History Characters / Dexter

->'''Played by''': Matt Gerald

A groundskeeper at a cemetery who kills women and keeps their earrings as trophies. Likes to hunt his victims in some sort of a {{Saw}}-like maze using a bullhorned helmet before killing them.

* ShaggyDogStory: After a season spent watching Dexter [[spoiler:Dexter kills him while he tries to torture a confession out of him and nothing comes of Quinn being accused of the murder.]

* {{Expy}}: Dexter is similar to TimDorsey's Serge A. Storms: both are south Florida-based serial killers who only target bad guys, with the first Serge novel ''Florida Roadkill'' published in 1999 and the first Dexter novel ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'' published in 2001. Per Tim during his 2013 book tour for ''The Riptide Ultra-Glide'', Showtime was even offered a Serge TV show two years before they were offered ''Dexter''.

->'''Played by''': Edward James Olmos

Assistant District Attorney who befriends Dexter in season 3 after Dexter accidentally kills his brother in self defense, and Miguel later catches Dexter with blood on his hands after Dexter kills the man who Miguel believes is responsible for his brother's death. This leads to an odd partnership, however Miguel becomes increasingly unstable and eventually murders an innocent woman, and Dexter is forced to kill him after realizing that Miguel has been manipulating him all along.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Uses {{CSI}}-like tech to trace Dexter's boat.

->'''Played by''': Enver Gjokaj

%%* VillainProtagonist

* KarmaHoudini: She committed and abetted in the murder of five people. [[PayEvilUntoEvil However they happened to be utterly evil scum.]]

* SerialKiller: In a saner Aileen Wuornos kind of way. She wants to off her rapists.

->'''Played by''': Desmond Harrington

->'''Played by''': Keith Carradine

* WouldntHurtAChild: Dexter is fond of children, finding them to be more interesting and easier to understand than adults, and he tends to drop his normally calm attitude around those of his victims that preys on them. He even broke his code of only killing murders to get rid of a paedophile who was stalking Astor.

A temporary replacement for LaGuerta brought in by Matthews to gain political points and punish LaGuerta.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Matthews replaces LaGuerta with her, mostly just to get the support of the Latino and African-American community.

* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted. By day, he makes prosthetic limbs. By night, he severs ''real'' limbs.
** That said, his implicit basic medical training must help him cut so cleanly.

** That said, his implied basic medical training must help him cut so cleanly.

->'''Played by''': Raphael Sbarge

* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of season one, which revolves around the hunt for the Ice Truck Killer.

* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest male adversary Dexter has ever faced, but he still beat him in a fight.

* LackOfEmpathy: Unlike Dexter, he has no remorse or regard for other at all.

* LukeIAmYourFather: "Rudy Cooper" reveals himself as Brian Moser, Dexter's biological older brother.

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->'''Played by''': Michael C. Hall

->'''Played by''': JulieBenz

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