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-->'''Played by''': Creator/RogerDaltrey, Creator/NeilDickson

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-->'''Played by''': Roger Daltrey, Neil Dickson

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-->'''Played by''': Will Sasso, Israel Juarbe

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* AntiHeroSubstitute: More selfish and less scrupulous than Quinn.

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* InconsistentSpelling: "Welles" or "Wells". WordOfGod admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it DependingOnTheWriter.



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Welles" or "Wells". WordOfGod admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it DependingOnTheWriter.

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-->"{{It's all my fault}}. The Professor, this man, Maggie's next victim--all because I lost control of something I didn't know enough about. So, please, go ahead tell me what you were thinking because I think about it every minute of every day."

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-->"{{It's -->"''It's all my fault}}.fault''. The Professor, this man, Maggie's next victim--all because I lost control of something I didn't know enough about. So, please, go ahead tell me what you were thinking because I think about it every minute of every day."
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* BareYourMidriff: In "Slidecage", she wears a midriff-baring top.
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* HollywoodNerd: He's handsome and a genius.



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* DynamicCharacter: Started out as a confrontational and tactless {{Jerkass}}, slowly mellowing out throughout Season 3. Come Season 4, her personality was re-written and expanded to become TheHeart, and, especially in Season 5 with Quinn gone, a TeamMom.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Along with being a professor of cosmology and ontology, he hass working knowledge of sciences outside of his field (as shown as early as in "Fever") and is well-versed in history.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Along with being a professor of cosmology and ontology, he hass has working knowledge of sciences outside of his field (as shown as early as in "Fever") and is well-versed in history.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Her original characterization had her butt heads with the rest of the team, showing her to lack any sort of tact (such as flat-out telling Wade her mourning the Professor made no sense, since they weren't related) . By the time Season 4 comes, she grows out of it.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Her original characterization had her butt heads with the rest of the team, showing her to lack any sort of tact (such as flat-out telling Wade her mourning the Professor made no sense, since they weren't related) . Not to mention the lack of ''any'' visible grief for her husband, who was killed in her introductory episode. By the time Season 4 comes, she grows out of it.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Along with being a professor of cosmology and ontology, he hass working knowledge of sciences outside of his field (as shown as early as in "Fever") and is well-versed in history.



* DynamicCharacter: Started out as a confrontational and tactless {{Jerkass}}, slowly mellowing out throughout Season 3. Come Season 4, her personality was re-written and expanded to become TheHeart, and, especially in Season 5 with Quinn gone, a TeamMom.



%%* {{Jerkass}}: In her first appearance.

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%%* * {{Jerkass}}: In Her original characterization had her first appearance.butt heads with the rest of the team, showing her to lack any sort of tact (such as flat-out telling Wade her mourning the Professor made no sense, since they weren't related) . By the time Season 4 comes, she grows out of it.



* SatelliteLoveInterest: Was dangerously close to being this in late Season 3, when the production team thought of continuing the show with only Quinn and Maggie. Come Season 4, her personality was re-written and expanded to become TheHeart, and in Season 5, with Quinn gone, a TeamMom.

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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Was dangerously close to being this in late Season 3, 3 and beyond, when the production team thought of continuing the show with only Quinn and Maggie. Come Season 4, her personality was re-written and expanded to become TheHeart, and in Season 5, with Quinn gone, a TeamMom.Maggie.



* BreakTheCutie: Back-to-back episodes "Applied Physics" and "Strangers and Comrades".

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* BreakTheCutie: She is admittedly spoiled and comes from a wealthy family. Back-to-back episodes "Applied Physics" Physics", where's she is led to do a horrible thing to the world the Sliders are visiting, and "Strangers and Comrades".Comrades", in which she lands in the middle of a war, both break her optimism.
* DitzyGenius: While she is BookSmart (if her "Dr" title is anything to go by) , her past as a sheltered rich child left her with little in terms of street smarts.



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* SheCleansUpNicely: While the show generally does not emphasize her looks, she stuns Mallory and Rembrandt when she dresses up in "To Catch a Slider".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She takes over the role of the resident science expert from the original Quinn Mallory.
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* TheNthDoctor: Played by Jerry O'Connell for the first four seasons, [[spoiler:then briefly by an unknown actor in the Season 5 premiere before being replaced by O'Connell]].

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* TheNthDoctor: Played by Jerry O'Connell for the first four seasons, [[spoiler:then briefly by an unknown actor in the Season 5 premiere before being replaced by O'Connell]].Robert Floyd]].
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adorkable cleanup, now it's YMMV


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-->'''Played by''': {{Creator/Sabrina Lloyd}}

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-->'''Played by''': {{Creator/Cleavant Derricks}}

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-->'''Played by''': Charlie O'Connell

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-->'''Played by''': Charlie O'Connell
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-->'''Played by''': Robert Floyd

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-->'''Played by''': Tembi Locke

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* YourCheatingHeart: In the Season 3 finale "This Slide of Paradise", Rickman reveals he and Maggie were once lovers.
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* BlackBestFriend: To Quinn and later Wade and Maggie.
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* {{Adorkable}}: The first two seasons especially.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: During Season 3 before he was recast in Season 4, he was replaced by Elston Diggs, a waiter at the Royal Chancellor Hotel.
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* SpotTheImposter: In "Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the Sliders find themselves faced with two Arturoes each claiming to be theirs. The Sliders themselves have trouble figuring out who is who [[spoiler:and WordOfGod ultimately confirmed what fans long suspected: The wrong one slids with them]].

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* SpotTheImposter: In "Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the Sliders find themselves faced with two Arturoes each claiming to be theirs. The Sliders themselves have trouble figuring out who is who [[spoiler:and WordOfGod ultimately confirmed what fans long suspected: The wrong one slids slides with them]].

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* BadassGrandpa: On occasion, he gets to throw his weight around. He even once punched out a Kromagg!



* SpotTheImposter: In "Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the Sliders find themselves faced with two Arturoes each claiming to be theirs. The Sliders themselves have trouble figuring out who is who [[spoiler:and WordOfGod ultimately confirmed what fans long suspected: The wrong one slid with them]].

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* SpotTheImposter: In "Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the Sliders find themselves faced with two Arturoes each claiming to be theirs. The Sliders themselves have trouble figuring out who is who [[spoiler:and WordOfGod ultimately confirmed what fans long suspected: The wrong one slid slids with them]].
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-->'''Played by''': Sabrina Lloyd

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-->'''Played by''': Sabrina Lloyd
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-->'''Played by''': Cleavant Derricks

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-->'''Played by''': Cleavant Derricks
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