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* SpotOfTea: She tends towards green tea, though.

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* BigBadFriend: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head of Rossum]]

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* BigBadFriend: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head [[spoiler:head of Rossum]]Rossum]].



* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: [[spoiler:He is afraid of imprinting technology bringing about the end of civilization... so he plans on controlling all imprinting technology so that he can control that civilization. Crosses over into StartXToStopX.]]

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* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: [[spoiler:He is afraid of imprinting technology bringing about the end of civilization... so he plans on controlling all imprinting technology so that he can cause that apocalypse himself and control that the remnants of civilization. Crosses over into StartXToStopX.]]



* MrFanservice: This guy finds shirts mostly unnecessary, especially in his own home. And in his own dreams.

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* MrFanservice: This guy finds shirts mostly unnecessary, especially in his own home. And in his own dreams. At one point when Topher is installing Active architecture to restore him from brain death and Victor is in the Attic, [=DeWitt=] suggests that Ballard could replace him.
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* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Done with Enver Gjokaj's non-actor twin, Demir Gjokaj, in "The Attic."
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Becomes much harsher, colder, and pettier after her DespairEventHorizon in season 1, and she was already not the cuddliest person in the House.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her original personality. She really just wanted to stop Rossum, what with the animal testing. Even leaving an injured Bennett was because Caroline thought Bennett would be veiwed merely as a victim and not a traitor if she did.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her original personality. She really just wanted to stop Rossum, what with the even before she knew they were doing worse than animal testing. Even leaving an injured Bennett was because Caroline thought Bennett would be veiwed viewed as merely as a victim and not a traitor if she did.
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* NotSoDifferent: Evidently not above using an imprinted Echo to help him catch the people he never could while with the FBI. Fantasies, indeed.
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* TechBro: The young and casual Topher Brink created most of the technology that fuels Rossum's shadow empire, but he is so immature and amoral that he programmed one of the Actives to regularly scold him so that he doesn't get too arrogant.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: Until TheReveal.
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Adorkable TRS. Also ZCE.


* {{Adorkable}}: So very much. Especially in the presence of Bennett.

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%%* AgentMulder
%%* BadassInANiceSuit

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%%* AgentMulder
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* AgentMulder: In Season One. He is obsessed with finding and exposing the Dollhouse, and his fellow FBI agents, believing the very idea of such a place to be an urban legend, think him a nutjob for it.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Wears one both as an FBI agent and as Echo's handler.



%%* CowboyCop

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%%* CowboyCop* CowboyCop: If the urban legend-y subject of his investigation didn't alienate him from his fellow agents already, his tactics of badgering witnesses and interfering in other investigations to try and find information on the Dollhouse sure did.


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* TheHandler: Becomes Echo's handler in Season Two.


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* ReassignedToAntarctica: It's implied that assignment to the FBI's Dollhouse investigation was intended as either a punishment or a place to stick an incompetent agent where they could do minimal harm.
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->'''Played By''': Fran Kranz

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->'''Played By''': Fran Kranz
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--> Played by: Tahmoh Penikett

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--> Played by: Tahmoh Penikett
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** Computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics are [[TruthInTelevision actual]] sub-fields that pretty much have those as the basic requirements.
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* [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing]] [[DarkSecret Secret]]: [[spoiler:She is in fact the infamous Victor repeat-customer, Ms. Lonelyhearts. When a character discovers it, the reactions range anywhere from contempt, to confusion, to even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarity]] - especially considering that everyone is under the impression that Ms. Lonelyhearts is a creaky old woman in a walker.]] While most of the other characters play this up for laughs, [[{{Tearjerker}} she herself is utterly ashamed and pathetic in the face of it.]]

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* [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing]] [[DarkSecret Secret]]: [[spoiler:She is in fact the infamous Victor repeat-customer, Ms. Lonelyhearts. When a character discovers it, the reactions range anywhere from contempt, to confusion, to even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarity]] - especially considering that everyone is under the impression that Ms. Lonelyhearts is a creaky old woman in a walker.]] While most of the other characters play this up for laughs, [[{{Tearjerker}} she herself is utterly ashamed and pathetic in the face of it.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Lost total control of her drinking during season 2.


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* WouldHitAGirl: Knocks Bennett out when he discovers her duplicity.
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->'''Played By''': Harry Lennix

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->'''Played By''': Harry Lennix
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-->'''Dominic:''' You played a good hand, ma'am.
-->'''Adelle:''' I played a bad hand very well. There is a distinction.

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-->'''Dominic:''' You played a good hand, ma'am.
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ma'am.\\
'''Adelle:'''
I played a bad hand very well. There is a distinction.



%%* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs

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%%* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: [[spoiler:He is afraid of imprinting technology bringing about the end of civilization... so he plans on controlling all imprinting technology so that he can control that civilization. Crosses over into StartXToStopX.]]



%%* TheManBehindTheMan

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%%* TheManBehindTheMan* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He was the head of Rossum the entire time.]]



* TrueCompanions: "You're my family. I love you guys." [[spoiler: Has WAAAAY darker undertones when the team learns what this really means and how batshit insane he is.]]

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* TrueCompanions: "You're my family. I love you guys." [[spoiler: Has WAAAAY ''way'' darker undertones when the team learns what this really means (that he wants to safeguard them, and only them, against [[MindControlDevice remote imprinting technology]]) and how batshit insane he is.]]



%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

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%%* WellIntentionedExtremist* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He believes that the imprinting technology will inevitably bring about the end of civilization, and he is (in his own twisted way) attempting to safeguard the people he cares about through it by using [[TheImmune Echo]]'s [[HumanResources cerebrospinal fluid]] to create a vaccine for them.]]

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%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard

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%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Is turned into a Doll in his last moments, willingly and ignorantly blowing himself up with an innocent smile.]]



* TrueCompanions: "You're my family. I love you guys."

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* TrueCompanions: "You're my family. I love you guys."" [[spoiler: Has WAAAAY darker undertones when the team learns what this really means and how batshit insane he is.]]



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%%* DeadpanSnarker* DeadpanSnarker: Odds are 9 to 1 if there's a dry quip to made in any situation, it'll come from Topher.


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* SanitySlippage: Throughout Season 2, he suffers one trauma after another. [[spoiler:It culminates with Bennett's death and he completely snaps, regressing to a child-like state. Not helped at all with Rossum mentally torturing him by killing people and forcing him to watch every day for ten years.]]

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%%* AffablyEvil

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%%* AffablyEvil* AffablyEvil: He's actually a very fun person to be around. He just happens to be a sociopath with no morals whatsoever.


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** He also becomes livid after Adelle sells his remote-imprint tech to Rossum in exchange for regaining control of her house, knowing full well it could end the world.


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* PetTheDog: Intentionally treats his assistant like shit so she doesn't end up as messed up as he is. This no longer becomes necessary after they learn of Rossum's plans and the LA House goes rogue.

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* [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing]] [[DarkSecret Secret]]: [[spoiler:She is in fact the infamous Victor repeat-customer, Ms. Lonelyhearts. When a character discovers it, the reactions range anywhere from contempt, to confusion, to even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarity]] - especially considering that everyone is under the impression that Ms. Lonelyhearts is a creaky old woman in a walker.]]

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* EatingTheEyecandy: [[spoiler: Has a rather brazen crush on Victor, as the trope below explains. Even after she permanently calls off the Ms. Lonelyhearts engagements, she still ogles Victor at the Dollhouse now and again.]]
* [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing]] [[DarkSecret Secret]]: [[spoiler:She is in fact the infamous Victor repeat-customer, Ms. Lonelyhearts. When a character discovers it, the reactions range anywhere from contempt, to confusion, to even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarity]] - especially considering that everyone is under the impression that Ms. Lonelyhearts is a creaky old woman in a walker.]] While most of the other characters play this up for laughs, [[{{Tearjerker}} she herself is utterly ashamed and pathetic in the face of it.]]


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* LonelyAtTheTop: Due to her job demanding both complete secrecy and utter ruthlessness, she's unimaginably lonely. She tries to have a secret sexual relationship with [[spoiler:Victor as the infamous repeat client Ms. Lonelyhearts]], but it just ends up making her even more depressed and miserable. Not helped at all by the fact that most of the Dollhouse staff makes fun of her for it (without realizing it's her). This is later rectified as she establishes a motherly bond with Topher.
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* HoneyTrap: In Vows, while helping Ballard catch s weapons trafficer.

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* HoneyTrap: In Vows, "Vows", while helping Ballard catch s a weapons trafficer.
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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. Their original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfill their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]

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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. Their original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfill their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A notable aversion. Victor is frequently imprinted with personalities of various foreign nationalities just for the sake of giving Enver Gjokaj the chance to show off how good he is at doing different accents.

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* BigBad: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head of Rossum]]
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* BigBad: BigBadFriend: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head of Rossum]]
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Rossum]]
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* [[spoiler: BigBad]]: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head of Rossum]]

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* [[spoiler: BigBad]]: BigBad: Boyd turns out to be the [[spoiler: head of Rossum]]



* [[spoiler: EvilAllAlong]]: He's been the [[spoiler: head of the Rossum corporation]] all along. Even before the events of the show.

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* [[spoiler: EvilAllAlong]]: EvilAllAlong: He's been the [[spoiler: head of the Rossum corporation]] all along. Even before the events of the show.

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%%* {{Badass}}



* {{Badass}}: The woman takes a bullet right in the gut, and ignores it completely to finish what she was doing before getting treatment.



* MadeOfIron: The woman takes a bullet right in the gut, and ignores it completely to finish what she was doing before getting treatment.



%%* {{Badass}}
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%%* TheChessmaster

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%%* TheChessmaster* TheChessmaster: Easily the biggest one in the show. "I played a bad hand well", indeed.



%%* ManipulativeBitch
%%* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale

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%%* ManipulativeBitch
%%* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
* ManipulativeBitch: She's got everyone under her thumb.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Easily the most dangerous character in the show.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Type C, especially in series one. He's like a big very intelligent kid who does not care about right or wrong who performs [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] for a living. In some ways this makes him seem less threatening than some other type C's.

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* PsychopathicManchild: Type C, especially in series season one. He's like a big very intelligent kid who does not care about right or wrong who performs [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] for a living. In some ways this makes him seem less threatening than some other type C's.



* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He has a phobia for rats.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He has a phobia for of rats.
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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. Their original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfil their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]

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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. Their original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfil fulfill their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]
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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. They're original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfil their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]

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* AntiVillain: She is entirely alright with wiping people's minds and sending ''misbehaving'' Dolls or employees to the infamous attic, she also believes she is helping both the Active (a damaged, depressed, down on their luck, etc. person give up five years for care and wealth in the end. They're Their original personality doesn't even realise any time has passed!) and the client (the often lonely individual gets to fulfil their bizarrest, most secret fantasy). She also truly seems to care for the Actives in her house.]

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