History Characters / Peepshow

->''If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.''

* JerkAssWoobie: For all his cowardice and nasty streak he's hard not to sympathize with

->''I don't want to tempt fate, but I think everything is going to be totally great forever.''

* TedBaxter

* TedBaxter: Even more so than Jeremy.

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* DirtyCoward: Too many times to count, but most of all the way he ends up marrying the wrong woman because he hasn't got the guts to break it off.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Started off as a fairly pleasant and bland love interest and straight woman to Mark until after a couple of series Olivia Colman made the writers realise that she wasn't really such a nice girl when you look at how she treats him. This led to her character being developed in other directions in series 3 and 4 and she really turns into a bitch after [[spoiler: their ill-fated wedding.]]

* HiddenDepths: When his love of history gets the chance to shine, you get the feeling he really should have pursued that instead of working for a finance company.

* HeroicSociopath

* BerserkButton: Does not like being locked in a room at all

* JerkAss

* JerkAss

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At times, mostly when around Sophie.

* Hypocrite: Acts like a devout Christian...and is also too kinky for [[AnythingThatMoves Jeremy.]] It's probably in keeping with her own, self-styled religion.

* Adorkable

* NotSoDifferent: Will take any opportunity to stab Jeremy in the back.

* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler: During ''that'' wedding]]

* Sensual Slav

* Meganekko: When she dons her specs.

* Sensual Slavs

* ChristmasCake: -->'''Mark''': "She's not out of Hollyoaks, Jeremy, she probably had a ration book!".

* ButtMonkey
* TheChewToy

* DirtyCoward

* PapaWolf

* ManChild

* InelegantBlubbering
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking
* TookALevelInJerkass

* BadassMoustache

* TheBully

* JerkJock

* SmugSnake

* ChristmasCake
* FreudianExcuse: Has some serious daddy issues owing to her father walking out on her.

* MsFanservice

* EnglishRose

* NerdsAreSexy
* {{Ladette}}

* AxCrazy: Can fall into this.

* ChristmasCake

* ShoutOut: to a certain [[HarryPotter house elf?]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He is one of the fan's favourites despite his limited appearances.

* TheAlcoholic

* TheUnfairSex: Averted. Elena is depicted as being just as selfish and shallow as Jez

* AnythingThatMoves

* MeanBoss

* GranolaGirl: Very much so, but also a devout Christian.

* HoYay: With Jeremy (sometimes) and Johnson.

* TheWoobie: Very few good things happen for him.

* JerkassWoobie: It's hard not to feel a little sorry for him when he breaks down into tears over his Dad leaving when he was a kid.

* HoYay: With Mark. And Super Hans. And Big Suze’s one-time boyfriend, Stu. And he was a ‘handyman’ for a musician he admired…a musician who expected him to be ‘handy’.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A bitch who [[{{TheBabyTrap}} manipulated Mark into fatherhood]], didn't let him name the baby (cause he wasn't at the Christening), played him and Jeff off against each other, tried to get him to take drugs when he didn't want to, lost him a job and told people he jilted her when she ran off [[{{YMMV}} OR]] Marks the [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] who stalked her and got into a petty rivalry with Jeff over her, got Jez to make nasty phone calls to her over her getting a job that he had no more right than her to anyway (and it turned out she didn't want), used her as a human shield, abandoned her while in labor and decided to marry her to get a [[{{GoldDigger}} big house]] only to try to jilt her by hiding in the church. (Ironically Olivia Coleman dislikes her while {{DavidMitchell}} thinks she's ok)
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[YourMileageMayVary In]] [[ProtagonistCentredMorality some viewers]] [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation minds]]

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Some viewers blame her for dumping Mark at the altar when she only did that after he was caught [[{{DirtyCoward}} hiding in the church]].

* TheUnfairSex: Very strong case of {{YourMileageMayVary}} on that one (see AlternativeCharacterInterpretation)

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He’s pretty much adored by the fans.

* MoralEventHorizon: He goes from an office bully into a full-fledged sadistic bastard when he gives Mark a nasty little speech about how he doesn't see him as a threat to his relationship. 'You could have your cock in her. You still wouldn't have the balls to fuck.'

* SammysGlassEye: "Tube up his nose. Tube up his nose. He's a man with a tube up his nose."

-->'''Jez''': Four?... Oh... Yeah. ''Jesus. I've had sex with more men than that, and I basically only sleep with women''.

* AudioErotica: So very posh. So ''very'' hot.