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* ChristmasCake: In a sense. Jessica is chronologically middle-aged, but is physically and mentally in her mid-20s; however, it's implied that Joel was attracted to her even before she was de-aged.


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* OldMaid: In a sense. Jessica is chronologically middle-aged, but is physically and mentally in her mid-20s; however, it's implied that Joel was attracted to her even before she was de-aged.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman[=/=]AmbiguousRobots: Never clearly revealed whether she is a robot in Bonus Stage. ''High Score'' June was less ambiguously a robot.
* BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit is striped sleeves, a bandeau and either a skirt or pants.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman[=/=]AmbiguousRobots: Never clearly revealed whether she is a robot in Bonus Stage. ''High Score'' June was less ambiguously a robot.
* BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit is striped sleeves, a bandeau and either a skirt or pants.
robot.

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* BecomeARealBoy: Later on, she expresses [[spoiler: a desire to be a real human in the real world. Eventually fulfilled, but she dies soon after.]]



* PinocchioSyndrome: Later on, she expresses [[spoiler: a desire to be a real human in the real world. Eventually fulfilled, but she dies soon after.]]
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* NiceHat: Which was apparently her defining feature as far back as ''grade school''.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is a bright shade of green.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is a bright shade of green.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gradient black/blue, possibly intended to be viewed as black with blue streaks.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gradient black/blue, possibly intended to be viewed as black with blue streaks.



* BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit is striped sleeves, a bandeau and either a skirt or pants.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Magenta in earlier episodes, a more purplish shade later on.

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* BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit is striped sleeves, a bandeau and either a skirt or pants.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Magenta in earlier episodes, a more purplish shade later on.
pants.

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* PetTheDog: Despite being a huge jerk, he really values his friendship with Phil in his own, weird way.



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Had one after she and Craig broke up.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Had one after she and Craig broke up.up and again after Jessica deactivates her.


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* SanitySlippage: She slowly becomes insane throughout the series. Joel figures this is either due to her de-aging or being shot by Rya in the season 5 premiere.
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I'm not sure that in-universe counts as a Scrappy.


* TheScrappy: In universe, everyone seems to go out of their way to not acknowledge her.
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* GranolaGirl: She is a vegan, though ironically enough loves {{ultraviolent video game}}s.

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* GranolaGirl: She is a vegan, though ironically enough loves {{ultraviolent [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 ultraviolent video game}}s.games]].
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* DetachedSleeves: Striped sleeves and a bandeau.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Looks and acts 25 years old, due to Evil activating Joel's Sitcom Reactor.




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* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Looks and acts 25 years old, due to Evil activating Joel's Sitcom Reactor.
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* CharlieBrownBaldness: His design for the first two seasons had only four long hairs coming out of his hat, even though his ''High Score'' design had thick blond hair. His altered form in "Project 2" and "2 Fast" and his later design from season 3 on revealed that his hair was supposed to be blond.

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* MadScientist: Often makes inventions for fun.

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* MadScientist: Often makes inventions for fun.his own amusement.



* ButtMonkey:

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* ButtMonkey:ButtMonkey: While other characters are killed mercifully or quickly, Phil is more often killed slowly and painfully, screaming the whole time.



* OrangeBlueContrast: For the third through fifth seasons, she wore an orange undershirt under a blue shirt; afterwards, the outer shirt switched to white.

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* OrangeBlueContrast: For the third through fourth and fifth seasons, she wore an orange undershirt under a blue shirt; afterwards, the outer shirt switched to white.


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--> '''Keen:''' And what were you doing during that time?
--> '''Phil:''' Lifting weights... looking handsome.
--> '''Rya:''' Objection, your honor. Phil is not handsome.

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Expand ZC Es where I could, comment out where I couldn\'t, remove tropes that don\'t apply, add tropes, unspoil trope names, format, move The Other Darrin to Trivia


'''''Main Characters'''''

::'''Joel Dawson'''

Resident mad scientist of the show, Joel spends most of his time inventing insane things and making Phil's life unmanageable.

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'''''Main Characters'''''

::'''Joel !!'''Joel Dawson'''

Resident mad scientist of the show, Joel spends most of his time inventing insane things and making Phil's life unmanageable.
unmanageable.



* BigOlEyebrows: His final art design used these.
* BrilliantButLazy
* TheCasanova: In High Score (before Bonus Stage), Joel was presumably June's boyfriend (she's much less acknowledged in Bonus Stage), but even in Bonus Stage, Joel's the object of Elly's affection, he starts dating Jessica, and then it's later revealed he has an ex-wife.
* ChickMagnet

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* BigOlEyebrows: His final art design used these.
*
these. Before then he had no eyebrows except to emote.
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BrilliantButLazy
* TheCasanova: ChickMagnet: In High Score (before Bonus Stage), Joel was presumably June's boyfriend (she's much less acknowledged in Bonus Stage), but even in Bonus Stage, Joel's the object of Elly's affection, he starts dating Jessica, and then it's later revealed he has an ex-wife.
* ChickMagnet
ex-wife.



--> '''Phil''': what does it do?
--> '''Joel''': YourMom

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--> '''Phil''': what What does it do?
--> '''Joel''': YourMomYourMom.



--> '''Joel''': Yes. I call it the ''Up Yours''
* TheDitz
** GeniusDitz: He's a damn good inventor/scientist when he wants to be.
* TheFool

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--> '''Joel''': Yes. I call it the ''Up Yours''
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Yours''.
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TheDitz
** %%* TheFool
*
GeniusDitz: He's a damn good inventor/scientist when he wants to be.
* TheFool
be, but he often lacks common sense, doing things like purchasing and wearing shoes of death.



* LongPants
* MadScientist
* {{Pirate}}: Well he said he is.

::'''Phil Argus'''

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--> '''Joel''': I made Elly cry...''awesome!''
--> '''Blakken White''': Congratulations! ''{{{beat}}}'' You're an asshole!
* LongPants
KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in "Morbid", which was the first of many temporary deaths.]]
* MadScientist
LongPants: Most of the time his feet were the same shade of blue as his pants.
* MadScientist: Often makes inventions for fun.
--> '''Jessica''': Well, what can you do with it?
--> '''Joel''': Well, on some scale, collar crooks, find the terrorists, improve the economy... but mostly I just intend to mess with peoples' lives, which is far more fun.
* {{Pirate}}: Well He claims to be, and in two episodes, he said he is.

::'''Phil
acts like one.

!!'''Phil
Argus'''



* ButtMonkey

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* ButtMonkeyButtMonkey:



* RoundBushyHair

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* RoundBushyHair--> '''Joel''': What, do you still hate me?
--> '''Phil''': Yes.
--> '''Joel''': Awesome.



* StraightMan: To Joel.


::'''Elly Strife'''

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* StraightMan: To A relatively level-headed foil to Joel.


::'''Elly !!'''Elly Strife'''



* EyeGlasses
* OrangeBlueContrast: Wore an orange undershirt under a blue shirt (before it switched to white).

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* EyeGlasses
EyeGlasses: Throughout the series. In "Fickle Nickel", she has normal eyes without glasses. Her sixth-season redesign includes brown pupils in the white within the lenses.
* OrangeBlueContrast: Wore For the third through fifth seasons, she wore an orange undershirt under a blue shirt; afterwards, the outer shirt (before it switched to white).white.



* TheOtherDarrin: Swithces voices three quaters of the way through the series. Lampshaded as her apparently having a frong in her throat the whole time.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

::'''Rya Botkins'''

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* TheOtherDarrin: Swithces voices three quaters YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is a bright shade of the way through the series. Lampshaded as her apparently having a frong in her throat the whole time.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

::'''Rya
green.

!!'''Rya
Botkins'''



* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Not to most of the cast, but apparently Craig didn't realize she was a robot, even ''after their (clearly robotic) son was born''.
* FieryRedhead

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* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Not to most of DeceptivelyHumanRobots:
** In her first episode,
the cast, but apparently characters don't realize she's a robot until she speaks.
** Apparently,
Craig didn't realize she was a robot, even ''after their (clearly robotic) son was born''.
born''.
* FieryRedheadFieryRedhead: Mostly just snarky in the second through fourth seasons, but she gets aggressive towards Evil before being shut off in "Evil's New Groove", and she goes through a killing spree in "Joel vs. the Monobrow".



* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* PinocchioSyndrome: [[spoiler: Eventually fulfilled, but she dies soon after.]]

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* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In "Ryaconning", she dies due to being in real human form when she is stabbed by the Cloaked Figure.]]
* PinocchioSyndrome: Later on, she expresses [[spoiler: a desire to be a real human in the real world. Eventually fulfilled, but she dies soon after.]]



* {{Sexbot}}: Played with. While she was built to be Phil's girlfriend, and is capable of sex (and, for whatever reason, pregnancy), Craig learned the hard way that sex with Rya can be downright dangerous.

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* {{Sexbot}}: Played with. While she was built to be Phil's girlfriend, and is capable of sex (and, for whatever reason, pregnancy), Craig learned the [[GroinAttack hard way way]] that sex with Rya can be downright dangerous.



::'''Jessica Argus'''

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::'''Jessica !!'''Jessica Argus'''



* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Looks and acts 25 years old, due to Joel's experimentation in de-aging.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Looks and acts 25 years old, due to Evil activating Joel's experimentation in de-aging.Sitcom Reactor.



* CloudCuckooLander: By the time the team lands on Hydrox, she's more of one than Joel.
* GranolaGirl

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* CloudCuckooLander: By the time the team lands on Hydrox, she's more of one than Joel.
* GranolaGirl
Joel, mouthing off non-sequitur sentences and phrases.




::'''Cassidy'''

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\n::'''Cassidy'''\n* GranolaGirl: She is a vegan, though ironically enough loves {{ultraviolent video game}}s.

!!'''Cassidy'''



* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: According to WordOfGod, Cassidy was the cloaked figure from episode 79--her motivation behind killing Rya (and, had the series continued, attempting to kill Elly) was that she viewed the other girls as threats to her potential relationship with Phil.]]
* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]]

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* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: According EarlyBirdCameo: Appeared as "hat boy" in a flashback in episode 61, "Fist World", before her first appearance as a non-extra in episode 71, "Joel Goes to College".
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:According
to WordOfGod, Cassidy was the cloaked figure from episode 79--her motivation behind killing Rya (and, had the series continued, attempting to kill Elly) was that she viewed the other girls as threats to her potential relationship with Phil.]]
* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]]MurderTheHypotenuse [[spoiler:Her attempts to do this caused the events of "Ryaconning" and would have driven season eight.]]



* SheIsAllGrownUp
* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush]]
* [[spoiler:Yandere: An arguable example. She initially seems sweet and level-headed, but her apparent StalkerWithACrush feelings towards Phil and the fact that she killed Rya as a result could definitely place her under the Yandere heading.]]

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* SheIsAllGrownUp
* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush]]
* [[spoiler:Yandere: An arguable example.
SheIsAllGrownUp: She was known as "Hat boy" in grade school because no one bothered to ask her gender.
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Attracted to Phil enough to try, and in one case, succeed in, killing others she views as a threat to their relationship.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:She
initially seems sweet and level-headed, but her apparent StalkerWithACrush feelings towards Phil and the fact that she killed Rya as a result could definitely place her under the Yandere heading.]]



::'''June Crane'''

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::'''June !!'''June Crane'''



* AmbiguouslyHuman/AmbiguousRobots
* BareYourMidriff
* DetachedSleeves

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* AmbiguouslyHuman/AmbiguousRobots
AmbiguouslyHuman[=/=]AmbiguousRobots: Never clearly revealed whether she is a robot in Bonus Stage. ''High Score'' June was less ambiguously a robot.
* BareYourMidriff
BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit is striped sleeves, a bandeau and either a skirt or pants.
* DetachedSleevesDetachedSleeves: Striped sleeves and a bandeau.



* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]

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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Magenta in earlier episodes, a more purplish shade later on.

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* NiceHat

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* NiceHatNiceHat: Which was apparently her defining feature as far back as ''grade school''.
* OnlyOneName: While all the other major characters have at least had their surnames alluded to in some way (such as Rya's being shown as Botkins in the credits to one episode, and June's being shown as Crane in High Score), Cassidy's is never mentioned, not even as a joke.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gradient black/blue.

::'''June'''

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* [[spoiler:Yandere: An arguable example. She initially seems sweet and level-headed, but her apparent StalkerWithACrush feelings towards Phil and the fact that she killed Rya as a result could definitely place her under the Yandere heading.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gradient black/blue.

::'''June'''
black/blue, possibly intended to be viewed as black with blue streaks.

::'''June Crane'''



* {{AmbiguouslyHuman}}/{{AmbiguousRobots}}

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* {{AmbiguouslyHuman}}/{{AmbiguousRobots}}AmbiguouslyHuman/AmbiguousRobots
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* TheAlcoholic: More of an InformedAttribute, as his alcoholism is brought up a lot more than he's ever shown actually drinking. But it is brought up quite a bit.


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* InformedDeformity: Phil is treated as horrifically ugly, especially by women, despite not looking appreciably different from any other character. As with many character traits in the show, this is increasingly forgotten later on.
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* TheCasanova: In High Score (before Bonus Stage), Joel was presumably June's boyfriend (she's much less acknowledged in Bonus Stage), but even in Bonus Stage, Joel's the object of Elly's affection, he starts dating Jessica, and then it's later revealed he has an ex-wife.
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--> '''Phil''': what does it do?
--> '''Joel''': YourMom
--> '''Phil''': That's... actually pretty impressive.
--> '''Joel''': Yes. I call it the ''Up Yours''
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* HotMom


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* HotMom

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* BadassLonghair: After he grew hair, that is.
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* CloudCuckoolander

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* CloudCuckoolanderCloudCuckoolander: Many of his "inventions" were pretty out there, even for being a mad scientist.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: She was supposed to be one for Phil.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green.
[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Blue.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Blue.
Gradient black/blue.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink.[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
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* BadassLonghair: After he grew hair, that is.

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* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: According to WordOfGod, Cassidy was the cloaked figure from episode 79--her motivation behind killing Rya (and, had the series continued, attempting to kill Elly) was that she viewed the other girls as threats to her potential relationship with Phil.]]
* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]]



* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush: According to WordOfGod, Cassidy was the cloaked figure from episode 79--her motivation behind killing Rya (and, had the series continued, attempting to kill Elly) was that she viewed the other girls as threats to her potential relationship with Phil.]]
* [[spoiler:Yandere: She's in love with Phil, and determined to get rid of anyone in the way.]]

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* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush: According to WordOfGod, Cassidy was the cloaked figure from episode 79--her motivation behind killing Rya (and, had the series continued, attempting to kill Elly) was that she viewed the other girls as threats to her potential relationship with Phil.]]
* [[spoiler:Yandere: She's in love with Phil, and determined to get rid of anyone in the way.]]
[[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush]]

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* ShipperOnDeck: Made a FanFiction shipping him and Elly.

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* RoundBushyHair
* ShipperOnDeck: Made a FanFiction shipping him himself and Elly.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: She was supposed to be one for Phil.

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