Line #18 Characters/You2018Season1


1	!!!For the main character entry, see [-[[Characters/You2018 HERE]]-]
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
4	!New York
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6	[[folder:Peach Salinger]]
7	!!Peach Salinger
8	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you2018_peach.png]]
9	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ShayMitchell
10
11	A wealthy and influential socialite and Beck's best friend. Joe quickly comes to pick up on the fact that she has some psychotic traits of her own, such as her extreme possessiveness towards Beck.
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13	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Maybe. Joe described Peach as being unnatural, harsh-looking, anorexic, and quite ugly. However, it's possible that she was always intended to be as beautiful as Shay Mitchell, and this was always meant to be a sign of Joe's UnreliableNarrator.
14	* AdaptationalSexuality: Possibly. In the book, Peach was unambiguously a lesbian and in fact seemed to lie about dating men rather than go on dates. Peach has sex with a guy, even though it's pretty clear she'd rather have Beck. It's possible that she is gay or bi.
15	* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared with Joe. Peach does keep nude photos of Beck without her knowledge or consent, but as far as the show went, [[spoiler:didn't ever try to kidnap or kill her.]]
16	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: With everyone; she can even be pretty aloof and snobby to Beck, she's very rude to Annika, and she ''hates'' Joe.
17	* AlphaBitch: Despite being in her mid-twenties, she still acts like one for their group of friend.
18	* AmbiguouslyBi: Peach has noisy sex with a guy, though the real object of her affections is Beck. It's left unclear if Peach likes men too, is lesbian though still pretending otherwise, or [[SingleTargetSexuality just likes Beck specifically]].
19	* AssholeVictim: She -- like Joe -- wants to own and control Beck completely out of a twisted "love".
20	* AttentionWhore: Blows up Beck's phone, and even fakes a suicide attempt to keep Beck near.
21	* TheBeautifulElite: She's beautiful, rich and fashionable and looks down on Joe for being a poor bookstore clerk.
22	* BerserkButton: When Joe tells her that Beck will never return her romantic feelings, she absolutely loses it and tries to shoot him.
23	* ControlFreak: From her fitness regimen to her need to dominate her social circle, Peach needs to be alpha.
24	* CryingWolf: Peach is such an AttentionWhore that nobody believes her when she actually has a point, like with Joe being a stalker.
25	* DepravedBisexual: Peach may be bi, since she's quite obsessed with Beck and stalks her often (having taken a huge amount of photos she keeps archived) while also sleeping with a guy.
26	* DrivenToSuicide: Averted, but invoked. Joe fakes a suicide note to cover up his murder of her. The Salinger family ends up hiring a private investigator, believing Peach wasn't suicidal.
27	* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite her horrible behavior, her friend group is genuinely saddened at her passing, with Beck in particular being noticeably depressed afterwards.
28	* FreudianExcuse: Curiously, she never provides one for her behavior, but ''Joe'' does, guessing that her conservative parents and their controlling parenting probably made her feel ashamed of her sexuality, and her crush on Beck. Said crush, which probably started off as perfectly healthy and normal, gradually grew to an obsession and a need to possess the object of her affection.
29	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Peach's attitude makes her ''very'' hard to get along with. Even after her death, Annika acknowledges this, though they all do genuinely mourn her.
30	-->'''Joe:''' You didn't even like Peach.\
31	'''Annika:''' None of us liked Peach. But we ''loved'' her.
32	* {{Gayngst}}: Implied she can't come out due to a rough relationship with her parents and her social status.
33	* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Peach Salinger is a relative of Creator/JDSalinger, which gives her a fabulous lifestyle, a house full of valuable books, and some publishing connections.
34	* IncompatibleOrientation: With Beck, which borders on SingleTargetSexuality because there's no reason why she couldn't hook up with another woman. She just loves Beck.
35	* ItsAllAboutMe: She cares about herself and Beck. Everyone else is expendable. And it still doesn't stop her from hurting Beck in an attempt to make her more dependent on Peach.
36	* JerkassHasAPoint: Her own ulterior motives aside, she is entirely correct in being suspicious of Joe and his interest in Beck, and also correct to suspect that he was the one stole her book and laptop.
37	* MaliciousMisnaming: Repeatedly calls Joe, whom she looks down on and comes to despise, "Joseph," despite him clarifying that it's just Joe.
38	* ManipulativeBitch: Peach will backstab, manipulate, and gaslight just about everyone, even her close friend and hopeless crush Beck, just so she can control them and feel superior to them.
39	* {{Narcissist}}: Oh, Hell yeah. She's self-absorbed, controlling, has an extremely high view of herself and low view of everyone else and has an insatiable desire for adoration and feels entitled to love from others despite her own poor treatment of them and she has no empathy even for the people she claims to care about.
40	* NonIndicativeName: She's named Peach but she definitely isn't one in terms of personality.
41	* OldMoney: She comes from an old-moneyed family.
42	* OneHourWorkWeek: Unlike her friends who are students or freelance, Peach works a conventional 9-5 job. Like her friends, she seemingly has endless time and money for random cocktail parties and shopping trips.
43	* RichBitch: Most definitely. A snooty, Upper East Side princess.
44	* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's quite right to be suspicious of Joe but it's mostly because she's worried he'll take Beck away from her and interfere with her own desire to control Beck.
45	* SacrificialLion: Joe's main "obstacle" to win Beck's love, and is killed off by him halfway through the first season.
46	* StalkerWithACrush: Revealed to be one to Beck, even keeping an archive of photos of her on her computer.
47	* ToxicFriendInfluence: Especially to Annika, whose life she more or less ruins, but also more subtly to Beck, trying to turn her against everybody close to her.
48	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Frequently makes catty comments towards her friends, and sabotages their attempts at success for petty reasons.
49	[[/folder]]
50
51	[[folder:Paco]]
52	!!Paco
53	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you2018_paco.png]]
54	->'''Played by:''' Creator/LucaPadovan
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56	Joe's somewhat troubled young neighbor, whom he strikes up an IntergenerationalFriendship with.
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58	* BreakTheCutie: Ron beats up his mother, and Paco is powerless against this. He gets mad at Joe because Joe couldn't help him and in the end, he tries to get back at Ron and is nearly killed for his troubles.
59	* CorruptTheCutie: Joe is one of the few people who genuinely cares for Paco, but Paco lets Joe kill Beck due to his divided loyalties.
60	* HarmfulToMinors: Paco witnesses the murder of Ron, and leaves Beck screaming in the basement of Mooney's bookstore.
61	* MoralityPet: Paco is the only indication that there is at least a sliver of good in Joe's heart.
62	* PutOnABus: Although Joe also later moves to California, we don't see Paco and Claudia again after they leave in the final episode of Season 1.
63	* SecretKeeper: At the end of the first season, he protects Joe's secret that Joe captured and killed Beck.
64	* TroublingUnchildLikeBehaviour: Later on in the series, he attempts to steal a gun and kill Ron with it.
65	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He inadvertently reveals to Beck that Joe told him that the best place to hide things is in the tiles above the toilet, due to how the building is laid out. This ignites Beck's curiosity, which leads to her finding the evidence of Joe's murders and obsessive behavior while Joe is ''in the apartment with her''. Ultimately, this leads to her imprisonment and murder.
66	* YouRemindMeOfX: It's clear that he reminds Joe of himself, as both have abusive pasts.
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Annika Attwater]]
70	!!Annika Attwater
71	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you2018_annika.png]]
72	->'''Played by:''' Creator/KathrynGallagher
73
74	One of Beck's friends, a social media influencer.
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76	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Especially because she's an original character in the TV series.
77	* BadInfluencer: Downplayed and played with. She's a plus-size influencer and a genuinely sweet person, but she made some drunken comments about how [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt only black men are attracted to her curvy figure]], which Peach leaks in a deliberate attempt to make her look like this trope and causes her to get a lot of online hate.
78	* BigBeautifulWoman: A body-positive social media influencer.
79	* BigOlEyebrows: Has noticeably thick eyebrows. Her actress being Creator/PeterGallagher's daughter kind of makes this inevitable.
80	* ChildhoodFriends: With Peach.
81	* FallenPrincess: After a questionable video from college is leaked, her reputation is in shambles and her business partners want nothing to do with her.
82	* FatBestFriend: Was Peach's "fat friend from prep school", and is dying to shed that reputation.
83	* HollywoodPudgy: Peach and some other characters consider her overweight, despite her just being slightly more curvaceous than the other girls in her friend group. Subverted in that the show portrays this attitude as being absurd.
84	* NeverMyFault: While whether she deserved to have her career ruined over something she said while drunk several years ago is up for debate, she never actually acknowledges that what she said was racist or apologizes for it.
85	* PutOnABus: Doesn't appear after Season 1.
86	* ShipperOnDeck: A downplayed version to Joe and Beck, generally involving Joe in Beck's struggles with her group of friends, another way in which she is a foil to Peach.
87	* ThoseTwoGirls: With Lynn.
88	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt?: Gender and race flipped. Peach leaks a video of her at college where Annika complains that only black men are into her body. It goes down ''extremely'' badly and she's humiliated across the Internet.
89	[[/folder]]
90
91	[[folder:Ethan]]
92	!!Ethan
93	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you2018_ethan.png]]
94	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ZachCherry
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96	Joe's employee at the bookstore.
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98	* BetaCouple: With Blythe.
99	* CommonalityConnection: He and Blythe both appreciate good writing.
100	* FatBestFriend: Best friend may be a stretch, but it's clear that Joe at least tolerates him. He even helps him move.
101	* NiceGuy: Despite his attitude occasionally getting on Joe's nerves, Ethan turns out to be a pretty supportive friend (for instance, being greatly supportive of Joe and Beck because of how happy she seems to make Joe and warning Beck not to bring up Candace because he believes Joe was heartbroken by her leaving) as well as a responsible coworker (gently taking Joe aside to tell him how Beck isn't working out as an employee.) He's also a doting boyfriend to Blythe, showing how excited he becomes to move in together with her.
102	* ShipperOnDeck: For Joe and Beck.
103	* WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Less so than in the book, where Blythe is a rude, aggressive ControlFreak, while Ethan is the nicest guy in the world, but they are still an odd couple.
104	[[/folder]]
105
106	[[folder:Lynn Lieser]]
107	!!Lynn Lieser
108	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you2018_lynn.png]]
109	->'''Played by:''' Creator/NicoleKang
110
111	Another one of Beck's friends.
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113	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Like Annika.
114	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: A more Downplayed example, and something of an InformedFlaw considering the show's narrator.
115	* NiceGirl: Probably the nicest of Beck's friends.
116	* SatelliteCharacter: Gets the least characterization out of Beck's friends. Lampshaded by Joe, who points out her lack of complexity and claims she only grows a personality when inebriated.
117	* ThoseTwoGirls: With Annika.
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119
120	[[folder:Claudia]]
121	!!Claudia
122	->'''Played by:''' Creator/VictoriaCartagena
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124	Paco's mother.
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126	* ExtremeDoormat: She allows Ron back into her and Paco's lives, despite the fact that he's an alcoholic and an abuser. After he hospitalizes her, she tells them it was an accident despite it clearly not being one. Subverted in that she knows that his connections will probably mean she'll lose custody of Paco, so she chooses to continue letting him beat her.
127	* TheJunkie: One of the reasons Karen stays with her is to get her clean.
128	* ParentsAsPeople: Dealing with an abusive boyfriend, a son and what's implied to be low-income have left her an emotional wreck, reliant on drugs to cope with her lot in life.
129	* UselessBystanderParent: Justified by her drug use, but Claudia is incapable of looking after or protecting Paco due to her addiction and Ron's abuse.
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131
132	[[folder:Ron]]
133	!!Ron
134	->'''Played by:''' Creator/DanielCosgrove
135
136	Claudia's abusive boyfriend.
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138	* AssholeVictim: Joe kills Ron in episode 10, right before the man can assault Paco for standing up to him. Absolutely nobody notices he's gone, and nobody cares.
139	* DirtyCop: A parole officer who abuses Claudia and threatens to use his connections to take her son away from her if she stands up to him.
140	* DomesticAbuse: He beats his wife, and later in the season even sends Claudia to the hospital in an ambulance with a neckbrace.
141	* HateSink: Unlike Joe, who is given a modicum of audience sympathy by the virtue of being the POV character, Ron has zero redeeming qualities.
142	* HeyYouHaymaker: Falls victim to a lethal version of this trope.
143	* GutFeeling[=/=]JerkassHasAPoint: About Joe
144	-->'''Ron:''' I'm a parole officer, ok? We see guys like this all the time. He's a sicko. I feel it in my gut.
145	* UngratefulBastard: Attacks Joe after the latter saves his life in episode 5 of season 1.
146	* WickedStepfather: He beats Claudia and Paco.
147	* WouldHurtAChild: It's implied that he beats Paco as well and even threatens to kill Paco after the latter attacks him with a baseball bat.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Benji]]
151	!!Benjamin "Benji" J. Ashby III
152	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/benji_ashby_jr.jpg]]
153	->'''Played by:''' Creator/LouTaylorPucci
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155	Beck's occasional hookup.
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157	* AdaptationalVillainy: Benji is an unbearable, manipulative jerk in the book who has clearly made everyone's lives much worse, but this version of Benji, on top of all that, also killed a pledge during a botched fraternity ritual, and ''videotaped'' it.
158	* AssholeVictim: He's coldly killed by Joe. But given how much of an pretentious, slimy jerk he is, it's hard to really care.
159	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Benji ''thinks'' he's a caring, good-hearted guy, and presents himself on social media as an upright, progressive thinker... he's really not.
160	* {{Blackmail}}: An unusual example, in that he essentially offers to blackmail himself. He offers Joe a video recording of his involvement in a frat brother's death in college, in exchange for his freedom.
161	* DomesticAbuser: Benji is emotionally manipulative of Beck, frequently putting her down as well as cheating.
162	* {{Hipster}}: From his fashion choices, SoapboxSadie tendencies, and interest in being cool he's a typical New York hipster.
163	* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Is shocked that Joe considers him a romantic rival, considering he sees Beck as a hookup at most.
164	* ItsAllAboutMe: Joe's plan to kidnap Benji hinged entirely on Benji being a glory hound and not letting his partner accompany him to make a huge business deal that Joe fabricated.
165	* TheJunkie: Uses heroin and a number of other drugs, and goes through an uwilling detox while kidnapped by Joe.
166	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Benji is a reasonably terrible person and when he and Beck have sex, it ends in a SpeedSex and him leaving her shortly after. Beck is so unsatisfied that she has to finish the job herself.
167	* MillionairePlayboy: Beck isn't the only girl on his radar.
168	* SacrificialLamb: Joe's first onscreen kill, demonstrating how far he'll go for Beck.
169	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: A go-to strategy for him.
170	* SnakeOilSalesman: That brand of soda he's been pitching as superior to all other sodas is revealed to be nothing new.
171	[[/folder]]
172
173	[[folder:Karen Minty]]
174	!!Karen Minty
175	->'''Played by:''' Creator/NataliePaul
176
177	A friend of Claudia's, and a babysitter for Paco.
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179	* NeatFreak: Joe notes that she's at least equal parts neat and freak.
180	* NiceGirl: Snark aside, she's an even-tempered, friendly woman and kind babysitter to Paco.
181	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Although she and Joe date for at least a while, we learn very little about her as a person.
182	* TemporaryLoveInterest: Dates Joe while he and Beck temporarily break up.
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184
185	[[folder:Dr. Nicky]]
186	!!Dr. Nicky
187	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_nicky.jpg]]
188	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnStamos
189
190	Beck ''and'' Joe's therapist, not that he realizes that.
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192	* BrokenBird: By the time he reappears in Season 2, he's completely cracked from being framed for the death of his mistress, having his marriage destroyed and being stuck in prison.
193	* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sports these in Season 2 due to having his life ruined.
194	* HeelFaithTurn: When Forty visits him in prison, he reveals he's a born-again christian and not interested in life outside.
195	* LaserGuidedKarma: When Joe frames him for Beck's murder, he leaves clues that Nicky had been seducing her, upending his marriage.
196	* OnlyOneName: Even in news articles, his surname is never given or said.
197	* PutOnABusToHell: To prison, after being framed for killing Beck.
198	* TheShrink: Is Beck's AND Joe's therapist.
199	* TheStoner: Even lights up joints in front of his clients.
200	* TotallyRadical: Uses an insufferable amount of slang in an attempt to connect with his patients.
201	[[/folder]]
202
203	[[folder:Blythe]]
204	!!Blythe
205	->'''Played by:''' Creator/HariNef
206
207	A classmate of Beck's.
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209	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Beck considers her to be her rival in graduate school.
210	* BetaCouple: With Ethan.
211	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's snobby and sometimes downright rude, but she always means well, and she's a surprisingly sweet girlfriend to Ethan. She also compliments Beck on her submission once she finally gets to read it, whereas before her behavior had led the viewer to believe she was going to be unfairly critical, and she does genuinely try to help Beck's writing career in contrast to how Peach constantly stifled it.
212	* MeaningfulName: She is, indeed, very much a BlitheSpirit, especially when comparing her relatively untroubled life to what Beck has going on.
213	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Her success as a creative writer at a very young age and the tell-all nature of her writing -- particularly about her eating disorders -- makes it seem like she's named after RealLife teen poet [[https://blythebaird.com/ Blythe Baird.]]
214	* StatuesqueStunner: She's tall and attractive.
215	* WeightWoe: The fact that she won an award for an essay about her mom and herself developing bulimia at the same time is played for BlackComedy.
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder:Sandy]]
219	!!Sandy
220	->'''Played by:''' Creator/MagdaApanowicz
221
222	Joe's mom.
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224	* GoldDigger: It's strongly implied that her plan for getting away from Joe's dad involves sleeping with wealthy men she meets for their money -- and that she's neglecting Joe and teaching him to lie to his dad in the process. All of this plays into present-day Joe's paranoia about infidelity and his madonna-whore complex about women.
225	* MommyIssues: All of her appearances have her dealing with difficulties that affect Joe to some degree. Telling is that all of Joe's love interest have gone through similar problems with him.
226	* ParentsAsPeople: She loved Joe very much, but she wasn't always the most present or competent parent. Still a damn sight better than [[AbusiveParents his father]], though.
227	* SingleMomStripper: She was sleeping with men because they had money, though it's ambiguous if she was literally a sex worker or not.
228	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:After Joe killed a man that was attacking her, she covered up everything and told Joe he did nothing wrong.]] This event is implied to be the start of Joe's issues, from his lack of remorse when he kills and maims people who wrong him to his deluded sense of gallantry towards women.
229	[[/folder]]
230
231	[[folder:Mr. Mooney]]
232	!!Ivan Mooney
233	->'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkBlum
234
235	The owner of Joe's bookstore and Joe's father figure.
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237	* AbusiveParents: He disciplined a teenage Joe by locking him in the glass cage, imparting his twisted sense of love onto him. It's even implied that he sexually abused Joe.
238	* EvilCripple: When we see him in the present day, he is barely functional due to a debilitating stroke--and let's be honest, Joe probably had something to do with that too.
239	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A very dark example: he does love Joe and protects him after [[spoiler:his first murder]] but has a very harsh and twisted sense of ToughLove.
240	[[/folder]]
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