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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: He's not a fan of Karen's decision to exploit their mother's memory to help her win Search for a Sexxbomb, but he cheers for her at her final performance, {{spoiler|comforts her when she loses}} and {{spoiler|when Cook laughs about how he and J.J. voted against her for stealing their shed, Freddie nearly punches his lights out.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Cook.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Well, dead mom.

* [[Power Trio]]: Usually the Super-ego (lampshaded by [[The Id|Cook]] when he calls him a "fun-sponge"), occasionally the Ego.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Seems to enjoy leaving his shirt at home even in the ''non''-sex scenes.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With J.J.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue oni to Katie's red oni, at least through most of Series 3. Less so after she starts to crawl out from Katie's shadow at the end of Season 3, though she's still more low-key and sensitive than her sister.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]

 

=== Naomi Campbell ===

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Cook, by Season 4. Let's not forget she got him in trouble in the generation opener when he tried to show her his dick tattoos.

** And oddly enough, Effy as well, though the moments are fleeting. Evidenced in JJ's Season 3 episode, when they discuss Naomi's sexuality and Effy's love for Freddie, and Effy's Season 4 episode, when Naomi goes to visit Effy {{spoiler|in the psychiatric hospital following her suicide attempt}} to discuss Naomi's {{spoiler|failing}} relationship with Emily.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]

* [[Stepford Snarker]]: "I learned how to become a sarcastic bitch just to make it feel normal."

* [[Tsundere]]: See above.

* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Has sex with {{spoiler|Freddie}}.

* [[Really Gets Around]]

=== James Cook, Sr ===

{{quote|Played by: Matt King}}

* [[Bumbling Dad]]

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: "If they're not still virgins tomorrow, I'll hunt you down like dogs."

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Series 4. {{spoiler|Manages to seem optimistic about how his fitness machine will "take off" even as he's hiding foreclosure notices from his wife and kids.}}

 

=== James Fitch ===

 

== Supporting Cast ==

=== Johnny White ===

{{quote|Played by: Mackenzie Crook}}

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== Third Generation ==

== The Kids ==

=== Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald ===

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]

* [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Lesbian]]: She is referred to as a lesbian by some character early in the season, but {{spoiler|Grace, Mini, and Liv eventually question her about her sexuality, and she's says she's "into people" (which would one would probably call "pansexual").}}

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: In her first episode after her makeover.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: She has a very butch/androgynous way of dressing.

* {{spoiler|[[Bi the Way]]: While she doesn't identify as bisexual she is attracted to people regardless of gender, specifically stating that she's "into people."}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: Implied specifically by {{spoiler|her [[Freak-Out]]}} in the finale.

* [[Cool Loser]]

* [[The Dandy]]: Has the appearance of one but lacks the obvious vanity and she apparently makes some of her own clothes.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[Eating Lunch Alone]]

* {{spoiler|[[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: In the novel she cuts her hair short like in the series}}

* [[Freaky Is Cool]]

* [[Friendship Moment]]: "You got a lighter?"

* [[Has Two Mommies|Has Two Daddies]]

* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]

* [[The Heart]]

* [[Hidden Depths]]: She's a skilled animator, DJ, photographer and [[Chekhov's Skill|tailor]].

** And as of season 6, fluent in French.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Lampshaded almost word-for-word after {{spoiler|her [[Freak-Out]] and subsequent near-death}} in 5x08.

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]

* [[Kuudere]]

* [[Mr. Imagination|Ms Imagination]]

* [[No Social Skills]]: At first due to her being shy.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[The Rival]]: How Mini sees her, until they become friends.

* [[Suppressed Mammaries]]: Many were surprised to see that Dakota Blue Richards has actually got not inconsiderable breasts, when she's not dressed as Franky. {{spoiler|This is also supposedly the reason for Franky's [[Girliness Upgrade]] in Season 6; Dakota had had to bind her breasts to play the androgynous Franky, and it became too uncomfortable for her.}}

* [[Tomboy]]

* [[Tomboyish Name|Tomboyish Nickname]]

* {{spoiler|[[Trauma Conga Line]]: Happens in the novel, when we see the extent of the bullying at her previous school}}

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With {{spoiler|Mini and Nick}}.

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Tries to do this, only it doesn't go well.

* [[Canine Companion]]: [[Stock Animal Name|Rags]] the dog, it's pretty much his breaking point when his [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] threatens to take his dog away.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: He has this with Mini in his season 5 episode, as she comforts him after {{spoiler|his father ends up in the hospital}}.

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: The theme of his season 5 episode, combined with [[All Work vs. All Play]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Rich]]. {{spoiler|As of the Season 5 finale he and Nick appear to be heading this way.}}

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Well sortof.

* [[The Slacker]]

* [[Snap Back]]: He was pulled out of college in his season 5 episode and in the next episode he is seen performing in the [[School Play]] like nothing happened.

* [[The Stoner]]

* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]

* [[In Vino Veritas]]

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Grace.

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Grace even name-drops the trope.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: With {{spoiler|Grace}} after a very brief and awkward [[First Kiss]].

* [[Sensory Abuse]]: Temporarily loses his hearing after listening to the "heaviest" record ever made.

* [[Team Chef]]

* {{spoiler|[[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: To Grace while quoting [[Romeo and Juliet]] referencing [[Fourth Date Marriage]], She accepts while quoting [[The Tempest]].}}

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Possibly a deconstruction of the trope.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: She goes into a [[Narm|Narmy]] [[Large Ham]] mode during the rehearsal of the production of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]: The first type.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: By Franky, considering the bullying she put her through.

* [[Fallen Princess]]

* [[Fan Disservice]]: Any of her sex scenes with Nick, due to how downright-painful it looks for her.

* [[Forgets to Eat]]: She possibly has an eating disorder.

* {{spoiler|[[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]}}

* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Says this to {{spoiler|Matty}}, about {{spoiler|Franky}}.

* [[I Just Want to Be Beautiful]]

* [[Passive-Aggressive Kombat]]: Her speciality.

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Franky

* [[Pet the Dog]]: [[Odd Friendship|Her interactions with Alo in his episode.]]

* [[Power Trio]]: The ego.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

* {{spoiler|[[Tell Me About My Father]]: In the Novel}}

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The child.

* [[Informed Ability]]: All the stuff on her E4 profile picture about her being obsessed with dancing.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Has a [[Disappeared Dad]] and a distant mother who goes away on New Age retreats and leaves her in charge.

* [[Really Gets Around]]

* [[Ruptured Appendix]]: Liv spends her S6 episode thinking she has a lump on her uterus and is scared to have it medically looked at, {{spoiler|but she later finds out that [[You Imagined It|it was all in her head, and a psychological manifestation of her grief over Grace's death]]}}.

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The seductress.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: In Grace's Season 5 episode.

* [[Ballet|The Ballerina]]

* [[Beta Couple]]: With Rich.

** {{spoiler|It gets to a point where Mini considers her [[The Eeyore]].}}

* [[The Cutie]]

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]

* [[For Happiness]]

* [[Longing for Fictionland]]

* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]

* [[Team Mom]]

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The mother.

 

 

* [[Adorkable]]: Post-[[Character Development]].

* [[Always Someone Better]]: How he sees his brother.

* [[Analogy Backfire]]

{{quote|Nick: "Isn’t this wicked. The Bloods and Cripples together at last. You get me?"

* [[Broken Ace]]

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]

* [[How the Mighty Have Fallen]]

* [[In-Universe Catharsis]]: Smashing his father's kitchen with a golf club.

* [[I Want to Be a Real Man]]: [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Due to the influence of his father.]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Before the onset of [[Character Development]].

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[The Masochism Tango]]: With Mini, they first appear to be [[Birds of a Feather]] but it becomes painfully obvious that they don't work as a couple.

* [[Missing Mom]]

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Both he and Mini are shallow love interests to each other, at least initially.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]

=== Alex Henley ===

{{quote|Played by: Sam Jackson}}

* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]

* [[The Gambling Addict]]

* [[Mistaken for Subculture|Mistaken For Prostitute]]

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Literally, in the S6 finale.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Was announced as a new "main cast" character who would be introduced in Season 6.

 

== Family ==

=== Geoff Cumber and Jeff Woodburn ===

{{quote|Played by: John Sessions and Gareth Farr }}

* [[Good Parents]]: At least initially, they appear to be a rare case of caring parents on the show.

* [[Happily Married]]

=== Kevin Hardbeck ===

{{quote|Played by: Daniel Ryan}}

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Rich always refers to his dad by his first name (barring the end of the episode when Rich calls him "dad" as a [[Pet the Dog]] moment).

* [[Nice Guy]]

=== Shelley McGuinness ===

{{quote|Played by: Clare Grogan}}

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Her views on men boils down to this.

* [[Hot Mom]]: What she considers herself to be.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: In sharp contrast to her daughter {{spoiler|who is a virgin.}}

 

=== Maude Malone ===

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: To Liv, at times.

* [[Black and Nerdy]]

 

=== Bella Malone ===

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Liv, at times.

* [[Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal]]

* [[Break the Motivational Speaker]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: 'Man Up' and bizarrely 'Peace Out'

* [[Education Mama|Education Papa]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Never My Fault]]

* [[Porn Stache]]

* [[The Shrink]]: A life coach and motivational speaker but still counts as an unintentional type 1

* [[Tough Love]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Reveal to audience only.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Is based on [[David Cameron]], there's even a photo of him with David Cameron in one episode [[Take That|which he vomits his sandwich onto.]]

''British Counterpart: Sid Jenkins'' }}

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type I]].

* [[The Precious Precious Car]]: Steals his father's car only for it to blow up after being caught driving without a license, although it's actually [[The Alleged Car]] and it was precious for sentimental reason.

* [[The Stoner]]

''British Counterpart: Maxxie Oliver'' }}

 

* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: Tea isn't interested in a relationship; she just wants sex.

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Much to her dismay.

* [[The Cheerleader]]

* [[Gayngst]]

* [[Gender Flip]]