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The IT girl of the Upper West Side. Cheerful and carefree, fun and spirited. When the show starts, she returns to Manhattan after spending time at a boarding school.

* [[Mistaken for Pregnant]]: After she ends up on Gossip Girl while buying pregnancy tests for Blair in seasonSeason oneOne.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Once in a blue moon, [[Blake Lively]] appears in something that actually covers her legs and/or her boobs.

* [[One Born Every Minute]]: Gets conned by her boyfriend in late seasonSeason twoTwo.

* [[Serial Romeo]]: From seasonSeason twoTwo and onward.

* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Dan in seasonSeason oneOne.

* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: With Colin Forrester in seasonSeason fourFour.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: In seasonSeason oneOne.

* [[Love Martyr]]: For Chuck Bass. Then in late season three she {{spoiler|realisesrealizes it's not healthy to love someone so much that you'd prostitute yourself for them}} and breaks up with him.

* [[Mistaken for Pregnant]]: Brings about her social downfall in seasonSeason oneOne.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Mention the magic words, "Bart would(n't) be proud" and Chuck will do ''anything'' to get back to where he thinks his father would want him to be.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Oh Godgod, where to start... He is far too often [[Easily Forgiven]], considering he {{spoiler|nearly raped Jenny, sold Blair to his uncle, abused her mentally then assaulted her...}}. Only the future will tell us if he manages to be remain it, especially when taking into count the last arc.

* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: When he lost Blair in late seasonSeason threeThree.

** And Dan. {{spoiler|At least until he figures out Dan sent the video about Blair declaring her love for Chuck.}}.

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: In seasonSeason oneOne, his wardrobe was rather varied... to say the least. It got more subdued in seasonSeason twoTwo, and by seasonSeason threeThree, he only ever wears suits outside his penthouse.

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Nate loves coming to the rescue of damsellsdamsels in distress.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Bree Buckley, his girlfriend in early seasonSeason threeThree.

* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: Never seems to attend classes (which was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Blair in seasonSeason threeThree).

Dan is the Brooklyn boy who falls in love with IT girl Serena van der Woodsen, only to find he doesn't exactly fit well in her world. By and by, he becomes more adjusted, but he still thinks the world of the Upper East Side crowd is highly immoral. Dan is an aspiring writer who in the books writes delightfully awful poetry but in the TV series prefers short stories.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Starting the end of seasonSeason 3, but more notably in seasonSeason 4.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: If someone is on the receiving end of a biting, horrible insult, Youyou can bet its going to be Dan.

* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Attempts this with Vanessa in seasonSeason threeThree.

** In Season Four, himself and Blair have started to develop a snarky, [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]], [[Beligerent Sexual Tension]] styled version of this.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Blair.

Hardly ever seen in seasonSeason fourFour, and with [[Taylor Momsen]] dropped from the regular cast (and her subsequent announcement she was quitting acting in favourfavor of music) likely to not appear at all in seasonSeason fiveFive.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: She was a brunette in the books, but on the show, she's a blonde.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Arguable case. While Jenny usually goes against everything Rufus says, she seems to be a [[Daddy's Girl]] at heart.

* [[Fan Girl]]:It's been mentioned several times that she's a huge ''[[Twilight]]'' fangirl. She even once tried to explain the concept to Lily.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Season 4 had her moving upstate with her mother, a character only seen briefly in seasonSeason 1 and mostly unreferenced throughout most of the series. She returns briefly but is likely [[Long Bus Trip|gone for good]].

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] -: The change of Jenny's personality &and personal style were all because of Taylor Momsen's sudden change in personal style. She was also writenwritten off the first time to pursue her musical career then permanently so when she continued to clash with production.

Biological mother to Serena and Eric, adoptive mother to Chuck, stepmother to Dan and Jenny. Lily was much like her daughter Serena when she was younger, trying to break free from her strict mother's demands. As an adult, she has been spending most of her time getting married and getting divorced. She can be very caring and loving when she wants to, but most of the time she's an absent parent.

Dan and Jenny's father, and stepfather to Eric, Serena and Chuck. A former rock star (or at least pseudo-star) who had a love affair with Lily in his youth. Years later, his son falls in love with Lily's daughter and eventually he and Lily find their way back to one another. Rufus is probably the most attentive parent on the show, although lately it seems he doesn't do much during the day.

* [[Flanderization]]: He used to be a cool rocker-type dad. Now he's just some boring guy who sits at home all day and/or follows Lily around. With her coat in seasonSeason 4.

** Directly referenced by him in seasonSeason 5.

* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Attempts this with Dan in seasonSeason threeThree.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Put on a ''plane'', actually, in the seasonSeason fourFour finale.

Serena's little brother, who is often the sole voice of reason. Gone from the show in seasonSeason fiveFive.

* [[Coming Out Story]]: A seasonSeason oneOne episode reveals that he is gay.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: In seasonsSeasons oneOne, twoTwo and threeThree, he was the only through-and-through decent character. In seasonSeason fourFour, he plots to take Chuck and Blair down and hates on Chuck in favor of Jenny, even though Chuck has always treated Eric well and Jenny has thrown Eric under the bus countless times.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] : As far as seasonSeason 5 goes, he completlycompletely disappeared from the radar without any explanation.

* [[Title Drop]]: See [[Catch Phrase]] above.

Blair's nanny/maid/sidekick. Dorota is actually a Polish duchess but she moved to America to escape an unhappy marriage and began to work for the Waldorfs. In many ways, the real mother figure in Blair's life and the person who does most of Blair's legwork for her.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Started out as a background character but evolved into Blair's eternal sidekick. Dorota got a backstory in the webisodes "''Chasing Dorota''" and had an entire episode revolve around her wedding day.

* [[Older Sidekick]]: Blair's a teenager and while we haven't been given Dorota's exact age, her actress is in her thirties. And Cyrus has confirmed that she practically raised Blair, meaning she ought to be at least ten years Blair's senior.

** At least, at first. Now, she's more persistantpersistent about Dan.

As it turns out during seasonSeason 5 (major spoiler), {{spoiler|she usurped Gossip Girl's identity}}.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: In seasonSeason 3's "The Lost Boy", where she sends Blair a fake invitation to an elite society and uses a contact who works for someone Chuck is trying to impress in order to send the pair after the same photograph, thus bringing out both Blair and Chuck's competitive, self-serving sides and attempting to drive a wedge between the pair.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: In seasonSeason 4.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: She started out as what Serena could have become. In later seasons, she seems to have become more of an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Blair around about the same time Blair became her main enemy.