The 5th Wave Characters

Cassie Sullivan is a sixteen-year-old girl. That's hard. She's a sixteen-year-old girl that happens to be an orphan. That's harder. She's a sixteen-year-old girl that happens to be an orphan, and h...

First things first: Ben is not a real zombie. We figured, what with all the aliens running around the pages of The 5th Wave, that we should clear that up. Ben, instead, is a red-blooded, all-Americ...

Evan Walker might be the most likable alien since E.T. He's also, well, a bit of a creeper.Sure, okay, sometimes he's a bit much—like the time he whispered "You saved me" (36.126) into Cassie's e...

While we have the pleasure of meeting a few aliens face-to-face, The Others as a species remain shrouded in mystery throughout the novel. (That's part of what makes them so scary.) We don't really...

Ringer is by far the competent person on Ben's squad. She's dubbed Ringer because she helped the squad rocket to the top of the base-wide competition. (Ringer's a nickname, in case you're wondering...

Sammy is Cassie's adorable five-year-old brother. He has "big brown teddy-bear eyes" (10.53), as well as an actual teddy bear that he leaves with Cassie when he's kidnapped by alien soldiers. (For...

Cassie's mom died off stage, a victim of the alien plague, and we only get to spend a few chapters with her dad before he bites the dust too. He was an optimist, hoping for the best until almost th...

Colonel Vosch is the base commander at Camp Haven, and is the head honcho in the humans' war against the aliens. Or at least that's who he says he is. He's actually an evil alien trying to destroy...

We've already met Zombie, Ringer, and Sammy (a.k.a. "Nugget"): the most important members of Squad 53. We don't get to know the rest of them very well, which echoes the characters' dynamic with eac...