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* BungledSuicide: He shoots himself in the head when it looks like he's gonna be arrested for his crimes, but the paramedics are able to revive him.
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* KarmaHoudini: He never receives any sort of actual punishment for any of his crimes. The worst thing he received was being forced to quietly resign his presidency and be placed under house arrest in his giant ranch where he lived a comfortable lifestyle compared to Jack's imprisonment in China. Allison Taylor was going to expose his crimes, but he managed to put a bullet through his head before the Secret Service could arrest him, so he'll never be sent to trial. Though, considering [[FateWorseThanDeath the state his suicide attempt left him in]], this may actually be subverted.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After 4 seasons of mostly getting away with everything, he ends up with permanent (for now) brain damage. Caused by himself, and pointlessly.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After 4 seasons of mostly getting away with everything, he ends up with permanent (for now) brain damage. Caused by himself, and pointlessly.
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* KarmaHoudini: He never receives any sort of actual punishment for any of his crimes. The worst thing he received was being forced to quietly resign his presidency and be placed under house arrest in his giant ranch where he lived a comfortable lifestyle compared to Jack's imprisonment in China. Allison Taylor was going to expose his crimes, but he managed to put a bullet through his head before the Secret Service could arrest him, so he'll never be sent to trial. Though, considering [[FateWorseThanDeath the state his suicide attempt left him in]], this may actually he'd probably be subverted.
unfit to stand trial anyway, making it a downplayed example.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After4 four seasons of mostly getting away with everything, karma finally catches up to him when he ends up with botches a suicide attempt and suffers permanent (for now) brain damage. Caused by himself, and pointlessly. He may have avoided jail time, but he won't be in any state to enjoy his freedom.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After
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* ShortLivedLeadership: He only serves about a year of his presidency before Air Force One is shot down and he's never heard from again.
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* ShortLivedLeadership: He's presumably the one who finally finished the term John Keeler was elected to, with Gardner serving for about a year before losing the next election to Wayne Palmer.
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* ShortLivedLeadership: He serves less than three months of his presidency before being nearly assassinated and possibly dying. He has the shortest term of office of any president in ''24'' which, given what happened with Keeler, Logan, and Gardner, that's saying something.
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* NervesOfSteel: Even when an enraged Jack is holding him hostage and demanding a pardon from him, Heller remains calm and collected.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Gets a restraining order put on Jack after Season 6, and blames him for what happened to Audrey. Jack calls him out on it and claims that he can't accept the fact that it was her decision to search for him. Horribly averted with his son, who is very liberal. Although they share a moment happy to see each other following Heller's hostage situation, the Secretary has no problem letting CTU torture his son for information when he believes his son is protecting information that could lead to the capture of the BigBad. It turned out that the secret his son was ''really'' hiding was that [[spoiler: he's bisexual]]. Secretary Heller doesn't seem to have a problem with his son's orientation, but the two have polar opposite political beliefs and [[{{DownerEnding}} we never actually see if they reconcile or not.]]
* PapaWolf: To Audrey only.
* PapaWolf: To Audrey only.
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* OverprotectiveDad: PapaWolf: Gets a restraining order put on Jack after Season 6, and blames him for what happened to Audrey. Jack calls him out on it and claims that he can't accept the fact that it was her decision to search for him. Horribly averted with his son, who is very liberal. Although they share a moment happy to see each other following Heller's hostage situation, the Secretary has no problem letting CTU torture his son for information when he believes his son is protecting information that could lead to the capture of the BigBad. It turned out that the secret his son was ''really'' hiding was that [[spoiler: he's bisexual]]. Secretary Heller doesn't seem to have a problem with his son's orientation, but the two have polar opposite political beliefs and [[{{DownerEnding}} we never actually see if they reconcile or not.]]
* PapaWolf: To Audrey only.]]
* PapaWolf: To Audrey only.
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* BadassBaritone: Due to Dennis Haysbert's deep, [[CozyVoiceForCatastrophes reassuring voice]].
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* BadassBaritone: Since he's played by Powers Boothe, he has a very deep, intimidating voice.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A former Marine, Wayne helps Jack kill [[TheDragon Henderson's]] mercenaries on Day 5.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: A former Marine, Wayne helps Jack kill [[TheDragon Henderson's]] mercenaries on Day 5.
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* FatalFlaw: His love for Sherry. Despite the fact he knows she is an intrustworthy bitch, he always forgives her and lets her back. Until ahe is killed.
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* FatalFlaw: His love for Sherry. Despite the fact he knows she is an intrustworthy untrustworthy bitch, he always forgives her and lets her back. Until ahe she is killed.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: His conflict in the second half of season 3. While he is trying to avoid being blackmailed by Milliken (whose actions might hurt millions of americans by blocking the health care bill; and, aside that, Milliken also is an asshole and a murderer), it is also true that Wayne fucked up having an affair with Julia (To his credit, he does take responsibility and tries many times to resign, but David is not having it). And there is also a matter of pride in David's decisions (he could have been pragmatic enough to fire Wayne (who was willing to get fired) and bring him again after he had won the election; or find some other way.). But, while he still holds the high ground there, bringing Sherry to fight dirty was unambiguosly a disastrous decision, one that ends up with 4 people dying.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: His conflict in the second half of season 3. While he is trying to avoid being blackmailed by Milliken (whose actions might hurt millions of americans Americans by blocking the health care bill; and, aside that, Milliken also is an asshole and a murderer), it is also true that Wayne fucked up having an affair with Julia (To his credit, he does take responsibility and tries many times to resign, but David is not having it). And there is also a matter of pride in David's decisions (he could have been pragmatic enough to fire Wayne (who was willing to get fired) and bring him again after he had won the election; or find some other way.). But, while he still holds the high ground there, bringing Sherry to fight dirty was unambiguosly unambiguously a disastrous decision, one that ends up with 4 people dying.
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* {{Irony}}: His political downfall. David spent all of Season 1 exposing the scandal where his son (accidentally) killed someone and his entire family and some of his advisors covered in up. Doing so resulted in a boost in ratings and greatly helped him become president. In Season 3, Sherry murders someone and he's forced to cover it up so he won't face possible scrutiny from it. When Sherry is later murdered by Julia Milliken, who then kills herself, and Wayne tries to cover up ''both'' of their deaths, he stops it all before it can get too far and drops out of re-election.
