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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== Spirits ==

=== Bartimaeus ===
One of the series' main protagonists. His chapters are always written in first person. Bartimaeus is a fourth (or fourteenth) level and ancient djinn, summoned in the trilogy by Nathaniel.

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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Gump]]: He often talks about past historical events he had a hand in.
* [[Jackass Genie]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Literal Genie]]
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]
* [[Noble Demon|Noble Djinni]]
* {{spoiler|[[Restored My Faith in Humanity]]: When Kitty proves her trust by coming over to the other side, he chooses to help them stop the spirit rebellion even though it would be incredibly dangerous.}}
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: However, he is quite competent so it's not an irritating example.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Grows into this with Johnathan. Well, sort of.

=== Faquarl ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Faquarl include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Right before Nathaniel and Bartimaeus kill him, Faquarl implies that he envies the bond Bartimaeus has with Nathaniel.}}
* [[Chef of Iron]]: He is inexplicably fond of taking the form of a meat-cleaver wielding chef
* [[The Dragon]]: To Simon Lovelace, and later {{spoiler|to Quentin Makepeace and Nouda.}}
** [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: {{spoiler|Faquarl may be weaker than Nouda, but Faquarl is the one who does most of the plotting for the spirit rebellion.}}
* [[Evil Chef]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Bartimaeus. The author even describes the relationship between the two as the friendship gone horribly wrong and that many similarities they share only magnify the enmity between them.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: {{spoiler|He plays every other villain in the series like a fiddle.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}
* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|By stealing magician's body and starting a violent spirit revolt, he becomes the very thing he resents.}}
* [[The Rival]]: To Bartimaeus.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|He has one when he confronts Nathaniel and Bartimaeus, who are mind-linked together, and realizes that neither of them has any dominance over another.}}
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: None of his forms are desribed as having white hair, but he has the personality down pat.

=== Jabor ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[The Brute]]
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Described as "moronically strong to the point of indestructable".
* [[No Indoor Voice]]
* [[One-Man Army|One Djinn Army]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]

=== Simpkin ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Happiness in Slavery]]

=== Honorius ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Honorius include:}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Until Kitty's gang came along, he was sealed inside Gladstone's body, permanently unable to return to the other side where spirits come from.}} It did not help his state of mind.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Cool Mask]]
* [[Dem Bones]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Well, Psycopathic Afrit-child.

=== Ammet ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ammet include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Romance]]}}
* [[Living Shadow]]
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]
* [[Not So Different]]: One wonders what Bartimaeus thought of Ammet {{spoiler|once he met Ptolemy.}}

=== Nouda ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

== Humans ==

=== Nathaniel/John Mandrake ===
One of the series' main protagonist. At the start of the series, he is an ambitious and talented magician-in-training.

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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
* [[Character Development]]: {{spoiler|Goes from [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] to [[Anti-Villain]] [[Knight Templar]] to finally [[The Messiah]].}}
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Although no one gave him any attention for it, even his own master.
* [[Good All Along]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[Improbable Age]]
* [[Kid with the Leash]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: As a child, once the other children recognized him as an apprentice magician.
* [[Magicians Apprentice]]: Deconstructed. All his mentors are [[Fair Weather Mentor|perfectly happy to discard him]] to save their own careers.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: While his biological parents are only mentioned very briefly at the beginning of the series, they did give up their child for money.
* [[Teen Genius]]
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Until certain events embittered him to the world.  {{spoiler|Like Ms. Lutyens getting sacked and Mrs. Underwood's death.}}
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Kind of with Bartimaeus. Despite their constant bickering, he does grow to respect and rely on him a lot.

=== Kitty Jones ===
One of the series' main protagonists. She is a commoner who later joins the [[La Résistance|the Resistance]] to fight the injustices of the magicians.

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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Anti-Magic]]
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Foe Yay]]: With Nathaniel.
* [[The Power of Trust]]: {{spoiler|It's her trust in Bartimaeus that ultimately proves to be pivotal in stopping the spirit rebellion in the last book.}}
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Appears briefly in the first book, is roughly co-protagonist in the second book, and is definitely the dominant protagonist in the last book.

=== Simon Lovelace ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Nathaniel.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|He is destroyed by the very spirit he summoned to destroy all his opposition in the government.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: What he did to Nathaniel.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: After Nathaniel steals the amulet he loses his cool and after Bartimaeus gets the horn he just completely loses it.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]

=== The Mercenary ===
A.k.a. {{spoiler|Verroq}}

'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Mercenary include:}}
* [[Anti-Magic]]
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass Beard]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: His name is only mentioned once in the last book. Other than that, he's just known as "The Mercenary".
* [[Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer]]
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]

=== Quentin Makepeace ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Complete Monster]]
* [[Karmic Death]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: (Yes, he actually pulls both off.)
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|To Faquarl}}

=== Ptolemy ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ptolemy include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Bartimaeus.
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[Morality Pet]]: to Bartimaeus.
* [[Restored My Faith in Humanity]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
* [[Technical Pacifist]]
* [[Younger Than They Look]]:  {{spoiler|Once he gets back from the Other Place, anyway.}}

=== Asmira ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Asmira include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: A ridiculously loyal member of it, {{spoiler|until the last third of The Ring of Solomon, anyway...}}
* [[Expy]]: Of Kitty in several ways.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: almost every action Asmira takes is so she can be more like her mother.

=== Khaba the Cruel ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[The Starscream]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Romance]] or [[Ho Yay]], with Ammet.}} It's not made very clear.

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