History Characters / DemoReel

* RaisedCatholic: Very likely, as he's prayed twice, calls rain "God's tears" and it tends to be a thing with Doug's characters (as he was raised that way, but is now agnostic).

* {{Asexuality}}: While there are feelings for Karl, and then Rebecca, the other four display perviness constantly, and he never shows sexual attraction towards anyone. Compare his filming of Rebecca's face reading a magazine to Karl's close-ups objectifying Donnie.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Her name has a silent ''accent''.

* BadassBeard: Compared to Donnie's thin goatee and the other men's clean-shaveness, his is massive and awesome.

* LackOfEmpathy: Their response to Donnie's WorldOfCardboardSpeech about he views himself as a complete failure is to tease him for "almost" getting an emotional response from them.

* BlackAndNerdy: He compares the car behind him in "Lost In Translation" to one of the Boo ghosts from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers''.

* {{Adorkable}}: His Creator/EdWood-like enthusiasm for making these movies can't be broken no matter how much the universe hates him.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His opening spiel about what Demo Reel is. Shows off his {{adorkable}}ness, his fragile ego, his pride in his friends, his innocence, and his femminess, but also a very visible loathing of Hollywood.

* {{Adorkable}}: Has an amazing cackle of a laugh, and the trailer had her dancing around in Donnie's fedora and glasses.

* BiTheWay: Probably the only thing he doesn't have issues on, and he's even more comfortable with touchy-feeling guys than girls.

* BiTheWay: She likes Donnie and Tacoma, but also willing to ScrewYourself and the idea that she has a girlfriend at home has been approved.

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* ControlFreak: Unless Tacoma hits on a CloseToHome issue like in ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', he messes up the writer's good ideas to further his own agenda. To his credit, he's probably not even aware he's doing it.

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: He plays every ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' character on his own despite it giving him a migraine, gives the best performance he can in the big speech, and finishes the script, all because he wanted to make Tacoma happy.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He pulls out of acting in the ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' remake because he needs to help Karl with the turkey problem. Still finishes the big speech for Donnie though.

* DomesticAbuser: While [[LeftHanging there may have been more issues than what we were told]], she still emotionally stonewalls Donnie until he gives up trying to talk to her, their pre-nup was ''huge'', and sends him money through the post instead of actually talking to him.

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Her name has a silent ''accent''.

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: His acting career is primarily based off Jake Lloyd's (and Creator/MaraWilson, to a lesser extent), only way more depressing.]] He's also based off EdWood, with a sadder motivation, an abusive wife and an ability to make good movies that he just hasn't tapped into yet.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: There is of course Donnie, and from the butter-melting way he plays the role, he pretty obviously has a thing for Billy Dee Williams.

* BlackAndNerdy: He compares the car behind him in "Lost In Translation" to one of the Boo ghosts from ''SuperMarioBrothers''.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A variation. In The Dark Knight Begins Rising, he is cast as Alfred, and dons a British accent throughout the whole thing, but when [=DuPre=] (as Bruce Wayne) tries on various costumes, he pronounces [[SuperMarioBros Mario]]'s name the same way an American would, not a European[[note]]He pronounces it as Mah-ree-oh, and not Maa-ree-oh[[/note]]. Then, when [=DuPre=] tries [[Literature/WheresWally his next costume]], Narrows makes the same mistake[[note]]He calls the character "Waldo" instead of "Wally"[[/note]].

--> '''Donnie''': ''*[[ThrowItIn Improvising]]*'' Look. [[SuperMario Princess Peach]] just gave birth.

* LoonyFan: A whole family of them!

* BlackAndNerdy: He compares the car behind him in "Lost In Translation" to one of the boogos from ''SuperMarioBrothers''.

* HappyMarriageCharade

* BeingGoodSucks: Being good got him ex-communicated from his family.

* ControlFreak: Unless Tacoma hits on a CloseToHome issue like in ''WreckItRalph'', he messes up the writer's good ideas to further his own agenda. To his credit, he's probably not even aware he's doing it.

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: He plays every ''WreckItRalph'' character on his own despite it giving him a migraine, gives the best performance he can in the big speech, and finishes the script, all because he wanted to make Tacoma happy.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He pulls out of acting in the ''WreckItRalph'' remake because he needs to help Karl with the turkey problem. Still finishes the big speech for Donnie though.

* FishOutOfWater: He's completely out of his element at both the con and in the forest. The first one he manages to deal with by hitting on Uncle Yo and Creator/Egoraptor so they'll take him under their wings, but the second goes wrong in all the understandable ways. After going through the PlotHole, he's also terrified of the review room.

* [[FeigningIntelligence Fake Nerd Boy]]: He parrots everything Uncle Yo taught him about anime and Pokemon to EgoRaptor, pretending it's his own so he'll be liked better. Played sympathetically though, and when Yo is mad in the maid cafe, calls him out on enjoying the fact that he didn't know anything.

* FishOutOfWater: He's completely out of his element at both the con and in the forest. The first one he manages to deal with by hitting on Uncle Yo and Egoraptor so they'll take him under their wings, but the second goes wrong in all the understandable ways. After going through the PlotHole, he's also terrified of the review room.

* {{Badass}}
-->'''Karl''': Where are you going, my friend? The ass-kicking is right here.

* MysteriousPast: At one point, he apparently worked for a lady named Stacy. Or maybe it was [[TheStasi Stasi]].