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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Usually to her father.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Considering how little scenes and lines she has in recent seasons and that here are fewer episodes and subplots about her she tends to fit this trope.
* [[Oedipus Complex|Electra Complex]]: Hayley once entered a relationship with Stan's C.I.A. double, Bill... yeah.▼
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Dreamsmasher
* [[Granola Girl]]: In deep contrast to Stan.
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* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Masculine Girl to Steve's Feminine Boy.
* [[Not So Different]]: Her and Stan. Despite their contrasting views, they still share quite a few personality aspects; they are stubborn, self righteous and politically extreme people who often show a disregard for their partner (when she is with Jeff anyway) and try and force them to conform to their world view.
▲* [[Oedipus Complex|Electra Complex]]: Hayley once entered a relationship with Stan's C.I.A. double, Bill... yeah.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Since about season 3 onward, compare her screen time and plot/sub-plot focus to Stan, Francine, Steve and Roger. In some episodes, she's lucky to have comparable screen time and lines to Klaus. See [[The Artifact|Artifact]] above.
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]
* [[Straw Hypocrite]]: At her very worst. While she does show genuine devotion to her beliefs at times, a lot of her actions seem to be solely to outrage her [[Control Freak]] father, and has attempted to bail out a few good times she is made to go through with the consequences of her actions.
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: He has a persona named Ricky Spanish who's even '''more''' of a [[Jerkass]] than Roger himself and is hated by every single person in Langley Falls. {{spoiler|At the end of that episode, you can add Steve to the list, since "Ricky" framed him for robbery and got him sent to jail.}}
* [[Big No]]: Has had a few of his own, though not as many as Steve.▼
* [[Bi the Way]]: Confirmed as of "You Debt Your Life." After realizing that realizing Andy Dick took his place after he moved out {{spoiler|[[Status Quo Is God|(temporarily)]]}}, we get this quote:
{{quote|'''Roger''': Oh my God! Another fey, pansexual, alcoholic nonhuman...I've been replaced!}}
** [[Depraved Bisexual]]
▲* [[Big No]]: Has had a few of his own, though not as many as Steve.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Used to excellent effect.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Hasn't quite supplanted Stan as the main character, but he's come close.
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* [[Comedic Sociopath]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: For the large part, the more we learn about Roger's background, the more depraved an indvidual he seems.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: He ate him when he was 15. Apparently this is another of his species' sociopathic tendencies.▼
* [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life]]
* [[Determinator]]: If his motives are selfish enough, he can achieve ANYTHING. He pursues {{spoiler|Haley and Jeff with the money they cheated Stan out of}} across the entire planet. When he's convinced to kill the Smith family, he's able to escape from an [[The Alcatraz|excessively secure underwater prison]]. Not even leaving the planet is enough to escape him.
▲* [[Disappeared Dad]]: He ate him when he was 15. Apparently this is another of his species' sociopathic tendencies.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Frequently plays this trope to it's most extreme. One notable example being when he conspires to make Steve's life a living hell after Steve ate his cookie and said: "You snooze, you lose."
** One episode has Stan calling Roger a selfish fat failure. Roger responds by planning on destroying the planet.
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*** In spite of Taken a level of Jerkass he still has moments of clarity
*** [[Pet the Dog]]: Despite having little to no sense of empathy the majority of times, he is often shown to genuinely care about Stan. The entire reason he came to be with the Smiths is because he went out of his way to save Stan from a botched CIA attack. Even in later episodes Roger's friendship is sometimes exploited by Stan, which is saying a lot considering the former's [[Manipulative Bastard|usual tendancies]].
* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]/[[Anal Probing]]/[[Ho Yay]]/[[Their First Time]]/[[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?]]: With Stan during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both [[Kissing Under the Influence|drunk]], and Stan agreed to the most intimate experiences of Roger's species. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, [[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?|but not vice versa]] -- this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's ''[[Their First Time|first]]''.▼
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Has he ever suffered for his horrible actions?
** Ironically how much he suffers is usually reverse proportional to his own misdeeds. He can get away with all sorts of horrific and outright murderous schemes but the odd time he plays [[The Chew Toy]] is usually when he has done nothing wrong.
** There are however some episodes where he fails to get away with his atrocities. For example in 'The People vs. Martin Sugar', Stan had the jury vote him guilty thus leading the judge (tearfully) to sending him to prison.
▲* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]/[[Anal Probing]]/[[Ho Yay]]/[[Their First Time]]/[[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?]]: With Stan during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both [[Kissing Under the Influence|drunk]], and Stan agreed to the most intimate experiences of Roger's species. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, [[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?|but not vice versa]] -- this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's ''[[Their First Time|first]]''.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: To extremes. The first time he felt empathy for someone over himself was such a shock to his mindset that he [[Funny Schizophrenia|developed a split personality]] ([[The Woobie|one with far more redeeming aspects than his own]]).
* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Reality Warper]]: A subtle case. Whenever he comes up with a backstory for one of his personas, logic bends to his will to make those backstories true. This includes being the birth mother of two fully grown men, and also being the teenage birth son of a human family, complete with pictures of him growing up! Roger is perhaps the greatest actor ever! Surpassing even [[Family Guy|Fred Savage]].
* [[Super Speed]]: Allowed him to fake the death of a persona in Season 6▼
* [[The Sociopath]]: Self-confessed, no less. When he becomes a [[Dirty Cop]] (after being on the force for 3 hours) he says that
{{quote|Plus I'm a sociopath so all this fits me like a glove.}}
▲* [[Super Speed]]: Allowed him to fake the death of a persona in Season 6
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Tends to say these at least once an episode.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: None of the Smiths are particularly saintly in behaviour, however Roger is the most consistently malicious of the cast. Less evident in earlier episodes where Roger was more sympathetic with Stan or Klaus usually acting as the more malvolent of the family.
* [[The Unfettered]]: Playing into his [[Lack of Empathy]], Roger will cheat, abuse or even murder others without a second thought to achieve his goals. Taken to absurd lengths at times since he can find even menial goals and ambitions and rotate their ends around completely callous and deranged schemes (a plan to get a free T shirt involved him manipulating Francine and Hayley to try and kill each other).
** [[The Ubermensch]]: YMMV, but if it is at all possible to play this trope strictly for laughs, you could make a case for Roger. He is goal oriented, amoral, refuses to accept outside authority, and if he wants something, even something totally impossible, he makes it happen through nothing more than sheer force of will and a complete ignorance of objective reality.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 1 with Stan, Steve and at times Klaus.▼
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: In contrast to the rest of the major characters.
▲* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 1 with Stan, Steve and at times Klaus.
==== Klaus Heissler ====
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* [[Funny Foreigner]]
* [[Gratuitous German]]
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Klaus before being transformed into a fish was highly accomplished; he studied at Viardina European University and may have a doctorate in therapy. He owned a Ferrari and was an Olympic class skier. However, as none of that is relevant to being a goldfish it's frequently overlooked or ignored.
* [[I Reject Your Reality]]: This, along with [[The Mad Hatter]], and [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. His mental health has obviously deteriorated due to being stuck in the body of a fish, and he's fully aware of it. He has conversations with himself, and has narrated his life and those around him as a DVD commentary, among other instances of insanity.
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{{quote|Deputy Director of the CIA and Stan's superior (he's only Deputy-Deputy Director). Also a right-winger, but not to the same level of absurdity as Stan. Notably, despite being married, he has had sex with {{spoiler|Hayley}}. Also has a thing for "plump Asian" chicks. Voiced by [[Patrick Stewart]].}}
* [[Adam Westing]]: More or less the character's reason for existing. Literally any time the writers can get him to say something that would sound ridiculous coming out of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard's]] mouth, they will.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: In more recent episodes, he's become progressively unstable.
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* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: As stated above he likes himself some [[Big Beautiful Woman|plump]] Asian women.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The occasional ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' reference is made, such as Bullock referring to his immediate subordinate as "Number One".
* [[Wild Card]]
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