History Characters / VeronicaMars

* InTheBlood: Taken UpToEleven, possibly with unintentional comedy as it seems like she inherited ''every'' trait from her birth parents.

* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Inverted for real. Meg is kind popular one, which makes her friends are the mean ones and they betrayed her, For Pam for creating a fake purity test to humiliate Meg and for Kimmy, because she's jealous of Meg's sucess.

* WouldHurtAChild/[[WouldHitAGirl Girl]]: He kills Lilly Kane after she stole the sex tapes.

* NiceGirl: Despite her popularity, she's really a good and a kind-hearted person, and she's the only 09er who's been friendly to Veronica.

* NiceGirl: Despite her popularity, she's really a good and a kind-hearted person, and she's pretty friendly to Veronica.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's extremely racist and classist.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a bully, but also passionately loyal.

* HollywoodNerd: He's allegedly meant to be pretty nerdy and unpopular, but he's very handsome, charming, and in good shape.

* HollywoodNerd: Cute, goofy computer geek and budding hacker Mac is a Hollywood Nerd in the grand tradition, and particularly owes much to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Willow.

* HollywoodNerd: He's pretty ripped but treated as a nerd by everyone.

* ClothingReflectsPersonality / HollywoodDressCode: One of the main hints that [[spoiler:he's the rapist]] is that he wears the IconicOutfit of Alex in Film/AClockworkOrange to a Halloween party.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She had blue highlights in season 1, red highlights in season 2 and yellow/blond ones is season 3.

* BaldOfAwesome: He's a highly intelligent, inventive private detective, and balding throughout the series.

* BaldOfAwesome: His shaved head fits in well with his tough-guy image.

* StunGuns: Veronica's signature weapon is a taser that she often used to incapacitate opponents, as being a [[TeensAreShort petite]] teen [[AmateurSleuth sleuth]], she's too young to carry a firearm and too small to directly take on most opponents.

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* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler:Deciding to side with Thumper and deal coke for the Fitzpatricks, the local adult, Irish family that is notoriously violent. It eventually blowing up in their faces does not come as a surprise.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Susan. They're such close friends that she takes their EvilTeacher who statuary-raped Susan to court.

* ReallyGetsAround: She had slept with Weevil, Logan, [[spoiler:Aaron]] just to name people in the main cast.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red (take-no-shit, sexual, fun) to Veronica's blue (sweet, shy), which inspires Veronica to TakeALevelInBadass after her death.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Veronica, which culminates in a sad scene in the Season 1 finale.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Played with and deconstructed with her relationship with Logan. He's clearly TroubledButCute and she [[spoiler: breaks up with him at different points because of this very trait. That said, her obvious attraction to Logan's wild ways in Season 3 drives then boyfriend, NiceGuy Piz, to attempt to get into fights. This continues during the film. In Season 4, Logan, now reformed, blatantly asks Veronica if she's attracted to him only when he's violent and troubled due to her comments about how "un-Logan" he's now acting. However, it's clear that their relationship is much more stable with Logan reformed than it ever was prior.]]

* BadassBoast: Tends to give these a lot.

* FatalFlaw: IWorkAlone. From past experience Veronica knows LoveHurts, and prefers to keep people at arms' length--often justified by claiming she's protecting them. She takes after Keith in this regard, and sometimes this comes back around to bite them in the rear--such as when [[Recap/VeronicaMarsS03E09SpitAndEggs Keith is hired to investigate infidelity in the Dean's wife]]. Veronica knows for a fact that Mrs. The Dean is unfaithful--she's seen it with her own eyes--but because Keith names no names, he doesn't learn that the answer's under his (daughter's) nose until she independently connects the dots.

* FreudianExcuse: She is an asshole a lot of the times, but she underwent trauma that would make anyone beyond despair.

* HeartbrokenBadass: At the start of the series, after Lilly's murder, her mom's exit, and her rape. It gets broken a couple more times, such as when her mom skips town again, and at the end of Season 4, [[spoiler:with Logan's murder]].

* HighSchoolHustler: Veronica tries to be as moral as possible, but discovering the secrets of others (especially the cool kids) and working as a private investigator requires a lot of hustle, all of which she demonstrates.
* TheILoveYouStigma: ''Never'' directly states her feelings to romantic interests. Duncan's last declaration of love is met with a "you better", and when Logan follows his own declaration by asking her if she loves him back, she can only reply with a reluctant "yeah". This is taken to the point where even her [[PrivateEyeMonologue inner]] [[UnreliableNarrator monologue]] is silent on her romantic affections. With time and CharacterDevelopment, she admits [[spoiler:to herself, in the books, that she loves Logan]].

* ParentChildTeam: With Keith a lot, and especially in Mars Investigations.

* StunGuns: Veronica's signature weapon is a taser that she often used to incapacitate opponents, as being a [[TeensAreShort petite]] [[AmateurSleuth teen sleuth]], she's too young to carry a firearm and too small to directly take on most opponents.

* BigDamnHeroes: From time to time, Veronica will get in over her head, and he has ended up saving her life more than once.

* PerpetualPoverty: Throughout Seasons 1 and 2 as a result of losing his position. Although he frequently gets large payouts, it's apparently not enough to recover their 09er position.

* BrokenAce: By the middle of Season 2, after [[spoiler:Meg dies]] on top of everything else he's been through.

* AlphaBitch: Male version; a well-connected bully who flashes his wealth every which way. Moreover, while he's fond of a good fight, he generally prefers snide putdowns and messing with people's heads to acts of physical aggression.

* BreakTheHaughty: Over and over again, which leads to his gradual HeelFaceTurn over the course of season 1.

* DoomMagnet: Every girlfriend ends up injured, dead, or hurt: Lilly in Season 1, Veronica gets [[spoiler:almost killed by his father at the end of Season 1, not to mention raped by his best friend's brother]], Carrie Bishop/Bonnie Deville in TheMovie.

* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Numerous times, such as when he's accused of Lilly's murder at the end of Season 1 and messing with the [=PCHers=] in Season 2.

* DumbIsGood: 'Good' may be overstating it, but he certainly gets a lot more sympathetic treatment despite his horrible actions, such as bullying Veronica (and Beaver), and [[spoiler:assisting in Veronica's rape]], especially in comparison to his [[spoiler:TeenGenius brother]].

* {{Fratbro}}: Dumb? Check. Loves to party? Check. Although he doesn't become an actual fratbro until he goes to Hearst.

Dick's quiet, nervous, secretive younger brother, domineered by his brother and neglected by his father - but what else is he hiding?

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:MY NAME IS CASSIDY!]]

* FreudianExcuse: Jerked around by his father and older brother. For years. And [[spoiler:raped by Woody]] in addition to all of that.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's very standoffish and petty, rubbing Veronica the wrong way immediately, and doesn't make any effort to connect with her father initially. In addition to her PetTheDog moment below, she also genuinely cares for Wallace, helps Veronica on a few cases, [[CharacterDevelopment forms a reasonably strong relationship with her father,]] and ultimately [[spoiler:returns home to parent her child.]]

* YouHateWhatYouAre: The only possible explanation for Jackie's snobbishness and rudeness in spite of [[[spoiler:Jackie herself being an impoverished single mother]] in reality.

* AbusiveParents: Of the "religious freaks" variety.

* ButNotTooBi: A throwaway line in the Season 2 finale reveals that she would have been in Vassar with her ex's girlfriend if she hadn't died, but all of her sexual relationships (and there are a lot) are with men on-screen: Logan, Weevil, and [[spoiler:Aaron.]]

* FilleFatale: Very sexually experienced, very seductive and [[spoiler:had a fling with Aaron Echolls, among other things]].

** She and Veronica were best friends. As a result, Veronica was part of the 009 crowd despite not really being wealthy enough to be there. Veronica also dated her younger brother, Duncan, in the past and present.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There's a moment where she looks like she might be developing some empathy for Veronica in "A Trip To The Dentist", but she doesn't... nor does she ever. See below.

* BrokenBird: In the movie, as a result of [[spoiler:Susan Knight's death and being raped/blackmailed by Stu]], but also presumably occurs offstage as well in Season 2, as she is never shown reacting to [[spoiler:her father's death or the news that he's a serial child rapist]], but we assume from her conduct in the movie that it led to this.

* MotorMouth: Very, very talkative, especially notable in her introductory moment when she [[InfoDump reveals her entire backstory]] [[AsYouKnow to Veronica]].

* ValleyGirl: She's not very bright, but she's very wealthy and fashionable. It's died down a lot by the film.

* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: The [=PCHers=] are a downplayed example as they actually do get involved in a lot of criminal enterprising, but only behind Weevil's back, as he is extremely opposed to drug dealing. They do eventually come around, though.

* [[{{Delinquents}} Delinquent]]: He is the leader of Neptune's local gang, the PCHers. He goes to class sometimes and spends more of his time trying to make some money, usually in illegal ways.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: His situation with Veronica in Season 4. [[spoiler: Veronica and Keith were working overtime to prove that Celeste Kane and the corrupt Sheriff Dan Lamb set him up. However, Weevil needed money so he settled without telling Veronica and Keith. He then went back to leading the [=PCHers=] disgusting both his wife who took their kid and left, as well as Veronica.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Though he does have to deal with Veronica more than he would like, most of the time he is portrayed as this.

* AbusiveParents: The most important bit of backstory we get about him.

* StandardCopBackstory: It is hinted at that Sheriff Lamb suffered some child abuse. Very little else about his background is given, but he ''does'' seem to spend a lot of time in the office.

* {{Dismotivation}}: Let's just say he's not very interested in - or good at - his job. (Reportedly, he failed criminal law, among other things).

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Buried deep, but it's there. The time he saved Veronica and her client of the week from the Fitzpatricks being a good example, despite working for the Fitzpatricks at the time. [[spoiler:Also he helps Veronica get Duncan and baby Lilly into Mexico. He is paid 30k for his trouble, which might seem like a lot of money, but when you consider the repercussions of harboring a fugitive - it really isn't.]]

* AbusiveParents: Celeste was, at best, indifferent to Lilly; at worst, she is emotionally abusive, overbearing, and impossible to please.

* SitcomArchnemesis: In season 4, Creator/PattonOswalt plays supporting character Penn Epner, a pizza delivery guy who participates in an amateur sleuth/conspiracy online group. One member of the group, Don, is constantly sniping back and forth with him and they subject each other to pranks such as Penn putting pig ear filters on Don's live feed. [[spoiler:He becomes an evil deconstruction of the trope when it turns out he's the bomber.]]

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Ring]]: [[spoiler:The ring belonging to Congressman Maloof's brother's dead fiancee, which the Maloof family was trying to track down, is the ring Matty found in the first episode, and which she used to pay to keep control of the Sea Sprite]].

* AbusiveParents: See the page quote, although only to Beaver.

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler: The town ends up implementing his coveted repeal of rent control, causing prices on the boardwalk to skyrocket. However, he's already been murdered by the cartel when this happens, so he can't enjoy it.]]
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Variant, he runs a callous housing scam as well as generally being an asshole.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: The Mexican cartel decapitate him.]]

Dick and Beaver's gold-digging stepmother, who spends time by seducing teenage boys such as Logan. She's smarter than she lets on though, and has mysterious ties to the "Fighting Fitzpatricks" - this girl's got a massive secret identity.

* RichBitch: Kendall is constantly rude, abrasive, and manipulative, on top of marrying for money, not love, to Dick Snr.
* TrophyWife: A pretty obvious one for real estate mogul Dick Casablancas. His first wife (and mother of his two sons) is his own age but currently lives in Europe, Kendall is a younger swimsuit model. However, this backfires on him when she hooks up with Dick Jr.'s friend Logan while he's away, although Dick Sr. never finds out. [[spoiler:Also, it's later revealed that she's ObfuscatingStupidity to a degree, as she's working with the Fitzpatrick crime family and "Kendall" is a fake identity she took from a dead woman.]]

* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler:Subverted. This was theorized as a motive for the bus crash that nearly killed her stepsons Dick and Cassidy as well, but it was disproven.]] But she's still not particularly nice to them.

* AbusiveParents: He routinely abuses his son - a trait that seems to run in the Echolls family, seeing that Aaron's father, too, used to beat him.

* TheFightingNarcissist: Aaron is an extremely aggressive physical fighter as well as a highly narcissistic actor.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Aaron Echolls]] manages to worm his way out of being convicted for Lilly Kane's murder and is cleared of all charges. He spends the next several days celebrating in a high-class hotel and even taunts Veronica (who he previously tried to kill as well to cover it up when she found out he did it) about it [[spoiler:before he is assassinated by Clarence Wiedman on orders of Lilly's brother Duncan]].
* LargeHam: Considering he is an actor, it is no surprise that he indulges in this from time to time.

* TheGenericGuy: He was a lot less interesting than Duncan or Logan.

* HateSink: Wanting Hearst College to be a safe place for young women is good, right? Nope. Lilith House are ''bad''; there is a lot of AndThatsTerrible.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: His fiancee, who is a DisposableWoman whose death is more or less mentioned only to contextualise [[spoiler:his bombings]].

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:She gets brutally killed by Cormac and buried in the desert, just to devastate Keith who had worked to reunite them.]]

-->'''Logan''': [[spoiler:Cassidy]], don't!

-->'''Dick''': Hey, Logan. The night [[spoiler:my brother]] jumped off the roof, did you, like, try and stop him?

-->''Logan:'' But if you're coming home who will play "Dead Hooker Two" on "CSI" this week? How will you get your attention fix?