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* InkSuitActor: The comic incarnation of the character was very different to the TV version, but was deliberately drawn to resemble MarkSheppard long before the chance to actually cast him came along.

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* InkSuitActor: The comic incarnation of the character was very different to the TV version, but was deliberately drawn to resemble MarkSheppard Creator/MarkSheppard long before the chance to actually cast him came along.
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Another resident of Wendy's and Lacey's apartment, a failed law school student who makes [[FreudWasRight very phallic sculptures]].

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Another resident of Wendy's and Lacey's apartment, a failed law school student who makes [[FreudWasRight very phallic sculptures]].sculptures.



* FreudWasRight: [[invoked]] Everything he makes.

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* FreudWasRight: [[invoked]] Everything he makes.
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** Her accepting the giant monster's existence and leaping at it with a pen knife instead or running and screaming is what got her the job in the first place. She jumped at the call before there was even a call.

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** Her accepting the giant monster's existence and leaping at it with a pen knife letter opener instead or running and screaming is what got her the job in the first place. She jumped at the call before there was even a call.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Stated himself that thinks of Wendy like little sister

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Stated himself that thinks of Wendy like a little sister
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Noser spends an awful lot of time not playing the guitar. He also has an incidental sideline in not riding a motorcycle, and an entire episode built around his not being a ventriloquist.



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* EvilIsHammy: Mark Sheppard has ''way'' too much fun at the live reading.

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* EvilIsHammy: Mark Sheppard has ''way'' too much fun at the live reading.reading, even overacting his death.

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** Confirmed by the Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse. He ends up very nearly taking over the world

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** Confirmed by the Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse. He ends up very nearly taking over the worldworld.
* EvilIsHammy: Mark Sheppard has ''way'' too much fun at the live reading.
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* DisneyDeath

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* DisneyDeathDisneyDeath: The one from the series' first half actually does die, but O2STK promptly sends an identical replacement.
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* TheDreaded: Noser's talent and reputation as a ventriloquist are so great that the mere mention of his name causes one contestant in a competition to drop out, leave and quite possibly quit competing all together.
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Hot Chick in a Badass Suit was cutlisted.


* HotChickInABadassSuit: in her Middleman uniform

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* CanonSue: In a way that works, though.

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* BadassPreacher: In the Mirror-Middleverse

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* BadassPreacher: In the Mirror-MiddleverseMirror-Middleverse.



* DesignatedVillain: ...and a ''plagiarist''.
* JerkAss: a really, really big one...

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* DesignatedVillain: ...JerkAss: A really, really big one, and a ''plagiarist''.plagiarist on top of that.
* JerkAss: a really, really big one...



* FreudWasRight: Everything he makes.

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* FreudWasRight: [[invoked]] Everything he makes.



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* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to [[spoiler: become a Living God]] is environmentally motivated


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* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to [[spoiler: become a Living God]] is environmentally motivated

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The reason he breaks up with Wendy; His professor didn't think he had enough pain in his life.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: [[invoked]] The reason he breaks up with Wendy; His professor didn't think he had enough pain in his life.



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Another tenant in Wendy's building, he usually stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks mostly in pop culture references. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]

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Another tenant in Wendy's building, he usually stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks [[WaxingLyrical mostly in pop culture references.references]]. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]
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* LargeHam: He's played by Mark Dacascos. Nuff said.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to [[spoiler: become a Living God]] is environmentally motivated

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* JerkAss

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* BadassInANiceSuit



* HotChickInANiceSuit: in her Middleman uniform

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* HotChickInANiceSuit: HotChickInABadassSuit: in her Middleman uniform
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* HotChickInANiceSuit: in her Middleman uniform

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* BirdsOfAFeather: With Tyler.
* BrainyBrunette



* MartialPacifist: Parodied.



* SpicyLatina: Invoked by Middleman '69, who refers to Wendy as "a hot and spicy Spanish girl."
* TechnicalPacifist: Wendy hates guns, but has a bit of a geeky affection for the sci-fi weapons the Middle organization uses. She also loves training with Sensei Ping, and she frequently protests the Middleman's tendencies toward violence. But she had no problem whatsoever beating a venomous Peruvian Pike to death.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reaction to the lab explosion is how she got the job.



* {{Jerkass}}



* OlderThanTheyLook



* MissedTheCall: his roommate mislaid his job offer letter

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* MissedTheCall: his His roommate mislaid his job offer letter
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* ThePeteBest



Wendy's boyfriend of over a year, breaks up with her for a film school project

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Wendy's boyfriend of over a year, breaks up with her for a film school project project.

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* GenreSavvy



* StarCrossedLovers: With Lacey

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* StarCrossedLovers: With Lacey
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* GenreSavvy



* OtakuSurrogate



* StuffedintotheFridge: [[spoiler:In the unaired 13th episode and graphic novel 'Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse', Lacey is in the final stages of T-cell polymphocytic leukemia. Manservant Neville chose to punish the Middleman by giving Lacey this disease because it is the same disease which claimed the life of the other woman the Middleman loves, his mentor-and-prior Middlewoman Raveena Rao.]]

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* StuffedintotheFridge: StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:In the unaired 13th episode and graphic novel 'Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse', Lacey is in the final stages of T-cell polymphocytic leukemia. Manservant Neville chose to punish the Middleman by giving Lacey this disease because it is the same disease which claimed the life of the other woman the Middleman loves, his mentor-and-prior Middlewoman Raveena Rao.]]

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The CEO of FATBOY Industries, which makes everything from coffee to ice cream to the uMaster, a virtually featureless cube that just happens to be ''the'' cool gadget that every young, creative artistic type just has to have.

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The CEO of FATBOY Industries, which makes everything from coffee to ice cream to the uMaster, a virtually featureless cube that just happens to be ''the'' cool gadget that every young, creative artistic type just has to have.



** Confirmed by the Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse. He ends up very nearly taking over the world.

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** Confirmed by the Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse. He ends up very nearly taking over the world.world
* InkSuitActor: The comic incarnation of the character was very different to the TV version, but was deliberately drawn to resemble MarkSheppard long before the chance to actually cast him came along.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Stated himself that thinks of Wendy like little sister
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* AlliterativeName: [[spoiler: Clarence Colton]]


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The CEO of FATBOY Industries, which makes everything from coffee to ice cream to the uMaster, what appears to be a laptop/iPod hybrid.
* AGodAmI: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse.

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The CEO of FATBOY Industries, which makes everything from coffee to ice cream to the uMaster, what appears a virtually featureless cube that just happens to be a laptop/iPod hybrid.
''the'' cool gadget that every young, creative artistic type just has to have.
* AGodAmI: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse.
* BlandNameProduct: The uMaster, which is treated as a synthesis of every cool i-gadget Apple has ever made (but only to the extent that everyone has to have one, as we are never shown what, if anything, the uMaster actually does.)



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Wendy's roommate in their illegal sublet, she's an animal rights activist. She's also got the hots for the Middleman.

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Wendy's roommate in their illegal sublet, she's an animal rights activist.activist as well as another young, photogenic artist. She's also got the hots for the Middleman.



Another tenant in Wendy's building, he mostly stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks mostly in pop culture references. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]

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Another tenant in Wendy's building, he mostly usually stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks mostly in pop culture references. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]
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Corrected spelling of Manservant Neville\'s name.
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!!Manservent Neville

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!!Manservent !!Manservant Neville
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* StuffedintotheFridge: [[spoiler:In the unaired 13th episode and graphic novel 'Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse', Lacey is in the final stages of T-cell polymphocytic leukemia. Manservant Neville chose to punish the Middleman by giving Lacey this disease because it is the same disease which claimed the life of the other woman the Middleman loves, his mentor-and-prior Middlewoman Raveena Rao.]]

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* DiscoDan: He acts like a GoldenAge square jawed super hero.




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* StarCrossedLovers: With Lacey



** RefusedTheCall: At first. But it was mostly due to The Middleman and Ida framing her for the destruction of her last workplace that freaked her out. But then Ben decided to break-up with her and film it and the rest is history.
** Her accepting the giant monster's existence and leaping at it with a pen knife instead or running and screaming is what got her the job in the first place. She jumped at the call before there was even a call.




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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Well at least Lacey thinks so.



* StarCrossedLovers:With The Middleman but she has no idea why.



* DarkIsNotEvil

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* DarkIsNotEvilDarkIsNotEvil: The whole point of her fashion agency actually. It gives Succubi and Incubi a place to work and get reformed like she did.



* BadassPreacher: In the Mirror-Middleverse



* DesignatedVillain: ...and a ''plagiarist''.

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* DesignatedVillain: ...and a ''plagiarist''.




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* FreudWasRight: Everything he makes.


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* AGodAmI: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse.


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** Confirmed by the Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse. He ends up very nearly taking over the world.


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!!Ben
Wendy's boyfriend of over a year, breaks up with her for a film school project
* {{Jerkass}}: Granted he feels terrible about the whole "breaking up with Wendy for a project" thing at first, he still did something so selfish in the first place and later posted it online.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: The reason he breaks up with Wendy; His professor didn't think he had enough pain in his life.

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* IHaveManyNames: Lacey calls her "Dub-Dub" while the Middleman calls her "Dubbie." Noser always uses her full name. Ida uses a variety of sarcastic and/or insulting nicknames.

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* IHaveManyNames: Lacey calls her "Dub-Dub" while the Middleman calls her "Dubbie." Tyler calls her "Dubs" and Noser always uses her full name. Ida uses a variety of sarcastic and/or insulting nicknames.



**"Cool!" is also Wendy's reaction to Zombies. And Vampires, and... you get the point.



Another tenant in Wendy's building, he mostly stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks mostly by quoting song lyrics. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]

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Another tenant in Wendy's building, he mostly stands out in the hall with his guitar and speaks mostly by quoting song lyrics.in pop culture references. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]



* OldShame: His childhood career as a ventriloquist.



A reformed succubus who works as a fashion designer and fronts a modeling agency, she helps MM with any mystical problems.

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A reformed succubus who works as a fashion designer and fronts a modeling agency, she helps MM with any mystical problems.
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The POV character, she was a temp working at [[FunWithAcronyms A.N.D. Labratories]] when a {{hentai}} tentacle monster attacked her and the Middleman stepped in. Now she's his apprentice/sidekick/partner.

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The POV character, she was a temp working at [[FunWithAcronyms A.N.D. Labratories]] when a genetic abomination reminiscent of a {{hentai}} tentacle monster attacked her and the Middleman stepped in. Now she's his apprentice/sidekick/partner.



Another tenant in Wendy's building, he likes standing out in the hall with his guitar and saying song lyrics. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]

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Another tenant in Wendy's building, he likes standing mostly stands out in the hall with his guitar and saying speaks mostly by quoting song lyrics. [[InformedAbility We never actually see him play.]]



A reformed succubus who now fronts a modeling agency, she helps MM with any mystical problems.

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A reformed succubus who now works as a fashion designer and fronts a modeling agency, she helps MM with any mystical problems.



Another candidate for the Middleman's apprentice, instead he met Wendy, forgot her with [[EasyAmnesia two day amnesia]], then met her again and became her boyfriend.

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Another A prior candidate for the Middleman's apprentice, instead he met Wendy, forgot her with [[EasyAmnesia two day amnesia]], then met her again and became her boyfriend.




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* MissedTheCall: his roommate mislaid his job offer letter



Another resident of Wendy's and Lacey's apartment, he makes [[FreudWasRight very phallic sculptures]].

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Another resident of Wendy's and Lacey's apartment, he a failed law school student who makes [[FreudWasRight very phallic sculptures]].

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