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* DropTheHammer: Her weapon of choice. Uses a giant hammer when invading Arctis Tor.
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* BadassNormal: No magic to work with, but he can handle a fight with monsters just fine on his own.
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* DistaffCounterpart: A blond BadassNormal cop with minimal knowledge of the supernatural, who comes to Harry for help with a case, but is frustrated when he goes off on his own? Who uses plenty of guns? Yup, he's basically a male version of Murphy. He even says "Dammit, Harry!" the same way. Harry, who's currently in a rough spot with Murph, [[YouRemindMeOfX comments on the similarity]].

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* CassandraTruth: He figured out there was a supernatural element to his parent's deaths and that there was a curse. But they refused to believe him, not helped by his standoffish personality, resulting in them pulling away from him.



* ImperfectRitual: His mansion is full of supernatural defenses based on anything he could find out about. However, he didn't know what was real and what was junk, and either way he didn't know how to give them real power. Fortunately, Harry is able to fill the gaps to protect his remaining siblings.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely loves his siblings and wants to keep them safe, but is also sharp tempered and cautious. Pres describes him as "Not quite Howard Huges-weird, but not all that far off".



* HeroicSacrifice: Rushes out to help Dresden and Tremaine battle Griswald and Ambre, despite the danger. Indeed, she ends up dying, though not before helping Dresden to fend the monsters off.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Rushes out to help Dresden and Tremaine battle Griswald and Ambre, despite the danger. Indeed, she ends up dying, though not before helping Dresden to fend the monsters off.off and ending the curse.



* SuicideMission: She attacks two powerful magical beings, a ghoul and a goblin, despite being completely and utterly outmatched

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* SuicideMission: She attacks two powerful magical beings, a ghoul and a goblin, despite being completely and utterly outmatchedoutmatched.


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* AgentMulder: Pres is cautiously skeptical about Harry when they first meet, but he's also willing to believe that something supernatural is going on with the Talbot family deaths, and joins Harry in fighting the monsters.
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* JustTheWayYouAre: How he prefers his performers. Since the White Court uses physchological conditioning via HollywoodBeautyStandards, Lord Raith was displeased.

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* JustTheWayYouAre: How he prefers his performers. Since the White Court uses physchological psychological conditioning via HollywoodBeautyStandards, Lord Raith was displeased.
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* NaiveNewcomer: {{Averted}}. He reocgnizes Harry as a Wizard, which could have been chalked up to Harry's local celebrity status as that gimmick P.I. But Max goes on, revealing the unusual circumstance that he doesn't know a lot of the supernatural side, but he's certainly aware of it.

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* NaiveNewcomer: {{Averted}}. He reocgnizes recognizes Harry as a Wizard, which could have been chalked up to Harry's local celebrity status as that gimmick P.I. But Max goes on, revealing the unusual circumstance that he doesn't know a lot of the supernatural side, but he's certainly aware of it.

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Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ordinary people and badass normals who don't fit on any other page.

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Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ordinary people and badass normals who don't fit on any other page.



* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]

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* [[WMG:[[center:''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' '''[[Characters/TheDresdenfiles Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
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Dresden]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
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Household]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
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Council]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
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Church]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
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Courts]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
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Denarians]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
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Fae]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
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Fomor]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
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Kemmlerites]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
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Mafia]] | [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
Entities]] | '''Ordinary People and Badass Normals''']]]]



* BadassNorma: Downplayed, but Dresden pegs him as a martial artist in moments by the way he moves, suggesting at least fairly extensive training/experience.

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* BadassNorma: BadassNormal: Downplayed, but Dresden pegs him as a martial artist in moments by the way he moves, suggesting at least fairly extensive training/experience.
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* BadassNorma: Downplayed, but Dresden pegs him as a martial artist in moments by the way he moves, suggesting at least fairly extensive training/experience.

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* DeathBySex: Killed while having sex with Tommy Tomm.


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* OutWithABang: Killed while having sex with Tommy Tomm.
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* NamesTheSame: Shares his names with side character Lt. Prescott "Scotty" Tremainie from ''Literature/HonorHarrington''.
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* DeterminedWidow: Her husband's death has only made her more determined to protect her daughter.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a ColdIron [[DropTheHammer warhammer]] during the raid on Arctis Tor in ''Proven Guilty''.
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* {{Nerd}}: So much of a gamer that he gives Butters confidential patient information in exchange for a rare {{RPG}} item, namely ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s [[https://wow.gamepedia.com/Blue_Murloc_Egg Blue Murloc Egg]] [[note]]Extremely rare due to only being given out at ''[=BlizzCon=]'' 2005, and has been priced up to ~$4000 on [=eBay=]. Not that Patterson cares about the monetary value, as Butters noted.[[/note]].

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* {{Nerd}}: {{Geek}}: So much of a gamer that he gives Butters confidential patient information in exchange for a rare {{RPG}} item, namely ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s [[https://wow.gamepedia.com/Blue_Murloc_Egg Blue Murloc Egg]] [[note]]Extremely rare due to only being given out at ''[=BlizzCon=]'' 2005, and has been priced up to ~$4000 on [=eBay=]. Not that Patterson cares about the monetary value, as Butters noted.[[/note]].


* AwesomeMcCoolname: Befitting the only man to have defeated a particular demigod (in the courtroom), he has a name that sounds like it belongs in epic myth rather than rural Illinois.
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* KnifeNut: His preferred weapon.
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* BalefulPolymorph: In addition to being frozen, he was also turned into a literal cardinal. (As in, the bird.)

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* BalefulPolymorph: ForcedTransformation: In addition to being frozen, he was also turned into a literal cardinal. (As in, the bird.)
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* CorruptHick: He openly states to Tremaine that his main goal is pleasing Joseph Talbot, the richest man in town.
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* BikerBabe: Presumably; Michael mentions she used to work on motorcycles, so it's not a stretch to imagine she rode them, too.
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* IllGirl: Her character function.

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