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Characters in both series

Zack Martin

• Anti-Hero: Type III or Type IV.
• Book Dumb
• Foil: To Cody.
  • All Work vs. All Play: All Play to Cody's All Work.
  • Different as Night and Day
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Cody's responsible.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Cody's blue.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Cody's Sensitive Guy.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Wise Guy to Cody's Straight Man.
• Jerkass
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• The Lancer
• Super Speed: As Quick Guy in "Super Twins".
• Trickster Twins
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist

Cody Martin

• Adorkable: Primarily in the first series.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Bailey, at first.
• Foil: To Zack.
  • All Work vs. All Play: All Work to Zack's All Play.
  • Different as Night and Day
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Zack's foolish.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Zack's red.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Zack's Manly Man.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Straight Man to Zack's Wise Guy.
• The Hero
• Insufferable Genius
• Official Couple: With Bailey.
• Psychic Powers: As Brain Man in "Super Twins".
  • Mind Over Matter
  • Telepathy
• The Smart Guy
• Terrified of Germs: A phobia Cody developed in the latter half of On Deck.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In The Suite Life on Deck.
• Trickster Twins

London Tipton

• Asian Airhead
• Book Dumb: Originally.
• Brainless Beauty
• Catchphrase: "Yay me!"
• The Chick
• The Ditz and Genius Ditz. Slids back and forth every episode. In one, she doesn't know how to read and in another, she's a chess prodigy. The second one pissed Maddie off because only Smart People Play Chess.
• Fake Mixed Race: London Tipton's mother is revealed to be Thai and father is revealed to be white. London is played by Brenda Song, who is both Hmong and Thai.
• Flanderization: Became dumber as the series progressed.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Maddie's light.
• Rich Bitch
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Bailey's Tomboy.
• Upper Class Twit

Mr. Marion Moseby

• But Not Too Black: Played With. Flashbacks show that Moseby became progressively less black as his career advanced. Occasionally, however, he'll say or do something to indicate that there's still a Soul Brotha in there somewhere.
• Butt Monkey
• Camp Straight
• Catchphrase: "Good luck with that!" Once berated an actor portraying him for placing the emphasis on the wrong word.
• The Dandy
• Embarrassing First Name
• Eye Beams: As The Meanager in "Super Twins".
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: He has five different colored eye beam powers.
    • An Ice Person: Blue beam.
    • Mind Control: Orange beam.
    • Overnight Age-Up: Green beam.
    • Playing with Fire: Red beam.
    • Tickle Torture: Purple beam.
• Hates Being Touched
• Official Couple: With Ms. Tutweiller towards the end of the series. He proposes to her at the Grand Finale.
• Running Gag: In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, he would usually find himself doing or saying something embarrassing in front of a hotel guest.
• Scary Black Man: Subverted. While he is rather intimidating to the kids (even Alex Russo was afraid of Moseby), he usually means well, even if he is rather stern.

Characters in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

Carey Martin

• Amicably Divorced: She and Kurt are on good terms.
• Hot Mom
• Lethal Chef

Maddie Fitzpatrick

• Actor Allusion: Maddie is played by Ashley Tisdale, who also plays Sharpay in High School Musical. This gets lampshaded in one episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
• Butt Monkey
• Hair of Gold: She dyes her roots brown.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to London's dark.
• Overly-Long Name: Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick, but you can call her Maddie.

Characters in The Suite Life on Deck

Bailey Pickett

• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: She wears an old-fashioned head-mounted retainer to bed once.
• Country Mouse
• Down On The Farm: She's from the town Kettlecorn, Kansas.
• Farmer's Daughter
• Hair of Gold
• Insufferable Genius: Has moments of this.
• Official Couple: With Cody.
• The Smart Girl
• Sweet Polly Oliver: In the first episode.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to London's Girly Girl.

Marcus Little

• Former Child Star: Was formerly the One Hit Wonder kid rapper Lil' Little.
• Put on a Bus: Leaves the show some time in Season 3.
• Sixth Ranger: Joins the group some time in Season 2.

Woody Fink

• Beta Couple: With Addison.
• Big Eater
• The Big Guy
• Fake Guest Star: Shows up for two-thirds of all the episodes, yet is simply credited as a guest star. He shows up more than Marcus!
• Gasshole
• Kavorka Man
• The Pigpen

Emma Tutweiller

• Butt Monkey
• Christmas Cake: A Running Gag about is her moaning this status.
• Crazy Cat Lady
• Official Couple: With Mr. Moseby towards the end of the series. He proposes to her at the Grand Finale.

Addison

• Beta Couple: With Woody.
• Caffeine Bullet Time in the Groundhog Day Loop episode.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Cute Bruiser: As she calls it "83 pounds of pure muscle" or something like that.
• Genki Girl: She's very perky.
• Meaningful Name: Note the first three letters of her name.