The Character sheet of Sliders Reborn. BEWARE UNMARKED SPOILERS!!!
The Sliders
Quinn Mallory
Q-Ball
The inventor of sliding on Earth-Prime. Now in his mid-40s he's using his sliding technology to improve the world in whatever way he can.- The Atoner: For screwing up the multiverse.
- Guile Hero: He uses his wits to solve his problems.
- Instead of fighting the scavengers on the "Teslanium poisoned" Earth in order to save that Earth's Maggie Beckett, he instead realizes that they're after the water bottles Maggie was smuggling and rolls them downhill forcing the scavengers to leave her alone.
- His plan to stop Alt-Quinn is essentially a hodgepodge of three different contingency plans made entirely on the fly. And it works... mostly.
- The Hero: Just as in the main series.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Quinn undoes the Kromagg invasion of Earth and saves the rest of the Sliders but in the process of hitting the Reset Button the resulting Cosmic Retcon not only RetGones the Kromaggs but also Alt-Quinn's homeworld, setting the events of the story in motion. To make matters worse the new multiverse consists of Earths virtually identical to ours before the point of divergence (March 22, 1995) resulting in parallel worlds whose history will eventually result in their destruction.
- Sherlock Scan: Quinn determines that a parallel Earth is suffering from global dimming by looking around a coffee shop.
Wade Welles
Ms. Welles
A former Slider and now a guidance counselor. She aids Quinn and the rest of the Sliders in saving the multiverse.- Character Development: Wade, in the Pilot, thought Quinn's basement was amazing; 20 years later, she finds his unchanged living quarters childish.
- Deadpan Snarker: Relates past events of the original series with blithe indifference and reacts to numerous events of the current story with grim acceptance.
- Does Not Like Guns: She throws away the gun that Rembrandt swiped in the "Doomsday clock cult" Earth just on the off chance that Laurel got her hands on it.
- The Heart: She initially fails miserably at being this when she fails to help Laurel. However she does have compassion for her regardless.
- The Lancer
- Liar Revealed: Wade tells the Professor that she loves his novels, only to be forced to admit that she never read any of them and only read the reviews.
- Mundane Wish: At the end of Part 2, Rembrandt and the Professor grumble to Quinn that they had plans for the evening that didn't involve sliding; Rembrandt was going to a jazz concert and the Professor was going to watch Jeopardy. Wade was going to iron her socks.
- Not So Above It All: Declares violence to be unacceptable, yet physically intimidates the Professor at two different points and says she wants to kill Quinn-2.
- Punch-Clock Hero: Wade protests having to deal with troubled-teen Laurel outside of work as a school guidance counselor.
- Really Gets Around: It's noted that Wade had love affairs with a robot and a psychic and both were named Derek/Deric.
Professor Maximilian Arturo
Pompous Professor
A former Slider and Professor of Cosmology, he's now a moderately successful sci-fi novelist whose books are fictionalizations of the series' plot. He joins the rest of the Sliders in saving the multiverse.- It's All About Me: When the Professor encounters a room full of artifacts from the Sliders previous adventures, he declares that the display room is "devoted entirely to me" even though the other three Sliders shared the same adventures and had even more than him.
- The Smart Guy
- Strange Minds Think Alike: He knows exactly what Quinn is trying to do to stop Hall's plan before he can even explain it.
Rembrandt Brown
The Cryin' Man
A former R&B singer and Slider, he's now an acclaimed sound designer for a video game company. He reluctantly rejoins the Sliders once he sees firsthand the consequences of doing nothing.- Action Survivor: Comes in handy when he's hired as a sound engineer for an FPS game.
- Always Save the Girl: He doesn't succeed in saving Maggie the first time, but he succeeds the second time around and his actions do help the Sliders later on.
- Embarrassing Old Photo: Maggie is aghast at a 1995 photo of Rembrandt with an afro.
- The Big Guy: He is the most physically capable fighter of the team. It becomes especially apparent when saves Maggie in the "Doomsady Clock cult" Earth.
- Improvised Training / Taught by Experience / You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In "Reunion," Rembrandt is fearful and terrified; in "Revelation," he gets his act together when he sees people in danger and rushes to defend them. A superspy Action Girl, Maggie Beckett, reads Rembrandt's demeanor and bearing and determines that he is a fellow spy with extensive experience in combat and undercover work. This is completely true except he developed this experience from five years of sliding.
- Mundane Solution: Maggie wants to break into a guarded building guns-ablazing, Rembrandt has them go in disguised as air-conditioning repair workers.
- Refusal of the Call: He initially had no desire to help the Sliders but when his house was destroyed by an over-sized unstable vortex he realizes what the stakes are.
Laurel Hills
Teen Hellraiser
A teenage delinquent whose perceptions of reality are turned-upside down by her constant shifting between worlds. She joins the Sliders after they agree to help her as well as save the multiverse.- The Alcoholic: See the Break the Cutie entry below for details.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She has her moments of (somewhat justified) jerkassery but for the most part she's relatively polite.
- Break the Cutie: Imagine if you will, being a 15-year old average joe that lives an average teenage life. Then imagine that you go home from school one day and your family doesn't recognize you and thinks you're that junkie that keeps pestering them, then imagine that the history homework you did was wrong because history as you knew it changed without warning. Then imagine that it kept happening, again, and again for months, so much so that you had to resort to drugs and alcohol just to make the pain go away. Welcome to the life of Laurel Hills.
- The Heart: She is the Naïve Newcomer to the group and manages to see through Quinn's lies and fake smiles.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Laurel's Establishing Character Moment is getting drunk because she's constantly shifting between different worlds and as such her perception of what's real and what's not goes completely out of whack. And later she says that it's not the first time she resorted to alcohol to make herself feel better.
- Little Miss Badass: She manages to take down three of the "Teslanium poisoned" Earth scavengers on her own.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Harshly deconstructed. It's not very fun when time keeps shifting over and over again.
Supporting Characters
Maggie Beckett ("Teslanium poisoned" Earth)
Survivor
A former member of Jameson Hall's criminal organization on her Earth, she attempts to flee San Francisco using a van of water as leverage to get herself the necessary supplies that she needs.- Action Girl: She can take on Razor and win.
- Action Survivor: As a consequence of living in a world with very little drinkable water.
- Heel–Face Turn: Used to be one of Hall's agents before she decided to run.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Her motivation for betraying Hall.
Maggie Beckett ("Doomsday clock cult" Earth)
Secret Agent Woman
- Cuttingthe Cord: Rembrandt attempts to break into a display case that Maggie shoots through.
- Rogue Agent: Maggie's investigation of the doomsday clocks has made her a federal fugitive.
- Violenceisthe Only Option: Most of Maggie's plans involve gunfire and accepting that she or her associate will die. Impeded twice by Rembrandt.
Antagonists
Jameson Hall / Quinn Mallory
The Big Bad of the story. He's the double of Quinn Mallory from the Pilot and attempts to destroy the unstable multiverse created by Quinn in order to create a better version of it.- Batman Gambit: He knew that Quinn wouldn't resist investigating the neutrino signal, especially when his daughter Laurel was connected to it.
- Big Bad: As of Part 4.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Even as he has Quinn at his mercy he still doesn't kill him as he needs Quinn's knowledge of Oberon Geiger's equations in order to properly merge the multiverse and recreate it.
- Evil Counterpart: To Quinn as it's implied that he's behind the dystopian Parallel Universes that the Sliders visit in Part 3, especially when its revealed that he's Quinn's double and is confirmed that he really did (albeit unwittingly) create those dystopias.
- Face–Heel Turn: He went from being a Slider to an (admittedly well intentioned) Omnicidal Maniac.
- The Ghost: Almost none of his followers have seen him in person and the handful who do have only seen him a couple of times.
- Jerkass: He's the very definition of an Insufferable Genius. Rude, egotistical, arrogant and short-sighted. Then again he's been at least a little bit smug since before he gave Quinn the solution to his Sliding equations.
- His attitude towards Laurel is nothing short of cruel and horrific, especially since he's a double of her father.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His jerkass actions from 20 years ago (i.e. the Pilot) torpedo his last chance to persuade the Sliders to go along with his plans.
- A Million Is a Statistic: He treats the deaths of everyone in the entire multiverse as insignificant if it means then next one will be better.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Is behind the signal that is slowly destroying the multiverse.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: It's implied that he's at least partially motivated by the erasure of his homeworld and wife as a result of Quinn's actions.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He sneers at Quinn's insistence that he can find a way to save the multiverse just because he's reunited with his friends.Hall: Do you really think a dying multiverse is going to be saved by a high school guidance counselor, a trauma victim and the lowest-rated lecturer at Berkeley?Arturo: Fourth lowest!
- Walking Spoiler: He's The Ghost throughout most of Part 3 but once he shows up in person he instantly becomes this trope.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His plan is to collapse the damaged multiverse that Quinn created, into a singularity which would in turn trigger a big bang-style event and recreate the multiverse properly this time.
Razor
Jameson Hall's Dragon in the "Teslanium poisoned" Earth.- Ax-Crazy: For him violence is the only solution.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: He refuses to be saved by the Sliders from the flood after he's infected with Teslanium on the grounds that he's already dead. Making this more of a "better to die fast, than to die slowly" situation.
- You Have Failed Me: He fears this trope as Hall considers him very expendable and Klingon Promotion appears to be the standard method of advancement in Hall's ranks on this Earth.
Conrad Bennish Jr. ("Doomsday clock cult" Earth)
A parallel counterpart of Quinn's old college classmate. He acts as Jameson Hall's Dragon in the "Doomsday clock cult" Earth.- The Dragon: To Hall. Although he's really nothing more than a middle management man.
- Harmless Villain: If it wasn't for the fact that he's got killer robots on his side he wouldn't have posed any sort of challenge to Maggie and Rembrandt.
- Manchild: Is just as immature now as he was 20 years ago.
Parasite
A parasitic tentacle creature the Quinn defeats at the start of part 2.- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It's never made clear as to what it is or where it came from, unless you've watched the Season 3 episode "The Breeder".
- Starter Villain: Given that Part 1 is essentially a prologue, it's defeat at the start of Part 2 is more or less this trope.
Constable Simms
A law enforcement officer from a world where digital technology has been restricted to governmental and military use.- Hero Antagonist: Normally he'd be a good guy but when he mistook Quinn for a terrorist from his world he tried his best to capture him and refused to listen to Quinn's protests that he's after the wrong guy.
Oberon Geiger
A scientist from a world of psychics whose ill-conceived Sliding experiments left him unstuck. His attempts to save himself unwittingly result in the events of this story.- Go Mad from the Revelation: He has gone insane and thinks he's Quinn Mallory.
- Greater-Scope Villain: An unwitting example. See Unwitting Instigator of Doom.
- Tomato in the Mirror: He doesn't take the revelation of being Geiger well.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His experiments not only corrupt the multiverse but inspire the Kromaggs to destroy it. Quinn's attempt to undo the Kromaggs' plan results in a dying multiverse, which is in turn being slowly destroyed by Alt-Quinn.
- Walking Spoiler: If the spoiler tags didn't make it clear.
