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* TookALevelInKindness: She evolves into a LovableAlphaBitch in later seasons.
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* TookALevelInKindness: She evolves into a LovableAlphaBitch in later seasons. [[spoiler: She seems to have regressed in Series/That90sShow.]]
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* FirstGuyWins: [[spoiler:The first guy Jackie dates and, as ''That '90s Show'' reveals, the one she ultimately ended up with.]]
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* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertedness because of her and is visibly disturbed by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
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* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook Brooke pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertedness because of her and is visibly disturbed by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
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* ControlFreak: Often bossing Kelso around and telling him what to do.
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* ControlFreak: Often bossing Kelso around and telling him what to do. [[spoiler: In That 90s Show, she's extremely controlling and mildly abusive towards him.]]
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler:''That '90s Show'' reveals that despite being as geeky as ever, he has become both of his parents. He's clingy and always worried about his daughter just like Kitty, but tells Leia that if she doesn't listen to him he will put his foot in her ass just like Red.]]
* TheyDo: [[spoiler:The show ends with Eric returning to Point Place with his relationship with Donna unclear, but the sequel series showed they did get married and had a daughter.]]
* TheyDo: [[spoiler:The show ends with Eric returning to Point Place with his relationship with Donna unclear, but the sequel series showed they did get married and had a daughter.]]
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* ChivalrousPervert: His creepy perversion and sex obsession rivals Kelso but unlike Kelso, he's more sensitive to women's feelings and is more gentlemanly than most characters. Fez shows that he can actually be quite charming and is also a good dancer but is often dismissed for being an eccentric and immature foreigner that's naive to American culture and etiquette which also makes Fez feel quite lonely and insecure.
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* ChivalrousPervert: His creepy perversion and sex obsession rivals Kelso but unlike Kelso, he's more sensitive to women's feelings and is more gentlemanly than most characters. Fez shows that he can actually be quite charming and is also a good dancer but is often dismissed for being an eccentric and immature foreigner that's naive to American culture and etiquette which also makes Fez feel quite lonely and insecure.insecure
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kelso.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kelso, with the two become very close friends over the course of the show. [[spoiler:Which only makes it more sad that Fez now hates Kelso by ''That '90s Show'' due to Jackie leaving him for Kelso.]]
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* UnPerson: Due to his actor's legal troubles, he isn't referred to at all in ''Series/That90sShow'', nor are any clips of him included in Fez's flashback scene in the season finale.
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* NonSpecificallyForeign: He is from some ambiguous foreign country (probably from somewhere in South or Central America). Most likely a former colony, as it's revealed in the last season it has a sizeable population of British and Dutch citizens.
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* NonSpecificallyForeign: He is from some ambiguous foreign country (probably from somewhere in South or Central America). Most likely a former colony, as it's revealed in the last season it has a sizeable population of British and Dutch citizens. They also apparently won a war against the English.
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!!Jacqueline "Jackie" Burkhart
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!!Jacqueline Beulah "Jackie" Burkhart
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The main character. A high school boy living in Point Place, Wisconsin, and son of Red and Kitty Forman. Is a sci-fi geek but has a wild streak in him that emerges from time to time. Towards the end of the series, [[spoiler:he moves to Africa for a year to teach in order to further his career]].
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The main character.protagonist [[spoiler:of the first seven seasons]]. A high school boy living in Point Place, Wisconsin, and son of Red and Kitty Forman. Is a sci-fi geek but has a wild streak in him that emerges from time to time. Towards the end of the series, [[spoiler:he moves to Africa for a year to teach in order to further his career]].
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[[folder:Laurie Forman]]
!!Lauren "Laurie" Forman
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!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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!!Lauren "Laurie" Forman
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!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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!!Lauren "Laurie" Forman
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!!Randy Pearson
!!!'''Played By:'''
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso
The new guy for season 8. Very polite and
* TheAce: Ladies man, good with tools, and full of ideas.
* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Eric and Kelso.
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[[folder:Laurie Forman]]
!!Lauren "Laurie" Forman
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[[caption-width-right:222:''"I'll do anything for ten dollars."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Eric and Kelso.
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[[folder:Laurie Forman]]
!!Lauren "Laurie" Forman
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[[caption-width-right:222:''"I'll do anything for ten dollars."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Josh Meyers}}
The new guy for season 8. Very polite and laid-back. Quickly joins the group and dates Donna after Eric left for Africa.
!!Randy Pearson
!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Josh Meyers}}
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!!Randy Pearson
!!Charlie Richardson
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The new guy
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* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Eric and Kelso.
* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
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* TheAce: Ladies man, good with tools, and full of ideas.
* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker:AccidentalPervert: He has also accidentally walks in on Kitty naked, much to Red's anger. ''Twice''.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After seemingly being Eric'ssense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyersreplacement for the last season, he falls off the water tower in the first episode. Naturally, the audience thinks that he's okay...until the water tower is renamed the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower. The character was put on intended to last longer, but Harrisson was offered the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up lead role for the short-lived series ''Series/TheLoop'' and he chose not to continue being on left the show.
*MrFixit: He forms a friendship with NaiveNewcomer: And ''how''. After getting drunk in front of Red, he wishes to apologize to Red after showing Red how good and that he'll understand, to which Eric understandably laughs. And if ''that'' wasn't enough, he even [[IdiotBall takes advice from Kelso before calling him a "genius".]] Though it is at fixing things.
understandable since he just joined the gang and went to a Catholic school.
* NiceGuy:Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
Arguably the ''most'' nice person in the entire series, though incredibly naive.
* SixthRanger:Joins Played straight when he first appears. He quickly gains respect when he invites the group in the final season.
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!!Charlie Richardson
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!!Charlie Richardson
!!!'''Played By:''' {{Creator/Bret Harrison}}
The new guy who hangs out with the gang at the end of season 7... [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for only four episodes]]. He's the son of a friend of Red's back in the war and has only a few memorable moments.
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!!Charlie Richardson
!!Angie Barnett
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The new guy who hangs out with the gang at the end of season 7... [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for only four episodes]]. He's the son of a friend of Red's back
Hyde's half-sister introduced in the
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* AccidentalPervert: He accidentally walks in on Kitty naked, much to Red's anger. ''Twice''.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After seemingly being Eric's replacement for the last season, he falls off the water tower in the first episode. Naturally, the audience thinks that he's okay...until the water tower is renamed the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower. The character was intended to last longer, but Harrisson was offered the lead role for the short-lived series ''Series/TheLoop'' and left the show.
* NaiveNewcomer: And ''how''. After getting drunk in front of Red, he wishes to apologize to Red and that he'll understand, to which Eric understandably laughs. And if ''that'' wasn't enough, he even [[IdiotBall takes advice from Kelso before calling him a "genius".]] Though it is understandable since he just joined the gang and went to a Catholic school.
* NiceGuy: Arguably the ''most'' nice person in the entire series, though incredibly naive.
* SixthRanger: Played straight when he first appears. He quickly gains respect when he invites the boys into his father's beer warehouse.
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!!Angie Barnett
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke
Hyde's half-sister introduced in the 7th Season. She and Hyde co-own a record store. She only appeared in eight episodes of the show.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After seemingly being Eric's replacement for the last season, he falls off the water tower in the first episode. Naturally, the audience thinks that he's okay...until the water tower is renamed the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower. The character was intended to last longer, but Harrisson was offered the lead role for the short-lived series ''Series/TheLoop'' and left the show.
* NaiveNewcomer: And ''how''. After getting drunk in front of Red, he wishes to apologize to Red and that he'll understand, to which Eric understandably laughs. And if ''that'' wasn't enough, he even [[IdiotBall takes advice from Kelso before calling him a "genius".]] Though it is understandable since he just joined the gang and went to a Catholic school.
* NiceGuy: Arguably the ''most'' nice person in the entire series, though incredibly naive.
* SixthRanger: Played straight when he first appears. He quickly gains respect when he invites the boys into his father's beer warehouse.
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!!Angie Barnett
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Hyde's half-sister introduced in the 7th Season. She and Hyde co-own a record store. She only appeared in eight episodes of the show.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Because his life starts to turn around as well as having several positive influences in his life, Hyde starts to mellow out more.
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* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertness because of her and is visibly disturb by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
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* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertness pervertedness because of her and is visibly disturb disturbed by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[JustForFun/That70sShow here]].
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[JustForFun/That70sShow [[JustForFun/FootInYourAss here]].
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[FootInYourAss/That70sShow here]].
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[FootInYourAss/That70sShow [[JustForFun/That70sShow here]].
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* ChildhoodBrainDamage: He was apparently dropped on his head when he was a baby.
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'''Kelso:''' Yes! I ''was''! And up until now, everyone had the good grace not to mention it!
-->'''Kitty:''' What is wrong with you?! Were you dropped on your head?!\\
'''Kelso:''' Yes! I ''was''! And up until now, everyone had the good grace not to mention it!
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* CallingParentsByTheirName: Because of his poor relationship with them, Hyde calls his parents by their names, sometimes right at their faces. Since Edna and Bud are horrible parents to begin with, they don't seem to mind. Hyde also calls his actual (and much nicer) father as his name as well though this is mostly because he doesn't know him well.
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!!Rhonda Tate
!!!'''Played by:''' Cynthia Lamontagne
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Rhonda Tate, commonly called "Big Rhonda", is a student at Point Place High School who dated Fez during season 4.
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* TinyGuyHugeGirl: She's taller than Fez, and is able to lift ''him'' up when they hug.
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!!Rhonda Tate
!!!'''Played by:''' Cynthia Lamontagne
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I may not be popular, but given the chance, I'll put out something fierce."'']]
Rhonda Tate, commonly called "Big Rhonda", is a student at Point Place High School who dated Fez during season 4.
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* IronButtMonkey: He's the member of the group most likely to be injured, whether by falling flat on his face while trying to show his dance moves, falling off the local water tower, jumping out of a moving car, constantly setting himself on fire, trying moronic stunts like "car skiing" or [[NoodleIncident somehow burning himself under water.]]
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy (TheLadette, FieryRedhead, and OneOfTheBoys) to Jackie's Girly Girl (ProudBeauty, TheCheerleader, (ProudBeauty and LovableAlphaBitch).
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* SitcomArchNemesis: To the entire group barring Kelso. She became a better person towards the end of Season 5, when both Red and Kitty took over the SitcomArchNemesis role. When she returned in Season 6 (different actress and portrayal), she was the SitcomArchNemesis only to Fez, with whom she [[CitizenshipMarriage married earlier on]].
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* SitcomArchNemesis: To the entire group barring Kelso.Mostly antagonizing Eric, Hyde and Jackie. She became a better person towards the end of Season 5, when both Red and Kitty took over the SitcomArchNemesis role. When she returned in Season 6 (different actress and portrayal), she was the SitcomArchNemesis only to Fez, with whom she [[CitizenshipMarriage married earlier on]].
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* HollywoodNerd: Eric's not that bad-looking, but he is a huge geek and often seen as a pathetic weakling. Some characters wonder how he hooked up with Donna. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan She's got her reasons]].
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!Kids
[[folder:Eric Forman]]
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[[caption-width-right:256:''"God, I feel like I'm Luke Skywalker, ya know?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/TopherGrace
The main character. A high school boy living in Point Place, Wisconsin, and son of Red and Kitty Forman. Is a sci-fi geek but has a wild streak in him that emerges from time to time. Towards the end of the series, [[spoiler:he moves to Africa for a year to teach in order to further his career]].
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* AllMenArePerverts: Despite being the NiceGuy and, usually, the OnlySaneMan of the group, he can be just as horny as Hyde and Kelso.
* AmazonChaser: When he and Donna first met as kids, he commented in an impressed, amazed tone on how strong she was.
* BackForTheFinale: After being PutOnABus for Season 8.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Forman Rage is strong in this one, as Red proudly pointed out. Eric is a geeky and socially awkward klutz who can never really put up much of a fight... unless he's defending someone he cares about. Anytime his friends or family are being mistreated, he immediately shakes off his usual cowardice and leaps to their defense, whether it be from school bullies, random drunks, or his own dad. "The Keg," "Grandma's Dead," and "What is and What Should Never Be" are all episodes with shining examples of this.
* BookSmart: Despite Red's insistance that "the only smart thing about you is your mouth," there are frequent indications that Eric does very well in school, at least when outside factors don't intefere. He is, however, naive about other matters, at least at the beginning of the series.
* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: He loves Donna, but both of them have doubts about consummating their relationship until mid-Season 2.
* ButtMonkey: Guess who's the butt of the jokes 80% of the time?
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early on, Eric was far less of a DeadpanSnarker and more a put-upon everyman, ThisLoserIsYou kinda guy. His fandom of ''Franchise/StarWars'' was also originally not limited to him, but extended to the rest of the male members of the gang as well. In addition, Eric becomes lazier to near childish levels in the later seasons.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Donna, as they befriended each other as children, dated as teens, and continue with a WillTheyOrWontThey to their adulthood.
* CoolLoser: He's good-looking and likable but gets picked on.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As weak as he's often made out to be, he always displays "the Forman rage" whenever he's in a fight. He's also a deadly accurate shooter.
* DeadpanSnarker: This quality is why Red calls him "Smartmouth", [[BlatantLies a trait Red says he gets from his mother]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: He does this a lot. Hyde calls him "Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould of Screwing Yourself".
* DitzyGenius: He has moments of being rational, intelligent and is shown to have a good work ethic due to his geekiness but is just as goofy, impulsive, and immature as most of the group.
* TheDogBitesBack: Eric, of all people, calls out on Red, of all people, who'd rather keep his Corvette and refuse to be there for Kitty when she's pregnant.
* DumbassTeenageSon: He's this in the eyes of his father Red, and while he's nowhere near as dumb as Kelso, neither is he a paragon of sensibility.
* TheDutifulSon: He is this compared to his sister Laurie. After Red has a heart attack (which Laurie was partly responsible for causing), she ditches the family. Eric, meanwhile, puts off going to college to get a job as a waiter to help support the family. Red begins to acknowledge this more and more as the series goes on.
* ExtremeDoormat: In an alternate future where he never kissed Donna, he's no longer has the smart mouth that Red complains about, but he is also a complete pushover.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:
** The responsible to Laurie's foolish.
** After Hyde moves in at the end of the first season, he can be seen as the foolish to Hyde's responsible.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* GeekPhysiques: He's often teased for his skinniness.
* GeekyAnalogy: Keeps comparing himself to Luke Skywalker, or sometimes Franchise/SpiderMan. The latter becomes funnier since his actor would eventually play [[Film/SpiderMan3 Venom]].
* TheHero: Main protagonist of the show.
* HeroesWantRedheads: With Donna, although he loved it when she went blonde in season seven.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Hyde. They both were able to say "Indy 500" simultaneously when having to come up with a lie about what they were talking about when Kelso showed up.
* HollywoodNerd: Eric's not that bad-looking, but he is a huge geek and often seen as a pathetic weakling. Some characters wonder how he hooked up with Donna. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan She's got her reasons]].
* HonorBeforeReason: After Casey broke up with her, Donna was distraught and eventually went back to Eric. However, he pushed her away on the grounds that he won't just be some second choice on the rebound. He had too much dignity for that, much to the confusion of his parents. ''Kitty'' calls him a dumbass for it.
-->'''Red:''' So, you're too proud to take her back? And what do you have to be so proud of? You're not an athlete. The only smart thing about you is your mouth. And look at you.\\
'''Kitty:''' Red, he looks fine. He's just so darn stupid!
* HypocriticalHumor: He wasn't happy about Kelso fooling around with Laurie, in part because of how annoying he found Hyde's "nailed your sister" jokes. He gleefully changes his tune in Season 7 when Kelso hooks up with Angie (Hyde's half-sister), saying he "suddenly" realized how funny those jokes can be.
-->'''Eric''': Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Kelso nailed your sister.
* InformedFlaw: Is constantly mocked as geeky and unattractive. While he is a geek through and through, he is far from ugly. Though most insults tend to focus on him being a geek rather than his looks. Aside from Donna, several attractive women ([[EvenTheGuysWantHim and even one man]]) express an interest in him over the course of the series.
* IUhYouToo: When Donna first tells him that she loves him, his response is "I love... cake."
* JerkassBall: More and more often as time goes on.
* LastNameBasis: He is referred to by his last name by Hyde.
* LazyBum: After Hyde moves in with the Formans and starts pitching in with chores, he discovers that they're actually not too difficult and concludes that Eric's constant complaints about them were because he was just being lazy.
* LovableNerd: He's socially awkward, clumsy, and geeky but usually manages to be charming, sweet-natured, and lovable.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine boy to Donna's masculine girl.
-->'''Kitty''': "Eric? Honey, could you get the Thanksgiving turkey out of the freezer? Oh, wait. It's a 20-pounder. Donna, could you get the Thanksgiving turkey out of the freezer?"
* MistakenForGay: By Buddy in Season 1. When Eric asks Buddy why he made a move on him, Buddy explains his attraction is very likely the same things Donna likes about him and there was probably a little wishful thinking involved too.
* MommasBoy: To Kitty.
* MotiveDecay: Deconstructed. Previously, Eric wanted to leave home and be with Donna, but the former got derailed by Red's heart attack at the end of Season 5, while the wedding was ultimately called off at the end of Season 6. At the start of Season 7, Eric decides to just take a year off and do various goofy activities--much to Red's increasing irritation. It reaches a head in "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and Eric admits he just doesn't want to lock himself into a path he might hate later. Red agrees to give him six months to figure out what he wants, and Eric ultimately decides to become a teacher.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Zigzags. He is shown to be not very strong, but when he fights he completely dominates guys that have much more weight, except for Hyde.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One episode reveals that he sleeps in the nude sometimes. Red spends the rest of the episode ribbing him about it.
* NeverMyFault: Often does this in many episodes. He was caught masturbating in the bathroom by Donna in one episode and then blames her because she doesn't want to have sex with him.
* NiceGuy: This quality makes him stand out from the rest of the group; Eric is always willing to help someone out. But he can be very cocky, brash, and insensitive sometimes.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Noble to Hyde's Roguish. Zigzagged in later seasons.
* ObliviousToLove: He's actually oblivious that he is still in love with Donna in season four after breaking up with her in the previous season. His family and friends on the other hand can still see it. It took some scolding from his parents and seeing Donna moving on for him to finally realize his feelings for her.
* OnlySaneMan: To his friends and usually his parents.
* PutOnABus: At the end of Season 7.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Lampshaded by Jackie.
-->'''Jackie''': Michael's the looks, Steven's the brains, and you? Your house has food.
* RunawayFiance: [[spoiler:By the end of Season 6, Eric had doubts about going through with his marriage with Donna and runs away. Donna was initially furious, but after a talk with a returning Eric, both of them admitted that they were not ready for marriage]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Hyde's manly man.
* SmallNameBigEgo: As Red usually scolds him, "The only smart thing about him is his mouth," yet he often brags about how great he is.
* SpoiledBrat: Hyde feels that Eric's one because he's a lazy, mouthy, selfish, and whiny MommasBoy but he's obviously not as bad as his sister.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Later seasons portrayed Eric as a selfish, brash, and lazy manchild with zero ambition and doesn't know what to do with his life.
* TheUnfavorite: He begins the show as this to his father Red. [[JockDadNerdSon Red seems to find it difficult to relate to him as he's not into sports and his personality isn't very similar.]] This changes over the course of the series as Eric proves himself the more responsible sibling upon learning of [[ReallyGetsAround Laurie's behavior]], and on occasion will tell Eric how proud he is of him.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hyde.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He's always looking for Red's approval.
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[[folder:Donna Pinciotti]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:''"If women don't learn to stand up for themselves, men will always control the world."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/LauraPrepon
The GirlNextDoor to Eric's house. Has a fling with Eric that over time turns serious. Their relationship is generally the main focus of the show. Has some ups and downs with Eric and has broken up with him a few times. Was intending to go to college but decided to stay behind to continue her relationship with Eric. After [[spoiler:Eric leaves, she starts dating a new guy named Randy]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She spends much of the show hooked up with Eric, but otherwise is very attracted to bad boys like Hyde or Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Eric will often attempt to be more rebellious to impress her, and she's visibly more into him when he shows his wild side. This is what made her briefly hook up with the roguish-but-selfish Casey Kelso.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A lot, though not quite as much in later seasons.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: To Bob, both out of rebellion and when he's doing something she doesn't want or like. The only reason she's not called out on it is because Bob's an ExtremeDoormat. He does, however, snap back at her when she tries to get him to stop dating Jackie's nmom.
* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: She loves Eric, but both of them have doubts about consummating their relationship until mid-Season 2.
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: In Season 5, Bob sent her to Catholic school as punishment for running away to California. Eric, and all the other guys for that matter, doesn't mind the uniform at all.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Eric, as they befriended each other as children, dated as teens, and continue with a WillTheyOrWontThey to their adulthood.
* CloserToEarth: Tends to be the voice of reason in the group, though she occasionally shares this role with either Eric or Hyde.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially around Jackie.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: In "The Seeker", Donna accidentally knocks Hyde off the water tower with what is supposed to be a light, friendly tap.
--> How am I stronger than ''all'' the guys I hang out with?
* DrugsAreBad: Her smoking ends up getting Eric suspended. She asked him to hold her cigarette, and a teacher caught him with it.
* DudeMagnet: A vast majority of male characters from Hyde, Kelso, Kelso's brother Casey, Fez to many one-time minor characters had an interest in Donna (although Kelso and Fez are into AnythingThatMoves). Emphasized later when she works in the radio station's booth as "Hot Donna". She's initially embarrassed at being a LustObject for guys to leer at ("Hot Donna has now signed 87 guys! And two girls") but then she starts enjoying it.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Dying her hair blonde caused quite a stir in Point Place. Granted, she was considered attractive when she was a redhead. (Laura Prepon dyed her hair for a different role.)
* FieryRedhead: A redhead with an aggressive and passionate personality, until she dyed it blonde in Season 7.
* GeniusBruiser: She is the most muscular and the strongest in the group, and one of the smarter ones.
* GirlNextDoor: To Eric.
* HollywoodGenetics: Donna is a natural redhead, however her mom is a blonde and her dad has dark brown hair.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In one episode she gets angry with Eric for making plans with his friends without checking with her first. At the end of the episode she makes him promise that he'll always check with her before making time with his friends. Eric then asks Donna if she needs his permission to hang out with her friends, to which she replies "no" and leaves to go see a friend.
** And in another episode she yells at Eric for going on ''two dates'' with another girl while she and Eric were broken up. Donna, meanwhile, had ''slept'' with Casey Kelso around the same time.
** Also calls Eric out for his insecurity and not trusting her in "Radio Daze" after she announced to the whole town (including the DJ who was clearly attracted her based on calling her "Hot Donna") that she was single and never bothered to talk to him about it. While this wasn't the first time Eric had been jealous, she behaved the same way to him in "Eric's Panties".
* InformedAttractiveness: While not ugly by any means, she's repeatedly stated to be one of the most attractive girls in town. Except by Jackie, who states that she looks like a trucker. Though this ''is'' Jackie we're talking about.
* {{Jerkass}}: From time to time. She can be really petty, abrasive and arrogant.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: What she really is.
* InVinoVeritas: When drunk or in "the circle" she has a tendency to act the loopiest of any of the gang, to downright CloudCuckoolander levels.
* TheLadette: A trait that Jackie bemoans all the time.
* MaleGaze: In the episode The Best Christmas Ever, Donna is on a ladder, bending over to put decorations on the Christmas tree. She asks “Okay, how does that look?” in reference to the tree. But Eric and Hyde look over and look at her butt for a moment. In the episode Moon Over Point Place, in the circle, the camera focuses on her shaking her ass. In the credits of the episode, the same thing occurs, though it involves the whole cast this time.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine girl to Eric's feminine boy. [[spoiler: also with Randy, who is quite vain]].
* MsFanservice: Donna is very attractive, and everyone knows it, and on the radio, she is known as "Hot Donna" for obvious reasons. She also shook her ass at the camera.
* OneOfTheBoys: She's just as likely to get down and dirty as the rest of the guys in the group, if not more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Just like Eric, to the point where Kelso jokingly refers to them as "Mom and Dad".
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates the notion that being feminine automatically means being "girly", and so she typically wears jeans and long-sleeved or plaid shirts. Jackie often calls this her lumberjack look. Despite this, she's worn long dresses on special occasions and had to wear a skirt as part of her school uniform.
* ShakingTheRump: In Moon Over Point Place, she shakes her butt at the camera.
* SheCleansUpNicely: In her prom dress, she gets the attention of many male background characters. Also, when she wears the catholic schoolgirl outfit in "I Can't Quit You, Baby", she gets this reaction from the other characters.
* ShoeSizeAngst: Has big feet which she is sometimes teased about.
* TheSmartGirl: But she's also TheBigGirl.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's a DudeMagnet and quite tall[[note]]The actress that plays her, Creator/LauraPrepon is 5'10"[[/note]], especially compared to [[PetitePride Jackie]].
* StrawFeminist: Verges on this at several points, mostly DependingOnTheWriter. Sometime's it's portrayed realistically, sometime's it's PlayedForLaughs.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The strong girl to Hyde's Smart Guy.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy (TheLadette, FieryRedhead, and OneOfTheBoys) to Jackie's Girly Girl (ProudBeauty, TheCheerleader, and LovableAlphaBitch).
* TomboyishVoice: She's a tomboy played by deep-voiced Laura Prepon.
* TookALevelInKindness: Donna is noticably far less bitchy in the second half of the series.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: She definitely takes more after her mother.
* UnkemptBeauty: In universe, gets the most compliments from the guys when she isn't dolled up.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jackie, much to Donna's dismay.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Many people (including Eric himself on occasion) don't understand what the heck Donna is doing with Eric.
-->'''Eric''': Donna? I just have to ask... why me? I mean there are so many other guys who are way better looking.\\
'''Donna''': [[SarcasmMode You know you're right, if only I could be with some handsome jock who was mean and shallow and didn't make me laugh]].
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[[folder:Steven Hyde]]
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[[caption-width-right:254:''"The government '''is''' out to get you."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Danny Masterson}}
Troubled kid with a dysfunctional family and rarely attends school. His mother is very loose and he lived alone in a dilapidated house until he moved in with the Formans. Has a tendency to suspect [[ConspiracyTheorist various doings behind the scenes]]. Is usually the one who brings "the stuff" to the Formans' basement.
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* AccidentalMarriage: His relationship with Sam was this as they drunkenly got married during Hyde's stay in Vegas. [[spoiler:And like many other example of this, it was also "Accidental Bigamy" as Sam was already married and never divorced her first husband, so her marriage with Hyde isn't valid, and she returned to Vegas.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: He's probably the smartest character on the show, but has [[TheSlacker no ambition or motivation to do anything but sit around in a basement.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Well let's just say don't expect him to sugarcoat anything. When interviewed for a job at Fatso Burger, he even states that his weakness is being brutally honest, and immediately calls the interviewer a pinhead.
* CallingTheOldManOut: After holding it, Hyde finally vents at Bud for abandoning him and then coming back like nothing happened. Bud doesn't even try to fight back, copping to every bad thing he did and saying he deserves to be yelled at. This infuriates Hyde even further because it's no fun doing this trope when the target immediately caves. They have some beers instead.
* CharacterDevelopment: While he still stays the same lazy stoner at his core, he does mature and become more responsible thanks to Kitty and Red's influence.
* ChocolateBaby: After Hyde meets his real father, William Barnett, who's black, Hyde mentions his mother must have been pretty relieved when he came out white.
* ConspiracyTheorist:
** "There's this car that runs on water, man."
** According to Hyde, Creator/StevenSpielberg directed a fake moon landing for the government - which "is how he got the job for ''Film/{{Jaws}}''."
* CommitmentIssues: Mostly the reason he and Jackie broke up.
* CoolShades: He is always seen in these.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's the king of sarcasm.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Hates the idea of anyone feeling sorry for him, after his mother abandoned him Eric had a hard time getting him to accept help, it took Red basically forcing him to move in with the Foremans to snap him out of it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The writers for the show initially had plans for a Hyde-Donna-Eric love triangle, and that dynamic was very clearly present in Season 1. However, plans changed to have Hyde's character revolve around his familial bonds, and hence in future seasons he didn't treat her any different that he did with the guys.
* EruditeStoner: Fits this trope to a T.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: More than anyone else, Kitty can bring out Hyde's softer side. In one episode he's the ''only'' person who remembers her birthday.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He's tempted but stops himself from stealing jewelry at Beatrice's funeral.
** During the period Kelso was cheating on Jackie with Laurie, Hyde repeatedly needled him and set up traps to expose or embarrass him. That amused him, but he absolutely refused to tell Jackie himself, as he sincerely believes friends shouldn't rat on each other. For this particular example, Hyde also chides Donna for giving Eric a hard time for not telling her about any of this and says the guy deserves a break in return for all the things he does for her.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the second season episode, "Halloween", Eric learned that Hyde tried to kiss Donna in the first season episode, "Ski Trip". In "Eric's Stash", a few episodes later, though inflamed by Laurie, it's revealed that Eric still resents Hyde for it to the point he blames Hyde for stealing some money from him. [[spoiler: It was Red who took the money to buy a new hot water heater]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* GeniusBruiser: He is both the strongest and smartest of his friends.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Often takes joy in seeing others misfortune or them getting hurt.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Eric.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He's a genuinely good-natured and upstanding guy, but he ''hates'' openly displaying it. Being around Kitty and, eventually, Jackie has drawn that side out of him a bit more.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: "They didn't leave me at the mall. They forgot me. They were drunk." The rest of it, though, is genuinely upsetting and taken seriously.
* {{Jerkass}}: If anyone can insult someone to that person's face, it's Hyde.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's mean, insensitive, blunt and aloof but does care for his friends and was eventually a great boyfriend to Jackie when they were dating.
* KnightInSourArmor: Long before they hooked up, Jackie had a crush on Hyde from his defending her. When he beats up a guy who insulted her at Red's barbecue, she sees him as a KnightInShiningArmor, much to his embarrassment and frustration.
* LackOfEmpathy: He rarely feels compassion or sympathy for others, it's even lampshaded in an episode by Eric.
* LadykillerInLove: Had this dynamic with Jackie.
* TheLancer: To Eric's [[TheHero hero]]. He even dresses up as the [[Franchise/StarWars the trope image character]] in one of Eric's {{Imagine Spot}}s.
* LastNameBasis: He's called Hyde by everybody except Red, Kitty, and Jackie (who started calling him Steven after she got a crush on him).
* LeanAndMean: His slim build goes with his sadistic and abrasive {{Jerkass}} status.
* MellowFellow: Always maintains his laid-back and nonchalant attitude.
* MeaningfulName: "Hyde" likes to hide his feelings a lot.
* MetalHead: Was a 70's variety of this.
* MoralityPet: Jackie & Kitty are his, with both of them bringing out the best in him.
** For Jackie, he goes to prom and helps her get back with Kelso, takes the fall for the weed at the end of season 2 and defends her when her date (who is just trying to sleep with her then dump her) insults her. And that's before they start dating.
** He goes out of his way to be good to Kitty, wishing her happy birthday long after he'd moved out.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Did not like Kelso fooling around with Angie.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[FootInYourAss/That70sShow here]].
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Roguish to Eric's noble. Zigzagged in later seasons.
* OnlySaneMan: Downplayed. He usually has the most common sense in the group but can sometimes do stuff that will get gang in trouble.
* OppositesAttract: He's a smart, dry-witted, cynical ConspiracyTheorist whilst Jackie is a ditzy, rich, loud cheerleader. Gradually deconstructed; their respective differences cause a lot of conflict in their relationship, and they break up and get back together several times. [[spoiler: Eventually they break up for good because Jackie wants to know that they have a future together while Hyde feels he is too young to commit to marriage and is more content to live in the moment.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: His dad left when he was a kid and his mom was gone by the end of Season 1 - requiring the move-in with the Formans. His dad returned in Season 3 and Hyde moved in with him, but reversed in Season 4. Off-screen, Hyde's parents got back together, but [[KickTheDog then left him again]].
* ReallyGetAround: Not as much as Kelso, but still qualifies as he only has one serious relationship.
* RealMenHateAffection: He denies even having feelings. It ends up causing problems when Jackie needs emotional support in Season 5.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Savvy Guy to Jackie's Energetic Girl. They had this dynamic long before they were together, as depicted in the episode where he teaches her to be "zen" in order to piss Laurie off. She ends up pulling it off so well, he compliments her for the first time in the series, saying she was totally badass.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly man to Eric's sensitive guy.
* TheSlacker: "Just imagine what I could do if I applied myself. Oh well, guess we'll never know." Jackie tries to break him of this, to no avail. Amusingly, he has had several jobs where HE is the responsible one, as his bosses are usually even lazier than he is, or in Leo's case, can barely remember he owns a business in the first place.
* TheStoner: He's the source of the gang's stash.
* TheSnarkKnight: He's pretty the {{Troll}} with his snarkiness and schadenfreude sense of humor.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The Smart Guy to Donna's Strong Girl.
* SuddenlyEthnicity: [[spoiler: Season 7 reveals that his real father is black.]]
* TeamDad: Along with Donna, Hyde is the most mature in the group and tends to act as a big brother figure to his friends and often gives them advice on life.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: [[SiblingRivalry With his sister]] she's been dreaming of taking over her dad's business all her life (to the point that when she was 8 she was disappointed with [[AllGirlsLikePonies a pony]] as a gift) whereas Hyde has no life goals, only took a job managing the record store because he likes music and wanted to spend time with his dad, [[TheSlacker hates hard work and spends all his time slaking off]] [[TheStoner and smoking weed]], however Angie is a ControlFreak who freaks out if things don't go exactly according to plan and needs Hyde to improvise.
* TinMan: While he is very aloof and good at keeping his emotions, he can be very passionate.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While Jackie and Kelso are not nice people, it's mostly because they are too ditzy and immature to know better. Hyde is smart enough to understand what he's doing, but he's still mean and unsensitive towards everyone, and his LackOfEmpathy is even lampshaded in one episode.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He encourages everyone to make stupid choices and if they try to protest, he mocks them until they give in.
* TroubledButCute: He is a delinquent with parental abandonment issues but still sleeps around and has a good heart.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With everyone, but especially Eric. They insult each other a great deal, but Hyde goes out of his way to help Eric a few times.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Eric doesn't understand how Hyde can be attracted to Jackie, whom Eric can't stand. Subverted when Hyde tries to explain his attraction to Jackie to Eric, making Eric realize it's not so much that Jackie isn't hot as much as her attitude is so annoying that it distracts him from her hotness.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He's good at getting the guys in trouble.
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[[folder:Michael Kelso]]
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[[caption-width-right:256:''"You have the right to remain '''burned'''!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AshtonKutcher
A pretty-boy with [[TheDitz a few crayons short of a box]]. Often says the weirdest things and believes he's the center of attention when it comes to the ladies. Dated Jackie but his cheating broke them up. Eventually becomes a police officer.
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* AdvertisedExtra: In Season 8. So much to where he’s prominently featured on the cover and disc art of the season’s initial DVD release (via Twentieth Century Fox, which is now out of print, as of 2019).
* AttractiveBentGender: Played with. Jackie seems to have a {{Fetish}} for androgynous men wearing feminine clothes, so she makes Kelso wear a summer dress and put makeup on.
* BackForTheFinale: After being PutOnABus for most of Season 8.
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Flashbacks in "Reefer Madness" and "Class Picture" show him with braces and headgear during his junior high days.
* BrainlessBeauty: An idiotic male bimbo.
* BreakoutCharacter: Season seven even saw a shift of storylines focusing more on his CharacterDevelopment than Eric's.
* BrilliantButLazy: Scored surprisingly well on the UsefulNotes/SATs. He initially tries to exploit his newfound potential, but gives up when he learns it won't help him get women. Also in one early episode, he was able to tinker with a video game to make it more challenging, and in another, he was able to quickly calculate in his head how much money they would make from a kegger and was even able to quickly change his calculation to account for how much less the younger partygoers would drink.
* ButtMonkey: Downplayed. Most of his comical mishaps are well-deserved, he usually brings them onto himself with his own stupidity. Its more KarmicButtMonkey than this trope.
* CatchPhrase: "BURN!" and "Damn, Jackie" (when he's upset with Jackie).
* CharacterDevelopment: Matures significantly during the final two seasons, though he never becomes unrecognizable. Becoming a father motivates him to get his life together and become a (somewhat) functional adult.
* ChickMagnet: He's very successful with girls. Humorously, he doesn't seem to understand that this doesn't apply to everyone, as he once cluelessly asked Fez how he could still be a virgin with all the women constantly throwing themselves at him, much to Fez's anger.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertness because of her and is visibly disturb by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will gladly sell out his friends in the hopes of saving himself. When Red caught them in "Misty Mountain Hop" with a stash, Kelso insisted he knew nothing about it while saying Hyde did. He added in Fez just for the hell of it. And oh yeah, Kelso paid for and hid the stash in the cabin in the first place.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Being the idiot of the group, he's probably the biggest offender.
* CrazyJealousGuy: With Jackie despite the fact that [[HypocriticalHumor he constantly cheats on her]].
* TheDitz: His most famous personality traits are conceit and sheer stupidity, performing a great number of idiocies on a regular daily basis.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Occasionally shows flashes of common sense:
** When Kelso wants to find out if he's the police academy stooge, Donna suggests just asking his commander, but Kelso reminds her that not knowing is the whole point.
** In the above-mentioned keg episode, two bullies get mad at him for not having a working tap, but Kelso angrily reminds them that they're the ones who broke it.
** In a later episode, when the guys were paranoid that Kitty's vacuum was bugged by the feds, they end up destroying it, only for Kelso to be the first one to realize that they could have just put the vacuum outside.
** He was the one who identified his brother Casey as bad news and warned Eric about it long before anyone else.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Describes himself as "man-pretty". Kelso and Fez freely admit they find each other mutually handsome.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Despite being oversexed, constantly sleeping around and even making small passes at Donna from time to time, he's the most vocal opponent of anyone doing anything sexual in the circle, which he considers sacred. [[HypocriticalHumor In defending this stance he admits he's had sex in both a church and a cemetery]].
** He is literally the only one in "Everybody Loves Casey" besides Eric to speak poorly of him and his relationship with Donna.
--->'''Kelso:''' ''[to Eric]'' And I'm telling you as his brother, Casey is bad news. He's either gonna get bored and split, or something worse is gonna happen, so you gotta do something.
* FairCop: Became a police officer specifically because the uniform would prolong his beauty many years.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's an immature teenager who ends up causing problems for his friends and constantly goes out of his way to make their lives worse ForTheLulz. By the later seasons, it's more that he's tolerated by the others and allowed to hang around because he's easy to make fun of than genuinely liked.
* FunPersonified: Even lampshaded by Red at one point.
* GeniusDitz: He has occasional flashes of intelligence showing there is a brain somewhere underneath his ditziness.
* HandsomeLech: A dumb, oversexed PrettyBoy who is capable of getting women with his good looks.
* HasAType: All of his prominent love interests boss him around to a degree. By his own admission, he likes being on the short leash and under a woman's thumb. It only goes so far, though; he realizes he cheated on Jackie because of her repeated insults, while Laurie treated him even worse and ultimately broke his heart. Brooke and Angie clearly wore the pants, as it were, but they consistently treated Kelso with respect, and he was much happier for it.
* HeroesLoveDogs: There are several episodes where he shows up late for something because he was busy playing with some random dog he met on the way, and he considers a neighbor getting a new dog to be a major event.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Fez.
* HiddenDepths:
** Because he was one of the older siblings, he has a real knack for taking care of babies. Related, he lets it slip in "Moon Over Point Place" that he makes a good bit of money babysitting.
** He also comes to realize that his constant cheating on Jackie was due to her domineering attitude towards the relationship, and decides that he does not apologize for it in an argument. Notably, he never cheats on Brook or Angie, who are actually nice to him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He becomes angry at Jackie for dating Hyde while he is away when he cheated on her several times with Laurie.
* InformedAttractiveness: He goes on and on about how hot he is, and is never corrected. Apparently his hottitude is a matter of record in the [=T70S=] 'verse. While Ashton Kutcher is certainly good-looking, Kelso's attractiveness reaches memetic levels on the show.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He manages to be more selfish then everyone else in the group except Jackie.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kelso's worst traits are his shallowness, narcissism, insensitivity and self-absorbtion. Though he becomes more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as the series progresses.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** He points out in episode 17 of season 6 that Fez and Hyde are immature, stuck in high school and are afraid to let him move on with his life after they shaved his mustache to make it look like Hitler's.
** He's right that it's easy to judge him regarding Brooke and that they're going to be parents when they have no investment in the situation.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Probably the biggest and most satisfying one in the show. Courtesy of Hyde mostly and occasionally from his other friends too. Hyde frequently retaliates against Kelso's trouble-making by attacking him physically, and occasionally even [[WithFriendsLikeThese threw him under the bus unprovoked]]. Almost all of Kelso's comical mishaps are well-deserved be it either his own idiocy or his own irresponsibility.
* LargeHam: Kelso's energetic, dramatic and boisterous and his loudness is consistently PlayedForLaughs.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kelso cheated on Jackie with Laurie, only to later on learn that Laurie is cheating on him. Unlike other examples in this trope, a hurt Kelso (dumb as he is) realizes how much he hurt Jackie and therefore believes he deserved to be hurt like this himself.
* LastNameBasis: Just like Hyde, he's called Kelso by everyone except for Jackie and Kitty.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Pulled this off for some of the seasons, in classic SeventiesHair fashion, but gets his hair cut in season 7 right after his daughter is born, though he says it's because he got gum in it.
* LovableCoward: Can be either this or a DirtyCoward. Invoked in episode ''Halloween'', when Kelso hears a noise which he takes for a vengeful spirit; he pushes his girlfriend out of the way in his haste to flee.
-->'''Jackie''': I can't believe Michael pushed me aside.\\
'''Donna''': Me neither. I thought he'd use you as a {{human shield}}.
* ManChild: He possesses numerous infantile qualities such as enjoying Christmas specials deemed childish by his peers and fussing when something is preventing him from viewing them. Although to be fair, calling him a manchild is slightly a little stretching given the character's age (17-19).
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Michael is one of 7 siblings.
* {{Narcissist}}: To the point that he literally dreams of another Kelso sponge bathing him.
* NeverMyFault: He tells his friends that he is not responsible for the fire at the police academy...while explaining what was he doing prior to the fire.
* NoIndoorVoice: He has the loudest voice of anyone in the group, especially when he's angry or excited. There's a reason why his catchphrase is yelling "BURN!!!" at the top of his lungs.
* OneHeadTaller: With Jackie.
* PlayboyHasADaughter: Brooke reveals to him she's pregnant with his daughter in one of the show's later seasons, forcing him to [[CharacterDevelopment grow from shallow and oversexed into a responsible adult who respects women]]. He even refused to grope Donna's breasts when given the opportunity. To drive this point home, earlier episodes have shown him to be quite eager to even ''glimpse'' Donna's breasts.
* PutOnABus: Somewhat in season 8. He only appears in the first four episodes and the series finale. For these five appearances, Ashton Kutcher is credited as a “Special Guest Star”.
* PrettyBoy: Necessary component of his TheBrainlessBeauty act.
* ProudBeauty: One of the things he has in common with Jackie.
* ReallyGetsAround: "I had ''two'' girlfriends. And a little action on the side."
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly man to Fez's sensitive guy.
* ShipperOnDeck: He surprisingly becomes one for Jackie and Hyde in later seasons, even trying to help get them back together in one episode.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Like Jackie, he thinks he is the most handsome person in town.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Oh, Fez.
* TooDumbToLive: For starters, fell off the water tower... once a year... throughout every year of school.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Though the initial dumbass level was very high.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: It's between him and Hyde over who is the more toxic, but Kelso goes out of his way to make his friend's lives worse.
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[[folder:Jacqueline "Jackie" Burkhart]]
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[[caption-width-right:254:''"Look, the sooner you realize I'm a genius, the better off we'll both be."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MilaKunis
A bit of an airhead who has a tendency to condescend to everyone. Strangely, no one is offended by this, and they tend to ignore it. She has dated both Kelso and Hyde over the course of the series and gets together with Fez in the second-to-last episode.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her relationship with Hyde.
* TheBeautifulElite: She's pretty, she's rich, and she won't shut up about it.
--> "If I'm not a rich, popular girl, I'm nothing. I'm like Donna."
* BeautyIsBad: Downplayed. She's pretty and popular as well as snobby, rude, and self-absorbed, but deep down [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold not a bad person.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't tell anyone her middle name is Beulah.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A girlish cheerleader who's normally even more useless in a fight than Eric. When Laurie insulted Jackie though, Jackie finally snapped and attacked Laurie in a vicious Cat Fight. Even Hyde was impressed, telling Jackie that you kicked her ass, man! Jackie also beats up her karate instructor in her first lesson after Donna makes a point about her (Jackie's) breakup with Hyde.
* BigEater: When down on her luck or unable to find a boyfriend, she tends to eat. ''A lot''.
* BrainlessBeauty: Downplayed. She's shallow, vapid, ditzy and sometimes comes across as an airhead, but she's not as stupid as Kelso.
* BrutalHonesty: She is pretty tactless and speaks her mind without a filter.
-->'''Hyde''': Roy has some problems with people.\\
'''Roy''': They don't like me. You don't like me, right?\\
'''Jackie''': Not really. But to be fair, I have very high standards.\\
'''Roy''': Yeah? She's really nice, Steven.
* CharacterDevelopment: When she started dating Hyde. She could very well be the most developed character in the entire show. Many of the characters remain rather static throughout the series but Jackie goes from being a vapid, money-obsessed cheerleader stifling her true self for the sake of popularity to a competent, though still headstrong woman who isn't afraid to take care of herself and doesn't hide who she is.
* TheCheerleader: She starts out as one, and when she's kicked off the squad in season 6 and realizes that she doesn't want to be taken back, it's shown as a part of her personal growth.
* ControlFreak: Often bossing Kelso around and telling him what to do.
* CuteButCacophonic: She once describes herself as "a beautiful girl with a shrill, demanding voice".
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her father doesn't like Kelso, even going as far as cutting off Jackie's financial support when he discovers she's still dating him.
* TheDitz: Along with Kelso in a Ditz couple, although she's definitely smarter than him.
* DudeMagnet: Just ask Kelso, Hyde, Fez, and other guys who are attracted to her throughout the show.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Her middle name is Beulah; for some reason, she considers it horribly embarrassing and wants to keep it in secret. In the Halloween episode where they find out, she actually beats Hyde up for saying it...though it could be just an ImagineSpot.
* TheFashionista: Down to the shopping addiction and the affection for makeovers.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Jackie starts out as this, with everyone including her primarily because she's Kelso's girlfriend (while urging him to dump her). Eventually, she and Donna become best friends to Donna's surprise. The guys all start accepting her for different reasons--Hyde alternately starts burning her and protecting her, Fez develops a major crush on her, and Eric takes a liking to her after she beats up Laurie.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Has a collection of stuffed animals. Her favorite is a unicorn that she calls "Fluffycakes".
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Normally very feminine (especially in contrast to Donna), a cheerleader and high-maintenance rich girl, but in one episode [[WrenchWench she helps Red fix a car]], after Eric proves inadequate.
* InformedAttractiveness: It's PlayedForLaughs once; when Eric asks Hyde why he'd hook up with Jackie. Hyde tells Eric to imagine being stranded on an island with Jackie in nothing but a coconut-bikini, he still doesn't get it. Then he tells Eric to do what he does and tune her out. So Eric re-imagines the same thing but without sound, only to realize Jackie is kind of hot.
* {{Irony}}: The main reason that Hyde and Jackie break up is because Hyde refuses to even consider committing to a permanent relationship. While early Jackie couldn't give less of a rat's ass about the future, it was Hyde's challenging of Jackie's personality that causes her to grow up and begin to seriously think about her future. When Hyde declines to even give Jackie a simple maybe as to the future of their relationship they break up. If it wasn't for Hyde's influence Jackie would probably remain the same airhead of the early seasons, and wouldn't have cared about the permanence of their relationship.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Especially in early seasons, she only cares about herself.
* {{Jerkass}}: The reigning bitch of Point Place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she becomes sweeter and less bitchy in later seasons.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: When Fez politely rejects her, she becomes a full blown crazy psychopath who tries to hurt Fez badly just to get sadistic satisfaction. This is what later causes Fez to get fed up with her.]]
* LesserOfTwoEvils: In Season 2, most of the group barely tolerates Jackie (at best), but they'll still take her over Laurie.
* LethalChef: She rarely tries to cook, but when she does, the results are disastrous.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Donna eventually warms up to her, and they become a TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair.
* LovableSexManiac: {{Subverted|Trope}}. With Kelso, initially, the two of them did everything ''but'' engage in intercourse, but Kelso being arrested (cementing him as a sexy bad boy in her eyes) was enough to push her over the edge, and after that you couldn't leave the two of them alone in a room with a flat surface. After their breakup and her subsequent near-obsession with Hyde, she started out this way with him.
* MaleGaze:
** Jackie was subject to this long before she became a full-fledged MsFanservice.
** In a famous scene in early season 5, Hyde shares a male gaze moment of Jackie with Eric to explain what he sees in her.
** Jackie invokes this, as well as some {{fetish}} to attract Hyde's attention by wearing a toe ring. Hyde bravely retains his cool.
* MoralityPet: To Hyde, as when they start dating he becomes more soft and less pissed-off.
* MotorMouth: To the frustration of virtually everyone else, she'll just go on and on and on.
* MsFanservice: After Mila Kunis turned 18, she had many BareYourMidriff moments.
* {{Narcissist}}: In her own words, "if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would."
* NoAccountingForTaste: Her relationship with Hyde. She's a rich, spoiled, selfish AlphaBitch-type, he's a smart but lazy ConspiracyTheorist slacker. They both can see the improbability of their relationship.
--> '''Jackie''': Steven, do I really sicken you?\\
'''Hyde''': No. I sicken me because you're supposed to sicken me, but you don't.\\
'''Jackie''': Well, I feel the same way.
* OddFriendship: With Red. They become closer when Jackie helps him fix his car. Jackie and Hyde might be the only friends of Eric he actually likes, and Jackie tells Eric to put his father on the phone when she has to say goodbye.
* OneHeadTaller: With Kelso (Mila Kunis is 5'4" and Ashton Kutcher is 6'2").
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father was arrested and went to jail. Her mother was traveling abroad at the time and was too busy partying to return for months on end. (Jackie and Pam did eventually patch things up, though.) From what we see of Jackie's father before he went to jail, he wasn't a particularly attentive parent either. Red and Kitty are much more like parental figures to her than her own parents.
* PetitePride: She often mocks Donna for her (relatively) large physique, as she goes into narcissistic rants about her gorgeously slender body.
* ProudBeauty: So much. It was in many ways the main thing she and Kelso had in common. Often dips in the ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful pool.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Hyde's Savvy Guy. They had this dynamic long before they were together, as depicted in the episode where he teaches her to be "zen" in order to piss Laurie off. She ends up pulling it off so well, he compliments her for the first time in the series, saying she was totally badass.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: She is a firm believer in this approach, though she sometimes needs reminding.
-->'''Red''': Look, Jackie. I know that things seem grim. But your father's rich, right? Well, then I'm sure that whatever trouble he's in, he'll buy his way out and wriggle free.\\
'''Jackie''': You're right! I mean, this is America. The rich are treated differently here.\\
'''Red''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yep, and I'm so glad I took some shrapnel to make that possible]].\\
'''Jackie''': [[SarcasmBlind Me too!]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: She thinks she's the prettiest and most popular girl in Point Place and everyone could benefit from her advice. Others beg to differ.
* SpoiledBrat: Especially in the first few seasons, until her father is arrested for embezzlement and her mother takes off to Mexico.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Donna's tomboy. Often lampshaded.
* TookALevelInKindness: She evolves into a LovableAlphaBitch in later seasons.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A, in all of her relationships.
* UptownGirl: Jackie is a rich girl and cheerleader, Hyde is a poor delinquent with a messed up family who lives with Eric's family because he has nowhere else to go. Initially Hyde stated their differences in social status as a reason they shouldn't go out, as they had nothing in common.
* ValleyGirl: Though she's from Wisconsin.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: In "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" when Fez rejects her.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Donna.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's terrified of clowns.
* {{Womanchild}}: "I want what I want when I want it, what is so immature about that?"
* WrenchWench: While the others are at career days with their parents, Jackie goes to the Forman house and helps Red in the garage. She demonstrates a real knack for helping fix the car.
--> "I just fixed a car! I feel like Nancy Drew!"
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[[folder:Fez]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:''"Whenever I look at naked ladies, I get really tired. Then I get my second wind, and then I want to look at more naked ladies."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Wilmer Valderrama}}
A foreign kid who is always trying to get laid. Likes to act [[AlwaysCamp campy]]. Has a crush on Jackie and has made it known numerous times. "Fez" is not his real name, simply a name the guys came up with for him. His real name is something incomprehensible.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: He had a crush on Jackie since the start but Jackie had never returned his feelings for most of the show, until the final season.
%%* AlwaysCamp
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Part of his NonSpecificallyForeign characterization.
* BigEater: Coupled with his sweet tooth, he is nearly always seen snacking on something. He has a love affair with American junk foods after a lifetime of subsisting on the ForeignQueasine of his home nation. In the ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]]'' animated circle, Fez is seen eating almost like Shaggy.
* ButtMonkey: Being the effeminate, unlucky-with-the-ladies guy.
* CampStraight: Though it has been hinted from time to time that he's attracted to/in love with Kelso.
* CasanovaWannabe: For most of the show he's a horny wannabe ladies man known for his pathetic attempts to get girls, until the final season when he becomes more successful.
* ChivalrousPervert: His creepy perversion and sex obsession rivals Kelso but unlike Kelso, he's more sensitive to women's feelings and is more gentlemanly than most characters. Fez shows that he can actually be quite charming and is also a good dancer but is often dismissed for being an eccentric and immature foreigner that's naive to American culture and etiquette which also makes Fez feel quite lonely and insecure.
* CatchPhrase:
** "Good day." / "I said good day!"
** Various uses of "son of a bitch!"
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Fez's original character was that of a FunnyForeigner who misunderstood American culture. He didn't develop his [[LovableSexManiac constant desire to do it]] and [[SweetTooth love of candy]] for quite a while.
** Early on, after making a tape of their ramblings in the circle, Fez called Kelso stupid. Later on, Fez would rush to his defense when Hyde or even Eric called Kelso stupid.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Biggest one in the group along with [[BrainlessBeauty Kelso]]. He is openly regarded as weird by his friends.
* CultureClash: Especially in the early seasons when his unfamiliarity with U.S culture was a RunningGag. Apparently, before becoming an exchange student, he had virtually no exposure at all to western media or pop culture.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Very, ''very'' much so.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Fez's first line in the first episode sums up everything you need to know about him.
--> "[[FunnyForeigner I may not say this right because I am new to English]], [[LovableSexManiac but she has tremendous breasts, yes]]?"
* ForeignExchangeStudent: The name "Fez" is even short for "foreign exchange student", despite the difference in spelling, which the series' official website describes as "poetic license". His friends know Fez's real name but consider it unpronounceable.
* FormerlyFit: He put on some weight at the beginning of the final season, prompting a couple of jokes from Kelso and a blunt "You're fat" from Hyde.
* FunnyForeigner: Even the characters aren't sure what country he's from, though Wild Mass Guessing favours Trinidad and/or Tobago.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Early on, he sometimes tried to pretend he wasn't still a virgin, not that any of the other characters bought it for a second.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kelso.
* IllBeInMyBunk: As the seasons go by, he gets more comfortable indicating this. On one occasion, Nina got him worked up, but it didn't go any further, so he made it clear this was to be the case. A squicked out Donna said they're all clearly getting too comfortable with each other.
* IdiotBall: Though, most of this has to do with him being unfamiliar with American customs. Because of his limited knowledge outside of his customs and his insatiable needs, he naturally thinks highly of Kelso.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's easily the biggest overzealous pervert of the group to the point that he regularly pervs on his friends to try and watch them do it, he still manages to be a genuinely friendly, sensitive and sweet-natured gentleman, possibly even more so than Eric himself. In one episode, when he notices how hostile Caroline was being towards his friends, he confronts her and then breaks up with her.
* LargeHam: Fez is an passionate, flirtatious and flamboyant character and like Kelso, his eccentric personality is always hilarious.
* LovableSexManiac: Fez's lechery is almost always played for laughs.
* MistakenForGay: A running gag directed towards Kelso throughout the series. In S7 Ep 20, "Gimme Shelter" happens to him and Kelso. They're looking for an apartment and find a great one only to discover the landlord is Fenton, an enemy of Fez, who refuses them a lease. As they're leaving Kelso comments that they'll have to find someplace to live with the baby, referring to his with Brooke, however, Fenton misinterprets this and lets them move in since he can't turn away two men raising a baby.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: In a throwaway joke, Fez mentions his relief that his sister is thousands of miles away from Kelso.
-->'''Kelso''': And if things don't work out with Angie, I'm on the first plane out!
* NonSpecificallyForeign: He is from some ambiguous foreign country (probably from somewhere in South or Central America). Most likely a former colony, as it's revealed in the last season it has a sizeable population of British and Dutch citizens.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Fez". So-called due to his OverlyLongName, see below.
* OverlyLongName: Fez' real name and home country; taken to the point of a RunningGag. When Fez does say his real name but is drowned out by the bell, in real life he was reciting all the actors on the series' names.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Gets more muscular by each season.
* ReallyGetsAround: In the final season he becomes a ladies' man and is seen with three different women in the same episode.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Kelso's manly man.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He and Fenton are this to each other.
* SixthRanger: Fez is the newest member of the group at the beginning of the series.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's this to Jackie and Donna. At some point, he tells Jackie, "You're a super cute high school girl that I've been spying on through a window for three and a half years".
* SweetTooth: And ''how''.
-->"WHERE'S MY CANDY YOU SON OF A BITCH!?"
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Hyde up until season five, where Hyde starts dating Jackie, and Kelso starts hanging out with Fez.
* TheUnintelligible: The others treat Fez like his English borders on incomprehensible, rather than the notable but not overwhelming accent he actually has.
* TheUnreveal: In one of the last episodes, his best friend from back home comes for a visit. He turns out to be... a different ethnicity and has a different accent (as he "comes from the other side of the island"). The end credits feature the gang quizzing them both about their country, but they only offer vague answers.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Over the middle to later seasons he becomes even more creepy, perverted and all around disgusting towards his friends, to the point that he hides in closets and other locations to spy on women or on his friends in couples and repeatedly makes unwanted moves on women.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Enforced by Fez's actor, Wilmer Valderrama, to add to the RunningGag about Fez's unknown home country.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: A RunningGag was that Fez often gave contradictory information about his home country while also never revealing exactly which one it was. He may have made some of these things up to mess with his friends, though.
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[[folder:Lauren "Laurie" Forman]]
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[[caption-width-right:222:''"I'll do anything for ten dollars."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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* BeautyIsBad: Proudly exemplifies this trope and will even shamelessly uses it as a means of seduction.
* BigSisterBully: Laurie relentlessly teases Eric and smugly rubs in the fact Red favors her whenever she can.
-->'''Eric:''' Last time I trusted you, I wound up in the dryer with a pillowcase full of bees, so…
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is callous, manipulative and pretends to be nice when she is around her parents, especially her father. Her mother meanwhile knows exactly how selfish and reckless she really is.
* BrokenPedestal: Red is sincerely disappointed to learn that his daughter sleeps around and isn't the devoted daughter she claimed to be. Even her flunking out of college didn't faze him, but this did.
* CitizenshipMarriage: A combination of this with SexlessMarriage. At the end of season 5, Laurie married Fez only so that he doesn't get deported. As season 6 showed, it was clearly a marriage in name only - They were never seen spending any time together, most of their brief interactions consist of trading barbs at each other, and much to Fez's chagrin, even after their marriage Laurie would still sleep around with anyone BUT him.
* CommutingOnABus: In Seasons 3, 5 and 6. She was upgraded into part of the main cast in Season 2, but disappeared in the second half of Season 3 and was removed from the opening credits scene. She returned in season 5 and 6 with her roles significantly reduced, and was then completely written out of the show with a Season 7 throwaway line mentioning she had moved to Canada.
* DaddysGirl: Red thinks that Laurie is perfect and lets her get away with murder, he seemingly has no idea that she's the town slut. When Red finally sees her for how his daughter really is, she's genuinely devastated to have fallen from his good graces.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Red doesn't take it well when he finds out that she's dating Kelso.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 6, after having been recast. Despite appearing in most episodes of that season, she rarely speaks.
* DumbBlonde: She's not as much dumb as she is willfully ignorant. This is likely due to a lifetime of taking short-cuts whenever possible. That said Laurie still isn't very bright and displays very little knowledge outside of anything directly affecting herself. Notably, she flunked out of the University of Wisconsin due to being more interested in fraternity guys than her studies.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Became horrified when Eric told her he saw Red and Kitty having sex, and then comforted him and told him it would be alright. She even tells their parents what he'd witnessed so they'd stop suspecting he was on drugs due to his behaviour, which was a [[PetTheDog rare instance]] of being a good sibling.
-->'''Eric''': You're actually being nice!\\
'''Laurie''': Yeah, it's just not my strong suit.
* FlatCharacter: Her defining personality was that she was mean and nasty to everyone except to Red, whom she sucked up to and could do no wrong in his eyes, and she slept around. The main source of humor came from the fact that her nastiness and promiscuity were all there was to her. Some of the only attempts at breaking away from this were her comforting Eric after finding out he saw Red and Kitty having sex, becoming depressed after Red finally realized how nasty she was, and then later attempting to be a good person before she went back to her original, two-dimensional annoying habits in the later seasons.
** On several occassions, she even seems to ''defy'' character development.
*** Upon growing attached to a baby she was forced to look after, she ultimately chose her hairdryer over it when pressed.
*** When she actually had the urge to talk about her feelings with Kelso, she ultimately concluded that she wasn't doing enough '''for herself.''
*** While sleeping with Kelso, she actually got on surprisingly well with Jackie, but flipped right back to treating her as bad as everyone else once Kelso's cheating on Jackie was finally exposed.
** That said, she does appear to be worried about her future when Red and Kitty confront her about it, and is genuinely excited to start Beauty School.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Eric's responsible
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Though none of the group (barring Kelso) like her at all due to Laurie's sociopathic and promiscuous nature, she often gets involved in their activities for one reason or another.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Cares for very little outside of her own interests.
* {{Jerkass}}: From Season 1 to 3 and early on in Season 5, she's egotistical, rude and enjoys tormenting Eric and manipulating her parents. Towards the end of Season 5 she seemed to become a better person. In season 6 she barely interacted with Eric and was instead mostly antagonizing Fez who was her [[CitizenshipMarriage legally-married husband]].
* KarmaHoudini: She constantly tortures Eric, is incredibly promiscuous, purposefully ruins Kelso's relationship with Jackie, not to mention [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale forcing herself on him]], and routinely takes her barbs against Eric further than words and sabotages his plans with his friends. She never suffers any repercussions from her actions that last any further than a single episode and is always Red's little girl.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Until season 5 rolls around her father realizes exactly what she really is. That arguably ended in season 2 when her promiscuous ways was exposed to her father for the first time.
* LongBusTrip: Season 7, where it was eventually stated she was out of the country. Unlike before, she never came back, which was {{Lampshaded}} in the GrandFinale.
* MsFanservice: She is first introduced in only an oversized sweater.
* {{Narcissist}}: Cares for literally no one but herself.
* PetTheDog: Comforting Eric after he told her he saw their parents having sex. Due to this, Eric was a complete basket case, and Red and Kitty thought he was on drugs. Since he couldn't bring himself to admit what was really wrong, Laurie bluntly told them "he saw you guys doing it!", then happily (and sincerely) told Eric "I helped!". She and Eric both lampshade this, Eric noting that her being nice is odd and Laurie apologizing for being poor at it, as she's not used to it.
* PutOnABus: Halfway through Season 3, she went to Chicago and was no longer in the main cast.
* ReallyGetsAround: Oh, does she ever.
-->'''Hyde''': (To Kelso) "You're dating Laurie? That's not different, man. You're boldly going where ''every'' man's gone before!"
* SatanicArchetype: PlayedForLaughs. Eric and his friends call Laurie the devil not just for being extremely smug and/or manipulative, but also for the fact that she was literally born with a tail. Not to mention [[PsychoticSmirk her reaction]] to getting a 666 (which is actually the number used to invoke Satan) during a game of cards.
* SitcomArchNemesis: To the entire group barring Kelso. She became a better person towards the end of Season 5, when both Red and Kitty took over the SitcomArchNemesis role. When she returned in Season 6 (different actress and portrayal), she was the SitcomArchNemesis only to Fez, with whom she [[CitizenshipMarriage married earlier on]].
* SixthRanger: Although Laurie dislikes most of the group, she still joins them for some of their activities, such as their graduation camping trip.
* SlutShaming: If she's being nasty to someone, chances are they'll retaliate with a joke about her being "cheap" and "easy." Jackie even calls her a cheap slut after their CatFight.
* SmugSnake: Laurie tends to act like she's smarter than she is and that she will always be seen as Red's favourite. Though it soon becomes apparent Kitty has long seen though the façade and even Red comes to realise she's nowhere near as responsible as Eric.
* SpoiledBrat: This is how she is seen by Eric and the audience. Even her mother calls her this directly, believing she is far too selfish and nasty a person.
* StupidEvil: To quote Eric...
--> '''Eric:''' She's stupid and evil. Mostly stupid.
* SiblingRivalry: Eric makes occasional references about her being the favourite child to Red, and they regularly roasted each other.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Has an affair with her psychology professor.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kitty delivers an epic one to her in Season 1 when sharing during a "therapy circle."
-->'''Kitty''': "Laurie, you're mean to your brother and you're screwing around at college. We don't even see you unless you run out of clean clothes or need cash. The fact is, you're an ungrateful spoiled brat."
* {{Troll}}: Hyde observes that Laurie feeds off the pleasure she gets from insulting others. The more insulted the given person acts, the better.
* TheUnfavorite: To Kitty. By Season 5, even Red realizes how ungrateful she has been and calls her on it.
* TheVamp: Laurie's habit of using men as her playthings is well known to Eric and his friends. Though Kelso isn't smart enough to be put off pursuing her, even whilst in a relationship with Jackie.
* TookALevelInKindness: Seems to make a genuine effort to change and be a good person towards the end of Season 5, although she still retained her promiscuous ways. Her change for the good (relatively speaking) seemed to waver in season 6, where the target of her JerkAss tendencies was shifted from Eric onto Fez instead (Her [[CitizenshipMarriage legally-married husband]]). However, this was largely because she had close to zero interaction with Eric in her final season: The character was played by a different actress and the script was clearly altered to reduce her character dynamics with the main cast in order to write her out of the show.
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[[folder:Randy Pearson]]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Josh Meyers}}
The new guy for season 8. Very polite and laid-back. Quickly joins the group and dates Donna after Eric left for Africa.
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* TheAce: Ladies man, good with tools, and full of ideas.
* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Eric and Kelso.
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[[folder:Charlie Richardson]]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Bret Harrison}}
The new guy who hangs out with the gang at the end of season 7... [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for only four episodes]]. He's the son of a friend of Red's back in the war and has only a few memorable moments.
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* AccidentalPervert: He accidentally walks in on Kitty naked, much to Red's anger. ''Twice''.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After seemingly being Eric's replacement for the last season, he falls off the water tower in the first episode. Naturally, the audience thinks that he's okay...until the water tower is renamed the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower. The character was intended to last longer, but Harrisson was offered the lead role for the short-lived series ''Series/TheLoop'' and left the show.
* NaiveNewcomer: And ''how''. After getting drunk in front of Red, he wishes to apologize to Red and that he'll understand, to which Eric understandably laughs. And if ''that'' wasn't enough, he even [[IdiotBall takes advice from Kelso before calling him a "genius".]] Though it is understandable since he just joined the gang and went to a Catholic school.
* NiceGuy: Arguably the ''most'' nice person in the entire series, though incredibly naive.
* SixthRanger: Played straight when he first appears. He quickly gains respect when he invites the boys into his father's beer warehouse.
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[[folder:Angie Barnett]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke
Hyde's half-sister introduced in the 7th Season. She and Hyde co-own a record store. She only appeared in eight episodes of the show.
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* BlackAndNerdy: She's black and is a mathematics major.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: To Laurie. Both are sisters of a male character of the gang and both were in a relationship with Kelso. However:
** Laurie is white while Angie is black.
** Angie is a smart, hardworking young woman, while Laurie is lazy and prefers to sleep or scheme her way into an easy life.
** While Angie and Hyde did start out as having an antagonistic relationship like Laurie and Eric, Angie and Hyde's relationship became more friendly.
* LongLostRelative: Angie is Hyde's half-sister via their father William "WB" Barnett.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after Angie Barnett, the first wife of David Bowie.
* PutOnABus: The 22nd episode of season 7 has her get a promotion that takes her to Milwaukee.
* ShoutOut: She first appears in the episode "Angie" which is a reference to the song of the same name by the Rolling Stones.
* SiblingRivalry: She has one with Hyde and they bicker regularly, but they work well together and he's bailed her out of trouble a couple times.
* SiblingYinYang: Angie is serious and career-focused in contrast to her slacker of a brother.
* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black woman and is the only racial minority of the entire cast besides Fez and Leo.
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[[folder:Nina Bartell]]
-->'''Played By''': Creator/JoannaCanton
Fez's boss at the [=DMV=] and later girlfriend in Season 5.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her parents are racist to Fez when he first meets them. She dislikes their racism and how they treated Fez, so she gets back at her parents by having sex with Fez on their bed.
* DeadpanSnarker: She tends to respond to Fez and the group's antics with dry wit.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: She uses this excuse to break up with Fez when in reality, she dumped him because she found him too clingy and annoying.
* OnlySaneMan: When it comes to dealing with Fez, she's clearly the more down to earth one and stops them breaking up a few times early on. She points out in one very short conversation with Fez that they clearly need more practice at having sex after their first time was horrible.
* PutOnABus: After she and Fez break up for good, she never appears again.
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!Kids
[[folder:Eric Forman]]
[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/That70sShow-Eric_7743.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:256:''"God, I feel like I'm Luke Skywalker, ya know?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/TopherGrace
The main character. A high school boy living in Point Place, Wisconsin, and son of Red and Kitty Forman. Is a sci-fi geek but has a wild streak in him that emerges from time to time. Towards the end of the series, [[spoiler:he moves to Africa for a year to teach in order to further his career]].
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* AllMenArePerverts: Despite being the NiceGuy and, usually, the OnlySaneMan of the group, he can be just as horny as Hyde and Kelso.
* AmazonChaser: When he and Donna first met as kids, he commented in an impressed, amazed tone on how strong she was.
* BackForTheFinale: After being PutOnABus for Season 8.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Forman Rage is strong in this one, as Red proudly pointed out. Eric is a geeky and socially awkward klutz who can never really put up much of a fight... unless he's defending someone he cares about. Anytime his friends or family are being mistreated, he immediately shakes off his usual cowardice and leaps to their defense, whether it be from school bullies, random drunks, or his own dad. "The Keg," "Grandma's Dead," and "What is and What Should Never Be" are all episodes with shining examples of this.
* BookSmart: Despite Red's insistance that "the only smart thing about you is your mouth," there are frequent indications that Eric does very well in school, at least when outside factors don't intefere. He is, however, naive about other matters, at least at the beginning of the series.
* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: He loves Donna, but both of them have doubts about consummating their relationship until mid-Season 2.
* ButtMonkey: Guess who's the butt of the jokes 80% of the time?
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early on, Eric was far less of a DeadpanSnarker and more a put-upon everyman, ThisLoserIsYou kinda guy. His fandom of ''Franchise/StarWars'' was also originally not limited to him, but extended to the rest of the male members of the gang as well. In addition, Eric becomes lazier to near childish levels in the later seasons.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Donna, as they befriended each other as children, dated as teens, and continue with a WillTheyOrWontThey to their adulthood.
* CoolLoser: He's good-looking and likable but gets picked on.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As weak as he's often made out to be, he always displays "the Forman rage" whenever he's in a fight. He's also a deadly accurate shooter.
* DeadpanSnarker: This quality is why Red calls him "Smartmouth", [[BlatantLies a trait Red says he gets from his mother]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: He does this a lot. Hyde calls him "Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould of Screwing Yourself".
* DitzyGenius: He has moments of being rational, intelligent and is shown to have a good work ethic due to his geekiness but is just as goofy, impulsive, and immature as most of the group.
* TheDogBitesBack: Eric, of all people, calls out on Red, of all people, who'd rather keep his Corvette and refuse to be there for Kitty when she's pregnant.
* DumbassTeenageSon: He's this in the eyes of his father Red, and while he's nowhere near as dumb as Kelso, neither is he a paragon of sensibility.
* TheDutifulSon: He is this compared to his sister Laurie. After Red has a heart attack (which Laurie was partly responsible for causing), she ditches the family. Eric, meanwhile, puts off going to college to get a job as a waiter to help support the family. Red begins to acknowledge this more and more as the series goes on.
* ExtremeDoormat: In an alternate future where he never kissed Donna, he's no longer has the smart mouth that Red complains about, but he is also a complete pushover.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:
** The responsible to Laurie's foolish.
** After Hyde moves in at the end of the first season, he can be seen as the foolish to Hyde's responsible.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* GeekPhysiques: He's often teased for his skinniness.
* GeekyAnalogy: Keeps comparing himself to Luke Skywalker, or sometimes Franchise/SpiderMan. The latter becomes funnier since his actor would eventually play [[Film/SpiderMan3 Venom]].
* TheHero: Main protagonist of the show.
* HeroesWantRedheads: With Donna, although he loved it when she went blonde in season seven.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Hyde. They both were able to say "Indy 500" simultaneously when having to come up with a lie about what they were talking about when Kelso showed up.
* HollywoodNerd: Eric's not that bad-looking, but he is a huge geek and often seen as a pathetic weakling. Some characters wonder how he hooked up with Donna. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan She's got her reasons]].
* HonorBeforeReason: After Casey broke up with her, Donna was distraught and eventually went back to Eric. However, he pushed her away on the grounds that he won't just be some second choice on the rebound. He had too much dignity for that, much to the confusion of his parents. ''Kitty'' calls him a dumbass for it.
-->'''Red:''' So, you're too proud to take her back? And what do you have to be so proud of? You're not an athlete. The only smart thing about you is your mouth. And look at you.\\
'''Kitty:''' Red, he looks fine. He's just so darn stupid!
* HypocriticalHumor: He wasn't happy about Kelso fooling around with Laurie, in part because of how annoying he found Hyde's "nailed your sister" jokes. He gleefully changes his tune in Season 7 when Kelso hooks up with Angie (Hyde's half-sister), saying he "suddenly" realized how funny those jokes can be.
-->'''Eric''': Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Kelso nailed your sister.
* InformedFlaw: Is constantly mocked as geeky and unattractive. While he is a geek through and through, he is far from ugly. Though most insults tend to focus on him being a geek rather than his looks. Aside from Donna, several attractive women ([[EvenTheGuysWantHim and even one man]]) express an interest in him over the course of the series.
* IUhYouToo: When Donna first tells him that she loves him, his response is "I love... cake."
* JerkassBall: More and more often as time goes on.
* LastNameBasis: He is referred to by his last name by Hyde.
* LazyBum: After Hyde moves in with the Formans and starts pitching in with chores, he discovers that they're actually not too difficult and concludes that Eric's constant complaints about them were because he was just being lazy.
* LovableNerd: He's socially awkward, clumsy, and geeky but usually manages to be charming, sweet-natured, and lovable.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine boy to Donna's masculine girl.
-->'''Kitty''': "Eric? Honey, could you get the Thanksgiving turkey out of the freezer? Oh, wait. It's a 20-pounder. Donna, could you get the Thanksgiving turkey out of the freezer?"
* MistakenForGay: By Buddy in Season 1. When Eric asks Buddy why he made a move on him, Buddy explains his attraction is very likely the same things Donna likes about him and there was probably a little wishful thinking involved too.
* MommasBoy: To Kitty.
* MotiveDecay: Deconstructed. Previously, Eric wanted to leave home and be with Donna, but the former got derailed by Red's heart attack at the end of Season 5, while the wedding was ultimately called off at the end of Season 6. At the start of Season 7, Eric decides to just take a year off and do various goofy activities--much to Red's increasing irritation. It reaches a head in "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and Eric admits he just doesn't want to lock himself into a path he might hate later. Red agrees to give him six months to figure out what he wants, and Eric ultimately decides to become a teacher.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Zigzags. He is shown to be not very strong, but when he fights he completely dominates guys that have much more weight, except for Hyde.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One episode reveals that he sleeps in the nude sometimes. Red spends the rest of the episode ribbing him about it.
* NeverMyFault: Often does this in many episodes. He was caught masturbating in the bathroom by Donna in one episode and then blames her because she doesn't want to have sex with him.
* NiceGuy: This quality makes him stand out from the rest of the group; Eric is always willing to help someone out. But he can be very cocky, brash, and insensitive sometimes.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Noble to Hyde's Roguish. Zigzagged in later seasons.
* ObliviousToLove: He's actually oblivious that he is still in love with Donna in season four after breaking up with her in the previous season. His family and friends on the other hand can still see it. It took some scolding from his parents and seeing Donna moving on for him to finally realize his feelings for her.
* OnlySaneMan: To his friends and usually his parents.
* PutOnABus: At the end of Season 7.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Lampshaded by Jackie.
-->'''Jackie''': Michael's the looks, Steven's the brains, and you? Your house has food.
* RunawayFiance: [[spoiler:By the end of Season 6, Eric had doubts about going through with his marriage with Donna and runs away. Donna was initially furious, but after a talk with a returning Eric, both of them admitted that they were not ready for marriage]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Hyde's manly man.
* SmallNameBigEgo: As Red usually scolds him, "The only smart thing about him is his mouth," yet he often brags about how great he is.
* SpoiledBrat: Hyde feels that Eric's one because he's a lazy, mouthy, selfish, and whiny MommasBoy but he's obviously not as bad as his sister.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Later seasons portrayed Eric as a selfish, brash, and lazy manchild with zero ambition and doesn't know what to do with his life.
* TheUnfavorite: He begins the show as this to his father Red. [[JockDadNerdSon Red seems to find it difficult to relate to him as he's not into sports and his personality isn't very similar.]] This changes over the course of the series as Eric proves himself the more responsible sibling upon learning of [[ReallyGetsAround Laurie's behavior]], and on occasion will tell Eric how proud he is of him.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hyde.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He's always looking for Red's approval.
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[[folder:Donna Pinciotti]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:''"If women don't learn to stand up for themselves, men will always control the world."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/LauraPrepon
The GirlNextDoor to Eric's house. Has a fling with Eric that over time turns serious. Their relationship is generally the main focus of the show. Has some ups and downs with Eric and has broken up with him a few times. Was intending to go to college but decided to stay behind to continue her relationship with Eric. After [[spoiler:Eric leaves, she starts dating a new guy named Randy]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She spends much of the show hooked up with Eric, but otherwise is very attracted to bad boys like Hyde or Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Eric will often attempt to be more rebellious to impress her, and she's visibly more into him when he shows his wild side. This is what made her briefly hook up with the roguish-but-selfish Casey Kelso.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A lot, though not quite as much in later seasons.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: To Bob, both out of rebellion and when he's doing something she doesn't want or like. The only reason she's not called out on it is because Bob's an ExtremeDoormat. He does, however, snap back at her when she tries to get him to stop dating Jackie's nmom.
* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: She loves Eric, but both of them have doubts about consummating their relationship until mid-Season 2.
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: In Season 5, Bob sent her to Catholic school as punishment for running away to California. Eric, and all the other guys for that matter, doesn't mind the uniform at all.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Eric, as they befriended each other as children, dated as teens, and continue with a WillTheyOrWontThey to their adulthood.
* CloserToEarth: Tends to be the voice of reason in the group, though she occasionally shares this role with either Eric or Hyde.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially around Jackie.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: In "The Seeker", Donna accidentally knocks Hyde off the water tower with what is supposed to be a light, friendly tap.
--> How am I stronger than ''all'' the guys I hang out with?
* DrugsAreBad: Her smoking ends up getting Eric suspended. She asked him to hold her cigarette, and a teacher caught him with it.
* DudeMagnet: A vast majority of male characters from Hyde, Kelso, Kelso's brother Casey, Fez to many one-time minor characters had an interest in Donna (although Kelso and Fez are into AnythingThatMoves). Emphasized later when she works in the radio station's booth as "Hot Donna". She's initially embarrassed at being a LustObject for guys to leer at ("Hot Donna has now signed 87 guys! And two girls") but then she starts enjoying it.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Dying her hair blonde caused quite a stir in Point Place. Granted, she was considered attractive when she was a redhead. (Laura Prepon dyed her hair for a different role.)
* FieryRedhead: A redhead with an aggressive and passionate personality, until she dyed it blonde in Season 7.
* GeniusBruiser: She is the most muscular and the strongest in the group, and one of the smarter ones.
* GirlNextDoor: To Eric.
* HollywoodGenetics: Donna is a natural redhead, however her mom is a blonde and her dad has dark brown hair.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In one episode she gets angry with Eric for making plans with his friends without checking with her first. At the end of the episode she makes him promise that he'll always check with her before making time with his friends. Eric then asks Donna if she needs his permission to hang out with her friends, to which she replies "no" and leaves to go see a friend.
** And in another episode she yells at Eric for going on ''two dates'' with another girl while she and Eric were broken up. Donna, meanwhile, had ''slept'' with Casey Kelso around the same time.
** Also calls Eric out for his insecurity and not trusting her in "Radio Daze" after she announced to the whole town (including the DJ who was clearly attracted her based on calling her "Hot Donna") that she was single and never bothered to talk to him about it. While this wasn't the first time Eric had been jealous, she behaved the same way to him in "Eric's Panties".
* InformedAttractiveness: While not ugly by any means, she's repeatedly stated to be one of the most attractive girls in town. Except by Jackie, who states that she looks like a trucker. Though this ''is'' Jackie we're talking about.
* {{Jerkass}}: From time to time. She can be really petty, abrasive and arrogant.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: What she really is.
* InVinoVeritas: When drunk or in "the circle" she has a tendency to act the loopiest of any of the gang, to downright CloudCuckoolander levels.
* TheLadette: A trait that Jackie bemoans all the time.
* MaleGaze: In the episode The Best Christmas Ever, Donna is on a ladder, bending over to put decorations on the Christmas tree. She asks “Okay, how does that look?” in reference to the tree. But Eric and Hyde look over and look at her butt for a moment. In the episode Moon Over Point Place, in the circle, the camera focuses on her shaking her ass. In the credits of the episode, the same thing occurs, though it involves the whole cast this time.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine girl to Eric's feminine boy. [[spoiler: also with Randy, who is quite vain]].
* MsFanservice: Donna is very attractive, and everyone knows it, and on the radio, she is known as "Hot Donna" for obvious reasons. She also shook her ass at the camera.
* OneOfTheBoys: She's just as likely to get down and dirty as the rest of the guys in the group, if not more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Just like Eric, to the point where Kelso jokingly refers to them as "Mom and Dad".
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates the notion that being feminine automatically means being "girly", and so she typically wears jeans and long-sleeved or plaid shirts. Jackie often calls this her lumberjack look. Despite this, she's worn long dresses on special occasions and had to wear a skirt as part of her school uniform.
* ShakingTheRump: In Moon Over Point Place, she shakes her butt at the camera.
* SheCleansUpNicely: In her prom dress, she gets the attention of many male background characters. Also, when she wears the catholic schoolgirl outfit in "I Can't Quit You, Baby", she gets this reaction from the other characters.
* ShoeSizeAngst: Has big feet which she is sometimes teased about.
* TheSmartGirl: But she's also TheBigGirl.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's a DudeMagnet and quite tall[[note]]The actress that plays her, Creator/LauraPrepon is 5'10"[[/note]], especially compared to [[PetitePride Jackie]].
* StrawFeminist: Verges on this at several points, mostly DependingOnTheWriter. Sometime's it's portrayed realistically, sometime's it's PlayedForLaughs.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The strong girl to Hyde's Smart Guy.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy (TheLadette, FieryRedhead, and OneOfTheBoys) to Jackie's Girly Girl (ProudBeauty, TheCheerleader, and LovableAlphaBitch).
* TomboyishVoice: She's a tomboy played by deep-voiced Laura Prepon.
* TookALevelInKindness: Donna is noticably far less bitchy in the second half of the series.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: She definitely takes more after her mother.
* UnkemptBeauty: In universe, gets the most compliments from the guys when she isn't dolled up.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jackie, much to Donna's dismay.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Many people (including Eric himself on occasion) don't understand what the heck Donna is doing with Eric.
-->'''Eric''': Donna? I just have to ask... why me? I mean there are so many other guys who are way better looking.\\
'''Donna''': [[SarcasmMode You know you're right, if only I could be with some handsome jock who was mean and shallow and didn't make me laugh]].
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[[folder:Steven Hyde]]
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[[caption-width-right:254:''"The government '''is''' out to get you."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Danny Masterson}}
Troubled kid with a dysfunctional family and rarely attends school. His mother is very loose and he lived alone in a dilapidated house until he moved in with the Formans. Has a tendency to suspect [[ConspiracyTheorist various doings behind the scenes]]. Is usually the one who brings "the stuff" to the Formans' basement.
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* AccidentalMarriage: His relationship with Sam was this as they drunkenly got married during Hyde's stay in Vegas. [[spoiler:And like many other example of this, it was also "Accidental Bigamy" as Sam was already married and never divorced her first husband, so her marriage with Hyde isn't valid, and she returned to Vegas.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: He's probably the smartest character on the show, but has [[TheSlacker no ambition or motivation to do anything but sit around in a basement.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Well let's just say don't expect him to sugarcoat anything. When interviewed for a job at Fatso Burger, he even states that his weakness is being brutally honest, and immediately calls the interviewer a pinhead.
* CallingTheOldManOut: After holding it, Hyde finally vents at Bud for abandoning him and then coming back like nothing happened. Bud doesn't even try to fight back, copping to every bad thing he did and saying he deserves to be yelled at. This infuriates Hyde even further because it's no fun doing this trope when the target immediately caves. They have some beers instead.
* CharacterDevelopment: While he still stays the same lazy stoner at his core, he does mature and become more responsible thanks to Kitty and Red's influence.
* ChocolateBaby: After Hyde meets his real father, William Barnett, who's black, Hyde mentions his mother must have been pretty relieved when he came out white.
* ConspiracyTheorist:
** "There's this car that runs on water, man."
** According to Hyde, Creator/StevenSpielberg directed a fake moon landing for the government - which "is how he got the job for ''Film/{{Jaws}}''."
* CommitmentIssues: Mostly the reason he and Jackie broke up.
* CoolShades: He is always seen in these.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's the king of sarcasm.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Hates the idea of anyone feeling sorry for him, after his mother abandoned him Eric had a hard time getting him to accept help, it took Red basically forcing him to move in with the Foremans to snap him out of it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The writers for the show initially had plans for a Hyde-Donna-Eric love triangle, and that dynamic was very clearly present in Season 1. However, plans changed to have Hyde's character revolve around his familial bonds, and hence in future seasons he didn't treat her any different that he did with the guys.
* EruditeStoner: Fits this trope to a T.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: More than anyone else, Kitty can bring out Hyde's softer side. In one episode he's the ''only'' person who remembers her birthday.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He's tempted but stops himself from stealing jewelry at Beatrice's funeral.
** During the period Kelso was cheating on Jackie with Laurie, Hyde repeatedly needled him and set up traps to expose or embarrass him. That amused him, but he absolutely refused to tell Jackie himself, as he sincerely believes friends shouldn't rat on each other. For this particular example, Hyde also chides Donna for giving Eric a hard time for not telling her about any of this and says the guy deserves a break in return for all the things he does for her.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the second season episode, "Halloween", Eric learned that Hyde tried to kiss Donna in the first season episode, "Ski Trip". In "Eric's Stash", a few episodes later, though inflamed by Laurie, it's revealed that Eric still resents Hyde for it to the point he blames Hyde for stealing some money from him. [[spoiler: It was Red who took the money to buy a new hot water heater]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* GeniusBruiser: He is both the strongest and smartest of his friends.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Often takes joy in seeing others misfortune or them getting hurt.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Eric.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He's a genuinely good-natured and upstanding guy, but he ''hates'' openly displaying it. Being around Kitty and, eventually, Jackie has drawn that side out of him a bit more.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: "They didn't leave me at the mall. They forgot me. They were drunk." The rest of it, though, is genuinely upsetting and taken seriously.
* {{Jerkass}}: If anyone can insult someone to that person's face, it's Hyde.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's mean, insensitive, blunt and aloof but does care for his friends and was eventually a great boyfriend to Jackie when they were dating.
* KnightInSourArmor: Long before they hooked up, Jackie had a crush on Hyde from his defending her. When he beats up a guy who insulted her at Red's barbecue, she sees him as a KnightInShiningArmor, much to his embarrassment and frustration.
* LackOfEmpathy: He rarely feels compassion or sympathy for others, it's even lampshaded in an episode by Eric.
* LadykillerInLove: Had this dynamic with Jackie.
* TheLancer: To Eric's [[TheHero hero]]. He even dresses up as the [[Franchise/StarWars the trope image character]] in one of Eric's {{Imagine Spot}}s.
* LastNameBasis: He's called Hyde by everybody except Red, Kitty, and Jackie (who started calling him Steven after she got a crush on him).
* LeanAndMean: His slim build goes with his sadistic and abrasive {{Jerkass}} status.
* MellowFellow: Always maintains his laid-back and nonchalant attitude.
* MeaningfulName: "Hyde" likes to hide his feelings a lot.
* MetalHead: Was a 70's variety of this.
* MoralityPet: Jackie & Kitty are his, with both of them bringing out the best in him.
** For Jackie, he goes to prom and helps her get back with Kelso, takes the fall for the weed at the end of season 2 and defends her when her date (who is just trying to sleep with her then dump her) insults her. And that's before they start dating.
** He goes out of his way to be good to Kitty, wishing her happy birthday long after he'd moved out.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Did not like Kelso fooling around with Angie.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At the end of Season 2, Jackie's about to get busted for holding, so Hyde takes the blame and goes to jail. In the Season 3 premiere, Red kicks him out of the house for this and only relents when Donna explains the whole story. However, Red still gives him a lengthy, angry lecture about everything that went on during this entire ordeal, which overwhelms Hyde. It's transcribed in full [[FootInYourAss/That70sShow here]].
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Roguish to Eric's noble. Zigzagged in later seasons.
* OnlySaneMan: Downplayed. He usually has the most common sense in the group but can sometimes do stuff that will get gang in trouble.
* OppositesAttract: He's a smart, dry-witted, cynical ConspiracyTheorist whilst Jackie is a ditzy, rich, loud cheerleader. Gradually deconstructed; their respective differences cause a lot of conflict in their relationship, and they break up and get back together several times. [[spoiler: Eventually they break up for good because Jackie wants to know that they have a future together while Hyde feels he is too young to commit to marriage and is more content to live in the moment.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: His dad left when he was a kid and his mom was gone by the end of Season 1 - requiring the move-in with the Formans. His dad returned in Season 3 and Hyde moved in with him, but reversed in Season 4. Off-screen, Hyde's parents got back together, but [[KickTheDog then left him again]].
* ReallyGetAround: Not as much as Kelso, but still qualifies as he only has one serious relationship.
* RealMenHateAffection: He denies even having feelings. It ends up causing problems when Jackie needs emotional support in Season 5.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Savvy Guy to Jackie's Energetic Girl. They had this dynamic long before they were together, as depicted in the episode where he teaches her to be "zen" in order to piss Laurie off. She ends up pulling it off so well, he compliments her for the first time in the series, saying she was totally badass.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly man to Eric's sensitive guy.
* TheSlacker: "Just imagine what I could do if I applied myself. Oh well, guess we'll never know." Jackie tries to break him of this, to no avail. Amusingly, he has had several jobs where HE is the responsible one, as his bosses are usually even lazier than he is, or in Leo's case, can barely remember he owns a business in the first place.
* TheStoner: He's the source of the gang's stash.
* TheSnarkKnight: He's pretty the {{Troll}} with his snarkiness and schadenfreude sense of humor.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The Smart Guy to Donna's Strong Girl.
* SuddenlyEthnicity: [[spoiler: Season 7 reveals that his real father is black.]]
* TeamDad: Along with Donna, Hyde is the most mature in the group and tends to act as a big brother figure to his friends and often gives them advice on life.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: [[SiblingRivalry With his sister]] she's been dreaming of taking over her dad's business all her life (to the point that when she was 8 she was disappointed with [[AllGirlsLikePonies a pony]] as a gift) whereas Hyde has no life goals, only took a job managing the record store because he likes music and wanted to spend time with his dad, [[TheSlacker hates hard work and spends all his time slaking off]] [[TheStoner and smoking weed]], however Angie is a ControlFreak who freaks out if things don't go exactly according to plan and needs Hyde to improvise.
* TinMan: While he is very aloof and good at keeping his emotions, he can be very passionate.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While Jackie and Kelso are not nice people, it's mostly because they are too ditzy and immature to know better. Hyde is smart enough to understand what he's doing, but he's still mean and unsensitive towards everyone, and his LackOfEmpathy is even lampshaded in one episode.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He encourages everyone to make stupid choices and if they try to protest, he mocks them until they give in.
* TroubledButCute: He is a delinquent with parental abandonment issues but still sleeps around and has a good heart.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With everyone, but especially Eric. They insult each other a great deal, but Hyde goes out of his way to help Eric a few times.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Eric doesn't understand how Hyde can be attracted to Jackie, whom Eric can't stand. Subverted when Hyde tries to explain his attraction to Jackie to Eric, making Eric realize it's not so much that Jackie isn't hot as much as her attitude is so annoying that it distracts him from her hotness.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He's good at getting the guys in trouble.
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[[folder:Michael Kelso]]
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[[caption-width-right:256:''"You have the right to remain '''burned'''!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AshtonKutcher
A pretty-boy with [[TheDitz a few crayons short of a box]]. Often says the weirdest things and believes he's the center of attention when it comes to the ladies. Dated Jackie but his cheating broke them up. Eventually becomes a police officer.
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* AdvertisedExtra: In Season 8. So much to where he’s prominently featured on the cover and disc art of the season’s initial DVD release (via Twentieth Century Fox, which is now out of print, as of 2019).
* AttractiveBentGender: Played with. Jackie seems to have a {{Fetish}} for androgynous men wearing feminine clothes, so she makes Kelso wear a summer dress and put makeup on.
* BackForTheFinale: After being PutOnABus for most of Season 8.
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Flashbacks in "Reefer Madness" and "Class Picture" show him with braces and headgear during his junior high days.
* BrainlessBeauty: An idiotic male bimbo.
* BreakoutCharacter: Season seven even saw a shift of storylines focusing more on his CharacterDevelopment than Eric's.
* BrilliantButLazy: Scored surprisingly well on the UsefulNotes/SATs. He initially tries to exploit his newfound potential, but gives up when he learns it won't help him get women. Also in one early episode, he was able to tinker with a video game to make it more challenging, and in another, he was able to quickly calculate in his head how much money they would make from a kegger and was even able to quickly change his calculation to account for how much less the younger partygoers would drink.
* ButtMonkey: Downplayed. Most of his comical mishaps are well-deserved, he usually brings them onto himself with his own stupidity. Its more KarmicButtMonkey than this trope.
* CatchPhrase: "BURN!" and "Damn, Jackie" (when he's upset with Jackie).
* CharacterDevelopment: Matures significantly during the final two seasons, though he never becomes unrecognizable. Becoming a father motivates him to get his life together and become a (somewhat) functional adult.
* ChickMagnet: He's very successful with girls. Humorously, he doesn't seem to understand that this doesn't apply to everyone, as he once cluelessly asked Fez how he could still be a virgin with all the women constantly throwing themselves at him, much to Fez's anger.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: After getting Brook pregnant, Kelso initially wants nothing to do with the child but eventually comes to accept it. Kelso slowly becomes more responsible such as sending Brook to the hospital and finding a job so his daughter can have someone to look up to. He even dials down his pervertness because of her and is visibly disturb by Fez's obsession with breast milk.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will gladly sell out his friends in the hopes of saving himself. When Red caught them in "Misty Mountain Hop" with a stash, Kelso insisted he knew nothing about it while saying Hyde did. He added in Fez just for the hell of it. And oh yeah, Kelso paid for and hid the stash in the cabin in the first place.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Being the idiot of the group, he's probably the biggest offender.
* CrazyJealousGuy: With Jackie despite the fact that [[HypocriticalHumor he constantly cheats on her]].
* TheDitz: His most famous personality traits are conceit and sheer stupidity, performing a great number of idiocies on a regular daily basis.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Occasionally shows flashes of common sense:
** When Kelso wants to find out if he's the police academy stooge, Donna suggests just asking his commander, but Kelso reminds her that not knowing is the whole point.
** In the above-mentioned keg episode, two bullies get mad at him for not having a working tap, but Kelso angrily reminds them that they're the ones who broke it.
** In a later episode, when the guys were paranoid that Kitty's vacuum was bugged by the feds, they end up destroying it, only for Kelso to be the first one to realize that they could have just put the vacuum outside.
** He was the one who identified his brother Casey as bad news and warned Eric about it long before anyone else.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Describes himself as "man-pretty". Kelso and Fez freely admit they find each other mutually handsome.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Despite being oversexed, constantly sleeping around and even making small passes at Donna from time to time, he's the most vocal opponent of anyone doing anything sexual in the circle, which he considers sacred. [[HypocriticalHumor In defending this stance he admits he's had sex in both a church and a cemetery]].
** He is literally the only one in "Everybody Loves Casey" besides Eric to speak poorly of him and his relationship with Donna.
--->'''Kelso:''' ''[to Eric]'' And I'm telling you as his brother, Casey is bad news. He's either gonna get bored and split, or something worse is gonna happen, so you gotta do something.
* FairCop: Became a police officer specifically because the uniform would prolong his beauty many years.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's an immature teenager who ends up causing problems for his friends and constantly goes out of his way to make their lives worse ForTheLulz. By the later seasons, it's more that he's tolerated by the others and allowed to hang around because he's easy to make fun of than genuinely liked.
* FunPersonified: Even lampshaded by Red at one point.
* GeniusDitz: He has occasional flashes of intelligence showing there is a brain somewhere underneath his ditziness.
* HandsomeLech: A dumb, oversexed PrettyBoy who is capable of getting women with his good looks.
* HasAType: All of his prominent love interests boss him around to a degree. By his own admission, he likes being on the short leash and under a woman's thumb. It only goes so far, though; he realizes he cheated on Jackie because of her repeated insults, while Laurie treated him even worse and ultimately broke his heart. Brooke and Angie clearly wore the pants, as it were, but they consistently treated Kelso with respect, and he was much happier for it.
* HeroesLoveDogs: There are several episodes where he shows up late for something because he was busy playing with some random dog he met on the way, and he considers a neighbor getting a new dog to be a major event.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Fez.
* HiddenDepths:
** Because he was one of the older siblings, he has a real knack for taking care of babies. Related, he lets it slip in "Moon Over Point Place" that he makes a good bit of money babysitting.
** He also comes to realize that his constant cheating on Jackie was due to her domineering attitude towards the relationship, and decides that he does not apologize for it in an argument. Notably, he never cheats on Brook or Angie, who are actually nice to him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He becomes angry at Jackie for dating Hyde while he is away when he cheated on her several times with Laurie.
* InformedAttractiveness: He goes on and on about how hot he is, and is never corrected. Apparently his hottitude is a matter of record in the [=T70S=] 'verse. While Ashton Kutcher is certainly good-looking, Kelso's attractiveness reaches memetic levels on the show.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He manages to be more selfish then everyone else in the group except Jackie.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kelso's worst traits are his shallowness, narcissism, insensitivity and self-absorbtion. Though he becomes more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as the series progresses.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** He points out in episode 17 of season 6 that Fez and Hyde are immature, stuck in high school and are afraid to let him move on with his life after they shaved his mustache to make it look like Hitler's.
** He's right that it's easy to judge him regarding Brooke and that they're going to be parents when they have no investment in the situation.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Probably the biggest and most satisfying one in the show. Courtesy of Hyde mostly and occasionally from his other friends too. Hyde frequently retaliates against Kelso's trouble-making by attacking him physically, and occasionally even [[WithFriendsLikeThese threw him under the bus unprovoked]]. Almost all of Kelso's comical mishaps are well-deserved be it either his own idiocy or his own irresponsibility.
* LargeHam: Kelso's energetic, dramatic and boisterous and his loudness is consistently PlayedForLaughs.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kelso cheated on Jackie with Laurie, only to later on learn that Laurie is cheating on him. Unlike other examples in this trope, a hurt Kelso (dumb as he is) realizes how much he hurt Jackie and therefore believes he deserved to be hurt like this himself.
* LastNameBasis: Just like Hyde, he's called Kelso by everyone except for Jackie and Kitty.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Pulled this off for some of the seasons, in classic SeventiesHair fashion, but gets his hair cut in season 7 right after his daughter is born, though he says it's because he got gum in it.
* LovableCoward: Can be either this or a DirtyCoward. Invoked in episode ''Halloween'', when Kelso hears a noise which he takes for a vengeful spirit; he pushes his girlfriend out of the way in his haste to flee.
-->'''Jackie''': I can't believe Michael pushed me aside.\\
'''Donna''': Me neither. I thought he'd use you as a {{human shield}}.
* ManChild: He possesses numerous infantile qualities such as enjoying Christmas specials deemed childish by his peers and fussing when something is preventing him from viewing them. Although to be fair, calling him a manchild is slightly a little stretching given the character's age (17-19).
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Michael is one of 7 siblings.
* {{Narcissist}}: To the point that he literally dreams of another Kelso sponge bathing him.
* NeverMyFault: He tells his friends that he is not responsible for the fire at the police academy...while explaining what was he doing prior to the fire.
* NoIndoorVoice: He has the loudest voice of anyone in the group, especially when he's angry or excited. There's a reason why his catchphrase is yelling "BURN!!!" at the top of his lungs.
* OneHeadTaller: With Jackie.
* PlayboyHasADaughter: Brooke reveals to him she's pregnant with his daughter in one of the show's later seasons, forcing him to [[CharacterDevelopment grow from shallow and oversexed into a responsible adult who respects women]]. He even refused to grope Donna's breasts when given the opportunity. To drive this point home, earlier episodes have shown him to be quite eager to even ''glimpse'' Donna's breasts.
* PutOnABus: Somewhat in season 8. He only appears in the first four episodes and the series finale. For these five appearances, Ashton Kutcher is credited as a “Special Guest Star”.
* PrettyBoy: Necessary component of his TheBrainlessBeauty act.
* ProudBeauty: One of the things he has in common with Jackie.
* ReallyGetsAround: "I had ''two'' girlfriends. And a little action on the side."
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly man to Fez's sensitive guy.
* ShipperOnDeck: He surprisingly becomes one for Jackie and Hyde in later seasons, even trying to help get them back together in one episode.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Like Jackie, he thinks he is the most handsome person in town.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Oh, Fez.
* TooDumbToLive: For starters, fell off the water tower... once a year... throughout every year of school.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Though the initial dumbass level was very high.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: It's between him and Hyde over who is the more toxic, but Kelso goes out of his way to make his friend's lives worse.
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[[folder:Jacqueline "Jackie" Burkhart]]
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[[caption-width-right:254:''"Look, the sooner you realize I'm a genius, the better off we'll both be."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MilaKunis
A bit of an airhead who has a tendency to condescend to everyone. Strangely, no one is offended by this, and they tend to ignore it. She has dated both Kelso and Hyde over the course of the series and gets together with Fez in the second-to-last episode.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her relationship with Hyde.
* TheBeautifulElite: She's pretty, she's rich, and she won't shut up about it.
--> "If I'm not a rich, popular girl, I'm nothing. I'm like Donna."
* BeautyIsBad: Downplayed. She's pretty and popular as well as snobby, rude, and self-absorbed, but deep down [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold not a bad person.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't tell anyone her middle name is Beulah.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A girlish cheerleader who's normally even more useless in a fight than Eric. When Laurie insulted Jackie though, Jackie finally snapped and attacked Laurie in a vicious Cat Fight. Even Hyde was impressed, telling Jackie that you kicked her ass, man! Jackie also beats up her karate instructor in her first lesson after Donna makes a point about her (Jackie's) breakup with Hyde.
* BigEater: When down on her luck or unable to find a boyfriend, she tends to eat. ''A lot''.
* BrainlessBeauty: Downplayed. She's shallow, vapid, ditzy and sometimes comes across as an airhead, but she's not as stupid as Kelso.
* BrutalHonesty: She is pretty tactless and speaks her mind without a filter.
-->'''Hyde''': Roy has some problems with people.\\
'''Roy''': They don't like me. You don't like me, right?\\
'''Jackie''': Not really. But to be fair, I have very high standards.\\
'''Roy''': Yeah? She's really nice, Steven.
* CharacterDevelopment: When she started dating Hyde. She could very well be the most developed character in the entire show. Many of the characters remain rather static throughout the series but Jackie goes from being a vapid, money-obsessed cheerleader stifling her true self for the sake of popularity to a competent, though still headstrong woman who isn't afraid to take care of herself and doesn't hide who she is.
* TheCheerleader: She starts out as one, and when she's kicked off the squad in season 6 and realizes that she doesn't want to be taken back, it's shown as a part of her personal growth.
* ControlFreak: Often bossing Kelso around and telling him what to do.
* CuteButCacophonic: She once describes herself as "a beautiful girl with a shrill, demanding voice".
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her father doesn't like Kelso, even going as far as cutting off Jackie's financial support when he discovers she's still dating him.
* TheDitz: Along with Kelso in a Ditz couple, although she's definitely smarter than him.
* DudeMagnet: Just ask Kelso, Hyde, Fez, and other guys who are attracted to her throughout the show.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Her middle name is Beulah; for some reason, she considers it horribly embarrassing and wants to keep it in secret. In the Halloween episode where they find out, she actually beats Hyde up for saying it...though it could be just an ImagineSpot.
* TheFashionista: Down to the shopping addiction and the affection for makeovers.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Jackie starts out as this, with everyone including her primarily because she's Kelso's girlfriend (while urging him to dump her). Eventually, she and Donna become best friends to Donna's surprise. The guys all start accepting her for different reasons--Hyde alternately starts burning her and protecting her, Fez develops a major crush on her, and Eric takes a liking to her after she beats up Laurie.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Has a collection of stuffed animals. Her favorite is a unicorn that she calls "Fluffycakes".
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Normally very feminine (especially in contrast to Donna), a cheerleader and high-maintenance rich girl, but in one episode [[WrenchWench she helps Red fix a car]], after Eric proves inadequate.
* InformedAttractiveness: It's PlayedForLaughs once; when Eric asks Hyde why he'd hook up with Jackie. Hyde tells Eric to imagine being stranded on an island with Jackie in nothing but a coconut-bikini, he still doesn't get it. Then he tells Eric to do what he does and tune her out. So Eric re-imagines the same thing but without sound, only to realize Jackie is kind of hot.
* {{Irony}}: The main reason that Hyde and Jackie break up is because Hyde refuses to even consider committing to a permanent relationship. While early Jackie couldn't give less of a rat's ass about the future, it was Hyde's challenging of Jackie's personality that causes her to grow up and begin to seriously think about her future. When Hyde declines to even give Jackie a simple maybe as to the future of their relationship they break up. If it wasn't for Hyde's influence Jackie would probably remain the same airhead of the early seasons, and wouldn't have cared about the permanence of their relationship.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Especially in early seasons, she only cares about herself.
* {{Jerkass}}: The reigning bitch of Point Place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she becomes sweeter and less bitchy in later seasons.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: When Fez politely rejects her, she becomes a full blown crazy psychopath who tries to hurt Fez badly just to get sadistic satisfaction. This is what later causes Fez to get fed up with her.]]
* LesserOfTwoEvils: In Season 2, most of the group barely tolerates Jackie (at best), but they'll still take her over Laurie.
* LethalChef: She rarely tries to cook, but when she does, the results are disastrous.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Donna eventually warms up to her, and they become a TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair.
* LovableSexManiac: {{Subverted|Trope}}. With Kelso, initially, the two of them did everything ''but'' engage in intercourse, but Kelso being arrested (cementing him as a sexy bad boy in her eyes) was enough to push her over the edge, and after that you couldn't leave the two of them alone in a room with a flat surface. After their breakup and her subsequent near-obsession with Hyde, she started out this way with him.
* MaleGaze:
** Jackie was subject to this long before she became a full-fledged MsFanservice.
** In a famous scene in early season 5, Hyde shares a male gaze moment of Jackie with Eric to explain what he sees in her.
** Jackie invokes this, as well as some {{fetish}} to attract Hyde's attention by wearing a toe ring. Hyde bravely retains his cool.
* MoralityPet: To Hyde, as when they start dating he becomes more soft and less pissed-off.
* MotorMouth: To the frustration of virtually everyone else, she'll just go on and on and on.
* MsFanservice: After Mila Kunis turned 18, she had many BareYourMidriff moments.
* {{Narcissist}}: In her own words, "if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would."
* NoAccountingForTaste: Her relationship with Hyde. She's a rich, spoiled, selfish AlphaBitch-type, he's a smart but lazy ConspiracyTheorist slacker. They both can see the improbability of their relationship.
--> '''Jackie''': Steven, do I really sicken you?\\
'''Hyde''': No. I sicken me because you're supposed to sicken me, but you don't.\\
'''Jackie''': Well, I feel the same way.
* OddFriendship: With Red. They become closer when Jackie helps him fix his car. Jackie and Hyde might be the only friends of Eric he actually likes, and Jackie tells Eric to put his father on the phone when she has to say goodbye.
* OneHeadTaller: With Kelso (Mila Kunis is 5'4" and Ashton Kutcher is 6'2").
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father was arrested and went to jail. Her mother was traveling abroad at the time and was too busy partying to return for months on end. (Jackie and Pam did eventually patch things up, though.) From what we see of Jackie's father before he went to jail, he wasn't a particularly attentive parent either. Red and Kitty are much more like parental figures to her than her own parents.
* PetitePride: She often mocks Donna for her (relatively) large physique, as she goes into narcissistic rants about her gorgeously slender body.
* ProudBeauty: So much. It was in many ways the main thing she and Kelso had in common. Often dips in the ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful pool.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Hyde's Savvy Guy. They had this dynamic long before they were together, as depicted in the episode where he teaches her to be "zen" in order to piss Laurie off. She ends up pulling it off so well, he compliments her for the first time in the series, saying she was totally badass.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: She is a firm believer in this approach, though she sometimes needs reminding.
-->'''Red''': Look, Jackie. I know that things seem grim. But your father's rich, right? Well, then I'm sure that whatever trouble he's in, he'll buy his way out and wriggle free.\\
'''Jackie''': You're right! I mean, this is America. The rich are treated differently here.\\
'''Red''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yep, and I'm so glad I took some shrapnel to make that possible]].\\
'''Jackie''': [[SarcasmBlind Me too!]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: She thinks she's the prettiest and most popular girl in Point Place and everyone could benefit from her advice. Others beg to differ.
* SpoiledBrat: Especially in the first few seasons, until her father is arrested for embezzlement and her mother takes off to Mexico.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Donna's tomboy. Often lampshaded.
* TookALevelInKindness: She evolves into a LovableAlphaBitch in later seasons.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A, in all of her relationships.
* UptownGirl: Jackie is a rich girl and cheerleader, Hyde is a poor delinquent with a messed up family who lives with Eric's family because he has nowhere else to go. Initially Hyde stated their differences in social status as a reason they shouldn't go out, as they had nothing in common.
* ValleyGirl: Though she's from Wisconsin.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: In "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" when Fez rejects her.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Donna.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's terrified of clowns.
* {{Womanchild}}: "I want what I want when I want it, what is so immature about that?"
* WrenchWench: While the others are at career days with their parents, Jackie goes to the Forman house and helps Red in the garage. She demonstrates a real knack for helping fix the car.
--> "I just fixed a car! I feel like Nancy Drew!"
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[[folder:Fez]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:''"Whenever I look at naked ladies, I get really tired. Then I get my second wind, and then I want to look at more naked ladies."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Wilmer Valderrama}}
A foreign kid who is always trying to get laid. Likes to act [[AlwaysCamp campy]]. Has a crush on Jackie and has made it known numerous times. "Fez" is not his real name, simply a name the guys came up with for him. His real name is something incomprehensible.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: He had a crush on Jackie since the start but Jackie had never returned his feelings for most of the show, until the final season.
%%* AlwaysCamp
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Part of his NonSpecificallyForeign characterization.
* BigEater: Coupled with his sweet tooth, he is nearly always seen snacking on something. He has a love affair with American junk foods after a lifetime of subsisting on the ForeignQueasine of his home nation. In the ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]]'' animated circle, Fez is seen eating almost like Shaggy.
* ButtMonkey: Being the effeminate, unlucky-with-the-ladies guy.
* CampStraight: Though it has been hinted from time to time that he's attracted to/in love with Kelso.
* CasanovaWannabe: For most of the show he's a horny wannabe ladies man known for his pathetic attempts to get girls, until the final season when he becomes more successful.
* ChivalrousPervert: His creepy perversion and sex obsession rivals Kelso but unlike Kelso, he's more sensitive to women's feelings and is more gentlemanly than most characters. Fez shows that he can actually be quite charming and is also a good dancer but is often dismissed for being an eccentric and immature foreigner that's naive to American culture and etiquette which also makes Fez feel quite lonely and insecure.
* CatchPhrase:
** "Good day." / "I said good day!"
** Various uses of "son of a bitch!"
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Fez's original character was that of a FunnyForeigner who misunderstood American culture. He didn't develop his [[LovableSexManiac constant desire to do it]] and [[SweetTooth love of candy]] for quite a while.
** Early on, after making a tape of their ramblings in the circle, Fez called Kelso stupid. Later on, Fez would rush to his defense when Hyde or even Eric called Kelso stupid.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Biggest one in the group along with [[BrainlessBeauty Kelso]]. He is openly regarded as weird by his friends.
* CultureClash: Especially in the early seasons when his unfamiliarity with U.S culture was a RunningGag. Apparently, before becoming an exchange student, he had virtually no exposure at all to western media or pop culture.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Very, ''very'' much so.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Fez's first line in the first episode sums up everything you need to know about him.
--> "[[FunnyForeigner I may not say this right because I am new to English]], [[LovableSexManiac but she has tremendous breasts, yes]]?"
* ForeignExchangeStudent: The name "Fez" is even short for "foreign exchange student", despite the difference in spelling, which the series' official website describes as "poetic license". His friends know Fez's real name but consider it unpronounceable.
* FormerlyFit: He put on some weight at the beginning of the final season, prompting a couple of jokes from Kelso and a blunt "You're fat" from Hyde.
* FunnyForeigner: Even the characters aren't sure what country he's from, though Wild Mass Guessing favours Trinidad and/or Tobago.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Early on, he sometimes tried to pretend he wasn't still a virgin, not that any of the other characters bought it for a second.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kelso.
* IllBeInMyBunk: As the seasons go by, he gets more comfortable indicating this. On one occasion, Nina got him worked up, but it didn't go any further, so he made it clear this was to be the case. A squicked out Donna said they're all clearly getting too comfortable with each other.
* IdiotBall: Though, most of this has to do with him being unfamiliar with American customs. Because of his limited knowledge outside of his customs and his insatiable needs, he naturally thinks highly of Kelso.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's easily the biggest overzealous pervert of the group to the point that he regularly pervs on his friends to try and watch them do it, he still manages to be a genuinely friendly, sensitive and sweet-natured gentleman, possibly even more so than Eric himself. In one episode, when he notices how hostile Caroline was being towards his friends, he confronts her and then breaks up with her.
* LargeHam: Fez is an passionate, flirtatious and flamboyant character and like Kelso, his eccentric personality is always hilarious.
* LovableSexManiac: Fez's lechery is almost always played for laughs.
* MistakenForGay: A running gag directed towards Kelso throughout the series. In S7 Ep 20, "Gimme Shelter" happens to him and Kelso. They're looking for an apartment and find a great one only to discover the landlord is Fenton, an enemy of Fez, who refuses them a lease. As they're leaving Kelso comments that they'll have to find someplace to live with the baby, referring to his with Brooke, however, Fenton misinterprets this and lets them move in since he can't turn away two men raising a baby.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: In a throwaway joke, Fez mentions his relief that his sister is thousands of miles away from Kelso.
-->'''Kelso''': And if things don't work out with Angie, I'm on the first plane out!
* NonSpecificallyForeign: He is from some ambiguous foreign country (probably from somewhere in South or Central America). Most likely a former colony, as it's revealed in the last season it has a sizeable population of British and Dutch citizens.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Fez". So-called due to his OverlyLongName, see below.
* OverlyLongName: Fez' real name and home country; taken to the point of a RunningGag. When Fez does say his real name but is drowned out by the bell, in real life he was reciting all the actors on the series' names.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Gets more muscular by each season.
* ReallyGetsAround: In the final season he becomes a ladies' man and is seen with three different women in the same episode.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Kelso's manly man.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He and Fenton are this to each other.
* SixthRanger: Fez is the newest member of the group at the beginning of the series.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's this to Jackie and Donna. At some point, he tells Jackie, "You're a super cute high school girl that I've been spying on through a window for three and a half years".
* SweetTooth: And ''how''.
-->"WHERE'S MY CANDY YOU SON OF A BITCH!?"
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Hyde up until season five, where Hyde starts dating Jackie, and Kelso starts hanging out with Fez.
* TheUnintelligible: The others treat Fez like his English borders on incomprehensible, rather than the notable but not overwhelming accent he actually has.
* TheUnreveal: In one of the last episodes, his best friend from back home comes for a visit. He turns out to be... a different ethnicity and has a different accent (as he "comes from the other side of the island"). The end credits feature the gang quizzing them both about their country, but they only offer vague answers.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Over the middle to later seasons he becomes even more creepy, perverted and all around disgusting towards his friends, to the point that he hides in closets and other locations to spy on women or on his friends in couples and repeatedly makes unwanted moves on women.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Enforced by Fez's actor, Wilmer Valderrama, to add to the RunningGag about Fez's unknown home country.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: A RunningGag was that Fez often gave contradictory information about his home country while also never revealing exactly which one it was. He may have made some of these things up to mess with his friends, though.
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[[folder:Lauren "Laurie" Forman]]
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[[caption-width-right:222:''"I'll do anything for ten dollars."'']]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Lisa Robin Kelly}} (Seasons 1-3 & 5), {{Creator/Christina Moore}} (Season 6)
Eric's older sister, who studies to be a beautician. Happily slutty. Had a relationship with Kelso and is [[TheUnfavorite not liked by Kitty]], who almost has nothing nice to say to her ever.
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* BeautyIsBad: Proudly exemplifies this trope and will even shamelessly uses it as a means of seduction.
* BigSisterBully: Laurie relentlessly teases Eric and smugly rubs in the fact Red favors her whenever she can.
-->'''Eric:''' Last time I trusted you, I wound up in the dryer with a pillowcase full of bees, so…
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is callous, manipulative and pretends to be nice when she is around her parents, especially her father. Her mother meanwhile knows exactly how selfish and reckless she really is.
* BrokenPedestal: Red is sincerely disappointed to learn that his daughter sleeps around and isn't the devoted daughter she claimed to be. Even her flunking out of college didn't faze him, but this did.
* CitizenshipMarriage: A combination of this with SexlessMarriage. At the end of season 5, Laurie married Fez only so that he doesn't get deported. As season 6 showed, it was clearly a marriage in name only - They were never seen spending any time together, most of their brief interactions consist of trading barbs at each other, and much to Fez's chagrin, even after their marriage Laurie would still sleep around with anyone BUT him.
* CommutingOnABus: In Seasons 3, 5 and 6. She was upgraded into part of the main cast in Season 2, but disappeared in the second half of Season 3 and was removed from the opening credits scene. She returned in season 5 and 6 with her roles significantly reduced, and was then completely written out of the show with a Season 7 throwaway line mentioning she had moved to Canada.
* DaddysGirl: Red thinks that Laurie is perfect and lets her get away with murder, he seemingly has no idea that she's the town slut. When Red finally sees her for how his daughter really is, she's genuinely devastated to have fallen from his good graces.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Red doesn't take it well when he finds out that she's dating Kelso.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 6, after having been recast. Despite appearing in most episodes of that season, she rarely speaks.
* DumbBlonde: She's not as much dumb as she is willfully ignorant. This is likely due to a lifetime of taking short-cuts whenever possible. That said Laurie still isn't very bright and displays very little knowledge outside of anything directly affecting herself. Notably, she flunked out of the University of Wisconsin due to being more interested in fraternity guys than her studies.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Became horrified when Eric told her he saw Red and Kitty having sex, and then comforted him and told him it would be alright. She even tells their parents what he'd witnessed so they'd stop suspecting he was on drugs due to his behaviour, which was a [[PetTheDog rare instance]] of being a good sibling.
-->'''Eric''': You're actually being nice!\\
'''Laurie''': Yeah, it's just not my strong suit.
* FlatCharacter: Her defining personality was that she was mean and nasty to everyone except to Red, whom she sucked up to and could do no wrong in his eyes, and she slept around. The main source of humor came from the fact that her nastiness and promiscuity were all there was to her. Some of the only attempts at breaking away from this were her comforting Eric after finding out he saw Red and Kitty having sex, becoming depressed after Red finally realized how nasty she was, and then later attempting to be a good person before she went back to her original, two-dimensional annoying habits in the later seasons.
** On several occassions, she even seems to ''defy'' character development.
*** Upon growing attached to a baby she was forced to look after, she ultimately chose her hairdryer over it when pressed.
*** When she actually had the urge to talk about her feelings with Kelso, she ultimately concluded that she wasn't doing enough '''for herself.''
*** While sleeping with Kelso, she actually got on surprisingly well with Jackie, but flipped right back to treating her as bad as everyone else once Kelso's cheating on Jackie was finally exposed.
** That said, she does appear to be worried about her future when Red and Kitty confront her about it, and is genuinely excited to start Beauty School.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Eric's responsible
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Though none of the group (barring Kelso) like her at all due to Laurie's sociopathic and promiscuous nature, she often gets involved in their activities for one reason or another.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Cares for very little outside of her own interests.
* {{Jerkass}}: From Season 1 to 3 and early on in Season 5, she's egotistical, rude and enjoys tormenting Eric and manipulating her parents. Towards the end of Season 5 she seemed to become a better person. In season 6 she barely interacted with Eric and was instead mostly antagonizing Fez who was her [[CitizenshipMarriage legally-married husband]].
* KarmaHoudini: She constantly tortures Eric, is incredibly promiscuous, purposefully ruins Kelso's relationship with Jackie, not to mention [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale forcing herself on him]], and routinely takes her barbs against Eric further than words and sabotages his plans with his friends. She never suffers any repercussions from her actions that last any further than a single episode and is always Red's little girl.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Until season 5 rolls around her father realizes exactly what she really is. That arguably ended in season 2 when her promiscuous ways was exposed to her father for the first time.
* LongBusTrip: Season 7, where it was eventually stated she was out of the country. Unlike before, she never came back, which was {{Lampshaded}} in the GrandFinale.
* MsFanservice: She is first introduced in only an oversized sweater.
* {{Narcissist}}: Cares for literally no one but herself.
* PetTheDog: Comforting Eric after he told her he saw their parents having sex. Due to this, Eric was a complete basket case, and Red and Kitty thought he was on drugs. Since he couldn't bring himself to admit what was really wrong, Laurie bluntly told them "he saw you guys doing it!", then happily (and sincerely) told Eric "I helped!". She and Eric both lampshade this, Eric noting that her being nice is odd and Laurie apologizing for being poor at it, as she's not used to it.
* PutOnABus: Halfway through Season 3, she went to Chicago and was no longer in the main cast.
* ReallyGetsAround: Oh, does she ever.
-->'''Hyde''': (To Kelso) "You're dating Laurie? That's not different, man. You're boldly going where ''every'' man's gone before!"
* SatanicArchetype: PlayedForLaughs. Eric and his friends call Laurie the devil not just for being extremely smug and/or manipulative, but also for the fact that she was literally born with a tail. Not to mention [[PsychoticSmirk her reaction]] to getting a 666 (which is actually the number used to invoke Satan) during a game of cards.
* SitcomArchNemesis: To the entire group barring Kelso. She became a better person towards the end of Season 5, when both Red and Kitty took over the SitcomArchNemesis role. When she returned in Season 6 (different actress and portrayal), she was the SitcomArchNemesis only to Fez, with whom she [[CitizenshipMarriage married earlier on]].
* SixthRanger: Although Laurie dislikes most of the group, she still joins them for some of their activities, such as their graduation camping trip.
* SlutShaming: If she's being nasty to someone, chances are they'll retaliate with a joke about her being "cheap" and "easy." Jackie even calls her a cheap slut after their CatFight.
* SmugSnake: Laurie tends to act like she's smarter than she is and that she will always be seen as Red's favourite. Though it soon becomes apparent Kitty has long seen though the façade and even Red comes to realise she's nowhere near as responsible as Eric.
* SpoiledBrat: This is how she is seen by Eric and the audience. Even her mother calls her this directly, believing she is far too selfish and nasty a person.
* StupidEvil: To quote Eric...
--> '''Eric:''' She's stupid and evil. Mostly stupid.
* SiblingRivalry: Eric makes occasional references about her being the favourite child to Red, and they regularly roasted each other.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Has an affair with her psychology professor.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kitty delivers an epic one to her in Season 1 when sharing during a "therapy circle."
-->'''Kitty''': "Laurie, you're mean to your brother and you're screwing around at college. We don't even see you unless you run out of clean clothes or need cash. The fact is, you're an ungrateful spoiled brat."
* {{Troll}}: Hyde observes that Laurie feeds off the pleasure she gets from insulting others. The more insulted the given person acts, the better.
* TheUnfavorite: To Kitty. By Season 5, even Red realizes how ungrateful she has been and calls her on it.
* TheVamp: Laurie's habit of using men as her playthings is well known to Eric and his friends. Though Kelso isn't smart enough to be put off pursuing her, even whilst in a relationship with Jackie.
* TookALevelInKindness: Seems to make a genuine effort to change and be a good person towards the end of Season 5, although she still retained her promiscuous ways. Her change for the good (relatively speaking) seemed to waver in season 6, where the target of her JerkAss tendencies was shifted from Eric onto Fez instead (Her [[CitizenshipMarriage legally-married husband]]). However, this was largely because she had close to zero interaction with Eric in her final season: The character was played by a different actress and the script was clearly altered to reduce her character dynamics with the main cast in order to write her out of the show.
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[[folder:Randy Pearson]]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Josh Meyers}}
The new guy for season 8. Very polite and laid-back. Quickly joins the group and dates Donna after Eric left for Africa.
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* TheAce: Ladies man, good with tools, and full of ideas.
* ChickMagnet: Just like Kelso, he is good looking and successful with women.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has also Eric's sense of humor.
* FinalSeasonCasting: Josh Meyers was put on the show after his contract with ''Series/MadTV'' was up and he chose not to continue being on the show.
* MrFixit: He forms a friendship with Red after showing Red how good he is at fixing things.
* NiceGuy: Randy appears as a laid-back, gentle and polite young man.
* SixthRanger: Joins the group in the final season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Eric and Kelso.
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[[folder:Charlie Richardson]]
->'''Played By''': {{Creator/Bret Harrison}}
The new guy who hangs out with the gang at the end of season 7... [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for only four episodes]]. He's the son of a friend of Red's back in the war and has only a few memorable moments.
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* AccidentalPervert: He accidentally walks in on Kitty naked, much to Red's anger. ''Twice''.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After seemingly being Eric's replacement for the last season, he falls off the water tower in the first episode. Naturally, the audience thinks that he's okay...until the water tower is renamed the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower. The character was intended to last longer, but Harrisson was offered the lead role for the short-lived series ''Series/TheLoop'' and left the show.
* NaiveNewcomer: And ''how''. After getting drunk in front of Red, he wishes to apologize to Red and that he'll understand, to which Eric understandably laughs. And if ''that'' wasn't enough, he even [[IdiotBall takes advice from Kelso before calling him a "genius".]] Though it is understandable since he just joined the gang and went to a Catholic school.
* NiceGuy: Arguably the ''most'' nice person in the entire series, though incredibly naive.
* SixthRanger: Played straight when he first appears. He quickly gains respect when he invites the boys into his father's beer warehouse.
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[[folder:Angie Barnett]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke
Hyde's half-sister introduced in the 7th Season. She and Hyde co-own a record store. She only appeared in eight episodes of the show.
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* BlackAndNerdy: She's black and is a mathematics major.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: To Laurie. Both are sisters of a male character of the gang and both were in a relationship with Kelso. However:
** Laurie is white while Angie is black.
** Angie is a smart, hardworking young woman, while Laurie is lazy and prefers to sleep or scheme her way into an easy life.
** While Angie and Hyde did start out as having an antagonistic relationship like Laurie and Eric, Angie and Hyde's relationship became more friendly.
* LongLostRelative: Angie is Hyde's half-sister via their father William "WB" Barnett.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after Angie Barnett, the first wife of David Bowie.
* PutOnABus: The 22nd episode of season 7 has her get a promotion that takes her to Milwaukee.
* ShoutOut: She first appears in the episode "Angie" which is a reference to the song of the same name by the Rolling Stones.
* SiblingRivalry: She has one with Hyde and they bicker regularly, but they work well together and he's bailed her out of trouble a couple times.
* SiblingYinYang: Angie is serious and career-focused in contrast to her slacker of a brother.
* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black woman and is the only racial minority of the entire cast besides Fez and Leo.
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[[folder:Nina Bartell]]
-->'''Played By''': Creator/JoannaCanton
Fez's boss at the [=DMV=] and later girlfriend in Season 5.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her parents are racist to Fez when he first meets them. She dislikes their racism and how they treated Fez, so she gets back at her parents by having sex with Fez on their bed.
* DeadpanSnarker: She tends to respond to Fez and the group's antics with dry wit.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: She uses this excuse to break up with Fez when in reality, she dumped him because she found him too clingy and annoying.
* OnlySaneMan: When it comes to dealing with Fez, she's clearly the more down to earth one and stops them breaking up a few times early on. She points out in one very short conversation with Fez that they clearly need more practice at having sex after their first time was horrible.
* PutOnABus: After she and Fez break up for good, she never appears again.
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