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** [[Hurting Hero]]
* [[Amicably Divorced]]: He and Maggie are about as amicably divorced as you can get.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Being [[The Chessmaster]], Nate is very good at these.
* [[The Big Bad]]: If this is a [[Five-Bad Band]], anyway.
* [[Byronic Hero]]
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* [[The Leader]]: Type I--he's even called The Mastermind.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Normally he leaves this part of the planning to Sophie, but when he wants to, Nate can be a very good manipulator in his own right. He's not such a good ''actor'', but can even use that to his advantage.
* [[Mission Control]]: Shares this with Hardison.
* [[Official Couple]]: With Sophie.
* [[The Shill]]: To Sophie's Roper.
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* [[Hired Guns]]: An ex-mercenary
* [[Invincible Hero]]: For a while early on, Eliot didn't even fight anyone who gave him a challenge. Since then, he's taken a few serious beatings, but has yet to actually ''lose'' a fight. It certainly makes him immune to [[The Worf Effect]].
** Until The Carnival Job... {{spoiler|He ends up unconscious on the floor, unable to help a little girl. He does still win the fight in the end, though.}}
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Omniglot]]: Speaks Hebrew and Arabic and possibly other languages. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because he is a world traveler with a professional need to speak local languages.
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* [[Black and Nerdy]]: He's a hacker. What do you expect?
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Often plays the Brains to Parker or Eliot's Brawn.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: He has shades of this in season 1, most notably in the Mile High Job, but he gets over it as the series progresses.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: More and more so recently. Probably because the production crew is taking advantage of the fact that Aldis Hodge knows how to act as one in an especially funny way.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Age of the geek, baby."
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** "Oh, ''hell no''!" is a recent development - before that it was "Seriously!? ''Seriously!?''"
* [[Character Development]]: By the third season, he's started thinking about some day running his own crew.
* [[Cowardly Lion]]: While he often complains about the situations he is involved in, he never backs down,
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:
{{quote|'''Hardison:''' Hey, Eliot, what is that blocking your button cam? Oh yeah, it's your ''ego.''}}
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* [[Evil Genius]]: If this is a [[Five-Bad Band]], anyway.
* [[Happily Adopted|Happily Fostered]]: He calls his foster mom "Nana" and speaks of her with great fondness. She was apparently a powerfully positive influence in his life.
* [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]: He's a technological genius who pretty much runs solely on orange soda and gummi frogs.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Interestingly, he's so charismatic by nature that he's generally easy to forgive when he gets into a bragging spiel. The other characters aren't quite as charmed as the audience, though.
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*** RIP Lucille.
**** Again.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Usually the one who briefs the mission. Shares the role with Nate.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|New Skills As The Plot Demands]]: While everyone on the show necessarily expands their skill-sets, Hardison is the one who usually gets called upon to do things completely outside the team's experience. In addition to being a hacker, he can make spot-on forgeries and land planes.
* [[Playful Hacker]]
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: [[Word of God]] is that Parker may have [[Asperger's Syndrome]].
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: But Hardison understands.
** He's her pretzel.
* [[The Chick]]: If this is a [[Five-Man Band]], anyway. Although Sophie fits many of the requirements as well, despite generally serving as [[The Lancer]].
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Well, a cat burglar, anyway...she has the look, but none of the attitude.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
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* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]
* [[In Harm's Way]]: She's a heck of an adrenaline junkie.
* [[Literal
{{quote|'''Eliot:''' She is hot.
'''Hardison:''' Hot.
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* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Hardison.
** {{spoiler|They're now together as of "The Long Way Down Job"}}
* [[When She Smiles]]: Parker is quite pretty regardless, but something about her smile/laugh is just so ridiculously charming and heartwarming (especially when paired with moments of her being goofy). It's grown steadily more frequent as she adjusts to being on the [[Nakama|team]].
** She's also rather [[Moe|adorable when]] [[Perpetual Frowner|she pouts.]]
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== '''Tara Cole''' ==
[[File:Leverage_Tara_Cole_4210.jpg|frame]]
Grifter who must have owed Sophie a pretty big favor. Played by Jeri Ryan. While little is known about her, a few details are clear. She worked for the army, and was trained by either the FBI, or the Marines. Since Sophie returned, she and her have been meeting off-screen, but did not work together due to their clashing styles.
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Tropes associated with Tara:
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== '''Archie Leach''' ==
[[File:055_rez_Winter2011Promo_2073.jpg|frame]]
Retired thief who was Parker's teacher in the arts of theft. He was formerly known as the "World's Greatest Thief" Played by Richard Chamberlain.
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Tropes associated with Archie:
* [[Affectionate Pickpocket]]: Parker's original introduction to him and her way of introducing herself to him.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Despite being a thief, he is the first to point out what a monster the villian of the week is.
* [[Fake Brit]]
* [[Faking the Dead]]
* [[Gentleman Thief]]
* [[Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]]
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Don't disrespect Parker in front of him. He might just taser you.
* [[Retired Badass]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Archie Leach is the real name of [[Cary Grant]], who, among many other roles, played the (retired) [[Gentleman Thief]] in ''[[It Takes a Thief]]''.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: He wants to help people, he just has no idea how.
* [[Big Fun]]/[[Fat Bastard]]: Toyed with. He tries to be the former, appears to be the latter, and falls somewhere in the middle.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In his second appearance.
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: He notes in his second appearance that he has bought a cat.
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
* [[Badass]]: '''[[Word of God|Sterling. Never. Loses.]]'''
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't even think about {{spoiler|hurting or kidnapping [[Papa Wolf|his daughter]]}}. He will hire the best team in the world to get you and you won't like it.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Evil Brit]]
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** {{spoiler|And Nate admits they were friends!}}
* [[Wild Card]]: Whose side he's on generally depends on which side will serve him best. So basically his own.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Even Nate concedes that Sterling has integrity -- even if he's not awash in the kinder human traits.
Did I mention that '''[[Rule of Three|Sterling. Never. Loses?]]'''
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* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Seems to keep trying to figure out ''why'' the Leverage team are ruining his life without considering that maybe he just deserves it.
** Well, he also has ''no idea who they are''. Which triggers [[Fridge Logic]] given the team's reputation in "The Two Live Crew Job".
*** In "The Two Live Crew Job" the rival crew was fellow thieves, Moreau is a money launderer who has no reason to keep tabs on thieves.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[ER|Dr. Kovac!]]
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