History Characters / TheTryGuys

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Alex left the company sometime in late 2022 and has not been referenced since. YB still appears to eat with Keith in videos such as "Try Guys 401 Dumpling Mukbang" and "Keith Eats Japanese Ramen and Vietnamese Pho."

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In the video where the Try Guys take an ancestry-DNA test from a company called "[=23andMe=]," Zach discovers that he's 88.7% Ashkenazi-Jewish.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: "The Try Guys Test The Legal Alcohol Limit" has them all drinking the same amount of alcohol, but Zach is over ''twice'' as affected by it than the others.

** During the "The Try Guys Race Dune Buggies • Dirty Tour: Part 1" video, Zach reveals that his middle name to be Andrew. Combine that with the sandy environment and you get...Sandy Andy!
** Continues in the sequel video, "The Try Guys Race Swamp Boats • Dirty Tour: Part 2", where Sandy Andy is changed to Fanny...viewers from other parts of the world, like the UK and Australia, might get certain associations.
* HappilyMarried: Married Maggie in February 2023 after several years of dating (and [[CosmicPlaything after a month in-and-out of the hospital when a freak accident led to an infection in his leg]].)
* HeroesLoveDogs[=/=]KindheartedCatLover: Zach's definitely a cat person (his personalized distraction during a driving test was a box full of [[CuteKitten adorable kittens]] and he was also once in a [=BuzzFeed=] video where cat lovers get surprised with a box of kittens), but he also seems to like dogs as well. In fact, it is mentioned at the end of the Try Guys' last [=BuzzFeed=] video (which involved the guys doing a dog-sled race in Alaska) that Zach ended up getting a puppy (specifically a miniature Australian Shepherd that he named Bowie). He still maintains that he's a cat person, and that he only likes very specific dogs (like his own dog). He also finally bonds with Ned's dog Bean in "Try Guys Swap Pets For A Day" after a few initial hiccups.

* HiddenDepths: He actually gets comically mad when learning how boring the Google results for him are in WIRED's "The Try Guys Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions" video, going on to detail how they ''could'' be instead searching why he was arrested once, how he almost lost a testicle, or how he was on [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Saturday Night Live]].

* LethalChef: Zach really isn't very good at cooking and has admitted that he doesn't even cook that much for himself (he often just orders take-out). In the "Without a Recipe" series, Zach usually doesn't do that well. In fact, him coming in last is more often than not expected.

* MusicalThemeNaming: All his dishes in ''Without A Recipe: Summer Edition'' are named after and themed around popular songs from 2021 (the "Songs of the Summer"). His "[[Music/OliviaRodrigo Sour]] Muffins" were lemon with pieces of sour candy, his "[[Music/JustinBieber Peaches]] Donut" was, well, a peach donut with bourbon glaze and spice on top (to represent Bieber's volatile, "bad boy" nature), and his '"[[Music/{{BTS}} Smooth Like Butter]] Ice Cream Cake" used buttercream icing, has seven layers for the seven members of BTS, used flavors that BTS members have been said to like, and had the band's logo on the top of the cake.
* NiceGuy: Is easily the nicest of the Try Guys, to a point where he's so affectionate that it helps him to win ''Last to Leave Handcuffs Wins $10,000''/
* NightmareFetishist: He loves horror movies. In fact, a few of his dishes in "Without a Recipe" have been themed around spooky things, such as his "Cookies and Scream" ice cream or his "[[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]]" illusion cake.

* EvilCounterpart: The fourth season of "Without a Recipe" saw him adopt the persona of "Evil Eugene," complete with red eye shadow, in which he intentionally used unsavory ingredients to try and gross out the judges. [[spoiler: Despite this, he ended up winning half of the episodes, including the finale of the season.]]
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: As "Evil Eugene".

* PrettyBoy: ''In spades.'' Eugene's widely considered to be the most physically attractive of the group (including by the other Try Guys). In fact, in "Should the Try Guys Get Plastic Surgery?", the plastic surgeon the guys consulted (a man named Dr. Jason B. Diamond) personally felt that there was ''nothing wrong'' with Eugene's face--the most Dr. Diamond would consider doing was a minor alteration to Eugene's nose and some minor facial sculpting along his jawline (but in the before and after shots, it was so unnoticeable that Eugene assumed there was a glitch and he was still being shown the before shot).

* SirSwearsALot: None of the guys are really shy about their language, but Eugene definitely swears the most of the four guys. Eugene's also consistently had to catch himself for swearing in front of small children and babies...which tends to lead to even more swearing.

* UnaffectedBySpice: He ''loves'' spicy food and often adds a variety of spices to his dishes in the "Without a Recipe" series. Even in desserts. His drag persona is even named Cheyenne Pepper, after cayenne peppers. The fact that his family originates from South Korea (a country whose traditional cuisine uses a lot of spices) and he grew up in Texas (where dishes that use hot peppers, like chili con carne, are commonly consumed) may explain why he likes spicy food so much.

* {{Uke}}: Invoked. In ''The Try Guys Recreate Fanfiction'', one of the featured fics starts as a smutty office AU with Keith being promoted to Eugene's "personal assistant."

* SoreLoser - To a discordant degree. He sometimes gets so angry when he loses that he screams with frustration at the judges (including a child). It got to the point where a judge on the birthday cake episode of Without a Recipe is too scared to announce which cake (Keith's) got last place.

* MistakenIdentity: As Keith confirms in WIRED's "The Try Guys Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions" video, many people believe that Keith was actually the former bassist of [[Music/TwentyOnePilots Twenty One Pilots]].

* BirdsOfAFeather: As shown in the "Try Wives" videos as well as some of their old [=BuzzFeed=] content, Becky's also shown to be a snarker and a bit of a prankster.

* RedOniBlueOni: Ned and Eugene are the Red Onis to Keith and Zach's Blue Onis. One clear example of this is at the beginning of "Try Guys Try Not to Die Alone," where the former pair's first instinct is to race against each other as soon as the challenge started, while the other two share a hug.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: As shown in the "Fatherhood" series (from their [=BuzzFeed=] days), all of them look remarkably like their fathers when they were their age. Ned's dad, Jim, in particular looks and sounds like an older version of Ned.

** After five episodes of doing traditionally female/feminine things, by the end of "The Try Guys Try Drag For The First Time", they've notably come to be a lot more accepting of their feminine sides.
** "The Try Guys Shoot Guns For The First Time": At the beginning of the episode, Ned is pro-guns while Zach is ''less'' than comfortable and accepting of them. By the end of it though, their roles have mostly switched, with Zach coming to understand why people enjoy them, while Ned is actually really uncomfortable with the idea of owning them by the end of the episode, especially due to the fact he was going to be a father [[{{Foreshadowing}} someday]].

* FireForgedFriends: As revealed in Glamour's interview, "The Try Guys Explain How They Met", the guys did ''not'' like each other at all when they first met at [=BuzzFeed=]. However, after working together for so long, bonding over shared experiences, and coming to understand each other, they've practically become [[TrueCompanions inseparably close]].

** In the live "Eat With Keith" videos, he tends to freak out when the camera cuts to an awkward/unprofessional angle, unintentionally or not.

* AwesomeEgo: Keith is the most outwardly confident of the Try Guys, and when asked during his lie detector if he was better than the other three, he gave a BluntYes
* BadassDecay: The first two Without a Recipe episodes had Keith perform relatively well, scoring second in the bread episode and first in the pie episode, only to completely plummet to an overall last place finish in the following 4-episode season. (He's managed to bounce back somewhat in Season 2, however, even managing to place first in the pizza episode and the cheesecake episode.)

** He does not take losing "Without a Recipe" well, to put it ''very'' mildly, although this has become such a RunningGag over the years that he will often downplay or avert it entirely.

---> '''Keith:''' I feel like my other organs are doing stomach responsibility right now.

* BornLucky: In "The Try Guys Try Not to Die Alone", Keith has ''absurd'' luck, finding his own shelter and a multitude of other helpful items throughout the video, to a point he barely had to do any work.

* FoodComa: Part of the hilarity of his "Eat the Menu" videos comes as he suffers the effects of this while still trying to make it through. Especially noteworthy in the Chipotle and Jack in the Box episodes.

* HappyDance: Has a special one he does when he [[spoiler: wins "Without A Recipe," specifically in the pie, cheesecake, and churro episodes.]]

* LimitedWardrobe: Justified since the guys are, well, regular guys and not TV/film characters, but Keith has a navy blue sweater with red intersecting lines that he wears often (it shows up at least OnceASeason on Without a Recipe, but it appears in other videos too).

--> '''Keith''': I sought to make something ''NEW!''

* {{Uke}}: Invoked. In "The Try Guys Recreate Fanfiction," one of the featured fics starts as a smutty office AU with Keith being promoted to Eugene's "personal assistant."

* MusicalThemeNaming: All his dishes in "Without A Recipe: Summer Edition" are named after and themed around popular songs from 2021 (the "Songs of the Summer"). His "[[Music/OliviaRodrigo Sour]] Muffins" were lemon with pieces of sour candy, his "[[Music/JustinBieber Peaches]] Donut" was, well, a peach donut with bourbon glaze and spice on top (to represent Bieber's volatile, "bad boy" nature), and his "[[Music/{{BTS}} Smooth Like Butter]] Ice Cream Cake" used buttercream icing, has seven layers for the seven members of BTS, used flavors that BTS members have been said to like, and had the band's logo on the top of the cake.
* NiceGuy: Is easily the nicest of the Try Guys, to a point where he's so affectionate that it helps him to win "Last to Leave Handcuffs Wins $10,000."

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Is rather melancholy and unhappy throughout the beginning of "The Try Guys Shoot Guns For The First Time". He starts cheering up after [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Keith gives him a hug]].

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Zach has a fear of fish, even tiny fish. One of Eugene's pranks in "The Try Guys Prank Each Other" involved Zach having to take his glasses out of a bowl full of them. Ironically, in the video where he and the guys swim with sharks, it was actually Ned who was the most freaked out rather than Zach (though all four of the guys were still pretty freaked by the experience).
* WrongGenreSavvy: Played to chilling effect in "The Try Guys Get Kidnapped", where Zach plays to the cliches of a kidnapping[=/=]interrogation scenario and annoys his captors while refusing to sell anyone out. In the post-video he congratulates himself for these things, immediately followed by the simulation kidnappers admitting that had it been a real kidnapping they would have ''killed him'' as an example to the rest of the group.

** BrokenAce: Eugene admits in "Why I'm Coming Out As Gay" that one of the reasons he tries so hard to be the best is because he is deeply afraid of failure.
* TheAlcoholic: To almost parody-level proportions; Eugene loves drinking and does it basically every chance he can, even ranking cheap beer, tasting the sampled drinks of the 50 states, and including it heavily in just about every "Without a Recipe" episode. Despite this, he barely gets affected at all by it.

** He absolutely rocks the ''six''-inch dagger heels that he wore as part of the "Try Guys Wear Heels" video. He starts the night by damaging the floor of his own apartment from puncturing it with the shoes. By the end of the night, he's visibly exhausted and his feet were in immense pain.
** His recipes for "Without a Recipe" basically come down to him winging it with an experimental blend of ingredients and copious amounts of alcohol, and he puts the most care into making the presentation of his dishes unique and eye-catching. Most of the time, it somehow works.

* CordonBleughChef: Seen frequently during "Without a Recipe," where he will combine clashing ingredients (including multiple types of alcohol) with abandon. In his "Evil Eugene" persona, he used ingredients like [[spoiler: pig blood, bull testicles, and insects]] in his dishes deliberately. [[spoiler: However, the bloody cinammon buns ended up winning him first place, subverting this trope.]]

* DrunkenMaster: In "The Try Guys Bake Bread Without A Recipe", Eugene grabs beer as one of his ingredients, drinks most of that beer, is drunk on said beer throughout the baking process, and puts beer in his bread--and still ends up winning.
* {{Eagleland}}: The taco episode of "Without a Recipe" introduced "Good Eugene," a ridiculously all-American persona who loved God, bombs, and oil, and based all of his dishes around those topics. [[spoiler: Evil Eugene returns in the Illusion Cake episode and apparently merges to form "Eugene Prime" for the live finale.]]
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: He's from Austin, Texas, and is very proud of his home state and its culture. Often times, he'll play up his Texan roots and exaggerate them for comedic purposes. In the dumplings episode of "Without a Recipe", he made dumplings based on Texas barbecue (with braised beef, refried beans, potatoes, collard greens, and barbecue sauce for dipping) instead of the more traditional Asian recipe the judges would have expected from him, and as "Good Eugene", he adopted a GoodOlBoy persona, theming his dishes around things like Americana, the Bible, war, and the oil industry.

** He loves animals ''so'' much, in fact, that he started a series called "Amazing Animal Facts with Zoogene", where he meets an animal and provides viewers with facts about it while he's obsessing over it.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Eugene adores dogs. He has three rescue dogs, Emma, Pesto, and Kimbop, and he loves them dearly. "The Try Guys Race Sled Dogs" reveals that he even ''talks'' to dogs.
* HomePornMovie: He brings up having these as a joke in WIRED's "The Try Guys Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions".

* PoorPredictableRock: In "The Try Guys Play Truth Or Dare Roulette", while the other three tend to switch up their strategies, Eugene [[Film/Passenger57 always bets on black]], no matter what.

* {{Seme}}: Invoked. In "The Try Guys Recreate Fanfiction," one of the fics casts Eugene as the domineering boss of an erotic office AU.

* SourOutsideSadInside: During "Eugene Ranks Every Popular Soda", he says that maybe the reason he created a show where he judged things from an emotional distance (the Rank King) was because he's depressed and his life is in disarray.

** During "The Try Guys Take Lie Detector Tests (Again)" he admitted that he tries to mess up his dishes in "Without A Recipe" on purpose. Despite this, not only did it take until the ninth episode for him to get last place, but his version of bagels was deemed so good that a Belle's Bagels started replicating them to sell to customers for a limited time.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Sometimes plays into this, such as when he becomes "Evil Eugene" for "Without a Recipe" or acts as an "Asian of Chaos".

* UnaffectedBySpice: He ''loves'' spicy food and often adds a variety of spices to his dishes in the "Without a Recipe" series. Even in desserts. His drag persona is even named "Cheyenne Pepper", after cayenne peppers. The fact that his family originates from South Korea (a country whose traditional cuisine uses a lot of spices) and he grew up in Texas (where dishes that use hot peppers, like chili con carne, are commonly consumed) may explain why he likes spicy food so much.

* BirdsOfAFeather: As shown in the "Try Wives" videos as well as her frequent appearances on the Try Guys, Ariel is very genial and creatively driven (she's an interior designer and her style can be seen all over the Fulmers' current house), and a loving wife and mother.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: He outright states in "The Try Guys Shoot Guns For The First Time" that the idea of keeping a gun in the house as a father horrifies him, as he knows it's bound to eventually cause an accident of some kind.
* TheGenericGuy: Not Ned as a person, of course, but for the early round of proto-"Try Guys" videos, Ned would superficially be pegged as "A White Guy" by commenters.

* RealMenCook: He's an avid home cooker, and he and Ariel even had a series of videos titled "Night In/Night Out" for [=BuzzFeed=] where they compared restaurant meals to home-cooked ones.
** In fact, Ned was the winner of the second season of "Without a Recipe".

* TheReliableOne: He brought up in "The Try Guys Try Drag For The First Time" that he's usually seen as this among the Try Guys, and in his daily life in general.

** The "Korean Corn Dogs Challenge" video features Alex, YB, and Keith all suffering through a real-life BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce, including super-imposed fire effects. Keith is specifically asked to act like he's breathing fire so they can add the flames in post, which he does (and they do).

* SilkHidingSteel: In the "Try Guys EXTREME Spicy Noodle Challenge" video, where the guys and the Food Babies had to eat noodle dishes with an escalating amount of ghost pepper seasoning, YB calmly ate her way through the '''highest level''' of spicy noodles that the restaurant offered. Even Eugene was sweating bullets when he had to eat the same dish.

* {{Troll}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c_pf0nqbuQ&ab_channel=SecondTry Producers React]]," she admitted to occasionally lying about how much time the guys have left to finish their dishes in Without a Recipe. Also [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmWwwySzDm4 prompted Keith to start screaming]] solely to freak out Jonny Cakes, made Jonny taste-test uncooked clam chowder in "Surprising Keith with Soup-Flavored Macarons," and added microphones that broadcast the noises the Guys made out into the main office during "Try Guys Get Their Muscles Destroyed."

The tutors of "The Try Guys Try Drag For The First Time". They go by the stage names of Allusia, Cupcake Canne, Mayhem Miller, and Misty Violet.

The tutors of "The Try Guys Try Nude Modeling". Their names are Chris, Laurence, Oliver, Tom and Tristan.

Zach's partner and tutor in "The Try Guys Try 'Fifty Shades' Style BDSM".

The significant others of The Try Guys. Formerly called the "Try Wives" before being renamed to be more inclusive to Eugene's boyfriend Matt.

* SecretRelationship: For privacy's sake--Maggie and Matt were slowly unveiled although the latter has been a part of the Try Guys team since he was the one who came up with the name "Try Wives." In one of their podcasts, Becky offhandedly mentions that Eugene got together with his boyfriend, Matt, long before Zach and Maggie had even met.

* CordonBleughChef: Pretty much everything in "Surprising Keith With Soup-Flavored Macarons," but the clam chowder macarons are the worst offender.

* HomophobicHateCrime: Invoked for BlackComedy when Jonny and Eugene are paired together in the "Try Guys Ruin Disney Cakes w/ Pro Chefs" episode of Phoning It In. Jonny accuses Keith and Mythical Chef Josh of committing a hate crime for not letting him and Eugene use the oven when they need it and later accuses the judges of hating gay people when he and Eugene lose.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Participated in "Guys Wear Dresses for a Week" and wore a pink princess dress to present his creation in "Lifesized Princess Dress Cake ft. Rosanna Pansino."

* AscendedExtra: All of them were originally just some of the ''many'' employees at Buzzfeed. Years later and they're some of the biggest stars on the internet.
* BreakoutCharacter: Became this while working at Buzzfeed, which led to the modern-day success of the Try Guys.

* FireForgedFriends: As revealed in Glamour's interview, "The Try Guys Explain How They Met", the guys did ''not'' like each other at all when they first met at Buzzfeed. However, after working together for so long, bonding over shared experiences, and coming to understand each other, they've practically become [[TrueCompanions inseparably close]].

* StrongFamilyResemblance: As shown in the "Fatherhood" series (from their Buzzfeed days), all of them look remarkably like their fathers when they were their age. Ned's dad, Jim, in particular looks and sounds like an older version of Ned.

* BirdsOfAFeather: As shown in the "Try Wives" videos as well as some of their old Buzzfeed content, Becky's also shown to be a snarker and a bit of a prankster.

* LovedByAll: Each of the other Try Guys ranked Keith as their favorite, and Ariel said he was her favourite aside from Ned. A survey from one of their old Buzzfeed videos showed that while their co-workers thought Eugene was the most attractive, they also favored Keith as the best boyfriend material.

* HeroesLoveDogs[=/=]KindheartedCatLover: Zach's definitely a cat person (his personalized distraction during a driving test was a box full of [[CuteKitten adorable kittens]] and he was also once in a Buzzfeed video where cat lovers get surprised with a box of kittens), but he also seems to like dogs as well. In fact, it's mentioned at the end of the Try Guys' last Buzzfeed video (which involved the guys doing a dog-sled race in Alaska) that Zach ended up getting a puppy (specifically a miniature Australian Shepherd that he named Bowie). He still maintains that he's a cat person, and that he only likes very specific dogs (like his own dog). He also finally bonds with Ned's dog Bean in "Try Guys Swap Pets For A Day" after a few initial hiccups.

** Eugene's great at a multitude of things--in fact, in almost all the videos that he and the other guys do, he usually ends up doing the best (at least by comparison). To name just ''one'' example, a video that the guys did (when they were still at Buzzfeed) was make bread without recipes, and while none of the bread the guys made was good (with Zach's bread being deemed to be the worst), Eugene's bread was deemed the best ("best" meaning "the least horrible").

* RealMenCook: He's an avid home cooker, and he and Ariel even had a series of videos titled "Night In/Night Out" for Buzzfeed where they compared restaurant meals to home-cooked ones.

!!Buzzfeed-Era Tutors

The Team Dad of the Try Guys, Ned is proudly Italian-American who loves his wife Ariel with a fiery passion.