House (TV series)/Characters

Dr. Gregory House
Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, with specialties in both Infectious Disease and Nephrology. House is a brilliant doctor; unfortunately for everyone around him, he's also a misanthrope and an arrogant jerk to everyone he meets. He walks with a cane as a result of an infarction he suffered in his right thigh and the surgery that tried to correct it; the pain from this drives his Vicodin addiction as well.

Associated tropes:
 * Abusive Father: Ice baths, Denied Food as Punishment if he was ever even the tiniest bit late for a meal, and being made to sleep outside in the yard when he was a child. House loves his mother, but she either did not accompany House and his father when he was stationed at various military bases or didn't notice the abuse.
 * House actually concludes that his mother hated his father, too, when he proves that . Given the nature of this sort of family dynamic, it's very likely she was a victim, too.
 * Agent Scully: He stubbornly refuses to accept any explanation involving magic/angels/misc supernatural, to the point he stuck a fork into a electrical socket to disprove someone else's near death experience.
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV (With moments of Type III and V). He has good intentions (most of the time) but he is not a nice man.
 * Badass
 * Badass Labcoat: Well, he doesn't wear one all that much, but considering this man's track record of surviving several things like insulin shock (which he inflicted on himself!), getting shot in his own office, attemting to perform surgery on himself, and a highly deadly bus accident, and all of which were done with no fear for his own life, this doctor is pretty hardcore.
 * Handicapped Badass: See everything in Badass Labcoat, and remember all of this occurred with him being a cripple.
 * Blatant Lies: The most obvious: "I never lie."
 * Brilliant but Lazy: House is shown to excel at almost everything he puts his mind to. Nonetheless, he will jump through all kinds of hoops to get out of clinic duty, and he was assigned interns to keep him from spending all his time watching Soap Operas. He can often be found doing random things in his office (or Wilson's office, or Cuddy's office...), ranging from playing with a Zen garden to constructing a Rube Goldberg machine to practicing yo-yo tricks. He claims in one episode that isolating himself "helps his process." Whether this or the above is true, or perhaps a mix of the two, is anyone's guess.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: A true example of the 'cost/benefit' part of the trope: he's so good at what he does Cuddy earmarks part of the hospital's budget to pay for the inevitable legal fees.
 * Byronic Hero
 * Casual Danger Dialogue: House's typical non-reaction of "cool" or "interesting" when a patient's face melts or some such.
 * Catch Phrase and Memetic Mutation: "It's not lupus."
 * Consummate Liar: He's good at it sure but it plays into his Catch Phrase "Everyone lies" and they do.
 * Custom Uniform: He very rarely wears the white lab coat that all the other doctors are required to wear. In fact, if you do see House in a lab coat, he's probably in the middle of pranking someone.
 * Cynical Mentor
 * Deadpan Snarker: At everyone, especially patients.
 * Dead Person Conversation:
 * Determinator: When he wants to prove that he's right.
 * Disability as an Excuse For Jerkassery: Uses his injured leg to do this, though he was a Jerkass before then.
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Whether its about his emotional state or his limp he'll chew you out for sympathy.
 * Dr. Jerk: A rather extreme example of this trope.
 * Eureka Moment: How House solves almost all the medical mysteries, to the point that he's become Genre Savvy about them and occasionally tries to induce them..
 * Expy: Of Sherlock Holmes.
 * Fake American: Hugh Laurie is British. His American accent is one of the better examples, though the way he pronounces some words can give it away. Strangely, he keeps the accent even when he's screwed up lines, as can be seen in the outtakes. (When executive producer Bryan Singer saw Hugh Laurie's audition tape, he turned to the casting department and said, "See? This is an American actor!" The casting department had to correct him.) Like most fake-American accents, Laurie uses a "gruff voice" as a cover-up in order to fake an American accent over his English one-- ala Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and John Mahoney on Frasier; not coincidentally, they're all playing stereotypical "tough American detectives" who supposedly all speak in gruff Midwestern dialects.
 * Lampshaded in Season 1 when House calls a doctor in the early hours of the morning. When asked to explain why he is calling at such a time he "puts on" an English accent and pretends he was calling from the UK and hadn't considered the time difference. For this scene Hugh Laurie is putting on the silly voice he used for oddball sketch comedy in the 80s.
 * Genius Cripple
 * Heroi...er, Main Character BSOD: Suffering bad ones after
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Wilson.
 * Icy Blue Eyes
 * Insufferable Genius: House is usually right, and he will make sure you know it.
 * Jerkass
 * Jerkass Facade: On many occasions.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold / Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
 * Lack of Empathy: Subverted. He is fully capable of empathy. In emotional or sad moments, and almost always private ones, he will display that capacity. He just likes to give the impression that he is an outright asshole.
 * Large Ham
 * Last-Name Basis: No one calls him "Greg", not even Wilison.
 * Made of Iron: Considering his addictions, all the experiments he made on himself and the sheer amount of accidents he's been in, it's a wonder he isn't dead yet.
 * Mad Scientist: Close to it. Very close. One time Cuddy refered to him as this.
 * Manipulative Bastard: To both his friends and his patients; either because it amused him or to find out some secret they're supposed hiding.
 * Mean Boss: Makes race jokes to Foreman, class jokes to Chase, and ridicules Cameron's compassion.
 * Also makes fun of Adams' rich guilt, Thirteen's bisexuality, and Taub's inability to keep a relationship together.
 * Basically, if you ever work with him and you have something to make fun of, he will make fun of it.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor: Hugh Laurie is a very humble man, who admits he gets worried about the risk of letting the fame go to his head. It seems, at least, that he's doing a fairly good job of keeping his feet planted firmly upon Terra Firma, so far.
 * Mistaken for Gay: Along with Wilson.
 * Never Be Hurt Again: At times. His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. Then when after his relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses the affections of his green-card wife, apparently out of fear that sex with anyone who actually likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment which will hurt him again. Of course, if you showed him this page on TV Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably give you a Hannibal Lecture about what a moron you are for thinking it.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * One of the Kids: House acts likes this occasionally.
 * The Only One: Other characters have made final diagnoses before he has only a few times in the show's history.
 * Perma Stubble
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Pet the Dog: Plenty, with the golden example being.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Wilson's red.
 * Screwy Squirrel
 * Self-Deprecation: Has huge issues of self-worth.
 * Sherlock Scan: He has on many occasions been able to deduce a stranger's illnesses after just one glance.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: With Cuddy.
 * Sociopathic Hero: He does, very deep down, want to cure the people he treats but only if their case is interesting and only if he can go to illegal lengths to make sure.
 * The Spock
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Team Dad
 * Troubled but Cute: Hey, fangirls love bad boys.
 * Too Clever by Half
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Wilson.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Gets this a lot from everyone.
 * Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Both Sides Now", the Season 5 finale, House seems to get control of his Heroic BSOD...
 * Too Clever by Half
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Wilson.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Gets this a lot from everyone.
 * Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Both Sides Now", the Season 5 finale, House seems to get control of his Heroic BSOD...

Dr. James Wilson
Head of the Department of Oncology, and House's best (and only) friend. Wilson is a sensitive and caring man, whose impeccable bedside manner sharply contrasts House's lack of one. As a result of his nature, he's been married three times, two of them failing as a result of his infidelity, and the third because of his partner's. Very much a people-pleaser. He and House frequently play mind games with one another.

Associated tropes: "House: You manipulative bastard, did you just invoke the name of to play me? You're my hero."
 * All Take and No Give: His relationship with House. Most of the time.
 * On the other hand, Wilson has said he values his relationship with House because he doesn't have to walk on eggshells or soften the truth with House, which is valuable for someone who has to be nice and compassionate to people all day long.
 * All Men Are Perverts: An authentic example. He still can't abstain from dating other women, even when he was married.
 * Well, until Amber.
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: With House.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: See Manipulative Bastard below. Wilson might be one of the most shining examples of this trope on TV.
 * Casting Gag: Robert Sean Leonard played Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society, who tried to give up his medical aspirations to be a thespian.
 * Chick Magnet
 * Common Sense
 * Consummate Liar
 * : Well, he is an oncologist
 * Expy: John Watson.
 * Extreme Doormat: Subverted. He may let House (and everyone else) roll over him most of the time, but when someone pushes him too far he stands his ground.
 * Failure Is the Only Option: None of Wilson's relationships work out. Ever.
 * : Trope Namer and trope subject -
 * Good Samaritan: He sacrifices a lot for House on a regular basis, which is often passed over. However in the episode "Wilson", we see how much attention and care he gives his patients on a daily basis, despite constantly dealing with House and the problems that follow him, which culminates when he gives his patient a part of his own liver in order to save him (and it's highly implied that if it came to it he'd probably do something similar again).
 * Guile Hero: "You manipulative bastard!" comes to mind.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With House.
 * Intoxication Ensues: "Resignation"'s infamous "I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Living Emotional Crutch: Heavily implied in his relationship with House.
 * Manipulative Bastard: A hugely important part of his character. Wilson remains the only character who can continually lie to House, as well as the only character to one-up House.
 * Living Emotional Crutch: Heavily implied in his relationship with House.
 * Manipulative Bastard: A hugely important part of his character. Wilson remains the only character who can continually lie to House, as well as the only character to one-up House.


 * The McCoy
 * Mistaken for Gay: Along with House.
 * Odd Friendship: With House.
 * Old Shame: There's a certain film he once starred in...
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to House's blue.
 * Shipper on Deck: First to House and Cameron (even as he warns her not to hurt him), then to House and Stacy (even as he warns her not to hurt him AND reminds House that Stacy's married) then to House and Cuddy. Mostly, he just wants House to be happy.
 * Stepford Smiler: Amber beats it out of him.
 * Straight Man
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With House.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro, an endocrinologist, and House and Wilson's boss. The frequent target of House's insults and innuendos, Cuddy tries her hardest to rein in her star doctor. Unfortunately, House usually ends up gaining the upper hand.

Associated tropes:
 * Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Cuddy constantly gives the impression that she has far too much on her plate, and in her A Day in the Limelight episode "5 to 9". this impression is confirmed with a vengeance, showing that House, for all the antagonism he gives Cuddy, is only about 50% of her problems.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Da Chief
 * The Danza: Lisa Cuddy is played by Lisa Edelstein.
 * Friendly Enemy
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Mama Bear
 * Matzo Fever
 * Ms. Fanservice: Let's see...low-cut tops, tight skirts and a stripper scene in House's mind.
 * Only Sane Employee
 * Put on a Bus: A sedan crashing through her living room was enough for Cuddy to call it quits.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: With House. House maintains that the reason Cuddy will eventually give him whatever he asks for is because they had a one-night stand prior to the start of the series.
 * Shallow Love Interest: Compared to Stacy and Lydia, House and Cuddy's relationship is more parts sex than emotion. Truer to the trope, we still know very little about her outside of her professional life and the fact that she has family.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Team Mom

Dr. Eric Foreman
Neurologist and one of the original fellows serving under House. Foreman is a black man who comes from an underprivileged background. House hired him because he was a thief and a carjacker in his youth. He is the last of the three original fellows to be hired, having only joined the team three days before the start of the series. House seems to favor him above the other fellows as, and Foreman serves as something of a foil to House himself, being the fellow most likely to challenge House's authority or question his actions. He serves as a fellow for House from Seasons 1 - 7 and

Associated tropes:
 * Common Sense
 * Custom Uniform: Starting in Season 4, like House he stops wearing a lab coat. Lampshaded by Chase in the episode "Games".
 * Expy: Is described in-universe as a "lite" version of House.
 * Dr. Jerk: To a lesser degree than House. His attempts to leave the hospital fail because of his House like tendencies.
 * The Lancer: From Season 4 on.
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Name's the Same: Eric Foreman, eh?
 * Not So Different: To House, a fact he deeply resents.
 * Only Sane Man: Sometimes, he seems to be only one with Common Sense from the entire group.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Straight Man
 * Token Minority: Something House always jokes about.
 * The Usurper
 * Token Minority: Something House always jokes about.
 * The Usurper

Dr. Allison Cameron
An immunologist, and one of House's original fellows. Cameron is often at odds with House over patient care -- she is more concerned about the patient, while House is more focused on the puzzle. Cameron is a widow, having married a man who she knew was dying of cancer when she was 21. She serves as a fellow during season 1-3 and the first few episodes of season 6. Starting in Season 4, she transfers from the Department of Diagnostic Medicine to the ER, working as a Senior Attending Physician.

Associated tropes:
 * Actual Pacifist
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: Her initial crush on House.
 * Black and White Morality: She believes very strictly in a set moral system. For some this may double over into Moral Myopia or Values Dissonance as she condemns Chase as "no longer valuing the sanctity of human life" for (thereby actively saving the lives of thousands of people), while she herself helped a patient to die via committing euthanasia. And to play the guilt card, Chase did feel terrible about it for a long time. YMMV, though.
 * The Face Cameron is The Heart variety as she is the only one of the main cast that patients will ever actually know. She goes out of her way to 'get to know' the patients, as opposed to the other members of her department who more or less don't care and just ask them about symptoms.
 * The Heart: The moral center, if they would listen to her more often.
 * Last-Name Basis
 * The Medic: Though all of the characters are doctors, her personality best fits the trope.
 * Morality Pet: Tries to be one to House, with occasional if mild success.
 * Naive Everygirl
 * The McCoy / Strawman Emotional
 * Out of Focus: During seasons 4 and 5.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Politeness Judo: Her usual way of dealing with difficult patients or adversarial outside authorities.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Although House usually prevents her from doing anything drastic.

Dr. Robert Chase
An intensivist (intensive care specialist), and another of the original fellows. Chase is an Australian of Czech descent, and was originally a seminary student before becoming a doctor. He has a strained relationship with his father, largely due to his father's emotional distance and his mother's alcoholism following their divorce. House seems to single out Chase for abuse, likely due to the fact that he's the only member of the team whom House did not select himself. Early on in the series, he is treated as House's "yes man", often agreeing with him and standing by his side no matter what. He gradualy learns the hard way that he can't please his boss all of the time. Nonetheless, Chase is a brilliant doctor in his own right, and has solved the case a few times when House couldn't. He serves as a fellow under House during seasons 1-3 and seasons 6-8. Chase becomes a member of the surgical staff at Princeton-Plainsboro and becomes House's go-to-guy for surgery during seasons 4 and 5. He finds himself practicing under House again as member of his team in the 3rd episode of season 6.

Associated tropes: "House (upon seeing Chase for the first time in over a year): Beard's a nice touch. Let's everyone else know you're not a teenage girl."
 * Agent Mulder
 * Bishonen: Several characters, including House, have made quite a few quips about his good looks.


 * Butt Monkey: Sad enough to the extent that House attempted to fire him twice (the first time didn't count as Foreman became House's superior by order of the medical board and Cuddy once, the second time he was fired for real).
 * Dr. Jerk: To a lesser degree than Foreman; Foreman at one point criticizes Chase for acting nice to patients and then talking smack about them later.
 * Even the Guys Want Him: According to House and Wilson, Chase is prettier than Cameron.
 * Expy: In-Universe, he often tries to be one of House, especially in his methods of figuring out patient diagnoses. This does help him out on occasion, amazingly enough.
 * It's worth noting that he starts taking on some of House's physical traits as the show progressed.
 * And in the series finale, after House, he even takes over House's job at Princeton-Plainsboro, complete with House's old office.
 * If Jesus, Then Aliens
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Lonely Rich Kid
 * The Mole: To Vogler in Season 1.
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye: To his father.
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: All doctors on the show get this to some degree, but Chase goes from intensivist to someone who can apparently perform every kind of surgery under the sun.
 * Out of Focus: During season 4 and 5.
 * Shoot the Dog / Dirty Business: "The Tyrant".
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse
 * Teeny Weenie: In one episode, a woman takes a naked photo of Chase at a party and posted it on Facebook. At first his crotch was pixellated, but later she uploaded an uncensored version, revealing this, apparently. The other characters, both male and female, tease him mercilessly for it, while Chase insists the image had been doctored.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: To House.

Dr. Chris Taub
A plastic surgeon. He's serves as one of House's fellows during seasons 4-8. Taub is middle aged and Jewish. He was forced out of his successful practice after his partners found out that he was cheating on his wife with one of the nurses. As part of the agreement, he signed a "non-compete" contract, which states that he can no longer pursue a career in his chosen specialty. Taub can be combative, and has tried to undermine House's authority, going so far as to try to get House thrown off of a case.

Associated tropes:
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dr. Jerk: Again, not as bad as House.
 * Kavorka Man: He's a magnet for the ladies. Though his commitment-phobia always ends up torpedoing any chance at happiness.
 * Lethal Chef: A meal he cooks ends up giving both him and Foreman food poisoning.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Self-Deprecation: Refers to himself at one point as a stooge for House.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Those Two Guys: With Kutner, later with Foreman.

Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Born as "Lawrence Choudray". A sports and rehabilitation medicine specialist. He's a member of House's fellows during seasons 4 and 5. Of Indian descent, Kutner was orphaned at the age of six, following his parents' shooting in a burglary attempt. He was subsequently adopted by another family, leading to his decisively non-Indian name. Despite this, he is generally cheery, and displays an honest enthusiasm for what he does.

Associated tropes:
 * The Big Guy
 * Berserk Button: You do not lie to Kutner.
 * Bollywood Nerd
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Nice Guy
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Running Gag: Kutner + defibrillator = disaster
 * Foreshadowing: In "Locked In", Kutner uses the paddles without anything disastrous happening.
 * Fridge Brilliance
 * Token Minority: For the new crew, although Foreman is still around so he's not alone. In the episode "Locked In", he refers to them as "dark and darker".
 * Running Gag: Kutner + defibrillator = disaster
 * Foreshadowing: In "Locked In", Kutner uses the paddles without anything disastrous happening.
 * Fridge Brilliance
 * Token Minority: For the new crew, although Foreman is still around so he's not alone. In the episode "Locked In", he refers to them as "dark and darker".

Thirteen
Remy Hadley is better known as "Thirteen". She specializes in internal medicine, and is a fellow during seasons 4-7 (though she is gone for most of season 7). Thirteen prides herself on being a bit of an enigma, and her real name was not known until the end of Season 4. It's later revealed that her mother died of Huntington's disease, and she was reluctant to get tested for the disease herself, feeling that it was better not knowing.

Associated tropes:
 * Bi the Way
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Distaff Counterpart: To House, in the later seasons. House seems to believe that if she can be happy, her life being much crappier than his, so could he.
 * The Chick
 * In temperament, has shades of Tomboy.
 * Ill Girl
 * : After disappearing for a year House eventually finds out that
 * At the end of the episode
 * Missing Mom: Her mother died of Huntington's when she was a child.
 * No Name Given: For most of her time on the show. Her last name is only given a couple of times on screen and her full name only once, both after she'd been on the show for quite a while.
 * Out of Focus: She's gone for most of season 7, due to her actress filming Tron: Legacy.
 * : Poor Thirteen.
 * Unlucky Thirteen:
 * Creator's Pet: She's graduated to this status as the writers continue to overexpose her.
 * Creator's Pet: She's graduated to this status as the writers continue to overexpose her.

Martha M. Masters
A med student brought in as an intern to replace Thirteen for most of season 7. She does not approve of House's extreme methods. She departs when Thirteen returns.

Associated tropes:
 * Ambiguous Disorder: She's socially inept and has compiled many esoteric facts inside of her head. She's like the internet but with breasts. Oh wait...
 * Break the Cutie
 * Foil: To House, who often makes fun of her for her honesty and naivete.
 * Hollywood Nerd: Type 2.
 * Shout-Out: A naive doctor who believes in the goodness of all humans and ends up ....hmmm, sounds a lot like Kenzou Tenma.
 * The Intern
 * Will Not Tell a Lie
 * Principles Zealot: How House views her.

Dr. Jessica Adams
A doctor who originally worked at the jail that  spent the first episode of Season 8. After being fired from that job, she joins House as fellow in season 8.

Associated tropes:
 * Expy: In a very general sense, at least, compared to House's other new employee, Dr. Park. She follows the formula of being an attractive female with some emotional baggage as Cameron and Thirteen were, though her baggage doesn't seem nearly as heavy as Cameron's or Thirteens. Yet.
 * She is gradually becoming more and more an Expy of Cameron - she shares the unlucky relationship history and especially the very high moral concerns.
 * Foil: To Dr. Park, in some ways. It makes their first few interactions rather entertaining.
 * Woman Scorned: Patients who cheat on their wives/girlfriends are her Berserk Button, thanks to her own husband having done the same to her.

Dr. Chi Park
A young Korean/Filipino neurologist who joins House's team when he finishes his prison stint in the second episode of season 8. Initially, she is his team. She is nerdy and socially inept.

Associated tropes: "Park: They used to call me Park-ing lot."
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Her crush on Chase is not mutual, and House and Adams taunt her about it occasionally, persumably as he is a Mr. Fanservice even in-universe, while she is seen as a Hollywood Homely (House notes that she is ruining his Charlie's Angels fantasy for the brief time there where only her, Adams and Thirteen on his team.)
 * Asian and Nerdy
 * Beware the Nice Ones: "You're aware I punched the last person who pissed me off?"
 * Formerly Fat: Apparently gained a lot of weight when her last relationship ended.


 * Meganekko
 * Mushroom Samba: After eating ice cream at a patient's house (don't ask), she starts having very vivid and hilarious hallucinations, including seeing Taub as a fairy. It turns out that the ice cream was laced with LSD, due to the patient (who had been blind since birth) wanting to know what it would be like to see.
 * No Social Skills: Seriously. None.

Edward Vogler
A billionaire pharmaceutical magnate who "donated" $100,000,000 to Princeton-Plainsboro in exchange for being made chairman of the hospital's board. Wanting to use the hospital as a testing facility for his company's drugs, he comes into direct contention with House, whom he sees as a serious liability.

Associated tropes:
 * Executive Meddling: Both his reason for being (FOX execs wanted a villain to play against House) and his modus operandi.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money
 * Tyrant Takes the Helm

Detective Michael Tritter
One of House's clinic patients, who bullied House into running a series of (presumably unnecessary) tests; House retaliated by using a rectal thermometer to take his temperature...and left him there, unattended, for two hours. Tritter, who is as hard headed as House (with a bad attitude to match), sees House as a danger to himself and his patients due to his Vicodin addiction, and will stop at nothing to put him away.

Associated tropes:
 * Disproportionate Retribution: Okay, Tritter has reason to be pissed, but does that really justify trying to imprison House, get him declared a drug pusher/addict, and get him disbarred from medicine forever?
 * Jerkass
 * Graceful Loser: He does concede he could be wrong about House at the end of the Tritter arc, and even wishes House luck while he's at it.
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil: His raison d'etre for making House suffer.

Dr. Amber Volakis
An interventional radiologist, she was one of the 40 applicants for the fellowship. Devious and manipulative, she earned the epithet of "Cutthroat Bitch". Eliminated in the last round of the competition due to her inability to accept being wrong, she started dating Wilson in the latter half of Season 4.

Associated tropes:
 * Alpha Bitch
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Does Not Like Shoes: Her hallucination form is frequently barefoot.
 * Enemy Without: As a hallucination. Initially an ally, she turns dark as House wises up to the fact that her (his?) intents are hostile.
 * Establishing Character Moment: Amber is the first to balk at House's absurd tests. She announces she's leaving, and half of the trainees follow suit. She returns minutes later, having thinned the herd.
 * Informed Self Diagnosis
 * In-Series Nickname: "Cutthroat Bitch"
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * : She reappears as a in Seasons 5 and 6.
 * She's Got Legs: Part of the explanation Kutner gives as to why he asked her out.
 * Shipper on Deck: To House and Wilson, albeit
 * Shipper on Deck: To House and Wilson, albeit

Dr. Darryl Nolan
Pretty much House's psychotherapist manager in Season 6. Came back for the series finale as


 * Bald of Awesome
 * Only Sane Man: Inappropriate pun not intended.
 * The Mentor: To House.
 * Special Guest: Andre "Det. Frank Pembleton" Braugher.

Stacy Warner
A lawyer in the employ of Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital in seasons 1 and 2...oh, and she used to be married to Gregory House. Remarried.


 * Almost Kiss: More like "almost sex." In "Failure to Communicate," House and Stacy attend a meeting in Baltimore and end up stranded there when all the flights are grounded. Stacy books them a hotel room, and they end up kissing, but before things can go any further, House gets a call from his fellows regarding their patient and reluctantly answers it.
 * Hello, Attorney!
 * It's Not You, It's Me: How House ends their final affair; while he still loves her, he isn't able to change for her and knows that another relationship between them would end the same way the first one did.
 * Put on a Bus
 * Back for the Finale
 * Your Cheating Heart: Ends up cheating on her husband with House.

Dominika Petrova House
A prostitute of unidentified Slavic origin introduced in Season 7, when House marries her as a green card cheat.


 * Citizenship Marriage
 * Hooker with a Heart of Gold
 * The Lancer: Seems more willing to go along with House's zany schemes than his team. Including trying to help prove that the man that House's regular hooker is "leaving him" for must be an adulterer if he's okay with the fact that she's a prostitute. Remember, this is while she's married to House.
 * The Lancer: Seems more willing to go along with House's zany schemes than his team. Including trying to help prove that the man that House's regular hooker is "leaving him" for must be an adulterer if he's okay with the fact that she's a prostitute. Remember, this is while she's married to House.