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* AGodAmI: She yells that she’s the Golden Goddess when feeling slighted, and [[MirrorCharacter appropriately]] enough, sleeps with a high schooler.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: 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, as well as deliberately getting them too drunk to consent. In the Season 11 finale, she brags to Dennis about her own version of his "implication": threatening guys who seem less than eager with a FalseRapeAccusation.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: NotSoAboveItAll:
** 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, as well as deliberately getting them too drunk to consent. In the Season 11 finale, she brags to Dennis about her own version of his "implication": threatening guys who seem less than eager with a FalseRapeAccusation.
** She also sexually assaulted Charlie, who doesn’t want to be alone with her after it’s admitted. By season sixteen she happily admits to being a rapist.
** 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, as well as deliberately getting them too drunk to consent. In the Season 11 finale, she brags to Dennis about her own version of his "implication": threatening guys who seem less than eager with a FalseRapeAccusation.
** She also sexually assaulted Charlie, who doesn’t want to be alone with her after it’s admitted. By season sixteen she happily admits to being a rapist.
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* TheUnfavorite: Her mother thought Dennis could do nothing wrong and she could do nothing right.
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* TheUnfavorite: Her mother thought Dennis could do nothing wrong and she could do nothing right. In terms of Frank, they’re both continually treated like shit in comparison to Charlie, who he wants to be better for. He deflects on his own shortcomings by insulting her and diverting the attention away from himself.
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** According to Kaitlin Olsen, the creators were trying to come up with a way to have Dee and Dennis sleep together, and just about everyone can see it, with him bragging how much he controls her, her playing him like a violin when it comes to sexual humiliation, and their mutual NoSenseOfPersonalSpace.
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* WoundedGazelleWarcry: Much like Dennis genuinely loves and means it when he praises Dee, he just saves it until he’s desperate or can use it to control her, Dennis is the only one that Dee is willing to mother or take care of, she just also uses it to keep him dependent on her.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: “Charlie Got Molested” and “Dee Made A Smut Film” show that she genuinely thinks a way to help a CSA victim is to tell everyone and let them support so said victim can heal. Both Charlie and Dennis just feel humiliated after.
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* BulliedIntoDepression: As a DeconstructiveParody of the ButtMonkey, Dee being bullied by her family (Barbara and Frank seem to have made it their mission to break her spirit, while Dennis was psychotically clingy even then), bullied in high school (having to wear that back brace) and having her {{only friend}}s being the Gang who abuse her constantly, has made her a suicidally depressed, angry sadist who abuses back or others to get some kicks.
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* AffectionateNickname: Dennis will call her “baby” or “baby girl” when they’re both in a good mood.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Less her TragicDream of acting, and more the acting class she puts on in season fifteen, that is essentially just about getting money, wanting her own CastingCouch, and sadistically messing with a troubled girl.
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* WhiteSheep: She sees herself as the TokenGoodTeammate martyr replacement mother of her family. That’s probably not true (or not after a while), but she was the resident scapegoat, TreatedWorseThanThePet, and Frank is kind of impressed that she fought the abuse so hard.
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I changed some of the info in Out of Focus because after a rewatch, Dee definitely has less screen time in the season overall
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* AnimalMotifs: Is often compared to a giant bird due to having a skinny, gangly and fragile body.
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* AnimalMotifs: AnimalMotifs:
** Is often compared to a giant bird due to having a skinny, gangly and fragile body.
** Is often compared to a giant bird due to having a skinny, gangly and fragile body.
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** Season 16 has her as more of a side character other than "Frank vs. Russia" and "The Gang Goes Bowling". In particular, "Celebrity Booze Grab" gives her nothing to do, and as "Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day" is an IndulgentFantasySegue, she's mostly there to show Dennis ObliviousToLove[=/=]wishing she loved him.
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** Season 16 has her as more of a side character other than "Frank vs. Russia" Russia", "Risk E. Rat's" and "The Gang Goes Bowling". In particular, "Celebrity Booze Grab" gives her nothing to do, and as "Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day" is an IndulgentFantasySegue, she's mostly there to show Dennis ObliviousToLove[=/=]wishing she loved him.
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** Season Sixteen gives her a lot of character and the Gang is notably less yelling at her constantly, but "Celebrity Booze Grab" gives her nothing to do, and as "Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day" is an IndulgentFantasySegue, she's mostly there to show Dennis ObliviousToLove[=/=]wishing she loved him.
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** Season Sixteen gives 16 has her a lot as more of a side character other than "Frank vs. Russia" and the "The Gang is notably less yelling at her constantly, but Goes Bowling". In particular, "Celebrity Booze Grab" gives her nothing to do, and as "Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day" is an IndulgentFantasySegue, she's mostly there to show Dennis ObliviousToLove[=/=]wishing she loved him.
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* ProgressivelyPrettier: While Dee has always [[SheCleansUpNicely cleaned up nicely]], later seasons have her in nicer outfits and more flattering hairstyles, making her look a lot more polished.
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* ProgressivelyPrettier: While Dee has always [[SheCleansUpNicely cleaned up nicely]], later earlier seasons made an effort to give her a much more trashy appearance in her day-to-day life. Later seasons have her in nicer outfits and with more flattering hairstyles, making her look a lot more polished.
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* SelfServingMemory: Her therapist calls her out on constant lying, and Dee would rather take from fiction rather than discuss her daddy issues. Or her mommy issues, considering she’s desperate for the older therapist to just "tell her [she’s] good."
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* SelfServingMemory: Her therapist calls her out on constant lying, and Dee would rather take from fiction rather than discuss her daddy issues. Or her mommy issues, considering she’s desperate for the older therapist to just "tell her [she’s] good."
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* VanityPlate: When she buys a scooter in "The Gang Gets Audited", its license plate says "$CAMMIN".#
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* VanityPlate: When she buys a scooter in "The Gang Gets Audited", its license plate says "$CAMMIN".#
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* WeightWoe: She’s very skinny, but her go-to insult is calling someone fat, and there’s some projection going on. In the family fight episode, she’s starved herself for three days so she doesn’t look puffy, she has no problem throwing up food, and her mom constantly called her overweight.
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* WeightWoe: She’s very skinny, but her go-to insult is calling someone fat, and there’s some projection going on. In the family fight episode, "The Gang Goes on Family Fight", she’s starved starves herself for three days so she doesn’t look puffy, she puffy on TV. She also has no problem throwing up food, and her mom constantly called her overweight.
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* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Every time she gets a measure of success, she’ll self sabotage it by flying too close to the sun, ramping up the {{jerkass}} or just full on stress vomit. She explains this in the family fight episode by saying her worst fear is failure. She also fucks up a relatively nice friendship with Charlie by sexually assaulting him.
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* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Every time she gets a measure of success, she’ll self sabotage it by flying too close to the sun, ramping up the {{jerkass}} or just full on full-on stress vomit. vomiting. She explains this in the family fight Family Fight episode by saying her worst fear is failure. She also fucks up torpedoes a relatively nice and healthy friendship with Charlie by sexually assaulting him.
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* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Every time she gets a measure of success, she’ll self sabotage it by flying too close to the sun, ramping up the {{jerkass}} or just full on stress vomit. She explains this in the family fight episode by saying her worst fear is failure. She also fucks up a relatively nice friendship with Charlie by sexually assaulting him.
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** In “The Gang Group Dates”, she meets with a guy who doesn’t like drinking, so she gets him paralytic and brags she caught herself a fly.
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* UndyingLoyalty: As much as she hates him, wants to kill him, wants to humiliate him, mothers him to get what she wants, even Frank points out that it’s a given Dee will always side with Dennis. It’s a sad fact in their dynamic, as Dennis assumes the only way to keep her loyalty is to torture her, but he controls her less than he thinks he does because she does actually love her idiot brother.
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** In the background of “The Gang Exploits A Miracle”, she feeds Dennis nuts from the bowl after feeling like her revenge (calling him fat because he called her face blotchy) has gone far enough and he’s about to pass out.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Discussed and defied. She has abused and forced several men to sleep with her but states that she doesn't consider what she's doing rape because she's a woman. Then, after several seasons worth of SanitySlippage, she eventually happily admits to being a rapist. It's played for the [[BlackComedy bleakest comedy]], but the show doesn't gloss over how much of a terrible nutjob she is.
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** She goes from being the CommanderContrarian to taking part in the Gang's ridiculous schemes without objection. She also takes a page out of Frank's book and starts engaging in hedonistic behavior just for the hell of it, like in "Frank vs. Russia" where she happily admits to roofying herself before she went over to her date's house hoping to bang.
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** She goes from being the CommanderContrarian to taking part in the Gang's ridiculous schemes without objection. She also takes a page out of from Frank's book and starts engaging in hedonistic behavior just for the hell of it, like in "Frank vs. Russia" where she happily admits to roofying herself before she went over to her date's house hoping to bang.
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* SanitySlippage: Not as immediately apparent as Dennis, but Dee has grown steadily more unhinged as the series has progressed.
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* SanitySlippage: Not as immediately apparent as Dennis, but Dee has grown steadily more unhinged unhinged, petty, and callous as the series has progressed.
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* SelfServingMemory: The therapist calls her out on constant lying, and Dee would rather take from fiction rather than discuss her daddy issues. Or her mommy issues, considering she’s desperate for the older therapist to just tell her she’s good.
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* SelfServingMemory: The Her therapist calls her out on constant lying, and Dee would rather take from fiction rather than discuss her daddy issues. Or her mommy issues, considering she’s desperate for the older therapist to just tell "tell her she’s [she’s] good."
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** In “The Gang Goes To Hell”, if she’s bought a guy home and he’s iffy about it, she insinuates that she’s going to call the cops and say he tried to rape her. Apparently it works.
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* CooldownHug: A deleted scene has her easily calming Dennis down by applying pressure on his hand, in a way that comes off as she’s done this before and it works for them (given that it makes him moan, works in more than one way). She also touches him a lot to give him some comfort, like vice versa.
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* TroubledAbuser: She sexually assaults Charlie and coerces men through a combination of FalseRapeAccusation, roofies and insulting them, but she’s also a deeply insecure BrokenBird who has been abused by almost everyone in her life. Most of the time she just tries to deal with it, but she’s also thought about suicide, tried more than once and suffers from depression.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She might not say she loves him, mostly because he’s awful to her whenever she shows vulnerability, but she really does care for her twin - being the closest thing he has to “mommy”, feeling bad when he gets upset over her teasing of him having no feelings, taking him to the hospital despite him trying to kill her under COVID, letting him cling to her when he’s freaked out, and needing him around when she gives birth.
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Wording comes off as too... extreme? Profanity kind of unneccessary.
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* IJustWantToBeYou: She really is Dennis without the dick and the fawning fanclub, and while she still thinks he’s a pathetic idiot monster, their… [[SerialRapist sex style]] is very similar, which she comes to readily accept, she wants a dick of her own, and she fucking loves power.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While trying to “cuck a bitch”, she sleeps with a seventeen year old and to her very small credit she hates herself for it until Dennis reassures it’s fine.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** In "[=PTSDee=]", she seems to recognize how extreme her actions against Mike were and mentions that she "doesn't want to talk about it."
** While trying to “cuck a bitch”, she sleeps with a seventeen year oldand and, to her very small credit credit, she hates herself for it is horrified until Dennis reassures it’s fine.encourages her to move past it.
** In "[=PTSDee=]", she seems to recognize how extreme her actions against Mike were and mentions that she "doesn't want to talk about it."
** While trying to “cuck a bitch”, she sleeps with a seventeen year old
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: She detests Dennis for being a power-hungry creep when, in truth, she's every bit the same as her brother.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While trying to “cuck a bitch”, she sleeps with a seventeen year old and to her very small credit she hates herself for it until Dennis reassures it’s fine.
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* IJustWantToBeYou: She really is Dennis without the dick and the fawning fanclub, and while she still thinks he’s a pathetic idiot monster, their… [[SerialRapist sex style]] is very similar, which she comes to readily accept, she wants a dick of her own, and she fucking loves power.
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* AxCrazy: More so as the series goes on, raping Charlie because she wanted a body to get off with, a deep willingness to commit murder, getting a hook-up to accidentally grind on his daughter as revenge, and raging about people not forgetting she set someone on fire.
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* BloodKnight: One of the more violent members of the gang except for Charlie, excited to slit throats and has set someone on fire before.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: In “The Gang Gets Trapped”, she’s willing to choke out the mother in order to escape the closet.
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* TheTease: Back in high school, she would make Cricket believe that she would kiss him if he ate shit and then refuse to do anything with him.
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* WeightWoe: She’s very skinny, but her go-to insult is calling someone fat, and there’s some projection going on. In the family fight episode, she’s starved herself for three days so she doesn’t look puffy, she has no problem throwing up food, and her mom constantly called her overweight.
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* PoisonIsEvil: When Mac is making Dennis feel sick with soda and pizza shakes, she deems that adorable and already knows how to make the latter depend on her for real, while also planning to actually poison him. Also has some TheDogBitesBack and MirrorCharacter, as Dennis poisoned her at least twice, and brags about conditioning her.
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sometimes Dennis is too much for her]], but she wants to [[BrotherSisterIncest Game Of Thrones]] him, loves getting his approval, has a fond smile when the guys are talking about him teabagging Cricket, and has made her own system and version of the implication, looks horny when he grabs a gun or can handle a dart in his hand, and when he’s created a cult just to prey on Mac’s insecurities, catfished Mac to get him out of the house, or came up with a sexual harassment seminar to “advise” to not be sloppy, she’s very impressed.
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* 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.
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* 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. In the extended version for the script, she claims she would never do it, they just need to believe that she would. “[[MeaningfulEcho Because of the insinuation]].”
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* TookALevelInKindness: Weirdly, she boomeranged from kind, to horrible, to a midway still-horrible-but-subtle-about-it: when she first sustained the head injury that led her to morph from an actually sweet Dee to the unpleasant individual she is as an adult, she spit pure venom at everyone around her. Now, she's still bad, but at least has a façade of pleasantness.
