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Terra Nova

Shannon Family

Jim Shannon

Played By: Jason O'Mara

  • Badass
  • Berserk Button: Don't touch his kids. Or his wife.
  • Cowboy Cop: Though oddly enough, Da Chief is still cowboy enough himself to rather appreciate it. Though as far as Terra Nova and Taylor is concerned, he's basically the -only- cop in town. Everyone else is technically part of the security force.
  • Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You: Prison, in this case.
  • Papa Wolf: Don't mess with his kids. Ever.
    • A great example happens in the finale. Josh has gotten himself into trouble protecting Skye from Lucas, and is currently being beaten by Phoenix soldiers. Skye tells Jim. Cut to a few minutes later, where Jim brains Lucas with a cane and beats the crap out of every soldier that tries to restrain him. They had to hold him at gunpoint to end it.
  • Troll: Though he clearly doesn't have a problem with Reynolds dating his daughter, he seems to enjoy messing with Reynolds since he's always so serious.

Elizabeth Shannon

Played By: Shelley Conn

Josh Shannon

Played By: Landon Liboiron

Maddy Shannon

Played By: Naomi Scott

Zoe Shannon

Played By: Alana Mansour


Terra Nova Residents

Commander Nathaniel Taylor

Played By: Stephen Lang

Skye

Played By: Allison Miller

Guzman

Played By: Milo Hamada

Lieutenant Alicia Washington

Played By: Simone Kessell

Mark Reynolds

Played By: Dean Geyer

"I would like to declare my intentions toward your daughter."

  • Shallow Love Interest: To Maddy. What exactly do we know about this guy?
    • He did volunteer to take over guard duty for the Shannons' house when the pterodactyls were swarming the colony. He got knocked unconscious for his efforts, but he was certainly more competent at it than the three Shannon siblings at any rate.

Jim (to Maddy): That's how you know a boy likes you.

Malcolm Wallace

Played By: Rod Hallett

Tom Boylan

Played By: Damien Garvey

  • The Bartender
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • The Mole: To a limited extent. He does business with the Sixers, but it's clear there's someone else in the camp that's actively betraying the colony.
  • Noodle Incident: At least to anyone that isn't Boylan, Taylor, or Jim, why Taylor tolerates Boylan (and conversely, why Boylan is ultimately loyal to Terra Nova and will help Taylor). Ironically, said Noodle Incident is also seemingly responsible for his current state as Taylor had to bribe him to prevent him from being a good soldier and reporting Taylor's murder.

Sixers

Mira

Played By: Christine Adams

  • Anti-Villain
  • I Have Your Wife: Her backers in the future are holding her daughter in order to ensure her cooperation. Interestingly, this is a tactic that she herself is not above using.
  • Kick the Dog: Blackmailing a Sixer child into spying for her by threatening to hurt her brother.
    • Pet the Dog: When that falls through, however, she admits she was bluffing and lets the hostage rejoin his sister in the far more salubrious neighbourhood that is Terra Nova, no strings attached.
  • Rebel Leader

The Phoenix Group

Lucas Taylor

  • Big Bad
  • Brother-Sister Incest: Okay, so Skye may not technically be blood-related, but Lucas takes her treatment of his father as a father-figure as being enough to make them brother and sister. And then proceeds to come on to her in an extremely creepy fashion.
  • Man Behind the Man: The Sixers work for him by proxy.
  • Freudian Excuse: The reason he hates his father so much is because he failed to save his mother in Somalia when he was fourteen years old. The finale reveals that they were captured by rebels and Taylor had to choose between them to decide who lived. He picked Lucas. Lucas not only believes he should have died, but that Taylor blames him for it.
  • Large Ham
  • Not Quite Dead: Skye shoots him twice in the chest. In the couple of minutes she and Taylor stop paying attention to him, he's vanished.
  • Psychotic Man Child: Why is he so eager to help destroy mankind's last hope for survival? To spite his father, that's why.
  • Psychotic Smirk: Often.
  • Self-Made Orphan: He really wants to do this. Comes pretty close, too.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: In the season finale, it was revealed that Somalia was, in Lucas' mind, simply the last straw in what had been a childhood/early adolescence where he was on the receiving in of his father's disappointment/disapproval. Considering what a total brat he is, one should take this with a grain of salt.

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