History Characters / ScrubsMinorCharacters

* RedemptionRejection: Cox is ''much'' more patient with him than he deserves and gives him a genuine chance to improve but Ed still refuses to put in the effort, getting him fired.

[[folder: Doug Townsend]]
!!'''Dr. Doug Townsend (Creator/DickVanDyke)''

An older doctor who has a great rapport with everybody and is Dr. Kelso's best friend.

* TheDividual: Randall, Crispin, and Roy don't have characterization outside of being "The Worthless Peons". (Although Crispin briefly quits, it's all offscreen)

[[folder:Kevin Casey]]
!!'''Dr. Kevin Casey (Creator/MichaelJFox)'''
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-> ''" Everyone's got their own burdens, J.D., and I'm not gonna be one of those people that dumps mine on somebody else."''

A highly gifted doctor who specializes in both internal medicine and surgery, but has crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder. An old friend/medical school classmate of Dr Cox.

[[folder: Nurse Flowers]]

-->''"Oh, your face is red like a strawbrerry!"''

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Nobody likes having her as Cheif. Not that she cares.

[[folder:Dr. Jeffrey Steadman]]

[[folder:Chet]]
!!''Chet (Creator/JasonBaumgard)
->''"Guys, how many times do I have to tell you? Stop wearing my coat!"''

An extremely tall surgeon, who mostly exists for height jokes. J.D. steals his coat to play "World's Most Giant Doctor", something Chet doesn't appreciate.

!Main Characters' Love Interests
[[folder:Sean Kelly]]
!!'''Sean Kelly (Creator/ScottFoley)
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->''"Elliot, I'm crazy about you, but I've been going over this in my head all week. I've been in a long-distance relationship before. It was a disaster. I believe a couple has a better chance if they just cut the cord and know that if it's meant to be, fate will bring them back together."''

Elliot's patient in season 1 and later boyfriend. He works at Sea World.

[[folder:Sam Dorian]]
!!'''Sam Dorian (Creator/JohnRitter)'''
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J.D.'s dad, an office supply salesman by trade.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: They're not seen together onscreen, but he and Dan are both crass, immature freeloaders who have complicated relationships with the more responsible Johnny. Physically, Dan remarks that J.D. "has Dad's butt".
* TheLoad: J.D. initially sees him as a freeloader.
* ManChild: Acts "more like a friend than a dad".
* ParentsAsPeople: Due to the nature of his job, he was away from his sons a lot of the time, his divorce with their mother affected them negatively, and he struggled to make ends meet. However, he clearly loved his family (even his ex-wife), and at least tried to do right by them.
* SoProudOfYou: He's more proud of J.D. than anything.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appeared in-person in one episode and once more in a brief flashback, but both the good and bad aspects of his parenting stick with J.D. throughout the series, especially when he's trying to be a father to his own son.

[[folder:Margaret Turk]]
!!'''Margaret Turk (Creator/HattieWinston)'''
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Christopher Turk's mother.

[[folder/Howie Gelder]]

[[folder/Howie]]

One of the interns introduced in Season 8, who speaks in a very monotone way.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Sleeping with the elderly Gloria. She's later revealed to be carryi be carrying his twins.]]

[[folder: Marco Espinosa]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mrs. Espinosa]]
!!'''Mrs. Espinosa (Creator/GinaMorelli)'''
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Carla's mother, who she's particularly close to.

* MyBelovedSmother: Not as bad as some cases, but she does try to control her adult daughter's dating life, not wanting her to have sex before marriage.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Old enough to be a grandmother, but still ready to brawl.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Subverted, in that she died before Turk and Carla tied the knot; but she was violently against the relationship and scared Turk. Also subverted in that Turk does admit to missing her once she's passed, even if "she would never believe me".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in "My Bad", but her relationship with Carla play a major role in "My Drama Queen" (her death) and "My Boss's Free Haircut" (Turk and Carla reminiscing about her is the first major step to mending their troubled marriage).

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam Dorian]]
!!'''Sam Dorian (Creator/JohnRitter)'''
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J.D.'s dad, an office supply salesman by trade.
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[[folder:Rowdy and Stephen]]
!!'''Rowdy and Stephen'''

A taxidermied dead dog that J.D. and Turk bought prior to the series, and their most prized possession. Not technically alive, but treated as such by the two. Carla isn't a fan. Later [[spoiler: replaced by another taxidermied dog named Stephen when Carla accidentally loses him; but after Rowdy is found Stephen moves in with J.D. and Rowdy with Turk, so they can both have one.]]

* [[ABoyAndHisX Two Manchildren and their Dead Dog]]: J.D. and Turk express a childlike affection for him, despite him being dead.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: The Janitor finds the real Rowdy in "My Scrubs".]]
* CompanionCube: A dead stuffed dog who's treated with genuine affection. He represents their friendship.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Parodied by J.D.; we don't know what his actual life was like, but Rowdy the dead, stuffed dog used to be kept in a box of hats, which J.D. treats as a tragic backstory.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Normally a quirk/set dressing for the apartment, Carla's C-Plots in "My First Kill" and "My Scrubs" are about her losing Rowdy and the Janitor replacing him with Stephen; and the Janitor finding Rowdy to blackmail Carla, respectively.
* ThePigPen: J.D. gives him frequent baths, and remarks "How do you get so dirty?"
* RightHandAttackDog: In one of J.D.'s fantasies, he unleashes him on Carla.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Hillariously, to Carla; she hates Turk's attachment to him and is frequently freaked out by finding him in random places in the apartment. In J.D's fantasy life, the feeling is mutual.
* TeamPet: Treated as such by J.D. and Turk.

[[/folder]]

!Notable Interns

[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!'''Lonnie (Creator/MichaelHobert)'''
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-> ''"I hate you J.D."''

One of J.D.'s interns and later residents who appeared throughout Seasons 3-5. He is an odd mix of {{jerkass}} and {{buttmonkey}}.

* BackForTheFinale: Appears in J.D.'s last fantasy in My Finale to say he hates him.
* ButtMonkey: Both J.D. and Dr. Cox have taken advantage of their power over him on several occasions, with Dr. Cox even once mummifying his head.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father died from acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and he says the disease "tore [his] family apart".
* {{Jerkass}}: He's as much of an ass to J.D. as he can be and get away with it.
* PutOnABus: Vanished after Season 5 outside of a small cameo in Season 6.
* ReallyGetsAround: He has three children that he knows about and probably has more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio]]
!!'''Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio (Creator/ShaughnBuchholz)'''
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A spectacularly incompetent intern, who first appears in Season 5 and is quickly fired. He later pops up again as one of the baristas at the hospital's Coffee Bucks.

* TheBusCameBack: After getting fired in Season 5, he returns in Season 6 working at Coffee Bucks, and makes several more appearances during the course of that season.
* EpicFail: Easily takes the cake as the most incompetent medical professional seen in the show's entire run. He doesn't have any hidden medicinal talents like Doug, isn't suffering from outdated knowledge like Dr. Townshend, and isn't an otherwise-competent doctor who lets his attitude get in the way like Cole; he simply has ''zero'' talent for medicine, something further illustrated when he has to resort to working as a barista to make a living. (Though to be fair, he's at least okay at customer service)
* {{Expy}}: Subverted. Initially J.D. takes Cabbage to be much like his own younger self, and resolves to have a better relationship with him than he himself does with Dr. Cox. As Cox himself later points out, however, Cabbage is actually his ''opposite''; whereas J.D. is a goofball whose relationship with his mentor is complicated at best, but ultimately a good doctor, Cabbage is much more earnest and affable and has a good relationship with J.D., but is dangerously incompetent and has absolutely no business trying to become a medical professional. If anything, he's actually an even more incompetent version of Doug.
* HeroWorship: He worships J.D., to the point where he holds no grudge against him for firing him and as a barista, prioritizes his coffee order over the others. "Sorry, guys. Dr. Dorian is the king!"
* MeaningfulName: Not so much at first, but eventually J.D. has to admit that an ''actual'' cabbage would probably make a better doctor than him.
* NiceGuy: Despite his faults, Cabbage is ultimately a really friendly and kind person, making him a great barista at the coffee shop. While he ended up giving Mrs Wilk a deadly infection, it happened because he wanted to see her one last time before leaving the hospital.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: At least, when we're talking about his tenure as an intern. He got fired after four episodes, but not before he transmits an ultimately lethal infection to Mrs. Wilk, a recurring patient, via his improper handling of medical waste.[[note]]Technically, he did get fired before this -- ''immediately'' before, and he infected her on his way out the door for the last time. If JD had fired him one day earlier, Mrs. Wilk might still be alive.[[/note]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: He accidentally passes on a fatal virus to Mrs. Wilk, a patient he himself was fond of.]]
* WrongLineOfWork: He should '''not''' be in medicine, but he has the perfect attitude for a costumer service job, making him a pretty good barista. (Other than his clumsiness)

[[folder:Gloria]]
!!'''Gloria (Creator/ChristinaMiles)

One of J.D.'s season 5 interns. She is unusually old for an intern doctor.

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: With Leonard; she's carrying his kids]].
* CoolOldLady: Able to keep up (intellectually and emotionally) with her much-younger peers, has progressive views on sexuality despite her age, and sometimes acts like a teenage rebel.
* ImprobableAge: Downplayed, but still seen as unusual for an intern to be that old.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: With Leonard.]]
* NiceGal: Besides joining in bullying Kieth with the other interns, she's pretty affable; to the point where she waves to people so much it annoys J.D.
* WhereTheWhiteWomenAt: [[spoiler: Hooks up with Leonard, saying "I'm never going back!"]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Boon and Josephine]]
!!Boon(Tyler Poelle) and Josephine (Aseema Batra)

Two interns who mostly appear in season 7.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: Boon is more than two heads taller than Josephine and they appear together.
* ButtMonkey: In nearly all of their scenes, their being insulted due to Josephine's voice or their lack of experience, or are suffering physical misfortunes like being pelted with water balloons.
* CuteButCacophonic: Josephine has a pretty, demure, face but has a shockingly high-pitched voice that annoys Cox so much that he forbids her from speaking and makes her write notes [[TranslatorBuddy for Boon to read out loud since Cox also hates her handwriting.]]
* NewMeat: They are junior interns who get no respect. Boon's name is even "noob" spelled backwards.
* ThoseTwoGuys: A male-female example. They have few to no serious moments and usually appear together (since Boon acts as Josephine's TranslatorBuddy).

[[folder:Katie Collins]]
!!'''Katie Collins (Creator/BetsyBeutler)'''
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->''"Please, I've got Dr. Reid wrapped around my finger, I'm going to be just fine around here."''

An intern introduced in Season 8, she's a notorious kiss ass out for herself trying to get ahead of everyone else.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She puts on a good show of politeness and amiability, but she is a notorious kiss-ass who will manipulate and screw over everyone in her way to get ahead and takes credit for things she didn't do.
* BreakTheHaughty: Carla inflicts one of these on her after she catches Katie taking credit for doing a medical procedure she didn't do and warns her that everyone's aware how she's out for herself and no one cares about her past and if she lets them, the hospital staff will take care of her. It works.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: When Carla confronts her for being selfish and an OpportunisticBastard, Katie said that Carla didn't know her. Her father died when she was young, and her mother became an alcoholic. Carla seems to offer comfort...and then she says, "Heard it." She then cites how most of Katie's superiors have dead, abusive, or plain shitty parents, and they leave their tragic backstories at the door when entering the hospital.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She is incredibly selfish and out for herself and will walk over anyone to get what she wants.
* ManipulativeBitch: She used Elliot to get Turk to give her an research opportunity and then took credit for a medical procedure that another intern did. Carla quickly discouraged this as soon as she saw it.

[[folder:Sonja "Sunny" Dey]]
!!'''Sonja "Sunny" Dey (Creator/SonalShah)'''
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-> ''"Hi!!!''

One of the interns introduced in Season 8, she is incredibly happy and has a sunny disposition at all times.

* GenkiGirl: She has a very bubbly personality.
* HiddenDepths: She admits to the Janitor that it can sometimes be hard to be so friendly and happy all the time. She also admits that her father is an ass, so she's not incapable of negative thoughts.
* MeaningfulName: Sunny Day, for her cheerful personality.
* NiceGirl: She is incredibly nice and friendly to everyone, but she's aware of her fellow intern's flaws, she just overlooks them.
* NiceToTheWaiter: The Janitor respects her because, unlike practically every person who works at the hospital, she introduces herself to him when Howie and Denise mess with his cart and treats The Janitor as her new friend. In fact, while he was getting revenge on the others, his "revenge" for her was to tell her he doesn't think she was strong enough to handle his pranks. The Janitor later explained that he thought she was actually the strongest of the three, and that his ParanoiaGambit was his most evil deed.
* PerpetualSmiler: The Janitor even called her "Smiley Intern".
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The cheerful and friendly Girly Girl to her "best friend", the rude, cynical TheLadette Denise.
* WideEyedIdealist: Insanely idealistic, mostly shown in My Absence where she tries to keep a coma patient alive long enough for the patient's sister to say goodbye despite Dr. Cox's and Carla's refusal to help.

[[folder:Ed Dhandapani]]
!!'''Ed Dhandapani (Creator/AzizAnsari)'''
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-> ''"Zwa!"''

An intern introduced in Season 8, he is notoriously lazy and ends up fired when Dr. Cox is Chief of Medicine because of this after being given a second chance.

* BrilliantButLazy: He was doing much better than most interns at first despite his laziness, but it's immediately deconstructed after it's proven that he's not willing to improve when he has to. Meanwhile the other interns begin honing their skills by being diligent and caring about the job, which eventually leaves Ed the lowest-performing one of the group. When Cox gives him an ultimatum about focusing on his work and he still refuses to do so, he promptly gets fired.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's given a chance to improve and show that he takes his work seriously by Dr. Cox, who is much calmer with him than usual, but still refuses to even try and put in the effort, leading Cox to finally lose patience and fire him.
* PutOnABus: He was fired after Dr. Cox finally gave up on him. This was because his actor got a permanent position on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''.
* RedemptionRejection: Cox is ''much'' more patient with him than he deserves and gives him a genuine chance to improve but Ed still refuses to put in the effort, getting him fired.
* SketchySuccessor: His first few appearances set up a dynamic between him, JD, and Cox that mirrors the one JD, Cox, and Kelso had at the beginning of the show, with Cox taking Kelso's job as Chief of Medicine after he retires, JD stepping into Cox's shoes as the senior Attending who is willing to challenge the Chief, and Ed as the new quirky intern with some serious hidden potential despite his eccentricities. An important difference between JD and Ed quickly becomes apparent, however: JD for all his wackiness sincerely cares about his job and patients while Ed does not, and after he blows off an assignment to study heart diseases in favor of playing video games for ''two days straight'', Cox fires him as casually as if he were swatting a fly.
* TheSlacker: He's the laziest intern ever and instead of doing all the stuff that interns have to do so they can grow as doctors, he'd rather slack off and go get pizza. You really wonder how someone as lazy as him ever got into or got through medical school to begin with, even with his natural skill.
* TheStoner: Rumored to be, but it's never confirmed.
* YouAreTheNewTrend: He starts so many new trends in his short time at the hospital.

[[folder:Derek Hill]]
!!'''Derek Hill (Creator/LeeThompsonYoung)'''
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An intern introduced in "Their Story III" whose habit of mouthing off sometimes gets him into trouble.

* BreakTheHaughty: In "My Full Moon", he cockily asserts he can remove fluid from a patient's lungs. When he fails, she asks for a "real doctor", crushing him.
* BrutalHonesty: He always prided himself on it.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can't help but snark at people, even when he tries to hold it in.
* MrFanservice: In-universe, Carla and the other women find him very attractive.
* FormerlyFat: Reveals in "My Full Moon" that the reason he works out so much is because he was a chubby kid.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an ''epic'' one to J.D., Turk, Cox, and Carla that actually earns him their respect.
--> "You guys really want to know what I think? Let me start with [[AquiredSituationalNarcissismSyndrome you]], Martin Luther King? He changed the nation. Dial it down a notch. And [[NoSympathy you, way to have your husband's back.]] Way to represent for your man. I mean, the guy is obviously going through something. [[DrJerk And what type of sick, twisted, insecure person do you have to be to get your jollies off other people's misery?]] And finally, [[GreenEyedMonster my man.]] You know how excited I was when I found out that my new boss was a black surgeon? Finally a role model, right? [[BrokenPedestal Wrong]], because I don't want to become a [[ManChild giant bald seven-year-old]] who's obsessed with his best friend. So thanks everyone. [[SarcasmMode You guys have made these first few days very special.]]

[[folder/Howie]]

One of the interns introduced in Season 8, who speaks in a very monotone way.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Baxter]]
!!'''Baxter (Creator/KenJenkins's real life dog)

Dr. Kelso's beloved Australian Shepherd.
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* MoralityPet: The only living thing Kelso, even early on, would openly treat with unabashed affection.
* VisciousGuardDog: Tore Ted's hamstring and likes to chase Enid around the yard. [[{{Jerkass}} Kelso]] encourages this behavior.
* RightHandAttackDog: To Bob Kelso.
* UncattyResemblence: He and his owner are both ruthless, highly intelligent, and love to torment others.

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[[folder:Paige Cox]]
!!'''Paige Cox (Creator/CherylHines)'''

Perry's sister, who he has strained relationship with. She's a born-again Christian.

* BlasphemousBoast: When she beats Perry at horse and he asks if she's gonna "thank the G-Man", she says "That was all me, baby!"
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and Perry's childhood was so fucked up that even though they love each other, it's difficult for them to be around one another. It may also be why she turned to religion.
* DeadpanSnarker: A Cox family trait.
* TheFundamentalist: {{Subverted}}; she's an evangelical Christian strong in those beliefs and she offers to pray with patients. But she doesn't try to force her brother or any of his coworkers into religion or seem particularly judgmental of other faiths or denominations.
* NiceGirl: Gets along with most people, even Jordan; and stays up all night praying with a sick man and his family.

!Unseen Characters
[[folder:Enid Kelso]]
!!'''Enid Kelso'''

Dr. Kelso's wife and Harrison's mother.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: She and Bob hate each other, she's described as an unpleasant wife and he's downright abusive.
* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A few times, it's shown that the initial spark of she and Bob's marriage is still there. He's [[spoiler: devastated when she passes]].
* ButtMonkey: Treated like shit by her husband and frequently attacked by his dog Baxter.
* TheDogBitesBack: Assists the Janitor in stealing her husband's money that he put up too high for her to reach in her wheelchair. Then denies seeing anything while clearly wearing a new coat from her cut.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: She passes away between Seasons 8 and 9.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: If "Foxy Enid" in Kelso's flashback is indeed her, she was a bombshell blonde at one point.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harrison Kelso]]
!!'''Harrison Kelso'''

Dr. Kelso and Enid's frequently-mentioned gay grown son.

* AllGaysLoveTheatre: Wrote a play called "Dr. Dad". [[spoiler: Maybe subverted, as it was just a front for his meth lab./]]
* CampGay: Basically every extreme gay stereotype of the early 2000s thrown together.
* FanBoy: Of Ain't Misbehavin'.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kelso's stories of him gradually go from simply an old man being uncomfortable with his gay son; to Harrison being a male prostitute who cooks meth and gets into all sorts of legal problems.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: More "morally neutral protagonist" than "hero"; but you can get a hell of an entertaining drama out of the tidbits we get from Kelso about his life. There's even some continuity if you watch them consecutively!
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: In the penultimate episode of Season 8, Kelso reveals he's "dropped all pretenses. He's a manwhore." He's also described as a "good kid" by his otherwise hateful father.
* ReallyGetsAround; Has a lot of different boyfriends over the course of the show. Eventually he makes a career out of it.
* TheGhost: We never see him outside of a photograph from his childhood.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Kelso talks shit about his son and frequently argues with him on the phone, but punishes Perry for insulting him.
* MoralityPet: For Dr. Kelso, to an extent. While his father is pretty openly homophobic and disappointed in his son's choices, he still supports him financially and goes from [[CharacterDevelopment hating that his son is gay to just wanting him to settle down with a guy who's actually good for him]].
* NoAccountingForTaste: This seems to be Kelso's biggest problem with him, not his homosexuality in general. Harrison has a '''horrible''' taste in men, and Kelso wishes [[NiceGuy J.D.]] were gay so that he'd date a good, professional man for once.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: He's worked as a baseball uniform designer, playwright, meth cook, and in a penultimate episode is revealed to have settled on Prostitution.

[[folder:Barry Reid]]
!!'''Barry Reid'''

Elliot's gay brother.

* ArmoredClosetGay: In his youth, he bragged about all the women he slept with.
* CampGay: Like Harrison, he exists largely as an offscreen punchline; though he seems to at least be more well-adjusted in life.
* ComingOutStory: Elliot gives an abridged version of his; he stopped playing JV football and started dancing for Japanese businessmen.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Elliot mentions his parents sending him to "Hetero-Camp". It's PlayedForLaughs.
* ReallyGetsAround: At least claimed to with women in his youth; now he legitimately does with men.

[[folder:Perry's Parents]]
!!'''Mr. and Mrs. Cox'''

Perry and Paige Cox's AbusiveParents.

* AbusiveParent: They both were, with his dad being the worst of them.
* TheAlcoholic: Mr. Cox drank so much that he'd pass out in the front yard and Perry used his conked-out body to make snow angels.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Dr. Cox danced on his father's grave when he died.
* ArchnemesisDad: Perry hates his dead father more than anybody and pretty much all of his personal demons stem from their relationship.
* AssholeVictim: If their son did, indeed, kill them. Obviously murder is wrong, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for people who were so cruel to their children.
* BystanderSyndrome: Mrs. Cox may or may not have actively participated in her chilrens' abuse, but she watched and did nothing.
* HateSink: From what we hear, they're some of the most despicable people in the universe of the show.
* {{Jerkass}}: Abusive, alcoholic deadbeats who tormented their children.
* KnightOfCerebus: Anecdotes about them are still played for DarkComedy, but their abuse hovers like a dark cloud over Perry and his whole family.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Perry actively works to avoid it, but he 'does' share a lot with his dad; both [[TheAlcoholic drink excessively]] and [[JerkAss act abusively]]. The difference is that Perry also shows compassion to others, made something with his life as a doctor, and barring one particular weak moment of [[ItMakesSenseInContext throwing spaghetti on his son's face]], he's a pretty damn good dad.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Jordan is apparently a lot like Perry's mother. (Though a better parent)
* PetTheDog: Subverted, for DarkComedy; apparently the closest Mr. Cox got to this was intentionally missing when he threw beer bottles at his kids.
* PosthumousCharacter: Both died before the start of the series. Carla theorizes [[SelfMadeOrphan that Dr. Cox killed them]].

[[folder:Barbara Dorian]]
!!'''Barbara Dorian'''

J.D.'s mother who's never seen but often mentioned. Dan lives with her for a while.

* GoodParents: Did the bulk of raising J.D. and Dan, and they both still adore her. Notably, J.D. still has her saved in his phone as "Mommy" and enthusiastically films a day in his life for her.
* ParentsAsPeople: She wasn't perfect; after her husband left, she coped by "marrying every man who rang the doorbell". She also may have doted too much on her younger son, giving him a sometimes-inflated ego. But she was still a more consistent, stable parent than her ex-husband Sam. (Who wasn't exactly a bad guy himself).

!Recurring Fantasy Characters
[[folder:World's Most Giant Doctor]]
!!'''World's Most Giant Doctor (Creator/ZachBraff / Creator/DonaldFaison / Creator/SarahChalke / Creator/MichaelHobert)'''
--> ''"Hello, citizens! Welcome to Sacred Heart! Home of the world's most giant doctor! Be not afraid! I'm just like you! Except I'm giant!"''

A character J.D. and Turk; and sometimes Lonnie and Elliot; play, two (or three) people stacked on each other in a giant Doctor's coat.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: In "World's Most Giant Doctor Goes to the Farm"; "And if any of you cows, goats, or ducks have any questions, don't be afraid to ask me! I'm just like all of you, only giant and human!"
* GentleGiant: A giant, friendly man who's dedicated his life to healing people.
* LargeHam: When greeting patients to the hospital.
* RaceLift: Apparently they tried to let Turk be the head, but [[CrossesTheLineTwice "people ran"]].

[[folder: Floating Head Doctor]]
!!'''Floating Head Doctor (Creator/ZachBraff)'''

A fantasy where J.D. has his head and body separated. They try to act as heroes, but their ineffectiveness and bickering get in the way.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Their lack of communication will always lead them to fumble their goals.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Body's is the William Tell Overture.
* LethalKlutz: Body tries to help people but usually ends up killing them.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: They're by nature a team, but can't stand each other and often fantasies end with them fighting.

[[folder: Dr. Acula]]
!!'''Dr. Acula (Creator/ZachBraff / Creator/DonaldFaison)'''

A vampire doctor, and the main character in J.D.'s screenplay "Dr. Acula".

!Introduced in Season 1

[[folder:Bonnie]]
!!'''Bonnie Chang/Lee (Creator/LelaLee)'''
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->''"Shove it, Turk!"''

A surgical intern who started working at Sacred Heart at the same time as Turk, J.D., and Elliot. She quickly formed an intense rivalry with Turk.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: For awhile Turk is frustrated that she always seems to be doing a little better than him at everything, and is chosen by Dr. Wen for plum assignments. Turks imagines himself competing against her to be the best... until Dr. Wen tells Turk that he doesn't think ''either'' of them is the best of the surgical interns.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: And she only bothers wearing the sheep's clothing for higher ranking doctors. She's perfectly fine with being obnoxious to anyone else, especially rival surgeons, but plays nice and kisses butt for her superiors. For example, after being chosen to assist Dr. Wen in one procedure, she politely thanks him, and when Dr. Wen has his back turned, she tells Turk to kiss her ass because she was chosen instead of him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Competitive, rude, and obnoxious. Put her in a position of power and she'll add condescending to the mix too, as she does when Turk is forced to act as her assistant during a surgical procedure.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Turk tries to bury the hatchet with her and offers to give her the spot for the Doctors Without Borders trip, it briefly seems like she's considering what he is saying and ending their rivalry, but she almost immediately decides to spite Turk instead.
* TheNapoleon: She's quite short and petite, and is often aggressive, especially to the much taller Turk, who has to bend down to look her in the eyes.
* OnlyOneName: She's only ever referred to as Bonnie. At one point the board with different surgical assignments puts her last name as Lee (the actual surname of the actress playing her) but in another episode it seems to indicate her last name is Chang instead. The show's wiki has decided to list her as Bonnie Chang.
* RejectedApology: Turk tries to make peace with her and offers her Doctors Without Borders trip that she should have gotten instead of him. She tells him off instead.
* TheRival: Turk's rival in the surgical department. Her disappearance after Turk makes one last attempt to make peace with her is probably a sign that Turk decided to take Dr. Wen's advice, stop putting so much importance on competing with her, and move on with his own life and career instead.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's never seen again after the early Season 2 episode which pretty effectively shows that she has no interest ending her rivalry and competition with Turk. Bill Lawrence confirmed on Fake Doctors, Real Friends that Bonnie's actress left to star in ''Film/{{Tremors}} the Series''.

[[folder:Dr. Jeffrey Steadman]]
!!'''Dr. Jeffrey Steadman (Creator/MattWinston)'''
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->''"I don't know what you're trying to pull but I am not a guy you want to mess with."''

A "no-nonsense" doctor at Sacred Heart who serves as Dr. Kelso's suck-up.

* DemotedToExtra: He's introduced in the Pilot as a major supporting character, being J.D. and Elliot's Resident. He only appears in a handful of episodes after this.
* HappilyMarried: He is revealed to have a husband in "My Lucky Night", and speaks genuinely fondly of him.
* HatedByAll: Everyone at the hospital dislikes him for doing nothing but kissing Kelso's butt. Even a brand new to the job and idealistic J.D thinks that Steadman is an ass as soon as they meet.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He's already ready to kiss up to Dr. Kelso anytime he needs assistance.
* SatelliteCharacter: Aside from giving some instructions to the new interns and occasionally criticizing Elliot, about the only thing he exists to do is to suck up to Kelso in hopes of climbing the professional ladder at the hospital.
* YesMan: He's this to Dr. Kelso.

[[folder:Sean Kelly]]
!!'''Sean Kelly (Creator/ScottFoley)
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->''"Elliot, I'm crazy about you, but I've been going over this in my head all week. I've been in a long-distance relationship before. It was a disaster. I believe a couple has a better chance if they just cut the cord and know that if it's meant to be, fate will bring them back together."''

Elliot's patient in season 1 and later boyfriend. He works at Sea World.

* TheAce: He's handsome, charming, and great with animals.
* BrokenAce: After Elliot dumps him at the end of Season 3, he becomes a depressed hermit for a while.
* TheBusCameBack: Disappears after Season 3, and comes back for the penultimate episode of season 8.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Or at least dolphins.
* HasAType: Both of his on-screen relationships are with blonde doctors.
* InsecureLoveInterest: It's understandable, given his history with J.D. and Elliot; but he's '''very''' possessive of Kim and his immediate reaction to finding out Sam's J.D.'s baby is to ask to sell him on the black market.
* NiceGuy: Pleasant and sweet, and only icy in situations where it's justified.
* OnlySaneMan: When interacting with the Sacred Heart staff, although he also has his quirks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mrs. Espinosa]]
!!'''Mrs. Espinosa (Creator/GinaMorelli)'''
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Carla's mother, who she's particularly close to.

* MyBelovedSmother: Not as bad as some cases, but she does try to control her adult daughter's dating life, not wanting her to have sex before marriage.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Old enough to be a grandmother, but still ready to brawl.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Subverted, in that she died before Turk and Carla tied the knot; but she was violently against the relationship and scared Turk. Also subverted in that Turk does admit to missing her once she's passed, even if "she would never believe me".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in "My Bad", but her relationship with Carla play a major role in "My Drama Queen" (her death) and "My Boss's Free Haircut" (Turk and Carla reminiscing about her is the first major step to mending their troubled marriage).

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam Dorian]]
!!'''Sam Dorian (Creator/JohnRitter)'''
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J.D.'s dad, an office supply salesman by trade.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: They're not seen together onscreen, but he and Dan are both crass, immature freeloaders who have complicated relationships with the more responsible Johnny. Physically, Dan remarks that J.D. "has Dad's butt".
* TheLoad: J.D. initially sees him as a freeloader.
* ManChild: Acts "more like a friend than a dad".
* ParentsAsPeople: Due to the nature of his job, he was away from his sons a lot of the time, his divorce with their mother affected them negatively, and he struggled to make ends meet. However, he clearly loved his family (even his ex-wife), and at least tried to do right by them.
* SoProudOfYou: He's more proud of J.D. than anything.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appeared in-person in one episode and once more in a brief flashback, but both the good and bad aspects of his parenting stick with J.D. throughout the series, especially when he's trying to be a father to his own son.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Margaret Turk]]
!!'''Margaret Turk (Creator/HattieWinston)'''
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Christopher Turk's mother.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sweet as can be, IF you don't cross her. J.D. called her turkey dry on Thanksgiving, she picked him up and shook him. She also takes on Marco in the wedding episode.
* GoodParents: In her debut episode, she's clearly the best parent; compared to [[AbusiveParents Elliot's]], J.D.'s, and [[DrillSergeantNasty the Janitor's]].
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Carla realizes she resembles Margaret, which freaks her out.
* MamaBear: Defended her son against [[JerkAss Marco's]] insults.

[[folder:Paul Zeltzer]]
!!''Paul Zeltzer (Creator/RobertClendenin)
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->''"I've been Zeltzered."''

An Oncoligist at Sacred Heart with an... adventurous sex life.

* AffablyEvil: A friendly guy... who has no respect for consent or boundaries.
* BaitAndSwitch: A common joke is he'll say something nice or wholesome about his wife, only to add [[TooMuchInformation a dirty detail about their sex life]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Like the Todd, his sexual deviancy doesn't stop him from being good at his job.
* DepravedBisexual: A polyamorous swinger with no sense of boundaries.
* KarmaHoudini: Has sexually harassed Dr. Cox and Jordan multiple times, may have [[SlippingAMickey raped them with his wife]], and shares inappropriate stories at work. He's never been fired or called out beyond other doctors calling him disturbing.
* OddFriendship: For some reason, Dr. Cox keeps trying to extend an olive branch, only to be put off by his disturbing behavior.
* {{Polyamory}}: He and his wife swing, and he even watches his wife "doing the Dishes" on Webcam while he's at work... that is, Mr. And Mrs. Dish.
* SerialRapist: He and his wife drugged Dr. Cox and Jordan on a couples' date. It's not known what happened after, but one can guess... PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* SlippingAMickey: He and his wife think this is a normal part of couples' dates.
* UltimateJobSecurity: He's even worse than the Todd, whose harassment never goes beyond crude comments. Yet he, like Todd, can keep his job.

[[folder:The Worthless Peons]]
!!''Ted Buckland from Legal (Creator/SamLloyd), Randall from Accounting ([[Music/TheBlanks Paul Perry]]), Crispin from Shipping and Recieving ([[Music/TheBlanks George Miserlis]]), and Roy from On-site property management including pest control, nighttime security, non-arboreal gardening services, and tenant-related easements and liens ([[Music/TheBlanks Phillip McNiven]])

An acapella band formed by members of the hospital's administrative staff. Played by [[Creator/SamLloyd Sam Lloyd's]] real-life band, The Blanks.

For tropes specific to Ted, go to his section under Recurring Characters.

* AbortedArc: Crispin quits the band in a D-Plot of "My Screw-Up", which isn't ever resolved; but returns with no explanation in their next appearance.
* BarborshopQuartet: A lot of their music is in this style.
* ButtMonkey: Nobody in-universe likes their music or respects them as people, and the other three are so pathetic that [[TheChewToy Ted]] is able to boss them around.
* GreekChorus: Their songs often underscore the main characters' lives, with lyrics matching whatever they're going through.
* MrFanservice: In-Universe, Ted considers Crispin their "sex appeal" because he's the only one with hair.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Randall, who has the same name as the Randall was in the Janitor's band.
* TheQuietOne: Other than Ted, we only hear the rest of them when they sing.

[[folder:Rowdy and Stephen]]
!!'''Rowdy and Stephen'''

A taxidermied dead dog that J.D. and Turk bought prior to the series, and their most prized possession. Not technically alive, but treated as such by the two. Carla isn't a fan. Later [[spoiler: replaced by another taxidermied dog named Stephen when Carla accidentally loses him; but after Rowdy is found Stephen moves in with J.D. and Rowdy with Turk, so they can both have one.]]

* [[ABoyAndHisX Two Docs and their Dead Dog]]: J.D. and Turk express a childlike affection for him, despite him being dead.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: The Janitor finds the real Rowdy in "My Scrubs".]]
* CompanionCube: A dead stuffed dog who's treated with genuine affection. He represents their friendship.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Parodied by J.D.; we don't know what his actual life was like, but Rowdy the dead, stuffed dog used to be kept in a box of hats, which J.D. treats as a tragic backstory.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Normally a quirk/set dressing for the apartment, Carla's C-Plots in "My First Kill" and "My Scrubs" are about her losing Rowdy and the Janitor replacing him with Stephen; and the Janitor finding Rowdy to blackmail Carla, respectively.
* ThePigPen: J.D. gives him frequent baths, and remarks "How do you get so dirty?"
* RightHandAttackDog: In one of J.D.'s fantasies, he unleashes him on Carla.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Hillariously, to Carla; she hates Turk's attachment to him and is frequently freaked out by finding him in random places in the apartment. In J.D's fantasy life, the feeling is mutual.
* TeamPet: Treated as such by J.D. and Turk.

[[/folder]]

!Introduced in Season 2
[[folder:Dan Dorian]]
!!'''Dan Dorian (Creator/TomCavanagh)'''
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J.D.'s less successful older brother. Usually shows up OnceASeason and mooches off of his brother.

* AlliterativeName: '''D'''an '''D'''orian.
* BigBrotherBully: He bullied J.D growing up and continues to bully him as an adult.
* BrokenPedestal: At some point JD started seeing him as a loser.
--> '''Dan:''' ''[solemn]'' Look. My brother will never look up to me. But he hangs on your [Cox's] word.
* DarkHorseSibling: Goes from a feckless mooch to a successful real estate agent in Season 7, leaving J.D. jealous that he's no longer the best-off of them.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Dan was a cool guy in high school but became an underpaid bartender and attic dweller while J.D. went on to become a doctor.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to J.D.'s Responsible.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Turk asks (in front of JD!) if Dan really slept with Elliot:
-->'''Dan''': A friend wouldn't ask and a gentleman wouldn't tell.\\
'''Turk''': So, did you?\\
'''Dan''': ''[smugly]'' Twice.
* {{Jerkass}}: Dan has always been a jackass to J.D., sleeping with his college girlfriend, sleeping with Elliot, constantly bullying J.D. as they grew up and whenever Dan showed up, he mooched off of J.D., constantly annoyed him and gave him all kinds of hell for no reason other then ForTheLulz.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More like a "Jerk With a Tiny Heart of Bronze". He made it clear that Dr. Cox took being J.D.'s mentor more seriously out of concern that J.D. would become a cynical jackass who hated his job (Season 3), comforted J.D. when their dad died (Season 4) and bought J.D. a new car. (Season 7)
* ManChild: So immature and irresponsible that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} J.D.]] is actually the more serious brother. Despite J.D's goofy personality, he's very good at his job and and can look after himself, unlike his brother. However, he eventually takes J.D.'s words about him being a slacker to heart, goes out to get a job, and eventually becomes a successful real estate agent.
* RagsToRiches: He eventually makes a profitable career as a real estate agent, much to J.D.'s initial chagrin, since he was the one used to be the successful brother.
* StrawLoser: J.D. is glad that his loser brother Dan makes him look successful in comparison to him. Averted in season 7 where Dan becomes a successful real estate agent, making J.D. very jealous.
* WhatTheHellHero: He wasn't happy that J.D. told him that he's meant to be the loser of the family.

[[folder:Troy]]
!!'''Troy (Creator/JoeRose)'''

-->''"Oh, your face is red like a strawbrerry!"''

A cafeteria worker and the Janitor's NumberTwo for a time. Not too bright.

* AxeCrazy: His solutions to dealing with J.D. "Can't we just kill him?"
* BackForTheFinale: Stands with Randall in J.D.'s final fantasy.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like the rest of the Janitor's original Brain Trust.
* CloudCuckooLander: Even [[EveryoneHasStandards the Janitor]] is bewildered by some of the things he says.
* HairTriggerTemper: While the Janitor believes in [[TranquilFury simmering in anger and]] [[BestServedCold taking time to plot complicated revenge]], Troy would rather go after anyone who pisses him off with a crowbar.
* HiddenDepths: He's a talented singer.
* {{Malaproper}}: He's been to the "librarry".
* ThoseTwoGuys: With the Janitor in the "riddle" plotlines; and with Randall as the Janitor's original team of lackeys.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dr. Beardfacé]]
!!'''Seymour Beardfacé (Creator/GeoffStevenson)'''
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--> ''"It's Beardfacé, dammit! Why do you people insist on calling me Beard Face?"

A veteran surgeon, who because of his name and beard has his name mispronounced as "Beard Face", much to his chagrin.
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* AscendedExtra: Appeared in the background since Season 2, but started having lines and bits in Season 4.
* ButtMonkey: Nobody will pronounce his name right, he's known for his beard rather than his accomplishments in medicine, and other doctors make a game out of throwing maccoronni noodles into said beard.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "It's Beardfacé, dammit!"
* {{Flanderization}}: In-universe, the interns' comedy bit makes his beard out to take up his entire body. He's not amused.
* ItsPronouncedTropay: His main shtick.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Likes hanging out with Colonel Doctor, another older bearded doc.

[[folder: Dr. Mickhead]]
!!''Walter Mickhead (Creator/FrankEncarnacao))
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-->'''"I didn't kill her."'''

A Doctor at Sacred Heart, with many odd quirks and mannerisms, who may or may not have killed his wife.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's definently a sexual sadist and a bit of a jerk, but it's strongly implied he probably killed his wife, but according to the court he's innocent.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's explicitly shown to be a good doctor; if not a continuity error, he was both a Surgical and Medical Attending at the same time; and even if it is, he carries out his duties as a doctor despite his off-the-job habits and addictions.
* ComedicSociopath: His disturbing antics, much like Zelzter's and the Todd's, are played for laughs. .
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a selfish, hedonistic... well, dickhead.
* KavorkaMan: Not much to look at, with an even worse personality, but he's slept with at least three beautiful women (Jordan, Julie, and Maddox) and was able to convince a woman to marry him.
* KarmaHoudini: If he really did kill his wife, he's this.
* ReallyGetsAround: See KavorkaMan above.
* RecoveredAddict: Apparently Kevin Casey helped him beat his paint-huffing addiction.
* UnfortunateNames: "You should hear what they call Dr. Mickhead!"
* UnsexySadist: Maddox wasn't amused that he had to strangle her to keep an erection.

[[folder:Chet]]
!!''Chet (Creator/JasonBaumgard)
->''"Guys, how many times do I have to tell you? Stop wearing my coat!"''

An extremely tall surgeon, who mostly exists for height jokes. J.D. steals his coat to play "World's Most Giant Doctor", something Chet doesn't appreciate.

* BitCharacter: Mostly exists for height jokes.
* ButtMonkey: Constantly has his coat stolen for J.D.'s "World's Most Giant Doctor" bit, and is berated by him for being bad at basketball.
* TheFaceless: He's so tall that the audience never sees his full face, as he doesn't fit in the frame.
* HiddenDepths: Was apparently close enough to Turk and/or Carla to be invited to their wedding.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being abnormally tall, he sucks at basketball.
* NiceGuy: Is willing to loan specially made scrubs to J.D. and takes criticism in stride.

!Introduced in Season 3
[[folder:Leonard]]
!!'''Leonard (Creator/RandallKeenanWinston)'''

A security guard identified by his large afro. Also he [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight has a hook for a hand]].

* AffluentAscetic: [[spoiler: He won a 5-million dollar settlement from the hospital when he lost his hand in the ice machine. Despite this, he still chooses to work as a security guard for some reason... probably because it's a good place to pick up "white meat".]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler: Gloria]] says at some point that her boyfriend is bi-curious and wants her to find partners for him, but this is a little bit before their relationship was revealed, so it may have been a different boyfriend.
* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: With Gloria. At first they're just a fling, but later she's carrying his kids]].
* TheComicallySerious: He's a professional who takes his job seriously, but his hook hand and the main characters' antics get some funny reactions out of him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He actually appears briefly in Season 1, with shorter hair and two hands.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first, very brief and unnamed appearance, he has two hands and smaller hair. Maybe justified, as this may have been [[spoiler: before the ice machine]].
* HandicapBadass: Only has one working hand, but is still a large, badass security guard.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Sleeping with the elderly Gloria. She's later revealed to be carrying his twins.]]
* OnlySaneEmployee: Out of the minor supporting cast.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike a lot of Sacred Heart's support staff, he actually does his job keeping order well and is a pretty reasonable guy. Most of the humor involved with him is either based on his impairment or [[spoiler: that he's banging an old white lady]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: He lost his hand trying to pull it out from an ice machine]].
* WhereTheWhiteWomenAt: His relationship with [[spoiler: Gloria]] is partly defined as this. "I love me some white meat!"

[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!'''Lonnie (Creator/MichaelHobert)'''
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-> ''"I hate you J.D."''

One of J.D.'s interns and later residents who appeared throughout Seasons 3-5. He is an odd mix of {{jerkass}} and {{buttmonkey}}.

* BackForTheFinale: Appears in J.D.'s last fantasy in My Finale to say he hates him.
* ButtMonkey: Both J.D. and Dr. Cox have taken advantage of their power over him on several occasions, with Dr. Cox even once mummifying his head.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father died from acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and he says the disease "tore [his] family apart".
* {{Jerkass}}: He's as much of an ass to J.D. as he can be and get away with it.
* PutOnABus: Vanished after Season 5 outside of a small cameo in Season 6.
* ReallyGetsAround: He has three children that he knows about and probably has more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grace Miller]]
!!'''Grace Miller (Creator/BellamyYoung)'''
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An attending introduced in Season 3. She's an incredibly condescending {{Jerkass}} and sees any attempt to defend her from men as sexism. She was written out of the show at the end of Season 3.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Dr. Cox. She didn't last long because the writers realized that they had already a female version of Dr. Cox in Jordan.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: In a fantasy, the surgeons imagine her as Creator/MarilynMonroe.
* HospitalHottie: How she is seen by the male surgeons, including Turk. Dr. Cox. and Dr. Kelso were attracted to her too.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Turk standing up for her because Todd was being sexist automatically means he's sexist too and Turk has to apologize. And Elliot being friends with Turk means she's [[GuiltByAssociation sexist by association]] and [[NoTrueScotsman not a real feminist.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She puts Jordan to shame. Jordan is at least amusing with her condescension and insults and had visible redeeming qualities. Dr. Miller is just a bitch (the closest she gets to a redeeming moment is letting Turk leave a surgery that's taking longer than expected ''to go to his own wedding!'').
* PutOnABus: At the end of season 3.

[[folder:Danni Sullivan]]
!!'''Danni Sullivan (Creator/TaraReid)'''
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Jordan's sister who briefly dated J.D. in season 3.

* DerailingLoveInterests: She was a likeable character when she's first introduced in the middle of season three, but her negative qualities are dramatically exacerbated when she starts dating J.D. in order to add fuel to the {{UST}} between JD and Elliot
* DistaffCounterpart: Strangely enough, she's introduced as this to J.D. in her first episode, with both even having internal monologue on their head.
* {{Gasshole}}: She apparently gets "gassy" after having sex.
* GenderBlenderName: Has a masculine name just like her sister. This turns out to be relevant when she starts moaning in own name in bed with J.D., but it turns out [[WrongNameOutburst she was moaning for "Danny", the guy she was cheating J.D. with]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: She points out to J.D. that his obsession with Elliot was just because he always wants the things he can't have. And she was perfectly right.
* TheLadette: She likes beer, smoking, rough sex...
* LoveInterest: She dates J.D. for a period in season 3.
* OnTheRebound: Both times she and J.D. got together they were on a rebound from a previous relationship.
* ReallyGetsAround: She was cheating on J.D. during their rebound relationship, and at Turk's wedding she made out with both Doug and Ted.
* SexGoddess: Even after J.D. starts to want to break up with her, he's reluctant to do it because he ''really' likes the sex.
* SuperHearing: She has exceptional hearing, with J.D. describing that she "hears like a bat", and she demonstrates it often by overhearing people.
* TookALevelInJerkass: She seems like a relatively decent person in her early appearances, but becomes more and more bitchy and slutty, especially after her first break up with J.D. In her last appearance ("My Quarantine" in season 4), she's completely obnoxious.

[[folder:Randall]]
!!'''Randall Winston (Creator/MartinKlebba)'''
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->''"Well that's a real punch in the crotch!"''

A little person who becomes part of the janitorial staff at Sacred Heart.

* TheAce: He's apparently very skilled in martial arts, strong enough to beat the much larger janitor in at least one wrestling match, was voted head of the janitors’ union despite being new to the job, and sings very good acapella.
* BackForTheFinale: Appears as a cameo in J.D's exit scene in the season 8 finale.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears without a mention after season 4.
* GroinAttack: Has a habit of saying "that's a real punch in the crotch!" when referring to a piece of bad luck, leading to him doing this in J.D's fantasies.
* NoodleIncident: Apparently the Janitor once saved him from an eagle.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Stands roughly 3 feet tall and was apparently able to beat the BigGuy janitor in multiple wrestling matches, as well as easily break his hand in a handshake turned game of mercy.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Troy.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Appears as a recurring character on season 3 and 4,but eventually disappears afterwards with no explanation, despite his friendship with The Janitor and position in staff.

[[folder:Snoop Dogg Intern/Resident/Attending]]
!!'''Ronald/Snoop Dog Attending (Creator/ManleyHenry)'''
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-->''"Where my hoes at?"''

A doctor who resembles the rapper Snoop Dogg. He likes hoes and commands respect, but also has a soft side.

* BetaCouple: With Josephine.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally chill, even only giving a quick "Hey!" as correction when people get his title wrong; but when he thought Kelso called Keith the N-Word he was ready to fight his boss.
* CasanovaWannabe: He claims to have hoes, but when he actually wants to ask a girl (Josephine) out, he's anxious as hell.
* CharacterDevelopment: Believe it or not; he goes from mimicking Snoop Dogg and bragging/asking about hoes; to acting as a more professional doctor and telling Josephine how he feels, entering a committed relationship.
* {{Expy}}: In-universe to Snoop Dogg, due to his actor's physical resemblance. Subverted when it's gradually revealed that might not be his natural personality.
* HiddenDepths: Plays up his resemblance to Snoop Dogg, but his inner-monologue in "Their Story" reveals he wishes people would use his real name and implies the Snoop personality is largely an act.
* LadykillerInLove: Assuming he wasn't fronting about having hoes, Josephine causes him to be this.
* NWordPriveleges: Called Kelso a "punk-ass bitch" when he thought he said the word, though Kelso was just saying "nagger". He says they're cool after that.
* OddFriendship: His personality is modeled off Snoop Dogg, a West-Coast stlye rapper; hangs out mostly with the clique of stuffy old white doctors Beardface, Colonel Doctor, Mickhead, and even Kelso.
* OneHeadTaller: One of the tallest characters, dating "fun-sized" Josephine.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kevin Casey]]
!!'''Dr. Kevin Casey (Creator/MichaelJFox)'''
-> ''" Everyone's got their own burdens, J.D., and I'm not gonna be one of those people that dumps mine on somebody else."''

A highly gifted doctor who specializes in both internal medicine and surgery, but has crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder. An old friend/medical school classmate of Dr Cox.

* TheAce: A "Super Doc"...
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He shows up both Cox and Turk as doctors, who both [[GreenEyedMonster have egos big enough they want to take it out on him]].
* BrokenAce: J.D. finds him 2 hours after his shift, still washing his hands and crying.
* DisabilitySuperPower: His OCD caused him to read and re-read all the medical books he could multiple times, making it possible for him to specialize in different fields. J.D. even calls him a "Super Doc".
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He doesn't know that J.D. is seeking a mentor when he makes his comment about how guys who seek out mentors at his age are pathetic, but it hurts J.D.'s feelings. Same with showing up Cox and Turk.
* JackOfAllTrades: A medical doctor and a surgeon.
* LovedByAll: Barring him unintentionally making the guys mad, he doesn't receive the normal vitriolic treatment from the hospital staff.
* NiceGuy: Super personable and helpful to everyone in the hospital.
* ShipTease: A little bit with Elliot in "My Porcellin God".
* SuperOCD: It's actually portrayed more realistically than in most shows.
* UnknownRival: He doesn't know that Cox and Turk see him as somebody to be beat.

[[folder:Hooch]]
!!'''Hooch''' (Creator/PhillLewis)
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->''"Hooch is crazy."''

A surgeon who Turk and JD love to mess with. He has a ''very'' short fuse.

* AxCrazy: Hooch '''is''' crazy.
* BackForTheFinale: In JD's last fantasy in the Season 8 finale.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He seems quite cheerful and friendly at first, but it quickly becomes apparent that he's ''deeply'' unstable.
* ButtMonkey: A favorite of Turk and JD's. His status as one is what drives him crazy
* DisproportionateRetribution: After being caught by a prank involving bouillon cubes put in the shower-head, his response is to threaten to run the perpetrator over in his S.U.V. Some interns following Hooch around for a day led to a hostage situation.
-->'''Hooch:''' ''[while holding a lighter with a humongous flame]'' Burn for a burn, baby! That's in the Bible.
* HairTriggerTemper: There's a reason people say he's crazy.
* PhraseCatcher: Said fondly/in amusement: "Hooch is ''crazy''."

[[folder:Molly Clock]]
!!'''Molly Clock (Creator/HeatherGraham)'''
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A BunnyEarsLawyer psychiatrist who temporarily worked at Sacred Heart Hospital.

* TheAce: A brilliant shrink who could not only heal The Todd, make any character realize their problems, but her everlasting good mood couldn't be crushed by Dr. Kelso and Dr. Cox combined either.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Sort of. She tells JD that she is attracted to damaged, dysfunctional people.
--> '''J.D.''': Molly, I'm narcissistic, I'm pessimistic, I'm obsessive, I'm insecure. And I am so afraid of intimacy that every one of my relationships is a journey of self-sabotage that inevitably ends in a black vacuum of shattered expectations and despair.\\
'''Molly''': Wow. ''[she kisses him passionately]''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Acts like a total airhead and makes alot of poor choices when it comes to the men that she dates, yet she is a very skilled psychiatrist. She even fixes the Todd temporarily in one quick encounter. It's actually something that Dr. Cox points out to Elliot that a person's quirks don't stop them from being amazing at their job.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Very much so.
-->'''Molly:''' So, where were we?\\
'''J.D.:''' Uhh, we weren't talking.\\
'''Molly:''' Was it cause of something you did? Cause I'm totally over it, I don't even remember what it was.\\
'''J.D.:''' No, I mean like, we've never talked. Ever.\\
'''Molly:''' Well how do I know your name then?\\
'''J.D.:''' You don't.
** There is a RunningGag that never gets commented on in series- Molly never has a clue what time it is. Possibly a pun on her name.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheAce. Molly is extremely attractive, always good and kind, right about everything and her only apparent flaw is her spaciness. Instead of making her loved by everyone though (As usually happens with this archetype), The predictable happens and most people find having a constantly upbeat person point out all their mistakes and inner feelings to be insufferable rather than endearing.
-->'''Molly:''' How's it going in here?\\
'''Dr Cox & Turk:''' GO AWAY!!!
* DitzyGenius: Extremely perceptive and a brilliant psychiatrist, but also very ditzy and spacey (even more than JD or Elliot). She’s not nearly as naïve as she seems and is able to manipulate both Dr. Kelso and Dr. Cox.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Is almost exclusively seen wearing flip-flops when wearing shoes at all.
* EthicalSlut: Strongly implied. She is always upbeat and sees the best in everything, but has a history of failed relationships due to constantly hooking up with damaged and dysfunctional men.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Blonde and attracts most of the hospital.
-->'''Turk''': It's not just sex. It's sex with Molly! Any guy would kill to have sex with Molly.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Molly's indomitable optimism stands against the cynicism of Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso, and she's still able to triumph against them by bringing out their better sides.
* HasAType: She likes irresponsible men that she thinks she can fix.
-->'''Molly''': I know I should know better, I'm a shrink. But show me a guy who wants to get married and has a good job, and it's like snoozeville for me. But if you know a thirty-five-year-old who still lives at home with his mom and he still thinks his band can make it, tell me where to meet him so I can buy him dinner.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Played by Heather Graham.
* HospitalHottie: The hospital's second hottest employee of the female staff members, according to JD and Turk.
* NiceGirl: She’s very nice to everyone, but far from a pushover. When Carla tricks her into going to Todd's house where he's nude in a hot tub, she helps him address his sexual issues after he tries to hit on her. She then proceeds to get Carla to talk about why Carla is angry with her.
* ParodySue: Her TheAce traits combined with her perpetual kindness and optimism are PlayedForLaughs. She's just as weird as the other characters but despite being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, she's always one step ahead of everyone, and this often annoys the other characters.
* PutOnABus: She's introduced in early season 4 and is Put on a Bus after a few episodes. TheBusCameBack for one episode later in the season.
* ShoutOut: Her name is a reference to Dr. Dolly Klock, who was the medical consultant for the show's pilot episode.
* TeamMom: Proves to be a better one than Carla, which makes Carla temporarily jealous when all her friends start confiding their problems to Molly.
* WideEyedIdealist: She believes in the best in everybody, and that nobody is truly bad. She succeeds in proving her point to Dr. Cox. and Kelso (despite them claiming the opposite) and finding the HiddenHeartOfGold in both of them.

[[folder:Baxter]]
!!'''Baxter (Creator/KenJenkins's real life dog)

Dr. Kelso's beloved Australian Shepherd.

* MoralityPet: The only living thing Kelso, even early on, would openly treat with unabashed affection.
* VisciousGuardDog: Tore Ted's hamstring and likes to chase Enid around the yard. [[{{Jerkass}} Kelso]] encourages this behavior.
* RightHandAttackDog: To Bob Kelso.
* UncattyResemblence: He and his owner are both ruthless, highly intelligent, and love to torment others.

!Introduced in Season 5
[[folder:Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio]]
!!'''Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio (Creator/ShaughnBuchholz)'''
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A spectacularly incompetent intern, who first appears in Season 5 and is quickly fired. He later pops up again as one of the baristas at the hospital's Coffee Bucks.

* TheBusCameBack: After getting fired in Season 5, he returns in Season 6 working at Coffee Bucks, and makes several more appearances during the course of that season.
* EpicFail: Easily takes the cake as the most incompetent medical professional seen in the show's entire run. He doesn't have any hidden medicinal talents like Doug, isn't suffering from outdated knowledge like Dr. Townshend, and isn't an otherwise-competent doctor who lets his attitude get in the way like Cole; he simply has ''zero'' talent for medicine, something further illustrated when he has to resort to working as a barista to make a living. (Though to be fair, he's at least okay at customer service)
* {{Expy}}: Subverted. Initially J.D. takes Cabbage to be much like his own younger self, and resolves to have a better relationship with him than he himself does with Dr. Cox. As Cox himself later points out, however, Cabbage is actually his ''opposite''; whereas J.D. is a goofball whose relationship with his mentor is complicated at best, but ultimately a good doctor, Cabbage is much more earnest and affable and has a good relationship with J.D., but is dangerously incompetent and has absolutely no business trying to become a medical professional. If anything, he's actually an even more incompetent version of Doug.
* HeroWorship: He worships J.D., to the point where he holds no grudge against him for firing him and as a barista, prioritizes his coffee order over the others. "Sorry, guys. Dr. Dorian is the king!"
* MeaningfulName: Not so much at first, but eventually J.D. has to admit that an ''actual'' cabbage would probably make a better doctor than him.
* NiceGuy: Despite his faults, Cabbage is ultimately a really friendly and kind person, making him a great barista at the coffee shop. While he ended up giving Mrs Wilk a deadly infection, it happened because he wanted to see her one last time before leaving the hospital.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: At least, when we're talking about his tenure as an intern. He got fired after four episodes, but not before he transmits an ultimately lethal infection to Mrs. Wilk, a recurring patient, via his improper handling of medical waste.[[note]]Technically, he did get fired before this -- ''immediately'' before, and he infected her on his way out the door for the last time. If JD had fired him one day earlier, Mrs. Wilk might still be alive.[[/note]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: He accidentally passes on a fatal virus to Mrs. Wilk, a patient he himself was fond of.]]
* WrongLineOfWork: He should '''not''' be in medicine, but he has the perfect attitude for a costumer service job, making him a pretty good barista.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gloria]]
!!'''Gloria (Creator/ChristinaMiles)

One of J.D.'s season 5 interns. She is unusually old for an intern doctor.

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: With Leonard; she's carrying his kids]].
* CoolOldLady: Able to keep up (intellectually and emotionally) with her much-younger peers, has progressive views on sexuality despite her age, and sometimes acts like a teenage rebel.
* ImprobableAge: Downplayed, but still seen as unusual for an intern to be that old.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: With Leonard.]]
* NiceGal: Besides joining in bullying Kieth with the other interns, she's pretty affable; to the point where she waves to people so much it annoys J.D.
* ShroudedInMystery: Starting out in medicine at her age isn't unheard of, but it is unusual enough for J.D. to wonder.
* WhereTheWhiteWomenAt: [[spoiler: Hooks up with Leonard, saying "I'm never going back!"]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paige Cox]]
!!'''Paige Cox (Creator/CherylHines)'''

Perry's sister, who he has strained relationship with. She's a born-again Christian.
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* BlasphemousBoast: When she beats Perry at horse and he asks if she's gonna "thank the G-Man", she says "That was all me, baby!"
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and Perry's childhood was so fucked up that even though they love each other, it's difficult for them to be around one another. It may also be why she turned to religion.
* DeadpanSnarker: A Cox family trait.
* TheFundamentalist: {{Subverted}}; she's an evangelical Christian strong in those beliefs and she offers to pray with patients. But she doesn't try to force her brother or any of his coworkers into religion or seem particularly judgmental of other faiths or denominations.
* NiceGirl: Gets along with most people, even Jordan; and stays up all night praying with a sick man and his family.

[[folder:Kim Briggs]]
!!'''Kim Briggs (Creator/ElizabethBanks)'''
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A surgeon at Sacred Heart. She and J.D. become romantically involved in season 5, but she becomes pregnant on their second date, causing their relationship to become infinitely more complicated. Soon after, she moves away for work and claims to have a miscarriage, but she actually did not and naturally, J.D. eventually finds out. Though they do not end up together, J.D. and Kim do ultimately manage to amiably co-parent their son, Sam.

* AmbitionIsEvil: J.D. finds out that Kim passed on performing a risky surgery to keep her stats up and gives her a [[TheReasonYouSuck Reason You Suck]] speech; Kim [[AnAesop "learns a lesson"]] from this and does the surgery, even though the other doctors (''including'' [[DrJerk Doctor Cox]]) treat her passing on it as a fairly reasonable thing to do considering [[BrokenAesop the demands of her job.]]
%%** Incidentally, this might be the only time in the entire series where she appears to consider J.D.'s opinions about something to be [[ItsAllAboutMe of similar importance to her own.]]
* AmicableExes: It takes a while to get there, but on the far side of her contentious pregnancy and her and J.D.'s relationship, they're able to work out how to parent Sam together and be in each others' lives with no hard feelings between them.
* BackstoryInvader: Parodied. She's introduced in the tail-end of season 5, but the characters claim [[RetCon she's been there all along.]] It turns out that J.D. genuinely doesn't notice women who [[WeddingRingDefense wear wedding rings.]]
* BetterAsFriends: She eventually realizes she hurt J.D. too much for him to ever be able to love or trust her again, and she's waiting around pining for him uselessly. After her contentious birth, she's much more optimistic about the relationship as parents they can build now that they've moved on from their unfixable romance.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Either her pregnancy hormones made her completely crazy, or she's really [[ItsAllAboutMe not]] [[TheUnfairSex a very]] [[InsaneTrollLogic nice]] [[NeverMyFault person.]] It results in that J.D. fell out of love with her due to this, with Turk and Dr. Cox saying that it was reasonable for him to not want anything to do with her.
* ButICantBePregnant: She and J.D. opt not to have sex because they don't have a condom and don't want to risk a pregnancy. Unfortunately, it's still possible (although unlikely) to get pregnant without performing full intercourse. When J.D. asks if she's sure she's pregnant, she [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill produces about 12 positive pregnancy tests.]]
* BrokenPedestal: For J.D., twice over.
** When they first meet, J.D. seems impressed by her skill as a doctor, but is disappointed to learn that she considers her surgical record more important than the health of a patient. She takes his critique to heart and decides to go through with the surgery, which makes her into something of a RebuiltPedestal for J.D. and sparks their relationship.
** The second example comes from her faked miscarriage. When J.D. learns about it, he's brutally honest about how thoroughly it ruins her ability to trust or love her, something just about all of J.D.'s friends support him on. Despite him making a genuine effort to stick with her for their baby's sake, it eventually becomes clear that they can't work as a couple anymore because of the trust she ruined, and neither one of them is benefiting from pretending otherwise.
** For the whole hospital, after how she lied to J.D.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: She attempts to pull this in order to break up with J.D. after moving away for work - it would have probably worked better if she'd [[BlatantLies actually miscarried, though.]]
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: She is blonde and her debut episode reveals that "she gets along with everybody" and "all the guys like her".
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: PlayedStraight - though they discuss the option, J.D. and Kim decide not to abort.
* GoodParents: Say what you will about her actions as a romantic partner; but when Sam is born, she always puts him first.
* HospitalHottie: ''Everyone'' in the hospital likes her, she has no issue with casually sharing details of her past sex life with patients, and J.D. is smitten with her as soon as he first notices her.
* InsaneTrollLogic: She resented J.D. for leaving her after she moved away and seemingly had a miscarriage, even though she herself admits she was clearly in the wrong and would have done the same in his shoes. Notably, when she and J.D. reunite, she fully admits how irrational the whole stunt was, and is miserable in its aftermath.
* LovedByAll: There's a whole montage of how everybody; from the guys to the girls to the greasers; loves her. J.D. points out that it's a defense mechanism.
* MotorMouth: She and Elliot bond over both being this.
* MoodSwinger: One of her most defining traits after getting pregnant. She fakes a miscarriage to test her relationship with J.D., which ends up ending it; from there until she gives birth, she's a constant mix of regret for that stunt and not coming clean sooner, longing for J.D. as she tries to repair their relationship, heartache as it becomes obvious he can't feel the same for her, and anger as their relationship crumbles. It's not until she gives birth and cathartically admits that there was no repairing their romantic relationship that she and J.D. are able to move on and be amicable with each other.
%%* NeverMyFault: She moves away for work even though J.D. wanted her to stay, then lies to J.D. about miscarrying their child. The only reason he even found out she was still pregnant was because he ran into her at a medical conference while she was showing. After J.D. tells her that he doesn't think he can ever fully forgive her for this or consider getting together with her romantically again, she breaks down crying because'' '''obviously''' [[InsaneTrollLogic her pregnancy has made her too fat for him to be attracted to her now.]]'' Never mind the perfectly reasonable reasons he has to not want to be with her. And vice versa. This is the guy who was happily living with his ex and impulse-bought a vacant lot to build a porch. Not a house, ''just the porch''.
* PairTheSpares: Kim ends up with [[spoiler: Sean, Elliot's ex and J.D.'s 'nemesis.']] Elliot introduced them.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Was around all along, J.D.(and the audience by extension) just never noticed her because of her wedding ring.
%%* RomanticFalseLead: For J.D.
%%* TheUnfairSex: She tells J.D. she loves him for the first time while in labor, and insists he immediately tell her whether or not he loves her too; when he tries to gently explain he doesn't but hopes to eventually, she flips out and dumps him. The nurses treat this as though J.D. has done something truly horrible - even though Kim basically begged J.D. to get back together with her in the first place when he was reluctant to after she lied to him about miscarrying. Dr. Cox has a more even-keeled approach; he tells J.D. under protest -- J.D. bargained to do Jennifer Dylan's shot in exchange for a pep talk-- that he had every right to break up with Kim, and the fact that J.D. and Kim's relationship is over doesn't mean that their son is going to grow up as a broken person.
%%** In the nurses' defense, they did not know the backstory.
* WeddingRingDefense: Kim continued wearing her wedding ring after her divorce to keep people from hitting on her.

!Introduced in Season 7
[[folder:Lady]]
!!'''Ladinia "Lady" Williams/ Matthews (Creator/KitPongetti)'''
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The Janitor's oddly named girlfriend, first appearing in Season 7. Marries the Janitor in Season 8.

* AllThereInTheManual: Her real first and last name
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Doesn't really get much in characterization beyond her romance with the Janitor
* TerrifiedOfGerms: She's a hand specific germaphobe, a fact her therapist believes was a contributing factor in her falling for the Janitor. That and [[LikeParentLikeSpouse he's a dead ringer for her dad]]
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Basically the punchline of her name. She has a brother named Him.

[[folder:Boon and Josephine]]
!!Boon(Tyler Poelle) and Josephine (Aseema Batra)

Two interns who mostly appear in season 7.

!Introduced in Season 8

[[folder:Taylor Maddox]]
!!'''Doctor Talor Maddox (Creator/CourteneyCox)'''
->''"Great, now I don't have to tell you each individually that, um... I don't give a rat's hairy ass. It's a huge time-saver. Thanks, gang."''

The new Cheif of Medicine after Kelso retires.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Nobody likes having her as Cheif. Not that she cares.
* AffablyEvil: Friendly, personable, and charming; and remorselessly greedy and selfish.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: One of her two rules is that all spiders need to die, not even letting them back outside; despite spiders being an important part of the ecosystem. She stomps on one screaming [[LargeHam "DIE! DIE! DIE!"]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Not that she intentionally tries to hide it, but her genuinely friendly personality makes it difficult to tell she's black-hearted.
* DistaffCounterpart: Perry compares her to Kelso "but smart". Really, she's the inverse of Kelso; somebody who presents as nice but doesn't give a "rat's hairy ass" about her employees or patients.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She seems to genuinely love her daughter, at least.
* HypocriticalHumor: Only on a meta level; she says that "Cox" is a ridiculous name, [[ActorAllusion despite it being her actress's]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Her introduction episode is called "My Jerks". Even before her true nature is revealed, she insults a patient (calling him "fat, old, and ugly"); and she doesn't seem to even comprehend why Cox, Elliot, and J.D. care about patients with no insurance or money.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She's right that getting her fired from a job she moved her entire life over for, and technically performed well at, was sort of a dick move; as well that doing so was pointless because in all likelihood, they would just hire another jerk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Unlike Dr. Kelso, she really just doesn't care about the patients beyond making a living.
* LackOfEmpathy: She doesn't care about the patients as people at all, and sees the hospital as purely a business for profit.
* PragmaticVillainy: She's not fond of J.D., but she fires the Janitor for tripping him, a reasonable thing to do considering if the Janitor's antics ended up hurting somebody the hospital could be sued.
* PunchclockVillain: In a weird twist, viewing her job in healthcare as simply a job and nothing more is what 'makes' her a villain.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: She won't let the doctors treat anybody without insurance, and makes sure not to allow for any exceptions.
* TheUnfettered: To the point she doesn't initially 'get' J.D. and Elliot's upsettedness about not being able to treat somebody.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Derek Hill]]
!!'''Derek Hill (Creator/LeeThompsonYoung)'''
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An intern introduced in "Their Story III" whose habit of mouthing off sometimes gets him into trouble.
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!Unseen Characters
[[folder:Enid Kelso]]
!!'''Enid Kelso'''

Dr. Kelso's wife and Harrison's mother.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: She and Bob hate each other, she's described as an unpleasant wife and he's downright abusive.
* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A few times, it's shown that the initial spark of she and Bob's marriage is still there. He's [[spoiler: devastated when she passes]].
* ButtMonkey: Treated like shit by her husband and frequently attacked by his dog Baxter.
* TheDogBitesBack: Assists the Janitor in stealing her husband's money that he put up too high for her to reach in her wheelchair. Then denies seeing anything while clearly wearing a new coat from her cut.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: She passes away between Seasons 8 and 9.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: If "Foxy Enid" in Kelso's flashback is indeed her, she was a bombshell blonde at one point.

[[folder:Harrison Kelso]]
!!'''Harrison Kelso'''

Dr. Kelso and Enid's frequently-mentioned gay grown son.

* AllGaysLoveTheatre: Wrote a play called "Dr. Dad". [[spoiler: Maybe subverted, as it was just a front for his meth lab./]]
* CampGay: Basically every extreme gay stereotype of the early 2000s thrown together.
* FanBoy: Of Ain't Misbehavin'.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kelso's stories of him gradually go from simply an old man being uncomfortable with his gay son; to Harrison being a male prostitute who cooks meth and gets into all sorts of legal problems.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: More "morally neutral protagonist" than "hero"; but you can get a hell of an entertaining drama out of the tidbits we get from Kelso about his life. There's even some continuity if you watch them consecutively!
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: In the penultimate episode of Season 8, Kelso reveals he's "dropped all pretenses. He's a manwhore." He's also described as a "good kid" by his otherwise hateful father.
* ReallyGetsAround; Has a lot of different boyfriends over the course of the show. Eventually he makes a career out of it.
* TheGhost: We never see him outside of a photograph from his childhood.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Kelso talks shit about his son and frequently argues with him on the phone, but punishes Perry for insulting him.
* MoralityPet: For Dr. Kelso, to an extent. While his father is pretty openly homophobic and disappointed in his son's choices, he still supports him financially and goes from [[CharacterDevelopment hating that his son is gay to just wanting him to settle down with a guy who's actually good for him]].
* NoAccountingForTaste: This seems to be Kelso's biggest problem with him, not his homosexuality in general. Harrison has a '''horrible''' taste in men, and Kelso wishes [[NiceGuy J.D.]] were gay so that he'd date a good, professional man for once.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: He's worked as a baseball uniform designer, playwright, meth cook, and in a penultimate episode is revealed to have settled on Prostitution.

[[folder:Barry Reid]]
!!'''Barry Reid'''

Elliot's gay brother.

* ArmoredClosetGay: In his youth, he bragged about all the women he slept with.
* CampGay: Like Harrison, he exists largely as an offscreen punchline; though he seems to at least be more well-adjusted in life.
* ComingOutStory: Elliot gives an abridged version of his; he stopped playing JV football and started dancing for Japanese businessmen.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Elliot mentions his parents sending him to "Hetero-Camp". It's PlayedForLaughs.
* ReallyGetsAround: At least claimed to with women in his youth; now he legitimately does with men.

[[folder:Perry's Parents]]
!!'''Mr. and Mrs. Cox'''

Perry and Paige Cox's AbusiveParents.

* AbusiveParent: They both were, with his dad being the worst of them.
* TheAlcoholic: Mr. Cox drank so much that he'd pass out in the front yard and Perry used his conked-out body to make snow angels.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Dr. Cox danced on his father's grave when he died.
* ArchnemesisDad: Perry hates his dead father more than anybody and pretty much all of his personal demons stem from their relationship.
* AssholeVictim: If their son did, indeed, kill them. Obviously murder is wrong, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for people who were so cruel to their children.
* BystanderSyndrome: Mrs. Cox may or may not have actively participated in her chilrens' abuse, but she watched and did nothing.
* HateSink: From what we hear, they're some of the most despicable people in the universe of the show.
* {{Jerkass}}: Abusive, alcoholic deadbeats who tormented their children.
* KnightOfCerebus: Anecdotes about them are still played for DarkComedy, but their abuse hovers like a dark cloud over Perry and his whole family.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Perry actively works to avoid it, but he 'does' share a lot with his dad; both [[TheAlcoholic drink excessively]] and [[JerkAss act abusively]]. The difference is that Perry also shows compassion to others, made something with his life as a doctor, and barring one particular weak moment of [[ItMakesSenseInContext throwing spaghetti on his son's face]], he's a pretty damn good dad.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Jordan is apparently a lot like Perry's mother. (Though a better parent)
* PetTheDog: Subverted, for DarkComedy; apparently the closest Mr. Cox got to this was intentionally missing when he threw beer bottles at his kids.
* PosthumousCharacter: Both died before the start of the series. Carla theorizes [[SelfMadeOrphan that Dr. Cox killed them]].

[[folder:Barbara Dorian]]
!!'''Barbara Dorian'''

J.D.'s mother who's never seen but often mentioned. Dan lives with her for a while.

* GoodParents: Did the bulk of raising J.D. and Dan, and they both still adore her. Notably, J.D. still has her saved in his phone as "Mommy" and enthusiastically films a day in his life for her.
* ParentsAsPeople: She wasn't perfect; after her husband left, she coped by "marrying every man who rang the doorbell". She also may have doted too much on her younger son, giving him a sometimes-inflated ego. But she was still a more consistent, stable parent than her ex-husband Sam. (Who wasn't exactly a bad guy himself).

!Recurring Fantasy Characters
[[folder:World's Most Giant Doctor]]
!!'''World's Most Giant Doctor (Creator/ZachBraff / Creator/DonaldFaison / Creator/SarahChalke / Creator/MichaelHobert)'''
--> ''"Hello, citizens! Welcome to Sacred Heart! Home of the world's most giant doctor! Be not afraid! I'm just like you! Except I'm giant!"''

A character J.D. and Turk; and sometimes Lonnie and Elliot; play, two (or three) people stacked on each other in a giant Doctor's coat.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: In "World's Most Giant Doctor Goes to the Farm"; "And if any of you cows, goats, or ducks have any questions, don't be afraid to ask me! I'm just like all of you, only giant and human!"
* GentleGiant: A giant, friendly man who's dedicated his life to healing people.
* LargeHam: When greeting patients to the hospital.
* RaceLift: Apparently they tried to let Turk be the head, but [[CrossesTheLineTwice "people ran"]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Floating Head Doctor]]
!!'''Floating Head Doctor (Creator/ZachBraff)'''

A fantasy where J.D. has his head and body separated. They try to act as heroes, but their ineffectiveness and bickering get in the way.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Their lack of communication will always lead them to fumble their goals.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Body's is the William Tell Overture.
* LethalKlutz: Body tries to help people but usually ends up killing them.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: They're by nature a team, but can't stand each other and often fantasies end with them fighting.

[[folder: Dr. Acula]]
!!'''Dr. Acula (Creator/ZachBraff / Creator/DonaldFaison)'''

A vampire doctor, and the main character in J.D.'s screenplay "Dr. Acula".

!!'''Ted Buckland from Legal (Creator/SamLloyd), Randall from Accounting ([[Music/TheBlanks Paul Perry]]), Crispin from Shipping and Recieving ([[Music/TheBlanks George Miserlis]]), and Roy from On-site property management including pest control, nighttime security, non-arboreal gardening services, and tenant-related easements and liens ([[Music/TheBlanks Phillip McNiven]])

An acapella band formed by members of the hospital's administrative staff.

* BarbershopQuartet: A lot of their music is in this style.

[[folder/The Worthless Peons]]

* CoolOldLady: Able to keep up (somewhat) with her much-younger peers,

[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!'''Lonnie (Creator/MichaelHobert)'''
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-> ''"I hate you J.D."''

One of J.D.'s interns and later residents who appeared throughout Seasons 3-5. He is an odd mix of {{jerkass}} and {{buttmonkey}}.

* BackForTheFinale: Appears in J.D.'s last fantasy in My Finale to say he hates him.
* ButtMonkey: Both J.D. and Dr. Cox have taken advantage of their power over him on several occasions, with Dr. Cox even once mummifying his head.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father died from acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and he says the disease "tore [his] family apart".
* {{Jerkass}}: He's as much of an ass to J.D. as he can be and get away with it.
* PutOnABus: Vanished after Season 5 outside of a small cameo in Season 6.
* ReallyGetsAround: He has three children that he knows about and probably has more.

[[folder:Grace Miller]]
!!'''Grace Miller (Creator/BellamyYoung)'''
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An attending introduced in Season 3. She's an incredibly condescending {{Jerkass}} and sees any attempt to defend her from men as sexism. She was written out of the show at the end of Season 3.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Dr. Cox. She didn't last long because the writers realized that they had already a female version of Dr. Cox in Jordan.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: In a fantasy, the surgeons imagine her as Creator/MarilynMonroe.
* HospitalHottie: How she is seen by the male surgeons, including Turk. Dr. Cox. and Dr. Kelso were attracted to her too.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Turk standing up for her because Todd was being sexist automatically means he's sexist too and Turk has to apologize. And Elliot being friends with Turk means she's [[GuiltByAssociation sexist by association]] and [[NoTrueScotsman not a real feminist.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She puts Jordan to shame. Jordan is at least amusing with her condescension and insults and had visible redeeming qualities. Dr. Miller is just a bitch (the closest she gets to a redeeming moment is letting Turk leave a surgery that's taking longer than expected ''to go to his own wedding!'').
* PutOnABus: At the end of season 3.

[[folder:Danni Sullivan]]
!!'''Danni Sullivan (Creator/TaraReid)'''
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Jordan's sister who briefly dated J.D. in season 3.

--> "You guys really want to know what I think? Let me start with [[AquiredSituationalNarcissism you]], Martin Luther King? He changed the nation. Dial it down a notch. And [[NoSympathy you, way to have your husband's back.]] Way to represent for your man. I mean, the guy is obviously going through something. [[DrJerk And what type of sick, twisted, insecure person do you have to be to get your jollies off other people's misery?]] And finally, [[GreenEyedMonster my man.]] You know how excited I was when I found out that my new boss was a black surgeon? Finally a role model, right? [[BrokenPedestal Wrong]], because I don't want to become a [[ManChild giant bald seven-year-old]] who's obsessed with his best friend. So thanks everyone. [[SarcasmMode You guys have made these first few days very special.]]

!Introduced in Season 5
[[folder:Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio]]
!!'''Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio (Creator/ShaughnBuchholz)'''
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A spectacularly incompetent intern, who first appears in Season 5 and is quickly fired. He later pops up again as one of the baristas at the hospital's Coffee Bucks.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally chill, even only giving a quick "Hey!" as correction when people get his title wrong; but when he misheard Kelso calling Keith a "nagger", he was ready to fight.

* HiddenDepths: Plays up his resemblance to Snoop Dogg, but his inner-monologue in "Their Story" reveals he wishes people would use his real name.
* NWordPriveleges: Called Kelso a "punk-ass bitch" when he thought he said the word, though Kelso was just saying "nagger".

[[folder:Kevin Casey]]
!!'''Dr. Kevin Casey (Creator/MichaelJFox)'''
-> ''" Everyone's got their own burdens, J.D., and I'm not gonna be one of those people that dumps mine on somebody else."''

A highly gifted doctor who specializes in both internal medicine and surgery, but has crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder. An old friend/medical school classmate of Dr Cox.