History Characters / PrisonBreakMain

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In the second season, Bellick would not have been in charge of, or even participating in, the manhunt for the fugitives. He's a prison guard, not a law enforcement officer, and has absolutely no authority outside of the prison. The entire manhunt would have been handled by local and state police.

* BaldOfAwesome: He's usually shaved bald, like his brother.

* BaldOfAwesome: Like Michael, he's shaved bald.

* BaldOfAwesome: Like his best friend Michael, he's bald for the whole series.

%%* BaldOfAwesome

* AmbiguousAllegiance: All through season 3, the audience is left wondering which side does he really play for. It's finally resolved in the season finale; [[spoiler:he works for the Company.]]

%%* BadassBeard: In the movie.

* BadassMoustache: Grows a mustache in the fourth season to assume the role of Cole Pfeiffer, but retains his usual conniving qualities. Once he's forced to work for the Company and bring Scylla back to them, he shaves it off.

* BadassBeard: From time to time.

* NotSoDifferent: He and Michael are initially shown to be [[SiblingYinYang as different as night and day]], but both of them are--in their own ways--extremely selfless, and very protective of the people they love. Despite his checkered past, Lincoln was fully willing to donate thousands of dollars to Michael so that he could get an education, and he chose to let Michael believe that it was life insurance from their mother. Michael escape plan is (partly) his way of paying him back for all he's done for him.

* NotSoDifferent:

* WishfulProjection: In "Five the Hard Way", T-Bag's notion of Michael being NotSoDifferent from him works against him when he wants Michael to admit that he's trying to find Scylla out of greed just like T-Bag. [[GuileHero Michael]] [[ExactWords does that]], leading T-Bag into a trap with Mahone's help.

->'''Played By:''' Amaury Nolasco

->'''Played By:''' Paul Adelstein

* BerserkButton: Threatening his little brother or his son LJ is the fastest way to get Lincoln to snap.
* BigGuy: His nickname in prison was ‘Linc the Sink’ as in he’ll come at you with anything but the kitchen sink. Basically while Michael solves problems with planning and manipulation, Lincoln barrels through them with violence and threats at gun point. Amoung the Fox River 8 he is only matched in physical size by C-note, and is notably more hot-headed.

* DealWithTheDevil: In the second half of season 4, when he [[spoiler:agrees to work for The Company in exchange for Michael getting surgery.]]

* PapaWolf: For LJ.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Many of the brothers' enemies acknowledge Michael's genius, but they also tend to regard Lincoln as a thug and underestimate his cunningness. When Nika Volek turns on the brothers, it's Lincoln's forethoughtfulness to unload the gun Nika steals that saves them. In the Season 3 finale, he successfully jives Gretchen's men with [[spoiler:a record of gunshots]], and it requires Gretchen herself to figure out the ruse.

->'''Played By:''' Marshall Allman

->'''Played By:''' Robert Wisdom

->'''Played By:''' Rockmund Dunbar

->''"I kneel only to God. I don't see him here."''

-->[[spoiler:"I kneel only to God. I don't see him here."]]

* YourCheatingHeart: His relationship with Veronica ended because he got Lisa pregnant, implying that he slept with Lisa while he was still dating Veronica.

* BadassGay: Bi, actually, but still counts.

* EvilCounterpart: Though the very self-sacrificing Michael hates T-Bag for the latter's vileness, both men are the result of their troubled past, charismatic, cunning, and capable of adapting their plans to unexpected turns. They both lose a body part thanks to [[spoiler:John Abruzzi]] and win the trust of a prison's highest authority figure, only to double-cross them in the end before making their ultimate escape (Michael befriends Fox River's warden Henry Pope yet coerces and subdues him on the night of his elaborate escape; T-Bag worms his way into the favor of Sona's king Lechero, only to kill him and briefly assume Sona's leadership before causing a riot which enables him to escape).

* ImAHumanitarian: Uh...yeah. In the beginning of Season 4, he's forced to kill Sancho in self-defence and eat him in order to survive the desert. He doesn't enjoy it, though, coming close to vomiting several times.

'''T-Bag''': Something like that.

** He uses this card when he tries to convince Mahone to join forces with him at the end of the 3rd season. Mahone's refusal turns it into a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* OpportunisticBastard: One of the differences between him and [[TheChessmaster Michael]]. Instead of masterminding great plans, T-Bag goes with the flow and worms his way into the plans of others. The Cole Pfeiffer alias is entirely James Whistler's invention, and T-Bag merely assumes it as his own.

** After handcuffing himself to Michael in ''Flight'', he swallows the key before Michael and Abruzzi can take it from him. [[spoiler:It does him little good in the end because Abruzzi chops his handcuffed hand off.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Sure, he turns out into a nice guy after his HeelFaceTurn, but he also got away with [[spoiler: killing Tweener and Aldo Burrows,]] although he's [[TheAtoner atoning for that]] and did lose his beloved son.

* AnythingThatMoves: Seriously, be it [[BiTheWay male or female]], young or old, willing or [[PrisonRape not]]...

* BiTheWay: Starts off exploiting male prisoners, but also gets into a relationship with a woman.

* BiTheWay: The way she leans on towards Sofia while commenting on how beautiful she was leaves little to the imagination. Also, when [[spoiler: she's in prison,]] she seduces a female guard in exchange for a favor.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Fun as he might have been, he certainly deserved to die.]]

* HandicappedBadass: After [[spoiler:John cuts his left hand]]. He gets patched up for some time, but [[spoiler:his efforts to re-attach fail and he ends up using a prosthetic hand]].

* WishfulProjection: In "Five the Hard Way", T-Bag's notion of Michael being NotSoDifferent from him works against him when he wants Michael to admit that he's trying to find Scylla out of greed just like T-Bag. [[GuileHero Michael]] does that, leading T-Bag into a trap with Mahone's help.

-->'''T-Bag''': You know, it vexes me that… That I'm made out to be the bag guy in the room. It's not like y'all are incarcerated for stealing Girl Scout cookies.\\

** When T-Bag forces Dr. Marvin Gudat to [[spoiler:reattach his severed hand]] and forbids him from [[spoiler:anesthetizing him for the procedure]], Gudat tries to explain that nobody can stand [[spoiler:the operation without being anesthetized]]. T-Bag replies in a quietly serious tone "I ain't nobody".

* BadassMoustache: Grows a mustache in the fourth season to assume the role of Cole Pfeiffer, but retains his usual conniving qualities.

** He is genuinely greif-stricken when his cousin and nephew are murdered by one of Abruzzi's men.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Before his imprisonment in Fox River, he started a relationship with Susan, a divorced mother with two children. He genuinely loved them, but it only lasted until she discovered that he was also a vicious, wanted criminal. In season 2, he kidnaps them to force them to be the perfect family together, but when this doesn't work out he lets them go because he couldn't bring himself to hurt them.

* FunctionalAddict: In Season Two, he is addicted to benzodiazapines. Not so much when he's trapped in Sona during Season Three and turns to heroin.

* FunctionalAddict: In Season Two. Not so much when he's trapped in Sona during Season Three and turns to heroin.

* He is genuinely greif-stricken when his cousin and nephew are murdered by one of Abruzzi's men.