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| 3 | Characters in ''Series/{{Bones}}''. |
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| 7 | !!Main Characters |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/temperance_brennan.jpg]] |
| 11 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/EmilyDeschanel |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * AbusiveParents: Well, foster parents. [[DisproportionateRetribution One of them locked her in a car trunk for two days for accidentally breaking a plate while washing it in scalding water.]] |
| 14 | * ActionGirl: She beats up more people than Booth. She takes on an armored knight (or at least one in a pretty period-accurate costume complete with chain mail) with a sword while barehanded and fresh out of a car crash. AND WINS TO THE POINT OF HIM TURNING UP WITH HIS ARM IN A SLING. And appears not to break a sweat. The woman is a stone-cold BADASS. |
| 15 | * AesopAmnesia: In most episodes, Bones is having to learn something that is common knowledge among everyone else. And by episode's end, she has learned that lesson. Unfortunately, by the next episode, some new issue has reared its head, and she's back to being as stubborn and intransigent as ever. |
| 16 | * AgeLift: Inverted. In the books, Brennan is significantly older. |
| 17 | * AgentScully: No matter how insightful or useful Sweets is, she tends to dismiss his insight. Even treating previous accuracy as "coincidence" because of her dismissal of psychology as a science. She has a similar attitude towards anything even vaguely supernatural. |
| 18 | %%* AloofDarkHairedGirl |
| 19 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Keep in mind before this happened Booth had already declared his love to Brennan and she turned him down one of the reasons being she doesn’t want to lose what they already have (a great friendship) and she wasn't emotionally ready. Finally after a case gives Brennan a different outlook on life, she almost gets hit by a car, Booth saves her, she declares her love to him, he then rejects her as he’s now in love and in a serious relationship with someone else. |
| 20 | * AnimalLover: She has this in shades. [[BerserkButton She nearly attacked a man after learning he killed his pet Siberian tiger.]] |
| 21 | * BadassBookworm: Catching crooks by examining bone fragments and other evidence. |
| 22 | * BerserkButton: Bones flips out whenever Booth is hurt or threatened. In ''The Wannabe in the Weeds'', she grits her teeth, screams, and [[spoiler:guns down a middle-aged stalker who shot Booth. Booth later faked his death so that he could go deep undercover]] for exactly the first ten minutes of the following episode. When he came back, she was so upset, she hit him. [[spoiler:She also smacks the Gravedigger with a metal briefcase]]. |
| 23 | * BrainyBrunette: A highly intelligent brunette forensic anthropologist. |
| 24 | * BrutalHonesty: Her mouth basically has no filter. |
| 25 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Though she lacks people skills (ironically in a job that deals with studying people and the culture), she's very great at her job and is one of the few board-certified forensic anthropologists in the country. |
| 26 | * CannotTellAJoke: Due to [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], she can't tell a conventional joke. Not that she doesn't have a sense of humor, though. |
| 27 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 28 | ** "I don't know what that means." |
| 29 | ** For a while there was also "Don't call me Bones," but she soon learned to accept (but not embrace) the nickname. Well, she deals with bones, so it had to happen. |
| 30 | * CharacterTitle: She's the titular Bones. |
| 31 | * CompositeCharacter: Downplayed. From the books she is obviously Dr. Temperance Brennan, but in the show she also gets the cultural anthropologist part of her best friend Gabby. The rest of Gabby -- the sociable, compassionate and artistic parts -- became Angela Montenegro. |
| 32 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Her parents disappeared when she was 15 and she had no idea what happened to them [[spoiler: until the end of season 1.]] Also had a very, very bad time in the foster system. |
| 33 | * DefrostingIceQueen: At the start of the series, she is an extremely aloof and asocial scientist who only thinks by logic and never wanted to marry and create a family. Thanks to Booth, she learns to open up to emotions and eventually [[spoiler:they have a daughter and a son together and become HappilyMarried]]. |
| 34 | * DidYouThinkICantFeel: During the investigation of a girl who's deaf and mute who killed someone, Arastoo noted she was showing her emotions more than usual; she angrily points out her policy of remaining emotionally detached is so they can focus solely on the evidence. It does not mean that she doesn't feel for all the victims and wishes she could express her emotions the way other people do. |
| 35 | * DitzyGenius: So intelligent at solving crimes and yet so clumsy with social stuff... Because her understanding of human behavior is more intellectual than intuitive, she forms conclusions that make perfect sense in theory, but are flawed in practice because humans themselves are flawed. It was heartbreaking when she told Booth she was going to adopt a dog that had been trained as a killer, only for Booth to tell her that the dog had been put down, because her protestations that the dog shouldn't have been blamed were right. |
| 36 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: WordOfGod gives it as [[spoiler:Beulah]]. |
| 37 | * ExpertConsultant: A forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian who consults for the FBI, helping them identify the skeletal remains of murder victims and solve their murders. |
| 38 | * FriendToAllChildren: Even though she stated that she would never have children, [[spoiler:until she later gave birth to her and Booth's daughter, Christine and their son Hank]], Brennan has shown a surprising amount of tenderness towards them, especially ones that are abused. She even came up with a way to entertain babies: "Dancing phalanges!" |
| 39 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Brennan rarely loses her temper, but she does it every time an animal is hurt or killed out of sheer cruelty. Happens both with [[spoiler:an attack dog that was used to kill someone]] and with [[spoiler:a Siberian Tiger shot to cover evidence]]. Also, occasionally, with pigs. |
| 40 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Comes out with words in different languages at times. Claims to know the word for 'skull' in every language. |
| 41 | * HatesBeingTouched: And may very well break your arm if you try. |
| 42 | * HardOnSoftScience: A particularly weird example. She's hard on psychology, even though this is generally considered at least as hard a science as anthropology (her own field). |
| 43 | * HollywoodAtheist: Zig-zagged. While she has the "being anti-religion" aspect, she certainly doesn't fit the "amoral StrawNihilist asshole" part, as she actually has a [[PrinciplesZealot rather strict moral code]], such as refusing to lie even when it would be morally defensible. Doesn't stop her from basically picking fights with Booth over his Catholicism, or expounding on her atheism at a friend's funeral. |
| 44 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Often has no understanding of situations that require tact and is genuinely baffled when suspects respond with offense. |
| 45 | * InSeriesNickname: Take a wild guess. |
| 46 | * InsufferableGenius: Woe to any other scientist who does not meet up to her high standards. Or worse any scientist who practices what she doesn't consider a real science. |
| 47 | ** She also gets very touchy when people with similar skills cast aspersions on her own credentials, or when Cam pulls rank. In ''The Salt in the Wounds'', the victim is entirely desiccated after being found in a DOT salting truck. Cam wants to rehydrate the body to perform an autopsy; Bones wants the flesh stripped to examine the bones, saying it's faster. Guess who wins and who storms off? |
| 48 | * LastNameBasis: With Booth. And Cam. And Hodgins (although, to be fair, everyone calls him Hodgins). And the Squinterns. Honestly, with everyone but Angela. |
| 49 | * LiteralMinded: More than anyone who's not a robot should be. She's just so logic-driven that common metaphors often escape her. |
| 50 | -->'''Bones:''' It's not a spaceship.\ |
| 51 | '''Booth:''' Well, if it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...\ |
| 52 | '''Bones:''' Then it would be a duck, not a spaceship. Your point escapes me. |
| 53 | * MamaBear: Starts even before she has kids. In season 3's ''The Baby in the Bough'' she is furious at the killer of her foster charge Andy's mother for causing a car crash with the baby inside. Later, she will go after anyone who hurts her own kids. |
| 54 | * MarriedToTheJob: She can't give up her life with bones. When her boyfriend invited her to join him for a year on a boat, and everyone else gave her the thumbs up to do it, she turned him down. Even she thought it would be a good idea, but couldn't separate herself from the bones even for a little while. |
| 55 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 56 | ** "Temperance" means "moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control." |
| 57 | ** Even more meaningful is the fact that [[spoiler:her name used to be Joy before her criminal parents changed the whole family's names to protect themselves from their former partner in crime; they eventually had to abandon Brennan and her brother to keep said partner from finding and harming their children.]] Many characters point out that Temperance's need for temperance is a direct result of her parents' abandonment and her subsequent experiences in the foster care system, before which she was much more carefree. |
| 58 | * MyBelovedSmother: [[spoiler:Christine is barely out of the womb and she's already started, getting suspended from the Jeffersonian's daycare for interfering too much.]] |
| 59 | * MysteryWriterDetective: A borderline case as her skills as a forensic anthropologist are far more important to solving crimes than any supposedly ability as a writer. |
| 60 | ** Especially as [[spoiler:she only writes the [[ShownTheirWork technical aspects]] and [[MindScrew twisted plotting]] of her novels. The characterization and steamy sex scenes are due to Angela's input. It takes them a ''long'' time to even ''realize'' this, as Temperance's writing process was to essentially write Creator/MichaelCrichton-esque murder mysteries, then loan it to Angela to pre-read, who adds the sex and quips. Once they figure his out, Temperance splits the royalties with Angela. Back-dated.]] |
| 61 | * NerdsAreSexy: It helps that she's played by Emily Deschanel. She has ''no'' trouble finding mates. In fact, in the sixth season Valentine's Day episode, she turns down half a dozen hopeful suitors. |
| 62 | ** In a season 11 episode, when Booth temporarily has to wear glasses, she admits to finding them attractive on him. |
| 63 | * NoSocialSkills: Not very social adept with people due to issues with ParentalAbandonment, although he's not quite as bad as Zack. |
| 64 | * NotSoStoic: It's frequently shown that her rationality is a façade to protect her from a big, scary world. |
| 65 | %%* ObliviousToLove: To Booth in season five. |
| 66 | * OppositesAttract: She's coldly intelligent, scientific, atheist, and hyper-rational, while her partner and eventual husband Booth is religious, more emotional, and more of a people person. |
| 67 | * ParentalAbandonment: Her parents disappeared in 1991 when she was 15. [[spoiler:Her parents were reformed criminals who went on the run in 1978, then again in 1991 when someone from their past found them. In the latter incident, they had to abandon Brennan and her brother Russ. They would later reunite with their father, though their mother died in 1993.]] |
| 68 | * ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Brennan's authorization password was "daffodil". When Booth lampshaded this trope by telling her her own password, she changed it. He immediately guessed the new password. ''Twice''. |
| 69 | * PregnantBadass: She still stands up for herself and even goes into a prison riot while pregnant. |
| 70 | * RaisedByGrandparents: Her grandfather raised her after she was bounced from foster home to foster home. |
| 71 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler:Her pregnancies during seasons seven and ten.]] |
| 72 | * RomanceAndSexualitySeparation: We have one AmbiguousSituation episode where the titular character dates two guys while being either this trope ''or'' simply not enjoying everything about either guy - finding only one physically attractive and finding only the other to have an interesting personality. She was regularly having sex with one man while going out to museums and whatnot with the other. She enjoyed the one guy's physicality and the other's brain. The whole thing got blown when they found out about each other in a TwoTimerDate situation. Sex Guy wanted to hang out with her and Hang Out Guy wanted to have sex with her. She refused to compromise for either, so they both dumped her. |
| 73 | * SarcasmBlind: She often fails to understand sarcasm at first (if at all) and usually must use logical deduction (out loud) to detect it. |
| 74 | * SexGoddess: By her own admission, she's very good in bed and we get enough glimpses at her love life and the casual way she talks about sex, it's clear she's not just boasting. |
| 75 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She has plainly stated in one episode that she's attracted to good men, and eventually falls for Booth who is charming, kindhearted, and loyal. |
| 76 | * TheSpock: Brennan will always listen to reason and logic without fail. |
| 77 | * TheStoic: She is always like this, as she effortlessly keeps her emotion in check. |
| 78 | * StrawVulcan: Frequently adheres to logic than emotion (which is a personal rule), but at the same time, it can slip and she becomes personally involved in her cases. |
| 79 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She is overly serious, professional and analytical, not wanting to let emotions get in the way of logic. She is also a kind and heroic person at heart, as well as loyal and caring to her friends and those she trusts. |
| 80 | %%* TallDarkAndSnarky: Occasionally. |
| 81 | * TotallyTrustingLoveInterest: Subject of a mini-plot arc on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. BigBad Palant blackmails Booth into not marrying Brennan, and he can't tell her why. He cancels the wedding and after angsting about it for an episode she decides to trust Booth, not demanding a reason. Angela isn't so trusting and starts hating Booth on Brennan's behalf. |
| 82 | * UltimateJobSecurity: Brennan gets away with being blunt and downright rude to basically everybody because there is not another forensic anthropologist out there who can replace her. |
| 83 | ** When she [[spoiler:leaves the Jeffersonian between Seasons 10 and 11 and the number of unsolved cases has gone up, she takes this as a sign of slipping standards and takes her old job back like nothing happened.]] |
| 84 | ** In one episode she punched a sexist man, and in the next episode she thought she would just get a slap on the wrist. The head of the FBI disciplinary panel tells her if Booth's meeting with them goes the way hers did, she would no longer be allowed to help out the FBI on cases. |
| 85 | %%* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: With Booth in season six. |
| 86 | %%* UnresolvedSexualTension: Also with Booth, since season one. |
| 87 | * VocalEvolution: At some point in the later seasons, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) changed her speech patterns slightly, taking more pauses and speaking more slowly. |
| 88 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She once commented, "I find it interesting that I'm only afraid of snakes when Booth is around to be jumped upon." |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Agent Seeley Booth]] |
| 92 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seeley_booth.jpg]] |
| 93 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidBoreanaz\ |
| 94 | '''Dubbed by:''' Creator/PatrickBorg (European French) |
| 95 | |
| 96 | * AbusiveParents: According to Booth, his dad "wasn't exactly a contender for a Father of the Year award." He was an AlcoholicParent that would often become violent and Booth would often take the worst of it to protect Jared. |
| 97 | * AlcoholicParent: Booth's father was an abusive alcoholic, as a result Booth is able to recognize suspects with a drinking problem even when they are sober. |
| 98 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: It didn't work at first. [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade Then it did.]]]] |
| 99 | * AtonementDetective: Booth was an Army Sniper before joining the FBI and he seems to have a scale in his head, weighing roughly how many kills he made as a sniper versus how many murderers he's caught. |
| 100 | * BadassNormal: He's an FBI agent, but he's essentially a cop with a notch higher of a badge, and usually shows himself to be what you'd expect. He's also a former Army marksman who is badass enough to [[spoiler:take down an entire elite Delta Force black ops unit with a few minutes of preparation time, lots of spare weapons and traps, a fair bit of [[IndyPloy improvisation]], and a little help from Brennan right at the end. Albeit [[HeroicRROD with near-fatal wounds.]]]] Compared to some of the more dangerous threats and criminals out there, that amount of capability is ''crucial'' given virtually every one of his associates in the "Squints" is not as fit for a fight as he is, besides [[ActionGirl Brennan]] of course. |
| 101 | * BeardOfSorrow: Booth grows one during his prison stint between seasons 9 and 10. |
| 102 | * BerserkButton: |
| 103 | ** Clowns. Even on ice cream trucks. He shot the clown music box on top of an ice cream truck and got sent to a psychiatrist for it. |
| 104 | ** It's a bad idea to mention that one of Booth's ancestors shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head. Cam once says he’ll shoot if it happens. |
| 105 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 106 | ** Towards his younger brother Jared, to the point where it's somewhat unhealthy for them both. |
| 107 | ** Also towards Sweets and Wendell. |
| 108 | * BookDumb: He's this, to contrast with Brennan's TVGenius; there is evidence that this is more an act of ObfuscatingStupidity on his part, so that the various [[{{InsufferableGenius}} Insufferable Geniuses]] he works with are less threatened by him, but we don't know the degrees in which these tropes are present. Probably he's just picked up a lot more from working with them than he lets on. Booth is usually presented as more intuitive with a high emotional intelligence which makes sense for someone who has suffered abuse. Several episodes generally present him (and others) acknowledging that within context of the team, his "specialty" is the emotional aspect of such cases. It comes up a lot less though because within the context of having to present a legal case and identifying bodies, gut instincts generally don't cut it. |
| 109 | * BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: His father was abusive and often drunk but Booth is shown to be loving and playful with Christine and Hank. |
| 110 | * NobleBigotWithABadge: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], during the first seasons, he was shown to have a negative bias towards Hispanics; he eventually grows out of it. |
| 111 | * CannotSpitItOut: Rather ironic. Booth is the empathetic, emotionally connected member of the duo, able to read feelings and intentions with ease, but he is almost completely incapable of approaching his own emotions/baggage with any sort of directness or honesty. This causes a lot of trouble in his relationship with Bones. It also annoys their friend, colleague, and therapist/shrink, Sweets, who eventually gets fed up with Booth's circuitous and denial-filled approach to getting Sweets' help that he ''threatens to jump out of a moving car'' rather than put up with it any longer. |
| 112 | * ChosenConceptionPartner: When Brennan decides she wants a child, she picks him. Later inverted when she decides that two kids is enough and she wants him to have a vasectomy (she backs off and they decide to stick to "regular" birth control methods instead). |
| 113 | * ColdSniper: His job in the Army. He has some guilt over that. |
| 114 | * ControlFreak: Spelled out explicitly by Gordon Gordon. |
| 115 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Second to Brennan. |
| 116 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Doesn't like when Cam calls him Seeley in retaliation for calling her Camille. |
| 117 | * {{Eagleland}}: Type 1, deconstructed. In ''The Proof in the Pudding'', the group lampshades how naïve Booth's views of the U.S. are, as he believes the country has none of the secrets and lies Hodgins believes it does. The idea that the country is hiding information about the JFK murder almost drives him into HeroicBSOD. Sweets though mentions the possibility that he holds on to this view as a way to comfort himself for the deaths he has caused as a military. |
| 118 | * TheFace: He's an FBI agent surrounded by {{Lab Rat}}s. While they do their geeky science thing, he's talking to witnesses and cracking suspects. |
| 119 | * FairCop: Handsome FBIAgent. |
| 120 | * FamousAncestor: His ancestor was John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. He's not exactly proud of it. |
| 121 | * FBIAgent: His job is to do the interrogating and arresting. |
| 122 | * TheGamblingAddict: He was addicted to gambling in his backstory, which apparently got him in trouble. He was in recovery at the beginning of the series. [[spoiler:In the last quarter of Season 10 he goes to a poker game undercover as part of a case (which everyone told him was a bad idea) and naturally he relapses. His old bookie refuses to place bets for him so he chooses a more violent one that could threaten his family so Bones makes him move out of the house while he sobers up again.]] |
| 123 | * HiddenDepths: In addition to being a jock cop, Booth can lecture and work as a hairdresser and dance instructor. His dad was a barber and his mom a dancer. |
| 124 | * HolierThanThou: There can be times when he shows NoSympathy towards somewhat sympathetic characters despite his own DarkAndTroubledPast and occasional indulgences in PoliceBrutality. |
| 125 | * InformedAttribute: We are repeatedly told he is Catholic. But we almost never see him do anything Catholic, or being deterred by Catholic moral teaching. |
| 126 | * JerkJock: Booth is a mostly-mellowed version of this trope. While he has outgrown most of the trope's more noxious aspects, he still retains disdain for intellectuals and scientists (although it tends to be more good-natured ribbing with those he gets to know) and tends to bully around suspects. |
| 127 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can be a bit short and snappy towards the squints, but definitely does care about them. |
| 128 | * LastNameBasis: He's rarely called by his first name Seeley. |
| 129 | * LimitedWardrobe: Booth's trademark black suit and belt buckle, with occasional variations in the shirt, socks, and tie. When he's off the job, he usually wears a brown leather jacket, which he sometimes wears to crime scenes. |
| 130 | * TheMcCoy: He's certainly more emotionally invested in his cases than Bones (usually). |
| 131 | * MissingMom: His mother Marianne left the family because of the abuse she suffered at her husband's hands. She and Booth would remain out of contact until season 8, after 24 years apart. |
| 132 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Letting Broadsky get away after his first episode when Booth had him dead to rights, and could have just shot him in the leg or something, proves to be a horrible judgment call, with devastating consequences for the team. |
| 133 | * TheNicknamer: Calling Brennan "Bones", obviously. He also started calling Dr. Wyatt "Gordon Gordon", due to his habit of introducing himself as "Gordon, Gordon Wyatt." Subverted in that Gordon Wyatt revealed that his first ''and'' middle names are both Gordon. He also coined "Squints". |
| 134 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Most of the cast has realized he's doing it by now, but Gordon is the only one that has straight-out called him on it. Angela in Season 4, outright tells Bones he's doing it. |
| 135 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Agent Booth once, in a moment of personal stress, drew his weapon and fired two rounds into a robotic clown-head atop an ice cream truck. Several seasons later, after he'd completed counseling, got reinstated and received commendations for his work, it still gets brought up by folks from other government agencies when they want an excuse not to trust him with sensitive documents. |
| 136 | * OppositesAttract: Booth is religious, more emotional and more of a people person, while his partner and eventual wife is coldly intelligent, scientific, atheist and hyper-rational. |
| 137 | * PapaWolf: |
| 138 | ** Don't even think about hurting his son. While we haven't really seen this in action, he is on record that his [[PapaWolf protective]] instinct for Parker outweighs his faith in God himself, which is kinda a big deal. |
| 139 | ** It can safely be assumed that this now extends to [[spoiler:Booth and Bones' daughter Christine and their son Hank]]. |
| 140 | * ParentalAbandonment: Booth's mother was often abused by her husband, until one day she had enough and fled, abandoning Booth and Jared to fend for themselves. He has a hard time forgiving her when she tries to contact him as an adult. |
| 141 | * PoliceBrutality: Occasionally, especially when the suspect threatens Bones. In ''The Blood on the Stones'', featuring the hunt for a cop killer also stands out, when he refuses one suspect's demands for a lawyer, and refuses medical treatment for another whose foot had been shoot off by the victim shortly before the episode, exerting pressure on her wound. [[spoiler:The fact that neither is guilty of the murder makes this especially egregious]]. |
| 142 | * RaisedByGrandparents: His grandfather Hank saved him and his brother from their abusive dad. |
| 143 | * RealMenWearPink: Booth turns out to be an expert dancer. |
| 144 | * RecoveredAddict: A recovered gambling addict. [[spoiler:He relapses in Season 10. But he gets better.]] |
| 145 | * TheSocialExpert: You have to be when you're dealing with [[NoSocialSkills Brennan]]. |
| 146 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: He's a tall, often brooding man who's prone to snarking. |
| 147 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He has a problem with clowns and it's played over the seasons. After he [[spoiler:had his brain surgery, he forgot that he's supposed to be scared of clowns. To the point Brennan reminded him about it.]] |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | !!"Squints" |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Dr. Jack Hodgins]] |
| 153 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jack_hodgins.jpg]] |
| 154 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/TJThyne |
| 155 | |
| 156 | * AffectionateNickname: Has a penchant for calling both Bones and Angela 'baby' on numerous occasions, even slipped up once and called Cam 'baby'. |
| 157 | * AgentMulder: He believes in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. |
| 158 | * BerserkButton: Both the Gravedigger and Pelant piss him off to nearly murderous levels. |
| 159 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: A conspiracy theorist who dislikes the government and has anger management problems, but he excels at his job as an entomologist. |
| 160 | * ConspiracyTheorist: He refers to any of the associated paranoia as simply having all the facts. It gets dialed down considerably after [[spoiler:Zack is exposed as an accomplice of the Gormogon, whose pathology was partially based on theories about secret societies]], though it begins to re-emerge in season 7. |
| 161 | * DisappearedDad: It's established that Hodgins's parents have died long before the events of the series, but they are never discussed beyond that. |
| 162 | * DontYouDarePityMe: In spades as he copes with life as a paraplegic in season 11. |
| 163 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He is seemingly able to touch and analyze the bones together with Bones, Dr. Goodman and Zack in the first two seasons, even after stating that he is not good with bones, later seasons limit his work area to the main platform and his room. |
| 164 | * FriendToBugs: He's the Bug and Slime Guy. One of his doctorates is in entomology. How much does he love bugs? Enough that at one point he willing hosted a parasitic botfly larva in his neck because he wanted to follow its life-cycle. |
| 165 | * FriendlyRivalry: Although there is initially more than their fair share of animosity between the two, this eventually develops between him and Dr. Goodman. This culminates in "The Woman at the Airport", where Goodman confesses that he admires Hodgins' willingness to stand up to him despite his position of authority. |
| 166 | * GeniusCripple: His paralysis pretty much makes him this. |
| 167 | * GiveGeeksAChance: The object of the trope, being the "bugs and slime guy" with Angela, his eventual wife. |
| 168 | * HappilyMarried: To Angela. [[spoiler:Not so happily since he became paralyzed and started directing his bitterness about it towards her, but they get better.]] |
| 169 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: Has misanthropic tendencies but did learn to cope, albeit with a big setback brought on by his paralysis. |
| 170 | * HotBlooded: When it comes to bugs and slime... |
| 171 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: As he states when he expresses his refusal to believe in the supernatural, he's a conspiracy theorist, not a crazy occultist. |
| 172 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More so towards the beginning of the series, although he still has his moments later on (namely, when he acts like a jerk to new members of the team and when he gets paralyzed and acts like a jerk to everyone for a bit.). |
| 173 | * LastNameBasis: Even his wife rarely calls him Jack. |
| 174 | * LongLostRelative: Discovers a brother, Jeffery, who was hidden in a group home by the family due to mental illness. |
| 175 | * MadScientist: Seems to think of himself this way. In ''The Daredevil in the Mold'' (Season 6, Episode 13, original airdate February 10, 2011), he tells Angela, "I've always wanted to be a mad scientist." |
| 176 | * MissingMom: Hodgins's parents are long dead, and he only mentions his mother once, remarking in "The Heiress in the Hill" that his [[spoiler:long-lost older brother Jeffrey has [[FamilyEyeResemblance their mother's eyes.]]]] |
| 177 | * NonIdleRich: He's fabulously wealthy until season 9 and becomes a millionaire again a bit later, but still pulling long hours at the lab because he loves his job. |
| 178 | * OddFriendship: Although he really doesn't like Daisy at first, the two wind up spending a lot of time working together after a while |
| 179 | ** Although it begins very contentiously, he also ends up having this with Finn Abernathy [[spoiler:to the point that they even end up going into business together]] |
| 180 | * OfficialCouple: With Angela. |
| 181 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He is ''the'' go-to guy for anything that isn't related to forensic anthropology. |
| 182 | * PanickyExpectantFather: He spends most of ''The Change In the Game'' frantically asking Angela if it’s time every time she talks to him. When it IS time, he stays calm until she yells at him to get the car, then resumes being panicky. |
| 183 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[spoiler:When he's given the choice between saving his fortune or saving a school for girls from getting bombed by a drone, he chooses the latter.]] |
| 184 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: A serious problem of his, considering that he works in an FBI-sponsored forensics lab. Booth gave him an earful about this. |
| 185 | * SecretlyWealthy: And hates it or at least will go to any length to keep it a secret, so he can keep his life as just being the "Bug and Slime guy" of the group. [[spoiler:Pelant took care of that in Season 8's "The Corpse on the Canopy"; later on he starts making money by inventing a new form of rubber]]. |
| 186 | * TheSmartGuy: Will usually end up doing the most hard science in a case. |
| 187 | * TookALevelInJerkass: He has become extremely bitter and caustic and acts even more like a jerk than usual since [[spoiler:being paralyzed]] and it's starting to erode both his camaraderie with the team and his marriage to Angela. ''The Murder of the Meninist'' ends with him yelling at her for trying to ''encourage'' him, with him telling her in no uncertain terms that she's just going to have to sit there and take his crap when she calls him out for it. [[spoiler:Thankfully, he gets better after several episodes]]. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Angela Montenegro]] |
| 191 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angela_montenegro.jpg]] |
| 192 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelaConlin |
| 193 | |
| 194 | * AllWomenAreLustful: Keep her from hooking up with some guys for a long time and she goes into this mode. |
| 195 | * AsianAndNerdy: Angela is half-Chinese and works as a forensic artist. She proudly and intentionally makes it clear she's not as nerdy as the others. |
| 196 | * BestFriendManual: For Bones. She often gives others tips on interacting with Brennan. |
| 197 | * CatchPhrase: "Awkward, awkward, very awkward." |
| 198 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: For both Brennan and Hodgins, occasionally. |
| 199 | * CommitmentIssues: At first, due to her "living in the moment" attitude to life. Sweets tells her flat out that it's why her relationships fail. |
| 200 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: Her name is actually Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates [[Music/ZZTop Gibbons]]. It's no wonder she changed it. |
| 201 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the very first few minutes of the pilot, we see her be snarky with airport staff, flash one of them to get his attention when he's deliberately ignoring her, and immediately cheering up when she finally finds Bones, complete with a hug and calling her "Sweetie". |
| 202 | * EthicalSlut: Angela '''really''' likes sex, and has no reservations about letting people know it. |
| 203 | * GoodBadGirl: She loves sex and is easily one of the most moral characters on the show. |
| 204 | * HappilyMarried: To Hodgins. [[spoiler:Less happily after he became paralyzed and started taking out his frustrations on her. ''The Murder of the Meninist'' ends with her being chewed out just for ''encouraging'' her husband. They get better.]] |
| 205 | * TheHeart: Often serves as a counterpoint to the team's rational and scientific assessment of a case or victim. Makes sense as she's the only one without any scientific training. Hodgins even calls her this in ''The Man in the Cell'', which comes back to bite them when [[spoiler:Howard Epps sends her a human heart.]] |
| 206 | * HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Angela is the daughter of Billy Gibbons, guitarist of Music/ZZTop, who guest stars as a fictional version of himself. |
| 207 | * LovableSexManiac: She frequently has sex on the brain, but she's playful and respectful about it. |
| 208 | * MirrorCharacter: More in common with her best friend, Brennan, than might first appear: they both have a rigid code of beliefs and morals, both are incredibly stubborn, and both had a lot of difficulty committing to a long term relationship and both call their husbands by their last names. |
| 209 | * MissingMom: Her dad's an occasional guest star. Her mom, however, goes unmentioned. |
| 210 | * NiceGirl: Likely the nicest of the bunch. |
| 211 | * OddFriendship: She and Brennan have opposite views on most things, yet are great friends. |
| 212 | * OfficialCouple: With Hodgins. |
| 213 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: It's ironic, because she's the only squint who's not actually a scientist, and appropriate, as she gets married to Hodgins, who is both a scientist and omnidisciplinary. She can do almost anything techy or artistic that you ask her to, thanks to the magic of the Angelatron. |
| 214 | * OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Her first marriage with Hodgins is interrupted by the fact she's already married, to a man in Fiji on a [[AccidentalMarriage forgotten-in-a-drunken-haze island marriage]]. She didn't even remember her husband's name at first, but has to track him down to get him to sign the divorce papers. |
| 215 | * ReallyGetsAround: To the point that Sweets convinces her that it keeps her from forming stable relationships. One episode reveals she has never gone 6 weeks without sex since she lost her virginity. |
| 216 | * RelationshipUpgrade: After a few seasons of an on-and-off relation with Hodgins, they finally get together for real. |
| 217 | * SensitiveArtist: Angela Montenegro works in the Jeffersonian as a forensic facial reconstructionist, making use of her artistic skills (she was a former street artist) and technological know-how to recreate faces for the team. She is much more sensitive, empathetic, and in-tune with herself and her emotions than the rest of her coworkers, who are desensitized to their circumstances (at least outwardly). She is one of the characters who frequently has to take a moment to leave the scene and take a breather when dealing with corpses, murders, and other heavy topics, as she is much more prone to emotionally attaching herself to her work than the others. |
| 218 | * SexGoddess: Almost every episode a moment where her sexual expertise come up in a conversation. She even gives the rest of the team sexual advice and once boasted to Zack to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom". |
| 219 | * ShipperOnDeck: She ships Brennan/Booth. |
| 220 | * SuperIdentikit: From skeletal remains, not witness descriptions, but the improbable level of artistic accuracy is the same. Works with both traditional media and computer graphics. |
| 221 | * TeamMom: Angela was once described as the linchpin of the group, which is not inaccurate. |
| 222 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Angela is Asian-American and is revealed to be bisexual in ''The Skull in the Sculpture''. |
| 223 | * UnfortunateNames: Her real name is so embarrassing to her, that she chose to go as Angela Montenegro. Finally revealed in season 10, it is [[spoiler:Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons]]. |
| 224 | * WhatTheHellHero: Caroline calls her out for being angry at Cam for playing by the rules when Pelant tries to frame Brennan for Ethan's murder. She points out that by doing that, [[spoiler:Cam was the only one whose actions didn't play on Pelant's plans and became the biggest threat to him, who was trying to get all of Brennan's friends off the case]]. |
| 225 | * WomenPreferStrongMen: PlayedWith. While she married the 'bugs and slime guy', she expresses admiration on occasion for Booth. For instance, when he goes into 'alpha-male-get-shit-done' mode, she once exclaimed, "Sometimes he is like... whoa." |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Dr. Camille Saroyan]] |
| 229 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/camille_saroyan.jpg]] |
| 230 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/TamaraTaylor |
| 231 | |
| 232 | * TheAllegedBoss: Cam may struggle--and occasionally succeed--at maintaining her authority, but it doesn't always work. |
| 233 | * AmicableExes: She and Booth dated in the past. |
| 234 | * BigGood: The closest thing the show have of one: She is the one who makes the laboratory run efficiently, which is lampshaded by Hodgins, and guaranteeing that everything is done in such a way that things can still work on court, such as [[spoiler:letting Wendell go when he started using medicinal marijuana]], though they find a way to bring him back and [[spoiler:working outside of Pelant's plans by playing by the rules]], which is lampshaded by Caroline. |
| 235 | * BenevolentBoss: Much less imposing than her immediate predecessor, although she can still crack the whip if she needs to. |
| 236 | -->'''Cam:''' What I'd really like to do here is a meeting of the minds, but, if you insist on an organizational pyramid, I'll be at the top. |
| 237 | * BlackBossLady: Is a firm hand with the team but also knows that they know what they're doing and their quirks often help them do their work. |
| 238 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Part of her unwritten job description, for pretty much the entire lab. |
| 239 | * TheCoroner: Having worked for the New York Police, she's the most comfortable with the fleshy part of the team's job. |
| 240 | * DeadpanSnarker: Her reaction to the antics of her employees or irritating suspects/people brought in for questioning is usually a dry quip spoken with a perfectly straight face. |
| 241 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Doesn't like when Booth calls her Camille. She retaliated by calling him Seeley, knowing it annoys him. |
| 242 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With her sister Felicia, though they do have each other's backs. |
| 243 | * HappilyAdopted: In season 4 adopts Michelle, the daughter of her ex-fiancé of two years ten years prior, after he is murdered. Is generally seen to have a good relationship with her. In the series finale, she reveals that she and her new husband Arastoo are adopting three boys. |
| 244 | * HappilyMarried: As of the two-part series finale. |
| 245 | * MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:Fires Wendell when she finds out that he's using medical marijuana to treat his cancer because the Jeffersonian is a federal institution and its use is illegal; this is especially egregious when you consider the previous antics of the others including Angela being held in contempt of court for being uncooperative during Max's murder trial, Hodgins stealing evidence from the Gravedigger case which resulted in a judge ordering the whole team to stay away from the case, and then the team (including Cam) blatantly ignoring the judge's orders.]] |
| 246 | ** She did it not because it is something she opposes personally, but rather it may compromise any proof found by Wendell in court,[[spoiler:as the defense could easily challenge the validity of evidence analysed by a person known to use a mind-altering drug on regular basis]]. |
| 247 | * NewOldFlame: To Booth in season 2. |
| 248 | * TheNicknamer: |
| 249 | ** Hodgepodge for Hodgins, and Zackaroni for Zack. Oddly, she's one of the only people to call Booth by his first name, Seeley. |
| 250 | ** Vino Delectable for Vincent. |
| 251 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Occasionally enjoys Hodgins' experiments, not that she'll ever tell him, mind you. |
| 252 | * OldShame: InUniverse example. Her stint as an actress in a horror film. |
| 253 | * OnlySaneWoman / StraightMan: Given that Cam is the least eccentric scientist on the team, she spends much of her time corralling everyone and minimizing their conflict. |
| 254 | * OnlySaneEmployee: By and large, the squints are brilliant, but their eccentricities sometimes gets in the way of them being as effective as they can be. Part of Cam's job is to get corral their conflicting personalities and get them working together as best she can. Hodgins lampshade that she makes them efficient. |
| 255 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She almost always hears her employees out; she doesn't always let them do what they're asking but she'll hear what they have to say. |
| 256 | * WhenSheSmiles: Cam's always gorgeous, but that smile just makes it better. |
| 257 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Spiders. She’s freaked out at least twice by them. |
| 258 | * YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: After they start dating, any time Cam calls Arastoo "Dr. Vaziri," it means she's upset with him. Significant because she uses last names with almost everyone else, but with him, she usually calls him by his first name. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Dr. Daniel Goodman]] |
| 262 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daniel_goodman_7.jpg]] |
| 263 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JonathanAdams |
| 264 | |
| 265 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Goodman silently smirks to himself after scaring Dr. Hodgins shitless. |
| 266 | * BigScaryBlackMan: Less due to any threat of violence, and more due to his authority and imposing presence paired with his [[StopHavingFunGuy low tolerance for shenanigans]]. |
| 267 | ** In 'The Man on Fairway' he even uses this trope willingly to intimidate Hodgins for his own amusement. |
| 268 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After being a main character for the 1st season, Dr. Goodman disappears from the show and makes no future appearances without no reason given with the only mention of him being that he's on sabbatical, while Camille Saroyan replaces Goodman as the team's boss. |
| 269 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 270 | -->'''Goodman:''' He smells with his gut, what does he use his nose for? |
| 271 | * FamilyMan: Has a wife and twin daughters and appears to be devoted to them. |
| 272 | * LongBusTrip: His [[PutOnABus sabbatical]] has lasted ''how'' many years now? [[spoiler:''11 years'', as of the finale.]] |
| 273 | * TheMcCoy: His line of work involves a lot of conjecture and he tends towards a more emotional outlook. Oddly, he's this to ''Hodgins'''s Spock, not Brennan's. |
| 274 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Listens to his employees, even when they sound like loons. He doesn't always let them do whatever but he will listen and he does respect them greatly. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | !!Squinterns |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Dr. Zack Addy]] |
| 280 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zackaddy.jpg]] |
| 281 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/EricMillegan |
| 282 | |
| 283 | * DeadpanSnarker: "Apparently, all Angela needed was to hear her job description in a deep African-American tone." |
| 284 | %%* DeadGuyPuppet: [[spoiler:Averted]] |
| 285 | * EskimosArentReal: He doesn't believe that pirates actually existed. |
| 286 | * FaceHeelTurn: Whether or not it qualifies as a full turn is debatable, as Zack never becomes evil. [[spoiler:He was merely manipulated by a serial killer.]] |
| 287 | ** Much later on, [[spoiler:in season 11, the team was tracking a serial killer who would murder people, taxidermy them, and turn the victim into puppets that he would live with for six months before discarding them and moving on. The team then discovers that the killer has a hatred against them, their families, and anyone ever connected to the team, as well as a psychotic obsession with Dr. Brennan. By the time the team puts together a profile of the killer and realizes that it's very likely Zack, he's already kidnapped Brennan.]] |
| 288 | ** Actually [[spoiler:He wanted Brennan to help him prove he wasn't the killer by injecting him with truth serum but she refused. After much detective work (and two red herrings) it's determined that Zack's doctor at the asylum was the killer and he was on the verge of killing Zack when Zack turned the tables -- but couldn't even kill in self-defense, proving to Booth and Brennan he's really innocent.]] |
| 289 | * GoodWithNumbers: Is able to perform large calculation in his head. |
| 290 | * HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Was posing as a neurosurgeon to give Hodgins hope he could walk again, essentially hoping the PlaceboEffect would cure him. When confronted by Hodgins he admitted the therapy had only a 1% chance of success and he feared all he was doing was putting his friend through unnecessary pain (after accepting his condition Hodgins' pain disappears).]] |
| 291 | %%* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: Averted.]] |
| 292 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:Was working for Gormogon. Though he was manipulated into it.]] |
| 293 | * MoralPragmatist: After Season 3 Finale, where he [[spoiler:revealed to be the Gormogon's Apprentice. He justifies his actions, arguing that the strategy of the killer is the logical means to achieving a better society. Dr. Brennan points out a single flaw in his logic and he immediately abandons team evil]] and gives the good guys everything they need to defeat his former mentor. |
| 294 | * NoSocialSkills: He's been shown to be extremely blunt to the point of rudeness with people he doesn't know well. |
| 295 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Millegan is actually two years older than Emily Deschanel. |
| 296 | * PhotographicMemory: Is said to have one by Hodgins. |
| 297 | * PutOnABus: After TheReveal that [[spoiler:he was Gormogon's apprentice]], Zack had to go to a sanitarium for rehabilitation. |
| 298 | ** TheBusCameBack: Returned and featured prominently in ''The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond'', even befriending Sweets. |
| 299 | ** Returns again at the end of the season 11 finale in the worst possible way [[spoiler:as he was feared to be "the Puppeteer" serial killer the team was hunting, and kidnaps Brennan.]] |
| 300 | ** Returns again in ''A Day In The Life'', the pentultimate episode of the series, where the life sentence is thrown out. He does have to serve a year more on aiding the killer though. |
| 301 | * RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:Averted; was framed by the Puppeteer.]] |
| 302 | * ScarsAreForever: Thanks to the explosion that [[spoiler:led to him being outed as Gormogon's apprentice]], he has permanently scarred/disabled hands and took to wearing gloves to cover them up after he was [[spoiler:placed in the institution. Also his forehead scar when he self harmed after the death of Sweets.]] |
| 303 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Averted as of season 12 episode 1]] |
| 304 | * TotalitarianUtilitarian: The logic he follows from the Gormogon. |
| 305 | * WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As of the season 11 finale.]] |
| 306 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: As the apprentice to Gormogon.]] |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:Vincent Nigel-Murray]] |
| 310 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vincent_nigel_murray_36329362810_1.jpg]] |
| 311 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/RyanCartwright |
| 312 | |
| 313 | * TheAlcoholic: Drank heavily for a while but eventually enters recovery. |
| 314 | * TheAtoner: As a recovering alcoholic, he has to make amends to the people close to him for all the ways he's wronged them. [[spoiler:After his death, the team realizes that if the minor things he feels so guilty for were the worst things he had done, then he was quite a decent guy]]. |
| 315 | * AttentionWhore: Can't seem to appear in a scene without taking center stage, however briefly. |
| 316 | * CanNotTellALie: In ''The Babe In The Bar'', when he, Sweets, Cam and Brennan lie about knowing that [[spoiler:Angela's pregnant]], he starts whimpering, covers his face and says "Please, I beg of you, don't look at me directly. Just say what you came to say." |
| 317 | * ChekhovsSkill: His tangents and knowledge can hold valuable insight about a case on occassion. Once he mentions how low of a percentage of Americans have passports, then quickly says this is relevant to the case as everyone looks exasperated again, pointing out the victim had a sex change operation abroad that would have required a passport, and can help the man narrow down who it was. Another time his knowledge about how common conjoined twins are is relevant to the case, even if it doesn't play a role in identifying them. |
| 318 | -->'''Vincent:''' All fact are useful. It's just the context that shifts. |
| 319 | * CloudCuckoolander: Spouts off various LittleKnownFacts no matter what he's in the middle of and seems oblivious to how that irritates anyone who isn't Brennan. |
| 320 | * CursedWithAwesome: He ended up winning Jeopardy! with his compulsive declaration of facts. |
| 321 | * DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Hodgins and Angela's baby, born the episode after Vincent's death was given the second middle name of "Vincent."]] |
| 322 | * DeadpanSnarker: Much like Zack, Vincent doesn't snark often but when he does, it's quite spectacular. |
| 323 | * InsufferableGenius: Though he's unaware of this, his tendency to spout off facts at random drives everyone who isn't Brennan up the wall. |
| 324 | * KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:The creators came right out and said they "killed him for heartbreak."]] |
| 325 | * LittleKnownFacts: His are actually true, but no more useful for all that. |
| 326 | * MotorMouth: Once he gets started on one of his tangents, it is ''very'' difficult to stop him. |
| 327 | * NerdsAreSexy: "If I killed everyone who looked at me lustily, I wouldn't have made it out of school." |
| 328 | * NiceGuy: Even during his [[TheAtoner Atoner]] stage, his "sins" were quite minor and he's almost always got a sweet disposition. |
| 329 | %%* RavenHairIvorySkin |
| 330 | * VerbalTic: His random facts seem to be a compulsion and increase when he's stressed. |
| 331 | %%* WellDoneSonGuy: With Brennan. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Daisy Wick]] |
| 335 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daisy_wick_6.jpg]] |
| 336 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/CarlaGallo |
| 337 | |
| 338 | * AscendedFangirl: Doctor Brennan is her hero and working at the Jeffersonian is her lifelong dream. [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee She will never let you forget that.]] |
| 339 | * AttentionWhore: A milder example, but still. She always makes her role in a discovery extremely, ''extremely'' clear. |
| 340 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Her quirk being that she never shuts up. |
| 341 | %%* CloudCuckoolander |
| 342 | * GenkiGirl: Loves working at the Jeffersonian and rarely even tried to downplay her happiness at any given moment. |
| 343 | * GoofyPrintUnderwear: Wears "day of the week" panties. |
| 344 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: She is efficient, but eccentric and overexcited is an understatement. |
| 345 | %%* ManicPixieDreamGirl |
| 346 | * MotorMouth: Talks a mile a minute, especially with Sweets and Brennan. |
| 347 | * TheNicknamer: Lancelot for Sweets |
| 348 | * OddCouple: When she and Sweets sit to talk about their interests they discover that they don't have that much in common, but their bond is strong enough that this doesn't bother the mother too much. |
| 349 | * OfficialCouple: With Sweets. At least [[spoiler:until his untimely death in Season 10]]. |
| 350 | [[/folder]] |
| 351 | |
| 352 | [[folder:Dr. Clark Edison]] |
| 353 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clark_edison_9.jpg]] |
| 354 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/EugeneByrd |
| 355 | |
| 356 | * BlackAndNerdy: He's African-American and works as a medical examiner. |
| 357 | * TheComicallySerious: His shtick at first was his refusal to share anything from his personal life with his work life. Then he went and took it in [[TooMuchInformation the other direction.]] |
| 358 | * MyGreatestFailure: "The Stiff in the Cliff" reveals that he once covered up a mistake his lover made during an excavation before he joined the Jeffersonian staff. |
| 359 | %%* NaughtyByNight |
| 360 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: His full name is Clarke UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison. |
| 361 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He loosens up considerably by the middle of season 6. |
| 362 | * OnlySaneMan: He can feel more intuitive on the job than the others and doesn't get dragged into a single much chaos as the rest of them. |
| 363 | * ShipperOnDeck: Whenever he did start opening up about it, he was the most enthusiastic shipper of Booth and Brennan among the Squinterns. |
| 364 | * StylisticSuck: With a healthy dose of ShapedLikeItself, the book he wrote in the ninth season. |
| 365 | -->''Death had never looked so dead as the death now in front of them, all life drained, only death covering the dead.''\ |
| 366 | '''Cam:''' Ya think the victim was dead? |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Wendell Bray]] |
| 370 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wendell_bray.jpg]] |
| 371 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelGrantTerry |
| 372 | |
| 373 | * AcademicAthlete: An inventive Squintern who is also a star player on Booths hockey team. |
| 374 | * TheEveryman: Came from a humble background and has had a lot of less sophisticated jobs. |
| 375 | %%* NiceGuy |
| 376 | * RomanticRunnerUp: He's Angela's replacement for Hodgins and later Roxie when they break up but ultimately, the FirstGuyWins. |
| 377 | * SmokingIsCool: Downplayed, as his dad died of lung cancer, and he only holds a cigarette (without lighting it) when he's trying to think like him. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Dr. Arastoo Viziri]] |
| 381 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arastoo_viziri.jpg]] |
| 382 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/PejVehdat |
| 383 | |
| 384 | * AccentSlipUp: His true American accent came out when he was feeling particularly emotional about a case. |
| 385 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Returned to Iran, despite the potential that he could be arrested for his activist past, in order to help and comfort his brother during some cancer operations. |
| 386 | * {{Fauxreigner}}: To cut down on persecution for his devout beliefs, he pretended to be 'just off the boat'. He's truly from Iran but from a wealthy moderate family and spent a number of years in the Western Education System. |
| 387 | %%* GameOfNerds |
| 388 | * HumiliationConga: According to himself, the canceling of the publishing of his first article was this: he wasn't meant to tell anyone, but he told everyone who he worked with and his parents, and his parents told even more people that his first article was going to be published, but he needs to tell everybody that it was canceled. |
| 389 | * NiceGuy: He made Angela a mix tape to cheer her up after her breakup with Roxie back when he barely even knew Angela. Heck, [[spoiler:he waited for Cam to agree to marry him and even decided to adopt since Cam's not certain she wants to get pregnant (for her part Cam knows how much he wants kids and that he'll be a great dad)]]. |
| 390 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After dealing with ignorant probes from the Jeffersonian team about his religion, and a misunderstanding from Cam about something he said, Arastoo finally (deservedly) tears into fellow intern Finn Abernathy [[spoiler:while they are investigating the death of a 9/11 victim when Finn asks him if he'd be able to investigate this case due to his religion]]. |
| 391 | * SurpassedTheTeacher: Averted. Although Cam picks him to be Brennan's replacement, Brennan hurts his confidence by hijacking control of the lab on his first major case and pointing out his mistakes on other cases in her absence. |
| 392 | * {{Tsundere}}: Type B; usually sweet and calm, but quick to anger, as seen in both several scenes where his religion is brought up,the episode in which he introduces [[spoiler:Cam]] to his parents, and when a nosy camera crew filming a documentary won't leave Cam's personal life alone. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Dr. Colin Fisher]] |
| 396 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colin_fisher_3.jpg]] |
| 397 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoelDavidMoore |
| 398 | |
| 399 | * TheBusCameBack: After not appearing in season 10, he returns to the show as a full-blown doctor and as Bones' equal (in rank). He also appears in season 12. |
| 400 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He's one of the more eccentric squinterns but no less brilliant than the others. |
| 401 | * TheEeyore: Clinically depressed. |
| 402 | * KavorkaMan: Has slept with around a hundred women. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Dr. Douglas Filmore]] |
| 406 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_fillmore2.jpg]] |
| 407 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/ScottLowell |
| 408 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Subverted. After Sweets tells him "You're in America now. It's okay to get pissed at Dr. B." he unleashes on Brennan all the fury of an angry Canadian podiatrist. |
| 409 | -->'''Filmore''': You are brilliant. But you are also close-minded and a thoughtless person. |
| 410 | * BreakTheCutie: Whenever he's with Dr. Brennan, she will constantly belittle his field of expertise and dismiss any of his forensic discoveries. He rarely defends himself due to his extreme politeness, but his Conversion Disorder often displays that her words really do get to him. |
| 411 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Although he eventually earns a doctorate in forensic anthropology, he is first and foremost a forensic podiatrist and gets unusually excited when he has feet to study. |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | [[folder:Finn Abernathy]] |
| 415 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finn_abernathy_1.jpg]] |
| 416 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/LukeKleintank |
| 417 | |
| 418 | * AbusiveParents: It was so bad he tried to kill his stepfather. |
| 419 | * BigEater: His breakfast order looked to be enough for 2 or 3 people. |
| 420 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Which gets revealed in a heartfelt conversation with Bones of all people. |
| 421 | * TheNicknamer: Already dubbed Hodgins "Thurston", likely a ''Series/GilligansIsland'' reference to his money. |
| 422 | * NightmareFetishist: Upon pulling a large python [[{{Squick}} from the abdomen of the]] VictimOfTheWeek: |
| 423 | -->'''Finn:''' Oh, I gotta say ma'am, this is the ''best'' damn job ever! |
| 424 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given to a deserving Hodgins, who TookALevelInJerkass towards him. Cam approves. |
| 425 | ** On the receiving end of one after he asks Arastoo if his religion will impact him being able to process a 9/11 victims remains. |
| 426 | * ReformedCriminal: He was charged with attacking his stepfather with a knife when he was a juvenile, but the record has been locked since, and it was justified considering that his stepfather was abusive. |
| 427 | %%* SouthernFriedGenius |
| 428 | * TeenGenius: Established as only being seventeen in his debut season, and yet has enough of a reputation to work at the Jeffersonian. |
| 429 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Hodgins, once they start to get along. |
| 430 | [[/folder]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | [[folder:Jessica Warren]] |
| 433 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jessica_warren.jpg]] |
| 434 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/LauraSpencer |
| 435 | |
| 436 | * AttentionWhore: Just like Daisy; ironically she states that Booth probably doesn't know her name (he doesn't, he calls all of them "Squinterns". |
| 437 | * BetaCouple: With Aubrey. [[spoiler:Until their breakup in the finale.]] |
| 438 | * {{Foil}}: Uses her gut feelings in place of Brennan's logic. |
| 439 | * InsistentTerminology: She grew up in an educational cooperative, not a commune. |
| 440 | * MadScientist: PlayedForLaughs, she's always happy to help Hodgins with his latest crazy experiment. |
| 441 | * NiceGuy: Brimming with confidence, but in a very positive and infectious manner. |
| 442 | * TheNicknamer: Calls Aubrey Superman and Hodgins Curly. |
| 443 | * RedIsHeroic: A decidedly noble young woman with vividly red hair. |
| 444 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Daisy (she even sleeps with Sweets), possibly due to Carla Gallo (Daisy) being pregnant. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Dr. Oliver Wells]] |
| 448 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oliver_wells.jpg]] |
| 449 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrianKlugman |
| 450 | |
| 451 | * AgentMulder: Is a lot more open minded than the other characters to fantastical idea such as genuinely and sincerely positing the idea that two murder victims of different ages but similar skeletons are the same guy from two different time periods. [[spoiler:However, this leads to him overlooking the more obvious explanation; in the above example, the victims were actually father and son]]. |
| 452 | * ComplexityAddiction: During his debut episode ''The Fact in the Fiction'', [[spoiler:Wells was so fixated on the idea that the two similar bodies was the result of the victim perfecting his plans for time travel and being visited by his future self that he overlooked the simpler explanation; the older victim was the first victim's long-missing father]]. |
| 453 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The bucket list Angela gives him in ''The Lady on the List'' to improve his behavior: |
| 454 | -->'''1'''. Don't be a douche.\ |
| 455 | '''2'''. Really, don't be a douche.\ |
| 456 | '''3'''. Work and play well with others, so I'm not perceived as a douche. |
| 457 | * FailedASpotCheck: Fell victim to this in his debut episode ''The Fact in the Fiction''; faced with two badly burned bodies who were somehow connected to each other, Wells [[spoiler:never realised that the bodies were father and son because he was caught up in encouraging the idea that the younger victim had perfected his plans for time travel]]. |
| 458 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: You know it's bad when even fellow geniuses who have been considered rude or annoying in the past--like Brennan, Daisy, and Jessica--don't like him. Fisher is literally the only character who does. A big part of the problem is that, while ''all'' of the Squinterns have some kind of personality quirk and some of are downright annoying, all of the other Squinterns have some sympathetic qualities as well that ultimately make them likable, or at least tolerable. Wells does not seem to have anything of the sort. |
| 459 | * GoodIsNotNice: He's on the side of good and helps catch the killers, but is easily the least likable of all the Squinterns. |
| 460 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Implied by himself and invoked by Hodgins: |
| 461 | ->'''Oliver''': What if I don't want to be one of you? |
| 462 | ->'''Hodgins''': I think you do. |
| 463 | * InsufferableGenius: Exaggerated; by far the worst ever seen on the show, making people like Zack, Daisy, and Brennan herself look tame by comparison. It's made worse by the fact that, unlike all the other examples of this trope on this show, Wells really doesn't have any sympathetic qualities aside from not being evil. |
| 464 | * {{Jerkass}}: As a result of being a {{Narcissist}} and an InsufferableGenius, with very few likable traits. |
| 465 | * LoveToHate: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}} InUniverse. Daisy complains to Hodgins that she hates Wells after he was especially rude to her, and Hodgins replies, "We all hate him, but eventually you reach the point where you start to enjoy hating him." Daisy then responds that she hasn't gotten to that point yet. |
| 466 | * {{Narcissist}}: Is very arrogant and rude, and genuinely seems to believe that he is superior to everyone else. |
| 467 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Has high knowledge in physics, anatomy, forensic anthropology, and many other types of science, and also knows quite a bit about non-science fields like law and history. |
| 468 | %%* VitriolicBestBuds: Becomes this with Hodgins. |
| 469 | [[/folder]] |
| 470 | |
| 471 | [[folder:Dr. Rodolfo Fuentes]] |
| 472 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rodolfo_fuentes_3.jpg]] |
| 473 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/IgnacioSerricchio |
| 474 | |
| 475 | * TheCasanova: Flirts with Brennan, Cam, and Angela on his first day. |
| 476 | * ChainsawGood: Has an obsession with chainsaws as shown in ''The Flaw in the Saw''. |
| 477 | * HonorBeforeReason: Risks everything to smuggle needed drugs into Cuba; when he's caught he's ready to accept responsibility and leave the Jeffersonian (and possibly the country). Brennan fixes things by using a CIA contact to handle the drugs. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !!FBI characters |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder: Lance Sweets]] |
| 483 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lance_sweets.jpg]] |
| 484 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnFrancisDaley |
| 485 | |
| 486 | * AbusiveParents: His former foster father left him with deep physical and emotional scars. |
| 487 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's considered this due to his young age compared to the rest of the team. Booth especially regards him as an annoying kid early on and keeps saying he's a 12-year-old. He was dubbed “baby duck” in one episode. |
| 488 | * ButtMonkey: A mild case, but yes, both Booth and Bones often treat him like this. Booth sees him as little more than a child, whereas Bones vehemently denies the usefulness of psychology and insults him about it. |
| 489 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In the premiere of the tenth season, with no warning at all.]] |
| 490 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 491 | -->'''Sweets:''' You choked a man until he was unconscious?\ |
| 492 | '''Hodgins:''' A bad man. And you're hinting that if I'd killed him, that would make me bad, too?\ |
| 493 | '''Sweets:''' Hinting? |
| 494 | * DrJerk: Originally he was this, being less interested in Bones and Booths as his patients and more of case study, [[spoiler: to the point that when Booth was ordered to fake being dead by the FBI as part of an undercover operation, he intentionally ignored his request to tell Bones just so he could see her reaction]]. Thankfully he got better, becoming an important part of the team. |
| 495 | * HappilyAdopted: His adopted parents are never seen, but observations by fellow psychiatrist Gordon Wyatt confirmed that he was adopted by an older couple when he was around four years old, having being subject to vicious abuse from his biological father, with Wyatt speculating that his relationship with Booth and Brennan led to him 'imprinting' on them as parental substitutes. |
| 496 | * HollywoodPsych: Lots of AllPsychologyIsFreudian, with this guy. Among other things, it's no wonder Bones doesn't take his profession seriously. |
| 497 | * MediumAwareness: |
| 498 | ** ''The Future in the Past'': |
| 499 | --->'''Flynn:''' I don't think you're being completely honest with me.\ |
| 500 | '''Sweets:''' Then you have trust issues, stemming from... I don't know, a bunch of psychological crap. |
| 501 | ** ''The Secrets in the Proposal'': |
| 502 | --->'''Sweets:''' ''[to Caroline]'' Have you noticed that dead bodies always save Booth from confronting his demons? |
| 503 | * MeaningfulName: He is a ridiculously NiceGuy. |
| 504 | %%* NiceGuy |
| 505 | * NoRespectGuy: To both Temperance and Booth, and occasionally the others as well. |
| 506 | * OfficialCouple: With Daisy. |
| 507 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's in his 20s, but looks like a 14-year-old. |
| 508 | * ParentalSubstitute: A big part of his relationship with Bones and Booth. His elderly, adoptive parents died shortly before he came to work with them. |
| 509 | * PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: The one time he's seen shirtless, (in "Mayhem On A Cross"), his back is covered in scars. Apparently bio dad would whip him. |
| 510 | * TheProfiler: Serves this role to the team on several occasions, ranging from working out who might have committed this type of murder to working out who their victim might have been by analyzing the life of the victim's long-lost twin brother. |
| 511 | * TheShrink: Especially to Booth and Bones, but almost everybody's had a turn with him at one point. It's a RunningGag that people wanting advice pop into his office with no warning. Usually, it's not a problem. Usually. Another Running Gag has a member of the cast questioning his ability to give useful advice... who then follows his advice. |
| 512 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: Was a master in his college years, and a decade later still has the skill to outplay an entire club of chess pros. |
| 513 | * TookALevelInBadass: One of the few times he steps out of the office with Booth [[spoiler:results in him [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting killed off]]]] but not without wounding his attacker in turn. |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:Gordon Wyatt]] |
| 517 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gordon_wyatt_2.jpg]] |
| 518 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephenFry |
| 519 | |
| 520 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Implied, in his youth, he used an alter ego to play rock called Noddy Comet, in his own words, "A bisexual spaceman with a taste for glitter, lycra and an exhibitionist disdain for underwear". |
| 521 | * BerserkButton: Being called a "Fry cook? FRY COOK?!" after his retirement. |
| 522 | %% * CoolOldGuy |
| 523 | * HiddenDepths: He's a [[SupremeChef fantastic cook]]. He's also an excellent guitarist [[InformedAbility according to Booth]]. |
| 524 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: When he first met Booth, he introduced himself as "Gordon, Gordon Wyatt", to which Booth retorted that it's weird how he reiterated his first name. Gordon then clarified that Booth made that assumption without considering that his middle name could be the same as his first name, so he wasn't reiterating at all. This is what later made Booth [[HiddenDepths start considering Gordon's advice]], as he had assumed Gordon to be just another shrink. |
| 525 | %%* LargeHam |
| 526 | * NiceGuy: He's firm but gentle when dealing with his patients. He also gets Bones and Booth to be nicer to Sweets. |
| 527 | * OldMaster: To Sweets. He's older, been a psychologist for much longer, and was able to tear apart Sweet's thesis about Bones and Booth's relationship in less than a minute. |
| 528 | * PutOnABus: Went to work at INTERPOL, before retiring from psychology to become a professional chef. He made one appearance in Season 5 when Booth sought him for some personal help, and hasn't been seen since. |
| 529 | ** TheBusCameBack: He returns in Season 12. |
| 530 | * OddFriendship: With Agent Booth. |
| 531 | %%* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness |
| 532 | * TheShrink: Been at it even longer than Sweets. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Caroline Julian]] |
| 536 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caroline_julian_2.jpg]] |
| 537 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/PatriciaBelcher |
| 538 | |
| 539 | * TheBigEasy: She's from N'Awlins, [[{{Catchphrase}} Cherie]]. |
| 540 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Cherie. Eventually, she starts shortening it to "cher". |
| 541 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 542 | * HeelFaceTurn: Her flashback self was rather more politically motivated in her behavior, and accused Booth of the same. |
| 543 | * OnlySaneEmployee: She is the one most grounded to reality among the group. |
| 544 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to all squints and Booth in season 2, accusing them of ruining the wonderful team they make for petty reasons. |
| 545 | %%* SassyBlackWoman |
| 546 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 547 | ** She's actually the one who gets Booth and Brennan to kiss for the first time, due to her "puckish" side and a strategically-placed sprig of mistletoe. [[spoiler:But episode 100 reveals that was actually the second time.]] |
| 548 | ** In season 11, she can see there's something going on between Aubrey and Jessica. She makes Aubrey do a background check on Jessica for no other reason than to put them together for a while. |
| 549 | * TeamMom: Usually gives at least one member of the team a good talking to in each of her appearances. Bonus points for apparently being the oldest recurring cast member. |
| 550 | %%* TwoFirstNames |
| 551 | %%* VerbalTic: "Cherie". |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:James Aubrey]] |
| 555 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_aubrey.jpg]] |
| 556 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I helped bring down my own father, Mr. Dunlop, so bringing you down would be a piece of cake. And as my friends here can attest, I love cake."]] |
| 557 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnBoyd |
| 558 | |
| 559 | * BigEater: He often surrounds himself with food, and is always willing to dig in if food is available. Most of his appearances in the opening credits are of him taking a massive bite out of some foodstuff. |
| 560 | ** [[{{InvertedTrope}} Inverted]] to the point of OOCIsSeriousBusiness in ''The Tutor in the Tussle'' where he repeatedly declines food in anticipation of confronting his DisappearedDad. |
| 561 | * ConvenientReplacementCharacter: For Sweets. |
| 562 | * DeadpanSnarker: One of the best in a cast full of them. He's especially great at the "deadpan" part: |
| 563 | -->''Booth and Aubrey knock on a suspect's door''\ |
| 564 | '''Booth:''' Now remember, Bones said the victim was in a fight before he died, so keep an eye out for any injuries on this guy.\ |
| 565 | ''Guy opens the door, covered in bruises and cuts all over his face''\ |
| 566 | '''Aubrey:''' Hey, Booth, I think I might have found some.\ |
| 567 | '''Booth:''' You think so? |
| 568 | * HiddenDepths: Minored in Religious Studies and can literally quote chapter and verse from memory. |
| 569 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:With Karen. After breaking up with Jessica, she sends him some buckets of chicken to help console him and he asks her to join him.]] |
| 570 | * ParentalAbandonment: His father left when he was young. [[spoiler:We find out in the Season 10 finale that his dad was a con man whom Aubrey personally helped bring down]]. |
| 571 | * TakingTheBullet: The bomb shrapnel in this case, jumping on Hodgins and nearly dying in "The Doom In The Boom". |
| 572 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Spiders. |
| 573 | [[/folder]] |
| 574 | |
| 575 | [[folder:Sam Cullen]] |
| 576 | ->'''Played by:''' John M. Jackson |
| 577 | |
| 578 | A FBI Deputy Director who is Booth's friend and boss in season 1. |
| 579 | ---- |
| 580 | * BaldOfAuthority: He is a bald man who fills the role of DaChief with gusto. |
| 581 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He is never seen or mentioned after getting ADayInTheLimelight late in season 1, although this is justified. In that episode, his daughter gets cancer that will almost certainly kill her, and it is likely that he retired or transferred to a less busy job in order to spend more time with her throughout her struggles. |
| 582 | * DaChief: He is in charge of granting approval for the Squints to help with cases early on, but makes it clear that he views them as nerdy civilians whose presence rubs him the wrong way despite Booth vouching for them. |
| 583 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He may not like the Squints at first, but he eventually acknowledges that they can contribute a lot to investigations. He also (reluctantly) refuses to overstep jurisdictional boundaries during an ItsPersonal investigation into a corrupt medical supplier who sold his daughter (who was hospitalized from a snowboarding accident) a bone transplant that gave her cancer. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | [[folder:Assistant Director Andrew Hacker]] |
| 587 | ->'''Played by:''' Diedrich Bader |
| 588 | One of Booth's superiors, who is attracted to Bones. |
| 589 | ---- |
| 590 | * TheCavalryArrivesLate: In one episode, when he learns that the team is being held prisoner, Andrew personally leads a SWAT team to rescue them. By the time he arrives, though, the situation is resolved. |
| 591 | * NiceGuy: He's very good-natured and reasonable, is a considerate boyfriend to Brennan, and asks Booth if he and Brennan are dating before getting seriously involved with her after Booth says no. |
| 592 | * PutOnABus: He's never seen again after breaking up with Bones, although one later episode mentions that he's still Booth's boss. |
| 593 | * RomanticFalseLead: He dates Brennan for most of season 5, but he only appears in a handful of episodes before they break up offscreen. |
| 594 | * SharpDressedMan: He's always nicely dressed and even jokes that it's part of his job. |
| 595 | * SoulCrushingDeskJob: Upon hearing that Booth's latest case involves an Egyptian mummy, he comments that "you field agents have all the fun." Another time, he comments that his job is mostly just looking good and "kissing ass." |
| 596 | [[/folder]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | [[folder:Karen Delfs]] |
| 599 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/SaraRue |
| 600 | A behavioral analyst who works with the team in the last two seasons and develops a bond with Aubrey. |
| 601 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She is good at her job, but can be a high-strung MotorMouth, loses her badge sometimes, and has odd objects in her purse that even she sometimes forgets the purpose of. |
| 602 | * ForgetsToEat: She sometimes accidentally skips meals while working on a case and then starts stuffing herself once it is solved and she realizes how hungry she is. |
| 603 | * TheProfiler: She analyzes the behavior of suspects in a case to give the team advice about how to treat those people and is insightful but not infallible. |
| 604 | [[/folder]] |
| 605 | |
| 606 | !!Other characters |
| 607 | |
| 608 | [[folder:Max Keenan]] |
| 609 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/max_keenan_01.jpg]] |
| 610 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/RyanONeal |
| 611 | |
| 612 | * AffablyEvil: Until his HeelFaceTurn, he was this trope, caring deeply about his kids and his late wife and giving off an extremely friendly vibe but was able to order a hit on a man who was a threat to his kids without batting an eye. |
| 613 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He is friendly to pretty much everyone he knows and loves his family, but isn't above using violence to protect them. |
| 614 | * HeroicSacrifice: Killed several guys with his bare hands to protect his grandkids. Sadly, the stress is too much for his heart. |
| 615 | * ImprovisedWeaponUser: While in jail in 1966, used a sharpened copper pipe to defend himself. It apparently became his [[WeaponSpecialization signature weapon]], though he largely abandoned it after being acquitted of murder in season 3. |
| 616 | * PapaWolf: Has been known to go to considerable lengths to protect his children, including committing murder; Sweets noted that he had a moral code that allowed him to justify any action, up to and including murder, if it was done to protect his loved ones. [[spoiler:His last act of this was killing two assassins who were after his grandkids, ''after'' having a pacemaker installed.]] |
| 617 | ** FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Said pacemaker had a GPS that allowed the killers to track him to an FBI safe house.]] |
| 618 | * RetiredBadass: He is a former criminal who used to kill people on occasion. Now he bowls, although the 'cane' he carried in the episode where Booth had to fill in for him on League Night looked suspiciously like a [[CarryABigStick shillelagh]]. |
| 619 | * ShipperOnDeck: Doesn't see why Booth hasn't gone after his daughter yet, and also bought his daughter a toothbrush-holder for two. |
| 620 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He is not an evil man, but his total disregard for rules and laws that do not match his conscience has driven him to become a criminal. Even after he began to live by the rules, it is clear that he did so only because to do otherwise would destroy any chance of reconciliation with Bones. |
| 621 | * TearJerker: [[spoiler:His last words were recounting a dream he had of a pleasant family road trip with Brennan]]. |
| 622 | [[/folder]] |
| 623 | |
| 624 | [[folder: Roxie Lyon]] |
| 625 | ->'''Played by:''' Nichole Hiltz |
| 626 | |
| 627 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She made three appearances and was never mentioned again after her last one. |
| 628 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Actually, she's briefly mentioned in Season 3 by a detective Angela hires to find her accidental husband, Grayson Barasa. |
| 629 | * FlatCharacter: Roxie was only introduced to bring in the fact that Angela was bisexual. |
| 630 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: OK, rephrasing that - in her first appearance, it's revealed she became a painter like Angela. |
| 631 | * SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Angela and Roxie were apparently a couple. They become this again but ultimately break up. |
| 632 | [[/folder]] |
| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:Angela's Dad]] |
| 635 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angelas_dad.jpg]] |
| 636 | ->'''Played by:''' [[Music/ZZTop Billy Gibbons]] |
| 637 | |
| 638 | * AsHimself: Played with since no one ever actually calls him by name. However, he shares several biographical details with Billy Gibbons, like being in a BluesRock band. In one episode, he even played a piece of ZZ Top's iconic "La Grange". Whenever he appears, he is in full ZZ Top gimmick, beard, sunglasses, hat, guitar, the works. |
| 639 | * CoolOldGuy: His advanced age doesn't deter him from protecting his daughter and putting the fear of God into Hodgins. |
| 640 | * DealWithTheDevil: Sweets legitimately believes that he has some sort of [[Music/RobertJohnson Crossroads]]-style deal with the devil. |
| 641 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even though it's Billy Gibbons, no one ever actually calls him by name. He's just "Angela's dad". |
| 642 | * GiverOfLameNames: Angela goes by Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro, but her given name is Pookie Noodlin, which he picked. When she's pregnant, her father tries to convince Hodgins to name the child Staccato Mamba, which he defends as being gender-neutral. [[spoiler:Staccato does wind up as the kid's middle name, but it's Michael Staccato Vincent, and after the episode where he's born, he's consistently referred to as "Michael Vincent."]] |
| 643 | * OhCrap: When Hodgins asks him for (very strong-willed) Angela's hand in marriage, Angela's dad claims that Hodgins has thus put them both in mortal danger. |
| 644 | * PapaWolf: Absolutely adores Angela; will do whatever it takes to see her happy. |
| 645 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: Puts Hodgins through several of these before he accepts him. |
| 646 | [[/folder]] |
| 647 | |
| 648 | [[folder: Jared Booth]] |
| 649 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jared_booth.jpg]] |
| 650 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrendanFehr |
| 651 | |
| 652 | * AerithAndBob: Brothers Seeley and Jared. |
| 653 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When Seeley is captured by the Gravedigger, Jared pulls out all the stops to find and save him, costing him his job and clearance |
| 654 | * TheAlcoholic: Gets pulled over for a DUI in his first episode. However, he eventually gets better. |
| 655 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: After being absent for several seasons, he's unceremoniously killed off in the Season 11 premiere and he's burnt to a crisp that only his skeleton remains. And the Jeffersonian Team originally thinks he's Booth until Bones does a more detailed examination.]] |
| 656 | * BitchSlap: After Bones finds out the true nature of Jared and Booth's relationship (that Seeley had been boosting Jared up to his own detriment), she slaps him. Hard. |
| 657 | * InformedAttractiveness: Bones says that his facial structure is even more symmetrical than Seeley's. In Bones-speak, that's her saying he's more handsome. |
| 658 | * NeverMyFault: Seeley had been bailing Jared out all his life, to the detriment of his own career. No only did Jared not think he needed Seeley, he called him a loser for not being more successful. |
| 659 | * NotSoSimilar: Booth initially defends him helping Jared by comparing it to Brennan defending her father in court, but subsequently corrects himself with the realisation that Max won't kill again where Jared will just keep repeating his mistakes if Booth doesn't take away the 'safety net'. |
| 660 | * RomanticFalseLead: Went on a date with Bones on his debut episode. Bones only rejected him when she found out he had been taking advantage of Seeley's overprotectiveness. |
| 661 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He broke several laws to save Booth from the Gravedigger, which sadly got him kicked out of his Pentagon job. |
| 662 | [[/folder]] |
| 663 | |
| 664 | [[folder: Hannah Burley]] |
| 665 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hannah_burley_8.jpg]] |
| 666 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/KatherynWinnick |
| 667 | |
| 668 | * CareerVersusMan: Tends to choose career. However, she did choose the "White House beat" in order to be in DC with Booth. |
| 669 | * CommitmentIssues: The biggest issue in her relationship with Booth is that he's moving their relationship much faster than she's comfortable with, and she ends up having to reject him after [[spoiler: he attempts to propose to her out of the blue]]. |
| 670 | * CommonalityConnection: She and Hodgins hit it off by bonding over media conspiracy theories. She and Brennance also bond over both being successful, independent woman that are proud of their careers. |
| 671 | * DifferingPrioritiesBreakup: [[spoiler:She and Booth ultimately break-up over having different priorities in life.]] |
| 672 | * HeadTurningBeauty: Brennan claims she's "mathematically attractive" and Hodgins gets DistractedByTheSexy by just watching her on TV. |
| 673 | * IntrepidReporter: She met Booth when she was working as a wartime reporter in Afghanistan. |
| 674 | * MsFanservice: She's a HeadTurningBeauty that spent a lot of her screentime in bed with Booth, usually in only a ModestyBedsheet. |
| 675 | * ParentWithNewParamour: She's not good with kids and is terrified at the prospect of meeting Booth's son. When they finally meet, they're shown to get along fine, much to Booth's relief. |
| 676 | * RescueRomance: Booth meets Hannah in Afghanistan after saving her from a situation with terrorists and they hit it off soon after. |
| 677 | * RomanticFalseLead: She's Booth's LoveInterest for Season 6, but ultimately turns him down when [[spoiler: he tries to propose to her very early in their relationship]]. |
| 678 | * RomanticRunnerUp: Booth is worried that she feels like this for Bones. However, she's confident enough to not be worried. [[spoiler:The end result was mixed; When Bones gave a LoveConfession to Booth he did pick Hannah but they then broke up and he got together with Bones a while later.]] |
| 679 | [[/folder]] |
| 680 | |
| 681 | [[folder: Christine Angela Booth]] |
| 682 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/christine_angela_booth.jpg]] |
| 683 | -->'''Played by:''' Ali and Susanne Hartman (seasons 7-9); Sunnie Pelant (seasons 9-present) |
| 684 | |
| 685 | * BigSisterInstinct: To Hank. Throughout the episode after [[spoiler:her uncle Jared dies]], Booth is fuming about the package containing [[spoiler:his remains]] apparently going missing. At the end of the episode, Bones and Booth find that Christine had taken it in order to get a boost to get into the crib alongside Hank, something she often did to comfort him. |
| 686 | * DeadGuyJunior: She’s named after her late maternal grandmother. |
| 687 | * LittleProfessorDialogue: Well, with Bones as her mother, she was bound to learn a lot of things that most children her age wouldn't. |
| 688 | * MeaningfulName: She gets her first name from her maternal grandmother, and her middle name from her mother’s best friend. |
| 689 | * SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Was born in Season 7 and turned 4 in Season 9. |
| 690 | [[/folder]] |
| 691 | |
| 692 | [[folder: Avalon Harmonia]] |
| 693 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/avalon_1.jpg]] |
| 694 | -->Played by: Music/CyndiLauper |
| 695 | |
| 696 | * CreepyGood: She's on the side of angels and very sweet. She's also very creepy in that she knows things she really shouldn't, though she swears it's just the cards telling her what she and her friends need to know. |
| 697 | * DeadLittleSister: Very literally. [[spoiler: Her ill sister was taken in by a conman running a cult. He took their money, promising to build a paradise where they wouldn't be sick, then killed them]]. |
| 698 | * ISeeDeadPeople: In addition to her cards, sometimes she claims to get bits and pieces of information from the corpse on the table. |
| 699 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Avalon swears it's genuine psychic ability and the insights from her tarot deck, but she's also very observant and in tune with details about human nature that the more science-minded cast can miss. |
| 700 | * PolicePsychic: When she shows up, she's got some uncanny insight on the corpse of the week. |
| 701 | * ShipperOnDeck: Of course, Booth and Bones are meant to be. The cards ain't lying. |
| 702 | [[/folder]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | [[folder: Michelle Welton]] |
| 705 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michelle_welton.png]] |
| 706 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/TiffanyHines, Dana Davis (young) |
| 707 | |
| 708 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Throughout seasons 5 and 6, she and her mother have a few teenage issues, including boyfriends. Also including when she starts dating Finn. |
| 709 | * HappilyAdopted: She's Camille Saroyan's adopted daughter. |
| 710 | * ParentalAbandonment: Her mom died [[DeathByChildbirth giving birth]] to her and her father was murdered. |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | !!Villains |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[folder:Howard Epps]] |
| 716 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/howard_epps_2x12.png]] |
| 717 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/HeathFreeman |
| 718 | |
| 719 | * AxCrazy: Especially in his final appearance, where he burns one victim alive, saws another's head off while she's still alive and conscious, and goes to great lengths to try and kill the Jeffersonian team. |
| 720 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: In his first appearance he presented himself as an innocent man on death row, until more victims are found getting him what he wanted anyways, a stay of execution thus allowing him to drop the pretense. He doesn’t bother with this in the rest of his appearances. |
| 721 | * CriminalMindGames: While imprisoned, Epps secretly works with an accomplice on the outside to [[JackTheRipoff commit copycat crimes]] for the sole purpose of making the FBI (and Dr Brennan, in particular) [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller consult him on the case]]. He very purposefully leaves a trail of clues for the FBI to follow, most of which can’t be understood without talking to him and listening to the hints he drops into conversation. |
| 722 | * [[spoiler:DisneyVillainDeath: He falls from the balcony of Brennan's apartment]]. |
| 723 | * EvilGenius: Claims to have an I.Q. of 180. According to Zack, however, he's overestimating himself. |
| 724 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Though he also mentioned that he wished she had been his first victim. |
| 725 | * FreudianExcuse: His mother, a religious fanatic, washed his hands with ammonia (and made him take baths in it) and taught him that sex was evil. Needless to say, it didn't do his psyche good. |
| 726 | * HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: He could be a ManipulativeBastard all along, or maybe he learned it while on death row. When we first meet Epps, he's claiming to be innocent and trying to get exonerated, but it ends up he just wanted them to discover that he'd killed even more people than previously thought, so they have to keep him alive while they process the new bodies. When he returns in season 2, Epps is even more manipulative and playing serial killer games, leading the team on a merry chase with body parts as clues. |
| 727 | * MonsterMisogyny: Literally. Booth even theorizes that Epps hates Brennan because she's a smart, strong, confident woman. |
| 728 | * PipePain: Murdered his victims with a pipe. |
| 729 | * SerialKiller: Of teenage girls. Fun guy. |
| 730 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:In the last episode he appears, after being smug and confident for the majority of time he becomes visibly shaken and angry when he learns that Booth has arrested his mother. Then, when it seems like he's got Brennan dead to rights with a diversion to ambush her in the shower, she rounds the corner [[HandCannon with her new revolver]], and he ''immediately'' goes from confidence in his intent to backing away [[OhCrap realizing she has every reason to fire.]]]] |
| 731 | [[/folder]] |
| 732 | |
| 733 | [[folder: The Gravedigger [[spoiler: aka: Heather Taffet]]]] |
| 734 | [[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_gravedigger.jpg]][[/labelnote]] to see them]] |
| 735 | -->'''Played by:''' [[spoiler: Creator/DeirdreLovejoy]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | * AssholeVictim: Has her head blown off by Broadsky in ''The Bullet in the Brain''. No tears are shed. You deserved it, [[spoiler: Ms. Taffet]]. |
| 739 | * BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler: Manages to make Sweets doubt himself for an entire episode in a two-minute conversation.]] |
| 740 | * CriminalMindGames: She relied on this during her trial in particular; her actual crimes depended on putting everyone in impossible situations. |
| 741 | * EvilRedhead: [[spoiler: She]] has [[spoiler: red hair]] and [[spoiler: she]] is a recurring villain (Seasons 2, 4, 5 and 6). |
| 742 | * HeroKiller: None of the main cast, thankfully (although not for lack of trying) but she did murder a couple of other investigators who were after her, including a recurring character. |
| 743 | * KillerCop: [[spoiler: State Attorney, really.]] |
| 744 | * SamusIsAGirl: They worked off the assumption that it was a man doing it and she didn't actually appear until the second episode featuring her. |
| 745 | * SerialKiller: Though the general MO is to kidnap for ransom, if they don't pay the victims are killed. The victims are buried alive in a container with limited air, and if the ransom is paid the location is given so they can be rescued. %%[[spoiler: In ''The Bullet in the Brain'', she hints that she had an accomplice, though said accomplice's identity is never revealed.]] |
| 746 | * VillainousBSOD: It's subdued, but present, after she gets convicted. |
| 747 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:She]] has no issue if [[spoiler:her]] victims are children. [[spoiler: Such was the case of Terence Gilroy.]] |
| 748 | * YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:The bullet to her head caused her cranium to literally explode, splattering Sweets with serial killer head goop.]] |
| 749 | [[/folder]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | [[folder:The Gormogon]] |
| 752 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gormogon.jpg]] |
| 753 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/LaurenceToddRosenthal |
| 754 | |
| 755 | * BadassBiker: Either the Gormogon or his second apprentice makes an appearance attacking Bones and Booth on a motorcycle, and then leading Booth on an impressive foot chase. |
| 756 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Is a vicious, cannibal driven by vague, likely nonexistent conspiracy theories. |
| 757 | * TheCorruptor: Looks for young, troubled, susceptible recruits to be his apprentice, and is implied to have been a troubled foster kid himself before being introduced to cannibalism, given the original Gormogons job as a social worker. |
| 758 | * EatsBabies: While it doesn't fit the profile of their victims, Jason Harkness, the first apprentice seen on the show, claims to know what babies taste like during his interrogation. |
| 759 | * ImAHumanitarian: Both the Gormogon and the apprentice eat other humans. |
| 760 | * KarmaHoudini: The original Gormogon was never caught and wound up living his days out at a nursing home. |
| 761 | * LegacyCharacter: The Gormogon is training his apprentice to be the next Gormogon. The team eventually meet the original Gormogon, but he's a senile old man in a nursing home by then. |
| 762 | * LooksLikeOrlok: Especially since the first and only unmasked scene of the Gormogon shows him in an underground lair, eating his latest victim, and showing off artificially sharpened teeth. |
| 763 | * TheMole: [[spoiler: Zack Addy, the Gormogon's latest apprentice]]. |
| 764 | * RedHerring: Sweets was introduced to be the Gormogon. However, he got downgraded to this due to the Writer's Strike. |
| 765 | * RuleOfTwo: Always one Gormogon and one apprentice. |
| 766 | [[/folder]] |
| 767 | |
| 768 | [[folder:Jacob Broadsky]] |
| 769 | |
| 770 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacob_broadsky.jpg]] |
| 771 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/ArnoldVosloo |
| 772 | |
| 773 | |
| 774 | * BrokenPedestal: Booth initially refused to put him on the suspect list because he respected him as a mentor. |
| 775 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: An in-universe example. Broadsky is a sniper, and snipers are trained to go for high ground. However, with his right hand broken, he's incapable of pointing his gun downwards, meaning he's effectively useless when Booth realizes this and sticks to the ground. |
| 776 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: His habit of using snipers and assassins for aliases makes for a pretty obvious trail to follow, plus the fact that he [[spoiler: bought land in Booth's name meant that Booth could legally enter the property in question without a warrant.]] |
| 777 | * EvilCounterpart: Fans have described him as the evil version of Booth, as they're both snipers but Broadsky has no issue killing innocent people to ensure he gets his targets where Booth won't even kill criminals unless he's certain that he has to. |
| 778 | * GameBreakingInjury: His second to last victim broke his hand. Learning this gives Booth the advantage during their final SniperDuel. |
| 779 | * HeroKiller: Despite so many close calls for six seasons, the first one to successfully kill a main character (albeit the wrong one). |
| 780 | * {{Hypocrite}}: One of the worst in the show, due to seemingly BelievingTheirOwnLies. He is killing criminals, but he's also willing to take money from an even worse criminal to do so for at least one of his hits, and seems to focus on going after people who, due to the nature of their crimes or already being imprisoned, are far lesser threats to society at the moment than Broadsky himself is. |
| 781 | * LackOfEmpathy: Never shows a fraction of an iota of guilt over the innocents he kills as collateral damage. |
| 782 | * LaserGuidedKarma: The guy thrives on being a sniper, but gets one hand broken before his final SniperDuel [[spoiler: and the other shot by Booth right before he's captured]]. |
| 783 | * NeverMyFault: When his girlfriend kills herself due to guilt about what he used her to do, he blames Booth. |
| 784 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: To Booth. This is pointed out by him and Booth's colleagues, which is a sore point for Booth. |
| 785 | * OhCrap: When Booth reveals he doesn't need a warrant because [[spoiler: Broadsky purchased the land they're on under Booth's name (he tended to steal identities)]]. |
| 786 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: His specialty. He targets those who he thinks deserve it. No one shed a tear when he killed [[spoiler: The Gravedigger]]. |
| 787 | * SerialKillerKiller: His targets are all criminals or serial killers. However, he's willing to kill innocents to get at the guilty party. |
| 788 | * SniperDuel: Season 6 is essentially a season long SniperDuel, peppered with smaller ones in the meantime. |
| 789 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Believes he's doing good by killing bad people... the problem is, he will kill innocents if they're in his way. |
| 790 | ** Calling him this is an EXTREMELY generous [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist interpretation of his actions and his character]]. For context, his second victim, while a criminal, was a nonviolent offender and the man who paid Broadsky to kill him was the drug lord against whom the man testified. The Gravedigger had also already been sentenced to death, and was facing a grim final appeal. Broadsky is really little better than people like Pelant and the Gravedigger, and seems to just want the opportunity to kill and get paid for it with a veneer of justification that Booth only buys due to his judgment about Broadsky being clouded. |
| 791 | [[/folder]] |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:Christopher Pelant]] |
| 794 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chrpel.jpg]] |
| 795 | -->'''Played by:''' Creator/AndrewLeeds |
| 796 | |
| 797 | * AssholeVictim: As of Season 9, [[spoiler: Booth ''finally'' kills him for good with a bullet square to the throat. The fans rejoiced.]] |
| 798 | * BaitAndSwitch: In the Season 8 finale, everything in the case points to Booth being his next target, but as Angela finds out later, Sweets is the one who's actually in Pelant's crosshairs. |
| 799 | * TheCameo: He appears briefly as a waiter in the alternate universe episode "The 200th in the 10th". |
| 800 | * CardboardPrison: He formerly had a tracking device intended to keep him under house arrest. It proved utterly useless. |
| 801 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Upon seeing [[spoiler: Bones propose to Booth]], he simmers for a good 30 seconds while repeating the recording at least twice, and later orders Booth to [[spoiler: cancel the engagement]]. |
| 802 | * CrazyPrepared: He managed to spend a good two seasons pulling backup plans and escape routes out of his ass. |
| 803 | * DeathSeeker: As discovered by [[PapaWolf Hodgins]] [[GoodIsNotNice first-hand]], he actually ''enjoys'' the thought of being killed, primarily because of the [[HeWhoFightsMonsters effect on those responsible]]. |
| 804 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He thinks of everything in purely selfish terms - the concept of people acting against their best interest never occurs to him. [[spoiler: This ultimately gets him killed - he takes Brennan hostage and threatens to kill her if Booth doesn't drop his weapon. When Brennan tells Booth to take the shot, even though it could mean her death, Pelant is dumbfounded, leaving him open.]] This also defines his warped 'love' for [[spoiler:Brennan, as he's utterly incapable of comprehending why she fell in love with Booth and thinks he can 'change' himself to win her over]]. |
| 805 | * EvilCounterpart: Can be seen as this to Angela. They are both people whose talents are focused on tech, but also have a great understanding and interest in art. Angela is the most caring and emotional individual on the main cast, while Pelant's interest on Brennan makes of him a {{Yandere}}. |
| 806 | * EyeScream: His right eye is intact, but the trauma of the bullet passing too close damaged it severely, leaving the organ discolored, bloodshot, and blind. |
| 807 | * FatalFlaw: His obsession with Bones is what [[spoiler:ultimately leads to his death.]] |
| 808 | * FormerlyFat: Was so back in high school, and it was another thing he used his technical skills to cover up to make himself look better in the public eye. |
| 809 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Booth manages to shoot Pelant in the head early in season 8. PlotArmor saves his life, but the entire right side of his face is a ruin of scars due to the bullet's exit wound. |
| 810 | * HollywoodHacking: Absurdly proficient at hacking every device imaginable. As of the season 8 finale, he seemingly has the entire electronic infrastructure of DC under his thumb. |
| 811 | ** In his first appearance, he ''inscribed a computer worm into bones'', infecting the Jeffersonian computers when Angela scanned them. |
| 812 | * IfICantHaveYou: Sweets noted that, as long as Pelant believes Brennan could fall for him, Pelant won't hurt her. The moment he realizes it won't happen, Pelant will kill her, himself and everyone that gets in the way. |
| 813 | * ItsAllAboutMe: A big part of his insanity is a pathological need to be the center of attention. |
| 814 | * InvincibleVillain: For a long time, until [[spoiler:pushing his luck too far and getting a bullet in the throat]]. |
| 815 | * {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: When Pelant ''does'' die, he's overplayed his hand so much that Booth barely seems to care. His death had ''no effect at all'' on his killer.]] |
| 816 | * ItsPersonal: He initially was a WellIntentionedExtremist of sorts, as, unlike the Gravedigger, he did not mess with the team directly. Only upon Brennan consulting with Ethan Sawyer, did he retaliate back. Later, after Hodgins nearly choked him, he went after his family and fortune. And then, after Booth shot him in the face, he set his sights on him and his relationship with Brennan. |
| 817 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Booth ''finally'' kills him early in the ninth season.]] |
| 818 | * LoveHungry: Basically applies to his obsession with Brennan, as he's determined to win her over. |
| 819 | * ManipulativeBastard: Managed to trick Booth into getting himself removed from the original case by faking a distress call from Bones, provoking Booth into raiding his house without cause. He was hoping the Squints would also similarly screw themselves over to protect Bones, but that part of the plan failed. |
| 820 | * SadisticChoice: Likes to present people with these. They ''never'' work, because Pelant is completely blind to the idea of people not caring about themselves over others, and ''every single one'' is built on the theme. |
| 821 | * TheSociopath: Narcissistic, entitled, manipulative and completly devoid of empathy. |
| 822 | * TwoFaced: The left side of his face is normal, but the right looks like a stitched-together hamburger, probably because he sewed up his wounds himself. |
| 823 | * VillainExitStageLeft: Always has an escape plan when the team manages to get close to cornering him. This is because when he ''did'' get cornered, [[spoiler:he died.]] |
| 824 | * VillainousCrush: He becomes obsessed with Bones and some of his actions are an attempt to ruin her relationship with Booth. |
| 825 | * WouldHurtAChild: As part of a SadisticChoice, he forces Hodgins and Angela to choose between saving Hodgins' fortune as the sole heir to the Cantilever Group and stopping a hijacked predator drone from bombing a girls' school in Afghanistan. [[spoiler: They end up choosing the latter,]] and it was an easier choice than one might think, given how Hodgins feels about being SecretlyWealthy. |
| 826 | [[/folder]] |
| 827 | |
| 828 | [[folder: The Ghost Killer [[spoiler: aka: Stephanie [=McNamara=]]]]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[caption-width-right:250:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stephanie_mcnamara.png]][[/labelnote]] to see]] |
| 831 | -->'''Played by:''' [[spoiler:Creator/KellyRutherford]] |
| 832 | |
| 833 | A mysterious serial killer with no particular MO, whom only Pelant knows about, and uses that knowledge to try to convince Brennan to work with him. |
| 834 | ----- |
| 835 | * AbusiveParents: Her father used to [[spoiler: lock her in a barn and leave her there. She tore out her fingernails clawing at the locked door, which is why she pulls out her victim's nails (to replace her own).]] |
| 836 | * AttentionWhore: To her father. [[spoiler:Her first victim is her father's rape victim, who she believed to be stealing her father's attention.]] |
| 837 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: She is killed by the man she falsely convicted for her first murder.]] |
| 838 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler: She tore off her victim's nails to put on her own fingers, because all her nails were gone.]] |
| 839 | * ChildProdigy: Invoked by Cam when they find out that [[spoiler: her first victim was killed when she was 15, making her the youngest serial killer in the series, since Pelant started killing at 16/17.]] |
| 840 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Her older brother was her last victim before she herself was killed.]] |
| 841 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Her father used to lock her in a storeroom, and she lost her fingernails trying to get out.]] |
| 842 | * FreudianExcuse: All of her psychotic episodes started because of [[spoiler: her father being a ControlFreak.]] |
| 843 | * ItsAllAboutMe: If she even has a motive, this would be it. [[spoiler: She murdered a RAPE VICTIM, instead of turning her father (the rapist) into the police, because she was angry that he had paid attention to the girl, but not her and believed he would pay more attention to her now that she killed his victim. When he simply paid off the police to cover it up, she continued killing people in an attempt to make his pay attention to her, only to met with the same results.]] [[spoiler:When her older, play-boy brother truly fell in love and wanted to marry a seventeen-year-old who was sailing around the world, she killed her for taking her brother away. Years later, she kills her own brother because his girlfriend's case was reopened and she was mad that he wouldn't just forget her.]] |
| 844 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:She started killing during high school, and went on to murder various victims for 18 years, never being caught.]] |
| 845 | ** LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:The man she framed for her first murder comes back to kill her in the same way she killed her first victim.]] |
| 846 | * RichBitch: [[spoiler: As Stephanie [=McNamara=].]] |
| 847 | * SamusIsAGirl: Pelant points out that he believes that the Ghost Killer is a woman, the reason why is never established. |
| 848 | * SerialKiller: With no particular MO or reason to kill. |
| 849 | * TheUnfought: [[spoiler:By the time they caught her, she was the victim of the week.]] |
| 850 | * {{Yandere}}: After her father [[spoiler:raped a classmate of hers, she killed her, believing she was stealing her father's love. She murdered her older brother's girlfriend two years later when he intended to propose to the girl, therefore leaving her and their family. She claimed her brother as her last victim as he had become obsessed with his dead girlfriend again after her case was reopened.]] |
| 851 | %%* WalkingSpoiler |
| 852 | [[/folder]] |
| 853 | |
| 854 | [[folder:The Puppeteer [[spoiler:aka: Mihir Roshan]]]] |
| 855 | |
| 856 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puppeteer.jpg]] |
| 857 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/RaviKapoor |
| 858 | |
| 859 | A mysterious, unidentified serial killer. They get their name from the fact that they turn their victims into puppets that they dress up and play with before discarding them six months after the murder. They appear to have a strong hatred of the Jeffersonian team and anyone connected to them, including their families, and have been shown to have an obsession with Brennan as well as a connection to former team member [[spoiler:Zack Addy.]] |
| 860 | ---- |
| 861 | * AbusiveParents: Played with; the team believes that the reason he taxidermies and grooms his victims bodies is because he wants to have them as parental substitutes to replace the memories of his real parents. |
| 862 | * DeadGuyPuppet: How he got his nickname. |
| 863 | * TheDreaded: He manipulates multiple associates and they all are downright terrified of him. The [[SeniorCreep creepy old guy]] who cared for the house where he lived with his victims bodies was so terrified of him that he decided to commit suicide to spare himself the agony of what The Puppeteer would do to him for being caught by the cops. The former criminal; whose puppet theater and workshop the killer rented for his base, only saw the guy once (and didn't even get a look at his face) but was so horrified by whatever he saw that he was permanently traumatized and erased it from his mind. It doesn't hurt that the team is even more scared of him than any of the previous serial killers, either. |
| 864 | * ManipulativeBastard: He has manipulated multiple associates so that he wouldn't get caught, but Hodgins claims him as this for another reason. Once the killer focused on the Team, he began changing his pattern and manipulating the evidence to manipulate them to such an extent, in fact, that Cam and Hodgins believe that they cannot trust the evidence or take it at face value at all. |
| 865 | [[/folder]] |
| 866 | |
| 867 | [[folder:The Son of Radik [[spoiler: aka:Mark Kovac]]]] |
| 868 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mark_kovac.png]] |
| 869 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/GerardoCelasco |
| 870 | |
| 871 | Mark Kovac, the son of Josip Radik, who seeks revenge on Booth for killing his father. |
| 872 | ----- |
| 873 | * BrotherSisterTeam: [[spoiler:He was in league with her sister, who pretended to be his wife.]] |
| 874 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Two occasions, to find out Booths's name. First, with [[spoiler:Aldo]], into whom he forced rats to burrow. Second, a victim of the week who used to be in Booth's army unit. When the latter failed to give up Booth's name, Kovac tortured and murdered an old woman to force him to talk. |
| 875 | * FreudianExcuse: He watched his father get sniped down in front of him when he was six years old — ''at his birthday party''. |
| 876 | * OutOfFocus: In the two-part finale, where his plan and actions are behind everything, but he himself only appears in person for a single scene, where he's too busy shooting at Booth and Brennan to trade threats or other dialogue with them. |
| 877 | * RevengeByProxy: He doesn't just want Booth to suffer. He wants to ensure everyone around him suffers, too. |
| 878 | * TooGoodToBeTrue: The first thing that made the team start thinking he is guilty is that he lacked any sort of mental disturbance of any kind according to his tests. Caroline even claims that only a complete psychopath is capable of this. |
| 879 | * VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Not him, but his sister, who was his accomplice, made a good one. When Brennan accuses them of killing her father, she points out that Booth killed their father first. when Brennan says that Booth did it out of duty, she says that patriotism isn't an excuse. While Josip Radik was indeed a war criminal, the fact remains that Booth killed an important general of a nation that wasn't officially at war with the USA.]] |
| 880 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Attempted. He orchestrated an attack on the safe house hiding Christine, Hank, and Max. Christine and Hank survive but Max dies in the attack.]] |
| 881 | [[/folder]] |
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