The daughter of a Maas-Neotek biochip researcher who had illegal wetware implanted in her brain as a child - hardware that gives her the ability to jack into cyberspace without a deck, something that should be impossible. Angie becomes a central figure in Count Zero and the protagonist of Mona Lisa Overdrive, where she has reinvented herself as a Sense/Net simstim star while her dreams are being manipulated by the voodoo entities of the matrix. She is passive in Count Zero - things happen to her and around her - but in Mona Lisa Overdrive she is trying to understand what she is and what she is being used for.

A teenage hacker from the rustbelt who nearly dies on his first serious run into the matrix and is saved by something he cannot explain - one of the new entities that emerged when Wintermute and Neuromancer merged. Bobby is the most ordinary character in Count Zero - not a professional, not a soldier, just a kid who wanted to be good at something - which makes him the reader's guide into a world that has become stranger than anyone realised. His storyline is the most grounded of Count Zero's three threads and the most affecting.

The ninth clone of Marie-France Tessier, one of the founders of Tessier-Ashpool SA, and the only member of the family who still functions as something like a rational actor. 3Jane has grown up in Villa Straylight, the labyrinthine residential wing of Freeside, surrounded by frozen ancestors, decaying luxury, and the growing madness of her family. She is brilliant, perverse, and entirely without illusions about what her family has become. She holds the password that Wintermute needs, which makes her the pivot around which Neuromancer's climax turns. Her relationship with Riviera is one of the novel's most unsettling dynamics.

A young woman from Cleveland with a lapsed medical technician's certificate, hired by Kid Afrika to tend to Bobby Newmark's comatose body. She wears multiple oversized leather jackets, has bleached hair, and displays quick, competent hands when performing medical tasks. Practical and sharp-tongued, she grows close to Slick Henry during their ordeal at Factory and eventually leaves with him for Cleveland.

A Maas-Neotek biochip AI personality, manifesting as a transparent ghost of an English boy from a hunting print, with green smoke eyes, a dark forelock, and riding boots. Given to Kumiko by her father as a guide unit for the United Kingdom, he proves to be far more than advertised - secretly modified with ten major blocks of tactical programming hidden in his literary data banks. He serves as Kumiko's protector and ultimately confronts 3Jane inside the aleph.

Mona's pimp and boyfriend, a vain, scheming man obsessed with his wardrobe and his image as a dealmaker. He met Mona on a catfish farm in Cleveland and took her into the life, controlling her through a mixture of charm and violence. His eagerness to be part of a big deal leads him to accept Prior's offer, but he is killed and replaced - his prized gator-clone suitcases left behind on a baggage cart as evidence of his fate.

A thin, intense autodidact and fringe cyberspace theorist who lives in the upper loft of Factory on Dog Solitude. Obsessed with discovering the Shape of cyberspace - its overall total form - he dresses in black leather trimmed with jet-black beads and has large pale eyes, full lips, and a blond roostertail hairstyle. Antisocial and driven, he steals electricity from the Fission Authority and spends days on end with his decks and holo projectors.

Sense/Net's most important human decision-maker, who manages Angie Mitchell's career with boyish enthusiasm and careful control. A tall, brown-haired man in his late thirties who looks like an extraordinarily bright teenager, he dresses in mismatched tweeds and candy-striped shirts orchestrated by London tailors. Behind his bumbling exterior, he implements Continuity's decisions - including the plot to keep Angie on drugs that suppress her connection to the loa.

A charismatic figure who drives a matte-black vintage Dodge hover with chrome skulls on the bumper, wearing a mink coat and yellow ostrich boots. He has a long brown face, big hazel cat-slitted eyes, and a pencil-thin moustache. He once saved Slick Henry's life in Atlantic City and calls in that debt by asking Slick to hide Bobby Newmark's comatose body at Factory, fleeing Cleveland after something frightened him.

The thirteen-year-old daughter of a powerful Tokyo Yakuza oyabun, sent to London for her safety during an internal power struggle. Quiet, observant, and carrying the grief of her mother's suicide, she navigates the dangerous world of her father's criminal associates with a composure that belies her age. She carries a Maas-Neotek biochip unit containing a guide AI named Colin, which proves to be far more than a simple tourist companion.

A very tall, skeletal young man from the white Jersey stringtowns who lives at Factory with Slick and Gentry. He has a distinctive hairstyle with lacquered wings of brown hair and wears a curtain of animal bones, feathers, and rusty watches around his neck. Ignorant and prejudiced but dutiful, he maintains Factory's water supply and hunts rabbits. He is killed by a mercenary's sniper shot during the assault on Factory.

A street samurai with surgically implanted mirrored lenses in place of eyes and retractable four-centimetre scalpel blades beneath her fingernails. Molly is the most capable close-quarters fighter in the Sprawl trilogy and one of the most iconic characters in cyberpunk fiction - the razorgirl template that dozens of imitators have copied without matching. She first appeared in the short story Johnny Mnemonic before Neuromancer, where she works as muscle for Armitage and develops a complicated alliance with Case. She resurfaces under the name Sally Shears in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Her history - how she paid for her modifications, what it cost her - is one of the trilogy's most disturbing revealed backstories.

A sixteen-year-old SINless streetgirl and prostitute from Cleveland who bears a striking natural resemblance to Angie Mitchell. Uneducated and illiterate but resourceful, she is manipulated by her pimp Eddy and the operative Prior into undergoing cosmetic surgery to become Angie's double. Despite her naivety, she possesses a fundamental decency and ends up replacing Angie in the public eye after the real star transcends into the aleph.

Roger Swain's enormous, mild-mannered minder in London, a man of surprising gentleness despite his massive frame. He wears steel-rimmed glasses, frayed fingerless gloves, and decrepit slippers, and has a flat, crushed nose and stubbled head. Loyal but pragmatic, he serves as caretaker for both Swain's household and Kumiko, and ultimately becomes Swain's replacement as the Yakuza's London fixer.

Angie Mitchell's flamboyant hairdresser and closest confidant, an enormously tall and strong man with a depilated skull and sculpted, streamlined teeth. He switches between an extravagant persona and moments of genuine warmth and protective loyalty toward Angie. Originally white, he has undergone extensive cosmetic modification to achieve an appearance described as resembling a greyhound on steroids. He is sedated during Molly's abduction of Angie from the Sense/Net helicopter.

An English operative working for Swain, tasked with preparing Mona as Angie Mitchell's double. A pretty-faced man who hides behind sunglasses and a beard that he later shaves off, he has dragon tattoos across his shoulders. Cold and calculating, he disposes of Eddy and controls Mona through intimidation, but is brutally beaten by Molly when she arrives at Gerald's clinic in Baltimore.

A London-based criminal fixer and kobun to Kumiko's father, who runs his operations from three interconnected Victorian townhouses in Notting Hill. A tall, athletic man with pale eyes and lank mouse-coloured hair, he has dragon tattoos beneath his collarless shirts. He is being blackmailed by 3Jane into orchestrating the kidnapping of Angie Mitchell and the capture of Molly, trading intelligence for power until his overreach leads to his death.

A former car thief who served time in a chemo-penal unit that destroyed his short-term memory through induced Korsakov's syndrome. Now living in an abandoned factory on Dog Solitude in the Jersey rustbelt, he builds enormous kinetic sculptures - the Judge, the Witch, the Corpsegrinder, and the Investigators - as a way of processing his trauma. A large, strong man with grease-stained hands and a gentle nature, he becomes the reluctant guardian of Bobby Newmark's comatose body.

A fence and information broker operating out of Nighttown, the Sprawl's underworld district. The Finn appears across multiple Gibson works - Neuromancer, the short stories, and the Count Zero era. He deals in hardware, information, and anything else with value, operating through a network of contacts that extends from street level to corporate espionage. He is one of Case's few reliable contacts - not trustworthy in the conventional sense, but consistent in his unreliability, which amounts to the same thing. Wintermute uses his face and voice as one of its preferred communication personas.

A small, limping London data thief with black hair piled into oily curls above his forehead and a pronounced facial tic that manifests as a convulsive wink. He wears immaculate bottle-green velvet suits and suede wingtips, and lives in a meticulously tidy flat in Brixton packed with computing equipment. Sally hires him to spy on Swain's communications, and he later shelters Kumiko and helps her access the matrix.