Flawless Victory: An unusual version of this trope, in that she genuinely didn't ever do anything even slightly wrong during the course of the series, but also tended to stay in the background a lot, and never even stepped up (much less won) as project manager. It seems that she won mainly as the last person standing due to Heidi's implosion, and whatever James supposedly said to talk himself out of victory.
James
Noodle Incident: Something that he said so disturbed Trump that he refused to hire him. No-one's exactly sure what it was, not even James himself.
Frank
The Load: Managed to get through to the final four without ever being especially impressive, mostly because others messed up even worse.
Nicole
Horrible Judge of Character: In fairness, there was no indication that Tim's feelings for her were anything but genuine. That being said, she seemed oblivious to just how untrustworthy a person he could be, especially when he openly betrayed James to try and keep Nicole in the competition. Trump himself called her out on this.
Ms. Fanservice: Wore one of the team's bikinis during the week 2 swimwear show, and managed to pull it off much better than Carey did the swimsuit that he wore.
Kristine
Epic Fail: In the penultimate task she managed to print the wrong phone number for Trump's own Las Vegas resort in the brochure that the teams were asked to produce. This was such a severe blunder that it caused Trump to alter the format of the semi-final on the spot and fire her alongside Heidi, instead of both members of the worst performing team (Heidi and Frank) as was the original plan.
Skewed Priorities: Decided to give Muna the central acting job for the soap advert purely to shut her up, rather than basing her decision on who could actually act the best. On top of that, she and Angela were then away doing minor jobs during the actual shoot, meaning that she wasn't around to see what a poor job Muna was doing and potentially have her swap roles or dialogue with Heidi.
Heidi
The Ace: Despite one or two minor hiccups she made it through the competition with a virtually flawless track record, and Trump himself later admitted that she had been his favorite to win from the first week.
Broken Ace: It all went horribly wrong for her in the final task, where she was admittedly handicapped by being teamed up with Frank, who was easily the weakest of the remaining candidates, but rather than rising up to overcome this she completely fell to pieces, gave a terrible presentation and then repeatedly lied to Trump about what had gone wrong in the task. Trump fired her for this, telling her that he had never been so disappointed in an Apprentice candidate before.
Tragic Mistake: Had she just tried her hardest and been honest with Trump about why the task went wrong, odds are he'd have spared her and fired Frank, as her track record was far superior to his. Granted, she didn't yet know about Kristine's blunder, meaning she likely assumed that she and Frank were both going to get fired... but that being the case there was no reason for her to give Trump such a bad impression of her, especially when he's hired many promising candidates despite firing them from the show, which he would likely have done for her too.
Tim
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: After James announced that he was going to try and get Nicole fired, as he thought she was a stronger candidate (and potential finalist rival) than Angela or Kristine, Tim immediately ran to the hedge separating the winners' home from Tent City and told her in great detail about James's plan and what she should say to survive. This information soon reached Trump, which all but ensured that Tim would be fired the next time he was on a losing team.
Romance on the Set: With Nicole, in probably the show's most famous example of this trope outside of Sean/Tammy the previous season. Unlike that relationship however, it clearly affected their performance during the course of the show, to the point where Nicole started doing noticeably better after Tim was fired.invoked
Angela
Graceful Loser: After losing as project manager on the Week 10 task, she openly admitted that she was mainly to blame for the loss, that Heidi and Kristine weren't at fault at all, and that while Nicole had come up with the poorly-received idea to use rollerblade girls for promotion, she herself could have vetoed the idea and failed to do so. This resulted in Trump regretfully firing her.
Muna
It's All About Me: Demanded to be the star of the team's soap advert and to have all the critical dialogue, even though Trump would likely have been more impressed if she'd correctly carried out the job that Kristine originally asked her to, which was directing the advert. Instead, Muna's hyperactive delivery and thick Jamaican accent ended up rendering most of the dialogue incomprehensible, which caused the team to lose.
Tempting Fate: In the final boardroom she asked Heidi and Angela to say who the weakest member of the team was, clearly thinking they were going to say it was Kristine. Instead they both said that Muna was the weakest, and Trump immediately fired her.
Surya
The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite being one of only three people — along with Heidi and James, not counting Aaron's victory leading one of the mini-teams in Week 3 — to be responsible for multiple victories as a project manager, no-one on his team thought he had anything to do with those wins. It eventually got to the point where in the boardroom that eventually saw him fired, Surya himself openly told Trump that he didn't like working with them and wanted to go back to his old team.
Jenn
Oh, Crap!: After Derek got himself fired in the Week 7 boardroom Jenn, who had messed up horribly as project manager, looked relieved, clearly believing that the boardroom was over and that Derek had just unwittingly saved her from firing. This soon evaporated when Trump said that since Derek wasn't actually responsible for the loss, they were going to carry on and fire the person who was responsible... which was soon deemed to be Jenn.
Derek
Crazy Enough to Work: His idea to dress up like a beekeeper in Week 5 did a lot to attract customers when the team was floundering due to Aimee's indecisive leadership.
Non-Gameplay Elimination: While he did poorly in both Weeks 6 and 7, he likely wouldn't have been fired in the latter week, as the go-karting idea that he came up with was the only event idea that the team had, and the other members of the team even defended him on it. However, Derek then jokingly called himself "white trash," which so offended Trump that he fired Derek on the spot.
Straight Gay: Much more so than Carey was. In fact, were it not for Derek commenting on how he wouldn't even dream of wearing Carey's swimsuit — which was specifically designed to appeal to gay men — there would have been no hint one way or the other as to his sexual preferences.
Aimee
Sore Loser: She did not take her elimination well in the slightest, flipping off surviving boardroom candidates Derek and Jenn as she got into the cab, claiming that she'd have been better off leaving the rest of the team at home and doing the whole task herself, and even admitting post-series that she came within an inch of dropping a Cluster F-Bomb or two at Trump right after he fired her.
Aaron
Bystander Syndrome: Barely said a word in the boardroom sessions for Week 4, which seemed to disproportionately annoy Trump and played a major part in him getting fired the next week.
Wrong Genre Savvy: After earning big bucks from bulk sales of their lunch item the previous week, he thought they could do the same with jars of honey. Unfortunately, he failed to realise that whereas workers quite often buy fresh lunches and so would appreciate someone bringing food directly to their desk, people generally don't need that sort of service for honey, meaning that said strategy resulted in zero sales.
Marisa
Single-Issue Wonk: Was absolutely adamant on using chicken suits to advertise their dish in Week 4. When Heidi vetoed it on the grounds that everyone already knew El Pollo Loco already sells a lot of chicken dishes and it was the other parts of the dish that would stand out, Marisa threw a hissy fit and refused to offer up any more ideas, which resulted directly in her firing.
Michelle
The Cassandra: Despite the rest of the team ignoring her feedback due to the somewhat negative, complainy way she delivered it, her concerns about Carey's swimsuit designs turned out to be very much correct.
The Friend Nobody Likes: A mild case, since no-one aside from Carey and Nicole really disliked her that much, but she really wasn't too popular among the rest of her team.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After it was revealed that her team had taken a severe beating at the hands of Aaron's team in the Week 3 task, she clearly knew the writing was on the wall for her, and quit as soon as the task result was announced.
Taking the Bullet: Unintentionally; Trump thought that her team had bombed so badly in Week 3 that it merited a double-firing, but her quitting (and a little feedback from Ivanka) persuaded him that Michelle deserved all the blame for the loss.
Carey
Mr. Fanservice: Apparently the team were having trouble finding a model who wanted to wear the skimpy, pink swim shorts that he had designed for men to wear. So Carey volunteered to wear it himself for the fashion show.
Straight Gay: For the most part, he acted this way. Until he put his swimsuit on, at least.
Martin
Black Dude Dies First: The first time this trope applied to a U.S. Apprentice season, as he was eliminated in the first week after doing an all-around poor job.
No Social Skills: His image with Trump (and the viewers) never really recovered from telling Trump to his face that he really needed to pee during their initial meeting.
Red Shirt: He was so completely out of his depth on the show that only project manager Frank's abandoning the team for much of the task added any sort of ambiguity as to who would be fired.
