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The main group of friends we follow through the show.

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As a Whole

In General

• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Cat is the Beauty, Tori is the Brains, and Jade is the Brawn.
  • Also for the guys: Beck is the Beauty, Robbie is the Brains, and Andre is the Brawn.
• The Beautiful Elite: A particularly astounding example of this. Nearly all of the main cast is great-looking, their characters seem to have an infinite amount of money and accessories (depending on what the plot needs) and are apparently just great at everything they do. Given brilliant Lampshading by Sinjin in The Slap Fight.
• Everyone Has a Special Move: Despite them taking a variety of subjects at Hollywood Arts and everybody can seem like The Ace at everything, there's one special skill that seems to be their focus and what drives a lot of their storylines: with Tori it's singing, Beck - acting, Jade - writing & directing, Andre - song writing and composing, Robbie seems like the most tech-adept of the group but he's obviously a world-class (unless you buy into the haunted-doll theory) ventriloquist, and Cat seems like the most genuine Jack of All Trades performer- especially noted during her re-audition when she flawlessly performs a one-girl play scene, sings a show-tune and juggles in just 90 seconds. And if Trina realized that it was Martial Arts and her genuine physical ability rather than singing and dancing that was her special talent, she could find performing arts success through stunt work.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: Tori is the admirable narrator who holds the group together. Trina is the girly, glamour-obsessed one (though ironically she's considered the least pretty of the girls in-universe). Cat is the sweet, childlike, and naive one. Jade is the snarky bad girl of the group.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Tori is The Idealist mixed with The Realist, Jade is The Cynic, Cat is The Idealist, and Trina is The Apathetic.
• Free-Range Children: Despite being teenagers they seem to have no curfews or much home responibilities at all, as they seem free to do any activity, anywhere, at any time of night.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: With a fairly large ensemble it's not surprising some relationships seem closer than others, as Tori and surprisingly Robbie is the only one to have significant plotlines with everybody. Cat rarely has any storylines with Andre or Beck that don't involve another intermediary, Andre rarely has interactions with Cat or supposed best-friend Beck, Jade doesn't really hang out with anybody besides Cat or Beck despite in group tag-alongs, and Beck rarely has storylines outside Jade or Tori (despite one very memorable episode with Robbie). We stop getting storylines centered around Tori and Trina halfway through season 2 (after which point there has only been 4 total), which is especially strange because they're sisters. Jade and Tori's relationship, while a dominant focus throughout the series, rarely has episodes where they actually hang out alone... though some have noted there's a considerably more open and less hostile dynamic between them when they're away from the outside social world.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Jade in contrast with the other girls, wears mainly black outfits fitting with her edgy and gothic nature while Tori,Cat and Trina who are more light-hearted, wear outfits with more vivacious colors.
• Not So Above It All: Except for Token Evil Teammate Jade and Spoiled Brat Trina, who frequently have the most antagonistic and Kick the Dog moments throughout the show, each character has shown they have their more selfish and Jerkass tendencies that crop up now and again.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The main female group has: Cat the sweet Cloudcuckoolander, Jade the rebellious Alpha Bitch, and Tori the in-between and well-meaning leader.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're all quirky and eccentric, and they're the main seven.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • As required of all students at Hollywood Arts, all seven of them have customized lockers. Tori's is a night sky with LED text of "Make it Shine" to refer to the night and the song that changed her life, Robbie's is a mosaic of baby bottle nipples to remind him of happier times, Andre's is a keyboard he has to play to open because he loves music, Beck's is transparent because he has no secrets, and Jade's is a collage of scissors about because of her obsession with scissors.
  • Cat and Trina are the only ones who are never seen with their lockers on the show, but there is a picture of each online. Cat's has a ladybug crawling out of tall grass and Trina's is a pattern of spoons.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Personality wise, Jade (Tomboy) and Cat (Girly-Girl) definitely fit. Tori is more in-between.
• Town Girls: Dark, sarcastic and rude Jade is the Butch, sweet, naïve and innocent Cat is the Femme, and the creative, responsible, and friendly Tori is the Neither.
• True Companions: While some relationships skew towards the dysfunctional and many have their own neurotic, occasionally self-destructive sides, they do always seem to be there for each other in the end.

Victoria "Tori" Vega

Victoria "Tori" Vega

"When I make it Shine!"

Portrayed by: Victoria Justice

"I am a police officer... And I Am Victorious!"

The main character, Tori joins Hollywood Arts after filling in for her sister Trina during a performance. Tori quickly makes friends and enemies alike while attending the school. Tori's main talent is singing, but she can also act. Her best friends are André Harris and Cat Valentine. Whereas, her rival is Jade West.

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• Alliterative Name: One of her posts on TheSlap.com states that if she had been a boy her parents would have named her Victor, so her nickname would have been Tor. This implies that her full name is Victoria Vega, and therefore fits this trope.
• Almost Kiss:
  • A one-sided one with Andre in Jade Gets Crushed.
  • Another one with Beck in "Tori Goes Platinum", but she refuses out of respect for Jade's feelings.
• Ambiguously Bi: Pretty much pushed this as far as you could go for a Kidcom. Has a few one-episode boyfriends and the occasional Ship Tease with Beck, but also has a bunch of moments with Cat and a ton more with Jade and another moment with her blushing while Ke$ha admires her cheekbones, as well as frequently calling other women "hot" and never bothering to swap out female pronouns when performing love songs, and also tends to have a more androgynous sense of style and personality. She also has a big sexy magazine cut-out of Katy Perry plastered on the inside of her locker, along with the text "I Kissed a Girl"... It helps that her previous characters in the Schneiderverse fell under the ambiguously queer umbrella.
• And That's Terrible: In "A Film by Dale Squires", when Tori lists off the contributions her friends made to their film and then asks what Dale did, he simply says that he took the credit. Tori's only response is "... Well, that's mean!"
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: With Trina, the most significant moment being the end of "Helen Back Again".
• Befriending the Enemy: Tori repeatedly tries to befriend Jade, despite how the later constantly torments her. In one episode, Jade is even able to get Tori to help her out by suggesting she would consider her a friend. When asked why she does this, Tori explained that she would rather be Jade's friend than constantly fighting her. While Jade refuses to call Tori a friend, she definitely has gotten closer to her than she was at the start of the series.
• Berserk Button: She's usually among the more level-headed characters, but calling her a "grunch" will set her off.
• Betty and Veronica: While she has traits commonly assumed of a 'Betty' character, her general freshness and what-if factor makes her the Veronica to both Beck and Jade.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Go too far towards her or one of her friends and she will make you pay. A lot of one shot villains have found this out the hard way.
  • The fact that she was about to taze a security guard in "Stage Fighting" who was prepared, yet reluctant, to pull a stun gun on her. The scary part? She was going to use his own taser on him if he pulled it from his holster and warns him she will take it away from him for this purpose if he does. Keep in mind they'd already seen Tori attack someone without hesitation because she thought a stage fight was real and leaped in instantly to defend Beck from his "attacker". It took two guys to stop her beating up Beck's friend.
  • Just being called a grunch by one of the girls in Beck's car in "Driving Tori Crazy", provoked her enough to attack her.
  • She pushes Trina's head underwater when she's washing her hair when she's forced to be her assistant for a month.
• Big Little Sister: She's a year younger than Trina and yet, she's noticeably taller than her.
• Bilingual Bonus: When Sikowitz is speaking Guatamalan to the class, Tori translates his Word Salad speech into English.
  • More notibly so when she sings the Spanish cover of "Forever Baby" in "The Wood".
• Borrowed Catchphrase: In "The Gorilla Club", Trina tends to respond with sarcastic references to her butt (see Lame Comeback in Trina's profile). In the second half of the episode, we get this exchange:
  Tori: I am a risk taker!
  Jade: Don't tell me, tell the gorilla!
  Tori: Why don't you tell my butt!?
  Trina: [from upstairs] That's my thing!
• Brainy Brunette: She gets good grades and has brown hair.
• Break Them by Talking: In the pilot episode, Jade pours coffee on her head on her first day at Hollywood Arts. On her second day, she tells Jade about herself in front of their entire class during alphabet improv, pushing all of her buttons, watching her slowly lose her cool until she finally breaks the alphabet cycle and loses. Tori tops it off by kissing Beck in the end.
• Butt-Monkey: She's unlucky in many situations, sometimes to No-Respect Guy levels, and Jade insults her all the time.
• Cassandra Truth: No one has believed her about Ponnie's existence.
• Catchphrase: "I DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!" Said whenever someone (usually Jade) mocks something she said while affecting a Southern Belle accent. You know, to make Tori sound stupid.
• Cat Fight: With Jade twice in The Wood. Also with those four girls in Beck's car in Driving Tori Crazy.
• Celibate Heroine: Downplayed. She's not above dating, but she's not as boy-crazy as the average teen girl protagonist. Not only do we rarely catch her instigating pursuit of romance, but you can actually count all the people we see her actively showing interest in on one hand.
• Character Tics: When she's done performing, she puts her arm up in the air and sometimes ruffles her hair
• Class Princess: An attractive, mature, and kind-hearted girl who wins the lead roles in most school plays at Hollywood Arts and usually gets more attention than everyone else (despite being a Naïve Newcomer), but still remains humble. However, it's downplayed compared to other female leads of Dan Schneider shows, since Tori also gets her share of bad luck and Butt-Monkey moments, unlike Zoey and Carly, such as being bullied by the Alpha Bitch.
• Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: She sometimes finds herself keeping Trina on a leash.
• Color Motif: She seems to be associated with purple, which is associated with imagination, inspiration, wisdom, sensitivity, and compassion.
• Covert Pervert: To Jade's boobs, practically every other episode, but has a habit of making somewhat inappropriately suggestive gestures to everybody.
• Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose: Tends to use this when flirting with guys. This is lampshaded by Jade in Beck Falls For Tori.
• Dance Battler: Defeats the Gorilla by doing the Hammer Dance before kicking it off the crate.
• Deadpan Snarker: While nowhere near the level of Jade, she often dips into this.
• Death Glare: Gives quite a few of these in "Robarazzi". Robbie gets a pretty spooky one after he exploits her lotioned armpits. Jade would be proud.
• Determinator: She's not too fond of giving up, even when things look bleak, such as managing to keep everyone going in "Trapped in an RV". Not even winding up stranded in the desert in "Driving Tori Crazy" was enough to stop her from getting back to civilization in one piece.
• Dreadful Musician: Do not let Tori put her hands on a musical instrument. Subverted in Tori Goes Platinum, as she plays a piano quite well.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Tori seems to get and actually enjoy this implied directly from Ke$ha in Ice Cream for Kesha when the latter remarks about her cheekbones (and other female characters are shown fawning over that same facial feature). More YMMV with Cat and Jade.
• Evil Costume Switch: In "Jade Gets Crushed", Tori dresses up like Jade to help Andre get over his crush on her (Jade). On the Slap, Jade says that Tori looks "semi-decent".
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Tori in particular is quite fond of it.
• Foil: To Jade, as you can no doubt tell by their senses of fashion. They're both hardworking, ambitious, and prone to acts of jealousy, snide wit, and selfishness. However, while Tori is kind, compassionate, optimistic, and has a (arguably) good relationship with her parents, Jade is mean, rude, consistently assumes the worst, and has pretty much been taking care of herself since her parents divorced.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Trina's Foolish.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic.
• Genki Girl: Not to the same extreme as Cat, but still qualifies. Courtesy of Victoria Justice.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Developed a bad case of this in "Cat's New Boyfriend". She thought she could handle Cat dating her ex, but she was very wrong.
• Heroes Love Dogs: in "Jade dumps Beck" and "Star Spangled Tori" (the second one took a while to warm up to her though).
• Heroic RRoD: She donated 3 pints of blood for Robbie in "Tori Gets Stuck", leaving her in no condition to participate in "Steamboat Suzy".
• Heroic Resolve: The pilot episode has her get coffee dunked on her head on her first day at Hollywood Arts. After being given a pep talk by Andre and Trina, she comes back the next day and tells Jade off before kissing her boyfriend in front of the entire class.
• Hiccup Hijinks: She gets the hiccups every time she "talks urban".
• Hypocritical Humor: In Andre's Horrible Girl, she tried to convince Andre not to date a girl just so he could sing for her dad, a famous music producer. At least, until he said she could sing with him.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Not returning Beck's kiss in Tori Goes Platinum has shades of this, more so knowing it would crush Jade and likely cause a fissure inside their friend group, which Tori clearly values above all else.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: In "The Gorilla Club" Tori wants the part of a troubled girl in a movie but is told she is too nice for the role. Tori spends the rest of the episode trying to toughen up by engaging in risky behaviors, being goaded by Jade along the way. Which eventually culminates with her fighting a gorilla in the titular club.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: She felt this way in the first episode and a few afterwards, but eventually learns to accept the weirdness that abounds in Hollywood Arts.
• The Idealist: Contrast to Jade. Warm, bright, kind, and welcoming to nearly everyone, constantly looking on the bright side and seeing the best in people, even when they don’t deserve it.
• Idiot Ball: Tori thinking it was a good idea to trust Trina and Cat to get her solvent by the time the play started. This is hinted in one of her status updates on The Slap: "Never send Trina and Cat to do ANYTHING!!!"
• Informed Attractiveness: While she's undoubtedly attractive (just look at her picture), she gets what may be the crowning example of this trope in the iCarly crossover, when Freddie says that she's "way hotter" than Shelby Marx. (An Identical Stranger also played by Victoria Justice.) She was a few years older on the crossover than when she played Shelby Marx and thus, more "matured."
• Just Friends: Despite the Ship Tease between the two, Tori repeatedly refuses to be anything more than friends with Beck even after he and Jade break up. Tori makes this clear in "Tori Goes Platinum", where she refuses to kiss Beck because it would hurt Jade. In another episode, "Opposite Date", a random group of strangers even mistakes them for a couple, which they are both quick to deny. Tori even helps Beck and Jade get back together in "Jade Dumps Beck", and is very happy about them getting back together in another episode.
• Kick the Dog: "Jade Dumps Beck", during Jade's breakdown, Tori outright tells Jade that they're not friends.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In "Cat's New Boyfriend", she slowly grows more and more jealous of Cat dating her ex-boyfriend Danny. To the point where she squirts hot cheese on the two during the former's first Hollywood kick back. To make matters worse, she kisses Danny, and Cat catches them shortly after doing so.
• Lame Comeback: Whenever Jade mocks her with a high-pitched southern Belle accent, Tori's go-to retort is an obvious "I don't talk like that!"
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Tori's armpit cream in "Robarazzi."
• Meaningful Name: "Victoria" is Latin for "victory". Her last name "Vega" is also the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, which represents the lyre of the singer Orpheus.
• The Muse: To Andre. Not only has she helped with his song writing, but he's only been able to pull off a lot of his performances with her on the stage beside him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After squirting Cat and Danny with hot cheese, she's overcome with guilt. It gets worse after Cat catches her and Danny kissing.
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed as Tori doesn't show off much skin compared to the other girls. However, Tori will often wear pants that hug her legs and show them off. She also has a habit of wearing shirts that hug tightly to her.
• New Transfer Student: It is notable in that it's the students from the new school who pressure her to transfer in.
• Nice Girl: Notably, she refuses to ever lash out at Jade despite the latter's horrible attitude towards her, even to the point where she won't kiss Beck out of respect for Jade's feelings, even though Jade and Beck are no longer together. However, she still has her Jerkass moments too... like trying to drown her sister or leaving a little girl dangling from the ceiling (in her defense, they were being very obnoxious).
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Most of the time (i.e. "Beck's Big Break", "Rex Dies", "Prom Wrecker", and "Wok Star" to name a few), but she fixes it. Subverted in Tori Tortures Teacher where Sikowitz' depression is not because Tori took him to a play that made his life look worthless, but because he misses his girlfriend's pet cat.
• Oh, Crap!: When Ms. Lee outright tells her she will get her revenge on Tori what she did to her daughter in "Wok Star".
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls her "Tori" as opposed to "Victoria."
• Only Sane Woman: Of the female characters. Cat is The Ditz and a Talkative Loon, Jade is the bitchy Token Evil Teammate, and Trina is an annoying, egotistical Straw Loser. Compared to them, Tori is smart, nice, and levelheaded.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: in Tori Gets Stuck.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Tori is this with Andre. The two are best friends and constantly together in their free time. Andre is also the closest to each other out of the group. Andre even once stayed at her house.
• Plot Allergy: "Tori Gets Stuck" reveals that she's allergic to bush daisies. While she averts having an allergic reaction, she does reveal that they make her face swell up.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Trina's Red.
• The Rival: Jade, though she makes it clear that she'd prefer to be Jade's friend.
• Running Gag: Ever since "Rex Dies", people really can't stop mentioning Tori's cheekbones. One notable instance is the time Ke$ha commented on it, which earned a blush from Tori.
• Sanity Slippage: In "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", Tori is forced to be Trina’s assistant due to a deal they made when they were kids. Eventually, she decides to get Ke$ha to perform for Trina to get out of it. Throughout the episode, Tori gets more and more desperate to find the letters that spell Ke$ha's name. When they couldn’t find the $, she ends up cracking in a store.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After long hours of chopping squid, Ms. Lee lets Tori and Robbie leave seeing they paid off their bill. Robbie hops over the counter, only to break the plates, thus having Ms. Lee demand them to work some more. Tori says to hell with that and immediately ditches Robbie.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The reason she took the punishment for something she could've proven she didn't do in "Stage Fighting" was because if she had, she could already tell that she'd waste a lot of her time at Hollywood Arts locking horns with Jade. However, because Jade has deep-seated psychological issues and way too much pride to refer to Tori with any positivity, this ends up happening anyway.
• Sheathe Your Sword/Turn the Other Cheek: She'd rather take a harsh but completely avoidable punishment that she doesn't deserve than spend her time at Hollywood Arts fighting with Jade. When Jade can't grasp this, her response basically amounts to "Try kindness, bitch."
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Tori is this with Trina. Tori is a Nice Girl, has Undying Loyalty to her friends, is easy-going, and is often the Only Sane Woman, while Trina is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, is often a Glory Hound, and is very self-centered.
• Signature Move: Whenever she truly gets into the music, she tends to bend her arm over her head.
• Silent Snarker: Her signature reaction to Jade insulting her.
• Sliding Scale of Beauty: Level III, World Class Beauty. Cheery and very beautiful, she and especially her cheekbones attract the attention of many.
• The Smart Girl: She somewhat shares this role with Robbie, but she's more street smart and tactical. She is also implied a little in "Pilot" and "Car, Rain, & Fire" to have an affinity for science.
• Spicy Latina: Zig-zagged. She's half-Puerto Rican and often too passive and sweet to qualify, but she's fairly sassy, stubborn and has shown on several occasions to have a short temper.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Tori just can't deny that Jade is outright gorgeous and has a habit of checking her out...a lot.
• Stupid Sexy Friend: This is basically her and Jade's dynamic in a nutshell.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Definitely this with Jade, as she always forgives her no matter how far Jade's more extreme outbursts tend to go, though the "devil" part may be a bit of an exaggeration
• "Take That!" Kiss: She kisses Beck in front of the whole class at the end of the pilot episode just to stick it to Jade.
• Title Drop: "I AM A POLICE OFFICER AND I AM VICTORIOUS!!!"
• Took a Level in Badass: The whole plot of In "The Gorilla Club", where in order to more convincingly get prepared for a harder acting gig she trains at the titular underground action club.
• Undying Loyalty: She's there for pretty much everyone, but Jade is a special case. Even despite their history, which includes a count or 2 of literal life endangerment, Tori still treats Jade like someone worthy of love. The fact that she refuses to kiss Beck because it would destroy Jade is proof enough.
• Unwitting Pawn: A variation of this: she doesn't realize that she had taken Ponnie's place in Hollywood Arts upon Ponnie getting kicked out, thus unintentionally driving her to revenge. The horrific part? She has actually done nothing.
• Victorious Loser: In "Stage Fighting". Which is interesting considering her name and the name of the show.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jade.
• The Watson: A small running gag is that she's constantly asking what this, that and the other thing mean, often concerning terminology in the performing arts, and it often infuriates Jade. Especially when she finds herself asking what an understudy is.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's so acrophobic that she can't make herself fall from a two-story floor to a giant air mattress for a stunt. It takes Jade pushing her off for her to conquer her fear of heights.
• With Friends Like These...: With Jade.
• Woman Scorned: She's fine if you just break up with her. Cheating on her or just using her will end with you getting a Humiliation Conga. Ryder Daniels and Steven found this out the hard way.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: She gets the lead in "Tori Gets Stuck", but we all know why she never gets to star in her debut. "The Gorilla Club" has her defeating the gorilla, only to be tackled off of the crate. She also passes her movie audition, but because of her "gorilla injuries", she doesn't get the part.

André Harris

Portrayed by: Leon Thomas III

Tori's best friend and a talented musician.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Trina can never get his name right. This running gag trails off after the first few episodes.
• The Ace: Andre appears to be remarkably good at everything.
• Almost Kiss: Almost kisses Tori due to her posing as Jade in "Jade Gets Crushed".
• Aroused by Their Voice: Develops a crush on Jade after hearing her sing.
• Big Eater: In "The Bad Roommate" he finishes a pot pie meant for the Vega family. That's why they call it family pot pie, y'know.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He mentioned in his Slap video profile "I like girls...a lot."
• Chick Magnet: Though not quite at Beck's level, Andre is fully capable of getting dates.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Has his moments, like angsting over never being stung by a bee.
• Deadpan Snarker: Andre can be pretty sarcastic, particularly when someone does something ridiculous or inappropriate. He also has traces of being a Gentleman Snarker.
• Disappeared Dad: His father is only mentioned once throughout the series and it's on the Slap, when Andre talks about going to have Thanksgiving dinner with him. It's never explained why Andre doesn't live with him.
• Girls Like Musicians: While not as much as Beck, the musically-inclined Andre gets plenty of attention from girls. Oftentimes, he's approached by girls after concerts. At the end of an episode where he was pinning over Jade, he gets over these feelings once another girl shows interest in him.
• The Heart: Andre is often the one to pacify others and keep members of the group from arguing with each other. Even Jade noticeably treats him better than she does Robbie, Cat, and Tori, as pointed out in one episode.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Beck.
• Jack of All Trades: Can sing, act, and is gifted on multiple instruments.
• The Lancer: He is Tori's best friend, who often functions as The Leader. Together, they keep each other grounded and make a good team.
• Large Ham: Notably whenever he gets upset/stressed out.
• Missing Mom: Played straight with his mother, as she's never brought up in any capacity.
• Nice Guy: Andre is generally a sensitive, kindhearted person. The biggest exception to this is in "A Christmas Tori" where he gets upset over a bad grade, he takes his anger out on Robbie by shoving him out of his chair and knocking him to the ground. But by the next episode he's back to his normal, nice self.
• The Not-Love Interest: He's the closest to Tori in the main group, so it's easy to think he's her love interest, especially when they've even done a couple of love duets together. But they're best friends, and don't see each other as anything more.
• Only Sane Man: Trades off with Tori and Beck, also he's often the guy his friends go to advice for. He is the only one treated like a normal guy.
• The Perfectionist: When it comes to his music.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Tori and to an extent, Jade.
• Pretty Boy: Courtesy his smooth, youthful looks. He's also pretty ripped.
• Recycled Premise: Most of his B-plots involve (a) performing to get the attention of a very famous record producer, which he actually does (b) with Tori's help. Episodes later, he performs for another producer to the point he could have signed for multiple producers while in Hollywood Arts. What happened to these producers and Andre's music are never brought up anyway. It was once even played with when both Tori and Andre thought they were getting a record deal only to fail when a baby starts crying.
• Shirtless Scene: Subverted in "The Breakfast Bunch" when he starts stripping off and dancing down the hallways, but deliberately stopping when he's down to a shirt that says 'Final Shirt'.
• The Smart Guy: Definitely one of the sanest characters in the series (second to Beck), but he is also quite smart. Lampshaded by Tori when she suggests Jade and Andre combine their talents to make an effective revenge plot.
  Tori: You're smart, she's mean. Figure something out.
• Stunned Silence: Andre's reaction in “Freak The Freak Out” when he hears Tara and Hayley sing. In this case, he is actually shocked by how bad they are compared to Cat and Jade. Happens again in "Jade Gets Crushed", this time as stunned amazement when he heard Jade sing.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • To Tori. He always stick up for her whenever she needs him. Even when he had an extremely elderly relative's birthday to celebrate, he stayed to help Tori write a song to help her get retribution on Ryder Daniels.
  • His grandmother as well. He cares deeply for her even despite how irritated he gets with her mental illness.
  • To Beck as well, as we see in "Jade Gets Crushed".
• Would Hit a Girl: Implied in "Freak The Freak Out". When he protested the obviously rigged vote in the sing-off at Karaoke Dokie, Tara angrily tells him to sit down, to which he immediately claps back "I'll sit YOU down!".
• Would Hurt a Child: Tries to attack Sikowitz's bratty neighbor in "Robbie Sells Rex", but Tori, Beck, and Jade hold him back.

Robert "Robbie" Shapiro

Portrayed by: Matt Bennett

A part of the group with a crush on Cat and a puppet named Rex.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Trina and later Cat in Episode 3. Subverted in Cat's New Boyfriend, when Trina seems to be warming up greatly towards him, and the show often hints that Cat and Robbie may like each other.
• Accidental Kiss: With Jade in "The Bad Roommate", tripping over a backpack.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: During Robarazzi, he embarrasses his friends to gain internet fame, and says they're overreacting when they're upset. Luckily, this is the only instance of this from him, and his friends helped him see the error of his ways.
• All Jews Are Cheapskates: Is incredibly stingy with his money, to the point where he allows his phone to be essentially useless because he doesn't want to pay for phone service.
• All of the Other Reindeer: While they do care about him, Robbie's friends seem to like making fun of Robbie and get really annoyed with him quite easily, even if he hasn't done anything wrong.
• Ambiguously Bi: There are hints that Robbie may be a closeted bisexual. He's clearly interested in dating girls, but most of the girls at school belittle, taunt and reject him, and only a few of his temporary girlfriends have lasted one episode. He has commented that Beck looked "really good" in a tight pair of jeans in A Film by Dale Squires, and on other occasions indicates he may have a bit of a man-crush. See Rex Powers (his alter-ego) below for more examples.
  • There's also some theories he may be inter-sex or transgender, due to the Running Gag of the group (and Yerban prison guards) always confusing Robbie's gender.
• Birds of a Feather: With Cat.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Was once searching for adult diapers, and considering he recently peed himself when Jade simply glared at him, one can assume he gets scared easily enough to need extra protection
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's actually extremely talented in many different ways, despite being one of the most eccentric members of the cast and having Rex.
• Butt-Monkey: Every episode sees him either injured, insulted, or otherwise shown in an unfairly negative light. For example in "Helen Back Again," he buys Sinjin's bike and Helen promptly runs over it with her car, but only AFTER he pays for it.
• Celebrity Resemblance: to Andy Samberg, which gets brought up at least once.
• The Chew Toy: Undergoes a lot of abuse from other characters.
• Disproportionate Retribution: A big victim of this. Robbie goes to a park (on his bike) to give away some ice cream that would have otherwise been thrown out. He willingly screams out "Free ice cream!" and all the moms chase him into an alley and beat him with sticks. Accidentally kills the Chancellor of Yerba's pet octopus, and it lands him, Trina, Cat, Jade, Beck, and Andre all in prison (Though possibly justified, as Festus later comments the octopus was like the Statue of Liberty to Yerba). He is also threatened bodily by Trina when he gives a review of her play that she doesn't like, and was once thrown out of a window by Andre's cousin Kendra for accidentally stepping on her toe.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Cat Valentine, and sometimes other girls he tries to date or hit on.
• Did Not Think This Through: Some of the problem he runs into does fall into this territory.
• Flanderization: Somewhat in Season 2 and the beginning of season 3 on the subjects of him being cheap/selfish, having incredibly bad luck (especially with girls) and being a near Sinjin-level loser. Luckily, they pulled back and he's back to his geeky but sweet personality from season 1, if not a little more characterized. He's also inching closer and closer to Asshole Victim territory, as he caused all the damage in Cat's mom's boss' home because he wouldn't hand over a skull (in Andre's Horrible Girl), and there was no reason for him to jump over the counter in How Trina Got In.
• He Really Can Act: In-universe. You wouldn't think it at first but he's arguably the single most talented member of the main cast, skilled in every venue - but has one little issue that causes problems...
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With his alter-ego, Rex.
• Hidden Depths: In the recent episode The Hambone King, Robbie proves himself to be a (near)master slap-dancer. Had it not been for the sushi or groin injury he'd be the champion.
• Idiot Ball: Many of the problems the kids get into over several episodes (notably The Great Ping-Pong Scam, How Trina Got In and Locked Up!), are directly his fault. His behavior in dealing with Rex (notably in Wi-Fi In The Sky) also puts him in this category.
• It Meant Something to Me: He develops crushes on Trina and Cat after they kiss him as it meaning nothing (in Trina's case it was part of an act, in Cat's case it was to show him a kiss doesn't need to mean something).
• Jerkass Ball: In the episode "Robbarazzi" where he creates a blog embarrassing all of his friends by exploiting and spreading lies about them. He also felt no remorse until his friends had to blackmail him into stop doing it.
• Jewish and Nerdy: He is indeed very nerdy and tech-oriented, often whipping out his over-sized tablet computer for simple matters. Sikowitz even calls him "Urkel"" in Locked Up (see above), a reference to Family Matters which had a well-known example of the trope, one Steve Urkel. The first season even had him dressing similar to Urkel, with strange patterned and colorful cardigans.
• Large Ham: When he gets really worked up, Robbie can be quite dramatic.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine Boy to Jade.
• The Millstone: Robbie constantly causes trouble for his friends. He once got them all sent to jail.
• Missing Mom: Little to nothing is known about Robbie's mother.
• Moment Killer:
  • Robbie does this to Tori's parents on their anniversary after getting kicked out of Sikowitz's house. If that wasn't bad enough, he then invites Cat and a guy she has just been on a date with over as well.
  • Indirectly the reason for Tori spraying Cat and Daniel with cheese at the Annual Throwback. He did tell Tori where the cheese fountain was. Whether or not he wanted that to happen or if it was a freak thing is up for debate...
• Nerd Glasses: The actor portraying him, Matt Bennett, sports an even nerdier pair in real life.
• Nice Jewish Boy: He is usually a compassionate and sweet-natured person.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He has also been known to make things worse on occasion (i.e. "The Great Ping Pong Scam" and "Locked Up"). Sikowitz even lampshades it in the latter's case: "Way to go, Urkel".
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • Tries to give free ice cream to kids at the park instead of wasting it all, and all their mothers chase him into an alley and beat him up.
  • In order to help Trina stay in Hollywood Arts, he has to get beat up by her and is nearly killed when Helen rips off a locker door, ready to bash his head in.
  • Makes a portable battery from car batteries so Tori can use her phone. She later gets frustrated with it and electrocutes him with them.
  • He and Cat deliver some bad news to kids in song to keep them cheerful, and when they do it for Trina, she takes Robbie's guitar and smashes it (Granted you have to admit telling a girl at the VERY last second when she ready to get pick up this MIGHT not be the best idea).
  • Trains Tori for her tech theater exam, and his school record is beaten by one point, leaving him broken.
  • Gives a review on Trina's play, and is threatened bodily because Trina doesn't like the review (which he sugarcoated by the way, as one can imagine what she'd have done to him if he'd said what he actually thought of it).
• Noodle Incident: Whatever he did playing "Pirates" with Cat that made her so adverse to the idea afterwards.
• Odd Friendship: Other than with a puppet, will occasionally be partners in crime with the catty and short tempered Trina. Prominently with Jade in "Star Spangled Tori", as they team up to find out what's wrong with Cat and act closer than we've seen them.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In the Sam & Cat special, he doesn't have Rex around, but Robbie isn't a pathetic mess unlike how he had been portrayed when he couldn't function without Rex before.
• Parental Abandonment: By his mom.
• Real Men Wear Pink: While not exactly the manliest guy out there, you gotta give points to a kid his age who came shamelessly flaunt his male makeup and $40 pedicures while not being all Camp about it.
• Renaissance Man: You wouldn't think it at first but Robbie has the most variety of talents out of the main cast being able to dance, act, play music, do the technical sides really well (being the person who taught Tori how to do stage production), and be an extremely talented ventriloquist.
• Running Gag:
  • Since the beginning of the show, characters have been known to confuse Robbie for a girl.
  • Usually gets a unique one once an episode, such as his zipper falling down for no reason or being snubbed a compliment every time he asks for feedback on his part in a play.
• Sad Clown: Arguably the biggest one of the series. He constantly tries to do good and lift his friends' spirits, most likely because he grew up with such a low opinion of himself. His locker is a mosaic of baby bottle tips to remind him of a time when he was legitimately happy.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Andre, Beck, and Rex's Manly Men.
• Shirtless Scene: Deliberately in "A Film by Dale Squires" while riding the appeal of Beck fixing his car, and early in "Cell Block" but not so deliberately.
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • Towards Trina in Episode 3, after she kisses him for an audition.
  • He apparently has made a routine out of hiding in the bushes at Tori's house and watching her.
  • He apparently seems to be this for Cat. He has a collection of cut-outs for her in different poses. Also, during Cat's time sleeping in the school, he was in the girls' restroom. Both Tori and Jade questioned this strange acts.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In "Robbie Sells Rex," he gives Rex away for $2,000. He manages to get Rex back in the end, and to top it all off, he never has to give back the $2,000.
• Undying Loyalty: To his friends, particularly Cat, even though they have a hard time showing the same loyalty and respect back. Strangely averted in "Robarazzi".
• The Unfavorite: Robbie mentions on the Slap that he has a sister. We don't know what their relationship is like, but given what we know of his relationship with his parents, it stands to reason that they prefer her over him.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: His pants are always unzipped for some reason.
• With Friends Like These...: Everybody will usually give him this treatment, how harshly depends on the episode. They have very little patience with him for no good reason, (he's annoying but still a good friend and person, and that time he use his friends embarassment to his own advantages that probably went viral on other sites) and don't seem to mind much when he's in pain, insulted, or upset.

Rex Powers

Voiced by: Jake Farrow

Robbie's puppet, whom no one likes.

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• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in one of the Sam & Cat specials where Robbie appears but he doesn't, which is weird.
• Ambiguously Bi: In Beggin' On Your Knees he says Rider Daniels is hot, when everyone stares he merely replies "Stare all you want, I'm secure", which can be taken one of two ways, but even when a straight man compliments another man's looks he usually wouldn't use such a description. Then in iParty With Victorious after André yells at him, his response is to say he has beautiful skin as he (André) leaves.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Rex posts a worried question about the episode "Rex Dies" on TheSlap. Narrates in between commercial breaks during 'April Fools Blank'.
• Bullying a Dragon: In "A Film By Dale Squires", he makes the mistake of poking fun at Jade, who knocks him unconscious for his troubles.
• Casanova Wannabe: Yes, the puppet.
• Catchphrase: Rex tends to say "ah" followed by his jaw hanging open.
• Companion Cube: For Robbie. The others also treat Rex as if he were real, but it's shown in "Rex Dies" that they do so to humor Robbie. And without him around, Robbie can't basically function.
• Deadpan Snarker: Makes a habit of dishing out biting quips, most often at the expense of Robbie.
• Demoted to Extra: There are few Season 4 episodes where he appears, and he speaks in even less of them.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Rex sabotaged the harness which lead to Trina being injured. All because she punched him in the face, and she deserved it, considering what he said.
• Everyone Has Standards: Snarky and abrasive he may be, Rex still has morals:
  • Even he was appalled when Jade poured iced coffee on Tori's head on her first day.
  • He was genuinely horrified when Cat was intercepting emergency calls from people in car accidents and not doing anything to actually help them.
  • In "Beck Falls for Tori", when Andre reassures Tori about her stunt by saying there's not going to be a funeral, Cat gives a disappointed "aww", prompting a Jaw Drop from Rex.
• Evil Counterpart: For Robbie, verging on Evil Twin, but Robbie is the only member of the cast who sees him this way.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Robbie.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his occasional rudeness and abrasive attitude, he is still capable of having friendly conversations with his pals, does try to help them sometimes, and even tries to help boost Robbie's confidence when not tearing it down.
• Kavorka Man: Closest you could get to on a kid's show... yeah.. the puppet 'consorts' with a great number of Northridge girls and even has a hickey from their prom that he went to.
• Lemony Narrator: Briefly, in 'April Fool's Blank', Rex narrates at the first commercial break, telling the audience to come back... "or don't, I still get paid either way.'
• Mandatory Line: Ever since 'Blooptorious', he only appears once or twice in an episode and gets a line. In 'Car, Rain, and Fire' he doesn't even appear.
• Meaningful Name: Rex (which means king) Powers seems to reflect the domineering grip he has on Robbie.
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: At least in the licensed game for the Wii, where he is definitely alive. The show itself hints this might be the case, but never confirms it.
• N-Word Privileges: At the end of "Who Did It To Trina," Rex says that it's only okay if he calls himself a puppet. And yet, in iPartyWithVictorious, he didn't take offense to Sam calling him one. In fact, when Robbie told her not to say that, Rex just responded "Nah, nah, it's cool." He once mentioned on the Slap something along the lines of "rights for Puppet-Americans".
• Pet the Dog: This exchange with Tori about her waiting for the announcement of the announcement of a new phone.
  Rex: You mean you're waiting for the announcement of the announcement?
  Tori: Yeah.
  Rex: Girl, you're better than that.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: In iParty With Victorious.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Robbie's Sensitive Guy. Watch any episode from seasons 1 or 2 and wait for Robbie and Rex to show up.
• Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick: He is a puppet belonging to Robbie whom he often snarks at.
• What You Are in the Dark: Subverted in Beck's Big Break; while dreaming, Robbie sees Rex as a separate being and not as an extension of himself.

Jade West

Jade West

"Don't Touch Me."

Portrayed by: Elizabeth Gillies

"Dude! Why you rubbing my boyfriend?"

A student at Hollywood Arts, who quickly makes enemies with Tori, due to her rubbing on Jade's boyfriend. Despite this, the two are often paired together and make a surprisingly good team. Her main talent is acting, but she can also direct and sing. She is dating Beck and is best friends with Cat.

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• Aesop Amnesia: Sometimes. The most egregious example is after the episode Tori Goes Platinum.
• Alpha Bitch: Played with. The first episodes definitely portrays her as one, but later episodes show too many sides that an Alpha Bitch would not possess, the most telling of which being her circle of friends: she hangs out with Tori and company most of the time. That said, if the plot requires a Alpha Bitch-like antagonist, Jade is more than capable of stepping up to the challenge.
  • Of course, as anyone who went to a performing arts or vocational high school can attest to, a goth Alpha Bitch is Truth in Television.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Perhaps more so a female variation on Tall, Dark, and Snarky.
• Always Second Best: She finds herself coming second to Tori rather often, and it boils her blood. Most prominent in "Tori Gets Stuck".
• Ambiguously Bi: Embodies this trope more than any other girl on the show. She's committed and (mostly) happy in her relationship with Beck for the majority of the series, but still has a ton of Les Yay moments and can seem rather suggestively flirty with her female peers, not to mention her ambiguously close relationship with Cat and the love-hate, almost-canon relationship with Tori, which seems heavy on the UST. She also has a nautical star tattoo and her preferred hideaway is the janitor's closet. And let's not even mention The Scissoring...
• Anti-Villain: She's a callous bully and a control freak, but at the end of the day, she's merely a teenager with issues.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Has moments like these with Cat, especially in Star-Spangled Tori.
  • With Tori at the end of Wok Star and Tori Goes Platinum, though she still wouldn't admit it out-loud.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In "Crazy Ponnie", she manages to track Cat down and well, things get pretty ugly from there.
• Beauty Is Bad: So very much. She may be attractive, but she's very abrasive, sarcastic, and ill-tempered.
• Berserk Button: She has a number of these, but topping the list would be flirting with and/or kissing her boyfriend. That, or Tori beating her at something.
• Big Bad: She's the cause of the main conflict of a ton of episodes, even ones where she's not the main antagonist, like in "Cat's New Boyfriend", when she simply takes time out of her day to prod Tori's jealousy towards Cat until she flips out.
• Big Sister Bully: She has a younger brother who she mentions in a Slap video only once, and it’s of Jade mimicking his voice as she recalls how much she loves listening to him panic whenever she locks herself in the bathroom.
• Big Sister Instinct: Whenever Cat is in trouble or being bullied.
• Blade Enthusiast: Nightmare Fetishist Jade is obsessed with scissors, often carrying multiple pairs hidden in her clothing. Cat's Secret Santa present for her was even a pair used in a horror movie.
• Boob-Based Gag:
  • The writers noticed.
    Cat: You better come help Jade!
    Tori: With what?
    Cat: She can't get her boobs in the hamburger.
  • In "A Christmas Tori", when Andre asks "How does one go from an A to a D?" in reference to his music assignment, Jade chimes in with "Happened to me in 8th grade" without missing a beat.
  • Referenced again in "Wanko's Warehouse". Cat asks who is the flattest of the group, and thus the best person to try to slide under the lasers. Jade and Trina give each other looks and both take a step backward.
  • In "One Thousand Berry Balls", Jade sarcastically suggests hiding Cat in her bra and Cat briefly considers it.
• Brainy Brunette: A dark-haired girl who is both witty and a hardworking student.
• Breakout Character: Appeared to be extremely popular with fans of the show. She appears to especially be beloved by lesbian and bisexual women who grew up watching the show.
• Break the Haughty: In the pilot, where Tori delivers some major Take That! 's to her hitherto Alpha Bitch reign at Hollywood Arts, and again in The Worst Couple when Beck breaks up with her after delivering a tirade against her group of friends.
• Brief Accent Imitation: Whenever she thinks Tori said something stupid, she repeats it back with a Southern Belle accent. She also does this for Cat in a later episode.
• Brutal Honesty: She tends to tell the truth in situations where other people would sugarcoat it. Tori actually admires this, most likely because she values integrity.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Yes, Jade freaking West adores bunnies. It's never displayed on the show, but she mentions in a Slap video that she unironically finds rabbits adorable and even has one as a pet.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's a real Jerkass, but you have to admit that she's good at what she does.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: In "Who Did It To Trina?", when an accident in a live play hospitalizes Trina, Jade videotapes the incident. It's later revealed she also posted it online and gleefully reads the comments in front of the group.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Has a really hard time dishing out compliments and usually has to let 'em out very slowly, most memorably in "Tori& Jade's Play Date".
  Jade: I guess some people might say... from certain angles...
• Catchphrase: "NO!!"
• Cat Fight: With Tori twice in "The Wood". The second was staged though. This is shockingly the only time they ever get into a physical altercation.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Uses this frequently, often right before one of her more evil moments or when she's in one of her "suggestive" modes
• Child Hater: In "Tori Gets Stuck", she lights up at the thought of scaring babies. Averted by "Jade With Tots", though, as she's said to like little children.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: More than justified in-universe, as most new female characters (even Tori!) have made eyes at him, and lampshaded by Sikowitz in Freak The Freak Out. Most of the time, it's Played for Laughs and it's not meant to be a serious issue. That is, until Beck breaks up with her because he can't handle how jealous she can get.
• Closet Geek: Her "What I Love" and "What I Hate" videos showcase a whole new side to Jade, especially the former.
• Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: When Cat says something odder than usual, Jade usually gives her something to distract her from the rest of the conversation like keys or a colouring book.
• Color Motif: Most obvious would be black, which speaks to how mysterious, seductive, intimidating, domineering, pessimistic, and sorrowful she is. She's also often associated with the color green, reflecting her jealous nature, as well as her rivalry with Tori, as green is the opposite of purple.
• The Cynic: Contrast to Tori. Cold, dark, bitter, and angry at the world, constantly expecting the worst and keeping her walls up to prevent even her closest from potentially hurting her.
• Dark Is Evil/Dark Is Not Evil: She's the resident goth chick, she's displayed interest in the occult and the macabre, and she's absolutely not a nice person. Zig-zagged, as she rarely does anything that can be considered objectively evil, not that it stops her from being callous and often the antagonist.
• Deadpan Snarker: She goes into Sarcasm Mode a lot.
• Death Glare: Jade can deliver some serious whoppers in this department.
  Beck: All she has to do is look at the guys and they start shaking... and peeing.
• Defrosting Ice Queen:
  • In several episodes, particularly "Tori and Jade's Play Date".
  • Her giving Tori back her musical number in Tori Goes Platinum definitely qualifies.
  • In her big solo You Don't Know Me, she literally sings the line "the longer that you stay, the ice is melting."
• Dehumanizing Insult: At her worst moments, she may refer to somebody as less than human. In "The Worst Couple", she refers to Cat as "basically a pet". In "The Bad Roommate", she refers to Sinjin as "not people". And in "Tori Gets Stuck", she refers to Tori as "that". And when referring to Alyssa Vaughn in "Jade Dumps Beck"...
  Jade: If Beck wants to date that, I hope he has tons of fun with it.
• Determinator: Not even suffering from a blistering burn on her palm could break her out of character in "Sleepover at Sikowitz". And if you've managed to piss her off, she will go through every possible nook and cranny to dish out what's coming to you.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Jade went out of her way to keep Tori from playing the lead in "Tori Gets Stuck." The biggest part of this was leafing through Tori's medical records and exploiting them to make her donate two pints of blood in one night (Jade purposely misplaced the first pint).
  • In "Crazy Ponnie", Cat accidentally removed her eyebrows, which pushed her to hunt down the poor girl and cut off her hair.
  • In "The Bad Roommate", she forces Cat to eat an entire bowl of raw bush peas because the latter had accidentally tweeted that she was picking her nose on The Slap. Jade's rationale? She's miserable and seeing Cat even more miserable makes her feel a tad better.
  • There are times when Jade actually tries to kill Tori (or other girls), just for looking at her boyfriend.
• Dirty Coward: She talks and acts hard, but when she's in peril, she opts to back off.
• Dissonant Serenity: In "The Great Ping Pong Scam", when she and the rest of the main cast were at a restaurant about to be carted to jail for failing to pay off a bill they can't pay off, Jade tries eating a fruit salad!
• The Dreaded: If "Stage Fighting" is any indication, she's been this for a while. This is really hammered in come later seasons, which isn't surprising due to her Flanderization. It becomes a plot point in "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade". Apparently, all Jade has to do is look at most guys before they run off screaming.
• Driven by Envy: A likely (and reinforced) explanation for why she treats Tori so callously is that Tori always seems to get whatever she wants and tends to come off as a flawless girl with a happy life and she hates it with a passion. Jade is obviously a hard worker who likely had to jump through a ton of hoops to make it into Hollywood Arts, so in her mind, who does Tori think she is strutting in after one little performance?
• Easily Forgiven: By Tori in "Stage Fighting", which she lampshades. Tori tends to treat her this way in general really.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Has pale skin, brown (later, black) hair, and a creepy, hostile attitude.
• Emo Teen: Mildly subverted. Has many of the physical and emotional characteristics of this trope, but may be a bit too popular and officious to fit it properly.
• Enemy Mine: For someone who claims to be annoyed by her friends, especially Tori and Robbie, she certainly finds herself relying on them a lot. Notable examples include "Wok Star" (in which she even had to rely on Trina), "Jade Dumps Beck", and "The Bad Roommate" (in which she even had to rely on Sinjin).
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • When Cat revealed that she'd been intercepting emergency calls without thinking to alert the paramedics, Jade seems put off.
  • Even as a Nightmare Fetishist, she finds Sinjin's imitating her and himself with sock puppets disturbing.
  • Infidelity is a pretty good way to get under her skin.
  • She understands that it's unhealthy for Robbie to rely on a puppet to function in society and agrees that Rex needs to be put down.
  • She's very protective of Cat.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Some of the background girls admit that Jade is as sexy as fuck.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: "Well, you can't be nice to me when I've been mean to you! That's not how it works!"
• Evil Is Petty: When she does get actually evil, she is oh so petty. And (as you'll see a lot throughout this profile) nothing exemplifies that more than "Tori Gets Stuck" where she's throwing tantrums, threatening Tori's life, going through her medical records, sending her bush daisies (which Tori is allergic to), and even stealing pints of her blood that are meant to be donated to Robbie for a critical operation, all because Tori beat her out as the lead of a school play.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: She's just as prone to this as Tori... and God help you if you accidentally wax them off...
• Faux Action Girl:
  • Jade can come across as hardcore (smashing Andre's apple in "Tori Gets Stuck", kicking in Beck's door in "Wi-Fi In The Sky", slicing up the garbage can in "Wok Star"), but when real danger seems afoot (most prominently in "Locked Up!"), Jade either bluffs or bolts. A talker, but not much of a fighter. She is, however, willing to throw down whenever Beck is involved. She actually attacked Tori in "The Wood", due to the edited phone call scene; when the show comes back from commercial break, Tori's living room is practically wrecked due to Jade manhandling her.
  • On her Slap Profile, if someone gets her angry, she won't fight them, but will retaliate in a way that will make them sad for a really long time (ex: destroy her peers socially) like shaving someone's head at the end of Crazy Ponnie.
• Flanderization: Jade was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into psychotic and vengeful Manipulative Bastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to kill the first ever Hollywood Arts prom and even recording an embarrassing and life-threatening incident that happened to Trina and posting it online For the Evulz. Jade's flanderization seems to be becoming averted in Season 3 (notably in "Tori Goes Platinum" and "Opposite Date"), though when any episode's premise needs an antagonist her character development tends to hit the reset button.
• Foil: To Tori, as you can no doubt tell by their senses of fashion. They're both hardworking, ambitious, and prone to acts of jealousy, snide wit, and selfishness. However, while Tori is kind, polite, optimistic, and has a (arguably) good relationship with her parents, Jade is mean, rude, consistently assumes the worst, and has pretty much been taking care of herself since her parents divorced.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Melancholic.
• Freudian Excuse: It was established in "Wok Star" that her home life could stand to be a lot more savory. Her father has no respect for her career choice, her chosen associates, or her sense of style. Even when he can't deny that her play was excellent, he keeps their interaction brief and formal and doesn't even crack a smile; according to Jade, that's the happiest she's ever seen him. The Slap reveals even more about her home life and it's far worse than the actual show displayed or even implied. It turns out her father blatantly ignores her in favor of her stepmom (meaning her parents are divorced), whom she also doesn't like, and her "yappy little dog". In addition, he never kept one promise to her and the one time he cooked her breakfast, she spent the whole morning throwing up. As a bonus, it's heavily implied that he once responded to a childish Thanksgiving prank of locking her "annoying" cousin in the basement by calling the cops on her! On the other side, she mentions that she never listens to her mother and even says that the only thing her mother ever did right for her was give her a name (though she does seem to drive her mother's car, which would imply that she does at least regularly take her to school). To wrap it all up, they seem to have shared custody of her. All of these heavily suggest that beneath her cold and serrated demeanor, Jade is in fact a lost and lonely little girl who is constantly afraid of letting people get too close to her only to be let down again; she uses aggression as a defensive mechanism against those she perceives as a potential threat (i.e., literally everyone, including her closest friends and even her boyfriend), a means of getting them before they can get her.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Mix of Seniority, Audience Popularity, Fear, and Proximity: Most of the group has known Jade for two years as a classmate, she's dating Beck, and she's so known for viciously retaliating against people that it's unlikely anyone would make her leave even if those other two things weren't true. For her part, she shows no appreciation back, denouncing the entire group sans Andre as friends in "The Worst Couple". Even Beck has once said that the word "gank" doesn't even begin to describe how awful she can be, finding his relationship with her on the rocks, specifically in the aforementioned episode.
• Friend to All Children: She loves little kids, as shown in "Jade with Tots."
• Friendship Denial: She does this rather often despite finding herself hanging with them all the time, even for her best friend, Cat, and especially to Tori.
  Jade: You people give me a rash.
• Goth: Of the abrasive, sarcastic, and punkish variety.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Apparently, she believes in magic and the occult. When Tori and Cat go to pay their last respects to the recently deceased Mona Paterson, she joins them in order to absorb Mona's essence.
• The Grinch: Jade has some traces of this, but still manages to get a pretty nice gift for Tori, all things considered. Also the insulting term grunch is clearly derived from Grinch.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Can’t go one episode without yelling at someone.
• Hates Being Touched: Unless you're Beck, she will make you aware of this fact... and often not in a nice way, though she doesn't mind it if she is the one instigating the touching. Even then, Beck doesn't always get the privilege (notably, in "Tori and Jade's Play Date", she broke character during a play to tell Beck not to touch her. It should be noted that they were separated at the time.). Surprisingly, she never invokes this with Tori, even inviting her touch on occasion. She doesn't even allow Cat to touch her, the only exception being in "Crazy Ponnie" when she asks Cat to wax her eyebrows, though that doesn't go so well...
• Hates Their Parent: Jade has problems with her father, describing him as cold and judgmental. This animosity stems from him not approving of her pursuing a career in the creative arts. In addition, it is implied her childhood was less than ideal. For instance, the only time her Dad cooked breakfast for her, she spent the rest of the day throwing up. That being said, she does try to prove herself to him, even inviting him to one of her plays.
• Heavy Sleeper: How the hell do you stay asleep when there's a literal war going on right outside?
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: She is definitely the character the writers are not sure whether she should pound Tori/Trina/Cat anytime or to be their Vitriolic Best Buds at best.
• Heel Realization: In "Tori Goes Platinum", after seeing that Tori cares too much about her to pursue anything with Beck, Jade starts to feel horrible about taking her performance at the Platinum Music Awards (and probably the way she'd been treating her in general up to that point, given that their relationship grew a bit friendlier in season 4).
• Hidden Depths: Her Slap videos show more of her lovable and dorky side. If we're to take her fourth "What I Hate" video at face value, she still believes in Santa Claus and loves her grandma, which is the last thing you'd expect from someone like Jade. She also likes bunnies and acts really sweet to little kids.
• Hypocrite: She does everything in her power to cultivate an image of herself as scary and dangerous, but strongly objects if anyone expresses that sentiment to her face. Also, even though she says she wants friends she can count on (see I Just Want to Have Friends below), she refuses to treat Tori and the gang as her friends.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Never expressed out loud, but she does some things that imply that only she is allowed to mess with Tori, damn it (though Trina seems to be an exception, given that they're siblings)! (For example: Celebrating when Tori gives Ryder Daniels his well-deserved Humiliation Conga, looking shocked and irritated when Robbie dismissed Tori's valid concerns as "freaking out" in "Robarazzi", etc.) This extends to Cat as well.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Which proves ideal whenever she uses a Death Glare.
• Improvised Weapon: She's apparently able to murder someone with a roll of toilet paper. We're not sure how and Beck apparently doesn't want us finding out.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Implied. In one of her "Jade with Tots" videos, she bitterly asks her interviewee why she doesn't have any friends she can count on. (Odd perspective, considering the amount of effort Tori puts into trying to be friends with her.)
• I Take Offense to That Last One: In "Victori-Yes", where Trina is introducing her to a Mexican television show producer.
  Trina: This is my mean sister, and her rude friend!
  Jade Hey! Do not call me "her friend"!
• Jerkass: She's usually mean and rude to most people.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • She has good reason not to like Sinjin, as the guy literally broke into her house in one episode.
  • In "Prom Wrecker": While her method of handling the problem was not at all acceptable, she had every right to be pissed off that Tori had gotten her display (which she had probably spent several weeks setting up) cancelled. Jade did have the space reserved first, after all.
  • In "Tori Goes Platinum Part 2", after getting an accurate account of Tori's latest "diva tantrum" from Andre, she rebuts Tori's protests that the description of events isn't fair by asking how the truth isn't fair. Granted, Tori was being pressured into acting that way, but Jade doesn't know that and is making a reasonable point based on the information that she has.
  • In "Wi-Fi In The Sky" while she does get unreasonably jealous Beck was dogsitting for his neighbor. When she and Beck get in a fight after learning the girl in question was nine she correctly points out that Beck had plenty of time to tell her between her arrival and the cheerleader picking up the dog.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Teeters between this and Jerk with a Heart of Jerk. As abrasive. disrespectful, and even dangerous as Jade can be, she's not totally heartless, and it becomes more apparent overtime that her personality is a defense mechanism so she can't be hurt or betrayed by anyone. Her most notable example of this trope is when she helps Cat move in with her grandma after her parents abandon her.
• Karma Houdini: Often. Justified in "Stage Fighting," when Tori goes out of her way not to punish Jade.
• Kawaiiko: Surprisingly, Jade in "iParty With Victorious", as the blue swimsuit she wears seems cute, modest, and quite out of character for her. Perhaps she's not as hard-boiled as she lets on...?
• Kick the Dog: She does this a lot in season 2. Standout examples include "Tori Gets Stuck" and "Who Did it to Trina?".
• Kick the Morality Pet:
  • She spends "Crazy Ponnie" trying to viciously murder Cat for accidentally waxing her eyebrows. She eventually catches her in study hall and shaves her head.
  • In "The Bad Roommate", she gets angry at Cat for foolishly getting people to see an embarrassing photo of her. She retaliates by forcing Cat to eat a bowl of raw bush peas.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Much more common from Season 2 on. Beck chews her out for trying to snark at Tori in "Beggin' on Your Knees." For trying to sabotage the prom, Tori ignored the votes and made Jade prom queen against her wishes and made the sabotage entertainment prom king. Sikowitz also denied Jade the lead part in "Steamboat Susie" when he caught onto her trying to take out Tori. And in "A Christmas Tori," he told her to her face that he wouldn't change the Secret Santa assignments (hers was Tori) just so she'd get what she wanted.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Jade's sweating at the end of "Survival of the Hottest".
• Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Compare to Tori and Cat. She is cold, reserved, cynical, and all of her outfits are at least 70% black. Meanwhile, Tori and Cat are warm, energetic, optimistic, and you'd be lucky to find them casually wearing anything in black.
• Like an Old Married Couple: With Beck, obviously, even when they'd stopped dating for a season. She also shares this dynamic with Tori, as lampshaded by Cat in "Car, Rain, & Fire".
• Lonely Among People: She is this when it comes to trusting her friends. Even though she is friends with Tori and the others, she feels very uneasy about trusting them, fearing that they will mess things up for her, and it makes her feel like she has no one she can really count on and feels alone in the process.
• The Mad Hatter: In "Prom Wrecker", Tori calls her a sick person, to which Jade sarcastically inquires if she's just now realizing it. In "Who Did it to Trina?", when Tori calls her demented, Jade takes it as a compliment.
• Make Up or Break Up: This tends to be Jade and Beck's relationship in a nutshell, as Jade dumps him over a small argument in "Jade Dumps Beck". They do make up in the end. The second time in "The Worst Couple", however...
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine Girl to Robbie.
• Meaningful Look: To Tori, from the audience, during Tori's performance in "Tori Goes Platinum".
• Meaningful Name: She's very cynical and jaded, and is as mean as The Wicked Witch of the West. (Also, the skin of The Wicked Witch of The West is green, jade happens to be a shade of green.)
• Menstrual Menace: Sorta. Jade gets through "that time of the month" by talking about stuff she hates.
• Ms. Fanservice: She dresses in a lot of sexy outfits.
• Never My Fault:
  • In "The Worst Couple", when Beck tries to point out her insecurities and how toxic their relationship has become because of it, she twists everything around and puts words in his mouth.
  • In "Wi-Fi in the Sky", she assumes Beck is cheating on her without letting him explain. When the girl that Beck is helping turns out to be a little girl, she asks why he didn't say so, Beck reminds her that she wouldn’t let him.
• Nightmare Fetishist: "I like to pretend I've been kidnapped by witches and they're using me to make human soup."
• Nerves of Steel: Doesn't flinch easily despite real danger, and can sleep through a war.
• No Indoor Voice: She finds something to scream about in most episodes. Probably because anger is practically her default emotion.
• No, You: In "Tori the Zombie" against Sinjin.
  Sinjin: Sorry, I hit the wrong thing!
  Jade: No, fifteen years ago your mother gave birth to the wrong thing!
• Noodle Incident:
  • She is apparently fearful of dolphins due to some undisclosed incident that happened to her in 3rd grade, to the point that she's sworn off going to the beach. It’s not irrational, since dolphins actually are pretty fierce.
  • In "The Bad Roommate", the sub-plot revolves around her trying to delete an online satellite picture of her allegedly picking her nose.
  • "Tori Fixes Beck & Jade" reveals that she's capable of killing two people with just a roll of toilet paper. How that's plausible is up in the air, but Jade and Beck treat her threat very seriously. Tori and Andre ask how that's even plausible, but Beck ignores the question (in a manner that suggests he's seen it happen before). When Jade gets angry again, Andre smartly grabs all the nearby rolls of toilet paper to keep them away from her.
  • On the Slap, she mentions that she locked her annoying cousin in the basement one Thanksgiving and her father called the police on her.
• Not So Stoic: Sarcasm Mode seems to be her default state of being, but it's showcased in a number of episodes that it isn't her only one. Standout examples include her breakdown in the pilot, begging for Tori's help in "Jade Dumps Beck", and sweating for the first time in "Survival of the Hottest".
• Odd Couple: With Tori, in the rare instances where they get along.
• Odd Friendship: Jade and Cat. Also with Robbie once in a while during the last season, especially in "Star Spangled Tori", where she shows a previously unseen level of patience towards his antics, and even carpooled with him to Tori's house (as they offer Cat a ride home with them), despite Beck also being there. These examples both double as Actor Allusion.
• Official Couple: With Beck.
• Opposites Attract: Again, Beck.
• Paint It Black: In "The Diddly Bops", she returns Tori's theater history textbook (which she'd borrowed off-screen prior) to her, but it's cover is painted black. Her reason for doing this? "I had black paint."
• Paying Evil Unto Evil: Some of her more devious moments come across as more justified due to the Hate Sink nature of some of her targets, most memorably in Freak The Freak Out.
• Pet the Dog: Sometimes.
  • She shows a bit of compassion for Tori when she has a breakdown in "Ice Cream for Ke$ha" and she's greatly concerned for Cat when she's worried that her mom's boss will find out about the damage to his things in "Andre's Horrible Girl."
  • She gets bad vibes from Ryder Daniels and warns Tori that he must be hiding something. Of course, she can't help poking fun when it turns out she was right.
  • She was even holding Robbie back from hurting himself to save Rex in "Rex Dies" and was holding Rex's hand in the hospital. She also displayed what appears to be genuine concern for his mental growth in the idea of Rex being gone forever.
  • She also seems to have a soft spot for her grandmother, Sikowitz, little kids and Cat.
  • She tries to talk Robbie out of his funk in "The Hambone King" (until she reveals that she "might have" recorded it and posted it online).
  • She does this in a major way in Tori Goes Platinum by giving up her shot at a major performance that could make her famous so that Tori could perform instead.
  • On the Slap she mentions that she loves rabbits because they're so adorable and even has one as a pet.
  • On her Slap videos, she is shown to love little kids and acts very sweet to them.
• Pride: She hates showing vulnerability to people and tries to avoid calling anyone a friend. She only allows herself to cry in front of Tori in "Jade Dumps Beck" because she didn't want anyone she found cool to see her at such a low point. Even when finally making nice(-r) with her rival, she lets her ego get in the way a bit.
• Prom Wrecker: When her one woman show gets cancelled because it conflicts with the Prom, she tries ruining the Prom for revenge.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Beck's Blue.
• The Rival: To Tori.
• Sadist: "Cause it makes you miserable, which makes me slightly less miserable."
• Shear Menace: Her scissors obsession may count, as she's constantly seen wielding a pair of scissors, her locker is decorated with them, and her favorite movie is called The Scissoring. That said, we never see her use them in combat (probably because successful weaponization of them would result in the show's rating to change drastically).
• Sliding Scale of Beauty: Level VI, good-looking but uncanny. She's very attractive, but in an eerie and intimidating way. Somewhat lampshaded when the little boy in Ice Cream for Ke$ha proposes trading his ice cream $ for a kiss of all three girls and refers to her as "The Freaky One".
• Still Believes in Santa: Jade is one of the haughtier members of the cast, so revealing she still believes in Santa Claus in her fourth "What I Hate" video makes her more endearing.
• Smug Snake: Anytime she wins, she has a sinister grin.
• Spoiled Brat: Jade has a strong sense of entitlement and will try to eliminate her rivals by all means. She even literally throws a tantrum in "Tori Gets Stuck" after Tori wins an audition.
• Stalker without a Crush: In "Tori Gets Stuck". She knows Tori is allergic to bush daisies and that she has o-negative blood because she went through her medical records (which is a felony, BTW). She simply puts it as "doing her research".
  • Debatably this in "The Wood" when she snoops through Tori's bedroom. Tori didn't even know she was there for half an hour. According to her, Tori has a lot of "things" in there.
• Stepford Snarker: She clearly has a lot of walls up and everybody she ever talks to feels the brunt of it, often because she's not keen on anyone seeing the damage underneath (see Freudian Excuse above).
  Cat: You didn't have a happy childhood?
  Jade: My favorite toy was a hammer. You finish the puzzle.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: She was making suggestive faces at Tori as far back as the pilot episode. Seems she just can't deny when a girl is hot, even when she's put a target on said girl's head. A reasonable and potential explanation in general for why she treats Tori the way she does is that Tori, more than any other girl, brings up feelings she's not ready to deal with. Most of her Ambiguously Bi moments seem to pertain explicitly to Tori.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She seems easier for her friends to get along with when she's alone with them.
• Tantrum Throwing: When she learns not only that Tori beat her out for the lead role in "Steamboat Suzy", but also that she's stuck as her understudy, she just cannot deal. Gets even worse when Tori unironically asks what an understudy is.
• Tattoo as Character Type: She has 2 tattoos by the end of the series, but only one appears on-screen as early as the first season, a basic nautical star on her right forearm.
• Token Evil Teammate: In a group of friends that are more-or-less nice guys/girls (sans Rex and Trina), Jade sticks out like a sore thumb as the harshest member.
• Too Kinky to Torture: By saying, "It was like torture, but not the good kind." in "How Trina Got In" and "Okay, this is actually causing me pain, and not the good kind" in "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", as well as saying she likes to pretend she's captured by witches and being made into human soup while in hot tubs in "iParty With Victorious."
• Took a Level in Jerkass: She was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into a psychotic and vengeful Manipulative Bastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to destroy the first ever Hollywood Arts prom.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In Season 3, somewhat. She's still a bitch, but is far less mean than how she was in earlier seasons.
• Tough Love: Tends to show this to her friends at certain points, especially with her suggestion about what to do with Rex in "Rex Dies" and how it would be more beneficial for Robbie's well-being in the long run, and pushing an apprehensive Tori off the balcony in "Beck Falls for Tori", thus helping her overcome her fear.
• Tranquil Fury: Rage seems to be her default emotion. She's prone to outbursts, but she's normally the least upbeat of the girls.
• Troll: She loves to push Tori's buttons. A great example is "Cat's New Boyfriend".
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Can show some rather troubling and sociopathic tendencies at times, moreso in season 2 when she was at her worst.
• Tsundere: To everybody really but especially Type A to Tori. She's rude and aggressive and seems uncaring. However, when she wants to be, she can be a loyal friend and is capable of showing affection to the people she cares about.
• Undying Loyalty: No matter how much Cat may get on her nerves, no matter how much Jade pushes Cat around, Jade does care for Cat and she remains her best friend. The episode Star Spangled Tori cements this when Jade was concerned about Cat's well-being, and even brings up the suggestion that Cat should go live with her Nona instead of her Evil Uncle and Aunt.
• Ungrateful Bitch: When Tori saves her life in Locked Up, she responds that she didn't need help.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: May become this to Tori. On her bad days, she can act this way to Cat.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice was higher-pitched in the pilot.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She guns for her father's approval in "Wok Star", to the point of accepting Tori's help in getting some recognition for her craft. Their relationship is still bad, but she got something she's clearly been wanting just for once.
• What the Hell, Hero?: To Tori in "Beck's Big Break."
• With Friends Like These...: With everyone.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In "Stage Fighting."

Catarina "Cat" Valentine

Catarina "Cat" Valentine

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Portrayed by: Ariana Grande

"Yay, I love excitement!"

A strange girl Tori meets at Hollywood Arts. She is best friends with Jade and Tori, along with being the object of Robbie's affections. Near the end of the show, her parents move to help take care of her insane brother, so she ends up moving in with her grandmother. She meets Sam at the time Sam & Cat starts and when her grandmother chooses to move into a retirement home, she and Sam become room-mates and they start a babysitting business together to help pay for their rent.

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• Abandoned Catchphrase: Cat tends to yell "What's that supposed to mean?" whenever she misunderstood someone's comment. By the middle of season one, she has stop using this phrase.
• Addled Addict: She finds herself addicted to something in at least two episodes, to the point where they're the only things she can focus on most of the time. In "Robarazzi", it's shopping from theSky Store. In "Tori Goes Platinum", it's a children's candy called Bibble.
• Advertised Extra: Despite having a big role in the iParty with Victorious crossover, she has very few lines throughout due to suffering from vocal nodules, thus most of her dialogue came out of the speaker headband she wears.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The shortest, youngest and most childish of the group. Jade and Tori have behaved as parental figures for her more than once and Beck acts like a Cool Big Bro to her.
• Badass Adorable: In "The Gorilla Club", where she completes the Balls of Pain challenge with ease.
• Beware the Nice Ones: More so than Tori and Beck; she punched Tori in the nose so hard, it felt like being broken (it wasn't), had Hayley and Tara babysit a drugged-up, crazy Trina, and coldly points their severe lack of talent when they cheer about their rigged karaoke victory:
  Hayley: We won, because we rock.
  Cat: Yeah, don't believe everything your daddy says.
• Birds of a Feather: With Robbie.
• Brainless Beauty: A bit less overt than most given it's a Nickelodeon show but she definitely has elements of this.
• Breakout Character: Segued into her own (shared) show once Victorious was canceled, and her actress is easily the biggest star Nick has created in a long time.
• Breathless Non Sequitur: Occasionally. She talks about her brother getting shot by a clown, for example.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In a way. A little bit odd and excitable but her musical talent is extremely noticeable.
• Butt-Monkey: She gets victimized for her ditziness at times.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Hiiiii!", her usual greeting when meeting up with someone or calling them.
  • "What's that supposed to mean?!" in an anguished voice and usually to a completely innocent statement by the other person. Became an Abandoned Catchphrase after season 1.
  • "Yay, I love X!" or just "Yay, X!" in an excited voice when an action or object is suggested/discussed.
  • "One time...", followed by a story about something crazy or weird she or her brother did.
• Cassandra Truth: Cat tells Robbie she can't go to Prom with him because she has a date, who happens to be from another school. Robbie doesn't believe her, but it turns out he does indeed exist.
• Characterization Marches On: As the series went on, her bipolarism and catch phrase "What's that supposed to mean?!" were eventually abandoned in favor of her becoming an extremely childish ditz. By Sam & Cat, she's pretty much the Kid-Appeal Character.
• Chekhov's Skill: Cat's costume class helps save the day in "Beck Falls For Tori".
• Cloudcuckoolander: She's on her own level of reality, the degree of effectiveness in a given situation often varying. Lampshaded by Andre.
  Andre: You know, whenever she starts talking, I think to myself, "Maybe this time, it'll make sense." I'm always wrong.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Prom Wrecker" when a random boy named Tug asks her to the prom, and again in "The Blonde Squad" when her worries about Evan Smith not liking her real self turned out to be true after all.
• Cuckoosnarker: She's nowhere near as snide as her friends, but she does let slip a quip now and then.
  Cat: But why does me eating bush peas help?
  Jade: Because it makes you miserable, which makes me slightly less miserable.
  Cat: Your logic is flawless.
• Color Motif: She's clearly fond of the colors red and pink. Red stands for her passion, strength, and courage. Pink symbolizes her femininity, compassion, love, playfulness, comfort, intuitiveness, immaturity, and a lack of confidence.
• Cute Bruiser: Cat is undeniably cute, yet she managed to almost break Tori's nose in one punch.
• The Cutie: Cat is cuteness in human form. Just try not to go "Awwww" one or twenty times an episode upon seeing her. You can't, can you?
• The Ditz: She's a few crayons short of a full box. See Flanderization for more detail.
• Easily Impressed: Not unlike a child, Cat gets very interested by things that are seen as quite trivial by her friends. This is best shown when she buys off-kilter apps or invests money in strange toys, clothing, or appliances.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She's absolutely crushed upon seeing Tori and Danny kissing in "Cat's New Boyfriend". She goes at least a whole day avoiding Tori after this.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even she finds her brother to be unusual.
• Flanderization: She started as somewhat scatterbrained and a bit naïve, but not really that stupid. Come Season 2, she became increasingly dumber and unable to pay attention to anything, with her behavior and antics sometimes outright crossing into Lethally Stupid and/or Too Dumb to Live territory. This continued into the Sam & Cat Spin-Off.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine.
• Genius Ditz:
  • She's memorized the location of every animal hospital in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood.
  • In Three Girls and a Moose, she shows that she's very observant and good at putting clues together. She knew that Tori had Moose over at her house by noticing a few clues:
    Tori: How did you know Moose was still here?
    Cat: It was obvious. When you're home alone, you usually wear your glasses, which you are not, and this (picks up beef jerky packet) is beef jerky, a boy snack.
    Tori: Aw, dang it!
    Cat: And I also noticed the extra large dent in that couch's cushion that's the same size and shape as Moose's tush!
• Genki Girl: Courtesy of Ariana Grande.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Often brings stuffed animals to school, especially Mr. Purple and Mr. Porkstache. Also continued in Sam & Cat.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: In the first season, especially, she's easily upset and very bipolar.
  Cat: What's that supposed to mean?!
• Hand Gagging: Gets handgagged by Jade in "Opposite Date" for a whole minute.
• Hidden Depths: Cat is an expert chef, anything she makes is considerably delicious. Justified because her grandmother taught her how to cook and passed along the family recipes to Cat.
• The Heart: Cat is the one thing who can get the group to stop fighting when they see her crying.
• Idiot Savant: While Flanderization made her appear considerably dumber as the show went on, she still has some moments of unexpected genius, particularly her ability to accurately guess people's exact clothes measurements just by looking at them in "Beck Falls for Tori", and her brilliant deduction of why Moose was actually with Tori at her house in "Three Girls and a Moose".
• In One Ear, Out The Other: In "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade" she got a butterfly lodged in her ear. Later after Robbie employed Andre's grandmother to scare it out (by yelling into Cat's ear) the butterfly made a hasty exit... out the opposite ear.
• In-Series Nickname: "Little Red" by Andre.
• The Mad Hatter: She has moments that demonstrate she's perfectly aware that she's not all there.
  To Robbie's Grandmother: My hair color has nothing to do with my psychological problems!
• Meaningful Name: Her last name is Valentine and Cat is a cheerful, friendly girl.
• Mood-Swinger: In the first season.
• Morality Pet: Seems to play this alongside Beck for Jade.
• Ms. Fanservice: All the girls do their share from time to time but she gets the most, witness "Survival of the Hottest".
• Nice Girl: Her default mood is being giggly and sweet toward everyone, even Trina and Jade.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Poor girl was attacked by Jade in "Crazy Ponnie".
• Odd Friendship: She and Jade (it also counts as Actor Allusion). Her friendship with Trina also counts.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her full first name is Caterina, but only her grandmother calls her that.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's usually up for a hug any time. But when her crush, Evan, refuses to date her after finding out she's not a blue-eyed blonde, she's not up for any hugs.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's the smallest teenager on the show and, according to Andre, she only weighs "90 lbs." But believe it or not, Cat is pretty strong for her tiny size. In Cell Block, the teenagers are challenged not to use cellphones/tablets/etc. for a whole week, so naturally they all start going a little insane soon. Not even two days into the contest, she makes a mad dash for the box of phones... in the ensuing struggle to hold her back, she kicks Jade to the floor, clobbers Beck with the box, and it basically takes all five of them to pin her down. Later in the same episode, Tori and Jade try to restrain her by sitting on her and only barely manage to succeed.
• Potty Emergency: Cat in Stuck in an RV, "gotta-pee gotta-pee gotta-pee!"
• The Quiet One: Throughout most of "iParty with Victorious" due to suffering from vocal nodules, thus relying on a speaker headband via Bluetooth to do all the talking for her until she heals.
• Suddenly Shouting: In "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade", a butterfly gets stuck in her ear and its fluttering make Cat intermittently scream bloody murder.
• Survival Mantra: In "The Worst Couple", she finds herself in the middle of a panic attack, during which she says aloud thrice "I'm under my bed".
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • "We were not watching you kiss that girl."
  • "We didn't even notice your lack of hair."
• Sweet Tooth: The girl keeps candy in her bra.
• The Tease: Completely good-natured, but Cat is known to flirt quite a bit with boys.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "The Gorilla Club".
• Took a Level in Dumbass: She goes from being somewhat scatterbrained in the early parts of Season 1 to a girl who is apparently intelligent enough to just realize that America has 50 states from an app.
• Trauma Button: As we see in "The Worst Couple". Safe to say she doesn't take too well to watching her loved ones fight with each other.
  • Whatever Robbie did when they "played pirates" in the past.
• Undying Loyalty: To Jade and Robbie.
• Verbal Tic: Her dopey yet cute laugh.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: She kept various sweets stuffed in her bra in one episode. She pulled out so much candy, it makes you wonder if there are even any titties under there.
• Vocal Evolution: It's hard to pinpoint exactly when the change happened, because in some episodes, her voice is high-pitched and childlike, and in other episodes, it drops back down to Ariana's normal voice, but her voice became a higher-pitched Simpleton Voice towards the end of the series.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In "Beck's Big Break", she pretends to be frantically lost to distract a security guard so Tori can get Beck his part back in a movie.

Beck Oliver

Portrayed by: Avan Jogia

Jade's boyfriend, whom Tori spilled coffee on during her first day. He is also arguably the most stable one out of the group.

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• Almost Kiss: On Tori, but she refuses because she doesn't want to hurt Jade's feelings.
• Ambiguously Brown: We just know that Beck is part Canadian. His actor Avan Jogia is a Canadian-born actor of Indian descent.
• Ambiguously Bi: Has a clear interest in girls but also once referred to a male costume designer as "adorable", though admittedly that might have just been to get a rise out of a jealous Jade.
• Auto Erotica: Beck tried for this, but Jade wasn't in the mood. Probably for the best, seeing how there was a guy with a camera in the backseat.
• Base on Wheels: Beck's trailer.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Only to be expected at times when your girlfriend is Jade West.
• Betty and Veronica: the Archie to Jade and Tori's Betty and Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's not very pretty when pissed off, as seen in "Tori Tortures Teacher", when Tori and Andre intervene in the text-fight between him and Jade. It was kinda out of his character, though. He's also not very nice when he's sleep deprived and running on caffeine. "The Worst Couple" has Jade mentioning something about smashing her face into a car door or something of the sort, while insulting and during her grouchy moments with Beck. Beck reminds her of the fact that he has a car. Jade, of course, is offended.
• Big Brother Instinct: Whenever Cat is in trouble or trying to make Robbie cool.
• Big Man on Campus: Beck is very popular and attracts all the girls at his school.
• Brainless Beauty: He's not quite an idiot, but in "Survival of the Hottest", it's revealed that he didn't know he's supposed to clean the water in his fish tank.
• The Casanova: Downplayed example. Commited to Jade during their romance, but there's signs he's definitely... open-minded, especially during the pilot and Driving Tori Crazy and as it's increasingly clear he really likes Tori more than just as a platonic friend. Plays this more straight after him and Jade's second breakup.
• Character Development: He was pretty generic when the show started, but became more fleshed out in Robarazzi.
• The Charmer
• Chick Magnet: He's popular with his female classmates and even young adult women, which annoys Jade to no end.
• The Comically Serious: He is very relaxed even when surrounded by craziness.
• Cool Big Bro: Acts like one to Cat a lot of the time.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: An interesting gender swap for this trope, as some of the appeal to dating Jade seems to stem from his mild rebellious side as it's made clear in "Locked Up" that his family absolutely despises her.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments of dry wit.
• Even the Guys Want Him: At least when he's in drag.
• Everyone Has Standards: A retroactive example: "Tori Fixes Beck And Jades" shows that he likes girls who actually has to put an effort in to make happy, but "The Worst Couple" shows that he knows the difference between difficult and flat out impossible.
• Fearless Fool: He's apparently never felt fear.
• Flanderization:
  • Seems to have become a bit of a jerk since he and Jade broke up. He gets better when they get back together.
  • Seemed to be going back to the role of Satellite Love Interest by season 3, as all 'his' subplots purely involved relationship drama with Jade and ship tease with other girls.
• The Generic Guy: Definitely not without characterization, but gets considerably less time to shine than the rest of the cast and rarely has any significant role in an episode that isn't primarily about Jade or Tori (or both).
• Grease Monkey: He is an apt mechanic and a fan of drag races.
• Has a Type: Discovers that he prefers girls who are harder to love because they're more exciting.
• Hidden Depths: The junk in his trailer raises a lot of questions.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Andre.
• It Amused Me: In a way, Beck seems to be greatly amused by Jade’s possessiveness and jealousy and sometimes goes as far as to induce it a bit in a slight Trickster way.
• The Leader: He’s the oldest and the leader of the gang.
• Make Up or Break Up: This tends to be Jade and Beck's relationship in a nutshell, as Jade dumps him over a small argument in "Jade Dumps Beck". They do make in the end. he second time in "The Worst Couple", however...
• Mellow Fellow: Beck earns this title by being the least eccentric member of the main group and not having all that much depth in the way of personality.
• Morality Chain: Seems to be this to Jade, as he often tries to stop her from doing more awful things and when he went to Canada for a few episodes she got a good bit worse in the meantime, only returning to normal when he came back.
• Nice Guy: More interesting than usual, but he still fits.
• Not So Above It All: Believe it or not, there are times when Beck can be just as dorky as Andre or Robbie.
• Only Sane Man: One of the most normal and rational of all the characters in show along with Andre.
• Official Couple: With Jade.
• Opposites Attract: Again, with Jade.
• Parenting the Husband: He gives Jade a time-out when she keeps insulting Tori after finding out about Ryder.
• Pretty Boy: As anyone would be if being played by the dashing Avan Jogia. "Slap Fight" even raises the question of whether or not Jade is prettier than him.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Blue to Jade's Red.
• Satellite Character: Early on in the show, then he got more characterization.
• Shirtless Scene: In "Brain Squeezers", but done as Fan Disservice considering what all the kids went through.
• Show Some Leg: Gets to weaponize it to create a distraction in "Star Spangled Tori".
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Beck on Jade when she's saying sorry.
• Sliding Scale of Beauty: Level II, Divine Level Beauty. Pretty much the real-life Axe commercial, as seen in Driving Tori Crazy women literally fawn over him in packs, and even Adult Women can't resist hitting on him.
• The Stoic: Beck shows very little emotion and is rarely afraid of anything. When surrounded by a group of prisoners, while Andre is freaking out, Beck simply stands there and keeps his cool. Sikowitz even spends an entire episode trying to scare him but fails. The one thing that can break his stoicism apparently is Trina.
• Straight Man: Usually to Jade, though he had played it to other characters as well. Except for that little quirk about not drinking bottled water from mountain streams because fish urinate in it.
• Stunned Silence: Beck's reaction in “Freak The Freak Out” when he hears Tara and Hayley sing. In this case, he is actually shocked by how bad they are compared to Cat and Jade.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He is the tallest kid in the main cast and quite a handsome one at that.
• Unwanted Harem: Inverted. He has no problems with random girls popping up at his doorstep and asking for rides to school. Though this was during his second and more long-term breakup with Jade so he might have been enjoying the freedom he suddenly had.

Trina Vega

Portrayed by: Daniella Monet

Tori's older sister, whom everyone hates because of her annoying personality and her lack of talent. Trina is often self-centered, but genuinely loves her little sister.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Beck when he breaks up with Jade.
• Action Girl: This seems to be what Trina actually does best, as she appears to make up in physical strength, agility and fighting skill, even when drugged up to the gills (Freak The Freak Out) what she lacks in singing ability. Her uniform, which was blue with a yellow belt, is actually a Vovinam Gi, not a Karate Gi. Also, unlike Karate, a yellow belt is the equivalent of a black belt; Trina Vega of all people is a highly skilled martial artist.
• A-Cup Angst: Implied in "Tori the Zombie". While on the phone with a doctor, discussing Tori's problem, Trina asks if she needs her parents' permission to get minor cosmetic surgery. After hanging up, Trina laments that she can't get the surgery until she's eighteen, and glances down to her boobs momentarily. This would be ironic, considering how often the show comments about how busty she is.
• Attention Whore: BIG TIME. She does whatever she can to get in the spotlight, even if it means backstabbing anyone, including her sister.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: With Tori, the most significant moment being the end of "Helen Back Again".
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In "Survival of the Hottest", she always wished that she would get hotter.
• Big Sister Bully: She's very rude to Tori sometimes, even when the latter tries to be nice to her. She's at her worst in "The Birthweek Song", where Tori sings a song about how much she loves her sister, but Trina insults the song because it's not a real present, and the next day she sells the song to a recording studio for cash.
• Big Sister Instinct: She did not take it well when Tori was locked up in prison. She's also shown it at other times to, such as warning Tori about Ryder. She does seem to genuinely care about Tori when someone else is the one hurting her.
• Boob-Based Gag:
  • "How did Jade get her boobs in this hamburger?"
  • Referenced again in "Wanko's Warehouse". Tori asks who is the flattest of the group, and thus the best person to try to slide under the lasers. Jade and Trina give each other looks and both take a step backwards.
• Bound and Gagged: "Freak The Freak Out". Tori did this to her just to get a moment of rest.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: In contrast to level-headed Nice Girl Tori, Trina just serves as her selfish, bratty, annoying older sister.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Trina actually can sing, but chooses not to practice because she thinks she’s too good for it.
• Butt-Monkey: She tends to be the butt of many jokes and receive a bunch of crap from everyone, since most people seem to dislike her. Not even her own family wants anything to do with her.
• Can't Take Criticism: She threatened Robbie into writing a good review of her one woman show. Robbie however couldn't lie so he tried to spin it as a comedy. Trina was less then pleased naturally, though ironically it did bring in an audience.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Aside from her narcissistic It's All About Me tendencies, she does some weird things, like ordering illegal fish from Japan to clean dead skin off her feet, tries to hold Tori to a promise to be her assistant for a month that they both made when they were kids, and buying a Christmas tree so huge that she needs a harness to decorate it to put in their family's living room.
• Color Motif: She seems to fit under purple like her sister. However, her use of the color reflects immaturity, grace (occasionally), emotion, and power.
• Combat Stilettos: Though this is what she wears most of the time, she never wore them in combat, as in "Helen Back Again", she's shown wearing sneakers for the first time upon attacking Robbie. However, concerning her heels, Cat states that Trina can walk in them very gracefully even though they're too tall.
• Cool Big Sis: Though only on good days. However, it's clear that she genuinely loves her sister.
• Dance Battler: Played with: she's a skilled dancer and martial artist, but both of these skills were performed separately in different episodes, and had never been incorporated together.
• Demoted to Extra: Later episodes seem to treat Trina more like a side character than a main character.
• The Determinator: Despite having no real friends and receiving no real support from anyone besides Tori, Trina refuses to give up on her dreams of making it big in Hollywood. Anyone who would risk getting sick to learn how to play a girl with TB or risk getting run over to speak with a music producer may warrant an F for self-preservation, but certainly an A for dedication.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Her younger sister and her friends find her extremely annoying. One of Jade's catchphrases is "No one likes you!"
• Does Not Understand Sarcasm: In Locked Up.
• Drives Like Crazy: Even does yoga and shaves while driving. Oh, and speeds.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Tori's Responsible.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Tori's friends generally only associate with Trina because she's her sister. Jade states it outright in "Stuck in an RV" and again in "Terror on Cupcake Street" and "The Worst Couple." Notable that no one, not even Tori, defends her. Mostly Type 2 whenever she tags along with Tori's group. Nowadays, they seem to tolerate her.
• Giftedly Bad: How she got to be a student at the Hollywood School of Arts is anybody's guess - she can't sing, she can't dance, she can't act. In fact, there is a second season episode wherein almost all the other main characters discuss how she could've possibly been accepted in the first place. Even one of the teachers who was on the select committee isn't sure... It's revealed via Flash Back that he was undergoing a Mushroom Samba at the time, and thought his own psychedelic hallucinations were a part of her audition.
• Girly Bruiser: According to "Freak The Freak Out" and "Andre's Horrible Girl", she knows some stealth techniques as well.
• Glory Hound: She will do whatever it takes to be in the spotlight including stalking and stealing from celebrities. She explains on the Slap that she loves making people happy and seeks to do so by entertaining them (i.e., putting herself in front of them).
• Good Is Not Nice: She truly is a well-intentioned person, but is too obnoxious, selfish, and irritating for it be acknowledged most of the time.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: For all the flack Trina gets, it's really because of her that a lot of the positive things happen in the show. To name a few things, Tori never would've gotten into Hollywood Arts, the gang would've remained banned from Karaoke Dokie, "Well Wishes" (Jade's play in "Wok Star") would've failed, Ryder Daniels might not have been put on blast for the Manipulative Bastard he is, and Robbie probably would've died as of "Tori Gets Stuck", if not for her interference. Whether anyone realizes it or not, she is crucial.
• Handicapped Badass: Even when drugged up to the gills (Freak The Freak Out), she's still capable of fighting (and winning against) 3 people at once.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: To drive the point home, she does most of the back-up vocals for Tori's songs. According to Tori on The Slap, Trina can actually sing. It's been implied that the problem isn't so much she can't sing, but that she believes she's so talented, she doesn't need to practice doing it.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: She's done some mean things to Tori herself, but on several occasions, most notably with Ryder and when Tori is arrested, she's shown to genuinely care about Tori when someone else is being mean to her.
• Hypocritical Humor: "You have to be more careful with people's feelings." (Before turning and yelling at the annoying kid behind her for kicking her seat.)
• I Call Him "Mr. Happy": Trina refers to her boobs as "the girls".
• I Just Want to Be Special: She truly believes that stardom is her destiny.
• I'll Kill You!: Trina to Robbie, upon calling her show a comedy.
• Implausible Deniability: Trina early in "Freak the Freak Out".
• In the Back: Has taken out two characters from behind through the show (Hayley in "Freak The Freak Out", when Trina appears from behind the couch and grabs her from behind before taking her to the floor. The second time (Andre's Horrible Girl) was when she sneaked into Hope's party by knocking out a hostess and stealing her uniform via wrapping her arms around her neck and simply dropped her body.
• Informed Flaw: She's said to be untalented multiple times, but she's shown repeatedly to be skilled in martial arts, dancing, cosmetics, acting, and even rapping. In addition, because she goes to Hollywood Arts, it can be guessed that she knows an instrument, since that's a requirement of all students. Also, her sister has mentioned on the Slap that she does have the potential to be a great singer.
• Irony: Clearly into singing and performing less out of doing it for artistic principle but because of the hope that it will bring her fame, but what she's really good at (fighting/martial arts) has exploded into populariy with MMA/UFC... but she still only sees it as a hobby and not a career pursuit.
• It's All About Me: She gives herself a birthweek instead of a birthday.
• I Reject Your Reality: Trina is utterly convinced that she's the most popular, talented, and beautiful girl on campus, and no amount of evidence to the contrary can convince her otherwise.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • In Ice Cream for Ke$ha, Andre and Cat agree with Trina that Tori should keep her childhood bet if she didn't marry a prince.
  • When concerning Tori "dating" Ryder Daniels, Trina warns her to be careful to date someone she's just met, as most of the girls she knows have "dated" him before and dumped them with no warning. She turns out to be right when Tori learns Ryder has been using girls to get himself good grades.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her flaws, she actually loves her sister and she's shown several times to care for the rest of the main gang as well as total strangers.
• Kick Chick: Subverted. She is seen using kicks more than punches whenever she's shown fighting, but she does use her fists.
• Lack of Empathy: A few instances of this, Played for Laughs as you might expect.
  • This line from "Tori and Jade's Playdate."
    Trina: I don't have time to hear about your pain, Grandma!
  • In the episode "Jade Dumps Beck" she appears atop a podium attempting to announce to the school news of her upcoming performance from her "One Woman Show". In the process, she accidentally drops a heavy box of fliers onto a passing student, possibly concussing him. Her response?
    Trina: Could you pass those out?"
  • Another instance comes from the same episode. She and Tori appear to be playing some form of Wii Tennis. In an attempt to return the ball, she winds up knocking Tori over with her controller and whines:
    Trina: Tori! You messed up my shot!
• Lame Comeback: "Why don't you [Blank] my butt!"
• Large Ham: Clearly a firm believer that bigger is better, she makes everyone seem subdued by comparison. Just look at her debut scene.
  Trina: I am so upset!!
• Lethal Chef: Not that anyone has eaten her cooking, but she didn't know how to cook a turkey and decided to shove it into the microwave. Justified, seeing her father didn't want to help her.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: In "Helen Back Again", and "Freak The Freak Out".
• Meaningful Name: "Trina" is Scandinavian for "pure". Like her sister, her last name is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, fitting for someone who wants to become a famous singer.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In "Car, Rain, & Fire", she starts a rumor that she's dating Beck to get boys to compete for her attention (without getting Beck's approval in advance). What she didn't see coming was him, Andre, and Robbie, three guys she knows and cares about, to start fighting over her.
• Narcissist: Trina does have a vain and narcissistic ego, and is easily the most selfish character on the show. She wants to make people happy by putting herself in front of them for entertainment.
• Never My Fault: In one episode where most of the main cast (except for Cat) gets trapped in an RV, Trina complains that she didn't even know why the others invited her. In the first few minutes of the episode it's clearly shown that she invites herself along. The others call her out on this, Jade says "No one likes you!" after everyone's done talking.
• Oblivious to Hatred: As a result of her narcissism and attitude towards others, no one likes Trina one bit, not even her own parents. Because of her ego however, Trina doesn't realize this and thinks she is the most popular girl in school and thinks everyone loves her. Only Tori seems to care for her but even she has her limits. She's also seen getting along with Cat sometimes, but then again Cat doesn't hate anyone.
• Odd Friendship: With Cat.
• Parody Retcon: Trina's one-woman show is an In-Universe example.
• Pet the Dog: There are moments when Trina is shown to be less selfish than she appears to be. Instances such as Trina setting the solvent for Tori's face, warning her about Ryder, and being outraged about her being in prison shows a lot of Character Development for her.
• Plastic Bitch: Trina (a diva who thinks she's better than everyone) once expresses interest in getting cosmetic surgery. Given it's a kid's show, it's not stated what surgery she wants, but she is shown briefly looking down at her breasts. Unlike most examples of this trope, Trina doesn't seem to have the approval of her parents to get the procedure, as she mentions she has to wait until she's eighteen. This is likely due to her status as The Unfavorite in her family.
• Plot Allergy: I, the Pilot, she takes an herb to help her singing voice for the big showcase, but it sparks an allergic reaction that dangerously swells her tongue, forcing Tori to take her spot.
• Potty Emergency: Trina apparently had a really bad one when she was six, due to a bladder infection. Poor shopping mall Santa.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Tori's Blue.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Tori.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Despite being untalented, annoying, unpopular, and universally hated by everyone around her, she's a Narcissist who believes to be better than everyone else.
• Spicy Latina: While her sister Tori is more passive, Trina definitely has the attitude.
• Spoiled Brat: She's always trying to promote herself, she thinks she deserves a week to celebrate her birthday, and refuses to accept Tori's song as a present since it didn't cost any money.
• Stalker without a Crush: If Trina doesn't get what she wants, hide.
• Straw Loser: Seems to exist solely to make Tori look better at times.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Averted in "How Trina Got In".
• Token Evil Teammate: A different kind than Jade.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky; She is absolutely desperate to be famous, and when her sister, or one of her sisters friends, do anything that involves getting attention, performing, or other famous people, she's find a way to tag along, only to get pushed away in the end.
• Too Dumb to Live: In "Tori Gets Stuck", Trina is convinced by Sikowitz to make her fake cough for a play to sound more like a patient with tuberculosis. When the gang visits Robbie at the hospital, Trina enters an isolation room and came in close contact with a TB patient to learn how his cough sounds like. Naturally, she ended up getting infected with a life-threatening disease.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Freak The Freak Out" and "Helen Back Again", where Daniella Monet's talents are displayed. Trina, herself as well, as she fends off Beck, Andre, and Robbie (Freak The Freak Out), whom she uses her martial arts upon (Helen Back Again).
• The Unfavorite: Shows some shades of this. Such as her parents going on vacation after she gets her wisdom teeth taken out to avoid having to take care of her and demanding that she goes with Tori and her friends to Yerba as a condition to allowing them to go. The latter example was at least justified in the fact that just earlier, Trina had thrown a golf club at her father's face (or rather, she threw a golf club and his face happened to be in the way)
• Undying Loyalty: Downplayed. She's a narcissist and she's not above screwing over her sister in petty situations, but when Tori's wellbeing is compromised, you can bet she'll drop everything and focus squarely on that.
• Ungrateful Bitch: "So where's my present?" This is not something you say to your sister who performed a song dedicated to you.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: "Helen Back Again" was her second day in the spotlight and other than "Freak The Freak Out", until the episode after has her in the hospital because her harness was slashed during a play. Just as it couldn't get any worse, as Trina falls hard and crashes through the table after flailing around in the air, the stage wall collapses on her.

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