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* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Father]]: Ice baths, [[Denied Food as Punishment]] if he was ever even the tiniest bit late for a meal, and being made to sleep outside in the yard when he was a child. House loves his mother, but she either did not accompany House and his father when he was stationed at various military bases or didn't notice the abuse.
** House actually concludes that his mother hated his father, too, when he proves that {{spoiler|[[Daddy DNA Test|his dad wasn't actually his dad]]}}. Given the nature of this sort of family dynamic, it's very likely she was a victim, too.
* [[Agent Scully]]: He stubbornly refuses to accept any explanation involving magic/angels/misc supernatural, to the point he stuck a fork into a electrical socket to disprove someone else's near death experience.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]] (With moments of Type III and V). He has good intentions (most of the time) but he is not a nice man.
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Labcoat]]: Well, he doesn't wear one all that much, but considering this man's track record of surviving several things like insulin shock (which he inflicted on himself!), getting shot in his own office, attemting to perform surgery on himself, and a highly deadly bus accident, and all of which were done with [[Implacable Man|no fear for his own life]], this doctor is pretty hardcore.
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* [[Blatant Lies]]: The most obvious: "I never lie."
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: House is shown to excel at almost everything he puts his mind to. Nonetheless, he will jump through all kinds of hoops to get out of clinic duty, and he was assigned interns to keep him from spending all his time watching [[Soap Opera|Soap Operas]]. He can often be found doing random things in his office (or Wilson's office, or Cuddy's office...), ranging from playing with a Zen garden to constructing a Rube Goldberg machine to practicing yo-yo tricks. He claims in one episode that isolating himself "helps his process." Whether this or the above is true, or perhaps a mix of the two, is anyone's guess.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: A true example of the 'cost/benefit' part of the trope: he's so good at what he does Cuddy earmarks part of the hospital's budget to pay for the inevitable legal fees.
* [[Byronic Hero]]
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: House's typical non-reaction of "cool" or "interesting" when a patient's face melts or some such.
* [[Catch Phrase]] and [[Memetic Mutation]]: "It's not lupus."
* [[Consummate Liar]]: He's good at it sure but it plays into his [[Catch Phrase]] "Everyone lies" and they do.
* [[Custom Uniform]]: He very rarely wears the white lab coat that all the other doctors are required to wear. In fact, if you ''do'' see House in a lab coat, he's probably in the middle of pranking someone.
* [[Cynical Mentor]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: At everyone, ''especially'' patients.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: {{spoiler|Has repeated hallucinations of Amber and Kutner.}}
* [[Determinator]]: When he wants to prove that he's right.
* [[Disability as an Excuse For Jerkassery]]: Uses his injured leg to do this, though he was a [[Jerkass]] before then.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Whether its about his emotional state or his limp he'll chew you out for sympathy.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: In the series finale.}}
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: A rather extreme example of this trope.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Wilson.
* [[Icy Blue Eyes]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: House is usually right, and he will make sure you know it.
* [[Jerkass]]
** [[Jerkass Facade]]: On many occasions.
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* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Subverted. He is fully capable of empathy. In emotional or sad moments, and almost always ''private'' ones, he will display that capacity. He just likes to give the impression that he is an outright asshole.
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: No one calls him "Greg", not even Wilison.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Considering his addictions, all the experiments he made on himself and the sheer amount of accidents he's been in, it's a wonder he isn't dead yet.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Close to it. ''Very close''. One time Cuddy refered to him as this.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: To both his friends and his patients; either because [[It Amused Me|it amused him]] or to find out some secret they're supposed hiding.
* [[Mean Boss]]: Makes race jokes to Foreman, class jokes to Chase, and ridicules Cameron's compassion.
** Also makes fun of Adams' rich guilt, Thirteen's bisexuality, and Taub's inability to keep a relationship together.
*** Basically, if you ever work with him and you have something to make fun of, he will make fun of it.
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* [[Screwy Squirrel]]
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Has huge issues of self-worth.
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: He has on many occasions been able to deduce a stranger's illnesses after just one glance.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: With Cuddy.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: He does, '''very''' deep down, want to cure the people he treats but only if their case is interesting and only if he can go to illegal lengths to make sure.
* [[The Spock]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
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== Dr. James Wilson ==
Head of the Department of Oncology, and House's best (and only) friend. Wilson is a sensitive and caring man, whose impeccable bedside manner sharply contrasts House's lack of one. As a result of his nature, he's been married three times, two of them failing as a result of his infidelity, and the third because of his partner's. Very much a people-pleaser. He and House frequently play mind games with one another.
'''Associated tropes:'''
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* [[Consummate Liar]]
* {{spoiler|[[Death by Irony]]}}: Well, he ''is'' an oncologist {{spoiler|with terminal cancer...}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Conversation]]: With House's "ghost" in the series finale.}}
* [[Expy]]: John Watson.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Subverted. He may let House (and everyone else) roll over him most of the time, but when someone pushes him too far [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?|he stands his ground]].
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* [[Last-Name Basis]]
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Heavily implied in his relationship with House.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: A hugely important part of his character. Wilson remains the only character who can continually lie to House, as well as the only character to one-up House.
{{quote|'''House''': You manipulative bastard, did you just invoke the name of {{spoiler|your dead girlfriend}} to play me? You're my hero.}}
* [[The McCoy]]
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* [[The Lancer]]: From Season 4 on.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]
* [[Name's the Same]]: [[That '70s Show|Eric Foreman, eh?]]
* [[Not So Different]]: To House, a fact he deeply resents.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sometimes, he seems to be only one with [[Common Sense]] from the entire group.
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== Dr. Allison Cameron ==
An immunologist, and one of House's original fellows. Cameron is often at odds with House over patient care -- she is more concerned about the patient, while House is more focused on the puzzle. Cameron is a widow, having married a man who she knew was dying of cancer when she was 21. She serves as a fellow during season 1-3 and the first few episodes of season 6. Starting in Season 4, she transfers from the Department of Diagnostic Medicine to the ER, working as a Senior Attending Physician.
{{spoiler|In Season 6, she leaves the hospital and divorces Chase, having become disgusted with both him and House. She moves to Chicago and becomes the Dean of Emergency Medicine. She returned in the series finale.}}
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Her initial crush on House.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: She believes very strictly in a set moral system. For some this may double over into [[Moral Myopia]] or [[Values Dissonance]] as she condemns Chase as "no longer valuing the sanctity of human life" for {{spoiler|killing a mass-murdering tyrant who ''told'' Chase that as soon as he got out of the hospital he was going to [[Complete Monster|commit an act of genocide]]}} (thereby actively saving the lives of thousands of people), while she herself helped a patient to die via committing euthanasia. And to play the guilt card, Chase ''did'' feel terrible about it for a long time. YMMV, though.
* [[The Face]] Cameron is [[The Heart]] variety as she is the only one of the main cast that patients will ever actually know. She goes out of her way to 'get to know' the patients, as opposed to the other members of her department who more or less don't care and just ask them about symptoms.
** [[The Heart]]: The moral center, if they would listen to her more often.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]
* [[The Medic]]: Though ''all'' of the characters are doctors, her personality best fits the trope.
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* [[Naive Everygirl]]
* [[The McCoy]] / [[Strawman Emotional]]
* [[Out of Focus]]: During seasons 4 and 5.
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Politeness Judo]]: Her usual way of dealing with difficult patients or adversarial outside authorities.
* [[The Pollyanna]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Although House usually prevents her from doing anything drastic.
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* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: To his father.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: All doctors on the show get this to some degree, but Chase goes from intensivist to someone who can apparently perform every kind of surgery under the sun.
* [[Out of Focus]]: During season 4 and 5.
* [[Shoot the Dog]] / [[Dirty Business]]: "The Tyrant".
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]
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Born as "Lawrence Choudray". A sports and rehabilitation medicine specialist. He's a member of House's fellows during seasons 4 and 5. Of Indian descent, Kutner was orphaned at the age of six, following his parents' shooting in a burglary attempt. He was subsequently adopted by another family, leading to his decisively non-Indian name. Despite this, he is generally cheery, and displays an honest enthusiasm for what he does.
{{spoiler|Kutner commits suicide for unknown reasons toward the end of season 5.}}
'''Associated tropes:'''
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Kutner + defibrillator = disaster
** [[Foreshadowing]]: In "Locked In", Kutner uses the paddles without anything disastrous happening. {{spoiler|The next episode is "Simple Explanation", where Kutner commits suicide. As Kutner's previous...mishaps with the paddles were likely a result of his characteristic overeagerness, this shows that, despite appearances, he isn't his usual self.}}
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]
* [[Token Minority]]: For the new crew, although Foreman is still around so he's not alone. In the episode "Locked In", he refers to them as "dark and darker".
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* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: She's socially inept and has compiled many esoteric facts inside of her head. She's like the internet but with breasts. Oh wait...
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Foil]]: To House, who often makes fun of her for her honesty and naivete.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Type 2.
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* [[Expy]]: In a very general sense, at least, compared to House's other new employee, Dr. Park. She follows the formula of being an attractive female with some emotional baggage as Cameron and Thirteen were, though her baggage doesn't seem nearly as heavy as Cameron's or Thirteens. Yet.
** She is gradually becoming more and more an Expy of Cameron - she shares the unlucky relationship history and especially the very high moral concerns.
* [[Foil]]: To Dr. Park, in some ways. It makes their first few interactions rather entertaining.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Patients who cheat on their wives/girlfriends are her [[Berserk Button]], thanks to her own husband having done the same to her.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Her hallucination form is frequently barefoot.
* [[Enemy Without]]: As a hallucination. Initially an ally, she turns dark as House wises up to the fact that her (his?) intents are hostile.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Amber is the first to balk at House's absurd tests. She announces she's leaving, and half of the trainees follow suit. She returns minutes later, having thinned the herd.
* [[Informed Self Diagnosis]]
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