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'''Quinn Morgendorffer''' is a fictional character on the MTV animated series ''Daria''. She is the younger sister of [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and a
==Personality==
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By the final episodes, their relationship warms considerably. In "[[Lucky Strike]]", Quinn even takes Daria's side against Sandi and finally admits she's her sister. In "[[Boxing Daria]]", Quinn is greatly concerned for her sister and even retrieves the cardboard box Daria had been sheltering in, in case she still needed it. In "[[Aunt Nauseum]]", she also expressed fear that she and Daria would be fighting into adulthood, like their mother and aunts did. In the final film, she actually gives words of comfort to Daria and tells her she will find her place in college.
==Quinn’s Parents==
[[Image:Quinn_and_Jake.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Quinn tricks her dad into paying up.]]
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Throughout the show, Helen and Jake are shown as supportive of and happy with Quinn, and cheerlead many of her actions; they seem (from ours and Daria's POV) to be ignoring or unaware of Quinn's shallowness. Jake particularly is easy for her to manipulate, and she often can get money out of him. Despite their approval of ''her'', Quinn ''never'' introduces them to her friends ("[[Daria Dance Party]]") and at one point tried to pretend she didn't know who they were ("[[Fire!]]") out of embarrassment.
Helen has noted Quinn's shallower aspects and has tried, usually gently, to steer her away: trying to get her more organized in "[[Pinch Sitter]]", trying to get her to not consider her value as coming from looks only in "[[This Year's Model]]", "[[Too Cute]]"
In "[[Psycho Therapy]]", Helen accidentally let slip that she considered Quinn to be a failure of hers: "[as for] Quinn...well, I can't even ''think'' about what happened there, not right now". She was horrified when she realized she'd said this out loud.
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When Jake had his heart attack, Quinn was so rattled that she decided to become a heart doctor and genuinely became focused on this, putting studying over talking and hanging out with her friends. (Admittedly, she seemed to consider the board game "Operation" as actual studying.) She went back to her old ways when Jake recovered, but her change is still notable.
==Social
A socially active girl, Quinn immediately became one of the most popular students at [[Lawndale High]] and in the very first episode joined the [[Fashion Club]], a clique of teenage girls with whom Quinn was friends. While she had many boyfriends (even going as far as to come up with a ranking system for the boys she dated), her only consistent followers were three teenage "jocks" from her grade level: [[Joey]], [[Jeffy]], and [[Jamie]], classmates who constantly followed her around and were being manipulated by Quinn for her own purposes.
Quinn's popularity is her greatest obsession and weakness. Other characters like Daria have been able to manipulate Quinn this way: "[[Fat Like Me]]", Daria is able to get her to help Sandi lose weight by making up scare stories about how a fat friend could cost her her popularity.
==Relations with the Fashion Club==
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Although Quinn is in the same grade level as Sandi, Stacy, and Tiffany, she is also the youngest member of the Fashion Club. Many have speculated that Quinn rising through the ranks despite her youth and inexperience is the root cause of Sandi's resentment towards Quinn.
From "Too Cute" onwards, Quinn is involved in a cold war with Sandi: constant attempts at 'politely' undermining the other, with Quinn often turning things around to cover up that she was challenging Sandi at all. ("Oh, ''Saaaaan-diiii''...") Early on, when Sandi wasn't present at a March Fashion Club meeting, Quinn put out feelers for a coup; she asked the others if they thought Sandi was a good president and suggested she'd tried to "set them up" with her fashion claims, but quickly backtracked when Stacy and Tiffany seemed content with Sandi's leadership. ("[[The Daria Diaries]]") She soon takes a more subtle approach to undermining Sandi. Later, in "[[The Daria Hunter]]", Quinn allowed Sandi to be left behind after a field trip (as did Stacy). Quinn also has a standard protocol of not dating a boy if she can get Sandi to agree ''she'' won't date him either. ("[[The Daria Database]]")
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There is a measure of sincerity in their friendship, however. When Sandi is injured and unexpectedly gains weight in "[[Fat Like Me]]," she withdraws from the Fashion Club out of embarrassment and shame and is able to manipulate Quinn into resigning as well, supposedly "out of respect for [their] friendship". Although flustered, Quinn does abide by this out of friendship, and continues to visit Sandi as seemingly the only club member who cares that Sandi isn't there anymore. She even tells Daria that she doesn't care that Sandi is fat ("it's not like she's ugly or anything").
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[[Tiffany]] is one of Quinn's assumed friends, but the two have no significant interaction save for times when Tiffany supports Quinn over Sandi (when Sandi isn't there) for her own benefit.
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Stacy is a more genuine friend, with the two talking among themselves in "[[Quinn the Brain]]" and sharing a significant degree of trust. When Quinn is only allowed to invite one friend for sleepover in "[[Of Human Bonding]]", Stacy is her first choice, and in "[[Fat Like Me]]" they continue to associate outside of club meetings. However, Quinn won't date ''any'' boy that she discovers dated Stacy first, even marking them down on a list. ("[[The Daria Database]]") Stacy, for her part, constantly seeks Quinn's approval. In a memorable scene from "[[Gifted]]," Stacy quickly relinquishes her own tastes for Quinn's to the extent of dressing like her and suggesting they dye their hair the same shade. This makes Quinn noticeably uncomfortable, causing her to flee Stacy's house and stay with Jane instead.
==Dating boundaries==
Even though Quinn refuses to be tied down to one guy
==Attitude towards sex, alcohol and drugs==
When asked whether Quinn was sexually active during the series, [[Glenn Eichler]] replied, "Quinn, no. She was all about attracting guys, not acting on it. Plus Quinn would tend to think of her virginity as currency, a currency she wasn't going to spend until she got a REALLY good exchange rate. (I'm not saying Quinn would maintain this attitude as she matured; this is sophomore-junior Quinn I'm talking about.)"▼
Quinn has, on multiple occasions, avoided or rejected sexually suggestive activity and the advances of men. Throughout the series, Quinn is frequently the target of solicitation by adults (who know better). In the episode "[[This Year's Model]]", Quinn grows uneasy as [[Claude]] and [[Romonica DeGregory|Romonica]] solicit Quinn's modeling class into doing sexually suggestive activity, such as when Claude instructs the boys to take their shirts off and have the girls rub the boys' chests. Quinn understandably tries to find a way out of the situation by asking if she can go to the bathroom, but when Romonica tries to entrap Quinn by asking her if that's what she's really feeling, Quinn panics and leaves.
While there are some instances where Quinn recognizes and avoids predatory behavior, she can be just as equally unaware of these situations. In the episode "[[I Don't]]", Quinn strikes up a conversation with the minister, who is clearly attempting to solicit her, although Quinn does not realize it. Luckily, [[Garrett]] finds Quinn, realizes what the minister is trying to do, and engages in a fistfight with the latter. In the episode "[[Lucky Strike]]", Quinn, Sandi and Stacy are mostly unaware of substitute [[Ken Edwards|Mr. Edwards]]' attempts to solicit [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler]]. When Quinn mentions that Mr. Edwards was "stroking" Tiffany's hair during class, a horrified Helen calls the school to have Mr. Edwards fired.
Quinn was never known to be using alcohol or drugs. She once threw a keg party when her parents were out ("[[Gifted]]"), was elected "keg queen" by a frat house during a college tour ("[[College Bored]]"), and has been to a number of bars on dates ("[[Speedtrapped]]"). However, she also declined a chance to drink underage and was very concerned about her friend [[Lindy]]'s apparent alcoholism in "[[Is It College Yet?]]", even at the risk of driving her away and ending their friendship.▼
When the Morgendorffers are staying at the [[Le Grand Hotel]] in the episode "[[Fire!]]", the bellboy, [[Bobby Stuart]], begins flattering Quinn and offering her gifts, claiming that his uncle owns the hotel. After Bobby offers Quinn the keys to the Presidential Suite free of charge, [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]] becomes jealous and tries to convince Quinn that Bobby is a stalker. Quinn grows uneasy from Sandi's coercion. In the end, it turns out that Bobby really ''was'' a stalker, just not in the way Quinn expected. The police investigated and informed Quinn that Bobby had no uncle and that he had been charging the Morgendorffers for the suite before deleting the transactions from the computer.
▲When asked whether Quinn was sexually active during the series, [[Glenn Eichler]] replied, "Quinn, no. She was all about attracting guys, not acting on it. Plus Quinn would tend to think of her virginity as currency, a currency she wasn't going to spend until she got a REALLY good exchange rate. (I'm not saying Quinn would maintain this attitude as she matured; this is sophomore-junior Quinn I'm talking about.)" Pertinent comments about the show's creator's views on Quinn and sex appear in two fan-conducted interviews on [[DVDaria]].
In terms of how she views Daria, Quinn was quite shocked when she believed that Daria had lost her virginity to her boyfriend [[Tom Sloane]].
▲Quinn was never known to be using alcohol or drugs.
==Fashion Choices==
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Despite her interest in fashion, animation budget means Quinn has usually been wearing the same outfit in most episodes. An iconic image from the program, as representative of Quinn as the glasses are of Daria, is her midriff-baring pink 'baby-T', adorned with a 'smiley-face' sporting a halo. Quinn wore this shirt constantly in the first three seasons, before switching to a long-sleeve shirt with a yellow butterfly at the beginning of Season 4.
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For the "Fashion Don'ts" party in "[[Monster]]", she wore Daria's trademark outfit: this is the absolute ''worst'' outfit she can think of.
Due to Quinn's popularity, she may be able to get away with wearing anything and seeing it become 'fashionable' - she jumpstarted a short-lived trend of wearing all black in '[[Quinn the Brain]]' without
▲==Quinn's websites==
In "[[The New Kid]]", Quinn gets hold of software for making websites (which had been promised to Daria) and got "one of the cuter technical types from school set it up for me". Her homepage got 2,500 hits in its first three hours...
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''At least that's what Daria told me before she went off to spend her dirty hush money on some depressing book.''
==Quinn's
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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/ Entertainment Weekly's] [[Catching Up With The Daria Gang]]:
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==Fanfic Stereotypes==
===Guitarist Quinn===
Quinn plays lead guitar and is co-vocalist of an indie rock group made up of the Fashion Club in [[Fashion Club Entertainment]] by [[TommyXmaserati]].
===Brainy Quinn===
Quinn's vapidity in the TV series is forever played upon in ''Daria'' fanfic. However, certain personality quirks she reveals are elaborated upon at times. Most notable of these is "Brainy Quinn," so-called from the episode "[[Quinn the Brain]]," in which Quinn turns out to be smarter and more competent than anyone had ever guessed. This possibility was hinted at in the movie ''[[Is It Fall Yet?]]'' and the episode "[[Lucky Strike]]," but the extreme is reached, albeit through a logical and well-grounded process, in [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]] with the glasses-wearing math-genius Quinn, who thinks pi is "cute."
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A consistent fact about Quinn in canon is that even with her heavy dating schedule and many male admirers, she seems unable or unwilling to engage in intimate relationships with young men. Some fics explain this by revealing that Quinn has same-sex leanings - and often, the fact that Quinn is interested in girls is not a surprising fact to the majority of individuals (except for the boys who have always worshipped her).
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