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* OnlyFriend: TJ is Brad's, and vice-versa. Mostly because nobody else in the strip (other than 6-year-old Shannon) likes TJ, but him and Brad are inseparable and nobody wants to befriend Brad if it means having to put up with TJ as well.
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* WomanChild: Between her [[TrashOfTheTitans constantly messy room]], hitting up her parents for money, avoidance of schoolwork, hangups around sexuality, as well as her overall "head in the clouds" demeanor, it's pretty easy to forget that she's a grown adult attending college rather than a fourteen-year-old girl.
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* NeverMyFault: Whenever she gets in trouble, she tends to portray herself as the victim and ignore or downplay her own behavior. Demonstrated [[https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2021/10/30 here]] when she was punished for her actions at her daycare job.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Bernice has very strong feelings towards her long-lost older brother, to the point of getting angry when she learns that Luann has a crush on him.
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* ACupAngst: One of 13-year-old Luann's constant laments was that she was cursed with "[[WeightWoe too much body]] and not enough figure."
* StillBelievesInSanta: If [[https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2022/12/24 this strip]] is any indication, Luann still believes in Santa at age 19-20 (there's no kids to placate: it's just her, her parents and her best friend Bernice living in the house).
* DemotedToExtra: The beauty pageant arc from 2010 (the one introducing Rosa) was the first time Delta played a major role in a storyline in years. And she promptly faded back into the background once it was over. In 2014, she left the strip entirely and hasn't been seen since November of that year. Greg Evans has stated repeatedly that the "perfect" Delta is almost ''impossible'' to write for, owing to her lack of flaws. The more flawed Luann is easier, while Tiffany (who is largely made of personality flaws and hotness) is the simplest.
* BreakoutCharacter: Once Tiffany stopped being simply Luann's AlphaBitch rival and became a viewpoint character in her own right, she exploded in popularity. Nowadays it's not unusual for the strip to spend several weeks following her story, with scarcely an appearance from Luann herself.
* OnlyFriend: Despite being supposedly the most popular girl in school, she only had one friend.
* TookALevelInKindness: Tiffany experienced this after the move to college, and especially after her weight gain.
* TookALevelInKindness: Tiffany experienced this after the move to college, and especially after her weight gain.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Played relatively straight, but with a ''male'' character, as Gunther [[ChangingYourselfForLove drops his glasses and dorky clothing]] to look more acceptable to others.
** When he really wanted to change his style, he had ''Tiffany'' help him. She was [[PetTheDog surprisingly effective at it]], but he ultimately felt more comfortable as himself.
** Gunther got a further (inadvertent) makeover courtesy of a group of senior citizen ladies touring Peru by bus, the result of which was ditching the button-down shirts for sweatshirts and [[PermaStubble facial stubble]]. The cast's females approve, especially Tiffany.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Gunther slurred his words, stumbled around and passed out for six hours after drinking exactly ''one beer''.
** When he really wanted to change his style, he had ''Tiffany'' help him. She was [[PetTheDog surprisingly effective at it]], but he ultimately felt more comfortable as himself.
** Gunther got a further (inadvertent) makeover courtesy of a group of senior citizen ladies touring Peru by bus, the result of which was ditching the button-down shirts for sweatshirts and [[PermaStubble facial stubble]]. The cast's females approve, especially Tiffany.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Gunther slurred his words, stumbled around and passed out for six hours after drinking exactly ''one beer''.
* InformedAbility: Gunther is allegedly a very good science and math student. He hasn't been seen in a classroom setting in many years and the fact that he's still in college and majoring in engineering would be unknown to anyone who just reads the strips and not the website bios if they started at any time past 2014. He also seems to get dragged to scifi conventions by Bets, who is way more into geek pop culture than he is. Other than being overly attached to his mom, it's completely unclear in what sense Gunther is still supposed to be a "nerd" character - he seems to just be a guy who has sex with his popular girlfriend a lot and has lost most of his other character traits (replaced with his [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat skill as a costume maker]]).
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* AmbiguouslyGay: TJ is well-dressed and a good cook. We've never seen him with a girlfriend. Josh's commentary on Comics Curmudgeon occasionally lampshades this.
* CheshireCatGrin: TJ's default expression. The near-permanent grin indicates his shifty HighSchoolHustler nature, and it takes a ''lot'' to wipe it off his face.
* DisappearedDad: TJ's father moved to Argentina and TJ hasn't seen him since.
* HighSchoolHustler: TJ is a young adult version of this. He's aged out of school, but the personality remains.
* MissingMom: TJ's mother died in Italy around 2005.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: TJ has actually had lots of jobs, but most of them have some motive in mind other than making money (such as finding evidence of Ann Eiffel abusing employees). He seems to have a lot of money that he gets from an unknown source, which he won't divulge. It has caused suspicion both in-universe and out.
* OnlyFriend: TJ is Brad's, and vice-versa. Mostly because nobody else in the strip (other than 6-year-old Shannon) likes TJ, but him and Brad are inseparable and nobody wants to befriend Brad if it means having to put up with TJ as well.
* ParentalAbandonment: Most characters' parents aren't shown; but are often mentioned. However; TJ's parents are never shown nor mentioned, until 2008 when he heavily implies that they might have abandoned him. Later confirmed.
* PerpetualSmiler: TJ, as noted above in the CheshireCatGrin entry.
%%* StepfordSmiler: Possible that TJ may be a male example.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: TJ fulfills this role with Brad. He has gotten Brad into trouble with his borderline illegal schemes and other inappropriate behavior. However, he has done other things that were nice, and it's been implied he has ParentalAbandonment issues... doesn't justify the borderline illegal schemes, though. It should be noted that sometimes those schemes crossed over from "borderline illegal" into [[https://www.gocomics.com/luann/1994/12/13 full-on criminal behavior]].
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* AscendedExtra: When Toni Daytona debuted in early 2002, she was just one of two cute girls with NoNameGiven who sat next to Brad and TJ in their CPR and EMT classes, so there could be a few gags of [[CasanovaWannabe Brad and TJ flirting with them unsuccessfully.]] If anything, Toni's friend (who's never been named and hasn't been seen since the end of the EMT Class, where TJ dropped out) actually had more to do since TJ was more aggressive in flirting and failing with her than Brad was with Toni. Toni turned up again, briefly, near the end of the year at the impromptu mini-parade Brad's family and friends staged for Brad. It wasn't till the next year that Brad (and the readers) learned Toni's name and we got the whole Brad-Toni-Dirk LoveTriangle.
* ExtremeDoormat: Toni has a very hard time saying no to her brother Jonah (and by extension, Jonah's daughter Shannon). Even when she attempts to stand up to them, she caves in fairly quickly.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Toni admits to doing this to Brad to keep him at arm's length while he pined over her. She would say something that ''could'' be construed as flirty, making him obsess over it, and then turn it to something more innocent several times. During her relationship with Dirk, she made ''both'' of them think she "might" be interested in Brad as something more than a pal.
* TookALevelInKindness: Toni took this when she finally broke up with Dirk and started dating Brad, no longer playing mind games with him.
* WrenchWench: Toni, in addition to being gorgeous, is idealized further by Brad upon discovering she's as into cars as he is, and works on them. He may have won her over a bit initially with his "is it hot in here?" to her "first-time" story of rebuilding a carb.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: TJ is well-dressed and a good cook. We've never seen him with a girlfriend. Josh's commentary on Comics Curmudgeon occasionally lampshades this.
* CheshireCatGrin: TJ's default expression. The near-permanent grin indicates his shifty HighSchoolHustler nature, and it takes a ''lot'' to wipe it off his face.
* DisappearedDad: TJ's father moved to Argentina and TJ hasn't seen him since.
* HighSchoolHustler: TJ is a young adult version of this. He's aged out of school, but the personality remains.
* MissingMom: TJ's mother died in Italy around 2005.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: TJ has actually had lots of jobs, but most of them have some motive in mind other than making money (such as finding evidence of Ann Eiffel abusing employees). He seems to have a lot of money that he gets from an unknown source, which he won't divulge. It has caused suspicion both in-universe and out.
* OnlyFriend: TJ is Brad's, and vice-versa. Mostly because nobody else in the strip (other than 6-year-old Shannon) likes TJ, but him and Brad are inseparable and nobody wants to befriend Brad if it means having to put up with TJ as well.
* ParentalAbandonment: Most characters' parents aren't shown; but are often mentioned. However; TJ's parents are never shown nor mentioned, until 2008 when he heavily implies that they might have abandoned him. Later confirmed.
* PerpetualSmiler: TJ, as noted above in the CheshireCatGrin entry.
%%* StepfordSmiler: Possible that TJ may be a male example.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: TJ fulfills this role with Brad. He has gotten Brad into trouble with his borderline illegal schemes and other inappropriate behavior. However, he has done other things that were nice, and it's been implied he has ParentalAbandonment issues... doesn't justify the borderline illegal schemes, though. It should be noted that sometimes those schemes crossed over from "borderline illegal" into [[https://www.gocomics.com/luann/1994/12/13 full-on criminal behavior]].
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* AscendedExtra: When Toni Daytona debuted in early 2002, she was just one of two cute girls with NoNameGiven who sat next to Brad and TJ in their CPR and EMT classes, so there could be a few gags of [[CasanovaWannabe Brad and TJ flirting with them unsuccessfully.]] If anything, Toni's friend (who's never been named and hasn't been seen since the end of the EMT Class, where TJ dropped out) actually had more to do since TJ was more aggressive in flirting and failing with her than Brad was with Toni. Toni turned up again, briefly, near the end of the year at the impromptu mini-parade Brad's family and friends staged for Brad. It wasn't till the next year that Brad (and the readers) learned Toni's name and we got the whole Brad-Toni-Dirk LoveTriangle.
* ExtremeDoormat: Toni has a very hard time saying no to her brother Jonah (and by extension, Jonah's daughter Shannon). Even when she attempts to stand up to them, she caves in fairly quickly.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Toni admits to doing this to Brad to keep him at arm's length while he pined over her. She would say something that ''could'' be construed as flirty, making him obsess over it, and then turn it to something more innocent several times. During her relationship with Dirk, she made ''both'' of them think she "might" be interested in Brad as something more than a pal.
* TookALevelInKindness: Toni took this when she finally broke up with Dirk and started dating Brad, no longer playing mind games with him.
* WrenchWench: Toni, in addition to being gorgeous, is idealized further by Brad upon discovering she's as into cars as he is, and works on them. He may have won her over a bit initially with his "is it hot in here?" to her "first-time" story of rebuilding a carb.
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* {{Foil}}: [[HateSink Stef]] is one for [[CruelCheerleader high school-aged]] [[RichBitch Tiffany]]. While Tiffany was friends with [[PerkyGoth Crystal]], Stef doesn't appear to have any friends. While Tiffany never had a boyfriend, Stef is rarely seen without her boyfriend Kip. And while Tiffany was an openly cruel AlphaBitch, Stef is more the InnocentlyInsensitive, CondescendingCompassion type.
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* ReplacementFlatCharacter: For Tiffany, replacing Stef is the [[CruelCheerleader mean cheerleader]] of the comic after Tiffany got character development. As noted under {{Foil}} though, they at least have her as the AlphaBitch cheerleader.be a different kind of AlphaBitch.
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* CousinOliver: Shannon was originally just a BrattyHalfPint that was occasionally babysat by Luann, but was later [[RetCon retconned]] into Toni's niece. Over time she appeared more and more, to the point where now she's essentially being raised by Toni and Brad, even moving in with them and getting her own room (good luck finding a Brad/Toni story since 2018 that doesn't focus mainly on Shannon) while her actual father [[ParentalNeglect hasn't been seen on-panel in years.]] In addition, she's become a regular at Luann's house as well.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Her main weapons are seduction, CrocodileTears and the threat of a FrivolousLawsuit.
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** As manager of Borderline Books she was Bernice and Zane's employer, and threatened to fire them if they kept seeing each other. Bernice at first thought she wanted to seduce Zane; Ann actually wanted to seduce Bernice. After making Bernice her personal servant and firing Zane, Ann resorted to outright intimidation, until Borderline's CEO -- who was a friend of Zane -- noticed and transferred Ann to their branch in Japan.
** But that wasn't the last of her. She later showed up as manager of Weenie World, where Brad applied for work after being laid off by the Fire Department. This time, she tried to seduce him, and after finding out about Toni, fired him. Later, TJ started working there to get proof of her abusing employees, and not only made a recording of her saying she cons people and took complete credit for his ideas, but trying to ''sue Toni's five-year-old niece'' for biting her. Ann then attempted to seduce TJ, but he wasn't having any of it.
** Ann refuses to go away: Not only is she Leslie's mom, she's also dating Tiffany's father. [[spoiler:At least she ''was'' dating him, until she tried TheBabyTrap on him and her deception was revealed. She ended up dumped and PutOnABus once more.]]
** But that wasn't the last of her. She later showed up as manager of Weenie World, where Brad applied for work after being laid off by the Fire Department. This time, she tried to seduce him, and after finding out about Toni, fired him. Later, TJ started working there to get proof of her abusing employees, and not only made a recording of her saying she cons people and took complete credit for his ideas, but trying to ''sue Toni's five-year-old niece'' for biting her. Ann then attempted to seduce TJ, but he wasn't having any of it.
** Ann refuses to go away: Not only is she Leslie's mom, she's also dating Tiffany's father. [[spoiler:At least she ''was'' dating him, until she tried TheBabyTrap on him and her deception was revealed. She ended up dumped and PutOnABus once more.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Recently introduced character Bets is showing signs of playing this role for Gunther. She's pretty grounded when helping Tiffany get her life and studies together, though.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Throws herself at every guy with a pulse (even trying to seduce Stef's boyfriend Kip), but when it comes to Ox's crush on her, suddenly she "isn't interested in dating." Though this could be because Stef was the one who wanted to get them together, and Tiffany just didn't want her interfering in her life. She hasn't said anything to Ox herself though.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Is this for Stef. He's hot, plays football, can be kind of a jerk, and... that's it.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Is this for Stef. He's hot, Asian, plays football, can be kind of a jerk, jerk (never apologizing to Tiffany for him and Stef borrowing her towel without her permission and using it [[{{Squick}} for post-sex cleanup]], making mean comments with Tiffany about Dez), and... that's it.
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* InformedAttribute: Twofold:
** Her popularity. She was said to be the most popular girl in school, yet only had one friend, with everyone (said friend included) constantly insulting her and treating her like crap.
** Her [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuity]]. Luann constantly [[SlutShaming calls her a slut]], but she never had an actual boyfriend (besides dating members of the football team for a presumably short time) and is as big a virgin as Luann and Bernice. She was never seen kissing anyone, either (in fact, the only person she kissed on the lips was [[ItMakesSenseInContext TJ]]).
** Her popularity. She was said to be the most popular girl in school, yet only had one friend, with everyone (said friend included) constantly insulting her and treating her like crap.
** Her [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuity]]. Luann constantly [[SlutShaming calls her a slut]], but she never had an actual boyfriend (besides dating members of the football team for a presumably short time) and is as big a virgin as Luann and Bernice. She was never seen kissing anyone, either (in fact, the only person she kissed on the lips was [[ItMakesSenseInContext TJ]]).
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Also towards Luann. He remained mostly sympathetic, but has occasionally veered into the darker versions of this trope.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Is right about [[{{Jerkass}} Les]] being bad for [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tiffany]], since she can do way better than him. ([[GentleGiant Ox]], anyone?)
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* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Has this with Bets, going through two break-ups and make-ups with her so far.
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* OfficialCouple: Him and Bets (Until Summer 2023, that is). He was the BetaCouple with Rosa back when Luann and Quill were the strip’s OfficialCouple.
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