History Characters / JustifiedCloverHill

->'''Played By:''' Rocky [=McMurray=]

->'''Played By:''' Robin Riker

->'''Played By:''' Ned Bellamy

->'''Played By:''' Grainger Hines

* YourCheatingHeart: Arnold is married but frequents prostitutes.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SamAnderson, Ned Bellamy, Grainger Hines, Brian Howe

->'''Played By:''' Brian Howe

[[folder:Mara]]
!!Mara Paxton
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Lee will never again be the man I married."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KarolinaWydra

Lee Paxton's Russo-Latvian trophy wife.

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Mara's hardly innocent, but in "Shot All To Hell" she is splattered with blood after Mooney's assassination.
* FemmeFatale: She hits all the hallmarks, using her sexuality to manipulate Boyd, Mooney, and Lee.
* GoldDigger: The reason she married Lee Paxton, and the reason she's so eager to keep him alive. She doesn't get his money unless they've been married for ten years.
* GroinAttack: She gives a much-deserved one to Mooney.
* MailOrderBride: She signed some kind of 'contract' when she married Lee Paxton. Though, considering that ordinary pre-nuptial agreements are contractual in nature (most of which modify inheritance rights between spouses), the contract might be a normal pre-nup, to guard against her obvious GoldDigger tendencies. And though it's clear she's not from the US, it's not stated whether she came to Kentucky as a mail order bride, or whether she had just been a hard-luck immigrant who latched onto Paxton by some other means.
* MayDecemberRomance: She's married to Lee Paxton, who's twice her age.
* OpportunisticBastard: Goes back and forth between Boyd and Lee, trying to figure out who will help her live the life she wants. In the end, it doesn't pay off for her.
* OutGambitted: By Boyd.
* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Mara weighs her options after Boyd beats Lee Paxton into a coma. She can protect Boyd in exchange for $300,000, or she can turn Boyd in and thereby pacify Nick Mooney. Either choice would make an enemy out of one of the men, but both men will continue to threaten her if she fails to make a choice. She eventually sides with Boyd against Mooney, although she keeps this from Paxton after he revives.
* SensualSlav: Mara is extremely sexy, and isn't above using her striking good looks to manipulate others. It's seen most clearly when she fondles a shirtless Boyd.
* ShipTease: With Boyd. They flirt and threaten plenty, but it ultimately goes nowhere.
* TrophyWife: For the much older Lee Paxton, who's very pleased with himself for nabbing a young, sexy wife.
* UglyGuyHotWife: With Lee Paxton.

[[folder:Arnold]]
!!Arnold
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->'''Played By:''' Brian Howe

A married judge-executive and Clover Hiller who frequents Ellen May to indulge in his furry fetish.

* AffablyEvil: He cheats on his wife, dabbles in powerful drugs and is complicit in the murder of Frank Browning (and like the other Clover Hillers probably had his fingers in all sorts of criminal pies). At the same time, he's jovial and reasonable while not being anywhere near as devious, evil or smug as the likes of Paxton or Johns.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Arnold married a beautiful former cheerleader.
* ButtMonkey: In his first appearance, he's shot by Ellen May. From then on, he's blackmailed and threatened repeatedly.
* HookersAndBlow: He purchases sexual favors from Ellen May (until she shoots him) and shares an unidentified drug with her.
* MadeOfIron: Ellen May pumps several bullets into him. Oddly, he seems perfectly fine when he reappears later in the season. It's possible the bear suit he was wearing at the time helped slow the impact of the bullets.
* MayDecemberRomance: With his wife, who seems a great deal younger than him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Arnold is married but frequents prostitutes.
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[[folder:Johns]]
!!Gerald Johns
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->'''Played By:''' Ned Bellamy

A Clover Hiller and owner of a car dealership.
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[[folder:Browning]]
!!Frank Browning
->'''Played By:''' Rocky [=McMurray=]

The owner of Black Pike Mining, who was at the center of an assassination plot by the Clover Hillers.

* BadBoss: To his bodyguard, Deke. He says that nobody will miss him after his death.
* RichJerk: He's a thoroughly unpleasant person.
* WickedCultured: Browning quotes Hemingway at Boyd.

* SmugSnake: Paxton is 100% convinced that he's an untouchable mastermind. Unfortunately for him, Theo Tonin outranks him.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: They all have shades of this, even the ones who aren't CEOs.

->'''Played By:''' Karolina Wydra

* AffablyEvil: He cheats on his wife, dabbles in powerful drugs and is complicit in the murder of Frank Browning. But he's also not nearly as devious, evil or smug as his fellow Clover Hillers.
* ButtMonkey: In his first appearance, he's shot by Ellen May. From then on, he's blackmailed over and over.

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's a thoroughly unpleasant person.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"My name is Mr. Paxton as far as you're concerned."'']]

* {{Archenemy}}: One of many, to Boyd.

* FemmeFatale: Hits all the hallmarks, using her sexuality to manipulate Boyd, Mooney, and Lee.

* SensualSlav: Seen most clearly when she fondles a shirtless Boyd.
* ShipTease: With Boyd. They flirt and threaten plenty.
* TrophyWife: For the much older Lee Paxton.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Lee is finally killed by Boyd, while he's recovering from previous injuries at home.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Paxton held the Crowder family in his claws for a long time, being TheManBehindTheMan to Bo Crowder. He then insults the man's son, his wife, and everything about him. Paxton puts Ava in prison and humiliates Boyd time and time again for his own sadistic pleasure. It's perfect that Boyd, the man he wronged to such an extent, should finish him while permanently tainting his reputation...the reputation that made Paxton powerful in the first place.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gets a ''brutal'' and wonderfully deserved one from Boyd. [[spoiler:Who proceeds to paint the wall with his brains.]]
-->''"Disposing of murder victims for money? Well that leaves a bad taste in a Christian’s mouth. Small town don’t run on a 24-hour news cycle, a small town ''never'' forgets. Now, word’s gonna burn through these hills and hollers like a wildfire. People of Harlan County, rich and poor, will marvel at your debasement and venality. They will spit venom when they speak your name and they [[spoiler:will take your suicide as the last act of a coward. Now your reputation is ruined, your good word worthless but death will not be the end of your suffering. For generations your children, and your children’s children, will have a mark against their name and that will be your legacy.]]"''

* SickbedSlaying: [[spoiler:Boyd shoots him in his bedroom while he is recuperating from the head injury that Boyd gave him.]]

* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:In a big way. He lords himself over Boyd, mocking him, outright insulting him, telling him to beg and basically hitting every single one of Boyd's berserk buttons on purpose. When he gets to calling Ava 'white trash' Boyd snaps and brutally beats him.]]

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Mara's hardly innocent, but in "Shot All To Hell" she is [[spoiler:splattered with blood after Mooney's assassination.]]

* GoldDigger: The reason she married Lee Paxton, and the reason she's [[spoiler:so eager to keep him alive. She doesn't get his money unless they've been married for ten years.]]
* GroinAttack: She gives a much-deserved one to [[spoiler:Mooney.]]

* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:By Boyd.]]
* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Mara weighs her options after [[spoiler:Boyd beats Lee Paxton into a coma. She can protect Boyd in exchange for $300,000, or she can turn Boyd in and thereby pacify Nick Mooney. Either choice would make an enemy out of one of the men, but both men will continue to threaten her if she fails to make a choice. She eventually sides with Boyd against Mooney, although she keeps this from Paxton after he revives.]]

'''Beware of spoilers! Only major spoilers and spoilers relating to the current season (5) are whited out!'''

* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Boyd arranges for the bodies of several criminals to be dumped at his funeral home, making it look like he was collaborating with criminals. After law enforcement discovers the bodies, Boyd murders Paxton in a manner that could be mistaken for suicide.]]

!Clover Hillers

* AlwaysABiggerFish: They consider themselves the top of the Harlan criminal food chain and are blindsided when [[spoiler:Boyd has Theo Tonin neutralize their political connections]].

* AffablyEvil: He cheats on his wife, dabbles in powerful drugs and is complicit in the [[spoiler:murder of Frank Browning]]. But he's also not nearly as devious, evil or smug as his fellow Clover Hillers.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:He's one of the men who is mistaken for Drew Thompson, and subsequently killed by Tonin's hitman.]]

->'''Played By:''' Sam Anderson, Ned Bellamy, Grainger Hines, Brian Howe

->'''Played By:''' Sam Anderson

[[folder:Lee Paxton]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath: Lee is finally killed by Boyd, while he's recovering from previous injuries at home.]]

* [[spoiler:FrameUp: Boyd arranges for the bodies of several criminals to be dumped at his funeral home, making it look like he was collaborating with criminals. After law enforcement discovers the bodies, Boyd murders Paxton in a manner that could be mistaken for suicide.]]

* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Paxton held the Crowder family in his claws for a long time, being TheManBehindTheMan to Bo Crowder. He then insults the man's son, his wife, and everything about him. Paxton puts Ava in prison and humiliates Boyd time and time again for his own sadistic pleasure. It's perfect that Boyd, the man he wronged to such an extent, should finish him while permanently tainting his reputation...the reputation that made Paxton powerful in the first place.]]

* [[spoiler:SickbedSlaying: Boyd shoots him in his bedroom while he is recuperating from the head injury that Boyd gave him.]]

* [[spoiler:TemptingFate: In a big way. He lords himself over Boyd, mocking him, outright insulting him, telling him to beg and basically hitting every single one of Boyd's berserk buttons on purpose. When he gets to calling Ava 'white trash' Boyd snaps and brutally beats him.]]

[[folder:Mara Paxton]]

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Mara's hardly innocent, but in "Shot All To Hell" she is [[spoiler: splattered with blood after Mooney's assassination.]]

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Mara weighs her options after [[spoiler:Boyd beats Lee Paxton into a coma. She can protect Boyd in exchange for $300,000, or she can turn Boyd in and thereby pacify Nick Mooney. Either choice would make an enemy out of one of the men, but both men will continue to threaten her if she fails to make a choice.]]
** [[spoiler:She eventually sides with Boyd against Mooney, although she keeps this from Paxton after he revives.]]

[[folder:Gerald Johns]]

[[folder:Sam Keener]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath: He's one of the men who is mistaken for Drew Thompson, and subsequently killed by Tonin's hitman.]]