History Characters / MurdochMysteries

* BlackSheep: The most prominent member of the Newsome family who doesn't have a head full of pudding.

->'''Played By:''' Kristian Bruun

->'''Played By:''' Michelle Nolden

* AscendedExtra: She is not nearly so prominent a character in the books, being completely absent in the debut novel ''Except the Dying'' and having a voice only appearance via phone call in the second book ''Under the Dragon's Tail.''

* HappilyAdopted: Zigzagged. Watts deeply loved his adopted brothers, to the point of potentially getting hanged for murder, but he also always wondered what happened to his sister. He's not happy to learn that [[spoiler:she simply abandoned him because she didn't want a PromotionToParent and knew that their landlady would look after him.]]

* {{Expy}}: Amelia is originally one of Nurse Annie Wilkes from ''{{Literature/Misery}}'', with George in the Paul Sheldon role. She even "cares" for George while his leg is injured, and George is even dressed similarly to Sheldon from TheFilmOfTheBook.

* SayingTooMuch: In his second appearance, when Brackenreid threatens to arrest Crawford, he misjudges the inspector's seriousness and says that he’s not going to pay the cops off twice. He quickly tries to cover that up, but this causes Bracienreid to realize he’s been bribing a DirtyCop.

** Prominent Canadian leaders, like Mayor Clarkson and Prime Minister Laurier, have personally summoned him to deal with particularly grave crises.

* FamedInStory: Several people, usually famous figures themselves, recognize his achievements. In "Murdoch in Toyland", he finds out that he has a fangirl who is fascinated by his work and follows all his cases in the press. And of course, the season eight episode "The Murdoch Appreciation Society" introduces an entire ''fan club''. [[spoiler: They even try to stage a murder with a cadaver ''just'' to watch him work, which, much to their surprise, leads to the discovery of an ''actual'' murder when it turns out the cadaver did not actually die of natural causes.]]

* CheatersNeverProsper: Inverted. Roger cheats at everything from puzzles to birdwatching and almost always gets away with it.

* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Newsome's obsession with appearing to be successful at his hobbies constantly makes him cheat in ways that get him involved in police investigations, and his reluctance to admit the truth about his cheating makes him a murder suspect in two episodes, in his final appearance, keeps him from volunteering evidence which might have kept a murderer from targeting him. In his last appearance, he also sneaks away from his police bodyguards to get a haircut so he'll look nice while testifying in court, which gets him shot.

* InstantExpert: Subverted. Roger ''seems'' to experience instant success at his various hobby clubs, but this is due to trickery like taking credit for a puzzle someone else filled out and planting a stuffed bird for him to "discover" in front of other bird-watchers.

* MakeSureHesDead: [[spoiler:Murdoch and Julia are on scene for his execution.]] This doesn't stop Constable Crabtree suspecting he's responsible for putting the main characters in a ''Film/{{Saw}}''-style deathtrap four seasons later, on the basis that if anyone could survive [[spoiler: having his brain in a jar on Dr Ogden's desk]], it's Gilles.

* OverprotectiveDad: Meyers does ''not'' approve of [[spoiler:his daughter's boyfriend, who he considers a pathetic weakling. He's used government resources to do background checks on the boyfriend and his family, and gone so far as to spy on the boyfriend in his sleep, but doesn't find anything to reproach him for.]] Despite that, Meyers still can't stand him.

* AmbiguousSituation: By the end of "Staring Blindly into the Future" it's not made clear if Sally killed him or he is still alive after he was kidnapped.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Brackenreid manages to qualify for this both by the standards of our own era and the time the show is set in. His disdain of Francophone people from Quebec and France as "garlic-eating Frenchies" and loathing of the Americans qualify him as such by today's standards. His ranting about how "half the world hates the bloody monarchy" in venting his frustrations after dealing with a particularly annoying royal ObstructiveBureaucrat and his ridiculing the idea of eugenics by pointing to a picture of the {{Gonk}} Queen Victoria as why he wants no part of breeding the "best and brightest" qualify him as this by his own era's standards.

* BadassBureaucrat: It isn't apparent at first, but not even being pinned against the wall by a streetcar and knowing that he has severe internal injuries can keep Dilton from issuing instructions to a subordinate to hurry to an official meeting and deliver his findings about a company's corruption (when he noticed a wrong name on a letter).

** The episode "Murdoch And The Sonic Boom" centers around an assassination attempt against UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft when he comes to Toronto to meet with Laurier. Laurier was pursuing a free trade agreement with the United States at the time the episode is set, and he can be heard trying to sell Taft on the merits of such an agreement.