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* DisabledLoveInterest: He is one to Diane.
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* CatchPhrase: Everytime Jonathan or God sows off, Mark unimpressed calls them off by grunts "Cute. Real cute".

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* CatchPhrase: Everytime Jonathan or God sows shows off, Mark unimpressed calls them off by grunts grunting "Cute. Real cute".
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* CatchPhrase: Everytime Jonathan or God sows off, Mark unimpressed calls them off by grunts "Cute. Real cute".
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* BigGood: He is God and he always sends Mark and Jonathan to help those in need.

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* BigGood: He is God and he He always sends Mark and Jonathan to help those in need.

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* KnightErrantKnightErrant: His whole shtick is going from place to place to help others. Partly because it is his job, and partly because he is sincerely compassionate.




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* GodIsGood: This is played straight.

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* DivineIntervention: He is usually hands off with His creation, usually just guiding servants like Jonathon to places where they are needed. Sometimes though He will get more directly involved when He is needed.
* GodIsGood: This is played straight.A benign creator who sends down his angels to help humanity with their issues and flaws. He will even lend some DivineIntervention every now and again when Jonathon’s plans or powers aren’t enough.




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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a very nice person and literal angel, but ''do not'' genuinely enrage him enough to stop playing nice. He's more than capable of demolishing an entire gang of armed thugs by himself without even trying, all the while doing his best Terminator impression.



* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a very nice person and literal angel, but ''do not'' genuinely enrage him enough to stop playing nice. He's still an ''angel'' and more than capable of demolishing an entire gang of armed thugs by himself without even trying.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a very nice person and literal angel, but ''do not'' genuinely enrage him enough to stop playing nice. He's still an ''angel'' and more than capable of demolishing an entire gang of armed thugs by himself without even trying.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Barring a time he was briefly mortal, bullets don't even phase him.


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* SuperStrength: He rarely shows it, but as an angel Jonathan is much stronger than he looks and capable of casually throwing men across the room with one arm.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Jonathan normally relies on talking to get the job done, but he ''is'' still an angel with a good deal of supernatural power. On the few cases he ''is'' forced to actually use them in a fight, the fight didn't last long.


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* WillfullyWeak: Jonathan is an angel with a lot of supernatural power, but normally just uses his words to handle problems.
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!'''''Highway To Heaven - Recurring characters'''''

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[[folder: Scotty Wilson]]
A quadriplegic lawyer who is a good friend of Jonathan and Mark. He falls in love with Mark's cousin Diane and eventually marries her.

* CrusadingLawyer: He works as an attorney and he is a very kind and compassionate man who truly tries to help his clients.
* DisabledLoveInterest: He is one to Diane.
* HappilyMarried: With Diane. While they sometimes have their marital issues, they truly do love one another and stand by each other.
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[[folder: The Boss/God]]
Jonathan's Boss who happens to be God. He always sends Jonathan and Mark on assignments to help the people on Earth.

* BigGood: He is God and he always sends Mark and Jonathan to help those in need.
* BenevolentBoss: "The Boss" is portrayed as one.
* GodIsGood: This is played straight.
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* TookALevelInKindness: In the pilot, he was a prickly, suspicious and short-tempered alcoholic who was embittered due to his years on the police force and struggled to keep a job after getting laid off. Meeting Jonathan and choosing to help him on his assignments really turned his life around.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGof: Sometimes. He tends to be rather gruff and cynical at times, but he has a good heart and more than once said that he truly ''enjoys'' helping others with Jonathan.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGof: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sometimes. He tends to be rather gruff and cynical at times, but he has a good heart and more than once said that he truly ''enjoys'' helping others with Jonathan.
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[[folder: Mark Gordon]]
An ex-cop who, after getting his life turned around by Jonathan, becomes his best friend and travels around the country with him to help the people on Earth. He tends to be more cynical than Jonathan but he has a good heart deep down.

* TheAlcoholic: He was this before he befriended Jonathan.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a cop and years on the force seemed to have embittered him, especially after he was retired for "excessive use of force". He apparently struggled keeping a job and dealing with alcoholism before Jonathan helped him pull his life together.
* FriendtoAllChildren: Despite his gruff, exterior, he is shown to be very good with kids.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Mark means well, but he was a cop for 15 years and is not afraid to use force when needed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGof: Sometimes. He tends to be rather gruff and cynical at times, but he has a good heart and more than once said that he truly ''enjoys'' helping others with Jonathan.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jonathan.
* LimitedWardrobe: Like Jonathan, he seems to wear the same set of clothes and only seems to change wardrobe when he and Mark get a job that requires specific clothing, such as bellhops.
* MrViceGuy: Mark can be lazy, impatient, quick to be suspicious of others and sometimes loses his temper. Aside from that, he is deeply loyal to Jonathan and truly means well deep down.
* NiceGuy: He may be a little impatient at times, but he is shown to be a very loyal friend to Jonathan and more than once admitted that he likes helping other people on their assignments.
** To be more clear, Mark ''volunteered'' to leave his previous life behind to travel the country with Jonathan to help out people in need.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Sometimes with Jonathan.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: He is the wise guy to Jonathan's straight man.
* WalkingTheEarth: Heand Jonathan are ''driving'' the Earth to get to their assignments.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Downplayed with Jonathan. Sometimes Jonathan and Mark snark and bicker with each other, but they are very close and Mark sometimes worries about Jonathan getting his wings and never seeing him again.
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* SnarktoSnarkCombat: Sometimes with Mark.

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* SnarktoSnarkCombat: SnarkToSnarkCombat: Sometimes with Mark.
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* StraightManandWiseGuy: He is the straight man to Marks' wise guy.

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* StraightManandWiseGuy: StraightManAndWiseGuy: He is the straight man to Marks' wise guy.
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* TheTroll: Downplayed, but he sometimes can't resist doing this, usually with Mark as the recipient.
* WalkingtheEarth: He literally seemed to have been doing this before Mark came along. Afterwards, he and Mark are ''driving'' the Earth to get to their assignments.

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* TheTroll: Troll: Downplayed, but he sometimes can't resist doing this, usually with Mark as the recipient.
* WalkingtheEarth: WalkingTheEarth: He literally seemed to have been doing this before Mark came along. Afterwards, he and Mark are ''driving'' the Earth to get to their assignments.
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** In "We Have Forever", he has an emotional breakdown when his wife Jane dies and God denies him the chance to reunite with her in Heaven since he was still needed on Earth. He then unleashes a very upsetting RageAgainsttheHeavens and temporarily loses his powers and goes through a HeroicBSoD...until Jane came back as an angel to help him snap out of it.

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** In "We Have Forever", he has an emotional breakdown when his wife Jane dies and God denies him the chance to reunite with her in Heaven since he was still needed on Earth. He then unleashes a very upsetting RageAgainsttheHeavens RageAgainstTheHeavens and temporarily loses his powers and goes through a HeroicBSoD...until Jane came back as an angel to help him snap out of it.



* Troll: Downplayed, but he sometimes can't resist doing this, usually with Mark as the recipient.

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* Troll: TheTroll: Downplayed, but he sometimes can't resist doing this, usually with Mark as the recipient.
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[[folder: Jonathan Smith]]
A probationary angel who was sent to Earth by God in order to help people in need. He befriends Mark Gordon and together they travel the country, helping others to overcome their struggles.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He seems to be specialized in delivering these.
* BadassPacifist: Usually he never goes farther than pushing or throwing someone,and that's only arrogant jerks who swing first.
* DeadAllAlong: Technically, he is an angel but only Mark and a handful of others know about that.
* FriendtoAllChildren: He is shown to be very kind and friendly to children. Not surprising, as he was a father before he died.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He can veer into this sometimes: Johnathan is very patient, and he'll give everyone a second chance, sometimes even a third or fourth...but boy howdy, can he be scary if you're determined to be bad.
* HappilyMarried: He was married to Jane when he was alive, and he still loves her, even 40 years after his death.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Mark.
* KnightErrant
* LimitedWardrobe: Justified since he is an angel and only seems to change wardrobe when he and Mark get a job that requires specific clothing, such as bellhops.
* TheMentor: He acts as this to anyone he is assigned to help.
* NiceGuy: He is a very patient, kind, compassionate and understanding man. Not surprising, since he ''IS'' an angel.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Although he is an angel, he is not perfect and sometimes has a lapse in judgement or his own feelings get in the way of his work.
** In "One-Winged Angels", he was assigned to help a divorcee woman find love with her old friend but ended up falling in love with her, and almost got in the way of the couple getting together out of jealousy.
** In "BlessTheBoysInBlue", his naivety almost ended up killing him a second time when The Boss temporarily made him experience life as a mortal cop and he hesitated to shoot a burglar and tried to talk the guy out of it instead. The burglar would have shot him had Mark not stopped him.
** In "We Have Forever", he has an emotional breakdown when his wife Jane dies and God denies him the chance to reunite with her in Heaven since he was still needed on Earth. He then unleashes a very upsetting RageAgainsttheHeavens and temporarily loses his powers and goes through a HeroicBSoD...until Jane came back as an angel to help him snap out of it.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: He is prone to deliver these, usually to the antagonist or anyone who needs a good kick in the pants.
* SmugSuper: Sometimes, he can't resist showing off, especially to Mark.
* SnarktoSnarkCombat: Sometimes with Mark.
* StraightManandWiseGuy: He is the straight man to Marks' wise guy.
* Troll: Downplayed, but he sometimes can't resist doing this, usually with Mark as the recipient.
* WalkingtheEarth: He literally seemed to have been doing this before Mark came along. Afterwards, he and Mark are ''driving'' the Earth to get to their assignments.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Downplayed with Mark. Sometimes Jonathan and Mark snark and bicker with each other, but they are very close and Mark sometimes worries about Jonathan getting his wings and never seeing him again.
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