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| 7 | This is the cast of characters from the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} sitcom ''Series/ICarly'' and the [[Series/ICarly2021 2021 revival]] on Creator/ParamountPlus. |
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| 11 | !!Protagonists |
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| 13 | !!!Debuted in original series |
| 14 | [[folder:As a Whole]] |
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| 16 | * FreudianTrio: |
| 17 | ** Ego: Carly is the caring one |
| 18 | ** Superego: Freddie is the technical producer |
| 19 | ** Id: Sam in is it for herself |
| 20 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: Sam and Carly are the women, Spencer and Freddie are the men, thrown off-balance when Gibby joins the main cast. The revival reverses the imbalance, with three women (Carly, Harper and Millicent) and two men (Spencer and Freddie). |
| 21 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: Carly is TheHeart who gets along with everyone (nice), Sam is the TokenEvilTeammate who bullies Freddie (mean), and Freddie is nice to Carly but is VitriolicBestBuds with Sam (in-between). |
| 22 | * TrueCompanions: Carly and Sam are ChildhoodFriends, Freddie is their closest male friend and boy next door, and Spencer is like an older TeamDad to the group. Given that their parents are usually absent or neglectful, they are like a small family. |
| 23 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Sam often treats Freddie and Gibby as punching bags. |
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| 26 | [[folder:Carly Shay]] |
| 27 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carly_season_2_5.png]] |
| 28 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carly_profile___revival_2.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 29 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/MirandaCosgrove |
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| 31 | The central protagonist and StraightMan to the constant shenanigans surrounding her, Carly is a relatively normal highschooler. At least, as normal as you ''can'' be when you're an Internet celebrity. |
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| 33 | * ACupAngst: Early on in the original series, she seemed rather insecure about her flat chest, particularly when Sam made fun of her helping bra. She eventually matured as the show went on. However, when she rediscovers George the bra in "iStart Over", she laments how she never grew into it. |
| 34 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She falls for charming delinquent Griffin in "iDate a Bad Boy". However, she loses her attraction to him when she discovers that he collects "Pee-Wee Babies." |
| 35 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: To Freddie in the original series, at least until the end of Season 2. He has always had feelings for her, but she initially didn't love him back and kept kindly turning him down, merely seeing him as a friend. Subverted in Season 3 when she starts to become enamored with him herself. |
| 36 | * AmicableExes: With her childhood crush Freddie. In the 2021 revival series, they continue their friendship on cordial terms and often share their life issues with each other but eventually become an OfficialCouple. |
| 37 | %% * AllWomenArePrudes: Personified in a kid-friendly way with her overall naivete, although this aspect of her character really fell away with constant random boyfriends Carly had in Season 5, to the point where she gets 'itchy' about not having kissed a guy in 4 months. <-- Needs more explanation to her "overall naivete". |
| 38 | %% * BadLiar: Watch "iPromise Not to Tell". |
| 39 | * BerserkButton: |
| 40 | ** Do NOT tell her to calm down. It will whip her up and send her ranting about. |
| 41 | ** If you're Spencer and her nerdy cousins are visiting for dinner, ''you better damn well be there!'' |
| 42 | * BettyAndVeronica: The Betty (GirlNextDoor loved by Freddie for a long time) to Sam's Veronica (the meaner friend who has a BelligerentSexualTension with Freddie) for Freddie's Archie. |
| 43 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Never tell a girl to calm down! |
| 44 | * BirthdayHater: She doesn't like celebrating her birthday because she believes it to be cursed and bad things tend to happen to her. Examples include the incident with the goat on her fifteenth birthday, her room catching fire on her sixteenth birthday, chipping her tooth on a banana on her nineteenth birthday, and getting mugged for her Tamagotchi named Kuchipatchi on her twenty-fourth birthday. Freddie was served both of his divorce papers on July 24th, which is Carly's birthday. And when thrown a surprise party on her twenty-seventh birthday, a man dies at her party and Freddie injures his neck. |
| 45 | * BoundAndGagged: Sam traps her to a chair and gags her in "iSpeed Date", so that she could announce her intentions to get Carly a date to the dance. |
| 46 | * BrainyBrunette: Like Freddie, she has brown hair and is a good student. In one episode, Carly is distraught because of a B+, meaning that she won't get straight A's on her report card. |
| 47 | * ButtMonkey: She gets this treatment from time to time, usually from Spencer. In Carly's case, it's dealing with stuff such as trying to promote a crappy shoe line and suffering through a bitchy teacher taking her heartbreak-induced rage out on her students. She even gets blinded by light from Spencer's attack robot. |
| 48 | * CatchPhrase: In the first season, when upset, she used to say "Aw, Come on!" |
| 49 | * CharacterTitle: The show (and titular webcam show) is called "''Series/ICarly''". |
| 50 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Freddie. They've known each other since sixth grade (age 11) and he has always had feelings for her but she kept turning it down, merely seeing him as a friend. After briefly dating him in Season 3 and hanging out more often in the sixth season, Carly kisses Freddie in the original series finale, implying their budding love until the revival has Carly later state that the kiss was her way of trying to give them "closure", which causes several problems for them due to the mixed message. It takes until season 3 of the revival for the two to become an OfficialCouple. |
| 51 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: She literally starts freaking out whenever she is entrapped in small spaces, such as in "iSpace Out" and "iSam's Mom". In "iNeed Space", she says that it started due to being trapped in an MRI machine after the technician forgot about her. |
| 52 | * ClassPrincess: A popular DudeMagnet with a successful web show, gets good grades, and is incredibly sweet and friendly. She's also TheHeart in her group of friends. |
| 53 | * TheCutie: She's almost always portrayed as being sweet, loving, naive, and innocent. She adores her crazy older brother, and tries sto get along with both her friends. |
| 54 | %% * DeadpanSnarker: She seems to be the runner-up of snarkiness behind Sam. |
| 55 | * DudeMagnet: It seems almost all the guys want Carly. Almost. Among these guys, there are Freddie, Wes, Jake, Shane, Griffin, Austin, Adam, Steven and many other one-shot boyfriends. Even some of the villains like Nevel and Chuck have a crush on her. |
| 56 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Taking the blame for Sam to keep her from being expelled, then showing that she is the ''only'' person who can control her. |
| 57 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Missy, Sam, and Shelby have all shown signs of being attracted to her in more than a "just friends" way. Then there's Brooke in the revival, who thought Carly wanted to have a threesome with her and Freddie. |
| 58 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She usually tries to prevent any conflict when Sam picks on or bullies the guys (usually Freddie, and to Gibby in later seasons and occasionally even Spencer), but she still has her limits. Best shown in "[=iKiss=]" when Sam, in response to Freddie handcuffing her to Gibby as payback for leaving a dead fish in his school locker, [[NeverMyFault plays the victim]] and reveals during one of their shows that Freddie has never kissed anyone, leading to everyone at school mocking and teasing him to the point that he ends up avoiding school for a week and isolating himself at home; when Sam has the nerve to [[LackOfEmpathy criticize him for not bothering to show up for a show rehearsal]], Carly vehemently berates her with a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tirade that actually makes her feel guilty for a change. |
| 59 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Spencer's Foolish. Spencer is an energetic Manchild, while Carly is more serious and mature. |
| 60 | * GenkiGirl: With her loud and spastic nature, her LargeHam tendencies and fun-loving personality, she can be considered this, especially when she gets excited on her web show. |
| 61 | * GirlNextDoor: Cute and feminine but not overtly sexual, Freddie's known her for a long time, and they have the ChildhoodFriendRomance and JustFriends thing going on. |
| 62 | * GiveGeeksAChance: She passionately kisses [[spoiler:Freddie]] on the lips one last time in the original series finale before parting ways, though in the revival she states she was trying to give them "closure" and shut down any chance of a relationship between them. As the revival goes on, however, they fall in love for real this time. |
| 63 | * TheHeart: She mediates conflicts within the main group, especially when it comes to Sam. Sam and Freddie often get into arguments, and Carly serves as the mediator who is loved by both her friends and just wants everyone to get along. |
| 64 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sam. Carly and Sam's friendship is a vital aspect of the original series and they host the webshow together engaging in many quirky sketches showing their compatibility. Despite their [[{{Foil}} contrasting levels of kindness and femininity]] off-set, Carly and Sam always turn to each other when the chips are down, and Carly serves as Sam's MoralityChain: if it weren't for Carly, Sam would be an even bigger bully than she is and most likely be in ''juvie''. |
| 65 | * IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She seems envious of Freddie when Sam (or any other girl) dates him temporarily, but she still tries to make it work and let him enjoy his happiness. |
| 66 | * JerkassBall: Though she can be a nice, empathetic girl, she has several of these moments in the original series for RuleOfFunny. In "iTwins", she and Sam trick Freddie into dressing up as a clown, and [[WithFriendsLikeThese they gleefully humiliate him]] in front all the peers at school and on their web show. |
| 67 | * JustFriends: With Freddie. They are PlatonicLifePartners and childhood friends who have known each other since sixth grade, and Freddie provides the filming for her webshow. Subverted in Season 3 when she starts to become enamored with him. [[spoiler: At least until their last parting kiss in original series finale, implying their budding love.]] |
| 68 | * TheKirk: The 'choose between the [=McCoy=] and Spock' aspect of this trope comes directly into play early in Season 5 where Carly is freqtently dragged into the midst of Sam's belligerent falling outs and blowout clashes with Freddie, until their explosive confrontational clashing antics frustrate her to a point where she loses it and angrily rants that they might as well break up if they can't learn to get along and resolve their issues themselves. |
| 69 | * LargeHam: She tends to overreact to many things that don't necessitate much reaction, such as when Sam traded in a T-shirt Carly made for rock concert tickets or when Sam privately kissed Freddie and not telling Carly for over a year. |
| 70 | * LethalChef: Carly doesn't know how to cook, even well into adulthood. When she tried to cook an Italian dinner in "[=iThrow=] a Flawless Dinner Party", she burns the garlic bread, the pasta dish is somehow pulsating after coming out from the oven and the sausage inside is still raw. |
| 71 | * LittleMissSnarker: Not called the ''Sassmaster'' for nothing. In the revival, she is grown up in her mid-20's but still just as feisty and snarky. |
| 72 | * LoveConfession: When Freddie calls it, he quits on their relationship because he's nervously unsure if she is genuinely enamored with him personally or merely admiring his heroism. The fact that she had ''never'' called his technobabble "cute" implies that she probably ''did'' harbor romantic feelings for him. |
| 73 | * LoveEpiphany: |
| 74 | ** Shortly after [[spoiler:Freddie]] just risked his life to rescue her, Carly becomes smitten with him and she passionately kisses him, reciprocating his love for her. However, [[spoiler:Freddie]] breaks up with her because he is concerned that she is only enamored with him out of gratitude towards him saving her life, and wants a relationship between them to blossom naturally. |
| 75 | ** [[spoiler:She seems to do it again in the original series finale. Upon realizing her feelings for Freddie (who is upstairs in the studio packing up all of his tech stuff), she places her palm on his hand and they kiss for several seconds before parting ways.]] However, the revival reveals Carly considered this to be her way of giving them closure so they could move on and was uncomfortable with the idea of them actually dating. |
| 76 | ** In the revival episode "iMake New Memories, Carly finally tells Freddie she has feelings for him and they finally become a real couple. |
| 77 | * MarriedToTheJob: Part of why Carly's dating life fails is because ''iCarly'' seems to take up much of her time, and it's the one thing she's been passionate about. |
| 78 | * MatureYoungerSibling: While Carly has a goofy sense of humor and often gets into scrapes with her friends, she's much more organized and mature than her older brother Spencer, who prefers to spend his time making abstract, borderline dangerous art pieces. She often comforts him when he's distraught. However, Spencer proves himself to be a good caretaker even with all his dumb ideas. In one Christmas episode, Carly lashes out at Spencer and wishes that he was normal, though she regrets this after an ItsAWonderfulPlot where she sees how boring her life is with a mature older brother. |
| 79 | * MilitaryBrat: Notable in that her father has been deployed so long that he's not seen in-series until the GrandFinale. |
| 80 | * MissingMom: Her and Spencer's mom is never seen nor mentioned in the original show. It's unknown if she either died or divorced. Luke briefly asks Carly about her mom in the revival, but she nervously dodges the question. It is finally confirmed in "I have a Proposal" that [[spoiler:her mom is indeed alive and merely abandoned the family.]] |
| 81 | * MoralityPet: For Sam. Not that Carly's such an angel herself, but the episode "iChristmas" reveals that had Carly and Sam not become friends, the latter would have been an even worse bully than she is already and ended up in juvie. |
| 82 | * MotorMouth: Several times. For example, in "iDate a Bad Boy": |
| 83 | --> '''Carly:''' Well, Wendy and I are trying to study, and Griffin kept turning up the music, so Wendy got frustrated and left. Then I told Griffin he's obnoxious and he said I shouldn't ruin his sense of humor and I said "Oh, really?" and he was telling me how immature I was and then I realized he's super cute. And he asked me if he liked music and I go "Who doesn't like music?" So then I turned on some music and we started talking and I realized he's sweet and smart and his lips were right there in front of me so I leaned over and I kissed him! And I don't kiss like (blathers her tongue), ''I KISS LIKE A PRINCESS''!" |
| 84 | %%* NervousWreck: She's very neurotic. |
| 85 | * NiceCharacterMeanActor: As seen in "iBloop", Creator/MirandaCosgrove is really quite different than the sweet girl she portrays; on the contrary, Cosgrove is quite the [[AdamWesting hardass boss]], at least toward Creator/JerryTrainor as Spencer. |
| 86 | * NiceGirl: She's a sweet girl who thinks the best for those around her. She stays out of trouble and loves her friends and family. When she gets in trouble, it's often in order to protect Sam. |
| 87 | * OfficialCouple: In the third season of the revival, she and Freddie officially get together. By the last episodes not only has their relationship grown so serious that [[spoiler:Freddie is genuinely curious if Carly has gotten pregnant in one episode,]] but they are also openly discussing the idea of getting married. |
| 88 | * OlderThanTheyLook: In the original series, Miranda Cosgrove--and by extension, Carly the character--always looked a few years younger than she was. This was especially true in the early seasons, but towards the end when she was in her late-teens, she looked like she was in her early-to-mid teens. Even in the 2021 series, Carly is 26/27 in the first season (and Miranda herself was 28), but she could still pass for a teenager. She's starting to look her age as of the revival's third season. |
| 89 | * OnlySaneMan: Shares this role with Freddie, depending on the episode. She often finds herself exasperated with the actions and quirks of the rest of the cast, and usually needs to mediate conflicts within the main group and keep Sam under control when Sam clashes with the guys. |
| 90 | * OutOfFocus: The first three episodes of the fifth season saw Carly actually becoming a supporting character, with the main focus being on Sam's abusively toxic and turbulent love-hate clashing with Freddie. This ends up [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod when they break up.]]]] |
| 91 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: She is thirteen years younger than Spencer, who was her legal guardian for most of her childhood. |
| 92 | * PungeonMaster: Example, when discussing how their entire building has suffered the theft of all TV remotes: |
| 93 | --> '''Other character:''' What kind of person would go around stealing tv remotes? |
| 94 | --> '''Carly:''' A.. remote control freak. |
| 95 | * PuppyDogEyes: Freddie and Spencer cannot resist when Carly follows up a request or favor with a pouting "Please, for me?" |
| 96 | * RescueRomance: Carly becomes lovestruck and enamored with Freddie in Season 3 when he rescues her and his heroics win her heart. Freddie ends it when Sam tells him that Carly only loves Freddie because of this trope, and tells Carly he wants their relationship to actually blossom outside of the life-saving incident. |
| 97 | * RedOniBlueOni: The calm and responsible blue to Sam's aggressive and violent red. |
| 98 | %%* SiblingYinYang: With Spencer. |
| 99 | * SpoiledBrat: She does have her childishly immature and bratty moments, usually whenever Spencer tries to punish her, believing she deserves it such as sneaking off into an MMA fight and duping him with imposters or dating a felon that stole his motorcycle. As a result, Carly misbehaves like a childish brat like she did nothing wrong and goes as far as to rationalize whatever she did. |
| 100 | * StraightMan: Carly provides the setup for most of Spencer and Sam's general jokes. Her main comedic role is to deliver rejections to DoggedNiceGuy Freddie, who has a crush on her. Even so, half the time Sam delivers them instead. |
| 101 | * TeamMom: Usually whenever it's the main trio, with Gibby and Spencer. Carly takes the "parental" role towards the other 3 main characters: to Sam in iWas a Pageant Girl, to Freddie in iWill Date Freddie and to Spencer in majority of the episodes. iKiss had her to be a "mom" to all 3 of them in a single episode by motivating Spencer's workout, sympathizing with Freddie and later reprimanding Sam for her on-air attack on Freddie. |
| 102 | * TheTeetotaler: Downplayed, Carly does drink alcohol occasionally in the revival, but in "i'M Wild and Crazy", the others comment on how infrequently she drinks. She decides to prove them wrong by getting drunk and having a wild night out, but, unbeknownst to Carly, the drinks Harper ordered were non-alcoholic. |
| 103 | %%* TerribleArtist: Carly lacks skill in drawing. |
| 104 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Sam's Tomboy. Sam is an aggressive, [[BigEater gluttonous]] tomboy who is very strong and often physically attacks people. Carly is a sweet pretty NaiveEverygirl, and popular with boys. One episode has Carly teaching Sam [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon how to attract a boy by acting more girly]] and Sam says to Carly "I wanna be more like you. You know, all soft and girly and weak". |
| 105 | * TookALevelInDumbass: In early seasons, she worked hard on her schooling to get her first ever straight a's and was accepted into a private school that even Freddie wasn't. As of season 5, she can't pronounce claustrophobic, even though she is claustrophobic. And in "iQ" she has to fake/cheat being intelligent to try and impress a guy when the old Carly would've have been able to at least hold the conversation easily. |
| 106 | * TookALevelInJerkass: As of season 5, she starts to become brattier, and sometimes takes advantage of her brother Spencer. There are times where she forces Spencer to help her and doesn't even thank him. |
| 107 | * {{Tsundere}}: She is usually sweet, kind-hearted, calm and collected. Just don't let yourself get into her nerves way too much, since things won't get pretty once the fuse of her temper snuffs out. It gets worse if you even try to calm her down. |
| 108 | * VocalEvolution: Around late season 2/early season 3, Miranda's high-pitched voice became softer, gentler, and less whiny. |
| 109 | * WhatTheHellHero: To Sam when she explains how her exposing Freddie's secret has utterly ruined his reputation and made it impossible for him to leave his house without people making fun of him. Sam, at first, shrugs this off, until Carly makes her realize that she went too far, even for her. |
| 110 | * {{Womanchild}}: Though not as bad as her brother, the revival series shows that Carly hasn't matured much despite being in her late twenties and still basically has the same mindset and personality she had when she was in high school. Spencer even mentions that her taste in boys are the same as when she was a teenager (prioritizing looks over character). In "i'M Wild and Crazy", her idea of crazy is playing in a fountain at the mall, which gets her and Harper thrown in mall jail (to hammer home just how immature this was, the mall cop's goth teenage daughter was in mall jail with them). If Spencer is considered a child in a man's body, then Carly is a teen in a woman's body. |
| 111 | * YouAreGrounded: Even for a very laid-back guardian, Spencer does discipline her every now and then such as for dating a motorcycle thief (Griffin), sneaking out to MMA fights that got his back severely injured and possibly also for throwing out the couch in the living room in favor of a trampoline. |
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| 114 | [[folder:Samantha "Sam" Puckett]] |
| 115 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sam_puckett_png.png]] |
| 116 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JennetteMcCurdy |
| 117 | |
| 118 | Carly's best friend and petite blonde co-host of the ''iCarly'' webshow. In this trio, Sam very definitely takes on the "Brawn" side: she's aggressive, violent, and [[BigEater eats everything]]. She has a very tenuous relationship with her mom, who was TheGhost until finally introduced in Season 4, played by none other than Creator/JaneLynch. |
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| 120 | * ActionGirl: She's quite athletic and willing to resort to violence to get her way. She's known in her school for being a good fighter, even able to defeat boys. |
| 121 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Mentions Jews and Judaism frequently, has a fetishistic obsession with ham and bacon, uses Jewish inflections such as "oy", and mentions having a Bat Mitzvah in one episode. {{Subverted|Trope}}, according to this exchange from "iBust a Thief." |
| 122 | --> '''Sam:''' That laptop is the only nice thing I've got. It was a Bat Mitzvah gift from my grandmother.\ |
| 123 | '''Freddie:''' But you're not even Jewish.\ |
| 124 | '''Sam:''' (grabs Freddie's shirt): You tell my grandma that and I'll break you.\ |
| 125 | '''Freddie:''' (scared): Shalom! |
| 126 | * AmicableExes: She and Freddie remain good friends after a failed attempt at dating. |
| 127 | * BadassAdorable: A petite blonde who is also very strong and can kick ''anyone''[='=]s butt. She is very threatening, despite her cute appearance. |
| 128 | * TheBerserker: She flies into a rage and takes down anyone who either provokes her or mess with her friends. |
| 129 | * BerserkButton: Despite having an anger management therapist, she still has a lot of pet peeves that ''will'' result in violence. |
| 130 | ** Never play a prank on her, even just to "get even". ''Mama doesn't play to get even. Mama plays to win.'' |
| 131 | ** She also hates when people cut her in line for something, especially if it's food, as demonstrated in "[=iWon't Cancel the Show=]". She got arrested for assault and had to spend a night in jail. |
| 132 | * BetterAsFriends: With Freddie. Although they like each other, they just don't click as boyfriend and girlfriend. |
| 133 | * BigEater: One of her most prominent traits is her love for food, especially meat. She's shown eating on-screen during a lot of scenes as a recurring joke. |
| 134 | * BookDumb: She takes this trope so far that a realistic question can be asked of how she hasn't been expelled or held back. Again. She got held back already in the 3rd grade. Yet outside the school, she can scheme and plan. |
| 135 | * BreakoutCharacter: Got her own spinoff (shared with Cat Valentine from ''Series/{{Victorious}}''). |
| 136 | * TheBully: She's a violent girl with a short fuse and everyone knows her reputation. |
| 137 | * BullyHunter: If Carly is threatened, Sam is willing to attack other bullies. |
| 138 | * ButNowIMustGo: She parts ways with the group, leaves Seattle behind and skips town, driving off on her motorcycle that Spencer gifted her. |
| 139 | * CharacterDevelopment: Although her {{jerkass}}ery intensifies throughout most of the series, the screenwriters and even Jennette [=McCurdy=] herself knew that if Sam was going to end up being the lead in the ''Series/SamAndCat'' spin-off that Sam's antics needed to be 'toned down' a notch in the last season to make it believable. |
| 140 | * CombatPragmatist: ''Mama doesn't play to get even. Mama plays to win.'' |
| 141 | * ComedicSociopathy: One of the main sources of humor within the show, most especially the abuse Freddie (and Gibby) suffer from Sam. |
| 142 | * CrazyPrepared: Having spare blowtube guns tucked inside her socks. |
| 143 | * CrossCastRole: As the "Cowboy with a Mustache" with a deep, gruff voice, fake mustache, and complete western attire. |
| 144 | * CuteBruiser: She's widely acknowledged as the toughest kid in school, took down a bully twice her size and ripped the chain lock off the door when chasing Freddie in "iKiss". She only failed to catch him because she was towing Gibby and didn't seem winded by it. |
| 145 | * DeadpanSnarker: Each of the main characters have their moments of snarkiness, but Sam is one of the harshest of the lot. |
| 146 | -->'''Sam:''' Pranking Gibby doesn't count! You have to prank a real person!\ |
| 147 | '''Carly:''' Gibby is a real person, and this is a good prank! You'll see.\ |
| 148 | ''[Gibby sees the fish in his locker and joyfully goes home]''\ |
| 149 | '''Carly:''' ''[dismayed]'' I kinda got him.\ |
| 150 | '''Sam:''' You got him dinner. |
| 151 | * DisappearedDad: "iParty With Victorious" finally tells us her dad walked out on her, Melanie, and her mom. |
| 152 | * DisproportionateRetribution: She does this a lot. |
| 153 | ** In retaliation for Freddie handcuffing her to Gibby, which was in turn all for the endlessly ruthless abuse she had given to him, Sam reveals Freddie's embarrassing secret, that he's never kissed a girl, to the world on the webshow. |
| 154 | ** At some point offscreen, Sam asks Freddie what time it is and he didn't know. Sam's response? To take his NERD camp application and make it look like Freddie's a dirty whore, which gets him rejected. Plus, Carly begs him not to dump Sam over that because it was before they started dating. |
| 155 | ** Gibby once stated that he asked Sam out to a dance and got his thumb broken in rejection. |
| 156 | * DomesticAbuse: The third episode of Season 5 shows that Sam ''still'' hits Freddie despite dating him (although they eventually break up). Carly says it's ''sweet'' because [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Sam no longer hits him in the face.]] |
| 157 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Sam frequently abuses Freddie, taunts, bullies and picks on him, treating him like her personal punching bag scapegoat. This also extends to Gibby, Spencer, and other male characters. It's all PlayedForLaughs and she's rarely, if ever, called out or punished for it. |
| 158 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The very first time we see her in "iPilot", she's beating up a nerd and shoving him into a locker. |
| 159 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 160 | ** Despite her obnoxious bitchiness, even ''she'' is disgusted by how maliciously jerkish Nevel, Nora, and Missy are. In fact, Sam is shown to be hostile to other bullies and when a friend of hers hit a nerd, just for being a nerd, she calls her out saying she only attacks people who deserves it i.e. annoying people. |
| 161 | ** For all the crap that she gives towards the guys (Freddie, Gibby and Spencer) she does selflessly stand up for them if and when she ever sees them in peril. |
| 162 | * EvilTwin: Compared to her polite and mild-mannered twin sister Melanie, Sam is more of an amoral AntiHero. |
| 163 | * ExtremeOmnivore: "May contain meat." ({{beat}}) "Well, if it ''may''..." |
| 164 | * FemininityFailure: In "iMake Sam Girlier", she did this to get a guy's attention, with Carly giving her help to embrace her "inner daffodil". She ends up fighting with another girl by the end of the episode. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the guy was impressed and said he didn't want to date [[IronicEcho "some daffodil."]] ]] |
| 165 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 166 | ** Her tomboyish vibes from Season 1 evolved into various examples of extreme bullying, anti-social and sociopathic behaviour, like her running a child labour sweatshop in Season 4. After that season the writers knew they were going to have her continue in the ''Series/SamAndCat'' SpinOff, and attempted to de-flanderize her. They have definitely toned her down for the actual ''Series/SamAndCat'' show. |
| 167 | ** Her adversarial clashing with Freddie is also shown in Season 5 episodes 2 (revolving around them frequently locking horns at each other's throats, agressively clashing, butting heads and shouting matches) and ''iCan't Take It'' (their toxic, turbulent and dysfunctional love-hate clashing ruins everything around them). While she has treated Freddie like dirt in the past for petty reasons, she sabotages his science camp simply because he didn't know what time it was when she asked him. |
| 168 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Melanie's Responsible. Sam is a bad student and a borderline-sociopathic bully who has frequent run-ins with the law. Melanie is a hard-working girl who got a scholarship to a private school, treats people well and stays out of trouble. |
| 169 | * FreudianExcuse: Her mother. However, her twin sister Melanie turned out the complete opposite of Sam despite having the same mother. Though it's hinted in "iSam's Mom" that Pam favors Melanie over Sam, with that favoritism likely contributed to her demeanor. |
| 170 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Sam is this towards the guys (Freddie, Gibby, and Spencer as well as anyone else who might be friends with Carly). Because of Type 1 ''Seniority'', Type 3 ''Fear'' and Type 7 ''Audience Popularity''. |
| 171 | * GenerationXerox: She's exactly like her mother, Pam. Both are aggressive and irresponsible, but of the JerkWithAHeartOfGold type. |
| 172 | * TheGhost: While Sam isn't in the 2021 revival, she is mentioned fairly often, as Carly hasn't forgotten her old friend. |
| 173 | * HandyFeet: One segment shows her holding a phone with her feet to text with her toes. |
| 174 | * HatesSmallTalk: Especially with guys. Her response is usually to force them to shut up using violence. |
| 175 | * HatesReading: Zig-zagged. In general, Sam hates reading and states that the only three books she's ever read are the ones of the Boogie Bear picture book series. However, she makes a bet with Freddie that she can finish a book called The Penny Treasure and quickly finds herself absorbed in it. |
| 176 | %% * HeroicComedicSociopath: Anytime an incident goes from a regular run-of-the-mill incident to something that threatens Carly. |
| 177 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Carly. They've been friends for a long time and bring out the best in each other. Carly and Sam's friendship is a vital aspect of the original series and they host the webshow together engaging in many quirky sketches showing their compatibility. Despite their [[{{Foil}} contrasting levels of kindness and femininity]] off-set, Carly and Sam always turn to each other when the chips are down, and Carly serves as Sam's MoralityChain: if it weren't for Carly, Sam would be an even bigger bully than she is and most likely be in ''juvie''. |
| 178 | * HiddenDepths: She's very good at freestyle rapping. [[Series/{{Victorious}} Rex Powers]] finds this out the hard way. |
| 179 | %% * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Implied thanks to her trashy, nutcase mom. |
| 180 | * HumiliationConga: In "iSpeed Date", she ends up dateless for the dance as she doesn't ask Freddie out and waits until the last minute to ask Gibby as a pity date, but he's spending the evening at home with his girlfriend. |
| 181 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 182 | ** Openly reprimands Gibby for bringing a few fatcakes from Canada to U.S.A. (which is deemed illegal) wherein she has several belts hidden under her jacket strapped with several kilos of fatcakes. |
| 183 | ** She has no problem bullying Freddie for her own amusement, but she sometimes acts angry when he tries to bully or insult her back. |
| 184 | * InformedAbility: The tie-in blogs of other characters (usually Freddie) have Sam 'hack' them and make reference to Sam's ability with technology, which she never displays in the show itself. |
| 185 | * {{Irony}}: Her attempt to ''intentionally'' smuggle fatcakes from Canada caused her to hide in a mistaken trolley bag, ''unintentionally'' causing her to be smuggled into Asia instead. |
| 186 | * ImprovisedWeaponUser: The [[ImprovisedWeapon butter sock]]. She can knock out a grown man with it. |
| 187 | * {{Jerkass}}: Very aggressive and violent. She gleefully bullies Freddie, and in later seasons, she treats Gibby the same way. |
| 188 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In iSaved Your Life, she's quick to notice that Carly is only dating Freddie out of pity, and that her romantic feelings for him, at least at this time, aren't real. She doesn't skip the opportunity to rub it in his face, but at the end of the day, she did both him and Carly a favor. |
| 189 | * JerkassToOne: A "Crueler to One" example. She's not particularly nice to anyone other than Carly and Spencer (and even they aren't always safe) but Freddie is the one who gets the worst of it. When Sam and Freddie start dating, Sam transfers her Freddie tormenting over to Gibby instead. |
| 190 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She has a genuine friendship with Carly, is usually respectful to Spencer, and has her moments where she shows that she cares for Freddie deep down. |
| 191 | * KarmaHoudini: Hardly ever gets punished for how she bullies Freddie (and later Gibby and occasionally Spencer). |
| 192 | * KickTheDog: For all the crap she gives to Freddie, as well as Gibby, and sometimes even Spencer. |
| 193 | * LackOfEmpathy: She never displays any remorse for any pain from her callous bullying that she may cause Freddie or anyone else. She's at her worst in "iKiss," when she reveals to their audience that Freddie has never kissed a girl, leading to him being bullied and teased to the extent that he isolates himself at home, refusing to go to school or attend rehearsals for the show, to which Sam just criticizes him for being "unprofessional." In response, Carly vehemently berates her with one ''hell'' of a scathing tirade that, for once, makes her feel guilty over her actions. |
| 194 | -->'''Carly''': You, like, ruined his whole life, and you don't even care! |
| 195 | * LazyBum: She is shown to be very lazy and she dislikes any sort of work. |
| 196 | * TheLadette: She is crude, masculine, boorish, loves sports and fighting, and is a shameless BigEater who loves meat. Sam is a perfect example of the trope minus the sex and drinking because it's a kid show. |
| 197 | * TheLancer: She's [[TheHero Carly's]] best friend and her opposite in almost every way. While Carly is sweet and feminine, Sam is abrasive and tomboyish. |
| 198 | * LittleMissBadass: Sam is much stronger than she looks, to the point where she was able to beat Freddie at arm wrestling in "iOMG" after he gained a lot of muscle. In "iCook", she pinned Ricky Flame in seconds despite him being much bigger than her. |
| 199 | * LovingBully: To Freddie. Though, if she can be believed, she didn't always have romantic feelings for him. |
| 200 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to Freddie. |
| 201 | * MasterOfUnlocking: Often shows up to avert a typical sit-com ZanyScheme. |
| 202 | * MaleGaze: Sam started to wear tighter clothes after Season 3, and with it her butt gets more camera shots. "iSaved Your Life" has a scene where Carly slaps Sam's butt as she leaves the room. Sam takes it fairly well though, giggling as they walk away. |
| 203 | * TheMcCoy: To Carly's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Freddie's [[TheSpock Spock]]. |
| 204 | * TheNapoleon: She's the shortest of the main cast and the most aggressive by far. |
| 205 | * NeverMyFault: In "iKiss," when Freddie handcuffs her to Gibby as payback for her leaving a dead fish in her locker. Rather than take it in stride, Sam plays the victim and vows revenge, leading to her revealing in the middle of one of their shows that Freddie has never kissed a girl out of spite. |
| 206 | * NightmareFetishist: The [[TakeOurWordForIt "Neck Infection" video]] elicits a [[BrainBleach Two Girls, One Cup reaction]] from Carly, Freddie and Wendy, but she genuinely seems to get a kick out of it. |
| 207 | * TheNotLoveInterest: Sam serves as this to Carly, as she's the one who gives Carly a lot of emotional support. In fact, even when Carly's dating life fails, her best friend is the one she'll fall back to. |
| 208 | * ParentalAbandonment: Her father, but Sam states her mother is just as awful and violent as she is, so that explains a lot. |
| 209 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: See her CuteBruiser and BigGuy entries, yet she ''is'' the smallest of the main cast, emphasis in the later seasons. |
| 210 | * PolarOppositeTwins: With her twin sister Melanie. Sam is a delinquent bully while Melanie is a law-abiding good girl. |
| 211 | * PrecociousCrush: In ''[=iGet=] Pranky'', Sam admits she once had a "little crush" on Spencer. This was probably when they had their paintball war. |
| 212 | * PresentAbsence: In the Revival, Sam’s absence greatly impacts Carly, leading her to figure out how to live life without Sam. Sam’s absence has ends up having the ''biggest'' plot point in “iCan Fix It Myself” where Carly is desperate to fix an old car because of the memories she and Sam had with it. That car is all she has left of her. |
| 213 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: Starting in Season 4 after they stopped with the SuppressedMammaries. |
| 214 | %%* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Regardless of how you feel about her, this trope can be pretty hard to ignore at times. |
| 215 | * PutOnABus: Sam is absent from the 2021 revival because her actress Jennette [=McCurdy=] didn't want to return. Sam's disappearance is explained in-universe as her having joined a biker gang called the Obliterators. |
| 216 | * RedOniBlueOni: The aggressive and outgoing red to Carly and Freddie's smart and responsible blue. |
| 217 | * RedundantRomanceAttempt: She tries to attract a boyfriend by being girlier. Turns out he likes her the way she is--tomboyish and rough around the edges. |
| 218 | * RidingIntoTheSunset: In the original series finale, she leaves Seattle behind and hits the road on her motorcycle that Spencer gifted her. |
| 219 | * SheCleansUpNicely: On the rare occasions that she dresses "girly". |
| 220 | * SociopathicHero: On her worst days. "iMeet Fred" and "iSell Penny Tees" are commonly brought up as Sam at her worst. |
| 221 | * StaticStunGun: She uses a shock pen in "iStill Psycho". |
| 222 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: Sam is the aggressive, tough-as-nails bullying girl, while Freddie is the nerdy tech-support guy. |
| 223 | * TeensAreMonsters: She's a quintessential stereotype of teenagers: angry, violent, arrogant and having a voracious appetite for fast food. |
| 224 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes refers to herself as "Mama", especially when she's feeling angry or competitive -- more than usual. |
| 225 | * TokenEvilTeammate: If the plot requires anything that isn't lawful, Sam will suggest it and carry it out. |
| 226 | * TomboyAngst: In ''iMake Sam Girlier'' because she feels that a boy would never like her because of her masculine ways. She gets over it by the end of the episode. |
| 227 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: |
| 228 | ** Tomboy to Carly's Girly Girl. It also bothers Carly that Sam wears boxers instead of panties. |
| 229 | ** Tomboy to her sister Melanie's Girly Girl. |
| 230 | * TomboyishName: "Sam" is short for Samantha. |
| 231 | * TomboyishVoice: She speaks with a fairly deep voice for a girl, highlighting her masculine nature. |
| 232 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Sam was a colossal bully and a grade A jerk from the get go, but she takes level after level. A couple of her points include the episode she bashed Freddie with a tennis racquet and chucked him out of a treehouse for a differing opinion, and then later starting a basement sweatshop using elementary school kids to mass produce their Penny Tee Shirts. |
| 233 | * TookALevelInKindness: Her jerkishness dies down a little in the second half of Season 5. She became noticeably somewhat friendly in the sixth and final season, where she is also less abrasive and somewhat cordial with Freddie as well, where at worst she only delivers verbal taunts and a dope slap on the wrist. |
| 234 | * TooKinkyToTorture: In ''iDate a Bad Boy'', Sam recalls being tased as "actually kind of a rush" and seems to enjoy having her hand bitten by Carly. |
| 235 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fat Cakes, fried chicken, barbecued ribs (yes, in that order). |
| 236 | * {{Tsundere}}: Type A. '''Heavy''' on the "tsun-tsun." |
| 237 | * UnstoppableRage: Both CuteBruiser examples happened while in this state. |
| 238 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Definitely applies. |
| 239 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: She won't mind turning her blouse into a stash of French fries. |
| 240 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Don't make problems at Freddie when he's with Sam. Gibby learnt it '' hardly'' when he tried to break their couple. |
| 241 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Freddie (and Gibby as well as Spencer). |
| 242 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: With Freddie and Gibby. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Fredward "Freddie" Benson]] |
| 246 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freddie_8.png]] |
| 247 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freddie_profile___revival.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/NathanKress |
| 250 | |
| 251 | The cameraman and general tech-support guy for iCarly, as well as Carly's other best friend and childhood crush. He is an all-around nice guy, along with growing up under the wing of his [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother]] Marissa Benson. |
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| 253 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He's picked on, teased and bullied by both his classmates and peers at school and ''especially'' Sam, though she does tone it down in later seasons. In the original series, his friends seem to enjoy mocking him and get really annoyed with him quite easily, even if he hasn't done anything wrong |
| 254 | * AmicableExes: |
| 255 | ** With both girls, but especially with his childhood crush Carly, whom he maintains a good friendship with into their adulthood despite not having seen the latter in years. |
| 256 | ** He's also on good terms with his second ex-wife Gwen, wishing her nothing but happiness after revealing that she's engaged to someone else. |
| 257 | * BadassPacifist: His aversion to violence belies a skilled fencer and possibly a decent grappler, as Carly once found out. |
| 258 | * BasementDweller: The 2021 revival reveals that Freddie went through two divorces and his tech startup failed, resulting in him having to move back in with his mother with his adopted stepdaughter Millicent in tow. And his day job is tech support. |
| 259 | * BetterAsFriends: Despite briefly dating both girls in the original series on two separate occasions, Freddie breaks up with them as their relationships didn't work out. |
| 260 | * BettyAndVeronica: The Archie to Carly and Sam's Betty and Veronica. |
| 261 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't let his appearence fool you. He can be very fearsome, intimidating and dangerous when provoked, having showed his sadistic dark side towards [[VitriolicBestBuds Sam]] and [[ArchEnemy Nevel]] in separate episodes. |
| 262 | * BornUnlucky: He's often the kind of guy who suffers from misfortune in almost every single episode in the first several seasons of the original since he's notoriously insulted, picked on, teased, bullied, humiliated and treated like dirt by someone else often undeserved. Even his family is a heart-wrenching story, given the fact that he grew up fatherless with an embarrassingly overprotective, annoying mother. This haunts him in his early adulthood, having been divorced (twice, actually) and his tech startup company failed, and he has to go back to living with his mom. And when he had nearly saved up enough money to get his own place, he was swindled by a multilevel marketing scheme and threw all his money away on it. |
| 263 | * BrainyBrunette: Freddie may not hold the title of "smartest student at Ridgeway High" like Carly, but he has proven to be Just as, If not Smarter, Than Carly. |
| 264 | * BullyMagnet: In the first few seasons of the original series, he was an easy target, victim and scapegoat for bullies at school, especially Sam. |
| 265 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He's actually extremely talented in many different ways, despite his socially awkward, eccentric quirkiness. |
| 266 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 267 | ** His misfortune is often taken to exaggerated levels, but it's played for laughs. In the original series, multiple episodes episodes see him either injured, insulted, humiliated, bullied, or otherwise dispirited and shown in an unfairly negative light. He had a hopelessly one-sided, unrequited crush on Carly, which she deviously exploits for all it's worth by playing with his emotions in order to blackmail him to do things he doesn't agree with. The first time he actually goes against what Carly wants (to do something he really likes), she insults him then tells his mother about it (although Carly does become more empathetically nurturing and cordial to him later on). The main source of his misery comes from Sam who frequently and ruthlessly taunts, mocks, picks on, insults, teases, bullies, harasses, physically, verbally and emotionally abuses and humiliates him in front of other people at school and on the webcast, breaks his possessions, pulls pranks like supergluing his work and makes his life miserable. Compounded by his monstrously [[MyBelovedSmother overprotective mother]], embarrassing him in public even further. |
| 268 | ** Due to his haplessness, he's by far the most sympathetic and vulnerable hopeless romantic character given how much abuse, humiliation, torment and bullying he endures. Even Carly feels sorry for him when she sees how much Freddie has hated himself for years, which is why he is so gloomy, dejected and frustrated most of the time. |
| 269 | ** Much of this plight finally dies down in the second half of season 5 as Freddie takes a level of badass. He becomes more athletic, tough, formidable and more of a street-smart, charming and confident version of a cool guy. But still, poor kid goes through a lot. |
| 270 | * CaptainObvious: At one point, Sam openly mocks him for needing to count down for so long before turning on the camera. |
| 271 | * CharacterDevelopment: Freddie was a bit of a scrawny, wimpy, timid and dorky victim at the beginning of the original series and struggles socially, which in one episode he realizes is part of the cause of his bullying problems rather than just his geeky nerdiness due to his rotten luck and unpopularity. Over the course of the series, he grows a spine, gets tougher, cooler and becomes more resilient, able to withstand adversity and courageously stands up for himself. As the show progresses, he learns to be confident and becomes more optimistic and outgoing. By season four he is much more street-smart, charming and confident teenager version of a tough, cool guy. |
| 272 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was [[{{Keet}} a lot more energetic and loud]] in the pilot. |
| 273 | * TheCharmer: In the last season of the original series and in the revival, Freddie is usually the most charismatic one of the main cast due to his laid back personality and is naturally handsome. |
| 274 | * ChickMagnet: Multiple girls at school and in public places have been hitting on him on occasion. He's even the focus of a blooming best friend LoveTriangle. |
| 275 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Carly says that Freddie has always wanted her to date him since the first time they met. That's probably anywhere near sixth grade (depending on when they first met). They were both 15 years old when he finally managed to get Carly to become enamored with him after rescuing her life, they dated for several days until he AnchoredShip because he was nervously unsure if her affections for her were genuine. He began romantically asking Carly out in "iOpen A Restaurant" before she reciprocated and professed her love for him in the original series finale with a parting kiss. They become an OfficialCouple in the third season of the revival. |
| 276 | * TheChewToy: Undergoes a lot of abuse from other characters. Seriously, the amount of crap he endures from everyone around him is tremendous. VERY few episodes in the original series have ended on a positive note for him. |
| 277 | * ClassicalAntihero: While Freddie was often depicted as a clumsy geek who sometimes screws things up, he does have moments of awesomeness where he stands up for himself and helps out his friends. |
| 278 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Towards Carly, whenever she has a boyfriend. Despite his envy, he respects Carly's wishes. |
| 279 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Dating What Mommy Hates, in his case. His mother did ''not'' like Sam or Carly dating him. She hated Carly for "causing" Freddie's accident and said that she should have gotten hit instead. A bit ironic when she initially ''wanted'' Carly to date Freddie and when she ''does'' kiss him, Mrs. Benson's furious. Then she hated Sam because, well, she's a delinquent who bullied Freddie. There was an episode where she spent the entire time trying to break them up. In the revival, his mother is more open to the idea of Carly dating her son. |
| 280 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has his snarky moments. |
| 281 | * DisappearedDad: His father is never seen nor mentioned once in the entire series. It's unknown if his dad died when Freddie was a young boy, or if he divorced and abandoned his family like Sam's did. It '''is''', however, rather apparent whether the words Nathan Kress has given on [[WesternAnimation/BeeMovie one theory]] should be taken as canon or not. |
| 282 | * DisproportionateRetribution: A big victim of this in the original series. He bluntly criticized the internet star Fred on the web show, inadvertently hurting his feelings and ending Fred's career. As expected, he gets taunted and humiliated at school and beaten up by Sam (who chucked him out the window of a tree house). |
| 283 | * DoggedNiceGuy: To Carly, and sometimes other girls he tries to date or hit on. He has been trying to get Carly for several years. She finally begins to reciprocate his love in Season 3 onward. Despite them kissing in the original series finale "iGoodbye", they parted ways and didn't pursue a long-distance relationship since he moved on and divorced two other women while she was in Italy. |
| 284 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the first season of the revival, he had a combover hairstyle and facial stubble. The second season onward has him clean-shaven and sporting a hairstyle much closer to the one he wore in the original. |
| 285 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hearing his prepubescent voice in season 1. |
| 286 | * EnsembleDarkHorse: InUniverse, when the trio go to Webicon, he's clearly far more popular than either girl. He gets ''mobbed'' by fangirls... [[EventheGuysWantHim and some fanboys]]. Carly and Sam don't get anywhere near that level of attention, and most of the fan questions revolve around which of them is or should be [[ShipToShipCombat dating Freddie]]. Oddly, when he's not the subject of shipping, everyone looks down on him. |
| 287 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Showing up as the DoggedNiceGuy and minor StalkerWithACrush on Carly, by running out from spying on her through the peephole to pick up the bottle of water she dropped. "iPilot" also serves as an establishing character episode, as he is a ButtMonkey during the ''entire'' freaking episode and doesn't get a single thing go his way. |
| 288 | * FailureHero: Whenever he tries to be awesome, it usually backfires embarassingly. The chances of him getting a happy ending (if and when something good ''finally'' happens to him) are extremely rare. Things still suck for him when he reaches adulthood in his mid 20's. He has been divorced (twice, actually) and his startup company went south, leading him to move back in with his mom and his adopted stepdaughter Millicent, who is rude to him. |
| 289 | * GratuitousSpanish: Starting from the second season, it gets to the point where it's annoying with the random phrases. |
| 290 | * TheHeart: He does have his moments mediating conflicts and disputes within the group, usually when the girls are clashing. |
| 291 | * HeIsAllGrownUp: Remember when Nathan was short, skinny, scrawny and looked like an 11-year-old boy with a high-pitched voice? Where it ''looked'' like in "iPilot" Freddie was a few years younger and shorter than Carly (Kress is actually about six months ''older'' than Miranda Cosgrove in real life)? Yeah, those days are incredibly over. |
| 292 | ** Lampshaded by Carly after she attempts to pin him down, he completely flips her on her back and restrains her. |
| 293 | -->'''Carly:''' When did you get so strong!? |
| 294 | --> '''Freddie:''' Same time the voice got lower! |
| 295 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: In the revival series, Freddie's lack of self confidence after several setbacks over the years made him prone to joke about himself. |
| 296 | * HopelessSuitor: Towards Carly in the original series. For the first few seasons, at least. He's always had a one-sided, unrequited crush on her and hoped that he would become her boyfriend despite her only seeing him as friend. Subverted in season 3 and onward when Carly finally starts to develop feelings for him herself. |
| 297 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In progress, as per the trope, it's played for laughs on the show. However, Mrs. Benson takes MyBelovedSmother even further, their relationship can be quite bizarre, and will likely result in memories on par with the likes of Jeff from Series/{{Coupling}}. |
| 298 | * HypocriticalHumor: He mocks Nora for still living with her parents as an adult even though he's back living with his mom following two divorces and a failed startup. He notices the hypocrisy before he even finishes the sentence. |
| 299 | -->'''Freddie''': You still live with your parents? That's so... ''[notices hypocrisy]'' normal. |
| 300 | * InformedFlaw: Freddie's general nerdiness. The second he [[MrFanservice hit puberty]], it became harder to play those straight. |
| 301 | * IronButtMonkey: He becomes this, after subjected Sam's constant bullying, torture, torment and abuse. |
| 302 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He sacrifices his relationship with Carly, because he's unsure if he should be taking advantage of her hero worship. |
| 303 | * JerkassBall: He does this to the girls from time to time, usually as payback for [[TheDogBitesBack when they push him too far.]] |
| 304 | * JustFriends: With Carly in the original show. [[spoiler:Though their one last parting kiss in the original series finale implies their budding love.]] However, they are finally a real couple in the revival. |
| 305 | * {{Keet}}: In the pilot. He grew out of it pretty quickly, though. |
| 306 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To his mother. Without him in her life, she's even more intense and unstable than usual. |
| 307 | * LovableCoward: In the original series for the first couple of seasons. He used to be one the wimpiest, scrawniest, and meekest characters, but he desperately tries to be a peaceful and considerate person in order to avoid confrontation when he's antagonized. |
| 308 | * LoserProtagonist: Whenever he tries to do anything meaningful, it usually backfires embarrassingly on him and he suffers miserably because of it. |
| 309 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Sam's Masculine Girl. Over time however, Freddie does become manlier. |
| 310 | * MrFanservice: Turns out he has a ''lot'' of fangirls who find him handsome. As just ''himself.'' With all the girls that are attracted to him, if he didn't want Carly, Freddie would be a full-on {{Kidanova}}. |
| 311 | * NerdsAreSexy: Freddie is a tech nerd and quite good-looking, especially in the revival. They're really kicking up the MrFanservice vibe by constantly having him in the short sleeve shirts that would immediately mark him as a nerd - if it wasn't obvious that he's been spending some decent time on the free weights. |
| 312 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He has also been known to make things worse on occasion, even if he was well-intentioned. |
| 313 | * NoRespectGuy: He used to be frequently abused, pranked, teased and bullied by Sam, was formerly manipulated by Carly, and even humiliated in public at school. It in the revival, his adoptive stepdaughter who he shares custody with his second ex-wife openly disrespects him. |
| 314 | * OnlySaneMan: Complete with ''volunteering'' for a [[OnlySaneEmployee Liz Lemon Job]] (almost exactly Liz Lemon's actual job, for that matter.) |
| 315 | * OfficialCouple: With Carly. Freddie and Carly ''finally'' enter a real relationship and end up together in the third season of the revival. In the last episodes their relationship is already serious enough that Freddie is genuinely curious if [[spoiler:Carly has gotten pregnant]], but they also openly discuss marrying each other. |
| 316 | * ParentalAbandonment: His father is nowhere to be seen. |
| 317 | * PermaStubble: Sports this in the first season of the 2021 revival. |
| 318 | * PluckyComicRelief: Being stereotypically hapless and eccentric nerd that he is provides a lot of comedy in the original series and he was one of the funniest characters in the original with his lack of social awareness and immaturity. |
| 319 | * PungeonMaster: Does this from time to time. |
| 320 | * PushoverParents: He's very bad at disciplining his adoptive stepdaughter Millicent, who he shares custody with his second ex-wife. Though he finally starts standing up to her while under the placebo of "Bravery Sand", refusing to buy her a dog, but getting her a goldfish as a compromise. |
| 321 | * RedOniBlueOni: The smart blue (one of two) to Sam's outgoing red. |
| 322 | * RealMenWearPink: A red sock in the washing machine turned his white clothes pink from the alleged "Consuela's Revenge" curse. |
| 323 | * RescueRomance: He ''finally'' gets Carly to become enamored with him in Season 3 when he rescues Carly and his heroics win her heart, until Sam deviously warns him that Carly merely admires his heroic actions and isn't smitten with him personally, so he calls it off. |
| 324 | * SerialSpouse: Thoughout the 8-year time period between the original series finale and the revival, Freddie has been divorced (twice, actually), sharing joint custody of his adopted stepdaughter with his second ex-wife. |
| 325 | * TheSmartGuy: As a nerd, he's a very intelligent brainiac and good at anything that has to do with high-tech gadgets but can also be an eccentric and childish Ditzy Genius whose often on the most impulsive members of the group, due to his naivety and awkwardness. |
| 326 | * TheSpock: To Carly's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Sam's [[TheMcCoy McCoy]]. |
| 327 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Has shades of this, particularly in the first season before he hit puberty. |
| 328 | * StalkerWithACrush: Way back in Season 1. It's easy to forget that he's always planned to be Carly's boyfriend [[MurderTheHypotenuse after her first meets an unfortunate accident.]] Subverted in later seasons when Carly finally starts becoming enamored with him herself, but Freddie doesn't want to take advantage of her hero worship and decides to just stay friends with her until she can truly love him. |
| 329 | * StereotypicalNerd: Freddie starts the series as one. He's the show's cameraman and general tech guy due to his natural high intelligence and interest in anything having to do with tech. He also dressed primarily in sweater vests and button down shirts due to his [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother]] dictating what he wears. He was also a HopelessSuitor to Carly. And though the trio's popularity was kept afloat by their successful web show, Freddie was the show's primary ButtMonkey, suffering from constant bullying and abuse from Sam. When his actor goes through puberty later in the series and the actor's good looks become hard to ignore, he moves away from the trope and ends up more as a normal teen with some more tech-y interests. |
| 330 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: Freddie is the nerdy tech-support guy, while Sam is the aggressive, tough-as-nails bullying girl. |
| 331 | * StrugglingSingleMother: GenderInverted. Even though Freddie shares custody of Millicent with Gwen, Gwen's demanding job as a marine biologist means that Millicent is with Freddie more often than not. And as stated numerous times, Freddie's in a bad financial state after his two divorces, failed startup and falling for an MLM scam. |
| 332 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He is the tallest kid in the main cast and quite a handsome one at that. |
| 333 | * TeenGenius: {{Subverted}}, he's really talented with technology but he is never shown to particularly excel in school. |
| 334 | * TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed but Nathan Kress' body has become more muscular after puberty hits. Doesn't make him any more atheletic however and he is still a prime victim of bullying. |
| 335 | * TookALevelInDumbass: In the revival he gets very easily manipulated by his adopted stepdaughter and he doesn't notice how Spencer hired a sex worker to be his date on "iGot Your Back" (though he fortunately dumps her). Then there's "iMLM", where he spends all his savings on "Sand" as part of an MLM and quits his tech support job in order to have more time to sell it. |
| 336 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 5, he began dismissing and cold-shouldering Carly by snarkily mocking her, blowing her off and generally treating her poorly. One famous example is in iPear Store; after getting a job at the Pear Store, he gets easily annoyed with customers (he even nearly calls one woman a moron, openly), tries to get Sam fired when she gets a job there as well, then calls his boss a terrible manager for the latter, getting himself fired. In the first scene, he hands out pears to everyone except Sam, keeping the last one for himself, when announcing that he got a job, and cheerfully refuses her a discount at the store. |
| 337 | * UndyingLoyalty: To all his friends, especially Carly, even though she never really reciprocated his love for her initially. Averted in Season 3 onwards. |
| 338 | * VitriolicBestBuds: For all the crap that he endures from Sam, she does care about him deep down (in her own abusively twisted way). |
| 339 | * VocalEvolution: Puberty caused Nathan's voice to break between seasons 1 and 2. Lampshaded by Sam in the Season 2 premiere. His voice gets deeper and manlier over time. By the third season, his voice finally dropped and came out sounding even deeper than most adults. |
| 340 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Has been a primary focus on the character, having briefly dated both his female best friends in-canon in the original series. In the original series finale, he ultimately ends up together with his childhood crush Carly, who passionately kisses him on the lips. And in the revival, they're showing signs of growing close. It was later [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/icarly-renewed-season-3-paramount-plus-1235078940/ revealed]] that the "will-they-won't-they?" concept will be sorted out by season 3 and Carly and Freddie will finally be together. |
| 341 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Sam will usually give him this sort of maltreatment, how harshly depends on the episode. She has very little patience with him for no good reason, (he's a socially awkward, eccentric and immature klutz but still a good friend and person) and doesn't care when he's in pain, insulted, or upset. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Spencer Shay]] |
| 346 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spencer_photo1.png]] |
| 347 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spencer_profile___revival.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 348 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JerryTrainor |
| 349 | |
| 350 | Carly's quirky but loving older brother and legal guardian, as their parents are off [[ParentalAbandonment doing Godknowswhat]] (Mr. Shay is explicitly in the armed forces, but that's all that's been said). He is a sculptor of some sort, but easily out-wacky-hijinxes the younger characters despite his more-advanced age. |
| 351 | ---- |
| 352 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: In between the end of the original series and the revival, Spencer becomes wealthy after his marshmallow sculpture of the White House melted which Freddie interpreted as a brave statement against America's crumbling democracy. However, it turns out it was an accident as Spencer's cell phone [[RunningGag somehow caught on fire]] near the sculpture. |
| 353 | * AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: He is not just acquainted with the fire department, the fire department ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere blocked his number]]''. |
| 354 | * AgeGapRomance: In the revival, he briefly dates Harper's cousin Maeve. Spencer's around forty at this point, while Maeve is presumably in her late-twenties. |
| 355 | * AgeStereotypicalFood: The childish Spencer likes to make fun food for himself and his sister Carly, such as spaghetti tacos, showing his creative and child-like mind. In "[=iChristmas=]", when Carly wishes he was "normal", he becomes a serious and mature adult lawyer, who makes boring food like steamed halibut. |
| 356 | * AlliterativeName: '''S'''pencer '''S'''hay. |
| 357 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Hinted at during "I Dream of Dance" when his dream mirrors Carly's of being surrounded by scantily clad men, and he also says, just like Carly, "I think I like it". |
| 358 | * BadLiar: Spencer's flaw that is the subject of the B-plot in iRock The Vote. |
| 359 | * BerserkButton: Calling his butt flat will provoke this. Also, Carly immaturely and childishly disobeying him would also count, as shown in "iLook-a-Like" and "iDate a Bad Boy". |
| 360 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't let his appearance fool you. He might seem like a laid back, down to earth cool dude but when he's pissed, things get ugly. |
| 361 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 362 | ** Despite his rather aloof personality, he actually is a loving and responsible guardian to Carly. This is shown in the episode "iWanna Stay With Spencer", when Carly and Spencer's grandfather claimed Spencer was an unfit guardian, and tries to take Carly away. Upon leaving, Spencer stops them to give them Carly's inhaler, despite she's never had one in years, stating that [[TruthInTelevision asthma is tricky]]. This convinces their grandfather to let Carly stay with Spencer. |
| 363 | ** In "iLook-a-Like", Spencer is shown in a much more [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness mature demeanor, actually saying no to Carly for once when she asked to film the show at an MMA fight. When Carly demanded when Spencer become "uncool", he coldly retaliated by calling her out on 'acting a baby whenever she doesn't get what she wants'. In fact, he became highly pissed off when he discovered she actually sneaked out to see the fight]]. |
| 364 | ** He even has brotherly feelings for Carly's friends. In "iFence", he spent most of the episode hanging out with Freddie at the fencing studio. Since Freddie only has his mother and his two female best friends to be with, it was especially meaningful to be with a guy for once. |
| 365 | ** He has a more epic example of this in "iPear Store" when Trey, a presumably nerdy guy who works at the Pear Store, chases Carly around the apartment for a kiss, he promptly throws him out. |
| 366 | * BigBrotherMentor: To Freddie, who as mentioned above doesn't have any other male influence in his life. Whenever he isn't with Sam and/or Carly, Freddie's usually hanging out with Spencer to play games or get in on one of his many eccentric ideas. |
| 367 | %%* BuffySpeak |
| 368 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite all his weirdness, he was able to pick up enough during his three days at law school (and the book on law he kept) to help the gang out of any legal mishap they get themselves in very effectively. It was even given quite a ShoutOut in "iPromote Techfoots" when he acted as the gang's lawyer and wore a bizarre necktie. |
| 369 | * ButtMonkey: He gets this treatment from time to time. In his case, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity often ensues]], some incidents involving [[ArchEnemy that bratty boy Chuck]]. |
| 370 | * CasanovaWannabe: |
| 371 | ** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged.]] In both the original series and in the 2021 revival, Spencer tends to go back and forth between being a chick magnet, and having trouble with the ladies as well. Sometimes Spencer has a lot of luck getting the ladies he likes when they really like him back (see the ChickMagnet section below), but at the other times, he can be a little too overconfident and put too much emphasis on his weird quirks, and often causes his good luck with the ladies to diminish and turn sour when he thinks he can easily impress some ladies with little to no effort. Also, even when he gets a steady girlfriend, it usually doesn't last long because his girlfriends discover some weird and eccentric mannerisms and idiosyncrasies about him that tend to turn them off and make them break up with him. |
| 372 | ** One good example of this is in the episode "iWon't Cancel The Show," when Spencer invites a very intelligent and refined, erudite lady to their apartment for a dinner date, and he goes out of his way to try and impress her by pretending to be smart and cultured like her. But when he ends up having to help Carly, Freddie, and Gibby do their webshow with Sam's unexpected absence, he tries to go back and forth helping Carly with the webshow upstairs, and trying to keep up his date with the woman downstairs, causing him to comically run back and forth up and down the stairs trying to do both activities at the same time. [[spoiler: He never tells the woman about the iCarly webshow because he doesn't want her to think of him as immature and childish for it, but when she finally goes upstairs and discovers him helping the kids with their webshow, to his surprise, she actually tells him that she's not upset at him for helping Carly with her show, and she actually thinks it's pretty sweet, but she goes on to tell him that she's upset and angry at him for lying about it and for just not telling her the truth that he needed to help Carly with the webshow in the first place. Spencer then accidentally spits out the nasty food that Carly was feeding him for the show and a piece of it accidentally hits his date in the face, which adds even more onto her anger and disappointment, causing her to storm out and leave.]] |
| 373 | * ChickMagnet: With Sasha, Lauren Ackerman, Mrs. Benson (in an alternate universe), Ms. Fielder, Gibby's mom Charlotte, Connie, Trudy, Candace, a Russian-speaking girl and more. |
| 374 | * ChildishOlderSibling: To Carly. He's an energetic ManChild whose often too wrapped up in his art to truly act as a proper guardian, though he has his moments where he acts seriously with responsibility. |
| 375 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Biggest one on the show. |
| 376 | --> '''Spencer:''' Things haven't gotten better? |
| 377 | --> '''Freddie:''' They've gotten the opposite of better. |
| 378 | --> '''Spencer:''' So... worse? |
| 379 | --> '''Freddie:''' ''(Stares at Spencer in disbelief)'' ...Uh-huh. |
| 380 | * TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: In one episode, he spent the entire episode thinking a character from Galaxy Wars was going to show up and give him a hug, he was right. |
| 381 | * CompetitionFreak: He and Harper compete with each other quite often. In "iRobot Wedding" they have a competition to see who can score the most dates at Nevel's wedding. "iLove Gwen" takes it much higher. The episode opens with them playing pool, with Harper outright admitting that she doesn't like pool and only plays in order to beat Spencer at it. Millicent exploits their need to outdo each other so that they'll help her with her school's production of the play ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (Spencer designing the sets and Harper making the costumes), promising them that there is a prize for whoever does the best job. Carly also exploits it in order to trick Spencer and Harper into doing puzzles with Mrs. Benson so that she and Millicent wouldn't have to. All she had to do was say that Spencer is the best at puzzles, with Harper unable to resist the challenge. |
| 382 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's a cheerful and goofy guy, though he does snark occasionally. |
| 383 | * EccentricArtist: A quirky sculptor who makes quirky sculptures, hangs out with his teenage sister and her friends, and is often considered strange. |
| 384 | * EpicFail: His RunningGag is that the mundane objects he fixes, sculpts, or (at the very least) touches become extremely prone to bursting into flames, bypassing ''any'' form of scientific logic. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the more outlandish ones. This trait of his was {{Deconstructed}} by being PlayedForDrama in "iGot A Hot Room" when [[spoiler:a lamp that Spencer gives to Carly bursts into flames, burning up everything in her room]]. "iChristmas" did the same thing, but from Carly's perspective. On the plus side, his cellphone bursting into flames next to his marshmallow white house resulted in him becoming a millionaire. |
| 385 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Hanging upside down from the ceiling to photograph his bottle bot. |
| 386 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Carly's responsible. Although occasionally subverted whenever Carly does something too dangerous. |
| 387 | * FunPersonified: His ex-girlfriend Veronica describes him best: "I thought he was crazy and... too loud. But Spencer is a creative, fun spirit." |
| 388 | %%* HandsomeLech |
| 389 | * HeroicBSOD: This happened to him when he realized how dangerous pranking can be. |
| 390 | * LargeHam: Similar to Jerry Trainor's previous role as [[Series/DrakeAndJosh Crazy Steve]], Spencer is prone to overreact or talks loudly. |
| 391 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He initially had short hair for the first half of Season 1. Spencer was adamant about not getting his hair cut for the show's first three seasons. It bothered Carly enough to the point she demanded he get it cut for her birthday in the Season 4 premiere, reverting his appearance back to his pre-"iDream of Dance" appearance. In the first two seasons of the revival, he has longer hair, but it's short again in the third season. |
| 392 | * {{Keet}}: A very loud and energetic ManChild. |
| 393 | * {{Manchild}}: He is a sculptor for a living, often making whimsical and sometimes weird sculptures that usually end up catching on fire or exploding before being perfected. He loves light-up socks, has a pet goldfish (that he often forgets to feed, resulting in ''another'' pet goldfish), and once went to law school for three days. Carly even calls him a "manchild" in "iLove You" and he calls himself one in the series finale. |
| 394 | * MilitaryBrat: Notable in that his father has been deployed so long that he's never been seen in-series. |
| 395 | * MissingMom: His mom is never seen nor mentioned in the original show. Luke asks Carly about their mom in "iStart Over", but she dodges the question. It is finally confirmed in "I have a Proposal" that [[spoiler:his mom is indeed alive and merely abandoned the family.]] |
| 396 | * MotorMouth: Like Carly he can deliver long and impressive tongue-twisting dialogues. |
| 397 | * MySisterIsOffLimits: He usually lets it slide whenever Carly flirts with other guys but he still has his limits. In "iDate A Bad Boy", he's outraged to see Griffin kissing his little sister. The rest of the first episode leads to him following her around, making sure Griffin isn't near her. |
| 398 | * NiceGuy: Spencer is a cool guy who gives his younger sister a lot of love, care, and freedom. He even extends his brotherly instinct to her friends who he does get along with. |
| 399 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Any time his BigBrotherInstinct surfaces, he is a strict killjoy and set rules for Carly in "iLook-a-Like" and "iDate a Bad Boy", out of concern for her well being. Could be a result of the events of "iWanna Stay With Spencer" with Spencer undergoing CharacterDevelopment to prove to his disapproving grandfather that he is a responsible guardian for Carly. In the last moments of Season 3's ending, he has a withering stare for [[spoiler:their estranged mother when she suddenly returns that is genuinely unnerving.]] |
| 400 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's pushing forty by the revival yet looks no different from how he was in the original series. |
| 401 | * PapaWolf: Despite being Carly's brother, he does have his moments. He once kicks a guy out of their apartment after he chases Carly for a kiss she does not want. |
| 402 | * ThePornomancer: Scores with every woman on the show older than 18, and younger than Mrs. Benson. Also scored with Mrs. Benson in the Christmas Episode. And a 80 year old guy whilst Spencer was pretending to be a busty old woman. In "iMust Have Locker 239" he may have had a girl in his room at the start of the episode, and then scored with the art teacher at the end of that episode. In "iRobot Wedding", he and Harper have a competition to see who can get the most phone numbers at Nevel's wedding and while he ultimately loses, it's only by one number, and this is despite the fact that Harper is pansexual and thus had a larger pool to select from. |
| 403 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: He's thirteen years older than Carly and acts as her legal guardian. |
| 404 | * PromotionToParent: To Carly, in the BackStory. In the revival, when [[spoiler:he mistakenly believes Carly is pregnant, he excitedly yells that he's going to be a ''grandfather''.]] |
| 405 | %%* PungeonMaster |
| 406 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Spencer is Carly's legal guardian. While he can be a goofy {{Manchild}}, he actually does have a good balance of giving Carly enough freedom to live her own life while also being able to put his foot down with her and ground her when absolutely necessary. This is best shown in the episode "iLookAlike". |
| 407 | * RunningGag: |
| 408 | ** Spencer tends to bring up how Carly's friends spends more time at his house than at theirs. |
| 409 | ** Anything that Spencer fixed or created tends to catch on fire, even if they are not connected to any electrical sources. It's so bad that he made a ''fire '''extinguisher''''' spray out flames instead of fire-retardant foam. |
| 410 | * SiblingYinYang: With Carly. |
| 411 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Even though he dropped out of law school, Spencer is still highly intelligent. It's worth noting that he didn't drop out because he was a poor student, but because he didn't want to become a lawyer, and has proven to be very competent legal advice all the same. See BunnyEarsLawyer above |
| 412 | %%* TheStoner: Has the characteristics of one. |
| 413 | * TeamDad: Being the oldest of the main cast, he is this to Carly and her friends. |
| 414 | * TookALevelInDumbass: According to Jerry Trainor, Spencer has gotten even dumber in the 2021 series, and he was not wrong. Spencer in the original show was a goof, but still competent when the situation called for it. In the revival, he has his incredibly dumb moments. In "iHate Carly", he blinds himself with pepper spray, then tries to drive himself to the hospital while blind. In "iGot Your Back", he doesn't realize that the "actress" he hired to date Freddie is a sex worker until Carly points it out to him. |
| 415 | * TheUnfavorite: Both Granddad Shay and their father seem to favor Carly over Spencer. |
| 416 | * WalkingTechBane: He has had this joke used on him in a number of episodes in which many things - even things that don't have an ignition source or don't even use electricity (one example being a drum set) - spontaneously combust. At one point, after putting out a fire with a liquid, the liquid caught on fire. He was unaware as to how, exactly, that could occur. |
| 417 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: He has no qualms admitting he wears a size 10 dress, to the point having a DisguisedInDrag subplot. He even poses as Pam Puckett in "iLost My Mind" to break Sam out of the mental hospital. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Orenthal Cornelius "Gibby" Gibson]] |
| 421 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gibby_icarly_33165460_1563_3600.png]] |
| 422 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/NoahMunck |
| 423 | |
| 424 | Appearing as a minor character when the series began, Gibby is among the main trio's friend and schoolmate and a frequent ButtMonkey guest in the webshow. As the show progressed, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn he was slowly developed]] to be one of the gang's most loyal friends and a usual sidekick to Carly's eccentric big brother Spencer. |
| 425 | ---- |
| 426 | * AlliterativeName: Averted, because Gibby is just a nickname. |
| 427 | * AscendedExtra: Originally was just meant to have a one-time appearance. He then started to apear more often while having an occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight moment in the limelight.]] He then got outright promoted to being part of the main cast starting with season 4. |
| 428 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite being a goofball, Gibby knows boxing and is capable of throwing a mean punch. When he finds out that his friends are captured by Nora, Gibby mounts a rescue and take on the psycho fangirl. |
| 429 | * BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this off in ''iPsycho'' to save the gang from the AxCrazy fangirl Nora. |
| 430 | %%* BigFun |
| 431 | %%* TheBigGuy |
| 432 | * BreakoutCharacter: From a planned one-time appearance to his own SpinOff (although unlike ''Series/SamAndCat'', it was for naught as the pilot didn't sell). |
| 433 | * ButtMonkey: Arguably even moreso than Freddie. |
| 434 | * {{Catchphrase}}: |
| 435 | ** "'''GIBBY!'''" |
| 436 | ** "I ''love'' that!" |
| 437 | %%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} |
| 438 | * ChekhovsSkill: In "iEnrage Gibby", Gibby is shown to be a trained fighter who knows boxing. A few episodes later, he uses these skills to fight Nora. |
| 439 | * TheChewToy: Aside from being Sam's punching bag, the gang often use him in their segments, usually making him perform stunts that is either embarassing or painful. According to Guppy in the revival series, he voluntarily joins some of those segments. |
| 440 | * CrazyJealousGuy: For such a nice guy, Gibby can easily be jealous. When he sees his girlfriend on top of Freddie, Gibby believes she is cheating on him and challenges Freddie to a fight. Once Freddie shows video evidence of what really happened, Gibby calms down and apologize to Freddie. |
| 441 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Gibby handles himself rather well during "iPsycho" in a fight against the crazed fangirl Nora, and had the upper hand until Sam stepped in to finish Nora off. |
| 442 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: His legal name is Orenthal Gibson. No wonder he goes by "Gibby". |
| 443 | * FanDisservice: Upon shirt removal--though viewers find it quite funny though. |
| 444 | %%* FatBestFriend: Downplayed in the later seasons. |
| 445 | * FatIdiot: Although he gets better when he's promoted to a regular in Season 4. |
| 446 | * IronButtMonkey: He has taken a lot of punishment, but when pushed too far, he can give as good as he gets. |
| 447 | * KavorkaMan: Manages to get cute girlfriends like [[Creator/EmilyRatajkowski Tasha]] and Patrice despite being chubby and awkward. |
| 448 | * LetsGetDangerous: When he confirms that Nora had captured his best friends, his action is to go from {{Cloudcuckoolander}} to busting down her locked door and engaging her in a brawl throughout her house. Just when it looks like Nora's defeated Gibby, he takes off his shirt. Cue [[OhCrap triumphant music]]. |
| 449 | * LastNameBasis: Sort of. "Gibby" is short for his last name "Gibson". |
| 450 | * LikesOlderWomen: His girlfriend, Tasha, is a couple years older than him. He has also hit on several of Spencer's girlfriends. |
| 451 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name was as much a surprise to his friends as it was to the audience. |
| 452 | * PhraseCatcher: Whenever he gets distracted or says something stupid, the gang will yell his name. |
| 453 | * PokemonSpeak: He says his name pretty often. This becomes more frequent in the later seasons, which often gets a cheer or a round of applause from the studio audience. |
| 454 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: Starting in season 4, when Gibby becomes a main character. |
| 455 | * PutOnABus: Gibby is absent from the 2021 revival. Unlike Sam however, his current whereabout is unknown and he's only been mentioned once so far. |
| 456 | * RunningGag: |
| 457 | ** Alternates from being shirtless or slow-witted during the first few seasons. When he became a main character, his shirtless scenes are ditched in favor of being unable to decipher a joke or a pun (which he averts by solving the gang's coded message by himself in "iPsycho"). |
| 458 | ** He thinks that Spencer is Carly's dad, even after being corrected several times. |
| 459 | * SanityBall: In his subplot in "[=iStart a Fan War=]", he plays the role of OnlySaneMan due to his only company being Guppy, an even bigger {{Cloudcuckoolander}} than him, and their [[ScatterbrainedSenior senile grandfather.]] |
| 460 | * SequelNonEntity: Like Sam, Gibby is absent from the revival. Unlike Sam, his disappearance isn't explained. |
| 461 | * ShirtlessScene: For some reason, the kid is fond of taking his shirt off, prompting a reaction of PleasePutSomeClothesOn. This was dropped by Season 4. |
| 462 | ** In "iStill Psycho" Gibby [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has been doing it less frequently. |
| 463 | ** In "iOpen A Restaurant" he states he won't take his shirt off anymore unless it's without good reason like "to take a swim or a shower or whatever." |
| 464 | * TheSixthRanger: Made recurring appearances in the first three seasons, then joined the main cast. |
| 465 | * StoutStrength: Don't be fooled by his chubby appearance. Gibby has been shown to have physical strength on par with ''Sam's'', and is also a trained kick boxer. He's also the second strongest after Sam. |
| 466 | * VocalEvolution: Due to Noah Munck hitting puberty, Gibby's voice starts to get slightly deeper between season 3-4 and is much deeper by the time of season 6. |
| 467 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: When Tasha is introduced, Carly and her friends are surprised that he's dating an attractive older girl. |
| 468 | * WouldHitAGirl: He has no qualm fighting Nora after she kidnaps his friends. It helps that Nora is mentally unstable and incredibly hostile to begin with. |
| 469 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: However, his real name is MUCH more embarrassing. |
| 470 | [[/folder]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | !!!Debuted in Revival |
| 473 | [[folder:Harper Bettencourt]] |
| 474 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harper_profile___revival.jpg]] |
| 475 | ->'''Played By''': Creator/LaciMosley |
| 476 | Carly's new roommate. Her day job is working at Skybucks coffee shop, but she aspires to be a stylist. |
| 477 | ---- |
| 478 | * CompetitionFreak: She and Spencer compete with each other quite often. In "iRobot Wedding" they have a competition to see who can score the most dates at Nevel's wedding. "iLove Gwen" takes it even higher. The episode opens with them playing pool, with Harper outright admitting that she doesn't like pool and only plays in order to beat Spencer at it. Millicent exploits their need to outdo each other so that they'll help her with her school's production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (Spencer designing the sets and Harper making the costumes), promising them that there is a prize for whoever does the best job. Carly also exploits it in order to trick Spencer and Harper into doing puzzles with Mrs. Benson so that she and Millicent wouldn't have to. All she had to do was say that Spencer is the best at puzzles, with Harper unable to resist the challenge. |
| 479 | * ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Harper takes Sam's role as Carly's new best friend, but she could not be more different from her predecessor: Sam was a white girl who never put effort into anything other than iCarly and grew up to live her life as a free sprit, from running a babysitting service to joining a biker gang. Harper is a Riches to Rags black girl working a dead-end job at Skybucks while working to achieve her dream as a fashion designer and has no involvement in iCarly since a big part of her character is about making her own success and working hard rather than riding Carly’s coattails. If she ever is, she's only there for the ride. |
| 480 | * DeadEndJob: After her family went bankrupt, Harper has been working as a barista at Skybucks Coffee Bar with minimum wage for four years. She quits said job in "iMLM", as it was interfering with important fashion events. |
| 481 | * {{Determinator}}: Harper may have lost everything when her family went bankrupt. But, she still moves on to fulfill her dreams. |
| 482 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She sported braids in the first season, which changed to a loose wavy style thereafter. |
| 483 | * TheFashionista: Her dream is to be a stylist, as she discovered a knack for it when she decorated her Skybucks apron. She also helped Carly pick out a dress for a fashion event. |
| 484 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Though Spencer is much older than Harper, they get along quite well. |
| 485 | * LipstickLesbian: Lipstick pansexual as she is very feminine in style and mannerisms. |
| 486 | * OneSteveLimit: "iCarly Saves TV" had a character named Harper who performed a song on Carly's web show. Both characters are even portrayed by black actors. |
| 487 | * OnlySaneMan: Harper is the only character to realise the others have fallen for a MLM, making the breakthrough that snaps them out of it. |
| 488 | * ThePornomancer: She is pansexual and quite successful in the carnal department. She and Spencer even have a competition to see who can get the most phone numbers at Nevel's wedding. She wins, albeit by one number. |
| 489 | * ProudBeauty: She knows she's attractive and isn't shy about flaunting it. |
| 490 | * ReallyGetsAround: Has had many sexual encounters, to the point that she's not even certain about whether a man she's setting up Carly with was someone she slept with or not. |
| 491 | * RichesToRags: Harper was born from a rich family who became bankrupt. She now works a minimum wage job at Skybucks while wanting to break into fashion. |
| 492 | * SassyBlackWoman: Whether is to make fun of someone (like Freddie) or giving them advice, most of Harper's lines are practically sassing them. |
| 493 | * SelfMadeWoman: What she aspires to be. Despite the fact she’s friends with Carly (who made her name through her web show and brand that can help her get ahead), Harper wants to succeed on her own efforts without riding on Carly’s coattails. |
| 494 | * TalentedButTrained: Harper has clear talent in fashion, but works hard to get better and better to make a name for herself. |
| 495 | * TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black pansexual woman. |
| 496 | [[/folder]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | [[folder:Millicent Mitchell]] |
| 499 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/millicent_profile___revival_3_3.jpg]] |
| 500 | ->'''Played By''': Jaidyn Triplett |
| 501 | Freddie's adoptive stepdaughter. Despite being only 11, she has big, detailed plans for her future. |
| 502 | ---- |
| 503 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''illicent '''M'''itchell. |
| 504 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: She has dark brown skin, but her ethnic background hasn't yet been established. Her actress is half-black and she mentions studying Capoeira, perhaps implying Afro-Brazilian heritage. Her biological mother, Gwen is also shown to be of an unknown AmbiguouslyBrown (likely Latin American) ethnicity[[note]]Gwen's actress, Carmela Zumbado, is Cuban.[[/note]], though she's still much lighter skinned than Millicent, so her deceased birth father was most likely black. |
| 505 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Not yet a teenager, but still tends to be rude to everyone, especially Carly and Freddie. |
| 506 | * BrilliantButLazy: Millicent is quite clever and crafty, but she often tries to take shortcuts to her success, like trying to cancel Carly. |
| 507 | * DeadpanSnarker: She's probably the snarkiest of the cast in the revival, arguably moreso than Freddie. Carly tends to have that rivalry with her. |
| 508 | * DisappearedDad: Her birth father has passed away some time before her mother Gwen married Freddie, as revealed in "iLove Gwen". |
| 509 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first few episodes, she was an aspiring influencer who saw Carly as a rival and tried to cancel her. This was quickly abandoned in favour of having her be a pint-sized entrepreneur, if not a BrilliantButLazy one. |
| 510 | * HappilyAdopted: Zig-zagged. After Freddie and her mother Gwen divorced, both took joint custody over Millicent, something she didn't initially seem happy about. However, it becomes apparent that Millicent does love Freddie in spite of her brattiness towards him and she eventually accepts Freddie as her father. Even before that, she has a good relationship with her step-grandmother |
| 511 | * IKnowKarate: She says that she knows Capoeira. Carly retorts that it's merely dancing. |
| 512 | * JerkassToOne: While she was a jerk to everyone in the first three episodes, later episodes had her (mostly) only antagonizing Carly. Even in said early episodes, she was meaner to Carly than anyone else. |
| 513 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being snarky and occasionally mean to Freddie, she does genuinely care about him enough to not see him get heartbroken with another potential failed relationship, signifying that she does care about him. When she removes him from his role as "Chief Dad Officer" from her cupcake business, she doesn't do it out of malice, but due to Freddie taking things too seriously and even gives him her last thirteen dollars for his next startup. She's also able to put aside her differences with Carly whenever the situation calls for it, like when they thought Freddie and Gwen wanted to get back together. |
| 514 | * KidAppealCharacter: She's a social media obsessed preteen girl, likely meant to appeal to younger viewers, since the original characters have long since grown up. |
| 515 | * LittleMissSnarker: Much of her dialogue consists of sarcasm aimed at the wackiness of the adults around her. |
| 516 | * ManipulativeBitch: Tends to try and manipulate the adults around her, Freddie being the primary target. |
| 517 | * MouthyKid: She's quite witty and doesn't take guff from anyone. |
| 518 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Mocks Carly for being a has-been, but is reminded that her channel only has two subscribers, one being Carly. |
| 519 | * SmittenTeenageGirl: She gets her first boyfriend at the end of season 2 and becomes unable to speak or think about anything else until Mrs. Benson advises her to find happiness within herself instead of depending on someone else. |
| 520 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: She and Carly tend to take potshots at each other. |
| 521 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Personality-wise, she's very similar to Sam, albeit without the gluttony and penchant for violence and with with arguably more redeeming qualities, but remains tough as nails. |
| 522 | * TheWatson: She's the one who asks questions which invite explanation of events in Carly and Freddie's past that viewers who haven't seen the original ''iCarly'' (or did, but could use a little brushing up) need to know, such as their histories with Nora and Nevel. |
| 523 | * TookALevelInKindness: From "iGot Your Back" onward, she is noticeably a lot less hostile towards people, becoming more sarcastic instead of a straight-up JerkAss. |
| 524 | * YoureNotMyFather: Says this to Freddie in "iStart Over", as Freddie is merely her stepfather who adopted her and shares custody with his second ex-wife (her biological mother). She seems to be changing her mind as of "iNeed Space". As we find out, she's having a bit of trouble coming to terms with the loss of her biological father. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | !!Recurring Characters |
| 528 | |
| 529 | !!!Debuted in original series |
| 530 | [[folder:Marissa Benson]] |
| 531 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mom_of_freddie.jpg]] |
| 532 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/MaryScheer |
| 533 | |
| 534 | Freddie's overbearing and overprotective mother who frequently clashes with the main characters. |
| 535 | ---- |
| 536 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: While Freddie loves his mom, her overbearing nature exasperates him to no end. Things reach their boiling point when her antics end up with him moving out in "iMove Out". She still does it 8 years later even when Freddie is a grown adult. |
| 537 | * BigDamnHeroes: In "iStill Psycho" along with T-Bo. |
| 538 | * CrazyPrepared: Brought a first-aid ''suitcase'' to Freddie's fencing match. |
| 539 | ** She also had a tracking device installed in Freddie's head when he was a baby. It helps her locate him when he and his friends are in trouble twice. |
| 540 | * DemotedToExtra: Since Season 4 started, she's only appeared 2-3 times a season. It's possible that Gibby being promoted to the main cast is the reason for this. |
| 541 | * DotingGrandparent: She coddles Millicent much like she does Freddie. |
| 542 | * DualWielding: Fencing sabers. |
| 543 | ** Again in "iStill Psycho" with ''cutlasses!'' |
| 544 | * {{Flanderization}}: In the first season, she fit the pattern of [[ShownTheirWork classic OCD]]; in the second, [[RuleOfFunny not so much]]. |
| 545 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: With Lewbert in one episode. |
| 546 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Almost nobody in the cast can stand her high-strung, overprotective attitude and generally only associate with her because she's Freddie's mother. Even Freddie finds her approach towards parenting irritating and, in one episode, got so fed up with it that he moved out. Clearly no matter how many times he tries this, he'll end up moving back. Millicent is the only character who's okay with Mrs. Benson overall, but even she needs time away from her. |
| 547 | * HiddenDepths: In spite of her overprotective nature, she does displays fencing skills. |
| 548 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When she says she can't see how Carly can be so happy just because she's dating a new guy. |
| 549 | --> '''Sam:''' Sure, because you haven't had a date since {{Series/Seinfeld}} got cancelled. |
| 550 | --> '''Mrs. Benson:''' [Gasps] It wasn't cancelled! Jerry ''chose'' not to do another season. |
| 551 | * InherentlyAttractiveProfession: She seems to have a thing for lawyers, as in an alternate universe where Spencer was born normal and became a lawyer, the two are engaged. While she did briefly express interest in Lewbert before he became a lawyer, he quickly wins her back after becoming one, even while he's suing her son. |
| 552 | %%* LargeHam |
| 553 | * MamaBear: Lay a hand on her son and you'll regret it. |
| 554 | * MasterSwordswoman: She is a highly skilled fencer and comes from a long line of champion fencers. |
| 555 | * MyBelovedSmother: Taken to the very extreme every time she appears. However, some episodes such as "iGo to Japan" show that sometimes, Freddie actually does want some of the things she insists on such as still sleeping with a nightlight, and she acts that way for Freddie to hide that fact from Carly and Sam. She acts the same towards Millicent in the Revival, but Millicent doesn’t seem to mind. |
| 556 | %%* TheParanoiac |
| 557 | * ParentWithNewParamour: She started dating Lewbert in "iHurt Lewbert". |
| 558 | * PetTheDog: In "iToe Fat Cakes", where she actually does make an attempt to help Carly out of the bathtub. |
| 559 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: In "iStill Psycho": |
| 560 | --> '''Mrs. Benson''': You girls want a little taste of the Fencin' Bensons?! |
| 561 | * ProperlyParanoid: Mrs. Benson comes across as overprotective of Freddie to an insane degree most of the time. However, she isn't exactly wrong in that Freddie is often in a number of harmful, even life threatening situations throughout the show, from regularly being beaten up by Sam to getting hit by a truck while protecting Carly. The tracking device she put in Freddie's head also becomes crucial to getting him and his friends out of trouble twice. |
| 562 | * RelationshipSabotage: She participates in one against Freddie's relationship with Sam. While she's right to be upset over the relationship, her attempts are done in an incredibly hostile way. |
| 563 | * RetiredBadass: Came briefly out of retirement in "iFence". |
| 564 | ** Again in "iStill Psycho", [[CurbstompBattle curbstomping]] Nora and her equally AxCrazy mother in a sword fight. |
| 565 | * RhymesOnADime: She has a series of silly, and occasionally morbid rhymes to help her through her daily life. |
| 566 | --> '''Mrs. Benson:''' You won't get respect if your back's not erect. |
| 567 | --> '''Mrs. Benson:''' When temperatures get too high, the elderly will start to die! |
| 568 | --> '''Mrs. Benson:''' Wet and sticky is very icky. Sticky and wet makes Mommy upset. |
| 569 | %%* SafetyWorst |
| 570 | * ShipperOnDeck: She initially shipped [[PortmanteauCoupleName Creddie]] in the first few seasons. Ironically enough, when her son ''finally'' gets together with Carly, she's angry. This is only because she blames Carly for Freddie's injuries. |
| 571 | * TookALevelInKindness: Is much more friendly and personable towards Carly during Season 1 of the revival. Later seasons have her go back to acting cold and condescending towards her however, though she warms up to her by the end of "[=iGo=] to Toledo". |
| 572 | [[/folder]] |
| 573 | |
| 574 | [[folder:Nevel Amadeus Papperman]] |
| 575 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_nkv2whtptl1rfrkbq_9.jpg]] |
| 576 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irobot_wedding_nevel.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 577 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/ReedAlexander |
| 578 | |
| 579 | A ChildProdigy who hosts a popular review website called Nevelocity and has a strong crush on Carly. After Carly rejected his creepy advances, Nevel makes it his mission to ruin her life as payback. |
| 580 | ---- |
| 581 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: He has an obsessive crush on Carly and makes a series of advances on her during their first encounter, none of which she welcomes. Carly was quite disturbed to learn that he was her boyfriend in the Christmas alternate universe. |
| 582 | * AffablyEvil: Lampshaded by Shelby Marx, who describes him as "polite, but super creepy". |
| 583 | * ArchEnemy: To Carly and her friends. |
| 584 | * BigBad: The closest thing the show has to a primary antagonist and almost every episode he appears in has him stirring up a conflict, usually for no other reason than fun or to make Carly miserable. He may be the most recurring threat, but in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match Nora Dershlit's. In fact, a ''Sam and Cat'' episode has him being the LesserOfTwoEvils helping Sam take down Nora a la Hannibal Lecter. |
| 585 | * BreakoutVillain: Doesn't appear all that much, yet is treated as close to a BigBad as this show can get. The creators even stated that his character is ComicBook/TheJoker to Carly's Franchise/{{Batman}}. |
| 586 | * BullyingTheDisabled: Does this at the end of "[=iPity=] the Nevel" which led to his career going downhill. |
| 587 | * CampStraight: Acts and sounds very effeminate, but has been only shown to like girls. |
| 588 | * CastingCouch: His first meeting with Carly reeks of this. He invites her over with a pretense of wanting a kiss from her. When she refuses his advances, he writes a bad review of iCarly on his website, causing the website's popularity to tank. |
| 589 | * CatchPhrase: "You'll rue this day! RUE IT!" |
| 590 | * CompositeCharacter: Of Creator/TerryThomas' aristocratic characters Algernon Hawthorne from ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' and Sir Percy Ware-Armitage from ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'', however, Nevel is much closer the latter, due to both characters' tendencies to sabotage the efforts of TheHero, but get backfired later on. |
| 591 | %%* TheCracker |
| 592 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Despite being very young, he's obviously a pretty good computer tech, hacker, designer, and such, and could probably make more money making websites if he didn't bother trying to shut down iCarly.com with various wacky schemes. |
| 593 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 594 | ** Carly refused to kiss him and stuck some food in his face. Therefore, he swore Carly would [[CatchPhrase rue this day]] and he embarked on a campaign of revenge, which included fraud, cyberterrorism and even one point threatens Carly's life by bodily harm by making Shelby Marx his UnwittingPawn to do the job. |
| 595 | ** One episode showed a video of him picking up the last jar of a particular brand of pickle in a store. As he's about to put it in his car, a little girl accidentally runs into him with a cart, causing him to drop the jar, which falls on the floor and breaks. He ''flips'', screaming at the little girl and taking a lollipop she had out of her cart, then throws it on the ground, taunting her and screaming at her more ''as she's crying''. The little SOB calls her mother an idiot. The numerous hateful comments the video receives about Nevel are well-deserved. |
| 596 | %%* EvilIsHammy: He's REALLY loud whenever he talks about his plans or gloats. |
| 597 | * EvilCounterpart: He's basically season one Freddie without any of the latter's likable qualities. |
| 598 | * HackerCave: As Carly and Sam put it, Nevel's 'Nerd Cave'. |
| 599 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In "iPity the Nevel", he has a HeelRealization. Although he goes back to his old ways at the end of the episode, showing even if he tries to redeem himself, he is always going to be like this. [[spoiler:He seemingly reforms after marrying Prunella, but both of them soon go back to messing with Carly, though mostly out of boredom rather than any actual malice.]] |
| 600 | * HappilyMarried : [[spoiler:He has his close friend Prunella Pitz pretend to be his fiancée in his scheme to marry Carly. However, [[BecomingTheMask Prunella ends up falling for him for real and Nevel is so touched that they get married for real]].]] |
| 601 | * HumiliationConga: Most of "iPity The Nevel". However, he ''does'' come out the better for it, having a HeelRealization and performing a HeelFaceTurn in the end. |
| 602 | * IfICantHaveYou: He tried to ruin iCarly after she refused to kiss him ''during their first encounter''. |
| 603 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's very selfish and torments Carly and her friends out of amusement. That and out of anger towards Carly's rejection. |
| 604 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction to his HeelRealization. |
| 605 | * NerdyBully: Despite being wimpy and odd, he is a bad-tempered kid with great computer skills and a popular blog. When Carly rejected his advances he set out to make her "rue the day" and had since become a recurring villain always attempting to take down iCarly. One episode had him go so far as attempting to get Carly brutally beaten by an MMA fighter in what was meant to be a fun publicity match. |
| 606 | * NeverMyFault: His whole reason for wanting to ruin the webshow is because Carly refused to let him kiss her. He seems to blame her for this, despite the fact that she was obviously uninterested in him and initially saw him as someone who was going to help the show. |
| 607 | ** In "iHalfoween", he blames the iCarly gang for not helping fix his reputation after the backlash he got for screaming at a little girl on camera in "iPity The Nevel". Except the gang did help salvage Nevel's reputation only for him to piss away any good will by then yelling at a wheelchair-bound man who accidentally bumped into him. |
| 608 | * NotGoodWithRejection: The reason why he torments Carly and her family is because he made several advances on her and she responded by smearing tapenade on his face. Borders on IfICantHaveYou and CrazyJealousGuy. |
| 609 | * PervertedSniffing: In his ''first appearance'', he sniffs Carly's hair in order to smell the shampoo she uses. Needless to say, she's a little creeped out by this. |
| 610 | * RedemptionFailure: The ending of "iPity the Nevel" when he gets into trouble for mistreating a wheelchair-bound man. |
| 611 | * RetiredMonster: After Carly made her final webcast and left Seattle, Nevel hasn't really schemed against her since then. But...Carly's return to Seattle has caused him to get out of retirement and enact a scheme to lure Carly so he can force her to marry him. |
| 612 | * SissyVillain: His behavior is slightly effeminate. It doesn't make him any less intimidating. |
| 613 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Constantly antagonizes the iCarly trio due to Carly not wanting to be his girlfriend. |
| 614 | %%* SmugSnake |
| 615 | * StalkerWithACrush: Towards Carly. It gets super creepy in one scene where he's shown to have setup a series of monitors looping close up shots of Carly from the webshow. The kid even wanted to kiss her a couple of times during the show, one of them being during their first meeting. His whole plot in "iRobot Wedding" is to get Carly to attend so he can marry ''her''. [[spoiler:He ends up marrying his fake fiancée Prunella instead.]] |
| 616 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: His bloodcurdling screams in "iGive Away a Car" and "iFight Shelby Marx". |
| 617 | * SympathyForTheDevil: After hitting rock bottom on a viral video that disgraced himself, the iCarly gang of all people is the one he approached to ask help in restoring his good name. It doesn't last long though. |
| 618 | * VillainousCrush: He's a reoccurring antagonist who has the hots for Carly. |
| 619 | * {{Yandere}}: To Carly. |
| 620 | |
| 621 | [[/folder]] |
| 622 | |
| 623 | [[folder:Lewbert Sline]] |
| 624 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mgid_ao_image_mtv_97.jpg]] |
| 625 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JeremyRowley |
| 626 | |
| 627 | The bitter and obnoxious doorman who's often pranked by the main characters. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | * AbusiveParents: Implied. When Spencer filled in for Lewbert as doorman, he separated Lewbert's mail into three categories: from his mother, death threats, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs death threats from his mother]]. |
| 630 | * AssholeVictim: Since he is such a [[{{Jerkass}} reviled person to be around]], especially after he shows no sympathy for Freddie after he fell down the stairs (though it was fake), and [[GetOut ultimately aggressively tells Spencer off]], he gets beaten up by two truckers, not that anyone minded. |
| 631 | * BerserkButton: He has many, but his biggest one is whenever something spills on his floor and it gets dirty so then he has to clean it up. When Freddie fell down the stairs, Lewbert yelled at him not to bleed one drop of blood on his recently cleaned floor. |
| 632 | * BestServedCold: He waited 10 years, cleaned himself up and attended law school for several years. [[spoiler: All for the sole purpose of suing Carly for the torment her and her friends inflicted on him so many years ago.]] |
| 633 | * ButtMonkey: Though most of the time he [[AssholeVictim deserves it]]. |
| 634 | * CassandraTruth: He knew Marta Trundel better than Carly and her friends. None of them believed him when he tried to convince them that Marta was evil. |
| 635 | * {{Determinator}}: This guy put himself through law school to win back Marissa and sue the iCarly gang for their pranks. |
| 636 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Simultaneously played seriously and for laughs. His ex-girlfriend was ''dangerously'' violent after the first two weeks. When she shows up again, she continues the abuse by cutting his hair against his will. |
| 637 | * FreudianExcuse: He had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood and an abusive girlfriend before he came to Seattle. It's understandable why he would be so bitter. |
| 638 | * {{Gonk}}: Both inside and outside (especially cause of the wart). |
| 639 | * HiddenDepths: Played with. His interactions with Marissa show that he can be legitimately gentlemanly when he wants to be, but he's still a ChildHater. |
| 640 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Lewbert considers Chuck a model resident of Bushwell Plaza, completely oblivious that Chuck is responsible for a lot of things that happened including getting him beat up by truckers (since they thought he was Spencer). |
| 641 | * IWasQuiteTheLooker: "iFind Lewbert's Lost Love" reveals that Lewbert used to be a male model and was quite handsome. However, his abusive ex-girlfriend Marta stressed him out to the point where he grew a large wart on his face. After moving to Seattle, changing his last name and getting the doorman position, he also threw in the towel on personal hygiene. Once he becomes a lawyer, he cleans up his appearance. |
| 642 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's rude to all of the residents and acts incredibly obnoxious. |
| 643 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 644 | ** In "iBeat The Heat", he points out that it's illegal for Spencer to use the generator inside because it can fill the building with deadly carbon monoxide. |
| 645 | ** For as awful and unpleasant as he is, he's right that so many of Carly's so-called "pranks" ended up physically hurting him, which is why the judge sides with him when he sues Carly for his injuries. |
| 646 | ** On the stand that same episode, he does get Freddie to realize that Carly did take advantage of their friendship and his unrequited affection ''a lot'' growing up. |
| 647 | * KarmicButtMonkey: He's always getting pranked with painful attacks by Carly and Sam often as retribution for Lewbert doing something horrible to them in the first place. |
| 648 | * LargeHam: Doubles with NoIndoorVoice. He screams most of his dialogue and is over-the-top with his nastiness. |
| 649 | * LazyBum: Many times he sleeps on the job. |
| 650 | * PyrrhicVictory : He went on to found a successful law firm and succeeds in suing Carly in "I Object Lewbert" in the revival, but he still [[VillainousBreakdown loses his sanity in the process]] because he couldn't get the revenge he hoped he'd get. |
| 651 | * ThePigPen: He has an unkempt appearance and his apartment is filthy. |
| 652 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Especially in the presence of his PsychoExGirlfriend. |
| 653 | * StalkerWithACrush: He was victim of one. He even had to jump off of a boat, swim ashore, and change his name just to get away from her. Needless to say, he was stressed out to the extreme when the iCarly trio invited her. |
| 654 | * TookALevelInKindness: He becomes much less unpleasant after he gets engaged to Marissa. |
| 655 | * UngratefulBastard: When Carly and her friends go to his apartment to take care of him after an accident, he still acts rude to them and doesn't appreciate what they do to help him. Kinda justified since they're responsible for his injuries, but still. Even so, after Marissa takes care of him and waits on him hand and foot, Lewbert gets mad at her for cancelling their dinner reservation to rush to Freddie's aid who [[StaircaseTumble hurt himself on purpose]]. |
| 656 | [[/folder]] |
| 657 | |
| 658 | [[folder:Wendy]] |
| 659 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wendy_ifight.png]] |
| 660 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/MaryAnnSpringer |
| 661 | |
| 662 | A student at Ridgeway who is well acquainted with the iCarly trio. |
| 663 | ---- |
| 664 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She vanishes in season 3, after her appearance in "iFight Shelby Marx", the last episode of Season 2 (though was sparingly mentioned). |
| 665 | * GirlPosse: Two other, unnamed girls are often seen hanging around with her, although they provide a more likable example of the trope than most. |
| 666 | * GracefulLadiesLikePurple: She tends to wear shirts or scarves with some shade of purple somewhere on them. |
| 667 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: During Sam's birthday roast, she (and the others) accidentally make Sam feel self-conscious about being such a tomboy when she amusedly recalls a sleepover where Sam stole her bra, filled it with pudding and put it in the freezer to harden into bolas she threatened the household with the next morning. |
| 668 | * [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: She often shows up to tell the characters something that plays a role in the episodes plot (like how a comedy TV show has been stealing iCarly's ideas). |
| 669 | * WaterGunsAndBalloons: In one episode, she and Sam throw mayonnaise-filled balloons at Ms. Briggs' car. |
| 670 | [[/folder]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | [[folder:Guppy Gibson]] |
| 673 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ibust_thief_01.jpg]] |
| 674 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/EthanMunck |
| 675 | |
| 676 | Gibby's younger brother. |
| 677 | ---- |
| 678 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: He has a goofy innocence and naivety about him often. |
| 679 | * AlliterativeName: '''G'''uppy '''G'''ibson. |
| 680 | * BigBrotherWorship: He seemed to adore his older brother initially, but it seems like now they're getting on each other's nerves. |
| 681 | * BigDamnHeroes: With his brother in "iPsycho". While Gibby takes on Nora, Guppy frees the gang by unlocking the door. |
| 682 | * CatchPhrase: "Happy Birthday!" Lampshaded in "iDo" when Gibby asks him if that's his catchphrase now. He keeps it even when he is a young adult. |
| 683 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He is described by Spencer as "his little sister's weird friend's weirder little brother." |
| 684 | * DirtyKid: Implied, judging by his reaction while reading a book titled ''[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Nifty Shades of Beige]]''. |
| 685 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Guppy first actual appearance is during the credits of "iSpeed Date", as a 5-year-old Gibby who likes cheese. |
| 686 | * ExtremeOmnivore: One time, he ate Spencer's hair on iCarly.com. |
| 687 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: In his debut episode, Guppy emulates his brother's habit of taking out his shirt. |
| 688 | * PrecociousCrush: Seems to have a crush on Sam. |
| 689 | * SixthRanger: In the "iPsycho" specials and is also a partner to Gibby. |
| 690 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Because he ''is'' Noah Munck's real life younger brother. Their resemblance even had Spencer mistake Guppy for his brother. |
| 691 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Though "Guppy" is most likely a nickname, like Gibby's name. |
| 692 | [[/folder]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Principal Theodore "Ted" Franklin]] |
| 695 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/franklin19.jpg]] |
| 696 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/TimRuss |
| 697 | |
| 698 | The principal of Ridgeway High School. |
| 699 | ---- |
| 700 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He's very lenient towards his students, and does not believe in discipline. Franklin is willing to overlook Sam's poor grades and bullying of other students in favor of her contributing to the comedy on [=iCarly=], which he is a fan of. In "[=iGot=] Detention", after Sam seriously injures Mr. Howard, Franklin accepts Sam's notion that it was an accident and not a malicious attack, which is why he was hesitant to give Sam a detention. |
| 701 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Though surprisingly, he's one of the most ''sane'' teachers. |
| 702 | * CrazyPrepared: After Freddie tries getting detention on purpose by dropping Franklin's phone to the ground while he was using it, Franklin gloats that his phone is indestructible due to being made with a harder shell design and does nothing to punish Freddie whatsoever. |
| 703 | * NiceGuy: He's very (if not overly) lenient towards his students, including Sam and even ''apologized'' to Sam for giving her detention as punishment for hacking into his computer. He remains friendly with Carly and Freddie when they're all grown up, even attending Carly's 27th birthday party. |
| 704 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The only time he is upset at the iCarly gang is when they broke the law through their web show by soliciting money without offering anything in return and placed the school in legal danger by making it the address. |
| 705 | * OneOfTheKids: Downplayed. He enjoys hanging out with the iCarly crew, especially since he and his kids love their webshow. He's the only adult at the school who has a sense of humor and enjoys laughing. |
| 706 | * OnlySaneMan: In comparison to the rest of the teaching staff. |
| 707 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In a school full of {{Sadist Teacher}}s, he's very fair and kind. |
| 708 | * TokenMinority: Russ was (for a while) the show's only black actor, a major recurring character as the school's principal until T-Bo arrived and was promoted to the main cast in Season 5, then the revival added Harper and Millicent as main characters. |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Ms. Francine Briggs]] |
| 712 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_lzc8fgrb1r1qi7zq4o1_500.jpg]] |
| 713 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/MindySterling |
| 714 | |
| 715 | The strict English teacher at Ridgeway Secondary School who clearly hates children. |
| 716 | ---- |
| 717 | * BrainBleach: Carly and Freddie have the unfortunate timing of watching her exercise in her swimsuit and hiding behind a Randy Jackson cardboard cutout while she is rubbing her butt against it. |
| 718 | * ChildHater: It's very clear that she hates every student in the school. |
| 719 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Threatens to expel Freddie simply because Spencer, a former student she despised, is at school. |
| 720 | * EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Quite terrible at playing the bagpipes. When she played on an episode of iCarly, the show starts to lose viewers until Freddie turns on the green screen behind her to play funny videos. |
| 721 | * EvilTeacher: Loves punishing the kids for even the tiniest of reason. |
| 722 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: When iCarly is losing viewers due to Briggs playing her bagpipes, Freddie turns on the green screen behind her to play funny videos and Briggs is none the wiser. |
| 723 | * HateSink: She is a strict English teacher who punishes students for even the tiniest infringement, including trying to expel Freddie just because ''[[DisproportionateRetribution a former student she didn't like is present]]''. Ms. Briggs' unfair treatment of the children at the school plays a big part in the creation of the titular webshow, as the main cast gets tired of her attitude and want to do something of their own. |
| 724 | * IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: She hated Spencer in the past so much that when she saw him again in school long after he graduated, she gives Freddie detention if Spencer didn't leave and after several more warnings, she threatened to expel Freddie. |
| 725 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Ms. Briggs is fairly the reason Carly started her web show in the first place. As she punished Carly for something Sam did, but Carly took the blame for, by making her hold the auditions for the school talent show which she was supposed to do, but refused to allow any of the kids who Carly and Sam recommended be in the talent show. This gave Carly the idea to start iCarly to allow all the kids who Ms. Briggs wouldn’t let be in the show off their talents. |
| 726 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Had it not been for Ms. Briggs's strict making the trio to judge for the audtion for a school talent show and then banning all who are nominated, the trio would not be inspired to create iCarly. |
| 727 | * StalkerShrine: Has an entire room filled with Randy Jackson memorabilia. |
| 728 | [[/folder]] |
| 729 | |
| 730 | [[folder:Mr. Howard]] |
| 731 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_howardjpg.jpg]] |
| 732 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/DavidStJames |
| 733 | |
| 734 | A malicious, mean teacher at Ridgeway High School who antagonizes the iCarly trio (especially Freddie). |
| 735 | ---- |
| 736 | * AssholeVictim: In "iGot Detention" Sam pounded him in the face with a football and he was bruised so badly he had to wear a retainer. Principal Franklin doesn't really feel sorry for him. |
| 737 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Mr. Howard is married but it is clear that he hates his wife and the feelings is mutual with her. |
| 738 | * ChildHater: He directly did say "I HATE CHILDREN!" |
| 739 | * DisproportionateRetribution: He gives Gibby triple detention for being "too Gibby" and his smart-ass replies. |
| 740 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene has him yell at some students for playing around in the halls and then shout that he hates children, making himself clear as a ChildHater and SadistTeacher. |
| 741 | * EvilTeacher: He enjoys punishing students more than teaching to them. |
| 742 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While hating children and Principal Franklin. He does seem to get along with Ms. Briggs, another child hater teacher. Sam even mentioned that he did have an affair with Mr. Briggs, despite him being married. |
| 743 | * HateSink: While Mr. Howard's antics are mostly PlayedForLaughs, he is at his core a [[ChildHater child-hating]] SadistTeacher who gives students detention for petty reasons, including Carly slamming a locker door to Gibby being "[[InsaneTrollLogic too Gibby]]". Even the school's principal doesn't like him, and Mr. Howard calling him spineless for his NiceGuy tendencies gets him a well-deserved punishment from said principal himself in his debut episode. |
| 744 | * IsThisThingStillOn: He called Principal Franklin "weak, spineless" on a webcam that the latter was watching. |
| 745 | * {{Jerkass}}: To just about everyone around him. |
| 746 | * KickTheDog: He has a lot of them to count but torturing Gibby is by far the worst. |
| 747 | * LargeHam: In terms of being a SadistTeacher. |
| 748 | * TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out a bit towards the end of the series. In "iParty With Victorious", he's nice to Carly's boyfriend, Steven, when he shows he's actually quite intelligent and his punishment for Sam and Carly texting in class is quite reasonable, having them read them aloud. While he does try to shut down Gibby's restaurant, [[VillainHasAPoint it was being illegally run on school property.]] |
| 749 | [[/folder]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | [[folder:Chuck Chambers]] |
| 752 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chuck5.jpg]] |
| 753 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/profile_chuck_chambers___revival.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/RyanOchoa |
| 756 | |
| 757 | A bratty, violent young boy who holds a grudge against Spencer for getting him grounded. Spencer considers Chuck to be his arch nemesis. |
| 758 | ---- |
| 759 | * AlliterativeName: '''Ch'''uck '''Ch'''ambers. |
| 760 | * BrattyHalfPint: He's a violent, disrespectful brat. |
| 761 | %%* CreepyChild |
| 762 | * DeliberatelyCuteChild: Acts this way to Carly in "iTwins" before she finds out the truth about him from Spencer. |
| 763 | * DevilInPlainSight: Although when his father does realize he's acting like a sociopath he promptly grounds him for it. |
| 764 | * DisproportionateRetribution: He was breaking a building rule by playing raquetball in the lobby, and Spencer couldn't get him to stop, so he told Chuck's dad, who grounded him for 2 days. Chuck got revenge... By keeping Spencer locked up in a storage cage in the basement (and squirting him with a "suspicious liquid"). And then he's perfectly willing to beat the crap out of Spencer. All for a 2-day grounding over something he wasn't supposed to be doing in the first place. Then there's the fact that he broke into people's homes to steal their TV remotes because his dad took away his TV privileges a month. |
| 765 | --->'''Chuck''': If I can't watch TV, then NOBODY CAN! |
| 766 | * EnfantTerrible: This kid is clearly on his way to becoming a dangerous criminal. [[PsychopathicManchild And he hasn't changed at all in adulthood]]. |
| 767 | * EvilCounterpart: He's basically Sam (no respect for authority, unusually strong for his size, resorts to violence to solve problems, torments a main male character for petty reasons, commits crimes) with no redeeming qualities. |
| 768 | * HateSink: Chuck is a rotten and bratty kid who has no respect for others and does not accept any of his faults. Even as an adult, he has not matured one bit, still hates Spencer, accuses Spencer of all the things ''Chuck'' did to ''him'' and throws cupcakes at him in court. One could say he is a kid-friendly version of [[Series/GameOfThrones Joffrey Baratheon]]. |
| 769 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's needlessly petty and antagonizing to people who he believes wrong him, especially Spencer. |
| 770 | * JerkassHasAPoint: If there is a moment where Chuck is in the right, it is in "iObject, Lewbert!" when Chuck accuses Carly for playing mind games with him while tutoring him and causing him to fail his maths exam. [[note]] In "iTwins", in retribution for Chuck pretending to be a sweet boy and tormenting her brother, Carly taught Chuck an imaginary number called "derf" which he uses during said exam, then lied to his father that it was Chuck who made up said number. While Chuck deserved to be punished for his actions, simply showing the video footage Spencer captured to Chuck's father would have likely sufficed. In addition, Carly practically betrays Chuck's father's trust in her as a tutor to his son.[[/note]] |
| 771 | * JerkassToOne: While a terrible kid overall, most people either overlook Chuck's bad behavior or don't catch on due to him masking his true self, nor does Chuck have any reason to harass them. Spencer is the one he unleashes all of his fury upon, since Spencer is the only person who wouldn't tolerate Chuck's antics. |
| 772 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Unlike most examples of a BrattyHalfPint in a teen sitcom, Chuck almost never gets away with his actions and gets punished by his father, with "iFind Lewbert's Lost Love"[[note]]While Chuck was already grounded by his father for previous off screen reasons, he is never punished for stealing the TV remotes due to Lewbert taking the rap[[/note]] and "iObject, Lewbert!"[[note]] Where he throws cupcakes at Spencer in a courtroom, with Spencer being the one who gets removed.[[/note]] being notable exceptions. |
| 773 | * LaughablyEvil: Despite being a rotten brat, his attitude and behavior can be a source of good comedy and guarantee some [[{{Pun}} chuckles]]. |
| 774 | * MiddleChildSyndrome: Inverted, he has an older sister and a younger brother but actually gets the most focus and attention in the family (although not always in a way which makes him happy). |
| 775 | * MilitarySchool: Chuck's ultimate fate near the end of the original series is to be sent to military school after Spencer called the cops on him for stealing his clothes. If his behavior as an adult is any indication, it didn't change him a damn bit. |
| 776 | * MissingMom: Chuck's mother is never seen or mentioned, and her absence could be the reason for his miscreance. |
| 777 | * NeverMyFault: |
| 778 | ** Despite having clearly been in the wrong about the whole "tennis in the lobby" situation, he makes a personal enemy of Spencer as though he'd decided to get him grounded for the hell of it. |
| 779 | ** In the revival series, a now grown up Chuck accuses Spencer of the things Chuck did to him in the past and is unwilling to let go of his rivalry with Spencer. |
| 780 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's an adult in the revival, but could pass for a teenager. |
| 781 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: He is capable of beating up a fully grown man more than twice his size (Spencer). |
| 782 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: He has a sister named Gia who's old enough for Spencer to make a pass at. |
| 783 | * PsychopathicManchild: In the revival series, even in his adult age, Chuck still hates Spencer, childishly torments the latter and refuses to hold himself accountable for all the bad things he did as a kid. |
| 784 | * PutOnABus: His father finally had him sent to military school in the final season of the original series. |
| 785 | * RunningGag: Being grounded by his father. |
| 786 | * SanitySlippage: Him getting grounded many times for trying to torment Spencer eventually drove him insane to a point he begins committing crimes not directly related to Spencer at all such as stealing TV remotes from the neighbors. |
| 787 | * SitcomArchNemesis: For Spencer. He is merciful towards Carly because of his [[VillainousCrush crush on her]]. |
| 788 | * TheSociopath: He has no regard for rules and is devious as they come especially when it comes to tormenting Spencer. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Amanda "Mandy" Valdez]] |
| 792 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c00b7fea_cc00_4b21_95e9_79fccf54f9ce.jpg]] |
| 793 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/AriaWallace |
| 794 | |
| 795 | A LoonyFan who's obsessed with iCarly. She likes wearing duck masks and quacking like a duck. |
| 796 | ---- |
| 797 | * CatchPhrase: "Quack quack!" |
| 798 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Stalks the [=iCarly=]s with an unhealthy obsession, even having broke into their apartment not through the door but through the windows, and they live on the fourth floor. |
| 799 | * DotingGrandparent: She has an affluent grandmother who Mandy bosses around into doing whatever she says to be attached to the [=iCarly=]s. |
| 800 | * LoonyFan: She thinks the appropriate way for being their biggest fan is to hang out at their house, interfere with their webcast, and constantly send them presents. She's even attached to Spencer very much, even though he's usually absent from the show. |
| 801 | * RunningGag: Her duck mask and quacking. |
| 802 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: She is much older in her return appearance because of the long time gap between "iAm Your Biggest Fan" and "iWant My Website Back". |
| 803 | -->"I know! I've blossomed!" |
| 804 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: Very much so. To be fair, she's not as bad as Nora. |
| 805 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: What makes her an annoyance to the iCarly team is that she doesn't know when she should show herself to the door. |
| 806 | [[/folder]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | [[folder:Terrance Jeter "T-Bo" Bo]] |
| 809 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t_bo.jpg]] |
| 810 | ->Portrayed by: [=BooG!e=] |
| 811 | |
| 812 | The Jamaican cook and cashier at the Groovy Smoothie who always pressures people to buy foods (especially bagels) in addition to smoothies. |
| 813 | ---- |
| 814 | * AscendedExtra: Gets promoted to secondary character in Season 6, appearing in most of said season's episodes. |
| 815 | * BerserkButton: Whenever people refuse his requests to buy food in addition to smoothies (especially bagels). |
| 816 | * BigDamnHeroes: In "iStill Psycho", T-Bo and Mrs. Benson ride all over to the Dershlit to rescue the iCarly gang after Nora kidnaps them again. |
| 817 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Helps Mrs. Benson pull off a BigDamnHeroes to save the iCarly gang from the insane Dershlit family, beating up Mr. Dershlit singlehandedly. |
| 818 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He hates being called "Terrence". |
| 819 | * FakeGuestStar: Unlike Noah Munck, [=BooG!e=] was not credited alongside the main cast once T-Bo became a regular in the final seasons. Even though he appeared with the rest of the main cast in the closing scene of the show's final season. |
| 820 | * {{Greed}}: Most likely his main motive for selfishly pressuring patrons at Groovy Smoothie to buy bagels and other foods. Though he has given Carly a muffin for free before. |
| 821 | * ItsAllAboutMe: While a nice guy overall, he's remarkably selfish and shallow especially how he aggressively pressures customers to buy more than just smoothies. |
| 822 | * MadLibsCatchPhrase: "Wanna buy a (food item)?", with said food being different every time. |
| 823 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His full name is Terrance Jeter Bo. |
| 824 | * RunningGag: Trying to sell food off a stick, having done it with donuts before but not through their holes. He even somehow managed to put hard-shell tacos on a stick without breaking them. |
| 825 | * SixthRanger: Definitely in Season 6. |
| 826 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Is this to Carly in "iGot Banned" and when Carly kicks him out, T-Bo also bans her from Groovy Smoothie as "equivocal" retribution. |
| 827 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: By the time of the revival, T-Bo is no longer living with the Bensons and the Groovy Smoothie has been closed down to due rat problems. His current whereabouts are unknown. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[folder:Nora Dershlit]] |
| 831 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/istill_psycho_1.jpg]] |
| 832 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her in the Revival]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_adult.PNG[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 833 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/DanielleMorrow |
| 834 | |
| 835 | A social outcast with no friends other than her pet chicken Maurice. Nora is a big fan of iCarly and invites the Carly, Sam and Freddie to attend her 16th birthday party, hoping their presence will attract others to her party and it works. Turns out, Nora is a psychopath who wants to keep them with her forever, so she locks them in her basement, where they remain until Gibby rescues them. Nora is sent to prison, but is granted parole a year later and kidnaps them a second time, along with Gibby and Spencer, this time with help from her equally insane parents. |
| 836 | ---- |
| 837 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Has a crush on Freddie, but also kisses a popular girl on the cheek at her birthday party, though it's played like she's just ''really'' excited to have popular people at her party. |
| 838 | * AxCrazy: Lampshaded in-universe. She is ''completely insane'', wields an actual ax at one point and is perfectly willing to kill. She's ''worse'' in "iStill Psycho" and has her equally insane parents backing her up. Although she has mellowed out considerably in "iHate Carly", she still isn't entirely sane. |
| 839 | * BasementDweller: Even as an adult, she still lives with her parents, which Freddie [[HypocriticalHumor hypocritically]] chides her for. |
| 840 | * BatmanGambit: In "iStill Psycho" especially. Her plan depended on so many things- the iCarlys forgiving her and agreeing to go to her house, the judge paroling her, Spencer picking them up and needing to use the bathroom, etc. |
| 841 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: For all her craziness, Nora seems to know how to fight, able to fight Gibby, who knows boxing, to a stand still, and matches Mrs. Benson in fencing. |
| 842 | * BerserkButton: God help you if you besmirch the name of Maurice, her pet chicken. |
| 843 | * BigBad: Of the "Psycho Trilogy" ("iPsycho", "iStill Psycho", and "[[Series/SamAndCat #SuperPsycho]]"). She's not as recurring as Nevel, but always presented as a more serious threat. |
| 844 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: She fails to realize any metaphor of insanity directed at her. But she's well aware of her insanity in "iStill Psycho", she just doesn't care. |
| 845 | * DarkActionGirl: While she's not all that attractive, she's no slouch when it comes to fighting and engages Gibby in a rather brutal fight and holds her own. |
| 846 | * DepravedBisexual: Kisses a girl at her sweet 16 party while she also has a major crush on Freddie. |
| 847 | * TheDreaded: By the time ''Series/SamAndCat'' rolls around, even ''Sam'' is afraid of her. And in the 2021 revival, Carly, Freddie and Spencer are terrified upon seeing her at Skybucks for the first time in a decade, with Spencer attempting to taze and pepper spray her on sight. (Though by that point, Nora's no longer dangerous.) |
| 848 | * EvilCounterpart: She's basically an evil version of Mandy Valdez. Both are obsessed fans of iCarly with bird motifs. (Mandy with her duck mask, Nora with her pet chicken Maurice.) Nora takes her obsession to extremes that Mandy never did. |
| 849 | * FaceHeelTurn: While technically starting as a {{Woobie}} fan, she later turned into the episode's deranged BigBad. |
| 850 | * FreudianExcuse: She has no friends, her parents left her alone on her birthday (apparently something she's used to happening), and she's had a pretty horrible life. Though this isn't ''nearly'' enough to justify her actions in "iStill Psycho" and it turns out her family is ''just'' as psychotic as she is. |
| 851 | * HeelFaceTurn: ZigZagged. In "iHate Carly", Carly runs into Nora at Skybucks ten years after their previous encounter. Carly immediately assumes Nora is the one who has been trolling her online, but she denies it, claiming that years of therapy have helped her regain her sanity. While it turns out that the troll was someone else, seeing Carly again triggered Nora's old obsession and she begins stalking Carly and Freddie, first by crashing Carly's date with Justin, then by climbing into her apartment. However, Nora never attempts to physically harm anyone, apologizes to Carly for her behavior and leaves in peace when Carly orders her to get out. |
| 852 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Is a lonely girl with only her chicken to talk to...so she decides to kidnap the iCarly crew under the delusion that they're her friends. |
| 853 | * InsistentTerminology: Nora despises any other words to describe her insanity. She prefers being called a "disturbed, lonely sociopath". |
| 854 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: "iStill Psycho" reveals that her parents are just as AxCrazy as she is. Hard to say if they still are. |
| 855 | * IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Kidnaps Spencer and traps him in her basement on a giant wheel, spinning him if the iCarly gang does anything she doesn't agree with. She even threatens to ''kill'' him if they go too far. |
| 856 | * LaughablyEvil: She may be a deranged sociopath, but she's still over-the-top, goofy, and talks to a chicken. |
| 857 | * LoonyFan: Her obsession with iCarly makes Mandy look ''sane'' by comparison. |
| 858 | * TheMadHatter: In "iStill Psycho" she's perfectly aware of how insane she is. |
| 859 | * ManipulativeBitch: In both of her appearances, she plays up her FreudianExcuse to trick the iCarly gang to do as she wants them to, not revealing her true motivations until they're already in her trap. |
| 860 | * {{NEET}}: Nora is clearly unemployed in the revival, and given her criminal record and past mental health issues (despite years of therapy), it's improbable that she can get education or training FOR a job. |
| 861 | * NeverMyFault: Blames the iCarly gang for "ruining" her birthday party, when it was her own fault for kidnapping them in the first place. |
| 862 | * NotMeThisTime: In "iHate Carly", a troll has been sending Carly hateful comments. After contacting the person for a meetup, she happens to encounter Nora in the coffee shop. Nora denies sending the hate and claims she's changed. She's right, as the troll turned out to be someone else. Seeing Carly again did awaken her old behavior and she starts stalking Carly and Freddie. But she never attempts to hurt anyone and makes an effort to apologize, which Carly and Freddie don't buy. |
| 863 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: Even ten years after the original series and years of therapy ridding her of her violent tendencies, Nora has not completely gotten over her obsession with Carly and Freddie. She continues to follow them around (going as far as to climb all the way up to her apartment) until Carly tells her to stop. |
| 864 | * RedRightHand: Danielle Morrow has one brown eye and one blue eye due to heterochromia. This helps show that Nora isn't just a nice, meek, and lonely girl. |
| 865 | * ReformedButNotTamed: Even after years of therapy helped her shed her murderous intent, she's still quite off-putting and has trouble respecting Carly and Freddie's boundaries. |
| 866 | * TheSociopath: She's even referred to as one InUniverse and admits it herself. |
| 867 | --> '''Carly''': Nora... You're a ''nutcase!''\ |
| 868 | '''Nora''': The correct term is disturbed, lonely sociopath. |
| 869 | * VillainousBreakdown: Between appearances, she got ''a lot'' crazier as a result of being locked up in prison. She also begins to lose it quite a bit towards the end of "iStill Psycho". |
| 870 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the revival, Nora's pet chicken Maurice is no where to be found and isn't even mentioned. Given the length of time between the two series, he's likely dead at this point. |
| 871 | * {{Yandere}}: A non-romantic version towards the iCarly crew. She will do whatever it takes to keep them in her house and make sure they ''never'' leave. She's so delusional that she considers them like her angels. |
| 872 | [[/folder]] |
| 873 | |
| 874 | [[folder:Socko]] |
| 875 | |
| 876 | Spencer's best friend. |
| 877 | ---- |
| 878 | * BestFriend: He's a close confederate to Spencer since at least high school, who seems to confide in him off-screen, with Socko often managing to help him out with problems in the show and the two doing a fist bump in the one episode Socko (or his arm anyway) appears. |
| 879 | * TheClan: Socko has lots of cousins, siblings, aunts uncles and the like who also do favors for Spencer. |
| 880 | * TheGhost: He's constantly mentioned but only has one confirmed appearance on the show (and that was just his hand sticking through the doorway). InUniverse Freddie's blog lampshades his absence and claims that he's camera shy |
| 881 | * MeaningfulName: He owns a sock company, although its unclear if [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Socko is his real name or not.]] Everyone else in the family seems to have a name that corresponds to their profession (a car salesman named Otto, a thief named Rob, etc.) |
| 882 | [[/folder]] |
| 883 | |
| 884 | [[folder:Granddad Shay]] |
| 885 | ->Portrayed by: Greg Mullavy |
| 886 | |
| 887 | The paternal grandfather of Carly and Spencer from Yakima, Washington. |
| 888 | ---- |
| 889 | * DisappointedInYou: While he loves Spencer as a grandson, Granddad Shay doesn't have a high opinion on him due to his immaturity and his descision to drop out of law school and become an artist. Even after Spencer became rich, Granddad still doesn't think very highly of Spencer. |
| 890 | * DotingGrandparent: He is a loving and caring grandfather. He dotes on his granddaughter during his visits. On his grandson, not so much (although he does still love him). |
| 891 | * DoWrongRight: In "iWanna Stay With Spencer", he scolds Spencer not for rubbing his stomach in public but doing it wrongly. |
| 892 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even Harper and Millicent call him Granddad. |
| 893 | * NiceGuy: Spencer and Carly love him dearly for a reason. |
| 894 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Granddad Shay can be pretty immature for his age such as rubbing his belly alongside his grandchildren and their friends and unable to let go of his feud with a rival over a coin collection. Lets just say Spencer's immaturity has to be inherited from someone in the family. |
| 895 | * ParentalFavoritism: Granddad dotes on Carly well into adulthood and sees Spencer as nothing more than a disappointment despite the latter is more successful in his life. |
| 896 | * SilverFox: When he was doing his coin show on Carly's Livestream, Carly discovers that many viewers thought Granddad was hot. One viewer even specifically referred to him as such. |
| 897 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Granddad initially sees Spencer as a poor guardian for Carly but after seeing how much responsibility Spencer displayed, he changes his mind. |
| 898 | [[/folder]] |
| 899 | |
| 900 | !!!Debuted in Revival |
| 901 | [[folder:Beau]] |
| 902 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icarly_beau.png]] |
| 903 | ->Portrayed by: Conor Husting |
| 904 | |
| 905 | Carly's ex-boyfriend who breaks up with her on a livestream in "iStart Over". Though, it later turns out in "iReturn to Webicon" that he still has feelings for her. |
| 906 | ---- |
| 907 | * BettyAndVeronica: The fun-loving and spontaneous "Veronica" to Wes' cautious and practical "Betty" and Carly's "Archie". However, Carly finds Beau easier to get along with than Wes, because of how similar in personality she and Beau are. |
| 908 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Beau never got much characterization in the first episode. In the season finale, he's established as a dim-witted and reckless free spirit who loves to have fun above all else. |
| 909 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Due to being rejected off-screen by Carly in between Seasons 1 and 2, he and Wes are ''much'' more petty and rude towards her in "[=iGuess=] Everyone Just Hates Me Now", to the point of the two making a webshow dedicated to badmouthing her, and mocking her for being unable to find love when she tries to make amends with them. |
| 910 | [[/folder]] |
| 911 | |
| 912 | [[folder:Double Dutch]] |
| 913 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icarly_double_dutch.png]] |
| 914 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/PoppyLiu |
| 915 | |
| 916 | Harper's first styling client after quitting her job at Skybucks. Double Dutch is a world-famous celebrity who was once described by a magazine as "the most innovative star to be born in the year 1994". She is full of herself and a bit spacey, but she has faith in Harper's ideas. [[spoiler:Her relationship with Harper gradually becomes less professional and more romantic as time goes on, and the two share a kiss in "iReturn to Webicon".]] |
| 917 | ---- |
| 918 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''ouble '''D'''utch. Though it's her stage name. |
| 919 | * AsianAirhead: She's of Asian descent and is quite spacey. |
| 920 | * InformedAbility: She's an internet-famous pop star, but we've yet to see her perform. She does sing a little bit in "iCan Fix It Myself", but she sounds pretty bad (Either she wasn't giving it her all or she relies on {{Autotune}}). |
| 921 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's an arrogant diva, but she does appreciate Harper and values her opinions. She also let Spencer pet-sit her dog to help him get over his breakup with Maeve. |
| 922 | * TheNicknamer: She calls everyone (sans Harper) "Josephine" (her sister's name) because she can't be bothered to learn their names. |
| 923 | * ThePrimaDonna: She's spoiled, full of herself and very demanding. Carly refers to her as a "high-maintenance indie darling". |
| 924 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name isn't given. She's usually addressed as simply "Dutch", which suggests that "Dutch" is her actual first name. |
| 925 | * TwoferTokenMinority: She's an Asian woman who's sexually attracted to women. |
| 926 | [[/folder]] |
| 927 | |
| 928 | [[folder:Maeve]] |
| 929 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maeve_2.png]] |
| 930 | ->'''Played By''': Lyric Lewis |
| 931 | Harper's cousin [[spoiler:who pretended to be kidnapped at sea for four years after her family lost all their money.]] |
| 932 | ---- |
| 933 | * AgeGapRomance: While her age isn't stated, she's likely around the same age as Harper, who's in her late-twenties, while Spencer is around forty. |
| 934 | * FakedKidnapping: [[spoiler:Maeve pretended to be kidnapped in order to avoid paparazzi and debt collectors after her family went broke.]] |
| 935 | * LongLostRelative: She is Harper's missing cousin, who was kidnapped by pirates overseas for four years. [[spoiler: She actually faked her kidnapping after her family went backrupt and used the kidnapping as a cover story to go on a cruise ship.]] |
| 936 | * LoveInterests: To Spencer. Unlike Spencer's previous single episode romances, she has a steady relationship with him, joining the main cast and living with him upon her debut episode. However, things quickly grow sour between them as a result of them having moved too fast and they agree to part ways. |
| 937 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Despite only being cousins, her and Harper look quite alike. |
| 938 | [[/folder]] |
| 939 | |
| 940 | [[folder:Paul]] |
| 941 | ->'''Played By''': Creator/JoshPeck |
| 942 | iCarly's new manager introduced in season 2 |
| 943 | ---- |
| 944 | * LargeHam: He has an eccentric personality, remmiscent of a car salesman. |
| 945 | * NiceGuy: As eccentric as he is, he does wants to help Carly and his team. Though he is willing to play dirty on occasion if it means he'll make more money. |
| 946 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: Zig-zagged. Despite Freddie's initial suspicions, Paul's help is genuine, if not a bit goofy, and he's truly a nice caring guy. However, it's revealed that he hid envy towards Freddie for working with Carly longer, and his moments of repeatedly showing Freddie up weren't entirely innocent. |
| 947 | [[/folder]] |
| 948 | |
| 949 | [[folder:Pearl Wallace]] |
| 950 | ->'''Played By''': Mia Serafino |
| 951 | Freddie's new girlfriend that is introduced in the second season. |
| 952 | ---- |
| 953 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She reaches her breaking point in "[=iLove=] Your Shoes" when it's abundantly clear that Freddie and Carly still have feelings for each other, deliberately throwing an axe near Carly's head, and calling out both of them for disregarding her feelings before effectively dumping Freddie. |
| 954 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She occasionally displays rather odd behavior, such as eating bananas while they're still unpeeled or believing that a murder mystery party means a party where the theme is crows. |
| 955 | * NiceGirl: Doesn't hold any grudge against Carly when unintentionally the whole internet hates her for "breaking" Carly and Freddie's relationship (a relationship Carly made up) and is overall very pleasant towards Freddie and Millicent. |
| 956 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Exists solely for being Freddie's love interest and isn't given much depth besides being really into the Zodiac. |
| 957 | [[/folder]] |
| 958 | |
| 959 | |
| 960 | [[folder:Wesley "Wes"]] |
| 961 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icarly_wes.png]] |
| 962 | ->Portrayed by: Josh Plasse |
| 963 | |
| 964 | A car mechanic who Carly initially finds annoying because he tells her that her beloved car can't be salvaged. After facing her fear of replacing her car, Carly warms up to him and they decide to start dating. |
| 965 | ---- |
| 966 | * BettyAndVeronica: The cautious and practical "Betty" to Beau's fun-loving and spontaneous "Veronica" and Carly's "Archie". However, Carly finds Beau easier to get along with than Wes, because of how similar in personality she and Beau are. |
| 967 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Due to being dumped off-screen by Carly in between Seasons 1 and 2, he and Beau are ''much'' more petty and rude towards her in "[=iGuess=] Everyone Just Hates Me Now", to the point of the two making a webshow dedicated to badmouthing her, and mocking her for being unable to find love when she tries to make amends with them. Unlike Beau however, Wes still displays ''some'' kindness to Carly, praising her on stream for defending Freddie's new girlfriend, Pearl, as well as refusing to go along with Beau's misogynistic rant about how all women are the same. |
| 968 | [[/folder]] |
| 969 | |
| 970 | [[folder:Gwendolyn "Gwen"]] |
| 971 | ->'''Played By''': Creator/CarmelaZumbado |
| 972 | Freddie's second ex-wife and Millicent's mother. |
| 973 | ---- |
| 974 | * AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Millicent is ten years old at the start of the series, and while Gwen's age is never given, she's presumably around Freddie's age (mid-late twenties), which would mean she had Millicent when she was a [[TeenPregnancy teenager]]. |
| 975 | * AmicableExes: She and Freddie are on good terms, with Freddie even adopting her daughter Millicent. |
| 976 | * BrainyBrunette: Has black hair and is a marine biologist. |
| 977 | [[/folder]] |
| 978 | |
| 979 | [[folder:Tinsley]] |
| 980 | ->'''Played By''': Patty Guggenheim |
| 981 | Harper's former high school rival turned current girlfriend. |
| 982 | ---- |
| 983 | * DramaQueen: Has a tendency to act over dramatic, especially when someone isn't accepting a gift from her. |
| 984 | * LovingBully: According to Harper, Tinsley used to bully her when they were in school, though Tinsley claims that Harper gave as good as she got. Either way, they end up kissing and dating each other. |
| 985 | * UpperClassTwit: She's a rich girl who's quite naive when it comes to interacting with the "common folk". |
| 986 | [[/folder]] |
| 987 | |
| 988 | |
| 989 | !!One-time Characters |
| 990 | |
| 991 | !!!Debuted in original series |
| 992 | [[folder:Melanie Puckett]] |
| 993 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/picture_2xo.png]] |
| 994 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JennetteMcCurdy |
| 995 | |
| 996 | Sam's bubbly twin sister. |
| 997 | ---- |
| 998 | * BoardingSchool: According to Sam in Melanie's debut episode, Melanie's a ScholarshipStudent at some fancy boarding school. |
| 999 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Sam's Foolish. Melanie is a hard-working girl who got a scholarship to a private school, treats people well and stays out of trouble. Sam is a bad student and a borderline-sociopathic bully who has frequent run-ins with the law. |
| 1000 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's a blonde like her sister, but she's a lot nicer than Sam. |
| 1001 | * NiceGirl: Unlike Sam, she isn't aggressive in the slightest and is kind to everyone. |
| 1002 | * OnlySaneWoman: Of the Puckett family, being even-tempered and level-headed. There's also her cousin, Greg Patillo, who is a musician and is one of the few people in Sam's family to ''not'' have a criminal record. |
| 1003 | * PolarOppositeTwins: She and Sam are identical twins--Melanie's very girly, incredibly nice, and likes a lot of things that Sam doesn't. And while both girls have crushes on Freddie, Melanie is more open with her feelings than Sam is. |
| 1004 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The GirlyGirl to Sam's {{Tomboy}}. |
| 1005 | * TomboyishPonytail: Inverted. While Melanie is [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl the Girly Girl to Sam's Tomboy]], she wears her hair in a ponytail while [[TheLadette Sam]] wears her hair down. |
| 1006 | * WhiteSheep: She and her cousin Greg Patillo are two of the few (if not the only) people in Sam's family to not have criminal records (and to not be either insane and/or bullies). |
| 1007 | [[/folder]] |
| 1008 | |
| 1009 | [[folder:Pam Puckett]] |
| 1010 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pam_4.jpg]] |
| 1011 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JaneLynch |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | Sam's terrible mother. |
| 1014 | ---- |
| 1015 | * AbusiveParents: Seems to be verbally and/or emotionally abusive to Sam. She often gets into arguments with her and once asked her why she couldn't be more like her sister, Melanie. She even fed a baby Sam bottles of black coffee, something very unhealthy for babies, just because it made Sam dance funny. |
| 1016 | * AlliterativeName: '''P'''am '''P'''ucket. |
| 1017 | * CerebusRetcon: The previous 'wacky' behaviour Sam talks about is retconned into something serious and PlayedForDrama when she shows up in her episode ''iSam's Mom''. |
| 1018 | %%* ChaoticStupid |
| 1019 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 1020 | * FanDisservice: Implied in "iFight Shelby Marx". |
| 1021 | -->'''Sam:''' Aw man! Did someone post more pics of my mom in her bikini? |
| 1022 | * {{Foil}}: Pam is rather verbally abusive and extremely neglectful, a stark contrast to Freddie's [[MyBelovedSmother Beloved Smother]]. |
| 1023 | * GenerationXerox: She and Sam are exactly alike. |
| 1024 | * ParentalFavoritism: She seems to prefer Melanie over Sam, as evidenced by her asking Sam why she isn't more like Melanie. |
| 1025 | * ParentalNeglect: Sam complains that her mom never feeds her anything. |
| 1026 | * ReallyGetsAround: She frequently jumps into relationships with various men, most of which end in disaster because her boyfriends are mostly thieves and conmen. Though Sam mentions she sabotaged Pam's shot at a rich doctor before. |
| 1027 | * TooDumbToLive: The woman drove her car immediately after getting laser eye surgery, causing her to crash through the school wall in iMust Have Locker 239. This action was a nod to ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', where Josh's boss, Helen, does the same thing. Sam and Melanie were born on a bus because she took one while having labor pains instead of calling a cab. |
| 1028 | * {{Tsundere}}: She appears to be a Type A for Sam. Although she gets into fights with her daughter and compares her to Melanie, she loves Sam. She just doesn't know how to show it. |
| 1029 | * UnseenNoMore: She spends three seasons as TheGhost, before being revealed in the episode "iSam's Mom". |
| 1030 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Keeps lipstick in her bra. |
| 1031 | * {{Womanchild}}: Carly calls her this for not acting like an adult. |
| 1032 | [[/folder]] |
| 1033 | |
| 1034 | [[folder:Shelby Marx]] |
| 1035 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shelbylol.jpg]] |
| 1036 | ->Portrayed by: Music/VictoriaJustice |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 | A fifteen-year-old undefeated MMA fighter who challenges Carly to an exhibition fight for charity. |
| 1039 | ---- |
| 1040 | * ActionGirl: She's an MMA fighter. |
| 1041 | * AmbiguouslyGay: While nothing about Shelby's sexuality is hinted at, she does have a few subtext moments with Carly and fits a few ButchLesbian stereotypes. |
| 1042 | %%* CuteBruiser |
| 1043 | %%* EvenTheGirlsWantHer |
| 1044 | * IdenticalStranger: Victoria portrayed her before going on to star in [[Series/{{Victorious}} her own show]] that has since crossed over with this one. Lampshaded by Freddie though he also stated that Tori [[InformedAttractiveness was hotter than Shelby]]. |
| 1045 | [[/folder]] |
| 1046 | |
| 1047 | [[folder:Wade Collins]] |
| 1048 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wade.PNG]] |
| 1049 | ->Portrayed by: Alex Schemmer |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | A mean singer who guilts Carly and Sam into helping him produce a music video and verbally abuses them throughout the process. |
| 1052 | ---- |
| 1053 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Pronounced "Gibby" as "Jib-lee." Gibby's okay with it. |
| 1054 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, he seems like a meek and mild-mannered NiceGuy who's trying his best to look out for his sick mother. Needless to say, that impression of him ends up completely shattered by the episode's ending. |
| 1055 | * ChildHater: He says he does in one of his rants during the end. [[TeenHater As well as teenagers,]] animals, and America. |
| 1056 | * ConMan: He swindles the trio into helping him with a music video by lying about his sick mother. |
| 1057 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Gibby seems to be pretty infatuated with him. |
| 1058 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He still cast his shadow in giving the trio trouble in "iFix a Pop Star," when the video he tricked the gang into helping him with that became very popular attracted the attention of the talentless pop star Ginger Fox to recruit them to help her get her career back on track, otherwise become TheScapegoat if she flops, which surprisingly and fortunately does not occur at the end when they somehow manage to make an [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] CareerResurrection for her, despite her obvious flaws. |
| 1059 | * HairTriggerTemper: What ''doesn't'' piss this guy off? |
| 1060 | * HateSink: Likely, given the amount of effort the writers put into making him such a {{Jerkass}}. |
| 1061 | * HotGuysAreBastards: He's a handsome stud, but is also a huge jerk. |
| 1062 | * ILied: He [[SmugSnake smugly]] admits that he only said his mother was sick to get sympathy, and even shares a laugh with his mother in the main trio's face for believing it. |
| 1063 | * {{Jerkass}}: Big time. He ''seems'' like a NiceGuy at first, but very quickly proves to be an arrogant, demanding, selfish, whiny, borderline EvilBrit who just isn't pleasant in the slightest. |
| 1064 | * LaserGuidedKarma: With the gang exposing his true nature to the viewers, it's implied he is pummeled by an angry mob encouraged by them online and then banned from ever returning to America. |
| 1065 | * ManipulativeBastard: After the main trio's influence cost him the win, he plays the sympathy card so that they'll want to help get his career back on track. He even admits it, his mother claiming that Americans are suckers for a good sob story. |
| 1066 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: To gain sympathy, Wade told a deliberate lie, that his mother was desperately ill and needed surgery. Although the trio later learned that Wade's mother was not ill, she was quite overweight, and could probably have used some surgery for that, thus making Wade's claim that she needed surgery not entirely wrong. |
| 1067 | * NiceCharacterMeanActor: Pretends to be a nice guy in public, but is a complete jerk in private. |
| 1068 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: He doesn't care about music, [[invoked]][[MoneyDearBoy and he's only in for the money, as said in the little video Freddie put together at the end of the episode.]] |
| 1069 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not fond of Americans and makes it well known. |
| 1070 | * SoreLoser: Does not take losing on "America Sings" well and resort to swindling the trio into helping him win. |
| 1071 | * VerbalTic: Calling someone a "hobknocker." |
| 1072 | [[/folder]] |
| 1073 | |
| 1074 | [[folder:Missy Robinson]] |
| 1075 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ireunite_with_missy_icarly_6524815_1024_640.jpg]] |
| 1076 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/HaleyRamm |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | Carly's former best friend who returns to reclaim her former position from Sam. |
| 1079 | ---- |
| 1080 | * BitchAlert: After she clearly states what her intentions are, she gives Sam an evil smirk when the two are at school. |
| 1081 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She's all nice and sweet when Carly is around. |
| 1082 | * ChildhoodFriends: Missy and Carly were friends when their parents were placed at the same Naval base when they were children. |
| 1083 | * EvilRedhead: She has red hair and is a very nasty individual, going as far as poisoning Sam with spoiled chocolate. |
| 1084 | * DislikesTheNewGuy: She hates Sam, and makes it very clear what her intentions are, when she comes back. |
| 1085 | * FriendshipFavoritism: She claims that Carly is ''her'' best friend, and can be no one else's. |
| 1086 | * {{Jerkass}}: She's rude, selfish, and is as fake as they come. |
| 1087 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Twice (maybe thrice?) over--to go into greater detail: |
| 1088 | ** After Carly learns that Sam was telling the truth about Missy, Carly breaks off her friendship with Missy. |
| 1089 | ** She "wins" Ridgeway's School at Sea-contest (Freddie was the actual winner, but gave it up to Missy so she'd stop trying to wreck the iCarly-trio's friendship), which she's excited about--but at the end of the episode, it turns out that, not only is the School at Sea-program nowhere near as glamorous as it's advertised to be, but Missy suffers from some pretty intense seasickness (and this was after Carly had told Freddie that, when she and Missy were little kids, Missy used to suffer from seasickness as a little kid but assumed that she must have overcome as she got older, especially with how excited she was about "winning" the School at Sea-contest). |
| 1090 | * OneShotCharacter: She's only present in one episode, and is never seen or mentioned again. |
| 1091 | [[/folder]] |
| 1092 | |
| 1093 | [[folder:Lauren Ackerman]] |
| 1094 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lauren_and_spencer.jpg]] |
| 1095 | ->Portrayed by: Creator/JessicaMakinson |
| 1096 | |
| 1097 | The former U.S. history teacher for the iCarly trio who has emotional problems. |
| 1098 | ---- |
| 1099 | * AxCrazy: Even if she didn’t kill anyone that we know of (despite having tried to strangle Spencer), she’s still a deeply disturbed woman who is driven to hurt others, in this case her students. |
| 1100 | * BeyondRedemption: She is a total lost cause who isn't even worth helping to find love again when Spencer becomes miserable around her. Her getting arrested is a huge relief for the gang. |
| 1101 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Played with. While much of Lauren's instability in regards to her relationship with Spencer is PlayedForLaughs, their relationship is still accurately portrayed as toxic and unhealthy. |
| 1102 | * EvilIsHammy: As usual for characters in a KidCom. |
| 1103 | * EvilTeacher: She's a selfish and abusive power-harasser. |
| 1104 | * HateSink: Likely, given the amount of effort the writers put into making her such a {{Jerkass}}. Her break-ups for her unpleasant nature with her first boyfriend and Spencer and getting arrested at the end were well-deserved. |
| 1105 | * HotTeacher: Freddie starts drooling when he sees her in a revealing red gown. |
| 1106 | * IceQueen: When she's had a break-up. |
| 1107 | * LadyInRed: For her date with Spencer, she wears a tight-fitting dress. |
| 1108 | * MisplacedRetribution: She had a nasty habit of punishing her students whenever she was broken up with. She even gave Carly an F on a quiz ''she never even took'' [[EvilIsPetty just because Carly is her ex-boyfriend's sister]]. |
| 1109 | * MixAndMatchCritters: She made a stuffed panda-pig doll for Spencer. |
| 1110 | * MoodSwinger: Her mood depends on whether she's in a relationship or not. |
| 1111 | * OneShotCharacter: Present in one episode and is never seen or mentioned again. |
| 1112 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: She cries like a little girl and throws a tantrum when [[SpoiledBrat she doesn't get what she wants]]. It's no wonder why her last boyfriend dumped her before Spencer. |
| 1113 | * RevengeByProxy: In retaliation for Spencer breaking up with her, Lauren gives Carly an F on a surprise quiz she hadn't even taken yet and forces her to do jumping jacks when she tries to reason with her. |
| 1114 | * SadistTeacher: She becomes this following her and Spencer's break-up. |
| 1115 | * {{Yandere}}: She becomes extremely clingy with Spencer and invades his privacy as much as possible. |
| 1116 | [[/folder]] |
| 1117 | |
| 1118 | [[folder:Chip Chambers]] |
| 1119 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chip_chambers_2.jpg]] |
| 1120 | ->Portrayed by: Jacob Bertrand |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | The younger brother of Chuck Chambers. His goal is to get revenge on Spencer for getting Chuck sent to military school. |
| 1123 | ---- |
| 1124 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Chip is Chuck's younger brother who decides to take revenge on Spencer by screwing with him and screwing with Carly as a form of poetic justice: since Chuck messed with Spencer, as Chuck's younger sibling Chip will screw with Spencer's younger sibling Carly. |
| 1125 | * CousinOliver: His introduction was likely due to Chuck's actor having outgrown his role. |
| 1126 | * EnfantTerrible: He's even worse than Chuck. Chuck at least left Carly out of his feud with Spencer. Chip on the other hand is fine with targeting '''anyone''' and even uses worse methods than what Chuck uses to torment others. |
| 1127 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He can be polite, but it is completely superficial. This is shown when he gets stuck on the elevator and Spencer encounters him. He tries to act friendly to get Spencer to get him off, but Spencer was not having it and left him there. |
| 1128 | * {{Jerkass}}: Overall, Chip is an unpleasant brat who is even ''worse'' than his brother, Chuck. |
| 1129 | * HateSink: He's a bratty kid who really enjoys tormenting and harming others, especially Spencer. |
| 1130 | * LaughablyEvil: Violent and disrespectful as he is, Chip's antics and behavior can be comedic. |
| 1131 | * {{Sadist}}: He enjoys tormenting others and making people suffer. |
| 1132 | * TheSociopath: Like his brother, only worse. He has no regard for the rules and enjoys tormenting people in very harmful ways. |
| 1133 | [[/folder]] |
| 1134 | |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | [[folder:Steven Shay]] |
| 1137 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colonel_steven_shay_1624045238777.png]] |
| 1138 | ->Portrayed by: David Chisum |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 | Carly and Spencer's father and a United States Air Force Colonel. For most of the series, he is on tour on a submarine. |
| 1141 | ---- |
| 1142 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Unlike his father, Colonel Shay has no idea that Spencer has dropped out of law school before the series begins. When he finally finds out, he nearly strangles his son. |
| 1143 | * ParentalFavoritism: While not the abusive kind, it is clear that he loves Carly more than Spencer. |
| 1144 | * TruthInTelevision: Many question as to why a USAF colonel is onboard a Navy submarine. Dan Schneider clears the confusion by explaining that military officers are more leeway in working with other branches. |
| 1145 | * UnseenNoMore: Because of his work, Colonel Shay spends most of his time away from his children but are still able to keep contact with them. He finally makes an appearance in the series finale. |
| 1146 | * WhenYouComingHomeDad: Carly loves her dad but because of his work, he can be away from home for years. The main plot of the series finale is Carly hoping that he can come for a special father/daughter dance. After that, she leaves with him to Italy for a while. |
| 1147 | [[/folder]] |
| 1148 | |
| 1149 | |
| 1150 | [[folder:Mrs. Shay]] |
| 1151 | ->Portrayed by: |
| 1152 | |
| 1153 | Carly and Spencer's mother and wife of Colonel Shay. While she was never mentioned in the original series, the third season of the revival reveals that she walked out on the family prior to the events of the original series, only to reunite with her children at the end of the episode |
| 1154 | ---- |
| 1155 | * AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Mrs. Shay was never even mentioned in the original series. This ends up being averted in the revival's Season 3 finale, where it is revealed that she walked out on the family before the events of the original series, only to show up at the end of the episode. Harper even lampshades this revelation by saying "You got a mom?" |
| 1156 | * MissingMom: Before the Season 3 finale of the revival, Mrs. Shay didn't only just not appear in the show, but was never even talked about. In the revival she is revealed to have walked out on her family when Carly was still very young. |
| 1157 | * ParentalAbandonment: Prior to the original series, Mrs. Shay walked out on her family for reasons yet to be revealed. Because of this, Spencer had to [[PromotionToParent become Carly's legal guardian]] since their dad was busy with his military obligations. |
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