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* LoveEpiphany: In the sequel, Jim realizes he loves Michelle when, while talking to Nadia, he finds himself quoting, [[MemeticMutation "This one time, at band camp..."]]

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* LoveEpiphany: In the sequel, Jim realizes he loves Michelle when, while talking to Nadia, he finds himself quoting, [[MemeticMutation "This one time, at band camp..."]]"

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!!Margie (Creator/ChristineBarger)
* CuteClumsyGirl: Some hints of this, like choking on her gum at the start.
* MsFanservice: From her [[NakedFirstImpression very first appearance]], even.
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* InnocentBlueEyes: She has huge blue-green eyes, and is very kind in general.
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%%* BlackSheep

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%%* BlackSheep* BlackSheep: Erik is this to the Stifler family, as he is not the LifeOfTheParty like most of his cousins, leading to most people questioning if he is truly a Stifler, especially when since he accidentally killed his Grandmother while he was caught masturbating in front of her and his parents, and was almost the first member of his family to graduate high school a virgin.
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* TheyDo: With Michelle.



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* AllMenArePerverts: More obsessed with sex than the other four guys put together.

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* AllMenArePerverts: More obsessed with sex than the other four guys put together. Keep in mind he'd already lost his virginity long before the events of the first movie began.



* TheChewToy: It's certainly funny to see him get his just desserts.

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* TheChewToy: It's certainly funny (albeit incredibly disgusting) to see him get his just desserts.



* DiscoDan: By the time of the reunion, Stifler's refusal to change has worked against him. His homophobic insults towards his friends don't sound the same due to society's current attitudes of gay people, to say nothing of the realisation that his lacrosse buddies actaully were gay. He also still flirts with teenage girls in his 30s, which makes him seem creepy and pathetic rather than cool. He also can't mock anyone's unimpressive sex lives anymore as his friends are married with kids or at the very least in steady relationships, while Stifler is alone and still lives with his mother.

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* DiscoDan: By the time of the reunion, Stifler's refusal to change has worked against him. His homophobic insults towards his friends don't sound the same due to society's current improved attitudes of towards gay people, to say nothing of the realisation that his lacrosse buddies actaully were gay. He also still flirts with teenage girls in his 30s, which makes him seem creepy and pathetic rather than cool. He also can't mock anyone's unimpressive sex lives anymore as his friends are married with kids or at the very least in steady relationships, while Stifler is alone and still lives with his mother.



* FunPersonified: If you want to have fun at your party, he's the perfect person.
* HiddenDepths: He's a surprisingly good dancer.

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* FunPersonified: If you want to have fun at your party, he's the perfect person.
person. Just don't expect him to be likable.
* HiddenDepths: HiddenDepths:
** JerkJock he may be, but when a rumor goes around that Finch could beat him in a fight, Stifler foregoes the public beatdown you'd expect a guy like him to dish out and instead slips laxatives into Finch's beverage. What's more, he was so stealthy about it that the only reason Kevin found out was because Stifler told him.
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He's a surprisingly good dancer.



* TheHyena: Stifler never fails to laugh at his own jokes.
* IAteWhat: Stifler's mouth could very well be the most unsanitary space in the universe. He's ingested semen, tasted urine, shoved a dog turd in there and had to go down on a woman who was both au naturale and a squirter.



* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Thinks of Jim and the gang as his brothers, but constantly annoys them with his antics.

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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Thinks of After Oz fades into the background, Stifler latches onto Jim and the rest of the gang as his brothers, but constantly annoys them with his antics.



* TheMillstone: In ''American Wedding'' before he redeems himself at the end. Ironically, while Stifler does make trouble of his own, he inadvertently solves most of Jim's problems: teaching him how to dance, getting Michelle's dress made, earning him the blessing of Michelle's parents, and winning Grandma's approval.
* TheNicknamer: "Shitbreak" for Finch, "Fuckface" for Oz, and "Choir Chick" for Heather.

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* TheMillstone: In ''American Wedding'' before he redeems himself at the end. Ironically, while Stifler does make trouble of his own, he inadvertently solves most of Jim's problems: teaching him how to dance, getting Michelle's dress made, earning him the blessing of Michelle's parents, parents and winning Grandma's approval.
* TheNicknamer: "Shitbreak" for Finch, "Fuckface" for Oz, Oz and "Choir Chick" for Heather.



* ReallyGetsAround: Stifler claims to have gotten laid 23 times in his freshman year of college, and according to ''Reunion'', had sex with a significant amount of the girls he went to high school with. Unless you apply the Rule of Three...
* RunningGag: Stifler is usually the brunt of the joke when it comes to ingesting some kind of bodily increment:

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* ReallyGetsAround: Stifler claims to have gotten laid 23 times in his freshman year of college, and according to ''Reunion'', had sex with a significant amount of the girls he went to high school with. Unless you apply the Rule of Three...
Three, in which case his freshman record is a more realistic but still impressive 7 girls at the minimum.
* RunningGag: Stifler is usually the brunt of the joke when it comes to ingesting some kind of bodily increment:excrement:



** Averted in ''Reunion'', where he turns the charade by taking a shit in a posse of teenagers' beer cooler.

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** Averted in ''Reunion'', where he turns the charade by taking a shit in a posse of teenagers' beer cooler. Reverted when he has to go down on a woman who doesn't wax.



* CatchPhrase: His "to the next step" toasts.

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* CatchPhrase: His "to the next step" toasts. Becomes a SubvertedCatchphrase in the third movie when Jim and Finch tell him to knock it off.



%% * HappilyMarried: To Ellie in ''Reunion''.

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%% * HappilyMarried: To Ellie in ''Reunion''.''Reunion''. He has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that Vicky mught have slept with him while he was drunk, but it turned out to be false.



* NinetiesHair: Oz had a fairly dated haircut in highschool. By the time of the sequel he looks more stylish.



* LonelyAtTheTop: Oz went on to become a major sports anchor, which was enough to get him a spot on ''Celebrity Dance Off'', a lavish mansion and a supermodel girlfriend by the time he was thirty, but he's visibly unsatisifed with the lifestyle and by the end of ''American Reunion'' he's considered pushing it all aside to hang out with his friends and rekindle his old love.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Way back in the first film there was a moment where Michelle gave Kevin an annoyed look for telling his friends about how he performed cunnilingus on Vicky within earshot of her. Considering this is the same girl who gave Jim a blowjob in a fancy restaurant, you'd swear she was a different character.



%% * HappilyMarried: Eventually with Jim.



* FormerTeenRebel: More college rebel, but as mentioned in CoolOldGuy you get the idea. He started the Sex Bible and was the first author. The Naked Mile was a passive protest to "stick it to the man," and he was fraternity president of BETA House by 1968. He is remembered as a legend by the fraternity, and current Beta president Dwight Stifler proclaims him to be "the craziest bastard this campus has ever known".

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* FormerTeenRebel: FormerTeenRebel:
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More college rebel, but as mentioned in CoolOldGuy you get the idea. He started the Sex Bible and was the first author. The Naked Mile was a passive protest to "stick it to the man," and he was fraternity president of BETA House by 1968. He is remembered as a legend by the fraternity, and current Beta president Dwight Stifler proclaims him to be "the craziest bastard this campus has ever known".known".
** ''Reunion'' raises a bit of a ContinuitySnarl as it shows a photo of him from his youth with a truly horrendous fashion sense. KavorkaMan must have really been in play then.



* PapaWolf: A prudish old woman made the mistake of kink-shaming Jim in front of Noah, which caused him to unleash an unforeseen level of fury which embarrassed both the woman and Jim.
--> "My son is sitting here with his hand glued to his penis! But you wouldn't know about that, because you don't have a penis! Or maybe you do?"



* StacysMom: Stifler's mom is the reason everybody knows what "MILF" means. She is certainly the TropeCodifier for the acronym.

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* StacysMom: Stifler's mom is the reason everybody knows what "MILF" means. She is certainly the TropeCodifier for the acronym. Turns out she enjoys being called "Stifler's Mom".

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* AllWomenAreLustful: That one time at band camp, sticks a trumpet in her boyfriend's ass as sex play, goes down on him during a dinner with his father, indulges in ADateWithRosiePalms and S&M.

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* AllWomenAreLustful: That one time at band camp, sticks a trumpet in her boyfriend's ass as sex play, goes down on him during a dinner with his father, indulges in ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation and S&M.



* TheIngenue: Downplayed, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]

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* TheIngenue: Downplayed, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]



* ADateWithRosiePalms: In both ''The Naked Mile'' and ''Beta House'', the first of which ''kills his grandmother''.
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->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MichelPapineschi (European French)
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* AscendedExtra: She had less than four minutes of screentime in the first movie.

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* AscendedExtra: She had less than four minutes of screentime in the first movie.movie and becomes a recurring character in the series.



* CovertPervert: Of course, it's Creator/AlysonHannigan here.

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%% * CovertPervert: Of course, it's Creator/AlysonHannigan here.



* FieryRedhead: When she wants to be. She wastes no time in beating up on a much younger high school jock that was assaulting Jim.

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* FieryRedhead: When she wants to be. She has red hair and wastes no time in beating up on a much younger high school jock that was assaulting Jim.



* MotorMouth: In the first movie, with all her "Band Camp" stories.

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%% * MotorMouth: In the first movie, with all her "Band Camp" stories.



* SheCleansUpNicely: Well, you gotta admit Michelle cleans up good.
* ShrinkingViolet: At first. Then she reveals that band camp story, asks Jim if they're going to screw then dominates him.
* TheyDo: With Jim.

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%% * SheCleansUpNicely: Well, you gotta admit Michelle cleans up good.
%% * ShrinkingViolet: At first. Then she reveals that band camp story, asks Jim if they're going to screw then dominates him.
%% * TheyDo: With Jim.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a bullying jock to a LoveToHate protagonist, to a sympathetic, somewhat tragic character and JerkWithAHeartOfGold in ''Reunion''.

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* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a bullying jock to a LoveToHate love-to-hate protagonist, to a sympathetic, somewhat tragic character and JerkWithAHeartOfGold in ''Reunion''.



* LastNameBasis: The other characters almost always refer to him as Stifler.

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* LastNameBasis: The other characters almost always refer to Almost everyone just calls him as Stifler.
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* PlayingGertrude: Jennifer Coolidge is only fifteen years older than Seann William Scott, who plays her son.
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* ButtMonkey:

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* ButtMonkey:ButtMonkey: Annie goes through a lot of humiliating ordeals throughout the film.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Annie goes through a lot of humiliating ordeals throughout the film.

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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Annie goes through a lot of humiliating ordeals throughout the film.
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* DotingGrandparent: She doesn't want Jim to marry Michelle because Michelle is not Jewish.
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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: Mocking his "Stifmeister" moniker.
%% * Beta Couple: With Cadence in ''Wedding''.

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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: BerserkButton: Mocking his "Stifmeister" moniker.
%% * Beta Couple: BetaCouple: With Cadence in ''Wedding''.
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* BerserkButton: Mocking his "Stifmeister" moniker.
* BetaCouple: With Cadence in ''Wedding''.

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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: Berserk Button: Mocking his "Stifmeister" moniker.
%% * BetaCouple: Beta Couple: With Cadence in ''Wedding''.
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* TheIngenue : Downplayers, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]

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* TheIngenue : Downplayers, TheIngenue: Downplayed, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]
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* TheIngenuine: Downplayers, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]

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* TheIngenuine: TheIngenue : Downplayers, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]
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* TheIngenuine: Downplayers, but at the beginning of the first movie Jessica is shocked to find that she's never [[ADateWithRosiePalms "double-clicked her mouse".]]
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->'''Played by:''' Molly Cheek

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->'''Played by:''' Molly Cheek
Creator/MollyCheek



->'''Played by:''' Eli Marienthal (''American Pie 1 & 2'')
->'''Played by:''' Tad Hilgenbrink (''Band Camp'')

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->'''Played by:''' Eli Marienthal Creator/EliMarienthal (''American Pie 1 & 2'')
->'''Played by:''' Tad Hilgenbrink Creator/TadHilgenbrink (''Band Camp'')



->'''Played by:''' Chris Owen

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->'''Played by:''' Chris OwenCreator/ChrisOwen



->'''Played by:''' Justin Isfield

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->'''Played by:''' Justin Isfield
Creator/JustinIsfield



->'''Played by:''' Lisa Arturo (Amber)
->'''Played by:''' Denise Faye(Danielle)

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->'''Played by:''' Lisa Arturo Creator/LisaArturo (Amber)
->'''Played by:''' Denise Faye(Danielle)
Creator/DeniseFaye (Danielle)



->'''Played by:''' Deborah Rush

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->'''Played by:''' Deborah Rush
Creator/DeborahRush



->'''Played by:''' Eric Allan Kramer

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->'''Played by:''' Eric Allan Kramer
Creator/EricAllanKramer



->'''Played by:'''Nikki Schieler Ziering (Officer Krystal)
->'''Played by:'''Amanda Swisten (Fraulein Brandi)

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->'''Played by:'''Nikki Schieler Ziering by:'''Creator/NikkiSchielerZiering (Officer Krystal)
->'''Played by:'''Amanda Swisten by:'''Creator/AmandaSwisten (Fraulein Brandi)



-> '''Played by:''' Charlene Amoia

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-> '''Played by:''' Charlene Amoia
Creator/CharleneAmoia



->'''Played by:''' Dania Ramirez

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->'''Played by:''' Dania Ramirez
Creator/DaniaRamirez



->'''Played by:''' Ali Cobrin

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->'''Played by:''' Ali Cobrin
Creator/AliCobrin



->'''Played by:''' Chuck Hittinger

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->'''Played by:''' Chuck Hittinger
Creator/ChuckHittinger



->'''Played by:''' Rebecca Field

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->'''Played by:''' Rebecca Field
Creator/RebeccaField



->'''Played by:''' Vik Sahay

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->'''Played by:''' Vik Sahay
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->'''Played by:''' Rebecca De Mornay

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->'''Played by:''' Rebecca De Mornay
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* BrokenPedestal: Matt stopping idolizing Steve once he learns from Noah that his older brother wasn’t really that well-liked.

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The cast of ''American Pie''.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Stifler's JerkJock antics are cranked up in ''Wedding''. Inverted in ''Reunion'' where, though still a ManChild, his portrayal is closer to the Stifler in the first two films.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Stifler's JerkJock antics are cranked up in ''Wedding''. Inverted in ''Reunion'' where, though while still a ManChild, his portrayal is closer to the Stifler in the first two films.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After some CharacterDevelopment he becomes this in ''American Wedding''. ''Reunion'' portrays him in a much lighter fashion, showing that while he hasn't let go of his immature behavior, all he wants is for the guys to have a good time and he still cares about them.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After some CharacterDevelopment he becomes this in ''American Wedding''. ''Reunion'' portrays him in a much lighter fashion, showing that while he hasn't let go of his immature behavior, all he wants is for the guys to have a good time and he still cares does c about them.
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* BastardBoyfriend: To Kara.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Stifler's JerkJock antics are cranked UpToEleven in ''Wedding''. Inverted in ''Reunion'' where, though still a ManChild, his portrayal is closer to the Stifler in the first two films.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Stifler's JerkJock antics are cranked UpToEleven up in ''Wedding''. Inverted in ''Reunion'' where, though still a ManChild, his portrayal is closer to the Stifler in the first two films.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: While Michelle is overweight compared to the rest of her friends, it doesn't change she is very attractive.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Kayla constantly questions her boyfriend Tim's loyalty to her, which causes to break up with Kayla at the beginning of the movie. However, Kayla get out of this later in the film, and she and Tim get back together.

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Grumpy Bear is no longer a trope and Jerkass isn't male-exclusive if that's what you're getting at. Speaking of which, Jerk With A Heart Of Gold is a Sub Trope of Jerkass, which is revealed in Super Trope.


* {{Jerkass}}: In the first two movies and a good part of the third movie before his CharacterDevelopment.



* {{Jerkass}}: For most of the movie he tries to emulate Steve and changes his ways when he finds out that everyone hated his brother. Because he was a Jerkass. As a result, Matt gets better.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Finally evolves into this by the end of ''Band Camp''.

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* {{Jerkass}}: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For most of the movie he tries to emulate Steve and changes his ways when he finds out that everyone hated his brother. Because he was a Jerkass. As a result, However, Matt gets better.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Finally
better and finally evolves into this the "Heart of Gold" by the end of ''Band Camp''.



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%%* {{Jerkass}}: A female version.

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%%* {{Jerkass}}: A female version.{{Jerkass}}:

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* FlatCharacter: She has little characterisation outside of being a goal for Jim.



* RomanticRunnerUp: Jim turns her down once he realises that he had something special with Michelle.

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* RomanticRunnerUp: Jim turns her down once he realises that he had has something special with Michelle.Michelle.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: She has little characterisation outside of being a goal for Jim.
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* TookALevelInKindness: At the end of ''American Wedding'', where he finally tries to be a good guy after being rightfully dismissed by everyone. He's still an immature moron in the fourth movie, but this time his {{Jerkass}} moments come mostly due to him still being trapped in the past and acting like his high school self than any genuine malice.

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* TookALevelInKindness: At the end of ''American Wedding'', where he finally tries to be a good guy after being rightfully dismissed by everyone. He's still an immature moron in the fourth movie, but this time his {{Jerkass}} moments come mostly due to him still being trapped in the past and acting like his high school self than any genuine malice.

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