PvP (webcomic)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Benevolent Boss]]

* [[Da Chief]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Brent. Cole even consistently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it.

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: ''Intentionally'' [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] regarding his conflict with Max Powers, where Cole takes their "rivalry" completely out of perspective.

* [[Proud to Be a Geek]]

* [[Straight Man]]: Cole is the only one who consistently insists on actually working on the magazine.

* [[Write Who You Know]]: Cole is based on a friend of Scott's.

 

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]

* [[Proud to Be a Geek|Proud To Be An Apple Geek]]: Is so obsessed with Apple products that when he was banned from all Apple stores for {{spoiler|cutting the line of an iPhone line, thereby starting a fist fight}}, not only did ''he'' almost go into a coma, [[Number One Fan|but he affected the sales of Apple so much]] that they ''lifted'' his ban.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** For a long time, the fact that Brent never took his sun glasses off and no one in the cast had seen his eyes was one. Ever since [[The Reveal]] happened ({{spoiler|when he married Jade}}), this is no longer as much an issue.

*** Since [[The Reveal]], it has been made clear that Brent wears his sunglasses so often that [[Fridge Brilliance|his eyes can't handle the sun]].

* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: For Francis.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Less enthusiastic about it then Jade, but he ''does'' help get Francis and Marcy back together and also takes part in the attempt to hook up Miranda and Reggie.

Jade Evelyn Fontaine{{spoiler|-Sienna}} is, along with Cole, the most responsible member of the ''[[PvP]]'' staff and most likely to get work done. However, her work ethic strains against her own impulses for mischief and addiction to online gaming. Nonetheless, Jade is something of a [[Team Mom|maternal, governing figure for the group]], who is at least as likely to try and be responsible as she is to goof off. For a long time, she was also the [[Token Female]], before Marcy and later her sister Miranda were hired.

 

 

* [[Addiction Displacement]]: A recurring problem for Jade, who goes from being addicted to ''[[Ultima Online]]'' to ''[[EverQuest]]'' to ''[[Dark Age of Camelot]]'' to ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', much to Brent's frustration. Also was addicted to email for awhile, though this seems to have been dropped.

* [[Author Avatar]] / [[Write Who You Know]]: According to Scott, Jade is partially modeled after his wife. According to Angela (Scott's wife), Jade's more similar to ''him''. Take your pick.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Not really. But the rest of the cast acts as if {{spoiler|her single night in juvenile hall and teenage antics}} are a traumatic backstory, though in sort of an [[Evil Is Cool]] sort of way.

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]

* [[Child Prodigy]]: Although too lazy to do anything with it, Francis has been established many times to be something of a technical genius. [[Justified Trope|Which is why]] ''PvP'' [[Justified Trope|hired him in the first place]].

* [[Important Haircut]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. While Francis does change his hairstyle significantly at one point due to Miranda calling it "cute," it turns out to be completely unimportant character-wise. It stays that way, though.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Less so than Brent, but he's shown genuine compassion and concern for others a lot more frequently as of late.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: Almost literally. Max becomes more and more likeable as the comic goes on, he literally gains a beard, becomes able to see Skull (he was the only one at the office not able to see him), saved the magazine... And moved the entire cast to Seattle.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Max {{spoiler|broke into Cole's office to search for bank statements}} because {{spoiler|Cole was ignoring Max's concerns about the magazine's finances even though Cole ''knew'' they were pretty much screwed.}}

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: In the beginning. It's even repeatedly lampshaded by the comic that Max isn't ''bad''; Cole and Brent just hate him.

** Prior to his Great American Journey sanding off the obnoxious edges of his personality, he was routinely treated as one, even though he didn't really deserve it. Cole hated him with a passion; none of the others felt quite so strongly, but they found his dorkiness so incredibly grating that it overshadowed his numerous redeeming qualities.

 

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