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Michiko
Michiko Tagomi
Played By: Yukari Komatsu
Tagomi's wife. She's alive in an alternate reality in which the Allies won the war.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted. She's dead in Tagomi's native "Axis victory" reality, but alive in the alternate "Allied victory" reality.
Nori
Noriyuke Tagomi
Played By: Eddie Shin
Tagomi's son. He's alive in an alternate reality in which the Allies won the war… and married to Juliana Crain.
- Eagleland: Proudly declares himself an American citizen to his father.
- Happily Married: With Juliana in the alternate timelinel
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted. He's dead in Tagomi's native "Axis victory" reality, but alive in the alternate "Allied victory" reality.
- War Is Hell: Just like his wife, both protest America's involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Alternate Juliana
Juliana Tagomi
An alternate version of Juliana Crain, married to Tagomi's son. Here she is seen leading a protest against atomic bombs, during the Cuba missile crisis.- Happily Married: With Noriyuke in the alternate timeline.
- Lighter and Softer: Compared to her main series counterpart. While the Juliana in the Axis victory timeline is a Broken Bird due to living in a Crapsack World and killed several people out of necessity, this Juliana is happily married and has a child.
- War Is Hell: She is an activist protesting America's involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Alternate Tagomi
Alternate Nobusuke Tagomi
An alternate version of Tagomi. It is implied he was disgruntled by the victory the Americans had over the Japanese Empire in his timeline. Therefore, he took out this frustration on his family, estranging them from him. The Tagomi from the series' timeline temporarily takes his place though his dimension traveling.- The Alcoholic: Appears to drink pretty heavily and when he does this things get rather unpleasant (see Domestic Abuse below)
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Implied. Juliana tells the original timeline version of Tagomi that she was worried he'd died after he disappeared into the fog one night and didn't return for months. His death is confirmed when we learn that it's only possible for Prime-Tagomi to travel to this dimension if his counterpart is dead.
- Despair Event Horizon: He is either close to it or already passed it. He never got over the loss his country suffered against the Americans, while his son married the American Juliana Crain and is embracing the American culture more and more, distancing himself from his Japanese heritage. As a result, Nobusuke became a violent and unpleasant man, to the point where his wife wants to divorce him. It is implied he tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge.
- Domestic Abuse: Seeing as his wife wants to divorce him and his son does not let him near his grandson, this Tagomi doesn't seem like a nice guy to his family.
- Grumpy Old Man: Because his country lost World War II and his son is forsaking the Japanese traditions he values, his disposition is not a very bright one.
Fatima
Fatima Hassan
Played By: Dianne Greenwood
A woman kept and experimented on in a Reich laboratory by Dr. Mengele, after being captured and identified as a Dimensional Traveler from an alternate reality.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Kept in an induced coma, Hassan is awake for only a moment and speaks a single word before vanishing right in front of Mengele and Obergruppenführer Smith, escaping to another reality.
Alternate John Smith
John Smith
Played By: Rufus Sewell
John Smith in an alternate reality where the US still exists. He is first seen in Season 3 through film reels the main John Smith is watching. He and alt-Thomas help Juliana after she ends up in the middle of the road in their world at the beginning of Season 4, and she becomes a friend of the family.
- Foil: Very much one to "Prime" Smith. This John is a hard-working, but nonetheless happy, Nice Guy. Instead of being ruthlessly ambitious, this John found out during the war that he was good at making callous decisions that cost lives, but hated himself for it and left the Army for a modest civilian career after the war so that he would never have to do such things again. He's also very outwardly affectionate towards his wife, empathetic with others, and dreads the prospect of Thomas enlisting with the Vietnam War escalating. And if Thomas's reaction to the racist incident in the diner is any indication, he also supports the Civil Rights Movement.
- Happily Married: With Helen. His marriage hasn't broken down in the alternate timeline. He and Helen still act like high school sweethearts, in sharp contrast to the prim and stiff-as-a-board relationship of the Nazi Smiths.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Has no idea that Juliana comes from another dimension, although he does figure out she's not telling the whole truth (he did a background check that showed she was apparently lying about her identity, since in his world Juliana Crain died in the car crash with her parents).
- Nice Guy: John Smith the insurance salesman is an all-around great guy, cheerful and friendly with everyone.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He yanks Juliana's attacker off of her and gets stabbed for his trouble. His Nazi assassin then hides the body and evidence of Alt-Smith's murder, allowing Prime-Smith to travel to that alternate timeline and inadvertently repeat the process of breaking apart this version of his happy family.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Like Prime-Smith, he is a WWII-vet with issues relating to his family, but this time it's about his time fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. Juliana suggests having him open up to Thomas about his experiences to help give his son a clearer picture of the brutality of war and a chance to reconsider signing up for the Marines.
Alternate Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith
Played By: Quinn Lord
Thomas Smith in an alternate reality where the US still exists. He is first seen in Season 3 through film reels the main John Smith is watching. He and alt-John help Juliana after she ends up in the middle of the road in their world at the beginning of Season 4, and she becomes a friend of the family.
- The All-American Boy: Arguably the better example of the trope compared to his Nazi-influenced counterpart. He is the same kind kid who subscribes to the patriotism of the 1960s-era America, to the point where he had intentions to voluntarily join the Marines after hearing about the Gulf of Tonkin incident
. - Jumped at the Call: A dark variant of the trope. Prime-Smith's suddenly-cynical attitude as well as his untactful and overprotective attempts to keep Thomas from volunteering for the Marines alienate Thomas instead and he ends up signing up anyway. Knowing how the Vietnam War will turn out, Thomas is going to be in for a rough time, even if he survives.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Although he notices a sudden change in John's behavior, he has no idea that his real father was murdered (which was Prime-John's fault) and that this John, or his friend Juliana, is a traveler from another dimension. Presumably he and alt-Helen are in for a great deal of grief and confusion once John has been missing too long for one of his business trips to account for it.
- Nice Guy: Even more so than Nazi!Thomas; he wanted to intervene in the diner racism incident, had it not been for Prime-Smith masquerading as his real father forbidding it. Thomas is clearly uncomfortable with how it turned out.
- Replacement Goldfish: Prime-John visits this reality to spend time with Thomas, but fails to convince him to not join the Marines. He intends to kidnap this version of Thomas and take him to the Axis universe as a replacement for his dead son. The series ends before this could happen.
Alternate Joe Blake
Joe Blake
Played By: Luke Kleintank
Joe Blake is seen in two of the Grasshopper films, as well as one of Juliana's visions. It is unclear if both films show the same universe, or if they are of two different realities in which he is an SS officer.
- Hero Killer: Executes Frank Frink and other survivors in the nuked-out ruins of San Francisco.
- Suicide Pact: Has one with his universe's version of Juliana. Joe is assigned to the Nebenswelt program, with Juliana as one of the prisoners used as test subjects. They are apparently having an affair, and when Mengele orders him to send Juliana through, he instead shoots her and then himself.
