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* BettyAndVeronica: with Amanda
* HairOfGold
* KilledOffForReal

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* BettyAndVeronica: with Amanda
While Amanda is the much older, far more dangerous and glamorous thief, Tessa is sweet
* HairOfGold
HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's sweet, artistic, non-violent, and feminine.
* KilledOffForReal
KilledOffForReal: She's killed in the first season in the same mugging that makes Richie Immortal.
* TheLostLenore: With her early death, she has more impact on Duncan's motivations dead than alive.



* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim]]
* FosterKid
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Subverted.
* NaiveNewcomer
* {{Sidekick}}
* StreetUrchin: Starts out this way.
* TrainingMontage

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* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim]]
DroppedABridgeOnHim]]: Richie is [[spoiler: beheaded]] by [[spoiler: Duncan]].
* FosterKid
FosterKid: As immortals are all foundlings, Richie wound up in the foster system.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Subverted.
Inverted. [[spoiler: It's Richie who dies. Not Duncan.]]
* NaiveNewcomer
NaiveNewcomer: When Duncan takes Richie in, he has no idea that he's a pre-immortal or that immortals even exist.
* {{Sidekick}}
{{Sidekick}}: He serves as a sidekick to Duncan giving him another set of hands and someone to bounce ideas off of.
* StreetUrchin: Starts out this way.
way before Duncan and Tessa take him in after they catch him breaking into the antique shop.
* TrainingMontage
TrainingMontage: There are a number of these with Duncan teaching him how to wield a sword.
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* {{Wangst}}



* EnsembleDarkhorse: Originally scheduled to die in his first episode, turned into one of the most memorable things in the show.



* LauncherOfAThousandShips



* HoYay: Something ''fierce'' with Pete Wilder in ''Counterfeit''.
** You can almost hear fangirls around the world squee when he hugs Duncan goodbye at the airport, even more so after the crack about kissing him.
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* DatingCatwoman: He's the Batman to Amanda's Catwoman, but they do get along fairly well nonetheless.
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**You can almost hear fangirls around the world squee when he hugs Duncan goodbye at the airport, even more so after the crack about kissing him.

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* MamaBear: To Kenny


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* [[SinisterMinister Sinister Monk]]
* WickedCultured
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* Badass: He actually ''beats'' MacLeod in their first fight scene.

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* Badass: He actually ''beats'' MacLeod Macleod in their first fight scene.fight.
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* Badass: He actually ''beats'' MacLeod in their first fight scene.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Several people have underestimated him because he usually avoids conflict. In one case, a possessive immortal who hates that Methos slept with his slave tracks him down in the present day, using both Joe Dawson and [[spoiler:Joe's daughter]] as bait. Said immortal thinks Methos is a weakling and a coward, and expects to easily beat him. Instead Methos [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps him]], and the last words the other immortal hears is Methos saying "Just because someone doesn't ''like'' to fight doesn't mean they ''can't''."

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Several people have underestimated him because he usually avoids conflict. In one case, a possessive immortal who hates that Methos slept with his slave tracks him down in the present day, using both Joe Dawson and [[spoiler:Joe's daughter]] as bait. Said immortal thinks Methos is a weakling and a coward, and expects to easily beat him. Instead Methos [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps him]], and the last words the other immortal hears is Methos saying "Just because someone doesn't ''like'' to fight doesn't mean they ''can't''."" You've also got to remember that this is the man who, as a member of [[spoiler:[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]]]], took the moniker of [[spoiler:Death]].



** He might have done this for fun when he was Death of the Horsemen, but in the present? They're gonna need to deserve it a lot.

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** He might have done this for fun when he was Death [[spoiler:Death of the Horsemen, Horsemen]], but in the present? They're gonna need to deserve it a lot.
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* GutteralGrowler: Had his throat slashed by Mac in the '20s. He survived; his singing career did not.

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* GutteralGrowler: GutturalGrowler: Had his throat slashed by Mac in the '20s. He survived; his singing career did not.
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* GutteralGrowler: Had his throat slashed by Mac in the '20s. He survived; his singing career did not.
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* HandicappedBadass: Joe Dawson, who has no legs and can still kick your ass all day long.

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* HandicappedBadass: Joe Dawson, who Dawson has no legs and can still kick your ass all day long.
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** He might have done this for fun when he was Death of the Horsemen, but in the present? They're gonna need to deserve it a lot.
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* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs

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* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecsHairDecorations
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Alexa.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: Under the alias of Adam, he joins the Watchers, and gets himself assigned to tracking down... himself.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: Under the alias of Adam, [[MeaningfulName Adam]], he joins the Watchers, and gets himself assigned to tracking down... himself.


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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Several people have underestimated him because he usually avoids conflict. In one case, a possessive immortal who hates that Methos slept with his slave tracks him down in the present day, using both Joe Dawson and [[spoiler:Joe's daughter]] as bait. Said immortal thinks Methos is a weakling and a coward, and expects to easily beat him. Instead Methos [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps him]], and the last words the other immortal hears is Methos saying "Just because someone doesn't ''like'' to fight doesn't mean they ''can't''."
** Also, in the bad timeline shown in the last episodes where [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Duncan was never born]], Methos went on one ''hell'' of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when the Watchers are taken over by Horton, who begins slaughtering immortals and kills Methos' mortal lover in an attempt to get to him. Methos promptly teams back up with his old partner Kronos and begins leading the war against the Watchers. Their actions are described thusly: "They made [[TheMafiya the Russian Mafia]] look like choir boys."
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* TimeAbyss
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* TheCombatPragmatist[=/=]FightingDirty: Including tactics such as [[MoreExpendableThanYou shooting Duncan in the back]] when Duncan is being a little too HonorBeforeReason, or [[GroinAttack stabbing an opponent in the groin]] with a concealed dagger.

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* TheCombatPragmatist[=/=]FightingDirty: CombatPragmatist[=/=]FightingDirty: Including tactics such as [[MoreExpendableThanYou shooting Duncan in the back]] when Duncan is being a little too HonorBeforeReason, or [[GroinAttack stabbing an opponent in the groin]] with a concealed dagger.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: Like Connor, is still astoundingly a devout Catholic in spite of being banished by the xenophobia of his Catholic kin.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Werner Stoker, the actor who played him died during the filming.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: Werner Stoker, the actor who played him died during the filming.]]
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!!Darius
*ActualPacifist
*TheAtoner
*BadassPreacher
*RealLifeWritesThePlot: Werner Stoker, the actor who played him died during the filming.
*RetiredBadass

!!James Horton
*BigBad: In Season 2.
*FantasticRacism
*ManipulativeBastard
*[[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]: Several times.
*TheWatcher: The renegade one.

!!Kalas
*BeardOfEvil
*BigBad: In Season 3.
*RevengeByProxy: He would kill or frame anyone who is somehow related to Macleod.

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* NiceGuy




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* WarriorPoet: Much like Connor, he is a patron for music, poetry, fine arts, not to mention wine and fine cooking.
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* Don't forget the {{Wangst}}

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* Don't forget the {{Wangst}}
*{{Wangst}}
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** Duncan actually listens?{{SarcasmMode}}
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**Duncan actually listens?{{SarcasmMode}}
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* MentorOccupationalHazard: ''Brutally'' subverted.

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* MentorOccupationalHazard: ''Brutally'' subverted.Subverted.
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* [[spoiler:RetiredMonster: Even has one of the page quotes.]]

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* [[spoiler:RetiredMonster: Even has one of the page quotes. However unlike the classic RetiredMonster he ''is'' sorry and wants to atone by destroying his comrades.]]
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* KillSteal: In her first appearance she decapitates a disarmed immortal seconds before Connor would have killed him.

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* KillSteal: In her first appearance she decapitates a disarmed immortal seconds before Connor Duncan would have killed him.
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* [[spoiler:RetiredMonster: Even has one of the page quotes.]]
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* KillSteal: In her first appearance she decapitates a disarmed immortal seconds before Connor would have killed him.

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* BadassLonghair

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* BadassLonghairBadassLonghair / SlipknotPonytail



* TheFogOfAges[=/=]TimeAbyss: Has lived at least 5,000 years. Everything before that starts getting hazy, so no one, not even Methos, knows how long he's been alive.

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* TheFogOfAges[=/=]TimeAbyss: Has lived at least 5,000 years. Everything before that Methos isn't even sure how old he is. His memory goes back five thousand years and "before that, it all starts getting hazy, to blur." Joe Dawson describes him as "An Immortal who's so no one, not even Methos, knows how long he's been alive.old, he can't remember the time of his birth."



* TheOlderImmortal



* StreetUrchin

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* StreetUrchinStreetUrchin: Starts out this way.



* BadassNormal - Even more impressive than usual as he manages to be this trope while a [[HandicappedBadass double amputee]].
* CoolOldGuy

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* BadassNormal - BadassNormal: Even more impressive than usual as he manages to be this trope while a [[HandicappedBadass double amputee]].
* CoolOldGuyCoolOldGuy: Joe Dawson is epitome of coolness.
* GangstaStyle
* HandicappedBadass: Joe Dawson, who has no legs and can still kick your ass all day long.


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* PermaStubble

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