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'''Backgrounder''' is old fandom slang for the background characters in each episode. Some of these, mainly by accident, have names (like through a seating chart in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]") but they almost all lack a voice - and if they have names, our main cast never refer to them. ▼
▲'''Backgrounder''' is old fandom slang for the background characters in each episode. Some of these, mainly by accident, have names (like through a seating chart in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]") but they almost all lack a voice - and if they have names, our main cast never refer to them. They rarely, if ever, interact with the main cast but can ''implicitly'' have been people the cast talked to 'off screen', such as the backgrounders filling up the [[Lawndale High Track Team]] with [[Jane]].
They are ''extremely'' useful for fanfic writers: a source of ready-made people with an existing image, that your fellow obsessives may know!▼
Because the backgrounders appeared often enough to be recognisable, [[Guy Moore]] pitched an episode where we'd follow the backgrounders' stories and [[Daria]] and [[Jane]] would be the voiceless background people. [[Karen Disher]] believed they couldn't do it because fans complained whenever Daria & Jane weren't the focus.
▲They are ''extremely'' useful for fanfic writers: a source of ready-made people with an existing image, that your fellow obsessives may know! Their names are usually based on appearance, an in-joke, or simply whoever got to them first in a fanfic.
(This page will not focus on the backgrounders who ''do'' have canon/sort-of-canon names, like [[Burnout Girl]] or [[Bob]])
==List of Daria backgrounders==
===Nerds===
[[Image:NEEEERDS.jpg|left|thumb|200px|NEEERDS]]
These three guys are friends of [[The Head (backgrounder)|The Head]], and they sit together with him at lunch. They were first pointed out to us in "[[Quinn the Brain]]"; Daria and Jane used their existence as a taunt to [[Quinn]], and presumably aren't too impressed with them either. From left to right, Nerd 1 (blond), Nerd 2 (fat), and Nerd 3 (black male). They're rarely seen, presumably avoiding everyone else; Nerd 2 did witness Ms Li's freakout in "[[Fizz Ed]]". Nerd 2 can sneeze milk from his nose, which the others find hilarious.
''Appearances in fanfic''
In "[[A Hard Days' Night]]" by [[The Angst Guy]], they're part of the Irregulars: boy genius crime fighters. They use codenames based on three fanfic writers ([[Richard Lobinske|Bug Guy]], [[TAG|Penguin Guy]], and [[Brother Grimace]] respectively).
===White Sweater===
[[Image:WhiteSweater.jpg|thumb|200px|right|]]
Long haired Asian-American girl, in several of Daria and Jane's classes; wears a light green T-shirt, tan jeans, and a necklace most of the time. Named by TAG for her distinctive white blazer. A fan of [[Mental in the Morning]], based on "[[Jake of Hearts]]".
"White Sweater" has been seen hanging around a lot of people when outside of class, a number of them popular and photogenic: [[Jennifer (black girl)|Jennifer]], [[Joey]], and she was also part of the in-crowd admiring a newly-thin Sandi in "[[Fat Like Me]]". She was also flirted with by [[Les]] in that episode, himself a [[Lawndale High Track Team]] dude. She's also been seen with less popular people, including sitting with ''[[Shaggy]] and [[Burnout Girl]]'' in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]". "White Sweater" appears to be both popular and a nice, sociable person.
''Appearances in fanfic''
Named Woot in "[[Scarlett (story)|Scarlett]]" by TAG, where she's a member of the Lawndale Leopards hockey team.
==List of Beavis and Butt-head backgrounders==
[[Category:Canon Characters]]
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