History Characters / LawandOrderSpecialVictimsUnit

!!Lionel Granger (Defense Attorney, later a Judge)

* Main/SixthColumn

* DieForOurShip: Fans weren't very happy that she kissed Stabler.
* {{Plucky Girl}}

* [[spoiler:Main/ChildByRape: His mother was raped by his grandfather.]]

* AntiHero

* StrawFeminist: More as time passes. In one episode, when it turned out that a female rape victim not only lied about being raped by two boys at school but '''she was the instigator''', Olivia was very reluctant to arrest her.
** Also, let's compare her treatment of a male escort (who only was in to support himself and his mother) who was raped and caught in a prostitution ring, to a single mother making hardocre porn and even ''taking her kid to the place the shots take in''. A man in a desperate situation is hooking, and that is horrible because it's degrading; a woman in a desperate situation is making hardcore porn, which is basically legalized hooking for the camera, and even brings her child with her, but that is A OK. '''[[DoubleStandard Right.]]'''
** This has gotten so bad that in a season 11 episode she claimed that she could not believe a Woman was capable of committing cold blooded murder, and were only capable of rage killings. Despite the fact that in the episode that aired before it she deduced that a man was innocent of murder and his controlling CorruptCorporateExecutive Boss/Mother because TheKillerWasLeftHanded

* SassyBlackWoman

* ConspiracyTheorist

* CowboyCop

* BlackAndWhiteMorality - Sees all perps as scum, [[ReformedButRejected reformed or not]].

* BlackAndWhiteMorality

* ThePoochie - Gets put on the bus rather quickly in "Lead" and replaced by Cabot. And it hasn't reached the halfway point.

* [[spoiler:BewareTheNiceOnes]]

* TheScrappy: So much that [[TakeThatScrappy he's treated as one in-universe]].

** Also, let's compare her treatment of a male escort (who only was in to support himself and his mother) who was raped and caught in a prostitution ring, to a single mother making hardocre porn and even ''taking her kid to the place the shots take in''. A man in a desperate situation is hooking, and that is horrible because it's degrading; a woman in a desperate situation is making hardcore porn, which is basically legalized hooking for the camera, and even brings her child with her, but that is A OK. '''[[DoubleStandard Right.]]'''

* StrawFeminist: At times.

* BadassGrandpa - He's obviously over 50, and he's still capable of handing perps their asses, albeit he does this rarely. Surprisingly, he also refuses to use more force than is absolutely nessecary, as he is the most LawfulGood member of the cast.

* BadassInDistress: A couple of times; the most prominent being when [[spoiler:Dale]] captures him and begins to torture him in 'Zebras'.
* Main/BerserkButton: Do ''not'', under any circumstances, mess with his kids in any way.
* Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality: Deconstructed in "Nocturne". He finds out that the victim (who was molested by his piano teacher) had molested a young boy himself at his piano teacher's insistence. He knows he's a victim, but he pretty much wants to kill him at this point (for [[IHaveAFamily obvious]] [[PapaWolf reasons]]).
* [[spoiler:Main/BrokenPedestal: Dick Finley, who he named his son after.]]

* Main/CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's strange to see him in earlier seasons actually spending time with his kids (reading bedtime stories, playing soccer with his daughter) considering his interaction ([[ParentalAbandonment or lack thereof]]) with them in later seasons.
* Main/CowboyCop
* Main/DefectiveDetective
* Main/DesignatedHero
* Main/FanNickname: "[=UnStabler=]," due to resorting to the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique one too many times.
* Main/FreudianExcuse: His personality is implied to be as a result of his [[AbusiveParents father's]] upbringing [[spoiler:as well as his [[MissingMom mother]] [[ParentalAbandonment abandoning both of them]].]]
* HandicappedBadass: Goes blind for an episode in "[[MeaningfulName Blinded]]".
* Main/HeroicBSOD: Seemed to be coming closer and closer towards one [[spoiler:after Kathy got fed up, left him and took the kids with her.]]
* Main/JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: And ''how''.
* Main/JerkAssStu: A rare DoubleSubversion example. He does get punished for his actions (suspensions, scolding, etc.), with even Olivia (after criticizing her competence in "Fault") and Fin (after dumping his phone records in "Cold") wanting to transfer as a result. This eventually led to Cragen pairing him up with a suspiciously similar partner (which, of course, he doesn't get along) for him to see what it was like to work with himself. However, as future episodes have shown, it is obvious that '''he has not learned his lesson.'''
* Main/LetMeAtHim: Stabler should probably be the ''trope namer''.
* Main/MagnificentBastard: To ridiculous extremes.
* Main/MartyStu
* Main/NeverLiveItDown: Him admitting that he fantasizes killing perps is almost always brought up when his ability to competently do his job is brought up.
* Main/OverprotectiveDad and PapaWolf - one of the rare cases where it overlaps with ''AbusiveParents''
* Main/QuipToBlack
* Main/RatedMForManly
* [[spoiler:Main/UsedToBeASweetKid - As his mother stated.]]
* Main/WhatTheHellHero (has been on the receiving end on quite a few of these)

* Main/ActionGirl
* Main/AlcoholicParent
* Main/BrokenBird
* Main/CareerVersusMan: In her own words, when men find out what she does for a living, they either "pull away or move in too close".
* Main/ChildByRape: Her mom was raped, resulting in Benson's birth.
* Main/DirtyHarriet: Went undercover as a prostitute once, and as a madam later.
* Main/EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Not just because of the LesYay with Alex. [[spoiler: An episode has a lesbian hitting on her blatantly.]]
* Main/LesYay: With Alex Cabot. Very, very much.
* Main/MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Mentioned by other characters in a few episodes, which never fails to piss her off.
* Main/NiceJobBreakingItHero: Often makes things worse for the victims when she gets personally involved.
* Main/OneOfTheBoys
* Main/PluckyGirl
* Main/RapeAsBackstory: Although not hers, as mentioned. [[spoiler: Though she goes through AttemptedRape once, ans Fin barely manages to help her.]]
* Main/StrawFeminist: At times.

* Main/JohnMunch
* Main/AgentMulder
* Main/BigBrotherMentor - Cassidy saw him as one.
* Main/ConspiracyTheorist
* Main/DeadpanSnarker
* Main/OutOfFocus - In later seasons.
* Main/QuipToBlack
* Main/{{Transplant}} (from [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Homicide: Life On The Street]] to SVU
* Main/WriterOnBoard (Maybe a case of Actor On Board)

* Main/BaldOfAwesome
* Main/BigGood
* Main/DaChief

* Main/TeamDad
* Main/{{Transplant}} (from the [[LawAndOrder original series]] to SVU)

* Main/PromotionToOpeningTitles
* Main/PutOnABus
* Main/TokenMinority

* Main/AntiHero (Does some morally ambiguous things.)
* Main/BrokenBird
* Main/HelloAttorney
* Main/LesYay (with Olivia Benson. And how.)
* Main/MagnificentBitch (But always pulls it off with grace and style, so you tend not to notice and/or care.)
* Main/PluckyGirl
* Main/{{Transplant}} (from SVU to Conviction)

* Main/TheBigGuy
* Main/BigScrewedUpFamily
* Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality

* Main/PapaWolf
* Main/TokenMinority: Lampshaded when he replaces Jeffries.

* Main/CharacterizationMarchesOn (In his first appearance, Huang sports glasses, a perv-stache and his interest in the criminal mind seems vaguely prurient. An episode later, he's glasses-less, clean-shaven, his hair is immaculate, and he's a sensitive and trusted confident to Olivia.)
* Main/DeadpanSnarker
* Main/HamAndCheese / BoredOnBoard: As the series goes on, B.D. Wong seems to have adopted this attitude toward some of Huang's more WallBanger-ish scenes and dialogue.
* Main/JurisdictionFriction: Huang's position as a psychiatrist and a member of the FBI occasionally puts him at odds with the rest of the team; on the other hand, he also readily uses FBI resources to help them. Seems to be just as much a personality conflict with Stabler as anything else.
* Main/MrExposition (sometimes reaching CaptainObvious status)
* Main/OnlySaneMan
* Main/TheProfiler
* Main/TheShrink: Incidentally, he can hop between all three subtypes depending on the episode.
* Main/TheSmartGuy
* Main/TheStoic
* Main/StraightGay: [[AmbiguouslyGay Heavily hinted at for several years]] and finally recently confirmed.

* Main/HelloAttorney
* Main/BrokenBird (specially because [[spoiler: her fiancé became a junkie and died in the streets.]])

* Main/PluckyGirl
* Main/ReplacementScrappy: Some Cabot fans never accepted her.
* Main/WhatTheHellHero: To the point where [[spoiler:she eventually gets disbarred.]]

* Main/PromotionToOpeningTitles
* Main/SassyBlackWoman

* Main/InformedAbility: Apparently she used to be called "The Crusader."
* Main/PluckyGirl
* Main/ThePoochie - Gets put on the bus rather quickly in "Lead" and replaced by Cabot. And it hasn't reached the halfway point.
* Main/WhatTheHellHero

* Main/NewMeat
* Main/PutOnABus - Sex Crimes becomes too much for him so Cragen recommends his transfer to Narcotics.

* Main/IdiotBall - Mistakenly assumed the picture a girl drew of her abuser was her coach. The girl, a terrified nine-year-old child who [[MindRape was browbeated and pressured by her and Elliot]] into making the accusation, went along with it to put a stop to it.
** Main/IdiotPlot - Which results from this.
* Main/KarmaHoudini - In "Contagious", an innocent man's life is ruined due to her mistake (See IdiotBall). She is never called out on it at all.
* [[Main/ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Screw The Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: In "Identity", she was warned that her career would be in jeopardy if she [[spoiler: told the unknowingly-transgendered girl that she was born a boy.]] She did it anyway.
* Main/TheShrink

* Main/ActionGirl
* Main/BrokenBird
* Main/ReplacementScrappy
* Main/DieForOurShip: Fans weren't very happy that she kissed Stabler.
* Main/{{Plucky Girl}}
* Main/TemporarySubstitute

* Main/{{Jerkass}}

* Main/TemporarySubstitute
* Main/TemporaryScrappy

!!Lionel Granger
* AmoralAttorney
* SmugSnake

* BadassInDistress: A couple of times; the most prominent being when [[spoiler:Dale]] captures and begins to torture him in 'Zebras'.

* HandicappedBadass: Goes blind for an episode.

!!!Main Cast

* Main/TheShrink: Incidentally, he can hop between all three subtypes depending on the episode.
* Main/TheProfiler

* Main/HamAndCheese: As the series goes on, B.D. Wong seems to have adopted this attitude toward some of Huang's more WallBanger-ish scenes and dialogue.

* Main/EvenThegirlsWantHer: Not just because of the LesYay with Alex. [[spoiler: An episode has a lesbian hitting on her blatantly.]]

*Main/CharacterizationMarchesOn (In his first appearance, Huang sports a perv-stache and his interest in the criminal mind seems vaguely prurient. An episode later, he's clean-shaven, his hair is immaculate, and he's a sensitive and trusted confident to Olivia.)

*Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality: Deconstructed in "Nocturne" when he finds out that the victim (who his piano teacher molested as a boy) he had bonded with molested a young boy himself at his piano teacher's insistence. He knows he's a victim, but he pretty much wants to kill him at this point (for [[IHaveAFamily obvious]] [[PapaWolf reasons]]).