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* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Almost rivaling the main character herself.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Has his moments from time to time.
* [[The Comically Serious]] : Generally one of the saner members of the cast.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Comes from his [[Only Sane Man]] position.
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* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: Confirmed by [[Word of God]].
* [[Expy]]: Of Misty from Moody's Point on [[The Amanda Show]].
* [[Foil]]: Her personality is a total 180 from Jade’s, which makes their interactions enjoyable to watch. Specifically, Cat is sweet and kind while Jade is cold and antisocial.
* [[Flanderization]]: The biggest victim of being turned into [[The Ditz]] most of the time.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The Sanguine.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Her nervous giggle.
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts?]]: Most of her outfits.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Averted, she ended up in a padded cell once…not that she minded.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Red Hair]]
 
== Robbie Shapiro ==
[[File:Roobieee 5975.png|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by Matt Bennett
 
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Towards Trina and later Cat in Episode 3. Subverted in Cat's New Boyfriend, when Trina seems to be warming up greatly towards him, and how it hints he and Cat may like each other.
* [[Adorkable]]
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: Once spent a whole episode working on his car with Beck. Almost as soon as they're done, its promptly stolen, but not before a group of girls who come to flirt with Beck repeatedly spray him with a hose until he's begging for mercy. Bought a bike for $400, which was instantly destroyed less than ten seconds later by Helen hitting it with her car. Tori starts to defend him, then [[With Friends Like These...|tells him to be more careful and runs away]] after she finds out the new principal hit it. Later in that same episode, Tori basically makes Robbie get beat up by Trina, while she ignores his saying he's [[Dude, Not Funny|always beaten and hates it]]. [[Played for Laughs|Cue laugh track.]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: A big victim of this. Robbie goes to a park (on his bike) to give away some ice cream that would have otherwise been thrown out. He willingly screams out "Free ice cream!" and all the moms chase him into an alley and beat him with sticks. Accidentally kills the Chancellor of Yerba's pet octopus, and it lands him, Trina, Cat, Jade, Beck, and Andre all in prison(Though possibly justified, as Festus later comments the octopus was like the Statue of Liberty to Yerba). He is also threatened bodily by Trina when he gives a review of her play that she doesn't like, and was once thrown out of a window by Andre's cousin Kendra for accidentally stepping on her toe.
* [[Extroverted Nerd]]: Sikowitz calls him "Urkel"" in ''Locked Up'' (see above), a reference to ''[[Family Matters]]'' which had a well-known example of the trope, one Steve Urkel.
** The first season even had him dressing similar to Urkel, with strange patterned and colorful cardigans.
* [[Flanderization]]: Somewhat in Season 2 and the beginning of season 3 on the subjects of him being [[All Jews Are Cheapskates|cheap]]/[[Greedy Jew|selfish]], having incredibly bad luck(especially with girls) and being a near Sinjin-level loser. Luckily, they pulled back and he's back to his geeky but sweet personality from season 1, if not a little more characterized.
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* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Everybody will usually give him this treatment, how harshly depends on the episode. They have very little patience with him for no good reason, (he's annoying but still a good friend and person) and don't seem to mind much when he's in pain, insulted, or upset.
 
== Rex Powers ==
[[File:Medium Rex 4443.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Voiced by Jake Farrow
 
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Bi]]: In ''Beggin' On Your Knees'' he says Rider Daniels is hot, when everyone stares he merely replies "Stare all you want, I'm secure", which can be taken one of two ways, but even when a straight man compliments another man's looks he usually wouldn't use such a description. Then in [[Crossover|iParty With Victorious]] after André yells at him, his response is to say he has beautiful skin as he (André) leaves.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Rex posts a worried question about the episode "Rex Dies" on [[The Slap]].
** Narrates in between commercial breaks during 'April Fools Blank'.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: ''Yes'', the puppet.
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* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: Subverted in ''Beck's Big Break''; while dreaming, Robbie sees Rex as a separate being and not as an extension of himself.
 
== Jade West ==
[[File:Victorious-halloween-jade-tori-hair 8645.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by [[Liz Gillies]]
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* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: Never expressed out loud, but she does some things that imply that only ''she'' is allowed to mess with Tori, damn it! (For example: Celebrating when Tori gives [[Manipulative Bastard|Ryder Daniels]] his well-deserved [[Humiliation Conga]], looking shocked and irritated when Robbie said Tori was "freaking out" in Robbarazzi, etc.)
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Implied. In one of her "Jade with Tots" videos, she bitterly asks her interviewee why she doesn't have any friends she can count on. (Odd perspective, considering the amount of effort Tori puts into trying to be friends with her.)
* [[Jerkass]]: Oftentimes, especially in "Jade Dumps Beck," but also in the RV episode of turning into a [[Jerkass Woobie]].
** But [[Took a Level in Jerkass|takes more levels]] in Season 2. The biggest example was trying to sabotage Tori, the lead in ''Steamboat Susie'' (the play in "Tori Gets Stuck"), while Jade was the understudy. This meant sniffing through Tori's medical records and forcing her to [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|donate blood to Robbie]] by purposely misplacing the first bag — [[Disproportionate Retribution|putting two people's lives in danger and invading one person's privacy simply because she didn't get the lead in a play]]. Compare that to the bigger-name play in Season 1's "Tori the Zombie," where all Jade does is insult the way the director's dressed when he tells her there's no understudies for her role. Could be signs of [[Flanderization]], but is often balanced by karma.
** Her [[Jerkass]] behavior is taken [[Up to Eleven]] in "Driving Tori Crazy", where it's heavily implied that she'd planned to ''kill and bury'' Tori or at least wanted Tori to think she would.
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* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: In "Stage Fighting."
 
== Beck Oliver ==
[[File:Beckk 2361.png|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by Avan Jogia
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* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Inverted. He has no problems with random girls popping up at his doorstep and asking for rides to school. Now if {{spoiler|he and Jade were still together, she'd flip.}}
 
== Trina Vega ==
[[File:Trinaaa 2784.png|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by [[Daniella Monet]]
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]: This seems to be what Trina actually does best, as she appears to make up in physical strength, agility and fighting skill, even when drugged up to the gills (Freak The Freak Out) what she lacks in singing ability.
** Her uniform, which was blue with a yellow belt, is actually a Vovinam Gi, not a Karate Gi. Also, unlike Karate, a yellow belt is the equivalent of a black belt; ''Trina Vega of all people is a highly skilled martial artist.''
** According to "Freak The Freak Out" and "Andre's Horrible Girl", she knows some stealth techniques as well.
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* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Trina early in "Freak the Freak Out".
* [[Informed Flaw]]: Trina's bad singing is [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]] at worst. Other than too much scooping and being flat at times. Trina could sing well if she would just accept that she's not perfect and maybe some lessons would do her some good. And Trina's audition with the submarine scene was pretty good, but it was implied she didn't get the role because of her bad acting, while all she did was say one word wrong.
** She stage kissed well enough to make Robbie believe that she actually liked him.
*** That's probably more Robbie's cluelessness than Trina's talent...
** Supposedly, we're supposed to believe Trina has no talent whatsoever. Yet, she's not too bad at acting, as pointed out here, and also seems to be a good dancer (note how in Locked Up, even Jade doesn't seem to mind Trina dancing with them, as long as her mic was off). ''Helen Back Again'' also shows us she has some skill in martial arts.
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* [[0% Approval Rating]]: And ''how''.
 
== Sinjin van Cleef ==
[[File:Tumblr lz98wbQEvu1qd8z57o2 250 7055.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by Michael Eric Reid
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: In "iParty With Victorious," he seemed to be on his way to beating a surfing simulator on Expert Level (With everyone cheering him on), but a malfunction sent him flying out the window.
 
== Hollywood Arts Staff ==
=== Erwin Sikowitz ===
[[File:Mediumsikowitz 8912.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by Eric Lange
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Coconut, especially the milk.
 
=== Festus ===
[[File:Festus1 961.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed by Marco Aiello
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* [[Unknown Rival]]: Apparently has never liked Robbie, and after he accidentally killed the chancellor's octopus, vowed to spit in Robbie's food everyday he orders from the Grub Truck.
 
=== Lane Alexander ===
[[File:Trina5 218.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Portrayed By Lane Napper
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* [[Satellite Character]]
 
=== Helen Dubois ===
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* [[You Might Remember Me From]]
 
=== Vice Principal Dickers ===
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: He didn't exactly hit Tori, but he did drag her into the janitor's closet and threatened her.
 
== Parents and Guardians ==
=== David And Holly Vega ===
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* [[Parental Neglect]]: Have been doing this throughout the show, but Holly is shown neglecting her children the most, making breakfast only for herself in "Driving Tori Crazy".
 
=== Charlotte Harris ===
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* [[Supreme Chef]]: Andre' stated that "she makes a mean french toast."
 
=== Mr. West ===
[[File:s Dad 8332.png|thumb|250px]]
 
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{{quote|'''Jade''': How do you know that my father didn't get fired? ''Again?''}}
 
== Other Characters ==
=== Hayley Ferguson and Tara Ganz ===
[[File:Hayley-and-tara 4278.jpg|thumb|250px]]
 
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Hayley seems to have this trope down perfectly.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead|Blonde and Brunette]]: Tara, blonde. Hayley, brunette.
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* [[The Vamp]]s: Both girls had no qualms with flirting with a taken man (Beck) and Andre until they found out they went to Hollywood Arts.
 
=== Ryder Daniels ===
[[File:262px-Ryder 4662.png|thumb|250px]]
 
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* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: When Tori searches through his cellphone.
 
=== Hope Quincy ===
[[File:250px-Hope 5477.png|thumb|250px]]
 
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* [[Tsundere]] and/or [[Yandere]]: If [[Yandere]], she's not too far from the typical, murderous example; even when Andre dumps her, she's still hell-bent on having him sing at her birthday party. Those mood-swings don't help her much, either.
 
=== Wing Lee ===
[[File:250px-Mrs Lee 4635.jpg|thumb|250px]]
[[File:261px-Ms lee 5200.png|thumb|250px]]
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* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Well...not change jobs, but Wok Star did burned down in a mysterious fire, and implied that she burned it down herself as an insurance fraud to build Nozu.
 
=== Dale Squires ===
[[File:250px-Dale 4507.jpg|thumb|250px]]
 
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* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: He's a real asshole, yet has his own website with tons of adoring fans.
 
=== Kendra Harris ===
[[File:180px-Kendra 4178.jpg|thumb|250px]]
 
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* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Puts Dale in some sort of hold while attacking him.
 
=== Melinda Murray ===
[[File:275px-MelindaMurray 4966.jpg|thumb|250px]]
 
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: Apparently correcting her is one.
* [[Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead]]: Everyone on the set rejoiced when Tori inadvertently had her sent to the hospital due to her arrow-injury.