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| - The protagonist of the show, if you didn't figure that out from the name. Antisocial, intellectual, plainly dressed and snarks like nobody's business. Surrounded by living caricatures and all kinds of idiocy and insanity which she has no patience for, she mainly copes by alternately trying to stop things from getting out of control, or just watching and commenting on the madness. Tropes associated with Daria:
* Allergic to Love: In "Ill" , she gets a rash that turns out to be a stress reaction to being around Trent.
* Anti-Hero: Type IV.
* Ascended Extra: She was a recurring character in Beavis and Butthead before getting her own show. Word of God says that Beavis and Butthead would have appeared on Daria if the show wasn't a success.
* Beautiful All Along: Happens a few different times.
* Burger Fool: In one episode, she worked at a mall stand called "It's A Nutty Nutty World"
* Captivity Harmonica: In one episode when she was grounded. Her parents lifted the grounding just so that they didn't have to hear it anymore.
* Cool Loser: As Brittany puts it: she's not popular, but she's not unpopular enough that she can't associate with popular people.
* Creepy Monotone
* Deadpan Snarker: Her defining trait.
* Fiery Redhead: Played with, her temper is more Tranquil Fury and she is auburn-haired, yet acts like a Brainy Brunette.
* The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
* Hidden Buxom: Seems to be this trope in "Quinn the Brain."
* Hidden Depths: As the series progresses, her personality is elaborated on to where she notices flaws in her character and realizes that people do hate her for being negative and anti-social.
* Hollywood Atheist: Averted on "Groped By An Angel." Her atheism/agnosticism seems to only be based on lack of evidence and she doesn't shove her lack of belief in other characters' faces. In fact, the only person she tells this to is Quinn (who is upset that her guardian angel wasn't around to save her from being embarrassed at a party). Strangely, this takes place after that time she met a leprechaun, a Cherub (or possibly a Greco-Roman love god) and various other supernatural beings.
* Ice Queen: Well known for her dispassionate, aloof persona as well as her frostbitten wit.
* Informed Loner: She considers herself a loner and prefers to distance herself from the school social circle, but most of her fellow students seem to be fine speaking with her. It's possible that this is because she's (normally) disassociated with the high school drama and is 'safe' for just about anyone to talk to.
* Intelligence Equals Isolation: Although several episodes (particularly the ones after season three) deconstruct this to show that being smart and isolated from others isn't something a positive thing to aspire to be.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of her cold nature and sarcasm, she has helped out other students if they ask, and has been shown to genuinely care about her family and friends.
* Meaningful Name: "Daria" is Persian for "queen".
* There was also an Orthodox saint.
* OOC Is Serious Business: If Daria drops her poker face for even a second, it's usually important.
* Perpetual Frowner
* Redhead in Green
* Refuge in Audacity: You see this disaffected semiwaifish high schooler? This disaffected semiwaifish high schooler is capable of calling a band of mercenaries, under the principal's name, to crash a school assembly being hosted by said principal, just to prove a moral point, without anyone ever suspecting it was her and without ever breaking her aforementioned poker face. With media present. Do not cross her.
* She Cleans Up Nicely: Daria is just as pretty as Quinn, and can show off, but only when she has to, since it goes against her own principles, as seen in "Quinn the Brain."
* The Snark Knight: Initially, this trope was actually called "The Daria".
* Sugar and Ice Personality: Going waaay heavy on the "ice" side.
* Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Quinn's Girly Girl.
* Tranquil Fury: Daria never raises her voice unless she needs to yell to be heard. But when she gets angry you can practically feel her voice getting sharper.
* Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jane, which becomes more noticeable with each season.
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