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A neurotic geek from Rory andprofessor at Yale. He Paris's year who has notorious bad luck, particularly with girls. He is also a reputation for dating young attractive female students.writer on the Yale Daily News and frequently clashes with Doyle.
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* BusCrash: He and Paris go away to England during the summer, and he dies there.
* CharacterDeath: He has a heart condition and dies.
* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of female students at Yale would say so.
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
* PersonalHorror: He is ''very'' offended when Rory thinks that he may be giving her better grades because she knows he's sleeping with Paris.
* CharacterDeath: He has a heart condition and dies.
* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of female students at Yale would say so.
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
* PersonalHorror: He is ''very'' offended when Rory thinks that he may be giving her better grades because she knows he's sleeping with Paris.
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* BusCrash: He and Paris go away ButtMonkey: Most of Glenn's scenes consist of something terrible happening to England during him, such as him getting stranded out at sea on spring break when he went to look for hot dogs.
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*CharacterDeath: He has HopelessSuitor: Towards Janet. She is already in a heart condition and dies.
* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
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* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and theirrelationship lasts quite long. He seems and doesn't seem to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names be interested in Glenn, but that doesn't stop him from trying to flirt with her.
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* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KrystenRitter
A friend Rory makes in her senior year of Yale. She is dating Rory's old friend, Marty.
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* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of female students at Yale would say so.
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
* PersonalHorror: He is ''very'' offended when Rory thinks that he may be giving her better grades because she knows he's sleeping with Paris.
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KrystenRitter
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LizaWeil
One of the top students at Chilton, who tries to make Rory's life there hell. The two of them eventually become close friends, but it always remains a little shaky.
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: The first time that Rory meets Paris at Chilton, Paris tells her how she's going to be editor of the school paper and valedictorian, ending with, "You'll never catch up. You'll never beat me. This school is my domain and the Franklin is my domain. And don't you ever forget that."
* AlwaysSecondBest: She was probably the most brilliant student before Rory starts attending Chilton. Eventually Rory is named Valedictorian and also gets accepted to Harvard, while Paris is rejected, much to her horror (they eventually both go Yale though).
* AscendedExtra: Especially after season 1. Originally Paris was only going to be in a few episodes, but Liza Weil really stood out and her role was greatly expanded.
* TheBGrade: Paris gets an A-minus on a science test and forces Rory to have an emergency study session with her.
-->'''Paris:''' All I had to do was [[MisplacedADecimalPoint move a decimal point]], and none of this would have happened.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Doyle. The original series ends with her breaking up with him and him refusing to accept it. [[spoiler:In the revival she is getting divorced from him, but admits that she misses him and the sex was "volcanic".]]
* BigEater: Not typically, but in college, she fasted for Ramadan as part of an assignment for the Yale newspaper and as soon as it was over, she ordered a staggering amount of takeout and freaked out when her cheesy bread didn't arrive with the rest of her food.
* BookSmart: Like Rory, she's a hard-working and excellent student who eventually goes to Yale.
* BrutalHonesty: Don't ask Paris a question unless you're prepared for a pretty harsh answer.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In the later part of Season 1 and the beginning Season 2, she freezes out Rory because she believes that Rory accepted a date with Tristan (she didn't). Never mind the fact that A) Rory was the one who set up Tristan with Paris in the first place and B) Rory personally helped Paris prepare for her first date with him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so, she always has snarky insults and rude comebacks for people she dislikes, so pretty much everyone.
* DefrostingIceQueen: While she's still blunt while the series goes on, she gradually becomes a true friend to Rory despite two falling outs and by the time of the revival views Lorelai as one of the closest things she's had to a mother.
* {{Determinator}}: She will fight to succeed and get what she wants.
* DitzyGenius: She's smart academically, but tactless and socially clueless.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Whenever she has an opportunity, she terrorizes, shouts at and commands around just everybody below her (and some weak-willed individuals who are technically her superiors). It shows best when she becomes the editor of Yale's Daily News, but starts as early as in Chilton.
-->'''Francie:''' What idiot gave ''her'' a gavel?
* EvilCounterpart: While not evil, her main role is being a {{Jerkass}} foil to Rory, especially in high school where she was at the most antagonistic. Both are very academic and ambitious, but Paris is the AcademicAlphaBitch in contrast to Rory's GoGetterGirl, and an InsufferableGenius in contrast to Rory's LadyAndAScholar.
* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Even makes a chart of experiences and activities to do by graduation.
* FishOutOfWater: She doesn't fit in so well on her first trip to Stars Hollow, but mostly because she's convinced that it's secretly some kind of seedy hellhole.
* FriendlyRivalry: Eventually (the friendly part) with Rory. Even after they become close friends, Paris said that she needed Rory because, in addition to being her best friend, she challenged her to do better (as the only real competition she had) and without her she would have gotten lazy.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To most people she hangs out with, her personality is hard to handle. Rory eventually becomes the only friend who gets her.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Sadly, the revival shows her during a divorce with Doyle with their kids being more attached to their foreign nanny, although their family situation still doesn't look ''as'' bad as Paris' when she was growing up.]]
* GoGetterGirl: Like Rory, only with a slight touch of insanity to it.
* HasAType: She mainly likes to date intellectual guys, like Jamie, Asher Fleming, and Doyle. The only exception is her crush on [[TheCasanova Tristan]] in season 1.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Rory and Paris usually find a way to work things out, though.
--> '''Emily:''' ''[to Rory]'' Are you and Paris Gellar friends? I can never tell.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Mainly with Rory, though not only. Paris is brilliant and knows it, but her insecurity on a social level and paranoid personality makes her feel easily threatened. The revival shows that, despite her relative success, this hasn't totally gone away. During an alumni day at Chilton, she runs into former AlphaBitch Francie and not only freaks out on her for stuff that happened years ago, but turns on Rory too, accusing her of conspiring with Francie.
* InformedJudaism: The only time it really came up during the course of the show was when Paris visited Jamie during the holidays, and when it's pointed out her bat mitzvah dress carries a menorah, though Liza Weil does practice Reform Judaism in real life.
* InsufferableGenius: Paris is brilliant, sure, but she's also a pain in the ass about making sure everyone knows it.
* IronicName: In one episode, Paris mentions she has read ''Literature/TheIliad'' three times. ''The Iliad'' features a pathetic, cowardly character named Paris, which is the opposite of Paris Geller's strong overachiever personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: In Season 1, defaulting to JerkWithAHeartOfGold in later seasons.
* JerkassToOne: In early seasons, she's mean to everyone, but especially to Rory. Inverted in later seasons, where she treats [[MoralityPet Rory]] like a friend and is nicer to her, while still being rude to everyone else.
* LonelyRichKid: It's downplayed, but one gets the sense her parents don't care an ounce about her. She was basically raised by her nanny, and is heartbroken when she moves to college and has to let her go (but they still talk), and she doesn't have many friends. Though that's due to her having NoSocialSkills, and it gets better in later seasons.
* MayDecemberRomance: With college professor Asher Fleming. She seems to have a thing for older men as well, including [[StacysMom Richard]]. Both squick out Rory. It seems that she just judges people for her brains and accomplishments, so older men have an advantage.
* TheNapoleon: She is usually the shortest, the loudest and the most power-hungry person in the room.
* NoIndoorVoice: What's shouting for others, for Paris is a normal speaking volume. It's implied to be her FatalFlaw which cost her [[spoiler:Harvard]].
* NoSocialSkills: She's good with academics, not with people.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: How she feels about Rory. On notable example is in "Secrets and Loans" when she just HAS to know if Rory's PSAT scores are higher than hers. Rory refuses to tell her.
* ParentalAbandonment: Technically she still has her parents but not only [[TheGhost do we never see them]] neither does she (we do see Paris's mother once, but she's on for less than a minute to lecture her about her acne regimen). They're rarely even in the same ''country'' as her and she was functionally raised by her nanny, who attends her graduation with her own family to provide some kind of 'family' support. Later they forget to pay their taxes, leave the country to avoid charges and leave her penniless. In the revival she actually claims that Lorelai was the closest thing to a mother she had, after her nanny. Lorelai is somewhat disturbed by this.
* ThePerfectionist: She has ridiculously high standards, a fact that bites her on the ass when she takes over editorship of the Yale Daily Editor. Her need to micromanage everyone and force every article to live up to her standard of quality drives most of the staff to quit.
* PerpetualFrowner: Paris is usually stressed about something, angry and/or feels that she's SurroundedByIdiots, and her expression reflects that.
* PowerHair: She cuts her hair into this style in the revival as she runs a successful fertility clinic.
* PreppyName: Shares a name with a famous city, and her middle name is a boy's name.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 2.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Rory's Blue.
* RichesToRags: After her parents leave the country to avoid charges for tax evasion. She manages remarkably well (she already seemed to have logical money skills and shamed her parents for stupid accounting), and adjusts fairly quickly to no longer having money, all things considered.
* TheRival: Introduced in Season 1 as a rival to Rory, and always feels this way a little, even when they become friends.
* RunningGag: In spite of vehement individualism, is frequently concerned about not doing what people her age are "supposed" to be doing, such as attending a discotheque.
* 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!
** By the next season, she criticizes Rory twice for slut shaming her (first over her affair with Professor Fleming, and later about having sex with Doyle), referring to Rory more than once as a prude.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: editor of both the Chilton Franklin and Yale Daily News.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She serves in this capacity during the third season. She is only able to get elected by having Rory as her VP to soften her image (people respects Paris' abilities and focus, but are terrified/put-off by her personality so she needed a softer, friendlier running mate who would have her back).
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's usually the icy part with everyone, including close friends and loved ones, but every so often, the sugar part comes through, like with Lorelai, Rory, and Jamie.
* TomboyishName: Her middle name is 'Eustace', although nobody calls her that.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4. Paris was never the nicest person around, but at least in earlier seasons she tended to abuse people who'd annoyed her or the ones she was feeling threatened by. Granted, those two categories covered most of the population, but at least she used to have reasons. In her freshman year in college, however, she goes to treat her innocent, nice and loving boyfriend like dirt, and not even for a cover for her affair with an older man, but simply because she doesn't even bother to tell Jamie she doesn't want him anymore.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite trading snark with each other, Rory and Paris have become close friends and will stick up for each other. Paris, in a way, becomes Rory's closest confidante during the periods of time when Rory's relationships with her family became strained. Even in early seasons, Paris often ran to Rory for help when she had a problem.
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/DannyStrong
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Paris, until TheyDo (much to Rory's initial disgust). And after that too. The revival shows them still being in that stage while [[spoiler:they are getting ''divorced''.]]
* BetaCouple: With Paris, to Rory and Logan.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently.
* LovableNerd: Who else but Creator/DannyStrong?
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: A pretty [[ProfessionalButtKisser desperate one.]]
* TheSmartGuy
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattCzuchry
* BrilliantButLazy: Rory swears that Logan is even smarter than she is, and when he wants to, Logan displays serious intelligence and education. He just doesn't usually want to. The only reason he manages to stay on the staff of the school paper is because the editor knows who his father is.
* TheCharmer: He knows how to pick up many girls and he's very charismatic. Rory falls for him almost immediately.
* FreudianExcuse: He's a lazy, partying, womanizing sleaze... but does so because he's been under constant pressure since childhood from his overbearing dad, and born to a BigScrewedUpFamily who's first reaction to him actually settling down with someone in Rory is to pick her apart and say she's not right for him.
* HandsomeLech: Very attractive and a serious womanizer.
* IconicSequelCharacter: He's introduced in season 5, but is very important for being the main character's LoveInterest in the last three seasons.
* ImAManICantHelpIt: How he justifies his horn doggery.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts off as a jerk but eventually evolves into a nice and loving boyfriend to Rory.
* LadyKillerInLove: When he falls for Rory, Logan tries to swear off his womanizing ways.
* MeetCute: When buying coffee from the cart at school Rory turns around and drops her change all over the ground. She crouches down. Logan stops to help her pick up the coins and he greets her with, "This would definitely qualify as a cute meet if we hadn't already met."
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 6.
* RebelPrince: He says that he sees only one door, and feels he's being pushed through it. What he feels he's being pushed into is inheriting the Huntzberger Publishing Company, a national newspaper conglomerate.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Doesn't care about breaking rules (or laws) because he is secure that his family's wealth can get him out of any tight spots.
* SmugSnake: Early on, though he occasionally relapses into it.
* SpoiledBrat: And how!
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: His appearance and behavior, at first at least, might give a feeling that we're seeing a couple of years older [[PutOnABus Tristan]] again. Down to having ThoseTwoGuys companions with whom he does stupid things, and ridiculing his [[BettyAndVeronica the Betty]] rivals for belonging working class.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: A successful one at that, quickly replacing Dean and Marty.
* TroubledButCute: A shining example.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Has serious daddy issues with his overbearing, disapproving father.
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->'''Played by:''' Wayne Wilcox
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Implied. The second time that Marty and Rory meet, he says he's finally not too intimidated to talk to her - [[InnocentlyInsensitive because it's when she's running late for breakfast and ran to the dining hall still wearing her pajamas]]. This may be a hint that [[{{Jerkass}} his later jerkish behavior]] isn't so out of character.
* TheBusCameBack: He was out of focus in later years at Yale but he reappears in the final season just in time for Rory to reject him again.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Goes from a nice, sweet friend to a bit of a jealous {{Jerkass}}.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Rory. He likes her a lot but she wants to be just friends. She's not interested in him romantically.
* JustFriends. He might have even used the phrase itself during his confession.
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* NakedFirstImpression: First meets Rory when he wakes up outside her dorm room after a party, without any clothes on.
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* OnlyOneName: His last name is never mentioned.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: The poor suitor to Logan's rich. Also shows how Rory's priorities have changed, as she goes after the upper-class jerkass Logan (who is charming in his own way).
%% * RomanticRunnerUp: To Logan.
* ScholarshipStudent: Marty is the poorest kid we meet at Yale. He can't afford to eat with the rich kids and sometimes works for Logan as a waiter. Logan is very condescending about it.
* StalkerWithACrush: Marty borders on this with Rory, especially in season 7. When he dates Lucy, she mentions he stalked her and it's hard to say if she's deadpan and joking, half-joking or serious.
-->'''Lucy:''' ''[describing how they met]'' He stalked me... I was playing Portia in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' at the Rep, and every night, I see this guy in the front row -- same seat, same intense gaze. And after the fifth show, I went up to him and I said, "next time I see you, you better bring flowers or have a knife and stab me." And...\\
'''Marty:''' The next time I saw her, I had daisies and a butter knife.
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[[folder: Tana Schreck]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OliviaHack
One of Rory and Paris's dormmates in their freshman year at Yale. She is younger than both girls and is very quiet and out of place in social situations.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: She's socially awkward and only ever seems to be interested in giving out facts to people.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is very odd and tends to say the wrong things.
* DitzyGenius: Intelligent enough to get into Yale when she's just 15, but she appears to be extremely clueless and awkward.
* FishOutOfWater: She's even more socially awkward than Rory.
* NoSocialSkills: ''Zero'' social skills, even compared to Rory of the early seasons.
* PutOnABus: Disappears after season 4, since she wasn't rooming with Rory and Paris anymore.
* TeenGenius: She was 15 when she started college. ''Yale'' college.
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[[folder: Janet Billings]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KatieWalder
Another of Rory and Paris's dormmates in their freshman year at Yale. Her strong personality often causes her to clash with Paris.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Paris.
* PassionateSportsGirl: She is very athletic and often gets up in the early hours of the morning to go jogging.
* PutOnABus: Her last scene is in season 6 where she gives romantic advice to Rory.
* SitcomArchEnemy: To Paris. Paris being a geek and Janet being a jock, they can't stand each other.
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[[folder: Asher Fleming]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelYork
An old colleague of Richard's and professor at Yale. He has a reputation for dating young attractive female students.
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* BusCrash: He and Paris go away to England during the summer, and he dies there.
* CharacterDeath: He has a heart condition and dies.
* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of female students at Yale would say so.
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
* PersonalHorror: He is ''very'' offended when Rory thinks that he may be giving her better grades because she knows he's sleeping with Paris.
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[[folder: Lucy]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KrystenRitter
A friend Rory makes in her senior year of Yale. She is dating Rory's old friend, Marty.
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* LifeOfTheParty: Whether it's dyeing her hair green, hosting a 2003-themed birthday party in 2007, or stealing dining hall trays to use as makeshift sleds, Lucy is always up for anything.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Lucy always refers to her boyfriend, Marty, as 'Boyfriend,' leading Rory to not realize the connection until she actually bumps into him.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Olivia.
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LizaWeil
One of the top students at Chilton, who tries to make Rory's life there hell. The two of them eventually become close friends, but it always remains a little shaky.
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: The first time that Rory meets Paris at Chilton, Paris tells her how she's going to be editor of the school paper and valedictorian, ending with, "You'll never catch up. You'll never beat me. This school is my domain and the Franklin is my domain. And don't you ever forget that."
* AlwaysSecondBest: She was probably the most brilliant student before Rory starts attending Chilton. Eventually Rory is named Valedictorian and also gets accepted to Harvard, while Paris is rejected, much to her horror (they eventually both go Yale though).
* AscendedExtra: Especially after season 1. Originally Paris was only going to be in a few episodes, but Liza Weil really stood out and her role was greatly expanded.
* TheBGrade: Paris gets an A-minus on a science test and forces Rory to have an emergency study session with her.
-->'''Paris:''' All I had to do was [[MisplacedADecimalPoint move a decimal point]], and none of this would have happened.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Doyle. The original series ends with her breaking up with him and him refusing to accept it. [[spoiler:In the revival she is getting divorced from him, but admits that she misses him and the sex was "volcanic".]]
* BigEater: Not typically, but in college, she fasted for Ramadan as part of an assignment for the Yale newspaper and as soon as it was over, she ordered a staggering amount of takeout and freaked out when her cheesy bread didn't arrive with the rest of her food.
* BookSmart: Like Rory, she's a hard-working and excellent student who eventually goes to Yale.
* BrutalHonesty: Don't ask Paris a question unless you're prepared for a pretty harsh answer.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In the later part of Season 1 and the beginning Season 2, she freezes out Rory because she believes that Rory accepted a date with Tristan (she didn't). Never mind the fact that A) Rory was the one who set up Tristan with Paris in the first place and B) Rory personally helped Paris prepare for her first date with him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so, she always has snarky insults and rude comebacks for people she dislikes, so pretty much everyone.
* DefrostingIceQueen: While she's still blunt while the series goes on, she gradually becomes a true friend to Rory despite two falling outs and by the time of the revival views Lorelai as one of the closest things she's had to a mother.
* {{Determinator}}: She will fight to succeed and get what she wants.
* DitzyGenius: She's smart academically, but tactless and socially clueless.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Whenever she has an opportunity, she terrorizes, shouts at and commands around just everybody below her (and some weak-willed individuals who are technically her superiors). It shows best when she becomes the editor of Yale's Daily News, but starts as early as in Chilton.
-->'''Francie:''' What idiot gave ''her'' a gavel?
* EvilCounterpart: While not evil, her main role is being a {{Jerkass}} foil to Rory, especially in high school where she was at the most antagonistic. Both are very academic and ambitious, but Paris is the AcademicAlphaBitch in contrast to Rory's GoGetterGirl, and an InsufferableGenius in contrast to Rory's LadyAndAScholar.
* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Even makes a chart of experiences and activities to do by graduation.
* FishOutOfWater: She doesn't fit in so well on her first trip to Stars Hollow, but mostly because she's convinced that it's secretly some kind of seedy hellhole.
* FriendlyRivalry: Eventually (the friendly part) with Rory. Even after they become close friends, Paris said that she needed Rory because, in addition to being her best friend, she challenged her to do better (as the only real competition she had) and without her she would have gotten lazy.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To most people she hangs out with, her personality is hard to handle. Rory eventually becomes the only friend who gets her.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Sadly, the revival shows her during a divorce with Doyle with their kids being more attached to their foreign nanny, although their family situation still doesn't look ''as'' bad as Paris' when she was growing up.]]
* GoGetterGirl: Like Rory, only with a slight touch of insanity to it.
* HasAType: She mainly likes to date intellectual guys, like Jamie, Asher Fleming, and Doyle. The only exception is her crush on [[TheCasanova Tristan]] in season 1.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Rory and Paris usually find a way to work things out, though.
--> '''Emily:''' ''[to Rory]'' Are you and Paris Gellar friends? I can never tell.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Mainly with Rory, though not only. Paris is brilliant and knows it, but her insecurity on a social level and paranoid personality makes her feel easily threatened. The revival shows that, despite her relative success, this hasn't totally gone away. During an alumni day at Chilton, she runs into former AlphaBitch Francie and not only freaks out on her for stuff that happened years ago, but turns on Rory too, accusing her of conspiring with Francie.
* InformedJudaism: The only time it really came up during the course of the show was when Paris visited Jamie during the holidays, and when it's pointed out her bat mitzvah dress carries a menorah, though Liza Weil does practice Reform Judaism in real life.
* InsufferableGenius: Paris is brilliant, sure, but she's also a pain in the ass about making sure everyone knows it.
* IronicName: In one episode, Paris mentions she has read ''Literature/TheIliad'' three times. ''The Iliad'' features a pathetic, cowardly character named Paris, which is the opposite of Paris Geller's strong overachiever personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: In Season 1, defaulting to JerkWithAHeartOfGold in later seasons.
* JerkassToOne: In early seasons, she's mean to everyone, but especially to Rory. Inverted in later seasons, where she treats [[MoralityPet Rory]] like a friend and is nicer to her, while still being rude to everyone else.
* LonelyRichKid: It's downplayed, but one gets the sense her parents don't care an ounce about her. She was basically raised by her nanny, and is heartbroken when she moves to college and has to let her go (but they still talk), and she doesn't have many friends. Though that's due to her having NoSocialSkills, and it gets better in later seasons.
* MayDecemberRomance: With college professor Asher Fleming. She seems to have a thing for older men as well, including [[StacysMom Richard]]. Both squick out Rory. It seems that she just judges people for her brains and accomplishments, so older men have an advantage.
* TheNapoleon: She is usually the shortest, the loudest and the most power-hungry person in the room.
* NoIndoorVoice: What's shouting for others, for Paris is a normal speaking volume. It's implied to be her FatalFlaw which cost her [[spoiler:Harvard]].
* NoSocialSkills: She's good with academics, not with people.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: How she feels about Rory. On notable example is in "Secrets and Loans" when she just HAS to know if Rory's PSAT scores are higher than hers. Rory refuses to tell her.
* ParentalAbandonment: Technically she still has her parents but not only [[TheGhost do we never see them]] neither does she (we do see Paris's mother once, but she's on for less than a minute to lecture her about her acne regimen). They're rarely even in the same ''country'' as her and she was functionally raised by her nanny, who attends her graduation with her own family to provide some kind of 'family' support. Later they forget to pay their taxes, leave the country to avoid charges and leave her penniless. In the revival she actually claims that Lorelai was the closest thing to a mother she had, after her nanny. Lorelai is somewhat disturbed by this.
* ThePerfectionist: She has ridiculously high standards, a fact that bites her on the ass when she takes over editorship of the Yale Daily Editor. Her need to micromanage everyone and force every article to live up to her standard of quality drives most of the staff to quit.
* PerpetualFrowner: Paris is usually stressed about something, angry and/or feels that she's SurroundedByIdiots, and her expression reflects that.
* PowerHair: She cuts her hair into this style in the revival as she runs a successful fertility clinic.
* PreppyName: Shares a name with a famous city, and her middle name is a boy's name.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 2.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Rory's Blue.
* RichesToRags: After her parents leave the country to avoid charges for tax evasion. She manages remarkably well (she already seemed to have logical money skills and shamed her parents for stupid accounting), and adjusts fairly quickly to no longer having money, all things considered.
* TheRival: Introduced in Season 1 as a rival to Rory, and always feels this way a little, even when they become friends.
* RunningGag: In spite of vehement individualism, is frequently concerned about not doing what people her age are "supposed" to be doing, such as attending a discotheque.
* 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!
** By the next season, she criticizes Rory twice for slut shaming her (first over her affair with Professor Fleming, and later about having sex with Doyle), referring to Rory more than once as a prude.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: editor of both the Chilton Franklin and Yale Daily News.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She serves in this capacity during the third season. She is only able to get elected by having Rory as her VP to soften her image (people respects Paris' abilities and focus, but are terrified/put-off by her personality so she needed a softer, friendlier running mate who would have her back).
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's usually the icy part with everyone, including close friends and loved ones, but every so often, the sugar part comes through, like with Lorelai, Rory, and Jamie.
* TomboyishName: Her middle name is 'Eustace', although nobody calls her that.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4. Paris was never the nicest person around, but at least in earlier seasons she tended to abuse people who'd annoyed her or the ones she was feeling threatened by. Granted, those two categories covered most of the population, but at least she used to have reasons. In her freshman year in college, however, she goes to treat her innocent, nice and loving boyfriend like dirt, and not even for a cover for her affair with an older man, but simply because she doesn't even bother to tell Jamie she doesn't want him anymore.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite trading snark with each other, Rory and Paris have become close friends and will stick up for each other. Paris, in a way, becomes Rory's closest confidante during the periods of time when Rory's relationships with her family became strained. Even in early seasons, Paris often ran to Rory for help when she had a problem.
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[[folder: Doyle [=McMaster=]]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/DannyStrong
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Paris, until TheyDo (much to Rory's initial disgust). And after that too. The revival shows them still being in that stage while [[spoiler:they are getting ''divorced''.]]
* BetaCouple: With Paris, to Rory and Logan.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently.
* LovableNerd: Who else but Creator/DannyStrong?
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: A pretty [[ProfessionalButtKisser desperate one.]]
* TheSmartGuy
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[[folder: Logan Huntzberger]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattCzuchry
* BrilliantButLazy: Rory swears that Logan is even smarter than she is, and when he wants to, Logan displays serious intelligence and education. He just doesn't usually want to. The only reason he manages to stay on the staff of the school paper is because the editor knows who his father is.
* TheCharmer: He knows how to pick up many girls and he's very charismatic. Rory falls for him almost immediately.
* FreudianExcuse: He's a lazy, partying, womanizing sleaze... but does so because he's been under constant pressure since childhood from his overbearing dad, and born to a BigScrewedUpFamily who's first reaction to him actually settling down with someone in Rory is to pick her apart and say she's not right for him.
* HandsomeLech: Very attractive and a serious womanizer.
* IconicSequelCharacter: He's introduced in season 5, but is very important for being the main character's LoveInterest in the last three seasons.
* ImAManICantHelpIt: How he justifies his horn doggery.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts off as a jerk but eventually evolves into a nice and loving boyfriend to Rory.
* LadyKillerInLove: When he falls for Rory, Logan tries to swear off his womanizing ways.
* MeetCute: When buying coffee from the cart at school Rory turns around and drops her change all over the ground. She crouches down. Logan stops to help her pick up the coins and he greets her with, "This would definitely qualify as a cute meet if we hadn't already met."
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 6.
* RebelPrince: He says that he sees only one door, and feels he's being pushed through it. What he feels he's being pushed into is inheriting the Huntzberger Publishing Company, a national newspaper conglomerate.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Doesn't care about breaking rules (or laws) because he is secure that his family's wealth can get him out of any tight spots.
* SmugSnake: Early on, though he occasionally relapses into it.
* SpoiledBrat: And how!
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: His appearance and behavior, at first at least, might give a feeling that we're seeing a couple of years older [[PutOnABus Tristan]] again. Down to having ThoseTwoGuys companions with whom he does stupid things, and ridiculing his [[BettyAndVeronica the Betty]] rivals for belonging working class.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: A successful one at that, quickly replacing Dean and Marty.
* TroubledButCute: A shining example.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Has serious daddy issues with his overbearing, disapproving father.
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[[folder: Marty]]
->'''Played by:''' Wayne Wilcox
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Implied. The second time that Marty and Rory meet, he says he's finally not too intimidated to talk to her - [[InnocentlyInsensitive because it's when she's running late for breakfast and ran to the dining hall still wearing her pajamas]]. This may be a hint that [[{{Jerkass}} his later jerkish behavior]] isn't so out of character.
* TheBusCameBack: He was out of focus in later years at Yale but he reappears in the final season just in time for Rory to reject him again.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Goes from a nice, sweet friend to a bit of a jealous {{Jerkass}}.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Rory. He likes her a lot but she wants to be just friends. She's not interested in him romantically.
* JustFriends. He might have even used the phrase itself during his confession.
%% * MeetCute
* NakedFirstImpression: First meets Rory when he wakes up outside her dorm room after a party, without any clothes on.
%%* NiceGuy
* OnlyOneName: His last name is never mentioned.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: The poor suitor to Logan's rich. Also shows how Rory's priorities have changed, as she goes after the upper-class jerkass Logan (who is charming in his own way).
%% * RomanticRunnerUp: To Logan.
* ScholarshipStudent: Marty is the poorest kid we meet at Yale. He can't afford to eat with the rich kids and sometimes works for Logan as a waiter. Logan is very condescending about it.
* StalkerWithACrush: Marty borders on this with Rory, especially in season 7. When he dates Lucy, she mentions he stalked her and it's hard to say if she's deadpan and joking, half-joking or serious.
-->'''Lucy:''' ''[describing how they met]'' He stalked me... I was playing Portia in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' at the Rep, and every night, I see this guy in the front row -- same seat, same intense gaze. And after the fifth show, I went up to him and I said, "next time I see you, you better bring flowers or have a knife and stab me." And...\\
'''Marty:''' The next time I saw her, I had daisies and a butter knife.
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[[folder: Tana Schreck]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OliviaHack
One of Rory and Paris's dormmates in their freshman year at Yale. She is younger than both girls and is very quiet and out of place in social situations.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: She's socially awkward and only ever seems to be interested in giving out facts to people.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is very odd and tends to say the wrong things.
* DitzyGenius: Intelligent enough to get into Yale when she's just 15, but she appears to be extremely clueless and awkward.
* FishOutOfWater: She's even more socially awkward than Rory.
* NoSocialSkills: ''Zero'' social skills, even compared to Rory of the early seasons.
* PutOnABus: Disappears after season 4, since she wasn't rooming with Rory and Paris anymore.
* TeenGenius: She was 15 when she started college. ''Yale'' college.
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[[folder: Janet Billings]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KatieWalder
Another of Rory and Paris's dormmates in their freshman year at Yale. Her strong personality often causes her to clash with Paris.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Paris.
* PassionateSportsGirl: She is very athletic and often gets up in the early hours of the morning to go jogging.
* PutOnABus: Her last scene is in season 6 where she gives romantic advice to Rory.
* SitcomArchEnemy: To Paris. Paris being a geek and Janet being a jock, they can't stand each other.
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[[folder: Asher Fleming]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelYork
An old colleague of Richard's and professor at Yale. He has a reputation for dating young attractive female students.
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* BusCrash: He and Paris go away to England during the summer, and he dies there.
* CharacterDeath: He has a heart condition and dies.
* CoolOldGuy: Tries to be cool by dating young college girls.
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of female students at Yale would say so.
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Paris start dating and their relationship lasts quite long. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students. Paris names the trope word-for-word to describe their relationship, though Rory describes it as a "May-Min Dynasty romance".
* PersonalHorror: He is ''very'' offended when Rory thinks that he may be giving her better grades because she knows he's sleeping with Paris.
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[[folder: Lucy]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KrystenRitter
A friend Rory makes in her senior year of Yale. She is dating Rory's old friend, Marty.
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* LifeOfTheParty: Whether it's dyeing her hair green, hosting a 2003-themed birthday party in 2007, or stealing dining hall trays to use as makeshift sleds, Lucy is always up for anything.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Lucy always refers to her boyfriend, Marty, as 'Boyfriend,' leading Rory to not realize the connection until she actually bumps into him.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Olivia.
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