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[[folder:The Gilmores]]

!!Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Lauren Graham)
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A single mother, avid eater and caffeine addict, and manager of the Independence Inn in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. At the age of 16, her entire life was changed when she became pregnant and ran away from the home of her controlling parents to make a life of her own.

* AesopAmnesia: Lorelai has a tendency to go back to Christopher at the most inappropriate times. Rory calls her out on it, but she doesn't learn. Then again, it's part of her {{Flanderization}}.
* AuthorAvatar: Take a look at a picture of Amy Sherman-Palladino.
* BadassAdorable
* BigEater: It's implied Lorelai eats a lot, and yet remains extremely slender. Other characters comment on this near constantly.
* BlackSheep: Of the Gilmore family; getting pregnant young and running away from home will do that.
* BlitheSpirit: Much to her mother's dismay.
* BuffySpeak
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite her eccentricities she does a good job running first the Independence Inn and later The Dragonfly Inn
* CoolBigSis: To Rory, despite being actually her mother, not her sister.
* DeadpanSnarker: In spades.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Umlauts", which involved Lorelai as a teen, a particularly cold summer day when she was swimming at summer camp and how a certain part of her body resembled said diacritic after coming out of the water.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Lorelai is a career woman and sure as hell can't cook, but she can at least brew up coffee and she's a damn impressive seamstress. She's paired with Luke, a bistro owner who is an excellent cook, and her close friend Sookie is a master chef who occasionally cooks her something.
* GenkiGirl: Lorelai's perhaps one of the most chipper characters on the show.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With both Rory and Sookie.
* HotMom: Rory even comments on this once on telling her father that he's being checked out; apparently the same happens to Lorelai.
* MamaBear: Lorelai's laid back for the greater part of the time, but if you hurt Rory...
* ManicPixieDreamGirl
* MotorMouth: A Gilmore trait.
* MsFanservice: The show rarely passed up opportunities to have Lorelai in sexy outfits and lingerie.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Lorelai can't function before her morning coffee, and drinks unhealthy amounts of it during the day.
* NotSoDifferent: Occasionally with Emily. Though if someone points it out, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame expect the horrified Lorelai quickly drop off her ways]].
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: She is the most level-headed between her, Sookie, and Michel. She's also by far the most normal person in Stars Hollow, [[QuirkyTown which admittedly isn't saying much.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: For Lane.
* PluckyGirl
* RebelliousPrincess: Lorelai became pregnant with Rory at sixteen but chose not to marry the father, Christopher Hayden. Instead, she left her privileged world and moved to Stars Hollow where she became employed at the Independence Inn. There Lorelai progressed from maid to executive manager.
* RedOni: To Rory's Blue.
* [[SelfMadeMan Self Made Woman]]: Even though she comes from money she ran away from home as an unwed mother, got her first job basically because the inn's owner took pity on her, lived in a ''tool shed'' and less than twenty years later owned her own house was part owner of her own inn.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Luke and most of her boyfriends.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Played with. She gets drawn back to Christopher each time because she thinks he gets his act together.
* TeenPregnancy: Got pregnant at 16 with Rory.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Rory's girly girl.
* TheUnfavorite: To both Emily and Richard, but especially Richard.
--->'''Lorelai''' (to Rory): You are the Great White Hope of the Gilmore Clan. You are their angel, sent from up above. You are the daughter they didn't have.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Luke. [[spoiler: Eventually TheyDo.]]
* {{Womanchild}}
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Once her mother agrees with her in something, Lorelai usually begins to self-doubt. One example would be Emily's approval of her daughter desire to terminate Rory's friendship with Bad Boy Jess. Lorelai immediately comes to conclusion that she must've approached the MoralEventHorizon and decides to give Rory more freedom.

!! Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore (Alexis Bledel)
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Lorelai's teenaged daughter and best friend. A shy and socially awkward bookworm with aspirations to become a journalist. She slowly comes out of her shell and finds herself drawn to the upper class world her mother left behind.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Her mother and everyone in Stars Hollow seem to think that not loving Rory borders on sort of a terrible crime. To the point where everyone started treating [[NiceGuy Dean]] like a delinquent just because he broke up with Rory, without even knowing the reason and what really happened between them.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Jess and Logan.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Unintentionally, she's this to Paris, and sometimes to Lane.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She has a very long fuse, but you don't want to be around on the rare occasions she goes off.
* BigEater: Like her mother. The two of them can put it away.
* [[RedOniBlueOni Blue Oni]]: To both Paris and Lorelai's Red.
* BrainyBrunette
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts the series as a shy, awkward bookworm who struggles to string two sentences together around boys and generally prefers her own company. Come Season 5, she's actively pursuing Logan.
* CuteBookworm: She's never without a book (until she drops out of Yale) and her relationship with Jess stems from a mutual passion for reading.
* DeadpanSnarker: Although more subtle than her mother or Luke.
* DudeMagnet: Manages to attract a large number of men throughout the course of the show.
* GeniusBookClub: Rory reads everything, from contemporary literature to criticism to biographies to classics. Nearly every episode has reference to at least one book that she has read, is reading, or is planning on reading.
* GirlNextDoor
* GoGetterGirl
* HasAType: Played with. Over the course of the series, seems determined to date the baddest boy in the series (so long as he's booksmart). First, she dumps wholesome Dean for Jess; after Jess leaves town, she ends up back with Dean, who is a significantly darker character, given that he's cheating on his wife with Rory; later, she chooses Logan, who is a member of a secret society and a rebel against the wealthy society of his upbringing, over NiceGuy Marty. However, early in the series, what drives her away from Tristan is his JerkAss behavior. She's possibly more attracted to charm and wit than 'bad boy' behaviour and book smarts. And the situation with her and Jess seems to be more of a case of StarCrossedLovers.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Being told "'''You don't got it."''' causes Rory to give up her dreams and drop out of school.
** She has a minor one when she doesn't get the Reston Fellowship in the New York Times. As Lorelai tells her, she's used to working hard and getting what she wants, so it's difficult for her to deal with disappointment.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With both Lorelai and Lane. Later with Paris, too.
* HollywoodNerd: For a supposed "nerd", Rory's stunning.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has her moments. For example, she's absolutely horrified when she learns that Dean's dropping out of college, and tries to persuade him that no reason is good enough for such an act. Any of those reflections come back to her when she does exactly the same a season later?
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Also has a few moments of this.
* LeftHanging: Remember during the season 6 finale where Rory begged for a job at her internship? Yeah, it's forgotten during the first episode of the seventh season.
* MotorMouth: Even faster than her mother.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Rory's need for caffeine isn't as extreme as her mother's, but it's there all the same. Fun fact: Rory's actress didn't like coffee, so in any scene in which Rory drinks it, she's actually drinking coca cola.
* NerdsAreSexy: Her option, as there's an episode where Rory is seen sitting in the college cafeteria wearing a t-shirt with the logo, "Reading is Sexy". Considering she wears it while thinking about Logan, the third guy in the series she's attracted to for his intellect, it is a reflection of what she honestly believes.
* NiceGirl
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* ParentalFavoritism: Emily and Richard have no qualms about spoiling and praising Rory while looking down on Lorelai
--->'''Lorelai''' (to Rory): I'm not sure my father has ever loved anything in the world more than he loves you.
* PrincessPhase: Rory doesn't want her grandmother to make her into a princess as she thinks of it being something for small children. She honestly did imagine herself as a princess when she was young. At least she has a crush on the prince from the Disney/SleepingBeauty cartoon. She specifically says that it was a long time ago.
* TheQuietOne: She starts as this.
* ReplacementGoldfish: A sore point throughout the series is Emily trying to bring Rory up to be the daughter that Lorelai never turned out to be. This comes to a head when Rory is living with her grandparents and Emily refers to Richard as Rory's father.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound
* SpoiledSweet
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Lorelai's tomboy.
* TookALevelInJerkass
* TheUnfairSex: Played with. Lindsay and Dean's moms certainly bear hatred towards her and consider her a homewrecker, and Lorelai chewed her out for simply disregarding Dean's marital status and sleeping with him, as if Lindsay's feelings didn't matter. Luke, on the other hand, goes on and on about how Dean is not worthy of her and was 'unstable' because he got married despite pining for his former girlfriend.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Paris started out as Rory's academic rival but slowly grew to be her close friend and confidant when Rory couldn't confide in her mother or Lane. They still bicker a lot, though.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Jess in Seasons 2 and 3.
* [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond Her Years]]: Played with. She can often be very mature and act as the responsible one in her's and Lorelai's relationship. On the other hand, she can (and often does) act in a very immature manner, as befitting a teenager/young adult (like when she almost didn't change schools to Chilton because of Dean in the first episode). A large part of her character arc is learning to be more than just book smart and becoming "life smart" as well.

!!Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop)
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Lorelai's wealthy and controlling mother with whom she has been estranged with most of her adult life. Emily insists on being involved in her daughter and granddaughter's lives after allowing her to borrow money for Rory's tuition, much to Lorelai's dismay.

* AbusiveParents: She comes close to this in the way she treats Lorelai.
* AesopAmnesia: Emily just never learns that she has a tendency to drive away Lorelai and even Rory at times by seeking to control everything.
* AndStarring
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvilMatriarch: She has her moments.
* IceQueen
* LawfulStupid: Though it's more a case of Emily only seeing things in black and white.
* LimitedWardrobe: For a rich woman, Emily sure does wear the same outfits over and over again...or maybe that's just to Friday Night Dinner...
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: With Lorelai, Rory, Richard, and various members of her staff.
* MyBelovedSmother
* GrandparentalObliviousness: Emily doesn't seem to understand that Rory is her own person, and constantly pushes her own ideals onto them; unlike her mother, Rory doesn't push back so much.
* RichBitch: Rich, check. Bitch, check.
* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Tiny Girl]]: With 6' 5" Edward Herrmann.

!!Richard Gilmore (Edward Herrmann)
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Lorelai's father. A normally reserved and no-nonsense insurance man, he begins to form a close bond with Rory after coming back into their lives.

* BadassGrandpa: Confronting Mitchum Huntzberger and giving him a ShutUpHannibal.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He seems (and is) much nicer than Emily but see ManipulativeBastard below.
* CoolOldGuy: Specially towards Rory.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly to Emily, who almost never notices.
* FakeGuestStar: Each season opening lists Edward Herrmann as making a ''Special Appearance''.
* GrandparentalObliviousness: Not as bad as Emily, however.
* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Huge Guy]]: With 5' 6" Kelly Bishop.
* ManipulativeBastard: While no-where near as bad as Emily, Richard does have his moments, especially when he tries to coax Rory into going to Yale.
* MommasBoy: Will even ignore his wife for his mother's needs.
* TheQuietOne
* SharpDressedMan: You'll be hard-pressed to see this man in anything but a suit and tie
* ThePatriarch: Very much the head of the Gilmore family.

!!Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore (Marion Ross)
Lorelai's paternal grandmother whom she inherited her name from. She is very close with her son, but completely disapproves of Emily.

* EvilMatriarch: ''Worse'' than Emily.
* IronLady: Trix fits this trope almost perfectly.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Trix dies of old age.]]
* KissingCousins: Her maiden name was Gilmore...
* ManipulativeBitch: Far worse than Emily.
* MeddlingParents: [[spoiler:Pleaded with Richard not to marry Emily. On their wedding day, no less.]]
* NotSoDifferent: She and Emily are not too different after all, but Trix turns out to be a lot more manipulative than Emily could ever hope to be.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Trix is this to poor Emily.
* PetTheDog: For all of her faults, Trix had a genuinely loving relationship with her son and contributed a lot to charities.
* RichBitch: Very rich, and more of a bitch than Emily.
* YouLookFamiliar: Marion Ross would go on to play Richard's cousin Marilyn after [[spoiler:Trix passes away.]]

!!Marilyn Gilmore (Marion Ross)
* YouLookFamiliar
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[[folder:Stars Hollow]]

!!Lucas "Luke" Danes (Scott Patterson)
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The owner of the local dinner in Stars Hollow that Lorelai and Rory frequent often. Despite his gruff exterior, he is very dependable. He harbors a crush on Lorelai for most of the series, but they begin a relationship in season 4.

* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Christopher's Veronica for Lorelai's Archie.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Luke will never pass up an opportunity to help the people he cares about. Jess occasionally will poke fun at him for it.
** KnightTemplarBigBrother: ...But later in the series it gets [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] and comes in a somewhat darker tone. Jess is the one to [[WhatTheHellHero call Luke out of it again]] in his [[BrutalHonesty usual style]]. Luke [[HeroicBSOD does not take it well]].
* BookDumb
* [[spoiler:BumblingDad: When he tries to be a dad to April. Despite being a good father figure to Rory.]]
* CarpetOfVirility
* DeadpanSnarker
* EmbarrassingFirstName: A surefire way to annoy Luke would be referring to him as Lucas.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Butch" Danes
* GrumpyBear
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmor
* [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather I Am Luke And I Am Your Father]]: To April.]]
* NiceHat
* OnlySaneMan: In Stars Hollow
* PapaWolf
* ParentalSubstitute: For Rory and Jess
* PermaStubble
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Savvy Guy to Lorelai's Energetic Girl, even before they were an actual couple.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Lorelai

!!Kirk Gleason (Sean Gunn)
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The oddball among oddballs in Stars Hollow. He is never seen in the same occupation.

* AscendedExtra
* ButtMonkey
* TheChewToy: He usually has it coming because of his stupidity, but still.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even in an entire town of these he stands out.
* FanDisservice: Many probably considered seeing Kirk's naked skinny body a disservice but after they did it the first time loads of people were requesting them to do it again and again.
* TheFool
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday
* ManChild
* MommasBoy
* PromotionToOpeningTitles
* ThrowTheDogABone: He gets a pretty and nice girlfriend in later seasons.
* WackyGuy
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs?
** It was eventually revealed he isn't changing jobs as often as you'd think, and is maintaining several of them. As a result he has more money in the bank than anyone else in town.
* YouLookFamiliar: Sean Gunn had minor roles in early episodes before he was established as Kirk.

!!Sookie St. James (Melissa [=McCarthy=])
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Lorelai's best friend and a perfectionist chef extraordinaire. She gets married and starts a family at the end of season 2.

* AlliterativeName
* BetaCouple: With Jackson
* ButICantBePregnant
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* ControlFreak
* CuteClumsyGirl: Part of some early awkward characterization. The perfectionist side of her gets more developed in the later seasons.
* FatBestFriend
* GenkiGirl
* GirlishPigtails
* HappilyMarried
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lorelai.
* ShipperOnDeck
* SkewedPriorities: Especially if cooking is involved.
* SupremeChef: At least when [[CuteClumsyGirl she's not being clumsy]].
* TheyDo
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sookie was played by Alex Borstein in the unaired pilot, but she couldn't dedicate her time to the series proper because of her commitments to MadTV.

!!Jackson Belleville (Jackson Douglas)
Stars Hollows's prominent produce man who takes great pride in his work. He begins a relationship with Sookie and the two get married and start a family together.

* BetaCouple: With Sookie.
* GoodOlBoy
* TheDanza
* HappilyMarried: To Sookie.
* NiceGuy
* PapaWolf: Towards his wife.
* SatelliteLoveInterest
* TheyDo

!!Michel Gerard (Yanic Truesdale)
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* AmbiguouslyGay / CampStraight
* ButtMonkey: Frequently to Lorelai, Rory, and Sookie.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: A possible interpretation.
* FakeNationality: Yanic Truesdale is from Canada, not France.
* FrenchJerk
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MommasBoy
* MoralityPet: Davey, and later his two chow dogs.
* NationalStereotypes
* RealMenWearPink
* SmallNameBigEgo
* TokenMinority: TwoferTokenMinority if he is indeed gay.
** Well, he would be a Twofer either way, seeing as how he is Black and French.
*** Several characters, Drella in particular in season 1, bring up the whole CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey thing.
* UltimateJobSecurity: In RealLife, no one that rude and dismissive would get to be a concierge for long.
-->'''Lorelai:''' [''Michel is ignoring the phone''] Michel, the phone.
-->'''Michel:''' Mmm-hmm. It rings.
-->'''Lorelai:''' Can you answer it?
-->'''Michel:''' No, people are particularly stupid today. I can't talk to anymore of them.
-->'''Lorelai:''' You know who's really nice to talk to? The people at the unemployment agency.
-->'''Michel:''' [''picks up the phone''] Independence Inn, Michel speaking.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife
* WithFriendsLikeThese

!!Lane Kim (Keiko Agena)
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* AsianAndNerdy
* BetaCouple: With Zach
* ButICantBePregnant
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin
* TheChick: She's the glue that helps keep Hep Alien together.
* CulturalRebel
* DawsonCasting: Keiko Agena was 27 at the start of the series playing 16-year old Lane, but hit the role perfectly.
* FakeNationality: Japanese-American Keiko Agena playing Korean-American Lane Kim.
* GenkiGirl
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Rory.
* {{Meganekko}}
* MyBelovedSmother: Has one.
* NerdGlasses
* ThePowerOfRock
* [[AuthorAvatar Producer Avatar]]: Lane was inspired by Helen Pai, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's best friend and show producer.
* SignificantAnagram: Lane's band Hep Alien is an anagram of Helen Pai.
* TheyDo
* TokenMinority
* VirginInAWhiteDress: She planned on having sex but when she had the opportunity she surprised herself by saying, "Oh, well, I have to wait until I get married," because the morals her Seventh Day Adventist mother taught her had stuck. She was afraid that she might never get married and have sex but she did.

!!Mrs. Kim (Emily Kuroda)

* AlmightyMom: She scared the crap out of Zach when found out that he'd been 'laying hands' on her little girl. Also most of Lane's peers, and some of the adults, like Lorelai, fear her to varying degrees.
* AsianStoreOwner
* DefrostingIceQueen
* EducationMama
* TheFundamentalist
* FakeNationality: Again, Japanese-American Emily Kuroda playing Korean Mrs. Kim. Another pitch-perfect performance.
* GenerationXerox: A heartwarming example; Mrs. Kim hides her Christian lifestyle from her traditional Buddhist mother.
* TheGhost: Her husband, Mr. Kim.
* HiddenDepths
* MyBelovedSmother
* PerpetualFrowner
* TeamMom: Evolves into this for Lane's band.

!!Dean Forrester (JaredPadalecki)
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* [[BettyAndVeronica Betty]]: To Jess's Veronica. Rory later expressed regret about the relationship with Jess to her best friend Lane Kim; saying that, while she was initially attracted to Jess' intellectualism and his "bad boy nature," she had become used to Dean's reliability and affectionate nature.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
* CrazyJealousGuy: He gets angry towards Rory when she declines to spend time with him in favor of school or town activities and therefore in the vicinity of Tristan, Jess or Logan.
** He also dumped her after she blanked on saying "I Love You" back after gifting her with a car and telling her he loved her. Rory eventually did say it several episodes later.
** Not to say his jealousy of Jess at least turns out to be pretty well justified.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: 6'4" Jared Padelecki and 5'7" Alexis Bledel definitely qualify.
* NiceGuy: Initially.
* RomanticRunnerUp
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TookALevelInJerkass
* YourCheatingHeart: He gets married to Lindsay in season 4 but convinces Rory to rekindle their relationship, leading them to have an affair.

!!Zach van Gerbig (Todd Lowe)

* TheBigGuy
* ChickMagnet
* CommanderContrarian: In "his" band.
* CrazyJealousGuy
* LikesOlderWomen[=/=]StacysMom: The first time he meets the Gilmore girls. He isn't much interested in Rory, but makes passes on Lorelai.
* ManChild: Not the most mature member of the group, to say the least.
* [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan Manly Man]]: To Brian's Sensitive Guy
* SecondLove: For Lane, second serious one.
* TheSlacker
* SurferDude
* ThoseTwoGuys: Initially with Brian.

!!Brian Fuller (John Cabrera)

* NerdGlasses
* ProudToBeAGeek
* [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan Sensitive Guy]]: To Zach's Manly Man
* ShipTease: With Kyon
* TheSmartGuy
* ThoseTwoGuys: Initially with Zach.

!!Dave Rygalski (Adam Brody)

* {{Determinator}}: In regards to dating Lane. After the Bible quest even Mrs Kim was impressed.
* NiceGuy
* OnlySaneMan: The most level-headed one in the band.
* PutOnABus
* SecretRelationship: With Lane.

!!Taylor Doose (Michael Winters)

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Nobody likes him.
* AuthorityInNameOnly -- He's the town selectman and for the most part, he's seldom taken seriously.
* ControlFreak -- Hooboy, is he a stickler for the rules.
* {{Jerkass}}
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PetTheDog -- Taylor realizes just how unpopular he is when Jackson decides to run against him as town selectman. Jackson can't handle the insane amount of pressure and realizes just why Taylor is perfect for the job.

!!Babette Dell (Sally Struthers)

* CloudCuckooLander -- A serious example even among eccentric neighbors.
* GossipyHens
* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Tall Guy, Plump Girl]]
* NoIndoorVoice
* HeyItsThatGuy -- [[AllInTheFamily Gloria Bunker]] remarried a jazz musician and moved to a tiny town in Connecticut.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl

!!Patricia "Miss Patty" Lacosta (Liz Torres)

* DirtyOldWoman
* GossipyHens
* IWasQuiteALooker
* MrsRobinson: Granted Miss Patty flirts with men of all ages, she seems particular fond of handsome young men.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

!!Gypsy (Rose Abdoo)

* DeadpanSnarker: Taylor makes her favorite target, but not the only one.
--> '''Jess''' ''(about his car, being repaired by Gypsy)'': Are waiting for it to tell you where it hurts?
--> '''Gypsy''': I've seen dumber things talking.
* GirlishPigtails
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* WrenchWench

!!Cesar (Aris Alvarado)

!!Morey Dell (Ted Rooney)

* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Tall Guy, Plump Girl]]
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl

!!Liz Danes (Kathleen Wilhoite)

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Luke, although he loves her.
* BigBrotherWorship
* CloudCuckooLander
* GranolaGirl
* HandsOffParenting: To Jess.

!!TJ (Michael Deluise)

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ObnoxiousInLaws: He is one to Luke.

!!Lulu (Rini Bell)

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: For Kirk.

!!Kyon (Susane Lee)

* ReplacementGoldfish

!!April Nardini (Vanessa Marano)

* BrainyBrunette
* CousinOliver
* HollywoodNerd
* LukeYouAreMyFather: To, well, Luke.
* {{Meganekko}}

!!Anna Nardini (Sherilyn Fenn)
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[[folder:Yale]]

!!Paris Eustace Gellar (Liza Weil)
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: The first time that Rory meets Paris at Chilton, Paris tells her how she's going to be editor of the school paper and valedictorian, ending with, "You'll never catch up. You'll never beat me. This school is my domain and the Franklin is my domain. And don't you ever forget that."
* AscendedExtra: Especially after season 1. Originally Paris was only going to be in a few episodes, but Liza Weil really stood out and her role was greatly expanded.
* BadassPrincess: Paris is born to wealthy parents but she fights to earn everything she gets.
* TheBGrade
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Doyle
* BrutalHonesty
* DeadpanSnarker
* DefrostingIceQueen
* {{Determinator}}
* ExtracurricularEnthusiast
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Rory and Paris usually find a way to work things out, though.
* HollywoodNerd
* InformedJudaism: The only time it really came up during the course of the show was when Paris visited Jamie during the holidays, and when it's pointed out her bat mitzvah dress carries a menorah.
* InsufferableGenius
* {{Jerkass}}: In Season 1, defaulting to JerkWithAHeartOfGold in later seasons
* MayDecemberRomance: With college professor Asher Fleming. She seems to have a thing for older men as well, including [[StacysMom Richard]]. Both squick out Rory.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: How she feels about Rory.
* ParentalAbandonment: Technically she still has her parents but not only [[TheGhost do we never see them]] neither does she (we do see Paris's mother once played by the [[TypeCasting mom of Kelly]] from ''BeverlyHills90210'', but she's on for less than a minute to lecture her about her acne regimen). They're rarely even in the same ''country'' as her and she was functionally raised by her nanny, who attends her graduation with her own family to provide some kind of 'family' support. Later they forget to pay their taxes, leave the country to avoid charges and leave her penniless.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles
* [[RedOniBlueOni Red Oni]]: With Rory
* TheRival
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound
* StudentCouncilPresident
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's usually the icy part with everyone, including close friends and loved ones, but every so often, the sugar part comes through, like with Lorelai, Rory, and Jamie.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A.
* UnknownRival: Again, with Rory.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite trading snark with each other, Rory and Paris have become close friends and will stick up for each other. Paris, in a way, becomes Rory's closest confidante during the periods of time when Rory's relationships with her family became strained.

!!Doyle Mcmaster (Danny Strong)

* BelligerentSexualTension
* BetaCouple
* DeadpanSnarker
* HeyItsThatGuy: Jonathan Levinson became the editor for the Yale Daily News.
* LovableNerd: Who else but Danny Strong?
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound
* TheSmartGuy

!!Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry)
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* BlondGuysAreEvil
* BrilliantButLazy
* TheCharmer
* HandsomeDevil: His first few appearances
* HandsomeLech
* ImAManICantHelpIt
* {{Jerkass}}, later becoming a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* LadyKillerInLove
* RebelPrince: He says that he sees only one door, and feels he's being pushed through it. What he feels he's being pushed into is inheriting the Huntzberger Publishing Company, a national newspaper conglomerate.
* ReplacementGoldfish: His appearance and behavior, at first at least, might give a feeling that we're seeing a couple of years older [[PutOnABus Tristan]] again.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SmugSnake
* SpoiledBrat
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest
* TroubledButCute
* UpperClassWit
* WellDoneSonGuy
* YourCheatingHeart

!!Marty (Wayne Wilcox)

* TheBusCameBack: Just in time for Rory to reject him again in the last season.
* DerailingLoveInterests
* DoggedNiceGuy
* JustFriends. He might have even used the phrase itself during his confession.
* MeetCute
* NakedFirstImpression

!!Tanna Schrick (Olivia Hack)

* CloudCuckooLander
* DitzyGenius
* FishOutOfWater: She's even more socially awkward than Rory.
* HeyItsThatVoice: It's [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Ty Lee]]!
* NoSocialSkills
* TheQuietOne
* PutOnABus: Disappears after season 4, since she wasn't rooming with Rory and Paris anymore.
* RegalRinglets
* TeenGenius

!!Janet Billings (Katie Walder)

* DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Paris.
* PassionateSportsGirl
* PutOnABus
* SitcomArchEnemy: To Paris. Paris being a geek and Janet being a jock, they can stand each other.

!!Asher Fleming (Michael York)

* CoolOldGuy
* DroppedABridgeOnHim
* HotTeacher: Paris and quite a lot of the female students at Yale would say so.
* KilledOffForReal
* MayDecemberRomance: With Paris. He seems to have a reputation for dating young female students.
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[[folder:Chilton]]

!!Louise Grant (Teal Redmann)

* DeadpanSnarker
* TheFashionista
* GoodBadGirl
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Madeline.
* UpperClassTwit: Less so than Madeline, though.

!!Madeline Lynn (Shelly Cole)

* BookDumb
* BrainlessBeauty
* TheFashionista
* GoodBadGirl
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Louise.
* UpperClassTwit

!!Max Medina (Scott Cohen)

* AlliterativeName
* CoolTeacher
* HotTeacher
* TallDarkAndHandsome

!!Tristan Dugray (Chad Michael Murray)

* BlondGuysAreEvil
* TheCasanova
* FreudianExcuse: He's implied to have a pretty bad family situaction.
* {{Jerkass}}
* PutOnABus
* SpoiledBrat
* [[BettyAndVeronica Veronica]]: To Dean, before Jess arrives.

!!Headmaster Hanlin Charleston (Dakin Matthews)

* GoodIsNotNice
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Henry Cho (Eddie Shin)

* TokenMinorityCouple: With Lane.

!!Francine "Francie" Jarvis (Emily Birgl)

* AlphaBitch: Leader of the Puffs, Chilton's "secret" sorority, and senior class president in season 3, who pits her two enemies, Rory and Paris, against each other and subtly manipulates the student council for personal gains.
* EvilRedhead
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[[folder:Others]]

!!Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe)

* AmicablyDivorced: For the most part of the series with Lorelai, despite not having been ever married. He eventually does end up being divorced [[spoiler:twice, to two different women, both being the mothers of his daughters]].
* BumblingDad: To Rory.
* DisappearedDad: For the most part.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor
* HotDad
* HumansAreFlawed: Christopher usually means well and is generally a nice guy, but can't seem to get a control over his life, is weak, easily manipulated and well, [[StarCrossedLovers he and Lorelai tend to have a horrible timing]], so his appearance usually make things worse. [[GenreSavvy Rory]] at some point realizes it and tries to keep him from causing damage to her mother's life. [[AesopAmnesia Lorelai doesn't.]]
* [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor Rich Suitor]]: For Lorelai, with Luke being the Poor Suitor. It has to do more with the social standing than with the actual money, though.
* RomanticFalseLead
* ShotgunWedding: With Sherrie.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Lorelai, for more than twenty years. [[Eventually they get to get together and then split up for good.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Lorelai.
* UnwittingPawn: In the hands of Emily.
* WellDoneSonGuy
* [[BettyAndVeronica Veronica]]

!!Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia)

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* BlackSheep
* BookWorm: Rory's massive book collection prompts him to steal and annotate her copy of Ginsburg's "Howl" so that he can attempt to actually talk to her. Their mutual love of reading forms the basis of their relationship.
* BrilliantButLazy
* TheBusCameBack
* DeadpanSnarker
* HandsOffParenting / ParentalAbandonment: His mother is the former and his father is the latter.
* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starts out as a Jerkass but becomes the JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his last appearances.
* OperationJealousy: The first half os season three. Jess gets himself a blond bimbo solely to infuriate Rory and show her that little does he care about her still being Dean's girlfriend. As soon as Rory and Dean are broken up, the bimbo is out of the picture.
* SecondLove: To Rory. Dean was the first.
* SelfMadeMan: Season 6 reveals that he's published a short book and is very involved with the local independent arts scene.
* [[TallDarkAndSnarky Short, Dark And Snarky]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Arguably the relationship between him and Rory: Their initial attraction and relationship is plagued by the prescence of Dean, the town's disapproval and Jess's own issues. Jess then runs away, leaving Rory heartbroken but later returns to find Rory back with Dean, leaving HIM heartbroken. He then returns again (after fixing himself) to find Rory now with Logan and as much of a mess as he was before. After he convinces her to 'fix' her life, they kiss for a final time, only for her to decide to remain with Logan instead, causing Lit fans to lose their final shred of patience with the writers.
* TeensAreShort: Part of the trick to convince the audience that he's seventeen (Milo Ventimiglia was 24 at the time he started playing the role) was apparently casting Jess significantly smaller and shorter than his uncle and parents, and dressing him in oversized t-shirts.
** Except that in reality, Milo is actually 5'10". In some shots, Jess actually looks ''taller'', but he's still shorter than Luke and Dean.
* TroubledButCute
* [[BettyAndVeronica Veronica]]: To Dean's Betty. Rory later expressed regret about the relationship with Jess to her best friend Lane Kim; saying that, while she was initially attracted to Jess' intellectualism and his "bad boy nature," she had become used to Dean's reliability and affectionate nature.
** And then the Betty to Logan's Veronica.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Rory.

!!Jason Stiles (Chris Eigeman)

* DerailingLoveInterests
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Digger" Stiles. A lot of the characters call him that simply to annoy him.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Most of the time his childhood is brought up, it's for laughs.
* PutOnABus
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest
* WellDoneSonGuy
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nothing ever comes from the storyline dealing with Jason suing Richard.

!!Gil (Sebastian Bach)

!!Sherry Tinsdale (Madchen Amick)

* ControlFreak
* FamilyVersusCareer: A career girl. The show does ''not'' treat it sympathetically.
* HotMom: After having Gigi.
* [[spoiler:MissingMom]]: [[spoiler:Abandons Christopher and Gigi when Gigi is still a toddler. Though later she changes her mind and seeks a contact with her daughter.]]
* ShotgunWedding: She and Christopher only return to each other and get married because Sherrie discovers she's pregnant. [[spoiler:It ends the way you'd expect it to.]]
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