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* [[Badass Beard]]
* [[Badass Boast]]: Before he was even officially ''cast'', here's what he had to say to Mark Burnett, Jeff Probst, and Les Moonves:
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** Of course, on the very first day of Borneo, he said this:
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** Again, in Episode 9, referring to to the last Tribal Council where Sean referred to Richard's fishing as the reason he hasn't been voted out yet:
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* [[Badass Gay]]
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Throwing the final challenge. He correctly assumed that Kelly would win and vote out Rudy, ensuring that ''he'' didn't have to vote out Rudy. Although they were extremely loyal allies throughout the whole game, Richard believed that he couldn't win against Rudy, so if he had won, he would have voted him vote over Kelly. This raises the possibility of Rudy feeling betrayed by Rich and voting for Kelly, so by throwing the challenge, Richard gets to throw the dirt onto Kelly. He also knew that Kelly felt the same way about Rudy (that she couldn't win against him, but could possibly win against Richard). He also waited long enough to get the temptation (food, in this case oranges) from the host.
* [[Big Bad]]/[[Anti-Hero]]: To the Tagi alliance.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
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* [[Hero-Killer]]: Getting rid of Gretchen.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: He had a tough childhood and was discriminated against in his lifetime for being gay.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: He's 6'4, and over 200 lbs. Before the show, he was even bigger (at one point he mentions how he dropped one hundred pounds just to get in shape enough to pass the physical).
* [[Large Ham]]: His obnoxious, over the top rendition of ''99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall'' during the final six Immunity Challenge would qualify him for this. Not to mention his weird little [[Happy Dance]] that he does when he wins immunity during the Episode 10 challenge.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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* [[Name's the Same]]: With the [[Battlestar Galactica]] actor.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship|Intergenerational]] [[Odd Friendship]]: With Rudy.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]:
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. While Richard is the first person to admit that he's an arrogant bastard, in this case he really ''is'' the smartest guy in the room(...er, on the island).
* [[Smug Snake]]: Early on. But by episode four, he shows that he knows what he's talking about when he forms [[Survivor (TV series)|Survivors]] first successful alliance.
* [[Sole Survivor]]: The [[Ur Example]].
* [[
* [[The Strategist]]: The prototypical version of this trope in the context of Survivor. More than a few players tried to pattern themselves after him in subsequent seasons.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Her impressive streak of immunity challenge wins is the reason she made it to the final, as the Tagi alliance was gunning for her from the moment she defected.
* [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]]: She was a whitewater rafting guide so you'd think she'd have an easy time beating Gervase, who had no experience with boats whatsoever, in a challenge that involved operating a canoe. Instead, he beats her easily. Sue makes sure to turn this into a [[Take That]] at Final Jury.
* [[Deal
* [[Foe Yay]]: With Sue after she left the alliance.
* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Kelly eventually finds Richard's alliance to be taking the competitiveness and fun out of the game, and decides after Gervase's boot to start going solo. She also yearns to hang out and be with the members of Pagong, people her own age, rather than be on Tagi where everybody is older than her.
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swears A Lot]]: From time to time.
* [[No Damage Run]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]
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* [[Shout-Out]]: After leaving Richard's alliance out of guilt([[Alternate Character Interpretation|or out of strategy to make herself look better in front the jury]]), she said she felt that not voting her conscience made her feel like [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] being tempted by Darth Vader(Richard).
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: To the Tagi alliance.
* [[Spanner in
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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'''Rudy Boesch'''
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: Would frequently make remarks about what he and his "buddies" would do to anyone that broke ranks from the Tagis. Exactly how many of them were supposed to be taken seriously is a [[Riddle for
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Grandpa]]
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* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In a bonus scene from the "Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments" DVD, he mentions that he won't eat a rat until he's truly starving, "And then I might eat my buddy", with Richard standing right next to him.
* [[Jerk
* [[Intergenerational Friendship|Intergenerational]] [[Odd Friendship]]: With Richard
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* [[Old Soldier]]
* [[Team Chef]]: The cooking area even had a homemade plaque reading "Rowdy Rudy's Diner".
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* [[Ladette]]: Greg outright calls her "A Boy Named Sue" at one point.
* [[Lady Macbeth]]: To Richard.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: In the companion book, she refers to her male tribe-mates as (Sean) "[[Bunny Ears Lawyer|a neurotic doctor]]", (Dirk) "[[The Fundamentalist|a confused virgin]]", (Richard) "a [[
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Sue claims that this was part of her strategy. Odds are she's decidedly smarter than she initially let on (right up until she snapped at Colleen at a Tribal Council for complaining about the alliance and likened it to corporate lobbyists), but perhaps not as smart as she thought she was.
* [[Only Known
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] and [[Take That]]: Her "Rats and Snakes" speech.
* [[The Dragon]] or [[The Starscream]]: Depending on what point of the season it is she's either the most ardent supporter of Richard's alliance or planning to backstab him with Kelly.
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'''Sean Kenniff'''
* [[Awesome McCoolname]] / [[Trope
* [[Being Good Sucks]]: He made the choice to vote alphabetically only because he was trying to find a way to vote that wasn't based on emotional decisions, and thus not upset the person he was voting for.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: While it's viewed as ridiculous and stupid now, his Alphabet Strategy actually had some merit to it - everyone from the other tribe had names that started with letters at the start of the alphabet (''C''olleen, ''G''ervase, ''G''reg, ''G''retchen, ''J''enna) as opposed to his own tribe (''K''elly, ''R''ichard, ''R''udy, ''S''ue), so it was a way to get rid of the other tribe members without forming an alliance, which was seen at the time as underhanded.
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Richard
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[The Slacker]]: Briefly with Dirk. He gets better, shortly before Dirk is voted off.
* [[The Smart Guy]]
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Of the Tagi Alliance.
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* [[Power Hair]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Romance
* [[Shorttank]]
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: When he hosted an impromptu island version of [[The Dating Game]] with the rest of his Pagong tribe, but the introduction of Greg's coconut phone in Episode 4 is when we ''really'' got to see an extensive look into his personality (or as much as the producers would allow us to see).
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: Had he not won immunity at the merge, the Tagis ''were'' going to vote him off. Mario Lanza has [https://web.archive.org/web/20120509113514/http://mario-stuff.110mb.com/essay/exp9.html speculated] just how much would be different about ''Survivor'' if Greg had missed the jury instead of Gretchen.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Greg has avoided all publicity he ever gained from the show, even refusing to do any exit interviews (when he was voted off, Ramona stood in for him on the [[CBS]] ''Early Show'').
* [[Insufferable Genius]]
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]: Perhaps not mean as much as supposedly incredibly difficult to deal with and edit around. Apparently he drove Jeff Probst and the production crew nuts.
* [[Romance
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Several, but his "pick a number" request is perhaps the most well known.
* [[Troll]]: If Mark Burnett's descriptions of his antics are anything to go by, he certainly qualifies as this.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[
* [[The Stinger]]: During the montage where the women of Pagong proclaim that Joel is a chauvinist, Joel adamantly denies that he is one and says that he thinks that women are equal to men. But at the very end, Joel makes a weird little fluttering movement with his eyes that suggests that maybe he really is one.
* [[Straw Misogynist]]: Maybe. See [[The Stinger]] above.
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'''Dirk Been'''
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Subverted, at least in the modern way we think of the word "virgin". A big to-do is made by his tribe of the fact that he's twenty-three and has never had sex.
* [[Lazy Bum]]: In the last episode or two that he was in.
* [[Precocious Crush]]: With Kelly. It's actually a little cute once you realize that it geniunely ''is'' just precocious and not sexual in nature.
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'''Ramona Grey'''
* [[Black Best Friend]]: To Jenna. Ramona's boot episode was centered heavily on the dilemma Jenna has on voting her out in spite of being her best friend on Pagong.
* [[The Fundamentalist]]
* [[
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Ill Girl]]: On the paddle ride to camp, she accidentally swallowed a lot of sea water, causing her to be ill. She only got better a few days before getting voted off.
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* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Technically, ''she'' was the first person to start an alliance on Survivor. It was just a failed one, and it only failed allegedly due to [[Executive Meddling]].
* [[Executive Meddling]]: She sued the producers of the show for encouraging Dirk and Sean to vote her out instead of Rudy. The case was eventually settled outside of court, and to this day the accusation raises eyebrows about how ''real'' the show really is.
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[When She Smiles]]
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* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Unlike Rudy, B.B refused to alter his aggressive Type A personality in order to work with his tribe. Gervase even references this very trope just before Pagong heads to Tribal Council by saying that B.B dug his own grave.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: B.B was the oldest member of the youth dominated Pagong tribe, and his age combined with his abrasive personality didn't let him fit in. Or as best summed up by Greg:
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* [[Grumpy Old Man]]
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With Gretchen. Had good things to say about Jenna and Greg, though he didn't take the time to know Jenna's name and mistakenly thought Greg was named "Craig".
* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: What most of his tribe thought of him.
* [[Stupid Boss]]: Gretchen repeatedely told him that the Pagong shelter should be moved back farther from the ocean, but he didn't listen until the said shelter was almost flooded.
* [[Suicide
* [[Workaholic]]: This trope certainly applies to B.B in one respect, as he was a workaholic, but he doesn't totally fit into the trope on account of him being a millionaire in real life.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Parodied in the Mad Magazine article about the show, BB was thought of as too bossy to be kept around after he was done building the shelter.
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