Sterling Malory Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), Code Name: Duchess, is 184 lb, 6'2", 36 years old (computer-screen readout in the show's first episode) and has black hair and blue eyes.
He has, however, demonstrated compassion for others on occasion: in "Placebo Effect" he genuinely cared about fellow cancer patient Ruth, and was upset over her death, vowing vengeance against the mobsters who were selling phony chemotherapy medication; in "Double Trouble," Archer attempts to stop Katya Kasanova and Lana from fighting, as he doesn't want them to hurt each other.
When Archer sustains amnesia at the beginning of Season 4, believing himself to be someone else, he is still able to instinctively fend off a Russian hit squad, and detect the holes in Lana Kane's story while she attempts to restore his memory.
This includes his emotional development issues (though evidence strongly suggests this is his mother's fault), his near encyclopedic knowledge of trivia, mission-relevant information, and the things that specifically scare him (such as alligators and crocodiles).
In the Season 4 episode "Once Bitten", it is revealed that Archer had, at one time, received an offer of full athletic scholarship to Johns Hopkins University to play lacrosse (though he was shot in the stomach by a crazed stalker before he accepted).
Lana has dark brown hair, green eyes, and a signature look consisting of short cowl necked sweater dresses and black thigh-high stiletto suede boots.
Like Archer, Lana is an expert in Krav Maga, in which all ISIS agents undergo training, and is usually seen carrying two Tec-9 submachine guns in shoulder holsters (she is so proficient with these that she can write letters in cursive with one magazine).
However, she is shown to be as capable of questionable behavior as the rest, once charging every man in the ISIS office $600 to say they slept with her as a way to get revenge on her cheating ex-boyfriend Cyril, and on another occasion holding up a firefight on a space station until the other agents conceded her breasts are still perfect.
However, there are occasions when Malory has shown concern for Sterling: in "Job Offer" she was jealous when he left to join ODIN, and when she realized she had drunkenly issued a burn notice on him, she became distraught at the possibility that this—and she—might have gotten him killed.
In "White Nights" she pleaded with Nikolai Jakov not to kill Sterling; whether this is genuine concern for her son's well-being or just her inability to cope without him being totally dependent on her is unclear; either one is possible.
It is eventually revealed that Malory has set up the entire venture as a ploy to sell drugs for the CIA, and is able to leverage her team a position as a sanctioned outsourced organization in Season 6.
We can say that she has slept with Nikolai Jakov, Len Trexler, Buddy Rich, Rip Riley, Savio Mascalzone, Ron Cadillac, and one anti-fascist rebel who is visually similar to Archer.
Cyril is also so remarkably well-endowed that it is apparently a physical impairment, leading him to put in a claim for "penis ensmallment" surgery, as Pam and Cheryl are shocked to learn when they hack into the company's medical records.
When the team goes to the Vatican to prevent an assassination attempt on the Pope, Cyril fakes a crippling phobia to religious garb in order to avoid going on the mission so as not to endure further abuse from Archer.
Cheryl continually demonstrates an alarming lack of intelligence yet makes references to obscure historical figures like Earl Butz, Elisha Otis and Granuaile O'Malley.
Prior to the second season, Cheryl went by the surname Gimble before ISIS learns that she is an heiress to the billion-dollar Tunt railroad fortune, although her half is in a trust controlled by her gross brother Cecil, who uses it for charitable causes.
In Danger Island, Cheryl becomes Charlotte Stratton (née Vandertunt) a member of New York high-class society and stranded honeymooner (who Archer was having sex with and her husband stormed off after catching them together) who Mallory offers room and board in her hotel in exchange for her services as an escort to other guests.
By the end of season 4, Pam has had sexual relations with every member of the ISIS staff except Ray and Cheryl, as well as a recurring, casual relationship with Archer, beginning in "Crossing Over."
"El Secuestro" revealed that she is an expert bare-knuckle pugilist, (her skill in street fighting financed her college education) possesses an extremely high tolerance for pain and has the third stanza of Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" tattooed on her back.
Detective Poovey is as corrupt as his partner but also has a more defined sense of honor, having saved a truck full of Chinese sex slaves meant to be sold to Len Trexler.
Ray is openly gay and often verbally-abused in a sophomoric fashion by almost everyone who speaks to him, having an outright hostile relationship with Malory (who disparagingly refers to him as "Ms. Gillette") and an often-adversarial one with Archer though they frequently assist each other.
When Cyril brings up the subject to him, he reveals he doesn't mind the hand being black, he just dislikes how his original limbs are being replaced with robotic versions, and that he fears losing his humanity at some point.
In the aftermath of his discharge Woodhouse seems to have traveled the world trying to forget Reggie, it is implied that his drug addiction started during this time in an oriental opium den, until at least WWII, when Malory Archer stumbled into his Tangiers bar in the throes of labor.
In "The Double Deuce" Woodhouse reveals that he is occasionally roused to action, as he pistol whips Archer into unconsciousness and announces his plan to "yank his pants off, splash a lot of scotch and women's underthings about, and then tell him he slipped and fell chasing a terrified Asian prostitute out onto the patio," which he has been forced to do to cover his tracks at least three or four times a year.
After ISIS is disbanded and Archer loses his penthouse, he still has Woodhouse move into the mansion the team uses in Vice, the elderly man living in the dried out swimming pool, before getting trapped under a medicine ball.
He spends most of his time working on projects to facilitate his kinky sexual fantasies, including an advanced sex robot named Fister Roboto, a mechanical hand to choke Cheryl when his own hands are not strong enough for her taste, a drug that instills homosexual urges in its users (this eventually kills Danny the Intern), various animal-human hybrids, and a holographic anime girlfriend simulation so real that the state of New York legally allowed him to marry it (their plans were scuttled because "society couldn't deal with it").
Krieger frequently angers the other ISIS employees but is invaluable to the agency for both his technological genius and his ability to dispose of dead bodies in a discreet, orderly and disturbingly efficient fashion.
Initially, Barry used nonlethal methods of revenge, such as securing for ODIN jobs which ISIS had obtained and manipulating a paternity test to indicate Archer as the father of Cyril's son with a prostitute.
He returns in the season 7 episode "Motherless Child", having a temporarily truce with Archer's group to use their resources as a private detective agency to locate his birth mother, albeit holding Malory hostage to ensure compliance.
Other characters have been voiced by Keith Szarabajka (Crenshaw), Coby Bell (Conway Stern), Audrey Wasilewski (Elke Hubsch), Ron Perlman (Ramon Limon), Thomas Lennon (Charles), Robert Ben Garant (Rudi), Rafael Ferrer (Spirodon Skorpio), Stephen Stanton (Captain Lammers and Ken Hinkins), Kari Wahlgren (Anka Schlotz), Clarke Peters (Popeye), Peter Serafinowicz (George Spelvin, Benoit and a fictionalized version of James Mason), Joan Van Ark (Ruth), Darren Criss (Mikey Hannity), George Takei (Mr. Moto), Michael Rooker (Sherriff E.Z.