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| 13 | Character page for ''Series/{{House}}''. |
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| 15 | '''Beware of unmarked {{spoiler}}s on this page.''' |
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| 18 | !Main Characters |
| 19 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/r9t9lblypfudl0lv0ujg1nxdkyw.jpg]] |
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| 21 | [[folder:Dr. Gregory House]] |
| 22 | [[quoteright:202:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/images45_8796.jpg]] |
| 23 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/HughLaurie |
| 24 | ->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/FeodorAtkine (European French) |
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| 26 | Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, with specialties in both Infectious Disease and Nephrology. House did his undergrad at Johns Hopkins; he also attended medical school there but was expelled for cheating and ultimately got his degree from the University of Michigan. House is a brilliant doctor; unfortunately for everyone around him, he's also a misanthrope and an arrogant jerk to everyone he meets. He walks with a cane as a result of an infarction he suffered in his right thigh and the surgery that tried to correct it; the pain from this drives his Vicodin addiction as well. |
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| 28 | * TenMinuteRetirement: A few times over the course of the series: |
| 29 | ** In "The Softer Side", he quits when Cuddy tells him she won't let him use methadone while he worked at her hospital. He's ready to look into jobs at other hospitals before Cuddy relents and lets him take methadone under her supervision. |
| 30 | ** When season 6 begins, after going through rehab for his Vicodin addiction, he quits from Princeton Plainsboro out of worry that familiar surroundings would cause him to relapse. He returns when he finds that the puzzles from the cases he worked on were the only thing that helped to keep his leg pain at bay. |
| 31 | * AbusiveParents: Ice baths, DeniedFoodAsPunishment if he was ever even the tiniest bit late for a meal, and being made to sleep outside in the yard when he was a child. House loves his mother, but she either didn't accompany House and his father when he was stationed at various military bases or didn't notice the abuse. House concludes that his mother hated his father, too, when he proves that [[spoiler:his dad [[DaddyDNATest wasn't his dad]].]] Given the nature of this sort of family dynamic, it's very likely she was a victim, too. |
| 32 | * AddictionDisplacement: When he kicks his Vicodin habit in Season 6, he takes up cooking to keep his leg pain at bay, thus keeping him from being tempted to take drugs again. When that stops working, he goes back to work, since solving medical mysteries was the one thing that worked. [[spoiler:In Season 7, his relationship with Cuddy becomes his new addiction. Fear over losing her to cancer causes him to relapse, and the subsequent end of their relationship makes him a Vicodin addict once more.]] |
| 33 | * AddledAddict: [[spoiler:He suffers hallucinations of Amber throughout the latter half of Season 5, brought on by a combination of guilt over her death (as well as Kutner's suicide) and his Vicodin addiction.]] |
| 34 | * AgentScully: He stubbornly refuses to accept any explanation involving magic/angels/misc supernatural. |
| 35 | * AlmightyJanitor: House's reason for becoming a doctor. While living in Japan, his friend was injured while rock climbing. Much to House's surprise, the hospital staff turned to a man whom he had assumed was a janitor. He was a Buraku, an "untouchable" in the Japanese caste system, yet the staff had no choice but to turn for help. This aptly describes House's relationship with the medical community -- he's a pariah, yet when the chips are down, other doctors are forced to swallow their pride and refer their patients to him. |
| 36 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He's definitely into women, but has serious subtext with Wilson, and isn't shy about calling other men attractive. Whether this is an actual attraction or just House being, well, [[{{Troll}} House]] depends on which fan you're talking to. Hugh Laurie seems perfectly happy calling House and Wilson a couple by season 8. |
| 37 | * AntiHero: He has good intentions (most of the time), but he is not a nice man. |
| 38 | * ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: In that order, and it's the only reason Cuddy hasn't fired him already. |
| 39 | * BerserkButton: |
| 40 | ** House takes issue with [[DeathSeeker Death Seekers]] and patients who have no desire to live. This typically manifests as his doing everything to make the patient survive regardless of their wishes, as exemplified in the episode "DNR" when he ignores a patient's wishes not to be resuscitated. [[spoiler:He loses it in the penultimate episode of the series when Wilson stops taking chemo, nearly strangling a patient to prove a point that "It is our human responsibility to stay alive!"]] |
| 41 | ** His bad leg is another -- no doubt fueled by the fact if the doctors had not initially misdiagnosed his pain, he probably would still be able to use his leg. In "Three Stories" (widely regarded as the best of Season 1), in which he delivers a lecture to the hospital’s residents and interns, he tests them by giving them details of three cases involving leg pain. They do well on the first two, but on the third, they just give the usual treatments, and he gets more and more belligerent -- he wanted to see if they could correctly diagnose what was wrong and didn't. |
| 42 | * BestServedCold: He maintained a longstanding grudge against Philip Weber, the medical school classmate who reported him for cheating and got him expelled. Twenty years after it happened House arranges to have Weber's new drug discredited, ruining the latter's chance of making a fortune on it, after which he declares they're even. |
| 43 | * BlasphemousBoast: "In this temple, I am Dr. Yahweh." |
| 44 | * BlatantLies: The most obvious: "I never lie." |
| 45 | * BornLucky: Many of House's critics are quick to comment that he "got lucky" on a patient's diagnosis due to his immoral methods. Cuddy is quick to point out that he gets lucky a lot. |
| 46 | * BreakTheHaughty: Often, Tritter saw it as his purpose to break his pride and make him apologize. |
| 47 | * BrilliantButLazy: |
| 48 | ** House is shown to excel at almost everything he puts his mind to. Nonetheless, he will jump through all kinds of hoops to get out of clinic duty, and he was assigned interns to keep him from spending all his time watching {{Soap Opera}}s. He can often be found doing random things in his office (or Wilson's office, or Cuddy's office…), ranging from playing with a Zen garden to constructing a Rube Goldberg machine to practicing yo-yo tricks. He claims in one episode that isolating himself "helps his process". Whether this or the above is true, or perhaps a mix of the two, is anyone's guess. More than once, it has been theorized that avoiding work is the one thing he finds a meaningful challenge in. |
| 49 | ** He was like this even as a med student -- he was expelled from John Hopkins for cheating on an exam (House is still bitter about this since the answer he copied was wrong anyway). It cost him a prestigious internship at the Mayo Clinic, the student who was responsible for his expulsion and coincidentally got the internship, Philip Weber became his "ArchEnemy". |
| 50 | * BrokenAce: A brilliant doctor with a shitty past and major dysfunctions. |
| 51 | * BrutalHonesty: This gem from the eighth episode is a prime example: "I'm the doctor who's trying to save your son; you're the mom who's letting him die. Clarity, it's a beautiful thing." |
| 52 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: A true example of the 'cost/benefit' part of the trope: he's so good at what he does, Cuddy earmarks part of the hospital's budget to pay for the inevitable legal fees (granted, he's always come under-budget, so it's either a large budget or the legal issues occur less frequently than the thought of). It's also made clear on multiple occasions that House's department is a huge money sink, and that House's antics are pretty destructive to hospital morale and overall functionality. Essentially, he's a deconstruction of this trope because his behavior makes him virtually unemployable -- Cuddy was the ''only'' one who would hire him. He works for a salary much lower than a doctor of his experience and prestige normally would. She specifically says in one episode that she got one of the best doctors in the world at a bargain basement price because no one else would hire him. |
| 53 | * ByronicHero: A classic example of the trope, being brooding, sophisticated, passionate, and deeply committed to his own personal philosophy. |
| 54 | * CaneFu: Although he doesn't ''quite'' fight with his trusty walking cane, it is not rare for him to use it to block, push away or trip someone as part of his usual antisocial antics. In "Hunting", he goes as far as using it to induce anaphylactic shock to prove that the man on the receiving end has cysts in his liver. And then there's episode "Bombshells" and the DreamSequence of House fighting his [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies teammembers-turned-zombies]] with his cane, including turning it [[RetractableWeapon into an axe]] and then [[IKEAWeaponry into a shotgun]]. |
| 55 | * CasualDangerDialogue: House's typical non-reaction of "cool" or "interesting" when a patient's face melts or some such. |
| 56 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 57 | ** "Everybody lies." |
| 58 | ** "It's not lupus." |
| 59 | ** "You're/He's/She's an idiot!" |
| 60 | ** "Interesting…" |
| 61 | ** "People don't change." |
| 62 | ** "What is if the X wasn't X…" |
| 63 | * ChildHater: Downplayed. House never really sugarcoats his attitude with any of his patients, children included. However, he ''does'' have a soft spot for babies and will gladly rip any parent who jeopardizes their health. |
| 64 | -->'''House:''' How old are you?\ |
| 65 | '''Boy:''' Eight.\ |
| 66 | '''House:''' And he swallowed something stuck to a fridge. Darwin says let him die. |
| 67 | * CompositeCharacter: In addition to being a SherlockHomage, his character clearly takes some influence from John Watson as well (even with Wilson being written as an {{Expy}} of Watson). He combines Holmes' drug use, deductive skills and antisocial tendencies with Watson's profession as a medical doctor, as well as Watson's limp (Watson walked with a cane, like House, because of a gunshot wound in the Afghan War). |
| 68 | * ConsummateLiar: He's good at it, sure, but it plays into his CatchPhrase "Everyone lies," and they do. |
| 69 | * ControlFreak: House takes it upon himself to know virtually ''everything'' about his colleagues and subordinates and goes to extreme lengths to answer questions about the behavior of his coworkers. One time when he suspected that Wilson was taking antidepressants House ''spiked Wilson's coffee with amphetamines'' to prove it. |
| 70 | * TheCorrupter: ''Any'' doctor who works under House will inevitably pick up some of his tendencies for better or worse. |
| 71 | * CustomUniform: He very rarely wears the white lab coat that all the other doctors are required to wear -- he usually wears a blazer over some sort of t-shirt or casual shirt like a blue-button up. In fact, if you ''do'' see House in a lab coat, he's probably up to something, usually involving surgery. |
| 72 | * CynicalMentor: A running theme in the show is House hiring idealistic fellows who try to see the best in people and slowly burning that tendency out of them. |
| 73 | * DeadpanSnarker: Biting scorn or petty sarcasm at everyone, ''especially'' patients. |
| 74 | * DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Has repeated hallucinations of Amber and Kutner.]] |
| 75 | * DeathSeeker: In the pilot episode, House did mention that he hoped he was dying when he suffered his infarction. |
| 76 | * DependingOnTheWriter: How much of his leg actually hurts, in the later seasons. Season 6 especially could go between slapsticky pratfalls and dancing, to admitting he could have just cut the damn thing off and had less pain. |
| 77 | * {{Determinator}}: When he wants to prove that he's right, nothing can stop him. |
| 78 | * DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Sometimes he uses his injured leg to do this, though he was a jerk before then. Spelled out and subverted in one of those vulnerable moments in the season 6 finale, as while he was a dick pre-infarction, he admits it made him a worse person, and he wishes he'd just cut the leg off. [[spoiler: And because the show has to keep him how he is until the show finale, the patient dies from the amputation, making him probably go back on that wish]]. |
| 79 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Whether it's about his emotional state or his limp, he'll chew you out for showing sympathy. |
| 80 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In "Merry Little Christmas" (fails) and the series finale (decides against it).]] One patient asked if he's tried to kill himself, and he has to admit "not slowly". |
| 81 | * DrJerk: He provides the page image. He acknowledges it, too: "I'm a doctor you'd never send a gift to." He's got such a reputation for this that his boss set aside a generous budget for legal expenses when she hired him. His bedside manner is lacking (to put it mildly) and unless a patient's condition piques his curiosity, he tends to brush them off. That aside, however, House isn't absolutely impossible for his patients to impress - patients and others outside of his team that share his penchant for snark and cynicism tend to be looked upon a lot more fondly by him. Notably, an early episode has him forming an OddFriendship of sorts with an equally snarky nun who can keep up with him in verbal sparring matches. |
| 82 | ** Several of the subplots of the series, though, exist because [[ExaggeratedTrope of how astonishingly awful and Devil-May-Care of a human being he is]], one of which is that [[ToxicFriendInfluence said awfulness eventually spreads to anybody who spends too long around him like a virus]], [[spoiler:which is one of the main reasons he ends up in a mental hospital (and accidentally leads to another patient to die) and leads to Foreman destroying any chance of having a medical career outside of Princeton-Plainsboro]]. |
| 83 | --->'''Cuddy:''' [[LampshadeHanging You're House Lite]]. [[spoiler:Now the only place that will hire you is the one with House Classic]]. |
| 84 | * EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Dr. House went to Johns Hopkins, though did not graduate from there due to being expelled for cheating on an exam, a medical university so prestigious it formed the basis of all medical education in the United States, and he is frequently portrayed unrealistically skilled at medicine. |
| 85 | * EurekaMoment: After pondering the medical mysteries for the episode, he will often have a flash of inspiration that leads to the cure. |
| 86 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 87 | ** While he breaks rules left and right, it's still in the service of treating his patients. When Dr. Travis Brennan ''poisons'' a patient to manufacture a fake polio case, House tells him to GetOut and has Foreman call the cops. |
| 88 | ** He tends to try at least to keep his mouth shut around (assumed) rape victims, the best example being the fact that he's the only one the victim in "One Day One Room" can stand, but there are other clinic examples too. He’s also shocked when he realizes that he unintentionally mocked a rape victim, and spends the rest of the episode being as gentle as possible with her - in that same case, he outright tried to get Cuddy to give the patient to someone else, fully admitting that [[DrJerk his attitude]] is probably the absolute last thing she needs right now. |
| 89 | ** He takes cases with babies ''very'' seriously, to the point that he declared an in-hospital epidemic and demanded the entire maternity ward be shut down after only two babies became sick with unrelated symptoms. |
| 90 | ** In one episode, he's quite nonchalant about the case despite how serious the patient's (a college boy) condition is. However, when he realizes it's a result of radiation poisoning, he immediately gets serious, evacuates the area and summons the proper authorities. He also ensures the steps are taken to safely get rid of it. |
| 91 | ** House is very quick to argue with parents who are obstructing his treatment of a patient whose a minor and generally has little tolerance for most of them one way or the other, but he's also willing to give them a break if it's clear they're trying their best or willing to see reason. In one episode, House is beseeched by two young parents who are giving their infant a vegetarian diet, which he states blunty is bad for babies as they need calcium and protein to grow and thrive. However, when they are arrested for apparent neglect and abuse, he staunchly stands up for them, stating that they are NOT abusive, just naïve. [[spoiler:Sure enough, their daughter had a liver condition that stopped her from digesting and growing, proving their concerns were justified (and the mother's uncle was a nutritionist who assured them such a diet was acceptable, which also helped their case).]] |
| 92 | ** One episode has a patient [[spoiler:who has the plague]] confess she wants to break up with her girlfriend for pretty flimsy reasons... despite the fact said girlfriend ''donated a kidney to her'' to save her life. While House still treats her as he normally would, his final words to her make clear what he thinks of her. |
| 93 | --->'''Patient:''' [[spoiler:I got the plague...?]]\ |
| 94 | '''House:''' Don't worry, it's treatable. Being a ''bitch'' though... nothing we can do about that. |
| 95 | * EvilLaugh: He belts out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7M_xjSpLnA an impressive one]] when he has TheTeam cure a braindead woman so they can use her heart for a transplant. |
| 96 | -->'''House:''' We're going to cure her.\ |
| 97 | '''Cameron:''' We're going to cure ''death?''\ |
| 98 | '''House:''' '''''MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!''''' [[HaHaHaNo …Doubt it.]] |
| 99 | * FamedInStory: Despite being more-or-less blacklisted in the medical community, he's still a world-famous doctor, and he's constantly getting resumes from doctors hoping to be one of his fellows; he had a ''hundred'' applicants in Season 4 -- that's how renowned he is. In fact ''other'' doctors send their patients to him when they get stumped. Unfortunately, his behavior and ego are ''equally'' famous in the medical community (if not moreso), to the point that working for him is a double-edged sword. If your resume shows you worked with House in the past, that's good; you probably learned a lot about diagnosis. If you worked with House ''too much'', that's bad; it's too likely his behavior's rubbed off on you. |
| 100 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:In the series finale, he switches his dental records with those of a former patient who was dying anyway, leading to the patient's body being identified as his own in the wreckage of a burned-down building. He ends the show legally dead; only Wilson and Foreman know he's still alive.]] |
| 101 | * {{Flanderization}}: Interestingly, the only Doctor on the show who became crazier as the show went on, suggesting worsening depression and drug addiction. In the first season, House at least tried to hide (however feebly) his rudeness from patients, and went to bat for them if the hospital tried to deny them care. Late-season House made it plain that that the patient is irrelevant; all he cares about is the puzzle. There is also a noticeable shift in ideology; a belief that human beings are all shallow narcissists and that kindness springs from cowardice became [[ForTheEvulz a moral principle]] instead of a cynical observation. |
| 102 | * FatalFlaw: Ever since the pilot, "Everybody Lies," it's been clear that House has his own personal code about when and why it's better to lie and when it's better to be honest. Many, many times throughout the show, he has used lies and secrets to help patients survive and be happier, but this has proven to be his downfall when it comes to his own personal life. In fact, when it comes to trying to improve or just not ruin his relationships, House is unable to do so thanks to his lies. |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:His relationship with Cuddy ends when she is at risk of a terminal diagnosis and House, instead of getting through that moment by just being near her, takes drugs, instead. When she finds out and asks him to explain himself, he lies about it so she leaves him: to her, this is proof that House is incapable of enduring the hardships that every couple could inevitably face, before or after. In the end, he will always lie rather than be honest and seeking closeness of others]]. |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler:During his brief marriage to Dominika, before she got the green card, House realizes that he has begun to be happy with her, pretending to be a couple. Does he tell Dominika this? Of course not! The moment her Green Card arrives, he throws it in the trash. And of course, the moment Dominika finds out about it, she leaves him, but the worst part was that just before she found out what he did, she admitted to enjoying their time together as well. If House had done the one thing he can't, which is to tell her how he feels, they could have stayed together,]] [[spoiler:at least a little longer, since the moment she leaves him is also the moment...]] |
| 105 | ** [[spoiler:... when Wilson informs him to have been diagnosed with terminal cancer. To convince his friend to seek treatment instead of giving up, House brings in a young man who claims he had cancer as a child and that Wilson saved his life. After a brief moment of happiness, Wilson realizes that the man he is talking to is nothing more than an actor called in by House, and angrily leaves. The only reason Wilson doesn't end his friendship with House after this is thanks to Foreman, who convinces the oncologist that their friendship is too much important to end there.]] |
| 106 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 107 | ** In general, House is the kind of person who ''hates'' this trope since it gives a window to overlook a person's objective character. This often happens to House himself; people think his cranky attitude is because of his leg, but Stacey and Wilson confirm that he was just as much an ass before he got his injury. His father was abusive when he was young, but this rarely comes up. |
| 108 | ** When House's blood clot first manifested as intense, paralyzing leg pain, he was written off by every doctor he saw as just a junkie looking for a fix, and their lack of attention caused it to progress to the point where it needed surgery. This probably informs his method of having his minions examine every aspect of patients' personal lives rather than just go off surface details. |
| 109 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: While his fellows have a degree of UndyingLoyalty to him, they all agree that House is a jerk. Even Wilson and Cuddy, who genuinely like him, don't try to deny it. |
| 110 | * FriendToAllChildren: ''Friend'' is pushing it, but he's noticeably less abrasive and snarky whenever young children are involved in his cases or clinic duties. Episodes involving kids are one of the rare times where he minds his manners, and he shows a lot of respect to children WiseBeyondTheirYears, at least for House. Despite how blunt he is, kids in general are also some of the few patients that actually ''like'' him, arguably because he himself is a little childish. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness In the episode "Finding Judas" his unusually callous treatment of a child patient is used to show just how badly his vicodin withdrawal is affecting him]]. |
| 111 | * FunctionalAddict: He's functional most of the time. When he loses access to Vicodin, the result is ugly. |
| 112 | * TheFundamentalist: This is a mild case; his overwhelming need in life is to be ''right.'' As such, he has a challenging time accepting that others simply think ''differently'' that he does, and will go out of his way to prove them wrong. |
| 113 | * GeniusCripple: The brilliant head of the diagnosis department has a limp. |
| 114 | * GoodIsNotNice: Ultimately, he means well and will go extremely far to save his patients, but he doesn't do it nicely. |
| 115 | * HeCleansUpNicely: In "The Softer Side", after [[TenMinuteRetirement quitting from Princeton Plainsboro]] over his use of methadone, he cleans himself up for job interviews at other hospitals. Wilson barely recognizes him in a clean suit and without his stubble. |
| 116 | * HandicappedBadass: A limp doesn't stop him from breaking into patient's houses to find out secrets. |
| 117 | * HasAType: House definitely goes for brunettes. Cameron, Stacy, Cuddy, Paula the hooker from season two, and Dominika from season seven - all are brunettes. Incidentally, whatever he [[ShipTease may or may not]] have felt for the blonde Amber, such as the instance of a blonde being interested in House, assuming we discount the post-season three [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange Cameron]], turned out to be the result of a fungal infection in her brain. |
| 118 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: He makes racist, sexist, and downright insulting comments about everyone of every creed and culture, but it quickly becomes apparent that he doesn't have anything against a ''particular'' group of people (except maybe those he deems idiots). House just plain hates ''everyone'', and is determined to annoy and insult each and every one of them. Individually. And it just so happens that making sexist, racist, etc., comments are a pretty surefire way to do it. |
| 119 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 120 | ** Suffering bad ones after [[spoiler:Kutner's death, the first hallucination of Amber, Amber's return in the restaurant, learning that he'll be in prison for Wilson's 5 remaining months alive, and Amber ''and'' Kutner appearing in the season finale.]] |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler:Both Kutner ''and'' Amber appear in hallucinations in the series finale... as do Cameron and Stacy.]] |
| 122 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Wilson. In the second and third seasons, the writers make light of the shipping. |
| 123 | -->'''Stacy:''' What are you hiding?\ |
| 124 | '''House:''' I'm gay. ''[Stacy glares at him]'' Oh! That's not what you meant. It does explain a lot, though. No girlfriend, always with Wilson, obsession with sneakers… |
| 125 | * HollywoodAtheist: Is sardonically critical of any expression of religious belief, although, in some of his more reflective moments, he takes a much less confrontational view, explaining that in the absence of definitive proof one way or another, a belief is ultimately a choice between what gives more comfort. It is explained, though, that he does read religious texts in order to be better able to argue with religious people. |
| 126 | * HonorBeforeReason: House will go to insane lengths to prove himself right about a diagnosis, no matter how many rules about medical ethics and procedures he has to break. He even botched his chance to get himself released from prison early because he was sure the hospital doctor was mistaken about an ill inmate -- House, of course, was correct. |
| 127 | * HookersAndBlow: Hookers and Vicodin, to be exact. |
| 128 | * {{Hypocrite}} |
| 129 | ** He openly mocks religious patients for finding comfort in superstition, but privately admits that the evidence for/against God could point either way and his own atheism is partly because he finds it more comforting. |
| 130 | ** In "Three Stories", Stacey Warner points out that House would browbeat patients in his position into getting their leg amputated to save their life, rather than stubbornly refuse the amputation as he did. |
| 131 | * IconicOutfit: He always wears a blazer over some sort of t-shirt or casual shirt like a blue-button up, denim pants and a pair of sneakers. |
| 132 | * IcyBlueEyes: The "piercing stare" variety. |
| 133 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: How he justifies his illegal/immoral behavior towards patients; it saved their life, didn't it? |
| 134 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:At the end of Season 4, Amber Volakis died in a bus crash that House was also in when she came to take him home after he went out drinking. Later, when Kutner committed suicide in Season 5, House started to have hallucinations of Amber from the combination of his Vicodin intake and his guilt. At the end of Season 5, House also hallucinates Kutner: he felt guilt for his death and tried to convince himself he was murdered, since suicide meant he never saw what was wrong with him. Afterwards, he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.]] |
| 135 | * ImmuneToDrugs: Years of abusing them have left House nearly immune to the side-effects of Vicodin. He can pop several like they were candy and go about his day with no ill-effect. Compare when Foreman and Taub took one, and were high off their asses. |
| 136 | * IneffectualLoner: Explored in-depth in the Season 4 premiere "Alone": after Foreman and Cameron quit and Chase is fired, House tries to prove he doesn't need a team anymore by solving the episode's case without one. Despite his insistence that he doesn't need a team, he tries to subtly have other hospital staff (including a janitor) help him. In the end, Cuddy explains to him that he would've sold the case quicker with a team: Cameron would've appealed to the patient's humanity while Foreman would try to prove House wrong and Chase would try to prove him right, with the debate among them stimulating House's mind and helping him make a correct diagnosis. |
| 137 | * IncomingHam: If a scene opens with the team sitting around in a conference room and House isn't there, you can be assured he's about to make an amazing entrance. |
| 138 | -->'''Thirteen:''' ''[as House walks in carrying an enormous broadsword]'' I had a dream like this once. It didn't end well. |
| 139 | * InsufferableGenius: House is usually right, and he'll make sure you know it. |
| 140 | * IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: And how. House's frustration with idiocy is often shown to stem from his inability to relate to most other people. His only real friend is Wilson which, as Wilson admits, is a "screwed up" friendship. |
| 141 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He ends his affair with Stacy after deciding Mark is a better person and partner than he is. |
| 142 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Likely the only reason House has managed to keep his job. House invariably presents his observations in the rudest way possible, but his conclusions still tend to be ''correct'', often saving the patient's life. |
| 143 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Obnoxious to an almost religious degree, devoting his life to proving that kindness is rooted in selfishness and fear. In the end, House's patients' lives are his top priority, despite his very rough personality. Heavily implied in some episodes that his assholeish behavior is engineered to keep people away from him, or possibly to keep ''himself'' away from other people. But sometimes, when talking one-on-one with dying patients, his [[HiddenHeartOfGold jerkass demeanor quickly vanishes]] and he can become very warm and comforting. He also does care for some people, mainly for his best friend, Wilson, and if really pressed, his team: one of the few times he blows up at Wilson is when Foreman is possibly going to die as a result of an illness House may have exposed him to by mistake. |
| 144 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He threatens to get into this during his PetTheDog moments, particularly when he was diagnosed with cancer and still insisted on focusing on the patient. As always, it turned out he was just a Jerk With The Heart Of An Even Bigger Jerk than we had assumed -- he faked having cancer so he could get his hands on the prescription drugs, although to be fair, his team only "found out" he was sick by snooping around behind his back. |
| 145 | * KarmaHoudini: He usually gets away with it because he's the patient's only chance of survival, although the show does put a strain on your WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief in its realism, as a House who actually did suffer the consequences of his behaviour would make the show's premise impossible. The man can't go an episode without doing something that would cause any normal doctor to get arrested and/or his medical license revoked, yet he continues practicing medicine. |
| 146 | * KavorkaMan: Even though he is a miserable crippled jerk nearing his fifties, he has no problem attracting women like Cameron, Cuddy, and Stacy. |
| 147 | * TheKirk: How he diagnoses patients. His various team-members look at things from emotional angles fulfilling the roles of TheSpock and TheMcCoy, leaving House to decide on the best course of action on his own. |
| 148 | * LackOfEmpathy: Averted as he's fully capable of empathy. In emotional or sad moments, and almost always ''private'' ones, he'll display that capacity. He just likes to give the impression that he's an outright asshole. |
| 149 | * LargeHam: Certain episodes will have Hugh Laurie devouring entire sets, letting out classic Evil Laughs or behaving like a MadScientist in a modern setting. |
| 150 | * LastNameBasis: None of the hospital staff call him Greg, not even Wilson. Only his mother and ex-girlfriend address him by his first name. |
| 151 | * TheLeader: Of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine. Type Headstrong in that he bullies and goads his way to an objective. |
| 152 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: His own leg regarding the infarction that caused his current condition. While he resented Stacy at first for making the middle-ground decision that left him with his leg and constant pain, he often admits in his more vulnerable moments that he'd be much better off if he wasn't so stubborn and just had them cut the leg off. |
| 153 | * LivingLegend: An exceptionally famous figure in the medical community. He's regularly sought out by people who are convinced (with some merit) that only he can find out what's wrong with them. How famous versus ''infamous'' he is depends on who you are. |
| 154 | * MadeOfIron: Considering his addictions, all the experiments he performs on himself and the sheer amount of accidents he's been in, it's a wonder he isn't dead yet. |
| 155 | * MadScientist: One time, Cuddy even referred to him as "playing mad scientist". |
| 156 | * ManChild: When not being sophisticated and intellectual, he spends his time engaging in childish pranks and insults. |
| 157 | * ManipulativeBastard: To both his friends and his patients; either because [[ItAmusedMe it amused him]] or to find out some secret they're supposedly hiding. |
| 158 | * MeanBoss: If you ever work with him and you have something to make fun of, he will make fun of it. He makes race jokes to Foreman, class jokes to Chase, ridicules Cameron's compassion, makes fun of Adams' rich guilt, Park's social awkwardness, Thirteen's bisexuality, and Taub's inability to keep a relationship together. |
| 159 | * MeaningfulName : His first name isn't used often, but Gregory means "watchful". House is a sharp, keen observer. |
| 160 | * MilitaryBrat: Dragged around military bases by his soldier father, who abused him. |
| 161 | * MrFanservice: Not to the same extent as Chase, but House gets many fanservicey moments over the show. |
| 162 | * MistakenForGay: Along with Wilson. In "The Down Low", he pretends he and Wilson are a couple as part of an insanely convoluted plan to sleep with the woman Wilson likes, and keep him from sleeping with her at the same time. |
| 163 | * MyGreatestFailure: He clearly views his failure to predict [[spoiler:Kutner's suicide]], or find the reasons for it after the fact, like this. |
| 164 | * {{Narcissist}}: Gregory House is a JerkAss ([[HiddenHeartOfGold heart of gold]] nonewithstanding) whose only friendship is constantly in danger because he attempted to exploit it. He also is constantly manipulative of everyone around him, [[ItAmusedMe often just for his own amusement]]. This has not escaped the notice of any of the main cast. |
| 165 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. After his relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses his green-card wife's affections, apparently out of fear that sex with anyone who likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment, which will hurt him again. If you showed him this page on TV Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably call you a moron for thinking it... and then go home and play his piano, while drinking scotch, alone. |
| 166 | * TheNicknamer: A Jerkass version of this trope. He comes up with new, insulting nicknames for everyone every time he sees them. Only one sticks: "[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Thirteen]]" for Dr. Remy Hadley. Although black Mormon "Big Love" and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cutthroat Bitch]] both had pretty good runs. House ''not'' calling Amber Cutthroat Bitch even makes for at least two distinct OOCIsSeriousBusiness moments. |
| 167 | * NobleBigot: He's bigoted toward everyone, but he will do whatever it takes to save their life from whatever disease is killing them. Four or more ethnic subtypes have worked for him, and he mocks them equally. It's lampshaded in one episode after he fails to ruffle Cameron's feathers; she tells him that he's "a misanthrope, not a misogynist". Other times he makes racist and sexist comments [[{{Troll}} because he likes to annoy people]]. |
| 168 | * OhCrap: Several, the big ones being [[spoiler:identifying Amber as the bus crash victim]] and [[spoiler:realizing she's as good as dead]] in "Wilson's Heart", and [[spoiler:Amber and Kutner appearing as hallucinations]] in late Season 5. |
| 169 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: After spending time in prison, Foreman essentially shanghais him back to work, on a ''very'' tight leash -- he's on the strictest probation, and he walks a very fine line on being sent back to prison, and the rest of the hospital staff hold him in open contempt, knowing Foreman isn't the pushover Cuddy was. [[spoiler:When House inevitably does something stupid and will probably be sent back to jail, Foreman refuses to cover for him, which is why he fakes his death -- to spend time with Wilson.]] |
| 170 | * TheOnlyOne: Other characters have made final diagnoses before he has only a few times in the show's history. |
| 171 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In general, despite his general prickish demeanor, warped ethics and affected hatred of everyone, House takes his job and duty to patients extremely seriously - he just doesn't show it normally, preferring to instead snark and take jabs at people for his own amusement. On the occasions he drops the act and shows signs of real concern, or even ''actual panic'' (see the bullets about "Forever" and "Daddy's Boy" below), it's a sign that something ''very very bad'' has happened or is about to happen. |
| 172 | ** In "The Softer Side", when House suddenly becomes less disagreeable, less in pain, and ''happier'', everyone is concerned, with Wilson even thinking the House started taking stronger drugs like heroin. He was not too far off-base: House had a prescription for methadone. However, House goes back to Vicodin at the end of the episode, as he believes his being happy makes him less effective as a doctor. |
| 173 | ** The opposite is true as well, as he is normally grumpy, but rarely truly enraged. When he gets outraged, he has no qualms calling people out on their bullshit and cowardice. |
| 174 | ** In "Forever", a patient kills her own child due to her disease. Afterwards, she refuses to receive treatment, effectively sentencing herself to death. House, who is usually dead-set on keeping his patients alive even against their own will, doesn't press her and reluctantly lets her die, even berating Foreman for refusing to accept her decision. It really tells you just how messed up the situation is and how delusionally Foreman thinks about the situation. |
| 175 | *** In the same episode, House notices that the patient's baby is not in its crib through the window of her room (because the patient is smothering it in her bed), and immediately ''drops his cane where he was standing and '''runs''' into the room'' to intervene. |
| 176 | ** Mentioned in "Finding Judas" that other characters notice this trope in effect. One encounter during House's detoxing ends with Cuddy crying alone in her office. When questioned (as House being cruel is basically status quo), she further clarifies that while House is an ass all the time, he's also ''always'' holding himself back. When he ''wants'' to hurt people, he has no problem sticking a knife into their deepest fears and twisting. |
| 177 | ** "Euphoria" shows him taking the case uncharacteristically personally because he may have put his team - particularly Foreman - at extreme risk. When Wilson points out that House is being unusually cautious, House loses it on him: |
| 178 | --->"How many of your guys have caught cancer from one of your patients?! Let me know when that happens, and ''then'' we'll have this talk." |
| 179 | ** In "Daddy's Boy", as soon as he works out that the patient's illness is advanced radiation poisoning and locates the source, he does ''not'' fuck around; he stops joking around ''immediately'', instructs both Foreman and Chase to get away from the source for their own good, puts ''himself'' right next to it to find it, and then immediately calls in the relevant authorities. |
| 180 | * {{Omniglot}}: He speaks - or at least has an understanding of - several languages. We see him interact in Spanish, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Portuguese. |
| 181 | * OverlyNarrowSuperlative: "I'm almost always eventually right." |
| 182 | * PermaStubble: House always looks disheveled, a combination of his disability and his personality. The stubble is lampshaded in several episodes. One of these has House actually giving himself a clean shave; the result is so jarring that he looks like a stranger, highlighting how much the stubble is associated with his character. On another occasion, Dr. Wilson tells him, "I lied. I've been lying to you in increasing amounts ever since I told you you looked good unshaved a year ago." |
| 183 | * PerpetualFrowner: He rarely smiles. |
| 184 | * PetTheDog: Plenty, with the golden example being [[spoiler:the series finale, wherein House deliberately destroys his own medical career to be with Wilson, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, during his last five months to live.]] |
| 185 | * PhraseCatcher: "You're an ass!" |
| 186 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He won't hesitate for a second to make racist, sexist remarks or joke about wheelchairs, dwarfism, or disabilities directly to patients' faces. Although this is less about being bigoted and more about House [[HatesEveryoneEqually just being an obnoxious jerk]]. |
| 187 | * ProfessorGuineaPig: He wouldn't be a mad scientist if he didn't experiment on himself from time-to-time. |
| 188 | ** A college rival House held a grudge against attempted to create a drug that stops migraines. Just to prove him wrong (and also to screw him out of patenting it), House took the medication as well as drugs that would ''induce'' an extremely severe migraine headache. His rival's drug failed, and he wound up in extreme pain for the rest of the day, but did wreck the guy's chance to get his drug bought. House eventually cured his migraine himself with LSD. Though his own subconscious surmises that he really did it because he's addicted to being miserable. |
| 189 | ** In one episode, the patient of that week was having a bad reaction, and the team was convinced that it was because of tainted blood from a recent transfusion. House repeatedly said that wasn't the case and eventually got so annoyed arguing the point that he had the team transfuse the blood into ''him'' (House being a universal recipient). |
| 190 | ** One of the most serious cases was when House discovered a study being done on rats that would re-grow lost muscle, which he began to steal samples of and test on himself. [[spoiler:All rats eventually developed fatal tumors in the muscle mass they were re-growing, meaning House had to cut his leg open and remove said tumors himself in his bathtub.]] |
| 191 | * ProtagonistTitle: The series is named after him. |
| 192 | * PuppyDogEyes: He isn't exactly averse to looking like a kicked puppy when someone hurts him in one of his weak spots, either. His initial reaction to his cane snapping in half in "Safe" and his emotional moments with Stacy are good examples. |
| 193 | * ReallyGetsAround: Hookers are one of his favorite pastimes. |
| 194 | * RedOniBlueOni: The hyper-rational and scientifically-minded Blue Oni to Wilson's passionate and emotional Red Oni. |
| 195 | * SadClown: He constantly makes jokes, and enjoys childish pranks. However, he's a deeply depressed man who rarely laughs at anything. |
| 196 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:In late Season 5, House's mental state quickly begins to deteriorate into hallucinations of Amber and delusions of a romantic relationship with Cuddy. House agrees to be voluntarily admitted to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.]] |
| 197 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Of a sort. For anyone else, accepting a vintage 1965 Corvette from a known member of the [[TheMafia New Jersey mob]], as House did in season one, would be an invitation to ethical conflict, and an incitement to break all sorts of rules. For House, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was an invitation to Tuesday]], and an incitement to do exactly what [[ChaoticNeutral he does without being bribed]]. Ironically, apart from the car, his conduct on that case was ''more'' ethical than some of the things he would do in later seasons. |
| 198 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: How Cameron sees him, anyway. While this evaluation is presumably due in part to her love for him, there are also a number of hints that the two of them are similar, so she may be onto something. |
| 199 | * SecretChaser: If there is a secret, he ''has'' to know it; If not even you know it, he will dismiss your ignorance as a lie right off the bat and even being threatened with prosecution because of violating government classified information won't stop him. The fact that very often that secret is ''[[EurekaMoment the]]'' clue that helps him save the patient-of-the-week's life [[SweetAndSourGrapes is the one good thing that comes from revealing it]]. And as the [[TookALevelInJerkass building up of calluses]] by everybody else in the cast shows, humiliation and ruination is the most common result of his obsession. |
| 200 | * SelfDeprecation: He has huge issues of self-worth, but it's rare that bystanders notice because he's also an InsufferableGenius. |
| 201 | * SelfHarm: House occasionally delves into this when he needs a better distraction than Vicodin. When he's going through withdrawals in season nine, he purposely breaks his fingers with a pestle to lessen the pain in his leg. His frequent self-experimenting is also interpreted by other characters as being this, like how he induces a painful migraine just to prove that his former enemy's drug doesn't work. In fact, it could be argued that the root of House's problems is that his only form of self-identity is being miserable. He doesn't know of any other way to be himself if he isn't the jaded misanthrope that belittles everyone around him into hating his guts. Even his own subconscious agrees: |
| 202 | -->'''Wilson:''' You just wanted the pain. |
| 203 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Aggressive and confrontational, he serves as the Manly Man to Wilson's Sensitive Guy. |
| 204 | * SherlockHomage: He's a brilliant (medical) detective who regularly takes drugs and only takes up cases that he finds interesting. Unusually, despite being clearly inspired by Sherlock Holmes, he's a doctor who hunts diseases instead of a detective who hunts criminals. |
| 205 | * SherlockScan: He's been known to deduce a stranger's illnesses after just one glance. |
| 206 | * SlapSlapKiss: With Lisa Cuddy: "I try to make you miserable. You deny that it's making you miserable. You try to make me miserable, so I'll stop making you miserable." How romantic... And let us not forget the ending of the episode "Joy" in season 5, where they actually do kiss after the slap slap. |
| 207 | * SleepingWithTheBoss: |
| 208 | ** He winds up having sex with Cuddy, the hospital administrator and his immediate supervisor, after she comes over to his house to help him kick his Vicodin addiction. [[spoiler:Except their encounter that night never actually happened--it was all a Vicodin-induced hallucination on House's part.]] |
| 209 | ** He eventually enters a relationship with Cuddy in Season 7. [[spoiler:It falls apart after he relapses and starts taking vicodin out of fear that Cuddy had cancer.]] |
| 210 | * SmugSnake: Once House has proved himself right, there's nothing he likes more than watching people squirm. |
| 211 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: House is not above giving patients or their families these, usually when they're making a terrible and/or potentially life-ending choice, and when he does he often gets through to them. In "Finding Judas" after he angrily tears into Cuddy she later tells Wilson that House ''holds himself back'' during these and in truth knows full well how to use his speeches to hit someone where it hurts rather than help them. |
| 212 | * TheSnarkKnight: If House weren't a genius diagnostician, he'd fall into LonersAreFreaks territory. |
| 213 | * SociopathicHero: He does, '''very''' deep down, want to cure the people he treats but only if their case is interesting and only if he can go to illegal lengths to make sure. |
| 214 | * SternTeacher: On the infrequent occasions he actually bothers to interact with the med students -- best shown in " Three Stories" where he's pretty harsh to the students he's giving a lecture to but given the nature of their chosen profession he has to be. |
| 215 | -->"It is in the nature of medicine that you are going to screw up. You are going to kill someone. If you can't handle that reality pick another profession, or finish medical school and teach." |
| 216 | * SuperDoc: House's status as SuperDoc is basically the show's ''premise.'' His specialty is supposed to be infectious disease, but House has a long-reaching and deeply comprehensive understanding of medicine that spans across specialties, fields, cultures, and historical periods. He's only downplayed in the sense that he needs a team with their own specialties to round out his already-vast knowledge base. |
| 217 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Almost all women in the show want him at some point.]] He can't bear idiots. He's got the nice, cheerful friend too, in Dr. Wilson, who tries to teach him humanity and caring. |
| 218 | * TeamDad: With Wilson and/or Cuddy as the TeamMom. Wilson and [[TeamMom Cuddy]] also often act strikingly like they're ''House's'' parents. |
| 219 | -->'''House:''' ''[calling Wilson on the phone]'' [[LampshadeHanging Hi, honey. How are the kids?]] |
| 220 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Despite being TheLeader and the main character, he is the most abrasive, the most snarky, and, as noted above, any heroism he has is sociopathic. None of his minions in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine are this bad. |
| 221 | * TookALevelInDumbass: It's a plot point in season seven, with him failing multiple patients. He blames this on being happy with Cuddy, which he's drunkenly okay with, but horrifies her (and they break up next episode). He's still not that bright afterwards either, thinking taking tumors out of his bad leg would be easy, but is better by the next season. |
| 222 | * TooCleverByHalf: For all his brilliance, House can sometimes outsmart himself (which is often exploited by Wilson). Part of the reason House has a team is to assure himself he ''doesn't'' do this when diagnosing patients. A team will correct flaws in House's own logic. |
| 223 | * {{Troll}}: Has been known to ruin people's lives for no reason other than that he found them annoying. The fact that the majority of his victims wouldn't be alive were if not for him is the only thing saving him from complete Jerkassery. |
| 224 | * TroubledButCute: In-universe women seem to adore him unless he shows his DrJerk tendencies. He has lots of emotional baggage from his past relationships, abusive father, and his chronic pain in leg. He is played by Hugh Laurie who is TallDarkAndHandsome with deep blue eyes. |
| 225 | * UltimateJobSecurity: He says that Cuddy will never fire him, no matter what he does, because they had a fling pre-series. [[spoiler:The only thing that threatens his employment is prison time throughout the final season, in part because Cuddy left and her successor, Foreman, has fewer scruples about putting House in his place.]] |
| 226 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inadvertently causes [[spoiler:Amber's death]] in the Season 4 finale. [[spoiler:He called Wilson asking for a ride home, Amber saw the number and went to meet him, they went home on a bus which ended up in a horrific crash. Amber died from a combination of her injuries and the flu meds she was taking.]] |
| 227 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Wilson. House is a DrJerk to the extreme. His concerns about his patients are primarily based on how interesting a puzzle they are, and he takes great joy in tormenting those around him physically, mentally, and emotionally. Wilson is a well-respected and well-loved doctor who is so good at dealing with people he gets thanked when he tells people they have cancer. You'd think these two would be bitter enemies, but they bond together because of their deep-seated cynicism (Wilson hides his very well), and Wilson just as easily snipes right back at House's abuses. |
| 228 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: If he's going to be complimented on anything physical, it'll probably be on his fantastically blue eyes. He'll even be TheCharmer with them, but only as a last resort if jerkassery doesn't work. |
| 229 | * WhatTheHellHero: He's called out on his actions by ''everyone''. Often it's Wilson because he's TheConscience. |
| 230 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: With the entire hospital but especially Wilson. The dynamics go thusly: "House is a jerk, his team puts up with him because he's da boss, and Cuddy just doesn't seem to have a backbone." Then there's Wilson, the mousy-looking NiceGuy cancer doctor, to whom House is an unrepentant bully: stealing his food, interrupting his meetings with outrageous claims, pulling pranks on him. Then comes an episode where Wilson says, proudly, that House is his best friend. Unlike the other characters Dr. Wilson gives as good as he gets, and it's heavily implied that they both enjoy their pranks a lot and it's the rest of the world that just doesn't get them. |
| 231 | * YankTheDogsChain: In "Both Sides Now", the Season 5 finale, House seems to get control of his HeroicBSOD... [[spoiler:At which point [[DeadPersonConversation Amber comes out and congratulates him]]. The look of absolute horror on his face tells you all you need to know.]] |
| 232 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: |
| 233 | ** House harbours a simmering rage at stupid doctors and clueless patients. He's both; when doctors misdiagnosed his clot, House insisted on waiting it out instead of amputation. He ended up with 1½ legs and double the pain. |
| 234 | ** He also scorns {{Death Seeker}}s and the suicidal, but has attempted suicide at least twice, and has admitted to contemplating it multiple times. |
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| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Dr. James Wilson]] |
| 238 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7297james_wilson_jpg2829james_wilson_2441.jpg]] |
| 239 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/RobertSeanLeonard |
| 240 | ->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/PierreTessier (European French) |
| 241 | |
| 242 | Head of the Department of Oncology, and House's best (and only) friend. Got his medical degree from Columbia and did his specialty training at the University of Pennsylvania. It's assumed but never stated that he attended [=McGill=] University for his bachelor's degree. Wilson is a sensitive and caring man, whose impeccable bedside manner sharply contrasts House's lack of one. As a result of his nature, he's been married three times, two of them failing as a result of his infidelity, and the third because of his partner's. Very much a people-pleaser. He and House frequently play mind games with one another. |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | * TenMinuteRetirement: He quits his oncology practice at Princeton-Plainsboro twice throughout the series: once due to pressure from Detective Tritter, then again later on [[spoiler:after Amber died]], but in both cases, came back. |
| 245 | * AllLovingHero: Played straight and deconstructed. Wilson is a NiceGuy who genuinely cares about his patients and just about everyone he meets. But that tendency plays havoc with his relationships, because he's continually drawn to damaged people, has trouble prioritizing his own needs, and never runs out of people who need his time and attention. As a result, he can't maintain a romantic relationship for very long (he has three failed marriages under his belt) and his closest friendship is with House, a person who's never going to heal. |
| 246 | -->'''House:''' ''[knocks on the door to Wilson's office]'' I know you're in there; I can hear you ''caring''. |
| 247 | * AllTakeAndNoGive: His relationship with House, most of the time, is him helping House without as much as a "thank you" in return. On the other hand, Wilson has said he values his relationship with House because he doesn't have to walk on eggshells or soften the truth with House, which is valuable for someone who has to be nice and compassionate to people all day long. [[spoiler:Inverted when he has cancer in Season 8.]] |
| 248 | * AllMenArePerverts: An authentic example. He can't abstain from dating other women, even when he was married. He even had an affair with a patient. Then he met [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest Amber]]. |
| 249 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "The C-Word", [[spoiler:the hallucination of a kid who died under his treatment asks "if [he] didn't do nothing wrong, why did [he] die?".]] The question leaves Wilson devastated. |
| 250 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Whenever he and House are particularly mean-spirited to each other, there's always a brief moment or gesture from one or the other that will make it clear how much they really care. |
| 251 | * BeardOfSorrow: Not as bad as House post-leg, but he seems to shave a lot less after [[spoiler:he's diagnosed with cancer.]] |
| 252 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being a NiceGuy, he has a manipulative streak. See ManipulativeBastard below. |
| 253 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Not only does he state it; |
| 254 | -->'''Wilson:''' Some doctors have the Messiah Complex - they need to save the world. |
| 255 | ** His love life is a victim of it. He gets into relationships with damaged women, and loses interest once they heal. On three occasions(see SerialSpouse), this happens ''after'' he marries them. Upside: at least one of the women was rather flattered by the whole thing - at least enough to chew House out for screwing with him. Downside: Wilson is ''stuck'' with House as his most significant other simply because House will never stop needing him. |
| 256 | * ChickMagnet: Can't keep the ladies away, and is particularly... erm... friendly with the nursing staff. |
| 257 | * TheConscience: He reminds House of stuff like the "do unto others" thingie and the "keeping your promises" thingie. |
| 258 | * ConsummateLiar: His best friend is House, so Wilson has become increasingly good at lying just to keep some small degree of privacy. House is so good at the SherlockScan that no matter how good Wilson gets at this, it never works for very long. |
| 259 | * DeadpanSnarker: Usually in conjunction with House and snarking right back at him, to the point where it consists of about 90% of their dialogue on the show. |
| 260 | * DeadPersonConversation: |
| 261 | ** In "The C-Word", he talks to [[spoiler:John Taylor, an 8-year-old who died under his care.]] |
| 262 | ** In "Brave Heart", it's revealed that Wilson talks to [[spoiler:his dead girlfriend Amber.]] He knows [[spoiler:she]] isn't there, but it helps him cope. |
| 263 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He's an oncologist with terminal cancer...]] |
| 264 | * {{Expy}}: Dr. Wilson's name and role echo those of Dr. Watson, corresponding to House being a SherlockHomage. |
| 265 | * ExtremeDoormat: Subverted. He may let House (and everyone else) roll over him most of the time, but when someone pushes him too far [[DidYouThinkICantFeel he stands his ground]]. |
| 266 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In Season 8, Wilson finds out that he has cancer that gives him, at absolute best, around three years to live. After the first round of chemotherapy is unsuccessful, he refuses any further treatment and decides to just enjoy the roughly 5 months he has left.]] |
| 267 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: His first two marriages ended in divorce before the series started. His 3rd marriage fails in Season 2, leaving his extremely dysfunctional relationship with House as the only one that hasn't fallen apart. |
| 268 | * FindingJudas: [[spoiler:TropeNamer and subject - Wilson's the one who sells out House to Tritter in season 3, because doing so will get House sent to rehab instead of prison.]] |
| 269 | * GoodSamaritan: He sacrifices a ''lot'' for House on a regular basis, which is [[ThinkNothingOfIt often passed over]]. However in the episode "Wilson", [[ADayInTheLimelight we see how]] much attention and care he gives his patients on a daily basis, despite constantly dealing with House and the problems that follow him, which culminates when he ''[[HeroicSacrifice gives his patient a part of his own liver]]'' in order to save him (and it's highly implied that if it came to it [[ChronicHeroSyndrome he'd probably do something similar again]]). |
| 270 | * GuileHero: He is the only person in the series who has successfully manipulated the title character multiple times. Not only that, but he's less of an AntiHero than almost the entire rest of the cast. |
| 271 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With House. In the second and third seasons, the writers make light of the shipping. |
| 272 | -->'''Stacy:''' What are you hiding?\ |
| 273 | '''House:''' I'm gay. ''[Stacy glares at him]'' Oh! That's not what you meant. It does explain a lot, though. No girlfriend, always with Wilson, obsession with sneakers... |
| 274 | * IntoxicationEnsues: From "Resignation", his infamous "I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on '''speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!'''" |
| 275 | * KindHeartedCatLover. He takes in an old cat named Sarah in Season 7 after her owner passed away. |
| 276 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, he's referred to only by his last name. |
| 277 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Heavily implied in his relationship with House. While their relationship may appear to be of the AllTakeAndNoGive variety, it actually goes both ways. Wilson is not as well-adjusted as he seems, and probably needs House just as much as he is needed by him. |
| 278 | * ManipulativeBastard: Wilson remains the only character who can continually lie to House, as well as the only character to one-up House. |
| 279 | -->'''House:''' You manipulative bastard, did you just invoke the name of [[spoiler:your dead girlfriend]] to play me? You're my hero. |
| 280 | * TheMcCoy: The one who feels a need to "fix" the vulnerable women he meets. |
| 281 | * MistakenForGay: Along with House. In "The Down Low", House pretends he and Wilson are a couple as part of an insanely convoluted plan to sleep with the woman Wilson likes, and keep him from sleeping with her at the same time. |
| 282 | %%* MrFanservice |
| 283 | * NiceGuy: A NiceJewishBoy who's approachable and humanitarian-centered attitude contrasts House's cold cynicism. |
| 284 | * NiceJewishBoy: He's not necessarily nice all the time, but especially compared to House he generally seems nice. Since a lot of his patients are terminally ill, being nice is a job skill. |
| 285 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His support of House and attempts to help him repeatedly get him in trouble with it making him a target for both Vogler and Tritter and hurting his relationship with one of his wives. |
| 286 | * OddFriendship: With House. They have nothing in common personality-wise, he's generally empathic and just plain kind, and House is a sarcastic, narcissistic misanthrope. But all of Wilson's wives have been "damaged". He has a complex about rescuing people. |
| 287 | * OnlyFriend: House's best friend and the only one who considers House a friend. |
| 288 | * PuppyDogEyes: He has big chocolate eyes. Cynical House sometimes laughs at him for it. |
| 289 | * RedOniBlueOni: The emotional Red Oni to House's hyper-rational and scientifically-minded Blue Oni. |
| 290 | * SecretlySelfish: A sympathetic example; Wilson is generous and compassionate, but has some very selfish moments that's only visible to people who are close to him. His relationships with his wives are the first big clue; he hooks up with women who are going through hard times, then after giving them the emotional support they need to get through it, he loses interest and starts pursuing other women. In season 4 he [[spoiler: actually asks House to undergo a procedure that would risk his life for the chance of saving Amber, then when House does so he breaks off all contact and ends their friendship after Amber dies.]] These moments only serve to make Wilson look more three-dimensional and human, and his relationship with House is apparently fueled by the fact that he can be as selfish as he wants around him without feeling any guilt. |
| 291 | * SerialSpouse: Wilson had been divorced twice at the start of the show. He went through his third divorce in season two. At one point his second wife says "He's just so knight-in-shining armor, you know? Always there to support you, until he's not, but by then you're hooked." He stopped being there for her because he needed to be there for House. It's implied that this is due to his ChronicHeroSyndrome. He's supportive of his girlfriends and spouses until they don't need support anymore, then he loses interest. House never stops needing him. |
| 292 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: An endlessly-compassionate, affectionate, and caring person who seems to have a bottomless well of patience; the perfect Sensitive Guy to House's Manly Man. |
| 293 | * ShipperOnDeck: First to House and Cameron (even as he warns her not to hurt him), then to House and Stacy (even as he warns her not to hurt him ''and'' reminds House that Stacy's married) then to House and Cuddy. Mostly, he just wants House to be happy. |
| 294 | * SmarterThanYouLook: It's hard for anyone to shine when standing next to House, but Wilson is an excellent doctor who continually provides useful insights (that House ignores). His ADayInTheLimelight episode in season 6 features him diagnosing a recurrence of cancer because his patient failed to mention how his grandchildren were doing[[note]]not talking about grandkids = depression = possibly a recurrence. A CT shows a tiny dot on his lung anyone else would have ignored, which a biopsy confirms is cancer[[/note]]. |
| 295 | * StepfordSmiler: Amber beats the "I'm always fine, dear" facade out of him. |
| 296 | * StraightMan: A nice and reasonable guy to House's outrageous behavior. |
| 297 | * TragicKeepsake: The final season reveals that many of the items on the shelf behind the desk in his office are keepsakes of patients who died in spite of high chances of surviving cancer. |
| 298 | * TroubledButCute: Good looking and charismatic, but the ups and downs of his lovelife, having a job that constantly puts him around terminal patients, [[spoiler:Amber's death, and finally his own terminal cancer diagnosis]] really weigh heavy on a guy. |
| 299 | * TwoFirstNames: Applies to his actor too. |
| 300 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Decides to induce protective hypothermia in Amber rather than continue with the defibrillator, so House has more time to diagnose her. She was as good as dead when they agreed on this.]] |
| 301 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With House. Greg House, DrJerk to the extreme, is the only person allowed to openly mock James Wilson's serial marriages and chronic neediness. They'd fall into the first category, except then you realize that Wilson's no doormat and snipes right back at House. There's a reason he and House are friends, as he points out in "Saviors" that normality for them is him manipulating House and House figuring it out. Explicit in the last few episodes, [[spoiler:as after his cancer diagnosis]], he grows more stubble, takes some Vicodin and House is the one looking after ''him'' in "The C Word". |
| 302 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Has about 5 months to live as of the series finale.]] |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | [[folder:Dr. Lisa Cuddy]] |
| 305 | [[quoteright:194:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/images322_6805.jpg]] |
| 306 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/LisaEdelstein |
| 307 | |
| 308 | Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro, an endocrinologist, and House and Wilson's boss. The frequent target of House's insults and innuendos, Cuddy tries her hardest to rein in her star doctor. Unfortunately, House usually ends up gaining the upper hand. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | She resigned after Season 7. House's [[CarMeetsHouse last act was]] ''not pretty''. |
| 311 | ---- |
| 312 | * AbusiveMom: Her mother makes several appearances in season 7, and she seems to do her utmost best to make her daughter feel like shit. |
| 313 | * TheAllegedBoss: She's House's direct superior in the hospital's hierarchy and she tries to put a leash on him... Not that it helps. |
| 314 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: A composed female character with dark hair. |
| 315 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: Cuddy constantly gives the impression that she has far too much on her plate, and in her ADayInTheLimelight episode "5 to 9", this impression is confirmed with a vengeance. House, for all the antagonism he gives Cuddy, is only about 50% of her problems. |
| 316 | * BenevolentBoss: To House. Being loyal to him and consistently protecting him from the wrath of the hospital's board of directors. |
| 317 | * TheBGrade: She finished second best in her graduating class and was disappointed with the result. |
| 318 | * BrainyBrunette: A smart, dark-haired woman. |
| 319 | * BrokenAce: She admits this when talking with a patient who asks her if she has any kids. |
| 320 | -->'''Cuddy:''' I was good at school, good at work, lousy at life. I screwed up every relationship I ever had. I thought "why would I want to bring a child into this?" But then I got older and... |
| 321 | * ButtMonkey: Often on the receiving end of a lot of House's antics. |
| 322 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the show's pilot episode she's depicted as a {{Jerkass}} and ObstructiveBureaucrat who has an outright hostile relationship with House, to the point where she at one point refuses to allow House's patient any treatment or even scans, just because House is behind on his clinic hours, the kind of behavior that would be more commonly seen from someone like Vogler in subsequent episodes. |
| 323 | * DaChief: In keeping with ''House'' being a medical drama crossed with a police procedural, Cuddy takes this role in the show, giving orders to the department, warning about breaches of trust, and manning a desk while the "detectives" solve cases. |
| 324 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially when talking to or about House, she always has snarky comebacks to House's comments and most of their interactions are SnarkToSnarkCombat. |
| 325 | * HiddenDepths: The show may like to imply that House runs circles around her, but she does have a keen manipulative streak that allows her to dominate anyone else who isn't House. Take Foreman (a.k.a. the second smartest guy on the team) for instance, whom she rehires after he proves to be an unemployable maverick and rescinding her previous offer to increase his salary. You could also extrapolate that House is not more out of control because of her methods. |
| 326 | * HospitalHottie: The show doesn't miss a chance to show her in various states of undress, including nothing. |
| 327 | * HotForTeacher: She and House attended the same med school and she tracked him down at the endocrinology seminar he was leading after an intriguing encounter at the bookstore. |
| 328 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, she's referred to only by her last name. |
| 329 | * LawOfInverseFertility: Desperately wants a child, but is unable to conceive; in Season 3 she tells Wilson that she has made three attempts at implantation, two of which never took and the last of which miscarried. In Season 5, her first attempt at adoption falls through when the biological mother changes her mind about giving up her child. It takes until the middle of Season 5 for her to adopt finally successfully. |
| 330 | * LoveMakesYouStupid: Despite her claims to the contrary, it's pretty much implied her feelings for House is why she hired him, when no other doctor would, and why she puts up with his antics. |
| 331 | * MaleGaze: House (and a few others, but mostly House) make constant references to the size and tightness of Cuddy's ass, which the show also draw attention to. |
| 332 | * MamaBear: The younger a patient is, the more Cuddy will try to shield them from House's insanity. In an early episode, she went nuts running about trying to solve the crisis of an unexplained contaminant in the maternity ward. |
| 333 | * MsFanservice: Let's see... low-cut tops, tight skirts ''and'' a stripper scene in House's mind. Invoked in-universe, as half of House's comments on Cuddy's clothes point out how completely inappropriate they are in a professional environment. |
| 334 | * OnlySaneEmployee: Cuddy is technically Dean of Medicine and chief administrator of the hospital. Her real job is keeping House and his increasingly House-like fellows under some measure of control. |
| 335 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: It's one big part of her characterization: she's a brilliant doctor who's constantly living in House's shadow despite being his superior. |
| 336 | * PutOnABus: Resigns the day after the season 7 finale and is never seen or heard from again. [[spoiler:A sedan crashing through her living room was enough for her to call it quits.]] |
| 337 | * TheQuisling: House accuses Cuddy of being this for Vogler in Season 1, even name-dropping the original. Vogler buys his way into the hospital board's chair with a $100,000,000 donation. When he starts using his position for ethically questionable practices, the board (and Cuddy) adopt a policy of appeasement so as not to lose the money. Cuddy eventually comes around when Vogler starts firing board members for voting against his motions. |
| 338 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much more levelheaded and reasonable than House. |
| 339 | * RetiredBadass: More or less; as an administrator of the hospital, she doesn't often get involved in individual cases. When she actually does get involved, we see why she's the best doctor in PPTH after House himself. |
| 340 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Subverted. It initially seems that way from her interactions with House, but she has a character arc outside of him. |
| 341 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When arguing for Vogler's removal as hospital chairman, she states the hospital's principles mean more than Volger's "donation". |
| 342 | * SlapSlapKiss: With House. House maintains that the reason Cuddy will eventually give him whatever he asks for is because they had a one-night stand prior to the start of the series. |
| 343 | * TeamMom: Generally behaves as an annoyed, unamused mother in a sitcom when House is tormenting his team. [[spoiler:Becomes even more pronounced with she and House officially form a relationship.]] |
| 344 | * TheTease: House frequently teased her for dressing inappropriately. She doesn't really seem to mind. |
| 345 | * TookALevelInDumbass: Poor woman seems to lose some brain cells when she becomes a mother. |
| 346 | * TheUnfavorite: A downplayed example. Cuddy's mother loves both of her daughters, but since Lisa and her mother often butt heads, her mother admits that she prefers her older sister. |
| 347 | * {{Tsundere}}: A borderline type A to House, in their SlapSlapKiss relationship. |
| 348 | * VetinariJobSecurity: As much as she would love to spend more time with Rachel, Cameron points out that, if she hires someone who knows House to replace her, they'll think he's infalible and always say 'yes' to his requests (which can be dangerous), and, if she hires someone who ''doesn't'' know House to replace her, they'll think he's just an insane jerk and always say 'no' to his requests (even though they save lives). She is the only one who can maintain that balance. [[spoiler: Luckily, Foreman is able to step into her shoes in the final season.]] |
| 349 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Throughout the show, there is a lot of sexual tension between House and Cuddy, and they get on and off a relationship throughout the series. [[spoiler:Ultimately, the story definitely settles on "won't". House driving his car into her house was enough for her to resign from the hospital, leaving the show for the rest of the series.]] |
| 350 | [[/folder]] |
| 351 | [[folder:Dr. Eric Foreman]] |
| 352 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foreman_9127.jpg]] |
| 353 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/OmarEpps |
| 354 | |
| 355 | Neurologist and one of the original fellows serving under House. Foreman is a black man who comes from an underprivileged background. House hired him because he was a thief and a carjacker in his youth. He is the last of the three original fellows to be hired, having only joined the team three days before the start of the series. House seems to favor him above the other fellows as, and Foreman serves as something of a foil to House himself, being the fellow most likely to challenge House's authority or question his actions. He serves as a fellow for House from Seasons 1 - 7 and becomes Dean of Medicine in Season 8. |
| 356 | ---- |
| 357 | * TenMinuteRetirement: In Season 4, Foreman quits from Princeton Plainsboro because he fears becoming like House. He eventually has little choice but to return to House's team because he ignored protocol at the hospital he started working at, got fired, and became virtually unhireable at any hospital except Princeton Plainsboro. |
| 358 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Downplayed. Foreman isn't evil, but almost all of his dodgier decisions are driven by attempts to advance his career. It's telling that just about any point in the series where he ''isn't'' trying to push or advance his own agenda in some way is seen as an OutOfCharacterMoment by the rest of his colleagues. |
| 359 | ** In Season 2, he steals Cameron's article concept and uses House's inattention to get it published, dismissing her justified irritation and refusing her attempts to smooth things over between the two of them. He only apologizes to her for it when he's ''actively on the verge of dying.'' |
| 360 | ** Also in Season 2 is given temporary control over House's department after a court ruling, and spends a decent chunk of it overruling just about every one of House's decisions and trying to weasel up to Cuddy to make it permanant. |
| 361 | * TheAtoner: The only reason he [[spoiler:still spends time with his father]] is guilt over [[spoiler:not spending more time with his mother, who died in Season 6 and had Alzheimer's in her final years.]] |
| 362 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: Is given control over House multiple times but it always ends up being this Trope. [[spoiler:Averted in the final season, when he officially becomes Chief Of Medicine and gets total control of House's job.]] |
| 363 | * BaldOfAuthority: In the final season, when he's promoted to Dean of Medicine. |
| 364 | * BenevolentBoss: In the final season, when he's promoted to Dean of Medicine, and is more affable than House. |
| 365 | * BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Apparently subscribes to this, which is why whenever House is untrusting of an outside influence (Vogler or Tritter) he knows he can count on Foreman not to betray him. No matter how badly House treats him, Foreman's got no guarantee strangers will be any more trustworthy. |
| 366 | -->'''House:''' You wouldn't jump ship unless you knew what was in the water. |
| 367 | * BrutalHonesty: Can be like this at times, such as when he coldly tells Cameron that they're not friends and never will be when she attempts to smooth things over between the two of them in the aftermath of him stealing an article concept of hers that wound up published. |
| 368 | * CustomUniform: Starting in Season 4, like House he stops wearing a lab coat. {{Lampshaded}} by Chase in the episode "Games". However unlike House, he dresses professionally wearing a dress shirt and vest, so it's less noticeable. |
| 369 | * TheDandy: Foreman has a sharp dress sense—much sharper than the other male main cast, with the occasional exception of Wilson. His suits are always perfectly tailored, and the color combinations and patterns on his shirts and ties are always interesting but tasteful. He also usually dresses in bright and bold colors (e.g. the light-blue-tie-on-light-blue-shirt combo he’s so fond of in the early seasons), which work well for him both aesthetically (setting off his dark skin color) and personalitywise (identifying him as a sophisticated man who cares about his appearance). |
| 370 | * DrJerk: Depending on which point you're at in the series, or how he's feeling that day, he's either one to dethrone House himself or barely a point above snarky. It's telling that in the episode "Histories" that when Wilson brings a case involving a homeless woman to the crew, uncharacteristically ''begging'' them to take it, that House willingly accepts it after a few halfhearted insults (for House tantamount to nice) while Foreman spends roughly half the episode insulting the woman whenever she's out of earshot and trying to get her ousted from the hospital so that he doesn't have to deal with her. |
| 371 | * {{Foil}}: To Cuddy as Dean of Medicine. He's not the pushover Cuddy was, and he makes it abundantly clear he won't hesitate to send House back to prison if he refuses to toe the line. |
| 372 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Eric grew up to be a hard-working and (mostly) law-abiding person, while his older brother, Marcus, has drug problems and has been in and out of prison throughout his adult life. |
| 373 | * {{Irony}}: After Season 2 and the aftermath of the "Euphoria" two-parter, he's a brain-damaged neurologist. |
| 374 | * LackOfEmpathy: Seems to struggle with this somewhat, often failing to understand why something inconsiderate or mean he's done to a colleague that cares about him is being taken so hard or has pissed someone off. He's decent enough at patient interaction that continued engagement is usually allowed, but rest assured that if it isn't House that's managed to piss a patient off, it's probably Foreman. |
| 375 | * TheLancer: From Season 4 onwards as the {{foil}} of House. He's also the de facto NumberTwo of House's team, being the second smartest person on the team. |
| 376 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, he's referred to only by his last name. |
| 377 | * MirrorCharacter: To House, a fact he deeply resents both personally and professionally, because he used to see himself as being more compassionate until House wore his facade down, and because he was fired from another job due to a House-like maneuver, which gave the reputation of being "House Lite" in the medical community and more or less ensured that he'd be unable to work anywhere but Princeton. |
| 378 | * MoralityChain: Invoked. This is why Cuddy rehired him; she needed someone to keep House's worst tendencies in check. |
| 379 | * MrFanservice: He gets a good ShirtlessScene in the season 6 episode "Epic Fail". |
| 380 | * NoodleIncident: In the episode "Moving the Chains", House embarrasses Foreman by mentioning an incident where Foreman wet the bed at a friend's house during a sleepover when he was young. |
| 381 | -->'''Foreman:''' I did not wet the bed. I spilled a drink.\ |
| 382 | '''House:''' We're not buying it Eric, we never did. |
| 383 | * NumberTwo: Unofficially in command of Dr. House's diagnostic teams when House himself isn't around. |
| 384 | * OnlySaneMan: Everyone but House is this to some extent, but sometimes he seems to be only one with common sense from the entire group. |
| 385 | * PerpetualFrowner: He rarely smiles. |
| 386 | * PetTheDog: On occasion such as when he comforts an overweight girl who is mercilessly bullied that everything will be okay when she's older. |
| 387 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Gets promoted to Dean of Medicine in Season 8 following Cuddy's resignation, and seems to be putting his years of working under House to use.]] |
| 388 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to House's Red. Both of them are more interested in solving their cases than making their patients comfortable, but House tends to charge forward with any outlandish treatment. In contrast, Foreman tends to be more cautious. |
| 389 | * SecretKeeper: Foreman becomes this as a result of the events in the series finale; House leaves behind evidence that clues Foreman in that House faked his death. |
| 390 | * TheStoic: He was referred to as "boring" and in "The Softer Side" Taub mocks him for having a robotic manner. |
| 391 | * TheStraightMan: Fits this dynamic with House, often watching his antics with stone-faced unamusement. [[spoiler:When Foreman chuckles at one of House's more insane exploits, it clues House in that he's caught an infectious disease that first presents with euphoria.]] |
| 392 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Is described in-universe as a "lite" version of House. |
| 393 | * TokenMinority: For all of Seasons 1-3, parts of 4 and 5 and all of 6 and 7. Something House always jokes about. |
| 394 | * TheUsurper: In Season Two he was briefly given supervision over House's team as part of a disciplinary ruling from the state medical board -- he liked being in charge well enough that he actually tried to convince Cuddy to make it permanent. From that point onward he asserts himself as team leader whenever House isn't around. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | [[folder:Dr. Allison Cameron]] |
| 397 | [[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_7467.jpg]] |
| 398 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JenniferMorrison |
| 399 | |
| 400 | An immunologist, and one of House's original fellows. Cameron is often at odds with House over patient care -- she is more concerned about the patient, while House is more focused on the puzzle. Cameron is a widow, having married a man who she knew was dying of cancer when she was 21. She serves as a fellow during season 1-3 and the first few episodes of season 6. Starting in Season 4, she transfers from the Department of Diagnostic Medicine to the ER, working as a Senior Attending Physician. |
| 401 | |
| 402 | In Season 6, she leaves the hospital and divorces Chase, having become disgusted with both him and House. She moves to Chicago and becomes the Dean of Emergency Medicine. She returned in the series finale. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * TenMinuteRetirement: A couple times. She first quits in Season 1 as a result of House's ongoing hostilities with Vogler, but returns early in Season 2. She quits House's team again at the end of Season 4, but continues to work at Princeton Plainsboro in the emergency room and eventually rejoins the diagnostics team. [[PutOnABus She quits for good]] in Season 6 after her marriage with Chase collapses following the Dibala case. |
| 405 | * ActualPacifist: Always lays down her life and works as hard as possible to help people, even in cases where patients intentionally stab her with infected needles. In one case a patient tried to ''goad her into killing him'' to see if she could live up to this Trope. |
| 406 | * AdvertisedExtra: In season 4 and 5, she's regularly credited in the opening but she's mostly OutOfFocus, especially compared to Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen, whose actors are not mentioned in the opening. |
| 407 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedWith in her crush on House. When she temporarily resigns from his department during the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Vogler]] arc, she claims that he does what he does "[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight because it's right]]", which suggests that, whatever his abrasive qualities, she's mainly drawn to the HiddenHeartOfGold that she sees beneath them. |
| 408 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: She believes very strictly in a set moral system. Whether or not this chimes with her willingness to euthanize a patient in season three, or with her condemning Chase as "no longer valuing the sanctity of human life" for [[spoiler:killing a mass-murdering tyrant who ''told'' Chase that as soon as he got out of the hospital he was going to commit an act of genocide]], thereby saving the lives of thousands of people, is debatable. |
| 409 | * BrainyBrunette: Initially she was a woman with brown hair and a doctorate. See ExpositoryHairStyleChange. |
| 410 | * BreakTheCutie: Before the series even started, she married a man whom she knew was dying of cancer. Her three years working for House, which, if anything, have strengthened her quite a bit. |
| 411 | * CommutingOnABus: When she works in the ER in seasons 4, 5, and the early part of season 6. |
| 412 | * CondescendingCompassion: Cameron takes steps to be loving and courteous to all her patients, trying to be an AllLovingHero but House gleefully points out she winds up as this trope instead. Her heart's in the right place but Cameron's love is always intertwined with her pity. |
| 413 | * ExpositoryHairStyleChange: Initially a brunette, she goes blonde from season four onward, at the point when she resigns from House's department. |
| 414 | * TheFace: She goes out of her way to get to know the patients, as opposed to the other members of her department, who more or less don't care and just ask them about symptoms. |
| 415 | * TheHeart: The moral center, if they would listen to her more often. |
| 416 | * HiredForTheirLooks: In his words, House hired Cameron because "it's like having a nice piece of art in the lobby", though she had impressive medical credentials to go with them. He quickly elaborates on this: with her looks, Cameron could easily have become a model, a TrophyWife, or even just [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop slept her way through med school]] - instead, she earned a degree the hard way. He then states that he thought of her as "damaged" and was curious as to the exact nature thus, but that was ''after'' he pointed out that she worked her "stunning little ass off" to get where she is; he thus knew he'd found a {{Determinator}}. |
| 417 | * HasAType: She was previously married to a man who only had six months to live from terminal cancer. House suspects she's attracted to damaged people, observing that she has a bit of a crush on him and he's not even ''nice''. Considering she eventually marries Chase, who has his own DarkAndTroubledPast, maybe House was onto something. |
| 418 | * HospitalHottie: In the first few seasons, House speculated aloud at least once on why Cameron became a doctor, since she was pretty enough to get by on her looks alone. (He concluded she must feel she had something to prove). |
| 419 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, she's referred to only by her last name. |
| 420 | %%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Thirteen's dark. |
| 421 | * TheMedic: In a cast full of doctors, she's got the medic's personality of caring. |
| 422 | * MoralityChain: Tries keep House from being a MadScientist with occasional, if mild, success. |
| 423 | * NaiveEverygirl: A bit older than most examples but fits. She's idealistic, to the point of being too naive and trusting. |
| 424 | * TheMcCoy: Forms a close, personal connection with the patients and looks at their cases from a loved one's perspective. |
| 425 | * OnlySaneWoman: Quite often proves to be this among House's initial line-up, particularly at one point during Season 1 when Edward Vogler demands that House fire one of his team members to cut costs. Whereas Chase and Foreman immediately fall over themselves trying to stab each other in the back, Cameron refuses to get involved for one minute, and instead suggests that House TakeAThirdOption and just cut his own and his team's pay, which is the suggestion he goes with, and only fails because Vogler actually never intended to get rid of any of them, and was just pulling a BatmanGambit on House to get him to endorse a new drug. |
| 426 | * OutOfFocus: Was DemotedToExtra during seasons 4 and 5, and eventually PutOnABus in mid-Season 6. |
| 427 | * PluckyGirl: Always tries to look on the bright side and hold on no matter what life (or House) dumps on her. |
| 428 | * PolitenessJudo: Her usual way of dealing with difficult patients or adversarial outside authorities is being evasively polite. |
| 429 | * ThePollyanna: Idealistic and positive, always looking at things with the brightest angle and hoping for the best. |
| 430 | * PuppyDogEyes: Though she can also give an effective DeathGlare when she sets her mind to it, she's more likely to use a softer approach. |
| 431 | * PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Resigns in mid-Season 6.]] |
| 432 | * SilkHidingSteel: She's a nice girl and TheIngenue, but can stand up for herself. |
| 433 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman on House's four-person team for the first few seasons and tries to be TheHeart of the group. |
| 434 | * TokenGoodTeammate: The nicest member of the staff. |
| 435 | * TwoFirstNames: "Allison" and "Cameron" are commonly used first names. |
| 436 | * WideEyedIdealist: Always looks on the bright side of things, and House takes plenty of joy ripping this trope out of her. Regardless of House's negative feelings toward this as a personal philosophy, it ''does'' turn out to be a major hindrance to her as a doctor. For the first part of the show, Cameron is unwilling to break bad news to patients, preferring to hope that things will just turn out okay for everyone and they won't need to be told. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | [[folder:Dr. Robert Chase]] |
| 439 | [[quoteright:189:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_1_2942.jpg]] |
| 440 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JesseSpencer |
| 441 | |
| 442 | An intensivist (intensive care specialist) and surgeon, and another of the original fellows. Chase is an Australian of Czech descent, and was originally a seminary student before becoming a doctor. He has a strained relationship with his father, largely due to his father's emotional distance and his mother's alcoholism following their divorce. Early on in the series, he is treated as House's "yes man", often agreeing with him and standing by his side no matter what. He gradually learns the hard way that he can't please his boss all of the time. Nonetheless, Chase is a brilliant doctor in his own right, and has solved the case a few times when House couldn't. He serves as a fellow under House during seasons 1-3 and seasons 6-8. Chase becomes a member of the surgical staff at Princeton-Plainsboro and becomes House's go-to-guy for surgery during seasons 4 and 5. He finds himself practicing under House again as member of his team in the 3rd episode of Season 6. |
| 443 | |
| 444 | He leaves yet again near the end of Season 8 to pursue his own career as a diagnostician and step out of House's shadow. [[spoiler:When House fakes his death in the series finale he ultimately replaces House as Head of Diagnostic Medicine at PPTH.]] |
| 445 | ---- |
| 446 | * AbusiveParents: Took care of his sister and mother after his father left them. His mother turned to drinking after the divorce and died from the [=DTs=] while he was in the 12th grade, and his father [[spoiler:dies of lung cancer in Season 2 without even telling Chase he was sick.]] His motivation for becoming a doctor? His mother would lock him in the study as punishment; once he stopped crying he read the medical books in there to kill time. |
| 447 | * TheAce: He is handsome, charming, intelligent and a brilliant doctor. |
| 448 | * AdvertisedExtra: In Seasons 4 and 5, he's regularly credited in the opening but he's mostly OutOfFocus, especially compared to Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen, whose actors are not mentioned in the opening. |
| 449 | * AgentMulder: Sometimes he believes far-fetched things in relation to the patients, such as the boy who thought aliens were contacting him in "Cane & Able". |
| 450 | * AwesomeAussie: Downplayed example as he's pretty cool, great with women, and loves to surf. The "great with women" part is due to him knowingly ''playing up'' this Trope. |
| 451 | * BrainsAndBondage: A brilliant surgeon who turns out to know the dominatrix whom one patient has been seeing - they used to hang out at the same BDSM club. |
| 452 | * ButtMonkey: Sad enough to the extent that House attempted to fire him twice (the first time didn't count as Foreman became House's superior by order of the medical board and Cuddy once, the second time he was fired for real). |
| 453 | * TheCasanova: After divorcing Cameron, Chase rebounded by sleeping with seemingly half the women in New Jersey. |
| 454 | * CasualKink: He's admitted to hanging out at BDSM clubs, and is implied to have a thing for high heels. |
| 455 | * ChickMagnet: It becomes a plot point in the episode "Private Lives" where he fails to deliberately turn women off (pretending to be stupid and obnoxious). All women still want to date him, only because of his good looks. |
| 456 | * DrJerk: To a lesser degree than Foreman; Foreman at one point criticizes Chase for acting nice to patients and then talking smack about them later. Chase is more apathetic than an outright asshole, and will ignore things about patients if it makes his life less of a hassle. |
| 457 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: According to House ''and'' Wilson, Chase is prettier than Cameron, and a male patient openly flirts with him in "Hunting". |
| 458 | * ExpositoryHairStyleChange: Cuts his hair short and develops a PermaStubble after divorcing Cameron. |
| 459 | * FakeAmerican: In-Universe. Puts on a fake (and very convincing) American accent while speed-dating with House and Wilson. |
| 460 | * FootDraggingDivorcee: [[spoiler:In Season 6, he drags his feet regarding the paperwork after Cameron divorces him. It came up in "Lockdown".]] |
| 461 | * FriendToAllChildren: Gets along great with kids and often interacts the most with child patients. |
| 462 | * HospitalHottie: The most conventionally attractive guy on the show. A patient manipulated him into kissing her because he was the most handsome doctor. House and Wilson like teasing him about being "dreamy." The former page-namer for this trope. |
| 463 | * IfJesusThenAliens: He was raised Catholic and still maintains some level of belief in just about everything. Naturally, House mocks him for this. He is the other half of the trope which doesn't believe in anything. |
| 464 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, he's referred to only by his last name. |
| 465 | * LonelyRichKid: He comes from a wealthy family, and had a rough relationship with his absent father and alcoholic mother. |
| 466 | * TheMole: He provides Vogler with information in Season 1. |
| 467 | * MrFanservice: One of the most attractive in the main cast. He gets more than one ShirtlessScene over the years and even walks around in his underwear at some point. (Needless to say, he looks good while doing it.) |
| 468 | * {{Nepotism}}: According to House in the pilot episode, Chase got into the team because his father called. |
| 469 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: To his father, who died from disease without telling Chase about the disease. |
| 470 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: All doctors on the show get this to some degree, but Chase goes from intensivist to someone who can perform every kind of surgery under the sun. |
| 471 | * OutOfFocus: DemotedToExtra during Seasons 4 and 5, but becomes prominent again in Season 6. |
| 472 | * PermaStubble: In later seasons, Dr. Chase got PermaStubble too, causing many in-universe women as well as fangirls to go "squee..." |
| 473 | * PlotAllergy: He's allergic to strawberries and nearly died from it during the episode "House Divided", season 5. House knew of Chase's allergy and he knew that the stripper he hired to Chase's bachelor party uses strawberry body butter, realizing that his subconscious was trying to kill Chase because of his happiness. |
| 474 | * ThePornomancer: Has no trouble picking up multiple women, in one episode managing to sleep with three at a single party. |
| 475 | * PrettyBoy: A fair-haired and baby-faced doctor. Several characters, including House, have made quite a few quips about his good looks and his prettiness sometimes becomes a plot point. For instance, a LittlestCancerPatient develops a crush on him and manipulates him into kissing her. |
| 476 | -->'''Dr. Foreman:''' Chase, you're a pretty boy. Works well with the ladies, not so much with the patients. No one wants an underwear model performing their splenectomy. |
| 477 | * ReallyGetsAround: Sleeps with 4-8 women a month after [[spoiler:his divorce from Cameron]], and again after [[spoiler:his brush with death in "Nobody's Fault"]], apparently as a coping mechanism. |
| 478 | * RichesToRags: House is puzzled by the rich boy on his team working so many shifts in the ER. It turns out that Chase isn't rich, since his father cut him out of his will. |
| 479 | * ShootTheDog: "The Tyrant", and earlier in "Informed Consent" when [[spoiler:he thinks he's helping House put a suffering, terminal patient to death.]] |
| 480 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: He goes through this phase after he fails to turn women off while SpeedDating deliberately. House bets Chase gets more dates on speeding date night than him, and House stays a medical doctor while Chase takes on the personality of a lazy jobless moron. |
| 481 | * TeenyWeenie: In one episode, a woman takes a naked photo of Chase at a wedding and alters the image to give him--apparently-- a comically small penis before posting it on his Facebook. One of his conquests from the wedding later does an AsYouKnow with Chase ("that is ''not'' you"), confirming that the photo's a fake. |
| 482 | * TokenMinority: As far as we know, the only member of the PPTH staff who wasn't born & raised in the United States. |
| 483 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: Within the original diagnostic team, he's explicitly Catholic, as opposed to Foreman (an atheist), Cameron (who's a Deist but doesn't subscribe to a particular organized faith), and House (who's agnostic). Subverted when adding on Cuddy and Wilson (both Jewish), and later Taub (also Jewish). |
| 484 | * TwoFirstNames: Applies to his actor, too. |
| 485 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Had a feeble relationship with his Dad, which eventually resulted in a NeverGotToSayGoodbye situation. Wound up viewing House as a substitute father-figure and fell into this Trope with him, hence why he spent much of the show acting like a Yes-man. |
| 486 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Zig-zagged in his relationship with Foreman. When the show first started they ''genuinely'' didn't like each other and would regularly throw barbs, with and the "Best Buds" aspect of their relationship just being the fact that they were professional enough to put their feelings aside and work together. After they both left House's team and didn't have to work in direct proximity to each other they both cooled off and became more cordial. By the time they were both on the team again they'd become close friends (being the two who'd known each other the longest) but still open fire on each other (since they know exactly how to torment the other). |
| 487 | * YesMan: To House, at first. Chase usually follows House's instructions, and rarely disagrees with anything House has to say. |
| 488 | [[/folder]] |
| 489 | [[folder:Dr. Chris Taub]] |
| 490 | [[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_2_2910.jpg]] |
| 491 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/PeterJacobson |
| 492 | |
| 493 | A plastic surgeon. He serves as one of House's fellows during seasons 4-8. Taub is middle aged and Jewish. He was forced out of his successful practice after his partners found out that he was cheating on his wife with one of the nurses. As part of the agreement, he signed a "non-compete" contract, which states that he can no longer pursue a career in his chosen specialty. Taub can be combative, and has tried to undermine House's authority, going so far as to try to get House thrown off of a case. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * ButtMonkey: Granted he brings a fair bit of misfortune on himself with his serial philandering, but the guy just can't catch a break. |
| 496 | * CassandraTruth: Tries to inform a stripper of a potential melanoma. Gets held at gunpoint for his trouble when he can't convince her he's not trying to sleep with her. |
| 497 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Granted, he's no moron, but who would expect a short, meek, balding doctor to be skilled in Krav Maga? |
| 498 | * DeadpanSnarker: One of the requirements to be part of House's staff. |
| 499 | -->'''Kutner:''' The shortest distance between here and your memory is straight through your prefrontal cortex. All we have to do is access it.\ |
| 500 | '''Taub:''' Great idea. [[Film/FantasticVoyage I'll build the giant submarine. You get the miniaturization gizmo.]] |
| 501 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Unsuccessfully, in medical school, he tried to kill himself. This is part of why he takes Kutner's suicide so hard.]] |
| 502 | * GoodParents: He tries his hardest to be one for his kids; learning ''how'' to be one is part of his character arc in the final season. |
| 503 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Says in Season 5 that single people shouldn't have kids but in season 8 fought not to let his wife take their daughter to Seattle with her new boyfriend. |
| 504 | * IconicSequelCharacter: Introduced in Season 4, and remains a main character for the rest of the show. |
| 505 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Apparently learned nothing from [[spoiler:his divorce]], as it doesn't stop him from [[spoiler:sleeping around without using protection.]] |
| 506 | * KavorkaMan: He's a magnet for the ladies, despite being short, bald, and middle-aged. House nicknames him "mini-stud". Though his commitment-phobia and serial philandering always end up torpedoing any chance at happiness. |
| 507 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:His adultery, as well as his jealousy concerning a friend his wife met in an online support group for victims of unfaithful spouses, blows up his marriage in Season 7, and when he still can't stop sleeping around, becomes a single dad raising his two children from different mothers in Season 8.]] |
| 508 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, he's referred to only by his last name. |
| 509 | * LethalChef: A meal he cooks ends up giving both him and Foreman food poisoning. |
| 510 | * OnlySaneMan: One of the least neurotic and irrational people on the entire ''show''. |
| 511 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 7. |
| 512 | * ReallyGetsAround: Cheating on his wife is the new normal as of Season 6. |
| 513 | * SelfDeprecation: Refers to himself at one point as a stooge for House. |
| 514 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Was this with Kutner for a while, then with Foreman. He and Foreman even shared an apartment for a while. |
| 515 | * TokenMinority: Zig-zagged. On one hand, the only Jew on House's team. On the other hand, far from the only Jew at PPTH or House's life (considering how large Wilson and Cuddy loom). |
| 516 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: A strange inversion in which he invokes this on ''himself'': |
| 517 | -->'''Foreman:''' Just gotta wait until my August review. ''[Taub gets a funny look]'' What?\ |
| 518 | '''Taub:''' Nothing, it's exactly what I would do. But I'm a coward. |
| 519 | [[/folder]] |
| 520 | [[folder:Dr. Lawrence Kutner]] |
| 521 | [[quoteright:168:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_3_4342.jpg]] |
| 522 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/KalPenn |
| 523 | |
| 524 | Born as "Lawrence Choudray". A sports and rehabilitation medicine specialist. He's a member of House's fellows during seasons 4 and 5. Of Indian descent, Kutner was orphaned at the age of six, following his parents' shooting in a burglary attempt. He was subsequently adopted by another family, leading to his decisively non-Indian name. Despite this, he is generally cheery, and displays an honest enthusiasm for what he does. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | Kutner commits suicide for unknown reasons toward the end of Season 5. |
| 527 | ---- |
| 528 | * AsianAndNerdy: Is a shameless geek whose apartment is littered with nerdy merchandise and uses sci-fi references to explain medicine. |
| 529 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:He appears in House's hallucinations.]] |
| 530 | * BerserkButton: You do ''not'' lie to Kutner. |
| 531 | * TheBigGuy: He's the go-to-guy for the defibrillator. |
| 532 | * BollywoodNerd: He's Indian, and a dedicated Trekker and fan of Star Wars. |
| 533 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:When Kal Penn, the actor who portrayed him, left the show to work with President Obama, his character was killed off in "Simple Explanation", via suicide. House thought it was murder, but WordOfGod stated that it was indeed suicide.]] |
| 534 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He revealed that his parents owned a deli and were shot to death during a robbery when he was six years old. |
| 535 | * DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Reappeared as part of House's subconscious in the Season 5 finale, and came back for the series finale.]] |
| 536 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In "Simple Explanation" he kills himself. There's no real explanation given, which is sort of the point.]] |
| 537 | * HappilyAdopted: Loved his adopted parents so much he changed his last name to theirs. |
| 538 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, he's referred to only by his last name. |
| 539 | * ManChild: Acts like an excitable ten-year-old in nearly every scene, giggling happily when given dangerous tasks by House and tripping over himself for the chance to use a defibrillator. |
| 540 | -->'''Taub:''' If you grow up at sixteen, what happens when you're thirty?\ |
| 541 | '''Thirteen:''' You turn back into a kid. Like Kutner. |
| 542 | * NiceGuy: He's understanding and kind towards others, particularly patients. |
| 543 | * NotSoStoic: Inverted and playing straight. |
| 544 | ** Kutner is the member of the cast who's the most open with how he feels, and always wears his emotions on his sleeve no matter what. But due to his DarkAndTroubledPast, he is the best person on the show at dealing with trauma. In the episode where Amber dies, we're shown a montage of everyone struggling to cope with what happened, which brings out the emotions in everyone, including House. Kutner is the only one who seems unaffected, and is just casually eating cereal and watching television. |
| 545 | ** [[spoiler:Then a second later he commits suicide. While the audience is never told the reason, he clearly had more going on in his head than we ever knew.]] |
| 546 | * ParentalAbandonment: His parents died when he was six. |
| 547 | * ReformedBully: In one episode, he becomes furious when he learns about [[BerserkButton a patient being bullied.]] Taub assumes assumes that he's sensitive because he was a victim of bullying, but the episode ends with Kutner tracking down a former classmate and apologizing for his actions in school. |
| 548 | * RunningGag: Kutner + defibrillator = disaster -- {{Foreshadowing}} in "Locked In", Kutner uses the paddles without anything disastrous happening. [[spoiler:The next episode is "Simple Explanation", where Kutner commits suicide. As Kutner's previous... mishaps with the paddles were likely a result of his characteristic overeagerness, this shows that, despite appearances, he isn't his usual self.]] |
| 549 | * SadClown: Is a friendly, fun-loving guy always trying to come up with the next wacky, experimental procedure and thinking up some off-the-wall treatments. As listed under DarkAndTroubledPast, his parents were murdered when he was six, which appears to have given him the perspective needed to help his colleagues through their personal drama. [[spoiler:Turns out he's so sad he winds up committing suicide.]] |
| 550 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Is consistently able to understand House's rather abstract metaphors and even come up with some of his own. This would be a sign of intelligence, but because Kutner is easily the least "normal" of the team in terms of general thought process, it's more a worrying sign if he and House can be on the same wavelength. |
| 551 | * ThoseTwoGuys: With Taub, both being House's new fellows and not gelling quite as well with the aloof Thirteen. |
| 552 | * TokenMinority: For the new crew, although Foreman is still around so he's not alone. In the episode "Locked In", he refers to them as "dark and darker". |
| 553 | [[/folder]] |
| 554 | [[folder:Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley]] |
| 555 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_remy_thirteen_hadley_7446.jpg]] |
| 556 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/OliviaWilde |
| 557 | |
| 558 | Remy Hadley is better known as "Thirteen". She specializes in internal medicine, and is a fellow during Seasons 4-7 (though she's gone for most of Season 7). Thirteen prides herself on being a bit of an enigma, and her real name was not known until the end of Season 4. It's later revealed that her mother died of Huntington's disease, and she was reluctant to get tested for the disease herself, feeling that it was better not knowing. In the fourth season finale, she finally gives herself a blood test for Huntington's, which comes back positive. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | In Season 8, she leaves the hospital to be with her new girlfriend and enjoy what time she has remaining. She returned for the last two episodes of the series. |
| 561 | |
| 562 | JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith another [[Creator/JodieWhittaker famous female]] [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor with the designation of Thirteen.]] |
| 563 | ---- |
| 564 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[spoiler:She has Huntington's.]] |
| 565 | * BackForTheFinale: In the series finale "Everybody Dies", she returns to the show. |
| 566 | * BrainyBrunette: Smart enough to earn House's respect. |
| 567 | * ButNotTooBi: {{Discussed}} but ultimately {{Averted}}, refreshingly; House points out that, when she's acting hedonistically after her [[spoiler:Huntington's diagnosis]], she only has one night stands with women, significantly reducing the risks that she'll catch an [=STD=] or be assaulted by one of the strangers she takes home—but his actual point is not that she should be identifying as a lesbian, but rather that her erring on the side of caution when she chooses her casual partners shows that she still has hope for the future. In fact, what we see of her romantic life is a fairly reasonable representation of a monogamous bisexual's dating life: she has a fairly serious relationship with a man, casually dates men and women with perhaps slight preferences for one gender or the other in the short-term, and eventually settles down with a woman. |
| 568 | * CommutingOnABus: While she officially ceases to be a regular character at the start of Season 8, due to her Huntington's implicitly having gotten worse in-between seasons and she and her new partner wanting to enjoy what time they have left, she continues to make occasional appearances up to and including the series finale. |
| 569 | * DeadpanSnarker: Able to keep up with both House and Foreman in this regard. |
| 570 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Develops this after her diagnosis of Huntington's disease is confirmed, and start engaging in riskier behavior afterwards, from sleeping with strange women to taking medicine during a hostage situation at the request of the hostage-taker, even though the drugs could kill her because of her illness.]] |
| 571 | * DistaffCounterpart: To House, in the later seasons, as both their lives seem to be made of concentrated misery. House seems to believe that if she can be happy, her life being ''much'' crappier than his, so could he. |
| 572 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: By Season 8, she's fallen for a woman named Amy and the two are now apparently in a happily committed relationship. Though this is more of a BittersweetEnding since [[spoiler:she's still dying and is now a good three or four years into the decade - ''at best'' - that they estimated she had left when she was first diagnosed.]] She and her partner both appear to have accepted this, though, and seem quite content to focus on enjoying the time they have together. |
| 573 | * GoodBadGirl: She had brief periods of promiscuity between saving lives as a doctor. |
| 574 | * TheHedonist: Descends into this for a bit following her Huntington's diagnosis. Develops a drug habit, has sex with strangers, stays out partying, in her words, "Cramming as much life into my life as I can." |
| 575 | * HospitalHottie: Played by Creator/OliviaWilde who is gorgeous. |
| 576 | * IconicSequelCharacter: She is one of the show's most prominent female characters, but is only introduced in Season 4. |
| 577 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: [[spoiler:Huntington's disease follows bloodlines.]] |
| 578 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler:After disappearing for a year House eventually finds out that she did this to her brother, who was suffering from Huntington's at his request. She kept her prints off the syringes used to administer the drugs so that she only did time in jail for excessive prescribing. At the end of the episode, House offers to mercy kill her when she gets too sick.]] |
| 579 | * MissingMom: Her mother died of Huntington's when she was a child. |
| 580 | * MsFanservice: Combined with a bit of GirlOnGirlIsHot ("Thirteen," S5, Episode 5). |
| 581 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her last name is only given a couple of times on screen and her full name only once, both after she'd been on the show for quite a while. Even after her real name is revealed, it's almost never used. |
| 582 | * OutOfFocus: She's gone for most of Season 7, due to her actress filming ''Film/TronLegacy'', and most of Season 8. |
| 583 | * PluckyGirl: Tries to remain positive in spite of her looming disease and a number of personal tragedies. |
| 584 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 7. |
| 585 | * ReallyGetsAround: Sleeps with a different woman every night after [[spoiler:her Huntington's diagnosis.]] |
| 586 | * SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Poor Thirteen has Huntington's disease.]] |
| 587 | * ShowSomeLeg: At one point in Season 6, she flashes her tits by opening her flannel shirt so she doesn't have to deal with Taub's bullshit. |
| 588 | * SoapBoxSadie: Her temporary return in season 7 oddly has more of these tendencies such as when she's calling out a patient for dating multiple men in her workplace and when she defends a performance artist's... poor decisions. |
| 589 | * SmurfettePrinciple: Replaces Cameron as House's only female team member. This deliberately used by House when Cuddy wouldn't let him hire all the people he wanted, so he picked two men, knowing that Cuddy would insist on adding at least one woman to the team. |
| 590 | * YouAreNumberSix: Her nickname is just "13", from the number she was assigned during the application for the fellowship, and she insisted on that. "I'm not getting invested". |
| 591 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Her Huntington's gives her 10 years to live, probably less, as of "Last Resort".]] |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | [[folder:Martha M. Masters]] |
| 594 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/67079baf988511e0905e12313b10052d_small_6502.jpg]] |
| 595 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/AmberTamblyn |
| 596 | |
| 597 | A med student brought in as an intern to replace Thirteen for most of season 7. She disapproves of House's extreme methods. She departs when Thirteen returns. |
| 598 | ---- |
| 599 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''artha '''M'''. '''M'''asters. |
| 600 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Returned for House's funeral.]] |
| 601 | * BreakTheCutie: House spends most of Season 7 trying to do this to her, but fails. She's finally broken by discovering the Patient of the Week whose life she just saved is a cannibalistic serial killer on the run from the FBI, and she just helped him escape. She breaks again when she tricks the parents of a girl with cancer in her arm (who can't achieve her life goal of setting a sailing record without both arms) into consenting to amputate her arm, even though she had adamantly refused to have it removed. This drives her to quit House's team. |
| 602 | * ChildProdigy: Although older than the typical medical student (stated to be roughly Thirteen's age), she graduated high school several years early and acquired several [=Ph.Ds=] before entering medical school. |
| 603 | * CuteButPsycho: {{Downplayed|Trope}} and PlayedForLaughs in one epsiode. When the others debate whether a teenager's anger issues are a symptom (with Chase stating that he used to fantasize about killing his geometry teacher) she confesses that while she hasn't fantasized about ''killing'' anyone, she ''has'' fantasized about "torturing them slowly in [her] basement, preferably with acid." |
| 604 | * {{Determinator}}: Although she is surrounded by others who bring attention to her overly-idealistic views, she still remains determined and shy in her approach to medicine. |
| 605 | * GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: She is fired, un-fired, re-fired, and re-hired multiple times over the course of her time working under House. |
| 606 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 607 | ** [[spoiler:When she realizes she unknowingly just saved the life of a cannibalistic serial killer and helped him to escape the FBI.]] |
| 608 | ** Later, [[spoiler:She suffers a big one after tricking a patient's parents into authorizing an amputation of her arm, a procedure that saved her life, but one that she was adamant against. She leaves the hospital afterwards.]] |
| 609 | * HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: She believes that the best way to operate is to be honest and to [[WillNotTellALie never lie to the patient]], causing her to butt heads with House for most of her time working for him. |
| 610 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Even though she eventually learns to lie to their patients somehow, she still retains her morality. |
| 611 | * TheIntern: The NaiveNewcomer on House's team. She must have been a genius of epic proportions to make it to the all stars team of all medical dramas at so young an age. |
| 612 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, she's referred to only by her last name. |
| 613 | * NotThatKindOfDoctor: She has several [=Ph.Ds=], but is still working on her MD. So while she could technically call herself "Doctor Masters", to do so would be dangerously misleading. |
| 614 | * PrinciplesZealot: House finds her strict adherence to the rules nothing but a hindrance when trying to handle medicine. |
| 615 | * PutOnABus: Joins the hospital staff as a regular intern after Thirteen returns. |
| 616 | * StraightMan: To House, who often makes fun of her for her honesty and naivete. |
| 617 | * TokenGoodTeammate: She breaks her own rules once [[spoiler:and then resigns from House's team]]. |
| 618 | * TokenWholesome: Is unfailingly perfect and devoted to her principles around big mean Dr. House and his cynical teammates. |
| 619 | * WillNotTellALie: Her main point of contention with House, believing that people don't need to lie so often, especially not her. |
| 620 | [[/folder]] |
| 621 | [[folder:Dr. Jessica Adams]] |
| 622 | [[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/images57_8999.jpg]] |
| 623 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/OdetteAnnable |
| 624 | |
| 625 | An internist who originally worked at the jail that House spent the first episode of Season 8. After being fired from that job for taking House's advice in treating an inmate, she joins House as fellow in season 8. |
| 626 | ---- |
| 627 | %%* AloofDarkHairedGirl |
| 628 | * BrainyBrunette: A woman with brown hair and a doctorate. |
| 629 | %%* DefrostingIceQueen |
| 630 | %%* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Park, in some ways. It makes their first few interactions rather entertaining. |
| 631 | * TheGenericGirl: She got easily the least development of any regular character in the series. In part this was due to her only appearing in the final season, and part that the the character development episodes in that season focused almost entirely around Park (and, to a lesser extent, Taub) before the final story arc involving [[spoiler:Wilson's terminal cancer]], which mostly took the focus away from House's team. |
| 632 | %%* HospitalHottie |
| 633 | * JackOfAllTrades: Unlike most doctors featured on the show, she has no stated specialty. Her previous employment was as a prison doctor, which essentially made her a GP in a really tough neighborhood. |
| 634 | * LastNameBasis: Like everyone else, she's referred to only by her last name. |
| 635 | %%* MsFanservice |
| 636 | %%* StatuesqueStunner |
| 637 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's basically a heterosexual, non-[[spoiler:Huntington's]] afflicted version of Thirteen. Besides having a very similar physical appearance, both specialize in internal medicine, have an unlucky relationship history and a complicated personal life, and have very serious moral concerns about patient care. A little bit of Martha Masters' idealism also gets mixed in, albeit not to quite the same level. |
| 638 | * WomanScorned: Patients who cheat on their wives/girlfriends are her BerserkButton, thanks to her own husband having done the same to her. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | [[folder:Dr. Chi Park]] |
| 641 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_chi_park_2362.jpg]] |
| 642 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlyneYi |
| 643 | |
| 644 | A young Korean/Filipino neurologist who joins House's team when he finishes his prison stint in the second episode of season 8. Initially, she ''is'' his team. She is nerdy and socially inept. |
| 645 | ---- |
| 646 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Her crush on Chase is not mutual, and House and Adams taunt her about it occasionally, presumably as he's a MrFanservice even in-universe, while she's seen as a HollywoodHomely (House notes that she's ruining his Charlie's Angels fantasy for the brief time where only her, Adams, and Thirteen were on his team.) |
| 647 | * AsianAndNerdy: Cute, inexperienced, and from a Korean family. |
| 648 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Got fired from Neurology and wound up on House's team after punching her then-boss, and assaults House with his cane in "Holding On". |
| 649 | -->'''Park:''' You're aware I punched the last person who pissed me off? |
| 650 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Has a lot of trouble accepting help and gifts since her family were poor and struggled for everything they have. |
| 651 | * ExtremeDoormat: Played with. As a doctor, she'll go along with all of House's extreme suggestions and bizarre ideas without a word. As a person, House has a lot more trouble messing with her than he does with any of his other fellows; unlike them, Park will not hesitate to lash out violently if pushed too far. |
| 652 | * FormerlyFat: Apparently gained a lot of weight when her last relationship ended. |
| 653 | -->'''Park:''' They used to call me Park-ing lot. |
| 654 | * HonorRelatedAbuse: Not directly but implied; she was groped by her boss and attacked him for it, and is terrified at the idea of telling her family because of this Trope. Her parents, it turns out, are perfectly understanding and horrified at her boss's behavior. |
| 655 | * LastNameBasis: No one else uses their first names; why should it be different for her? |
| 656 | * MushroomSamba: After eating ice cream at a patient's house, she starts having very vivid and [[HilarityEnsues hilarious]] hallucinations, including seeing Taub as a fairy. It turns out that the ice cream was laced with LSD, due to the patient (who had been blind since birth) wanting to know what it would be like to see. |
| 657 | * NoSocialSkills: Seems to have no clue how to interact with people, and House is a poor instructor. It reaches a point of deconstruction when she has to answer for punching her boss after he groped her. House gets her so upset before the hearing that she can barely put a sentence together. Wilson assumes that he did it deliberately, as her obvious panic made her more sympathetic. |
| 658 | -->'''Foreman:''' So you do realize that it is unacceptable to hit someone in the workplace?\ |
| 659 | '''Park:''' Yes, completely unacceptable. I wasn't thinking. I guess, I mean, I guess technically I was thinking. I just, it happened so fast I didn't... I... I.... it's like... it's like it wasn't even me I would never do something like that, even though I did. I'm sorry, I'm not making any sense right now I um.... I don't know I just, really love being a doctor so much and I barely even have a hundred dollars and... please don't fire me! |
| 660 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a brief yet poignant one to House in "Holding On". |
| 661 | -->'''Park:''' You spent your whole life looking for the truth, but sometimes the truth just ''sucks''! |
| 662 | * ShrinkingViolet: Her relationship with her old boss ended with her punching him in the face. It's implied she's afraid to speak up again or else she'll be fired, leading to this trope. |
| 663 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Masters. Opinionated, younger than the rest of the team, poor social skills which make her unafraid to call out superiors, and intimidated to the point of speechlessness in her first few interactions with House. Unlike Masters though, she lacked the unfailing moral principles and need to preach to her teammates, and has a bit more teeth when it came to being pushed around. |
| 664 | * TokenMinority: Only Asian and only non-white in season 8. |
| 665 | * VestigialEmpire: Her intro is a show of just how little House has to work with after being let out of jail. He's kept on a leash, Wilson won't talk to him, he doesn't even have an ''office'' and his only fellow is this inexperienced and meek-looking newly-graduated doctor (who was assigned to him after she punched her old boss in the face). |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | !Fellowship Candidates |
| 669 | [[folder:Dr. Amber Volakis]] |
| 670 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_10245.jpg]] |
| 671 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnneDudek |
| 672 | |
| 673 | An interventional radiologist trying to join House's new team who made it as far as the final-4 in the candidate game. Devious and manipulative, Volakis earned the epithet of "Cutthroat Bitch", a nickname that she seems almost proud of. House eliminated her in the last round of the competition due to her inability to accept being wrong. From there, she started dating Wilson in the latter half of Season 4. After suffering kidney damage in a bus crash (which brings on amantadine poisoning as a result), she dies in the Season 4 finale... before reappearing as a manifestation of House's subconscious in the latter half of Season 5 following Kutner's death. She returns as a hallucination in the series finale and discusses House's patient with him and convincing him to keep living. |
| 674 | ---- |
| 675 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Her primary personality trait is being absolutely determined to win, at any cost. This makes her a pretty unpleasant person, but also drives her to be pretty good at her job (as well as being appealing to Wilson). |
| 676 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Or rather, her hallucination, as one of a few that House sees.]] |
| 677 | * BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Does this in House's hallucinations. To House. And it is ''creepy''.]] |
| 678 | * CompetitionFreak: Literally couldn't understand how the patient in "Games" could be okay with his own mediocrity. [[spoiler:This is ultimately why House eliminated her from being on the team, she cared more about winning the position then actually curing the patient.]] |
| 679 | * DistaffCounterpart: To House for being manipulative and obsessed with being right. House himself notices this and [[spoiler:mocks Wilson for dating her.]] |
| 680 | -->'''House:''' You could do worse than a female proxy for me. |
| 681 | * DrJerk: Unpleasant to the others competitors, but she's genuinely a good doctor, enough so that House takes notice in her skills. |
| 682 | * EnemyWithout: As [[spoiler:a hallucination.]] Initially an ally, she turns dark as House wises up to the fact that her [[spoiler:(his?)]] intents are hostile. |
| 683 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Amber is the first to balk at House's absurd tests. She announces she's leaving, and half of the trainees follow suit. She returns minutes later, having thinned the herd. |
| 684 | * FakeGuestStar: Is absent from only two episodes of season 4, appearing just one less time than Taub, Kutner and Thirteen. |
| 685 | * FirstNameBasis: She's one of the few recurring characters in the entire series who's habitually called by her first name, at least when she's not being called [[InSeriesNickname 'Cutthroat Bitch']]. |
| 686 | * FreudianExcuse: Parodied. When House does his usual 'why are you broken' routine she rattles off cliched reasons like 'Daddy didn't love me enough' or 'Mommy set too high expectations' or 'something' to show her annoyance. |
| 687 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: She was considered an insufferable ManipulativeBitch and all the other applicants hated working with her. [[spoiler: It's very darkly lampshaded right before her death, when the fellows are discussing whether or not to go say goodbye. Taub asks if they even liked Amber, and Foreman's response is "we do now".]] |
| 688 | * ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:In the bus crash.]] |
| 689 | * ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Her attitude during the fellowship competition, telling everyone she's there only to win and openly sabotages the other applicants. Rather appropriate, since House decides to style the entire process as an elimination tournament RealityShow, even setting up a ''Series/{{Survivor}}''-style "tribal council". |
| 690 | * InSeriesNickname: "Cutthroat Bitch", coined by House due to her behavior. |
| 691 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's often bitchy, but she really cared about Wilson. |
| 692 | * LegFocus: Part of the explanation Kutner gives as to why he asked her out, saying "She has legs that go all the way to Canada". |
| 693 | * ManipulativeBitch: Her ruthless and shameless manipulation of others earns her the nickname "Cutthroat Bitch" very quickly. |
| 694 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:She reappears as a manifestation of House's subconscious in Seasons 5 and 6.]] |
| 695 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives several to House [[spoiler:as a ghost, when he's detoxing.]] |
| 696 | -->'''Amber:''' Oh, now this is interesting. If you take the pill, you don't deserve her. If you take the pill secretly, you don't deserve ''anyone''. |
| 697 | %%* SpiritAdvisor |
| 698 | * SoreLoser: Why House eventually fired her. In their job, they have to deal with the possibility they might screw up a diagnosis and kill someone, and being unable to handle that is a major flaw. |
| 699 | %%* TokenEvilTeammate |
| 700 | * TookALevelInKindness: After starting to date Wilson, she actually tries improving her attitude, making a real effort to get along with House, consciously trying to be less bossy and bitchy toward Wilson, and even [[spoiler:accepting her death gracefully and ensuring that the last emotion she felt was her love for Wilson, rather than anger toward House or the accident.]] Inverted by [[spoiler:the hallucinatory version that shows up later, which is like her early Cutthroat Bitch persona turned up a notch.]] |
| 701 | * YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: House calls her by name rather than "Cutthroat Bitch" immediately before he [[spoiler:fires her.]] |
| 702 | [[/folder]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | [[folder:Dr. Jeffrey Cole]] |
| 705 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_cole.png]] |
| 706 | |
| 707 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/EdiGathegi |
| 708 | |
| 709 | A geneticist applicant trying to join House's new team who made it as far as the final-5 in the candidate game. Cole's the most religious of the candidates as a devout Mormon, and is willing to put up with House's bullshit, which earns House's respect. However, he ends up being fired after making a deal with Cuddy to try to get Kutner or Volakis fired from the game, which House viewed as a means to undermine his authority. |
| 710 | ---- |
| 711 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: House spends an episode deliberately trying to rile up Cole as much as possible, in order to win a bet with Cameron that Cole won't react to it. House loses the bet courtesy of a right-hook from Cole. |
| 712 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: It's never made entirely clear how he ended up as a single father, but his reaction when House asks about his child's mother indicates that whatever happened wasn't an amicable split. |
| 713 | * DemotedToExtra: He gets a significant amount of focus early on in the interview process, but as soon as Foreman is re-hired and given a fellowship spot by Cuddy, Cole largely drops back into the background for the remainder of his time on the show. |
| 714 | * EtTuBrute: The other remaining applicants are sorry to see him go and wish him good luck. The one exception is Kutner, since Cole was willing to sell him out after they had just become friends. |
| 715 | * TheMole: When House sets a challenge that will grant immunity and a say in the next firing to whoever can steal an item of Cuddy's underwear, he makes a deal with Cuddy; she gives him her underwear, and in turn he'll get House to fire Kutner for his LethalKlutz habits. |
| 716 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: As soon as House finds out that he made a deal with Cuddy, Cole gets fired, with House not wanting to work with someone who will actively undermine his authority. |
| 717 | * SingleParentsAreUndesirable: House frequently mocks him for being a single father, as do the other fellowship candidates to a lesser extent. |
| 718 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Foreman, in that he's an African-American doctor with a DarkAndTroubledPast, and is normally a MellowFellow, but is willing to stand up to House and call him out on his bullshit. Foreman's being re-hired by Cuddy immediately signals to the audience that Cole isn't going to be getting through the interview process, although he does last until the penultimate firing. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Dr. Samira Terzi]] |
| 722 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_terzi.png]] |
| 723 | |
| 724 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelMichele |
| 725 | |
| 726 | A doctor who was introduced working for the CIA. When House is called in to the CIA to help cure one of their workers, Terzi supported him on the job. Due to Terzi being a [[MsFanservice beautiful]] doctor, House offers her a job to come work for him at Princeton–Plainsboro, which she takes him up on the offer. This gets on the remaining five game candidates' bad side as Terzi suddenly came in and took one of the spots on the team from them. On the first case for House however, Dr. Terzi turned out to not be all that great when it comes to diagnostic medicine compared to the candidates. Thus, House fired her after just one case under the belief that he was treating her unfairly by judging her by her looks instead of her medical experience. |
| 727 | ---- |
| 728 | * CripplingOverspecialization: She's doubtless a very capable doctor when it comes to treating the kind of injuries that a CIA agent might face in the course of their duties, but when House brings her into the fellowship process, she quickly proves to be by far and away the least competent candidate in the entire process, leading to him reluctantly cutting her loose. |
| 729 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: She finds out the hard way that diagnostic medicine is a ''very'' different field to the one she's used to working in -- right after she quit her job with the CIA. To add insult to injury, the CIA job paid a lot better. |
| 730 | * MsFanservice: Lampshaded by House when Amber calls him out on why she gets a bye into the process at such a late stage; he comments that Terzi "has much more diagnostic experience than the other swimsuit models I've been seeing". |
| 731 | * PoorCommunicationKills: While at the CIA, House offers her a job on the spur of the moment, purely out of attraction to her. She decides to accept and quits her job in order to join House's team, taking him so off-guard that he's forced to construe her as being a new fellowship candidate just to prevent the existing ones from mutinying on him. |
| 732 | [[/folder]] |
| 733 | |
| 734 | [[folder:Dr. Travis Brennan]] |
| 735 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_brennan.png]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/AndyComeau |
| 738 | |
| 739 | An epidemiologist applicant trying to join House's new team who made it as far as the final-6 in the candidate game. Brennan's experienced in medical work for third world countries, which eventually comes into play when he [[MadDoctor goes to the extreme]] of poisoning a patient with thallium. Claiming it to be polio, Brennan supposedly "cures" it with doses of Vitamin C. His goal being to get people invested in researching a true cure for polio as no one pays attention to diseases that only kills poor people. However, House is so disgusted by such an unethical practice that he forces Brennan to quit the candidate game. House even ordering Foreman to call the cops on him. |
| 740 | ---- |
| 741 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When called out for his colossal breach of medical ethics in faking polio symptoms in a patient, he points out that American hospitals won't fund research into the disease because it hasn't been a serious problem in the country for decades, while third world countries where polio is ''actually'' rife don't have the money or medical facilities to do anything about it. House concedes that he has a point on this issue -- or at least pretends to in order to more easily get rid of him. |
| 742 | * MadDoctor: Deliberately poisons a patient as part of a convoluted social justice statement. He's arrested after House dismisses him. |
| 743 | * SingleIssueWonk: Zig-zagged. At first he regrets joining House's team, realizing that he prefers helping patients in third world countries, but later decides that he might as well stick around, as his girlfriend works nearby and the knowledge he gains from the job could still be useful if he ever does go back to working abroad. And then his obsession with helping people in poorer countries gets turned up a notch when he fakes polio symptoms in an otherwise-healthy patient so that he can pretend to cure her. |
| 744 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He fakes polio symptons in the patient in his final episode, so that he can pretend to cure her with massive doses of vitamin C. When Foreman and House discover this and call him out, he points out that the technique was showing promise in the 1950s but was abandoned due to polio no longer being an issue in the U.S., and that his actions could lead to a whole new generation of polio research, which would benefit countries where the disease is still rife. |
| 745 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never mentioned again after he gets fired, leaving his final fate unknown -- though it's probably a safe bet that, if nothing else, he lost his medical license for giving a MotiveRant in front of a whole room full of reputable doctors. |
| 746 | [[/folder]] |
| 747 | |
| 748 | [[folder:Henry Dobson]] |
| 749 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_dobson.png]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/CarmenArgenziano |
| 752 | |
| 753 | The oldest applicant trying to join House's new team who made it as far as the final-7 in the candidate game. It turned out that Dobson never actually finished medical school, but House agreed to keep him around given the medical knowledge that Dobson obtained over dozens of years. In the end, House chose to fire Dobson when it turned out that the two of them are way too similar in how they think, while House is seeking out doctors who can provide him a different perspective. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * BirdsOfAFeather: A platonic version with House. [[DeconstructedTrope It's what gets him fired]]; the pair of them think so similarly in regards to diagnostics that Dobson is essentially redundant. As Dobson puts it, "You don't need someone to tell you what you're already thinking." |
| 756 | * CoolOldGuy: He's an easy-going guy with good medical knowledge, who everyone except for Taub quickly gets on with. Tellingly, he's the only fellowship candidate apart from Amber whom House shows any regret for having to fire. |
| 757 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Subverted; when he finds out that Dobson isn't a qualified doctor, House points out that it obviously had to come out sooner or later (even on the slim chance House himself didn't find out, Cuddy certainly would have during the formal hiring process). Dobson in turn admits that he had no expectation of being able to hide it; he knows House is a rule-breaker and he was hoping to prove himself worthy enough that House would be willing to break a rule for him -- and his reaction when he's (temporarily) fired in the following episode indicates that he knows full well that this was an extremely long shot at best. Moreover, the reason House ultimately decides that Dobson will not be useful enough on his team is not because Dobson doesn't have the skills or qualifications, but because the last case Dobson worked on showed that he always came to exactly the same conclusions as House: the members of House's team must offer him alternatives to his diagnosis, allowing him to reason and find alternatives, not always agreeing with him. |
| 758 | * LiarRevealed: House discovers that he doesn't actually have any medical qualifications at the end of his first episode, but decides to keep it secret from the rest of the candidates. Taub eventually works it out a couple of episodes later, but by that point the rest of the team are more concerned with saving the patient's life than calling out Dobson. He does get fired at the end of the episode, but not because of his lack of qualifications being exposed; rather, because he and House keep arriving at the same conclusions, meaning he would have too little to offer the team. |
| 759 | * PhonyDegree: Or rather, no degree. He worked at Columbia for over thirty years and audited every class at least once, but never actually got the degree itself. |
| 760 | |
| 761 | [[/folder]] |
| 762 | |
| 763 | [[folder:Dr. Jodi Desai]] |
| 764 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MeeraSimhan |
| 765 | |
| 766 | One of the applicants trying to join House's new team who's got experience as a veterinarian. She's fired from the candidate game when the girl-team fails to come out on top in a match against the guys. |
| 767 | ---- |
| 768 | * ChekhovsSkill: Her knowledge as a veterinarian comes in handy when it comes to diagnosing exactly how Thomas Stark and his assistance dog happened to die at almost the exact same time. |
| 769 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: She's a highly trained doctor ''and'' veterinarian; not something that's impossible for a person to become in real life, but adequately learning both disciplines by her age would be a tall order. |
| 770 | * SacrificialLion: She's clearly a skilled doctor, and one of the more competent members of her sub-team in "97 Seconds", but House fires her along with the twins in order to teach Thirteen a lesson about the consequences that a seemingly innocuous mistake can have. |
| 771 | [[/folder]] |
| 772 | |
| 773 | [[folder:The Twins]] |
| 774 | [[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_twins.png]] |
| 775 | |
| 776 | ->'''Played by:''' Caitlin and Melinda Dahl |
| 777 | |
| 778 | Twin girl applicants trying to join House's new team. They're fired from the candidate game when the girl-team fails to come out on top in a match against the guys. |
| 779 | ---- |
| 780 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never actually find out what their names are, with House only ever referring to them as "[=15A=]" and "[=15B=]". |
| 781 | * TheGenericGirl: They get very little character development in either of the episodes they appear in, and are fired without making much of an impact. |
| 782 | [[/folder]] |
| 783 | |
| 784 | [[folder:Dr. Ashka]] |
| 785 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/HeatherFox |
| 786 | |
| 787 | A foreign applicant trying to join House's new team who's got a [[WorthlessForeignDegree worthless medical degree]]. Despite the candidate game's first patient being cured, Ashka ended up being fired afterwards due to House not liking that she chose to play it safe. |
| 788 | ---- |
| 789 | * BystanderSyndrome: The reason why she gets fired. She complains that other people (i.e. Kutner) committed serious mistakes and were kept on, but House points out that they at least made an effort, while Ashka stayed in the background and played it safe. |
| 790 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Similar to Mason and O'Reilly, Ashka didn't last beyond one episode of the candidate game as she got fired after the first case. |
| 791 | * WorthlessForeignDegree: Complains about the state of New Jersey not considering her doctorate to be up to the required standards. |
| 792 | [[/folder]] |
| 793 | |
| 794 | [[folder:Dr. Mason]] |
| 795 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_mason.png]] |
| 796 | |
| 797 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JonathanSadowski |
| 798 | |
| 799 | One of the applicants trying to join House's new team who appears to be a good-looking man. He ends up being fired by House early in the candidate game when he chose to blab about their patient's hidden identity to Cuddy. |
| 800 | ---- |
| 801 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: He attempts to ingratiate himself with Cuddy by ratting out the patient's true identity in exchange for her not telling House that he was the person who did so. However, he evidently didn't stop to consider that this would indicate that the person who told her was one of the three (himself, Askha, and Dobson) who went to the patient's home -- albeit Amber discreetly indicates him as the person responsible anyway. |
| 802 | * DirtyCoward: When the angered Cuddy demands to know the identity of that week's patient, he quickly blabs everything out. This of course gets him fired by House, who wants his fellows to be people who will stand up to Cuddy. |
| 803 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Aside from the candidates whom House fires en masse at the start of the candidate game, along with the ones duped into quitting by Amber shortly afterwards, he's the first named candidate to be fired (O'Reilly quit). He barely lasted to the halfway point of the episode in which he's introduced. |
| 804 | [[/folder]] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[folder:Dr. O'Reilly]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JasonManuelOlazabal |
| 809 | |
| 810 | An applicant in a wheelchair trying to join House's new team. He departs from the candidate game early on when Volakis convinces him how stupid it is that he was ordered to wash House's car. |
| 811 | ---- |
| 812 | * GeniusCripple: He's the crippled applicant of the bunch who sits in a wheelchair, but also happens to be a doctor. |
| 813 | * SacrificialLamb: His early drop out from the candidate game was to hype up Amber Volakis as the manipulative bitch who will stoop to such lengths to come out the game winner. |
| 814 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He falls for Amber's trick where he was convinced to exit the game because of how stupid it is that he was ordered to wash a car rather than perform medical duties. |
| 815 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: One of the first named candidates to exit House's candidate game. He falls for Amber's trick when she duped several doctors to leave out of anger for being forced to wash House's car rather than doing medical work. |
| 816 | [[/folder]] |
| 817 | |
| 818 | [[folder:Number 23]] |
| 819 | |
| 820 | ->'''Played by:''' Kathryn Adams |
| 821 | |
| 822 | An applicant who left a good impression on House before he started the candidate game. Once the game began though, she ended up getting fired almost immediately due to House not liking that she couldn't properly identify who was on a picture he showed the applicants. |
| 823 | ---- |
| 824 | * EarlyBirdCameo: She appears in two episodes before the other game candidates are introduced. One of her medical suggestions to House left a good impression on him to the point of asking her to sign up as an applicant for his new team. |
| 825 | * EpicFail: House fired her almost immediately into the candidate game for mistaking actor Buddy Ebsen as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. |
| 826 | * NoNameGiven: Was never given a name. She's just known as #23 during the candidate game. |
| 827 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She was fired just a few minutes into the candidate game due to failing to identify the person in the picture House showed the applicants. The viewers don't even get to learn what her name is. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | !Antagonists/Secondary Characters |
| 831 | [[folder:Edward Vogler]] |
| 832 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edward_vogler.jpg]] |
| 833 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChiMcBride |
| 834 | |
| 835 | A billionaire pharmaceutical magnate who "donated" $100,000,000 to Princeton-Plainsboro in exchange for being made chairman of the hospital's board. Wanting to use the hospital as a testing facility for his company's drugs, he comes into direct contention with House, whom he sees as a serious liability. |
| 836 | ---- |
| 837 | * ArcVillain: For the second half of Season 1. Once the season's over he's never seen or mentioned again. |
| 838 | * AsLongAsThereIsOneMan: The main reason Vogler singles out House for punishment. House flouts medical protocol and ethics, which Vogler quickly realizes makes House likely to stir up opposition to Vogler's reign as long as he is around. |
| 839 | * TheAtoner: His first scene makes him out to be this, with him revealing in his introductory speech that he didn't much speak to his father for years because he was focusing on his business career, and when he did try to rebuild their relationship, it was too late, as his father was suffering from dementia. Thus, he felt compelled to invest the money he made from his businesses into medicine, to prevent anyone else suffering the same pain that he and his mother had. After said scene, however, this motivation is never mentioned again, indicating that either Vogler hasn't changed as much as he thinks he has, or the whole thing was just one giant pack of lies. |
| 840 | * BadBoss: Bullies and manipulates everyone in the hospital in one way or another. |
| 841 | * BlatantLies: His $100 million was ''not'' a donation. |
| 842 | * ControlFreak: His first act as board chairman is subjecting House to a sick loyalty test, just because he can. |
| 843 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: "Donated" $100 million to a hospital so he could use it as a testing ground for his pharmaceutical company. Cuddy finally turns her back on Vogler when House reveals that perfecting his new drugs and treatments is his first priority. |
| 844 | * DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Using all kinds of underhanded tactics to get rid of House ends up making him look far worse to the hospital board than House himself, which makes them reject his $100 million and presence on the board. |
| 845 | * DoNotCallMePaul: It's "Edward". Not "Ed". |
| 846 | * EvilIsPetty: While Vogler may've had [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate criticisms about House's actions and attitude]], he goes far beyond the acceptable manner in handling an insubordinate employee. Forcing House to make a SadisticChoice regarding who to fire and giving a speech shilling Vogler's drug gives the impression he needs to see a person capitulate in the most humiliating manner possible. |
| 847 | * FreudianExcuse: Gave $100 million to the hospital because of his father's Alzheimer's disease. Zigzagged when it turns out this is at least partially a sympathetic cover for what really amounts to a corporate takeover by a different name. |
| 848 | * HateAtFirstSight: Vogler instantly takes a dislike to House because he refuses to wear a lab coat. His further investigation into House's department just solidifies his belief that House is an insubordinate money drain. |
| 849 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 850 | ** One of his major points against House is that he answers to no one and is impossible to control or reason with. Cuddy immediately points out the same is true of Vogler. |
| 851 | ** Because of House's rule-breaking attitude and arrogance, Vogler at one point claims that he's "everything wrong with modern medicine." Meanwhile, Vogler made his fortune by fixing and inflating the price of drugs and treatments, knowingly making them as expensive as possible for patients who need them. Most critiques of the American health care system point to this practice as one of its single biggest problems, if not ''the'' biggest. |
| 852 | * ItsPersonal: Vogler's tension with House gradually becomes this, as Vogler sees House as everything wrong with medicine and House fans the flames of Vogler's disdain by humiliating him at every possible turn. |
| 853 | * {{Jerkass}}: Seems to lack the bit of gold that made House likeable. |
| 854 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Vogler just ignored/sucked up House's shenanigans, the hospital board would've likely experienced little conflict in his takeover of the hospital. Instead, Vogler gets [[ItsPersonal overly fixated]] on getting rid of House and spurns the hospital board to dump his donation in the name of keeping their independence rather than deal with Vogler's whims. |
| 855 | * ScaryBlackMan: Chi [=McBride=] is very large, and plays this trope for all its worth. |
| 856 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Buys his way onto the hospital board, then uses his donation as leverage to get rid of House. |
| 857 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm: Uses his money to essentially ''buy'' the right to run the hospital however he wants. He circumvents the board by having any member who votes against his proposals fired, then holding the vote again. They finally vote against him when they recognize how controlling and petty he truly is, and decide his investment isn't worth losing their independence. |
| 858 | * VillainHasAPoint: In his final episode he prevents House from putting his patient on an experimental cancer treatment in breach of regulations. House calls him out on this, and Vogler fires back by pointing out that had House's patient been given the treatment and anything gone wrong, it could have severely set back the clinical trial, if not torpedoed it altogether. Sure enough, House's patient dies shortly afterwards from complications of her cancer, meaning that had she been given the experimental treatment, the trial would most likely have been halted while it was determined whether or not it had contributed to her death. |
| 859 | * WealthyPhilanthropist: Dark subversion version of the trope. He's the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company offering to donate millions to the hospital. However, the donation has numerous strings attached and it becomes clear that he is using it to gain power over the hospital and use it to promote his company's products. In the end, Cuddy convinces the hospital's board to decline the donation and maintain its independence. As she points out, he's not much of a philantropist if he's ready to deprive patients of the healthcare his donation would afford just because one doctor won't listen to him. |
| 860 | [[/folder]] |
| 861 | |
| 862 | [[folder:Detective Michael Tritter]] |
| 863 | [[quoteright:277:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tritter.png]] |
| 864 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidMorse |
| 865 | |
| 866 | One of House's clinic patients, who bullied House into running a series of (presumably unnecessary) tests; House retaliated by using a rectal thermometer to take his temperature... and left him there, unattended, for two hours. Tritter, who is as hard headed as House (with a bad attitude to match), sees House as a danger to himself and his patients due to his Vicodin addiction, and will stop at nothing to put him away. |
| 867 | ---- |
| 868 | * ArcVillain: The show's second (and last) attempt at this Trope. His storyline is the focus of much of Season 3, but has no consequences or ramifications beyond that. |
| 869 | * BoomerangBigot: Tritter has an over the top hatred towards drug addicts, even if they are addicted to something pretty mundane or understandable (like painkillers for chronic pain). Tritter himself is addicted to nicotine. |
| 870 | * TheBully: What he really is overall. While he believes he’s a BullyHunter, in reality, he’s just a self-righteous asshole who pushes people around for not doing what he wants. |
| 871 | * BullyHunter: He typifies himself this way when he starts to harass House, calling him a bully and stating that bullies only start changing their behavior after encountering a stronger bully. |
| 872 | * CorruptCop: In exchange for Foreman's testimony, offers to get his brother Marcus early parole. Destroys Wilson's practice and freezes the accounts of House's team to extort testimony. |
| 873 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Okay, Tritter has reason to be pissed [[spoiler:House left him in a clinic room with a rectal thermometer up his ass for two hours straight]], but does that really justify trying to imprison House, get him declared a drug pusher, and get him disbarred from medicine forever? And then there's his nonchalant destruction of Wilson's practice as part of his investigation, for the sole reason of trying to force Wilson to testify against House. |
| 874 | * FreudianExcuse: It's hinted that a drug addict once betrayed his trust and that is why he takes the case so personally. |
| 875 | * GracefulLoser: He does concede he could be wrong about House at the end of the Tritter arc, and even wishes House luck while he's at it. |
| 876 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 877 | ** Demands an apology from House regarding the thermometer incident from their first meeting and embarks on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when he doesn't get one. At no point does he acknowledge that ''he assaulted House first'', at a point when the only thing House had done "wrong" is refusing to run tests that he diagnoses as medically unnecessary. |
| 878 | ** Has a particular hatred towards drug addicts, and is addicted to nicotine. |
| 879 | ** Claims repeatedly that House is dangerous and shouldn't practice medicine because he doesn't follow the rules and is a danger to the people he's supposed to be helping. Tritter himself is a CorruptCop using tactics that logically would get him thrown off the force, up to and including attempting to ''destroy Wilson's career'' just to get his testimony against House. |
| 880 | * HeroAntagonist: House did commit several felonies during the arc Tritter was in, so it's not like his actions are completely unfounded. |
| 881 | * {{Jerkass}}: Establishes himself as a less-than-pleasant person by kicking House's cane ''before'' the latter had done anything terrible to him. |
| 882 | * KarmaHoudini: Other than a judge telling him his charges were overblown, he gets away scot-free. |
| 883 | * KnightTemplar: Assuming his actions aren't just petty vengeance, he's adamant that his tactics are justified and that House is a drug addict who needs to be dealt with by the police. He never entertains the idea that the Vicodin could be legitimately medicinal, or that pushing for the harshest possible sentence is overreach. |
| 884 | * NeverMyFault: It never once occurs to Tritter that the only reason House stuck the rectal thermometer in him was because he ''assaulted'' House by kicking his cane out from under him. Yet despite doing something much more dangerous, Tritter maintains House started their feud and deserves [[DisproportionateRetribution more severe punishment]]. |
| 885 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: His raison d'etre for making House suffer; House is a jerk so he should face his own behavior. |
| 886 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 887 | ** His actions are jumping off the slippery slope, but his irritable lecture to Cuddy hits every point on the head as he rails against House's drug addiction and the fact that those around him enable it. He also accurately states that House is gonna kill someone if something isn't done. [[spoiler:This is at foreshadowing for later events in the episode when a strung-out House almost would have caused a little girl to have crippling amputation for the wrong diagnosis if not for Chase's intervention.]] |
| 888 | ** He demands House to apologize. When House finally does Tritter dismisses it as dishonest. House then checks himself into rehab to show Tritter he is making an effort to improve himself. Tritter still rebuffs him, saying that even his actions are dishonest. [[spoiler:He was right. House was bribing an orderly to give him Vicodin instead of his medicine.]] |
| 889 | [[/folder]] |
| 890 | |
| 891 | [[folder:Dr. Darryl Nolan]] |
| 892 | [[quoteright:232:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_nolan.jpg]] |
| 893 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/AndreBraugher |
| 894 | |
| 895 | House's psychotherapist manager in Season 6. Came back for the series finale as Foreman and Wilson asked of House's whereabouts after he was considered missing. |
| 896 | ---- |
| 897 | * BackForTheFinale: Appears in the final episode [[spoiler:when Wilson and Foreman are searching for the missing House.]] |
| 898 | * BadassBoast: "I know [Van Gough]'s life would be better." |
| 899 | * TheShrink: Throughout his dealings with House, he proves to be nothing more than a ConsummateProfessional who is genuinely trying to help his patient. After House is released from the psychiatric hospital, he visits him a few more times for more sessions. |
| 900 | [[/folder]] |
| 901 | |
| 902 | [[folder:Stacy Warner]] |
| 903 | [[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stacywarner.jpg]] |
| 904 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/SelaWard |
| 905 | |
| 906 | A lawyer in the employ of Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital in seasons 1 and 2... oh, and House's former girlfriend, and is sort-of responsible for his chronic leg pain, as revealed at the end of season 1. Remarried; her new husband was the PatientOfTheWeek in the season one finale. |
| 907 | ---- |
| 908 | * AlmostKiss: More like "almost sex". In "Failure to Communicate", House and Stacy attend a meeting in Baltimore and end up stranded there when all the flights are grounded. Stacy books them a hotel room, and they end up kissing, but before things can go any further, House gets a call from his fellows regarding [[PatientOfTheWeek their patient]] and reluctantly answers it. |
| 909 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: As hospital attorney, she is swamped with malpractice and fraud claims, especially those related to House's department. |
| 910 | * TheBusCameBack:[[spoiler:For the finale.]] |
| 911 | * DeathGlare: She ''loves'' giving these to House. At least ninety percent of her glares are ''completely'' justified. |
| 912 | * ItsNotYouItsMe: How House ends their final affair; while he still loves her, he isn't able to change for her and knows that another relationship between them would end the same way the first one did. |
| 913 | * LovingAShadow: She loves the excitement and thrill of being with House, but unfortunately that does nothing to address the reasons that they broke up in the first place; House is ultimately the one to realize this and break up with her, knowing that his inability to change for her will end up tearing them apart again. |
| 914 | * MasochismTango: She compares her relationship with House to vindaloo curry: painful to eat, but delicious nonetheless. |
| 915 | * OffscreenTeleportation: A couple times, which House thinks is really cool. |
| 916 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Sela Ward was in her late 40s during the Stacy arc of Seasons 1 and 2. |
| 917 | * PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Left New Jersey with her husband Mark after House ends their affair in Season 2.]] |
| 918 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Is afraid of rats. |
| 919 | [[/folder]] |
| 920 | [[folder:Dominika Petrova House]] |
| 921 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/KarolinaWydra |
| 922 | |
| 923 | A prostitute of unidentified Slavic origin introduced in Season 7, when House marries her as a green card cheat. House later falls in love with her for real, but ends up sabotaging that, too. |
| 924 | ---- |
| 925 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: House at first just seems to like Dominika for the sex, the cooking, and her skills as a massage therapist (massages help his leg). The fact that she's a willing sidekick to his escapades doesn't exactly hurt. Over time he actually ''does'' get attached on an emotional level, comforting her when she suffers a death in the family and trying to spend more time with her in general. He still manipulates her, but he does that with everyone. |
| 926 | %%* CitizenshipMarriage |
| 927 | * FairCop: She was once in the police force. |
| 928 | %%* HookerWithAHeartOfGold |
| 929 | * KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler:This is what breaks her and House up, as she was so upset when she learned House was lying when he said she had not got citizenship (House hid the letter stating she could become a citizen, so she would carry on living with him for fear of being deported).]] |
| 930 | * MsFanservice: Even in a world where everyone looks like an underwear model, she still manages to pull off this trope. |
| 931 | * SensualSlav: A large part of what attracted House to marry her was her Eastern European beauty. |
| 932 | * {{Sidekick}}: Seems ''more'' willing to go along with House's zany schemes than his team. |
| 933 | %%* StatuesqueStunner |
| 934 | * SupremeChef: After she settles into the United States life she sets up a food business successful enough to easily bribe House into keeping up the illusion of their CitizenshipMarriage. |
| 935 | %%* TokenMinority |
| 936 | [[/folder]] |
| 937 | [[folder:Jack Moriarty]] |
| 938 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/EliasKoteas |
| 939 | |
| 940 | One of the few other characters besides House and Wilson loosely based on a Sherlock Holmes character, Jack Moriarty is an ex-patient of House's who walks up to him one day and shoots him twice. The majority of his portrayed character is shown to be House's greatest enemy - himself. The real Jack Moriarty shot House, escaped, and was never seen again. Instead, House's coma-induced hallucination of Moriarty breaks down House's morals from within, hurting him far more than the bullet ever did. |
| 941 | ---- |
| 942 | * MeaningfulName: He is named after Professor Moriarty, the arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes (with House being the SherlockHomage). [[spoiler:Who is also a fictional character.]] |
| 943 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives two incredibly in-depth ones to House. [[spoiler:House's hallucination of Moriarty does, that is.]] |
| 944 | -->'''Moriarty:''' You pretend to buck the system, pretend to be a rebel, claim to hate rules. But all you do is substitute your own rules for society's. And it's a nice, simple rule: tell the blunt, honest truth in the starkest, darkest way. And what will be, will be. What will be, should be. And everyone else is a coward. But you're wrong. It's not cowardly to not call someone an idiot. People aren't tactful or polite just because it's nice. They do it because they've got an ounce of humility. 'Cause they know that they will make mistakes. They know that their actions have consequences. And they know that those consequences are their fault. Why do you want so bad not to be human, House?\ |
| 945 | '''Moriarty:''' You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. Good intentions don't count. What's in your heart doesn't count. But a man's life can be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. Just because you can't measure them, just because you don't want to measure them, doesn't mean it's not real. |
| 946 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No word was ever given on what happened to him after the episode he appeared in, other than [[spoiler:he was never caught.]] |
| 947 | [[/folder]] |
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