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Kelly Mantle (14th=)
Age: 37
From: Los Angeles, California
"Don't you know who I think I am?"
- Brilliant, but Lazy: She's a well-rounded TV queen with almost two decades of drag experience under her belt, yet when she first arrived on the show the other queens commented how they found her neon-heart dress uninspired, and later the judges took offense to the fact she seemed to be wearing a "shake-n-go wig". To many fans it seemed Kelly was phoning in her performance, assuming she could just coast by on safe for the first few challenges.
- Celebrity Resemblance: As noted by the judges, in drag she looks a lot like actress Christine Baranski.
- Cool Uncle: Not one herself, but she is the nephew of legendary switch hitter Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees.
- Gallows Humor: She has poked fun at her elimination with a music video, aptly titled "Eliminated"
, guest-starring Tammie Brown! - Gender-Blender Name: Kelly Mantle is her real name, not a drag name.
- Obsessively Organized: Self-described as when setting up her stuff upon arrival she was forced to do it quickly, and couldn't set up all her things neatly with little labels like she wanted. She claims this was part of the reason she was so unfocused during the competition.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Her one and only runway look crafted after Downton Abbey was made from a giant silk flower, however, Michelle Visage pointed out the effect looked more like raw bacon than flower petals. Also in subversion of this trope, the judges unanimously agreed in this one instance, Kelly's dress was definitely not better with bacon!
- Small Name, Big Ego: Her shtick, don't you know how famous she thinks she is?!
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Crashes out dead last in part one of the split premiere, following her lip-sync against Vivacious.
Magnolia Crawford (14th=)
Age: 27
From: Seattle, Washington
"I'm just here for the exposure."
- Attention Whore: Fully admitted she only joined the competition because she wanted to feed into her ego with the exposure she'd get from the show. However, as Bianca Del Rio brought up, she only admitted this when she knew she would be in the Bottom 2.
- Be Yourself: Refused to consider changing her style, even after the judges harshly critiqued her on her signature nose make-up, which she says is purposely done so that it looks like you could 'snap it like a toothpick'. She then verbally lashes out, angrily stating that queens in the competition who do adapt for the judge's aesthetic were spineless.
- Can't Take Criticism: When the judges lay into her for her poor runway look, she'd lay right back into them. It gets so bad that Ru has to call for a stop to it, telling Magnolia she has to make people like her and not lash out at them.
- Catchphrase: A very nasally "Oh wow!"
- His Own Worst Enemy: She basically stopped trying as soon as she was tasked to make a dress with a hoe-down theme.
- Hypocrite: Says her style is to make "ugly things beautiful" only to then pout and throw in her challenge because everything she was given was "ugly".
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: A self-described trash queen who loves taking something ugly and turn it out into something fabulous.
- Informed Attribute: Visage calls her out on this on the main stage with a poor runway look, to which Magnolia outright blames entirely on her hoe-down inspired party box, calling everything in her box ugly ... which turns into a bit of a headscratcher since she stated outright she loved ugly things because she could make them fabulous.
- It's All About Me: She admitted in the reunion episode that she didn't even watch the show past her elimination—meaning she couldn't answer Ru's question of which challenge she might have excelled at—since she wanted to keep it in her mind as her moment.
- My Greatest Failure: Claims the reason she didn't watch her episode (or the rest of Season 6) is she didn't want her experience to turn into this, and wanted to keep her time on the show 'hers alone' (after she was coerced into watching her elimination well after the fact, she actually decided to quit drag altogether).
- Naïve Newcomer: After the fact, she has admitted that drag to her was only a hobby, not a career like many of the other queens treat it. This ended up being attributed to her doing so poorly in the first episode.
- Phone Call from the Dead: Many episodes later since her elimination, a video of Magnolia is shown in Untucked where she says "I don't do impersonations, fuck Cher" much to the (albeit joking) anger of the queens who witnessed that video.
- Phrase Catcher: Seemed to be all set to be this season's Ivy Winters with a hardy "Magnooooolia Crawford!". Unfortunately (or not), Ru only got to use it for just one episode.
- Uncanny Valley Makeup: Likes to contour her nose to an extremely sharp point, Bianca even mused that Magnolia looked like a swordfish!
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Ends up being the first queen eliminated from the second batch of queens introduced in week 2.
Vivacious (12th)
Age: 40
From: New York City, New York
"Mutha has arrived!"
- Affectionate Nickname: Non-romantic example, but the name "Vivacious" was given to her as a child by her 2nd grade teacher. It had been her nickname for years before she decided to upgrade it to her official drag name.
- Ambadassador: She specializes in performing at primarily-straight clubs, acting as an ambassador for the gay community.
- Ambiguous Gender: Claims to not really go for feminine looks, but instead looks that dominate the attention of the room.
- Book Ends: As per her fumbled entrance look, for her last runway before her elimination, she wore a full body spiked catsuit, with the suit covering the sides of her head so she had to visibly pull back the hood to even listen to the judges critiques. At one point Ru even called her out on whether her catsuit had deafened her, or if she was trying to emulate Mariah Carey's Signature Move!
- Club Kid: She proudly describes herself as one of the original New York City club kids. This creates a little conflict as some feel that her style is outdated.
- Costume Porn: The only way to describe her signature style, her outfits are usually big and bold (if a little impractical), dominating the attention of the room.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: Her big entrance reveal in the first episode was somewhat derailed by her difficulty undoing the headpiece, and it came across as more cringey, than cool.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her premiere outfit is a fierce alien-esque costume that covered her entire upper body ... however, as she tries to go for the big reveal she's unable to reach the zipper, leading to a rather humorous moment of the rest of the queens watching her in confused awe as she struggles to free herself.
- Only One Name: Just "Vivacious", no last name.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: An amusing play on this trope by Vivacious's own alien head hat, Ornacia, who during the photoshoot was said gave better face than she did!
- Supermodel Strut: As you'll see in her runways, she's got the fierce New York walk down!
- The Quiet One: In contrast to some of the queens of her season, Vivacious is a very non-vocal queen, prefering to save her energy and emotions for the stage.
April Carrión (11th)
Age: 24
From: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
"Reporting for duty! Puerto Rico is in the house!"
- Borrowed Catchphrase: On her lipstick mirror message she borrows Yara Sofia's "Echa pa lante!" from Season 3.
- Get a Room!: Told to by Michelle Visage when she and guest judge Adam Lambert got a bit too flirty during the critiques.
- Good-Looking Privates: Made her grand entrance as a World War II-era soldier/pin-up model, complete with a parachute. Yeah...it's easier to show than describe◊.
- Leg Focus: Caught guest judge Adam Lambert watching her (ahem) 'chicken legs'.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: In Spanish, "Carrión" is a fairly standard surname, but in English (and without the accent) it means "rotting flesh," leading to a small amount of confusion when she didn't turn out to be a goth queen.
Gia Gunn (10th)
Age: 23
From: Chicago, Illinois
"I don't jump guns, I am the boom boom gun, honey."
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Gia is a trans woman, though this wasn't revealed at the time of her appearance on the show, and she preferred to present as feminine both in and out of drag — which was picked up on by her fellow queens.Vivacious: Gia is still a ladyboy, in or out of geish.
- Bad Impressionists: For the Snatch Game, Gia chooses to impersonate Kim Kardashian — a subject not ripe for comedy without chronic exaggeration or subversion. Gia attempts neither, giving a deathly-flat performance and unfunny jokes, ultimately landing in the bottom where she is eliminated.
- Berserk Button: Don't call her ignorant or clock her look.
- Book Dumb: She is not the brightest queen on the main stage, for example, she has never heard of a DeLorean or a Tony Award, she seemed clueless as to why a 1960's horror movie would be in black and white, and she couldn't even get a beans/fart joke until it was painfully explained to her.
- Can't Take Criticism: Whenever the judges try to critique her, she'd just respond (or cut them off) with an enthusiastic but dismissive "Absolutely!" to their irritation.
- Catchphrase: She has a few — usually delivered in a buzzy, nasal tone.
- "Absolutely!"
- "Let me feel my oats!"
- "How is she though?"
- Hidden Depths: She comes off as very shallow, critical, uneducated, and annoying ... which to be fair she pretty much is. However, she has also been a Kabuki performer since the age of 5, and is versed on both male and female Kabuki.
- Hypocrite: She dislikes messy queens, yet herself greeted the second half of the cast with a wonky eye (her eyelash glued wrong). And was later observed by the judges to have it crooked again during a later challenge.
- In-Series Nickname: "Kimora Lee Kardashian" after fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons and the Kardashian family.
- Jerkass: Most of the queens don't like her, clocking her as rude, airheaded, and unpolished. It doesn't help her case that she's very critical of her competitors, stating outright she doesn't like messy queens, cheap queens, or manly queens.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She was downright furious when it was herself and Laganja in the bottom two, after Milk struts down the runway out of drag (dressed as male RuPaul, but still). Even the judges point out it's borderline offensive that Milk would walk the catwalk as a man, though a decade later, this would never even be brought up, as the concept of what constitutes 'drag' has (thankfully) evolved hugely, so Gia's 'point' is a time-dependant one.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named herself after supermodel Gia Carangi, as well as the title character in the movie Gia played by Angelina Jolie. Her last name is from her drag mother, who named herself after Tim Gunn.
- Pet the Dog: Gia spent most of the first episode being a total shady bitch, but when Laganja tearfully recounts her distant relationship with her mother, Gia was the first to comfort her as she is in a similar boat with her own mother
- Phrase Catcher: "G-G-G-Gia!" (to the tune of the Chia Pet jingle) In just the first episode Ru threw this phrase to Gia four times!
- The Resenter: She really resented the fact that Milk was safe the night of her elimination since Milk had decided to dress up as as man on the runway, calling Milk a 'cross-dresser' and a 'troll' during her exit.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Gia felt Milk should have been in the bottom for dressing up as a male RuPaul on the runway, but her reasons are petty and based on a rather shallow idea of what drag is.
- Sissy Villain: One of the shadiest queens of her season, and also noted for having an ultra-feminine style and manner at all times — in or out of drag.
- Stealth Insult: "Stealth" may be giving her too much credit, but her farewell message was "Bring out the big Gunns DUDES," almost certainly a potshot at Milk.
- Unusual Euphemism: "Let me feel my oats!". Lampshaded by Alaska in her opening performance during the reunion episode. "Let me feel my...oats???"
- You Keep Using That Word: When Gia made her entrance, she called herself "fresh tilapia." As Sharon Needles pointed out in the season recap episode (and Bianca would later point out), that's normally the cheapest fish in the store.
Milk (9th)
Age: 25
From: New York City, New York
"Milk! She does a body good, girl!"
- Ambiguous Gender: Purposely invokes this in her drag, deciding if she can't be as fishy as other queens, she can at least be more memorable.
- In just her first runway she strut the catwalk wearing a billy goat beard, giving the judges hermaphrodite realness.
- Also, the bolero jacket Milk wore in her first appearance came from her figure-skating days.
- Club Kid: Self-described.
- Gag Penis: Most obvious during the top and bottom lip synch mini-challenge, Pandora Boxx says it best during Drag Center ...Pandora Boxx: Adore and Milk's junk win the mini-challenge!
- His Own Worst Enemy: She admits that the reason she goes for unconventional runway looks is because she feels she can't compete with the others for fishiness. Ru and Michelle point out that this ultimately gives her a lack of versatility.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Quoted word for word by Ru in reaction to Milk's RuPaul inspired runway, when she came down the catwalk as "Workroom Ru", i.e. RuPaul out of drag.
- Mr. Fanservice: Out of drag, she even says she's received a lot of comments from fans about how sexy she is as a boy.
- Nice Guy: A very sweet-natured queen, even when under fire from the other contestants.
- Only One Name: Her name is simply Milk on the show, but occasionally she is referred to as 'Milk Queen' outside of her appearance on Drag Race.
- Running Gag:
- Her shtick seems to be making jokes or puns regarding milk. In just the before-season interview she refers to all her different looks as different types of milk, such as curdled milk, sour milk, as well as pasteurized and unpasteurized milk!
- The other queens have fun with this, too. After meeting Milk, Darienne calls herself "heavy cream", Courtney says in the confession cam "I normally don't do dairy, but I'll make an exception for Milk!", and after a heated argument, Adore comments that's Milk's gone sour and she must be past her expiration date.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After being continuously told to bring more glamour and to not use camp as a crutch, come the hip-hop episode Milk struts the runway in a mermaid dress to appeal to the judges' aesthetic...and gets sent home anyway.
- Statuesque Stunner: She is easily the tallest queen of the season at 6'3, literally towering over her competition.
- Uncanny Valley Makeup: She considers herself as dressing as a drag queen as no different than putting on clown makeup, so some of her looks can easily cross into this territory.
Laganja Estranja (8th)
Age: 24
From: Van Nuys, California
"Well I'm young and hung and clearly march to the sound of my own drum, so props to ya, mama!"
- Affectionate Nickname: Adore will casually call her "Ganj-Ganj".
- Attention Whore: She's young, loud, and full of energy, 'Yes gawd!'
- Animal Motifs: "I am the bird they want me to be!"
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: In a last-ditch effort to create some sort of memetastic Catchphrase, she borrows RuPaul's own famous "gag on my eleganza!" and instead turns it into "gag on my ele-ganja!"
- Catchphrase: "Come on <insert here>!" as well as her signature "OKRRR!"
- Cloudcuckoolander: While there were only hints of this in Laganja it became most obvious as the show got nearer towards her elimination. Her above quote, for instance, was said to no one in particular without any provocation, leading Bianca Del Rio to ask outright: "wait, where the hell did that come from?"
- Drag Queens Cannot Do Math: Confronted about this by Bianca after her emotional meltdown that she had been waiting "24 years" for a sign of support from her parents...despite also saying they always supported her being gay and only objected to her doing drag. But then in a different episode she said has only been doing drag for two years. Once Bianca realized the numbers didn't add up, she called bullshit on the whole story.
- Drama Queen:
- A big example would be when she gets into it with Adore in the Untucked lounge, when she claims that although she doesn't remember what Adore said, or when she said it, or where she said it, that Adore said "something" that really hurt her feelings. Adore calls bullshit on Laganja for this.
- Accused of this by Bianca, especially regarding Laganja's relationship with her parents. Mama and Papa Estranja were loving and supportive about everything apart from the drag career, which they later came around to. Bianca suspected Laganja of playing up the issue to get attention and sympathy.
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Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite being found to be extremely annoying by the fellow queen and many viewers, she has gained significant popularity since then, partially due do her quotable moments and being Alyssa Edwards' drag daughter. - Fighting Your Friend: Expresses mixed feelings about her lip sync battle against Gia Gunn, who was her best friend in the competition.
- Genki Girl: Has a very loud and excitable personality, and loves to spout out hip-hop any chance she gets ... although Ru is quite sure the whole act is just a thinly veiled façade.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Couldn't get through a single Untucked without doing this.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: In her voice over for her first runway, she appears to be extremely confident in her first runway... until Untucked, when she comes down extremely hard on herself. She's already prepared to lip sync, even though her outfit could've only been at worst the fourth worst outfit on the runway.
- It's All About Me: A strangely non-malevolent example, but every bit as melodramatic. During Untucked she got a message from her Mom and Dad who she's expressed missing and growing distant from in the past few years. When the other queens attempted to joke and lighten the mood and discuss their relationships with their own parents, Laganja completely blew up at them for stealing her moment. It continues into the next week too, which completely pisses Bianca off.
- Large Ham: She's Alyssa Edwards' drag daughter and it shows.
- Once an Episode: Until her elimination, it seemed contractually obligated for her to have a breakdown and make a scene in every episode of Untucked.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Clocked by Adore and Bianca when she remarks that she has heart in the competition, insinuating that Adore doesn't and is being unfairly mean to her.
- Punny Name: Her drag name is Laganja after all, but you can also refer to her as Miss Mary Jane, Little Miss 420, or for the Latin folk, La Marijuana.
- The Resenter: Admits via Confession Cam that she's upset that Adore is doing well in the competition, while she herself is either safe or in the bottom, when she feels her drag style is on a much higher level than Adore's.
- Signature Move: The death drop, even if the situation doesn't particularly call for it.
- Stealth Insult: In regards to her friendship with Adore, Laganja says several times that her over-the-top personality is genuine and is how she acts with her "real friends" ... which obviously does not include Adore, since Adore states she's never seen Laganja act that way before.
- The Stoner: A proud self-admitted stoner, as she's said during the show, 'if it's not green, then she's not into it'.
- This Is a Competition: Adore clocks her on her competitiveness, stating that although they're friends she knows how serious Estranja takes competition.
- Verbal Tic: Takes the stock "kiki" voice many queens use and exaggerates it, so she can barely get out a sentence without tacking on "MOMMA" or "OKRRR?" at the end. She was called out on this, as most of her competitors and judges clocked it as the annoying.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy:
- Was a complete Momma's Boy as a child, and her mother is very critical of her being a drag queen. She hopes that being on the show will prove to her mother that she can be successful and happy even if she's in drag.
- Also has this to a lesser extent with her drag mother Alyssa Edwards, who according to her hired her at her dance studio and initially expressed doubt at Laganja's ability to drag but was eventually convinced.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A frequent accusation towards the end of her stay in the competition. For one example, see Drag Queens Cannot Do Math above.
Trinity K. Bonet (7th)
Age: 22
From: Atlanta, Georgia
"I'm as close as you're gonna get to Beyoncé."
- Accidental Misnaming: Continually refers to Chaz Bono as Chad during the interview segment.
- Always Second Best: Despite constantly beating herself up, there were three challenges where Trinity did very well but just barely missed winning: the party dress, the makeup commercial, and the stand-up. Worse, the only one where she didn't lose to Bianca was when she was paired up with her. Even at the end, when she or Joslyn were likely to win Miss Congeniality, DeLa's surprise elimination caused fans to vote for her instead.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Bianca asks point blank what she does well, Trinity can't come up with a response. Although there are little things one may notice (Trinity's drink) that may make you wonder whether or not Trinity had no answer for the question or if it was a case of producers editing the moment for more drama. At least this could be the case for more cynical viewers.
- Berserk Button: Her trouble with enunciation has become one ever since the judges have critiqued her on her dental flippers.
- Black and Nerdy: You wouldn't think it at first, but she's named after Trinity from The Matrix, and her first runway look was inspired by Queen Amidala from Star Wars.
- Can't Take Criticism: Was called on it during critiques in the Musical Episode.
- Celebrity Impersonator: One of her life ambitions as a drag performer is to be a professional Beyonce-illusionist in Las Vegas.
- Flat Character: Bianca clocks her on a personality that is a dead ringer to a corpse she knew back in New Orleans, though as the season progresses, she does begin to show Hidden Depths.
- Hidden Depths: In her pre-show interview and the sneak peak of the second premier, she came across as just another self-absorbed Beyonce-impersonating glamour queen—which she doesn't deny being—not helped when she chose the "Princess Party" kit for her first runway look. However, she unexpectedly went with a Star Wars theme as mentioned above, and in Untucked she was very level-headed, likable (her friction with Bianca notwithstanding), and a voice of reason.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Feels the rest of the queens are a lot stronger than she is and she just doesn't know if she can compete on their level. The other queens even notice that half the time it looks like Trinity's already given up and is hardly putting in an effort.
- In-Series Nickname: Bianca has taken to sarcastically referring to her as "Beyoncé" ... ironic that although Trinity considers herself as close to Beyoncé as you can get, Bianca's opinion of her is the exact opposite.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: Legally, the K. in her middle name stands for nothing. However...
- Named After Somebody Famous: In addition to the Matrix reference, she also says the K. in her name stands for Kardashian.
- Nice Guy: The only person Trinity is ever hard on is herself! To the other queens she's kind hearted and supportive, giving encouragement to Joslyn, Laganja and DeLa when they were struggling.
- Self-Deprecating Humor: During the Reading challenge, she reads herself by pulling off her clip-in ponytail and joking about her damaged hair.
- The Quiet One: Tries to stay reserved, especially during Untucked, hoping to avoid becoming the hot topic among the other queens ... however her being so quiet just causes the queens to try and figure out why she's acting so mopey.
- This Is a Competition: A non-malevolent example, she takes the judges' critiques very seriously and gets down on herself for it. The rest of the queens continuously attempt to convince her not to take the criticisms to heart, however Trinity keeps trying to point out they are in a competition show, and the critiques do matter since they could get her sent home.
- Toothy Issue: She wears dental flippers in drag since her natural grill is rather crooked.
- The Unintelligible: She's a bit of a mushmouth while wearing her dental flippers, especially when she sings.
Joslyn Fox (6th)
Age: 26
From: Worcester, Massachusetts
"Try me bitch, I'm a motherfishin' Drag Queen!"
- Aesop Amnesia: The judges are baffled when after being critiqued on her "multi swimsuit and accessory" look from last week she proceeds to come out in the Black & White challenge wearing essentially the same thing.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Both a real-life example (she suffers from ADHD in real life) and invoked in her stand up comedy routine.
- Berserk Button: Ignorant, mean queens. Caused a small shouting match between her and Gia Gunn.
- Broken Pedestal: Joslyn Fox idolized Courtney Act prior to season 6, but some harsh critiques and shade from the latter pretty much ended that.
- Catchphrase: "Hey Ruzy Q!" whenever RuPaul would check on Joslyn in the workroom, also a rare instance of Ru being a Phrase Catcher for once, as she's normally the Phrase Pitcher to her queens.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Established from the start when she opens her Quinceañera party box and has to be told what she thought were "house numbers" represent her age. *holds up numbers proudly* "Fifty-one!"
- Cute, but Cacophonic: Her Fran Drescher impersonation is uncanny (though she doesn't play her for the Snatch Game) and her voice gets compared to a dial-up modem.
- Determinator: This was her fourth time auditioning to the show, and she says the only reason she feels she got in this season was because she stopped trying to give what she thought Ru was looking for, and instead decided to just be herself.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: One of the fishiest queen in the season. She probably would've been recognised more for it had Courtney Act not been cast in the same season as her.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: She wasn't very well remembered upon first viewing due to flying under the radar for the first few episodes and making several mistakes in her last ones. However, her popularity grew due to her surprisingly good performances in earlier challenges, particularly in the Scream Queens challenge, the Snatch Game and the rap challenge. Several fans mention liking her a lot more after seeing her on Untucked, particularly when she defended Milk and comforted Adore.
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Follow the Leader: Her "X came from Y's vagina!" intro during the interview challenge was most likely inspired by Alaska from Season 5. When Chaz was a guest judge that season, Alaska said in the confession cam, "I love Chaz Bono, he came from Cher's vagina!" The difference, however, is that Alaska wasn't sitting right in front of them when she said it. - Handsome Lech: A shameless flirt, in just the first episode she fangirled over Courtney, revealed her deep crush on Pit Crew member Shawn, and said outright she wants to run her tongue over Santino's bald head, and this is all in just her first episode!
- Hidden Depths:
- The other girls weren't expecting much from her come the first acting challenge in episode 3, but she proved to be surprisingly funny. GASP!
- Many people were pleasantly surprised with her rapping skills in episode 6. RuPaul even compliments her for stepping up.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Won the mini challenge and got to decide the order of the queens in the stand up comedy challenge, which backfired spectacularly when she put herself in front of Bianca, the closer, and as a result looked weak by comparison and wound up having to lipsync. The judges even directly ask What Were You Thinking?
- The Hyena: She's easily the most laugh-happy queen of this season, it's just a shame her laugh is more of a ...
- Mala Proper:
- During a cam she proudly states she hopes she becomes the "Blackhorse" of the competition ... after which the producer had to confirm she really meant "Darkhorse".
- She does it again in the stand-up challenge...in the confessional and not part of said stand-up: "I know that stand-up comedy is not my cup of soup...cup of tea...cup-a-bowl-of-what? Cup of tea. This is not my cup of tea."
- During a cam she proudly states she hopes she becomes the "Blackhorse" of the competition ... after which the producer had to confirm she really meant "
- Nice Girl:
- Seems the most upbeat and least abrasive of the queens this season, she even puts up with every single one of Bianca's insults with a big smile and a giggle. Many people believe she should've been crowned Miss Congeniality, a title she set out to win. Many felt DeLa only won because of her shock elimination. Bianca herself said that she felt Joslyn should've been Miss Congeniality.
- Her supportive nature was shown even more in Untucked. In episode 4, she was the only person to stand up for Milk when Gia was insulting her and in episode 10, she comforts Adore (along with DeLa) after she becomes emotional from a bad week and her mom's video message. Her speech in which she tells Adore how much of a superstar she is.
- No Social Skills: Her behavior on the show dances the line between this trope and Cloud Cuckoo Lander, but she gets scolded outright by Michelle Visage for her lack of social skills after bringing up a sensitive topic with Georgia Holt during a Talk Show interview challenge (the fact that Georgia considered getting an abortion while pregnant with Cher). It's implied the only reasons she didn't wind up lipsyncing for that was because of her sincere apology, the fact it had come from extreme naivety rather than malice and the fact that Georgia voluntarily praised the rest of her interview, adding that she wasn't offended by the question, she simply wasn't expecting it. It was later revealed that the question had been brought up by a discussion about Georgia's documentary, in which the topic in question was discussed. This sparked accusations of Manipulative Editing, as while the question still wasn't appropriate, it wasn't as out of the blue as it appeared.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Was known as "the queen with nine bikinis" after she wore essentially the same multi-swimsuit ensemble two weeks in a row ... after the judges told her they didn't like it the first week.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: She tried really hard in the competition, but just seemed to fall short of the other queens. She was considered really feminine, but couldn't compete with Courtney Act, was a lovable ditz, but was outshined by Adore Delano, and hoped she would strike a chord with the fans and win Miss Congeniality, but was overshadowed by BenDeLaCreme's popularity.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Purposely invoked in her look as she loves to wear tons of extra accessories and jewelry in order to compensate for looking too much like a real woman while in drag.
- Signature Move: Her little "whomp-whomp" breast jiggle when she's 'keeping it foxy'. Ru's sees her off with one of her own after Joslyn's elimination, and at the start of the next episode the remaining queens give a sort of "whomp-whomp" salute in her honor.
- Silk Hiding Steel: When Gia started reading Milk, she stepped in with a surprising amount of force considering her Nice Guy personality.
- Squick: In-universe, during the Horror-themed Untucked the queens were asked to play the childhood game of sticking their hands into a box to guess it's contents by touch alone. When it came to an (unused) adult diaper filled with cream corn though, Joslyn starts loudly gagging and retching by the reveal.
- Stripperiffic: Certainly not the worst offender of this trope in Drag Race history, but coupled with her Rummage Sale Reject taste in jewelry, the judges are baffled at how she can be wearing so much, and still be so naked at the same time!
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Meta-example. Joslyn was eliminated in a wedding-themed makeover challenge that tasked the queens with turning grooms-to-be into brides. This episode has been completely removed from all American streaming platforms, allegedly because one of the grooms was coerced into participating by his partner and took legal action to have the episode taken down, so most viewers just catching up with the series now end up going right from the Top 7 episode (when Trinity is eliminated) to the beginning of the Top 5 one, with the remaining queens reacting to Joslyn's elimination with no clear explanation of what happened.
BenDeLaCreme (5th + Miss Congeniality)
Age: 31
From: Seattle, Washington
"Yes, 'DeLa' for short, 'De' for shorter, 'Ms. Creme' if you're nasty!"
- Always Second Best: despite being the early frontrunner in the competition lost a challenge twice to Courtney and once to Bianca and Darienne, not to mention two lip syncs.
- Becoming the Mask: A common criticism from Michelle Visage was that Ben was always "in-character" as BeDeLaCreme instead of letting the judges see her true personality. According to Visage, this ultimately made Ben less engaging than her fellow competitors.
- Brainy Brunette: Almost always wears a black wig (his natural hair color) and she’s quite smart, perhaps too smart as per her rap and comedy routine.
- Compliment Backfire: Happens when she quips that Bianca Del Rio is "sailing through the competition". She claims she meant it as a compliment that Bianca is so talented and versatile the challenges all come easy to her, but Bianca took it negatively, accusing DeLa on reading her as lazy and not really giving it her all.
- Formerly Fat: Was bullied in middle school for being "too fat, too gay and too weird".
- Gender-Blender Name: Subverted. While "Ben" is her first name, the other queens call her "DeLa" since it's more feminine-sounding (despite meaning "of the"). Although now the queens and even judges sometimes refer to her as Bendela or Benda.
- Genki Girl: Self-described as "terminally delightful", and clocked by Michelle Visage for having a personality that could get real annoying real fast.
- Gratuitous French: Chose her drag name because it's French, even though she doesn't actually speak French. See also: the point of her whole rap in Oh No She Betta Don't.note
- Heroic Fatigue: DeLa was the early frontrunner in the competition, being the first to win two challenges, and the first challenge and Snatch Game to boot. However, after the stumble on the commercial, DeLa never scored another win and lost his final lip sync.
- Identical Stranger: When she's introduced, everyone comments on how much she looks like Michelle Visage. DeLa can't see the resemblance at all because she's had her face for so long.
- In-Series Nickname: Michelle Visage starts calling her "Bendela", which Ru and the rest of the queens quickly adapt. During Whatcha Packin' with Michelle Visage she admits that prior to the show, this was what Jinkx would normally call her as well.
- Missing Mom: The death of her mother in her adolescent years hit her hard.
- Nice Girl: Season six's Miss Congeniality.
- No Social Skills: To a degree. She's usually charming, but has put her foot in it several times without intending to be malicious. She tried to compliment Bianca by saying she was "sailing through" the competition, which Bianca interpreted as "coasting through", as in just doing enough to get by and not really trying.
- Overly Long Gag: Her lipstick elimination message on the mirror filled up the entire mirror in rather small print, jokingly explained to have been made so long and pointless just so she could force Darienne to have to clean and clean and clean and clean to wipe off. note
- Punny Name: Her name is based on the phrase "Crème de La Crème".
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift: Out of drag, his voice is throaty and very deep; in drag, it becomes a nasal falsetto.
- Small Name, Big Ego: At least Darienne seems to think so after DeLa congratulates herself on being the first queen of the season to win two challenges.Darienne Lake: BenDeLaCreme, you remind me of a Russian doll ... Full. Of. Your. Self.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Bianca calls out her behavior in Untucked about questioning Darienne as to why she wasn't picked for Miss Lake's hip-hop group, since Bianca felt it was extremely disrespectful towards the group DeLa did get instead.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Her drag character's main characteristic is she's relentlessly upbeat about everything.
Miss Darienne Lake (4th)
Age: 41
From: Rochester, New York
"Some of the queens are pretty, I'm prettier; some of them are funny, I'm funnier; and some of them are big, but I'm bigger!"
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's two tons of fun of twisted steel and sex appeal!
- Big Fun: Loves cracking jokes, and is quite the hilarious plus-sized queen!
- Dark and Troubled Past: During her dinner with RuPaul, they talk about Darienne being kicked out of her home, in which Darienne's mother gave her a 'strong invitation' to move out due to practicing her gay lifestyle despite her mother thinking homosexuals were lesser people.
- Deadpan Snarker: Perfectly capable of reading someone to filth with a sweet smile on her face.
- Hypocrite: Has said she considers sleeping with another queen to be gross ... however one might remember her appearing on the Ricki Lake show in which she was dating fellow drag queen, Pandora Boxx. But since this was over twenty years ago, it's possible that the experience put her off the idea.
- Large Ham: A boon that won her the Scream Queens challenge while playing the minor role of a demon-possessed severed head in a box.
- Leave the Camera Running: In the music video for 'Sissy That Walk' she had a scene with Charles (RuPaul) in which the two were former lovers before Charles left her for good ... at least that was the plan, but after the take Darienne started throwing a tantrum in-character that was so over the top it left both Ru and director Mathu Anderson speechless. Charles/Ru even comes back into the scene and offers to take Darienne back again, completely unscripted! Darienne probably would have won this challenge had it not been the finale.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Well, somewhere famous. She's named after Darien Lake, an amusement park located between Buffalo and Rochester, New York.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: Despite several of the queens being quite hunky out of drag, Darienne is positively squicked by the notion of sleeping with any of them, saying that having sex with another queen (even if they are out of drag) is gross.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Sometimes she would try to rattle her competitors cage using this tactic.
- Phrase Catcher: 'Dip into the waters of Darienne Lake'
- Psychological Projection: During the puppet mini-challenge, Darienne spends most of the routine making the Courtney puppet call Darienne ugly and misshapen. While the bit is funny ("You look like a wallaby"), apart from the accent it doesn't actually sound much like Courtney - who at one point even told Darienne that she doesn't need to lose weight to be attractive and that she's beautiful just the way she is. As a result, it comes across sounding much more like Darienne voicing her own insecurities than reading Courtney.
- The Rival: She ultimately found her rival for the season in DeLa, who was completely caught off-guard since there had been no bad blood between herself and Darienne previously.
- Self-Deprecating Humor: "This body seats six!", and later she dubs her Eartha Kitt's Catwoman runway look as "Girth-a Kitt".
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Had the music video been a regular challenge, Darienne would have certainly won. But as the final challenge, she was judged for the whole season, causing her elimination and meaning that her over-the-top performance in "Sissy that Walk" was for naught.
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Subverted, although her drag name is technically Miss Darienne Lake, shes actually pretty lax on the whole 'Miss' part.
- This Is a Competition: Makes sure to berate DeLa when the latter admitted to giving Adore an easy theme for the Drag Ball, stating that if it were up to her, she would have sooner put Adore in cement shoes and called it a day. She came on the show for a crown and the $100,000, and says outright she will help herself before she helps anyone else.
- Took a Level in Jerkass:
- During the hip-hop challenge when Darienne was picking teams she didn't pick DeLa, much to the latter's surprise. The real jerkassery comes in when Ben asks Darienne why she wasn't picked for her team, to which Miss Lake simply replies that it's "none of your fucking business."
- The other queens finally call her out on her jerkassery in the Talk Show episode of Untucked, mentioning how she seems to be snapping at everyone (instead of just DeLa). Even Bianca says she's acting like a hateful bitch, which coming from Bianca is saying something!
- Unknown Rival: A reoccurring thing with her, she will criticize one of the other queens in the Confession Cam and act like it's turning into a rivalry without any real payoff. She's had odds with Gia, Milk and most bitterly, with Ben.
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: Describes herself as a "white lady from the suburbs" when worried about the banjee-girl singing task.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: She was the underdog in the final four, having lip-synched for her life three times prior and was very unlikely to move into the final three. When Ru makes the announcement for the final queens, she says Darienne's name first ... then says she's the one who was eliminated (opposite of how it usually works). You can literally see the heartbreak on Darienne's face when she realizes she's been sent home.
Adore Delano (runner-up)
Age: 23
From: Azusa, California
"For all those queens telling me I'm not polished enough, I just want them to know that I'm polish remover, bitch!"
- All of the Other Reindeer: Unlike previous queens who qualify, Adore wears this trope as a badge of honor, proudly stating that she doesn't fit in with society or other drag queens.
- Anime Hair: While sometimes donning classic blond, Adore seems to favor unusual hair colors in her drag, from rosy pink to aquamarine teal to dark tomato red.
- Aside Glance: When Laganja has one of her many breakdowns and Gia says to her how she knows what it's like to be a sensitive person, Adore briefly looks at the camera like "Seriously?"
- Brilliant, but Lazy: She's armed with tons of raw talent and charisma, but Adore stumbled a few times when her poor focus and lack of work-ethic let her down. Best illustrated in the horror movie challenge, where she assigned roles randomly without thought to who would perform best in them, failed to rehearse the scene before filming, and walked on-set without knowing her cues.
- Catchphrase: "Party!" Although "Fuck!" and "I'm a Libra" are also high up there.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Likes to describe herself as that one glittery crayon you find in special boxes of crayons, and claims she can feel the psychic energy between her fellow queens.
- Disappeared Dad: Has a broken relationship with her father, brought on by her dad saying he was ashamed of his son for being so feminine. Adore, however, says she's over it and has no desire to reconcile with him at this point, to which Ru agrees that it's his loss, not Adore's.
- Fan Community Nickname: A mean-spirited one brought on by Adore's Base-Breaking Character status, but her fans are often referred to as DAFs, "Delusional Adore Fans".
- Hairstyle Malfunction: Seems to have a few issues securing her wig in place. She had to keep tugging it down during her acting challenge when she was supposed to be getting electrocuted, and it came loose again during her lipsynch with Trinity.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Touched on when she admitted early in the competition she did not bring much with her in the way of wardrobe, however this gets expanded on after the final three when she reveals to Michelle Visage that she does in fact own a lot more clothes and wigs (and even several corsets) but didn't bother bringing them to the show because she was sure she would be going home by the second week. One has to wonder if she would have done even better in the competition (maybe even won the show) if she had taken things seriously from the start.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Despite stating that she's proud to be an outcast from the drag scene, it's obvious during the competition the fact that she's had to constantly prove herself to other queens has taken a toll on her confidence.
- The Klutz: Was accused of pulling a pratfall in the first episode for attention, but claims she's not attention-starved, she just likes rocking back and forth in her chair and occasionally falls over.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: When in drag she does not know how to cinch her waist, which results in her giving the judges "hog body" as she puts it. This really irked Michelle Visage, since she had to give Adore the same critique two weeks in a row.
- Meaningful Name: As she tells it, Adore is short for adorable, because that's what she is. Also, Delano means 'at night', but in some languages also means 'swampy' or 'anus' ... so her name basically stands for a swampy anus at night.
- Naïve Newcomer: Despite her outstanding charisma she was very naïve in the ways of drag, like when she admitted to Michelle Visage that she does own several corsets (although didn't bring any of them with her), but doesn't even know how to lace them up properly. Even Ru said she embodies that young talent that just doesn't know what she's doing yet.
- Of Corsets Funny: Adore's "hog-body" and the corset gifted to her by Bianca become a Running Gag and the subject of a few reads.
- Oh, Crap!: Her signature gulp, when she was nervous or up for some harsh critique, at the end of the competition Courtney even mentions how she'll miss Adore's audible gulp.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Claims to be a mermaid, which is the reason why she is such a phenomenal singer.
- Properly Paranoid: When she and Laganja make up over a fight they shared in Untucked, Adore says outright she does not buy the apology since she feels Laganja just considers her a Poor Man's Substitute of herself, and shouldn't be doing so well in the competition ... which is exactly what Laganja admits to during a Confession Cam. It also shows that although Adore may come off as a little dim, she's a little more perceptive than she looks.
- The Protagonist: She shares this with Bianca, to the point that the producers even filmed a joint crowning, a first in the series. Although Adore didn’t win the crown, she had by far the most dynamic character arc of the season, a flattering edit, and a most confessionals (after Bianca).
- Rage Breaking Point: She hits one rather early in the season, after being saddled with making a dress using Here Comes Honey Boo Boo leftovers, add to the fact she can't sew, Adore finally loses it after realizing she's accidentally glued her dress to her mannequin, slamming her dress form to the floor, breaking it apart, and ripping her costume off the figure.
- The Rival: As fans had speculated with both herself and Courtney being former Idols, as well as on opposing teams in the Musical challenge, a rivalry between the two singing queens was inevitable. Although it seems the rivalry was played up in the commercials. Aside from passing comments about there being pressure to do well because of Courtney's idol background Adore seemed quite interested and even a little impressed that Courtney did it in drag.
- Shaped Like Itself: As team leader, her strategy was "strategically strategized".
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: To the point where "Fuck!" is jokingly considered her Catchphrase, right up there with "Party!" In fact, the first thing she says when walking into the workroom was "Fuck yeah!" Confession Cam sections that have been censored for broadcast can almost get hard to understand sometimes, given how much has been bleeped or taken out.
- Town Girls: Of the top 3, the neither. To put it in her own words, Adore is a lesbian Jonas brother.
Courtney Act (runner-up)
Age: 31
From: West Hollywood, California
"Everyone else is relying on ugly, why can't I rely on pretty?!"
- A Hero to His Hometown: Courtney has some celebrity status in Australia due to being a finalist in the first season of Australian Idol.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While she's generally nice and encouraging that doesn't mean she can't be very critical, like when she talks smack about Milk's inability to do glamour or critiques Joslyn's looks as being not on the same level.
- Brutal Honesty: Was considered a bitch for saying that she didn't think that Joslyn's outfit for the runway was very polished but during the Confession Cam stated she was only intending to help Joslyn and didn't mean it as a read.
- Condescending Compassion: Accused of this by Joslyn after she says Joslyn's drag isn't on the same level as the rest of the queens and then offers to let her have some of her stuff to gets her runway looks up to another level.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Her promo pic alone has caused many to call her the fishiest queen in the show's history.
- Face Palm: Did this in during a Confession Cam with an resigned "Oh god, Laganja" during another one of Laganja's tantrums.
- Graceful Loser: Stated that even if she didn't win the show she would be absolutely happy with where she placed.
- Granola Girl: Her post-Drag Race vlogs and Twitter account show that she's a practicing vegan and prefers having as much healthy, organic, or cruelty-free options she can find.
- In-Series Nickname: "Australia's Next Drag Superstar", not an official title by any means, but Courtney still likes to refer herself as this and uses it as her reason of why she should also be crowned "America's Next Drag Superstar".
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: This is the edit she seems to have gotten from the show, although as she approached the Final 3 her Alpha Bitch tendencies seemed to increase.
- Muscle Angst: She gets both the male and female versions of this trope. She talks about feeling too skinny as a man compared to the gym bunnies of West Hollywood, but at the same time she's worried that bulking up would hurt her image as Courtney.
- Punny Name: In Australia her name sounds like "Caught in the act", although she admits the joke is a bit lost in the U.S. without the Australian accent. In a minor Pet the Dog, Ru's catch phrase for Courtney isn't a phrase, but to pronounce her name with an Aussie accent so that the pun is present. It gets to the point that other queens start to do it too so Courtney will always have her pun.
- The Rival:
- The fires were sparked when she first met Adore, but fanned to full flame in the Musical challenge, as the two Idols starts trying to outshine each other just practicing their lyrics in the workroom. Although their "rivalry" pretty much fizzled after said Musical Theater episode.
- She and Joslyn become this later on, although Courtney has made it clear she doesn't think Joslyn is on her level.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Seems to have become a little meaner and meaner the closer the show gets to it's finale. Courtney even lampshades this by saying that the show is starting to feel more like a competition the less queens there are.
- Self-Deprecation: During the acting challenge in the music video pokes fun at herself for not really speaking with an Australian accent any longer.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Ru accuses her of resting on pretty, despite the fact she has always performed well in acting challenges and even won the Musical Theater challenge. Courtney even says outright she's not sure why she's getting the "stop relying on that body" warning since she really is quite talented and versatile.
- Small Name, Big Ego:
- Courtney bragging about being able to nail every challenge started to look like this to some of the other queens.
- Her constantly referencing her Australian celebrity status reads as this, especially since in America she was just another drag queen before appearing on the show. She styles herself "Australia's Drag Superstar" and although that's not an official title, she still uses it a reason why she should also be America's Drag Superstar.
- Stripperiffic: Loves to show off her body-ody-ody ... so much so that by the end of the season, the judges actually critique her on her over-reliance on showing skin.
- Genre Savvy: While talking with Ru about her first runway look she correctly predicts that eventually Michelle will end up telling her not to "rely on that body".
- The Stoic: Has been criticized for her responses sounding canned, and herself has admitted that she can come off Stepfordy at times.
- Town Girls: Of the top 3, the femme. Out of all the racers who are not transwomen, Courtney is still considered by the fandom to be the fishiest queen.
- Vocal Dissonance: Her voice while out of drag is a bit of a shock, as it is quite naturally soft and feminine.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: For the "Your Best Drag" runway, she wore a stunning dress that featured not only the Australian national flag, but also the Australian Aboriginal flag as well.
Bianca Del Rio (winner)
Age: 37
From: New York City, New York
"We’re drag queens in a fucking competition, the only thing worse is prison!"
- The Ace: Arguably of the entire franchise. Having won 3 challenges and never landing below safe, Bianca currently holds the best statistics of any queen in a regular season, and the second best statistics overall after BenDeLaCreme in All Stars 3. Even long after her season, Bianca remains at the top of most people's "Favorite Winners" lists. Considering Drag Race's notoriously-splintered fanbase, the fact that she's near-universally loved is no small feat.
- Berserk Button: De La's comment that Bianca was "sailing through" the competition was one of the few things that got under Bianca's skin. A case of Poor Communication Kills, as De La meant it as a compliment to her versatility and talent, and not that she was coasting by.
- Boring, but Practical:
- Ironically enough, Bianca's seamstress skills started her off as The Cast Showoff, however she specializes in a similar silhouette for her outfits. Eventually the judges call her out on the fact that although her dresses are always fabulous, they've grown bored with seeing the same gown week after week in different fabrics.
- If you look at her outfits in non-main runway looks (such as the banjee girl) or what she wears off show, she actually has decent diversity in her looks. Likely she just decided to go for what 100% works, trusting her skills to keep her out of the bottom.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: She loves to use Judge Judy's "BALONEY!" when calling out the other queens.
- Brick Joke: During the hip-hop challenge, guest judge Trina comments that Bianca's style is very "wide 'n sassy", and Bianca jokes that that was her nickname in prison. A few episodes later, the queens are given a mini-challenge where they have to put together a prison drag look; each queen is given a nickname onscreen, and you can guess what Bianca's was.
- Brutal Honesty: Insult comedy aside, she's a very brutally honest queen, she doesn't believe in throwing shade, she throws the truth ... sometimes right into the other queens' faces.
- Bully Hunter: Despite throwing Brutal Honesty left right and centre, Bianca can't stand bullying and has stood up for a few queens a number of times. It gets to the point where Ben de la Creme prays Bianca will notice Darienne picking on her and come to the rescue.
- Can't Take Criticism: During the stand-up challenge, Bianca playfully rants, "I will show you versatility when Santino wins a sewing competition and Visage wears a fucking turtleneck!" But she's actually one of the few queens this season to take critiques gracefully.
- Catchphrase: An exasperated "Really, queen?" when one of her competitors is acting the fool. Also "Not today Satan!"
- Cool Old Lady: Many of her competitors, especially Adore, refer to her this way. What else can you expect at the ripe old age of 37?
- Deadpan Snarker: The absolute mistress of the witheringly snappy put-down, almost everything that comes out of her mouth is delivered with weary sarcasm.
- Death Glare: Her signature expression, especially if the queens, especially Laganja, are acting foolish in her eyes. It comes out in full play during Untucked.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Says that the competition really touched her icy little heart, and that the whole ordeal put a few cracks into the walls she's built up into her personality over the years.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": While it is not at all uncommon for older and more tenured drag queens to be given endearing motherly nicknames, Bianca very frankly tells Laganja to stop calling her "momma", although that's mostly a result of the friction between the two.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Has something of this role for the other queens who fall back on excuses, but also sincerely congratulates them when they overcome them.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Her stage outfit in the Season 7 finale episode was a glittery silver Pimped-Out Dress...and her face literally covered in glitter.
- Hates Everyone Equally: The season's recap episode listed the top fights of the season with the #1 listed simply as "Bianca vs. the world".
- Hollywood Old: At the time of filming Bianca was 37 - not old by any means, yet many jokes aimed at her were related to her 'old age' and 'maturity'. The odd thing about this is that she wasn't even the oldest queen in the cast, or even the second oldest.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: She has admitted she's met some lovely people here but this is not Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantyhose. However, even Adore has admitted after the show that Bianca has a huge heart, and she already seems to be in a good friendship with Courtney Act.Bianca: I made a friend. Me. Friend.
- In-Series Nickname: "A damn seamstress!" due to her impressive sewing skills, something of a growing rarity for queens in Drag Race. The nickname is actually a callback to Alyssa Edwards in Season 5 saying "I might not be funny, or a singer, or a damn seamstress, but I am a fierce queen." Bianca is a damn seamstress.
- Insult Comic: Describes herself as Don Rickles in a dress ... but prettier and not quite as old.
- Jerkass Has a Point: For all the things she says, there's usually a point behind it. Trinity's excuses are the main thing.Bianca: So let me ask you a fair question. What is it you do successfully? Quickly.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- For all her outer abrasiveness, she does show her softer side, like letting Adore use her cincher, and congratulating Trinity for both delivering a strong lipsynch and coming out as HIV positive. Even when she does hurl insults, she usually makes a very good point and won't put down someone just because she dislikes them or their drag style.
- Her communication from home is a letter and a drawing from her friend's eight-year-old daughter Lola, who talks about missing "Roy Lady" (her name for Bianca's drag persona) and wanting her to come home so they can hang out again. Bianca speaks with fondness and pride about the little girl, and how glad she is to have Lola in her life.
- Oh, Crap!: Her reaction to discovering that her pick for the Snatch Game, Judge Judy, is in fact RuPaul's favorite person ever.
- Only Sane Man: Compared to the other queens, her pragmatic attitude keeps things in perspective. As she puts it:Bianca: We're drag queens in a fucking competition! The only thing worse is fucking prison!"
- Palette Swap: Has a collection of gorgeous gowns, but as De La and Courtney both put it, they're 50 of the same dress in different fabrics.Courtney: Oh look, another boat-neck gown!
- Pet the Dog:
- "Don't tell any one I'm being nice", right before helping out her competitor Adore Delano before a runway.
- She has a number of small moments helping other queens or trying to give them confidence boosts. We see more than a couple of instances of her helping Adore with her runway outfits; she tries to encourage Trinity to come out of her shell, and asks the others to give her kudos on a great lip-lynch; she helps Ben and Laganja with their make up just prior to the Snatch Game; in the pre-finale episode she even stops to ask Darienne if she's OK when the latter seems upset working on her last outfit.
- Phrase Catcher: Near the end of the season, Ru started to refer towards Bianca more and more often with "Blame it on Bianca Del Rio!"
- The Protagonist: She shares this with Adore, to the point that the producers even filmed a joint crowning, a first in the series. Aside from taking the crown, Bianca got the most flattering edit, the highest number of confessionals, and a monumental both in the werk room and the main stage.
- Renaissance Woman: As Bianca makes it all the way to her crowning without ever placing lower than safe, let alone landing in the bottom throughout the competition, she represents the very first of an illustrious group of queens who can turn their hand to any challenge, reaching the season finale never placing below safe. The group comprises of Scarlett Bobo (Canada S1), Envy Peru (Holland S1), Ella Vaday (UK S3), Kitty Scott-Claus (UK S3), Elecktra Bionic (Italy S1), Farida Kant (Italy S1), Sharonne (Spain S2) and Danny Beard (UK S4).
- Sad Clown: Has said she uses comedy as a way to protect herself from being hurt by others, to the point where the other queens were dubious that she could say anything without a nasty comment or a joke added in.
- Self-Deprecation: Especially during the stand up comedy routine.Bianca: My mother is from Cuba and my dad is from Honduras, which basically means I have a large dick, no credit, and a tendency to take things that don't belong to me.
- Take That!: She says point blank that too many previous Drag Race contestants are releasing music singles because they "think they can sing", although she does not name specific names.
- Team Mom: She'll read you to filth, but she's always the first to dole out no-nonsense, rational advice, and lend a cincher.Bianca: Shake it off. Pretend it's gas and leave it in the hallway."
- This Is a Competition: She's in a drag competition, and it's every clown for them-fucking-selves!
- Town Girls: Of the top 3, the butch, given her manly voice and clown makeup.
- Uncanny Valley Makeup: There's a reason why Bianca refers to herself as a clown, as her makeup - whilst flawless - is very heavy and exaggerated. In interviews Bianca has said that this is intentional - unlike some queens, her natural features aren't very feminine so she compensates with her makeup. This is referenced by Courtney Act in the second episode:Courtney Act: I'm just surprised to see that Bianca Del Rio is a real human being underneath all of that clown makeup...
- Vitriolic Best Buds: As far as from the last Untucked, she's this with Adore and Courtney. Especially Adore.
- Vocal Dissonance: Did pretty much nothing to disguise her natural voice in drag, which just added to the hilarity.
- Workaholic:
- Self-admitted in interviews before and after the show. As DeLa's "Bianca" puppet puts it:
DeLa: Looks like your lace-front is coming off...
"Bianca": BALONEY! I HAVE NO PROBLEMS! I LIVE IN NEW YORK! I WORK ALL THE TIME!- At a Season 8 premiere party, she cracked that the only reason she wasn't at the winners photoshoot mini-challenge was because she was the only queen who was at work.
