John is not your garden-variety hero. For starters, he's not the most…how do we say this delicately? Well, we'll take a page out of John's book and forget delicacy: John's a rude, arrogant jerk w...

When we first meet John, the storytellers really play up just how terrible he is with people, and women in particular—to the point where we seriously doubt that he'll ever have a love life. And t...

Parcher seems like a nice enough dude at first, and he presents himself as one of the "good guys"—after all, he's working for the Department of Defense to try to crack Russian codes and save Amer...

John isn't the cuddliest of guys, but even he can't resist Charles' charm and good humor when he arrives in their shared dorm room and introduces himself as John's roommate:CHARLES: The prodigal ro...

Hansen and John have kind of a rocky start when they meet at the start of grad school. They are splitting the prestigious Mellon Fellowship, and they are definitely in competition with each other f...

Dr. Rosen is the dude who breaks the news to John that he's been suffering from schizophrenia, and who tries to treat him. Unfortunately, John really doesn't love the treatments that Dr. Rosen offe...

These are two of John's grad school buddies, who then end up working with John in the Wheeler lab at MIT when John goes there after graduation. We don't see too much of them, but John seems to trus...