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|episodecount= 65 (all) <br/> 2 TV movies
|gender=Female
|age=14½-16½
|occupation=Student at [[Lawndale High]]
|family=[[Jake Morgendorffer]] (father) <br/> [[Helen Morgendorffer]] (mother) <br/> [[Daria Morgendorffer]] (sister) <br/> [[Amy Barksdale]] (aunt) <br/> [[Rita Barksdale]] (aunt) <br/> [[Erin Chambers]] (cousin) <br/> [[Ruth Morgendorffer]] (paternal grandmother) <br/> [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]] (paternal grandfather, deceased) <br/> [[Grandma Barksdale]] (maternal grandmother, name unknown)
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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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==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==
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.
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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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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