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* GeniusBruiser

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* GeniusBruiserGeniusBruiser: The bruiser part grows as the series goes on, since The Centre, quite understandably, didn't teach him any way to defend himself he had to learn after escaping and takes lessons and grows into quite a good fighter.



* ManChild

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* ManChildManChild: Generally exhibits a childlike wonder and certain amount of childlike innocence, which is part of why his switch over to the calculating, rage-filled righter of wrongs is so terrifying.



* TheMessiah: Oh yes! He will put his life on the line for someone he met five minutes ago even with The Centre close on his heels.

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* TheMessiah: Oh yes! He will put his life on the line for someone he met five minutes ago even with The Centre close on his heels.

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* [[spoiler: TheChosenOne: According to an ancient prophecy, part of which says he will bring about the end of the Parker name.]]
** [[spoiler: ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne]]: Hoo boy, yes!



* CriminalMindgames: Jarod loves playing these on his pursuers.



* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: Kyle]] dies, more severely [[spoiler: the second and actual time Kyle dies]], and has a very bad one after [[spoiler: getting recaptured by The Centre and Mr. Lyle regularly torturing him and subjecting him to sadistic mind games to completely break his spirit.]]

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* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: Kyle]] dies, more severely [[spoiler: the second and actual time Kyle dies]], and has a very bad one after [[spoiler: getting recaptured by The Centre and Mr. Lyle regularly torturing him and subjecting him to sadistic mind games to completely break his spirit.]]spirit]], in flashback when The Centre killed [[spoiler: a friend of his]] to get him to cooperate, and after breaking his ThouShaltNotKill rule.
* HurtingHero



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* MissingMom

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* MissingMomTheMessiah: Oh yes! He will put his life on the line for someone he met five minutes ago even with The Centre close on his heels.
* MissingMom: Actually has a whole missing family, but his mother is most notably so because he never actually gets to meet her.
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* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: Kyle]] dies, more severely [[spoiler: the second and actual time Kyle dies]], and has a very bad one after [[spoiler: getting recaptured by The Centre and Mr. Lyle regularly torturing him and subjecting him to sadistic mind games to completely break his spirit.]]

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* TheAtoner

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* TheAtonerTheAtoner: For being so blind that he didn't see what The Centre was doing with his sims.



* BerserkButton: Kidnapping or harming a child.
* BewareTheNiceOnes

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* BerserkButton: Kidnapping or harming a child.
child. Just don't.
* BewareTheNiceOnesBewareTheNiceOnes: Kind, affable, with a childlike enthusiasm and innocence, and kind to everyone, unless you've taken advantage of, or hurt, an innocent; then he's a cold, calculating ball of barely SuppressedRage (and sometimes not SuppressedRage), that will set up elaborate [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambits]] that result in KarmicJustice and one hell of a MindRape.



* FriendToAllChildren: A lot of his pretends involve helping children somehow harmed by an incident.

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* FriendToAllChildren: A lot of his pretends involve helping children somehow harmed by an incident.incident, and woe unto you if you harm a child, for he has nearly beaten men to death for doing so.


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* ManChild
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* IChooseToStay: Sydney worked for The Centre when it was actually a force for good in the world. He noticed when things started going bad, but he chose to stay.
-->'''Sydney:''' There were those that depended on me.\\
'''Miss Parker:''' Jarod.
* MyGreatestFailure: Either Jarod being held in The Centre or the accident that put his brother in a coma.


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* PapaWolf


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* TheGhost: For most of Season 1.
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* MeLoveYouLongTime
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* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: How he figures out who, how, or why the villain of the week did the deed.
** Averted in [[spoiler: "Once In a Blue Moon" where Jarod refuses (because of the emotional trauma it will cause him) to fully go into a psychotic serial killer's mind, and instead tricks the man into revealing where the next victim was.]]
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* AdultChild



* AdultChild
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* EvillyAffable

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* EvillyAffableFauxAffablyEvil
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He dearly loves his daughter.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He dearly loves his daughter.daughter, even if he's willing to manipulate her into helping him get what he wants.
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* SharpDressedMan
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* CelibateHero: For the most part because he takes relationships seriously and he is well aware that he's

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* CelibateHero: For the most part because he takes relationships seriously and he is well aware that he's a danger magnet.
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* CelibateHero

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* CelibateHeroCelibateHero: For the most part because he takes relationships seriously and he is well aware that he's
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* BerserkButton: Kidnapping or harming a child.
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* BrokenBird


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* GeniusBruiser


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* PhlebotinumRebel


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* FlawedPrototype: He was supposed to be a Pretender like Jarod,but Raines experimented on him to make him more efficient and ended up destroying his mind and turning him into something completely different and completely useless for the Pretender program.
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* {{Determinator}}


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* StepfordSnarker
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* DevilInPlainSight: Everybody knows he's an ambitious ManipulativeBastard who will anything to get to the top, but everyone but Miss Parker's team and Jarod seems completely oblivious to the fact he's a serial killer and a cannibal.
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* GuileHero


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* MagnificentBastard
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* FriendToAllChildren: A lot of his pretends involve helping children somehow harmed by an incident.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kind to every possible animal - even cockroaches. One unseen pretend even dealt exclusively with a farmer using a too powerful cattle prod on cows.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: He only breaks this rule under the most extreme circumstances.


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* AdultChild


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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Is in charge of The Centre a few different times.
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* BerserkButton: Threatening or upsetting his daughter. He once yelled at Miss Parker for doing the latter.

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* RealMenWearPink: Watches soap operas.



* HeavySleeper:
-->'''Jarod:''' Your gun won't work. I took the firing pin out last night.\\
'''Miss Parker:''' I sleep with this under my pillow.\\
'''Jarod:''' And you drool out of the left corner of your mouth.\\
''(Miss Parker pulls the trigger and nothing happens)''



* FreudianExcuse

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* FreudianExcuseFreudianExcuse: His adopted father disciplined him by locking him in a shed for any misbehavior.


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* ThatManIsDead: Raised as Bobby Bowman, he gave up this identity when he faked his death and took the name of his abusive adopted father.

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A pet project of Mr. Raines, Angelo was born Timmy, a child savant in the same vein as Jarod. Mr. Rained subjected him to intense shock treatments to enhance his empathic mind, at the cost of his lower brain function. Initially portrayed as an antagonist, Angelo is quickly revealed to be more cunning then he lets on. He considers Jarod his friend and assists him from behind the scenes.

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A pet project of Mr. Raines, Angelo was born Timmy, a child savant in the same vein as Jarod. Mr. Rained Raines subjected him to intense shock treatments to enhance his empathic mind, at the cost of his lower brain function. Initially portrayed as an antagonist, Angelo is quickly revealed to be more cunning then he lets on. He considers Jarod his friend and assists him from behind the scenes.


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* DidntSeeThatComing: Timmy had the potential to be a Pretender, but the abilities were latent. The experiments then-Dr. Raines performed on him were designed to bring that potential to the surface and make him like Jarod. Instead, they destroyed his mind and made him an empath.
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* BumblingDad: Slightly.


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* BullyingADragon: In "Past Sim," he brushes off warnings of Jarod taking offense to using one of his Sims to kidnap a murder witness (which also led to the death of a federal agent). See above for a taste for how well that worked out for him.


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* HeelFaithTurn: At the start of Season 4, Raines returned from Africa far more religious than before and though still out to catch Jarod, seemingly more kindhearted. The question was whether this was the result of some Triumvirate torturing, he himself faking it to save his own life or if it was all genuine. [[spoiler:Apparently, it was a fake-out as he's back to his old state-of-mind in the movies.]]

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* CatchPhrase: "Didn't you?" and "I'm not really a [occupation]."



* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Wants to help those wronged by his corrupted Sims, those he feels have been grievously wronged in unrelated ways, and even those he happens to run into during a given mission.
-->'''Young Sydney:''' You can't save everyone.\\
'''Young Jarod:''' Well, I had to try!



* ObfuscatingStupidity: As part of his pretends, he downplays how smart he really is depending on what the profession is. He can purposefully play it up, as he springs a trap on someone.



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In "Indy Show," he feels he has become this.
-->''(to Jacob)'' "Since your accident, I've done things - terrible things - to protect Jarod, to protect you. I even [[spoiler:tried to kill Dr. Raines, but the bullet hit his oxygen tank]]."



* MissionControl: For most of Season 1, Broots would stay at The Centre while Miss Parker and Sydney would go in the field. By the end of the season, while remaining the tech guy, he would regularly join them instead.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He dearly loves his daughter.



* TheMole

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* TheMoleTheMole: Also the DetectiveMole.


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* SmarterThanYouLook: Aside from covertly aiding Jarod, he has free-run inside The Centre and can apparently escape at will.


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* EvilerThanThou: In his first appearance, ''Mr. Raines'' refers to him as "The Bogeyman." Mr. Parker is also unable to handle him directly, requiring more covert action. Of course, that was when Lyle had a much stronger powerbase in the organization.


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* TokenEvilTeammate: In Season 3, he's added to Miss Parker's team.


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: See above.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely loves Miss Parker and loved his wife Catherine.

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* WeHelpTheHelpless

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* WeHelpTheHelpless
WeHelpTheHelpless: In fact, in addition to helping them, he'll give them money, too.



* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:He tried to kill Mr. Raines for trying to kill Jarod.]]



* OnlySaneMan



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely loves Miss Parker and loved his wife Catherine.



* TheMole




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* ThatManIsDead: A very tragic example: "Timmy's gone."



* AnArmAndALeg
* ChairReveal

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* AnArmAndALeg
AnArmAndALeg: Thanks to both Jarod and those in The Centre, Lyle finds himself on the bad side of a Yakuza clan. He disappears for a while, but upon his return, he's missing a thumb - per their tradition.
* ChairRevealChairReveal: His first appearance.


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** DragonWithAnAgenda: No matter who he works for, he always has his own plans in mind.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He framed his adopted father for his own murder (ensuring a life sentence), but this also drove his adopted mother insane. When Jarod points this out, Lyle - if even for a moment - seemed genuinely remorseful about that.
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* AudioErotica

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