Sliders/Characters

Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell)

 * Badass
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Butt Monkey
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Honor Before Reason
 * The Nth Doctor
 * Team Dad: After Arturo dies late Season 3 and for Season 4. Lampshaded in "Slither," where Quinn laments that without Arturo, "It's all on me, and I'm flying blind."
 * Teen Genius
 * Two First Names

Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd)

 * Alliterative Name
 * Devoted to You: EVERY male character in EVERY dimension falls in love with her, for a reason beyond this troper's psychological abilities.
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Dropped A Bridge On Her
 * The Heart
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Spell My Name with an "S": "Welles" or "Wells."
 * Word of God admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it Depending on the Writer.
 * Techno Wizard
 * Word of God admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it Depending on the Writer.
 * Techno Wizard

Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks)

 * As the Good Book Says...
 * Badass: Seasons 4 and 5.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Black Best Friend
 * Break the Cutie: He spent months in a Kromagg prison.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dirty Coward: Season 1.
 * The Everyman
 * The Heart
 * Hidden Depths
 * Manly Tears: His nickname is "Crying Man," after all.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Ted Baxter: He has a lot of these moments in the first two seasons.
 * Team Dad: In Season 5.
 * Took a Level In Badass: At the start of the series, he was easily spooked by dangers on parallel worlds. By Season 4, he gladly fights Kromaggs hand-to-hand and mocks them to their faces.
 * Took a Level In Badass: At the start of the series, he was easily spooked by dangers on parallel worlds. By Season 4, he gladly fights Kromaggs hand-to-hand and mocks them to their faces.

Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies)
""You resent the boy because it comes so easily to him.""
 * Agent Scully
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Catch Phrase: The number of times he called someone a "blistering idiot" and yelled "incoming" at the end of a slide borders on this.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Disappeared Dad: According to "Into the Mystic," he's actually this to someone back home.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * I Just Want to Be Special: Season 2 introduced the idea that he resented Quinn for inventing sliding by accident.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: Season 2 introduced the idea that he resented Quinn for inventing sliding by accident.


 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: But virtually every single double encountered was a Jerkass.
 * Mister Exposition
 * Parental Substitute: To Quinn.
 * The Professor
 * Secretly Dying: Introduced in "The Guardian," where Quinn finds out and is sworn to secrecy. Rembrandt would find out in "Last of Eden."
 * The Smart Guy
 * Taking the Bullet
 * Team Dad: Seasons 1-3.
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Ted Baxter

Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer)

 * Action Girl
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Daddy Issues: Highlighted in "The Return of Maggie Beckett."
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dead Guy, Junior
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Damsel in Distress
 * The Heart: In Season 5.
 * Hidden Depths
 * Hot Amazon
 * Jerkass, later Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Same Character but Different: Her personality was retooled between Seasons 3 and 4. Lampshaded in the Season 4 premiere with a character with a personality of the Season 3 Maggie.
 * The Snark Knight
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted at first, as she was nothing like Arturo. Her Season 4 onward depiction does bear some similarity to Wade's, though.
 * Team Mom: In Season 4-5.
 * Waif Fu

Colin Mallory (Charlie O'Connell)

 * Dropped a Bridge on Him
 * Gadgeteer Genius: He built his own hang glider for one.
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Put on a Bus to Hell
 * Smarter Than You Look: Colin is rather naive, but only because he came from a less advanced world. He is nonetheless quite intelligent, adapting rather well to modern technology and figuring things out for himself.

Quinn "Mallory" Mallory (Robert Floyd)

 * Book Dumb
 * Last-Name Basis: Mainly because Maggie was incapable of calling him "Quinn," and then everybody picked it up.
 * Loveable Rogue
 * The Nth Doctor

Diana Davis (Tembi Locke)

 * Alliterative Name
 * Black and Nerdy
 * Break the Cutie: Back-to-back episodes "Applied Physics" and "Strangers and Comrades."
 * Heel Face Turn: In the episode where she's introduced.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute