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* {{Foil}}: To Seth - while the latter's fairly outgoing, quite impractical, carefree and witty, Ryan is brooding and StreetSmart. Ryan had AbusiveParents (at least his father and the stepfathers he had), Seth has GoodParents. Ryan is a naturally selfless guy who comes from a poor family, while Seth is rich, spoiled and used to be pretty selfish most of the time, although he gets better.

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* {{Foil}}: To Seth - while the latter's fairly outgoing, quite impractical, carefree and witty, Ryan is brooding and StreetSmart. Ryan had AbusiveParents (at least his father and the stepfathers he had), Seth has GoodParents. Ryan is a naturally selfless guy who comes from a poor family, while Seth is rich, spoiled and used to be pretty selfish most of the time, although he gets better. They are also a foil to each other appearance-wise, with Ryan being a ruggedly handsome {{hunk}} and Seth being a geeky PrettyBoy.
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* {{Foil}}: To Ryan. He's outgoing, quite impractical, carefree and witty, while Ryan is brooding and StreetSmart. Ryan had AbusiveParents (at least his father and the stepfathers he had), Seth has GoodParents. Ryan is a naturally selfless guy who comes from a poor family, while Seth is rich, spoiled and used to be pretty selfish most of the time, although he gets better.

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* {{Foil}}: To Ryan. He's outgoing, quite impractical, carefree and witty, while Ryan is brooding and StreetSmart. Ryan had AbusiveParents (at least his father and the stepfathers he had), Seth has GoodParents. Ryan is a naturally selfless guy who comes from a poor family, while Seth is rich, spoiled and used to be pretty selfish most of the time, although he gets better. They foil each other also appearance-wise, as Ryan is quite the ruggedly handsome {{hunk}} and Seth is a geeky PrettyBoy.



* PrettyBoy: To Ryan's {{hunk}}, as he's not very muscular, rather slim and with a gentler appearance.

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* PrettyBoy: To Of the cute and nerdy variety. Serves as a {{foil}} to Ryan's {{hunk}}, as he's not very muscular, rather slim and with a gentler appearance.
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* ChickMagnet: He attracts the attention of Summer, Anna, Alex, Taylor, and [[Creator/ParisHilton Paris Hilton]].

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* ChickMagnet: He attracts the attention of Summer, Anna, Alex, Taylor, and [[Creator/ParisHilton Paris Hilton]].Kate (a OneShotCharacter played by Creator/ParisHilton).
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Black Sheep cleanup, removing misuse and ZCE


* BlackSheep: Seen as the black sheep of the family, known to have done little with her life.
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Cool Loser TRS cleanup, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.


* CoolLoser: Seth is clearly an attractive, talented, funny and ridiculously rich young man, yet he couldn't get a date for most of his life, despite living in a town full of golddiggers, and was constantly being beaten up by jocks. He apparently had no friends at all prior the arrival of Ryan. It's implied that Seth would probably be popular if he lived anywhere besides Orange County. This is particularly obvious when he briefly moves to Portland, and apparently has no trouble making friends. It's just that he's surrounded by people who are pompous and shallow.



* CoolLoser: A stunning, whip smart, witty young lady who is so unpopular she is reduced to following around Seth (and Summer) for want of a friend. Justified because her attitude can be annoying sometimes.

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* TeensAreShort: {{Averted}}: her actress is the only teen among the main cast, but she's rather tall while Summer is pretty short.
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* CharacterDevelopment: He becomes less short-tempered as the series progresses; still, he can't tolerate injustice.

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* CharacterDevelopment: He becomes less short-tempered as the series progresses; progresses, and goes from a more aloof, brooding and hotheaded teenager to a quieter, levelheaded NiceGuy; still, he can't tolerate injustice.



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He kinda lives in his own world; {{justified}} as he's a geek who loves comic books living in a place where most young people are jocks and party girls.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He kinda lives in his own world; {{justified}} world, as he's a geek who loves comic books books, video games and indie rock, living in a place where most young people are shallow jocks and party girls.girls. He's absolutely able to be logical and levelheaded if the situation calls for it, though.

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Removed: 103

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* MsFanservice: Often wears revealing clothes, has some bikini scenes, and especially her scene where she wears a naughty BareYourMidriff [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule schoolgirl outfit]] (to help her sister, tricking a boy making him believe she was a stripper) is ''very'' fanservicey.

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* MsFanservice: Often wears revealing clothes, has some bikini scenes, and especially her scene where she wears a naughty BareYourMidriff midriff-exposing [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule schoolgirl outfit]] (to help her sister, tricking a boy making him believe she was a stripper) is ''very'' fanservicey.



* BareYourMidriff: While working as a stripper.



* BareYourMidriff: Sometimes wears outfits that do this.

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