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->''Heaven is not what it is said to be.''
->''Hell is not what it is said to be.''
->''The saved are not forever happy.''
->''The damned are not forever lost.''
-->-- "Oran" by '''Steve [=McDonald=]''', describing the story of [[http://nihilobstat.info/2009/07/06/the-silencing-of-st-oran/ St. Oran]].

Throughout space and time travels [[WagonTrainToTheStars a barge]], commanded by the mysterious [[PhysicalGod Admiral]], a figure often spoken of but [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen never seen]]. The Admiral has [[LockedInARoom collected together]] a group of unique people. He has set them a task.

There are two kinds of people. There are [[TheAtoner the inmates]], lost souls who have died. Presented with the harsh reality of how very near to utter annihilation [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone their souls have come]], they are given an [[DeathEqualsRedemption option]]: live as an inmate aboard the barge, [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn endure the trials]] set before them and [[LastSecondChance learn from them]], and be eventually granted a [[RedemptionEarnsLife second chance at life]].

They are governed, cared for and protected by [[KidWithTheLeash their wardens]], individuals of moral character (in most cases) given the task to look after them and stand as their moral compass during their time aboard the Barge. They have [[BargainWithHeaven struck a deal]] with the Admiral. In exchange for their service, conditional upon redeeming and graduating their inmate, the Admiral will give them one thing. One thing that they need [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse desperately enough]] to stay on the barge. Some are [[RedemptionPromotion former inmates]].

As well as [[LockedInARoom each others company]], wardens and inmates have to deal with Ports and Floods. Ports are where the barge docks in [[WackyWaysideTribe different worlds]], of varying levels of safety and sanity. Floods are where random phenomena and occurances strike the barge itself. There are normally two or three of these kind of barge events a month.

A [[CharacterBlog journal based]] [[JournalRoleplay Dreamwidth RPG]], in operation since 2008, and still ongoing as of 2019. Application rounds take place monthly. Further information can be found [[http://lastvoyages.dreamwidth.org/profile here]].

!!This work contains examples of:
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[[folder:Tropes that apply to the barge as a whole]]
%%* AllJustADream: This is the preferred way of [[ArbitrarySkepticism dealing with being on the Barge]] for some Inmates.
%%** This was a particularly pungent trope for [[Film/{{Inception}} Mal Cobb]].
%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: One flood temporarily replaced Inmates with their parents.
%%* AmnesiacDissonance: The amnesia breach caused a lot of this
* AnachronismStew: The Barge has aliens that have perfected time-travel living with people who don't know what washing machines are.
* AnyoneCanDie: Because anyone can be revived from death on the Barge with the equivalent of a week-long hangover from hell, serious business often goes down at least once a week.
* TheAtoner: Inmates are on the Barge to make up for what they've done in life.
* BackFromTheDead: see AnyoneCanDie.
* BigBad: There's not really one for the overarching game, but during big events certain characters fill the role:
** In Masterworld, [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]] (shockingly enough). Judas and Iago were his CoDragons.
** In the Four Horsemen plot, [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Arthas Menethil]].
** [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Cobra Commander]] has served two stints as one - first during his nanomite takeover, and then again a year later when he forced the Barge to crash in the [[VideoGame/GrimFandango Land of the Dead]].
** For Halloween 2011, the usurper masquerading as the Admiral was eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:Randall Flagg.]]
%%* BigGood: The Admiral. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Maybe]].
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The main conceit of the Barge isn't as cut-and-dry as you'd think. Wardens don't have to be paragons of morality to get their jobs done, a lot of crimes go unpunished by authority figures, and the ports and floods cause serious trauma - and sometimes even death - to Warden and Inmate alike. A case can even be made for the Admiral having OrangeAndBlueMorality, since no one knows what he is or what his standard of "redeemed" is; if anyone complains about him too loudly, they [[MagnificentBastard receive a cookie.]]
* TheBridge: Mysteriously, the Barge doesn't seem to have one... or maybe it just hasn't been found yet. [[spoiler:It's there, it's just ''incredibly difficult'' to get to.]]
* CommonTongue: Barge denizens come from a multitude of different places and times, but there hasn't been an arrival yet who couldn't speak or understand English.
%%* ConvenientComa: Barge comas, which are normally due to players being busy OOC.
* CriminalDoppelganger: An occupational hazard as a Warden. An Inmate might turn up with your face.
%%* CycleOfRevenge: Since death is rarely permanent, many Inmates achieve these with each other.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Oh-so many of the Inmates. Occasionally some of the Wardens. This is basically what the Inmate files ''are''.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: There's a week long 'death toll' which is basically a hangover from hell, but death has no major side effects after resurrection.
%%* DealWithTheDevil: Some Wardens see their deal with the Admiral as this.
%%* EnforcedColdWar: Enemy Inmates are often forced into this due to their Wardens and even the Admiral interfering.
* EvilVersusEvil: Some of the Inmates would rather tear each other up forever than get with the program.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: No one's every going to REALLY escape from the Barge/kill the Admiral/take over the ship. Because that would break the game, donchaknow.
** [[spoiler:Magnificently subverted when Randall Flagg kicked the Admiral's ass and took over for Halloween 2011.]]
%%* ForScience: The motive driving the actions of a certain few Inmates.
* FountainOfYouth: One flood turned all the Inmates into kids between five and thirteen, while the exasperated Wardens had to keep them all from running with scissors and pulling each other's hair.
** And another, later flood, pulled the same trick on the Wardens, forcing their perplexed Inmates to take care of them.
%%* FreudianExcuse: Quite a few Inmates have one.
* GenderBender: One flood swapped everyone's genders.
%%* GildedCage: Arguably the Barge itself.
* GoodIsNotNice: Wardens, though nominally on the side of good, are often a morally ambiguous lot.
%%* HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Film/{{Inception}} cast has the potential to do this, but hasn't done so yet.
%%* HeelRealization: Often key to the more stubborn Inmates' redemptions.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The Admiral is known as a voice and, OOC, an icon of a captain's hat. Wardens, who have presumably seen him in person to make their deals, usually claim to not be able to remember what he looked like.
* HilarityEnsues: Kissing floods, [[GenderBender gender-flip floods]] - floods seem to exist to make hilarity ensue. Ports or Breaches are usually much more serious.
* HollywoodNewEngland: The Bostonian characters have their accent sneak into their posts. Fun to read, and apparently even more fun to write.
* IdenticalStranger: Since there are no restriction on characters played by the same actor, this is fairly common. A good current example is [[Film/{{Sunshine}} Robert Capa]] and [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Jonathan Crane]].
%%* IgnoredEpiphany: Happens reasonably often [[ChronicVillainy for Inmates]].
* KarmaHoudini: Happens fairly often. Sometimes inmates vanish from the Barge without being redeemed, sometimes wardens get away with offenses with only a slap on the wrist.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: The Admiral places mistletoe all over the Barge during Christmas - [[CrackPairing ANY]] two characters caught underneath will find themselves first-basing it.
%%* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Quite a few of the Wardens fall under this trope. They usually have darker grey Inmates which means the whole place ends up an example of GreyAndGrayMorality.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Played with. The Barge is [[GildedCage rather]] [[LuxuryPrisonSuite luxurious]] and inmates have access to many amenities no conventional prison would ever make available to them, but they are also barred from many areas and can be sent to the much less fun [[{{Lockdown}} Level 0]].
%%* MirrorSelf: one of the most famous and character-developing floods; this troper wasn't even there for it and knows lots about it.
%%* MoodWhiplash: Mostly avoided because of the space between barge events, but still a possibility with some ports and floods.
%%* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Admiral, for the Inmates.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: The floods and ports affect everyone on barge, including the Wardens. Many aren't pleased by the Admiral letting that happen.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A meta example, since some character accents can be hard to maintain.
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, many of the Wardens who were previously in the police force are very competent.
%%* ResurrectionSickness: On the Barge, it's called a death toll.
%%* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Most Inmates would love to but can't. Some Wardens occasionally do.
* SelfRestraint: A few Inmates are happy on the Barge and intentionally stall their progress because they don't want to leave.
%%* ShadowDictator: It's [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation not]] [[JerkassGenie hard]] to see the Admiral as one.
%%* SpaceX: The OS-19 port's premise.
* SuperEmpowering: The Admiral has the power to remove and restore the canonical abilities of any Inmate. He typically only does this at the request of a Warden. On the character side, Arthas can turn Barge denizens into Death Knights and Cobra Commander used to do this through his nanomites.
%%* VillainousFriendship: Occurs frequently between Inmates.
%%* WagonTrainToTheStars: The Barge. Ports and breaches often have elements of TrappedInAnotherWorld.
%%* WeWantOurJerkBack: The Admiral is by no means popular, but in the plots where he's [[UnderNewManagement ousted]] this tends to occur [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow fairly quickly]].
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The amnesia flood was [[BedmateReveal full of this]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: On a meta level, this can happen often, what with character drops and all.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: The shark was named Warren, after the inmate. Hilarity will inevitably ensue now that Warren the Inmate is on the same boat as Warren the shark.
* YearInsideHourOutside: While on the Barge, TimeStandsStill in the worlds where Barge denizens come from.
%%* YouAllMeetInACell: Everyone on the Barge, technically. This fits Inmates a bit better than Wardens.
%%* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Often subverted by graduations but some characters still have this, whether it's due to world destruction (West), faith (Howie) or some other reason.
* ZenSurvivor: Many Wardens and Imates have achieved this after going through an awful lot of floods, ports and general barge horrible.
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[[folder:Tropes that apply to current characters on the barge]]
%%* [[ArchEnemy Archenemies]]: Arthas and the Riddler.
%%* AristocratsAreEvil: Arthas
* ArtifactOfDoom: Frostmourne, Arthas's [[EvilWeapon soul-devouring sword]]. He can use it to turn other Barge denizens into Death Knights. The Marquis' Lament Configuration also qualifies.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Arthas]] does as he pleases, he's strong enough to thrash ninety percent of the people on the Barge.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Some wardens are significantly weaker than their inmates. The Marquis De Sade and Mark Lilly rely on trust and being decent people to keep their inmates from overpowering them.
%%* AxCrazy: Perry has shades of this, but he keeps it under ''slightly'' better control.
%%* BadassAdorable: Claire Bennet and Arya Stark.
%%* BadassFamily: The Batfamily. Mostly the girls are left.
%%* BadassInANiceSuit: Agent K.
%%* BadassNormal: The Barge has its share of these: The ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}s, [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Dean Winchester]], David Cain, Beatrix Kiddo, to name a few.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Barron Sharpe can erase and rewrite memories. He's a conman. What a coincidence.
%%* BatmanGambit: Go on, guess.
%%* BearsAreBadNews: Bears don't leave Prefect alone
* BeardOfEvil: Rhade in the [[MirrorUniverse mirrorverse]] flood had a beard. The "evil" part is subverted because, as he was an inmate at the time, his mirrorverse self was a better, more moral person than his normalverse self.
* BerserkButton: Arthas' reaction to any instance of mind possession by an evil force is frightening.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stephanie Brown is generally recognized as a force to be reckoned with, with or without her superpowered boyfriend in the vicinity.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Dean Winchester ''lives'' for this. A lot of the Barge boys have recently rallied around Arya Stark, including Jesse Pinkman and Arthur Pendragon. Allen Francis Doyle has also taken on this role.
%%* BigEater: Dean Winchester.
%%* TheBigGuy: Dean
%%* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: Cass to Steph and vice versa.
%%* ChivalrousPervert: The Marquis de Sade was redeemed and came back as a Warden. He is very much this trope.
%%** Dean Winchester and James Kirk also qualify.
%%* ChildSoldiers: Arya.
%%* ColdBloodedTorture: There was much talk of this going around when Toshiko Sato [[RefugeInAudacity took over the barge]].
%%** The whole incident was resolved by a [[AntiClimax heart to heart]].
%%* CrazyPrepared: Stephanie Brown, Dean Winchester, Bruce Wayne, and Agent K are all this to varying degrees.
* CreepyChild: Arya Stark. This is a girl who's bedtime prayer is a [[CycleOfRevenge list of all the people she wants to kill]].
%%* CuteBruiser: Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Claire Bennet
%%* CycleOfRevenge: Arthas and the Riddler
%%* DaddysLittleVillain – [[Film/KickAss Chris]] to the core
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Arthas, Dean, Steph.
%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Dean Winchester has built a lifestyle out of this.
%%* DrugsAreBad: Just look at Jesse Pinkman.
%%* EvilPrince: Arthas, naturally.
%%* ExtremeOmnisexual: James T. Kirk, of course.
%%* FallenHero: Arthas, previously Bruce Wayne
* FutureBadass: Claire and Dean both have badass future counterparts, but they don't know about them yet.
* GeniusBruiser: Most Barge denizens assume Perry's a brainless brute, but he's smarter than he lets on.
%%* GenreSavvy: Several, though the crown currently goes to Dean Winchester.
%%* GoodIsNotNice: Dean's a mild example. The Riddler and Narvin have both ended up on people's 'The Admiral has bad judgement picking wardens' lists.
%%* GoodOldFisticuffs: Perry has ''killed people'' this way.
%%** This has so far been a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown result of his HairTriggerTemper. Also, Barron and Rex were both members of the AssholeVictim club.
%%* HandicappedBadass: Barbara Gordon is the very definition of this.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[Film/KickAss Chris]] is an example of this. His increasingly intimate relationship with Cassel has given him much {{Gayngst}}.
%%* HealingFactor: Claire, Deadpool.
* HeroesLoveDogs: A common theme. Jim Kirk has a dog named Aristotle, Claire Bennet has three dogs, Steph and Kon have a Kryptonian puppy.
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Claire Bennet and Jesse Pinkman take a lot of points in this.
%%* {{Immortality}} - Claire Bennet, and probably Deadpool. Who even knows.
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Toto managed to cobble together a nasty virus and infect a large proportion of the barge.
%%* {{Jerkass}} - Quite a few of the inmates.
* InterspeciesRomance: Agent K (human) and Narvin (Time Lord), Stephanie Brown (human) and Kon-el (Kryptonian-Human Hybrid Clone)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jesse Pinkman. Definitely a jerk, but protective of kids and good with his AA group.
%%** Riddick, canonically. He has a thing about kids.
%%* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Dean's a tragic example.
%%* TheKirk: Three guesses who, and the first two don't count.
* LeaveMeAlone: Satsuki, one of the most antisocial barge residents, would love little more than to never have to talk to a human again.
* LegacyCharacter: The barge is now home to all three generations of Batgirl.
%%* LittleMissBadass: Arya Stark
%%* LoveableRogue: Dean Winchester, Doyle.
* MadScientist: Megamind and Iris, although both wardens, have been known to design questionable devices.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: In March 2013, the Admiral was once more replaced by an impostor who made drastic changes to the barge. That impostor was ultimately revealed to be Toshiko Sato. She was taken down and immediately demoted.
%%* TheMenInBlack: Agent K, so MIB his canon is called MIB.
%%* MindRape: Narvin's modus operandi. And he's [[GoodIsNotNice a warden]].
%%* {{Misogyny}}: Perry's a mild misogynist.
%%* MurderIsTheBestSolution: A number of Inmates feel this way. Perry is a prominent example, except he [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim usually goes ahead and murders]] instead of just suggesting it.
* {{Naytheist}}: Dean has seen angels, demons, and gods. That doesn't mean he acknowledges the divinity of any of them.
* TheNicknamer: Kay and Doyle. If either one of them gives you a nickname (e.g. Slick, Darlin', Princess, etc.) you know they like you.
* NobleDemon: Arguably Arthas. He's not above killing (or [[SuperEmpowering enabling others to kill]]), but he's not malicious and has genuinely tried to help Drake and David graduate.
* OfficialCouple: Stephanie Brown and Kon-el are engaged to be married just as soon as they both get off the barge.
** Claire Bennet and Jesse Pinkman were almost sort-of engaged, but they broke up.
* OneLetterName:Agent K and Professor X (although he's still young and mostly called "Charles").
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Agent K.
** Agent K has told his real name to Narvin ([[spoiler: Kevin Brown]])
%%* OrcusOnHisThrone: Arthas to some degree. Justified in that his powers, while still setting him head and shoulders above most of the Barge's residents, are still severely restricted from their godlike original levels.
* OvertOperative: Narvin casually introduces himself to everyone as "Coordinator Narvin of the CIA"
* ParentalSubstitute: Barbara Gordon is officially adopting Cassandra Cain. Unfortunately Superman has left, but in his time he was this for Kon-el.
* PluckyGirl: the Perky Blonde Squad has faded, the flagship remainders of which seem to be [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]] and [[Series/{{Heroes}} Claire Bennet]].
%%* PoisonousPerson: Poison Ivy
%%* PrincessInRags: Arya.
* PrivateDetective: The Riddler had been a private eye before coming to the Barge.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Aya, before [[spoiler: Razer dumped her]] and she returned an inmate with her emotions turned off.
%%* RobotGirl: Aya.
%%* RoyallyScrewedUp: It's complex where Arthas, the Barge's other resident royal, is concerned.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Holy ''crap'', Arthas. A royal who fought on the frontlines, killed Orc Blademasters, and tracked down demons to the uncharted north to slaughter them brutally. And that's just the shit he did ''before'' he came to the Barge.
%%* SeenItAll: As the oldest Inmate on the Barge, Arthas can now lay uncontested claim to this title.
%%* SerialKiller: Alpha.
* ShadowArchetype: As a panfandom game, there are some interesting examples:
** [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Arthas Menethil]] is an obvious shadow counterpart to [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric]] considering he's an {{Expy}} of Elric cooked up by someone who apparently completely missed the point.
** Jesse Pinkman and Lua Klein are arguably a subversion in that they actually have the ''same'' bad traits, but each would probably claim that they're total opposites if confronted with it.
%%* ShrinkingViolet: the character of Lua Klein is a deconstruction of this trope.
* SinisterShades: Agent K, particularly during the mirrorverse event, when he was the sociopathic version of the character from the original comic books.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Subverted by Jesse, a [[FlexingThoseNonBiceps wannabe tough guy]] who almost always wears long sleeves that hide his tattoos.
%%* SmugSnake: Nygma holds the crown for wardens and Barron Sharpe for inmates.
%%* ThereAreNoTherapists: Actually there are now.
%%* TokenEvilTeammate: The Riddler is a warden. Most of the other wardens are dumbfounded by this.
%%** A little subverted, now that he's returned as an inmate.
%%* TokenMinority: Toshiko, Mozenrath, Iroh, Richard Riddick.
* TooCleverByHalf: The Riddler. Here's a character with an intellect on par with the Batfamily, but it's hindered by his [[SmugSnake unpleasant personality]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk compulsion to get himself involved in conflicts]].
* TheVamp: Poison Ivy can vamp it up when she wants to.
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Amanda, [[OutGambitted ironically thanks to Hoffman himself]].
%%* WarriorPrince: Arthas
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Rassilon. Founder of Time Lord society, around a billion years old, also complete nutcase.
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[[folder: Tropes that apply to characters that were formerly on the Barge]]
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: After [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Wichita]] left the Barge, [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Rex]] eventually gets together with [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]]. And then [[FateDrivesUsTogether she came back]]. [[spoiler: Eventually subverted.]]
%%* ActionMom: Sarah Connor.
%%** Lua Klein had begun to think this way of her warden, Amanda Young.
%%* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Bruce again, of course. Lampshaded by Hayley.
%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Bruce Wayne when trying to deal with Costigan and Sylar to make sure they weren't threats to Dick and Tim and generally meddled in their affairs.
%%* {{Animorphism}}: David. [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Obviously]].
%%* [[ArchEnemy Archenemies]]: Jim Kirk and William Cooper. They eventually got over it. David and Bourne. They didn't get over it.
%%** Past archenemies include Rachel to David, Slade to Dick, and Sirius to Snape.
%%**Amanda and Hoffman.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Will Parry's]] Subtle Knife.
%%* AristocratsAreEvil: Viserys
* AssholeVictim: Harold Lauder got a ''nasty'' welcome to the Barge, but as anyone familiar with [[Literature/TheStand his canon]] knows, he kind of had it coming.
%%* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: [[VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}} Rayne]]
%%* AuthorityInNameOnly: George Crabtree is an example of someone who had to rely on his own kindness to keep him alive.
%%** Summer Finn, Olive Penderghast and Johnny Cade were all great examples.
%%* AxCrazy: Richie Gecko, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rachel Berenson, Sylar.
%%* BadassBookworm: Arthur deliberately cultivated this image, even going so far as to work in the library.
* BadassFamily: The Fire Nation royal family. Iroh is considered to be one of the best Firebenders in history, Zuko came seriously close to overpowering a Death Knight and Azula was not to be messed with either.
%%* BadassInANiceSuit: Miss Parker.
%%* BadassNormal: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]], [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] and [[Literature/{{Infected}} Perry Dawsey]] are the more obvious examples. For the ladies, Miss Parker, Sarah Connor, Amanda Young and Cassie.
* BatterUp: Donny Donowitz's shtick, of course.
* BearsAreBadNews: [[BloodKnight Rachel's]] main battle morph, of course, was her grizzly bear.
* BerserkButton: Do not get on [[Series/TheDevilsWhore Edward Sexby's]] bad side. Just don't.
** If you see Achilles helpless or vulnerable, he ''will'' kill you. It's just that simple.
** Don't call [[Film/AFishCalledWanda Otto West]] stupid.
%%** Amanda had a hair trigger, especially when it came to John Kramer and Jill Tuck.
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[Film/HardCandy Hayley Stark]], as [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy the Scarecrow]] found out the hard way.
%%** Tim Drake, full throttle, as both ComicBook/TheJoker and Jason Bourne learned to their peril.
%%* BigBrotherBully: Viserys Targaryen during his life was this to his sister Daenerys. Though, to be fair, she ''did'' get him killed.
%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Dick Grayson was a great example of this.
%%* BigBrotherMentor: [[Film/Red2010 William Cooper]] to Hayley and Heero; Costigan to David for a little while, Dick Grayson to Tim Drake.
* BigDamnHero: Will Parry got his moment when he saved David from vampire Hoffman.
%%* TheBigGuy: Luke Cage.
* BondOneLiner: Buffy does this. For example, after defeating a Virtual Reality Grid Computer Game version of Arthas she quipped "Game Over."
%%* BountyHunter: In OS-19 Patrick Kenzie got a history transplant and became one of these.
* BreakTheHaughty: Viserys's entire stay on the Barge can be summed up as this, with a TraumaCongaLine thrown in for good measure.
%%* BrokenBird: Wanda's Barge stay summed up in a single trope. And [[FromBadToWorse it got worse]].
%%* BuffySpeak: Is unsurprisingly spoken by Buffy.
%%* TheCaligula: Viserys Targaryen was well on his way to becoming one before he got here.
%%* CainAndAbel: Hoffman and Amanda, respectively.
* TheChessmaster: David and Bourne in a way - their whole time as pairing was made up of the two of them trying to out-manuever one another. [[spoiler:David loses in their first two face-offs, manages an ultimately pyrrhic victory in the third, and finally comes off better in the fourth.]]
%%** Amanda and Hoffman have both tried to become this. Results ranged from unexpectedly effective to abject failure.
%%* ChivalrousPervert: Biff sort of fell under this trope.
%%* ChildSoldiers: Heero
%%* CircusBrat: Nightwing's backstory.
* ClusterFBomb: Malcolm Tucker. Even when he got his memories and story rewritten for Master World, his language didn't change one bit.
%%** Kitchen Nightmares with [[Series/ShamelessUK Paddy]], [[Series/ThePretender Parker]], [[Series/TheThickOfIt Malcolm Tucker]].
%%** More recently this had become Sarah Connor's shtick.
%%** When Amanda is panicked or upset, she lapses into this.
%%* ColdBloodedTorture: Slick wanted to do this to Bourne. Thankfully, he was outvoted.
%%** Arthas did this to [[AssholeVictim Edward Nygma]] [[KickTheDog twice]].
%%** Braxiatel did this to Narvin
%%* ConsummateLiar: Braxiatel is allergic to telling the truth plain and clearly.
%%** Achilles gave Jim Profit a pretty good run for his money while he was here.
%%** Jim Profit holds the crown.
* CombatStilettos: Rayne's stiletto heels are quite literally designed for combat. They are metal spikes to impale people with. Miss Parker always fights and trains in stilettos as well.
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Series/{{Profit}} is an Inmate, sans actual corporation, buuut.
%%* CrazyPrepared: Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Bourne.
%%* CoolDownHug: [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] gives one to David during his [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]].
%%* CreepyChild: Will Parry, at least when he was younger. Even witches were afraid of him.
%%* CycleOfRevenge: Amanda and Hoffman were caught in one. Ended by Amanda's graduation.
%%* CynicismCatalyst: The motivation for Hoffman's villainy.
%%* DaddysLittleVillain: Slick was a rare male example.
%%* DarkActionGirl: The Baroness, oddly enough, was this instead of [[TheBaroness the trope that's actually named after her original cartoon version.]]
%%** Shego, Sarah Connor and Miss Parker fill this role.
%%* DeadlyDoctor: Rex Lewis/Cobra Commander.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Bourne's a surprising example. More conventional snarkers include Buffy, Angua, and Shego. Braxiatel and Narvin sometimes get in on the deadpan snarking act, especially at each other.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier]] conned plenty of people into making these in life. He spends a lot of his time on the Barge thinking about the ones ''he'' made, how they went wrong, and how to get by without their benefits. (He's also the picture on the trope page, natch.)
%%* DeathTrap: These are Amanda and Hoffman's stock in trade.
%%* DefrostingIceQueen: Denise sort of fit this.
%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Buffy.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Amanda threw hydrogen peroxide into her former warden's eyes for conversing with Hoffman.
* TheDragon: Costigan to Rex. He was perfectly ready to [[WouldHurtAChild beat the crap out of a kid]] for Rex's sake.
** Rinzler was the chief enforcer for CLU in Tron: Legacy
* DrugsAreBad: Costigan was addicted to painkillers, and constantly [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor shifted between backsliding and wanting to stay clean]].
%%* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Master, Iago and Judas in Masterworld.
%%* EruditeStoner: Mariska.
%%* EqualOpportunityEvil: Dame Petronilla. She even once described herself as such.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a humorous example, the meticulous eater Rex Lewis is horrified by Impostor Bourne's bad table manners.
** The Riddler to Eddie Brock after the latter took a shower with Rex Lewis's corpse nearby. It was even lampshaded by Nygma himself:
--->"You were naked and washing yourself while a dead body was in the room. There's no sugarcoating ''that''."
%%* EvilRedhead: Achilles brought a healthy dose of this to the Barge.
%%* EvilOverlord: Leezar was an affectionate parody of overlords everywhere.
%%* {{Expy}}: Arthas got to meet (and sort-of-befriend) the character of whom he's an Expy, [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melniboné]].
* EyeScream: [[{{Animorphism}} Woodchat Shrike Amanda]] taking out Hyena Hoffman's eye. ItMakesSenseInContext.
%%* FaceHeelTurn: The reason Gaeta was an inmate. And why Rhade was before he graduated to warden.
%%* FailureHero: After two failed stints as a warden, Wichita saw herself as this. Ironically, the Admiral ''himself'' seemed to agree, since she left the Barge shortly after her inmate was reassigned.
%%* FallenHero: Sirius Black, Mark Hoffman.
%%* FirstGirlWins: Wichita. Or was she?
%%** Spoiler:[[spoiler: She wasn't.]]
%%* ForScience: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: [[ParodySue Fanfic Crane]].
%%--> '''Fanfic Crane''': [[BlatantLies Science]], my good man. [[KissingUnderTheInfluence Science]].
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul: We're looking at ''you'', Dr. Crane.
%%** This also applies to Walter White, but he's good at hiding it.
* FreeLoveFuture: Subverted by Chief Stildyne. His universe has a lot of things wrong with it: the monolithic and failing government overshadows the day-to-day lack of hetero (or homo) normativity in all but certain cultures.
%%* GenderBender: Loki's magic let him do this to people. And to himself.
%%* GenreSavvy: John Connor was purposely raised to be this way.
%%* GloryDays: The fact that [[Franchise/HarryPotter Gellert]] was in jail and thus has burnt up much of his lifespan by now was a source of much angsttttt.
%%* GoldDigger: Dame Petronilla. Mainly back home, but still.
* GoodCopBadCop: Costigan and Dick during OS-19, while looking for information about David and Kirk. Although really, which one was which is up to debate, as while Dick acted more friendly and social he also dangled a guy off a building to get info while Costigan just interrogated them.
%%* GoodIsNotNice: Bourne.
%%* GuileHero: Tim seems to be the only Batkid that has really inherited this part of Batman's repertoire.
* HandicappedBadass: Will Parry, sort of. He lost two fingers to the [[ArtifactOfDoom Subtle Knife]], but it didn't really [[BigDamnHero slow him down]].
%%* HeartbrokenBadass: John Connnor was a ''literal'' example.
%%* HealingFactor: Two characters from the [[Series/{{Heroes}} same canon]] - Adam Monroe and Sylar.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Jon Snow has a wolf.
* HeroKiller: Sylar was the original Barge deathbringer, before Arthas came along and stole his crown.
%%* HilarityEnsues: Victor Literature/{{Frankenstein}} playing Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
%%* HitmanWithAHeart: Jason Bourne, at least in the beginning. It's the whole reason he came to the Barge in the first place.
* IdenticalStranger: Since there are no restriction on characters played by the same actor, this is fairly common. Former examples include [[Film/HarryPotter Remus Lupin]] and [[Series/{{Sherlock}} John Watson]], [[Film/RedDragon Will Graham]] and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 Bruce Banner]], [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra Rex Lewis]] and [[Film/{{Inception}} Arthur]], Bruce Wayne and John Preston.
%%* IJustWantToBeBadass: Deep down, this was David's motivation.
%%** Also Wanda’s.
%%** Also Walter White, which makes Jesse's trope pretty ironic.
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Cissie King-Jones, the retired heroine.
%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Viserys and Raistlin.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mariska the zombie. Faces are her favorite part.
%%** [[Film/{{Delicatessen}} Clapet]], as Blonsky found out the hard way.
* {{Immortality}}: The vampires, and the Time Lords are essentially immortal.
%%* ImmortalityBisexuality: Jack Harkness and Una Persson, amongst others.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Viserys, who was aptly known in his time as the 'Beggar King'.
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Bourne is the king of this. More surprisingly, his inmate picked up on this too.
** It's a prison setting, so almost any weapon an inmate would be armed with will be of the improvised kind
* IneffectualDeathThreats: Surprisingly enough, Heero hadn't made a single one, despite being the poster boy for this trope.
** Finally gets to give a death threat to David. Given [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt his track record]], David's got nothing to worry about.
** David later himself gave death threats to Bourne and Claire during his VillainousBreakdown while trapped as a rat. Time will tell if they're ineffectual. [[spoiler: They weren't.]]
** Jesse got in trouble for explicitly threatening Barron and Richie. Except for some GoodOldFisticuffs, nothing has resulted from these threats.
%%* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Buffy suffers from this a little.
%%** Amanda is nearly ''consumed'' by this.
%%* InhumanHuman: Victor Frankenstein had a sneaking suspiscion that everyone who got brought back from the dead was this.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Not romantic, but unusually harsh. Amanda's warden deal consists of giving her surrogate parents, John and Jill, a happy ending with their biological child. This requires the erasure of the time she spent with them from history, meaning they won't remember her as a part of their family at all. Cue angst, since their approval and affection were the only things keeping her going for the past few years...
** Something Chief Stildyne rarely wants to talk about. But he wouldn't be here if he weren't head over heels enough to throw his career away in order to save the beloved servants of and never see the (straight, unhappy in the military, vicious torturer type) man he loves again.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Quite a few of the inmates. Among the wardens, Bourne's gradually becomes this as time has gone on.
%%* JerkJock: Perry carefully cultivates this image.
* KarmicTransformation: Bourne did this to David as punishment for impersonating him, trapping him in the form he hates the most - [[FateWorseThanDeath a rat]]. Though it was only for a few days, it shattered any chance of trust ever forming between them.
* KickTheDog: Coyolxauhqui's murder of [[DoggedNiceGuy Remus Lupin]].
** O'Brien's torture of Sveta Nazarova.
%%** Bourne constantly does this. (though he claims he's actually [[ShootTheDog shooting it.]])
%%* KirkSummation: Ironically used by Tim on David to ''save'' Kirk. [[LogicBomb And it works]].
%%* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: General Chang, obviously.
%%* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Dick Grayson.
%%* LegacyCharacter: Nightwing and Robin.
* LifeIsntFair: Bourne had a tendency to tell David this. We later learn that it's more or less his life philosophy.
%%* LiteralMinded: VideoGame/MegaMan was adorable, but also kinda clueless.
* LoveTriangle: Rex was caught in one with Iago and Wichita.
* MadScientist: Rex Lewis/Cobra Commander was by far the most prominent and straightest example. [[Series/DoctorWho The Rani]] was another, and to a certain extent Findthee Swing (with his obsession with cranial measurements) very nearly qualified as a third.
%%** Bruce Banner was a heroic variant.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: During Halloween 2011, the Admiral was overthrown and replaced by an impostor. That impostor was ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:Randall Flagg.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: The Master, Adam Monroe, Sylar, Rex Lewis and Achilles de Flandres are the best examples of manipulative bastards from days gone by. Malcolm Tucker did his level best to be one. Profit, Iago, Hoffman, Barron, Slater... the list goes on and on.
%%** Amanda, Merope, Atia of the Julii, Chloe Sweeney, and Rachel Berenson were all fine examples, but the absolute master of this trope? Hayley Stark.
%%* MasterOfIllusion: Loki.
%%* TheMcCoy: The ''[[IncrediblyLamePun real McCoy]]'', at that.
%%* MessianicArchetype: John Connor. Just look at his initials.
* TheMole: Heero went along with David for a while to get information about his plans.
%%* MoralityPet: Drake Stone plays this for Arthas.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Findthee Swing]] got one of these. He got a major power rush from using a gun, killed someone and freaked out.
%%** The Rani also had one after the first Mirrorverse flood, and a number of smaller ones following subsequent hijinks.
* MyGreatestFailure: Will Graham still feels this way about [[Film/{{Se7en}} John Doe's]] excruciating murder of [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 Sgt. Howie]].
* NanoMachines: Cobra Commander's nanomites brought vampires back to life, gave demons back their powers, electrically shocked creepy stalkers, and generally [[GreenRocks did whatever the plot required]].
* {{Naytheist}}: Angua, like many Discworldians, doesn't bother to believe in the gods because she ''knows'' they exist.
* NerdGlasses: The Scarecrow wears a pair as Jonathan Crane. Walter White also wears glasses.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Mariska. When she's not busy eating people, she's all about peace, love, hallucinogenic drugs and not showering.
* TheNicknamer: Malcolm Tucker. Parker was "Scully", Paddy was "Baldrick" (after a flood that resulted in Malc getting nicknamed "[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Edmund]]"), and when [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Columbus]] was his warden, Malcolm made a habit of calling him by every major Ohio city and town (Cleveland, Livonia, even Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) except Columbus.
%%* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain - The source of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Slade's]] powers.
%%* NietzscheWannabe - Owlman.
%%** [[Film/AFishCalledWanda Otto West]] is arguably one of the trope's great exemplars, in canon and in game.
%%* NoIndoorVoice - The Sixth Doctor.
* OddCouple: Bourne and Nygma - [[spoiler: arguably the worst two wardens on the Barge]] - have formed an unlikely friendship.
* OfficialCouple: Snape and Martha are a married couple and were for years the penultimate Barge offering to this trope.
** Angelica and Edward [[Series/TheDevilsWhore Sexby]], who are official in game and canonically.
** [[Literature/ShadesOfGrey Jane Brunswick and Eddie Russett]] were also official in canon and in game.
** Agent K and Narvin are engaged.
%%** Tim and Shego played this straight for a few months and then subverted it when they broke up.
%%** West and Billy, Adam Monroe and Judas, Buffy and Spike, Hayley and Merlin, Mal and Costigan, Trip and T'Pol.
%%** Lord Rassilon. Less so his fiancee Omega.
* OneSteveLimit: Subverted: at one point there were ''four'' characters named Eddie - (Eddie Nygma, [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]], [[Literature/ShadesOfGrey Eddie Russet]], and [[Film/{{Limitless}} Eddie Spinola]]).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: 21, Heero Yuy, Jason Bourne, and Mr. Pink. All aliases, and none of their real names have ever been revealed.
** Rachel refused to tell people her real name throughout her tenure, and instead went by [[TheMagnificent Xena]].
** There were also two Armands. Bonus subverted in that there were what, six muns named Kim?
** Jason Bourne has shared his first name ([[spoiler:David Webb.]]) with Costigan and Claire.
** 21 reveals his first name in his letter to Santa ([[spoiler:it's Gary.]])
** Miss Parker to such an extent her name isn't even in her file. She told one person (Paddy) it, and another got her initial when they left. (Snape.)
%%** Mr. Orange, Mr. Wednesday, and Slick.
%%* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Mariska, and ''how.''
* PantheraAwesome: Chang has a [[CuteKitten baby panther]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Heero Yuy had two daddies during his inmate stint, Slade and Cooper. He also had a maternal figure in Una Persson (as a result of her literally being his mom during the Wild West breach). Zuko also had Iroh, but that one's canonical.
** John Kramer, though not present on the Barge, continues to drive Amanda's actions as her surrogate father.
** Walter White destructively fills this role for Jesse both before and during their time on the Barge. Sarah Connor has also taken on the role of Jesse's surrogate mother.
%%** The Seventh Doctor for Vasilia
%%** Hoffman played this to David for a time in order to to manipulate him. He eventually wised up to it.
%%** Rassilon tried to play this to Narvin, with ultimately massive failure
* PetTheDog: Wardens and inmates alike are prone to getting these from time to time.
** The Riddler may have handled it in his [[InsufferableGenius usual style]], but he did exhibit genuine compassion for Profit when he was 'poisoned'.
** Perry's awkward comforting of Sveta after he found about about the curse and how it ended.
** Heero told Olive he'd kill anyone who tried to go after her like they did to Sveta.
** Arthas has one of these every so often with Drake and David.
** Ariadne's warden stint with Heero was one long PetTheDog moment.
** Bruce Wayne in the aftermath of the badcanon flood, when he pleads to the Admiral to let him save [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder ASBAR]] Dick Grayson from ''[[EvilCounterpart that thing]]''.
** Similarly, Jason Todd got one when he protected Dick Grayson, [[InsistentTerminology Age Twelve]] from his psychotic caretaker.
** Cooper hugged Heero in the Isla Nublar port after Heero took a velociraptor off a cliff with him.
** Cobra Commander had a small one when he spared Billy Costigan and his warden from the nanomites.
%%** O'Brien and Sveta had a bunch of Pet the Dog moments, although they were invariably creepy and highly questionable with regard to his motivations.
%%** Malcolm Tucker and his warden Claire, occasionally.
%%** Tim Drake's came when he found out [[AndIMustScream what Bourne did to David]]. The Batfolk are big on this trope.
%%* PlayfulHacker: John Connor, with a ''heavy'' emphasis on the latter as opposed to the former. Before him, Kevin Flynn played this straight.
* PlayingWithFire: At one point the Barge had a good chunk of the Fire Nation's royal family here.
%%* PluckyGirl: Svetlana Nazarova, Buffy, Angua, Cissie King-Jones and Angelica Sexby, amongst others.
%%* Poisonous Friend: Brax and Rhade. Braxiatel is the poisonous friend to Romana and Benny in canon. Rhade is the poisonous friend of Dylan Hunt. (Ironically, Brax and Rhade are themselves friends and Brax poisoned Rhade, taking the phrase "poisonous friends" to a literal extreme.)
%%** Gaeta may view ''himself'' as a subversion of this re: Gaius, in that he considers his own moral code to be vastly superior to Gaius's.
%%* PornStache: [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Gabriel]] didn't rock it. But he should have. Otto West did, until he shaved it off as a sign of his redemption.
* PowerPerversionPotential: David uses his Bourne morph to score a kiss with Claire.
* PreacherMan: Not a preacher technically, but Sgt. Howie is by far the most devout member of the Barge.
%%** Don't forget [[Film/{{Se7en}} John Doe]], his SinisterMinister counterpart.
%%* PrivateDetective: Patrick Kenzie. And at one point there were two Sherlock Holmeses.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Viserys has intensely disturbing dreams which may or may not be this. Buffy also has prophetic dreams occasionally.
%%* ProperlyParanoid: Costigan. Which isn't surprising, considering [[Film/TheDeparted his canon]].
%%* RebelLeader: John Connor
%%* RedheadedHero: Wally West.
%%* ReluctantWarrior: Will Parry, full throttle.
%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Played straight between the T-X, Rinzler, and CLU.
%%* RobotGirl - The T-X.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Inmates who have powers frequently attempt to get around the Barge's rules through the use of them. David probably is the patron saint (or patron sinner, as the case may be) of this trope.
%%* PsychoElectro: [[Series/{{Heroes}} Elle Bishop]] is the Ur-Example.
* UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} - At one point there was an oddly disproportionate number of Scotsmen on the Barge: Neil Howie, Malcolm Tucker, Montgomery Scott, and James "Destro" McCullen.
%%* SerialKiller: Achilles, John Doe, Sylar, Amanda and Hoffman, Hannibal Lecter.
* ShadowArchetype: As a panfandom game, there are some interesting examples:
** John Doe and Sgt. Howie. Both are devout Christians, but one wants to save people and the other wants to see them burn. Highlighted when Doe kidnaps Howie and slowly starves him to death.
** Billy Costigan, though one of the more morally sound Inmates, was nevertheless a ShadowArchetype to his Warden, Dick Grayson. Like Hoffman and Graham, both men went into law enforcement. Unlike them, both Costigan and Grayson led double lives as part of their work. Grayson was able to successfully accept his duality; Costigan on the other hand had a breakdown and turned to drugs to cope.
** Slade Wilson was Jason Bourne taken to his logical conclusion. As Bourne's former inmate, the significantly older Slade was a grim example of what Bourne could become. Bourne's TheStoic and emotionally reserved; Slade is [[TheSociopath shallow and emotionally blunted]]. Bourne [[NoSocialSkills has trouble relating to others]], Slade usually [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't bother]]. Bourne is [[CombatPragmatist willing to break the rules]] to win, Slade wins [[ThrowAwayCountry at any cost]], as Dick Grayson can attest to. Generally speaking, whatever traits Bourne has, Slade played them to their extremes, becoming a [[ConsummateProfessional stone-cold mercenary]] to Bourne's emotionally damaged HitmanWithAHeart.
** Will Parry was an inversion to David in his approach to violence - while both kids were warriors, David [[MilitaryBrat was raised in a military family]] and [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption saw violence as the only solution]] that ever solved anything. Will, on the other hand, was raised [[DisappearedDad with his father absent]] and [[PromotionToParent forced to care for his mother]]. As a result, he [[ReluctantWarrior preferred nonviolent solutions whenever possible]] despite his considerable skill as a warrior.
** Mark Hoffman. It's not too obvious since the two don't interact much, but he's clearly Will Graham's dark counterpart. Both were children of poverty who went into law enforcement and were traumatized in the line of duty. But while Graham resolved to fight the darkness within, Hoffman embraced his darkness and became a serial killer.
** David Harris is an interesting case in that he can be considered a ShadowArchetype to ''two'' characters: Heero Yuy and Will Parry. David and Heero, sworn archenemies, parallel and invert one another in history - both were pulled into war against their will, but Heero was [[ChildSoldiers pulled into war from a young age]] and [[ResignedToTheCall accepted it]], while David [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive was pulled into war as a teenager]] and [[RefusalOfTheCall rejected it]]. Both are antisocial personalities but in opposite ways - Heero is a [[TheStoic introverted recluse]] while David is an [[{{Jerkass}} extroverted jerk]]. Even in the team dynamic they invert one another - Heero [[MagneticHero gathers a team around him]], living up to his [[TheHero codename]], while David as the [[SixthRanger sixth Animorph]] rebels against and [[SixthRangerTraitor eventually betrays]] his team.
** The Riddler is Tim Drake's shadow counterpart, an older Tim without the noble driving force and with a personality much more disposed towards [[ItsAllAboutMe self-interest]] and [[SmugSnake endless gloating]].
%%* ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis: David goes through one after spending days morphing, demorphing, and remorphing his warden almost continuously.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: David resolves to use Bourne's body to find the Admiral. What does he actually ''end up'' doing? Mostly showing off and being a giant troll.
%%* SinisterShades: Slick's got a pair, and he never takes them off. ''Ever''.
%%** Sheldon Sands also had a pair.
%%* SleevesAreForWimps: Heero, full throttle.
%%* SmugSnake: Nygma holds the crown for wardens and Lucius Malfoy for inmates. Medusa threatens his crown.
%%* TheSociopath: Achilles de Flandres, Slade Wilson, John Doe, The Joker, Jim Profit, Walter White (covertly), and possibly Mark Hoffman.
%%** Amanda was believed to be one by most before her true nature made public appearances.
%%* SociopathicSoldier: Rachel Berenson, Jason Bourne, and possibly Emil Blonsky.
%%* {{Southies}}: Billy Costigan, [[Film/GoneBabyGone Patrick Kenzie]] and [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Donny Donowitz]] were the big three.
* SpotTheImpostor: When David kidnapped and morphed Jason Bourne. Slade and later Will Graham were able to see through his masquerade - the rest of the Barge was clueless. Rhade could smell that Rachel was female even in morph as a marine.
%%* SuperSpeed: Wally again, obviously.
%%* StepfordSnarker: Amanda Young.
%%* TheStoic: Bourne and Heero are the most repeat offenders. Gaeta tries, but has to work at it.
* TakingUpTheMantle: With Bruce gone, Tim has taken it upon himself to be the Barge's Batman.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: ... except for Dr. Crane, but you'd have to be ''crazy'' to hop on his couch.
** And now also Hannibal Lecter. You'd have to be even '''more'' crazy to hop on his couch.
%%* TokenMinority: Martha, Iroh, Luke Cage, Simone Betheson, Tyr, Roxy.
** Facilier (though Creole is technically mixed-race)
** Judas is rarely actually portrayed as middle-eastern in any of the interpretations of the musical he's from.
* TookALevelInBadass: Sarah Connor [[TookALevelInBadass between Terminator and Terminator 2]], effectively becoming her complete opposite, and might this Troper add, having no hesitation in breaking Silberman's arm, threatening to pump him full of Drano, or stabbing him in the knee with his own pen. What a distance from the quiet waitress in pink, the DamselInDistress of the first film.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Bourne's gradually become harsher and more antagonistic as time has gone on, though it's not entirely clear if this can be attributed to his trials with David or just him revealing more of his true personality.
%%* TotalitarianUtilitarian - O'Brien and Beatty, pre-redemption. Also John Preston.
%%* TricksterMentor : Once he became a Warden, Loki made this his modus operandi.
* TheUnfettered - Irving Braxiatel is a perfect example, delibrately putting aside his morals to save Gallifrey, regardless of how many [[AndThatsTerrible genocides]] it takes. Achilles and Bourne bring up the vanguard.
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Amanda, [[OutGambitted ironically thanks to Hoffman himself]].
%%* ViolentGlaswegian: Malcolm Tucker, although his violence was largely verbal.
%%* VirginPower: Required for [[YourHighness Leezar's]] ritual, [[SexualEuphemism The Fuckening]].
%%* WarriorPrince: Viserys is a wannabe.
%%* WarriorTherapist: While he was around, Main Continuity Batman was the king. [[BatmanGambit Of course]]. Slade had the potential for this too, though he never really got to make use of it.
%%* WellDoneSonGuy: Slick, of all people.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Arguably Bourne. Certainly a lot of the other wardens now see him as such.
%%** This is sort of also how Gaeta wound up on the Barge.
%%* WhatTheHellHero: Costigan to Bourne when he trapped his Inmate as a rat.
%%* WickedCultured: Braxiatel embodies this trope. And Hannibal Lecter. As does Rhade to a less extreme extent.
%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Raistlin. Wanted to make himself a god.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Prefect and his inmate Barron Sharpe get drunk and paint a terrible, terrible mural. They remember it, but agree [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain not to talk about it]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[BadassNormal Bourne]] only has one fear - large bodies of water.
* YouAreNumberSix: Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor (although they never in canon go by number names and characters on the Barge don't always know what "number" Doctor each is, but players use the numbers [=OOCly=] for convenience). Seven-of-Nine. 21.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Castiel's angelic form explodes heads, burns out eyes...is generally not good for human life forms. So he goes around in a [[UnkemptBeauty human]] suit.
* YouLookFamiliar: Costigan recognized Bourne when he first met him. This didn't end well.
** Mal's confusion of Costigan with Cobb ended very, VERY poorly for both of them. May be an example of BewareTheNiceOnes, and a consequence of Mal's in-canon BreakTheCutie. (But they still ended up as a couple all the same...)
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