History Characters / ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaDeeReynolds

* TheArtifact: Her nickname "Sweet Dee" is this InUniverse, as revealed in "The Gang Buys a Roller Ring".

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** Notably, the first episode has Dee tell both Dennis and the Gang as a whole that she "loves" them, which certainly wouldn't be the case in later episodes.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Notably, she’s the first member of the Gang to openly admit to trying to kill one of the other members of the group. She also has a more checkered history of violence than the male members, including attempted murder of her college roommate and threatening to poison everyone in the bar with Anthrax (it was only powdered sugar, but Dee didn’t know that at the time).

* {{Diary}}: Dee kept a written diary in school and keeps a video diary in her adult years.

''"You guys, you always emotionally batter me, and I'm fine with it. I don't care about it, I'm getting good at it now."''

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You guys, you always emotionally batter me, and I'm fine with it. I don't care about it, I'm getting good at it now."'']]

->''"See, this is the part where I would volunteer to be the girl on the billboard, and you guys would find some reason not to, and compare me to some sort of animal like a giant bird."''

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* YouGoGirl: In "The Gang gets Invincible", Dee [[SweetPollyOliver dresses as a man]] and takes part in an open audition for the Philadelphia Eagles along with Mac and Dennis, in order to prove that girls can play football. She does, in fact, get farther than the very unfit Mac and Dennis, in part due to her excellent kicking abilities. Too bad she breaks her foot, rendering her chances null.

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* YouGoGirl: In "The Gang gets Invincible", Dee [[SweetPollyOliver dresses as a man]] and takes part in an open audition for the Philadelphia Eagles along with Mac and Dennis, in order to prove that girls can play football. She does, in fact, get farther than the very unfit Mac and Dennis, in part due to her excellent kicking abilities. Too bad she breaks her foot, rendering her chances null.
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!!Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KaitlinOlson, Harley Graham (young, "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E13AVerySunnyChristmas A Very Sunny Christmas]]"), Danielle Parker (young, "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS08E01PopPopTheFinalSolution Pop-Pop: The Final Solution]]"), Leslie Miller (dream, "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E01TheGangTurnsBlack The Gang Turns Black]]")
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E01TheGangGetsRacist The Gang Gets Racist]]"

->''"See, this is the part where I would volunteer to be the girl on the billboard, and you guys would find some reason not to, and compare me to some sort of animal like a giant bird."''

Dennis' twin sister, the head bartender at Paddy's Pub and the show's main female character. Dee dreams of becoming an actress although she lacks any apparent talent and occasionally suffers from debilitating stage fright. She wore a back brace in high school, leaving her with the nickname "Aluminum Monster". Dee lives in an apartment alone, although she had a cat at one point until it became trapped in her wall.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Dee was mocked in school for her back-brace, and was given the EmbarrassingNickname of "Aluminum Monster".
* AloneAmongTheCouples: A platonic variant, highlighted in "Mac and Dennis Break Up"; Dee is the only member of the Gang who doesn't have a "[[HeterosexualLifePartners sidekick]]" to "get her out of jams" and ends up stuck inside the wall of her apartment as a result.
* AnimalMotifs: Is often compared to a giant bird due to having a skinny, gangly and fragile body.
* AttentionWhore: Dee desperately craves approval, affection and attention. She has trouble gaining approval and affection, so she's happy enough to settle for (usually negative) attention.
* BackFromTheDead: After Mac, Charlie and Dee fake their own deaths, they hide in the office of Paddy's. When Frank and Dennis come in, they run out -- carrying sparklers -- and Sweet Dee yells "Surprise, bitches! We're alive and it's blowing your MINDS right now!"
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Dee tends to get made to look hideous and disheveled just as much as (if not more) any other member of the Gang.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In "The Gang Texts", she turns the group's usual "Shut up, bird!" on herself, much to their collective delight -- well, except for Mac, who is annoyed that Dee has beat him to the punch.
* BriefAccentImitation: Her impression of a "religious stuttering army carnie." It's predictably not very good, though Mac and Charlie are, surprisingly enough, impressed.
-->'''Charlie:''' You just earned your spot at the head of the suit, Dee.
* BrokenBird: Several episodes depict Dee as being emotionally numb from years of the Gang's abuse. On rare occassions, however, it catches up to her and she becomes extremely depressed. The ultimate example has to be the opening moments of "The Gang Broke Dee", which show her completely miserable, unkempt, eating trash cake, smoking a cigarette, and spending minutes doing nothing but breathing into the mic while performing stand-up.
* ButtMonkey: While all of the members of the Gang suffer frequently, Dee and Charlie are by far the most prone to AmusingInjuries. Dee is this more than Charlie given that she's both TheScapegoat and TheFriendNobodyLikes.
* CannotTellAJoke: The attempts Dee makes to get her standup career off the ground inevitably fall into this. Most of the time, she starts retching out of stage fright halfway through her first joke. When she can get one in, it's inevitably rambling observational humor or references to her vagina, delivered either in a halfhearted drawl or while stammering profusely. Yet somehow, it's still better than her non-standup [[{{Blackface}} "character work."]]
* CatchPhrase: Calling people "boners". She also yells "God damn it!" more frequently than the guys.
* CharacterTics: Kicks in the air when she's angry. Stems from Frank asking to be a part of The Gang, and Dee threatening to "kick the pillars [of Paddy's] in" while kicking at Frank.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Sweet Dee's character was originally written to be the [[WomenAreWiser voice of the reason]] or the [[TheChick "useless chick"]]. Kaitlin Olson described the dialogue as "Charlie says something hilarious. Mac says something hilarious. Dennis says something awesome. And Sweet Dee goes 'You guys! That won't work!' " By the end of the first season, Kaitlin had Dee become just as deranged and depraved as the guys.
* TheChewToy: She's guaranteed to most likely suffer in a lot of episodes.
* CommanderContrarian: Having originally started out as the StraightMan of the group, the trope would later twist into this, usually being the first to question a plan and quickly abandon it mid-execution and do her own idea to predictable effect.
* DeadpanSnarker: Probably the biggest one of the Gang. Of course, that comes with [[ButtMonkey having to put up with the boys' shit]].
* {{Diary}}: Dee kept a written diary in school and keeps a video diary in her adult years.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: She's nowhere near as classy as she thinks she is.
* DistaffCounterpart: Revealed to have her own gender-reversed equivalent of Dennis' infamous "implication" in later episodes, wherein she threatens men into sleeping with her by claiming that she'd lie about them raping her if they did otherwise.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Very much so, and best shown in "PTS[=Dee=]." Sure, Mike the Stripper was a {{Jerkass}} to her, but manipulating him into [[spoiler:stripping in front of and on his estranged daughter]] is pretty extreme.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Most notably in "The Gang Goes on Family Fight". Where she attempts to buzz in the answer but accidentally destroys the buzzer with her own bare hands. (Like she has hands made of anvils.)
* DrivenToSuicide: Dee is strongly implied to have attempted or at the very least considered suicide, as in "Paddy's Has a Jumper" she reveals an intimate knowledge of how to slash one's wrist and has surprising insight into the mental state of a man threatening to jump off the roof of Paddy's. [[LackOfEmpathy The guys just think it's pathetic]].
* DumbBlonde: While Dee can be genuinely smart and rational, she's also very reckless and boisterous. Her pettiness and immaturity sometimes causes her to fail at schemes as she does tend to go overboard like publicly punching a woman in the face just for sitting in her spot.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: In contrast to Dennis telling Dee he loves her when he thinks they are about to die in "The Gang Goes to Hell, Part 2", Dee (likely remembering all the shit she's had to put up with from him throughout the series) simply scoffs and tells him, "Whatever." [[PetTheDog Nevertheless, she does hold hands with her brother and father as they wait to drown.]]
* EatsBabies: Or, at least claims to in "Hundred Dollar Baby."
* FagHag: In "The Gang Gets Racist" the man she is interested in is gay. In turn, he is very interested in Dennis. She's also well versed in gay culture and slang.
* FakingTheDead: In "Mac and Charlie Die Part 2", Dee leads Dennis to believe she has been murdered.
* FalseRapeAccusation: She admits that she sometimes blackmails guys into having sex with her by insinuating that it would be a shame if she called the police and her account of what happened was different from theirs.
* FemaleMisogynist: Dee generally gets along very poorly with other women, and almost always attempts to instigate some kind of rivalry with any that she spends any significant amount of time with. In "Make Paddy's Great Again", she admits that she prefers being [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only woman in the group]] because [[IJustWantToBeSpecial it makes her feel special]]. In "Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool", she's opposed to the titular film's inclusion of a capable female character because it makes her feel insecure about ''herself''. In "A Woman's Right to Chop", she defends women getting short haircuts while openly berating how it looks on them to their faces.
* FemininityFailure: Played with - Dee has no trouble looking feminine, but whenever she tries to ''act'' like a lady, the results are bound to be disastrous.
* {{Flanderization}}: Her insecurity, shrillness, alcoholism, and ButtMonkey status are increasingly played up in later seasons.
* FreudianExcuse: Like Dennis, she had Frank as a father and her mother criticized everything about her and verbally abused her, called Dee a "mistake", favored Dennis over her (despite them being fraternal twins) and would often say, "Worst is first," because Dee was the first one of them to be born. This has given her very poor self-esteem (not helped by her having to spend most of her teenage years walking with heavy back braces due to Scoliosis), a laundry list of neuroses and some pretty bad anger management problems. On top of all of that, the Gang considers it their duty to beat her down emotionally on a daily basis..
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The Gang are always criticizing everything about her; from her appearance, to her voice, to her sense of humor. At one point, their treatment of Dee finally gets to her and she becomes extremely depressed. They appear to feel bad about what they did, but [[spoiler: most of it is all a part of their plan to sink her even lower then before to show her that "things could be worse."]] Outside of the Gang her two "best friends" are the Waitress, who hates her guts, and Artemis, who is willing to sell her out in a second when it benefits her. To be fair to them, she only ever spends time with them when she has an ulterior motive. "The Gang Misses The Boat" reveals that Charlie does value her friendship and only rips on her because he knows that if he doesn't, they'll do it to him.
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* GiftedlyBad: She fancies herself a performer, and throws herself into acting, stand-up comedy and def poetry with passionate abandon. Too bad she's not particularly good at any of those things. In "The Gang Broke Dee", her stand-up "routine" consists entirely of awkward sound effects and references to her vagina and lack of hygiene.
* GoingColdTurkey: Dennis and Dee get addicted to crack in a Season 2 episode, and then go cold turkey to get back to normal.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is violent, aggressive and often angry or at the very least annoyed.
* HiddenDepths: "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Reboot" shows that she has a knack for mental arithmetic, being able to quickly convert Bogg's 70 beers into the equivalent amount of wine needed to complete the challenge.
-->'''Waitress:''' Nerd.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: While all the Gang are guilty of this, Dee is probably the most serial offender in terms of her desire to be a big star while never showing an inkling of the talent. Her ImagineSpot in "The Gang Saves the Day" has her going into witness protection and so flawlessly playing the part of a butler that she gets to play herself in a TV series about her own witness protection period, which then spins into being the star of an action film that grosses $900 million in presales alone. In reality, her biggest casting call was as an extra, playing a dead body - and she ''still'' managed to ruin multiple takes and get fired due to overacting and being a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]].
* HugeSchoolgirl: A grown-up version of this trope. Dee is tall (5'8") and lanky, with size 13 feet, and very uncoordinated as a result.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Although Dee considers herself to be a compassionate liberal, in truth she is incredibly greedy and manipulative and can sometimes be just as biased as the rest of the Gang.
** Dee is the quickest and most frequent critic of the morality of rest of the Gang's schemes... Right up until she finds a way to benefit from them herself.
** She also is often the first one to point out that Dennis is either a borderline/actual rapist......then she straight admits she rapes men herself in "The Gang Goes to Hell".
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Her desire for acceptance among the Gang is so strong that she's content to be included in the Gang's plans even if it involves her working at a fish factory. She's also the only main character who goes out of her way to cultivate friendships outside of the Gang (namely, The Waitress and Artemis, both of whom admittedly dislike her).
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While Dee likes to talk herself up as a multi-talented, elegant and hilarious humanitarian, it doesn't take much for her to break down and admit her extreme self-loathing. She even keeps a nightly video diary that basically consists entirely of her talking about how much she hates herself.
* InformedDeformity: The Gang constantly insult her appearance despite the fact that she is actually quite pretty. This has less to do with her genuine looks than it does with the Gang being dicks, as she has managed to entice quite a few attractive men before driving them away with her awful personality. Lampshaded in "Chardee Mac[=Dennis=] 2" when Andy (an outsider) questions why Dennis and Mac are so disgusted at having to keep a hand on Dee's body.
--> '''Andy:''' What is so hard about keeping one hand on this woman? [...] She's a very, very pretty woman.
--> '''Dennis:''' Ugh. Don't sexualize her, dude.
* InheritanceMurder: In "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", Dee inadvertently reveals she was planning on having Dennis and Frank killed for a shot at her late mother's inheritance.
* InsufferableImbecile: Dee believes herself to be a high class lady but is really a vulgar, self-serving, immature and aggressive jerk who often reacts to minor slights with physical violence and is completely callous to the suffering of others, even dismissing the fact that she set her roommate on fire. Likewise, while being somewhat more sensible than the others, she'll do anything for praise regardless of how dangerous or stupid it may be. She tells blatantly untrue stories about herself (such as claiming that she was the first choice to be the lead actress in ''Film/TheNotebook''), contradicts herself at the drop of a hat, and still believes people will fall for it.
* IronicNickname: She's anything but sweet.
* IsThatCuteKidYours: After finding a baby in the Dumpster behind Paddy's, she and Mac decide to raise it and put it into showbiz. When a passerby asks his name, Mac replies with D.B. -- which is short for Dumpster Baby.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She majored in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania but failed her classes.
* TheKlutz: Dee is incredibly uncoordinated, resulting in a lot of physical comedy for the character. She did not possess this quality in early episodes, which actually portrayed her as being reasonably athletic, but she began to be written as uncoordinated after her actress realized the comedic potential that making her clumsy would have.
* TheLadette: She chugs beer and swears like a sailor like the rest of the boys, though she still pretends she is a fine lady.
* LadySwearsALot: Dee is easily the most foul-mouthed member of the Gang, which is saying something.
-->'''Dee:''' Your mom doesn't know dick. She's a dumb, fat cow, and your sister -- she is a stupid little shit-mouthed bitch, isn't she?
-->'''Justine:''' You just said a lot of bad words.
* LameComeback: Dee will often parry an insult by repeating it back: e.g. when Mac calls Dee's new car a "piece of shit car", Dee responds with "You're a piece of shit...car".
* MaliciousMisnaming: In "Mac and Charlie Join a Cult", Dee refers to the titular group, Ass Kickers United, as "Ass Blasters Incorporated".
* ManipulativeBitch: We find out in "Dee Gives Birth" that she emotionally abuses men into sleeping with her ([[NotSoAboveItAll which mirrors the behavior of her brother]]). Poor Ben is reduced to tears just talking about it.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: With her brother Dennis. Dee is TheLadette, and is the more uncouth, uncultured and overtly aggressive of the two. Also, she's fairly fit and athletic, especially in comparison to her NonActionGuy brother.
* MistakenForMurderer: In "Mac is a Serial Killer" Dee and Dennis pretend to be serial killers and stalk the Waitress.
* MistakenForPedophile: In "The Nightman Cometh", Dee is cast as the LoveInterest to the protagonist. The problem is, the protagonist is [[UnfortunateNames referred to as the "Little Boy"]] and wears a costume consisting of footie pajamas, overall making him seem as though he's supposed to be a child (Charlie insists that he's a young man). Dee spends the entire episode worried that people will assume she's a pedophile because of this, and goes as far as to ad lib a new verse to her musical number that consists of assuring the audience that she is not attracted to children.
* NotSoDifferent: For all of her outward disgust at her brother's date rapist tendencies, it's been shown on more than one occasion that she employs similar tactics of emotional manipulation and coercion to get men to sleep with her. In the Season 11 finale, she immediately understands the "implication" without Dennis even having to explain it to her, and in the same scene she outright admits that she sometimes threatens guys who seem less than eager with a FalseRapeAccusation. Dee is also the only woman to have escaped being locked inside Dennis' bedroom, which he's had fashioned into a high-tech sex dungeon.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Pretends to be mentally disabled in an attempt to get on welfare.
* OddFriendship: She actually gets along comparatively well with Charlie, to the point where he could be considered the only member of the group who is actually her friend. This is most notable in "The Gang Misses the Boat." When the Gang breaks up, she and Charlie spend the time bonding, encouraging each other, [[spoiler: and eventually making out/sleeping together]].
* OneOfTheBoys: She is TheLadette who hangs out only with guys, and is just as loud and crude as they are. However despite being very much "one of the boys", she's the Gang's resident ButtMonkey and TheFriendNobodyLikes.
* OnlySaneWoman: In the first season. By Season 2 they made her just as depraved as everyone else, because otherwise there would be no reason why she would even associate with the rest of the Gang. That said, she still has a fairly high tendency of playing StraightMan in any given scene.
* OutOfFocus: She has noticeably fewer independent storylines in Season 14 than in previous seasons. Specifically, despite "Dee Day" centering around her she has the least screen time of any of the cast.
* ParentalIncest: She and Frank pose as an engaged couple, and even go as far as getting married. Although Frank isn't Sweet Dee's biological father, it's still creepy.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Dee suffers from debilitating stage fright which cause her to dry heave while performing in front of a crowd.
* PetTheDog: Her pregnancy turns out to be from her [[spoiler:being the surrogate for Carmen and her husband Nick]]. While it was likely motivated by the financial compensation she received, it was still very kind of her.
* PhraseCatcher:
** "Dee, you bitch!" in the more recent seasons, usually said by Dennis.
** "Shut up bird" is also commonly thrown her way.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: All of Dee's 'crazy characters' that she's created are outrageously racist, despite the fact that she considers herself a sensible liberal. One of them even uses {{Brownface}}. Also Charlie has expressed some dismay upon seeing [[{{Yellowface}} her]] {{Asian| Buck Teeth}} [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish character]]. Also, in "The Gang Goes to Hell: Part 2," while doing impressions to pass the time, her impression of Obama is very "hood." Additionally, she dumped Li'l Kev when she thought he was a "retard" and called a bar critic a "faggot" for ordering a white wine.
* PottyEmergency: A RunningGag for Dee. It's actually a plot point in "The Gang Hits the Road" and "Dee Day", the latter of which involves her [[spoiler:successfully scheming to get a public urination vote approved because she ''really'' can't hold her pee.]]
* ThePrimaDonna: On the rare occasions where her career as a performer takes off she quickly turns into this.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Next to Charlie, she is easily the most emotionally underdeveloped member of the Gang, as her pathological emotional neediness and insecurity, insatiable need for attention, and NotLikeOtherGirls tendencies and irrational hostility and competitiveness towards other women make her come off as an overgrown teenage girl. She also has the "psychopathic" part down pat, being selfish, vindictive and unscrupulous, as well as extremely and unpredictably violent and quick to anger.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In "Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City", she completely loses it when a homeless man masturbates (in plain sight) behind Paddy's while smiling at her:
-->'''Dee:''' You know what, asshole?! ''[beats the bum with a baseball bat]'' You like that, bitch?! I am not your little pinup girl for you to ''[picks up a trash can lid and strikes him repeatedly with it]'' TUG! YOUR ROTTEN! PECKER AT!
* ReallyGetsAround: Probably runs second to Dennis in this regard. At one point she sleeps with over a dozen guys in a short amount of time to try and empower herself by giving them all a low rating on a dating website. She also has a lot of potential baby daddies when the Gang try to find out who got her pregnant in Season 6. Both times, Mac and Charlie are begrudgingly impressed by her prowess.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Dennis' Blue, being the more belligerent and impulsive of the two Reynolds siblings.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: She does this in her stand-up routine in "The Gang Broke Dee".
* TheScapegoat: When in doubt, blame Dee.
--> '''Dennis''': Facebook is connecting everyone these days. People are showing up to a bar that doesn't even have a sign and serves only one old-timey, disgusting drink that nobody likes! Goddamn, I hate gin! Dee, you bitch!
* SerialRapist: It's revealed that she emotionally berates and forces men (including Ben, Rex, and [[spoiler:Charlie]]) into sleeping with her, though she doesn't consider it rape [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale because she's a woman]].
* SevenDeadlySins: Wrath and Envy.
** Wrath. She is notable for having a HairTriggerTemper and is much more prone to violence than the rest of the Gang (especially [[FemaleMisogynist towards other women]]), [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E02GunFeverTooStillHot having been put on a list that bars her from legally purchasing guns for setting her roommate on fire]] and [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E09TheGangGoesToHellPart1 violently assaults a woman that took a lounge bench she claimed hours earlier]].
** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]. Many of the [[ComicallyLopsidedRivalry Comically Lopsided Rivalries]] she makes towards most women the Gang associate themselves with are usually a product of her own insecurities (like how her fellow high school outcast [[GoodCounterpart Ingrid "Fatty Magoo" Nelson]] lost all of her weight and became a successful business woman while Dee herself is stuck in the past, forced to endure the Gang and their put-downs and unable to fulfill her dreams of stardom).
* SheCleansUpNicely: While Dee is always good-looking, her strong aversion to the BeautyIsNeverTarnished trope and general tendency to dress down often conceals this. On the occasions where she dresses up for a special occasion, her looks become much more apparent. This is frequently zig-zagged, however, as Dee often falls victim to her most unsightly and humiliating slapstick when she's at her most done up.
* ShesAllGrownUp: PlayedWith. She had to wear an unflattering back brace throughout high school and was thus incredibly unpopular. Whenever she encounters one of her former schoolmates they're quick to point out how good-looking she's become, only to realize that while she's outwardly much better than in high school, inwardly she has remained stunted and has only become more twisted over time.
* ShipTease: With Charlie, surprisingly enough. They actually kiss when the Gang is being held hostage by the Mc[=Poyles=] and Dee is genuinely disappointed when Charlie doesn't give her a valentine after she made one for him in "The Gang Tends Bar". "The Gang Misses the Boat" shows how well the two click when away from the group's influence and they spend most of the episode hanging out and being very supportive of one another, which culminates in [[spoiler:them making out and sleeping together. However, Season 13 reveals that the sex was actually non-consensual on Charlie's end, possibly turning this into a case of ShipSinking.]] Considering that Dennis is [[BrotherSisterIncest Dee's brother]], Mac [[IncompatibleOrientation is gay]] and [[HeManWomanHater hates her guts]] and Frank is [[ParentalIncest Dee's legal father]], Charlie's really the only viable member of the group for her ''to'' have any kind of romantic chemistry with.
* ShoeSizeAngst: Has size 13 feet. The clerk at the shoe store suggests her try a Big n' Tall store when she learns Dee's shoe size.
* ShowSomeLeg: On more than one occasion, Dee dresses as a prostitute.
* SlapSlapKiss:
** {{Invoked}} in "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award", where Dennis forces her and Mac to have this dynamic to draw in customers a la [[{{Series/Cheers}} Sam and Diane]]. Unfortunately, rather than flirty sexual tension, Mac and Dee's tension is much more aggressive, violent and founded on mutual hatred rather than any sort of attraction.
--->'''Dennis:''' "This isn't 'will they or won't they.' This is 'I know they won't and I know I don't want them to.'"
** In "The Gang Gets Held Hostage," Charlie ''literally'' slaps her twice and then kisses her (and then slaps her again).
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Body humor, pratfalls, and AmusingInjuries are Sweet Dee's signatures.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She thinks she's lady-like and compassionate. But in reality, she's crude, rude, and trashy. She also thinks she's more talented at acting than she actually is.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of the Gang. Justified in that none of the guys seem to have any interest in women beyond sex and only hang around Dee because A) they're forced to since she works with them, and B) they like to use her as a personal punching bag. It's invoked in "The Gang Makes Paddy's Great Again" where [[spoiler: Cindy asks Dee why she'd pick Dennis over her when it would just lead to the guys constantly shitting on her all over again and that it would be more advantageous to stick together as women. Dee replies that she kind of likes being the only female in the group and that it makes her feel special.]]
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Her stand-up comedy falls right into this, when she can get more than five sentences into her routine without vomiting from stage fright.
* STDImmunity: Averted.
-->'''Dee''': It seems like I have a rash in a place where a sexually active person can have a rash.
* StrawFeminist: Drifts into this at her worst moments. Most glaringly, she openly admits that she has done things to men that classify as sexually assault because she thinks only men are capable of molestation or rape.
* SucksAtDancing: Mac compares her "P. Diddy boat dance" to an inflatable tube man at a used car lot.
* SurroundedByIdiots: How she feels in regards to the rest of the Gang.
-->'''Dee''': I hate my life.
* SweetPollyOliver: She infiltrates the tryouts for the Philadelphia Eagles dressed as "Cole" to prove that she is more athletic than Mac and Dennis. The coach buys it and she actually manages to kick the football farther than anyone. After revealing her disguise she then immediately injures her leg trying to kick the ball a second time, also killing whatever shot she had at making the team.
* TankTopTomboy: Often seen wearing tank tops, befitting her [[TheLadette ladette]] nature.
* TerribleArtist: Her attempts at designing dresses in "The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo" result in stick-figure sketches that Dennis and Charlie mistake for a boat, a cup with a straw, and a raincoat.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Punctuates many of her remarks with the word "bitch".
* ThrillSeeker: Becomes one in "The Gang Chokes" after realizing that watching Frank almost choke to death and nearly getting hit by an Uber excited her.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Being the biggest ButtMonkey of the main cast, Dee will occasionally receive some kind of sympathetic treatment, usually in the form of praise from the rest of the Gang. Notable examples include the endings of "The Gang Dines Out" and "The Gang Escapes", as well as "Dee Day" ([[spoiler:in which she finally scores a legitimate win over the guys after more than ten seasons of putting up with their crap]]).
* TokenGoodTeammate: In Season 1, she was easily the most morally sound and rational member of the Gang. Averted in all other seasons, where she regularly displays despicable and idiotic behavior.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is an aggressive and sometimes violent [[TheLadette ladette]] who drinks, swears, and [[OneOfTheBoys hangs out only with guys]], but she is also an aspiring actress and is seen to be concerned about her appearance.
* TookALevelInDumbass: A side effect of CharacterizationMarchesOn. In Season 1 she's fairly sensible, at least in comparison to the men; from Season 2 onwards she becomes sillier and more irrational.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Also due to CharacterizationMarchesOn. While she shows glimmers of a nastier side in Season 1, it's not until Season 2 that she truly becomes a wretched human being on par with the boys. She arguably gets worse as the series progresses, with her actions in "PTS[=Dee=]" reaching a new low even by the standards of this show.
* TragicDream: What Dee wants more than anything is to become a successful actress. Unfortunately, she lacks both the talent and the dedication to get it done, not to mention she's stuck in an endless cycle of abuse perpetrated by both the Gang and her own refusal to let go of the past.
* TheUnfavorite: Her mother thought Dennis could do nothing wrong and she could do nothing right.
* UrineTrouble: Tying into PottyEmergency above, she's also gotten Mac covered in piss ''twice''.
* VanityPlate: When she buys a scooter in "The Gang Gets Audited", its license plate says "$CAMMING".
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: She tends to flit somewhere between "bartender" and "waitress", and all indications are that she barely does either. She considers "can open a beer bottle" to be enough of a skillset for tending, and it's indicated that she not only cannot make mixed drinks, but thinks people who would want one are pretentious.
* WhosYourDaddy: The boys spend most of a season trying to figure out who got her pregnant. [[spoiler:Turns out she was the surrogate for Carmen the transsexual and her husband Nick]].
* WomanScorned: While she and Charlie are not a couple, she becomes extremely annoyed when he doesn't get her a Valentine after she made one for him in "The Gang Tends Bar". She outright threatens to kill everyone in the bar with Anthrax if he doesn't return the favor.
* WomenAreWiser: She usually tends to be the most logical schemer of the Gang. Unfortunately for her, that's only in comparison to the rest of them.
* YankTheDogsChain: A truly staggering example in "The Gang Broke Dee". She overcomes her depression to become a successful local comedian, eventually getting offered a gig on ''Series/{{Conan}}''. [[spoiler:Turns out the whole thing was a XanatosGambit by Mac, Charlie and Frank, just to show that it could get worse.]]
* YouGoGirl: In "The Gang gets Invincible", Dee [[SweetPollyOliver dresses as a man]] and takes part in an open audition for the Philadelphia Eagles along with Mac and Dennis, in order to prove that girls can play football. She does, in fact, get farther than the very unfit Mac and Dennis, in part due to her excellent kicking abilities. Too bad she breaks her foot, rendering her chances null.
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* DumbBlonde: While Dee can be genuinely smart and rational, she's also very reckless and boisterous. Her pettiness and immaturity sometimes causes her to fail at schemes as she does to go overboard like publicly punching a woman in the face just for sitting in her spot.

* {{Flanderization}}: Her insecurity, shrillness, alcoholism, and ButtMonkey status are all played up in later seasons.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: In "The Gang Texts", she turns the group's usual "Shut up, bird!" on herself, much to their delight -- except for Mac, who is annoyed that Dee beat him to the punch.

* BriefAccentImitation: When she's doing her impression of a "religious stuttering army carnie." Charlie and Mac are, surprisingly, impressed.

* BrokenBird: Several episodes depict Dee as being emotionally numb from years of the Gang's abuse. On rare occassions, however, [[RealityEnsues it catches up to her]] and she becomes extremely depressed. The ultimate example has to be the opening moments of "The Gang Broke Dee", which show her completely miserable, unkempt, eating trash cake, smoking a cigarette, and spending minutes doing nothing but breathing into the mic while performing stand-up.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Good luck with those kegs, boners."'']]

* NotSoDifferent: For all of her outward disgust at her brother's date rapist tendencies, it's been shown on more than one occasion that she employs similar tactics of emotional manipulation and coercion to get men to sleep with her. In the Season 11 finale, she immediately understands the "implication" without Dennis even having to explain it to her, and in the same scene she outright admits that she sometimes threatens guys who seem less than eager with a FalseRapeAccusation.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: She and Dennis are often shown to think alike, which makes sense, as they're twins. They both have similar methods of coercing people into sex and Dee is the only woman to have escaped being locked inside Dennis' bedroom, which he's had fashioned into a high-tech sex dungeon. Not to mention they both concluded (separately) that Mac and Charlie opening a leather shop in Arizona would lead to them being out of business in a week’s time.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: With her twin brother, Dennis. They both have similar methods of coercing people into sex and Dee is the only woman to have escaped being locked inside Dennis' bedroom, which he's had fashioned into a high-tech sex dungeon. Not to mention they both concluded (separately) that Mac and Charlie opening a leather shop in Arizona would lead to them being out of business in a week’s time.

* WomanScorned: While she and Charlie are not a couple, she becomes extremely annoyed when he does not get her a Valentine after she made one for him in "The Gang Tends Bar". She outright threatens to kill everyone in the bar with Anthrax if he doesn't return the favor.

* {{Flanderization}}: Her insecurity, shrillness, alcoholism, and ButtMonkey status are increasingly played up in later seasons.

* UrineTrouble: Tying into PottyEmergency above, she's also gotten covered Mac in piss ''twice''.

* WomanScorned: Downplayed as she and Charlie are not a couple, but she becomes extremely annoyed when he does not get her a Valentine after she made one for him. She outright threatens to kill everyone in the bar with Anthrax if he doesn't return the favor.