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== The Roommates ==
Meet the inhabitants of Britain's scariest houseshare.
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=== Anna Clare "Annie" Sawyer ===
[[File:AnnieBH_926.jpg|frame]]▼
{{quote|'''Mitchell''': ''Poltergeist.''
'''Annie''':''See, you know the terms, you know how this works. I mean, do you know if I can channel it? Because I have been dying to pull that fridge out and clean behind it.'' }}
▲[[File:AnnieBH_926.jpg|frame]]
* [[Adorkable]]: She can be just as squeaky and neurotic as George at times, when she's not delving into total Woobie status.
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{{quote|'''Pearl:''' We'll need to start using a new brand of tea. That stuff you make always looks very anaemic.
'''Annie:''' There is ''nothing'' wrong with my tea. }}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Annie is the sweetest person you could hope to meet, but she's something else whenever she gets angry.
* [[Combo-Platter Powers]]: She's easily the most powerful member of the main cast. Annie has telekinesis, teleportation, invisiblity to muggles, walking through walls, seeing auras, sensing and transmitting thoughts and feelings through physical contact, indestructibility unless she loses her connection to her house or loved ones, and the ability to destroy other ghosts. Ghosts also can hide others in the clothes they died in, making them invisible, and she can also share her memories with others so they may be able to see them, but they exist in her place in her own memories.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl]]: Annie is ''adorable'' in looks and personality.
* [[The Ditz]]: Occasionally.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Poor Annie has been through so much, being murdered, being sent to the afterlife and then being dragged back, watching the man she loved {{spoiler|go through a mental breakdown that saw him becoming little more than a monster}} having to {{spoiler|watch her three close friends die}}, having to protect baby Eve from danger and {{spoiler|having to ''kill'' baby Eve to save the world. It's only fitting that she was finally able to move on and get her happy ending.}}
* [[The Empath]]: In Season 2 she learned to feel tastes and sensations through physical contact.
* [[Fearless Undead]]: She often reminds others (and herself) that, being dead already, she has very little to fear from any physical danger. She can however be taken into the afterlife by other ghosts or mysterious otherworldly forces, and removing her emotional connections allows her to be disintegrated. She's come back from the latter once due to her friends coming back and sheer willpower, but Herrick suggests that burning down her house and killing her friends would destroy her permanently.
* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: Just one of her ghostly abilities.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: When Tully grabs Annie's arm she calls him {{spoiler|Owen and says he's hurting her}}.
* [[Ghost Amnesia]]: Annie is initially unclear on the circumstances of her death, this appears to be pretty common among Ghosts.
* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Annie's goals for staying in the realm of the living seem to change throughout the series. First she had to get revenge on {{spoiler|her murderer Owen}}, then she had to {{spoiler|kill Eve}}.
* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]: Annie's been stuck wearing the same outfit since she died, but how she wears it can change depending on her mood. Her floaty top will be wrapped up if she's feeling anxious, but will be open if she's feeling relaxed.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Most of the time Annie's a nice girl, if a bit panicky and neurotic. If you threaten her loved ones though, she'll tap into her rarely-used ghost powers to drag you into the afterlife or wipe you from existence.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Due to strong emotions she became a poltergeist, randomly moving objects around her. After power increases Annie gains controlled telekinetic abilities when she has enough motivation, throwing vampires around in season 1, and disarming another when Eve is threatened in season 4.
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* [[Not Afraid of You Anymore]]: to Owen. It doesn't work at first. Later it works very, very well.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: {{spoiler|To Eve}}.
** [[Mama Bear]]:
{{quote|'''Annie:''' Give me back my [[Precision F-Strike|FUCKING]] baby!}}
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Kill Eve and save the world or to protect Eve but let the Old Ones take over the world? {{spoiler|She kills Eve and the Old Ones, saving the world}}.
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'''Hal:''' Your mask. }}
* [[Taking You with Me]]: A kind of time-delayed variation {{spoiler|in the Series 2 finale after Kemp forces her through a door, she pops back out of one to drag him into the afterlife and save her friends when he tracks them down later}}
* [[The Heart]]: Serves as the heart of both trios.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Annie's part was recast after the pilot.
* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: {{spoiler|To Lia in the finale}}.
* [[Team Mom]]: Especially for {{spoiler|the second trio}}.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: She can't bring anything with her though.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trap Door]] {{spoiler|Literally.}}
* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]]: When Annie gets royally pissed, her eyes turn [[Icy Blue Eyes|ice blue.]]
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: Annie doesn't have any idea about who killed her at the start of the series. {{spoiler|The scene where she finds out is heartbreaking.}}
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Annie was abused {{spoiler|and killed}} by her ex partner Owen. She eventually gets her revenge.
* [[You Can See Me?]]: in the pilot, and once or twice since then.
=== Thomas McNair ===
[[File:TomBH_2128.jpg|frame]]▼
{{quote|'''Tom''': ''I ain't done nowt!''
'''Annie''': ''You haven't done anything!''
'''Tom''': ''Exactly!''
'''Annie''': ''No, Tom, I'm not agreeing with you. Your grammar is appalling.'' }}
▲[[File:TomBH_2128.jpg|frame]]
* [[Adorkable]]: He's basically a kid, bless him. It comes from the innocent way McNair brought him up.
* [[Adult Child]]: Though technically Tom is still in his teens.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Averted
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Gets promoted to the main cast in series 4.
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* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: He confesses this in the fourth season.
{{quote|'''Tom:''' I thought I was gonna do something normal. Finally be like everybody else.}}
* [[I See Dead People]]: Like most supernaturals, Tom can see ghosts.
* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: They're both werewolves {{spoiler|except they're not related }}
* [[Missing Mom]]: She was killed {{spoiler|1=along with Tom's biological father by McNair.}}
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* {{spoiler|1=[[Oblivious Adoption]]: was adopted by McNair after he killed Thomas's family while in wolf form}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|When he realizes he's going to transform in a nightclub}}.
* [[Painful Transformation]]: Transforming into a werewolf is clearly painful. Poor Tom.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Appropriately.
* [[Raised by Wolves]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|definitely]]
* [[Skilled but Naive]]: He's a great vampires slayer, but he's very innocent and easy to deceive.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Towards Nina. A mild example, but he does sneak into her house to leave her a present.
* [[Wolf Man]]: Is a werewolf.
* {{spoiler|1=[[You Killed My Father]]: Turns out his father figure McNair was the one who killed his family. Tom still considers him his dad though.}}
=== Henry "Hal" Yorke ===
{{quote|'''Hal''': ''I cannot sleep in a barn, or a tent or a caravan or anywhere without central heating, carpets and Radio 4, and that should be on my list.''}}▼
[[File:HalBH_4831.jpg|frame]]
▲{{quote|'''Hal''': ''I cannot sleep in a barn, or a tent or a caravan or anywhere without central heating, carpets and Radio 4, and that should be on my list.''}}
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* [[The Atoner]]: Is making up for a very bloody past. Other notorious vampires, such as Ivan, Wyndham and Hettie, are mentioned to have feared him.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Likes to read, and also happens to kick ass.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: In the apocalyptic future he's one of the cruelest Old Ones}}.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Like the other vampires, when he goes into full on 'vamp' mode.
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: After dreaming to kill Tom and Eve.
* [[Companion Cube]]: He often carries around a domino.
* [[Cultured Badass]]: In addition to reading poetry, he enjoys embroidery, origami, and playing the lute ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjmJOVBVV0&feature=relmfu "the coolest of all medieval stringed instruments"]).
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: He's been a vampire for centuries, and his past bloodlust is notorious.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Definitely.
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* [[Has Two Mommies|Had Six Mommies]]: He was born in a brothel and never known which of the six prostitutes was his biological mother. When they died, he mourned each one of them as if they were blood related.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Leo.
** Looks like he's becoming this way with Tom, too.
* [[I See Dead People]]: He's lived with a ghost for the past fifty years or so, and of course can see Annie.
* [[Manly Tears]]: When Leo dies, when Kirby threatens to reveal his bloody past etc.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Very much so.
* [[Nailed to the Wagon]]: Tom {{spoiler|with Alex at the end of series 4}} ties him to a chair to get him off blood again.
* [[No Social Skills]]: He's a vampire, he has OCD, he's been out of society for more than fifty years, he thinks relaxing would end with him killing someone... he's ''very'' awkward around people. His attempt at flirting was no better than Tom's.
* [[Off the Wagon]]: He enters half a decade of sobriety occasionally, then goes off the wagon and back to evil in a cycle.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: ''No one'' calls him Henry, always Hal.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Like the rest of the vampires in the series, but Hal also doesn't seem to shy away from sunlight or wear sunglasses to help with the glare.
* {{spoiler|[[Prophetic Fallacy]]: Despite having his arm burnt by Tom's blood, he's not her nemesis.}}
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Hal is actually over 500 years old and an Old One.
* [[Single Tear]]: After Kirby tries really hard to break him.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: While doing press ups.
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: When he confronts a journalist who falsely reported that the Box Tunnel Murderer was a cannibal, he works out that she couldn't have been bribed as her expensive clothes are at least a year old, so she didn't need money. Furthermore her eyes are red and her fingers are stained from smoking, but she didn't have a smoker's usual wrinkled upper lip, so she's suffering recent stress. Therefore he worked out she's being threatened into doing it.
* [[Stronger with Age]]: Hal is now so old crucifixes have no effect on him.
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* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* {{spoiler|[[The Chosen One]]: Apparently she's the War's Child, destined to destroy vampires. And she's also destined to destroy herself}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Cute Ghost Girl]]: Future-Eve}}.
* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|She travels back in time to save humanity}}
* {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]]: George died while saving her.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Muggle Born of Mages]]: Sort of. She's not a werewolf, but since she can see Annie, she's a supernatural creature too}}.
* [[No Name Given]]: Until the end of the first episode.
* {{spoiler|[[Prophecy Twist]]: Future-Eve's arm is burnt, marking her as her own nemesis.}}
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Future-Eve wants to prevent the war with the Old Ones}}.
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=== George Sands ===
{{quote|''My name's George, and I am a werewolf.''}}▼
[[File:GeorgeBH_3813.jpg|frame]]
▲{{quote|''My name's George, and I am a werewolf.''}}
* [[Adorkable]]
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* [[Hollywood Nerd]]
* [[Fantastic Religious Weirdness]]: George is still Jewish, but no longer very observant, as he feels that Judaism would frown on the whole turning-into-a-wolf thing.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
{{quote|'''George''': "Right, so we have a defrocked priest and a mad scientist. No, no alarm bells ringing so far."}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Justified. Being a werewolf here is largely a curse, and transforming is described as agony beyond words.
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* [[Improvised Weapon]]: it's always sort of pathetic though and just emphasizes his [[Non-Action Guy]] status
{{quote|'''George''': "Who wants some of my chair?"}}
* [[Informed Judaism]] In the pilot George mentioned he gave up on most Jewish practices when he became a werewolf, but his faith shows up now and again.
* [[I See Dead People]]: one of the side effects of being supernatural.
* [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: George absolutely loves this excuse.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: George sadly dies from multiple organ failure after [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|forcing a change despite it not being full moon]] just so that he could save his baby daughter.}}
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: People who are acquainted with both George and Mitchell but don't know them well tend to assume they're lovers. Mitchell, who's bi, laughs it off—but George, who is straight, is indignant. (His strong denials become even funnier when you take into account [[Reality Subtext|his actor is gay]].)
* [[Morality Chain]]: Tries to be one to Mitchell, not entirely successfully.
* [[Mysterious Animal Senses]]: All his senses get enhanced before and after a transformation, particularly his smell.
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* {{spoiler|[[Staking the Loved One]]: [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|When he stakes Mitchell.]]}}
* [[Super Loser]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tourettes Syndrome]]: When he sedates the wolf.
* [[Viral Transformation]]
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=== John Mitchell ===
{{quote|''When in Rome, stop... killing the other Romans.''}}▼
[[File:MitchellBH_316.jpg|frame]]
▲{{quote|''When in Rome, stop... killing the other Romans.''}}
* [[The Atoner]]: A [[Deconstructed Trope]].
* [[Bi the Way]]: Played completely straight. We are given passing mention to the fact that Mitchell likes men too, but absolutely no evidence of that interest.[[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|We are not happy]].
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: When he vamps up, his eyes become black.
* [[Byronic Hero]]: Mitchell has flaws, and they make him a well rounded character.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Lauren
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: Shows shades of this towards Annie when he was in his [[Jerkass]] phase during series three.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Oh ''my'', yes.
* [[Famed in Story]] / [[Memetic Badass]]: Mitchell is something of a legend among vampires, even getting his own creepy [[Fan Boy]] stalker. They tell stories about his murders, particularly Herrick.
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** [[Word of God]] says {{spoiler|he's dead for good. But then he said the same about Herrick after Series 1}}
** Very doubtful now that {{spoiler|George, Nina and Annie are all dead, and there's a new trio heading the show.}}
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Hardly anyone calls him John.
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Josie
* [[Off the Wagon]]: Poor Mitchell falls victim to this with his blood addiction, but he tends to hold up better than most.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Mitchell's part was recast after the pilot.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: immortality and everlasting youth, sure, but Mitchell and the other vampires can tolerate some sunlight, and they eat like regular humans.
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=== Nina Pickering ===
{{quote|''Saying "it's not you, it's me" is a stabbable offence in my book, and I can easily get my hands on scalpels.''}}▼
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▲{{quote|''Saying "it's not you, it's me" is a stabbable offence in my book, and I can easily get my hands on scalpels.''}}
Nina works at the hospital with Mitchell and George. She and George began dating during season 1.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to George's blue.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Nina has a terrible burn scar on her abdomen, inflicted on her deliberately.<ref>[[Word of God|According to actor Sinead Keenan]], speaking at Comic-Con 2010, it was done by a past lover--hinting at [[Horrible Judge of Character]] on Nina's part</ref> She doesn't like to talk about it. As of the end of season 1, she also has scars from claw-swipe from George.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Wolf Man|Wolfwoman]]
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=== Lee Tully ===
{{quote|''Admit it, you're a ''little'' impressed.''}}▼
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▲{{quote|''Admit it, you're a ''little'' impressed.''}}
The first werewolf George meets after he gets infected. {{spoiler|Later revealed to the werewolf that infected him.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: appears that way at first}}
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]
* {{spoiler|[[Back
* {{spoiler|[[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Even with his memories gone, he still manipulates the household.}}
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Comes with being a vampires.
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Born in the mid-19th century. The scriptwriters have some fun with this in season 3, where Herrick speaks with decidedly [[Victorian Britain|Victorian]] cadences.
* {{spoiler|[[Resurrection Sickness]]: He's amnesiac and a bit senile to begin with.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Rise
* {{spoiler|[[Secret Art]]: Resurrection, something that Mitchell desperately wants until Mitchell decides he doesn't want it any more and stakes him}}.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: Tries to do this with George in their fight in the finale
* {{spoiler|[[Talkative Loon]]: After his revival in series 3 }}.
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* [[Domestic Abuser]]
* [[Evil Feels Good]]
* [[Go Mad
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
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{{quote|''I'm just one step away from wiping out an entire branch of Argos.''}}
An old vampire, vaguely acquainted with Mitchell in the "bad old days". Supremely bored, smugly superior, and willing to cause whatever chaos he likes, just to sit back and watch it all.
* [[Avenging the Villain]]: Half-heartedly he really doesn't care about Herrick and is just interested in meeting George
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]
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=== Kirby ===
A ghost from the 1970s, he says he's been sent {{spoiler|by Nina}} to help Annie with Eve. Actually, he's there to kill the baby.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[Disco Dan]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LZ7z-VBycc#809189D2-7517-4af1-BAF0-1A36C3BB8640&numResults=0&command=%20m_objCurrentDocument.getElementById%28%27veohrecs_fr%27%29.style.height%20%3D%20%27107px%27%3B%20m_objCurrentDocument.getElementById%28%27Veoh_SpaceDiv%27%29.style.height%20%3D%20%2712px%27%3B%20m_objCurrentDocument.getElementById%28%27VeohCompass.LoadingDiv%27%29.style.height%20%3D%20%270px%27%3B%20m_objCurrentDocument.getElementById%28%27VeohCompass.LoadingDiv%27%29.style.display%20%3D%20%27none%27%3B Hilariuos and somewhat disturbing at the same time].
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* [[Wolf Man|Wolfwoman]]
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