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* [[Canon Sue]]: Arguably, Ziva. Highly skilled assassin and investigator who is extremely young for her skillset and can do no wrong? Strikes a suspect in the throat, leading to his death, and suffers no lasting repercussions? Assaults a crippled Tony with a loaded firearm and is welcomed back into the team with open arms? Her impulse control issues and assaults would get her drummed out of any remotely competent local police force, let alone a federal law enforcement agency. But she's still around...

** Ari Haswari ends up becoming one.

** Kyle Boone from "Mind Games" - one of the sickest villains from this show.

* [[Counterpart Comparison]]: Shown in the S2 Ep12 episode "Doppelgänger", with the team working with civilian law enforcement, which are all extremely similar to the characters.

* [[Designated Hero]]: [[Memetic Badass]] though he may be, Gibbs can definitely be seen as this, given his occasional penchant for assholish behavior, bending or even ''breaking'' the very laws he's supposed to be enforcing, and utter hypocrisy in how he interacts with agents/officers from outside the team who're working on the same case.

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Agent "Pouty Lips" {{spoiler|Lee.}}

* [[Fan Disservice]]: Used to excellent effect in "Kill Ari", contrasting the Kate-visions of McGee, Tony, and Abby (!) with Ducky and Gibbs' decidedly more morbid versions.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Dope Slap|The Gibbs Slap]], [[My Name Is Not Durwood|McNicknames]], and 'autopsy gremlin' for Palmer.

** Alison Hart, the character played by Rena Sofer for a few episodes of season seven, was referred to by some fans as "Bitchy McLawyer."

** And now Gibbs and M. Allison Hart.

** With bonus [[Les Yay]] in ''The Curse''. A [[Melora Hardin|female suspect]] smiles at Kate and says "Come on home with me, honey." Kate does.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Early jokes about "why Gibbs has three ex-wives" seem a lot less funny when [[Replacement Goldfish|the real reason]] becomes clear.

** In earlier seasons Gibbs and Tony have their moments.

** McGee and Tony get in many awkward situations.

** Like you would really {{spoiler|1=blow up Gibbs, Abby, Tony, Ziva AND McGee, and give Ducky a heart attack at the news. Yep, that's the season nine cliffhanger <ref>all the actors have had their contracts renewed</ref>...}}

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ari starts off as one of these ({{spoiler|shooting Gerald and managing to escape}}), then does a [[Heel Face Turn]] {{spoiler|when he saves Presidents Bush and Sharon}}, then turns into a [[Complete Monster]] in his final appearance {{spoiler|when he murders Kate and tries to kill Abby}}.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Ari {{spoiler|shoots Kate and tries to shoot Abby}} to deliberately cause Gibbs grief, despite the fact that he could have easily shot Gibbs instead at the time and Gibbs was a more tactically valuable target.

** It's strongly implied that Eli David ordered the missile strike that killed Ari's mother, in order to "harden" him into a better killer. Keep in mind that Ari was a child at the time, and Eli was [[Abusive Parents|his father]]. If that wasn't enough, he {{spoiler|orders his daughter Ziva to kill Ari, her half-brother, after Ari proves to be disloyal}}.

* [[Narm]]: The climax of the [[Christmas Episode]] ''Newborn King''. A pregnant Marine is giving birth while Ziva holds off the mercenaries who are trying to kidnap the baby...but all dialogue and sound effects are muted, with the soundtrack playing "Silent Night." Painfully overdone.

** Given that "Silent Night" was probably an intentionally [[Irony|ironic]] use of [[Soundtrack Dissonance]], it could qualify as [[Narm Charm]].

*** Abby's "crucify him!" speech.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: All of the Hebrew in the show, plus the Jewish references related to Ziva are all accurate, and Cote [[De Pablo]]'s accent is pretty spot-on.

* [[Squick]]: In one episode, {{spoiler|a woman and her son with a vendetta against Ducky kidnap him, strap him to an autopsy table, and try to kill him by bleeding him out through a huge needle in his neck.}}

* [[Tear Jerker]]: The flashback of Gibbs' family in "Requiem", and his memories of them in "Hiatus".

** The ending of the season 4 episode "Iceman", where even though Mike Frank's son (which he didn't know he had until a couple of years ago) is dead and he's lost so much, he {{spoiler|managed to save his daughter-in-law and his grandson}}.

** The whole episode "Friends and Lovers".

* [[The Woobie]]: Various characters have been this at times. Tony sometimes skirts into [[Jerkass Woobie]] territory.

 

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