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== FBI ==

[[File:166px-Cooper_001a_2271.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: [[Kyle Mac Lachlan]]}}

* [[Agent Cooper]]: Co-[[Trope Namer]]

* [[Badass]]

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: With Windom Earle

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: {{spoiler|Which he does in the process of saving Audrey, so a bit more understandable.}}

=== Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole ===

{{quote|Played by: [[David Lynch]]}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Even when compared with [[Agent Cooper]] himself.

{{quote|COOP, TODAY YOU REMIND ME OF A SMALL, MEXICAN CHIHUAHUA!}}

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: AGENT GORDON COLE IS ALMOST DEAF. THIS CAN LEAD TO FUNNY SITUATIONS WHEN HE NEEDS TO SPEAK PRIVATELY. PERHAPS THAT'S WHY HE'S SO ABSTRUSE.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

=== Diane (Cooper's secretary) ===

* [[The Ghost]]

=== Former Special Agent Windom Earle ===

[[File:250px-Windom_Earle_7662.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Kenneth Welsh}}

* [[Arch Enemy]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: With Cooper.

* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]}}: In the series finale. {{spoiler|And it's [[Double Subverted]]. He tries to steal Cooper's soul -- then BOB steals Earle's for breaking the rules of the Black Lodge. ''Then'' Cooper's soul is trapped in the Lodge anyway.}}

=== Agent Albert Rosenfield ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Miguel Ferrer]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Actual Pacifist]]}}: He became an FBI Medical Examiner to {{spoiler|fight against violence in a way that would never make him have to use violence}}. His deep commitment to {{spoiler|pacifism}} results in {{spoiler|a warming in his relationship with Sheriff Truman}}. Spoilered because it's quite a twist when it finally appears.

* [[Agent Scully]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]/[[Sixth Ranger]]

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: After his {{spoiler|[[Actual Pacifist|pacifism]]}} was revealed.

=== Agent Dennis "Denise" Bryson ===

{{quote|Played by: [[David Duchovny]]}}

* [[Camp Straight]]: Don't let the cross-dressing fool you. He likes the ladies.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder]] him or herself.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]

 

== Police ==

=== Sheriff Harry S. Truman ===

[[File:Truman_001a_6050.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Michael Ontkean}}

* [[Agent Scully]]: Though at first he seems to be set up for this, Sheriff Truman deeply respects Agent Cooper. However, when evidence seems to point at {{spoiler|Ben Horne}} Truman expresses exasperation with Cooper's eccentricity, {{spoiler|in this case Cooper was right}}.

* [[Badass]]

* [[The Sheriff]]

* [[The Watson]]

=== Deputy Andy Brennan ===

[[File:218px-Andy_3739.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Harry Goaz}}

* [[The Big Guy]]: Shared with Hawk.

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Simpleton Voice]]

* [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: Is he the father of Lucy Moran's child? {{spoiler|We don't find out, but Lucy decides that, since Brennan would make a better father than Dick Tremayne, she will marry him}}.

=== Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill ===

[[File:232px-Hawk_001_282.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Michael Horse}}

* [[Badass]]: No kidding...

** [[Badass Long Hair]]

* [[Number Two]]: Most of the series has him as back up to Sheriff Truman.

* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]

=== Lucy Moran ===

{{quote|Played by: Kimmy Robertson}}

* [[Adult Child]]: Her voice.

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Usually not very sassy, but all the other stereotypical secretary traits (nasal, watches soap operas).

 

== Twin Peaks Townsfolk ==

=== The Briggses ===

==== Major Garland Briggs ====

[[File:Garland-Portal_3003.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: [[Don S Davis|Don S. Davis]]}}

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: What more can you say about a man who's greatest fear is the "possibility that love is not enough"?

* [[Spock Speak]]: One of the causes of the distance between himself and his son.

==== Robert "Bobby" Briggs ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Dana Ashbrook]]}}

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as {{spoiler|next to her he was both weak and innocent.}}

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Bobby is about 17 or 18 years old. Dana Ashbrook was in his mid-20s when he played the character.

* [[Tweener]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

=== The Haywards ===

==== Donna Hayward ====

[[File:233px-Donna_001_4363.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] (TV show), Moira Kelly (''Fire Walk With Me'')}}

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Girl]]

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

==== Eileen Hayward ====

{{quote|Played by: Mary Jo Deschanel}}

* [[Cut Short]]: We'll never know all the details of {{spoiler|her relationship with Ben Horne}}. [[Seasonal Rot|Even though they're pretty obvious]].

* [[Hot Mom]]: What else would you expect from the mother of [[Zooey Deschanel]]?

==== Gersten Hayward ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Alicia Witt]]}}

* [[Bifauxnen]]

* [[Closing Credits]]: She gets to interrupt [[Instrumental Theme Tune|Falling]] to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.

==== William "Doc" Hayward ====

{{quote|Played by: Warren Frost}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[The Coroner]]

* [[Real Life Relative]]: Will's actor, Warren Frost, is the father of series co-director Mark Frost.

* [[The Stoic]]

=== The Hornes ===

==== Audrey Horne ====

[[File:166px-Audrey_009a_8271.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: [[Sherilyn Fenn]]}}

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.

* [[Beauty Mark]]: Next to her left eye.

* [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl]]

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: {{spoiler|Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season}}.

==== Benjamin "Ben" Horne ====

[[File:224px-Twin_peaks_36_2797.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Richard Beymer}}

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Donna, I Am Your Father]]}}: Revealed at the end of the series.

* [[Villain Decay]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when {{spoiler|he loses One-Eyed Jack's}}.

==== Jerry Horne ====

{{quote|Played by: [[David Patrick Kelly]]}}

Ben Horne's sleazy brother. He actually doesn't have too big of a role in the show, but he occasionally helps Ben with his schemes.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

=== The Hurleys ===

==== "Big" Ed Hurley ====

{{quote|Played by: Everett McGill}}

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: His voice in the Japanese dub is provided by none other than [[Norio Wakamoto]]. [[The Quiet One|DEFINITELY]] [[Playing Against Type]]!

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[The Quiet One]]

==== James Hurley ====

{{quote|Played by: James Marshall}}

Biker teen who lives with Ed and Nadine instead of his parents, who, he tells people, died in a car accident.

* [[Cool Bike]]

* [[The Danza]]

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]

* [[Troubled but Cute]]

==== Nadine Hurley ====

{{quote|Played by: Wendy Robie}}

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.}}

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Super Strength]]

=== Dr. Lawrence Jacoby ===

{{quote|Played by: Russ Tamblyn}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Cool Shades]]: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Played Luke Sanderson in the original 1963 version of ''[[The Haunting]]''.

* [[Making a Spectacle of Yourself]]

=== The Jenningses ===

==== Hank Jennings ====

{{quote|Played by: Chris Mulkey}}

* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: His domino key-chain.

* [[The Dragon]]: To several villains throughout the series.

* [[Obviously Evil]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

==== Norma Jennings ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Peggy Lipton]]}}

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn.

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: She ''is'' played by Peggy Lipton after all.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, Its That Girl]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Blonde, and Bishoujo]]

=== The Johnsons ===

==== Leo Johnson ====

{{quote|Played by: Eric Da Re}}

* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]: Well ... sort of. He is aggressive and does sell drugs to high school kids, but they seek him out to buy them.

* [[Badass Long Hair]]

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: Releases Major Briggs from captivity so he can warn Shelly. Windom Earle leaves him in a situation he's highly unlikely to have survived.}}

* [[Villain Decay]]: Leo has the bad luck of being the absolute middle man. Terrifying to the teenagers who are dabbling, easily manipulated by the real powers in [[Twin Peaks]].

==== Shelly Johnson ====

{{quote|Played by: Mädchen Amick}}

* [[Author Appeal]] : She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in.

{{quote|'''Gordon Cole''' : YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT. [to Shelly] Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]

* [[The Woobie]]

=== Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman ===

[[File:210px-Log_Lady_6578.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Catherine E. Coulson}}

 

She was with Laura 5 days before her murder.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Hoo boy...

* [[Companion Cube]]: Her log.

* [[Mad Oracle]]

* [[Non Sequitur]]: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."

=== The Martells ===

==== Catherine Martell ====

[[File:CatherineMartell_276.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Piper Laurie}}

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Even in this town, she stands out as a deft manipulator.

* {{spoiler|[[Sweet Polly Oliver]]}}: {{spoiler|When she poses as Mr. Tojamura}}.

==== Pete Martell ====

[[File:Pete_Martell_561.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Jack Nance}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Chess]]: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Eraserhead|Henry Spencer]] himself.

* [[Nice Guy]]

=== The Milfords ===

==== Mayor Dwayne Milford ====

{{quote|Played by: John Boylan}}

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

=== Dougie Milford ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Tony Jay]]}}

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Played by the late [[Tony Jay]].

* [[Out with a Bang]]

==== Lana Budding Milford ====

{{quote|Played by: Robyn Lively}}

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Considering how Coop, Truman, Andy, and Hawk react when around her...

* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Whether you find her attractive or not, it's ''very'' difficult to say in all honesty that she's as attractive as ''every male in Twin Peaks'' finds her.

=== Mike Nelson ===

{{quote|Played by: Gary Hershberger}}

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]

* [[Likes Older Women]]: {{spoiler|Eventually falls for Nadine in the second season}}.

* [[Name's the Same]]: No, his name doesn't have anything to do with the guy from [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]].

=== The Packards ===

==== Andrew Packard ====

{{quote|Played by: Dan O'Herlihy}}

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]}}

* [[Posthumous Character]] {{spoiler|or not.}}

==== Josie Packard ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Joan Chen]]}}

* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]

* [[Dragon Lady]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Josie was originally going to be an Italian woman whose real name was Giovanna. She was also going to played by Isabella Rossellini, who at one point dated [[David Lynch]].

* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]}}: Later in the second season, {{spoiler|BOB apparently steals and [[Fate Worse Than Death|traps her soul]] [[And I Must Scream|in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern]] [[Mind Screw|or something like that]]}}.

=== The Palmers ===

==== Laura Palmer ====

{{quote|Played by: Sheryl Lee}}

* [[Acting for Two]]

* [[Brown Note]] / [[Interface Screw]]: The cause and effect of her attack as an enemy in the fan made Atari-esque game 'Black Lodge'

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]

* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Ending each episode with a still picture of her dressed as a prom queen was ''surely'' meant to evoke this.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Type A.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: Sheryl Lee played both Laura ''and'' her cousin Madeline.

==== Leland Palmer ====

[[File:250px-Leland_Palmer_4702.jpg|frame]]

 

{{spoiler|Soon after the trial, he brutally murders his niece Maddie Ferguson (who bears a strong resemblance to Laura) the day before she is supposed return to her hometown, Missoula. The police find out about the murder and, with help from the Giant, Cooper reveals that Leland is Laura's killer. When Leland is taken in for interrogation, BOB assumes full control over his body and forces him to commit suicide just before leaving it. Leland tells of his tragic childhood and the murders he committed and, with Cooper's help, dies peacefully while seeing a vision of his daughter.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dying as Yourself]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Parental Incest]]}}

* [[Wangst]]: Done intentionally in Season 1.

==== Sarah Palmer ====

{{quote|Played by: Grace Zabriskie}}

* [[Big No]]

* [[Hysterical Woman]]

* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]

* [[The Scream]]

=== Harold Smith ===

[[File:Harold-Portal_3073.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Lenny Von Dohlen}}

Harold Smith is an orchid grower a close friend of Laura Palmer, who she met through working for the Meals-on-Wheels program. Harold is agoraphobic (meaning he has a fear of open spaces), which is why he [[Hikikomori|never leaves his home]]. Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that {{spoiler|Laura gave him her diary before her murder. When Harold finds out that Donna is trying to steal the diary, he [[Freak-Out|goes crazy]] and [[Driven to Suicide|kills himself]], leaving a suicide note which reads ""J'ai une âme solitaire." (French for "I am a lonely soul."). Cooper and the Twin Peaks police then read the diary to help find the identity of Laura's killer.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Freak-Out]]}}: Gets hit with this HARD when {{spoiler|he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary}}.

* [[Hikikomori]]: Due to having agoraphobia.

* [[Pretty Boy]]

=== Dick Tremayne ===

{{quote|Played by: Ian Buchanan}}

Dick Tremayne runs the clothing department at Horne's Department Store and was in an on-and-off relationship with Lucy Moran.

* [[British Stuffiness]]: A goofier version of this trope.

* [[The Dandy]]

* [[Upper Class Twit]]

 

== Outsiders ==

=== Annie Blackburn ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Heather Graham]]}}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Betty to Audrey's Veronica.

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Girl]]: Played by a young [[Heather Graham]].

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]

=== Blacky O'Reilly ===

{{quote|Played by: Victoria Catlin}}

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]

* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Woman in Black]]

=== Thomas Eckhardt ===

{{quote|Played by: [[David Warner]]}}

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Evil Brit]]

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Guy]]: Played by [[David Warner]].

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]

=== Madeline "Maddy" Ferguson ===

{{quote|Played by: Sheryl Lee}}

* {{spoiler|[[Alone with the Psycho]]}}

* [[Author Appeal]]: Maddy's hometown is Missoula, Montana, which is also the birthplace of [[David Lynch]].

* [[Meganekko]]: Although she ditches the glasses later on.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: To her cousin Laura Palmer.

=== Evelyn Marsh ===

{{quote|Played by: Annette McCarthy}}

* [[Lady in Red]]

* [[The Vamp]]

=== The Renault Brothers ===

==== Jacques Renault ====

[[File:250px-Jacques2_9657.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Walter Olkewicz}}

* [[Fake Nationality]]: He's a French-Canadian played by an American.

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

==== Jean Renault ====

{{quote|Played by: Michael Parks}}

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: He uses it to kill a random strawberry and {{spoiler|Blackie, the madam of One Eyed Jacks}}.

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Some might recognize him as recurring [[Quentin Tarantino]] character Sheriff Earl McGraw.

* [[Revenge]]: He blames {{spoiler|Cooper for the death of his brothers}}.

=== John Justice Wheeler ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Billy Zane]]}}

* [[Gary Stu]]: What many fans see him as.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Or, rather, put on a plane.

* [[The Scrappy]]

 

== The Black Lodge ==

=== Killer BOB ===

[[File:BOB_smile_6138.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Frank Silva}}

The show's [[Big Bad|main villain]].

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Now, when most people say that one character ''is'' a trope, they don't really mean it...

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Large Ham]]: Justified (sort of) in that he is not played by a professional actor but by a set dresser who happened to find himself [[Throw It In|accidentally foreshadowed in certain scenes]].

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Mind Rape]]:To his direct victims, actual rape for the others.

* [[Recursive Acronym]]: '''B'''eware '''O'''f '''B'''OB.

* [[The Unfettered]]: "You may think I've ''gone insane'', but '''I Swear I Will''' '''''KILL AGAIN!'''''"

* [[Wild Hair]]: Long, grey, and messy.

=== The Giant ===

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{{quote|Played by: Carel Struycken}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "The Owls are not what they seem."

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Gentle Giant]]: His speaking voice is pleasant, and he's dressed smartly. It's difficult to imagine him hurting a fly. He seems to live in the Black Lodge, too.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]

=== Jimmy Scott ===

{{quote|Played by: [[As Himself|Jimmy]] [[Captain Obvious|Scott]]}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Jimmy Scott was born with Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his growth and he never went through puberty. This left his beautiful voice unbroken.

=== The Man From Another Place ===

[[File:The_Man_from_Another_Place_5667.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Played by: Michael J. Anderson}}

* [[Arc Words]]: He's the source of many of them.

** "That gum you like is going to come back in style."

* [[Louis Cypher]]: With the red three piece suit, [[Wild Mass Guessing|maybe]]...

* [[The Nameless]]: [[Wild Mass Guessing|Some]] contend that he is {{spoiler|MIKE}}.

=== MIKE/Phillip Michael Gerard ===

{{quote|Played by: Al Strobel}}

* [[Body Snatcher]]: MIKE is a being like BOB.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: After the Laura Palmer mystery is resolved, we don't see him again.

* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Long before the series, he saw the face of God.

* [[Red Right Hand]]: He's missing his left arm, which {{spoiler|he cut off to rid himself of his "Fire Walk With Me" tatoo}}.

=== Pierre Tremond/Chalfont ===

{{quote|Played by: Austin Jack Lynch (TV show), Jonathan J. Lepell (''Fire Walk With Me'')}}

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]

* [[Real Life Relative]]: His first actor, Austin Jack Lynch, is actually [[David Lynch]]'s son.