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* [[Benevolent Boss]]
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Happily Married]]: More or less, for awhile. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102151735/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/01/24/fire-away/ Not quite so anymore.]
** Sadly, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102195303/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/01/10/breaking-up-is-hard-to-prove/ he is now divorced,] and went through a particularly bad [[Heroic BSOD]] at the time.
* [[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.
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* [[Proud to Be a Geek]]
* [[Straight Man]]: Cole is the only one who consistently insists on actually working on the magazine.
* [[Team Dad]]: Takes on this role for the ''[[PvP]]'' staff. Eventually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102130722/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/04/29/honored-her-offer/ this towards Jade], which Brent finds creepy.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Cole is based on a friend of Scott's.
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* [[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.
** Played [[Tear Jerker|a bit sadder]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102195308/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/10/10/missed/ here.]
* [[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.
*** Curiously, the gag was actually dropped [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102132955/http://www.pvponline.com/2000/10/26/thu-oct-26/ on one separate occasion], [[Cross Dressing|as part of a different joke]]. Every other time, it was played straight, to truly ridiculous levels, such as one time he was in a full-body cast. Jade says he ''never'' takes off the glasses. ''Never.''
*** 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]].
** Another [[Running Gag]] that's been dropped has been his constant suffering at the hands of the Office Panda, which started when he tried to replace Skull with the Panda. As of 2010, their feud has stopped and they're even friends—of a sort.
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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.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131231153247/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/05/04/the-vows
* [[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.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Moreso than even the other characters. Compare her in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102150103/http://www.pvponline.com/1998/05/05/tue-may-05/ 1998] and her in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102181802/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/08/31/this-means-warts/ 2010].
* [[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.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Much of the cast suspects Max Powers is gay. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102163801/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/11/21/old-wounds/ He's hinted as much], but [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102151709/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/12/03/good-night/ won't give a straight answer] (as it were). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102151826/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/05/27/setec-astronomy/ Lately, he seems to be dating someone]... [[Gender Blender Name|named Chris]].
** And afterward, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102181824/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/07/11/random-encounters/ Jade ran into him at the market, where she saw him holding hands with a unknown guy]...
*** And now, it's confirmed: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102142411/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/07/13/the-secret-of-him/ Max is gay.]
* [[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.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Subverted with Max Powers. The audience is initially warned that he's one, but upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that Max is actually a pretty decent guy (if a bit of a dork).
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