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* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]]: Usually [[Blue Eyes|blue]] (sometimes described as [[Icy Blue Eyes]]), but sometimes [[Gray Eyes]] or [[Green Eyes|green]]. [[Depending On the Writer]] and his own mercurial personality, a lot of the associated characteristics of each eye color apply.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Suggested that it might be [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that when he starts to get his memory back, he still finds it useful to pick and choose the things he lets people find out he remembers.
* [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: His mental health is somewhat variable. He's usually sort of a high-functioning [[Cloudcuckoolander]], but he has moments of being certifiably insane. ''The Slow Empire'' plays this for [[Black Comedy|fairly dark humor]] and mentions that after developing [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]], he occasionally couldn't distinguish between TV and reality, and so had attacks of being able to be [[Driven to Suicide]] by the [[Crapsack World|utter depressingness]] of ''[[Eastenders]]'' <ref>(suggesting, incidentally, that the boredom of [[Walking the Earth]] alone turned him into a bit of a [[Daytime Drama Queen]])</ref>, and due to watching [[Superman]] he got some odd ideas about [[Clark Kenting|disguises]] and "the relative position of the trousers and [[Underwear of Power|underpants]]". He also seems to think that someone who was having a nosebleed four days ago may still need a handkerchief. He even had what may have been a momentary [[Axe Crazy]] blackout in ''City of the Dead''. In ''The Blue Angel'' he has an alternate self who apparently suffers from schizophrenia, completely averting [[Funny Schizophrenia]]; it's reasonably understated and not [[Played for Laughs]] at all. <ref>(Also, his POV in ''The Blue Angel'' is occasionally written in a subtly strange way — for example, he tends to bring something up which doesn't make a lot of sense without further explanation and then drift away from the topic, which is a [
** [[The Mad Hatter]]: In ''Eater of Wasps'', Anji asks him rhetorically if he's insane. He replies that he "must be". However, he seems to go back and forth on this.
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: Bony fingers, all the better to stab you with. He doesn't even blink at [[Bridal Carry|Bridal Carrying]] grown men [[Ho Yay|such as Fitz]].
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* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]: [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]: he's not wealthy, but he's resourceful. {{spoiler|And [[I Control My Minions Through|his bosses probably pay him]].}} He also might be using [[Time Travel for Fun And Profit]]. Anyway, he somehow manages to get a [[Big Fancy House]] in the Victorian era (while the protagonists have to settle for subletting [[Sherlock Holmes]]' flat), apparently just because a classy villain has to have his creature comforts.
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: There are a lot of these, aren't there?
* [[Oxbridge]]: ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' mentions both that he went to Cambridge and {{spoiler|has him participating in what's apparently a [
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In both ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' and ''Camera Obscura'', he has a [[Little Miss Badass]] as a [[Sidekick]], and seems to care about them quite a bit. Also, he becomes more likable as he and the Doctor become more like [[Friendly Enemy|Friendly Enemies]], and his civility towards Anji demonstrates that he has good taste.
* [[The Quiet One]]: Relative to the Doctor, at least, and the Doctor tends to get kind of [[No Sense of Personal Space|grabby]] to [[Attention Whore|get his attention]] when he seems to have decided to let the Doctor's [[Motor Mouth]] run out of fuel on its own:
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* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Stout Strength]]
* [[Sue Donym]]: Close enough, anyway: almost all his aliases are terrible, obvious, and related to his usual pseudonym, such as Holiday, Mistletoe, and Mr. [
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]{{spoiler|: Except not really.}}
* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: Justified: they're not idiots, they're apes, and it wasn't his idea to hire them.
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