Charlie Roan

Charlie Roan is the deuteragonist of The Purge: Election Year. She is a senator for the U.S. government that disagrees with the idea of the Purge and wants it abolished, running a campaign against it so that when she became elected as the next president of the United States, she would be able to finally end it, which marked her for death on Purge night by the NFFA. Despite the many near death experiences the characters run into, Charlie ultimately survives the night and wins the election against rival Edwidge Owens, leading to the end of the Purge for 8 years up until the events of The Forever Purge and after that, forever.
She was portrayed by , who also played Carol Newman-Calvin in The Santa Clause franchise, Juliet Burke in Lost, and Ingrid the Snow Queen in Once Upon a Time.
==Biography==
During the annual Purge in 2022, Charlie and her family were both tied up by a Purger and the Purger decided to give her mother a sadistic choice, choosing which member of the family would live, while everyone else would be killed and she would be forced to watch. Roan's mother then chose her to be the sole survivor, leading to the Purger hacking her family to death in front of her and leaving her by herself once they were finished. Traumatized by this encounter, Roan decided to work towards becoming a successful politician so that she could end the Purge once and for all in the future.
Set 17 years after the events of The Purge: Anarchy, Roan is introduced giving a speech as a senator for the U.S. government that disagrees with the Purge's existence as she believes a government that relies on violence to solve their problems needs to be rebooted and solve their problems through pacifistic methods. Despite Owens efforts to convince the audience that the Purge is a good thing, Roan ultimately wins their favor and proudly walks off the stage, telling a couple of reporters that the soul of the country is at stake and that the Purge must come to an end.
After this, Roan returns to her office with Leo Barnes and the rest of her security detail, where they then subsequently hear an announcement that protection for rank 10 officials on Purge Night will be revoked after multiple complains about it, (although it was really just revoked by the NFFA as a way of assassinating Roan on Purge Night). Leo then tells Roan he will get a safe-house ready but she refuses, believing that if she stays in a safe-house then she will lose the favor of the public due to the possibility of them seeing her as a "rich asshole that stays in a safe-house all night", telling Leo that she is going to opt waiting it out in her home instead.
Due to this decision, Leo completely overhauls all the security in Charlies house and once he is finished, tells her that he doesn't want her to come out of her office for the entire 12 hour period and that if she wants something, she asks him and him only. Roan then eventually asks Leo to have a drink with her, during which they discuss why Leo applied to become Roan's head of security. Leo then tells her that he wants Purge Night gone due to almost giving into his vengeful desire to kill Warren Grass and also because it ended up causing the death of his son. Leo also sympathizes with Roan's motive for wanting an end to the Purge. After their chat, Leo goes back to his duty and Roan stays in her office working.
Unfortunately, it is revealed that two traitors were installed in the security detail by the NFFA to sabotage Leo's security measures, so after figuring out they were betrayed, Leo runs straight into Roan's office and gives her a kevlar vest to put on. She questions Leo's behaviour which he tries to quickly explain but he ends up just deciding to focus on getting Roan to safety, revealing a secret trap door he hid under the rug in her room as an exit which the two drop down into and eventually escape, with Leo killing 2 NFFA officers on the way and detonating a remote bomb he had set up in Roan's office to kill a sniper after taking a bullet for her.
After making it out onto the streets, the duo then eventually meet Joe Dixon and Marcos Dali who save the two of them from a group of foreigners wanting to purge and take them to Joe's shop. Charlie then greets Joe and Marcos, before discussing about what she will do when she becomes the president and that Marcos believes she has what it takes to win, even telling her that getting Florida on her side is the key to victory. Leo then gets his bullet wound crudely treated but the group are then attacked by some Purgers, who attempt to break through the front entrance and back entrance by using circular saws, but the timely arrival of Joe and Marcos friend, Laney Rucker allows them to escape out the front after Laney murders all of the Purgers. The group are then pursued by Earl Danzinger in an attack helicopter and they question how the NFFA were able to find them so easily. Leo then realizes he has been shot with a tracer bullet and painfully removes it with some medical tongs. He then decides to use it as a trap for Danzingers men by placing it in an area next to Joe's old loyalists, who subsequently gun the NFFA members down and laugh triumphantly with Danzinger showing annoyance over this failure.
The group then take an injured member of Joe's old loyalists to Dante Bishop's Anti-Purge Resistance base to fulfill their side of the deal with Joe's loyalists. Roan discusses with Bishop that she doesn't entirely agree with his methods on Purge Night but he tells her that if she gets rid of the Purge, he wont have to use his methods she disagrees with anymore, which she finds a fair point. After arriving at the base, they learn that Bishop and his men are planning to assassinate Owens later that night in order to secure Roan's victory. Despite Roan's pleas for Bishop to not go through with it, their argument is cut short by the NFFA storming the base, leading to Leo escorting Roan out of the base through a secret exit and eventually regrouping with Laney, Joe and Marcos in the van. Unfortunately, Danzinger and his men cause a car crash by smashing into their van and subsequently kidnap Roan. Despite this, Leo remains calm and correctly deduces where the NFFA are taking Roan as he believed they hadn't killed her already for a reason, before leading the rest of the heroes on a mission to save her life before it's too late.
Roan is then taken into the NFFA church by Danzinger and his men for cash, where she is tied up on a rack and forced to watch a drug addict be stabbed to death by Harmon James and Owens as a way to celebrate the opportunity to cleanse their souls. Roan is then brought in by Owens, who proclaims to the audience that she needs to be killed due to her attempting to "poison" the country by getting rid of the Purge, which he receives a huge round of applause for. Owens then invites all of the NFFA leaders up to the altar so they can all take part in killing Roan, with Owens giving NFFA leader, Caleb Warrens the go ahead to purge. As he is attempting to kill Roan, he is sniped in the head by Marcos after the heroes successfully infiltrate the NFFA base and a shootout occurs between the two factions, ending with several NFFA members and purgers dead and Roan's life being ultimately saved.
The moment would soon become stressful though, as Dante still wanted to go through with his plan to assassinate Owens after his men caught him trying to escape. Barnes then defends Roan after she attempts to convince Bishop to not go through with the assassination, telling Bishop's men that she knows what she is doing. Bishop then comes out of his room with Owens still alive, telling Roan that "she better fucking win" before taking Owens with him. After finding a group of innocents that Owens had kidnapped, Charlie shows disgust towards him, telling him that she is going to beat the shit out of him on election day, before helping the rest of the group untie the captives. Unfortunately, one of the captives panics and runs out of the room, with James being revealed to be on the other side of the door, killing the man with a shotgun, injuring Marcos with it and attempting to kill Roan with a handgun after the shotgun runs out of ammo. Joe then takes the bullets for her and eventually kills James with a head shot.
Joe then slowly bleeds to death with all of the survivors mourning him. Two months after the events of the Purge, it is revealed that Roan has won the election, and that her first course of action is to make an executive decision to put an end to the Purge, ultimately ending the Purge for 8 years and eventually, ending it permanently after the events of The Forever Purge cause the governments to restore Roan's policy after the NFFA were stripped of their power due to the governments being fed up of them making things worse and turning America into a completely uninhabitable place due to their actions.
== Personality ==
Charlie was a confident and no nonsense woman that wasn't afraid to risk her own life to make sure that she got her points across and that the Purge would ultimately come to an end once she became the president. She is also honorable, believing that even if the NFFA are using dirty tactics to assure Owens wins the election, that doesn't mean she should herself and seeing the money generated from the Purge going towards the NRA and insurance companies to be unfair, believing that a government that can only solve problems through violence is a government that is destined to fail. She is shown to be affable to many of the other heroes too, often treating them nicely even if she doesn't agree with their methods entirely and thanking Joe and Marcos for saving her and Leo's lives from a group of Purgers.
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