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* [[Abusive Parents]]: It's heavily implied that Hotch's father abused him, and that's why he grew up to catch serial killers.
* [[Alone Withwith the Psycho]]
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]: So much that the trope should be renamed "Hotchalanche".
* [[Badass]]
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*** Apparently others associated with the show liked it, too: a brief clip of the [[Badass Beard]] is shown in the Season 7 opening credits.
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Collected coins as a kid, grew up to be a prosecutor, then took an apparent [[Took a Level In Badass|level in badass]] and joined SWAT and then the elite unit of the BAU at the Bureau.
** [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: On the rare occasion when a situation requires both him and Rossi to throw their weight around, Hotch is Captain Smooth.
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* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Except for Haley and Rossi, everyone calls him "Hotch".
* [[The Leader]]: Type II.
* [[Married to Thethe Job]]: It leads to his divorce.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Do ''not'' mess with his team. It will end badly.
** Furthermore, let the fate of {{spoiler|George Foyet/The Reaper}} serve as a cautionary tale against attacking Hotchner's family.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]: Hotch tends to think he can save everybody, and actually goes and tries. This is deconstructed in the series twice - first, in "Omnivore", when Rossi gives him a verbal smackdown (''"That isn't your conscience talking, Aaron, it's your ego."''); and second, in "Hopeless", when he, along with Rossi and Prentiss, leave the group of UnSubs to their intended [[Suicide Byby Cop]], knowing he can do nothing to stop local law enforcement from enacting revenge.
** The unsub of ''Scared To Death'' lampshades this.
* [[Second Love]]: Has this with Beth in season 7.
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** He's also seen playing video games with Ashley at the end of "Coda".
** Helps Hotch coach Jack's soccer team. It's really kind of adorable.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: In "Profiling 101" {{spoiler|Rossi makes a deal with the Unsub. The Unsub is off death row and he will give Rossi the name and location of the body of one of his victims. But, it had to be on a special day of the Unsub's choosing. He chose Rossi's ''birthday''.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Famed in Story]]: When Manilow's not in town.
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* [[Honorary Uncle]]: Jack calls Rossi "Uncle Dave" at least once.
* [[It's Personal]]: The Galen case ("Damaged"), the Butcher case ("Remembrances of the Past"), idol worship/emulation, especially directed toward him ("Limelight", "Zoe's Reprise"), and religion ("Demonology", "Public Enemy").
* [[Jerkass]]: [[Writer Onon Board|Depending on the writer]]. Moreso in season three, but there have been episodes in season five where writers of various episodes have him lapsing back into his Jerkass-y ways.
** [[Jerkass Facade]]: Rossi comes off as an egotistical bastard when he first shows up, baiting UnSubs and insulting a lot of people's intelligence. Turns out he's just kind of crap at this whole "team" thing, and once he realizes that these people have his back ("Damaged", most notably), he's a lot more open and caring toward them.
* [[Large Ham]]: Can pull it off when needed, usually in the course of distracting the press (as seen in "The Performer" and "Painless").
* [[Lying to Thethe Perp]]: Rossi's a master at this - see "Masterpiece" and "Reckoner" for particularly spectacular examples.
** Arguably, "Reckoner" deconstructed this, as Rossi tells the somewhat [[Sympathetic Murderer]] that he slept with his wife, multiple times, and {{spoiler|the unsub dies without learning that it was a lie, which just adds an extra tinge of tragedy to an already fairly brutal episode}}.
* [[Married to Thethe Job]]: Rossi, in his own words, is "more married to this team than I have been to three wives."
* [[The McCoy]]: Usually playing this role to Reid's [[The Spock|Spock]] and Morgan or Hotch's [[The Kirk|Kirk]].
* [[The Mentor]]: To Seaver.
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: For Ellie Spicer.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Garcia. No one messes with his "Baby Girl".
* [[Raised Byby Dudes]]: Inverted, with interesting consequences. All of the relatives we've ever met of his are female (his mother, his three sisters, his aunt, his cousin), which reinforces why Morgan treats the women in his life ([[Platonic Life Partners|especially Garcia]]) so well.
* {{spoiler|[[Rape Asas Backstory|Sexual Abuse As Backstory]]}}: Painfully revealed in "Profiler Profiled".
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Can fall into this when talking to Reid ('Kid', 'Pretty Boy', 'Genius') or Garcia (too many to list).
** His favorite by far is "Babygirl".
* [[To Know Him I Must Become Him]]: Fun drinking game in the first couple seasons - count the number of times Morgan says "I'm the UnSub".
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Not Morgan himself, but his work specialising in obsessional crimes. The fact that he has this specialty hasn't come up in ages, even in episodes such as "The Big Wheel" where the crimes clearly are obsessional.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Blows Lucy away without a second thought.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: If that child were a killer, or so he claims to a teenage unsub in "Exit Wounds." Fortunately, the unsub ultimately surrenders voluntarily.
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* [[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.
* [[Fan Wank]]: In an in-universe example, Reid has a tendency to bore his colleagues with rants about the specs of the [[Star Wars|Death Star]], whether [[Bill and Ted]] is a ripoff of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and the nature and frequency of science errors in the original ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]''.
* [[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]].
* [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]: If there's junk food around, Reid ''will'' find it.
* [[Good Withwith Numbers]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Definitely shows signs of this with Morgan.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Who'd have pegged ''Reid'' as a basketball coach in high school?!
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Unlike most versions, this comes not from arrogance (He's quite humble) but simply his habit of outshining others with his knowledge, making Them look bad by comparison (Which is very unintentional and simply a habit of his).
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Reid's school experience - "Being the smartest kid in class is like being the only kid in class."
* [[I'm Taking Her Home Withwith Me|I'm Taking Him Home With Me]]: He does tend to engender this type of response in some people.
* [[James Bondage]]: Definitely. The most danger-prone agent out of the bunch. Enough said.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
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** Additionally, in "The Uncanny Valley," it's implied that he stopped playing against people after Gideon left, while playing out every possible game with himself. {{spoiler|Until the end of the episode, anyway.}}
* [[Snark Knight]]: Turns into this towards JJ after he finds out that {{spoiler|JJ lied to him about Prentiss' death.}}
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]: Reid has so much apparently useless knowledge that it is, in fact, ridiculous. By contrast, his knowledge of pop culture varies: he knows Siouxsie and the Banshees but not ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' or [[Lady Gaga]]. (Note that both Twilight and Gaga are newer than Siouxsie and the Banshees, so it may be that his knowledge of pop culture is simply limited to a certain period of time.)
** And some of it does come in handy, such as in "Plain Sight", where he recognises the literature that the unsub writes quotes from at the crime scenes.
** Lampshaded by Morgan in "True Night"
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: A few over the course of the show, but a spectacular one in "It Takes a Village".
{{quote| '''Interviewer''': Now, calm down, Agent--<br />
'''Reid''': [[Criminal Minds (TV)/Awesome|This is calm and it's]] ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)/Awesome|Doctor]]''. }}
* [[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}}.
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* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Averted and subverted with Morgan - he's not her love interest and she sexualizes him plenty.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: She's nearly unrecognizable to what she would later become in the pilot, in which she's a [[Deadpan Snarker]] who dresses like a stereotypical "working stiff" and who actually easily gives up trying to hack something.
* [[Depending Onon the Writer]]: Whether or not she's an only child. S2 says she has four brothers. S6 says she doesn't.
** Mind you, she mentioned having a step-father, so both could be true at once.
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: In "Penelope", Morgan tries to give her one for protection.
{{quote| '''Garcia''': I don't believe in guns!<br />
'''Morgan:''' ''(shoves one her hands)'' Believe me, they are '''[[Dialogue Reversal|very real]]'''! }}
* [[Expy]]: Garcia shares a lot of personality traits with [[NCIS (TV)|Abby Sciuto]], though their precise roles are different. Both shows are on CBS.
** Funnily enough, this is likely a complete coincidence; Garcia's character was originally going to be a chubby, middle-aged Latino man. Then they met Kirsten Vangsness.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Subverted in "Proof". Garcia can bake, but apparently lacks most cooking skills. Rossi ends up teaching her.
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* [[It's Personal]]: Small-town violence ("North Mammon", "Risky Business"), stalking ("The Crossing"), and suicide ("Risky Business").
* [[Mama Bear]]: DO NOT threaten her kid when she's around, she WILL kick your ass, as a thrillseeking bank robber/terrorist found out in the season seven finale.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Thanks to [[Executive Meddling]], she left in Season 6's "J.J.", accompanied by loads of [[Reality Subtext]].
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: In "Lauren" for one episode, then as of "Out of the Night", JJ is officially back. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: See [[Put Onon a Bus]]. And the bitch of it is that in the episode directly preceding her exit, "The Longest Night", A.J. Cook does some of the best work of her career.
** She was even more screwed than usual: Cook wasn't let go because of ratings or a dispute with the cast or crew; she was let go because CBS was pinching pennies to make a spinoff (which failed) and was too cheap to renew her contract.
* [[The Danza]]: Subverted. Although A.J. Cook jokes that the character was named JJ so she'd be able to remember it (being a blonde), the producers swear they came up with the name before Cook was cast.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: ''Four'' over the course of the show.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Will and Henry seem to appear and disappear in continuity [[Depending Onon the Writer]].
 
=== Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) ===
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* [[Brainy Brunette]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: All through her story arc involving Ian Doyle. Also, the writers sometimes seem committed to literally breaking her, ad she is the team member most likely to have to endure a savage beating.
* [[Commuting Onon a Bus]]: Luckily, only for part of season 6.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Reid, especially after {{spoiler|her return from the dead}}.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Druggie friends, a neglectful mother, disappeared father, and an {{spoiler|abortion at fifteen}}. Not to mention {{spoiler|her time as an undercover operative tracking terrorists for Interpol}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Subverted. With the exception of JJ and Hotch, the whole BAU team thinks Prentiss died from her encounter with Doyle, and there is a funeral. At the end of "Lauren" however, it is clear that Prentiss is in fact still alive, but in Witness Protection.}}
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Some of her behavior in "Valhalla" and "Lauren".
* [[Hot Chick in Aa Badass Suit]]
* {{spoiler|[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: In "Lauren", she tells Morgan, "Let me go", which prompts a [[No One Gets Left Behind]] response from him.}}
* [[It's Personal]]: Politics ("Honor Among Thieves") and violence against women (especially rapes, as in "Slave of Duty"). "The Thirteenth Step" starts the Ian Doyle arc, which is played out until "It Takes a Village".
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* {{spoiler|[[Near-Death Experience]]: Reveals in "Epilogue" that when she coded in the ambulance in "Lauren", all she felt was cold and darkness. Being a very lapsed Catholic, she says she desperately wants to change.}}
* [[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.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: To {{spoiler|Declan Doyle}}, though not at all in the way his father intended.
* [[Parenthetical Swearing]]: Usually directed toward [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|Strauss]]. Only Prentiss can make the address "ma'am" sound like "fuck you, you soulless bitch".
** She also gives Hotch a rather icy "sir" in "Sex, Birth, Death" when he touches a raw nerve by accusing her of playing political games.
** And her response of "And also with you" (to unsub Father Paul's condescending "May God's love be with you") is delivered in a tone that sounds more like a spit to the face.
* {{spoiler|[[Put Onon a Bus]]: But it's a happy ending for her as she's now head of British Interpol}}!
* [[Ship Tease]]: For a series that is strictly [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] among the main cast, she gets quite a bit with both Reid and Morgan
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Her response to going "undercover" in "52 Pickup".
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Sure, we always knew Prentiss was badass, but in her Doyle story arc she suddenly becomes a superspy when she {{spoiler|turns out to have been an undercover operative for Interpol; over the course of her final episodes she winds up going rogue, staring at the door all night with her gun out, tossing grenades into unsubs' cars and spraying them with machine-gun fire, and shooting hood rats in the ear. To say nothing of her badass change in wardrobe at the end of "Valhalla".}}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: The {{spoiler|scarification shamrock}} inflicted by Doyle seems to have magically disappeared.
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|When You Coming Home Mom]]: While it's never really confirmed, Emily Prentiss does not have a good relationship with her mother, and has implied numerous times that Ambassador Prentiss was neglectful toward her (most notably in "Honor Amongst Thieves", when she's surprised the Ambassador would go to her, and in "Demonology", {{spoiler|when she says her mother "would have killed" her if she'd found out Emily was pregnant and had an abortion}}).
** It really doesn't get much more neglectful than {{spoiler|failing to attend your own daughter's funeral.}}
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* [[Alone Withwith the Psycho]]: The Footpath Killer in "Extreme Aggressor" and "Compulsion".
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
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* [[Parental Issues]]: Hoo boy. {{spoiler|Daddy was a serial killer.}}
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Rossi is hers. Ironically, he captured her real father.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Transferred to another unit. Prentiss and JJ are happy for her, at least.
 
 
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=== Haley Hotchner (Meredith Monroe) ===
* {{spoiler|[[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: ''"Show him no weakness, no fear." "I know."'''}}
* [[Girl Next Door]]
* [[Give Him a Normal Life]]: Plays the trope straight, though she's not technically the "hero".
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* [[Morality Pet]]: For his dad, of course.
* [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]]: According to Jack, "no one beats Daddy".
* {{spoiler|[[Raised Byby Grandparents|Raised By Aunt]]: Hotch makes a deal with Jessica, Haley's sister, that she will help him raise Jack. We have yet to see any ramifications of this.}}
 
=== Detective Will LaMontagne (Josh Stewart) ===
* [[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]]
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: While "Hit" and "Run" don't focus entirely on him, he plays a huge role in the story and we learn a lot about him.
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[Happily Married]]: Maybe not married, but certainly living with JJ, and it's kind of adorable. {{spoiler|They are as of "Run".}}
* [[Hot Dad]]
* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: His father was also a detective.
* [[Married to Thethe 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.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: A longer and more frequent one than JJ.
* [[That One Case]]: In "Jones".
 
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* [[Playful Hacker]]: Though he admits he's not as good as Garcia.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: His... awkward encounter with Rossi in "Damaged".
* {{spoiler|[[Put Onon a Bus]]: He and Garcia breaks up after she turns down his proposal of marriage; while he probably hasn't actually ''gone'' anywhere, it's still unlikely we'll be seeing him again}}.
* [[Temporary Substitute]]: For Garcia in "Penelope".
 
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* {{spoiler|[[The Alcoholic]]}}: Revelealed to be one in season seven.
* [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]: She has the occasional, ''very rare'' [[Pet the Dog]] moment.
* [[Depending Onon 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.
* [[Drop in Character]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In "It Takes a Village", she knows as soon as Emily asks for permission to {{spoiler|trade Ian Doyle for Declan}} that the BAU's already set the plan into motion.
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* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Surprisingly, in "100", after spending the entire episode {{spoiler|investigating the events around Haley Brooks Hotchner's death and Hotch going off the rails, interrogating the team and trying to pin the blame on Hotch, she's in tears after Hotch's testimony, and refuses to pursue the matter any further}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Put Onon a Bus]]: Left for rehab; see [[The Alcoholic]] above}}.
 
=== Diana Reid (Jane Lynch) ===
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* {{spoiler|[[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]}}
* [[New Old Flame]]: Though Rossi had already mentioned about his divorces.
* {{spoiler|[[Stay Withwith Me Until I Die]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[You Are Too Late]]: Knowing that Rossi won't help her in taking away her own life, she takes a fatal dosage of pills and makes sure he doesn't find out until it's too late.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Your Days Are Numbered]]: She's been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.}}
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* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[Forced to Watch]]: He showed each father his dead family before shooting him.
* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: When cornered, he threw ''a baby'' at Gideon.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Hates abusive husbands despite keeping his own family terrified of Him.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: A curious example. He's known as the Fox, but the BAU didn't use that nickname before ''Outfoxed''. Until that episode, it was [[All There in the Manual]].
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't break the rules of [[The Quest]].
* [[Criminal Mind Games]]
* [[Couldn't Find a Pen|Couldn't Find A Pen]]: Enjoys writing things in blood.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He made sure his victims were unrepentant criminals, and while he shot Elle, he stated he derived no pleasure from it, claiming it was out of necessity, and "barbaric" and "dishonorable".
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* [[Fiction 500]]: The never explicitly state how wealthy he is, but it is quite apparent that money is no object to him.
* [[Final Boss]]: Of Season 1.
* [[Finger in Thethe Mail]]: A head in a package.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: Hired a guy to kill a man this way; later, he himself killed the assassin via...
** [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: With a replica of Excalibur, no less.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Though due to the make-up and dubbing, you can't actually tell.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: Sir Kneighf.
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* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Can't feel it, but wants to.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Enjoys classical music, ornothology, literature and has an interest in mythology. He'd be interesting to spend time with if You could get past the whole "Cuts people open" aspect of his personality.
* [[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.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Pulled off successfully in "No Way Out", but he's [[Out-Gambitted]] in "No Way Out II".
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Nobody seems to notice his kidnappings since nobody notices his victims in the first place. Lampshaded by Hotch.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In the opening scene, he's whistling ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Johanna]]''. Also, there are a lot of references to the ''[[Saw]]'' saga.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Super OCD]]
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* [[Killer Cop]]
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Attempts to give this impression.
* [[Suicide Byby Cop]]/[[Taking You Withwith Me]]: Once he realizes his number's up, the only thing he wants to do is take as many FBI down with him as possible. {{spoiler|The only casualty is him, as he didn't count on JJ gunning him down from behind}}.
* [[That One Case]]: For Garcia.
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]
 
=== {{spoiler|1=Jonny McHale}} aka True Night (Frankie Muniz) ===
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=== Owen Savage (Cody Kasch) ===
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Father]]: His father resented him since he had had to leave the Army to take care of his son.
* [[A Date Withwith 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.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: When he stabbed Ike Stratman, though it was to avoid being discovered, and he clearly showed remorse.
* [[Missing Mom]]: She died in a drunk driving accident.
* [[Misunderstood Loner Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Before the killings started, at least.
* [[Monster Sob Story]]
* [[Morality Pet]]: Has one in Jordan.
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: His father and Kyle Borden ([[Asshole Victim|the guy who had taken advantage of Jordan]], Owen's girlfriend with slower learning abilities) were shot in the face at a point-blank range.
* [[Not So Different]]: Reid identifies with him because they both went through hell at high school.
* [[Suicide Byby Cop]]: {{spoiler|Attempted. Reid managed to stop him.}}
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]
 
=== 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 Onon 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]].}}
* [[Criminal Mind Games]]
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* [[It's Personal]]: Blames Rossi for ruining his life...[[Insane Troll Logic|for capturing his Serial Killer older brother.]]
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Mentioned as being a non-teaching professor, to the point where nobody on campus seems to know who he is. Justified in that everyone who he ''had'' been on normal terms with didn't want to know him after his brother was exposed as a homicidal maniac.
* [[Off Onon a Technicality]]: {{spoiler|1=Subverted. When he realises he has lost he tries to pull this off, since he disposed of all his bodies with sulphuric acid and, despite drawing attention to his own killings, the BAU had to simply guesstimate who they thought he might have killed by themselves, while the family he kidnapped never saw him and the team only saved them thanks to highly esoteric and very well hidden clues he left, that border on a [[Bat Deduction]] enough that he could plead lack of evidence. But circumstantial evidence along with his [[Engineered Public Confession]] are enough to put him away.}}
* [[Revenge Byby Proxy]]: {{spoiler|Wants to kill the rest of the team in order to hurt Rossi.}}
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: His brother turned out to be a notorious [[Serial Killer]], leading to his fiancee` dumping him and everyone he knows distancing themselves from him and his family, nearly ruining his career in the process, while the man who caught said brother went on to become a wealthy and bestselling non-fiction writer and he had nothing.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* {{spoiler|[[Stay Withwith Me Until I Die]]}}: She asks this to {{spoiler|Hotch}} after {{spoiler|poisoning herself. He does.}}
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: With only one exception (Trent Rabner, who she killed only because she was devolving), all her victims [[Asshole Victim|had it coming]].
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
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* [[Guttural Growler]]: Used in his debut.
* [[The Heavy]]: For much of Seasons 4 & 5.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Hotch [[What Could Have Been|was originally]] going to stab him to death with his own knife, but they decided to change the cause of death to [[Extreme Melee Revenge]].
* [[It's All About Me]]: Believes that Hotch has no right to hunt him down (despite his being a ''[[Serial Killer]]'') and goes out of his way to blame Hotch for his problems.
* [[Knife Nut]]: But also known to use firearms.
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{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Anita:}}''' Come on, you gotta be kid... BANG!}}
* [[Lady Macbeth]]: Anita.
* [[Murder Byby Cremation]]: When the children they've abducted grow out of control, Anita sedates them and burns them in her family's crematorium.
* [[Outlaw Couple]]
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]
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* [[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]]
* [[Suicide Byby Cop]]
* [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]
* [[That One Case]]: For Morgan.
* [[Tim Curry]]
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* [[Russian Roulette]]: Ray does this to his dad.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Ray, probably the most sympathetically-portrayed one yet. Syd, as a sidenote, is a psychopath.
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Byby Cop]]: How Ray goes out, insanely machine-gunning FBI agents with the intent of joining Syd}}.
* [[Sympathetic Murderer|Sympathetic Murderers]]
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Their ultimate motive is doing this to their fathers.
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* [[Final Boss]]: Of Season 6.
* [[First-Name Basis]]: And Lucy may not even be her real name.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: She claims she's [[Only in It For Thethe Money]], but is obviously getting off on it.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]
* [[Russian Roulette]]: Was going to play one before the arrival of the agents.
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* [[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".
* [[Oh Crap]]: When he realizes that {{spoiler|Regina Lampert}} has recognized him.
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: He plays romantic songs from [[The Eighties]] when raping his victims.
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