History Characters / StargateUniverse

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A mild case

* [[spoiler: PutOnABus: Well, on a ship at any rate.]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: For someone who thinks that Rush's ways of thinking are terrible Young sure seems to be doing the exact same things on a more subtle level.
** Case in point: in the episode "Faith", [[spoiler:when Young and the crew finds out that some of the people want to stay on the planet, Rush immediately tells Young to just use force to round the people up. Young rebukes him for it. However, when Young goes to the planet and demands all military personnel come with him, he then says that if they don't he will use force to bring them ''all'' back. In other words he just threatened to do the exact same thing he had rebuked Rush for suggesting earlier!]]
*** [[spoiler: An important difference though is that Young was at least giving the non-military personnel a choice, with force being the last in his list of options and only if his conditions were not met. Rush was willing to use force right off the bat. Young at least gives people the option, even if the result is the same for the military personnel.]]
** In "Subversion" [[spoiler:he [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique tortures]] Telford just like the Lucian Alliance torture Rush. And he does it for the "greater good", exactly what Rush was accusing him of being unable to do back on the desert planet. Oh my ...]]
*** Thus the {{Irony}} [[spoiler:considering Telford is in ''Rush's body.'']]

:: '''Colonel Everett Young''' (Justin Louis)

** [[spoiler:Case in point: in the episode "Faith", when Young and the crew finds out that some of the people want to stay on the planet, Rush immediately tells Young to just use force to round the people up. Young rebukes him for it. However, when Young goes to the planet and demands all military personnel come with him, he then says that if they don't he will use force to bring them ''all'' back. In other words he just threatened to do the exact same thing he had rebuked Rush for suggesting earlier!]]

* TheWoobie: It looks like the Universe is trying to make him one or break him. So far trapped on the otherside of the Universe with limited supplies and unready personel. [[spoiler: Has had the ship he's on attacked and taken over. Believes his unborn child to be dead]] and forced to [[spoiler:MercyKill]] well liked and loyal crew member [[spoiler: Riley]]. Who know whats next.

* AscendedFanboy: His actor.
** Arguably Eli himself too, to some extent. After all, he was a fan of an online game loosely based on the in DevelopmentHell ''StargateWorlds'' game (which in-universe was probably based off of ''Wormhole X-Treme''). Plus, he's an avowed science fiction geek who makes constant references and shows the most genuine glee about being on a spaceship.

:: '''Ginn''' (Julie McNiven)

** Which really hits him hard in "Aftermath" as [[spoiler: having to loose Riley to something he can't get angry over leaves him pretty torn up.]]

** Resulting in some fans calling her Lt. Nipples.

** At least for a few episodes anyway. Now hes back to being [[WildCard morally ambiguous]] making it AesopAmnesia.

* TheAtoner: Ever since the events of "Human", Rush seems to have been taken off of his high horse and has actually been trying to ''help'' the crew.

** Then there's his [[spoiler:{{Blackmail}} of Chloe, which is a pretty low move in and of itself, but also puts the crew in danger by supressing knowledge of Chloe's infection.]]
-->'''Rush'''[[spoiler:"She'll play along-if she values her freedom."]]

** Of course this may be a case of DracoInLeatherPants. Young's version of "the greater good" is keeping the crew alive. Rush's version of "the greater good" is painting Young as a killer for Rush's benefit...
*** Rush makes the point that he did this because Young wouldn't make the hard choices that leaders sometimes need to make, and arguably does have something of a point, Jerkass or not.
*** As the series goes on it shows that Young has no problem with hard choices. The JerkAss part is that Rush pretty much frames Young because Young didn't make [[ForScience the choices that Rush wanted]].
**** And, one can respond that Rush's choices end up working better than Young's to which one can respond they could have not worked and so on, showing that, indeed, Rush is a true BaseBreaker.
** Then again for most people the fact he marooned over eighty people in the Pilot, without their consent. Away from their love ones and in constant danger with nothing but a grin pretty much [[JerkAss summed the character up for them.]]
** His decisions in "Aftermath" leading to [[spoiler: Riley's death]] doesn't help either.

* TokenEvilTeammate: While not really evil, Rush is [[TheUnfettered quite willing to sacrifice people for the greater good]]. Or what he considers the greater good anyway. Others might describe it as "his own convenience".

* AngryBlackMan: Somewhat.

* NoodleIncident: It has never been completely explained exactly what Telford did that provoked Greer into striking a superior officer. Though from what we know of Greer, it must have -really- been something to make Greer develop such a long lasting hatred for the guy.

** Rush makes this even scarier because he -doesn't- care in the least and tries to get Franklin to show up because at least he (Franklin) knows something about Ancient technology.

** [[spoiler: But only until he's unbrainwashed. Then becomes the ReverseMole against the Lucians]]

* DeadpanSnarker: "Awakening" has him comment on some of the alien food they've been eating.

Scientist who, straight from the beginning, just has the worst luck.

An engineer and computer expert. Friends and prank rival with Riley (he gets ''turned purple'' for his efforts). Also runs a still used to make alcohol in a makeshift bar for the crew. According to TheOtherWiki, Telford's gambit to dial Earth and thus getting Riley injured was why Brody sides with Rush against the military. [[spoiler: Which explains why a guy that probably isn't all that violent is willing to space Telford in "Subversion" - hurting Riley, blowing up Icarus, etc. There is the implication that Riley's death has hit him particularly hard out of the secondary characters due to their friendship.]]

* [[spoiler:TearJerker: Oh god yes. His death is majorly sad, especially how he goes out.]]

An engineer and computer expert. Friends and prank rival with Riley (he gets ''turned purple'' for his efforts). Also runs a still used to make alcohol in a makeshift bar for the crew. According to TheOtherWiki, Telford's gambit to dial Earth and thus getting Riley injured was why Brody sides with Rush against the military. [[spoiler: Which explains why a guy that probably isn't all that violent is willing to space Telford in "Subversion" - hurting Riley, blowing up Icarus, etc.]]

* NoodleIncident: It has never been completely explained exactly what Telford did that provoked Greer into striking a superior officer.

The leader of what remains of the Lucian Alliance takeover force. His wife was killed during a rainstorm when the shelter she was in collapsed.

A scientist in the Lucian Alliance and one of the handful that were allowed to stay on board the ship.

IOA representative on Icarus (and now ''Destiny'').

** Or tries to be, unfortunately her opponents are Young and Rush..

* AntiHero: Increasingly this since "Justice".

* AntiHero: A matter of [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but Rush definitely seems to have some Anti Hero attributes.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Seperating Destiny from the seedership while Telford was still on board.]] Dick move, Rush.