The Film:
The Lone Rangers:
Chaz Darvey
Played by: Brendan Fraser
Rex
Played by: Steve Buscemi
Pip
Played by: Adam Sandler
KPPX "Rebel Radio"
Ian "The Shark"
Played by: Joe Mantegna
Milo
Played by: Michael McKean
- Just Following Orders: Milo attempts to rationalize his changes to the station note as this, but Ian doesn't buy it for a second.Milo: This came from above. I fought this thing kicking and screaming.
Ian: You've only begun to start kicking and screaming!
Marcus
Played by: Reg E. Cathey
Suzzi
Played by: Nina Siemaszko
Carter
Played by: David Arquette
Yvonne
Played by: Michelle Hurst
Doug Beech
Played by: Michael Richards
LAPD
Sgt. O'Malley
Played by: Ernie Hudson
Wilson
Played by: Chris Farley
Carl Mace
Played by: Marshall Bell
Chris Moore
Played by: Harold Ramis
Other characters
Kayla
Played by: Amy Locane
Jimmy Wing
Played by: Judd Nelson
The Web Series:
The Central 12
Julia Lind
- All Love Is Unrequited: with Seth, who broke her heart in season 1 once he started dating a girl named Vanessa.
- Beware the Nice Ones Dear god; never, ever be insulting or develop a bad attitude around Julia Lind. She’ll literally eat you alive.
- The Big Damn Kiss: After 2 seasons of Will they or Won’t They?, Julia and Chris finally share their first real kiss in season 3.
- Bilingual Bonus: she fluent in both English and Spanish and has developed an interest in learning French as well.
- Brainy Brunette: arguably the smartest among the female cast after Elly.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: As a child and occasionally during the earlier seasons.
- Cute Bookworm: she’s never seen without a book, and it is hinted that her previous attraction to Seth was due to a mutual passion for reading.
- Dress Hits Floor: she deliberately slipped off her nightgown moments before her first sexual encounter with Chris.
- Forceful Kiss: Gives one to Chris during a study session to get rid of some of her Unresolved Sexual Tension.
- Geeky Turn-On: she mainly seems attracted to nerds and intellectual loners and doesn’t particularly seem to be a fan of jocks.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: with Lydia and arguably Claudia.
- Hidden Depths: she’s very prone to deep reflective thought beyond her quiet demeanor, yet randomly voices her insights at the most unexpected moments.
- Hot Librarian: later in the series.
- Lethal Chef: she tries to prepare a meal for Chris for a picnic without her mother’s assistance, which of course ends up disastrous.
- Long-Distance Relationship: tries to maintain one with Chris during the time she spends in Italy.
- Love Hurts: she takes being rejected by Seth hard, considering that she’d been crushing on him for months before the incident, and only finally begins getting over him and moving on emotionally after about a month of moping.
- Meet Cute: Chris and Julia first met near a dumpster.
- Morning Sickness: develops a terrible case of this late into her pregnancy with Edwin.
- My Own Private "I Do": she and Chris have a private wedding with a small, select group of friends toward the end of the series.
- Old Friend: she was very close with Lucy throughout middle school, back when they were both considered semi-popular, and have still remained good friends despite somewhat drifting apart.
- Only Friend: She once considered Lydia her only friend, and for a while, Julia was hers.
- Put on a Bus: to Italy to study abroad for a year after graduating high school, which devastates Lydia, who was hoping she and Julia could study at Berkley together.
- Selective Obliviousness: Julia is in constant denial of the feelings she’s always had toward Chris, even throughout the period she was crushing on Seth Oliver, although she finally comes to terms with them * the day she and Chris are coincidentally trapped together in the school’s library, which allows some Unresolved Sexual Tension to surface.
- Shared Family Quirks: both she and her mother pinch their noses when they smell trouble coming up and share a love of languages and literature.
- The Bus Came Back: she became homesick during the time she spent studying in Florence and fell into a depression, which led her to move back to the states shortly after her first semester.
- The Heart: often seen as the glue that pretty much holds the cast together.
- The Philosopher: she’s silent and reflective and arguably the most independent-minded of the teens in the series.
- The Smart Girl: Julia is generally seen as among the most studious of the teenage cast and is often remarked as having “her head always tucked in a book.”
- Underwater Kiss: shares a rather passionate one with Chris once everyone’s left the school’s pool after swimming practice.
- Weight Woe: she suffered from bulimia during her eight grade year and spent much of her summer and freshman year in therapy.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: To the extent of having much of the main cast approach her for advice at one point or another.
- Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard:
- Lydia: Don’t you get it, Jules? We’re seventeen years old, and prom is only about two months away. If I’m unable to finally find a date that genuinely cares enough to take me, I might as well just crawl back under the rock I came from and classify myself a hermit. I’m sick of being so goddamn… frumpy…and unlovable. Can’t you understand that?
- Julia: …Well, that’s just about the stupidest thing I’ve heard yet. You’re seriously beating yourself up over some stupid onetime event that involves dressing yourself in some itchy, overpriced gown to go with a horny idiot and stand around in some clammy ballroom eating stale potato chips while swaying halfheartedly to bad music from a random garage band nobody’s even heard of? Please.
Lydia Calandra
- All Love Is Unrequited she’s hopelessly in love with Keegan, who sadly doesn’t reciprocate.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other! : And sometimes they even show it, too!
- Brilliant, but Lazy: she’s very intelligent and perceptive, but procrastinates on long term assignments and has severe test anxiety, mainly because she doesn’t study sufficiently.
- Covert Pervert: she seems pretty knowledgeable in the area of sex and sometimes lectures Julia over all the secret details involved in it.
- Desperately Craves Affection: she feels perpetually starved of genuine affection and intimacy and sometimes wishes she could relate more to her peers and even family members.
- Did You Think I Can't Feel? : Dear lord, never ignore Lydia’s feelings or let her work go unnoticed.
- Extracurricular Enthusiast: she’s a member of the school’s student council, volleyball team, and choir.
- Garage Band: she becomes the main vocalist for “The Rummikins” in the school’s battle of the bands.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: when you get this girl angry, run!
- Horrible Judge of Character: she cares way, way too much over what people think of her and tends to put people into boxes, which has led to plenty of misconceptions throughout the series.
- I Am Not Pretty: She considers herself unattractive by comparison to Rebecca and Abigail.
- In Love with Love: she’s quite the romantic and is desperately seeking a boyfriend for much of the series.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: her knowledgeableness and sometimes overly expansive vocabulary sometimes puts her at odds with her peers.
- Love Hungry: she desperately wants to be in love and claims at one point that she wants to experience the same feelings Julia and Chris do whenever they’re together, yet is continually either flat-out rejected by boys or left victim to unrequited love.
- Only Friend: she considered Julia to be her only friend at one point during their childhood, and vice versa.
- Platonic Life-Partners: with Keegan, to the extent of constantly being mistaken for dating him.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Responsible to Abigail’s Foolish.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness she has a somewhat more advanced vocabulary than many of her same-aged peers, which occasionally surfaces and tends to confuse the people around her. This trait character trait however is most evident when it comes to her writing.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: she grows into quite the beauty as the series rolls on and is the object of Julia’s jealousy at the school’s prom.
- Shrinking Violet: becomes this around most boys.
- Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! : she starts to abandon her narrow view of the world and care less about what others think once she starts interacting more Julia and other people her age.
- Surrounded by Idiots: she implies this several times throughout the series.
- The Eeyore: her siblings occasionally call her this throughout the series, due to her moodiness and self-esteem issues.
- You Say Tomato: she speaks with a slight lisp and occasionally stumbles over certain words.
Claudia Malave
- Allergic to Love: she faints at the mere prospect of writing someone a love letter and still can’t quite get over Jordy’s suicide.
- Book Dumb: she hates to study and earns mediocre grades at best, but is actually quite smart and capable when she sets her mind to it. She’s arguably one of the more levelheaded cast members as well.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Toward Sylvia at the start of the series, although their relationship gradually improves.
- Broken Bird: becomes this as she tries to cope with having been sexually abused as a child, and later with Jordy’s suicide.
- But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Claudia’s secretly deals with a pregnancy scare about a week after sleeping with Gabriel, after missing her period and feeling nauseous during a class presentation.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: a major portion of her Character Development revolves around this.
- Does Not Like Men: she seems this way at the very beginning of the series, although most of it is rooted from a very traumatic experience she underwent in her childhood.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me! : Claudia struggles considerably with the suicide of her close friend and presumable crush Jordy, and is rather reluctant to accept people’s comfort when she becomes stoic and withdrawn.
- Eating Lunch Alone: she usually takes advantage of sitting alone at the school’s steps working on her artwork during her lunch period.
- Friend to All Children: she loves babysitting her younger cousins and seems to have a special fondness and talent with children in general.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: she’s extremely close with her cousin, Julia, who she treats like a sister.
- Huge Schoolgirl: she towers over much of the school’s male population at 5 ft. 11.
- It's Not Porn, It's Art: she’s very fond of sketching the male and female physique, which earns her disapproval from her elders.
- Limited Social Circle: she doesn’t seem to hang around much of anybody outside her small group of friends.
- Mood-Swinger: she was diagnosed as bipolar when she was 12 after a scarcely mentioned Noodle Incident.
- Nice Girl: she really is, beneath her aloofness.
- No Guy Wants an Amazon: she claims to once have been rejected by a guy simply because she was too tall.
- Playing Hard to Get: initially with Gabriel, although her true feelings eventually unwind.
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Reclusive Artist: she’s gets very engrossed in her artwork and often spends long periods sketching away in remote corners. - Sex for Solace: with Gabriel at one point in the series, when a heart-to-heart during a painting session leads to a night of erm, lust.
- She's All Grown Up according to Marisa, toward the end of the series, seeing as she becomes significantly more open, sociable and optimistic around others in later seasons.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: she’s very cold, sarcastic, and distant around those she doesn’t know well due to trust issues, but has a sweeter, softer side for the people she truly cares about.
- True Art Is Angsty: In-universe. Her mother states that even as a young child, Claudia would’ve rather “drawn a witch under the moonlight than a princess.”
- Uptight Loves Wild: Gabriel is a spontaneous free-spirit and dancer with a wry sense of humor who just doesn’t give a damn what people think of him, while Claudia is a brooding, cynical artist who knows little about life outside her traumatic past.
Elly Ohlenberger
- Academic Athlete: She’s salutatorian in her junior class and a top athlete when it comes to track and soccer as well.
- Bad Liar: always collapses in laughter whenever she has to tell in a lie.
- Dreadful Musician: do not let Elly put her hands on a musical instrument.
- Dude Magnet: half of the male cast has felt some sort of interest in or attraction toward her at some point.
- Embarrassing Nickname: her family calls her “Wiggler”.
- Hot for Teacher: she becomes attracted to Caleb, a childhood friend working as a student teacher at one point, which leads to their near engagement in a Student-Teacher Romance.
- Missing Mom: her mother is implied to have passed away a few years before the start of the series.
- Passionate Sports Girl: Practices a wide variety of sports throughout the year besides soccer, including skiing, surfing, snowboarding, and cross country running.
- Plucky Girl: she faced her sister’s cancer diagnosis, the death of her mother at a young age, her best friend’s dealing with anorexia, the suicide of another close friend, her father’s suffering a heart attack, and almost getting involved in a car accident with bravery and a smile.
- Small Town Boredom: subverted, considering that she disliked the small town she grew up in back in Maine as a child and constantly dreamed of visiting the big city, namely Los Angeles.
- Strong Family Resemblance: The spitting image of her mother.
- Sweet Tooth: Her favorite foods include cinnamon rolls, blueberry biscuits, and peach cobbler.
- Teen Genius: she often has a quick grasp on things and is an ace when it comes to her schoolwork, so much that it earns her the title of the senior class's valedictorian.
Renee Mariani
- Abusive Parents: she has a distant relationship with her mother, whom she quarrels frequently and interacts with minimally.
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders: her cheerleading social status, as well as her inexplicably large bust attracts a lot of unwanted popularity and male attention.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: becomes this very often with both friends and crushes alike.
- Cuteness Proximity: leaving a cute baby animal of any sort in sight will temporarily make her IQ shoot down a couple of points.
- Driven by Envy despite their deep friendship, she is implied to continuously feel second best to Elly, who she strives to outdo both academically and athletically.
- Freaky Is Cool she claims she’s really fond of awkward, quirky people, hence the reason she became attracted to Demetri.
- Fun Size: she stands at merely 4 ft. 11 without high heels.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: she’s only about 5 ft. 1 with high heels compared to Demetri, who’s 6 ft. 1.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: she’s occasionally a little shy, but very smart and reflective, which sometimes brings her difficulty in relating to her peers.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: the light to Angie’s dark.
- Living Emotional Crutch: she claims at one point that her friendship with Elly is the only thing that keeps her sane.
- Mother Nature, Father Science: gender reversed, in that while her mother is a rational, no-nonsense physician who leads a steady job working long-shifts at a nearby hospital, her biological father is a flighty and easygoing, if overly-emotional wildlife biologist who’s engaged in constant travel.
- Ms. Imagination: quite the storyteller when she wants to be, and it doesn’t hurt to keep in mind her tendency to exaggerate scenarios.
- My Beloved Smother: her mother is very controlling and overbearing.
- Naked Freak-Out: a group of rowdy boys pull down her yoga pants in season 1, mortifying her and exposing the fact that she chose to wear a thong underneath.
- Naughty by Night: as a freshman, she was a sweet, calm and collected girl by day, yet a sex vixen by night.
- Really Gets Around: it is hinted that she had a very promiscuous past.
- Shrinking Violet: She was implied to be quite the wallflower during her early elementary school years, yet gradually came out of her shell with the encouragement of Elly.
- Soapbox Sadie: in the early seasons, although this character trait eventually faded away with time.
- Stepford Smiler she’s popular and attractive, yet is extremely unhappy with her life and suffers from low self-esteem.
- The B Grade: she’s a self-proclaimed straight A student and earning a grade below a 90 frightens her.
- The Perfectionist: to the point of developing an addiction to painkillers to avoid being kept
