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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I
* [[Boxed Crook]]: In the pilot, he was about to leave, but was forced to stay on DS9. He still is involved in some degree of criminal activity of his own regardless despite his own "prison", but it's on purpose, so Sisko and Odo can monitor him better.
* [[The Bartender]]
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]
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=== Vedek/Kai Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher) ===
Traditionalist Bajoran religious leader who is introduced as generically [[The Fundamentalist]], but develops into a far more complex antagonist for the heroes. Ends up in [[Sinister Minister]] territory, but has a much less cartoonish motivation than
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The Prophets have NEVER spoken to her, not even indirectly, once. It's clear this is because she's greedy for temporal power and respect and it was because of her lack of humility, but she eventually loses all her faith they cared to begin with and descended into betraying her own faith due to this trope}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: She schemes, plots assassinations, undermines Sisko at every turn, {{spoiler|but when she finds out that the Bajoran 'spiritual guide' she slept with is Gul Dukat, she looks like she's going to throw up}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: About five minutes before the end.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|Nurse Ratched]] is now a spiritual leader??
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: If she's onscreen with Sisko, expect her to make a dig at him for being foreign. If she's onscreen with Kira, expect "gentle" reminders about just who is the Kai.
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: She gets told the one way to get what she wants is to {{spoiler|relinquish any power as Kai, that humility would finally resolve her problems}}. She unable to do so out of pride, and it all goes downhill from there.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Although she's a believer, she spends most of her time as Kai trying to wrestle influence away from Sisko. {{spoiler|This is probably why the Prophets give her the cold shoulder.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: She is the high queen of being passive-aggressive. And bombing schools.
* [[Large Ham]]: It is very, ''very'' easy to see Louise Fletcher positively ''luxuriating'' in the sheer hamminess of this character.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Gives Sisko key information immediately before Dukat kills her.}}
* [[Sinister Minister]]: She kicks off her first major role by plotting the assassination of a rival who was favored to become Kai. Shortly after that, she involves herself in a coup that intends to expel the Federation.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Her appearance frequently throws Starfleet for a loop. {{spoiler|And she deliberately disrupts the Reckoning, a battle between the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths that has been prophesied for thousands of years}}.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who
** Such a treatment gives us a good example of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. It plays a good part in her {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]] against them}}.
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: If he is not the most reasonable Starfleet admiral in the entirety of Trek, then he is certainly the second most.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Ross tries to impress on Bashir the necessity for this concerning {{spoiler|Section 31}}.
** {{spoiler|While only implied in the show, the novels confirm Ross was affiliated with Section 31, and was doing this trope on purpose because he knew if he revealed their secrets, they would kill not only him but anyone else he told}}.
* [[Throw It In]]: A joking reference by Odo to Ross as "Bill" in the first episode of season 7 was taken literally by the writing staff, resulting in his canonical first name.
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* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "There may be hope for you yet" He utters the phrase pretty much anytime he observes a principled or noble character show signs of cynicism or suspicion (particularly if they indicate they don't trust ''him'')
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: His desire to engage in this kind of
* [[Claustrophobia]]: He suffers from
* [[Consummate Liar]]: It's so difficult for most people to be able to tell when he's being truthful or lying that the default reaction is to assume he's always lying. He himself [[Self-Proclaimed Liar|encourages]] this attitude. This has the useful side-effect of him being able to protect important information because he'll even lie about trivial things, resulting in people not being able to tell what's important and what's not. There are
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: At one point Garek spots an assassin sent after him and deliberately blows up his own shop so security will protect him. The Crazy Prepared part? Garek builds the bomb with a specific type of pheromone trigger favored by the assassin's species to make the frame
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: According to Robinson, Garak is intrigued by Bashir's motiveless compassion for others - something totally alien to Cardassians at this point in their history.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: After getting beaten by Klingons, Garak tells Bashir that ''he'' got the better end of the deal.
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* [[Fake Guest Star]]: introduced in the second episode of the show. Appears in all seven seasons. Becomes absolutely ''central'' to the plot. Doesn't appear in the opening credits because Robinson asked not to.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Seems [[Dirty Harry|Scorpio]] is helping out the good guys this time.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He once
* [[Knowledge Broker]]: It's one of the reasons why Sisko's team and later the Federation
* [[Mysterious Past]]
** [[Multiple Choice Past]]: He insists that every version is true - [[Especially Zoidberg|especially the lies.]]
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: The go-to guy for this on the station.
{{quote|''That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing.''}}
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: The fate of Cardassia and the Alpha Quadrant ends up requiring Garak, Kira, and Damar to put aside their three-way loathing of each other and work together. By the end of the series, there are even signs of a [[Fire-Forged Friends]] beginning to form between Garak and Kira.
* [[Token Heroic Orc]]: [[Inverted Trope|To an extent]]. Garak doesn't mind Cardassia's military expansionism, per se. The tipping point is when his homeworld is overrun by the Dominion due to a couple short-sighted opportunists, like Dukat.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]
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