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* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: It comes out of ''nowhere''.

* [[Death Glare]]: Look at the picture to the right. That's him on a good day.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Listening to Foyet psychologically torture his ex-wife and son, promising to kill them, hearing Haley shot over the phone, and finding her body in their old home. Hotch ''loses it'' and empties his gun into Foyet, then beats him to death with his own hands.}}

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: If that child were a killer, or so he claims to a teenage unsub in "Exit Wounds." Fortunately, the unsub ultimately surrenders voluntarily.

* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: After being promoted to Unit Chief in Season Five:

 

=== Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) ===

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: He can shoot straight ''sometimes'', you know.

** [[Played for Laughs]] in "Painless"

* [[Bishonen]]: It's the literal translation of one of Morgan's nicknames for him, "pretty boy".

* [[Break the Cutie]]: ''So'' many times. It seems the writers like to torture him, lock him up, drug him, {{spoiler|infect him with anthrax,}} tie him up...

* [[Child Prodigy]]: Graduated from high school at 12, had two BAs by 16, has an IQ of 187 and an eidetic memory.

* [[Clueless Chick Magnet]]: Poor guy doesn't realize that when beautiful movie stars kiss him it's because he's a babe, not because of 'transference'.

'''Hotch''': Well, Reid got propositioned by every prostitute we talked to... }}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Poor kid. Mommy's schizophrenic and Dad abandoned everyone. Biggest brain in the room and usually the one targeted physically by the serial killers.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: The member of the team most likely to inform you of the Squickiest thing the unsub might do. Like eat human eyeballs.

* [[No Social Skills]]: He's VERY awkward around people other than the team.

'''Rossi''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He was left in a basket on the steps of the FBI.]] }}

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Gideon always introduces him as "Dr. Reid" and Hotch does occasionally, leaving Reid to explain that he hasn't been to medical school, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qMKGuel6OQ but does have three PhDs].

** And some of it does come in handy, such as in "Plain Sight", where he recognises the literature that the unsub writes quotes from at the crime scenes.

** Lampshaded by Morgan in "True Night"

'''Morgan:''' Do ''not'' make me smack you in front of all these people. }}

* [[The Spock]]: An interesting take on this trope. He's usually the most logical team member and the one to come up with the most effective plans. Though he is still not even close to handling cases unemotionally.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Three [[Ph Ds]], one of them in engineering, check. Difficulty with guns (at least, in "LDSK"), check. Prefers to talk people down rather than risk shoot-outs, check. [[Badass Bookworm]], check.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: A few over the course of the show, but a spectacular one in "It Takes a Village".

'''Reid''': [[Criminal Minds/Awesome|This is calm and it's]] ''[[Criminal Minds/Awesome|Doctor]]''. }}

* [[Tropaholics Anonymous]]: In 3x16 "Elephant's Memory," he's seen attending a meeting of "Beltway Clean Cops" to cope with the Dilaudid addiction he developed in season two.

* [[Badass Boast]]: In a slightly nerdy way whenever she answers the phone to the team, for example she's announced herself "the fountain of all knowledge" on one occasion. Also see the quote under [[Beware the Nice Ones]], she could absolutely do that. There's also her CMOA at the end of "The Internet Is Forever".

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:

* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: Hell yeah.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Her {{spoiler|shooting}} in "Lucky"/"Penelope", and the subsequent episodes that show her healing process - "House on Fire" and "Exit Wounds".

** Mind you, she mentioned having a step-father, so both could be true at once.

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: In "Penelope", Morgan tries to give her one for protection.

'''Morgan:''' ''(shoves one her hands)'' Believe me, they are '''[[Dialogue Reversal|very real]]'''! }}

* [[Expy]]: Garcia shares a lot of personality traits with [[NCIS|Abby Sciuto]], though their precise roles are different. Both shows are on CBS.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When she gets a call from Morgan she usually answers in a very flirty way, which leads to these moments when he replies "You're on speakerphone".

** The crowner has to be Garcia's expression in "In Name and Blood":

'''Strauss''': This is Section Chief Strauss. }}

* [[One of Us]]: So much that Garcia is the online fandom's spirit animal. Internet nerdery, quoting classic movies, loves comic books and other assorted media.

* [[It's Personal]]: Politics ("Honor Among Thieves") and violence against women (especially rapes, as in "Slave of Duty"). "The Thirteenth Step" starts the Ian Doyle arc, which is played out until "It Takes a Village".

* [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]]: Prentiss's [[Goth]] look in high school is played for laughs:

'''Reid''': Perhaps your lack of recognition stems from a disassociative fugue suffered in adolescence. Like, say, at a Siouxsie and the Banshees concert? }}

* {{spoiler|[[Near-Death Experience]]: Reveals in "Epilogue" that when she coded in the ambulance in "Lauren", all she felt was cold and darkness. Being a very lapsed Catholic, she says she desperately wants to change.}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: See [[Abusive Parents]] above.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: In ''Outfoxed''.

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* [[Forced to Watch]]: He showed each father his dead family before shooting him.

* [[Jerkass]]: Is profiled as one and it helps turn his [[Only Friend]] against him.

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]

'''Charles:''' You don't even know the meaning of the word. You've been judged and sentenced to death. }}

* [[Kill the Poor]]: His victims are homeless people, prostitutes and junkies.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Awesome By Analysis]]: Believe it or not, he manages to profile ''Hotch'' the first time he sees him.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Is it worse than you thought?"

* [[Control Freak]]

** [[Sarcasm Mode|I don't know where anyone could get an idea like that]]. He specifically says to Hotch "{{spoiler|Now, I understand that profilers think that stabbing is a substitute for the act of sex, and if somebody's impotent, they'll use a knife instead. Is that what you think, Agent Hotchner? Maybe this will change the way that you profile.}}" Certainly a statement explicit enough to support theorizing.

** And in 100:

The Reaper: {{spoiler|Be gentle? Like with you?}} }}

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Hadn't Hotch stopped him, he would have probably tortured and then killed {{spoiler|Jack.}}

* [[Neat Freak]]

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Perceived this way by Stan.

* [[Power Born of Madness]]: While devolving, he has an extremely high tolerance to pain.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: His last murders showed hints of remorse, and right before dying he told Stanley that he had helped him "to see".

* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: {{spoiler|Anita}} tries to do this to Charlie. Bad idea. See below.

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]

* [[Lady Macbeth]]: Anita.

* [[Murder by Cremation]]: When the children they've abducted grow out of control, Anita sedates them and burns them in her family's crematorium.