History Characters / ThirteenReasonsWhyStudents

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After years of being a KarmaHoudini, Karma was ''really hard with him'' in season 3. He loses his friends, nobody wants him close, is bullied in his new school, is brutally beaten by Zach and finally killed by Alex. TruthOnTelevision at its finest: many rapists or sex offenders who escape justice generally suffer the consequences of the society, exposing themselves to being completely hated, losing their friends, or being killed by some vigilante.]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Miles Heizer

->'''Portrayed By:''' Devin Druid

->'''Portrayed By:''' Michele Selene Ang

->'''Portrayed By:''' Christian Navarro

->'''Portrayed By:''' Brandon Larracuente

->'''Portrayed By:''' Sosie Bacon

->'''Portrayed By:''' Uriah Shelton

->'''Portrayed By:''' Bryce Cass

->'''Portrayed By:''' Brandon Butler

->'''Portrayed By:''' Grace Saif

->'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler Barnhardt

->'''Portrayed by:''' Deaken Bluman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Inde Navarrette

->'''Portrayed By:''' Yadira Guevara-Prip

->'''Portrayed By:''' Tommy Dorfman

* DaddysGirl: Implied to be very close to her father. [[spoiler:His presence at the deposition encourages her to be honest, and she opens up to him at the end of the series about her sexual assault.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Prone to intense bouts of emotion, hallucinates in multiple episodes, and his mother mentions him taking medication and seeing a therapist in the past. Early on in the series, he mentions that he is taking so long to listen to the tapes because he cannot listen to them for more than a few minutes at a time or he'll get panic attacks. Come season 2, he also appears to be having hallucinations of Hannah, that he has full conversations with at multiple points. In season 4, he also has multiple hallucinations of Bryce and Monty.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Prone to histrionics characteristic of borderline personality disorder, though it's largely justified due to the trauma she endures. She also may have [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]], given that many people with narcissistic traits who commit suicide often leave long, detailed notes explaining how they feel that friends and family are to blame for their actions. She also seemed to develop a severe case of depression, self-hatred and intense suicidal thoughts by the time she meets with Mr. Porter, although the only thing confirmed in the show was the suicidal thoughts.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Shows some MoodSwinger tendencies, as well as symptoms of PTSD. Also has a general disregard for his own safety.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Between his uncomfortable mannerisms and interest in violence, it's clear that something is up with him that goes beyond being an awkward teenager.

* AmbiguousDisorder There's something rather off about him in Season 4. He never seemed to have a problem with Monty viciously beating him after they had sex. He also claims to love Alex despite barely knowing him and is heartbroken when they break up.

* PoisonousFriend: To Bryce. [[spoiler:He threatened most of the main cast to try and keep them from speaking out about Bryce's rapes, even though Bryce never asked him to, and it only caused more trouble in the end. Even after Bryce tells him to leave Tyler alone as it could get Bryce in more trouble, Monty ignores Bryce’s orders and proceeds to brutally assault and rape Tyler with a mop in the bathroom.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He gives up on his quest to avenge Monty after Justin dies and even apologizes to Jess for what he out her through.]]

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: He introduces himself in this manner to Hannah and Jessica. Hannah jokingly calls him "Alex Alex Standall" in response.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anne Winters

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jan Luis Castellanos

* EvilIsPetty: Most of his asshole behavior is pretty random. He's not acting off of personal grudges, nor does he benefit from his bullying in any way. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven when he violently rapes Tyler over a baseball season.]]

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite being a friend of Monty- implied to be a very close friend considering the amount of scenes they share together- Charlie doesn’t have any problem framing him for Bryce’s murder. Likewise, despite it becoming common knowledge in the group that Monty was a closeted gay, he doesn’t seem to show any remorse for his situation despite also not being heterosexual.

* OverarchingVillain: Most of the offences Hannah lists on the tapes could be tracked back to Bryce:
** Bryce is the one who circulated the photo in Justin's phone.
** He pushed Alex into contributing to the "Best/Worst" list that Bryce started, which was responsible for Alex and Jessica's breakup and Hannah and Jessica's falling out.
** It was his [[spoiler: rape of Jessica]] that made Hannah leave the party with Sheri. If Hannah had not been there Sheri may not [[spoiler: have hit the stop sign.]]
** He kept up the rumors of Hannah being easy, which lead Marcus to believe she would be.
** He kept goading Courtney to reveal that the photo was of her, resulting in her lying about Hannah being a "psycho lesbian", rather than ignoring the gossip.
** He teases Zach about Hannah yelling at him, potentially motivating the former to steal her notes in retaliation to cover up his personal embarrassment of being shut out by a girl.
** Mister Porter's tactless session with Hannah [[spoiler: right before she killed herself]] was brought on because of him [[spoiler: raping Hannah the night before.]]
** Tyler, Ryan, and Clay are the only ones on the tapes that basically have no connection to Bryce's actions.
** Even Clay is partially affected since his making out with Hannah was abruptly stopped by her because all of her previous traumas came flooding back to her mind. If Hannah hadn't stopped him, Clay wouldn't have left and Jessica probably wouldn't have been raped by Bryce.
** Season 2 also reveals that he is [[spoiler:the de-facto person in charge of the Clubhouse, a shed behind the baseball field where the team hangs out, gets wasted, and rapes girls, while taking pictures of it all as trophies/insurance.]]
** Season 2 also revealed that [[spoiler: Bryce was one of the first boys that Hannah talked to when she started going to Liberty High. And even though she agreed to go to The Clubhouse and have her picture taken, she didn't have sex with him. Bryce, who is used to getting everything he wants, resented this and his jealousy of her wanting Justin foreshadows how the bulling against her began.]]
** In Season 3, when Bryce finally listens to the tapes, Tony even tells him that every tape is his in one way or another.

* {{Meganekko}}: Wears glasses in all her scenes.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: An example in which the adaptation is more graphic than the original. In the original book, Hannah kills herself via overdosing on pills. In the series, however, she bled to death after slitting her own wrists in a bathtub.

* IronButtMonkey: Accidentally runs into a car while he's on his bike, has a rock hit him exactly where the old cut was, and then gets beaten up by Bryce. This continues into season 2, where he has a bag thrown over his head before being assaulted by a group of jocks and gets into a huge fight in the hallway a few days later.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Takes a humiliating photo of Tyler and circulates it around the school. A case of PayEvilUntoEvil and ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine for what Tyler did to Hannah.

* ButtMonkey: A non-comedic example. Every friend she makes or person she dates ends up betraying or exploiting her in some way, with the exception of Clay and Tony.

** Downplayed in season 3. He has a few sympathetic and redeeming moments such as some expansion on the abusive relationship between him and his father, the reveal he’s an insecure homosexual, a genuine relationship with Winston Williams and him showing he genuinely did care about Bryce, with even Monty mourning Bryce at his funeral. That being said he’s still a villain and continues to threaten people, beats the crap out of Winston just because he fears people will discover he’s gay from them talking and most especially he continues to taunt Tyler about raping him, refuses to apologize and shows absolutely no remorse even after being arrested for it.

-->''"And you could have stopped it. And I could have. Justin Foley could have. And a dozen more people at least. But we didn't."''

* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Justin's Veronica.[[spoiler: In Season 3, he's the Betty to Bryce's Veronica for Ani's Archie.]]

-->''"Why didn't you say this to me when I was alive?"''

-->''"She lied about it on those tapes because she's a crazy fucking drama queen who just killed herself for attention!"''

* NiceGuy: By season 4, he [[TookALevelInKindness took many levels in kindness]] [[CharacterDevelopment and becomes]] one of the nicest members of the group while the rest tend to pass around the JerkassBall.

-->''"Don't believe everything you hear."''

-->''"Nobody's innocent."''

-->''"Girls like that, they don't hang out with the yearbook guy."''

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: '''1000% averted.''' [[spoiler: Tyler's rape at the hands of Monty is easily one of the most horrifying and upsetting scenes in the entire show.]]

-->''"I would say that the climate at Liberty High School, as I have experienced it myself, is bad. I take shit everyday. People trip me, slam me into walls, lock me in the bathroom stalls, and pull my pants down."''

-->''"Hannah's truth is not my truth. No way."''

-->''"Hannah just wanted attention. Nothing was any different than what happens to any girl at any high school."''

-->''"If one thing had gone differently somewhere along the line, maybe none of this would have happened."''

* TheAlcoholic: All of the trauma they've been through finally gets to him in Season 4 where he starts drinkinig excessively and failing his classes.

-->''"You have to tell the truth in poetry. Your truth."''

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His general reaction to Courtney and her [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] rhetoric.

-->''"Yeah, I've always liked Clay."''

-->''"What's mine is yours."''

** Played straight in season 3, where he shows that he genuinely loved some people, especially his mom.

* HandsomeLech: He's described as being a "frat boy Darth Vader"; he's a handsome, superficially charming and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] [[JerkJock jock]], who really likes the ladies. However, Bryce is also very self-absorbed, lacks empathy and has a strong sense of entitlement towards women, which is rather off-putting. It takes a ''very'' dark turn when it's eventually revealed that Bryce [[spoiler: is in fact a SerialRapist who genuinely doesn't think he's done anything wrong (or just doesn't care) and that it was [[RapeAsDrama his rape of Hannah Baker that ultimately]] [[DrivenToSuicide drove her to suicide]]]].

* KicktheSonofaBitch: While rather mild there was his threat to Monty after finding out that he raped Tyler.

-->'''Bryce:''' [[spoiler:Fuckin' Zach! I'm gonna fuck up his other knee and wreck his fucking leg! I'm gonna fucking destroy him. (''to Jessica'') You... You set me up! She fucking set me up!]]

-->''"Hannah had secrets, Mrs. Baker."''

-->''"You leave her alone, freak."''

* AbusiveParents: He mentions his dad having come after him with a hammer, and is seen wearing a cast an episode later, which Bryce points to when he says:

-->''"That's why you have me, man."''

-->''"I like this new rebellious, Audi-keying Clay Jensen.''"

* UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder: [[spoiler:Is diagnosed with this in season 2.]]

-->''"Of course there are decent jocks, you just have to learn how to find them. Hannah never learned."''

-->''"Look, the jocks walk the hall like they own the place. The teachers feed into it. Bolan feeds into it. It's just... it's how it is. You try going to school with a bunch of Neanderthals who are told that they are the only thing of value at school, and that the rest of us are merely there to cheer them on and provide them with whatever support they need."''

-->''"It's been over a week, isn't it healthy to move on?"''

* {{UsefulNotes/Punk}}: Less so than her brother, but she still hangs out with his crew and dresses in a punk style.

!! Winston Williams

* GoodCounterpart: She is nothing like her older brother, being a kind hearted, openly friendly, if shy young woman.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied that Monty did love her and was a good brother to her, and despite her unable to reconcile the atrocities he committed, she tearfully admits, she loved him back.

* AffectionateNickname: Hannah calls him "Helmet" throughout the series after she sees him wearing his helmet riding his bike to work at the Crestmont. Later, Clay lampshades it: after their night of looking at the moon after work, the next morning Hannah calls him "Astronomy Boy" and Clay smiles and says "Better than Helmet, I guess?"
* AmbiguousDisorder: Prone to intense bouts of emotion, hallucinates in multiple episodes, and his mother mentions him taking medication and seeing a therapist in the past. Early on in the series, he mentions that he is taking so long to listen to the tapes because he cannot listen to them for more than a few minutes at a time or he'll get panic attacks. Come season 2, he also appears to be having hallucinations of Hannah, that he has full conversations with at multiple points. In season 4, he also has multipe hallucinations of Bryce and Monty.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Clay starts out as a geek whose crush is DrivenToSuicide. He spends the next few weeks wrestling with grief, [[ILetGwenStacyDie guilt]], and dealing out revenge on the people that wronged her. Then over the next few months, his pursuit in exposing and punishing the toxic behavior of the [[JerkJock jocks]] turns him into TheFettered. This eventually causes him to cover up an attempted school shooting and then later he gets a serious KickTheSonOfABitch moment by [[spoiler:framing [[PayEvilUntoEvil Monty for Bryce's murder]] to protect Alex.]] Finally, in Season 4, the SanitySlippage he has been slowly undergoing since the beginning causes him to [[spoiler:develop a SplitPersonality that begins terrorisizing the students and vandalizing school property.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Prone to histrionics characteristic of borderline personality disorder, though it's largely justified due to the trauma she endures. She also may have [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]], given that many people with narcissistic traits who commit suicide often leave long, detailed notes explaining how they feel that friends and family are to blame for their actions. She also seemed to develop a severe case of depression, self hatred and intense suicidal thoughts by the time she meets with Mr. Porter, although the only thing confirmed in the show was the suicidal thoughts.

* VictorianNovelDisease: Alex suffers from an undiagnosable autoimmune disord iter, which only the people closest to him (like Jessica) know about. He mentions seeing over a dozen doctors, none who have been able to help.

** Also after Clay becomes incredibly protective of him in Season 3 [[spoiler: he offers to help in any way when the police begin trying to pin Clay fro Bryce's murder.]]

** Courtney calls out her friends for referencing the "[[SexinessScore hot list]]" in front of Hannah, saying she's against sexual harassment, objectification, and bullying. Yet she takes advantage of Hannah's status as the class slut when it suits her, and starts another rumor about Hannah's UrbanLegendLoveLife.

* TooCleverByHalf: In spades. Marcus acts as the strategist of the group and tries to do what from his point of view is damage control. While he comes off as way more sensible than, say, [[LeeroyJenkins Justin]], his plans tend to have some very obvious flaws and often flat out backfire:

* BackForTheFinale: He and Courtney attend the graduation, and are seen cheering on their friends. [[spoiler:He is also present when the group buries Hannah's tapes.]]

-->'''Bryce:''' You do not speak that way to my mother ever again, or I swear to God I'll roll you out into the street, and you can crawl back to the house!

* TokenEvilTeammate: While the people who led Hannah to commit suicide aren't saints and have done and/or said some pretty messed up things, and have tried to escape blame from their partial responsibility, Bryce takes this position as he raped Hannah (and before her, Jessica) and shows no remorse over his heinous actions.

* JerkJock: He's a bully who thinks its funny to almost run down his classmates and assault people in the school hallway. He's also a part of Bryce, Justin, Marcus, and Zach's friend group. Though he's not on the tapes despite [[spoiler:having seen Bryce rape Hannah and willingly choosing to do nothing.]]

-->''"Look, the jocks walk the hall like they own the place. The teachers feed into it. Bolan feeds into it. It's just... it's how it is. You try going to school with a bunch of neanderthals who are told that they are the only thing of value at school, and that the rest of us are merely there to cheer them on and provide them with whatever support they need."''

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Invoked during the Deposition. Finds it really easy to pinpoint the exact moment where Hannah's life started going to shit is the exact same time where Kat gave her her blessing to date Justin.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Nearly every scene featuring Pratters has him blurt out something either pretentious, outright rude, or both, and is always called out on it. In the first episode, for example, Pratters suggests that the class should stop talking about Hannah's death, claiming that it's "depressing" (for him) to hear about it every day. While his opinion is in the realm of LockedOutOfTheLoop [[spoiler:(i.e. Only a select few people at Libery High know what ''really'' happened with Hannah)]], the reaction from the class and his teacher is fairly understandable.

* RecurringExtra: Doesn't really have any significance in the main plot, but is there to be the {{foil}}/annoying jerkass for the main characters.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While she goes too far with her obsessive feminism and has no respect for Bryce's family at his funeral, she has point in that rapists are sickening. Especially since she herself was a rape victim like Jessica.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Being on the school's "hot list" brought her nothing but misery.

* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Because of the upskirt photo of her, Alex's hot list, the AlternateCharacterInterpretation students apply to her poem, and Courtney fabricating a story about Hannah being a "psycho lesbian", Hannah has a reputation as the class slut who will put out for anyone. [[spoiler:This reputation is inaccurate. Throughout the series, Hannah kisses Justin and Clay, and kisses Courtney on a dare. Her only two sexual encounters (with Marcus and Bryce) were not consensual.]]

* EntitledToHaveYou: Alex put Hannah's name on the "hot list" to hurt Jessica, because he was angry that Jessica wouldn't sleep with him. He felt that she owed him sex because "he was in love with her".

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He vies for male friendship and approval. So much so that he blows off Hannah as a friend, and participates in making the hot list. It is implied that because of his CampStraight nature, he's been excluded or bullied by guys in the past. Alex also mentions his father being excited about him finally having male friends.

* JockDadNerdSon: Alex's dad is a hyper-masculine, gun-toting cop who applauds him for getting into a fight with Monty. Alex is a skinny, music loving hipster who gets curb-stomped in said fight and largely only did it due to his poor mental state at the time.

* NiceGuy: Angst, snark, and hot list aside, Alex is friendly to just about everyone he interacts with, and is one of the only people to show respect for Tyler.

** Courtney calls out her friends for referencing the hot list in front of Hannah, saying she's against sexual harassment, objectification, and bullying. Yet she takes advantage of Hannah's status as the class slut when it suits her, and starts another rumor about Hannah's UrbanLegendLoveLife.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He's fairly obtuse in how he goes about telling Hannah he likes her, and accidentally insults her by using the "hot list" as a reason why he wanted to ask her out.

* ItsAllAboutMe[=/=]TheNarcissist: Although as she was full blown BreakTheCutie and BrokenBird, so her mental state ''did not help'', some of her actions have shades of this:

* RaisedCatholic: Not brought up often, but implied to be a reason why he hides his sexuality, and has a strong need to atone for what happened to Hannah. He also distrusts Skye's tarot reading, calling her la bruja, and is seen crossing himself when entering [[spoiler:Justin's funeral.]]