History Characters / Seinfeld

* WeirdnessCoupon: He's notorious for having the BrutalHonesty to express out loud what his friends can only think (i.e. that George's girlfriend needs a nose job), with few or no consequences for him. After watching this unfold a few times, the others even attempt to [[InvokedTrope weaponize it]], hoping to encourage a friend of Elaine's to change her out-of-date haircut by simply introducing them and letting nature take its course. (Unfortunately for their plan, he loves her unique look.)

* WeirdnessCoupon: He's notorious for having the BrutalHonesty to express out loud what his friends can only think (i.e. that George's girlfriend needs a nose job), with few or no consequences for him. After watching this unfold a few times, the others attempt to [[InvokedTrope weaponize it]], hoping to encourage a friend of Elaine's to change her out-of-date haircut by simply introducing them and letting nature take its course. (Unfortunately for their plan, he loves her unique look.)

* TheBusCameBack: Dolores makes a brief reappearance 4 seasons later in "The Foundation" where she became interested in Jerry again after being impressed that he went as far as getting engaged to Jeannie Steinman. However, the attempt to restart their relationship doesn't last long.

* WomenAreWiser: Elaine likes to think she's this. In reality, she's just as much of a petty, self-absorbed jerk as the others.

* HiddenDepths: He asks to join the "Bizarro Jerry" group, indicating that he's fully aware that he's not a good person and deep down has a sincere desire to change.

%%* BrutalHonesty

* ButtMonkey: In one example, the universe has an oddly humorous case of SelectiveEnforcement when it comes to Elaine. Whenever there's something annoying going on (such as a guy loudly going "AHHH!" after each and every sip of coffee, or a dog barking loudly all night long), Elaine is the ''only'' one that reacts to it. Most others around her ignore it like Zen masters.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* ItsAllAboutMe

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Kramer is unemployed and has no visible source of other income nor is he ever stated to be on welfare yet he never has an issue affording expensive objects like golf clubs, country club memberships or cuban cigars.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be bad like the others, but he's often the only one to show genuine kindness or go out of his way to help others, even total strangers.

* SucksAtDancing: Does she ever. When she busts out her "little kicks" at a company party, everyone simply stops and stares in utter disbelief at how bad her dancing is. She's completely oblivious at this fact (she blames George for losing control of her employees when it was really her dancing that was at fault) until Kramer flat out tells her that she sucks at dancing.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He encourages Elaine to steal her neighbor's newspaper, believing himself to be too righteous to do so and Elaine to already be damned, so ergo it doesn't matter if she commits a crime. He's forgotten that "leading someone into temptation" can be considered a sin in and of itself and Elaine truthfully points out that a true Christian would be trying to ''save'' her soul, not encourage her to sin further.

* GirlOfTheWeek: Was Jerry's LoveInterest for "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E20TheJuniorMint The Junior Mint]]."

* GirlOfTheWeek: Was Jerry's LoveInterest for "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E19TheImplant The Implant]]"

[[folder: Jeanie Steinman]]
!!'''Jeanie Steinman (Creator/JaneaneGarofalo)'''

* FauxAffablyEvil: Davola's always polite and soft-spoken, only raising his voice in his final appearance, and was even able to charm Elaine enough to be her boyfriend for a while. He's also the only antagonist in the show that the cast is horrified of and is actually dangerous.

* SanitySlippage: After his life is ruined, he suffers a mental breakdown and is left a paranoid, incompetent wreck who once tried to eat a decomposing hot dog he found in the floor of a movie theater. His final appearance heavily implies he murdered a family and stuffed them in his freezer.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: His eccentricities are largely tolerated because he's a very good and more importantly an honest mechanic.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Her revenge against the Soup Nazi, though petty, is enjoyable for anyone who's had to deal with bad service.

* AssholeVictim: His arrogance and abrasive personality make it hard not to enjoy Elaine's revenge on him.

* DisproportionateRetribution:
** If you screw up the ordering procedure, to quote Jerry, "He yells at you, and you don't get your soup." Even use of GratuitousSpanish can leave you soupless. Elaine is banned for a year for ''doing an impersonation of Creator/AlPacino''. Al Yeganeh (who served as the inspiration for the Soup Nazi), explained that the reason he has this rule is his soup stand was located in a cold part of town, where patrons had to stand outside before they could enter and order. Customers messing up their order, or requesting a change held up the line.

* BornUnlucky: Easily the unluckiest of the four. Any scheme he tries is guaranteed to fall apart. The "born" part might be [[InTheBlood literally true]], since in one episode, he states that it runs in the family: "My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter. I was raised to give up."

* ForWantOfANail: Spoofed. In one episode, George says that [[MundaneLuxury if he had a mantle piece above his fireplace, he would have had a normal childhood]].

* IncrediblyLameFun: He considers watching a movie at ''someone else's house'' to be getting out of the house and doing something.

** Some of his speech patterns and larger than life persona are somewhat reminiscent of the late U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.

* GutturalGrowler: He has a ''very'' raspy voice.

* KavorkaMan: Downplayed. He's more conventionally good looking than George and Kramer and has a steady income unlike them, but Jerry's still pretty average in appearance for someone with an abnormally huge number of onscreen girlfriends.

* {{Expy}}: His deadpan, no-nonesense demeanor with his rapid fire monologue delivery and interrogation of Jerry are obvious references to Joe Friday from ''{{Franchise/Dragnet}}''.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a thinly (read: not remotely) disguised parody of John Peterman, the owner of the ''real'' J. Peterman Company. The real Peterman lost his company to a buyout in 1999, but with financial help from actor John O'Hurley he was able to buy it back.

** In the last episode of season 5, when doing everything the opposite of what his instinct tells him, he gets a new high profile job (with the New York Yankees!), a beautiful girlfriend and finally gets to move back out of his parents house. It's the only episode to have a happy ending for George.

* MeanBoss: He fired an employee just because of the way he served him a cup of coffee.