History Characters / StardewValley

* GamerChick: In her two-heart cutscene, you help her with a particularly frustrating arcade shooter (playing on what is clearly an [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]). Otherwise, she'll sometimes mention staying in and playing video games on the weekends. She even has a ''Chrono Trigger'' poster hanging on her wall.

* Expy: Of the Harvest Sprites from the ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games.

* TheDandy: He has a few mannerisms of a dandy. Aside from speaking and dressing like a Victorian gentleman, Elliott expresses some sort of hedonistic lifestyle since he's one of the few characters that can be found on the saloon every night. His four-hearts event even involves he and the Farmer drinking and toasting.

* ActionGirl: She becomes one as part of her CharacterDevelopment should the player decide to pursue a relationship. She's the only woman (and resident, for that matter) in town with aspirations of becoming an adventurer, and practices regularly with a sword she keeps hidden in her dresser. [[spoiler:When she first tries to enter the mines on her own, she encounters a ''huge'' swarm of bats and loses her nerve. However, once married, she gets over her fears, and will nonchalantly give you dungeon loot from her excursions from time to time.]] During Emily's eight-heart event, [[spoiler:while everyone else picks a costume to strut around in,]] Abigail decides to put on a ''suit of armor''.
** In her fourteen heart event, she finally lives up to the trope [[spoiler:by [[BigDamnHeroes saving you from a monster attack]]. Although, even though it was a monster and she needed to save you, she is quite [[BleedEmAndWeep torn up about taking a life for the first time]], and even [[CradlingYourKill gives the monster a proper burial afterward]].]]

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Alex's favourite dishes are Complete Breakfast (true to form), and Salmon Dinner. His favorite theater snack is the salmon burger.
** 1.6 made him more of a fan of eggs. Giving him various eggs has him make different comments on each one. He generally likes all of them (including frog eggs), but doesn't like void eggs due to how evil they look. He also now likes field snacks because of the nuts in them.

* FirstNameBasis: Like everyone else in town, but unusual considering that he's a doctor, one of the few professions where people are still referred to by their title and/or last name, even in this day and age. (For contrast, in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'', [=ConcernedApe's=] acknowledged favorite ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' game, the Doctor [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep is known as just that - the Doctor]]. He doesn't even ''have'' a name until a later game, where it is revealed to be Trent.)
** Of course, his name could just be [[RepetitiveName Harvey Harvey]].

-->'''Emily''': Shane, it's a new side of you we've never known about. That's great! Now, go outside with confidence and show the world!
-->'''Shane''': [[DullSurprise ... Sure.]]

* [[LikeASonToMe Like A Daughter To Me]]: He was Jas' godfather and good friends with her parents before they passed and he and Marnie adopted Jas. In fact, it's implied that part of his anxiety stems from his fear that he might not be doing a good enough taking care of Jas.

* {{Foil}}: To Morris, big-time. Morris is a JerkAss who is very up-front in how he favors profit over the community, but he's also a WellIntentionedExtremist who legitimately thinks [=JojaMart=] can revitalize Stardew Valley. Pierre is a BitchInSheepsClothing who initially seems to favor the community over his profits, but later events show he has no problems trying to price-gouge and take advantage of that same community. Morris is a workaholic who doesn't have time for friendships or a family, but while it's possible to befriend Pierre and he does have a family his friendship borders AllTakeAndNoGive (he'll send you a blueberry tart recipe and comically small amounts of money considering how difficult and expensive it is to befriend him due to his tiny list of Loved gifts) and he's implied to be neglectful of his family to the point of being oblivious of what they actually like. Morris is happy being a manager of a single store for a large corporation, but as you befriend Pierre he'll express a desire to expand into a large corporation that has many franchises. Morris never shows up to community events but Pierre is at every one... just to sell things and advertise. If you restore the Community Center then [=JojaMart=] will go out of business and Morris will leave, but nothing happens to Pierre if you go the Joja route instead. Choosing a certain dialogue option after restoring the Community Center shows a final distinction - Morris is very much a NonActionGuy, but Pierre is a former boxer with a mean punch, which he'll demonstrate on Morris.

* FantasticRacism: Due to the long-standing enmity between them and his people, he dislikes dwarves.

* TheTeetotaler: Alex had an alcoholic father and it's telling that outside of events he is the only one of the six bachelors who never frequents the Stardrop Saloon. [[spoiler: He won't even enter the saloon during the first [[WeirdWeather green rain]] day, despite the fact that half the town is sheltering from the rain in it.]]

* BeamMeUpScotty: One of the most popular memes in the Stardew Valley fandom is Abigail's line "Hey, how'd you know I was hungry? This looks delicious!" when you give her a gem, implies that she [[EatDirtCheap eats them]]. Given that amethyst is her favorite gem (and fits with her purple color scheme), this often leads to people [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5kJb9dyLg8&t=66s believing that she eats amethyst]]. In the actual game, the "delicious" line is only used when the player gifts Abigail an item she likes, including all gems ''except'' amethyst; her "gifted favorite item" dialogue, which is used when you give her an amethyst, doesn't mention eating at all. It's ''Quartz'' that she's implied to eat.

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Info on donated Artifacts comes from Gunther, but he has no idea what to make of the two Strange Dolls, leaving their descriptions as just "???". It turns out they're not some kind of archeological remnant, they're licensed merchandise from the contemporary movie ''Wumbus'' that someone probably just recently threw out, which Gunther seemingly isn't familiar enough with to recognize.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: George, her neighbor, uses a wheelchair and is struggling to get a letter out of the back of his mailbox. Penny spots him and rushes to help--by pushing the wheelchair out of the way. The player can call her out on this.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Is able to do this with ease as of the 1.1 update, which provides many scary means to remove "inconveniences" in their life. You can spend a good few months romancing someone, marry them, and have a child, only to turn the poor baby into a dove and [[UnPerson erase your spouse's memory of them]]. Even better? You can wipe the memory of your spouse entirely so that you can romance them again.

* BerserkButton: He doesn't like cheaters. While only lightly chastises you for using a bunch of staircases to get to floor 100 of Skull Caverns, he at least admires the dedication to gather that much stone. [[spoiler:But he really loses it in version 1.6 if you [[https://youtu.be/se_q0rTuOPE?si=vNiT4xIfzMizDamW&t=159 glitch your way to the Summit]] without HundredPercentCompletion.]]

* NoFairCheating: As of version 1.6, he does '''NOT''' like if you glitch your way to the Summit early. [[spoiler:He'll "congratulate" the player by beating them within an inch of their life]].