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* TheConsigliere: At various times to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, UsefulNotes/JesseVentura, and Oliver North.
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* TheConsigliere: At various times to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, UsefulNotes/JesseVentura, Jesse Ventura, and Oliver North.North. At other times he's been a [[TheDragon dragon]] with PlausibleDeniability.
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* TheConsigliere: At various times to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, Sports/JesseVentura, and UsefulNotes/OliverNorth.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he is describing one of his GambitPileUps to Zonker, it leads to this exchange:
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* TheConsigliere: At various times to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, Sports/JesseVentura, UsefulNotes/JesseVentura, and UsefulNotes/OliverNorth.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he is describingone of his GambitPileUps latest GambitPileup to Zonker, it leads to this exchange:
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he is describing
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* OverzealousUnderling: While working on Jesse Ventura's staff, he interprets one of the Governor's rants about Garrison Keillor as a secret instruction to assassinate Keillor.
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* TheConsigliere: At various times to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, Sports/JesseVentura, and UsefulNotes/OliverNorth.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he is describing one of his GambitPileUps to Zonker, it leads to this exchange:
-->'''Zonker''': Duke, why don't you just steal the money?\\
'''Duke''': Point of pride. I've always worked within the system.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he is describing one of his GambitPileUps to Zonker, it leads to this exchange:
-->'''Zonker''': Duke, why don't you just steal the money?\\
'''Duke''': Point of pride. I've always worked within the system.
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* BreakoutCharacter: He debuted in 1974 as a fairly one-dimensional Creator/HunterSThompson parody, but the storylines where he became the Governor of UsefulNotes/AmericanSamoa and the US ambassador to China quickly turned him into a major character, even leading to a main role in the ''Doonesbury'' musical and a strip collection devoted to him (''Action Figure: The Life and Times Of Doonesbury's Uncle Duke'').
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* BreakoutCharacter: He debuted in 1974 as a fairly one-dimensional Creator/HunterSThompson parody, but the storylines where he became the Governor governor of UsefulNotes/AmericanSamoa and the US ambassador to China quickly turned him into a major character, even leading to a main role in the ''Doonesbury'' musical and a strip collection devoted to him (''Action Figure: The Life and Times Of Doonesbury's Uncle Duke'').
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: As a Creator/HunterSThompson parody, he began as a gonzo journalist, but eventually went through a dizzying array of jobs spanning several continents, most memorably as governor of American Samoa, US ambassador to China, an NRA lobbyist, the president of a medical college in Haiti (which led to him becoming a zombie slave), the owner of a nightclub in Kuwait, and an orphanage manager (which is how he met his son Earl).
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Inverted when he first met Duke and Duke wasn't sure which of his former paramours was Earl's mom. Not even Earl excitedly recognizing his mom's name on one of Duke's tattoos could help him narrow it down.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on gonzo journalist Creator/HunterSThompson.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on gonzo journalist Creator/HunterSThompson.Creator/HunterSThompson, right down to living near Aspen, Colorado and contributing to ''Magazine/RollingStone'', though Thompson's death revealed ExpyCoexistence (with Duke almost having an existential crisis after learning that Thompson died, while Honey couldn't understand why Duke thought he had any similarities to Thompson).
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* ShippingGoggles: In-universe, everything involving her and Duke from her perspective.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: He and Alex didn't meet until after his medical discharge from the Army, and one of the things about her which attracted his interest was that she wasn't put off by his aphasia or eyepatch.
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* CoolLoser: He's a borderline-unemployable {{Manchild}} with chronic substance abuse issues, but is almost universally beloved by the rest of the cast.
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A reporter that initially worked with ''Time'' on an article about the current campus trends. He's since switched to network TV and ChannelHopped, eventually sticking with Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}. He currently [[https://twitter.com/RealRBHJr has a Twitter account]], which he plugs at every opportunity.
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A reporter that initially worked with ''Time'' on an article about the current campus trends. He's since switched to network TV and ChannelHopped, eventually sticking with Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}.Fox News. He currently [[https://twitter.com/RealRBHJr has a Twitter account]], which he plugs at every opportunity.
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* HollywoodDateless: Had only one previous boyfriend before meeting Toggle, despite being reasonably attractive.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Ran against Lacey as a more conservative primary challenger by attacking her on a "War on Drugs" message and accusing her of being a drug addict... even though in the 70's ''he himself was a drug dealer''.
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* IntrepidReporter: Was introduced in the 1970s covering the political beat, which is how he met Joanie during her work on Ginny's congressional campaign. Worked as a reporter for the Post until he was fired during the wave of downsizing that afflicted the print media as social media took over.
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* BareYourMidriff: Up to about her 30's, she would often wear belly-baring shirts.
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* HappilyMarried: To Elmont.
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* RunningGag: When she was wearing a top with spaghetti straps, at some point in each strip, one would slide off a shoulder.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The conservative father of the liberal and gay Mark.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The conservative straight father of the liberal and gay Mark.
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Hollywood Nerd is now a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don't fit existing tropes will be removed.
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* FieryRedhead: She's a redhead who doesn't take shit from anyone. She even drew down on her abuser in one instance when he walked in on her while she was checking her weapon, and she took a small satisfaction in making him feel as powerless as she had.
* RapeAsBackstory: Was threatened with a stalled career unless she slept with her C.O., which is termed 'command rape'. As she puts it, she wasn't violently assaulted or coerced, but she was still unwilling.
* FieryRedhead: She's a redhead who doesn't take shit from anyone. She even drew down on her abuser in one instance when he walked in on her while she was checking her weapon, and she took a small satisfaction in making him feel as powerless as she had.
* RapeAsBackstory: Was threatened with a stalled career unless she slept with her C.O., which is termed 'command rape'. As she puts it, she wasn't violently assaulted or coerced, but she was still unwilling.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: She's the one who delivers a message from their current commander that he wishes to see Mel in private, causing Mel to panic. Roz jokingly accuses Mel of having a crush on the (handsome) older man, and only later finds out it's because that's how her old C.O. began his manipulation of her. [[note]]For the record, the new C.O. was legitimately worried about Mel's mental state and intended to offer her a desk job so she could recover without it going on her record.[[/note]]
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Zonker's parents showed up in the late '80s for a couple of arcs after Mike and JJ kicked him out.
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* ComicBookTime: Unlike the other characters, he shows little sign of aging as the decades pass. Possibly justified by the weird things (such as being turned into a zombie) that happen to him.
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Joanie's husband who was a writer for the ''Washington Post'' for most of the strip-- until he was fired a few years ago for no particular reason. He's currently a blogger for the ''Huffington Post'' and is constantly frustrated with his son.
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Joanie's husband who was a writer for the ''Washington Post'' for most of the strip-- strip -- until he was fired a few years ago for no particular reason. He's currently a blogger for the ''Huffington Post'' and is constantly frustrated with his son.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Stops BD right before he can leave after saying he cant't leave behind some things about the war.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Stops BD right before he can leave after saying he cant't can't leave behind some things about the war.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: And how.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: And how.
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* Expy: Of Marcia from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'', each being a bespectacled, intelligent, socially inept LoveMartyr who serves as the (willing or unwilling) sidekick and foil to more outlandish individuals. [[note]]Some in the ''Peanuts'' fandom have interpreted Marcie as East Asian, [[AmbiguouslyBrown despite her race never being canonically specified]], and there is a ''very'' good chance that Trudeau's creation of an Asian-American Marcie expy fueled this perception[[/note]]
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Of Marcia Marcie from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'', each being a bespectacled, intelligent, socially inept LoveMartyr who serves as the (willing or unwilling) sidekick and foil to more outlandish individuals. [[note]]Some in the ''Peanuts'' fandom have interpreted Marcie as East Asian, [[AmbiguouslyBrown despite her race never being canonically specified]], and there is a ''very'' good chance that Trudeau's creation of an Asian-American Marcie expy fueled this perception[[/note]]
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* Expy: Of Marcia from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'', each being a bespectacled, intelligent, socially inept LoveMartyr who serves as the (willing or unwilling) sidekick and foil to more outlandish individuals. [[note]]Some in the ''Peanuts'' fandom have interpreted Marcie as East Asian, [[AmbiguouslyBrown despite her race never being canonically specified]], and there is a ''very'' good chance that Trudeau's creation of an Asian-American Marcie expy fueled this perception[[/note]]
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A birdwatcher and friend of the Davenports.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: "Genuinely strange" by his own admission.
* ComfortingTheWidow: Averted. He tries repeatedly to romance Lacey Davenport after Dick's death, but never comes close to succeeding.
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A birdwatcher and friend of the Davenports.
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* ComfortingTheWidow: Averted. He tries repeatedly to romance Lacey Davenport after Dick's death, but never comes close to succeeding.
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