The Suite Life of Zack and Cody/Characters

The series having spanned for two shows and a film, there are quite a bit of characters.

Zack Martin

 * Anti-Hero: Type III or Type IV.
 * Book Dumb
 * Foil: To Cody.
 * All Work vs. All Play: All Play to Cody's All Work.
 * Different As Night and Day
 * Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Cody's responsible.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Cody's blue.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Cody's Sensitive Guy.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang
 * Straight Man and Wise Guy: Wise Guy to Cody's Straight Man.
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Sometimes
 * The Lancer
 * Super Speed: As Quick Guy in "Super Twins".
 * Trickster Twins
 * Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist

Cody Martin

 * Adorkable: Primarily in the first series.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Bailey, at first.
 * Foil: To Zack.
 * All Work vs. All Play: All Work to Zack's All Play.
 * Different As Night and Day
 * Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Zack's foolish.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Zack's red.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Zack's Manly Man.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang
 * Straight Man and Wise Guy: Straight Man to Zack's Wise Guy.
 * The Hero
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Official Couple: With Bailey.
 * Psychic Powers: As Brain Man in "Super Twins".
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Telepathy
 * The Smart Guy
 * Terrified of Germs: A phobia Cody developed in the latter half of On Deck.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: In The Suite Life on Deck.
 * Trickster Twins

London Tipton

 * Asian Airhead
 * Book Dumb: Originally.
 * Brainless Beauty
 * Catch Phrase: "Yay me!"
 * The Chick
 * The Ditz and Genius Ditz. Slids back and forth every episode. In one, she doesn't know how to read and in another, she's a chess prodigy. The second one pissed Maddie off because only Smart People Play Chess.
 * Fake Mixed Race: London Tipton's mother is revealed to be Thai and father is revealed to be white. London is played by Brenda Song, who is both Hmong and Thai.
 * Flanderization: Became dumber as the series progressed.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Maddie's light.
 * Rich Bitch
 * Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Bailey's Tomboy.
 * Upperclass Twit

Mr. Marion Moseby

 * But Not Too Black: Played With. Flashbacks show that Moseby became progressively less black as his career advanced. Occasionally, however, he'll say or do something to indicate that there's still a Soul Brotha in there somewhere.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Camp Straight
 * Catch Phrase: "Good luck with that!" Once berated an actor portraying him for placing the emphasis on the wrong word.
 * The Dandy
 * Embarrassing First Name
 * Eye Beams: As The Meanager in "Super Twins".
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: He has five different colored eye beam powers.
 * An Ice Person: Blue beam.
 * Mind Control: Orange beam.
 * Overnight Age Up: Green beam.
 * Playing With Fire: Red beam.
 * Tickle Torture: Purple beam.
 * Hates Being Touched
 * Running Gag: In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, he would usually find himself doing or saying something embarrassing in front of a hotel guest.
 * Scary Black Man: Subverted. While he is rather intimidating to the kids (even Alex Russo was afraid of Moseby), he usually means well, even if he is rather stern.
 * Scary Black Man: Subverted. While he is rather intimidating to the kids (even Alex Russo was afraid of Moseby), he usually means well, even if he is rather stern.

Carey Martin

 * Amicably Divorced: She and Kurt are on good terms.
 * Hot Mom
 * Lethal Chef

Maddie Fitzpatrick

 * Actor Allusion: Maddie is played by Ashley Tisdale, who also plays Sharpay in High School Musical. This gets Lampshaded in one episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Hair of Gold: She dyes her roots brown.
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to London's dark.
 * Overly Long Name: Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick, but you can call her Maddie.

Bailey Pickett

 * Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: She wears an old-fashioned head-mounted retainer to bed once.
 * Country Mouse
 * Down On the Farm: She's from the town Kettlecorn, Kansas.
 * Farmers Daughter
 * Hair of Gold
 * Insufferable Genius: Has moments of this.
 * Official Couple: With Cody.
 * The Smart Girl
 * Sweet Polly Oliver: In the first episode.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to London's Girly Girl.

Marcus Little

 * Former Child Star: Was formerly the One Hit Wonder kid rapper Lil' Little.
 * Put On a Bus: Leaves the show some time in Season 3.
 * Sixth Ranger: Joins the group some time in Season 2.

Woody Fink

 * Beta Couple: With Addison.
 * Big Eater
 * The Big Guy
 * Fake Guest Star: Shows up for two-thirds of all the episodes, yet is simply credited as a guest star. He shows up more than Marcus!
 * Gasshole
 * Kavorka Man
 * The Pig Pen

Emma Tutweiller

 * Butt Monkey
 * Christmas Cake: A Running Gag about is her moaning this status.
 * Crazy Cat Lady

Addison

 * Beta Couple: With Woody.
 * Caffeine Bullet Time in the Groundhog Day Loop episode.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Cute Bruiser: As she calls it "83 pounds of pure muscle" or something like that.
 * Genki Girl: She's very perky.
 * Meaningful Name: Note the first three letters of her name.