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* EnsembleDarkhorse: In spite of only featuring prominently in two episodes (though her father's {{Angst}} about her is a long-running theme), she is one of the most popular characters in the series, almost solely thanks to her part in "There Is Another Sky," where she scores one of the series' first [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].



* LesYay: With Clarice



* TheWoobie: The real Zoe was killed by her fanatical boyfriend. Her avatar was subsequently captured and subjected to grotesque experiments by her father.

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* TheWoobie: The real Zoe was killed by her fanatical boyfriend. Her avatar was subsequently captured and subjected to grotesque experiments by her father.



* LesYay: With Amanda
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* DawsonCasting



* DawsonCasting: 25, playing 16.

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* ForegoneConclusion: He will live on to shake off his Ha'la'tha roots and become an AcePilot.
** ProphecyTwist/[[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie]]: [[spoiler:''This'' William Adama definitely won't]].
*** Less of an example if you noticed that [[spoiler:Willie is too old and has the wrong eye color to be Bill (the latter being especially obvious because Edward James Olmos specifically had to wear blue contacts in his role as Bill Adama, so the different eye color obviously was kind of a major character trait]].

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* ForegoneConclusion: He will live on to shake off his Ha'la'tha roots and become an AcePilot.
** ProphecyTwist/[[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie]]: [[spoiler:''This'' William Adama definitely won't]].
*** Less of an example if you noticed that [[spoiler:Willie is too old and has the wrong eye color to be Bill (the latter being especially obvious because Edward James Olmos specifically had to wear blue contacts in his role as Bill Adama, so the
AcePilot. [[spoiler:Except he doesn't, since he's a different eye color obviously was kind of a major character trait]].
William Adama--Bill's older brother.]]
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* GenreBlind: Oh no, creating a sentient slave race of war robots isn't going to have any consequences up the line. Well, [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined okay, yes it does]], [[SarcasmMode just a few]]. [[spoiler:Psychologically torturing your already-estranged daughter who just happens to be inside the prototype of that race probably didn't help, either.]]

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* GenreBlind: Oh no, creating a sentient slave race of war robots isn't going to have any consequences up the line. Well, [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 okay, yes it does]], [[SarcasmMode just a few]]. [[spoiler:Psychologically torturing your already-estranged daughter who just happens to be inside the prototype of that race probably didn't help, either.]]
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!!Baxter Sarno (PattonOswalt)

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!!Baxter Sarno (PattonOswalt)
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!!Barnabas Greeley (JamesMarsters)

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!!Barnabas Greeley (JamesMarsters)
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* RunningGag: Caprican college students get most of their news from him. He also jokes that his audience is stoned.

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* RunningGag: Caprican college students get most of their news from him. He also jokes that his audience is stoned.stoned (a reference to an old [[AppropriatedAppellation appropriated]] [[FanCommunityNicknames nickname]] for the ''Daily Show'' fandom, "Stoned Slackers").

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* AmoralAttorney
* BumblingDad: When it comes to Willie, Joseph generally is unsure of how to proceed. It's clear from early on his relationship with his son is strained, all the more so because he's preoccupied with [[DaddysGirl Tamara]]. His brother calls it out on him several times.

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* AmoralAttorney
AmoralAttorney: Is a mob lawyer.
* BumblingDad: When it comes to Willie, Joseph generally is unsure of how to proceed. It's clear from early on his relationship with his son is strained, all the more so because he's preoccupied with [[DaddysGirl Tamara]]. His brother calls it him out on him it several times.times, even basically taking custody of Willie when Joseph really hits bottom.



* [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]]

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* [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]]Gangster]]: Tauron immigrants treat him with respect and see the Ha'la'tha as protecting their interests from the Capricans who look down on them.



* HospitalHottie: She's an M.D. and she's beautiful.



* NiceGirl
* NoSympathy: Towards Zoey, initially.

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* NiceGirl
NiceGirl: Would normally be Daniel's MoralityChain, were she not having an emotional breakdown over the fact that her daughter was a terrorist, being distracted by the ghost of her brother and Clarice's manipulation.
* NoSympathy: Towards Zoey, initially. \n But Amanda remembers life before they were rich, and regarded Zoe as more than a little spoiled.



* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girlie Girl]]

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* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girlie Girl]]Girl]]: To Lacy's Tomboy.



* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Tomboy]]

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* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Tomboy]]Tomboy]]: To Zoe's Girly Girl.



* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]

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* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]Bitch]]: Even her devotion to her religion is tainted by her personal ambition and cutthroat behavior.



* SinisterMinister / BadHabits: Poses as a cleric of Athena, while actually being a senior cleric in a terrorist monotheist group.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

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* SinisterMinister / BadHabits: SinisterMinister[=/=]BadHabits: Poses as a cleric priestess of Athena, while actually being a senior cleric in a terrorist monotheist group.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
WellIntentionedExtremist: Or so she sees herself. Actually closer to a KnightTemplar.
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!!Amanda Graystone (Paula Malcomson)

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!!Amanda Graystone (Paula Malcomson)
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lives in a mansion custom-designed to accommodate her claustrophobia, has just about anything she wants, her parents are busy but not hostile. Yet she acts like an abused, neglected, child and acts out by joining a terrorist group. Zoe's sense of entitlement is especially stark when contrasted with Lacey, who apparently just lives with her alcoholic mother in a run down part of Caprica City.

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lives in a mansion custom-designed to accommodate her claustrophobia, has just about anything she wants, her parents are busy but not hostile. Yet she acts behaves like an abused, neglected, child and acts out by joining a terrorist group. Zoe's sense of entitlement is especially stark when contrasted with Lacey, who apparently just lives with her alcoholic mother in a run down part of Caprica City.

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* MadScientist: Crosses the MoralEventHorizon in his pursuit of beating Vergis in winning the Caprican military contract, performing twisted experiments on his daughter's virtual avatar even while insisting that she ''is'' his daughter and eventually creates a humanoid robot out of her.



* FamilyVersusCareer: Somewhat unfairly, Zoe accuses her of being ''both'' a trophy wife ''and'' a distant parent because she has a career as a plastic surgeon.



* CameBackWrong

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* CameBackWrongCameBackWrong: The avatar did not actually possess all of Zoe's memories. For example, she does not know what Zoe's plan for her was, or why Zoe didn't trust Clarice. This causes her to improvise dangerously.



* [[RebelliousPrincess Rebellious Rich Kid]]
* RobotGirl
* TeenGenius
* VirtualGhost
* TheWoobie

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* [[RebelliousPrincess Rebellious Rich Kid]]
Kid]]: A huge part of her motivation seems to be to prove her parents wrong about, well, ''everything''.
* RobotGirl
RobotGirl: In both the U-87 and later her gynoid body.
* TeenGenius
TeenGenius: Hands down the best computer programmer in the Colonies.
* VirtualGhost
TouchedByVorlons: It is strongly implied that Zoe's incredible intellect was cultivated by the Messenger that had been interacting with her since childhood.
* TheWoobie
VirtualGhost: The real Zoe dies in the maglev bombing, leaving only her virtual avatar alive in V-World.
* TheWoobie: The real Zoe was killed by her fanatical boyfriend. Her avatar was subsequently captured and subjected to grotesque experiments by her father.

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* AntiVillain

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* AntiVillainAntiVillain: Is a hitman, but sees his job as being part of the protection of the Tauron immigrant community on Caprica.



* ManlyGay

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* ManlyGay ManlyGay: He's a mob hitman for the gods' sake!



* AntiVillain

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* AntiVillainAntiVillain: Thinks she is going to lead a benign religious mass-conversion.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lives in a mansion custom-designed to accommodate her claustrophobia, has just about anything she wants, her parents are busy but not hostile. Yet she acts like an abused, neglected, child and acts out by joining a terrorist group. Zoe's sense of entitlement is especially stark when contrasted with Lacey, who apparently just lives with her alcoholic mother in a run down part of Caprica City.


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* IdiotBall: Somehow never saw anything suspicious about the fact that her boyfriend's private V-World room was designed as a ruined city where the only intact building was a temple to the "One True God".
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*** Less of an example if you noticed that [[spoiler:Willie is too old and has the wrong eye color to be Bill]].

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*** Less of an example if you noticed that [[spoiler:Willie is too old and has the wrong eye color to be Bill]].
Bill (the latter being especially obvious because Edward James Olmos specifically had to wear blue contacts in his role as Bill Adama, so the different eye color obviously was kind of a major character trait]].
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* FootFocus: The only instances of the trope belong to Amanda, who is also pretty much the only character to be seen barefoot at all.

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* NiceGirl
* NoSympathy: Towards Zoey, initially.
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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine JonStewart meets JayLeno, with shades of BillMaher.

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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine JonStewart Creator/JonStewart meets JayLeno, with shades of BillMaher.
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* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Big Brother]]
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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine JonStewart meets JayLeno, with shades of BilMaher.

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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine JonStewart meets JayLeno, with shades of BilMaher.BillMaher.
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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine {{John Stewart}} meets {{Jay Leno}}, with shades of {{Bill Maher}}

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* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Imagine {{John Stewart}} JonStewart meets {{Jay Leno}}, JayLeno, with shades of {{Bill Maher}}BilMaher.
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!!Baxter Sarno (Patton Oswalt)

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!!Baxter Sarno (Patton Oswalt)
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!!Ruth

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!!Ruth!!Ruth (Karen Austin)
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!!Ruth Adama

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!!Ruth Adama!!Ruth
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* PapaWolf: At least when it comes to Tamara. He will go to ''any'' lengths necessary to protect her. Somewhat {{Deconstructed}} in that it turns out she neither needs his protection nor wants it (since it's ruining his life).

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* PapaWolf: At least when it comes to Tamara. He will go to ''any'' lengths necessary to protect her. Somewhat {{Deconstructed}} in that it turns out she neither needs his protection nor wants it (since it's ruining his life).
life and causing him to neglect her brother).
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* FootFocus: The only instances of the trope belong to Amanda, who is also pretty much the only character to be seen barefoot at all.
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* BigBad
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* DepravedBisexual: To the point where even attempting the seduce a teenage girl (and getting her handsome young husband to help) is not beyond her.
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* ManlyGay

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!The Adamas

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!The Adamas[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:The Adamas]]



!The Graystones

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!The Graystones[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Graystones]]



!Others

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!Others[[/folder]]

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* ShowWithinAShow

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* ShowWithinAShowShowWithinAShow

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!!Baxter Sarno (Patton Oswald)

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!!Baxter Sarno (Patton Oswald)
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* HiddenDepths: In order to help Joseph get over the death of his daughter, whose obsession at finding her avatar-copy in New Cap City was ruining his life, she disguised herself and entered the game to help him find Tamara. She found her first, and both agreed that it was for the best that Joseph not waste his life, after which Tamara killed his avatar to prevent him from going back. And this was all from someone presented (at first) to just be his secretary, albeit a loyal one.

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* HiddenDepths: In order to help Joseph get over the death of his daughter, whose when his obsession at with finding her avatar-copy in New Cap City was ruining his life, she disguised herself and entered the game to help him find Tamara. She found her first, and both agreed that it was for the best that Joseph not waste his life, after which Tamara killed his avatar to prevent him from going back. And this was all from someone presented (at first) to just be his secretary, albeit a loyal one.

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