History Characters / ChicagoPD

* CharacterDeath: Is killed in the Season 3 finale.

* AbusiveParents

* YouHaveTheRightToRemainSilent: Voight is notable in that he doesn't read criminals their rights. When dealing with the worst of them he flat out ''denies'' them their rights.
-->'''Perp''': You're going to read me my rights, officer?\\
'''Voight''': You got the wrong guy.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He once ran with a neighborhood gang and apparently still has ties to them that he's trying to shed. This comes to light even more in "New Life", where it's revealed that he was an enforcer for a drug dealer and was waterboarded to get out of the gang.

* BloodBrothers: Mouse and Halstead first met while serving overseas. As Season 3 unfolds, it becomes more obvious just how complex the dynamics of their relationship truly are, thanks to the experiences they underwent together at that time.

* BloodBrothers: Mouse and Halstead first met while serving in Afghanistan. As Season 3 unfolds, it becomes more obvious just how complex the dynamics of their relationship truly are, thanks to the experiences they underwent together at that time.

* DeathGlare: Voight reserves his for whenever he's truly pissed and/or trying to break a particularly intransigent suspect. A mild version is enough to get a diplomat's bodyguards to give up their weapons.

* GutturalGrowler: Has a very raspy, gravelly voice. [[note]]Jason Beghe's vocal chords were permanently damaged by doctors constantly removing and reinserting a ventilation tube while he was comatose following a car accident.[[/note]]

* GutturalGrowler: She has a rather husky voice, though it's implied to be a deliberate affectation to emulate Voight.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He usually ends up questioning Voight for his violent methods but meanwhile he's been known to be very aggressive towards known criminals himself. Such as when he assaulted a pedophile's father for defending them at a bar. This was likely toned down after being accused of killing the pedophile.

** Voight stops Olinsky from [[spoiler: murdering the man responsible for his daughter's death, saying they had to go by the book. However, that didn't stop him from executing the man responsible for killing his son]]. Olinsky even points this out. [[HypocriteHasAPoint Though, Voight made a valid point that thirty-eight other families were also looking for justice against the perpetrator]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: He usually ends up questioning Voight for his violent methods but meanwhile he's been known to be very aggressive towards known criminals himself. Such as when he assaulted a pedophile's father for defending them at a bar.

* MissingMom: His and Will's mom died of cancer, which is a sore point for Will having previously harbored some resentment towards Will because [[DisappointingOlderSibling he was "out partying" when she passed away]].

* HurtingHero: Voight is this and ''isn't'' he. Before the start of the series, he lost his wife Camille to cancer. Over the years, he's lost numerous fellow cops in the line of duty. [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Then his son Justin is murdered.]] In the season 5 finale, [[spoiler: he [[DespairEventHorizon goes over the edge]] after Olinsky, his best friend dies]].

* HurtingHero: Towards the end of Season 3 after Kim ends their engagement and then he finds out she and Officer Roman are going out.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Voight more or less makes a hobby out of this trope.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Dishes out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the guy who raped her sister in "Last Minute Resistance" and when Olinsky finally pulls her off of him, she makes the trope literal and stomps/kicks the bad guy one last time for good measure.

* RapeAndRevenge: While she wasn't the one raped (her sister was), she definitely made sure she got her revenge.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Doubles as LaserGuidedKarma. Voight has Bingham forcibly kidnapped, using his own MO, bound in barb wire in the trunk of a car. He then has him dig his own grave and executes him for murdering Justin.

* {{Fingore}}:
** Voight uses a pair of pliers to break the fingers of a man to intimidate a woman into talking.
** He does this again in a later episode to find where some of his team are being held in a house raid. This time, it's to [[WouldHarmASenior a much older lady]], and he lets loose.

** He does this again in a later episode to find where some of his team are being held in a house raid. This time, it's to a much older lady, and he lets loose.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He once ran with a neighborhood gang and apparently still has ties to them that he's trying to shed.

** In ''Remember the Devil'', when Atwater and Ruzek are imprisoned in a basement behind a reinforced steel door, Voight forces the guilty party - an ''elderly woman'' - responsible into give up the access code. When refuses to talk, [[NightmareFuel he stabs her hand with a flick-knife]]. Cue Vought calling in to give them the code and the woman showing up later with a bandaged hand.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Ruzek. Each time it seems that they're finally coming to a resoultion in their relationship, something else occurs to complicate things between them. [[spoiler: The end of "Out of the Depths" the opening of "You Only Die Twice" finally seems to have resolved things.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Ruzek. Each time it seems that they're finally coming to a resoultion in their relationship, something else occurs to complicate things between them.

* LikeADaughterToMe: To Burgess, who ends up adopting her, and to Ruzek, despite his only being appointed her legal guardian should something happen to Burgess.

* HairTriggerTemper: When Voight gets angry he won't hesitate to let his temper fly such as when he's frustrated when he's constantly one-upped by someone he's going after or when he's out for blood against someone who's wronged him and when he feels the need to call someone out on their wrong doings. He also has a tendency to be overly viscous whenever he's provoked by a criminal or another person who disrespects him.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Hank himself isn't very tall nor is he very large, in fact he is one of the shorter people in the Intelligence Unit. Despite his height, he is able to bring down criminals who outclass him in stature and can definitely hold his own in a fight.

* {{Wrath}}: Voight's main issue being his volatile rage and thirst for vengeance.

* BerserkButton: He seems to dislike the word "bitch" even going as far as to beat up offenders for it.

** In "Chin Check", Adam is shaken and behaving eratically after he shoots a perp for the first time, putting him in the hospital and although he tries to play it off, the others in the unit encourage him to see a psychologist.
** In Season 2, "Say Her Real Name", he's shaken and unshakeably motivated to solve the case when the victim dies in front of him ''minutes'' after got a call from her asking for his help during an undercover stint.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Along with TookALevelInCynicism above. She's still a NiceGirl, but in later seasons, she has gotten much more snarky and seems to have less patience with people around her.

* TheDogBitesBack: Atwater finally has enough of his fellow officers' harassment when it results in [[spoiler: Ruzek]] nearly being killed and goes after the sergeant who's calling the shots, [[spoiler: giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech while threateing to sue him and drag his name through the mud if he allows it to continue]].

** Most notably, during their introduction in ''Series/ChicagoFire'', when Justin was driving under the influence, causing an accident almost killing a man and his son, the boy ended up paralyzed, it was implied Voight was pinning the blame on the innocent father for the accident. When Lt. Matt Casey attempted to file an truthful report, Voight went all out to prevent Casey from doing so, including bribery, threatening him and his then-fiancée Hailee Thomas, and attempting to have Casey silenced by force, all to keep Justin, "[[FreudianExcuse the son of a cop]]" out of prison.

** Anything that involves children getting trafficked, abused or even worse. The same goes for women. Hank goes into death mode against a registered sex offender who just bought a girl and used her as a human shield. As to the trafficker who sold the kid? Hank sends him to be placed in[[PutOnABusToHell the ''general'' population in prison - where crimes against children is a death sentence]] courtesy of his friend at Cook County.

** Anything that involves children getting trafficked, abused or even worse. The same goes for women. Hank goes into death mode against a registered sex offender who just bought a girl and used her as a human shield. As to the trafficker who sold the kid? Hank sends him to [[PutOnABusToHell prison in the "'general' population" - where crimes against children is a death sentence]] courtesy of his friend at Cook County.