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* UltimateJobSecurity: [[ExploitedTrope And he knows it.]] Because Wally knows he can't get fired, he puts in only the bare modicum of effort to his job, if that. And yet, for all his slacking, the Pointy-Haired Boss never even threatens to fire him, let alone actually do it.
** In the series he's been at the company for almost thirty years and is the only one who knows how their legacy mainframe works, along with being the only COBOL programmer.
** In the series he's been at the company for almost thirty years and is the only one who knows how their legacy mainframe works, along with being the only COBOL programmer.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: [[ExploitedTrope And he knows it.]] Because Wally knows he can't get fired, he puts in only the bare modicum minimum of effort to his job, if that. And yet, for all his slacking, the Pointy-Haired Boss never even threatens to fire him, let alone actually do it.
**it. In the series series, he's been at the company for almost thirty years and is the only one who knows how their legacy mainframe works, along with being the only COBOL programmer.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: According to the PHB in one strip, Alice used to be friendly and earnest when she started working, but developed a serious temper after only two weeks of working under him. Of course, he's the only one clueless as to the reason why.
* ButtMonkey: Asok always gets passed over for promotions, and several strips show him becoming the victim of a massive workload or cruel pranks and abuse by the senior employees. His introductory arc sets the tone by having him get tossed around like a tool, then tricked into climbing into the [[AirVentPassageway air vent]].
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* {{Troll}}: Catbert frequently abuses his powers as HR director to make the employees suffer for his own amusement. This can range from the minor, such as making employees tape brooms to their buttocks, to the major, such as making up a form and telling Wally he forgot to fill it out to make him lose his vacation time.
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* WhenSheSmiles: When she gets her MBA and the Pointy Haired Boss congratulates her, Carol actually finds herself sincerely content and proud of her work for once. Unfortunately it all crashes down when she finds out the boss' reward (a free coffee for herself every time she gets his), leading her to fly into a rage.
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* WhenSheSmiles: YankTheDogsChain: When she gets her MBA and the Pointy Haired Boss congratulates her, Carol actually finds herself sincerely content and proud of her work for once. Unfortunately it all crashes down when she finds out the boss' reward (a free coffee for herself every time she gets his), leading her to fly into a rage.
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[[folder:Tina the Tech Writer]]
!!Tina the Tech Writer
Introduced as a StrawFeminist (her introductory strips [[NoFourthWall literally dared readers to become as offended as possible]]), she is now mostly played as a foil to Alice.
!!Tina the Tech Writer
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!!Tina
A tech writer at Dilbert's company. Introduced as a StrawFeminist (her introductory strips [[NoFourthWall literally dared readers to become as offended as possible]]), she is now mostly played as a foil to Alice.
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* YourSizeMayVary: The size of his gigantic forehead varies from strip to strip, with it being drawn larger in later strips on average.
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A minor character appearing in a few strips he became an AscendedExtra in the TV Show. His main distinguishing feature was that he was extremely loud.
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A minor character appearing in a few strips strips, but he became an AscendedExtra in the TV Show. His main distinguishing feature was that he was extremely loud.
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* AscendedExtra: He only has a few appearances in the comic strip, but has been a recurring character in the TV adaptation.
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* AscendedExtra: He only has had a few appearances in the comic strip, but has been became a recurring character in the TV adaptation.
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* GaleForceSound: The sound of his voice is strong enough to blow people's hair back. At one point, he even knocks over Alice by screaming at her.
* HypocriticalHumor: When he reappeared for the first time in the comic strip, he was shown shouting at the top of his lungs about there being a reorg, and how he wasn't supposed to tell anyone. He then immediately threatened to shush Asok when the latter quietly asked about the reorg.
* HypocriticalHumor: When he reappeared for the first time in the comic strip, he was shown shouting at the top of his lungs about there being a reorg, and how he wasn't supposed to tell anyone. He then immediately threatened to shush Asok when the latter quietly asked about the reorg.
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* IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Tina is sometimes shown talking to other employees about subjects which only interest herself. For example, one story arc has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Dilbert need to yawn really hard to get someone out of his ear canal,]] and his response is to head to Tina, who immediately and gladly starts talking about her [[IncrediblyLameFun porcelain frog collection]] when asked.
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I don't think "Sorting Algorithm" things are supposed to be listed like tropes like that. Plus, I feel that entry is shoehorned anyway.
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* [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Sorting Algorithm of Stupidity]]: The Pointy Haired Boss claimed that a good manager will always hire people smarter than them and Dilbert pointed out that that must mean the CEO is the dumbest person in the company. Considering what we see of him, it seems Dilbert was right on the money.
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%%* DeadpanSnarker: ''The'' definition of this trope.
* ExpressiveAccessory: His tie normally just levitates, but it sometimes changes according to his mood. It stands up straight when he's scared or surprised, goes limp when he's feeling weak or faints, and [[SomethingElseAlsoRises goes stiff or flat when he's... "excited".]]
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* LiteralMinded: At times, especially while dating.
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* EvilVersusEvil: He once attacked Mordac for messing with his stuff.
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* EvilVersusEvil: He once attacked Mordac for messing with his stuff.stuff, [[VillainousRescue saving Dilbert]] from having his gadgets taken.
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* InhumanResources: His job title is literally "Evil Director of Human Resources". He takes a sick delight in making the employees' lives as miserable as possible.
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Now definition only
* MaybeEverAfter: In August '94 Adams started a reader poll asking whether Dilbert should go all the way with Liz or not. Female fans were practically unanimous in their voting that Dilbert should do the deed, but male fans were split. Half said he should, while half reported they used Dilbert's luck in relationships as a measurement for their own nerdiness, and they thought "Dilbert shouldn't get lucky before I do." Surprised by the polarized reaction, Adams decided on an ambiguous answer. [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-09/ This strip]] resulted. The 'down' tie was meant to be a code that Dilbert and Liz had sex, but the way it's presented is that any fan can draw the conclusion they prefer.
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* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: Dilbert once claims that their relationship violates the laws of the Universe.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: In August '94 Adams started a reader poll asking whether Dilbert should go all the way with Liz or not. Female fans were practically unanimous in their voting that Dilbert should do the deed, but male fans were split. Half said he should, while half reported they used Dilbert's luck in relationships as a measurement for their own nerdiness, and they thought "Dilbert shouldn't get lucky before I do." Surprised by the polarized reaction, Adams decided on [[DidTheyOrDidntThey an ambiguous answer]]. [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-09/ This strip]] resulted. The 'down' tie was meant to be a code that Dilbert and Liz had sex, but the way it's presented is that any fan can draw the conclusion they prefer.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: In August '94 Adams started a reader poll asking whether Dilbert should go all the way with Liz or not. Female fans were practically unanimous in their voting that Dilbert should do the deed, but male fans were split. Half said he should, while half reported they used Dilbert's luck in relationships as a measurement for their own nerdiness, and they thought "Dilbert shouldn't get lucky before I do." Surprised by the polarized reaction, Adams decided on [[DidTheyOrDidntThey an ambiguous answer]]. [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-09/ This strip]] resulted. The 'down' tie was meant to be a code that Dilbert and Liz had sex, but the way it's presented is that any fan can draw the conclusion they prefer.
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* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: UglyGuyHotWife: Dilbert once claims that their relationship violates the laws of the Universe.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: In August '94 Adams started a reader poll asking whether Dilbert should go all the way with Liz or not. Female fans were practically unanimous in their voting that Dilbert should do the deed, but male fans were split. Half said he should, while half reported they used Dilbert's luck in relationships as a measurement for their own nerdiness, and they thought "Dilbert shouldn't get lucky before I do." Surprised by the polarized reaction, Adams decided on [[DidTheyOrDidntThey an ambiguous answer]]. [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-09/ This strip]] resulted. The 'down' tie was meant to be a code that Dilbert and Liz had sex, but the way it's presented is that any fan can draw the conclusion they prefer.
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* PsychicPowers: In the Noughties a RunningGag developed that his time at "the" Indian Institute of Technology[[note]]there are actually several[[/note]] had left him with telekinesis and the ability to make people's heads explode by thinking about it.
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* PsychicPowers: In the Noughties a RunningGag developed that his time at "the" Indian Institute of Technology[[note]]there are actually several[[/note]] had left him with telekinesis and the ability to make people's [[YourHeadASplode heads explode explode]] by thinking about it.
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A personality-less employee used in situations which would otherwise require a one-off character. Has thus been fired and killed a number of times, but [[SnapBack it never sticks]]. Scott Adams has joked that there must be more than one Ted in the company.
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A personality-less employee used in situations which would otherwise require a one-off character. Has thus been fired and killed a number of times, but [[SnapBack it never sticks]]. Scott Adams has joked that [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals there must be more than one Ted in the company.company]].
* TheNondescript: He's so generic and unmemorable that people who've known him for years have trouble describing him.
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** He once misunderstood Dogbert's advice to take a poison pill and consumed a literal poison pill, killing himself. He showed up again good as new with no explanation a long time later.
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** Dogbert is hired to assassinate him. He later comes back, once again with no explanation, but it ''is'' {{Lampshade}}d that he came back from the afterlife, and implied that he's a demon.
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** Dogbert is hired to assassinate him. He later comes back, once again with no explanation, but it ''is'' {{Lampshade}}d {{lampshade}}d that he came back from the afterlife, and implied that he's a demon.
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* AllegedlyDateless: He actually ''does'' get out on a date now and then, even post-Liz. But he's still portrayed as useless with women.
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* HollywoodDateless: He actually ''does'' get out on a date now and then, even post-Liz. But he's still portrayed as useless with women.
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Crosswicking.
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* NominalCoauthor: InUniverse. In more than one strip, the PointyHairedBoss insists that Dilbert add his name to the patent application, since the program was written while Dilbert is an employee.
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The original strip this quote was from didn't actually feature Topper.
* InflatingBodyGag: When Dilbert tries to increase his "alpha male dominance" by taking up more space in the room, Topper counters by [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210914211545/https://dilbert.com/strip/2014-04-05 inflating like a pufferfish.]]
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-->'''Coworker:''' When I first started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy windows! We only had ones and zeros, and sometimes we didn't even have ones! I once programmed an entire database using only zeros!\\
'''Dilbert:''' You had zeros? We had to use the letter O!
'''Dilbert:''' You had zeros? We had to use the letter O!
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'''Topper:''' That's nothing! I'm part of
'''Dilbert:''' You had zeros? We had to use the letter O!
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* VisualPun: At one point, Alice removes his head, revealing that he's full of bologna.
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* SerialEscalation: Every story you tell, he did it better, even if it seems logically impossible.
-->'''Coworker:''' When I first started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy windows! We only had ones and zeros, and sometimes we didn't even have ones! I once programmed an entire database using only zeros!\\
'''Dilbert:''' You had zeros? We had to use the letter O!
-->'''Coworker:''' When I first started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy windows! We only had ones and zeros, and sometimes we didn't even have ones! I once programmed an entire database using only zeros!\\
'''Dilbert:''' You had zeros? We had to use the letter O!
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* WhiteCollarWorker: Along with all the other characters who work at Path-E-Tech.
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* WhiteCollarWorker: Along with all the other characters who work at Path-E-Tech.
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* StrawFeminist: Although not the stereotypical man-hater type. Instead, Tina is an illogical hypocrite who uses sexism as a scapegoat. Although this was her original defining character trait, it has since mostly fallen by the wayside. In the commentary for these strips Adams claims he wasn't even aware this was a stereotype at the time; the joke was supposed to be that she had a brittle personality in general.
** Adams then made "Antina" (anti-Tina) as a response to people who thought Tina was a swipe at feminism. Antina was everything Tina was not - which immediately drew complaints, since many people interpreted Antina's butch personality as a swipe at lesbians. It's interesting to note that Antina's introduction was one of the very, very few times Dilbert's tie drooped downward.
** Adams then made "Antina" (anti-Tina) as a response to people who thought Tina was a swipe at feminism. Antina was everything Tina was not - which immediately drew complaints, since many people interpreted Antina's butch personality as a swipe at lesbians. It's interesting to note that Antina's introduction was one of the very, very few times Dilbert's tie drooped downward.
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* StrawFeminist: Although not the stereotypical man-hater type. Instead, Tina is an illogical hypocrite who uses sexism as a scapegoat. Although this was her original defining character trait, it has since mostly fallen by the wayside. In the commentary for these strips Adams claims he wasn't even aware this was a stereotype at the time; the joke was supposed to be that she had a brittle personality in general.
**general. Adams then made "Antina" (anti-Tina) as a response to people who thought Tina was a swipe at feminism. Antina was everything Tina was not - which immediately drew complaints, since many people interpreted Antina's butch personality as a swipe at lesbians. It's interesting to note that Antina's introduction was one of the very, very few times Dilbert's tie drooped downward.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: They tend to be defeated through hilariously mundane means. In their first appearance, Dilbert defeats their leader by erasing the numbers for the accounting department's budget. Later on, Dogbert manages to make an accounting troll's [[YourHeadAsplode head explode]] by wearing a baseball cap on backwards, something that their hardwired accounting brains can't handle.
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* KillItWithWater: Since it's a robot, it's vulnerable to getting shorted out by water. The first time it goes rogue, the PHB tries to kill it by dousing it with a fire hose, [[SkewedPriorities so it'll be eligible for a replacement under warranty.]]
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* {{Gasshole}}: If there's [[ToiletHumor a flatulence joke]], [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-07-16/ he's]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150109055443/http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-06-21 the]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230304105126/https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-10-01 source.]]
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* {{Gasshole}}: If there's [[ToiletHumor a flatulence joke]], [[http://dilbert.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140208064556/http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-07-16/ he's]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150109055443/http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-06-21 the]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230304105126/https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-10-01 source.]]
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Was once forced to cut back to [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-04-22/ 40 cups of coffee a day.]]
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* ImprobablyHighIQ: Claims [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-10-04/ 240]].
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* ImprobablyHighIQ: Claims [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-10-04/ [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180618045048/http://dilbert.com/strip/2003-10-04 240]].
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-04-28/ Once tells the PHB these exact words]] over a blog that was proving an embarrassment to the company.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-04-28/ [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151008190042/http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-04-28 Once tells the PHB these exact words]] over a blog that was proving an embarrassment to the company.
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* RoboticPsychopath: To demonstrate to the CEO what it would take for a robot to take his job, the robot [[https://dilbert.com/strip/2013-04-03 deactivates its empathy routines]].
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* RoboticPsychopath: To demonstrate to the CEO what it would take for a robot to take his job, the robot [[https://dilbert.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20230304040521/https://dilbert.com/strip/2013-04-03 deactivates its empathy routines]].
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* ReversePsychology: Since it's literally his job to give employees the opposite of what they want, Alice [[https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-09-17 once managed]] to manipulate him into giving her everything by pretending that she didn't want anything.
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* ReversePsychology: Since it's literally his job to give employees the opposite of what they want, Alice [[https://dilbert.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20230307142830/https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-09-17 once managed]] to manipulate him into giving her everything by pretending that she didn't want anything.
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An OddJobGod who rules Heck and punishes minor sins. Also the [=PHB's=] [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-05-27/ brother]].
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An OddJobGod who rules Heck and punishes minor sins. Also the [=PHB's=] [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-05-27/ [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210416121723/http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-27 brother]].
