History Characters / DegrassiTheNextGenerationSeason5Graduates

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: His true comeuppance is in season 6, after several seasons of treating girls badly. He develops a cocaine habit, which he ''blames Manny for'' when asked by Ellie. When his addiction and lying become too much, they both dump him and on top of that, his nose bleeds during a show. At the end of the "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?" episode, he's completed humilated and at his lowest point and sent to live with Joey to get help.

* CampGay: Not as extreme as some examples, but it's still there. Marco loves pop music, fashion, UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}, looking nice and [[AllGaysLoveTheater musicals]].

* DisappearedDad: A {{retcon}}, his father died of cancer apparently before the events of Series/{{Degrassi}}, however in an earlier episodes, he mentions him.

Jimmy was one of Degrassi's most popular students and he was a great basketball player. As one of the most popular kids at Degrassi, he was admired for his good looks and athletic skills, but he also had a mean streak a mile wide, as Sean Cameron could attest to. He had a bright future in pro basketball, until he was shot in the back during a school shooting and was paralyzed from the waist down. He spent much of the time afterward re-adjusting to his new life as a disabled person, whilst lamenting over the loss of his athletic dreams and never walking again. He is best friends with Spinner, and even forgave him for essentially putting him in the chair though it did take a while for Jimmy to stop being resentful. He meets and falls in love with a disabled girl named Trina and he proposes to her in season eight.

* HasTwoMommies: Her father is gay and married, leaving her with a gay stepfather though she lives with her mother.

* SignificantSketchbook: In the episode ''I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'', Ellie sees some art that Jimmy's been working on and notices pictures of the shooting. Ellie compliments Jimmy's drawings at lunch, saying she has discovered a different and disturbing side of him. Jimmy reveals that he took up drawing recently to pass the time. In class, Jimmy gets an email from Ellie talking about a Horror Comics of the 1950's convention. After they go he tells her that he draws what he imagines when he closes his eyes, as he can say everything that he needs to say with a pen and paper.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In season one, when she shows off her new look, complete with the BareYourMidriff "Hottie" embroidered shirt and sunglasses and queen bee attitude.

* SchoolIdol: At the top of the class, as the most well known Degrassi student, not just as a former athlete but a survivor.

->''“...I have my job, my loft, my band, Jane so staying [in Toronto] was just...me.”''

->'''"New year, new look, new Paige."''

'''Ashley Kerwin'''\\
[-Played by Melissa [=McIntyre=], Seasons 1-4 (regular), 5 (guest), 6-7 (recurring)-]

'''Eleanor "Ellie" Nash'''\\
[-Played by Creator/StaceyFarber, Seasons 2 (recurring), 3-7 (regular), 8 (recurring)-]

'''Paige Michalchuk'''\\
[-Played by Creator/LaurenCollins, Seasons 1-7 (regular), 8 (recurring), 16 (guest)-]

'''Gavin "Spinner" Mason'''\\
[-Played by Shane Kippel, Seasons 1-9 (regular), 14 and 16 (guest)-]

'''Jimmy Brooks'''\\
[-Played by Aubrey "Music/{{Drake}}" Graham, Seasons 1-7 (regular), 8 (guest)-]

'''Craig Manning'''\\
[-Played by Creator/JakeEpstein, Seasons 2-5 (regular), 6-8 (recurring), 15-16 (guest)-]

'''Marco Del Rossi'''\\
[-Played by Adamo Ruggiero, Seasons 2 (recurring), 3-7 (regular), 8 (recurring), 9 and 16 (guest)-]

'''Jason "Jay" Hogart'''\\
[-Played by Mike Lobel, Seasons 3-4 (recurring), 5-7 (regular), 8-9 (recurring)-]

'''Alexandra "Alex" Nunez'''\\
[-Played by Deanna Casaluce, Seasons 3-4 (recurring), 5-6 (regular), 7 (recurring)-]

'''Hazel Aden'''\\
[-Played by Andrea Lewis, Seasons 1-2 (recurring), 3-5 (regular)-]

'''Theresa 'Terri' [=McGreggor=]'''\\
[-Played by Christina Schmidt, Seasons 1-3 (regular)-]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In season 1, Paige gave Terri some liquor to loosen her up before the dance. She vomited all over Spinner. Had she dated Spinner, she would've been more confident and probably not thought [[{{yandere}} R]][[BastardBoyfriend i]][[CuteAndPsycho c]][[BerserkButton k]] was her only chance at love. If Rick hadn't put Terri in a coma, there would be no reason for people to bully him, and he wouldn't have reacted by bringing a gun to school. This was a meme on the forums for a while.

* NiceHat: His trademark backward black cap.

* TheCheerleader: She is the head cheerleader of the Spirit Squad and certainly didn't mind throwing her weight around.

* TheCheerleader: She was on the Spirit Squad along with Paige.

A bad boy at Degrassi. Unlike his best friend Sean, he lives up to his reputation and during the show's run, he engages in many illegal activities, drug use, and "corrupts" several Degrassi characters from Spinner, to Emma, to Darcy. Beneath the criminal exterior, Jay is a nice, sensitive and smart guy. He is also very resourceful and a good mechanic. In season 7, he starts seeing Manny Santos and in TheMovie, they finally become a couple.

* AntiVillain: For season three and four, he's the closest ''Degrassi'' gets to a serious villain, but like all the main characters, he's not completely terrible and has his PetTheDog moments.

* TheCorrupter: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he was a serious bad influence on a number of characters, from getting girls to perform oral sex to getting guys to steal things.

* FatalFlaw: He's manipulative as well as reckless, especially in regard to illegal activities.

* HeelFaceTurn: To piss off her parents, Manny decided to bring him to her birthday party as her bad boy escort only for him, rather out of nowhere, decide that GoodFeelsGood and change for the better by acting more mature and less combative.

* HiddenDepths: He may seem like a dumb bully who uses women but he is a great mechanic, and a overall sensitive guy.
* IconicOutfit: The trademark backwards baseball cap.
* {{Jerkass}}: When we first meet him, he was pretty mean to anyone not in his clique. He becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold later on as he interacts with more characters particularly Sean and Manny.

* ManipulativeBastard: If there was one person that fit this bill, it was him. He was able to convince otherwise non-threatening children into doing rather illegal and/or immoral activities, from stealing drugs from the pharmacy they worked at to engaging in street racing in a residential neighborhood.
* NiceHat: His trademark black cap backwards.

* ParentalAbandonment: His mother died when he was little, and he does not speak with his father after he made a scene at his father and step-mother's wedding.

* ArtisticLicense: In Season 6, when her mother gets an eviction notice, a two-episode arc is devoted to Alex trying to find the money to pay the bills. Eviction is a more complicated process in Ontario, and in real life they would go to court and have an opportunity to make arrangements to pay the arrears.
* TheBully: Along with her friends, and she was a bully particularly towards Emma and Rick. She deeply regrets bullying Rick, however.

* {{Delinquent}}: A ''former'' delinquent, as after the school shooting and become vice StudentCouncilPresident, she starts to change her ways.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In Season 4 Alex initially threatens to publicly out Marco to win the class president election. Marco tries to talk her out of it just before their debate assembly, stating that she is well liked enough to actually win votes fair and square. While giving her speech she decides at the last minute to keep his secret.
* {{Expy}} : As part of the GangOfBullies , she is an expy of Tabi from ''Series/DegrassiHigh''.

* KarmaHoudini: It's easy to forget, but Alex was also in on the plan to pour the paint on Rick, and was actually the one to set it up and the one who physically pulled the rope. Yet somehow, she got off scot free, becoming friends with Jimmy and his group while Spinner got exiled. However, it could be argued that, unlike Jay and Spinner, she did not take part in convincing Rick that Jimmy helped pull the prank, which ended up getting him shot. She also felt remorse for her actions beforehand.

* LongBusTrip: To Ajax in season seven, after and she and Paige break up.

* PinkMeansFeminine : In Season 6, she goes shopping with Paige and buys a pink jacket. Paige points out how pretty she is in pink.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Deanna Casaluce makes to the main cast in season five.
* SpicyLatina: Hot blooded, temperamental and tough as nails, until you get to know her.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In ''Degrassi Goes Hollywood'' after she's picked to be in Jason Mewes's musical and she starts being a total {{jerkass}} to everyone including her best friend Marco. She was so desperate to keep her name in the spotlight that she planned an upskirt "business" shot at a red carpet premiere. She even loses Marco's friendship for awhile, but as revealed in the ''Degrassi: Next Class'' episode ''#[=ThrowbackThursday=]'', they're friendly again.
* AlphaBitch: The show's most famous example. She wasn't even the first AlphaBitch (that would be Ashley) but her ascension to the top and behavior afterwards pretty much defined her role on the show.

* BreakTheHaughty: Several times throughout the show, the first major incident was the dealing with the trauma with being raped at age 14.
* BrokenBird: After she was raped at age 14. And then when Dean was acquitted of raping her, she really fell into this trope. She gets better, but it darkened her character from that point on.
* ButNotTooBi: Almost all of her relationships shown in the series are with men, but the one exception is Alex, who she ends up being very serious about. While Alex explicitly calls her a bisexual, Paige never gives herself a label, and when asked about it, she says that she isn't sure what she is yet.

* TheCheerleader: She is the head cheerleader of the Spirit Squad and definitely didn't mind throwing her weight around.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: When she took a driving test with a hot driving instructor, she couldn't really concentrate, leading to her to fail and smash several innocent traffic cones.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When Hazel hands Fareeza a "Fashion Police" ticket for wearing a hijab (complete with a "terrorist chic" remark). "When ''I'm'' offended, you know you really gone too far."

* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: After she is raped and gets help for it, she becomes a lot nicer and friendlier. However, she stills keeps an AlphaBitch edge, so don't get ''too'' friendly with her.

* StaringDownCthulhu: In one of her most famous scenes, where she stared down Dean, her rapist at a song writing contest and sang about how he took advantage of her.

* TraumaCongaLine: Let's see, she is raped at a party, [[KarmaHoudini her rapist gets away with the crime]], she completely flames out at college, and she has enough room to have a HIV/STD scare.

Alex is a girl who hurts a lot inside. One of the outcasts at Degrassi, she has a very tough exterior and attitude. But inside, she is very caring, vulnerable and soft. Her mother has bad luck with love and gets abused, and she has spent time living in a women's shelter with her mom due to their poverty. Paige Michalchuk is her first true love and the first person to break down her walls and she finally admitted to herself that she was a lesbian. Due to this relationship, she begins to believe in herself more and starts taking her life more seriously. Unfortunately, in season seven she and Paige had a cataclysmic breakup [[LongBusTrip and she took a bus to Ajax for a new start.]]

* ArtisticLicense : In Season 6, when her mother gets an eviction notice, a two-episode arc is devoted to Alex trying to find the money to pay the bills. Eviction is a more complicated process in Ontario, and in real life they would go to court and have an opportunity to make arrangements to pay the arrears.

* {{Tsundere}}: She is a type A, she is very rough around the edges and somewhat rude. Only Paige can bring out here dere side.

Ashley tends to be very melodramatic and uptight compared to her peers, but she is also is a very creative person and a talented vocalist and musician. She was the most popular girl at Degrassi; she was class president, had her own GirlPosse and popular athletic boyfriend Jimmy. But even as the most popular girl, Ashley felt like she couldn't express herself openly and was becoming bored with her friends. She experimented with ecstasy at a sleepover and revealed her ''true'' feelings in regards to her friends and boyfriend while under the influence. After that incident, and at the beginning of high school, she is outcast by her friends and dumped by Jimmy. She changes her look dramatically to a {{goth}} style, symbolizing her outcast status and to fit in with her new friend, Ellie. She eventually ends up back into her friends' good graces after helping Paige deal with her rape, and later Ashley dates new kid Craig Manning. In season three, Ashley is cheated on by Craig to which she harbors great resentment until he apologized and they date again in season four before she leaves Canada and starts a media internship in London, with her unable to deal with his newly diagnosed mental illness. After returning to Canada shortly, she leaves Degrassi once again to pursue a music career in London in season seven.

* AlphaBitch: Ashley was the most popular girl in school. She was controlling when it came to the morning announcements, the talent show and insulting to Terri for not having a boyfriend. This doesn't count when she was on ecstasy.

* BreakTheHaughty: Throughout season two, as her past snobbery comes back and bites her in ass, resulting in the loss all of her friends and social status.

* GirlinessUpgrade: In season 5, her hair is much longer and her clothes more feminine compared to her looks in the previous seasons.
* GoGetterGirl: In season 1, she strived to be student council president, excel in school, and be at the top of school ladder in popularity and academics.

* HumiliationConga: The season one episode ''Karma Chameleon'', in which she drops down the PopularityFoodChain, gets dumped by Jimmy (who calls her a slut) and Sean, and loses her friends, including best friend Terry.

* IntoxicationEnsues: Takes ecstasy in the first season finale, resulting in Ashley getting high, calling Paige a hag, and cheating on Jimmy. She became a social outcast over night.

* OutOfFocus: A prominent character in the first three seasons, her role started to fade to just being [[SatelliteLoveInterest Craig's girlfriend]] and give Craig more drama. Then later she simply became a background character for Jimmy and Ellie's storylines.
* PutOnABus: Ashley spent all but the final episode of season five in England. She came back to finish up her senior year in season six, but apparently decided to stay in England again in season seven.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: She's had a wardrobe shift in almost every season she's been in; from a trendy preppy girl (season 1), to a goth style (season 2), to a indie rocker chick style (seasons 3-4) to a GirlinessUpgrade of tighter tops and jeans and jewelry (seasons 6-7).

* StrawNihilist: At her worst, Ashley sees the worst in every situation and in people and can't get excited for anything.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Paige, who was gunning for her AlphaBitch spot. Ashley was the second person Paige told about her rape and Ashley was instantly protective. Also with Spinner, at least until they got older. Spinner didn't like her very much when she was going out with Craig.

Ellie is a sarcastic world-weary {{goth}} girl who turned heads at Degrassi with her alternative fashion and derisive attitude. She later becomes good friends with Ashley after Ashley gets outcasted from the popular crowd. Underneath the freaky fashion and snarky attitude, Ellie has deep wounds of depression and major trust issues. Her father is away in the Peace Corps and her mother is an neglectful alcoholic. With her father gone and her mother constantly in a drunken stupor who needs to be taken care off, Ellie starts cutting her arms to distract herself from her home life. She starts dating Sean until he leaves her behind so he could deal with his own issues. Ellie later learns to finally confide in people, from her frenemy Paige to forgiving her mother when she nearly burns the house down. During senior year and college, she had a tumultuous relationship with Craig Manning, to the point where she neglected her own relationship and was starting to drink to alleviate her stress. She had an interest in writing and journalism she was 15 and in season seven, she is made the editor of the The Core, Toronto University's college newspaper. In ''Degrassi Goes Hollywood'', her story arc finally comes full circle she wraps up her relationship with Craig and meets with her PTSD-stricken father.

* TheAlcoholic: Briefly, due to Jessie cheating her on Caitlin Ryan and dealing with her mountain of stress with her relationship with Craig and her father coming home and dealing with PTSD.

* TheBeard: She fell hard for Marco in season two, before realizing he was gay. She continued to be his beard until season 3 until she finally got tired of the charade. They're both now best friends.

* TheCynic: Her home life left her as this, as she usually sees the worst in everybody, especially her mother.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her primarily method of communication to people she dislikes, especially as a high schooler.

* FagHag: To Marco, at least after she stopped crushing on him and being his beard. Their relationship was so close, they actually hooked up in college due to their reluctance to be away from each other.

* GirlinessUpgrade: Dressed in a goth-style all throughout high school until college, in which she started dressing more casually and had even had some girly styles mixed in.
* {{Goth}}: Her fashion in high school had some basic Goth type styles, mixed in with the some of the more contemporary EmoTeen styles.

* IntoxicationEnsues: After she caught her idol, Caitlin Ryan making out with her ''boyfriend'', she drank a lot of wine and humiliated herself and Caitlin during an public interview. Then also dealing with Craig and her PTSD-stricken father during the ''Degrassi Goes Hollywood'' TV movie.

* LastGirlWins: She's the last girl that Craig was interested in during his time at Degrassi, and after they graduated and during ''Degrassi Goes Hollywood/Paradise City'', she turns out the be the girl that he wanted to be with - only Ellie decided to leave it there.
* LoveMartyr: Her relationship with both Craig and Jesse were filled with ups and downs and she was hurt, mainly because she kept internally making excuses for them.

* OneOfTheBoys: A drummer in an otherwise all-male garage band with a number of piercings. She does have a good female friend, but she is the only girl by season five who has strictly platonic relationship with a guy and she does maintain friendships with a couple of others.
* PairTheSpares: When Emma and Sean broke up, the both of them sought out new love interests - Emma with Chris and Sean with Ellie. The Sean/Ellie pairing was very popular because both had {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s, she was a BrokenBird and he was TroubledButCute. But of course, Emma and Sean had to get back together...

* TheSnarkKnight: She was generally disdainful for everyone and herself before she met Caitlin Ryan and she started on her path to being a journalist.

* TraumaCongaLine: In addition to her crappy home life, it seems like ''nothing'' can really go Ellie's way, especially romantically. Her first crush Marco turns out to be gay. Sean leaves her to go to Wasaga, leaving her stuck with the rent. Jessie cheats on her ''with her mentor'' Caitlin Ryan. And her biggest crush, Craig, treats her like a side-chick. However she's a non-physical injury version of the IronButtmonkey, [[{{Determinator}} determined to work hard especially as a journalist]].

Paige is a sharp-tongued fashionista who was part of Ashley's GirlPosse. She is smart and funny but wouldn't hesitate stepping over others to get to her goals. As soon as Ashley's popularity fell, Paige quickly took the AlphaBitch spot by undermining her friendships and taking her GirlPosse. Soon after becoming queen bee, Paige is date raped at a party and traumatized until she finally tells Hazel and Ashley about the rape and even faces down her rapist. [[RapePortrayedAsRedemption After the incident, she starts tone down her meanness]] and she dates Spinner for two seasons. She faces off with her rapist a year later in a courtroom and unfortunately loses her case, which leads to a break-up with Spinner and an ill-advised fling with a student teacher. During her senior year, she begins a relationship with Alex Nunez, her first girl-on-girl relationship which makes her wonder about her sexuality until she decides not to label herself. After graduating Degrassi, she has a complete breakdown at Banting University which was the start of her downward slide which culminates in a break-up with Alex, a high-stress fashion job and an aimless assistant job in Los Angeles. It does lead to her briefly being cast in Jason Mewes's movie, but she loses the part after getting a big head. She eventually does the right thing by getting Manny cast in the movie.

* TheFashionista: She was a trendsetter at Degrassi and spent time as a fashion magazine working as an assistant for an editor.

* TheBusCameBack: After leaving the show in season 9, he makes an appearance in season ''14'', interviewing Eli for a summer job position at The Dot. Yeah, he still works there. And again in DegrassiNextClass, where it's revealed he's ''still'' married to Emma.

* IWantToBeARealMan: In season seven Spinner starts acting more aggressive and combative, mainly because his cancer treatment includes having a testectomy.

* FatalFlaw: Holding grudges, and being quick to anger. This (mostly) goes away away he is shot.

* BiggusDickus: JT goes a huge eyeful of this in the locker room, which is the reason he thought Craig was such a ladies' man.

* ProperlyParanoied: He was right all along about there being something off with Rick.

* RomanticFalseLead: For Sean, seasons 3-4.

* RaisedCatholic: Doesn't come up often, but he wears a crucifix and attends church.