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* [[The Ace]]
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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards Natalie, which leads to the [[Pet the Dog]] moment below.
* [[Boring Invincible Hero|Boring Invincible Player]] / [[Showy Invincible Hero|Showy Invincible Player]]
* [[Boring but Practical]]: His gameplay this particular season. Even people who think he deserved it thinks this was one of the most boring seasons to watch because he had an entire [[Cult]] Worshipping him and nobody thought of removing him until it was too late.
* [[Born Lucky]]: Gets dealt the equivalent of the Five of a Kind in Survivor. Comes back ''knowing'' the game from the previous ''three times'' he's played it, gets put on a tribe full of players willing to pledge [[Undying Loyalty]], manages to have the producers conveniently forget the "Russell factor" when hiding idols despite filming it after ''Nicaragua''<ref>The clues were more vague and the idols were hid in less obvious locations. For some reason, Ralph manages to find the idol in plain sight, Kristina finds it in episode one, and Rob finds it in a [[Sarcasm Mode|very well hidden spot]] on a tree</ref> also has the luck to be put on one of the most imbalanced tribes ever<ref>The Ometepe consist of five people younger than 30; the Zapatera have only two.</ref> (Although to be fair, Russell could have been put on Ometepe too), combined with the challenges that he had to compete in being mostly puzzles, and it's easy to see how he won.
* [[Character Development]]: Just compare this Rob with the smarmy, overconfident [[Smug Snake]] from Marquesas.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: This interview quote in regards to Julie's speech sums it up best:
{{quote|"I didn’t like the way she ripped into Natalie. She said Natalie’s parents wouldn’t be proud of her, but at the same time, what kind of example are you setting for ''your'' daughter?"}}
* [[Flawless Victory]]: Much to the chagrin of some of the fanbase. About as close as you can get without having a [[No Damage Run]] or a unanimous jury.
* [[Four Is Death]]: Averted and Defied. He is originally from the ''fourth'' season and this is his ''[[My Greatest Second Chance|fourth time]]'' playing the game.
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Hot Dad]]: IS the father of two, after all!
* [[Magnetic Hero]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: "Boston Rob!" they cheered as he jumped off the chopper.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: When Natalie was being berated by the jury for her decisions, Rob quietly assured her that things were going to to be fine after the game was done.
* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: Votes out Matt for ''shaking hands'' with the other tribe. Apparently you can't be a good sport!
** He saw it as Matt trying to forge bonds with the other tribe in anticipation of a merge, but seeing as Matt is just ridiculously nice it was almost certainly an innocent gesture.
* [[Sole Survivor]]
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: While Phillip ended up taking more of the screentime, Rob got a pretty large amount for himself too.
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* [[Zen Survivor]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Ralph (the only juror whose vote wasn't for Rob).
* [[Older Sidekick]]
* [[Red Baron]]: "The Specialist."▼
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: As mentioned above, he had a rather poor jury performance.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Ended up taking the bulk of the screentime this time around.
* [[Kid Hero]]: The youngest person ever to compete on ''Survivor'', Spencer of ''Tocantins'' notwithstanding. (Both were 19 years old at the time of filming)
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* [[Tall Dark and Bishojo]]
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]]: With Ashley.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Attempted the Natalie White - perfected tactic of hiding behind the aggressive strategist and then win because the jury didn't want the one that cut their throats to win. It failed partly because she never made any big moves on her own (while ''Samoa'' Natalie worked the Galu ladies to off Erik), but also because she didn't appear to make the effort to get to acknowledge, let alone befriend, anyone who ''wasn't'' specifically in her alliance. By contrast, an instrumental part in Natalie ''White's'' victory was building bonds with the former Galu.
* [[Action Girl]]: When she puts her mind to challenges, she really can win them! She's almost like the female Brett in this regards. Speaking of which...
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Of the Ometepe alliance.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Turned out to be a much stronger competitor in challenges than Boston Rob anticipated.
** Especially since she appeared to be [[Too Dumb to Live]] and was literally [[Out of Focus]] along with anyone not named Rob, Phillip, or Matt.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To Brett. Both are players who spent the most of the season [[Out of Focus]] before emerging from the shadows of the [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] and showing that they are ''not'' the [[Living Prop]] they were edited to be early in the season. Likewise, this causes the people in control of the game to think [[Oh Crap]]. They also finished in final four and became a [[Shocking Elimination]] (in her case, ''she'' was shocked).
* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: The reason she was [[Survivor (TV series)/Characters/Samoa|Brett]]'s [[Distaff Counterpart]].
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Played straight during the season; subverted at the reunion.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey It's That Girl]]: Miss Maine 2009.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Throughout the season, she would talk about how much fun it was to blindside another contestant. When ''she'' was eventually blindsided, she was less than a [[Graceful Loser]] about it.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Zig-Zagged. She was supposedly good in challenges, yet all the time we saw her pre-merge, it was Grant and Rob carrying the team with her in third or fourth, then getting out-performed. Rob also thought of her as a threat, when all she seemed to do is just whatever Rob said and then laid around at camp next to Natalie. Then suddenly, she actually starts winning. Rob immediately thinks [[Oh Crap]].
** [[Foreshadowing]]: If you look in the early challenges, you can see that Ashley actually isn't doing bad, even at challenges that are slanted towards the physically stronger Grant or Zapatera tribe. Later on; she winds up becoming Rob's second obstacle in the season.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Lazy Bum]]: Encouraged by Rob.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Until the end when we had a surprising repeat performance of Brett from ''Samoa''.
* [[Shocking Elimination]]: See [[Hypocrite]] above.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Came the closest of anyone to completely upending Rob's plan.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: One guess.
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Back
* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: Outlasted Grant, Matt, and Mike, who were all very physical competitors. It should be noted that she did it in an endurance challenge which traditionally favors women, but even still.
* [[Farm Boy|Farm Girl]]
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Waiting too long before making a move against Rob - had she flipped to the Zapatera when Matt came back, chances are she would have done better.
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Genre Blind]]: But not to the point she could be considered [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Hot Amazon]]
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Between Rob planning out every single move of the game, Ashley and Natalie hanging around camp not doing much, and Phillip just being himself, she generally comes off as this (which ''isn't'' so [[Genre Blind]]).
* [[Badass]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Was strong in any challenge, including puzzle-based ones. Given that he's an ''Iraqi War Veteran'', it's safe to say that detail shows!
* [[The Hero]]: For the Zapatera alliance.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Heroic Build|Just look at the guy!]]
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Probst barely spoke to him at all.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Rob stated in the torch walk that he was glad Mike didn't win the challenge because he was legitimately afraid to have had to compete against him and sit against him in the finals. He was also one of the few people in the torchwalk who the final four ''didn't'' deliver a [[Take That]] to.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[Back
* [[Being Good Sucks]]: Boy, does it ever.
* [[Broken Bird]]: The longer he stayed on Redemption Island, the worse and worse he got.
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* [[Identical Stranger]]: When assessing the cast, Jeff points out his resemblance to Fabio from ''Nicaragua'', but notes that their personalities are (near) completely different.
* [[Religious Bruiser]]
* [[Shocking Elimination]]: It was surprising when he was voted out second over Philip and Kristina, given that Phillip wasn't in Rob's control yet and Kristina was outed as having the idol. It was downright shocking when he returned from Redemption Island only to immediately be sent back there, and then came in third in a Redemption Island challenge.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Don't deny it - along with Phillip and Rob, he was the star of this season. He even almost beat Rob in the fan voting.
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: Towards Russell.
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* [[Badass]]
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* [[Expy]]: While the edit tries to play him up as an expy of Lex, the way his story plays out is more akin to Gregg's in ''Palau''.
* [[Genre Blind]]: Did you really think Rob was going to take you to the finals? Not once did he even think that Rob had done everything for his tribe and that'd likely win him the game, but was again surprised he was voted out.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Dude played for the Chargers, Broncos, and Titans.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Rob saw him as this. Truth be told, he's NFL - and during the tribal game (When the challenges were mostly physical or teamwork oriented), it really showed since he and Ashley were carrying their tribe.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]
* [[The Big Guy]]: To the Zapatera alliance.
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: Not ''quite'' on the level of Big Tom, but pretty close.
* [[Badass Beard]]
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Hating Russell so much that he took his eye off the million and threw the Immunity Challenge to get rid of him, which at the very least may have cost Zapatera a possible numbers advantage going into the merge. While you could blame much of the Zapatera Alliance for this, post-game Steve's been the only one who's really defended that decision whereas both Julie and David regret it.
** Even though one can also point out that they shouldn't have done it so early.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: While not as well known as [[Jimmy Johnson]], he's a former offensive lineman.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Of the Zapatera once Mike was gone.
* [[Out of Focus]]: started off making one think he might get far... but he slowly drifted [[Out of Focus]]. We ''did'' get to see him give more than three confessionals, though.
* [[Team Dad]]: To the Zapatera Alliance.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Right after Matt's second blindside, he mutters "Let the fireworks begin."
* [[Foreshadowing]]: When the idea to throw the challenge comes up, Julie is the sole dissenter of the alliance, pointing out that throwing challenges could give the other tribe momentum. Not only does this build up to her being the swing vote at Tribal Council, it also foreshadows Ometepe chain-winning immunities after Zapatera threw the challenge.
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* [[Straw Feminist]]: Gave off vibes of this at the Final Jury.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: This guy totally could have won a previous season or gone down with a ''huge'' fight.
* [[The Load]]
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Sympathy for the Devil|No Sympathy for the Devil]]: Though they were both Zapatera, that wasn't Russell she was cheering for at the duel.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: She was apparently the person who made the pitch for throwing the challenge and getting rid of Russell, but the audience never sees this. It would explain why Russell targeted the physically stronger ''Julie'' to flip; when he normally targets girls who aren't physically strong like Sarita.
* [[Team Mom]]: David outright calls her this at one point.
* [[Stupid Boss]]: Very much this for the Zapateras.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Had less screentime than the other members of her alliance, though this is partly on account of being eliminated pre-merge.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The moment Russell stepped off the plane she wanted to align with him, thinking she could get him to take her to the end game where she could easily beat him because he's [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk|Russell]] [[Entitled Bastard|Hantz.]] It didn't turn out that way, partly because this time people knew whom he was.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper|Digging Herself Deeper]]: As ''Survivor'' columnist Jayemel put it: "Did she not realize that [[Up to Eleven|her little]] [[Too Dumb to Live|tirade]] may have been what caused Julie to vote against her? Maybe Julie was on the fence and then decided she didn’t want to risk her entire game by allying with Hope(less) and Associates."
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Diplomacy? ''What'' diplomacy?
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Wrong Season Savvy]]
* [[Alliterative Name]]
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* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Easily the nicest member of her alliance with Russell and Stephanie. Chances are if those three were in the finals, she'd have won.
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Hating Rob so much that she overplayed by looking for the idol, never considering the possibility that this would make her an early target, or even that Rob was going to split the vote and negate the idol's advantage.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Why she was voted out, on top of ''not'' being a member of the Boston Rob Cult. The first thing she did upon realizing she's playing the game with Rob? Start idol hunting to make sure he doesn't get a hold of it and then try to use it to get him out as fast as possible. Needless to say, Rob wants her out first, as well as anyone aligned with her. However...
* [[Negated Moment of Awesome]]: She fails to meet the requirements for being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] on account of her not realizing that Rob was going to split the vote.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]
* [[Too Clever by Half]]
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: If you watched the reunion episode, you probably wouldn't even ''know'' whom she was, along with everyone else voted out pre-merge sans Russell Hantz. She only even got camera time when Rob was referring to her hunting for the idol. You'd think that finding an immunity idol ''before the first tribal council'' would deserve mention, but Probst didn't even ''look'' in her general direction.
* [[Asshole Victim]]
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* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: In an interview before the season, he declared that this season would become "Survivor history." Indeed: it became the first season that he was voted out. And he was the first member of the Zapatera to get the ax.
* [[Born Unlucky]]: This time, he gets put on the ''smart'' tribe who has the insight to get rid of him fast.
* [[Entitled Bastard]]: To the bitter, bitter, ''bitter'' end. He even wanted to ''sue'' the members of his tribe for daring to vote him off.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
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* [[Zen Survivor]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
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