History Characters / ThirteenReasonsWhyStudents

* NiceGirl: She’s very understanding of Clay and doesn’t judge him for his inexperience with sex. Subverted somewhat when it's revealed she has a boyfriend.
* YourCheatingHeart: After she has sex with Clay, she is revealed to have a boyfriend. When she tells him who Clay is, neither Clay nor her boyfriend take it well.

* NiceGirl: She’s very understanding of Clay and doesn’t judge him for his inexperience with sex.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She helps Clay lose his virginity once at a party and isn't even mentioned afterwards.

* HiddenDepths: In "Senior Camping Trip", Charlie reveals that he can bake. The next episode has him telling Alex that he and his dad had to learn this stuff after his mom died.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: He tells Alex that his full name is "Charles Hayden Brixton St. George".

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler: It has been confirmed that he will be the main antagonist of the fourth season, making him a heavy contrast to every other antagonist in the series, in particular Bryce and Monty who were jerk jock bullies who hurt people and tried to get away with it. Winston is an affable gay guy with a sympathetic motive of wanting seeking justice for his love interest, Monty after he was killed and framed by Clay and his friends.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: He's the only one at the end of season three who knows [[spoiler: Alex killed Bryce and the gang worked together to frame Monty to protect him. When he moves to Liberty High in season four, everyone is on-edge around him on account of his being the only one who could expose the truth once he gains sufficient evidence. He decides not to in the end.]]

* Hypocrite: Dislikes Bryce, a rapist, only to inappropriately grope Jessica (who's in her underwear) during the protest at the Homecoming game. This is what causes the fight to start.

!Introduced in Season 4
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!!Diego Tores
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JanLuisCastellanos

* NotMeThisTime: In season 2, he confronts Tyler over his testimony, who tells him the "darkroom threat" didn't scare him. Bryce has no idea what he's talking about, though Tyler doesn't believe him. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Monty did this to intimidate Tyler, and Bryce genuinely had no idea. Downplayed somewhat, as the reason Monty did it was to stop him from mentioning Bryce and other jocks as bullies.]]

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: In season two, after Tyler mentions Bryce, Monty and Scott as bullies, they confront him, and Bryce claims (seemingly forgetting the mooning incident, though he didn't touch Tyler then) that he never laid a hand on Tyler and told others messing with him to back off, before asking why he is talking about him in court. Apparently, in Bryce's mind, not bullying the friendless kid with the camera deserves special recognition.

* NotMeThisTime: In season 2, he confronts Tyler over his testimony, who tells him the "darkroom threat" didn't scare him. Bryce has no idea what he's talking about, though Tyler doesn't believe him. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Monty did this to intimidate Tyler, and Bryce genuinely had no idea. Downplayed somewhat, as the reason Monty did it was to stop him from mentioning Bryce and other jocks as bullies.]]
* PetTheDog: In season one, despite having mooned Tyler earlier, he actively stands up for him in episode 12 when Monty pushes him against the lockers and prepares to beat him down. Later Deconstructed, as in the season two premier he mentions this moment, and asks why Tyler is talking about him in court, [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency showing he clearly expected something in return.]]

* AscendedExtra: Mostly a minor character in Season 1, but gets more screen time and becomes plot-relevant in Season 2 and 3.

* PetTheDog: In season one, despite having mooned Tyler earlier, he actively stands up for him in episode 12 when Monty pushes him against the lockers and prepares to beat him down.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Deconstructed. As mentioned above in Faux affably Evil, Bryce rarely loses his composure and is usually jovial and polite to everyone including Jessica and Clay, who have both threatened him at gun point on separate occasions and have been very open about hating him. Part of this is implied to be an act, staying calm and collected while his enemies look like lunatics hurdling accusations at him. Another part of it is while he can mimic social niceties, as a sociopath, he’s incapable of getting morally outraged over his actions so as long as he gets his way (which as a rich straight white man, will be the vast majority of the time), he has no reason to be rude.

* TheBully: Played with. He and a bunch of other guys are seen mooning Tyler after his nude photo circulates. However, when Monty shoves Tyler against a locker in the hallway and prepares to beat him up, it’s Bryce of all people who comes to pull Monty off of Tyler. In the Season 2 premiere he even confronts Tyler after trial, and mentions he never assaulted him and even protected him occasionally before asking [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency why he is talking about him in court]].

* TheBully: Played with. He and a bunch of other guys are seen mooning Tyler after his nude photo circulates. However, when Monty shoves Tyler against a locker in the hallway and prepares to beat him up, it’s Bryce of all people who comes to pull Monty off of Tyler.

** Inverted in season 3. While he fails to redeem himself and still does a few villainous things, he actually feels genuine remorse for his actions and attempts to atone himself, while his book counterparts never showed any remorse whatsoever.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The majority of Season 3 shows how Bryce's life becomes a living hell after getting away with the serial rapes. None of his old friends want to be around him, his father uses Bryce's actions mostly as an excuse he needed to divorce his wife and abandon him, his mother is (at first) constantly angry with him, he is bullied at the new school by the football team, Chloe dumps him, he constantly tries [[TheAtoner to atone]] for his actions [[ReformedButRejected but is rejected]], and he is finally (and brutally) murdered, which kicks off the plot of the season.]]

* KarmaHoudini: After [[spoiler:Bryce]] and [[spoiler:Monty]] suffered the terrible consequences of their acts in Season 3, Marcus has become the only antagonist of the series who has not been exposed for his actions, partly because he was blackmailed by Cyrus and Tyler. He did get suspended but got away with attempted sexual assault, conspiracy, manipulation, sabotage, incrimination, and yet, his acts are not shown to be exposed and his parents still believe that he is a model student. Though a line from Courtney in the Season 3 premiere about him no longer being president implies that the video Tyler and Cyrus blackmailed him with is now public knowledge.

* HateSink: He's a {{Slimeball}} and one of the few characters who is never put in a sympathetic light, and never has nice moments or redeeming qualities. Some of the other characters have done bad things but you can also feel sorry for them, but not Marcus. Only Bryce and Monty are worse than him and even those two eventually gain redeeming qualities in season 3 [[spoiler: though Alex outright murdering Bryce definitely might push him over Marcus.]]

* KarmaHoudini: After [[spoiler:Bryce]] and [[spoiler:Monty]] suffered the terrible consequences of their acts in Season 3, Marcus has become the only antagonist of the series who has not been exposed for his actions, partly because he was blackmailed by Cyrus and Tyler. He did get suspended but got away with attempted sexual assault, conspiracy, manipulation, sabotage, incrimination, and yet, his acts have not been exposed and his parents still believe that he is a model student.

* TheSociopath: Unlike Monty but just like Bryce, Marcus is a prime example of a high-functioning sociopath. He frequently shows signs of being unable to form real attachments to people, doesn't feel ashamed or regretful of trying to sexually assault Hannah, is superficially charming, pragmatic, and an extreme case of a bastard in sheep's clothing. It's telling something that while Bryce and Monty did far worse things than him, they still demonstrated some redeeming traits in season 3, leaving Marcus as the '''only one''' who is never put in a positive light ''and'' without a single PetTheDog moment on his name.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Marcus doesn't show up at all in Season 3 and isn't even mentioned at all. However, he was a senior in the first two seasons, so it is possible that he simply graduated.

* SameCharacterButDifferent: In Season 1 and 2, Bryce is pure evil who ''raped dozens of women'' in an organized operation and bragged to his mom about committing rape. In Season 3, he at first only admits to "going too far" but later is shown him in a much more "emotional" light, making him look like a much more sympathetic character - nice to his mom, defensive of his friends - without giving him any reason to feel this way, just that he's bullied at his other school for being a ''rapist''.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first season, Monty was a bully, but a realistic one. He had plenty of moments where he wasn’t the aggressor in the situation, and there were several times he had almost PetTheDog moments compared to later seasons. In one of only two fights he gets into in the entire season, Alex is the one to instigate it, despite Monty telling him to calm down. In their sole interaction in the season, he even greets Clay (albeit getting his name wrong). His final scene in the season is reminiscing and missing NiceGuy Jeff Atkins. In short, he’s a bully but one that could easily get their shit together by the time they graduate. By the second season, he’s terrorizing the main cast to a psychopathic degree and committing worse and worse acts that culminate in [[spoiler:his assault of Tyler]].

* BadassPacifist:[[spoiler: Became this in Season 3, after TookALevelOnBadass in the end on the season 2, Jessica is the leader of female activists group and often uses heart-rending speeches (sometimes with big words) to try of change the situation for the girls of Liberty as her speech in the 3x12. She shows her fearless and talk very directly.And she don't hesitate to interrupt a important match with a manifestation for be heard.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: As if Bryce wasn't already despicable enough in the book, in season one of this series he is also responsible for sending out Hannah's upskirt photo,[[labelnote:book]]doesn't happen at all[[/labelnote]] came up with the idea for the hot/not list[[labelnote:book]]ostensibly Alex's idea[[/labelnote]], [[spoiler: guilt trips Justin into letting him sleep with an unconscious Jessica[[labelnote:book]]Justin lets him do it because Bryce has the night shift[[/labelnote]], and violently rapes Hannah[[labelnote:book]]it's complicated[[/labelnote]].]]
** Inverted in season 3 where, while he fails to redeem himself and still does a few villainous things, he actually feels genuine remorse for his actions and attempts to atone himself while his book counterparts never showed any remorse whatsoever.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Majority of Season 3 shows how Bryce's life becomes a living hell after getting away with the serial rapes. None of his old friends want to be around him, his father uses Bryce's actions mostly as an excuse he needed to divorce his wife and abandon him. His mother is (at first) constantly angry with him. He is bullied at the new school by the football team. Chloe dumps him. He constantly tries [[TheAtoner to atone]] for his actions [[ReformedButRejected but is rejected]]. And he is finally (and brutally) murdered, which kicks off the plot of Season 3.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: A group of rape victims crash his funeral, reminding everyone what a horrible person he was. Though, everyone in the cast still attends his funeral.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Subverted. While he eventually feels genuine remorse for his actions and even tries to reach out to his previous victims, he knows the damage is too far gone. It soon clicks he cannot be forgiven leading to his VillainousBreakdown and subsequent death. It's really telling that some of his last words are hatefully lashing out at Jessica, the person he genuinely made and effort to make amends with (justified he was in extreme pain at the moment and Jessica had just proved to been perfectly willing to leave Bryce to die).]]
* BigBad:

* BigManOnCampus: Bryce thinks that he is this. He wins a leadership award in an early episode, and in season 2 he is highly praised by students and staff alike.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals how Bryce's life comes crashing down shortly after getting a slap on the wrist for the serial rapes, and ends with him being murdered, which showed that he ultimately suffered a fate worse than prison would've given him.]]

** He absolutely destroys Clay, to the point that Clay only got a hit in because he started it, and even that barely fazed Bryce.
** On the receiving end of one from Zach after breaking his knee at the game. After a brief struggle Zach handily breaks his arm and starts beating him to the point Bryce is ''begging'' him to stop.

* EasilyForgiven: By Ani, [[spoiler:who learns that he's a serial rapist]] but forgives him because...he can be nice sometimes. The other characters, however, didn't forgive him at all, except eventually his mother.

* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:After his death, it is pretty clear that his family loved him despite everything. His mother, while not condoning or being able to reconcile what Bryce has become, would prefer to remember him as her little boy. Even his father and grandfather, whom he was previously distant with, are genuinely heartbroken for him. Even his former friends, enemies and victims understand his family's pain. Much of the perspective of Bryce in the third season comes from his family, as well as Ani, a girl Bryce befriended while she was living in her guest house.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:

* FatalFlaw: His spitefulness. This ends up getting him killed.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After years of being a KarmaHoudini, Karma hit him like a ''Maglev train'' 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.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Bryce always had a manipulative side to him, especially when he raped Jessica, Hannah and "seven or eight" other women. Because of this, he felt that he had control over them and their environment. Cue season 3, and he ends up dying by drowning in a lake. He could have swam to safety due to his athletic prowess, but he had just suffered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by Zach, resulting in both his legs being broken. And the people who were there at the time, Alex and Jessica, couldn't do anything to save him, as they were in shock over the former having shoved Bryce in the lake. In other words, the one time where he became helpless, both physically and mentally, was at the most fatal time]].
* KickTheDog:
** He abuses Justin's UndyingLoyalty to him by raping Jessica and convincing him what was his is also his as well.

* MoralSociopathy: In Season 3, [[spoiler: right before he was murdered, Bryce accepts that he is a sociopath and that he hurt a lot of people, even if he can't empathize with them. He tries to better himself with the help of Mr Porter.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not very outward about but he is very sexist and misogynistic.
* PostRapeTaunt: [[spoiler: After Zach beats him for breaking his knee and ruining his future as an athlete Bryce taunts him about Chloe, who he has molested during clubhouse activity. This leads to Zach breaking his leg and leaving him to freeze]].
* ReformedButRejected: Though he is far from a saint, he tries to become a better person in season 3, but most people refuse to see him as anything but the SerialRapist.

* TheStoner: Regularly references using weed and sells to his friends.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Played with. At the beginning of one of the final episodes, a flash back is shown of a grade school Bryce being nice and befriending Justin, who wore the same clothes everyday, was foul smelling, and was teased and bullied by kids at the school because of it. However, it also showed that Bryce used fear and intimidation even back then.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The lead up to his death. He seems to revert back to his previous characterization after breaking Zach's leg; mocking him over with his relationship to Chloe and whining that Zach stole his future. After Zach beats the shit out Bryce, he's left an angry cursing wreck. When Alex and Jessica help him up, Bryce viciously continues cursing and threatening Zach and accusing Jessica of setting him up, which is when Alex saw (or at least believed in the heat of the moment) Bryce would never change and throws him into the river. Justified as he was in extreme pain due to having a broken arm and leg so lashing out is somewhat understandable.]]

* AbusiveDad: 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:

* AccompliceByInaction: Him and Alex were at the party when Bryce raped Hannah. Alex only heard it while Monty saw the actual rape happening but lied to Alex it was just “Bryce fucking some chick in the hot tub” and [[KickTheDog did nothing to stop it.]]
* AlcoholicDad: Not Monty himself, but his father seems to be an alcoholic.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Constantly refers to Alex, Tony and Tyler as "faggots," jokingly questions the sexuality of Zach and others, bullies Hannah over the rumor that she's a lesbian and beats the hell out of Winston just for talking to him [[spoiler: but is confirmed to be gay in season 3 and beat Winston out of fear people would figure out he’s gay and they just hooked up.]]
* AscendedExtra: Mostly a minor character in Season 1, but gets more screen time and becomes plot relevant in Season 2 and 3.
* AssholeVictim: After everything he did, no one will shed a tear upon him being killed in jail. Despite the “he was a human being argument” frequently being brought up, he showed no remorse for raping Tyler even after being arrested and he was killed by other prisoners solely because of him raping Tyler.
* AxCrazy: He is MUCH less self-controlled than Bryce and his {{sadist}}ic, extremely violent behavior pretty much shows just how much sanity he has, or rather lacks.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Bryce is trying to atone for his actions]], which leaves Monty as the main villain of Season 3. Despite this, he doesn't do as much as in Season 2.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Bryce in Season 2. He's also TheHeavy being more directly antagonistic to the protagonists while Bryce is simply trying to avoid getting exposed for his crimes..
* BookDumb: One season 3 episode mentions his bad grades in school.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first season, Monty was a bully -but a realistic one and had plenty of moments where he wasn’t the aggressor in the situation and there were several times he had almost PetTheDog moments compared to later seasons. In one of only two fights he gets into in the entire season, Alex is the one to instigate it, despite Monty telling him to calm down. In their sole interaction in the season, he even greets Clay (albeit getting his name wrong). His final scene in the season is reminiscing and missing NiceGuy Jeff Atkins. In short, he’s a bully but one that you could easily getting their shit together by the time they graduate. By the second season, he’s terrorizing the main cast to a psychopathic degree and committing worse and worse acts that cumulate into his assault on Tyler.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:His death is ''exceptionally'' brutal. Although offscreen, it is mentioned that he was beaten to death by other inmates. The worst part comes when his father mentions that this is ''the very least'' what inmates could do. [[FridgeHorror One wonders how the scene would have been if it had been shown onscreen...]]]]
** [[spoiler: Turns out he was simply stabbed with a shive. Still not a pleasant way to go.]]

* DepravedHomosexual: At the end of Season 3, he's revealed to be this [[spoiler:once he owns up to being gay]], and he [[spoiler:raped Tyler.]]

** Upon being cornered by the main characters after Scott sells him out for his vile deeds against them, rather than stand his ground he denies all allegations of committing said deeds, and even lies about the whereabouts of the polaroids to Alex, just so he can make a run for it.
** Instead of simply apologizing to Tyler for raping him, he lies about Bryce ordering him to do it when Tyler threatens to turn him into the cops. Even Bryce calls him out on this.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: He brutally beats and rapes Tyler with a mop pole due to his hand in exposing Bryce for the rapes that caused the school to cancel their baseball season.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite being set to receive CharacterDevelopment in the third season with him being revealed to be a ArmoredClosetGay and his FreudianExcuse of his terrible home life being expanded. He is unceremoniously killed while waiting trial after his rape of Tyler. It isn't even shown onscreen, unlike every other major character death.]]
* DumbJock: Like most jocks, he is stated to be BookDumb, and he generally tends to act before thinking and use violence to solve anything.

* 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:Exaggerated when he violently rapes Tyler over a baseball season.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Monty is setup to take the fall for Bryce's death, to cover for Alex who was the real murderer in Season 3.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Is beaten by his father and is thus convinced that baseball is the only way out of his painful home life. That said, this doesn't make him redeemable and especially the season 2 finale puts him firmly in the HateSink territory.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of Season 4, [[spoiler:in a posthumous way]], as the current main antagonists, Diego and Winston, are trying to reveal the truth that is [[spoiler:Monty being framed.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Alex, Tony and Tyler (who isn’t even gay) “faggots” a lot but [[spoiler: has sex with another boy twice (the first time he borderline forces him to give him a blowjob).]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He finally gets his comeuppance in season 3, being [[spoiler: framed for Bryce's murder and then killed in jail while awaiting trial for raping Tyler.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:He was killed by other inmates as a respondents find discovering about his rape of Tyler. However, the scene is never shown.]]
* KnightTemplar: To Sheri. He's very bothered by Tyler talking to her and intervenes physically. While distrusting Tyler around girls is understandable, Sheri was managing the situation appropriately and calmly and Monty's response was disproportionate.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[KickTheDog He mocks Jessica for being a rape victim, Alex for his suicide attempt, the Bakers for the suicide of their daughter and let Bryce rape Hannah]], all without shred of guilt.

* NeverMyFault: Getting Monty to take responsibility for his actions is utterly impossible. He uses "I had a bad childhood" as an excuse when Jessica asks him why he's so cruel and enjoys hurting people, [[spoiler: he dismisses Tyler's rape as mere "hazing" and he lies Bryce ordered him to rape Tyler even though Bryce's exact instructions to Monty were to leave Tyler alone.]]

* {{Sadist}}: Probably the strongest example of one in this series. He attempts to goad Alex into killing himself for failing to stop Hannah’s rape and suicide, [[spoiler: brutally beats, tortures and rapes Tyler for getting their baseball season cancelled just to hurt him in the most painful way possible and not only does he mock Tyler about the rape by making kissing noises but he actively threatens to do it again.]]

* HurtingHero: Starts the series traumatized by Hannah's suicide. It goes {{From Bad to Worse}}.

* HollywoodDateless: Complains about his lack of love life, but he's had many girls interested in him.

* BookDumb: By his own admission, he is not academically strong.

* LovingAShadow: Out of all the characters, he probably has it the worst in falling in love with people he hardly got to know. [[spoiler: He decides that he's madly in love with Monty after only a few brief hookups and sets out on a quest to clear his name despite Monty already being dead. He decides to drop his "investigation" after coming to the realization that his ideal version of Monty isn't grounded in reality, and the two possibly never would have been together even if Monty didn't die.]]

* HasTwoDaddies: Who are seemingly some of the only GoodParents in the series, though they can be a bit overbearing.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: In season 3, Alex is awful at sex with Jessica, who's sexually frustrated and relies on ADateWithRosiePalms to get any satisfaction. Eventually, she just leaves him for Justin, whom she had much better sex with.