Characters from ''Series/DeadLikeMe''.
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!The Reapers

[[folder:Georgia "George" Lass]]
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->''"That's me. I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/EllenMuth
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: George died when she was in her late teens.
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Rube goes with her in the first episode, before she has a corporeal body.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed by a ''toilet seat'' that became dislodged from a de-orbiting Soviet space station.
* DeadpanSnarker: One of the snarkier characters, especially during her narration.
* DeathByLookingUp: George even looks back at her death and asks ''why'' she just stood there and looked up instead of trying to move out of the way.
* FauxlosophicNarration: George's narration can sometimes become this if she's feeling angsty enough.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection: George doesn't get to pass on to the afterlife when she dies, instead she ends up becoming a reaper.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: George was a virgin when she died, but finally ends up sleeping with a guy in the second season. Not only does she end up with conflicting feelings about having finally done it, the guy views her as a one-night stand and their relationship quickly ends.
* TheSnarkKnight: She could give {{WesternAnimation/Daria}} a run for her money.
* TomboyishName: George is short for Georgia.
* UndignifiedDeath: A serious contender for the biggest one in all of fiction. She got flattened by a ''toilet seat from outer space''.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: She learns this lesson the hard way, after she tries to visit her family, gets viciously rebuffed, and loses the memory of the story she planned to tell her mother.
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[[folder:Rube Sofer]]
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->''"A corpse is like a peach cobbler that got dropped on the floor. As good as it was, you still wouldn't want it anymore."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/MandyPatinkin
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* DeadpanSnarker: Heavy emphasis on the "Deadpan" part. His wit is as dry as it comes.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric/melancholic.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The heart of gold is hard to see at times, but definitely there. He does care about his team, and looks out for them even when they cause trouble.
* TheLeader: Of the main characters. He's one level up the CelestialBureaucracy from the rest of the reapers, and he's the one who hands out the reaping assignments.
* PerpetualFrowner: He almost never smiles. He's been in the reaping business for nearly a century, and it's clearly left him a bit jaded.
* TeamDad: Albeit a cynical one. He acts as a mentor, affectionately calls George "Peanut," and does his best to manage their disparate personalities.
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[[folder:Roxy Harvey]]
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->''"You don't know me."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JasmineGuy
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: After being verbally abused whilst giving an obnoxious man a parking ticket, she eventually lost her temper and ripped his soul out for a few seconds before returning it, simply to teach him a lesson.
* TheBigGuy: A muscular woman who is not afraid to get physical when the situation calls for it. She starts the series as a meter maid, but eventually becomes a full-fledged cop. Lampshaded by George when she introduces Roxy to the audience:
--> '''George''': That's Roxy. She could kick your ass.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric. Very deadpan at times and more focused on her job than most of the other Reapers.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Her {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s with Mason demonstrate she can ''actually kind of understand the way he thinks''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Her response to a (much larger) man yelling at her about parking tickets.
-->'''Roxy:''' Sir, I'm gonna say this as politely as possible: I will fuck you up.
* SassyBlackWoman : Jasmine Guy is half-black, half-Portuguese, and Roxy is street-smart, down-to-Earth, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
* TeamMom: Remarked by the waitress that she reminds her of her mother. George agrees.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Due to the aforementioned incident with the parking ticket, the man eventually started a cult believing God was a meter maid. Rube was not particularly thrilled to learn about this.
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[[folder:Mason]]
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->''"And then there's Mason. Oh Mason, Mason."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/CallumBlue
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* TheAlcoholic: This is the only way he can cope with his reaps.
* AssShove: Mason once tried to smuggle drugs in a condom stuck up his ass. HilarityEnsues.
* ButtMonkey: Albeit often self-inflicted. His dumbassery makes him the butt of many jokes
* CloudCuckooLander: He died trying to trepan himself because he thought it would give him the ultimate high. Over the course of the series he has a number of odd money making ideas.
* DrugsAreBad: He is taught this when experiencing heroin exploding in his rectum and not (due to being undead) being able to die from the lethal dose, instead having to suffer all the horrible side effects.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine/choleric.
* GogglesDoNothing: Wore these when attempting the ultimate high.
* ImmortalImmaturity: Since attempting the ultimate high, he has not matured a day.
* NoSocialSkills: Apparently doesn't bathe, steals candy from children and money from the homeless, and has to be told that meals at the house he shares with Daisy and George are not "clothing optional".
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Played with. Unlike his fellows who are angsty or just apathetic, he's actually pretty happy with his lot in death. On the other hand he envies the souls that get to pass on immediately while he has to stay behind, but this is because whatever's on the other side is better than the side he's on.
* MrFanservice: His antics frequently get him naked or half naked, treating the audience to several shots of his bottom or his Union Jack underwear, [[NakedPeopleAreFunny mostly played for laughs, though.]]
* OnlyOneName: It's hard to say whether it's his first or last name.
* TooDumbToLive: He drilled a hole in his head to get high, with predictable results.
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[[folder:Betty Rhomer]]
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->''"Do your nipples get hard when you sneeze?"''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/RebeccaGayheart
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Betty tags along with a recently deceased soul to the afterlife before her time. However it's loosely implied she might have ended up somewhere else.
* BlitheSpirit: Being dead doesn't stop Betty from being full of life.
* CatchPhrase[=/=]PreMortemOneLiner: "Happy thoughts!"
* CoolBigSis: Betty gradually becomes this to George before hijacking a lift to the afterlife.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Dies by ''jumping off a cliff into a river'' for ''fun''. It even takes a moment for her to realise that she's died, because she's still excited from the leap.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine.
* HiddenDepths: Comes across as ditzy and a little shallow, but is sweet, thoughtful, and charming underneath it all.
* PreciousPhoto: Betty takes a picture of every single soul that she's reaped over the years, and keeps them in carefully labelled sacks.
* PutOnABus: Betty leaves halfway through season one.
* TooDumbToLive: She jumped off of a cliff for a cheap kick, with predictable results.
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[[folder:Daisy Adair]]
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--> '''Played By:''' Creator/LauraHarris (series), Creator/SarahWynter (''Life After Death'')

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Her last thoughts before dying.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: She claims to have died in a fire on the set of ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', in which she was an extra.
** The file Mason finds on her last thoughts lists her place of death as Marietta, Georgia--which was nowhere near the studios where the film was shot in real life. It is unclear whether she lied about her death, or it is merely a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted.
** Her frequent [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday tendency to make great sexual boasts]] may suggest the former.
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!Lass Family

[[folder:Joy Lass]]
->''"My mother. She hates balloons and the word 'moist'. She considers it pornographic."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/CynthiaStevenson
George's mother.
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* AbusiveParents: Is this the rest of the time to Reggie.
* DotingParent: Is this at times to Reggie (like when she begged her to let stand still so she could take a picture of her in her band uniform), who rebuffs her completely.
* DrowningMySorrows: Seen drinking in the middle of the day in season 1.
* {{Housewife}}: Even after she gets divorced she doesn't go back to work.
* MeaningfulName: Her name, when said quickly, sounds like "Joyless". It's clear from the first episode she's very unhappy with her life.
%%* StepfordSmiler
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[[folder:Reggie Lass]]
->''"She's not really invisible but she might as well have been."''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/BrittMcKillip
George's little sister.
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%%* AgeAppropriateAngst
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While grief does make people do strange things, a toilet-seat tree shrine is... certainly out there.
* DeadpanSnarker: Takes after her sister.
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Takes a lot of cues from her [[CoolBigSis dead older sister]].
* ShesAllGrownUp: In the movie.
* ShrineToTheFallen: Early in season 1 she steals toilet seats and hangs them on a tree as shrine to her dead sister.
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!Happy Time

[[folder:Delores Herbig]]
->''"[[CatchPhrase ... as in her big brown eyes?]]"''
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChristineWiles
George's boss at Happy Time.
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* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: Whatever she got up to in TheEighties involved "cocaine, tattoos, and all those restraining orders", and she doesn't bat an eye at bailing George out of prison.
* BenevolentBoss: To "Millie," that is. Not to (living) George or her like.
--> "She only gives this [George's] job to people she hates."
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* DarkAndTroubledPast: "Cocaine, tattoos, and all those restraining orders."
* KindheartedCatLover[=/=]CrazyCatLady: She appears to house only one cat at a time; and is generally very sane about her pet-owning, though she ''does'' eventually go skydiving with her current cat during his death throes [[UnwantedAssistance to fill his supposed]] [[LikeYouWereDying "bucket list."]]
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Of that particular variety that thinks children are happy little elf-things rather than real people with the capacity to actually think. And she tries to talk to her employees like they're children. You see where I'm going with this. It gets hard to tell if she's being passive-aggressive or if she really thinks offering up "her big brown eyes" as a mnemonic to remember her name is a perfectly acceptable way to address adults.
* StepfordSmiler: Played with, she sometimes appears to use the cheerful facade to hide her insecurities and loneliness remaining from her DarkAndTroubledPast, other times it seems her experiences taught her to appreciate life and be empathetic to other people and all the cheer is genuine.
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[[folder:Crystal Smith]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/CrystalDahl
The receptionist and "Millie"'s office rival-turned-friend, who looks [[AnimalMetaphor eerily like a certain]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology "toad"]][[note]]which, in fact, is an albino Argentine horned frog (a.k.a. a "Pacman frog")[[/note]] within the series.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Crystal is listed as having the alias "Jane Smith"; having served in the Army's Special Forces in Southeast Asia; and being fluent in Spanish, French, Russian, and Swahili -- [[BewareTheQuietOnes despite her seldom talking through the entire series]].
* AnimalMetaphor: Inverted, in that ''she'' is the metaphor for the ''"toad"'' of the pilot's CreationMyth about death.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: See AlmightyJanitor.
** She chugs a bottle of tequila and [[{{Squick}} eats the worm]] [[LifeOfTheParty at an office party]].
* GlamourFailure: Heavily implied with her long stares at "Millie" and her non-Happy Time friends; played straight when they all leave the office together and Crystal immediately thereafter searches "Georgia Lass." However, since the stares began directed at George at the end of her life, perhaps [[TouchedByVorlons Crystal can see a whole lot more]].
* LookalikeLovers: She and her boyfriend, also a Happy Time employee.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: To George and "Millie"...at first; later, to her Reaper friends. See GlamourFailure.
* StickyFingers: She [[spoiler:steals Post-It Notes from the office]].
* TheQuietOne: A promotion from TheVoiceless, starting in season 2.
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