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'''Santana:''' He's just furniture. Sorry, no offense. ''(Brad shrugs)'' }}

The former teacher in charge of Glee Clubclub, he was fired when Rachel pointed out his (borderline) inappropriate behavior with male students. He then teamed up with Sue to help bring New Directions down, being rehired to the school as the new head of the art department. Played by [[Stephen Tobolowsky]].

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|He volunteers to pay for The Brainiacs' and New Directions' trips using his drug money.}}.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: For [[Josh Groban]] in ''"Acafellas".'' So bad that [[Josh Groban]] gave him a restraining order.

* [[Transparent Closet]]: Though he seems to have come to terms with it as of "A Night of Neglect.".

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: An interesting case, as if we analyze the case closely he could be considered to be either the Betty or the Veronica to Will, who would become the opposing force depending on what you consider Ken to be, although among the Fandom he is universally considered the Veronica to Will’s Betty

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Ken calls Will out on his flirtation with Emma, though it has little effect. Will tries to gently discourage Emma, but she only swoons over him all the more

{{quote|This hairline is 85% my own and my sperm count is off the charts. }}

The new coach of Vocal Adrenaline for seasonSeason 2, replacing former coach Shelby Corcoran. Portrayed by Cheyenne Jackson.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: He wears dark colors all the time, so he probably isn't on New Directions' side.

* [[Long Bus Trip]]: We didn't see hide nor hair of him from "Audition" all the way up to "A Night of Neglect" (although he was supposed to be in a scene in "Special Education.").

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]:

A perky substitute teacher who connects to the kids by being modern and mellow. She took over the Glee Clubclub while Will was sick, and was even given the job after [[It Makes Sense in Context|Sue fired him]]. However, she isn't the best at dealing with the kids' serious issues. Portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow.

* [[Chekhov's Classroom]]: In the beginning of "A Night of Neglect,", she teaches the kids about hermaphroditic Nazi sympathizers. Guess what the last question in the academic decathlon is?

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|In "A Night of Neglect,", she leaves Will despite having feelings for him because she knows he still loves Emma.}}.

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Basically sums up her opinion of Emma Pilsbury. Even when Emma goes to her for marriage counsellingcounseling, she cites their lack of sex as a big reason as to why it's failing - while this is true, Holly doesn't seem to care about Emma's crippling OCD being a big part of the problem, and doesn't seem to sympathisesympathize with her at all.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Gives one to Sue in "The Spanish Teacher.".

The night class Spanish teacher at McKinley, who helps New Directions (and Will) to learn some Spanish. Former teeth model and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|ridiculously]] [[Even the Guys Want Him|attractive]]. Becomes the official Spanish teacher after Will resigns in seasonSeason 3. Played by Ricky Martin.

'''Artie''': Ever }}

Artie's friends who play back-up for New Directions, though not official members. {{spoiler|However, two members temporarily join in "Hold On To Sixteen" in order to fill the membership requirements}}. Their are several members who can all play an instrument or two. The most recognizable members are the Bassist, played by Scott Henson, and the drummer, played by John Lock.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Rarely seen out of Dave's company, many fans have jokingly speculated that they are in fact a couple. {{spoiler|Knowing what [[Armored Closet Gay|we now know]] about Karofsky...}}

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Karofsky.

{{quote|Technology has allowed us to be brutally cruel without suffering any consequences. In the past, if I wanted to tell someone they sucked, I’d have to say it to their face. }}

The [[School Newspaper Newshound]], with a blog. Played by Josh Sussman.

* [[Funny Afro]]:

{{quote|I'm such a better singer than everyone else so I know how it feels. I'm all alone at the top. Also, I'm really short, so even when I'm in a group of people I feel like I'm wandering alone in a forest. }}

** This trope continues on into {{spoiler|"New York" and we discover her experience in [[The Empire|Vocal Adrenaline]] was so horrible, [[Despair Event Horizon|she didn't even like singing anymore]] and was so desperate to get out, she was trying to get her visa revoked to get sent back to the Philippines.}}.

* [[Foil]]: To Rachel. All the talent without the ego. Also, while Rachel likes to think of herself as [[The Ingenue]], Sunshine actually ''is.''. Although it appears that since her [[Long Bus Trip]] as {{spoiler|the star of Vocal Adrenaline}}, she's acquired something of an ego.

* [[Foreign Exchange Student]]: From the Philippines, where it's sunny every day!

* [[Lonely Atat the Top]]: She says this to convince New Directions to let her sing at the benefit.

* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Most of Season 2. [[The Bus Came Back]] in "A Night of Neglect.".

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lampshaded by Rachel, who snarks that she is named so because she comes from the Philippines where it's sunny every day (except for the monsoons, of course). Additionally, "Corazon" is a Spanish given name common in the Philippines which means "[[The Ingenue|heart]].".

A Handicapablehandicapable Cheerio with Down's Syndrome, who showed up in "Wheels" and has never been too far away since. In seasonSeason 3, she becomes co-captain of the Cheerios (with Santana). Played by Lauren Potter.

* [[The Dragon]]: As of Season 2, she's Sue's semiofficial right-hand woman. Perhaps the strangest example of this trope ever. In seasonSeason 3, she's made co-captain of the Cheerios.

* [[Serious Business]]: From the ''"Rocky Horror Glee Show''": "Give me some chocolate or I will cut you."

Mercedes' new boyfriend in seasonSeason 3 after Sam moves away, and also a linebacker for the football team. Unlike most of the other jocks, he is supportive of New Directions, or at least Mercedes.

* [[Nice Guy]]: Quite different from the other jocks we've seen; Shane supports the gleeGlee club and even encourages Mercedes to compete against Rachel for the role of [[West Side Story|Maria]]. And while he is displeased with Mercedes leaving him, he accepts it and moves on, and shows no ill will towards her and Sam by the time Prom rolls around.

* [[Expy]]: In-universe, of Rachel.

* [[Graceful Loser]]: She shows an odd amount of joy over winning third place in "Hold Onto Sixteen,", despite the fact that there were only three teams competing.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Her quip about being in ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' is quite similar to Rachel claiming she won her first dance competition at three years old.

* [[The Rival]]: Teased as Rachel's rival, but ultimately subverted in "Hold Onto Sixteen" when we find out {{spoiler|she's just a sophomore.}}.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: When not Unique, Wade is so timid that not even Jesse channeling [[Full Metal Jacket|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] is enough to make her raise her voice from a whisper.

* [[Third Person Person]]: Unique does not have ''time'' to refer to her gloriousnessgloriosness in the first person, fools!

* [[X Meets Y]]: Describes herself (or rather, Unique) as the lovechild of Kurt and Mercedes. Ryan Murphy described Alex in exactly the same words during his time on ''[[The Glee Project]]'' .

Finn's mother, who raised her son alone after her husband's death. She agrees to take in Quinn early in the first season when it was believed that Finn was the father of Quinn's baby. Later, Kurt sets her up with his own father in a ploy to be able to live with Finn. The two of them tie the knot in "Furt.". Played by Romy Rosemont.

{{quote|You worry too much, Terri. Mom smoked and drank a bottle of vodka every night when she was pregnant with us and we're TOTALLY normal! }}

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Starting in the back nine of seasonSeason oneOne.

* [[Ted Baxter]]: Minor example, she once said that Terri got the looks and she got "The brains AND the looks"."

* {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Disabled]]: "Funeral.". She died of natural causes, though - she contracted pneumonia and passed away less than a week later.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sister]]}}

* [[Hope Spot]]: Sue was told Jean probably wouldn't pass thirty. And then she turned thirty-five, then forty, then fifty, so much that Sue thought they could grow old together. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, Jean passes away in "Funeral."}}.

* [[Morality Pet]]: For Sue. Her condition is the reason {{spoiler|Sue has a soft spot for the disabled.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Tonight Someone Dies]]: The titular "Funeral" was hers.}}.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: It's implied Judy was one.

* [[Take That]]: The aforementioned Evangelicals; and Russell's infidelity was a parody of Jesse James' cheating on [[Sandra Bullock]].

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Quinn has very ''very'' mild shades of this. The fact that her dad brings up her sister Frannie, who was apparently married to a good Christian man, helps reinforce this.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Russell cheated on Judy with a "tattooed skank,", leading to her leaving him.

Quinn and Puck's daughter, conceived during a one-night stand pre-seasonSeason oneOne. Quinn gives birth to her in "Journey,", where she is then adopted by Shelby.

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: See [[Lamarck Was Right]] below.

* [[Born in Anan Elevator]]: Not really, but being born right after a regionalsRegionals performance seems to have the same effect.

* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Despite that fact that Quinn is a natural born brunette and that her blond hair is explicitly a dye job, Beth was somehow born with blond hair. At first, this doesn't seem so implausible, since Quinn could have inherited a blond hair allele from one of her parents. However, if both of Quinn's parents are natural blonds (and we're never led to believe otherwise), then Quinn herself should have been born with blond hair, not brown. Basically, unless one assumes that at least one of Quinn's parents also dyes their hair blond, [[Artistic License Biology|the genetics don't really add up.]] In fact, even if one ''does'' assume that, the fact that Puck is also a brunette makes it much less likely that Beth would be born blond. (Maybemaybe even impossible, depending on whether Puck has a recessive blond allele.).

* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: For Quinn, who {{spoiler|hatches one [[Zany Scheme]] after another to get her back.}}.

** [[The Bus Came Back]]: In "I Am Unicorn.".

Sue's Ex-Nazi-hunter of a mother. After finally catching [[Gotta Catch Em All|the last one]], she returns to Lima to be part of her duaghtersdaughters' lives. Sue rebuffs her when she forces herself in after being absent for so many years. Portrayed by Carol Burnett.

{{quote|'''Sue''' [when asked if {{spoiler|she would invite Doris to Jean's funeral}}]: As far as I'm concerned she said her goodbyes to us years ago. }}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Sue calls her out on leaving the two of them as children to hunt Nazis.

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Yes, Mrs. Evans, Sam got all that glitter on his face from ''Dairy Queen''. Good thing she and Mr. Evans never thought to ask [[Single Mom Stripper|why so much of Sam's pay was in fives]]...

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Mike Sr. looks like he's going for this after "Hold on to Sixteen."}}.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Mike Sr.

*** {{spoiler|Mike Sr. looks like he's heading in this after the events of "Hold On To Sixteen."}}.

* [[Tragic Dream]]: Julia's dream of becoming a dancer.

Santana's paternal grandmother. Played by Ivonne Coll.

* [[I Have No Son|I Have No Granddaughter]]: {{spoiler|Pulls this on Santana when she comes out as a lesbian to her.}}.

* [[They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason]]: Believes in this. The problem isn't so much that {{spoiler|Santana is a lesbian}}, but more on the scandal when people talk about it out loud.

** Some people prefer this pronounciationpronunciation to avoid [[Scary Black Man|certain stereotypes]].

* [[All Gays Love Theater]]: They even met while performing in a show together... a show that's an expy[[Expy]] of ''[[Naked Boys Singing]]''.

'''Young Blaine''': But I just learned to walk three years ago! }}

* [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger]]:

* [[Shout-Out]]: His name is one to Anderson Cooper.

Santana's mother. Played by [[Gloria Estefan]].

* [[Scary Black Man]]: His bodyguard.

The star of the McKinley gleeGlee club in Will's school days, now a washed-up drunk. Played by [[Kristin Chenoweth]].

* [[ActorHard-Drinking AllusionParty Girl]]:

* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: When told by Will to try and win over the rest of the gleeGlee club, she is shown, among other things, exiting the school showers with Puck and some other football players, everybody smiling.

A former star of the McKinley High gleeGlee club and a rival of Will Schuester, now a bitter and jaded member of the school board, trying to take down the arts program and with it, Glee Clubclub. Played by [[Neil Patrick Harris]].

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Bryan’s antagonistic role in “Dream"Dream On”On" is only more accentuated by the black leather and dark clothing he wears.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?: Bryan Ryan lies to his wife that he's going on "business trips" when he's actually visiting New York to see Broadway plays. He has a secret stash of playbills in the basement.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: He gives a brutal one to New Directions, stating callously and quite coldly that dreams are only that-dreams- and that they'll never come true. The lecture affects the members of New Directions to the point that it leaves all of them badly shell-shocked and actually ''drives Tina to tears''.

* [[Irony]]: The one girl he always wanted got married to his apparent rival and the man he mocked during his younger years.

* [[Two First Names]]: Bryan Ryan, played by the king of two (or is it three?) first names himself.

Hailing from Carmel High, they fill the spot of New Directions' rival gleeGlee club during the first season and end of the second season. As such, they seem very good, thanks in no small part to the training it seems they undergo (in addition, Tina says they dope their dancers).

Their key members seem to rotate every season. They were coached by Shelby in the first season, and their lead singer was Jesse. After Shelby was [[Put on a Bus]] after "Journey,", she was replaced by Dustin in seasonDeason 2, and their lead singer was Sunshine. In seasonSeason 3, Jesse returns, this time as coach, and their lead singer is Wade/Unique.

* [[Fake Band]]: Except for the soloists, the performers are professional dancers lip-syncing to a group of anonymous singers. A number of '[['So You Think You Can Dance?]]'' finalists have appeared as Vocal Adrenaline "singers".

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Their egging Rachel in "Funk."}}.

* [[Serious Business]]: Their motto is rumored to be "murder or be murdered,", they give their dancers human growth hormones, and one of their spotlights is so bright one needs to wear sunscreen onstage.

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: When you're taught and directed by the likes of [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Dakota Stanley, Shelby Corcoran, Dustin Goolsby and Jesse St. James]], this is bound to happen.

An a capellaacapella gleeGlee club from an all-boys prep school, the Dalton Warblers provide New Directions' main competition during the second season. They're run by a student council rather than a teacher; their lead singer is Blaine, and they later take on Kurt when he changes schools to get away from Karofsky.

* [[Fan Fic Magnet]]: ''Oh boy.''. There's even an [http://daltonacademy.livejournal.com entire LiveJournal community] dedicated solely to Dalton fanfic.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Wes graduates between seasonsSeasons 2 and 3.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: In "Michael,", although this is something of Sebastian's fault, and they get better by the end of it.

*** Three episodes later, {{spoiler|, however, Sebastian attempts to blackmail Rachel into dropping out of the competition.}}.

Another gleeGlee club in WMHS, founded by the Mottas after New Directions turned Sugar down. They're trained by Shelby Corcoran, who quit her New York job to teach them. The club consisted of Sugar, Mercedes, Santana, Brittany and a bunch of nameless cheerleaders. The club {{spoiler|disbanded after placing 2nd at Sectionals}}.

* [[Pandering to the Base]]: An In-universe example, they seem to plan their setlistsset-lists for Regionals specifically to appeal the judges.

* [[The Problem with Pen Island]]: ORAL Intensity. Then again

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