History Characters / TheUnit

%%* WeaponOfChoice: The Throwaway gun.

* BenevolentBoss

* ScaryBlackMan (subverted in that he's not that scary. Usually. Until his daughter is kidnapped. See PapaWolf.)
* SergeantRock: The leader of Alpha Team.

* BadassBookworm: He can also fly planes and helicopters. A rarity for a enlisted Soldier in real life.
* BloodKnight: Called out by Betty Blue... later he himself understands this and accepts it.

* TheCharmer

* GuileHero: However, he is not averse to using weapons when needed
* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.

* TheSmartGuy: Of the five man band.

* DeadpanSnarker: One of his coping mechanisms.
* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied, although Tiffy gives as good as she gets.
* TheLancer: To Snake Doc's Hero.
* ManlyTears: In ''Whiplash'', when he was asked [[RiddleForTheAges the pledge]].)
* PapaWolf: Yes, the gun in your face type.
* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.

* WeaponOfChoice: The Throwaway gun.

* TheBigGuy: Of the crew.
* BombDisposal: Seems to be the explosives expert of the team.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Hector, especially in Season 1.
* WarriorPoet

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: First member of The Unit to buy the farm.
* CombatMedic
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Charles Grey, especially in Season 1.

* [[spoiler:FakeDefector]]
* LeParkour

* MsFanservice
* TheSquadette: Only partly - she is not a full member of The Unit.

* ColonelBadass
* DaChief

* KnightTemplar

!!Molly Blaine
--> '''Played by''' Creator/ReginaTaylor
* ActionSurvivor
* [[BestFriendManual Unit Wives Manual]]
* TeamMom

!!Betsy Blaine
* DaddysGirl
* SurvivorGuilt

* TheWatson

!!Tiffy Gerhardt
* MsFanservice
* StepfordSmiler

!!Joss Morgan [[spoiler: Later Grey]]
* [[BikerBabe Pilot Babe]]
* [[spoiler: FourthDateMarriage]]
* SecretlyWealthy (when we first meet her)

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He could be a poster boy for this trope.

* SmartGuy: Of the five man band.

* BadassBeard: He sports a ''very'' badass beard.

!The Unit

!Their Families

----

* {{Cuckold}}: Tiffy has cheated on him with Col Ryan, but in one episode, he has a drunken one night stand with a character played by Creator/SummerGlau. He also outright admits that he's slept with many different women while married to Tiffy.

* {{Cuckold}} / YourCheatingHeart : Tiffy has cheated on him with Col Ryan, but in one episode, he has a drunken one night stand with a character played by Creator/SummerGlau. He also outright admits that he's slept with many different women while married to Tiffy.

* [[spoiler: YourCheatingHeart]]

* TheCavalry: Bob was serving in a Cavalry Diviision before being selected for the Unit.

-> '''Played By:''' Scott Foley

-> '''Played By:''' Max Martini

-> '''Played By:''' Wes Chatham

-> '''Played By:''' Nicole Steinwedell

* {{Cuckold}} / YourCheatingHeart : Tiffy has cheated on him with Col Ryan, but in one episode, he has a drunken one night stand with a character played by Creator/SummerGlau

* ThrowDownTheBomblet (his grenade use almost cost him entrance to The Unit)

* DomesticAbuser: Heavily implied, although Tiffy gives as good as she gets.

* RedHeadedHero

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Terminator!]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: He is played by Dennis Haysbert, best known for his role in [[Series/TwentyFour 24]].

----

* HeyItsThatGuy (He is played by Dennis Haysbert, best known for his role in [[Series/TwentyFour 24]]).

* VillainyDiscretionShot: Several episodes in the show's run implied, if not danced around, the fact that Mac was verbally abusive towards his wife Tiffy and that on multiple occasions been physically aggressive towards her when the two fought. None of it is shown on screen however, due to the couple being a pair of Test/{{StepfordSmilers}}.

* HeyItsThatGuy (He is played by Dennis Haysbert, best known for his role in [[Series/TwentyFour 24]])

* ScaryBlackMan (subverted in that he's not that scary. Usually. Until his daughter is kidnapped. See PapaWolf.)
* SergeantRock: The leader of Alpha Team.

* GuileHero (and is not averse to using weapons when needed)

* SmartGuy: Of the five man band. Which also makes him the --
* BadassBookworm: Who can also fly planes and helicopters. A rarity for a enlisted Soldier in real life.
* BloodKnight: Called out by Betty Blue... later he himself understands this and accepts it.
* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.

* DeadpanSnarker: One of his coping mechanisms.
* BadassBeard: He sports a ''very'' badass beard.
* ManlyTears (in ''Whiplash'', when he was asked [[RiddleForTheAges the pledge]].)

* WeaponofChoice: The Throwaway gun.
* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: His wife is a slut who is sleeping with his superior officer, who is a morally ambiguous jerk who at any point, could send him to his death if he ever felt like it and who gets away with the affair once it becomes public knowledgge.]] Furthermore, it's implied that he has borderline abusive relationship with his wife and that, while their circle of friends are aware of it, the two are forced to put on a front of being a happy couple for everyone else. Especially after [[spoiler: the affair is exposed]].
* VillainyDiscretionShot: Several episodes in the show's run implied, if not danced around, the fact that Mac was verbally abusive towards his (granted, adulterous) wife Tiffy and that on multiple occasions been physically aggressive towards her when the two fought. None of it is shown on screen however, due to the couple being a pair of StepfordSmilers.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Hector has passed for more nationalities than anyone on the team.

* CunningLinguist (speaks Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish)

* BombDisposal: Seems to be the explosives expert of the team.
* TheBigGuy: Of the crew.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Hector, especially in Season 1.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler:FakeDefector]]

* TheSquadette (only partly- she is not a full member of The Unit)

* ActionSurvivor

* [[spoiler: FourthDateMarriage]]

* XanatosGambit: Runs one when Jonas' daughter is kidnapped and they're investigating in Iraq. He pretends to have a heart attack so that he's injected with a medical radioactive isotope, then lets himself be kidnapped by the terrorists; the isotope allows him to be tracked for a rescue to come.

* HeyItsThatGuy (He is played by Dennis Haysbert, best known for his role in [[TwentyFour 24]])

* PapaWolf: Yes, the gun in your face type.

* ColonelBadass

<<|CharacterSheets|>>

* AFatherToHisMen

* SergeantRock

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy
* ScaryBlackMan (subverted in that he's not that scary. Usually)
* PapaWolf: The calm cool type.

-->"How do you think we got in here, you think we were sitting at the 7-Eleven next door? We had to muster up, fly in, parachute in four miles away, hike in here and not get our asses shot off so we can get your asses out! We are your last line of defense sir we are the cavalry."

* ColdSniper (subverted)

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Being the only member who went to college, oh indeed.

* BloodKnight: Called out by Betty Blue... later he himself understands this and accepts it.

* TheLancer: To Snake Doc's Hero
* DeadpanSnarker
* BadassBeard

* {{Ranger}}

* Le Parkour

* DaChief

* OverprotectiveDad