History Characters / GLOW2017

* {{Adorkable}}: Is "Girl Next Door" cute, really dorky and has the earnest, struggling actress vibe down pat. Considering who she’s [[Creator/AliceBrie played]] [[{{Series/Community by]] definitely helps.

* {{Adorkable}}: Is "Girl Next Door" cute, really dorky and has the earnest, struggling actress vibe down pat. It helps that she’s played by [[Creator/AlisonBrie Alison]] [[Series/Community Brie]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Is "Girl Next Door" cute, really dorky and has the earnest, struggling actress vibe down pat.

* BiTheWay:
** Her comments about falling for Yolanda seem to suggest that she didn't realize she could be into girls and had considered herself straight before.
** Explored in Season 3 when her relationship with Yolanda becomes something serious. Yolanda actually confronts her on this, albeit without bringing up the notion of bisexuality. This is historically accurate for the mid 1980s, when bisexuality was far less visible and far less accepted, even by people who identified as gay or lesbian.

* GentlemanAdventurer: When the girls swap gimmicks in Season 3’s “Freaky Tuesday” episode, she switches with Carmen/Machu Picchu, but decides to mix things up further by playing her as “a British explorer who ''discovers'' Machu Picchu”, complete with mad RP accent.

* BiTheWay: Her comments about falling for Yolanda seem to suggest that she didn't realize she could be into girls and had considered herself straight before.

* BollywoodNerd: Is Hindi and a medical student who studies frequently.

* TheResenter: She was on the American Olympic wrestling team and a proud American, so her gimmick of "Vicky the Viking" 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 used to be Liberty Belle.
** Seems to hold no real grudge at Debbie in season 3, although will snarkily bring it up from time to time.

* ImmigrantPatriotism: Ironically her comments on birthdays indicates she's quite the fan of western values, and not overly fond of her native Cambodia.
** Explained in season 3, when she reveals that her family fled from Cambodia to escape the Khmer Rouge.

* 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.

* ValleyGirl: Has the mannerisms put down, implied to be her fulfilling the American Dream. Given what one knows about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge Cambodian history from the 1960s-1980s]] and her past, she is a refugee.

* PlugNPlayFriends: A DownplayedTrope: after some initial resentment over her taking Cherry's spot, the other women quickly accept her as a friend.

* {{Adorkable}}: Always looking to impress Ruth: his impression of Creator/KatharineHepburn amuses her.

* 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.
** Has a mild case of MyGodWhatHaveIDone in the final episode when Debbie tells him he's never been supportive of her.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Discussed between Ruth and Sam after he first sees him; he is shocked that the pudgy, bespectacled yuppie managed to marry and reproduce with the gorgeous and shapely blonde Debbie and boink pretty and leggy Ruth — twice! later he starts a relationship with a pretty brunette who is of more average weight and height than Ruth and Debbie.

* PrettyBoy: Justine and Arthie sure think so.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When Bash drags the wrestlers over to Birdie's benefit dinner, and has them all make phoney speeches about overcoming drug addiction in an attempt to extract sponsorship money from the wealthy crowd, she recognizes it as baloney immediately, but Ruth's candid speech about her affair with "a friend's husband" and subsequent regret, moves her enough to offer ''GLOW'' a room at the Hayworth Hotel for the show.

* JerkassHasAPoint: She really does want Bash to really do something worthwhile and start making stable financial decisions.
** "Redistributing" the funds Bash got from the phoney crack addiction stories into her actual drug relief programs counts.

* NiceGirl: She is a pretty friendly person who hangs out with the cast and Season 2 shows her to be very loyal and admiring of Ruth to the point of standing up for her to Sam and getting fired for it.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BettyGilpin

->'''Portrayed By:''' Betty Gilpin

->'''Portrayed By:''' Sydelle Noel

->'''Portrayed By:''' Britney Young

->'''Portrayed By:''' Marc Maron

->'''Portrayed By:''' Britt Baron

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kate Nash

->'''Portrayed By:''' Gayle Rankin

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jackie Tohn

->'''Portrayed By:''' Chris Lowell

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kimmy Gatewood and Rebekka Johnson

->'''Portrayed By:''' Sunita Mani

->'''Portrayed By:''' Marianna Palka

->'''Portrayed By:''' Shakira Barrera

->'''Portrayed By:''' Bashir Salahuddin

->'''Portrayed By:''' Andrew Friedman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Victor Quinaz

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Cahoon

->'''Portrayed By:''' Nick Clifford

->'''Portrayed By:''' Rich Sommer

->'''Portrayed By:''' Casey Johnson

->'''Portrayed By:''' Winston James Francis

->'''Portrayed By:''' Elizabeth Perkins

->'''Portrayed By:''' Alex Rich

->'''Portrayed By:''' Annabella Sciorra

->'''Portrayed By:''' Horatio Sanz

* TheBigGuy: Is a literal giant ex-wrestler.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When the Bash drags the wrestlers over to Birdie's benefit dinner, and has them all make phoney speeches about overcoming drug addiction in an attempt to extract sponsorship money from the wealthy crowd, she recognizes it as baloney immediately, but Ruth's candid speech about her affair with "a friend's husband" and subsequent regret, moves her enough to offer ''GLOW'' a room at the Hayworth Hotel for the show.

* MakeoverMontage: When the ''GLOW'' girls create an MTV-style pop video, she stars as a thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of Music/{{Madonna}} who, with her glamorous magic-touch and huge amounts of hairspray, helps the other girls get ready for a night at the club. The song itself is a complete EarWorm -- ''🎶Makeover, gonna make you over🎶''

* WeightWoe: ''Desert Pollen'' had Debbie insecure when a dance instructor makes a comment about her backside stirs up insecurities about her body and about her motherhood (as she is the star and has a feminine and athletic body without being "too" any of those things), she ends up vomiting at the end. She even has been dieting since age 14 because all people notice is her body.

->A K-DTV camera operator who works in the GLOW tapings during Season 2. He dates Ruth in Seasons 2 and 3.

!!!G.L.O.W., K-DTV and Fan Tan Staff

->A manager and some-time showgirl of the Fan Tan Casino where GLOW performs.

->Ruth's boyfriend in Seasons 2 and 3 who starts working in the GLOW crew.

* EightiesHair: In a show populated with the voluminous coiffures of the decade, her's and Dawn's are by far the most perfected and of-the-moment, given their profession.

!!!G.L.O.W. & Fan Tan Staff

* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Played with; she is very attractive and stylish with wheat-colored hair, politically conservative beliefs and a love of Nancy Reagan but she isn't sex kitten-ish and is older than the usual trope.

* ArmouredClosetGay: After two seasons hinting at it, Bash is revealed to be gay or at the very least bisexual in Season 3 during a steamy threesome with a male gigolo (Paul) that Rhonda contrives to make him jealous. This backfires on her spectacularly when he passionately kisses and fondles Paul and she’s left feeling bypassed and confused. He's wracked by shame and refuses to admit it to himself, with his overbearing and conservative mother likely being one of the reasons, and the fear of AIDS being another. Only when he’s blind drunk does he admit to Debbie that he thoroughly enjoyed having sex with Paul and would be unable to stop himself from doing it again.

* BadassAdorable: When the girls swap gimmicks in Season 3’s “Freaky Tuesday” episode, Ruth plays Liberty Belle as a ridiculously chipper Creator/JudyGarland-inspired “sweet, innocent girl” from the Midwest.

* OddFriendship: With her mother-in-law Birdie, Bash's formidable mother, following her green-card marriage to Bash at the end of Season 2. Despite her humble background, Rhonda's plain-speaking sweetness, combined with the fact that she's respectful, yet not at all wobbled by an initially frosty interrogation, surprises and impresses Birdie, leading to a warmly mutual respect after a day out shopping together.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: 'Cherry Bang' sounds like someone from Sam's dubious movies. Lampshaded by Mallory the casting director, who says that it can't possibly be her real name.

-->'''Ruth!Liberty Belle''': THIS American toothpick runs on nothing but MEAT! And WHEAT from the great State of Nebraska! ''*front-kicks Debbie!Zoya in the stomach*''

* SiblingMurder: She murders "good twin" Olga, while the latter gets her surgery for her deformed foot.

** This becomes a tearjerker in Season 3 when she reveals that her family was persecuted by the Communists in Cambodia, and was a survivor of ethnic cleansing. Playing a stereotypical Chinese communist every night ends up sending her into a depression.