Rookie Mistake - Television Tropes & Idioms

Black

Dirty Communists: In the past.

Agent Black

Asphalt

Attention Whore: Likes all attention. Especially negative.
Bad Liar: He'll make up awful lies in his efforts to take blame for things.
Freudian Excuse
The Masochism Tango: All his exes were people who yelled at or hit him.
Mayfly December Romance: Currently dating Harry, who has cancer.
May-December Romance: Asphalt is younger then all of Harry's children.
Taking the Heat: Will do this VERY gladly and without being asked.

Bigger Is Better in Bed: Apparently believes this.
Hacker Cave: Works in one.
Playful Hacker

Bird

Berserk Button: Don't touch her head.
Cute and Psycho: Became this when her original love interest turned out gay.
Knife Nut: Brings her blades with her everywhere. Even karaoke night with her friends.
Older than They Look: Recently turned 18, but due to height and slight frame, she gets mistaken for younger.
Wacky Marriage Proposal: Accepted the accidental proposal of someone she'd met a week prior.
Yandere: Bird was built on this concept.

Brandy

Scary Black Man

Capone

Cipher

Back from the Dead: Crazy logic was involved.
Funetik Aksent: Though not all the time, with large words, Cipher has to pause and slowly sound them out.

Delshad

Faust

Frosty

But Not Too Black
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Is so androgynous many people can't tell which he is.
May-December Romance
Took a Level in Badass
Trademark Favorite Food: Muffins.
Woobie

Glyph

Henry

Darkskinned Blonde: Yes, it's natural. No, we don't know why.
Likes Older Women

Jackdaw

Jerry

Stalking Is Love: He got over it.

Magpie

Murphy

Natasha

Action Girl: Comes with being a spy, though we don't see it often.
Sensual Slavs

Nero

Oak

Sonar

Switch

Thesaurus

Vodka

Zee

27 & 72

White

Agent White

Angel

Hello Nurse

Ant

Audubon

Dragon Rider: Would rather like to be one.
Punny Name: Nickname, anyway. There are a number of spies named after birds, and Audu is a "birdwatcher."

Azrael

Benny

Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Granted most of his declarations of this are in the club chat.
Sunglasses at Night: Originally there was no real reason for this until later his character was given photophobia.

Blanche

Big Breasts, Big Deal

Blank

Calling the Old Man Out
Cute Bruiser
Blue Eyes
Hair of Gold
Lovable Sex Maniac: In his college days.
Trademark Favorite Food: Pie.

Cloudy

Coolant

Cupcake

Latin Lover

Flora

Harrison Graham

Ascended Extra
Closet Key: Never really thought about it until Asphalt came along.
May-December Romance
You See, I'm Dying

Gary

Model

He's Got Legs
The Unfavorite: A big part of his issues.

Narcissus

Tall, Dark and Handsome: His foremost characteristic.
Good Bad Girl: While this is listed as "distaff only," his attitudes towards sex are much closer to this than the Chivalrous Pervert. Gender roles. Who needs 'em.
Technicolor Eyes: Silver.

Orin

Owl

Informed Judaism: He doesn't practice.

Pavlov

Princess

Sara

Scamp

Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour

Seamus

Eyepatch of Power

Squint

Mad Scientist

Teddy

Big Beautiful Man: Though he gets teased for it, Teddy is perfectly healthy and his husband likes him just how he is.
Non-Action Guy: Desk agent and happy to stay that way.
Through His Stomach: Forced to become an excellent cook, due to his own digestive issues.

Ten

Straight Gay

Thirteen

Adorkable: Arguably.
Biggus Dickus

Tom

Properly Paranoid: Well, mostly.

Watson

Grey

The Lady in Grey

Canon Sue: The Lady always wins. Always.
Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Not the Lady herself, but all of her children have hippie names. The youngest is Tomorrow Cleopatra.

Anne

Arthur

Badger

Ambiguously Brown: Even he doesn't know what his ethnicity is.
The Stoic

Bladwen

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dresses like a vampire, works as a doctor for spies.

Boddy

Embarrassing First Name: Francis.

Brindle

Bruce

Gentle Giant: Unless you deserve it.
Scary Black Man: Not really, but he pretends.

Cobolt/Hal

Ridiculously Human Robots

Dove

Earl

Flood

Fredo

Dumb Is Good

Inch

Ridiculously Human Robots

Kiwi

Abusive Parents
Happily Married
Ironic Nickname: Sort of. "Kiwi" is common slang for New Zealanders, but Kiwi himself is allergic to the fruit.
Missing Mom: Died when he was ten.
Parental Incest
Scars Are Forever: Justified, as Kiwi never received medical treatment for the burn injuries he got from his father.
Self-Made Orphan: His dad had it coming.

Mac

Metal and Gear

Not Blood Siblings: Metal found Gear in the park when she was five and took him home to be her brother. No one noticed.

Olsen

Author Appeal: ...His creator REALLY likes geeks.
Cosplay: Half his closet is costumes. The other half is geeky.
Geeky Turn-On: Has a crush on a robot the size of an action figure.
Facial Markings: Has a green tattoo around his left eye.
Hates Being Touched: Will run out into a busy street to avoid it, or start crying.
Nerds Are Sexy
Single-Target Sexuality: Likes the 'son' of his boss. Has no other sexual preferences. At all. Ever.
Theme Twin Naming: His mother could never tell twins apart, so when she had twins of her own, she named them both Robert so she'd never say the wrong name.
Twin Switch. Did this a lot in high school with his brother.

Roman

Scissors

Mega Nekko

Sheila

Smith and Wesson

Jail Bait Wait: Smith and Reule probably did not do this.
Sibling Team
Theme Twin Naming: Both their nicknames and their real names.
Twin Switch

Spike

Taz

Terrance

Wolf

Anything That Moves
Dead Little Sister: His older brother and father.
Funny Foreigner: His act.
Hidden Depths: Who knew!
Ladykiller In Love
Poirot Speak
Scars Are Forever: He may have left the one Gary gave him untreated on purpose, as a reminder.

Blue

Berry

Ceil

Properly Paranoid: Had his desk made bulletproof so he could work under it in safety and is constantly looking for things to defend himself against.

Cyan

The Shrink

Doc

Doktor

Herr Doktor
Truly Single Parent: He made the clones; even if it was for his wife.

Franz

Gumshoe

Hammerhead

Hard Head

Indigo

Technicolor Eyes: Silver.

Ink

Convenient Coma
Identity Amnesia: Was a Black agent, went into a coma, woke up and now thinks he's always been in Blue. Of course, no one has tried to set him straight

Jinx

The Jinx: Named for this trope.

Jonny

Otaku

Lapis Lazuli

Law of Inverse Fertility: So many kids... with so many women. Though technically Raph is a clone.
Papa Wolf
Truly Single Parent: "Donor" for Raph.
Team Dad

Leigh

Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Murder, arson, love of big guns and things that go boom.

Lester

Lucy

Blind Musician: Has been this.
Blind Seer: And this.
Handicapped Badass: Arguably.
Happily Married
Sex Is Evil
Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny
Single-Target Sexuality
True Love is Exceptional: Maroon is everything Lucy didn't want in a partner.
You Are Worth Hell

Noodle

Norry

Cloning Blues: Clone of Agent Blue made by the Doktor, raised as his son.

Rock

Raph

Cloning Blues: Clone of Lapis made by the Doktor, raised as his son.

Scarecrow

292

Red

Brick

The Stoic

Carmine

Spicy Latina

Cerise

Blind Without 'Em
Headphones Equal Isolation: Subverted, as Cerise wears headphones to actually hear at a normal level due to hypersensitive hearing.
Opaque Lenses: Although his eyes are visible in profile, his glasses are opaque and hide his eyes in all other views.

Ethan

For Science!: There's really no logic behind his Mix-and-Match Critters.
Mix-and-Match Critters: He makes them.

Florid Cerise Baroque, aka Caesar

Straight Gay
Everything Sounds Sexier in French
Gratuitous French
Everyone Looks Sexier If French
Must Have Nicotine
Stoic Woobie: A woobie in his own right (like most RM characters) but he definitely ain't gonna ask for anything special.
Author Appeal: The author loves French accents.
Sword Fight
True Neutral: Type II
Properly Paranoid
Jade-Colored Glasses
Meaningful Name: First and last names are from a period of French art. Middle name is French for cherry.
Drink Order: Wine, usually quite expensive. Very touchy about it, too.
Poirot Speak
Workaholic
Career Killers
Consummate Professional
Gentlemananda Scholar
Sharp Dressed Man: He only wears suits, in agency colors, of course.
Cult: Was in a highly secretive cult at one point - currently on the run

Greg

Harold

Herring

Ridiculously Human Robots: He is one.
Depending on the Artist: Subverted- His appearance really does change.

Lipstick

Dude Looks Like a Lady
Wholesome Crossdresser: Kind of? Not really?

Lydia

Miri

Rolo

Sangria

Strawberry

Anything That Moves

Vermilion

Green

Barium

Badass Labcoat: He is almost always in a labcoat.

Snake

Meaningful Name: His given name, Hebe, is a bowdlerization of the word for snake.
The Stoic

Yellow

Canary

Chess

Chiffon

Huang He

Icterine

Labrador

Meringue

Moron

Friendly Enemy: Moron would rather everyone just get along.
Parental Incest
Speech Impediment: He has a very bad lisp.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Moron has a phobia of the dark, which was gained in relation to above-mentioned incest.

Sulfur

Whey

Purple

Badass Crew

Amethyst

Cute Bruiser
Errol Flynn: Amy's idol.
Gender Blender Name: Even his boyfriend calls him Amy.
Ill Girl: Six years of chemotherapy does HELL on your health.
Momma's Boy: Big time
Older than They Look: Cancer stunted his growth.
Sword Fight
Well Done Son Guy: Could never please the man he thought was his father. His biological father turned out to like him better.

Fuchsia

Cute Mute: By choice.
Older than They Look: Some kind of medical condition stunted his growth.
Stuff Blowing Up: Causes this. With gusto.

Puce

Dude Looks Like a Lady: To the point where the gangs in his neighborhood refuse to believe he's male, even after a few of them have seen him naked. But don't tell him that.
Femme Fatalons
Badass Longhair

Purple

Eyepatch of Power: Usually covers it with his hair, though.
May-December Romance: Quite happy with Frosty.
Papa Wolf
Silver Fox

Brown

Amontillado

Bambi

Gold Digger: His mom.
Sick Episode: How he becomes closer to Thumper.
Wholesome Crossdresser

Buster

Buxom Is Better: lost her boyfriend to new-found bustyness.
Big Breasts, Big Deal
Convenient Miscarriage: Though it did bring her boobs with it.

Lag

Thumper

Dojikko
Magic Feather: This comes in the form of the horseshoe pendant he wears .

Sepia

Casual Kink: Despite the fact he's mostly attracted to men, this only shows up with women.

Xenops

Yaffingale

Zenaida

Orange

Shere Khan

Thrush

Iron Woobie
No Social Skills: Due to his horrible past.
Younger than They Look: A mild example. Probably sixteen, can pass for 21.

Pinky

Those Two Guys

Brain

Those Two Guys

[[folder: Civilians ]]

Buck

Bud

Cedric

Unlucky Childhood Friend

Dennis

Hazmat

Hazmat Suit: He is named for it.
Workaholic

Jared

Katy

Kevin

Lee

Lenassi

Mallory

Patrick

River

Sam Hopkins

Seth

Sir

Taras

Mercenaries

Schwarzwald

Calandra

Daniels

Hirose

Ikaika

Kim

Maddox

Mary and Sue

Twincest

Reznik

Ts'ai

Yang

Freelancers

Bill

Julie

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