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* AbusiveParents: Assuming that she's actually Salad's mother, she forces him to drink some sort of concoction that she knows will give him a fever, and frequently berates him.

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* AbusiveParents: Assuming that she's actually Salad's mother, she forces him to drink eat some sort of concoction that she knows will give him a fever, and frequently berates him.

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* BreakTheCutie: Though it's generally a minority that find him "cute", Salad Fingers seems to have a genuinely kind, pleasant side to his personality and is very, ''very'' broken. Starting around Episode 5, most of the episodes have some moment that causes him to have an emotional breakdown.

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* BreakTheCutie: BreakTheCutie:
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Though it's generally a minority that find him "cute", Salad Fingers seems to have a genuinely kind, pleasant side to his personality and is very, ''very'' broken. Starting around Episode 5, most of the episodes have some moment that causes him to have an emotional breakdown.
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* {{Fetish}}: Spoons, rust, hypovolemia, and nettles are apparently this to Salad Fingers.

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* {{Fetish}}: Spoons, rust, hypovolemia, and nettles are apparently this to Salad Fingers. He's a masochist, as he found getting caught in a bear trap pleasurable enough to experience ''la petite mort''.



* RealityWarper: Of course, it's not sure whether or not anything we see is actually going on, so it's not clear if he's changing reality or just (often unconsciously) altering his delusions. Not that it really matters, since everything going on is real to him.

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* RealityWarper: Of course, it's not sure whether or not anything we see is actually going on, so it's not clear if he's changing reality or just (often unconsciously) altering his delusions. Not that it really matters, since everything going on is real to him.''him''.



* UnreliableNarrator: The closest we get to any cohesive story is what Salad Fingers tells us, and between his bouts of SplitPersonality changes and being a CloudCuckoolander, he isn't the most trustworthy source of information. In fact, he is intentional written to have his characterization shift to confuse viewers.

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* UnreliableNarrator: The closest we get to any cohesive story is what Salad Fingers tells us, and between his bouts of SplitPersonality changes and being a CloudCuckoolander, he isn't the most trustworthy source of information. In fact, he is intentional intentionally written to have his characterization shift to confuse viewers.



* AbhorrentAdmirer: Salad Fingers is freaked out an uncomfortable by him, particularly after he proposes.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Salad Fingers is freaked out an uncomfortable by him, it, particularly after he it proposes.
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* NighInvulnerable: He appears to be able to gradually recover from anything that happens to him, most notably in Episode 9, when a ''thing'' covered in black goop tears itself out of his body and puts him about as near death as we've seen him. He languishes for a bit, but he's apparently healed by the end of the episode.

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* NighInvulnerable: He appears to be able to gradually recover from anything that happens to him, most notably in Episode 9, when a ''thing'' covered in black goop tears itself out of his body and puts him about as near death as we've seen him. He languishes for a bit, but he's apparently healed shows no injury by the end of the episode.

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* NighInvulnerable: He appears to be able to gradually recover from anything that happens to him, most notably in Episode 9, when a ''thing'' covered in black goop tears itself out of his body and puts him about as near death as we've seen him. He languishes for a bit, but he's apparently healed by the end of the episode.



* NighInvulnerable: He appears to be able to gradually recover from anything that happens to him, most notably in Episode 9, when a ''thing'' covered in black goop tears itself out of his body and puts him about as near death as we've seen him. He languishes for a bit, but he's apparently healed by the end of the episode.
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* NighInvulnerable: He appears to be able to gradually recover from anything that happens to him, most notably in Episode 9, when a ''thing'' covered in black goop tears itself out of his body and puts him about as near death as we've seen him. He languishes for a bit, but he's apparently healed by the end of the episode.

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* RealityWarper: Of course, it's not sure whether or not anything we see is actually going on, so it's not clear if he's changing reality or just (often unconsciously) altering his delusions. Not that it really matters, since everything going on is real to him.



* {{Teleportation}}: While trapped in Tony's cage [[RealityWarper he apparently manifests a red curtain]] closes it, and vanishes into thin air.



* AbhorrentAdmirer: Salad Fingers is freaked out an uncomfortable by him, particularly after he proposes.



* LoveAtfirstSight: With Salad Fingers.



* {{Yandere}}: Captures Salad and proposes.

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* {{Yandere}}: Captures Salad in a cage and proposes.

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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Beyond the frequent suggestions of off-screen deaths around him, there are bloodstains throughout his house and he is something of a masochist, deriving pleasure from engaging in extreme self-harm.
** He's an unusual version of this trope. It's up to interpretation if he ever intends to actually kill anyone, but he's constantly intentionally hurting himself.

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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Beyond the frequent suggestions of off-screen deaths around him, there are bloodstains throughout his house and he is something of a masochist, deriving pleasure from engaging in extreme self-harm. \n** He's an unusual version of this trope.trope, though. It's up to interpretation if he ever intends to actually kill anyone, but he's constantly intentionally hurting himself.
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** Then again, the new Hubert Cumberdale is sewn together with pieces of raw human flesh that Salad Fingers keeps in a drawer, so...
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* KnightOfCerebus: To a certain extent. He's the first unambiguously evil person that Salad Fingers meets and emotionally breaks him down. After his appearance, the show brings in much more ''disturbing'' characters such as Yvonne, Salad Fingers "Platoon", Dr. Papanak, and the Glass Family.
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* AntagonistTitle: Of episode 11, though he functions more as TheDragon to Glass Mother.


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* VillainousBreakdown: She completely loses it when Salad Finger finally one-ups her.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: WordOfGod says that loneliness was the main theme of the series, with Salad Fingers living in almost complete isolation and already well over the madness threshold.

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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: WordOfGod David Firth says that loneliness was the main theme of the series, with Salad Fingers living in almost complete isolation and already well over the madness threshold.



* MentalWorld: May or may not be living in some version of one. {{Word of God}} leaves it open to interpretation.

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* MentalWorld: May or may not be living in some version of one. {{Word of God}} David Firth leaves it open to interpretation.



* SelfHarm: ''Constantly''. Salad Fingers has a euphoric high when hurting himself with nails or glass. Played for {{Squick}}.

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* SelfHarm: ''Constantly''. Salad Fingers has a euphoric high when hurting himself with nails or glass. Played for {{Squick}}.grossness.
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: As of later episodes, Salad Fingers is no really longer the source of the horror and fear in the series - it's what happens to him and around him, which means sometimes SF is the one who is scared.

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* HorrifyingTheHorror: As of later episodes, Salad Fingers is no really longer the source of the horror and fear in the series - it's what happens to him and around him, which means sometimes SF is the one who is scared.



* ImAHumanitarian: Salad Fingers at least imagines himself (or other versions of himself) regularly consuming human parts, and no one knows what he did with the child he cooked in his oven.

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* ImAHumanitarian: Salad Fingers at least imagines himself (or other versions of himself) regularly consuming human parts, and no one knows what he did with the child he accidentally cooked in his oven.
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Otherwise called "Stitch-Head", they appear in Episode 4, where they fall in love with and captures Salad.

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Otherwise called "Stitch-Head", they appear it appears in Episode 4, where they fall it falls in love with and captures Salad.



* AmbiguousGender: It's not clear, though it's assumed that they're male.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Assuming they're male.

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* AmbiguousGender: It's not clear, though it's assumed that they're it's male.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Assuming they're it's male.



* StalkerWithACrush: They're in love with Salad and he doesn't return those feelings, not that it stops Tony.
* TheUnintelligible: Outside of baby babble, he angrily says something to Salad but can't be made out.

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* StalkerWithACrush: They're It's in love with Salad and he doesn't return those feelings, not that it stops Tony.
* TheUnintelligible: Outside of baby babble, he angrily says something to Salad but that can't be made out.
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*GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Of the evil sort, given that, in some shots (like the abovementioned) she has a cigarette holder in her mouth.
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* BritishTeeth: His mouth is filled with rotting and yellowing teeth.
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* Angrish: His entire dialogue consists of feral screams.

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* Angrish: {{Angrish}}: His entire dialogue consists of feral screams.
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* Angrish: His entire dialogue consists of feral screams.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Salad Fingers never outright displays any signs of hostility or violence (to anyone other than himself at least), but a few episodes implying incidents of murder and the times we've seen Salad Fingers become angry, it's quite clear why we shouldn't piss him off still.
** Firth confirmed this in an interview with The Overtake:
--> "He’s a nice guy. I don’t think he ever actually kills on purpose. But there’s lots of evidence that he may have done. He’s like a cat. A cat will kill mercilessly outside but you still bring him in and cuddle him. It’s the same as Salad Fingers, he’s just a bit of an animal.”
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** Episodes 10 and 11 demonstrate the progression of Firth's art style, meaning that Salad Fingers looks slightly different than in past episodes. Although it's hard to describe how or why, he definitely looks cuter and more quaint than in the earliest episodes.
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* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: In Episode 11, Salad Fingers manages to bring Hubert Cumberdale to life after giving him a handmade skin-suit. This version of Hubert is sentient, able to communicate, and mobile. Considering the series' allusion to the entire narrative just being a hallucination, it may be that this form of Hubert is a hallucination too, but it still stands.


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* HorrifyingTheHorror: As of later episodes, Salad Fingers is no really longer the source of the horror and fear in the series - it's what happens to him and around him, which means sometimes SF is the one who is scared.
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* CreepyCute: Particularly in later episodes, with Firth having slightly changed Salad Fingers' design and fleshed out his personality. Beneath the creepiness, he's quite endearing.
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* CreepyCute: Particularly in later episodes, with Firth having slightly changed Salad Fingers' design and fleshed out his personality. Beneath the creepiness, he's quite endearing.
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* TranquilFury: Particularly in Episode 11, after retrieving Hubert Cumberdale from the Glass Brother and Mother. Surprisingly, he's not violent to either of them, and simply escapes, but the calm, quiet tone in his voice somehow exemplifies how angry he is.
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* Expy: She is similar in appearance to [[WebAnimation/SpoilsburyToastBoy Spoilsbury Toast Boy's]] grandmother, right down to the mention of speckled huckleberry leaves.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: She is similar in appearance to [[WebAnimation/SpoilsburyToastBoy Spoilsbury Toast Boy's]] grandmother, right down to the mention and both have a preference of speckled huckleberry leaves.
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* Expy: She is similar in appearance to [[WebAnimation/SpoilsburyToastBoy Spoilsbury Toast Boy's]] grandmother, right down to the mention of speckled huckleberry leaves.
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* BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.

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* BigBrotherBully: *BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.



* AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.

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* AnimalMotifs: *AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: *BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.



* GlutturalGrowler: She speaks in something of a low, raspy voice.

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* GlutturalGrowler: *GutturalGrowler: She speaks in something of a low, raspy voice.



* WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''

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* WhamLine: *WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''
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* BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.

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* BigBrotherBully: *BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.



* AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.

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* AnimalMotifs: *AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: *BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.



* GlutteralGrowler: She speaks in something of a low, raspy voice.

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* GlutteralGrowler: *GlutturalGrowler: She speaks in something of a low, raspy voice.



* WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''

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* WhamLine: *WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''

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* BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.

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* BigBrotherBully: *BigBrotherBully: The way he talks and acts towards Salad invokes this.



* AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.

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* AnimalMotifs: *AnimalMotifs: Her appearance seems to invoke a insectoid one
* BaldWomen: *BaldWomen: She's bald outside of a few grey hairs.



*GlutteralGrowler: She speaks in something of a low, raspy voice.



* WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''

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* WhamLine: *WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: "Wait until your father gets home!"]]''

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