Tori Vega (Victorious)

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"I don't talk like that!!!"

- Tori Vega, Victorious

Victoria "Tori" Vega (born either 1993 or 1994), better known as Tori Vega, is the main protagonist of the 2010 live-action Nickelodeon sitcom, mh:besttvshows:Victorious. She is a teenage girl who gets transferred from Sherwood High School to Hollywood Arts, a performing arts school (the show's main setting). During her time at that school, she forms a rivalry with Jade West, but stops being rivals with her later on. She is also the younger sister of Trina Vega. She is portrayed by Victoria Justice.

Personality
Tori is an aspiring pop star who loves to sing and has a great voice. She is known to be a nice person despite her selfishness and hypocrisy in her. She loves her family and friends very much.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) To start things off, she frequently takes advantage of students of lower status, particularly Robbie and Sinjin Van Cleef.
 * 2) She is known to be extremely self-absorbed, akin to Bloo from Seasons 2-6 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
 * 3) * For example, she steals Andre's song and then offers to share credit with him, even though it wasn't hers in the first place.
 * 4) She often complains about things being too hard and expects everything to fall right in her lap. This is especially notable in "The Bird Scene", where she even tries to cheat so that she can be in plays by taking advantage of her friends.
 * 5) She does some pretty unsuitable, inappropriate things that look very out of place for a Nickelodeon kids' show, evident when:
 * 6) * In "Freak the Freak Out", she lusts over her sister Trina by lying over her waist and then sitting in her frontal area.
 * 7) * In another episode, she gets into a fight with Jade.
 * 8) * In "The Great Ping Pong Scam", she wears a very revealing outfit during her song and dance number. It's so short, that she needs a waiter's help getting off the piano without flashing the audience. Tori even ordered Jade to take off and give her the dress she is wearing, noting that it "feels warm".
 * 9) Speaking of BQ#4, she has plenty of other sexually suggestive scenes, usually by hint. Even though they're often done for the sake of comedy, they end up being cringeworthy and creepy to the point that they come off as uncomfortable and inappropriate rather than actually being funny.
 * 10) * An example of this is Tori sitting on Cat for an extended period of time and spanking her (which Cat seems to enjoy as a masochist would), then later Jade joins her in sitting on Cat.
 * 11) * Another good example is the episode "Tori and Jade's Play Date", where Tori practically rubbed her face against Jade's breasts twice, while playing as Jade's husband.
 * 12) * In the episode "The Great Ping-Pong Scam", without warning or context, Tori comes back to the table and says to Jade, "Take off your dress" Not "I need to borrow your dress," just, "Take off your dress". Jade didn't immediately say no to this, either.
 * 13) * In "Survival of the Hottest", Tori was feeling Jade's forehead, cheeks, and collarbone, and being stopped by Jade saying "Having fun there?" before feeling her chest.
 * 14) She basically ruined the ending of "The Great Ping Pong Scam" with her usual "saving the day by singing".
 * 15) She kissed two of her friends' boyfriends in front of them (Albeit one of them was on impulse).
 * 16) She and Jade always do illegal things, but they almost never get consequences.
 * 17) *In one episode, Tori breaks into a store, opens tubs of ice cream without paying for them, and then makes a mess with the ice cream she opened. In the end, she receives no consequences.
 * 18) *In WokStar, She and Jade thought it was okay to hang a little girl from the ceiling just because her mother was apparently ruining the play.
 * 19) *She and Jade practically destroy a man's car just for a reality show.
 * 20) *When she and her friends were thrown in prison for something that was obviously their fault, Tori and the rest of the group escaped from prison with their usual method of singing and dancing their way out of a problem.
 * 21) Surprisingly, unlike Jade who would often get at least the smallest of consequences for doing something bad, Tori would sometimes get away with doing bad things with no consequences, because she was portrayed as a "nice girl"
 * 22) She freaks out about auditions and roles and receives them all as if she is tremendously talented.
 * 23) She gets more vocals than Cat, Jade, Robbie, Andre, and especially Beck.
 * 24) *The irony is that whenever she would be part of a duet, she always gets overshadowed by the other singer.
 * 25) She makes it look easy to break into show business when it really isn't. Things just came easy for her.
 * 26) She and Cat had horrible chemistry, depending on what you think.
 * 27) *In "Jade Gets Crushed" she agrees with Andre to not choose Cat for his song, rather than reminding him that Cat is equal to the group. Ok, so Cat is stupid, but since when is she untalented?
 * 28) *She is seen taking the spotlight away from Cat a lot.
 * 29) There are times when she would flat-out put her top priority over those of her best friends, or even steal their thunder.
 * 30) *The best example of this is in the episode "Prom Wrecker", where she cancels a play that Jade is producing (which she knew was a big deal to her) for a prom, and proceeds to get mad at Jade for it. It gets to a point where you can consider Jade's actions in the episode entirely justifiable.
 * 31) *In the episode “The Hambone King”, she takes over a hambone competition in Robbie’s place, but when she wins, she gladly takes his glory without any thought of Robbie while he’s left writhing on the floor.
 * 32) *And again, that ridiculous moment where she simply decided she could share Andre's song and used it to get a record deal.
 * 33) She was pretty unlikable in "Brain Squeezers" along with Jade.
 * 34) *She just had to be a huge bragger and acted as if being on brain squeezers made her "soo special" (no wonder Jade took her identity and got on the game show with her…though that doesn’t get Jade off the hook.)
 * 35) *Also, during the entire game show, she had her teammates answer all her team's questions while doing almost nothing herself the whole time. This allowed her to avoid getting Doinked.
 * 36) Hypocrisy: When her friends ask her to help them, she groans and walks away, but expects everyone to help her as soon as she asks them.
 * 37) *In 1,000 Berry Balls, when Cat begs her to help her, she ignores her and tells her to go ask Jade. What if she was dying? (a real great friend there, Tori!)
 * 38) *In Begging on Your Knees, she forces Andre to write her a song and doesn't care that it's his Grandfather's birthday. (again, really great friend!)
 * 39) Even taking out her unlikable tendencies, she’s just plain boring and doesn’t have that interesting a personality, especially compared to the other characters like Cat (the lovable ditz), Robbie (the dorky nerd), Andre (the suave performer) or even Trina (the wannabe who tries too hard).

Good Qualities

 * 1) She's not without her likable moments, with one particular example being in "Tori & Jade's Play Date".
 * 2) Victoria Justice does a good job portraying her, especially when she sings, though the same can't be said about another bad Nickelodeon character that she portrayed.
 * 3) * Her singing voice is beautiful, and it helps that Victoria Justice has had a lot of singing experience when she was portraying the character, showing how good Tori's portrayal is in the show, despite her poor characterization.
 * 4) She still has some talent, as Trina does admit to her younger sister that she is a really good and better singer than her in the Pilot.
 * 5) She is more tolerable in the 3rd season of Victorious, making her decently likable.
 * 6) She never ends up with Beck, even when they were about to kiss in Tori Goes Platinum, Tori decides not to, not wanting to hurt Jade, causing Jade to see Tori as a good friend, at times, and Tori was happy when Jade and Beck got back together in Tori Fixes Beck and Jade.
 * 7) Even when she learns that Jade faked being hurt by her and landing Tori in detention, she actually chooses not to confess the truth and accepts the punishment for something she didn't even do.
 * 8) She and her rival Jade do get karma once in a blue moon, like when they had to walk Festus home after destroying his car for "The Wood", but that isn't enough to completely remove her from the Karma Houdini party (and the Idiot Houdini party, due to her stupidity).
 * 9) She's a pretty talented singer, which explains why her singing voice is so good, as mentioned in GQ #2. On top of that, all of her songs are very catchy and cool.
 * 10) The sister relationship between her and Trina is good, with her more sensible and down-to-earth personality playing off of Trina's narcissistic, rude, and desperate for fame attitude.
 * 11) She makes sure to right her wrongs. In Beck's Big Break, she inadvertently gets Beck fired from a movie just for correcting the lead actress and being Beck's friend. However, she manages to get Beck his part back by accidently getting the lead actress injured and replaced.
 * 12) * In Cat's New Boyfriend, she admitted it was wrong for her to spray cheese on Cat and her boyfriend Daniel and later kissed him and apologizes to Cat.
 * 13) The show would not be VicTORIous with her.

Trivia

 * Victoria Justice, her actress, has portrayed other characters like Lola Martinez from mh:besttvshows:Zoey 101, Jordan Sands from The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010), Shelby Marx from iCarly, the Eris Fairy from mh:besttvshows:The Troop and Wren DeSantis from mh:awfulmovies:Fun Size (all of which are likable characters, except for Wren).
 * She has spawned an internet meme, Creeper Tori.
 * The short film for "A Film by Dale Squires" implies Tori and Jade are lesbians.
 * In the episode "Tori and Jade's Play Date", while the titular duo was on that date, they were hit on by two guys they weren't in to, and ended up singing them a song called "Take a Hint", which basically seems like the song equivalent of "Sorry, But We're Gay". It's possibly implied the two guys courting Jade and Tori perceive them as a legitimate couple on a date, but obviously having few restraints still hit on them anyway.
 * While the credits were rolling, there was a shot of Liz Gillies about to kiss Victoria's face, while the latter was still dressed in drag.

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