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== The Current{{when}} BAU Team ==
=== Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: It's heavily implied that Hotch's father abused him, and that's why he grew up to catch serial killers.
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]
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=== David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Above and beyond this with first ex-wife Carolyn, implied to be this with his two other ex-wives as well.
* [[Agent Scully]]
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=== Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) ===
[[File:morgan 2859.png|frame]]
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Briefly in Season Five.
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=== Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) ===
[[File:245px-Spencer Reid 1 1117.jpg|frame]]
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Adorkable]]: In general, but especially with his giant [[Nerd Glasses]] when he was a child.
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]
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* [[Tropaholics Anonymous]]: In 3x16 "Elephant's Memory," he's seen attending a meeting of "Beltway Clean Cops" to cope with the Dilaudid addiction he developed in season two.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: He is ''not'' happy to learn that {{spoiler|the fact that Prentiss' death was [[Faking the Dead|faked]] was intentionally hidden from him}}.
=== Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vagsness) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Badass Boast]]: In a slightly nerdy way whenever she answers the phone to the team, for example she's announced herself "the fountain of all knowledge" on one occasion. Also see the quote under [[Beware the Nice Ones]], she could absolutely do that. There's also her CMOA at the end of "The Internet Is Forever".
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
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=== Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (A.J. Cook) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Mom]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: "Revelations" and kill-shots to three rabid dogs. "Penelope" and one beautiful [[Boom! Headshot!|headshot]] through a plate-glass window. "The Performer" and a shovel to the back of an UnSub's head. Do ''not'' fuck with JJ.
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=== Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Agent Mulder]]: Especially in "Demonology", where she's the one to bring up the exorcism angle.
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=== Jason Gideon ([[Mandy Patinkin]]) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: The Footpath Killer in "Extreme Aggressor" and "Compulsion".
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]
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=== Elle Greenaway (Lola Glaudini) ===
[[File:Elle Greenaway 1405.jpg|frame]]
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Becoming the Mask]]
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=== Jordan Todd (Meta Golding) ===
[[File:Jordan Todd 7767.jpg|frame]]
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Her arc on the show is basically her descent into this.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Serves as one to remind the audience (and the team) that most people find what the BAU does to be a horrible job and cannot cope with the constant mental trauma.
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=== Ashley Seaver (Rachel Nichols) ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Captain Obvious|Agent Obvious]]: Seems to be her main role on the team.
* [[Ascended Extra|Ascended Guest Star]]
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=== Haley Hotchner (Meredith Monroe) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Face Death with Dignity]]: ''"Show him no weakness, no fear." "I know."'''}}
* [[Girl Next Door]]
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=== Jack Hotchner (Cade Owens) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: The first half of season five.
* [[Honorary Uncle]]: He calls Rossi "Uncle Dave" at least once.
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=== Detective Will LaMontagne (Josh Stewart) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Originally only meant to appear in "Jones," when A.J. Cook became pregnant, the writers had to create a love interest for her quickly, and remembering her chemistry with Will, brought him back to be her mate.
* [[The Big Easy]]
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=== Kevin Lynch (Nicholas Brendon) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]: He is, after all, played by [[Trope Namer]] Nicholas "Xander Harris" Brendon.
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=== Section Chief Erin Strauss (Jayne Atkinson) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* {{spoiler|[[The Alcoholic]]}}: Revelealed to be one in season seven.▼
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]: She has the occasional, ''very rare'' [[Pet the Dog]] moment.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: In her first appearances, she's trying to be a [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative bitch]]. Then it look like she is [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|A Tyrant Taking The Helm.]] In her next appearance, she becomes a [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]] and gets a few [[Pet the Dog]] moments. Then, as of the current season, she's back to the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] boss who does things over the team's objections.
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=== Diana Reid (Jane Lynch) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Broken Bird]]: Severe paranoid schizophrenic who had to be committed to a sanitarium by her then-eighteen year old son. Has just as brilliant a mind as Spencer, under the delusions and medication.
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Of the "government is watching me and my son works with fascists" variety.
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=== Carolyn Baker Rossi (Isabella Hoffman) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Amicably Divorced]]: She even kept her husband's surname.
* {{spoiler|[[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]}}
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=== Karl Arnold, the Fox (Neal Jones) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: His father was a violent man who molested him. Karl himself turned out to be a controlling, obsessive husband and father.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Lack of order. See [[Super OCD]] below.
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=== Randall Garner, the Fisher King (Charles Haid) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't break the rules of [[The Quest]].
* [[Criminal Mind Games]]
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=== Frank Breitkopf (Keith Carradine) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Puts his victims in this state via drug that leaves them paralyzed, but fully conscious as he slowly vivisects them... in a room with a mirrored ceiling.
* [[Calling Card]]: Taking a right rib bone. And making wind chimes out of them.
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=== Charles Holcombe (Tahmus Rounds) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Death Course]]: The way he has modified the meat plant his family owned.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To detective McGee. Both suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, both have lost their own father and both are focused on street people.
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=== Stanley Howard (Michael O'Keefe) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: His mother.
* [[Affably Evil]]
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=== Tobias Hankel/{{spoiler|Charles/Raphael}} (James van der Beek) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: His father is a contender for worst parent in the entire series.
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: {{spoiler|Charles}} and {{spoiler|Raphael}}.
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=== Deputy Jason Clark Battle (Bailey Chase) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Boom! Headshot!]]: How he dies}}.
* [[Hero Syndrome]]
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=== {{spoiler|1=Jonny McHale}} aka True Night (Frankie Muniz) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]/[[Anti-Villain]]: The episode even ended with a quote from [[Frank Miller]].
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: In-universe.
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=== Owen Savage (Cody Kasch) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Father]]: His father resented him since he had had to leave the Army to take care of his son.
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Three of his victims were the guys who had filmed him when he masturbated in the shower room as initiation and posted it on the schools social network from which it presumably reached the Internet.
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=== Henry Grace (Jason Alexander) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]: {{spoiler|Deliberately plays on this, hoping that the team will figure out his pattern without him giving too obvious hints or clues, so that they will walk into his trap and, further, so that he can get [[Off on a Technicality]] when Rossi doesn't have any evidence that doesn't sound like a [[Bat Deduction]].}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Draws attention to his own crimes and goads Rossi into staying behind to interview him in order to trick the rest of the team into walking into his [[Death Trap]], while only giving very vague clues to this end so that they have to get themselves killed by their own work and he can reasonably plead coincidence and lack of evidence. He's [[Out-Gambitted]] by Rossi who realises what's going on and pulls one of his own to get an [[Engineered Public Confession]].}}
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=== Megan Kane (Brianna Brown) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Father]]
* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: In the opening shot of the episode.
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=== {{spoiler|George Foyet}}, the Boston Reaper (C. Thomas Howell) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Badass Longcoat]]
* [[Calling Card]]: The Eye of Providence and/or the word FATE; also had a habit of taking something from his victims and leaving the object at the scene of the next murder.
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=== Adam Jackson aka {{spoiler|Amanda}} (Jackson Rathbone) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]s: His prefered victims were Jerkasses who reminded him of his stepfather. At least one cheated on his girlfriend with no remorse and they all tended to treat women badly.
* [[Bishonen]]: Notice that it plays an important role in his murders.
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=== Vincent Rowlings (Alex O'Loughlin) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Especially towards his [[Morality Pet]] Stanley.
* [[Chronic Villainy]]
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=== The Turner Brothers (Garrett Dillahunt and Paul Rae) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Mason is the brains, Lucas the brawn.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Lucas's MO.
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=== Boyd Schuller and Tony Mecacci (Lawrence Pressman and Tom Ohmer) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Mecacci.}} And all the victims that had got away before.
* [[For Great Justice]]
* [[Hanging Judge]]: Schuller. He could have been it even before {{spoiler|his wife's death}}, if you consider that the victims on his list were supposed to be the worst criminals that had got away when he was in charge.
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=== Samantha Malcolm (Jennifer Hasty) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents]]: Her father used to molest her as a child. To keep her from telling what he had done, he coached her on what to say, [[Complete Monster|making her get electro shock therapy if she ever got the story wrong]], which permantly warped her mind.}}
* [[Accidental Murder]]: She doesn't want her victims to die. Instead, she does her best to keep them alive, even if the state of paralysis in which they are inevitably leads to their death.
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=== Anita and Roger Roycewood (Beth Grant and Bud Cort) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Roger.}}
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Anita, despite the children not being hers.
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=== Billy Flynn, the Prince of Darkness ([[Tim Curry]]) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[A God Am I]]: "I decide who dies, but mostly, I decide who lives. I'm like... God."
* [[All There in the Manual]]: His name was revealed prior to "The Longest Night", on the "Our Darkest Hour" cast pages of sites like imdb or TV.com
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=== Raymond Donovan and Sydney Manning (Jonathan Tucker and Adrianne Palicki) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Holy ''shit''.
* [[The Alcoholic]]
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=== Ian Doyle, Valhalla (Timothy V. Murphy) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Big Bad]]: Of Season Six.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: How most of his victims are disposed of, though he's not adverse to knives and poison.
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=== Lucy (Angela Sarafyan) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[The Dragon]]: Has a huge one who actually manages to curbstomp Morgan!
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=== Ben "Cy" Bradstone (Andy Milder) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bad Liar]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Cy]]
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=== {{spoiler|Hamilton Bartholomew}} aka The Piano Man ({{spoiler|Jay Karnes}}) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]}}
* [[Isn't It Ironic?]]: Why did {{spoiler|Regina}} know he was lying when he said that he learned the song so that he could sing it to propose to his wife? Because the song was "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
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=== {{spoiler|Matthew Downs}} and the Face Cards (Evan Jones, Seth Laird, Tricia Helfer, and Josh Randall) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Grandfather]]: Implied for Izzy. {{spoiler|His name was Henry and he had blond hair, so Izzy takes her rage at him out on [[Harmful to Minors|JJ's son]]}}.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Oliver, and Chris has a buzz-cut, as well.
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Izzy does this to Chris. It's not entirely clear whether this killed him, but she shot him non-fatally in the chest and then abandoned him where he'd have no medical care, so it seems likely}}.
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