Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Characters
Detective Robert Goren
- Ambiguous Disorder
- Berserk Button: Hurting Alex in any way or harassing his mother.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Defective Detective
- Freudian Excuse: Practically every member of his family has a disorder of some kind.
- Guile Hero
- Man Child: Until Sanity Slippage started to set in, at any rate.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Sanity Slippage
- The Spock
- Tall, Dark and Snarky
Detective Alexandra Eames
- Best Friend Manual: To Robert Goren.
- Broken Bird: Her husband was a cop who was killed in the line of duty.
- Deadpan Snarker: In so, so many spades.
- In the Blood: Comes from a family of cops.
- Missing Mom: In ten seasons, Eames mentions her mother once, to say that she's a stroke victim. In an episode in which Goren and Eames visit Eames' father, her mother is nowhere to be seen.
- Unfazed Everyman
Nicole Wallace
Robert Goren's Arch Enemy and Worthy Opponent