Criminal Minds/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Team Dad]]

* [[The Consigliere]]: Mostly to Hotch, but as of S5, to Morgan as well.

 

=== Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) ===

* [[Adorkable]]: In general, but especially with his giant [[Nerd Glasses]] when he was a child.

* [[Awesome By Analysis]]

* [[Badass Long Hair]]: In seasons four and five.

* [[Bad Dreams]]: Nightmares have been plaguing him since childhood.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Poor kid. Mommy's schizophrenic and Dad abandoned everyone. Biggest brain in the room and usually the one targeted physically by the serial killers.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: First with his own father, and then with his ''father figure'', Gideon.

* [[Flanderization]]: We all know that athletics are not Reid's strong suit, but failing EVERYTHING involving physical exertion (marksmanship, physical training, the obstacle course, Hogan's Alley, etc) at the Academy? It's a little extreme and it begs the question of how he not only passed the Academy, but continues to pass his field qualifications.

* [[Geek Physiques]]: The skinny kind. Probably as a result of [[Forgets to Eat]].

* [[Good With Numbers]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Definitely shows signs of this with Morgan.

** Keeping with this: [[Nerds Are Sexy]]. Lila Archer (1x18 "Somebody's Watching"), Austin (4x9 "52 Pickup"), and various prostitutes (c.f. 2x22 "Legacy" and 4x7 "In Memoriam") seem to think so.

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Everyone in the BAU appears to like coffee, but Reid's is the only one to have a big point made of it. Probably because of all of the sugar he takes with it.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Wears these from time to time.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: The member of the team most likely to inform you of the Squickiest thing the unsub might do. Like eat human eyeballs.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Post 'boy band' haircut, he manages to look about 12, despite the actor being 29 at the time.

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Oh god. So much.

* [[Photographic Memory]]: His eidetic memory has been proven to be imperfect - for example, his memories from his very young childhood are murky at best - but, generally, it's reliable.

* [[Prank Date]]: Was victim to this in high school. It was... brutal, to say the least.

* [[Multicolored Hair]]: With more colors than a cotton candy machine. Garcia digs the Manic Panic.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: She's quite well-built, to say the least, and several of her outfits, particularly the dress she wore to {{spoiler|JJ's wedding}}, seem designed to show it off.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When she gets a call from Morgan she usually answers in a very flirty way, which leads to these moments when he replies "You're on speakerphone".

** The crowner has to be Garcia's expression in "In Name and Blood":

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* [[Action Mom]]

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Big Sister]]: "Risky Business" tells us JJ's older sister committed suicide when she was 11.}}

* [[Character Development]]: JJ's original role on the team was to manipulate the media (and through them the bad guys) as well as deal with people the team came into contact with. Starting at the end of season five her role noticeably expanded until her temporary departure part way through Season 6. As of Season 7's "Proof" she's out pounding the pavement with Reid as well checking out body dumps and talking profiler-speak to the locals with Rossi.

'''Garcia''': I hacked it as is. You trying to tell me you seriously don't remember rocking that look?<br />

'''Reid''': Perhaps your lack of recognition stems from a disassociative fugue suffered in adolescence. Like, say, at a Siouxsie and the Banshees concert? }}

* [[Older Than They Look]]: According to her {{spoiler|fake tombstone}}, she's in her forties, and Prentiss is actually a year younger than the actress who plays her.

* [[One of Us]]: Reads comic books, makes ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' references, and digs Vonnegut.

* [[Happily Married]]: Maybe not married, but certainly living with JJ, and it's kind of adorable. {{spoiler|They are as of "Run".}}

* [[Hot Dad]]

* [[Married to The Job]]: Averted. He was perfectly willing to give it up to be closer to JJ and the baby.

** Season seven shows that he is now working as a detective in Washington.

* [[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.

* [[Collector of the Strange]]: He collects the wedding rings of the fathers he has killed as a trophy.

* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]

* [[Not So Stoic]]: The ever so brief look he gives when Gideon mentions they've learned who his mother is, and what his childhood was really like.

* [[Recurring Character]]: In Season 2

* [[Serial Killer]]: That goes without saying but Frank took it to a whole new level. He's killed ''166 people'' all over the United States for at least thirty years, though it should be noted he's nothing compared to Billy Flynn and a few [[Real Life]] [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]].

* [[Smug Snake]]: The poster boy. He manages to make sitting in a cafe, drinking his coffee look arrogant.

* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|Wouldn't Hurt A Child]]: Well, not ''directly''...

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Sees Gideon as one of the few people who deserves to catch him.

 

=== Charles Holcombe (Tahmus Rounds) ===

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Nobody seems to notice his kidnappings since nobody notices his victims in the first place. Lampshaded by Hotch.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Super OCD]]

 

=== Deputy Jason Clark Battle (Bailey Chase) ===

* [[Hero Syndrome]]

* [[Hot Guys Are Bastards]]

=== Henry Grace (Jason Alexander) ===

* [[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]].}}

* [[Criminal Mind Games]]

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: His plan hinges largely on [[Improbably High IQ|Reid]] picking up on his verbal clues and the unusual pattern to his murders, and he knows that Reid alone is smart enough to do it because said pattern and clues are very unusual and rooted in advanced mathematics.

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Averted. She's interested in foreign literature, can speak and read French and is also very cunning.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]

* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Though not for money. She wanted to punish the men on her list.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: When she shot Trent Rabner, a childless widower who had always been faithful to his wife until the end.

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]

* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: His young female victims were stabbed an excessive number of times (one had somewhere in the range of sixty stab wounds). The entire bus massacre scene in "Omnivore".

* [[Serial Killer]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[The Unfettered]]

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: He has similarities to both the Zodiac Killer and (to a lesser extent) BTK, as pointed out "Omnivore".

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Some people seem to think he {{spoiler|raped Hotch.}}

** [[Sarcasm Mode|I don't know where anyone could get an idea like that]]. He specifically says to Hotch "{{spoiler|Now, I understand that profilers think that stabbing is a substitute for the act of sex, and if somebody's impotent, they'll use a knife instead. Is that what you think, Agent Hotchner? Maybe this will change the way that you profile.}}" Certainly a statement explicit enough to support theorizing.

* [[For Science!]]: How Mason tries rationalizing manipulating his mentally handicapped brother into killing the homeless for his experiments, saying that he is searching for a cure for his condition. Earns him a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] from Rossi, who calls him out as just another sadistic bastard since his farm and equipment are no where near adequate for such a task, and he's arranged mirrors around the house in a way that lets him see his victims suffer from his bed.

* [[Genius Cripple]]: Mason

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Sorta. Lucas doesn't really seem to mind eating pigs that he's fed a ton of people to.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Rossi, who says that selling the idea that a bed-ridden former doctor is really a manipulative homicidal maniac to a jury is going to be an uphill struggle, especially since Lucas actually did all the killings. {{spoiler|One victim's brother solves the problem with a [[Vigilante Execution]].}}

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Lucas, implied to be extremely volatile even before Mason manipulated him into killing.

* [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]]

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Lucas is a six and a half foot tall, three hundred pound [[Dumb Muscle]] [[The Brute|Brute]] and [[Psychopathic Manchild]] with severe retardation and Autistic tendencies, who dresses in overalls, loves the farm, and doesn't seem to understand that he's killing actual people. Mason is a short, cold-blooded [[Evil Cripple]] and [[Evil Genius]] who attended [[Mad Doctor|med school]], wanted to move away from home, and is ''fully aware'' of what they're doing, but just doesn't care.

* [[Siblings in Crime]]

* [[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.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: She uses injections to paralyze her victims so she can dress them up and have tea parties with them.

* [[Collector of the Strange]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]

* [[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

* [[Dark Is Evil]]

* [[Darkness Equals Death]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: His release of Ellie.

* [[The Pig Pen]]

* [[Serial Killer]]: [[Up to Eleven]], in all likelihood having in the neighborhood of ''four hundred'' victims. For the curious, this likely makes him (within the context of the show, of course) either the most- or second-most prolific murderer ''in human history''.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Holy ''shit''.

* [[The Alcoholic]]

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Syd gets her [[Dark Action Girl]] on when she and Ray shoot up the AlAnon meeting; the expression on her face is particularly telling.

* [[Death Glare]]: Syd gives her father a pretty epic one when she realizes he has another young daughter, about the same age Syd was when he was abusing her.

=== Ian Doyle, Valhalla (Timothy V. Murphy) ===

* [[Big Bad]]: Of Season Six.

* [[The Dragon]]: A mook named Liam appears to fill this role.

* [[It's Personal]]: Has quite the grudge against Emily, more so than anyone else he's after.