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|age=16-18
|occupation=Student at [[Lawndale High]] <br/> Student at [[Great Prairie State University]] (by the end of the show)
|family=[[Steve Taylor]] (father) <br/>[[Vivian Taylor]] (mother)<br/> [[Ashley-Amber Taylor]] (stepmother) <br/> [[
|significantother= [[Kevin Thompson]] (boyfriend)
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''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' show that Brittany runs an advice column in the [[Lawndale Lowdown]], called ''Ask Brittany''. It also reveals she once tried to get the cheerleading team to do cheers for all the non-sports clubs at Lawndale, to show they cared about the whole school; cheers were drafted for the chess club, AV club, and debate team.
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Brittany considers [[Jodie Landon]] to be her best friend and is almost always seen interacting with her, seemingly oblivious to how annoyed Jodie is with her. Usually Jodie expresses her annoyance with a subtle jab but twice it resulted in Jodie making very clear that she didn't want Brittany around. In "[[Gifted]]" where she insulted Brittany with her "rent a brain" remark and in "[[Partner's Complaint]]" where she quickly enlisted Daria to work together on the Economics project with, to avoid having to work with Brittany.
Brittany and [[Daria]] are constantly interacting, partly because Brittany seems to seek Daria out; while the cheerleader annoys her, Daria has sometimes given Brittany help or advice ("[[The Invitation]]", "[[The Misery Chick]]") Brittany has also helped Daria or tried to - she once invited [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] to a party because Daria helped her in art class, and once tried to help Daria sound perky - and visited her in hospital in "[[Ill]]". She has made derogatory remarks about Daria's looks and popularity, but stating them more as if they're well-known facts rather than being malicious. In "[[Art Burn]]", when asked by her father why she didn't say she was having friends over, casually remarks: "Oh, they aren't friends, just Daria and Jane."
She is often friendly, optimistic, and generous. As well as 'helping' Daria out, she tried to create cheers for all the sports teams and clubs - up to and including chess - so they wouldn't be left out ("The Daria Diaries"), and her websites (see below) show her trying to help other cheerleaders deal with problems.
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==Brittany and Violence==
[[Image:BrittanyHunter.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Brittany at paintball
A running gag in the show, mainly in the first and second seasons, is that Brittany, when really irritated, thwacks Kevin (and sometimes others). While this was intended as a joke, when [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2009/12/history-of-violence-part-1.html taken] [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2009/12/history-of-violence-part-2.html together] Brittany comes off as having a hair-trigger temper and resorting to excessive violence without little cause. Her attack on Kevin in "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]" is [http://www.theangstguy.com/images/iify-smackdown.gif quite brutal], as she carries on her assault for a long period and this after her first blow was a bad one.
In "The Daria Hunter",
==Brittany and Kevin==
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In the 2001 version of Kevin's MTV website, he mentions "football is kind of like dating: sometimes you choose the most obvious person under pressure and then you're stuck with them. At least that's what I heard Brittany telling the other cheerleaders. Then they all looked at me and shook their heads."
==Older Brittany==
[[Image:kevbrit20yl.jpg|right|frame|Kevin and Brittany in 2017, by Karen Disher]]
For the show's 20th anniversary, [[Susie Lewis]] explained how she thought the cast had turned out and [[Karen Disher]] drew 2017 versions of them for [http://ew.com/tv/daria-20-years-later/catching-up-with-the-daria-gang/ Catching Up With The Daria Gang]:
"The head cheerleader and quarterback of Lawndale High are married and have three girls and two boys. Brittany is the weathergirl at the local news station and moonlights as part-time cheerleading coach at Lawndale High. Kevin is a stay-at-home dad who dabbles in children's birthday-party entertainment. While he can't quite squeeze into his belly-baring uniform anymore, you better believe Brittany's cheerleading uniform fits her like a glove — and she wears it every Halloween."
==Brittany's Websites==
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{{quote|:) (Isn't that winky face cute? I made it out of two thingamajigs!|Britt at the World Wide Wow)}}
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===The World Wide Wow!===
Brittany started a website [http://web.archive.org/web/20000615210737/http://mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/homepage_052799/index.html at MTV in 1999]: she used it to socialise, to defend cheerleading as a sport, give tips to other cheerleaders about how to do better ("Just ignore those guys who make comments when you're doing spread eagle jumps"), and [http://web.archive.org/web/200012110126/http://mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/homepage_052799/poem.html# had a "World Cheer" for global harmony]. She also has a special page for guys that advises them on what gifts they should buy their girlfriends based on how long they've been going out, how sad they'd be if they were dumped, and how many "other guys on the team would date her in a minute".
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==The Taylor Family==
Brittany's father is [[Steve Taylor]] and her stepmother is [[Ashley-Amber Taylor]]; her biological mother is named [[Vivian Taylor]], though she never appeared in the series. [[
==Future==
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==Misc. Trivia==
* Janie Mertz told the [[Daria Behind The Scenes Special]] that she based the voice on Loretta from ''Cheers'' and [[Karen Disher]] said she based her design on Jenny McCarthy in ''Singled Out''.
* In the Latin American dubbing, she was voiced by Claudia Motta.
==Brittany
Only fanfics in which Brittany is a main character are included.
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* [[The Impossible]] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [[In the Beginning]] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [[
* [[Making the Breast of It]] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [[No One Lives Forever]] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12472529/1/The-More-Things-Change The More Things Change] by [[Two-Eyed Charlie]]
* [[Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention]] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [[A Slice of Pizza]], [[Crusts of Pizza]] and [[Piano Practice]] by [[Brother Grimace]]
==External
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120112075411/http://www.outpost-daria.com/ch_brittany.html Outpost Daria - Characters: Brittany] (via Wayback Machine)
[[Category:Canon Characters|Taylor, Brittany]]
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