| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' '''[[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang The Gang]] ([[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaDennisReynolds Dennis Reynolds]], [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaDeeReynolds Dee Reynolds]], [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaCharlieKelly Charlie Kelly]], [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaMac Mac]], [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaFrankReynolds Frank Reynolds]]) | '''The Gang's Families''' | [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] | [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]-]]]]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | !Families |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 7 | |
| 8 | !!Dennis & Dee's Family |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[folder:Barbara]] |
| 11 | !!Barbara Reynolds |
| 12 | [[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/its_always_sunny_in_philadelphia_season_2_episode_10_42_4878.jpg]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:263:''"Children, would you like to have been aborted?"'']] |
| 14 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AnneArcher |
| 15 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E02TheGangGoesJihad The Gang Goes Jihad]]" |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Frank's gold-digging ex-wife and Dennis and Dee's mother. She was a cold, cruel, selfish woman with little affection for her family. Frank referred to her as his "whore wife". |
| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | * AbusiveParent: |
| 20 | ** To [[TheUnfavourite Dee]]. In her will she leaves Dee with nothing and explicitly calls her "a disappointment and a mistake" and shows no concern for Dee when she's in a neckbrace. It's made Dee a FemaleMisogynist who will nevertheless be desperate for approval from literally anyone, especially older women who she doesn't even like. In one episode Dee starved herself for three days to not look puffy before going on TV, likely a result of the amount of WeightWoe Barbara has inflicted on her. |
| 21 | ** She was this to Dennis as well. All the unearned praise she lavished him with is pretty clearly the reason for his intense narcissism, not to mention the whole "Golden God"-thing. "Frank vs Russia" expands on it, with an IncestSubtext-laden projection from it that all men had a mother who made them feel powerful and inflated their ego, but also got them to feel dependent and powerless, seeking validation from her in sexual partners for the rest of their lives. Dennis has also been shown starving himself or skipping meals to stay slim, likely meaning he also developed WeightWoe from Barbara's parenting. |
| 22 | * AlcoholicParent: Dee - surprisingly fondly - remembers her getting completely hammered at Risk E. Rat’s padded bar. |
| 23 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: After her death, attitudes range from apathy to outright celebration. Frank pops champagne while Dee and Dennis are largely concerned with what she's left them. |
| 24 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: [[spoiler: She reveals that Frank isn't Dennis and Dee's biological father as if she's talking about the weather.]] |
| 25 | * DomesticAbuse: Confirmed by the shooting script that she had a tendency to hit Frank if she was angry enough. |
| 26 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Dies off-screen in "Dennis and Dee's Mom is Dead," from a botched neck lift. Dee and Dennis don't care, and Frank is downright celebratory. |
| 27 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Not by Frank, but while the twins both know she did terrible things to them, they’re still horrified when they are conned to dig up her corpse. |
| 28 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Consistently horrible to everybody, including her own husband and daughter, but almost overly loving towards Dennis and her dog. |
| 29 | * GoldDigger: Married Frank for his money. |
| 30 | ** Ends up trying this on Bruce, when she finds out he was wealthy all along. It doesn't work. |
| 31 | * GreaterScopeVillain: See MinorMajorCharacter below. If not for her, Dennis, Dee and even Frank may not have been as bad as they are today. |
| 32 | * HateSink: Even by the Gang's standards, she is an absolutely repulsive human being with zero redeeming value. |
| 33 | * HiddenDepths: She wills all of Frank's money to Bruce Mathis, crediting him as "a handsome man with a beautiful soul". A surprisingly humane mindset coming from a woman like Barbara. Then again, it could just be another jab at Frank. |
| 34 | * IfItsYouItsOk: While [[CharacterizationMarchesOn it probably wasn't intentional given]] [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Mac wasn't written as gay early in the series]], there's some subtext that she's this for otherwise gay Mac; in "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award" he gets defensive about how he's [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial had an orgasm before]] and brings her up specifically, and is seen at various points trying to chase the high of their hookup with other older women; implying she's the only woman he genuinely enjoyed having sex with. |
| 35 | * ItsAllAboutMe: She is very self-centered and smug. |
| 36 | * {{Jerkass}}: Relentlessly cruel and abusive to everyone she meets, but especially towards Dee. |
| 37 | * KarmicDeath: It's oddly fitting that Barbara would die as a result of an unnecessary surgery she got to appease her own vanity. |
| 38 | * LackOfEmpathy: She stole medication from ''dying children'' and chastised Dee for telling one of them they won't die after they asked her if they would because "if they die, you'll look like a fool". |
| 39 | * MinorMajorCharacter: Only gets a few appearances before being permanently killed off, but is a major reason why Dennis and Dee became the awful people they are today, as well as why Frank became disillusioned with his wealth. Essentially, she's responsible for three-fifths of the Gang even ''existing''. |
| 40 | * MrsRobinson: {{Subverted| Trope}}. She banged Mac, but only to upset Frank and actually finds him quite unattractive. |
| 41 | * {{Narcissist}}: She's a textbook example of one; ParentalFavoritism that went well beyond abuse, she's very vain (to the point where she died getting cosmetic surgery), shows LackOfEmpathy to everyone around her (especially her own family), and is willing to go to absurd lengths to get petty revenge on people (like sleeping with her children's friend Mac to stick it to her husband). Pretty much every negative trait Dennis and Dee have they either inherited from her or she was the catalyst for it in some way (not the Frank was any better, anyway). |
| 42 | * NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: While Dennis doesn’t go to the funeral and still cares more about money, like Frank and Dee, but unlike them, he’s under the illusion that Barbara Reynolds famous IceQueen was warm and caring. She’s also the root of his terrible attitude toward sex, so you can make the connection. |
| 43 | * ParentalFavoritism: Towards Dennis. This isn't a good thing. |
| 44 | * ParentalIncest: “Frank vs Russia” confirms that ''she’s'' the root of Dennis’s sex issues instead of the rape by Ms Klinsky. She at the very least groomed him, making him feel both godlike and helpless all at once, and when she dies, she wills him the house on the condition that Frank is never allowed in. |
| 45 | * ReallyGetsAround: Cheated on Frank frequently, and he in turn calls her his "whore ex-wife". |
| 46 | * RichBitch: Well, she did marry a rich guy for his money. |
| 47 | %%* SmugSnake: See It's All About Me, again. |
| 48 | * TheSociopath: The worst sociopath in the entire series, which is saying a ''lot''. |
| 49 | * WeightWoe: Has clearly managed to give both of her children eating disorders, and in their kinder moments, they’ll remind the other one to actually eat something. |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Bruce]] |
| 53 | !!Bruce Mathis |
| 54 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4582_0.jpeg]] |
| 55 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/StephenCollins |
| 56 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E10DennisAndDeeGetANewDad Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad]]" |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Dennis and Dee's biological father. The antithesis of Frank Reynolds, Bruce devotes his time and money to charities and philanthropic efforts, including adopting several suffering children in Africa. |
| 59 | ---- |
| 60 | * DisappearedDad: JerkassHasAPoint from Frank that he’s not exactly the only dad who abandoned Dennis and Dee. |
| 61 | * DotingParent: When he first meets them, he’s so sweet and gentle that Dennis and Dee - who have been raised by Frank and Barbara - don’t really have any idea how to react. |
| 62 | * ForWantOfANail: Per the podcast, showing who Dee and Dennis could have been if they didn’t have AbusiveParents. |
| 63 | * GoodIsNotSoft: When Frank and Dee try to trick him into giving them the fortune Barbara left for him, he tries to teach them a lesson by pushing them to their limits. |
| 64 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: It takes him less than one episode to see the Gang for what they are... but he's almost shockingly blind to the fact that Barbara is probably worse than all of them put together. He also assigns all the blame to Frank for the way Dennis and Dee turned out. |
| 65 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Of course he’s neglecting Barbara’s part in all of it, and he pushed his stepdaughter into incest to teach her a lesson, but he’s right in Frank raising Dee and Dennis to be monstrous waste of space animals. Even they agree with Bruce occasionally. |
| 66 | * NiceGuy: He does volunteer work and is very nice and courteous to Dee and Dennis before realizing they're bad people. |
| 67 | * OnlySaneMan: He starts out as a very reasonable person, but his desire to get the better of the Gang makes him quickly lose his rational demeanor. |
| 68 | * OppositesAttract: Evidently. The show doesn't go too deep into their past relationship, but somehow the benevolent, charitable Bruce Mathis was once drawn to the arrogant, narcissistic and downright sociopathic Barbara Reynolds. |
| 69 | * SelectiveObliviousness: Despite being an ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter otherwise, Bruce refuses to see that Barbara is actually a vain, self-centered GoldDigger who was a horrible mother to Dennis and Dee. |
| 70 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While he's still occasionally mentioned, he hasn't actually been seen in the show in years. There's no in-universe excuse for this, although the actual reason is because Stephen Collins was convicted for child molestation and is more or less [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor banned from Hollywood forever]]. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Donna]] |
| 74 | !!Donna |
| 75 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4584_4.jpeg]] |
| 76 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NoraDunn |
| 77 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E04GangGivesFrankIntervention The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention]]" |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Barbara's sister and Dennis and Dee's aunt. |
| 80 | ---- |
| 81 | * OnlySaneWoman: Out of everyone in the whole terrible Landgraf-Reynolds family, she's the most normal, and her reactions to the Gang's and her daughter's antics are how any sensible person would react. |
| 82 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Her sister was an AbusiveParent and RichBitch, her daughter is [[WomanChild an overgrown awkward teenager]], her father is a Nazi, her niece and nephew may very well be [[TheSociopath sociopaths]], and her brother-in-law is Frank. While we don't see her do anything saintly, the fact that she DOESN'T act depraved makes her this for the entire Reynolds family. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Gail the Snail]] |
| 86 | !!Gail the Snail |
| 87 | [[quoteright:232:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snail_1.png]] |
| 88 | [[caption-width-right:232:''"If we all showed up super high at the reception, everyone would be like, 'Whaaaa?'"'']] |
| 89 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MaryLynnRajskub |
| 90 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E04GangGivesFrankIntervention The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention]]" |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Dennis and Dee's "Garbage Pail" cousin. |
| 93 | ---- |
| 94 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: To just about everyone. Both platonically and sexually. |
| 95 | * BeautyInversion: The very attractive Mary Lynn Rajskub gunged up as a slobbery, disgusting creep. |
| 96 | * FriendshipDenial: She seems to think the Gang is doing this, when really they ''legitimately'' don't like her. |
| 97 | * {{Gonk}}: She's as unpleasant on the outside as she is on the inside. By "The Gang Goes Bowling", she is truly hideous; her lack of self-care has made her age like milk, which her ill-fitting and childlike wardrobe accentuates, and she has developed a voice like sandpaper from decades of heavy substance usage. |
| 98 | * HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: She brags about losing her virginity twice despite being 33 years old, once to her own mother. |
| 99 | --> '''Gail''': Mom, I'm sexually active now. Get over it! |
| 100 | --> '''Donna''': You're 33, you're supposed to be sexually active! |
| 101 | * IncompatibleOrientation: She's very attracted to Mac, and expresses this even after he's out of the closet. |
| 102 | * InSeriesNickname: She has two of them - primarily "Gail the Snail", largely due to her mucus and the fact that the only surefire way to get rid of her is to salt her. She's also known as "Garbage Pail Cousin", since she's generally disgusting. |
| 103 | * ObliviousToHints: She has this weird habit of making various presumptions and ignoring all claims to the contrary, like when she randomly declared Mac her boyfriend and Dee her bestie, to the point where she becomes TheThingThatWouldNotLeave. It is left vague whether this is just SelectiveObliviousness or if she has some sort of disorder. Either way she would fit right in with the Gang if she wasn't so repulsive. |
| 104 | * OddFriendship: Is apparently on good enough terms with the Waitress and Artemis to be on a bowling team with them. |
| 105 | * ReallyGetsAround: Virtually every appearance finds her bragging about all the casual sex she has, from "giving [Frank's landlord] a handie under the table" in "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" to, in "The Gang Goes Bowling," hooking up with a guy in the parking lot and later having a threesome with Frank and Artemis. |
| 106 | * SmokyVoice: By "The Gang Goes Bowling", decades of heavy drinking and weed usage and a total lack of self-care have given her a horribly deep and abrasive rasp that makes her immaturity and childish personality repulsively apparent. |
| 107 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Until you throw salt at her. |
| 108 | * TotallyRadical: She constantly uses mostly outdated slang in an attempt to seem cool to the people around her. |
| 109 | * {{Womanchild}}: She's 33 in her debut episode, but looks and acts like an awkward, moody teenager who is desperate to fit in; among other things, she is gratuitously sexual and inappropriate, repeatedly announcing that she is masturbating people in public (and is apparently extremely bad at it, like one would expect a sexually inexperienced teenager to be), obsessively fixates on crushes and does not get hints that they want nothing to do with her, and childishly brags about her substance usage like a kid who just discovered alcohol and weed. She also dresses the part, both with her sleepwear-only wardrobe early on and her inappropriate wardrobe for a funeral later on, and her greasy hair and dull complexion makes it clear that she doesn't bathe very much. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Pop-Pop]] |
| 113 | !!Heinrich "Pop-Pop" Landgraf |
| 114 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4585.jpeg]] |
| 115 | [[caption-width-right:250:Season 1]] |
| 116 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4586.jpeg]] |
| 117 | [[caption-width-right:250:Season 8]] |
| 118 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TomBower, Creator/GlennHowerton (younger self in photographs) |
| 119 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E06TheGangFindsADeadGuy The Gang Finds a Dead Guy]]" |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Dee and Dennis' grandfather on their mother's side. Also a [[ThoseWackyNazis former SS officer and Nazi war veteran.]] |
| 122 | ---- |
| 123 | * AffablyEvil: He is very kind to his grandkids... while taking them to Aryan camp. |
| 124 | * IdenticalGrandson: A photo of a young Pop-Pop shows he was the spitting image of Dennis. |
| 125 | * NaziGrandpa: His Nazi-war-veteran status and prejudices cause Dee and Dennis to be unsure about whether or not to pull the plug on him. This is because on one hand, they'd be killing a family member, but on the other hand, he's a nazi. |
| 126 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: While he vastly prefers his grandson, when Dee comes to see him he gropes her and it makes her fear of old people worse, getting her to puke. It's highly possible that he was intentionally doing this to get rid of her however. |
| 127 | * RacistGrandma: Dee and Dennis try to convince themselves that he must have lost his racist beliefs after coming to America... until they find a summer camp home movie showing that he didn't change in the slightest. |
| 128 | * RetiredMonster: He clearly has no remorse about his past, and hasn't renounced his fascist beliefs at all. |
| 129 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Fought in [=WWII=] on the side of the Germans and still believes in Aryan superiority. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Gino]] |
| 133 | !!Gino Reynolds |
| 134 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4587.jpeg]] |
| 135 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JonPolito |
| 136 | !!!'''Episode:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E05FranksBrother Frank's Brother]]" |
| 137 | |
| 138 | Frank's older brother and Dennis and Dee's adopted uncle. |
| 139 | ---- |
| 140 | * CainAndAbel: With Frank in the present-day, due to both being in love with Sha'Dynasty. |
| 141 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Was only seen or mentioned at all in his eponymous episode, but it was him who started his little brother Frank on the path that gave him all his shady connections. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !!Charlie's Family |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Bonnie]] |
| 148 | !!Bonnie Kelly |
| 149 | [[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bonnie_18.png]] |
| 150 | [[caption-width-right:285:''"I don't want a dog to eat my face, Charlie!"'']] |
| 151 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LynneMarieStewart |
| 152 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E07CharlieGotMolested Charlie Got Molested]]" |
| 153 | |
| 154 | Charlie's mom, a sweet and timid woman who is attracted to cruel men. She had a one-night stand with Frank Reynolds 30 years ago, possibly making him Charlie's biological father. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AbusiveParents: While she's a genuinely nice and well-meaning lady and she does love Charlie without any doubt, her obscene over-protectiveness of her son, mixed with her own warped views of the world impacting his development, led Charlie to become the borderline feral man that he is today. |
| 157 | ** Additionally, her job "entertaining" Santa Claus was a clearly traumatic thing to put a child through, and her neglect of Charlie during her working hours ended up leading to Charlie's inhalant abuse. |
| 158 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When Frank was with her, he would treat her like crap because "The woman prefers to be treated like crap. [He's] never seen anything like it." and says that sometimes it's too much even for ''[[LackOfEmpathy him]]''. Charlie later tries to break them up by setting her up with Mac's dad, informing her that he was in prison. And it works. |
| 159 | * BestialityIsDepraved: "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Reboot" reveals she finds horses attractive. |
| 160 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Has attempted to kill Mrs. Mac in her sleep at least once. Dennis also describes her interactions with Mrs. Mac overall as being a form of psychological abuse after observing their relationship for several hours. |
| 161 | * CloudCuckoolander: Not quite as obvious as Charlie, but almost every episode featuring her shows her to be as weird as he is in her ridiculous beliefs and superstitions, and it's repeatedly demonstrated she's the reason he picked up said beliefs. |
| 162 | * ExtremeDoormat: To call her weak-willed and timid would be quite the understatement. She's evidently an extreme masochist who enjoys being mistreated. |
| 163 | * FemaleMisogynist: She doesn't trust other women, and panics when she realizes that the plane she's on is being piloted by women in "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Reboot". |
| 164 | * HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Played with. In the ChristmasEpisode, she's revealed to have been a prostitute and is one of the nicer members of the cast. But she also has severe mental issues and is a xenophobe. |
| 165 | * NervousWreck: She's very timid and shy. "I don't want a dog to eat my face off, Charlie!" |
| 166 | * NiceGirl: While her ridiculous coddling of Charlie was abusive in its own way, and she's shown to be xenophobic toward her Muslim neighbors, Bonnie is the only parent besides Frank that is ever nice to anyone, and acts sweet and welcoming to the Gang whenever they visit her. |
| 167 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Really loves her son and wants him to be safe, yet completely can’t take the hint that he resents her and keeps inviting Uncle Jack over. |
| 168 | * OddFriendship: With Mrs. Mac, after some initial difficulties that involved Mrs. Mac strangling her a tad. |
| 169 | * ParentalNeglect: While there's no doubt that she loves Charlie, she was definitely not an attentive parent to him as he grew up. |
| 170 | * RacistGrandma: She bonds with Mrs. Mac over their mutual xenophobia. |
| 171 | * ReallyGetsAround: |
| 172 | ** Aside from the dozens of men she had sex with while being a prostitute, she's slept with Frank, Shelley, Luther, and Eduardo Sanchez. |
| 173 | ** When the Gang goes to the Irish countryside, several men in a pub suggestively call her a "wonderful woman." |
| 174 | * ShrinkingViolet: Older, but has severe nervous issues. |
| 175 | * StepfordSmiler: She has a tendency to admit depressing things in a cheerful tone. |
| 176 | * ThoseTwoGirls: With Mrs. Mac after they move in together. |
| 177 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Out of all of the parents of The Gang, she's the nicest and most well-meaning, and has shown to genuinely love her son, despite not being the greatest at actual parenting when Charlie was younger (to put it mildly); the only other parent who comes even remotely close (discounting absentee parents Bruce and Shelley) is Frank, and he was very, very psychologically abusive to Dee and Dennis growing up. |
| 178 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Mrs. Mac's tomboy. |
| 179 | * UselessBystanderParent: It's suggested that the troll in ''The Nightman Cometh'' is her, and that she allowed Charlie's darker self to take his childhood soul away. When homeless, he resents her for not noticing Uncle Jack's inappropriate suggestions of activities they could do, or that she keeps finding ways to try and force him to interact with his family when they don't get along, such as inviting Jack and his sisters to an intervention when she thinks Charlie got abused by his gym teacher. |
| 180 | * VitriolicBestBuds: While she refers to Mrs. Mac as a "horrible, horrible woman" and even tries to ''kill her in her sleep'' at one point, she also sincerely considers them to be great friends. |
| 181 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: A rare non-villainous version: her extreme overprotectiveness of Charlie led to her doing things like vaccinating him every month and sticking him into a bubble to protect him from illness. She meant well by it and truly was trying to (in her own mind) protect him, but a lot of Charlie's current instability is the fault of her own extreme parenting. |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Jack]] |
| 185 | !!Uncle Jack Kelly |
| 186 | [[quoteright:271:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unclejack.png]] |
| 187 | [[caption-width-right:271:''"You and me, pallin' around, gettin' nuts... doing crazy, fun things..."'']] |
| 188 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AndrewFriedman |
| 189 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E07CharlieGotMolested Charlie Got Molested]]" |
| 190 | |
| 191 | Charlie's creepy uncle (the brother of Charlie's mother Bonnie) and a lawyer. Weirdly insecure about his hands. |
| 192 | ---- |
| 193 | * AffablyEvil: An AmoralAttorney with ''strong'' child molester vibes, but otherwise comes off as meek and amicable, never having a harsh word to say about anyone. |
| 194 | * AmoralAttorney: Jack is the Gang's go-to attorney though a rather bad one. It's obvious to the audience that something's not quite right with him, every time he appears on screen. |
| 195 | * BlackComedyRape: It's strongly implied that he tried to molest Charlie, but was unsuccessful as Charlie ''dodged'' him. He also makes multiple suggestions about activities they could do during a sleepover that could be interpreted multiple ways. |
| 196 | ** Additionally, he's very heavily implied to have preyed on other children, given the fact that he wears a ''Boy Scout'' uniform, and has ''something'' hidden on hard drives he "accidentally" leaves under the floorboards in Bonnie's house. |
| 197 | ** The implications that he preys on other children intensify in later seasons, wherein he spies on a child Frank is facing in a chess match and drives an [[BadHumorTruck ice cream truck]], which he admits has no ice cream. |
| 198 | * CloudCuckoolander: Pretty much runs InTheBlood for the Kelly family. Special attention goes to his obsession with the size of his hands. |
| 199 | * CompensatingForSomething: His self-consciousness over his small hands causes him to edit in different, larger hands in all pictures of him, while his public access TV show uses creative camera angles to avoid showing his hands as much as possible. |
| 200 | * CreepyUncle: Uncle Jack is a deeply unsettling man. He's always touching people, he's obsessed with hands (he feels his own hands are too small), and he is all but outright stated to be a pedophile interested in young boys. He is visible turned on and gives encouragement when Charlie is forced to show on a doll where his gym teacher allegedly touched him as a kid, and even offers Dee advice when declares she's kidnapped some kids (by accident). |
| 201 | ** He repeatedly hits on Charlie, his actual nephew, even when Charlie tells him that he'll never do the things Jack wants to do with him, and a recurring gag is Charlie repeatedly having to deny that Uncle Jack has molested him. |
| 202 | * InformedDeformity: He's unbelievably insecure about his supposedly small hands, to the extent that he shows up in court wearing oversized fake hands even though his hands are clearly completely average. |
| 203 | * ItsNotPornItsArt: During a live television interview in "Gun Fever Too Still Hot," he tries to make the case that his "tasteful artistic" depictions of children should not be censored by the government. |
| 204 | %%* NervousWreck: In court. |
| 205 | * NoSocialSkills: Aside from being a massive creep, Jack is seemingly physically unable to have a conversation with ''anyone'' that doesn't derail into a diatribe on how the "art" he likes should be acceptable or his supposed small hands. |
| 206 | * NoodleIncident: Whatever he did to Charlie as a kid has yet to be elaborated on. |
| 207 | * OddNameOut: The only member of the Kelly clan shown so far whose name doesn't end with a hard E sound. |
| 208 | * OmnidisciplinaryLawyer: Jack is stated to specialize in constitutional and estate law, but the Gang comes to him for divorce issues and the [=McPoyle=]-Ponderosa trial... all of which he [[SubvertedTrope completely botches]] because he's totally unfamiliar with the relevant laws and has never even practiced in a courtroom before. |
| 209 | * PornStache: His moustache serves to really enhance his creep factor. |
| 210 | * RedRightHand: For some reason, he himself considers his hands to be small to the point of deformity, and tries hiding them at all costs, to the point of wearing incredibly obvious gloves described as "fake hands". After accidentally flinging one across a crowded courtroom, he runs to retrieve it, screeching the whole way |
| 211 | -->'''Jack''': Oh my God! Oh my God, nobody look! ''Nobody look! Nobody look! Nobody look! Nobody look! Nobody look!'' |
| 212 | * RedBaron: He's very heavily implied to be the mythic "Nightman" that inhabits Charlie's mind. The Gang outright evens states so in a later episode. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Shelley]] |
| 216 | !!Shelley Kelly |
| 217 | [[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4581.jpeg]] |
| 218 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ColmMeaney |
| 219 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS15E06TheGangsStillInIreland The Gang's Still in Ireland]]" |
| 220 | |
| 221 | Charlie's former pen pal, who runs a cheese shop in Ireland. When Charlie tracks him down in Ireland, he finds out that his "pen pal" was actually his biological father. |
| 222 | ---- |
| 223 | * DisappearedDad: Has been absent from Charlie’s life, besides being his pen pal. [[spoiler:After his death, Charlie breaks down over how he was never there for him.]] |
| 224 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:The last we see of him he's driving home with Charlie after being startled by what they think is a banshee in the middle of the road. The ColdOpen of the next episode reveals he died the previous night from an unknown cause, later revealed to be because Frank gave him COVID-19.]] |
| 225 | * GoodCounterpart: To Frank. He's an honest, upstanding man who forms a parental bond with Charlie. Downplayed in that he didn't make any attempt to connect with his son beyond them being pen-pals, and never informed him of his true parentage. |
| 226 | * InstantIllness: [[spoiler:Dies of COVID a day after catching it from Frank.]] |
| 227 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Charlie assumes his pen pal is secretly his brother. After meeting him, Shelley reveals he is actually his father. |
| 228 | * NiceGuy: Generally an affable guy, some slight misogyny aside. |
| 229 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: Shelley, like Charlie, is a musically gifted cheese enthusiast who spends his time bashing rats with a stick. |
| 230 | * WalkingSpoiler: His existence reveals that Frank isn’t really Charlie’s biological father. |
| 231 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies two episodes after being introduced.]] |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Bunny and Candy]] |
| 235 | !!Bunny and Candy |
| 236 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4578.jpeg]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | !!!'''Played By:''' Olivia Cohen (Bunny) and Isabella Cohen (Candy) |
| 239 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E07CharlieGotMolested Charlie Got Molested]]" |
| 240 | |
| 241 | Charlie's younger sisters. |
| 242 | ---- |
| 243 | * AnnoyingYoungerSiblings: Bunny and Candy are both extremely obnoxious, bratty and a tad bigoted. |
| 244 | * BadInfluencer: By the time of their second appearance, they've become popular on [=OnlyFans=] by performing niche ASMR videos of themselves sticking their hands in a jar of their family's teeth while topless. In fitting with the trope, they're both vapid, unpleasant young women in yoga pants. |
| 245 | * TheBusCameBack: After one non-speaking appearance and mention in the very first season, the sisters vanished from the show for nearly 18 years before finally appearing again in "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS16E02FrankShootsEveryEveryMember Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang"]]. Mac even lampshades this, stating that he forgot Charlie had sisters (the creators admit they forgot also). |
| 246 | * TheDividual: They have no apparent differences in their personality, always appear together, and often speak in unison. |
| 247 | * {{Foil}}: Unlike the grossly naive ([[ThePigPen and just plain gross]]) {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Charlie, they're savvy and modern women who make a living as social media stars. And while they're perfectly willing to perform activities similarly strange and sickening as the ones Charlie does on a daily basis, they do it for monetary gain as niche internet fetish content whereas he simply does it because he's just that weird. |
| 248 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 249 | ** They find their family's tradition of collecting discarded teeth in a jar across generations to be gross and weird, and yet have no problem filming themselves sticking their hands in said jar while topless for money and clout. |
| 250 | ** They slut-shame their own mother for [[SonOfAWhore what she did to raise them]], but do similar work themselves. |
| 251 | * {{Irony}}: They hate their family and where they come from, but ended up being [[StrongFamilyResemblance just like their relatives]]. They do gross things (like Charlie) to get money from perverts (like Bonnie). They're casually bigoted (like [[RacistGrandma Bonnie]]) and don't really care about other people (like [[HeroicComedicSociopath Charlie]]). They're also short, which is a genetic trait nobody can run from. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Especially because their legs are stubby.]] |
| 252 | * {{Jerkass}}: They're shrill and immediately hostile to their mother and brother when they come to visit them, freely throwing around homophobic slurs and calling their mother a slut. |
| 253 | * MeaningfulRename: While we don't know what their birth names were, they renamed themselves Bunny and Candy as part of their rebranding as online fetish content creators. It also highlights how disrespectful toward and disconnected from their family they are. |
| 254 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The moment they see both Mac and Charlie, they immediately throw out homophobic slurs towards them. |
| 255 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: They appeared to be preteens when Charlie was in his late twenties, and are young women when he reunites with them in his forties 18 years later. |
| 256 | * RichBitch: Unlike their dirt poor but generally amiable and (relatively) innocent brother, they're wealthy enough to live in a mansion and mean enough to call their mother a slut and their brother and his gay friend homophobic slurs within seconds of them coming to visit. |
| 257 | * SingleMindedTwins: They often speak in unison and tend to repeat each other when they don't. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | !!Mac's Family |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Luther]] |
| 263 | !!Luther [=McDonald=] |
| 264 | [[quoteright:279:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luther_1.png]] |
| 265 | [[caption-width-right:279:''"What do you guys know about smuggling heroin? Through your ''anus''?"'']] |
| 266 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GregoryScottCummins |
| 267 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E10DennisAndDeeGetANewDad Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad]]" |
| 268 | |
| 269 | Mac's father, a convicted felon. He is tall and has numerous tattoos and a generally intimidating appearance because he never blinks. Possibly due to his past imprisonment and intimidating presence, he is one of the few people the Gang does not immediately try to manipulate or exploit. |
| 270 | ---- |
| 271 | * AbusiveParents: Was emotionally distant towards Mac while he was growing up, and only ever acknowledged him to insult or belittle him, causing Mac to desperately crave his approval. While Luther ''has'' genuinely made several attempts at reconnecting and improving his relationship with Mac, the Gang inevitably ends up screwing it up. [[spoiler:He also chose to name his son [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds "Ronald McDonald"]] for the sole purpose of making fun of him.]] |
| 272 | * AmicableExes: With Mrs. Mac weirdly enough. Though he acknowledges Mrs. Mac's hatred towards him, they are both able to watch TV together peacefully (while repeatedly shooing Mac out of the way). |
| 273 | * TheAtoner: Once released from prison, he goes to apologize to all the people he's wronged. |
| 274 | * AwfulWeddedLife: His relationship with Mrs. Mac is frosty at best. They barely even speak, despite sharing several scenes together. |
| 275 | * BeardOfEvil: Subverted. In a flashback where he ''doesn't'' have the beard, he's more unambiguously evil. |
| 276 | * BoomerangBigot: Does not approve of his son's sexuality despite his own relationship with Eduardo Sanchez. |
| 277 | * BerserkButton: His son. He genuinely loves him, but every thing Mac does ends up infuriating him. |
| 278 | * CreepyMonotone: Rarely raises or inflects his soft but raspy voice, usually relying on his eyes to do the emoting for him. |
| 279 | * TheChewToy: Pretty much every time he interacts with his son, he ends up getting arrested, physically hurt, or potentially ''murdered''. |
| 280 | * DeathGlare: His default expression. He himself remarks, "I don't blink." |
| 281 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Shown to genuinely love his son pretty much every time he appears. The only problem is that Mac is such an idiot that he constantly ruins his attempts at reconnecting with him by extending his prison sentence. Even then, [[spoiler: Dennis eventually reveals that he had sent Mac countless letters from prison that he (Dennis) had destroyed before Mac was able to read]]. |
| 282 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: He and Mac will never be able to reconnect with each other as father and son, despite both of them wanting to, as the Gang's actions will inevitably end up getting him arrested by the end of the episode. |
| 283 | * FreudianExcuse: A possible explanation for his BoomerangBigot tendencies, his brother Donald was apparently [[CampGay overtly gay as a kid]] [[StraightGay in contrast to Luther]] and their father [[TheUnFavourite favored him for it]]. |
| 284 | * GenerationXerox: From what we've heard from his brother Donald, a lot of Luther's current personality seems to be modeled after his father. |
| 285 | * HazyFeelTurn: It'd be a stretch to call him a good guy, but he went from a dangerous criminal to a guy who wants to set his life straight and make amends with all of the people that he feels he has wronged. |
| 286 | * HeManWomanHater: He's ecstatic when he mistakenly assumes Mac's knocked someone up but becomes very hostile at the thought Mac might have a daughter instead of a son. |
| 287 | -->'''Luther:''': If it's not a boy, you flush that shit out and try again! |
| 288 | * IAmAHumanitarian: When he first meets The Gang, he seems oddly intrigued by Dee's hair, playing with it in his hands without saying anything. Dee is understandably creeped out, but she [[InsaneTrollLogic somehow twists this]] into thinking that Luther wants to eat her. |
| 289 | * IcyBlueEyes: As Charlie points out to Bonnie. |
| 290 | * IWantGrandkids: Or very specifically, grand''[[HeirClubForMen sons]]''. |
| 291 | * JerkassBall: He's notably more openly hostile toward his son (and more talkative in general) in "Mac Kills His Dad", and "Mac Finds His Pride", where he outright states that he doesn't love Mac in the former, and that the only value he sees in him is his ability to give him a grandson in the latter. This is in stark contrast to his previous appearances, where it's always made clear that, while cold and abrasive, he genuinely loves Mac. |
| 292 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has a shady past and is quite blunt and rude, but he genuinely loves his son. In "Dennis Looks Like A Registered Sex Offender," Mac calls the cops on him because he thinks his father is on a murder spree that will end with him and Charlie. It turns out that [[spoiler: Luther actually got arrested for violating his parole: he's not supposed to leave the state, but had purchased plane tickets for himself, Mac and Charlie to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame]]. Even after getting out of jail again, [[spoiler:he writes Mac a letter saying he still loves him and that he's trying to learn to forgive him.]] |
| 293 | * KnightOfCerebus: Played with. While he's incredibly intimidating and rarely given jokes while on screen, he never actually does anything to make the show darker than it normally is. The Gang ''believes'' him to be this, however, causing them to freak out whenever he's involved in an episode's plot. |
| 294 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Ironically, he ends up being the ''better'' parent to Mac. While every interaction Luther and Mac have ends in complete disaster, Luther clearly ''does'' care for Mac, while Mac's mother wants literally nothing to do with her son. |
| 295 | * MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: "Heart of Gold" may be too far, but he's a gruff and unfriendly man with a checkered past who nonetheless is generally always shown to possess a genuine desire to go straight and make amends with his son. |
| 296 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: During [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS15E05TheGangGoesToIreland the Gang's trip to Ireland]], which Mac anticipates at first for the chance to reconnect with his roots, he finds out that [[spoiler:not only is Luther's family ''not'' Irish, but ''Dutch'', and his dad was born '''''Music/LutherVandross''''' before changing his surname -- suggesting that, even though he knew firsthand how embarrassing it was to have an uncommon, famous name, he might've specifically chosen "[=McDonald=]" just so he could name his son "Ronald" as a cruel joke.]] [[spoiler:This later turns out to have been a lie, but the sheer plausibility of it speaks to what an asshole Luther is.]] |
| 297 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Every time he genuinely tries doing something nice for Mac, Mac's stupidity end up completely biting him in the ass. |
| 298 | * ObviouslyEvil: Genuinely quite terrifying, and pretty much exactly what most people would expect a hardened criminal to look like. |
| 299 | * ParentalNeglect: Zigzagged. On one hand, he's an inveterate career criminal who has been in and out of prison for most of Mac's life, and he was a generally apathetic parent at best when he was around (when he wasn't trying to get Mac to do things like work as a drug mule). On the other hand, he is clearly aware of his many mistakes as a parent and has tried to atone on some level, but between the Gang destroying everything they touch and his own inherent nature, he hasn't really succeeded. |
| 300 | * RedHerring: As an incredibly scary career criminal, the Gang constantly suspects him of doing dangerous activities. Every episode he appears in inevitably reveals this to not be the case. |
| 301 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Incredibly soft-spoken, though this somehow makes him more scarier. When he ''does'' raise his voice, it's always because Mac managed to seriously piss him off. |
| 302 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: With his hair slicked back, Mac looks a lot like him. |
| 303 | * TattooedCrook: He has quite a few tattoos. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Mrs. Mac]] |
| 307 | !!Mrs. "Mac" [=McDonald=] |
| 308 | [[quoteright:293:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrsmac.png]] |
| 309 | [[caption-width-right:293:''"Stop talkin' to me like I'm an asshole!"'']] |
| 310 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SandyMartin |
| 311 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E04MacBangsDennisMom Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom]]" |
| 312 | |
| 313 | Mac's mom. She is usually seen smoking and watching television on the front porch of her home. She is extremely apathetic, demonstrated by her falling asleep at her son's "funeral" with a portable TV on her lap and remaining the same as usual when Luther is out on parole, and she often communicates with minimal words and unenthused grunts, which Mac serves as translator for. |
| 314 | ---- |
| 315 | * AbusiveParents: Openly rude and uncaring towards her son. Mac is so accustomed to her behavior that he has trained himself to interpret her agitated groans to mean whatever words of approval he currently wants to hear. She has also burned him with her cigarettes. |
| 316 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: She can't help but to chuckle when Charlie tells Bonnie that he took a crap in her food. |
| 317 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While she married and had a son with Luther, she has a gruff and rather butch demeanor, lives with Bonnie Kelly, and acts like an old married couple with her. Notably, Luther is seemingly bisexual himself, and every other confirmed member of the [=McDonald=] family is either bi or gay as well. |
| 318 | * AmicableExes: Somewhat with Luther, despite claiming she hates him. |
| 319 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: After she refuses to sleep with Dennis on the grounds that she considers him an "ugly man", he [[NoYou tells her that she's ugly]], a sentiment that she fully agrees with. She also brushes off Mac complimenting her fragrance by stating "I smell like shit". |
| 320 | * BerserkButton: Being woken up, as Mrs. Kelly found out to her detriment. |
| 321 | * BrutalHonesty: She's outright admitted that she doesn't like her son to his face, said she hated her husband while he was sitting right next to her, and told Dennis that she thinks he's ugly (and agreed with him when he said the same about her). |
| 322 | * {{Gonk}}: Something of an InformedDeformity. While she ''is'' a generally unhealthy and unhygienic woman, all of the members of the Gang besides Mac treat her as though she is TheGrotesque, with Dennis going as far as to say that she is disgusting just to look at. |
| 323 | * HiddenDepths: She's very handy and good at fixing things. |
| 324 | * JadedWashout: She's completely checked-out and generally miserable about her lot in life. |
| 325 | * {{Jerkass}}: Has no problem with telling her son to his face that she doesn't love him. |
| 326 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mac ''desperately'' insists that she's actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold deep down, every time she utters more than a sentence or two, it's crystal clear that she genuinely does not like or care about him. |
| 327 | * TheMasochismTango: She has no problem admitting that she hates Luther (right in front of him). |
| 328 | * MustHaveNicotine: She's literally ''never'' seen without a cigarette. The one exception was when she was on a plane (she had ''eaten'' all of her nicotine patches) and even then, she still tried to light a cigarette. |
| 329 | * NotSoStoic: Despite her usual demeanor, she will snap out an loud insult or nasty comment given enough irritation. Mac, Dennis, and Bonnie have all been targets. |
| 330 | * OddFriendship: With Bonnie Kelly, after some initial difficulties that involved Mrs. Mac strangling her a tad. |
| 331 | * ParentalNeglect: She doesn't give two shits about her son and makes no attempt to hide it. |
| 332 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While on a plane, she complains that there’s too many “coloureds” sitting up front. |
| 333 | * RacistGrandma: She bonds with Bonnie Kelly over their mutual xenophobia. |
| 334 | * SmokyVoice: She's got a voice like industrial-grade abrasives from her decades of constant smoking. |
| 335 | * TheStoic: "Irritated" is basically her only emotion. A flashback to Mac's childhood shows her acting and speaking in a much more normal fashion, suggesting that old age has caused her to stop caring even more than she already did. |
| 336 | * TerseTalker: When not grunting, she speaks in blunt, curt sentences. |
| 337 | * ThoseTwoGirls: With Bonnie after they start living together. |
| 338 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Mrs. Kelly's girly girl. |
| 339 | * TheUnintelligible: Much of the time she communicates in grunts and coughs, which Mac then translates. |
| 340 | * UnnamedParent: She's the only parent who's never been given a first name, with most characters referring to her as simply "Mrs. Mac." |
| 341 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Constantly fighting with Bonnie Kelly, but doesn't actually seem to mind having her as a roommate. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:Country Mac]] |
| 345 | !!Country Mac |
| 346 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4577.jpeg]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SeannWilliamScott |
| 349 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E05MacDay Mac Day]]" |
| 350 | |
| 351 | Mac's cousin from the country, a motorcycle-riding badass who is everything Mac is not. |
| 352 | ---- |
| 353 | * TheAce: A true jack of all trades, he is shown excelling at everything that Mac struggles to do. |
| 354 | * TheAlcoholic: The Gang notes he always has a beer in his hand. [[spoiler:This later causes him to die abruptly.]] |
| 355 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: When confronted by two thugs, he successfully pulls off an [[RunningGag "ocular-patdown"]]. |
| 356 | * BerserkButton: Hurting his cousin. He's pretty much happy and relaxed all the time, but flies into a rage and tries to strangle the black-belt after Mac gets hit one too many times. |
| 357 | * BigBrotherInstinct: It's unknown which cousin is older, but he's '''very''' protective of Mac. In their disagreements, he tries to gently steer him in the right direction; and when a black belt strikes him, he flies into a rage. |
| 358 | * BrokenPedestal: Throughout the episode, the Gang are all highly impressed by his badassery and confidence. [[spoiler:That is, until he dies. The Gang then decided that his actions and general lifestyle are just dangerous, plus they were put off by [[HypocriticalHumor his alcoholism]]]]. |
| 359 | * CountryCousin: He's nick-named "Country Mac" because [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he's Mac's cousin from the countryside]]. |
| 360 | * DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:He dies from his motorcycle falling over at low speed.]] |
| 361 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He falls off his motorcycle and dies. Despite all of his larger than life badassery, his death was incredibly abrupt and anticlimactic.]] |
| 362 | * DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Mac tries to get the Gang to spread his ashes in the countryside. Frank just dumps the ashes down Paddy's toilet.]] |
| 363 | * FatalFlaw: He's an all-around good guy who's honest about himself and affable to others, but his reckless drug and alcohol abuse eventually get to him. |
| 364 | * {{Foil}}: To his cousin, Mac. He is reckless, tough, confident but not [[SmallNameBigEgo cocky]], religious but tolerant, and open about his sexuality. |
| 365 | * GodIsGood: Believes in God for the good things he does, contrasting TheFundamentalist Mac. |
| 366 | * GoodCounterpart: He's basically what Mac could be if he actually got his act together and made something of himself. |
| 367 | * ImprovisedWeapon: When a black-belt knocks out his cousin, he uses his shirt to strangle him. |
| 368 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: The second gay cousin of Mac's we meet, and one of four family members that's attracted to the same sex to some capacity (though confirmed to have had sex with a man, Luther's sexuality is more ambiguous). |
| 369 | * ManlyGay: He admits he's at the bodybuilding competition to pick up some bodybuilders. |
| 370 | * MellowFellow: Remains calm and cool even when performing death-defying stunts. |
| 371 | * MrFanservice: He's good looking and we get to see him shirtless. |
| 372 | * NiceGuy: Very easy-going, gets along well with the Gang, and clearly loves his cousin despite Mac's obvious jealousy and resentment of him. He goes along with Mac Day unquestionably and reacts to Mac's rudeness as if it's friendly banter. |
| 373 | * NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: [[spoiler: After jumping off a bridge and getting into a mass brawl, he's killed anti-climatically by falling off his bike while riding it. The most likely conclusion is that he was actually hurt during his many demonstrations but he refused to address these injuries. The beer made him bleed more and the accident was simply the final blow.]] |
| 374 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: We never get to know his actual name. |
| 375 | * TheStoner: Shares some weed with the Gang at the planetarium. |
| 376 | * StraightGay: The Gang don't realize he's gay until he tells them he's into dudes. |
| 377 | * WhiteSheep: Literally the only well-adjusted member of the Mc[=Donald=] family... [[spoiler:besides drinking/drugging himself to death.]] |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Donald]] |
| 381 | !!Donald [=McDonald=] |
| 382 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4580_4.jpeg]] |
| 383 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GregoryScottCummins |
| 384 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS16E02FrankShootsEveryEveryMember Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang]]" |
| 385 | |
| 386 | Luther's brother and Mac's uncle. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | * ButtMonkey: The poor guy's name is Donald [=McDonald=], he was TheUnfavorite to his father, implied to have been the victim of homophobia, and despite always wanting to have kids never got the chance. Then when he tries to bond with his nephew, he's completely shut down. |
| 389 | * CreepyUncle: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] He's not actually one but Mac keeps misinterpreting his well-meaning attempts at being a loving uncle as this. |
| 390 | * FatAndSkinny: He's noticeably plump compared to the wiry Luther, and is a much warmer and more pleasant man to match. |
| 391 | * {{Foil}}: He's the complete opposite of his felonious and intimidating brother, Luther. |
| 392 | * GenerationXerox: He's basically an older Mac, a sports-loving man who struggled with his sexuality while trying to form a good relationship with his father. Charlie even lampshades this. |
| 393 | * GoodCounterpart: |
| 394 | ** To Jack Kelly. He's not at all creepy (besides perhaps some well-intentioned desperation) and genuinely wants to have a good relationship with his nephew, Mac. |
| 395 | ** To his brother, Luther. While Luther is an imposing criminal that neglected and lied to his son for most of his life, Donald, by contrast, is a genuinely sweet person who is eager, even desperate, to have a familial connection with his nephew. |
| 396 | * HopeSpot: He seems tailor-made to be the loving, open ParentalSubstitute that Mac has been craving his entire life yet Mac, being [[TooDumbToLive Mac]], fails to pick up on this and dismisses his attempts at bonding with him as Donald being a weirdo. Notably, Charlie ''repeatedly'' points this out to Mac during their visit with him to absolutely no avail before giving up out of frustration. |
| 397 | * {{Irony}}: Mac is so steeped in denial that he treats his apathetic and often abusive parents as being kind and loving. When he interacts with the actually kind and loving Donald, he treats him as though he's a CreepyUncle in the vein of Jack Kelly. |
| 398 | * NiceGuy: A warm and friendly man who is welcoming to his family and the Kellys. |
| 399 | * RememberTheNewGuy: He was never mentioned prior to Season 16. Possibly justified by his status as TheUnfavorite WhiteSheep of his family. |
| 400 | * StraightGay: A "life-long bachelor" who was "always funny"; but a huge sports fan who likes watching the game and playing catch, just like his nephew. |
| 401 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: While it isn't stated if he and Luther are twins, both are played by Gregory Scott Cummins, making them strongly resemble one another. |
| 402 | * TheUnfavorite: While Mac's grandfather wrote dozens of letters to Luther during World War II, he didn't write even one to Donald. Donald heavily implies this was due to him being gay, drawing a strong parallel between himself and Mac. |
| 403 | * UnfortunateNames: While it isn't quite as bad as Ronald, 'Donald [=McDonald=]' isn't a name most would clamor for. Charlie notes this soon after learning of his existence. |
| 404 | * WhiteSheep: Appears to be a perfectly well-adjusted and kind man in stark contrast to Mac and his parents. |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
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