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* [[Adult Child]]: He's an obscenely powerful, omnipotent deity who has the emotional development of a six-year
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: more ''comes'' from a higher plane of existence to play with mortals, but the Q Continuum drags him back there when he's done enough damage for a millennia.
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* [[Debt Detester]]: Specifically to Picard.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: As [[SF Debris]] points out, Q was subject to schizophrenic characterization. He could either come off as detached and sinister ("Encounter at Farpoint", "Q Who", "All Good Things...") or wild and silly ("Hide and Q", "Q-Pid").
** There's a fan theory that he just gets [[Bored with Insanity]] from time to time. YMMV on whether
** This may be in part deliberate. In his first episode, he changes his appearance frequently, and while his personality remains that of an arrogant and judgmental deity, he behaves quite differently whenever he changes his look. From a superior
* [[Divine Intervention]]: usually after he's actually ''started'' the problem and someone brow-beats him into cleaning up the mess he made.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|Even Chaotic Trickster Gods Have Loved Ones]]: he truly does love his wife and kid. Enough that hurting them is pretty much the only thing that can genuinely piss him off (and no, not annoy him so he turns you into a different creature, ''[[Berserk Button|really]]'' [[Person of Mass Destruction|piss him off]]).
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* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: One-ups every other ''[[Star Trek]]'' example by [[Ho Yay|teleporting into Picard's bed]].
** Also has a history of hitting on [[Star Trek: Voyager|Janeway]] during most of their encounters.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Q drops all pretense and is quite serious concerning the Borg. Why is never exactly revealed, but Q makes clear the Borg are a threat even the Continuum does not write off and that humanity should exercise due caution.
* [[One-Letter Name]]
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Q Junior is played by Keegan de Lancie.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Q powers tend to take this form, ''changing things'' in a flash of light with a signature sound effect.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: He's immortal and was present at the beginning of the Universe yet still looks like a middle
* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: A human John de Lancie in a Starfleet captain's uniform. Failing that, the uniform of a high-ranking officer in another military force.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: he's a Q. The words "omniscient and omnipotent" belong somewhere in the species description.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: every member of the Q Continuum (minus Q's son) was present at the beginning of the universe. They are ''very'' advanced.
* [[Super Empowering]]: To Riker, and in a novel, Lwaxana Troi. The former gives them up to avoid [[Power Corrupts]]. The latter turned out to be an ''incredibly'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|bad idea]] on Q's part.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: according to some of the semi-canon novels, he's the Ur example for this trope in-universe (with basically every Trickster god, alien, and human (including Loki and Prometheus (where the Q Continuum literally strung him out on a cliff and had wild animals eat out his internal organs repeatedly for giving humans the gift of fire on a whim)) being based in some shape or form on him... and for good reason).
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Q's actions ultimately help Picard every time he shows up, and ultimately help humanity. He challenges morals, ethics, thoughts, and ideas of what we would do for power, who we are and what we could change, as well as the nature of existence. "Tapestry" suggests him to be amused enough by Picard to save his life. "Q-Who" suggests, even at his worst, throwing the crew into their first encounter with the Borg, he's making sure they have enough experience to be prepared.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: you think he's bad in the series? Wait until you read some of the books written in the first
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Q's a lousy parent, but that's not saying much; he's the first Q in history to conceive a child.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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