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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Joe's clearly modeled after Steve Jobs, though he's much more "yuppie" in his appearance than Steve Jobs' "hippie" persona was.
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* TechBro: Joe is the 1980s version with his hip, "yuppie" personal but lack of knowledge about technical details early on in the series. He later takes a programming course at San Francisco City College when he moves out West.
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* OnlySaneWoman: At Mutiny.
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**At Mutiny.
**After the Symphonic failure, Donna attempts to maintain her composure since the failure while Gordon slipped into depression.
**At Mutiny.
**After the Symphonic failure, Donna attempts to maintain her composure since the failure while Gordon slipped into depression.
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* WomenAreWiser: Especially after the Symphonic failure. Donna attempts to maintain her composure since the failure while Gordon slipped into depression.
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* TakeThat: He calls Creator/SteveJobs a "megalomaniac who loves form over function", referring to the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in the Season 1 finale, and later the [=NeXTcube=] in the Season 3 finale.
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* TakeThat: He calls Creator/SteveJobs a "megalomaniac who loves form over function", referring to the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Platform/AppleMacintosh in the Season 1 finale, and later the [=NeXTcube=] in the Season 3 finale.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: In season 4, Haley suddenly starts having trouble with school, with it being implied that she is developing depression.
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* SuccessThroughSexAccusation: Gordon becomes frustrated when Cameron's section of the Giant project advances faster than his (largely because Cameron is a genius programmer, whereas Gordon is an alcoholic engineer) and thus spreads a rumor that she's getting more resources because she slept with their boss, Joe. Cameron turns the table on him by passionately kissing him in front of his subordinates and publicly implying that they had sex the previous night. As Gordon is married with kids, he decides to squash any further rumors about Cameron's sexual history so that nobody spreads rumors about her sleeping with him to his wife
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* TheSociopath: How much he qualifies is up for debate as he is capable of empathy and kindness but Joe does have a number of qualities that fit the bill such as superficial charm, poor impulse control, intense narcissism and a disinterest in social norms if they get in the way of his goals.
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* TheSociopath: How much he qualifies is up for debate as he is capable of empathy and kindness as well as sincere remorse but Joe does have a number of qualities that fit the bill such as superficial charm, poor impulse control, intense narcissism and a disinterest in social norms if they get in the way of his goals.
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* BigOlEyebrows: Lev tells Donna that the former Cardiff coders used to call Joe "Admiral Eyebrows".
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When the remnants of Hurricane Alicia batter Dallas, Joe tries to comfort Haley and Joanie when they get scared of the storm.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When the remnants of Hurricane Alicia batter Dallas, Joe tries to comfort Haley and Joanie when they get scared of the storm. He's also surprisingly gentle and kind with those who get close to him such as former lovers and later Ryan.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's the project leader and later runs his own company and stands at a towering 6'5, dwarfing everyone else.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Sara believes her father is being hard on Joe for her ex-husband's transgressions, which cost Jacob millions of dollars. He later mails Sara a prenup.
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** Joe gives one to a senior executive of General Atomics when he makes a homophobic remark.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In "Rules of Honorable Play", Joe was willing to torch a lurcative contract with General Atomics after one of its senior executives made homophobic remarks as they were wrapping up negotiations.
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: In a field dominated by men, she is one of a few successful female venture capitalists.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree with Cameron, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=] co-founders shortly after buying them out. Unfortunately, she left it to Donna to inform Cameron of this, and Donna instead lied and told Cameron that she had to retain the guys.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree with Cameron, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=] co-founders shortly after buying them out. Unfortunately, she left it to Donna to inform Cameron of this, and Donna instead lied and told Cameron that she had to retain the guys.
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: In a field dominated by men, she is one of a few successful female venture capitalists.
capitalists in Silicon Valley.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree withCameron, Cameron's decision, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=] co-founders shortly after buying them out. Unfortunately, she left it to Donna to inform Cameron of this, and Donna instead lied and told Cameron that she had to retain the guys.
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* PornStache: Stan.
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* {{Trekkie}}: Stan. He even suggests naming the Giant's BIOS "Khan".
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* {{Trekkie}}: Stan. He even Stan suggests naming the Giant's BIOS "Khan".
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* BigFun: Bodie. During a group photo shoot, he slides into the picture drunk and only in his skivvies. Bodie is also inclined to give Lev a hug after the latter is released from the hospital.
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* BigFun: Bodie. During a group photo shoot, he slides into the picture drunk and only in his skivvies.undies. Bodie is also inclined to give Lev a hug after the latter is released from the hospital.
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* TheRichWantToBeRicher: {{Averted}}. Nathan is mostly retired, leaving the running of Cardiff Electric to Bosworth, and is quite satisfied with the wealth he already has. Even though the PC project had the potential to earn more money, Nathan would rather let the company proceed as it has, making decent profits and doing right by its current employees, than disrupt everything for the sake of Joe's vision.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/MadMen Peggy Olson]].
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%% * {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/MadMen Peggy Olson]].
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Donna aspired to become this during her time as co-CEO of Mutiny, and she becomes this by the end of the series, having served as Diane's protégé at her venture capital firm during the early 90s.
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** Her new game, Pilgrim, is also another example of this: while it's graphically impressive for a game released in 1993, it's incomprehensible and unfun to a vast majority of people due to wrong choices bringing you back to the beginning of the game with no obvious right ones and Cameron even considers something as basic as telling the player the controls to the game to be something that "ruins the magic". Donna finally manages to beat it, but not before being subject to multiple cases of GuideDangIt, TrialAndErrorGameplay and TryEverything and even she probably wouldn't been able to do it if she didn't know Cameron personally and manage to coax some hints from her.
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "The 214s", when Joe was ready to walk out on the Giant and return to IBM, Gordon convinces him to see their project through.
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] {{Subverted|Trope}} in "The 214s", when Joe was ready to walk out on the Giant and return to IBM, Gordon convinces him to see their project through.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. While Gordon started from the bottom and risen to the top, he was unsure of what to do next after Joe abruptly leaves Cardiff Electric.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]].{{Deconstructed|Trope}}. While Gordon started from the bottom and risen to the top, he was unsure of what to do next after Joe abruptly leaves Cardiff Electric.
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* RousingSpeech: Just after giving Joe the aforementioned ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Gordon gives a convincing argument on why Joe should stay with Cardiff, highlighting how Joe had changed the people he met.
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* RousingSpeech: Just after giving Joe the aforementioned a scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Gordon gives a convincing argument on why Joe should stay with Cardiff, highlighting how Joe had changed the people he met.
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** In "Limbo", after seeing an ad for another custom PC builder in ''Byte'' magazine, he believes that his former colleague Stan had copied his idea, and he later believes that Donna is trying to sabotage him.
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** In "Limbo", after seeing an ad for another DFW-based custom PC builder in ''Byte'' magazine, he believes that his former colleague Stan had copied his idea, and he later believes that Donna is trying to sabotage him.
* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Donna aspired to become this during her time as co-CEO of Mutiny, and she becomes this by the end of the series, having served as Diane's protégé at her venture capital firm during the early 90s.
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** In season 3, she prevents Cameron from firing two asshole programmers from [=SwapMeet=] because she thinks Cameron should learn how to play well with others. [[spoiler:In "The Threshold", she chooses to have Cameron ousted from Mutiny rather than try and work around Cameron's conditions for launching an IPO. Later in "[=NeXT=]", she tries to convince Cameron to oust Joe from the World Wide Web project.]]
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** In season 3, she prevents Cameron from firing the two asshole programmers from co-founders of [=SwapMeet=] because she thinks Cameron should learn how to play well with others. [[spoiler:In "The Threshold", she chooses to have Cameron ousted from Mutiny rather than try and work around Cameron's conditions for launching an IPO. Later in "[=NeXT=]", she tries to convince Cameron to oust Joe from the World Wide Web project.]]
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* IronLady: In a field dominated by men, she is one of a few successful female venture capitalists.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree with Cameron, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=] founders shortly after buying them out. Unfortunately, she left it to Donna to inform Cameron of this, and Donna instead lied and told Cameron that she had to retain the guys.
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* IronLady: HighPoweredCareerWoman: In a field dominated by men, she is one of a few successful female venture capitalists.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree with Cameron, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=]founders co-founders shortly after buying them out. Unfortunately, she left it to Donna to inform Cameron of this, and Donna instead lied and told Cameron that she had to retain the guys.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although she did not necessarily agree with Cameron, Diane was prepared to let her fire the [=SwapMeet=]
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* {{Nerd}}s: An adult version.
