History Characters / FringeASide

* TheAtoner: For his more inhuman experiments back in Harvard and [[spoiler: taking a version of his son from [[AlternateUniverse a parallel universe, breaking the fabric of reality in the process]].]]

* CoolOldGuy: Walter's humor, scientific genius, and recreational drug use, combined with his love of food and popular music, can put him into this category, especially in the lighter episodes. BewareTheSillyOnes, though.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a goofball but make no mistake, this man can unravel the fabric of reality and laugh about it.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's more than a little nutso, but a brilliant scientist nonetheless.

** In one episode, Walter's thought process is shown to be so baffling that it causes a mind reader to pass out. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:much of Walter's crazy was caused by William Bell '''excising giant chunks of his brain''' to keep Walter from ever knowing certain things.]]

* GeniusCripple: Drug addict, clinically insane, [[spoiler: parts of his brain were surgically removed.]] In episode ''[[Characters/FringeBrownBetty Brown Betty]]'', he tells a fairy tale to a child and Walter's counterpart in the story has a heart condition and moves in wheelchair.

** He's starting to feel that he and Walternate are more similar than he originally thought, as he's beginning to understand why Walternate's done some of the things he's done.

* PreInsanityReveal: Dr Walter Bishop gets a few flashback episodes showing him to have been a much calmer and much darker character before the personal tragedy that laid the way for the series. It turns out [[spoiler:he deliberately had part of his brain removed because he didn't like what he was becoming.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His shady actions were all in the name of science.

* TheChick: The meek to Olivia's ActionGirl.

* TheAtoner: For his more inhuman experiments back in Harvard and [[spoiler: taking a version of his son from [[AlternateUniverse a parallel universe, breaking the fabric of reality in the process]].

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's bald. He's black. He's a leader.

* AntiHero: Walter is a well-intentioned man, but he has done (and is ready to do) some very shady stuff in the name of science.
* TheAtoner: For his more inhuman experiments back in Harvard.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Every episode, particularly early on, seems to involve a perfected version of some evil device he tried to develop in the past.

* PapaWolf: He is very protective of Peter but "Subject 13" [[spoiler: shows us that he was protective of young Olivia as well. When little Olivia tells him that her abusive stepfather is hitting her, Walter makes it clear that if he does it again he'll ''seriously'' regret it.]] The bastard looked terrified. It was awesome.

[[caption-width-right:195:''"[[EverythingsBetterWithCows Moo]]."'']]

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Walter certainly thinks so.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Joshua Jackson

* NotSoDifferent: With Walter. He also has the Bishop family proclivity for mad science and [[spoiler:chooses to look for a missing Etta rather than help Fringe Division save the world.]]

* NotSoDifferent: He's starting to feel that he and Walternate are more similar than he originally thought, as he's beginning to understand why Walternate's done some of the things he's done.

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[ActionGirl You so much as twitch, and you won't have a head left to refreeze.]]"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/AnnaTorv''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[DeadpanSnarker I am the guy to break the law for you.]]"]]

''Portrayed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Jackson Joshua Jackson]]''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[MadScientist Excellent! Let's make some LSD]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/JohnNoble''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[DeathGlare Someone out there's experimenting, only using the whole world as their lab]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/LanceReddick''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[TheIgor I speak five languages, but I don't speak Walter]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/JasikaNicole''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[OnlySaneMan Suffice it to say, that sometimes the problem with being in law-enforcement is that you got to obey the law yourself]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/KirkAcevedo''

[[caption-width-right:195:"[[EverythingsBetterWithCows Moo]]."]]

''Portrayed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow Cow]]''

* HeartbrokenBadass: [[TrueArtIsAngsty For most of season 1, the last episodes of season 2, a large chunk in the middle of season 3, to varying degrees in season 4 and what looks like all of season 5.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Quite frequently.

** He was stoned out to Pluto during "Brown Betty." Only because [[DrowningMySorrows regular old alcohol]] [[TearJerker wouldn't do the trick]].

''Portrayed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasika_Nicole Jasika Nicole]]''

** In a more enforced way, after [[spoiler: Etta dies and implants the observer tech in his brain, he becomes completely emotionless and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].

** [[spoiler: Not too fond of Observers either. Then again, they killed his daughter, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge so...]]]]

** [[spoiler:Not too fond of Observers either.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After Etta's death, when he implants Observer tech into his brain.]]
* HeroicBSOD: When [[spoiler:Walter shoots Olivia]] in the Season 4 finale he needs a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap to pull himself together.]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: A RunningGag for all five seasons. Walter has called her Astral, Astro, Asterisk, Australia, Asteroid, Astringent, Aspirin, Esther, Ostrich, Afro, Alex, Athos, Agnes and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Claire.]]

** [[ArbitraryScepticism This is a man]] from another timeline AND another universe who has also traveled back in time, investigated the things like were-hedgehogs killing plane passengers, once used the amount of adrenalin in a woman's brain to calculated where she died and has girlfriend who can kill you with her brain.

* EideticMemory: Though generally a fairly realistic depiction. She only remembers stuff from cases she's worked or that has some importance to her. She also talks about compulsively counting cards as a child, so to an extent this seems to be a learned skill.

* PhotographicMemory: Has an eidetic memory for numbers, which has proven highly useful in several Fringe Division cases.

* TranquilFury: In a season two episode, we have a [[ThoseWackyNazis creepy Nazi]] who's genetically tailoring a design toxin that will cause fatal asphyxiation to anyone who isn't blond and blue-eyed. In a [[CrowningMomentofAwesome crowning moment of badassery]], Walter displays his hatred of Nazis by [[TranquilFury coldly re-designing the same toxic gas to only kill the creepy Nazi guy]]. At a ''crowded peace summit'' no less. Walter does not like [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]].

* CombatStilettos: Averted, hard. Agent Dunham wears professionally fashionable jackets and button shirts, jumps off buildings, sprints after suspects, and hikes through the woods, all wearing grannie shoes or boots. The only time she wears heels is in dress-up situations.

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