Sliders/Characters

Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell)

• Badass
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Took a Level in Badass
• Butt Monkey
• Chronic Hero Syndrome
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Hollywood Nerd
• Honor Before Reason
• The Nth Doctor
• Team Dad: After Arturo dies late Season 3 and for Season 4. Lampshaded in "Slither," where Quinn laments that without Arturo, "It's all on me, and I'm flying blind."
• Teen Genius
• Two First Names

Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd)

• Alliterative Name
• Back for the Dead
• Devoted to You: EVERY male character in EVERY dimension falls in love with her, for a reason beyond this troper's psychological abilities.
• Damsel in Distress
• Dropped A Bridge On Her
• The Heart
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Gender Blender Name
• Hollywood Nerd
• Honor Before Reason
• Spell My Name with an "S": "Welles" or "Wells."
  • Word of God admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it Depending on the Writer.
• Techno Wizard

Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks)

• As the Good Book Says...
• Badass: Seasons 4 and 5.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Black Best Friend
• Break the Cutie: He spent months in a Kromagg prison.
• Butt Monkey
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dirty Coward: Season 1.
• The Everyman
• The Heart
• Hidden Depths
• Manchurian Agent: In Season 4.
• Manly Tears: His nickname is "Crying Man," after all.
• Only Sane Man
• Ted Baxter: He has a lot of these moments in the first two seasons.
• Team Dad: In Season 5.
• Took a Level in Badass: At the start of the series, he was easily spooked by dangers on parallel worlds. By Season 4, he gladly fights Kromaggs hand-to-hand and mocks them to their faces.

Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies)

• Agent Scully
• Badass Grandpa
• Came Back Wrong: In a way, as it is implied (and stated to be Word of God), that an Arturo double slid in one episode, leaving the original stranded.
• Catch Phrase: The number of times he called someone a "blistering idiot" and yelled "incoming" at the end of a slide borders on this.
• Cool Old Guy
• Deadpan Snarker
• Disappeared Dad: According to "Into the Mystic," he's actually this to someone back home.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him
• Heroic Sacrifice
• I Just Want to Be Special: Season 2 introduced the idea that he resented Quinn for inventing sliding by accident.

"You resent the boy because it comes so easily to him."

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: But virtually every single double encountered was a Jerkass.
• Mister Exposition
• Parental Substitute: To Quinn.
• The Professor
• Secretly Dying: Introduced in "The Guardian," where Quinn finds out and is sworn to secrecy. Rembrandt would find out in "Last of Eden."
• The Smart Guy
• Taking the Bullet
• Team Dad: Seasons 1-3.
• Technical Pacifist
• Ted Baxter

Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer)

• Action Girl
• Cute Bruiser
• Daddy Issues: Highlighted in "The Return of Maggie Beckett."
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dead Guy, Junior
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Damsel in Distress
• The Heart: In Season 5.
• Hidden Depths
• Hot Amazon
• Jerkass, later Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Ms. Fanservice
• Same Character but Different: Her personality was retooled between Seasons 3 and 4. Lampshaded in the Season 4 premiere with a character with a personality of the Season 3 Maggie.
• The Snark Knight
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted at first, as she was nothing like Arturo. Her Season 4 onward depiction does bear some similarity to Wade's, though.
• Team Mom: In Season 4-5.
• Waif Fu

Colin Mallory (Charlie O'Connell)

• Dropped a Bridge on Him
• Gadgeteer Genius: He built his own hang glider for one.
• Hollywood Nerd
• Put on a Bus to Hell
• Smarter Than You Look: Colin is rather naive, but only because he came from a less advanced world. He is nonetheless quite intelligent, adapting rather well to modern technology and figuring things out for himself.

Quinn "Mallory" Mallory (Robert Floyd)

• Book Dumb
• Last-Name Basis: Mainly because Maggie was incapable of calling him "Quinn," and then everybody picked it up.
• Loveable Rogue
• The Nth Doctor

Diana Davis (Tembi Locke)

• Alliterative Name
• Black and Nerdy
• Break the Cutie: Back-to-back episodes "Applied Physics" and "Strangers and Comrades."
• Heel Face Turn: In the episode where she's introduced.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute