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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The genuinely broken, unhappy Alaska is a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, as she is in the novel. The constant hedonism and stimulation she indulges in is her way of distracting herself from her trauma, and because her friends ''see'' her as this trope, they don't recognize it for the red flag that it is and encourage her bad behavior rather than getting her help.
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* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Chip is probably the snarkiest character in the show. There’s so many deadpan lines he’s made just one cannot be given as an example.
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* {{Alpha Bitch}}: Sarah is a member of the Weekday Warriors and is popular, popular enough that her Clique, while often questioning why she bothers dating the Colonel, never cross her about dating their arch rivals.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Jake is Alaska’s first boyfriend on whom she has not cheated. [[spoiler:Yet.]]
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* IronicName: He's called "Pudge" despite being quite skinny.
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* BrokenBird: It's not ''apparent'' at the beginning, although there are some subtle signs. But her HiddenDepths and DarkAndTroubledPast are brought up later in the second act.
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[[folder:Miles Halter]]
!!Miles Halter "Pudge"
->Played by: Charlie Plummer
Miles Halter is the novel's main character and narrator, who has an unusual passion in learning famous people's last words.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: The big guy to Chip's little guy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pudge remarks that he’s happy the Weekday Warriors didn’t ask him to say the last words of a former president like Franklin Pierce; apparently, no one knows his last words, as he died alone.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Colonel gives Miles the nickname “Pudge,” [[IronicName because he’s skinny]].
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[[folder:Alaska Young]]
!!Alaska Young
->Played by: Kristine Froseth
Alaska is a wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and enigmatic girl with a sad backstory who captures Miles' attention and heart.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Alaska was described as having mahogany brown hair, which is a darker reddish brown hue than the TV Alaska’s (medium brown with a blondish undertone).
* AdaptationalCurves: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Pudge lovingly devotes a few paragraphs to praising Alaska’s curves in the book. Here, she’s more of the lanky type, as fashion models like Froseth usually are.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:A clip of Alaska from some of the opening shots of the series is reused in the final moments, because Pudge is remembering her after her death.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The genuinely broken, unhappy Alaska is a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, as she is in the novel.
* StrawFeminist: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Alaska’s feminist statements are played out rather comically, but only because of how a bit discordant or inordinate they sometimes sound. ({{Justified}} — she’s a teenager.) Her feminism is treated as a good thing, all things considered, [[spoiler:and is honored after her death.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Jake is Alaska’s first boyfriend on whom she has not cheated. [[spoiler:Yet.]]
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[[folder:Chip Martin]]
!!Chip Martin "The Colonel"
->Played by: Denny Love
Chip "The Colonel" Martin is five feet tall but "built like a scale model of Adonis".
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sara and Chip’s first moment falling under this category is, unfortunately, cut short by them arguing once again. [[spoiler:But the hubbub caused by Chip setting off the fire alarm at the country club ball surprisingly culminates in Sara truly softening for a genuine scene of affection. They break up not long after, but it’s something.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The little guy to Miles' big guy.
* DestructiveRomance: The Colonel and Sara. He says that he’s a bad boyfriend and she’s a bad girlfriend, [[BirdsOfAFeather so they deserve each other]]. Episode 2 lets the audience see they do love each other, but it’s also truly a messed-up relationship for both of them.
* TheNicknamer: Better known as "The Colonel".
* RaceLift: Of sorts. Chip’s race was never specified in the novel, but a lot of readers just assumed he was white. Now that he’s African-American, however, it adds another dimension to Longwell’s privileged douchiness. It also makes the scene where his very white, rich girlfriend Sara’s father [[spoiler:tells him that he’ll never fit in Sara’s world]] all the more horrid. [[spoiler:Chip’s expulsion is also surrounded by racism, as well as classism.]]
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Chip is noted to be a short guy, and is also the smartest among a group of generally smart kids.
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[[folder:Takumi Hikohito]]
!!Takumi Hikohito
->Played by: Jay Lee
Takumi is a gifted Japanese emcee and hip-hop enthusiast and friend of Alaska and Chip
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[[folder:Lara Buterskaya]]
!!Lara Buterskaya
->Played by: Creator/SofiaVassilieva
Lara is a Romanian immigrant who is Alaska's friend and becomes Miles' girlfriend and, eventually, ex-girlfriend. She is described as having a mild accent.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Lara is a brunette in the book but blonde in the show.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lara is a lot more headstrong and envious than she is in the novel, where she comes across mostly as a wide-eyed blank slate of a sweetheart.
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[[folder:Mr. Starnes]]
!!Mr. Starnes "The Eagle"
->Played by: Creator/TimothySimons
Mr. Starnes is the strict Dean of Students at Culver Creek, nicknamed "The Eagle" by the students.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dr. Hyde is shown cracking up at the [[spoiler:stripper]] prank. Later, it's revealed that even [[spoiler:''the Eagle'']] found it hilarious, even though he doesn't want anything like it to happen ever again.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Culver Creek's dean Mr. Starnes (aka the Eagle), who’s a relatively asexual authority figure and gets little backstory in the book, [[spoiler:starts a relationship with the French teacher Madame O'Malley toward the end of the series.]]
* HiddenDepths: Gets a much more detailed backstory in the show, has only been the dean of Culver Creek for two years. His dedication to the job not only ended his marriage, [[spoiler:but he struggles after Alaska's death as much as any of the students, because it's his job to keep 200 rowdy teenagers safe and he was unable to do that for her.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: [[spoiler:The main gang are surprised when the Eagle lets out a laugh, an unfamiliar sound.]]
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[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara
->Played by: Creator/LandryBender
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Sara is blonde in the book yet a brunette in the show.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sara and Chip’s first moment falling under this category is, unfortunately, cut short by them arguing once again. [[spoiler:But the hubbub caused by Chip setting off the fire alarm at the country club ball surprisingly culminates in Sara truly softening for a genuine scene of affection. They break up not long after, but it’s something.]]
* DestructiveRomance: The Colonel and Sara. He says that he’s a bad boyfriend and she’s a bad girlfriend, [[BirdsOfAFeather so they deserve each other]]. Episode 2 lets the audience see they do love each other, but it’s also truly a messed-up relationship for both of them.
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[[folder:Dr. Hyde]]
!!Dr. Hyde
->Played by: Creator/RonCephasJones
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dr. Hyde is shown cracking up at the [[spoiler:stripper]] prank. Later, it's revealed that even [[spoiler:''the Eagle'']] found it hilarious, even though he doesn't want anything like it to happen ever again.
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler:The religion teacher Dr. Hyde gets more of a backstory, including that he was in a relationship with a man named Diego who died of AIDS.]]
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[[folder:Miles Halter]]
!!Miles Halter "Pudge"
->Played by: Charlie Plummer
Miles Halter is the novel's main character and narrator, who has an unusual passion in learning famous people's last words.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: The big guy to Chip's little guy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pudge remarks that he’s happy the Weekday Warriors didn’t ask him to say the last words of a former president like Franklin Pierce; apparently, no one knows his last words, as he died alone.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Colonel gives Miles the nickname “Pudge,” [[IronicName because he’s skinny]].
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[[folder:Alaska Young]]
!!Alaska Young
->Played by: Kristine Froseth
Alaska is a wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and enigmatic girl with a sad backstory who captures Miles' attention and heart.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Alaska was described as having mahogany brown hair, which is a darker reddish brown hue than the TV Alaska’s (medium brown with a blondish undertone).
* AdaptationalCurves: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Pudge lovingly devotes a few paragraphs to praising Alaska’s curves in the book. Here, she’s more of the lanky type, as fashion models like Froseth usually are.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:A clip of Alaska from some of the opening shots of the series is reused in the final moments, because Pudge is remembering her after her death.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The genuinely broken, unhappy Alaska is a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, as she is in the novel.
* StrawFeminist: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Alaska’s feminist statements are played out rather comically, but only because of how a bit discordant or inordinate they sometimes sound. ({{Justified}} — she’s a teenager.) Her feminism is treated as a good thing, all things considered, [[spoiler:and is honored after her death.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Jake is Alaska’s first boyfriend on whom she has not cheated. [[spoiler:Yet.]]
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[[folder:Chip Martin]]
!!Chip Martin "The Colonel"
->Played by: Denny Love
Chip "The Colonel" Martin is five feet tall but "built like a scale model of Adonis".
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sara and Chip’s first moment falling under this category is, unfortunately, cut short by them arguing once again. [[spoiler:But the hubbub caused by Chip setting off the fire alarm at the country club ball surprisingly culminates in Sara truly softening for a genuine scene of affection. They break up not long after, but it’s something.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The little guy to Miles' big guy.
* DestructiveRomance: The Colonel and Sara. He says that he’s a bad boyfriend and she’s a bad girlfriend, [[BirdsOfAFeather so they deserve each other]]. Episode 2 lets the audience see they do love each other, but it’s also truly a messed-up relationship for both of them.
* TheNicknamer: Better known as "The Colonel".
* RaceLift: Of sorts. Chip’s race was never specified in the novel, but a lot of readers just assumed he was white. Now that he’s African-American, however, it adds another dimension to Longwell’s privileged douchiness. It also makes the scene where his very white, rich girlfriend Sara’s father [[spoiler:tells him that he’ll never fit in Sara’s world]] all the more horrid. [[spoiler:Chip’s expulsion is also surrounded by racism, as well as classism.]]
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Chip is noted to be a short guy, and is also the smartest among a group of generally smart kids.
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[[folder:Takumi Hikohito]]
!!Takumi Hikohito
->Played by: Jay Lee
Takumi is a gifted Japanese emcee and hip-hop enthusiast and friend of Alaska and Chip
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lara Buterskaya]]
!!Lara Buterskaya
->Played by: Creator/SofiaVassilieva
Lara is a Romanian immigrant who is Alaska's friend and becomes Miles' girlfriend and, eventually, ex-girlfriend. She is described as having a mild accent.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Lara is a brunette in the book but blonde in the show.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lara is a lot more headstrong and envious than she is in the novel, where she comes across mostly as a wide-eyed blank slate of a sweetheart.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mr. Starnes]]
!!Mr. Starnes "The Eagle"
->Played by: Creator/TimothySimons
Mr. Starnes is the strict Dean of Students at Culver Creek, nicknamed "The Eagle" by the students.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dr. Hyde is shown cracking up at the [[spoiler:stripper]] prank. Later, it's revealed that even [[spoiler:''the Eagle'']] found it hilarious, even though he doesn't want anything like it to happen ever again.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Culver Creek's dean Mr. Starnes (aka the Eagle), who’s a relatively asexual authority figure and gets little backstory in the book, [[spoiler:starts a relationship with the French teacher Madame O'Malley toward the end of the series.]]
* HiddenDepths: Gets a much more detailed backstory in the show, has only been the dean of Culver Creek for two years. His dedication to the job not only ended his marriage, [[spoiler:but he struggles after Alaska's death as much as any of the students, because it's his job to keep 200 rowdy teenagers safe and he was unable to do that for her.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: [[spoiler:The main gang are surprised when the Eagle lets out a laugh, an unfamiliar sound.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara
->Played by: Creator/LandryBender
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Sara is blonde in the book yet a brunette in the show.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sara and Chip’s first moment falling under this category is, unfortunately, cut short by them arguing once again. [[spoiler:But the hubbub caused by Chip setting off the fire alarm at the country club ball surprisingly culminates in Sara truly softening for a genuine scene of affection. They break up not long after, but it’s something.]]
* DestructiveRomance: The Colonel and Sara. He says that he’s a bad boyfriend and she’s a bad girlfriend, [[BirdsOfAFeather so they deserve each other]]. Episode 2 lets the audience see they do love each other, but it’s also truly a messed-up relationship for both of them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Hyde]]
!!Dr. Hyde
->Played by: Creator/RonCephasJones
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dr. Hyde is shown cracking up at the [[spoiler:stripper]] prank. Later, it's revealed that even [[spoiler:''the Eagle'']] found it hilarious, even though he doesn't want anything like it to happen ever again.
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler:The religion teacher Dr. Hyde gets more of a backstory, including that he was in a relationship with a man named Diego who died of AIDS.]]
[[/folder]]
