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* TheDitz: Doesn't know basic things like how to use a microwave or that not only white people can get STDs.

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* TheDitz: Doesn't know basic things like how to use a microwave or that not only white people can get STDs.[=STDs=].
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* PhoneaholicTeenager: Even submits her homework as a TikTok video.


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* PhoneaholicTeenager: Even submits her homework as a TikTok [=TikTok=] video.

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!!Andre Johnson

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!!Andre Johnson Johnson, Jr.



Biggus Dickus: Junior lands himself on The D List, a gossipy Cal U list made by the women on campus on which guy is the biggest and is good at sex.

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* Biggus Dickus: Junior lands himself on The D List, a gossipy Cal U list made by the women on campus on which guy is the biggest and is good at sex.sex.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Zaara is the first queer person in his friend space, and he overcompensates, making her believe he just looks for a cliché lesbian best fiend.




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* TheDitz: Doesn't know basic things like how to use a microwave or that not only white people can get STDs.
* LethallyStupid: Puts tin foil in a microwave, setting the lounge on fire while all his friends are in the room.
* LovableJock: Is playing football for a scholarship and is the easiest going guy of the gang.
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[[folder: Andre 'Junior' Johnson]]
!!Andre Johnson
--> '''Played by:''' Creator/MarcusScribner
Biggus Dickus: Junior lands himself on The D List, a gossipy Cal U list made by the women on campus on which guy is the biggest and is good at sex.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Andre tries this approach in a test for a sorority, thinking he needs to prove himself and carry all the other aspirants through the night. He grows out of it in the end, realizing they are better together.
* MommasBoy: Andre still loves his mom dearly, even picking out a sorority with other momma boys.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just like Dre in Blackish and Zoey in Grownish, Andre will directly address the audience to explain his inner thoughts and surroundings.
* MeaningfulRename: Junior comes into his own towards the end of the 5th seasons and decides to go by "Andre".
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Averted. He does have a phone, but he doesn't care much about the culture around it and questions his friends' dependence on it.


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[[folder: Kiela Hall]]
!!Kiela Hall
--> '''Played by:''' Daniella Perkins
* AmicableExes: Or more like amicable one-night stand. She hooks up with Andre at a party, but after both learned their siblings were a couple, all affection dies immediately.
* MalcolmXerox: She is an activist, believing in being aggressive about it.

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[[folder: Annika Longstreet]]
!!Annika Longstreet
--> '''Played by:''' Justine Skye
* AttentionWhore: Deliberately comes too late to Aaron's course to be noticed.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Even submits her homework as a TikTok video.


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[[folder: Zaara Ali]]
!!Zaara Ali

--> '''Played by:''' Creator/Tara Raani
* AllMuslimsAreArab: Averted. She is Muslim and Indian.
* LipstickLesbian: She is unashamedly girly and a lesbian.


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[[folder: Zeke]]
!!Zeke

--> '''Played by:''' Creator/Ceyair J Wright

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[[folder: Slick]]
!!Slick

--> '''Played by:''' Slick Woods
* FunctionalAddict: Is usually on drugs, but manages to stay sharp enough to dish out advice ... at least during the day. At night, all bets are off that she knows there she is.
* LipstickLesbian: Is a lesbian and even has pink colored eyelashes.
* LowerClassLout: Pretends to be this, but is actually from a small town and changed her name, personality, and outfit for college.
* PutOnABus: Slick doesn't appear at all in the second half of season 5, while the actress was dealing with treatments for cancer.

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[[folder: Aaron Jackson]]
!!Aaron Jackson

--> '''Played by:''' Creator/TrevorJackson
* AmicableExes: With [[spoiler: Zoey.]] More like amicable former love interest, though.
* TheBigDamnKiss: With [[spoiler: Zoey]].
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: To his [[spoiler: love interest]] Zoey. Like her father Andre, Aaron is also [[MalcolmXerox outspoken about politics]] and the unity of the black community. Even if he can be bumbling sometimes, like Andre they're both style conscious and mean well, both valuing hard work and somehow giving back to the community.
* NiceGuy: Genuinely very sweet. Cares for his friends, is respectful towards his love interests, and takes rejection fairly well.
* SoapboxSadie: A male example of the [[MalcolmXerox Malcom Xerox]] variety.
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[[folder: Doug Edwards]]
!!Doug Edwards

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/DiggySimmons
* AmicableExes: Averted [[spoiler: by the end of season 2 with Jazz after the incident in "Workin' Me", where Jazz uses sexual exposure on social media to revamp her image.]]Played straight [[spoiler: by the end of season 3, after Jazz's one-night stand during their break and Doug being unable to move past it.]] They get better, though.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He studied advertisement, but decided to be a barkeeper until he finds something more suitable for himself.
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