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== Main Characters (the
=== Gary ===
[[File:ma3cast gary 2190.png|frame]]
A cartoonist and comic book [[Nerd]], and the first main character to be introduced. He works at a call center and lives in fear of his landlady, Madame Deville.
* [[Adorkable]]
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* [[Bi the Way]]: {{spoiler|Subverted! Turns out his apparent "gay" tendencies were just stemming from the fact that he lived with two gay guys for a few years. He's actually straight.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: It's probably the main source of humor.
** Although he does have his small victories such as Lita (Zii's cat, who hates everyone) seeming to prefer his company over anyone else, and Yuki is slowly starting to like him, even giving him a kiss on the cheek after he does her a favor (though [[Yank the
*** He recently scored a well-deserved victory over Zii when {{spoiler|she thought she'd broken his ultra-rare classic Transformer, and he got her to promise to watch every Transformers episode with him before revealing that "Precious Overlord" was in fact not broken at all}}.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The [[
* [[Clueless Chick Magnet]]: He now has most of the comic's female cast after him (and some of the males, too). It remains to be seen whether he'll evolve it up to [[Accidental Pornomancer]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He has his moments
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** One of his coworkers also says of the female characters (who he thinks are attracted to Gary) "Punk rocker chick. Big breasted amazon who gives assplay. Nympho Japanese girl. Gary is the luckiest guy on the face of the Earth."
** Given that Gary bears a striking resemblance to Dick Grayson in geek glasses (he even fills in as Nightwing at a play), this may be intentional.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: ''Very'' rarely strays from his staple of black jeans and baseball t-shirts [[Fun T
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Part of his self-esteem issues. He may also be the only character who's straight ([[Everyone Is Bi|though it may not be for long.]])
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Pretty much everyone in the comic agrees that he's pretty damn cute, and does have a certain dorky nice-guy charm, but his terrible luck and awkwardness (and Zii) effectively ruin any chance he ever has.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's almost 30, but doesn't look a day older than the rest of the cast.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: One of Gary's coworkers thinks that Gary has one of these.
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=== Suzi "Zii" Nielsen ===
[[File:ma3cast zii 5794.png|frame]]
A bandless guitarist who is not ashamed of herself. She is bisexual, has a [[Yaoi Fangirl|penchant for yaoi]] and is certainly not afraid to take the chance if it presents itself. She also enjoys comics and has a cat.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: She's the poster girl in the series.
* [[Anything That Moves]]
* [[Heroic BSOD|Anti-Heroic BSOD]]: Zii goes through one of these after breaking Gary's prized [[Transformers|'Overlord'.]] Her solution was [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/bad_for_his_character "bang his brains out"], or would've been had DiDi not [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slapped some sense into her.]]
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Attention Deficit... Ooh! Kinky!]]: happens when Zii tries talking Sonya into patching things up with her boyfriend, Jake. Zii makes an honest effort despite Sonya's attempts to come onto her, until she mentions the [[Fetish Fuel|kitty costume]] she wanted to wear for her, [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/while_thinking_of_you and the bunny one.] So much for that....
* [[Badass]]: During a guest strip, she claims to have once done it with live tarantulas on her boobs. Why? Because it's badass!
* [[Berserk Button]]: Internet trolls and being called a dude based on her appearance.
* [[Can't Have Sex Ever|Can't Have Sex, Ever]]: She can't seem to make any progress with DiDi no matter how much she schemes to confuse the girl sexually.
* [[Casanova]]: She's a female version, having quite a knack for seducing presumably straight women into lesbian encounters. She's been with nearly every female ever featured in the comic, with DiDi being the only one she's tried to seduce but hasn't had any luck with. She's been with a lot of men, too, but since [[All Men Are Perverts]] it doesn't really count.
* [[Catgirl]]: She noticed the effect her new work outfit had on Gary, so she [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091217.html decides to] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091222.html play it up] a
* [[Cat Smile]]:
* [[Cosplay]]: One of the stipulations of her job at Jung's comic shop is that she models for his cosplay outfits.
* [[Character Development]]: Lately she's become a far moral person who takes umbrage at being offered up by someone else for a threesome and is genuinely supportive of Gary and Kiley's relationship.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: To {{spoiler|Erik}}.
* [[Handsome Lech|Cute Lech]]:
* [[A Date
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: To those who don't like her.
* [[Empathy Pet]]: Lita often mimics Zii's behavior, even when Zii isn't around.
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: Zii really didn't take Gary trying to pimp her out to sleep with Amber well. As she said, she's done a lot of things with a lot of people, but it should have been her choice, not someone else's.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: She has a pair that sometimes work together.
* [[Jerkass]]: She may or may not be one of these depending on who you ask.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: She has yet to receive any comeuppance for some of the sleazy things she's done, like leaving Gary handcuffed to a man-hater who thinks he's a rapist, or barging in on naked Gary with a camera. An excellent example can be found in [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091222.html this strip], where she initially seems to be getting some comeuppance, but in the [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091229.html next strip] she's making out with the waitress.
** She seems to have grown away from this lately. A storyline taking place after the [[Broken Base|Base Breaking]] internet-troll storyline had some [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20101207.html mischief of hers] being met with a [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110113.html that she genuinely hates,] and she's currently suffering the [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110319.html repercussions] of the above-noted seduction of Sonya.
* [[The Ladette]]
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* [[Multicolored Hair]]
* [[Only Known
* [[Pet the Dog]]: [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081106.html Genuine concern over a crying Gary], though she seems [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081108.html rather uncomfortable with him hugging her].
* [[The Pornomancer]]: Sex just seems to happen to her.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: She has been around and then some.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Gets a few with Gary.
* [[Sleep Cute]]:
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]:
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: when going on a date with DiDi.
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=== Desirée "DiDi" Chastel ===
[[File:ma3cast didi 9720.png|frame]]
A girl with a strong [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|French accent]] who is best described with the term... well, let's just say that her name [[Hello, Nurse!|fits her very well.]] She works as a waitress at a restaurant and is quite skilled at cooking.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: [[Hello, Nurse!|DiDi]] is such a good girl that her <small>tiny [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|bad angel]]</small> [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100211.html hasn't seen her since the 3rd grade.] Her good angel, however, is [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100213.html much bigger than the bad one and DiDi herself, combined or otherwise.]
* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: She belongs to type 5 (ignorance), as she often doesn't seem to notice the effect she has on people
* [[Blessed
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: She's so strong, that it was originally suspected that she might be a drag queen.
* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Didi has been hanging out with Zii for way too long. (Admittedly, given her previously stated love of cross-dressing guys and horror movies, it may not have taken much.)
** Her desperate need to get an orgasm has also been encouraging more and more [[Jerkass]] behavior from her.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]:
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Played with. Didi genuinely does not want to hurt anyone, but she does occasionally do stupid things like double-booking dates and accidentally dumping people.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Gay men, straight women and even animals.
* [[Flat Character]]: Subverted. Her point of view is shown only rarely in the comic, and she is generally treated as somewhat other, but she clearly has way more going on for her than just window
* [[Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies]]: Well, yes, but Didi has a distinct passion for them. {{spoiler|Which means [[Marshmallow Hell|Marshmallow Heaven]] for anyone watching with her.}}
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Her bad angel is minuscule, her good angel is gigantic. Cue [[Beauty Equals Goodness]].
* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Her sweet and wholesome personality can make one almost forget that she has a list of ex-boyfriends and casual sexual encounters so long that she can't keep their names straight.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Despite the series being set in the largest city of French Canada, she seems to be the only character so far who's an actual Francophone.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: May be based on Jayne Mansfield in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylzPrS3WpE The Girl Can't Help It]''.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: She does it accidentally.
* [[The Ingenue]]
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]
* [[Only Known
* [[Really Gets Around]]: She had so many boyfriends that she can't remember their names.
* [[Right Through the Wall]]
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* [[Supreme Chef]]
* [[Team Mom]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: She gets this from Zii when {{spoiler|she tries to scare off Kiley to get a chance at Gary and for forgetting about Matt}}
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== Supporting Cast ==
=== Dillon O'Brien ===
[[File:ma3cast dillon 9197.png|frame]]
Gary's former {{spoiler|and now again/and no longer again}} roommate. Despite being gay, he doesn't mind doing some erotic things with women. Has a crush on Gary.
* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]
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* [[The Pornomancer]]: Has the same knack for seducing straight men that Zii has for seducing straight women. His tally so far is 7.
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=== Yuki Oyama ===
[[File:ma3cast yuki 2437.png|frame]]
Zii's ex-girlfriend, and later [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Has a complex about [[Naughty Tentacles|phallic tentacles]], and, thanks to this, [[Does Not Like Men]], even though Zii insists she's attracted to them on some level. Yuki is a wannabe manga writer who is using {{spoiler|a mixture of blackmail and [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!|Gary's crush on her]]}} to get an artist for her work.
* [[Berserk Button]]: <s>Male nudity</s> [[Insistent Terminology|TENTACLES]].
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Yuki had two regarding {{spoiler|"Garii"}}. (May 13 & October 30, 2010, NSFW.)
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Due to
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: The reason of her issues about men is her exposure as a little kid to her father's work, who was a famous hentai artist (dubbed "The Tentacle King")
** She doesn't even seem to be aware of it. When Gary covered up a naked man's crotch with his hands to stop Yuki from [[Groin Attack
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|Hilariously Neglectful Childhood]]
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090512.html She does it with Gary].
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Particularly when she's upset. She's getting better at [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20101127.html recognizing when she's being unreasonable.]
* [[If
* [[Love Epiphany]]: She seems to have had one for {{spoiler|Gary}}
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: to Zii, although she is a rather tame example more like a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|clingy jealous ex-girlfriend]].
* [[Attack Its Weak Point|Suck/Nibble Her Weak Point]]: Yuki has Zii down pat and knows just the right buttons to push to turn Zii into putty. Such as her, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111208185804/http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/happy_fun_spot! "top secret super fantastic cream your panties happy fun spot."] And [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/polish_your_pearl a light nibble of her earlobe] was all it took to quell Zii's wrath and get her to "polish" Yuki's "pearl".
* [[Tsundere]]: [[Genki Girl|She]] has [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090922.html some] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100304.html tendencies] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100501.html of] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110407.html this]. She's starting to look like a bit of a deconstruction
** That last link could count as a [[Heel Realization]].
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
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=== Kiley Shefford ===
[[File:ma3cast kiley 4773.png|frame]]
Yuki's would-be therapist. Initially introduced in a [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090926.html one-off gag,] she grew into a larger part by offering to [[Hollywood Psych|"Fix Yuki's Brain"]] so she could pursue Gary more effectively. In trying to coach Yuki through her dates with Gary, it seems {{spoiler|that she may have fallen for him herself}}...
* [[A
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kiley started out as a throw-away background joke.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Initially introduced in a one-panel gag, she was brought back as Yuki's "Therapist" and through a bizarre series of events {{spoiler|ends up being the one to take Gary's virginity.}}
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* [[Playing Cyrano]]: Coaches Yuki through several dates with Gary... {{spoiler|and [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] when she ends up falling for Gary... and takes his virginity.}}
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=== Matt ===
[[File:ma3cast matt 5550.png|frame]]
Gary's other former roommate and Dillon's boyfriend {{spoiler|until Dillon caught him with a woman}}, is an underwear model and {{spoiler|a bisexual guy full of fetishes}}.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: ''Anything''.
* [[Bi the Way]]
* [[Gag Penis]]: If Senna's comments (in Portuguese) are to be believed.
* [[Jerkass]]: Honorable mention goes to Matt & Dillon, who in the opening strips completely shake up Gary's life (getting caught "out" by having sex in the living room, destroying Gary's work table having sex on top of it, and not telling him they were moving out until the last possible second), then leave "just in case some of the strangers they invited over are axe murderers".
** And yet Matt outstrips Dillon handily -- {{spoiler|seducing Dillon while on a date with Sandra, then when the whole night goes to hell for pretty much the entire cast, winds up as the middle of a sandwich, with two of Dillon's cast-mates (one female, one male) as the bread.}} And he ''admits'' it.
* [[Jerk
* [[Karma Houdini]]: After cheating on his girlfriend with his ex boyfriend (who is ex- because of him cheating with the aforementioned girlfriend), and having it all blow up in his face, he still manages to get himself in a threesome.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: He is a underwear model after all.
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* [[Your Cheating Heart]]
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=== Sandra ===
[[File:ma3cast sandra 2986.png|frame]]
DiDi's coworker at a Hooters-like restaurant. Used to {{spoiler|date Matt}}, but not entirely unattracted to {{spoiler|1=DiDi, who has a crush on her}}.
* [[
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: She carries a bottle of vodka in her purse for this purpose.
** This leads into her becoming a [[Drunken Master]] as she gears up to fight Dillon in Backstage Pass.
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: Libational Libido. When drunk, she has more confidence.
* [[Head
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: She has a tendency to play this role at work.
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=== Junghan ===
[[File:ma3cast junghan 7969.png|frame]]
Gary's friend. He works in a comic book store and agrees to hire Zii when she needs a job to keep from being evicted.
* [[Asexual]]: Subverted. This is our best guess, but the cast page gives his orientation as "unknown". Furthermore, whenever we get a [[Fan Service|delicious shot]] of [[Les Yay|something]] [[Ms. Fanservice|or other]], he's [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090307.html doing something else], doesn't appear on-sheet, or has [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090305.html his face turned from the audience].
** Jung has appeared immune to
** When Yuki went on her rampage, attacking every man she encountered, she completely ignored Jung's presence.
*** That may have been because he was behind the counter and out of range.
** [[Married to
** [[Covert Pervert]]: Then ''again'', we get [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090324.html shots like these]. [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090326.html No, really]. ''He'' even designed that ''personally''. Though needless to say, a man can be a pervert in some areas but still be totally uninterested in sex.
* [[Big Eater]]: Early on, he mentions he can't move out of his mom's basement because the food bills alone would bankrupt him. In his appearances since, he tends to be consuming some form of snack food.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Jung is [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/ultimate_crossover remarkably calm] as Yuki [[Unstoppable Rage|runs amok]].
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: It'd be a shock if he ''wasn't'' one.
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Subverted; he originally wasn't even going to consider that Dillon's play would be any good, but when he ends up really enjoying it, he writes an extremely positive review, making the play a success.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Closest to it as anyone in this series can ever get. Justified since he's...
** [[The Stoic]]: The most we've ever gotten are smirks, which appear to be his substitute for chuckling (first link implies as much).
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=== Sonya ===
[[File:ma3cast sonya 1869.png|frame]]
A ditzy waitress that Zii seduced one day, which led to a threesome with Sonya's boyfriend, which led to Sonya having a lot of lesbian sex. Likes Gary. Lusts madly after Zii. Yuki is... jealous of her.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Sonya... jet black hair, stunning figure, and dumb as a bag of hammers. Bordering on [[The Ditz]]. She doesn't even seem to be aware that technically she's cheating on her boyfriend with Zii.
* [[The Determinator]]: Sonya takes seduction very, '''''very''''' seriously.
* [[Have I Mentioned That I Am Heterosexual Today]]?: Until very recently, this was a big part of her character. [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110305.html Got better.]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Perhaps even more than Didi; though she isn't one of the foreground characters, she's far more aware of her own attractiveness than Didi and plays it up. A lot.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Sonya's not fooling anybody.
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'''Sonya:''' (to Allie) "What? I'm... I'm really not lesbian."<ref>[[Exact Words|Strictly speaking,]] [[Bi the Way|this is true.]]</ref> }}
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=== Amber Larose (Formerly [[Bleached Underpants|Amber-Amber]]) ===
[[File:ma3cast amber 9761.png|frame]]
A former Porn Star trying to go legit. She befriends Dillon when they start working under the same lecherous Producer, and through a bit of scheming (and some time on the [[Casting Couch]]), she manages to snag an apartment with Dillon in tote. She is doing her best to [[Old Shame|avoid Zii]], and she seems to think of Dillon as her [[Pet Homosexual]]. She is both a legitimately nice person and a ''massive'' opportunist.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified in-universe.]] She is trying to become a real actress (a la Traci Lords), though she and Dillon had the misfortune of working under [[Jerkass]] Producer Nathan. Fortunately, (with a little help from [[Attractive Bent Gender|Dillon]]), she is able to turn the tables on him and nab both a favorable contract and a free apartment out of the deal.
* [[Expy]]: Of Traci Lords, in both looks and her desired career path.
* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"|I Call Her "Rosebud"]]: In her quest to get [[Camp Gay|Dillon]] to use his "Swirly-Go-Round" oral technique on her again, Amber reveals that she's indeed named her vagina (and terrifies poor Dillon in the process).
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: After tricking Gary into an... intimate [[Practice Kiss|practice kiss,]] her [[Incredibly Lame Pun|rather epic climax]] alerts Gary's [[Fridge Logic]] detector.
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** The result? [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/can_i_have_your She breaks him.]
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=== Senna
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Transitioning didn't exactly kill her sex drive.
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* [[Rich Bitch]]: A mild case. She's initially dismissive towards Sandra's panicky behavior and lack of a place to stay, but gives her a job as a personal assistant to make up for it.
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=== Erik ===
[[File:ma3cast erik 7347.png|frame]]
One of DiDi's boyfriends. He's nice and all, but she doesn't seem entirely satisfied with him. {{spoiler|His role has become much bigger now that he is dating, and apparently fallen in love with, Zii.}}
* [[Early
* [[Genre Savvy]]: compared to everyone else's odd views on how to get a relationship to work.
* [[Long
* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: To his sister, ''Erika''. Even down to the sunglasses.
* [[Sunglasses
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== Ancillary Characters ==
=== Lita ===
[[File:ma3cast lita 8628.png|frame]]
Zii's pet cat.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Zii says her cat, Lita, hates everyone. However, the cat seems to take an immediate liking to Gary, and she even sleeps in his arms. Zii even said that Lita pretty much belongs to Gary now.
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* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: "Myaoi"?
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=== Jordan
* [[Bi the Way]]: Jordan is mostly gay, but it doesn't seem like he'd turn down a night with an attractive woman.
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Averted. After the whole theater incident, Jordan wound up in bed with both Matt and the actress who played [[Harley Quinn]] in the play.
* [[Jerk
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=== Eulice Deville ===
[[File:ma3cast eulice 1935.png|frame]]
Gary's landlady. Has an inhuman sense for deadbeats and an unspecified but close (and emotionally abusive) relationship with Rob, the [[Hikikomori|building shut-in.]]
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: If you believe when she says that [[Hello, Nurse!|DiDi]] looks like a young version of herself.
* [[Cranky Landlord|Cranky Landlady]]
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=== Rob ===
[[File:ma3cast rob 3188.png|frame]]
The agoraphobic neighbor who lives above Gary's apartment. It's uncertain whether he knows that it's not the Eighties any more.
* [[Hikikomori]]
* [[Man Child]]
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