History Characters / CommunityGreendaleStaffAndStudents

* LightIsNotGood: Mr. Rad tries to force the study group to conform to his rather shallow idea of Christmas joy, but as Jeff said, "Attempts to make the holidays brighter always tend to make them darker." [[spoiler: This is ultimately supported when Mr. Rad turns out to be a psycho who murdered the previous Glee Club]].
* LookBehindYou: "Look! Kings of Leon!" [[spoiler: Followed by an VillainExitStageLeft]]. Why yes, Dan Harmon is a troper.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: He [[VehicularSabotage cut the brakes of the bus]] carrying his previous Glee Club.

* SeriousBusiness: Glee Club is a matter of life and death to him.[[spoiler: Quite literally; he killed the last club after they didn't live up to his standard]].
* TheSociopath: Despite his very nice demeanor and optimistic attitude, it is repeatedly hinted at throughout the episode that he may be a lot less nice than he lets on. The concepts of truth and lie don't seem to bother him very much, and his actions work solely to play the group like a fiddle. Later on it becomes clear that he will not suffer things to go against his precise will. After Britta enters the stage and Brittas the show, he reveals that either the people let him do the show his way or [[spoiler:"[[ImpliedDeathThreat there can be another bus crash]]"]]. The only genuine emotion he seems to show throughout the episode (other than smugness) is that hint of fear when he [[OhCrap realizes he revealed his]] [[spoiler:[[OhCrap mass murder]]]]. He then tries to back down, and when this fails, runs away. Makes you wonder if he would have eventually done the same to the study group had they stayed with him.

'''Mr. Rad:''' ''[realising]'' Well... ''figuratively. [laughs nervously; increasingly strained]'' I'm not saying "[[spoiler: I killed the last Glee Club!]]" I'm saying, you not listening to me, is like [[spoiler: metaphorically cutting the brakelines... on your own]]-- ''[points]'' {{Look|Behind You}}'', Music/KingsOfLeon! ''[Runs offstage]''

* GlurgeAddict: he's a relentlessly upbeat man who likes to stage overly cutesy and saccharine glee shows.

'''Mr. Rad:''' [[VillainousBreakdown NonononoNONONO!]] This show is supposed to be gleeful! And bright! And fun! [[spoiler:And you can let me do that, OR THERE CAN BE ''ANOTHER'' [[BusCrash BUS CRASH]]!]]\\

* SeriousBusiness: Glee Club is a matter of life and death to him.[[spoiler: Quite literally; he killed the last club]].
* TheSociopath: Despite his very nice demeanor and optimistic attitude, it is repeatedly hinted at throughout the episode that he may be a lot less nice than he lets on. The concepts of truth and lie don't seem to bother him very much, and his actions work solely to play the group like a fiddle. Later on it becomes clear that he will not suffer things to go against his precise will. After Britta enters the stage and Brittas the show, he reveals that either the people let him do things his way or [[spoiler:"[[ImpliedDeathThreat there can be another bus crash]]"]]. The only genuine emotion he seems to show throughout the episode (other than smugness) is that hint of fear when he [[OhCrap realizes he revealed his]] [[spoiler:[[OhCrap mass murder]]]]. He then tries to back down, and when this fails, runs away. Makes you wonder if he would have eventually done the same to the study group had they stayed with him.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After Britta 'ruins' his pageant, he goes on an all out MotiveRant, accidentally letting slip that he murdered the previous glee club]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His nickname appears with a hyphen just as much as it does without.

[[Characters/CommunityTheStudyGroup The Study Group]] ([[Characters/CommunityJeffWinger Jeff Winger]], [[Characters/CommunityBrittaPerry Britta Perry]]) | [[Characters/CommunityOtherMainCharacters Other Main Characters]] | '''Greendale Staff and Students''' | [[Characters/CommunityOtherCharacters Other Characters]]-]]]]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After playing an important role in Season 1 and helping drive the plot of the season finale, Slater is mentioned once in passing in the Season 2 premiere and never again (thus far). In "Introduction to Political Science", the [[{{Crawl}} news ticker]] on Abed and Troy's election coverage has the headline "[[LampshadeHanging Professor Slater still missing]]." May be an example of ShooOutTheNewGuy. According to some writers, they had ideas for her in Season 2, but Dan Harmon never seemed to care much about continuing the character.

* SamusIsAGirl: Revealed in online video ''Office Hours: Pamphlet Serious''.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Despite coming across as genial and laid-back, he's ''incredibly'' thin-skinned and will often jomp to the worst conclusions, upon which he'll fly off the handle. Then he'll publicly shame the person who pissed him off with a vitriolic song.

A fellow student at Greendale who the Study Group try to help through a serious depression by playing ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. He later shows up throughout the series as a campus DJ.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:By boiling the study group's yam, Neil initiated the sequence of events leading to Starburns faking his death, the Study Group instigating a riot and getting expelled, and Chang becoming emperor of Greendale and almost burning down the school]]

* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: The second-to-last episode has Garret marry the girl of his dreams...only to find out they're cousins. [[CloudCuckooLander Chang]] convinces them to get married anyway]].

* EpicFail: Her one-woman show is mostly repeating the same few jokes. [[spoiler: Her duo show with Garret is even worse]].

* CuteButPsycho: She smashes Jeff's head in the season 4 premiere.

* NerdGlasses: Has glasses and is portraying as a bright student. She's not unpopular or awkward, however.

* AxCrazy: He's violent, belligerent and aggressive that he'll even staple his face to look tough.

* BreakTheCutie: He's very nice to the study group when he's forced to be part of their biology group, but his manner gets increasingly strained. When they try to set his turtle on fire, eh finally loses it.

* SanitySlippage: His appearances in Season 6 suggest that he's become somewhat unbalanced by his time at Greendale; he develops a CreepyMonotone and SlasherSmile and Starburns complains that he's "creepy at picnics".

* AlphaBitch: She's the stereotypical bitch on campus, complete with her GirlPosse.

Professor of Accounting and coach of the Debate Team. His entirely teaching philosophy and approach can be summed up with "Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.

* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: He spends the latter part of Season 3 "going through some stuff"--since said 'stuff' involves growing a goatee and a ponytail, it's not hard to make the leap to this trope.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: "This is the room! This is the room temperature room."

* BerserkButton: Making any reference to ''Film/Ghost1990'' during his class, especially the scene of Creator/PatrickSwayze and Creator/DemiMoore romantic pottery making, will trigger him immensely.

* AccidentalMisnaming: He pronounces Abed's name like "a-BED", with the accent on the second syllable, and seems to think that it's his last name.

* DrivenToSuicide: Subverted. After Abed effectively demolishes the premise upon which he built his teaching career and he orders everyone out of the classroom, he opens one of his desk drawers to reveal a pistol ... and then he opens it a little further and pulls out a copy of his other book, ''What Was Happening?: An Analysis of Series/WhatsHappening''.[[note]] As originally scripted, he was going to go through with it, but the writers decided that it would be a little ''too'' dark.[[/note]]
* LoonyFan: Of ''Who's the Boss?''. He has photos of himself with the cast of the show hanging on the wall of his classroom, he's written an entire book on its titular question, and he breaks down when Abed answers said question after only a few days of study.

* {{Geek}}: Has worn a pendant with a picture of the originator of Model [=UN=]s on his neck since high school, and claimed to be known as "Model UN Guy" in college.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has a strong dislike of women. In fact, when Britta punches him, he exclaims, "You hit me! With a woman's hand!"

* AffablyEvil[=/=]BewareTheNiceOnes: Though soft-spoken and fairly polite, he is a racist who believes that non-whites ruins everything. He even seems to like Troy as an individual, while putting down his race to his face.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Turns out that despite his nice demeanor, he is a neo-Nazi. Upon finding out, Troy and Jeff realizes that they should probably have picked up on the hints a bit earlier, like how he made several thinly-veiled references to harboring white-supremacy views and [[FailedASpotCheck the fact he had a swastika tattooed on his chest]].

* ObviouslyEvil: PlayedForLaughs; after he's revealed as a neo-nazi, a couple of more subtle clips hinting toward this are shown in a different light ("A place free from darkness"/"Some are natural born jumpers") followed by a flashback the audience hadn't seen before of him showing a swastika tattoo and claiming it will be a maze.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Yup, he's a neo-Nazi. Troy and Jeff don't notice the early warning signs, like his references to "purity" and his swastika tatoo.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: The reason it exists: the Dean wanted a mascot that could not possibly offend ''anyone''; their previous name was the Greendale Grizzlies. Pierce helped Dean Pelton on the project, and look how it turned out.

%%* AscendedExtra

%%* ScrewPolitenessImASenior

* UngratefulBastard: The fact that he joins in the protest against the Study Group in "Alternate History of the German Invasion" despite the fact that one of the things being protested against is their use of the Study Room to play ''Dungeons and Dragons'' -- which they were only doing in order to try and prevent Neil from committing suicide, which Neil doesn't at any time point out -- makes him look rather ungrateful at least. [[CanonDiscontinuity That did happen during the 'gas leak year']].

%%* AsianAndNerdy

%%* NerdGlasses
%%* SitcomArchNemesis: To Annie.

%%* BreakTheCutie
* BewareTheNiceOnes: in Season 6, Todd's eternal pleasantness goes from NiceGuy to [[StepfordSmiler disturbing]] after he starts saying some weird stuff.

%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* WhatTheHellHero: "OFFENSE TAKEN!"

%%* AdamWesting

%%* BrainyBrunette

%%* HotTeacher

%%* PsychologistTeacher

%%* ScaryBlackMan

* JerkassHasAPoint: He's a hateful white supremacist, but he ''was'' right about his "no double bouncing" rule. Peirce forcing Troy to double-bounce him caused him to be crippled for several episodes.

%%* ThoseWackyNazis

%%* WhiteMaskOfDoom

* HiddenDepths: He might seem like some dopey eccentric who's seen ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' once too often, but as Jeff discovers he's actually quite sharp and savvy.

** According to "Basic Lupine Urology", he's also a known backpack thief.

* ButtMonkey: He's the first person [[spoiler:bitten by the zombies]] in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]]", gets fired from his job thanks to the study group in "Contemporary American Poultry", gets a poisonous dart in the face from Professor Bauer in "Anthropology 101", just for starters. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking AND no one calls him by the name by which he wants to be called]].

* CatchPhrase: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis My name--is--Alex!]]"

* HatesBeingNicknamed: It's a RunningGag that he dislikes being called "Star-Burns" (and frequently responds "[[CatchPhrase My name is ]]''[[FirstNameBasis Alex]]''" in irritation). Reaches a RageBreakingPoint in "[[Recap/CommunityS3E13DigitalExplorationOfInteriorDesign Digital Exploration of Interior Design]]," where his violent reaction to being addressed that way is [[spoiler:the opening shot of Greendale Civil War]].

->''"[[CatchPhrase POP POP!]]"''

* CatchPhrase: "Hey, blos!"

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Vaughn is never seen wearing shoes. Or a shirt.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Absolutely everyone in Greendale loves him and enjoys every time he says his catchphrase.

* AbortedArc: Played straight but then subverted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. Despite setting up a possible relationship in Season 4, she's never heard from again...until Season 5, when Abed meets her again by random happenstance and they excuse the abandoned plot with [[CanonDiscontinuity the gas leak]].

* BadassBaritone: Laybourne makes sure Dean Pelton knows, in no uncertain terms, who really has the power at Greendale.

%%* TwoFirstNames

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In his first appearance.

* AffablyEvil[=/=]BewareTheNiceOnes: Though soft-spoken and fairly polite, he is a racist who believes that non-whites ruins everything.

** In "Modern Warfare", he gets shot pointblank by Pierce while they're looting the vending machines.

* OldSoldier: He's a crotchety, elderly veteran of multiple real wars, which often comes up during the ridiculous combat situations that take place at Greendale (such as schoolwide paintball assassin, a giant pillowfight, or Thunderdome-style floor-is-lava). He hasn't lost his dead aim in old age, though.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Towards Jeff. He is a man of many talents and effortlessly extrudes a happy, easygoing and wholesome attitude. This drives Jeff, who is trying his hardest to hide his inner insecturites behind a cool, detached attitude, completely up the wall.

* NiceGuy: "Epidemiology", aside, he volunteers once a month in Central America to fix cleft palates, cleans up rivers, and teaches seeing-eye dogs. In his free time he makes kettle corn and takes pottery classes to unwind from the pressures of his job, he hasn't lost a patient in five years. Oh, and he'll also show you how to check for breast lumps.

* DawsonCasting: The actor is in his 20s.
* EmptyShell: He has little else except his catch phrase.

* NoIndoorVoice: His voice is rarely below an uneven yell.

* AcademicAlphaBitch: As smart as Annie but has a more aggressive approach on things.

An almost superhumanly nice biology classmate of the Study Group, who's apparently limitless patience is sorely tested when he is placed into their group for a class project.

* BlackComedy: The genocide he committed are PlayedForLaughs.
* FunnyForeigner: Until you hear him relishing on his war crimes anyway.

* MrFanservice: He's an inch short on being TallDarkAndHandsome but he is handsome nonetheless.

* SociopathicSoldier: He was a soldier in the Balkans and relishes on burning people from the opposing party alive, including women and children.

->''"The secrecy makes the sex 38% more exciting."''

* LargeHam: Clearly favors this acting from his students, in particular Abed's report on Creator/NicolasCage.

The extremely apathetic and jaded professor of history. Cornwallis was once employed at Oxford University until he was forced to leave in disgrace and makes no secret of his contempt for Greendale.

* DirtyOldMan: Implied in "[[Recap/CommunityS4E09IntroToFeltSurrogacy Intro to Felt Surrogacy]]" to have a thing for young women's feet, at least by Annie's account:

[[folder: Radison]]
!!Cory "Mr. Rad" Radison
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TaranKillam

->''"Glee club is what we are. It's ''all'' we are."''

Greendale's professor of music and Glee Club director. His incredibly cheery surface conceals a much darker nature.

* GlurgeAddict

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After Britta 'ruins' his pageant, he goes on an all out MotiveRant, accidentally letting slip he murdered the previous Glee club]].

* Conman: He considers himself a ConsummateProfessional con artist, and he doesn't even try to hide it, using it as a double bluff to get away with his scheme.

* BerserkButton: Making any reference to ''Film/Ghost1990'' during his class, especially its SignatureScene of Creator/PatrickSwayze and Creator/DemiMoore romantic pottery making, will trigger him immensely.

* UncannyValley: Invoked. Designed to [[AmbiguouslyBrown bear no resemblance to any race]], he/she/it falls deep in the valley. Several characters, upon encountering it, are either outright terrified or at least visibly discomforted.

* NamesTheSame: As a recurring character on ''Series/RescueMe''.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Is heavily implied to have some kind of developmental disability.

** RealLifeWritesThePlot: According to the DVD commentary, John Goodman had grown the goatee and ponytail for his role in ''{{Flight}}'', which he was also filming at the time, necessitating writing it into the script.

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TomKonkle

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Both the character and the actor.