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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being introduced as Louis's best pupil and Mike's rival, he disppears after season one.
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* NiceGirl: Despite allusions to a less than moral past, she is definitely this. She is generally friendly to everyone in the office and will even go out of her way to help those in need, even if they have mistreated her. Her interactions with Louis Louis' associate are a good exampleexample.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: It's worth noting that Rachel is most attracted to Mike whenever he is acting selfless or sticking to his ideals, and promptly calls him out or straight up ignores him whenever he veers from the good path.
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* JustifiedCriminal: In the premiere, Mike only agrees to act as a drug courier so he can pay for his grandmother's medical treatments. We later find out that he only agreed to help people cheat on the LSATs because he needed the money to pay for full time care for his grandmother.
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* JustifiedCriminal: In the premiere, Mike only agrees to act as a drug courier so he can pay for his grandmother's medical treatments. We later find out that he only agreed to help people cheat on the LSATs [=LSATs=] because he needed the money to pay for full time care for his grandmother.
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* TookALevelInKindness: While being basically Mike's and Harvey's antagonist at the beginning of the series (when the stakes weren't that high yet), he was shown to be very loyal towards the people he respects towards the end of season two.
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* TheHeart: Combined with something of a MoralityPet. More so than Mike, she's usually the one everyone looks towards for stability and the one to question if they're crossing moral and ethical lines. [[spoiler: Which makes the story arc where she destroys a memo all the more shocking, all else aside, as it is a major ethical line she has crossed.]]
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* The Ace: Deconstructed in a sense. His huge win record has made him arrogant and self-serving. Although this ruthlessness wins cases for the clients he ends up annoying a lot of people (including the department heads), which has begun to backfire, especially since Daniel Hardman was [[spoiler: plotting with Louis to get rid of him]].
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* The Ace: TheAce: Deconstructed in a sense. His huge win record has made him arrogant and self-serving. Although this ruthlessness wins cases for the clients he ends up annoying a lot of people (including the department heads), which has begun to backfire, especially since Daniel Hardman was [[spoiler: plotting with Louis to get rid of him]].
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!Harvey Specter
->'''Portrayed by:''' Gabriel Macht
* The Ace: Deconstructed in a sense. His huge win record has made him arrogant and self-serving. Although this ruthlessness wins cases for the clients he ends up annoying a lot of people (including the department heads), which has begun to backfire, especially since Daniel Hardman was [[spoiler: plotting with Louis to get rid of him]].
** BrokenAce
* AmoralAttorney: He will often use questionable and underhanded tactics to win a case or close a deal, but he will also go out of his way to help out an innocent person even if it jeopardizes the case. His 'crusades' are usually motivated by his ego: he is showing off what a great lawyer he is. However, he seems able to sacrifice his ego if the case is really important.
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* BerserkButton: Harvey on cheating.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Mike.
* BiTheWay: "Who says I never tried to sleep with Ted Phillips?" Though he was snarking at the time.
* TheCharmer
* CynicalMentor
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Amoral Attorneys Have Standards]]: Harvey is quite angry to learn that the district attorney [[spoiler: suppressed evidence and put an innocent man in jail]]. He also frequently makes it clear that there are lines he'd never cross and expects Mike not to cross them either. He's quite offended when Louis accuses him of trying to take all the credit for a win they received together:
-->'''Harvey:''' I'd never do that Louis. But you would and that's your problem.
* AFatherToHisMen: To the younger associates.
* FreudianExcuse: Harvey does not take his mother's cheating well, even all these years later, at all.
* HelloAttorney
* HumbleHero: Harvey has shades of this. While he will gloat over his own genius, he will also give praise when it is due. [[spoiler: Even to Louis]].
* HyperAwareness
* InsufferableGenius
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* TheLancer: Though in practice he's TheDragon or even a DragonWithAnAgenda. The agenda being his own ego.
* TheMovieBuff
* MrFanservice
* MustHaveCaffeine
* NumberTwo: To Jessica.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Harvey creates the vibe of an AmoralAttorney as bait for crooks - they have a harder time predicting his moves, since they expect him to act just like them.
* PapaWolf: Harvey seems to have turned into one, despite his protestations to the contrary. In season two premiere he becomes fiercely protective of Mike, to the point where [[spoiler: he throws his PlausibleDeniability out the window to save Mike's job]]. This coming from the man who, twelve episodes earlier, had said: "I have to put my own interests above yours. It's nothing personal."
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Donna and Jessica.
* {{Pride}}
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He has very strong rules about personal conduct as a lawyer and he won't compromise himself to play office politics, even when Jessica wants him to do the bidding of another Senior Partner. Above all, Harvey won't betray his clients and lie to them, and he expects them not to lie in return.
* SexyMentor: To Mike.
* SharpDressedMan
* SternTeacher
* WellDoneSonGuy: In a flashback we see that Harvey's push to become a partner in the firm was motivated in large part by a desire to make his father proud. [[spoiler: His father dies the day before the promotion becomes official and Harvey never had a chance to tell him]].
!Mike Ross
->'''Portrayed by:'''' Patrick J. Adams
* BrilliantButLazy: Mike fits most of the trope conventions before he starts working as a lawyer. Once he starts working in the firm he's shown to be a dedicated employee, regularly working through the night when required.
* HelloAttorney
* HyperAwareness
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mike's defining character trait, combined with an astonishing lack of self awareness.
* JustifiedCriminal: In the premiere, Mike only agrees to act as a drug courier so he can pay for his grandmother's medical treatments. We later find out that he only agreed to help people cheat on the LSATs because he needed the money to pay for full time care for his grandmother.
* TheMovieBuff
* NewMeat
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo: To Harvey.
* PhotographicMemory
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TheSmartGuy
* TaughtByExperience
* TokenGoodTeammate
* TookALevelInBadass: In the season two premiere Mike has more confidence than at the beginning of the series and is willing to stand up for himself when threatened. When a women he tried to help backstabs him in a lawsuit, he turns the tables on her and forces her to accept a settlement. He later calls out Trevor on his betrayal and points out that he knows so much about Trevor that he could make his life hell if he wanted.
* TwoFirstNames
* UngratefulBastard: Mike is this himself from time to time. Harvey routinely puts his entire career on the line defending him.
* WideEyedIdealist
!Donna Paulsen
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sarah Rafferty
* TheChick: Shares this role with Rachel.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead
* GirlFriday
* GuileHero
* TheHeart: Combined with something of a MoralityPet. More so than Mike, she's usually the one everyone looks towards for stability and the one to question if they're crossing moral and ethical lines.
* HyperAwareness
* HyperCompetentSidekick
* MamaBear: To Mike.
* MsFanservice
* MustHaveCaffeine
* NumberTwo: To Harvey.
* TheOmniscient: Donna knows pretty much everything that goes on in the office.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Harvey.
* PoisonousFriend: To Harvey when he stubbornly refuses to testify against an old boss. [[spoiler: She worked for him as well, and has no qualms turning over evidence of his illegal activities]].
* ReactionShot: Donna may well be the goddamn Jedi Knight of this trope.
* SassySecretary
* SecretKeeper: For Harvey in general.
* SexySecretary
* TeamMom: For the entire firm.
!Rachel Zane
->'''Portrayed by:''' Meghan Markle
* BookDumb: Not exactly, but there isn't a trope for Test Dumb. Rachel isn't a lawyer because she can't pass law school entrance exams or the bar. It's not a lack of intelligence or knowledge, but simple test anxiety.
** Which is why [[spoiler: she is so proud when Mike tells her she has finally passed the LSATS]] in the second season.
* BrainyBrunette: She's the firm's best researcher.
* ButNotTooBlack: Turns out Rachel's dad is a high-powered lawyer - who's also African-American.
* TheChick: Shares this role with Donna.
* FemmeFatale: Rachel dips her toe into this category in "Normandy".
* HelloAttorney
* HyperCompetentSidekick
* MixedAncestry: Rachel is half-black, a nod to her actress Meghan Markle.
* MsFanservice
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Despite being smart, accomplished, beautiful, and having a spine to even stand against her father, Rachel simply doesn't measure up to Mike (legal prodigy /w photographic memory), Donna (the all-knowing), Louis (ruthlessly effective and financial wizard), Harvey (do I need to even begin?), and Jessica (one of the few capable of pulling one over on Harvey). Poor Rachel doesn't really have much going for her in the department of "extraordinary ridiculous superhuman craziness".
* SheCleansUpNicely
* WellDoneDaughterGal: Rachel can be partly said to be driven by this, though there's more to it than that.
!Louis Litt
->'''Portrayed by:''' Rick Hoffman
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Monica and later Donna.
* AmbiguouslyBi
* AmoralAttorney: Whenever he is trying to show he is a better lawyer than Harvey (i.e. almost always).
* AntiVillain
* BadBoss: Louis actually takes pride in how badly he treats the new associates.
* CampStraight
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Cat Man]]: Louis, though he only has one cat, gets this with quality not quantity.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Louis, even after going over to Hardman's side, [[spoiler: wouldn't vote to fire Harvey when Hardman called for it, and voted to get rid of Hardman after finding out that Hardman faked the memo that caused the lawsuit against the firm]].
* AFatherToHisMen: Louis, though a sadist teacher to his associates, cares for them on some level. Showing weakness may not be liked but when [[spoiler: he was quitting and saw Mike come out of an elevator with a bloody face, he dropped his stuff and rushed to help Mike, taking him to the bathroom to get cleaned up without a second thought]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills: On a shooting range, Louis is shown to be an extremely good marksman. All his shots are either headshots or a tight center of mass clustering.
* InformedJudaism
* InsufferableGenius: When it comes to financials.
* {{Jerkass}}
* SmugSnake
* StalkerWithACrush: To Monica.
* SternTeacher
* TokenEvilTeammate
* WeaksauceWeakness: Louis will not give in for anyone or anything. Except American Ballet Theatre tickets.
!Jessica Pearson
->'''Portrayed by:''' GinaTorres
* TheAtoner: Jessica sees herself as this. Her sin was trusting [[spoiler: Daniel Hardman nearly blindly. This almost brought the firm she helped build to ruin five years ago. And with her as one of the scapegoats]].
* BlackBossLady
* TheChessmaster
* HelloAttorney
* IronLady
* TheLeader: Type I.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Harvey.
* SexyMentor: To Harvey.
* SheCleansUpNicely
* SternTeacher
* TeamDad: Jessica is the authority figure that intervenes to make Louis and Harvey play nice.
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Gabriel Macht
* The Ace: Deconstructed in a sense. His huge win record has made him arrogant and self-serving. Although this ruthlessness wins cases for the clients he ends up annoying a lot of people (including the department heads), which has begun to backfire, especially since Daniel Hardman was [[spoiler: plotting with Louis to get rid of him]].
** BrokenAce
* AmoralAttorney: He will often use questionable and underhanded tactics to win a case or close a deal, but he will also go out of his way to help out an innocent person even if it jeopardizes the case. His 'crusades' are usually motivated by his ego: he is showing off what a great lawyer he is. However, he seems able to sacrifice his ego if the case is really important.
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* BerserkButton: Harvey on cheating.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Mike.
* BiTheWay: "Who says I never tried to sleep with Ted Phillips?" Though he was snarking at the time.
* TheCharmer
* CynicalMentor
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Amoral Attorneys Have Standards]]: Harvey is quite angry to learn that the district attorney [[spoiler: suppressed evidence and put an innocent man in jail]]. He also frequently makes it clear that there are lines he'd never cross and expects Mike not to cross them either. He's quite offended when Louis accuses him of trying to take all the credit for a win they received together:
-->'''Harvey:''' I'd never do that Louis. But you would and that's your problem.
* AFatherToHisMen: To the younger associates.
* FreudianExcuse: Harvey does not take his mother's cheating well, even all these years later, at all.
* HelloAttorney
* HumbleHero: Harvey has shades of this. While he will gloat over his own genius, he will also give praise when it is due. [[spoiler: Even to Louis]].
* HyperAwareness
* InsufferableGenius
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* TheLancer: Though in practice he's TheDragon or even a DragonWithAnAgenda. The agenda being his own ego.
* TheMovieBuff
* MrFanservice
* MustHaveCaffeine
* NumberTwo: To Jessica.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Harvey creates the vibe of an AmoralAttorney as bait for crooks - they have a harder time predicting his moves, since they expect him to act just like them.
* PapaWolf: Harvey seems to have turned into one, despite his protestations to the contrary. In season two premiere he becomes fiercely protective of Mike, to the point where [[spoiler: he throws his PlausibleDeniability out the window to save Mike's job]]. This coming from the man who, twelve episodes earlier, had said: "I have to put my own interests above yours. It's nothing personal."
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Donna and Jessica.
* {{Pride}}
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He has very strong rules about personal conduct as a lawyer and he won't compromise himself to play office politics, even when Jessica wants him to do the bidding of another Senior Partner. Above all, Harvey won't betray his clients and lie to them, and he expects them not to lie in return.
* SexyMentor: To Mike.
* SharpDressedMan
* SternTeacher
* WellDoneSonGuy: In a flashback we see that Harvey's push to become a partner in the firm was motivated in large part by a desire to make his father proud. [[spoiler: His father dies the day before the promotion becomes official and Harvey never had a chance to tell him]].
!Mike Ross
->'''Portrayed by:'''' Patrick J. Adams
* BrilliantButLazy: Mike fits most of the trope conventions before he starts working as a lawyer. Once he starts working in the firm he's shown to be a dedicated employee, regularly working through the night when required.
* HelloAttorney
* HyperAwareness
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mike's defining character trait, combined with an astonishing lack of self awareness.
* JustifiedCriminal: In the premiere, Mike only agrees to act as a drug courier so he can pay for his grandmother's medical treatments. We later find out that he only agreed to help people cheat on the LSATs because he needed the money to pay for full time care for his grandmother.
* TheMovieBuff
* NewMeat
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo: To Harvey.
* PhotographicMemory
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TheSmartGuy
* TaughtByExperience
* TokenGoodTeammate
* TookALevelInBadass: In the season two premiere Mike has more confidence than at the beginning of the series and is willing to stand up for himself when threatened. When a women he tried to help backstabs him in a lawsuit, he turns the tables on her and forces her to accept a settlement. He later calls out Trevor on his betrayal and points out that he knows so much about Trevor that he could make his life hell if he wanted.
* TwoFirstNames
* UngratefulBastard: Mike is this himself from time to time. Harvey routinely puts his entire career on the line defending him.
* WideEyedIdealist
!Donna Paulsen
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sarah Rafferty
* TheChick: Shares this role with Rachel.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead
* GirlFriday
* GuileHero
* TheHeart: Combined with something of a MoralityPet. More so than Mike, she's usually the one everyone looks towards for stability and the one to question if they're crossing moral and ethical lines.
* HyperAwareness
* HyperCompetentSidekick
* MamaBear: To Mike.
* MsFanservice
* MustHaveCaffeine
* NumberTwo: To Harvey.
* TheOmniscient: Donna knows pretty much everything that goes on in the office.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Harvey.
* PoisonousFriend: To Harvey when he stubbornly refuses to testify against an old boss. [[spoiler: She worked for him as well, and has no qualms turning over evidence of his illegal activities]].
* ReactionShot: Donna may well be the goddamn Jedi Knight of this trope.
* SassySecretary
* SecretKeeper: For Harvey in general.
* SexySecretary
* TeamMom: For the entire firm.
!Rachel Zane
->'''Portrayed by:''' Meghan Markle
* BookDumb: Not exactly, but there isn't a trope for Test Dumb. Rachel isn't a lawyer because she can't pass law school entrance exams or the bar. It's not a lack of intelligence or knowledge, but simple test anxiety.
** Which is why [[spoiler: she is so proud when Mike tells her she has finally passed the LSATS]] in the second season.
* BrainyBrunette: She's the firm's best researcher.
* ButNotTooBlack: Turns out Rachel's dad is a high-powered lawyer - who's also African-American.
* TheChick: Shares this role with Donna.
* FemmeFatale: Rachel dips her toe into this category in "Normandy".
* HelloAttorney
* HyperCompetentSidekick
* MixedAncestry: Rachel is half-black, a nod to her actress Meghan Markle.
* MsFanservice
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Despite being smart, accomplished, beautiful, and having a spine to even stand against her father, Rachel simply doesn't measure up to Mike (legal prodigy /w photographic memory), Donna (the all-knowing), Louis (ruthlessly effective and financial wizard), Harvey (do I need to even begin?), and Jessica (one of the few capable of pulling one over on Harvey). Poor Rachel doesn't really have much going for her in the department of "extraordinary ridiculous superhuman craziness".
* SheCleansUpNicely
* WellDoneDaughterGal: Rachel can be partly said to be driven by this, though there's more to it than that.
!Louis Litt
->'''Portrayed by:''' Rick Hoffman
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Monica and later Donna.
* AmbiguouslyBi
* AmoralAttorney: Whenever he is trying to show he is a better lawyer than Harvey (i.e. almost always).
* AntiVillain
* BadBoss: Louis actually takes pride in how badly he treats the new associates.
* CampStraight
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Cat Man]]: Louis, though he only has one cat, gets this with quality not quantity.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Louis, even after going over to Hardman's side, [[spoiler: wouldn't vote to fire Harvey when Hardman called for it, and voted to get rid of Hardman after finding out that Hardman faked the memo that caused the lawsuit against the firm]].
* AFatherToHisMen: Louis, though a sadist teacher to his associates, cares for them on some level. Showing weakness may not be liked but when [[spoiler: he was quitting and saw Mike come out of an elevator with a bloody face, he dropped his stuff and rushed to help Mike, taking him to the bathroom to get cleaned up without a second thought]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills: On a shooting range, Louis is shown to be an extremely good marksman. All his shots are either headshots or a tight center of mass clustering.
* InformedJudaism
* InsufferableGenius: When it comes to financials.
* {{Jerkass}}
* SmugSnake
* StalkerWithACrush: To Monica.
* SternTeacher
* TokenEvilTeammate
* WeaksauceWeakness: Louis will not give in for anyone or anything. Except American Ballet Theatre tickets.
!Jessica Pearson
->'''Portrayed by:''' GinaTorres
* TheAtoner: Jessica sees herself as this. Her sin was trusting [[spoiler: Daniel Hardman nearly blindly. This almost brought the firm she helped build to ruin five years ago. And with her as one of the scapegoats]].
* BlackBossLady
* TheChessmaster
* HelloAttorney
* IronLady
* TheLeader: Type I.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Harvey.
* SexyMentor: To Harvey.
* SheCleansUpNicely
* SternTeacher
* TeamDad: Jessica is the authority figure that intervenes to make Louis and Harvey play nice.
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