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Her parents try repeatedly to make her more sociable and 'normal', usually in ways that are clearly unsuitable for Daria or outright idiotic; Daria attempts to get out of these at first opportunity.
<br><br><br><br><br><br>Daria enjoys reading classic literature from a variety of eras and genres - including Catch-22 ("[[Quinn the Brain]]") and beatnik novel Howl ("[[The Old and the Beautiful]]") - and arty foreign films ("[[Monster]]"). She also enjoys incredibly trashy junk culture, including B-movies and [[Sick, Sad World]], and is frequently attending Punk Rock and Alt. Rock concerts ("[[Road Worrier]]"), ("[[Ill]]"), ("[[Pierce Me]]") and playing incredibly violent video games ("[[The New Kid]]", "[[The Story of D]]"). She collects medical teaching supplies and replicas of medical oddities. ("[[The Daria Database]]", "[[Of Human Bonding]]")
She is often viewed as miserable and gloomy by her peers and by adults, something she states annoys her in "[[The Misery Chick]]": "I'm not miserable! I'm just not ''like them.''"
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[[Tracy Grandstaff]]'s voice for Daria starts off sounding normal and gradually become deeper and flatter, though the full monotone version from her own series would not be completed until "[[Esteemsters]]".
Though she is not amused by their antics, she does not have the passionate hatred for them that [[Principal McVicker]] and [[Coach Buzzcut]] have nor does she really believe there is any hope for them either as [[Mr. Van Driessen]] had. At times, she would also make fun of the two for their stupidity. In the episode ''[[U. S. History]]'', she turned around to talk to the duos and said they'll never graduate, and she told them that "to graduate" means to be all done with the final year of school. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>In ''[[It's a Miserable Life]]'', it is stated that Butt-Head had been responsible for giving her a negative outlook on boys. In the final episode of the series when the boys "died," Daria expressed the sentiments that Beavis and Butt-head did not have very bright futures to look forward to. She was one of the few characters that the duo never managed to drive crazy as they had with many other students and teachers. In the Marvel comic books, however, the duo did manage to push her closer to the edge than they did in the TV show.
This early version of Daria was not as sarcastic or cutting (at least not to the lads) as she would be in ''Daria'', and in a number of episodes would be shown trying to explain simple concepts or solutions to them, sometimes without any jokes at their expense at all. This side of Daria would be played down in her own show. (In the ''Beavis and Butt-head'' comic book, Daria was more prone to sarcastic remarks.) Butt-head was more willing to listen to her (and usually called her by her real name to her face), while Beavis appeared to irritate her more than Butt-head.
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{{quote|I come off as a cranky, know-it-all curmudgeon. Distant, aloof and arrogant. Cynical, negative and smug. And -- as bizarre as this may sound -- some people apparently feel this is a bad thing.|Daria on herself, in "[http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/worldaccording/spindoctor.jhtml Is There A Spin Doctor In The House?]"}}
<br><br><br>Though the series was a rich one, replete with interesting characters and multiple points-of-view, it was mostly the story of one character, Daria herself, and her evolution.
[[Image:Daria_annoyed_ONeill.jpg|thumb|left|240px|An annoyed Daria, forced to deal with people she'd rather not ("The Misery Chick")]]
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==Daria and Jane==
{{quote|Hi, I'm Daria, go to hell.|Jane imitating Daria in "[[The Invitation]]"}}
<br><br><br>Jane is the first and ''only'' friend Daria has ever made, by her own admission. Despite her history of deliberately isolating people and walling herself off, she almost immediately befriended Jane after the girl showed a similar cynical sense of humour. In "[[The Daria Diaries]]", she early on described Jane as "snide, resentful, and anti-social. Finally, a friend."
An absence of Jane, and the fear it'd be permanent, in "[[See Jane Run]]" saw Daria begin to talk to herself. (Even she was bemused by this)
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* [[Kevin Thompson]]: A popular football player and Brittany's boyfriend. Daria enjoys manipulating his stupidity like she did Beavis and Butt-head, and often insults him: he doesn't understand most of her insults. Despite this, as with Brittany, he seems to view her as a friend: often seeking her advice ("The Misery Chick", "[[Too Cute]]") while unthinkingly bringing up her unpopularity at the same time, and in "[[The Big House]]" and "[[Ill]]", being concerned for her welfare. In "Partner's Complaint" though, he panicked at the idea of hanging out with Daria for any length of time. He once thought Tom was joking when he said he was Daria's date. ("[[Is It Fall Yet?]]")
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* [[Jodie Landon]]: She's one of the very few students that are on Daria's level intellectually. She and Daria sometimes clash over their divergent viewpoints or over Daria's misanthropic attitude ("Gifted", "Partner's Complaint", "Fizz Ed"). Despite their personality clashes, Jodie often starts conversations with Daria and will often seek her advice (Daria will sometimes snark instead). Notably, in "Gifted" both girls admitted they sometimes wished they could be more like the other. She is socially friendly with Daria: she has invited her to the Landon 4th of July parties; she is concerned with Daria's welfare.
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==Daria's writing==
{{quote|I really shouldn't leave my protagonist all alone just after her eyeballs have burst.|Daria, "[[Is It College Yet?]]" (scene missing from DVD)}}
[[File:StoryOfD_01.jpg|230px|thumb|left|]]
<br><br><br>Throughout the series, we're told by other characters that Daria is a good writer. We rarely see any examples of Daria's writing, with the following exceptions: "[[The Daria Diaries]]" has part of a creative writing homework assignment' "Cafe Disaffecto" and "The Old and the Beautiful" have excerpts of her [[Melody Powers]] stories; you can see an English essay about "Death of a Salesman" on the DVD version of "[[Quinn the Brain]]"; and "[[Write Where it Hurts]]" shows multiple examples of rejected stories and ends with an 'adaptation' of one of her stories.
Outside of "Write", all of the above - as well as the "[[The Story of D]]", references to writing "violent revenge fantasies" in "[[Boxing Daria]]", and a mention of a story she was writing in "[[Is It College Yet?]]" (cut from the DVD) - show that Daria enjoys writing violent, disturbing fiction with a black sense of humor. They appear to be somewhat lurid as well. The first Melody Powers story (and likely the homework assignment in "Write") was deliberately over the top to get back at Mr O'Neill. The virus story in "The Story of D" used a variety of writing styles.
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[[Image:Dariacomputer.gif|right|frame|From the homepage of Daria's Net Nodule of Negativity v2]]
<br><br>In "[[The New Kid]]", Daria wants to get the software to create a website - and thanks to [[MTV]]'s own website, we saw that she did indeed create some! Her first two were called the Net Nodule of Negativity.
[http://web.archive.org/web/19991012192815/http://mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/homepage_bak030599/index.html The first one was made in 1999]. It features:
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