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** In a [[Running Gag]], Ducky is always interrupted when commenting on his life stories.

** Several characters' backstories, including {{spoiler|Vance}}'s, are brought into sync during the episode "Enemies Domestic".

* [[Badass]]: Gibbs, Ziva (who's a [[Badass Israeli]]). All of the main cast get at least one badass moment over the course of the show's run, though.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Abby.

{{quote|'''Gibbs''': I need you to look at something before you leave.

'''Fornell''': You've got that mustache in a box, don't you? }}

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|In the Season 9 finale, Harper Dearing succeeded in using Director Vance's car as a car bomb at the NCIS parking lot, and caused some deaths besides that of Jonathan Cole, [[Heroic Sacrifice|who was caught in the explosion]] [[Redemption Equals Death|trying to defuse the bomb.]]}}

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]:

** In the episode "Minimum Security," Tony claims ignorance of both ''[[Shane]]'' and ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' (as well as drawing a complete blank on Alan Ladd). Some movie buff.

* [[Character Outlives Actor]]: Victoria Mallard, Ducky's mother. She had appeared in two episodes; Season 2's "The Meat Puzzle" and Season 3's "Unotuchable." Nina Foch, who played her, passed away in 2008, but the character was referred to several times after. She's referenced after the actress's death in Season 6's "Silent Night" where Ducky says she's in a rest home and in Season 7's "Flesh and Blood". In S7 Ep17, "Double Identity" Ducky says she passed away a month prior.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: When the team goes to Gibbs' hometown and meets his dad, a rifle is rather prominently displayed behind the counter of his shop. He doesn't use it in the present, but he ''did'' fire it into the air in a [[Flash Back]] to break up a fight between young Gibbs and two other boys. {{spoiler|He also killed a robber with it, offscreen, before the [[Christmas Episode]] when he visits Gibbs.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: ''NCIS'' is a bit of a repeat offender on this one. If someone gets a line but doesn't seem to be contributing to the main plot otherwise, they did it. (If the writers try to hide their non-involvement by stuffing them into a romantic subplot with a main character, they definitely did it.) It was eventually subverted in an episode where the villain of the romantic subplot had not done it, even though he was suspected by a majority of the cast.

* [[Choke Holds]]: One victim of the week died of this.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: In the tradition of ''JAG'', ''NCIS'' started doing these in Season Six.

** Monkey-wrenched every which way in "Kill Ari".

** We see it again after (and even some before) {{spoiler|Mike Franks gets killed}}.

* [[Death Glare]]: Gibbs, bordering on [[Once an Episode]] in earlier seasons.

** Don't forget Karen Bright from "Smoked", when she's exposed as the actual serial killer. She flashes Gibbs and Fornell a look that would ''vaporize lead''.

* [[Death in the Clouds]]: The pilot episode, "Yankee White", and "Jet Lag".

* [[Deep-Cover Agent]]:

* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: S7 Ep07, "Endgame", has Tony doing this when McGee walks into the office extremely happy. Tony refers to it as "Pulling a [[Charlton Heston|Heston]]" in a reference to ''[[Planet of the Apes]].''

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The CGIS team leader in "Jurisdiction" acts so much like Gibbs that it's essentially [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the ''entire'' NCIS staff. Tony even asks Gibbs whether he had any long-lost sisters or not.

* [[The Don]]: René Benoît.

* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!]]: Gibbs, right down to the "I work for a living" crack. It makes sense; he was a gunnery sergeant, which is a non-commissioned rank.

** We find out from Eli in "Enemies Foreign" that we have Ziva's mother to thank for it.

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: In one episode, {{spoiler|Tony dates a woman who turns out to be a male seeking gender reassignment surgery. This is made all the more awkward by the fact the "woman" had killed a Marine and was intending to kill Tony before the night was over}}.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Mike Franks}}

{{quote|My name is {{spoiler|Mike Franks}}! I figure I got one last fight left in me!... You want it?}}

** Ziva dates a man named Ray for a few episodes. They go skiing together. In a later season he proposes to her and she responds by {{spoiler|decking him and arresting him for murder.}}

* [[Everything Is Online]]: Seriously. Everything. Including pacemakers.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Gibbs keeps his hair fairly short, but in the second part of "Hiatus", {{spoiler|while suffering from amnesia}}, he cuts his hair back to the much shorter crewcut variant he wore when he was a probie.

** Gibbs having a longer-than-Marine-regs haircut gets made fun of in "My Other Left Foot" by a gunnery sergeant Gibbs met years before as an MP.

** [[CIA Evil, FBI Good|CIA agent]] [[Smug Snake|Trent Kort]] got his eye gouged out by the Port-to-Port Killer.

** In "Engaged, Part II" a thirteen year-old girl is blinded after terrorists throw hot grease into her face.

 

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