The Wire Characters — Spoiler-Safe Guide
Every tracked character in The Wire (2002–2008, HBO) with spoiler-safe bios and relationship maps. We track 12 characters across 3 groups: Baltimore Police, Barksdale Organization, The Street.
Characters are grouped by the season they first appear in — scroll only as far as you've watched. Each page describes a character strictly as of their introduction.
Introduced in Season 1
- Jimmy McNulty — Natural police, unnatural everything else · first appears S1 · E1
- Bunk Moreland — The other half of the double act · first appears S1 · E1
- Kima Greggs — The detail's best detective · first appears S1 · E1
- Cedric Daniels — Lieutenant between the fires · first appears S1 · E1
- Avon Barksdale — The name on the towers · first appears S1 · E1
- Stringer Bell — The economist of the corner · first appears S1 · E1
- D'Angelo Barksdale — The nephew in the pit · first appears S1 · E1
- Bubbles — The best CI in Baltimore · first appears S1 · E1
- Wallace — The kid in the pit · first appears S1 · E1
- Ellis Carver — Narcotics muscle, slowly learning · first appears S1 · E1
- Bill Rawls — The numbers colonel · first appears S1 · E2
- Omar Little — The man with the shotgun · first appears S1 · E3
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