CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Game of Nerds]]: He likes baseball

* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Especially in the earlier seasons. Despite his intelligence and expert grasp of human nature, Grissom lead a very isolated life, and rebuffed most opportunities of interaction outside of the workplace. He even turned down Sara's initial dating requests in Season 3.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Grissom literally [[Growing the Beard]]. It's arguably second to Chuck Norris.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Seen sporting a straw sunhat in more than one episode. It was once complimented by a hooker.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Pretty much the only way to get him riled up is to either threaten one of his teammates, especially Sara, or do anything to endanger children

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Catherine. They are obviously best friends, but there's also no hint of sexual chemistry between them.

** He did have a cameo in season 12's "The Two Mrs.Grissoms"

* [[Quip to Black]]: Famous for it -- [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|used to be the]] [[Trope Namer]]

* [[Official Couple]]: With Vartaan. For a while, anyway.

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Grissom.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: In response to Lindsey's reckless hitchhiking, her mom drags her into the morgue to view a dead hitchhiker (to Dr. Robbins' disapproval).

* [[Porn Stache]]: For a while, before he had enough of everyone's justified ribbing.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]

* [[The Woobie]]

 

* [[Scary Black Man]]

* [[Token Minority]]

 

== Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) ==

* [[Berserk Button]]: Domestic violence, especially spouses murdering each other.

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Her mother killed her father, who was abusive to both her and her mother. She ended up in foster care.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: She still uses "Sidle" now that she is married to Grissom

* [[May-December Romance]]: with Grissom; the actors are 16 years apart in real life. Not that it matters to Sara, who as mentioned above, has a thing for silver foxes.

** [[The Bus Came Back]]: She's an official series regular again for Season 12.

* [[Relationship Reveal]]: with Grissom

 

== Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) ==

** It's [[Billing Displacement|Laurence Fishburne]].

** He's a [[Renaissance Man]]; he's only a Level 1 CSI (though he works his butt off to get quickly promoted to Level 2) but he used to be a medical doctor (so he assists in autopsy's more than most) and a criminology lecturer (so he occasionally provides a criminal profile). He's underqualified as a crime scene investigator but he makes up for it with a broad range of skills. Plus he's Laurence Fishburne.

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Inverted, he ''is'' that kind of doctor (or rather, he used to be).

* [[The Professor]]

* [[Token Minority]]

 

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

 

== D.B. Russell (Ted Danson) ==

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Particularly in Hodges' fantasies of her. In one she's only wearing a ''bikini''.

* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]

 

== Mandy Webster (Sheeri Rappaport) ==

 

== Archie Johnson (Archie Kao) ==

* [[The Danza]]: Archie Kao as Archie Johnson.

* [[The Lab Rat]]

* [[Dirty Cop]] : Originally a big subversion of this, stating how he refused to be bought or get dirty, but now drifting into that territory as of the end of season 11. {{spoiler|He covered for Ray when Ray killed Nate Haskell, and was reluctant to help catch a killer who was killing other killers.}}

* [[Jerkass]] In Season 1.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: He's the man who gives both the team and the audience information on the latest victim of the week.

* [[Parental Issues]]: He still loves his daughter despite knowing that she's not his. Her... not so much, to the point that when Brass is shot he gives power of attorney to Grissom rather than to her.

 

== Conrad Ecklie (Marc Vann) ==

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: The real reason he was such an ass to Grissom and the team was because he thought that Grissom had the same ambitions he did. Once he realized that Grissom and the team wouldn't keep him from fulfilling his goals, he eased off considerably.

* [[Big Bad]]: Arguably, of season five. He never does anything illegal, but his antagonistic actions drive the overarching plot of that season.

* [[Da Chief]]: He starts out as the day shift supervisor, then becomes director of the lab, and is later promoted to undersheriff of the entire department.

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Supplies a rather nasty and [[Shocking Swerve|completely out-of-nowhere]] one in {{spoiler|"Fracked"}}.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: He's extremely ambitious, and saw Grissom as competition. At different points, he would try and undermine the team's work.

* [[Rank Up]]: To Undersheriff

* {{spoiler|[[Detective Mole]] / [[Mole in Charge]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dirty Cop]]}}

* [[The Mole]]

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]

* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]

* [[The Sheriff]]: Well, his title is Undersheriff.

 

== Heather Kessler (Melinda Clarke) ==