Eureka/Characters

This character sheet is for the people who live in the town of Eureka.

Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson)
Jack Carter is a U.S. Marshal who reluctantly ends up as Sheriff of Eureka. Jack is consistently dumbfounded by the wonders Eureka produces, as well as its propensity to produce things that often threaten the entire town, if not the world. Despite being a man of average intelligence in a town full of geniuses, Jack's admittedly simplistic ideas and ability to make intuitive connections between seemingly disparate events often save the day. (This is in contrast to the other residents of Eureka, who, being stereotypical scientists, tend to over-complicate things and get lost in meantime).

"Stark: Yes he said invisibling."
 * Berserk Button: Threatening to harm Zoe or Allison, or anybody else he's close to will usually elicit this response.
 * Big Brother Instinct: Towards Fargo, believe it or not. When things get their worst for the him, Jack is always there to help the little guy.
 * Big Damn Heroes: He does it a lot, being a former U.S. Marshal helps.
 * The Call Knows Where You Live
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome
 * Despair Event Horizon: When Grant started to mess up the timeline "again".
 * Determinator: Oh so much.
 * Hidden Depths
 * Leeroy Jenkins: What most if not all the townsfolk thought of him when he first took the job.
 * Made of Iron: Nothing, and I mean nothing is enough to keep him down for long.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Papa Wolf: Do not mess with Jack's daughter; he takes it very personally.
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Henry.
 * Plot Armor: Lampshaded by Andy, who notes that the odds of survival are better when Jack's around.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jack is red, usually against Allison or Henry's blue.
 * Unlucky Everydude: In a town full of geniuses, he often thinks of himself as this. Stark never really helped in that regard.


 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Allison,.

Zoe Carter (Jordan Hinson)
Jack's rebellious teenage daughter. Unlike her father, she is intelligent enough to keep up with the town's residents (her IQ is 157), yet like her father, possesses the street smarts most of the town's residents do not. She longs to be a medical doctor, and with the help of Henry's recommendation letter, receives an early acceptance to Harvard's medical program. She dates Lucas but in the altered timeline, they broke up when Lucas moved to Geneva, and she is now showing interest in Zane. She is also a bit more mature and responsible after her time at Harvard.


 * Non-Action Girl: Though she can be an Action Girl when she tries. She most likely gets it from her father's side of the family.
 * Badass: Again, she gets it from her dad.
 * Bratty Teenage Daughter
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Military Brat: More like Marshal brat or... you get the idea.
 * Never My Fault: Said that a lot in the first few seasons, usually after she messed up badly.
 * Non Action Snarker: Man does she love to snark.
 * Perky Goth: Had this style for the first two seasons.
 * Reformed Criminal
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: And always ends up with a teenaged crazy, go figure.

Dr. Henry Deacon (Joe Morton)
Henry is the town's jack-of-all-trades. Although, like most residents of Eureka, he is a brilliant multidisciplined scientist, Henry has ethical objections to the kind of research conducted at Global Dynamics, preferring employment as the town's mechanic. Henry's assistance is often invaluable in defusing the situations the experiments in town create. During Season 3, he was elected mayor as a write-in candidate. Following the change in timeline in season 4, he is suddenly married and is trying to keep the timeline shift a secret. Late into the 4th season, he confides in his "wife" after he realizes he is beginning to fall in love with her.


 * Absent-Minded Professor
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * The Conscience: Always used to say that science should only be used for furthering mankind's understanding of the universe.
 * Danger Deadpan
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Happily Married: To Grace.
 * Non-Action Guy: Though he graduates to a full on action-guy quite a bit early on.
 * Science Hero
 * Techno Babble: But he's good at translating for Jack's sake.
 * Science Hero
 * Techno Babble: But he's good at translating for Jack's sake.

Allison Blake (Salli Richardson-Whitfield)
Allison is a Department of Defense agent who acts as the liaison between Eureka and the Federal Government, and later becomes the director of Global Dynamics. She is always at the forefront of any dilemma that might arise. Although she works for the Do D, she has two Ph Ds and an MD. Allison is also raising her son Kevin, an autistic youth whose father died when he was still a baby, and Jenna, the daughter she conceived with Nathan shortly before. After the change in the timeline, Kevin is no longer autistic and she never became director of GD; she is, instead, head of GD's medical science division.


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Jack. It's even a plot point that's pointed out by EVERYONE.
 * The Chick
 * Not So Above It All: She really seems to enjoy participating in Baseball games when she gets the chance.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Team Mom: Especially to Zoe.
 * Tsundere: Type B. She is unflappably courteous and kind to everyone she meets... except Nathan.

"Jo" Lupo (Erica Cerra)
A tough, no-nonsense cop with a love of firearms. After a brief fling with Taggart, she later develops a relationship with Zane. Zane proposes to her in the Season 4 premiere, but before she can answer him, time is altered to where the two of them never dated, and in fact cannot stand each other. In the new timeline, she is Head of Security at Global Dynamics, her role as deputy taken by the android Deputy Andy.


 * Badass Adorable: Easily the most awesome in a fight and completely willing to hurt people.
 * Badass Normal
 * Berserk Button: Just about anything can get Jo mad, and don't you dare call her by her full name...
 * Brainy Brunette: Behind her Badass attitude is just another genius.
 * Determinator
 * Hot Amazon: Fargo, Zane and Taggart seem to think so.
 * Lady of War: And a very scary lady of war she is at that.
 * Love At First Sight: Well, at least infatuation at first sight.
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: It's not easy for a Badass lady like her to find a boyfriend.
 * When She Smiles: It makes you want to smile with her.
 * Wrench Wench: Not a mechanic but, she knows how to assemble and disassemble her weapons in a snap.

Dr. Douglas Fargo (Neil Grayston)
A junior scientist who's always been treated dismissively by his peers. Accident prone, he more often than not ends up a victim of the disasters befalling the town. He has also caused a fair share of the problems. Neil Grayston also provides the voice of S.A.R.A.H. (Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat), the bunker home Jack and Zoe live in. In the alternate timeline, he is head of GD, and not well liked by the staff because of his alternate's imposing and intimidating manner. He has difficulty in this new role as his alternate was a domineering egomaniac, an act he has trouble pulling off. Even so, the job has begun to transform him into a more decisive and capable leader as the weight of responsibility has forced him to stand up to other GD employees, the Department of Defense, and military generals.


 * Action Survivor: A classic example.
 * Adorkable
 * Badass Bookworm: What he becomes when he really puts his mind to it.
 * Bumbling Sidekick: To Stark originaly, though he is getting a little better.
 * Butt Monkey: His face should be on the tropes page.
 * Clueless Chick Magnet: He's actually had many a pretty little lady after him.
 * Fish Out of Water: Everywhere he goes.
 * Naive Newcomer: Newcomer, no. Naive, YES!
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Who isn't in this show, other than Stark?
 * The Smart Guy: But that's to be expected.
 * Sharp Dressed Man: He wears a suit like Stark's in the new timeline.
 * Undying Loyalty: To Stark. This is one of the most notable things about him, which is strange considering the fact that Stark's always been a jerk towards him.
 * What Does This Button Do?: Frequently. His GD personnel file contains the phrase 'inappropriately pushed button' 37 times.

Dr. Nathan Stark (Ed Quinn)
One of Eureka's top scientists. He and Jack are frequently at odds, though both respect each other. He is formerly married to Allison, and they rekindled their relationship in the second season. They were supposed to get remarried in the third season, but he dematerializes while saving the world from a time paradox on the day of their wedding, an event that apparently still occurred in Season 4's alternate timeline.


 * Berserk Button: Do not go near Allison.
 * Big Brother Worship: From Fargo.
 * Covert Pervert
 * For Science!: That's his justification for some of the things he does and what he allows some of the other scientists to get away with.
 * Gone Horribly Right: His research into the Artifact.
 * Mad Scientist: And unlike just about all the others scientists in Eureka, not in a very nice way.
 * Meaningful Name: He's named after Tony Stark of all people.
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: Though not really evil, just morally ambiguous... really really ambiguous.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: His blue to Jack's red.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Took a Level In Kindness: As shocking as it may sound.
 * Took a Level In Kindness: As shocking as it may sound.

Zane Donovan (Niall Matter)
A rebellious genius, recruited in the second season as an alternative to imprisonment after being arrested for fraud (allegedly causing the New York Stock Exchange to crash). He also develops a relationship with Jo Lupo shortly after his arrival in Eureka. However, this relationship is erased with the change in timeline. He is back to being a perpetual prankster and a low-level nemesis of Jo, though he shows signs of improving because of the trust she puts in him.


 * The Atoner: He's started to think of his new job in Eureka as a chance for this.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Former felon, that kinda says it all.
 * Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Though not evil at all, just an ass.
 * Heel Face Turn -
 * Hidden Depths: He actually can be sensitive once in a while.
 * Reformed Criminal
 * Technical Pacifist: He is a jerk yes, but he doesn't like to actually hurt anybody.

Dr. Jim Taggart (Matt Frewer)
Taggart is a somewhat eccentric animal expert. He also does work in geophysics.


 * Badass: The most badass dogcatcher I have ever seen.
 * BFG: All non-lethal of course, but still... he has quite a few.
 * The Big Guy
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Even the other townsfolk of Eureka think he's weird, what's that tell you?
 * The Cuckoolander Was Right: Most of the time his theories are to bizarre to be true, other times...
 * Insistent Terminology: Taggart is not the town's dogcatcher. He is a Biological Containment Specialist.
 * Cunning Hat: He sports a few of these.
 * Genius Bruiser: While not refined he is just as well educated as anybody else in Eureka, which means he's a genius of course. He's also an impressive judge of character, and a cunning tracker.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Maybe.

Dr. Holly Martin (Felicia Day)
Holly is a computer science expert and Fargo's love interest in Seasons 4 and 5.


 * Adorkable: Double whammy, as the character is adorkable, as is the actress who plays her, the geek goddess Felicia Day.
 * Brain Uploading: As part of the 'matrix' plotline she is uploaded along with the rest of the crew.
 * Geeky Turn On: Is this for Fargo.
 * Geeky Turn On: Is this for Fargo.

Vincent (Chris Gauthier)
The owner of Cafe Diem, a local restaurant. Vincent's restaurant has no menus as he is able to make anything that a customer orders. He is another one of Eureka's resident geniuses, having a doctorate in molecular gastronomy.


 * Bigger On the Inside: Vincent's pantry, which is what allows him to cook so many different dishes.
 * No Name Given: His last name is never revealed.
 * Supreme Chef

Dr. Beverly Barlowe (Debrah Farentino)
Beverly was the town psychiatrist. She secretly works for a mysterious organization known as "the Consortium", which has expressed a desire to exploit Eureka's innovations by whatever means necessary. A primary villain in Seasons 1 and 2, she is absent for all of season 3 but returns in the Season 4 Episode "Stoned" and meets with Dr. Trevor Grant in a clandestine meeting where she reveals her connection to him and his secret plans in 1947, thereby luring him into cooperating with her and her organization. She escapes capture when her plot is foiled.


 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Evil Redhead
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * Femme Fatale
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Shadow Archetype: Easily construable as Allison's Foil and opposite.
 * Shadow Archetype: Easily construable as Allison's Foil and opposite.

The Consortium
Primary villains in Eureka. An organization, out to prevent "things mankind is not yet ready to use" from being misused. Of course they are the ones who get to decide who uses what, and to what end. The Consortium has existed for a very long time. Almost nothing is known about them, except for the fanaticism to their purpose.


 * Affably Evil
 * Bigger Bad
 * Genre Savvy
 * Kick the Dog: Kills plenty of people when it's not necessary to their mission, including Mrs. Perkins and.
 * Knight Templar/Well-Intentioned Extremist: They claim to be well intentioned, but let's ask ourselves what would have happened if someone else had gotten ahold of Einstein and "The Bomb"?
 * Necessarily Evil: Yeah right!
 * No Name Given
 * The Unfettered
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: The reason for their existence in the first place; or so they say.
 * Would Hit a Girl: Or poison one or blow one up... you get the idea.