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* TheQuietOne: Huck.



* ShellshockedVeteran: [[spoiler:Huck]] reveals himself to be this, due to [[spoiler: his CIA black-ops training. He and his other operatives were conditioned to torture enemies and eventually grew to like it. Huck wanted out and was trying to "get sober" while living homeless when Olivia found him]].



* SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler: president Fitzgerald Grant]], perhaps. It's too early to say whether it may backfire.

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* SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler: president President Fitzgerald Grant]], perhaps. It's too early to say whether it may backfire.

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** Huck: [[spoiler: His dossier is apparently thicker than most spy novels, most of it is redacted, but he has CIA/espionage/military training as an assassin and Olivia trusts him to break a dictator's wife and children out of the embassy with only five minutes' leeway.]]

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** Huck: [[spoiler: His dossier is apparently thicker than most spy novels, most of it is redacted, but he has CIA/espionage/military training as an assassin and Olivia trusts him to break a dictator's wife and children out of the embassy with only five minutes' leeway. He's also spent time homeless and suffering from PTSD, begging on the DC subway, which is when Olivia found him.]]



* ItsAllAboutMe: Horribly demonstrated once.



* ItsAllAboutMe: Horribly demonstrated once.
* MagnificentBastard: Olivia Caroline Pope, at least once an episode and usually multiple times. She also demonstrates [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]] and talents in the GuileHero department.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Horribly demonstrated once.
* MagnificentBastard: Olivia Caroline Carolyn Pope, at least once an episode and usually multiple times. She also demonstrates [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]] and talents in the GuileHero department.

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** Huck: [[spoiler: His dossier is apparently thicker than most spy novels, most of it is redacted, but he has espionage/military training and Olivia trusts him to break a dictator's wife and children out of the embassy with only five minutes' leeway.]]

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** Huck: [[spoiler: His dossier is apparently thicker than most spy novels, most of it is redacted, but he has espionage/military CIA/espionage/military training as an assassin and Olivia trusts him to break a dictator's wife and children out of the embassy with only five minutes' leeway.]]


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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Amanda Tanner.]]
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* Knee-Capping: Olivia, apparently, to Abby's abusive husband. With a tire iron. Yay!

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* Knee-Capping: {{Kneecapping}}: Olivia, apparently, to Abby's abusive husband. With a tire iron. Yay!
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* WhatTheHellHero: It's a show about people's dirty secrets coming out so you get this a lot
** Cyrus gives the President an epic one when he sees that the President is more worried about preparing a speech rather than preventing the coming scandal.
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* NeverMyFault: Episode 3, with

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* NeverMyFault: Episode 3, with [[spoiler: the rich guy.]]
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The show is based on the career of real life GeorgeHWBush deputy press secretary/crisis manager Judy Smith, though obviously with plots far from the reality of the Bush 41 presidency meant to appeal to 2012 audiencess looking for dramatic tension

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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The show is based on the career of real life GeorgeHWBush deputy press secretary/crisis manager Judy Smith, though obviously with plots far from the reality of the Bush 41 presidency meant to appeal to 2012 audiencess audiences looking for dramatic tensiontension.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Quinn, to [[TheScrappy annoying effect]].

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* WideEyedIdealist: Quinn, which will perhaps lead to [[TheScrappy annoying effect]].side effects]].
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* CatchPhrase : Olivia has two : "Tell the president to", usually followed by something that will be roughly meaning "go screw himself" and " It's my name on that door " followed by something among the lines of a "we'll do what I decided".

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbiTion Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

The series is notable for being written by Shonda Rhimes, [[GreysAnatomy like some medical series]], and being one of the few dramas featuring a black actress as the main character. It is also highly feminist in content, at least according to some analyzes on the web.

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbiTion [[AmbitionIsEvil Abby Whelan]], [[MysteriousPast Huck]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

The series is notable for being written by Shonda Rhimes, [[GreysAnatomy like some a certain well-known medical series]], and being one of the few dramas featuring a black actress as the main character. It is also highly feminist in content, at least according to some analyzes with numerous strong female characters and very little reliance on the web.
traditional characterization or storylines.



* AntiHero : The whole cast, except perhaps Quinn, Abby even more so.
* TheAtoner : Olivia, about Amanda.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis : Olivia. On a metafictional level, this great thing : [[http://zahrawithaz.livejournal.com/35477.html#cutid1]].
* BadassAdorable : Quinn.
* BewareTheNiceOnes : Quinn, again.
* CasanovaWannabe : Stephen Finch, perhaps.
* CatchPhrase : Olivia : "Tell the president of the United States to [go screw himself]", albeit always politely formulated.
* CoolOldGuy [[spoiler: Cyrus and the great Madam. Somehow deconstructed, as they are also both morally ambiguous.]]
* TheCutie : Quinn and Huck.
* DatingCatwoman : Quinn, perhaps (it may have been only for the job, but anyway, she didn't have bad intentions)
* DomesticAbuser : Abby's ex-husband, apparently.
* TheDeterminator : Olivia : "It's my name on this door, and I don't give up".
* TheFakeCutie / [[spoiler: The fake old friend : Cyrus.]]

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* AntiHero : AntiHero: The whole cast, except perhaps Quinn, Abby even more so.
* TheAtoner : Olivia, about TheAtoner: Olivia wants to do right by Amanda.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis : AwesomenessByAnalysis: Olivia. On a metafictional level, this great thing : [[http://zahrawithaz.livejournal.com/35477.html#cutid1]].
* BadassAdorable : Quinn.
BadassAdorable: Quinn eventually gets there.
* BewareTheNiceOnes : BewareTheNiceOnes: Quinn, again.
* CasanovaWannabe : Stephen Finch, perhaps.
CasanovaWannabe: Stephen, though he seems to have settled down. He still has an interesting past.
* CatchPhrase : Olivia : "Tell CoolOldGuy: Cyrus starts out as one, but the president of the United States to [go screw himself]", albeit always politely formulated.
* CoolOldGuy
trope is actually deconstructed [[spoiler: Cyrus and the great Madam. Somehow deconstructed, as they are also both morally ambiguous.he proves himself to be Olivia's ArchEnemy.]]
** The madam in episode 2 is morally ambiguous, but proves herself by the end.
* TheCutie : TheCutie: Quinn and Huck.
* DatingCatwoman : Quinn, perhaps (it may have been only for DatingCatwoman: Quinn's seeing Gideon, a cub reporter who seems on the job, but anyway, she didn't have bad intentions)
verge of breaking the Amanda Tanner story.
* DomesticAbuser : DomesticAbuser: Abby's ex-husband, apparently.
* TheDeterminator : TheDeterminator: Olivia : "It's my name on this door, and I don't give up".
* TheFakeCutie / TheFakeCutie: [[spoiler: The fake old friend : Cyrus.]]



** [[TheHero The Heroine]] : Olivia Pope.
** TheLancer : Stephen Finch.
** TheHeart : Quinn Perkins.
** TheSmartGuy : Abby Whelan.
** TheChick : Harrison Wright.
* GayConservative : [[spoiler: Sullivan St. James in episode 1. Cyrus Beene is revealed to be this in episode 4.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft : Olivia, Stephen and probably Harrison.
* GuileHero : A good chunk of the cast.
* HeroAntagonist : The girl in the third episode, the president's wife (perhaps) and Amanda, at first.
* HannibalLecture : Olivia to Amanda and then, Cyrus to Olivia.
* HiddenDepths : Abby : [[spoiler: She likes Stephen Finch, and was the victim of a domestic abuser]].
* InnocentBystander : Amanda Tanner.
* IntrepidReporter : Gideon. God help you if you get in the way of his scoop.
* KnightInSourArmor : Olivia.
* KickTheDog : Albeit accidental, as she thought Amanda was a manipulative FakeCutie, when she reminded her of her mother's psychotic break and menaced to use it to end her career, the result was a really creepy Olivia.
* ItSAllAboutMe : Horribly demonstrated once.
* MagnificentBastard : How her enemies must see Olivia Pope (not really YMMV, as this is from their perspective). She demonstrates [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]] and talents in the GuileHero department.
* MaliciousSlander : The fear of the heroine's clients.
* TheMcCoy : Quinn seems to be this.
* NeverMyFault : Seen in an episode.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood : Amanda Tanner. Olivia's third client (not counting the little girl herself and her earlier clients, which includes the president) when accused of murder.
* PoisonousFriend [[spoiler: : Cyrus, probably. The President to Olivia, sort of...]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain : [[spoiler: Cyrus]]

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** [[TheHero The Heroine]] : Heroine]]: Olivia Pope.
** TheLancer : TheLancer: Stephen Finch.
** TheHeart : TheHeart: Quinn Perkins.
Perkins and Huck share the role.
** TheSmartGuy : Abby Whelan.
** TheChick :
TheSmartGuy: Huck has aspects; Harrison Wright.
Wright has others.
** TheChick: Abby Whelan (when she isn't an alternate Heart).
* GayConservative : GayConservative: [[spoiler: Sullivan St. James in episode 1. Cyrus Beene is revealed to be this in episode 4.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft : GoodIsNotSoft: Olivia, Stephen Stephen, Huck, and probably Harrison.
* GuileHero : GuileHero: A good chunk of the cast.
* HeroAntagonist : The girl in the third episode, the president's wife (perhaps) and Amanda, at first.
* HannibalLecture : Olivia to
HeroAntagonist: Amanda and then, Tanner, at first. Mellie Grant may turn out to be one, as well as David Rosen.
* HannibalLecture: Olivia, naturally, deals them out. Starting in episode four,
Cyrus starts dishing them out to Olivia.
* HiddenDepths : Abby :
[[spoiler: She likes Fitz and Olivia]].
* HiddenDepths: The entire team has secrets.
** Olivia: [[spoiler: Had an affair with President Grant during the campaign.]]
** Abby: [[spoiler: Likes
Stephen Finch, and was the victim of a domestic abuser]].
** Harrison: [[spoiler: Convicted of insider-trading.]]
** Stephen: [[spoiler: Was a hotshot lawyer, then had a breakdown in the middle of a trial.]]
** Quinn: [[spoiler: Her real name probably isn't Quinn, and she didn't exist in that identity until two years ago.]]
** Huck: [[spoiler: His dossier is apparently thicker than most spy novels, most of it is redacted, but he has espionage/military training and Olivia trusts him to break a dictator's wife and children out of the embassy with only five minutes' leeway.]]
** There's also the surprising [[spoiler: and villainous]] depths to Cyrus Beene - he's [[spoiler: a GayConservative, and married to a much-younger man]].
* InnocentBystander : InnocentBystander: Amanda Tanner.
* IntrepidReporter : IntrepidReporter: Gideon. God help you if you get in the way of his scoop.
* KnightInSourArmor : KnightInSourArmor: Olivia.
* KickTheDog : KickTheDog: Albeit accidental, as she thought Amanda was a manipulative FakeCutie, when she reminded her of her mother's psychotic break and menaced to use it to end her career, the result was a really creepy Olivia.
* ItSAllAboutMe : ItsAllAboutMe: Horribly demonstrated once.
* MagnificentBastard : How her enemies must see MagnificentBastard: Olivia Pope (not really YMMV, as this is from their perspective). Caroline Pope, at least once an episode and usually multiple times. She also demonstrates [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]] and talents in the GuileHero department.
* MaliciousSlander : MaliciousSlander: The fear of the heroine's clients.
* TheMcCoy : TheMcCoy: Quinn seems to be this.
* NeverMyFault : Seen in an episode.
NeverMyFault: Episode 3, with
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood : NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Amanda Tanner. Olivia's third client (not counting the little girl herself and her earlier clients, which includes the president) when accused of murder.
* PoisonousFriend PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: : Cyrus, probably. The President to Olivia, sort of...]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain : PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: Cyrus]]



* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem : Olivia : "We don't vote, we take her.".
* SpoiledSweet : Harshly averted.
* SympatheticAdulterer : [[spoiler: president Fitzgerald Grant]], perhaps. It's too early to say whether this will get bought or if he will become TheScrappy.
* TreacherousAdvisor : [[spoiler: Cyrus, perhaps. He may have good intentions.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity : ... enough of a good reputation to be president of the United States.
* WideEyedIdealist : How Quinn will probably be portrayed.
* WomanInBlack : Abby, quite often...
* WomanInWhite : Olivia, frequently...
* YouAreNotAlone : Olivia, to Amanda.

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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem : ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Olivia : "We don't vote, we take her.".
* SpoiledSweet : SpoiledSweet: Harshly averted.
* SympatheticAdulterer : SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler: president Fitzgerald Grant]], perhaps. It's too early to say whether this will get bought or if he will become TheScrappy.
it may backfire.
* TreacherousAdvisor : TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: Cyrus, perhaps. He may have good intentions.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity : ...VillainWithGoodPublicity: ... enough of a good reputation to be president of the United States.
* WideEyedIdealist : How Quinn will probably be portrayed.
WideEyedIdealist: Quinn, to [[TheScrappy annoying effect]].
* WomanInBlack : WomanInBlack: Abby, quite often...
often.
* WomanInWhite : WomanInWhite: Olivia, frequently...
frequently.
* YouAreNotAlone : YouAreNotAlone: Olivia, to Amanda.
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* HiddenDepths : Abby : [[spoiler: She likes Stephen Finch]].

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* HiddenDepths : Abby : [[spoiler: She likes Stephen Finch]].Finch, and was the victim of a domestic abuser]].
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** TheHero : Olivia Pope.

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** TheHero [[TheHero The Heroine]] : Olivia Pope.

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* DomesticAbuser

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* DomesticAbuserDomesticAbuser : Abby's ex-husband, apparently.


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* MaliciousSlander : The fear of the heroine's clients.


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* RagsToRiches : Harison's {{Backstory}}.
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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbTion Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbTion [[AmbiTion Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].
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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], {{Ambition Abby Whelan}}, and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], {{Ambition [[AmbTion Abby Whelan}}, Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].
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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[Ambition Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[Ambition {{Ambition Abby Whelan]], Whelan}}, and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].
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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbitionIsEvil Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].

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Her team includes [[TheCharmer Stephen Finch]], [[TeamDad Harrison Wright]], [[AmbitionIsEvil [[Ambition Abby Whelan]], and [[TheCutie Quinn Perkins]].
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* GayConservative : [[spoiler: Sullivan St. James in episode 1. Cyrus Beene is revealed to be this in episode 4.]]

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* TheCutie : Quinn and Huck.



* TheCutie : Quinn and Huck.

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* LadyInBlack : Abby, very often.
* LadyInWhite : Olivia, quite frequently.


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* WomanInBlack : Abby, quite often...
* WomanInWhite : Olivia, frequently...
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* LadyInWhite : Olivia, quite frequently.
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* KickTheDog : Albeit accidental, as she thought Amanda was a manipulative FakeCutie, when she reminded her of her mother's psychotic break and menaced to use it to end her career, the result was really creepy.

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* KickTheDog : Albeit accidental, as she thought Amanda was a manipulative FakeCutie, when she reminded her of her mother's psychotic break and menaced to use it to end her career, the result was a really creepy.creepy Olivia.
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* CoolOldGuy [[spoiler: Cyrus and the great Madam. Somehow deconstructed, as they are also both morally ambiguous.]]

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* CasanovaWannabe : Stephen Finch, perhaps.



* CasanovaWannabe : Stephen Finch, perhaps.
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* CatchPhrase : Olivia : "Tell the president of the United States to [go screw himself]", albeit always politely formulated.
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* YouAreNotAlone : Olivia, to Amanda.

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* YouAreNotAlone : Olivia, to Amanda.Amanda.
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* IntrepidReporter

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* IntrepidReporterIntrepidReporter : Gideon. God help you if you get in the way of his scoop.

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