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Richard's business partner and Lorelai's boyfriend for most of season four.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jason seems to have sensory issues. He dislikes noise to the point that he prefers to dine in a separate room at restaurants and is so uncomfortable sleeping next to anyone that he puts his one-night stands in a luxurious guest room.
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** Honestly, Rory has two ways of responding to criticism: If she believes it’s unfounded (such as the incident with the deer, the Puffs initiation, or any time she and Lorelai fight), she throws a fit and yells until whoever dared criticize her either takes it back, gives her an out, or walks away from the conversation. If she perceives the criticism as in any way valid (such as when she’s told to drop a course or when Mitchum tells her he doesn’t think she’s ‘got it’), she shuts down entirely, usually sobbing into someone’s arms and declaring that “Everything’s falling apart.”
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* NerdsAreSexy: Her opinion, as there's an episode where Rory is seen sitting in the college cafeteria wearing a t-shirt with the logo, "Reading is Sexy". Considering she wears it while thinking about Logan, the third guy in the series she's attracted to for his intellect, it is a reflection of what she honestly feels.

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* NerdsAreSexy: Her opinion, as there's an episode where Rory is seen sitting in the college cafeteria wearing a t-shirt with the logo, "Reading is Sexy". Sexy." Considering she wears it while thinking about Logan, the third guy in the series she's attracted to for his intellect, it is a reflection of what she honestly feels.



* NiceToTheWaiter: When she borrows Logan's personal driver, Frank, for a day, she learns his name, brings him food, and is generally very polite and pleasant to him.

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* NiceToTheWaiter: When she borrows Logan's personal driver, Frank, for a day, she learns his name, brings him food, and is generally very polite and pleasant to him. This shows up again while she's staying with her grandparents in season six, where she remembers the maid's name, chats with her in Spanish, and helps her polish silver - unfortunately, in this case it backfires, as Emily immediately fires Esperanza in retribution.
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* NeverMyFault: To the point that in season five, after she instigates Luke and Lorelai's breakup, she thinks it's acceptable to show up at Luke's 'place of business' and verbally berate him with no evidence whatsoever, simply because the idea that Lorelai is justifiably pissed with her and refuses to forgive her for what she did is beyond her comprehension.

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* NeverMyFault: To the point that in season five, after she instigates Luke and Lorelai's breakup, she thinks it's acceptable to show up at Luke's 'place ''place of business' business'' and verbally berate him with no evidence whatsoever, simply because the idea that Lorelai is justifiably pissed with her and refuses to forgive her for what she did is beyond her comprehension.
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* NeverMyFault: To the point that in season five, after she instigates Luke and Lorelai's breakup, she thinks it's acceptable to show up at Luke's 'place of business' and verbally berate him with no evidence whatsoever, simply because the idea that Lorelai is justifiably pissed with her and refuses to forgive her for what she did is beyond her comprehension.
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* BrokenAce: She almost as much as TheAce as her daughter, but still has hang-ups about dating and her parents that lead to a lot of the series' conflicts, as well as her insecurities for being considered the BlackSheep of the Gilmore family.

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* BrokenAce: She She's almost as much as TheAce as her daughter, but still has hang-ups about dating and her parents that lead to a lot of the series' conflicts, as well as her insecurities for being considered the BlackSheep of the Gilmore family.

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** BrokenAce: However, she still has hang-ups about dating and her parents that lead to a lot of the series' conflicts.


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* BrokenAce: She almost as much as TheAce as her daughter, but still has hang-ups about dating and her parents that lead to a lot of the series' conflicts, as well as her insecurities for being considered the BlackSheep of the Gilmore family.

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* TheAce: Lorelai is charming, funny, beautiful, fit, a great leader, a decent mom, and a smart businesswoman. She was the brightest in her class before she got pregnant and worked her way up to part-owner of the Independence Inn off of sheer reliability and street smarts.
** BrokenAce: However, she still has hang-ups about dating and her parents that lead to a lot of the series' conflicts.



* DotingParent: Definitely. She thinks her daughter is a paragon of perfection, and reacts very strongly when forced to realize that is not always the case.

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* DotingParent: DomesticAbuse: Her parents were never physically abusive, but Emily's treatment of her comes across as emotional abuse in modern times, pathologically dismissing her wishes and insisting she do things her way. When your daughter would rather live in a converted storage shed with a one-year-old rather than live another moment with you, there's something wrong. Even in the present day, Emily - and often Richard - seem fundamentally incapable of acknowledging Lorelai's growth and happiness, which of course, [[{{Irony}} only fuels it.]]
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Definitely. She thinks her daughter is a paragon of perfection, and reacts very strongly when forced to realize that is not always the case.



* TheGadfly: It's her main coping mechanism when it comes to her parents. In season 3 she even admits this to her mother, and "teaches" her the trick so she could cope with Trix, her mother in law. As Lorelai later tells Rory, Emily has done it beautifully.

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* TheGadfly: It's her main coping mechanism when it comes to her parents.parents, and a mainstay of the series. In season 3 she even admits this to her mother, and "teaches" her the trick so she could cope with Trix, her mother in law. As Lorelai later tells Rory, Emily has done it beautifully.



* OnlySaneWoman: She is the most level-headed between her, Sookie, and Michel.

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* OnlySaneWoman: She is the most level-headed between her, Sookie, and Michel. She's also the most well-balanced Gilmore woman, lacking Rory's later neuroses or Emily's lack of social grace.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Bitch is definitely pushing it, but while Rory attracts guys with her cuteness and wit, she's not a particularly nice person in a relationsip; more likely to make someone's problems about herself rather than actually listening. That she cheats on most of her boyfriends is proof of this.
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* FatalFlaw: Dean's flaw is a double-edged sword - he cares more about the experience of being happy than he does about education. This means he's satisfied with simple goals like a partner and family. But it also means he doesn't understand Rory's foibles and gets frustrated when things go outside his purview.
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* CursedWithAwesome: This is what led her to breaking away from her family and upbringing. She was smart and brave enough to realize that she could raise her kid on her own and that her parents were wrong to insist on the ShotgunWedding and on controlling her life so closely. But of course, this led to her living in squalor for years and untold amounts of grief in the present.

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** He is Black and French. Several characters, Drella in particular in season 1, bring up the whole CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey thing.

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** He is Black and French. Several characters, Drella in particular in season 1, 1 and Jackson's cousin Rune, bring up the whole CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey thing.


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[[folder: Mia]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ElizabethFranz (Season 2), Creator/KathyBaker (Season 7)
The owner of the Independence Inn in Stars Hollow. She took in a 17-year old Lorelai and an infant Rory when she ran away from her parents' home and arrived at Stars Hollow, giving her a place to stay and a job.
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* FamilyOfChoice: Lorelai's relationship with Mia is much more warm and loving than her relationship with Emily.
* FirstNameBasis: Mia is the only one allowed to refer to Luke by his actual name "Lucas".
* ParentalSubstitute: Mother figure to Lorelai and a grandmother figure to Rory.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in a total of 2 episodes throughout the entire series, but her act of kindness in the show's backstory has a major impact.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name has been spelled as both Trist'''a'''n and Trist'''i'''n.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: At the start of the series, Christopher is 32 - Lorelai's age - and is ''still'' struggling badly to make a successful business, despite not having to raise a child and coming from a very wealthy family.


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** The series is born out of this trope - Christopher and Lorelai were very close as children, but Christopher is and was too much of a dumb and irresponsible man to really keep up with [[SilkHidingSteel Lorelai.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: After overhearing her husband's ex-girlfriend verbally trashing her in the town market, Lindsay tells Dean she doesn't want him talking to Rory anymore. Four episodes later, their affair starts.

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* GenerationXerox: A heart-warming example; Mrs. Kim hides her Christian lifestyle from her traditional Buddhist mother.

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* GenerationXerox: A heart-warming example; Mrs. Kim hides her Christian lifestyle from her traditional Buddhist mother.mother mirrors Lane hiding her lifestyle from her mother when she was growing up.



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%%* IronLady* IronLady: Mrs. Kim runs her antique store and raises Lane in a very strict, no-nonsense manner and often intimdates others with her demeanor.



* TerseTalker: Mama Kim lives, runs the business and raises her daughter by simple rules ('You break, you buy!', 'No boys!') and doesn't have to waste words to get people into obeying her.

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* TerseTalker: Mama Kim lives, runs the business business, and raises her daughter by simple rules ('You break, you buy!', 'No boys!') and doesn't have to waste words to get people into obeying her.



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The bassist of Hep Alien and eventually one of Lane's roommates when she moves out of her mother's house. He is a proud geek with a lot of quirky interests.



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An older woman who runs Miss Patty's School of Ballet in Star's Hollow. She was once quite the starlet and dancer in her youth and never fails to bring it up. Miss Patty is also very involved in the town's politics.

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An older woman who runs Miss Patty's School of Ballet in Star's Stars Hollow. She was once quite the starlet and dancer in her youth and never fails to bring it up. Miss Patty is also very involved in the town's politics.



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[[folder: Rachel]]
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Luke's old girlfriend who travels around the world working as a photographer. She is said to have once been the great love of Luke's life, but could never stay settled in one place.

* AllergicToRoutine: Part of the reason why her and Luke's relationship didn't work out. She wanted to travel around the world, but he never wanted to leave Stars Hollow.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rachel recognizes that Luke is in love with Lorelai before he can even admit it to himself.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She eventually decides to leave Stars Hollow when she realizes that Luke is in love with Lorelai, not her. For what it's worth, she doesn't seem too bothered by it and tells Luke not to wait to long to tell her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Sookie and Miss Patty describe Rachel as being drop-dead gorgeous, comparing her to Elle [=MacPherson=]. The actress is beautiful, but not quite a supermodel.
* OldFlameFizzle: Rachel came back to Stars Hollow to give her relationship with Luke another try, but it's clear his heart's not in it.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Although she disappears from the series after season 1, her photography helps lead Lorelai to rediscovering the old Dragonfly Inn, which is in disrepair. Lorelai and Sookie eventually purchase and renovate it. Rachel also helps push Luke along to realizing his feelings for Lorelai, which takes him a few seasons to act on.
* SmallTownBoredom: One of the reasons Rachel decided to become a photographer since she didn't want to stay in one place for too long.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Aris Alvarado can be spotted as an extra in season 1 at Rory's Chilton dance.



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* FlatCharacter: Never really makes an impression but is featured just as regularly as the rest of the Star's Hollow peanut gallery.

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* AsianAndNerdy: He's bright enough to attend Chilton and is an aspiring pediatrician.



* TokenMinorityCouple: With Lane.

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* TokenMinorityCouple: With Lane. She even refers the trope in his first appearance when they meet at Madeline's party.
-->'''Lane:''' Oh no... It just figures that the only Korean boy at this party has his Korean girl radar on!



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* {{Foil}}: Is a Sookier version of Lorelai. She has a lot of Sookie's personality -- is optimistic, impulsive, funny, creative, not always that reliable -- and a lot of Lorelai's life situation -- teen mother, gone through a lot of relationships, but instead of her mother being cold and strict she died when Liz was young, while her father is implied to have been distant with her.

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* TheBusCameBack: Dean has a short cameo in ''A Year in the Life'' where he runs into Rory at Doose's Market where they catch up.



* NiceGuy: In the first seasons Dean is the typical friendly wholesome BoyNextDoor, especially in contrast to Rory's other boyfriends. His character devolves over later seasons though, see TookAlevelInJerkass.

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* NiceGuy: In the first seasons seasons, Dean is the typical friendly wholesome BoyNextDoor, especially in contrast to Rory's other boyfriends. His character devolves over later seasons though, see TookAlevelInJerkass.TookALevelInJerkass.



* TheBusCameBack: Dean has a short cameo in ''A Year in the Life'' where he runs into Rory at Doose's Market where they catch up.
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* ScheduleFanatic: Gets this way every season approaching exams. Keeps detailed to-do lists and gets mad if Lorelai tries to schedule off-time for her.


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* ScheduleFanatic: Scheduled her C-section, but goes into labor a week early. It upsets her very much, as she wrote it down.

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[[folder: Tom]]
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The construction guy Lorelai always hires.

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The construction guy Lorelai always hires.local baker



* DeadpanSnarker: Always speaks in an apathetic tone and hardly says a line that isn't a snark.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Always speaks CharacterDeath: Her death in an apathetic tone season three is what leads to Lorelai and hardly says Sookie starting the Dragonfly inn.
* CloudCuckooLander: Fran acts oblivious to her own mortality.
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The construction guy Lorelai always hires.
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* TheBartender: Though he only runs a diner, Lorelai sometimes treats him as this, ordering coffee refills and telling him about her problems.
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* AffectionateNickname: Christopher sometimes calls her "Lore".

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* VerbalTic: Inverted with her dislike of the word "cahoots".



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* HiddenDepths: Always wanted to be a magician, as he reveals to Miss Patty every dance marathon.

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* NotSoDifferent: Occasionally with Emily. Though if someone points it out, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame expect the horrified Lorelai to quickly drop off her ways]].

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Occasionally with Emily. Though if someone points it out, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame expect the horrified Lorelai to quickly drop off her ways]].



* NotSoDifferent: She and Emily are not too different after all, but Trix turns out to be a lot more manipulative than Emily could ever hope to be.



* NotSoDifferent: Taylor Doose's fussy, controlling personality makes him Luke's SitcomArchNemesis. In the revival, though, when Luke's customers are complaining about the lack of Wi-Fi access, Taylor spontaneously [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dresses down the entire room]] for being unwilling to look away from their screens for the time it takes to eat a meal in a diner. From Luke's reaction, he was clearly thinking something very similar, but didn't want to say it to his customers.



* NotSoDifferent: With her mother. At Lane's wedding, it turns out her mother has the same strained relationship with Lane's grandmother that Lane does with her.

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* TheirFirstTime: A subverted example. She and Zach decide to wait until the wedding night to have sex for the first time... and they decide to recreate a sex scene from a movie. That took place on a beach. So not only do you have the inevitable awkwardness, you also have sand, water, and various other inconveniences the movie wouldn't mention. Unsurprisingly, Lane does ''not'' enjoy herself in the least, and it seriously turns her off (no pun intended) to the idea of having sex again for quite awhile.



* RealityEnsues: She and Zach decide to wait until the wedding night to have sex for the first time... and they decide to recreate a sex scene from a movie. That took place on a beach. So not only do you have the inevitable awkwardness of TheirFirstTime, you also have sand, water, and various other inconveniences the movie wouldn't mention. Unsurprisingly, Lane does ''not'' enjoy herself in the least, and it seriously turns her off (no pun intended) to the idea of having sex again for quite awhile.
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* HiddenDepths: Going by some of the books she reads and some of the people she references, she takes an interest in serial killers.

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* HiddenDepths: Going by some of the books she reads and some of the people she references, she takes an interest in serial killers. For instance, in a dream she wants to name her twins Leopold and Loeb, and when she sees a creepy-looking bridesmaid at Liz's wedding her first thought is Leslie van Houten.
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How can Luke be "the ultimate snarker on the show" if Lorelai is "easily the snarkiest on the show, even more than Luke"??


* DeadpanSnarker: The ultimate snarker on the show and one of the only things he has in common with Lorelai. He's always sarcastic towards quirky people around him, especially because of his OnlySaneMan status.

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* TallDarkAndHandsome: About 90% of the characters who encounter him comment how tall he is, about 90% of the female characters who encounter him comment how good-looking he is, and he has dark hair. Notably, [[WorldOfSnark despite being a prominent character]], he is not TallDarkAndSnarky.

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* TallDarkAndHandsome: About 90% of the characters who encounter him comment how tall he is, about 90% of the female characters who encounter him comment how good-looking he is, and he has dark hair. Notably, [[WorldOfSnark despite being a prominent character]], he is not TallDarkAndSnarky.

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* SlutShaming: Paris inflicts it on ''herself'', apparently seeing a link between having sex with Jamie and [[spoiler:not getting into Harvard]]. She does it during her Chilton Bicentennial speech, which is aired live by Creator/{{CSPAN}} (a very rare instance of that network lending its brand to a fictional series). And then outs Rory as a virgin, and 'deduces' (correctly) that therefore [[spoiler:she will get accepted into Harvard]]. Did we mention it was on C-SPAN?
-->'''Paris:''' Pack your chastity belt, Gilmore -- you're going to Harvard!

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* LovingBully: He's rude to Rory, but he teases her just because he has a crush on her.

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