List of Riverdale characters

Riverdale is an American teen drama television series based on the characters of Archie Comics, which made its debut on January 26, 2017.

The main cast also features Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Ross Butler and Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle, Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz, Drew Ray Tanner as Fangs Fogarty, and Erinn Westbrook as Tabitha Tate.

Archibald "Archie" Andrews (portrayed by KJ Apa) is an intense and conflicted teenager, a high school sophomore who got in shape over the summer and now has to manage the newfound attention of his classmates.

In season 3 he faces trial for murder and is sent to the Leopord Juvenile Detention Center where he is rescued by his friends and leaves Riverdale temporarily.

Finally he returns and becomes romantically linked to Josie McCoy and focuses again on his music but is involved in the game "Griffins and Gargoyles" where he is "The Red Paladin" and the mission is to assassinate him, but he eventually fights for his life and survives.

In season 4, he goes through the great pain of his father's death, while Riverdale is watched by "The Author" because his uncle Frank arrives in town to accompany him in his final year.

Archie is part of the cover-up of the "death of Jughead", there his role is to pretend to be the support of Betty started a false romance with her but this awakened the old feelings of both causing a rapprochement between them.

In season 5 he graduates, enlists in the army and after 5 years returns to Riverdale and sets out to revive and save the town from the hands of Hiram Lodge, in the process begins a formal romance with Betty.

In season 6, the bomb sends them to a timeline where they have powers, Archie becomes the toughest man in the world being unbreakable while focusing on forming a family with Betty but Percival murders him along with others but Cheryl (now a witch) manages to revive him and together with the gang they end him.

Years later, 86-year-old Betty reveals that they along with Jughead and Veronica decided to explore all their feelings and became a romantic quartet and then Archie moved to Los Angeles with his construction team, where he became a contractor and amateur writer.

Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper (portrayed by Lili Reinhart) is sweet, studious, eager-to-please and wholesome as apple pie with a huge crush on her longtime best friend, Archie.

Tired of being the perfect daughter, student, sister, etc., she turns to her new friend, Veronica, for life advice — much to the consternation of her emotionally brittle mother.

[3] In the first season, we are introduced to Betty who has intentions to stop suppressing her love feelings for Archie, while seeking to revive Riverdale High School's newspaper, The Blue and Gold.

On the other hand, he investigates and solves Jason Blossom's seine, the disappearance of Polly Cooper and the secrets of Miss Grundy situations that connect her directly with Jughead and develop feelings for him.

Determined to solve it, she does anything to strip naked for the crowd to get the membership of the snakes, she teams up with Archie to take down Black Hood but ends up awakening her old crush but in turn must deal with the appearance of Chic, her supposed half-brother.

In season 3, she participates in the rescue of Archie, then investigates the suicide game led by King Gargoyle situation that keys to be interned in the Sisters of Silent Mercy there she discovers the truth about King Gargoyle being Chic with the help of her Hal Cooper (Black Hood) which are led by Penelope Blossom who forces her to kill her father but does.

She eventually develops friendships with all of the main characters including Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, Josie McCoy, Cheryl Blossom and Kevin Keller.

Though believed to have been the only child of her father Hiram, it's later on revealed that she has an older paternal half-sister named Hermosa Lodge, who made her first appearance in the fourth season.

Cheryl is a popular student at Riverdale High School, head cheerleader of the River Vixens and the self-proclaimed Queen Bee.

Cheryl puts on a brave face and icy exterior to hide the fact that her parents abuse her, but it thaws throughout the series as she gains freedom from her mother and embraces who she really is.

She meets Toni Topaz, who assures her that there's nothing wrong with her sexuality, and the two date and live together until graduation, when they break up because Cheryl feels she needs to atone for her family's many sins.

Cheryl spends much of the season battling the homophobia, racism and other injustices of the time, while exposing her parents as Russian spies with the help of Jughead.

However, she found herself drawn and attracted to Hiram Lodge, the wealthy boy whom her mother didn't approve of her dating because she felt he was a scrub and not decent for her daughter despite his wealth.

[9] Fred was raised in Riverdale, and like his son, attended the local high school, where he was close friends with F. P. Jones, Alice Cooper, Hermione Lodge, Penelope Blossom, Hal Cooper, Hiram Lodge, Mary Andrews, Tom Keller and Sierra McKoy, and briefly dated Hermione until she chose the rich kid, Hiram over him.

It was later revealed that while attending Riverdale High School, Hiram was the wrestling state champion, earning him a trophy for his great achievement.

Hiram is also business partners with Fred Andrews, working on the SoDale project together, an arrangement that was put in place by Hermione, in an effort to legitimize Lodge Industries.

After serving his country, F. P. returned to Riverdale, picking up from where he left off with the Serpents; however, he later retired and gave the place of king and queen to Jughead and Betty .

By that time, F. P. had married and become a father to two young children, whom he and his wife would frequently take to the Twilight Drive-In-however, they often could not afford tickets for everyone, so the kids would hide in the trunk until they parked.

[18] Antoinette "Toni" Topaz (portrayed by Vanessa Morgan) is introduced in season 2 when she befriends Jughead Jones when he starts attending Southside High.

She uses her powers to send everyone back in 1955 before Bailey's comet can strike Riverdale, but she is unable to stay there and live her life with Jughead and her friends.