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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== Main Characters ==
=== Frasier Crane ===
The first leading character of his aptly named show, Fraiser has moved to Seattle (from Boston as he was a character in ''Cheers.'') and takes a job as the local radio station KACL, where he gets his own call-in show as a therapist. Tropes from ''Cheers'' still apply to him.
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* [[Audio Erotica]]: Is regularly complimented on his sexy voice, which just encourages him to dial the charm up further.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Never challenge his intelligence, be it with psychiatry or anything else he considers himself educated in.
{{quote|'''Frasier:''' "Chicken! I believe it was Laroshe-foucalt, the great thinker, who said..."
'''The Chicken:''' "Hey, give it a rest, Double Wide! I went to grad school too, and P.S.- it's pronounced "[[François de La Rochefoucauld|La Rochefoucauld]]"."
'''Frasier:''' "''THAT'S IT! '''NO ONE''' CORRECTS MY FRENCH
* [[Book Dumb]]: Anybody without an Ivy League education, according to him and Niles.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: A big part of the humor of the show is seeing if it's Frasier's or Niles's turn to get broken, or if they'll share it, and how it's going to happen.
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* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
=== Niles Crane ===
Frasier's brother, even more uptight and snooty than he is. Initially married to a [[Manipulative Bitch]] named Maris and an extreme doormat, he falls in love with Daphne at first sight. His [[Character Development]] over the series has him grow a backbone as he tries to escape his increasingly unhealthy marriage and some day confess his feelings to Daphne.
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* [[Aborted Declaration of Love]]: The few times he finally works up the courage to tell Daphne how he feels, something happens that makes it inappropriate or otherwise scares him off.
* [[Adorkable]]
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'''Martin''': Hey Niles, it's 82 in Florida!
'''Niles''': Here to see Daphne, Dad! }}
* [[Expy]]: Amusingly enough, the ''[[Cheers]]'' character Niles probably comes close enough to filling the role of is probably Lilith. He's always accompanying Frasier, is stiffer and more uptight than Frasier is, and generally uses a very [[Deadpan Snarker|dry, witty delivery]]. Which fits with all the jokes peppered throughout the series about Niles and Frasier being a couple.
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]}}: With Daphne, eventually.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]
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* [[The Woobie]]
=== Martin Crane ===
Frasier and Niles's father who moves in with Frasier, he's an ex-cop who was forced to retire when he took a bullet to the hip. Has little patience for his son's antics and tries (usually with them not listening) to give them valuable advice to make them realize how things are much simpler than they perceive.
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* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Though he is sometimes exasperated with how snootish they can be, Martin truly does love his sons. In "A Room Full of Heroes", Niles dresses like Martin for Halloween and in character begins to say Frasier and Niles were disappointments to him, only for Martin to sharply cut him off and tell him he has always been proud of them.
* [[Book Dumb]]: He's not as book smart as Frasier or Niles, but has far more common sense and can outsmart them by catching things they overlook in their arrogance. And, as he never hesitates to remind them, he ''was'' a detective for several years, and he occasionally demonstrates he's picked up a bit of psychiatry from listening to them and their mother.
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: When he was younger.
** [[Cowboy Cop]]: He admits to breaking police regulations (and even the law) occasionally, either because he felt it was the right thing to do at the time or because it was fun.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He has more empathy than his psychiatrist sons.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Shown to be one several times, though apparently he's usually [[Covert Pervert|quiet about it]]. At one point he gets a head of steam worked up ranting about the dirtiness of modern television, saying every time he turns on the TV there's sex and moaning. Frasier glares and notes that he thought the cable bill was unusually high last month, causing Martin to sheepishly pretend not to hear him as he realizes what he's admitted.
* [[Expy]]: Martin is a mixture of most of the barflies at ''[[Cheers]]'', being a cranky old man like Phil, a sedate couch potato like Norm, and a lifelong civil servant (with a rather odd career full of bemusing stories) like Cliff. He also has a fair bit of his own one-shot character Sy Feldman.
* [[Faux Yay]]: In the episode "Out With Dad", who [[Sorry, I'm Gay|tells a woman he's gay, so as not to offend her by turning her down]], and subsequently offers to "gay it up a little" so her daughter doesn't suspect he's straight when she sets him up with a friend.
* [[Foil]]: To Frasier.
* [[Happily Married]]: To Ronee, and otherwise to Hester with a few bumps in their marriage.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Sometimes played for [[Hypocritical Humor]] and sometimes not. At one point, after he gets furious with Frasier and Niles for not liking one of his girlfriends (but still trying to be polite to her face), Frasier catches on and calls him out on the fact that not only could he never stand any of the women he and Niles have been with, but that he also never even bothered to be civil to them. Martin essentially defends himself with "Yeah well your women suck!"
* [[Iconic Item]]: His ancient easy chair.
* [[May-December Romance]]: With Ronee
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* [[The Stoic]]: He can't express his feelings so easily. At least he has problems getting moved and saying "I love you".
=== Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle ===
Frasier's producer and close friend. Her ''very'' active sex life is the butt of many jokes.
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* [[Better as Friends]]: With Frasier.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Reset Button]]: She actually decides to press this in-character by showing up at Frasier's show one day (after having quit to take a new job earlier) and simply insisting that the last several episodes' worth of events never happened. This serves to sufficiently confuse several others (or at least Kenny) into believing it as well.
* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Not actually one, but fits the character type.
* [[Snark
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Sort of. She seems to bounce back and forth between being much more down to earth and sensible than Frasier, and being far more flighty and frivolous. She and Frasier tend to trade off on who knows what they're talking about in any given instance.
=== Daphne Moon ===
Martin's physical therapist who lives with him and Frasier, she's from England and serves as a working-class presence in a sitcom of mostly high-class characters. Is the subject of affection for Niles, thought she has no idea for the first six seasons.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Expy]]: Her odd, rambling anecdotes are a pretty clear stand-in for Cliff Clavin's "little-known facts".
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Shifts to this with the Cranes when she gets together with Niles. Lampshaded.
{{quote|'''Daphne:''' "Oh, for heaven's sake Dr. Crane!" (''she kisses him'')
'''Niles:''' "I think you can call me Niles now." }}
** Averted with Martin. As she and Niles are getting married, they both alternatively suggest "Dad" and "Martin". Martin tells her to just call him what she likes, at which point she enthusiastically hugs him and cries "Oh thank you, Mr. Crane!"
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Not ugly by any measure, but it isn't really clear why Niles obsesses over her for seven years.
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]}}: With Niles, eventually.
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* [[Oop North]]: Manchester, to be exact.
=== Eddie ===
Martin's faithful dog, Frasier and Niles can't stand him and he seems to know it, as one of his favorite pastimes is staring at them to annoy them. Is more a character than a pet, because he's incredibly expressive and intelligent.
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* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]: Eddie's actor, Moose, and his son Enzo who took over the part in later seasons, were incredibly well-trained. John Mahoney has stated that he considered them animal actors rather than token pets.
* [[Animal Reaction Shot]]: He's ''very'' emotive.
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== Supporting Characters ==
=== Maris Crane ===▼
▲== Maris Crane ==
Niles's initial wife, she's an incredibly bizarre and eccentric [[Rich Bitch]] that Niles bends over backwards to please, and even that doesn't work. Their marriage dissolves over the course of the show, and Maris makes it as painful for him as she can.
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* [[Expy]]: While entirely different characters in practice, the whole routine of having an offscreen character be a main character's wife with whom he shares a distant and sexless marriage is all Vera Peterson.
* [[The Faceless]]: The writing team did toy with the idea of revealing her, but by that time they had created so many bizarre descriptions of her that they eventually decided no human actress would be able to portray her adequately.
* [[Ice Queen]]: Niles even compares her with said substance a few times
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* [[The Voiceless]]
=== Lilith Sternin ===
Frasier's ex-wife, she drops in on occasion as they still maintain a friendship and professional interest in the other's work. The rest of the family is terrified of her.
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* [[Amicably Divorced]]: She and Frasier, most of the time.
** They're actually shown several times to be, if anything, much better friends and much happier in each other's company than when they were married.
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* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]
=== Frederick Crane ===
Frasier's son with Lilith.
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* [[Character Development]]: Initially a [[Child Prodigy]], he develops into a normal kid as he grows up, frustrating Frasier as they grow apart.
** [[Not So Different]]: While infinitely [[Closer to Earth]] than his father and uncle, he will, at least once per appearance, do something to demonstrate that he is still very much Frasier's son.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lilith notes that he's something of one, in the episode below, saying that he learned to do whatever it took to get his goal and citing experiments when he was a baby of a bottle at the end of a maze. Frasier laments the experiment (and its results).
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Is this in a Christmas episode where he manipulates Frasier and Lilith into thinking he wants them to get back together, planning to act emotionally crushed so they buy him a minibike. The two surmise this means he's a typical growing kid.
=== Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe ===
The host of the Gonzo Sports Show at Frasier's radio station, his show usually comes on after Frasier's. Has an on and off relationship with Roz due to the fact she's physically attracted to him but otherwise finds him a disgusting pig (and he is).
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* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: By the time he's actually in love with Roz he can't tell her and so settles for scaring off her dates and playing babysitter to Alice to spend time to her. He does spit it out once she catches on though.
* [[The Casanova]]
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: In "Bad Dog," upon seeing a man with a gun at the cafe, he tried to use a pregnant Roz as a human-shield. Thing is, it actually appeared as if he was trying to pull her to safety, so he is dubbed a hero by all - except Frasier, who knows the truth and spends the rest of the episode obsessing over it.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: He genuinely falls in love with Roz, and was once so passionate about a relationship that when she dumped him he was reduced to tears.
** By his second attempt at a relationship with Roz, he's actually become a responsible caregiver and partner. He still doesn't quite know how to act like a sensible human being because, well, he's Bulldog, but he's obviously come a long way. It's almost a [[Tear Jerker]] that Roz turns him away.
* [[Jerk Jock]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Has his moments.
** For as much grief as he gives Frasier on any given day, when he's around Frasier's son he does his best to assure Freddy that Frasier is an amazing guy and that everyone respects and looks up to him.
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Happens twice, first with Roz's friend Shannon and later on Roz.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: A subtle in-joke, as actor Dan Butler is gay in real life.
=== Sherry Dempsey ===
A girlfriend of Martin's in earlier seasons, a cocktail waitress who plays the banjo. Of course, Frasier and Niles can't stand her.
=== Bebe Glazer ===
Frasier's agent who will resort to ''anything'' to get her clients fame and fortune, largely because she likes basking in it herself.
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Albeit [[Played for Laughs]]. When Frasier tentatively asks her if she had anything to do with the death of a man that opened up a career opportunity for Frasier himself, Bebe laughs it off and says "Oh, darling, you're worse than the police with your questions!"
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]
* [[It's All About Me]]: As dedicated, hardworking and charismatic as she is, she admits that the main reason she pushes her clients to succeed is so she can bask in their residual glory.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's had so much cosmetic surgery that everyone was surprised to find {{spoiler|her son is forty}}.
=== Kenny Daly ===
The station manager at KACL, he's a very friendly guy unable to make the hard decisions and is easily swayed.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
=== Gertrude Moon ===
Daphne's mother who makes no secret she is deeply disappointed in how her daughter turned out.
=== Duke ===
A good friend of Martin's who owns a bar.
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* [[The Unseen]]: Averted, though it's easy to miss. He does show up in a handful of episodes, but not enough to be recognizable on sight, and plays a much larger role in the series through Martin's conversations with him on the phone than he does in any on-screen appearance.
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