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* [[Proud to Be a Geek]] - The whole cast, with the exception of Jade. Even she might just be a different style of geek..
** Brent, actually is an aversion, and while he admits to "interests that coincide with nerdity" he denies being an actual nerd, which Francis (a straight example of this trope) calls him out on it. He's an avowed Apple geek who will buy ''any'' product they make, a D&D player, a gamer, he plays ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' with his wife (who's in many ways geekier than him), quotes movies constantly, has declared [[Joss Whedon]] his master, almost dropped out of college because he was hooked on Sega games, and consistently gets into arguments about genre fiction or gaming with Francis and Cole. [[Blatant Lies|But he's not a nerd. Definitely not a nerd.]]
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]] - Particularly obvious with the treatment of Max Powers. He is, by all appearances, a friendly guy who's happy to help, whose worst crimes are being successful and pulling bad jokes [https://web.archive.org/web/20140723024710/http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/10/because_i_keep.html no worse than the protagonists would pull]. Yet every time he stopped by the PvP office he was received like he was some sort of colossal dick dead set on destroying everything the staff held dear, for no discernible reason. This was confronted and deconstructed during the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130324053605/http://www.pvponline.com/2008/11/19/excuses-excuses/ Thanksgiving 2008 arc].
** The trope is now moot, as Max is now [https://web.archive.org/web/20110915110526/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/04/06/now-hire-zing/ an accepted member of the staff.]
* [[Running Gag]]: Several;
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