History Characters / TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI

* {{Retirony}}: Discussed trope. In ''Battle Ground'' he says to Harry that he's two weeks from retirement and based on the present situation, going to die of "cliche poisoning." We don't see whether or not he actually does.

* MutualKill: He and Harris end up accidentally shooting and killing each other while mistaking the other as an enemy.

* BringMyBrownPants: He suffers total bladder and bowel retention failure when [[spoiler: Harry goes full blown Winter Knight on him after he kills Murphy in ''Battle Ground''.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Definitely likes men, but her narration [[EatingTheEyeCandy comments appreciatively]] on Georgia's curves "beckon[ing] the eye" in "Aftermath" and she gets rather flustered when Freydis propositions her.

* BigBad: Of ''Fool Moon''.
* FallenHero: He was a genuinely good man and honest agent before years of disillusionment and despair drove him to do the whole Hexenwulf thing for what he thought was the power to make things right. [[ArtifactOfDoom Then its poisonous influence destroyed everything good left in him.]]
** It's implied in ''Cold Days'' that he might have also been influenced by Nemesis.

* KnightTemplar: He’s a firm believer that people who break the law should be punished, and that anyone who gets in the way is a "necessary sacrifice."

* BloodKnight: Loves fighting more than fighting smart.

* KnightTemplar: What she became.

* KnightTemplar: What he became.

* KnightTemplar: What he became.

* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: When Harry swipes his belt, he goes into withdrawal and starts getting . . . twitchy.

* WeaponOfChoice: For serious encounters Murphy packs her P90 submachinegun, which is tiny, but fierce, like herself. [[ICallItVera She calls it George.]]

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: He is very good at telling when people are lying to him, so good that Harry suspects he has some latent magical talent helping him along. As a result, he's a very good judge of character. In fact, he develops a quick dislike for Rudolph (who is generally an asshole and turns out to be [[spoiler: a pawn of the Red Court)]] and pegs Harry as trustworthy almost immediately.

* CelestialBureaucracy: Now that he's dead, he works for one under the direction of Captain Collin Murphy, who is under the purview of Uriel.

FBI agent working at the Chicago FBI office. Heads the investigation into the destruction of Harry's office building, but unlike a lot of government officials and police, he is willing to listen to Harry and pay attention to what's really going on.

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:She is killed by accident by one of her former fellow officers accidentally discharging a shot into her neck. Thankfully, the valkyries overlook that and induct her to the Einherjaren anyway.]]

** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructing]] this trope is arguably the thematic purpose of her character throughout the series. While she temporarily uses [[spoiler:CoolSword ''Fidelacchius'']] several times during the series in times of dire need, Murphy explicitly rejects taking up the role of [[spoiler:Knight of the Cross]], and largely relies on mortal human means like her martial arts skills, firearms, and heavier military ordnance to help Harry fight his battles against the supernatural. But by ''Ghost Story'', she is increasingly becoming ''heavily'' outclassed by the escalating supernatural threats Harry must face, and her usefulness as an ally in combat begins noticeably waning. This culminates in ''Skin Game'', when she attempts to [[spoiler:kill a surrendering Nicodemus out of [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend anger]] using ''Fidelacchius'', which de-powers the Sword and allows Nicodemus to regain the upper hand, shatter the sword, and deal [[GameBreakingInjury crippling wounds]] to her.]] Now no longer even able to physically keep up with Harry in battle, even Harry recognizes she has reached the limits of her usefulness as an ally and attempts to keep her to the sidelines during the events of ''Battle Ground''. But Murphy's fundamental inability to back down from a challenge leads her to rejoin the fight with him anyways, leading to [[spoiler:her tragic death at [[DirtyCoward Rudolph's]] hands in a [[RecklessGunUsage panicked accident]] just after [[BadAssNormal slaying a Jotun with a rocket launcher.]]]]

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:She is killed by accident by one of her former fellow officers accidentally discharging a shot into her neck.Thankfully, the valkyries overlook that and induct her to the Einherjaren anyway.]]

* KillTheGod: She is the one to finally kill Winter Lady Maeve with a bullet to the brain.

* {{Squick}}: [[invoked]] One that becomes especially apparent post-#Me Too movement. In ''Blood Rites'', Lisa is explicitly said to be 20, and Karrin was 11 when their father died, making her 31 at most. And according to the [[https://www.jim-butcher.com/timeline mostly-official timeline]] Rick is in his mid to late thirties. We never see Harry mentioning Murphy going through or being recently granted a divorce; granted, they weren't always at the TrueCompanions level but they're close enough by ''Grave Peril'', at least, that he would have. Meaning Murphy and Rick were divorced when she was roughly 26 or 27 at most. Meaning Rick knew Lisa when she was too young to drive, possibly even in middle school. UnfortunateImplications at best, and thinking he was [[{{Ephebophile}} already grooming a backup plan]] doesn't seem like a stretch. All things considered, quite a few readers get (possibly unintentional) chills when re-reading ''Proven Guilty'', when he's illegally interrogating then-17 year old Molly, with the only witness a cop who would never call Rick out on inappropriate behavior towards her. [[note]]Although given this is Jim Butcher, Rick and Lisa could quite possibly have just been written as a minor foil to Harry and Molly.[[/note]]

Special Investigations (or S.I) is nowhere near as impressive as it might sound, and a strange. For its businesslike name, the unit is the [[ReassignedToAntarctica ass end of Chicago's police force.]] They're dispatched to look at cases that seem to be beneath the notice of most police in Chicago, such as bigfoot sightings. Unfortunately, as the latter is actually ''real'' in the Dresden Files verse, along with most supernatural creatures, S.I is often unwittingly dispatched to fight genuine supernatural threats.
While the officers of S.I can be trusted (more or less) to help Harry out and serve as his main source of employment for the first few books and are all reasonably competent, the rest of the police department treats them as their pool filter.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Same as Denton. He started out trying to bring criminals to justice who couldn't be touched by the law, and wound up indulging in wholesale

%%* DrivenToSuicide

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Killing things as a wolf ''really'' gets her in the mood. Harry feels sick when Denton's wolf-form mounts her during the slaughter of the lycanthrope biker gang.