History Characters / RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries5

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!Kate Butch [-5th-]

* OddballDoppelganger: For the ''Snatch Game'', Tomara portrays the late Creator/RobinWilliams in his own iconic crossdressing role for the 90s classic, ''Film/MrsDoubtfire''. Tomara (being Tomara) presents a deranged take on her subject, meandering all over Europe and America's deep south with her accent, and ultimately giving a performance that's so charmingly nuts that the judges can't help but love it, and she places high again for the week.

** For the ''Hotline Makeover'' challenge of week 8, the queens are partnered with operators from The Switchboard, a volunteered-manned listening service for the LGBT+ community and challenged with creating a drag family resemblance. Partnered with volunteer Xan (now brilliantly 'Femily Brontë'), who matches her cool, quirky vibe, Kate creates a legally-safe ''Film/{{Grease}}''-themed look that's in practise a cute Danny and Sandy drag mashup, but as the judges note, it lacks the family resemblance they're looking for. Landing in the bottom two, [=DeDe=] sends her home.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: For the ''Hotline Makeover'' challenge of week 8, the queens are partnered with operators from The Switchboard, a volunteered-manned listening service for the LGBT+ community and challenged with creating a drag family resemblance. Partnered with volunteer Rodrigo (now dubbed 'Ruiva -- Ginger in Rodrigo's native Portuguese -- Johnson'), Ginger creates a perfectly complementary 60s dollybird-themed look for the pair that's so well executed and in-sync that when they walk out onto the main stage for the first time, it's tricky to tell who's who. The judges ''love'' their pairing, and Ginger is ''just'' edged out on the win by Michael and her partner's standout performance.

* DanceBattler: [=DeDe=] is quite the lip-sync assassin, and her blend of comedy and choreo has kept her in the competition and sent several frontrunners packing by week 6.

** For the ''Hotline Makeover'' challenge of week 8, the queens are partnered with operators from The Switchboard, a volunteered-manned listening service for the LGBT+ community. Partnered with volunteer Xan, who matches her cool, quirky vibe, Kate creates a legally-safe Film/{{Grease}}-themed look that's in practise a cute Danny and Sandy drag mashup, but as the judges note, it lacks the 'family resemblance' they're looking for. Landing in the bottom two, [=DeDe=] sends her home.

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->'''Age''': 20
->'''From''': Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

->"Well, this isn't the drive-thru. But I'm still about to eat."

!Kate Butch 
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->'''Age''': 26
->'''From''': Buxton, Derbyshire

->"[[Music/{{KateBush}} Heathcliffe, it's me. I'm Cathy. I've come home! Ooh, I'm so cold.]]"

* AchillesHeel: Kate presents excellent singing, improv, and comedy skills, but her wardrobing abilities are a self-admitted area of difficulty, with many of her runway looks delivering a somewhat flat, unpolished take on what could be a clever concept.
* AgeIsRelative: She's definitely something of an old soul, and her drag style and references read much older than her 26 years -- which she happily admits, describing herself as "biologically, I am only 26 years old but, mentally, I'm in my mid-60s".
* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Having been gifted with the opportunity to have first dibs on her role of choice for the {{Pantomime}}-themed ''Panto-oh She Better Don't'' Rusical in episode 5, Kate picks Twinkerbell, a bucolic-accented northern fairy, and delivers both the laughs and continuity required of the role, with special mention going to the absolutely scenery-chewing emphasis she places on the word 'pussy' when enquiring after Dick Whittington's missing cat.
* AlwaysSecondBest: By episode 5, Kate has always been safe, receiving no positive or negative critiques. After demolishing the ''Reading is Fundamental'' mini-challenge, and delivering an excellent performance in the Rusical, it looks as if Kate is heading for her first win, only for Ginger to pip her to the post once again.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Kate likes taking an unexpected turn with her lists, putting something a bit darker at the end. She manages to fit two different takes on this into her initial "Meet the Queens" intro.
-->'''Kate Butch:''' I am a theatre and performance queen by heart. I'm a triple threat -- I can sing, I can act and I've brought a knife.
* BrokenWinLossStreak: Kate languishes in 'Safe' for the first half of the competition, but begins to pick up the pace by week 6. In week 7, she ''finally'' take her first win with her excellent performance in the ''Melodrama-rama'' acting challenge.
* {{Camp}}: In the UK series, OnceASeason there's always a queen who encapsulates the bawdy, {{Pantomime}} campiness of British drag, and Kate joins the ranks of her predecessors [[Characters/RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries1 Baga Chipz]], [[Characters/RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries2 Ginny Lemon]], [[Characters/RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries3 Kitty Scott-Claus]], and [[Characters/RuPaulsDragRaceUKSeries4 Pixie Polite]] in terms of queens who perfectly represent traditionally British, camp-as-Christmas drag.
* ChewingTheScenery: Kate is an inherently funny, gurning comedy queen -- (Ginger notes that Kate's "already 70% puppet" prior to portraying her in the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge) -- and has her moment of stardom in the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7. Partnering with Ginger, the pair play a mistress (Kate) and servant (Ginger) vying for the affections of the same man in ''Holedark'' -- a spoof of the BBC's Cornish PeriodDrama, ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' -- with Kate's expertly hammy performance as the shrill, dangerously randy Elizabent garnering her the best feedback she's received -- and her first win of the competition.
* FanGirl: As her drag-name suggests, she's a huge Music/KateBush fan, and her self-penned lyrics for the ''Club Bangers'' girl groups challenge in episode 3 contain multiple references to Bush's iconic tracks.
-->'''Kate''': ♪ It's me, Kate Butch, let me in at your window. Might be thick but don't call me a bimbo. Running up that hill just to wuther your heights and I'll climb to the top like the ladder in your tights! ♪
* InsultComic: The perennial ''Reading is Fundamental'' mini-challenge allows Kate to flex her comedy muscles, and she absolutely demolishes her rival queens with a slew of expertly-delivered barbs.
-->'''Kate''': Ginger Johnson, you are a queen of the theatre and I just want to know; what was Shakespeare really like? He actually almost wrote a play about Ginger's look last week but unfortunately ''Much Ado About a Mentally Unwell Dinner Lady in Space'' didn't really land.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Kate is amongst the more eccentric queens in the cast, and has a irreverent, self-deprecating sense of humour only matched by her good natured, sweet vibe.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Kate's drag name is a [[PunnyName dragged-up twist]] on English musical legend, Music/KateBush. Her act, known as "Wuthering Shites", features a melody of Bush's hits, and she notes in the premiere that it's garnered her national recognition and multiple awards.
* PhraseCatcher: Ru and her fellow queens delight in addressing her via alternate forms of her first name, including 'Kathy' and 'Katherine Butch', for example.
* PluckyComicRelief: Kate is a charming, witty queen, with confessionals often spotlighting her to provide a wry commentary on each episode's goings on. Having been a little overlooked up until that point, episode 4's panel-based ''Disaster Class'' maxi-challenge allows Kate to shine through, and she's dubbed the funniest queen of the group by the judging panel.
* {{Retraux}}: Kate's drag style is firmly, deliberately, and lovingly grounded in the past, with a wardrobe that leans in to the heavy florals of the 60s-70s, Creator/LucilleBall-style makeup, and a sense of bawdy humour to match.
* SelfDeprecation: A large part of her comedic skill lays in her ability to ''never'' take herself too seriously.
-->'''Kate''': I lost all my makeup skills in a house fire.
* SheCleansUpNicely: "Glamorous" is not a word usually associated with Kate, as her wardrobing skills are definitely her AchillesHeel. However, for the ''Pajamarama'' runway of week 7, Kate proves that she ''can'' serve glamour via a beautiful, ''[[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Cluedo]]''-inspired, DeliberatelyMonochrome look, with Kate's theatrics as a backstabbed Miss Scarlet -- at one point conking out motionless on the main-stage for ''minutes'' -- garnering her huge praise from the judges.
* 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.
** Kate's slightly 'meh' wardrobing skills once again rear their head in the ''Hearts On'' runway of week 6, where her Gaultier-esque sailor girl look is judged to be underwhelming and overly simplistic compared to her competitors.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: By episode 4, Kate has received ''no'' critiques, positive or negative, always landing safe. Mischievously, the other girls query this in the Werk Room, and Kate notes that she hasn't yet had a chance to prove her comedy mettle. Sure enough, come the episode's ''Disaster Class'' panel-based maxi-challenge, it's Kate's comic chops that steer her group to success, with her being singled out by the judges as easily the funniest queen of her team, if not the whole challenge.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: For the ''Snatch Game'', she portrays her muse and namesake, UK music legend Music/KateBush, but decides to play her subject as a gruff Cockney/South East Londoner with a bit of [[Series/BoSelecta Keith Lemon-esque]] gurning thrown in, despite the fact that Bush herself speaks with a mellifluous ''Kentish'' accent. It's a slightly confused, hot mess of a performance, but she still brings the laughs, ultimately placing high.
* WholeCostumeReference: For her ''Night of a Thousand Pop Icons'' runway, she swerves serving her expected subject matter, Kate Bush, and instead celebrates Music/ShaniaTwain via a recreation of the leopard print look Twain sports in her 1998 "That Don't Impress Me Much" music video.

!Michael Marouli 
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->'''Age''': 39
->'''From''': Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

->"All right, lasses. Michael Marouli on Season 5? Oh, uh-huh!"
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* BodybagTrick: For the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7, she's partnered with [=DeDe=] in ''Femmerdale'' — a spoof of ITV's long-running Yorkshire-based SoapOpera ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'' — at one point bursting hilariously out from under a tarp, GagBoobs and 'get-me-the-manager' hairdo bouncing all over place, that her duplicitous daughter and love-rival ([=DeDe=]) is about to bury her in.

* TakeThat: In the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge, Ginger portrays Kate and savagely reads her slightly disjointed, and very unflattering portrayal of her muse Music/KateBush in the ''Snatch Game'', complete with Kate's odd choice to portray Bush with a Creator/RayWinstone-esque cockney accent.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Michael regularly leans into Newcastle's reputation as a UK party town for her drag, and celebrates the fact for her ''Pajamarama'' runway in week 7 via her mascara-smeared, walk-of-shame glamourpuss look, complete with 'tabs' (cigarettes), a hamburger, a can of lager, and a ''jockstrap'' stashed in her wig.

* BodybagTrick: For the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7, she's partnered with [=DeDe=] in ''Femmerdale'' -- a spoof of the ITV's long-running, Yorkshire-based SoapOpera, ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'', at one point bursting hilariously out from under a tarp, GagBoobs and 'get-me-the-manager' hairdo bounching all over place, that her duplicitous daughter and love-rival ([=DeDe=]) is about to bury her in.

* ChewingTheScenery: Kate is an inherently funny, gurning comedy queen -- (Ginger notes that she's "already 70% puppet" prior to portraying her in the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge) -- and has her moment of stardom in the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7. Partnering with Ginger, the pair play a mistress (Kate) and servant (Ginger) vying for the affections of the same man in ''Holedark'' -- a spoof of the BBC's Cornish PeriodDrama, ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' -- with Kate's expertly hammy performance as the shrill, dangerously randy Elizabent garnering her the best feedback she's received -- and her first win of the competition.

* ChewingTheScenary: Kate is an inherently funny, gurning comedy queen -- (Ginger notes that she's "already 70% puppet" prior to portraying her in the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge) -- and has her moment of stardom in the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7. Partnering with Ginger, the pair play a mistress (Kate) and servant (Ginger) vying for the affections of the same man in ''Holedark'' -- a spoof of the BBC's Cornish PeriodDrama, ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' -- with Kate's expertly hammy performance as the shrill, dangerously randy Elizabent garnering her the best feedback she's received -- and her first win of the competition.

* ChewingTheScenary: Kate is an inherently funny, gurning comedy queen -- Ginger notes that she's "already 70% puppet" prior to portraying her i the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge -- and has her moment of stardom in the ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge of week 7. Partnering with Ginger, the pair play a mistress (Kate) and servant (Ginger) vying for the affections of the same man in ''Holedark'' -- a spoof of the BBC's Cornish PeriodDrama, ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' -- with Kate's expertly hammy performance as the shrill, dangerously randy Elizabent garnering her the best feedback she's received -- and her first win of the competition.

* MasterActor: Ginger is an expert comedic actress, with wins in the Improv, Rusical, and coveted ''Snatch Game'' challenges. In week 7, she nails the ''Everyone Loves Puppets'' mini-challenge with a savagely hilarious impression of Kate, and is gifted with the opportunity to assign pairs for ''Melodrama-Rama'' acting challenge. Partnering with Kate, the pair play a mistress (Kate) and servant (Ginger) vying for the affections of the same man in ''Holedark'' -- a spoof of the BBC's Cornish PeriodDrama, Series/{{Poldark}} -- and utterly ''nail'' the challenge, with the judges praising the pair for their characterisation, comedic timing, improvisation, and above all, total professionalism.

* GorgeousPeriodDress: After a fairly rocky start to the series, in which she's critiqued for an okay-ish entrance look and a flat Club Tickety-Boo performance, Ginger wows the judges with her first runway look; a beautiful, self-sewn, 70s maxi-dress in floral oranges and yellows that invokes a classic 1970s dinner-party-hosting housewife.

* NoSenseOfHumour: She can serve stunning looks and expert choreo, but comedy is absolutely ''not'' Cara's strong point, which is apparent in 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. It’s eventually her undoing in the ''Footballer's WAGs'' Screen Test challenge, where despite her improvement, she’s still not the funniest in a crowd of camp queens.

* NoSenseOfHumour: She can serve stunning looks and expert choreo, but comedy is absolutely ''not'' Cara's strong point, which is apparent in 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. It’s eventually her undoing in the Screen Test challenge, despite her improvement she’s still not the funniest in a crowd of camp queens.

!Cara Melle  [-(6th)-]

!Cara Melle 

* NoSenseOfHumour: She can serve stunning looks and expert choreo, but comedy is absolutely ''not'' Cara's strong point, which is apparent in 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.

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* WickedHeartSymbol: For the ''Hearts On'' runway of episode 6, most of the girls go with the expected Cupid-esque looks and bold red colour pallette, but Michael mixes things up dramatically, presenting a UsefulNotes/BDSM take on the theme via a huge, black leather chained heart motif that fully encases her whole body and dramatic goth-rock makeup.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In the {{Pantomime}}-themed ''Panto-oh She Better Don't'' Rusical in episode 5, she and Tomara play a pair of washed-up former pop-stars humorously dubbed 'Dee from Stairs' and 'Lisa Thot-Lee' -- a thinly-veiled reference to two of the members of UK 90s pop group, Music/{{Steps}}, and a wry dig at the propensity for UK celebs whose stars are on the wane to start appearing in regional panto. 

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In the {{Pantomime}}-themed ''Panto-oh She Better Don't'' Rusical in episode 5, she and Cara play a pair of washed-up former pop-stars humorously dubbed 'Dee from Stairs' and 'Lisa Thot-Lee' -- a thinly-veiled reference to two of the members of UK 90s pop group, Music/{{Steps}}, and a wry dig at the propensity for UK celebs whose stars are on the wane to start appearing in regional panto. 

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBaddass: Tomara presents as a ditzy, BrainlessBeauty and is often a cackling troll in both confessionals and the Werk Room. However, her on-stage performance and overall presence as a drag performer is undeniable -- something her fellow queens begrudgingly admit to.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tomara presents as a ditzy, BrainlessBeauty and is often a cackling troll in both confessionals and the Werk Room. However, her on-stage performance and overall presence as a drag performer is undeniable -- something her fellow queens begrudgingly admit to.

* DanceBattler: [=DeDe=] is quite the lip-sync assassin, and her blend of comedy and choreo has kept her in the competition and sent several frontrunners packing by week 5.

-->'''Ginger''': Imagine what they're like when they're deciding who's turn it is to take the bins out.

* NaughtyNurse: For the ''Hearts On'' runway of week 6, Tomara goes with a dominatrix-nurse look, and even despite the relative simplicity of her corset outfit, she once again serves it so well that even Michelle ([[SeriousBusiness who usually reads a corset-based look to filth]]) can't help but love it.

* GrandeDame: For the ''Snatch Game'', Ginger knocks it out the park with her portrayal of the legendary Dame Barbara Cartland, an English {{Socialite}} famous for producing a vast collection of schlocky [[RomanceNovel romance novels]] groaning with MillsAndBoonProse, as well as her heavy pancake UncannyValleyMakeup, chiffon wardrobe, and obsession with all things pink. Bantering expertly with Ru, and looking (and sounding) exactly like Dame Barbara, she deservedly takes her third win of the competition.