Chuck: Difference between revisions

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=== Overall series ===

* [[The Ace]]/[[Always Someone Better]]:

** Bryce Larkin is a suave ultra-spy who is an impossible standard for Chuck to meet in his relationship with Sarah.

** Sarah spends most of "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady" getting overshadowed by Jill.

** Gertrude Verbanski and her company seems to be this for Carmichael Industries, the freelance spy service that Chuck and Sarah founded in season 5.

* [[Action Girl]]: Sarah, plus many of the guest-star female spies/terrorists who pop up regularly.

* [[Action Girlfriend]]: The relationship dynamic between Chuck and Sarah.

** Tuned up to eleven at the season 4 finale when {{spoiler|it is hinted that everything they've done for the past four years has been manipulated by some bigger organization.}}

* Arc Welding: And HOW.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Emmett Milbarge.

* [[Badass Crew]]: Sarah, Casey, and of course, Chuck.

* [[Badass Family]]:

** Sarah becoming less emotionally repressed and being more receptive and open about her feelings regarding Chuck.

** Of course, there's Casey being less antagonistic towards Chuck and even sticking up for him and Sarah, as well as his hard-ass facade being gradually giving way at times.

* [[Chekhov MIA]]: Stephen Bartowski {{spoiler|as well as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski.}}

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Pretty much requisite of the one-shot characters. Most notably, though:

** Armand Assante, as the leader of [[Banana Republic|Costa Gravas]].

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Stephen Bartowski, played by the awesome Scott Bakula, tried to take care of his son and daughter after his wife disappeared but ended up vanishing himself for years on end. This might also be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Quantum Leap]], the show for which Scott is most widely known, as the father of his character in that show was this trope, too.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Daniel Shaw. [[Unexplained Recovery|He got better.]]}}

* [[Dramedy]]

* [[Drive-In Theater]]: FULCRUM uses an old one as their base.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Emmett in "Chuck Versus the Pink Slip".}}

* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: All the time. Chuck drops the phone when he notices Sarah for the first time, drops Morgan's grape soda {{spoiler|when Carina shows up in a ski mask to take a diamond}}, drops {{spoiler|1=the FedEx package with the same diamond in it when Casey suddenly slams a goon}}, drops his wallet when Harry Tang startles him, drops his phone again when {{spoiler|scary Mr. Bennett}} surprises him, drops a bottle of champagne when he sees Sarah dancing very affectionately with Bryce, drops a bottle of beer when Jenny McCarthy's character tries to seduce him, and drops his keys when Sarah walks into the living room in lingerie. In the Pineapple Incident, shortly after Morgan drops a box on Jeff's head, Big Mike drops his Danish to make a dash to keep people from leaving the store, and in a later episode he drops his tackle box when he receives word of a security breach at the Buy More.

* [[Embarrassing Cover Up]]

** Chuck occasionally blames Sarah's absence on her supposed spastic colon. "A girl that beautiful with a colon that spastic."

*** This manages to be a [[Brick Joke]] in later episodes.

* [[Enter Stage Window]]: Affectionately referred to as the "Morgan Door."

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Chuck and Sarah, of course.

{{quote|'''Jeff:''' Don't you get it? [[Romantic False Lead|None of them matter]]. Chuck may try to replace her, but when he's with Sarah, the light in his eyes shines brightly.}}

** Further down the line, {{spoiler|Morgan}} decides to take up the alias "Michael Carmichael," Charles's brother.

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: The Intersect 2.0. Abilities Chuck has used so far include: kung fu, judo, parkour, gymnastics, zip-lining with a belt, boxing, bomb defusion, flamenco guitar, dancing through laser tripwires, ballroom dancing, speaking Thai, French and Japanese, [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] with pen, tranquilizer gun and nacho platter, bullet dodging, field medicine, fencing, staff-fighting, and using nunchucks {{spoiler|(though he never used them in combat, the Intersect did teach him how!)}}.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Chuck, both before and after he [[Took a Level In Badass]] at the end of Season 2:

** "I'm a CIA agent, and this is ''my'' trap. I don't think you gentlemen recognize the gravity of the predicament you're in."

** Morgan may be well on his way to becoming Casey's new [[Morality Pet]], now that he's gained his respect {{spoiler|by nearly sacrificing himself when he leads a ''Bengal tiger'' into an apartment.}} Casey's right; the furry little elf has balls. Solid diamond balls. Check out "Chuck Versus the Ring, Part II", where he {{spoiler|breaks his thumbs to get to a fire alarm}} to evacuate the Buy More, and "Chuck Versus the Couck Lock", where he {{spoiler|risks electrocuting himself to save Chuck, Sarah, and Casey}}.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Beckman and Graham, though Beckman's character was eventually fleshed out more.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: God bless you, Yvonne Strahovski. Finally lampshaded in "Chuck Versus the Kept Man."

** Some of the female guest stars are quite the lookers, too.