History Characters / MonkMinorCharacters

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Wendy Mass, just another African-American woman in San Francisco, crosses paths with Monk when she serves as the only witness to a murder, a murder she claims was committed by Trudy's favorite singer, Music/WillieNelson. Unwilling to accept the explanation, Monk digs deeper and finds evidence that Mrs. Mass hasn't told the truth. She is the killer of "Mr. Monk and hRed-Headed Stranger."

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%%* StupidEvil: He apparently thinks San Francisco has control over its fog. Mr. Ellison explicitly calls him an idiot, citing it as a reason he can't be winning fairly.
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* TilMurderDoUsPart: Gilstrap intended to poison his wife with a chemical that has no known antidote.

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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Very much averted. Matthew is mentally ill and the symptoms are creepy. However, though he assaulted his stepfather to protect his mother, he didn't kill the victims of the week and in fact gives Natalie's Julie a LuckyRabbitsFoot to keep her safe from "bad people."

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%%** She has not only slept with [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong]], she's slept with them [[ThreeWaySex both at the same time.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Knowing that his good reputation and courtroom career would be ended by the revelation of his own guilt in a murder plot, Rickover chooses to shoot himself dead instead of accepting arrest and prosecution for his crimes.
* DyingClue: "Take care of her!", just before he shoots himself with Monk's gun. This leads Monk to discover the illegitimate daughter Rickover had conceived with Trudy was still alive, having been given away for adoption and living totally unaware about the identities of her birth parents.

* KarmaHoudini: For most of the series, almost nobody was even aware that this man of justice was really a murderous criminal himself. Downplayed later on when Monk successfully exposes Rickover for what a scumbag he really is, however he commits suicide before the police can even get him.

* PyrrhicVictory: As Monk points out, all his effort to do ''nothing but'' gain a spotless career landed him a spot as a highly respected judge, but also Ruined Monk's life and more or less guaranteed it'd eventually all fall apart. It just so happens it's also about the same time he was going to move up in the world again, and Monk figures out where one of his other victims remains is through a fairly obvious (by this series standards at least) clue right at his home, while the police are present. He kills himself to avoid living with his reputation ruined, but it's a meaningless comfort, as he not only will be remembered for his murders and lying as a judge, but also a man Monk proved was guilty who not only tried to weasel his way out of the situation by trying to use Trudy post-mortem, but also took the cowards way out, when so many others ultimately faced the consequences.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's a highly successful and respected judge on his way to the California Supreme Court... and a horrifyingly arrogant murderer willing to off ''anyone'' standing between himself and his career rise. Heck, if Monk hadn't caught him, it's highly likely he would've eventually ended up on the US Supreme Court!

MakeItLookLikeAnAccident:
** He arranges for Griffin's death to make it look like he had cut his bungee cord too long and hit the ground. Molly is not convinced, and soon enough, Adrian isn't either.
** This appears to be Rick's style, as he previously murdered his business partner in a trip to Bermuda by ripping his mouthpiece out on a scuba dive.

Of course, there's more to the story. In reality, Gully's death came not from a bee sting, but rather Joshua's taking hold of him and killing him to avoid splitting the take. His fortune would later drive antique dealer Dalton Padron to seek it out, killing his own partner in the process.

[[Characters/MonkMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/MonkAdrianMonk Adrian Monk]], [[Characters/MonkNatalieTeeger Natalie Teeger]]) | [[Characters/MonkSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | '''Minor Characters''' ]] -]]]

--> ''Played by:'' Creator/JamesPurefoy

!!Peter Crawley, Madge, Leon Harrison, Gloria Morlaes, Tiffany Preston, Jasmine

* VillainBall: Initially, even Stottlemeyer and Natalie are skeptical that Wagner could have killed Joanne, given that he was in orbit when she died. Then Wagner taunts Monk about his OCD. This convinces the police and Natalie that he had something to do with the murder. Monk eventually proves it, spurred by the taunting.

* TilMurderDoUsPart: Max took "till death do us part" into his own hands by getting his neighbor's dog to turn on the gas while his wife slept, killing her and making it look like suicide.

%% DirtyCoward: When Monk goes through his summation and it becomes clear Sidney's death was murder, Myra tries to throw Archie under the train and claim the whole thing was his idea.

* WeNeedADistraction: His shtick of being the Six-Way Killer is an elaborate ploy to focus attention off the murder of a woman he went on a date with that evening. He had gotten her a very expensive, fancy dessert, and was afraid her stomach contents would lead the police back to him. However, he knew that they would dissolve within 36 hours, so he'd be home free if he could keep the police from investigating that long.

* BloodierAndGorier: Not so much in how his kills were done (aside from the one mentioned in WhatADrag), Stewart more has this trope for having the highest body count in a single episode.[[Note]] Stewart, however, does not have the highest number of victims in the series. That honor goes to Frank De Palma from ''Mr. Monk is Someone Else'' who had at least 17 victims that he has been suspected of killing, but nothing could be proved. There's also the Butcher of Zemenia from ''Mr. Monk Falls in Love'', but there's not much of a concrete number tied to him.[[/note]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Pat was willing to push over a little kid to help gain an advantage in the potato sack race where one of the pies was second prize.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Inverted; Matthew is a mentally ill MommasBoy who keeps his mother's taxidermized corpse around and acts as though she's still alive, making him resemble Norman Bates. However, whereas Norman's alternate personality based on his mother makes him a danger to others, Matthew is completely non-violent outside of situations that would also provoke a sane person.

* WouldHarmASenior: He tried to [[FrightDeathtrap scare the 114-year-old Holling to death]] with threatening phone calls. When that didn't work, he snuck into the nursing home and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday smothered him with a bag on the victim's 115th birthday]].

* WouldHarmASenior: He tried to [[FrightDeathtrap scare the 114-year-old Holling to death]] with threatening phone calls. When that didn't work, he snuck into the nursing home and smothered him with a bag.

The legendary Rock musician, Alice Cooper was the man who killed Sanitation Union leader Jimmy Cusack. Jimmy possessed a fine antique wingback chair in his office, and as a collector of such chairs, Alice was consumed with envy and ''had'' to have it. So he broke into Cusack's office, beat the man down, and then shot him in the head. In the process, he put blood and a bullet hole in the chair, which meant he couldn't take it...\\\

!!Drazen Mirko (AKA Karsten Emerik)