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* Characters/BigBrother19TheJury

* [[Characters/BigBrother19WinnerRunnerUp Big Brother 19 Winner and Runner-Up]]

* [[Characters/BigBrother19WinnerRunnerUp Big Brother 19 Winner and Runner-Up]] (Final Two Houseguests)

* [[Characters/BigBrother19WinnerRunnerUp Big Brother 19 Winner and Runner-Up]]

!!Big Brother 19 Houseguest Tropes

* Characters/BigBrother19TheJury
* [[Characters/BigBrother19WinnerRunnerUp Big Brother Winner and Runner-Up]]

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!The Winner

[[folder: Joshua "Josh" Martinez]]

!''Joshua "Josh" Martinez''
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->'''Hometown:''' Miami, FL
->'''Current Residence:''' Homestead, FL
->'''Date of Birth:''' January 04th, 1994
->'''Age:''' 23
->'''Occupation:''' Hair Care Sales
->'''Number Of [=HOH=] Wins:''' 3
->'''Number Of [=POV=] Wins:''' 1
->'''Number Of Times Nominated:''' 1
->'''Number Of Times As Have-Not:''' 3
->'''Temptations Taken''': Golden Apple [[note]](Safety from eviction that week, but the rest of his team is disqualified from the HOH competition)[[/note]], "Where Were You?" (Seventh Place)
->'''Finished:''' 1ST PLACE
->'''Evicted:''' WINNER (WON $500,000)
->'''HOH Evicted Under:''' None
%%->'''Voted For (As Juror):'''
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Subverted. Originally, Josh was rather hated by pretty much everyone in the house. They found him to be extremely annoying and overly emotional. They also didn't like how he was overly confrontational and argumentative, constantly trying to start fights with the other houseguests. Others, like Kevin, felt that Josh was extremely immature because of his age. However as the weeks pass, he gathers some allies, such as Paul, Alex, Jason, Kevin, and Christmas and the rest of the house, with the exception of Cody and Jessica, tolerate him at best. However the perception of him by fans has recently been much more negative (if the Joker's Updates ratings are anything to go by.) This is most likely a result of his treatment of other house guests (especially Mark) under Paul's orders influence. However, his funny antics outside of his temper tantrums are quite beloved in of themselves. What ended his disapproval rating was when he won HOH and Cody threatened to destroy him outside of the house and come after him in real life, and that got ''everybody'' on his side and began the downfall of Cody and Jessica. Due to being a BaseBreakingCharacter outside the house (either you love him or you hate him, sometimes simultaneously), Josh usually stays inside the middle of the popularity polls.
* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: By the end of the game, the house has realized that Josh was an emotional monster at times, but he always played with his heart, which ultimately won him Alex's vote and even '''[[BeyondTheImpossible CODY'S]]''' vote.
* ActionSurvivor: He's not the best competitor or strategist, but he's managed to build up a decent enough social game to the point where he went from being the most hated and targeted houseguest at the start to becoming someone who has plenty of allies.
* {{Adorkable}}: Josh can be very dorky and endearing especially when he's fooling around or goofing off with Paul, Christmas, Alex, and Jason.
* AffectionateNickname: Christmas likes to call him "Juju", as does Raven.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Josh was constantly ostracized and picked on by the other houseguests in the beginning. Nobody wanted to interact with him or align with him because they found him way too unpredictable, immature and emotional. Josh was often the hot topic for trash talking amongst the houseguests. It was easy to feel sympathetic towards Josh since he was pretty much all alone in the house and he was having emotional breakdowns over finding the game overwhelming and not being accepted by anyone. However, this is later subverted, as Josh does end up becoming friends with many houseguests and gains loyal allies in Paul, Christmas, Jason, and Alex.
* AmbiguouslyBi: There have been some fans who have commented or questioned about Josh's sexuality. Some speculate that Josh is possibly bisexual. However, Josh has stated that he's straight and that he's attracted to women such as his crush on Elena.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Josh's mental state has been a hot topic amongst the house and the audience. Quite a few people think that Josh possibly suffers from a variety of mental disorders due to the strange behavior that he exhibits in the house. Some people have speculated that Josh may suffer from '''BipolarDisorder'''. He seems to display a lot of the classic symptoms of the disorder such as [[MoodSwinger erratic moods]], unpredictability, [[HotBlooded impulsiveness]], [[DelusionsOfGrandeur grandiose thoughts and ideas]], [[MotorMouth racing thoughts and speech]], [[HairTriggerTemper irritability and combativeness]], abundance of energy, restlessness, depressive/sad episodes, and persistent crying spells. It's also possible that Josh suffers from '''General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)''' as Josh displays symptoms of restlessness, nervousness, inability to sit still for long, constant, persistent or excessive worrying, inability to relax, sleeping issues/insomnia, persistent distress, and difficulty concentrating. Josh has even admitted on the feeds that he suffers from anxiety, however, it's uncertain as to whether or not he takes medication for it. Finally, others speculate that Josh displays signs of someone who suffers from '''[[{{Depression}} Major Depressive Disorder]] (MDD)''' as he shows symptoms of low self worth/self esteem, frequently depressive/sad moods, persistent crying spells, occasional low energy, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, and irritability. There are also lighthearted jokes that Josh [[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} may be on the spectrum]] due to his childish and repetitive antics and inability to recognize when to stop (it's mostly immaturity if anything else).
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Plays this role to the rest of the houseguests, especially Mark, considering that he's become the second youngest houseguest after Raven and after Ramses is evicted. Josh's relationship with Mark is very big brother-little brother with Mark playing the big brother role and Josh playing the little brother role. At the start of the game, Mark had a strong BigBrotherInstinct and BigBrotherMentor relationship with Josh, frequently going out of his way to be there for an overly emotional and impulsive Josh so that he could give him personal advice. Mark has commented that he sees Josh as a younger brother that is quite an annoyance and nuisance to him because of Josh's erratic personality, actions and behavior. However, Mark does also see Josh as someone he has to look out for and keep in line when he gets too out of control, emotional, impulsive and crazy.
* AntiVillain:
** He's technically on the villainous side as he's TheDragon for the BigBad Paul but he's not a completely bad person. In regards to his CharacterAlignment, he starts off as ChaoticNeutral, but eventually descends to a combination of LawfulEvil or NeutralEvil with ChaoticEvil shades.
** Josh is a '''NobleDemon''' (Type I) because although he does have some traits that would make him come across as a villain, he's still rather noble and good hearted deep down. There are times when Josh will back down from antagonizing others and he doesn't always like to entertain the idea of hurting other people through mean-spirited words or actions. Sometimes a MoralityPet, such as Christmas and Paul, will stop Josh from going over the edge and will help to bring out his moral and noble side.
** He's a '''WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds''' (Type II) because even though he has villainous traits, much of his behaviour can be considered justified due to the fact that he has been mistreated and bullied by some of the other houseguests. Often, when Josh is fighting with someone else, it's normally because Josh is only trying to stand up for himself. Therefore, it can be easy to sympathize with Josh at times because of the way that he has been treated and ostracized by the other houseguests, in particular Cody and Jessica.
* ArchEnemy: To Megan, Cody, Jessica & Mark. As well as pretty much anyone he feels has wronged him (which is a constantly-growing list), like Kevin. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Even]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=36VWN2GvTJQ the coffeepot]]''.
* ASinisterClue: Josh is left handed and he's also TheDragon for the BigBad Paul.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Thanks to Paul, he became a KarmaHoudini the week he was slated to go home. During the Week 7 HOH, where he's the host while Julie speaks, he's dressed as a ''magician.'' Josh the meatball magician! Makes a meatball come out of a hat!
* AttackAttackAttack: Once Josh lets loose with the banging of pots and pans, he continues to keep going and going until it just annoys those he's trying to taunt with them, especially Mark, Cody and Jessica. Josh also has a habit of escalating arguments to the point where he comes across as TheBully. Other people often have to step in in order to stop Josh from going on the constant attack or offence against the other houseguests. He stops using this taunt after doing it so much he actually ''broke the pan''... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fns4lsfRw and after he learns]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he accidentally hit and injured Raven, who prevented him from hitting Alex by accident.]]
* AttentionWhore: Josh seems to like being the centre of attention and he will do anything to achieve that, even if he ends up looking outrageous and foolish. He shares that trait with Paul.
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. For the most part, Josh is completely harmless and poses no actual threat to anyone. But many of the other houseguests have frequently commented that they think Josh is emotionally and mentally unstable. They believe that he suffers from some sort of AmbiguousDisorder or mental illness due to the erratic and crazy behavior he's displayed. It's speculated amongst fans that Josh possibly suffers from '''Bipolar Disorder''' (severe mood swings/changes, irritability, restlessness, manic behavior, racing speech and thoughts, etc), or '''Borderline Personality Disorder''' (extreme black and white view of things, unpredictable mood changes, irrational anger, aggression, emotional instability, fear of judged, disliked or abandoned, etc). He's also incredibly HotBlooded with a HairTriggerTemper and once he's set off, he's extremely crazy, wild and unpredictable. When he gets really riled up, he'll resort to picking up pots and pans and bashing them together to cause chaos. He's even taunted and threatened people with the pots and pans, notably Mark, Cody and Jessica. With how mentally and emotionally volatile and unstable Josh often comes across, it's a serious wonder how he (along with a few of the other houseguests such as Raven and Cody for example) managed to pass their psych test.
* BadassBoast: Definitely has huge balls when it comes to calling out other houseguests on their BS.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In his goodbye message to Matt when Matt gets evicted, he makes it sound like he's going to say his predictable "meatball" catchphrase, telling Matt he's a big bowl of... [[TrademarkFavoriteFood cereal!]]
* BaldOfEvil: Downplayed. Josh is not completely bald as he does visibly have hair. However, his hair is so short and close cropped and it's most likely that he does shave it in order to keep it very short.
* BashBrothers: He's this with Jason and Paul especially. He considers the both of them to be his closest allies in the game and he strongly depends on them for support on a personal level.
* BatmanGambit: Josh was originally planning to pull a move out of the Steve Moses handbook and take Christmas to the end, but realized when placed beside the lesser of two evils, he had a much better shot at winning the whole game. He was surprisingly right!
* BastardUnderstudy: When he begins playing the game, Josh only causes trouble when he's angry. However, after Jessica puts him on the block, Paul gives him the idea to throw the torment back at his enemies... which gives rise to a massive ''[[FromNobodyToNightmare sadist]]'' who is not only vindictive towards those who he is sure in his own warped state of mind have wronged him, but revels in causing them misery.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Josh used Paul's own strategies of throwing the blame on somebody against him and ''only'' him to win.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Insists that he has played an honest, loyal game. Despite the fact that he completely lied to Jessica and Cody about his eviction vote week 1 (and while Josh may consider them to be [[AssholeVictims deserving targets]], the reality is that a lie is a lie). Additionally, he gets extremely offended when Mark calls him out for cheating at pool even though Josh ''did'' cheat at pool.
* BerserkButton:
** DO NOT attack him on a personal level or disrespect him. Josh will erupt into a volcano of anger and rage and it's definitely not pretty. But most of all, he hates being called fat (actually more of a chunky type who's half muscle, half fat), which Cody and Jess took advantage off just to get him off their backs. Zingbot got him for this a lot later, with the taunt, "Joo~~osh! My heart goes out to you. You've shed a lot of tears this summer. Too bad you ''can't'' shed any... ''weight!'' Mean girl Zing!" Josh's response in the Diary Room was a flat and very stunned, "What [[CurseCutShort the-]]" (they cut the scene right then and there, but you probably know [[PrecisionFStrike how that sentence is supposed to end]]).
** Don't backstab others. He went after Megan, Cody, Jessica, Mark, Elena, and Kevin, all in that order. Each fight was massive, and most ended with him in tears.
** People who think they own the house. Josh will give them a taste of their own medicine in due time.
* TheBerserker: Josh has a seriously bad habit of throwing himself into a fight and antagonizing other houseguests without even thinking straight. Much of this is contributed to Josh being overly emotional, HotBlooded, and impulsive. He often needs someone to pull him back from acting too irrational and starting drama. And when he gets upset and depressed, he loses sight of what his alliance wants to do and goes rogue, which is very disconcerting for the people he is allied with because they're afraid he's like a landmine waiting to go off underneath them if stepped on hard enough, and blow up their games.
* BestServedCold: All throughout the game, Josh called out people directly, except for the one untouchable houseguest: Paul. So Josh went ahead and did something so devious that it went ''beyond'' a snipe at the Final 3- he squealed on Paul in ''every'' goodbye message each time someone went to Jury. Paul had absolutely no way of knowing till the end of the game Josh had done this, and it turned out to be the most epic and unexpected move of all in the game, because each eviction stacked the incrimination harder and harder against Paul.
* TheBigGuy[=/=]TheBrute: A cross between the two. Josh is one of the larger set male houseguests of the season along with Mark and Jason. He sometimes uses his size to intimidate others when he gets upset or angry.
* BodyguardingABadass: Even though Paul is the most powerful player in the game and is also the biggest threat (as he is a Big Brother veteran) who can take down anyone in his path socially, competitively, and strategically, Josh has still vowed to have UndyingLoyalty to Paul no matter what and has made it part of his mission in the game to protect Paul as much as he can. It's not completely one sided however, as Paul also protects Josh and looks out for him personal wise and game wise. After all, Paul was the biggest reason why Josh stayed in the game when he was on the block against Ramses in Week 5. The only thing that can break that loyalty is the need competition-wise to survive.
* BoisterousWeakling: Josh is loud, brash and aggressive at times towards the other houseguests. He likes to act tough by calling out other houseguests. However, whenever other people calling Josh out, he ends up crumbling emotionally and doesn't handle the criticism very well. He does manage to tone it down later on in the game though.
* BreakoutCharacter: Aside from Paul running the house this season, Josh's escapades/borderline madness made this season not just "The Summer of Temptation", but "The Summer of Meatballs". He became one of the most prominent houseguests of Big Brother 19 due to all of his emotions running wild a ton of the time, and always giving the cameras plenty to work with.
* BrilliantButLazy: Josh is reasonably intelligent and has generally good game instincts. But he lacks the skills that are essential to what makes an excellent game player. Plus, his social game isn't very good and he was pretty much Paul's puppet for the entire game who ended up doing all of his dirty work for him.
* '''BrokenTears''': A common staple of Josh throughout the season is that he is ultra-prone to cry when beaten down, and Zingbot riffs him on it. He could give Big Meech a run for her tear-dampened money. Josh is constantly crying over every argument and troubling decision he has to make to advance his position in the game, but the one where the tears won't stop is when he's forced to see Jason and Raven leave the house against his volition all in the same night. While the rest of the houseguests are in pretty rough shape, Josh is in ruins. He shuts himself away in the lounge as usual, but instead of using it to enjoy himself alone, [[IronicEcho he uses it to grieve alone.]] By [[DespairEventHorizon Week 11]], you could plan a whole DrinkingGame around the number of times he breaks down crying. Paul notes he should be happy that the BB Comics Week didn't make his alter ego crying (fortunately, that honor already goes to resident crybaby Big Meech).
* BrutalHonesty: Josh always states exactly what's on his mind. If Josh is talking, you're most likely getting the hard cold truth, even if it's hurtful or ugly. He calls himself a "straight-shooter" and Christmas notes the reason most of the houseguests get so mad at them is because he "checkmates" them by making [[ArmorPiercingQuestion piercing statements about them]] that they can't justify and they resort to getting nasty with him to put the pressure back on him and hope they can make him feel bad enough to back off.
* TheBully: Sometimes Josh ends up taunting and tormenting people, especially those who've wronged him or betrayed him. When he gets mad, watch out because he won't hesitate to bring out the pots and pans!
* ButtMonkey: Gets yelled at by Cody and Jessica for flipping on them to the point where the couple mock and ridicule him.
* TheCaligula: The meatball maniac who bangs two skillets around while wearing a tutu wins HOH. Here comes trouble. Subverted in that during his week as HOH, he may have been AxCrazy and overly emotional, but he was actually rather calm and level headed. In comparison to Cody as HOH, Josh came off as completely sane and rational. But when Week 11 rolls by, Josh is a ''hurricane'' of emotions as the HOH and has his allies genuinely worried he's going to flatten the house by going after a random target... subverted once again when Josh cools down and decides he will wait for the final three to make his move.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: According to him, Josh gets easily drunk. When Kevin had talked about taking Josh out to have drinks in the real world, Josh joked that he would have to drag him to the hotel because he would be so drunk out of his mind within a short amount of time. When the houseguests get access to alcohol, he does become tipsy pretty darn quick.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: While most of the house doesn't think much of Josh, they know for certain that he will go with any plan against Cody and Jessica, so the house kept him around when Jessica tried to get rid of him. Paul views Josh as the perfect shield. Ironically, his own shield ends up taking him out.
* CantTakeCriticism: Josh is extremely sensitive and doesn't take other people's criticism very well. Once he's criticized or called out for his bad behaviour, he will either resort to [[DramaQueen throwing a temper tantrum]] or [[ManlyTears constantly crying]] to gain sympathy or attention from others.
* CannotTellALie: Josh ''hates'' deceiving people, and those who deceive. If ever he is forced to make these kinds of moves, he will always find a way to get the truth out into the open so that friendships stay intact outside the house when people get evicted.
* CatchPhrase:
** '''"Meatball".''' Either used to brag, or as an insult- particularly toward one's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything manhood]], especially in the case of Cody. And frequently modified into various meatball-isms. He refers to Cody and Jessica as an item as "Mr. and Mrs. Meatball". Or "Private Meatball and her security guard" when Jess is the one wielding the power. He even has a [[HappyDance meatball dance.]] And even after he steps away from using the catchphrase, the show itself takes advantage of it and goes as far as to feature a meatball covered in marinara with a snake wrapped around it for the Wednesday episode promo of Week 6, when he's the HOH. It's ''very'' appropriate considering Josh is supposed to be the spicy meatball and he's got a snake (Paul) encircling him. Naturally, he's billed as "The Meatball" when BB Comics Week takes place, pots and pans in hand.
** Sometimes, Josh will shout, "THAT'S BRUTAL!" and/or "RUTHLESS!" when something absolutely unadulterated or unbelievable happens in the game.
** When somebody gets emotionally worked up or melancholy, including him, he refers to it as they "had a moment".
* ChaoticStupid: Josh is ''constantly'' finding reasons to do buffoonish things out of the blue that disturb the peace in the house. He's basically a walking BigLippedAlligatorMoment waiting to happen at any given time of day or night.
* CharacterDevelopment: Perhaps the most pronounced in the series. Josh is notable for being the biggest crybaby this side of [[Characters/BigBrother2 Bunky]], [[Characters/BigBrother8 Amber]], [[Characters/BigBrother17 Vanessa]], and [[Characters/BigBrother18 Michelle]], combined with [[SignatureScene a massive bully]], happily going after players for no good reason and being ChaoticStupid. By week 11, he has matured ''massively'' and manages to blow up Paul's game behind his back and winning by exploiting that particular jury's strengths and weaknesses then playing them to his own to win because he may have been a massive JerkAss, but at least he was honest about it.
* ChewingTheScenery: Josh loves to get up close and personal with the cameras when he's alone and talk into them.
* CloudCuckoolander: Josh is a fount of both hilarity and insanity, and he knows it, claiming himself to be both an "oddball" and a "nutcase" within the span of the same sentence. Whatever Josh does in his spare time, it's bound to be weird. His moments of unsupervised activity are often the most bizarre and funny moments during the season. For instance, he bonds with the stuffed owl in the apple room. And before that, he talks to the pool duck tube like it's begrudgingly in love with him and named it "Deliah" and claimed [[MurderTheHypotenuse her lover Hubert is dead.]] And then when everybody's going to bed, he happens to be the one forcing the house to keep the lights on because he's salsa dancing in front of bathroom mirror while wearing a shaving cream beard. What is this guy's deal, anyway? What's it like up there in Josh World? Cloudy with a chance of meatballs?
* ClusterFBomb: When Josh gets angry, he curses like a sailor and says the F word repeatedly. He's really no different than plenty of the other houseguests in how they react when they are pissed. The only big separator here is that he does it a '''lot''' more than they do.
* ComicalOverreacting: Josh is very dramatic and no matter what emotion or reaction Josh is displaying, it seems to be over the top and grandiose to highly comical levels. Josh's crying also has the ability of inciting a laugh or a humorous moment.
* CompanionCube: Josh has established '''FOUR.''' Delilah the pool swan tube ([[CargoShip who he flirts with]]), Hubert, the other pool swan tube ([[MurderTheHypotenuse who he falsely claims is dead]]) and Orwell the talking owl ([[AloneWithThePsycho who is downright terrified of Josh]]). It should be noted Josh has made these companions after undergoing self-admitted SanitySlippage while stuck in the house for so long. Arguably, the kitchen pots and pans might be companions, too (which are probably dented to heck considering how much abuse he's put them through, so it's not a healthy relationship by any means). Then there's Orwell's lookalike brother Theodore, who is distinguished from Orwell [[IdenticalTwinIDTag by Josh's red bandana.]]
* {{Corpsing}}: As the host of the Week 7 POV, he's supposed to stick to his duties of announcing the gameplay and remain impartial. But when Jason shoots a dart out of bounds, he goes, "Jason, you big meatball!" And when Elena steals a $5,000 prize from Alex, he completely goes off script and starts openly shouting, "That's ''brutal!'' That is so brutal!"
* CorruptTheCutie: Josh started out as overly emotional and vulnerable at the start of the game. However, once Paul got his clutches into Josh and Josh started to become TheDragon to Paul with an UndyingLoyalty to him (up to Week 11, at least), he became more villainous in his actions. Much of Josh's antics, such as the arguments and fights that he starts with others, are often influenced by Paul. And because of that, a lot of his jury votes are jeopardized, and he knows it, which is why Josh is at a bargaining phase of the game in the final stretches trying to figure out if he should let Paul carry him on to the end or just crush the alliance and go on as a rogue player.
* TheCorruptible: Josh is easily manipulated and influenced. It's because Josh is very naive and gullible as a person. He's easily influenced by Paul and anything he says and does. During Week 5, Paul had influenced Josh to go on a taunting tirade against Cody and Jessica and he obeyed easily without question. And by Week 7, Alex is in love with the idea of carrying him to the end of the game as a toady. However, by Week 11, it seems Paul and Christmas have beaten her to the bunch... too bad Josh is now a little wiser and finally playing for himself. Although, that doesn't make him any less susceptible to emotional manipulation.
* CrocodileTears: Totally faked a breakdown in front of Elena, who was left in the dark about plans to flip the vote to get him out.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although he acts like a manic blowhard, when Josh buckles down and focus on what's really important to him in the game, he becomes one of the biggest threats in the entire household.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Josh targeted Elena because he noticed she flip-flopped between alliances and lied to disguise this fact. At first, Josh choosing to target Elena seemed like an unfounded ploy, especially after he sandbagged Megan as a snake for a perceived slight early on in the game, so most people discredited him as a temperamental kid with weird whims or a constantly butthurt whiner who was probably just peeved Elena didn't reciprocate his crush (who already had enough of the one-sided affections with Mark). When Elena exposes her self-serving ways to the whole house, Josh immediately starts rejoicing.
* CuteButCacophonic: Any time he breaks into a one-man circus.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[DisappearedDad Josh's father left his mother a long time ago and walked out on his family]], and his grandmother also passed away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gGr0MO5ACSo#t=598 Josh brings these events up]] after being bulled by Cody and Jessica and tells everyone present in the HOH room that these are the only times his mother wrote to him with grave concern for his well-being- and her letter to him in the HOH basket reflects how she thinks Josh is being attacked past a game perspective and on real life terms.
* DarkHorseVictory: Nearly everybody watching the show this season was sure that Paul would sweep the house and saw Josh as the goon who would probably blow up his own game long before he got to the Jury eligibility phase of the game, but when Josh started to reveal his [[ObfuscatingStupidity surprising intelligence]], he became a very strong contender to make it to the end.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Josh secured his victory against Paul, the unstoppable juggernaut of the house, by essentially doing the unthinkable and concocting a plan so crazy not even Paul could anticipate it. Who woulda thought Josh would use his goodbye messages to slowly poison Paul's image with the Jury by telling everybody who was really behind their evictions?
* DespairEventHorizon:
** Josh has a mini breakdown in Week 7 when he admits that he feels that the game is draining him. He admits that he's starting to feel terrible about fighting with some of the other houseguests since the beginning and he feels guilty about how his behavior and actions have affected those he has been fighting with. He also wants to give up banging the pots and pans around (which are admittedly looking a bit beaten up from all the abuse they've taken at his hands). It takes Paul, Christmas, and Alex to help snap him out of it.
** Hits again in full force during the second Double Eviction Week, where Jason is his alliance's target and Josh is outnumbered two to one in picking him off and feeling the heat. He strongly considers tattling the plan to Jason, but holds up his end of the bargain by keeping mum for Paul and Christmas. Josh is choking back sobs when he's forced to vote for Jason to comply to his own alliance and is also crying in his goodbye video to Jason, loses the nerve to use the Power of Veto for revenge at his alliance, and then votes against his alliance when they want to put Raven out of the game and their votes outvote his. This facilitates a complete breakdown in the lounge. Paul saw this and got Kevin and Christmas to [[ThrowTheDogABone throw the next HOH to him.]] Josh is doing a little better because of it, but he's still pretty banged up and troubled, noting he feels "mindfucked" in what to do next in the game in one of his private non-Diary Room confessionals to the at-home audience. He got his reward for hanging in there, since he managed to pull himself together and win it all in the end.
* DirtyCoward: Constantly gets in fights with other houseguests because of his combative personality. But when others call out Josh for his immature behaviour, he tucks his tail between his legs and runs away by throwing a temper tantrum and crying to garner sympathy from others. He also flinched when Mark reared up to hit him with a skillet and didn't.
* DisappearedDad: Downplayed. Josh only has his mom directly involved in his life right now. His father split up with his mother and went away, excommunicating himself from the rest of the family. Josh still has contact with his old man nonetheless, and notes that he loves popcorn, lime vinegar, coke in a can, and Fanta- all the things in Alex's third HOH basket.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Sweet Mary, Mother of Mercy... the craziness that befell Week 1 and kept on going thereafter. Josh takes the Golden Apple and gets Jillian, Elena, and Kevin disqualified. It had lasting consequences for all three, some of which were lethal for their games (especially Jillian, who got used as a pawn when Megan self-evicted, eventually Elena, and actually helps Kevin by making it so that he doesn't have to throw the comp to lose and reveal he took the first temptation). Why, you ask? He had a bone to pick with the dog walker, feeling like her dog. Namely, he felt like Megan was trying to get him evicted and took a temptation and entire team down just to show her, who was on ''an entirely separate team that had nothing to do with his'', that she could not take him out of the game. '''Nobody had even targeted Josh yet, not even her.''' This then led to an entire saga of DisasterDominoes: Megan even went to the Diary Room totally bewildered and on the verge of tears after the competition, furthered her already fragile emotional state to the breaking point, which made her quit the game prematurely and then got Jillian up as the next evictee, while Elena never won any challenges after this, caused Kevin to avoid throwing a comp and made Paul believe Ramses was the real person who threw the comp and target him to ''save Josh'' later on, and and Josh ultimately contributed to the demise of '''four''' players games' in one fell swoop just to take a pot shot at one ''who didn't even finish.''
* DistractedByTheSexy: Played Straight. Josh had a huge crush on Elena. Because of his crush on her, he would often lose all sense of logic and his game would end up distracted because of her. Even Christmas called Josh out amidst a fight in the house that she was sick of Josh constantly talking about how much he likes Elena and how much he likes looking at her. Christmas probably snapped at Josh after he said this because she realized that Josh would get sidetracked by his feelings for Elena instead of focusing on furthering himself and his alliance (Paul and Christmas) in the game.
* TheDogBitesBack: Cody and Jessica spent the earlier parts of the game antagonizing and bullying Josh. But in the later weeks, Josh ends up biting back at the two of them when he goes on a bullying tirade against them in Week 5. It's safe to say that Josh is basically giving Cody and Jessica a taste of their own medicine. And when Paul and Christmas eerily echoed that situation by forcing him to do things in the game that he absolutely hated, when Josh gained HOH ''immediately'' after being down in the dumps and wrought with shame... MEATBALL REVENGE PARTY!!! Josh spent the final weeks of the game smashing holes in Paul's game, ended up voting out Christmas (though not because he wanted, more because he needed to), and managed to have his meatball vengeance.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Elena. Elena is in a "showmance" with Mark but Josh has repeatedly said that he likes Elena on a personal level and thinks that she is physically beautiful. However, Elena doesn't reciprocate Josh's feelings and only sees him as a friend. This doesn't stop Josh in being persistent in how he feels about Elena though.
* DoubleStandard:
** Josh gets ragged on for his weight a lot. Insult him about it halfheartedly or jokingly, he takes it well, but do it to really attack him on a personal level and there's trouble a'brewin'. After [[KickTheDog Cody and Jessica]] take pot shots at him, he loses it. But after ''[[PokeThePoodle Zingbot]]'' zings him about his weight, Josh quietly [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]], "I'm a Have-Not. Give me a week or two."
** There was also that brief chance to offer Jessica a respite from being targeted for eviction that she wouldn't take because she was too busy acting like an impertinent jackass to Josh. He concluded that she wasn't worth the trouble because not only was she refusing to take a handout, she was acting like slime to the point of shutting him out without a chance for a polite and civil discussion, and he gave up on her very promptly. However, when Josh does it to Jessica, and others like Cody, Mark, and Elena, it's apparently all fine and dandy, no matter how much it pisses ''them'' off.
* '''TheDragon''': For Paul. Josh is basically the '''[[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker Anakin Skywalker]] ([[Characters/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]])''' to Paul's '''[[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Sheev Palpatine]]''' using a ''Franchise/StarWars'' analogy, and on his way to [[HeelRealization a redemption and heroic overthrow of the tyrant like Vader.]] He could also be seen as being the '''Sauron''' to Paul's '''Morgoth''' using ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' analogy. Josh is one of Paul's most loyal minions and supporters and he does everything and anything that Paul says. When Paul says jump, you better believe Josh is there to ask "How high?"...and then say something about meatballs for some reason.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: In Week 6 as HOH, Josh wants to target Elena instead of Jessica but Paul still wants to get rid of Jessica because he believes that she's a much stronger player. Josh feels that Elena is coming after him and he also wants to break up a possible alliance that Paul and Elena have. Josh has told Christmas in secret that he didn't want Paul to know his real intentions during his HOH week because he knows that Paul has a habit of trying to control things in the game too much and would react negatively if things don't go the way that he wants them to. But when Jess refused to believe he wasn't targeting her (She had given up on trusting everybody's word except Cody's by this point in the game), she yelled at him so many times Josh finally threw her to the wolves and decided she ''HAD'' to go, sided with Paul and the house majority, and cut Elena a break.
** TheHeavy: Although Paul is TheManBehindTheMan who's the actual, real threat in the game, Josh is the one that is being pushed as a main villains of the season (the other main villains being Cody and Jessica). Many of his antics and a lot of his behavior towards the other houseguests, such as his constant antagonizing of others and his on-and-off bullying in the house have painted him in a villainous light.
** ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Played Straight. Josh's one true ArchEnemy in the game is Mark, who is considered to be TheHero of the season. On the other hand, Mark and Paul are not enemies at all and actually had a very cordial and amicable relationship since the beginning. Mark and Josh used to be close before and had a sibling type relationship, but the two drifted apart and became enemies. Mark has a grudge against Josh because he doesn't like the way Josh plays the game too personally. He dislikes the way that Josh torments, taunts and bullies other people and he thinks that Josh is way too emotional and immature in the way that he behaves. On the contrary, Josh dislikes Mark because he thinks that Mark is incredibly disloyal, dishonest and too much of a flip flopper who doesn't know where his loyalties lie in the game. Josh has stated that he can't trust Mark in the game because of his association with Cody as well. It doesn't help that Mark is also in a showmance with Elena, whom Josh has admitted to having a huge crush on.
** TheStarscream: Subverted. Josh came perilously close to hitting this when all for but a brief moment in Week 10 when he began to somewhat doubt Paul after seeing him all buddy-buddy with other alliances besides him and Christmas. However, he still trusts Paul 100% and has strong UndyingLoyalty to him even though he realizes that Paul is only doing what he has to because he's the biggest target in the house and he understands that Paul is smart in trying to protect himself as much as he can. He also knows that Paul has the most loyalty to Josh and Christmas and he's therefore okay with Paul doing what he's doing. But once Week 11 rolls around, Josh is outraged by the moves his alliance made to move forward in the game and so emotionally volatile that he warns his own allies that if they piss him off anymore, "I'm putting you guys up." Paul and Christmas get scared and talk him down long enough to reason with him, so it's clear that they fear him as strategic game players. Double subverted when Josh notes he ''will'' take Paul out of the game upon realizing that there's no possibility of winning if Paul goes with him to the final two, and will not let him get any further than the final three, before recalibrating his strategy to take Paul to the end and gamble his fate on a bitter jury. And on top of that, he already has put a chink in Paul's armor by ratting out his betrayal to Jason in his goodbye video, which Paul cannot lay eyes upon or even know about unless Josh straight up tells Paul due to Diary Room messages being kept confidential. Then it turns out this was but the tip of the iceberg- Josh did this in ''every'' goodbye message to the Jury whenever Paul made him vote out somebody he didn't want to, and for being so honest, he won the game over Paul while secretly implanting the ultimate killer move that not even Paul had thought of (or at least to the degree Josh did); goodbye message treachery.
** VillainousFriendship: Josh has a very close relationship with Paul and he sees him as a BigBrotherMentor in many ways. Paul and Josh are pretty much each other's ride or die at this point and the two have a very personally close bond and relationship. Josh has told Paul that he's his closest friend and ally in the house along with Christmas while Paul has shown to have strong BigBrotherInstinct towards Josh and plays a mentor and big brother role to him. Not only are they loyal allies to each other but they are also close on a personal level. One of the reasons why Paul has a loyalty to Josh or protects him is because he's admitted that he sees Josh as a version of himself during Big Brother 18.
* DramaBomb: A living example of one; any time anything massively dramatic happens in the house, you can bet that Josh is usually involved. The biggest reason the house can know no peace this season is because Josh is '''super''' touchy. He's just like an active volcano; the slightest thing sets him off, he spews lava indiscriminately, and everyone gets hit, even without him meaning to do that. It is rare that Josh doesn't do something wildly emotional and/or get someone worked up into a tizzy each week, let alone a ''day''.
* [[DramaQueen Drama King]]: Josh seems to thrive on being an AttentionWhore and acting unnecessarily dramatic over everything. He has a habit of dramatizing even the smallest thing. It's no wonder that many of the other houseguests found Josh to be an overly emotional ManChild who constantly threw a temper tantrum whenever things didn't go his way. At one point, Mark gets so exhausted with him, he moans, "Oh, my God, it's like talking to my ex!"
* DrunkWithPower: Inverted. When Josh got into power in Week 6 by winning HOH, it was automatically expected that Josh would become very erratic and power crazy during his reign. However, he turned out to be very calm, cool and collected during his time as HOH and he was very respectful and didn't get into any fights (at least any fights that he ended up instigating) with others. He also wanted his HOH reign to be drama free with no tension. Also PlayedForLaughs before he actually became the new Head of Household, because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baB_vQ8o4G8 he joked all about it in the HOH room with Jason and Alex.]] Josh acted out himself going on a power trip against Cody and Jessica while chatting with Alex and Jason, borrowing the HOH robe she wore while it was still hers, intending to march around the house in it, and going, "I'm the HOH mothafucker!"
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Josh constantly questions why nobody liked or respected him earlier on the game. He seemed to be oblivious to the fact that nobody wanted work with him, align with him or associate themselves with him at the time because he came across as an impulsive, overly emotional hothead. However, with time, Josh eventually mellows out and actually gains respect and loyalty from a few people in the house, such as Paul, Christmas, Alex, Kevin, and Jason.
* DumbMuscle: Subverted. Josh is very much TheBrute and TheBigGuy but he's actually much smarter than he comes off. His game instincts are actually very accurate. Plus, he has a college degree and he runs his own business so he's definitely got some brains and intelligence despite what Cody and Jessica think.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Josh redeemed himself by playing the game with a big heart to the very end, and never once let a backstab play out with blood on his hands, because Josh turned around and pinned it all on Paul, the BigBad of the season. That got him a smooth and cool $500,000 and made all of his suffering worth it.
* EmotionalBruiser: Very athletic and bulky, but also in touch enough with his emotions to cry and talk to the live feeds while alone.
** Somewhat {{subverted}} as Josh isn't much of a bruiser at all, regularly losing comps horribly and having a poor strategic and social game.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Seen while torturing Mark:
-->'''Josh:''' What the ''fuck?'' ([[OhCrap spots a camera]]) [[MoodWhiplash ...Good morning,]] [[MamasBoy Mom.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Even '''Nicole''', the very infamous AlphaBitch veteran from Season 16 and the winner of Season 18, is freaked out by Josh's instability when she guest-hosts the first HOH competition of the season. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bb_19_josh_freaks_out_nicole.png Here]] is the look that comes over her after he says, "I'm about to rip somebody's heads' off." [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scared_nicole.png It says everything.]]
** He was beside himself when Elena sniped $5,000 from Alex after they agreed they would not screw each other over.
** Also, Josh has ''enormous'' reservations about gunning for friends even though he knows he's playing ''Big Brother'', where this is the idea. If it's somebody he's really chummy with and he feels like it will be a slight to them on a personal level, he won't want to do it.
* EvilIsPetty: Josh can be very taunting and mean when he gets angry. If he feels he's been wronged somehow, he will resort to bullying tactics and intimidation in order to get back at the people who have done him wrong. His bullying and harassment of Jody in particular was very much justified considering the way that they have treated him throughout the game but the manner in which he chooses to get back of them is rather petty. When Josh gets angry at anyone, not only will he be ultra combative towards them but he will end up picking up pots and pans and banging them repeatedly to taunt and annoy his targets.
* ExtremeDoormat: To Paul and Christmas. Sometimes, they treat him like complete ''shit'', and yet he carries out their orders to the letter because their abusiveness and controlling nature together is just ''that'' bad of a deadly duo. To put this into perspective- Josh was absolutely ecstatic to blow up the house when Cody and Jessica were causing trouble and happy when Paul was enabling this kind of behavior, and was riding high as HOH. In contrast, when Josh allied himself with Paul and Christmas, they began to reign in his behavior and were forcing him to follow their orders to a T and one small step out of line meant catching hell. After VERY regretfully agreeing to vote out Jason, Josh was so distraught he couldn't stop crying and was almost unable to cast the vote. Following this, just to rub salt in the wound, Raven was next to go. When he became the POV holder and knew Raven was an easy target to pick off next but was already at the mercy of his alliance, Josh lost sight of his ''cojones'' and did '''NOTHING.'''
* EyeScream: Took a pickle juice cocktail laced with hot sauce right to the eyes and his chest, then had to go bathe in the sauna with the water on cold for a while to get it all off him, as apparently, it was burning his ''skin'' on contact, too. Needless to say, Josh gave him nothing short of pure, unadulterated hell for it.
* {{Facepalm}}: Josh's reaction when he gets "[[DisasterDominoes blindsided]]" by the coffeepot.
* FamilyMan: Josh really misses his family throughout the game, especially his mom, and is pining away for them by Week 10.
* FatBastard: Downplayed. Josh can be irritable and a major {{Jerkass}} who is HotBlooded with a HairTriggerTemper at times. He can be very aggressive and confrontational in how he interacts with others especially when he's angry, frustrated or irritated. However, Josh isn't actually that overweight or fat by any means, and he's more on the husky and bulkier side in terms of his body type. On the other hand, Cody and Jessica certainly think that Josh is an overweight jerk because they openly fat-shamed him in front of the entire house when they got into a yelling match with Josh in Week 6. Cody called him a fat fuck and Jessica told him to roll his fat ass out the door and [[Film/TheGoonies truffle shuffle]] on out of the place... and those are just the ones the editors found tame enough to air on TV.
* FatBestFriend: To Jason, Paul, Alex, and Christmas, who are all noticeably slimmer, athletic, or fit. Josh isn't really fat per say but he is on the bulkier and huskier side.
* FatIdiot: This is exactly what Jessica, and to a slightly less immense degree, Cody, think of Josh as- a big, blubbery dumbass who runs his mouth and can't think worth spit. Paul's having none of it [[{{Trigger}} because he grew up with the opposite end of the spectrum and had an anorexic sister]] and promptly came running to Josh's rescue when he quietly went upstairs to cry unnoticed and Paul praised him for standing his ground like that, and more people came in to rally their support. However, Paul and co. also assume he's too dumb to tell a believable lie, which is why they realize Cody's statement about having a child is true post-eviction.
* FatSlob: Other houseguests have mentioned that Josh is on the sloppy side and doesn't have the best hygiene because he doesn't shower all that often. Even Jessica had stated on the live feeds that Josh is ThePigPen and a bit of a slob because he is on the messy side and is rather unhygienic. But this is not necessarily the case as Josh has been seen showering on the live feeds so Jessica could just be saying that Josh is a slob and unhygienic because she doesn't like him on a personal level. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he also commits the dreaded guy crime of socks with sandals... flip-flop sandals!]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Josh can appear nice and polite to the people who have wronged him or betrayed him (such as Mark and Elena, for example), but don't think that he won't be plotting their demise behind their back or trying to find a way to get even in the most harsh way imaginable. It's hard to tell if Josh is really as nice and polite as he tries to come across or if it's nothing more than an act that he puts on for show or for strategy. In Week 6, Josh has appeared cordial with Elena, but she is actually his target and he is doing everything to ensure her eviction much to Elena's oblivion.
* TheFettered: Josh has ''extreme'' reservations about going after fellow friends in the game, and won't attack people he likes. And when Paul takes the bullying to a whole new level unlike any other seen before on the show yet (''cluster'' bullying), he can be heard lampshading on the live feeds during Cody and Jessica's group hazing during Week 5, "America's gonna hate us!" Alex later takes full advantage of him after he throws Alex and Kevin up on the block, when she knows he's susceptible to her fake tears, and Paul warns Josh all she wants to do is make him feel bad and is taking advantage of his soft (good) heart. His fellow houseguests have been forced to make him stop crying after particularly sorrowful evictions and Paul borrows a quote from fellow house alumni and winner Nicole Franzel and reminds him they are not playing "Big Baby". However, it's this capacity for compassion as opposed to Paul's apathy that earns him the grand prize.
* TheFinalBattle: Not just for him, for ''us.'' As of the last week of the game, Josh is the only person who can dethrone Paul and remotely pose a threat to him. It hits on two levels. On one level, Josh is the only person who wants to win for ''himself'', and will ''not'' bring Paul to Final Two, which could lead to the ultimate upset if he wins the final HOH competition. On another, more meta level, Josh gets to battle it out against Paul and decide whether or not the house will be redeemed for its cast of rubes by one savior, or if Paul really is unstoppable and this season is going to be derided as "the one where Paul played the whole house and the rest were basically a walking furniture gallery." And he WINS. Meatball Victory.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Josh started out as the craziest and most uncontrollable player in the house who everybody thought was going to be his own downfall, but he turned out to be the smartest player in the house next to Paul because he went into the game ''[[ProperlyParanoid crazy distrustful]]'' of everyone. Josh got all the way to the Final 3 and only went up for eviction twice, the first time reengineered into a flip vote pawn for Paul, and the second as a real pawn to get out Kevin as they wanted to do. He chose to side with Paul for the sake of getting to the end due to each other having their backs the whole game, but knows his final fate in the game rests in the hands of the outcome of the final HOH competition. Josh manages to hang in there and then surprises everybody by doing the one thing nobody in their right mind would do and takes Paul to the Final Two... because Josh is already in deep doo-doo with a lot of the jurors, has played a very honest game and knows it, and realizes Paul would be a much bigger sponge for all the bitter feelings of the group to sink their teeth into. It was a narrow victory, and an unexpected one to boot, which made it extra satisfying when he actually beat the vet at his own game.
* TheGadfly: Josh's presence can become this after overstaying his welcome- a crazy kid who likes to mess with the houseguests and be right all the time. After Mark nearly got kicked out of the house, Paul annoyedly silenced Josh for breaking into his circus chant out of nowhere again and called Josh off when he kept taunting Mark from outside the Diary Room hall because he was only making things worse. By Day 58, the houseguests know what happens [[DramaBomb every time he gets into it with Mark.]] Paul starts bashing Mark for being a pot stirrer, and then...
-->'''[[IWarnedYou Josh]]:''' [[YouJustHadToSayIt I called it.]]
-->'''Alex, Paul, and Christmas:''' ''(pointing sternly)'' [[BigShutUp JOSH!!]][[note]]Alex and Christmas are using a scolding (parental) tone of voice, but Paul is using a ''scalding'' (I've had enough of your shit, buddy) tone of voice.[[/note]]
-->'''Josh:''' ''(doused)'' Okay. ''(meanders onto the counter like a little kid)''
* {{Gasshole}}: Josh once stopped his allies in the middle of strategizing and announced he needed to fart.
* GeniusBruiser: Josh comes off as a DumbJock or a DumbMuscle but it turns out that he's actually much smarter than he comes across. He actually has very good game instincts and has pretty much figured Paul's game all by himself.
* GenreSavvy: Josh has seen many seasons of the show and is actually capable of thinking for himself. He realizes Paul is much like Derrick Lavasseur (Big Brother 16) and Vanessa Rousso (Big Brother 17) and how his gameplay is one of the best within the past two seasons. In a magnificent conversation to us during the live feeds, Josh notes he cannot beat Paul if he makes it to the final two, because Josh has made everybody mad at him and they would choose Paul over him... and becomes the one blessed person who '''''finally''''' decides it's time to evict him. And to do that, he's thinking of channeling a Big Brother 17 move; either pull a Vanessa Rousso and eliminate Austin Matelson (make his move at Final 5) or pull a Steve Moses and snipe Vanessa (make his move at Final 3). Josh also recognizes that Christmas [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness won't take him to the Final 2]] because he can see it in her eyes, so it has to be him who wins the final competition.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After he alienates himself from the house, Josh resorts to talking to the pool duck, anthropomorphizing it... ChewingTheScenery in front of the cameras... and then admitting he's going insane.
* GodzillaThreshold: In the final week of the game, Josh realized that even though the fans would want him to, if he took Paul out and brought Christmas to the Final Two, he'd look awful next to her. Instead, he made an incredibly risky move by taking the person who posed the biggest danger to his victory to the end knowing full well that Paul might win it all, hoping that if two players who enraged the jurors were sitting together, at least he wouldn't be made out to be the worst-looking one among the two.
* GrewASpine: After working with Paul has made everyone else mad at him, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gnRS7j5QzjA Josh has a moment of very harrowing real talk with the cameras to us as an audience...]] mulls over several things weighing on his mind... then announces... '''[[WhamLine he plans to eliminate Paul.]]'''
* HairTriggerTemper: Doing anything to light a fire under him makes him go bonkers.
* TheHeart: Next to Mark, Josh is the most caring and tenderhearted guy in the whole house. Even though he knows he's playing a game, a lot of the painful moves he has to make are laced with tears, and he refuses to lie to anybody. This resulted in his win.
* HeelFaceTurn: As of Week 11, Josh is preparing to cut ties with Paul and knock him out of the game upon realizing the man is nearly unstoppable if he makes it to the end and [[TooPowerfulToLive all-controlling.]] Josh knows he's backed himself into a corner game-wise and has poor prospects if he stays where he is under Paul, but if he swallows his pride and goes to the end with Kevin, whom he dislikes, but could compete against, he may actually have a chance to win. Week 12, the final week, Josh has managed to already cement his victory by simply winning the final HOH comp, and then going to the end looking much more honest than Paul.
* HeelRealization: Josh discovers that Paul is dictating too much of his game for him and trying to make him expendable by having all the blood land squarely on his shoulders, and that Christmas does ''not'' have his back because she sees him as unreliable and is grossly obedient to Paul to almost showmance levels. After this, Josh does what all the viewers have been praying for all season and plots his ace in the hole to sweep the rug out from under Paul, and considers taking Kevin to the end, over Christmas. However, Josh conducts an even crazier strategy that only he can get away with; since he's pissed off a ton of the jurors, why not take the man who helped to piss them off in the first place to the end and let him have it?
* HiddenAgenda: Josh wants to play for himself, not Paul.
* HiddenDepths: Any time Josh is alone and has a lot of time to think on things, he can sound startlingly intelligent. When he makes journals to the cameras without anyone around to eavesdrop, the monologues that come from him are deep and very contemplative, as opposed to the Josh who people think is a dunderhead. Without the influence of another player to misguide him, he's even a WorthyOpponent to Paul.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: If Josh would just ''shut up'' and act civil, he could've had a '''much''' less rocky start in the game. There's also ''many upon many'' times that he goes against his own allies because he disagrees with their plans on numerous occasions, whether it is justified in that on a moral standpoint he knows what they're making him do is wrong, or he's just pissed off at somebody and cannot contain himself.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Josh's attempts to keep himself safe during the first week quickly resulted in him going from being on no one's radar to being on ''everyone's'' radar.
* HotBlooded: Josh is highly emotional, impulsive and hotheaded. It doesn't take a lot to get Josh angered, irritated or riled up. He's also highly argumentative and confrontational and has zero problems with calling out people.
* '''{{Hypocrite}}''': Despite claiming that he is a good guy in the house, he actively helps in the bullying of Jess, Cody, and Mark. Shortly after he won HOH in Week 6, he claimed that his nomination speech would not be overly mean, as he sees himself as the bigger person and above all the drama.
* IconicItem: His "jaxaphone", aka a pair of pots and pans.
* IdiotHoudini: Josh insults the bejeezus out of anybody with a bone to pick with him, torments people left and right, and constantly rattles the walls of the house with tirades and manic episodes of random chaos. But because he's such a goat and a perceived victim of the tyrannical Jody duo, the others don't want him out of the game and work to keep him in.
* IfICantHaveYou: Seems to be part of Josh's motivation for targeting Elena, who isn't one for dating really anybody, not even her own showmance Mark. However, whatever feelings Josh may have had for her disappear the moment he catches wind of her untruthfulness.
* InHarmsWay: Because Josh is such an AttentionWhore who thrives on drama, he has no issue with putting himself in dangerous situations where he would end up becoming a target. Even when other people tell Josh to tone down his out of control and wild behavior, Josh still doesn't cease to act the way he does, because he's described himself as an "adrenaline junkie".
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Josh comes to terms with this in Week 11 when he states his resolve to win the game, knowing that Paul is becoming too much of a threat to carry to the end of the game and Josh may be forced to play for himself from here on out if he wants to make it to the end intact.
* IrrationalHatred: Towards Megan. Megan ''did'' have a big mouth and acted irksome, but she wasn't targeting people during the first week, simply throwing possible names out for strategy. Josh's name happened to be one of them, and he got the idea she was thinking about putting him up on the block. He felt the need to snag the Golden Apple out of a perceived attempt to backstab him, threw his entire team under the bus, started ranting and raving all over the place, and called Megan a snake. Megan went back to the Diary Room wondering what she did wrong. It was the start of many abuses that led her to walk off the game. This is the first of many reasons fans are [[TheBully pissed]] at him.
* IShallTauntYou:
** When an angry yoga instructor yelling at Cody turned out to be one of the punishments in an HOH competition, Josh took the idea and ran with it, throwing the punishment on ''Jessica'' so ''he'' could be Cody's personal punishment by badmouthing him ''relentlessly.'' And then he starts gloating in secret when he learns even though Jess threw his name up on the eviction block, Paul is rallying the house to flip the vote in his favor.
** He punished Mark for the cocktail throwing by raising hell in the house while he was trying to sleep on the day before the attempt to evict Josh failed. Or as he so eloquently put it, "Big Brother Hell". Josh started slamming two cooking skillets together and marching around in a one-man band parade long enough that Christmas was putting on a facial pack ''and'' showering, screaming at heavy sleeper Mark to get up, claiming that was their last chance to bond before he ([[BatmanGambit allegedly]]) would leave the house. Meatball bonding at its finest, folks.
** His taunt continues to evolve as he adds the tutu from "Bowlerina" to the mix and goes after Jessica and Cody while circus-serenading them. Unfortunately (and hilariously/mercifully), [[RealityEnsues Josh took it too far this time and]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_c7P5VHoiA finally broke the pan from abusing it so much]], putting an end to any more pot-and-pan banging. That's what happens when you fuck up your cooking utensils by ''smashing the shit out of them like cymbals.''
-->'''Josh:''' FUCK!
-->'''Paul:''' ''(amazed)'' He BROKE the pan..!?!
-->'''Josh:''' ''(sounding very put out and throwing away the broken pan handle)'' (sigh)....The jaxaphone is done.[[note]][[{{Mondegreen}} He really calls it that.]] His ''After Dark'' [=Q&A=] can attest to that.[[/note]] is done.
** He revved up his taunt for a brief parting shot the moment Jessica was finally evicted from the ''Big Brother'' house.
** He pulled out the jaxaphone one last time in the house after a mild tremor hit (Josh had never experienced an earthquake before in his entire life) and it was all clear, jokingly yelling "EARTHQUAKE!"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Josh can be very selfish and self centred. He threw his entire team under the bus during the first HOH challenge to ensure his safety, feeling very paranoid that everyone in the house was gunning for him. And when Josh became HOH and started making his grievances at Jody public, Jessica mockingly, asked, "Oh my God, is this 'The Josh Show'?" He also notices he looks good up on the block in a close-up shot of his profile.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Josh has a sister who was also on a TV competition and cried like him. He thinks she came in fourth.
* '''{{Jerkass}}''': Perhaps the biggest example since [[Characters/BigBrother15 Big Brother 15]]. And considering that 15 was a season where nearly the whole cast was tormenting people in all directions, Josh puts them all to shame for one simple reason: [[ItAmusedMe HE ENDEARS YOUR SUFFERING.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: For all of his faults, his rant on Mark in Day 40 was justified because as Josh pointed out, Mark promised Dominique to have her back and when the whole house was against her, Mark didn't even defend Dom, whom he deemed was his closest friend and voted against her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At times. Josh has consistently played (from start to finish) very selfish and rude compared to the other houseguests, often making personal attacks, mocking them, gloating when he wins, whining when he loses, and actively tormenting those he dislikes. On rare occasions, Josh ''has'' he apologized for his actions, but more often than not he's comfortable with them. Mainly since he saves his most mean-spirited moments for [[TakeThat people who he believes deserve it,]] nevermind the fact that ''no one'' should be treated the way Josh treats people and quite a few of them are actually much kinder than he is. But the one thing he always does is that he always buries the hatchet with everybody he mistreats, as seen with Mark and the goodbye messages in his evictions... and ''tons'' of tears.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztuIbAJnaA Continuing to attack Mark with nobody speaking up and then moving in on him with the skillets after an HOH meeting]] [[DudeNotFunny wasn't funny.]] Mark finally pounced on him. It was grounds to make the housekeepers demand the two be split up.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Taunting Jessica on the anniversary of her father's passing upset her so bad she gave up on winning and fired back at him in front of the live studio audience in her post-eviction interview.
* KickTheDog: One of the live Twitter comments after he suffered a hot sauce assault read "That hot sauce would go good on a meatball."
* KickTheSonOfABitch: He used his for-show nomination for eviction as a platform to rail on Cody his list of many grievances. And then tormented him in the HOH competition after he got back in the game. Cody is to the point that Josh practically doesn't exist to him anymore. But because the majority of the house hates Cody, they want the lesser of two evils to stay in the game. Happens again, though this time under Paul's orders in Week Five in what could be considered the most callous moment by both Josh and Paul.
* TheKlutz: During his last days in the house, Josh has spilled the coffeemaker, killed a fish, repeatedly fumbled a Fidget Spinner, and left cookies in the stove for so long they completely burnt up [[SeriousBusiness and the announcer of the house had to be the one to remind him to go get them before he started a fire.]] Paul's remark to all this is "[[RunningGag You played yourself.]]"
* InsultBackfire: He yelled at Mark, "BYEEE!! BYEEE!!" after Jason nominated him for eviction. Mark subsequently ''smoked'' everyone in the following POV comp, including Josh himself.
* LargeHam: Everything that Josh does is excessive, over the top and grandiose, including his crying.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He likes to hum cliche circus music when taunting somebody, sometimes joined by the actual tune. "Daaaaaa... Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da da-da-da..."
* LetTheBullyWin:
** What was meant to be a harmless game of pool to lighten up the mood quickly spiraled into chaos the ''instant'' Mark started yelling at him for scratching the 8-ball (they couldn't even try to reset the ball because he sank it in the hole and lost track of its exact position- it's a shame they had no ball markers to use) and not being graceful enough to admit a forfeit.
** In Week 6, when Josh knocked Cody and Christmas out of the HOH competition, a few people celebrated (notably Paul) as it mean that they could go after Cody and Jess again.
** Inverted in Week 10, where ''[[LaserGuidedKarma Josh himself]]'' must bend to ''two'' bullies, Paul and Christmas- and finds himself on the outs if he doesn't work to knock out two of his own friends, Jason and (arguably) Raven.
* LetsGetDangerous: Week 11 is where Josh wins HOH again after coming off a ''very'' rough Double Eviction Week. With the power in his hands and safety this week and knowing he can't compete for HOH next week, Josh decides no more messing around. Why? Unlike every other idiot in the house, he of all people has realized that Paul is NOT healthy for his game and has emotionally devastated him as his master. What does Josh do, pray tell? '''He stops working for Paul'''. What he wants to do now is either gun for him in the final five or the final three. And even though Christmas is guaranteed to be mad as hell at him, ''[[GodzillaThreshold JOSH DOESN'T CARE.]]''
* LightIsNotGood: Josh commonly wears much lighter coloured clothing, but he's also working for the bad side since he's TheDragon for Paul. Liable to be subverted if Josh overthrows Paul, in which case, Josh flips to LightIsGood and GoodAllAlong.
* LoopholeAbuse: AintNoRule that says you can't inform backstabbed houseguests that the person lying to their face is in fact lying to their face in the goodbye videos. This turned out to be the one spectacular move that left Paul utterly ''slain'' at the Jury.
* MaliciousMisnaming: He called Jessica "Boo-Boo" all of one time and she told him, "Don't ever call me Boo-Boo, sweetheart." Unfortunately, Josh loves beating a horse into equine jerky, so that was a big mistake on her part.
** AffectionateNickname: He also called Raven Boo-Boo jokingly.
* ManChild: Cody keeps accusing him of acting like a child and needing his diaper changed. Kevin also notes he's making a fool of himself. And because they don't know what motivates him to act the way he often does, some of the other houseguests are even [[PsychopathicManchild genuinely worried about his sanity.]]
* MediumAwareness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKP4wCvuYlA Josh has accurately deduced that the fans want him to vote out Paul.]] He also is aware that the jury is likely to be bitter that he contributed to everyone's eviction (except for Elena, who self-destructed and became someone else's target before he had the chance to target her personally). However, [[ByronicHero Josh doesn't want to change his ways now and is comfortable with what he's done in the game by playing for himself at the end.]]
* MenDontCry: Inverted. Josh is actually very emotional and sensitive and will easily cry if something upsets him.
* MilesGloriosus: Constantly tries to brag about how he's a bigger or better man and that he has character whenever he gets into a fight with someone else yet his actions don't always back up what he says. Worse, he's always making bets with people to win competitions. ''All the guys present in the backyard'' call him out as a shit-talker the night right before the pickle juice and hot sauce disaster. He also claimed he was cold-blooded for his introduction onto the show in the first episode- he turns out to be the [[HotBlooded complete reverse]], while [[IceKing Cody]] fulfills that position in the house.
* {{Mondegreen}}: Josh has evidently never heard the word "tandem", as he pronounces it "tandam" reading off the cards as the host of a POV comp and leaves the rest of the house guests puzzled.
* MortonsFork: Double Eviction Week sees Josh struggling to avoid blowing up his alliance or his friendship with Jason, and [[KickTheDog then being forced to]] [[SadisticChoice decide whether or not to use the Power of Veto against his alliance or to save Raven.]] He tried to get Kevin out of the house on his own without any allies, which made things even worse when he was easily outvoted by Paul and Christmas.
* MotorMouth: Tends to chatter and feel the need to keep talking when he thinks somebody's upset with him (which ''very quickly'' sets Elena off in particular). He started to run his mouth in front of Cody and added fuel to the fire already brewing under the surface. Had he just steered clear of Cody, they might not have come to blows like they did. And he has a ''terrible'' habit of out-talking the other person in an argument by trying to cut them off and have the last word.
* MustMakeAmends: Immediately clears the air with everybody after the first challenge and later allows Paul to use him as an elimination pawn to get Cody out. This is also because [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Josh tried to offer an olive branch to Cody but it crashed and burned.]] Unfortunately, he gets on Cody's nerves ''very'' quickly and there was no love to be found with him or Jessica, who is also in Cody's corner. And when it goes the other way and Paul uses him as his dragon to do things he objects to and gets everybody in the house mad at him because he's Paul's meat shield, Josh has '''had it.''' He decides ''Paul'' is the one who needs to be sent out of the house next and is preparing to avenge all the people Paul mercilessly sent packing. And it's working from thereafter. When she sees how much Josh is starting to turn rogue and think for himself, even '''[[ArchEnemy Jessica]]''' is giving him kudos for that on her livestreams. Day 92, he succeeds at making himself look like the good guy and wins himself the $500,000.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Josh loses it before, during, and after helping to send his dear buddy Jason on home, which had the unexpected effect of opening the door for [[KickTheMoralityPet Raven]] to follow suit. Josh is then seen wailing away in the lounge. It gets to the point where the guy considers walking off the competition because he's afraid he's about to have a panic attack (which happened to Megan earlier in the season).
* MyGreatestFailure: Two:
** Being responsible for Jillian's eviction because he was the one who killed her chances of safety in a week where the person put up beside her changed thrice and finally landed on somebody the house didn't want to cut loose and Jillian was left helpless.
** Allowing Jason and Raven to be double-evicted after Paul and Christmas rattled his cage over and over and over. After growing infuriated at their harassment, Josh began severing his allegiance to Paul and basically told Christmas to shut the fuck up.
* NoIndoorVoice: Just try getting some sleep when Mr. "Meatball" Martinez is up and at 'em. Go on, ''[[ChewingTheScenery try.]]''
-->"'''IF YOU WANT TO SCREAM, I CAN SCREAM''' '''''LOUDER!!!!'''''"
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Josh was perceived as a villain both inside of the house and outside of the house at the start of the game. However, as the weeks progressed, it's clear that Josh is strongly misunderstood and is not really a villain or a bad person.
* NotToBeConfusedWith: The identical stage name of Canadian rapper Matthew Edward Kimber, better known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Martinez Josh Martinez.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Paul and Alex think Josh isn't smart enough to come up with a diabolical and crafty plan to trick somebody... little do they know that Josh has taken note of the show's greatest competitions to as far back as greats like Rachel Reilly and Dan Gheesling, and ''can'' flip the house on its roof if he so chooses.
* OhCrap: He went into a silent panic when he knew Cody was back in the game. As in his worst enemy. And in the days to follow, he suffers exactly as much as he fears, and then some. Thankfully, he gets his revenge.
* OneManBand: Josh with pots and pans dancing and singing circus music. At least until he decides he's sick of the act and tells Mark there won't be any more harassment. We hope. Cody and Jess, though- they're fair game.
* OnlyFriend: One of the only people, if not ''the'' only person still on Dominique's side after the house turns on her.
* OnlyInFlorida: Josh hails from and is currently living in Miami, Florida. Sadly, Florida has an infamous reputation for crazies...
* OutOfFocus: After he and Mark engrossed a huge chunk of the previous episode, he's not on the scene for about half of Day 40... [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Then he shows up out of nowhere with his trusty skillets and clad in a tutu to turn Cody and Jessica's day into a three-ring circus, with him as the opening act and Paul as the ringmaster.]]
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Christmas. Josh has stated that Christmas is a major reason why he has managed to find the house more manageable in the earlier parts of the game. Josh also considers Christmas his closest ally and is basically his ride or die.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Repeatedly accused of whining about being victimized by Cody. Funny thing is, Cody plays the victim card or makes victim noises just as often, if not more, than Josh does.
* ProperlyParanoid: At the slightest inkling that somebody is coming after him or somebody is a snake, Josh fires on all cylinders to get them out of the house. Some people think he's not thinking straight and is just randomly venting on people who piss him off, but he's not. Nearly all of the people Josh went after have turned out to be poisonous people, and Josh has actually not been riding Paul's coattails as much as Christmas has due to checkmating a lot of players on his own agenda. As it turns out, the one person he is the ''most'' wary of is Paul, and that Paul must go to ensure that he has a fighting chance in the Final Two- and he's absolutely '''right'''.
* PsychopathicManchild: Josh is AxCrazy and mentally unstable and is the biggest ManChild in the house due to his immaturity. He makes petty and childish insults such as going around the house and banging pots and pans and taunting others who have wronged him.
* PunchClockVillain: Sometimes, when asked to comply with a plan, Josh is raring to go, unload on somebody, and act crazy. Other times, he just wants to be left alone and not talk to anybody because he's tired of being yelled at... or being the one doing the yelling.
* RantInducingSlight: Oh dear Lord, the pool table incident. One very eensie-weensie beef about who won brought down a thunderstorm. The cameras very clearly show he accidentally hit the 8-ball twice going into the hole, which is an illegal move- AKA a scratch. There's also the milder example with Megan where he accused her of being a snake and she went to the Diary Room fighting back tears.
* {{Revenge}}: A meatball's vengeance is quite spectacular, indeed:
** Came very close to getting evicted when Jessica won HOH... Paul saved his bacon and he milked it for all it was worth and then some. And then Josh won HOH himself and is on cloud nine. He decides to target Elena, but Jessica gives him so much grief that when she gets herself put on the block as a special third nominee and it backfires, he gives up on her and reneges to the house majority and leaves her to be voted out. Then he plows down Cody and Jessica with the assistance of Paul and just about the entire house in a payback tirade.
** After the second Double Eviction Week, Josh is feeling and looking like death warmed over after betraying Jason and his alliance twisted the knife deeper by railroading Raven. He also lacked the power necessary to affect the outcome of these votes, even as POV, due to the lack of numbers he could call upon for help. However, immediately following all this [[ThrowTheDogABone he then became HOH for the second time]] and is now ready to ''fuck shit up'' in the house after being forced to play along with Paul and Christmas all this time. All those things he said he could do about blowing up the house- GET READY. It's time for some meatball mayhem.
* SanitySlippage: Josh is well aware he's a nutcase and an oddball and his sanity is taking a hit because of all the time he's spent in the house, but by Week 9, he gets so far out there that it begins to get creepy. He's sat in the apple room enough times to name the ''exact'' number of apples affixed to the wall as décor by heart (355; well, 35''4'' as of Week 10, unless the producers have some superglue on hand- [[FunnyBackgroundEvent if you look real closely in the parlor for that week's POV episode]], one came unglued and fell off the wall... take one down, pass it around, 354 more apples on the wall...) and is salsa dancing with a stuffed owl he named Orwell, and admits he's having ''more'' fun in there all by himself than interacting with the house.
* ScaryBlackMan: Josh, who's of Afro-Latino (Cuban) descent, can come across as rather intimidating whenever he gets angry. He'll sometimes use his size to intimidate others during fights.
* SirSwearsALot: He gets very verbal and cussy when he's on the losing side of an argument or a challenge.
* SoreLoser: '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmTMV7xN9sE Erupted]]''' after a friendly bet of 8-ball where the loser had to drink a pickle juice and hot sauce cocktail ended with him scratching the 8-ball by double-tapping the cue. He refused to drink the mixture and eventually enraged Mark to the point he flung it into his face. After grabbing the ketchup and mayonnaise from the fridge and pelting Mark back (and maybe splashing Elena) Josh dove into the hot tub to rinse the hot sauce out of his eyes, went into a frenzy unlike any other, and it brought the ''entire'' house outside to see what the commotion was about, then took a swipe at Jessica for good measure. [[{{Irony}} And this was supposed to ease the mood of the house going into eviction night after Dominique had a big blowup.]] Eventually, just to set things straight, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cscJf3rSNHI Josh drank a new glass of the cocktail]] and flinched '''seventeen''' times before finally taking it. Funnier yet, this is ''gentle'' compared to the original plan, where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhV9wcwteoI Josh agreed to take Mark on in a boxing match post-season to settle his constant pissing matches once and for all at the suggestion of Paul, who is willing to donate $2,000 of his own hard-earned money as a prize for the winner.]] And Paul plans to '''''[[SeriousBusiness livestream it]].''''' Who knows if that's actually gonna happen now?
* TearsOfJoy: Josh was overjoyed to tears along with Paul when Paul won the HOH that secured his place in the Final Three. When Josh won the HOH that nailed guaranteed he'd be in the Final Two, he was also quite tearful (but the tears were very bittersweet once he had to evict Christmas). Finally, he busted into his biggest and finest display of waterworks upon winning the game.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Paul and Christmas during the second Double Eviction Week, absolutely ''hating'' the idea of knocking Jason out of the competition through a dirty blindside and then going after Raven.
* TenderTears: THE BIGGEST CRYBABY OF THE WHOLE SEASON, UNQUESTIONABLY. Josh is for this group of houseguests what Michelle was for BB 18.
* TooDumbToLive: Like everyone else in this season, has no problem following Paul's word without question. That is, ''UNTIL'' Double Eviction Week #2, when Paul and Christmas corner him and suggest Jason has to go, and from there, Josh is strongly thinking of going utterly rogue.
** DumbassNoMore: Once Josh calculates a choice to go after Paul, it's clear he's figured out that he '''cannot''' win the game if Paul makes it to the final two, but paired beside someone like Kevin, he has a chance of winning- and because of that, even if Josh gets evicted, he still gets credit for being the ''only'' person to make it this far in the game and recognize the danger Paul ''really'' poses to his welfare. The only problem is going after Paul while he's HOH and dealing with the fallout after he can't compete next week (which he knows will be bad), what will happen if he pisses Christmas off, and his willingness to target "Tiger" Alex first and not align with her because she's unpredictable and a strong competitor. So Josh has resolved to let Week 11 play out, gun for the Veto in Week 12 like it's being used to sign that check for the grand prize, and blindside Paul at the final three if he is able to win the final competition. But then he suddenly changes game plans. It turns out Josh decides that he doesn't need to vote out Paul... because he thinks the Jury will be even more bitter at him for being so dishonest, and happens to have detonated Paul's game from behind the scenes, which managed to be the biggest move of the entire season.
* TookALevelInKindness: PlayedWith. Josh has become a lot nicer since entering the house, comforting other houseguests such as Dominique and Christmas. He even went up to Jason and hugged him when he was missing his family.
-->"I'm okay."
-->"No, you had a moment." ''(gives him a bear hug)''
** ''However'', this only applies to the houseguests Josh feels deserve it. If he dislikes a houseguest, for whatever reason, he goes out of his way to mock, belittle, and torment them in every capacity. And considering [[BerserkButton how easy it is]] [[PlayingTheVictimCard to set the guy off]] [[HairTriggerTemper at any given moment]], quite a few houseguests find themselves on the receiving end of this.
** At one point during week 9, Alex and Paul, for reasons of their own, wanted Josh to rev up and raise hell on Kevin; Josh flat out refused.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: One thing that can get Josh excited right away is the mere mention of Chipotle.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When winning HOH in Week Six. And again at the end of Week 11. See The Caligula.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Seriously, Josh is a bountiful goldmine of tropes compared to the other faces of Season 19, even Paul. Of course he was gonna be the star of the season next to him.
* UnderdogsAlwaysWin: Played MAGNIFICENTLY straight. Josh knew he was seen as the underdog and never taken seriously the whole season until the very end, and surprisingly pulled off a power move so perfect that not even ''[[TheChessmaster Paul]]'' knew about it.
* UndyingLoyalty: To both Christmas and Paul as they are basically his ride or dies. In Week 7, when talking alone to the HOH cameras, he admits that nobody in the house has the same kind of loyalty to Paul that he has and that he is willing to go to war with him and for him.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When he took the golden apple, he ruined Jillian's chances for safety and served as a chain link in a series of events that got her taken out of the competition.
* WhatTheHellHero: Annoyed with Mark for not defending Dominique when she was the one in trouble, he spun it into a rant.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Josh is constantly using the lounge as his hideout in the house, where he acts the way he wants to without any consequences. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-LqHBvqf20 In particular, Josh takes great joy in how he mocks Cody.]] He also uses it to go off and cry when he's feeling really emotionally torn up inside.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Josh is browbeaten by Paul and Christmas into doing a lot of terrible things come the second Double Eviction Week. After this, he starts to seriously question and even ''hate'' his loyalties to them.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: To us, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gnRS7j5QzjA in this video.]] Josh notes he will be friends with Paul and Christmas in real life, but he's not messing around anymore in the game and ''is'' willing to play rough and run wild on his own without anybody to command him.
* WorthyOpponent: Josh sees Paul as the best player in the house and an excellent opponent to go up against. Josh notes that if he wins the game, it will be because he had to fight Paul to the very end for it.
* WreckedWeapon: A comical example: Josh uses the pots and pans from the kitchen [[ImprovisedWeapon as though they were weapons]]- to launch a cacophonic assault on the eardrums- but he bangs them ''so often'' that he finally destroys the pan handle in the middle of torturing Cody and Josh. Until Bobby Moynihan comes into the house imitating him and with a new set for Josh to abuse the crap out of.
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** Due to [[JustifiedTrope his background]] growing up in the mean streets, he is a man of StreetSmarts who thinks people are out to get him. That is not necessarily the case in the ''Big Brother'' household. This causes him to snag a golden apple that will automatically protect him from eviction at the cost of disqualifying the rest of his team, and results in immediate backlash from everyone who bore witness to his display.
** A consistent braggart with little to back it up. When Jessica started fat-shaming him and calling him an idiot, Josh mentioned he had a business degree and could beat her with his brains if need be... but a lot of good that business sense's gonna do him in the house. [[BrutalHonesty And Jessica fires back when she tells him he can't think for himself]] [[UnwittingPawn and needs others to do the thinking for him in his stead]], and he proved her point by siding with the house just to make her go away. Ironically, by the time Josh decides to think for himself, his allies slam him for not doing exactly as he's told like a good dragon would, and by then, it's too late to heed her warnings, and [[LaserGuidedKarma Josh is trapped in an alliance that he hates working with but does so begrudgingly to stay in the game.]]
* XanatosGambit: You wouldn't believe it by watching him throughout the season, but Josh managed to pull one of these off. He confessed all of Paul's plans in the goodbye messages to Paul's victims in the Jury, which served to make Josh look better and better with each confession he made. Then, when he appeared to make the most unbelievably stupid move in the game by bringing Paul to the end over Christmas, there was a method to his madness- he felt Christmas was more likely to win than him because she didn't piss as many people off as Paul did, and planned to use the bitter jury to his advantage. He not only succeeded, he evoked sympathy and even a few apologies from some of the houseguests. And on top of that, he got to the end without upsetting his allies and staying loyal to their wishes without fail. It was only at the finish line that Josh's master plan finally came to light.
[[/folder]]

!The Runner-Up

[[folder: Paul Raffi Abrahamian]]

!''Paul Raffi Abrahamian''
[[quoteright:292:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paul_38.jpg]]
->'''Hometown:''' Tarzana, CA
->'''Current Residence:''' Tarzana, CA
->'''Date of Birth:''' June 13th, 1993
->'''Age:''' 24
->'''Occupation:''' Clothing Designer
->'''Number Of [=HOH=] Wins:''' 3
->'''Number Of [=POV=] Wins:''' 5
->'''Number Of Times Nominated:''' 1 [[note]](Technically zero; the first nomination against him was cancelled out by the Pendant of Protection)[[/note]]
->'''Number Of Times As Have-Not:''' 2
->'''Temptations Taken''': Pendant of Protection [[note]](Immunity from eviction for the first 3 weeks of the game; someone is randomly chosen and forced to offer themselves up as a third nominee for eviction)[[/note]], "Strangest Things" (Fourth Place), "Where Were You?" (Joint Fifth Place)
->'''Temptation Punishments:''' Himself [[note]](Kevin's doing; Paul re-enters the game on Day 1 but someone must be evicted that same night to make room for him)[[/note]]
->'''Prizes/Punishments Taken:''' $50,000 (Runner-Up); Tandem Skydive (He must be strapped together with a houseguest of his choosing for 48-hours [[note]]Does not last the full week because it is very compromising for their personal privacy.[[/note]] at all times while wearing tandem skydive equipment - he selects Christmas), Studio Tour with Bobby Moynihan [[note]](Exclusive once-in-a-lifetime behind-the-scenes look of the making of ''Me Myself And I'')[[/note]], Fidget Spinners[[note]]Pop TV gifted Paul with Fidget Spinners for winning the first part of the final HOH Competition.[[/note]]
->'''Finished:''' 2ND PLACE (WON $50,000)
->'''Evicted:''' None
->'''HOH Evicted Under:''' None
%%->'''Voted For (As Juror):''' TBD?

* '''TheAce''': Played Straight ''and how!'' Paul is the strongest player and the biggest threat in the game by far and it's not even close. He's strong at all aspects of the game. Paul is strong competitively, socially, and strategically and everything that has occurred in the game has gone exactly the way that he has wanted. Strategically, he's been an absolutely brilliant mastermind. He's had a hand in every single eviction that has happened and has gotten all of his wanted targets out of the house. Socially, he was in an alliance or friendly with literally every single person in the house at one point with the exception of Cody. And competitively, he's won the most competitions out of all the houseguests this season with a total of nine competition wins. All of the Temptation Twists of the season have either favored, benefited, or didn't affect Paul and his game. He's also never been a target or been nominated up to Week 12. He's so excellent at this game that it would be an absolute shock if Paul is not teflon and gets to the Final 2 once again with this time taking the win. In addition, he's also broken a Big Brother record in regards to the number of competitions won in Big Brother history. Paul has surpassed Janelle Pierzina's (Big Brother 6, Big Brother 7, and Big Brother 14) record of 13 comp wins with 14 comp wins.
* AdaptationalBadass: When Paul was a houseguest on Big Brother 18, he was pretty badass in his own right, winning multiple competitions, having a strong social game and a decent strategic game. He found himself all the way to the Final 2 where he lost by ''one vote''. However, it seems that Paul is an even bigger threat and bigger badass this season than he was on his original season. Paul has already won a total of five competitions within a span of 10 weeks whereas it took Paul the entire game to win six competitions. His social game is way more impeccable than last season. Whereas Paul didn't always get along with some of the houseguests and got into fights with others on his original season, Paul gets along with ''nearly everyone'' on this season (with the exception of Cody and Jessica). In terms of being nominated, Paul was nominated a total of six times last season, but he's never been nominated or even targeted 10 weeks in the game. Paul has definitely become a much stronger player and a bigger threat than last season and he was already a solid player on his original season as it is.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Paul was always a very smart and intelligent guy, even during his last season as a newbie player. But this season, he has become a downright ManipulativeBastard who is controlling and manipulating everyone with the use of his strong strategy and his excellent social game. Nobody has been able to outplay or outsmart Paul whatsoever this season and even those who've made attempts to do so end up getting caught by Paul and eventually snuffed out of the game. Paul's intelligence has seemed to have grown exponentially since last year. He's manipulated every single houseguest with the use of his brains and nobody has been able to stop him. The guy has become a major EvilGenius and if he makes it to the Final 2 for a second time, he will officially slide into MagnificentBastard territory.
* AdaptationalJerkass: On Big Brother 18, Paul was ''way'' nicer than he is on this season. He was more of the lovable yet edgy, entertaining underdog that the audience loved and wanted to win. Paul was popular with the audience and was a BreakoutCharacter who was seen to be funny and entertaining. However, this season, it's the complete opposite and the audience's perception of him as dramatically changed. Paul has become less funny, likeable and light hearted than he was last season and has become a much bigger {{Jerkass}} by playing a much dirtier, aggressive game in comparison to last season where he was much nicer and played an overall cleaner game.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: See AdaptationalVillainy and AdaptationalJerkass. Last season, Paul was fun, charming, charismatic and popular with the Big Brother audience. But because of a dramatic change in his personality, he's lost all of his favor and popularity with the audience. Paul has become significantly darker and villainous in personality and he's no longer recognizable to the more heroic (more like anti heroic) character that he was on Big Brother 18. Some are wondering if Paul's personality has shifted so much is because he's no longer the loveable underdog that he was last year and is instead, a veteran of a game that he has played and mastered before. Paul's change in personality could also have to do with his ego growing because he was the sole veteran playing amongst a group of newbies who don't have the same experience and expertise at the game that Paul does.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Paul is way more villainous this season than he was last season. Last year he was much more of an AntiHero who was ChaoticGood, but this season he's descended into darkness and has become the straight up BigBad of the season with an alignment of ChaoticEvil. Many fans who were a fan of Paul last year and wanted him to win have had a dramatically different change of perception about him. They now see him as one of the most unlikeable players in the game, a stark contrast to last year when he was a fan favorite (hence why he won the Pendant of Protection in the first week by votes from America). Paul has morphed into a villain this season because has played a significantly dirtier game than last season. He has resorted or used dirty tactics to progress himself in the game such as lying, scheming, manipulating, controlling and even bullying and intimidation. Not to mention that he has gotten personal with some of the houseguests this season, such as Cody and Jessica, who have been the victims of Paul's bullying and harassment. In addition to Paul becoming a villain, he's also lost his fun, charismatic, charming and likeable personality that he had before. Because of Paul becoming a villain, his popularity has taken a serious nosedive and he's no longer the fan favorite that he used to be.
* AdaptationalWimp: Inverted. Last season, he was much more vulnerable because he was constantly nominated and used as a pawn for other people's games. He was very similar to John "Johnny Mac" [=McGuire=] rom Big Brother 17 where the other houseguests just liked to use Paul as ThePawn in their games. He was also significantly more emotional than this season and he consistently lost his number one ally Victor which only made him even more weak and vulnerable. However, it's the complete opposite this season and he's become an AdaptationalBadass Paul is now the one controlling almost all the people in the house and manipulating pawns. He has never faced vulnerability, struggles or weaknesses for the entire season and everything has gone the exact way that Paul has wanted it to. He's never been nominated, had plenty of temptations that favored or benefited Paul (such as the Pendant of Protection, the Ring of Replacement in which his close ally Christmas used for Paul's benefit, the Golden Apple which Paul admitted would have been used for safety for Paul if he were in trouble, and the Save a Friend Temptation which Mark granted to him), has numerous allies willing to do his dirty work for him (when last season, he only had one loyal ally in Victor), and won numerous competitions when he needed to. Paul has definitely morphed into one of the strongest and most dangerous players, not just this season, but possibly in Big Brother history. Paul is most definitely not a wimp anymore.
* AdvantageBall: Paul has had many advantages this season that have helped or assisted him to get to where he is right now. Paul had a clear advantage over the other houseguests because he was a veteran who had experience with the game and has went through the experience of playing the game before. The new houseguests didn't have the same knowledge and understanding of the game that Paul did so he definitely had an advantage and a strong degree of power over the others because of it. In addition, Paul received the Pendant Of Protection temptation which was granted to him by America's votes (he already had a solid and built in fan base because of being the fan favorite last year). The Pendant of Protection, which was the most powerful and useful temptation out of all the temptations, granted Paul immunity for three straight weeks in which he could not be nominated or evicted. On top of it, many of the competitions that were played this season were similar or the exact same competitions that Paul had played and excelled in last year, which gave him another huge advantage over the others competitively. Even though Paul did get to the end through his strong and excellent gameplay, there's no denying that Paul did have some advantages since the beginning such as being a veteran and being given a power granted to him by America because of his popularity outside of the house.
* AffablyEvil: Flip flops between this and FauxAffablyEvil. In general, Paul is a nice guy who's quite sociable and affable to others. However, he won't always extend his nice side to his enemies or those whom he doesn't trust. Just as long as someone stays out of his way and doesn't end up targeting him, he'll treat you nicely. If someone does get in his way or targets him, watch out!
* AffectionateNickname: Christmas calls Paul her "Buddy-Buddy".
* AGodAmI: Downplayed. Paul doesn't outright state that he's a Godlike figure. But he does seem to have this major hero, savior and God complex when it comes to the rest of the houseguests. He has openly stated that he feels responsible for the fate of everyone else's game including his own. He believes that he has so much power in the house that he can influence anything to his will. It is why he has said that he feels such a huge responsibility in looking out for everyone because he has developed a God like complex because he happens to be the only veteran in the house with the experience to dictate to the other houseguests on what to do in the game. Much of Paul's God-like complex has to do with his ego and the fact that he's let being a veteran get to his head.
* AllAccordingToPlan: Paul always has a plan, and if it doesn't go exactly as he wants, he will always have a back up plan. Paul will even bait other houseguests into blowing up their games which ends up playing into Paul's hands because that was his strategy all along. Let's just say that he's never gone through this game without some kind of plan. He's CrazyPrepared after all.
* AlphaStrike: When Paul ''truly'' wants to punish somebody as opposed to just giving them a crack of the whip to make them mind, he punishes them with maximum force. Most Big Brother seasons have one or two ultra-monstrous, thoroughly hate-worthy houseguests who will incite mayhem and get their opponents to peck off each other and/or tear each other apart [[DividedWeFall while fighting amongst themselves]] just because their hearts are ''that'' inky. This is not the case when Paul is in charge- if there's a extremely vile bully on a rampage who is fouling up the place, Paul's gonna sink 'em by deploying virtually everyone at his disposal all at once in a grand payback and will never let up on them for a moment.
* AmazonChaser: Played Straight. The women that Paul has a tendency to align with himself with are athletic and strong types. Alex and Christmas are his two strongest female allies. Alex is the strongest woman of the season because she's won numerous competitions. Christmas is an AmazonianBeauty who's physically fit, athletic and muscular. It's obvious that Paul has a thing for strong and athletic women who can pull their own weight. Especially in comparison to weaker and useless women such as Raven who noticeably irritate and annoy him.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Paul has an ItsAllAboutMe mentality and he's willing to screw over people to get farther in the game. He's also incredibly ruthless and cutthroat with people that have backstabbed or betrayed him. Paul is so desperate and ambitious to get far in the game that he's resorting to dirty tactics to do so. Hell, Paul is willing to intimidate and bully people in order to get what he wants and he doesn't seem to have any problem or remorse over doing it.
* TheAntiChrist: Parodied. Josh humorously compared Paul to being the Devil when he saw Paul's emotions switch from being sad and in tears to bearing an EvilGrin and telling Josh that they are both in the game for the long run because the plan went exactly how he wanted it to go.
* ArchEnemy:
** '''Cody.''' He's Paul's biggest enemy of the season. They have had a rivalry and dislike of each other since the beginning. Cody started to rivalry due to his IrrationalHatred of Paul. Paul didn't even dislike Cody at first and he had a degree of trust in him because they were in the same alliance together. However, Paul's feelings towards Cody very much soured and turned bitter once Cody made the plan and option of betraying Paul by turning on his alliance and backdooring him in Week 1. On top of it, Cody made an even bigger enemy out of Paul by nominating Christmas, who was, at the time, his closest ally and friend in the house. Since then, Cody made it his mission to get Paul out of the house and in retaliation, Paul decided to turn the entire house against Cody by playing the victim. Paul got everyone to hate Cody and take his side to the extent that Cody ended up completely powerless and vulnerable against Paul and the rest of the house. The hatred that Paul has for Cody isn't just game related but also personal. Paul has commented that he doesn't like Cody personally because he finds him to be a very mean, cruel, rude, anti social and aggressive person who doesn't know how to socialize and get along with people. He has complained that Cody has treated him badly and has bullied him and physically threatened him throughout the game. He also doesn't like the way Cody has treated the other houseguests in particular Josh by calling him horrible names, bullying him and making fun of him. Paul especially didn't take it well when Cody physically threatened that he would beat Josh up outside of the house and ruin his life. Once Cody did that, Paul made it his mission to get Cody out of the house and make his life while he was still in the house an absolute living hell. Despite Paul using rather dirty tactics to get Cody out of the house, Paul's dislike of Cody is very much justified both game wise and personal wise.
** '''Jessica.''' Although not as big of an enemy to Paul as Cody, Jessica and Paul didn't get along in the game and there was a huge lack of trust. Understandable since Jessica was the closest ally of Cody, the one person who was trying his hardest to get Paul out of the house since the beginning. Paul has stated that he doesn't trust Jessica because of her association with Cody and how she's willing to do anything to protect him. It didn't help that he thought that Jessica was in on the bullying of Josh. Jessica had personally attacked Josh by calling him a fat ass and a fat f-ck and insulting Josh's intelligence. Paul also disrespected Jessica because she gave up her game for Cody and didn't play her own game. He even lampshades this in his Goodbye Message to her that he wouldn't give up his game for a romance the way that she did. Because of that, he couldn't have any respect for the way she played the game.
** '''Dominique.''' Originally, Paul and Dominique were in an alliance together. But Paul turned on Dominique once she realized that she was playing a sneaky game. Paul caught onto Dominique's game when he realized that she was using her talk shows to gather information from houseguests about their games so that she could eventually use that info against them later on if she had to. No longer trusting Dominique, he orchestrated the demise of her game when Alex won HOH. He was the one who told Alex to nominate Dominique and Jessica and making Dominique believe that Jessica was the target and she was the pawn. Once Dominique found out that she was the target, she confronted Paul and told him that he was a snake that couldn't be trusted. Paul and Dominique got into a big fight in from of everyone and the confrontation caused everyone to turn on Dominique and side with Paul. Although Dominique came off as though she was irrational, she was actually making a spot on judgement of Paul as he was the one who was controlling everything in the house and manipulating everyone to do his bidding. Paul knew that Dominique had caught onto his game and what he was doing, so he made it his mission to get her out of the house.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Paul is a ManipulativeBastard who has almost every single houseguest following his order. Paul displays arrogant, know it all behaviour and uses his experience as a veteran to get everyone to do what he wants. Cody and Jessica comment that all the other houseguests are nothing but Paul's puppets with Cody calling the majority of the other houseguests Paul's dogs or groupies.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Paul is a veteran with a lot of experience at playing Big Brother and he's also the strongest player in the game, so it's only natural that the rest of the house sees him as a mentor and TheLeader role of the house. The reason why Paul is being viewed as the leader of the house is because the other houseguests have pushed him into that role as well as Paul also putting himself on that role and feeling like he's responsible for the other houseguests and their fates in the game.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance:
** His garb as the lord of the zombies/zombie king during the Week 6 HOH, with fake blood spattered on it. Cody tried to put him on the block, but Paul was protected. No matter who goes after him, his game won't die! Instead, he keeps on going and bathes in his opponent's blood! Well, not really- but you do get the idea, right?
** A minor one, but Paul is gifted some Fidget Spinners during the final '''three''' HOH triathlon-style competition. Guess how many handles a Fidget Spinner has?
* AttentionWhore: Paul seems to thrive on having the attention be on him and constantly having things go his way. Cody even told Jessica that Paul likes being the centre of attention and he'll do anything to achieve it.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Paul is the sole veteran of the season amongst a group of houseguests who are newbies. Therefore, he has significantly more experience than the other houseguests, making him the biggest threat in the house He's also TheLeader of the house and he's the one who runs everything in the game so he definitely has power over everyone else.
* AwakenTheSleepingGiant: Normally, Paul won't make too much of a fuss if someone is giving him and company a hard time and lets them self-destruct their game, and they'll be out of the fray in no time flat. But if a nuisance won't go away so easily and becomes a full-on harassment machine in the house, Paul stops sitting still and totally shreds them.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Paul is very excellent at pin pointing people's strengths and weaknesses in their games simply by observing them and their behavior. He's able to discover what makes other people tick simply through having an excellent social game and communicating with others. He's also very good at reading people's body language in order to determine their intentions.
* BackstabBackfire: His decision to go through with betraying Alex, who was one of his best friends. Not only did Paul happen to target the BIGGEST SoreLoser of the season, she gave him the colossal fuckover he deserved by changing her vote to Josh and being the one vote against him that tipped the scales to Josh.
* BadassBaritone: Paul has a very deep, raspy voice and he's also the strengths player of the season and the biggest threat by far.
* BadassBeard: The strongest player in the game and also has a noticeable beard, which is known to be his physical trademark.
* BadassBoast: Clearly has no issue using his power over the other houseguests to boast and make threats if it will benefit him in the game. Sometimes Paul takes his boasting and bragging too far that it comes across as our arrogance.
* BadassBookworm: Paul is a very smart and intelligent man and he's also the strongest player in terms of social, strategic and competitive aspects. He's also educated, being a Pepperdine University alumni and he's also stated that he wants to attend Harvard Law School some time in the distant future with the aspirations of becoming a lawyer or attorney.
* BadassBystander: Will gladly let people blow up their own games and stand by and watch with glee but if anyone ever puts him in the cross hairs, he'll go out of his way to make sure that they are targeted and eventually evicted. Case in point, Paul will let anyone survive if they stay out of his way, but if someone gets in his cross hairs, they better watch out.
* BadassInCharge: Paul is most definitely the leader of the entire season. He's an EvilOverlord who is controlling the vast majority of the house and everything that happens in the house is most definitely orchestrated by Paul somehow. In fact, Paul is so much of a leader of the season that when it came to everyone voting for who they wanted to compete against Cody in the Battle Back competition, the entire house wanted Paul to compete against Cody by an 11-1 vote! The only one who voted against him or didn't want him to compete in the Battle Back against is ''Paul himself'', who voted for Alex to compete instead.
* BadBoss: Inverted. Even though Paul is the season's "villain", he's still rather decent to his allies. Paul is actually a BenevolentBoss because although he's got many loyal supporters and minions (aka Paul's Posse), he does treat them very nicely. In addition, he's also incredibly sociable and affable towards them, constantly being the one to have personal conversations with them and give them personal and game related advice.
* TheBadGuyWins: So far, Paul seems to be getting his way every single week. He has gotten all of his wanted targets out and nobody is actively targeting or planning on taking him out. Paul's major mission was getting Cody out of the house and he finally ended up in succeeding when Cody was finally evicted in Week 7.
* BaitTheDog: It was thought that Paul was going to be the same fun loving, likeable and charismatic person that he was last season. But as the season goes on, it's revealed that Paul is extremely mean, aggressive and unlikeable. Some wonder if his persona from last season was fake and that the person that he's revealed to be this season is who he really is.
* BashBrothers: Paul was this with Jason, Kevin, and Josh especially. They were all of his closest allies in the game and they were all in an alliance together.
* TheBarnum: When it comes to playing the game, Paul has little to no problem tricking people and conning them in order to get them to do exactly what he wants, whether it's throwing competitions to him, nominating the people that he wants, or getting out all of the targets that he wants out. He has so many people enamored and he's tricked so many of the other houseguests that they are willing to sacrifice their Big Brother lives for Paul. Paul is very much a trickster in how he plays the game since he's conned and manipulated everyone to do what he wants and that is what makes him so dangerous to begin with.
* BatmanGambit: Paul throws the Week 9 HOH challenge, "Tales from Decrypt", to Christmas, because he knows she won't put him up on the block and will go after Mark as per instructed (though he has to actually put effort into losing because Christmas just can't figure out the last message). That particular week, the house majority wants to be rid of a broken showmance's loose end, Mark. Which means Paul will be eligible to win HOH the next week, when it really matters. This turns out to be an excellent move on his part, as Mark, knowing he bears a debt to Paul for being offered friendship (a friendship bracelet, in fact, which is something Paul liked to give to people he could trust last season) the first week of the game, practically hands him a week of immunity by bestowing him the "Save a Friend" he got from the Tree of Temptation, hoping to throw the target on somebody else.
* BeardOfEvil: Paul is the villain of the season and he has a very impressive beard that's known to be his physical trademark. Interestingly enough, his beard actually makes him appear even more villainous.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Last season, Paul said that he hated the fact that the veterans were getting an easy ride in the game and as a result, he wanted to get rid of all of them. But now that he'a a vet on this season, he has no problem accepting twists (such as the Pendant of Protection and the Golden Apple) if it's going to benefit him in the game. Paul had constantly talked trash about all of the vets last season (with Nicole and James being his biggest targets) but now that he's a vet on this season, he's threatened by someone who's a newbie talking trash about him and wanting to get him out of the house.
* BeneathTheMask: Approaching the end of the game, Paul is starting to hate how much of a hope crusher he's become. He spends a long time in the lounge reflecting that he had to play a very intense game to survive, and when it comes time to get rid of Alex when he's HOH for the third time, it's just too much for him to do behind her back, so he goes to her personally and explains that she was just his pawn. Following this, he shuffles into the HOH room, where he crumbles into a long and painful breakdown for the first time during the game, sobbing uncontrollably.
* BenevolentBoss: Paul may be the BigBad who has a bunch of minions following him blindly, but he does treat his allies (or minions) rather good. He is always giving advice to them about personal or game related things. He's also incredibly sociable towards them.
* BerserkButton:
** DO NOT bully him, try to intimidate him or try to get in his face in any way, shape or form. Paul didn't handle it well when Cody got in his face and attacked him for making a game move.
** Betraying him or stabbing him in the back is a REALLY bad move. Paul will end up striking back and he will strike back in the most brutal way possible. Cody learned it the hard way when he betrayed Paul's trust.
** Personally attacking someone's physical appearance or intelligence is enough to get Paul extremely angered and riled up. Paul was highly enraged when Cody and Jessica personally attacked Josh by fat shaming him and insulting his intelligence. Paul admits that fat shaming jokes especially bother him because his sister was bullied for having weight issues and she suffered from an eating disorder (anorexia) due to the bullying.
** '''NEVER''' mess with his [[NiceHat trusty backwards hat.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIQoSmQUNE EVER.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Paul is very extroverted, fun loving and completely silly at times. However, he's the most deadly player in the entire game and is the biggest threat who is willing to cut other people's throat to advance himself in the game. Funny thing is, most people in the house see Paul is a harmless, fun loving and sociable clown that isn't a threat.
* BewareTheSuperman: Inverted. Paul was originally expected to be a BigGood since he was a veteran who had a lot of experience and was a more heroic character on his last season. But he eventually succumbed to TheDarkSide and became DrunkWithPower and DrunkOnTheDarkSide. With that, Paul became the BiggerBad and an EvilOverlord who ruled the house with a tough iron fist. He is, however, a very capable, fair leader and mentor towards his subordinates and minions. But that doesn't mean that he won't become extremely authoritarian, dictatorial, and tyrannical in his attitude if anyone even thinks of plotting against him or not following his orders or doing what he wants.
* BigBad: Paul is most definitely the main villain and threat of the season. With time, he eventually progresses to being the BiggerBad as he becomes more and more dangerous in the game. See BiggerBad below.
* '''BiggerBad''': Game wise, Paul is most definitely the most dangerous player of the entire season as he's manipulating and controlling every single game move. He also has many loyal followers and minions that are working for him to further his goals and agenda. In regards to his CharacterAlignment, Paul started at as ChaoticGood (his alignment last season) but eventually [[DarkerAndEdgier becomes more and more villainous]], settling into being ChaoticEvil this season.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Cody and Jessica, as they are all considered villains. Paul, Cody and Jessica were all on opposing sides and were targeting each other due to be an ArchEnemy to each other.
* BigBadSlippage: Paul started out good at the start of the season and it appeared as if he was going to be the same lovable underdog that he was last season. However, as the season went on, Paul started to become progressively more villainous to the extent that many fans don't even recognize him as the same person that he was last season. The game has most definitely gotten to Paul's ego and he became more and more controlling, arrogant, cocky, aggressive, and manipulative. As a result of the change in his attitude and personality, many fans have turned on him even though he's still got his loyal, staunch fans who will support him no matter what he does.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Has this towards Josh. Although they are a very similar age (Paul is a little bit older than Josh), Paul seems to play somewhat of a big brother role to Josh, especially when it comes to Cody and Jessica bullying and personally attacking him. When Jessica and Cody had fat shamed him and called him stupid during a fight in Week 6, Paul told Josh that he was proud of him for standing up for himself against Jody and that he didn't resort to mean comments or personal attacks when he did so.[[note]]And yes, he does have an instinct for ''Big Brother'', wise guys.[[/note]]
* BigBrotherMentor: As a returning veteran, he's pretty much this to all of the other houseguests. He would often be the one to give the other houseguests advice during the game. He strongly fits this role with Josh. He has a BigBrotherInstinct towards him and tries to give him advice on what and what not to do. It seems that Paul's advice has managed to help Josh (and the other houseguests) in the game.[[note]]And he serves as a mentor for ''Big Brother'', too.[[/note]]
* BigEater: Paul sure does love to eat food. Interestingly enough, he's often found in the kitchen more than anyone else. Plus, he's always the one cooking the rest of the house food. Seems that his love of food hasn't changed from last season.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Paul is the Little Guy (5'5") to Jason (6'4"), Mark (6'5"), Josh (6'3") and Kevin's (6'2") Big Guy. Paul is tiny next to all of them as he's the shortest male houseguest of the season.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts like an affable guy to get people to like him, and then as soon as he seizes control, starts bullying others such as Cody and Jessica through [[TheDragon Josh]] and others like [[TheDragon Alex]] and [[WhatTheHellHero Christmas]].
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Paul has no issue with using nasty tactics such as lying, manipulating, backstabbing and bullying to get himself farther in the game. but for the love of God, do not think it's okay to call him a villain for doing all of those things. Paul would prefer if others would refer to his actions as just playing the game of Big Brother. Little does he know that outside of the house, he's being viewed as the villain or bad guy because of the actions that he's taken or because of the way in which he played the game (which is a dirty way).
* BlatantLies: In his Goodbye Message to Jason, Paul ended up lying for no good reason to him by trying to pretend that he had nothing to do with Jason's eviction. What exposed Paul was Josh's Goodbye Message to Jason in which he expressed he gave Paul credit for getting Jason out by orchestrating an elaborate master plan. The fact that this message came before Paul's disingenuous Goodbye Message only makes Paul come off as someone who was lying for no reason when he could have just confessed that he was the one who plotted to get him out. Jason probably would not have been as blindsided and hurt by the game move Paul made if Paul was just honest with him in his Goodbye Message. The funny thing is, Paul did the exact same thing to Da'Vonne last season in his Goodbye Message to her. Instead of owning up to his gameplay, he just tells unnecessary lies that could potentially taint or hurt his chances with the jury.
* BornLucky: Despite being the only veteran who happened to make it all the way to the Final 2 and also lost by only one vote last season, Paul is the least targeted houseguest in the house after nine weeks into the game. Nobody is even contemplating putting him on the block or turning their back on him. In fact, everyone seems to want to drag him to the Final 3. Plus, he also got three weeks of safety earlier in the game with the Pendant Of Protection Temptation that was awarded to him by America. Talk about being lucky. The fact that Paul, who is the most dangerous player and the biggest threat in the game by far, is not even seen as a threat by everyone else is absolutely amazing yet surprising. His competitive luck is also great, and it has landed him a guaranteed slot in the Final 3.
* BreakoutCharacter: Subverted. Although he was very [[BlatantLies popular last season and was a solid fan favorite]] as many fans wanted him to win over veteran Nicole, his popularity has declined this season. He started off the season as being the same fan favorite that he was last year amongst the audience. But due to him playing more aggressively than last year, playing a less cleaner game, using dirty tactics (Notably pointless bullying and intimidation), and most importantly [[EnemyMine not having a much more hated player (Nicole and Paulie)]] to be opposed, to further his game, he's not as well-liked amongst the viewers as he was last season. Despite this, he still has plenty of devoted fans who love him no matter what.
* BreakThemByTalking: Downplayed. Paul doesn't talk down to others to cause emotional harm or pain to other people (unless they are his enemies like Cody and Jessica). Instead, he uses his words to get the other houseguests to break down on a game level so that they are pliable enough to be able to bend easily to his will. Sometimes the way he talks to the other houseguests can be a little aggressive at times, even bordering on making him come across as TheBully, but he doesn't do it with malicious or mean intent and more for gameplay.
* BreakTheHaughty: Paul manages to make Cody emotionally crumble through the use of personal attacks and bullying that he instigates through his minions. He also makes Cody want to give up on his game because he can't take the fact that Paul is the one running the house, controlling everything and has almost every single person on his side that's against him. Although Cody is normally unemotional and doesn't show any outward emotion, one could tell that because of Paul's antics and what he's done in the game, Cody was at his breaking point where he wanted to leave the house. The manner in which he left the house when he was evicted showed someone who was fed up and tired of Paul being in complete control over anything and handling his opposition with ease.
* BriarPatching: Paul makes people think it will be bad to disobey him, but sometimes that's exactly what he wants them to do so that they'll look two-faced and become a scapegoat.
* BrokenPedestal: Going by many of the jury members reactions to Paul, a lot of the are very disappointed, upset, angry or bitter towards Paul. If one notices, the majority of the people that are in jury are Paul's minions and the people that followed him blindly. They include Jason, Elena, Mark, Raven, Matt and Alex. All of them were friends with Paul and they all had a strong admiration and respect for him because he was a veteran who had experience and was a good player that they wanted to emulate. Once they realized that they were all played and manipulated by Paul, their opinions of Paul soured and became somewhat bitter. Jason was extremely hurt and betrayed by Paul because he was someone that Jason really liked and trusted in the game. When he discovered that Paul was the one who was behind his eviction, Jason became very upset and bitter towards Paul and he's questioned whether Paul is worthy of his jury vote if he gets to the end. Alex is another one whose positive opinion of Paul shattered because Paul had betrayed her and chosen to take Josh and Christmas to the end instead of taking her to the Final 2 like he said he would. She had even called Paul a counterfeit for betraying her and saying that Paul wasn't as much about loyalty and friendship as she thought he always was. Mark and Elena were also friends and allies of Paul but they eventually came to realize that Paul was manipulating everyone and was befriending and aligning with nearly every single person in the house so they realized that they were not special. The only ones who seem to not be affected by Paul and his manipulations in the game are Matt and Raven, who have expressed that they think Paul played the best game and should be rewarded because of it. Case in point, many people who were friends and allies of Paul's changed their opinions about him for the negative when they all discovered that he was playing them, manipulating them and backstabbing them. At one point, even Josh had questioned his loyalty and his admiration for Paul because he came to realize what Paul was doing in the game and that he was playing selfishly and not for the rest of the alliance.
* BrokenTears: After Alex froze him out of conversation once he won his fourth POV and had to ensure she stayed up on the block for the advancement of his own game, Paul finally shed real tears, quietly weeping over the fact he made Alex hate him, and both Christmas and Josh came up to him and hugged it out.
* BrutalHonesty: Paul is definitely NOT afraid to say what's exactly on his mind. Sometimes his words can be rather blunt and hurtful and can cross into bullying territory. Until the jury starts.
* TheBully: As of week five he's bullied at [[AssholeVictim two houseguests]] outside of his alliance (The Jody pair), not counting Dominique. Pretty much you're with him and he's affable and polite to you, or you're against him and he'll make your Big Brother life a living hell.
* TheCaligula: Downplayed. Even though Paul has proven to be a very competent and excellent leader, the tactics that he uses towards the other houseguests especially when he's in power can be quite mean, cruel and vicious. Sometimes eh will resort to unnecessary cruelty, intimidation and bullying. Whenever Paul is in power, he certainly lets it get to his head and he becomes completely DrunkWithPower.
* CantTakeCriticism: Ohh boy, overtime someone criticized all for his bad behavior or his actions in the game, he resorts to getting mad or getting the person whom attacked him targeted and eventually evicted. Paul is very sensitive about people liking him and when someone doesn't like him and criticizes him in any way, he becomes belligerent and unpleasant.
* CardCarryingVillain: Inverted. Paul is actually the BigBad of the season. However, he doesn't see that he's the villain. Instead, he thinks that all of the actions and decisions that he's made in the game have been for the good of his game and for everyone else's. If anything, he's more of a KnightTemplar who thinks that what he's doing is moral but in reality, it's not.
* CatchPhrase: "FRIENDSHIP". However, [[DarkerAndEdgier he isn't using his signature catch phrase this season nearly as much as he did last season.]] "PISSED", on the other hand, is seeing a ''[[SurroundedByIdiots lot]]'' more use. He's also frequently uses "BIG STYLE" when he's in agreeance with something or when he's trying to make a point. It seems to be his most common catch phrase this season. "Your boy" is hardly seeing the light of day passing through Paul's lips, and it seems to have been ''[[BorrowedCatchphrase stolen]]'' by Josh (which might explain why Paul doesn't say it anymore [[DiscreditedMeme out of annoyance]]). A new one he has started to use near the endgame is "You played yourself", whenever somebody (usually Josh) screws up either their own game by contributing to their own downfall... or has an accident. He even refers to the fish that croaked in the HOH room tank as "he played himself".
* ChainedHeat: As part of his Tandem Skydive "reward", he has to spend two whole days strapped to somebody of his choosing. He decided to pick Christmas. It becomes a bit awkward when they have to go to the bathroom together.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: In Week 7, Paul admits that he felt immense pressure as being the sole veteran in the house. He was starting to suffer from a bit of a DespairEventHorizon and an emotional breakdown when he started to realize that the game was becoming stressful and emotionally draining for him. He confessed to Christmas, Jason, Josh and Kevin that he has always felt so much pressure to live up to a specific standard that he is held to both inside and outside of the house. He even said that when it came to the Battle Back, he felt like he failed the entire house because he felt like he failed in his responsibility in preventing Cody from returning to the game for him to cause more problems for everyone. Case in point, Paul has openly admitted that being the leader and the veteran with experience has put a lot of pressure on him that has caused him emotional distress.
* ChallengeSeeker: Paul is always up for a challenge because he believes that it makes him stronger. He's not the one to backdown from something complicated. One of the reasons why he has a love of a challenge is because it forces him to use his intelligence to come up with plans and solutions to overcome the challenge.
* ChaosIsEvil: Paul had mentioned privately in one of his Friendship Chats that his strategy or plan to make it far in the game was to cause complete and total chaos in the house so that the other houseguests would end up fighting with each other, turning on one another and basically cannibalizing each other. He planned to use chaos as a strategy against the other houseguests so that they would all become targets instead of him, because he's already a huge target as it is being the sole veteran in the house. Turns out his plan and strategy of using chaos and drama has gotten him far since there is a high probability that he'll make it all the way to the Final 2 once again.
* CharacterDerailment: Yikes. In regards to Paul's personality this season in comparison to his personality last season, it's almost like night and day in how different he is and not in a positive way. This season, he's become a major {{Jerkass}} and extremely arrogant, cocky and aggressive. His gameplay is very dirty this season and he has become a huge liar, manipulator, and schemer. But on his original season, Paul was way more likeable and charismatic, not only because he was very funny, light hearted and entertaining, but because he was also an underdog that had all of the odds stacked against him since the beginning and had to struggle to get all the way to the Final 2.It seems that becoming a veteran has caused Paul to become increasingly more arrogant and cocky and he feels that he's more entitled to be in the game than the other houseguests. It should also be noted that last season, Paul absolutely hated all the veterans in the game and wanted them all out. But now that he's a veteran, it's never okay for anyone to even think of targeting him or wanting to get him out for the benefit of their game.
* CharacterTics: PLAYING WITH HIS BEARD. Also, bobbing his head to get a point across. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX-EqEE65uo The houseguests thoroughly lampshade this.]]
* {{Charisma}}: Paul's greatest strength is his ability to appear very likeable... until he springs the trap on his supporters.
* TheCharmer: Paul is extremely charming, sociable and charismatic. He's got every single person wrapped around his finger due to his personal magnetism and charm. His social game is one of the strongest aspects of his game which makes him so dangerous to begin with.
* TheChessmaster: Paul is playing ''everybody'' in the house and getting them all to open up to him. By being so friendly, he gets them to spill the beans about every single going-on, and it lets him plan out his next move and set up some contingencies. Eventually, even the promos are going along with it, promoting him as "The Puppetmaster" with a parody of ''Film/TheGodfather'' titles.
* ChewingTheScenery: Paul is very over the top and dramatic in his behavior and mannerisms. It's expected since he's very much a LargeHam and EvilIsHammy. The fact that he has absolutely NoIndoorVoice is a huge sign that this is not someone who has a subtle or quiet personality.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Downplayed. Paul won't backstab or actively betray those he's aligned with or those he trusts. He will only backstab people that he finds untrustworthy or sketchy such as Dominique, Ramses, Cody and Jessica for example. For the most part, Cody only betrays people that he's enemies with or those he doesn't like or trust. He's remained quite loyal to those that he likes personally and those he's aligned with. That doesn't mean that he won't eventually plot some of his allies' demise when he feels [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness that they are no longer useful to him, though...]] [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves or have directly]] [[IDontPayYouToThink disobeyed him.]]
* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: One of Paul's common body language positions or gestures is clasping his hands together. Even in his official Big Brother 18 cast photo, he [[http://wwwimage5.cbsstatic.com/base/files/cast/bb18_paul_abrahamian_800x1000_0.jpg is seen clasping his hands together]].
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Paul is definitely this for Josh, whom he views like a little brother in need of guidance and emotional support. But he's also the guy who must remind Josh to can it with the live swearing (until Paul realizes the show has a safeguard in place to prevent the cussing from spilling over into the at-home audiences' ears) and the one who tells Josh when his antics need a rest when they start to grate on peoples' nerves.
* ClusterFBomb: Paul has a habit of swearing or dropping the F bomb rather frequently especially when he gets mad or irritated. [[MoralGuardians So long as it's not on the live show.]] He'll also use S bombs on ''After Dark''.
* CombatPragmatist: Once Paul has his sights set on a goal or agenda, he'll stop at nothing to achieve that goal even if he has to resort to some dirty tactics or gameplay to do so. Also, if someone threatens him in any way, shape or form, he will only come back harder with a vengeance.
* CompanionCube: Just like the inflatable yellow duck tube from last season (Pablo), Paul has taken a shining to the blue toucan inner tube from this season, wearing it constantly and naming it Trejo. Trejo actually suffered a slight injury when Josh accidentally punctured him via roughhousing, so Christmas had to go and mend him the best she could.
* CounterpartComparison: A person who makes it to the finals on two consecutive seasons, loses twice because of poor jury management (and some surprising strategic blunders) and to ThePowerOfFriendship and honesty? Are we talking about [[Series/{{Survivor}} Russell Hantz]] or Paul Abrahamian?
* ConMan: Paul has manipulated almost every single houseguest in some way and he has everyone fooled. It seems that he has everyone misted and his manipulation tactics have made everyone believe what he says and follow him blindly and loyalty. Does everyone else in the house not realize that Paul is a veteran, who also happens to be the strongest player and was someone who made it all the way to the Final 2?
* ConsummateLiar: If Paul is talking or opening his mouth, he's most likely lying. Lying is one of Paul's tactics in trying to get under people's skin and blow up other people's games. However, Paul seems to only lie to his enemies and has been quite honest with those that he's close with or aligned with in the game.
* ControlFreak: Paul is by far the most controlling houseguest in the game. He wants everything to go his way and if it doesn't he ends up easily irritated and annoyed. He pretty much rules the house like an EvilOverlord with an iron fist.
* TheCorrupter: Paul has manipulated all of the other houseguests to do his bidding. He not only gets them to do his dirty work for him but he also tries to influence them into doing less than moral stuff in the game, such as calling people out or trying to get the others to crack through bullying and fighting. Paul manages to do this by manipulation and also by trying to get under the other houseguests skin so that they blow up, get into a fight, and make themselves a target instead of him. In Week 5, he managed to get the entire house to get into a fight with Jessica and Cody and then was basically the one who led the taunting tirade against Jody.
* CrazyPrepared: Paul always has a plan ready to go to benefit him in the game. If one of his plans don't end up working out, he'll always have a backup plan and he will continue to have back up plans until he accomplishes what he wants.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: More like Create Your Own Villain Minions! Remember when Alex, Christmas, Jason, and Kevin all used to be nice and decent houseguests? That all changed when they aligned with Paul and became TheDragon to him. Once they started working for him, Paul became TheCorrupter to all of them and managed to change their personalities and their style of gameplay from clean to dirty. Paul has also brought out the worst in all of the houseguests and he seems to bring out their nasty, mean and aggressive sides by influencing them to act cruel and conduct immoral behavior such as intimidation and bullying towards those who Paul considers to be his enemies. Paul is not only a mega villain himself, but he's so bad that he's created a bunch of villainous minions who have blind UndyingLoyalty to him! That's how dangerous of a threat and a player Paul really is and how much influence he had over others in the game.
* '''CreatorsPet''': Paul was originally a fan favorite amongst the fandom last season and he's also a favorite of Big Brother production but after he came back as a veteran this season, his popularity has managed to seriously decline within the fandom in comparison to last year. Much of the decline in Paul's popularity has to due with him being the sole veteran in a house full of newbies (who are regarded as being underdogs and having disadvantages) and playing a more dirty game (lying, scheming, backstabbing, manipulating, intimidation, and sometimes bullying) than he did last year. Much of the fandom that rooted for him last season and wanted him to win have now managed to turn on him. He still has his devoted fans who stick up for him no matter what though. Regardless of how many fans have turned on Paul, he's still mostly beloved by production as he has SpotlightStealingSquad and 90% of the live shows centre around him.
* CrocodileTears: His display to Alex (his target) and Josh (his ally) on Week 11 after voting out Raven is a very good performance of fake tears, and even Josh buys it. Once Alex leaves the room, however... [[TraitorShot Paul cracks a WICKED smile]] and [[OhCrap Josh stares at him in wide-eyed terror]], later remarking that it was like watching the Devil.
* CryingWolf: An interesting variant worth mentioning; shortly after winning the Final 5 veto, Paul lets Alex know that he doesn't intend to use it on her, which will surely result in her eviction. After a scathing backlash from Alex, Paul returns to the HOH room weeping. It's up for debate as to whether or not the tears are genuine, or just a ploy to get sympathy from Josh and Christmas; given Paul's mastery of CrocodileTears displayed earlier, YouTube commentors aren't buying it.
* CurbStompBattle: When it comes down to gameplay, it's pretty much Paul playing against a bunch of blinded minions and fools who have no clue what they are doing in the game. Paul is pretty much crushing everyone on a social, strategic and even competitive level. It's evident that Paul is the one to beat this season and nobody even comes close to being on his level of gameplay. It could be because he's a veteran and has more experience than the new houseguests but it could also be because Paul is just a really excellent player.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Played Straight. Paul has such exceptional skills (brains, intelligence and strategy) in this game including excellent social, strategic, and competitive skills that are guaranteed to get Paul all the way to the Final 2 for a second time with a very high probability of him winning the triple the money that he won last year which is 500G's. This was in comparison to last year when he won the 50G's by being the runner up and coming in second to Nicole.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Paul is significantly darker, more manipulative and much more cutthroat and ruthless this season than he was on his original season. On his last season, he was more of an AntiHero while Paul is morphed into flat out BigBad territory this season.
* DarkIsEvil: Paul is often see wearing a lot of either dark coloured or black clothing, which definitely emphasizes himself as this season's villain.
* DarkMessiah: A metaphorical example. Paul is seen as this because he's very much the ruler of the entire house. He's also the sole veteran of the house who has experience in the game, therefore, the other houseguests look up to him and treat him like he's a God. He's very much established himself as the other houseguests savior and protector in the game. What they don't realize is how manipulative, scheming, and cutthroat he really is underneath his messianic, holy and savior facade that he projects to the other houseguests.
* TheDarkSide: Paul represents the "bad side" of the house and the season. Unlike last season in which he was more on the good side and was more heroic, Paul is the villain and the BiggerBad who is controlling the house and he has many loyal [[TheDragon minions and followers]] who are doing all of his dirty work for him.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Played Straight. Paul has decided to use dirty and immoral tactics to get far in the game. By doing so, Paul has done a FaceHeelTurn, going from being a heroic (more like AntiHero-ic) character last season to a downright villain and BigBad this season. He seems to have forget who he was and the fact that he had morals, values and emotions last year. It is why so many fans have commented that Paul has done a complete 360 on who he was and that is behavior this season is so out of character because of how much he's changed for the negative.
* DeadpanSnarker: Paul is ''extremely'' sarcastic and snarky. He specializes in sarcastic type sense of humor and when he expresses his humour, he's also very snide and blunt.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Paul has mentioned that part of his strategy is cause complete and utter chaos, nihilism and destruction in the house so that there's always drama that occurs. He wants to implement this strategy because he thinks that it will make the other houseguests bigger targets than him. If there is chaos and destruction in the house, the other houseguests will turn on one another and Paul will skate by without having a target on his back. Paul's main goal is to get to the end once again even if he has to cause destruction and throw many people to the wolves to do it.
* TheDeterminator: Probably the most persistent and determined houseguest in the game. Paul never gives up when he has a goal in mind and he'll do anything to achieve that goal even if he has to become immoral and ruthless. He's almost always constantly in game mode.
* DevilInPlainSight: It's obvious that Paul is the one controlling and manipulating everything in the house but [[TooDumbToLive the rest of the house is completely]] ''blind'' to it. The only people that notice that Paul is the master manipulator of the game are Cody, Jillian, Mark, and Dominique. [[CassandraTruth Look what happened to them.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind: Paul is most definitely the master manipulator and mastermind behind this entire season. He's running everything behind the scenes and nobody has been able to outsmart him whatsoever. He's very much an EvilGenius who is excellent at lying, scheming and manipulating and getting all of the other houseguests to fall into his baits, plans and agendas. Paul is also the leader and is at the top of the hierarchy in the Big Brother house. Pretty much all of the other houseguests are his subordinates and they all work for him to implement his plans, goals and agenda. He's got numerous minions doing his dirty work for him so that he doesn't have to get any blood on his hands or show his cards to anyone else. Because of being such a mastermind, Paul has managed to go through the entire game unscathed and without so much as a scratch or getting caught by anyone.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Paul has decided to torment Cody and make his life hell in the house all for the very reason that Cody was against him and tried to get him out of the house back in Week 1. Because of what Cody did, Paul has resorted to constantly poisoning his name and reputation with other houseguests, getting the other houseguests to bully him, personally attack him and target him relentlessly, and separating Cody from his only ally and his romantic parent Jessica before jury started. Yes, Cody did want Paul out of the game, but when you look at the bigger picture, Cody's punishment from Paul was crossing the line at times. Paul didn't just punish Cody, he tormented Cody.
* DirtyCoward: Most definitely - he has no problem leading a massive bullying campaign against Jessica and Cody [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]], but when he doesn't have a bunch of them backing it up, it's back to picking on Josh.
* DopeSlap: Paul gave a very mild one to Josh on the live feeds and called him a "fucking idiot" for falling for Alex's CrocodileTears (which both Paul and even Josh himself are capable of doing on cue). The TV episode with this moment played it up even more by LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand during the melancholy music as Josh was in tears about thinking he was going to let his family down.
* DramaticIrony: Had Paul not worked so hard to kick Jessica out when he did and forced her to use her Halting Hex and then have Christmas stop Cody from saving her from eviction the week after, she would have made it to Jury if she stayed another week after that, and voted for Paul in the end, and that could have won him the game. Furthermore, betraying Alex caused her to flip her vote to Josh and cause a 5-4 upset all over again. Also, the final HOH competition came down to a question about what ''Alex'' disliked most in the game, with the answer being her own mistakes or Jessica. Alex is the type of person who [[NeverMyFault never takes the fault]] and HATED Jessica with a burning passion the whole game, so Paul should have known better than to go with the first option. All in all, the two girls that Paul went after beyond reasonable limits ended up screwing him over ''dearly.''
* TheDreaded: Paul is by far the most feared player in the game. He's the biggest threat since he's strong in all aspects of the game socially, competitively and strategically. However, the interesting thing about it is that nobody realizes how huge of a threat he is.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Paul has become increasingly more arrogant, cocky, and aggressive in comparison to last season. He always has to have complete power and control of everything that's going on. Otherwise, he will become rather vicious and mean spirited if he doesn't get his way or isn't in control of everything. He has also resorted to some very dirty tactics in order to progress his game, such as lying, manipulating, backstabbing, scheming, and even bullying other houseguests. Paul has fallen so far into TheDarkSide this season that game wise, he's hardly recognizable to the guy that he was last season. However, this is more of a strategic choice for Paul to play as a villain- Paul as a normal person outside the game is the same.
* DrunkWithPower: Immediately took advantage of his popularity as a returning houseguest to make friends and power plays with ease.
* EnragedByIdiocy: Stupidity and foolishness really pisses Paul off. He hates it when people make stupid decisions that he knows will not do any good. For example, he's called out Josh for getting way too emotional and acting like a hot head by constantly fighting with other people and getting in their faces. He's explained to Josh that being confrontational is a ridiculous thing to do in the game because it only makes the target on their back much larger. He also criticized Cody for trying to backdoor him in Week 1. Paul was especially mad at Cody because not only did he betray him and the rest of the alliance, but he never told anyone that he was planning on backdooring Paul. Once Paul realized Cody's stupidity in turning on his alliance so early in the game, he exploited it and ended up targeting Cody for the rest of the game.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Paul doesn't discriminate and works with all different races, ages, genders, sexualities and handicaps. All of his minions are different such as Josh (who is Black Latino), Christmas (who is a muscular woman and handicapped), Alex (who is Asian), Jason (who's a cowboy), Mark (who's a jock), Elena (who's a ditzy blonde), Raven (who's a redhead and an IllGirl), Kevin (who's the oldest houseguest), and Dominique (who's a Black woman). Paul will work with anyone who's willing to work with him and he shows absolutely no discrimination whatsoever.
* EtTuBrute:
** Paul DID NOT take it well when Cody decided to betray him by nominating him in Week 1 when they were in an alliance together.Since then, Paul made it his number one goal to get Cody out of the house. In addition, Paul also felt insulted by Cody because he felt that [[{{Hypocrite}} he went out of his way to personally attack him in the game.]]
** Paul was absolutely ''flabbergasted'' at Josh when he was shown the montage of Josh exposing Paul's many duplicities to every single person they worked to send to Jury.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Paul is s certified MamasBoy and he's repeatedly stated that he is very attached and close to his mother. Last season during Paul's hometown visit, his mother emphasizes how close she and Paul are.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite the fact that Paul is the villain, he does genuinely care about his allies (such as Josh, Christmas, Jason, Alex, and Kevin) on a personal level. He goes out of his way to support and comfort his allies whenever they need to be supported and comforted. He also strongly cares about his family and his friends and he seems to be a MamasBoy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards[=/=]EveryoneHasStandards:
** He will not blindly hate on people when things don't go his way in the hope of winning an argument, because in-game Paul may be wicked, but the real Paul is not a child. Also see BerserkButton, because if you bully one of his close allies, you'd better be prepared for a vicious hazing. And finally, he's grossed out at the mention of people having sex in the house because he loves and fears his parents enough to know better and realizes he's their child and how they would react. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Raven]], on the other hand, [[BigScrewedUpFamily has a more questionable family...]]
** Although on a game perspective, Paul had to cut Alex loose to make sure he would get to the end and avoid making the same mistake he did last season by bringing Nicole, he adored Alex, refused to backdoor her, and outright told her he had no choice but to turn on her to win, ''and'' was '''crying relentlessly''' in the act of betraying her, not doing it out of spite, but simply because he had to. Paul ''could not'' cast the vote to get her out of the house and flipped to Kevin while Christmas voted for Alex, leaving Josh in charge of her fate and the one to complete her eviction.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. Paul understand the concept of being nice and compassionate and he's consistently preached about being a good person and treating people nicely both inside of the house and outside of the house. Despite his understanding of being a good person with morals and values, the persona that he's portraying in the game makes it appear as though he wouldn't understand the concept of kindness and compassion because he is playing a more aggressive, dirty and mean spirited game. In fact, one of the reasons why Paul has said that he didn't like Cody was simply because of the way that he treated many people throughout the game and the fact that he wasn't a nice, sociable and pleasant person to work with or be around. It's not that Paul doesn't understand what being a good person is, it's that Paul has to resort to putting his morals and values in the background in order to play this game more effectively this time around.
* EvilerThanThou: For the majority of the season, it's been Paul (BiggerBad) vs. Cody (BigBad). The two have been targeting each since the beginning and have made it their mission to get each other out of the game. However, when one analyzes the situation between them, Paul made it clear to Cody that he was the one that was running the show even though Cody was the one who wanted to run the house. Cody came off as more of a BigBadWannabe while Paul was actually the ''real'' BigBad who was controlling things all along. It's probably why Cody wanted Paul out so much is because he could see that Paul was the real badass of the house and not him. Paul also looks down on Cody and sees him as inferior to him game wise, feeling that he's a really bad player who made alot of terrible moves.
* EvilFeelsGood: Downplayed. Paul only feels good making ''his enemies'' feel terrible, not those that he's personally close with or those he's aligned with. Paul won't go out of his way to torment, bully or personally attack the people that he cares about, but he most definitely will not hesitate to act extremely cutthroat, ruthless and even vicious (and enjoy it to a certain extent) to those who are his enemies such as his cruel treatment of Cody and Jessica, his two main enemies in the game. All in all, evil feels good for Paul when it's Cody and Jessica.
* EvilGenius: The most brilliant and strategic player in the entire house as he is a ManipulativeBastard who is playing everyone. The guy has conned everyone and he's used his excellent strategy to control every single game move that has happened. If Paul makes it to the Final 2 once again, he will officially veer into MagnificentBastard territory.
* EvilGloating: When is Paul not bragging or gloating about something that he's doing in the game? Whenever something happens to benefit him in the game, his ego ends up spinning completely out of control and he just can't help but brag about all of the game moves that he's made. When he made it to the final five, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgCCzO8q6bI Paul was practically having kittens.]]
* EvilGrin: Whenever something goes Paul's way, expect him to give a very sinister and sneaky grin. An example of him showing this was after Double Eviction when Paul was crying CrocodileTears in front of Alex and Josh. After Alex left the room, he went from "crying" to bearing a sinister grin to Josh about how they are in the game because Alex bought his plan and everything went the way he wanted it to. Josh looked at Paul completely freaked out by the quick switch in Paul's emotion to the point where he looked at him wide eyed. Josh even said in his DR that watching Paul switch his expression so quickly was like he was watching the Devil.
* EvilIsHammy: Paul has a very extroverted and loud personality and he's not afraid to show it. Paul likes to be the centre of attention and he's very much a showman. His mannerisms and boy language are often very over the top, especially with the way that he speaks in the DR. Sometimes, the show throws in DramaticThunder just to polish it all off.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Paul has many minions and followers that follow his every order and they all shared the same common goal: to eliminate the house targets Cody and Jessica. It was pretty much a 10 vs 2 battle between Paul and his minions and Jody as a duo. Even Josh cited the majority of the house with the exception of Cody and Jessica as being part of the "la familia". Plus, it's evident that he treats his allies like they are his family while in the house.
* EvilLaugh: Whenever something goes Paul's way, he ends up gleefully laughing like a maniac, especially during his DR sessions. Very fitting considering that he's the puppet master who's manipulating everyone and everything in the house.
* EvilMakeover: Not really a full fledged makeover since he wears pretty much the same wardrobe that he wore last season. However, he has changed his hairstyle from a mohawk last season to growing it out and wearing it flat on his head or slicked back. And as this season progresses on, his hair keeps growing out from a flattop with the sides shaved to a very full head of ruffled and Spartan-like hair.
* EvilMentor: To the rest of the houseguests. Paul has been giving game and personal advice to the other houseguests and has been guiding the majority of their games. Because of this, many of them have become TheDragon to Paul and have an UndyingLoyalty and blind obedience towards him.
* EvilOverlord: Paul is the villain of the season and he's basically controlling the entire house with a firm hold. He's got nearly every single houseguest doing his dirty work for him and almost every houseguest is a follower or ally of Paul's.
* EvilPlan: Paul's strategy this season is to align with as many people as possible, manipulate them in order to get them to fully trust him to the point where they have UndyingLoyalty to him, and cause drama and chaos between the houseguests by dropping information about each other so that they all turn on one another so that he doesn't end up being targeted. He does this so that he can have complete control and power of every single game move in the house so that he can steamroll to the end once again.
* EvilSmellsBad: Parodied. In Paul's BB Comic Book, he's portrayed as the "Potty Mouth" which shows him having a large mouth shaped like a toilet with a nasty stench coming out of it. He was most likely given this alias for his comic because he constantly swears a lot and says a lot of unsavoury things. This is definitely a downgrade from his comic last year which featured him as "Motor Mouth" because he was very talkative.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Paul has a noticeably deeper, raspier, baritone voice, especially when he's using his regular speaking voice and not yelling or raising his voice during an altercation or a fight.
* EvilVsEvil: For the majority of the season, it's been Paul vs. Cody. The two are an ArchEnemy to each other and have spent the entire game plotting against each other to take each other out of the game. At the start, Paul and Cody were in an alliance together but Cody tried to get rid of Paul and he ended up dramatically failing to do so. Since then, there's been a huge lack of trust between the two and Paul and Cody were each other's number one target. Between the two of them, Paul won the battle as Cody ended up being evicted for the second time in Week 7.
* EvilWearsBlack: Although Paul has been seen to wear [[LightIsNotGood some light coloured clothing]] from time to time, Paul is commonly seen wearing dark or black coloured clothing.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Inverted. When Paul enters the game, his hair is shaven down all nice and neat, with harsh sideburns that show he's [[ObviouslyEvil not to be trusted.]] Two months in, and his hair has grown thick into a full, villainous mane... and Paul is hiding his duplicity even harder than ever before.
* FaceHeelTurn: Played Straight. Paul goes from being a heroic (more like AntiHero-ic) character from last season to becoming a the BiggerBad and FinalBoss of the season. Last season, he was much more likeable and heroic because he was an underdog but also because he played a cleaner game and was fun loving, light hearted, charming, and charismatic. This season, however, his personality has descended into complete darkness and villainy and he's no longer recognizable to the guy he was before. Paul has become the resident bad guy of the season due to the fact that he's playing a recognizably dirty game that includes excessive lying, constant backstabbing, endless scheming and plotting, incessant manipulating, and occasional intimidation and bullying of other houseguests in order to get them to do what he wants. Ironically, the same thing happened to Nicole Franzel last season when she was a heroic character on Big Brother 16 but when she came back as a veteran on Big Brother 18, she became more of a villain who played a very dirty and sneaky game. Paul's ego has also played a huge part in him descending into villainy as he clearly let the power of being a veteran, having experience playing the game, and being the fan favorite last year get to his head to cause him to become extremely arrogant, conceited and smug.
* FaceOfAThug: When Paul gives certain facial expressions, he comes across as menacing and intimidating. However, in reality, he's actually very down to earth most of the time...despite his extroverted and fun loving personality. His beard also adds to his intimidating facial expressions.
* FallenHero: Last season, Paul was more of a heroic AntiHero but after returning this season, he's downright the biggest villain and the BigBad of the season. Although Paul's basic personality is still pretty much the same (extroverted, fun loving, etc), his style of game play has changed dramatically into a much sneakier, dirty and aggressive game. Interestingly enough, Paul seems to be following Nicole's footsteps in losing his heroic status and becoming a villain due to being a returning vet.
* FalseFriend: To everybody except for the Joshmas duo, Paul is stringing them along as disposable allies.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He flip flops between this and AffablyEvil. Paul comes across as nice, sociable and affable to the other houseguests. His social game is impeccable and because of it, nobody his targeting him. However, he's also a ManipulativeBastard and the BigBad who is plotting and scheming to take down the others in a ruthless fashion. The fact that he's manipulated all of the other houseguests to the point where they are blind to his true nature as a player makes him a huge threat. This is also downplayed as he may classify as more of a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* FatalFlaw:
** His [[AmbitionIsEvil Ambition]]. Sometimes Paul becomes too ambitious that he ends up willing to sacrifice his own values and morals in order to win something. Because he's such an ambitious person, he's willing to use dirty tactics in order to go far in the game such as lying, manipulating, backstabbing and scheming. His ambition is willing to let him step on other people's toes just to get a little bit farther. He has no problem with throwing his friends under the bus if it means that it'll benefit him somehow. Even though this is a game and the whole point is to win, Paul's ambition sometimes causes him to act excessively immoral to the point where he comes across as very vile and malicious in his intentions.
** His [[SmugSnake Arrogance]]. Yikes. If anything was Paul's ultimate downfall in the end, it was most definitely the fact that he's way too smug and arrogant for his own good. He seems to think that he has to have complete control over everything and he's always playing dictator towards the others. His arrogance makes him come across as someone who thinks that he's superior to the other houseguests he's playing against and he clearly has an entitled attitude simply because he's a vet. In fact, the fact that Paul is a veteran has only managed to make Paul even more arrogant and smug in comparison to last year, where he was way more humble because he was a true underdog who had struggled and had everything stacked against him since the start of the game last season. This season, Paul's arrogance has become intolerable and if anything will be the downfall of Paul, it's most definitely his arrogance and his inability to be humble.
** His [[DirtyCoward Cowardice]]. Paul may talk a good game in regards to calling out people and acting loud and brash, but when it comes to being honest and telling the truth about what he's doing in the game, Paul tends to tuck his tail between his legs and scurry away into a corner. Paul has a tendency to be a coward when it comes to making direct game moves that will cause him to have blood on his hands. Instead, he would rather scheme, plot, lie and manipulate in order to be the indirect cause of someone else's demise. While Paul will control things in the game, he'll only do it behind the scenes and he will never own up to the game moves that he makes. He has done this with every single person that has been evicted this season. A special example is Jason. He had orchestrated a master plan which ensured that Jason was the target and that Jason would be the one going home much to Jason's oblivion. Instead of just owning up to what he did to Jason, he chose to send him a friendly Goodbye Message, acting as if he didn't have anything to do with his blindside. Jason had to find out about Paul's betrayal from ''Josh's Goodbye Message'' in which Josh confesses that it was Paul that was responsible for his eviction and that he's also in an alliance with Paul and Christmas.
* AFatherToHisMen: Even though Paul is manipulating the other houseguests to benefit his game, he does seem to genuinely care about his allies on a personal and game level. He constantly looks out for them, protects them and gives them advice when they feel like they are coming apart emotionally and mentally. He's very much played the role of TheMentor to the rest of the houseguests.
* FinalBoss: Paul is the strongest threat of the entire season and he made it to the finale.
* ForTheEvulz: Played Straight. Paul led a taunting and bullying tirade against Cody and Jessica in Week 5 which got the entire house to get into a fight with the two of them. It's obvious that Paul wanted to get back at the Jody pair for their bad behavior and poor gameplay earlier on in the game and he just wanted to humiliate them and make them feel stupid.
* FreudianExcuse: Paul's been a victim of racism in the past if his mother's statements are anything to go by, with some people calling him a "terrorist". While this doesn't excuse all his actions, it does explain why he's being such a jerk in the game, and why he did the later mentioned blackface/snake incident.
* GenreBlind: Paul was hellbent on making sure Cody and Dominique got evicted, but as a returning player, he should know one of Big Brother's patented twists; giving previously evicted houseguests the chance to return. Paul would have been better off waiting for ''after'' such a twist occured, in order to make sure they had no chance of returning, and gunning for him. However, he felt threatened by Cody's presence and the rest of the house wanted him gone, so Paul decided to play the crowd. On the live feeds he told the live feeders "This is going to be a fun ass nomination ceremony. You better get all the cameras ready. It's about to fucking go down." Paul seems to forget that he is in a house full of cameras that record everything he says and does 24/7. Not to mention, after Jessica warned the house about her temptation that she is safe for a couple of weeks Paul nominates her and Cody for eviction. Little does he know Jessica has the Halting Hex and has the power to cancel his eviction and he can not compete in the next HOH.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Of the Evil kind. Paul is commonly seen wearing dark colors, especially black colored clothing, which is a indicator of his villainous status this season.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Of the Evil kind. Last season, Paul sported a mohawk and he was very much an AntiHero-ic character. This season, he is sporting slicked back hair, which is a common hairstyle that is worn by villainous characters. In addition, he is also sporting a [[BeardOfEvil very heavy beard]] which ironically makes him look much more villainous.
* GotMeDoingIt: Paul gladly encouraged ''and'' copied Josh's tutu circus dance as part of a group taunt against the vicious Jody showmance.
* HateSink: Paul has become such a loathsome and despicable person and character this season. Even though he was pretty loved and popular with the audience last season (mostly because he was a lovable underdog who went through numerous struggles to get to the end), it's not understandable as to why anyone would want to like him or root for him this year. Considering that he has played a very dirty game of constant lying, scheming, backstabbing, manipulating and bullying, why would anyone want to still be considered to be a fan of him after the unlikeable and hateful behavior that he's displayed this season? Despite his awful behavior this season, he surprisingly still has a lot of fans who still love him and are devoted to defending him no matter what he does. That's because Paul makes a very clear distinction between his in-game persona and his friendship-loving self, and is evidently hating having to play a very intense game.
* TheHedonist: Paul is clearly a guy who lives for pleasure, fun and luxury. Even though he's very serious from a game standpoint, he won't hesitate to cause chaos and turmoil around him purely for his own enjoyment. Paul seems to thrive on fun, since he has a very extroverted and fun loving personality.
* HeroKiller: Paul is such a huge strategic threat that he has the power and the ability to take down the strongest of competitors, whether they are good guys or bad guys. He's managed to target and get Mark, who can be viewed as TheHero of the season, out of the house. And then he smacked Jason out the door, [[ShooOutTheClowns literally shooing out the clown.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: While Jessica and Cody are definitely the meanest people in the house, Paul isn't earning any fans with his entitled behavior. Taken Up to Eleven in Week 5 when he encouraged his side of the house to relentlessly harass Cody and Jessica in one of the ugliest displays yet. Bonus points for {{Irony}} when you consider it got even worse after he became concerned he could be interpreted as a bully by viewers.
* HiddenAgenda: Virtually every move Paul makes has the words "backstab incoming" written all over it. He's only in it for himself this time around, knowing that if he brings a friend to the end, he'll lose the game again.
* HistoryRepeats: Paul wins his way into the Final 3 once more, then manages to land a spot in the Final Two (though this time he is carried to the end instead of winning his place there). And once AGAIN, pays for his lies when someone flips on him, a sizable group of the house is sore over his backstabbing, and he winds up the runner-up. But hey, now he's got $100,000 in the bank, so third time's the charm...?
* '''HoistByHisOwnPetard''': One of the most incredibly cathartic moments in the entire show's history. Paul spends the whole game backstabbing people... only for Josh to go one step further and backstab ''him'' by using something that was sacred to rat out his entire game... ''the goodbye messages to evicted houseguests.'' Josh got the majority of the Jury on his side without evicting Paul, and managed to outplay him in the most devious possible way.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Gets pissed at Jessica when she reneges on a deal that the two of them made during his week five HOH reign...even though he makes it known to everyone else that he had ''zero'' intention of holding up his end of the agreement in the first place, and that Jessica backed out precisely ''because'' of that fact.
** Gets angry and upset at Cody and Jessica bullying the other houseguests, yet he has no problem starting a bullying tirade against Cody and Jessica in Week 5.
** Saying he has Josh's back and best interests in mind... then forcing him to throw away friendships. THIS GUY '''PREACHES''' FRIENDSHIP!!! Christmas is equally as bad when paired with him as one of his numbers, and Josh starts to grow sick of answering to both of them before long. His worst move is forcing Josh to knock Jason out of the game, and Paul has Josh so wrapped around his fingers that he doesn't try to use the Power of Veto against his alliance even after they made him suffer because he's terrified of them. Alex also calls bull on him for not taking her to the end as promised like Jason would have
** During Big Brother 18, he ''constantly'' complained about how the "Veterans" were getting a free pass and how nobody ever wanted to go after them - targeting James and Nicole specifically. When all of a sudden, ''he'' is the one getting all sorts of [[ExecutiveMeddling free passes and bailouts]], suddenly he's just dandy with it.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Every time Paul shoots someone in the back, he regrets it, but notes that if he didn't, it was because he recognized that they were going to overpower him if he didn't take them down while he had the chance.
* IDontPayYouToThink: If Paul gives someone a task, he expects no lip from them, just that they will go out and do it. When Josh starts distrusting and disobeying him on a basis because he's growing increasingly irrational from accumulating regrets, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1lrnsSjzKI Paul actually resorts to]] ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slapping him]]'' because of how unraveled his ally has become.
* InvincibleVillain: Nearly ''everything'' has been going Paul's way and he's pretty much steam rolling his way to the Final 2 with him most likely winning 500K this time around. Nobody (Cody, Jessica, Mark, etc) and nothing (i.e. the Hex) has been able to stop Paul's game plans from going exactly the way he wants them. All in all, Paul hasn't really faced any struggles or obstacles this season, especially in comparison to the constant struggles he faced last season to get to the end.
* {{Irony}}: On his original season he wanted all the vets to go. Now that he is a vet all of the newbies are gunning for him since he is the only returnee. In his interview for [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-brother-19-predictions-rachel-reilly-derrick-levasseur-paul-abrahamian-jason-roy-zach-rance-inte-1012444 The Hollywood Reporter]] Paul said about returning players "When certain castmembers get called back, they get this overwhelming sense of entitlement and think that they're this Big Brother guru. They come back with even more of a chip on their shoulder and it makes their game terrible. That's what I saw personally with a few of them. They had other intentions other than just playing the game." And while [[BrokenBase opinions on the quality of Paul's game vary]], it's certainly safe to say that he has some entiltement from being a vet. Fortunately for him, the house has no real intent of sending him packing. The cleverest among the batch just don't feel the need to because it's an inopportune time, due to peer pressure and intimidation- and those that speak up out loud against him get shoved out the door, as seen with Cody and Dominique.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He controls almost the entire house with an iron fist and he wants everything to go his way. Even at one point arguing with Christmas over who his alliance wants out that week.
* ItsPersonal: His reason for wanting Cody out of the house is because he felt that Cody took things way too personally and that he also crossed the line with many other houseguests on a personal level. Paul didn't like the way that Cody acted and treated other people in the game, especially when Cody went out of their way to personally attack him and his allies as well as threaten violence.
* JawDrop: The moment he sees the montage of Josh exposing Paul's whole game, Paul knows he's boned... and is VERY pissed at Josh.
* {{Jerkass}}: Less so this season than on Big Brother 18 before Paul TookALevelInKindness, but he can definitely still be fairly loud and obnoxious. Overall a pretty tame example in contrast to [[IceQueen Cody]] or [[ManChild Josh]]. At least until he TookALevelInJerkAss in week 5, where he organized the house to torment Jessica and Cody in a HeWhoFightsMonsters moment.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yes, Paul is petty, conniving, will haze his enemies without any questions, and rather brash and arrogant, but he'll usually stick up for the underdog (unless said underdog is Cody or Jessica) hence why his minions are so loyal to him, because of his manipulative nature in playing with their emotions. He also tried to comfort Josh after a hazing by Jody.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Paul's persistent targeting of Cody for the majority of the game is completely justified. Cody was the one to backstab Paul first and turn his back on his entire alliance in Week 1. After that, Paul had literally no reason to trust Cody again and it made sense for him to want to go out of his way to want Cody out of the house.
* JokerImmunity: Paul has been pretty much immune the entire game. Nearly all of the temptations or twists this season (Golden Apple, Pendant of Protection, Ring of Replacement, Save a Friend Temptation, even the Hex) have favoured Paul or haven't affected Paul and his game whatsoever. He's never been a target and he's never been nominated for the entire season so far. At this point, Paul is pretty much untouchable and if he keeps going the way he is, he'll make it all the way to the Final 2 for a second time. Part of the reason why Paul has never been a target is because Paul has stated in private that part of his strategy is to get the other houseguests to turn on each other by him dropping information which is ensured to cause drama, fights and chaos. So, instead of all the houseguests targeting Paul, Paul ends up getting the other houseguests to cannibalize one another and target each other instead of him.
* KarmaHoudini: Hoo boy. Paul has been responsible for nearly ''every single eviction'' that has taken place so far. That means that he's responsible for getting a lot of blood on his hands whether it's directly or indirectly. He's done this by manipulating, scheming and plotting to get all of his wanted targets out of the house and he's managed to get all of his allies (more like his puppets and his minions) to do all of his dirty work for him. While his allies do all of the dirty work, they are the ones who end up getting all the blood on their hands and end up becoming targets. Paul has been orchestrating everything behind the scenes with getting all of the targets out of the house through manipulating and scheming. Has Paul been caught by anyone, became a huge target, or been nominated for being the puppet master of the house? The answer is no. In fact, out of all of the current houseguests that are still in the house as of Week 9, Paul is the ''safest'' out of everyone and he happens to be a veteran who made it to the Final 2 last season!
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Paul and the rest of his allies went attack mode on Jessica and Cody in Week 5. He got the entire house to call out and antagonize Jessica and Cody. The house fight against Jody completely escalated to the point where ''the entire house'' was bullying Jessica and Cody. Granted, Cody and Jessica did treat many of the other houseguests terribly before, including Paul, but it's still not an excuse for what Paul ended up causing.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Paul led a bullying tirade against Cody and Jessica in Week 5. Granted that it was very much deserved for the way Cody backstabbed Paul and for the way that both Cody and Jessica had bullied and treated the other houseguests, Paul still took his revenge against Jody a little too far.
* KickTheDog: Specialises in this for no reason other than he can.
* KnightTemplar: Of the worst kind. Led half the house in ganging up on Cody and Jessica in response to what he perceived as bullying on their part. In reality, what Paul told his groupies was bullying was actually just Jessica leveraging her Hex Power (a part of the game), and his response came across as much more needlessly nasty and personal.
* LampshadeHanging: Points out that absolutely nobody seems to want him out (except Cody) and is surprised at how stupid the house is.
* LaserGuidedKarma: On multiple occasions.
** Tried to oust Cody from the game with the advantage of the Pendant of Protection causing a fluke that resulted in Cody losing favor in the house with the resulting fallout and successfully got him out the door. A couple weeks later, he has to face off against Cody in the Battle-Back Showdown, loses, and Cody's back in the game to wreak havoc on him (and was spared for a week by another temptation, no less).
** When there are twelve people left in the game, and he has total control over the house, he has the choice to pick the one person who will ''not'' make it to the jury. He can pick either Elena (who was starting to be shifty), Jessica (who hates Paul ''and'' Josh, but hates Josh moreso.) or Cody (who hates Paul and Josh, but Paul moreso.) He chooses Jessica. This resulted in Cody voting against him in the end, and him being the final vote ''against him'', no less.
** When he tries to evict Jason, he tries to make it seem like he wasn't in control of the game and it was all Christmas and Josh, much like how Andy in Big Brother 15 got Amanda out and framed Elissa for it. Yet Jason saw ''right'' through him, and decided to castigate him by voting against him on finale night.
** Getting Alex evicted. Paul had the veto... but he ''didn't use it'', resulting in a betrayal for Alex on two parts, and made him look like a total moron in the process of not using Veto... [[WhatAnIdiot and acting surprised when someone]] ''the head of household nominated'' went out. He then tried to say that Alex was a pawn, despite having lied ''straight to her face on multiple occasions''. Then Alex punishes him by voting against him on finale night.
* LaughablyEvil: Despite being a villain who's highly manipulative and scheming, one thing that Paul has always had is a sense of humor and the ability to make others laugh, especially with his sarcasm, wit and his jokes.
* TheLeader: It's evident that due to being the sole veteran with the most experience, he's most definitely taking the lead in the house and is controlling everything in the game. Many of the newbies admit that they want Paul to take the reigns in the game so that he could guide them throughout and get them farther.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to pretty much everyone in the house. Since Paul was the only veteran in the house, he was the one who served as a mentor for the others and gave them advice on how to play the game. Along with that, Paul provided them with emotional comfort and personal advice. The other houseguests would often turn to Paul to seek comfort and advice when they were having a difficult time in the game and needed someone to snap them out of their hard times. He's especially this for Josh, Alex, Christmas, Kevin, and Jason. Josh in particular managed to become a stronger and more stable individual under the guidance of Paul. He started out very emotionally unstable, impulsive, reckless and he was outcasted by the rest of the house. It's also presumed that without Paul, Josh would have imploded in the game and would have been an early boot who didn't make it as far as he did. Even Josh admitted himself that he wouldn't be the person he has become in the game and in the real world if it wasn't for his relationship with Paul. Alex was very codependent on Paul and she has literally proclaimed that her game is strongly dependent on Paul. She basically put her games life in his hands and have him pretty much all of the power. On a personal level, Alex was very close with Paul and would often seek his friendship. Christmas has shown to be very emotionally attached to Paul and she's described him as her closest friend in the house. She has an apparent emotional attachment and infatuation with him in which she has admitted to herself in private. Without Paul, Christmas most likely would have gone home early because she was injured and many other houseguests felt that she shouldn't have been in the game anymore. Kevin, despite being older than Paul, considered Paul to be his number one ally in the house and closest friend. When Kevin was having a very difficult time missing his family, Paul ended up comforting Kevin and telling him that everything was going to be okay and to just enjoy his time in the house as much as possible. Jason was also strongly attached to Paul and the two had a very close bond with each other. He also depended on Paul for his game and gave him all the power. Even Jessica has turned to Paul for comfort when she was having a difficult time adjusting in the house after Cody was evicted.
* LyingFingerCross: In the Diary Room after speaking with Jessica and agreeing to her wishes to get Alex voted out of the house and grant herself safety for the next two weeks, Paul makes a handshake gesture with his left hand and this gesture with the right to let us all know that he's feeding her a load of garbage.
* MacGuffin: Was offered the Pendant of Protection, which gives him three weeks of immunity to nomination. He took it right away, and it saved his bacon right off the bat, as Cody was gunning for him.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Paul is very much TheChessmaster, a ManipulativeBastard and yes, a MagnificentBastards who is controlling and manipulating everything that has been happening in the game since the beginning. He's very much the puppet master who's pulling everyone's strings and none of them are even smart enough to see it or realize it. Even though Cody appeared as if he was the BigBad who was controlling everything in Week 1, it turns out that Paul was the one pulling all of the strings and he turned out to be the real threat of the house.
* ManipulativeBastard: Paul is manipulating ''everyone'' in the house and he's most definitely the puppet master controlling every single move in the game. There isn't one game move, whether it be a nomination, target or eviction that hasn't been orchestrated or planned by Paul somehow. If Paul shall make it to the Final 2 for a second time and actually win the game this time around, he will officially cross into MagnificentBastard territory.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** Paul may be playing the role as this season's villain or BigBad but according to those who've personally met him or know him, Paul is actually really nice, down earth, and friendly. He has a [[FriendToAllLivingThings love of animals]] and is known to be a very socially conscious and charitable individual. Even Cody had commented that he feels Paul is playing a character and is not actually acting like his true self in the game in which JerkassHasAPoint.
** Paul even admitted privately to Jessica during his second HOH reign that Cody was right; he ''is'' playing a character. And to put it all even further in perspective, he's also confided privately with Kevin that he wished he could dial it back and not be in "game mode" all the time, but doesn't feel that it would sit well with the show's viewers and fans. Which means it falls on us, too, as the audience, for setting the bar low and encouraging this kind of behavior. [[AnAesop And we shouldn't do this because society doesn't need perverse people like that.]]
* MisterBig: Paul is TheLeader, the BiggerBad and the EvilOverlord who is controlling everything in the house, including all the game moves and the houseguests. Many of the other male houseguests may tower Paul in regards to height, but the one with the most power is Paul despite his small stature. The only thing he's missing is name that represents the opposite of his small height.
* MoralGuardian: He is often the one who has to remind Josh "[[PrecisionFStrike no F-bombs]]" after the live evictions because he doesn't want any to slip past the censors (though [[LiveButDelayed there is a delay between transmissions for the sake of muting audio if they're audible]], but among a crowd it's harder to catch them).
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Played Straight and ''how!'' Every single person that was TheDragon to him, which was pretty much the entire house, never doubted Paul and listened to him without even questioning his orders. It didn't matter what Paul asked of his followers or subordinates, they ended up doing it no matter if it was right or wrong. The other houseguests were so enthralled and misted by Paul's charisma and manipulations that they pretty much ended up playing the game for Paul by getting out all of Paul's wanted targets and doing everything to help and benefit Paul's game instead of their own.
* TheNapoleon: Played Straight. Paul is the shortest male houseguest, being only 5'4" or 5'5". He's also very much an AttentionWhore who is brash, cocky, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant]], [[ControlFreak controlling]] and loves being the centre of attention. It's assumed that he acts this way to compensate for the fact that he's a short guy.
* NeverMyFault: Paul ''loves'' to tell people he didn't throw them under the bus, [insert scapegoat here] did. Is he forgetting the Jury can scrutinize the footage to [[AesopAmnesia unravel his lies like last season, which is part of the reason why he lost like he did?]]
* NonActionBigBad: Inverted. Paul is extremely competitive and is the most dangerous threat and player in the entire house. As of Week 11, he's racked up a total of six competition wins and shall he make it farther or all the way to the Final 3, he could finish the season with eight or nine comp wins.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Played Straight. Paul is the BigBad of the season but he doesn't seem to realize that he's very much playing the villain role. He thinks that he's portrayed as the exact same likeable and lovable entertaining dork that he was last season. But he doesn't even realize that the audience's perceptions have changed about him and that they now see a villain instead of the anti-heroic character that he was last season. Paul is very much a KnightTemplar in that regard. He thinks that all of the actions that he's taken and the behavior that he's displayed have been for the good of his game as well as the good of his allies. He doesn't realize how scheming, conniving, manipulative, mean, and aggressive he's been throughout the season and he doesn't realize that his game as been way more dirty in comparison to his game last season. In Week 11 after Paul had won the BB Comics POV competition, he was wondering why his comic book was portraying him as a villain or a bad guy. This means that Paul thinks he's the hero and doing good when the persona that he's putting on this season is making him appear as if he's the villain...and he very much is.
* ObviouslyEvil: Downplayed. Paul looks like he's like the rest of the houseguests by fitting in and acting very social, but it's very apparent that he's the BigBad and is controlling everyone and everything tin the house. It's also obvious to the audience that he's the "villain" but inside of the house, it's the complete opposite as everyone doesn't see him as a villain.
* OddFriendship: With Christmas. It appeared as though the two wouldn't become that close during theme but it turns out that Christmas is one of his closest allies in the game as well as his best friends and they have become PlatonicLifePartners.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Paul does NOT like opposition whatsoever. If he is facing any opposition from anyone, best be sure that they are going to be on his radar and the next target that he wants to get out of the house. Cody was the biggest victim of this. Because Cody crossed Paul on a game level and personal level, Paul made it his number one mission to make Cody miserable in the game and to get him out of the house.
* OlderAndWiser: Paul's gameplay the second time around is significantly more relaxed, so far. He's learned from his previous mistakes and is actively trying to avoid being a polarizing figure or creating a target for himself. Subverted as Paul goes right back to his old ways upon getting power.
* OmnicidalManiac: Only in a game sense of course. Paul's plan since the very beginning of the game was to steamroll through the entire house and brutally annihilate every single houseguest in his path, even those he considers to be his friends and his allies. He's willing to backstab, manipulate, scheme, and lie to those he's close with all so that he could get to the end for a second time. It also helps that Paul has all of the skills (social, strategic, and competitive) to destroy everyone else in the house and take complete and total control.
* OnlySaneMan: In what is hands down the [[TooDumbToLive stupidest house ever cast]], Paul is indeed the only sane man who know exactly what is going on in the game. Everyone is completely gullible and easily manipulated or too emotionally unstable and crazy.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Inverted. Paul is normally extremely active while playing the game and trying to manipulate the other houseguests to his will, but there are times when Paul will simply sit back and let the other houseguests fight each other and cannibalize one another so that they all make each other targets instead of Paul becoming a target.
* OutGambitted: Paul prided his entire game on telling people lies. He did everything in his power to hide his true motives, to throw up smokescreens left and right, divert attention to other targets, and never, ever tell them the selfish truth at work behind the dirty deeds he did. Josh did ''him'' one better by using the one and only thing in the game to rat out Paul that not even he could know about: his goodbye messages to Paul's eviction blindside victims. In doing so, Josh completely '''''demolished''''' Paul's entire season in one quiet and drawn-out plan to paint himself ALighterShadeOfBlack at the Final Two.
* [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything Paul Does Everything]]: From the ''instant'' he walked through the front door, Paul snared the '''entire''' house in his web and masterminded his way to the homestretch, standing behind every single big move in the game in a way that would make Derrick Levasseur blush.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Paul likes to [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrow Alex's catchphrase]] "gumpy" to describe people who are unpleasant company. Nobody seems to understand what it means, but he insists it's a real word.
* PhraseCatcher: "'''[[DramaticIrony I trust Paul.]]'''" Or something in the same vein of that. Anyone who Paul has thoroughly duped is bound to say that at one time or another, which accounts for about 85% of the house. That by itself should be enough to tell you how ''STUPID'' the batch of newcomers in the house is this season. In the finale, Julie makes this abundantly clear with a montage of people's Diary Room statements across the season as they each mentioned their adoration for Paul.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Elena, Christmas and Raven. He has a close bond and relationship with all of them and considers them to be some of his closest allies in the game.
* '''PlayingBothSides''': Paul has his hands in ''every'' alliance in the house as of Week 9, and is targeting showmances to split up power couples and get the troublesome variables out of the game.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Unlike Josh, who is accused of doing this by Cody, after Cody's attempt to nominate him backfires horribly, Paul shamelessly admits in the Diary Room he's going to play the victim and turns everybody against Cody. It ends up working in Paul's favour because Cody's entire alliance end up turning their backs on him and siding with Paul instead.
* PoisonousFriend: A lot of people watching this season have remarked that Paul, in game mode, has brought out the worst in a lot of the houseguests by dictating what they do in the house and encouraging them to act out and do repulsive things. But as a normal guy, Paul is more like everybody's bro.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Had planned on doing blackface to mock Dominique at the veto meeting when she was on the block. But considering what happened with Alex and Megan's racially insensitive blowup and running the risk of pissing off America at large, he went for painting himself as a snake, which still got the point across quite well. Run the Jewels member Killer Mike even [[http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/19/killer-mike-big-brother-paul-blackface-racist/ criticized]] Paul for this. Paul also encouraged and led the bullying of Jess and Cody as well as encouraged the attacks on Cody's military service.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Although not nearly as much as in 18, Paul is still the guy who screams "[[CatchPhrase FRIENDSHIP!]]" Most of his house posse adores him for putting friendship over all else in the game, and when push comes to shove, Paul is willing to forget about the game and plans to get rid of the competition in times when the houseguests are seriously troubled and be the bigger person.
* PragmaticVillain: Paul will sometimes bring out his morals and values during the game, but when he does, he's mostly doing it for strategic reasons. Although Paul is a genuinely good person outside of the game, his persona inside of the house makes him come across as disingenuous. Whenever Paul acts kindly towards the other houseguests, the majority of the time, it's Paul making a strategic move so that he doesn't make himself a target. Therefore, it's often hard to tell whether Pual is being genuinely nice and friendly or if he just acts friendly to others to stay on their good side.
* PrecisionFStrike: Not long after Christmas gets injured, Raven also gets injured. Paul's immediate reaction?
-->'''Paul:''' GOD''DAMMIT'', RAVEN!!!
* TheQuincyPunk: Paul has the classic appearance of a punk rocker. He has numerous tattoos, wore a mohawk hairstyle, has a wild and unpredictable personality, wears punk clothing and attire, and listens to punk rock music (he even has his own punk rock band!) His punk persona also plays into the fact that he's very nihilistic and unpredictable in the game and that he thrives on chaos (in which he does). His punk persona very much matches his personality and his antics.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red oni to Cody's Blue. Paul is lively, energetic, and boisterous. He even wore red in the Battle-Back Showdown while Cody wore blue.
* RefugeInAudacity: What does he do when Dominique drops some not-so-subtle hints about being a snake? ''Paint his face like a snake and wear it proudly.''
* SatanicArchetype: Parodied. After the Double Eviction, Josh compared Paul to being like the Devil when he saw Paul go from crying CrocodileTears in front of Alex to sporting an EvilGrin to Josh as soon as Alex left the room. The expression in which Josh had made after he experienced Paul's puppet show seemed as though he just saw Lucifer.
* TheSocialExpert: Paul is an extremely social person. He's very good at dealing with people and he has the best social game in the entire house ''by far''.
* SoreLoser: During Week 5, his big plan was to get Jessica to not use her Hex via a deal he made with her to evict Cody (which Paul thought he convinced her would be good for her game) and that he and his alliance would keep her safe for two weeks and they'd make sure Alex is evicted the following week. This entire deal was a lie and even Alex was in on it. Jessica was aware of Paul's lies and how stupid it would be to willingly put her most loyal ally and herself in danger and told him she was going to be using the Hex on Thursday. He proceeded to throw a huge tantrum afterwards that led to a lot of fights and drama.
* SpoiledBrat: Because his master plan to get Jessica to not use the Hex during the week five eviction didn't go his way, his solution was to rally his minions (which includes seven of the 12 people still in there, aside from himself) to make Jessica and Cody's lives as miserable as possible in the hopes that they'll either self-evict or react violently enough to warrant expulsion from the producers. [[SarcasmMode Real exemplary gameplay right there.]]
* '''SpotlightStealingSquad''': You might as well call this whole season "Big Brother Paul." Brought back due to [[BlatantLies popular]] demand and immediately hogged the spotlight, as the result of Kevin taking the near-irresistible money temptation on day one, and the producers set it up that way to make it almost certain he'd return to the game. He was also seeded into the game following a twist elimination on the first day where he took Cameron's place. From there, he practically usurps ''everyone'' and is the one most often chosen to compete in POV competitions when allowed to, and even the go-to choice for top competitors.
* TheStrategist: Paul is the most strategic player this season and every single game move that he's made has been purely strategic. In fact, strategic gameplay has been Paul's strength this season.
* StrawNihilist: In the game, Paul's philosophy and mentality this season is complete and utter nihilism and chaos. He has commented that the game is a touch, stressful experience that's filled with toxicity and bitterness and he has the intentions of eliminating others in the game with no guilt.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Paul starts gleefully remarking in the Diary Room how much of a rube everyone teaming up with him to coast to the end is because they're such big fans of him they've forgotten he's the ultimate trickster. He also notes that this house is a ''lot'' softer and easier to crack than the last season's, saying that Big Meech (Michelle) could [[BreakingSpeech crack everybody]] in the house if she were present this season.
* TakeOverTheWorld: More like Take Over The Big Brother House. Paul has been controlling absolutely every single thing this season and he does it with a total iron fist. He's not the villain, the BiggerBad, the EvilOverlord or the biggest threat in the game for nothing.
* TattooAsCharacterType: One of the most notable physical defining characteristics about Paul are his numerous tattoos which are located all over his body. The most noticeable tattoos on his body are the ones that are all over his torso area and his chest.
* TaughtByExperience: Averted in the end. Paul lost Big Brother 18 to Nicole because he, like [[Series/{{Survivor}} Russell Hantz]], sociopathically pushed his way through the house and left a trail angry jurors in his wake, refused to own up to it all, and then said "Aren't I awesome?". Sure enough, much like he did last year, Paul played an excellent strategic game... but because he failed to remember that evicted players have to ''like'' you or at least respect you or that he should at least be ''honest'' about it all, he wound up losing to Josh because the jurors hated him more.
* TearsOfJoy: Once Paul secured a ticket to the final three by winning his third HOH, he collapsed into an overjoyed fit of tears, and it was enough to make Josh start crying, too. By the end of the following commercial break, Paul is ''still'' fighting off tears.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In exchange for choosing Christmas as his Tandem Skydive partner, he gave up his slot to the Outback Dinner so she could enjoy herself before being swept into the punishment. He also gave his homegirl another freebie by letting her take HOH for the first time and throwing "Tales From Decrypt".
* TraitorShot: Several times in the Diary Room, but this one puts them all to shame in Week 10's post-POV comp:
-->'''Paul:''' I'm just one vote- I don't control what everybody does in the house...
-->([[FascinatingEyebrow raises an eyebrow naughtily]])
-->(''mouthing words with an EvilGrin'') YES I DO.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Paul absolutely loves beer. Pop TV happens to give him, Josh, and Christmas some beer along with some snacks and games to play to keep themselves entertained, and the one thing Paul is the most ecstatic about... is the BEER!
* TheTrickster: A classical example. Paul comes off as a good guy on the surface... but everything he says is a smokescreen for a grand master plan to steamroll the competition. He's also the one who incites the most chaos in the house because he's able to assemble his allies to do his bidding all at once, and plans to mow them all down by the end of the season and bring along the people who will be the least likely to snatch jury votes (having learned from taking Nicole to the end instead of James last season). Paul's also incredibly good at covering his tracks to avoid punishment, knowing that if he makes one wrong move, his game could come tumbling down like a house of cards... and then he'll have to face the wrath of the actual house. He loves placing targets on everyone else's backs and setting up bait for others to snag, while he sits back and lets the fireworks explode and looks stainless.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Cody avenged his defeat to Paul in a rematch through the Battle-Back Showdown. Needless to say, the house was eating out of Paul's hand at this point in the game and unanimously chose him to compete without knowing Cody was his opponent- and from there, the epic revenge heat ensued.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: The reason why Josh survived his first time up on the block is because Jessica, who Paul hates, reduced Josh to tears. That was all it took to make Paul pull him into his group.
** TragicMistake: This was also all it took to ''ruin his whole season.'' Josh was the one guy Paul couldn't ever hope to control, and ultimately the one who betrayed him the most of all.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played Straight. Paul is absolutely loved and adored buy everyone in the house, with the exception of Jessica and Cody. in fact, the majority of the houseguests love and respect Paul so much that they blindly follow him and everything that he says and does. Paul's followers seem to admire him so much, that it almost appears as though they are starstruck by him because he's a veteran who has almost won the game last season and they look to him as a mentor. What's interesting is that all of these houseguests that follow him blindly don't seem to realize that Paul is very much the villain and the most dangerous threat to all of their games.
* VillainousBreakdown: Does he ever have one on finale. He spends the entire season being built up as this massive mastermind, and it looks like TheBadGuyWins... only for LaserGuidedKarma to kick in and knock him to the ground. The look on Paul's face when he realises he came in second ''for the second time in a row'' only makes it even ''better'', as well as the look on his face when he realises he wasn't ''even in the top three for America's favourite houseguest''!
* VillainousBSOD: Paul is in a state of total shock and agony when he loses Big Brother for the second time in a row. While the rest of the room is celebrating, he looks and sounds like he wants to just disappear.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Inverted; Paul loves most of the people who work with him and is very sad to see some of the go.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Paul is the type to toss anyone who doesn't coincide with his plans or agenda to the wolves. He has little issue with targeting and evicting those who don't agree with him. He did this to Dominique when he discovered that she was playing a sneaky game and was using her talk shows to gather information from other houseguests to use against them in the game. Dominique came off as untrustworthy to Paul and he decided that her shelf life in the game was up and that he was no longer of any use to her. So he ended up orchestrating her demise much to her oblivion at first..until she eventually found out that Paul was behind it all.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Played Straight with many of his minions. Paul has done this to any houseguest that he doesn't think is valuable to his game or those that have tried to target him or have caught on to his game. He did this to Dominique when he found out that she was not beneficial to his game because she was acting to dishonest and he could no longer trust her. So he decided to plot her demise and get her evicted in which he succeeded in doing so. He did this to Elena, when he realized that she had turned on him and was plotting against him with Mark and Cody to take him out of the house. He did this to Mark afterwards, when he realized that Mark was no longer on his side and that he was becoming too much of a competitive threat that would eventually try to target him and get him out of the house. He later did this with Jason, when he felt that he was becoming way too much of a threat socially and competitively. He also realized that Jason was extra powerful because he was in an alliance with Alex and he wanted to break up the duo so that they wouldn't get to the end together. He let go of Raven next, feeling like she was absolutely useless to him because she couldn't contribute anything of significant value such as winning competitions or having solid strategy. Paul saw Raven as unnecessary luggage and a loose end that he needed to cut in order to get farther in the game. He did this with Alex afterwards, saying that although she has helped to benefit his game since the beginning, she is no longer beneficial to him because it's getting close to the end and strong players and competitors like Alex need to be taken out. Even though Alex and Paul were in a Final 2 alliance, he refused to make the same mistake that he made last year when he ended up taking Nicole to the end and she won over him. Out of all the people that he had to turn on, Paul found it the hardest to turn on Alex and he was visibly upset and emotional over it. Finally, he cut Kevin, because he realized that he was not a asset to him competitively and he never pulled his weight despite their close bond and relationship. In addition, Paul realized that the jury could potentially be bitter and that taking Kevin to the end would be a huge mistake because he is much more well liked than himself, Christmas and Josh are. It seems as though the next one that Paul is willing to cut is Christmas, since he realizes that if she were to sit in the Final 2, she has a very good shot at winning because she has pissed off the least amount of people between her, Paul and Josh.
* '''ZergRush''': One of the finest, rarest and most cathartic examples you'll ever see in reality TV. Paul is willing to kick anybody to the curb if need be, but he rallied his pawns to charge against one common enemy: the caustic Jody showmance. Cody and Jessica gunned for, hated, and abused virtually everybody under Paul's wing. After Jessica slammed Raven, the person with the most troubled life, Paul rallied everyone among his groupies to cluster around Cody and Jess and make them eat a Category-5 shitstorm.
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* XanatosGambit: You wouldn't believe it by watching him throughout the season, but Josh managed to pull one of these off. He confessed all of Paul's plans in the goodbye messages to Paul's victims in the Jury, which served to make Josh look better and better with each confession he made. Then, when he appeared to make the most unbelievably stupid move in the game by bringing Paul to the end over Christmas, there was a method to his madness- he felt Christmas was more likely to win than him because she didn't piss as many people off as Paul did, and planned to use the bitter jury to his advantage. He not only succeeded, he evoked sympathy and even a few apologies from some of the houseguests.

** DumbassNoMore: Once Josh calculates a choice to go after Paul, it's clear he's figured out that he '''cannot''' win the game if Paul makes it to the final two, but paired beside someone like Kevin, he has a chance of winning- and because of that, even if Josh gets evicted, he still gets credit for being the ''only'' person to make it this far in the game and recognize the danger Paul ''really'' poses to his welfare. The only problem is going after Paul while he's HOH and dealing with the fallout after he can't compete next week (which he knows will be bad), what will happen if he pisses Christmas off, and his willingness to target "Tiger" Alex first and not align with her because she's unpredictable and a strong competitor. So Josh has resolved to let Week 11 play out, gun for the Veto in Week 12 like it's being used to sign that check for the grand prize, and blindside Paul at the final three if he is able to win the final competition. It turns out Josh decides that he doesn't need to vote out Paul... because he thinks the Jury will be even more bitter at him for being so dishonest, and happens to have detonated Paul's game from behind the scenes, which managed to be the biggest move of the entire season.

* AttackAttackAttack: Once Josh lets loose with the banging of pots and pans, he continues to keep going and going until it just annoys those he's trying to taunt with them, especially Mark, Cody and Jessica. Josh also has a habit of escalating arguments to the point where he comes across as TheBully. Other people often have to step in in order to stop Josh from going on the constant attack or offence against the other houseguests. He stops using this taunt after doing so much he actually ''broke the pan''... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fns4lsfRw and after he learns]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he accidentally hit and injured Raven, who prevented him from hitting Alex by accident.]]

* MustMakeAmends: Immediately clears the air with everybody after the first challenge and later allows Paul to use him as an elimination pawn to get Cody out. This is also because [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Josh tried to offer an olive branch to Cody but it crashed and burned.]] Unfortunately, he gets on Cody's nerves ''very'' quickly and there was no love to be found with him or Jessica, who is also in Cody's corner. And when it goes the other way and Paul uses him as his dragon to do things he objects to and gets everybody in the house mad at him because he's Paul's meat shield, Josh has '''had it.''' He decides ''Paul'' is the one who needs to be sent out of the house next and is preparing to avenge all the people Paul mercilessly sent packing. And it's working. When she sees how much Josh is starting to turn rogue and think for himself, even '''[[ArchEnemy Jessica]]''' is giving him kudos for that on her livestreams.

* IconicItem: His "jaxasaphone", aka a pair of pots and pans.

-->'''Josh:''' ''(sounding very put out and throwing away the broken pan handle)'' (sigh)....The jaxsaphone[[note]][[{{Mondegreen}} He really calls it that.]] His ''After Dark'' [=Q&A=] can attest to that.[[/note]] is done.

** He pulled out the jaxasphone one last time in the house after a mild tremor hit (Josh had never experienced an earthquake before in his entire life) and it was all clear, jokingly yelling "EARTHQUAKE!"

* GodzillaThreshold: In the final week of the game, Josh realized that even though the fans would want him to, if he took Paul out and brought Christmas to the Final Two, he'd look awful next to her. Instead, he made an incredibly risky move by taking the person who posed the biggest danger to his victory to the end knowing full well that Paul might win it all, hoping that if two players who enraged the jurors were sitting together, at least he wouldn't be the worst-looking one.

** TheStarscream: Subverted. Josh came perilously close to hitting this when all for but a brief moment in Week 10 when he began to somewhat doubt Paul after seeing him all buddy-buddy with other alliances besides him and Christmas. However, he still trusts Paul 100% and has strong UndyingLoyalty to him even though he realizes that Paul is only doing what he has to because he's the biggest target in the house and he understands that Paul is smart in trying to protect himself as much as he can. He also knows that Paul has the most loyalty to Josh and Christmas and he's therefore okay with Paul doing what he's doing. But once Week 11 rolls around, Josh is outraged by the moves his alliance made to move forward in the game and so emotionally volatile that he warns his own allies that if they piss him off anymore, "I'm putting you guys up." Paul and Christmas get scared and talk him down long enough to reason with him, so it's clear that they fear him as strategic game players. Double subverted when Josh notes he ''will'' take Paul out of the game upon realizing that there's no possibility of winning if Paul goes with him to the final two, and will not let him get any further than the final three. And on top of that, he already has put a chink in Paul's armor by ratting out his betrayal to Jason in his goodbye video, which Paul cannot lay eyes upon or even know about unless Josh straight up tells Paul due to Diary Room messages being kept confidential. Then it turns out Josh did this in ''every'' goodbye message to the Jury whenever Paul made him vote out somebody he didn't want to, and for being so honest, he won the game over Paul while secretly implanting the ultimate killer move that not even Paul had thought of (or at least to the degree Josh did); goodbye message treachery.

* HeelFaceTurn: As of Week 11, Josh is preparing to cut ties with Paul and knock him out of the game upon realizing the man is nearly unstoppable if he makes it to the end and [[TooPowerfulToLive all-controlling.]] Josh knows he's backed himself into a corner game-wise and has poor prospects if he stays where he is under Paul, but if he swallows his pride and goes to the end with Kevin, whom he dislikes, but could compete against, he may actually have a chance to win.
* HeelRealization: Josh discovers that Paul is dictating too much of his game for him and trying to make him expendable by having all the blood land squarely on his shoulders, and that Christmas does ''not'' have his back because she sees him as unreliable and is grossly obedient to Paul to almost showmance levels. After this, Josh does what all the viewers have been praying for all season and plots his ace in the hole to sweep the rug out from under Paul, and considers taking Kevin to the end, over Christmas.

** TheStarscream: Subverted. Josh came perilously close to hitting this when all for but a brief moment in Week 10 when he began to somewhat doubt Paul after seeing him all buddy-buddy with other alliances besides him and Christmas. However, he still trusts Paul 100% and has strong UndyingLoyalty to him even though he realizes that Paul is only doing what he has to because he's the biggest target in the house and he understands that Paul is smart in trying to protect himself as much as he can. He also knows that Paul has the most loyalty to Josh and Christmas and he's therefore okay with Paul doing what he's doing. But once Week 11 rolls around, Josh is outraged by the moves his alliance made to move forward in the game and so emotionally volatile that he warns his own allies that if they piss him off anymore, "I'm putting you guys up." Paul and Christmas get scared and talk him down long enough to reason with him, so it's clear that they fear him as strategic game players. Double subverted when Josh notes he ''will'' take Paul out of the game upon realizing that there's no possibility of winning if Paul goes with him to the final two, and will not let him get any further than the final three. And on top of that, he already has put a chink in Paul's armor by ratting out his betrayal to Jason in his goodbye video, which Paul cannot lay eyes upon or even know about unless Josh straight up tells Paul due to Diary Room messages being kept confidential. Then it turns out Josh did this in ''every'' goodbye message to the Jury whenever Paul made him vote out somebody he didn't want to, and for being so honest, he won the game over Paul while secretly implanting the ultimate killer move that not even Paul had thought of

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Josh redeemed himself by playing the game with a big heart to the very end, and never once let a backstab play out with blood on his hands, because Josh turned around and pinned it all on Paul, the BigBad of the season.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Josh started out as the craziest and most uncontrollable player in the house who everybody thought was going to be his own downfall, but he turned out to be the smartest player in the house next to Paul because he went into the game ''[[ProperlyParanoid crazy distrustful]]'' of everyone. Josh got all the way to the Final 3 and only went up for eviction twice, the first time reengineered into a flip vote pawn for Paul, and the second as a real pawn to get out Kevin as they wanted to do. He chose to side with Paul for the sake of getting to the end due to each other having their backs the whole game, but knows his final fate in the game rests in the hands of the outcome of the final HOH competition.

* TheDogBitesBack: Cody and Jessica spent the earlier parts of the game antagonizing and bullying Josh. But in the later weeks, Josh ends up biting back at the two of them when he goes on a bullying tirade against them in Week 5. It's safe to say that Josh is basically giving Cody and Jessica a taste of their own medicine. And when Paul and Christmas eerily echoed that situation by forcing him to do things in the game that he absolutely hated, when Josh gained HOH ''immediately'' after being down in the dumps and wrought with shame... MEATBALL REVENGE PARTY!!!