History Characters / VictoriousJadeWest

!!Jade West
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[[caption-width-right:350:'' "Don't Touch Me." '']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ElizabethGillies

--> ''"Dude! Why are you rubbing my boyfriend?"''

A student at Hollywood Arts, who quickly makes enemies with Tori, due to her rubbing on Jade's boyfriend. Despite this, the two are often paired together and make a surprisingly good team. Her main talent is acting, but she can also direct and sing. She is dating Beck and is best friends with Cat.

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* AesopAmnesia: Sometimes. The most egregious example is after the episode ''Tori Goes Platinum''.
* AlphaBitch: Subverted. The first episodes definitely portrays her as one, but later episodes show too many sides that an Alpha Bitch would not possess, the most telling of which being her circle of friends: she hangs out with Tori and company most of the time. That said, if the plot requires a Alpha Bitch-like antagonist, Jade is more than capable of stepping up to the challenge.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Perhaps more so an EvilIsSexy female variation on TallDarkAndSnarky.
* AlwaysSecondBest: She finds herself coming second to Tori rather often, and it boils her blood. Most prominent in "Tori Gets Stuck".
* AmbiguouslyBi: Embodies this trope more than any other girl on the show. She's committed and (mostly) happy in her [[OfficialCouple relationship with Beck]] for the majority of the series, but still has a ton of Les Yay moments and can seem rather suggestively flirty with her female peers, not to mention her ambiguously close relationship with Cat and the love-hate, almost-canon relationship with Tori, which seems heavy on the {{UST}}. She also has a nautical star tattoo and her preferred hideaway is the janitor's closet. And let's not even mention ''The Scissoring''...
* AntiVillain: She's a callous bully and a control freak, but at the end of the day, she's merely a teenager with issues.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
** Has moments like these with Cat, especially in ''Star-Spangled Tori''.
** With Tori at the end of ''Wok Star'' and ''Tori Goes Platinum'', though she still wouldn't admit it out-loud.
* TheBadGuyWins: In "Crazy Ponnie", she manages to track Cat down and well, things get pretty ugly from there.
* BeautyIsBad: So very much. She may be attractive, but she's very abrasive, sarcastic, and ill-tempered.
* BigBad: She's the cause of the main conflict of a ton of episodes, even ones where she's not the main antagonist, like in "Cat's New Boyfriend", when she simply takes time out of her day to prod Tori's jealousy towards Cat until she flips out.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: She has a younger brother who she mentions in a Slap video only ''once'', and it’s of Jade mimicking his voice as she recalls how much she loves listening to him panic whenever she locks herself in the bathroom.
* BigSisterInstinct: Whenever Cat is in trouble or being bullied.
* BerserkButton: She has a number of these, but topping the list would be flirting with and/or kissing her boyfriend. That, or Tori beating her at something.
* BrainyBrunette: A dark-haired girl who is both witty and a hardworking student.
* BriefAccentImitation: Whenever she thinks Tori said something stupid, she repeats it back with a SouthernBelle accent. She also does this for Cat in a later episode.
* BrutalHonesty: She tends to tell the truth in situations where other people would sugarcoat it. Tori actually admires this, most likely because she values integrity.
* BunniesForCuteness: Yes, [[{{Jerkass}} Jade]] [[NightmareFetishist freaking]] [[StepfordSnarker West]] adores bunnies. It's never displayed on the show, but she mentions in a Slap video that she unironically finds rabbits adorable and even has one as a pet.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's a real creepy and sadistic {{Jerkass}}, but you have to admit that she's good at what she does.
* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: In "Who Did It To Trina?", when an accident in a live play hospitalizes Trina, Jade ''videotapes'' the incident. It's later revealed she also [[KickTheDog posted it online]] and gleefully reads the comments in front of the group.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "[[SuddenlyShouting NO!!]]"
* CatFight: With Tori ''twice'' in "The Wood". The second was staged though. This is shockingly the only time they ever get into a physical altercation.
* CheshireCatGrin: Uses this frequently, often right before one of her more evil moments or when she's in one of her "suggestive" modes
* ChildHater: In "Tori Gets Stuck", she lights up at the thought of scaring babies. Averted by "Jade With Tots", though, as she's said to like little children.
* ClingyJealousGirl: More than justified in-universe, as most new female characters (even Tori!) have made eyes at him, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Sikowitz in ''Freak The Freak Out''. Most of the time, it's PlayedForLaughs and it's not meant to be a serious issue. That is, until Beck breaks up with her because he can't handle how jealous she can get.
* ClosetGeek: Her "What I Love" and "What I Hate" videos showcase a whole new side to Jade, especially the former.
* ColorMotif: Most obvious would be black, which speaks to how mysterious, seductive, intimidating, domineering, pessimistic, and sorrowful she is. She's also often associated with the color green, reflecting her jealous nature, as well as her rivalry with Tori, as [[ColorContrast green is the opposite of purple]].
* TheCynic: Contrast to [[TheIdealist Tori]]. Cold, dark, bitter, and angry at the world, constantly expecting the worst and keeping her walls up to prevent even her closest from potentially hurting her.
* DarkIsEvil / DarkIsNotEvil: She's the resident goth chick, she's displayed interest in the occult and the macabre, and she's absolutely not a nice person. Zig-zagged, as she rarely does anything that can be considered objectively evil, not that it stops her from being callous and often the antagonist.
* DeadpanSnarker: She goes into SarcasmMode a lot.
* DeathGlare: Jade can deliver some serious whoppers in this department.
--> '''Beck:''' All she has to do is look at the guys and they start shaking... [[BringMyBrownPants and peeing.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen:
** In several episodes, particularly "Tori and Jade's Play Date".
** [[spoiler: Her giving Tori back her musical number in ''Tori Goes Platinum'' definitely qualifies.]]
** In her big solo ''You Don't Know Me'', she literally sings the line "the longer that you stay, the ice is melting."
* DehumanizingInsult: At her worst moments, she may refer to somebody as less than human. In "The Worst Couple", she refers to Cat as "basically a pet". In "The Bad Roommate", she refers to Sinjin as "not people". And in "Tori Gets Stuck", she refers to Tori as "that". And when referring to Alyssa Vaughn in "Jade Dumps Beck"...
--> "If Beck wants to date that, I hope he has tons of fun with it."
* {{Determinator}}: Not even suffering from a blistering burn on her palm could break her out of character in "Sleepover at Sikowitz". And if you've managed to piss her off, she will go through every possible nook and cranny to dish out what's coming to you.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Jade went out of her way to keep Tori from playing the lead in "Tori Gets Stuck." The biggest part of this was leafing through Tori's medical records and exploiting them to make her donate [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank two pints of blood in one night]] (Jade purposely misplaced the first pint).
** In "Crazy Ponnie", Cat accidentally removed her eyebrows, which pushed her to hunt down the poor girl [[spoiler: and cut off her hair]].
** In "The Bad Roommate", she forces Cat to eat an entire bowl of raw bush peas because the latter had accidentally tweeted that she was picking her nose on The Slap. Jade's rationale? She's miserable and seeing Cat even more miserable makes her feel a tad better.
** There are times when Jade actually tries to kill Tori (or other girls), just for looking at her boyfriend.
* DissonantSerenity: In "The Great Ping Pong Scam", when she and the rest of the main cast were at a restaurant about to be carted to jail for failing to pay off a bill they can't pay off, Jade tries eating [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting a fruit salad]]!
* TheDreaded: If "Stage Fighting" is any indication, she's been this for a while. This is really hammered in come later seasons, which isn't surprising due to her {{Flanderization}}. It becomes a plot point in "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade". Apparently all Jade has to do is LOOK at most guys before they run off screaming.
* DrivenByEnvy: A likely (and reinforced) explanation for why she treats Tori so callously is that Tori always seems to get whatever she wants and tends to come off as a flawless girl with a happy life [[GreenEyedMonster and she hates it with a passion]]. Jade is obviously a hard worker who likely had to jump through a ton of hoops to make it into Hollywood Arts, so in her mind, who does Tori think she is strutting in after one little performance?
* EasilyForgiven: By Tori in "Stage Fighting", which she {{lampshade}}s. Tori tends to treat her this way in general really.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has pale skin, brown (later, black) hair, and a creepy, hostile attitude.
* EmoTeen: Mildly subverted. Has many of the physical and emotional characteristics of this trope, but may be a bit too popular and officious to fit it properly.
* EnemyMine: For someone who claims to be annoyed by her friends, especially Tori and Robbie, she certainly finds herself relying on them a lot. Notable examples include "Wok Star" (in which she even had to rely on Trina), "Jade Dumps Beck", and "The Bad Roommate" (in which she even had to rely on Sinjin).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Cat revealed that she'd been intercepting emergency calls without thinking to alert the paramedics, Jade seems put off.
** She seemed a little disgusted when Cat's brother collected 12 gallons of ''real'' blood for her play in "Prom Wrecker".
** Even as a NightmareFetishist, she finds Sinjin's imitating her and himself with sock puppets disturbing.
** Infidelity is a pretty good way to get under her skin.
** She understands that it's unhealthy for Robbie to rely on [[CompanionCube a puppet]] to function in society and agrees that Rex needs to be put down.
** She's very protective of Cat.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tori and some of the background girls admit that Jade is as attractive as heck.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: "Well, you can't be nice to me when I've been mean to you! That's not how it works!"
* EvilIsPetty: When she does get actually evil, she is oh so petty. And (as you'll see a lot throughout this profile) nothing exemplifies that more than "Tori Gets Stuck" where she's throwing tantrums, threatening Tori's life, going through her medical records, sending her bush daisies (which Tori is allergic to), and even stealing pints of her blood that are meant to be donated to Robbie for a critical operation, all because Tori beat her out as the lead of a school play.
* FascinatingEyebrow: She's just as prone to this as Tori. ...and God help you if you [[BerserkButton accidentally wax them off...]]
* FauxActionGirl:
** Jade can come across as hardcore (smashing Andre's apple in "Tori Gets Stuck", kicking in Beck's door in "Wi-Fi In The Sky", slicing up the garbage can in "Wok Star"), but when real danger seems afoot (most prominently in "Locked Up!"), Jade either bluffs or bolts. A talker, but not much of a fighter. She is, however, willing to throw down whenever Beck is involved. She actually attacked Tori in "The Wood", due to the edited phone call scene; when the show comes back from commercial break, Tori's living room is practically wrecked due to Jade manhandling her.
** On her Slap Profile, if someone gets her angry, she won't fight them, but will [[DisproportionateRetribution retaliate in a way that will make them sad for a really long time]] (ex: destroy her peers socially) [[spoiler: like shaving someone's head at the end of ''Crazy Ponnie''.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: Jade was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into psychotic and vengeful ManipulativeBastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to kill the first ever Hollywood Arts prom and even recording an embarrassing and life-threatening incident that happened to Trina and posting it online ForTheEvulz. Jade's flanderization seems to be becoming averted in Season 3 (notably in "Tori Goes Platinum" and "Opposite Date")
* {{Foil}}: To Tori, as you can no doubt tell by their senses of fashion. They're both hardworking, ambitious, and prone to acts of jealousy, snide wit, and selfishness. However, while Tori is kind, compassionate, optimistic, and has a (arguably) good relationship with her parents, Jade is mean, rude, consistently assumes the worst, and has pretty much been taking care of herself since her parents divorced.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic.
* FreudianExcuse: It was established in "Wok Star" that her home life could stand to be a lot more savory. Her father has [[WellDoneDaughterGirl no respect]] for her career choice, her chosen associates, or her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking sense of style]]. Even when he can't deny that her play was excellent, he keeps their interaction brief and formal and [[TheStoic doesn't even crack a smile]]; according to Jade, [[PerpetualFrowner that's the happiest she's ever seen him]]. The Slap reveals even more about her home life and it's far worse than the actual show displayed or even implied. It turns out her father [[ParentalNeglect blatantly ignores her]] in favor of her stepmom (meaning her parents are divorced), whom she also doesn't like, and her "yappy little dog". In addition, he never kept one promise to her and the one time he cooked her breakfast, [[LethalChef she spent the whole morning throwing up]]. As a bonus, it's heavily implied that he once responded to a childish Thanksgiving prank of locking her "annoying" cousin in the basement by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution calling the cops on her]]!'' On the other side, she mentions that she never listens to her mother and even says that the only thing her mother ever did right for her was ''give her a name'' (though she does seem to drive her mother's car, which would imply that she does at least regularly take her to school). To wrap it all up, they seem to have shared custody of her. All of these heavily suggest that beneath her cold and serrated demeanor, Jade is in fact a [[BrokenBird lost and lonely little girl]] who is constantly afraid of letting people get too close to her only to be let down again; she uses aggression as a defensive mechanism against those she perceives as a potential threat (i.e., literally everyone, including her closest friends and even her boyfriend), a means of [[NeverBeHurtAgain getting them before they can get her]].
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Her traumatic home life is weirdly almost never brought up when she does something bad. Even if it were, it would never justify (or even explain) some of her viler actions, like actively endangering Tori and Robbie's lives in "Tori Gets Stuck".
-->'''Tori:''' ''[to Andre]'' And you forgot that Jade is a mean, vicious person with deep psychological problems.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mix of Seniority, Audience Popularity, Fear, and Proximity: Most of the group has known Jade for two years as a classmate, she's dating Beck, and she's so known for viciously retaliating against people that it's unlikely anyone would make her leave even if those other two things weren't true. Pushed further in "The Worst Couple," the only person in the group she actually considers her friend besides Beck is Andre. And even then, Beck has once said that the word "gank" doesn't even begin to describe how awful she can be.
* FriendToAllChildren: She loves little kids, as shown in "Jade with Tots."
* FriendshipDenial: She does this rather often despite finding herself hanging with them all the time, even for her best friend, Cat, and especially to Tori.
-->"You people give me a rash."
* GagBoobs: The writers noticed.
-->'''Cat:''' "You better come help Jade!"\\
'''Tori:''' "With what?"\\
'''Cat:''' "[[ItMakesSenseInContext She can't get her boobs in the hamburger.]]"
** In "A Christmas Tori", when Andre asks "How does one go from an A to a D?" in reference to his music assignment, Jade chimes in with "Happened to ''me'' in 8th grade" without missing a beat.
** Referenced again in "Wanko's Warehouse". Cat asks who is the flattest of the group, and thus the best person to try to slide under the lasers. Jade and Trina give each other looks and both take a step backwards.
** In "One Thousand Berry Balls", Jade sarcastically suggests hiding Cat in her bra and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cat]] briefly considers it.
* {{Goth}}: Of the abrasive, sarcastic, and punkish variety.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: Apparently she believes in magic and the occult. When Tori and Cat go to pay their last respects to the recently deceased Mona Paterson, she joins them in order to absorb Mona's essence.
* TheGrinch: Jade has some traces of this, but still manages to get a pretty nice gift for Tori, all things considered. Also the insulting term grunch is clearly derived from Grinch.
%%* GuileHeroine
* HairTriggerTemper: Can’t go one episode without yelling at someone.
* HatesBeingTouched: Unless you're Beck, she will make you aware of this fact...and often not in a nice way, though she doesn't mind it if she is the one instigating the touching. Even then, Beck doesn't always get the privilege. Surprisingly, she never invokes this with [[TheRival Tori]], even inviting her touch on occasion. She doesn't even allow [[BestFriend Cat]] to touch her, the only exception being in "Crazy Ponnie" when she asks Cat to wax her eyebrows, though that doesn't go so well...
* HatesTheirParent: Jade has problems with her father, describing him as cold and judgmental. This animosity stems from him not approving of her pursuing a career in the creative arts. In addition, it is implied her childhood was less than ideal. For instance, the only time her Dad cooked breakfast for her, she spent the rest of the day [[LethalChef throwing up]]. That being said, she does try to [[WellDoneDaughterGirl prove herself to him]], even inviting him to one of her plays.
* HeavySleeper: How the hell do you stay asleep when there's a literal war going on right outside?
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She is definitely the character the writers are not sure whether she should pound Tori/Trina/Cat anytime or to be their VitriolicBestBuds at best.
* HeelRealization: In "Tori Goes Platinum", after seeing that Tori cares too much about her to pursue anything with Beck, Jade starts to feel horrible about taking her performance at the Platinum Music Awards (and probably the way she'd been treating her in general up to that point, given that their relationship grew a bit friendlier in season 4).
* HiddenDepths: Her Slap videos show more of her lovable and dorky side. If we're to take her fourth "What I Hate" video at face value, she still believes in Santa Claus and loves her grandma, which is the last thing you'd expect from [[DeadpanSnarker someone]] [[JadeColoredGlasses like]] Jade. She also likes bunnies and acts really sweet to little kids.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: Hinted at, but not confirmed or looked into one way or the other.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She does everything in her power to cultivate an image of herself as scary and dangerous, but strongly objects if anyone expresses that sentiment to her face. Also, even though she says she wants friends she can count on (see IJustWantToHaveFriends below), she refuses to treat Tori and the gang as her friends.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Never expressed out loud, but she does some things that imply that only ''she'' is allowed to mess with Tori, damn it (though Trina seems to be an exception, given that they're siblings)! (For example: Celebrating when Tori gives [[ManipulativeBastard Ryder Daniels]] his well-deserved HumiliationConga, looking shocked and irritated when Robbie dismissed Tori's valid concerns as "freaking out" in "Robarazzi", etc.) This extends to Cat as well.
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* IcyBlueEyes: Which proves ideal whenever she uses a DeathGlare.
* ImprovisedWeapon: She's apparently able to murder someone with a roll of toilet paper. We're not sure how and Beck apparently doesn't want us finding out.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Implied. In one of her "Jade with Tots" videos, she bitterly asks her interviewee why she doesn't have any friends she can count on. (Odd perspective, considering the amount of effort Tori puts into trying to be friends with her.)
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Victori-Yes", where Trina is introducing her to a Mexican television show producer.
-->'''Trina:''' This is my mean sister, and her rude friend!\\
'''Jade''' Hey! Do not call me "her friend"!
* {{Jerkass}}: She's mean, sadistic and rude to everyone.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** In "Prom Wrecker": While her method of handling the problem was not at all acceptable, she had every right to be pissed off that Tori had gotten her display (which she had probably spent several weeks setting up) cancelled. Jade ''did'' have the space reserved first, after all.
** In "Tori Goes Platinum Part 2", after getting an accurate account of Tori's latest "diva tantrum" from Andre, she rebuts Tori's protests that the description of events isn't fair by asking how the truth isn't fair. Granted, Tori was being pressured into acting that way, but Jade doesn't know that and is making a reasonable point based on the information that she has.
* KarmaHoudini: Often. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in "Stage Fighting," when Tori goes out of her way ''not'' to punish Jade.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Surprisingly, Jade in "iParty With Victorious", as the blue swimsuit she wears seems cute, modest, and quite out of character for her. Perhaps she's not as hard-boiled as she lets on...?
* KickTheDog: She does this a lot in season 2. Standout examples include "Tori Gets Stuck" and "Who Did it to Trina?".
* KickTheMoralityPet: She spends "Crazy Ponnie" trying to viciously murder Cat for accidentally waxing her eyebrows. She eventually catches her in study hall and [[spoiler:shaves her head]].
** In "The Bad Roommate", she gets angry at Cat for foolishly getting people to see an embarrassing photo of her. She retaliates by forcing Cat to eat a bowl of raw bush peas.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Much more common from Season 2 on. Beck chews her out for trying to snark at Tori in "Beggin' on Your Knees." For trying to sabotage the prom, Tori ignored the votes and made Jade prom queen against her wishes and made the sabotage entertainment prom king. Sikowitz also denied Jade the lead part in "Steamboat Susie" when he caught onto her trying to take out Tori. And in "A Christmas Tori," he told her to her face that he wouldn't change the Secret Santa assignments (hers was Tori) just so she'd get what she wanted.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Jade's sweating at the end of "Survival of the Hottest".
* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Compare to Tori and Cat. She is cold, reserved, cynical, and all of her outfits are at least 70% black. Meanwhile, Tori and Cat are warm, energetic, optimistic, and you'd be lucky to find them casually wearing ''anything'' in black.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Beck, [[OfficialCouple obviously]], even when they'd [[spoiler:stopped dating for a season]]. She also shares this dynamic with [[TheRival Tori]], as lampshaded by Cat in "Car, Rain, & Fire".
* LonelyAmongPeople: She is this when it comes to trusting her friends. Even though she is friends with Tori and the others, she feels very uneasy about trusting them, fearing that they will mess things up for her, and it makes her feel like she has no one she can really count on and feels alone in the process.
* TheMadHatter: In "Prom Wrecker", Tori calls her a sick person, to which Jade sarcastically inquires if she's just now realizing it. In "Who Did it to Trina?", when Tori calls her demented, Jade takes it as a compliment.
* MakeUpOrBreakUp: This tends to be Jade and Beck's relationship in a nutshell, as Jade dumps him over a small argument in "Jade Dumps Beck". They do make up in the end. [[spoiler: The second time in "The Worst Couple", however...]]
* MeaningfulLook: To Tori, from the audience, during Tori's performance in "Tori Goes Platinum".
* MeaningfulName: She's very cynical and '''jade'''d, and is as mean as The Wicked Witch of the '''West.''' (Also, the skin of The Wicked Witch of The West is green, jade happens to be a shade of green.)
* MenstrualMenace: Sorta. Jade gets through "that time of the month" by talking about stuff she hates.
* MsFanservice: She dresses in a lot of sexy outfits.
* MulticoloredHair: Usually wears blue, or green, or violet streaks in her hair.
* NeverMyFault:
** In "The Worst Couple", when Beck tries to point out her insecurities and how toxic their relationship has become because of it, she twists everything around and puts words in his mouth.
** In "Wi-Fi in the Sky", she assumes Beck is cheating on her without letting him explain. When the girl that Beck is helping turns out to be a little girl, she asks why he didn't say so, Beck reminds her that she wouldn’t let him.
* NightmareFetishist: "I like to pretend I've been kidnapped by witches and they're using me to make human soup."
* NervesOfSteel: Doesn't flinch easily despite real danger, and can sleep through a war.
* NoIndoorVoice: She finds something to scream about in most episodes. Probably because anger is practically her default emotion.
* NoYou: In "Tori the Zombie" against Sinjin.
-->'''Sinjin:''' Sorry, I hit the wrong thing!\\
'''Jade:''' No, fifteen years ago your mother gave ''birth'' to the wrong thing!
%%* NobleDemon
* NoodleIncident:
** She is apparently fearful of dolphins due to some undisclosed incident that happened to her in 3rd grade, to the point that she's sworn off going to the beach. It’s not irrational, since dolphins actually are pretty fierce.
** In "The Bad Roommate", the sub-plot revolves around her trying to delete an online satellite picture of her allegedly picking her nose.
** "Tori Fixes Beck & Jade" reveals that she's capable of killing two people with just a roll of toilet paper. How that's plausible is up in the air, but Jade and Beck treat her threat very seriously. Tori and Andre ask how that's even plausible, but Beck ignores the question (in a manner that suggests he's seen it happen before). When Jade gets angry again, Andre smartly grabs all the nearby rolls of toilet paper to keep them away from her.
** On the Slap, she mentions that she locked her annoying cousin in the basement one Thanksgiving and her father called the police on her.
* NotSoDifferent: She and Tori behave (and dress) as differently as night and day, but whether she wants to admit it or not, they have plenty of things in common, some trivial and some significant. To name a few things, they're both incredible performers and directors, they both act like motherly figures to [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Cat]] more than once, they both wear the same necklace (Tori is wearing it until after "Tori and Jade's Play Date", at which point Jade starts wearing it), they both love bunnies, they've expressed similar taste in guys, and (much more with Jade than Tori) they're both prone to [[HairTriggerTemper quick tempers]], [[DeadpanSnarker dry remarks or looks]], and acts of [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]]. Also, while Tori certainly has a better relationship with her parents than Jade does with hers, her parents have slowly started to become more negligent and it's implied that her mother is cheating on her father.
** Shockingly, this applies more with Trina than anyone else. They both have parental issues, they both have issues with envy and pride (hiding an InferioritySuperiorityComplex), and they both hate coming second to Tori, which happens a ton of times. The only 2 things separating them are Trina is more spoiled and Jade's temper is much quicker.
** Robbie too. If there are two traits they both undeniably share, they're parental issues and fear of winding up alone.
* NotSoStoic: SarcasmMode seems to be her default state of being, but it's showcased in a number of episodes that it isn't her only one. Standout examples include her [[BreakThemByTalking breakdown]] in the pilot, [[EnemyMine begging for Tori's help]] in "Jade Dumps Beck", and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking sweating for the first time]] in "Survival of the Hottest".
* OddCouple: With Tori, in the rare instances where they get along.
* OddFriendship: Jade and Cat. Also with Robbie once in a while during the last season, especially in "Star Spangled Tori", where she shows a previously unseen level of patience towards his antics, and even carpooled with him to Tori's house (as they offer Cat a ride home with them), despite Beck also being there. These examples both double as ActorAllusion.
* OfficialCouple: With Beck.
* OppositesAttract: Again, Beck.
* PaintItBlack: In "The Diddly Bops", she returns Tori's theater history textbook (which she'd borrowed off-screen prior) to her, but it's cover is painted black. Her reason for doing this? "[[ItAmusedMe I had black paint.]]"
* PetTheDog: Sometimes.
** She shows a bit of compassion for Tori when she has a breakdown in "Ice Cream for Ke$ha" and she's greatly concerned for Cat when she's worried that her mom's boss will find out about the damage to his things in "Andre's Horrible Girl."
** She gets bad vibes from Ryder Daniels and warns Tori that he must be hiding something. Of course, [[spoiler:she can't help poking fun when it turns out she was right]].
** She was even holding Robbie back from hurting himself to save Rex in "Rex Dies" and was holding Rex's hand in the hospital. She also displayed what appears to be genuine concern for his mental growth in the idea of Rex being gone forever.
** She also seems to have a soft spot for her grandmother, Sikowitz, little kids and Cat.
** She tries to talk Robbie out of his funk in "The Hambone King" (until she reveals that she "might have" recorded it and posted it online).
** She does this in a major way in ''Tori Goes Platinum'' [[spoiler:by giving up her shot at a major performance that could make her famous so that Tori could perform instead.]]
** On the Slap she mentions that she loves rabbits because they're so adorable and even has one as a pet.
** On her Slap videos, she is shown to love little kids and acts very sweet to them.
* {{Pride}}: She hates showing vulnerability to people and tries to avoid calling anyone a friend. She only allows herself to cry in front of Tori in "Jade Dumps Beck" because she didn't want anyone she found cool to see her at such a low point. Even when finally making nice([[HazyFeelTurn -r]]) with her rival, she lets her ego get in the way a bit.
* PromWrecker: When her one woman show gets cancelled because it conflicts with the Prom, she tries ruining the Prom for revenge.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Beck's Blue.
* TheRival: To Tori.
* {{Sadist}}: "Cause it makes you miserable, which makes me slightly less miserable."
* ShearMenace: Her scissors obsession may count, as she's constantly seen wielding a pair of scissors, her locker is decorated with them, and her favorite movie is called ''The Scissoring''. That said, we never see her use them in combat (probably because successful weaponization of them would result in the show's rating to change drastically).
* ShesGotLegs: She has very nice legs, which is evident when she wears a bathing suit.
* SkirtOverSlacks: Jade regularly wears black leggings with black skirts. Though, oddly enough, in a "What I Hate" video, she mentions [[HypocriticalHumor how much she hates girls who wear skirts over their jeans]] (much like Tori). Then again, Jade wears skirts over ''leggings'', not jeans, so that's a bit different.
* StillBelievesInSanta: Jade is one of the haughtier members of the cast, so revealing she still believes in Santa Claus in her fourth "What I Hate" video makes her more endearing.
* SmugSnake: Anytime she wins, she has a sinister grin.
* SpoiledBrat: Jade has a strong sense of entitlement and will try to eliminate her rivals by all means. She even literally throws a tantrum in "Tori Gets Stuck" after Tori wins an audition.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: In "Tori Gets Stuck". She knows Tori is allergic to bush daisies and that she has o-negative blood because she went through her medical records (which is a felony, BTW). She simply puts it as "doing her research".
** Debatably this in "The Wood" when she snoops through Tori's bedroom. Tori didn't even know she was there for half an hour. According to her, Tori has a lot of "''things''" in there.
* StepfordSnarker: She clearly has a lot of walls up and everybody she ever talks to feels the brunt of it, often because she's not keen on anyone seeing the damage underneath (see FreudianExcuse above).
--> '''Cat''': You didn't have a happy childhood?
--> '''Jade''': My favorite toy was a hammer. ''You'' finish the puzzle.
* StupidSexyFlanders: She was making suggestive faces at Tori as far back as the pilot episode. Seems she just can't deny when a girl is hot, even when she's put a target on said girl's head.
** A reasonable and potential explanation in general for why she treats Tori the way she does is that Tori, more than any other girl, brings up feelings she's not ready to deal with. Most of her AmbiguouslyBi moments seem to pertain explicitly to Tori.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She seems easier for her friends to get along with when she's alone with them.
* TantrumThrowing: When she learns not only that Tori beat her out for the lead role in "Steamboat Suzy", but also that she's stuck as her understudy, she just cannot deal. Gets even worse when [[TheWatson Tori]] unironically asks what an understudy is.
* TattooAsCharacterType: She has 2 tattoos by the end of the series, but only one appears on-screen as early as the first season, a basic nautical star on her right forearm.
* TokenEvilTeammate: In a group of friends that are more-or-less [[NiceGuy nice guys]]/[[NiceGirl girls]] (sans [[SnarkyNonHumanSidekick Rex]] and [[AttentionWhore Trina]]), Jade sticks out like a sore thumb as the harshest member.
* TooKinkyToTorture: By saying, "It was like torture, but not the good kind." in "How Trina Got In" and "Okay, this is actually causing me pain, and not the good kind" in "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", as well as saying she likes to pretend she's captured by witches and being made into human soup while in hot tubs in "iParty With Victorious."
* TookALevelInJerkass: She was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into a psychotic and vengeful ManipulativeBastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to destroy the first ever Hollywood Arts prom.
* TookALevelInKindness: In Season 3, somewhat. She's still a bitch, but is far less mean than how she was in earlier seasons.
* ToughLove: Tends to show this to her friends at certain points, especially with her suggestion about [[spoiler: what to do with Rex in "Rex Dies" and how it would be more beneficial for Robbie's well-being in the long run]], and pushing an apprehensive Tori off the balcony in "Beck Falls for Tori", thus helping her overcome her fear.
* TranquilFury: Rage seems to be her default emotion. She's prone to outbursts, but she's normally the least upbeat of the girls.
* {{Troll}}: She loves to push Tori's buttons. A great example is "Cat's New Boyfriend".
* {{Tsundere}}: To everybody really but especially Type A to Tori. She's rude and aggressive and seems uncaring. However, when she wants to be, she can be a loyal friend and is capable of showing affection to the people she cares about.
* UndyingLoyalty: No matter how much Cat may get on her nerves, no matter how much Jade pushes Cat around, Jade does care for Cat and she remains her best friend. The episode ''Star Spangled Tori'' cements this when Jade was concerned about Cat's well-being, and even brings up the suggestion that [[Series/SamAndCat Cat should go live with her Nona]] instead of her [[EvilUncle Evil Uncle and Aunt]].
* UngratefulBitch: When Tori saves her life in ''Locked Up'', her response is that [[BlatantLies she didn't need help]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: May become this to Tori. On her bad days, she can act this way to Cat.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: She guns for her father's approval in "Wok Star", to the point of accepting Tori's help in getting some recognition for her craft. Their relationship is still bad, but she got something she's clearly been wanting just for once.
* WhatTheHellHero: To Tori in "Beck's Big Break."
* WithFriendsLikeThese: With ''everyone''.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "Stage Fighting."
* {{Yandere}}: In her worst moments, she may be this as she'll get extra vicious if any girl she doesn't like gets close with Beck.
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* PaintItBlack: In "The Diddly Bops", she returns Tori's theater history textbook to her, but it's cover is painted pitch black. Her reason for doing this? "[[ItAmusedMe I had black paint.]]"

* {{Catphrase}}: "[[SuddenlyShouting NO!!]]"

** She seemed a little disgusted when Cat's brother collected 12 gallons of ''artificial'' blood for her play in "Prom Wrecker".

* StepfordSnarker: She clearly has a lot of walls up and everybody she ever talks to feels the brunt of it, often because she's not keen on anyone seeing the hurt girl underneath (see FreudianExcuse above).

** She seems a little horrified when Cat's brother collected 12 gallons of ''artificial'' blood for her play in "Prom Wrecker".

* TheBadGuyWins: In “Crazy Ponnie”, she manages to track Cat down and well, things get pretty ugly from there.

* CatFight: With Tori ''twice'' in The Wood. The second was staged though. This is shockingly the only time they ever get into a physical altercation.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Jade gets the most character development of anyone on the show after Tori, and is the character with the second most focus plot-wise. The two’s rivalry is a through line throughout the show from the first episode to the last, and their dynamic is the only one that really changes (though Cat and Robbie's is a close second). Said rivalry also drives the plot of several episodes and gets more focus than their other relationships. Even when not directly involved with Tori’s plot, Jade often gets the B plot, usually through her relationship problems with Beck.

* EvilIsPetty: When she does get actually evil, she is oh so petty. And (as you'll see a lot throughout this profile) nothing exemplifies that more than "Tori Gets Stuck" where he's throwing tantrums, threatening Tori's life, going through her medical records, having her sent a dangerous allergen, and even stealing pints of her blood that are meant to be donated to Robbie for a critical operation, all because Tori beat her out as the lead of a school play.

** Jade can come across as hardcore (smashing Andre's apple in Tori Gets Stuck, kicking in Beck's door in Wi-Fi In The Sky, slicing up the garbage can in Wok Star), but when real danger seems afoot (most prominently in Locked Up!), Jade either bluffs or bolts. A talker, but not much of a fighter. She is, however, willing to throw down whenever Beck is involved. She actually attacked Tori in The Wood, due to the edited phone call scene; when the show comes back from commercial break, Tori's living room is practically wrecked due to Jade manhandling her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mix of Seniority, Audience Popularity, Fear, and Proximity: Most of the group has known Jade for two years as a classmate, she's dating Beck, and she's so known for viciously retaliating against people that it's unlikely anyone would make her leave even if those other two things weren't true. Pushed further in ''"The Worst Couple,"'' the only person in the group she actually considers her friend besides Beck is Andre. And even then, Beck has once said that the word "gank" doesn't even begin to describe how awful she can be.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Never expressed out loud, but she does some things that imply that only ''she'' is allowed to mess with Tori, damn it (though Trina seems to be an exception, given that they're siblings)! (For example: Celebrating when Tori gives [[ManipulativeBastard Ryder Daniels]] his well-deserved HumiliationConga, looking shocked and irritated when Robbie dismissed Tori's valid concerns as "freaking out" in Robbarazzi, etc.) This extends to Cat as well.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Victori-Yes", where Trina is introducing her to Mexican television show producer.

* {{Kawaiiko}}: Surprisingly, Jade in iParty With Victorious, as the blue swimsuit she wears seems cute, modest, and quite out of character for her. Perhaps she's not as hard-boiled as she lets on...?

* MakeUpOrBreakUp: This tends to be Jade and Beck's relationship in a nutshell, as Jade dumps him over a small argument in "Jade Dumps Beck". They do make in the end. [[spoiler: The second time in "The Worst Couple", however...]]

** In “The Worst Couple”, when Beck tries to point out her insecurities and how toxic their relationship has become because of it, she twists everything around and puts words in his mouth.
** In "Wi-Fi in the Sky", she assumes Beck is cheating on her without letting him explain. When the girl that Beck is helping turns out to be a little girl, she asks why didn’t say so, Beck reminds her that she wouldn’t let him.

-->'''Sinji:n''' Sorry, I hit the wrong thing!\\

** On the Slap, she mentions that she locked her annoying cousin in the basement one Thanksgiving and her father called he police on her.

* {{Sadist}}: “Cause it makes you miserable, which makes me slightly less miserable.”

* SkirtOverSlacks: Jade regularly wears black leggings with black skirts. Though, oddly enough, in a "What I Hate" video, she mentions [[HypocriticalHumor how much she hates girls who wear skirts over their jeans]] (much like Tori). Then again, Jade wears skirts over ''leggings'', not jeans, so that's a bit different. Maybe. Or maybe she hates herself. Or everyone who's not her. Or everything.

* TooKinkyToTorture: By saying, "It was like torture, but not the good kind." in "How Trina Got In" and "Okay, this actually causing me pain, and not the good kind" in "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", as well as saying she likes to pretend she's captured by witches and being made into human soup while in hot tubs in "iParty With Victorious."
* TookALevelInJerkass: She was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into psychotic and vengeful ManipulativeBastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to destroy the first ever Hollywood Arts prom.

* UndyingLoyalty: No matter how much Cat may get on her nerves, no matter how much Jade pushes Cat around, Jade does care for Cat and she remains her best friend. The episode ''Star Spangled Tori'' cements this when Jade was concerned about Cat's well-being, and even brings up the suggestion that [[Series/SamAndCat Cat live with her Nona]] instead of her [[EvilUncle Evil Uncle and Aunt]].

* ColorMotif: Most obvious would be black, which symbolizes mystery, seduction, intimidation, dominance, pessimism, and sadness. She's also often associated with the color green, reflecting her jealous nature. Her rivalry with Tori also speaks to how green is the opposite of purple.

* HeavySleeper: How the hell do you stay asleep when there's a literal war going on right outside your building?

* DarkIsEvil: She's the resident goth chick, she's displayed interest in the occult and the macabre, and she's absolutely not a nice person. Zig-zagged, as she rarely does anything that can be considered objectively evil, not that it stops her from being callous and often the antagonist.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Jade gets the most character development of anyone on the show after Tori, and is the character with the second most focus plot-wise. The two’s rivalry is a through line throughout the show from the first episode to the last, and their dynamic is the only one that really changes. Said rivalry also drives the plot of several episodes and gets more focus than their other relationships. Even when not directly involved with Tori’s plot, Jade often gets the B plot, usually through her relationship problems with Beck.

* {{Foil}}: To Tori, as you can no doubt tell by their senses of fashion. They're both hardworking, ambitious, and prone to acts of jealousy, snide wit, and selfishness. However, while Tori is kind, compassionate, optimistic, and has a (arguably) good relationship with her parents and Jade is mean, rude, consistently assumes the worst, and has pretty much been taking care of herself since her parents divorced.

* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: In “Who Did It To Trina?”, when an accident in a live play hospitalizes Trina, Jade ''videotapes'' the incident. It’s later revealed she also [[KickTheDog posted it online]] and gleefully reads the comments in front of the group.

* DrivenByEnvy:
** A likely (and reinforced) explanation why she treats Tori so callously is that Tori always seems to get whatever she wants and tends to come off as a flawless girl with happy life [[GreenEyedMonster and she hates it with a passion]]. Jade is obviously a hard worker who likely had to jump through a ton of hoops to make it into Hollywood Arts, so in her mind, who does Tori think she is strutting in after one little performance?
** Cat and Tori state numerous times that they’re best friends, so Jade might be afraid that Tori is trying to steal Cat from her (as Jade considers Cat to be her best friend).

* SpoiledBrat: Jade has a strong sense of entitlement and will try to eliminate her rivals by all means. She even literally throws a tantrum in “Tori Gets Stuck” after Tori wins an audition.

* EmoTeen: Mildly subverted. Has many of the physical and emotional characteristics of this trope, but may be a bit too popular to fit it properly.

* ColorMotif: Most obvious would be black, which symbolizes sophistication, mystery, seduction, intimidation, dominance, pessimism, and sadness. She's also often associated with the color green, reflecting her jealous nature. Her rivalry with Tori also speaks to how green is the opposite of purple.

* ColorMotif: She's often associated with the color green, reflecting her jealous nature. Most obvious would be black, which symbolizes sophistication, mystery, seduction, intimidation, dominance, pessimism, and sadness.

--> '' "Dude! Why are you rubbing my boyfriend?" ''

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