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[[folder:Agnes]]
!! Agnes
!!!Played by: Carolyn Michelle Smith
Alan's grandmother with whom she never had much contact with
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* {{Foil}}: To Alan, in regards to his anxiety. They are both overachievers who are unsure of their place. It's telling that Alan doesn't change while being himself since the things Alan said are things Agnes could have said
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: In the last episode Alan meets his grandmother in a sort of purgatorium if it was really her or just a product of both Nadia and Alan dealing with loss in their ways is left ambigious]]
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!!Chez Carrera
!!!Played by: Sharito Copley
A con artist that Lanora had a relationship with
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* TookALevelInKindness: While she still has her own share of issues dealing with generational trauma and she is still pretty snarky and a bit selfish she is more approachable in the second season. Also, she gradually gets better over the course of the first season.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never
clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never never
clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.crazy.
* AmbiguouslyBi: His attraction to women is legit but in the second season where he is his grandmother (and dates Lenny) Alan himself doesn't seem to oppose it, though it's not made clear if he only does because he doesn't want to interfere with the past and likes to be in his grandma's body or if he is really into guys.
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* DeadpanSnarker: In both seasons but in the 2nd one it comes out more and she makes a lot of snarky remarks about the situations she is in.
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* {{Bookworm}}:{{Bookworm}}: She became an avid reader as a child to escape her troubled home life. She gives John's daughter a copy of Emily of New Moon, her favorite book when she was that age.
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Cuckold is now on Definition Only Pages, so it shouldn't be treated as a trope in bulleted lists. Examples that focus on the feelings of the husband can go in Emasculated Cuckold.


* {{Cuckold}}: Twice over. First, his girlfriend Beatrice has been sleeping with another man for months. Secondly, he watches as Nadia sleeps around, and preventing her from sleeping with Mike (again) is the crux of his final loop.
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* Hypocrite: Steals [[spoiler: Alan’s shoes to give them to Horse]] but immediately freaks out when [[spoiler: he goes through her stuff, namely her old photos of her mother.]] This was only a few hours apart. She does apologize in the next loop, however.

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* Hypocrite: {{Hypocrite}}: Steals [[spoiler: Alan’s shoes to give them to Horse]] but immediately freaks out when [[spoiler: he goes through her stuff, namely her old photos of her mother.]] This was only a few hours apart. She does apologize in the next loop, however.

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* Hypocrite: Steals [[spoiler: Alan’s shoes to give them to Horse]] but immediately freaks out when [[spoiler: he goes through her stuff, namely her old photos of her mother.]] This was only a few hours apart. She does apologize in the next loop, however.



* ItsAllMyFault: After being taken by the CPS Nadia was sent to live with Ruth instead of her mother. One year later, her mother died and ever since Nadia blamed hersef for it. Even when Ruth tells her that she first told the CPS that she wanted to be with her mother but they wouldn't let it happen due to the latter's deteriorating menta state, Nadia still feels guilty because she actually ''wanted'' to live with Ruth to escape the instability that came with living with her mother.

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* ItsAllMyFault: After being taken by the CPS Nadia was sent to live with Ruth instead of her mother. One year later, her mother died and ever since Nadia blamed hersef for it. Even when Ruth tells her that she first told the CPS that she wanted to be with her mother but they wouldn't let it happen due to the latter's deteriorating menta mental state, Nadia still feels guilty because she actually ''wanted'' to live with Ruth to escape the instability that came with living with her mother.
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** In one shot, urns of her several husbands along with photos of them are seen in her home.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Grew up with a mother with an unspecified mental illness who died sometime after she was taken into CPS care.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Grew up with a mother with an unspecified mental illness who died sometime after she was taken into CPS care. She also mentions that her mother gave her an eating disorder.


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* ItsAllMyFault: After being taken by the CPS Nadia was sent to live with Ruth instead of her mother. One year later, her mother died and ever since Nadia blamed hersef for it. Even when Ruth tells her that she first told the CPS that she wanted to be with her mother but they wouldn't let it happen due to the latter's deteriorating menta state, Nadia still feels guilty because she actually ''wanted'' to live with Ruth to escape the instability that came with living with her mother.
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No longer a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart: Cheated on his wife and wanted to leave her for Nadia. Nadia wanted none of that, and he wound up destroying his life for a woman who didn't want him.



* YourCheatingHeart



* YourCheatingHeart: Beatrice seems to be his only actual relationship, and he'll still sleep with anything in a skirt.
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!!!Played by: Dascha Polanco

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!!!Played by: Dascha PolancoCreator/DaschaPolanco
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Nadia wasn't dying on her own staircase and she kept dying BECAUSE other people were on the stairs bumping into her.


* EpicFail: Dies literally every time she tries to walk down the stairs to her own apartment, that she has presumably walked up and down every day for several years, that several other people are navigating perfectly fine.

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* EpicFail: Dies literally every time After her first few loops she tries dies over and over again just trying to walk down the stairs to her own apartment, that she has presumably walked Maxine's apartment. She eventually gives up and down every day for several years, that several other people are navigating perfectly fine.starts exiting through the fire escape.
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Nadia's cat, from the beginning of the series has been missing for three days. A combination of Nadia suddenly seeing him across the street, and not looking where she's going caused her first death.

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Nadia's cat, who from the beginning of the series has been missing for three days. A combination of Nadia suddenly seeing him across the street, street and not looking where she's going caused her first death.
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Alan's long time girlfriend, however, she fell out of love with him a long time ago and dumps him on the same night the loop starts.

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Alan's long time girlfriend, however, girlfriend. However, she fell out of love with him a long time ago and dumps him on the same night the loop starts.
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!!Alan!!Alan Zaveri

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* CosmicPlaything: What with Nadia and Alan forced to relive the same day on loop that always ends in their death. Lampshaded by Nadia when she says, "The universe is trying to fuck with me. And I refuse to engage."

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* CosmicPlaything: What with Nadia and Alan forced to relive the same day on loop that always ends in their death. Lampshaded by Nadia when she says, "The universe is trying to fuck with me. And I refuse to engage."" If both are in the same place for too long, expect something considerably unlikely to happen that kills them both at the same time.


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* EpicFail: Dies literally every time she tries to walk down the stairs to her own apartment, that she has presumably walked up and down every day for several years, that several other people are navigating perfectly fine.
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* TheChewToy: Both Nadia and Alan suffer multiple amusing deaths, particularly Nadia frequently falling down the stairs as well as tripping into sidewalk cellar doors. As the series goes on though, their deaths become much heavier and darker.
* CosmicPlaything: What with Nadia and Alan forced to relive the same day on loop that always ends in their death. Lampshaded by Nadia when she says, "The universe is trying to fuck with me. And I refuse to engage."
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!!!Played by: Natasha Lyonne

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!!!Played by: Natasha LyonneCreator/NatashaLyonne, Brooke Timber (young)



!!!Played by: Chloe Sevigny

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!!!Played by: Chloe SevignyCreator/ChloeSevigny
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* PassedInHerSleep: In the timeline where she gets drunk and befriends Horse, they sleep on the street and end up freezing to death. When she wakes up, she is in front of the mirror and realizes that this happens.

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* PassedInHerSleep: [[PassedInTheirSleep Passed In Her Sleep]]: In the timeline where she gets drunk and befriends Horse, they sleep on the street and end up freezing to death. When she wakes up, she is in front of the mirror and realizes that this happens.
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\n* RunningGag: She introduces herself in each loop with "Sweet Birthday Baby"

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* GutturalGrowler: Has a very deep, gravelly voice for a woman her age.
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Oatmeal is a Living Mac Guffin

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* LivingMacGuffin: At the start of the series, finding and caring for Oatmeal seems to be Nadia's only long-term goal in life. As with most cats, it's not entirely clear that he needs the help.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to Alan's Feminine Boy.


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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Nadia's Masculine Girl.
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\n* ItsAllAboutMe: Throws Nadia a birthday party but is more concerned with the fact that no one is eating her chicken than the fact that something is clearly going on with Nadia.

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