History Characters / BabylonBerlin

* RebelliousSpirit: [[spoiler:Becomes one in Seasons 3 and 4, having developed an anti-system establishment sentiment [[ItsPersonal personally]] due to her police detective sister [[BrokenPedestal whom she once admires, but now hates]].]]

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Charlotte, for both being dedicated and noble detectives, but with troubled backgrounds, strained family lives, [[spoiler:getting disowned by their own families]] and finally the fact that they both are {{Loser Protagonist}}s, {{Failure Hero}}es and HeroesWithBadPublicity.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Gereon, for both being dedicated and noble detectives, but with troubled backgrounds, strained family lives, [[spoiler:getting disowned by their own families]] and finally the fact that they both are {{Loser Protagonist}}s, {{Failure Hero}}es and HeroesWithBadPublicity.

* HeroineWithBadPublicity: In the police department for her gender and amongst her family out of SlutShaming for her part-time prostitution job [[spoiler:and later for crippling her own sister Ilse with her efforts to be responsible for the family]].

* EveryOneCallsHimBarkeep: Is only referred to by his "professional" moniker "Heiliger Josef" (Saint Josef). [[spoiler: After he's found dead in season 2, it's revealed that his real name was Josef Wildschek.]]

* EveryOneCallsHimBarkeep: Is only referred to by his "professional" moniker "Heiliger Josef" (Saint Josef). [[spoiler: In season 2 after his death, it's mentioned that his real name was Josef Wildschek.

[[folder:Saint Josef]]

* CreepyMonotone: Demonstrated when he visits König in his prison cell to "pray" with him (read: threatening him to keep his mouth shut). Goes into FauxAffablyEvil territory.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While it's ambigious how much he actually cares about his patients, given that his "treatment" seems to include manipulating them into working for organized crime once they're "rehabilitated", he seems genuinely pissed off and hurt during his university lecture when most of the audience angrily walk out after he proposes treating veterans suffering from PTSD with compassion instead of stigmatizing them as "traitors". However, given that part of the outrage was caused by him advocating for admittedly rather dubious treatment methods such as hypnosis or the rorschach test, it's also possible that his ego was bruised.[[spoiler: Also, it probably didn't help that he's a WWI veteran himself who went through some of the worst of it.]]

* CreepyMonotone: Demonstrated when he visits König in his prison cell, to "pray" with him (read: threatening him to keep his mouth shut). Goes into FauxAffablyEvil territory.

* TheDreaded: Feared throughout the Berlin Underworld and apparently among the cops as well, [[spoiler: enough so that instead of feeling relief when hearing about his corpse being found, many of the detectives present are even more unnerved than usual, reasoning that if Saint Josef was already that terrifying, just how much more bad has to be his murderer then?]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: His accidental murder at Gereon's hands and subsequent cover-up becomes an important plot point in season 2.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While it's ambigious how much he actually cares about his patients, given that his "treatment" seems to include manipulating them into working for organized crime once they're "rehabilitated", [[spoiler: and later using them as human test subjects for a PsychoSerum]], he seems genuinely pissed off and hurt during his university lecture when most of the audience angrily walk out after he proposes treating veterans suffering from PTSD with compassion instead of stigmatizing them as "traitors". However, given that part of the outrage was caused by him advocating for admittedly rather dubious treatment methods such as hypnosis or the rorschach test, it's also possible that his ego was bruised.[[spoiler: Also, it probably didn't help that he's a WWI veteran himself who went through some of the worst of it.]]

* DrJerk: She's a welfare doctor and can be extreme when it comes to her communist cause. Though given how she's stacked against a world filled with reactionary and sexist men that smugly dismiss her valid outrage about two innocent women being shot to death by the police as "extremism", or given how the authorities are in general incredibly biased and regularly cracking down brutally against left-wing politics, her bitterness and anger is pretty understandable for the most part.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: His impulsive slaying at Gereon's hands and subsequent coverup becomes an important plot point in season 2.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While it's ambigious how much he actually cares about his patients, given that his "treatment" seems to include manipulating them into working for organized crime once they're "rehabilitated", [[spoiler: and later using them as human test subjects for a PsychoSerum]], he seems genuinely pissed off and hurt during his university lecture when most of the audience angrily walk out after he proposes treating veterans suffering from PTSD with compassion instead of stigmatizing them as "traitors". However, given that part of the outrage was caused by him advocating for admittedly rather dubious treatment methods such as hypnosis or the rorschach test, it's also possible that his ego was bruised.[[spoiler: Also, being a WWI veteran himself who went through some of the worst of it.]]

* PlayingBothSides: While his exact motives often seem unclear and confusing, one certain thing is that he has his own agenda and working with several opposing sides is out of convenience or just a result of circumstance, due to only seeking to satisfy his scientific curiosity and his own twisted sense of justice and altruism, with the only person he genuinely seems to care about being [[spoiler: his brother Gereon]]

* TheDreaded: Feared throughout the Berlin Underworld and apparently among the cops as well, [[spoiler: enough so that instead of feeling relief when hearing about his corpse being found, many of the detectives present are even more unnerved than usual, reasoning that if Saint Josef was already that terrifying, then just how much more bad has to be his murderer?]]

* TheDreaded: Feared throughout the Berlin Underworld and apparently among the cops as well, [[spoiler: enough so that instead of feeling relief when hearing about his corpse being found, many of the detectives present are even more unnerved than usual, reasoning that if Saint Josef was already that terrifying, just how much more bad has to be his murderer?]]

* DoesntLikeGuns: Apparently eschews guns in favor of utilizing his imposing size for physical violence or simply cowing people into submission, though it's unclear if this is a general rule of his, given that he didn't have much screen time. [[spoiler: Either way, it costs him dearly when he confronts an armed and scared out of his mind Gereon without any weapon.]]

* DoesntLikeGuns: Apparently eschews guns in favor of using his imposing physical presence to either just using his fists to "deal" with the opposition or simply cowing them into submission, though it's unclear if this is a general rule of his, given that he didn't have much screen time. [[spoiler: Either way, it costs him dearly when he confronts an armed and scared out of his mind Gereon without any weapon.]]

* TheDreaded: Feared throughout the Berlin Underworld and apparently among the cops as well, [[spoiler: enough so that instead of feeling relief when hearing about his corpse being found, many of the officers are even more unnerved than usual, reasoning that if Saint Josef was already that terrifying, just how much more bad has to be his murderer?]]

* TheStoic: Never raises his voice (or makes any sudden moves in general), conducting himself with a Michael-Myers like eerily calm demeanor at all times [[spoiler: even when "chasing" down a panicked and drugged police detective with a gun]] which only makes him even more intimidating.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Apparently eschews guns in favor of using his imposing physical presence to either just using his fists to "deal" with the opposition or simply cowing them into submission, though it's unclear if this is a general rule, given that he didn't have much screen time. [[spoiler: Either way, it costs him dearly when he confronts an armed and scared out of his mind Gereon without any weapon]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: His impulsive slaying at Gereon's hands and subsequent coverup becomes an important plot point in season 2]]

* TheStoic: Never raises his voice (or makes any sudden moves in general), conducting himself with a Michael-Myers like eerily calm demeanor at all times [[spoiler: even when "chasing" down a panicked and drugged out police detective with a gun]] which only makes him even more intimidating.