Shadow of the Templar/Characters

Team Templar

 * Bunny-Ears FBI Agents
 * Code Names: Templar, Springheel, Specs, Specs Two, Honda, Texas, Stonewall, and Shadow.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Everyone has their moments. Except Stonewall.
 * FBI Agents
 * Friendly Enemy: With Jeremy. Except for Simon, who's Dating Catwoman instead.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
 * True Companions

Simon Drake ("Templar")

 * Bi the Way
 * Dating Catwoman: They're not dating!
 * Control Freak: He's accused of this multiple times. Is occasionally willing to admit it.
 * Crazy Jealous Guy: Simon doesn't take the revelation that the thief in Double Down is Jeremy's ex-lover very well. At. All.
 * Domestic Abuser: Let's be honest: if Jeremy was female, Simon would be considered an absolutely horrible person, because he very often treats Jeremy like shit . Although Simon does.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Simon tends to be very possessive over things he perceives as his, regardless of whether he's willing to consciously admit that he wants them or not. He gets jealous over Jeremy getting along with his teammates, because they're Simon's team and Jeremy is not one of them and never will be. Of course, he then proceeds to get incredibly, bitterly jealous over Jeremy's ex-lover, and is also (momentarily) jealous of when Jeremy is comforting her after she's rescued. Simon even shows hints of being jealous of, of all people, in High Fidelity when.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * The Leader: Has elements of all four types, but mostly III and IV.
 * Married to the Job
 * Must Have Caffeine: The coffeemaker is labeled "Mrs. Simon Drake (♥)"
 * Oblivious to Love: In this capacity Simon may be borderline retarded.
 * Only Sane Employee: Well, he does run a team of lunatics.
 * Papa Wolf: Toward his squad.
 * Team Dad
 * Tsundere: To an almost ridiculous degree with Jeremy.

Sandra Leone ("Springheel")

 * Action Girl: Her character profile even notes that one of her roles is to be the "muscle". She's very good at smacking people around. Including her teammates.
 * Blue Blood: She did try to be the kind of upper-class daughter her parents expected her to be. But she got bored with that and joined the FBI.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: With . Shows hints of it in With a Bullet.
 * The Lancer
 * Mama Bear: Toward her teammates.
 * Number Two:.
 * Only Sane Agent
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: In the last two books she takes a level whenever she's dealing with Jeremy, but especially in High Fidelity, where she almost always seems to be about five seconds away from ripping his throat out with her teeth.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: In the last two books she takes a level whenever she's dealing with Jeremy, but especially in High Fidelity, where she almost always seems to be about five seconds away from ripping his throat out with her teeth.

Nate Waxman ("Specs")

 * Captain Crash: To the point of it being an acknowledged Running Gag.
 * The Chick
 * No Sense of Direction: He was the only one who managed to get lost inside of an opera house (and twice, at that). Please note that he was also the only member of the team who had actually been there before.
 * Scars Are Forever: His chest is covered with scars.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: He is the team's explosives expert. On Team Templar, this is a position that more often requires him to make bombs than defuse them.
 * Team Mascot: As dubbed by Simon.
 * Team Mascot: As dubbed by Simon.

Mike Takemura ("Honda")

 * The Big Guy: Shares this role with Johnny.
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * But Not Too Foreign/Ambiguously Brown: Invoked. His father was Japanese-American and his mother was Hispanic, giving him a general "ethnic" look. It's been used to the team's advantage in a number of undercover operations.
 * Drives Like Crazy: Taking it to new levels, and with just as much glee as he shows while jumping on Double Entendres.
 * Handsome Lech
 * Pungeon Master: He is often kicked preemptively, because the others know what's coming.
 * Team Chef

Johnny Pilgrim ("Texas")

 * Beware the Quiet Ones: "Some people just need killing."
 * The Big Guy: Shares this role with Mike.
 * More Dakka: Johnny can always be counted on to have a shitload of high-calibre weaponry and the ability to kill things with it. And grenades.
 * The Stoic

Rich Story ("Specs Two")

 * Insufferable Genius
 * Jerkass: Sandra (mentally) describes him as an "ill-tempered little asshole with almost no sense of humor". Even Simon, who's actually considered his friend, once calls him "a very shouty little man", much to Jeremy's amusement.
 * Irrational Hatred: Jeremy seems to be very good at inspiring this in people. Rich certainly has good reason to dislike Jeremy, but the raw hatred he displays is... excessive, to say the least.
 * Too Clever by Half:.
 * Too Clever by Half:.
 * Too Clever by Half:.

Dave Brassoff ("Stonewall")

 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Specially mentioned because Jeremy assures Dave that he's actually the right kind of crazy to fit in with Team Templar; all Dave needs to do is grow a spine..
 * Dead Big Sister: The murder of his older sister was what inspired him to join the FBI.
 * Dissonant Serenity: In a zen state while working on the computer. Mousepad suddenly on fire. Dump coffee on it without sparing it a glance. Continue programming.
 * Forgets to Eat: Also forgets to sleep.
 * New Meat: A textbook case.
 * Replacement Scrappy: In-universe, for.
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: By virtue of.
 * Workaholic: While otherwise capable of working on a normal schedule, Dave will go into overdrive when he's given a specific task, pulling all kinds of lunatic hours to get the job done. His current record is thirty-five straight hours without going home.

Jeremy Archer ("Shadow")
"Jeremy: I thought you of all people might understand that nothing is more fun than doing that at which you excel."
 * Abel: To Bran's Cain.
 * The Atoner: According to Word of God, he holds himself responsible for . It's so important to him that.
 * Because I'm Good At It: Why he enjoys being a thief so very, very much.

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 * Becoming the Mask/That Man Is Dead: . See 'Generation Xerox'.


 * Bi the Way: With a preference toward men.
 * Code Name: Notable in that he didn't choose it; it was assigned to him years ago by Art Theft.
 * Con Men Hate Guns: Over the course of the entire series, Jeremy handles a gun on only two occasions: once when Simon is giving him lessons in the firing range, and once.
 * : He shows shades of this. It's confirmed by Word of God.
 * : Due to his backstory; it's the main reason he puts up with so much abuse from Simon.
 * Foster Kid: Ethan's foster son. Unlike most examples of this trope, Ethan is a good and loving parental figure.
 * Generation Xerox: A strange, deliberate example. When Simon meets Ethan, it becomes apparent that Jeremy has modelled himself after his foster father - not only in terms of his career, but also style, mannerisms, speech patterns and Drink Order. There's a good reason for this; see 'Becoming the Mask'.
 * Gentleman Thief
 * Happily Adopted: At age fifteen by Ethan. Well, not officially adopted, but that's just a technicality.
 * Karma Houdini: Part of being the best thief in the world means never getting caught, after all.
 * Love Martyr: See 'Domestic Abuser' under Simon's heading. There's also the situation with Bran..
 * Loveable Rogue: Sure, he's a criminal, but he's a smooth operator and has no interest in physically harming anyone.
 * "Mission Impossible" Cable Drop: He's very fond of these. Using suction cups.
 * No Sense of Personal Space: Employs this with Simon. All the time.
 * Not a Morning Person: As Simon finds out in Double Down.
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Phantom Thief: He didn't earn the name 'Shadow' for nothin'.
 * Rentboy: How Jeremy got by before Ethan took him in.
 * The Sixth Ranger
 * Spy Catsuit: Slick and skintight. Simon approves. Nate blushes.
 * Stealth Expert
 * Stepford Smiler: In High Fidelity, Simon notes that Jeremy's customary smile is basically the same as Jeremy having no expression at all.

Bran Lindsey
"Jeremy: Not to belabor the obvious, but I am a thief. In fact, I'm the best thief in the world. And you're not."
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Cain: To Jeremy's Abel.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: He can be very verbose.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Jeremy. They're both criminals, but Jeremy's a Gentleman Thief and Bran's an unrepentant murderer.
 * Funetik Aksent: Played with; the way he pronounces words (Jaysis!) is mentioned in the prose, but it's heavily downplayed in his actual dialogue.
 * Freudian Excuse: He blames all of his worldly problems on Jeremy, because Jeremy "stole" what was rightfully Bran's. Which isn't true, and Jeremy lampshades just how ridiculous a thing that is to say regardless.


 * Hair-Trigger Temper: He can and probably will take offense to anything and everything, but especially Jeremy's existence.
 * In-Series Nickname: Jeremy calls him "Irish" because... well, because he is.
 * Irrational Hatred: Jeremy used to find it hurtful; at this point, it's still hurtful, but also extremely exasperating.
 * Nervous Wreck: Jeremy notes (and Bran later demonstrates) that Bran tends to dissolve into a panicked state of fight-or-flight when things don't go according to plan.
 * The Unfavourite: Subverted. Bran is wholly convinced that he is this, but Ethan and Jeremy make it clear that it's very much not the case.
 * The Unfavourite: Subverted. Bran is wholly convinced that he is this, but Ethan and Jeremy make it clear that it's very much not the case.

"Colonel" Cole Farraday

 * Blond Guys Are Evil: Although he bleaches his hair; it's not revealed what his natural hair colour is.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * I Have Your Wife: Manages to get the drop on with a taser, and eventually calls Simon to ask if Simon's "missing something"..
 * Insane Equals Violent
 * Mood Swinger: Swings between 'calm' and 'frothing at the mouth psychotic' at the slightest provocation, and it's genuinely frightening.
 * Obfuscating Insanity: It was suspected that he used this to be discharged from the army, but if he wasn't crazy before going to prison, he certainly was when he got out.
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Not because he doesn't want to, but for practical reasons; the instant you murder someone, it's game over as far as the legal system is concerned..
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Not because he doesn't want to, but for practical reasons; the instant you murder someone, it's game over as far as the legal system is concerned..

Dorothy Langridge

 * CIA
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Drives Like Crazy: According to her character profile.
 * Iron Lady: Hell yes.
 * Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Engages in this with Simon.
 * The Woman Wearing The Iron Lady Mask: Started out this way in her career.
 * Becoming the Mask: It stopped being a mask long before Simon meets her.

Ethan West

 * A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Bran, naturally. But Ethan still loves him, because Bran is his son.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Deadpan Snarker: Oh, is he ever.
 * Criminal Counterpart: To Upstairs. Both Ethan and Upstairs are very trusting and protective of their charges (Jeremy and Simon, respectively), will bend rules to help them, have a lot of resources at their disposal, and both act as father figures.
 * Good Father: To both of his foster/adopted sons, though Bran is somewhat less appreciative of it than Jeremy.
 * Karma Houdini: As far as we know, Ethan was never caught, either.
 * Retired Gentleman Thief: He's technically not even wanted for anything anymore; the statute of limitations for all of his crimes has run out. Of course, this doesn't mean that he doesn't do illegal things at all anymore. He's just retired from his main profession.

Upstairs (Mr. Carstairs)

 * Benevolent Boss
 * A Father to His Men: Most obviously with Simon.
 * In-Series Nickname: Simon (and everyone else) calls him Upstairs.
 * Law-Abiding Counterpart: To Ethan. Both Upstairs and Ethan are very trusting and protective of their charges (Simon and Jeremy, respectively), will bend rules to help them, have a lot of resources at their disposal, and both act as father figures.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Very, very much so.