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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== Rachel Karen Green ([[Jennifer Aniston]]) ==
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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Rachel claimed that she had never failed to score when wearing her cheerleader uniform, leading to her donning it at a party in a desperate attempt to win the attention of one particular guy.
* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]
* [[Book Dumb]]: She doesn't know the plot of ''[[Wuthering Heights (
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Her long drawn out "No..."
* [[The Cheerleader]] (former)
* [[The Ditz]]: In earlier seasons when she was still recovering from her spoiled upbringing.
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** Season 3 showed she made brownies which received no complaints. Same can't be said for the rest of her cooking attempts, which may make her an example of a [[One-Note Cook]].
** Is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[It Tastes Like Feet]]... from the incident when she makes a Trifle/Shepherd's Pie.
* [[Longest Pregnancy Ever]]: Lasting from May 2001 to August 2002.
** And then evoked in-verse, as she's two weeks overdue, and spends nearly 24 consecutive hours in labor.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: She was [[The Cheerleader]] in high school, but was friends with the unpopular Monica. She still retains some traits of this as an adult.
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* [[Runaway Bride]]
* [[Selective Obliviousness]] (for Ross' feelings, and later hers)
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: In her high school days, she was probably more [[Alpha Bitch]]-like (there was an I Hate Rachel Green Club, though with a low membership).
* [[The Unfair Sex]] ("We were on a break!")
** A couple episodes after the break-up, she actually goes on a date with Mark - the guy that Ross was constantly jealous of and certain was trying to get with Rachel. And of course, Rachel even tells Mark that she's only dating him to get back at Ross.
*** Then again, Ross's real reason for sleeping with that waitress wasn't because they were "on a break" and he was therefore free to play the field--it was because he wanted to get revenge on Rachel for something she hadn't even done.
== Monica Geller ([[Courteney Cox]]) ==
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Her panicked '''I KNOW!''' whenever she done goofed.
** Also her hyper-chipper "OKAY!" when all gets resolved.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Monica is usually a tool for physical comedy, such as hitting her eye and wearing a patch, getting her hair caught in a shower curtain, wearing agony inducing boots, and getting stuck in a bean bag chair during her 'fat days'.
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Before she met Chandler.
* [[Control Freak]]
* [[Eighties Hair]]: In the earlier seasons.
* [[
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]:
** Wouldn't she be more of a subversion? Monica -- especially post-[[Flanderization]] -- is feisty, loud, competitive and downright domineering, especially with Chandler. By the last seasons she was probably the ''least'' feminine of the girls.
*** Not to mention in ''The One With Rachel's Sister'' Monica bought a different set of wedding china then the ones Chandler picked out, because in her words, the ones Chandler picked out were "too feminine"
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Oddly enough both. She's the Red to Chandler's Blue, but is often the Blue to Rachel's Red.
* [[Super Strength]]: Lampshaded when Ross was trying to get his new couch up to his apartment.
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'''Chandler''': Hey.
'''Ross''': You got Chandler?! The next best thing is ''[[You Should Know This Already|Monica]]''!<br />
'''Chandler''': You'd think I'd be offended, but Monica is freakishly strong. }}
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* [[The Unfavorite]]: Often criticised by her mother, Judy, the same way Judy had been criticized by her own mother. Also, both parents favored Ross, which their dad tries to rectify (seemingly successfully, judging by the reaction) by giving Monica his Porsche.
== Phoebe Buffay ([[Lisa Kudrow]]) ==
Phoebe is the group's [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who, after her mother{{spoiler|'s girlfriend}} killed herself and she lived on the street for some time, found a job as a masseuse. She plays the guitar (badly) and sings (badly) at Central Perk.
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** Which is somewhat egregious because as she ends up reconciling with her father, her birth mother, finds her half brother and was the surrogate mother for her nieces and nephews... she was more upbeat ''before'' this when all she had in the way of family was a mother [[Moral Dissonance|who killed herself.]]
*** Makes perfect sense when you realize that she {{spoiler|found out she had a brother her father didn't bother telling her about, her grandmother didn't tell her how to get in touch with her father, she lost a year when she found out she's a year older than she thought, doesn't even know her full name because her sister sold her birth certificate, and found out her mom isn't her mom, but her mom's girlfriend.}} She probably started being such a bitch when she realized her entire family lied to her almost all of her life.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Not often, but it comes up now and then.▼
{{quote| '''Joey''': They let you get married when you're drunk. Most people who get married in Las Vegas ''are'' drunk.<br />▼
'''Phoebe''': Hell, I'm drunk right now! ([[Beat]]) What, I can't have a mimosa at breakfast? I'm on vacation! }}▼
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Oh ''no''."
** "Ew, ew, ew!"
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* [[Evil Twin]]: Ursula
* [[Erudite Stoner]]
* [[Granola Girl]]: More in earlier seasons.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Played with. She has both a wide-eyed look on the world similar to a child's, but certainly isn't innocent.
* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Some of her humor derives from the fact her sexual practices have no boundaries.
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▲'''Phoebe''': Hell, I'm drunk right now! ([[Beat]]) What, I can't have a mimosa at breakfast? I'm on vacation! }}
* [[Hidden Depths]]: She spoke to Joey's grandmother in Italian. Even Phoebe was unaware of her skill.
** She also knows French... from learning it in a street corner with some other people, presumably.
** And she demonstrates her knowledge of wines when Rachel's father berates a waiter for serving the '74 Lafite instead of the '75, then storms off.
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'''Phoebe:''' He's right, though. The '74 is absolute piss. }}
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]-
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* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Joey.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Ursula was appearing on ''[[Mad About You]]'' before ''Friends'' premiered. (It was actually Kudrow's appearances there that helped get her cast as Phoebe.) When this series launched, it was decided to make Phoebe and Ursula twins to justify Kudrow playing characters on two different NBC shows.
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* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Having the ghost of an old woman posses her, being chased around a junkyard by a psychotic, being stalked by men who mistake her for her twin sister, Ursula, and having her apartment haunted by her grandmother.
== Joseph Francis "Joey" Tribbiani ([[Matt LeBlanc]]) ==
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A laid-back Italian womanizer, Joey is Chandler's best friend and roommate, and often the group's comic relief. He tries to make a living as an actor. Later seasons turned him into
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: One of the flashback episodes had a whole montage of these moments with Chandler.
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** [[Extreme Omnivore]]
*** Rachel's little incident of [[It Tastes Like Feet]] mentioned above? Yeah, didn't bother him in the slightest. He actually ate everyone else's slices.
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* [[Book Dumb]]: But street smart and friend savvy. At least that's how the [[Informed Ability|writers viewed him]].
* [[Brainless Beauty]]
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* [[Sex God]]: He is sometimes portrayed as an extremely satisfying lover.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Several times
* [[You Fail Logic Forever]]: Joey naturally falls into this a lot.
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'''Chandler''': ...You're going to show me my clothes? }}
** Which is pretty much what he does.
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== Chandler Muriel Bing ([[Matthew Perry]]) ==
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* [[Accent On the Wrong Syllable]]: [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Only occasionally]], but when he does...could he BE more of an example?
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The character of Chandler was originally meant to be gay, but the writers dropped the idea when Matthew Perry was cast. It does come up now and then; early on in the first season it turns out most people get gay vibes when the first meet him.
** Doesn't help that he's a huge fan of romantic comedies, and once started a sentence with "If I was a guy..."
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Lampshaded when he grew a goatee towards the end of the third season:
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: A very close second, after Ross.
* [[Cool Loser]]: A prominent [[Butt Monkey]], though he takes most of it in stride.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Of legendary proportions; it seems like Chandler can't go a scene without snarking some way. It's even exploited in "TOW All the Resolutions," in which he truly takes pains to ''not'' snark as part of his New Year's resolution (and proceeds to give up in less than a week).
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: A sometimes specialty of Chandler's, especially around Monica's parents.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Chandler's first name is considered embarrassing, though not so embarrassing that he doesn't use it (which makes sense because his middle name is...
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Muriel
** "Chandler Muriel Bing. Wow, your parents never even gave you a ''chance'', did they?"
* [[Gag Penis]]
* [[Happily Married]]: To Monica in the last three seasons.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Played by [[Morgan Fairchild]] and [[Kathleen Turner]].
** Of course, Turner is playing Chandler's transgender father.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Oh, so many times. [[Lampshaded]] when he does this when he and Monica go to the drag club his father performs at. One of the workers tells him, "We get it. You're straight."
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Joey.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: He plays a mean game of ping pong much to Monica's surprise. (Note he was well-aware of this skill. He just didn't tell Monica because he didn't want to do couples tournaments and the like.)
** It's not just ping pong, judging by the [[Calvin Ball|kinds of games]] Joey and Chandler play in their apartment. Chandler actually is fairly athletic, just not competitive.
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: His parents were never intentionally abusive per se, but his past does come close.
* [[Ho Yay]]: To a small degree with Joey. In the episode where Chandler wears panties, Joey seemed to thoroughly enjoy seeing him wearing panties, but it could also be that Joey enjoyed Chandler's humiliation more.
* [[Hollywood Dateless]]: Before he starts a relationship with Monica.
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: In one episode, several members of the group comment that he has put on weight. Phoebe even mockingly pretends that she can't put her arms around him to give him a hug. A particularly glaring example of this trope, as not only does Chandler look exactly the same as he always does, until the rest of the group point it out, he is completely unaware of having put on any weight.
** During the worst of Perry's struggle with alcoholism, though, he ''is'' noticeably bloated.
*** It's even more noticeable if you watch the last episode of season 6 and immediately after the first episode of season 7. In the story, the events of the latter are supposed to happen a few minutes the events of the former. However, Perry/Chandler managed to lose something like 15 kg in the few minutes that it takes to Ross to reach the apartment.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Happens to him twice, first when he is tricked into wearing a grade school friend's panties and then she takes his clothes and runs off, leaving a panty-clad Chandler in the bathroom to be found by Joey and Ross who take great pleasure in his humiliation and eventually, has to walk out the restaurant with nothing but a bathroom stall door to cover his unmentionables. The second time is somewhat similar when he is hooking up with Rachel's boss and she handcuffs him in her office wearing nothing but a shirt and underwear only to be found by Rachel who gags him and locks him up again so her boss doesn't know she was in her office.
* [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]]: Chandler had a Flock of Seagulls haircut in his college days. Also, he once won a [[Vanilla Ice]] look-alike contest.
* [[In the Blood]]: Gets severe cold feet right before his wedding because "Bings get divorced."
* [[Man Child]]:
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'''Chandler''': You know I don't really like Martinis.
'''Monica''': Oh. Well, how about a Yoo Hoo with a funny straw?
'''Chandler''': Ooh, yum! }}
* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: So much so that it's a [[Running Gag]] that no one can remember what his job is - at one point, it costs Monica and Rachel ''their apartment''.
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'''Monica''': ...And processing...
'''Rachel''': He carries a briefcase...
'''Ross''': Ten seconds. You need this, or you lose the game.
'''Monica''': It's, um, it has something to do with transponding.
'''Rachel''': Oh! Oh! He’s a transpons... [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|transpondster]]!
'''Monica''': That's not even a word!! I can get this, I can get this!
''(their time runs out)''
'''Monica''': '''[[Big No|NOOOO!!!]]''' }}
* [[Reality Subtext]]: His Season 9 storyline about working in Tulsa was to give Matthew Perry time to go through rehab.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to both Ross and Joey.
* [[Sad Clown]]
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* [[Sex God]]: After some coaching from Monica and Rachel when he dates one of Joey's exes. Later, while secretly sleeping with Monica, she tells Rachel her new secret boyfriend is the best she ever had
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Why he took up in the first place.
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** This trope was also how he and Joey won Rachel and Monica's apartment. Ross asked the question, and they froze up.
== Ross Geller ([[David Schwimmer]]) ==
The nerd of the group, Ross is a [[Hollywood Dateless]] paleontologist whose wife left him when she realized she was gay. She also turned out to be pregnant, and Ross tries his best to be a good dad to his son Ben. He loves Rachel, but you knew that already, right?
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** '''"WE WERE ON A BREAK!"'''
** '''"GET OFF MY SISTER!"''' (This one may have been some fallout from the sandwich incident.)
* [[Butt Monkey]]: the whole cast go through instances of getting dumped on, but poor Ross seemed to become the official Butt Monkey in later seasons, ending up the victim of failed attempts, misunderstandings and overreactions one right after another.
** The director's commentary for one of the early episodes claims this is because David Schwimmer is excellent at physical comedy (such as walking into an open washing machine door).
** What's worse is, more than half of the instances aren't even played for laugh. His romantic life is cruelly wrecked by said misunderstandings and overreactions, and his somewhat pathetic, lovesick nature makes sure he always suffers the full impact without ever really getting to stand up for himself and make an honest effort at a healthy relationship.
** None of the other characters miss a chance to rib Ross about being thrice divorced.
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'''Chandler''': ...Marriage advice? Really? }}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: His distinctive "Hi" and "We were on a break!".
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Ross can't catch a break, whenever his relationships endure the initial crush-stage and he convinces himself things are going smoothly, [[Moral Dissonance|Rachel]] will interfere, or some misunderstanding happens, or his own desperation gets in the way, invariably resulting in utter heartbreak on his part. This is never seriously acknowledged, and more often than not, his friends rub it in his face afterwards, usually with all the blame too.
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: With keyboard and ''especially'' bagpipes.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Flanderization]]: His nerdiness and neurosis.
** Semi-justified. After his break-up with Emily, he spends the whole season having a complete mental breakdown (particularly the "MY SANDWICH!" incident with his boss). Whats worse, his friends keep cracking jokes about it, and don't seem to notice or ''care at all''.
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* [[Naked People Are Funny]]
* [[No Name Given]]
* [[Put
== Gunther ([[James Michael Tyler]]) ==
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Poor Gunther never had a chance with Rachel.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Appeared in 131 episodes.
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* [[No Last Name Given]]
== Janice ([[Maggie Wheeler]]) ==
* [[Annoying Laugh]]: A signifying character trait, to which Chandler cringes every time he hears Janice laugh.
* [[Big OMG]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: See below.
* [[Incoming Ham]]: [[
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: In-universe, the above line can apparently [[Brown Note|cause Chandler's testicles to retract back into his body.]]
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: She's never actively malevolent, and seems to have a basically good heart. However, whenever she appears she couldn't [[Spanner in
* [[Take That]]: Supposed to be a parody of [[The Nanny|Fran Drescher]].
** Some local stations, when doing promos for episodes that feature Janice, actually announce, [[Did Not Do the Research|"Fran Drescher guest stars on the next ''Friends''!"]]
== Dr. Richard Burke ([[Tom Selleck]]) ==
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: He never actually demonstrates this, but Joey (generally considered the group's strongest member) is absolutely certain Richard could kick his and Chandler's butts at the same time.
* [[Badass Mustache]]
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* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Towards Ross.
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