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== '''Karrin Murphy''' ==
 
{{quote| ''"The law isn't perfect. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to make it work."''}}
 
Murphy looks like someone's favorite aunt. She's five feet even and has blond hair, blue eyes, and a cute nose. Unfortunately for the bad guys, she's a lot more dangerous than she looks; she's a cop with some serious martial arts skills and enough stubbornness and ingenuity to really inconvenience anyone who annoys her. When she was reassigned to the Special Investigations department, a political death sentence, she responded by taking the department and helping it to become a lot more effective. Since SI got all the cases involving, say, vampire attacks, trolls eating people, or the results of some other sort of magical mayhem, this meant her most effective step was probably hiring Harry.
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]
* [[Dye or Die]]: part of a disguise/"makeover" in ''Aftermath''.
{{quote| "If I hear montage music playing, I'm cutting it short."}}
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After ''Grave Peril'', when a supernatural nasty pretending to be Harry [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] her. It took her several books to get back on her feet--and kicking--again.
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* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: In ''Changes'':
{{quote| ''False gods! Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!''}}
* [[Properly Paranoid]]
* [[Supporting Leader]]: {{spoiler|The leader of Justice League Chicago, in Ghost Story.}}
* [[Survival Mantra]] / [[Madness Mantra]]: "I can't believe he's dead."
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Not that she was weak to begin with, but ''Changes'' takes things to a whole new level {{spoiler|once she agrees to 'borrow' Fidelacchius, and amongst other things, proceeds to [[One-Hit Kill]] a [[Physical God]].}}
** In the six months between ''Changes'' and ''Ghost Story'', she {{spoiler|formed and headed an underground alliance of Chicago's lesser magically-talented individuals}}, and managed to {{spoiler|kill two warlocks who were at Council-level strength, as well as lesser talents under Fomor command.}} For an ordinary human with no magic, that's a ''big'' deal.
* [[Tsundere]]: Type A, usually towards Harry, but implied to be part of her interactions with Kincaid as well. We just don't see enough to really know in that case.
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== '''Agent Denton''' ==
A no-nonsense FBI agent from ''Fool Moon'' {{spoiler|and also the [[Big Bad]] of the book}}. He's obsessed with maintaining law and order at any cost, even {{spoiler|to the extent of becoming a werewolf (specifically, Hexenwulf) to hunt down criminals who escaped justice. Gradually goes off the deep end}}.
 
* [[Fallen Hero]]: He was a genuinely good man and honest agent before {{spoiler|the whole Hexenwulf thing}}.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* {{spoiler|[[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: he needs a belt possessed by a demon wolf spirit to transform; which ''someone'' gave him. Debate still rages on exactly who.}}
** We think.
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|another Black Council pawn}}
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* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Rudolph is introduced in ''Fool Moon'' as a rookie justifiably scared by the loup-garou rampaging around in the next room. In ''Grave Peril,'' he gives Harry a [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]] regarding Murphy. However, by the next book, he's tranferred to Internal Affairs and become the Rudolph we love to hate.
* [[Hate Sink]]: If Jim Butcher said readers are supposed to like this guy, I would be thoroughly surprised.
* [[Inspector Javert]]: This guy loves to try and screw up whatever Harry's case is in any way he can.
* {{spoiler|[[The Quisling]]}}: Indicated to be {{spoiler|in the pocket of the Red Court}} in ''Changes''.
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Chicago police officer and former detective who has encountered the supernatural in the past, and thus is willing to believe the resident crazy wizard. Has a history with Murphy; apparently her father saved his life from a monster while he was on patrol long ago. Eventually is forced to join SI due to politics within the CPD, due to his issues with authority.
 
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Rawlins is getting up there in years, but he can still hold his own. Giant scarecrow monsters and hook-claw-wielding serial killers who are [[Immune to Bullets]] don't even make him flinch.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Snarks almost as much as Harry, but with a lot more cheer.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: to the loup-garou.
 
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