History Characters / Travelers

* TheChick: Openly emotional, although still far calmer than the average civilian.

* TheMedic

* HotScientist: Very attractive and dressed impeccably fashionably, even when working in the lab.

* Hypocrite: He constantly cites the death of his wife as murder ([[spoiler: as she died by Messenger]]), but he has zero hang-ups about [[spoiler: overwriting]] other Travelers or innocent bystanders.

* FriendOnTheForce: Averted. Being a high ranking FBI field agent actually creates more problems than it solves. Given than all the intel and equipment needed can be acquired though Philip, and any request for resources will draw undue attention. Its only perk is being able to pull rank on some people and even then, it's not as useful as it sounds.

* GadgeteerGenius: As the team engineer this is his job, but he seems unusually skilled at it, possibly because of his age and experience. Carly expresses surprise he's already built communications devices for the whole team in the day between the first four's initial arrival and first meeting.

* BlessedWithSuck: Being crammed full of history is definitely this for him. Knowing about countless deaths that he could prevent but isn't allowed to does no favours for his sanity in Season 1, and it gets even worse in Season 2 after "Update": [[spoiler: because now he also knows the ''altered'' future, the one that includes himself and his teammates, meaning he knows every horrible thing that's scheduled to happen to them. And no, he's not allowed to try to change any of ''that'' without being instructed to, either.]]

* FunctionalAddict: Invoked: quitting a long time heroin addiction is a time consuming, physically and mentally challenging task, so he voluntarily keeps using the minimum dose required for his body and mind to function properly. As soon as thing settle down somewhat, he gets more proactive in quitting.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: During a drug-induced breakdown Philip writes the name, date and location of every host candidate (i.e. preventable death) in his memory of this time period and location. It stays there for a while, as part of Philip torturing himself with the moral implications of his mission.
* TheSmartGuy: He shares the role with Trevor. While no slouch in combat, his specialty is the intelligence and counter intelligence of the team's operations, acquiring data, cleaning downpaper trails and tying up loose ends (the non-lethal kind).

* DarkAndTroubledPast: We eventually learn David pursued a path as a social worker with a special interest in homeless people because he himself very narrowly escaped life on the street as a kid after his father died in a car accident and his mother had a breakdown and lost their house. He credits his staying off the street to a homeless man who took him under his wing and pushed him to seek help from social services and "not end up like me". His whole life since then has been to pay this gift forward.

* ShooOutTheClowns: At the beginning of Season 3 Philip gets rid of Ray after memory wiping fairly easily with a big cash payoff, in direct contrast to the problems Grant and Marcy have repairing their relationships with Kat and David. After this, Ray is never seen again (and fellow comic relief character David becomes much less clownish).

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: After the Faction essentially brings forth a nuclear apocalypse Yates goes to look at the sky. That said, as the timeline is completely rewritten after [=MacLaren=] goes back in time and warns the Director not to send Traveler 001 Yates is still alive.]]

* PetTheDog: Despite being very reluctant toward aiding the Traveler team, and has a particular dislike for Mack especially, Yates shows a little empathy towards him and the problems with his wife, replying: "Same here."

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Because of the restrictions she expects the Travelers to adhere to and also the Protocols that restrict Travelers from revealing too much of their mission Yates and Mack tend to butt heads a lot during Season Three.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a particularly scathing one to [=MacLaren=] and to the Travelers as a whole, accusing them that they did not come to stop the end of the world but instead to speed up the process. [[spoiler:Considering that at that point the world was about to burn up in nuclear fire she's not entirely wrong.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Trevor seems badly squicked by Grace's open sexual interest in him starting in Season 3. [[spoiler: It's then revealed in a later episode that after sharing three lifetimes with his original wife nobody else could really compare for him.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: The Traveler Grace comes off this way thanks to apparently having NoSocialSkills, NoIndoorVoice and no impulse control, and freely admits at her trial that she and the other original Programmers may have qualified as "sociopaths". Much of this might be attributed to growing up in a BadFuture where most niceties of civilization have become obsolete, in which she was part of a tiny, relatively pampered elite -- and the fact that she went rogue when she came back to the past and got none of the standard cultural training for Travelers.

* BrokenPedestal: Part of the reason he rebels. He realizes the Director is fallible when his initial mission puts him in the wrong body, causing the mission itself to be a pointless failure. It goes further when the Director breaks his understanding of its ethical programming, overwriting his wife when she had done nothing wrong and wasn't already slated to die - an act he, reasonably, sees as murder. After this point he goes simply from fearing the Director to being its enemy.

* Hypocrite: He constantly cites the death of his wife as murder ([[spoiler: as she died by Messenger]]), but he has zero hangups about [[spoiler: overwriting]] other Travelers or innocent bystanders.

* PetTheDog: Minutes before fleeing the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11 he is compelled to shout out a warning to everyone around him, which is of course ignored. This is the last purely altruistic act he will ever commit.

* ShadowArchetype: He's got the same background and goals as the protagonists, but he's abandoned both their professional discipline and their basic human decency in favour of getting the job done with whatever brute-force solutions are most convenient. He claims that after enough time in the present, every Traveler turns out like him.

* ChildSoldiers: As with all the Traveler program's Historians, Philip was identified in his infancy as someone with the potential for superior memory and "recruited" into the organization to be conditioned into a living database. It's never stated, but this is probably why his Traveler number is 100 digits lower than his teammates' (except [[Really700YearsOld Trevor]]): they all joined as adults.

* ChildSoldiers: As with all the Traveler program's Historians, Philip was identified in his infancy as someone with the potential for superior memory and was "recruited" into the organization to be conditioned into a living database. It's never stated, but this is probably why his Traveler number is 100 digits lower than his teammates' (except [[Really700YearsOld Trevor]]): they all joined as adults.

* ChildSoldiers: As with all the Traveler program's Historians, Philip was identified at a young age to have the potential for superior memory and was "recruited" into the organization as a child to be conditioned into a living database. It's never stated, but this is probably why his Traveler number is 100 digits lower than his teammates' (except [[Really700YearsOld Trevor]]): they all joined as adults.

* ChildSoldiers: As with all the Traveler program's Historians, Philip was identified at a young age to have the potential for superior memory and was "recruited" into the organization as a child. It's never stated, but this is probably why his Traveler number is more than 100 digits lower than his teammates' (except [[Really700YearsOld Trevor]]): they all joined as adults.

* ChildSoldiers: As with all the Traveler program's Historians, Philip was identified at a young age to have the potential for superior memory and was "recruited" into the organization as a child. It's never stated, but this is probably why his Traveler number is more than 100 digits lower than his teammates' (except [[Really700YearsOld Trevor]], of course). They all joined as adults, but Philip was basically conscripted.

The team's historian.

* CassandraTruth: When he first arrives in the 21st century and Ray wants to know his system for predicting winning horse races, Philip calmly tells him the truth - that he's from the future and memorized the results. Ray, naturally, think's he's just trolling him and laughs it off.

* ParentalAbuse: Original!Andrew was abused by his mother and targeted other abusive mothers in his killings.

* RealityEnsues: After constantly disappearing from home and then leaving 'her' son with Jeffrey, Child Services strips Carly of her right to raise him.

* BombDisposal: He wakes up from a NearDeathExperience having been shot and left for dead by the Faction, to find himself forced to improvise his way through [[spoiler: dismantling a nuclear bomb with only three minutes on the clock before detonation -- pretty much a classic scenario from an anxiety dream. And once he succeeds, against all odds -- keeping in mind a highly trained Traveler team in Shanghai died attempting the same thing -- [[RealityEnsues his only reward is a painful death from radiation sickness.]] ]]

* RealityEnsues: A kid rescued from horrific abuse at the hands of kidnappers doesn't just have the trauma vanish and isn't guaranteed any kind of happy ending, especially if he goes from there into the tender mercies of the US foster system.

* NotWhatItLookLike: Him constantly going off the grid while he's supposed to be at work or with his wife, plus his changes in behavior (going vegan, acting like he's hiding something... makes love differently), ''and'' Jeff ratting out to Kat that he and Carly have been seen together leads to Kat thinking he's being unfaithful.

* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: This was going to be her fate but The Director sent Rick Hall to save her, at the cost of the child.]]

* FreudianExcuse: While his mom does seem to suffer it just as much as him, it's clear that life under Trevor's domineering and pressuring father was anything but pleasant. [[spoiler:In season 2 it's revealed the original Trevor was a victim of sexual abuse by the high school coach.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: Trevor's discomfort with sex and romance is partly because his true age means ''any'' relationship with another human would be this for him. [[spoiler: It does turn out that his original wife was somewhat older than him -- though three lifetimes together was more than enough to make the original age gap insignificant. This was the reason he assumed that when her mind succumbed to final death he still had a good few years of lifespan remaining to serve the Director as a Traveler.]]

* AllLovingHero: He gets a $30,000 windfall in the lottery by stealing Marcy's numbers, and ends up ''giving away all of it'' to people he knows could use it more than him.

* TheWoobie: He ''starts out'' by being set on fire, and no sooner has he been put out than he vomits up a human eyeball and realises that the body he's in is a cannibalistic serial killer. (welcome to the 21st, indeed!) He's promptly arrested for his host's crimes, has to dodge the police to carry out his mission, and in the end seems set to be incarcerated for life (if not executed). At no point during all of this does he display any aggression or resentment, only fear that he won't get to save the world. [[spoiler: He does, at least, get to do that.]]

The teams tactical specialist.

The teams technology expert. Trevor is still at school, while his Traveler is the oldest within his cell.

The teams historian.

* TheCracker: He's the one to call when you want something hacked remotely. He also sets up the deep web network that the traveler teams and The Director use as a way of communication.

!! Core team hosts friends, family and work collegues

* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile: [=McLaren=] does everything he can to bond with the kid and give him one happy day with a friend before he dies, even knowing this will make killing him that much harder. This impulse is what ends up changing his destiny and saving his life.]]

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