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Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell)
- Badass
- Butt Monkey
- Chronic Hero Syndrome
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Hollywood Nerd
- Honor Before Reason
- The Nth Doctor
- Team Dad: After Arturo dies late Season 3 and for Season 4. Lampshaded in "Slither," where Quinn laments that without Arturo, "It's all on me, and I'm flying blind."
- Teen Genius
- Two First Names
Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd)
- Alliterative Name
- Back for the Dead
- Devoted to You: EVERY male character in EVERY dimension falls in love with her, for a reason beyond this troper's psychological abilities.
- Distressed Damsel
- Dropped A Bridge On Her
- The Heart
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Gender Blender Name
- Hollywood Nerd
- Honor Before Reason
- Spell My Name with an "S": "Welles" or "Wells."
- Word of God admitted to inconsistency within scripts, making it Depending on the Writer.
- Techno Wizard
Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks)
- As the Good Book Says...
- Badass: Seasons 4 and 5.
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Black Best Friend
- Break the Cutie: He spent months in a Kromagg prison.
- Butt Monkey
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- Deadpan Snarker
- Dirty Coward: Season 1.
- The Everyman
- The Heart
- Hidden Depths
- Manchurian Agent: In Season 4.
- Manly Tears: His nickname is "Crying Man," after all.
- Only Sane Man
- Ted Baxter: He has a lot of these moments in the first two seasons.
- Team Dad: In Season 5.
- Took a Level In Badass: At the start of the series, he was easily spooked by dangers on parallel worlds. By Season 4, he gladly fights Kromaggs hand-to-hand and mocks them to their faces.
Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies)
- Agent Scully
- Badass Grandpa
- Came Back Wrong: In a way, as it is implied (and stated to be Word of God), that an Arturo double slid in one episode, leaving the original stranded.
- Catch Phrase: The number of times he called someone a "blistering idiot" and yelled "incoming" at the end of a slide borders on this.
- Cool Old Guy
- Deadpan Snarker
- Disappeared Dad: According to "Into the Mystic," he's actually this to someone back home.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him
- Heroic Sacrifice
- I Just Want to Be Special: Season 2 introduced the idea that he resented Quinn for inventing sliding by accident.
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- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: But virtually every single double encountered was a Jerkass.
- Mister Exposition
- Parental Substitute: To Quinn.
- The Professor
- Secretly Dying: Introduced in "The Guardian," where Quinn finds out and is sworn to secrecy. Rembrandt would find out in "Last of Eden."
- The Smart Guy
- Taking the Bullet
- Team Dad: Seasons 1-3.
- Technical Pacifist
- Ted Baxter
Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer)
- Action Girl
- Cute Bruiser
- Daddy Issues: Highlighted in "The Return of Maggie Beckett."
- Deadpan Snarker
- Dead Guy, Junior
- Defrosting Ice Queen
- Distressed Damsel
- The Heart: In Season 5.
- Hidden Depths
- Hot Amazon
- Jerkass, later Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Ms. Fanservice
- Same Character but Different: Her personality was retooled between Seasons 3 and 4. Lampshaded in the Season 4 premiere with a character with a personality of the Season 3 Maggie.
- The Snark Knight
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted at first, as she was nothing like Arturo. Her Season 4 onward depiction does bear some similarity to Wade's, though.
- Team Mom: In Season 4-5.
- Waif Fu
Colin Mallory (Charlie O'Connell)
- Dropped a Bridge on Him
- Gadgeteer Genius: He built his own hang glider for one.
- Hollywood Nerd
- Put on a Bus to Hell
- Smarter Than You Look: Colin is rather naive, but only because he came from a less advanced world. He is nonetheless quite intelligent, adapting rather well to modern technology and figuring things out for himself.
Quinn "Mallory" Mallory (Robert Floyd)
- Book Dumb
- Last-Name Basis: Mainly because Maggie was incapable of calling him "Quinn," and then everybody picked it up.
- Loveable Rogue
- The Nth Doctor
Diana Davis (Tembi Locke)
- Alliterative Name
- Black and Nerdy
- Break the Cutie: Back-to-back episodes "Applied Physics" and "Strangers and Comrades."
- Heel Face Turn: In the episode where she's introduced.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute