Christian Troy is the plastic surgeon played by Julian McMahon on FX Networks', Nip/Tuck. Dr. Troy is often regarded as the doctor with less talent, but more persona and business skill in the McNamara/Troy partnership.

Character history

Sean McNamara's best friend and business partner. Christian is also nearing middle age, but constantly desires to feel and appear young. He constantly seduces and sleeps with women, only to cast them off once he's gotten the sexual satisfaction he wants from them. In Season 3, a sexual partner named Abby accused him of being a sadist after he made her put a bag over her head during sexual intercourse. Grace Santiago has also diagnosed Christian of having a sexual addiction.

It has been hinted at that Christian's borderline deviant sexual behavior may be rooted in the severe sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his foster parents, or may be traced to his father who raped his mother when she was a teenager (Christian was given up upon birth and only recently discovered his mother was still alive, although she found it too difficult to try and maintain any sort of contact with him).

When he and Sean were in college together, he had a one-night stand with Sean's then-fiancee, Julia McNamara, and impregnated her. For years, Julia told Sean that the child, Matt McNamara, was his son, never informing either he or Christian which of them was the father. In the second season of the show, Julia finally reveals who Matt's true father is, though it doesn't change Matt and Christian's close relationship. Their relationship, however, does become severely strained following the revelation regarding Matt's lover Ava Moore in the second season.

He proposes to Kimber Henry and also convinces her to quit her job as a pornography director, only to have her disappear moments before walking down the aisle on their wedding day. He was unaware that she had been kidnapped by the Carver and was forced to write the Dear John letter he received. Later on he entered briefly into a sexual relationship with an unattractive girl named Abby. During this she was asked to wear a bag over her head during sex with him.

Christian thought that Kimber had left him, until he received a grisly package from The Carver, her breast implants. She later turned up, and The Carver had undone all of her previous surgeries (10 or so) without anesthesia. He went in to see her, and saw her to be rather disfigured, and so he promised "to make her a 10 again." He re-did all of her previous surgeries simultaneously, and among other things, even suggested rescheduling their wedding, but she resisted. She thought that the Carver was right in terms of his views on beauty ("Beauty is a curse on the world," his famous quote). Christian thought she was now suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Although he still wanted to be with her, the feeling was not mutual. Their relationship is once again up in the air.

Christian then suspected that Quentin Costa was The Carver, but a startling revelation, that he had no penis, changed that. However, when The Carver attacks a sorority house, one of the victims reveals that whoever raped them used a strap-on penis, indicating that Quentin could still be The Carver, until he was found strapped to a bed, having been "carved" himself. After pouring his heart out to Sean and Christian, the initially reluctant duo agree to fix him but they pay dearly for it when The Carver sneaks up on Sean and drugs him, and then takes off his mask to reveal that Christian's initial suspicions were correct; it's Quentin Costa.

He then straps both Sean and Christian to the operating tables. He plays mind games with them a bit, and then cuts off the tip of one of Sean's fingers, so Christian decides to sacrifice himself, or more specifically, his left hand to save Sean. Before that happens, Quentin is shot from behind, by Kit.

Later both Sean and Christian find that Quentin and Kit McGraw are brother and sister. Kit had faked shooting Quentin, with Quentin using a fake blood pack to appear as though she saved them.

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