Tori Vega

Victoria Vega, also known as Astronaut Walter Swain, Butt Cheeks, Cheekbones, Chicken-Hips, Crystal Waters, Louise Nordoff, Muchacha, Officer Pedesko, Sweet Sally Peaches, Tori All The Time and Tori Vega, is the main protagonist from the Victorious series.
== Charactah Account ==
Tori experiences the biggest change of her life during the Big Showcase when she transfers from Sherwood High School to Hollywood Arts. This enables her to learn more about her craft and make new friends and frenemies. Though she is still sometimes out of her element, she is quickly learning how things work at Hollywood Arts and really doesn't know what's coming next at the anything but ordinary school.
Tori is pleasant, positive, kind, easy-going, funny, sweet, intelligent, serious, forgiving, more mature and responsible than her older sister, yet can be shown to be neurotic and impatient and sometimes stresses out at times, though such emotions are usually well warranted. Nevertheless, she is always there when her friends need her, such as in "Rex Dies" when she pretends that Rex came back to life to make Robbie happy and in "Jade Dumps Beck", where she helps Jade and Beck get back together. Although sometimes it seems like they don't care (especially Jade), they really do love her and usually return the favor, such as when Beck did her stunt for her in Beck Falls for Tori and when they all help her to win a private concert from Ke$ha so she won't have to be Trina's assistant in Ice Cream for Ke$ha.
In the beginning of the series, Tori was insecure of herself, as shown in Pilot when she was good enough to get into Hollywood Arts on scholarship and yet still unsure of her acting ability in "The Bird Scene", as indicated by her having to take the test three times. However, as time progresses she is shown to become more confident in her abilities though still retaining her sense of humility. Tori is shown to have an evil side, however, though most people who bring this out are usually fully deserving of whatever misfortune Tori will unleash on them. Throughout the series, she is shown being hostile to Trina on multiple occasions, though such acts are hardly unwarranted. Many of Tori's more hostile moments suggest that she is capable of being as callous as Jade, if not more so, but fears who she could become if she indulges those aspects.
== Appearance ==
=== TV Series ===
* Victorious
* Victorious Season 2
* Victorious Season 3
* Victorious Season 4
== Trivia ==
* Tori, Cat, André, and Jade are the only characters that sang on the show.
* Tori can shoot a bow and arrow with her feet, as seen in "The Breakfast Bunch".
* Tori's locker has the words "Make it Shine" on it, the name of the song she sang in the Pilot episode, and lights up.
* Tori's last name, Vega, is the name of the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.
* "Tori" means "bird" in Japanese. Ironically, she had an audition called "The Bird Scene" which took her three tries.
* Tori is half-Latina from her father's side and half-Irish from her mother's side, an inversion of Victoria Justice's parentage.
* Along with André, Robbie and Jade, Tori appears in every episode. While the roles of the other three would vary in importance, she was always essential to the plot/subplot.
* One of the apps on Tori's phone, TwitFlash, is a Twitter parody.
* Tori loves "iCarly.com" and even has a sticker on her fridge with the name of the web show. She also expressed her love of the show during IParty with Victorious. Fittingly, she was the only one the gang to properly interact with the iCarly trio.
* It’s said in the Pilot that Tori has never had any cavities.
* Tori's screen name is ToriVega.
* Tori is the only main character whose first name can be lengthened into the same as that of their actor, though it is never explicitly confirmed that her first name is "Victoria".
** However, due to a TheSlap.com post where Tori says that her parents would have named her Victor if she was a boy, as well as the working title being "Victoria" and some dubs keeping the title as "Victoria", (e.g. "Brilhante Victória" in Portuguese), it can be reasonably assumed that her full name is Victoria.
* Tori has sung Make It Shine four times ("Pilot", "Survival of the Hottest", "Helen Back Again" with André and "The Breakfast Bunch").
* Aside from her solo performances, Tori has sung duets with André, Cat and Jade.
* Tori is very ticklish under her armpits and on her feet. In "April Fools' Blank" Jade tickles Tori to cheer her up and on TheSlap.com Tori posts about getting a pedicure, which tickled so much she "kicked the woman in the ear by accident".
* Tori has kissed both Jade's and Cat's boyfriends (Beck in the Pilot; Daniel in "Cat's New Boyfriend"). She has also kissed Carly Shay's boyfriend, Steven Carson, but unlike the first two times she kissed another girls' significant other, she and Steven were a couple and she was unaware that he was involved with someone else at the time.
* Tori has been hit five times in the series, by Trina in "Jade Dumps Beck", "Freak the Freak Out," and "Wanko's Warehouse", by Cat in "Cat's New Boyfriend", and by Sinjin in Wanko's Warehouse.
* As seen in The Wood, Tori knows how to sing Forever Baby in Spanish. Also in Tori Tortures Teacher, she understands what Sikowitz says.
* Tori has stickers of Katy Perry, Saving Abel, Jessie J, and a young Dan Schneider in her locker which shows she might be a fan of them.
* An interesting note is that before Victoria Justice was cast, the gender of "Alex Mitchell" was a bit ambiguous; even boys auditioned for the role.
* One of Tori's costumes is owned by Carly Shay from iCarly.
* In "Sleepover at Sikowitz's", Tori played a cop named "Officer Pedesco" who loved Raisin Bran cereal and in the end was the only who didn't break character. This is interesting, as Tori's father is a cop.
* Tori has twice pretended to be someone else, Louise Nordoff in "Freak the Freak Out" and Crystal Waters in "Beck's Big Break". Both times, she was able to save her friends trapped in different situations: Jade and Cat for being cheated off in their singing contest and getting Beck's job back.
* Another note is that Tori can also impersonate other people: Jade West in "Jade Gets Crushed" and Andre's grandmother in "The Bad Roommate".
** Coincidentally, both times she impersonated them, Tori was helping André overcome his situations. She impersonated Jade to help André get over her and impersonated his grandmother to help him understand how it's like living with her.
* Tori has a fear of doing stunts, as revealed in "Beck Falls for Tori".
* In "Tori Gets Stuck" it was revealed Tori is allergic to Bush Daisies.
** It’s also revealed that Tori has an O- blood type.
* Tori reveals in the crossover that she used to watch All That (a former show on Nickelodeon, and Dan Schneider's first show for the channel).
* There’s a recurring gag on the show about Tori's cheekbones, from people complimenting or commenting on them (Mrs. Lee, Ryder, Rex and Freddie) to asking her if they're real (Ke$ha). Tori's cheekbones are squeezed by Kenan Thompson during iParty with Victorious.
* Tori is very skilled at ping pong, as seen in The Great Ping Pong Scam.
* Tori wears glasses, but this wasn't revealed until she posted a video on TheSlap that showed her wearing glasses. She wore glasses in almost every scene at home in "Helen Back Again". Cat mentions in "Three Girls and a Moose" that Tori almost always wears her glasses when she is at home alone though it is unclear whether the glasses are corrective (and even then, they may just be for reading), a focusing tool or she wears them as props for her Slap videos.
** It can be implied that Tori wears contacts.
* Tori was initially terrible at playing musical instruments, such as the French horn ("Stage Fighting") and the piccolo ("Beck's Big Break"), but mastered the piano by the time of "Tori Goes Platinum".
* Tori was the owner of a fish named Goldie from June 24, 2009 to July 22, 2011. She also used to have a hamster named Kevin, as established in "Terror on Cupcake Street".
* Tori has owned a black ("Pilot" and possibly in "iParty with Victorious"), pink (Season 1), and blue (Season 2) Pear Phone.
* While Tori was in Yerbanian prison, she presumably learned how to speak some limited Yerbanian because she spoke in a foreign language to one of the prisoners.
* Tori had two boyfriends in the series, the first being Ryder Daniels in "Beggin' on Your Knees" and Steven Carson on "iParty with Victorious".
** An interesting note is that all of Tori's boyfriends (Daniel, Ryder and Steven) have all been the main antagonists in their episodes, though Daniel himself didn’t appear to have malicious intentions towards Tori and shared the antagonist role with Jade.
* Tori is an Honor Student.
* Despite being a year younger than Trina, Tori is the taller of the two despite Trina's frequent wearing of heels.
* Tori is considered to not take enough risks in The Gorilla Club, though the other five in the main group don't seem to take many, if any, risks when it comes to performing.
* Tori doesn’t have a driver's license "like a normal teenage girl" as seen in "Driving Tori Crazy" and later in "Brain Squeezers". However, her parents tried to bribe her with a car in "Locked Up!".
* Tori wears a pink watch in "Tori & Jade's Play Date", and a red watch in "How Trina Got In", both on her right arm, even though, like Victoria Justice, she is right handed.
** There are people who wear their watches on their dominant hand, so it is possible Tori is one of those people.
* Out of all the characters, Tori has the most fans on TheSlap, with over a million fans, possibly due to her performance at the Platinum Music Awards. This is somewhat ironic considering that she cared the least about getting more followers in The Slap Fight.
* Jade's number is blocked on Tori's phone.
* Tori has kissed every boy in the show, with the exception of André.
* Tori has shown her stomach more times than any other girl in the show, such as in shorts and a tied tank top ("Survival of the Hottest"), white jeans and a black/gold tank top ("Freak the Freak Out"), briefly in black jeans and a red sequin tank top (Locked Up!), skinny jeans and a purple rose t-shirt ("The Breakfast Bunch"), low-rise sweatpants and a pink lace-up top ("The Gorilla Club"), a magenta tank top and matching lace top ("The Worst Couple"), and a pink sequin crop top with floral jeans ("Tori Fixes Beck and Jade").
* Tori hates being swayed by Trina in "Freak the Freak Out".
* As stated in "iParty with Victorious", Tori bears an uncanny resemblance to Shelby Marx (a character Victoria Justice portrayed on iCarly before Victorious first aired), though Freddie noted Tori was "waaay hotter" than Shelby.
** The iCarly episode "iStart a Fanwar" featured Stacey Dillsen, a character from Zoey 101, which means that Tori has another doppelgänger in the form of Lola Martinez.
* Tori is the only main character to never have a flashback episode (the rest of the gang appeared in one in "The Great Ping Pong Scam" and Trina had one in "How Trina Got In") leading her to be the character whose past is the least known. Her first scene (and frequent signs of higher intelligence) implies that she may have been interested in the sciences before coming to Hollywood Arts.
* As the protagonist, Tori made a big impact throughout the show. Had Tori not attended Trina's showcase and not gotten into Hollywood Arts, Beck and Jade would have broken up forever in "Jade Dumps Beck", the gang would have been arrested in the "The Great Ping Pong Scam", the gang would have been banned from Karaoke Dokie in "Freak the Freak Out", André's musical career would have ended in "The Diddly-Bops", Jade's play in "Wok Star" would never have been produced, Ryder Daniels would never have been exposed, and Robbie would likely have died due to the events of "Tori Gets Stuck".
* In "The Breakfast Bunch", Tori bemoans that she has never had detention before. However, in "Stage Fighting" she received 2 weeks of detention for "hitting" Jade. Either she got out of that punishment or the former episode is considered non-canon.
* As seen in several episodes, Tori gets along better with her parents than Trina does.
* "Cat's New Boyfriend" establishes that Tori doesn’t like wearing skirts over jeans, something Victoria Justice's character, Lola Martinez, infrequently did in Season 2 of Zoey 101. Likewise, in a TheSlap post, Tori was annoyed by Trina practicing her scream for three days and cheered when she (Trina) lost her voice, events that happened to Lola in the Zoey 101 episode "Quarantine."
* Tori's backstory seems to hybridize elements of Lola and Zoey's from Zoey 101. She is the newest, most talented, and viewed by the school at large as the most attractive member of the group, and played by Victoria Justice (Lola) while also being a perpetually happy girl that everyone goes to for advice and help (Zoey).
* Tori is the only known student at Hollywood Arts to have been invited to attend rather than having auditioned for her spot, although her performance at the showcase could have been considered by the school to be an unofficial audition, making an official one unnecessary.
* Tori Vega talks like a valley girl like Kim Kardashian. Mostly when jade imitates Tori jade sounds likes Scarlett O’Hara in the south. Jade was going to imitate Tori she should use a valley girl accent like Kim Kardashian.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Tori Vega at Victorious Wiki
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