History Characters / Bones

* AmbiguouslyBi: Implied, in his youth, he used an alter ego to play rock called Noddy Comet, in his own words, "A Bisexual Spaceman with a taste for glitter, lycra and an exhibitionist disdain for underwear".

* PoliceBrutality: Occasionally, especially when the suspect threatens Bones. In ''The Blood on the Stones'', featuring the hunt for a cop killer also stands out, when he refuses one suspects demands for a lawyer, and refuses medical treatment for another whose foot had been shoot off by the victim shortly before the episode, exerting pressure on her wound. [[spoiler: the fact that neither is guilty of the murder makes this especially egregious]].

* ArmorPiercingSlap: After Bones finds out the true nature of Jared and Booth's relationship (that Seeley had been boosting Jared up to his own detriment), she slaps him. Hard.

* TheDreaded: He manipulates multiple associates and they all are downright terrified of him. The [[SeniorCreep creepy old guy]] who cared for the house were he lived with his victims body's was so terrified of him that he decided to commit suicide to spare himself the agony of what The Puppeteer would do to him for being caught by the cops. The former criminal; whose puppet theater and workshop the killer rented for his base, only saw the guy once (and didn't even get a look at his face) but was so horrified by whatever he saw that he was permanently traumatized and erased it from his mind. It doesn't hurt that the team is even more scared of him than any of the previous serial killers, either.

* SerialKiller

* TwoFaced: The left side of his face is normal, but the right looks like a stitched-together hamburger.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: Her name is actually Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates. It’s no wonder she changed it to Angela.

* HotScientist: Very few leaders in the field of forensic anthropology can fill out a Wonder Woman outfit that well.

* HotScientist: She's a HeadTurningBeauty scientist.

* HotScientist: Being played by Tamara Taylor helps. Cam has no trouble getting dates and even dated Booth prior to her first appearance on the show.

* HotScientist: Is quite attractive, helped by the actor who plays him.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Has something going on with the lack of social skills and poor metaphor grasping.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Even more than Bones, which is saying something.

* WeaponOfChoice: Murdered his victims with a pipe.

* CourtroomAntics: Comes up with quite a few of these.

* DeadLittleSister: Very literally. [[spoiler: Her IllGirl sister was taken in by a conman running a cult. He took their money, promising to build a paradise where they wouldn't be sick, then killed them]].

* WhenSheSmiles: Cam's always gorgeous, but that smile just takes it {{Up To Eleven}}.

* InsufferableGenius: Taken ''way'' UpToEleven; by far the worst ever seen on the show, making people like Zack, Daisy, and Brennan herself look tame by comparison. It's made worse by the fact that, unlike all the other examples of this trope on this show, Wells really doesn't have any sympathetic qualities aside from not being evil.

* TheDreaded: He manipulates multiple associates and they all are downright terrified of him. The CreepyOldGuy who cared for the house were he lived with his victims body's was so terrified of him that he decided to commit suicide to spare himself the agony of what The Puppeteer would do to him for being caught by the cops. The former criminal; whose puppet theater and workshop the killer rented for his base, only saw the guy once (and didn't even get a look at his face) but was so horrified by whatever he saw that he was permanently traumatized and erased it from his mind. It doesn't hurt that the team is even more scared of him than any of the previous serial killers, either.

* AssholeVictim: Has her head blown off by Broadsky in ''The Bullet in the Brain''. No tears are shed. You deserved it, Ms Taffet.

* BerserkButton: Being called a [[RantInducingSlight "Fry cook? FRY COOK?!"]] after his retirement.

* KnifeNut: WeaponOfChoice, both for murdering and eating.

* HollywoodNerd: A geeky entomologist who believes in aliens and other conspiracy theories but is also quite attractive.

* HollywoodNerd

* HollywoodNerd: A highly intelligent and skilled but socially awkward forensic anthropologist whose beauty is frequently commented on.

* HollywoodNerd: Much like Brennan, Zack has massive knowledge of his area of study but is hopeless with relationships.

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* OfficialCouple: With Angela

* SexGoddess: Almost every has a moment where her sexual expertise come up in a conversation. She even gives the rest of the team sexual advice and once boasted to Zack to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom".

* UnfortunateNames: Her real name is so embarrassing to her, that she chose to go as Angela Montenegro. Finally revealed on season 10, it is [[spoiler:Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons]].

** In his first appearance, he ''inscribed a computer virus into bones'', infecting the Jeffersonian computers when Angela scanned them.

* IAteWhat: He and Hodgins get this in one episode after discovering that a bacon-flavored juice they'd been guzzling down was actually a sexual lubricant.

** Don't even think about hurting his son. While we haven't really seen this in action, he is on record that his [[PapaWolf protective]] instinct for Parker outweighs his faith in God himself, which is [[RaisedCatholic kinda a big deal]].

* RaisedCatholic: How closely he follows the bible varies on the principal or commandment. He's pretty big on stuff like keeping acts of charity anonymous, but doesn't care for following stuff like the ban on premarital sex.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: After being absent for several seasons, he's unceremoniously killed off in the Season 11 premiere and he's burnt to a crisp that only his skeleton remains. And the Jeffersonian Team originally thinks he's Booth until Bones does a more detailed examination.]]