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* TheSociopath: Like the rest of the Gang he doesn't really know what sociopathy/ASPD even really means, and is far too needy emotionally, but the book has him call himself one.
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* HopeCrusher: Takes great joy in crushing his stepchildren, even going as far to find out what they want for Christmas as kids and then filming their faces as they get nothing.
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* SeenItAll: He's completely accepting of being mouth raped by the monkey, as is Mac. RapeAsBackstory besties Charlie and Dennis are the ones who puke onscreen.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the 80s, Frank was in business with Creator/TonyDanza, Danny [=DeVito's=] co-star from ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the 80s, '80s, Frank was in business with Creator/TonyDanza, Danny [=DeVito's=] co-star from ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.
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** After shooting a Black Panther in the early 70s, he spent the better part of a decade hiding out in Colombia working for his brother Gino's cocaine business.
** In the 80s, he had an apricot business with Greg Louganis and a canned oyster business with Tony Danza.
** In the 80s, he had an apricot business with Greg Louganis and a canned oyster business with Tony Danza.
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** After shooting a Black Panther in the early 70s, '70s, he spent the better part of a decade hiding out in Colombia working for his brother Gino's cocaine business.
** In the80s, '80s, he had an apricot business with Greg Louganis and a canned oyster business with Tony Danza.
** In the
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: While he’s just as bad as they are, if not worse, he gets creeped out by Dee/Dennis, and wants to be better for the ''relatively'' nicer Charlie.
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: While he’s just as bad as they are, if not worse, he gets creeped out by Dee/Dennis, Dee and Dennis, and wants to be better for the ''relatively'' nicer Charlie.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Openly and gleefully a selfish, perverted, manipulative, bigoted scumbag, with no pretensions as to being anything else. [[AtLeastIAdmitIt This somehow comes across as an improvement over the rest of the gang]], who are ''also'' selfish, perverted, manipulative, bigoted scumbags but spend their time futility insisting they're not.
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* TheUnreveal: For the first fourteen and a half seasons of the show, it's unconfirmed if he's Charlie's biological father. [[spoiler:Season 15 finally reveals he isn't.]]
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* TheUnreveal: For the first fourteen thirteen and a half seasons of the show, since his debut, it's unconfirmed if he's Charlie's biological father. [[spoiler:Season 15 finally reveals he isn't.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Claims to have played a role in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. [[spoiler:Season 15 reveals him to have been the reason for Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running in the 2020 election.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: BeenThereShapedHistory:
** Claims to have played a role in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. [[spoiler:Season 15 reveals him to have been the reason for Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running in the 2020 election.]]
** Claims to have played a role in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. [[spoiler:Season 15 reveals him to have been the reason for Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running in the 2020 election.]]
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** He was on Jeffrey Epstein's Island, although [[EvenEvilHasStandards only for the snorkeling]] (he was unaware about the pedophilia).
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* ItAmusedMe: Keeping with Frank's hedonistic desire to "get real weird" with his remaining life, he's more willing to indulge in morbid or mundane activies that the rest of the gang aren't interested in. These include hanging out under the bridge and [[NightmareFetishist wearing a gull's skull around his neck for life]], with the same nonplussed justification.
--> '''Frank''': I dunno, it could be cool.
--> '''Frank''': I dunno, it could be cool.
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* NightmareFetishist: When told he would have to wear the skull of a [[Myth/NauticalFolklore seagull that he killed]] for the rest of his life to ward off bad luck, Frank takes it in stride, commenting that it "could be cool."
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-->'''Dee:''' No, no. Stealing millions from your ex-business partner made you a millionaire, Frank.
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-->'''Dee:''' No, no. Stealing millions of dollars from your ex-business partner made you a millionaire, Frank.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Frank is an experienced company owner and operator who seems physically incapable of conducting business in an honest and ethical manner.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Before retirement, Frank is was an experienced company owner and operator businessman who seems was physically incapable of conducting business running his company in an honest and ethical manner.manner.
-->'''Frank:''' You have to earn what you get. This principle made me a multi-millionaire.
-->'''Dee:''' No, no. Stealing millions from your ex-business partner made you a millionaire, Frank.
-->'''Frank:''' You have to earn what you get. This principle made me a multi-millionaire.
-->'''Dee:''' No, no. Stealing millions from your ex-business partner made you a millionaire, Frank.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Claims to have played a role in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. [[spoiler:Season 15 reveals him to have been the reason for Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running in the 2020 election, and shows he was on Epstein's island, though he claims he didn't participate in Epstein's activities, and was only there for snorkeling.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Claims to have played a role in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. [[spoiler:Season 15 reveals him to have been the reason for Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running in the 2020 election, and shows he was on Epstein's island, though he claims he didn't participate in Epstein's activities, and was only there for snorkeling.election.]]
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* ToughLove: He thinks he’s doing this to his stepchildren, wanting Dee to be stronger and Dennis kept in line, but he has really shitty ways of doing it.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Frank is terrible, obliviously sexually abusive to his kids, and refuses to admit that neither Dee nor Dennis were born evil, but he wants to be better, even if he doesn’t know how, is hurt that they think of him as a monster, and is the best husbandfather for Charlie out of a bad lot.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Implied to be the case with the Vietnamese sweatshop he opened in 1993, as he claims a lot of good people died there.
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** The very violent Gang thinks he’s too much, with his game ideas being random horror scenarios (that turn into a parody of Film/{{Saw}} with them all handcuffed in the basement) and acts of violence.
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** The very violent Gang thinks he’s too much, with his game ideas being random horror scenarios (that turn into a parody of Film/{{Saw}} ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' with them all handcuffed in the basement) and acts of violence.
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* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Lampshaded in the first episode of season four, as “he’s got a guy for everything”.
* LackOfEmpathy: Not quite as bad as Dennis, but it's there. He has no problem with running a sweatshop, and is even willing to feed his employees the cooked bodies of their coworkers who died from exhaustion. He also casually admits to having shot a few people who tried to steal shoes from the factory, and feels nothing at all about it. Even his [[NobleDemon moral code]] seems to be more based on pragmatism or a sense of rule-following than it does any feelings towards other people. His epiphany in the Christmas episode wasn't "you're hurting your friends"; but rather [[PragmaticVillainy "if you keep hurting your friends, they'll kill you; so be nice to them."]] The only things that seem to unlock genuine empathy from him are works of art like paintings or interpretive dance and [[MoralityPet Charlie]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Not quite as bad as Dennis, but it's there. He has no problem with running a sweatshop, and is even willing to feed his employees the cooked bodies of their coworkers who died from exhaustion. He also casually admits to having shot a few people who tried to steal shoes from the factory, and feels nothing at all about it. Even his [[NobleDemon moral code]] seems to be more based on pragmatism or a sense of rule-following than it does any feelings towards other people. His epiphany in the Christmas episode wasn't "you're hurting your friends"; but rather [[PragmaticVillainy "if you keep hurting your friends, they'll kill you; so be nice to them."]] The only things that seem to unlock genuine empathy from him are works of art like paintings or interpretive dance and [[MoralityPet Charlie]].
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* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Lampshaded in the first episode of season four, as “he’s got a guy for everything”.
* LackOfEmpathy: Not quite as bad as Dennis, but it's there. He has no problem with running a sweatshop, and is even willing to feed his employees the cooked bodies of their coworkers who died from exhaustion. He also casually admits to having shot a few people who tried to steal shoes from the factory, and feels nothing at all about it. Even his [[NobleDemon moral code]] seems to be more based on pragmatism or a sense of rule-following than it does any feelings towards other people. His epiphany in the Christmas episode wasn't "you're hurting your friends"; but rather [[PragmaticVillainy "if you keep hurting your friends, they'll kill you; so be nice to them."]] The only things that seem to unlock genuine empathy from him are works of art like paintings or interpretive dance and [[MoralityPet Charlie]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Not quite as bad as Dennis, but it's there. He has no problem with running a sweatshop, and is even willing to feed his employees the cooked bodies of their coworkers who died from exhaustion. He also casually admits to having shot a few people who tried to steal shoes from the factory, and feels nothing at all about it. Even his [[NobleDemon moral code]] seems to be more based on pragmatism or a sense of rule-following than it does any feelings towards other people. His epiphany in the Christmas episode wasn't "you're hurting your friends"; but rather [[PragmaticVillainy "if you keep hurting your friends, they'll kill you; so be nice to them."]] The only things that seem to unlock genuine empathy from him are works of art like paintings or interpretive dance and [[MoralityPet Charlie]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: Frank's recollection of his own life is questionable. For example, he often confuses his own life story for the story of [[{{Franchise/Rambo}} John Rambo]]. Moreover, he remembers the "frog kid" being his roommate. during his time in the "nitwit school." It's later revealed this "frog kid" was [[spoiler: actually Frank all along.]]
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** He’ll use every dirty trick in the book to increase his fortune, but he’s not into cryptocurrency.
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* BloodKnight: He seems pretty happy doing water torture and also wanted to kill a serial killer in the episode "[[MistakenForMurderer Mac is a Serial Killer]]."
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** He seems pretty happy doing water torture and also wanted to kill a serial killer in the episode "[[MistakenForMurderer Mac is a Serial Killer]].""
** The very violent Gang thinks he’s too much, with his game ideas being random horror scenarios (that turn into a parody of Film/{{Saw}} with them all handcuffed in the basement) and acts of violence.
** He seems pretty happy doing water torture and also wanted to kill a serial killer in the episode "[[MistakenForMurderer Mac is a Serial Killer]].
** The very violent Gang thinks he’s too much, with his game ideas being random horror scenarios (that turn into a parody of Film/{{Saw}} with them all handcuffed in the basement) and acts of violence.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he does in fact enable the Gang and make them worse, he’s right that they were plenty weird and scheming before he came along.
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** He and Dee pose as an engaged couple, and even go as far as getting married. Although Dee isn't Frank's biological daughter, it's still creepy. In "The Gang Recycles Their Trash", he tries to pimp her out again, pissing her off, and they both end up with ripped clothes.
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** He and Dee pose as an engaged couple, and even go as far as getting married. Although Dee isn't Frank's biological daughter, it's still creepy. In "The Gang Recycles Their Trash", he tries to pimp her out again, pissing her off, and they both end up with ripped clothes. Dee points out one time that for some reason beyond her grasp, her stepfather is talking to her about his cock ring.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: He and Charlie get frequent jokes on behaving and arguing like a married couple, to the point where they do actually get married for a couple of days in season six.
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** Both Dennis and Dee are annoyed by his propensity to pimp them out. His response is to tell them they’re already [[ReallyGetsAround whores]], so he might as well get money for it. He also refuses any responsibility for how they’ve turned out, as even the podcast talks about how the twins could have been far better people if they’d had decent parents.
-->'''Frank''': I know I’ve been a lousy dad, and there’s only one person to blame for that: your whore mother.
** When his stepdaughter is approaching suicidal depression, the most he can come up with his “we realise we may have some potential responsibility for the state you’re in.” and devises a plan with Mac and Charlie to “teach her a lesson” anyway.
** Both Dennis and Dee are annoyed by his propensity to pimp them out. His response is to tell them they’re already [[ReallyGetsAround whores]], so he might as well get money for it. He also refuses any responsibility for how they’ve turned out, as even the podcast talks about how the twins could have been far better people if they’d had decent parents.
-->'''Frank''': I know I’ve been a lousy dad, and there’s only one person to blame for that: your whore mother.
** When his stepdaughter is approaching suicidal depression, the most he can come up with his “we realise we may have some potential responsibility for the state you’re in.” and devises a plan with Mac and Charlie to “teach her a lesson” anyway.
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** "Storm of the Century" also shows he took part in the Rodney King riots, though only minorly.
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** In "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad" he suffers a minor stroke, which could have started the decline of his mental health.
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** He actually states that he forgot to dye his hair, though this was likely due to the blood loss. In "Being Frank" and "2020: A Year in Review", he is shown to dye his hair black, and that his hair is naturally white.
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* TheDreaded: Before his arrival in the show proper, Dee gets a call that he wants to see her and Dennis, and they both flee as fast as possible. Early season two they’d both rather go to jail or get addicted to crack than work with him (again, in Dennis’s case).
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** In the billboard contest, because Dennis had called him ugly, he lets him do the modelling competition and acts like a DirtyOldMan humiliating him specifically until Dennis quits.
** Played with in “The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis”, as Dee was planning to kill him for inheritance, but he waterboards her for entirely different reasons. And Dennis doesn’t help because he’s been told Dee is still planning to kill him (which she isn’t).
** Played with in “The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis”, as Dee was planning to kill him for inheritance, but he waterboards her for entirely different reasons. And Dennis doesn’t help because he’s been told Dee is still planning to kill him (which she isn’t).
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* EntitledToHaveYou: While Dennis is the one placed as the pissy husband with Dee getting an abortion/hair-cut, Frank also gets overly angry when she decides to do it, even offering her a car if she doesn’t get her hair cut. While the others BlatantLies at the end they don’t actually care, he admits he still does.
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* HeManWomanHater: Solely blames Barbara for everything wrong in his family, joins in on bullying Dee and even when he’s pimping her out still complains at her for not being pretty enough, and has sexually harassed countless secretaries.
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* SlutShaming: While the others concentrate on Dee really getting around, he takes delight in pointing out that Dennis is far worse. It’s not [[SkewedPriorities even]] about Dennis being a rapist, he uses it to manipulate him into being a prostitute.
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* StoppedCaring: The end of season two has him grossed out by the thought of his two kids banging. By season fourteen he’s in the middle of their abortion powerplay and accepts that his stepkids acting like a horny married couple is his lot in life.
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* SexualExtortion: Has no regrets about getting secretaries with no experience to have sex with him, and then promote them.
