History Characters / Bones

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When he realises Booth is worried that he's the same as Broadsky sweets comforts him by telling him that it takes real strength of character to move on from his past as a sniper.

* CanadaEh: He's a very stereotypical Canadian.

* WouldHurtAChild: As part of a SadisticChoice, he forces Hodgins and Angela to choose between saving Hodgins' fortune as the sole heir to the Cantilever Group and stopping a hijacked predator drone from bombing a girl's school in Afghanistan. [[spoiler: They end up choosing the latter]] and it was an easier choice than one might think, given how Hodgins feels about being SecretlyWealthy.

[[folder: Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan]]

* CatchPhrase:

* DidYouThinkICantFeel: During the investigation of a girl who’s deaf and mute who killed someone, Arastoo noted she was showing her emotions more than usual; she angrily points out her policy of remaining emotionally detached is so they can focus solely on the evidence. It does not mean that she doesn’t feel for all the victims and wishes she could express her emotions the way other people do.

* FriendToAllChildren: Even though she stated that she would never have children, [[spoiler: until she later gave birth to her and Booth's daughter, Christine and their son Hank]], Brennan has shown a surprising amount of tenderness towards them, especially ones that are abused. She even came up with a way to entertain babies: "Dancing phalanges!"
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Brennan rarely loses her temper, but she does it every time an animal is hurt or killed out of sheer cruelty. Happens both with [[spoiler: an attack dog that was used to kill someone]] and with [[spoiler: a Siberian Tiger shot to cover evidence]]. Also, occasionally, with pigs.

* MamaBear: Starts even before she has kids. In season 3’s ''The Baby in the Bough'' she is furious at the killer of her foster charge Andy's mother for causing a car crash with the baby inside. Later, she will go after anyone who hurts her own kids.

* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents disappeared in 1991 when she was 15. [[spoiler: Her parents were reformed criminals who went on the run in 1978, then again in 1991 when someone from their past found them. In the latter incident, they had to abandon Brennan and her brother Russ. They would later reunite with their father, though their mother died in 1993.]]

[[folder: Agent Seeley Booth]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidBoreanaz
-->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/PatrickBorg (European French)

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: It didn't work at first. [[spoiler: [[RelationshipUpgrade Then it did.]]]]

* DoNotCallMePaul: Doesn’t like when Cam calls him Seeley in retaliation for calling her Camille.

* TheGamblingAddict: He was addicted to gambling in his backstory, which apparently got him in trouble. He was in recovery at the beginning of the series. [[spoiler: In the last quarter of Season 10 he goes to a poker game undercover as part of a case (which everyone told him was a bad idea) and naturally he relapses. His old bookie refuses to place bets for him so he chooses a more violent one that could threaten his family so Bones makes him move out of the house while he sobers up again.]]

** It can safely be assumed that this now extends to [[spoiler: Booth and Bones' daughter Christine and their son Hank]].

* PoliceBrutality: Occasionally, especially when the suspect threatens Bones. In ''The Blood on the Stones'', featuring the hunt for a cop killer also stands out, when he refuses one suspect's demands for a lawyer, and refuses medical treatment for another whose foot had been shoot off by the victim shortly before the episode, exerting pressure on her wound. [[spoiler: The fact that neither is guilty of the murder makes this especially egregious]].

* RecoveredAddict: A recovered gambling addict. [[spoiler: He relapses in Season 10. But he gets better.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He has a problem with clowns and it's played over the seasons. After he [[spoiler: had his brain surgery, he forgot that he's supposed to be scared of clowns. To the point Brennan reminded him about it.]]

[[folder: Dr. Jack Hodgins]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/TJThyne

* ConspiracyTheorist: He refers to any of the associated paranoia as simply having all the facts. It gets dialed down considerably after [[spoiler: Zack is exposed as an accomplice of the Gormogon, whose pathology was partially based on theories about secret societies]], though it begins to re-emerge in season 7.

* MissingMom: Hodgins's parents are long dead, and he only mentions his mother once, remarking in "The Heiress in the Hill" that his [[spoiler: long-lost older brother Jeffrey has [[FamilyEyeResemblance their mother's eyes.]]]]

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[spoiler: When he's given the choice between saving his fortune or saving a school for girls from getting bombed by a drone, he chooses the latter.]]

[[folder: Angela Montenegro]]
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-->Played by: Creator/MichaelaConlin

* AsianAndNerdy: Angela is half-Chinese and works as a forensic artist. She proudly and intentionally makes it clear she’s not as nerdy as the others.

* CommitmentIssues: At first, due to her "living in the moment" attitude to life. Sweets tells her flat out that it’s why her relationships fail.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Her name is actually Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates [[Music/ZZTop Gibbons]]. It’s no wonder she changed it.

* TheHeart: Often serves as a counterpoint to the team's rational and scientific assessment of a case or victim. Makes sense as she's the only one without any scientific training. Hodgins even calls her this in ''The Man in the Cell'', which comes back to bite them when [[spoiler: Howard Epps sends her a human heart.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Caroline calls her out for being angry at Cam for playing by the rules when Pelant tries to frame Brennan for Ethan's murder. She points out that by doing that, [[spoiler: Cam was the only one whose actions didn't play on Pelant's plans and became the biggest threat to him, who was trying to get all of Brennan's friends off the case]].

[[folder: Dr. Camille Saroyan]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/TamaraTaylor

* BigGood: The closest thing the show have of one: She is the one who makes the laboratory run efficiently, which is lampshaded by Hodgins, and guaranteeing that everything is done in such a way that things can still work on court, such as [[spoiler: letting Wendell go when he started using medicinal marijuana]], though they find a way to bring him back and [[spoiler: working outside of Pelant's plans by playing by the rules]], which is lampshaded by Caroline.

-->'''Cam''': What I'd really like to do here is a meeting of the minds, but, if you insist on an organizational pyramid, I'll be at the top.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Doesn’t like when Booth calls her Camille. She retaliated by calling him Seeley, knowing it annoys him.

* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: Fires Wendell when she finds out that he's using medical marijuana to treat his cancer because the Jeffersonian is a federal institution and its use is illegal; this is especially egregious when you consider the previous antics of the others including Angela being held in contempt of court for being uncooperative during Max's murder trial, Hodgins stealing evidence from the Gravedigger case which resulted in a judge ordering the whole team to stay away from the case, and then the team (including Cam) blatantly ignoring the judge's orders.]]
** She did it not because it is something she opposes personally, but rather it may compromise any proof found by Wendell in court,[[spoiler: as the defense could easily challenge the validity of evidence analysed by a person known to use a mind-altering drug on regular basis]].

[[folder: Dr. Daniel Goodman]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JonathanAdams

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After being a main character for the 1st season, Dr. Goodman disappears from the show and makes no future appearances without no reason given with the only mention of him being that he’s on sabbatical, while Camille Saroyan replaces Goodman as the team’s boss.

* LongBusTrip: His [[PutOnABus sabbatical]] has lasted ''how'' many years now? [[spoiler: ''11 years'', as of the finale.]]

[[folder: Dr. Zack Addy]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/EricMillegan

* FaceHeelTurn: Whether or not it qualifies as a full turn is debatable, as Zack never becomes evil. [[spoiler: He was merely manipulated by a serial killer.]]
** Much later on, [[spoiler: in season 11, the team was tracking a serial killer who would murder people, taxidermy them, and turn the victim into puppets that he would live with for six months before discarding them and moving on. The team then discovers that the killer has a hatred against them, their families, and anyone ever connected to the team, as well as a psychotic obsession with Dr. Brennan. By the time the team puts together a profile of the killer and realizes that it's very likely Zack, he's already kidnapped Brennan.]]
** Actually [[spoiler: He wanted Brennan to help him prove he wasn't the killer by injecting him with truth serum but she refused. After much detective work (and two red herrings) it's determined that Zack's doctor at the asylum was the killer and he was on the verge of killing Zack when Zack turned the tables -- but couldn't even kill in self-defense, proving to Booth and Brennan he's really innocent.]]

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Was posing as a neurosurgeon to give Hodgins hope he could walk again, essentially hoping the PlaceboEffect would cure him. When confronted by Hodgins he admitted the therapy had only a 1% chance of success and he feared all he was doing was putting his friend through unnecessary pain (after accepting his condition Hodgins' pain disappears).]]

* PutOnABus: After TheReveal that [[spoiler: he was Gormogon's apprentice]], Zack had to go to a sanitarium for rehabilitation.

* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler: Averted; was framed by the Puppeteer.]]
* ScarsAreForever: Thanks to the explosion that [[spoiler: led to him being outed as Gormogon's apprentice]], he has permanently scarred/disabled hands and took to wearing gloves to cover them up after he was [[spoiler:placed in the institution. Also his forehead scar when he self harmed after the death of Sweets.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Averted as of season 12 episode 1]]

[[folder: Vincent Nigel-Murray]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RyanCartwright

* TheAtoner: As a recovering alcoholic, he has to make amends to the people close to him for all the ways he's wronged them. [[spoiler: After his death, the team realizes that if the minor things he feels so guilty for were the worst things he had done, then he was quite a decent guy]].

* CanNotTellALie: In ''The Babe In The Bar'', when he, Sweets, Cam and Brennan lie about knowing that [[spoiler: Angela's pregnant]], he starts whimpering, covers his face and says "Please, I beg of you, don't look at me directly. Just say what you came to say."

--> '''Vincent:''' All fact are useful. It's just the context that shifts.

* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler: Hodgins and Angela's baby, born the episode after Vincent's death was given the second middle name of "Vincent."]]

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: The creators came right out and said they "killed him for heartbreak."]]

[[folder: Daisy Wick]]
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/CarlaGallo

* OfficialCouple: With Sweets. At least [[spoiler: until his untimely death in Season 10]].

[[folder: Dr. Clark Edison]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/EugeneByrd

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelGrantTerry

[[folder: Dr. Arastoo Viziri]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/PejVehdat

* NiceGuy: He made Angela a mix tape to cheer her up after her breakup with Roxie back when he barely even knew Angela. Heck, [[spoiler: he waited for Cam to agree to marry him and even decided to adopt since Cam's not certain she wants to get pregnant (for her part Cam knows how much he wants kids and that he'll be a great dad)]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After dealing with ignorant probes from the Jeffersonian team about his religion, and a misunderstanding from Cam about something he said, Arastoo finally (deservedly) tears into fellow intern Finn Abernathy [[spoiler: while they are investigating the death of a 9/11 victim when Finn asks him if he'd be able to investigate this case due to his religion]].

* {{Tsundere}}: Type B; usually sweet and calm, but quick to anger, as seen in both several scenes where his religion is brought up,the episode in which he introduces [[spoiler:Cam]] to his parents, and when a nosy camera crew filming a documentary won’t leave Cam’s personal life alone.

[[folder: Dr. Colin Fisher]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoelDavidMoore

[[folder: Dr. Douglas Filmore]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ScottLowell

[[folder: Finn Abernathy]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/LukeKleintank

--> '''Finn:''' Oh, I gotta say ma'am, this is the ''best'' damn job ever!

[[folder: Jessica Warren]]
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-->Played by: Creator/LauraSpencer

[[folder: Dr. Oliver Wells]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrianKlugman

* LoveToHate: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[DefiedTrope defied]] InUniverse. Daisy complains to Hodgins that she hates Wells after he was especially rude to her, and Hodgins replies, "We all hate him, but eventually you reach the point where you start to enjoy hating him." Daisy then responds that she hasn't gotten to that point yet.

[[folder: Dr. Rodolfo Fuentes]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/IgnacioSerricchio

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnFrancisDaley

* DeadpanSnarker

-->'''Flynn:''' I don't think you're being completely honest with me.\\

-->'''Sweets:''' ''[to Caroline]'' Have you noticed that dead bodies always save Booth from confronting his demons?

* TookALevelInBadass: One of the few times he steps out of the office with Booth [[spoiler: results in him [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting killed off]]]] but not without wounding his attacker in turn.

-->Played by: Creator/StephenFry

[[folder: Caroline Julian]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/PatriciaBelcher

* {{Catchphrase}}: Cherie. Eventually, she starts shortening it to "cher".

** She's actually the one who gets Booth and Brennan to kiss for the first time, due to her "puckish" side and a strategically-placed sprig of mistletoe. [[spoiler: But episode 100 reveals that was actually the second time.]]
** In season 11, she can see there’s something going on between Aubrey and Jessica. She makes Aubrey do a background check on Jessica for no other reason than to put them together for a while.

[[folder: James Aubrey]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I helped bring down my own father, Mr. Dunlop, so bringing you down would be a piece of cake. And as my friends here can attest, I love cake."]]
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnBoyd

'''Booth''': Now remember, Bones said the victim was in a fight before he died, so keep an eye out for any injuries on this guy.\\

'''Aubrey''': Hey, Booth, I think I might have found some.\\
'''Booth''': You think so?

* ParentalAbandonment: His father left when he was young. [[spoiler: We find out in the Season 10 finale that his dad was a con man whom Aubrey personally helped bring down]].
* TakingTheBullet: The bomb shrapnel in this case, jumping on Hodgins and nearly dying in “The Doom In The Boom”.

-->'''Played by:''' John M. Jackson

A [=FBI=] Deputy Director who is Booth's friend and boss in season 1.

--> '''Played by:''' Diedrich Bader

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: In one episode, when he learns that the team is being held prisoner, Andrew personally leads a [=SWAT=] team to rescue them. By the time he arrives, though, the situation is resolved.

--> '''Played by:''' Creator/SaraRue

[[folder: Max Keenan]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RyanONeal

* PapaWolf: Has been known to go to considerable lengths to protect his children, including committing murder; Sweets noted that he had a moral code that allowed him to justify any action, up to and including murder, if it was done to protect his loved ones. [[spoiler: His last act of this was killing two assassins who were after his grandkids, ''after'' having a pacemaker installed.]]
** FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler: Said pacemaker had a GPS that allowed the killers to track him to an FBI safe house.]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: His last words were recounting a dream he had of a pleasant family road trip with Brennan]].

-->'''Played by:''' Nichole Hiltz

[[folder: Angela's Dad]]

-->'''Played by:''' [[Music/ZZTop Billy Gibbons]]

* GiverOfLameNames: Angela goes by Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro, but her given name is Pookie Noodlin, which he picked. When she's pregnant, her father tries to convince Hodgins to name the child Staccato Mamba, which he defends as being gender-neutral. [[spoiler: Staccato does wind up as the kid's middle name, but it's Michael Staccato Vincent, and after the episode where he's born, he's consistently referred to as "Michael Vincent."]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: If she even has a motive, this would be it. [[spoiler: She murdered a RAPE VICTIM, instead of turning her father (the rapist) into the police, because she was angry that he had paid attention to the girl, but not her and believed he would pay more attention to her now that she killed his victim. When he simply paid off the police to cover it up, she continued killing people in an attempt to make his pay attention to her, only to met with the same results.]] [[spoiler: When her older, play-boy brother truly fell in love and wanted to marry a seventeen-year-old who was sailing around the world, she killed her for taking her brother away. Years later, she kills her own brother because his girlfriend's case was reopened and she was mad that he wouldn't just forget her.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She started killing during high school, and went on to murder various victims for 18 years, never being caught.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: The man she framed for her first murder comes back to kill her in the same way she killed her first victim.]]

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: By the time they caught her, she was the victim of the week.]]
* {{Yandere}}: After her father [[spoiler: raped a classmate of hers, she killed her, believing she was stealing her father's love. She murdered her older brother's girlfriend two years later when he intended to propose to the girl, therefore leaving her and their family. She claimed her brother as her last victim as he had become obsessed with his dead girlfriend again after her case was reopened.]]

[[folder:The Puppeteer [[spoiler: aka: Mihir Roshan]]]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RaviKapoor

A mysterious, unidentified serial killer. They get their name from the fact that they turn their victims into puppets that they dress up and play with before discarding them six months after the murder. They appear to have a strong hatred of the Jeffersonian team and anyone connected to them, including their families, and have been shown to have an obsession with Brennan as well as a connection to former team member [[spoiler: Zack Addy.]]

[[folder: The Son of Radik [[spoiler: aka: Mark Kovac]]]]

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/GerardoCelasco

* KickTheSonOfABitch: His specialty. He targets those who he thinks deserve it. No one shed a tear when he killed [[spoiler: The Gravedigger]].

* WalkingSpoiler

* DeadpanSnarker

* SassyBlackWoman

* TeamMom: Usually gives at least one member of the team a good talking to in each of her appearances. Bonus points for being the apparently oldest recurring cast member.

* CardboardPrison: Formerly had a tracking device intended to keep him under house arrest. It proved utterly useless.

* CrazyPrepared: Managed to spend a good two seasons pulling backup plans and escape routes out of his ass.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He thinks of everything in purely selfish terms - the concept of people acting against their best interest never occurs to him. [[spoiler: This ultimately gets him killed - he takes Brennan hostage and threatens to kill her if Booth doesn't drop his weapon. When Brennan tells Booth to take the shot, even though it could mean her death, Pelant is dumbfounded, leaving him open.]]
** Also defines his warped 'love' for [[spoiler:Brennan, as he's utterly incapable of comprehending why she fell in love with Booth and thinks he can 'change' himself to win her over]].

* WouldHurtAChild: As part of a SadisticChoice, forces Hodgins and Angela to choose between saving Hodgins' fortune as the sole heir to the Cantilever Group and stopping a hijacked predator drone from bombing a girl's school in Afghanistan. [[spoiler: They end up choosing the latter]] and it was an easier choice than one might think, given how Hodgins feels about being SecretlyWealthy.

* BaitAndSwitch: In the Season 8 finale, everything in the case points to Booth being his next target, but as Angela finds out later, Sweets is the one that's actually in Pelant's crosshairs.

A mysterious serial killer with no particular MO, that only Pelant knows about, and uses that knowledge to try to convince Brennan to work with him.

* MamaBear: Starts even before she has kids. In season 3’s ''The Baby in the Bough'' she is furious at the killer of her foster charge Andy for causing a car crash with the baby inside. Later, she will go after anyone who hurts her own kids.

* DitzyGenius: So intelligent at solving crimes and yet so clumsy with social stuff... Because her understanding of human behavior is more intellectual than intuitive, she forms conclusions that make perfect sense in theory, but are flawed in practice because humans themselves are flawed. It was heartbreaking when she told Booth she was going to adopt a dog that had been trained as a killer, only for Booth to tell her that the dog had been put down, because her protestations that the dog shouldn't have been blamed were ''right.''

* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars
* TheProfiler: Serves this role to the team on several occasions, ranging from working out who might have committed this type of murder to working out who their victim might have been by analysing the life of the victim's long-lost twin brother.

** Clowns. Even on ice cream trucks. He shot the clown music box and got sent to a psychiatrist for it

* InformedAttribute: We are repeatedly told he is Catholic. But we never see him do anything Catholic, or being deterred by Catholic moral teaching.

[[folder:Assistant Director Andrew Hacker]]
--> '''Played by:''' Diedrich Bader
One of Booth's superiors, who is attracted to Bones.

* NiceGuy: He's very good-natured and reasonable, is a considerate boyfriend to Brennan, and asks Booth if he and Brennan are dating before getting seriously involved with her.