Role Association / Law & Order

• Law & Order:
  • Jubal Early started out as black man plagued by racism in New York and ends up throwing race-cards whenever he can as an Amoral Attorney.
  • Lumiere the candlestick and a gay philosophy professor hunt down perps in New York City.
  • Sydney Schanberg is a veteran EADA and later becomes District Attorney of New York County.
  • Christopher Moltisanti is a stalker limo driver in the fifth season and later shows up as a replacement detective in the fifteenth season.

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  • J. Jonah Jameson is a resident psychiatrist.
  • Jane Rizzoli was an ADA before becoming a detective.
  • Miranda Bailey is a nurse.
  • Reuben Tishkoff is a guy who defends his business with a shotgun.
  • Samantha Bee is a lesbian talk show host.
  • Way back in The Ninties, Miranda Hobbes and Mr. Big were a perp and a detective, respectively.
  • Joe Dubois shows up briefly as an asshole preppy.
  • Vivian Ward and Sydney Bristow seduced Dr. Jake Reilly.
  • The President is an attorney for the US.
  • Truman Capote was one of a handful of gangbangers.
  • The Oracle's son was possibly betrayed by an FBI agent.
  • Juliet Capulet is a naive young model who killed her photographer.
    • From the 2016 Tony Awards: In addition to Juliet, Zod, Lola, and Lafayette Jefferson and others also had run-ins with the Law.
  • An undertaker's daughter might have gone a bit too far to find an alibi. She later shows up in SVU as a victimized E.L. James-expy 's stand-in; the real author is her older college professor.

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  • Mr. Briggs is a lawyer.
  • DA Davalos is an Insufferable Genius.
  • Samwise Gamgee is a zealot building an army of the Lord's children.
  • Starbuck gets revenge on her rapist, with a little help from Brother Justin.
  • Col. Quaritch really hates (illegal) aliens, like sabotage a truck and leave them to suffocate to death in the middle of the desert hates them.
  • Justin Hammer gets caught up in a plot to kill a gay cop.
  • Grima Wormtongue might have helped his daughter kill a guy, and dies on the witness stand.
  • Ron Cadillac is a defense attorney... but he's still married to Malory Archer!
  • Billie Dean Howard/Lana Winters/Cordelia Goode/Bette and Dot Tattler/Sally McKenna/Shelby Miller/Audrey Tindall/Ally Mayfair-Richards/Wilhemina Venable helps her stepfather cover up her mother's murder.
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent: A giant alien cockroach and a Goonie-ette solve crimes along with Brundlefly, who replaced Mr. Big. Cases:
  • Ben Linus was deceiving his family, including his wife who once had to put lotion in a basket.

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  • Mr. Impossible (the first one) is a master forger with mommy issues.
  • Miles O'Brien is a debauched judge accused of murder.
  • Data and Eleanor Waldorf are a psychiatrist couple who make their daughter wish they were not therapists.
  • Counselor Troi is a female politician who could not deal with her loutish husband anymore.
  • Barney Stinson is a shy chocolatier who just wants to snuggle with a woman and maybe eat her calf muscles.
  • Dr. Octopus is a rich, possibly mildly retarded momma's boy who never learned how to interact with women. Note: Stabbing people is not a good way to ask for an apology.
  • Joe Dubois is an ice-cold thief.
  • Matilda is worried about her dad, a Manipulative Bastard version of Stephen Hawking.
  • Miranda Hobbes is absolutely not Julie Taymor.
  • Dawn Summers is absolutely not lonelygirl15.
  • Cousin Balki is a Depraved Dentist but not the killer... in the present, anyway.
  • Mabel Pines shows up just long enough to help Mr. Big find her boyfriend, who poisoned Big's reporter friend with polonium.
  • Jessie Spano blackmails fathers for child support and her sister Miss Rhode Island murdered a man. They both go to jail.
  • Mary Alice Young can't find her husband, who just so happens to be the younger brother of Steve Rogers.
  • Kara Danvers is a ballet student who hates a classmate, not least because she thinks she injured her foot. The classmate gets killed. Kara didn't do it - her friend Delia Brown did, and she also hurt Kara.
• Law & Order: LA: James Rhodes and Doc Ock fight crime with Brenda.
  • Ardeth Bey is a sleazy fence.
  • Waverly Jong is a ME.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • Chris Keller and Tenar solve heinous crimes along with Ice-T, John Munch, newly transferred detectives Di Henry and Detective Scotty Valens, with psychologist General Shang.
  • The ME from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit helped defend a Sympathetic Murderer (she took over for his cousin, Max Balls) after the Asshole Victim's associate Big Pussy ratted him out.
  • Mork is a guy with very conflicting views on control (he hates "sheeple"... unless they're his sheeple).
  • Wonder Woman (1975) is a thief and a liar and her daughter Daena thinks Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male (and extremely funny if the female uses roofies and a cattle prod).
  • Sophie is a rape victim and ADA appears for a second when her accused boyfriend is chased by a mob and hit by a car.
  • Lucilla is a passionate but slightly unhinged detective (her aggressiveness makes Stabler uncomfortable), who quits the SVU after Mei-chan tries to burn her apartment with them in it so they can be happy in the afterlife (in her defense, her current life really sucked).
  • One of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers leaves the SVU after killing a guy (who deserved it).
  • Kitty Forman is a woman in deep, deep denial about her husband's violent ephibophilia.
  • Lizzie McGuire is a partying, neglectful teen mom.
  • That Yellow Bastard is a paranoid Serial Killer who gets a little help from Munch's ex-wife, Simka Gravas.
    • Speaking of, Zinnia Wormwood shows up as a defense attorney.
  • Lady Deathstrike is a rape victim who can't remember her assault.
  • Miranda Hobbes is a spider expert with multiple personalities. Or not.
  • Computer nerd Danny Tanner's wife falls for dance director Jack Skellington; after she appears to be poisoned, Jack is suspected while Danny retains Lily St. Regis as his lawyer.
  • Will is suspected of killing his girlfriend.
  • Sharon Carter was accused of killing her parents in a drug-fueled state, but its revealed that she is being framed by her boyfriend.
  • Bree Van De Kamp is married to celebrity author Napoleon Solo. She is accused of molestation by her step-daughters. Turns out she wants his sperm to get her own child.
  • Chel is horrified to discover that her husband is molesting her son. Later, the guy's NaMaBLA-esque leader is defended by Tara.
  • Michael Kuzak attends a law enforcement conference in Atlanta with June Colburn, who later accuses him of rape.
  • Doctor Octopus is accused of being a rapist, but before the detectives can convict him, they have to go through his wealthy dowager mother Jessica Fletcher first.
  • Michael Oher wants to avenge his aunt.
  • Ginger Rothstein takes over as Assistant DA. Wormtongue also shows up as an expert on fires.
  • River Song shows up from time to time as a really snappy defense attorney. Interestingly, her character is named— Spoilers! Miranda Pond — River's real name is Melody Pond.
  • Speaking of defense attorneys, Detective Claudette Wyms appears as one often.
    • Annalise Keating, Ellen Griswold, and Mary Jo Shively also pop up from time to time.
    • And don't forget that one time Clairee Belcher showed up to defend Angie Bolen's son, who stood accused of murdering his father.
  • Randall Winston and Carter Heywood have both left the Mayor's Office in favor of the New York State Bar.
  • Sheila Jackson really misses her little girl. Like, "forces a lookalike kid to get plastic surgery" misses her.
  • Melinda Gordon is a conspicuously unglamourous girl haunted by a vicious rapist.
  • Clarissa Darling has sex with her pupil Cassidy Casablancas and then is raped by him.
  • Wallace Shawn was on SVU too. The fact that you don't know him by name is INCONCEIVABLE!
  • Maxwell Sheffield raped his mother's best friend when he was a teen.
  • Dr. Kavita Rao is a detective who may have had some involvement in the murder of an ADA.
  • Uncle Jesse managed to get around 20 women pregnant by deception. And that's just in New York.
  • Peyton Flanders is a fake wheelchair bound woman who's husband Gambit had an affair with a stripper, who worked for him.
  • Zach Morris is found shot and sexually assaulted in an alley outside of a gay bar. His wife is Betty Brant.
  • Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is a murderer who does not know how to keep his mouth shut.
  • Bernard the Arch-elf is an Absent-Minded Professor who'd kill for water and gave the Victim of the Week poisonous mushrooms (or so he claims) at a Fundraiser held by Aunt May. The case is prosecuted by Ms. Blu Rain and he is defended by Carter Heywood.
  • Lucy Danziger is a teenage girl linked to a pedophile.
  • Poussey comes forward claiming her father never raped her. As a bonus, Joe Caputo shows up to help investigate the case.
  • Mei-ling East is a distressed illegal alien/"paid submissive".
  • Scar is a sex addict who fears he raped his daughter while drunk. He didn't, and the girl he did have sex with consented. In a later episode, his client turns out to be a meek piano teacher accused of murder, Juliet.
  • "Hi, I'm Grace Adler of Pædo Hunt News, why don't you have a seat over there?"
  • Claire Bennet appears twice (well, she does have superpowers); first she's the frequently-injured daughter of two famous singers whose injuries aren't caused by them but by herself because Mom in particular neglects her.
    • Then a few years later, she's a naughty high-school student. Very naughty. Lying, giving oral sex for clothes and murdering the sleazy doctor who had sex with her and her friend, taped it, and wouldn't give her the tape naughty.
  • Cherry is a swinger, a con artist, and in love with her twin brother Opie Winston.
  • Tiana is a maid who accuses a well-heeled guy of raping her. If the headline this was ripped from is any indication, the detectives are going to discover she has some credibility issues.
  • Psychic Powers can't help poor Ariel Dubois. Twice fortunately the second guy is caught.
    • Her mom Allison is probably the most fabulous-looking hooker "of a certain age" ever.
  • Iago the parrot is a fantastically sarcastic IT guy.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an ex-fattie who bullied a current-fattie into a wheelchair, so his pals got revenge by sodomizing her. Pretty sure this is an Old Shame.
  • Agent Prentiss is a robber's resentful daughter. She later shows up as an A.D.A. during Captain Cragen's Frame-Up.
  • A beatnik artist is the new ADA and romancing Olivia.
  • Eunice raised Stu Macher from childhood.
    • Also, her husband is Johnny Sack. Unfortunately, he is not so faithfully devoted to his wife.
  • Dawson hates the classmate who got him kicked out of med school so much that he uses weaponized genetic attraction to seduce the guy's donor and legitimate teenage daughters for revenge.
  • Steve has a fetish for amputating the legs of beautiful women. Fortunately he more-or-less knew what he was doing and it was more-or-less consensual; unfortunately the "less" eventually caught up to him and his last victim.
  • TV star Shannon Rutherford is raped by Phil Diffy, who brags about it to shock jock The Deadly Duplicator, who's shot by Phil's uptight morality-crazed mother Katherine Mayfair.
  • A traditional sister-wife turns out to be a very Manipulative Bitch who thought it'd be funny to have her lover pretend to rape her during a webcam session with her husband. Thanks to her husband's massive denial over her lovers she gets away with a ton of bad behavior.
  • Vada Sultenfuss is not E.L. James. Uh-uh. No way. Absolutely not. Because not-"EL James" is actually her art history professor.
  • Michaela Quinn killed her husband when she discovered he was having an affair with Supergirl...oh, and apparently her son is Jeremiah.
  • Arlene Fowler's a woman who might have cancer. But this is probably nothing compared to her mentally unfit sister...
  • A slimy TV reporter used to be a '70s serial killer, but one of his all-female victims was actually killed by the cop who arrested him, Kelly Garrett, who framed the reporter for the crime and made it look like the victim's husband (who she was having an affair with) was dead.
  • Marissa Cooper is a prostitute who survives an encounter with a religion-inclined murderer.
  • Who kidnapped Jessica Hamby?
  • Claire Dunphy and Dylan McKay are happy to have their child medically tested; this case is also tied into Darlene Conner's past as a rape victim.
  • Birdie, the father of one of Claire's other children - Haley - is accused of molesting her big sister. He didn't do it; it was a false memory planted by sis's therapist, but that doesn't stop the middle child from accidentally killing him.
    • Eight years later, Haley Dunphy comes back as a schoolgirl who really wants to please her mother. Even if she has to kill a fellow student to do it.
  • Ruben Tischkoff is a guy who once fell in (consenting) love with his (18+) high school students. Sadly four other teachers went the non-consensual route.
  • Malcolm's mom is a tough (possibly corrupt?) DA.
  • Wheelchair-bound ex-con Walt Link raped and murdered a whole lot of women — but not the last one. That was FBI agent Mrs. Trevelyan-Grey, who was jealous of the victim, who her boyfriend had dumped her for after forcing her to get an abortion. She killed her in a fit of rage, framed Walt (who she was already investigating), and kept silent for decades.
  • Maggie Greene is raped by a Stalker with a Crush who impregnated her.
  • "Officer Pornstach" (who's also Sabertooth's real-life half-brother) is an incredibly, horrifyingly Manipulative Bastard who burned off his fingerprints, terrorized his roommate, seduced his lawyer Claire Fisher, kidnapped Benson, and killed "Claire's" father and raped her mother along the way. Fortunately Benson introduced him to a pipe; unfortunately she beat him after she restrained him, claimed self-defense, and he is remarkably not dead. When "Pornstach" escapes Det. Harvey Bullock replaces Benson after she confesses her crime to save Pornstach's hostage.
  • Sister Mary Clarence is accused of falsifying documents in a child abuse case.
  • Columnist Jack Donaghy's interference into an already controversial case causes chaos.
  • Henry Standing Bear is a sadistic pedophile who massacres most of a little girl's family.
  • Marquis de Lafayette works as a defense counselor and poor John Laurens is a young man accused of rape.
  • Shane Walsh is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold Intrepid Reporter in the Season 6 finale.
  • Chloe Beale fakes being raped in the Season 7 finale, and the rock star she idolizes, Daryl Dixon, comes to her aid.
  • Katara runs away from home and becomes a Parental Substitute for runaway children. Winn Schott is the Victim of the Week's boyfriend.
  • James Olsen is an NBA superstar molested by his former coach.
  • Zoe Barnes is an envious gymnast who also yearns for her coach's approval. Lucy Lane is one of her teammates.
  • A psychopathic Damon Salvatore has his father Skeletor and brother Kevin Girardi under his thumb.
  • True Jackson is a Love Martyr for Tyreese.
  • Lexi Reed was raped and asks Rollins for help.
  • Lane Pryce is a convicted rapist and serial killer who made "art" of his crimes and gained a fandom whilst serving life in prison.
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury: Lilith Sternin-Crane and Alex Taylor prosecute bad guys brought in by Charlie Francis and Max Medina. Maya is also an ADA.
• Law & Order: UK: Lee Adama is a detective and Martha Jones and Jenny's real dad are the CPS (Crown Prosecuting Service not Child Protective Service).
  • Also, Lt. Edward Little didn't kill his fiancée, but he was involved in the murder of his teacher when he was eleven.