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'''Abed Gubi Nadir''' ({{Lang-ar|عابد القوبي نادر}} '''Ābid al-Qūbī Nādir'''; played by [[Danny Pudi]]) is a young, emotionally reserved, [[Palestinian Americans|Palestinian]]-[[Polish Americans|Polish]]-[[Multiracial Americans|American]] pop-culture enthusiast who aspires to become a director and is currently taking film directing classes at Greendale. ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' ranked him first in their list of the 20 Best Characters of 2011, describing him as "the show's emotional center" and saying "his pop-culture obsessions and antics with his buddy Troy have made for some of the show's finest moments."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/12/the-20-best-tv-characters-of-2011.html?p=2 |title=The 20 Best TV Characters of 2011 |date=December 5, 2011 |first=Josh |last=Jackson |work=List of the Day |publisher=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |access-date=March 29, 2013 |quote=It quickly became apparent, though, that he was the show's emotional center—that everyone around him was a little disturbed, and he would be the one holding it all together. And when he reached that point of emotional overload in Season Two, the result was 'Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas,' Community's best episode that didn't involve paintball. His pop-culture obsessions and antics with his buddy Troy have made for some of the show's finest moments, particularly the closing segments like the absurdist Troy and Abed in the Morning. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626205744/http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/12/the-20-best-tv-characters-of-2011.html?p=2 |archive-date=June 26, 2013}}</ref>
Abed Nadir is an alumnus of Greendale Community College. Abed had a troublesome life growing up due to a limited extent to his parents. There was social disunity between them as Abed's dad is a [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] from the [[Gaza Strip]] and his mom is [[Polish American]]. Abed has autism, which makes it hard for him to understand and relate to people or display empathy in a normal way.
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'''Piercinald Anastasia''' "'''Pierce'''" '''Hawthorne'''{{efn|In "[[Pillows and Blankets]]", the details given on Pierce's medical history (including his residence and date of birth) show his full name as '''"Pierce Cornelius Hawthorne"'''.}} (played by [[Chevy Chase]]; seasons 1–4 main cast, season 5 guest), born August 10, 1943, deceased c. 2014, is a [[moist towelette]] [[tycoon]] attending Greendale Community College. His father founded Hawthorne Wipes, the award-winning moist towelette company.<ref name="Greendale site">{{cite web |title=Greendale Community College |url=http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209210223/http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/ |archive-date=February 9, 2010 |access-date=February 16, 2010 |publisher=NBC}}</ref> He claims to be a [[Backpacking (travel)|world traveler]], a [[toastmaster]], [[Magic (illusion)|magician]], [[keyboardist]], and self-styled [[Hypnotherapy|hypnotherapist]], and considers himself a "quality-of-life person".<ref name="Greendale site" />
He enrolled in Greendale in 1999, looking for friendship and popularity, but is held back by his clumsiness and lack of tolerance. Much older than most Greendale students, he is often confused by youth culture while still embracing it. ("[[Introduction to Statistics (Community)|Introduction to Statistics]]"). He also unknowingly buys into many [[Sexism|sexist]] and [[Racism|racist]] stereotypes, which often lead him to make offensive statements, the nature of which he's completely unaware. Much of this is directed at Shirley, whom he sometimes mistakes for other black women ("[[The Art of Discourse]]"); Abed, whom he suspects is a [[Terrorism|terrorist]] because he is [[Muslim]]; and Jeff, whom he actively tries to roast in an attempt to be cool, despite his inability to do so with wit. This leads Troy to start up a [[Twitter]] account with 600,000 followers called "oldwhitemansays" ("[[Anthropology 101]]"), documenting anything controversial said by Pierce. When he finds out, he is furious at Troy until Troy reveals the number of followers, prompting Pierce to encourage Troy to keep the account going. After his behavior became merciless in season 2, the study group put Pierce on a "diet" with a strict limit on when and how often he can say offensive things. ("[[Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy]]") Although he has occasionally made negative comments about Jews, he has also said that Annie Edison (the only Jewish member of the group) is his favorite person in it ("[[Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]"). It is also suspected that he has subdued feelings for the second youngest female in the group, Britta Perry. Given his age, eccentricity and out-of-touch behavior, Pierce occasionally surprises his friends with wise insight and advice when they truly need it.
Though he considers himself to be a "Reformed Neo-[[Buddhism|Buddhist]],", he is a member of an obscure religious cult. In season 1's "[[The Science of Illusion]],", the group tricks him into dressing as the [[Cookie Crisp]] Wizard to achieve a level of ascension in his cult. His religion also plays an important role when his mother dies in the season 2 episode "[[The Psychology of Letting Go]]" and Pierce believes his "Buddhist" teachings that she will be reborn, carrying a canister of what he thinks is his mother's soul around (in actuality a [[lava lamp]]). When, along with Jeff and Troy, he listens to a [[compact disc]] made by his mother telling him she's gone and encouraging him to let her go and live his life, Pierce simply shrugs it off as her losing her mind. At the same time, Jeff decides he's better off with that rationale and lets him continue with his belief.
Pierce has been married seven times and has 32 "ex-stepchildren" he tries to be close with, though most of them either avoid him or take advantage of him for his [[wealth]]. He is the author of Greendale's unusual school song and was a member of Vaughn's band for a brief time. He is also severely [[Claustrophobia|claustrophobic]]. Because of his moist towelette business, Pierce is very wealthy and owns a mansion, where Troy also lives over the summer and during the second year. It has been shown that Pierce may often act out because of how he was raised by his cruel, bigoted father Cornelius, who even went to the extent of hiring another boy to play Pierce in a commercial while scorning and putting down the real Pierce ("[[Celebrity Pharmacology]]").
In season 2, Pierce becomes more agitated at the study group for leaving him out of their activities. He temporarily joins an elderly group of students who act like teenagers called the Hipsters to feel accepted ("[[Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples]]"). He breaks both of his legs in a trampoline accident after revealing a secret trampoline Jeff and Troy were hiding ("[[Aerodynamics of Gender]]"). To move around, he buys himself an ineffective wheelchair powered by his breath, for which he claims to have outbid three hospitals. After this, he grows dependent on his painkillers and also becomes increasingly at odds with the study group because of the combination of his heartless behavior and their tendency to exclude him from their activities. He begins to play the role of the study group's villain, but both trends seem to subside when he comes to terms with the group after overdosing on his painkillers. These underlying tensions come to a head in "[[A Fistful of Paintballs]]", when it's revealed that the other members of the group secretly took a vote about whether they'd include him in the group next year, with only Annie voting to keep him in; by the end of "[[For a Few Paintballs More]],", while the other group members have reconsidered and are willing to let him back in the group, Pierce says he's not interested in staying with "whatever this is". He also tells the group that he assumes all of his relationships will end, so he continually tests and provokes people and why all seven marriages failed. He had never kept a group of friends at Greendale for longer than a semester (until he joined the study group).
However, at the start of season 3, he promptly returns and rejoins the study group, regaining an overall center of relaxation. Having always sought the approval of his even more bigoted father, Cornelius Hawthorne ([[Larry Cedar]]), he becomes more uncooperative after his death ("[[Advanced Gay]]"). After Hawthorne Wipes's board subsequently fires him, he tries to open up a sandwich shop on campus with Shirley. The sandwich shop's space is rented out instead to Subway, and together, Pierce and Shirley work to sabotage the Subway restaurant. In "Curriculum Unavailable,", Shirley delivers a speech against the Subway restaurant, and it is destroyed in the ensuing riot. In "Introduction to Finality,", Dean Pelton then offers the space to Shirley and Pierce, but because there is only one signature space, Pierce and Shirley file suit for the rights to the sandwich shop. After an inspirational Winger speech, Pierce fires his lawyer, Alan Connor ([[Rob Corddry]]), and he and Shirley agree to have joint ownership of Shirley's Sandwich Shop by having Jeff sign the papers.
In the season 4 finale, "[[Advanced Introduction to Finality]],", Pierce finally graduates from Greendale. He later appears in a cameo during the season 5 premiere, "[[Repilot|Repilot,]]", as a pre-recorded [[hologram|holographic projection]] in a courtyard at Greendale. It is revealed that the hologram was donated in compliance with a court order he was "not allowed to discuss" and that he has "no legal right" to be on the Greendale campus as a result of the lawsuit. The recording also reveals that the Greendale College Quad is home to the "Pierce Hawthorne Museum of Gender Sensitivity and Sexual Potency". In the season 5 episode "[[Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]", Shirley reveals that Pierce has died; in the following episode, "[[Cooperative Polygraphy]]", the group is forced to take a [[Polygraph test|lie detector test]] in compliance with Pierce's [[Will and testament|will]] to prove that none of them murdered him. He leaves the group bittersweet parting words and generous gifts. He leaves Troy his remaining shares in his moist towelette company, worth over $14 million. As a condition, he insists that Troy must sail around the world since when Pierce himself had the opportunity, he spent it cruising around [[Belize]] doing [[cocaine]] with [[John Denver]]. He leaves Shirley his [[timeshare]] in [[Florida]], Britta an [[iPod Nano]] filled with his favorite music, and Jeff an expensive bottle of [[Scotch whisky|scotch]]. He also leaves each member of the study group a cryogenic cylinder of his frozen [[sperm]] should they like to continue his legacy, the filling of which [[Autoerotic fatality|is revealed to have caused his death]].
=== Ben Chang ===