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* MrFanservice

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* MrFanservice MrFanservice: Especially when portrayed by Creator/AaronTveit.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint:

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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
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* TheTrickster: [[spoiler: He personifies Diana's illness and as such acts like a malevolent trickster spirit throughout the play. His main song "I'm Alive" is practically a Trickster God theme song.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He's an unrepentant stoner who introduces Natalie [[spoiler:to drugs, but the hardcore pills she starts taking in Act II severely scares him. Natalie actually tries to call out his hypocrisy for being worried about her taking drugs, only for him to point out that he's never done what she's doing]].
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Per TRS, Jerkass Facade is deprecated, primarily in favor of Hidden Heart Of Gold. Commenting it out because it's a Zero Context Example.


* BrattyTeenageDaughter: But mainly as a JerkassFacade for dealing with her family problems.

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* %%* BrattyTeenageDaughter: But mainly as a JerkassFacade [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]] for dealing with her family problems.
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* RockStarSong: Parodied by Diana's hallucinations about Doctor Madden in "My Psychopharmacologist and I", and in Madden's cut song "Feeling Electric."

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* RockStarSong: Parodied by Diana's hallucinations about Doctor Madden Fine in "My Psychopharmacologist and I", and in Madden's cut song "Feeling Electric."

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* IronicBirthday: His birthday, when the delusional Diana bakes Gabe a cake, is when the audience [[spoiler: explicitly finds out, from Dan, that "he's been dead sixteen years."]]

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* IronicBirthday: [[spoiler: His birthday, when the delusional Diana bakes Gabe a cake, is when the audience [[spoiler: explicitly finds out, from Dan, that "he's been dead sixteen years."]]



* WalkingSpoiler: Very little can be said about Gabe without spoiling the show.
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* WalkingSpoiler: Very little can be said about Gabe without spoiling the show.
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's revealed halfway into the first act that Diana is just Hallucinating him, out of grief from his death 17 years prior]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Many think of Gabe as a vicious and aggressive spirit/memory trying to spite his family into remembering him, but he [[spoiler:stops following his mother for once when she leaves his father to help him.]]

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong: It's revealed halfway into the first act that Diana is just Hallucinating him, out of grief from his death 17 years prior]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: Many think of Gabe as a vicious and aggressive spirit/memory trying to spite his family into remembering him, but he [[spoiler:stops stops following his mother for once when she leaves his father to help him.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's revealed halfway into the first act that Diana is just Hallucinating him, out of grief from his death 16 years prior]].

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's revealed halfway into the first act that Diana is just Hallucinating him, out of grief from his death 16 17 years prior]].
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* MotorMouth: Most notably in "It's Gonna Be Good".

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[[folder: The Goodman Family]]
!Diana Goodman

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!!The Goodman Family

[[folder: The Goodman Family]]
!Diana Goodman
Diana Goodman]]



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!Dan Goodman

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!Gabriel "Gabe" Goodman

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!Natalie Goodman

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!Henry

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!Dr. Fine/Dr. Madden

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* Deuteragonist: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show is just as much about Dan struggling to keep the family running and avoiding his own grief about [[spoiler:his dead son]].

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* Deuteragonist: {{Deuteragonist}}: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show is just as much about Dan struggling to keep the family running and avoiding his own grief about [[spoiler:his dead son]].
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* TheDeuteragonist: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show is just as much about Dan struggling to keep the family running and avoiding his own grief about [[spoiler:his dead son]].

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* TheDeuteragonist: Deuteragonist: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show is just as much about Dan struggling to keep the family running and avoiding his own grief about [[spoiler:his dead son]].
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* Protagonist: Diana's mental state is the driving force of the plot.

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* Protagonist: TheProtagonist: Diana's mental state struggle with her bipolar disorder and [[spoiler:ongoing grief over her son's death]] is the driving force of the plot.



* Deuteragonist: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show focuses just as much on Dan trying to keep the family together and his head above water.

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* Deuteragonist: TheDeuteragonist: The plot revolves around Diana's worsening mental condition, but the show focuses is just as much on about Dan trying struggling to keep the family together running and avoiding his head above water.own grief about [[spoiler:his dead son]].

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* SayMyName: Most prominent in "I Am The One Reprise":
--> '''Gabe''': I know you know who I am.
--> '''Dan''': Gabe.....Gabriel.
--> '''Gabe''': Hi Dad.



* AgeAppropriateAngst

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* AgeAppropriateAngstAgeAppropriateAngst: She explains this in her cut solo "Growing Up Unstable".
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Hes Back isn't just when a guy returns, it's supposed to be a character recovering from a Heroic BSOD.


* HesBack: When [[spoiler: Gabe returns]] at the end of "Why Stay?/A Promise" behind Dan when Diana and Dan are about to embrace. Diana issues an "oh no" and [[spoiler: turns Dan to face the (presumably) empty space where Gabe is, to which Dan yells a long "GODDAMMITTTT!"]]

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* HesBack: When Inverted; when [[spoiler: Gabe returns]] at the end of "Why Stay?/A Promise" behind Dan when Diana and Dan are about to embrace. Diana issues an "oh no" and [[spoiler: turns Dan to face the (presumably) empty space where Gabe is, to which Dan yells a long "GODDAMMITTTT!"]]

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--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' ''I have no clue what she's talking about'' and then later on again he says

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--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' ''I have no clue what she's talking about'' and about''
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* BigBrotherBully: He likes picking on Natalie, and he seems to enjoy her suffering. Most notably in "Superboy and the Invisible Girl", when he knows he's their mom's favorite even though [[spoiler: he's dead]] and she's not.
* BigBrotherInstinct: While Gabe likes to tease Natalie, however during "I'm Alive", she is obviously hurting, and [[spoiler: getting high off her mom's pills]] while their parents do nothing, he says "I'll hurt you" directed towards Dan, and he says "I'll heal you" directed towards Natalie.

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* BigBrotherBully: He likes picking on Natalie, and he seems to enjoy her suffering. Most notably in "Superboy and the Invisible Girl", when he knows he's their mom's favorite even though [[spoiler: he's dead]] and she's not.
* BigBrotherInstinct: While Gabe likes to tease Natalie, however
not. And during "I'm Alive", she is obviously hurting, and he drops the purse [[spoiler: getting high off her with their mom's pills]] pills in it]], and watches while their parents do nothing, he says "I'll hurt you" directed towards Dan, and he says "I'll heal you" directed towards Natalie. [[spoiler: Natalie gets high off them]].
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--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' ''I have no idea what she's talking about'' and then later on again he says

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--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' ''I have no idea clue what she's talking about'' and then later on again he says
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Almost every character thinks she is this, specifically Dan, when he states:

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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Almost every character thinks she is this, specifically Dan, when he states:
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Almost every character thinks she is this, specifically Dan, when he states:
--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' ''I have no idea what she's talking about'' and then later on again he says
--> '''Dan''': ''[To the audience]'' Again, no clue.
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* TheStoner

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* TheStonerTheStoner: Stated in "Perfect For You".
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* BigBrotherBully: He seems to like picking Natalie, as stated in an interview of Aaron Tveit.

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* BigBrotherBully: He likes picking on Natalie, and he seems to like picking Natalie, as stated enjoy her suffering. Most notably in an interview of Aaron Tveit. "Superboy and the Invisible Girl", when he knows he's their mom's favorite even though [[spoiler: he's dead]] and she's not.
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** Also Dr. ''Fine'', whose prescription aims to neutralise Diana's moods rather than improve them.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: With the suggestion from Henry, she [[spoiler: uses Diana's pills to get high and go clubbing]] to try to cope with what's happening with her family.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: With the suggestion from Henry, she [[spoiler: uses Diana's pills to get high and go goes clubbing]] to try to cope with what's happening with her family.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: With the suggestion from Henry, she [[spoiler: uses Diana's pills to get high and go clubbing]] to try to cope with what's happening with her family.

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