Psych/Characters

The cast of Psych may not be too big, but they sure are memorable.

Shawn Spencer (James Roday (Adult); Liam James and Skyler Gisondo (Child))
The main character, a Brilliant but Lazy Phony Psychic running the eponymous detective agency.


 * Ambiguously Bisexual
 * Awesome By Analysis
 * Sherlock Scan
 * The Barnum
 * Book Dumb
 * Brilliant but Lazy
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * The Charmer: Shawn's greatest asset (excepting his attention to detail) is his ability to charm people, which is odd since he also has a singular talent for being tactless and irritating.
 * Genius Ditz
 * Guile Hero
 * Hilariously Abusive Childhood
 * Improbable Aiming Skills
 * It's All About Me: Not even his inner ego manage to change his delusion that he is the greatest gift to everyone around him except Lassiter.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Karma Houdini: For all his antics, he gets away scott-free almost every time. The fact that he's genuinely a good guy despite said antics probably contributes a lot to that.
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Magician Detective
 * Malaproper
 * Narcissist
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Pop-Cultured Badass
 * Private Detective
 * Pstandard Psychic Pstance
 * Red Oni
 * Screams Like a Little Girl
 * The Slacker
 * The Trickster

Burton "Gus" Guster (Dule Hill (Adult); Carlos McCullers II (Child))
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 * Black Best Friend: subverted; Gus is decidedly less "hip" than Shawn.
 * Black and Nerdy: Gus is a pharmaceutical sales rep who has a passion for spelling bees and comic books.
 * Blue Oni
 * Camp Straight:
 * Genre Savvy
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Only Sane Man: At least when compared to Shawn
 * Private Detective
 * Screams Like a Little Girl
 * The Straight Man
 * The Watson
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Uses a camel clutch and a fail tombstone on

Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen)
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 * Control Freak
 * Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
 * Not So Different: Lassiter for one thinks the Spencers, father and son, are pretty much one and the same person.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat
 * Retired Badass
 * : As of the season six finale.
 * Sink or Swim Mentor

Detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson)
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 * Adorkable: he had some moments that could be called this before, but any moment he's on screen with Marlowe makes it unquestionable.
 * Ambiguously Bisexual
 * Badass: When he isn't the...
 * Butt Monkey
 * Blue Eyes
 * Control Freak
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Flanderization: Definitely a case of Tropes Are Not Bad, but he does go through this over time.
 * If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Threatens Shawn concerning him dating and to prove his point he revealed that he connected himself the polygraph machine.
 * Inspector Lestrade
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold- He can be nice to Juliet.
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Let's Get Dangerous
 * Overwhelming Obsession: Carlton really loves his guns. A lot. To the point that he keeps a ton of them stashed in various places in his house, including in a bowl of almonds. He's also very Trigger Happy and sees no problem in casually threatening to shoot people (namely Shawn) who annoy him, and when he's fingered as a murder suspect and has to give up his firearms, it contributes heavily to his resulting downward spiral.
 * Trigger Happy
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is afraid of snowglobes. Shawn doesn't hesitate to exploit this during "Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy".

Detective Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson)
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 * Action Girl
 * Badass Adorable: People can't hate her; she claims to get Christmas cards from people she arrests. She can also hold her own in the notoriously harsh sport of the Roller Derby.
 * Becoming the Mask: Juliet runs into this problem when going undercover.
 * The Chick
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Fair Cop
 * Hair of Gold
 * Only Sane Man: Sometimes, but notably in "This Episode Sucks:" While the rest of the cast is convinced that they are hunting a vampire, she doesn't buy it.
 * Second Episode Introduction

Chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson)
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 * Da Chief
 * Hot Mom
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Officer Buzz McNabb (Sage Brocklebank)
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"McNabb: “I’m sorry Shawn, here I am going on about being blown up and here you are dying of thirst”"
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Meaningful Name: Debatable weather he’s lived up to it or not, but one has to wonder about a cop named McNabb
 * Nice Guy: To paraphrase:


 * That wasn’t Sarcasm Mode, the guy was being genuine. If that’s not a nice guy I don’t know who is.

Woody the Coroner (Kurt Fuller)
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 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Crazy aside, he's good at his job. Or at least good enough to keep it.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Creepy Mortician
 * Genius Ditz: His status as a Cloudcuckoolander is undeniable...but he is a mortician, which requires some smarts
 * Furry Fandom: At least according to his choice of websites.

Mary Lightly (Jimmi Simpson)
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 * Ensemble Darkhorse

Mr. Yang (Ally Sheedy)
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 * Ax Crazy
 * Samus Is a Girl
 * Shotacon: Had a crush on a 12-yr-old Shawn when she was either an older teenager or a young adult.

Mr. Yin (Christopher Turner and Peter Weller)
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 * Complete Monster
 * Evil Counterpart: To Henry