History Characters / AmericanVandalSeason1

* TheDriver: Played with. Gabi seems to be driving Pete and Sam everywhere in the investigation except for school, but subverts the trope by being a fully realized character

* EnsembleDarkhorse: InUniverse. Comments on ''American Vandal'' have a lot of love for Ming * * ForeignExchangeStudent: From Toronto, Canada.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: InUniverse. Comments on ''American Vandal'' have a lot of love for Ming after his short appearance in 1.04, in keeping with his status as LovedByAll.

* CopHater: When law enforcement arrives to break up the party at Rachel Balducci's grandmother's house, a drunk Ming makes his feelings toward the police ''quite'' clear.

* CopHater: When law enforcement arrives to break up the party at Rachel Balducci's grandmother's house, a drunk Ming makes his feelings towards the police ''quite'' clear.

* CopHater: When law enforcement arrives to break up the party at Rachel Balducci's grandmother's house, Ming drunkenly shouts:

* DidntThinkThisThrough / TooDumbToLive: Did he really think he could get away with saying what he did on video? Turns out that a teacher who trash talks his colleagues and comments on how hot one of his female student is in an attempt to seem cool won't be employed for very long.

* BookDumb: Dylan himself admits he's not book-smart -- or street-smart.

* ClassClown: But not a particularly funny one.

* DumbassHasAPoint: By his own admission; he argues that he's ''too'' stupid to have possibly deleted footage from the server. Sam and Peter, who work with him, admit that this is actually very good evidence of his innocence.

* LoveMartyr: He just keeps going back to Mackenzie, no matter how many times she dumps and manipulates him. [[spoiler:It's implied he would have gone back to her even after finding out that she cheated on him and withheld evidence that could exonerate him, if she hadn't broken it off herself.]]

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: He didn't spray-paint the dicks on the faculty's cars, but in the final episode he does spray-paint a dick on Ms. Shapiro's driveway after she refuses to apologize to him. He has no prospects for the future, and everyone's pigeonholed him into being an idiot, so he decides to fulfill that role.]]

* TheAce: Smart, athletic, kind, pretty, part of a ton of school clubs, and one of the most popular girls in school. She even [[spoiler:makes the football team, though she quits before the season begins.]]
** Given that she [[spoiler:made the team even with Coach Rafferty's attitude to and resulting treatment of her, she must have put in a fantastic performance.]]

* {{Expy}}: Shares a lot of traits with [[{{Film/Election}} Tracy Flick]], [[spoiler: including possibly being more sinister than she seems.]]
* GoGetterGirl: Which goes along with being a Tracy Flick variant, as indicated above.

* LovableAlphaBitch: One of the most popular girls in school, but not unpleasant at all.
* NiceGirl: Generally kind to all and liked by all in return. [[spoiler: Even if she was responsible for the dicks, she still led the campaign to have Dylan exonerated, rather than let him take the rap for her actions.]]
* StudentCouncilPresident: Part of the reason that the case against her is quickly discounted.
* SoapboxSadie: Constantly interrupts school to make political statements. When ''American Vandal'' goes viral, she leads the campaign to have Dylan returned to school.

* StrawFeminist: Deconstructed. Everyone is annoyed at her SoapboxSadie ways, and her attempt to get on the football team is played as this. But it gets a whole darker and more sympathetic look once [[spoiler:we find out that Rafferty bullied, humiliated, and ''physically injured'' her just to punish her]], even though she is also a very good sportswoman.

* CopHater: When law enforcement arrives to break up the party at Rachel Balducci's grandmother's house, Ming makes his dislike of the police ''very'' clear.

* CourteousCanadian: Despite Dylan believing him to be Chinese, he's actually from Toronto. Explains why he's so nice.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: InUniverse. Comments on ''American Vandal'' have a lot of love for Ming after his short appearance in 1.04.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: From Canada.

* InscrutableOriental: Dylan tries to bring this up to cast suspicion on him. Not only is it racist, it's not even accurate, as Ming's from Canada.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: With Sam, at the end.]]

* TheDriver: played with. Gabi seems to be driving Pete and Sam everywhere in the investigation except for school, but subverts the trope by being a fully realized character

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: She stood by and let her boyfriend of four years be expelled from school, have his future plans (including college applications) ruined and be left open to felony criminal charges and possible jail time, as well as incurring possibly ruinous debt for his low-income family, rather than admit to cheating on him.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In 1.07, she gives a very harsh one of these to Peter after he accuses her of being the vandal with a very convincing and personal theory. While she brings up a good point--that Peter aired everyone's dirty laundry in public just to make his documentary--it's mostly said out of spite due to her realizing that [[spoiler: the only way to clear her name would be to send the Twitch Stream that shows her cheating on Dylan before he arrives, proving both of their alibis ''that she's had the entire time.'']]

* ConsummateLiar: He claimed to be best friends with a dead student [[spoiler: (he wasn't)]]. He claimed he drank 11 beers at Nana's party [[spoiler: (he drank 1)]]. He claimed Sarah Pearson gave him a handjob [[spoiler: (she didn't)]]. And he claimed he saw Dylan Maxwell spray-painting the dicks on the faculty cars [[spoiler: (he didn't, but this may have been a genuine mistake and later misinterpretation, instead of an outright lie)]].

-->'''Peter:''' That day, Alex earned huge points when he gave an [[RousingSpeech inspirational speech]] at the mess hall. He told his red team to "know yourself, and know your worth." But a quick google search would suggest he just took lyrics from a popular {{Music/Drake}} song and changed the N-word to "red team". [{{Beat}}] Not sure how I feel about that.

* TheChessmaster: According to Kraz, who compares her to [[TheSpymaster Lord Varys]] from ''{{Series/Game Of Thrones}}''.

* CreepyGymCoach: Mr. Rafferty appears to be extremely genial and popular, but it's hinted at that he's abused his position from time to time. [[spoiler:Kraz claims "he's roofied people." He has a suspicious complaint on file for "inappropriate conduct with a student." He also possibly put Christa in a position where she would be injured as revenge for her ruining his pep rally, and then there's the matter of what he whispered to her when she was on the ground. It's never really answered.]]

* HotTeacher: How some students see him.
** SilverFox: His age is apparently not a detriment.

* NeverMyFault: When you look back, it's clear he blames Christa and her Rosh Hashana protest for the football team losing a big game. Her protest disrupted a ''pep rally'', which led to one of the football team's key players being made ineligible to play that game for joining her walkout. First off, as Coach he should have made sure that every player on the team knew the consequences for walking out of school (it's not like this is the first time Christa's done something like this), secondly also as Coach, he should be able to adjust his strategy to cover ''one'' missing player.
* ReallyGetsAround: Described as a "serial-dater", usually with moms.

* RiddleForTheAges: What did he say to Christa Carlyle after she got knocked on her back? [[spoiler: If she did plan the dick drawings in revenge for him getting away with, even rewarded, for his behavior towards her, as[[{{Lampshaded}} Peter and Sam point out]] it must have been something really bad for her to be pushed to such extremes.]]
* SmugSnake: Especially to [[spoiler:Christa]].
* TeacherParentRomance: Has a thing for moms. Including [[spoiler:Mackenzie's mother.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Hinted at, but never confirmed.]]

* WickedStepfather: Although they aren't actually married, Mackenzie views him as this, and [[spoiler:that's why she trashes his office.]]

* ApatheticTeacher: One who cares far more about seeming cool than teaching history.
* CoolTeacher: Tries so hard to be this, but his attempts to be cool just end up making him really bad at his job.
-->'''Peter:''' Kraz really wants to be loved by his students, and will say anything to win their affection. With Kraz, there's no filter. He tends to insert himself into places he doesn't belong. Like when he put out a twitter poll predicting whether two of his students would break up. Needless to say, he has a bit of a problem with boundaries.

* FiredTeacher: But unlike most examples in fiction, he completely deserves it, and there's no student campaign to get him back.
-->'''Kraz:''' But, I mean, was the school just in firing me? [{{Beat}}] Honestly, yeah. Yes.

* GreenEyedMonster: He's extremely jealous of Ms. Shapiro getting more insurance money to pay for her damaged car than him, and he can be seen storming off in a huff when Mr. Rafferty wins Teacher of the Year.

-->'''Peter:''' [[spoiler:Mr Baxter does have access to the security footage, and a potential motive to lash out against the school. It's rumored he's being pushed into early retirement. [...] Could he have deleted the security footage? Yes. But could he have drawn 27 dicks in 8.1 minutes? No. He's too fat.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Some fans and students deduce that he must be the vandal, on the grounds that he is "creepy AF". He may be creepy, but he's not the vandal.]]

[[folder:Denise and Greg Kavanagh]]

* GoodStepfather: Greg is also this to Dylan, despite Dylan trying to paint him as a regular WickedStepfather.
* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Denise can tell when Dylan lies to her and so she knows he is innocent of drawing the dicks. However, the way she tells it, it comes across more like a mother's sentimentality for her son than solid evidence.

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* CanadaEh: Despite Dylan believing him to be Chinese, he's actually from Toronto. Explains why he's so nice.

* YokoOhno: How the Wayback Boys perceive her.