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* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Miranda.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Often. A great example is when he and Miranda are shopping for fittings for their wedding and his shoe gets caught on a particularly strong piece of chewed gum.
-->'''Miranda:''' This is ''so'' us! We should just get married right here on this street.
-->'''Steve:''' We might have to if I can't get this gum off my shoe!
** Which leads to a EurekaMoment when they notice a particularly nice park nearby.
-->'''Miranda:''' ...I don't hate it!
-->'''Steve:''' Me too!
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Miranda. She really puts him through the ringer before they start a family and finally get married.


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* ReallyGetsAround: When Miranda finds out she got chlamydia from a former partner, she and Steve opt to confess their sexual histories. Turns out his number of partners is ''way'' higher than hers. His explanation is, "I'm a bartender and I'm cute."
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[[folder: Carrie Bradshaw]]

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[[folder: Carrie [[folder:Carrie Bradshaw]]
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[[folder: Samantha Jones]]

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[[folder: Samantha [[folder:Samantha Jones]]
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The In-Between of Carrie's friends.

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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The In-Between of Carrie's friends.friends; not being as goody-goody as Charlotte nor as cynical as Miranda.



* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice one of Carrie's friends.

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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice one of Carrie's friends.friends, in comparison to the more cynical (mean) Miranda and the in-between Samantha.



* TomboyAndGirlygirl: Girly Girl to Miranda's Tomboy.

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* TomboyAndGirlygirl: TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Miranda's Tomboy.



* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Mean of Carrie's friends.

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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Mean of Carrie's friends.friends, having a more cynical outlook than the overtly goody Charlotte (nice) and the more carefree Samantha (in-between).
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Inbetween of Carrie's friends.

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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Inbetween In-Between of Carrie's friends.
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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Inbetween of Carrie's friends.

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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Inbetween of Carrie's friends.
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* AmicableExes: Aleksandr is still on good terms with his first wife, Juliet, and both speak highly of each other. However when Carrie speaks with her, Juliet reminisces about the happy times but notes that she was always second to his work mirroring the situation that Carrie finds herself in.
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* GrowlingGut: In the movie, while the girls are vacationing in Mexico, she accidentally drinks some tap water while she’s taking a shower.[[note]]ItMakesSenseInContext. In Mexico, tap water isn't recommended for drinking.[[/note]] Her stomach gurgles loudly a bunch of times as she rushes back to the hotel to use the bathroom. However, she can’t get in since the room is being cleaned, and as a result, ends up [[PottyFailure crapping her pants]].
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* PreppyName: Her name is Charlotte ''York'', suggesting Anglo lineage. She also comes from a very old-money, WASPy, privileged family in contrast to her friends who came from middle-class or lower-middle class backgrounds.

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* PreppyName: Her name is Charlotte ''York'', suggesting Anglo lineage. She also comes from a very old-money, WASPy, [=WASPy=], privileged family in contrast to her friends who came from middle-class or lower-middle class backgrounds.
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* [[SelfMadeMan Self-Made Woman]]: She came from a working class background with a drunk father and a job at the Dairy Queen, moved to New York where she worked as a barmaid before becoming an independently wealthy woman with her own PR company.

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* [[SelfMadeMan Self-Made Woman]]: SelfMadeWoman: She came from a working class background with a drunk father and a job at the Dairy Queen, moved to New York where she worked as a barmaid before becoming an independently wealthy woman with her own PR company.

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* FieryRedhead: When she gets annoyed.

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* FieryRedhead: When she gets annoyed.annoyed, the fiery locked Miranda can be quick to snap someone's head off.



* HelloAttorney: An attractive lawyer.

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* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: She doesn't have a good relationship with her parents, even claiming to hate them. Her siblings make her self-conscious about her being single but she is very close to her friends and congregates with them, even in the movies when they include husbands and kids.
* HelloAttorney: An attractive (and redheaded) lawyer.

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* EightiesHair: Flashbacks to the 80s in the 2nd movie reveal that Carrie wore her hair in the busy perm upon her arrival in Manhattan and then wore her hair a la Madonna in her "Material Girl" phase after settling in the city.



* QuirkyCurls: An energetic, optimistic, and impulsive woman who wears her naturally curly hair no matter the decade or trends.



* EightiesHair: In a brief flashback to the 80s in the 2nd movie, she wears her hair so crimped, teased, and long, and bouffant it would put a Heavy Metal rocker or [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Peg Bundy]] to shame.



* [[SelfMadeMan Self-Made Woman]]: She came from a working class background with a drunk father and a job at the Dairy Queen, moved to New York where she worked as a barmaid before becoming an independently wealthy woman with her own PR company.



* EightiesHair: A brief flashback in the 2nd movie shows that she has always worn her hair long, shiny, and preppy albeit with heavy bangs of the decade.



* HappilyMarried : with Harry

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* HappilyMarried : With Harry, to the point where she is the only friend with Harry no relationship drama in the first movie.



* {{Housewife}}: After her first wedding.

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* {{Housewife}}: After her first wedding.wedding, she becomes one to focus her efforts on being a society wife and on conceiving children. This is downplayed as she finds herself with nothing to do with her time (and she has fertility issues) and her marriage to Trey is unhappy. After becoming a mother, she is full into this role in the 2nd movie despite having a nanny.



* NiceGirl: She may be insufferably judgemental, superficual, perfectionistic and uptight but she's the nicest of the main characters.

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* NiceGirl: She may be insufferably judgemental, superficual, superficial, perfectionistic and uptight but she's the nicest of the main characters.



%%* PreppyName

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%%* PreppyName* PreppyName: Her name is Charlotte ''York'', suggesting Anglo lineage. She also comes from a very old-money, WASPy, privileged family in contrast to her friends who came from middle-class or lower-middle class backgrounds.



* EightiesHair: In a brief 80s flashback in the 2nd movie, she is seen with a bouffant, Pat Benatar bowl cut.



* RedheadInGreen: She is a redhaired woman who can be seen in green, in fact the 80s flashback to when Carrie first met her in the 2nd movie shows her with an olive-green power suit.



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%%* SugarAndIcePersonality* SugarAndIcePersonality: A {{Tsundere}} who believes in "tough love" to the point of abruptness, who shows love and concern for her friends and other loved ones.
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* YourCheatingHeart: He cheats on Natasha with Carrie, even though Carrie was seeing Aidan.



* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Has sex with another woman in TheMovie. He and Miranda separate because of this, but she eventually forgives him and the two decide to move forward.]]

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* CuteButCacophonic: She's mostly very sweet and nice, but she can ''shriek''. In the first movie when Carrie announces her engagement to Big, she screams so loudly everyone in the restaurant stares at them and Miranda complains her ears are still ringing.

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* CuteButCacophonic: She's mostly a very sweet and nice, friendly optimist, but she can ''shriek''. In the first movie when Carrie announces her engagement to Big, she screams so loudly everyone in the restaurant stares at them and Miranda complains her ears are still ringing.

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* NiceGirl: She may be insufferably judgemental, superficual, perfectionistic and uptight but she's the nicest of the main characters.



* WideEyedIdealist

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* WideEyedIdealistWideEyedIdealist: She's a hopeless romantic who's biggest goal is to have successful marriage.

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*AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have some sort of undiagnosed personality disorder. Several episodes draw attention to this, particularly in "Freak Show" where Carrie wonders if she's more than just "neurotic." She generally manages to hold it together, but experiences with Mr. Big tend to send her spiraling.



** She is easily the most progressive member of the group when it comes to sexuality, which is quite ironic when you consider Carrie's profession.



* TheDitz: Easily the most gullible character in the series, though she mentions more than once she went to Smith.

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* TheDitz: Easily the most gullible character in the series, though she mentions more than once she went to Smith. Made more amusing by the fact that she tends to deny being one.


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* AmbiguouslyBi: It's unclear if this was unintentional or not (especially complicated by Cynthia Nixon who was at the time of shooting most episodes in the closet), but Miranda absolutely gives off this impression. From her constant jokes and asides about "sexually offering herself up to her friends", to her fashion sense (which ranges from conventionally feminine to fabulously butch) and general issues with intimacy (even while dating Steve) there's this sense of sexual frustration that permeates her character throughout the show's runtime. She explores the idea of potentially being into women early on, but brushes it off after a kiss with a lesbian woman.


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* BornUnlucky: Her luck, to put it bluntly, is quite abysmal. Bad things tend to happen to her, sometimes self-inflicted, but usually not. Whether it be sex, romance or even freak accidents like having a stranger ejaculate sperm on her hair during a sex workshop, her general luck is... not great.
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* CoolAunt: While she herself doesn't want kids, she openly states she loves children, and is seen happily playing with Brady, Lily and Rose whenever she can.

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* BreakTheCutie: Charlotte may come from fine stock, but growing up with such high expectations for yourself makes it that much more difficult when they can't be met. First she discovers, on the eve of her (very expensive) wedding, that her fiancé can't get it up; then, once that problem is solved, she has difficulty conceiving, and when she floats the idea of adoption her mother-in-law makes it known that she won't tolerate a "Mandarin baby"; she divorces Trey, and yay! Falls in love again! But it turns out he's super Jewish, so in order to be with the man she loves she needs to convert and (at least in her mind) abandon Christmas for Hannaukah; then Harry leaves her indefinitely after she spent all day cooking an enormous dinner for him but then says something she shouldn't have; they get back together, but then later the couple that had agreed to have their baby adopted changes their mind. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Everything turns out all right in the end, but dammit if Charlotte didn't get put through the wringer in order to get there. ]]

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* BreakTheCutie: Charlotte may come from fine stock, but growing up with such high expectations for yourself makes it that much more difficult when they can't be met. First she discovers, on the eve of her (very expensive) wedding, that her fiancé [[TheLoinsSleepTonight can't get it up; up]]; then, once that problem is solved, she has difficulty conceiving, and when she floats the idea of adoption her mother-in-law makes it known that she won't tolerate a "Mandarin baby"; she divorces Trey, and yay! Falls in love again! But it turns out he's super Jewish, so in order to be with the man she loves she needs to convert and (at least in her mind) abandon Christmas for Hannaukah; then Harry leaves her indefinitely after she spent all day cooking an enormous dinner for him but then says something she shouldn't have; they get back together, but then later the couple that had agreed to have their baby adopted changes their mind. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Everything turns out all right in the end, but dammit if Charlotte didn't get put through the wringer in order to get there. ]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Charlotte may come from fine stock, but growing up with such high expectations for yourself makes it that much more difficult when they can't be met. First she discovers, on the eve of her (very expensive) wedding, that her fiancé can't get it up; then, once that problem is solved, she has difficulty conceiving, and when she floats the idea of adoption her mother-in-law makes it known that she won't tolerate a "Mandarin baby"; she divorces Trey, and yay! Falls in love again! But it turns out he's super Jewish, so in order to be with the man she loves she needs to convert and (at least in her mind) abandon Christmas for Hannaukah; then Harry leaves her indefinitely after she spent all day cooking an enormous dinner for him but then says something she shouldn't have; they get back together, but then later the couple that had agreed to have their baby adopted changes their mind. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Everything turns out all right in the end, but dammit if Charlotte didn't get put through the wringer in order to get there. ]]
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* BiTheWay: Shocks her friends when she enters a lesbian relationship. Samantha professes her liberal outlook on sexuality by theorising that in the future all that will matter is sex between individuals, regardless of gender.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: With her judgmental and self absorbed nature, she has a massive tendency to be this. Particularly when dealing with Natasha.

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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: With her judgmental childish impulsivity and self absorbed nature, she has a massive tendency to be this. Particularly when dealing with Natasha.
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* PluckyGirl: She can be whiny and snarky, but she's relentlessly positive and determined.

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* PluckyGirl: She can be whiny whiny, neurotic and snarky, a little clumsy, but she's relentlessly positive and determined.
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->'''Played By:''' Kristin Davis

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->'''Played By:''' Kristin Davis
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->'''Played By:''' Cynthia Nixon

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->'''Played By:''' Cynthia Nixon
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->'''Played By:''' John Corbett

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->'''Played By:''' John Corbett
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->'''Played By:''' Mikhail Baryshnikov

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->'''Played By:''' Mikhail Baryshnikov
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->'''Played By:''' Evan Handler

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->'''Played By:''' Evan Handler
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->'''Played By:''' David Eigenberg

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->'''Played By:''' David Eigenberg
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->'''Played By:''' Willie Garson

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->'''Played By:''' Willie Garson
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->'''Played By:''' Mario Cantone

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->'''Played By:''' Mario Cantone
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* DrinkOrder: If Carrie doesn't have a Cosmopolitan, she'll usually be seen with a dirty martini.
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* HappilyMarried : with Harry
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* BrainlessBeauty: Probably the most conventionally attractive of the four -- also the ditziest, though she isn't stupid.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Probably the most conventionally attractive of the four -- BrainyBrunette: She can be naive and a bit ditzy but she is also the ditziest, though sophisticated and well educated- thanks to her blue- blooded upbringing. It was mentioned in one episode that she isn't stupid.was a Straight A Student.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blasts Trey for discussing their infertility and adoption plans with his (admittedly overbearing) mother, when she did the same thing with ''complete strangers''.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blasts Trey for discussing their infertility and adoption plans with his (admittedly overbearing) mother, when she not only did the same thing with ''complete strangers''.strangers'', she ''didn't'' discuss half of the things she was doing with ''him''.
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* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Right down to the family estate in Connecticut.

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* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Right down to the family estate in Connecticut.Connecticut and proud celebration of his Scottish roots.

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