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* [[Killed Off for Real]]:
** {{spoiler|Kate Todd}}. And [[Killed Mid-Sentence|mid-sentence]], talking sarcastically about never expecting to live to see something, to boot.
** The murderer [[Karmic Death|suffers the exact same fate]] not 2 episodes later, at the hands of {{spoiler|his own sister, no less
{{quote|{{spoiler|Ari}}: Sorry to spoil your --{{[[[Boom! Headshot!]] BANG!}}]}}
** {{spoiler|Mike Franks}}. Like {{spoiler|Jenny Shepard before him}}, it was a choice between going down swinging or letting disease do it and preferring the former.
** Also recurring characters
* [[Know Your Vines]]: While investigating a murder in a national park, McGee has to search a patch of poison ivy for a murder weapon. Tony
* [[The Lab Rat]]: Abby, sometimes McGee.
* [[The Ladette]]: Ziva fits this when not in combat.
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* [[Layman's Terms]]: Gibbs does this about [[Once an Episode]].
* [[Locked in a Freezer|Locked In A Shipping Crate]]: Tony and Ziva in "Boxed In", to capitalize on the [[UST]].
* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]: In one episode, a panicking suspect tries to run, leaving behind his high-powered hunting rifle, right next to Gibbs, the ''Marine Corps sniper''. Not that that would have been bright to do that under any circumstances, but still. It should be noted that it was ''very'' highly insinuated that Gibbs let the suspect go so that he would have an excuse to shoot him in the ass. Cue Tony and McGee wondering, "You don't think he did that on purpose...?" "No... no, of course not
* [[Long List]]: Ducky's list of interests when he joined [[Facebook]].
* [[Long Runner]]: NCIS has been renewed for its ''tenth'' season.
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* [[Magical Database]]
** Lampshaded in "False Witness" when there is a national database for the DNA of ''wild turkeys'' and both Abby and Gibbs find it weird.
*** [[Truth in Television]]! [http://www.nwtf.org/nwtf_newsroom/press_releases.php?id=12351 National Wild Turkey Federation DNA Database].
* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Gibbs. But "he only uses his powers for good."
* [[Malaproper]]: Ziva (the ESL variety) which is a [[Running Gag]] on the show; she speaks English perfectly, except for idioms, which she constantly gets wrong and is usually corrected by Tony. What's strange is that she [[Rule of Funny|actually has a remarkably good grasp of American pop culture]]. That and her level of English proficiency mean she shouldn't get nearly ''every single idiom'' she uses wrong. It's eventually revealed that Ziva was using a ''For Dummies'' book to memorize pop culture cliches from by rote, especially movie lines. And it's hinted in a later episode that she was, at times, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|playing dumb]] to get people off-guard (and yank Tony's chain). Possibly a [[Retcon]], though.
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'''Ziva''': I hit a stone wall.
'''Tony''': Brick wall.
'''Ziva''': No, it was definitely a stone wall. I backed the car into it.
* [[Male Gaze]]: From Tony's point of view, natch.
* [[Mama Bear]]:
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{{quote|'''Franks''': Never underestimate a mama bear when her cub's in danger.}}
* [[Manly Tears]]: Tony {{spoiler|after Agent Cassidy's death
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: New Orleans style.
* [[Meganekko]]:
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** Abby, in the few times when she wears glasses.
** Male example; Jimmy Palmer. Agent Lee definitely thought so.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Gibbs is an in-universe example. When asked what the most awesome [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|cage fight opponent]] for Gibbs would be, McGee and Abby casually discard such foes as Godzilla and Mothra, and decide (however unintentionally) that Gibbs vs. ''Gibbs'' would be pretty much impossible to top. At least once, Abby has put forth the theory that Gibbs has magical powers. Tony once compared Gibbs arresting [[God]] to [[Fantastic Four|The Thing]] arresting [[The Hulk]]. Even ''diseases'' know better than to mess with Gibbs, as proven in "
{{quote|'''Gibbs''': Never had a cold. Never had the flu, either.
'''Kate''': ...Why do I believe that?
'''Tony''': If you were a bug, would ''you'' attack Gibbs?
* [[Mercy Kill]]: In "Broken Bird", it's revealed that Ducky was forced to do this to an innocent Afghani civilian who was being brutally tortured for information. Thirty years later, and Ducky still feels guilty about it. {{spoiler|The man actually knew nothing, and his torture was really a way to torture Ducky, who had to patch him up
* [[Missed Moment of Awesome]]: In "Mind Games", {{spoiler|Paula Cassidy is caught by one of the episode villains, who binds her hands behind her back. The scene cuts away as he menaces her with a knife. At the end of the episode. we learn that she killed him in the ensuing fight
* [[The Missus and the Ex]]: Played With. When Tony's [[Intrepid Reporter|ex-fiance comes to the team for a story]], Tony tries his hardest to keep Wendy and Ziva from being alone. He isn't worried about them fighting but the possible personal information Wendy has on him.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Both Tony and Gibbs and Tony and McGee on different occasions.
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* [[Morality Pet]]: Abby. She serves as a much-needed outlet for Gibbs' paternal instincts, which arguably keeps him from becoming utterly cold and ruthless.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Abby, especially when she's really stressed.
* [[The Movie Buff]]: Tony.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Abby and Ziva tend to rotate between this role.
** In one episode, Abby is dressed up in a vaguely [[Catholic School Girls Rule|Catholic schoolgirl]]-esque outfit, but can't figure out [[Innocent Innuendo|why everyone keeps staring at her]].
** During a Halloween episode, she dresses as [[Marilyn Monroe]]... complete with poses. That time, she knows exactly what she's doing to McGee.
** Another episode has Abby changing clothes in her office and showing a [[Toplessness From the Back|pretty, bra-strap-less, tattooed back]] to McGee (and the audience).
{{quote|'''Abby''': See anything you liked?
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'''Abby''': ''(skeptical look)''
'''McGee''': ...Yes.
'''Abby''': ''(satisfied look)'' Better.
** Subverted in another episode when we get to see what she sleeps in; the camera does the usual panning establishing shots, then pans over to Abby... and we see she's wearing a full-length Victorian-style nightgown, complete with cap. And since it's Abby, she looks adorable.
** In the stalker boyfriend episode when Abby was staying with McGee, she was wearing a man's shirt and panties.
* [[The Munchausen]]: Ducky.
* [[Murder.Com]]: "Murder 2.0".
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Gibbs needs coffee to get through the day to the point where McGee has an [[Oh Crap]] moment when he accidentally knocks over and spills Gibbs coffee. Abby prefers the Big Gulp-esque drink, [[Bland-Name Product|Caf-POW]].
** Also, the terrorist who {{spoiler|captures Ziva}} at the end of Season 6. {{spoiler|His addiction to Caf-POW! is so great he has it imported, which winds up being how the team finds him
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Ducky's mom, although she's suffering from Alzheimer's and can't really help herself.
* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: {{spoiler|One episode featured a paranoid submariner who killed himself by suffocation when he realized NCIS was closing in. They stow his body in the freezer... ''then'' they realize he has a cold-activated nerve-gas bomb in him
{{quote|'''Gibbs''': You know what our top priority is now, Chief?
'''Chief Of the Boat''': Getting all the ice cream back in the freezer.
'''Gibbs''': Exactly. *chuckles*
* [[Myth Arc]]: All main characters (except McGee for some reason) have had important involvement in one. However, the dual episode "Enemies Foreign
** The cherry on top is definitively the link the entire affair has with the Season 5 finale and Gibbs's mission in Paris... also opening to question the relation between these episodes and {{spoiler|Decker's "insurance policy" that Mike Franks took away (with the explicitly stated declaration that it was for Vance to read "in my will")}}.
{{quote|'''Gibbs''' (''realizing the connection''): {{spoiler|Zukov? Anatoly Zukov?}}
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'''Agent Sharp''': You sure?
'''Gibbs''': Yes, I'm positive.
''(Gibbs flash backs to the well-known {{spoiler|Paris mission with Jenny, where Gibbs terminates Zukov}})''
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the Season 7 episode "Moonlighting", while Gibbs and Fornell are watching McGee questioning a witness inside the conference room via camera, Fornell is suprised that they have a security camera inside the conference room. He then asks nervously if they also have cameras inside the elevator now.
* [[Name McAdjective]]: Tony's many nicknames for McGee, which he picks according to the circumstances. Examples include "McGoogle", "McBackstabber", and "McRomeo". This once confused McGee when Tony compared the condition of a body to the (discontinued) McDLT sandwhich. McGee thought it was another nickname that he didn't get.
* [[Neat Freak]]: Agent Jardine.
* [[Needle in a Stack of Needles]]: Ziva describes the task of finding a stolen defense system in a room full of computers as "looking for a needle in a needlestack."
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Not an in-universe example, but Michelle Lee definitely felt this way about Jimmy Palmer.
* [[Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer]]:
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'''Tony''': Oh, [[Genre Savvy|twenty bucks says McGee's about to say something nobody understands again!]]<br />
'''McGee''': The GPS coordinates came bundled in a proprietary packet. Since it was a beta, I thought--<br />
'''Gibbs''': I'm starting to think you can't ''help'' yourself, McGee.
** In "Baltimore", Gibbs actually throws away one of McGee's reports because of the technical jargon he used.
* [[New Old Flame]]: Tony's ex-fiancee Wendy shows up mid-
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Abby, who completely alone can process forensic evidence for the whole building or has a relationship with someone with the required speciality. However, several episodes have featured her showing stress or fatigue from the demands of her job, so this isn't completely a [[God Mode Sue]] situation.
** To a lesser extent Ducky, who is now [[The Medic]], performs autopsies, and generates philological [[The Profiler|profiles]] when not working undercover.
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*** To the point where it seems if you exist in the NCIS universe, chances are good that Ziva has saved your life ''at least'' once.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** The start of
** Many of Ducky's stories get cut off before we get sufficient detail, becoming these. For instance, there was a story about a bachelor party that Gibbs would ''really'' rather he not tell Palmer about.
** In a recent Halloween-themed episode, Abby complained that costumes were no longer allowed in headquarters after "last year's [[Jonas Brothers]] Incident". All we learn is that it involved McGee in tight jeans, which Abby insists wasn't a good look on him.
** During a flashback in "Truth or Consequences", Tony recalls being in a funk without Ziva on the team and only hearing cliche conversation pieces from the other team members. One of those conversations was Gibbs telling the team to get ready for this bizarre incident that is not discussed in greater detail afterward:
{{quote|'''Gibbs:''' Some idiot smuggled a koala onto a submarine, grab your gear!}}
** In "Ships in the Night", the whole team is shown working long hours, cut to Abby's lab where there are no less than eight empty CaffPows sitting on her workstation, and another one in her hand.
{{quote|'''Agent Borin:''' Is this a record?
'''Abby:''' No, we don't talk about the record.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Ducky. He blames his assistants but he's always the one giving directions.
* [[Not Proven]]: In one case, the
* [[Not Quite Saved Enough]]: {{spoiler|Tony finally finds the beautiful but mysterious ZNN reporter who was uncovering info on her ex-KGB friend, but she's already been poisoned with ricin and dies not long after
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|Perry Trent, C.P.A., in the episode "Dead Reckoning
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Tony, especially in later seasons.
** Even early on, it's implied that he's not as stupid as he acts. When undercover in "Chained
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: In the
* [[Once a Season]]: As of
* [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement]]: Ziva David boasted that she can kill a man with a paperclip. And from the episode "Jet Lag":
{{quote|'''Ziva David:''' And plastic silverware is not as safe as you may think. I once killed a man with a credit card.}}
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Averted. Characters who get shot are still recovering several episodes later, and even a hit to a bulletproof vest leaves a painful bruise. One supporting character (Gerald, Ducky's original assistant
** Played annoyingly straight in Episode 200. See [[Hollywood Healing]] above.
* [[Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers]]: In most of the interrogations of suspects, the issue of lawyers doesn't come up, but it does happen occasionally. This is a crime drama afterall.
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