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* PutOnABus: After her last appearance in season 12 episode "The San Dominick" [[note]] Although her last appearance in the NCIS franchise overall is ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' season 1 episode 20 "Rock-a-bye-Baby" [[/note]], she just simply stopped appearing. This was due to Creator/DianeNeal burning lot of bridges after going on Twitter complaining about unsafe working conditions on the set of ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'', resulting Neal not getting invited back again and her permanent departure from the NCIS franchise.
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* BrokenBird: Her lover was killed in an IED explosion with two other marines. She had to pull his mangled body out of the water.
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* TooDumbToLive: Decides that when he's surrounded by all of Gibbs' team and MI6 extra with Tony approaching him directly, he tries to pull his handgun concealed on his waistband. Despite the fact that Kort was blatantly trying to escape moments before to get away for the ramifications for his actions, his attempt to kill Tony [[NoKillLikeOverkill gets him mag-dumped by everyone present.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Decides that when When he's surrounded by all of Gibbs' team and MI6 [=MI6=] extra with Tony approaching him directly, he tries to pull his handgun concealed on his waistband. Despite the fact that Kort was blatantly trying to escape moments before to get away for the ramifications for his actions, his attempt to kill Tony [[NoKillLikeOverkill gets him mag-dumped by everyone present.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Seemingly had Ziva killed in a farmhouse bombing after he all but went rogue, so naturally this pisses off all of the active NCIS staff. [[spoiler:He actually completely failed.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Always uses his SmugSnake nature to highlight his CIA authority, or how he knows info the heroes don't. It reaches the point that he not only becomes TheFriendNobodyLikes, but is ultimately killed once he had a FaceHeelTurn without a single ounce of remorse for seemingly killing Ziva.
* {{Jerkass}}: Always uses his SmugSnake nature to highlight his CIA authority, or how he knows info the heroes don't. It reaches the point that he not only becomes TheFriendNobodyLikes, but is ultimately killed once he had a FaceHeelTurn without a single ounce of remorse for seemingly killing Ziva.
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* YouMonster!: Followed orders up until he was fired. Then he went on a covert rampage. Mind you, NCIS messed up his operation first back in season 4, then used him for information going forward (neither party was very nice about it). His missions included doing some heinous things to people, but it was all sanctioned. Acting on his own to cover his tracks, however, he turns into a monster.
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* YouMonster: Followed orders up until he was fired. Then he went on a covert rampage. Mind you, NCIS messed up his operation first back in season 4, then used him for information going forward (neither party was very nice about it). His missions included doing some heinous things to people, but it was all sanctioned. Acting on his own to cover his tracks, however, he turns into a monster.
* YouMonster: Followed orders up until he was fired. Then he went on a covert rampage. Mind you, NCIS messed up his operation first back in season 4, then used him for information going forward (neither party was very nice about it). His missions included doing some heinous things to people, but it was all sanctioned. Acting on his own to cover his tracks, however, he turns into a monster.
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* KickTheDog: She obviously cares for Gibbs, both with [[BelligerentSexualTension feelings]] and with [[WorthyOpponent competition]]. But she crossed a line when she placed a radio bug ''in Gibbs' basement'', which promptly caused him to stop treating her carefully for the rest of the active case and work with Vance to get her to [[WhatTheHellHero stop screwing with them.]]
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* JurisdictionFriction: She's willing to work with NCIS, but she's withholding vital information at the same time that she decided was not "need-to-know", and ''bugging them'' for gathering information that they're holding in return. To say Gibbs is annoyed about this would be an understatement.
* KickTheDog: She obviously cares for Gibbs, both with [[BelligerentSexualTension feelings]] and with [[WorthyOpponent competition]]. But she crossed a line when she placed a radio bug ''in Gibbs' basement'', which promptlycaused cause him to stop treating her carefully for the rest of the active case and work with Vance to get her to [[WhatTheHellHero stop screwing with them.]]
* KickTheDog: She obviously cares for Gibbs, both with [[BelligerentSexualTension feelings]] and with [[WorthyOpponent competition]]. But she crossed a line when she placed a radio bug ''in Gibbs' basement'', which promptly
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* OneTrueLove: To Fornell. While Fornell has shown attraction to other women in the series, the only one he's had a lasting relationship with was Diane, who is the mother of of his daughter Emily. Her death was the beginning of the ongoing TraumaCongaLine he endured for the following ''six seasons'', and is only now really beginning to recover him.
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* OneTrueLove: To Fornell. While Fornell has shown attraction to other women in the series, the only one he's had a lasting relationship with was Diane, who is the mother of of his daughter Emily. Her death was the beginning of the ongoing TraumaCongaLine he endured for the following ''six seasons'', and is only now really beginning to recover him.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: One of the most domineering and hateful shrews to ever darken one's doorway when scorned... but a nice one to those who make her feel adequate.
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* BrokenAce: At the start of the series, he's at the top of his game. When [[spoiler:Diane is assassinated]], he begins to lose his edge and leans more on Gibbs to be TheConfidant. When Emily develops a drug problem, he starts behaving obsessively to stop any drug dealers he can find, to the point of accosting a teen girl about Emily's age an Gibbs has to pretend Fornell is his mentally impaired uncle ED. Fornell starts talking about retirement to settle down and be more involved in his daughter's life. [[spoiler:Then, Emily relapses and dies of an overdose]] and Fornell has lost everyone he loved, exactly like Gibbs.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Experiences a drawn out one over several seasons. First his ex-wife is murdered. Then he loses his job after Gibbs exposes that he concealed exonerating evidence on a murder case (of a suspect who later turned out to actually be guilty), then his daughter becomes an opiate addict. And then, just as he thinks he's put his life back together and can retire to Central America, [[spoiler:Emily relapses and has a fatal OD.]]
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[[folder:FBI Agent Tobias C. Fornell]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/JoeSpano
-->'''Fornell:''' ''And people say we're bastards?''
-->'''Gibbs:''' ''Only because they know us.''
* AloofAlly: Though he does always want to help if he can even when he is likely breaking rules to do so. Even when he is technically an antagonist, he still wants what's best for Gibbs and his team.
* AlwaysGetsHisMan: Much like Gibbs, both are famed in story for this.
* BigEater: Half of his lines during his guest appearance on ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' is him telling Pride which restaurants he wants to visit and the list of dishes he intends to eat at each one.
* FBIAgent: Obviously. Fornell is the FBI equivalent of Gibbs.
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Due to being part of a different agency Fornell only shows up when something bad is happening so everyone tends to view his appearance within NCIS headquarters as this.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Implied for the most part, but we do get glimpses of Fornell's career at FBI. He's their version of Gibbs.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:
** This scene from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-qyJGAvCI "Short Fuse"]] says it best.
** Then there's this exchange in the Season 11 premier:
-->'''Fornell:''' You know I'm not going to kiss you goodnight.\\
'''Gibbs:''' What?\\
'''Fornell:''' You're walking me to my car. We breaking up?\\
'''Gibbs:''' If I could, I would. Unfortunately, I trust you.
* TheLostLenore: His ex-wife Diane, who he was in the process of getting back together with when she died. As it turns out, Diane's death would begin a seasons-long TraumaCongaLine that takes him until Season 15 to really recover from.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He and Gibbs are a GenderFlip of this trope. (Though by the time the series starts he's divorced from Gibbs's ex-wife too.)
* PapaWolf: When his daughter Emily gets kidnapped by a money lauderer as ransom for the money the team confiscated, Fornell tells him this during the ransom call:
-->'''Money launderer''': [Bishop's] got eight minutes to bring me my money, by herself. Once I'm safely away I'll tell you where your daughter is. She's fine, but if you even think about sending anyone else, I'll know, and your daughter will pay the price.\\
'''Fornell''': Okay, but just so we're on the same page; [[TranquilFury if you so much as touch a hair on my daughter's head, so help me God, I will find you, and I will rip the eyes out of your face and shove them so down far your throat that you'll need a proctologist to read the evening paper]].
* PerpSweating: Not seen as often, but he's brutal in the interrogation room.
* TheRival: A [[FriendlyRivalry friendly rival]], but a rival.
* ShotInTheAss: Two episodes into season 11, tying back to the last few seconds of the season 10 finale.
* SixthRanger: Occasionally, when he shows up.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: In the wake of all the trauma he experienced in later seasons, he begins Season 14 having taken residence in Gibbs' living room, eating all the food in the kitchen, watching endless TV, and wearing Gibbs' bathrobe. Gibbs has made it abundantly clear he'd like Fornell to move out, but Fornell is cheerfully oblivious. [[spoiler: After three months of this, Emily tricks him into moving back home by having her entomologist boyfriend seed Gibbs' home with termites. At which point Gibbs moves into ''his'' living room while his place gets fumigated.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery:
-->'''Tony:''' I thought you were dead.\\
'''Fornell:''' Got better.\\
'''Kate:''' I thought he was dead.\\
'''Tony:''' Got better.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He considers Gibbs his best friend.
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[[folder:CIA Agent Trent (Thomas) Kort]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DavidDayanFisher
* AssholeVictim: Gunned down by the ''[[UpToEleven entire]]'' main cast of federal agents after killing one of their own.
* BackForTheDead: And one episode later, is [[MultipleGunshotDeath gunned down by every single field agent on Team Gibbs]] for murdering Ziva. He says it wasn't his intention to have her killed, but at this point no one cares what his motivations are.
* TheBusCameBack: He's back as of "Dead Letter".
* DeepCoverAgent: CIA agent deep inside Rene Benoit's organization.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Supposedly once Benoit's NumberTwo, supposedly CIA DeepCoverAgent, it is not clear what he is up to.
* EyeScream: The Port-to-Port Killer gouged out his eye. He had it replaced with a prosthetic, because a [[EyepatchOfPower man with an eyepatch]] gives a [[ObviouslyEvil scary and conspicuous vibe]] that an agent doesn't need.
* KilledOffForReal: Shouldn't have taken out that hit on Ziva, Kort.
* KnightTemplar: As far as we can make out.
* TheMole: In "Dead Letter", is revealed to have sold nuclear secrets to Russia in 2002.
* NoNameGiven: If we're to believe Jenny, "Trent Kort" is an alias.
* PutOnABus: Leaves the series after "Pyramid".
* SmugSnake: As Gibbs put it, he doesn't hide being a jerk.
* StepfordSnarker: Should've kept your mouth shut.
* YouMonster!: Followed orders up until he was fired. Then he went on a covert rampage. Mind you, NCIS messed up his operation first back in season 4, then used him for information going forward (neither party was very nice about it). His missions included doing some heinous things to people, but it was all sanctioned. Acting on his own to cover his tracks, however, he turns into a monster.
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[[folder:Army CID Agent Lt. Col. Hollis Mann]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/SusannaThompson
-->''"If this is going to turn into a pissing match, you'd better bring an umbrella."''
* AmicableExes: Though their relationship didn't work out and she ultimately marries someone else, she clearly still cares very much for Gibbs, as she tried to reach out to him in the wake of Diane's death to see how he was doing. Likewise, when she calls him out on avoiding her, he specifically admits that he's doing so because he doesn't want her to be targeted the way Diane was.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Gibbs. She's even a team leader in the Army's corresponding agency, Army Criminal Investigation Division[[note]]Whereas NCIS is a civilian agency (to keep it independent of military politics) Army CID is primarily made up of active duty soldiers[[/note]] - [[FunWithAcronyms yes, that spells what you think it does]]: usually referred to as Army CID.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Her {{UST}} with Gibbs is noticed by the whole team. Upon meeting Mann for the first time, Vance asks Gibbs if she's one his ex-wives.
* [[FieryRedhead Fiery Strawberry Blonde]]
* GirlOfTheWeek: Subverted; she appears to be this at first, but it takes her and Gibbs two episodes to get together and they remain together for almost a year. In fact, she's easily the most long-term love interest Gibbs has had on the show.
* HandsOnApproach: Gibbs does this to her in "Grace Period." She doesn't seem to mind that much.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Her career with CID could easily have been the basis for a SpinOff.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 4.
* JurisdictionFriction:
** This is how she meets Gibbs and what brings them back together.
** It happens again when she returns from Unretirement. When Gibbs tries to take her case away from her, she goes over his head... to the ''Secretary of Defense'', whom she has on speed dial.
* LoveInterest: To Gibbs in her first run of appearances. She later married someone else.
* PutOnABus: To Hawaii.
** TheBusCameBack: She now works for the Department of Defense.
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[[folder:CGIS Agent Abigail Borin]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DianeNeal
* AmbiguouslyBi: In "Oil and Water", she and Tony are chasing a suspect, which she [=KOs=] with a left-handed swing of an oar. Her explanation is...interesting.
-->'''Borin''': College softball.
-->'''Tony''': Southpaw?
-->'''Borin''': I swung both ways.
* BerserkButton: Don't joke about blowing stuff up. Her temper's much more explosive.
* BrokenBird: Her lover was killed in an IED explosion with two other marines. She had to pull his mangled body out of the water.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Gibbs, to the point that the ''entire team'' lampshades it. So naturally the following apply: DeathGlare, DopeSlap, GutFeeling, MustHaveCaffeine, RuleNumberOne and RightBehindMe. She's even lost the [[TheLostLenore love of her life]] like he did.
* {{Expy}}: This is an extreme case of ActorAllusion, but Borin is [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit ADA Casey Novak]] as a cop, minus the emotional trainwreck but it looks like she could be headed that way. It's more than likely some of her lines are recycled. Bonus points for the softball playing and [[AmbiguouslyBi commentary on her swinging]].
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: She's the Gibbs of CGIS so you better believe she's having adventures bringing down bad guys off screen.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 7.
* LastNameBasis: To avoid the OneSteveLimit with Abby Sciuto.
* MustHaveCaffeine: It's implied she and Gibbs even take their coffee the same way.
* PerpSweating: At one point, she and Gibbs double team someone.
* OnceASeason: She proved to be so popular that her appearances tend to be this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] really, really hard at the end of one of them:
-->"Same time next year, Gibbs?"
* OneSteveLimit: Averted for a gag in her first appearance. She asks Gibbs to call her 'Abby', which he immediately refuses to do. It becomes clear as to why when he takes her to the NCIS lab.
-->'''Abigail Sciuto''' and '''Abigail Borin''' extend their hands and simultaneously say: "Abby."
** From then on, she's addressed as "Agent Borin" or simply "Borin" with Abby Sciuto being the only one to call her "Abby" or "Other Abby" for fun. If they are both in the same room, they sometimes get collective addressed as "Abbses".
* RuleNumberOne: Never make excuses.
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[[folder:Ray Cruz]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/EnriqueMurciano
Ziva's boyfriend and near-fiancee in seasons 8 and 9, and also a CIA field agent. [=DiNozzo=] refers to him as [=CIRay=]. Ziva dumps him after he kills someone in the process of trying to finish up a hit he botched overseas, and Ray is arrested for the murder.
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[[folder:Dr. Samantha Ryan]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/JamieLeeCurtis
At work, a creepy-as-hell [=DoD=] psy-ops expert who's almost a match for Gibbs in the mindgames department. At home, a single mother with a divorce from an abusive husband in the past. Needless to say, she and Gibbs hit it off very well. As of the end of season 9, in hiding after CEO-turned-terrorist Harper Dearing got her abusive ex sprung from prison.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Gibbs. They match very well, but they put each other on the defensive so frequently that some of their interactions can be quite angry.
* {{Gaslighting}}: What Ryan does for a living, and not just to military targets.
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* RiddleMeThis: She always tells Gibbs what she thinks he needs to know, but for some reason always does so in the most infuriatingly roundabout ways possible. (One tip was delivered on the inside of a pizza box.) Gibbs does not like this.
* SilverFox: Jamie Lee may be the most triumphant example for women right now.
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[[folder:Diane Sterling]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MelindaMcGraw
Gibbs' second wife. She was also married to Fornell, whom she has a daughter. She works for the I.R.S.
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* AmicableExes: Mostly with Gibbs. Not so much with Fornell.
* BerserkButton: Mentioning how Gibbs was still pining over Shannon instead of paying attention to her is pulling the pin on the grenade and letting it rip.
* BoomHeadshot: Via Sergei as CallBack to Kate's death.
* CallBack: Her death is patterned over Kate's death in the season 2 finale.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Gibbs arms, though it happened in broad daylight instead of the night like the trope suggests.
* DiesWideOpen: Via Boomheadshot courtesy of Sergei. While he he doesn't seem to mind if she dies this way, it sure added to the CallBack to Kate's death.
* FieryRedhead: As expected for Gibbs' ex-wife.
* HasAType: Government employees. Besides Gibbs and Fornell, her third husband Victor is a member of Homeland Security, and the boyfriend/fling she had prior to getting back with Fornell turned out to be an undercover Secret Service Agent.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 7.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: One of the most domineering and hateful shrews to ever darken one's doorway when scorned... but a nice one to those who make her feel adequate.
* TheLostLenore: For both Gibbs and Fornell, much so for the latter.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: She gets along with Gibbs' second wife just fine.
* MrsRobinson: She got... "cuddly" with [=McGee=] at one time.
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[[folder:Zoe Keats]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MarisolNichols
A classmate of Tony's in the police academy. She now works as Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
* FairCop: She's a Special Agent and is certainly easy on the eyes.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's an AmbiguouslyBrown FairCop who gets a ShipTease with Tony, who was introduced not long after Ziva left.
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->'''Played By''': Creator/JoeSpano
-->'''Fornell:''' ''And people say we're bastards?''
-->'''Gibbs:''' ''Only because they know us.''
* AloofAlly: Though he does always want to help if he can even when he is likely breaking rules to do so. Even when he is technically an antagonist, he still wants what's best for Gibbs and his team.
* AlwaysGetsHisMan: Much like Gibbs, both are famed in story for this.
* BigEater: Half of his lines during his guest appearance on ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' is him telling Pride which restaurants he wants to visit and the list of dishes he intends to eat at each one.
* FBIAgent: Obviously. Fornell is the FBI equivalent of Gibbs.
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Due to being part of a different agency Fornell only shows up when something bad is happening so everyone tends to view his appearance within NCIS headquarters as this.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Implied for the most part, but we do get glimpses of Fornell's career at FBI. He's their version of Gibbs.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:
** This scene from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-qyJGAvCI "Short Fuse"]] says it best.
** Then there's this exchange in the Season 11 premier:
-->'''Fornell:''' You know I'm not going to kiss you goodnight.\\
'''Gibbs:''' What?\\
'''Fornell:''' You're walking me to my car. We breaking up?\\
'''Gibbs:''' If I could, I would. Unfortunately, I trust you.
* TheLostLenore: His ex-wife Diane, who he was in the process of getting back together with when she died. As it turns out, Diane's death would begin a seasons-long TraumaCongaLine that takes him until Season 15 to really recover from.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He and Gibbs are a GenderFlip of this trope. (Though by the time the series starts he's divorced from Gibbs's ex-wife too.)
* PapaWolf: When his daughter Emily gets kidnapped by a money lauderer as ransom for the money the team confiscated, Fornell tells him this during the ransom call:
-->'''Money launderer''': [Bishop's] got eight minutes to bring me my money, by herself. Once I'm safely away I'll tell you where your daughter is. She's fine, but if you even think about sending anyone else, I'll know, and your daughter will pay the price.\\
'''Fornell''': Okay, but just so we're on the same page; [[TranquilFury if you so much as touch a hair on my daughter's head, so help me God, I will find you, and I will rip the eyes out of your face and shove them so down far your throat that you'll need a proctologist to read the evening paper]].
* PerpSweating: Not seen as often, but he's brutal in the interrogation room.
* TheRival: A [[FriendlyRivalry friendly rival]], but a rival.
* ShotInTheAss: Two episodes into season 11, tying back to the last few seconds of the season 10 finale.
* SixthRanger: Occasionally, when he shows up.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: In the wake of all the trauma he experienced in later seasons, he begins Season 14 having taken residence in Gibbs' living room, eating all the food in the kitchen, watching endless TV, and wearing Gibbs' bathrobe. Gibbs has made it abundantly clear he'd like Fornell to move out, but Fornell is cheerfully oblivious. [[spoiler: After three months of this, Emily tricks him into moving back home by having her entomologist boyfriend seed Gibbs' home with termites. At which point Gibbs moves into ''his'' living room while his place gets fumigated.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery:
-->'''Tony:''' I thought you were dead.\\
'''Fornell:''' Got better.\\
'''Kate:''' I thought he was dead.\\
'''Tony:''' Got better.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He considers Gibbs his best friend.
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[[folder:CIA Agent Trent (Thomas) Kort]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DavidDayanFisher
* AssholeVictim: Gunned down by the ''[[UpToEleven entire]]'' main cast of federal agents after killing one of their own.
* BackForTheDead: And one episode later, is [[MultipleGunshotDeath gunned down by every single field agent on Team Gibbs]] for murdering Ziva. He says it wasn't his intention to have her killed, but at this point no one cares what his motivations are.
* TheBusCameBack: He's back as of "Dead Letter".
* DeepCoverAgent: CIA agent deep inside Rene Benoit's organization.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Supposedly once Benoit's NumberTwo, supposedly CIA DeepCoverAgent, it is not clear what he is up to.
* EyeScream: The Port-to-Port Killer gouged out his eye. He had it replaced with a prosthetic, because a [[EyepatchOfPower man with an eyepatch]] gives a [[ObviouslyEvil scary and conspicuous vibe]] that an agent doesn't need.
* KilledOffForReal: Shouldn't have taken out that hit on Ziva, Kort.
* KnightTemplar: As far as we can make out.
* TheMole: In "Dead Letter", is revealed to have sold nuclear secrets to Russia in 2002.
* NoNameGiven: If we're to believe Jenny, "Trent Kort" is an alias.
* PutOnABus: Leaves the series after "Pyramid".
* SmugSnake: As Gibbs put it, he doesn't hide being a jerk.
* StepfordSnarker: Should've kept your mouth shut.
* YouMonster!: Followed orders up until he was fired. Then he went on a covert rampage. Mind you, NCIS messed up his operation first back in season 4, then used him for information going forward (neither party was very nice about it). His missions included doing some heinous things to people, but it was all sanctioned. Acting on his own to cover his tracks, however, he turns into a monster.
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[[folder:Army CID Agent Lt. Col. Hollis Mann]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/SusannaThompson
-->''"If this is going to turn into a pissing match, you'd better bring an umbrella."''
* AmicableExes: Though their relationship didn't work out and she ultimately marries someone else, she clearly still cares very much for Gibbs, as she tried to reach out to him in the wake of Diane's death to see how he was doing. Likewise, when she calls him out on avoiding her, he specifically admits that he's doing so because he doesn't want her to be targeted the way Diane was.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Gibbs. She's even a team leader in the Army's corresponding agency, Army Criminal Investigation Division[[note]]Whereas NCIS is a civilian agency (to keep it independent of military politics) Army CID is primarily made up of active duty soldiers[[/note]] - [[FunWithAcronyms yes, that spells what you think it does]]: usually referred to as Army CID.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Her {{UST}} with Gibbs is noticed by the whole team. Upon meeting Mann for the first time, Vance asks Gibbs if she's one his ex-wives.
* [[FieryRedhead Fiery Strawberry Blonde]]
* GirlOfTheWeek: Subverted; she appears to be this at first, but it takes her and Gibbs two episodes to get together and they remain together for almost a year. In fact, she's easily the most long-term love interest Gibbs has had on the show.
* HandsOnApproach: Gibbs does this to her in "Grace Period." She doesn't seem to mind that much.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Her career with CID could easily have been the basis for a SpinOff.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 4.
* JurisdictionFriction:
** This is how she meets Gibbs and what brings them back together.
** It happens again when she returns from Unretirement. When Gibbs tries to take her case away from her, she goes over his head... to the ''Secretary of Defense'', whom she has on speed dial.
* LoveInterest: To Gibbs in her first run of appearances. She later married someone else.
* PutOnABus: To Hawaii.
** TheBusCameBack: She now works for the Department of Defense.
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[[folder:CGIS Agent Abigail Borin]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DianeNeal
* AmbiguouslyBi: In "Oil and Water", she and Tony are chasing a suspect, which she [=KOs=] with a left-handed swing of an oar. Her explanation is...interesting.
-->'''Borin''': College softball.
-->'''Tony''': Southpaw?
-->'''Borin''': I swung both ways.
* BerserkButton: Don't joke about blowing stuff up. Her temper's much more explosive.
* BrokenBird: Her lover was killed in an IED explosion with two other marines. She had to pull his mangled body out of the water.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Gibbs, to the point that the ''entire team'' lampshades it. So naturally the following apply: DeathGlare, DopeSlap, GutFeeling, MustHaveCaffeine, RuleNumberOne and RightBehindMe. She's even lost the [[TheLostLenore love of her life]] like he did.
* {{Expy}}: This is an extreme case of ActorAllusion, but Borin is [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit ADA Casey Novak]] as a cop, minus the emotional trainwreck but it looks like she could be headed that way. It's more than likely some of her lines are recycled. Bonus points for the softball playing and [[AmbiguouslyBi commentary on her swinging]].
%%* FairCop
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She's the Gibbs of CGIS so you better believe she's having adventures bringing down bad guys off screen.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 7.
* LastNameBasis: To avoid the OneSteveLimit with Abby Sciuto.
* MustHaveCaffeine: It's implied she and Gibbs even take their coffee the same way.
* PerpSweating: At one point, she and Gibbs double team someone.
* OnceASeason: She proved to be so popular that her appearances tend to be this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] really, really hard at the end of one of them:
-->"Same time next year, Gibbs?"
* OneSteveLimit: Averted for a gag in her first appearance. She asks Gibbs to call her 'Abby', which he immediately refuses to do. It becomes clear as to why when he takes her to the NCIS lab.
-->'''Abigail Sciuto''' and '''Abigail Borin''' extend their hands and simultaneously say: "Abby."
** From then on, she's addressed as "Agent Borin" or simply "Borin" with Abby Sciuto being the only one to call her "Abby" or "Other Abby" for fun. If they are both in the same room, they sometimes get collective addressed as "Abbses".
* RuleNumberOne: Never make excuses.
%%* StatuesqueStunner
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[[folder:Ray Cruz]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/EnriqueMurciano
Ziva's boyfriend and near-fiancee in seasons 8 and 9, and also a CIA field agent. [=DiNozzo=] refers to him as [=CIRay=]. Ziva dumps him after he kills someone in the process of trying to finish up a hit he botched overseas, and Ray is arrested for the murder.
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[[folder:Dr. Samantha Ryan]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/JamieLeeCurtis
At work, a creepy-as-hell [=DoD=] psy-ops expert who's almost a match for Gibbs in the mindgames department. At home, a single mother with a divorce from an abusive husband in the past. Needless to say, she and Gibbs hit it off very well. As of the end of season 9, in hiding after CEO-turned-terrorist Harper Dearing got her abusive ex sprung from prison.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Gibbs. They match very well, but they put each other on the defensive so frequently that some of their interactions can be quite angry.
* {{Gaslighting}}: What Ryan does for a living, and not just to military targets.
%%* PutOnABus
* RiddleMeThis: She always tells Gibbs what she thinks he needs to know, but for some reason always does so in the most infuriatingly roundabout ways possible. (One tip was delivered on the inside of a pizza box.) Gibbs does not like this.
* SilverFox: Jamie Lee may be the most triumphant example for women right now.
%%* TwoFirstNames
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[[folder:Diane Sterling]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MelindaMcGraw
Gibbs' second wife. She was also married to Fornell, whom she has a daughter. She works for the I.R.S.
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* AmicableExes: Mostly with Gibbs. Not so much with Fornell.
* BerserkButton: Mentioning how Gibbs was still pining over Shannon instead of paying attention to her is pulling the pin on the grenade and letting it rip.
* BoomHeadshot: Via Sergei as CallBack to Kate's death.
* CallBack: Her death is patterned over Kate's death in the season 2 finale.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Gibbs arms, though it happened in broad daylight instead of the night like the trope suggests.
* DiesWideOpen: Via Boomheadshot courtesy of Sergei. While he he doesn't seem to mind if she dies this way, it sure added to the CallBack to Kate's death.
* FieryRedhead: As expected for Gibbs' ex-wife.
* HasAType: Government employees. Besides Gibbs and Fornell, her third husband Victor is a member of Homeland Security, and the boyfriend/fling she had prior to getting back with Fornell turned out to be an undercover Secret Service Agent.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the show until Season 7.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: One of the most domineering and hateful shrews to ever darken one's doorway when scorned... but a nice one to those who make her feel adequate.
* TheLostLenore: For both Gibbs and Fornell, much so for the latter.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: She gets along with Gibbs' second wife just fine.
* MrsRobinson: She got... "cuddly" with [=McGee=] at one time.
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[[folder:Zoe Keats]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MarisolNichols
A classmate of Tony's in the police academy. She now works as Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
* FairCop: She's a Special Agent and is certainly easy on the eyes.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's an AmbiguouslyBrown FairCop who gets a ShipTease with Tony, who was introduced not long after Ziva left.
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