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1	'''Satan'''
2	-->Voiced by: Andy Hamilton
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4	* AffablyEvil: Zigzags. To most people, he's FauxAffablyEvil, often utilizing ExactWords to make people think he's about to give them what they want before making their torments even more painful. To other supernatural beings and the handful of humans he respects, he's AffablyEvil; he'll still torture them if they become annoying, but when he's not doing so, he's fairly friendly and can sometimes even act as a caring presence.
5	* AntiHero: After being an outright VillainProtagonist for the first four series, he becomes a NominalHero in season 5 when he decides his workload is getting to be too much and starts trying to reduce the amount of sin on Earth so as to reduce overcrowding in Hell.
6	* BadBoss: He's not much nicer to his demons than to his captives. He once made Scumspawn eat himself.
7	* BadLiar: Ironically, he's terrible at coming up with believable lies.
8	* BeingEvilSucks: He's borderline suicidal as a result of running Hell.
9	* BerserkButton: Ambiguity in writing. Satan just generally regards writers as terrible people who have it coming, but ambiguity makes him extremely irritable.
10	* CardCarryingVillain: Gets offended at the suggestion that he's ''not'' the ultimate evil humans believe him to be.
11	* DarkIsNotEvil: At least nowhere near as evil as you'd expect him to be, especially compared to Thomas.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: The main hook of the show is "Andy Hamilton voices a snarky version of the devil."
13	* DemonicPossession: He mentions doing this a couple of times in early seasons, but later on he claims to find the very idea of entering a human body repulsive. He knows what they get up to.
14	* TheDevilIsALoser: He's miserable with his work almost to the point of being suicidal, and uses torture and corruption mainly as a mechanism to cope with his own self-hatred.
15	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Usually involving Thomas or the Professor, for different reasons.
16	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He gets a one-shot love interest named Hope in one Christmas special. He also cares more about Scumspawn and the Professor than he lets on.
17	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Brings up how he used to be a beautiful angellic being before he fell, which has turned him into Andy Hamilton with goat legs.
18	* EvilRedhead: Possibly. Since it's revealed in Series six that [[spoiler:all redheads are of angel descent and vice versa]], it stands to reason that [[spoiler:all angels are also redheaded.]] Satan himself says that only the junior angels were redheads, and that as an archangel he had golden hair - but of course he's been demoted quite a bit since then. In the animated pilot he's bald, though he does literally have a red head.
19	* FallenAngel: He can still remember the pain when God tore off his wings.
20	* GreenEyedMonster: The Professor often notes (to the point of it being a catchphrase) that Satan torments humans because he wants to bring everyone down to his level- he hates himself and his situation and wants everyone to be as miserable as he is. For extra points, Satan is actually described as having green eyes.
21	* HistoricalRapSheet: A lot of things through human history were his doing. But not all the things the Bible claims he did were, such as the Fall of Man.
22	* HorrifyingTheHorror: He horrifies all the other demons, and is himself frightened of the wrath of God.
23	* {{Hypocrite}}: One of the main reasons for his hatred of humans is their refusal to own up to their mistakes, yet he continually objects to any attempt to blame him for his own rebellion against God and subsequent banishment from Heaven.
24	* IHaveManyNames: Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Harry and [[OddNameOut Simon Cowell.]]
25	* LivingMoodRing: At one point when Satan is losing his temper, the Professor notes that his eyes have gone purple; then, a little later, [[BlackEyesOfEvil completely black]].
26	* LouisCypher: We always know who he is, we just don't know who he's pretending to be.
27	* MissingReflection: Offhandedly mentions this at one point.
28	* NobleDemon
29	* PaperThinDisguise: He may be able to change his shape, but humorously, doesn't do much (or often anything) to change his voice. At one point he complains that God saddled him with inflexible vocal cords, so it's likely he actually ''can't''.
30	* PayEvilUntoEvil: His whole job description, and the reason he doesn't like having "the undeserving damned" around; they cramp his style.
31	* PetTheDog: Every now and then.
32	* {{Satan}}: Well, yes.
33	* TheSleepless: One episode of series four is dedicated to him trying to experience sleep, which he never has before. He's specifically interested in dreaming in order to relive his days as an angel. He succeeds...only to have a nightmare about the fall and swear off sleep altogether.
34	* ShroudedInMyth: He wasn't the snake in the Garden of Eden, nor was he responsible for Job's misfortunes.
35	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: He ''is'' the devil, after all.
36	* VillainsNeverLie: Whenever he makes a claim about science or history that contradicts our current knowledge, it will turn out to be accurate.
37	* VillainProtagonist
38	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His default form is a stereotypical red devil with goat legs, but he can make himself look ''extra'' demonic to intimidate people and frequently impersonates human celebrities.
39	* WorthyOpponent: His opinion of the Professor, and later Edith.
40	* WouldntHurtAChild: Satan has strict standards of not possessing anyone who isn't old enough to make moral choices, and is thus in one episode is shown to be [[EvenEvilHasStandards enraged]] at fundamentalists who believe a child is possessed by him, and want to beat Satan out of the child.
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44	'''Thomas Quentin Crimp'''
45	-->Played by: Jimmy Mulville
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47	* AbusiveParents: He sold at least one of his unwanted children away. This might've been kinder than what he was like for the ones he kept.
48	* AllTheOtherReindeer: Was excluded as a little child... because the other children had already noticed he was a creepy, thieving lunatic. And then he killed them for not inviting him to birthday parties.
49	* AssholeVictim: His primary role in the series is to be subjected to AmusingInjuries, since his activities while alive [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgust even Satan]] his situation doesn’t garner much sympathy.
50	* TheAtoner: Averted. The Professor, and then Scumspawn, spends a lot of time trying to reform Thomas. He doesn't really get it.
51	* BadBoss: When he was alive, he drove one of his employees to become suicidal. When he finds this out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he seems to be genuinely remorseful]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only to then say that it's her fault anyway for not complaining enough earlier]]. He also had any who looked depressed fired, in the belief depression might've been communicable (to him).
52	* BeingEvilSucks: Sort of; it worked out great for him when he was alive, but then he died and went to Hell because of his evil acts.
53	* BreakTheHaughty: In life, he was proud of himself for his ability to slime and weasel out of trouble, and is not happy about how in Hell he's routinely punished for this.
54	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He has a truly impressive and horrific rap sheet, which includes pimping ''and'' genocide in the same day, and which actually ''was'' a slow day for him. He blames the medication he was on.
55	* ButtMonkey: Satan's personal punching bag, particularly because [[EvenEvilHasStandards Thomas disgusts even him]].
56	* TheCasanova: In life, he was pretty successful at seducing women.
57	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Was one when alive.
58	* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Satan, but he does get his moments.
59	* DefensiveWhat: Does this a lot in season two, usually after admitting to something awful.
60	* EntitledBastard: Even dead and in Hell for a lifetime of misdeeds, he still expects leniency or forgiveness.
61	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He values his friendship with Scumspawn deeply.
62	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Basic human decency is just beyond him. He can sort of get that when someone hears something horrible, the correct response is to offer condolences, but he can't get why, and even if he does try it, he usually ruins it by being astoundingly awful in the process.
63	* EvilIsPetty: He tried to get his parents to divorce. Not because they were awful to him or one another. He just didn't like the idea of other people being happy while he wasn't.
64	* EvilRedhead: Stated to be red-headed in series six.
65	* ExtremeOmnisexual: Has sexual feelings for cartoon characters and mannequins. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday As long as they're female, of course.]]
66	* FauxAffablyEvil: Thomas is [[Series/TheNewStatesman Alan B'stard]] on steroids.
67	* ForcedTransformation: A common punishment is being turned into stuff. Pancakes, piles of sewage, dysentery
68	* ForTheEvulz: There is no reason for why Thomas is such a bastard. He just ''is''.
69	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Among the other excuses he's tried is blaming his upbringing. Satan has absolutely none of it. Flashbacks and trips inside his memory back up Satan's case.
70	* HatesBeingTouched: Including by his own mother, who he regarded as "too common".
71	* InformedFlaw: Satan claims that Thomas is the most evil human being in all of Hell. While Thomas has perpetrated a number of horrific atrocities, he doesn't really come off any worse than many of the other horrible people that Satan has to deal with. Thomas himself lampshades this in one episode when he asks Scumspawn why Satan considers him worse than Hitler or Stalin.
72	-->'''Thomas''': At least I didn't kill millions of people!\
73	'''Scumspawn''': He says that's because you hadn't gotten around to it.
74	* ItsAllAboutMe: A sociopath, Thomas is pretty much incapable of thinking about others, and on the odd occasion he shows a trace of empathy, he follows up by ruining it with some display of self-absorption.
75	* NeverMyFault:
76	** After marrying Edith's daughter, he tormented her to the point of insanity. He eventually accepts 3% of the responsibility for the marriage's failure, which Scumspawn notes is 3% more than last time.
77	** In another episode, Thomas argues that his being in Hell is unfair as his evil acts were predetermined as part of God's plan. God tells him that he doesn't have any plan, and everything humans do wis out of his own free will. Thomas then says that [[InsaneTrollLogic it's still God's fault for being stupid enough to give people like him free will.]]
78	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's more of a punching bag than a villain by the time of the series. However, in life, he murdered, raped, and tortured god knows how many innocent people, and was able to get away with it completely until [[AlwaysABiggerFish Satan found out about it.]]
79	* ObnoxiousInLaws: With Edith, having married her daughter and put her through emotional hell.
80	* PetTheDog: Usually on behalf of Scumspawn, although [[spoiler: he does this ''literally'' in season 7.]]
81	* SelfMadeOrphan: Tried to murder his parents after they refused to buy him a toy he really wanted, even after he threw a screaming tantrum.
82	* SemiDivine: [[spoiler:His [[EvilRedhead red hair]] marks him as having angel ancestry, though he has no powers.]]
83	* SerialSpouse: He had eight or nine wives, all of whom wound up depressed for some inexplicable reason.
84	* SnapBack: [[spoiler:After spending most of series 6 looking like he might start showing some sort of redeeming value, finding out he's got angel ancestry nukes that.]]
85	* TheSociopath: While he does meet a lot of the criteria, the one time anyone diagnoses him, it's Scumspawn using a book, and they come away with the conclusion Thomas has pretty much ''every'' psychological condition it's possible to have.
86	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: If ''Old Harry's Game'' weren't a comedy series, Thomas's laundry list of crimes would be monstrous. Fortunately, it is a comedy series, and he's dead and in Hell getting his just reward.
87	* UpperClassTwit: A particularly malevolent one.
88	* VillainOfAnotherStory: When he was alive, he murdered, raped, and/or tortured many people, but since he's already gone to Hell by the time of the series he's more of a ButtMonkey than a villain.
89	* VillainProtagonist: The focus of most plotlines he's involved in.
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93	'''Gary'''
94	-->Played by: Steve O'Donnell
95	* AffablyEvil: Quite polite despite his love of cruelty.
96	* ButtMonkey
97	* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never seen again. He is briefly mentioned by Thomas in a later episode but nothing is said about his current whereabouts.
98	* TheStarscream: Thomas goads him into becoming this in the penultimate episode of season one. Satan nearly lets him succeed out of apathy, but his pride ultimately wins out.
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102	'''Scumspawn'''
103	-->Played by: Robert Duncan
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105	* AmbiguouslyBi: He confesses his love for Satan, stating that he doesn't "fancy" him ("that would be physical and weird and probably quite dangerous") but loves him in the "widest possible emotional sense". Even ''Thomas'' thinks he's a bad picker. In the episode featuring Helen of Troy, he and Helen's friend Daphne kiss. He also says that to have children, he would have needed to be human and have a "life partner".
106	* BewareTheNiceOnes: For all he is a genial sort, Scumspawn is perfectly willing to engage in the routine tortures of Hell, including flaying Thomas's skin off. He might not enjoy it, but he still does it.
107	* BumblingSidekick: Again, to Satan. He's desperate to please, but comically loses control of his powers when he gets nervous (which is pretty much his default state).
108	* ChasteHero: His love for his master is totally non-sexual. [[BarbieDollAnatomy Then again]], it kind of has to be. And to quote him: "demons don't have a sexuality".
109	* DeathbringerTheAdorable: The one demon with a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scary name]] is, by demon standards, a total wuss.
110	* {{Determinator}}: When Roland stages his attempted coup, he immediately orders Scumspawn locked up for being too loyal to Satan. Scumspawn escapes by ''chewing his feet off'' and hobbling on the stumps to warn Satan... who'd already instantly seen through Roland's plan anyway.
111	* DevotedToYou: his feelings toward Satan
112	* ExtremeDoormat: He once ate himself because Satan told him to.
113	* FallenAngel: Was expelled from Heaven for supporting Satan's rebellion.
114	* GeniusDitz: He is totally naive and incompetent, but is secretly an incredibly talented musician and artist. At one point, he is able to BUILD ROBOTS.
115	* HiddenDepths: While mostly seen as a bumbling sidekick, he is able to paint, tap dance, play the saxophone and build lifelike robots.
116	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He tried to terrify the Professor by turning into a monstrous squid...and turned into a giant prawn. Complete with a bed of lettuce. In his downtime, he donates to a donkey sanctuary, collects Furbies and watches Glee. Oh, and he "torments" A.A. Milne by...keeping his teddy bear.
117	* MoralityPet: For Thomas in later seasons. Just about every time Thomas shows genuine compassion, it's directed at him.
118	* NonIndicativeName: A guy named "Scumspawn" who's a complete MinionWithAnFInEvil.
119	* ThrowTheDogABone: Whilst Thomas soon becomes exasperated with the beautiful but vacuous Helen of Troy, Scumspawn has a very pleasant time with her "plain" friend Daphne.
120	* TokenGoodTeammate: The only good demon.
121	* UndyingLoyalty: to Satan
122	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of his powers. Unfortunately, he has a bad case of PerformanceAnxiety and almost never turns into what he was actually going for.
123	* {{Yandere}}: Got very surprisingly territorial about being Satan's number two, including throwing one potential applicant down a bottomless pit.
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127	'''The Professor'''
128	-->Played by: James Grout
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130	* AbsentMindedProfessor: While extremely intelligent and knowledgeable he is curious to the detriment of all else including his own self preservation. At one point this costs him a chance to enter heaven because he insists on having a theological argument with God himself, unfortunately this version of God [[EvilGod isn’t very forgiving.]]
131	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Does so after four series.
132	* BerserkButton: Anybody casting aspersions on his widow Deborah, or any mention of his former research partner Dickie Freestone.
133	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He often attempts to assess Satan's psychology. Most of what he comes up with is not very flattering.
134	* FlatEarthAtheist: Throughout the first series he refuses to believe he's actually died, thinking he's alive and in a coma after the car crash and Hell is [[AllJustADream all just a very long and elaborate dream]]. But by the start of series 2 he appears to have accepted it.
135	* GentlemanAndAScholar: The Professor is very intelligent but also optimistic, polite and friendly, even to those who don’t return his courtesy.
136	* HeroAntagonist: In most plotlines involving arguments between him and Satan.
137	* TheLostLenore: In a rare inversion, the still-living Deborah is the Lost Lenore for the deceased Professor.
138	* MoralityPet: Essentially is this for Satan.
139	* WideEyedIdealist: His idealism is shattered only once during all four seasons of torment. He gets over it.
140	* StraightMan
141	* TokenGoodTeammate: The only non-evil character in the main cast until Scumspawn appears.
142	* WorthyOpponent: To Satan, who mostly refrains from tormenting him other than by trying to disprove his positive view of humanity.
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146	'''God'''
147	-->Played by: David Swift/Timothy West
148	* AffablyEvil: Is generally respectful of those he speaks to, wishes his angels were more willing to lighten up and joke around and frequently sends people to Hell for little-to-no reason.
149	* AttentionWhore: He gets pretty stroppy if he thinks people aren't grovelling sufficiently.
150	* BadBoss: Has lost interest in his creation and frequently delegates various tasks to incompetent underlings, in addition when hearing of the overcrowding in hell he refuses to take any action to help alleviate the issue and states that it is [[BystanderSyndrome "Not His problem"]]. Then he makes Hell's problems worse, just 'cuz.
151	* BerserkButton: Don't question whether he's the one true god or not, or call him by his real name-[[spoiler:Nigel]].
152	* {{Jerkass}}: When asked to give Hell more room because things are getting cramped, he not only refuses, but then makes Hell ''smaller'' out of spite.
153	* KingOfAllCosmos: For the supreme being, he's... er, a little off. As he freely admits, his omniscience is less "omni" these days, as he's stopped paying attention to all those prayers, and generally only follows cricket anymore. He also gets suckered by an automated phone call.
154	* PapaWolf:
155	** Don't mention Jesus. He's still a little sore about that mess. Doing so will make him go on a rant.
156	** He's also still nursing a grudge against Herod, and on one visit to Hell Satan points out where he is, in case God's interested...
157	* ShroudedInMyth: He's not actually omniscient, and most of the miracles in the Bible never actually happened.
158	* WackyParentSeriousChild: Has a lot of difficulty socialising with Jesus, who is apparently always serious, something he's pretty bothered about.
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162	'''Edith Cordelia Barrington'''
163	-->Played by: Creator/AnnetteCrosbie
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165	* CoolOldLady: She has a very SternTeacher-esque attitude, and maintains it even around Satan.
166	* DeathGlare: Satan notes that she has a pretty good severe look.
167	* {{Determinator}}: As Satan notes 'arguing with her is like... well, it's like cornering a badger'.
168	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She doted on her young niece when she was alive and thought they had a special bond. In fact the girl's parents had encouraged her to suck up to Edith to gain a large inheritance, and she grows up to become shallow, selfish and [[spoiler:willing to take a bribe from a corrupt bookie to lose a race at the Olympics]].
169	* NeverSuicide: The police and Satan assume she committed suicide, but she's quite adamant she didn't. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out her best friend murdered her out of insane jealousy.]]
170	* OutdatedName: In Satan's opinion, at least.
171	* ThePerfectionist: Has a ''bad'' case of this. After completing Satan's biography, she convinces herself that it's garbage and demands another writer in Hell find some criticism of it. When he tentatively suggests deleting ''one adverb'', she tears the whole manuscript to shreds.
172	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: She tries calling out God to His face. He eventually gives up and leaves, though not before giving Edith leprosy as a parting act of spite.
173	* RenaissanceMan: An Olympic fencer, award-winning historian and noted humanitarian - plus a cross-country skier, scuba diver and the first woman to walk solo to the North Pole. Her father had high standards, apparently.
174	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler: introduced after the Professor leaves and plays a similar role.]] Played with in that there are notable differences between the two characters; where [[spoiler:the Professor's idealism]] comes from trying to find the bright side of every situation, Edith's comes more from romanticizing certain people, ideas, and events while seeing no good in others. Also, while [[spoiler:The Professor]] came to be fairly well-liked even by the villains, Edith is tolerated at best by most of the other characters.
175	* StraightMan: Inherits the role from the Professor, though she's not terribly happy about it.
176	* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied to be why she's such an overachiever.
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180	'''Jane Austen'''
181	-->Played by: Felicity Montagu
182	* AxCrazy: After a lifetime of repression, she's ready to punch anyone in sight.
183	* EvilerThanThou: She's bullied Napoleon and Hitler into following her.
184	* FootballHooligans: Turns out she's a football fan, and as vicious about that as she is everything else.
185	* TheLadette: Has a scorpion tattoo on each arm, "hate" tattooed on her knuckles, and is generally foul-mouthed and violent.
186	* ReallyGetsAround: Within twenty minutes of arriving in Hell, she'd beaten up several demons, then screwed an entire army, followed by some debauchery with Catherine the Great, which she's still disappointed about.
187	* ShroudedInMyth: She's absolutely nothing like you'd expect from her work, or even from historical accounts.
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190	'''Adolf Hitler'''
191	* NeverMyFault: He maintains that the Holocaust was merely overreacting to being filmed in the shower, and he blames his failed invasion of Russia on Jesse Owens. When the Professor was interviewing famous dead people to write a history book, he mentions talking to a Nazi who claimed he was just following orders; three guesses which Nazi this turned out to be.
192	* UnseenEvil: He's the most frequently mentioned out of all the historical figures, but he almost never speaks, is never spoken to, and other than one scene where he is explicitly in disguise, is never even spoken about in such a way that one can infer his presence.
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195	'''Roland Kingworthy'''
196	-->Played by: Geoffrey Whitehead
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198	* BigBadWannabe: Thinks he can overthrow Satan after flattering him. This goes as well as can be expected.
199	* DarkAndTroubledPast: His effortless charm comes from having gone to boarding school, with all the bullying and sexual assault that entails. Satan figures his eventually fate will be pretty familiar because of that.
200	* EvilBrit
201	* FateWorseThanDeath: Is cast into a bottomless void for his ambition.
202	* ManipulativeBastard: Being able to sucker the demons isn't difficult. Being able to get a total bastard like Thomas is. However, he's effortlessly outdone by Satan.
203	* ObviouslyEvil: Satan had him pegged as trouble right from the off. Even if he wasn't, y'know, in ''Hell'', there's his effortless charm... and the fact he wears a cravat, which according to Satan was a dead giveaway.
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207	'''Nero'''
208	-->Played by: Philip Pope
209	* AGodAmI: Claims to be a god.
210	* HorrifyingTheHorror: When he's temporarily put in charge of Hell, [[EvenEvilHasStandards his cruelty horrifies even the demons.]]
211	* OneShotCharacter
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215	'''Chuckles the dolphin'''
216	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Speaks like an actual dolphin, but Satan understands him.
217	* KickTheDog: He devises a plan to break the Professor's spirit by making it look like his wife has already moved on, and is now seeing his former partner.
218	* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Chuckles is not his actual name, but since he's a dolphin his proper name, and its shortened version, are unpronounceable to any non-speaker of dolphin.
219	* OneShotCharacter: Only appears in one episode.
220	* SapientCetaceans: Dolphins are the only other creatures on Earth with enough moral awareness to be damned.
221	* ShootTheDangerousMinion: Satan considers making Chuckles his second-in-command, but decides he's too cunning to be trusted and disintegrates him.

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