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** He would also like you to know that a dentist ''really is'' a medical doctor.
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* AsHimself

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* DepravedBisexual: In the first movie he acts CampGay, and in the third movie Chow hits on Stu and Phil, but in the second movie Chow says he's had a wife for fifteen years.

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* DepravedBisexual: In the first movie he acts CampGay, and in the third movie Chow hits on Stu and Phil, but in the second movie Chow says he's had a wife for fifteen years. In the third film it's also mentioned that he contacted an escort service to have both men and women sent to his hotel room.


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* HookersAndBlow: Chow's room in the third film.
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* TheStoner: "I FUCKING LOVE COCAINE!!!"
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!!Black Doug

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: In the third film.]]
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--> '''Phil''': GOD DAMN IT!\\
'''Alan''': GOSH DARN IT!\\
'''Phil''': SHIT!\\

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--> '''Phil''': GOD DAMN IT!\\
IT!\
'''Alan''': GOSH DARN IT!\\
IT!\
'''Phil''': SHIT!\\SHIT!\



* TheRainman

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* TheRainmanTheRainman: Alan is very good at card counting, allowing him to win enough money at blackjack for Doug's ransom in the first film.



--> '''Phil''': You know she beats him, right?\\

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--> '''Phil''': You know she beats him, right?\\right?\
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* MadeOfIron: Throughout the trilogy, Alan gets knocked out by a bare-knuckled Mike Tyson, hit in the forehead with a stun gun (and keeps going), and has his head slammed repeatedly in a car door. None of these injuries stop him for very long.
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* ButtMonkey



* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HappilyMarried



* MrFanservice



!!Stuart Price

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!!Stuart Price"Stu" Price



* TheChewToy



* HappilyMarried: By the end of the second movie.



* {{Megane}}









* NiceGuy



* JerkAss

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* JerkAss{{Jerkass}}
* UngratefulBitch


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* NiceGirl


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* {{Fingore}}: Gets one of his fingers cut off.
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** [[spoiler: And inverted with TheStinger for the third.]]
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** JerkWithAHeartOfAGold: Though he is capable of being a decent guy.

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** JerkWithAHeartOfAGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he is capable of being a decent guy.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfAGold: Though he is capable of being a decent guy.
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* FullFrontalAssault: In the first two films.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Many fans were rooting for her and Stu to stay together in the end.

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* ChewToy: He gets injured more than any of the other Wolfpack members.

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* ChewToy: He gets injured more than any Phil is tased, clawed by the tiger, cracked across the face with a crowbar, is sitting on the side of the other Wolfpack members.car which gets t-boned, and we never do find out how he ended up in hospital.
** The end credits are the best clue. There was an altercation involving Wayne Newton.
** In ''Part II'', he even gets shot in the arm.



* PetTheDog: Phil's relationship with Alan.



* ExtremeDoormat: With Melissa, until the end of the first film.

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* TheCastShowoff: Ed Helms and his piano playing. And in ''Part II'', his guitar playing.
* ExtremeDoormat: With Melissa, Stu actually makes excuses for Melissa abusing and cheating on him until the end of the first film.



* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]]

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* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]]Boyfriend]]: In the first film.



* AdultChild
* BadassBeard: Alan's got a fine beard.
** In ''Part II'', note that Alan has posters of "Macho Man" RandySavage and [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Hillbilly Jim]] on the wall among his [[SceneryPorn intensely decorated room]].
** When told in ''Part II'' that he has no hair after it was shaved off the night before, his first instinct is to reach for his beard rather than his bald head.
* BoisterousBruiser



* ComedicSociopath: Particularly in the second film when he treats another character to roofalin with malice aforethought (and said character [[{{Fingore}} loses a finger]] under the influence).



* {{Flanderization}}: It's like they ramped up his random bouts of silly insanity to actual dangerous insanity in the second movie, and then they did it ''again'' in the third movie.
* TheFool



--> '''Phil''': GOD DAMN IT!\\
'''Alan''': GOSH DARN IT!\\
'''Phil''': SHIT!\\
'''Alan''': SHOOT!
** "Oh my word!"



* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With [[spoiler:Black Doug and Leslie Chow]].

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With [[spoiler:Black He outright says [[spoiler: "The drug dealer who gave me roofies seemed like a real straight shooter!"]] in the first film, and insists on remaining friends with Chow. In the third film [[spoiler: it takes being dragged into Chow's escapades, getting Doug taken hostage, and Leslie Chow]].his ''outright murdering three people in front of him'' for Alan to finally realize Chow's not a nice guy.]]
* InsultBackfire: Alan is literally too stupid to insult.



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* ManChildManChild: While Alan's meek around adults he doesn't have any problem picking fights with children, which we ''hope'' is the reason he's not allowed near schools. He's also a JonasBrothers fan.
--> '''Stu:''' Don't let the beard fool you, he's a child.
** He did try to pick a fight with an old man for looking at his dad's car.
** ''Part II'' has a [[spoiler:{{Flashback}} sequence]] from Alan's perspective - It turns out that he sees himself, Doug, Phil, Stu and Chow (and only those 5!) as children.



* SkewedPriorities: Alan frequently has these, whether it's being offended by Stu using foul language or being forced at gunpoint to give up a monkey.



* SkewedPriorities: He's willing to risk getting shot just to keep a pet monkey.




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* YouSayTomato: Alan pronounces "ree-tard" as "rhe-taard". And in ''Part II'' he pronounces "Thailand" as "Thigh-land". ''Part III'' has him pronouncing "pornography" as "porno-''graph''-y"



* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.]]
* CloudCuckoolander

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* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted CloudCuckoolander: In a drug-fueled AxCrazy sort of way.
* DepravedBisexual: In the first movie he acts CampGay, and in the third movie Chow hits on Stu and Phil, but
in the second film when he is revealed to have movie Chow says he's had a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.]]
* CloudCuckoolander
wife for fifteen years.



* KarmaHoudini: In ''Part III'', [[spoiler: Chow literally gets away with stealing $42 million and three counts of murder, and worms his way back into the Wolfpack's life after Alan told Chow he didn't want to be friends anymore.]]



* LovableRogue



* LovableRogue

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* LovableRogueNakedOnArrival: How we first see Chow in the first two movies.



* ControlFreak

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* ControlFreakControlFreak: She checks Stu's credit card statements, beats him if he protests her abusive treatment, and calls to check on his location frequently.



* DomesticAbuser

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* DomesticAbuserDomesticAbuser:
--> '''Phil''': You know she beats him, right?\\
'''Stu''': Hey - ''that was...twice!'' [[NotHelpingYourCase And I was out of line]].



* SingleMomStripper

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* SingleMomStripper
SingleMomStripper: Jade has branched out into being a Single Mom Prostitute as well.




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* FlatCharacter: Teddy shares the same purpose that Doug did in the original, except Doug was at least given some sort of personality.

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* AdamWesting

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* {{Jerkass}} Whether he means to be or not, he's a self absorbed dick.

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* {{Jerkass}} Whether he means to be or not, he's a self absorbed dick.dick half of the time.
* KarmaHoudini: He's responsible for almost all of the events of the trilogy, like the being drugged (twice) and most of the events of Hangover III. He gets little to no comeuppance for any of it.
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* {{Jerkass}} Whether he means to be or not, he's a self absorbed dick.
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* ScreamingLikeALittleGirlScreamsLikeALittleGirl
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* OneOfTheKids


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* TooDumbToLive


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* TookALevelInBadass: In the 3rd movie.
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* AxCrazy


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* [[spoiler: EvilAllAlong]]
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* [[spoiler: BigBad: Becomes this in the third movie.]]


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* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard]]


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* SirSwearsALot
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!!Doug

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!!Doug!!Doug Billings
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* DeadpanSnarker



* FatIdiot
* GoshDarnItToHeck: He almost never cusses.



* LargeHam
* LethallyStupid



* TheRainman




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* SingleMomStripper
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* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.

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* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.]]

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* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.

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* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.bisexual.
* CloudCuckoolander


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* LovableRogue



* LargeHam




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* StraightMan



* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried: In the third film, he finally meets a woman as quirky and batshit insane as he is.]]




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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Swings between this and TheWoobie.

!!Doug
* DistressedDude / DesignatedVictim: In the first [[spoiler:and third]] film.
* HappilyMarried
* OnlySaneMan



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!!Leslie Chow

* AllAsiansAreAlike: His accent and ahem, lack of endowment makes him a very solid stereotype.
* CampGay: [[spoiler:Subverted in the second film when he is revealed to have a wife. But in the third film, he hints at being bisexual.
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: Happens three times.]]
* LargeHam
* LovableRogue
* VillainProtagonist: In the second film, [[spoiler:although for most of the third film, he's solidly in antagonist territory.]]

!!Melissa

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale
* AnywhereButTheirLips: One of the many clues that she's not right for Stu is that she doesn't let him kiss her on the lips.
* ControlFreak
* CountryMatters: Phil calls her this in the second movie.
* DomesticAbuser
* JerkAss
* YourCheatingHeart: And the worst part is, Stu doesn't even seem to mind.

!!Jade

* FanPreferredCouple: Many fans were rooting for her and Stu to stay together in the end.
* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried: And to someone other than Stu, even.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* MsFanservice

!!Teddy

* ChildProdigy
* DistressedDude: Takes Doug's role in the second movie.

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!!Phil Wenneck
* ApatheticTeacher: He collects field trip money from students to fund his Vegas excursion.
* ChewToy: He gets injured more than any of the other Wolfpack members.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* SirSwearsALot

!!Stuart Price
* ButtMonkey
* ExtremeDoormat: With Melissa, until the end of the first film.
* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]]
* InsistentTerminology: He would like you to know that his girlfriend cheated on him with a ''bartender'', not a sailor or a bellhop, thank you very much.
* OhCrap: While all the characters have these moments, Stu reacts to them the most hysterically.

!!Alan Garner
* CloudCuckoolander: The absolute king of this trope.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With [[spoiler:Black Doug and Leslie Chow]].
* ManChild
* TheMillstone: He at least indirectly causes nearly every single bad thing that happens to the Wolfpack.
* NoodleIncident: What he did that caused him to be banned from Chuck E. Cheeses.
* PsychopathicManChild
* SkewedPriorities: He's willing to risk getting shot just to keep a pet monkey.
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