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3[[folder:The Unit]]
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5!Operators:
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7!!Jonas "Snake Doctor" Blaine
8-->"You been training for this moment your entire life. The universe has been conspiring, if you think about it, to put you right here... right now. Off you go, we're all waitin' on ya."
9-> '''Played By:''' Creator/DennisHaysbert
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11* AFatherToHisMen: Frequently seen dispensing wisdom and advice to his men, and watching out for them.
12%%* BenevolentBoss
13* PapaWolf: The calm cool type, mostly. When his daughter is kidnapped by terrorists, he walks into a Syrian mosque, reveals himself to be wearing an explosives vests, and tells the congregation that he's willing to kill them all and himself if nobody helps them. What's truly terrifying is how calmly and matter of factly he says it:
14--> "Cool Breeze, Betty Blue. I will count to three. When I get to two, leave the room. The next thing you hear will be an explosion. When that happens, find my daughter. One. Two. God forgive me."
15* {{Ranger}}: Graduated Ranger School and was awarded the Ranger Tab. The show implies that he served in the 75th Ranger Regiment before getting his green beret.
16%%* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted in that he's not that scary. Usually. Until his daughter is kidnapped.
17%%* SergeantRock: The leader of Alpha Team.
18
19!!Bob "Cool Breeze" Brown
20-->"How do you think we got in here, you think we were sitting at the 7-Eleven next door? We had to muster up, fly in, parachute in four miles away, hike in here and not get our asses shot off so we can get your asses out! We are your last line of defense sir, we are the cavalry."
21-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ScottFoley
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23%%* BadassBookworm: He can also fly planes and helicopters. A rarity for a enlisted Soldier in real life.
24%%* BloodKnight: Called out by Betty Blue... later he himself understands this and accepts it.
25* TheCavalry: Bob was serving in a Cavalry Division before being selected for the Unit.
26%%* TheCharmer
27* FriendlySniper: Bob is a friendly, nice guy, who also happens to be the best sniper of the team.
28%%* GuileHero: However, he is not averse to using weapons when needed
29%%* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.
30* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Being the only member who went to college, oh indeed. He was supposed to go to law school, originally.
31%%* TheSmartGuy: Of the five man band.
32
33!!Mack "Dirt Diver" Gerhardt
34-->"Just when everything was going so well."
35-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MaxMartini
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37%%* DeadpanSnarker: One of his coping mechanisms.
38%%* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied, although Tiffy gives as good as she gets.
39%%* TheLancer: To Snake Doc's Hero.
40%%* ManlyTears: In ''Whiplash'', when he was asked [[RiddleForTheAges the pledge]].)
41%%* PapaWolf: Yes, the gun in your face type.
42%%* {{Ranger}}: Like all the others, a Ranger graduate.
43* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: His wife is sleeping with his morally ambiguous superior officer, who could send him to his death if he ever felt like it and who gets away with the affair once it becomes public knowledge.]] Furthermore, it's implied that he has a borderline abusive relationship with his wife and that, while their circle of friends are aware of it, the two are forced to put on a front of being a happy couple for everyone else. Especially after [[spoiler: the affair is exposed]].
44* VillainyDiscretionShot: Several episodes in the show's run implied, if not danced around, the fact that Mac was verbally abusive towards his wife Tiffy and that on multiple occasions been physically aggressive towards her when the two fought. None of it is shown on screen however, due to the couple being a pair of {{Stepford Smiler}}s.
45
46!!Charles "Betty Blue" Grey
47-->"Yeah... I have a plan. You wanna be some help, or I'm gonna use you for parts? We're gonna take them down."
48-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelIrby
49
50%%* TheBigGuy: Of the crew.
51%%* BombDisposal: Seems to be the explosives expert of the team.
52* TheBroCode: Grey worries he is in violation of this when he starts to date [[spoiler: Hector's]] former girlfriend [[spoiler: after Hector's death]].
53* CunningLinguist: He speaks Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
54%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Hector, especially in Season 1.
55%%* WarriorPoet
56
57!!Hector "Hammerhead" Williams
58-> '''Played By:''' Creator/DemoreBarnes
59
60* AmbiguouslyBrown: Hector has passed for more nationalities than anyone on the team.
61%%* BlackDudeDiesFirst: First member of The Unit to buy the farm.
62%%* CombatMedic
63%%* KilledOffForReal
64%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Charles Grey, especially in Season 1.
65
66!!Sam "Whiplash" [=McBride=]
67-> '''Played By:''' Creator/WesChatham
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69%%* FakeDefector
70%%* LeParkour
71* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His grenade use almost cost him entrance to The Unit.
72
73!!Bridget "Red Cap" Sullivan
74-> '''Played By:''' Creator/NicoleSteinwedell
75
76* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Best Laid Plans" has Red Cap rather chillingly ending a weapons dealer's life by lethal injection. This is definitely not the first time she's done this sort of thing.
77%%* MsFanservice
78%%* TheSquadette: Only partly -- she is not a full member of The Unit.
79
80!Command:
81
82!!Tom "Dog Patch Zero Six/Blue Iguana" Ryan
83-->"Where your bodybag? Exactly. But each member of the Unit carries their own bodybag. So until you carry one you don't deserve to talk to my men about their code. They sign on to not exist, for them there is no legacy. These men die for each other, not for you or your boss. These men are warriors. You think need to remind them about their code of silence? They answer to a higher code, friend."
84-> '''Played By:''' Creator/RobertPatrick
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86%%* ColonelBadass
87%%* DaChief
88* DeathSeeker: Has shades of this during the mission to rescue Betsy Blaine, when he keeps provoking the terrorists to kill him, and later volunteers to HoldTheLine for the escape.
89%%* KnightTemplar
90* ThePlan: Runs one when Jonas' daughter is kidnapped and they're investigating in Iraq. He pretends to have a heart attack so that he's injected with a medical radioactive isotope, then lets himself be kidnapped by the terrorists; the isotope allows him to be tracked for a rescue to come.
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93[[folder:Family Members]]
94
95%%!!Molly Blaine
96%%--> '''Played by''' Creator/ReginaTaylor
97%%* ActionSurvivor
98%%* BestFriendManual
99%%* TeamMom
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101%%!!Betsy Blaine
102%%* DaddysGirl
103%%* SurvivorGuilt
104
105!!Kim Brown
106* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After witnessing her husband [[spoiler: murder a traitorous couple in cold blood (albeit under orders), rendering their baby an orphan]], Kim has a brief moment of this when she realizes that she facilitated the act [[spoiler: in part by helping her heroin-addicted husband "steady his hand" so he could take the shot]].
107%%* TheWatson
108
109%%!!Tiffy Gerhardt
110%%* MsFanservice
111%%* StepfordSmiler
112
113%%!!Joss Morgan [[spoiler: Later Grey]]
114%%* FourthDateMarriage
115%%* SecretlyWealthy: When we first meet her

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