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* EmoTeen: His dour, monotone demeanor places him here.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: It is unknown what Wolf's real name is.



* RaisedByWolves: He's spent so much time fending for himself in the woods, that in ''Wolf Mother'' we see he has the ability to communicate with animals and track a lost Jack & Kimberly by their scent

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* RaisedByWolves: He's spent so much time fending for himself in the woods, that in ''Wolf Mother'' "Wolf Mother", we see he has the ability to communicate with animals and track a lost Jack & and Kimberly by their scentscents.


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* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's tall, has long shaggy black hair, and Kimberley has a major crush on him.
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* PornStache: Sports a small, thin one.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has tan skin.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone may include other ethnicities in addition to African-American.


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* MixedRace: Apart from looking African-American, it's possible that she might be part Japanese, considering her surname is also the name of a Japanese manga.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: In "Judge Annie", she's the only one of the teens who has no issue in her nude body being exposed by the the swimming hole being drained. While everyone else tries to lower themselves along with the water level, she doesn't care and shows off her anatomy.

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* CowboyCop: She believes in enforcing the law, protecting her precinct, and catching criminals. To wit, she’s not too concerned about helping or being remotely liked by her community. And that’s not even going into how she’ll bend the rules to get her way.



* LawfulEvil: She believes in enforcing the law, protecting her precinct, and catching criminals. To wit, she’s not too concerned about helping or being remotely liked by her community. And that’s not even going into how she’ll bend the rules to get her way.

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* CharacterDevelopment: As much as can be accomplished in a show where StatusQuoIsGod for the most part, but the family changed in small, lasting ways from episode to episode, like Duncan’s willingness to drive after the pilot, and Kimberly no longer fighting him for the “mangly spoon” after “Sibling Revelry”.

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* CharacterDevelopment: As much as can be accomplished in a show where StatusQuoIsGod for the most part, but the family changed in small, lasting ways from episode to episode, like Duncan’s willingness to drive after the pilot, and Kimberly no longer fighting him for the “mangly spoon” "mangly spoon" after “Sibling Revelry”."Sibling Revelry".



* BoyishShortHair: She has a short bob hair.



* BreastExpansion: Thanks to Jing's newly acquired witch powers in the episode [[Recap/DuncanvilleS2E12WitchDay2 Witch Day 2]], she enlarges Kimberly's bust to B-Cup size after the latter made a sarcastic response to Jing's afforementioned powers.

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* BreastExpansion: Thanks to Jing's newly acquired witch powers in the episode [[Recap/DuncanvilleS2E12WitchDay2 "[[Recap/DuncanvilleS2E12WitchDay2 Witch Day 2]], 2]]", she enlarges Kimberly's bust to B-Cup size after the latter made a sarcastic response to Jing's afforementioned powers.



* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She wants to be popular and noticed.



* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Kimberly sometimes quotes famous movies and tv shows from before she was born thanks to online memes and popular social media posts, but she's disinterested in learning about their points of origin.

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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Kimberly sometimes quotes famous movies and tv TV shows from before she was born thanks to online memes and popular social media posts, but she's disinterested in learning about their points of origin.



* {{Foil}}: To Mia, as he’s the other smartest member of their group, but he uses his intelligence to plug himself into the hyper-corporate system she detests for the sake of freebies and profit.

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* {{Foil}}: To Mia, as he’s he's the other smartest member of their group, but he uses his intelligence to plug himself into the hyper-corporate system she detests for the sake of freebies and profit.


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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Before Mia joined, Bex was the only girl in the group.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: She's usually ignored by her coworkers and people whom she gives tickets to treat her like crap.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She sports a violet bob, although it could possibly just be dyed hair.

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* {{Sidekick}}: Functions as comic relief in episodes where he isn’t the main focus or doesn’t have a subplot.



* SupportingProtagonist: Functions as comic relief in episodes where he isn’t the main focus or doesn’t have a subplot.
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* TooImportantToWalk: Subverted. He suffers from chronic sciatica, which isn’t helped by how one of his part-time jobs involves a cycling rickshaw service. So he uses a self-balancing scooter to get around.

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* TooImportantToWalk: Subverted. He suffers from chronic sciatica, which isn’t helped by how one of his part-time jobs involves a cycling rickshaw service. So he uses Gets around on either a self-balancing scooter to get around.or a bicycle.
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* TooImportantToWalk: Subverted. He suffers from chronic sciatica, which isn’t helped by how one of his part-time jobs involves a cycling rickshaw service. So he uses a self-balancing scooter to get around.
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* FairWeatherFriend: Flippantly admits to the Wiccan spirits she’s trying to get help from in “Sibling Revelry” that she’s only pagan when she needs something, which is followed by a BoltOfDivineRetribution when she tries to press them for favors as if they owe it to her in spite of this attitude.
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** Duncan’s dream of making out with ComicBook/WonderWoman almost causes him to kiss Jack on the mouth.

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* CompressedVice: His crush on Mia (and how off-kilter it can make him) comes and goes, sometimes in the very same episode. It’s so downplayed in season 2 as she begins to hang out with Duncan and the rest of their friends more, that she believes that he’s no longer romantically interested in her.



* RepressedVice: His crush on Mia (and how off-kilter it can make him) comes and goes, sometimes in the very same episode. It’s so downplayed in season 2 as she begins to hang out with Duncan and the rest of their friends more, that she believes that he’s no longer romantically interested in her.


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* CharacterDevelopment: Her misadventure during “Party Like a Rocket Star” caused her to gain enough confidence to finally get her own phone despite her parents actively discouraging her from using one.


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* HiddenDisdainReveal: The moment Kimberly leaves her side, she muses that she’s never been left unsupervised before, showing that she associates her best friend with all the other authority figures that police and try to control her thoughts and behavior.
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* NoHeroToHisValet: Due to his poor grades, unreliability, lack of focus, lazy attitude, and tendency to fail on the rare occasions where he even deigns to try, his family has rather low expectations when it comes to Duncan achieving anything, although his parents hope that he can muster enough effort to surprise them and get his act together.


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* LawfulEvil: She believes in enforcing the law, protecting her precinct, and catching criminals. To wit, she’s not too concerned about helping or being remotely liked by her community. And that’s not even going into how she’ll bend the rules to get her way.
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* CharacterDevelopment: As much as can be accomplished in a show where StatusQuoIsGod for the most part, but the family changed in small, lasting ways from episode to episode, like Duncan’s willingness to drive after the pilot, and Kimberly no longer fighting him for the “mangly spoon” after “Sibling Revelry”.
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* RepressedVice: His crush on Mia (and how off-kilter it can make him) comes and goes, sometimes in the very same episode. It’s so downplayed in season 2 as she begins to hang out with Duncan and the rest of their friends more, that she believes that he’s no longer romantically interested in her.
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* ParentsAsPeople


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* SupportingProtagonist: Functions as comic relief in episodes where he isn’t the main focus or doesn’t have a subplot.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music he produces with Jing in “That Jing You Do” consists of grafting original lyrics to the tunes of existing children’s songs.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: While becoming a parent hasn’t really mellowed him out, he’s at least less violent than he was as a teenager (who would attack any guy who so much as spoke to Annie) or young adult (who once punched out the teeth of one of his band mates for quitting on him to become a dentist).
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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Her blunt observations of episode plots aside, she’s also capable of swearing, though it doesn’t go past the level of using the word “sucks” to describe an unpleasant eventuality.
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* IncrediblyLameFun: His post-pyromania persona is rather stuffy to the point of dull, and Jing’s play dates with him can’t last more than a few hours before he drags whatever they’re doing into the realm of tedium.
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* OnlyShopInTown: Jack’s the most trusted plumber in town, and is the only one Oakdale can think to call on when a sewage failure creates a massive flood in ‘’Jack’s Pipe Dream’s’.
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* CoolLoser: Works three jobs at Oakdale High to only be paid for one of them, is bad with his money, struggles with promoting his music, and the latter part of this trope is implied to be the reason his longtime girlfriend is reluctant to marry him. On the upside, his students adore him and appreciate all his efforts even if they don’t always listen to his advice, he runs an effective suicide hotline pro-bono, and even wins an Oakie when the town realizes that he’s the finest civil servant they’ve got.
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* {{Foil}}: To Mia, as he’s the other smartest member of their group, but he uses his intelligence to plug himself into the hyper-corporate system she detests for the sake of freebies and profit.


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* StopHelpingMe: Performed life-saving first aid on her grandmother despite her DNR (Do-not-resuscitate order) because she terrified of losing her only parental figure.


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* EveryoneHasStandards: Wolf’s frequently absentee mother has forced him to adjust to living rough, but even he won’t keep wearing the same pair of underwear for more than five days.


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* JustFriends: After season 1, she thinks that Duncan is over the crush he had on her. He isn’t.
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* MoralityPet: For her family, as seeing how their awful actions can be bad influences on Jing usually gets them to reassess their choices.
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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Kimberly sometimes quotes famous movies and tv shows from before she was born thanks to memes and popular social media posts, but she's disinterested in learning about their points of origin.

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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Kimberly sometimes quotes famous movies and tv shows from before she was born thanks to online memes and popular social media posts, but she's disinterested in learning about their points of origin.
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* AmicableExes: The Season 2 premiere has her old boyfriend travel to Oakdale to try and reignite their relationship. It's not an unpleasant visit, and they even make out for a bit to try and see if it does anything for them anymore, but they decide that they're BetterOffAsFriends come the end of the episode.

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* AmicableExes: The Season 2 premiere has her old boyfriend travel to Oakdale to try and reignite their relationship. It's not an unpleasant visit, and they even make out for a bit to try and see if it does anything for them anymore, but they decide that they're BetterOffAsFriends BetterAsFriends come the end of the episode.

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* ALessonInDefeat: Spends the first act of ''Classless President'' talking at and down to her classmates while running for student body president. Losing the office to ''[[IdiotHero Duncan]]'' causes her to realize how callously dismissive she's been, and that while she might view high school mainstays like prom as "antiquated", she has to at minimum respect and try to understand why it's so beloved by everyone else.

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* ALessonInDefeat: Spends the first act of ''Classless President'' talking at and down to her classmates while running for student body president. Losing the office to ''[[IdiotHero Duncan]]'' causes her to realize how callously dismissive she's been, and that while she might view high school mainstays like prom as "antiquated", she has to at minimum respect and try to understand why it's they're so beloved by everyone else.


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