History Characters / Superstore

* WhatYouAreintheDark: Is something of a dark inverse of the traditional trope. For the most part, Sandra is soft spoken, sweet seeming, and a major doormat. However, when she is given opportunities where she has power over the people who usually demean her and nobody else is there to notice or stop her, she chooses the to let them suffer, like when she chooses not to save Carol during the tornado in season 2, or in season 4 when Dina is left hanging from a harness for seemingly hours after Matteo forgets about their photo shoot, when Sandra hears Dina yelling for somebody to let her down, makes eye contact, and very deliberately chooses to walk away and leave Dina hanging.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Loses all power over Amy once she sees' her doing coke in Glen's office and from then on is forced to cater to her wishes.

* ParentsAsPeople: Adam is implied to be a good dad to his daughter Emma, but he's clearly not as great a husband to his wife Amy. We're given the impression he doesn't have a stable job, and he pursues business ventures that get nowhere. Amy more than once is exasperated with his lack of responsibility when it comes to money or being as financially supportive to the family.

* AlwaysAChildToParent: How Sandra treats him, to spite the fact that he was practically already an adult when she adopted him and she really hasn't known him that long.

* CoolPet: Owns three sharks.

* HappilyAdopted: Fits in seemlessly with Sandra and Jerry, immediately calling Sandra "mom" with all the disaffected and embarrassed affection only a teen can display almost as soon as meeting her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: 'Friend' in this case is used as loosely as possible. Contrary to his opinion that he, Amy, Jonah, and Garrett are in some sort of tight friend group, Marcus is a lot less popular than he thinks he is. In the later seasons, this is less pronounced, especially as he befriends Isaac due to similar personalities.

* HatedByAll: When she returns to work after [[spoiler:trying to kill Sandra]]'s cat, everybody hates her and avoids working with her, even Glenn.

* NiceGirl: Downplayed. Myrtle might make the occasional insensitive or prejudiced comment, but she's generally shown to be a kind woman that hercoworkers clearly adore.

* MoralityPet: An odd example, since the staff are by and large moral already, but they all have a soft spot for Myrtle and will happily do anything for her, despite her middling job performance. Jonah and Amy find massive savings in the budget in an effort to save her job, and Lori's decision to do so prompts the team to try and bring attention to Cloud 9's unethical business practices. Following her promotion, Amy hires Myrtle as her assistant with every intention of simply giving her a salary without her needing to work. [[spoiler: Glenn even gives Amy her ashes before she moves to California, as Myrtle always dreamed of moving there, and in the finale a photo of Myrtle can be seen on the wall of Sturgis and Sons.)

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* FriendsWithBenefits: With Dina in Season 2. It doesn't last past that, except for one random hookup in season 4 under ''very'' inappropriate circumstances. [[spoiler:He is later invited to be part of Dina's open relationship in season 6, which gets weird fast.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: The one thing Jonah can't handle is the thought that someone doesn't like him based on his personality, and if he thinks that's at risk of happening, he will do ''anything'' to prevent it. A mild example is trying to prove that he's "a regular dude" to the warehouse crew by chugging a bottle of ranch of dressing.
* FreudianExcuse: It's shown that his parents are very stuffy and unempathetic, and his brother is a full-on arrogant, lying douchebag who constantly puts him down. This helps us understand where his people pleaser and chronic crises tendencies come from.

* ExtremeDoormat: Glenn, most especially within the corporate structure of Cloud 9. He occasionally tries to subvert this and reject the company’s orders to fire Cheyenne and layoff some of his employees, only to revert back to this the moment he becomes uncomfortable.

* CoolLoser: He's considerably dorky and other characters often make fun or taunt him for it, but he's not a mega loser. He's not shown having any trouble attracting women, and next to truly socially hapless people like Sandra and Jerry, he's quite cool.

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed since she's ultimately still the same person, but in season 4 she [[spoiler:becomes the new manager. As a result she takes on an initially subtle role of an antagonist as she starts to see how different it is to be a manager and how her new responsibilities put her at odds with the workers that were once her friends. While she's not actively malicious or selfish like many other managers, she very quickly starts to enjoy the perks of being a manager compared to a worker. This reaches it's natural conclusion where, in contrast to previous seasons, she takes a firm stance against unionization in the season finale. While motivated by good reasons since the talk about unions places the store in risk of being shut down, Jonah is quick to note how she doesn't see how what she's doing (breaking up union meeting and asking for names of people most interested in unions) were bad and that she consistently mentions how she's not willing to risk her job.]]

* SatelliteLoveInterest: His main purpose in the story is to be Sandra's love interest, and he's designed to be compatible with her in every way.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Revealed in a season 4 episode he's somewhere in his *mid-twenties.* Steve Agee was in his late 40's when he began playing the role.

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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Bo is a wannabe rapper.

* TheSlacker: It's clear that Bo isn't particularly hardworking or motivated, and initially doesn't seem aware that he would have to contribute to raising Harmonica beyond occasional babysitting duties.

* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Fits a certain stereotype of a sensitive, cardigan-wearing wife who does needlepoint in her spare time. However, nobody considers her work very good. She later admits that she took it up at least partly because it was a classically feminine hobby.

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* {{Foil}}: Like Amy, she's a driven and hardworking Latina who acknowledges that there are not so many opportunities for women like them. But while Maya sees corporate advancement to be a perfectly fine career path, Amy is more reluctant, since it feels like she is betraying the store's unionization efforts.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: He can speak Tagalog, which he picked up from Mateo's Tita Irma when he began living with her [[spoiler:following Mateo's detainment]]. His pronunciation isn't as good as the actually-Filipino Mateo's, but his fluency is enough to keep up with Mateo in a fast-paced argument.