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Full Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters list with photos and character bios when available. List contains all Law & Order: Special Victims Unit <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/it-characters/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">main character names</a> and features lead Law & Order: Special Victims Unit roles. If you're looking for the most famous Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters then you're in the right place. This Law & Order: Special Victims Unit main character list includes pictures of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters and features useful character information like the names of actors or actresses who play the characters. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character roles from every season are included, along with the characters' gender, occupation and more. List ranges from Olivia Benson to Elliot Stabler, plus much more.This list answers the questions "what are the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters called?" and "who are all the characters in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?"You can click each image for a larger picture of the character, and in some cases you can click the character's name for a more detailed description. View the list of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character names as an info list or customize your view by switching to slideshow or blog mode. Share the list of the highly notable Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters by clicking the Facebook or Twitter icons. This list of most well-known Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters can also be sorted alphabetically if you click the header at the top of the column labeled &quot;Name.&quot; If you're looking for more minor Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters, then they should also be on this list, but if not feel free to add them below. You may copy this fact-based list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your opinions, then publish it to share it with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers or with any other social networks you use on a regular basis. {#nodes}

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List of television characters who work as a Police detective on their TV show, listed alphabetically with photos of the characters when available. Throughout the history of television there have been many fictional characters who are Police detectives. Does your favorite show have someone who works as a Police detective?" The answer is most likely yes, as they seem to be very common in sitcoms, cartoons and dramas. The list you're viewing is made up of many different items, like Columbo and Vic Mackey. This list answers the question, "Who are fictional Police detectives on TV?"

TV Characters Working as Police Detective(s)

Police detective: Television Characters Whose Job/Work is as a(n) Police detective

Elliot Stabler

Elliot Stabler is a fictional character portrayed by Christopher Meloni and one of the lead characters on the NBC police procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit during the first twelve seasons. As a result of Meloni's sudden departure from the cast at the end of the twelfth season, Stabler abruptly retires from the police force off-screen during the season 13 premiere.

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Lists about the most memorable fictional characters in film, TV, and literature that will stick in our minds forever.

Characters We'll Never Forget

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We all like to fantasize and daydream about our favorite <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/fictional-characters-you-would-leave-your-woman-for/lisa-waugh?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">hot fictional characters</a>. Maybe you've struck some kind of a deal with your romantic partner - if Sam and Dean Winchester come to life, you're allowed a hall pass for the weekend. Or maybe you keep your passionate devotion to Fox Mulder or Han Solo on the down low. Whatever the case, it's fun to imagine what it would be like to spend time with one of these handsome fictional men. Categorizing them can be tricky, because some of these sexy, fictional dudes come with a lot of baggage. For example, we all know how sexy Christian Grey and Edward Cullen are, but would you REALLY want to deal with all of their weird emotional issues? Could you look past Loki's mischievous ways and look only to his righteous abs? Would Tony Stark's good looks be enough to drown out his extreme narcissism? These are the questions you'll have to answer as you pour over this list of fictional characters you'd leave your man for. How do your hot fictional characters skew? Are you more about the good guys, like Thor and Elliot Stabler, or do the bad boys get your blood flowing, like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Or are you interested in just the right mix of Stiles, Sherlock Holmes, and Magic Mike? However your list stacks up, have fun picking and choosing the fictional characters you'd leave your man for. A little crush on someone you could never actually get with is completely healthy and normal. Vote up the hottest fictional male characters, and be sure to add any to the list that we may have forgotten!

Sherlock Holmes

The Best Fictional Characters You'd Leave Your Man For

Male Fictional Characters You Would Leave Your Man For

Lisa Waugh

We all remember losing our favorite characters -- Elliot Stabler (Law &amp; Order SVU), Mark Greene (ER), Diane Chambers (Cheers), Fox Mulder (The X Files), Kalinda Sharma and Will Gardner (The Good Wife), Mathew Crawley (Downton Abbey) and practically everyone we started to emotionally invest in on Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead. They get killed off, leave town, die of a terminal illness, get kidnapped, or sometimes just get transported to another world. Regardless of how they were written off (or why the actor chose to leave), they leave a gaping void in the show they built. This list is about ranking the greatest losses, whether the characters were good or evil. We wish the characters would have stayed because there were so many more stories to tell.&nbsp;Without them, the TV show went on but was never quite the same.&nbsp;

Mark Sloan

The Greatest TV Character Losses of All Time

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After spending so very many hours watching a TV show, we form strong attachments - and revulsions - to certain characters. Let's rank 'em.

TV Characters We Love & Hate

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List of TV's most memorable characters, of all time, chosen by the Ranker community. What makes a character live on in the public's memory, even years after the original run of their respective TV programs? In some cases, it's the amount of depth that the show's writers, actors and other creators were able to bring to the character over the course of many years. For many of the greatest TV characters of all time, audiences feel like they get to know personalities like Dexter Morgan from &quot;Dexter.&quot; Even after the show leaves the air, they may not want that relationship to end. (Thankfully, they don't have to, as many shows live on for years after their cancellation on DVD and in syndication.) The best TV characters are ones that you feel like you know and that you'd want to be friends with.TV has brought many famous characters to life who have been extremely compelling, even if they are not entirely likeable. Viewers may not wish to know dangerous, shadowy figures like Tony Soprano, Vernon Schillinger, and Omar Little in reality, but following their exploits safely from the comfort of your living room can be appealing. Likewise, people who might be aloof or downright unpleasant in real life - think &quot;Mad Men's&quot; Don Draper or Al Swearengen of &quot;Deadwood&quot; - can prove charming, even admirable, when seen at a distance, with the subtext and intricacy that a top long-running TV show can provide.Who is the greatest TV character ever? This list contains the names of the greatest, most fascinating, and most enduring fictional characters from TV of all time. Be sure to vote for your favorites, and if some of your favorite popular characters aren't represented, go ahead and re-rank the list to contribute to the discussion.

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The Greatest TV Characters of All Time

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What do we talk about when we talk about love? Perfect, sickeningly sweet, often unhealthy couples in film, TV, and other media who set up impossible standards to which our real-world flesh & blood relationships will never live up. Let's dissect 'em.

Love on Screen

List of the best will-they-or-won’t-they couples in TV history, current or past. These ‘will they or won’t they?’ couples have added romantic tension to the best television shows and given viewers a reason not to miss an episode -- after all, no one wants to say they missed the moment when a will-they-or-won’t-they TV couple finally did or didn’t. Sometimes frustrating, sometimes sweet, the best will-they-or-won’t-they couples viewers have enjoyed are on this list, from early television to currently-running series.&nbsp;The ‘will they or won’t they’ trope is nothing new to TV shows, and the list of problems that can keep seemingly destined-for-each-other couples apart is nearly endless. One half of the will-they-or-won’t-they couple might already have a boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband (think Pam and Jim) or the two may appear not to get along, even though viewers can sense the underlying romantic feelings. Other common problems for will-they-or-won’t-they TV couples are location, job or social position, or the unwillingness of one half to commit (think Carrie and Mr. Big). &nbsp;Sometimes a will-they-or-won’t-they couple causes problems for a TV series. If the biggest appeal of a show is whether a couple will get together, will viewers still tune in after they do? On the other hand, the ‘will they or won’t they?’ storyline can become too drawn out, leaving viewers irritated. Of course, will-they-or-won’t-they couples have also caused some of the most touching and most heartbreaking moments in television. The first kiss or a marriage proposal after a drawn out will-they-or-won’t-they storyline can even bring a tear to the eye.&nbsp;If you’ve lived every tension-filled moment with the best will-they-or-won’t-they TV couples in history, then you understand how powerful TV can be. Enjoy this list of the best will-they-or-won’t-they TV couples and vote your favorites up.

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The Best Will-They-or-Won't-They Couples in TV History

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List of the greatest bad boys in TV history. Here is a listing of the cream of the crop when it comes to television's best bad boys. The best and the baddest of the bunch make their ensemble that much richer. Perhaps Samuel L. Jackson's character in &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot; would refer to the TV characters ranker here as &quot;BAMFS.&quot; Whatever tough guy categorization you would like to give these characters, they are undoubtedly the coolest -- if not particularly warm -- men to grace our screens every week. And nobody can down whiskey like Don Draper, just like nobody could scare television parents like bad boys next door Ryan Atwood (&quot;The O.C.&quot;) and Shawn Hunter (&quot;Boy Meets World&quot;).This list includes TV bad boy characters with dark brooding attitudes, leather jackets, motorcycles, dour dispositions, sad mysterious pasts, questionable ethics - and hopeful girls who love them anyway. Dylan McKay, Chuck Bass, and even The Fonz are at the top of our ranks. Vote up the quintessential bad boys on television to shape this list, or click rerank to make a version of your own.

Jess Mariano

The Greatest Bad Boys in TV History

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Television is fun, but some TV characters are just the worst. For every beloved character on television, whether it be Mary Tyler Moore of The Mary Tyler Moore Show or everyone&#39;s favorite resident of the Seven Kingdoms, Tyrion Lannister, there is an equally and adamantly <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-deserved-tv-villain-ends/jack-rogers" target="_blank">disliked character</a> on the tube (hi, Joffrey and Cousin Oliver!!). This list ranks the worst of the worst, including all the most terrible television characters and most hated TV characters of all time.

Yes, it&#39;s true that not everyone is going to like every character on a show, just as not everyone will like every person in real life. However, you will find that there are some characters that are so universally detested by everyone that no one bats an eye when they learn they&#39;re near the top of this list of awful TV characters.&nbsp;Have you ever stopped watching a show simply because one character annoyed you so much? This is a list about those guys and gals.

The list includes some of the most vile TV characters. They aren&#39;t necessarily vile because they are bad or evil, but simply because every time they come on the screen, you wish they&#39;d just go away. &nbsp;In other words, they&#39;re not characters you &quot;love to hate,&quot; they&#39;re unpopular, disliked characters you just absolutely can&#39;t stand.

Vote up the worst TV characters in all of television history that you dislike the most, add any other bad television characters that aren&#39;t already listed here, among the worst.

Shane Walsh

The Most Hated TV Characters of All Time

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In the entertainment industry, shows and movies about cops and lawyers are considered especially great. These are their stories.

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In Law &amp; Order&rsquo;s 25 year run on network television, it has introduced viewers to a slew of detectives - some good, some great, and some who are kind of terrible at their job. But despite their failings, and because of their triumphs, everyone has a favorite Law &amp; Order detective. Most of the time, viewers tend to ignore a detective&rsquo;s ability to do their job in lieu of a juicy storyline or the officer&rsquo;s charisma. But today, it&rsquo;s finally time to rank the detectives on Law &amp; Order in order of how they do their job. It&rsquo;s going to be hard to be impartial, but anytime you find yourself feeling conflicted, just remember: it&rsquo;s what ADA Casey Novak would do.&nbsp;

The <a href="/list/best-law-order-actors/ranker-tv" target="_blank">Law &amp; Order cast</a> is ever-expanding, and constantly adding members to its crew of detectives. Trying to remember who has been on Law &amp; Order can be tough if you don&rsquo;t have some handy graphics in front you of. So now that you&rsquo;ve got a list of Law &amp; Order detectives staring you down, it&#39; time to decide who&#39;s the best at getting the job done. Will it be Detective Odafin Tutuola, who basically ignored his family for the first few years on the job in order to go undercover as a narcotics officer, or do you think Detective Zack Nichols did a better job while making time to play the piano in his downtime?&nbsp;

Vote up the very best Law &amp; Order detectives below, and be sure to let us know what your reasoning is in the comment section. Be sure to also check out our list of other <a href="/list/what-to-watch-if-you-love-law-and-order/watchworthy" target="_blank">shows like Law &amp; Order.</a>

Nola Falacci

All The Detectives From 'Law & Order,' Ranked

DUN DUN

Ranking the Law and Order Detectives Best to Worst

Jacob Shelton

A good team-up on TV is reason enough to tune into a series, any series, episode after episode for years. The show that two of your favorite characters are on could be garbage, everybody surrounding the duo could be annoying, the entire series could be a slog - but we&#39;d still watch because the chemistry of a great duo is pure TV magic. Whether&nbsp;they can banter like no one else, find a criminal within one act break because of their unique and balanced skillsets, or just be plain damn charming together, the best male and female cop pairs on television have a special place in our TV watching hearts.

While TV may have started off as a place filled with brooding male leads, procedurals, and sci-fi, TV has changed a lot in recent years. Luckily for us, a huge part of that shift has to do with putting great female characters front and center, and yes, pairing them with a male cop - at least to show up the guy every once in a while. From comedies to procedurals to serialized cable dramas,&nbsp;the best TV male and female <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buddy-cop-duos/ranker-entertainment?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">cop duos</a> (or simply duos that fight crime, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/police-procedural-tv-shows-and-series/reference" target="_blank">procedural-style</a>)&nbsp;are the ones that make us wish our workplace relationships were as productive, stable, and just plain entertaining as the ones in our favorite shows. If there&#39;s one thing that these male and female cop partners from TV can do best it&#39;s make us wish we had their lives, whether they&#39;re <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/who-would-you-want-investigating-your-murder-" target="_blank">solving every crime</a> life throws at them with grace&nbsp;or looking cool and collected no matter who they&#39;ve just chased down the street.

Regardless of the reality of these cop pairs, after a hard day sometimes all we want to do is escape and watch people hunt down some bad guys and successfully navigate the tricky world of office politics (and sometimes romance). With that in mind, get your cuffs ready, read that perp their rights, and start rolling down the street in that patrol car with the siren blasting, because it&#39;s time to rank the best male and female cop pairs&nbsp;on TV.

The Best Male & Female Cop Pairs on TV

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Ladies, you know you want it. Call it an Oedipus complex or an obsession with dudes holding diaper bags, there’s just something about a loving, hot dad that’s impossible to resist. Especially when that dad is also a super sexy small screen hottie. TV fathers have been giving girls goose bumps since the days of Andy Griffith and Desi Arnaz. Whether they’re dispensing valuable advice, standing up for their kids on the playground, or struggling with paternal affection, we can’t help but fall in love with TV’s hottest DILFs. Who’s you’re your favorite TV father? Do you like ‘em sexy? Sweet? Smokin’ hot? The dads on this list that should appeal to every gal, no matter her type. From the vintage allure of Ricky Ricardo to the irresistible brooding of Don Draper, each of these dads from television is attractive in their own way.Do you prefer the seductive danger of a dad like Dexter Morgan or the affable sweetness of Phil Dunphy? The musical expertise of Jesse Katsopolis or the butch toughness of Eliot Stabler? Vote up the hottest pops on television and let the world know which of TV’s hottest fathers you’d most like to bang!

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The TV Show Dads You'd Most Want To Bang

Hottest TV Show Dads

Christie Buckner

Lists about real and fictional mysteries and the people who solved them—or at least tried to.

Mysteries & Detectives

When you need to track down a mysterious person or find the real culprit, these detectives are on the case. Sure, it may cost you a pretty penny, but sleuthing is hard work. Batman has solved all sorts of crimes around Gotham City. Sherlock Holmes, a notable inspiration for Batman, has also cleaned up the streets and put some of London&#39;s most hardened criminals behind bars. These detectives have tangoed with serial killers, cyborgs, and femme fatales - and that&#39;s all before breakfast.

This list of detective characters has some of the best gumshoes in the business. Some may drink a little harder than others, and some may prefer to stick to the shadows, but that doesn&#39;t make them any less effective. In fact, it&#39;s their unique character traits that often help them uncover&nbsp;hidden clues.

Vote up your favorite detectives who have appeared in films and TV shows, and vote down all the other amateurs.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Elliot Stabler

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