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* EveryoneHasStandards: Is very immature. But even he is amazed at the stupidity of some of his fellow frat brothers, particularly Garf.



* TokenGoodTeammate: The most moral of the group and actually has ambitions outside of the Frat.

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* TokenGoodTeammate: The most moral of the group and actually has ambitions outside of the Frat.
Frat. He's also the only one to point out that they're taking things too far with the Radners.
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* TheVamp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Her plan to break up Teddy and Pete's [[HeterosexualLifePartner bromance]] is to make out with both Peter ''and'' Teddy's girlfriend and then coercing the pair into have sex.

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* TheVamp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Her plan to break up Teddy and Pete's [[HeterosexualLifePartner bromance]] is to make out with both Peter ''and'' Teddy's girlfriend and then coercing the pair into have sex. She also claims that this isn't the first time she came between two guys.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/SethRogan

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/SethRogan



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Egged on by Kelly, he breaks the fraternity's water pipe, flooding their basement and causing thousands of dollars of property damage. The Radners would be looking at an extremely serious fine or even jail time, but luckily for them the cops never find out, likely because Delta Psi themselves don't want the police snooping around their house.]]
* TheStoner: While almost everyone else in the film is also this Mac fits the image best, bringing over weed to the frat house a peace offering, getting stoned while at work and [[spoiler: realising Teddy's combination lock number could only be 420]].

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Egged [[spoiler:Egged on by Kelly, he breaks the fraternity's water pipe, flooding their basement and causing thousands of dollars of property damage. The Radners would be looking at an extremely serious fine or even jail time, but luckily for them the cops never find out, likely because Delta Psi themselves don't want the police snooping around their house.]]
* TheStoner: While almost everyone else in the film is also this Mac fits the image best, bringing over weed to the frat house a peace offering, getting stoned while at work and [[spoiler: realising [[spoiler:realising Teddy's combination lock number could only be 420]].


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->'''Played By:''' Rose Byrne


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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ZacEfron


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->'''Played By:''' Dave Franco


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->'''Played By:''' Lisa Kudrow


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->'''Played By:''' Hannibal Buress
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** [[WordOfGod Seth Rogen stated in an interview]] that the wife character was written in the usual way until he showed his real wife the script and she pointed out that she'd get just as into it as he did.
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* TheVamp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], she plays it up to break up Teddy and Pete's friendship.

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* TheVamp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], she plays it up Invoked]]. Her plan to break up Teddy and Pete's friendship.[[HeterosexualLifePartner bromance]] is to make out with both Peter ''and'' Teddy's girlfriend and then coercing the pair into have sex.
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* TheVamp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], she plays it up to break up Teddy and Pete's friendship.

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* SlouchOfVillainy: He delves into this at one point in the film, [[LampshadeHanging and is called out on "villaining out"]] by Pete.





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\n* WalkingShirtlessScene: For the most part. [[spoiler:He eventually makes money on this by working for Abercrombie & Fitch.]]
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* AmbiguouslyGay

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* AmbiguouslyGayAmbiguouslyGay: Says he was awake when Teddy put his penis in his mouth.



* TheMole

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* TheMoleTheMole: Very briefly.




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* SlaveToPR: Has an extremely high regard for "good headlines".
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* FormerTeenRebel: Claims to have managed to avert TheBroCode before, and proves it by instigating a YourCheatingHeart situation by way of GirlOnGirlIsHot.
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Four years of fucking around in college doesn't leave you many opportunities after graduation.]]

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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Four years Pete tries his hardest to convince him that, despite his fraternity achievements being SeriousBusiness to him, they don't matter a whole lot outside of fucking around in college doesn't leave you many opportunities college, and that he needs to focus less on Delta Psi shenanigans and more on what he'll do after graduation.graduation. By the end, [[spoiler:Teddy realizes that Pete was right, and he starts attending night school to make up for lost time.]]
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* AntiHero: His goals and general personality are definitelty sympathetic (he just wants to raise his daughter in peace and is an affable guy) but he's barely more mature than the frat and does some pretty morally suspect things during the feud like [[spoiler: property damage and trying to wreck friendships and relations in Delta Psi.]]


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* AntiHero: See Mac's entry.


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* AntiVillain: He goes way too far with the feud but the film establishes he's not not really a bad guy, just an immature one who is desperately afraid of his limited prospects after college. [[spoiler: By the end of the film he and Mac make up as friends.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: It takes a special kind of idiot to eat a pot brownie immediately before a disciplinary audience with the dead.

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* TooDumbToLive: It takes a special kind of idiot to eat a pot brownie immediately before a disciplinary audience with the dead.
dean.
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* MyFamilyRightOrWrong: Has this in regards to the Frat. He questions Teddy when he believes that they're taking their pranks to far but also sticks around the group despite his falling out with Teddy.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the dildo creation scheme, Pete uses a scanner from one of his architecture classes to expedite the process. He mentions casually off hand that the others should go to class since the school has great resources.
* MyFamilyRightOrWrong: Has this in regards to the Frat. He questions Teddy when he believes that they're taking their pranks to far but also sticks around the group despite his falling out with Teddy.




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* TokenGoodTeammate: The most moral of the group and actually has ambitions outside of the Frat.


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* AmbiguouslyGay
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Four years of fucking around in college doesn't leave you many opportunities after graduation.]]
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* {{Defied|Trope}} and mocked when Mac asks her why she's not reining in his crazy revenge fantasies -- she herself has those same urges.

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* WomenAreWiser: {{Defied|Trope}} and mocked when Mac asks her why she's not reining in his crazy revenge fantasies -- she herself has those same urges.

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* InformedJudaism
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Egged on by Kelly, he breaks the fraternity's water pipe, flooding their basement and causing thousands of dollars of property damage. The Radners would be looking at an extremely serious fine or even jail time, but luckily for them the cops never find out, likely because Delta Psi themselves don't want the police snooping around their house.]]




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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:She launches a firework directly into a police cruiser.]]
* {{Defied|Trope}} and mocked when Mac asks her why she's not reining in his crazy revenge fantasies -- she herself has those same urges.



* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Mac, upon seeing Teddy for the first time, says that Teddy is the sexiest guy he's ever seen.
* FutureLoser: [[spoiler:He is well aware of the fact that he's on the road to becoming this.]]
* KarmaHoudini: He would be facing several serious charges for his air bag prank, including theft, breaking & entering and battery, but Mac never bothers to report it because PoliceAreUseless.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: [[spoiler: As [[OnlySaneMan Pete]] points out, Teddy has no real plans post-college, none of the frat's accomplishments were real, and he accuses Teddy of starting the war out of fear that he'll end up like Mac.]]




* TheDragon: (or TheLancer depending on how villainous you really find the frat) to Teddy. But also probably the only one that'd qualify as TheSmartGuy or TheEvilGenius)

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* TheDragon: (or TheLancer depending TheDragon[=/=]TheLancer: (Depending on how villainous you really find the frat) to Teddy. But also probably Teddy.
** TheEvilGenius[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Probably
the only one that'd who'd qualify as TheSmartGuy or TheEvilGenius)
this.
* OnlySaneMan: Pete is the sole member of Delta Psi who actually has plans for life after college.


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* OneSceneWonder: Well, two scenes.

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* OneSceneWonder: Well, two scenes.



* OneSceneWonder
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* MrFanservice: When you're played by Zac Efron, you're automatically this.

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* MrFanservice: When you're played by Zac Efron, you're automatically this.
this. [[spoiler: It also helps him get a post-college career at Abercrombie & Fitch]], and there's a prolonged ShirtlessScene at the end that seems to say "Thanks for watching, ladies, and now: here's the reason you bought a ticket."
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* BookDumb: Teddy might be this. His grades are very poor (because he apparently never goes to class) and he's hopelessly naive about the 'legacy' of Delta Psi but otherwise he seems pretty sharp in contrast to the genuinely stupid likes of Scoonie and Garf. Notably he realizes the importance of winning over the neighbors (at least at first) and [[Spoiler: it's his idea to sell Delta Psi dildos, making the fraternity a lot of money.]]

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* BookDumb: Teddy might be this. His grades are very poor (because he apparently never goes to class) and he's hopelessly naive about the 'legacy' of Delta Psi but otherwise he seems pretty sharp in contrast to the genuinely stupid likes of Scoonie and Garf. Notably he realizes the importance of winning over the neighbors (at least at first) and [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: it's his idea to sell Delta Psi dildos, making the fraternity a lot of money.]]
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* BookDumb: Teddy might be this. His grades are very poor (because he apparently never goes to class) and he's hopelessly naive about the 'legacy' of Delta Psi but otherwise he seems pretty sharp in contrast to the genuinely stupid likes of Scoonie and Garf. Notably he realizes the importance of winning over the neighbors (at least at first) and [[Spoiler: it's his idea to sell Delta Psi dildos, making the fraternity a lot of money.]

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* BookDumb: Teddy might be this. His grades are very poor (because he apparently never goes to class) and he's hopelessly naive about the 'legacy' of Delta Psi but otherwise he seems pretty sharp in contrast to the genuinely stupid likes of Scoonie and Garf. Notably he realizes the importance of winning over the neighbors (at least at first) and [[Spoiler: it's his idea to sell Delta Psi dildos, making the fraternity a lot of money.]]]
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* BigBad




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*TheMillstone
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* BookDumb: Teddy might be this. His grades are very poor (because he apparently never goes to class) and he's hopelessly naive about the 'legacy' of Delta Psi but otherwise he seems pretty sharp in contrast to the genuinely stupid likes of Scoonie and Garf. Notably he realizes the importance of winning over the neighbors (at least at first) and [[Spoiler: it's his idea to sell Delta Psi dildos, making the fraternity a lot of money.]



* TooDumbToLive

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* TooDumbToLive
TooDumbToLive: It takes a special kind of idiot to eat a pot brownie immediately before a disciplinary audience with the dead.
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* TheStoner: While almost everyone else in the film is also this Mac fits the image best, bringing over weed to the frat house a peace offering, getting stoned while at work and [[spoiler: realising Teddy's combination lock number could only be 420]].
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* MrFanservice

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* MrFanservice
MrFanservice: When you're played by Zac Efron, you're automatically this.
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* TheDragon: (or TheLancer depending on how villainous you really find the frat) to Teddy. But also probably the only one that'd qualify as TheSmartGuy/TheEvilGenius)

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* TheDragon: (or TheLancer depending on how villainous you really find the frat) to Teddy. But also probably the only one that'd qualify as TheSmartGuy/TheEvilGenius)
TheSmartGuy or TheEvilGenius)

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*MrFanservice




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*TheDragon: (or TheLancer depending on how villainous you really find the frat) to Teddy. But also probably the only one that'd qualify as TheSmartGuy/TheEvilGenius)




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*BiggerIsBetterInBed: Plus a bit of GagPenis




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*TooDumbToLive



*TheMole



!Dean Gladstone

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!Dean Carol Gladstone



* PoliceAreUseless

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* PoliceAreUselessPoliceAreUseless
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[[folder:The Radners]]
!Mac Radner

!Kelly Radner

!Stella Radner
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[[folder:Delta Psi Beta]]
!Teddy

!Pete

!Scoonie

!Garf

!Assjuice
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[[folder:Others]]

!Jimmy

!Paula
*HardDrinkingPartyGirl

!Dean Gladstone
*OneSceneWonder: Well, two scenes.

!Officer Watkins
*OneSceneWonder
*PoliceAreUseless

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