History Series / CSIMiami

* YouWakeUpOnABeach: Season 1's "Spring Break" opens with two hungover college guys waking up in chairs on the beach as the tide is coming in. One looks around and asks the other, "Dude, where's our car?'' Laughting as they walk away, they spot a bikini-clad young woman lying nearby. Attempting to awaken her so she won't be caught by the tide, they are horrified to discover her neck has been broken.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In a show where at least every character who's not a victim, a law enforcement officer, or part of the main cast is prime AssholeVictim fodder if the circumstances are just right, this trope is a given.
** It's hard not to start cheering when high school mean girl and all around sociopath Blair Hawkins is stoned to death by angry parents, one of whose children was nearly driven to suicide by her bullying.
** Mr. Durning and the abusive ex-boyfriend, who are both mentioned under the BerserkButton entry, definitely fit the bill.

'''''[[AC:[[MemeticMutation Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh!]]]]'''''

Welcome to the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' SpinOff set in Miami. Horatio Caine (played by Creator/DavidCaruso) takes the role of the guy spouting the QuipToBlack, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 which he often does]] after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHnUrUAbho putting his sunglasses on]] - wonderfully parodied by WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/ here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGlL3hxaCY here]] by, of all people ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Horatio differs from [[CulturedBadass Gil Grissom]] by being a [[{{Jerkass}} complete and utterly unrepentant]] dick, unless you're under 15 and/or a woman and/or have just survived a horrible crime -- in which case, he's your best and most compassionate friend (and your best line of defense if the bad guy comes back to get you).

* CoolGuns: Multiple murders are done with these on the series, but three separate episodes stand out because they revolve around: a fictional {{Expy}} of the [[http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1643031-metal-storm-gun-fires-1-million-rounds-minute "Metal Storm"]] weapons system, a prototype rifle system with {{Roboteching}} bullets ((that was developed for the U.S. military by a computer billionaire with his own pocket money--the rifle turned out to have severe flaws that would make it ''explode in the user's face'' if shot continuously (like, say, in any combat scenario) and that the billionaire could never fix...but his cut-throat executives decide to sell the gun anyway, using the fact that he is dying of cancer to wrestle control away from him)) and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot "Corner Shot" weapons system]] (used to kill an informant in the case of an evil biker group, and owned by the leader of said evil bikers).

* SuicideByAssassin: The aforementioned computer billionaire up on "CoolGuns" gave one of his prototype guns to a former associate of his and asked him to kill him with it (as mentioned before, he was dying of cancer and the other executives all shown themselves to be corrupt enough to endanger people's lives by selling a weapon they knew was faulty), telling him that he would have all of his shares on the company (and thus would legally own it) as payment.

* FeetFirstIntroduction: "MIA/NYC Nonstop," which served as the backdoor pilot for ''Series/{{CSINY}},'' uses this technique to introduce Mac Taylor when he exits a police cruiser as the action shifts to NYC.

* LastNameBasis: Horatio to Ryan. It's never explained why Ryan is the only one to get this treatment from Horatio, but he's always "Mr. Wolfe."
*** Because his name is MR. WOLFE. If people could call me [[Film/PulpFiction Mr. Wolfe]] I'd beg people to call me by my last name.

* LocardsTheory: Mentioned by name at least twice.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: How Wolfe ends up with a nail shot into his eye;[[spoiler: the shooter is the fiancee of a man whose ex-wife and building contractor she just overheard plotting to kill him, and when Wolfe opens the closet she is hiding in, armed with a loaded nail gun, she thinks he's the contractor coming to make sure there aren't any witnesses. When she attempts to claim self-defense, however, Horatio points out that that's off the table since she callously left Wolfe there in pain instead of attempting to render aid or calling 911.]]

* IWishedYouWereDead: Pops up briefly as part of a suspect's backstory in a particularly complicated episode involving a PhonyPsychic.

* LayoutOfASeason: Horatio Caine's trip to Brazil is the 5th season's opener.

* PowerWalk: One episode opens with Horatio in a confessional. There's some commotion in the cemetery right outside, which happens to be gunmen disrupting a funeral. After an exchange of gunfire, Caine, Alexx, and Frank are all standing around while the other three [=CSIs=], each in their own car, all arrive. They walk towards the crime scene in slow motion while Alexx, H, and Frank talk about the murder. All told, they cut back to the Power Walk ''five times'' before they actually arrive.