History Characters / HawaiiFive0

* EvenEvilHasStandards: His standards: Using hitmen to kill people? Yes. Killing people himself? Yes. Pulling the YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness card on people working for kim? Yes. But... kidnapping Lou Grover's daughter for a $100 million ransom and [[ILied planning to]] [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo kill her anyway]] even when he ''does'' get it? No. Ian Wright did the latter, and [[EvilerThanThou Wo Fat promptly shoots him dead the moment he sees him]] [[PetTheDog and rescues Grover's daughter in the process]].

* BerserkButton: Do not hurt, threaten, or breathe wrong near [=McGarrett=]'s family and friends. Children who lose a parent also seem to be a trigger for him ("He Kane Hewa' Ole").

->"I’ll go find out if the daughter saw anything. I mean, I’m the woman, so you’d probably ask me to do it, anyways."

* FairCop: Played by Grace Park helps.

* MadeOfIron: Somewhat justified due to his background as a Navy SEAL, who are infamous for taking an insane amount of damage and just walking away from it. Steve takes ''a lot'' of physical and mental abuse, being tortured on numerous occasions, witnessing the murder of several friends and family members, and taking hits for his teammates whenever possible. This is also a guy that took a boulder to the face while climbing, broke his arm and managed to bounce back in short order even if in a cast for the rest of the episode, and in another episode shrugged off the bends from a 150-meter ascent underwater to the surface, whereas the episode's perp landed themselves in an ICU from the same feat.

* MadeOfIron: Somewhat justified due to his background as a Navy SEAL, who are infamous for taking an insane amount of damage and just walking away from it. Steve takes ''a lot'' of physical and mental abuse, being tortured on numerous occasions, witnessing the murder of several friends and family members, and taking hits for his teammates whenever possible. This is also a guy that shrugged off the bends from a 150-meter ascent underwater to the surface, whereas the episode's perp landed themselves in an ICU from the same feat.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Introduced by the governor with the line "They say he's a savant" and had to fire his piano tuner because he liked to chat and Max found it "emotionally draining". In his off time he investigates cold cases and makes pickles, but doesn't trust phones or watch the news because it's scary.

* SpockSpeak: He speaks with a markedly clipped tone. While his level of formality does seem to have diminished slightly over the series as he warmed up to Steve and Danny, he's still very precise in his language. This is probably partly due to being a medical examiner, where precision is imperative, and partly due to having an AmbiguousDisorder.

* BeyondTheImpossible: He's shrugged off the bends from a 150-meter ascent in the ocean, something that disabled the perps in the same episode and can ''kill you'' in real-life. He flew a helicopter straight into a forest fire's excessive smoke to save his team, and flies off without even so much as a cough. He's fought through entire platoons, gotten tortured extensively in ways that would kill or break most men for life, and gotten back up to fight again. The series eventually reaches a point where the Honolulu Police Department, national agencies, international groups abroad and even his own Five-0 squad tend to look to Steve first if someone needs to do something impossibly dangerous to save the day.

* HurtingHero: The amount of shit Adam goes through is immense, partly from his Yakuza life, partly from work trying on him. When [[spoiler:Kono is PutOnABus and leaves late series, cutting their relationship apart after so many years as a result]], Adam becomes an [[DrowningMySorrows alcoholic wreck]] with a messy apartment and a major hygiene problem, and needs extensive convincing and a lot of work to get himself back into shape again to officially join the Five-0 Task Force.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: A good part of his victims happened to be criminals themselves.
** Killing [[AssholeVictim Ian Wright]] was definitely one of his few good deeds in life.

* ArbitrarySkepticism[=/=]FlatEarthAtheist: Believes in psychics but not ghosts even though he ''met'' one in one episode.

* OverprotectiveDad: To Grace on more than one occasion. As an example, he had a 11-year-old boy investigated by the police because he was flirting with his daughter.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Went from Malia's no-good, bottom-of-the-barrel carjacking crook that Chin simply didn't catch out of hoping the man could be better, to a full on crime syndicate drug lord running out of Mexico and out to expand into Hawaii. Once Chin's connections to him through Malia are discovered, the authorities utterly give Chin ''hell'' for this and think he's on the take from Gabriel.

* TheChick: The youngest member of Five-0, she starts off as the most pacifistic of the team, and is able to deal with suspects in such a manner.

%%* HotScientist

* WeaponOfChoice: Carried a Kimber [=M1911A1=] Custom .45 pistol as his main sidearm.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A downplayed example, in that Danny is actually not really much of a jerk, and certainly would prefer to be a ByTheBookCop compared to his [[CowboyCop partner]]. He's also usually the first to jump to helping someone if they need it, and tries not to treat suspects like total shit [[AssholeVictim unless they really earned it.]] But he's not quite a NiceGuy because he's always nitpicking and complaining about Steve, Hawaii, their cases, [[ItMakesSenseInContext not getting to drive his car]], you name it, and when someone crosses a line with him, he gets irritable and violent enough to make even ''Steve'' hesitate in extreme cases.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A downplayed example, in that Danny is actually probably among the nicer members of the Five-0 crew, and certainly would prefer to be a ByTheBookCop compared to his [[CowboyCop partner]]. He's also usually the first to jump to helping someone if they need it, and tries not to treat suspects like total shit [[AssholeVictim unless they really earned it.]] But he's not quite a NiceGuy because he's always whining and complaining about Steve, Hawaii, their cases, [[ItMakesSenseInContext not getting to drive his car]], you name it, and when someone crosses a line with him, he gets irritable and violent enough to make even ''Steve'' hesitate.

* HurtingHero: The amount of shit Adam goes through is immense, partly from his Yazkua life, partly from work trying on him. When [[spoiler:Kono is PutOnABus and leaves late series, cutting their relationship apart after so many years as a result]], Adam becomes an [[DrowningMySorrows alcoholic wreck]] that needs extensive convincing and a lot of work to get himself back into shape again and officially join the Five-0 Task Force.

* AscendedExtra: Started out as a recurring HPD [=SWAT=] officer that usually butt heads with [=McGarrett=] on his over-the-top, CowboyCop methods of doing justice. The two even come up to the point of being ready to kick eachother's asses, and file complaints. But when push came to shove and Lou ends up out of a job, [=McGarrett=] opts to bring him into the Five-0 team, and the two rapidly become FireForgedFriends.