Berserk Button: Michael frequently talks about the need to stay emotionally detached, but he will always take clients solely because kids are involved.
Hence his Determinator attitude to finishing the job with minimal collateral damage. It was Mike blowing up a building with farmers in it in order to get to the warlord they were hiding and him not caring that became a wake up call as to the slippery slope he was traveling down. It's also by the hand of Larry that some of Mike's quirks are what they are. The Atoner: The result of having worked with Larry, who turned Mike from an average unexceptional spy into a world-class operative.
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As the series goes on, Fiona becomes more and more the moral center of the couple, encouraging Michael to help and be altruistic - even sometimes forcing him to help people or doing such thing on her own, while Michael becomes more and more consumed by his career and ruthless. Fiona meanwhile is far less into the whole helping people and is ready to kill people at the drop of a hat. He'll also jump through hoops to limit how much he hurts people and avoid killing people. He's obsessed with helping people - sometimes even to the cost of his own quest to find out what happened. Early in the show, Michael's more of a classical hero.
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