History Characters / Monk

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas He loved his mother]], who's just about the only person whom he ever seemed to care about. After her death, [[HeartbreakAndIceCream he went on an eating binge that caused him to balloon to his current size]].

* {{Jerkass}}: In some of her early episodes, Natalie seems to fit this.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Some fans considered Traylor Howard, and in turn, Natalie, this, when she was introduced in the middle of season 3 to replace BittySchram (Sharona). The fandom has long been locked in a battle over which one is better. It works better here than a few other cases because things like Natalie being similar to Sharona down to having a kid the same age (Benjy, instead of Julie) can be explained by Monk trying to make things stay the same when life changes around him. Though the episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona" highlights how different they are as well.

* SlippingAMickey: Invoked and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Inverted]] in [[ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk"]]. Monk attempts to do this to Al Nicoletto to extract a confession from him, and also orders for a non-alcoholic beverage (intended for himself) and an alcoholic beverage for Nicoletto. He ends up being the one drunk shortly thereafter. It's implied that the orders were mixed up.

%%* TheFinickyOne

* HyperAwareness

* DeadpanSnarker

* TheFinickyOne

* LovableCoward

* NoSocialSkills: He has been a life-long social outcast because of his weird personality. Both as a kid and as an adult, he's had very few friends.

Monk's personal assistant after season 3.

Throughout his investigation, Monk is impressed enough by her, and her similarities to Sharona, that he asks her if she wants to become his new assistant. At the end, when Monk is forced to choose between grabbing a moon rock or Julie's pet fish, he chooses the fish, and this is the final factor that convinces Natalie to join Monk and leave her life of bartending.

* GirlfriendInCanada: Subverted in "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month"; Randy's girlfriend appears to be one of these -- the picture he shows Sharona is the one that came with his wallet ("She's a wallet model!") and he gives what appears to be a LineOfSightName -- except that at the end of the episode, we actually see her waving to him from a taxi.

* LineOfSightName: Harold causes one example of this with Dr. Bell's name in "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall".

* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler: In the finale it is revealed, through a videotape recorded by Trudy herself, that in the past Trudy had a child with her professor, Ethan Rickover, who is now a judge. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth (then, Monk learns that Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly).]]

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* HyperAwareness

%%* LovableCoward

->Played by: Traylor Howard

%%* GirlFriday

%%* ArbitrarySkepticism

->Played by: Jason Gray-Stanford

%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
%%* CluelessDeputy

->Played by: Bitty Schram

->Played by: Stellina Ruisch, Melora Hardin, and Lindy Newton

->Played by: Stanley Kamel

->Played by: Max Morrow, Kane Ritchotte

->Played by: Emmy Clarke

->Played by: Tim Bagley

%%* LargeHam

->Played by: Creator/AdamArkin, Creator/TimCurry, Ray Porter

->Played by: Jarrad Paul

->Played by: Glenne Headly

->Played by: Sharon Lawrence

->Played by: Josh Stamberg

->Played by: Michael Cavanaugh and Holland Taylor

Adrian's older brother. He suffers from agoraphobia, meaning that he ''does not ever'' leave his house. He appears in three episodes - "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again", and "Mr. Monk's 100th Case".

* {{Expy}}: Of Mycroft Holmes.

* ItsAllMyFault: The reason it took so long for the Adrian and Ambrose to see each other again after Trudy's death was because Ambrose blamed himself for her death - she was picking up medicine for him the fateful day the car bomb took her life, and believed that if she hadn't been out that day doing so then she would still be alive.
* {{Omniglot}}: He can read and write seven languages; he writes operator manuals for a living and does every language for each. He also speaks at least one ConLang and has written manuals on it (Dratch, a parody of Klingon) and has been implied to understand Sanskrit. All very impressive for a man who's never left his house in 32 years.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His neuroses often trump his sense of justice if the locale (ex. a state penitentiary in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" and a submarine in "Mr Monk is Underwater.") he is investigating distresses him enough. Subverted in the prison's case, however, as the second Dale the Whale bribes him with information about Trudy's murder, [[Determinator Monk instantly goes right back in to investigate, and even goes so far as to impersonate an inmate and share a cell with a dangerous psychopath in order to get the job done]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His neuroses often trump his sense of justice if the locale (ex. a state penitentiary in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" and a submarine in "Mr Monk is Underwater.") he is investigating distresses him enough.

* PhotographicMemory: Monk's powers of recall are nothing short of incredible. He memorizes an entire stage play after seeing it once ("Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater") and can even recognize the most minute details about a man's earlobe. So if he witnesses a crime, just be aware that he'll find you.

* PhotographicMemory: Monk has incredible memory. He can even recognize the most minute details about a man's earlobe. So if he witnesses a crime, just be aware that he'll find you.

* TakesTenToHold: In ''Mr. Monk and the End'', because of his OCD, Monk has to be restrained by the entire hospital staff to hold him down just so they can draw blood from him after he was poisoned.