History Characters / DickTracy1930sEra

* TotallyNotACriminalFront: He and Texie Garcia disguised their dope-smuggling behind the front of a bakery, concealing the dope within loaves of bread.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: He and Texie Garcia disguised their dope-smuggling behind the front of a bakery, concealing the dope within loaves of bread.
* GambitRoulette: He and Texie Garcia knew that Tracy had evidence fingering them as members of a dope smuggling ring, so they hired Junior on as a bread delivery boy in order to gradually win his trust and find out information they could use to get the evidence away from Tracy. Unfortunately for them, Junior decided to break open one of the loaves.

* DeathByAdaptation[=/=]AdaptationalVillainy: Lips actually successfully reformed and escaped his life of crime in the comic strip.

* YouGotSpunk: Jimmy's impressed with The Kid and offers to let him hang out with his gang, The 25 Club.

* {{Archenemy}}: One of Tracy's most recurring foes.

* SimpleStaff: Carried one in her Willa Scarlett guise.

* BastardBoyfriend: In his 2010s storyline, he ordered his men to open fire on the Black Piranha and Willa Scarlett (Belle in disguise), knowing Belle would likely be caught in the crossfire.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: His final appearance has him dying of a heart attack as an old man, decades after his prime, with his wish to kill Tracy unfulfilled.
* KarmaHoudini: Technically, Big Boy dies of natural causes and is never arrested or killed.

* AccidentalMurder: He didn't plan to shoot Hank Steele, but he was startled amd pulled the trigger when the blind man put up a fight and hit Stooge with his cane.

* StealingFromTheTill: Shortly after she was hired, she secretly began taking the cash receipts Mary entrusted her with putting in the bank and giving them to her bank teller boyfriend who used them to bet at the horse races. Since they always won enough to put the money back in Mary's account, Toby figured as long as she was only borrowing the money for a bit, it was okay. She was unaware that Mark was embezzling from other customers as well until he decided to go for broke and bet '''5000 dollars of embezzled money''' and his streak of luck wore out.
* SuspiciousSpending: Tracy starts suspecting she's up to something when he sees her wearing a dress he recognizes as seeing in a shop window for 75 bucks--''way'' above the twelve bucks a week Mary's giving her as a cashier. When Mary questions her--subtly--about her family and the tutoring job she mentioned, Toby's evasive.

* ExpansionPackPast: Was involved in the Xylon Conspiracy, which was retconned into the strip's timeline in the 1980's.

* VillainousLegacy: In the 2000's, a teenager called Little Boy tried to resurrect Big Boy's criminal empire, even restoring the hotel penthouse he once ran his empire from. He claimed that Big Boy was his grandfather, but in reality, they weren't related, and Little Boy was actually invoking this trope.

* BastardBoyfriend: In his 2010's storyline, he ordered his men to open fire on the Black Piranha and Willa Scarlett (Belle in disguise), knowing Belle would likely be caught in the crossfire.

* BreakoutCharacter: Arguably the best known villain of the 30's era, particularly after the movie made him a major character.

* TakingTheKids: After getting married to Kress Kroywen, her father-in-law insisted on using their baby to test the vaccine he'd devised for a sleeping sickness that had been killing infants. Toby found herself less than enthused with the prospect of her baby being experimented on, less so by a guy who wasn't even a practicing doctor, so she left the house with the kid and ran to Dick Tracy for protection.

* BeneathNotice: After taking up a maid job for a member of Boris Arson's gang, she realized she was working for crooks and began eavesdropping on their plans. Boris was suspicious of her at first, but foolishly allowed her to clean the room they'd been planning in allowing her to pick up evidence of their massive plot to steal from six federal bank vaults and take it to Washington DC.

* ForcefulKiss: After she declares to the papers that she's engaged to Tracy, which causes Tess to break up with him, he goes to confront her. When Tracy tells her she cost him his fiancee, she laughs and declares that impossible as ''she's'' his fiancee, then grabs him for one of these. Tracy [[WouldHitAGirl slaps her]].

* AdultFear: After she got married, her husband Kress Kroywen's father (who'd been to medical school, but wasn't a doctor) wanted to test a dangerous sleeping sickness vaccine on she and Kress's baby. She fled, hiding the baby in a suitcase, but got separated from her child.

* BackAlleyDoctor: The good news is that Larceny Lu managed to patch up all the wounds he got his prison escape and he lived. The bad news is that she doesn't go by "Facial Reconstruction Lu" for [[MadEye good]] [[NightmareFace reason]].

* EvilMakesYouUgly: Justified. Years of taking damage as a result of his criminal activities and hard living, as well as going to {{Back Alley Doctor}}s really added up on Steve's face. Once he reforms, he actually starts looking somewhat presentable again.

* CallingTheOldManOut: When Jimmy's father comes to visit him in prison, Jimmy at first can't bear to face him, but when his dad asks why Jimmy started his life of crime, Jimmy snaps and angrily blames the old man for neglecting him before disowning him.

* ForcedIntoEvil: Or at least more evil than he'd planned for. After Jimmy agreed to an interview at Jean Penfield home for her crime book, his lawyer Spaldoni made him steal her manuscript. Although he was very reluctant about doing so, Jimmy eventually went through with it, knocking Penfield out and swiping it, although it turned out he only got the first two chapters. Later, the powerful gangster Big Boy, whom Jean's book was exposing, '''insists''' Jimmy get the rest of the manuscript.

* YoureNotMyFather: As mentioned above, Jimmy furiously disowns his father after blaming the man for his becoming a criminal. Although upset, his father ultimately decides [[IHaveNoSon not to bail him out]], possibly as a result.

* PetTheDog: His mother describes his changing his name before becoming a criminal as his one good act.
* TheStarscream: He was secretly stealing money from Big Boy with the intent of using it to take over.

* ExternalCombustion: After failing to get the rest of his manuscript, he and his crooked lawyer tried to kill her with a car bomb.

* AdultFear: After she got married, Kress Kroywen's father (who'd been to medical school, but wasn't a doctor) wanted to test a dangerous sleeping sickness vaccine on she and Kress's baby. She fled, hiding the baby in a suitcase, but got separated from her child.

* BastardBoyfriend: In his 2010's storyline, he ordered his men to open fire on the Black Piranha and Willa Scarlett Belle in disguise), knowing Belle would likely be caught in the crossfire.

* IntercontinuityCrossOver: She mentioned being friend with a girl named Harley, who worked for a certain Mr. J.

* LoveTriangle: Yeah, she wishes!

* NoCelebritieswereHarmed: Resembles Claudette Colbert.

* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: She seemed to get the notion in her head after her a newspaper worker asked if they were engaged, mistaking Tracy's joyful embrace at seeing at seeing her alive for something way deeper than friendship. Tracy was amused by the question, but found Jean's delusional engagement announcement and subsequent break-up with a misunderstanding Tess considerably less funny.

* StarvingArtist: Inverted. Her books are wildly successful, enough so for her to able to casually draw $20,000 1934 dollars out of her account so she can bail Jimmy White out.

* ColdBloodedTorture: When Mary starts getting cold feet about meeting Junior again Larceny Lu drops her friendly veneer, and has her henchman Mortimer ''viciously whip'' Mary's bare back. Eventually, she cracks and agrees in order to make the pain stop.