History Characters / RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries5

* BigFun: In her first confessional, Ginger describes herself as “a helium balloon in the shape of a woman”.

* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Kate's ''Slaycation'' runway is an on-brand comedy scuba suit look, complete with flippered stilettos, though it's very simple in design, which is instantly clocked by the judging panel.

!Vicki Vivacious  [-(7th)-]

* {{Homage}}: For the ''Snatch Game'', Michael presents her own take on two of UK comedienne Creator/CatherineTate's characters,

* DanceBattler: Turns out, DeDe is quite the lipsynch assassin. Her blend of comedy and choreo has kept her in the competition and sent several frontrunners packing.

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Vicki is the first Cornish[[labelnote:*]] Cornwall is technically an English county, but it retains a distinct identity and heritage more aligned with the UK's Celtic Home Nations[[/labelnote]] queen on the show, and in the premiere, both her entrance look and her Club Tickety-Boo look -- accessorised with a Cornish pasty-shaped handbag -- are patterned in the black and white of the flag of Saint Piran, a symbol of Cornish identity. Out of drag, her Werk Room attire is often black and white-themed.!Cara Melle 

!Cara Melle 
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->'''Age''': 26
->'''From''': Camden, North London

->"Kneel for your goddess."

* WardrobeMalfunction: [=DeDe=] isn't the only queen to suffer one of these in the premiere; Tomara presents an ''Angel of the North'' look for her ''Fierce Impressions'' runway, but one her of wings sadly fails to openly properly, and hangs limply and sadly, which is instantly clocked by the judges.

!Vicki Vivacious 
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->'''Age''': 36
->'''From''': Redruth, Cornwall

->"All right, boys. Want a bite of my pasty?"
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* BadassBiker: For the ''Mirror, mirror'' runway in episode 5, Vicki sports a biker outfit with a hugely exaggerated, pannier-like skirt covered in pieces of broken-up blue mirror.
* BritishRoyalGuards: Vicki smashes the premiere, winning her first [=RuPeter=] Badge, and the judges are particularly impressed with her ''Fierce Impressions'' look; a dragged-up take on a classic King's Guard, complete with oversized hip pads and a smart recreation of the Guards' towering bearskin hats.
* BrutalHonesty: In keeping with her serious tone, Vicki can be quite blunt. Following a poor showing the ''Disaster Class'' panel-based challenge of episode 4, during critiquing, Vicki explains to the judges that she promised herself to always be honest whilst on the show, and then goes on to detail how she feels she could have done a much better moderating job than Banksie. In the Werk Room, utterly furious, Banksie marches off set.
* CommonalityConnection: In the premiere, Vicki and Michael (36 and 39 respectively) bond over being the oldest queens in the group, noting that the world has changed dramatically for young queer folk since their own formative years.
* ConsummateProfessional: When performing, Vicki is as camp and silly as any queen, but in the Werk Room and especially in confessionals, she's very earnest, and quite serious in tone, always focussing on the task at hand and avoiding drama where she can.
-->'''Tomara''': You big serious cow.
* FreddieMercopy: Leaning in to her penchant for pageantry and regalia, for her ''Night of a Thousand Pop Icons'' runway, Vicki presents a dragged-up take on the RequisiteRoyalRegalia and CoolCrown (based on the real St Edward's crown) Freddie sported for his 1986 ''Magic'' tour.
* TheIngenue: In the {{Pantomime}}-themed ''Panto-oh She Better Don't'' Rusical in episode 5, Vicki plays The Milkmaid, the beautiful, sweet-natured LoveInterest to Michael's (ahem) Dick, the panto's Principal Boy role. She receives high praise for her performance, with her broad Cornish accent lending exactly the right tone to the part.
* PatrioticFervor: In the premiere, Vicki notes that she proudly supports the UK Armed Forces and performs at barracks all over the country. In acknowledgment, for her ''Fierce Impressions'' look, she presents a dragged-up take on a King's Guard.
* RegionalSpeciality: As a proud Cornish queen, she celebrates her county's signature dish, the Cornish pasty[[labelnote:*]]a turnover-shaped baked shortcrust pastry filled with beef and vegetables[[/labelnote]], in her entrance look via a sequinned pasty-shaped clutch.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Vicki is the first Cornish[[labelnote:*]] Cornwall is technically an English county, but it retains a distinct identity and heritage more aligned with the UK's Celtic Home Nations[[/labelnote]] queen on the show, and in the premiere, both her entrance look and her Club Tickety-Boo look -- accessorised with a Cornish pasty-shaped handbag -- are patterned in the black and white of the flag of Saint Piran, a symbol of Cornish identity. Out of drag, her Werk Room attire is often black and white-themed.

* StraightGay: Her fellow queens are all typically camp both in and out of drag, but Miss Naomi, in the Werk Room and in confessionals, doesn't particularly exhibit any queenly campiness, and is more of a laddish, cheeky chappy.

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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Prior to the {{Pantomime}}-themed ''Panto-oh She Better Don't'' Rusical in episode 5, [=DeDe=] bashfully admits to have never actually been to a panto, a cultural institution so perennially British that her fellow queens are aghast. It's perhaps for this reason that her performance as the class Dame character (one of UK drag's key inspirations, if not the UrExample) is a bit of a mess, with her usual gurning, kiki-ing and okurr-ing mismatched with the task at hand. Landing in the bottom two, she manages to edge out Banksie and survive the week.

%%* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Her drag name is taken from the Catholic saint, Peter the Apostle, often established as the first Pope in the Catholic faith.

* NoSenseOfHumour: She can serve stunning looks and expert choreo, but comedy is absolutely ''not'' Cara's strong point, which is apparent in the the ''Disaster Class'' panel challenge, and hammered cringe-inducingly home in the ''Reading is Fundamental'' mini-challenge, where her reads of her fellow queens fall deathly flat.

!Banksie 

-->'''Banksie''': She's just got to jet off -- she's ''got'' to go. I'm very sorry, the slopes are calling.

* UnderdressedForTheOccassion: Kate's ''Slaycation'' runway is an on-brand comedy scuba suit look, complete with flippered stilettos, though it's very simple in design, which is instantly clocked by the judging panel.

* GenuisDitz: Tomara's a chatty, exuberant bimbo, and can be a little InnocentlyInsensitive on occasion, but her ditziness belies her fiercely focussed, competent skills when performing.

* BrutalHonesty: In keeping with her serious tone, Vicki can be quite blunt. Following a poor showing the ''Disaster Class'' panel challenge of episode 4, during critiquing, Vicki explains to the judges that she promised herself to always be honest whilst on the show, and then goes on to detail how she feels she could have done a much better moderating job than Banksie. In the Werk Room, utterly furious, Banksie marches off set.

* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Alexis is a little unsure in tone and fairly quiet in general, and after Dede notes that she thinks she’s the weakest queen in the premiere, Alexis puts on a brave face but never really recovers from the sting of Dede’s remark, loses her confidence, and is sent home first.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: The first queen out this series, though with a smaller cast than normal, no elimination in the premiere, and her having beef with Dede, we got to know Alexis a little more than typical examples across the franchise. A good concept poorly executed for the ''Pet Stop Girls'' design challenge lands her in the bottom 2, where Miss Naomi sends her packing.

* InjuredLimbEpisode: When the queens de-drag at the beginning of episode 3, Dede and Miss Naomi horse about and charge at each other tit to tit, resulting in Miss Naomi's leg colliding with Dede's knee, injuring it quite badly. This keeps Miss Naomi off her feet for much of the episode and requires some careful propping involving an on-stage sofa and stationary movement on her part during the ''Club Bangers'' girl groups challenge.

* BreakTheHaughty: [=DeDe=] arrives in the Werk Room full of confidence, reminding us that she and her girls "rule [[{{Gayborhood}} Soho]]" and that she's Series 3 winner Krystal Versace's drag-sister. She's also critical of Alexis, noting that she thinks she'll be the first to be sent home, which distresses Alexis and rallies the other queens to her defence. However, despite her polished confidence, Dede makes the cardinal sin of not ensuring that her wig is properly taped, and in the Club Tickety-Boo dance-off challenge, her wig detaches and she ultimately has to discard it -- a WardrobeMalfunction that she notes has ''never'' happened before on the UK show. In the Werk Room, she's deflated and humbled by the experience.

->"All right, lasses. Michael Marouli on season five? Oh, uh-huh!"

* RecognitionFailure: Michael, a 15-year veteran of drag, notes with chagrin that she doesn’t think the other queens who have entered up to that point -- Tomara, Banksie and Miss Naomi -- have a clue who she is. Cara and Dede have a far stronger reaction from the queens upon entry, with Cara in particular inspiring major cheers.

* TheDitz: Tomara's a chatty, exuberant bimbo, but can be a little InnocentlyInsensitive on occasion.

* WardrobeMalfunction: Dede isn't the only queen to suffer one of these in the premiere; Tomara presents an ''Angel of the North'' look for her ''Fierce Impressions'' runway, but one her of wings sadly fails to openly properly, and hangs limply and sadly, which is instantly clocked by the judges.

-->'''Banksie''': She's just got to jet off, she's ''got'' to go. I'm very sorry, the slopes are calling.

!Dede Licious 

* BreakTheHaughty: Dede arrives in the Werk Room full of confidence, reminding us that she and her girls "run Soho" and that she's Series 3 winner Krystal Versace's drag-sister. She's also critical of Alexis, noting that she thinks she'll be the first to be sent home, which distresses Alexis and rallies the other queens to her defence. However, despite her polished confidence, Dede makes the cardinal sin of not ensuring that her wig is properly taped, and in the Club Tickety-Boo dance-off challenge, her wig detaches and she ultimately has to discard it -- a WardrobeMalfunction that she notes has ''never'' happened before on the UK show. In the Werk Room, she's deflated and humbled by the experience.
* ItsAllAboutMe: By episode 3, some of her fellow queens tire of her predilection for steering all points of conversation back on her, with Ginger quipping "Dede? More like me-me-me...". In episode 4, she's christened '[=MeMe=] Licious' by her fellow queens.

* PrideBeforeAFall: Dede arrives in the premiere full of confidence, both in her looks and drag-family heritage, and is not shy in offering her unsolicited opinions in the Werk Room prior to the Maxi Challenge. However, a disastrous wig-related WardrobeMalfunction sees her place safe for the week, with the queen she expected to go home first, Alexis, landing in the top.
* WardrobeMalfunction: Dede has a disastrous moment in the premiere during the Club Tickety-Boo challenge, when her wig becomes unstuck and slips back, requiring her to clamp it back into position and ultimately discard it completely. The onlooking audiences of judges and legendary national and international queens from across the franchise look on with barely-concealed disappointment.
* WholeCostumeReference: For her ''Night of a Thousand Pop Icons'' runway, Dede celebrates Music/NickiMinaj in an acid-pink, self-sewn look that's a mash-up of several of Minaj's own, but primarily inspired by the pink latex jumpsuit she famously sported at the 2017 MTV Music Awards.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Having won the mini-challenge in week 4, Tomara is gifted with the opportunity to assign teams for the ''Disaster Class'' panel-based maxi-challenge. Immediately, she selects Michael and Ginger, forming a GirlPosse of UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland queens who go on to obliterate the competition with their master class on the do's and don'ts of a drunken night out in Newcastle. The trio each deservedly bag a [=RuPeter=] Badge.

%%* CountryMouse: She hails from the small village of Lanchester in rural County Durham in the far north of England, where she notes the drag-scene is utterly non-existent, and honed her skills on the Newcastle and London scenes.
%%Need to cite a source for this part - how is/was she a fish out of water in the big city?

* BirdsOfAFeather: Having won the mini-challenge in week 4, Tomara is gifted with the opportunity to assign teams for the ''Disaster Class'' panel-based maxi-challenge. Immediately, she selects Michael and Ginger, forming a GirlPosse of UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland queens who go on to obliterate the competition with their master class on the do's and don'ts of a drunken night out in Newcastle. The trio each deservedly bag a [=RuPeter=] Badge.

* EpicFail: Cara receives some of the strongest critiques of the series so far for her performance in the ''Disaster Class'' panel challenge, due to a, well, disastrously flat and unfunny performance that reveals comedy to be this normally-competent queen's major blind-spot.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Her ''Club Bangers'' performance in the girl groups challenge of episode three is a slick scene-stealer, with the challenge offering Cara the perfect opportunity to show off her impressive dance skills. When judging, Graham quips that the five-queen group felt more like "Cara Melle and Friends" on viewing. In a winners' lip-sync against teammate Tomara, Cara edges her way to the win and her first [=RuPeter=] badge.

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: In episode 4, she's teamed up with Vicki and Cara for the ''Disaster Class'' presenting maxi-challenge. The group are disjointed, with Vicki taking things too seriously and Cara being an unfunny EpicFail. Banksie does better, with the judges noting that she held the group together as moderator and had her smart, funny moments. However, back in the Werk Room, both Vicki and Cara (looking to deflect blame, as Kate notes) round on Banksie and try to frame ''her'' as the weak link. Banksie's having none of it, and hurt and in shock, marches off set to calm down.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Having won the mini-challenge in week 4, Tomara is gifted with the opportunity to assign teams for the ''Disaster Class'' presenting-based maxi-challenge. Immediately, she selects Michael and Ginger, forming a GirlPosse of UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland queens who go on to obliterate the competition with their master class on the do's and don'ts of a drunken night out in Newcastle.

* BrutalHonesty: In keeping with her serious tone, Vicki can be quite blunt. Following a poor showing the ''Disaster Class'' presenting challenge of episode 4, during critiquing, Vicki explains to the judges that she promised herself to always be honest whilst on the show, and then goes on to detail how she feels she could have done a much better moderating job than Banksie. In the Werk Room, utterly furious, Banksie marches off set.