Only Fools and Horses/Characters

Derek Edward "Del Boy" Trotter

 * Big Brother Mentor: To Rodney.
 * Brawn: To Rodney's Brains.
 * Catch Phrase: "He who dares, wins!" and "This time next year, we'll be millionaires."
 * Crooked Contractor
 * Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Del always tries to wow the crowds with his French, even if he gets it mixed up all the time.
 * Guile Hero
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Never My Fault: Del always blames poor Rodney for his mistakes.
 * Nice Hat: His market cap.
 * The Other Darrin: Played by David Jason from 1981 to 2003, and by James Buckley in the Rock And Chips trilogy.
 * Panicky Expectant Father: In "Three Men, a Woman, and a Baby".
 * Papa Wolf: Del is not afraid to protect his family from any incoming jerkasses, as shown in "No Greater Love", "May the Force Be With You", and "Little Problems".
 * The Woobie

Rodney Charlton Trotter

 * Brains: To Del Boy's Brawn.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Chew Toy
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * The Heart
 * Embarrassing Middle Name
 * Straight Man
 * The Woobie
 * The Woobie

Edward Kitchener "Ted / Grandad" Trotter

 * Butt Monkey
 * The Character Died with Him: Grandad was killed off after his actor Lennard Pierce died.
 * Cordon Bleugh Chef
 * Nice Hat
 * No Name Given: Grandad's first name "Ted" was only revealed in the OFAH book series The Bible of Peckham and the pilot episode of Rock And Chips.
 * The Other Darrin: Played by Lennard Pearce from 1981 to 1984, and by Phil Daniels in the Rock And Chips trilogy.

Uncle Albert Gladstone Trotter

 * Butt Monkey
 * Catch Phrase: "During the war..."
 * The Character Died with Him: Like Grandad, Albert was killed off after his actor Buster Merryfield died.
 * Dreadful Musician: He certainly isn't the best pianist around, but Mike tolerates his piano playing on the grounds that it prevents people from noticing that the Nag's Head's jukebox has been broken for years.
 * Flopsy: In "Hole in One".
 * Inflationary Dialogue
 * Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Albert's sunk every ship he ever sailed on.
 * Nice Hat
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Grandad.

Rachel "Raquel" Turner

 * Closer to Earth
 * Hooker with a Heart of Gold: In the 1988 OFAH Christmas special "Dates", her debut episode. After meeting Del, she gave up this profession after a Stripper Cop Confusion at Albert's birthday party.
 * Straw Feminist
 * Team Mom
 * The Woobie

Cassandra Louise Parry Trotter

 * Closer to Earth: To much less of an extent than Raquel, though. She's definitely the more sensible one out of her and Rodney, but Rodney is himself generally more sensible compared to Del Boy, and Cassandra is both insanely career driven and prone to acting like a spoilt brat at times.
 * Narm Charm: Though Your Mileage May Vary, so yeah...
 * Uptown Girl

Damien Derek Trotter

 * Enfant Terrible
 * Mouthy Kid
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * The Other Darrin
 * Tagalong Kid

Joan Mavis "Joannie" Trotter, Sr.

 * Closer to Earth
 * Expository Hairstyle Change: Changed her hairstyle four times: the first time was in the pilot episode of Rock And Chips, modelled after Marilyn Monroe; the second time was in the second episode "Five Gold Rings", modelled after Elizabeth Taylor; and the third and fourth times were in the third episode "The Frog and the Pussycat", modelled after Audrey Hepburn and Jane Fonda.
 * Informed Attractiveness
 * Running Gag: Whenever Del wants Rodney to do something for him, he always brings up what Joannie said to Del on her death bed. This was lampshaded in the fourth season OFAH episode "It's Only Rock and Roll" when Rodney tells Del about a row they had on whose turn it was to go and get the fish and chips, and Del claimed that Joannie said on her death bed, "Send Rodney for the fish."
 * Sympathetic Adulterer: Reg is neglectful, crude, abusive, and all too happy to sit at home, watch Joan bring home the bacon and then waste her meagre wages down the pub. Is it any wonder she jumps into bed with Freddie Robdal - debonair and attentive, if somewhat unreliable and immoral - the first chance she gets?
 * Too Good for This Sinful Earth: At least, that's what Del claims...
 * The Woobie

Reginald "Reg" Trotter

 * Domestic Abuse
 * Jerkass
 * Miles Gloriosus: Del describes him as "a bit of a hard nut" with women and children, but not much bottle when it comes to other men.
 * The Other Darrin: Played by Peter Woodthorpe in the 1983 OFAH Christmas special "Thicker than Water", and by Shaun Dingwall in the Rock And Chips trilogy.

Colin "Trigger" Ball

 * Characterization Marches On
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * The Other Darrin: Played by Roger Lloyd Pack from 1981 to 2003, and by Lewis Osborne in the Rock And Chips trilogy.

Denzil Tulser

 * The Everyman
 * Jive Turkey
 * The Other Darrin: Played by Paul Barber from 1983 to 2005, and by Ashley Gerlach in the Rock And Chips trilogy.

Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce

 * Embarrassing Middle Name
 * The Other Darrin: Played by John Challis since 1981 to 2009, and by Stephen Lloyd in the Rock And Chips trilogy.
 * Smug Snake
 * Spin-Off: The Green Green Grass.

Marlene Lane Boyce

 * The Ghost: Until "Sleeping Dogs Lie", that is.
 * Really Gets Around: Implied: "We all remember Marlene!"

Mike Fisher

 * Closer to Earth
 * Straight Man

Mickey Pearce

 * Jerkass: Not to Reg's extreme though.
 * Nice Hat
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * Smug Snake
 * With Friends Like These...

Sid

 * Cordon Bleugh Chef: Sid himself admits that his food is borderline inedible, and that most of his trade comes from a combination of low prices and a good location next to the Peckham market.
 * I Was Quite a Looker: As claimed to have been in the 2003 OFAH Christmas special "Sleepless in Peckham" when looking at himself in the photograph of the 1960 Jolly Boys' Outing.
 * Only One Name

DCI Roy "The Slag" Slater

 * Butt Monkey: In the first and second episodes of Rock And Chips.
 * Dirty Cop
 * The Other Darrin: Played by Jim Broadbent in "May The Force Be With You", the 1985 OFAH Christmas special "To Hull and Back", and "The Class of '62", and by Calum MacNab in the first two episodes of the Rock And Chips trilogy.
 * Smug Snake
 * The Unfavourite

Freddie "The Frog" Robdal

 * The Charmer
 * Explosive Stupidity
 * Jerkass Woobie: 99% of the time, the charasmatic-and-knows-it Freddie is aloof, scheming, manipulitive, theiving, bullying and smug. The one or two times he shows genuine emotion can be quite upsetting, however, and his weakness for Joan and Rodney are all the more heart-warming because of it.
 * London Gangster
 * Meaningful Name
 * Smug Snake