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* HiddenDepths: Revealed to be vegan in a throwaway line by Garret.
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* PetTheDog: To her credit, before leaving Carol to her fate, she actually DID shepherd a few employees and customers to safety from the incoming tornado.
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* HiddenDepths: The reason why Jonah is working at Cloud 9 is because he burnt himself at law school to the point of dehydration and ended up in the hospital. His working at Cloud 9 is his way of taking time for himself to slow down.

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* HiddenDepths: The reason why Jonah is working at Cloud 9 is because he burnt himself out at law school to the point of dehydration and ended up in the hospital. His working at Cloud 9 is his way of taking time for himself to slow down.



* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Many times, but manages it within the first few minutes of the first episode by not realizing he’s offended his floor manager, Amy within the first few minutes of this job.

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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Many times, but manages it within the first few minutes of the first episode by not realizing he’s offended his floor manager, Amy Amy, within the first few minutes of this job.
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* HiddenDepths: A trained wet nurse midwife that has eidetic memory.

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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played with; Amy has been working for Cloud 9 for ten years but is only a floor manager. This doesn't (technically) give her much authority, nor does she really come up very far within the structure of Cloud 9, but it's clear that everyone respects her, which is what counts.



* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Many times, but manages it within the first few minutes of the first episode by not realizing he’s offended his floor manager, Amy within the first few minutes of this job.

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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Many times, but manages it within the first few minutes of the first episode by not realizing he’s he’s offended his floor manager, Amy within the first few minutes of this job.



--> '''Garrett:''' Attention shoppers. Breast examinations are NOT being offered as a part of Cloud 9’s Wellness Fair. And if they were, they would not be conducted by a teenage boy wearing a Twenty-One Pilots T-Shirt. Shop safely, folks.

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--> '''Garrett:''' Attention shoppers. Breast examinations are NOT being offered Cloud 9 is not offering breast exams as a part of Cloud 9’s Wellness Fair. And our wellness fair. We have not hired someone to do that, and if they were, they we had, it would not be conducted by a teenage boy wearing a Twenty-One Pilots T-Shirt. Shop safely, folks.



* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: The rest of the characters always discuss and act jealous of Brett's apparent success within the store. In one episode, Brett somehow manages to sell an entire shelf. Just by standing there.
* OhCrap: When he sees a tornado headed straight in his direction. His face says it all, but ''he actually speaks it''.

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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: The rest of the characters always discuss and act jealous of Brett's apparent success within the store. In one episode, Brett somehow manages to sell an entire shelf of merchandise. And the shelf. Just by standing there.
* OhCrap: When he sees a tornado headed straight in his direction. His face says it all, but this time ''he actually speaks it''.

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-->'''Played by:''' Michael Bunin.

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-->'''Played by:''' Michael Bunin.
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* StraightGay: Mateo can apparently tell that he's gay because of his "gaydar", but nobody else even remotely guessed that Jeff was gay until Mateo tells them they're in a relationship.

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* Determinator: In the Season 2 finale, Brett is ''determined'' to get all the carts where they're supposed to, despite a tornado warning (that he may not have been aware of).

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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: In the Season 2 finale, Brett is ''determined'' to get all the carts where they're supposed to, despite a tornado warning (that he may not have been aware of).


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An entirely silent Cloud 9 employee who is somehow amazing at everything he does.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: He almost never speaks, so we don't know if the ambiguous part will ever be cleared up...
* Determinator: In the Season 2 finale, Brett is ''determined'' to get all the carts where they're supposed to, despite a tornado warning (that he may not have been aware of).
* HiddenDepths: He's apparently got a pocketknife in the back of his pants at all times. Why? We don't know.
* InformedAbility: The entirety of his character centers around this idea. Brett is apparently one of the best workers in the store. The audience never sees this, but the characters apparently have.
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: The rest of the characters always discuss and act jealous of Brett's apparent success within the store. In one episode, Brett somehow manages to sell an entire shelf. Just by standing there.
* OhCrap: When he sees a tornado headed straight in his direction. His face says it all, but ''he actually speaks it''.
* RunningGag: We don't see Brett do much, if anything. But the characters all say he's amazing without doubting it.
* TheVoiceless: Until the Season 2 finale - in which he sees a tornado quickly coming towards the Cloud 9 Store and very softly says a censored expletive.

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* BerserkButton: Being a "sellout" in any way - he's an aspiring rapper that hates the thought of his music being catchy.


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* ParentsAsPeople: Adam is implied to be a good dad to his daughter Emma, but he's clearly not as great a husband to his wife Amy. We're given the impression he doesn't have a stable job, and he pursues business ventures that get nowhere. Amy more than once is exasperated with his lack of responsibility when it comes to money or being as financially supportive to the family.
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* LaughingMad: Spends the [[spoiler:store destroying tornado]] cackling like a madwoman.


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* CrisisOfFaith: When [[spoiler:the tornado tears into the store]] in the season 2 finale, he prays to every deity he can name to make it stop. He's rather flummoxed when ''Allah'' seems to make it stop.


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* PapaWolf: When Jonah expresses interest in one of his adult daughters, he delivers this little gem:
-->'''Glenn:''' If you hurt her, I will kill you in real life until you're dead.
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[[folder:Jeff Sutin]]
-->'''Played by:''' Michael Bunin.

Cloud 9 district manager, brought in to evaluate the store.
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* OppositesAttract: Jeff is buttoned-up, professional and composed. His brief boyfriend, Mateo, is swishy, conniving and a wee bit backstabby.
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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Very narrowly averted in that the hypotenuse doesn’t die even by any active attempt by Sandra, but she nevertheless attempts to perform a version of this when she chooses not to save Carol during the tornado that hits Cloud 9 in the Season 2 finale.

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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: MurderTheHypotenuse: Very narrowly averted in that the hypotenuse doesn’t die even by any active attempt by Sandra, but she nevertheless attempts the attempt to perform a version of this is there when she Sandra chooses not to save Carol during the tornado that hits Cloud 9 in the Season 2 finale.

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* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: The second episode reveals that the company magazine tries to play this up with its cover and Garrett spends the whole episode avoiding the company photographer as a result. Played with in the "Black Friday" episode, in which he inspires the remaining workers to get through their shift, but not for any reason related to his disability - it's because he WILL do the bare minimum at work and won't do any less, even if he wants to.

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* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: The second episode reveals that the company magazine tries to play this up with its cover and Garrett spends the whole episode avoiding the company photographer as a result.
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Played with in the "Black Friday" episode, in which he inspires the remaining workers to get through their shift, but not for any reason related to his disability - it's because he WILL do the bare minimum at work and won't do any less, even if he wants to.



* TwoferTokenMinority: Garrett is black and wheelchair-bound. Played with in the second episode, in which Garrett is very aware that the store’s magazine photographer is looking for him ‘’because’’ he is handicapped.

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* TwoferTokenMinority: Garrett is black and wheelchair-bound. Played with in the second episode, in which Garrett is very aware that the store’s magazine photographer is looking for him ‘’because’’ ''because'' he is handicapped.



A snippy, sarcastic, gay employee who is hired on the same day as Jonah, Mateo is an ambitious young man who sees Cloud 9 as his means of getting somewhere.

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A snippy, sarcastic, gay employee who is hired on the same day as Jonah, Jonah. Mateo is an ambitious young man who sees Cloud 9 as his means of getting somewhere.

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The weary, long-serving floor manager.

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The Cloud 9's weary, long-serving beleaguered, floor manager.
manager, in charge of handling assignments of sales associates on a day-to-day basis. As of the beginning of the series, she has been working at Cloud 9 for ten years.



* DeadpanSnarker: Most especially with Jonah, but known for this by all the emloyees as a whole.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Most especially with Jonah, but known for this by all the emloyees employees as a whole.



A law school dropout, and new employee at the store.

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A One of Cloud 9’s newest employees at the start of the series, Jonah is an overly politically correct law school dropout, and new employee at the store.
dropout that often gets on everyone's nerves, despite his best intentions.



* NumberTwo: In terms of the ranking ladder within the main characters, she should technically be this. She should also be supportive to Glenn since he's the general manager of the store. She's not.



Wheelchair bound, profoundly uninterested PA announcer.

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Wheelchair A wheelchair bound, profoundly uninterested Cloud 9 employee in charge of the PA announcer.
system that aims to make it through his work day doing as little as possible. Doesn’t mean Garrett’s going to do that without poking fun at everyone along the way though.



The snippy, sarcastic gay employee.

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The A snippy, sarcastic sarcastic, gay employee.
employee who is hired on the same day as Jonah, Mateo is an ambitious young man who sees Cloud 9 as his means of getting somewhere.



Airheaded, quintessentially millennial employee/teenage mom.

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Airheaded, An airheaded, quintessentially millennial employee/teenage mom.
teenage employee who works at the cashier. Cheyenne is pregnant at the beginning of the series and gives birth at the end of season 1 to a baby girl named "Harmonica".



Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.

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Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.
manager. What he lacks in full competence, he makes up for in optimism and whole-hearted support for his employees.


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[[folder: Sandra]]

-> '''Played By''': Kaliko Kauahi

A softspoken Cloud 9 employee that is put down more often than not by Dina.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After having suffered half a season of slander and emotional abuse from Carol, Sandra opts to turn away from a chance to save Carol during a sudden tornado that hits Cloud 9.
* TheDogBitesBack: Sandra to Carol, who belittles Sandra for her interest in Jerry, who at that point in the series is Carol’s boyfriend, if only because Sandra had been pretending she was in a relationship in order to garner popularity with her coworkers.
* ExtremeDoormat: Most especially by Dina, who tells her to shut up often.
* HiddenDepths: A trained wet nurse that has eidetic memory.
* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Very narrowly averted in that the hypotenuse doesn’t die even by any active attempt by Sandra, but she nevertheless attempts to perform a version of this when she chooses not to save Carol during the tornado that hits Cloud 9 in the Season 2 finale.
* PhotographicMemory: Sandra states she has this in “Olympics”, and demonstrates so by reminding Dina of the last time she called Sandra pathetic for having photographic memory.

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* * IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Notable in that Mateo hadn't known he WAS illegal until the episode "Olympics" - he'd previously thought that Asians weren’t allowed to vote and that greencards could be bought at the same store as the one where they sell knockoff bags and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bootleg Spider-Man DVDs]].

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* * IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Notable in that Mateo hadn't known he WAS illegal until the episode "Olympics" - he'd previously thought that Asians weren’t allowed to vote and that greencards could be bought at the same store as the one where they sell knockoff bags and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bootleg Spider-Man DVDs]].



* Acrofatic: Still capable of performing a dance routine while eight/nine months pregnant.

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* Acrofatic: {{Acrofatic}}: Still capable of performing a dance routine while eight/nine months pregnant.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Invokes this to sell salsa to customers who are unaware he is Filipino instead of Latino.

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-> Cheyenne’s boyfriend, later husband, and father of her child.

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-> '''Played By:''' Johnny Pemberton

Cheyenne’s boyfriend, later husband, and father of her child.






-> Amy’s husband, a failed entrepreneur that makes grilling videos.

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-> '''Played By:''' Ryan Gaul

Amy’s husband, a failed entrepreneur that makes grilling videos.



-> Amy and Adam’s daughter, whose birth led to Amy’s needing to work at Cloud 9 in order to support her family.

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Amy and Adam’s daughter, whose birth led to Amy’s needing to work at Cloud 9 in order to support her family.
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[[folder:Glenn Sturgis]]

-> ‘’’Played By’’’: Mark {{McKinney}}

St. Louis Cloud 9’s store manager - what he lacks in full competence, he makes up for in optimism and whole-hearted support for his employees.

* CannotKeepASecret: Fails to keep the fact that Amy is going through marriage counseling a secret within the span of two episodes.
* ExtremeDoormat: Glenn, most especially within the corporate structure of Cloud 9. He occasionally tries to subvert this and reject the company’s orders to fire Cheyenne and layoff some of his employees, only to revert back to this the moment he becomes uncomfortable.
* TheFundamentalist: Glenn is very religious and conservative in his way of thinking - he doesn’t like the thought of abortion and doesn’t even know that the store sells the birth control pill until Dina makes him aware of it in Season 2.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tends to overcompensate if he thinks he’s offended someone:
** In “Wedding Sale”, Glenn redesigns a display using two male mannequins when he thinks he’s offended a gay couple. When Mateo brings the aforementioned gay couple to see the new display, all three are… surprised to see that Glenn as also added strobe lights and an excessive amount of glitter as a means of making the display in an attempt to make the display even more appealing.

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[[folder:Jonah Simms]]
-->'''Played by:''' Ben Feldman
A law school dropout, and new employee at the store.

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[[folder:Amy Dubanowski]]
-->'''Played by:''' Ben Feldman
A law school dropout, and new employee at the store.
America Ferrera
The weary, long-serving floor manager.



* BelligerentSexualTension: Her dynamic with Jonah evolves into this over time, and it doesn't help that many employees think the following...
--> '''Garrett''': Can you two be adults and have an affair already?
--> '''Mateo''': Oh my GOD, just BANG ALREADY.
* BerserkButton: Amy tends to overreact when she’s called the responsible one.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most especially with Jonah, but known for this by all the emloyees as a whole.
* IHaveManyNames: Played with. Wears a different name-tag every episode, because she doesn't like people she doesn't know using her name.
* OnlySaneWoman: At times, but occasionally is eccentric enough to fall into the same weirdness that her coworkers do.
* TeenPregnancy: Her marriage is the result of one.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Amy with Jonah. As of the second season midseries finale, Amy is, at the very least, questioning her marriage, and expresses jealousy at seeing Jonah with a potential love interest. [[spoiler:In the second season finale, she and Jonah kiss as a tornado rips through Cloud 9.]]
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[[folder:Jonah Simms]]
-->'''Played by:''' Ben Feldman
A law school dropout, and new employee at the store.
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* MistakenForGay: Amy's husband Adam thought he was gay at first for some reason. Also some customers overheard him trying to pressure Mateo into marrying him, when he was really just trying to help Mateo get a green card.
* NiceGuy: He can be a bit of a intellectual pretentious pain the ass who sometimes puts his foot in his mouth, but Jonah is nice to a fault and almost everything he says or does appears to be for the benefit of someone else.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Many employees think he has this with Amy with how often they argue.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Jonah far too often when it comes to his trying to make a situation better using the wrong thing to say.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Jonah with Amy.
* HiddenDepths: The reason why Jonah is working at Cloud 9 is because he burnt himself at law school to the point of dehydration and ended up in the hospital. His working at Cloud 9 is his way of taking time for himself to slow down.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Doesn’t realize he’s talking to the floor manager in the first episode and accidentally insults her within the first ten seconds of opening his mouth by implying he’s too good to work at Cloud 9... This habit of his isn’t uncommon throughout the rest of the show.
* MistakenForGay: Amy's husband Adam thought he was gay at first for some reason. Also some first. Some customers overheard him trying to pressure Mateo into marrying him, when he was really just trying to help Mateo get a green card.
* NiceGuy: He can be a bit of a intellectual pretentious pain the ass who sometimes puts his foot in his mouth, but Jonah is nice to a fault and almost everything he says or does appears to be for the benefit of someone else.else, even if the situation never turns out the way he expects it to.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Jonah tries to help where he can… which gets him more trouble than reward more often than not. One episode features Jonah trying to help the store pharmacist, only to have literally ALL the pharmacist’s jobs passed on to him for the day.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Many times, but manages it within the first few minutes of the first episode by not realizing he’s offended his floor manager, Amy within the first few minutes of this job.
** He calls Amy sexy after having a few drinks. This hilariously results in more instances of this in the NEXT episode where he attempts to rectify his mistake by using the word sexy in increasingly inappropriate situations to justify casual use of the word.



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Cheyenne informs him of what the others think of the blatant attraction between him and Amy, he launches a string of badly improvised denials for her to hear. He wasn’t very convincing.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Jonah with Amy. [[spoiler: They kiss in the second season finale as a tornado rips through Cloud 9]].



[[folder:Amy Dubanowski]]
-->'''Played by:''' America Ferrera
The weary, long-serving floor manager.

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[[folder:Dina Fox]]
-->'''Played by:''' America Ferrera
Lauren Ash
The weary, long-serving floor oddly serious, drill-instructor like assistant manager.



* BelligerentSexualTension: Her dynamic with Jonah evolves into this over time. She is frequently an unbelievable bitch to him, though it's partly because she's attracted to him.
* IHaveManyNames: Wears a different name-tag every episode, so customers don't learn to remember her.
* OnlySaneWoman: One of two in the store, the other being OnlySaneMan Garrett.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Her dynamic with Jonah evolves into this over time. [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Bird Lady]]: Dina owns several birds. She is frequently an unbelievable bitch leaves messages for them if she finds out she can’t be home for some reason usually having to him, though do with something weird happening at the store.
* FriendsWithBenefits: With Garrett in Season 2.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Proves so on many occasions, but most especially when she immediately and eagerly takes up the mantle of manager of the Cloud 9 Store [[spoiler:when Glenn is fired and EVERYONE walks out.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: At first glance, she’s just as serious about her job as Amy, but she’s just about eccentric as most of the other employees, to even more astonishing effect when she gets too involved in whatever oddity is happening in the store.
* SeriousBusiness: Treats her job like
it's partly because she's attracted to him.
* IHaveManyNames: Wears a different name-tag every episode, so customers don't learn to remember her.
* OnlySaneWoman: One of two in
the store, the other being OnlySaneMan Garrett.most serious thing on Earth.






* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so.Garrett will often point out the ridiculousness of lines that come out other characters, to an almost comedically self-deprecating effect on the parts of the writers.
* DisabledSnarker: If his race isn’t the source of a joke, it’s usually his disability, and he happily runs with it, especially if he knows talking about it will make people uncomfortable.
* FriendsWithBenefits: With Dina in Season 2.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: The second episode reveals that the company magazine tries to play this up with its cover and Garrett spends the whole episode avoiding the company photographer as a result. Played with in the "Black Friday" episode, in which he inspires the remaining workers to get through their shift, but not for any reason related to his disability - it's because he WILL do the bare minimum at work and won't do any less, even if he wants to.



* OnlySaneMan: One of two in the store, the other being OnlySaneWoman Amy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jonah.

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* OnlySaneMan: One Occasionally comes off as this, especially when he’s making announcements on the PA system…
--> '''Garrett:''' Attention shoppers. Breast examinations are NOT being offered as a part
of two Cloud 9’s Wellness Fair. And if they were, they would not be conducted by a teenage boy wearing a Twenty-One Pilots T-Shirt. Shop safely, folks.
* ReallyGetsAround: According to him, he has a healthy sex life and has a handful of work flirts going on at any given point at the same time.
* {{Troll}}: Consistently this towards other employees - he tricks Mateo and Cheyenne into competing for a couch that someone died on despite being in full awareness of the fact that the couch in question actually must be destroyed per Cloud 9 policy.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Garrett is black and wheelchair-bound. Played with
in the store, second episode, in which Garrett is very aware that the other being OnlySaneWoman Amy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jonah.
store’s magazine photographer is looking for him ‘’because’’ he is handicapped.



[[folder:Dina Fox]]
-->'''Played by:''' Lauren Ash
The oddly serious, drill-instructor like assistant manager.

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[[folder:Dina Fox]]
[[folder:Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag]]
-->'''Played by:''' Lauren Ash
Nico Santos
The oddly serious, drill-instructor like assistant manager.snippy, sarcastic gay employee.



* SeriousBusiness: Treats her job like it's the most serious thing on Earth.

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* SeriousBusiness: Treats her job AmbitionIsEvil: Unlike all the other Cloud 9 employees, Mateo thinks of Cloud 9 as a corporate structure to climb, and he’s very eager to impress anyone higher up on the Cloud 9 corporate ladder in order to get somewhere.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In the first episode, Mateo explicitly says to Jonah that he considers Jonah competition and that he’s hoping Jonah fails. Throughout the rest of the series, he’s always the one to point out when Jonah does something wrong.
* CampGay: Very swishy, very camp.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: In the Season 2 finale, Mateo forms an alliance with the Asian/Pacific Islander characters to stage a walkout in the event that Glenn lays any of them off. Midway through the episode, we find out that not only did Mateo form alliances with other characters through various (and somewhat obscure) similarities, but that he had no intention of following through with his established ‘alliances’ as long as he wasn’t at risk.
* DramaQueen: Regarding his occasional disgust with the happenings at Cloud 9 or his relationship with Jeff.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Mateo jumps at any opportunity to do work, but he’s a subversion - Mateo does work incredibly hard, and is incredibly proud of it, but hard work does very little in a superstore where most its customers, its employees, and even its corporate structure doesn’t truly appreciate the notion.
* * IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Notable in that Mateo hadn't known he WAS illegal until the episode "Olympics" - he'd previously thought that Asians weren’t allowed to vote and that greencards could be bought at the same store as the one where they sell knockoff bags and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bootleg Spider-Man DVDs]].
* OverlyLongName: Mateo’s full name, while only composing of four in total, seems
like it's this. [[RealityEnsues In reality]], it isn’t uncommon for Filipino names to be about that long, if not longer.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Filipino and gay. Attempts to play with various versions of this trope in the second season finale, in which he forms work alliances with many different groups of coworkers even for
the most serious thing on Earth.obscure reasons.






* Acrofatic: Still capable of performing a dance routine while eight/nine months pregnant.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Until “Cheyenne’s Wedding”, where her relatives are revealed to be Japanese.
* BuffySpeak: Occasionally falls into this, being the youngest employee and still in high school.
* FutureLoser: Amy, having once been in Cheyenne’s position as a pregnant teen, recognizes that Cheyenne is on the way to becoming, well, Amy herself in ten years. As such, Amy recognizes that her station in life is not ideal for herself or for her family, and often tries to encourage Cheyenne and Bo to think about their future life as parents.



* TeenPregnancy: Pregnant at the start of the series, and still in high school.



[[folder:Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag]]
-->'''Played by:''' Nico Santos
The snippy, sarcastic gay employee.

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[[folder:Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag]]

[[folder:Glenn Sturgis]]
-->'''Played by:''' Nico Santos
The snippy, sarcastic gay employee.
Mark [=McKinney=]
Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.



* CampGay: Very swishy, very camp.
* IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Which comes around to bite him later in the show, and nearly gets him deported.

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* CampGay: Very swishy, CannotKeepASecret: Fails to keep the fact that Amy is going through marriage counseling a secret within the span of two episodes.
* ExtremeDoormat: Glenn, most especially within the corporate structure of Cloud 9. He occasionally tries to subvert this and reject the company’s orders to fire Cheyenne and layoff some of his employees, only to revert back to this the moment he becomes uncomfortable.
* TheFundamentalist: Glenn is
very camp.
religious and conservative in his way of thinking - he is uncomfortable (but not close-minded to) the mention of Mateo's homosexuality, doesn’t like the thought of abortion and doesn’t even know that the store sells the birth control pill until Dina makes him aware of it in Season 2.
* IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Which NiceGuy: However boneheaded his methods, Glenn is a sweet, genial guy.
* StepfordSmiler: Glenn's happy facade starts cracking early, and finally breaks before season 1 is over. He
comes back around to bite him later this state in Season 2.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tends to overcompensate if he thinks he’s offended someone:
** In “Wedding Sale”, Glenn redesigns a display using two male mannequins when he thinks he’s offended a gay couple. When Mateo brings
the show, aforementioned gay couple to see the new display, all three are… surprised to see that Glenn as also added strobe lights and nearly gets him deported.an excessive amount of glitter as a means of making the display in an attempt to make the display even more appealing to them. [[DoNotExplainTheJoke Because they're gay]].



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-->'''Played by:''' Mark [=McKinney=]
Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.
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* NiceGuy: However boneheaded his methods, Glenn is a sweet, genial guy.
* StepfordSmiler: Glenn's happy facade starts cracking early, and finally breaks before season 1 is over.

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Mark [=McKinney=]
{{McKinney}}

St. Louis
Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.
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* NiceGuy: However boneheaded
9’s store manager - what he lacks in full competence, he makes up for in optimism and whole-hearted support for his methods, employees.

* CannotKeepASecret: Fails to keep the fact that Amy is going through marriage counseling a secret within the span of two episodes.
* ExtremeDoormat: Glenn, most especially within the corporate structure of Cloud 9. He occasionally tries to subvert this and reject the company’s orders to fire Cheyenne and layoff some of his employees, only to revert back to this the moment he becomes uncomfortable.
* TheFundamentalist:
Glenn is a sweet, genial guy.
* StepfordSmiler: Glenn's happy facade starts cracking early,
very religious and finally breaks before season 1 conservative in his way of thinking - he doesn’t like the thought of abortion and doesn’t even know that the store sells the birth control pill until Dina makes him aware of it in Season 2.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tends to overcompensate if he thinks he’s offended someone:
** In “Wedding Sale”, Glenn redesigns a display using two male mannequins when he thinks he’s offended a gay couple. When Mateo brings the aforementioned gay couple to see the new display, all three are… surprised to see that Glenn as also added strobe lights and an excessive amount of glitter as a means of making the display in an attempt to make the display even more appealing.

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[[folder: Bo Derek Thompson]]
-> Cheyenne’s boyfriend, later husband, and father of her child.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His attempts to impress Cheyenne or ensure stability for his family comes off as this. He holds Cloud 9 up at gunpoint and flashmobs Cheyenne to propose to her, tries to get Glenn to cosign for a house he wants his family to live in, and very nearly robs Cloud 9 when he realizes he also needs to contribute financially to his daughter.
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[[folder:Adam Dubanowski]]
-> Amy’s husband, a failed entrepreneur that makes grilling videos.

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[[folder:Emma Dubanowski]]
-> Amy and Adam’s daughter, whose birth led to Amy’s needing to work at Cloud 9 in order to support her family.

* DeadpanSnarker: It comes from having a mother like Amy. This
is over.what clues Jonah in to her being Amy’s daughter.
* MenstrualMenace: She gets her period in the first episode we meet her in, resulting in her hiding in the bathroom and Jonah trying to walk her through what she needs to do when she gets one - this also inadvertently results in Dina discovering her presence in the store at some point, which is not allowed within Cloud 9’s policies.
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Jonah Simms

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Jonah Simms[[folder:Jonah Simms]]
-->'''Played by:''' Ben Feldman
A law school dropout, and new employee at the store.
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Amy Dubanowski

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[[folder:Amy Dubanowski]]
-->'''Played by:''' America Ferrera
The weary, long-serving floor manager.
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* IHaveManyNames: Wears a different name-tag every episode, so customers don't learn to remember her.




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[[folder:Garrett [=McNeill=]]]
-->'''Played by:''' Colton Dunn
Wheelchair bound, profoundly uninterested PA announcer.
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* LazyBum: Prides himself on doing the bare minimum at work. Though he refuses to do any less than that.



* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jonah.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jonah.Jonah.
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[[folder:Dina Fox]]
-->'''Played by:''' Lauren Ash
The oddly serious, drill-instructor like assistant manager.
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* SeriousBusiness: Treats her job like it's the most serious thing on Earth.
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[[folder:Cheyenne Tyler Lee]]
-->'''Played by:''' Nichole Bloom
Airheaded, quintessentially millennial employee/teenage mom.
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* NiceGirl: Probably the out and out nicest employee at the store.
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[[folder:Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag]]
-->'''Played by:''' Nico Santos
The snippy, sarcastic gay employee.
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* CampGay: Very swishy, very camp.
* IllegalImmigrant: An undocumented Filipino. Which comes around to bite him later in the show, and nearly gets him deported.
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[[folder:Glenn Sturgis]]
-->'''Played by:''' Mark McKinney
Cloud 9's religious, people-pleaser manager.
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* NiceGuy: However boneheaded his methods, Glenn is a sweet, genial guy.
* StepfordSmiler: Glenn's happy facade starts cracking early, and finally breaks before season 1 is over.
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** Finally confirmed outright in "Spring Cleaning."



* PrettyBoy: Lampshaded on numerous occasions

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* PrettyBoy: Lampshaded on numerous occasions
occasions.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Garrett.
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* MistakenForGay: Amy's husband Adam thought he was gay at first for some reason. Also some customers overheard him trying to pressure Mateo into marrying him, when he was really just trying to help Mateo get a green card.
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* PrettyBoy: Lampshaded on numerous occasions

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* PrettyBoy: Lampshaded on numerous occasionsoccasions

Amy Dubanowski
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her dynamic with Jonah evolves into this over time. She is frequently an unbelievable bitch to him, though it's partly because she's attracted to him.
* OnlySaneWoman: One of two in the store, the other being OnlySaneMan Garrett.

Garrett McNeill
* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so.
* OnlySaneMan: One of two in the store, the other being OnlySaneWoman Amy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jonah.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: He looks Jewish and Dina even guesses that he is, but he never outright confirms or denies this and never mentions any family traditions, even during the holiday episodes.



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*NiceGuy: He can be a bit of a intellectual pretentious pain the ass who sometimes puts his foot in his mouth, but Jonah is nice to a fault and almost everything he says or does appears to be for the benefit of someone else.

*PrettyBoy: Lampshaded on numerous occasions
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