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* GreenEyes: Has medium-green eyes which he inherits from his father, representing he's a free spirit and has more than one feeling to his personality.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We are first introduced to him in his apartment in front of a mirror, singing while trying on different ties and flipping back and forth between the bored face he's supposed to make, and an excited face:
-->'''Gene:''' I gotta be MEH! I gotta be MEH!
* FreakOut: Experiences one when being scanned for the first time, causing a rather strange face to appear in Alex's text message and destroys the text center as a result.
-->'''Gene:''' I gotta be MEH! I gotta be MEH!
* FreakOut: Experiences one when being scanned for the first time, causing a rather strange face to appear in Alex's text message and destroys the text center as a result.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: They are introduced making the bored "meh" faces that Gene is supposed to have. As he points out, they're ''very'' good.
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* InkSuitActor: He does look a lot like Jake T. Austin.
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* AllThereInTheScript: She is not referred to by name once throughout the film.
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* {{Expy}}: Where [[spoiler: Jailbreak]] is one of [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] in terms of the twist, Gene is an expy of her in regards to his personality and overall proof of concept. Vanellope was wanted for being a "glitch"; Gene is wanted for being a "malfunction". Both are even [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer belittled for having unique features in their programming]]. Perhaps not surprisingly, he also has more than a few parallels to Emmet Brickowski from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''.
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* {{Expy}}: Is a pretty blatant one of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Wyldstyle]][[note]]Up to having the ''same voice actress'' as well in the Latin American Spanish dub (Karla Falcon)[[/note]] and [[spoiler: [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope von Schweetz]] ]], [[spoiler: right down to being a princess.]] Her hair and beanie also draws similarities to [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Chloe Price]].
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* AffablyEvil: When not in a bad mood, she mostly treats the other emojis pretty fairly as long as they're not causing too much damage. Though, she does become more crazy as the film goes on.
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* AffablyEvil: When not in a bad mood, she mostly treats the other emojis pretty fairly as long as they're not causing too much damage. damage and is just trying her best to keep it safe. Though, she does become more crazy and vicious as the film goes on.
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* ObviouslyEvil: To the point that the trailers didn't even try to hide the fact that she was the villain.
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* ObviouslyEvil: To the point that the trailers didn't even try to hide the fact that she was the villain. [[SlasherSmile Her smile alone]] should probably have been a tip off.
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* AffablyEvil: Can be this or FauxAffablyEvil. She generally treats other emojis fairly as long as they're not causing destruction towards the city and is just trying her best to keep it safe. She could also be FauxAffablyEvil due to the fact that she has no qualms against mistreating her own henchmen and the fact that she even tries to delete other innocent emojis just for defending Gene and [[spoiler:Mel]].
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* AffablyEvil: Can be this or FauxAffablyEvil. She generally When not in a bad mood, she mostly treats the other emojis pretty fairly as long as they're not causing destruction towards too much damage. Though, she does become more crazy as the city and is just trying her best to keep it safe. She could also be FauxAffablyEvil due to the fact that she has no qualms against mistreating her own henchmen and the fact that she even tries to delete other innocent emojis just for defending Gene and [[spoiler:Mel]].film goes on.
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* OnlySaneMan: The only face emoji who has multiple emotions.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: Gene enters a HeroicBSOD because Jailbreak rejects his advances, in part because of his antiquated views of romance.
* OnlySaneMan: The only face emoji who has multipleemotions.emotions, not that the rest of them have much choice in the matter.
* OnlySaneMan: The only face emoji who has multiple
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* {{Expy}}: Is a pretty blatant one of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Wyldstyle]] and [[spoiler: [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope von Schweetz]] ]], [[spoiler: right down to being a princess.]] Her hair and beanie also draws similarities to [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Chloe Price]].
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* DubNameChange: An instesting example in the Japanese dub: While keeping the same name from the original English version, her name is spelled as "Jail Break",[[note]]ジェイル・ブレイク rather than ジェイルブレイク. Keep in mind non-East Asian full names are always separated with either a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_typographic_symbols nakaten or with a double hyphen]].[[/note]] being Jail her name, and Break her surname. This is probably done for avoid having to spell the name of something which is considered a criminal activity in a film geared for children in Japan.
* {{Expy}}: Is a pretty blatant one of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovieWyldstyle]] Wyldstyle]][[note]]Up to having the ''same voice actress'' as well in the Latin American Spanish dub (Karla Falcon)[[/note]] and [[spoiler: [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope von Schweetz]] ]], [[spoiler: right down to being a princess.]] Her hair and beanie also draws similarities to [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Chloe Price]].
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* DubNameChange: In Japan, he's named ''Unchi Papa'' (Daddy Poop).
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* PerpetualSmiler: Since Emoji are meant to stick to the same expression.
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* PerpetualSmiler: Since Emoji are meant to stick to the same expression.
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* {{Expy}}: While [[spoiler: Jailbreak's]] of [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] is twist wise, Gene's is ''personality'' wise. While Vanellope is wanted for being a "glitch", Gene is wanted for being a "malfunction". Both are even [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer belittled for having unique type of features from their programming]]. Even shows some similarities with Emmet from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''.
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* {{Expy}}: While Where [[spoiler: Jailbreak's]] Jailbreak]] is one of [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] in terms of the twist, Gene is twist wise, Gene's is ''personality'' wise. While an expy of her in regards to his personality and overall proof of concept. Vanellope is was wanted for being a "glitch", "glitch"; Gene is wanted for being a "malfunction". Both are even [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer belittled for having unique type of features from in their programming]]. Even shows some similarities with Perhaps not surprisingly, he also has more than a few parallels to Emmet Brickowski from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''.
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* NiceGuy: Despite being the reason for most of the problems in the first place, he's a very well-meaning and kind fellow.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Part is his motivation to try and become a normal "Meh" emoji is to please his parents, particularly Mel.
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* {{Expy}}: Is a pretty blatant one of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Wyldstyle]] and [[spoiler: [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope von Schweetz]] ]], [[spoiler: right down to being a princess.]] Also Her hair and beanie also draws similarities to [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Chloe Price, to a lesser extent.Price]].
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* ReallyRoyaltyRevealReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler:Takes off her hat and wig in Dropbox to reveal that she's a princess emoji before going to rescue Gene.]]
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: He can move his pinky and thumb as if they were arms.
* BigEater: He ate his way through Candy Crush.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Getting sent to the trash to be deleted takes him down a peg.]] By the time Gene and Jailbreak reach him, he's a pathetic wreck openly welcoming death.
* BigEater: He ate his way through Candy Crush.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Getting sent to the trash to be deleted takes him down a peg.]] By the time Gene and Jailbreak reach him, he's a pathetic wreck openly welcoming death.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: He can move his pinky and thumb as if they were arms.
arms. [[BodyHorror Feel free to cringe in pain at your leisure.]]
* BigEater: He ate his way throughCandy Crush.
''Candy Crush''.
* BreakTheHaughty:[[spoiler: Getting [[spoiler:Getting sent to the trash to be deleted takes him down a peg.]] By the time Gene and Jailbreak reach him, he's a pathetic wreck openly welcoming death.
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* TheLoad: He delays Gene and Jailbreak's journey to Dropbox [[spoiler: by getting himself thrown into the trash, forcing the two to rescue him.]]
* TheMillstone: He causes quite a few problems for Gene and Jailbreak during their journey, most notably turning on the ''Just Dance'' app for no reason when the group is nearing Dropbox ([[spoiler: which leads to the app's deletion]]).
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* TheLoad: He delays Gene and Jailbreak's journey to Dropbox [[spoiler: by [[spoiler:by getting himself thrown into the trash, forcing the two to rescue him.]]
* TheMillstone: He causes quite a few problems for Gene and Jailbreak during their journey, most notably turning on the ''Just Dance'' app for no reason when the group is nearing Dropbox([[spoiler: which ([[spoiler:which leads to the app's deletion]]).
* TheMillstone: He causes quite a few problems for Gene and Jailbreak during their journey, most notably turning on the ''Just Dance'' app for no reason when the group is nearing Dropbox
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* TookALevelInKindness: He initially only accompanies Gene on his quest for purely selfish reasons (in his case, to become famous again), but as time goes on he begins to value his friendship with Gene over fame. Yet his character changes remarkably little.
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* TookALevelInKindness: He initially only accompanies Gene on his quest for purely selfish reasons (in his case, to become famous again), but as time goes on he begins to value his friendship with Gene over fame. [[StaticCharacter Yet his character changes remarkably little.little]].
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* LookalikeLoversLookalikeLovers: If not for their hair styles, voices and [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Mary's eyelashes]], they'd be damn near indistinguishable from one another.
* FlatCharacter: A notable example in that he has almost ''no'' personality traits to speak of, even in a movie where the majority of the characters are already very one-note and static. None of his dialogue provides any hints as to what he's like, attempts to expand his character are ignored by dodging the subject and the focus tends to be placed more on the emoji to begin with. What little we do see of him and his actions in the story seem to indicate that he's...not very bright and has knee-jerk reactions to anything unusual that goes on with his phone.
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* LivingMacguffin: The plot revolves around Alex's attraction to her, but she isn't given much characterization.
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* CanonForeigner: She does not appear in any actual Just Dance games.
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:She's sent to the trash by Smiler's bots via deleting the app, in an uncharacteristically shocking scene for the movie]].
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:She's sent to the trash by Smiler's bots via deleting the app, in an [[SurpriseCreepy uncharacteristically shocking scene scene]] for the movie]].
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* BreakTheHaughty: What they try to do Hi-5. He doesn’t care by this point.
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* BreakTheHaughty: What they try to do Hi-5. [[StoppedCaring He doesn’t care by this point.point]].
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* {{Troll}}: Does this even need saying? Notably, all they really do is...insult the emojis and say nobody cares about them. Not very effective trolls....
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* {{Troll}}: Does this even need saying? Notably, all they really do is...insult the emojis and say nobody cares about them. [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Not very effective trolls....trolls...]]
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* {{Expy}}: Is a pretty blatant one of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Wyldstyle]] and [[spoiler: [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope von Schweetz]] ]], [[spoiler: right down to being a princess.]]
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[[folder:Trolls]]
Internet trolls who inhabit the phone. Don’t ask why.
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* BreakTheHaughty: What they try to do Hi-5. He doesn’t care by this point.
* FlatCharacter: None of them have much in the way of actual personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: They’re internet trolls who continually talk down to and belittle emojis.
* {{Troll}}: Does this even need saying? Notably, all they really do is...insult the emojis and say nobody cares about them. Not very effective trolls....
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Has an MyEyesAreUpHere moment while staring at a male clock emoji's clock hands. Also has shown interest in Jailbreak.
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* AxCrazy: Is mentally unstable and goes out of her way delete "malfunction" emojis. Her not being able to make anything but a smile just makes it worse.
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* AffablyEvil: Can be this or FauxAffablyEvil. She generally treats other emojis fairly as long as they're not causing destruction towards the city and is just trying her best to keep it safe. She could also be FauxAffablyEvil due to the fact that she has no qualms against mistreating her own henchmen and the fact that she even tries to delete other emojis just for defending Gene and [[spoiler:Mel]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, she's trying to delete Gene, but she's also got a good reason for her actions due to the fact that Gene technically ''is'' a major threat towards the entire smartphone and she's just trying to prevent the entire phone from getting disintegrated because of him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:She gets sent to Loser Lounge and loses a game of Go Fish against the other misfit emojis.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:She gets sent to Loser Lounge and loses a game of Go Fish against the other misfit emojis.]]
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* {{Expy}}: While [[spoiler: Jailbreak's]] of [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] is twist wise, Gene's is ''personality'' wise. While Vanellope is wanted for being a "glitch", Gene is wanted for being a "malfunction". Both are even [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer belittled for having unique type of features from their programming]].
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* {{Expy}}: While [[spoiler: Jailbreak's]] of [[Disney/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] is twist wise, Gene's is ''personality'' wise. While Vanellope is wanted for being a "glitch", Gene is wanted for being a "malfunction". Both are even [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer belittled for having unique type of features from their programming]]. Even shows some similarities with Emmet from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She has this reaction when [[spoiler: her rejection of Gene causing him to revert to a regular "Meh" out of heartbreak.]]
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* MutliEthnicName: For...unclear reasons other than her {{Animesque}} design. As while a lot of video games come from Japan, ''VideoGame/JustDance'' isn't one of them (it's instead developed in France).
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is determined to preserve the digital world at any cost, including having any "malfunctions" (such as Gene and [[spoiler: Mel]]) deleted. This is what technically makes her a DesignatedVillain.
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* NiceGuy: Despite being the reason for most of the problems in the first place, he's a very well-meaning and kind fellow.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to Hi-5's Manly Man.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Gene's Sensitive Guy.
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* HateSink: At least intended to be one, considering that the very makers of this movie [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emoji-movie-criticized-tasteless-handmaids-tale-tweet-1024054 wished her]] a FateWorseThanDeath...
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* [[spoiler: BadassPrincess]].
* [[spoiler: BadassPrincess]].
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