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%%%%* BrainyBrunette* BrainyBrunette: Dark hair? Check. Multiple master's degrees in various fields of physics by the age of 19? ''Check.''



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* ButtMonkeyBadassLongcoat: Eridan is deliberately trying to invoke this. When Kanaya shortens the hem in "The Case of the Missing Licorice", Eridan wonders aloud how he's supposed to look badass now.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: He's the biggest blank spot in Doc Scratch's [[TheOmniscient omniscience]].
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* TheNavigator: Has a fantastic sense of direction, and can tell you where you are and which direction you're in from just about anywhere in the city. This is especially useful when traveling through the sewers to avoid notice.

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* TheNavigator: Has a fantastic sense of direction, and can tell you where you are and which direction you're in going from just about anywhere in the city. This is especially useful when traveling through the sewers to avoid notice.
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* TheNavigator: Has a fantastic sense of direction, and can tell you where you are and which direction you're in from just about anywhere in the city. This is especially useful when traveling through the sewers to avoid notice.
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* LogicalWeakness: Her reliance on her sense of smell as her principal sense leaves her in a tough position when confronted with things that have a naturally overpowering smell, like cleaning chemicals or the sewers.
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* HammerspaceHair: Stashes Faygo up there, at the very least.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If anything happens that leaves Gamzee legitimately shaken despite his perpetual brain haze, Karkat knows shit's just gotten real.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Is willing to use [[spoiler:his own daughter]] as a hostage against betrayal by [[spoiler:Vriska]].


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* BerserkButton: [[FriendToAllChildren Threatening children.]] When John finds out Mr. Pupa is keeping [[spoiler:Vriska's daughter]] as a hostage, Kanaya notes that it's the angriest she's ever seen him.
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* SignificantHaircut: Or rather, significant lack of one. In "Take It All In Stride", he lets his hair and beard grow for two years before zapping back to the present. It further signifies his DivergentCharacterEvolution, showing how truly different from Alpha Dave he is now.
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* PosthumousCharacter

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* PosthumousCharacterPosthumousCharacter: Murdered before the series begins.

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* DecompositeCharacter: Canon Equius's trait of being a [[GadgeteerGenius genius roboticist]] is here given to [[OriginalCharacter his younger brother Horuss Jr.]]



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* OriginalCharacterOriginalCharacter: WordOfGod has it that Horuss Jr. is not the Horuss from canon; rather, that Horuss is [[DeadGuyJunior Horuss III]], Equius's son from the same future that the Magpie hails from.
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* FourthWallShutInStory: "The Man in the Green Robe" reveals that he appeared in the ''Troll Cops'' universe at ground zero of the Green Sun explosion, with the implication that it really is our world's Creator/AndrewHussie warped into the ''Troll Cops'' universe. However, unlike most stories of this type, he's not the protagonist, rather just a recurring [[CrazyHomelessPeople crazy homeless person]] with a healthy dose of WrongGenreSavvy.

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Sollux has three older brothers, two older sisters, and two younger sisters. He's the last to settle down and start a family of his own.



* BlackMagic[[spoiler: Former user of this with the Thorns of Oglogoth.]]

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* BlackMagic[[spoiler: Former BlackMagic: [[spoiler:Former user of this with the Thorns of Oglogoth.]]



* {{Necromancer}}: [[spoiler: Inadvertently. It technically applies because she was able to [[spoiler:bring Kanaya BackFromTheDead using the [[BlackMagic Thorns of Oglogoth.]]]]

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* {{Necromancer}}: [[spoiler: Inadvertently. It technically applies because she was able to [[spoiler:bring Kanaya BackFromTheDead using the [[BlackMagic Thorns of Oglogoth.]]]]



%%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents

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%%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: On fullest display in "Motherly Advice". No son wants to hear his mother talking about sex with his girlfriend.



%%%%* OpenMindedParent: Sollux is actually embarrassed by this trait.

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%%%%* * OpenMindedParent: Sollux is actually embarrassed by this trait.



%%%* TeamMom

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%%%* TeamMom
* TeamMom: In addition to her own eight children, she considers anyone who is close to her son practically family. Aradia, Feferi, and Terezi are all among those who call her "Mama".
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* MeaningfulName: She's named after a genus of intelligent spiders.

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* CuckoolandersMinder: AR's original reasoning for pairing him up with Terezi. She's a brilliant LooseCannon, and he's supposed to rein her in.


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* DonutMessWithACop: The dispatch desk almost always has a box of donuts on it somewhere. It's actually made her something of a...
* FatGirl: Her love of donuts and sedentary dispatch desk job have resulted in her packing on a few extra pounds. [[WeightWoe She's very sensitive about this.]]
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* CuckoolandersMinder: AR's original reasoning for pairing him up with Terezi. She's a brilliant LooseCannon, and he's supposed to rein her in.
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* TheNoseKnows: In addition to her [[DisabilitySuperpower ability to smell color]], Terezi's sense of smell is just plain better than other people's.
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* TheHyena: Giggles constantly, which gets on the nerves of people who aren't used to her.
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* TheChessmaster: He literally a chessboard with pieces representing the major players in the city, and always seems to be in control of the situation even when unforeseeable circumstances force him to engage in a little XanatosSpeedChess.

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* TheChessmaster: He literally has a chessboard with pieces representing the major players in the city, and always seems to be in control of the situation even when unforeseeable circumstances force him to engage in a little XanatosSpeedChess.
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%%* HandicappedBadass

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%%* HandicappedBadass* HandicappedBadass: Thanks to her DisabilitySuperpower, she isn't hampered by her blindness and can go toe-to-toe with some of the worst criminals the city has to offer.



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%%%* RobotGirl* RobotGirl: When an unfortunate encounter with the Mindfang Pirates puts Aradia in a coma she's not expected to wake up from, her soul is copied into a robotic shell and put back into service. Sollux refuses to work with her, though, insisting the robot isn't truly Aradia, so she's instead partnered with Equius.
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* BlindSeer: She loses her sight in "Excision" when a military-grade flash grenade goes off while she's looking directly at it. She lampshades the trope, noting that she's now like the BlindSeers of old, and that her visions have been hinting that something like this would happen for some time.

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* BlindSeer: She loses her sight in "Excision" when a military-grade flash grenade goes off while she's looking directly at it. She lampshades the trope, noting that she's now like the BlindSeers Seers of old, and that her visions have been hinting that something like this would happen for some time.
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* BlindSeer: She loses her sight in "Excision" when a military-grade flash grenade goes off while she's looking directly at it. She notes that she's

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* BlindSeer: She loses her sight in "Excision" when a military-grade flash grenade goes off while she's looking directly at it. She notes lampshades the trope, noting that she'sshe's now like the BlindSeers of old, and that her visions have been hinting that something like this would happen for some time.
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%%%%%* ThouShaltNotKill* ThouShaltNotKill: Being a far more idealistic hero than the Crowfamily, he holds himself to this standard.
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%%%%* DisabilitySuperpower* DisabilitySuperpower: She developed the ability to smell and taste color after she was blinded. It's implied that these powers come from exposure to the Green Sun, much like Sollux's psionics.
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* PowerDegeneration: Gamzee when sober is a [[AwesomenessByAnalysis quick-thinking]], [[SuperReflexes quick-moving]], [[HyperAwareness hyper-perceptive]] badass who can go toe-to-toe with five members of the Felt at once and win. However, enduring the sheer amount of sensory input for more than a few minutes is physically crippling and he needs to tamp it down with heavy drug use to avoid suffering a complete mental burnout.

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* PowerDegeneration: Gamzee when sober is a [[AwesomenessByAnalysis quick-thinking]], [[SuperReflexes quick-moving]], [[HyperAwareness hyper-perceptive]] badass who can go toe-to-toe with five members of the Felt at once and win. However, enduring the sheer amount of sensory input for more than a few minutes is physically crippling and he needs to tamp it down with heavy drug use drugs that've been described as "a sledgehammer to the skull" to avoid suffering a complete mental burnout.

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%%%* TokenEvilTeammate

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%%%* TokenEvilTeammate* TokenEvilTeammate: For the APD when she's working with Mr. Pupa.



* AwesomenessByAnalysis: [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34044-TROLL!COPS-The-AU&p=4504155&viewfull=1#post4504155 When he sobers up]], he defeats five Felt members by himself.

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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20130213165936/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34044-TROLL!COPS-The-AU&p=4504155&viewfull=1#post4504155 php?34044-TROLL%21COPS-The-AU&p=4504155&viewfull=1#post4504155 When he sobers up]], he defeats five Felt members by himself.


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* PowerDegeneration: Gamzee when sober is a [[AwesomenessByAnalysis quick-thinking]], [[SuperReflexes quick-moving]], [[HyperAwareness hyper-perceptive]] badass who can go toe-to-toe with five members of the Felt at once and win. However, enduring the sheer amount of sensory input for more than a few minutes is physically crippling and he needs to tamp it down with heavy drug use to avoid suffering a complete mental burnout.

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%%* DirtyCop

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%%* DirtyCop* DirtyCop: Not only is Vriska using her position as dispatch officer to sell information to Mr. Pupa and other criminals, but she's also secretly the leader of the Mindfang Pirates, one of the city's six major criminal organizations.




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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: One of the biggest reasons it's dangerous to get involved with him in the first place. He's attempted this on [[spoiler:Vriska]] in "Disentangled", [[spoiler:SEER]] in "Excision", and [[spoiler:the Karkat Gang]] in "Would You Kindly?", just to name a few.



* SheIsAllGrownUp:

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* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[ObliviousToLove Karkat]] is the last one to notice.



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%%%* SuperStrength* SuperStrength: A power granted by one of his Artifacts. DependingOnTheWriter, it's either from his ring or his hammer.



* GadgeteerGenius: Unlike the other heroes of SEER, who derive their powers from [[BlackBox Skaian Artifacts]], Space Lass's powers are tied to PoweredArmor of her own design.



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%%%* DotingParent * DotingParent: Doting Grandparent, rather, but as Jade's Guardian he did dote on her [[spoiler:even in death.]]



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%%%* GadgeteerGenius* GadgeteerGenius: The first person to study the [[BlackBox Skaian]] [[AncientArtifact Artifacts]], then turning around and applying his findings to his own inventions, such as the transportalizer.



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%%%* RetiredBadass:
* PosthumousCharacter: A vital character in Jade's and Rose's backstories, whose work provided the whole basis on which SEER was founded, but he died two years before SEER's founding. He does appear in flashbacks, though, [[spoiler:and during Don's mission to the afterlife in "Here After".]]
* RetiredBadass: Formerly a globetrotting AdventurerArchaeologist, he retired to Harley Tower twelve years before the Green Sun Disaster to focus on academic work and raising Jade.
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%%%* BodyguardCrush: Unofficially fills the role of Rose's bodyguard in the SEER hierarchy.

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%%%* * BodyguardCrush: Unofficially fills the role of Rose's bodyguard in the SEER hierarchy.

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%%%* EyeBeams* EyeBeams: His WeaponOfChoice, forgoing a traditional police sidearm.



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%%%%* * MommasBoy: Sollux is the only troll shown to be on good terms with his Mama. The others are either estranged or deceased.



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%%%%* CowboyCop* CowboyCop: Terezi is eccentric, tactless, and prone to taking justice into her own hands. That said, she's still universally regarded as the best investigator the APD has.



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%%%%* ShipperOnDeck: For Sollux and Feferi.

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* ShipperOnDeck: For Sollux and Feferi.
Feferi. She spent the whole time from "Captor and Culler" all the way to "Motherly Advice" trying to get them to make it official, a period that in-universe lasted for two whole years.



%%%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Toward Horuss.

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%%%%* * BigBrotherInstinct: Toward Very protective of his younger brother Horuss.



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%%%* NobleBigotWithABadge* NobleBigotWithABadge: Still a classist asshole clinging to the long-defunct Hemospectrum, but generally considered incorruptible and one of only five officers that [[ProperlyParanoid the Oracle]] implicitly trusts, which says a lot.



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%%%* OnlyMostlyDead* OnlyMostlyDead: After her soul is copied into a robot, Aradia's family opts to pull the plug on her comatose body. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to everyone, her body was recovered and nursed back to health by Tavros, until she finally awakens in "Arisen".]]



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%%%* TheChessmaster* TheChessmaster: He literally a chessboard with pieces representing the major players in the city, and always seems to be in control of the situation even when unforeseeable circumstances force him to engage in a little XanatosSpeedChess.



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* StreetUrchin: Ran away from the orphanage after the Disaster, figuring he'd have a better chance out on the streets than in the foster care system.



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%%%* StreetUrchin
* StreetUrchin: Orphaned at an extremely young age, she's been living on the streets with Karkat for most of her life.



%%%%* DropTheHammer

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%%%%* DropTheHammer* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice, although the [[DependingOnTheAuthor authors]] never came to a consensus whether it's the Warhammer of Zillyhoo or just a generic warhammer.



%%%%* TheHero

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%%%%* TheHero* TheHero: In the [[GreyAndGreyMorality Grey and Gray]] CrapsackWorld of Alternia City, Egbertman is the most unambiguously heroic paragon the people have to look up to.



%%%* KatanasAreJustBetter
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%%%* KatanasAreJustBetter
%%%* KilledOffForReal
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His sword, which [[{{Irony}} ironically]] ended up being used to kill him.



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%%%%* KidFromTheFuture* KidFromTheFuture: She used the Timetables to zap back to the present to avert a disaster in the future. The disaster averted, she's now stuck here because her actions have caused the timeline she originated in to no longer exist.



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%%%* LaserBlade* LaserBlade: Her WeaponOfChoice, a technology that hasn't been invented yet that she brought with her from the future.



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%%%* MagpiesAsPortents* MagpiesAsPortents: A thematic choice she deliberately invokes.



* TheOtherDarrin: In her first appearance in the Radio Play, she's played by Gideon Del Rio, who is better known as the original Terezi. In all subsequent appearances, however, she is played by Kait Howell.
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* TheOtherDarrin: In RaisedByGrandparents: Her parents died when she was very young, so she was sent to live with her first appearance in the Radio Play, she's played by Gideon Del Rio, who is better known as the original Terezi. In all subsequent appearances, however, she is played by Kait Howell.
%%%* RaisedByGrandparents
doting Grandpa.



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%%%%* PrivateDetective
%%%%* PrivateEyeMonologue
* PrivateDetective: Trained by Webcomic/ProblemSleuth, no less.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Stories with him as the focus frequently have him narrating in this manner.



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%%%* CombatMedic* CombatMedic: Not only is she the on-call medic for both SEER and the APD, but between [[ChainsawGood the chainsaw]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the vampirism]] she can more than hold her own in a fight.



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%%%* BlindSeer * BlindSeer: She loses her sight in "Excision" when a military-grade flash grenade goes off while she's looking directly at it. She notes that she's



%%%* WhiteMagic: The Quills of Echidna, her weapon of choice.

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%%%* * WhiteMagic: The Quills of Echidna, her weapon WeaponOfChoice, which are described as drawing their power from [[TheLifestream the force of choice.
life as a concept]], rather than feeding from the energy of individuals.



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%%%* CloudCuckoolander* CloudCuckoolander: Mentally, he's living in another world. [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Literally.]]

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