Relatively early during the show's initial run, fans noticed that the only time Fraser ever seemed to get hurt was when he wasn't wearing his Stetson particularly if he'd been wearing it and it had come off somehow , and thus the Stetson of Invulnerability was born. Fraser's only confirmed sexual encounter occurred with Victoria Metcalf in the first season episode "Victoria's Secret. According to series creator Paul Haggis, "They did not make love until she returned, in Fraser's apartment.
Characterization veers between these two extreme poles. There is a particular question as to whether or not Fraser slept with Francesca Vecchio , which the gentlemanly Fraser refuses to confirm in canon. Stories where he either did or did not sleep with her abound. When a temporarily amnesiac Fraser enters his own, extremely spartan apartment, he asks, "Am I being punished?
In her extrapolation of dS canon from reading fanfic, TheFourthVine describes Fraser as "permanently in waiting — in waiting for his life " [11]. There's debate about whether or not Benton Fraser would curse or use profanity or even blasphemy, even in his own head. These debates tend to be part of larger characterization issues about whether or not Fraser was a fairly normal child albeit one with all sorts of parental issues who chooses to enact a wry performance of the perfect Mountie, or whether he really is the unworldly, almost alien person he often presents himself as.
In "Flashback," an amnesiac Fraser uses the word "hell" three times most notably, to inquire "What the hell kind of name is Benton anyway? Canon tells us that Fraser's grandparents helped set up an English-language library in China before "the revolution. It was implied in one episode that he knows a little Russian he said his Russian was a little rusty.
Because Fraser's grandparents were librarians, canon often allows him to know really esoteric things. Fans have done a lot with Fraser's bookishness; in canon, we see Fraser reading music scores so well that he can hear symphonies in his head. Fraser is canonically skilled in drag see "Some Like It Red" , so many stories extend this in fanonical ways. Fraser pairings include:. Francesca Vecchio : While Frannie Vecchio's attraction to Fraser does not seem to be reciprocal in canon though Fraser refuses to confirm whether or not he ever slept with her, see below , many fans have used fanfiction to give Frannie her wish.
This rarely ends well. Some of these stories are kidfic whose premise is that Victoria got pregnant with Fraser's child during the events of "Victoria's Secret. Mark Smithbauer : Fraser is sometimes slashed with his childhood friend Smithbauer seen in the episode The Blue Line , who became a famous hockey player as an adult. Fraser is sometimes described as having had an unrequited teenage crush on Smithbauer. Other stories indicate a sexual relationship based on casual experimentation, while still others portray a romantic relationship.
She later resurfaced in Chicago, blackmailing Fraser into helping her use the money from the bank robbery to buy jewels on the black market, threatening to have Ray Vecchio framed for corruption.
She left Chicago soon after her plot unraveled, and was not seen again. Having little experience with romantic matters, Fraser appears to have suppressed his emotions, often for comic effect in the series, and buried himself in the masculine pursuits of law enforcement and campcraft. His super-human detective abilities provide humorous contrast with his inability to interact with women. His fixation upon the criminal Metcalf, and later, his superior officer, Margaret Thatcher no relation to the British prime minister , was unreasonable, and he may have used his attraction to an unavailable woman as a mechanism for avoiding change in his own life.
Actor Daniel Kash Detective Louis Gardino in the series , in the same documentary observed about Fraser that 'You'll never see that character cry. You'll sense that he'll be crying inside but you'll never see tears going down his face.
He's just too buffed for that, and too reserved. In the episode Bounty Hunter , Fraser meets a woman who seems very compatible with him, but his father warns Benton off. Fraser Sr tries to get his son to understand that the woman is not the one who is vulnerable, but Benton. For all of his son's physical self-reliance, the young constable needs emotional maturing.
Fraser eventually discovered he had a half-sister, Maggie MacKenzie, in the season four episode Hunting Season. Because Bob Fraser is her father, she can also see his ghost. She arrived in Chicago pursuing the killers of her husband, under circumstances similar to Fraser's own arrival in the city, though she soon returned to Canada, unlike Fraser, who remained in Chicago for some time. Fraser wears his uniform stetson hat both in uniform and out. When he loses it, he seems to get into trouble.
Fans of the show have thus nicknamed it the Stetson of Invulnerability. He frequently only has Canadian currency with him.
His other companion, a deaf half-wolf named Diefenbaker after Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, reads lips in both English and Inuktitut, and often assists in the capture of criminals. Fraser wears his uniform stetson hat both in uniform and out. When he loses it, he seems to get into trouble.
Fans of the show have thus nicknamed it the "stetson of invulnerability. He frequently only has Canadian currency with him. Benton Fraser was portrayed by Canadian actor Paul Gross who half-jokingly declared: "So much of tv or just life in general seems dominated by cynicism, it's only refreshing that he's someone who's actually good.
And it's great to play because I was a very miserable, bitter, vicious, unhappy guy and now that I'm playing this part, I've become really nice and generous and I love everybody. Benton Fraser was born in Inuvik, Northwest Territories where he lived until the age of six. His mother Caroline was murdered by a smuggler at this point, and his father Robert Fraser , a RCMP officer, could not raise him on his own.
The child was entrusted to his grandparents George and Martha Fraser who were travelling librarians. He spent time in Tuktoyaktuk, Aklavik and Alert among others, and travelled extensively across northern Canada, reading many of his grandparents' books and perfecting his education. The three settled near the Nakina River when Fraser was ten, and he there met his Tsimshian friend Eric who took him to a sweat lodge ceremony and helped him discover other Native traditions.
The following year, the family moved to the eastern part of the Northwest Territories now Nunavut where Fraser made friends with an Inuit boy named Innusiq, a skilful caribou hunter he would later speak of with great fondness. At the age of twelve, he met his mentor Thomas Quinn , a Native Yukon man who initiated him to the art of tracking by smelling and tasting evidence.
At thirteen, Benton Fraser spent more time in Inuvik and befriended Mark Smithbauer who would become a professional hockey player. Fraser once tells of the many books his grandparents gave him for his birthday and Christmas instead of the toys he asked for. Martha Fraser, a former school teacher, invested time and effort in her grandson's upbringing, insisting on chivalry and good etiquette; she even taught him boxing from a book.
However, the boy was not allowed to hunt with his friends and felt frustrated about this. He once rebelled and left on a hunting trip on his own. It is then that he first met Thomas Quinn who helped him see his motivation for hunting was wrong. In one of the communities Fraser lived in, an Anglican minister would hold picture shows, and Fraser got to see Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and The Passion of Joan of Arc , two films that would greatly nourish his idealistic temperament.
Following in his estranged father's footsteps, Benton Fraser became a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable in He worked in many remote Inuit hamlets including two-person detachments and became known for his endurance and skill.
He was once transferred to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, but the city life was more than he could handle, and he soon asked to be sent back North. It was in , while stationed at the Prince Rupert detachment, that Fraser met Diefenbaker , the timber wolf hybrid who saved him from drowning and became his police dog and faithful companion. Robert Fraser was assassinated by a Chicago hired gun in the Yukon in
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