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* PetitePride: Given the frequency of BuxomIsBetter extras, Fi is never shown to be anything less than their equal, in her own eyes or anyone else's.
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* PetitePride: Given the frequency of BuxomIsBetter extras, Fi is never shown to be anything less than their equal, in the amount of attention that men and the camera lavish on her own eyes or anyone else's. make it clear that some element of this is in play.
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* PetitePride: Given the frequency of BuxomIsBetter extras, Fi is never shown to be anything less than their equal, in her own eyes or anyone else's.
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* HawaiianShirtedTourist
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* RetiredBadass: In the pilot. In the rest of the show, he's less retired.
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* RetiredBadass: In At the pilot. In the rest start of the show, series. The Sam-centric TV movie takes place before he's less retired.
* SeriousBusiness:washed out of the Navy.
* SeriousBusiness:
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: A pair of scars surrounding his left eye, a lasting memory of dear ol' dad.
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* ReluctantRetiree: Michael's feeble attempts at domesticity (Season Five).
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: An over-the-hill, overweight hedonist who is a bit of an idiot? Not so much. Sam is a badass former Navy SEAL team leader, an intelligent strategist, a die-hard loyal friend, and arguably the most levelheaded of the group. Highlighted in 4x05 where to save Sugar from a beatdown, Sam pulls his drunk act... and then once Sugar is safe, promptly beats the crap out of his opponents.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Jeffrey Donovan puts on a lot of different accents for Michael's guise du jour, but he doesn't bother to shed his native Boston accent when playing Michael, who grew up in Miami. Easily justified, as an accent is [[OohMeAccentsSlipping difficult to maintain]] long term and it's an AcceptableBreakFromReality.
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** His other BerserkButton is Fiona, as anyone who harms her finds out.
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** His other BerserkButton is Fiona, as anyone who harms her finds out.
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* TechnicalPacifistTechnicalPacifist: He's not averse to putting people in positions to get themselves killed, or to get them killed, but it's very rare for Michael to pull the trigger himself. If he does, it's usually to protect Fiona.
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** Intentional and justified; WordOfGod has that Gabrielle Anwar (Fi's actress) picks out much of her own wardrobe. It's likely she knows she has great legs and wants to show them off.
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** Intentional and justified; WordOfGod has that Gabrielle Anwar (Fi's actress) picks out much of her own wardrobe. It's likely she knows she has great legs and wants to show them off. [[CaptainObvious (Plus, it's hot in Miami.)]]
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* ShroudedInMyth: In Russia at least (and probably elsewhere). As far as the Russians are concerned, he's some sort of mystical bogeyman.
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* ShroudedInMyth: In Russia at least (and probably elsewhere). As far as the Russians are concerned, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2FrnlNH9s he's some sort of mystical bogeyman.bogeyman]].
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!! Nate Westen
Michael's younger brother and Madeline's youngest son. He started out as ConMan with a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling problem]], but now owns his own limo business, has a wife and kid and sometimes is a support member in Michael's jobs.
* AbusiveParents
* TheAtoner: Never treated as a bad guy in the show but is trying to put his past transgressions behind him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: To a certain extent.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DistressedDude: Whether or not it's his own doing, he's ended up like this.
* ParentalAbandonment
* ThePawn
* RecklessSidekick
* RedOni: To Michael when they work together.
Michael's younger brother and Madeline's youngest son. He started out as ConMan with a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling problem]], but now owns his own limo business, has a wife and kid and sometimes is a support member in Michael's jobs.
* AbusiveParents
* TheAtoner: Never treated as a bad guy in the show but is trying to put his past transgressions behind him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: To a certain extent.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DistressedDude: Whether or not it's his own doing, he's ended up like this.
* ParentalAbandonment
* ThePawn
* RecklessSidekick
* RedOni: To Michael when they work together.
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* BoringInvincibleHero: Michael, partially. Every episode has two storylines: the first, wherein Michael helps a client with local thugs, usually features Mike effortlessly dominating the competition. The second, dealing with his burn notice arc, is more challenging.
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* BoringInvincibleHero: Michael, partially.Partially. Every episode has two storylines: the first, wherein Michael helps a client with local thugs, usually features Mike effortlessly dominating the competition. The second, dealing with his burn notice arc, is more challenging.
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* ConsummateLiar: Mike mostly, with an interesting subversion: he regularly lies outright to killers, thieves, and drug dealers, but he has trouble fooling ''his own mom''. And when these occasions come up, [[RuleOfPerception it's pretty easy for the audience to see too]].
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* ConsummateLiar: Mike mostly, with With an interesting subversion: he regularly lies outright to killers, thieves, and drug dealers, but he has trouble fooling ''his own mom''. And when these occasions come up, [[RuleOfPerception it's pretty easy for the audience to see too]].
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* SharpDressedMan: Michael, who seems to wear tieless light-colored Armani suits whenever possible.
* ShroudedInMyth: Michael, in Russia at least (and probably elsewhere). As far as the Russians are concerned, he's some sort of mystical bogeyman.
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* SharpDressedMan: Michael, who seems Oh yes. He tries to wear tieless light-colored Armani suits whenever possible.
* ShroudedInMyth:Michael, in In Russia at least (and probably elsewhere). As far as the Russians are concerned, he's some sort of mystical bogeyman.
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* DeadLittleSister:Fiona's sister, Claire, whose death in a shooting caused Fiona to join the IRA.
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* DeadLittleSister:Fiona's DeadLittleSister: Fiona's sister, Claire, whose death in a shooting caused Fiona to join the IRA.
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* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Fiona. With anything you can think of. Most of the time.
** Special mention must go to her Molotov cocktails in "Fight or Flight".
* GirlsWithGuns: Fiona. Just...Fiona.
** Special mention must go to her Molotov cocktails in "Fight or Flight".
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* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Fiona. With anything you can think of. Most of the time.
**Special mention must go to her Molotov cocktails in "Fight or Flight".
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* {{Oireland}}: Fiona. Casually violent, anti-authoritarian, IRA connection, [[FakeIrish played by a British actor]]... it's like they were ticking off a list.
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* {{Oireland}}: Fiona. Casually violent, anti-authoritarian, IRA connection, [[FakeIrish played by a British actor]]... it's like they were ticking off a list.
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* TriggerHappy: Fiona. Even the OpeningNarration acknowledges it.
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* TriggerHappy: Fiona. Even the OpeningNarration acknowledges it.
* SharpDressedMan: In season five, since he's got a high-profile security job.
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* InSeriesNickname: "Dead" Larry.
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* InSeriesNickname: "Dead" Larry."Dead Larry".
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Kills Tyler]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Kills Tyler]]Brennen, who really did have it coming.]]
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** Maddie, for her part, seems to be trying to make up for that by - among other things - mothering Jesse.
*** Maddie was also beaten by the father. It was not a happy household, to say the least.
*** Maddie was also beaten by the father. It was not a happy household, to say the least.
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'''Michael''': The last thing he said to me was 'See you in hell, boy!' so I figured we had something on the books.
'''Michael''': The last thing he said to me was 'See you in hell, boy!' so I figured we had something on the books.
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** BadassBeard: His Cameo in The Fall Of Sam Axe.
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** BadassBeard: His Cameo in The ''The Fall Of of Sam Axe.Axe''.
* DomesticAbuse: Maddie was the victim of it from her husband, though she also allowed her husband to beat Michael and Nate.
** "Bloodlines" throws this into sharp relief, as Michael takes on a persona identical to his father and Maddie must remain undercover while allowing Michael to slap her around.
** "Bloodlines" throws this into sharp relief, as Michael takes on a persona identical to his father and Maddie must remain undercover while allowing Michael to slap her around.
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** Season Five's "Bloodlines" sets a whole new record for Maddie. Successful undercover operation, where she poses as a nurse to a Yakuza drug lord? Check. Keeping her cover while her son masquerades as his father and reenacts the abuse she used to suffer? Check. Pulling a faked escape with said drug lord and after he leads Team Westen to his hideout, triple-crossing him and holding him at gunpoint with a shotgun? CHECK.
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* FieryRedhead
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*** WordOfGod says that Maddie was also beaten by the father. It was not a happy household, to say the least.
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** For that matter, when teaming up with Larry [[spoiler: he makes the mistake of leaving Michael's mentor unattended or with Michael for long periods of time. Larry may be evil, but Brennan obviously did not expect how much Larry really just wants to turn Michael to the dark side.]]
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* CowboyCop: Why he got demoted to a desk job.
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* CowboyCop: Why he got demoted to a desk job. Eventually, the influence of Team Weston results in him quitting said job.
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* AffablyEvil
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** BadassBeard: His Cameo in The Fall Of Sam Axe.
* BlueOni
* RedOni
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* ColdSniper: Though all four members of Team Westen are capable of it, Sam most often takes this role. Put to epic and awesome BigDamnHeroes use in "Out of the Fire" when [[spoiler: just as Larry's going to kill Michael, a red dot appears on his chest and Sam calls Michael's cell begging to shoot the guy.]]
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* FriendlySniper: Though all four members of Team Westen are capable of it, Sam most often takes this role. Put to epic and awesome BigDamnHeroes use in "Out of the Fire" when [[spoiler: just as Larry's going to kill Michael, a red dot appears on his chest and Sam calls Michael's cell begging to shoot the guy.]]
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''Michael'': The last thing he said to me was 'See you in hell, boy!' so I figured we had something on the books.
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* BattleCouple: With Fiona.
* BerserkButton: Michael frequently talks about the need to stay emotionally detached, but he will always take clients solely because kids are involved. It's a sore spot for him and has happened no less than 8 times.
-->'''Madeline''': For two little kids getting smacked around by their father? Michael would take on the entire Chinese army.
** His other BerserkButton is Fiona, as anyone who harms her finds out.
* BerserkButton: Michael frequently talks about the need to stay emotionally detached, but he will always take clients solely because kids are involved. It's a sore spot for him and has happened no less than 8 times.
-->'''Madeline''': For two little kids getting smacked around by their father? Michael would take on the entire Chinese army.
** His other BerserkButton is Fiona, as anyone who harms her finds out.
* GuileHero
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther / VitriolicBestBuds: With Sam, though it takes a while.
* BattleCouple: With Michael.
* BerserkButton: Don't hurt a child anywhere ''near'' Fiona.
** She also "has a thing" for lost little sisters, like her own.
* BattleCouple: With Michael.
* BerserkButton: Don't hurt a child anywhere ''near'' Fiona.
** She also "has a thing" for lost little sisters, like her own.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther / VitriolicBestBuds: With Fiona, though it takes a while.
* BerserkButton: Hurting children, along with the rest of Team Westen.
** To an extent, Sam also has a thing about serious betrayals of friendship or messing with his friends. He will stand by and help his friends even if it means getting into trouble himself. For him, a friend in need is his highest priority and he'll try very hard not to screw over his friends. There are many examples, subtle and otherwise, but it's a large part of "Breach of Faith" and "Dead or Alive".
* {{Casanova}}:''[[BruceCampbell Perfectly]]'' [[PerverseSexualLust understandable]].[[BruceCampbell Perfectly understandable]].
* TheCavalry: Tends to get to be this a lot.
* BerserkButton: Hurting children, along with the rest of Team Westen.
** To an extent, Sam also has a thing about serious betrayals of friendship or messing with his friends. He will stand by and help his friends even if it means getting into trouble himself. For him, a friend in need is his highest priority and he'll try very hard not to screw over his friends. There are many examples, subtle and otherwise, but it's a large part of "Breach of Faith" and "Dead or Alive".
* {{Casanova}}:
* TheCavalry: Tends to get to be this a lot.
* ColdSniper: Though all four members of Team Westen are capable of it, Sam most often takes this role. Put to epic and awesome BigDamnHeroes use in "Out of the Fire" when [[spoiler: just as Larry's going to kill Michael, a red dot appears on his chest and Sam calls Michael's cell begging to shoot the guy.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: An over-the-hill, overweight hedonist who is a bit of an idiot? Not so much. Sam is a badass former Navy SEAL team leader, an intelligent strategist, a die-hard loyal friend, and arguably the most levelheaded of the group. Highlighted in 4x05 where to save Sugar from a beatdown, Sam pulls his drunk act... and then once Sugar is safe, promptly beats the crap out of his opponents.
* DressedToKill: Whenever Sam uses his "Chuck Finley" alias (usually as Mafia, CIA, or another suitably high-class occupation), he ditches the Hawaiian shirts and cleans up rather well.
* TheLancer
* TheLancer
* ParentalSubstitute: To Jesse.
* AffablyEvil
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* EvilMentorEvilMentor: Larry faked his own death in Bosnia and is now a PsychoForHire CareerKiller whose solution to everything is KillEmAll. Larry also likes to invoke NotSoDifferent in regards to himself and Michael. Particularly notable in the season 4 finale when Larry wonders where all the darkness and anger Michael had went. On par for being the evil mentor, Larry also laments that Michael is losing those things that made him do bad things with a smile and so good at his job.
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Burned spy and all-around badass who loves his mom, sunglasses, yogurt, and things blowing up.
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Michael's once-and-future girlfriend, an ex-IRA terrorist who LOVES making things go boom.
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Former Navy SEAL, current womanizing lush, and Michael's most loyal friend.
* ChivalrousPervert
* DeadpanSnarker: Just watch the opening credits:
-->''You know spies - bunch of bitchy little girls.''
-->''You know spies - bunch of bitchy little girls.''
* TheMole: The FBI thinks they've got Sam playing this role, spying on Michael for them, but really, Sam's only telling them what he and Michael think they should know.
* OlderSidekick
* OlderSidekick
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Probably the best of Team Westen at this, and embodies it completely. The initial impression one gets of him is a slightly overweight womanizer who chugs beers and has about as much insight as a sixth grader. While the first part is fairly accurate, one learns over the course of the series that he's a former Navy SEAL, has numerous contacts across multiple government agencies, and can be just as manipulative and technologically proficient as Michael or Fi.
* RetiredBadass: In the pilot. In the rest of the show, he's less retired.
* TheScrounger: Sam doesn't really pay for food or booze much.
* WouldHitAGirl: But only after she tried to take away his shotgun and beat him up.
* RetiredBadass: In the pilot. In the rest of the show, he's less retired.
* TheScrounger: Sam doesn't really pay for food or booze much.
* WouldHitAGirl: But only after she tried to take away his shotgun and beat him up.
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Michael's chain-smoking meddlesome mother, who is the only thing that scares Michael Westen.
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** Best demonstrated in "The Hunter", where Sam and Fiona are interrogating a pilot to find out where Michael has been taken. Sam gives up the questioning when the pilot makes it clear he's not afraid of anything, and goes to think through new options with Fiona. Madeline calmly walks out to the garage where he's being kept, lights a cigarette, and comes back 4 minutes later with the coordinates, having not even had to TOUCH the pilot.
** There's an excellent moment in the season 3.5 opener, "A Dark Road", when she [[spoiler: outright blackmails a woman she's become friends with because the woman possesses information that Michael needs to save lives. She hates it, but she stonewalls the woman and gets the files.]]
** She shows off her MamaBear status in the season three finale when she stalls and misdirects a set of government agents who only very slowly come to realize that she's not an innocent old woman. She tips Michael off that the FBI is at the house, then sends the feds on a wild goose chase. This whole time she is interrogated in her own home, given photographs of bad stuff Michael has supposedly done and she doesn't even flinch, but she pretends to crack to keep the agents fooled. When they finally threaten to arrest her for aiding and abetting, she practically puts the handcuffs on herself, and oh, yes - slaps a federal agent.
** To show her new badassery, when Michael tells Sam and Fiona that she's trying to hold them off, Sam says "She's good, but she's not that good." When a former Navy SEAL thinks you're tough, that's saying something.
*** Of course, this isn't the first time said Navy SEAL acknowledges her badassery - from "The Hunter":
---->'''Madeline''': Sam, let me remind you you're sleeping in my guestroom. You call me or God as my witness I will smother you in your sleep.
---->'''Sam''': Okay, we'll call!
** Season Four has her delivering multiple WhatTheHellHero moments to Michael, helping Sam blackmail a senator, searching a suspect's house, distracting a cemetery guard for Fiona, and pulling a CrowningMomentOfFunny / CrowningMomentOfAwesome StealthHiBye on Michael and Jesse. Maddie has become a full-fledged {{Badass}}.
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A former spy, introduced in Season Four as a foil for Michael.
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Michael's whackjob former spook partner. No, he's still not dead.
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**More like TheSmartGuy since he crunches data better than anyone.
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* Badass{{Badass}}
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* DeadpanSnarker
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* TheCorrupter: His mission in life is to talk Michael into crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
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* FoeYayFoeYay: Rampant, to the point where he has a monologue comparing his relationship with Michael to Fiona's.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: His entire motivation is to get Michael to work with him again. He'll do ''anything'' to get Michael to work with him again.
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* SixthRangerSixthRanger
!! Larry Sizemore
* AxCrazy: As Michael puts it, "If I let him out of my sight, that's when he starts killing everyone."
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Brennen in "Out of the Fire."
* CareerKillers: Definitely an assassin.
* ChaoticEvil: Type 3.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* DressedToKill
* EvilCounterpart: Larry is what Michael might have turned into if he'd stayed in black ops.
* EvilMentor
* EvillyAffable: Naturally. He's played by Tim Matheson.
* FakingTheDead: His way of taking early retirement.
* FoeYay
* InSeriesNickname: "Dead" Larry.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite killing more people per episode than some MythArc villains do in a whole season, he wasn't caught until his third appearance (and even then, it was left ambiguous).
* KnifeNut
* LaughablyEvil
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He swears by it.
* NietzscheWannabe: He justifies killing people for money on the basis that people die anyway, and he all but calls himself an {{Ubermensch}} while talking to Michael in "Enemies Closer."
* NotSoDifferent: He really does believe that Michael and he are alike, which is usually his downfall.
* PsychoForHire
* TheUnfettered: He gives Michael a speech about it in his second appearance.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of "Out of the Fire."
!! Tyler Brennen
* ArmsDealer
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Larry in "Out of the Fire."
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly by Michael.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DressedToKill
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Michael beats him in "End Run" by [[spoiler:locating his daughter and bluffing that he's sent an assassin to kill her]].
* EvilCounterpart: Brennen is what post-burning Michael might have become if he hadn't been surrounded by {{Morality Pet}}s.
* HostageForMacGuffin[=/=]IHaveYourWife: Does this in every single episode he's in.
* InsufferableGenius: Even ''Larry'' thinks he's "kind of a dick."
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Strapping a bomb to a kid, just to show he meant business.
* NeutralEvil
* PragmaticVillainy
* SmugSnake
* VillainBall: Despite being DangerouslyGenreSavvy in many other ways, he keeps making the same mistake over and over: leaving Michael unattended for long periods of time.
!! Larry Sizemore
* AxCrazy: As Michael puts it, "If I let him out of my sight, that's when he starts killing everyone."
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Brennen in "Out of the Fire."
* CareerKillers: Definitely an assassin.
* ChaoticEvil: Type 3.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* DressedToKill
* EvilCounterpart: Larry is what Michael might have turned into if he'd stayed in black ops.
* EvilMentor
* EvillyAffable: Naturally. He's played by Tim Matheson.
* FakingTheDead: His way of taking early retirement.
* FoeYay
* InSeriesNickname: "Dead" Larry.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite killing more people per episode than some MythArc villains do in a whole season, he wasn't caught until his third appearance (and even then, it was left ambiguous).
* KnifeNut
* LaughablyEvil
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He swears by it.
* NietzscheWannabe: He justifies killing people for money on the basis that people die anyway, and he all but calls himself an {{Ubermensch}} while talking to Michael in "Enemies Closer."
* NotSoDifferent: He really does believe that Michael and he are alike, which is usually his downfall.
* PsychoForHire
* TheUnfettered: He gives Michael a speech about it in his second appearance.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of "Out of the Fire."
!! Tyler Brennen
* ArmsDealer
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Larry in "Out of the Fire."
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly by Michael.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DressedToKill
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Michael beats him in "End Run" by [[spoiler:locating his daughter and bluffing that he's sent an assassin to kill her]].
* EvilCounterpart: Brennen is what post-burning Michael might have become if he hadn't been surrounded by {{Morality Pet}}s.
* HostageForMacGuffin[=/=]IHaveYourWife: Does this in every single episode he's in.
* InsufferableGenius: Even ''Larry'' thinks he's "kind of a dick."
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Strapping a bomb to a kid, just to show he meant business.
* NeutralEvil
* PragmaticVillainy
* SmugSnake
* VillainBall: Despite being DangerouslyGenreSavvy in many other ways, he keeps making the same mistake over and over: leaving Michael unattended for long periods of time.
