History Characters / Scorpion

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Receives one from Toby at the end of "Toby or Not Toby," which finally makes Walter realize that he's been an idiot and [[spoiler:go after Paige.]]
-->'''Toby''': What I'm about to say is not fueled by emotion or the worm I just swallowed; it's fueled by my love for you: You, Walter, are a gigantic ass.
-->'''Walter''': Pardon me?
-->[[spoiler:'''Toby''': You're so obsessed with keeping this team together, to attach some meaning as to why you are the way you are, that you're willing to sacrifice love for it. I'm gonna make it easy for you. You're a genetic fluke, so freaking what? It doesn't matter! What matters in live is love! And mine just walked out the door. I'm dying inside! I would do anything to make her come back here and say yes. And, you, you jackass! You pushed your love out the door to spend the weekend with another man! A big, sexy, muscled, Navy SEAL man! Comprende, 197?]]

-->'''Walter;''' I'm in love with Paige. ''({{Beat}})'' I'm a moron. ''(leaves after Paige)''
-->'''Toby:''' No, just a genius.
* {{UST}}: Like Woah With Paige [[spoiler:until the trailing edge of Season 3.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: The entire team ''sandblasted'' him when [[spoiler:he very coldly fired Paige, seemingly out of spite. In reality, it's because he had fallen in love with her [[CannotSpitItOut but feared how it would affect their work relationship.]]]] Once the team learned this and he owned up to his cowardice and promptly struck his decision off the record, [[EasilyForgiven they were all too quick to forgive him.]]

* NerdGlasses: He wears them.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Dominoes", he forgets to calculate the effect of the change in tides when figuring out how long the team has to rescue a boy who is trapped in a sinkhole. [[spoiler: He blames his mistake on still being rattled from having been blown up during their last case ("Revenge")]]. He nearly quit the team because of this, believing the explosion had made him ineffective.
* OddFriendship: With Megan.

* AsianAndNerdy[=/=]BrainyBrunette: She's both of these, but atypically for these tropes, she's also a TankTopTomboy.

* CatchPhrase: "Not good!", her version of OhCrap.

* DisappearedDad: He abandoned her as a child. This was not because he didn't want to raise her himself but because after her mother's death giving birth to her, [[TheAlcoholic he became an alcoholic]] and he realized that he couldn't raise her right.
** She tracked him down and started helping out in his garage. When she almost gets up the courage to tell him who she really is, she changes her mind at the last second. But he tells her that he has known since he first saw her walk in to his garage.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The {{Tomboy}} to Paige's GirlyGirl.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: They all do this to a certain extent but he's the master of it.

* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: She may not fully understand Ralph, but she clearly loves him and bonds with him as best she can. Also, she's very grateful when Walter and his team help the two of them connect. [[spoiler:However, she almost leaves the team when she sees Ralph imitating Walter's dangerous behavior, but eventually realizes that they all need each other.]]

* SheCleansUpNicely: In "True Colors". Walter is all but speechless.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The GirlyGirl to Happy's {{Tomboy}}.

* BadassInANiceSuit: He's always in a suit and tie.

* HeartbrokenBadass[=/=]OutlivingOnesOffspring: His daughter died very young, which led to the breakup of his marriage.
** AmicableExes: However, he gets along with his ex-wife, and enlists the team to help rescue her when she's kidnapped.

* TeamDad: Openly acknowledged.

* BatmanGambit: In "Fish Filet", a bully forces Ralph to do his homework for him. Paige rules out running away ''or'' fighting back. What should he do? [[spoiler:He applies to several prestigious universities, including Caltech and Harvard, and is actually accepted by all of them. This gets him on the news--AllAccordingToPlan, since he knows that his classmates won't pick on a celebrity. He's even wise enough to stay at his school so he'll grow up better adjusted than Walter and company.]]

[[folder:The O'Brien Clan]]
* TheClan
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Same as Walter.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Her MS worsens during the second season, and she finally succumbs to it in "Arrivals and Departures".]]
* OddFriendship: With Sylvester.

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[[folder:Sylvester's friends]]
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[[folder:Toby's Ex-fiance Amy]]

[[folder:Page's Mother]]
played by Creator/LeaThompson
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[[folder:Tim Armstrong]]
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[[folder:Florence]]
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[[folder:Patty Logan]]
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[[folder:Cabe's Homeland Supervisors]]
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[[folder:Quincy Berkstead]]
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[[folder:Richard Elia]]
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!Antagonists
[[folder:Mark Collins]]
!!Mark Collins
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoshuaLeonard

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Of the Season 2 finale, kidnapping Toby to prove that he is ultimately smarter than the rest of Scorpion. In the Season 4 opener, he tricks Cabe into letting him escape custody, which gets Cabe suspended as a federal agent pending a trial. This hangs over the rest of the season.]]
* ConspiracyTheorist
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His friendship with Walter involved him showing up and taking Walter on "brain binges" where they'd try to solve cancer and forget things like eating, or bathing, or the rest of the universe. It's treated ''exactly'' like he's an abusive drug addict ex-boyfriend who keeps pulling recovering addict Walter back in and trying to alienate him from his friends, except the drug is intellectualism.
* EvilCounterpart: Walter seems to see him as not only this, but what Walter himself might have become, which is why he still has some compassion for his former friend.
* InsufferableGenius: He stands out in a series full of them. He's so manipulative and condescending that Walter is the only one of his old teammates who can tolerate him.
-->'''Collins:''' Did you get smarter, Sylvester?
* ManipulativeBastard: Does everything in his power to divide the team.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: But not so much because he's good at playing the game [[ManipulativeBastard but because he's good at mind games and forcing his opponent into playing badly]].
* StalkerWithACrush: He sets up a ''nuclear meltdown'' to draw in Walter. Pretty much every exchange with Walter has either a jilted lover vibe or this. It's ''damn'' creepy.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: When Scorpion is forced to rely on his services at the start of Season 4, Mark tries to pretend they are all still buddy-buddy but ''nobody'' wants to even acknowledge the cretinous air he breathes.
* TokenEvilTeammate: But he was so crazy that they had him committed.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: To Walter. Their interacting with each other and brainstorming ideas was done to the expense of everybody else around them (it didn't help that Collins was an even bigger InsufferableGenius to the team and only respected Walter), and it got so bad that Walter had to put him in an asylum. When the team needs to race to fix a nuclear reactor (with only the information Collins has obtained from years of listening to the plant's electronic traffic to help them), Collins is quick to try to put Walter on his side and sabotages the team's efforts.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His relationship with most of the team. However, Walter still has some residual pity for him, which winds up endangering the mission.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Tricked Cabe into releasing a proximity breach-activated shock collar that would keep Mark from wandering too far away from Cabe when his services were necessary in the Season 4 two-part opener. Cabe needed to do something that would force them to be split up too far and cause Mark to agonize from relentless shocks and incapacitate him rather cruelly. But being the weasel he is, Mark took the first opportunity to bail out and flee, leading to Cabe getting into ''deep'' trouble.]]
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!Crossover characters
[[folder:Henrietta "Hetty" Lange]]
Played by Creator/LindaHunt

See Characters/NCISLosAngeles for tropes related to her original appearance.
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** Walter and Megan are possibly what is known as black Irish, Irish people with black hair and dark Latin complexions, possibly descended from a combination of either Spanish, Berber or Moors. This troper's family is such a case.

* AmbiguousDisorder: [[TinMan He repeatedly claims to be incapable of emotion]] and shows signs of being a high functioning autistic.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: There's no mention of Walter's ethnicity on the show, but his actor Elyes Gabel is of partial Indian and Tunisian descent. In addition, Walter's sister Megan is played by Camille Guaty, a Cuban/Puerto Rican actress, so it can be assumed that the O'Brien siblings are at least non white.

** Walter and Megan are possibly what is known as black Irish, Irish people witsimh black hair and dark Latin complexions, possibly descended from a combination of either Spanish, Berber or Moors. This troper's family is such a case.

* BadassInCharge: He's technically in command of Walter's team. Whether he's actually able to control them is another matter.

** DarkSecret: In "Once Bitten, Twice Die" it's revealed that the BrokenPedestal incident was actually ''even worse'' than Walter thinks it is. The head of DHS believes that Walter would consider it a MoralEventHorizon. In "Cliffhanger", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Cabe was informed about the bombing run ''three days in advance'', but did not tell Walter because he knew Walter would sabotage the software - which Water confirms, not for any anti-war reasons, but simply because the software ''wasn't meant for that'' and '''would''' kill everything in sight. The government decided ''they'' knew how to use the tool better than the guy who built it, Cabe didn't correct that ''[[WhatAnIdiot idiotic]]'' assumption, and '''that''' is why 2000 people died.]]

* PlayingGertrude / HollywoodOld: Slightly. In s03e17, Cabe mentions that he likes getting senior discounts. Those generally start at 60, and when that episode aired[[note]]episodes are usually set right around the time they air, and that one specifically mentions Presidents' Day, which was the airdate[[/note]], Robert Patrick was 58.
** "It's Raining Men (Of War)" (4x09) is set on Thanksgiving 2017, and says Cabe is 59. That's Patrick's actual age for that date, which would mean the writers forgot, the earlier remark was a joke, or Cabe somehow adds a few years to his age to get senior discounts.

* PoisonousFriend: To Walter. Their interacting with each other and brainstorming ideas was done to the expense of everybody else around them (it didn't help that Collins was an even bigger InsufferableGenius to the team and only respected Walter), and it got so bad that Walter had to put him in an asylum. When the team needs to race to fix a nuclear reactor (with only the information Collins has obtained from years of listening to the plant's electronic traffic to help them), Collins is quick to try to put Walter on his side and sabotages the team's efforts.

* IllGirl: Megan has Multiple Sclerosis and is in the hospital full time for assisted living.

* NiceHat[=/=]NeverBareheaded: He's rarely seen without his porkpie hat. In fact he stalled the team from leaving just so he could grab his hat before they headed out.

* HollywoodNerd: Very good looking, but with NoSocialSkills.

!! Ray Spiewack
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinWeisman

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Walter, Happy, Sylvester, and Toby are odd. Ray is a whole different level of strange, legitimately believing that San Jose, California is a myth.
* HiddenDepths: He might be a scatterbrain, but Ray isn't especially dumb; he knows Polish well enough to serve as a translator good enough to fool the U.N. Even if he does confuse 'matter' with 'platter'.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: He's not a genius or a member of Team Scorpion, but he's a friend of Walter, and has helped them on a few important occasions that saved their lives, as well as [[spoiler:marrying not only Sylvester and Megan, but later Toby and Happy.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He was a firefighter who had a close friendship with fellow firefighter Danny Tuggle, getting so close he was named godfather of Danny's son. However, they got hit with smoke in one fight, while Danny put Ray's respirator on, Ray was unable to get Danny's respirator on in time to save Danny. It traumatized him so much that he basically became a drifter living out his car for ten years. [[spoiler:Walter proving that the tank was defective is a huge weight lifted off his shoulders.]]
* OddFriendship: With Walter, the logical, unemotional genius, while Ray is an emotional and... weird guy.
* RunningGag: He can never remember Paige's name, calling her various other names that start with "P".

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: In "Rogue Element", she borrows Cabe's ID and uses it to gain access to a crime scene by posing as a Homeland Security agent.
** ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: When the cop on duty asks her what kind of name Cabe is, Happy claims that it's pronounced "Kah-Be" and that it's Korean.

* MixedAncestry: Her father is white.

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

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

->'''Played by:''' Ari Stidman

->'''Played by:''' Jadyn Wong

->'''Played by:''' Riley B. Smith

->'''Played by:''' Camille Guaty

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

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

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

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