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FBI

Special Agent Dale "Coop" Cooper

Played by: Kyle Mac Lachlan

• Agent Cooper: Co-Trope Namer
• Badass
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Badass in a Nice Suit
  • Cultured Badass
• Big Eater: Sheriff Truman remarks that he must have the metabolism of a bumblebee.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: While he may be on the eccentric side, he really is a good detective.
• Cassette Craze: Diane.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Dreaming the Truth
• Expy: Partly a more morally upright version of Kyle MacLachlan's role as Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet.
• Grand Theft Me
• The Hero
• Hyper Awareness: Very little escapes Cooper's attention. Sometimes his eccentricity can overshadow the fact that he is a remarkably good detective.
• Idiot Ball: Holds onto it pretty tightly during the last three or four episodes. May be a case of Love Makes You Stupid, as most of his sudden incompetence is centered around Annie.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Arguably, given how Season 2 ends. But who can forget his response to Audrey Horne's question "Don't you have any secrets?"

Agent Cooper: No.

• Mr. Fanservice: Coop has a lot of fangirls.
• Must Have Caffeine: Though he doesn't seem to be addicted to it, rather he really loves coffee.
  • "Damn good coffee!"
• Nice Guy: The guy is incredibly friendly and polite, which makes BOB's possession of him at the end of the show all the more tragic.
• Occult Detective
• Scarily Competent Tracker
• Sense Freak: Particularly, taste.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• Sherlock Scan
• Show the Forehead
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Though oddly not Dreaming of Things to Come.
• Turn in Your Badge: After solving the Laura Palmer case, he is put on trial for crossing national boarders as part of his investigation. He's acquitted when it is shown that his accuser is impersonating a mountie and is part of an international drug smuggling ring.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Windom Earle
• Would Hit a Girl: Which he does in the process of saving Audrey, so a bit more understandable.

Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole

Played by: David Lynch

• Cloudcuckoolander: Even when compared with Agent Cooper himself.

COOP, TODAY YOU REMIND ME OF A SMALL, MEXICAN CHIHUAHUA!

• Creator Cameo: Played by David Lynch himself. He shouts a lot and babbles almost incoherently.
• Da Chief: Completely averted.
• Department of Redundancy Department: AND SOMETIMES SUGGESTS THAT THEY DO THE ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THING RATHER THAN THE MISHEARD ONE.
• The Faceless: Watching his early "appearances" over the phone, and knowing Lynch doesn't plan things out, it's clear that the casting was something of a joke.
• Malaproper: HE ALSO MISHEARS THINGS!
• 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

Played by: Kenneth Welsh

• Arch Enemy
• Ax Crazy
• Big Bad Wannabe
• Chess with Death:He plays a Chess game with Cooper. Every piece Earle takes, he kills someone.
• The Chessmaster: Literally and figuratively.
• Crazy People Play Chess
• Cultured Badass
• Evil Counterpart: A fallen version of Coop himself. Coop even blames himself for it, poor guy.
• Face Heel Turn
• Fallen Hero
• Kick the Dog: The way he treats the mentally impaired Leo Johnson is needlessly cruel.
• Large Ham: Is he ever!
• Laughably Evil: Sure, he's nobody you want to run into, but some of the weird things he does in the show (like walking through the woods in a horse costume) are so goofy and ridiculous you can't help but chuckle.
• Love Makes You Crazy
• Master of Disguise
• Manipulative Bastard
• We Used to Be Friends: With Cooper.
• Your Soul Is Mine: In the series finale. 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

Played by: Miguel Ferrer

• Actual Pacifist: He became an FBI Medical Examiner to fight against violence in a way that would never make him have to use violence. His deep commitment to pacifism results in a warming in his relationship with Sheriff Truman. Spoilered because it's quite a twist when it finally appears.
• Agent Scully
• The Coroner: A medical examiner, actually. He clashes with actual Coroner "Doc" Hayward the instant he sets foot in Twin Peaks. He's a perfect example of the character type though.
• The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: He objects emphatically when Cooper allows the body of Laura Palmer to be buried without a complete autopsy.
• City Mouse: To the extreme displeasure of the natives of Twin Peaks and Special Agent Cooper.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dr. Jerk
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Only Sane Man: Doesn't work too well in Twin Peaks though.
• The Smart Guy/Sixth Ranger
• Took a Level In Kindness: After his pacifism was revealed.

Agent Dennis "Denise" Bryson

Played by: David Duchovny

• Camp Straight: Don't let the cross-dressing fool you. He likes the ladies.
  • Possibly averted: if Bryson is transgender then she is gay.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Fox Mulder him or herself.
• Transgender or Transvestite: It isn't made clear which, though the first is suggested. The idea that transvestites are always gay is averted, though.
• Wholesome Crossdresser

Police

Sheriff Harry S. Truman

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 Ben Horne Truman expresses exasperation with Cooper's eccentricity, in this case Cooper was right.
• Badass
• Drowning My Sorrows: He does this after Josie "dies". Although he gets better in the next episode.
• Fair Cop
• Jurisdiction Friction: None, with Sheriff Truman going so far as to describe Agent Cooper as "The finest lawman I've ever known".
• Fake American: Michael Ontkean is actually Canadian.
• The Lancer
• Mr. Fanservice
• Name's the Same

Cooper: "I'm supposed to meet with a Sheriff Harry S. Truman. Shouldn't be too hard to remember that."

• Nice Hat
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• The Sheriff
• The Watson

Deputy Andy Brennan

Played by: Harry Goaz

• The Big Guy: Shared with Hawk.
• Butt Monkey
• Clueless Deputy
• The Ditz: Most of his time is spent doing pratfalls.
• Good Is Dumb: Andy's a good-hearted person, even if he isn't the brightest bulb on the tree.
• Lovable Coward
• Simpleton Voice
• Who's Your Daddy?: Is he the father of Lucy Moran's child? 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

Played by: Michael Horse

• Badass: No kidding...
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Badass Native
• The Big Guy: Shared with Andy.
• Fair Cop
• The Ghost: His veterinarian girlfriend.
• Magical Native American: Of course, in Twin Peaks, his beliefs are downright mundane.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Number Two: Most of the series has him as back up to Sheriff Truman.
• Scarily Competent Tracker

Lucy Moran

Played by: Kimmy Robertson

• Adult Child: Her voice.
• The Chick
• The Ditz
• 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

Played by: Don S. Davis

• Awesome McCoolname
• Bald of Awesome
• Cool Old Guy: More like "Cool Middle-aged Guy", but close enough.
• Eagle Land: Flavor 1.
• Hey, It's That Guy!
• 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

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 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.
• Get Rich Quick Scheme: Spends most of his time coming up with these, and he's terrible at it.
• I Am Not My Father
• Jerk Jock
• Mr. Fanservice: He's very, very pretty.
• Rebellious Spirit: Very different from his wholesome parents
• Tweener
• Villain Protagonist

The Haywards

Donna Hayward

Played by: Lara Flynn Boyle (TV show), Moira Kelly (Fire Walk With Me)

• The Chick
• Dogged Nice Girl
• Donna, I Am Your Father: In the season finale, we find out that her biological father is actually Benjamin Horne.
• Not Herself: At the beginning of season 2.
• The Other Darrin: In the movie.
• Smoking Is Cool: Starting with season 2.
• Star-Crossed Lovers
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Eileen Hayward

Played by: Mary Jo Deschanel

• Cut Short: We'll never know all the details of her relationship with Ben Horne. Even though they're pretty obvious.
• Hot Mom: What else would you expect from the mother of Zooey Deschanel?

Gersten Hayward

Played by: Alicia Witt

• Bifauxnen
• Closing Credits: She gets to interrupt Falling to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.

William "Doc" Hayward

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

Played by: Sherilyn Fenn

• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.
• Beauty Mark: Next to her left eye.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Annie's Betty.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Mostly in the early episodes.
• Dawson Casting: Sherilyn Fenn was in her mid-20s when she played 18-year-old Audrey.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: She is one of, if not the most popular character in the show besides Cooper.
• Fille Fatale
• Hidden Heart of Gold
• I Am Not My Father -> Generation Xerox: Becomes every bit as conniving as her father as the series goes on.
• Lonely Rich Kid
• Ms. Fanservice
• Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl
• Smoking Is Cool: Although she seems to quit around the middle of the second season.

Benjamin "Ben" Horne

Played by: Richard Beymer

• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Donna, I Am Your Father: Revealed at the end of the series.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He usually smokes cigars, signifying his role as a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Heel Face Turn
• Smug Snake
• Took a Level In Kindness
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until he inherited his family's company.
• Villain Decay
• Villainous Breakdown: Several episodes in the making, but he finally goes well and truly off the rails when he loses One-Eyed Jack's.

Jerry Horne

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
• Sunglasses at Night

The Hurleys

"Big" Ed Hurley

Played by: Everett McGill

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

James Hurley

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
• The Ditz: Almost astonishingly stupid. As Laura Palmer says in one of her tapes, "James is sweet, but he's so dumb."
• The Drifter
• Dull Surprise
• Likes Older Women: If his affair with the 30-something Evelyn March is any indication.
• Put on a Bus
• Star-Crossed Lovers
• Troubled but Cute

Nadine Hurley

Played by: Wendy Robie

• Badass Normal
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Doesn't even begin to describe her!
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength
• Eyepatch of Power
• Fiery Redhead
• Large Ham
• Super Strength

Dr. Lawrence Jacoby

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
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: To be fair, Dr. Jacoby isn't exactly "ugly", just quirky and not very attractive. However, he's married to a pretty Hawaiian woman who appears to be a couple years younger than him.

The Jenningses

Hank Jennings

Played by: Chris Mulkey

• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: His domino key-chain.
• The Dragon: To several villains throughout the series.
• Might as Well Not Be in Prison At All
• Obviously Evil
• Smug Snake

Norma Jennings

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.
• Greasy Spoon: Runs her own diner.
• Hair of Gold
• Hey, Its That Girl
• Tall, Blonde, and Bishoujo

The Johnsons

Leo Johnson

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
• The Brute
• Butt Monkey: In the second season.
• Convenient Coma: Well, he does clearly have some brain damage, but it's only convenient for some, who would have preferred him dead.
• Jerkass
• Red Herring: Despite his sadism, violence, frequent cold-blooded killing and being present at the scene of her murder, Leo did not kill Laura Palmer.
• 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

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.

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. Dale Cooper : Uh, Gordon… Gordon Cole : [to Bobby] TAKE ANOTHER LOOK, SONNY. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN!

• Domestic Abuse : Her husband forces her to do all the chores, beats her with a soap in a sock at one point, and is deeply jealous.
• Fan Service with a Smile
• Ms. Fanservice: A mild example.
• Smoking Is Cool
• The Woobie

Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman

Played by: Catherine E. Coulson

Probably the most unusual of the Twin Peaks townsfolk (and that's saying a lot). Margaret Lanterman, aka "The Log Lady", is an eccentric recluse who lives in a cabin in the forest. She is always seen carrying a log (hence her nickname), which is implied to either contain the spirit of her dead lumberjack husband or, as of Fire Walk With Me, to serve as a link to him in the Black Lodge—though she never voices either theory outright and is implied to be forbidden from doing so. Because of this, the other townsfolk think she's crazy.

She was with Laura 5 days before her murder.

• Cloudcuckoolander: Hoo boy...
• Companion Cube: Her log.
• Consulting Mister Puppet
• Mad Oracle
• Non Sequitur: "Wait for the tea. The fish aren't running."

The Martells

Catherine Martell

Played by: Piper Laurie

• Evil Redhead
• Faking the Dead
• Fiery Redhead
• Latex Perfection: After faking her death, she disguises herself as a Japanese businessman named Mr. Tojamura in order to trick Ben.
• Magnificent Bastard: Even in this town, she stands out as a deft manipulator.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: When she poses as Mr. Tojamura.

Pete Martell

Played by: Jack Nance

• Butt Monkey
• Chess: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle.
• Cool Old Guy: In a friendly, somewhat quirky kind of way.
• Henpecked Husband: Catherine just won't cut the guy a break.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Henry Spencer himself.
• Nice Guy

The Milfords

Mayor Dwayne Milford

Played by: John Boylan

• Dirty Old Man

Dougie Milford

Played by: Tony Jay

• Hey, It's That Guy!: Played by the late Tony Jay.
• Out with a Bang

Lana Budding Milford

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

Played by: Gary Hershberger

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Jerk Jock
• Likes Older Women: 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

Played by: Dan O'Herlihy

• Faking the Dead
• Not Quite Dead
• Posthumous Character or not.

Josie Packard

Played by: Joan Chen

• Asian Gal with White Guy
• Dragon Lady
• Femme Fatale
• The Scrappy: To some.
  • Creator's Pet: David Lynch liked Joan Chen's performance, which is why she gets a lot of focus despite not being very popular with fans.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• 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.
• Your Soul Is Mine: Later in the second season, BOB apparently steals and traps her soul in a dresser doorknob at the Great Northern or something like that.

The Palmers

Laura Palmer

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
• Darker and Edgier: In the prequel movie, Fire Walk With Me.
• 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.
• Ms. Vice Girl
• Parental Incest
• Posthumous Character
• Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl
• Stepford Smiler: Type A.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Sheryl Lee played both Laura and her cousin Madeline.

Leland Palmer

Played by: Ray Wise

The father of Laura Palmer, Leland is a well-respected lawyer in the town of Twin Peaks. When he was a child, he met the evil spirit BOB and was possessed by him. After hearing the news of his daughter's murder, Leland suffers a nervous breakdown, which results in him killing murder suspect Jacques Renault at the end of the first season.

At the beginning of season 2, Leland awakens to find his hair has turned white and he is now very upbeat, joyfully dancing and singing show tunes. However, it isn't long until he is arrested by Cooper and Truman for the murder of Jacques Renault, but is soon released due to being well-respected by the townsfolk.

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.

• Demonic Possession
• Dying as Yourself
• Enemy Within
• Killed Off for Real
• Locked Into Strangeness: His hair turns white after he murders Jacques Renault.
• Parental Incest
• Wangst: Done intentionally in Season 1.

Sarah Palmer

Played by: Grace Zabriskie

• Big No
• Hysterical Woman
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone
• The Scream

Harold Smith

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 never leaves his home. Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that Laura gave him her diary before her murder. When Harold finds out that Donna is trying to steal the diary, he goes crazy and 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.

• Driven to Suicide
• Freak-Out: Gets hit with this HARD when he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary.
• Hikikomori: Due to having agoraphobia.
• Pretty Boy

Dick Tremayne

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
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Well, he does run a men's clothing department
• Ted Baxter
• Upper Class Twit

Outsiders

Annie Blackburn

Played by: Heather Graham

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Audrey's Veronica.
• Fan Service with a Smile
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has one on her wrist that's never explained, but presumably from a suicide attempt.
• Hair of Gold
• Hey, It's That Girl: Played by a young Heather Graham.
• Shallow Love Interest

Blacky O'Reilly

Played by: Victoria Catlin

• Depraved Bisexual
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Killed Off for Real
• Woman in Black

Thomas Eckhardt

Played by: David Warner

• Cool Shades
• Evil Brit
• Hey, It's That Guy: Played by David Warner.
• Love Makes You Evil

Madeline "Maddy" Ferguson

Played by: Sheryl Lee

• Alone with the Psycho
• Author Appeal: Maddy's hometown is Missoula, Montana, which is also the birthplace of David Lynch.
• Backup Twin: Backup Cousin, actually.
• Killed Off for Real
• Meganekko: Although she ditches the glasses later on.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: To her cousin Laura Palmer.

Evelyn Marsh

Played by: Annette McCarthy

• Lady in Red
• The Scrappy: Arguably the biggest one in the show. Many fans consider her to be one of the reasons for the second season's debatable drop in quality, as she served little-to-no relevance to the main storyline and was probably just created as an excuse to write James off the show.
• The Vamp

The Renault Brothers

Jacques Renault

Played by: Walter Olkewicz

• Fake Nationality: He's a French-Canadian played by an American.
• Fat Bastard
• Killed Off for Real

Jean Renault

Played by: Michael Parks

• Blade Below the Shoulder: He uses it to kill a random strawberry and Blackie, the madam of One Eyed Jacks.
• Evil Redhead
• Fake Nationality: He, too, is a French-Canadian played by an American.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Some might recognize him as recurring Quentin Tarantino character Sheriff Earl McGraw.
• Revenge: He blames Cooper for the death of his brothers.

John Justice Wheeler

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

Played by: Frank Silva

The show's main villain.

• Ax Crazy: Now, when most people say that one character is a trope, they don't really mean it...
• Big Bad
• Blooper: Silva is barely visible in the mirror behind Mrs. Palmer when she has her vision of the necklace being found at the end of the pilot. Appropriately, he is even more visible in the mirror in the corresponding scene in the international version of the pilot where she has a vision of BOB instead.
• Body Snatcher: Of the Demonic Possession variety.
• Evil Laugh
• Grand Theft Me: To Cooper.
• Guttural Growler
• The Heartless: Albert speculates that BOB is "the evil that men do".
• Hidden Villain: He's seen from time to time during the first season, but it's not until the second till we hear his name, and much later till we learn his role in the story.
• Humanoid Abomination
• 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 accidentally foreshadowed in certain scenes.
• Limited Wardrobe
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: While BOB is the main villain and also infamous for scaring the crap out of viewers, the late Frank Silva was actually a very nice, funny, pleasant man in Real Life.
• Mind Rape:To his direct victims, actual rape for the others.
• Recursive Acronym: Beware Of BOB.
• Serial Killer
• Slasher Smile: Just look at his picture!
• Tom the Dark Lord
• The Unfettered: "You may think I've gone insane, but I Swear I Will KILL AGAIN!"
• Wild Hair: Long, grey, and messy.

The Giant

Played by: Carel Struycken

• Arc Words: "The Owls are not what they seem."
• Bald of Awesome
• Body Snatcher: However, it's clear he has stayed in the same body for a long, long time.
• Cryptic Conversation: Less so than The Man From Another Place, giving one straight forward clue - "Without chemicals, he points."
• 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

Played by: Jimmy 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.
• One-Scene Wonder: Only shows up in the last episode—in one of the most haunting scenes in the entire series.

The Man From Another Place

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."
  • "I am the arm."
  • "Let's Rock!"
• The Cast Showoff: Since Michael J. Anderson can talk backwards, he did so and his voice was reversed.
  • Technically, the idea came first and was expanded when David Lynch discovered this proficiency.
• The Chessmaster: May or may not be controlling everything, even BOB.
• Cryptic Conversation: Oh my yes...
• Leitmotif: Dance of the Dream Man, which plays whenever something mysterious is happening.
• Little People Are Surreal
• Louis Cypher: With the red three piece suit, maybe...
• The Nameless: Some contend that he is MIKE.

MIKE/Phillip Michael Gerard

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 he cut off to rid himself of his "Fire Walk With Me" tatoo.

Pierre Tremond/Chalfont

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.

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