Law and Order: Criminal Intent/Characters

Detective Robert Goren

• Ambiguous Disorder
• Berserk Button: Hurting Alex in any way or harassing his mother.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defective Detective
• Freudian Excuse: Practically every member of his family has a disorder of some kind.
• Guile Hero
• Man Child: Until Sanity Slippage started to set in, at any rate.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Sanity Slippage
• The Spock
• Tall, Dark and Snarky

Detective Alexandra Eames

• Best Friend Manual: To Robert Goren.
• Broken Bird: Her husband was a cop who was killed in the line of duty.
• Deadpan Snarker: In so, so many spades.
• In the Blood: Comes from a family of cops.
• Missing Mom: In ten seasons, Eames mentions her mother once, to say that she's a stroke victim. In an episode in which Goren and Eames visit Eames' father, her mother is nowhere to be seen.
• Unfazed Everyman

Nicole Wallace

Robert Goren's Arch Enemy and Worthy Opponent

• Affably Evil
• Anti-Villain
• Blondes Are Evil
• The Chessmaster
• Deadpan Snarker
• Depraved Bisexual