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* [[Badass Bookworm]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Drug dealers, especially those who sell to young people, and scientists who sell their integrity for personal gain.
** And anyone who tries to hurt Sara.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: He quotes Shakespeare, loves crossword puzzles, and races cockroaches for fun.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: His feelings for Sara in the first couple of seasons, even being so unsure about a possible commitment to the point where he rejects her initial advances.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: His paternal leadership style, especially visible with Greg, Nick and Warrick {{spoiler|especially right before Warrick gets killed, and afterwards}}.
* [[Flanderization]] In regards to his [[The Stoic|stoicism]]. In the first season, he was prone to bouts of anger (once slapping a coffee pot of Ecklie's hand, enraged) and happiness (even--gasp--smiling! With teeth and all!). By Season 3, his character was shaped into being level-headed at all times, even in normal conversation. Justifiable in that he starts to retreat emotionally during his struggle with his hearing loss.
* [[Game of Nerds]]: He likes baseball.
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Especially in the earlier seasons. Despite his intelligence and expert grasp of human nature, Grissom lead a very isolated life, and rebuffed most opportunities of interaction outside of the workplace. He even turned down Sara's initial dating requests in Season 3.
* [[Married to the Job]]: For most of the series, at least until he married Sara. Catherine used to tell him to take his head out of his microscope once in a while.
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** And that hat belongs to Petersen himself acquired from his own travels.
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Pretty much the only way to get him riled up is to either threaten one of his teammates, especially Sara, or do anything to endanger children.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Catherine. They are obviously best friends, but there's also no hint of sexual chemistry between them.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: If he comes back...
** He did have a cameo in
* [[Quip to Black]]: Famous for it -- [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|used to be the]] [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Sarcasm Failure]]: When he doesn't use the above.
* [[Science Hero]]
* [[Seeker Archetype]]
* [[Serious Business]]: Racing cockroaches. One of the first time we see him take some time off and puts Catherine in charge is when he goes to a conference to race his vermin. It doesn't go so well ("Stage fright
* [[Silver Fox]]: Despite his nerdiness and aloofness, he still gathers a lot of female admirers (in-universe and out), even when he shies away from the unwanted attention.
* [[The Smart Guy]]
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* [[Action Girl]]: She can stand up for herself when she needs to.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Faking the Dead]]: With D.B. to escape the bad guys before her departure.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: It's established early on that she was raised by a single mother, but it's only later that she learns her father is {{spoiler|Sam Braun, who leaves her a chunk of his casino after he dies}}.
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Mama Bear]]: Messing with her daughter? Big mistake. The same applies to her team members.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: She used to be a stripper, way back in the day (and not an [[Old Shame]] for her, even when a DA tries to use it against her in court). She's had a couple of [[Toplessness From the Back]] scenes and an interrogation where she unbuttoned her blouse every time her suspect gave her an answer.
* [[Official Couple]]: With Vartaan. For a while, anyway.
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== Nick Stokes (George Eads) ==
* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming children in general, though sexual assault especially gets to him
* [[Buried Alive]]
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
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* [[Out of Focus]]: Got hit with this hard and ended up being one of the least developed members of the cast.
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* {{spoiler|[[Stuffed in The Fridge]]: ...essentially. He wasn't exactly dead when Grissom found him, but he was close enough
* [[Token Minority]]
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: His son Eli isn't mentioned again after {{spoiler|his death}}.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Domestic violence, especially spouses murdering each other.
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[Commuting on a Bus]]: As of
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Her mother killed her father, who was abusive to both her and her mother. She ended up in foster care.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]
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* [[Hot for Teacher|Hot For Supervisor]]
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: She still uses "Sidle" now that she is married to Grissom.
* [[Married to the Job]]: At least until she married Grissom.
* [[May-December Romance]]:
* [[Put on a Bus]]: She's taken a round trip, having come back to assist the team when they're short-staffed in the most recent season.
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: She's an official series regular again for Season 12.
* [[Relationship Reveal]]:
* [[Second Episode Introduction]]: Comes in to help the team per request of (who else?) Grissom in the second episode following the death of the [[Naive Newcomer]] and stays on board.
* [[UST]]: For YEARS with Grissom before Season 6 ended with the above trope.
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* [[The Intern]]
* [[The Lab Rat]]/[[Misfit Lab Rat]]: At first.
** [[Ascended Fanboy]]:
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: She took him to the ER for a ''bloody nose''.
* [[Out of Focus]]: From Season 9 onwards.
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== Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) ==
* [[Enemy Within]]
* {{spoiler|[[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Does this to Haskell in "In A Dark, Dark House
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Played with. His father was apparently violent, and Raymond worries that he may become that way himself. He also has a gene that has been associated with violent
* [[I Am Not My Father]]
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Inverted, he ''is'' that kind of doctor (or rather, he used to be).
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== Riley Adams (Lauren Lee Smith) ==
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: See below for why.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: {{spoiler|''Diebenkorn Russell
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Does it with Catherine to escape the posse of hitmen after them.
* [[Happily Married]]: The only CSI to be this from the beginning
* {{spoiler|[[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Granddaughter]]}}: McKeen's people do this to him in the Season 12 finale.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Not to Langston, but rather Grissom.
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* [[The Lab Rat]]: Sort of, although he's a mortuary rat rather than a lab rat.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: His autopsies often reveal further background on the murder victims.
* [[Sympathetic Adulterer]]/[[Your Cheating Heart]]: Reveals in
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Rats.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Jerkass]] and/or [[Jerkass Facade]]:
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: He acts like he's much more important than everyone else. Can occasionally cross into [[Insufferable Genius]].
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Birds.
== Wendy Simms (Liz Vassey) ==
* [[The Lab Rat]]:
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Particularly in Hodges' fantasies of her. In one she's only wearing a ''bikini''.
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: On Vegas' staggeringly-high murder rate: "We're very competitive!"
* [[Dirty Cop]] : Originally a big subversion of this, stating how he refused to be bought or get dirty, but now drifting into that territory as of the end of
* [[Jerkass]] In Season 1.
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Eventually mellows out into this.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In the episode "A Bullet Runs Through It", when she believes she shot a fellow cop.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Basically, a female Jim Brass.
* [[Rank Up]]: Now she's Brass's boss.
== Conrad Ecklie (Marc Vann) ==
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: The real reason he was such an ass to Grissom and the team was because he thought that Grissom had the same ambitions he did. Once he realized that Grissom and the team wouldn't keep him from fulfilling his goals, he eased off considerably.
* [[Big Bad]]: Arguably, of
* [[Da Chief]]: He starts out as the day shift supervisor, then becomes director of the lab, and is later promoted to undersheriff of the entire department.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: The B-plot of one episode featured Ecklie handling the investigation himself when the main characters were unavailable.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Definitely one pre-Season 6. Since then he's become more of a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: He's extremely ambitious, and saw Grissom as competition. At different points, he would try and undermine the team's work.
* [[Parental Abandoment]]: He left when Morgan was 14.
* [[Rank Up]]: To Undersheriff
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: When Nick was [[Buried Alive]], Ecklie pulled some strings to gather the ransom his kidnapper, and relations between him and the night shift have mostly thawed since then. Ecklie came into his own as Asst. Director, where his talent for juggling the top brass and news media have proven to be an asset to the team.
* [[The Rival]]: To Grissom, who deplores Ecklie's careerism.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Pre-"Grave Danger
== Jeffrey McKeen (Conor O'Farrell) ==
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Brass recalls that when he was made a detective, McKeen invited all of the new detectives over to his (suspiciously large) house for a barbecue. When Brass let him known that he wasn't such a careerist that could be bought like that, he was never invited again, and had to watch over the years as all the others at that barbecue were promoted above him.
* [[Clueless Detective]]: Doesn't always get or appreciate the abilities of the CSI's or what they do
* [[Commander Contrarian]]
* {{spoiler|[[Detective Mole]] / [[Mole in Charge]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dirty Cop]]}}
* [[Implacable Man]]: Crashes his car at high speed when shot by his paranoid passenger, and drags himself away from the wreckage to bleed out... and lives, {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop|despite his best efforts]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. He seems like that at times...until he [[Moral Event Horizon|murders Warrick in cold blood
* {{spoiler|[[Might as Well Not Be in Prison At All]]: "Homecoming" reveals that he's ''still'' running his criminal machinations from prison
* [[The Mole]]
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]
* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]
* [[The Sheriff]]: Well, his title is Undersheriff.
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop]]}}: Attempts this with Nick, but he (Nick) doesn't go through with it.
== Heather Kessler (Melinda Clarke) ==
* [[Brains and Bondage]]: A licensed therapist... who also happens to run an S&M club.
* [[Dominatrix]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|In one episode, she hires a guy to kill her because she lost custody of her granddaughter
* [[Drop-In Character]]: Cases have a weird way of tracing back to her.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: In a series that conforms to this trope to an almost [[Unfortunate Implications|unfortunate]] degree, she remains the one notable aversion. Her practices still make her dark and troubled, however.
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