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|firstappearance=[[Esteemsters]]
|lastappearance=[[Is It College Yet?]]
|voicedby=[[Marc Thompson]] <br>
|episodecount=53 (two non-speaking) <br> 2 TV movies
|gender=Male
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{{quote|— When you hear yourself talk, does it make sense to you?
— Sometimes!|[[Mack]] and Kevin, [[I Don't]]}}
==Character Overview==
[[Image:Kevin destroys DeMartino.jpg|thumb|300px|Kevin destroys DeMartino's joy for teaching and will to leave in just five seconds ("[[Lucky Strike]]")]]▼
[[Image:ALRIIIIGHT!.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Typical Daria/Kevin interaction.]]
He has an extremely cheery and friendly personality, never showing any malicious attempt and - unique for a star quarterback character in a outcast-centred story - is never shown to be a bully. He generally wanders through life with an oblivious smile.
▲[[Image:Kevin destroys DeMartino.jpg|thumb|300px|Kevin destroys DeMartino's joy for teaching and will to
His parents had him when they were still in high school, an unplanned event. They dote on him, with his mother thinking Brittany isn't good enough for him (and afraid she'll get pregnant and prevent him going to college). Family photos in "[[The Daria Database]]" show a baby Kevin with little baby footballs (''even when he seems newborn'') - his father was a high school football player who couldn't do it professionally, and is very keen on Kevin playing and getting state championships. "[[Mart of Darkness]]" would present him as his parents' first child. (Kevin refers to having "big brothers" in college in "[[College Bored]]", but he could be speaking about the members of the fraternity he was visiting that day.) Kevin seems to like his parents but in his childhood days, he had an imaginary friend called Sporty who "hates my dad" ("The Kev Zone", see below).
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>He was exaggeratedly dimwitted and was one of many extreme personalities used to balance the main character's lack of enthusiasm, as well as justify her cynicism and give her a target for sarcastic remarks. Some episodes showed that Kevin can be confused simply by asking him if he's sure or knows the answer, ''even if it's something he does actually know'' - in "[[Fair Enough]]", he never twigged that he wasn't being taken to school because [[Brittany]] just asked him "are you sure?" and Kevin immediately got confused. Once, when Mack asked Kevin is what he says ever makes any sense to ''himself'', Kevin happily replied "sometimes!". ("[[I Don't]]")
He makes it through school entirely on the basis of getting "byes" on tests, at [[Angela Li|Principal Li's]] command: he's viewed as too important to the football team to have to worry about silly things like learning ("[[Mart of Darkness]]", "[[See Jane Run]]"). Kevin's father takes the same view, believing football and the state championship are more important goals; his mother, however, wants Kevin to go to college. Football consumes Kevin's life, to the extent that in "[[The F Word]]" and "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]", he became completely despondent and depressed when he was rendered unable to play; in the latter's case, he wouldn't even drink sports drinks (as they're "for sportsmen").
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In IICY, he didn't want Brittany to know he'd flunked and kept dodging her questions about colleges & graduation until the eleventh hour. He was scared that if she knew he'd flunked and wasn't going to college like she was, she'd dump him. She ''did'' finally agree that she'd remain his girlfriend anyway... but with two fingers crossed behind her back...
[[Image:kevbrit20yl.jpg|left|frame|Kevin and Brittany in 2017, by Karen Disher]]
==The future==
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/ the feature] [[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."
[[Image:Kevin Thompson.gif|frame|Kevin]]
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===2000 update===
In 2000, he updated the website to promote a "[[Carter County]]" [[
Kevin's promotion went like this:
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[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34669 A QB Grows in Lawndale] by Kristen Bealer
[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=589154#p589154 Go Long] by [[Roentgen]]
* [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12425123/1/Telling-Tales-Out-of-School Telling Tales Out of School] by [[Kristen Bealer]]
==Trivia==
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** [[Is It Fall Yet?]]: Red swimming trunks during his stint as life guard.
** [[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]: Kevin removes his jersey and pads onscreen revealing a white tee shirt with a cartoon character and the words "HEY, KIDS!" on it. He is also seen wearing this shirt in [[The F Word]].
==Misc. Trivia==
* In the Latin American dubbing, he was voiced by José Antonio Macías.
==External link==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120821145516/http://www.outpost-daria.com/ch_kevin.html Outpost Daria - Characters: Kevin] (via Wayback Machine)
[[Category:Canon Characters|Thompson, Kevin]]
[[Category:Lawndale Lions]]
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