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* EveryoneHasStandards: While he happily involves himself in [[spoiler: identity theft and organ trafficking]] in series 2, he sees to exposing Andrews when he finds out how much blood she's had spilled in pursuit of the project he just involved himself in.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his violent temper and Mrs. Wren's scatterbrained nature, Mr. Jelly comes to genuinely care for her and makes her his assistant.


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* AudienceSurrogate: As the most normal main character, Michael often finds himself in this role.


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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Despite initially appearing as straight man to Joy's strangeness, George is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: having an affair with Nicola AND they eventually attempt to kill Joy]].
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* [[spoiler: BaldOfEvil]]: He sports a rather tragic comb-over and colludes with Nicola to [[spoiler: kill Joy in her feat episode.]]

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* PsychopathicManchild: The most apt description of David, he's very child like has dedicated his life to learning about serial killers.

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* PsychopathicManchild: The most apt description of David, he's very child like and has dedicated his life to learning about serial killers.


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* FourEyesZeroSoul: A bespectacled and profoundly disturbed man who orchestrated and elaborate plan to blow up five people as well as himself.


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[[folder: George Aston]]
->played by: Steve Pemberton
Joy's emotionally browbeaten husband.[[spoiler: He's having an affair with Joy's coworker, Nicola.]]
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* [[spoiler: BaldOfEvil]]: He sports a rather tragic comb-over and colludes with Nicola to [[spoiler: kill Joy in her feat episode.]]
* DeathByIrony: In the Astons' segment in the Halloween special.[[spoiler: Wherein after saying that someone could break their neck in the mess Joy made in the kitchen, he later makes a mess himself which leads to him falling, breaking his neck and dying.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: George fits this trope in a rather odd way. Most, if not all, of his issues with Joy stem from her delusional behavior regarding Freddy.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Nicola, George never faces consequences for his actions in the episode "''Joy''".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He never appears following [[spoiler: Joy's death]] in the series 2 premier.
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* BigBadWannabe: Despite being the main villain of the show's first season, Stuart makes numerous errors in the execution of his blackmailing of the main cast that only 3 of his intended targets are at his trap, in addition to 4 completely innocent people. The fact all he did was in pursuit of avenging his mother, who was still alive and ultimately died in his explosion, only makes his failure greater.

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* BigBadWannabe: Despite being the main villain of the show's first season, Stuart makes numerous errors in the execution of his blackmailing of the main cast that only 3 of his intended targets are at end up in his trap, in addition to 4 completely innocent people.people who had no involvement whatsoever. The fact all he did was in pursuit of avenging his mother, who was still alive and ultimately died in his explosion, only makes his failure greater.

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* EvilIsPetty: While his hatred of the four patients responsible for his mother's presumed death is understandable, he also blames Mr. Jelly for it. Simply because he was the patient Stuart was operating on at the time of the fire.
* NonIronicClown: While he carries himself as one, it's {{Subverted}} and turned into [[MonsterClown Monster Clown]] with the reveal of his true nature

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* ConnectedAllAlong: He's actually the son of Edwina Kenchington.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His mother used the Ravenhill fire to fake her death before dying 2 years later in an explosion of her son's design. His website reveals that Jolly telling his father he was leaving medicine to pursue clowning gave his father a fatal heart attack.
* EvilIsPetty: While his hatred of the four patients responsible for his mother's presumed death is understandable, he also blames Mr. Jelly for it. Simply because he was the patient Stuart was operating on at the time of the fire.
fire. It's also implied he became a clown solely to poach Sean's business and make him even more miserable.
* NonIronicClown: While he carries himself as one, it's {{Subverted}} and turned into [[MonsterClown Monster Clown]] with the reveal of his true naturenature.
* SelfMadeOrphan: A notably {{Zigzagged}} example. Stuart doesn't seem to realize (or at least accept) that his change of profession was the direct cause of his father's death and the only other person harmed in his explosive murder-suicide is his own mother, who had be presumed dead for 2 years.
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A sweet old woman who becomes Mr. Jelly's assistant threw an unlike chain of mishaps.

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A sweet old woman who becomes Mr. Jelly's assistant threw through an unlike unlikely chain of mishaps.
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* RelatedAllAlong: The second series reveals that she's the great aunt of [[spoiler: Simon]].

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* VitriolicBestBuds: He befriends Mrs. Wren and even makes her his assistant in season 2, despite her scatterbrained nature.


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* BigBad: Of the first series.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite being the main villain of the show's first season, Stuart makes numerous errors in the execution of his blackmailing of the main cast that only 3 of his intended targets are at his trap, in addition to 4 completely innocent people. The fact all he did was in pursuit of avenging his mother, who was still alive and ultimately died in his explosion, only makes his failure greater.
* EvilIsPetty: While his hatred of the four patients responsible for his mother's presumed death is understandable, he also blames Mr. Jelly for it. Simply because he was the patient Stuart was operating on at the time of the fire.


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[[folder: Claudia Wren]]
-> played by: Vilma Hollingbery
A sweet old woman who becomes Mr. Jelly's assistant threw an unlike chain of mishaps.
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* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]: Fortunately {{Subverted}} in the episode "''Sunnyvale''", though unfortunately at the expense of her roommate, Pat.
* RelatedAllAlong: The second series reveals that she's the great aunt of [[spoiler: Simon]].
* ScatterbrainedSenior: The crux of many of her jokes and quips.
* SkewedPriorities: Claudia is quite prone to this as a result of both her forgetfulness and lack of context to most of the situations she finds herself in.
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[[foler: Dr. Stuart Strachen/ Mr. Jolly '''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]

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* NonIroniClown: While he carries himself as one, it's {{Subverted}} and turned into [[ScaryClown Scary Clown]] with the reveal of his true nature

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* NonIroniClown: NonIronicClown: While he carries himself as one, it's {{Subverted}} and turned into [[ScaryClown Scary [[MonsterClown Monster Clown]] with the reveal of his true nature

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->played by: Jason Tompkins

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->played by: Jason TompkinsThompkins


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[[foler: Dr. Stuart Strachen/ Mr. Jolly '''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
->played by: Adrian Scarborough
''The true identity of the blackmailer''. A surgeon turned birthday clown, the very surgeon responsible for Mr. Jelly's missing hand.
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* NonIroniClown: While he carries himself as one, it's {{Subverted}} and turned into [[ScaryClown Scary Clown]] with the reveal of his true nature
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* MyBelovedSmother: This is a major part of Maureen's personality and arc, just in a bloodier way than usual.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: A {{Downplayed}} example, as David's childish mind and occasional regret for his actions makes it hard to see him as truly villaionous.


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* HiddenDepths: Her excess free time has allowed her to refine her bontempi playing to a T.

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