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-->'''Vanessa:''' [[NotSoStoic Oh my God, kid, that was so...]]''[[NotSoStoic beautiful.]]

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-->'''Vanessa:''' [[NotSoStoic Oh my God, kid, that was so...]]''[[NotSoStoic beautiful.]]]]''
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-->'''Vanessa:''' [[NotSoStoic Oh my God, kid, that was so...''beautiful.'']]

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-->'''Vanessa:''' [[NotSoStoic Oh my God, kid, that was so...''beautiful.'']]]]''[[NotSoStoic beautiful.]]
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-->'''The Salesman:''' ''Wow,'' Dumb-Dumb, what a voice!
-->'''Vanessa:''' [[NotSoStoic Oh my God, kid, that was so...''beautiful.'']]
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* BerserkButton: Nicknames. Unfortunately, this happens to him a lot, mostly from [[NickNamer The Salesman]], so he has no choice but to accept it.

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* BerserkButton: Nicknames. Unfortunately, this happens to him a lot, mostly from [[NickNamer [[TheNicknamer The Salesman]], so he has no choice but to accept it.
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* BerserkButton: Nicknames. Unfortunately, this happens to him a lot, mostly from The Salesman, so he has no choice but to accept it.

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* BerserkButton: Nicknames. Unfortunately, this happens to him a lot, mostly from [[NickNamer The Salesman, Salesman]], so he has no choice but to accept it.



* CharacterDevelopment: Cooper started off as just a regular little boy, but after being trapped in the basement for so long, he started to go crazy. In the finale, he really showed off what kind of a guy he was in the final musical number with The Salesman.

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* CharacterDevelopment: Cooper started starts off as just a regular regular, if meek, little boy, but after being trapped in the basement for so long, he started to go crazy.becomes much more assertive. In the finale, he really showed off what kind of a guy he was in the final musical number with The Salesman.
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!! Ginger Orphans

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!! Ginger OrphansOrphans.



!! The Trinketts

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!! The TrinkettsTrinketts.



!! Parrots

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!! ParrotsParrots.



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* LackOfEmpathy: His response to Cooper going missing with no explanation?
-->'''Orphanage Director:''' ''Look,'' we can't hold a funeral every time one of you doesn't ''come back!''

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Does ''not'' like being called ''anything'' but his own name.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Does ''not'' like appreciate being called ''anything'' referring to as anything but his own name."Cooper." Which makes being around [[TheNicknamer The Salesman]] all the more irritating for him.
* RageBreakingPoint: He gets progressively angrier the more he has to deal with The Salesman's actions, culminating in the finale with him [[spoiler:cussing out The Salesman while [[TurnsRed going red in the face]] and even adopting The Salesman's [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] for a few seconds.]]
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When the series begins, he's primarily portrayed as a goofy, if occasionally off-kilter obstacles for [[OnlySaneMan Cooper]] to bounce off of comedically. Then ''Circle'' happens, in which he ''[[spoiler:murders Clayton in cold blood,]]'' and it becomes clear to the audience and Cooper just how threatening he is.

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* BiggerBad: At the beginning of the show, Madame Trinkett was the [[BigBad big bad]], but as the series progressed, we saw that The Salesman posed far worse of a threat.

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* BiggerBad: At the beginning of the show, Madame Trinkett was appear to be the [[BigBad big bad]], but as the series progressed, we saw that it becomes clear The Salesman posed is a far worse of a greater threat.



* NoNameGiven: His name was never mentioned in the show. This was lampshades by Cooper during a song in the finale.

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* NoNameGiven: His Despite his prominence throughout the entire series, his name was is never mentioned in the show. revealed. This was lampshades [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by Cooper during a song in the finale.



* AbusiveParents: A very subtle moment revealed this. In Joe's flashback, we see him going trick-or-treating and going to Madame Trinkett's house, which is when he gets kidnapped. Since then, he's been trapped in the basement for 3 years. Now, if you pay attention, you can see his mother with him. So, if that was the moment he was kidnapped and he's been there for 3 years, that meant his mother just let this happen and didn't bother to try and get him back. It's not like she didn't know where he was.

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* AbusiveParents: A very surprising subtle moment revealed this. example. In Joe's flashback, we see him going trick-or-treating and going to at Madame Trinkett's house, which is when he gets kidnapped. Since then, he's been trapped in the basement for 3 years. Now, if you pay attention, you can see his mother with him. So, if that was the moment he was kidnapped and he's been there for 3 years, that meant his mother just let this happen and didn't bother to try and get him back. It's not like she didn't know where he was.



* FatherNeptune: His basic archetype. Although technically, he isn't actually a seadog. He was just in costume as one on the night he got kidnapped. Still, this doesn't stop him from committing to the disguise and taking on the personality.

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* FatherNeptune: His basic archetype. Although technically, he isn't actually a seadog. He It was just in a costume as one on he was wearing the night he got kidnapped. Still, this doesn't stop him from committing to the disguise character and taking on the personality.personality.
* TalkLikeAPirate: That's what he does.



* TalkLikeAPirate: That's what he does.

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* TalkLikeAPirate: That's what he does.TooDumbToLive: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] but this kid still willingly wears a costume he's ''actively allergic too.''
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* CreepyTwins: Due to their little cult, where they sacrifice people to the Parrot King, they qualify as creepy twins.

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* CreepyTwins: Due to their little cult, where willingness to participate in The Salesman's "Circle",[[spoiler:where they sacrifice people to the Parrot King, King]], they ''definitely'' qualify as creepy twins.



** However, they did make another appearance in the final episode, during Cooper's trial.

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** However, [[SubvertedTrope However]], they did make another appearance in the final episode, during Cooper's trial.
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A salty seadog archetype.

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A [[FatherNeptune salty seadog archetype.archetype]] who dressed as a sailor for Halloween and went trick-or-treating at Madame Trinkett's house, which is when he got captured.



* AbusiveParents: A very subtle moment revealed this. In Joe's flashback, we see him going trick-or-treating and going to Madame Trinkett's house, which is when he gets kidnapped. Since then, he's been trapped in the basement for 3 years. Now, if you pay attention, you can see his mother with him. So, if that was the moment he was kidnapped and he's been there for 3 years, that meant his mother just let this happen and didn't bother to try and get him back. It's not like she didn't know where he was.
* {{Backstory}}: Saltrot Joe's backstory is that one Halloween, he was trick-or-treating in costume as a sailor. He went to Madame Trinkett's house and the rest is history.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Saltrot Joe makes a cameo in "Like Father, Like Son", when The Salesman tells Cooper about the various other characters he'll be meeting along the way.
* EveryScarHasAStory: Or in his case, a rash. He has a big red rash on his face and the reason for that is because he's allergic to his hat.
* FatherNeptune: His basic archetype. Although technically, he isn't actually a seadog. He was just in costume as one on the night he got kidnapped. Still, this doesn't stop him from committing to the disguise and taking on the personality.
* TheStoryteller: In "Starlot's Shanty", he tells the story of the disappearance of Sir Trinkett in the most sea captain-y ws ever.
* TalkLikeAPirate: That's what he does.



* FlatCharacter: He's really nothing more than just "The Bully".



* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: There's no discernable physical difference between the two characters.
* CainAndAbel: Clinton is the Cain to Clayton's Abel. This metaphor was followed all to down to the letter when [[spoiler:Clayton actually followed through with sacrificing Clinton's life to the Parrot King.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: At the beginning of the series, they had [[FlatCharacter no personality at all]], being known as nothing other than "[[ThoseTwoGuys the twins]]". However, "The Roots of Coincidence" did give us a little information about their characters. [[spoiler:Clinton's voluntary sacrifice to the Parrot King lets us know that he's been completely brainwashed by the cult, to the point where he's become suicidal and at peace with killing himself just to please some false god. Also, the fact that Clayton didn't even shed a single tear over the fact that his brother died just goes to show how cold and heartless he is.]]
* CreepyTwins: Due to their little cult, where they sacrifice people to the Parrot King, they qualify as creepy twins.



* [[spoiler:OneTwinMustDie]]: [[spoiler:Someone had to be sacrificed to the Parrot King and Clinton volunteered.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Clayton and Clinton both have similar-sounding names.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Clayton and Clinton are really not much other than being "the twins".



The black guy in the group, who sings rap songs.



** However, they did make another appearance in the final episode, during Cooper's trial.



* HiddenDepths:

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* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:We learn that she's mourning over the loss of her dead husband.]]



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* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]: [[spoiler:Clinton was sacrificed.]]

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* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]: [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler:Clinton was sacrificed.]]
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* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]: [[spoier:Clinton was sacrificed.]]

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* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]: [[spoier:Clinton [[spoiler:Clinton was sacrificed.]]
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* [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]: [[spoier:Always expressed hints of this throughout the series, but went full-on psycho in the finale.]]

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* [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]: [[spoier:Always [[spoiler:Always expressed hints of this throughout the series, but went full-on psycho in the finale.]]

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* [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]:

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* [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]: [[spoier:Always expressed hints of this throughout the series, but went full-on psycho in the finale.]]



* BiggerBad:

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* BiggerBad: At the beginning of the show, Madame Trinkett was the [[BigBad big bad]], but as the series progressed, we saw that The Salesman posed far worse of a threat.



* NoNameGiven:

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* NoNameGiven: His name was never mentioned in the show. This was lampshades by Cooper during a song in the finale.


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* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]: [[spoier:Clinton was sacrificed.]]
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* CoolOldLady: At her age, she's pretty calm, polite, and collected, [[AffablyEvil even included the string of kidnappings.]]

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* CoolOldLady: At her age, she's pretty incredibly calm, polite, and collected, and polite, [[AffablyEvil even included considering the string of kidnappings.]]

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* AvengingTheVillain: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]], considering he [[spoiler:waited ''[[YankTheDogsChain just before]]'' the orphans were about to obtain their freedom to bash the door close, and Cooper killing The Parrot King not too long before this definitely implies it was an act of spite.]]



* ItRunsInTheFamily: It's clear where The Salesman gets his

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* ItRunsInTheFamily: It's clear where The Salesman gets hishis eccentric behavior from.

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* GoingDownWithTheShip:

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* GoingDownWithTheShip: He most certainly did.
* TheLostLenore: The effect his death had on his wife pretty much caused the entire series to occur.
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[[folder:Stranded Guy]][[folder:The Stranded Man]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: It's clear where The Salesman gets his
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in the final episode, and doesn't get a significant amount of screen time. Not only did him holding on to the radio send Madame Trinkett off, giving the orphans a chance at freedom, but his abandoning of his son either left The Salesman's [[AxCrazy murderous tendencies]] unchecked, or directly ''caused them.'' If this didn't occur, the orphans probably could've found their way out sooner, and a ''lot'' less people would be dead.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[InvokedTrope Directly pointed out by his son in the finale.]]

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!! Ginger Prisoners

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!! Ginger PrisonersOrphans



* VocalDissonance: In "Circle", he did a perfect voice impression of his own mother, singing a beautiful song.

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* VocalDissonance: In "Circle", he did a perfect voice vocal impression of his [[spoiler:his own mother, singing a mother]], the beautiful song.performance of [[spoiler:''Dying Alone'']] being directly pointed out by Vanessa and The Salesman.



* FauxAffablyEvil:

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* FauxAffablyEvil: A core facet of his character, to the point where a decent amount of the [[BlackComedy humor]] in the series comes from his peppy, can-do attitude's contrast with the utter disregard he has for the orphans and their safety.



* AffablyEvil:

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* AffablyEvil: She's kidnapped who-knows how many orphans and is utterly deranged, but she's still a polite old woman who gives the people in her basement three steaks a day.



* CoolOldLady:

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* CoolOldLady: At her age, she's pretty calm, polite, and collected, [[AffablyEvil even included the string of kidnappings.]]



[[folder:Cop]]

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* GoodIsDumb: She's more or less the ''only'' adult in the entire series trying to help the orphans in any way whatsoever that isn't for utterly selfish reasons. Too bad she's so incompetent [[AdultsAreUseless she can't so much as see what the kidnapping victims might have in common.]]



!! Other
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* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]:

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* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: Even after everything he did and everything that happened to him, The Salesman [[spoiler: manages to be redeemed after Cooper offers him genuine companionship.]]



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Before she's introduced, a different, non-ginger orphan enthusiastically decrees she'd love Madame Trinkett forever if she was adopted. When Vanessa is introduced proper, she sounds utterly ''bored'' when stating her name, and only says the similar decree at the insistence of the Orphanage Director.



* TokenMinority: The black guy.

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* TokenMinority: [[CaptainObvious The black guy.]]


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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Their entire existence could be consider this, considering that they only appeared as essentially imagery for the Black Ginger's section of ''Living Live Underground''.
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* BerserkButton: [[VoiceOfTheLegion'''Interruptions.''']]

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* BerserkButton: [[VoiceOfTheLegion'''Interruptions.''']]'''[[VoiceOfTheLegion Interruptions.]]'''
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A former vaccuum salesman who serves as the leader of the improsoned orphans, on acocunt of being the only adult.

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A former vaccuum vacuum salesman who serves as the leader of the improsoned imprisoned orphans, on acocunt account of being the only adult.



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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]:
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The main character of the show. He is a ginger orphan who's trapped in a basement with a bunch of parrots.
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* BerserkButton: Nicknames. Unfortunately, this happens to him a lot, mostly from The Salesman, so he has no choice but to accept it.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Cooper has to undergo an extreme amount of either pain or stress or both in every episode, usually without getting any redemption at the end.
* CharacterDevelopment: Cooper started off as just a regular little boy, but after being trapped in the basement for so long, he started to go crazy. In the finale, he really showed off what kind of a guy he was in the final musical number with The Salesman.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Does ''not'' like being called ''anything'' but his own name.
* OnlySaneMan: He is the only person in the basement who doesn't act like a complete psycho.
* VerbalTic: Um, ... He ... Always ... Likes to um ... Break ... Down ... His ... Sentences? ... Like this? Saying, Um, ... "Um" ... A lot? And being ... Super Quiet?
** This was even joked about in "Living Life Underground", when his former orphanage buddy mimicked him.
* VocalDissonance: In "Circle", he did a perfect voice impression of his own mother, singing a beautiful song.
* YouthfulFreckles: Wouldn't be a ginger without them.


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A ginger girl, who was adopted by Madame Trinkett in "Lost Love". She quickly became the love interest of Cooper.
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* LoveInterest: To Cooper.


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A salty seadog archetype.
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The bully of the orphanage]].
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* TheBully: Bully bullies people.


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Twin brothers.
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A ginger boy in the orphanage.
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* OneSteveLimit: When Cooper came to the orphanage, The Salesman thought it would be a problem with there being two "Coopers". However, the first "Cooper" spelled his name with a "U", so it was perfectly fine.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Be sure you spell his name with a "U" instead of two "O"s like the main character.


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* NoNameGiven: His name was never mentioned.
* OxymoronicBeing: A black dude with red hair.
* TokenMinority: The black guy.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: He is usually accompanied by a pair of redheaded sluts.


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Two redheaded girls who usually accompany the black ginger.
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[[folder:Clint [[folder:Clayton and Clinton]]



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!! The Trinketts
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!! The Trinketts
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!! Parrots
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!! Parrots
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[[folder:Parrot King]][[folder:Sir Trinkett]]



[[folder:Messenger Parrot]]

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[[folder:Messenger Parrot]]!! Parrots
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!! Recurring Characters
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!! Old People

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!! Old PeopleThe Trinketts


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Characters from Ginger Orphan Playhouse
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!! Ginger Prisoners
[[folder:Cooper]]
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[[folder:The Salesman]]
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[[folder:Vanessa]]
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[[folder:Saltrot Joe]]
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[[folder:Bully]]
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[[folder:Couper]]
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[[folder:Madame Trinkett]]
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[[folder:Madame Trinkett's Husband]]
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!! Parrots
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[[folder:Parrot King]]
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[[folder:Messenger Parrot]]
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!! Recurring Characters
[[folder:Hank and Carol]]
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[[folder:Cop]]
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