History Characters / CommunityTheStudyGroup

* LargeHam: They all have their moments, especially Troy, Britta, and Annie. Pierce takes a level of hamminess in Season 2 (bordering on EvilIsHammy) and even the normally cool-headed Abed is not averse to exaggerated freak-outs or over-the-top spiels (usually when impersonating one of his favorite TV characters).

* ButtMonkey: Not ''nearly'' to the extent of Pierce or Britta, but as noted under BreakTheHaughty he often faces humiliation and brutal hits from other characters, though just how much he deserves it varies on account of his occasionally obnoxious and impulsive behavior.

* CompetitionFreak: He just '''has''' to be the best at everything he participates in. This nearly drives him crazy when he meets [[TheAce Rich]] in pottery class.

* DeadpanSnarker: ''Hands down'' the most sarcastic and quick-witted character on the show.

* HairTriggerTemper: Oddly enough. As noted under NotSoAboveItAll, Jeff likes to pretend he's aloof and laid-back, but if prodded he can morph into one of the group's most irritable and quarrelsome members at the drop of a hat.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Starting Season 2, she gets increasingly awkward, wacky, eccentric and ditzy. Though not as weird as Abed, Pierce or even Troy.

* DramaQueen: At times, she can be high on her drama.
-->'''Britta:''' '''High on my own drama?!'''

* HotBlooded: She's fiercely intense and passionate about her ideals despite being a self-serving, pretentious and inept WomanChild who gets riled up easily.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Britta tends to be rather obnoxious, self-righteous and egotistical, but her heart is generally in the right place and it's often made clear that she'd jump through fire for her friends.

* LargeHam: While she was originally one of the laid-back characters in the show, she becomes more over-the-top and goofy as the series progresses. Especially when she overplays the "rejected woman" to humiliate Jeff in "Anthropology 101".

* SmallNameBigEgo: Britta likes to think of herself as a rational, worldly and intelligent woman but instead she's often a childishly impulsive, ditzy and ignorant egotist.

* WomanChild: She acts like she's more mature and enlightened than the others, but in fact especially from the second season she's quite childish, seems to be locked in a permanent state of knee-jerk teenage rebellion, and really can't manage to get her life together.
** Most noticeable in Season 6, when she's fallen on hard times and her [[spoiler:estranged parents]] enter the picture.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Easily the most eccentric character in the entire show and that's really saying something.

* HairTriggerTemper: Smash one of her [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] and she'll get riled up extremely easily.

* TheComicallySerious: She's surprisingly hyper, immature and quirky for a serious nerd with ambitions and drive.
* CompetitionFreak: You can believe that any time Annie plays something, she plays to ''win'', and it often takes her to unhealthy or even friendship-threatening extremes. A good example is when she humiliates Jeff in the school's presidential election by showing an embarrassing tape of him auditioning to be on ''The Real World''.

* TheDeterminator: A very driven and ambitious young woman who's also super intense and passionate about being the best at whatever she's involved in.

* HotBlooded: Annie is very ambitious, passionate and, when under pressure, a force to be reckoned with.

* InsufferableGenius: At her worst. While generally kind-hearted, sweet and studious, she can also be an arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative and selfish ControlFreak with a ruthless streak.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Annie can come off as being overly competitive, high-strung, nagging and judgmental, but it's mostly a front for her own neuroses, and she's a very nice and caring person underneath it all.

* LargeHam: Possibly the hammiest of the group after Troy, given her tendency to get quite HotBlooded, hyper, and manic when frustrated.

* NerdsAreSexy: An awkward, unpopular and nerdy young woman played by the attractive Alison Brie.
* NervousWreck: She's prone to mental breakdowns if things don't go her way.

* ThePerfectionist: Annie is studious, perfectionistic and obsessed with academic success to the point that her high-strung personality turns extra hyper when she gets disappointed.
* PluckyGirl: Annie can be very childish and quirky, but she also doesn't give up easily and is very optimistic.

* InsufferableImbecile: Pierce is very arrogant, rude, and socially inappropriate but often he's so stupid and oblivious that he has zero awareness of his actions such as pantsing Shirley and not understanding how he was in the wrong.

* NoSocialSkills: With Pierce's tactlessness, general obliviousness, and bigoted nature, he's easily the most socially inappropriate member of the group.

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: He's the oldest of the main characters and he's very rude and unpleasant to be around.

* SmallNameBigEgo: To an even greater degree than Jeff, who can also be a selfish and arrogant narcissist, but at least has a level of charm, intelligence, and rationality... all of which Pierce only occasionally demonstrates.

* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Can come across as this. Pierce's social inappropriateness and pathological need to be accepted at all costs are all rooted in frustrations getting attention from his father and his fear that his age is now isolating himself from the rest of the study group.

** The fact that he got mad that he didn't win the "Best {{VideoGame/Halo}} Score" award at Howie Schwartz's bar mitzvah, and the fact that there appears to be a UsefulNotes/Playstation3 in his apartment hints that he might be a gamer.

* ThePreciousPreciousCar: His Lexus.

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

* '''[[Characters/CommunityJeffWinger Jeff Winger]]'''
* '''[[Characters/CommunityBrittaPerry Britta Perry]]'''

[[folder:Abed Nadir]]

!!Abed Nadir

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"[[MetaGuy I have a profile pic now.]] Cool. Coolcoolcool."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DannyPudi

->''"I'm more of a fast-blinking, stoic, removed, uncomfortably self-aware type. Like [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]]. Or [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]]. Or [[Series/HappyDays Mork]]. Or [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL]], or [[Series/KnightRider KITT]], or [[Series/DoctorWho K9]], or [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Woodstock and/or Snoopy]]. Of course, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] probably goes without saying..."''

A media-aware and pop-culture-obsessed film student who is either suffering from an unspecific psychological disorder or is just [[CloudCuckoolander very eccentric]]. He tends to view the world around him [[GenreSavvy as if he and his friends were the main characters in a weekly television sitcom about a group of oddball students]]. As such, he tends to make [[LampshadeHanging frequent references, comparisons]] [[InvokedTrope and 'homages']] to various TV shows and movies.

* AmbiguouslyBi: He has a very close relationship with Troy, has been hit on by both women and men, and shows only mild interest in pursuing relationships with girls outside of a fictional context. Jeff and Britta also refer to him as Troy's boyfriend several times (the latter when [[spoiler:''she'' is dating Troy]], no less). That being said he does eventually get a girlfriend in Rachel and is quite capable of seducing women when he wants to (specifically, Annie). When the Group looks nervously at each other for signs of attraction, Abed makes wiggly eyebrows at Jeff and Britta.
* AuthorAvatar: Creator/DanHarmon has stated that he believes Abed is the character that best represents him. [[spoiler:Make what you will of TheReveal of Abed as the OnlySaneMan in "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", which came after Harmon had first publicly said that he felt this way.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's so GenreSavvy that he can predict, word for word, how anyone in the group will respond to a given situation. In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy Cooperative Calligraphy]]", it was revealed that in this fashion he [[spoiler:figured out the menstrual cycles of the women in the group]].
* BadassBookworm: His interests are centered mostly on pop-culture and literature, but he surprisingly has an athleticism that could compete with resident jock Troy.
* BatmanGambit: A prime example would be him manipulating Jeff and Britta in order to finish a student film, which would then help him patch things up with his father.
* BirdsOfAFeather: To both Annie and Britta, in that all three are {{Control Freak}}s that have countless neuroses and are secretly terrified about their greater inadequacy within the study group.
* BollywoodNerd: Spoofed (he isn't South Asian, but his actor is). Abed is a total pop culture geek and one of his nicknames is "{{Film/Slumdog|Millionaire}}".
* BrutalHonesty: Abed tends to deliver cutting analyses of people without any sort of sugary coat. It becomes a plot point in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Aerodynamics of Gender]]".
* CannotConveySarcasm: He has to announce whenever he's being sarcastic as well as announce when he's finished.
* CharacterCatchphrase: (points) "Cool. (beat) Coolcoolcool."
* CharacterDevelopment: His {{No Social Skills}} were emphasized along with his mental issues being played up in the early episodes, and he still seemed to not yet entirely grasp the concept of friendship. After several years of being in a tight-knit clique of friends, however, Abed's become slightly more sociable and is now merely the oddball of the group. He also starts to slowly gain more of an understanding of his own neuroses and gains significantly more empathy for his fellow man as the series goes on.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Abed is much more of a MotorMouth in [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot the pilot]], and his mannerisms are more nervous and less robotic -- smiling, laughing, and gesturing fairly naturally, such as when he's gratified after Jeff gets his references to ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' and ''Film/DirtyDancing''. While Jeff (obviously not a doctor) says he has Asperger's, the ambiguity of Abed's mental issues is amped up to RunningGag levels in later episodes. His pop culture gimmick is also less explicit, though it does still seem to be his go-to resource for communicating with others. Meanwhile, Abed's trouble with recognizing and reading faces is only established in Season 2 -- he compares Britta to Creator/ElisabethShue in [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot the pilot]], it doesn't seem to interfere with his impersonating [[Series/MadMen Don Draper]] in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E17PhysicalEducation Physical Education]]", and he almost falls for Annie's Disney face in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English as a Second Language]]".
* CharacterTics: In season 3, he wails whenever particularly distressed (such as when learning his new favorite show has an EverybodyDiesEnding, when Annie reconfigures the Dreamatorium to make him more empathetic, and when the clocks are adjusted for Daylight Savings Time).
* ChickMagnet: Despite the study group's misguided assertion that Abed can't pull because of his condition in "Physical Education", it turns out Abed has no problem attracting girls because he's EndearinglyDorky and his aloofness reminds them of their DaddyIssues. Naturally, he's well aware of this. His vast range of TV helps, meaning he can act like Don Draper to attract Annie, for example.
* {{Chuunibyou}}: Abed watches too many movies and often emulates the characters and actors to accommodate himself in his social circles. While Troy has fun with Abed and indulges in his fantasies, everyone else isn't as patient with him and reacts with varying degrees of hostility. While his chuunibyou status has made him wiser, improve his conversation skills, and can even make him attract women, Abed comes to realize that he needs help and that this isn't healthy.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Easily the most eccentric character in the entire show and that's really saying something.
* TheComicallySerious: His underreactions to the drama around him make for many funny moments.
* ConsistentClothingStyle: Nerdy Abed favors graphic shirts under a shirt or jacket.
* ControlFreak: Abed is a [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis self-admitted control freak]] who will go out of his way to [[Recap/CommunityS5E09VCRMaintenanceAndEducationalPublishing exert power over others]], usually in order to [[Recap/CommunityS1E21ContemporaryAmericanPoultry try to connect with them]] or ensure they don't [[ParentalAbandonment abandon him.]] Despite not having malicious intentions, his actions can make him appear to be a bit of a ManipulativeBastard.
-->'''Annie:''' You don't have a patent on being a Control Freak, Abed.\\
'''Abed:''' Actually, I kind of do.
* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: He has the most in depth understanding of his friends out of anyone and while seen as innocent and oblivious by everyone around him can be very dry and cutting.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Jeff or Britta, but he can occasionally do this when he goes into SarcasmMode, especially when he sarcastically thanks whoever stole Annie's pen for ruining his day in "Cooperative Calligraphy".
* DeclarativeFinger: A frequent CharacterTic. Especially pronounced when Troy pretends to have switched bodies with him.
* {{Deconstruction}}: His problems and issues were a central focus in Season 3, along with the difficulties that his condition produced in enabling him to form connections with and empathize with others. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, he mentally snaps and admits that he does have problems and needs help.]]
** Taken further in Season 5 after Troy's departure. Without his best friend around to indulge his childish behaviors, Abed's forced to interact more with other members of the group who are far less tolerant of his antics, and his reactions to their disapproval go beyond the usual deconstruction of his control freak tendencies into JerkAss territory.
* DitzyGenius: For all his social misunderstandings, there is no one who knows more about pop culture than Abed.
* EndearinglyDorky: Eccentric, SarcasmBlind, pop-culture-obsessed Abed, with little to no social skills, has no problem attracting girls because he's weird in a cute way and his aloofness reminds them of their daddy issues.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Abed is not only popular with the ladies but apparently with the [[Recap/CommunityS2E10MixologyCertification men]] as well.