History Characters / DickTracy

* TheHero: Obviously. The strip's named after him, isn't it?

* CompressedVice: At some point he managed to lose $20,000 1946 dollars at a casino owned by Influence, but fortunately this seems to have turned him off gambling.

** In an early Moon-Era comic, Tracy discovers a island hideout for gangsters. After throwing a drunken crook off of a cliff and taking his place, he manages to escape the island and board a helicopter. He proceeds to have '''Napalm dropped on the island''' to force the gang to surrender, [[GoneHorriblyRight and while some try to, thanks to a combination of raging heat and panic there are zero survivors]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: He's extremely upset when his daughter Honeymoon secretly tags along on a case they way he used to.

* NonActionGuy: Played with as an adult. His job as a sketch artist generally precludes him getting mixed up with cases they way he used to, something he laments as he misses the action.

* StrongButUnskilled: In her early appearances. In a notable example, she gets tricked and almost drowned by a seemingly benevolent Flattop Junior after beating the snot out of Joe Period.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: After serving her six-month sentence for aiding the Brow, Gertie insists in staying in prison, saying it's the best place she'd ever lived, and the other inmates were fond of her, especially because of her performances. So the chief worked out a deal where she could work for the prison and be paid in room and board. She also had a plan up her sleeve to expose Matron Enog's dope smuggling.

* ComfortFood: While in prison in suspicion of murder, he breaks his ulcer diet and has a massive amount of food sent in. It becomes ''Uncomfort'' food soon after.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: As Gertie became more of a regular cast member (and Gould's art improved), her features became somewhat less rough--most notably, she lost the hair on her upper lip, though she still doesn't quite qualify as conventionally attractive.

* WidowWoman: Kept declining "Groovy" Grove's proposals of marriage unless he quit the force, as (having lost one husband already) she was afraid he would be killed on-duty. Ironically, just after he finally consented to quitting and becoming head of security for a chemical company, Grove and Lizz were attacked by a gunman, and Grove was gravely injured pursuing him. He and Lizz married on his deathbed.

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* RapunzelHair: Her one attractive feature (to anyone besides B.O. anyway), is the long, lustrous hair she passed on to her daughter.

* RapunzelHair: She was born with hair down to her hips, and it's largely stayed at least that long since.

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* FieldPromotion: In the 2010s, the story of how he became a plainclothes officer is changed from being recruited by Chief Brandon as a civilian (plausible in the 30's) after Emil Trueheart's murder, to having already been a beat cop who was on his way to detective by Brandon when Trueheart's murder prompts Brandon to perform a field promotion.

** The second Moon Maid [[spoiler:(a human altered to be effectively half-Lunarian) has been programmed so she]] thinks of him as her perfect man.

* AmateurSleuth: After getting wise to Matron Enog's dope smuggling scheme, Gertie plays along in the hopes of exposing her. Unfortunately, she recognizes Tracy disguised as a prisoner, and speaks a little too loudly to him about her plan.

* CrocodileTears: When she and The Brown are arraigned, she fakes a sobbing act over her home being destroyed, so she can grab a guard's gun and toss it to her "love". Fortunately, Tracy's quicker on the draw.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Sort of a proverbial case? After she decides to leave the prison, her hair gets caught on a florists truck and she rides back to said florist, who's so desperate for a worker that he hires her on the spot. It turns out to be the happiest and most fulfilled she's ever been as she has a real knack for the work, takes great joy in growing things, and even lives at the greenhouse.

* MistakenForMurderer: He's so shaken up over nearly getting a kid shot that he absent-mindedly pocketed Flattop's gun when Pat handed it to him to hold for a second. After wandering into a bar, the gun comes out of his pocket and the barman thinks Flintheart is trying to rob him. Worse, Flintheart, shocked at finding the gun in his pocket and panicking, accidentally drops it and it goes off, winging the barman. After this, he has a breakdown, believing himself to be a murderer and tries to turn himself in, retaining his LargeHam tendencies.

* ComfortFood: While in prison in suspicion of murder, he breaks his ulcer diet and has a massive amount of food sent in. It become ''Uncomfort'' food soon after.

* WorkingWithTheTheEx: After divorcing his ex-wife Irma, he kept her on as one of his scientists. This turned out to be a bad idea, as she would later frame him for murder.

* AmateurSleuth: After getting wise to Matron Enog's dop0e smuggling scheme, Gertiew plays along in the hopes of exposing her. Unfortunately, she recognizes Tracy disguised as a prisoner, and speaks a little too loudly to him about her plan.

* AccidentalMurder: He calls Dick Tracy, confessing to a murder. It turns out that someone had set up his business partner so that when Smith turned the lights on in his billiards room, the man would be electrocuted...or so it seemed. His partner had actually been choked to death, and the body set up ion an effort to deceive Smith and the cops.