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* TooDumbToLive: During a heated battle in the Unification War, he sits down alone in an unsecured room, removes his helmet and his rifle, and starts chowing down on a can of beans. Predictably, an Alliance soldier gets the drop on him - only Zoe covering him from in hiding saved him from dying right then and there. In the present time, his poor decisions and general lack of planning indicate that he never grew out of this.

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* CrusadingWidow: Her husband was killed during the buyout dispute and she’s determined to get back at the Alliance any way she can.



* VengefulWidow: Her husband was killed during the buyout dispute and she’s determined to get back at the Alliance any way she can.
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* VengefulWidow: Her husband was killed during the buyout dispute and she’s determined to get back at the alliance any way she can.

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* VengefulWidow: Her husband was killed during the buyout dispute and she’s determined to get back at the alliance Alliance any way she can.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/EddieAdams

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* OldFriend: To the entire Serenity crew, but mostly Mal and Zoe.

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* OldFriend: To the entire Serenity ''Serenity'' crew, but mostly Mal and Zoe.



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* BadassBeard: He used to have one, but Saffron didn't like it, so it ended up becoming one of her victims.
-->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''

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* BadassBeard: He used to have one, but Saffron didn't like it, so it ended up becoming one of her victims.
-->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''


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* ImportantHaircut: He used to have a beard, but Saffron didn't like it, so it ended up becoming one of her victims.
-->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''
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* VengefulWidow: Her husband was killed during the buyout dispute and she’s determined to get back at the alliance any way she can.

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* DesignatedMonkey: He never really meant for anyone to get hurt and he probably wouldn't have [[spoiler:freaked out and pulled a gun on everyone]] if the crew [[LockedOutOfTheLoop had simply told him]] [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee that they weren't really going to sell him out]]

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* DesignatedMonkey: He never really meant for anyone to get hurt and he probably wouldn't have [[spoiler:freaked out and pulled a gun on everyone]] if the crew [[LockedOutOfTheLoop had simply told him]] [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee that they weren't really going to sell him out]] out]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:He didn't seem to consider that Womack wouldn't take kindly being double-crossed...or how he was going to get his ''original'' organs back even if he did successfully get his new buyer's money since Womack would presumably still be in possession of them.]]


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* MissingStepsPlan: Alright, Tracy, so your plan was to [[spoiler:take the new offer for three times what Womack was paying for the organs inside you so you could help your family.]] Even if it had gone through smoothly, how exactly were you going to collect [[spoiler:when Womack or who's associated with him presumably still has your ''original'' organs in hand?]]
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->'''Played By:''' Eddie Adams

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->'''Played By:''' Jonathan M. Woodward

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Malcolm Reynolds' mother

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Malcolm Reynolds' Reynolds's mother
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->'''Played By:''' Franc Ross

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->'''Played By:''' Franc Ross
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[[folder:Maude Reynolds]]

!!Maude "Ma" Reynolds

Malcolm Reynolds' mother
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* AbusiveParents: She genuinely loves and cares about Mal, but her harsh discipline causes him to resent her somewhat.
* CallingOutForNotCalling: She doesn't do it herself, but Mal does it to himself. He promises to call her "at least twice a year."
* NeverMessWithGranny: She was a tough frontier rancher, soldier, and outlaw. She lost her husband when Mal was still a baby but kept their ranch going, resisted when the Alliance tried to displace them, and joined the Browncoats.
* TheRemnant: When Mal is captured by the Unificators, she joins up with other former Browncoats rallying to rescue him.
* ShipperOnDeck: She likes Zoe, who's closer to her in personality, and is a bit disappointed that her son is smitten with Inara.
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-->''" You know, it's funny. We went to the war never looking to come back. But it's the real world I couldn't survive."''

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-->''" You -->''"You know, it's funny. We went to the war never looking to come back. But it's the real world I couldn't survive."''
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* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Bendis is riddled with Alliance bullets while standing next to Mal.]]



* CharacterDeath: Tracey is found as a corpse delivered to Mal and Zoe. [[spoiler:He's actually just drugged, much as River was. He's dead for good later that same episode, though.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Even Zoe thinks so.
-->'''Zoe:''' Sweetie, if [Mal] had a tussle with that sasquatch, we'd be in the dirt right about now, scoopin' up the Captain's teeth.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He spins a sob story about falling in with a bad crowd, but Mal deduces that he was doing plenty of killing by himself. He likely betrayed Womack, not the other way around. He also takes Kaylee hostage to aid his escape and save his own hide.]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He spins a sob story about falling in with a bad crowd, but Mal deduces that he was doing plenty of killing by himself. He likely betrayed Womack, not the other way around. He also takes Kaylee hostage to aid his escape and save his own hide.]]


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* DesignatedMonkey: He never really meant for anyone to get hurt and he probably wouldn't have [[spoiler:freaked out and pulled a gun on everyone]] if the crew [[LockedOutOfTheLoop had simply told him]] [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee that they weren't really going to sell him out]]


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* PluckyComicRelief: Was this to his regiment during the war. Mal even recounts a story of how Tracey shaved off a belligerent Colonel's mustache while he was sleeping & glued it to his own face.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When you can't run anymore,you crawl, and when you can't do that, well-- Yeah,you know the rest."'']]
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-->''" You know, it's funny. We went to the war never looking to come back. But it's the real world I couldn't survive."''



* DeathEqualsRedemption: Realizing that he really ''is'' mortally wounded this time, he humbly asks for his prior 'last request' to be carried out for real.

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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Realizing [[spoiler:Realizing that he really ''is'' mortally wounded this time, he humbly asks for his prior 'last request' to be carried out for real.]]


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* ReturningWarVet: Tracey was unable to get his life working after the war; he fell into crime very quickly and became tormented by a lack of purpose.
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-->'''Tracy:''' Do you think I'm stupid?

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-->'''Tracy:''' -->'''Tracey:''' Do you think I'm stupid?



--->'''Tracy:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid. Never could get my life workin' right after the war.

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--->'''Tracy:''' --->'''Tracey:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid. Never could get my life workin' right after the war.
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--->'''Tracy:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid.

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--->'''Tracy:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid. Never could get my life workin' right after the war.
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-->'''Tracy:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid.

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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
-->'''Tracy:''' Do you think I'm stupid?
-->'''Mal:''' In every way possible.
** Later, [[spoiler:as he's bleeding out,]] he concedes that Mal was right.
-->'''Tracy:''' You weren't far off about me bein' stupid.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: [[spoiler:As soon as he sees Kaylee, his heart-rate goes up and he's completely distracted.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Tracey fakes his own death to escape from his partners-in-crime, mailing his 'body' to Mal and Zoe.]]

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* PosthumousCharacter: Appears only in a flashback.



A long-time colleague of Mal Reynolds who also fought on the side of the Independents in the Unification War. An extremely large (Zoe refers to him as a "sasquatch") and mostly genial man, he is known among his friends for wearing a thick beard and mustache.

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A long-time colleague of Mal Reynolds who also fought on the side of the Independents in the Unification War. An extremely large large, hairy (Zoe refers to him as a "sasquatch") and mostly genial man, he is known among his friends for wearing a thick beard and mustache.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: He seems to have fallen into smuggling just as Mal did, and probably for much the same reason.



* RememberTheNewGuy: Kaylee and Jayne (at least) have met him before the series started.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He spins a sob story about falling in with a bad crowd, but Mal deducts that he was doing plenty of killing by himself. He likely betrayed Womack, not the other way around. He also takes Kaylee hostage to aid his escape and save his own hide.]]
* CharacterDeath: Tracey is found as a corpse delivered to Mal and Zoe. [[spoiler:He's faking it. He's dead for good later that same episode, though.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He spins a sob story about falling in with a bad crowd, but Mal deducts deduces that he was doing plenty of killing by himself. He likely betrayed Womack, not the other way around. He also takes Kaylee hostage to aid his escape and save his own hide.]]
* CharacterDeath: Tracey is found as a corpse delivered to Mal and Zoe. [[spoiler:He's faking it.actually just drugged, much as River was. He's dead for good later that same episode, though.]]
%%* DeathEqualsRedemption* DeathEqualsRedemption: Realizing that he really ''is'' mortally wounded this time, he humbly asks for his prior 'last request' to be carried out for real.
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* OldFriend: To Mal and Zoe. Appropriately enough, the episode he appears in is titled 'War Buddies'.

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--->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''

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--->'''Monty:''' -->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''

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** BadassBeard: He used to have one, but Saffron didn't like it, so it ended up becoming one of her victims.

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** -->'''Zoe:''' Sweetie, if [Mal] had a tussle with that sasquatch, we'd be in the dirt right about now, scoopin' up the Captain's teeth.
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%%* FullFrontalAssault* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:After waking up early from his comatose state, he attacks while fully naked.]]



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* OldFriend: To Mal and Zoe.

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* HumanMail: Tracey ships his corpse to Mal and Zoe so they can see to it he's buried on his home planet. [[spoiler:Except he's not actually dead.]]
* OldFriend: To Mal and Zoe. Appropriately enough, the episode he appears in is titled 'War Buddies'.
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!The Independents (Browncoats)

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!!Bendis
->'''Played By:''' Eddie Adams

A fellow Browncoat who fought in the war with Malcolm Reynolds and Zoë Alleyne Washburne in the Battle of Serenity Valley.
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* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Bendis is riddled with Alliance bullets while standing next to Mal.]]
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!!Monty
->'''Played By:''' Franc Ross

A long-time colleague of Mal Reynolds who also fought on the side of the Independents in the Unification War. An extremely large (Zoe refers to him as a "sasquatch") and mostly genial man, he is known among his friends for wearing a thick beard and mustache.
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* {{Badass}}: Even Zoe thinks so.
** BadassBeard: He used to have one, but Saffron didn't like it, so it ended up becoming one of her victims.
--->'''Monty:''' I shaved my beard for you, ''devil woman!''
* CasualDangerDialogue: After Saffron and Mal pull their guns on each other.
-->'''Monty:''' So...you guys have met?
* FireForgedFriends: With Mal. They're old war buddies.
* GentleGiant: He's a big guy, but greets Mal with a massive hug.
* OldFriend: To the entire Serenity crew, but mostly Mal and Zoe.
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!!Tracey Smith
->'''Played By:''' Jonathan M Woodward

A war buddy of Malcolm Reynolds and Zoe Alleyne from the war against the Alliance. Mal helped get Tracey through the war, but after the war Tracey became something of a drifter, eventually falling in with organ smugglers.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He spins a sob story about falling in with a bad crowd, but Mal deducts that he was doing plenty of killing by himself. He likely betrayed Womack, not the other way around. He also takes Kaylee hostage to aid his escape and save his own hide.]]
* CharacterDeath: Tracey is found as a corpse delivered to Mal and Zoe. [[spoiler:He's faking it. He's dead for good later that same episode, though.]]
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* OldFriend: To Mal and Zoe.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's dead by the time he appears during the main events of the series. [[spoiler:Averted, he was faking.]]
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