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* GenreSavvy: He's made quite a few thoughtful calls to numerous Sierra Games.
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* GenreSavvy: He's made quite a few thoughtful calls to numerous in King's Quest V after watching two other Sierra Games.
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* CaptionHumor: Sometimes speaks by including yellow captions in the videos.
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* CaptionHumor: Sometimes speaks by including yellow captions in the videos.videos, dating back to the JonTron videos, but still used by Barry and Jon in their respective series today.
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** He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how "[[AngryVideoGameNerd Assitry]]" is becoming one of these for him.
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** When playing competitive games, he will often spam an attack while saying "You/they can't penetrate this wall of (weapon)".
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the start, Arin was significantly more mellow, playing the straight man to Jon's antics. As the show developed, Arin gained many notable moments, but was still mostly Jon's straight man. However, when Danny came on the show, he turned out to be even more of a straight man than Arin, pushing Arin to become a lot more wacky as a result.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the start, Arin was significantly more mellow, playing the straight man to Jon's antics. As the show developed, Arin gained many notable moments, but was still mostly Jon's straight man. However, when Danny came on the show, he turned out to be even more almost ad much of a straight man than as Arin, pushing Arin to become a lot more wacky as a result.
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** And with the inclusion of Danny, Arin becomes much more volatile and energetic to contrast Dan's more laid-back nature, making him switch to becoming Dan's RedOni.
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* CloudCuckooLander: His "Rossisms", his strange philosophy. For example: "Genius in ignorance, could technically be called out-gnorance."
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* CloudCuckooLander: His "Rossisms", his strange philosophy. For example: "Genius in ignorance, could technically be called out-gnorance." When compared to the others (who take frequent trips to cuckooland themselves) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35G1eqzxG70 everything he says is this.]]
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* TheLeader: More or less the driving force for the entirely of the Game Grumps channel.
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* TeamDad: Invokes this in the 2014 Game Grumps T-shirt commercial, where he and Suzy play father and mother to Danny, Ross and Barry. Arin plays up the StandardFiftiesFather stereotype, and Dan calls him "Dad" and "Pop".
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
* TeamDad: Invokes this in the 2014 Game Grumps T-shirt commercial, where he and Suzy play father and mother to Danny, Ross and Barry. Arin plays up the StandardFiftiesFather stereotype, and Dan calls him "Dad" and "Pop".
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
* OutOfFocus: He's been conspicuously absent from Steam Train for a good part of 2014, with his only appearances usually occurring alongside Arin's 'hijackings'. Most of the other episodes have been just Arin and Ross exclusively.
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** Subverted with his actual personality and playstyle, which is very different from Jon's. The singing is also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because he is actually a singer by trade.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dan explained on Reddit that his disappearances from Steam Train/Steam Rolled are because he's dividing his time between a full-time day job, Game Grumps, Ninja Sex Party, Starbomb, and other projects he's working on. Needless to say, he's very busy and needs a break once in a while. Thankfully, it's never permanent.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dan explained on Reddit that his disappearances from Steam Train/Steam Rolled are during during 2013 were because he's he was dividing his time between a full-time day job, Game Grumps, Ninja Sex Party, Starbomb, and other projects he's he was working on. Needless to say, he's he was very busy and needs needed a break once in a while. Thankfully, it's never permanent.He eventually came back, though he has since gone OutOfFocus again for reasons unknown, despite having apparently quit his day job specifically to focus on Game Grumps.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: His speaking, contasted to Jon's {{Malaproper}}, is to say things in a very proper and formal manner. The type of things discussed on the show are unchanged, leading to this.
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* JewishAndNerdy: According to Jon and Arin in the Nickelodeon Guts episode.
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* JewishAndNerdy: According to Jon and Arin in the Nickelodeon Guts episode. The original Jew of Game Grumps, eventually followed by Danny.
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* TheLoad: He is ''utterly incompetent'' at KirbysEpicYarn.
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* BecomingTheMask: Danny notes that the line that divides the character of Danny Sexbang (who is a [[ThePornomancer sex-Crazed and successful womanizer]]) and the real life Dan Avidan, ([who's a friendly, geeky, shy individual [[NerdsAreVirgin who hadn't lost his virginity until 23]]) are slowly becoming the same person in terms of their bizarre sex life.
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** And with the inclusion of Danny, Arin has once again taken up the mantle of BlueOni... again, [[NotSoAboveItAll most of the time.]]
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* BecomingTheMask: Danny notes that the line that divides the character of Danny Sexbang (who is a [[ThePornomancer sex-Crazed and successful womanizer]]) and the real life Dan Avidan, ([who's a friendly, geeky, shy individual [[NerdsAreVirgin who hadn't lost his virginity until 23]]) are slowly becoming the same person in terms of their bizarre sex life.
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** "Get outta here!"
** "Get outta here!"
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** On Game Grumps as well, he tends to explain the schedule they use to film things, and various behind the scenes aspects of the show to the audience, much to Arin's displeasure of keeping these aspects mysterious and unknown.
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* ICallHimMisterHappy: His named his nuts Alpha and Omega.
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** Dan also makes a recognizable half-retching noise mid-sentence on many occasions. According to him, it's because he "feels things strongly" and uses the awkwardness of that noise to kill the mood of a discussion that gets too serious.
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** "Everyting's fine! EVERYTHING'S PROBABLY FINE!!"
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** The dog cane from Table Flip, which has been given multiple names.
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* PrettyBoy: His MessyHair, cute smile and nice eyes makes him popular on {{Tumblr}}.
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* PrettyBoy: His MessyHair, cute smile and nice eyes makes him popular on {{Tumblr}}.Website/{{Tumblr}}.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Whenever he starts a tangent about himself, he'll interrupt whatever topic his co-host is on to finish it. One notable exception is his [[NoodleIncident hooker story]] in Leisure Suit Larry, which he kept forgetting to finish.
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** He is annoyed at Suzy for declaring that a final versus round is the 'winner takes all' round after he's beat her in both prior matches. He later pulls the same stunt on Danny in the finale of Kirby's Dream Course.
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** "Not a hundred percent in love with your tone right now."
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->''"One slice of chiz pizza please."''
Arin "Grump" Hanson ("Arin the Bandit" on Steam Train/Steam Rolled), also known by his internet alias, Creator/{{Egoraptor}} is the co-star of Game Grumps. He is an accomplished and popular web animator, best known for the WebAnimation/{{Awesome Series}}.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted. [[BlatantLies Ego is still a virgin though he is married]] (according to Jon at least).
** In ''Return To Dream Land'', Ego mentions being walked in on during sex once.
** At the very least, it's established that before Suzy, Arin never dated a girl.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Egoraptor practically invented it with his AwesomeSeries, perfected it with WebAnimation/GirlchanInParadise, and takes it UpToEleven here.
* AmbidextrousSprite: In real life, Arin's blonde streak is on the right side of his head, but his Grumpface in the standard intro has it on his left for the convenience of showing it off. This is reversed whenever he hosts on Steam Train/Steam Rolled, where his Grumpface comes in from the left.
* AmbiguouslyBi: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvYdeAnITLA&t=2m40s He admitted to having touched penises with another man]]. When Jon asked if that was a joke or not he purposefully said "it's up in the air, now!"
** This was later [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gA_PU4VuhQ&t=12m58s confirmed]] (and even corroborated by Suzy!) during Ninjabread Man. When Arin was younger, he and some friends were mocked for being gay when they weren't. To assert their confidence in their sexuality, they would regularly compare (and at one point ''swordfight with'') their penises just to go "Yep. Still not gay."
** Arin has also jokingly stated that [[StupidSexyFlanders he's attracted to]] Creator/RobertDowneyJr, Music/LLCoolJ, and [[HoYay Danny]].
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Arin can basically inflict this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tVN3TXaSk&t=9m54s on command.]]
-->'''Jon:''' [[StupidSexyFlanders Your voice is nice.]]
-->'''Jon:''' I always forget how good of a voice actor you are, until you start doing that.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Like Ross, he has ADD and takes medication for it.
* AttractiveBentGender: Has cross-dressed before (he mentioned once winning a Ladyboy crossdressing contest), and does so prominently in the Mycaruba T-shirt sketch.
** Pre-Game Grumps, he also dressed in drag as Vitalya, the co-host/wife of JonTron's character Malkovich, on the JonTron episode "Malkovich's Gaming Game Show". (The bit in their Mario Party 2 playthrough with the "Spider economy" is a CallBack to these characters.)
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When him and Ross are alone and playing a game on Steam Train, it's much more clear that they are good friends, and the [[ButtMonkey normal insults toward Ross are]] [[PlayedForLaughs just for fun.]]
* AxeCrazy: If the ending to ''SpiceWorld'' is anything to go by.
--> '''Arin:''' I have ''fun,'' have ''fun,'' I have ''FUN.''
** This shows up in [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]] part 85; as soon as they learn how to fight Sonic the same way [[ThatOneBoss Silver fought Sonic]]. Jon is scared by this.
--> '''Arin:''' THROWING YOUR BITCH ASS! AH, IT'S NO USE! IT'S NO FUCKING USE! (laughs maniacally) IT'S NO USE! ARGH! YOU'RE DEAD, SON! YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN' DEAD, SONIC! I WIN! MY WIN! ARIN WINS, SILVER WINS, SONIC WINS!
** When he loses to Il Piantissimo in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', he threatens to decapitate him and murder his family. [[DisproportionateRetribution Because he insulted Arin]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: When hijacking Steam Train, he wears one.
* BattleCouple: With Suzy in the ''Rayman Legends: Kung Foot'' Polaris tournament.
** It happens again in the soccer segment of ''Tiny Brains''.
* BigBad: Of the ''Betrayal At House On The Hill'' episode of Table Flip, when he becomes the traitor.
* BlueOni: Arin is noticeably more reserved than Jon during the show. [[NotSoAboveItAll Most of the time.]]
** And with the inclusion of Danny, Arin has once again taken up the mantle of BlueOni... again, [[NotSoAboveItAll most of the time.]]
* BookDumb: He can be very smart in fields he knows about, but being a high school dropout has put holes in what is generally considered common knowledge. However, it was [[SubvertedTrope later revealed]] that he didn't drop out of school due to incompetence, but that he was transferred to a bad school which his mom encouraged him to drop out of and got his GED instead.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack episodes so far, because he knows how to "think like the game".
* TheCastShowoff: Comes up with many different voices on the fly. He also occasionally animates certain conversations he has with Jon on the show.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Dang ass"
** "Fucking" or, "Fuckin'..."
** "Can I just say... [Statement Arin wants taken seriously]"
** "How d'you like ''that'' shit?" is slowly making its way to this status.
** One of his most oft-used insults is to call someone a "''fucking clod''."
** He considers "Absolutely" one of his, despite almost never actually saying it.
** variations on "OH SNAP!" including "Snippity Snap", "Snip-Snap with the grizzity grap" (that one a reference to a Remix made of something Dan said), and "Oh Dayum, son!".
** He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how "[[AngryVideoGameNerd Assitry]]" is becoming one of these for him.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the start, Arin was significantly more mellow, playing the straight man to Jon's antics. As the show developed, Arin gained many notable moments, but was still mostly Jon's straight man. However, when Danny came on the show, he turned out to be even more of a straight man than Arin, pushing Arin to become a lot more wacky as a result.
* ChekhovsSkill: Arin's ability to beatbox was casually referenced early on, but became a lot more prominent with the introduction of Danny.
* CloudCuckoolander
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Arin's favorite color is pink, and he'll always dress pink in games that allow it. His face-paint in the Monster Hunter series is also hot pink, as is his character in the upcoming Starbomb.
* CommanderContrarian: In the context of the Ego/Jon relationship. Make a drinking game for how many times Arin entirely shoots Jon down when the latter talks about a game he thought was good and you're bound to need multiple liver transplants.
* CutenessProximity: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EmXQOzyW6I&t=6m12s At one point]] in the ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' playthrough, he can't bring himself to abduct a cowering Waddle Dee for this reason, only for Danny to do it for him. Arin wanted to spare the little guy.
** Also in Super Mario Bros 3, Part 12, Arin squees over some little flying turtles Mario has to jump on, and says he wants to hug them.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathGlare: He has recently learned he is extremely good at this, as mentioned in a video.
* DeathIsCheap: He [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself twice]] and he was shot by Ross in the tiebreaker for the first episode of Table Flip - despite that, he's around for the next episode.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During ''Super Mario Sunshine'', he threatens to kill Il Piantissimo [[AndYourLittleDogToo AND his family]] just because he beat Arin in a race and called him a [[BigStupidDoodooHead pokey little flab biscuit]].
* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Jon's fat. Reverse with Danny.
* {{Gasshole}}: He's the burping type to Jon's farting type.
* FemmeFatale: [[WholesomeCrossdresser Cross-dressed]] as this in the Noir styled Mycaruba T-shirt video.
* HappilyMarried: Arin is married to fellow grump Suzy.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Any time the D-Club is brought up, Arin extensively reminds everyone that it's not gay and is meant to be a heterosexual bonding experience. Danny doesn't buy it.
* HighPressureEmotion: He can be heard fuming like a kettle after Ross takes all the toilet paper to shamble about like a mummy for his own amusement in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY the Goddammit Ross T-shirt ad]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Arin's stated opinions on game design and gameplaying are not well-reflected by how he conducts himself on the show. When questioned about it, he claims that on-camera he's usually too busy trying to be funny to actually play intelligently.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Arin mentions now and then that he used to be in really good shape, but has as of lately gained a lot of weight. He has determined that he is going to make him and Danny get "jacked" someday.
* InsultBackfire: During part 6 of Kirby's Epic Yarn, Arin traps Danny under a platform after he dies in the lava stage, preventing him from coming back to life. However, the rising lava catches up to Arin as he's standing on said platform, killing him too.
* FreudianSlip: During ''Betrayal at House on the Hill'', Arin makes this gaffe during his speech when he becomes the traitor.
-->'''Arin:''' I can taste that beautiful man-meat now.
* KilledOffForReal: According to his panel at Shadocon, Egoraptor's suicide (at the end of ''Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'') is canon in the Game Grumps continuity, and he's now a ghost.
** BackFromTheDead: He seems to be alive now, considering he's displayed a desire to kill himself ''again'' as a result of VideoGame/MegaManX 7.
** He kills himself ''yet again'' in one episode of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', only to return a few seconds later into the proceeding video.
** And then he's shot dead by Ross at the ending of the Cards Against Humanity episode of Table Flip, only to come back for the next episode. Basically, [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: He owns two cats named Mochi and Mimi.
* LanternJawOfJustice: It's become a [[MemeticMutation common joke in the fandom]] that Arin has many double chins, which Arin eventually [[AscendedMeme embraces]] and uses as a [[SelfDeprecation self deprecating joke himself]].
* LargeHam: This ''is'' Egoraptor, after all. Fellow Grumps Jon and Dan match his hamminess, however.
* ManOfAThousandVoices
* NeverMyFault: When the Grumps make critical misunderstandings of how a game is played (Milky Way Wishes, Naughty Bear, Wario World), Arin typically blames the game for his mistakes. Contrast Jon, who [[SelfDeprecation typically mocks himself for such a mistake]], and Danny, who's so chilled he doesn't care either way. This stems from his opinions in game design theory; Arin believes that games should be intuitively designed with minimal text direction. However this means that anything so much as a tutorial screen can be enough to draw his ire.
** Subverted occasionally, such as in Star Fox 64 where he admits that he's terrible at the game. He was also humble enough to publicly apologize after receiving a lot of flak for his terrible performance during Wind Waker.
* NightmareFetishist: Possibly? He finds the demonic eyeless corpse bride from Run Saber fairly attractive despite her face, even though he declared Rouge the Bat and Elise to be unattractive solely because of their faces.
** On Steam Train he also said that he would give the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheyBleedPixels'' a kiss. The protagonist is a PerkyGoth girl who has crustacean claws and is an expert killer.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghost!Arin is still able to hold a controller and play games after his suicide in the ''Rugrats'' episode.
* OnlySaneMan: The only only member of the Grumps Team who pointed out that, as opposed to sneaking in, Ross would just let them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zCrqx9Z4RK4&t=275 use his pool.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Literally. In their promo video for their DENOUTTADEN shirt, Arin wears a trucker hat with the words "CHRISTMAS HAT" written on it in paper.
* PetTheDog: When Arin and Ross are playing a game on their own, [[ButtMonkey he's much more friendly than anybody else is on the channel towards him.]] Mostly.
* PottyFailure: Sharts himself in Parodius Part 6. No, seriously.
* RantInducingSlight: Playing the [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]] game for too long leaves him driveling on for a minute about what direction his life had to take that lead to this horrid game. At the end he screams after noticing [[MinorInjuryOverreaction that they're out of Lucky Charms]] ([[SweetTooth causing Danny to scream too]]).
* RealMenWearPink: Not only has he said that he identifies with a female perspective on most things, but he's also expressed a skill at cooking and has stated his favorite color is pink.
** During ''HelloKitty: Seasons,'' he admitted to knowing a great deal about Sanrio characters, and was having fun with the game. He could have ''easily'' turned it into a multi-part series... but Danny was not as enthused.
* SanitySlippage: Lampshaded in part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'', where Danny points out that a few episodes ago they were super excited to be playing the game again, but by the start of this episode Arin is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
* SitcomArchnemesis: ''Really'' has it out for Il Piantissimo in ''Super Mario Sunshine''.
* StraightMan: With Jon, due to his extreme levels of energy overpowering even {{Egoraptor}}. With Dan, Arin becomes a lot more bombastic in contrast to Dan's laid-back qualities and is no longer the straight man.
** NotSoAboveItAll
* TeamDad: Invokes this in the 2014 Game Grumps T-shirt commercial, where he and Suzy play father and mother to Danny, Ross and Barry. Arin plays up the StandardFiftiesFather stereotype, and Dan calls him "Dad" and "Pop".
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
* TakeThatAudience[=/=]SelfDeprecation: After returning to ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Arin keeps making fun of the people who were ridiculing his skills during his first play-through.
-->'''Arin:''' Is there anywhere I can get water? People at home are like ''THAT THING YOU JUST PASSED, IDIOT!''
-->'''Danny:''' ''GOD YOU'RE SO STUPID!''
-->'''Arin:''' ''WHY DON'T YOU KILL YOURSELF?!''
* TheTeetotaler: Has stated on the show that he doesn't like drinking and almost never does, contrast to Jon, who is borderline TheAlcoholic. Arin has made jokes calling him out on it.
* TemptingFate: He did that ''twice in a row'' in the Mario Party 4 Steam Rolled finale, asking Suzy to not do a 1 then Ross to not pick up the extremely rare 100 coins golden ball at the lottery (which they both did).
* ThirdPersonSeductress: Favors playing as girls when games give him the option, and flat-out said in the first Resident Evil video that he picked Jill over Chris because of her butt.
* TookALevelInBadass: After taking a LOT of crap from the fandom for how poorly he was playing Super Mario Sunshine, Arin went out of the way to practice his skills before the Grumps came back to it after a short break. Come part 15, and he's using the FLUDD spray to slip-slide around the levels like a pro, and gets the Pina Park red coin star - which he previously couldn't do in a full-length episode - in half the time.
* TookALevelInJerkass: With Jon, Arin was generally the straight man to Jon's insanity and occasional Jerkass tendencies, but after he left, Dan's friendly and docile attitude left the position of Jerkass for grabs. After a period of time where Arin and Dan are the friendliest possible towards each other, Arin has made a regular joke of mocking Dan, repeatedly calling him an idiot. It's all obviously PlayedForLaughs.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oreos, apparently. He speculates (as a result the release of limited-edition triple-stuffed Oreos) that they may one day sell the creme and the cookies separately, so people can regulate their personal perfect creme-to-cookie ratio.
** Monster Energy Drink might count as well.
* WeaponOfChoice: The bow. Not an official choice, but this was his weapon in Monster Hunter and Trine, and he was the winner of TowerFall (a game with nothing but archers).
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Both in the traditional sense during the Mycaruba T-shirt ad, and as a ThirdPersonSeductress during any game that gives them the option of doing so.
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[[folder: Leigh Daniel "Danny" Avidan (Danny Sexbang)]]
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->''"You Piccadilly WHOOOOOORE!"''
Danny Sexbang is the Third Grump, replacing Jon in Year 2 of Game Grumps as "Not-So Grump". He's a member of Music/NinjaSexParty, a musical comedy duo. He costars alongside Ross of Rubber Ross on a new show called the Steam Train.
* TheAce: Does very well on the first few games he plays, showcasing tremendous skill, but he [[LampshadeHanging points out that]] [[SubvertedTrope they specifically chose games he's skilled at.]] As a result, this trope has ultimately been transferred to Barry before being abandoned entirely. He still demonstrates an extreme amount of skill in playing video games, [[CripplingOverspecialization but only older ones from the NES, SNES and DOS era]].
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In the Wii Punch Out playthrough, he didn't realise he could duck or regain health during a match until the fans pointed it out to him in the comments just before the fight with Bald Bull. Because of that, he developed amazing timing so he could nail his opponent before they performed moves he thought were unblockable.
* AerithAndBob: In the first intro, the Grumps are labeled with their internet handles Egoraptor and JonTron. However, Danny's internet handle only changes his last name. So the second intro has Egoraptor and Danny.
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Mentioned on the first Castle Crashers episode of Steam Train. Who the heck DOESN'T like money?
** That being said, Steam Train has shown us that he's more than okay to embrace the Stereotype for comedy.
--> '''Danny:''' [[EarWorm It's JEW COLLECTING TIME!]] [[LargeHam IT'S JEW COLLECTING MONEY TIME!]]
* AmericanAccents: He is from New Jersey and finds that he sometimes lets out its accent, such as in Katamari Damacy Part 16.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: A common joke of his is to use this. As a more actual (though [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]) example, his referring to game levels as "boards" hasn't been common in decades.
* AscendedExtra: In a sense. He was briefly mentioned in many moments with Jon and Arin before given his speaking role on Game Grumps [[http://youtu.be/VR6v4VcCDK8?t=2m3s (here's an example)]]. The Steam Train promo on Ross' channel also gave people the impression that Danny was originally going to be exclusively on Steam Train before Jon left.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as Danny makes a notable effort to keep irrelevant chatter to a minimum in comparison to Jon and Arin, who would spend entire episodes not talking about the game.
** Though he does invoke the trope during their Versus episode of ''Gundam: Battle Assault 2''
-->"[Normal conversation] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ooh! Big Zam]]"
** Played straight at Magfest 2014.
-->'''Fan''': How long do you spend filming and editing Game Grumps?
-->'''Arin''': Well, we record like a shitzillion episodes. It's been kinda free-form lately because of all the events and shit we've been going to, so-
-->'''Danny''': Dude, they got Cheese Nips back here, excuse me. (walks over and grabs box).
* BaitAndSwitch: In the ''Gundam: Battle Assault 2'' video, during each character select, Danny makes it look like he's going to try a new character...[[RunningGag before selecting Big Zam again]].
--> '''Danny:''' Akahana looks pretty cool...hey, [[PurposelyOverpowered Big Zam]]!
* BerserkButton: Ninja Brian has proved that one of the only certain ways to piss him off and drive him over the edge is to joke about giving him blowjobs.
** The questionable heterosexuality of the D-Club seems to the be the only thing that Danny repeatedly argues and disagrees with Arin over.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Arin has commented that Dan's extreme SweetTooth leads to some funny conversations.
--> ''Arin (in Dan's voice)'': Okay, I'm going to need a break and a handful of lucky charms.
* BoomHeadshot: Happens courtesy of Arin on Steam Train, whenever Arin is playing with Ross instead.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase "Next time on Game Grumps"]] in the same way Jon did when he was Not-So Grump.
* BrooklynRage: He often gives characters the voice of a tough, gruff New Yorker. He himself grew up in New Jersey.
* TheCastShowoff: Being part of the musical comedy duo Music/NinjaSexParty outside of Game Grumps, he is very good at singing and making up beats on the fly.
* CatchPhrase: "Get outta here!"
** "Totally!"
** [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase Next time on Game Grumps!]] [[MadLibsCatchPhrase We'll (something silly and usualy unrelated to the next episode)]]! This was borrowed from Jon.
** "Jams" or "Jimmy-Jams" when he doesn't know what word to use.
** "Shakeh-shakeh-shakeh-shakeh". Arin's acknowledged this as his favorite "Dannyism".
** "EAT A DICK!" when fighting/killing enemies in the game.
** [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage "Mazel tov!"]]
** "Yeah, did it!" immediately after failing.
*** "Nailed it!"
** "Aaaaaand... you're dead."
** MadLibsCatchPhrase: [[PleaseSubscribetoOurChannel If (something related to the discussion), Like, Comment and Subscribe!]]
** "Oh noooo!"
*** [[BigOMG "OH GOD NO!!"]]
** He likes calling levels "Boards".
** "Does that do anything for you?"
** "Ain't that some shit?"
** "[[MadLibsCatchPhrase How about some.... MORE (something Arin doesn't like)!!]]"
*** Though he actually got THAT one from the South Park episode "Cow Days", specifically when the boys go through the House Of Farts and the not-so-terrifying voice goes "How about some...MORE FARTS!!" in roughly the same tone of delivery.
** "Wait: maybe it's friendly."[[note]][[HardCodedHostility usually it's not]][[/note]]
** "Bringing it home!" or "You really brought it home".
** [[Music/MichaelJackson "He]][[Series/SaturdayNightLive 's on his backo!"]]
** In one episode, he imagines the day when he is phoning it in to such an extent that he was literally been replaced with a soundboard, wherein the buttons say things like "Totally!" and "[[TrademarkFavoriteFood Skittles]]!".
** "Playin' the Feud!"
** "Ouuuu-CHA"
** "[[ChristianBale Oh, goooood]] [[SarcasmMode for you!]]"
* CelebCrush: With CameronDiaz. Also anybody else who was in a relationship with JustinTimberlake, apparently, but CameronDiaz in particular has been mentioned several times.
* CerebusRetcon: When he first mentioned going to France as a foreign exchange student, it was treated as just another one of Dan's wacky moments from his past. Later on, it's revealed that Dan suffered through depression during his younger years, and his trip to France was the final moments of his personal arc of getting through it.
* ChekhovsGunman: Being a friend of Ego, he was mentioned several times in the show prior to his promoted Grump status.
* CloudCuckoolander: Seems you can't be a Grump without it.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'', after Arin has his mental breakdown where he rambles on about crack cocaine, selling his body for cash to pay for said cocaine, being fucked in the ass and comparing it all to the game.
-->'''Danny:''' "You covered a lot of ground there...all I heard was, like, 'butthole'."
* {{Cosplay}}: Has cosplayed, but only Spike Spiegel from CowboyBebop, or "scraggly Jew". There has been some fan speculation [[AmbiguouslyJewish Spike is Jewish himself]], though.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His favorite color is blue, and he'll always go for the blue option of clothing in video games he plays. He's even wearing blue in most Ninja Sex party videos, and in the upcoming Starbomb.
* CrazyPrepared: Compared to ''Jon and Arin'' anyways. The games they play so far tend to be ones he is incredibly familiar with or has been playing multiple times days before. This seems to have drastically lowered the amount of one-offs ending with confusion from the players.
* CripplingOverspecialization: He demonstrates impressive and extraordinary skill in older games from the [[RetroGaming NES, SNES and DOS eras of gaming]], but has very little skill in any game made after that point. On a video game show, this leads to him laying back passively while Arin plays, and every once in a while impressing the audience by playing an older game really well.
* CutenessProximity: Danny is seen gushing over [[CuteKitten Mimi]] at the end of the Sheep Vs video.
** He tends to Squee over various cute Pokémon in Pokémon FireRed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He struggled with mental illness in his late teens/twenties, but came out of it better than ever.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: During their Versus {{mirror match}} in ''Ballz'' between Divine and Divine. [[OrgasmicCombat The "combat grunts"]] end up arousing him more than you'd expect from characters Arin says "look llike Dippin' Dots."
-->"Let's end this episode, so I can go do some things alone..."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the Steam Train shirt advert:
-->'''Danny:''' "That's a sweet shirt Ross, but talking won't make our dinner faster! That's a sweet shirt."
** Also in the Game Grumps for Charity! video:
-->'''Danny:''' (listing games to play) We've got VideoGame/{{Glover}}, uhh, Glover, um, here's a Glover.
-->'''Arin:''' (sarcastically) Do we have any Glover?
-->'''Danny:''' Let me check. No, I don't see- [holds up seven Glover cartridges] [[BigOMG OH MY GOD]]!
* TheDeterminator: It seems to take a LOT more to get him to rage quit a game than it took Jon. He also beats them a lot faster.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjs3flF-vQk Ninja Sex Party video (also starring Jon, Ross, and Barry)]], the ending has a split second image depicting Danny, Brian and Arin's band, Starbomb, which would not be announced properly until December. However, as Steam Train hadn't begun and Jon hadn't left, it ''also'' foreshadows Danny's collaboration with Arin on Game Grumps.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: While he always goes by the name Dan, which is his middle name, he reveals in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7OwQRyhNk this video]] that Daniel is actually his middle name, and Leigh (pronounced "Lee") is his actual first name, which he dislikes for being [[GenderBlenderName spelled in a feminine way]].
* EroticEating: In Steam Train, he asks Ross if he's ever had sex with food involved. Ross answers no, which makes Danny admit ashamedly that he's had relations with a woman with whip cream involved. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick And he fucked a cantaloupe once]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: 'You Piccadilly WHOOOOOORE!', he says as he bumps action figures of {{Manga/Cyborg009}} together. There's also his first outing in the Grump field, where the first few seconds into PunchOut, there's a loud burp from him.
** Mayor Luigi is considered by many his breakout moment that firmly established him as a worthy successor to the Not-So-Grump title.
* EthicalSlut: Danny is very honest about his sexual history. He admits that he can't seem to hold relationships, and in the Singles Train special he admits he doesn't mind being single. That said, he still has standards about honesty and isn't against monogamy, saying he admires people such as his parents and grandparents for being together and genuinely in love with each other for so many years.
* ExpansionPackPast: Almost every episode Danny is in contains a funny or interesting story from his past, which is quite complicated and varied. A small few notable examples are his studying of flowers in France, wrestling in Alligator while stoned in the everglades, and having his Bar Mitzvah in Israel.
* ExtremeOmnivore: He's eaten some questionable things in his life, including chapstick, Play-Doh and entire bowls of Lucky Charms marshmallows.
* FailOSuckyname: When losing at You Don't Know Jack, he receives the consolation prize of being referred to as "Fucbad" (pronounced Fuck-Bad) for 5 hours.
** After the loser of You Don't Know Jack is revealed to receive the prize of being referred to as "[[FailOSuckyname Fucbad]]", some fans insist on calling him that long after.
* FullNameUltimatum: Arin pulls this on him in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EmXQOzyW6I&t=4m59s part 23]] after he continues to refer to the Waddle Dees as monkeys [[InsistentTerminology despite Arin telling him]] their real name [[RunningGag over and over]]. Naturally, it's immediately PlayedForLaughs and turns into a [[SeinfeldianConversation discussion over Danny's name]].
-->'''Danny''': Goddamn these firemen monkeys.
-->'''Arin''': [{{beat}}] Dammit, Daniel! [Danny is laughing] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Daniel. S. Sexbang]].
-->'''Danny''': Daniel '''Y''' Sexbang.
-->'''Arin''': "Daniel Y?"
-->'''Danny''': My middle name is "You," so the "Danny Sexbang" name can be enveloping "you" [[LovableSexManiac in a sensual manner]] when you say my name. Know what I'm saying?[[note]]This joke is more effective from an audio standpoint[[/note]]
-->'''Arin''': "[[WhosOnFirst Daniel U?]]"
-->'''Danny''': "Daniel You Sexbang." Y-O-U.
-->'''Arin''': [[TheyJustDontGetIt I don't get it]] [Danny sighs]. Oh! So your name is enveloping "you!"
-->'''Danny''': Yes!
-->'''Arin''': [[EurekaMoment A-ha!]]
-->[Less than a minute later after laughing over this]
-->'''Arin''': Get your fuckin' ass up here, I swear to god[...] These monkeys are not gonna throw themselves.
-->'''Danny''': Oh, yay! See, [[ShaggyDogStory they're monkeys!]]
* {{Gasshole}}: Just like Arin, he burps frequently.
* GenderBlenderName: His actual first name, Leigh, pronounced "Lee" but spelled in the feminine way. Hence why he goes by his middle name, Dan.
* GracefulLoser: He's no SoreLoser. There probably isn't a defeat that can keep him down for long.
* HardboiledDetective: During the Mycaruba T-shirt ad, entirely filmed as a film noir.
* HereWeGoAgain[=/=]IronicEcho: Just as Jon often used "Legitimately" and got made fun of in both comments section and by his friends, Danny comes to the same realization with his catchphrase "Totally". The conversations discussing both are nearly identical.
** Jon, a big fan of the Alien movies, repeatedly expressed shock that Arin had never seen Aliens. Sure enough, in the first episode of Journey to Silius, Danny finds out that Arin (still) hasn't seen it. The conversations are almost identical.
** In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Danny has to deal with Arin having multiple nervous breakdowns, much like Jon did during ''Sonic '06''.
* HiddenDepths: The amount of literary references he makes shows that he is fairly well-read.
* InsultBackfire: If Ross makes fun of him for being cheap, because he's Jewish, he'll embrace it every time.
* JewishAndNerdy
* {{Keet}}: Generally a very whimsical and animated fellow who doesn't anger easily. So far [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2-awLli0w only Ross has been able to successfully troll him]] via reading some Ninja Sex Party {{fan fiction}} that involved Ninja Brian giving him a blow job.
* LargeHam: Again, looks like you can't be a Grump without it.
* LegacyCharacter: Adopts the title of Not-So-Grump in the intro.
* TheLoad: He is ''utterly incompetent'' at KirbysEpicYarn.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He seems to be the only one who has no idea who 'Him' is during the ''Cards Against Humanity'' episode of Table Flip.
* LovableSexManiac: On the border of this. It seems like he brings up sexual topics and stories much more frequently than the other Grumps. He is [[Music/NinjaSexParty Danny Sexbang]], after all. [[LampshadeHanging He acknowledges]] this himself, calling himself a slut.
** If his stories he tells Arin and Ross are true, he can pretty much definitely be this. He's been invited into at least two threesomes, took part in one of them, experiments with food, dislikes being in long-term relationships, and was ''invited into a secret orgy club for beautiful people''.
** Funnily enough, he once explained how he was a late bloomer who didn't have sex until he was 23, which surprised a lot of people because of his current personality.
* MessyHair
* MetaGuy: Is becoming this in his guest appearances on Table Flip. In the first ''Cards Against Humanity'', he's the only one who questions the sudden appearance of 'Him'. In the second episode, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how Arin was killed in the previous episode. Both times, no-one else seems to notice or otherwise be bothered by either of these facts.
* NiceGuy: With Arin and the fandom. The only exception is with [[VitriolicBestBuds Ross]].
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, he has an embarrassing story about going to New Orleans and spending $700 on strippers and champagne. [[TheUnreveal But because the game interrupted him in the middle of it]], we'll probably never hear it.
** Subverted when we do eventually hear the rest of the story, thanks to Ross' insistence. After several interrupted opportunities, the story was finally told two episodes later.
* NWordPrivileges: Dan opens up his Castle Crashers video warning that he's Jewish, so he will probably be making a lot of Jewish jokes.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He's at least 6 years older than Arin, and possibly more, which has lead Arin to joke about their age difference. Parodied in ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' when he talks about Tommy Ray Handley,
-->'''Danny:''' Listen; I'm just trying to keep the dream alive. From the 1920s. Of everybody's favorite pugilist.
-->'''Arin:''' You mean when you were 47?
-->'''Danny:''' Yes, when I was 47, yes. I am...let me do some quick math...[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 380 years old]].
** For those who are curious, his birthday is March 14, 1981. He is 33 as of his 2014 birthday.
* OnlySaneMan: During Table Flip, he is the only person who is at all concerned that a mysterious unnamed figure in black appears when summoned and then leaves a loaded gun on the table.
-->'''Danny:''' HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD? Like, who IS that guy?!
-->'''Barry:''' (ignoring him) Who's turn is it?
-->''Danny throws his cards on the table.''
** In his second appearance on the show, he asks Arin how he's still alive if he was [[CallBack shot in the last episode]]. Again, everyone overtly ignores the question.
** Subverted with his actual personality and playstyle, which is very different from Jon's. The singing is also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because he is actually a singer by trade.
* PermaStubble
* PerpetualSmiler: An audible example: despite all the various emotions he displays on Game Grumps, he generally always sounds jovial, even when pissed off. He admits it takes a lot to get him to become genuinely mad.
** He brings up in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjWly_nNY8&t=4m40s Super Mario Sunshine Part 38]] that even when he's genuinely mad, it has trouble getting across in an audible way, because he simply doesn't shout (he tends more to seethe). However, he can be heard losing his mind in the finale of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}''.
** He sometimes gets noticeably frustrated with Ross during some Steam Train playthroughs, but even then it's very light and unnoticeable.
* PrettyBoy: His MessyHair, cute smile and nice eyes makes him popular on {{Tumblr}}.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Suffers one at the hands of Arin the Bandit, whenever he takes over Danny's position on Steam Train.
* PrivateDetective: In the Mycaruba T-shirt ad.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dan explained on Reddit that his disappearances from Steam Train/Steam Rolled are because he's dividing his time between a full-time day job, Game Grumps, Ninja Sex Party, Starbomb, and other projects he's working on. Needless to say, he's very busy and needs a break once in a while. Thankfully, it's never permanent.
* RedOni: To Ross. Less so to Arin since they have about the same level of hyperactivity.
** This is in temperament only. In terms of playstyle, Danny is the straight man BlueOni and Ross is the Red Oni.
* RepetitiveName: '''Dan''' Avi'''dan'''.
** It's only made funnier when you consider the names of his father ('''Avi''' '''Avi'''dan) and his sister ('''Dan'''a Avi'''dan'''). It would appear that the Avidan family loves their 'da-' and 'avi-' sounds.
* ReplacementGoldfish: When Arin, Barry and Suzy cry over the lack of Jon, Danny steps in to replace him.
* RetroGaming: While Jon and Arin enjoy older games, Danny's affinity for them is a lot more apparent. The first ten games played on the show since his arrival are all NES games. [[CripplingOverspecialization It's been acknowledged on the show that Retro games are really the only games he's good at]].
* RunningGag: Throwing wolfjob into a joke out of nowhere. At this point it has its own running gag, where instead of using the original image, Barry uses images of wolves photoshopped in ways to imply that they have jobs (EG: a firefighter with a wolf's head in ''Skyrim'')
* SarcasmMode: Sometimes uses it with Ross, though when he's being serious and genuinely sarcastic can be hard to pick out.
* ScarsAreForever: Has a scar on his right eyebrow that has become very iconic. He got it from falling off of a box at the age of 3, though he initially claimed it was from [[BlatantLies a fight with a puma]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Throws a tantrum and runs off after Suzy informs him he they won't logistically be able to film on the moon.
** Pulls this again after being eliminated from the Rayman Legends tournament.
** He threatens this during his breakdown in ''Wheel of Fortune'', but comes back and actually ends up winning the round.
* SharpDressedMan: Ninja Sex Party videos have shown off his truly [[UnlimitedWardrobe unlimited wardrobe]].
* SiblingRivalry / WouldHitAGirl: The latter being not as bad as it usually is. Danny's sister used to punch him as a child. When it finally started to hurt as she got older and stronger, he called in his dad, who told him to 'hit her back.' Danny punched her right in the back, causing her to cry. Apparently his dad [[ThatCameOutWrong didn't mean to do it unprovoked]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: His speaking, contasted to Jon's {{Malaproper}}, is to say things in a very proper and formal manner. The type of things discussed on the show are unchanged, leading to this.
* TheSouthpaw
* TheStoner: While he states he doesn't do drugs anymore, he makes it clear he's had a history with marijuana. Certain stories involve him being stoned, such as the story of the time he wrestled an alligator in the everglades. He also regularly lampshades how he doesn't blame people for mistaking him as a pothead.
** In the first episode of Skyrim, Dan admits at twenty-four his life was basically smoking pot and playing lots of Morrowind.
* SweetTooth: In his own words, he eats like a disgusting person who has 5 years to live.
* TheTeetotaler: Has stated he can't drink due to an unspecified illness.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: During ''Wheel of Fortune'', Danny keeps going on about how angry he is about the fact he keeps spinning 'Lose a Turn' spaces, usually while stifling a laugh.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: In the Steam Train videos starring only Arin and Ross, Danny gets [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Arin in the intro of every one.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Danny admits he's only really good at playing video games from [[RetroGaming the NES, SNES and DOS era]], which has led to either him laying back passively and commenting while Arin plays the game, or the Grumps going out of their way to play a lot of older games so that he has a turn.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Skittles.
** Part 6 of Mega Man 2 confirms it by actually having him stating that they're his sole "vice," due to the fact that he doesn't do drugs and can't drink alcohol for a while because of an illness.
** When someone posted [[http://i.imgur.com/COxzSbp.gif this picture]] on {{Reddit}} and titled it 'I think I found Danny's perfect woman', Danny himself responded with:
-->'''Danny:''' There's a woman in this video?
* VerbalTic: If you take note of how often he says "like" in a single sentence, it becomes pretty evident.
--> ''Well that's the thing, like, if they're evolutionarily designed to fight like that, like, 'what the fuck'? Like, I guess they must be shielded from it in some way. Like maybe they have thicker skulls or something?''
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ross on Steam Train. Lampshaded in the third episode of ''Super Metroid'': as they were talking about Steam Train, Danny admitted that even though he loves Ross like a brother, he can drive him insane sometimes.
** Increasingly has become this with Arin, being (jokingly) ridiculed and called an idiot more and more lately.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Averted. His father is Israeli, so he speaks no Yiddish (his Hebrew is pretty rusty as well, but that's neither here nor there).
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[[folder:Ross O'Donovan ([=RubberRoss=])]]
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-> ''"I open my mouth and then things bad happen."''
The other half of Steam Train, along with Danny. [[http://www.youtube.com/user/RubberNinja/videos Also makes animations on his channel]].
* {{Adorkable}}: Just watch any episode of Steam Rolled, or his run of VVVVVV with Arin.
* AscendedExtra: In a sense. He was frequently mentioned by Jon and Arin as a joke long before he got a speaking role on the spin-off show Steam Train [[http://youtu.be/wo0tWBb1JlM?t=8m33s (here's an example)]]. He was also a literal Extra in a T-Shirt commercial they did.
** Jon jokingly broke into his house to obtain the cels for Dragon's Lair.
--->'''Ross:''' Jon what the fuck are you doing in our house?!
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Ross mentions that, because he has ADD, he can't concentrate long enough to read books.
** In the Skyrim playthrough, Danny and Ross have a quick conversation discussing his ADD and his medication. Quick, because Ross keeps getting distracted by something else or saying the opposite of what he just stated, which Danny [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]].
* AustralianAccent: Made fun of on Grumps for being ridiculous, but by the time he actually appears, it's mostly disappeared due to living in America too long. He also mentions not even developing one in the first place.
** Amusingly, his accent naturally becomes more pronounced whenever he starts talking about Australia.
* AwesomeAussie
* BlessedWithSuck: In Castle Crashers. [[RunningGag His power is mediocrity]].
* BloodKnight: He turns down Caesar's truce because he really wanted to kill him.
* BlueOni: To Danny.
** In terms of temperament, he is. However, in terms of playstyle, Danny is more the StraightMan BlueOni who wants to play the game correctly, and Ross is the RedOni who occasionally (and intentionally) takes the dumbest path.
* BlushSticker: Notably on his Grump face, which no other Grump shares.
* BodyHorror: As a baby, he had his entire cheek slashed off by a cat, and he had to get it '''surgically reattached.'''
* BornLucky: According to Arin, whenever Ross rolls a die, it will show up with whatever number he wills it too. This proves true for most of Mario Party 4. At least until the final, most important tie-breaking die roll against Barry, which Ross fails horribly at.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: It's [[{{Lampshading}} lampshaded]] by Danny when Ross uses the phrase "Eat a Dick."
* ButtMonkey: Even before he started on Steam Train, Arin and Jon made fun of him during their play sessions. Now he's the Grump collective's go-to guy for when someone needs to be made the whipping boy. It's so bad Arin and Danny make fun of him on their show ''when Ross isn't even around''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn / EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episodes of Steam Train, with Castle Crashers and Hotline Miami, the dynamic between Ross and Danny seemed to be completely VitriolicBestBuds, insulting each other's nationalities mutually (Ross making fun of Danny's Judaism, and Danny making fun of Ross being Australian). This relationship was phased out pretty quickly in favor of a [[ButtMonkey one-sided abusive relationship]] towards Ross, and for being bad at video games instead of for his nationality. And just recently we're seeing more of his {{Troll}}-ish nature, like spitefully screwing over other players in multiplayer games, and playing up his {{Manchild}} tendencies for laughs.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's a friend of both Arin and Jon, so long before his appearance on the show they mentioned him frequently. They made fun of him for being Australian. Now he's in the spin-off. He has also made a brief physical appearance in a Game Grumps T-Shirt commercial.
* CloudCuckooLander: His "Rossisms", his strange philosophy. For example: "Genius in ignorance, could technically be called out-gnorance."
* CoolCar: His wife owns a [[Film/BackToTheFuture DeLorean]].
* CrazyPrepared: In Skyrim, Ross has memorized a ton of exploits and glitches to progress through the game faster, plays the game before to test most of them before the show, and has an [[LongList extremely meticulous and detailed list]] so he can keep track of them. Danny mentions that the level of preparation he has undergone is very unusual for his [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny usual level of disorganization]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoB543m9Zzw In the May 2013 t-shirt commercial.]]
** Even earlier than that, he showed up on screen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjb5Oqoal3U Pocky and Rocky Part 4]] in the footage of Jon's birthday. Even back then he was still the ButtMonkey, as he gets hits by the camera.
* TheEveryman: Subverted. Ross might appear at first to be laid back without the same level of hyperactivity that Arin and Dan possess, and might even seem average and level headed at first, it really doesn't take long to realize he's quite a [[{{Troll}} troll]] with a bizarre [[CloudCuckooLander outlook on the world]].
* {{Expy}}: Of Arin, somewhat. They're both animators with an [[RefugeInAudacity extreme art style and humor]], both [[KindHeartedCatLover kind hearted cat lovers]] and in a [[HappilyMarried committed relationship]].
* FantasticRacism: He has a huge disdain towards stingrays, because they're 'fucking murderers', likely a reference to Steve Irwin.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Played up in the "Goddammit Ross" T-shirt ad, and he's constantly being insulted by the other Grumps even when he's not around. Subverted ultimately, when the insulting is almost always followed up with "I love Ross, he's such a great guy" or something to that effect.
--> '''Danny''': I have never loved anyone who is so infuriating in so many different situations.
* FunnyForeigner: From Australia, which leads to many jokes about his accent. He also occasionally plays up his lack of knowledge about the United States, knowing nothing about the geography or customs of the country (and believing the first president was [[GeorgeWBush George Bush]][[GeorgeWashington ington]])
* GenreSavvy: He's made quite a few thoughtful calls to numerous Sierra Games.
* HappilyMarried: To special effects artist and Maker Studios/Polaris Community Manager "Commander" Holly Conrad.
* HiddenDepths: Their Monster Hunter and Skyrim playthroughs show that Ross can be a very educated and disciplined gamer when he chooses to be...it's just that he just usually doesn't.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has the only Grump face that has an eye colour [[BlackBeadEyes other than black]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Played up in the Goddammit Ross T-shirt commercial, and in the Fortune Street Steam Rolled.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In reality.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Has a black cat named Orph or [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Doctor Orpheus]].
* LandDownunder: Stereotypes of Australians are mentioned and disproven. Like the fact that they say "Prawns" instead of "shrimp".
* TheLoad: In most games, handing Ross the controller is almost certainly going to doom the Grumps to failure. Notable in Steam Train's ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' playthrough, where Arin needs to take away control from Ross in order for any progression to be made.
** Fortune Street Part 10 is specifically named "ROSS PRESS TWO." Ross had been losing the game and was intentionally slowing progress by not confirming the onscreen messages (pressing 2 on a Wii remote) to the point where halfway through the video he's pushed off the couch and Arin forcibly takes the controller from him in order to end his turn.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial]] plays him up as this for laughs.
* TheLoonie: If there's a silly and probably unlikely to succeed method of progression, Ross will probably be for it.
* {{Manchild}}: Ross' usual demeanor is very immature and child-like. Just watch him in the Fortune Street Steam Rolled episodes. Taken UpToEleven in the Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial, especially when he asks Suzy for some milk.
* TheMillstone: Particularly in their ''VVVVVV'' play through, where Arin needs to confiscate the controls from Ross for any progress to be made in the game.
* MomentKiller: He tells a story of how he was having a romantic moment with his wife, and ruins it himself by bringing up Creator/DavidTennant.
* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Ross's voice, according to Danny.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: As mentioned above, his Grump-face possesses a lot of features that Arin's, Jon's and Danny's don't, including slightly more realistic eyes.
* NotTheWayItIsMeantToBePlayed: For the Skyrim playthrough, he utilizes a lot of exploits and Speedrun tactics to get through the game as fast as he can. He's not doing a speedrun himself which allows him to not time himself and occasionally do things to make the video more interesting. He just wants to show off the unusual way of playing the game.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Apparently, seeing Ross sad makes you KNOW something went horribly wrong.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In the first episode of Table Flip as he was portraying (or at least cosplaying) [[Series/DoctorWho the 10th Doctor]], but he shoots Arin without a shadow of hesitation to win the game.
* PerverseSexualLust: Joked in the Steam train LeisureSuitLarry playthrough, when he's asked who his favourite sexual partner is, he answers "{{Batman}}". It comes back to bite him in a hilarious way.
* PhraseCatcher: God DAMMIT, Ross.
** It's gotten so common that in the demo playthrough of VideoGame/TheStanleyParable [[BreakingTheFourthWall the narrator of the game even says this to Ross]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY Now even has its own shirt]].
* ThePollyanna: To the point where [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness seeing him sad is apparently the most depressing thing you can see]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: It becomes apparent in their HotlineMiami playthrough that Ross sucks at making these.
* SanitySlippage: You can see him him crossing into this as he does progressively worse and worse at ''Fortune Street''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: With Danny in the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament after they lose.
* SelfDeprecation: He sometimes gets in on his own ButtMonkey status.
-->'''Arin''': (''after winning in Mario Party alongside/[[TheLoad despite]] Ross'') I have no sense of satisfaction. Ross is a FUCKING IDOT! [{{Beat}}] Sorry, buddy.
-->'''Ross''': It's alright, man.
-->'''Arin''': But it's true.
-->'''Ross''': I know, it's true.
* SoreLoser: In the Game Grumps AMA, this is revealed to be the reason why despite everyone being very good friends with him, he is labeled as obnoxiously infuriating and the group ButtMonkey. His tendencies are brought to light in the Fortune Street videos, and early on Suzy and Arin had reservations of playing this with Ross [[NoodleIncident due to his actions when they all played the game previously.]]
** One of the earlier onscreen indicators of this would be their Civilization run which ended when Ross in a stress-and-rage induced fury decided to kick at the computer and accidentally crashed the game.
* StarvingArtist: He jokes that, being an animator, he has no money.
* StayInTheKitchen: What Danny tells Ross to do in the Steam Train shirt advert.
* ThrowTheDogABone: When playing with Arin alone on Steam Train, he temporarily loses his ButtMonkey status.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Milk is his, at least in the "Goddammit Ross" T-shirt commercial.
* TranquilFury: After he loses the first round of the ''Rayman Legends'' Polaris tournament against Arin and Suzy, Ross looks like he's about to explode, but doesn't say anything.
-->"Ross has gone into, like, silent anger. That it the most terrifying type of anger"
-->-Danny
* {{Troll}}: In retaliation of his ButtMonkey status, Ross will intentionally start playing bad whenever he feels like it.
** During their SpaceQuest playthrough, Ross reads Ninja Brian's Fanfic about giving Danny a blowjob, despite him objecting to it several times. Danny's anger only causes Ross to read more.
** Ross tells the story about how, at PAX, he placed a Game Grumps sticker on Arin's back so that people would always instantly recognize him and stop him no matter where he's going. When Arin finally figures out what Ross has done, Arin gave him a [[DeathGlare death glare]].
** In the Game Grumps AMA, when asked "We all love Ross, but have you ever wanted to punch him for his excessive backseat gaming?", Danny and Arin explain that it isn't his backseat gaming that infuriates them, but his Trolling tendencies. Especially noted is his tendency to Troll people in multiplayer competitive games by influencing one side to have an advantage if he himself isn't going to win. We get to see an example of this in ''Fortune Street'', when Ross spends the last part of it purposely wasting time to screw with the others, and then lands on Arin's squares specifically to screw Suzy over because she's winning.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Danny on Steam Train.
** Also with Arin. When asked "We all love Ross, but have you ever wanted to punch him for his excessive backseat gaming?", Arin answers a confident [[BluntYes Yes]] before the question was even finished being read, so that he's answering "Yes" to wanting to punch Ross in general. "Any opportunity is a good opportunity to punch Ross".
* WildCard: The other way to say 'troll' once he starts losing he goes into chaos mode and messes with everything and everyone.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did it Have to be Crickets?]]: Ross is afraid of crickets, and very similar looking bug monsters become GoddamnBats during their Metal Slug 3 gameplay on Steam Train, causing him to temporarily freak out and lose his skills while fighting them. He admits it's an irrational fear, but that knowing that doesn't make it any less real.
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[[folder:Suzy Hanson (neé Berhow) (Mortem3r Meeperfish)]]
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[[caption-width-right:248:Old-fashioned games!]]
->''"I don't think we're going to be able to film on the moon, it's just not in the budget."''
Suzy ("Suzy the Outlaw" on Steam Rolled) is Arin's wife, the star of two Youtube channels, Meeperfish (an animation channel) and Mortem3r (a channel giving advice on outfits, makeup and unboxing lootbags), and has also claimed to be the Game Grumps secretary. She is also a fashion model. She previously made minor cameos in some episodes (part 4 of Chulip and Super Castlevania IV), but has since made a full-fledged appearance on Steam Rolled, and co-hosts the show Table Flip with Barry on Polaris. She's also made a Game Grumps Animated on her Youtube channel.
* AscendedExtra[=/=]BobFromAccounting: Parodied in her intro in Steam Rolled, where she's seen balancing the Grumps' books and says they can't afford to do an episode on the moon. Cue Danny leaving in a huffy rage and Arin asking if she wants to take his place on the couch.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhModOBHUg She actually has one]] who looks and sounds exactly like her.
* BattleCouple: With Arin in the ''Rayman Legends: Kung Foot'' Polaris tournament.
** They're once again on the same team in ''Tiny Brains''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite coming off as a typical GirlyGirl and being very sweet and polite to everyone, she has a mean streak. She sasses Danny and Ross something fierce during the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament, and makes a joke about 'stamping out' puppies during ''Mario Party 4''.
** Her winning streak through the majority of Fortune Street lets her be smug and enthusiastic while maintaining her usual polite demeanour. Usually.
-->'''Ross: '''"Augh, this game is just going to bend me over."
-->'''Suzy: '''[[RapeAsComedy "You better pull out the lube, just in case."]]
** Then there's this gem from the first episode of Table Flip:
-->'''Danny:''' "Suzy, you're like the nice mom of the group. Like, 'all of you are so smart and good. This answer's going right up on the fridge.'"
-->'''Suzy:''' "You guys are all gonna die before you're 40."
* ChekhovsGunman: She's been mentioned by Arin, Jon, and Danny in several episodes and can even be heard in a few of them, but her role on the show dramatically increased with Steam Rolled.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: Arin does this to her in one of her videos, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "My Boyfriend Does My Makeup"]].
** Her revenge came along when [[PayEviluntoEvil it was Arin's turn to be put under the brush.]] His expression after he was finished was one of pure defeat and dejection.
* {{Crossover}}: With Game Grumps, in a sense. Her voice is briefly heard in one of their videos, just as their voice is heard in the background of a Mortem3r video. It makes sense, since they live and shoot their videos in the same house.
* CuteAndPsycho: Becoming steadily apparent as she appears more often in Steam Rolled, most recently threatening to cut off Ross's thumbs and using them to press the 2 button during Fortune Street.
* CutenessProximity: She [[{{Squee}} squees]] over the Boos in Mario Party 4 several times. The fact that she thinks they're adorable is the entire reason they play Boo's Haunted Mansion.
* DayInTheLimelight: Was featured instead of Danny in the Mario Party 4 Steam Rolled series, and every Steam Rolled after so far. Fortune Street especially counts as a DayInTheLimelight because it's the first game where she completely crushes the competition.
** Even more is Table Flip, the tabletop game spin-off show that she hosts along with Barry. The two even sing the theme song.
** Another example is Date Grumps, uploaded on Valentines Day, where she temporarily replaces Danny and plays games she's specifically good at. It's the only 2 person Grumps show she's been on, and unlike Steam Rolled and Table Flip, she doesn't have to talk over a large group of people and can finally tell jokes and stories like everybody else.
* DominoMask: Her Grump face has one, along with a [[NiceHat fedora]].
* TheDreaded: In the Fortune Street playthrough on Steam Rolled, every single episode has a glum acknowledgement from everybody else that Suzy will definitely win in the end. Ultimately subverted as Arin wins.
* TheFashionista: Her job as a model, in addition to doing Outfit Of the Day on her channel.
* FriendlyTickleTorture: Administered by Arin during Fortune Street.
* GamerChick: On her channel, she seems equally excited as Arin about video game swag (perhaps even more so), and in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptt4pK2MVr4 this video]] they star in together, she brags she can beat him at every game (though her specialty is puzzle games and not fighting games). In Mortal Kombat, while she never plays against Arin, she does a lot better than he does.
** She's also on the show playing games with Arin, Ross and Barry on Steam Rolled, and it's clear she's passionate about video games.
* GirlyGirl: Her channel is about make-up and fashion, which should tell you enough.
* HappilyMarried: With Arin as of October 25, 2013. Arin discussed this with Jon before they married.
-->'''Jon:''' "Do you just see a girl you wanna marry, because I'm worried for you if you're walking around being all like, 'I wanna marry her!"
-->'''Arin:''' "No, not in public, in my house! Because she lives with me."
* HiddenDepths: She's a fan of taxidermy.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: In the Game Grumps Reddit AMA, Arin and Dan call Suzy and Barry the glue that holds the channel together, and without them it would crumble.
* Letters2Numbers: Suzy's main Youtube moniker, Mortem3r, with the 3 pronounced like an "E". Arin pronounces it [[NoPronunciationGuide Mortem-Three-er]].
* [[MsFanservice Ms. Fanservice]]: As a model, it's her job.
* NiceGirl: Makes Dan tea during ''Super Castlevania IV''.
** Interrupts Arin and Ross during ''VVVVVV'' to ask if they want anything from Starbucks.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: During the Grumps' second ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunter 3 Ultimate]]'' session for Polaris, everyone else is fawning over how cute the Barroth is when its sleeping, comparing it to a sleeping dog that likes to roll in the mud. She casually spouts this one off:
-->Little does he know, he'll never wake up again.
** At the end of the tenth part of ''Fortune Street'', she jokes about killing Ross and [[IronicEcho using his fingers to press buttons]].
* OfficialCouple: With Arin.
* OneOfTheBoys: Has outright said she considers herself as such.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: In TheStinger for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgqwfsaPjo Tapble Flip promo]].
--> '''Suzy:''' You guys are fucking weird. ''*Beat. Looks at the camera and points at the guys*'' Weirdos.
* OverShadowedByAwesome: She has two Youtube channels of her own with completely unique content, but rarely are the comments anything other than "She's Creator/{{Egoraptor}}'s fiancée?"
* ParentingTheHusband: Jokingly invoked in part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' when Arin's having his mental breakdown.
-->'''Danny:''' SUZY! I NEED AN ADULT!
* PrecisionFStrike: She doesn't actually hold back her swearing, yet the comments section is usually filled with timestamps followed by "OMG SUZY SWEARED!" most likely due to her adorable voice. Just look at the comments in their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTjCf1bBOqI Towerfall Steam Rolled]].
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Like Barry, she's now appearing on Steam Rolled!
* RipVanWinkle: Except instead of sleeping, [[TakeThatMe it was deciding her outfit]].
* SexySecretary: Evokes this look in her introduction to Steam Rolled, as shown in the above profile pic.
* TeamMom: Seems to be one to the rest of the Grumps. She often interrupts recording sessions to get them coffee or food, and they regularly comment on how loving and attending she is to them.
** Invoked and played for laughs in the Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial when Ross asks her for milk, acting like an ill-tempered child and treating Suzy like she's his mother.
** Even further invoked in the Game Grumps 2014 Calendar commercial, where Arin and Suzy act as Father and Mother to Danny, Ross and Barry during a Christmas unwrapping.
** In the first ''Cards Against Humanity'' game on Table Flip, Danny outright says Suzy's like 'the nice mom of the group.'
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only female regular on the Game Grumps channel.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her first few playthroughs with Steam Rolled had her fall behind Barry and Arin in the competition, but crushes them all in Fortune Street. Though she still loses, sadly. Thanks a lot, [[SoreLoser Ross.]]
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: She states that she's really good at Puzzle games, and it becomes clear she was telling the truth when Fortune Street finally comes around.
* TooMuchInformation: Her first time on the show? [[ItMakesSenseInContext To tell us Barry is pooping]].
* TheWatson: Has little to no experience with Mario Party 4, and frequently asks for rules to be explained to her. However, this is generally a good thing considering that the others usually speed through or outright ignores instructions.
* YouFightLikeACow: Engages in a surprising amount of shit-talking against Danny and Ross in the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament.
-->'''Suzy:''' Anytime you wanna send (the ball) over here, Ross, I'm open.
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[[folder:Barry Kramer (Razzadoop)]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:And new-fashioned friends!]]
->''"I've been fired like eight times today."''
Barry Kramer ("Barry the Coal Shoveler" on Steam Rolled) is the editor of both Game Grumps and Steam Train, both processing the footage and uploading every episode to Youtube as well as adding his own [[VisualGag visual additions]] to enhance a joke when needed. He has been editing since the Game Grumps Yoshi's Island playthrough, and his presence was originally a secret, but over time the Grumps became more and more comfortable with acknowledging him that he is now a mainstay on the show, making his presence and personality known through his edits. He graces the show extremely rarely, and usually only in stock footage taken before the recording, but he plays a major role in Steam Train's Steam Rolled segment, and co-hosts the show Table Flip with Suzy on Polaris.
* AGodIAmNot: Barry mentions he's very aware fans tend to see him as such a god during the Table Flip AMA with Suzy, and it seems to even embarrass him the more he talks about it to the point he eventually trails off and more or less curls up into a ball on the couch, insisting he's not that awesome.
* TheAce: Often seen as this in the eyes of the fans. If Steam Rolled is any indicator, he also seems to be the best player of the group.
** Episode 32 of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' takes this UpToEleven; once the stage Arin had failed at many times is completed, he and Dan explain this is because [[MemeticBadass Barry came in and finished the whole thing in like 2 seconds]]. They spend the next minute talking about how none of them can ever hope to be as awesome as Barry.
** And yet, both in Starwhal and in the Table Flip AMA, Barry insists he's not actually that awesome.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Barry finally gets a role playing games and interacting with the Grumps in real time in the Steam Rolled segment.
** He also now hosts the Tabletop Gaming spin-off show Table Flip with Suzy, and even sings the theme song.
** Single Train, where he temporarily replaces Ross, uploaded on Valentines Day, also qualifies. It's the first 2 person show on Grumps he's able to speak on, and unlike Steam Rolled and Table Flip, doesn't have to talk over a large group of people to be heard.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Has a twin brother, Alex, who has appeared in some Ninja Sex Party music videos.
* BadassMustache: Complete with a badass wiggle in the Mycaruba t-shirt promo.
* BadassesWearBandanas: His first official Grump face has one.
* BerserkButton: Ross mentioning how much he likes Dell Taco.
** To a lesser extent, when the other Grumps mention the meme that Barry wins every game.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Jon and Arin agreed that Hop or Pop from Mario Party 4 was impossible for the spike ball to win, as it has extremely limited movement. Barry wins with relatively little effort.
* BigDamnHeroes: After suffering [[HeroicBSOD a near-emotional breakdown]] trying to beat the Pachinko machine in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Arin gets Barry to do it during a time-skip, after sarcastically pretending that he did it himself.
* BroughtDownToNormal: So Barry is a badass who wins every game, right? Fortune Street on Stream Rolled proves there are certain types of games he doesn't know or understand, and he's just as capable at falling behind as anybody else.
* ButtMonkey: The Grumps often joke that he hates cleaning up after them like they are crazy rock stars.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Fans see him as this at least.
* CanonImmigrant: Before Game Grumps, he was more associated with WebVideo/JonTron, being a writer for the show (and Jon's roommate). After Jon left the show to go to New York, Barry fully transfered over from Jontron to Game Grumps and got an apartment with Danny, the new host, hilariously enough.
* CaptionHumor: Sometimes speaks by including yellow captions in the videos.
* CensorshipBureau: Is this for the Grumps, although he pretty much only deletes the N-word, or anything else they ask to be removed.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Revealed in an episode of Super Mario Sunshine, Barry's favourite color is purple. His character's face-paint in Monster Hunter is purple, and in Steam Rolled's Fortune Street, his Mii is purple.
* CompanionCube[=/=]HandPuppet[=/=]SplitPersonality: It's unclear what his relationship is with the Pacific Rim action figure, but they are one and the same.
* CurbStompBattle: Barry's first time playing a game on the show? Beats Arin and Danny at Quake 9-3.
* DirtyCop: Plays one in the Mycaruba T-shirt ad. Possibly.
* TheDreaded: On Steam Rolled, as he's won the first few games they've played.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Apparently has a penguin calender, where he himself places a speech bubble reading "SQUARK!" on every one.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Jon fires Barry or threatens to fire him pretty often, usually without any reason whatsoever. Apparently, Jon's first response to Barry sleeping with his girlfriend would be "you're fired."
** When Arin threatens to fire Barry on Steam Rolled, Barry's response is [[SilentSnarker "I've been fired like 8 times today."]]
* HeroicMime: At least for the first few episodes of Steam Rolled.
* HypercompetentSidekick: For the videos, he handles the editing, uploading, naming, scheduling... in his own words, he does literally everything except the actual grumping about.
** For two of the three rounds of Steam Rolled, he gains the majority of the points for his team.
** In the Games Grumps Reddit AMA, Arin describes as "so helpful and accommodating and focused, hardworking" and that the company would crumble without him.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Implied on Steam Rolled. Arin theorizes that Barry could be a lot more skilled because he's not [[HeroicMime splitting his attention to trash talk like the others, and he can concentrate]]. Barry then types that [[SilentSnarker "I'm doing both,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch"]].
* ICallItVera: His dog-headed cane in Table Flip, [[RunningGag though its name changes every episode]]. So far names include Charles Barkely, [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch Benedict Cumberbark]], Avon Barksdale, [[AerithAndBob Fidonkers]], [[Creator/BradPitt Brad Pittbull]], and Mark Ruffalo.
* JewishAndNerdy: According to Jon and Arin in the Nickelodeon Guts episode.
* KnifeNut: Danny tells a story of how he joking plays "Knifey-Grabby", a game where he makes a stabbing motion towards somebody while they try and grab it.
* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Invoked by Suzy, who references the meme that Barry wins every game in Starwhal, [[TheWorfEffect and uses defeating him at Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo as an example of how good she is at the game]] [[WorfHadTheFlu (leaving out the fact Barry has never played it before)]].
* MemeticSexGod: [[invoked]] On the show and in the comments. Just read of comments in [[http://youtu.be/snuYz1DzCQA?t=8m22s this episode after this exchange]].
--> '''Arin''': "Alright, next time on Game Grumps, Barry-"
--> '''Jon''': "Barry sleeps with our girlfriends?"
--> '''Arin''': "I hope so. [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud WAIT HOLD ON, WHAT?! OH JEEZ!!]]"
--> '''Jon''': "I KNOW so! [[SmashCut Barry, put a clip of tha-]]"
* MaleGaze: When he selects a female character in Quake III, they all call a short cease-fire to stare at his ass.
* MessianicArchetype: Joked by the fans calling him a God. A few animations portray him as a cosmic being.
** On the Steam Train, they seemed to have embraced this idea. In their Skyrim playthrough, when asking Barry to fast-forward footage, the make their character look up to the sky as if praying to a God. A few episodes later, they talk about how Barry knows all and sees all.
* {{Ninja}}: Arin compares him to one several times on Steam Rolled, because of his deadly skill and inability to speak. Ross also calls him a "fucking cold-blooded assassin."
* NiceGuy: Confirmed in the Game Grumps Reddit AMA. When asked "Has Barry always been that awesome?", neither Grump hesitates to completely agree.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: His persona during the first episode of Table Flip.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In the first edition of Steam Rolled, which is his first time actually playing in a Game Grumps channel show.
* SilentPartner[=/=]SilentAntagonist: Depending if you're on team Steam Train or team Game Grumps. At least for the first few episodes of Steam Rolled.
* SilentSnarker: Occasionally his text captions can be pretty sarcastic, and he manages to be a decent trash talker on Steam Rolled, entirely through text chat.
-->'''Arin:''' "I think Barry has an advantage because he doesn't have to, um..."
-->'''Danny:''' "Trash talk?"
-->'''Arin:''' "Yeah."
-->'''Danny:''' "He can concentrate."
-->'''Barry:''' ''(through text chat)'' "I'm doing both, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
* SuddenlyVoiced: At the end of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive episode of Steam Rolled.
* StylisticSuck: His Game Grep animated, done on April Fools.
* TemporalParadox: Apperently, while on Steam Rolled, asking ''himself'' to edit something in later will cause this, leading for his [[PsychicNosebleed nose to bleed]].
* ThatPoorCat: His voice is this during [[KaraokeBox karaoke]].
* TheVoiceless: [[EnforcedTrope Was originally enforced]] by Arin, who wanted him to remain voiceless even when Jon wanted to put the footage of him performing Karaoke, so instead his singing voice is Cats meowing. The first two episodes of Steam Rolled had him speak entirely through text options. However, it was subverted to great fanfare at the end of the ''Counter Strike: Global Offensive'' episode. This continues through into the ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} Armageddon'' video and onward, where Barry jokes that he's finally figured out how to ''"use his vocal box"''.
* YankTheDogsChain: Danny tells a story about how, when they were opening Game Grumps fan mail, everybody got multiple presents and Barry received only one package with his name on it. Inside the package were several gifts for everybody else, with a note saying "Barry, pass these around to everybody."
* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm Jewish, Right?]]: Jon and Arin laugh realizing the irony of asking him to edit replacing "Down's Syndrome" with "Jew", because he's (or at least was at the time) the only Jewish member among them. He does it anyway.
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[[folder:Jonathan "Jon" Jafari ([=JonTron=])]]
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->''"BUMP BUTTS WITH HIM! BUMP BUTTS WITH HIM!!"''
Jon "Not-So-Grump" Jafari, also known by his internet alias JonTron, was the first co-star of Game Grumps, alongside Arin Hanson. He is known for [[WebVideo/JonTron his show]], and has left to New York and continues to work on his show again.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Does it even more than Ego.
--> '''Arin''': Dude, what is with your enun''ci''ations?
* TheAlcoholic: He frequently tells stories about drinking, especially on an airplane. He made fun of himself for drinking excessively, and Arin has even jokingly called him an alcoholic. Contrast to Arin, who is TheTeetotaler.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Since a troll on 4chan posted his speculation that Jon was a virgin, he's since shot down the idea several times on the show. [[SelfDeprecation Like by saying he could easily sleep with an ugly girl or a prostitute]].
--> '''Jon (in fan voice)''': Jon's not supposed to be able to look at boobies!
* AnimalMotif: With birds. Calls himself a "bird fanatic" and a "bird whisperer". He also seems drawn to cute bird characters, like in the movie {{Rio}}. Then there's [[TeamPet Jacques]].
* AxeCrazy: Less so than Arin, but it's definitely there.
* BadassBeard
* BigFun
* TheCastShowoff: Has an impressive set of pipes and uses them quite often.
* CatchPhrase:
** '''''[[MostAnnoyingSound ECH ECH]]'''''
** This "X-ass-Y". Sometimes taken a step further with "this X-ass-Y-ass-Z."
** "OH, IT'S [silly nickname made up on the spot]!"
** "Dude, real-talk... [something silly and inconsequential]"
** [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase "Next time on Game Grumps-!"]]
** He also likes saying "squander" a lot.
* CarpetOfVirility
* CloudCuckoolander: An even bigger one than Arin.
* CommanderContrarian: Not as big of an example as Arin since he's usually agreeable. However, he is prone to this occasionally, especially in certain Game Grumps Vs. episodes where he repeatedly claims to hate the game within the first five minutes without bothering to give it a chance. Case in Point: UltimateMuscle on the Gamecube along with a few others.
* {{Determinator}}: Refuses to ragequit Sonic 06, despite Arin's multiple objections.
* DitzyGenius: While he's pretty knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics, he gets bogged down in misconceptions and {{Malaproper}} a lot.
* FatAndSkinny: The fat to Ego's skinny.
* TheGadfly: Has admitted when he demands to be handed the controller after Arin dies in a game just to get him worked up.
* {{Gasshole}}: He's the farting type to Arin's burping type.
* LargeHam: It's extremely rare that an episode goes by without Jon screaming something.
** Even his ''beard'' is hammy.
* LegacyCharacter: He passes the title of Not-So Grump down to Dan Avidan.
* {{Malaproper}}
* MessyHair: Seems to get more and more unwieldly with each appearance. During a Q and A video on Polaris he spent quite some time casually adjusting his thick giant hair into increasingly ridiculous shapes.
* MommasBoy: To [=MomTron=].
* NiceHat
* TheNicknamer
* NoIndoorVoice: One of the defining traits of the Jon era of Game Grumps was the sheer ''volume''.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "Next time on Game Grumps!" Sometimes saying what will happen, but usually just ending without actually saying anything.
* ProphetEyes: When possessed in a short advertising TheMerch.
* PutOnABus: He left Game Grumps to put focus on his main channel again.
* RedOni: Jon is much more prone to shout and yell on the show than Arin is.
* SelfDeprecation: Prone to spoofing his own habits and mocking himself in general.
** When the Grumps make critical misunderstandings of how a game is played (Milky Way Wishes, Naughty Bear, Wario World), Jon will openly insult himself, usually with a joke. Contrast Arin, who [[NeverMyFault typically blames the game's conveyance instead]].
* SharpDressedMan: The handful of non-game footage Game Grumps typically sports him wearing a nice black button shirt and compared to Arin's laid back and comfy pajama pants that's plenty sharp.
** LimitedWardrobe
* SingingVoiceDissonance: You would have no idea that someone with his speaking voice would have such an impressive singing voice.
* SoreLoser: Has shades of it.
** Also a bit of a sore winner, which invariably came up because the majority of the time, Jon would beat Arin in Vs. (causing Arin to spawn the "Jon wins: as usual" joke)
* {{Unperson}}: Since his departure, Arin and the new cast have gone out of their way to not mention Jon in their newer videos.
** Arin made a [[http://www.reddit.com/r/gamegrumps/comments/1j21po/thank_you_all/cbae3uj Reddit post]] stating his reasoning isn't malicious, but simply because he doesn't want to drag Jon back into the show when he wants to move on, and so Jon himself isn't a looming specter that pops up every time he's mentioned on Grumps. While speculation continues as to how much of Arin's reasoning is true or whether there's actually bad blood between them, it's the only on-record thing he's said about Jon since his departure.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When possessed in a short advertising TheMerch.
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'''Team Grump''' | [[Characters/GameGrumpsRealLife Real Life People/Guests]] | [[Characters/GameGrumpsMadeUp Made-Up Characters]] |
[[folder:Arin Hanson (Egoraptor)]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:HEY I'M GRUMP]]
->''"One slice of chiz pizza please."''
Arin "Grump" Hanson ("Arin the Bandit" on Steam Train/Steam Rolled), also known by his internet alias, Creator/{{Egoraptor}} is the co-star of Game Grumps. He is an accomplished and popular web animator, best known for the WebAnimation/{{Awesome Series}}.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted. [[BlatantLies Ego is still a virgin though he is married]] (according to Jon at least).
** In ''Return To Dream Land'', Ego mentions being walked in on during sex once.
** At the very least, it's established that before Suzy, Arin never dated a girl.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Egoraptor practically invented it with his AwesomeSeries, perfected it with WebAnimation/GirlchanInParadise, and takes it UpToEleven here.
* AmbidextrousSprite: In real life, Arin's blonde streak is on the right side of his head, but his Grumpface in the standard intro has it on his left for the convenience of showing it off. This is reversed whenever he hosts on Steam Train/Steam Rolled, where his Grumpface comes in from the left.
* AmbiguouslyBi: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvYdeAnITLA&t=2m40s He admitted to having touched penises with another man]]. When Jon asked if that was a joke or not he purposefully said "it's up in the air, now!"
** This was later [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gA_PU4VuhQ&t=12m58s confirmed]] (and even corroborated by Suzy!) during Ninjabread Man. When Arin was younger, he and some friends were mocked for being gay when they weren't. To assert their confidence in their sexuality, they would regularly compare (and at one point ''swordfight with'') their penises just to go "Yep. Still not gay."
** Arin has also jokingly stated that [[StupidSexyFlanders he's attracted to]] Creator/RobertDowneyJr, Music/LLCoolJ, and [[HoYay Danny]].
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Arin can basically inflict this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tVN3TXaSk&t=9m54s on command.]]
-->'''Jon:''' [[StupidSexyFlanders Your voice is nice.]]
-->'''Jon:''' I always forget how good of a voice actor you are, until you start doing that.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Like Ross, he has ADD and takes medication for it.
* AttractiveBentGender: Has cross-dressed before (he mentioned once winning a Ladyboy crossdressing contest), and does so prominently in the Mycaruba T-shirt sketch.
** Pre-Game Grumps, he also dressed in drag as Vitalya, the co-host/wife of JonTron's character Malkovich, on the JonTron episode "Malkovich's Gaming Game Show". (The bit in their Mario Party 2 playthrough with the "Spider economy" is a CallBack to these characters.)
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When him and Ross are alone and playing a game on Steam Train, it's much more clear that they are good friends, and the [[ButtMonkey normal insults toward Ross are]] [[PlayedForLaughs just for fun.]]
* AxeCrazy: If the ending to ''SpiceWorld'' is anything to go by.
--> '''Arin:''' I have ''fun,'' have ''fun,'' I have ''FUN.''
** This shows up in [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]] part 85; as soon as they learn how to fight Sonic the same way [[ThatOneBoss Silver fought Sonic]]. Jon is scared by this.
--> '''Arin:''' THROWING YOUR BITCH ASS! AH, IT'S NO USE! IT'S NO FUCKING USE! (laughs maniacally) IT'S NO USE! ARGH! YOU'RE DEAD, SON! YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN' DEAD, SONIC! I WIN! MY WIN! ARIN WINS, SILVER WINS, SONIC WINS!
** When he loses to Il Piantissimo in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', he threatens to decapitate him and murder his family. [[DisproportionateRetribution Because he insulted Arin]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: When hijacking Steam Train, he wears one.
* BattleCouple: With Suzy in the ''Rayman Legends: Kung Foot'' Polaris tournament.
** It happens again in the soccer segment of ''Tiny Brains''.
* BigBad: Of the ''Betrayal At House On The Hill'' episode of Table Flip, when he becomes the traitor.
* BlueOni: Arin is noticeably more reserved than Jon during the show. [[NotSoAboveItAll Most of the time.]]
** And with the inclusion of Danny, Arin has once again taken up the mantle of BlueOni... again, [[NotSoAboveItAll most of the time.]]
* BookDumb: He can be very smart in fields he knows about, but being a high school dropout has put holes in what is generally considered common knowledge. However, it was [[SubvertedTrope later revealed]] that he didn't drop out of school due to incompetence, but that he was transferred to a bad school which his mom encouraged him to drop out of and got his GED instead.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack episodes so far, because he knows how to "think like the game".
* TheCastShowoff: Comes up with many different voices on the fly. He also occasionally animates certain conversations he has with Jon on the show.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Dang ass"
** "Fucking" or, "Fuckin'..."
** "Can I just say... [Statement Arin wants taken seriously]"
** "How d'you like ''that'' shit?" is slowly making its way to this status.
** One of his most oft-used insults is to call someone a "''fucking clod''."
** He considers "Absolutely" one of his, despite almost never actually saying it.
** variations on "OH SNAP!" including "Snippity Snap", "Snip-Snap with the grizzity grap" (that one a reference to a Remix made of something Dan said), and "Oh Dayum, son!".
** He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how "[[AngryVideoGameNerd Assitry]]" is becoming one of these for him.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the start, Arin was significantly more mellow, playing the straight man to Jon's antics. As the show developed, Arin gained many notable moments, but was still mostly Jon's straight man. However, when Danny came on the show, he turned out to be even more of a straight man than Arin, pushing Arin to become a lot more wacky as a result.
* ChekhovsSkill: Arin's ability to beatbox was casually referenced early on, but became a lot more prominent with the introduction of Danny.
* CloudCuckoolander
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Arin's favorite color is pink, and he'll always dress pink in games that allow it. His face-paint in the Monster Hunter series is also hot pink, as is his character in the upcoming Starbomb.
* CommanderContrarian: In the context of the Ego/Jon relationship. Make a drinking game for how many times Arin entirely shoots Jon down when the latter talks about a game he thought was good and you're bound to need multiple liver transplants.
* CutenessProximity: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EmXQOzyW6I&t=6m12s At one point]] in the ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' playthrough, he can't bring himself to abduct a cowering Waddle Dee for this reason, only for Danny to do it for him. Arin wanted to spare the little guy.
** Also in Super Mario Bros 3, Part 12, Arin squees over some little flying turtles Mario has to jump on, and says he wants to hug them.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathGlare: He has recently learned he is extremely good at this, as mentioned in a video.
* DeathIsCheap: He [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself twice]] and he was shot by Ross in the tiebreaker for the first episode of Table Flip - despite that, he's around for the next episode.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During ''Super Mario Sunshine'', he threatens to kill Il Piantissimo [[AndYourLittleDogToo AND his family]] just because he beat Arin in a race and called him a [[BigStupidDoodooHead pokey little flab biscuit]].
* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Jon's fat. Reverse with Danny.
* {{Gasshole}}: He's the burping type to Jon's farting type.
* FemmeFatale: [[WholesomeCrossdresser Cross-dressed]] as this in the Noir styled Mycaruba T-shirt video.
* HappilyMarried: Arin is married to fellow grump Suzy.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Any time the D-Club is brought up, Arin extensively reminds everyone that it's not gay and is meant to be a heterosexual bonding experience. Danny doesn't buy it.
* HighPressureEmotion: He can be heard fuming like a kettle after Ross takes all the toilet paper to shamble about like a mummy for his own amusement in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY the Goddammit Ross T-shirt ad]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Arin's stated opinions on game design and gameplaying are not well-reflected by how he conducts himself on the show. When questioned about it, he claims that on-camera he's usually too busy trying to be funny to actually play intelligently.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Arin mentions now and then that he used to be in really good shape, but has as of lately gained a lot of weight. He has determined that he is going to make him and Danny get "jacked" someday.
* InsultBackfire: During part 6 of Kirby's Epic Yarn, Arin traps Danny under a platform after he dies in the lava stage, preventing him from coming back to life. However, the rising lava catches up to Arin as he's standing on said platform, killing him too.
* FreudianSlip: During ''Betrayal at House on the Hill'', Arin makes this gaffe during his speech when he becomes the traitor.
-->'''Arin:''' I can taste that beautiful man-meat now.
* KilledOffForReal: According to his panel at Shadocon, Egoraptor's suicide (at the end of ''Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'') is canon in the Game Grumps continuity, and he's now a ghost.
** BackFromTheDead: He seems to be alive now, considering he's displayed a desire to kill himself ''again'' as a result of VideoGame/MegaManX 7.
** He kills himself ''yet again'' in one episode of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', only to return a few seconds later into the proceeding video.
** And then he's shot dead by Ross at the ending of the Cards Against Humanity episode of Table Flip, only to come back for the next episode. Basically, [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: He owns two cats named Mochi and Mimi.
* LanternJawOfJustice: It's become a [[MemeticMutation common joke in the fandom]] that Arin has many double chins, which Arin eventually [[AscendedMeme embraces]] and uses as a [[SelfDeprecation self deprecating joke himself]].
* LargeHam: This ''is'' Egoraptor, after all. Fellow Grumps Jon and Dan match his hamminess, however.
* ManOfAThousandVoices
* NeverMyFault: When the Grumps make critical misunderstandings of how a game is played (Milky Way Wishes, Naughty Bear, Wario World), Arin typically blames the game for his mistakes. Contrast Jon, who [[SelfDeprecation typically mocks himself for such a mistake]], and Danny, who's so chilled he doesn't care either way. This stems from his opinions in game design theory; Arin believes that games should be intuitively designed with minimal text direction. However this means that anything so much as a tutorial screen can be enough to draw his ire.
** Subverted occasionally, such as in Star Fox 64 where he admits that he's terrible at the game. He was also humble enough to publicly apologize after receiving a lot of flak for his terrible performance during Wind Waker.
* NightmareFetishist: Possibly? He finds the demonic eyeless corpse bride from Run Saber fairly attractive despite her face, even though he declared Rouge the Bat and Elise to be unattractive solely because of their faces.
** On Steam Train he also said that he would give the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheyBleedPixels'' a kiss. The protagonist is a PerkyGoth girl who has crustacean claws and is an expert killer.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghost!Arin is still able to hold a controller and play games after his suicide in the ''Rugrats'' episode.
* OnlySaneMan: The only only member of the Grumps Team who pointed out that, as opposed to sneaking in, Ross would just let them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zCrqx9Z4RK4&t=275 use his pool.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Literally. In their promo video for their DENOUTTADEN shirt, Arin wears a trucker hat with the words "CHRISTMAS HAT" written on it in paper.
* PetTheDog: When Arin and Ross are playing a game on their own, [[ButtMonkey he's much more friendly than anybody else is on the channel towards him.]] Mostly.
* PottyFailure: Sharts himself in Parodius Part 6. No, seriously.
* RantInducingSlight: Playing the [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]] game for too long leaves him driveling on for a minute about what direction his life had to take that lead to this horrid game. At the end he screams after noticing [[MinorInjuryOverreaction that they're out of Lucky Charms]] ([[SweetTooth causing Danny to scream too]]).
* RealMenWearPink: Not only has he said that he identifies with a female perspective on most things, but he's also expressed a skill at cooking and has stated his favorite color is pink.
** During ''HelloKitty: Seasons,'' he admitted to knowing a great deal about Sanrio characters, and was having fun with the game. He could have ''easily'' turned it into a multi-part series... but Danny was not as enthused.
* SanitySlippage: Lampshaded in part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'', where Danny points out that a few episodes ago they were super excited to be playing the game again, but by the start of this episode Arin is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
* SitcomArchnemesis: ''Really'' has it out for Il Piantissimo in ''Super Mario Sunshine''.
* StraightMan: With Jon, due to his extreme levels of energy overpowering even {{Egoraptor}}. With Dan, Arin becomes a lot more bombastic in contrast to Dan's laid-back qualities and is no longer the straight man.
** NotSoAboveItAll
* TeamDad: Invokes this in the 2014 Game Grumps T-shirt commercial, where he and Suzy play father and mother to Danny, Ross and Barry. Arin plays up the StandardFiftiesFather stereotype, and Dan calls him "Dad" and "Pop".
** In the actual videos, he also fits this role to an extent, leading the Grumps and organizing the channel. Everything is filmed in his house, after all.
* TakeThatAudience[=/=]SelfDeprecation: After returning to ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Arin keeps making fun of the people who were ridiculing his skills during his first play-through.
-->'''Arin:''' Is there anywhere I can get water? People at home are like ''THAT THING YOU JUST PASSED, IDIOT!''
-->'''Danny:''' ''GOD YOU'RE SO STUPID!''
-->'''Arin:''' ''WHY DON'T YOU KILL YOURSELF?!''
* TheTeetotaler: Has stated on the show that he doesn't like drinking and almost never does, contrast to Jon, who is borderline TheAlcoholic. Arin has made jokes calling him out on it.
* TemptingFate: He did that ''twice in a row'' in the Mario Party 4 Steam Rolled finale, asking Suzy to not do a 1 then Ross to not pick up the extremely rare 100 coins golden ball at the lottery (which they both did).
* ThirdPersonSeductress: Favors playing as girls when games give him the option, and flat-out said in the first Resident Evil video that he picked Jill over Chris because of her butt.
* TookALevelInBadass: After taking a LOT of crap from the fandom for how poorly he was playing Super Mario Sunshine, Arin went out of the way to practice his skills before the Grumps came back to it after a short break. Come part 15, and he's using the FLUDD spray to slip-slide around the levels like a pro, and gets the Pina Park red coin star - which he previously couldn't do in a full-length episode - in half the time.
* TookALevelInJerkass: With Jon, Arin was generally the straight man to Jon's insanity and occasional Jerkass tendencies, but after he left, Dan's friendly and docile attitude left the position of Jerkass for grabs. After a period of time where Arin and Dan are the friendliest possible towards each other, Arin has made a regular joke of mocking Dan, repeatedly calling him an idiot. It's all obviously PlayedForLaughs.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oreos, apparently. He speculates (as a result the release of limited-edition triple-stuffed Oreos) that they may one day sell the creme and the cookies separately, so people can regulate their personal perfect creme-to-cookie ratio.
** Monster Energy Drink might count as well.
* WeaponOfChoice: The bow. Not an official choice, but this was his weapon in Monster Hunter and Trine, and he was the winner of TowerFall (a game with nothing but archers).
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Both in the traditional sense during the Mycaruba T-shirt ad, and as a ThirdPersonSeductress during any game that gives them the option of doing so.
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[[folder: Leigh Daniel "Danny" Avidan (Danny Sexbang)]]
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[[caption-width-right:293:WE BOUGHT TOO MANY GAMES]]
->''"You Piccadilly WHOOOOOORE!"''
Danny Sexbang is the Third Grump, replacing Jon in Year 2 of Game Grumps as "Not-So Grump". He's a member of Music/NinjaSexParty, a musical comedy duo. He costars alongside Ross of Rubber Ross on a new show called the Steam Train.
* TheAce: Does very well on the first few games he plays, showcasing tremendous skill, but he [[LampshadeHanging points out that]] [[SubvertedTrope they specifically chose games he's skilled at.]] As a result, this trope has ultimately been transferred to Barry before being abandoned entirely. He still demonstrates an extreme amount of skill in playing video games, [[CripplingOverspecialization but only older ones from the NES, SNES and DOS era]].
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In the Wii Punch Out playthrough, he didn't realise he could duck or regain health during a match until the fans pointed it out to him in the comments just before the fight with Bald Bull. Because of that, he developed amazing timing so he could nail his opponent before they performed moves he thought were unblockable.
* AerithAndBob: In the first intro, the Grumps are labeled with their internet handles Egoraptor and JonTron. However, Danny's internet handle only changes his last name. So the second intro has Egoraptor and Danny.
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Mentioned on the first Castle Crashers episode of Steam Train. Who the heck DOESN'T like money?
** That being said, Steam Train has shown us that he's more than okay to embrace the Stereotype for comedy.
--> '''Danny:''' [[EarWorm It's JEW COLLECTING TIME!]] [[LargeHam IT'S JEW COLLECTING MONEY TIME!]]
* AmericanAccents: He is from New Jersey and finds that he sometimes lets out its accent, such as in Katamari Damacy Part 16.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: A common joke of his is to use this. As a more actual (though [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]) example, his referring to game levels as "boards" hasn't been common in decades.
* AscendedExtra: In a sense. He was briefly mentioned in many moments with Jon and Arin before given his speaking role on Game Grumps [[http://youtu.be/VR6v4VcCDK8?t=2m3s (here's an example)]]. The Steam Train promo on Ross' channel also gave people the impression that Danny was originally going to be exclusively on Steam Train before Jon left.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as Danny makes a notable effort to keep irrelevant chatter to a minimum in comparison to Jon and Arin, who would spend entire episodes not talking about the game.
** Though he does invoke the trope during their Versus episode of ''Gundam: Battle Assault 2''
-->"[Normal conversation] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ooh! Big Zam]]"
** Played straight at Magfest 2014.
-->'''Fan''': How long do you spend filming and editing Game Grumps?
-->'''Arin''': Well, we record like a shitzillion episodes. It's been kinda free-form lately because of all the events and shit we've been going to, so-
-->'''Danny''': Dude, they got Cheese Nips back here, excuse me. (walks over and grabs box).
* BaitAndSwitch: In the ''Gundam: Battle Assault 2'' video, during each character select, Danny makes it look like he's going to try a new character...[[RunningGag before selecting Big Zam again]].
--> '''Danny:''' Akahana looks pretty cool...hey, [[PurposelyOverpowered Big Zam]]!
* BerserkButton: Ninja Brian has proved that one of the only certain ways to piss him off and drive him over the edge is to joke about giving him blowjobs.
** The questionable heterosexuality of the D-Club seems to the be the only thing that Danny repeatedly argues and disagrees with Arin over.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Arin has commented that Dan's extreme SweetTooth leads to some funny conversations.
--> ''Arin (in Dan's voice)'': Okay, I'm going to need a break and a handful of lucky charms.
* BoomHeadshot: Happens courtesy of Arin on Steam Train, whenever Arin is playing with Ross instead.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase "Next time on Game Grumps"]] in the same way Jon did when he was Not-So Grump.
* BrooklynRage: He often gives characters the voice of a tough, gruff New Yorker. He himself grew up in New Jersey.
* TheCastShowoff: Being part of the musical comedy duo Music/NinjaSexParty outside of Game Grumps, he is very good at singing and making up beats on the fly.
* CatchPhrase: "Get outta here!"
** "Totally!"
** [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase Next time on Game Grumps!]] [[MadLibsCatchPhrase We'll (something silly and usualy unrelated to the next episode)]]! This was borrowed from Jon.
** "Jams" or "Jimmy-Jams" when he doesn't know what word to use.
** "Shakeh-shakeh-shakeh-shakeh". Arin's acknowledged this as his favorite "Dannyism".
** "EAT A DICK!" when fighting/killing enemies in the game.
** [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage "Mazel tov!"]]
** "Yeah, did it!" immediately after failing.
*** "Nailed it!"
** "Aaaaaand... you're dead."
** MadLibsCatchPhrase: [[PleaseSubscribetoOurChannel If (something related to the discussion), Like, Comment and Subscribe!]]
** "Oh noooo!"
*** [[BigOMG "OH GOD NO!!"]]
** He likes calling levels "Boards".
** "Does that do anything for you?"
** "Ain't that some shit?"
** "[[MadLibsCatchPhrase How about some.... MORE (something Arin doesn't like)!!]]"
*** Though he actually got THAT one from the South Park episode "Cow Days", specifically when the boys go through the House Of Farts and the not-so-terrifying voice goes "How about some...MORE FARTS!!" in roughly the same tone of delivery.
** "Wait: maybe it's friendly."[[note]][[HardCodedHostility usually it's not]][[/note]]
** "Bringing it home!" or "You really brought it home".
** [[Music/MichaelJackson "He]][[Series/SaturdayNightLive 's on his backo!"]]
** In one episode, he imagines the day when he is phoning it in to such an extent that he was literally been replaced with a soundboard, wherein the buttons say things like "Totally!" and "[[TrademarkFavoriteFood Skittles]]!".
** "Playin' the Feud!"
** "Ouuuu-CHA"
** "[[ChristianBale Oh, goooood]] [[SarcasmMode for you!]]"
* CelebCrush: With CameronDiaz. Also anybody else who was in a relationship with JustinTimberlake, apparently, but CameronDiaz in particular has been mentioned several times.
* CerebusRetcon: When he first mentioned going to France as a foreign exchange student, it was treated as just another one of Dan's wacky moments from his past. Later on, it's revealed that Dan suffered through depression during his younger years, and his trip to France was the final moments of his personal arc of getting through it.
* ChekhovsGunman: Being a friend of Ego, he was mentioned several times in the show prior to his promoted Grump status.
* CloudCuckoolander: Seems you can't be a Grump without it.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'', after Arin has his mental breakdown where he rambles on about crack cocaine, selling his body for cash to pay for said cocaine, being fucked in the ass and comparing it all to the game.
-->'''Danny:''' "You covered a lot of ground there...all I heard was, like, 'butthole'."
* {{Cosplay}}: Has cosplayed, but only Spike Spiegel from CowboyBebop, or "scraggly Jew". There has been some fan speculation [[AmbiguouslyJewish Spike is Jewish himself]], though.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His favorite color is blue, and he'll always go for the blue option of clothing in video games he plays. He's even wearing blue in most Ninja Sex party videos, and in the upcoming Starbomb.
* CrazyPrepared: Compared to ''Jon and Arin'' anyways. The games they play so far tend to be ones he is incredibly familiar with or has been playing multiple times days before. This seems to have drastically lowered the amount of one-offs ending with confusion from the players.
* CripplingOverspecialization: He demonstrates impressive and extraordinary skill in older games from the [[RetroGaming NES, SNES and DOS eras of gaming]], but has very little skill in any game made after that point. On a video game show, this leads to him laying back passively while Arin plays, and every once in a while impressing the audience by playing an older game really well.
* CutenessProximity: Danny is seen gushing over [[CuteKitten Mimi]] at the end of the Sheep Vs video.
** He tends to Squee over various cute Pokémon in Pokémon FireRed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He struggled with mental illness in his late teens/twenties, but came out of it better than ever.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: During their Versus {{mirror match}} in ''Ballz'' between Divine and Divine. [[OrgasmicCombat The "combat grunts"]] end up arousing him more than you'd expect from characters Arin says "look llike Dippin' Dots."
-->"Let's end this episode, so I can go do some things alone..."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the Steam Train shirt advert:
-->'''Danny:''' "That's a sweet shirt Ross, but talking won't make our dinner faster! That's a sweet shirt."
** Also in the Game Grumps for Charity! video:
-->'''Danny:''' (listing games to play) We've got VideoGame/{{Glover}}, uhh, Glover, um, here's a Glover.
-->'''Arin:''' (sarcastically) Do we have any Glover?
-->'''Danny:''' Let me check. No, I don't see- [holds up seven Glover cartridges] [[BigOMG OH MY GOD]]!
* TheDeterminator: It seems to take a LOT more to get him to rage quit a game than it took Jon. He also beats them a lot faster.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjs3flF-vQk Ninja Sex Party video (also starring Jon, Ross, and Barry)]], the ending has a split second image depicting Danny, Brian and Arin's band, Starbomb, which would not be announced properly until December. However, as Steam Train hadn't begun and Jon hadn't left, it ''also'' foreshadows Danny's collaboration with Arin on Game Grumps.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: While he always goes by the name Dan, which is his middle name, he reveals in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7OwQRyhNk this video]] that Daniel is actually his middle name, and Leigh (pronounced "Lee") is his actual first name, which he dislikes for being [[GenderBlenderName spelled in a feminine way]].
* EroticEating: In Steam Train, he asks Ross if he's ever had sex with food involved. Ross answers no, which makes Danny admit ashamedly that he's had relations with a woman with whip cream involved. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick And he fucked a cantaloupe once]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: 'You Piccadilly WHOOOOOORE!', he says as he bumps action figures of {{Manga/Cyborg009}} together. There's also his first outing in the Grump field, where the first few seconds into PunchOut, there's a loud burp from him.
** Mayor Luigi is considered by many his breakout moment that firmly established him as a worthy successor to the Not-So-Grump title.
* EthicalSlut: Danny is very honest about his sexual history. He admits that he can't seem to hold relationships, and in the Singles Train special he admits he doesn't mind being single. That said, he still has standards about honesty and isn't against monogamy, saying he admires people such as his parents and grandparents for being together and genuinely in love with each other for so many years.
* ExpansionPackPast: Almost every episode Danny is in contains a funny or interesting story from his past, which is quite complicated and varied. A small few notable examples are his studying of flowers in France, wrestling in Alligator while stoned in the everglades, and having his Bar Mitzvah in Israel.
* ExtremeOmnivore: He's eaten some questionable things in his life, including chapstick, Play-Doh and entire bowls of Lucky Charms marshmallows.
* FailOSuckyname: When losing at You Don't Know Jack, he receives the consolation prize of being referred to as "Fucbad" (pronounced Fuck-Bad) for 5 hours.
** After the loser of You Don't Know Jack is revealed to receive the prize of being referred to as "[[FailOSuckyname Fucbad]]", some fans insist on calling him that long after.
* FullNameUltimatum: Arin pulls this on him in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EmXQOzyW6I&t=4m59s part 23]] after he continues to refer to the Waddle Dees as monkeys [[InsistentTerminology despite Arin telling him]] their real name [[RunningGag over and over]]. Naturally, it's immediately PlayedForLaughs and turns into a [[SeinfeldianConversation discussion over Danny's name]].
-->'''Danny''': Goddamn these firemen monkeys.
-->'''Arin''': [{{beat}}] Dammit, Daniel! [Danny is laughing] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Daniel. S. Sexbang]].
-->'''Danny''': Daniel '''Y''' Sexbang.
-->'''Arin''': "Daniel Y?"
-->'''Danny''': My middle name is "You," so the "Danny Sexbang" name can be enveloping "you" [[LovableSexManiac in a sensual manner]] when you say my name. Know what I'm saying?[[note]]This joke is more effective from an audio standpoint[[/note]]
-->'''Arin''': "[[WhosOnFirst Daniel U?]]"
-->'''Danny''': "Daniel You Sexbang." Y-O-U.
-->'''Arin''': [[TheyJustDontGetIt I don't get it]] [Danny sighs]. Oh! So your name is enveloping "you!"
-->'''Danny''': Yes!
-->'''Arin''': [[EurekaMoment A-ha!]]
-->[Less than a minute later after laughing over this]
-->'''Arin''': Get your fuckin' ass up here, I swear to god[...] These monkeys are not gonna throw themselves.
-->'''Danny''': Oh, yay! See, [[ShaggyDogStory they're monkeys!]]
* {{Gasshole}}: Just like Arin, he burps frequently.
* GenderBlenderName: His actual first name, Leigh, pronounced "Lee" but spelled in the feminine way. Hence why he goes by his middle name, Dan.
* GracefulLoser: He's no SoreLoser. There probably isn't a defeat that can keep him down for long.
* HardboiledDetective: During the Mycaruba T-shirt ad, entirely filmed as a film noir.
* HereWeGoAgain[=/=]IronicEcho: Just as Jon often used "Legitimately" and got made fun of in both comments section and by his friends, Danny comes to the same realization with his catchphrase "Totally". The conversations discussing both are nearly identical.
** Jon, a big fan of the Alien movies, repeatedly expressed shock that Arin had never seen Aliens. Sure enough, in the first episode of Journey to Silius, Danny finds out that Arin (still) hasn't seen it. The conversations are almost identical.
** In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Danny has to deal with Arin having multiple nervous breakdowns, much like Jon did during ''Sonic '06''.
* HiddenDepths: The amount of literary references he makes shows that he is fairly well-read.
* InsultBackfire: If Ross makes fun of him for being cheap, because he's Jewish, he'll embrace it every time.
* JewishAndNerdy
* {{Keet}}: Generally a very whimsical and animated fellow who doesn't anger easily. So far [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2-awLli0w only Ross has been able to successfully troll him]] via reading some Ninja Sex Party {{fan fiction}} that involved Ninja Brian giving him a blow job.
* LargeHam: Again, looks like you can't be a Grump without it.
* LegacyCharacter: Adopts the title of Not-So-Grump in the intro.
* TheLoad: He is ''utterly incompetent'' at KirbysEpicYarn.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He seems to be the only one who has no idea who 'Him' is during the ''Cards Against Humanity'' episode of Table Flip.
* LovableSexManiac: On the border of this. It seems like he brings up sexual topics and stories much more frequently than the other Grumps. He is [[Music/NinjaSexParty Danny Sexbang]], after all. [[LampshadeHanging He acknowledges]] this himself, calling himself a slut.
** If his stories he tells Arin and Ross are true, he can pretty much definitely be this. He's been invited into at least two threesomes, took part in one of them, experiments with food, dislikes being in long-term relationships, and was ''invited into a secret orgy club for beautiful people''.
** Funnily enough, he once explained how he was a late bloomer who didn't have sex until he was 23, which surprised a lot of people because of his current personality.
* MessyHair
* MetaGuy: Is becoming this in his guest appearances on Table Flip. In the first ''Cards Against Humanity'', he's the only one who questions the sudden appearance of 'Him'. In the second episode, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how Arin was killed in the previous episode. Both times, no-one else seems to notice or otherwise be bothered by either of these facts.
* NiceGuy: With Arin and the fandom. The only exception is with [[VitriolicBestBuds Ross]].
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, he has an embarrassing story about going to New Orleans and spending $700 on strippers and champagne. [[TheUnreveal But because the game interrupted him in the middle of it]], we'll probably never hear it.
** Subverted when we do eventually hear the rest of the story, thanks to Ross' insistence. After several interrupted opportunities, the story was finally told two episodes later.
* NWordPrivileges: Dan opens up his Castle Crashers video warning that he's Jewish, so he will probably be making a lot of Jewish jokes.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He's at least 6 years older than Arin, and possibly more, which has lead Arin to joke about their age difference. Parodied in ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' when he talks about Tommy Ray Handley,
-->'''Danny:''' Listen; I'm just trying to keep the dream alive. From the 1920s. Of everybody's favorite pugilist.
-->'''Arin:''' You mean when you were 47?
-->'''Danny:''' Yes, when I was 47, yes. I am...let me do some quick math...[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 380 years old]].
** For those who are curious, his birthday is March 14, 1981. He is 33 as of his 2014 birthday.
* OnlySaneMan: During Table Flip, he is the only person who is at all concerned that a mysterious unnamed figure in black appears when summoned and then leaves a loaded gun on the table.
-->'''Danny:''' HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD? Like, who IS that guy?!
-->'''Barry:''' (ignoring him) Who's turn is it?
-->''Danny throws his cards on the table.''
** In his second appearance on the show, he asks Arin how he's still alive if he was [[CallBack shot in the last episode]]. Again, everyone overtly ignores the question.
** Subverted with his actual personality and playstyle, which is very different from Jon's. The singing is also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because he is actually a singer by trade.
* PermaStubble
* PerpetualSmiler: An audible example: despite all the various emotions he displays on Game Grumps, he generally always sounds jovial, even when pissed off. He admits it takes a lot to get him to become genuinely mad.
** He brings up in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjWly_nNY8&t=4m40s Super Mario Sunshine Part 38]] that even when he's genuinely mad, it has trouble getting across in an audible way, because he simply doesn't shout (he tends more to seethe). However, he can be heard losing his mind in the finale of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}''.
** He sometimes gets noticeably frustrated with Ross during some Steam Train playthroughs, but even then it's very light and unnoticeable.
* PrettyBoy: His MessyHair, cute smile and nice eyes makes him popular on {{Tumblr}}.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Suffers one at the hands of Arin the Bandit, whenever he takes over Danny's position on Steam Train.
* PrivateDetective: In the Mycaruba T-shirt ad.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dan explained on Reddit that his disappearances from Steam Train/Steam Rolled are because he's dividing his time between a full-time day job, Game Grumps, Ninja Sex Party, Starbomb, and other projects he's working on. Needless to say, he's very busy and needs a break once in a while. Thankfully, it's never permanent.
* RedOni: To Ross. Less so to Arin since they have about the same level of hyperactivity.
** This is in temperament only. In terms of playstyle, Danny is the straight man BlueOni and Ross is the Red Oni.
* RepetitiveName: '''Dan''' Avi'''dan'''.
** It's only made funnier when you consider the names of his father ('''Avi''' '''Avi'''dan) and his sister ('''Dan'''a Avi'''dan'''). It would appear that the Avidan family loves their 'da-' and 'avi-' sounds.
* ReplacementGoldfish: When Arin, Barry and Suzy cry over the lack of Jon, Danny steps in to replace him.
* RetroGaming: While Jon and Arin enjoy older games, Danny's affinity for them is a lot more apparent. The first ten games played on the show since his arrival are all NES games. [[CripplingOverspecialization It's been acknowledged on the show that Retro games are really the only games he's good at]].
* RunningGag: Throwing wolfjob into a joke out of nowhere. At this point it has its own running gag, where instead of using the original image, Barry uses images of wolves photoshopped in ways to imply that they have jobs (EG: a firefighter with a wolf's head in ''Skyrim'')
* SarcasmMode: Sometimes uses it with Ross, though when he's being serious and genuinely sarcastic can be hard to pick out.
* ScarsAreForever: Has a scar on his right eyebrow that has become very iconic. He got it from falling off of a box at the age of 3, though he initially claimed it was from [[BlatantLies a fight with a puma]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Throws a tantrum and runs off after Suzy informs him he they won't logistically be able to film on the moon.
** Pulls this again after being eliminated from the Rayman Legends tournament.
** He threatens this during his breakdown in ''Wheel of Fortune'', but comes back and actually ends up winning the round.
* SharpDressedMan: Ninja Sex Party videos have shown off his truly [[UnlimitedWardrobe unlimited wardrobe]].
* SiblingRivalry / WouldHitAGirl: The latter being not as bad as it usually is. Danny's sister used to punch him as a child. When it finally started to hurt as she got older and stronger, he called in his dad, who told him to 'hit her back.' Danny punched her right in the back, causing her to cry. Apparently his dad [[ThatCameOutWrong didn't mean to do it unprovoked]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: His speaking, contasted to Jon's {{Malaproper}}, is to say things in a very proper and formal manner. The type of things discussed on the show are unchanged, leading to this.
* TheSouthpaw
* TheStoner: While he states he doesn't do drugs anymore, he makes it clear he's had a history with marijuana. Certain stories involve him being stoned, such as the story of the time he wrestled an alligator in the everglades. He also regularly lampshades how he doesn't blame people for mistaking him as a pothead.
** In the first episode of Skyrim, Dan admits at twenty-four his life was basically smoking pot and playing lots of Morrowind.
* SweetTooth: In his own words, he eats like a disgusting person who has 5 years to live.
* TheTeetotaler: Has stated he can't drink due to an unspecified illness.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: During ''Wheel of Fortune'', Danny keeps going on about how angry he is about the fact he keeps spinning 'Lose a Turn' spaces, usually while stifling a laugh.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: In the Steam Train videos starring only Arin and Ross, Danny gets [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Arin in the intro of every one.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Danny admits he's only really good at playing video games from [[RetroGaming the NES, SNES and DOS era]], which has led to either him laying back passively and commenting while Arin plays the game, or the Grumps going out of their way to play a lot of older games so that he has a turn.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Skittles.
** Part 6 of Mega Man 2 confirms it by actually having him stating that they're his sole "vice," due to the fact that he doesn't do drugs and can't drink alcohol for a while because of an illness.
** When someone posted [[http://i.imgur.com/COxzSbp.gif this picture]] on {{Reddit}} and titled it 'I think I found Danny's perfect woman', Danny himself responded with:
-->'''Danny:''' There's a woman in this video?
* VerbalTic: If you take note of how often he says "like" in a single sentence, it becomes pretty evident.
--> ''Well that's the thing, like, if they're evolutionarily designed to fight like that, like, 'what the fuck'? Like, I guess they must be shielded from it in some way. Like maybe they have thicker skulls or something?''
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ross on Steam Train. Lampshaded in the third episode of ''Super Metroid'': as they were talking about Steam Train, Danny admitted that even though he loves Ross like a brother, he can drive him insane sometimes.
** Increasingly has become this with Arin, being (jokingly) ridiculed and called an idiot more and more lately.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Averted. His father is Israeli, so he speaks no Yiddish (his Hebrew is pretty rusty as well, but that's neither here nor there).
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[[folder:Ross O'Donovan ([=RubberRoss=])]]
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-> ''"I open my mouth and then things bad happen."''
The other half of Steam Train, along with Danny. [[http://www.youtube.com/user/RubberNinja/videos Also makes animations on his channel]].
* {{Adorkable}}: Just watch any episode of Steam Rolled, or his run of VVVVVV with Arin.
* AscendedExtra: In a sense. He was frequently mentioned by Jon and Arin as a joke long before he got a speaking role on the spin-off show Steam Train [[http://youtu.be/wo0tWBb1JlM?t=8m33s (here's an example)]]. He was also a literal Extra in a T-Shirt commercial they did.
** Jon jokingly broke into his house to obtain the cels for Dragon's Lair.
--->'''Ross:''' Jon what the fuck are you doing in our house?!
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Ross mentions that, because he has ADD, he can't concentrate long enough to read books.
** In the Skyrim playthrough, Danny and Ross have a quick conversation discussing his ADD and his medication. Quick, because Ross keeps getting distracted by something else or saying the opposite of what he just stated, which Danny [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]].
* AustralianAccent: Made fun of on Grumps for being ridiculous, but by the time he actually appears, it's mostly disappeared due to living in America too long. He also mentions not even developing one in the first place.
** Amusingly, his accent naturally becomes more pronounced whenever he starts talking about Australia.
* AwesomeAussie
* BlessedWithSuck: In Castle Crashers. [[RunningGag His power is mediocrity]].
* BloodKnight: He turns down Caesar's truce because he really wanted to kill him.
* BlueOni: To Danny.
** In terms of temperament, he is. However, in terms of playstyle, Danny is more the StraightMan BlueOni who wants to play the game correctly, and Ross is the RedOni who occasionally (and intentionally) takes the dumbest path.
* BlushSticker: Notably on his Grump face, which no other Grump shares.
* BodyHorror: As a baby, he had his entire cheek slashed off by a cat, and he had to get it '''surgically reattached.'''
* BornLucky: According to Arin, whenever Ross rolls a die, it will show up with whatever number he wills it too. This proves true for most of Mario Party 4. At least until the final, most important tie-breaking die roll against Barry, which Ross fails horribly at.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: It's [[{{Lampshading}} lampshaded]] by Danny when Ross uses the phrase "Eat a Dick."
* ButtMonkey: Even before he started on Steam Train, Arin and Jon made fun of him during their play sessions. Now he's the Grump collective's go-to guy for when someone needs to be made the whipping boy. It's so bad Arin and Danny make fun of him on their show ''when Ross isn't even around''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn / EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episodes of Steam Train, with Castle Crashers and Hotline Miami, the dynamic between Ross and Danny seemed to be completely VitriolicBestBuds, insulting each other's nationalities mutually (Ross making fun of Danny's Judaism, and Danny making fun of Ross being Australian). This relationship was phased out pretty quickly in favor of a [[ButtMonkey one-sided abusive relationship]] towards Ross, and for being bad at video games instead of for his nationality. And just recently we're seeing more of his {{Troll}}-ish nature, like spitefully screwing over other players in multiplayer games, and playing up his {{Manchild}} tendencies for laughs.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's a friend of both Arin and Jon, so long before his appearance on the show they mentioned him frequently. They made fun of him for being Australian. Now he's in the spin-off. He has also made a brief physical appearance in a Game Grumps T-Shirt commercial.
* CloudCuckooLander: His "Rossisms", his strange philosophy. For example: "Genius in ignorance, could technically be called out-gnorance."
* CoolCar: His wife owns a [[Film/BackToTheFuture DeLorean]].
* CrazyPrepared: In Skyrim, Ross has memorized a ton of exploits and glitches to progress through the game faster, plays the game before to test most of them before the show, and has an [[LongList extremely meticulous and detailed list]] so he can keep track of them. Danny mentions that the level of preparation he has undergone is very unusual for his [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny usual level of disorganization]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoB543m9Zzw In the May 2013 t-shirt commercial.]]
** Even earlier than that, he showed up on screen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjb5Oqoal3U Pocky and Rocky Part 4]] in the footage of Jon's birthday. Even back then he was still the ButtMonkey, as he gets hits by the camera.
* TheEveryman: Subverted. Ross might appear at first to be laid back without the same level of hyperactivity that Arin and Dan possess, and might even seem average and level headed at first, it really doesn't take long to realize he's quite a [[{{Troll}} troll]] with a bizarre [[CloudCuckooLander outlook on the world]].
* {{Expy}}: Of Arin, somewhat. They're both animators with an [[RefugeInAudacity extreme art style and humor]], both [[KindHeartedCatLover kind hearted cat lovers]] and in a [[HappilyMarried committed relationship]].
* FantasticRacism: He has a huge disdain towards stingrays, because they're 'fucking murderers', likely a reference to Steve Irwin.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Played up in the "Goddammit Ross" T-shirt ad, and he's constantly being insulted by the other Grumps even when he's not around. Subverted ultimately, when the insulting is almost always followed up with "I love Ross, he's such a great guy" or something to that effect.
--> '''Danny''': I have never loved anyone who is so infuriating in so many different situations.
* FunnyForeigner: From Australia, which leads to many jokes about his accent. He also occasionally plays up his lack of knowledge about the United States, knowing nothing about the geography or customs of the country (and believing the first president was [[GeorgeWBush George Bush]][[GeorgeWashington ington]])
* GenreSavvy: He's made quite a few thoughtful calls to numerous Sierra Games.
* HappilyMarried: To special effects artist and Maker Studios/Polaris Community Manager "Commander" Holly Conrad.
* HiddenDepths: Their Monster Hunter and Skyrim playthroughs show that Ross can be a very educated and disciplined gamer when he chooses to be...it's just that he just usually doesn't.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has the only Grump face that has an eye colour [[BlackBeadEyes other than black]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Played up in the Goddammit Ross T-shirt commercial, and in the Fortune Street Steam Rolled.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In reality.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Has a black cat named Orph or [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Doctor Orpheus]].
* LandDownunder: Stereotypes of Australians are mentioned and disproven. Like the fact that they say "Prawns" instead of "shrimp".
* TheLoad: In most games, handing Ross the controller is almost certainly going to doom the Grumps to failure. Notable in Steam Train's ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' playthrough, where Arin needs to take away control from Ross in order for any progression to be made.
** Fortune Street Part 10 is specifically named "ROSS PRESS TWO." Ross had been losing the game and was intentionally slowing progress by not confirming the onscreen messages (pressing 2 on a Wii remote) to the point where halfway through the video he's pushed off the couch and Arin forcibly takes the controller from him in order to end his turn.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial]] plays him up as this for laughs.
* TheLoonie: If there's a silly and probably unlikely to succeed method of progression, Ross will probably be for it.
* {{Manchild}}: Ross' usual demeanor is very immature and child-like. Just watch him in the Fortune Street Steam Rolled episodes. Taken UpToEleven in the Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial, especially when he asks Suzy for some milk.
* TheMillstone: Particularly in their ''VVVVVV'' play through, where Arin needs to confiscate the controls from Ross for any progress to be made in the game.
* MomentKiller: He tells a story of how he was having a romantic moment with his wife, and ruins it himself by bringing up Creator/DavidTennant.
* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Ross's voice, according to Danny.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: As mentioned above, his Grump-face possesses a lot of features that Arin's, Jon's and Danny's don't, including slightly more realistic eyes.
* NotTheWayItIsMeantToBePlayed: For the Skyrim playthrough, he utilizes a lot of exploits and Speedrun tactics to get through the game as fast as he can. He's not doing a speedrun himself which allows him to not time himself and occasionally do things to make the video more interesting. He just wants to show off the unusual way of playing the game.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Apparently, seeing Ross sad makes you KNOW something went horribly wrong.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In the first episode of Table Flip as he was portraying (or at least cosplaying) [[Series/DoctorWho the 10th Doctor]], but he shoots Arin without a shadow of hesitation to win the game.
* PerverseSexualLust: Joked in the Steam train LeisureSuitLarry playthrough, when he's asked who his favourite sexual partner is, he answers "{{Batman}}". It comes back to bite him in a hilarious way.
* PhraseCatcher: God DAMMIT, Ross.
** It's gotten so common that in the demo playthrough of VideoGame/TheStanleyParable [[BreakingTheFourthWall the narrator of the game even says this to Ross]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0iGx69rgY Now even has its own shirt]].
* ThePollyanna: To the point where [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness seeing him sad is apparently the most depressing thing you can see]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: It becomes apparent in their HotlineMiami playthrough that Ross sucks at making these.
* SanitySlippage: You can see him him crossing into this as he does progressively worse and worse at ''Fortune Street''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: With Danny in the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament after they lose.
* SelfDeprecation: He sometimes gets in on his own ButtMonkey status.
-->'''Arin''': (''after winning in Mario Party alongside/[[TheLoad despite]] Ross'') I have no sense of satisfaction. Ross is a FUCKING IDOT! [{{Beat}}] Sorry, buddy.
-->'''Ross''': It's alright, man.
-->'''Arin''': But it's true.
-->'''Ross''': I know, it's true.
* SoreLoser: In the Game Grumps AMA, this is revealed to be the reason why despite everyone being very good friends with him, he is labeled as obnoxiously infuriating and the group ButtMonkey. His tendencies are brought to light in the Fortune Street videos, and early on Suzy and Arin had reservations of playing this with Ross [[NoodleIncident due to his actions when they all played the game previously.]]
** One of the earlier onscreen indicators of this would be their Civilization run which ended when Ross in a stress-and-rage induced fury decided to kick at the computer and accidentally crashed the game.
* StarvingArtist: He jokes that, being an animator, he has no money.
* StayInTheKitchen: What Danny tells Ross to do in the Steam Train shirt advert.
* ThrowTheDogABone: When playing with Arin alone on Steam Train, he temporarily loses his ButtMonkey status.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Milk is his, at least in the "Goddammit Ross" T-shirt commercial.
* TranquilFury: After he loses the first round of the ''Rayman Legends'' Polaris tournament against Arin and Suzy, Ross looks like he's about to explode, but doesn't say anything.
-->"Ross has gone into, like, silent anger. That it the most terrifying type of anger"
-->-Danny
* {{Troll}}: In retaliation of his ButtMonkey status, Ross will intentionally start playing bad whenever he feels like it.
** During their SpaceQuest playthrough, Ross reads Ninja Brian's Fanfic about giving Danny a blowjob, despite him objecting to it several times. Danny's anger only causes Ross to read more.
** Ross tells the story about how, at PAX, he placed a Game Grumps sticker on Arin's back so that people would always instantly recognize him and stop him no matter where he's going. When Arin finally figures out what Ross has done, Arin gave him a [[DeathGlare death glare]].
** In the Game Grumps AMA, when asked "We all love Ross, but have you ever wanted to punch him for his excessive backseat gaming?", Danny and Arin explain that it isn't his backseat gaming that infuriates them, but his Trolling tendencies. Especially noted is his tendency to Troll people in multiplayer competitive games by influencing one side to have an advantage if he himself isn't going to win. We get to see an example of this in ''Fortune Street'', when Ross spends the last part of it purposely wasting time to screw with the others, and then lands on Arin's squares specifically to screw Suzy over because she's winning.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Danny on Steam Train.
** Also with Arin. When asked "We all love Ross, but have you ever wanted to punch him for his excessive backseat gaming?", Arin answers a confident [[BluntYes Yes]] before the question was even finished being read, so that he's answering "Yes" to wanting to punch Ross in general. "Any opportunity is a good opportunity to punch Ross".
* WildCard: The other way to say 'troll' once he starts losing he goes into chaos mode and messes with everything and everyone.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did it Have to be Crickets?]]: Ross is afraid of crickets, and very similar looking bug monsters become GoddamnBats during their Metal Slug 3 gameplay on Steam Train, causing him to temporarily freak out and lose his skills while fighting them. He admits it's an irrational fear, but that knowing that doesn't make it any less real.
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[[folder:Suzy Hanson (neé Berhow) (Mortem3r Meeperfish)]]
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[[caption-width-right:248:Old-fashioned games!]]
->''"I don't think we're going to be able to film on the moon, it's just not in the budget."''
Suzy ("Suzy the Outlaw" on Steam Rolled) is Arin's wife, the star of two Youtube channels, Meeperfish (an animation channel) and Mortem3r (a channel giving advice on outfits, makeup and unboxing lootbags), and has also claimed to be the Game Grumps secretary. She is also a fashion model. She previously made minor cameos in some episodes (part 4 of Chulip and Super Castlevania IV), but has since made a full-fledged appearance on Steam Rolled, and co-hosts the show Table Flip with Barry on Polaris. She's also made a Game Grumps Animated on her Youtube channel.
* AscendedExtra[=/=]BobFromAccounting: Parodied in her intro in Steam Rolled, where she's seen balancing the Grumps' books and says they can't afford to do an episode on the moon. Cue Danny leaving in a huffy rage and Arin asking if she wants to take his place on the couch.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhModOBHUg She actually has one]] who looks and sounds exactly like her.
* BattleCouple: With Arin in the ''Rayman Legends: Kung Foot'' Polaris tournament.
** They're once again on the same team in ''Tiny Brains''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite coming off as a typical GirlyGirl and being very sweet and polite to everyone, she has a mean streak. She sasses Danny and Ross something fierce during the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament, and makes a joke about 'stamping out' puppies during ''Mario Party 4''.
** Her winning streak through the majority of Fortune Street lets her be smug and enthusiastic while maintaining her usual polite demeanour. Usually.
-->'''Ross: '''"Augh, this game is just going to bend me over."
-->'''Suzy: '''[[RapeAsComedy "You better pull out the lube, just in case."]]
** Then there's this gem from the first episode of Table Flip:
-->'''Danny:''' "Suzy, you're like the nice mom of the group. Like, 'all of you are so smart and good. This answer's going right up on the fridge.'"
-->'''Suzy:''' "You guys are all gonna die before you're 40."
* ChekhovsGunman: She's been mentioned by Arin, Jon, and Danny in several episodes and can even be heard in a few of them, but her role on the show dramatically increased with Steam Rolled.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: Arin does this to her in one of her videos, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "My Boyfriend Does My Makeup"]].
** Her revenge came along when [[PayEviluntoEvil it was Arin's turn to be put under the brush.]] His expression after he was finished was one of pure defeat and dejection.
* {{Crossover}}: With Game Grumps, in a sense. Her voice is briefly heard in one of their videos, just as their voice is heard in the background of a Mortem3r video. It makes sense, since they live and shoot their videos in the same house.
* CuteAndPsycho: Becoming steadily apparent as she appears more often in Steam Rolled, most recently threatening to cut off Ross's thumbs and using them to press the 2 button during Fortune Street.
* CutenessProximity: She [[{{Squee}} squees]] over the Boos in Mario Party 4 several times. The fact that she thinks they're adorable is the entire reason they play Boo's Haunted Mansion.
* DayInTheLimelight: Was featured instead of Danny in the Mario Party 4 Steam Rolled series, and every Steam Rolled after so far. Fortune Street especially counts as a DayInTheLimelight because it's the first game where she completely crushes the competition.
** Even more is Table Flip, the tabletop game spin-off show that she hosts along with Barry. The two even sing the theme song.
** Another example is Date Grumps, uploaded on Valentines Day, where she temporarily replaces Danny and plays games she's specifically good at. It's the only 2 person Grumps show she's been on, and unlike Steam Rolled and Table Flip, she doesn't have to talk over a large group of people and can finally tell jokes and stories like everybody else.
* DominoMask: Her Grump face has one, along with a [[NiceHat fedora]].
* TheDreaded: In the Fortune Street playthrough on Steam Rolled, every single episode has a glum acknowledgement from everybody else that Suzy will definitely win in the end. Ultimately subverted as Arin wins.
* TheFashionista: Her job as a model, in addition to doing Outfit Of the Day on her channel.
* FriendlyTickleTorture: Administered by Arin during Fortune Street.
* GamerChick: On her channel, she seems equally excited as Arin about video game swag (perhaps even more so), and in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptt4pK2MVr4 this video]] they star in together, she brags she can beat him at every game (though her specialty is puzzle games and not fighting games). In Mortal Kombat, while she never plays against Arin, she does a lot better than he does.
** She's also on the show playing games with Arin, Ross and Barry on Steam Rolled, and it's clear she's passionate about video games.
* GirlyGirl: Her channel is about make-up and fashion, which should tell you enough.
* HappilyMarried: With Arin as of October 25, 2013. Arin discussed this with Jon before they married.
-->'''Jon:''' "Do you just see a girl you wanna marry, because I'm worried for you if you're walking around being all like, 'I wanna marry her!"
-->'''Arin:''' "No, not in public, in my house! Because she lives with me."
* HiddenDepths: She's a fan of taxidermy.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: In the Game Grumps Reddit AMA, Arin and Dan call Suzy and Barry the glue that holds the channel together, and without them it would crumble.
* Letters2Numbers: Suzy's main Youtube moniker, Mortem3r, with the 3 pronounced like an "E". Arin pronounces it [[NoPronunciationGuide Mortem-Three-er]].
* [[MsFanservice Ms. Fanservice]]: As a model, it's her job.
* NiceGirl: Makes Dan tea during ''Super Castlevania IV''.
** Interrupts Arin and Ross during ''VVVVVV'' to ask if they want anything from Starbucks.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: During the Grumps' second ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunter 3 Ultimate]]'' session for Polaris, everyone else is fawning over how cute the Barroth is when its sleeping, comparing it to a sleeping dog that likes to roll in the mud. She casually spouts this one off:
-->Little does he know, he'll never wake up again.
** At the end of the tenth part of ''Fortune Street'', she jokes about killing Ross and [[IronicEcho using his fingers to press buttons]].
* OfficialCouple: With Arin.
* OneOfTheBoys: Has outright said she considers herself as such.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: In TheStinger for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgqwfsaPjo Tapble Flip promo]].
--> '''Suzy:''' You guys are fucking weird. ''*Beat. Looks at the camera and points at the guys*'' Weirdos.
* OverShadowedByAwesome: She has two Youtube channels of her own with completely unique content, but rarely are the comments anything other than "She's Creator/{{Egoraptor}}'s fiancée?"
* ParentingTheHusband: Jokingly invoked in part 35 of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' when Arin's having his mental breakdown.
-->'''Danny:''' SUZY! I NEED AN ADULT!
* PrecisionFStrike: She doesn't actually hold back her swearing, yet the comments section is usually filled with timestamps followed by "OMG SUZY SWEARED!" most likely due to her adorable voice. Just look at the comments in their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTjCf1bBOqI Towerfall Steam Rolled]].
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Like Barry, she's now appearing on Steam Rolled!
* RipVanWinkle: Except instead of sleeping, [[TakeThatMe it was deciding her outfit]].
* SexySecretary: Evokes this look in her introduction to Steam Rolled, as shown in the above profile pic.
* TeamMom: Seems to be one to the rest of the Grumps. She often interrupts recording sessions to get them coffee or food, and they regularly comment on how loving and attending she is to them.
** Invoked and played for laughs in the Goddamnit Ross t-shirt commercial when Ross asks her for milk, acting like an ill-tempered child and treating Suzy like she's his mother.
** Even further invoked in the Game Grumps 2014 Calendar commercial, where Arin and Suzy act as Father and Mother to Danny, Ross and Barry during a Christmas unwrapping.
** In the first ''Cards Against Humanity'' game on Table Flip, Danny outright says Suzy's like 'the nice mom of the group.'
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only female regular on the Game Grumps channel.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her first few playthroughs with Steam Rolled had her fall behind Barry and Arin in the competition, but crushes them all in Fortune Street. Though she still loses, sadly. Thanks a lot, [[SoreLoser Ross.]]
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: She states that she's really good at Puzzle games, and it becomes clear she was telling the truth when Fortune Street finally comes around.
* TooMuchInformation: Her first time on the show? [[ItMakesSenseInContext To tell us Barry is pooping]].
* TheWatson: Has little to no experience with Mario Party 4, and frequently asks for rules to be explained to her. However, this is generally a good thing considering that the others usually speed through or outright ignores instructions.
* YouFightLikeACow: Engages in a surprising amount of shit-talking against Danny and Ross in the ''Rayman Legends'' tournament.
-->'''Suzy:''' Anytime you wanna send (the ball) over here, Ross, I'm open.
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[[folder:Barry Kramer (Razzadoop)]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:And new-fashioned friends!]]
->''"I've been fired like eight times today."''
Barry Kramer ("Barry the Coal Shoveler" on Steam Rolled) is the editor of both Game Grumps and Steam Train, both processing the footage and uploading every episode to Youtube as well as adding his own [[VisualGag visual additions]] to enhance a joke when needed. He has been editing since the Game Grumps Yoshi's Island playthrough, and his presence was originally a secret, but over time the Grumps became more and more comfortable with acknowledging him that he is now a mainstay on the show, making his presence and personality known through his edits. He graces the show extremely rarely, and usually only in stock footage taken before the recording, but he plays a major role in Steam Train's Steam Rolled segment, and co-hosts the show Table Flip with Suzy on Polaris.
* AGodIAmNot: Barry mentions he's very aware fans tend to see him as such a god during the Table Flip AMA with Suzy, and it seems to even embarrass him the more he talks about it to the point he eventually trails off and more or less curls up into a ball on the couch, insisting he's not that awesome.
* TheAce: Often seen as this in the eyes of the fans. If Steam Rolled is any indicator, he also seems to be the best player of the group.
** Episode 32 of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' takes this UpToEleven; once the stage Arin had failed at many times is completed, he and Dan explain this is because [[MemeticBadass Barry came in and finished the whole thing in like 2 seconds]]. They spend the next minute talking about how none of them can ever hope to be as awesome as Barry.
** And yet, both in Starwhal and in the Table Flip AMA, Barry insists he's not actually that awesome.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Barry finally gets a role playing games and interacting with the Grumps in real time in the Steam Rolled segment.
** He also now hosts the Tabletop Gaming spin-off show Table Flip with Suzy, and even sings the theme song.
** Single Train, where he temporarily replaces Ross, uploaded on Valentines Day, also qualifies. It's the first 2 person show on Grumps he's able to speak on, and unlike Steam Rolled and Table Flip, doesn't have to talk over a large group of people to be heard.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Has a twin brother, Alex, who has appeared in some Ninja Sex Party music videos.
* BadassMustache: Complete with a badass wiggle in the Mycaruba t-shirt promo.
* BadassesWearBandanas: His first official Grump face has one.
* BerserkButton: Ross mentioning how much he likes Dell Taco.
** To a lesser extent, when the other Grumps mention the meme that Barry wins every game.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Jon and Arin agreed that Hop or Pop from Mario Party 4 was impossible for the spike ball to win, as it has extremely limited movement. Barry wins with relatively little effort.
* BigDamnHeroes: After suffering [[HeroicBSOD a near-emotional breakdown]] trying to beat the Pachinko machine in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Arin gets Barry to do it during a time-skip, after sarcastically pretending that he did it himself.
* BroughtDownToNormal: So Barry is a badass who wins every game, right? Fortune Street on Stream Rolled proves there are certain types of games he doesn't know or understand, and he's just as capable at falling behind as anybody else.
* ButtMonkey: The Grumps often joke that he hates cleaning up after them like they are crazy rock stars.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Fans see him as this at least.
* CanonImmigrant: Before Game Grumps, he was more associated with WebVideo/JonTron, being a writer for the show (and Jon's roommate). After Jon left the show to go to New York, Barry fully transfered over from Jontron to Game Grumps and got an apartment with Danny, the new host, hilariously enough.
* CaptionHumor: Sometimes speaks by including yellow captions in the videos.
* CensorshipBureau: Is this for the Grumps, although he pretty much only deletes the N-word, or anything else they ask to be removed.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Revealed in an episode of Super Mario Sunshine, Barry's favourite color is purple. His character's face-paint in Monster Hunter is purple, and in Steam Rolled's Fortune Street, his Mii is purple.
* CompanionCube[=/=]HandPuppet[=/=]SplitPersonality: It's unclear what his relationship is with the Pacific Rim action figure, but they are one and the same.
* CurbStompBattle: Barry's first time playing a game on the show? Beats Arin and Danny at Quake 9-3.
* DirtyCop: Plays one in the Mycaruba T-shirt ad. Possibly.
* TheDreaded: On Steam Rolled, as he's won the first few games they've played.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Apparently has a penguin calender, where he himself places a speech bubble reading "SQUARK!" on every one.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Jon fires Barry or threatens to fire him pretty often, usually without any reason whatsoever. Apparently, Jon's first response to Barry sleeping with his girlfriend would be "you're fired."
** When Arin threatens to fire Barry on Steam Rolled, Barry's response is [[SilentSnarker "I've been fired like 8 times today."]]
* HeroicMime: At least for the first few episodes of Steam Rolled.
* HypercompetentSidekick: For the videos, he handles the editing, uploading, naming, scheduling... in his own words, he does literally everything except the actual grumping about.
** For two of the three rounds of Steam Rolled, he gains the majority of the points for his team.
** In the Games Grumps Reddit AMA, Arin describes as "so helpful and accommodating and focused, hardworking" and that the company would crumble without him.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Implied on Steam Rolled. Arin theorizes that Barry could be a lot more skilled because he's not [[HeroicMime splitting his attention to trash talk like the others, and he can concentrate]]. Barry then types that [[SilentSnarker "I'm doing both,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch"]].
* ICallItVera: His dog-headed cane in Table Flip, [[RunningGag though its name changes every episode]]. So far names include Charles Barkely, [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch Benedict Cumberbark]], Avon Barksdale, [[AerithAndBob Fidonkers]], [[Creator/BradPitt Brad Pittbull]], and Mark Ruffalo.
* JewishAndNerdy: According to Jon and Arin in the Nickelodeon Guts episode.
* KnifeNut: Danny tells a story of how he joking plays "Knifey-Grabby", a game where he makes a stabbing motion towards somebody while they try and grab it.
* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Invoked by Suzy, who references the meme that Barry wins every game in Starwhal, [[TheWorfEffect and uses defeating him at Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo as an example of how good she is at the game]] [[WorfHadTheFlu (leaving out the fact Barry has never played it before)]].
* MemeticSexGod: [[invoked]] On the show and in the comments. Just read of comments in [[http://youtu.be/snuYz1DzCQA?t=8m22s this episode after this exchange]].
--> '''Arin''': "Alright, next time on Game Grumps, Barry-"
--> '''Jon''': "Barry sleeps with our girlfriends?"
--> '''Arin''': "I hope so. [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud WAIT HOLD ON, WHAT?! OH JEEZ!!]]"
--> '''Jon''': "I KNOW so! [[SmashCut Barry, put a clip of tha-]]"
* MaleGaze: When he selects a female character in Quake III, they all call a short cease-fire to stare at his ass.
* MessianicArchetype: Joked by the fans calling him a God. A few animations portray him as a cosmic being.
** On the Steam Train, they seemed to have embraced this idea. In their Skyrim playthrough, when asking Barry to fast-forward footage, the make their character look up to the sky as if praying to a God. A few episodes later, they talk about how Barry knows all and sees all.
* {{Ninja}}: Arin compares him to one several times on Steam Rolled, because of his deadly skill and inability to speak. Ross also calls him a "fucking cold-blooded assassin."
* NiceGuy: Confirmed in the Game Grumps Reddit AMA. When asked "Has Barry always been that awesome?", neither Grump hesitates to completely agree.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: His persona during the first episode of Table Flip.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In the first edition of Steam Rolled, which is his first time actually playing in a Game Grumps channel show.
* SilentPartner[=/=]SilentAntagonist: Depending if you're on team Steam Train or team Game Grumps. At least for the first few episodes of Steam Rolled.
* SilentSnarker: Occasionally his text captions can be pretty sarcastic, and he manages to be a decent trash talker on Steam Rolled, entirely through text chat.
-->'''Arin:''' "I think Barry has an advantage because he doesn't have to, um..."
-->'''Danny:''' "Trash talk?"
-->'''Arin:''' "Yeah."
-->'''Danny:''' "He can concentrate."
-->'''Barry:''' ''(through text chat)'' "I'm doing both, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
* SuddenlyVoiced: At the end of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive episode of Steam Rolled.
* StylisticSuck: His Game Grep animated, done on April Fools.
* TemporalParadox: Apperently, while on Steam Rolled, asking ''himself'' to edit something in later will cause this, leading for his [[PsychicNosebleed nose to bleed]].
* ThatPoorCat: His voice is this during [[KaraokeBox karaoke]].
* TheVoiceless: [[EnforcedTrope Was originally enforced]] by Arin, who wanted him to remain voiceless even when Jon wanted to put the footage of him performing Karaoke, so instead his singing voice is Cats meowing. The first two episodes of Steam Rolled had him speak entirely through text options. However, it was subverted to great fanfare at the end of the ''Counter Strike: Global Offensive'' episode. This continues through into the ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} Armageddon'' video and onward, where Barry jokes that he's finally figured out how to ''"use his vocal box"''.
* YankTheDogsChain: Danny tells a story about how, when they were opening Game Grumps fan mail, everybody got multiple presents and Barry received only one package with his name on it. Inside the package were several gifts for everybody else, with a note saying "Barry, pass these around to everybody."
* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm Jewish, Right?]]: Jon and Arin laugh realizing the irony of asking him to edit replacing "Down's Syndrome" with "Jew", because he's (or at least was at the time) the only Jewish member among them. He does it anyway.
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[[folder:Jonathan "Jon" Jafari ([=JonTron=])]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:I'M NOT SO GRUMP]]
->''"BUMP BUTTS WITH HIM! BUMP BUTTS WITH HIM!!"''
Jon "Not-So-Grump" Jafari, also known by his internet alias JonTron, was the first co-star of Game Grumps, alongside Arin Hanson. He is known for [[WebVideo/JonTron his show]], and has left to New York and continues to work on his show again.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Does it even more than Ego.
--> '''Arin''': Dude, what is with your enun''ci''ations?
* TheAlcoholic: He frequently tells stories about drinking, especially on an airplane. He made fun of himself for drinking excessively, and Arin has even jokingly called him an alcoholic. Contrast to Arin, who is TheTeetotaler.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Since a troll on 4chan posted his speculation that Jon was a virgin, he's since shot down the idea several times on the show. [[SelfDeprecation Like by saying he could easily sleep with an ugly girl or a prostitute]].
--> '''Jon (in fan voice)''': Jon's not supposed to be able to look at boobies!
* AnimalMotif: With birds. Calls himself a "bird fanatic" and a "bird whisperer". He also seems drawn to cute bird characters, like in the movie {{Rio}}. Then there's [[TeamPet Jacques]].
* AxeCrazy: Less so than Arin, but it's definitely there.
* BadassBeard
* BigFun
* TheCastShowoff: Has an impressive set of pipes and uses them quite often.
* CatchPhrase:
** '''''[[MostAnnoyingSound ECH ECH]]'''''
** This "X-ass-Y". Sometimes taken a step further with "this X-ass-Y-ass-Z."
** "OH, IT'S [silly nickname made up on the spot]!"
** "Dude, real-talk... [something silly and inconsequential]"
** [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase "Next time on Game Grumps-!"]]
** He also likes saying "squander" a lot.
* CarpetOfVirility
* CloudCuckoolander: An even bigger one than Arin.
* CommanderContrarian: Not as big of an example as Arin since he's usually agreeable. However, he is prone to this occasionally, especially in certain Game Grumps Vs. episodes where he repeatedly claims to hate the game within the first five minutes without bothering to give it a chance. Case in Point: UltimateMuscle on the Gamecube along with a few others.
* {{Determinator}}: Refuses to ragequit Sonic 06, despite Arin's multiple objections.
* DitzyGenius: While he's pretty knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics, he gets bogged down in misconceptions and {{Malaproper}} a lot.
* FatAndSkinny: The fat to Ego's skinny.
* TheGadfly: Has admitted when he demands to be handed the controller after Arin dies in a game just to get him worked up.
* {{Gasshole}}: He's the farting type to Arin's burping type.
* LargeHam: It's extremely rare that an episode goes by without Jon screaming something.
** Even his ''beard'' is hammy.
* LegacyCharacter: He passes the title of Not-So Grump down to Dan Avidan.
* {{Malaproper}}
* MessyHair: Seems to get more and more unwieldly with each appearance. During a Q and A video on Polaris he spent quite some time casually adjusting his thick giant hair into increasingly ridiculous shapes.
* MommasBoy: To [=MomTron=].
* NiceHat
* TheNicknamer
* NoIndoorVoice: One of the defining traits of the Jon era of Game Grumps was the sheer ''volume''.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "Next time on Game Grumps!" Sometimes saying what will happen, but usually just ending without actually saying anything.
* ProphetEyes: When possessed in a short advertising TheMerch.
* PutOnABus: He left Game Grumps to put focus on his main channel again.
* RedOni: Jon is much more prone to shout and yell on the show than Arin is.
* SelfDeprecation: Prone to spoofing his own habits and mocking himself in general.
** When the Grumps make critical misunderstandings of how a game is played (Milky Way Wishes, Naughty Bear, Wario World), Jon will openly insult himself, usually with a joke. Contrast Arin, who [[NeverMyFault typically blames the game's conveyance instead]].
* SharpDressedMan: The handful of non-game footage Game Grumps typically sports him wearing a nice black button shirt and compared to Arin's laid back and comfy pajama pants that's plenty sharp.
** LimitedWardrobe
* SingingVoiceDissonance: You would have no idea that someone with his speaking voice would have such an impressive singing voice.
* SoreLoser: Has shades of it.
** Also a bit of a sore winner, which invariably came up because the majority of the time, Jon would beat Arin in Vs. (causing Arin to spawn the "Jon wins: as usual" joke)
* {{Unperson}}: Since his departure, Arin and the new cast have gone out of their way to not mention Jon in their newer videos.
** Arin made a [[http://www.reddit.com/r/gamegrumps/comments/1j21po/thank_you_all/cbae3uj Reddit post]] stating his reasoning isn't malicious, but simply because he doesn't want to drag Jon back into the show when he wants to move on, and so Jon himself isn't a looming specter that pops up every time he's mentioned on Grumps. While speculation continues as to how much of Arin's reasoning is true or whether there's actually bad blood between them, it's the only on-record thing he's said about Jon since his departure.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When possessed in a short advertising TheMerch.
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