List of Preacher characters
The following is a list of characters from the comic book series Preacher, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and the adaptation developed by Sam Catlin, Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen.
In spite of his abusive upbringing, Custer firmly believes in concepts like justice and chivalry and does not hesitate to physically punish those who unfairly victimize innocent people.
Taking advantage of her depression, Cassidy begins to supply Tulip with drugs and alcohol, weakening her resistance until she finally agrees to sleep with him, then keeping her intoxicated so that she will continue to do so.
Later, a newly resurrected Jesse (because of an earlier deal made between Cassidy and God) tries to console Tulip over his decision to once again abandon her, but her feelings of anger and betrayal lead her to dump him after she chides his lack of trust for her.
Repeatedly showing a remarkable lack of forethought, many women he hooks up with and lives off of over the years end up critically injured, hopelessly addicted to drugs, or dead.
An older now-human Cassidy returns in the fourth volume of Garth Ennis' subsequent DC Comics (WildStorm)/Dynamite Entertainment series The Boys – "We Gotta Go Now" – in a guest role.
Having finally opened his "The Grassy Knoll" Irish pub bar, and grown a ponytail, Cassidy wears a t-shirt with "careful now" (in reference to Father Ted) inscribed on it.
After ejecting a group of drunk Irish-Americans dressed as Irish stereotypes from his bar on St. Patrick's Day by throwing an axe at the wall behind them, Cassidy returns to his ongoing conversation with his British friend Billy Butcher (with whom he is on a first-name-basis) about both being recovering alcoholics, and reminiscing about times in the past when they would have gone out drinking and acted like as "Stage Irishman", before both drink club sodas, toasting to taking it "one day at a time".
He was originally a soldier serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War; both respected and feared for being absolutely merciless on the battlefield, his bloodlust verging on that of a berserker frenzy.
Melting the Angel of Death's sword in Hell's last burning fire, the Devil forges two Walker Colt revolvers that will kill anything, never miss their target, never leave his possession, and never run out of bullets.
He showed initiative crucial to his future employment when he defeated his close-combat tutor (a sadist who enjoyed beating up new recruits) by shooting him in the legs at the start of a training session.
He is also a sexual pervert, finding pleasure in things like urinating in prostitute's mouths, forcing them to stick their heads in toilets as he's ejaculating and having a sawfish inserted in his rectum.
As the story progresses he slowly descends deeper into both rage and insanity (even shooting a report by agent Hoover due to the incorrect use of grammar and quotation marks) and he perverts the Grail's private army into a personal task force charged with killing Custer, who he sees as the cause of all his ills.
He is raped by a male prostitute, has his left ear shot off by Tulip, and Jesse cuts a gash across his head, making it resemble a penis (he spends the rest of the series hiding the scar with a Panama hat).
[6] In the AMC Preacher television series, Herr Starr (credited as Man In White Suit) makes a cameo on the third episode, being portrayed by Morse Bicknell.
His suicide attempt prompts his long-suffering mother to have her own epiphany and abandon her abusive husband, leaving him an insulting goodbye note in which she reveals her disdain for not only him, but their son as well.
He suffers from self-doubt and uncertainty, which seems to be justified various times by the unfortunate events of his life; he runs out of bullets in a gunfight, drives through an intersection and ruins his car, spills coffee on his new suit, and is unable to track a call from the serial killer he is trying to apprehend because he forgot to connect his phone to a recording device.
After he leaves the force, it seems that Bridges dove headfirst into his sadomasochistic fantasies and is last seen cold calling Tool from a sex dungeon while dressed in a gimp suit.
Karl, Ernie, and Cyrus Chunt are a trio of sibling cannibals who find Starr after his helicopter crashes in the desert following the battle in Monument Valley.
Despite his seemingly hapless appearance, D'Aronique is both highly intelligent and absolutely ruthless, albeit very pious and fully believing in the cause of The Grail and the potential of the messiah.
First introduced in the issue entitled "Comes A Pale Rider," Bob Glover, an extremely aggressive homosexual, is a buzz-cut, heavyset man with a thick Yorkshire accent, while Freddy Allen is shorter, has a slighter build, glasses, and an unshaven countenance.
Colonel Holden is the commanding officer of a United States Military Base in Arizona which Starr utilizes against Jesse and the Saint of Killers in Monument Valley.
Sarah Featherstone is a former Sunday School teacher who previously had great faith in God's mercy and justice until her sister was raped and murdered by a criminal who was never caught.
As his vendetta against Custer gets more out of control and Starr starts slowly destroying the Grail, Featherstone comes to doubt him, but remains loyal, believing that his ruthlessness is a part of his plan.
Massively muscled, he can send a man flying with one punch, and he has an incredible tolerance for pain and injury, being able to take a nailed plank of wood to the face without wincing, and able to remain foul-mouthed, and direct whilst on fire.
When Jesse exacts his revenge at Angelville on all of its inhabitants, T.C., much to his horror, is killed by a newly resurrected Tulip, realizing in his final moments that, despite his belief that he would be saved, he is going to Hell.
She punishes family members by sealing them inside a weighted down coffin with an air tube put in the bottom of the swamp, without food or water, to stir and crawl within their own urine and feces for up to a month.
By the time of Allfather D'Aronique's reign, the last two descendants, a mated brother and sister, are severely inbred, ugly and mentally handicapped; only the mystic power of their bloodline makes its continuation possible at all.
Odin Quincannon is a wealthy businessman who makes his fortune from a meat-processing plant and who also bears a striking similarity to 1992 independent party presidential candidate Ross Perot.
In the AMC Preacher television series, Odin Quincannon is portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley in season 1 as the Annville town employer for Quinncannon Meat & Power.
