History Characters / Mom

* BreakTheCutie: The reason why she even was in foster care: [[spoiler:her own father murdered her mother, which left a heavy emotional scar on her, leading to her foster mother spoiling her because she needed it the most out of all the orphaned children (including Bonnie).]] What Bonnie did to her only added to Tammy's misfortune.

!! Other Main Characters

[[folder: Baxter]]

Christy's second husband, blood father of Roscoe. He gets remarried to a woman named Candace and moves in with her.

* CharacterDevelopment: Much to Christy's chagrin, Baxter ends up turning his life around when he marries a woman who also happens to be wealthy and loves him despite his rocky past. Before all this, though, he's actually a loving and supportive father to Roscoe [[spoiler:besides the fact his son got into his hidden pot stash, which Candace was sure he got rid of]].
* HenpeckedHusband: While Candace appears sweet while listening to her husband's checkered past, Baxter always says she chews him out hard when no one's looking.
* LivesInAVan: Baxter lives in a red car. When Christy comments that it's being towed, he runs out muttering about his cleaning lady still being in there.
* TheScapegoat: After dealing with the subject of her awful first husband, Christy admits Baxter was a good guy she unfairly took her anger out on.
* TheStoner: [[spoiler:And not even his new life with Candace is enough for this man to forget about having a hidden stash that he abuses himself]].

[[folder: Alvin]]

Bonnie's ex-husband and Christy's estranged blood father. He is a car repair salesman with another family.

* ReallyGetsAround: She has many, many romances in the show, but hardly one of them lasts more than 5 episodes. In Season 5 she dates a fellow student named Cooper and Adam's brother Patrick. She hadn't ended either relationship before entering the other unlike previous times. [[YourCheatingHeart You know where this is going]]. In the end, she [[spoiler:manages to quietly put Cooper's attraction to her to rest and is able to love Patrick without him knowing she had sex with Cooper three times...till she broke and told him, but miraculously, she managed to keep the relationship going...for a while, until Patrick gets fed up with Christy putting her friends first before him]].

* YourCheatingHeart: She cheated on Luke in Season 2 and that costed them their relationship, though later in season 4 they're seemingly together again. [[spoiler:Then in Season 6 she tells Christy and Bonnie they had broken up yet again.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: She was in a relationship with an unnamed married Hollywood star, but only her and Bonnie know who she is. Christy is somehow kept out of the loop despite spending more time with Jill during the time.

* YourCheatingHeart: Yes, he's married to Candace and tells Christy they can't have sex anymore...though he always really wants Christy to insist anyway when Candace isn't around, but Christy never jumps at the chance. Then again, [[HenpeckedHusband his wife is a handful]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Cheated on said wife with Christy.

* SpoiledBrat: It's clear this kid likes living with Candace only because she can give him anything he wants and she treats him better (because Candace knows that will piss off Christy), instead of living with his biological mother and her poorer life conditions. To be fair, Christy was making him sleep in a closet (even after Violet left home.)

* FatGirl: In the Season 5 premiere, [[HideYourPregnancy as the actress who plays her was pregnant]]. She later returns as her old self.

* PutOnTheBus: She leaves with her ex Luke in early Season 4.

* PutOnTheBus: He lives with Baxter, but he doesn't appear after the fourth season.

* InterClassRomance: Jill starts dating Andy, a middle class police officer, in Season 6.
* {{Irony}}: Jill wanted to have a baby [[spoiler:but sadly lost it while pregnant]]. Two years later, the actress who plays her got pregnant with twins.

* FatalFlaw: His is {{Pride}}. Ray can't admit [[spoiler:he doesn't have a grip on his drug problem. His refusal to address his addiction leads to everyone, even Bonnie and Christy, abandoning him.]]

* BadassGay: He's a successful lawyer.

* BlackBestFriend: Until she left, though.

* BiTheWay: She was in a sexual relationship with a woman and lived in her house with a younger Christy.

* BiTheWay: He dated Bonnie and slept with a fat Frenchman. [[FauxYay Though that last one might have just been to get a good review.]]

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--> Played by: Sadie Calvano

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--> Played by: Creator/JulieDretzin (first appearance), Beth Hall (subsequent appearances)

-->Played by: Yvette Nicole Brown

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-->Played by: Kate Micucci

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* TheSmartGuy: He absolutely knows how to work through Bonnie's many, many, many psychologic issues. It just takes time because of Bonnie's A.D.D. getting in the way (and her smart ass attitude).

* ShadowArchetype: She is basically what Christy would've become had she never forgiven her for missing out on her childhood and continue to dislike her and not work on her relationship with her.

* ShadowArchetype: She is basically what Christy would've become had she remembered what Bonnie was in the past forever and not see her as the person she is now.

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Chef Rudy, of all people, but then she prematurely decides to break up with him because she's not ready for a serious relationship. Cue his BigNo

A young mother who went through TeenPregnancy and fell into alcoholism until she turned her life around (well, is trying to) and tries her best to raise her teenage daughter Violet and young child Baxter, while also dealing with her sadistic, cynical mother Bonnie living with her. Her heart is in the right place, though.

* GenerationXerox: She's the end of the long shameful traditions of her family. Despite trying her best to avoid them all (such as [[spoiler:giving her baby away for adoption because she knew deep down she wouldn't be able to provide for him]] and trying to study and get a job), she almost repeatedly comes back as a wreck or keeps blaming everything on her mother.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Before, she was in prison, and back then she used to be the top dog of the women there because she realized it was the only way to survive the tough environment. She was so good at it she ruled the place ''and'' had her own harem. Bonnie is wary of this woman when she gets tough on them, and it is effective.

* MissingMom: She's in the foster care system because her mother Natasha is an alcoholic.

* SuperGullible: Apparently, a music director wanted to give her a record deal to become a successful singer in Los Angeles, but Christy can't believe Natasha fell for that trick [[CastingCouch so that a man could sleep with her]]. [[spoiler:It turned out it was the ''truth'']].

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: He dies of a second heart attack, much to the horror of Christy and Bonnie]].]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Chef Rudy, of all people, but then she prematurely decides to break up with him because she's not ready for a serious relationship. Cue his BigNo.

** Then, much later, with Tammy, though ironically ''she'' ended up breaking up with him because she wasn't ready for a serious relationship. Cue his BigNo.

* EnfantTerrible: It's disturbing to know that, during her pre-teen years, she concocted a dastardly plan to get a roommate named Tammy expelled just so she could have the room at the best foster home she'd ever been to for herself. Tammy practically did nothing wrong to her and had her life ahead of her, even having a boyfriend, until Bonnie used a friend of hers (who passed away later on) to pretend Tammy's boyfriend was cheating on her, giving Bonnie an opening to make her smoke weed and pretty much destroy Tammy's whole life and convince the foster parents to kick her out. Fat chance that worked for Bonnie in the long run, because even then she got expelled two weeks later because she couldn't find a scapegoat to hide a stolen wallet. As for Tammy, she became an outlaw and was thrown in prison.

** TheBusCameBack: He comes back a few times during later seasons. Most notably, he comes back in the Season 5 finale by [[spoiler:tempting Christy into gambling away and losing her pay money and the diamond earrings she got as a graduation gift from the women]]. Season 6 gives him more appearances.