History Characters / BlueBloodsTheReaganFamily

* HospitalHottiw: Linda is attractive and restarts her nursing career once Jack and Sean are old enough not to need her full attention.

-->Played by Len Cariou

-->Played by Will Estes

-->Played by Bridget Moynahan

-->Played by Marelne Lawston (pilot), Sami Gayle

-->Played by Amy Carlson

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Henry is mugged by a criminal (which involved getting hit in the head), Jamie drops his usual by-the-book and calm attitude while looking, and later, pursuing said criminal. This is lampshaded by Renzuli:

* HelloNurse: A literal example. Linda is attractive and restarts her nursing career once Jack and Sean are old enough not to need her full attention.

* WalkingSpoiler: It's all but impossible to talk about her and Jamie's respective [[{{CharacterArc}} storylines]] in Season 9 without spoiling the end of Season 8.

[[folder:Officer Edit "Eddie" Reagan (nee, Janko)]]

Oldest sibling, Danny is a police detective assigned to Manhattan. He is HappilyMarried and has two sons.

* WeaponOfChoice: In keeping with his maverick attitude, he carries a noticeably different, silver pistol rather than the black Glocks used by the rest of the NYPD cast (barring Frank's ancient [[RevolversAreJustBetter Fitz Special]]). [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Blue_Bloods_-_Season_1 IMFDB identifies it as a Smith & Wesson 5946,]] a pragmatic choice by the props department considering that the weapon, though not standard issue, is still allowed by NYPD regs in real life.

** Insists that his children be treated just like any other cops, yet he's used his position as commissioner to stop Jaime from getting a promotion, even though he deserves one to avoid any appearance of favoritism. So much for not giving his kids any special treatment, huh?
*** In "Secrets and Lies" he comes down hard on Jaime, for breaking protocol (no partner or radio-ing in) when going after a mugger who assaulted Henry, which resulted in the mugger nearly falling from off the roof; Jaime pulls him up (after being tempted to let him fall however briefly), but Frank chews him out for pursuing vengeance instead of justice. Jaime ruefully points out that he never gets on Danny's case for bending the rules. Frank scoffs at this, except two seasons later in "Art of War" Jaime is proven '''right'''. Linda is attacked and Danny naturally is out for blood. He pursues the crime boss pulling the shooter's strings onto a roof without any backup - and he uses the opportunity to exhort a confession from the guy. Instead of Frank chewing him out, he actually ''compliments'' him for catching the guy, while sadly noting that since the perp was hanging from a roof no judge will allow the confession into evidence.

* ParentalFavoritism: Despite being a good parent, he seems to favor Erin and Danny over Jaime; Erin is of course DaddysGirl, but Frank is a lot more a lenient and sympathetic to Danny, the CowboyCop is always bending or outright breaking rules and constantly getting reprimanded or investigated by Internal Affairs, than he is to Jaime, the ByTheBookCop which Frank ostensibly considers the model cop, to whom he's often overtly harsh and distant towards -- Jaime is perfectly aware of this, and on some level seems to resent Frank for this, but keeps it low key.

* TookALevelInJerkass: As the show goes on, Frank gets less patient and more ruthless as he feels that the NYPD and police generally are unfairly being treated by the public, and he's openly dismissive of civilian complaints about racial profiling and police brutality; and he gets more hostile to Garrett whom he feels doesn't sufficiently have his back. He's not above using the brunt force of the department to make his point. Best shown in "Handcuffs" where a viral vide surfaces of Eddie and her partner being taunted by some residents of a housing complex - Eddie and her partner refuse to be baited into retaliating, but Frank feels that such blatant disrespect should be punished - by [[DisproportionateRetribution launching two fully armed raids against the complex]]; Jaime (who believed that Eddie should've arrested her taunters or at least cited them) calls him out on this feeling he's using a sledgehammer to deal with minor fix, Frank responds that the NYPD's authority should not be questioned.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims to loathe corrupt cops just like Frank, yet when a cop from Jaime's precinct is being ostracized for testifying against her partner who illegally killed a suspect in a bathroom, he shows her no sympathy claiming "cops shouldn't go against cops". Which brings the question how he expected to clean up his corrupt department with such an attitude when he was commissioner.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Longs for the days when cops could rough up suspects without fear of reprimand and prosecution and is ''very'' unrepentant about it, and casually admits to Jaime he would've let a mugger fall from a rooftop without any remorse, rather than take him into custody.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Jaime has no problem arguing with or outright disobeying superior officers if he feels it's the right thing to do. Unfortunately this why he has an undeserved reputation as EntitledBastard.

* TheUnfavorite: It's never been explicitly confirmed, but Frank is usually more distant and less affectionate with him than he is with either Erin or Danny; he also tends to be more harder on Jaime, a ByTheBookCop who rarely breaks the rules than he is on Danny, a CowboyCop who plays fast and hard loose the rules which often make solving a case more difficult than necessary.
** In "My Brother's Keeper" -- Jamie is mad at Danny for ignoring his orders to wait and going in guns blazing during a hostage crisis, and the two spend most of the episode at each other throats. Henry takes them both to hand and the end of the episode -- Danny did the right thing, but he crossed a line doing it, while Jamie made a bad call. The implications are obvious -- even when Danny gets reprimanded he's still getting a nod of approval that sends the message that he shouldn't change his behavior; Jaime follows the book and is told he made a bad judgement call because of it.

* BerserkButton:
** Downplayed, but he has little tolerance for anyone who commits adultery.

* BreakTheHaughty: The events of the Season 7 finale and the ripple effect they had resulted in his house being torched [[spoiler:and his wife getting killed in an accident from being forced to work harder.]] After all this Danny has become a mass of self-loathing and needs regular therapy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the Pilot she is portrayed as a typical BrattyTeenageDaughter, rolling her eyes a lot trying to wear a skirt way too short to Jamies graduation. After she gets recast Sami Gayle we get the exceptinally intelligent and mature AdorablyPrecociousChild.

* TheOtherDarrin: Played by Marlene Lawston in the pilot before being recast to Sami Gayle.

* FoxNewsLiberal: She's the most idealistic one of the Reagans and as such is usually the one to have liberal beliefs or at the very least have liberal friends in direct contrast to the rest of her family.... only to be repeatedly given a cold dose of reality, constantly be shut down or proven wrong by the rest of her family, or shown how her "friends" are really selfish jerks just using her.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: A {{downplayed}} example but Frank really really doesn't have any patience for claims the NYPD is biased or engages in racial profiling or harassment against African-Americans. It's understandable when these claims come from somebody like Rev. Potter. It's less understandable when these claims come from people who can back them up like Rev. Potter or City Council Speaker Regina Thomas, and Frank ''still'' refuses to budge or at least concede their point.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Even allowing for the fact that Nicky's the family 'bleeding heart libera' on several occasions, she will either hold an attitude that's wildly out of step with her previously established characterization or will express a bizarre sort of surprise at her family's reaction to something - reactions which are totally consistent with what we know about her family. This attitude will only be present for an episode, and the next week we'll have our old Nicky back.

* ToughLove: She had Nicky thrown in an overnight holding cell who was naively protecting her friends from a drug possession charge (they were coming back from a concert got pulled over for a routine traffic stop and drugs were found. And the law assumes that everyone in the car is guilty of possession). Frank calls her out on this, nothing she was once found with a half empty bottle of booze in her car when she was a teenager. Erin does ''not'' appreciate the comparison.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Even allowing for he fact that Nicky's the family 'bleeding heart libera' on several occasions, she will either hold an attitude that's wildly out of step with her previously established characterization or will express a bizarre sort of surprise at her family's reaction to something - reactions which are totally consistent with what we know about her family. This attitude will only be present for an episode, and the next week we'll have our old Nicky back.

* SatelliteCharacter: They only serve as the children on Danny and Linda who often ask questions regarding the current episode's topic.

* ForbiddenFruit: She becomes this to Jamie after Sgt. Renzulli informs them that they would be split up if they developed romantic feelings for each other. [[spoiler:The rule turns out to be utter nonsense. They're engaged by the end of season 8 and they can continue to work together.]]

* SecondLove: To Jamie, since his fiance from season 1, Sidney, left him because she couldn't handle the hardships of being with a cop.

* SemperFi: Henry, Frank and Danny are all marine corps veterans from Korea, Vietnam and Iraq respectively.

* HeroDoesPublicService: When Mayor Poole takes office, he reveals to Frank that he wants to keep him on as police commissioner partly because, back when he was a kid, [[{{ButForMeItWasTuesday}} there was this white Irish beat cop who coached his basketball team]].

!!Daniel "Danny" Fitzgerald Reagan

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She has a thing for the AllLovingHero and NiceGuy [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Jamie]].

* WalkingSpoiler: It's all but impossible to talk about her and Jamie's respective CharacterArcs in Season 9 without spoiling the end of Season 8.

** Henry becomes noticeably more hostile if a cop has been killed.

* BerserkButton: Danny has ''a lot'' of them. So take notes.
** ''Don't'' kill a cop.
** ''Don't'' kill someone from the Marines.
** ''Don't'' say "America should just forget about 9/11".
** ''Don't'' hurt a child.
** ''Don't'' guilt-trip him over what happened on [[ILetGwenStacyDie May 28, 2017.]][[note]]A new one as of the Season 8 opener: [[spoiler:it's the day his wife Linda got killed, to which he blames himself for entirely.]][[/note]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is abrasive, rude, and can be a real jerk. Despite all that, he's still a good and fair cop, as well as someone who deeply treasures his family.

** In another case, he tried to talk down a suicide bomber but as it became increasingly clear the man was too far gone, he coolly sneaked his finger onto the trigger of his already-leveled sidearm and [[BoomHeadshot shot the man in the head]].

* NotSoDifferent: Despite his ByTheBookCop facade over the course of the show it's made abundantly clear he has way more in common with CowBoyCop Danny than his more rule-obey children Erin or Jamie -- specially the conviction that when the law he's sworn to uphold contradict with his personal believes -- the law takes the back burner. In "Strange Bedfellows" a cop killer is up for parole. Frank who believes that cop killers should under no circumstances ever get a second chance and not trusting the Parole Board's judgement sends Sid to intimate the killer to withdraw himself from consideration. Erin rightfully calls him out for interfering in what's supposed to be an impartial process, but Frank in a very Danny-like move is petulant and unrepentant.