Orange Is The New Black: 10 Characters More Interesting Than Piper

By James Hunt /

6. Pennsatucky

The antagonist of season 1, who continually threatens and torments Piper to the point where she snaps and punches her teeth out. For the most part she€™s an evangelical Christian, although it gets toned down later in season 2, who strongly opposes homosexuality and believes in her ability to heal people. Before prison she was a drug addict, who we see after she undergoes her fifth abortion. When the nurse taunts her about this, she proceeds to shoot her, which makes her a hero in the eyes of far-right pro-life groups, and sets her on the path to becoming a devout Christian. In season 2 she develops a strange relationship with Sam Healy, being counselled by him and bonding over distrust of the fellow inmates and homophobia. That could lead to some confrontation in season 3, and a return to a more antagonistic role, especially with the return to prison of Alex Vause.