Line #18 Characters/TheGuild


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3	[[folder:The Knights of Good]]
4	!The Knights of Good
5	An online gaming group (or Guild) in an MMORPG, similar to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
6
7	!!Tropes shared by all of them
8
9	!!Codex/Cyd Sherman (Creator/FeliciaDay)
10	The Guild's Healer and the show's focus character.
11
12	-->''"I'm an ego half-empty kind of girl"''
13
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes: When her boyfriend dumped her for another man she set fire to his cello. [[spoiler: Also when she snaps at Vork and Bladezz in the Season 3 finale. She intimidates both of them enough that Vork apolgizes to her and Bladezz apologizes to Tink]].
15	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: The ending of the Season 2 finale]]. Which, combined with the above trope does not bode well for those involved.
16	** Indeed, it does not bode well. [[spoiler: The Season 3 Finale has her finally snap as a result of the stress and (possibly?) develop a take charge SplitPersonality]]
17	* ButNotTooWhite: Felicia Day's snow-white skin plays into the character at times - going out in sunlight is a pain for Codex, with Tink mocking her for spontaneously developing freckles. [[spoiler: Then there's Riley telling her that her skin is "dungeon slave pale"...]]
18	** On the DVD cast commentaries, even the other actors point out how pale she looks in certain scenes.
19	* TheCastShowoff: Codex and Felicia Day in real life can both play the violin.
20	* TheCutie: Creator/FeliciaDay all the time, obviously, but she really plays it up in Codex's vlogs at the beginning of each episode.
21	* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler:In a one night stand with Fawkes she hoped would be more. In the end it turned out he was, in her own words, "a total d-bag" though she tried to keep up appearances to avoid embarassment.]]
22	* ExtremeDoormat: A huge part of the show is her attempting to grow out of this, with one of the biggest conflicts in the first two seasons arising from her being too passive to firmly tell Zaboo she's not interested (and him being too clueless to take a hint.) She often ends up backpedaling every time she makes some progress, but her CharacterDevelopment is still obvious if you compare the first and second seasons.
23	-->'''Codex''': "Of course, one time I got caught holding the door open after an orchestra concert for 25 minutes straight, so I'm not really the best measure of assertiveness."
24	* InformedFlaw: Zaboo insinuates that she has poor hygiene, but it's not really demonstrated considering her well-groomed hair...
25	%%* TheMedic: Online
26	* MsFanservice: Played up for the music videos
27	* MoralityPet: To most everyone.
28	* OnlySaneMan: Compared to the rest of the Guild, when they are online. She's not always a reliable decision-maker in real life, however.
29	* ProneToSunburn: Or freckles. Codex is very concerned about her “extended” time in the sun when she confronts Tink on the basketball court.
30	* SelfDeprecation: Most of her webcam monologues.
31	* TeamMom: Slowly evolves towards this throughout the series.
32	* TokenGoodTeammate: Online she and Vork are the only ones who aren't in it just for the loot, and haven't set up things like an extra account (Clara), engaged in cyber-stalking (Zaboo), spitefully deleted another account (Bladezz), or used extortion (Tink).
33	%%* WhiteMagicianGirl: Online
34
35	!!Bladezz/Simon Kemplar (Creator/VincentCaso)
36	The Guild's Rogue
37
38	%%* ADarkerMe
39	* [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]]: In the Season 1 finale he steps in to help take Zaboo’s mother down just as the rest of the guild is running out of things to say to her.
40	%%* CasanovaWannabe
41	%%* MrFanservice: All the way up to 11.
42	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He’s a typical snotty teenaged gamer boy. He spends a good amount of time pulling nasty tricks on the rest of the guild (stealing the guild bank, [[spoiler: deleting Tink]]) but they never truly consider ejecting him from the guild or their real-life social circle.
43	%%* {{Jerkass}}
44	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
45	%%* TroubledButCute: Early on in the series.
46	%%* {{Troll}}
47
48	!!Clara/Clara Bean (Creator/RobinThorsen)
49	The Guild's Mage
50
51	-->''"Lie and good things will happen"''
52	* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Parent]]: Of the criminally neglectful variety. Clara leaves her kids in the car (What? She cracked the windows), let’s them run around restaurants and shopping malls unattended, and leaves them in the care of a very questionable babysitter so she can attend a pole-dancing class.
53	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She often forgets what’s going on or what she is supposed to be doing when she sees something interesting. At the hotel she forgets she’s not supposed to be eating from the minibar ten seconds after being chided for it. And she completely abandons her t-shirt business when she sees steampunk for the first time.
54	* BigBeautifulWoman: She's a full figured ManicPixieDreamgirl who got married and had kids, but never grew out of her wild tendencies. While the skinny but spineless Codex spent a whole season pining for the hot stuntman Wade, Clara ended up making out with him shortly after she met him.
55	* BigFun: Clara is easily the biggest partier out of the group. She sets up the kegger at Codex’s house and is the one having the most fun. In season 5, she laments that she can’t partake of the Con parties due to [[spoiler: being pregnant]].
56	* [[ComedicSociopathy Comedic Sociopath]]: Her extreme behavior in Season 2 was due to living on the internet and alcohol for several days straight, but she only got to that point through lies.
57	%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Vork, Codex, her husband, her future brother-in-law...
58	%%* GenkiGirl
59	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: What happens when this trope gets married and has kids.
60	* StepfordSmiler: Clara's friendly demeanor and constant smile hides a criminally neglectful mother who creates a character just to attack Vork and who makes out with a man she knows Codex wants. Not to mention that she's married.
61	** Alternate view: She's just all id and no superego. She doesn't stop to think about anything beyond her own nose and just does what she wants at any given time.
62
63	!!Tinkerballa/[[spoiler:April Lu, or possibly April Lou with last name unknown]] (Creator/AmyOkuda)
64	The Guild's Ranger
65
66	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: She may or may not be a clinical sociopath.
67	* AsianAndNerdy: She may date a lot and have Bladezz wrapped around her finger, but she still plays an MMORPG obsessively.
68	* BreakTheHaughty:[[spoiler: At the end of Season 2]]
69	* BrutalHonesty: Emphasis on the brutal part.
70	* TheCastShowoff: In the music video. Amy Okuda is a professional dancer.
71	* [[spoiler:DefrostingIceQueen: To a degree, especially in the 5th season.]]
72	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep/DoNotCallMePaul: She has a name. She just refuses to let anyone in the series know it. Or anything else about her for that matter. Even Zaboo was only able to find out that she's a pre-med student.
73	** Her [[GivenNameReveal name is finally revealed]] in Season 5.
74	%%* [[spoiler:HappilyAdopted]]: Sort of.
75	%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
76	* {{Jerkass}}: But gradually softens into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold thanks to her Guildmates.
77	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate / DrJerk: She's pre-med. God help us all. [[spoiler: She actually switched to fashion design two years previously.]]
78	* MsFanservice: Music videos only until Season 5 where she sports several revealing cosplay costumes. Then Season 6 opens with her in a bikini.
79	* MysteriousPast: She refuses to tell the others her real name, has a Post Office box as a mailing address and gives the storyline of ''Series/UglyBetty'' as her life story. We eventually get a big chunk of her backstory in Season 5.
80	* PrettyFreeloader: Tink uses Bladezz like this (see below). In Season 6 she does this with a lot of men.
81	** Though subverted when its shown she doesn't know how to maintain it.
82	* {{Stripperiffic}}: In the music videos. Some of her cosplay outfits in Season 5 are this as well, with one of them being the [[GoGoEnslavement Slave Leia]] outfit.
83	* {{Tsundere}}: ''Very'' tsun-tsun to most everyone; Codex can bring out the dere-dere.
84	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Goes into this when [[spoiler:she starts developing genuine feelings for Donovan]].
85
86	!!Vork/Herman Holden (Jeff Lewis)
87	The Guild's Warrior and leader
88
89	-->''"Women. Can't live with 'em...They will not go out with me."''
90	* AlliterativeName: Offline.
91	%%* TheBigGuy: Online.
92	%%* ComicallySerious
93	* ExtremeOmnivore: Found Object Stew, which a ''homeless person'' took one bite of and summarily rejected.
94	* MistakenForPedophile: While on the road, Vork stops by an elementary school to use the wi-fi connection. A teacher is not too happy to see a strange guy in a creepy van full of electronic equipment talking to a kid.
95	* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Ambiguously when confronting Kwan, hilariously in "Game On".
96	%%* PerpetualPoverty
97	* RunningGag: Every time he is forced to leave his found Wi-Fi spot in Season 3, he runs over a trash can.
98	%%* TeamDad
99	* TheAllegedCar: Vork's van, which was shown to barely even run on the Season 3 outtakes.
100	* {{Omniglot}} Subverted. He may very well, as he claims to speak all languages but from the evidence he speaks them all [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels badly]]
101	* TheStoic: His lines are funny on their own (most people couldn't even say them with a straight face), but Jeff Lewis's SeriousBusiness delivery takes the humor up to eleven.
102	%%* SeriousBusiness: ''Everything''.
103	%% Are you sure he isn't the TheStoic or something? In any event, at least say something like, "He takes everything seriously. Don't know this series.
104	* StopHavingFunGuys: Vork runs The Guild like a military unit, or at least tries to. The others mostly just tolerate his behavior while continuing to do their own thing.
105	** Notably, while arguing over how to design their Guildhall in Season 4, while Clara and Tink want a fairy princess castle and Bladezz wants one that looks like a Heavy Metal video, Vork only wants a boring gray castle that looks like a dungeon because it would be more easily defensible..from a kind of attack that doesn't exist yet.
106	* VetinariJobSecurity: You'd think that somebody more personable would make a better leader, but Vork's anti-charisma makes him an effective unifying force.
107
108	!!Zaboo/Sujan Balakrishnan Goldberg (Sandeep Parikh)
109	The Guild's Warlock
110
111	* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs. He goes [[CrossesTheLineTwice far, far beyond]] even the most extreme examples of this trope, but somehow manages to be a genuinely nice guy, albeit one with zero emotional maturity and no idea how to survive in real life.
112	%%* [[spoiler: BewareTheNiceOnes]]
113	* BollywoodNerd: Subverted. He has the intelligence and computer savvy but not the work ethic or the resulting success.
114	** Then again, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM Game On]]
115	* CarpetOfVirility: Averted slightly. He has a ''very'' hairy chest, but is the definite opposite of virility.
116	* CrossesTheLineTwice: The reason Zaboo comes off as a likeable character instead of an intolerable creep is because his stalking is ultimately so harmless that it inspires laughs, as well as plenty of sympathy.
117	* DoggedNiceGuy: Thinks of himself as playing this but through Seasons 1 and 2 it's actually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].
118	** In Season 3, however, Zaboo attempts to find another outlet in [[MasochismTango Riley]], who turns out to be just as bad for completely different reasons.
119	** In Season 4, Zaboo tries instead to be JustFriends with Codex, which he ends up deconstructing as well (up until the last episode of the season, where he [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructs it]] and [[spoiler:possibly reconstructs DoggedNiceGuy again if Codex's "litmus test" ends up meaning anything]]).
120	* MrFanservice: Only in the music videos, ''especially'' "Game On".
121	* FreudianExcuse: Zaboo was smothered by his mom (she breast fed him until he was ''eleven''), and therefore has no idea how to survive on his own. This makes him extremely codependent and nearly incapable of understanding that his crushes only go one way, something that is not helped by Codex's ExtremeDoormat tendencies.
122	%%* LawfulGood: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the season 4 finale.
123	* LovableSexManiac: Played for laughs because he's obviously not dangerous.
124	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Especially when you weren't too sane to start with. He's so crazy for Codex he makes the rest of the guild look almost sane. Of course, his severe [[FreudianExcuse mommy issues]] might be part of it. He comes off as much saner after he gives up on her, though it could be said he's still insane for staying with Riley.
125	* MasochismTango: His relationship with Riley is extremely unpleasant for him physically and mentally.
126	* ParentalIncest: Borderline case. No actual sex but as noted below she breastfed him until he was 11. Also bathed him, even as an adult and he admits to having seen her naked often enough that he thinks it's a normal thing.
127	%%* PlayfulHacker
128	%%* StalkerWithACrush
129	%%* TheWoobie
130	* TookALevelInBadass: After being the show's ButtMonkey for most of the current three seasons, he first flips out and trashes all of Valkyrie's equipment, then during the LAN Battle against the Axis takes down a third of their opponents without breaking a sweat.
131	** Definitely demonstrates this in Series 5 where he ends up ruling the Convention with an iron fist.
132	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: His mother breast fed him until he was ''11''. His angst about how his mother has perpetually stunted his growth into an adult caused him to attempt suicide. Her overbearing love has been directly stated as the reason he stalks Codex so aggressively, because it's the only way he knows how to love someone. Ironically, the moment his mother leaves it switches from "not allowed to grow up" to "refuses to grow up". He seems to use Codex to ''avoid'' responsibility, to the point where ''she'' has to suggest that in life he is a "starting character" and has to do some "serious leveling" before she could possibly be remotely interested in him. And rather than attempting real personal growth, he tries to rush through it as quickly as possible (a few days was "sorry I took so long") with superficial changes like lifting "weights" and talking about sports. There seems to be the implication that he is as genuinely afraid of growing up as he was adamant that his mother allow him to do it.
133	* TwoferTokenMinority: "I'm a Hinjew."
134	* VerbalTic: His constant adding of "'d" to the end of words.
135	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: In season 5 his scheme for seat saving at the convention gives him a lot of power and it quickly goes to his head. The fact that he has to constantly supervise the system means that he goes days without sleep and it makes him even more unstable than usual.
136	** By episode 7 he is acting like TheDon and is even stroking a toy cat.
137
138	!!Mr. Wiggly/George Bean (Brett Sheridan)
139	Clara's husband and so far totally inadequate replacement for Tink
140
141	* AchievementsInIgnorance: [[spoiler: Manages to take down Kwan, the Axis' strongest player basically because he doesn't know what he's doing.]]
142	%%* CloserToEarth: GenderFlipped.
143	%% In addition to being a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, the trope is not gender specific.
144	* DumbJock: It's pretty heavily implied he was this in high school. Before they got married and had kids, he and Clara apparently went to wild drunken parties all the time, and doing push ups on Clara's command for her entertainment. He's pretty all together these days, just completely oblivious to games.
145	* EmbarrassingNickname: Clara chose his avatar’s name. He is '' very'' displeased as it’s her pet name for his penis, which she promptly tells the guild in a hot mike moment.
146	* TheLoad: He’s not just worthless in game, but he actively gets the group wiped in boss raids.
147	%%* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Mr. Wiggly.
148	%%* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: Until Bladezz pretends to befriend him and turns him into a slacker.]]
149	%%* SixthRanger
150	%%** SixthRangerTraitor - Briefly, due to ignorance.
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Axis of Anarchy]]
154	!Axis of Anarchy
155	The Knights of Good rivals in Season 3
156
157	%%* FiveTokenBand
158
159	!!Fawkes (Creator/WilWheaton)
160	The leader of the Axis
161
162	%%* AffablyEvil
163	* BerserkButton: An odd one. he flips out when Codex says she's his equal. On the other hand, considering he's a NietzscheWannabe it makes sense.
164	%%* BigBad
165	%%* ClusterFBomb
166	%%* DefeatMeansFriendship: A different sort of friendship.
167	%%* [[spoiler: LadykillerInLove]]: In Season 5
168	%%* MrFanservice
169	* ManInAKilt: Codex even sarcastically refers to him as "Franchise/{{Highlander}}" at one point.
170	%%* ManipulativeBastard
171	%%* NietzscheWannabe
172
173
174	!!Venom (Teal Sherer)
175	-->''"God, I hate you guys. There isn't a natural disaster big enough to kill all the people I hate, including all of you."''
176	The wheelchairbound woman in the Axis.
177
178	* ManipulativeBitch: She has no qualms about exploiting her disability to get her way. She's screwed over Vork at least twice by this means. She also threatens to harm herself if something doesn't go her way.
179	%%* {{Goth}}
180	* ShoutOut: the quote above, to [[http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2006/12/sebspeakerwg2.jpg World of Warcraft memetic hero Sebudai.]]
181	%%* {{Wangst}}: By the truckload
182
183	!!Bruiser (J. Teddy Garces)
184	The Black Latino member of the Axis
185
186	* TheBrute: Out of game. In game, implied to be the healer.
187	* TheBusCameBack: At the end of Season 3, Bruiser continues to date Bladezz's mom, yet doesn't show up again. Finally comes back in Season 6 to torment Bladezz once more, and also [[spoiler: to act as Floyd's enforcer during the riot at The Game's headquarters]].
188	%%* ClusterFBomb
189	%%* FairCop
190	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After the Axis is defeated he appears to warm to Bladezz but winds up bullying him anyway
191	%%* TwoferTokenMinority
192
193	!!Kwan (Alexander Yi)
194	The Asian, non-Englishspeaking member of the Axis
195	%%* TheDragon
196
197	!!Valkyrie (Mike Rose)
198	The AmbiguouslyBrown member of the Axis.
199	* AmbiguouslyGay: Leaning toward TransparentCloset.
200	* CampGay: If he is, indeed, gay.
201	%%* TheCracker
202	* CrossPlayer: Valkyrie. Codex makes a very half-assed attempt to make fun of him for it. It later turns out that he's using the "I like to look at a girl's ass" line to compensate for being pretty transparently CampGay.
203	%%* EvilGenius
204	* {{GIRL}}: He plays a female character. [[spoiler: And when you count his alt Artemis, he plays two!]]
205	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: When asked why he plays two female characters, he awkwardly responds that he's a "girl-loving guy," [[TransparentCloset right before complementing Codex's shoes.]]
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:The Game HQ]]
209	!The Game
210
211	The eponymous company that produces the MMPORG the Guild play, or more accurately, the people who work for it.
212
213	!!Floyd Petrovski (Ted Michaels)
214	Creator of The Game
215
216	%%* InsufferableGenius
217
218	!!Theodora
219
220	%%* TheKlutz
221
222	!!Gaby
223
224	!!Donovan
225
226	* DoggedNiceGuy: Seems like this to Tink... at first.
227	* [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor: Might be this to The Game, as he leaked the new expansion to the public.]]
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:Other Characters]]
231	!!Riley (Michele Boyd)
232	Wade's roomate and on-off "fuckbuddy". In a relationship with Zaboo during season 3 [[spoiler:until the finale, when she hooks up with Venom]].
233
234	%%* ClingyJealousGirl
235	%%* DepravedBisexual
236	%%* GamerChick
237	* {{Ladette}}: Likes playing Halo, paintball, and sex.
238	%%* MasochismTango: With Zaboo
239	%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Except for the sickly looking part.
240	%%* ReallyGetsAround
241	* TheRival: How Codex seemed to view her until recently. Riley for her part barely seems to notice Codex.
242	* {{Yandere}}: Graduated to this when [[spoiler: she "kills" Zaboo for having missed giving her a footrub.]]
243
244	!!Wade Wei (Fernando Chien)
245	Codex's neighbor and romantic interest in Season 2
246
247	* AffablyEvil: Though more JerkAss than outright evil, Wade ends up having a friendly conversation with Zaboo while, at the same time, beating him up in the middle of a party.
248	%%* AlliterativeName
249	%%* TheCasanova
250	%%* DracoInLeatherPants
251	%%* MrFanservice
252	* JerkJock: He openly states that he does not think that Codex is worth fighting over. To her face. In her house. Surrounded by other party goers. While smiling nonchalantly.
253	* LightningBruiser: Once he learns to stop pulling his blows.
254	* NightmareFetishist: He's gleefully proud of his ability to trick people into thinking he's snapped his spine, broken his neck or just has an eyeball hanging out of its socket. That last one proves [[VomitDiscretionShot too much for Codex]].
255	* PutOnABus: Leaves the show in Season Three to work in Vancouver..
256
257	!!Zaboo's Mother/Avinashi (Viji Nathan)
258
259	* BigBad: Or the closest thing to it, in Season 1.
260	* [[AbusiveParents AbusiveParent]]: Psychologically, to the extent that Zaboo attempted suicide to escape her.
261	* EvilMatriarch: She microchipped her son, punched out Codex the first time they met and had her driven out of her apartment.
262	%%* MyBelovedSmother: See above.
263	%% Examples need to stand on their own, not refer to other examples.
264	* ParentalIncest: She breast fed Zaboo until he was 11, took him to the ladies restroom with her until he was fifteen, bathes him and makes him feel her breast for polyps.
265
266	!!Dena (Tara Caso)
267	Bladezz's little sister
268
269	%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
270	* BrattyHalfPint: Dena exists to snark at everyone, especially her brother.
271	%%* EnsembleDarkhorse
272	* HiddenDepths: Electric bass, beading, ''dioramas of civil war battles''.
273	%%* RealLifeRelative
274	* StrongFamilyResemblance: If it weren't for the wide age difference it could get hard to tell her and her brother apart. One's boyishly cute, the other's girlishly pretty. The jury is out as to which applies to who.
275	* TeenGenius: The girl reads, and ''understands'', Creator/SunTzu.
276
277	!!Nik (Toni Lee)
278	Kwan's translator, hand masseuse, and presumed girlfriend
279
280	%%* SatelliteCharacter
281
282	!!Madeline Twain (Erin Grey)
283	A former star of Vork's favorite TV show, currently dating Vork
284
285	%%* GranolaGirl
286	[[/folder]]
287

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