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* [[Bash Brothers]]: In the series finale {{spoiler|Detectives Ray Vecchio and Ray Kowalski partner up with each other briefly.}}
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: In "[[Recap/Due South S 1 E 12 A Hawk And A Handsaw|A Hawk and a Handsaw]]," Fraser mentions that after his mother died, his father quit shaving for a while
* [[Beleaguered Childhood Friend]]: Fraser's friend Mark Smithbauer, in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Averted much of the time with Diefenbaker, but played straight a time or two, when Fraser was in danger, and when he had a girlfriend he was protecting.
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Kowalski can't fire his pistol without wearing glasses.
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{{quote|'''Bush pilot''': You sure they were Americans, eh?
'''Fraser''': They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
'''Bush pilot''': Americans it is.|"[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Canine Companion]]: Diefenbaker
* [[The Cape (trope)]]: Fraser, of course.
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** Also "Oh dear", whenever anything is about to go wrong, and "thank you kindly".
** [[Subverted]] when, in one episode, Fraser complains about the supposed Mountie [[Catch Phrase]] "We always get our man".
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Buck Frobisher's resemblance to "legendary Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen" is remarked upon in "[[Due South/Recap/S3
* [[Chained Heat]]: Fraser and Inspector Thatcher in ''All the Queen's Horses'' and Fraser and [[Ray V]] in ''Red, White or Blue''
* [[Character Tics]]: Fraser has a few, including cracking his neck and touching his ear when he's nervous, thinking, or repressing the urge to do or say something.
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* [[The Comically Serious]]: Fraser understands the ''existence'' of sarcasm, and even displays the occasional flash of dry wit, but his default behaviour is still to take everything very literally.
* [[Confessional]]:
** Fraser, in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
** Played for laughs by Francesca in ''The Deal'', where she attempts to pre-emptively confess for a sin she plans to commit (seducing Fraser). The priest, exhasperated, points out that she can't keep confessing for that when she never follows through.
** [[Inverted]] in the same episode when Fraser asks the priest what he thought of [[The Mafia|Don Zuko]]. His answer, as vague as it is, implies that he has gone to confessional himself for wishing harm upon Zuko.
* [[Cool Car]]: Vecchio's 1971 Buick Riviera, [[Running Gag|which kept getting]] [[Every Car Is a Pinto|blown up]], and later Kowalski's GTO
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Ray V has shades of it occasionally. The "imminent danger" trick he pulls in [[Due South/Recap/S1
** This has actually gotten him in trouble a few times as it makes his word less than trustworthy: in ''Witness'' he is suspected of intimidating a witness, while in ''Duel'' he is suspected of fabricating evidence. Not to mention, his actions in ''The Deal'' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|eventually lead]] to {{spoiler|the deaths of Detective Louis Gardino and Irene Zuko.}}
* [[A Crack in the Ice]]: This happens to Ray K in the show finale.
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{{quote|'''Fraser:''' I sharpened my buckle.
'''Ray:''' You were anticipating cutting your way out of a rubber room?! }}
** From the episode "[[Due South/Recap/S2
{{quote|'''Fraser:''' I've been making calculations based on its thickness, the depth of the existing hole and the reflection of the tonal input as it percusses against my tuning fork.
'''Ray:''' Where the hell did you get a tuning fork? }}
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: For Fraser, Victoria Metcalf ("[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: With Fraser Sr., ''very'' frequently. Ray V also spoke occasionally with the ghost of his own father, though their relationship was much more antagonistic than the Frasers'.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ray V and Sergent Buck Frobisher
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* [[Dork Knight]]: Fraser, oh so much.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Pike in "Spy Vs. Spy"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Played straight with Stanley Ray Kowalski, who shared his name with the protagonist of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. [[Subverted]] with Fraser, who had an ''odd'' first name ("Benton"), but wasn't even remotely embarrassed by it.
* [[Enhance Button]]: Averted in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Fraser was this in-show as well as amongst fans.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: [[Running Gag|Every]] 1971 Buick Riviera seems to be, though to be fair {{spoiler|One of them was [[External Combustion|rigged with a bomb]]}}
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* [[Get Into Jail Free]]: A key witness is behind bars and Fraser's partner is jailed for contempt. Fraser gets himself arrested to join them and be in position to protect them. He's such a straight arrow that he can't bring himself to shoplift a candy bar, and his police friends have to plant it on him.
** In another episode, he gets himself interred in a mental hospital ([[It Makes Sense in Context|to help break Ray out]]) by showing up in his RCMP uniform and telling them the [[Sarcastic Confession|unaltered truth of how he ended up in Chicago]].
* [[Go Among Mad People]]: "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Going by the Matchbook]] - A variation in ''Chicago Holiday'', averting the typical [[Clingy MacGuffin]] quality of plot-important matchbooks.
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Fraser, of course.
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* [[Hero Ball]]: It's the Mountie national sport.
* [[He's Back]]: "[[Recap/Due South S 2 E 09 The Edge|The Edge]]"
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Jane Krakowski (of ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' and ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'') played a distracted bride-to-be in "[[Recap/Due South S 1 E 18 An Invitation To Romance|An Invitation to Romance]]." Melina Kanakaredes (of [[Providence]] and [[CSI: NY]]) played Fraser's love interest in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: in "Mojo Rising," although they seem to have done their homework fairly well.
* [[Honor Before Reason]] : Fraser. [[You Should Know This Already]].
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** Similarly, in ''Mountie On The Bounty'', when a ship Fraser and Kowalski are on sails into Canadian waters, Fraser catches a tossed handgun and proceeds to [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|prove himself an expert marksman.]]
* [[Improbable Parking Skills]]: Ray puts his 1972 Buick Riviera into a controlled skid over a large field of ice to bring it sliding to a stop immediately next to Fraser and the guest star. Both of them give him a mild [[What the Hell, Hero?]], which he casually shrugs off.
* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: "[[Recap/Due South S 2 E 01 North|North]]" and "[[Due South/Recap/S3
* [[Informed Self Diagnosis]]: "[[Recap/Due South S 2 E 01 North|North]]"
* [[Intangible Man]]: Fraser Sr., though this was to some degree under his control.
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* [[Knight Templar]]: Frank Zucco pretends to be one, claiming that everything he does is in service to his neighborhood, as opposed to his extortion business
* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: in the episode "The Edge".
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: In the episode "[[Due South/Recap/S2
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Fraser confronted with the unfurnished apartment in which he and his half-wolf sleep on the floor: "Why do I live like this? Am I being punished?"
* [[Stupid Good]]: Against all reason, usually averted by Fraser. He is evidently a spectacular judge of character with some highly noteworthy exceptions. In the pilot episode, he loans a large sum of money to a complete stranger with a likely story, only to have him approach him days or weeks later to pay him back. This is mostly guided by [[Rule of Funny]], as it serves to annoy the unholy hell out of [[Ray V]] for the sheer unlikeliness of it.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In the episode "[[Recap/Due South S 1 E 12 A Hawk And A Handsaw|A Hawk and a Handsaw]]," when someone asks Fraser how a mountie came to live in Chicago, he replies that it's a long story which takes exactly two hours to tell (i.e., the length of the pilot). In the episode "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: The title of the Christmas episode "[[Recap/Due South S 1 E 10 The Gift Of The Wheelman|The Gift of the Wheelman]]" is a reference to [[O. Henry]]'s ''[[The Gift of the Magi]]''. In case the reference wasn't clear, the opening shot also includes a store called "O. Henry's Gift Shop."
** Also, the wheelman in question is one [[wikipedia:O. Henry|William Sydney Porter]].
* [[Locked in a Freezer]]: "[[Recap/Due South S 1 E 04 They Eat Horses Dont They|They Eat Horses, Don't They?]]"
** In a variation, [[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Long Lost Sibling]]: {{spoiler|Fraser}} meets his half-sister in "[[Recap/Due South S 4 E 21 Hunting Season|Hunting Season]]", the penultimate episode of the last season.
* [[Lottery Ticket]]: in "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Love Martyr]]: {{spoiler|Fraser let Victoria go, and almost went with her, even after all she put him through and proved herself to be a fairly terrible person.}}
* [[Machiavelli Was Wrong]]: ''The Deal'', After Don Zuko gives his [[Hannibal Lecture]] to Fraser about how people respect him, Fraser points out that there is a difference between being ''respected'' and being ''feared''. That is to say, [[Foreshadowing|fear can be overcome.]] <ref> By the end of the episode, after [[Good Is Not Nice|Ray]] [[Police Brutality|Vecchio]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beats Zuko senseless]] in his own gym, Zuko suddenly finds that he is no longer respected ''or'' feared. This has consequences in the next season of the show.</ref>
* [[MacGuffin]]: In "Chicago Holiday", with copious [[Lampshading]]. Another, less heavily lampshaded reference is provided in "An Invitation To Romance.
* [[Magic Realism]]: Throughout (see [[Spirit Advisor]]), but also in such episodes as "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Malaproper]]: Francesca Vecchio is constantly misquoting typical police jargon (for instance, saying "broiling" rather than "grilling" a suspect). In "Mountie On the Bounty," this is weaponized, as a suspect finally cracks after listening to her do it constantly for minutes on end
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Fraser once talks Ray V into ticketing a guy who had parked in the fire lane. A little later they find out that the trunk of the illegally parked vehicle is full of guns.
** On at least two occasions Fraser brings in a guy on a charge that while technically true, is a mild description of the actual crime (a man who was dynamite fishing for 'fishing over the limit (by 2 tons)', and a man who was illegally dumping hazardous waste for 'littering').
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: Fraser, in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize]]: Actually discussed by Vecchio in "They Eat Horses Don't They" when talking about one of the suspects. Fraser is annoyed when this works.
* [[New Old Flame]]: Ray V has Irene Zuko ("[[Recap/Due South S 2 E 07 Juliet Is Bleeding|Juliet is Bleeding]]"); Fraser has Victoria Metcalf ("[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Nice Hat]]: Fraser's stetson, nicknamed the Stetson Of Invulnerability by the fandom. As Kowalski said, the hat is sacred.
{{quote|Fraser: ''She shot me in the hat, Ray.''
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Ray: ''We can do that, Fraser.''
Fraser: ''Thanks, Ray.''
''[[Due South]]'', "[[Due South/Recap/S1
** One of Fraser Sr.'s greatest regrets about being dead is they cut off the back of his favorite hat in order to fit it on his head in his coffin, and now he's stuck with it like that for eternity.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the climax of ''The Deal'', Ray {{spoiler|beats the crap out of Don Zuko in his own gym, and promises not to tell everybody he sees about it in return for Zuko promising no harm will come to the Shoemaker.}} <ref> One of Zuko's lieutenants witnesses the beatdown, evidently loses all respect for him, and in the second season episode ''Juliet Is Bleeding'', this causes a chain of events that result in the murder of Detective Gardino, the accidental killing of Irene Zuko, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the destruction of Ray's]] [[Running Gag|first or second]] [[Cool Car|prized 1972 Buick Riviera]]</ref>
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* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: All of the Haitians in "Mojo Rising" speak with essentially American accents.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: In ''Call of the Wild'', Fraser and Ray {{spoiler|jump and is pushed by Fraser, respectively, from an airplane without parachutes, but they are not injured because the snow is "bottomless."}}
* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: in "[[Due South/Recap/S1
* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: in "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Almost everyone believes Fraser's putting on an act by being such a stereotypical Mountie in order to con people, because no one is ''really'' that honest, polite and noble.
** And sometimes, very rarely (see "Bird in the Hand," "Odds"), he actually does let the mask slip.
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** This, incidentally, being a serious [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote|'''Fraser:''' But right now, my friend, you're in the Dominion of Canada.}}
* [[That Didn't Happen]]: The "contact" in "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[That Was the Last Entry]]: Fraser reads his late father's journals occasionally throughout the series, and in "Easy Money" he tells a friend, "There's a short entry in one of my father's journals that reads 'My adversaries appear ready to listen. I'm nearing victory.' And that entry was written the day before he was shot."
* [[Theme Naming]]: The writers were quite fond of this. Names often had some sort of reference or pun, but were generally not [[Meaningful Name|MeaningfulNames]]; once you "got" the joke, there was usually no further significance to the name.
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* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: "You see, no one knew that I had found her. The police didn't even know her name. I could just let her go and she could walk away that night."
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: In an episode appropriately called "[[Due South/Recap/S2
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: "Chicago Holiday" was an affectionate remake of the [[Audrey Hepburn]] classic ''[[Roman Holiday]]''.
* [[Worst Aid]]: A man is hit by a car and Fraser carries him to the hospital, hoisted over his shoulders. Maybe they don't have ambulances in Canada?
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