History Characters / DexterDextersFamily

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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:In the finale of ''New Blood'', he tries to make Dexter turn himself in. Dexter, realizing Harrison will never be free as long as he himself lives, has Harrison shoot him.]]

* EnfanteTerrible: Dexter worries (needlessly) that he will become this due to witnessing a traumatic event, but he's far too young to be affected. Dexter is merely paranoid. [[spoiler:However, ''New Blood'' eventually reveals that Dexter's concerns were ''entirely'' on the mark as Harrison did end up developing his own Dark Passenger later in life… or rather, [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Dexter thinks he does]].]]

* EnfanteTerrible: Dexter worries (needlessly) that he will become this due to witnessing a traumatic event, but he's far too young to be affected. Dexter is merely paranoid. [[spoiler:However, ''New Blood'' eventually reveals that Dexter's concerns were ''entirely'' on the mark as Harrison did end up developing his own Dark Passenger later in life.]]

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:After being a minor character as a child in the original, Harrison is now a young adult and is confirmed to be upgraded to the main cast in the reboot.]]

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Rita's judgemental, controlling mother.

* AbusiveParent: She's emotionally abusive to Rita, and she also puts too much pressure on her grandchildren. Rita even says she ran away with Paul, the abusive asshole, because she wanted to get away from ''her''.

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* AdultFear: She's targeted by a pedophile in season 3.

'''Beware of spoilers''', only spoilers from the '''seventh and eighth seasons''' are meant to be blacked out. All character sheets contain major spoilers. Proceed reading at your own risk.[[note]]As per wiki's policy, all trope names should be visible which may indicate if the character died or if they are deceiving.[[/note]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4, she goes from a CheerfulChild to a BrattyTeenageDaughter. After Rita's death she even tells Dexter YouShouldHaveDiedInstead.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the books Dexter stated that Cody is very quiet and that his sister Astor often talks for both of them. In the TV series, Cody is more talkative than Astor.

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler: After being a minor character as a child in the original, Harrison is now a young adult and is confirmed to be upgraded to the main cast in the reboot.]]

* DeadGuyJunior: Harrison is a family name -- he was named after Dexter's foster father.
* EnfanteTerrible: Dexter worries (needlessly) that he will become this due to witnessing a traumatic event, but he's far too young to be affected. Dexter is merely paranoid. [[spoiler: However, ''New Blood'' eventually reveals that Dexter's concerns were ''entirely'' on the mark as Harrison did end up developing his own Dark Passenger later in life.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: In ''New Blood'', Harrison successfully manages to trick his entire school and most of Iron Lake into thinking he's a hero by attacking his bullied friend and framing him as a school shooter, even stabbing himself to make it look like self-defense. When his father finds out and attempts to confront the kid, Harrison emotionally manipulates Dexter by guilting him for being a deadbeat.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: In "Sins of a Father", he realises that he never had a dark passenger and everything he did turned out to be for nothing, which left him genuinely horrified. After Dexter lets him shoot him dead, Harrison is shown to be relieved to have broken the cycle to start anew, but also accepts that he may have to live with the guilt and remorse of his actions on his shoulders, having difficulty figuring out if he will be able to redeem himself in the future.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: In the finale of New Blood, he tries to make Dexter turn himself in. Dexter, realizing Harrison will never be free as long as he himself lives, has Harrison shoot him.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Of the Morgan family overall.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:Now a teenager by the time of ''New Blood'', Harrison has grown up to become crass, violent, emotionally manipulative, and even more concerningly, ''murderous''. In the finale, he seems to be growing out of it after killing his father, (on the latter's insistence).]]
* TroubledButCute: [[spoiler: In New Blood, Harrison admits to Audrey that he has violent thoughts and all of this stems from Dexter abandoning him and then the foster care system just made things worse.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: At first she thinks that Dexter is hiding something and of course it's true. Also her reaction when she [[ItMakesSenseInContext believes him to be a drug addict]] is understandable. Her daughter was married for years to another drug addict who was also a DomesticAbuser, so it's normal she wouldn't want her daughter to be involved with another drug addict.

* TattooedCrook: Dexter recognizes that his tattoo of a spider web was made in prison. He also has a flashback memory of him driving a car, while he -- a really small Dexter -- is watching him.

* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:Now a teenager by the time of ''New Blood'', Harrison has grown up to become crass, violent, emotionally manipulative, and even more concerningly, ''murderous''.]]

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* [[spoiler:{{Sadist}}: Teenaged Harrison is implied to be one, when he admits to Audrey that he thinks about hurting people all the time. The same episode ends with him needlessly breaking his opponent’s arm in a wrestling match, when he had already won.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:In order to sell his false narrative to the police, Harrison stabs himself with the same pocket knife he used to attack Ethan so he can claim self-defense.]]

* TroubledButCute: [[spoiler: In New Blood, Harrison admits to Audrey that he has violent thoughts and all of the stem from Dexter abandoning him and then the foster care system just made things worse.]]

* EnfanteTerrible: Dexter worries (needlessly) that he will become this due to witnessing a traumatic event, but he's far too young to be affected. Dexter is merely paranoid.

* TroubledButCute: [[spoiler: Harrison admits to Audrey that he has violent thoughts and all of the stem from Dexter abandoning him and then the foster care system just made things worse.]]