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* MrFanservice: Mike is a fit cop who is a ladies' man. Best example of fan service is during the famous chase to rescue Julie, where Mike is sprinting with an unbuttoned shirt.


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* BigBrotherInstinct: He and Mike embark on an off-duty mission to rescue his younger sister Syd from Johnny Tapia in Cuba.


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* PapaWolf: The idea of his daughter going out on a date causes him (along with Uncle Mike) to [[TwerpSweating threaten her date Reggie]] to make sure he has her back on time.


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* VomitingCop: Despite being a hardened cop, corpses that are deemed disgusting will either make him feel nauseous or just straight throw the fuck up. Need an example, watch the morgue scene.
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* HenpeckedHusband: While he is HappilyMarried to Theresa, he is afraid of getting on her bad side. Best exemplified in the first film when the latter finds out he lied to her and arrives at Mike's apartment and when he has Mike go inside the spa to drop Lil' Marcus off to avoid her wrath in the third film.
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* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Despite his death in ''For Life'', he leaves a serious impact on the events of ''Ride or Die'', as it reveals that prior to his assassination, [[VideoWills he left a video for Mike and Marcus]] revealing that he had been framed for making dealings with a drug cartel, and must now be proven innocent.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: She's arguably the reason behind the DarkerAndEdgier tone of ''Bad Boys For Life'', because [[spoiler:she was the ex-girlfriend of Mike and wants him dead for abandoning her, and she's also responsible for [[HeroKiller killing Captain Howard]].]]
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* GloriousMotherRussia: Dedicates his mid-movie rampage to himself, Josef and Mother Russia.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Attempts this to avenge his business partner Josef after Tapia has him cut into pieces.
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* TheAce: He's the most skilled cop on the force, and a master of many skills that makes it possible to survive the insane gun fights he and Marcus get into.
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* BlindWithoutEm: In ''For Life"", he develops near-sightedness and has to wear glasses to regain his accuracy.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: There are signs that Mike might be a high-functioning psychopath–he's charismatic, a skilled manipulator, [[LackOfEmpathy very callous towards other people's feelings]], only in the police business for the thrills, and is extremely cavalier about killing people.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: There are signs that Mike might be a high-functioning psychopath–he's charismatic, a skilled manipulator, [[LackOfEmpathy very callous towards other people's feelings]], only in the police business for the thrills, and is extremely cavalier about killing people.



* TheCasanova: He's a ladies man, and and ''banged his therapist'' in II.

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* TheCasanova: He's a ladies man, and and he ''banged his therapist'' in II.

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* CowboyCop: His preferred method of handling criminals. This gets him in trouble several times, and ''For Life'' deconstructs his tendency to act first before asking, which gets several key criminals that could give them leads he needs alive end up dead.
* TheCasanova: He's a ladies man, and and ''banged his therapist'' in II.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his crass and promiscuous personality, he still cares about people, especially his friends. ''For Life'' starts the process to lose the "jerk" part and connect with [[spoiler:his son Armando]].



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: She reels back in horror after accidentally shooting Armando when she was going for Mike - her hesitation leaves her open long enough to get shot.]]

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She reels back in horror after accidentally shooting Armando when she was going for Mike - her hesitation leaves her open long enough to get shot.]]shot]].
* PsychoExGirlfriend: [[spoiler:When Mike was undercover, he used to date her behind her husband's back. With her husband dead and having to raise Armando on her own with the real father not in the picture, she decides to have her son kill his real father]].
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He used to be a bouncer, until he intervened to stop a man harassing a woman, and killed the man with a single punch. Ever since then he's avoided confrontation of any kind and goes out of his way to be polite and deferential to everyone.

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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He used to be a bouncer, until [[spoiler:until he intervened to stop a man harassing a woman, and killed the man with a single punch. punch.]] Ever since then he's avoided confrontation of any kind and goes out of his way to be polite and deferential to everyone.
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He used to be a bouncer, until he intervened to stop a man harassing a woman, and killed the man with a single punch. Ever since then he's avoided confrontation of any kind and goes out of his way to be polite and deferential to everyone.


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* ItGetsEasier: Averted.
-->'''Mike''': Big Man, I'm gonna need you to hurt some people! I'll pay for the therapy!\\
'''Dorn''': I'm gonna need it!
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* EveryoneHasStandards: While he often has little patience for Mike and Marcus's antics, he's genuinely concerned when he learns Marcus accidentally ingested ecstasy and calls Poison Control in the second film.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Marcus. They won't stop being vitriolic to each other, but they care for each other as well.


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* FamilyMan: To contrast TheCasanova Mike.


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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Mike. They won't stop vitriolic to each other, but they care for each other as well.
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A wealthy ladies' man and a Miami PD detective.


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A hard-headed Miami PD detective and family man.
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!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/ThierryDesroses (European French, first film)

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!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/ThierryDesroses (European French, first film)
1995), Lucien Jean-Baptiste (European French, 2003, 2020)
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* FormerlyFit: Visibly gained weight in-between films (like the actor).
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Character page for the ''Bad Boys'' film series, including ''Film/{{Bad Boys|1995}}'', ''Film/BadBoysII'' and ''Film/BadBoysForLife''

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Character page for the ''Bad Boys'' film series, including ''Film/{{Bad Boys|1995}}'', ''Film/BadBoysII'' and ''Film/BadBoysForLife''''Film/BadBoysForLife''.

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[[folder:Johnny Tapia]]
!!Hector Juan Carlos "Johnny" Tapia
!!!'''Played By:''' Jordi Mollá

* AxCrazy: His idea of conducting a business deal is to have one member of the negotiating party chopped up in his mother's kitchen and the pieces stuffed into a tortilla bin. It's his idea of "leverage". If that does not work, he'll gun for their families.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the film.
* BoomHeadshot: How Tapia is ultimately taken out, courtesy of Marcus.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Immediately after being killed via BoomHeadshot from Marcus, Tapia's limp body falls onto several landmines, causing them to explode and turn his upper body into LudicrousGibs.
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[[folder:Syd Burnett]]
!!DEA Special Agent Sydney "Syd" Burnett
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GabrielleUnion

* BigDamnKiss: She and Mike share one in the middle of a minefield at the end of the movie, much to Marcus' annoyance.
-->'''Marcus''': "Come on! Y'all gotta do that around the landmines?!"
* GuileHero: While she and Marcus are being held at gunpoint by one of Tapia's lieutenant in the middle of a minefield, Syd pretends to surrender, and then tosses her empty gun at a live mine to take out the gunman.
* OffscreenBreakup: In ''Film/BadBoysForLife'', it is briefly mentioned that she and Mike had broken up between the second and third films, much to Marcus' annoyance.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Syd is introduced in ''Film/BadBoysII'' as Marcus' little sister and Mike's LoveInterest, even though she is never seen or mentioned in the first film.
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[[folder: Alexei]]
!!Alexei
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterStormare

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[[folder: Blondie Dread]]
!!Blondie Dread
!!!'''Played By:''' Kiko Ellsworth
A Haitian Zoepounder gang leader.

* StarterVillain: He is the initial antagonist of the film.
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!First appeared in ''Film/BadBoysForLife''


!!Advanced Miami Metro Operations (AMMO)

[[folder:In General]]
* BadassAdorable: As a whole, they are ''very'' good-looking and are police officers, so it's a given.
** Kelly is able to go bullet-for-bullet with Mike and takes down her fair share of mooks, and even [[spoiler:when shot in the leg she keeps firing back.]] She's also played by Creator/VanessaHudgens, who brings her usual adorable charm.
** Dorn is an interesting case, since he's built like a linebacker and doesn't look like what you'd call adorable, but his sheer friendliness and reluctance to use violence makes him come off as quite cute. He's also ''still'' built like a line-backer and proves to be a [[spoiler: OneManArmy when he actually engages.]]
* FairCop: The team are ludicrously attractive cops, lampshaded by Marcus and Mike who describe them as a "High School Musical" boyband.
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[[folder:Officer Rita Secada]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Paola Nunes

* MsFanservice: She's a ''very'' attractive cop played by Paola Nunez and her sexy yellow dress in the nightclub was pure MaleGaze for Mike.
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[[folder:Kelly]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/VanessaHudgens
* MsFanservice: She wears a revealing undercover outfit in Zway-Lo's birthday party.
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[[folder:Dorn]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AlexanderLudwig

* GeniusBruiser: He's basically a nerd built like a linebacker...[[spoiler: because he used to be a bouncer that quit after he killed a guy harassing a woman.]]
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: Once he regains the willingness to kill, he ''easily'' stomps through several Cartel gunmen in the Hildago Palace.]]
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[[folder:Rafe]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Charles Melton

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!!The Aretas

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* BigBad: Isabel Aretas, [[spoiler: the other ex-girlfriend of Mike,]] with [[VillainousMotherSonDuo her son]] and [[spoiler: Mike's biological son]] Armando serving as TheDragon.

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[[folder:Isabel]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Kate del Castillo

* AxCrazy: If you thought [[Film/BadBoys1995 Fouchet]] and [[Film/BadBoysII Johnny Tapia]] were ax-crazy, Isabel wields an ax in each hand as well as holding one in her teeth. She may very well be the ''most'' psychotic of the [[BigBad villains]] Mike and Marcus have faced.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Isabel dies this way after being shot several times by Rita, save that we clearly see her hit the burning helicopter after her fall.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: She wants revenge on everyone who killed her husband and jailed her, but especially on Mike for betraying and abandoning her.]]
* MamaBear: Inverted. She does not appear to care what happens to Armando at all, berating him for disobeying her orders. We only find out she truly loves him when we see her face as [[spoiler: Armando takes a bullet she meant for Mike.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: She reels back in horror after accidentally shooting Armando when she was going for Mike - her hesitation leaves her open long enough to get shot.]]
* PsychoKnifeNut: Her trademark way of maiming or murdering is to use whatever sharp object is in her vicinity and stab and slice whoever is in her way.
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[[folder:Armando]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jacob Scipio

* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler: At first. Mike finding out he is his son when he says "Hasta el Fuego" clues him in. It's no longer the case when Armando finds out Mike is his father that spurns his HeelFaceTurn]].
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:Mike intends to have him work for him as a way for the latter to be TheAtoner for his crimes against his father]].
* BreakingOutTheBoss: The plot of the movie kicks off with him breaking Isabel out of prison.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He doesn't kill innocent people during his hits.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He immediately turns on his mother after learning Mike is his father, going as far as to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet for him]] and help save Marcus.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler: After he successfully kills Captain Howard, he outright refuses to take a kill-shot on an innocent woman. It makes it clear that he's very trigger-happy, but it's only because he truly believes the people he's killing deserve it.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler:Mike points out that he's reckless and HotBlooded like he is]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He is horrified that he was [[spoiler: manipulated by Isabel’s lies and almost killed Mike, his blood father. Even after he’s sent to prison, he continues to show genuine remorse for his misdeeds.]]
* OneManArmy: He goes through targets and other opposition like they're not even there.
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler: He takes a bullet for Mike, and then helps to save his partner, Marcus, after finding out that Mike is his father.]]
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[[folder:Lorenzo "Zway-Lo" Rodriguez]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Nick Rivera Caminero a.k.a. "Nicky Jam"

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[[folder:Manny the Butcher]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Music/DJKhaled

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!First appeared in ''Film/{{Bad Boys|1995}}''

!! Miami P.D.

[[folder: Mike Lowrey]]
!!Detective Sergeant Michael Eugene "Mike" Lowrey
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WillSmith
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/GregGermain (European French)

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[[folder: Marcus Burnett]]
!!Detective Sergeant Marcus Miles Burnett
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MartinLawrence
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/ThierryDesroses (European French, first film)

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[[folder: Captain Conrad Howard]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JoePantoliano


* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: In "For Life", Captain Howard gets shot in the neck by Armando and bleeds out onto the street. The next scene features his funeral.]]
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[[folder: Detectives Ruiz and Sanchez]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Nestor Serrano and Julio Oscar Menchosa

Two Hispanic detectives who assist Mike and Marcus during the final shootout.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: They are always seen together, often exchanging barbs with Mike and Marcus.

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[[folder: Captain Alison Sinclair]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MargHelgenberger

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!! Villains

[[folder: Fouchet]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TchekyKaryo

A merciless French drug lord, he masterminds the heist of $100 million worth of heroin from the Miami PD Headquarters. When Julie Mott witnesses a murder he commits, he begins trying to kill her as well.
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* AxCrazy: He's a foul-tempered sociopath who kills people for spurious reasons. At one point, he murders the staff of his heroin lab just for ''holding up his timetable''.
* BigBad: Fouchet is the major force opposing Mike and Marcus throughout the film. He steals the heroin that they confiscated, and repeatedly tries to kill them when they try to protect Julie from him.
* DarkIsEvil: Wears a black suit at all times.
* FrenchJerk: He's very French, and very evil.
* HairTriggerTemper: Spends the entire movie in a barely concealed rage and will kill anyone at the slightest provocation.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Crooked cop Eddie Dominguez betrays him and makes off with some of the stolen heroin, so Fouchet kills him. The prostitute Maxine becomes a potential witness to this, so Fouchet kills her. Fouchet's chemistry team cause delays to his schedule, so he massacres them all. Julie Mott witnesses Maxine's murder, so Fouchet spends the entire movie trying to kill her and anyone who protects her. Noticing a pattern yet?
* TheSociopath: A ruthless killer with no empathy for anyone.
* TriggerHappy: Fouchet seems to have only two settings: angry, and murderously angry. And when he's on the latter, he just has to shoot someone, no matter how disproportionate it is. The crime that puts the protagonists on the path to find him is murdering Eddie and the prostitute he was with, for one brick of heroin, then he kills his chemists because they "fucked with his timetable", even if cutting heroine is an incredibly (explosively) delicate business and it's obvious they were rushing things as much as they could, then he shoots the buyer on the spot the moment he sees the cops. He even pulls a gun on Marcus after the man talks his partner down from killing him. This bites him in the ass when Mike notices the glint of his pistol on Marcus' temple which leads to Mike shooting him, wasting his LastSecondChance.
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[[folder: Casper]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/FrankJohnHughes

Fouchet's right-hand man.
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* TheDragon: Fouchet's second-in-command.
* JerkAss: Makes misogynistic remarks about Max, and mocks Ferguson about his weight. Even upon Fouchet kidnapping Julie, Casper openly admits that he wants to lick her ears for fun, much to her disgust.
* PornStache: To make it clear he's a sleazebag.
* ShootTheFuelTank: How Marcus kills him.

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[[folder: Ferguson]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/VicManni

Fouchet's main enforcer.
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* FatBastard: He's overweight and a murderous drug dealer.
* HighVoltageDeath: Mike shoots him in the chest, sending him staggering him backwards into a fusebox, which fatally electrocutes him.
* RasputinianDeath: He gets shot in the chest by Lowrey with a shotgun, falls backwards into a high voltage transformer which electrocutes him, and the resulting sparks ignite the jet fuel at his feet, setting him on fire.

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!! Other Characters

[[folder: Theresa Burnett]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TheresaRandle

Detective Marcus Burnett's wife and mother of his two children.

* HappilyMarried: Seemingly for her and her husband despite the light bickering they engage in during one of her scenes.
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[[folder: Maxine "Max" Logan]]

A prostitute and friend of Mike Lowery and Julie Mott, she is hired by Eddie Dominguez to entertain him after the heist. When Fouchet comes to kill Eddie, he also murders Max, considering her a potential witness. When Julie Mott witnesses Max's murder, Fouchet begins trying to kill her as well.
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* SheKnowsTooMuch: Fouchet kills her to eliminate a potential witness to Eddie's murder.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She is in one or two scenes before Fouchet murders her. Julie's witnessing the murder is what drives the plot of the film.

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[[folder:Julie Mott]]
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TeaLeoni

A friend of Max and the only witness to her murder. When she becomes the killer's next target, Julie goes to the police, asking for Mike Lowery's protection.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Makes several sarcastic jibes at Mike and Marcus' expense.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Much like Max before her, Fouchet wants her dead because she witnessed a murder he committed.
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!First appeared in ''Film/BadBoysII''

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