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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type II/Type III]]
* [[The Anti -Nihilist]]: "''We're still flying.''"
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Longcoat|Badass Browncoat]]
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** He even out draws The Operative who's already holding a gun in his hand!
* [[Hidden Depths]]: "Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Casually [[Boom! Headshot!|shoots Dobson in the head]] from ten feet away in the pilot... While Dobson has a [[Human Shield]].
* [[Jade Coloured Glasses]]
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Displays shades of this in the flashback to his army days:
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* [[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 By Awesome]]: His wife, Zoe, who wears the pants in their relationship. Still pretty awesome in his own right.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* {{spoiler|[[Surprisingly -Sudden Death]]}}
* [[Survival Mantra]]: "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: A variant, in that Wash ''himself'' seems surprised that [[Ridiculously Average Guy|a guy like him]] could manage to marry someone like Zoe.
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* [[Mama Bear]]: Inara is the only one who will stand up to Mal whenever he threatens to boot Simon and River off the ship.
* [[Not So Above It All]]: She really seems to enjoy participating in capers and double-crossing the villain of the week when she gets the chance.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: The pilot has her taking a long, gratuitous spongebath. There's other scenes, too. Lots of other scenes. [[IllI'll Be in My Bunk|You'll be in your bunk]].
* [[The Ojou]]: Companions aren't actually royalty, but they're sometimes treated like it.
* [[Rule of Sexy]]: Applies to her muchly.
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* [[The Smart Guy]]:
{{quote| '''Simon:''' " 'Gifted' is the term."}}
* [[Sharp -Dressed Man]]
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Even prior to the experiments. Asperger's? Autism? ADHD? All of the above?
* [[The Anti -Nihilist]]: As seen in the episode ''Objects in Space''.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: She has slashed people up in the past, including Jayne, for wearing a [[Mega Corp|Blue Sun]] t-shirt. In the R. Tam Sessions, she murdered her "counselor" with [[The Pen Is Mightier|a pen]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' mess with Simon.
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* [[Book Dumb]]
{{quote| '''Wash''': How did your brain even learn speech?!}}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[IllI'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 The Money|If money's involved.]]
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{{quote| '''River:''' "Jayne is a girl's name".<br />
'''Jayne:''' "Well, Jayne ain't a girl!" }}
* [[Girl -On -Girl Is Hot]]: Upon learning that Inara will be servicing a female client on board her shuttle, he has only this to say:
{{quote| '''Jayne:''' [[Catch Phrase|I'll be in my bunk.]]}}
* [[I Call It Vera]]: [[Trope Namer]]!
* [[IllI'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 With a Heart of Gold]]
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* [[Electric Torture]]: When Niska gets busy, he likes to start off with this before getting nastier.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Thanks to the show's cancellation and all.
* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Until the movie.
* [[Space Madness]]: Originally believed to be their origin.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: We never see a "true" Reaver in the series, only their ships, the [[Shrouded in Myth|reactions others have to them]], and one man who was [[Freak -Out|broken]] into becoming one of them. [[The Movie]] throws this out the window.
* [[The Usual Adversaries]]
 
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* [[Cool Ship]]
* [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]
* [[I Am Not Left -Handed]]: the rotating thrusters that made the 'Crazy Ivan' from the pilot possible is a rare mechanical variation.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: After the turning point in Mal's life, the battle of Serenity Valley.
* [[Shiny-Looking Spaceships]]: This is noticeably '''not''' in effect.
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* [[Used Future]]: Literally -- Mal buys her at a used ship lot. The salesman tries to steer him towards a more suitable (read: expensive) vessel
** To clarify, Serenity was in such bad nick she couldn't get off the ground, let alone be space-worthy when Mal bought her.
* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: Serenity may not look like much, but according to Kaylee, "she'll fool ya."
 
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