History Characters / ColdCase

* TheChick: Despite also being TheHero, she has a higher tendency to be shot, kidnapped and being thrown off a bridge than other characters, specially in season finales. But never as much as in FanFiction, where she fully drives the road to {{Chickification}} and becomes TheWoobie for the single purpose of having Scotty save (and then have sex with) her
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Namely, that Mommy threw him out of home

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Until Kat became a regular

* WhatTheHellHero: The whole stalking Moe Kitchener arc in Season 7

** His family ([[spoiler: not without reason. His mother was raped and his brother molested by their boxing coach when he was a small child]])

* GratuitousSpanish: Sort of subverted. He only "lapses" into this when talking to a character that knows Spanish and since the actor is bilingual he is perfectly capable to maintain a fluent conversation in the language

* TheBigGuy: A wider than taller version

* GroinAttack: In "Free Love"

* OneSceneWonder: He appeared in only one episode, but proved to be quite memorable. For [[CompleteMonster good reason]].

* XanatosGambit: In "The Woods". [[spoiler: He deliberately uncovers the house where he hid the skulls of his victims so the PPD will reopen his case and his mother's, then kills the one woman that escaped him and does not bury her body to drive off the police's attention to the forest, knowing Stillman will not let Lilly go with them for fear of her being targeted by George, while correctly predicting at the same time that Lilly will not give up but go alone to the house to investigate herself. There he confronts her, takes her hostage and basically makes her shoot him. In the end, the whole episode was a complicated scheme by George to give his MotiveRant and get himself killed by the only person he considered worthy of doing it, while proving Lilly that she could be a murderer too]]

* ActorAllusion: The army surplus store owner he got most of his stuff from was wearing a [[StarTrekEnterprise USS Enterprise]] cap.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When he shot the guy that had taken Lilly and a girl hostage in "Stalker" through the fake mirror, while only being guided by Lilly's cryptic cellphone messages

* MoralEventHorizon: For some, his [[spoiler: setting a prison fight that results in the death of the man that attacked his mother]] has made him cross the definite line between CowboyCop and just evil. Pity the series ended before the consequences of this act could be further explored.

* ValuesDissonance: Thinks the first and most important thing for a woman is to have a partner, to the point of making several 'Better than Thou' speeches to Lilly. This obviously drives her daughter mad.

* TheScrappy

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "I'm your drunk boyfriend!"

* CompleteMonster

* MagnificentBastard

* StrawmanHasAPoint: When he fills a complain for harassment against Lilly for stalking him. When you think about it, she has no evidence but a DyingDream to prove he was the one person that tried to kill her in "Into the Blue"

* StrawmanHasAPoint: When he points out that Stillman's repetitive actions to protect his team when they keep JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope are more counterproductive than anything.

* CompleteMonster

* {{Casanova}}

** YourMilageMayVary, this nordic troper thinks that at only 183 cm he's [[TallDarkAndHandsome average, dark and handsome]].

* ShallowLoveInterest: To Kat. YourMileageMayVary

* {{Expy}}/RecycledScript: Some critics notice too many similarities between his character and George Marks. As usual, YourMileageMayVary.
** Additionally, his SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere MO echoes that of the killer from the episode "It Takes A Village", even if his torture was mental rather than physical.

!! Deputy Commissioner Patrick Doherty (Keith Szarabajka)

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: How he captures his victims.

* KindheartedCatLover: One of them even appears to be missing a leg.

* WideEyedIdealist: She really has a thing for pursuing old cases and bringing justice where everyone else considers it impossible, to the point of accepting to investigate cases that are 80 or 90 years old just because some distant descendant of the victim asks her to

* KavorkaMan: Possibly the MostTriumphantExample, with four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a short, fat, lazy alcoholic with a hard hearing voice and [[strike: possibly]] most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[IncrediblyLamePun lady was a tramp]], though)

* FreudianExcuse: His father's suicide

* SeriousBusiness: ''EastOfEden''

* JerkAss: Oh so much

* AGodAmI (third kind)

* ImplacableMan: Yeah, run from him. Like if that's going to change something.

* CrimeAfterCrime

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A former neighbor only remembered him because he was the only white guy in the neighborhood.

* KindheartedCatLover

* AloneWithThePsycho: In "Mind Hunters" and "Stalker"

* TheMostDangerousGame: His hobby

* MoralEventHorizon: The whole stalking Moe Kitchener arc in Season 7