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** [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Went from a timid gardener who had never wandered further than a few miles from home to maiming giant spiders and beating orcs in a fight.
** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
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* [[
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.▼
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]▼
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.▼
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].▼
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...▼
** Actually, in the extended edition there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.▼
* [[Breakout Character]]: Was essentially a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in [[The Hobbit]]. Here, he's a ''([[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|if not the]])'' big attraction.
* [[Cain and Abel]]
* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.▼
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"▼
* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]▼
* [[Chronic Villainy]]▼
* [[The Corruption]]
* [[Cower Power]]
* [[The Dark Side]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]▼
* [[The Determinator]]
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]▼
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]▼
* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.▼
* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)▼
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.▼
▲* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]▼
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."▼
* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]▼
* [[Invisible Jerkass]]▼
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Precious!"
* [[
** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.▼
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].
▲* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]
▲* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
▲* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
▲* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]
▲* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].
▲* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.
* [[I'm Melting]]
▲* [[Invisible Jerkass]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
▲* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]▼
* [[
* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.▼
▲* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
* [[
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Five Hundred Years Old]]
▲* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...
▲** Actually, in the extended edition there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.
▲** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
▲* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)
▲* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
▲* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."
* [[Split Personality]]
* [[Starring Special Effects]]
▲* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]
▲* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.
▲* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]
▲* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.
* [[Tragic Villain]]▼
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
** [[Verbal Tic Name]]
▲* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.
▲* [[Tragic Villain]]
▲* [[Chronic Villainy]]
* [[Was Once a Man|Was Once A Hobbit]]: The prologue of ''Return of the King'' shows us his gradual corruption by the Ring from a normal Hobbit into the creature Gollum. This was done at the insistence of Andy Serkis, who wanted viewers to see there really was an actor behind Gollum.
▲* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
=== Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies) ===
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