History YMMV / CSIMiami

* DesignatedVillain: In "Forced Entry," the SympatheticMurderer of the AssholeVictim rapist. Caine suddenly becomes LawfulStupid and invokes NoSympathy and WhatTheHellHero on the former for invoking VigilanteExecution -- yet [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale egregiously]] averts such a reaction for [[UnfortunateImplications different (read: female)]] RapeAndRevenge-invokers in other episodes.

** This show itself for the CSI fandom in general. It was either a great show or the show that was made unwatchable (and made other CSI entries unwatchable) by David Caruso.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** Horatio Caine + child(ren) (inluding [[spoiler:[[LongLostRelative his own]]]]) results in this trope.
** His dealing with the mentally disabled Eugene in "Witness To Murder" is this.
** In "Terminal Velocity", one of the SeparatedAtBirth twins played by Grant Gustin had a rare disease which required a partial liver transplant. His [[{{Jerkass}} biological father]] refused to help, but his brother is willing to do it. Boa Vista helps too, putting them in the same van when they leave the precint.
* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned above, Creator/GrantGustin appeared in an episode called "Terminal Velocity", and since 2014 he's playing the titular [[SuperSpeed speedster]] of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Aditionally, he played twins in that episode, and, in the second season of ''The Flash'', Barry met his [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2]] counterpart.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Julia Winston, who appeared in all of ''seven'' episodes, yet keeps popping up in the fandom.
** Alexx, as detailed below for being the only person that has something that resembles human emotion.

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Marisol]]. With prior knowledge of this event, the viewer may begin crying four episodes before the actual death.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
The episode called "Urban Hellraisers". Yes, the ''entire episode''. An example: Once the team determines that the crooks are basing their crimes on the plot of a video game, they obviously need to determine what happens next in the game's plot. They go to the developer (conveniently located in Miami) who refuses to tell them the game's plot, saying that they will "just have to play the game." Not only is his reasoning that an already-released game's plot is some sort of trade secret patently ridiculous, the writers have clearly never set foot in a video game store, where there is generally an entire wall of [[StrategyGuide Official Strategy Guides]] proclaiming "All Secrets Revealed!" on the front covers. And apparently CSI Miami-verse has no such thing as online walkthroughs, story guides, or Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* AcceptableTargets: In one episode called "Urban Hellraisers", gamers. An entire episode was dedicated to trying to catch a group of bank robbers/murderers who took the GTA expy they were playing far too seriously, but the episode was written like something Jack Thompson would come up with and failed to so much as whisper the fact that 99% of gamers know the difference between fantasy and reality. Not to mention the game in question [[PacManFever looked like it was created for the Sega CD]] except it's apparently a bestseller in the modern day.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The "killer gamers" episode mentioned above. Yes, the ''entire episode.'' An example: Once the team determines that the crooks are basing their crimes on the plot of a video game, they obviously need to determine what happens next in the game's plot. They go to the developer (conveniently located in Miami) who refuses to tell them the game's plot, saying that they will "just have to play the game." Not only is his reasoning that an already-released game's plot is some sort of trade secret patently ridiculous, the writers have clearly never set foot in a video game store, where there is generally an entire wall of [[StrategyGuide Official Strategy Guides]] proclaiming "All Secrets Revealed!" on the front covers. And apparently CSI Miami-verse has no such thing as online walkthroughs, story guides, or Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The beginning of 9x09 "Blood Sugar". Its images of workers hacking away at sugarcane, the lyrics of the background music, and even the [[http://web.utk.edu/~gerard/romanticpolitics/bloodsugar.html title]] appear to be trying to lay a guilt trip on the audience for...''using sugar''. No accident that the presumably rich people in the gazebo are white while almost everyone else is Hispanic, either. TruthInTelevision, the ''vast'' majority of sugarcane workers are Hispanic, and all of them are poor.

* SeasonalRot: Seems to kick in near the end of season six, when Alexx left the team to "save lives" at a local ER. Taking the emotional core out of the team badly damaged the show as it became [[UpToEleven EVEN MORE OF A RIDICULOUS SUPEREGO-FUELED MIND TRIP]] by losing the one character grounded in anything resembling human emotion. Pulling an absurd LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt for that same season's finale did not help.

* CompleteMonster:
** Stewart Otis, first appearing in season 1's "Broken", is a [[WouldHurtAChild pedophilic]] SerialKiller[=/=]SerialRapist who targeted [[WouldHitAGirl little girls]] around the ages of five to eight years. [[WolfInSheepsClothing While acting as an authority figure]], he would kidnap the girls to take to his home for him to rape and strangle to death before burying the bodies in is backyard. He has done this to eight little girls and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only lamenting on his latest victim, Ruthie, because she died too quickly before he got a chance to "play" with her]]. He later appears in the season's finale "Body Count", where he escaped prison with the help of two fellow inmates, Hank Kerner and Randall Kaye. He then [[UngratefulBastard returns the latter's favor]] by kidnapping his daughter, Emma, taking her to a cabin where he not only raped her, but force her to partake in a [[SnuffFilm film]] taunting Horatio Caine, the person who arrested him. He then tries to kill her [[note]]She survives[[/note]] before trying to find her cousin, Robyn, hoping to do the same thing to her.
** Henry Darius, from a ''Series/CSIMiami''-''Series/CSINewYork'' crossover, is a SerialKiller-turned-spree killer known for [[BoomHeadshot shooting his victims in the head]]. As a child born from [[TheMistress a mistress]] of a wealthy family, he always felt [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] that his half-sisters got [[AttentionWhore more attention than he did]], and as a result, [[StartOfDarkness became a murderer]], with his first three victims [[ReplacementGoldfish looking like his sisters]]. First appearing in the season 4 ''Miami'' episode "Felony Flight", he causes a plane crash that kills two pilots and one U.S. Marshal. He then steals the marshal's gun and uses it to kill four college students and steal their car. He then travels to Miami University where he would kill two more college students after they told him about his half-sister, Alexa, and her whereabouts. He then goes to her location and kidnap her before shooting a man for his car and heading to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. When he arrives there in the season 2 ''NY'' episode "Manhattan Manhunt", he murders Alexa along with six college students, before heading off to kill his second half-sister Sarah. A {{narcissist}}ic [[TheSociopath sociopath]], with a [[AxCrazy violently-low impulse control]], poor FreudianExcuse, and 20+ body count to boot, Henry Darius was among the worst that both CSI teams from Miami and New York had ever had to face.

** Before playing Captain Kirk in ''Film/StarTrek'', Creator/ChrisPine played a murder suspect in "Extreme".

** Season nine finale: Horatio appears to get shot in the stomach/side, Natalia gets locked in a car trunk and pushed into the harbor. Season ten premiere: Horatio jumps into the harbor out of nowhere, gets Natalia out of the trunk, incapacitates bad guy...in the space of TheTeaser. Again, no one will EVER believe you to have killed a BlackHoleSue on the order of Horatio. At least he clearly suffers from the wound throughout the episode.

%% * BaseBreakingCharacter: Horatio.

** Season six finale: Horatio goes to an airport to send his ex-wife and son into hiding, gets shot in the stomach, appears to die on the shiniest tarmac in history. Wolfe gets text: "It's done". Might've been marginally believable if it weren't the motherfucking God-Mode Sue of the show! And there's the whole thing about the similar moment on CSI: Las Vegas that was forced to stick by extenuating circumstances. Sure enough, season seven reveals Horatio to have faked his death, Wolfe to be in on it, and it all to be part of a gambit to lure Ron Saris out of hiding...in the space between the first and second commercial breaks.

* The cast does their best [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8gZIGZbdc Horatio imitations]].

* AcceptableTargets: In one episode called "Urban Hellraisers", gamers. An entire episode was dedicated to trying to catch a group of bank robbers/murderers who took the GTA expy they were playing far too seriously, but the episode was written like something Jack Thompson would come up with and failed to so much as whisper the fact that 99% of gamers know the difference between fantasy and reality.
** Not to mention the game in question [[PacManFever looked like it was created for the Sega CD]] except it's apparently a bestseller in the modern day.
* {{Anvilicious}}: The beginning of 9x09 "Blood Sugar". Its images of workers hacking away at sugarcane, the lyrics of the background music, and even the [[http://web.utk.edu/~gerard/romanticpolitics/bloodsugar.html title]] appear to be trying to lay a guilt trip on the audience for...''using sugar''. No accident that the presumably rich people in the gazebo are white while almost everyone else is Hispanic, either. Would you like a little implied racism with your anvil?
** TruthInTelevision, the ''vast'' majority of sugarcane workers are Hispanic, and all of them are poor.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Technically there's one every episode if you ''really'' like Music/TheWho's song. ''20 to 1'', a program where celebrities discuss the top twenty...anything, in this case best TV themes, addressed this. ''Who Are You'' brought the band back into the spotlight, by the time New York came around they were set for life and '''''YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''''' makes you wanna go...well, '''''[[BigYes YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]'''''

** This show itself for the CSI fandom in general. It was either a great show or made unwatchable by David Caruso.

* CrazyAwesome: Once you get over the fact that it's not even trying to be serious business, the show is this.
** The difficulty in that line of thought is that everything that happens in the show seems to suggest it takes itself [[SeriousBusiness VERY SERIOUSLY]]. Not to mention the marketing...dear god, the marketing...
* CriticalResearchFailure: The "killer gamers" episode mentioned above. Yes, the ''entire episode.''
** An example: Once the team determines that the crooks are basing their crimes on the plot of a video game, they obviously need to determine what happens next in the game's plot. They go to the developer (conveniently located in Miami) who refuses to tell them the game's plot, saying that they will "just have to play the game." Not only is his reasoning that an already-released game's plot is some sort of trade secret patently ridiculous, the writers have clearly never set foot in a video game store, where there is generally an entire wall of [[StrategyGuide Official Strategy Guides]] proclaiming "All Secrets Revealed!" on the front covers. And apparently CSI Miami-verse has no such thing as online walkthroughs, story guides, or Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Julia Winston, who appeared in all of ''seven'' episodes, yet keeps popping up in the fandom.
** Same goes for Rick Stetler and Ron Saris.

* EvilIsSexy: Julia, Horatio's secret baby-mama, who [[VaporWear doesn't wear a bra]] and had a neckline steadily lower over the course of a two-parter.
** Well, she ''was'' a Film/{{Showgirl|s}}...
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The cast does their best [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8gZIGZbdc Horatio imitations]].

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Horatio Caine + child(ren) (inluding [[spoiler:[[LongLostRelative his own]]]]) results in this trope.

** Season six finale: Horatio goes to an airport to send his ex-wife and son into hiding, gets shot in the stomach, appears to die on the shiniest tarmac in history. Wolfe gets text: "It's done". Might've been marginally believable if it weren't the [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucking]] God-Mode Sue of the show! And there's the whole thing about the similar moment on CSI:Vegas that was forced to stick by extenuating circumstances. Sure enough, season seven reveals Horatio to have faked his death, Wolfe to be in on it, and it all to be part of a gambit to lure Ron Saris out of hiding...in the space between the first and second commercial breaks.
** Season nine finale: Horatio appears to get shot in the head, Natalia gets locked in a car trunk and pushed into the harbor. Season ten premiere: Horatio jumps into the harbor out of nowhere, gets Natalia out of the trunk, incapacitates bad guy...in the space of TheTeaser. Again, no one will EVER believe you to have killed a BlackHoleSue on the order of Horatio. They don't even try to HandWave the headshot...
*** Because he got shot in the ''stomach/side'', not the head. And he clearly suffers from the wound throughout the episode.
* MemeticMutation: Looks like it's time for...(puts on sunglasses) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sarYH0z948 the opening sequence]].
** '''''[[Music/TheWho Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh!]]'''''

** The most recent episodes have Horatio easing up on the [[QuipToBlack one-liners]], lowering the NarmCharm somewhat.
*** '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''

** Similarly, Creator/KimCoates played recurring villain Ron Saris in seasons six and seven just as he was finally gaining some mainstream recognition as Tig Trager in Series/SonsOfAnarchy.
*** Hilariously, there's an episode where he accidentally kills Juice (Theo Rossi)!

* CompleteMonster: Stewart Otis, first appearing in season 1's "Broken", is a [[WouldHurtAChild pedophilic]] SerialKiller[=/=]SerialRapist who targeted [[WouldHitAGirl little girls]] around the ages of five to eight years. [[WolfInSheepsClothing While acting as an authority figure]], he would kidnap the girls to take to his home for him to rape and strangle to death before burying the bodies in is backyard. He has done this to eight little girls and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only lamenting on his latest victim, Ruthie, because she died too quickly before he got a chance to "play" with her]]. He later appears in the season's finale "Body Count", where he escaped prison with the help of two fellow inmates, Hank Kerner and Randall Kaye. He then [[UngratefulBastard returns the latter's favor]] by kidnapping his daughter, Emma, taking her to a cabin where he not only raped her, but force her to partake in a [[SnuffFilm film]] taunting Horatio Caine, the person who arrested him. He then tries to kill her [[note]]She survives[[/note]] before trying to find her cousin, Robyn, hoping to do the same thing to her.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The beginning of 9x09 "Blood Sugar". Its images of workers hacking away at sugarcane, the lyrics of the background music, and even the [[http://web.utk.edu/~gerard/romanticpolitics/bloodsugar.html title]] appear to be trying to lay a guilt trip on the audience for...''using sugar''. No accident that the presumably rich people in the gazebo are white while almost everyone else is Hispanic, either. Would you like a little implied racism/reverse racism with your anvil?

* DesignatedVillain: In "Forced Entry," the SympatheticMurderer of the AssholeVictim rapist. Caine suddenly becomes LawfulStupid and invokes NoSympathy and WhatTheHellHero on the former for invoking VigilanteExecution -- yet [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale egregiously]] averts such a reaction for different (read: female) RapeAndRevenge-invokers in other episodes.

* DesignatedVillain: In "Forced Entry," the SympatheticMurderer of the AssholeVictim rapist. Caine suddenly becomes LawfulStupid and invokes NoSympathy and WhatTheHellHero on the former for invoking VigilanteExecution -- yet [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale egregiously]] averts such a reaction for similar RapeAndRevenge-invokers in other episodes.

* DesignatedVillain: In "Forced Entry," the SympatheticMurderer of the AssholeVictim rapist. Caine suddenly becomes LawfulStupid and invokes NoSympathy and WhatTheHellHero on the former for invoking VigilanteExecution -- which Caine [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale egregiously]] averts for similar RapeAndRevenge-invokers in other episodes.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Horatio Caine + child(ren) results in this trope.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/GrantGustin appeared in an episode called "Terminal Velocity", and since 2014 he's playing the titular [[SuperSpeed speedster]] of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Aditionally, he played twins in that episode, and, in the second season of ''The Flash'', Barry met his [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2]] counterpart.

** Before playing Captain Kirk in ''Film/StarTrek'', ChrisPine played a murder suspect in "Extreme".

* ShipToShipCombat: Between Calleigh/Horatio, Calleigh/Delko and Calleigh/Eric fans, mostly, although there was also a smaller one between fans of Natalia/Eric and Natalia/Ryan.

* CompleteMonster: Stewart Otis, first appearing in season 1's "Broken", is a [[WouldHurtAChild pedophilic]] SerialKiller[=/=]SerialRapist who targeted [[WouldHitAGirl little girls]] around the ages of five to eight years. [[WolfInSheepsClothing While acting as an authority figure]], he would kidnap the girls to take to his home for him to rape and strangle to death before burying the bodies in is backyard. He has done this to eight little girls and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only lamenting on his latest victim, Ruthie, because she died too quickly before he got a chance to "play" with her]]. He later appears in the season's finale "Body Count", where he escaped prison with the help of two fellow inmates, Hank Kerner and Randall Kaye. He then [[UngratefulBastard returns the latter's favor]] by kidnapping his daughter, Emma, taking her to a cabin where he not only raped her, but force her to partake in a [[SnuffFilm film]] taunting [[RedHeadedHero Horatio Caine]], the person who arrested him. He then tries to kill her [[note]]She survives[[/note]] before trying to find her cousin, Robyn, hoping to do the same thing to her.

* BrokenBase: The Eric/Calleigh romance: the best thing that's ever happened to the show? Or a 'nomance' that's been [[JumpingTheShark dragging the show to its grave for years]]?
** This show itself was a BaseBreaker for the CSI fandom in general. It was either a great show or made unwatchable by David Caruso.
* BaseBreaker: Horatio.