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=== Adam Savage ===

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Tropes associated with Adam:

* [[Nice Hat]]: The fedora he frequently wears.

** Also, if any test result is remotely compatible with his head, he will wear it.

* [[Pyromaniac]]

=== Jamie Hyneman ===

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Tropes associated with Jamie:

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Honorary Uncle]]: Considering Adam's description of the team as [[True Companions|"like family"]], it is fitting that Jamie has been occasionally referred to as "Uncle Jamie" -- twice by ''Adam'', of all people ("Ancient Death Ray", 2004 -- during the "What is Bulletproof?" segment, and again during "Tablecloth Chaos" in 2010) and also by Robert Lee, the narrator ("Viral Hour", 2008, during the Sawdust cannon section.).

* [[Human Alien]]: "This crater is about the same size as the one left by Jamie when he first came to Earth." -- Adam Savage

* [[Nice Hat]]: His trademark beret.

* [[The Stoic]]: Especially in earlier episodes, where Jamie calling out Adam and the producers on deliberately trying to provoke him was practically a [[Running Gag]].

** [[Not So Stoic]]: Has gotten more prone to joking around and visibly enjoying himself during myth testing as the show has gone on.

** This is perhaps a case of [[Character Development]] as with Adam since it's been mentioned that early on in the show, he was not particularly comfortable on camera and took the job fairly seriously. With time and exposure, it's possible he's gotten comfortable with the idea that for a fairly light hearted show, it allows for a fairly serious platform for science and education.

** He seems to play this up for a laugh in the men versus women episode. When the mythbusters are told to show various emotions for a test to see who can read emotions better. Jamie says the emotion then keeps his face completely emotionless.

=== Grant Imahara ===

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Tropes associated with Grant:

* [[Robosexual]]

* [[Squee]]: Approaches squee-levels when working with robots.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: In one episode, Grant spent the entire episode tossing cardboard boxes out of cars and trucks. He somehow makes this look awesome.

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Grant's solution to everything: build a robot.

 

=== Tory Belleci ===

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Tropes associated with Tory:

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A lot of times, things the team think are dangerous are lost on Tory.

* [[The Klutz]]

* [[Rainbow Pimp Gear]]: On those occasions when he wears a chain-mail shirt and a football helmet.

 

=== Kari Byron ===

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Tropes associated with Kari:

* [[Hot Mom]]: Gave birth to her first child in June 2009.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Sometimes, as she's prone to wearing tight-fitting tank-tops. Also, her first appearance on the show was dressing in spandex leggings to have her butt laser-scanned for computer modeling. And the guys weren't averse to bringing up or showing her FHM photos, though they quit doing that after a while.

* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]: Under the Californian sun down at the bomb range, Kari has been known to carry one.

* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Even when heavily pregnant, she went out and participated in some of the myths. Some which included guns, cannons and/or explosives.

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: She's more than once related seeing an impressive explosion to "having your first kiss."

* [[Terrified of Germs]]: As revealed in "Fever Pitch". Of course, this quality enabled her to prove that it's possible to avoid contracting a cold or flu via indirect contact ''if'' you know what you're doing.

 

=== Jessi Combs ===

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: She was a substitute Mythbuster during Kari's pregnancy.

* [[Wrench Wench]]

 

=== Scottie Chapman ===

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Tropes associated with Scottie:

* [[Wrench Wench]]

=== Buster ===

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* [[They Killed Kenny]]: Buster often "dies" at least once during a myth, and has had to be completely rebuilt a few times.

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Often. Doing this was even the focus of one episode.

=== Robert Lee ===

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* [[The Narrator]]

* [[Pungeon Master]]

=== Heather Joseph-Witham ===

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Tropes associated with Heather:

* [[Ms. Exposition]]

=== Frank Doyle ===

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Tropes associated with Frank:

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: His job is to make this occur without crossing into "''People'' Blowing Up".