Coronation Street/Characters

The character sheet for Coronation Street. Be warned though, as a Long Runner, the cast is voluminous. Only current characters have full character sheets since doing one for the hundreds that have existed in the shows history would probably be a life long project. Characters not currently appearing on the show have their own section with brief descriptions at the bottom of the page.

Steve McDonald

 * Butt Monkey: Nothing ever goes right for him
 * Extreme Doormat: With his current wife Becky.

Becky McDonald (neé Granger)

 * Arch Enemy: Tracy Barlow
 * Hair-Trigger Temper her general reaction to any sort of bad news is to get drunk and smash up whatevers nearest
 * Jerkass: When she first turned up, now a Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Mama Bear: Though neither of the children she has with Steve are actually hers (Max being her sister's son, and Amy being Steve's daughter with Tracy Barlow).
 * Ms. Fanservice: Particularly in her reaction to being angry at Steve, which is to dress in revealing clothing, then go out, get drunk and get attention from men at other bars.

Betty Williams

 * Deadpan Snarker: her dry commentary has been a Rovers staple for over fourty years now
 * Supreme Chef: the reason she has remained a steadfast employee for as long as she has, her Hotpot is one of the reasons the place is so popular.

Ken Barlow

 * Arch Enemy: Mike Baldwin, for literally decades, until his death a few years ago.
 * Cultural Rebel: Ken was the first in his family to attend University and has always aspired to somewhat more intellectual than his neighbors and family.
 * Long Runner: Worth noting, as he is the only remaining original cast member, from the first episode (from 1960!), and has never left the show at any point.
 * Politically-Motivated Teacher: an ardent socialist he enjoyed sharing his views with a captive audience or just anyone really
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?:has had moments of this with all of his adult children. While somewhat justified (like when Tracy killed her boyfriend), his treating Peter(who is basically a well meaning chronic screw-up) and Lawrence(who had just met a few weeks ago!!) like this is an example of his frustration with his working class existence
 * Your Cheating Heart: Frequently his last affair was only a year ago and he has never been faithful to any of his wives. Although his most frequent wife Deirdre is not that much better having had several affairs herself.

Deirdre Barlow

 * Extreme Doormat: For Tracy.
 * Fan Nickname: The Weatherfield One.
 * My Master, Right or Wrong: Continues to put Tracy on a pedastal, however horrible her crimes.
 * No Sympathy: Unless your name happens to be Tracy Barlow.
 * Peter Barlow can also illicit sympathy from her even when set the house on fire, unless hes "putting it about" then he's "just like his dad"

Tracy Barlow

 * Consummate Liar
 * Flanderization: Upon her return in 2002, she was more of a simple Jerkass with moments of sympathy, but for a time after her return in 2010, she had degraded into almost a cartoonish Card-Carrying Villain. She's returned to simple Jerkass behaviour currently.
 * Jerkass
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Smug Snake
 * Spoiled Brat: Even as an adult.

Amy Barlow

 * Who's Your Daddy? initially thought to be the daughter of Roy Cropper. Tracy kept her true paternity to herself until she felt it was appropriate, the middle of Steve Macdonald's wedding to Karen

Audrey Roberts

 * Cool Old Lady
 * Rags to Riches

Maria Connor

 * Arch Enemy with Leanne although they seemed to have made up recently
 * The Ditz sweet but dim that's our Maria (she's arguably a Brainless Beauty too.)
 * Extreme Doormat perhaps why her relationship with Nick lasted as long as it did

Kirk Sutherland

 * Dumb Is Good: he is a very kind soul whatever else you can say about him
 * Friend to All Living Things: has said more than once he understands dogs better than people
 * Too Dumb to Live: he's lucky the residents of the street are kind(particularly his ex Fizz and sister Maria) or he would have starved years ago

Liam Connor

 * Dead Guy, Junior: as said above he was named for his dead father
 * Someone to Remember Him By: Maria found out she was pregnant the same day his father also Liam Connor died

Emily Bishop

 * Granny Classic: acts as this to most of the street despite never having children herself

Norris Cole

 * The Chew Toy
 * Gossipy Hens: Rare male version.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * The Short Guy with Glasses
 * Ted Baxter

Mary Taylor (note, actually lives in a motorhome on the street)

 * Abhorrent Admirer: Norris certainly views her as this
 * Big Eater: Much to Norris' annoyance, has an absent minded habit of endlessly eating the sweets in the Kabin while working.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Of the highest order
 * Large Ham
 * Single-Target Sexuality: Towards Norris.
 * Ted Baxter: Like Norris, appears to have a much higher opinion of her talents and skills than other people

Kevin Webster

 * Jerkass: to some since the affair, to others he's simply Strangled by the Red String
 * Miles Gloriosus: Considering that he only ever starts fights with harmless characters.
 * Mr. Fixit
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: During his recent affair with his best friend's wife which produced a son, Jack. Most considered the plot rushed and out of character and a textbook case of Romantic Plot Tumor.

Sally Webster

 * Rich Bitch: often seen as this by the other factory girls. To be fair though, she is very snobbish and big-headed.
 * Ted Baxter

Rosie Webster

 * Attention Whore
 * Blue Eyes: Other characters have them too, but Rosie's stand out the most.
 * Brainless Beauty
 * Buxom Is Better: She certainly thinks so.
 * Fille Fatale
 * Genki Girl
 * It's All About Me
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: Yes, two of them in the family.
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Ted Baxter

Sophie Webster

 * Attention Whore: As a result of the attention her sister gets over her.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Sulks everytime her girlfriend Sian so much a talks to anyone else.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: And how!
 * Spoiled Brat
 * The Unfavorite

Fiona "Fiz" Stape (Nee Brown)

 * The Fashionista
 * Genki Girl
 * Plucky Girl

John Stape

 * Black Comedy: His accidental descent into worse and worse crimes is played for dark laughs
 * Butt Monkey
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Started out with an affair with a student, later went to kidnapping, identity theft, fraud and finally murder. All completely unintentional and bumbling.
 * Not-So-Harmless Villain: Bumbling as he may be, he still committed murder with a hammer.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Chesney Battersby-Brown

 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Jerkass

Anna Windass

 * Apron Matron
 * Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal

Devander "Dev" Alahan

 * Asian Store Owner
 * Kavorka Man: before his marriage to Sunita any way
 * Large Ham: Due to his often lack of an indoor voice and...unusual speech patterns.
 * Ted Baxter

Sunita Alahan

 * Naive Everygirl

Aadi and Asha Alahan

 * Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born

Gail Potter/Tilsley/Platt/Hillman/Macintyre

 * Arch Enemy: Eileen Grimshaw
 * Extreme Doormat: Her last husband was drug addict who stole from her repeatedly and drowned while trying to fake his own death, but she loved him anyway.
 * My Beloved Smother: her boys never do anything wrong despite being two of the shows main antagonists for the past few years
 * Parental Obliviousness

Nick Tilsley

 * Momma's Boy: recently turned 30 still lives at home and spends most of his time hanging out with his mom
 * Smug Snake

David Platt

 * Attention Whore his main reason for doing anything
 * Jerkass: Spent many years as this, now wavers between it and Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Momma's Boy: Despite once shoving her down the stairs he's the first person to run to her when there's trouble
 * Smug Snake
 * The Sociopath: Was played this way for several years, but has disappeared over time as he's apparently "mellowed out".
 * The Unfavorite: compared to high achiever Nick and teenage mother Sarah he never got much attention and he never fails to remind his mother of that.
 * Troll: Possibly the only way to really describe his character, he simply likes getting a rise out of people, or stirring up trouble for other people.

Kylie Platt

 * Attention Whore the main reason she and husband David are a match made in hell.
 * The Chessmaster: As much so as The Seventh Doctor was.
 * Jerkass
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl: a dark version.
 * Parental Incest part of her backstory, its even implied the her son Max was also her fathers child.
 * Raised by Wolves: just see the above.

Tyrone Dobbs

 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Dumb Is Good
 * Mr. Fixit
 * The Woobie

Tommy Duckworth

 * The Charmer

Carla Connor

 * Defrosting Ice Queen: has gone through various levels of frostiness over the past few years.
 * Expy: Well, technically, she's not an expy, but Bree from Desperate Housewives is an expy of Carla!
 * Rich Bitch: particularly in her initial appearances but thankfully has several hidden depths
 * Self Made Woman originally grew up on a Council Estate
 * Spiritual Successor: As a ruthless charming Cockney who came from nothing Carla bears a certain resemblance to Mike Baldwin the factory's previous owner.

Julie Carp

 * Cloudcuckoolander: At times.
 * Genki Girl: she's cheery almost to a fault
 * Odd Friendship: with her serious cynical older sister Eileen

Rita Sullivan

 * Cool Old Lady: she frequently acts as a mentor to many a troubled young woman.
 * Fiery Redhead: Though, not a natural redhead, much to her embarassment.
 * Straight Man: To Norris' blustering Ted Baxter

Eileen Grimshaw

 * Arch Enemy: Gail Platt, for a number of years now, though it's cooled more recently as they has less to do with each other
 * Butt Monkey: even by soap standards Eileen has a hard life.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Mama Bear: God help you if you hurt one of her boys
 * Stoic Woobie: refused to cry in public even at her fathers funeral occasionally slides into Jerkass when she expresses affection through yelling

Jason Grimshaw

 * Brainless Beauty
 * Dumb Muscle most of the time, although Jason often shows flashes of insight that suggest hes more lazy than truly unintelligent
 * The Unfavorite to his smarter more sensitive brother Todd

Sean Tully

 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Camp Gay: to the point where he runs into Unfortunate Implications
 * The Scrappy

Lloyd Mullaney

 * Expy: Many consider him an Expy of Craig Charles' other best known character, Dave Lister
 * Token Minority one of the streets first black regulars TPTB seemed to struggle with what to do with him other than have him date the shows only other black character. Although more recently he has developed into storylines of his own
 * Vitriolic Best Buds with Steve who he co-own the local cab firm with

Cheryl Gray

 * Domestic Abuse: from her ex-husband Chris
 * Single Mom Stripper: initially but now works at Nick Tilsleys bar
 * Ted Baxter: like to think a lot of herself and her son Russ

Izzie Armstrong

 * Disabled Snarker
 * Ill Girl: as child and the reason her father is so overprotective
 * Overprotective Dad her father Owen moved onto the street to stalk, I mean watch over her

Gary Windass

 * Delinquents: In his early appearances.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: Though only away for a few months, he came back considerably disturbed after an enemy attack left a friend of his dead.

Tina Macintyre

 * Daddy's Girl
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Ms. Fanservice

Graeme Proctor

 * Cloudcuckoolander: has a unique way with people and way of seeing the world
 * Pyromaniac: Graeme loves a good fire
 * Raised by Wolves: the reason for his uniqueness

Xin Proctor

 * Citizenship Marriage: to Graeme

Peter Barlow

 * The Alcoholic: noteworthy on a show where most consume twice the British average amounts for alcohol and practically live in the pub. Peter is the only actual dry drunk, though by some measures most of the cast qualifies as functional alchoholics
 * Children Raise You
 * I Am Not My Father: comparisons to dad Ken are something of a Berserk Button
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Parental Abandonment: the main reason his relationship is strained is because his father shipped him and his twin sister of to their Scottish grandparents at the age of six following the death of their mother. To be fair though it was how it was done in those days
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: circa 2003 he was "the most hated man in Britain" but one recovery from alcoholism and amazingly cute child later his injury was a central part of the fiftieth anniversary special

Leanne Barlow (nee Battersby)

 * Good Bad Girl: originally although she has settled down recently shes still is a tough cookie
 * High-Class Call Girl: was one for a few months, although the rest of the street will probably never let her forget it
 * Tsundere

Simon Barlow

 * Innocent Prodigy

Roy Cropper

 * Ambiguous Disorder: Roy has a lot of quirks and can be just downright odd at times.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: he might be a bit odd but he makes a bloody good full english breakfast
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Regarded as one in-universe, though he doesn't fully deserve the reputation.
 * Friend to All Living Things: he was the first see the freindly neighborhood Serial Killer for what he was, when said serial killer destroyed a nest of bats.

Hayley Cropper

 * Liz Lemon Job: her title of supervisor at the factory often amounts to this managing the Greek Chorus of Deadpan Snarker's and Cloudcuckoolander's is quite a challenge.
 * Only Sane Woman: frequently when husband Roy gets carried away with his eccentricities, or at Underworld where she is the supervisor.
 * Plucky Girl in a street full of them Hayley is a standout although still a bit too practical to be a Pollyanna

Sylvia Cropper

 * Jerkass
 * Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!

Mike Baldwin(played by Johnny Briggs)

 * Owned the factory over the road(among other things), for most of its existence starting as Balwin's casuals and then after it became Underworld. Mike was a tenacious self made man who got where he had by hard work and a lot of charm, not that he ever let anyone forget it. Mike always liked Deirdre and that turned into an affair in 1983 unfortunately Deirdre decided to stay married to Ken. Ken would never forgive Mike for the affair although Mike and Deirdre would remain friends until his death. A few years later Mike would marry Ken's daughter Susan(at least partly to piss of Ken on both their parts) but his sexism(she wanted to work he wanted a housewife) would cost him the relationship Susan left him after telling him she aborted his baby. A few years later he would meet Alma Sedgewick arguably the love of his life who he then dumped for a young blond tart. This would be a pattern for them and they would break up and get back together several times for much the same reason. In 2001 Peter Barlow revealed that Susan had lied and had actually had a son with Mike named Adam. Mike rivalry with Ken flared up again when Susan died and the two men fought for custody of Adam. As he was getting older Mike decided to bring in a partner his nephew Danny Baldwin. It was revealed that Danny was actually Mike's son, however they never got much time together as Mike developed Alzhiemer's disease. Mike died outside the factory in the arms of Ken Barlow of a heart attack on the seventh of April 2006.

Adam Barlow(played by Iain de Caestecker, Sam Robertson)

 * son of Susan and Mike Baldwin he lived with Grandad Ken for a while after leaving school. Last heard to be in Spain.

Daniel Barlow (played by Lewis Harney)

 * youngest son of Ken Barlow currently lives with his mother. Mostly mentioned when Peter wants to make Ken feel guilty

Susan Barlow (played by Katie Heanneau, Wendy Jane Walker, Suzy Patterson, Joanna Foster)

 * Ken oldest daughter and Peter's twin sister she famously married Mike Baldwin and had his son. Died in a car crash trying to run away from a custody fight with Mike. Mostly mentioned when Ken wants to manipulate Peter.

Valerie Barlow (played by Anne Reid)

 * Ken's long suffering first wife and mother of Susan and Peter. She kept house and home together while Ken was busy being involved in politics and getting involved with other women. Was the street first hairdresser and ran her own shop out of number 9. Died when faulty wiring on her hair dryer electrocuted her and started a fire in her home.