History Characters / MonkSupportingCharacters

* {{Claustrophobia}}: One of his phobias. [[spoiler: In season 8, he and Monk gets over the fear when are trapped in a car trunk. And become friends!.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Whether or not she truly loved Leland or was just using him, Linda was a selfish woman. Sean Corcoran, her real estate partner, who was planning on leaving and would have taken some of her company's clients with him. She Killed him to prevent that and is implied to have used Leland's status as Captain to get away with it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan" she's having lunch and drinks with Stottlemeyer, who's been swamped with work and who winds up ditching her when he gets a hunch about Monk and Marci's case. At one point Linda asks, "What's a girl have to do to get a little attention? Kill someone?" Which, of course, she does a few episodes later.

* InformedJudaism: He's Jewish.

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-->'''Monk''': Go to Hell.
-->'''Dale''': ''(With a laugh)'' Oh, I've no doubt I ''will.'' I just hope it's HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE!

* BullyHunter: In "Mr Monk and the Panic Room", the episode open with him getting into a fight at school, where he says he was defending a smaller kid from being bullied.

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* FatalFlaw: His [[InsufferableGenius ego]]. Dale's usually smart enough to keep a low profile and commit crimes without anyone knowing, but if someone crosses paths with him and comes out the victor, he loses his sense of rationality and becomes obsessed with avenging the perceived slight. Justice Catherine Lavinio of the California State Superior Court learns this the hard way when she proves immune to Biederbeck's trickery and bribes by ruling against him in a costly antitrust lawsuit; even though he could have taken the financial loss, he goes out of his way to have her murdered in the showiest way possible just to ensure that the police know they can't arrest him.

[[folder:Harold Krenshaw]]
!!Harold J. Krenshaw
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->Played by: Creator/TimBagley

A fellow patient of Dr. Kroger's and later Dr. Bell's who spars with Monk on several occasions. He has similar obsessive-compulsive tendencies like Monk, but they quickly become unfriendly rivals.

* LovedByAll: It isn't just Monk and Harold that are fixated on Dr. Kroger. Every patient of his we meet absolutely adores him. In fact, in "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink," the Monk and the police track down an unstable patient of his they suspect may have killed a woman in his office. But when questioned, it turns out that the guy - who actually ''threatened'' him in the past - has nothing but wonderful things to say about Kroger and as has a breakdown over the thought of him retiring.

* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Not that Monk was ever particularly prone to immorality, but his memories of Trudy often keep him from indulging his darker impulses, as seen when he confronts Max Tennyson, the hitman who killed her:

Monk's ArchEnemy, Dale is a [[FatBastard disgustingly fat]] (he's around ''eight hundred pounds'' for most of the series) financier and DiabolicalMastermind. Despite being so huge that he is unable to walk, Dale is both a genius and extremely wealthy; episodes imply that he "owns half of San Francisco." As detailed below, Monk has particular hatred for Dale, as the villain caused Trudy a huge amount of grief.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She liked going barefoot even in the wintertime.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: It isn't just Monk and Harold that are fixated on Dr. Kroger. Every patient of his we meet absolutely adores him. In fact, in "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink," the Monk and the police track down an unstable patient of his they suspect may have killed a woman in his office. But when questioned, it turns out that the guy - who actually ''threatened'' him in the past - has nothing but wonderful things to say about Kroger and as has a breakdown over the thought of him retiring.

* FatBastard: Exaggerated. Dale is ''extremely obese'', weighing at around '''800 pounds''' (and this is after he's been on a diet that's taken off an additional hundred), and is physically immobile due to his massive size (he's 5 ½ feet, or 66 inches, wide by his own admission); and he's also an all-around mean-spirited, horrible excuse of a human being.

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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Kevin won $43 million in the lottery, and was targeted by a GoldDigger trying to kill him for it. By the time of "Mr. Monk and the Game Show," he's lost it all due to bad investments, a dishonest accountant and two more gold digging wives.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He comes to the conclusion that airlines are scamming Torini due to his equipment being recorded as weighing more on return trips, and warns him about it. This leads to Torini killing him, as Dorfman would risk exposing his drug traafficking.

* RichesToRags: In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Kevin won $43 million in the lottery, then his supposed "girlfriend" tried killing him for it. However, in "Mr. Monk and the Game Show," he's lost it all due to bad investments, gold diggers, two wives, and a dishonest accountant.

* HiddenDepths: "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man" reveals that she's a natural detective, or has at least picked up on a few of her husband's skills over the years. When Miles Holling, the oldest man in the world, is found dead in his room at a retirement home, everyone assumes that he passed away from natural causes. But when Karen shows up to visit (Miles was the subject of one of her documentaries and became a friend), she does a SherlockScan worthy of Monk himself to spot problems with the situation, realizes he was murdered, and demands that the staff declare the room a crime scene. She turns out to be right, and her insights help bring the murderer to justice.

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