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* {{Housewife}}: After being written off her soap opera show, she becomes a stay-at-home mom. [[spoiler: She hates it.]]
* SouthernBelle: When Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, her personality evokes more a naive, feisty Southern beauty pageant.

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* {{Housewife}}: After being written off her soap opera show, she becomes a stay-at-home mom. [[spoiler: She hates it.]]
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* PunnyName: Liberty Belle, playing off of bell/belle.
* SouthernBelle: When Debbie puts on a Southern accent as Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, to make the name a pun. It also makes her personality evokes sound more a naive, feisty Southern beauty pageant.
wholesome.



* AwesomeMcCoolName: Cherry Bang sounds like something from Sam's movies.



* [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]

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* [[TheBigGuy TheBigGuy: The Big Girl]]big girl, named after a mountain citadel.



* XPacHeat: She gets hit hard with this as her character Beirut with the crowd booing her loudly during the pilot taping.

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* XPacHeat: She gets hit hard with this as When audience members react violently to her character Beirut with the crowd booing character, she's unnerved and seems to think that they hated her loudly during the pilot taping.
rather than just her character.



* AllForNothing: He has been working for ten years to try and get his film 'Mothers and Lovers' made, and was planning to use GLOW as a way to fund it. [[spoiler: It turns out that it's the plot of Film/BackToTheFuture.]]

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* AllForNothing: He has been working for ten years to try and get his film 'Mothers ''Mothers and Lovers' Lovers'' made, and was planning to use GLOW as a way to fund it. [[spoiler: It turns out that it's the plot of Film/BackToTheFuture.shares too much with ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.]]
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* TooSoon: The pilot is taped during the Iran hostage crisis, so her stereotypical Islamic terrorist character is rather poorly received by the audience, to the point that she is pelted with racial slurs and beer cans.

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* BrawnHilda: Pretty much her gimmick.
* TheResenter: She's was on the American Olympic wrestling team and a proud American, so her gimmick clearly irks her. She responds to Debbie's pro-american speech by picking her up and hurling her across the ring while screaming that she should be Liberty Belle.
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* AuthorTract: Her whole wrestling persona is about how poor black women are abusing the benefits system to live like queens while the common working man suffers in poverty. It's probably some sort of satire.


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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sam doesn't seem to have any clear plans for her at first, and her gimmick is rather thrown together based on her race and the costume she chose at the party. She quickly becomes a massive fan favorite among the wrestlers and audience alike however due to her charismatic performances, [[spoiler:and Sam actually books her to go over Liberty Belle at the end.]]
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* NumberTwo: Ironically considering Sam hates her at first, she eventually falls into this role to him. He often consults with her about his decisions (while making it clear he in no way values her opinions) and she pretty much writes, directs, books and performs their first taped show due to his absence.
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* Immigrant Patriotism: Ironically her comments on birthdays indicates she's quite the fan of western values, and not overly fond of her native Cambodia.

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* Immigrant Patriotism: ImmigrantPatriotism: Ironically her comments on birthdays indicates she's quite the fan of western values, and not overly fond of her native Cambodia.

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* Immigrant Patriotism: Ironically her comments on birthdays indicates she's quite the fan of western values, and not overly fond of her native Cambodia.
* TeamMom: Often concerned about the others (sometimes to smothering levels) and the only one practical enough to take a sewing machine to a live taping.
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* Adorkable: He is ''very'' proud when he shows Cherry his referee uniform.

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* Adorkable: {{Adorkable}}: He is ''very'' proud when he shows Cherry his referee uniform.
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* FakeRussian: As Zoya the Destroyer

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* FakeRussian: As Zoya the DestroyerDestroyer.



--->'''Liberty Belle''' : How do you spell "freedom" ? U - S - A

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--->'''Liberty Belle''' : How do you spell "freedom" ? U - S - A A!
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* HappilyMarried: To Keith.


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* HateSink: In addition to cheating on his wife, it's clear that he's very unsupportive of her.


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* Adorkable: He is ''very'' proud when he shows Cherry his referee uniform.
* HappilyMarried: To Cherry.
* NiceGuy
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* StylisticSuck: The "rap" video she makes to promote GLOW.
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* SpoiledSweet: A rare male variation; when his trust fund is cut off, one of his first thoughts (after an off-screen bender) is the fact that he has all these people depending on him and he'd do anything to make sure they got their dues.
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* {{Housewife}}: After being written off her soap opera show, she becomes a stay-at-home mom. [[spoiler: she hates it.]]
* SouthernBelle: when Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, her personality evokes more a naive, feisty Southern beauty pageant.

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* {{Housewife}}: After being written off her soap opera show, she becomes a stay-at-home mom. [[spoiler: she She hates it.]]
* SouthernBelle: when When Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, her personality evokes more a naive, feisty Southern beauty pageant.
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* AscendedFanboy: He's a long-time wrestling fan turned patron and producer.

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* AscendedFanboy: He's He is a long-time rich kid who decided to use his trust fund money to make his own wrestling fan turned patron and producer.
show after years of being a devoted fan.
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* SouthernBelle: when Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, she usually falls more along those line as a Proud American beauty pageant with a Southern accent.

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* SouthernBelle: when Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, she usually falls her personality evokes more along those line as a Proud American beauty pageant with a naive, feisty Southern accent.
beauty pageant.
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* BrainlessBeauty: She is the go-to candy-eye and really not the brightest of the pack. Pretty ironic considering her character.

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* BrainlessBeauty: She is the go-to candy-eye MsFanservice and really not the brightest of the pack. Pretty ironic considering her character.

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* {{Housewife}}: After being written off her soap opera show, she becomes a stay-at-home mom. [[spoiler: she hates it.]]
* SouthernBelle: when Liberty Belle is not kicking ass, she usually falls more along those line as a Proud American beauty pageant with a Southern accent.



* BrainlessBeauty: Her character Brittanica is this.

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* BrainlessBeauty: She is the go-to candy-eye and really not the brightest of the pack. Pretty ironic considering her character.
* HotScientist:
Her character Brittanica is this.this.

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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: both her and her wrestling persona.
* SpoiledBrat: Downplayed but she comes from a wealthy background and part of her rebellious behavior is a coping mechanism.




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* DirtyCommunists: her wrestling persona in the final match to fit the duo with Zoya the Destroyer from Soviet Russia.




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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: he has very abrasive personality and he is definitely a slight misogynistic jerk but has its sweet moments when he shows that he really cares about the show. He also got some bounding moments with Ruth and helps her when [[spoiler: she gets an abortion]].
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* StayInTheKitchen: subtle but there. It becomes apparent that he has always tried to belittle Debbie's professional achievements and thus to encourage her to be, and stay, a housewife.
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* KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/MadMen Harry freakin Cane]] managed to sleep with [[spoiler: and knock up]] both Debbie and Ruth. The line to file your complaints about the injustices in the world starts here.

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* KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/MadMen KavorkaMan: [[LiveActionTelevision/MadMen Harry freakin Cane]] managed to sleep with [[spoiler: and knock up]] both Debbie and Ruth. The line to file your complaints about the injustices in the world starts here.
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* KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/Madmen Harry freakin Cane]] managed to sleep with [[spoiler: and knock up]] both Debbie and Ruth. The line to file your complaints about the injustices in life starts here.

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* KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/Madmen KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/MadMen Harry freakin Cane]] managed to sleep with [[spoiler: and knock up]] both Debbie and Ruth. The line to file your complaints about the injustices in life the world starts here.
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* KavorkaMan:[[LiveActionTelevision/Madmen Harry freakin Cane]] managed to sleep with [[spoiler: and knock up]] both Debbie and Ruth. The line to file your complaints about the injustices in life starts here.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Parodied as her and Dawn's team the Beatdown Biddies.

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* HateSink: The point of bother her initial and current wrestling personas.

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* HateSink: The point of bother both her initial and current wrestling personas.
personas. Her initial "homewrecker" character is heavily based on her actual conflict with Debbie, whereas Zoya represents everything Cold War America despises about the Soviet Union.



* Eagleland: Her wrestling persona parodies Type 1 all the way.

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* Eagleland: {{Eagleland}}: Her wrestling persona parodies Type 1 all the way.



* WrestlingFamily: She's from one of these, allowing her to teach the girls a bit about wrestling. Her father disapproves of her being in the ring.

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* WrestlingFamily: She's from one of these, allowing her to teach the girls a bit about wrestling. Her father disapproves of her being in the ring.
ring. [[spoiler: He comes around in the season 1 finale though.]]


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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: She has some unconventional ways of interpreting Sam's work in film.


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* AscendedFanboy: He's a long-time wrestling fan turned patron and producer.
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--->'''Liberty Belle''' : How do you spell "liberty" ? U - S - A

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--->'''Liberty Belle''' : How do you spell "liberty" "freedom" ? U - S - A

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* HateSink: The point of bother he initial and current wrestling personas.

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* HateSink: The point of bother he her initial and current wrestling personas.




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* AllAmericanFace: As Liberty Belle.
* Eagleland: Her wrestling persona parodies Type 1 all the way.
--->'''Liberty Belle''' : How do you spell "liberty" ? U - S - A

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* HateSink: The point of bother he initial and current wrestling personas.



* GenreSavvy: InUniverse example. Her artistry as a wrestler finally takes off as soon as she realizes wrestling is basically a type of soap opera, which she ''knows how to do''.




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* SleepingWithTheBoss: She's sleeping with Sam.
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[[folder: The Ladies of GLOW]]
!Ruth Wilder
-->Played by: Alison Brie

* FakeRussian: As Zoya the Destroyer

!Debbie Eagan
-->Played by: Betty Gilpin

!Cherry Bang
-->Played by: Sydelle Noel

* ActionGirl: Before having to take over as the trainer for the girls, she's a trained stuntwoman.
* SassyBlackWoman

!Carmen Wade
-->Played by: Britney Young

* [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]
* PerformanceAnxiety: At GLOW's first live show, she has a panic attack before getting into the ring and runs out of the gym, nearly having a heart attack.
* WrestlingFamily: She's from one of these, allowing her to teach the girls a bit about wrestling. Her father disapproves of her being in the ring.

!Justine Biagi
-->Played by: Britt Baron

* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler: "The Liberal Chokehold" reveals that she's Sam's illegitimate daughter.]]

!Stacy Beswick
-->Played by: Kimmy Gatewood

* ThoseTwoGuys: She and Dawn are these.

!Dawn Rivecca
-->Played by: Rebekka Johnson

* ThoseTwoGuys: She and Stacy are these.

!Arthie Premkumar
-->Played by: Sunita Mani

* BollywoodNerd
* XPacHeat: She gets hit hard with this as her character Beirut with the crowd booing her loudly during the pilot taping.

!Rhonda Richardson
-->Played by: Kate Nash

* BrainlessBeauty: Her character Brittanica is this.

!Reggie Walsh
-->Played by: Marianna Palka

!Sheila the She-Wolf
-->Played by: Gayle Rankin

* AnimalMotif: Wolves.
* {{Otherkin}}: She knows she's human, but she truly considers herself to be a wolf.

!Tammé Dawson
-->Played by Wrestling/KiaStevens

* BigBeautifulWoman
* SassyBlackWoman

!Melanie "Melrose" Rosen
-->Played by: Jackie Tohn

!Jenny Chey
-->Played by: Ellen Wong

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Staff, Family and Friends]]

!Sam Sylvia
-->Played by: Marc Maron

* AlliterativeName
* AllForNothing: He has been working for ten years to try and get his film 'Mothers and Lovers' made, and was planning to use GLOW as a way to fund it. [[spoiler: It turns out that it's the plot of Film/BackToTheFuture.]]

!Mark
-->Played by: Rich Somner

* YourCheatingHeart: He's slept with Ruth twice. His admitting to it causes the feud between Ruth and Debbie.

!Bash
-->Played by: Chris Lowell

!Keith
-->Played by: Bashir Salahuddin

[[/folder]]

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