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** Selina is absolutely overjoyed when she learns that a health incident in Season 6 was just a minor heart attack and not the onset of menopause.

* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler: Her selfishness, lack of scruples and desire for power at all costs end up pushing away everyone who was close to her and tarnishing her legacy, leaving her completely alone and regarded as a mediocre president who achieved nothing important or positive.]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The idea of others engaging in politics because they actually want to help people and improve the country rather than simply for their own ego's or personal gain is something Selina seems legitimately unable to fathom, often being confused by Kemi Talbot's idealism or Catherine's activism.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: In the GrandFinale, Selina finally becomes President, but she ended up a one term president who's only remembered for freeing Tibet, and abolishing gay marriage. Worst, her administration was overshadowed by both Kemi and Splett who became two term presidents. She gave up her allies, daughter, and Gary, for the Oval Office, and had nothing to show for it in the end, being such a footnote in history that press coverage of her funeral is abandoned halfway through when news breaks that Tom Hanks has passed away.]] Naturally. [[spoiler:Permanently overturning gay marriage]] just to further her own career was the final nail that pushed Catherine away from her forever.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Selina was never portrayed as likable, but she had some humanizing moments in the earlier seasons. By season 6, there are no such moments and her behavior is close to sociopathy.

* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: He shows strong signs of being in love with Selina (a platonic variant, considering he was dating Dana at the time), who either doesn't notice it or doesn't care about it. [[spoiler:She frames him for Andrew's fraud shortly before being re-elected president, which gets Gary sent to jail, and she never sees him again. He still shows up to her funeral and cries at her coffin.]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: After officially joining [[spoiler:Jonah's campaign in Season 7]], she appears on a talk show with curled hair, heavy makeup, and wearing a low-cut dress, a far cry from the simple and practical styles she had worn up until then.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Calling her "good" in the first place might be pushing it but once Amy has been pushed a bridge too far through the constant disrespect from Selina, her peers, and [[spoiler: her ordeal with her abortion]] she decides to fully back Jonah so that he can defeat Selina and potentially destroy the country.

* FoxNewsLiberal: [[spoiler:''Permanently'' overturns gay marriage in order to win the 2020 Democratic nomination.]]

* FoxNewsLiberal: By Season 7, Jonah has essentially become a far-right conspiracy theorist, yet is still running for the Democratic nomination. [[spoiler: He even becomes one of the frontrunners during the GrandFinale specifically because of Islamophobic statements he has made.]]

* BourgeoisBohemian: In Catherine's defense, she wants to do genuinely good work, in contrast to Selina's self-centredness, but she was born into a family of millionaires and oligarchs, before inheriting billions herself, and has [[ADegreeInUseless a degree in "interpretative dance,"]] and is generally quite out of touch with those who are less wealthy than she is.

* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: She was this, with perhaps providing the ultimate example when she punched a guy in the face who was threatening Selina. [[spoiler:However, she ultimately loses this respect and, indeed, any love for her mother at all when she permanently overturns gay marriage just for her political career.]]

* GranolaGirl: Has shades of this, especially after [[spoiler: giving birth to Little Richard and hopping on board with several New Age parenting techniques.]]

The foul-mouthed Vice President of the United States who longs for more power. She becomes President at the end of season 3, after the previous President unexpectedly resigns. After the end of the Meyer administration, she starts a charitable foundation to end adult literacy. And AIDS. And to promote democracy.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Has a tendency to stick her foot in her mouth, and then ingest said foot, whenever she's put on the spot without preparation. Given that she's a high-ranking politician, these situations are her day job.

* BadBoss: See NeverMyFault.

* HypocriticalHumor: See ItsAllAboutMe.

* ItsAllAboutMe: To the point where Selina can barely even understand the needs of others, especially Gary and Catherine's.

* ItsAllAboutMe: She tries to deny it, but it's true and it eventually becomes her defining trait as she sells out everyone and everything for her own benefit. In "Catherine" she says, "I know not everything is about me," to her daughter — while hiding in a closet filled with pictures, posters, and cardboard cutouts of herself.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Attended Smith College.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Initially she had some Heart of Gold moments, especially with Catherine. But as the series progressed she became an increasingly terrible person and stopped showing humanity even to her daughter. And her few genuine accomplishments (like Tibet) were lucky byproducts of her terrible behavior.

* OedipusComplex: The summary of his relationship with Selina is a very odd version of this, although they aren't technically related. He adores her, is extremely protective of her, and will never contradict her, but also seems to hero-worship her and consider the most beautiful woman alive.

* OedipusComplex: In Season 5, [[spoiler:she not only reveals that she's a lesbian, but that she's dating Selina's bodyguard. That is, a woman who got her job largely because of how much she resembles Catherine's mother.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: As shown above, he thinks he's far smarter than everyone and fantastic at his job, not grasping he's as much an incompetent nut as the rest of the staff.

* FemaleMisogynist: Selina wants to be seen as a feminist hero for being the first woman president, but privately she often makes disparaging comments about women. Showrunner David Mandel [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/veep-season-6-episode-2-selina-amys-political-scandals-rampant-misogyny-996602/ called her]] a "giant misogynist".

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:it is mentioned that he's happily retired (he makes watches and owns a ranch) and has a daughter now (who [[LikeFatherLikeSon works at NASA]], but plans to step down to take over the ranch). This also means that he probably got married, which is good for him considering what happened with [[ShipSinking Sue]] and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Julia]].]]

* ResassignmentBackfire: At least one of his promotions in the final season ends up being a result of this. After he (almost inadvertently) exposes a major corruption scandal in Iowa state politics, causing the impeachment of the Lieutenant Governor, the sheer profile and goodwill this results in forces the equally corrupt Governor to promote Richard to the position but makes it clear that he's going to make sure that it's a dead-end political graveyard for him. Except that the Governor later catches shingles and goes blind, forcing his retirement -- meaning that Richard subsequently becomes Governor.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Because he only ever thinks the best of everyone he encounters, he seems genuinely convinced that both Jonah and Selina are good, honest and well-meaning people who equally deserve to be president.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He runs for President on an anti-Immigrant platform but still finds the violent rhetoric of some followers, who want to outright murder illegals, to be extreme and later admits to going too far.

* BourgeoisBohemian: In Catherine's defense, she wants to do genuinely good work, in contrast to Selina's self-centredness, but she was born into a family of millionaires and billionaires, before inheriting billions herself, and has [[ADegreeInUseless a degree in "interpretative dance,"]] and is generally quite out of touch with those who are less wealthy than she is.

** When Catherine announces her engagement to a lobbyist, Selina just indignantly replies that she is 48.
** In Season 5, she has a secret blepharoplasty operation to remove the bags from under her eyes and refuses to appear in public until she has healed from the operation.

** She deliberately obfuscates her true age, which becomes a line of attack from Jonah Ryan's campaign bh demanding that she show her birth certificate.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jonah hints at having a learning disorder (what he describes as "dyslexia, but for numbers"note , which is why he failed algebra). Whether this is legitimate or merely an excuse for his boorish behavior and poor performance in school is unknown.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He's incredibly meticulous, reserved to the point of DullSurprise, exhibits some {{cloudcuckoolander}} behavior, and has difficulty emphasizing with others. While the last one can be attributed to WorldOfJerkass, some viewers (and Ben) have taken these traits as evidence that he may be on the autism spectrum.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Some of his behavior is ascribed to this, like his [[StylisticSuck terrible workout outfit]]. Might be a result of AmbiguousDisorder.