History Characters / UltimateForce

->Played by: Heather Pearce

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Col. Dempsey is the only one allowed to call him Henry.

* ActionGirl

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Caroline. The real difference is that instead of a Captain, she's a Trooper.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He reliably kicks a lot of arse when called upon, most notably in "Dead Is Forever", "Never Go Back" and - particularly - "Charlie Bravo". In the latter, he strides through a gunfight, casually taking one-handed potshots at rebels, while exhorting his local counterpart to "Pretend you're an officer and get your men in order!"

* LargeHam

* ActionGirl

* AlliterativeName: '''D'''ennis '''D'''oheny

%%* BaldOfAwesome

* ShellshockedVeteran: In season two, he develops post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his near-death experience at the end of the first season which causes his marriage to suffer.

* JuvenileDelinquent: He spent his teenage years stealing cars as a way of escaping his unhappy situation. When arrested a final time, he chose the army over prison.

* PostInjuryDeskJob: Following his near-death experience at the end of the first season, the second season sees Henno place assign him to a desk job, much to his displeasure. He eventually gets back into action.

->Played by: Sendhil Ramamurthy

* WouldHitAGirl: In "The Killing House", he punches a hysterical woman in order to shut her up and in "Deadlier Than the Male", he punches Rebecca while interrogating/recruting her.

* TheTomboy: She confesses to loving guns ever since childhood, while her sister played with Barbie.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrom: Vanishes without trace after season two, with her affair with Captain Macalwain going completely unresolved. This coincides with Pete's hasty death.

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->Played by: Danny Sapani

->Played by: Elliot Cowan

* SociopathicHero:

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted, Ricky Mann dies off-screen.

* ScaryBlackMan: He's an S.A.S operative, so this plays into it.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking / ColonelBadass: He reliably kicks a lot of arse when called upon, most notably in "Dead Is Forever", "Never Go Back" and - particularly - "Charlie Bravo". In the latter, he strides through a gunfight, casually taking one-handed potshots at rebels, while exhorting his local counterpart to "Pretend you're an officer and get your men in order!"

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Caroline Walshe gets this treatment at the beginning of Series 3, after being a major character in the first two series. She doesn't return.]]

* AffablyEvil: Combines a bit of SociopathicHero and DeadpanSnarker to create one of the more interesting characters later in the show.
** If only because [[spoiler:he's one of only three original cast members by Season 3.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Full of his own self-importance and often excitable, he likes to stir up trouble.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking / ColonelBadass: Colonel Aidan Dempsey reliably kicks a lot of arse when called upon, most notably in "Dead Is Forever", "Never Go Back" and - particularly - "Charlie Bravo". In the latter, he strides through a gunfight, casually taking one-handed potshots at rebels, while exhorting his local counterpart to "Pretend you're an officer and get your men in order!"

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: MI5 Attache Pru Banks, who is a regular in series 2 and [[spoiler:ends the series romantically involved with Henno]], disappears without explanation before the beginning of series 3.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After Series 3, although she featured less often, and Sean Smith, who was head of Blue Troop for two seasons and had been on enough missions for his absence to be noticeable.

* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ean '''S'''mith

* BaldOfAwesome

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has a tough attitude and may seem at first to be bullyish however throughout the series he shows signs of humour and a friendly attitude indicating this not to be the case.

* RankUp: He goes from Corporal to Sergeant.

->Played by: Liam Garrigan

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He embodies this.

* CartoonBomb: In one episode, Henno, having jumped out a transit stuffed with tertiary explosives, is on the cliff face when the van detonates, the yield supposedly capable of shifting an entire city block sideways, and Henno climbs up with no apparent ill effects from an overpressure that would normally have collapsed his lungs, throat and sinuses.
* DontCallMeSir: Henno reminds the newcomers in the 1st episode not to call an officer "Sir".
* LargeHam

* PervyPatdown: While posing as a mercenary, Henno uses the opportunity to 'demonstrate' the correct way to search a female journalist coming to interview the warlord he's working for. The journalist is actually a female member of Henno's unit, so while his pat-down is entirely professional there's a definite subtext.
* ShoutOut: Henno [[{{Film/DieHard}} saying a familiar line by John McClane after he knifes a PIRA/RUC double agent to death]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Henno guns down Captain Macalwain at close range in Georgia during a rescue mission, covering it up by disguising it as a shootout between [[spoiler:Georgian government-sponsored militants]] and Red Troop. The others didn't bother to figure it out (possibly since the captain's personality was disliked by most of them) and Colonel Dempsey treated him as a "hero", not bothering to ask any questions.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Aver]]ted, Ricky Mann dies off-screen.