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[[Image:FizzEd_bdjk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Daria, Jane, and two people they can ''never'' escape]]
{{quote|By the way, Daria, I just want you to know I think it's really brave of you to get those contact lenses and admit that you care about the way you look, even just a little. Because knowing that a brain can be worried about her looks makes me feel, um, I don't know, not so shallow or something. Like we're not that different, just human, or whatever. |Brittany to Daria in "Through a lens darkly"}}
* [[Brittany Taylor]]: A popular, bubbly, air-headed cheerleader, another antithesis of Daria. Despite their wildly different... ''everythings'', Brittany appears to view Daria as her friend and is constantly approaching her to chat, even though Daria views her as an irritant and often makes derogatory comments to or about her. Daria will sometimes find herself helping Brittany ("[[The Invitation]]", "[[The Misery Chick]]"), while Brittany will sometimes go out of her way to help Daria ("[[The Old and the Beautiful]]", "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]"). She sometimes mentions Daria's unpopularity or plain looks, but unthinkingly (as if they're simple facts) rather than maliciously. When she found out Daria was dating Jane's old boyfriend, she sounded both amused and impressed.
{{quote|Come ON! How much lower could it get?|Kevin's reply to Daria sarcastically asking if his opinion of her had been damaged in "The Misery Chick"}}
* [[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?]]")
{{quote|At home, I'm Jodie. I can say or do whatever feels right. But at school, I'm the Queen of the Negroes. The perfect African-American teen. The role model for all of the other African-American teens at Lawndale. Oops! Where'd they go? Believe me, I'd like to be more like you.|Jodie to Daria in "Gifted"}}
* [[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.
{{quote|Sweet Daria, you don't have to resort to a ruse to get into my personal space. All you need do is ask.|Upchuck before Daria told him that his personal space was the final frontier, one where she intended never to boldly go}}
* [[Upchuck]]: The school's horn-dog. He first met her in "[[The Invitation]]" and has repeatedly crossed paths with her ever since, nearly always trying to flirt and get a date. Daria responds to this with horror and put-downs; Upchuck views her as "''fi''esty!", and in "[[The Daria Diaries]]" we find out he has included an unnamed outline of Daria in his website's "Gallery of Feisty Babes", implying a genuine crush.
{{quote|Er, uh, u'mm, err...|Sandi trying to start a conversation with Daria in "Quinn The Brain"}}
* [[Fashion Club]]: Quinn's fashion-obsessed friends. Daria's path has crossed with theirs several times, much to the horror of both sides; they'll only deliberately seek her out if they're desperate. The Club used to pretend they didn't know Daria was Quinn's sister. Daria and Jane once casually bet on whether the Club would dissolve, and then tried to nudge events ("[[Fat Like Me]]"). Sometimes, when [[Sandi Griffin]] is clearly trying something against Quinn, Daria will take minor action to help her sister ("[[Just Add Water]]").
{{quote| Thanks. Um, we never saw you.| Daria to Andrea in "Mart of Darkness"}}
* [[Andrea]]: A moody Goth. Her one encounter with Daria was in "[[Mart of Darkness]]", when Daria and Jane caught her in an embarrassing situation: she angrily challenged them to "cut me up like you do everyone else". (This led to embarrassment all round when Jane admitted she just wanted to buy a shoelace.) This shows Daria is unpopular even with ''other'' outcast kids, seen as an unpleasant figure to be avoided.
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