Snow Crash Characters

The DeliveratorHiro is nothing if not hardcore. His stint as a pizza deliverer, nay, The Deliverator, illustrates this. Clad in black armorgel and driving a car with "enough potential energy to fir...

Skateboarding StarIf skateboarding were something you could get graded on, Y.T. would graduate at the top of her class, probably valedictorian. How do we know this? First, she's skilled enough to h...

One Angry AleutWhen Raven meets Y.T. and introduces himself as an Aleut, she hasn't heard of that ethnic group, and Raven tells her in no uncertain terms why this is: "'That's because we've been f*...

Mother of the MetaverseBecause she designed the way faces work in the Metaverse, Juanita can be considered one of its main inventors. So it's kind of odd that she doesn't set foot in it very often...

This communications monopolist is something of a mystery at first: He's super rich, puts a lot of money into religious organizations, and is interesting to Juanita, which makes him interesting to H...

Public image is very important to Uncle Enzo. In fact, our first glimpse of him is on a billboard: It shows Uncle Enzo in one of his spiffy Italian suits. The pinstripes glint and flex like sinews....

A Library of Congress/CIC researcher, Lagos is basically in love with information. He coded the program that eventually became the Librarian, who characterizes his creator as someone who "'devoted...

As a single mother, Y.T.'s mom works all the time. This is largely because she works for the Feds, since "she always wanted to give something back to her country" (37.2). However, this comes with l...

The head honcho of Ng Security Industries is a Vietnamese man who looks totally different depending on whether you see him in the Metaverse or IRL. In the Metaverse, Y.T. sees his avatar as "a smal...

Mr. Lee's "wildly grinning" (12.97) face has become an icon to those who visit and do business with his franchises, Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong. His comically bad English exemplifies his style, as...

Hiro's buddy, and the owner of hacker metropolis The Black Sun, Da5id is a guy who knows where he stands in life. First, there's his heritage: "His folks were Russian Jews from Brooklyn and had liv...

We never learn this dude's name, but he looks like someone you don't want to mess with: "His suit is perfectly black. So is his hair" (18.10). Additionally, one of his eyes is glass, which is intim...

He starts out as the skipper of the Kowloon, but when Raven forces him onto a lifeboat with Hiro, he becomes the guide and information source for the remainder of the Mafia mission. Ethnically Chin...

One of the Mafia guys to end up on the lifeboat with Hiro, Vic is "reticent, unobtrusive" (48.2). He is also a sniper. While marooned on the boat, he quietly kills time by reading. But though his s...

Vitaly—who's named himself after the Chernobyl crisis—heads up a band called the Meltdowns, which is characterized as "a new musical phenomenon—the rise of Ukrainian nuclear fuzz-grunge colle...

This blazer-wearing Mafia goon is not the brightest crayon in the box, though he manages a Nova Sicilia franchise in the Valley (a Los Angeles suburb). He misinterprets an order from higher-up thus...

This computer program (or daemon) has been created to resemble and act like a person in order to facilitate research. It "looks like a pleasant, fifty-ish, silver-haired, bearded man with bright bl...

Y.T. and her boyfriend Roadkill saved Fido (a pit bull blend) when a jerk shot him in the leg. After they'd been caring for Fido for a while, though, he disappeared. This was a bummer for Y.T., but...

SqueakyThe boss of the local Enforcers security guards, Squeaky is "a small, stout black guy, a pint-sized weightlifter type" (15.8), sporting multiple communications devices as well as weapons. He...