| 1 | '''WARNING''': Untagged '''spoilers''' ahead. Read at your own risk. |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !Sanders Sides/Sanders Asides |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Can be found [[Characters/SandersSides here]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ! Roleslaying with Roman |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Can be found [[Characters/RoleslayingWithRoman here]] |
| 13 | |
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| 15 | |
| 16 | !Sanders Shorts |
| 17 | |
| 18 | This section includes specific characters created by Thomas Sanders or his team for the ''Sanders Shorts'' series, both from Vine and from Instagram. As the series has already more than 2000 installments, to avoid the section growing too big, only characters with a relatively regular string of appearances and which have distinct traits, whether of appearance, personality or both, are included, and fictional versions of Thomas and his friends will not appear here. Some tropes of stories starring these excluded characters can be found in the Web Video general page. Also, characters that are not originally created by Thomas, like Stewie Griffin, Stitch, Kermit the Frog, and other impressions are not included. Tropes involving the Dad Guy, the Teacher Guy, the Prince Guy and the Anxiety Guy do appear here. Even though the Sanders Sides characters have also started doing sporadical appearances in the Shorts (they're distinguishable because the original Shorts characters wear the older outfits and the Sides characters wear the newer outfits), the Sides' tropes are still disclosed only in the Sanders Sides page. |
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| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Sleep]] |
| 23 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sleep_2.jpg]] |
| 24 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Get in b***, we're going napping."]] |
| 25 | -->''Ah, pumpkin spiced seasonal depression, my favorite!'' |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Sleep is a personification of Thomas' slumber. Thomas needs his presence in order to fall asleep, but Sleep has a rebellious attitude, like a teenager, and Thomas often suffers from insomnia because Sleep goes out all night to have some fun downtown or wherever. To make things worse, when he decides to come back to do his job, it's usually in the worst times, like when Thomas has to get up or needs to be awake. |
| 28 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Thomas Sanders and Alex Rupp (teen version) |
| 29 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://www.instagram.com/p/BeCNBcJnKrR/ So Rebellious, Out of Control]]", January 16, 2018 |
| 30 | -------- |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * BerserkButton: He usually acts as if he didn't care about anything, but put the Anxiety Guy in front of him and Thomas shall feel his wrath. |
| 33 | * BestServedCold: When Thomas was young, he didn't pay attention to Sleep and never wanted to go to bed. Now Sleep makes him pay by not letting Thomas sleep no matter how much Thomas asks him. |
| 34 | * CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: The title of his first appearance says it all: "So rebellious, out of control". Sleep always wants to do whatever he wants whenever it pleases him and never listens to the "authority", in this case Thomas, who suffers the consequences. |
| 35 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his firsts appearances, instead of his cup of Starbucks coffee, he was carrying a cup of what looked like beer with a straw. The cup was progressively mutated into the Starbucks cup episode by episode. |
| 36 | * {{Irony}}: He's a personification of sleep... who doesn't stop drinking Starbucks coffee, always carrying a cup in his hand. |
| 37 | -->'''Sleep''': Oh, gurl, you don't wanna see me off-coffee, I become such a b*tch... ''[giggles sassily]'' |
| 38 | * InvisibleToNormals: He's visible and tangible only for Thomas. Anybody else can't see or hear him and that has put Thomas into awkward situations when he's started arguing with Sleep in the middle of the street and other people like Dominic only saw Thomas yelling at the thin air. Averted in a short where, when Thomas told a friend that he thought he was a vampire because he slept on day and stood awake on night, Sleep corrected him talking directly to the friend saying "No, he's not. I'm just an *ssh*le.", and the friend saw and heard Sleep normally. |
| 39 | * JustLikeMakingLove: Thomas and Sleep are shown like a couple of boyfriends clashing constantly in their relationship. The act of Thomas trying to fall asleep is always shown as Thomas trying to seduce Sleep into having sex, usually to no avail. When he finally convinces Sleep to get into it, Sleep just sits down on the bed next to Thomas while he sleeps with no intercourse at all. When it's Thomas who can't control slumber, for example on the couch, it's Sleep who gets in the mood and tries to seduce Thomas, usually to lose interest and get cold when Thomas actually decides to get off the couch and go to bed. The ultimate example was the introduction of another character named "Other Side of the Pillow" brought by Thomas to suggest a threesome between him, Thomas and Sleep to "spice up" the relation and help Sleep get into the mood faster, being this an allegory of Thomas flipping the pillow and laying his head on the cooler side to feel more comfortable and help him sleep faster. |
| 40 | * MoodSwinger: One moment, he's complaining about how clingy Thomas is about him, and the next moment, he's complaining about how Thomas doesn't give him enough attention. |
| 41 | -->'''Thomas''': Hey, Sleep?\ |
| 42 | '''Sleep''': What?\ |
| 43 | '''Thomas''': You're gonna come to bed pretty soon?\ |
| 44 | '''Sleep''': Why?\ |
| 45 | '''Thomas''': Cause I need... sleep?\ |
| 46 | '''Sleep''': Okay, ''you'' need to... back the F up, because TBH, you're getting a little clingy, and it's not a good look on you, sweetie.\ |
| 47 | ''[Next morning, the alarm clock rings and Thomas starts getting up]''\ |
| 48 | '''Sleep''': Hey, where are you going!?\ |
| 49 | '''Thomas''': I have to get up.\ |
| 50 | '''Sleep''': Really? You're, like, leaving after, like, three hours of us being together? Like, I... I don't wanna call you selfish, but you basically hate me, and I don't even know why I try. I don't even know why I try anymore!\ |
| 51 | ''[Thomas shows a face of silent frustration]'' |
| 52 | * ProductDisplacement: Everybody knows that the cup of coffee that Sleep is drinking constantly is from Starbucks, but the Starbucks logo on the cup is covered with tape. |
| 53 | * TheSandman: Even though he doesn't carry sand in his hands because he has them occupied with his cup of drink, he is the Lord and Master of sleep and dreams. Not only he puts Thomas into sleep. He also infuses him with the dreams he has while sleeping, and he loves putting Thomas into all kinds of weird dreams just for fun. |
| 54 | * SunglassesAtNight: He never takes his sunglasses off, no matter if it's day or night, or if he's outdoors or indoors, or if he's up or in bed. |
| 55 | * FandomNod: Because he kept being paired up with Emile Picani, another one of Thomas’s characters, the two appeared in the same video together. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Dad Guy]] |
| 60 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dadguy.jpg]] |
| 61 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, kids! You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish!"]] |
| 62 | -->''Nice to meet you, Ready. I'm Dad!'' |
| 63 | |
| 64 | The Dad Guy, alternatively known as the Dad Dude or the "Dad Character" is a happy and goofy individual who loves to make dad jokes and sometimes, without malice, becomes neglectful on the care of his children, who happen to be more mature and responsible than him most of the time. |
| 65 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/hLQ6D1dql5e Dad's Jokes Just Became Legit]]", January 15, 2014 |
| 66 | -------- |
| 67 | * BumblingDad: He's a dad that cares for his children, but, even if without malice, he's so irresponsible and neglectful that one would wonder how his kids have survived up to teenagehood. |
| 68 | * HiddenDepths: Even though he can be rather irresponsible in respect to his children's education, sometimes he can act like a real, serious dad and scold his children if they do something seriously wrong, even if the PungeonMaster inside of him comes out from time to time during the scolding. |
| 69 | -->'''Dad Guy''': ''[Angry]'' Listen, mister!\ |
| 70 | '''Wizard Thomas''': ''[Startled]'' What, what?\ |
| 71 | '''Dad Guy''': I just got a call from your headmaster saying you're pranking people by sending them unwanted howlers. What is this!?\ |
| 72 | '''Wizard Thomas''': Ummm...\ |
| 73 | '''Dad Guy''': You better ''expect-a-patronus'' to your actions, sir.\ |
| 74 | '''Wizard Thomas''': Are you... Are you still making puns right now?\ |
| 75 | '''Dad Guy''': That's right, I am, because this is ''ridiculous''!\ |
| 76 | '''Wizard Thomas''': ''Ridiculous'', which is also the spell...\ |
| 77 | '''Dad Guy''': The spell against boggarts, that's right! Listen, this kind of thing can get you ''expeliarmus'' from school, do you want that?\ |
| 78 | '''Wizard Thomas''': Why are you still making puns...?\ |
| 79 | '''Dad Guy''': ''[yelling, angry]'' I said, do you want that!?\ |
| 80 | '''Wizard Thomas''': No! No, I don't!\ |
| 81 | '''Dad Guy''': Okay, then I'll better see some improvements soon, or you're going to be ''the boy who lived''... ''[yelling]'' outside of my house! Do you understand?\ |
| 82 | '''Wizard Thomas''': Yes...\ |
| 83 | '''Dad Guy''': ''[leaving the room]'' You just got ''Wingardium Levi-owned, son.''\ |
| 84 | '''Wizard Thomas''': ''[mumbling]'' Oh, my gosh, dad... |
| 85 | * TheKlutz: When the Dad Guy is around, disaster's in the air, for him and for everyone on his surroundings. So far, he's set the kitchen on fire, destroyed an expensive TV set, set a bunch of hot dogs on fire, dropped a whole canister of hot peppers in a chili dish, caused an electric blackout in the whole neighborhood... He is so clumsy that when he hangs out with his kids they have to keep him tied to a leash so that he's not hit by a car. |
| 86 | * NegativeContinuity: This applies to the Dad Guy's family, which has three alternate versions. Most of the times, the Dad Guy is a single parent with two kids, a boy around 12 years old and a girl around 8, but the boy sometimes suffers a multiple case of TheOtherDarrin between episodes, being played by several different actors with a totally different appearance between each other.[[note]]most of the times, the kids are played by siblings in real life Liam and Fiona [=MacKay=], but on occasion the boy has been played by Brayden Smith and other uncredited kids.[[/note]] In the second version, the Dad Guy has an adult son[[note]]played by Thomas[[/note]] and a wife[[note]]played by Susan Shrum, who plays Thomas' Mom[[/note]] that appears on occasion. In the third one, which has appeared only once, he's a single parent again, but he has an adult daughter who has a boyfriend. |
| 87 | * PungeonMaster: Dad jokes are encoded in his DNA. |
| 88 | * SpidersAreScary: Spiders are the only thing that can make his smile fade away and make him truly panic, up to the point of leaving a house after finding a spider or jumping off a running car with his children inside after seeing a spider in the dashboard. |
| 89 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Dad Guy's children, in any version of his family, have the seriousness and common sense that he lacks. |
| 90 | -->'''Dad Guy''': Children, stop watching cartoons and do your homework!\ |
| 91 | '''Dad's Daughter''': We are!\ |
| 92 | '''Dad's Son''': You're the one who's watching!\ |
| 93 | '''Dad Guy''': ''[watching "Steven Universe"]'' No, I'm watching a masterpiece! |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Prince Guy]] |
| 98 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princeguy_9.jpg]] |
| 99 | [[caption-width-right:350:"When I think about my worries, and I think about my strife, here is what I simply say: AAAAAAHHHHHH!"]] |
| 100 | -->''Off we go on our epic quest! No hesitation, no stopping, and no turning back!'' |
| 101 | |
| 102 | The Prince Guy, alternatively known as the Prince Dude or the "Prince Character", is always in the search for adventures, always trying to fight villains, confront perils and save individuals in distress, always on the quest to find his true love, which could be a princess, a prince, a non-binary royalty member, or more commonly, himself. |
| 103 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/Mp3EY66DFeF Fairytale with a Twist: Sleeping Beauty]]", June 4, 2014 |
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| 105 | |
| 106 | * {{Crossdresser}}: There was a time when he was the sleeping beauty, with a beautiful dress included, and his princess was the one to wear the prince outfit, confusing a competitor rescuer in the process, who thought he was a girl and she was a guy. In the end everyone ended disappointed, the rescuer because he couldn't get the prize he was looking for and the prince and princess were [[DisappointedInYou disappointed in him]] for being so narrow-minded. |
| 107 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first appearance, he had a lot of jewelry and badges on his chest and sash and his hair had a wet look. |
| 108 | * PrinceCharming: He's a parody of the stereotypical Disney Prince. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Teacher Guy]] |
| 113 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teacherguy.jpg]] |
| 114 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Honey, you have three exams, two essays and four projects to worry about, I don't think you really have the time."]] |
| 115 | -->''Hey! Dress code!'' |
| 116 | |
| 117 | The Teacher Guy, alternatively known as the Teacher Dude or the "Teacher Character", works in a regular high school. He usually is a serious and strict teacher that imparts knowledge to his students with wisdom. However, sometimes he has his moments of losing it and acts more eccentrically than on average, which sometimes is a problem for his fellow teachers. |
| 118 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/OOxwPdVThDb These Troublemakers]]", November 3, 2014 |
| 119 | ------- |
| 120 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Except in his very first appearance, where he was a truly threatening character, in many of his first appearances, he acted goofily and happily, sometimes even neglectfully in respect of his teaching duties, very similar to the Dad Guy. As time went on, he progressively became more grounded and started taking his class more seriously. He kept being an eccentric guy, but a serious eccentric guy. |
| 121 | * FunHatingConfiscatingAdult: He will confiscate anything his students bring that he thinks it might disturb the class like a cell phone or a bag of chips. He will even confiscate one of the students' mom who happened to interrupt a class one day. |
| 122 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Turns out it's not just the students who are upset summer's over... |
| 123 | -->'''Teacher Guy:''' ''[with forced cheer and a smile]'' Who's excited to be back (to school)?\ |
| 124 | '''Student:''' Absolutely ''no one''.\ |
| 125 | '''Teacher Guy:''' ''[suddenly serious]'' Me, neither. Let's get the heck out of here!\ |
| 126 | ''[Cut to all the students and Teacher Guy escaping in his car.]'' |
| 127 | * SilenceYouFool: He can't stand his students talking in class and will loudly tell them to shut up. This is taken to the extreme, though, as even when they talk with sign language and not making any noise, it bothers him. |
| 128 | * SternTeacher: He cares about his students, but he's strict and often humorless. |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | [[folder:Anxiety Guy]] |
| 132 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anxietyguy.jpg]] |
| 133 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Man, what is his problem?"]] |
| 134 | -->''(The princess is) under my curse, only to be woken up by true love's kiss!'' |
| 135 | |
| 136 | The Anxiety Guy is Thomas' plain anxiety. He acts as the main foe for both the Prince Guy and Sleep. He seems to have some malicious, or at least mischievous motives against the Prince Guy, as he steals his princess, whether it is human or made of rags, but he wonders why Sleep thinks so badly about him. |
| 137 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/5Y0vBquezum Happily Ever After]]", January 12, 2017 |
| 138 | ------ |
| 139 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: For Thomas, he's a plain representation of his anxiety.[[note]]Unlike Virgil, from "Sanders Sides", who represents many more things for Thomas, like his fight or flight reflexes and his survival instinct among other things.[[/note]] |
| 140 | * DemotedToExtra: Just as the Dad Guy, the Prince Guy and the Teacher Guy from the Vines [[AscendedExtra became the base of Morality, Creativity and Logic, from "Sanders Sides",]] The Anxiety Guy did the opposite trip. A character named Anxiety, now known as Virgil, made his debut on "Sanders Sides", and later, inspired on Virgil, the Anxiety Guy made his debut on Vine as a supporting character in the Prince Guy series. The very few Anxiety Guy's appearances on the shorts never went any further, always as a supporting character either on the Prince Guy series or in a brief cameo in the Sleep series, never with his own shorts series like the other three guys. |
| 141 | * EvilSorcerer: He cursed the Prince Guy's love interest by putting her to sleep, and rejoices on making it difficult for the Prince Guy to rescue her. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Brain]] |
| 146 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brain_5.jpg]] |
| 147 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Hi, I'm your brain, and in a few moments I'll have you imagining all the ways you went wrong."]] |
| 148 | -->''I don't remember anything you did last week.'' |
| 149 | |
| 150 | Brain is a personification of Thomas' subconscious, the thoughts that appear randomly on his mind, his utilitarian imagination and his train of thought. He loves torturing Thomas putting in his head magnified thoughts of real events, giving him memories from a long time ago when he needs to remember something more recent, or suddenly putting on him random impulses to do the most eccentric things. |
| 151 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/5hqBqpELzim Why Do I Do This?]]", August 13, 2016 |
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| 153 | |
| 154 | * BathtubBonding: It turns out that Brain works his best when he takes a shower with Thomas. It is then when he gets the most creative and gives Thomas the best ideas, though none of them know why. |
| 155 | ** Subverted sometimes in the sense that, when Brain is in total collapse and completely dried out, he still can start working again in the shower, but the ideas that come to him then are so random that are completely useless. |
| 156 | --->'''Brain''': When you're cleaning your shower, you're your shower's shower......\ |
| 157 | '''Thomas''': ''[Sighs]''\ |
| 158 | '''Brain''': Naked....\ |
| 159 | '''Thomas''': Okay... |
| 160 | * ChaoticStupid: Brain has a lot of sudden impulsive but disastrous and senseless ideas, like throwing Thomas' phone into the water or eating Tide Pods, and tries to convince Thomas to do them, while Thomas has to act like the OnlySaneMan and tell Brain to forget about it, no matter how much Brain insists. |
| 161 | -->''[Thomas is finishing a dish he's cooking, while humming the song "Under the Sea"]''\ |
| 162 | '''Brain''': It looks good.\ |
| 163 | '''Thomas''': ''[Smiling]'' It does!\ |
| 164 | '''Brain''': A healthy nutritious array.\ |
| 165 | '''Thomas''': ''[giggles]'' I try.\ |
| 166 | '''Brain''': It looks like you're missing only one ingredient.\ |
| 167 | '''Thomas''': ''[Smiling]'' What?\ |
| 168 | '''Brain''': ''[pulling out a box, with announcer voice]'' Tide Pods!\ |
| 169 | '''Thomas''': ''[Yelling, angry]'' NO!\ |
| 170 | '''Brain''': ''[Same announcer voice]'' Great for your laundry... ''[tempting voice]'' and for your mouth.\ |
| 171 | '''Thomas''': Stop! You can't eat those! They're... you... they could cause physical harm!\ |
| 172 | '''Brain''': ''[Same tempting voice]'' You know you want it...\ |
| 173 | '''Thomas''': Shut up! |
| 174 | * {{Greed}}: Brain inspires some momentary impulses of greed on Thomas, especially when Thomas opens a Christmas card and there's no money in it, no matter the fact that Thomas is already a grown-up adult. |
| 175 | * TheParanoiac: It turns out that Brain is quite a paranoid, always thinking something is wrong with Thomas, and inspiring, in turn, these thoughts on him. |
| 176 | -->'''Thomas''': ''[Resting in his couch]'' I got everything done. I can actually relax...\ |
| 177 | '''Brain''': Mmmm?\ |
| 178 | '''Thomas''': What?\ |
| 179 | '''Brain''': Everything?\ |
| 180 | '''Thomas''': What did I not do?\ |
| 181 | '''Brain''': No idea. ''[talking quickly and anxiously]'' But whatever it is you're not doing it right now, you're wasting time!\ |
| 182 | ''[Thomas gets up quickly and runs anxiously]'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | [[folder:Mom]] |
| 187 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thomasmom1_3.jpg]] |
| 188 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I am hanging out, and when I return, I want this place spotless. Spotless!"]] |
| 189 | -->''I don't care, cancel it. You're babysitting.'' |
| 190 | |
| 191 | Thomas' Mom is quite a person. Even though it doesn't always look so, she takes care of Thomas with love but also with a fist of iron. Her eccentricities, though, sometimes put Thomas into tough situations, and his relationship with his mom is a love/hate one, more of love than hate, but still. She's married to the Dad Guy in one of the versions of Dad Guy's family.[[note]]Note that this folder talks about the fictional version of Thomas' Mom, the one who has her own series in the ''Sanders Shorts'', not Thomas Sanders' real-life mother, who now appears as herself in many unscripted shorts but first played this fictional Mom at the beginning of the series.[[/note]] |
| 192 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Thomas Sanders' real-life mother (2013-2014) and Susan Shrum (2014-) |
| 193 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://vine.co/v/hUrbLB9LYn7 Moms Know Everything]]", November 29, 2013 |
| 194 | ->'''First appearance with Susan Shrum''': [[https://vine.co/v/MxEMJqO3lVJ What's for Supper?]], July 14, 2014 |
| 195 | -------- |
| 196 | |
| 197 | * CuttingCorners: She will try to save money by reducing costs in every possible way, which includes avoiding buying things unless there's literally no choice, and doing magic tricks to make meals out of nowhere when the fridge is empty. |
| 198 | * HopelessWithTech: She's terribly bad with computers and often calls Thomas for help. It is especially frustrating for him how long it takes for her to learn just how to turn the machine on. |
| 199 | * MamaBear: Even though it doesn't always look so, she loves her child and will do anything to protect him, even fighting an intruder to the death knife in hand. |
| 200 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She doesn't respect Thomas' privacy in the slightest. She forces the lock of his bedroom to see what he's doing, reads his personal chats and emails, and even gets in the shower when he's inside. |
| 201 | * TheOtherDarrin: From 2013 up to early 2014, she was played by Thomas Sanders' real-life mother. Since July 14, 2014, Susan Shrum replaced her in the role and Thomas' real-life mother only appeared as herself in real life pranks and similar unscripted episodes. |
| 202 | * ParentalNeglect: Sometimes she can be quite neglectful. In fact, she has made Thomas feel like [[TheUnfavorite The Un-Favorite]] sometimes due to openly giving more love to her dog than to her own son. |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | [[folder:Sun & Moon]] |
| 206 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sunmoon_5.jpg]] |
| 207 | [[caption-width-right:250:"You're mooning me..."]] |
| 208 | -->''- Hey, Sun! It's bright out here, but I love it!''\ |
| 209 | ''- This is my time to shine!'' |
| 210 | |
| 211 | The Sun and the Moon govern the sky in the day and night respectively, and they also have their little arguments when Thomas sees them. |
| 212 | ->'''First appearance''': "[[https://www.instagram.com/p/Be_2E3QnwlD That Time of Day... You Know What I'm Talking About]]", February 9, 2018 |
| 213 | ------ |
| 214 | |
| 215 | * AccidentalPervert: Moon just wanted to help Sun cast a shadow. The fact that while doing it he mooned him, figuratively and literally, was just an accident. |
| 216 | * {{Manchild}}: Both Sun and Moon behave like children, one way or another. Moon behaves [[ChildrenAreInnocent like an innocent, happy child]] who only wants to have fun, while Sun is quite a SpoiledBrat who always wants to be the center of the Solar System.[[note]]pun intended[[/note]] |
| 217 | * PurityPersonified: Moon treats people on Earth in the kindest and friendly way. |
| 218 | * TooMuchAlike: They're both celestial bodies that share the sky. They usually don't appear together, but when they do, they can't help competing with each other over their respective abilities. The Moon does it without noticing it, just thinking of showing off as an innocent game. Sun is pretty conscious of the competition, though, and he always wants to be the best, lashing out when he thinks he's being treated as less than the Moon. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | |
| 222 | !Cartoon Therapy |
| 223 | |
| 224 | This folder includes every character that appears on the series, not only the one played by Thomas Sanders but also those created by him, alone or with Joan S. and/or others, and played by different actors. |
| 225 | |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Dr. Emile Picani]] |
| 229 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/picani.png]] |
| 230 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Please! We're talking about cartoons! This is serious!"]] |
| 231 | -->''Therapy isn't just where people go when something needs to be fixed.'' |
| 232 | |
| 233 | A professional couples counselor with a penchant for cartoons. Despite having unorthodox methods and being easily distracted by cartoon references, he gets great results. |
| 234 | ->'''First appearance''': "What 'Steven Universe' Teaches Us About Relationships", December 16, 2017 |
| 235 | ---- |
| 236 | * AudienceWhatAudience: Sometimes, Picani will suddenly break the fourth wall, leaving his patients confused about who he's talking to or what he's talking about. |
| 237 | -->'''Picani:''' Mmm? You might not be the right generation to get that reference. Don't worry, most kids watching at home won't get it either.\ |
| 238 | '''Dot:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]\ |
| 239 | '''Picani''': Both Sokka and Toph felt different. They both had to begin somewhere, and worked to utilize their best traits to... ''[waving his arms like in martial arts]'' [[SuddenlyShouting KICK BUTT IN THEIR OWN WAYS!]] [Suddenly camera switches to his right and Picani looks right at that camera and speaks with a smooth and chill voice] Although violence is never the answer.\ |
| 240 | ''[Kai looks to the side, puzzled and wondering what Picani is looking at before continuing to talk]'' |
| 241 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Picani works cartoons into his therapy sessions by analyzing certain aspects of the cartoon and comparing them to real-life events, like the similarities between fusions from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and relationships, and [[OneTrueLove what]] [[ChildhoodFriendRomance kinds]] [[DomesticAbuse of]] [[EtTuBrute relationships]] various fusions represent. |
| 242 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He fills this trope as much as he could without literally being an anthropomorphic rabbit. Say all you want about his practices, he's still a very competent therapist. |
| 243 | * CloudCuckoolander: His office is stuffed with cartoon plushies and figurines, and he's no stranger to going off on cartoon-related tangents. |
| 244 | * ItWasHisSled: Subverted; Picani is very careful not to reveal too much about [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Garnet]] for the sake of his clients who haven't seen the show (in-universe) and for the audience members who haven't gotten around to it either (out-of-universe). |
| 245 | * MotorMouth: Sometimes falls into this. |
| 246 | -->'''Sloane:''' I noticed he (Corbin) had trouble opening up to people and thought this would be good practice for all the relationships in his life.\ |
| 247 | '''Corbin:'''You made that judgment about me? Who are you to do that when our relationship basically ''just'' started?\ |
| 248 | '''Dr. Picani:''' Oh Sloane, that is ''classic'' [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse [=StevenQuartzUniverse=]]]inepisode25ofseason4''"[=IAmMyMom=]"''whenheturnshimselfovertothegemHomeworldwithoutconsultingthe[=CrystalGems=]eventhoughheandConniehadbeenpracticingformonthsonhowtotackleproblemsasaduo. [[labelnote:I can't read this!]] [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] in episode 25 of season 4 ''"I Am My Mom"'' when he turns himself over to the gem Homeworld without consulting the Crystal Gems even though he and Connie have been practicing for months on how to tackle problems as a duo. [[/labelnote]] |
| 249 | * PungeonMaster: Picani always makes puns about cartoons. |
| 250 | * ShoutOut: They're practically encoded into him. |
| 251 | * StoneSoup: Dr. Picani is certainly an eccentric character, but he knows what he's doing and his eccentric traits end up making sense to his patients. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Larry & Dot]] |
| 255 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/larrydot.jpg]] |
| 256 | [[caption-width-right:350:"The anticipation for this session has got me stressing: therapistressing"]] |
| 257 | --->''- I'm getting out of here.''\ |
| 258 | ''- Larry, no! Sit!'' |
| 259 | Larry and Dot are a married couple that came to see Dr. Picani because Dot felt a disconnection with her husband. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Esteban Alvarez III (Larry) and Leannis Crutchfield (Dot) |
| 262 | ->'''First appearance''': "What 'Steven Universe' Teaches Us About Relationships", December 16, 2017 |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * CoordinatedClothes: It seems that Larry and Dot like wearing matching garments. In their first session, they both wore sleeveless sweaters decorated with rhombuses and open-collar shirts behind them, differing only in the color schemes and the particular rhombus pattern. In their second session, they both wore Hawaiian shirts, Dot's decorated with flowers and Larry's with pineapples, and they also wore straw hats. |
| 265 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Larry is abrasive and spur, but he means well. |
| 266 | * HappilyMarried: They have been together for 15 years. They go to couples' therapy in order to deal with issues that crop up ''before'' they cause big problems, so the marriage stays happy. |
| 267 | -->'''Larry''': You and I, we're two sides of the same Barbra Streisand's Deluxe Greatest Hits Album.\ |
| 268 | '''Dot''': Aww, Larry! It's unique expressions like that that converted me in a "woman in love". |
| 269 | * {{LargeHam}}s: They can get ''very'' dramatic, as seen as when they recount their first meeting. |
| 270 | * MissingMom: Dot mentions that she is the only girl in her family and that her father and her brothers are the ones who raised her. |
| 271 | * RaisedByGrandparents: Larry mentions that he was raised by his grandfather as a child. |
| 272 | * [[StealingFromTheHotel Stealing from the Office]]: When they leave after their first session, Larry steals one of the many dolls that Dr. Picani has in his office. They think they were [[WhiteCollarCrime smooth criminals]] that got away unnoticed, but in their second session, Picani makes them see how wrong they are. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Elliott]] |
| 276 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elliott_3.jpg]] |
| 277 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You said a lot of words, many of them confused me, but the word 'outcast' sure sounded right for me."]] |
| 278 | --->''I don't know if I should answer with a who, how or what question.'' |
| 279 | |
| 280 | Elliott is a person that had signed into therapy with their boyfriend, Mitchell, because they're in a somehow toxic relationship, but Mitchell never wanted to show up, so Elliott decided to go through the therapy on their own. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Joan S. |
| 283 | ->'''First appearance''': "What 'Steven Universe' Teaches Us About Relationships", December 16, 2017 |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * [[AllTakeAndNoGive All Give and No Take]]: Their relationship with their boyfriend Mitchell appears to lack equality. Elliott tries their best to make the relationship work, but Mitchell does not seem to be putting in the same effort, which makes Elliott [[LoveHurts sad and unhappy]]. |
| 286 | * AmbiguousGender: Non-Binary Gender Elliot is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. This is reflected in their clothing which is as non-binary as them, combining garments traditionally used by both sexes with unisex garments. |
| 287 | * DestructiveRomance: By Elliot's account, it's clear their relationship with Mitchell is not healthy and that it is damaging for Elliot and maybe even Mitchell too. |
| 288 | * DysfunctionalFamily: This is the definition of Elliott's family: a father that neglects Elliott's problems, a mother that accuses them of blaming her for their trouble and a brother with whom they don't have much relation. A brother that their [[ParentalFavoritism father compares Elliott unfavorably with all the time]]. Elliott only has a true loving family bond with their sister, who is the only one who truly supports them unconditionally. A sister who is, unfortunately, leaving for college soon. |
| 289 | -->'''Dr. Picani''': Okay, Elliott, if memory serves, you're part of a nice little "Modern Stone Age Family".\ |
| 290 | '''Elliott''': Let's give them a little credit, Doc, at least the Iron Age, but yeah. |
| 291 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: How they see their birth name, Herbert Jr. |
| 292 | * TheSnarkKnight: When they're in a good mood, they snark about themselves as well as other people, though they've only been seen with Picani. |
| 293 | * SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Because of their father, Elliott feels inferior to their older brother; like they are in a constant rivalry with him that they never asked for. |
| 294 | * TheUnFavorite: This is what Elliott feels they are in their father's eyes. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Kai]] |
| 298 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kai_0.jpg]] |
| 299 | [[caption-width-right:350:"So, if you don't mind, or if you do, I don't care, I'm gonna reclaim the hour that was stolen from me and use it to nap! People lie down in therapy sessions, right?"]] |
| 300 | ->''Yeah, I'm a weirdo, now you know. But that doesn't need to be anybody's business.'' |
| 301 | Kai is a young gamer who's pressured by his girlfriend, Lauren, to go to therapy and work out the problems he had while growing up derived from his Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disorder that causes him pain. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Talyn |
| 304 | ->'''First appearance''': "What 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Can Teach Us About Self-Worth", August 8, 2018 |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | * BerserkButton: If anyone implies, intentionally or not, that he is inferior or "less than", he bursts out with anger. |
| 307 | -->'''Sokka''': ''[from archive footage]'' Each of you are so amazing and so special, and I'm... not. I'm just the guy in the group who's regular.\ |
| 308 | '''Dr. Picani''': Is that something you can relate to?\ |
| 309 | '''Kai''': As a matter of fact... [[SuddenlyShouting IT'S NOOOOOT!]] YOU DON'T KNOW ME! STOP TRYING TO READ ME! YOU'RE NOT A PSYCHIC, YOU'RE NOT WU! MORE LIKE UNCLE ABUUUUU!!!\ |
| 310 | '''Dr. Picani''': Whoa, whoa, whoa! Coming in hot there! I heard of Agni Kai, but this is ridiculous!\ |
| 311 | ''[[[ChirpingCrickets Kai stares at Picani in silence, a coughing sound is heard in the distance]]]''\ |
| 312 | '''Dr. Picani''': Been waiting to make that joke... |
| 313 | * DefrostingIceKing: After the session, he's considerably softened up, and opened up to Picani. |
| 314 | * DisabledMeansHelpless: ''Really'' hates when someone thinks this of him. |
| 315 | * {{Geek}}: Kai is a cartoon and video games geek. He knows as much about "Avatar: The Last Airbender" as Dr. Picani himself, even surpassing him at some points. He is also a professional gamer that has won many tournaments of Smash Bros among others. |
| 316 | * IResembleThatRemark: When Dr. Picani points out that he has an attitude, he refutes this saying, and right after that, tells him in a very defiant manner that he doesn't care if he naps. |
| 317 | * SirSwearsALot: Appropriately for a sour teen who reluctantly goes to therapy, he swears a lot. |
| 318 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Kai hides a lot of pain and shame inside of him. He behaves like a real jerk, attacking everyone around him, just to hide that. That is, until Dr. Picani can get to the core of that issue. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Sloane & Corbin]] |
| 322 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sloanecorbin.jpg]] |
| 323 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You made that judgment about me? Who are you to do that when our relationship just started?"]] |
| 324 | --->''I'm sorry, is this a therapy session or a botany class?'' |
| 325 | Sloane and Corbin are a happy young couple in the first months of their relation. Sloane senses that Corbin has difficulty in opening up with others, so he signed them both to therapy to try and work out that issue. |
| 326 | |
| 327 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Kyle Tapley (Sloane) and Terrence Williams Jr. (Corbin) |
| 328 | ->'''First appearance''': "What 'Steven Universe' Teaches Us About Relationships", December 16, 2017 |
| 329 | ---- |
| 330 | * DisappearedDad: Corbin was raised by a [[StrugglingSingleMother single mother who struggled to take care of him]]. |
| 331 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Sloane invades Corbin's personal space and throws him into situations Corbin is uncomfortable with, like going to therapy in the first place. |
| 332 | * OppositesAttract: Sloane has a happy and bubbly personality, while Corbin is a serious and quite cynical individual. They couldn't be more different, and yet that's the reason they complement each other so well. |
| 333 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Corbin had to mature fast due to his mother's situation and how she relied on him many tasks from a very early age. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 |
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