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