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* CharacterDevelopment: Amanda is one of the characters who grows the most dramatically in her time on the show, evolving from a reckless, borderline DirtyCop with issues relating to gambling, debts, and romance, to a devoted police officer, mother, and wife to a good man in [[spoiler:Carisi]] as well as a ''de facto'' younger sister to Benson.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: You can't deny that a lot of the perps Stabler brutalizes have it coming. Considering their crimes it sometimes seems as if they get off easy.
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* CatSmile: Rollins' slanted eyes only adds to her cat-like appearance everytime she grins.
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** In early seasons, Stabler had the ability to feign sympathy for suspects in order to draw out confessions (like a real detective might). He also showed remarkable restraint in difficult cases (in a Season 3 episode, Stabler is able to relate to a pedophilic priest—harming kids and religion being two of Stabler’s biggest triggers—as a fellow man of faith to get him to do the right thing and turn in a fellow priest). In later seasons, just the whiff of any of these subjects (which, as a Special Victims detective, come up frequently) are enough to send Stabler into a frothing rage, often beating suspects viciously.
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* Flanderization: Early seasons had Stabler occasionally lose his cool and cross the line, but it was clear he generally had control over his emotions and was able to let out his anger purely for pragmatic reasons (roughing up suspects usually only went as far as shoving them around). As seasons go on, Stabler engages in excessively violent and illegal behavior that would get any real detective tossed off the force immediately.
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* Flanderization: {{Flanderization}}: Early seasons had Stabler occasionally lose his cool and cross the line, but it was clear he generally had control over his emotions and was able to let out his anger purely for pragmatic reasons (roughing up suspects usually only went as far as shoving them around). As seasons go on, Stabler engages in excessively violent and illegal behavior that would get any real detective tossed off the force immediately.
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* Flanderization: Early seasons had Stabler occasionally lose his cool and cross the line, but it was clear he generally had control over his emotions and was able to let out his anger purely for pragmatic reasons (roughing up suspects usually only went as far as shoving them around). As seasons go on, Stabler engages in excessively violent and illegal behavior that would get any real detective tossed off the force immediately.
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* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: He's been a captain since ''at least'' 1988. It might have something to do with his inability to keep the SVU detectives in line.
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* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: He's been a captain since ''at least'' 1988. It might have something to do with his inability to keep the SVU detectives in line. [[note]][[spoiler: To be fair, his corruption investigation in the original Series/LawAndOrder also played a factor, as it made him many political enemies in the NYPD who prevented his promotion.]][[/note]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Oddly enough the killer of the week in Season 3's "Redemption" has a victim named "C. Novak."
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* BadgesAndDogtags: Stabler was in the Marines prior to his career as a detective.
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* FairCop: Stabler is a handsome, fit dude who’s a police officer. His good looks are often remarked upon.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Speculation is rampant as to whether he's gay or bisexual. The one consensus seems to be that he is definitely not straight. The coordinated (and pastel!) suspenders, pocket squares, and ties certainly don't help.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Speculation is rampant as to whether he's gay or bisexual. The one consensus seems to be that he is definitely not straight. The coordinated (and pastel!) suspenders, pocket squares, and ties ties, on top, of course, of the flamboyantly camp mannerisms, certainly don't help.
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* BaldOfAuthority: Captain Cragen was the completely bald police chief that led the eponymous Special Victims Unit. He later retires and appoints the very much not bald Olivia Benson as the new head of the unit.
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* BaldOfAuthority: Captain Cragen was the completely bald police chief that who led the eponymous Special Victims Unit. He later retires and appoints the very much not bald Olivia Benson as the new head of the unit.
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* BerserkButton: Endangerment of the mentally ill; he has a rare loss of temper, leading to a public shouting match, when Stabler deliberately sends a paranoid-schizophrenic suspect into a violent psychotic breakdown in order to get information. Not only could this have hurt the suspect, it could have cost the both of them their jobs had Casey Novak not risked her own job to cover it up.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Huang is one of the few authority figures outside of the squad that fully trusts and enjoys working with them, but even he can get impatient with the SVU detectives' tactics when it comes to handling suspects with mental disorders. He's ''pissed'' in "Coerced" in which he ends up starting a screaming match with Stabler in Cragen's office for pushing a suspect into a psychotic break, and then there's this exchange in another episode when SVU (with the help of a friendly US Attorney) prevents Huang from handing their case off to the feds.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Huang is one of the few authority figures outside of the squad that fully trusts and enjoys working with them, but even he can get impatient with the SVU detectives' tactics when it comes to handling suspects with mental disorders. He's ''pissed'' in "Coerced" in which he ends up starting a screaming match with Stabler in Cragen's office for pushing a suspect into a psychotic break, and then there's this exchange in another episode when SVU (with the help of a friendly US Attorney) prevents Huang from handing their case off to the feds.
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* BerserkButton: Endangerment of the mentally ill; he has a rare loss of temper, leading to a public shouting match, when Stabler deliberately sends a paranoid-schizophrenic suspect into a violent psychotic breakdown in order to get information. Not only could this have hurt the suspect, it could have cost the both of them their jobs had Casey Novak not risked her own job to cover it up.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Huang is one of the few authority figures outside of the squadthat who fully trusts and enjoys working with them, but even he can get impatient with the SVU detectives' tactics when it comes to handling suspects with mental disorders. He's ''pissed'' in "Coerced" in which he ends up starting a screaming match with Stabler in Cragen's office for pushing a suspect into a psychotic break, and then there's this exchange in another episode when SVU (with the help of a friendly US Attorney) prevents Huang from handing their case off to the feds.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Huang is one of the few authority figures outside of the squad
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* CrusadingLawyer: Not even ''Donald Rumsfeld'' is safe from being subpeona'd by her. Gets particularly like this in cases involving mental illness. [[IdiotBall It doesn't end well for her.]]
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* CrusadingLawyer: Not even ''Donald Rumsfeld'' is safe from being subpeona'd subpoenaed by her. Gets particularly like this in cases involving mental illness. [[IdiotBall It doesn't end well for her.]]
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* StatuesqueStunner: She's a good looking woman clocking at 5'9.
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* StatuesqueStunner: She's a good looking good-looking woman clocking at 5'9.5'9".
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Initially, Amaro was this to Stabler, as he was more of a GuileHero compared to Stabler's violent tendencies. Unfortunately, within a few seasons his character had suffered the same {{Flanderization}} as Stabler.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Initially, Amaro was this to Stabler, as he was more of a GuileHero compared to Stabler's violent tendencies. Unfortunately, within a few seasons seasons, his character had suffered the same {{Flanderization}} as Stabler.
