Hermes is the Jamaican accountant of Planet Express. A 36th-level bureaucrat and proud of it, he is a stickler for regulation and enamored of the tedium of paperwork and bureaucracy. Hermes is also a former champion in Olympic Limbo, a sport derived from the popular party activity. Hermes has a wife, LaBarbara, and a 12-year-old son, Dwight.