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* IAmLegion: Speaks through the Blanks at times, such as commandeering Blank!Shepard, and speaks through Oliver, Peter, Trevor, Shane and the Marmalade Sandwich (all at the same time.)

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* IAmLegion: Speaks through the Blanks at times, such as commandeering Blank!Shepard, and speaks through Oliver, Peter, Trevor, Shane and the Marmalade Sandwich (all at the same time.)time).
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: the only female member of the principal cast. Justified as the group focuses mostly on a group of childhood friends, with her mostly being present for being Oliver's sister.

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: the The only female member of the principal cast. Justified as the group focuses mostly on a group of childhood friends, with her mostly being present for being Oliver's sister.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Meek and easily intimidated, even where his friends are concerned. He's also the first one conned into Gary's scheme. According to WordOfGod, Peter was the only character to never fight the Blanks in any brawl because his attack of Shane had to a [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness striking]] OutOfCharacterMoment.

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* ExtremeDoormat: Meek and easily intimidated, even where his friends are concerned. He's also the first one conned into Gary's scheme. According to WordOfGod, Peter was the only character to never fight the Blanks in any brawl because his attack of Shane had to be a [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness striking]] OutOfCharacterMoment.
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* TheLancer: Despite being friends, he's a bit of a rival to Gary. (His last name, "Prince" to Gary's "King", also hints at this status within the group).

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* TheLancer: Despite being friends, he's a bit of a rival to Gary. (His last name, "Prince" to Gary's "King", also hints at this status within the group).group.)
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* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: It eventually becomes clear that this is at once Gary's motivation and the reason why he's secretly very depressed: he had no idea what to do with his life after high school despite the sense of "promise and optimism," so he just went on pursuing the same thrills as he did as a teenager until he ended up alienating all his friends in progressively more selfish acts of hedonism. [[spoiler: Believing that the Golden Mile pub crawl was the happiest night of his life, he's now determined to re-enact it one last time with his friends and - according to the director - kill himself at the end of it.]]
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-->'''Gary:''' It's not worth it!\\

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-->'''Gary:''' -->'''Stephen:''' It's not worth it!\\
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* HeroWorshipper: Towards Gary, especially in their high school days.

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* HeroWorshipper: Towards Gary, especially in their high school days. The opening montage shows Gary attacking Shane Hawkins for intentionally hitting Peter with a heavy bookbag, for instance.
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-->'''Gary:''' It's not worth it!\\
'''Peter:''' '''''YES IT FUCKING IS!'''''
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* TraitorShot: [[spoiler:Gives a few as a Blank, such as when he's watching Peter, Gary and Andy dancing with the Marmalade Sandwich]].
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* SpoiledSweet: He comes from a very rich family, yet is the most soft-spoken of the five guys.
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* StepfordSmiler: Type A with a few shreds of Type C. [[PaperThinDisguise Despite his best intentions]], he's clearly in denial about just how much of his life has slipped away from him. He still keeps up the facade [[spoiler: [[DespairEventHorizon until near the end]]]].

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* StepfordSmiler: Type A Depressed with a few shreds of Type C.Unstable. [[PaperThinDisguise Despite his best intentions]], he's clearly in denial about just how much of his life has slipped away from him. He still keeps up the facade [[spoiler: [[DespairEventHorizon until near the end]]]].

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%%* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:He can't be outargued]].

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%%* * ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:He can't [[spoiler:Andy declares it's pointless to argue with Gary about anything. This turns out to be outargued]].so true that he majorly dismantles an alien invasion by making The Network exasperate that it's pointless to argue with him]].



** He once calls his friends jealous of him, because despite their jobs and successes, he has his freedom. [[spoiler:Actually, he's - at the least - jealous of Andy's "perfect life".]]
** [[spoiler:The sticking point of Gary in the film is that he's never really grown up since high school. The ending shows him to have finally changed his alcoholism and unreliability to his friends, while also staying very much the same by being the leader of the four blanks which look like his friends when they were young!]]



* NeverLendToAFriend: Part of the reason Gary manages to get Andy to come around to joining him on the Golden Mile again is by giving him the 600 pounds he owes him. It turns out he just borrowed 200 pounds from the other three friends to achieve this.



* BrokenPedestal: He idolized Gary when he was a teenager -- until after the accident.

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* BrokenPedestal: He idolized Gary when he was a teenager -- until after the accident.accident [[spoiler:where a drunken Gary abandoned him from a car crash that left Andy in surgery for 12 hours from nearly severing an artery, and then arrested]].


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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Gary, Andy and Steven gets The Network to leave Earth and abandon its aims just by belligerently insisting they and surely many other people won't ever care about being told what to do.]]
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->'''Played By''': Paddy Considine

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->'''Played By''': Paddy ConsidineCreator/PaddyConsidine
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* {{Irony}}: Gary wants the pub crawl to be fun for his old friends (although it is pretty clear that he mainly wants it to be fun on his terms more than theirs). However, whenever everyone actually starts to relax and enjoy themselves, Gary almost always does something to spoil the atmosphere.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Sosai X]].
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* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:The reason his wife filed for divorce -- he wasn't present enough.]]
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* BrokenPedastal: He idolized Gary when he was a teenager -- until after the accident.

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* BrokenPedastal: BrokenPedestal: He idolized Gary when he was a teenager -- until after the accident.
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* BrokenPedastal: He idolized Gary when he was a teenager -- until after the accident.
-->'''Andy:''' You were ''Gary fucking King!''
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Gary attempted to commit suicide at some point before the film due to his disillusionment over how the high school pub crawl seemed to be the only high point in his life.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Gary attempted to commit suicide at some point before the film due to his disillusionment over how the high school pub crawl seemed to be the only high point in his life. Worse, he told ''no one'' about it, not even his mother, whom he'd broken off contact with for several months.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She'd been there as a teenager, but by this point she's outgrown that mentality, probably because of being left behind that night. While she admits that she doesn't exactly look back on their fling without fondness, nowadays she just can't look at Gary as boyfriend material anymore.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She'd been there as a teenager, but by this point she's outgrown that mentality, probably because of being left behind that night. While she admits that she doesn't exactly look back on their fling without fondness, nowadays she just can't look at Gary as boyfriend material anymore. It's also hinted that was why she was attracted to Adrian Keene, who owned his own motorcycle.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Meek and easily intimidated, even where his friends are concerned. He's also the first one conned into Gary's scheme.

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* ExtremeDoormat: Meek and easily intimidated, even where his friends are concerned. He's also the first one conned into Gary's scheme. According to WordOfGod, Peter was the only character to never fight the Blanks in any brawl because his attack of Shane had to a [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness striking]] OutOfCharacterMoment.
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* SpySpeak: According to Gary, though it's sort of an on-the-nose of knocking on wood and asking "Got any drugs?"
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* NiceGuy: Genuinely loves his wife and kids, and is very pleased to see all his friends again, even Gary to an extent.

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* NiceGuy: Genuinely loves his wife and kids, and is very pleased to see all his friends again, even Gary to an extent. [[spoiler: As is his Blank counterpart.]]

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* GeniusDitz: Gary can quote works rather impressively, is pretty GenreSavvy and ultimately can argue very impressively on occasion. Unfortunately, he's not all there.
* GenreSavvy: In spite of his general stupidity, Gary does work out quite a bit of the truth about the Blanks.

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* GeniusDitz: Gary can quote works rather impressively, is pretty GenreSavvy impressively and ultimately can argue very impressively on occasion. Unfortunately, he's not all there.
* GenreSavvy: In spite of his general stupidity, Gary does work out quite a bit of the truth about the Blanks.
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->'''Played By''': Rosamund Pike

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->'''Played By''': Rosamund PikeCreator/RosamundPike
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* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Genuinely somewhere between the two. It wants a genuinely better universe and will reward those who volunteer generously. On the other hand, refuse and your arse is grass. [[spoiler:Literally. You'll be mulched into compost.]]

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* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Genuinely somewhere between the two. It wants a genuinely better universe and will reward those who volunteer generously. On the other hand, refuse their offer and your arse ass is grass. [[spoiler:Literally. You'll be mulched into compost.]]
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* AliensAreBastards: [[spoiler: The Network's claim of wanting to "civilise" humanity rings pretty hollow considering they have to kill over 99% of it to achieve its aims. And then there's the aftereffects of them leaving...]]
* [[AliensInCardiff Aliens In Newton Haven]]: Justified in that they have 2,000 other bases scattered across the world.


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* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:The World's End at the end of the movie]].
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [[spoiler:One under The World's End]].

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