List of The Pretender (TV series) characters

This is an article for a list of some of the main and notable characters that appear (or have appeared) on the NBC's television drama, The Pretender.

A 'Pretender'; a super-genius polymath with eidetic and working memory (possibly Hyperthymesia), who has the ability to be anyone, learn any skill and function in any situation – a chameleon who takes on identities as easily as most people change clothes. It is revealed at the climax of the second season that due to being of a rare genealogy, Jarod is genetically dispositioned to being a "Pretender", as are a rare few, but Jarod's is more pronounced. According to The Pretender: Rebirth, Jarod uses about 20% of his brain, while most people use about 10%. It is also revealed near the end of season 2 that Jarod and his brother, Kyle, share a rare blood type, AB- blood. It is mentioned twice in season 4 ("Risque Business" & "Cold Dick"), that Jarod has a pistachio allergy. Since at least the time from when he was abducted, he has known the couplet "Kri Kra Toad's Foot, Geese Walk Bare-foot" (which is the English translation of the German couplet "Kri Kra Kroten-Fuss, Gänse Laufen Bar-Fuss").

In 1963, Jarod was taken from his parents as a young child, and grew up within the Centre as a virtual test subject until his escape in 1996. During his time growing up, he knew the young girl who would grow up to be his pursuer, Miss Parker. In the season one episode "Bomb Squad", Jarod is described as having had an ", European upbringing" and that the cadence in Jarod's voice betray the fact that he was raised by a "French or Belgian nanny". Since his escape from the Centre, Jarod has been searching for his family: his mother, Margaret, his father, Charles (aka "Major Charles", an ex-Air Force officer), and his surviving siblings, Emily (his younger sister), "Jeremy" (his 14-year-old clone), and Ethan (his younger half-brother whom he shares with Miss Parker). The second motivating factor in Jarod's life is atoning for the deaths he inadvertently caused by working for The Centre; because of this, he identifies himself with Onyssius, an Ancient Greek God of Retribution (mentioned in the pilot episode, the first of the two The Pretender telemovies, The Pretender 2001, and the first book of the renewed series, The Pretender: Rebirth).

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