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== '''The crew of ''Serenity''''' ==
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** The Alliance in general acts as his, to the point that he'll deck you if you accuse him of being in league with them.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards Kaylee, their relationship is pretty much summed up in the movie;
{{quote| '''Kaylee''': Goin' on a year now, I ain't had nothing twixt my nethers weren't [[A Date
'''Mal''': Oh GOD! [[Too Much Information|I can't]] ''[[Brain Bleach|know that]]''! }}
** On a good day, he has a bit of this towards Simon as well. Only on a good day though.
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* [[Not So Different]]: From Simon, which is something he vaguely acknowledges by the end of the series. Despite their different backgrounds, they both ran afoul of the Alliance and chose to resist in their own ways, protecting what was most important to them.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's supposed to be about fifty, but he certainly doesn't look it.
** He's 50 years old in a 'verse where [[We Will Have Perfect Health in
* {{spoiler|[[Organ Dodge]]}}
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Do not mess with Mal's crew; he takes it ''very'' personally. Oh, and if you even make a crass remark towards Kaylee, don't expect mercy.
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* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: Does this in "War Stories: to punctuate a [[Badass Creed]] -- with [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the smallest, girliest gun on the table]].
* [[Happily Married]]: To Zoe.
* {{spoiler|[[Impaled
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}: In [[Serenity
* [[The McCoy]]: Sometimes shares this role with Simon.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Though he graduates a bit to "Semi-Action Guy" after "War Stories." He's no heavy hitter like Mal, Jayne, or Zoe, but he's apparently more apt to shoot than Kaylee or Simon after that ordeal.
* [[Non-Action Snarker]]
* [[Overshadowed
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* {{spoiler|[[Surprisingly-Sudden Death]]}}
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* [[Ambadassador]]: Not [[Badass]] to the degree of the rest of the crew, but she has no qualms with holding people at gunpoint and holds her own in hand-to-hand combat.
* [[Band of Brothels]]: She's a member of the Companions Guild.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With Mal. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|a plot point]] in [[Serenity
* [[Bi the Way]]: Takes female clients as well as male.
* [[The Chick]]
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* [[The Face]]: Officially, her role on the ship is to use her social contacts to "open doors that would otherwise be closed" to a group like Captain Mal and the crew. Being that she's the only one with a legal job she's the only one that can show their face to polite company the crew might need help from.
* [[High Class Call Girl]]: ''Very'' high class.
* [[Hooker
* [[Hot Chick
* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]]: [[Word of God]] and Morena Baccarin confirmed a subplot involving Inara with a terminal illness, hinted at in "Serenity," "Out Of Gas," and "Heart of Gold."}}
* [[Lady of War]]: Good in swordfighting and [[The Archer|archery]].
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* [[The Pollyanna]]: No one is ever more cheerful than Kaylee.
** So much so that "sometimes you just wanna tie her up and dump her in the hold for a month".
* [[Princess for
* [[Rape
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Kaylee adores Simon. Simon doesn't know what to do about it.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: [[Recycled in Space|In SPACE]]!
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* [[Noble Fugitive]]
* [[Old School Chivalry]]: He is a well dressed doctor who doesn't swear or have casual sex. Needless to say he doesn't fit in with the thieves he lives with, but he says that he has to be proper because it's all he has.
* [[Overshadowed
* [[Princely Young Man]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: And personal physician, and therapist, and bodyguard, and once even [[Gentleman Thief]].
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== '''River Tam ([[Summer Glau]])''' ==
[[File:Firefly_River_35.jpg|frame]]
River is the aforementioned precious cargo, and Simon's little sister. She's [[Ax Crazy|stone]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|cold]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|crazy]]. [[Playing
* [[Action Girl]]
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* [[Dance Battler]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: From time to time.
* [[Deuteragonist]]: Though Mal is the central character of the series, River and what happened to her at the Academy forms a major part of the conflict over the series, and River is central to a significant number of episodes and her story serves as one of the series' dominant running background plots. Becomes especially apparent in ''[[
* [[Deconstruction]]: Of the whole [[Action Girl]] concept, showing just how mentally screwed-up a manufactured supersoldier would end up being.
* [[Dirty Mind Reading]]: Brushes with this in "Objects In Space," and implied in both the movie when {{spoiler|she spies on Simon and Kaylee}} and the comics.
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* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]
* [[The Empath]]: The majority of her psychic abilities center around sensing others' thoughts and intentions.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Some of her interactions with [[Anti-Hero|Jayne]] come off like this. Jayne even calls her "cute" at one point ... after seeing her [[Naked
* [[Fetal Position Rebirth]]: Both her first appearance in the series and her last appearance in [[The Movie]].
* [[Foot Focus]]: River is usually barefoot; [[Joss Whedon]] once referred to River's Feet as the 11th character, with ''Serenity'' herself being the 10th.
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* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: The most pint-sized and the most powerful on the show.
* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]: The decisions of the crew often have to factor in that there are [[The President's Daughter|government and corporate goons after her]].
* [[Playing
* [[Protectorate]]: To Simon especially, to everyone by extension. Eventually inverted, with River protecting ''them''.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: She can kill you with her brain.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: In [[Serenity
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: She may be the most brutal killing machine in the 'Verse, but she sure as hell doesn't want to be.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Notably when rattling off a lot of [[Techno Babble]] while editing Shepherd's bible.
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* [[Waif Prophet]]
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Against {{spoiler|the Reavers}} in ''[[
== '''Shepherd Derrial Book (Ron Glass)''' ==
[[File:Firefly_Book_437.jpg|frame]]
[[The Verse]]'s equivalent of a Christian priest, Book also wandered onto ''Serenity'' in the pilot, just wanting to [[Walking the Earth|walk the 'verse]] a while. Later he wonders if he's on the wrong ship, but then again, he does [[Hidden Depths|seem to know]] [[Badass Grandpa|a lot of things]] that one doesn't find in [[
* {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents]]: He left home in his youth to escape his abusive father.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Magical Negro]]: Tries his best to get Mal to believe in something.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Shepherd Book. [[The Bible
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Until it was finally revealed in ''A Shepard's Tale'', eight years after the series first aired.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Book is usually the most well-mannered of the crew, but during "War Stories," he busts loose with one of the filthiest Chinese swears in the book (which translates to "filthy fornicators of livestock") upon seeing Zoe come back with Mal's severed ear.
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* [[Team Chef]]: As shown in the pilot.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Though [[
== '''Jayne Cobb ([[Adam Baldwin]])''' ==
[[File:Firefly_Jayne_5096.jpg|frame]]
Jayne is a thuggish, misogynistic, crude [[Jerk
* [[Accidental Hero]]: 'Jaynestown' is pretty much this in a nutshell.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[I'll Be in My Bunk]]"
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: He doesn't get to, but he ''really'' wanted to. He was gonna get himself an ear, too.
* [[The Corruptible]]: [[Only in It For
* [[Nice Hat|Cunning Hat]]
* [[Dumb Muscle]] / Street Smarts [[Genius Bruiser]]: While not refined or educated, Jayne is an impressive judge of character (reading Dobson's lies instantly, for example), a reasonably cunning planner, an expert tracker, and a capable pilot. Basically, so long as what he's doing is a practical skill and doesn't require a lot of Book Smarts, he can crack it.
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* [[I'll Be in My Bunk]]: Also the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[It's All About Me]]: Jayne thinks mostly about himself, and is always happy to take the easy way out. Though he does care about his family and the crew, to some extent.
* [[Jerk
* [[Knife Nut]]: Carries one at almost all times.
* [[Lovable Traitor]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Maybe.]] Notably, he doesn't seem to have reached [[Trigun|Vash The Stampede]] levels of Obfuscating Stupidity, as he appears to overcorrect whenever he does something out of character, such as putting a transparently stupid grin on his face or saying he wanted him an ear too.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]
* [[The Rival]]: According to [[Joss Whedon]] in the commentary of ''[[
* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]
* [[Sour Supporter]]
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Mysterious duo in search of River, whom she refers to as "two by two, hands of blue."
* [[Badass in
* [[Brown Note]]: The mysterious weapon they use.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: What generally happens to those said weapon is used on.
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* [[The Men in Black]]
* [[Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer|Mysterious Mercenary Pursuers]]
* [[Person
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]
== '''The Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor)''' ==
Primary villain in ''[[
* [[Affably Evil]]: For a man who's possibly the most dangerous assassin the Alliance has, he is impeccably polite, willing to negotiate, and seems genuinely saddened by the measures he's forced to take in capturing River Tam.
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* [[Bio Augmentation]]: What he was researching.
* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[Impaled
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]
* [[Organ Theft]]: Particularly parts of the brain.
* [[Playing
* [[Mad Doctor]] / [[Mad Scientist]]: With Parliament approval!
* [[Seppuku|Involuntary Seppuku]]
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== '''The Reavers''' ==
The Reavers are a band of roving murderous, feral thugs who terrorize everything and everyone they come across. They are infamous for being [[I'm a Humanitarian|cannibals]], [[Body Horror|self-mutilation enthusiasts, everyone-else-mutilation enthusiasts]], and rapists of both [[Mind Rape|mind]] and [[Rape
* [[Aesoptinum]]: Their origin -- see spoiler above.
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* [[The Berserker]]: Played with. When attacking someone face-to-face, the Reavers become mad, frothing, berserk killers. Outside of face-to-face combat, however, Reavers are disturbingly thoughtful and intelligent, laying carefully-prepared traps, operating advanced spacecraft, and deliberately torturing people to break their minds to increase their numbers. They're skilled enough that they can take an entire ship by surprise without leaving any obvious trace of their presence.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: ''No one'' wants to be taken alive by the Reavers, and no one who can stop it will allow someone else to be, leading to several [[Mercy Kill|Mercy Kills]].
* [[Cut His Heart Out
{{quote| '''Zoe:''' If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it [[In That Order]].}}
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Reavers have a penchant for breaking and torturing people into becoming second-generation Reavers simply by exposing them to what they do to others.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: After the turning point in Mal's life, the battle of Serenity Valley.
* [[Shiny-Looking Spaceships]]: This is noticeably '''not''' in effect.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Thememobile]]
* [[Used Future]]: Literally -- Mal buys her at a used ship lot. The salesman tries to steer him towards a more suitable (read: expensive) vessel
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