Line #116 Characters/SamAndCat


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3	!!'''Note:''' For tropes relating to Sam, Cat or any major characters from other Series/NickVerse shows that get files here, please only put tropes relevant to those characters in this show.
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5	[[folder: Main Characters]]
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7	!!Sam Puckett
8	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JennetteMcCurdy
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10	A character originating from ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', who was part of the main cast. At the end of ''iCarly'', she is seen leaving Seattle and wound up in Los Angeles. She meets Cat in less then stellar circumstances and becomes her roommate, where they start a babysitting business.
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12	* ActionGirl: Won't hesitate to get into a scrap.
13	* BerserkButton: Don't call her "sweet"...unless you're Cat.
14	** When Dice got kidnapped, she was SO vulnerable, probably for the first time in her life.
15	** Apparently, cutting her pizza into rectangles or any shape besides triangle.
16	* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Cat from getting killed in a garbage truck.
17	* BigEater: One time Cat goes through her handphone contacts and gets a shock at how many of them are eating places.
18	* CardCarryingVillain: In episode 5, she proudly proclaims that she has no heart.
19	* CuteBruiser: Every bit as much as in her previous show, taking down full grown men easily and ripping parking meters out of the ground when angry.
20	%%* DeadpanSnarker
21	* EveryoneHasStandards: Even she is horrified at the rival babysitters using children the way they do in "[=#ToddlerClimbing=]."
22	* HatesBeingTouched: Not a fan of Cat's insistent hugging of her, but she manages to tolerate it.
23	* HypercompetentSidekick: Downplayed, as she herself is careless and there are times Cat is the responsible one.
24	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
25	* KarmaHoudini: Returns in full force from ''iCarly''. Fan reaction is just as divided as it was in 2007.
26	* KickTheSonOfABitch: She sometimes will beat up people who deserve it.
27	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine to Dice's Feminine.
28	* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Rude Hero to Cat's Nice Sidekick.
29	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Basically for Jade, having the same general personality as her (albeit less palbable) that serves as a contrasting foil to Cat.
30	%%* TheLadette
31	%%* TheMcCoy
32	* TokenEvilTeammate: Much like she was in ''iCarly.''
33	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Cat's Girly Girl.
34	* TookALevelInKindness: Only towards Cat though, as Dice learned.
35	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
36	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: A mild example; She can somehow return to Seattle, but her best friend left, so now she doesn't have ''iCarly'' anymore, all of which she dedicated her life to. She also broke up with Freddie, so Sam pretty much has nothing left to do with her life, so she settles in LA with Cat to start a babysitting service and make ends meet.
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38	!!Cat Valentine
39	->'''Portrayed by''': Music/ArianaGrande
40	A character originating from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' as part of the main cast. For more information on her, see
41	* ACupAngst:
42	-->'''Cat:''' When I say Aybra Kadaybra--\
43	'''Sam:''' Wait, I thought you wanted me to stop making fun of your A-Bra.\
44	''[Cat crosses her arms defensively over her chest and looks hurt]''
45	** Unfortunately, Ariana Grande has an A-Cup size in real life (which is what makes the joke funny).
46	* BerserkButton: Don't ever write her a song and then let her catch you singing it for some other girl. You got that, [[spoiler:Robbie]]?
47	* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a sweetheart most of the time but if you make her lose her temper it's a scary thing. Particularly epic was her unloading on the creepy dad in "[=#DollSitting=]".
48	* CuteButCacophonic: Cat's SimpletonVoice is much more high-pitched and childlike than it was in ''Series/{{Victorious}}''.
49	* HiddenDepths: When Sam and Dice fail to replicate the recipe for Blue Dog Soda properly, Cat announces that she can fix it and two hours later, has made a perfect copy of the beverage without knowing any of the ingredients, just from having tasted the original version. Justified in that she learned culinary arts from her grandmother, so is an expert in any kind of consumable preparation.
50	* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: In "[=#BrainCrush=]" Cat does a one-girl show as, and about, ''Baberaham Lincoln'' (Abraham Lincoln if he was female). With a [[FakeBrit British accent]].
51	* {{Malaproper}}: A RunningGag is that she calls things wrong.
52	* MoralityPet: Like [[Series/ICarly Carly]] did, Cat serves as an anchor to keep Sam on the side of good, more or less.
53	* MsFanservice: A cutie with long legs and short skirts. Her Halloween outfit displays some abs. She also displays her pins while playing Honest Abe...ss (complete with beard and whiskers. Strangely, this doesn't come off as FanDisservice).
54	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Really likes to be close to Sam, also likes to hug her, much to [[HatesBeingTouched Sam's annoyance.]]
55	* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Nice Sidekick to Sam's Rude Hero.
56	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: She tends to repeat almost any sound effect that she hears, from a doorbell to a ringing telephone.
57	* TheScream: Has been known to let out a bloodcurdling scream in several episodes.
58	* SweetTooth: Not nearly as bad as ''Series/{{Victorious}},'' but it's still there.
59	* TheDitz: She tends to be very dim-witted much like how she was on ''Series/{{Victorious}}''.
60	* TheTease: Is she ever...
61	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Sam's Tomboy.
62	* TookALevelInJerkass: She had been showing signs of it with her treatment of Dice and episodes like "[=#MagicATM=]"; it's been set in stone in "[=#KnockOut=]" when she tried to hit a 5 year old just to prove Sam wrong. Even Sam hasn't approved of some of her actions.
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65	!!Dice
66	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/CameronOcasio
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68	Another member of the apartment building the duo live in. Dice is a benefactor of sorts who gives the girls random items he comes across for a price, and occasionally helps them in their adventures.
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70	* ButtMonkey: Got a nosebleed, denied a drink for no reason, etc.
71	* {{Expy}}: of [[Series/ShakeItUp Deuce]], but younger.
72	** He can also be considered an expy of a younger [[Series/ICarly Freddie Benson]]. Like Freddie, he is often the butt of Sam's jokes and antics.
73	%%* {{Fanboy}}: Of Series/{{iCarly}}, judging by his reaction to Sam in "#Pilot."
74	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The episode "[=#SuperPsycho=]" reveals that Dice is actually short for Diceneo. Though so far, he has never been called or introduced himself as anything different than Dice
75	%%* OnlySaneMan: Between the ComicTrio of himself, Sam and Cat.
76	%%* ShorterMeansSmarter
77	%%* TheSpock
78	%%* TheTeamBenefactor
79	* TokenGoodTeammate: If anything, he doesn't like stealing or doing anything illegal.
80	** He's in general noticeably the kindest and least aggressive of the main three. Sam beats someone up almost OncePerEpisode. Cat TookALevelInJerkass and became increasingly meaner especially towards Dice, though other characters suffer from it too. In "[=#GettinWiggy=]", she injures a character so seriously he's hospitalized. Dice is the only one who is never violent towards anyone, not even fighting back when Sam and Cat treat him unfairly cruel.
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84	[[folder: Recurring Characters]]
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86	!!Nona
87	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MareeCheatham
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89	Cat's grandmother and former owner of the apartment the two protagonists live in. After a bad incident involving some children, Nona moved to Elderly Acres, an old folks home several blocks from the apartment.
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91	* CoolOldLady: She's capable of making ''Sam'' fall in line.
92	%%* DeadpanSnarker
93	%%* FieryRedHead
94	* InnocentlyInsensitive: She gave a retired pilot a lollipop as a gesture of kindness, forgetting he lost his tongue in a crash landing.
95	%%* OnlySaneWoman
96	* TotallyRadical: "[=#TheBritBrats=]" shows her trying to talk like this. It is both cringe-inducing and hilarious.
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98	!!Geau Merr "Goomer"
99	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ZoranKorach
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101	An MMA fighter Dice became the manager of in "[=#NewGoat=]". He's not all there mentally, but is shown to be a competent fighter.
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103	* BerserkButton: Don't insult Dice, and ''really'' don't insult Dice's beautiful, beautiful hair.
104	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Not so hidden, since he's outright stated in his first appearance to fight for money, but otherwise fits the trope. He was also capable of taking down a group of street thugs who were stealing his mother's purse.
105	%%* TheDitz: The guy makes ''Cat'' look like Creator/StephenFry.
106	* DumbMuscle: He may very well be mentally handicapped.
107	* GenreSavvy: Of all people, Goomer recognized that Gwen and Ruby were the ones who stole Cat's bibble just to turn her against Sam. It's even more amazing, yet made stranger by the fact that Goomer never even met Gwen and Ruby, and had knowledge of the events of "[=#TheBritBrats=]," which he clearly wasn't a part of.
108	** In "[=#BlueDogSoda=], he was smart enough to realize that in order to sell bootleg soda, the heroes would have to keep up with the supply and demand as well as letting the public know about their soda while making sure the law enforcement doesn't. Sam and Cat were understandably shocked by what he said.
109	%%* HappilyAdopted: By an African American Woman.
110	* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Up until "[=#MommaGoomer=]," it seemed like Goomer was a nickname. Turns out his last name is Merr, and his first name is Geau (his father was French).
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113	[[folder: Minor Characters]]
114	!! Melinda
115	->'''Portrayed by''': Christina Hogue
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117	The mother of the children Sam and Cat look after in the pilot.
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119	* IdleRich: Implied, since she casually hands Sam a hundred and fifty dollars and is pretty laid-back.
120	%%* OlderThanSheLooks: This is likely the case.
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122	%%!!Chloe and Max
123	%%->'''Portrayed by''': Griffin Kane and Emily Skinner
124	%%* RecurringExtra
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126	%%!!Darby
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128	!!Dilben
129	->'''Portrayed by''': River Alexander
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131	A kid in a cape who pretends to be the son of the apartment building's owner. In truth, his father is a salesman of wide shoes for wide women.
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133	* ButtMonkey: See RuleOfThree concerning his capes.
134	* DragonInChief: {{Subverted\| Trope}}. He goes around pretending his father owns the apartment, and acting like this trope, but his father is really a shoe salesman.
135	%%* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/{{iCarly}} Nevel]]
136	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Dilben is an unpopular kid who is embarrassed by his father's job, so he pretends to be the son of a landlord to prove he's a big shot.
137	%%* {{Jerkass}}
138	* RuleOfThree: Dilben enters Sam and Cat's apartment three times. Three times does Sam take his cape from him and change his trousers and shirt around on his body.
139	* SmallNameBigEgo: Claims that he's a big deal around the apartment because his father owns the building, causing him to act smug and obnoxious towards the people living there. However, not only is he an unpopular and annoying kid who doesn't get the respect he thinks he deserves, but his father doesn't own the building at all and actually sells wide shoes to wide-footed women, something that he's embarrassed about.
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141	!!Butler
142	->'''Portrayed by''': Jake Brennan
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144	A kid whose mother uses him to win texting competitions for her own bennifet. He soon decides to take a dive so that his mother looses.
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146	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The fact his mother named him ''Butler'', only makes the way she treats him even worse.
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148	!!John Zakappa
149	->'''Portrayed by''': Devan Long
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151	Otherwise known as the Skull Crusher. Another wrestler who rivals Gommer in ''[=GoomerSitting=]''. He was also the one who stole Sam's motorcycle in ''[=MotorcycleMystery=]''
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153	%%* AffablyEvil
154	* CurbStompBattle: Despite his reputation he was at the reciving end of this from both Sam and ''Cat'' on two different occasions.
155	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is good friends with a little person.
156	* RedBaron: Also known as the Skull Crusher.
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158	!![=PeezyB=]
159	->'''Portrayed by''': Kel Mitchell
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161	A famous rapper who was mean to Cat. When Sam goes to confront him, [=PeezyB=] realizes she has the "Swaggy Spunk", and hires her to be his new assistant.
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163	* CatchPhrase: "I'm a genius!"
164	%%* {{Jerkass}}
165	* KarmaHoudini: This is a Schneider show, don't be too surprised. Unless you consider Sam breaking his phone to be karma
166	%%* LargeHam
167	%%* NoIndoorVoice
168
169	!!Tandy and Bungle
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171
172	Two robot that works at Bots
173	* PinkgirlBlueboy:inverted,Tandy Is Red and Bungle Is blue
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176	[[folder:Returning Schneiderverse Characters]]
177	!!Melanie
178	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JennetteMcCurdy
179
180	Sam's twin sister from ''Series/{{iCarly}}''. She is Sam's polar opposite. In ''Twinfection'', she returns to help Sam prank Cat as Sam's "evil twin".
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182	* AmbiguouslyBi: Considering she ''full on kisses Cat on the lips'', definitely.
183	%%* MsFanservice
184	%%* NiceGirl
185	* NotSoAboveItAll: Her acting all primal during the prank as Sam's twin.
186	%%* PolarOppositeTwins: She is the polar opposite of Sam.
187	%%* SmartGirl
188	%%* TheBusCameBack
189
190	!!Erwin Sikowicz
191	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/EricLange
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193	* GenreSavvy: Zigzagged - he has Sam pegged from the moment they meet, but still falls for their ploy anyway.
194	%%* LargeHam: "BACKWARDS!... Acting!"
195
196	!! Stacey Dilsen
197	->'''Portrayed by''': Abbey Wilde
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199	%%* AmusingInjuries: Via steel pipe tripwire.
200	* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Doesn't take long to catch on to Sam and Cat's ruse.
201	* SpeechImpediment: [[GotMeDoingIt Which passes on to Cat briefly.]]
202
203	!!Jade West
204	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ElizabethGillies
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206	* DeathGlare: Pulls this on some kids to get a table at 'Bots'. Oddly enough, it looks more ''seductive''.
207	* OddFriendship: Got along well with Sam almost immediately, and despite Cat's fears.
208	* TookALevelInKindness: She's less abrasive than she was in ''Victorious''.
209
210	!!Freddie Benson
211	->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/NathanKress
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213	* AmusingInjuries
214	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Came all the way from Seattle just because he thought Sam had been run over by a SUV.
215	* DeadpanSnarker
216	* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: He finds Robbie annoying.
217	* MommasBoy: "How did you know I said buttocks?!"
218	* TookALevelInBadass: Robbie nearly broke his wrist on those abs!
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220	!!Robbie Shapiro
221	->'''Portrayed by''': Matt Bennett
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223	%%* AmusingInjuries
224	%%* CharacterisationMarchesOn: The real reason for Rex's absence.
225	%%* TheChewToy: "I'm being USED!!"
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227	!!Orenthal "Gibby" Gibson
228	->'''Portrayed by''': Noah Munck
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230	%%* TheBusCameBack
231	%%* TheCasanova
232	* TheDitz: He texted Sam and Cat's address to Nora after she told him she wanted to destroy Sam.
233	%%* IconicItem: His replica of his head.
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235	!! Nora Derschlit
236	->'''Portrayed by''': Danielle Morrow
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238	%%* AxCrazy
239	* TheDreaded: Sam is afraid of her. Heck, when she came back into the picture, Sam felt so vulnerable, probably for the first time in her life.
240	* {{Homage}}: Shown working out [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Sarah Connor]]-style in prison. Then turns into [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Buffalo Bill.]]
241	* MotiveDecay: Previously, she was only a villain because she had no friends, and wanted to fill the void, but in her own dark, twisted way. Now, she's more focused on hurting Sam and her friends and seeks to make Sam scarred for life.
242	* NotWorthKilling: More like not worth taking revenge on in Gibby's case, even though he foiled her previously. Instead, she forces Gibby to give her Sam's new address and to spread the message of her return.
243	%%* WouldHurtAChild: Does this to Dice.
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245	!! Nevel Papperman
246	->'''Portrayed by''': Reed Alexander
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248	%%* EnemyMine: With Sam and Cat.
249	* EvilIsPetty: Uses Gibby's [[CompanionCube head replica]] as justification to split the check three ways.
250	* {{Homage}}: To ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', from [[spoiler:his InstitutionalApparel to the suit and hat after he's escaped.]]
251	* JokerImmunity: [[spoiler:The real reason he escapes in the end.]]
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253	!! Coco Wexler:
254	->'''Portrayed by''': Jessica Chaffin
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256	* BigEater: A large can of ravioli, which she presumably finished before boarding that plane.
257	%%* TheCameo
258	* CrazyPrepared: Hauls an electric can opener ''and a car battery'' just for above can.
259	* HumiliationConga: Not only did her husband leave her for ''her mother'', she's boarding that plane to go to ''their wedding!''
260	* ThrowTheDogABone: The fact that she made it on board before the lockdown.

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