History Characters / Uglies

* BecomingtheMask: Tally slowly begins to love the Smoke and decides to make it her new home and not tell Dr. Cable its location.

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!Frey
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%%* MirrorCharacter: With Shay and Dr. Cable.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: This is a big part of Tally’s personality in the first two books. She is a ManicPixieDreamGirl to both David and Zane before the LoveTriangle sets in.
* NotSoDifferent: With Shay and Dr. Cable.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In Pretties.

* NotSoDifferent: With Tally. Although they are very different personality-wise they are also quite similar in terms of their roles in the story, even a lot of their tropes are either the same or extremely similar.

* NotSoDifferent: With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.

* StarkOfDarkness: It appears that Tally betraying her in Uglies was this for her. Shay eventually overcomes this.

* BettyAndVeronica/BettyAndVeronicaSwitch:Tally implies that before the series began, she was the Betty Peris was the Archie and his crushes were Veronicas. However, Tally eventually got over Peris. In Uglies, Tally is a Betty who turns into a Veronica in the last third while David is the Archie and Shay is a Veronica who turns into a Betty in the last third. In the beginning of Pretties, Tally is the Veronica to Helen’s Betty and to Zane’s Archie until Zane dumps Helen. For the rest of Pretties and most of Specials, Tally is an Archie choosing between Zane(Veronica) and David(Betty).

* BettyAndVeronica/BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: In Shay’s Story, She goes from being an Archie in one love triangle having to choose between David(Veronica) and Zane(Betty)to being a Betty in another one with Zane(Archie) choosing Helen(Veronica) over her. Shay starts Uglies as a Veronica, but turns into a Betty in the last third. In Pretties, she gets to be the Archie again choosing between Zane(Betty) and Tachs(Veronica).

* ManipulativeBitch: Only a little in Uglies, such as the distraction she comes up with for the Specials so she can sneak into the building, but much more overtly in Pretties, including using her fame among the Pretties to hijack a hot-air balloon and pretending to be a clueless pretty before threatening a doctor with her knife and stealing his hovercar.

* TheTrickster: She is a tricky ugly, pretty, and special. She mentioned pulling tricks as a little in Pretties, which makes this one of the few parts of Tally’s personality not to change with the surgeries.

* CarefulWhatYouWishFor: She learns that game isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

* HeroesLoveDogs: In Shay's Story, he reveals that he had a dog as a Littlie.

* OutOfFocus: He's not in half of the books, Uglies and Extras.

* SanitySlippage

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: He's not seen after ''Pretties''

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* TheTrickster: She is a tricky ugly, pretty, and special. She mentioned pulling tricks as a littlie in Pretties, which makes this one of the few parts of Tally’s personality not to change with the surgeries.

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* BloodBrothers: With Tally before the series

* RefusalOfTheCall: In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with her.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She narrates a few chapters in Shay's Story and Cutters.

* KillTheCutie: Her goal for Tally In Specials after Tally has OutLivedYourUsefullness.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Her goal at the end of Specials is revealed to be this. This was foreshadowed in Uglies when Tally rescues Shay and Shay mentions this. However, it isn’t until Dr. Cable has Talky trapped in Specials that she reveals that this was her master plan the entire time.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: The short story, How David Got His Scar is told from his POV and takes place before Shay got to the Smoke.

* TheBigGuy
* CountryMouse: In Uglies Part 3, David has trouble adjusting to the city and in Extras, Tally
* First Love: For Tally
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Specials
* OutOfFocus: He is barely in Pretties
* NiceGuy

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Tally in Specials.
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He's the leader of the Crim clique. He would have became a Smokey if he didn't back out last minute.

* TheAtoner:

* OutOfFocus: He's not in half of the books. Uglies and Extras.

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!Fausto
Fausto was another Crim who became a Smoke. He gets kidnapped once he was found out to be a Special
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* JumpedAtTheCall: He leaves the New Pretty Town with Tally.
* SpikyHair
* TookALevelInBadass: When he joins Shay's cutters group and escapes the city with Tally.
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!Astrix

* ShrinkingViolet
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!Tachs
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* [[spoiler:BirdsOfAFeather: with Shay.]]
* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: He is this in Pretties when he and Shay start dating.

* WildHair: In Pretties, he tells Shay that his Ugly nickname was Cowlick.
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!Ann, Sussy, and Dex
* [[TagalongKid Tagalong Kids]]
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!Ryde
* BlitheSpirit: He's an Ugly from another city who introduces the Crims to David in Shay's Story.
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* BlondesAreDumb

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* TrueCompanions: Her and Frey

Otherwise called "Squint", Tally is the main protagonist, who decides to break away from the rules and her assignment

* BadassPrincess: In her dream in Pretties.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, TheTrickster, BlitheSpirit and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain(Dr. Cable tricks her into unwittingly helping the bad guys)and ends the series as an Anti-Hero(She saves the world and threatens to hurt anyone who tries to destroy it again).

* CoolBigBrother

* 100%AdorationRating: [[spoiler: In Extras, Tally has become this after saving the world.]]

* {{AntiHero}}: Tally becomes this in Pretties.
* {{AntiVillain}}: [[spoiler: In Uglies, when she is TheMole until she destroys the locket and in Specials until she is able rewire her mind.]]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, TheTrickster, BlitheSpirit and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain(Dr. Cable trucks her into unwittingly helping the bad guys)and ends the series as an Anti-Hero(She saves the world and threatens to hurt anyone who tries to destroy it again).

* In-SeriesNickname: Several including: Squint, Skinny, Tally-Wa, Young Blood, and Tally-Sama.

* In-SeriesNickname: Skinny, Squint, Shay-la, Boss, and Shay-sama

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, TheTrickster, BlitheSpirit and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain and ends the series as an Anti-Hero.

* Rapunzel Hair: Down to her waist in Shay's Story, but down to her ankles in her dream in Cutters.

* {{AntiVillain}}: In Uglies, when she is TheMole until she destroys the locket and in Specials until she is able rewire her mind.]]

* God Guise: In Part 3 of Pretties, when she stumbles into the Rusty Village.

* Her Heart Will Go On: It's implied in Extras, with David.

* KindHeartCatLover: Implied in Uglies. Tally not only vividly compares the summer sky to cat vomit, but she also had a morphos of her as a cat woman even though she knew the city would never give her that kind of operation.

* SuperSoldier

* TheRival

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, TheTrickster,BlitheSpirit and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain and ends the series as an Anti-Hero.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain and ends the series as an Anti-Hero.

* Blithe Spirit: Tally is this when she goes to the Smoke, New Pretty Town, Andrew's Village, Special Circumstances, and Diego.

* FaceHeelTurn: In Pretties, once she turns against Tally, starts the Cutters, and is turned into a Special by Dr. Cable.

* ChildhoodFriend: To Tally

Dr. Cable is the head of SpecialCircumstances

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:In Specials
* BigBad

* MagnificentBitch
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate

* RapidAging: Once cured she shows her true age as a crumbly.

* VillainousBreakdown: In Specials when Tally cures her.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally her intentions are good in Pretties.

* FieryRedhead

* ActionSurvivor: In Uglies Part 1 and Part 2, particularly sneaking over to New Pretty Town to see Peris, traveling across the wild by herself and [[spoiler:managing to survive almost being killed by the Rangers' fire canon.]]
* AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been [[spoiler: brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* [[spoiler: AnimatedTattoo: In Pretties, Tally gets one of these on her face. It spins to her heartbeat. She keeps it for the rest of the series and even gets more of them in Specials, that cover her face, arms, and hands. They look like black spirals.]]
* {{AntiHeroine}}: Tally becomes this in Pretties.

* TheAtoner: She agrees to [[spoiler: turn Pretty so that she can test the cure in an attempt to atone for accidentally betraying the Smoke.]]

* [[spoiler: BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: One of the best examples in fiction, although some parts of her personality don’t change such as being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, and MagneticHero. The rest of her personality is turned inside out as she starts the series as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, PluckyGirl, UnwittingPawn, GirlNextDoor with BewareTheNiceOnes tendencies and by the end of the quartet she has become a combination of the ActionGirl, FamedInStory, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, ManipulativeBitch, GoodIsNotNice, and BrokenBird tropes. Even more fascinating is that she starts the series as an Anti-Villain and ends the series as an Anti-Hero.]]

* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: How Shay sees Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]

* TheChosenOne: Slowly becomes this. While she starts out as TheMole, David starts to like Tally and she is the only Smokey he trusts enough to tell the truth about what the operation does to your brain. Later in Pretties, it is revealed that she can [[spoiler: rewire her brain and is able to reverse the MindControl she's been put through by sheer willpower.]] Tally is the only one shown to do this and it leads to the [[spoiler: cure for the Pretty lesions. Finally she the only Special in the entire world not to be cured and so she still has her superpowers and vows to use them to save the world if it ever needs it.]]

* BettyAndVeronica/BettyAndVeronicaSwitch:[[spoiler: Tally implies that before the series began, she was the Betty Peris was the Archie and his crushes were Veronicas. However, Tally eventually got over Peris. In Uglies, Tally is a Betty who turns into a Veronica in the last third while David is the Archie and Shay is a Veronica who turns into a Betty in the last third. In the beginning of Pretties, Tally is the Veronica to Helen’s Betty and to Zane’s Archie until Zane dumps Helen. For the rest of Pretties and most of Specials, Tally is an Archie choosing between Zane(Veronica) and David(Betty).]]

* DoggedNiceGirl: Tally implies this with Peris as a Littlie and an Ugly, when she says that he always liked “other girls.” [[spoiler: This still seems to be the case when Tally visits him in New Pretty Town for the first time, however, soon after that Tally quickly moves on.]]

* PluckyGirl: For most of the trilogy she is brave and optimistic,[[spoiler: until Zane's death in Specials, after which the optimism gets toned down as she becomes a Broken Bird.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]

* [[spoiler:SuperSoldier]]
* [[spoiler: ThatWomanIsDead: At least once per book. Shay has a tendency to do this as well.]]
* [[spoiler: TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Part of Tally's real personality and has always been present, although the Tomboy aspects of her personality are played up when she is an Ugly and a Special while the Girly Girl aspects are played up when she is a Littlie and a Pretty, though every time she rewires her brain she becomes this.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Every book has Tally gain a few levels.]]

* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: In Specials.]]
* [[spoiler:WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As is the case with all of the Cutters.]]

* BettyAndVeronica/BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: [[spoiler: In Shay’s Story, She goes from being an Archie in one love triangle having to choose between David(Veronica) and Zane(Betty)to being a Betty in another one with Zane(Archie) choosing Helen(Veronica) over her. Shay starts Uglies as a Veronica, but turns into a Betty in the last third. In Pretties, she gets to be the Archie again choosing between Zane(Betty) and Tachs(Veronica). ]]

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: In Pretties, once she turns against Tally, starts the Cutters, and is turned into a Special by Dr. Cable.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: When she is cured of her specialness by Fausto.]]

* [[spoiler:RichBitch: Shay gives off this vibe in Uglies after she has been turned Pretty and is rescued by Tally.]]
* TheRival:

* [[spoiler: ThatWomanIsDead: Just like Tally.]]

* [[spoiler:SuperSoldier: In Specials.]]
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Once she is no longer Special, Shay apologizes to Tally, admitting that forcing Tally to become Special was a bad idea.]]

* [[spoiler: ADayInTheLimelight: She narrates a few chapters in Shay's Story and Cutters.]]

* [[spoiler: RapidAging: Once cured she shows her true age as a crumbly.]]

* VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler: in Specials when Tally cures her.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally of this in Pretties but it's a lie.

* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler: Is the Betty in Shay’s Story with Shay as Archie and David as Veronica. Then he becomes the Archie when he turns Pretty and when Shay visits him in New Pretty he has to choose between Ugly Shay, the Betty, and New Pretty Helen, the Veronica. Then in the beginning of Pretties/Cutters when he meets Tally for the first time, he is still the Archie but he must choose between Helen(Betty) and Tally(Veronica). After this, he becomes the Veronica for the rest of Pretties and Specials while David is the Betty and Tally is the Archie.]]

* [[spoiler: HandicappedBadass: In Specials.]]

* WildHair: In Pretties, [[spoiler:he tells Shay that his Ugly nickname was Cowlick.]]

* BlitheSpirit: [[spoiler: He's an Ugly from another city who introduces the Crims to David in Shay's Story.]]

* BettyAndVeronica:[[spoiler: Is the Veronica when up against Shay and the Betty when up against Tally in Zane’s love triangles.]]

* [[spoiler:SatelliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]

* {{Antiheroine}}: Tally becomes this in Pretties.

* [[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]

* [[spoiler: Antiheroine: Tally becomes this in Pretties.]]
* [[spoiler: Anti-Villain: In Uglies, when she is TheMole until she destroys the locket and in Specials until she is able rewire her mind.]]
* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: She agrees to turn Pretty so that she can test the cure in an attempt to atone for accidentally betraying the Smoke.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

* Blithe Spirit: Tally is this when she goes to the Smoke, [[spoiler: New Pretty Town, Andrew's Village, Special Circumstances, and Diego.]]

* [[spoiler: BrokenBird: After Zane dies in Specials.]]
* [[spoiler:TheChosenOne: Slowly becomes this. While she starts out as TheMole, David starts to like Tally and she is the only Smokey he trusts enough to tell the truth about what the operation does to your brain. Later in Pretties, it is revealed that she can rewire her brain and is able to reverse the MindControl she's been put through by sheer willpower. Tally is the only one shown to do this and it leads to the cure for the Pretty lesions. Finally she the only Special in the entire world not to be cured and so she still has her superpowers and vows to use them to save the world if it ever needs it.]]
* BeautifulAllAlong: In ''Uglies'' [[spoiler:when David calls her beautiful even though Tally has trouble believing him at first when he kisses her to prove it,Tally falls in love with him.]]
* BadassAdorable: Tally is really cute. Even though she thinks she is ugly. The graphic novel Shay's Story shows us this.

* [[spoiler:JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In Extras.]]
* [[spoiler:Her Heart Will Go On: It's implied in Extras, with David.]]

* [[spoiler: IJustWantToBeFree: In Part 2 of Pretties, Tally and Zane are on a mission to escape New Pretty Town and find the Smoke and tell them that the cure was a success.]]

* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ironically, despite resisting it she comes like being a Special and doesn't want to give it up.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: When Uglies begins, Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty. [[spoiler: She grows out of this in Pretties. She becomes popular from then on and as such becomes far less lonely.]]

* NaiveNewcomer: Remembers how she was this when she first came to Uglyville, it happens when she joins the Smoke,[[spoiler: when she lives in New Pretty Town, when she joins the Crims, when she comes to Andrew Simpson Smith's village, when she joins Special Circumstances, and when she goes to Diego and Yokohama.]]
* Nice Job Breaking it, Hero:

* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing: In Uglies]]

* [[spoiler:BrainlessBeauty:In Part 3 of Uglies.]]
* [[spoiler:BreakTheHaughty:Shay's Story reveals this happened to Shay in Uglies, David, Croy, and many others were suspicious of Tally and upset that Shay disobeyed the rules and gave an outsider a map to the Smoke but Shay didn't listen to their concerns and kept trying to get David to accept Tally, but this unbeknownst to Shay led him to fall in love with Tally. Later, when the Specials come Dr. Cable mocks Shay by saying that if she never gave Tally the map none of this would have happened.]]

* Deuteragonist: Scott Westerfeld thinks of Shay as Tally's Sidekick. Shay is One of the few characters who appears in all four books and isn't Out Of Focus for any of them.

* [[spoiler:BroughtDownToNormal: Eventually]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.]]

* [[spoiler: ReptilesAreAbhorrent: She appears as a dragon in Tally's dream in Pretties.]]

* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally of this in Pretties but it's a lie.]]

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* [[spoiler:BeautifulAllAlong:In Uglies when David calls her beautiful even though Tally has trouble believing him at first when he kisses her to prove it,Tally falls in love with him.]]

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty. [[spoiler: She grows out of this in Pretties. She becomes popular from then on and as such becomes far less lonely.]]

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* [[spoiler:NotSoDifferent; With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?
* YouthfulFreckles

* [[spoiler: WildHair: In Pretties, he tells Shay that his ugly nickname was Cowlick.]]

* [[spoiler: BlitheSpirit: He's an Ugly from another city who introduces the Crims to David in Shay's Story.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She learns that game isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

* MeaningfulName: Last name is Fuse and the story she kicks proves to be very explosive.

* IHaveManyNames

* 100%AdorationRating

* GreenEyes