story. Not only does Grills survive in the show, he actually gets to assist the Hawkeyes even during the final battle.
New York City Department of Correction
Northeastern Correctional Facility'
Dale Holiday
Dale Holiday
"Eat your protein, 46592!"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Brian Hutchison
Appearances: Jessica Jones
- "But one word from me, and visitation with that daughter of yours, it's over. Forever. So you gonna eat your protein or not?"
A sadistic corrections officer at the Northeastern Correctional Facility, assigned to guard Alisa Jones.
- Accidental Murder: Jessica accidentally kills him in self-defense with his own baton.
- Asshole Victim: He's an abusive murderer who enjoys torturing his victims. He doesn't treat his fellow guards well, either. None of them even try pretending to be sad when they learn of his death. It's also implied that the police aren't treating his investigation too seriously either.
- Canon Foreigner: There's no Dale Holiday in the comics.
- The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: After accidentally killing him, Jessica covers up her presence at the scene by staging his death to look like a suicide. This involves wiping all traces of herself from the apartment, typing a "suicide note" on his computer, and throwing his body off the roof.
- Creepy Souvenir: He keeps a piece of the prison uniform (specifically the part with the number on it) of the people he's killed.
- Hated by All: He evidently didn't treat his co-workers much nicer than he treated the inmates, since none of the other prison guards even pretend to feel sad over his death.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: He only ever addresses Alisa by her inmate number, to dehumanize her, as he later plans to kill her."You're gonna learn my rules, 46592."
- Kick the Dog: After Alisa defends herself against him, he has her strapped in superpower-proof restraints, tortures her with electric shocks and destroys several of her personal items, including a picture of her and Jessica.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He brutally murdered his prisoners and made all their deaths look like suicide. His fate is exactly the same as his victims after Jessica killed him out of self defense.
- Playing the Victim Card: As Holiday beats Jessica, he says he'll tell everyone she broke into her house to kill him.
- Serial Killer: He's killed four inmates in other prisons and staged their deaths to look like suicide. Then he collects their inmate numbers for trophies.
- Torture Technician: He really likes the shock torture on Alisa.
- Wardens Are Evil: He's in charge of guarding Jessica's mother and is a horribly sadistic piece of work. Later it turns out he has murdered several other inmates and kept their numbers as trophies!
- You Are Number 6: Alisa is nothing more than #46592 to him.
Marilyn Toussaint
Marilyn Toussaint
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Jennifer Fouché
Appearances: Jessica Jones
Holiday's replacement after his death.
- Replacement Goldfish: After Holiday's death, she takes his place in watching over Alisa Jones.
Rikers Island
Riggle
Riggle
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Steve Sanpietro
Appearances: Daredevil
The Warden at Rikers Island Correctional Facility at the time of Wilson Fisk's incarceration.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear how involved he's with Fisk or the reasons for turning a blind eye to Jasper Evans' release. After Nadeem reveals to Riggle he has evidence of Fisk's arranging Jasper Evans' shanking on him and his release, Riggle simply lawyers up.
- Dirty Cop: He's corrupt, though whether he's in Fisk's or anyone else's pockets is unclear.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His whereabouts after calling for a lawyer are unknown, meaning he may have cut a deal or had been quietly disposed of.
Roy Olsky
Roy Olsky
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Steve Sanpietro
Appearances: Daredevil
A corrupt corrections officer at Rikers Island Correctional Facility on Fisk's payroll.
- Dirty Cop: He's one of the many guards at Rikers that has been bought out by Fisk. He has become another of Fisk's goons, just in uniform.
- Mouth of Sauron: Fisk has him deliver a message to Frank prior to his testimony at trial in order to ensure Frank's conviction.
New York State Division of Parole
Betsy Beatty
Elizabeth "Betsy" Beatty
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Karina Casiano
Appearances: Daredevil
Melvin Potter's parole officer and secret girlfriend.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, she's a therapist and social worker.
- Alliterative Name: Two Bs
- Forbidden Love: As a parole officer she risks her career by being involved with Melvin.
- I Have Your Wife: While she's not being held captive, the threat of her death is how Fisk keeps Melvin in line.
- Love Interest: To Melvin Potter.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After Melvin is arrested by the FBI, she chews out Matt for not sticking up for Melvin and accuses him of using him the same way Fisk did.
New York State Department of Health
Birch Psychiatric Hospital
Dr. Paul Edmonds
Dr. Paul Edmonds
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Murray Bartlett
Appearances: Iron Fist
A psychiatrist working at Birch Psychiatric Hospital.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Subverted. He's aware of the existence of superpowers, aliens and the like. Yet, ever since the Incident there's also more mental patients claiming to possess superhuman abilities. This is why he doesn't believe Danny when he talks of having spent the last 15 years in Another Dimension being trained by warrior monks.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Once he confirms Danny is who he's claiming and not delusional, Edmonds says he'll release him. However, Danny makes him think he's got other delusions talking about being in Kun'Lun, which he says is a part of Heaven.
Simon
Simon
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: James Hindman
Appearances: Iron Fist
A patient at Birch Psychiatric Hospital.
- Mr. Exposition: Gives Danny the lay of the land.
Dink
Dink
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Michael Maize
Appearances: Iron Fist
A patient at Birch.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Danny defeats him in their first fight with one move. Despite Danny being in a straitjacket in the second fight, the end result is the same.
- Psycho for Hire: He's a literal psycho who tries to murder Danny at Ward Meachum's behest.
David Kawecki
David Kawecki
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Daniel Everidge
Appearances: Jessica Jones
A former janitor at IGH.
- The Fall Guy: He took the fall for Luanne McClure's death, which was actually the work of Jessica's mother.
- Idiot Savant: Despite his reduced IQ, he was very close with Dr. Karl Malus, and has encyclopedic knowledge of octopuses.
Metro-General Hospital
Claire Temple
See her folder
Shirley Benson
Shirley Benson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Suzanne H Smart
Appearances: Daredevil | Jessica Jones | Iron Fist
An administrator at Metro-General Hospital
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Played with. She sympathizes with Ben Urich's pushes to get Doris hands-on care, but points out all the bureaucratic red tape that has to be cut through.
- Thicker Than Water: When Claire and Colleen show up at the hospital with a crippled Radovan, Shirley has Radovan fast-tracked for surgery in spite of the less-than-amicable circumstances of Claire's departure from Metro-General.
Louisa Delgado
Louisa Delgado
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Marilyn Torres
Appearances: Daredevil
An nurse at Metro-General Hospital and a friend of Claire Temple
- Four Is Death: Appears in four episodes. Enough said.
- Sacrificial Lamb: After being established as a friend and of colleague of Claire's and appearing in four episodes, she's killed during the Hand attack on the hospital.
Dr. Christine Palmer
Dr. Christine Palmer
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Rachel McAdams
Voiced By: Edurne Keel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Isabel Valls (European Spanish dub), Élisabeth Ventura (European French dub), Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French dub)
Appearances: Doctor Strange | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
A fellow surgeon (and ex-girlfriend) to Stephen Strange who tethers him to his old life, even after he turns to mysticism.
- Amicable Exes: She's Stephen Strange's ex and they still maintain an amicable friendship. She even does her best to help him adjust to his life-altering injury, but a bitter Stephen rejects her help and insults her, something he comes to deeply regret. After some time in Kamar-Taj, he apologizes and they manage to resume their friendship, though Christine makes it clear that their romance won't resume. Strange reasserts that they're amicable exes when he attends her wedding in Multiverse of Madness.
- Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-838.
- Anywhere but Their Lips: When Stephen attempts to kiss her on the lips, she pointedly avoids it and kisses him on the cheek, instead, before he decides to leave for good.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her via an Astral Projection that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius' zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to Seen It All when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
- Composite Character: It was another of the Night Nurses, Linda Carter, who had a relationship with Strange.
- She may have also taken the role of Dr. Gina Atwater, who was Steven's love interest in the 2007 animated movie.
- Decomposite Character: She's one of the Night Nurses in the comics, but that role has more or less gone to Claire Temple in the MCU. Here, she's simply a surgeon.
- Demoted to Extra: In Multiverse of Madness she only appears briefly when Strange attends her wedding, with her variant from Earth-838 playing a bigger role in the story.
- Fantastically Indifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius' goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% done with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
- Hospital Hottie: You're gonna get this when Rachel McAdams is playing a doctor.
- Last Kiss: At the end of Doctor Strange, she kisses him on the cheek after Strange decides to leave for good.
- One-Steve Limit: The MCU's second Christine, after Christine Everhart.
- The One That Got Away: She and Strange used to date, but broke up, though it's heavily implied that Strange stills holds a torch for her, keeping a watch she'd gifted him even after it breaks and being left with tears in his eyes after Christine declines to rekindle their romance. She marries another man in Multiverse of Madness and Strange attends her wedding, telling her he only wants her to be happy.
- Satellite Love Interest: Only really exists story-wise in relation to Stephen.
- Wedding Episode: She marries another man at the beginning of Multiverse of Madness and Strange attends the wedding.
Dr. Nicodemus West
Dr. Nicodemus West
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Michael Stuhlbarg
Appearances: Doctor Strange | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
A surgeon who had a rivalry with Dr. Stephen Strange.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He has blond hair in the comics, but brown hair in the movie.
- Adaptational Heroism: He was a villain in the comics he appeared in, but here, he's just another well-intentioned doctor.
- Adaptational Wimp: The comics' version of West was another student of the Ancient One who also could hold his own in a fight. He's a normal civilian in the film.
- Armor-Piercing Question: In the sequel, he demands to know if there was any other way to stop Thanos than what happened with the Blip. Strange, still deeply shaken by his orchestration of Thanos' demise, is slow to respond in the positive.
- Beard of Sorrow: In Multiverse of Madness, he has a noticeable stubble and longer hair in contrast to having short hair and being clean-shaven in the first film. This is to reflect how bitter and depressed he's become after getting dusted out of existence and losing his brother and cats in the five years he was gone.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Implied, as he's still extremely bitter about having lost his brother and cats while he was snapped out of existence.
- Demoted to Extra: Compared to the source material: In the miniseries Doctor Strange: The Oath he is the main antagonist, in the movies he just has a couple of scenes where he isn't a villain but a rival chirurg of Strange.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Even though we know Strange made the right call given the astronomical odds against the heroes during their war with Thanos, West still subtly points out how cold it was that victory came at the cost of five years of the Blip and untold numbers of people who still perished or suffered during that time. And though he doesn't know it, we know that victory also came at the cost of Tony Stark's life.
- Kick the Dog: When Strange insists that things in the war with Thanos unfolded how they had to, West rubs it in that despite him saving the world, he still Did Not Get the Girl. He also blames him for the deaths of his cats and brother. The former could've been because they starved to death without him to care for them or simply because five years is long enough for an adult cat to grow old and die, but the latter's circumstances of death are not elaborated. Neither of which are Strange's fault.
- No Body Left Behind. He was a victim of the Snap.
- The Resenter: To Stephen Strange. While Nic had to deal with losing his brother and cats after getting blipped back to existence, Stephen became a renowned surgeon and superhero when he was blipped back, which he bitterly remarks.
- The Rival: So much so that Strange believes West is also the Romantic False Lead, which Christine says otherwise. The sequel shows both of them attending Christine's wedding, reaffirming he never was on the table romantically for her.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: By the sequel he's much more spiteful towards Strange, holding him responsible for the death of his brother and cats during the Blip.
- You Killed My Father: He blames Strange for the deaths of his brother and cats.
Jack Denton
Jack Denton
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Ben Kahre
Appearances: Jessica Jones
A former ambulance driver at Metro-General Hospital.
- A Fate Worse Than Death: Kilgrave makes him give up both his kidneys. He's only alive thanks to a dialysis machine procured for him by Dr. Kurata but still suffered a stroke that has left him unable to speak and barely able to move his hands.
- And I Must Scream: Not only must he live permanently hooked to a dialysis machine, the stroke he suffered has left him unable to speak and barely able to move.
- Death Seeker: He really wants to die, asking Jessica to kill him when she shows up asking about Kilgrave.
- Mind Rape: Kilgrave made him donate both of his kidneys.
David Kurata
David Kurata
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Thom Sesma
Appearances: Jessica Jones
A former transplant surgeon at Metro-General Hospital.
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: After Kilgrave made him do the kidney transplants, he spiraled downhill, and went from being one of the best transplant surgeons in the Tri-State Area to dissecting frogs with undergrad college students.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once he sees Jessica enter his classroom, he books it out of there before Jessica can give chase. He's also so afraid of Kilgrave finding him that upon giving Jessica information about the surgery Kilgrave made him perform, he immediately flees to India, where Kilgrave will be unable to find him.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only has one scene, but he gives Jessica the idea of using surgical anesthesia to knock out Kilgrave's powers.
Dr. Krista Dumont
Dr. Krista Dumont
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Floriana Lima
Appearances: The Punisher
A therapist at Metro-General assigned to treat the amnesiac Billy Russo.
- Abusive Parents: They cause some long-lasting trauma.
- Ax-Crazy: Slips into this by the end of Season 2.
- Canon Foreigner: She has no counterpart in the mainstream Marvel comics.
- Designated Girl Fight: With Madani at the end of Season 2.
- Destination Defenestration: Courtesy of her father and later Madani.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: In a very dark version of this trope.
- Freudian Excuse: Her earlier childhood traumas deeply harm her mental state, although they're hardly a true excuse.
- Insane Troll Logic: If you're not her or Billy Russo, you're in the wrong. Why? Because reasons.
- Lady Macbeth: Disturbingly encourages Russo in his ruthless behavior.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Inverted, she's already insane, but it's her feelings for Billy that cause her to eventually shed the Mask of Sanity.
- Made of Iron: Survives a long fall, twice.
- Mask of Sanity: Beneath her professional, empathetic persona, lies a traumatized woman whose early experiences have left her devoid of actual empathy except for those she regards as a kindred spirit.
- Not Quite Dead: She survives being thrown off a window by Madani.
- Offing the Offspring: Her father is a traumatized Vietnam veteran, who tried to kill her as part of his suicide in order to punish Krista's mother for trying to divorce him.
- Psycho Psychologist: Gradually revealed to be this.
- Sanity Slippage: She undergoes it throughout Season 2 as she falls deeper for Russo.
- Self-Harm: Has prominent self-harm scars on her forearms.
- The Sociopath: Let's just say she's well matched with Billy Russo. Krista has no empathy for the women murdered by Russo to trick Frank Castle into believing he's murdered them, dismissing them simply because she didn't know them.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Billy Russo.
- Walking Spoiler: All these tropes listed spoil her actions throughout Season 2.
