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** Arguably, Ari.

** The Reynosas, a Mexican [[Brother-Sister Team]] that declared a [[Feuding Families|feud]] on Gibbs. They are actually among the series' most sympathetic villains.

* [[Alternate Timeline]]: In the 200th episode {{spoiler|1=Gibbs has a near-death experience and while in limbo he's shown glimpses of alternate time lines where he saw Ari in time (Kate and Dinozzo become a couple, get married and have kids as do Abby and McGee, but Ziva remains hostile and antisocial), didn't shoot the Reynosa siblings' dad (being unable to get revenge eventually turns him into a bitter alcoholic), and if his wife didn't testify against the drug dealers (she and their daughter live but Gibbs is killed shortly thereafter during a tour of duty)}}.

* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: There are stories where {{spoiler|Caitlin Todd is not killed by Ari and is still with NCIS, more often than not alongside her (in the original universe) replacement Ziva}}...which has led to several fics detailing {{spoiler|explicit love scenes between the two.}} There are also rewrites of the transcripts for all season three episodes so that {{spoiler|Kate was still alive and having passionate sex with Abby}}.

* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Gibbs...because, well, [[Memetic Badass|he's Gibbs]].

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Kate Todd, Jenny Shepard, Mike Franks}}... that's not counting the multitude of other NCIS agents and the like who have died, or the spinoff series.

* [[Arcade Sounds]]: Subverted in the episode "Honor Code". The sounds heard from the Nintendo DS are, in fact, the sounds of the user's info (date, time, etc.) being entered into a brand new Nintendo DS.

* [[Artistic License Geography]]: ''NCIS'' erroneously believes Chechnya to be Russia's neighbor, apparently in-universe invaded in some sort of Russian anti-terrorism police action, and while it is surprisingly regular in recognizing Chechen insurgents as terrorist groups, it stubbornly refers to Chechnya as if it were an independent country, with its own passports recognized by the international community, and so on. The only way to enter the United States from Chechnya is carrying a Russian Federation passport with a US visa, because Chechnya has been a province of Russia for the last several hundred years.

** Note as this takes place in the JAG-universe, JAG made this error first and for continuity's sake was kept.

* [[Staggered Zoom]]

* [[Stock Footage]]: Largely averted. For a show involving the US Navy, its hardware doesn't really feature all that much, although earlier seasons had many an obvious stock clip of various ships and sometimes planes.

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Invoked by Ari, who {{spoiler|kills Kate and deliberately goes after Shepard and Abby}} just because it would cause Gibbs more pain. The show has a bad record of killing female main/recurring characters and current male characters' love interests. To date, {{spoiler|Kate, Paula Cassidy, Jenny, Michelle Lee, and Lara Macy}}, although {{spoiler|Kate's actress, as well as Jenny's, wanted to leave the show of her own accord}}.

* [[Subtext]]: Beginning with the season five finale, Tony and Ziva's conversations are becoming increasingly subtext-heavy.