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!!'''Justin Ripley'''
->Played by Warren Brown
A Young Detective assigned to work with Luther in the pilot episode. He becomes one of Luther's closest and most loyal allies.
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* TheApprentice: He fills this role for Luther. At one point Luther tells him that soon he'll be ready to do his job, and have his own Little Ripley's.
* TheLancer: To Luther.
* NiceGuy: One of the most friendly and agreeable characters on the show.
* PromotedFanboy: Apparently he was a big fan of Luther's work as a detective, before being assigned to work with him.
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLion: He's tragically killed by the vigilante killer in the second to last episode.]]
* ShipTease: With Erin Grey. [[spoiler: He's killed off before anything can happen though.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Throughout the whole series.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Luther. First shown during Season 1 when [[spoiler: Luther is framed for killing Zoe.]] and later in Season 3 when he refuses to sell him out to Stark and Grey, despite the pressure they force on him.
->Played by Warren Brown
A Young Detective assigned to work with Luther in the pilot episode. He becomes one of Luther's closest and most loyal allies.
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* TheApprentice: He fills this role for Luther. At one point Luther tells him that soon he'll be ready to do his job, and have his own Little Ripley's.
* TheLancer: To Luther.
* NiceGuy: One of the most friendly and agreeable characters on the show.
* PromotedFanboy: Apparently he was a big fan of Luther's work as a detective, before being assigned to work with him.
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLion: He's tragically killed by the vigilante killer in the second to last episode.]]
* ShipTease: With Erin Grey. [[spoiler: He's killed off before anything can happen though.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Throughout the whole series.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Luther. First shown during Season 1 when [[spoiler: Luther is framed for killing Zoe.]] and later in Season 3 when he refuses to sell him out to Stark and Grey, despite the pressure they force on him.
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Mostly because of his abrupt FaceHeelTurn at the end of the first season.]]
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* ButtMonkey: He's really just an ordinary guy who's caught up in the insanity of Luther's life.
* TheEveryman
* TheEveryman
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* CreepyMonotone
* InspectorJavert: Pursues Luther relentlessly throughout the final season.
* InspectorJavert: Pursues Luther relentlessly throughout the final season.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Luther describes him as "a bit of a prick, but he means well."
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-->''Do you know what you're problem is? You've spent you're whole life thinking you're the whirlwind. While you're not. I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.''
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-->''Do you know what you're your problem is? You've spent you're your whole life thinking you're the whirlwind. While you're not. I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.''
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* MoralityPet: A loose one to Alice. He is the only person outside of herself that she cares for and is willing to curve her more bloody and self intrested tendincies for.
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* MoralityPet: A loose one to Alice. He is the only person outside of herself that she cares for and is willing to curve curb her more bloody and self intrested tendincies interested tendencies for.
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* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: He's not too much easier to piss off than most people. The difference is when he gets pissed off, he breaks things, like doors, windows, and people.
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* TookALevelInBadass: When he [[spoiler:steals the diamonds from Ian Reed's locker]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: When he [[spoiler:steals the diamonds from Ian Reed's locker]].locker]].
!!'''George Stark'''
-> Played by David O'Hara
-->''Do you know what you're problem is? You've spent you're whole life thinking you're the whirlwind. While you're not. I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.''
An obsessive internal affairs officer who was brought out of retirement for the specific purpose of bringing Luther down.
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* CowboyCop: Hilariously, Stark breaks just as many rules and plays just as loosely with the law as Luther.
* InternalAffairs
* MoralMyopia: When Luther violates procedure, it's bad. When Stark violates procedure, it's necessary.
!!'''George Stark'''
-> Played by David O'Hara
-->''Do you know what you're problem is? You've spent you're whole life thinking you're the whirlwind. While you're not. I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.''
An obsessive internal affairs officer who was brought out of retirement for the specific purpose of bringing Luther down.
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* CowboyCop: Hilariously, Stark breaks just as many rules and plays just as loosely with the law as Luther.
* InternalAffairs
* MoralMyopia: When Luther violates procedure, it's bad. When Stark violates procedure, it's necessary.
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->Played by Paul [=McGann=]
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* [[spoiler:WithFriendsLikeThese: Not only slept with Luther's wife in the backstory, but murdered her in the present, framing Luther for it.]]
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!!'''Mark North'''
Luther's ex-wife's new boyfriend, Mark is a nice guy who finds himself pulled into Luther's increasingly screwed up world, as his relationship with Zoe draws anger from Luther, and worse from Alice Morgan.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's Mark, not Luther, who finally [[spoiler:tells Alice to kill Ian Reed]].
* FireForgedFriends: With [[spoiler:Luther, following the events of the Season 1 finale]].
* ItsPersonal: With [[spoiler:Ian]].
* NiceGuy: He really is.
* TookALevelInBadass: When he [[spoiler:steals the diamonds from Ian Reed's locker]].
!!'''Mark North'''
Luther's ex-wife's new boyfriend, Mark is a nice guy who finds himself pulled into Luther's increasingly screwed up world, as his relationship with Zoe draws anger from Luther, and worse from Alice Morgan.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's Mark, not Luther, who finally [[spoiler:tells Alice to kill Ian Reed]].
* FireForgedFriends: With [[spoiler:Luther, following the events of the Season 1 finale]].
* ItsPersonal: With [[spoiler:Ian]].
* NiceGuy: He really is.
* TookALevelInBadass: When he [[spoiler:steals the diamonds from Ian Reed's locker]].
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* TakingTheHeat: Takes all of the blame for [[spoiler:Ian Reed]]'s murder, keeping Luther and Mark North out of it.
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* TheMentallyIll: Alice's narcissism is treated as a mental illness rather than a personality flaw. Luther notes that it isn't her fault that she is what she is, and when she takes the rap for him at the end of Season 1, she ends up in a psychiatric facility, not jail.
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->Played by Steven Mackintosh
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The titular character, Luther is a brilliant cop with some serious personal issues. After a case involving a child murderer ends with the culprit in a coma, Luther comes under intense scrutiny from the higher ups in the department, who are just waiting for him to screw up.
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A narcissistic astrophysicist who managed to get away with killing her parents, Alice develops a twisted crush on Luther after he works out how she did it. Deciding that the two of them are friends, Alice repeatedly interferes in Luther's life, frequently making things worse in her attempts to "help" him.
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* AntiHero: When shes she's helping Luther.
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* {{Narcissist}}: Profiled by Luther as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism malignant narcissist]], a nasty form of narcissism that combines narcissistic personality disorder with traits of antisocial personality disorder, leading to grandiose, sadistic behaviour, rationalized antisocial activities, and an inability to identify with any but the most powerful and sadistic of authority figures. That last part goes a long way to explaining Alice's identification with, and attraction to, Luther.
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* {{Narcissist}}: Profiled by Luther as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism malignant narcissist]], a nasty form of narcissism that combines narcissistic personality disorder with traits of antisocial personality disorder, leading to grandiose, sadistic grandiose behaviour, sadism, rationalized antisocial activities, and an inability to identify with any but the most powerful and sadistic of authority figures. That last part goes a long way to explaining Alice's identification with, and attraction to, Luther.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Luther, even tried to get him to run off with her to see the world. [[spoiler: While sorely tempted, he declined.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Luther, even tried to get him to run off with her to see the world. [[spoiler: While sorely tempted, he declined.]]
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!!'''Ian Reed'''
Luther's oldest and closest friend on the force, Reed has some secrets of his own that he is doing his best to keep covered up.
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* [[spoiler:TheBigBad: Of the first season, as revealed in Episode 5.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend: To John Luther]]
* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing]]
* BlackBestFriend: Inverted. He spends the early part of the show as Luther's underdeveloped, white best friend, before taking centre stage in Episode 5.
* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker: Does everything he can to force Luther to kill him in the end. Alice and Mark do it for him.]]
* [[spoiler:DirtyCop: Was involved in diamond theft]]
* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal: With Luther, after he kills Zoe]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction after [[spoiler:killing Zoe to frame Luther]].
* SuicideByCop: Tries to force [[spoiler:Luther]] to kill him. When he refuses [[spoiler:Alice steps in]].
* VigilanteMan: Luther becomes worried about Ian turning into one of these.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and [[spoiler:Luther]] were actually friends at some point, but it hasn't been true on [[spoiler:Ian's end]] for a long time.
* [[spoiler:WithFriendsLikeThese: Not only slept with Luther's wife in the backstory, but murdered her in the present, framing Luther for it.]]
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* {{Narcissist}}: Profiled by Luther as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism malignant narcissist]], a nasty form of narcissism that combines narcissistic personality disorder with traits of antisocial personality disorder, leading to grandiose, sadistic behaviour, rationalized antisocial activities, and an inability to identify with any but the most powerful and sadistic of authority figures. That last part goes a long way to explaining Alice's identification with, and attraction to, Luther.
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* MoralityPet: A loose one to Alice. He is the only person outside of herself that she cares for and is willing to curve her more bloody and self intrested tendincies for.
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* BadassBookworm: In episode two, John tells the shooter that he loved to read books growing up - while his dad wanted him to get interested in sports and other things.
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** And now also a [[BlackWidow]], if she was telling the truth.
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** And now also a [[BlackWidow]], BlackWidow, if she was telling the truth.
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* LimitedWardrobe: A rack of nigh-identical outfits is another sign of how much work dominates his life.
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* DeathSeeker: If he's not outright suicidal, he's got a major adrenaline addiction.
* DefectiveDetective: A brilliant copper - whose personal life outside work is nonexistent and who frequently finds ways to put himself in life-or-death situations. The fact that Alice is his only 'confidant' says a lot.
* DefectiveDetective: A brilliant copper - whose personal life outside work is nonexistent and who frequently finds ways to put himself in life-or-death situations. The fact that Alice is his only 'confidant' says a lot.
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* AntiHero: When shes helping Luther. Type V
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* DirtyCop: Possibly the only heroic protagonist to be this. Luther's definitely one of the good guys, but he's also pretty corrupt, though not in the traditional, bribe-taking sense. No, he's dirty in the sense that he's willing to go to any lengths to secure justice, no matter what proper police procedure or the letter of the law require. Which basically means that he's not above planting evidence on people who are clearly guilty, nor using extremely underhanded tactics to produce evidence, consulting with a murderer, or letting a child murderer fall to his death [[spoiler: (though he didn't die, at least not by Luther's hand)]].
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* DirtyCop: Possibly the only heroic protagonist to be this. Luther's definitely one of the good guys, but he's also pretty corrupt, though not in the traditional, bribe-taking sense. No, he's dirty in the sense that he's willing to go to any lengths to secure justice, justice (or protect his friends), no matter what proper police procedure or the letter of the law require. Which basically means that he's not above planting evidence on people who are clearly guilty, nor using extremely underhanded tactics to produce evidence, consulting with a murderer, or letting a child murderer fall to his death [[spoiler: (though he didn't die, at least not by Luther's hand)]]. Lastly, and probably most importantly, [[spoiler: Luther is willing to help Ian Reed cover up all his crimes (murder, taking of bribes, conspiracy, etc.) out of friendship, until, of course, Reed kills Zoe.]]
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* DirtyCop: Possibly the only heroic protagonist to be this. Luther's definitely one of the good guys, but he's also pretty corrupt, though not in the traditional, bribe-taking sense. No, he's dirty in the sense that he's willing to go to any lengths to secure justice, no matter what proper police procedure or the letter of the law require. Which basically means that he's not above planting evidence on people who are clearly guilty, nor using extremely underhanded tactics to produce evidence, consulting with a murderer, or letting a child murderer fall to his death [[spoiler: (though he didn't die, at least not by Luther's hand)]].
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* OddFriendship: Considers Luther her only real friend. Also ends up spending a lot of time with Mark, who she initially hates out of loyalty to Luther.
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