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[[File:ncis.jpg|frame|<small>Within thirty minutes or less, the guy on the left will [[The Movie Buff|make a movie reference]], the lady will either [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|get an English idiom wrong]] or [[Drives Like Crazy|burn rubber]], and the guy on the right will [[Dope Slap]] either or both of them. Guaranteed, or your pizza's free.</small> ]]
The faculty and agents of the hit series ''[[NCIS]]''.
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Not to be confused with [[Ludicrous Gibs|Ludicrous Gibbs]], though he does pull some pretty crazy stunts to get the bad guys. The team leader, a former marine sniper, and interrogator extraordinaire.
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Highlighted in ''Mind Games'': The serial killer featured in that episode was the boogeyman of D.C. when he was active, evading metro cops and terrorizing the female populace. When explaining the case to McGee, Tony and Paula Cassidy finished by saying "But he made one crucial mistake: He killed a Petty Officer." ▼
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▲* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Highlighted in ''Mind Games'': The serial killer featured in that episode was the boogeyman of D.C. when he was active, evading metro cops and terrorizing the female populace. When explaining the case to McGee, Tony and Paula Cassidy finished by saying "But he made one crucial mistake: He killed a Petty Officer."
* [[Amnesia Danger]]: In "Hiatus", a bomb blast knocks Gibbs back to his Marine days. He has critical information that he doesn't remember. Luckily, [[Easy Amnesia|remembrance]] is just a [[Dope Slap]] away.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]]
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Gibbs does this to a prospective replacement for Ziva. At least, we see her leave crying, while he nonchalantly walks out and tells Tony, "Strike one".
* [[Born in
** He also refers to computer chips and the like with terms such as "doo-da" and "deweywhacker."
** It's hard to keep track of how many cell phones he's destroyed during the run of the series, either because they malfunctioned or just generally annoyed him. One even wound up in a jar of paint thinner. His agents now keep plenty of spares in their desks, ready to hand to him at a moment's notice.
** When a Roomba vacuum cleaner was about to suck up some of the evidence from a crime scene, he didn't even bother picking it up or trying to turn it off. ''He stomped it to pieces.''
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* [[Dope Slap]]: Aka the "Gibbs Slap" done to all of his agents and Abby at least once, but to Tony the most. He even occasionally self-inflicts when he knows he's doing something he'd slap any of his agents for.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Kate at one point describes his driving as "Apparently Gibbs is trying to kill us." He's also the only one on the team unfazed by the motorist antics of Ziva, another crazy driver.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Though it's never stated that he's embarrassed by it, [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|no one except residents of his hometown or his ex-wives call him 'Leroy']].
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Ziva directly calls him "the closest thing she has to a father". (Note that her father is very much alive.)
** Later, he explicitly refers to his team as his "kids."
** A special notice should go to Tony as well; especially in that one episode where he referenced to Tony as his son to chat up a man who had a bomb strapped to him... Over Tetris.
* [[Foe Yay]]: With attorney Allison Hart.
** With Dr. Samantha Ryan in season ten.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Probably has something to do with Kelly. If there's a child involved, he will take the case very [[It's Personal|seriously.]]
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** When Tony learns about Gibbs flirting with a suspect, his immediate response is "Is she a redhead?" (She is.)
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Ducky.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: I thought [[St. Elsewhere|Bobby Caldwell]] died of AIDS...
** Wasn't [[The West Wing|Simon Donovan]] shot in a convenience store?
* [[It's Personal]]: He has a tendency to do this. As said, anything involving children (or otherwise reminding him of Shannon and Kelly) automatically becomes this. Hurting anyone from his team also pushes him to this point. But every criminal that is disgusting enough to him can trigger this.
* [[Jerk
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: To the women in his team, especially Abby.
* [[Layman's Terms]]: Does this at least once an episode, mostly to Abby, Ducky and McGee.
* [[Magnetic Hero]]
* [[Memetic Badass]]: in-universe.
* [[Military Maverick]]
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: In the form of coffee.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Do ''not'' endanger his people. Just don't. ''Epecially'' Abby.
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* [[Perp Sweating]]: A master of interrogation.
** Especially when applying his [[Death Glare]].
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* [[Right Behind Me]]: Tends to evoke this reaction from his agents.
* [[Sexy Mentor]]
* [[Semper Fi]]: And Gibbs always remembers it.
* [[The Strategist]]
* [[Team Dad]]: To his agents, but especially to Abby.
* [[Ten
* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: It may change with Vance, but it seems this man can never get canned.
** And, now Vance and Gibbs are friends of a sort, ''and'' Vance knows that Gibbs has the ''unaltered'' copy of Vance's personnel file - even if he's never opened it. ''Yet''. Nope, Gibbs has yet again armor-plated his job security in adamantium.
** When Gibbs "retired" at the end of season 3, it later was revealed that Director Shepard had failed to file his retirement. His job security is so great he can't quit even if he wants to!
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* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: The team has had discussions pitting Gibbs vs. the likes of [[The Terminator]], [[Godzilla]], Mothra, and [[Mirror Match|himself]]. They tend to [[Memetic Badass|give the edge to Gibbs.]]
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: In season four when he went undercover.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With Ziva.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Very often Gibbs catches him apparently slacking off, only to then reveal all the investigation and work he's been doing.
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Don't '''ever''' betray NCIS or the USA in general (like Agent Lee) or [[Hypocritical Heartwarming|make fun of people he makes fun of but you don't know]] (like Det. McCadden).
** Oh... and don't try to kill him and then think you can work with him.
** And for the love of all things military, leave Ziva alone.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Clear My Name]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Exasperated Perp]]: His preferred method of interrogation. Most prominent when he doesn't ask questions, but just sits there, chewing on his tie and playing ''[[
** He once pulled this off while ''he'' was the one being interrogated. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|By the director of Mossad.]]
*** Wouldn't that be considered subverted since Tony was the "Perp" in this case and he pissed off the interrogator?
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* [[Handsome Lech]]
* [[Hey, You]]: Calling McGee Probie or one of many McNicknames.
* [[Ho Yay]]:
** Let's just say there's a reason Gibbs/DiNozzo is the fandom's most popular slash pairing...
** DiNozzo/McGee is fairly high up on the list as well.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: he did graduate with a major in phys. ed. you know...
* [[Jerk
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: With Jeanne Benoit; he was undercover at the time, so it wasn't supposed to happen.
* [[Locked in
* [[Mock Millionaire]]
* [[The Movie Buff]]
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* [[Reference Overdosed]]: His movie references turn this show into this all on his own.
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: Several episodes reveal that his wardrobe is a who's-who of expensive name brands. His grousing during the shower scene in "SWAK" is one of the best examples:
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* [[Spanner in
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* [[Took a Level
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: A little with Kate, but to a much greater degree with Ziva.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2 with McGee. They act almost like [[Sibling Rivalry|brothers]].
** Tony is also very close to Gibbs, but you wouldn't say so from their [[Jerk
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]:
** Mostly in the early seasons, with Gibbs.
** Also clearly present with his biological father. They're improving.
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* {{spoiler|[[Boom! Headshot!]]}}
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: {{spoiler|Tony imagines her dressed as such after her death}}
** Also an [[Homage]] as she was dressed as [[Kill Bill|Gogo]].
* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: You can feel a breath of cold air when she talks, especially to Tony.
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* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: She thinks she is a good one but has helped more than one murderous psychopath because they look sympathetic, one nearly kills her, {{spoiler|another actually does.}}
* [[I'm Going to Hell For This]]: In the episode where the victim and attacker were on the same "dating" site
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* [[Informed Ability]]: Ari comments on her freakish observation skills - but the next episode Gibbs corrects her recreation of room. And on a different occasion this former Secret Service agent couldn't kill Ari because his eyes looked kind...
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* {{spoiler|[[Tonight Someone Dies]]}}
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* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Subverted. She has no problem with sex, just certain expressions of it (like Palmer's foot/shoe fetish AND how carefully he takes note of his coworker's footwear...)
* [[A Riddle Wrapped in
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Once, she was [[Alone
** There's also the time she {{spoiler|was taken by a hitman hired to kill her to prevent her from testifying.}} By the time Gibbs and company arrive, she's using a taser on him.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** She once threatened Agent Lee that she's one of the few people in the world who can kill someone and leave absolutely no forensic evidence.
** And a couple times people tried to hurt Abby, the scene cuts to agents running to help her, and when they arrive, Abby has taken her attacker down, and is clearly coming down from a major adrenaline rush (see [[Badass Adorable]]).
** She can verbally dress you down as well as Gibbs, and in a way it's even more harsh just because it's coming from ''her''.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Or Big Sister Instinct. Toward her brother, Luca.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Her job as [[The Lab Rat]].
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: See [[Perky Goth]]. Can also be something of an [[Adult Child]] at times.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: In this case, Gibbs is the "Daddy." It's a common fan theory that she's something of a surrogate for his deceased daughter Kelly.
**And Abagail [[Meaningful Name|actually does mean]] "Daddy's Girl" in Hebrew.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: She doesn't much care for being called "Abigail".
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Besides his wife and Gibbs, she's the only one who calls Director Vance "Leon."
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]
* [[Genki Girl]]: If this were a manga, she would be most likely to [[Say It
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Australians love Pauley Perrette.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
* [[The Glomp]]
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Adopted]]: Nine seasons in and we learn she was this to her deaf parents.}}
* [[Happily Adopted]] : She and one of her brothers was adopted by a deaf couple and she still remembers them fondly.
* [[The Heart]]: As indicated in the character quote, again.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey Its That Girl]]: Who would have guessed that Abby used to be [[Almost Famous|a Stillwater groupie]]?
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* [[I Work Alone]]: For the sake of ''everyone'' involved. Including the bad guys.
* [[I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That]]: When Michelle Lee suggests that NCIS is better off without Gibbs in the episode "Escaped":
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* [[Killer Rabbit]]: See below.
* [[The Lab Rat]]
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** She's tried to break the addiction before. It never works.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]
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'''Abby:''' Oh, no. It's just a hobby. }}
* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]: Has a black, lacy one, that she carries in a few episodes. Speaking of which...
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* [[She's Got Legs]]: "And ''don't'' look up my skirt!"
* [[Techno Babble]]
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Pauley Perrette got her Masters in Criminal Science.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Rather, will they or won't they ''again''; she and McGee used to date, and still have chemistry, up to and including being jealous of whoever the other one is currently seeing.
* [[Vanity License Plate]]: "4NS CHIK"
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
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* [[Broken Bird]]: OK, he's not a woman. But goodness, that was even the actual name of the episode.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: His tendency to go on long speeches during work is lampshaded by Palmer when he does his first dissection. "I feel the urge to explain something tangentially relevant."
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* [[Creepy Mortician]]: A very lovable kind of creepy, but still damn creepy. Gibbs finds it a useful way to break some suspects by showing them what will happen to their bodies if they refuse to cooperate and end up dead as a result. It works too.
** He is kidnapped and nearly killed by one, who begins to drain his blood before Gibbs and company arrive to save him.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Would you have imagined [[The Man
** Well, he and [[Absolutely Fabulous
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in one episode when Kate asks Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger. Gibbs replies with, you guessed it, Illya Kuryakin.
** [[Hey, It's That Voice!|Hmm, I wonder if he]] [[Ben 10: Alien Force
** If they don't like the show or any of the other characters or actors, chances are the crowds will go gaga over ''him.''
* [[Gentleman and
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: The very lovely Dr. Jordan Hampton.
* [[The Medic]]: In addition to being the Medical Examiner.
* [[The Munchausen]]: Subverted, as it seems to be generally accepted by those who know him that his stories are true.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: His mother had Alzheimer's and drove him crazy in early seasons; she was put in a home [[Real Life Writes the Plot|shortly after the death of her actress in late 2008]] and died a year later.
* [[Only Known
* [[Punny Name]]: With a name like that, what did you think he'd be called, Mousey?
** Ari actually first thinks of the locomotive, mildly surprising Ducky.
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: He is, of course, Scottish, but he was schooled at [[Oxbridge|Oxford]]. This trope, therefore, naturally applies.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: A meta-version. To prepare for the role, David McCallum went to coroner and medical examiner's conferences to learn the trade. He became so good the producers were tempted to pay him a consulting fee.
* [[Talking to
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: He became a licensed psychologist in later seasons after we see him studying for his exams and is occasionally called-upon to profile a suspect.
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'''McGee:''' ''I love it that you love it.'' }}
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Revealed in recent seasons, his father was a very cold, emotionally abusive man to his son. McGee tells of a time when young he spent a great deal of effort and love on a birthday card for his father. His father's response: "You could do better."▼
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▲* [[Abusive Parents]]: Revealed in recent{{when}} seasons, his father was a very cold, emotionally abusive man to his son. McGee tells of a time when young he spent a great deal of effort and love on a birthday card for his father. His father's response: "You could do better."
**[[Your Mileage May Vary]]. Most of McGee's descriptions sound less like an abuser ''per se'' than like the sterotyped "Captain von Trap" sort who makes a great professional naval officer but is really not up for the job of fatherhood. McGee certainly had no objection to naming his son after him.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Will do some irrational things to protect his college-age sister, some of which have jeopardized his career once.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
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* [[Name McAdjective]]: Tony gives him a lot of Mc-nicknames to work with.
* [[Techno Babble]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Tony, behaving much like a pair of [[Sibling Rivalry|squabbling brothers]] at times.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: As noted above with Abby.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Ziva is (ex-)Mossad. The show frequently implies she ''used'' to be a [[Dark Action Girl]].
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer|A Real Woman Is A Killer]]
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* [[Badass]]: Early on in Ziva's tenure at NCIS, she is not allowed to participate in taking down suspects. Another woman comments on the presumed chauvinism of this. Ziva replies that Gibbs is actually afraid she'll ''kill the suspect by mistake''.
** Then it [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|happened]].
*** And again. <ref> Once when chasing an overweight suspect who has a heart attack when climbing some stairs. She's chastised despite it not being her fault, but mostly out of frustration at losing a lead and it doesn't last the scene.</ref>
* [[Badass Israeli]]: ''Mossad''
* {{spoiler|[[Becoming the Mask]]: It is suspected by Leon Vance at the end of season 6 and confirmed by Ziva in early season 7 that she was ordered by her father to kill Ari in order to gain Gibbs' trust and spy on the team. By the end of season 3, her crying over Gibbs' life threatening conditioning shows she has become closer to her targets than a cold assassin ought to be.}}
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* [[Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: Oh, man!
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Director Shepard once said of her, "I think she was an Eastern European cab driver in a past life."
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'''Eli David:''' This she learned from her mother. }}
** One of her notable driving habits is doing 80 in a 40 zone, as was noted on her speeding ticket.
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* [[The Ladette]]: She rotates between this and;
* [[Lady of War]]
* [[Locked in
* [["Ma'am" Shock]]: Another [[Berserk Button]].
* [[MacGyvering]]
* [[Malaproper]]: Her messing up quotes, again; this is the main reason she qualified as a [[Funny Foreigner]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Sort of. She's had some big moments, but much less frequently than Abby.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Now that she's a trainee NCIS agent, Tony has started calling her "Probie".
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* [[Proud Warrior Race|Proud Warrior Race Gal]] : Because she is a [[Badass Israeli]]
* [[Scrabble Babble]]: Subverted one time she played McGee in Scrabble. With the last Q at a corner of two Is, she makes Qi, read 'Chi'. Doubles as [[Underdogs Never Lose]] as she came back from a 50 point deficit earning 62 points.
* [[Seductive Spy]]
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]/[[Will They or Won't They?]]: Done ''to death'' with Tony.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Has a slight habit of forming questions as statements with "yes?" tacked on the end.
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* [[Da Chief]]
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* [[Iron Lady]]
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* [[Sexy Mentor]]
* [[What the
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* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: {{spoiler|Before was she killed, she was sadly already terminally ill.}}
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* [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]
* [[Da Chief]]
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* [[Scary Black Man]]
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* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Might as well be a [[Trope Codifier]]. Dietzen was credited as a recurring guest star for the first 5 seasons and as "Also Starring" from season 6 onwards. Is even on the cover art for the Season 8 DVD but is still not a main cast member.
* [[Fetish]]: He apparently has a thing for boots.
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: During his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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* [[The Watson]]: To Ducky's Holmes.
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Clear My Name]]: After he had been killed.
* [[Red Herring Mole]]
* [[Whack a Mole]]: Subverted, due to him not actually being the mole and being killed trying to stop the mole.
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* [[Brother Chuck|Sister Judy]]
* [[The Pete Best]]
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'''Notable Antagonists/Secondary Characters:'''
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Badass Israeli]]
* [[Bastard Bastard]]
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Was essentially conceived and raised to be a mole in Hamas.
* [[Cold Sniper]]
* [[Complete Monster]]
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* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: His father raised him to be a [[Complete Monster]]... who hated him for it and did everything he could to destroy what his father had worked for.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]
* [[Revenge
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▲=== Rene Benoit (Armand Assante) ===
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Arms Dealer]]
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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: [[Inverted Trope|Or in this case]], their children: his daughter Jeanne.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]
* [[French Jerk]]
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: He has a fondness for fine wine.
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* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Only a French guy could give himself the codename ''La Grenouille'' (the Frog).
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* {{spoiler|[[Eye Scream]]: The Port-to-Port Killer gouged out his eye.}}
* [[Deep-Cover Agent]]: CIA agent deep inside Rene Benoit's organization
* [[Dragon
* [[Knight Templar]]: As far as we can make out.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Perhaps even more than Ari
* [[No Name Given]]: If we're to believe Jenny, "Trent Kort" is an alias.
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'''Gibbs:''' ''Only because they know us.'' }}
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* [[Aloof Ally]]
* [[Always Gets His Man]]
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]] or maybe [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] with Gibbs. This scene from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-qyJGAvCI "Short Fuse"] says it best...
* [[Perp Sweating]]: Not seen as often, but he's brutal in the interrogation room.
* [[The Rival]]: A friendly rival, but a rival.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]:
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'''Fornell:''' Got better.
'''Kate:''' I thought he was dead.
'''Tony:''' Got better. }}
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: He considers Gibbs his best friend.
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▲=== Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira) ===
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▲{{quote| '''Tony:''' ''She's even more probie than Probie!''}}
* [[Double Agent]]
* [[I Have Your Daughter]]: Not her, but the people that were making her be a [[Double Agent]].
* [[The Mole]]: Framed Langer for her crimes and kills him.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: She became the [[Human Shield]] in a standoff for the culprit that kidnapped her daughter and made her the mole. Once she knew her daughter was safe, she gave Gibbs a non-verbal signal [[Shoot the Hostage|to shoot her]] and by proxy, shooting him as well, killing them both.
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: Despite killing and framing Langer, it's possible to feel bad about the situation she was put in. Even Ziva and McGee (to an extent) agreed that they may have done the same thing.
* [[Whack a Mole]]
▲{{quote| ''"Tell me, Leon. Are we winning?"''}}
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* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Parent]]: He uses his own children as tools in his schemes. {{spoiler|One (Ziva) ends up killing another (Ari Haswari). On Eli's orders.}} As fathers go, he's about on par with [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Fire Lord Ozai]].
* [[Anti-Hero]], or [[Tragic Villain]]: depending on [[Your Mileage May Vary|your point of view]].
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* [[Complete Monster]]: He raised his children Ari and Ziva to be merciless killers. It is strongly implied that the attack that killed Ari's mother was part of his plans to harden Ari into a killer. He later {{spoiler|orders Ziva to kill Ari in order to gain Gibbs' trust}}. Later, after {{spoiler|abandoning Ziva to die at the hands of terrorists, he tries to frame her for the murder of a US Marine by another Mossad agent, because he realizes he has lost her loyalty}}.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Fallen Hero]]
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Eli is easily as bad as the terrorists that he fights, to the point that {{spoiler|he drives his own son into becoming one}}.
* [[Knight Templar]]
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* [[Was It Really Worth It?]]: Seems to be asking himself this. His actions ultimately turn both of his children against him.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: His retired status makes him both willing and able to go into moral grey areas that are too dark for the regular team.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
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* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Image an older, grumpier ''Gibbs''.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: It's implied in one episode that 9/11 caused him to retire.
** It was implicitly stated to be the Khobar Towers bombing in '96, as well as the lukewarm response to it, that prompted him to retire. 9/11 was five years later.
** He even stated that he was in Mexico when 9/11 happened, hence how he didn't know how the pursuit of bin Laden had gone.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}:
* [[Retired Badass]]
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▲=== Jackie Vance (Paula Newsome) ===
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▲{{quote| ''"You are my partner now."''}}
* [[Apron Matron]]
* [[Battle Couple]]
* [[Happily Married]]: (To Leon)
* [[Mama Bear]]
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* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: to Gibbs. She's even a team leader in the Army's corresponding department, Army Criminal Investigation Division - [[Fun With Acronyms|yes, that spells what you think it does]]: usually referred to as Army CID.▼
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▲* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: to Gibbs. She's even a team leader in the Army's corresponding department, Army Criminal Investigation Division - [[Fun
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Her [[UST]] with Gibbs is noticed by the whole team.
* [[Fiery Redhead|Fiery Strawberry Blonde]]
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Subverted; she appears to be this at first, but it takes her and Gibbs two episodes to get together and they remain together for almost a year. In fact, she's easily the most long-term love interest Gibbs has had on the show.
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* [[Hands-On Approach]]: Gibbs does this to her in "Grace Period." She doesn't seem to mind that much.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Her career with CID could easily have been the basis for a [[Spin-Off]].
* [[Jurisdiction Friction]]: This is how she meets Gibbs and what brings them back together.
* [[Love Interest]]: To Gibbs.
* [[Put
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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Ziva and Abby like him, which is saying something.
* [[Con Man]]: He has been mooching off his extensive network of "friends" he made during his millionaire days for a ''very'' long time.
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* [[Silver Fox]]: Has the knack for charming any woman he crosses.
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* [[Death By Origin Story]]: Well, it WAS their deaths that made Gibbs into the agent he is today.▼
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