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* {{Expy}: {{Expy}}: His backstory is identical to that of Mike Gambit from ''Series/TheNewAvengers'', although Gambit would rise to officer rank in the Army, while Bodie was a Sergeant. Both shows were created by Brian Clemens.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Cowley is definitely not a nice man, considering what he puts his agents through for the good of the realm, but he does put other people before himself and works in the best interests of the public.
* InSeriesNickname: "The Cow" to his agents and "Morris" to his old army friends.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Cowley is definitely not a nice man, considering what he puts his agents through for the good of the realm, but he does put other people before himself and works in the best interests of the public.
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* NotSoStoic: He's usually very deadpan and doesn't show his emotions. However, he is visibly upset when he fails to save several witnesses from hitmen in an early episode. He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: A leg injury that he got during the Spanish Civil War still aggravates him, fueling his acerbic nature.
* NotSoStoic: He's usually very deadpan and doesn't show his emotions. However, he is visibly upset when he fails to save several witnesses from hitmen in an early episode. He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
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* AdventuresInComaland: Has a whole episode of this in "Discovered in a Graveyard" when he's comatous. He gets better.
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* BadassInDistress: He's a hero and badass most of the time, but gets held hostage and StrappedToABomb by some German Terrorists terrorists in "The Fugitive".
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* MrFanservice: In his own words: tall, dark and beautiful. And shows of that hairy chest of his.
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Andrew Phillip, all Phillip--all the princes (he was such a regal-looking baby).
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, [[AgentPeacock dresses well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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* AdventuresInComaLand: Has a whole episode of this in "Discovered in a Graveyard" when he's comatous. He gets better.
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* {{Expy}: His backstory is idential to that of Mike Gambit from ''Series/TheNewAvengers'', although Gambit would rise to officer rank in the Army, while Bodie was a Sergeant. Both shows were created by Brian Clemens.
* {{Expy}: His backstory is idential to that of Mike Gambit from ''Series/TheNewAvengers'', although Gambit would rise to officer rank in the Army, while Bodie was a Sergeant. Both shows were created by Brian Clemens.
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* {{Delinquents}}: He described himself as a "right tearaway" as a teenager, "cutting up another kid when he was just a kid" himself.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: William. Usually William Andrew Philip Bodie only ever went by Bodie. "William" isn't a bad first name, but it's not so bad a name, but he doesn't like it. The the combination with his middle names the others that does it.
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* DaChief
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* GlassesPull: All the time!
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* CoolOldGuy: He’s ex-army and demonstrates that he’s still handy with a weapon.
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* BadassBureaucrat: He can play the political game as well as anyone.
anyone and sometimes joins the younger guys in the action and can handle himself in the fight.
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* DaChief
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* CoolOldGuy: He’s ex-army and demonstrates that he’s still handy with a weapon. He's a very cool boss to Bodie and Doyle.
%% * DaChief
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** He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He is not Cowley, he is MR Cowley.
* NotSoStoic:
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** He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
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* AdventuresInComaLand: Has a whole episode of this in 'Discovered in a Graveyard'. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
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* AdventuresInComaLand: Has a whole episode of this in 'Discovered "Discovered in a Graveyard'. [[spoiler: Graveyard" when he's comatous. He gets better.]]
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* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right.
* HotBlooded: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
* HoYay: With Bodie, massively.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly slips into one in ‘The Rack’ after possibly killing a suspect in custody. Bodie snaps him out of it.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
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* BadassInDistress: He gets held hostage and StrappedToABomb by some German Terrorists in 'The Fugitive'.
* BerserkButton: Touch Doyle and Bodie will END you.
* BloodKnight: Clearly revels in being destructive and scary as possible.
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* Casanova: In his own words he'll bed any woman "under fifty, still warm and comes across."
* ChildSoldier: Implied to be this as he ran away to sea and became a mercenary in Africa at the age of fourteen.
* BerserkButton: Touch Doyle and Bodie will END you.
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One of the best agents in CI5, ex-cop Doyle is partnered with Bodie. He's the nicer of the two and a bit of a bleeding heart.
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* Adorkable: Yes, he’s a badass CI5 agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
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* Adorkable: {{Adorkable}}: Yes, he’s a badass CI5 [=CI5=] agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
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* HotTempered: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
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* HotTempered: HotTemper: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
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An ex-mercenary and now member of CI5, Bodie is charismatic, violent and happy to play the 'Bad Cop' to Doyle's 'Good Cop'.
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An ex-mercenary and now member of CI5, [=CI5=], Bodie is charismatic, violent and happy to play the 'Bad Cop' to Doyle's 'Good Cop'.
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* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS Sargeant and then a CI5 agent by the age of twenty-five.
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* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS Sargeant sergeant and then a CI5 [=CI5=] agent by the age of twenty-five.
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The head of CI5, Cowley is the undisputed genius of tactical thinking.
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The head of CI5, [=CI5=], Cowley is the undisputed genius of tactical thinking.
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* BadassInDistress: He gets held hostage and StrappedToABomb by some German Terrorists in 'The Fugative'.
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* BadassInDistress: He gets held hostage and StrappedToABomb by some German Terrorists in 'The Fugative'.Fugitive'.
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* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a BadassOutOfDistress.
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* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a BadassOutOfDistress.[[DamselOutOfDistress Badass out of distress]].
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* Hot-Tempered: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
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* Hot-Tempered: HotTempered: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
* BadassInDistress: He gets held hostage and StrappedToABomb by some German Terrorists in 'The Fugative'.
* CarpetOfVirility: It was the 1970s...
* MrFanservice: In his own words; tall, dark and beautiful.
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* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS sargeant and then a CI5 agent by the age of twenty-five.
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* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS sargeant Sargeant and then a CI5 agent by the age of twenty-five.
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, [[AgentPeacock dresses well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, [[AgentPeacock dresses well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.Milk’.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Well, beautiful, actually.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Well, beautiful, actually.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: He frequently considers resigning in order to live a normal life, but it's implied that he would miss [AdrenelineSeeker: the excitement of the job.]]
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* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He frequently considers resigning in order to live a normal life, but it's implied that he would miss[AdrenelineSeeker: [[ThrillSeeker the excitement of the job.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He frequently considers resigning in order to live a normal life, but it's implied that he would miss
* LightningBruiser
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* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
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* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred RedOniBlueOni: The red to as a pragmatist.
Bodie's blue.
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, [[AgentPeacock: dresses well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Doyle's red.
* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry,[[AgentPeacock: [[AgentPeacock dresses well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry,
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One of the best agents in CI5, Doyle is partnered with Bodie. He's the nicer of the two and a bit of a bleeding heart.
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One of the best agents in CI5, ex-cop Doyle is partnered with Bodie. He's the nicer of the two and a bit of a bleeding heart.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He frequently considers resigning in order to live a normal life, but it's implied that he would miss [AdrenelineSeeker: the excitement of the job.]]
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An ex-mercenary and now member of CI5, Bodie is charismatic, violent and happy to play the 'Bad Cop' to Doyle's 'Good Cop'.
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* TheNicknamer: Especially for Doyle
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly by Bodie
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly by Bodie
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* TheNicknamer: Especially for Doyle
Doyle.
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly byBodieBodie.
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly by
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, dresses well, knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, [[AgentPeacock: dresses well, well,]] knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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* AdventuresInComaLand: Has a whole episode of this in 'Discovered in a Graveyard'. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
* [[spoiler: DeadPartner: His partner and father-figure, Syd Parker was killed during a routine patrol after ensuring that Doyle would be kept out of harm's way.]]
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!!! Portrayed by: Lewis Collins
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!!! Portrayed by: Lewis CollinsCollins
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bodiediscombobulate.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: "I believe in *me* because I was born tall, dark and beautiful... and engagingly modest of course."]]
!! Tropes
* BerserkButton: Touch Doyle and Bodie will END you.
* BloodKnight: Clearly revels in being destructive and scary as possible.
* Casanova: In his own words he'll bed any woman "under fifty, still warm and comes across."
* ChildSoldier: Implied to be this as he ran away to sea and became a mercenary in Africa at the age of fourteen.
* CulturedBadass: He can smash down doors and quote Keats at the drop of a hat.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a mercenary and apparently spent some time in an Angolan Prison at some point. [[spoiler: In 'Where the Jungle Ends', we find out that one of his first loves was murdered by his old mercenary group.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh, so much.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: William
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Andrew Phillip, all the princes (he was such a regal-looking baby)
* HiddenDepths: Appears as a thug to most, but is actually surprisingly cultured and poetic.
* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS sargeant and then a CI5 agent by the age of twenty-five.
* LastNameBasis: Doyle is Doyle or Ray, but Bodie is only ever Bodie.
* TheNicknamer: Especially for Doyle
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly by Bodie
* OverlyLongName: No other main character has a middle name, but Bodie has TWO.
* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, dresses well, knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bodiediscombobulate.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: "I believe in *me* because I was born tall, dark and beautiful... and engagingly modest of course."]]
!! Tropes
* BerserkButton: Touch Doyle and Bodie will END you.
* BloodKnight: Clearly revels in being destructive and scary as possible.
* Casanova: In his own words he'll bed any woman "under fifty, still warm and comes across."
* ChildSoldier: Implied to be this as he ran away to sea and became a mercenary in Africa at the age of fourteen.
* CulturedBadass: He can smash down doors and quote Keats at the drop of a hat.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a mercenary and apparently spent some time in an Angolan Prison at some point. [[spoiler: In 'Where the Jungle Ends', we find out that one of his first loves was murdered by his old mercenary group.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh, so much.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: William
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Andrew Phillip, all the princes (he was such a regal-looking baby)
* HiddenDepths: Appears as a thug to most, but is actually surprisingly cultured and poetic.
* ImprobableAge: He was in the Navy, a mercenary in Angola, a soldier, an SAS sargeant and then a CI5 agent by the age of twenty-five.
* LastNameBasis: Doyle is Doyle or Ray, but Bodie is only ever Bodie.
* TheNicknamer: Especially for Doyle
* OnlyOneName: Goes mostly by Bodie
* OverlyLongName: No other main character has a middle name, but Bodie has TWO.
* RealMenWearPink: Bodie quotes poetry, dresses well, knows how to wine and dine and… wears pink occasionally. He also drinks a lot of milk. This led to the fandom meme ‘Real Men Drink Milk’.
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[[caption-width-right:350: "I have progressed to triple think."]]
* TheChessmaster
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doyleshotgun.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: "Never use ingenuity when brute force and ignorance will do. It only saps the brain cells and you need to save all of yours!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350: "Never use ingenuity when brute force and ignorance will do. It only saps the brain cells and you need to save all of yours!"]]
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* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a Badass Out Of Distress.
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* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a Badass Out Of Distress.BadassOutOfDistress.
* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right.
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* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right.
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* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right. HoYay: With Bodie, massively.
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* ImprobableMarksman: Noted to have been the best shot with a handgun in the Met. and pulls off several near impossible shots.
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* ImprobableMarksman: ImprobableAimingSkills: Noted to have been the best shot with a handgun in the Met. and pulls off several near impossible shots.
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* MrFanservice: Definitely! It’s even remarked upon by Marge in ‘Backtrack’.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
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* MrFanservice: Definitely! It’s even remarked upon by Marge in ‘Backtrack’.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as apragmatist.pragmatist.
!! William Andrew Phillip Bodie
!!! Portrayed by: Lewis Collins
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a
!! William Andrew Phillip Bodie
!!! Portrayed by: Lewis Collins
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The Professionals
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The Professionals
Professionals main characters
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!!! Actor: Gordon Jackson
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!!! Actor: Portrayed by: Gordon Jackson
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He is not Cowley, he is MR Cowley.
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He is not Cowley, he is MR Cowley.Cowley.
!! Raymond Doyle
!!! Portrayed by: Martin Shaw
One of the best agents in CI5, Doyle is partnered with Bodie. He's the nicer of the two and a bit of a bleeding heart.
!! Tropes:
* Adorkable: Yes, he’s a badass CI5 agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
* AfroAsskicker: Well, technically a perm…
* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a Badass Out Of Distress.
* CarpetOfVirility: It was the 70s…
* CoolShades
* Hot-Tempered: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly slips into one in ‘The Rack’ after possibly killing a suspect in custody. Bodie snaps him out of it.
* ImprobableMarksman: Noted to have been the best shot with a handgun in the Met. and pulls off several near impossible shots.
* InSeriesNickname: Mostly Ray, but also notably ‘Angelfish’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Sherlock’, ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Batman’.
* ManlyTears: Cries openly when Bodie is critically injured and being wheeled into surgery.
* MrFanservice: Definitely! It’s even remarked upon by Marge in ‘Backtrack’.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
!! Raymond Doyle
!!! Portrayed by: Martin Shaw
One of the best agents in CI5, Doyle is partnered with Bodie. He's the nicer of the two and a bit of a bleeding heart.
!! Tropes:
* Adorkable: Yes, he’s a badass CI5 agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
* AfroAsskicker: Well, technically a perm…
* BadassInDistress: Doyle gets kidnapped or tied up several times during the show, although he does tend to become a Badass Out Of Distress.
* CarpetOfVirility: It was the 70s…
* CoolShades
* Hot-Tempered: So much that Bodie occasionally has to hold him back.
* HeroicAmbidexterity: Possibly, Doyle fairly often draws with his left hand and fires before switching to his right.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly slips into one in ‘The Rack’ after possibly killing a suspect in custody. Bodie snaps him out of it.
* ImprobableMarksman: Noted to have been the best shot with a handgun in the Met. and pulls off several near impossible shots.
* InSeriesNickname: Mostly Ray, but also notably ‘Angelfish’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Sherlock’, ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Batman’.
* ManlyTears: Cries openly when Bodie is critically injured and being wheeled into surgery.
* MrFanservice: Definitely! It’s even remarked upon by Marge in ‘Backtrack’.
* TheIdealist: Noted as being so in ‘Discovered in a Graveyard’, but at least on one occasion is referred to as a pragmatist.
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!!George Cowley
!!! Actor: Gordon Jackson
[[quoteright:304:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cowley.jpg]]
The head of CI5, Cowley is the undisputed genius of tactical thinking.
!! Tropes:
* CoolOldGuy: He’s ex-army and demonstrates that he’s still handy with a weapon.
* DaChief
* EvilCounterpart: Inspector Greene for one; there are several villains who are clearly willing to abuse Cowley’s power.
* GlassesPull: All the time!
* GoodIsNotNice: Cowley is definitely not a nice man, considering what he puts his agents through for the good of the realm, but he does put other people before himself and works in the best interests of the public.
* InSeriesNickname: ‘The Cow’ to his agents and ‘Morris’ to his old army friends.
* MeanBoss: “I can sell your body to science if I want, while it’s still alive!”
* NotSoStoic: He is visibly upset when he fails to save several witnesses from hitmen in an early episode.
** He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He is not Cowley, he is MR Cowley.
!!George Cowley
!!! Actor: Gordon Jackson
[[quoteright:304:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cowley.jpg]]
The head of CI5, Cowley is the undisputed genius of tactical thinking.
!! Tropes:
* CoolOldGuy: He’s ex-army and demonstrates that he’s still handy with a weapon.
* DaChief
* EvilCounterpart: Inspector Greene for one; there are several villains who are clearly willing to abuse Cowley’s power.
* GlassesPull: All the time!
* GoodIsNotNice: Cowley is definitely not a nice man, considering what he puts his agents through for the good of the realm, but he does put other people before himself and works in the best interests of the public.
* InSeriesNickname: ‘The Cow’ to his agents and ‘Morris’ to his old army friends.
* MeanBoss: “I can sell your body to science if I want, while it’s still alive!”
* NotSoStoic: He is visibly upset when he fails to save several witnesses from hitmen in an early episode.
** He is also angered by Barker taking a hospital full of sick people hostage.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He is not Cowley, he is MR Cowley.
