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* AndIMustScream: Garibaldi up until this point. Once he's released and understands the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone full weight of what's happened hits him]], he does just that with a BigNo.

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Garibaldi up until this point. Once he's released and understands the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone full weight of what's happened hits him]], he does just that with a BigNo.



* AntiVillain: William Edgars, who’s become the influential head of a pharmaceutical MegaCorp solely to accomplish the creation of a virus (and corresponding antidote) exclusively fatal to telepaths. He does this not ForTheEvulz or even out of a sense of FantasticRacism, but because he knows a war with telepaths is inevitable and wants to give “mundanes” a fighting chance. He doesn't even ''like'' taking the steps he feels he has to take, and tries to lessen the suffering of those he's testing his drugs on as much as possible.

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William Edgars, who’s become the influential head of a pharmaceutical MegaCorp solely to accomplish the creation of a virus (and corresponding antidote) exclusively fatal to telepaths. He does this not ForTheEvulz or even out of a sense of FantasticRacism, but because he knows a war with telepaths is inevitable and wants to give “mundanes” "mundanes" a fighting chance. He doesn't even ''like'' taking the steps he feels he has to take, and tries to lessen the suffering of those he's testing his drugs on as much as possible.
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* RedHerring: Throughout this season, we've been lead to believe that Bester brainwashed Garibaldi to make him turn in Sheridan and cripple the resistance. Nope. Even if Bester did plan this (and it's not likely, as Clark's people sent a bunch of telepaths, including Bester's lover, to Shadows so he's not likely to do them favours for nothing), he never had the time to put it to fruition, as Garibaldi was, completely at random, recruited by Bester's rivals. Who, eventually, told him their master plan to enslave all telepaths. Points to Bester for playing XanatosSpeedChess to keep control of the developments.

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* RedHerring: Throughout this season, we've been lead to believe that Bester brainwashed Garibaldi to make him turn in Sheridan and cripple the resistance. Nope. Even if Bester did plan this (and it's not likely, as Clark's people sent a bunch of telepaths, including Bester's lover, to the Shadows so he's not likely to do them favours for nothing), he never had the time to put it to fruition, as Garibaldi was, completely at random, recruited by Bester's rivals. Who, eventually, told him their master plan to enslave all telepaths. Points to Bester for playing XanatosSpeedChess to keep control of the developments.
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* RedHerring: Throughout this season, we've been lead to believe that Bester brainwashed Garibaldi to make him turn in Sheridan and cripple the resistance. Nope. Even if Bester did plan this, he never had the time to put it to fruition, as Garibaldi was, completely at random, recruited by Bester's rivals. Who, eventually, told him their master plan to enslave all telepaths. Points to Bester for playing XanatosSpeedChess to keep control of the developments.

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* RedHerring: Throughout this season, we've been lead to believe that Bester brainwashed Garibaldi to make him turn in Sheridan and cripple the resistance. Nope. Even if Bester did plan this, this (and it's not likely, as Clark's people sent a bunch of telepaths, including Bester's lover, to Shadows so he's not likely to do them favours for nothing), he never had the time to put it to fruition, as Garibaldi was, completely at random, recruited by Bester's rivals. Who, eventually, told him their master plan to enslave all telepaths. Points to Bester for playing XanatosSpeedChess to keep control of the developments.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ivanova worries Garibaldi could be setting up a trap for Sheridan, but Sheridan fully believes this trope. He thinks that despite every problem Garibaldi has had with him for the past few months, he wouldn't actually mean him any harm or lie about his father.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ivanova worries Garibaldi could be setting up a trap for Sheridan, but Sheridan fully believes this trope. He thinks that despite every problem Garibaldi has had with him for the past few months, he wouldn't actually mean him any harm or lie about his father. Normally he'd be right but, [[{{Brainwashed}} well...]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: Subverted. During the opening battle, Sheridan is baffled by the Earth ships' refusal to surrender as "they can't be willing to die for Clarke." It turns out the commanders have bought the propaganda that any surrendering Earth soldiers are executed. Once they realize that's false, they immediately give up.
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* GambitPileup: Clark had a plan to try to take down Babylon 5 before they could enact any plans to ought him, while in the mean time, William Edgars and Psi Corps were enacting their own plans to take down each other, which just happened to involve stepping on the two main plots from time to time in the process.

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* GambitPileup: Clark had a plan to try to take down Babylon 5 before they could enact any plans to ought oust him, while in the mean time, meantime, William Edgars and Psi Corps were enacting their own plans to take down each other, which just happened to involve stepping on the two main plots from time to time in the process.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ivanova worries Garibaldi could be setting up a trap for Sheridan, but Sheridan fully believes this trope. He believed that despite every problem Garibaldi has had with him for the past few months, he wouldn't actually mean him any harm.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ivanova worries Garibaldi could be setting up a trap for Sheridan, but Sheridan fully believes this trope. He believed thinks that despite every problem Garibaldi has had with him for the past few months, he wouldn't actually mean him any harm.harm or lie about his father.

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