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* Big Bad (during "The Popsicle War")
* Beautiful All Along (subverted)
* Last Second Chance (pointed out by her shoulder conscience early in "The Popsicle War"; however, she chooses to ignore it)
* I Just Want to Be Beautiful/Power Fantasy/ Be Careful What You Wish For
* Manipulative Bastard
* Pygmalion Plot
* Rape Is Love (more specifically, Involuntary Hand Job Is Love)
* Social Darwinist
* Static Character Sara Velte, Penny's best and oldest friend File:Castsara 2340.jpg
* Coming Out Story
* Butch Lesbian/Lipstick Lesbian: (her post-coming-out look combines aspects of both)
* Freudian Trio: The Superego
* Honest Advisor/Number Two: To Penny
* Jade-Colored Glasses
* Shipper on Deck --> The Dulcinea Effect/Knight in Shining Armor
* The Spock --> The McCoy
* Tsundere Type A
* Took a Level In Badass (non-violent example)
* Transparent Closet (to Lisa, Penny and Cyndi) Michelle Brown, Penny's other closest friend File:Castmichelle 440.jpg
* The Chick
* Driven by Envy: The source of Michelle's anorexia exacerbated by Cyndi's "encouragement".
* The Ditz
* Flat Character (subverted in "Hunger"; her therapist describes her as "not Silent Bob" and "not deep," but by the end of the brief arc she emerges as an even deeper and richer character)
* Freudian Trio: The Id
* I Just Want to Be Loved
* I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: With regard to Rich and Penny
* Love Hurts
* The McCoy
* Naive Everygirl/The Pollyanna
* Stepford Smiler: Is very good at hiding her insecurities, and her eating disorder, behind a peppy demeanor and a cheerful grin.
* Yes-Man: To Penny. Lisa Winklemeyer, Aggie's best friend File:Castlisa 4374.jpg
* Bald Woman: In the finale.
* Bi the Way (more or less)
* Blithe Spirit/Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: In-universe, Lisa is bound and determined to act as a good example of these tropes for everyone she meets.
* Cloudcuckoolander/Cool People Rebel Against Authority
* Deadpan Snarker
* Genki Girl
* The Herald/Sidekick Ex Machina: It's a near-guarantee that, if a sympathetic character has a dilemma in need of addressing, Lisa will be there to help them confront and/or fix it.
* Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Jokingly tells Michelle that she ships the two of them together. Plays this trope straight with her kindred spirit, Stan.
* Strange Girl: Much like her friend Aggie, Lisa deliberately cultivates a countercultural image.
* Totally Radical (given to bizarre, self-created slang, e.g. "Ms. Megabagadouche") Duane Teague, Aggie's friend and Penny's platonic boyfriend File:Castduane 1815.jpg
* Hollywood Nerd
* Hopeless Suitor (double subverted)
* I Didn't Mean to Turn You On (to Charlotte) Daphne Brooks, friend to Aggie, Lisa and Fred; Sara's girlfriend File:Castdaphne 5207.jpg
* Genki Girl
* Lipstick Lesbian Fred Rudolph, friend to Aggie, Lisa and Daphne File:Castfred 4682.jpg
* Large Ham
* Pet Homosexual
* Perpetual Smiler (most of the time)
* Straight Gay / Camp Gay (the latter generally when rehearsing, performing or just tipsy) Marshall Gryvanski, Karen's boyfriend and Aggie's first crush File:Castmarshall 8810.jpg
* Abusive Parents (his hedonistic mother verbally berates him in public for being an obstacle to her)
* Bishonen (subverted and deconstructed)
* Chick Magnet (The only girl never attracted to him, even momentarily, is Penny. Even Sara finds him attractive prior to her discovering she's gay)
* Disappeared Dad (he has no idea who his dad even is)
* Let's Wait a While Rich Diggle, Penny's first love File:Castrich 3044.jpg
* All Girls Want Bad Boys / All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Although Penny isn't a cheerleader.
* Badass Biker
* Make Up or Break Up Stan Larson, Rich's wingman and Penny's rival/FriendlyEnemy File:Caststan 5855.jpg
* The Chessmaster: Particularly in the Campaign Trail arc.
* Fatal Flaw: Ambition
* Handsome Lech
* I Didn't Mean to Turn You On (to Michelle, in that he thought she'd wanted a hook-up, not romance; later, in a different sense, to Penny)
* Manipulative Bastard (reforms during "The Popsicle War")
* Subordinate Excuse (to Rich, whom he has something of a crush on despite being a ladies' man)
* Was It Really Worth It? (the end of "Mister Smiles") Jack Kirk, Stan's best friend and Rich's other wingman File:Castjack 2217.jpg
* Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels
* Heroic Self-Deprecation
* Insecure Love Interest (vis-à-vis Katy-Ann)
* Silent Bob Katy-Ann Williams, Penny's friend and Jack's girlfriend File:Castkatyann 2921.jpg
* Genki Girl
* Saintly Church (a one-person embodiment and the diametric opposite of Charlotte's intolerant, near-psychotic fundamentalist nature, although sometimes her religiosity can be a source of angst as well as friction with others)
* Wise Beyond Their Years (a teenage example of the trope, she's easily the most mature character apart from Aggie's father Nick) Brandi Jones, Penny's friend and Stan's girlfriend File:Castbrandi 9460.jpg
* Beware the Nice Ones
* Ethical Slut
* Friends with Benefits / Relationship Upgrade
* Ms. Fanservice (as drawn by Jason Waltrip) Cyndi Kristoffer, Karen's onetime collaborator, and the comic's main villain after "The Popsicle War" File:Castcyndi 7038.jpg
* Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
* Depraved Bisexual
* Faux Yay (subverted when she crushes on Sara-as-Lady Macbeth)
* For the Evulz
* Manipulative Bastard (to a sociopathic degree)
* The Mole (in Penny's clique throughout the first half of "The Popsicle War")
* Ms. Fanservice (particularly as drawn by Jason Waltrip)
* Obfuscating Stupidity Samantha Evans, collaborator, at one time or another, with Karen and Cyndi File:Castsamantha 2804.jpg
* Everything Is Racist
* Sassy Black Woman
* You Watch Too Much X Meg Macomb, Penny's onetime rival, Cyndi's friend, collaborator with Karen File:Castmeg 4493.jpg
* Alpha Bitch (in her backstory)
* Jerkass Has a Point: Played with. She seems to be one of the few characters to be fully aware that all the melodrama of highschool aren't the most important years of her life... immediately after this assertion, she nervously asks whether the contents of a police interrogation will be "going on her permanent record."
* Pride Before a Fall (in her backstory)
* Opt Out / Know When to Fold'Em (during "The Popsicle War") Helen Tomalin, downbeat friend, at one time or another, of Penny, Charlotte, Aggie, and Karen File:Casthelen 6363.jpg
* Abusive Parents/The Unfavorite: (her parents favor her older sister; in her childhood her father tells her he doesn't love her "right now" when she fails to complete an age-inappropriate task)
* Bitch in Sheep's Clothing/False Friend: Helen is a sympathetic example of these tropes, and tends to surround herself with examples of same, some less sympathetic than others.
* Attention Whore: Downplayed eventually, in a very literal fashion. Helen desperately wants acceptance, approval, and attention, no matter the source; she believes that letting herself be used is the only way to achieve these ends. This culminates in a Heroic BSOD/Villainous Breakdown when she realizes she slept with resident skeezoids Bob and Elmer while under the influence of alcohol.
* Broken Bird See above.
* Driven by Envy/The Resenter: Helen drifted apart from Penny's group of friends in middle school, and resents them for excluding her from their clique. She is implied to have been envious of Penny's social status in childhood, as well.
* Extreme Doormat (She wants people to use her and is at a loss whenever no one needs to.)
* I Just Want to Be Loved/I Just Want to Have Friends: Very downplayed; after remembering her rape and overhearing Brandi and Stan's healthy sexual relationship, Helen realizes she has heretofore been unable to differentiate between being loved and getting screwed, and has a breakdown.
* Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain (in "The Popsicle War," to some extent)
* The Mole (in Aggie's clique throughout the first half of "The Popsicle War")
* Never My Fault: Helen's need to be used often motivates her to put her morals aside.
* Professional Butt-Kisser: Of every clique she's been in:
* Rape as Drama: Taking advantage of young women too drunk to give informed consent seems to be a favorite pastime of Bob and Elmer.
* The Runaway (to Something Positive's Boston)
* Sour Supporter/Unlucky Childhood Friend: Formerly, of the Pennies.
* Sudden Principled Stand: Helen, of all people, chews out Charlotte when the latter tries to frame Katy-Ann for a bomb threat.
* What Did I Do Last Night?: Answer: Bob and Elmer. Both at once. Charlotte Simms, onetime friend of Aggie and Helen, later friends with Duane File:Castcharlotte 652.jpg
* Abusive Parents (her mother, and implied with regard to her late father)
* Berserk Button (do not criticize, or attempt to entrap, Duane in front of her)
* Broken Bird
* The Fundamentalist (big time, but after befriending Duane she becomes gentler and more open-minded... or so it seems, until she kidnaps and tortures Cyndi in what she believes is God's punishment for Cyndi's Manipulative Bastard actions)
* Interrupted Suicide
* Rape as Drama (makes false accusation against Sara; the real thing is also heavily implied in her backstory) Nick and Melody D'Amour, Aggie's parents
* Happily Married (before Melody's accidental death in the backstory)
* Hippie Parents / New Age Retro Hippies (a subtle and sympathetic instance)
* Posthumous Character (Melody, seen only in Flashbacks and Aggie's dream)
* So Proud of You (Nick and Melody have both, in effect, said so to Aggie) Rob Levac, Penny's father
* Deadpan Snarker
* Jaded Washout (in the earlier strips)
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold (when flirting with Lynda as a teenager)
* Mistaken for Cheating (by Penny; subverted in that she's happy for him, thinking his "affair" will bring back the active, upbeat dad she used to have) Lynda Levac, Penny's mother
* Nerds Are Sexy (as a teenager and in the present)
* Soapbox Sadie (as a teenager)
* Tsundere (Type A, to Rob as a teenager) Charisma Gryvanski, Marshall's mother and Nick's girlfriend
* Really Gets Around (before her more serious relationship with Nick)
* Resentful Guardian (reciprocated, less abusively, on Marshall's part)
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