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* KickTheSonOfABitch: She refuses to intervene when Duffy and Mikey torture Albert, the sexual predator who targeted Ava in prison.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: She refuses to intervene when Duffy and Mikey torture Albert, the sexual predator who targeted Ava in prison.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Duffy repeatedly shoots Cyrus with his own air gun in "Good Intentions", the same air gun Cyrus used on a mentally disabled man in "The Kids Aren't All Right". In ''Sounding", he orders Mikey to torture Albert (a sexual predator) with a cattle prod for information.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Duffy repeatedly shoots Cyrus with his own air gun in "Good Intentions", the same air gun Cyrus used on a mentally disabled man in "The Kids Aren't All Right". In ''Sounding", he orders Mikey to torture Albert (a sexual predator) with a cattle prod for information.
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: His Lincoln Town Car is a little more luxurious than the average government-issued vehicle, although it's possible Raylan could have bought it with his own money. It's lampshaded by Dewey Crowe in the pilot episode.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Of the Lexington marshals, Tim is an ever-so-slightly better shot than Raylan. Although Raylan still has a deadly aim and unmatched quick-draw skills, in a tense situation where both men are present Raylan usually trusts Tim to take the shot.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: When Katherine Hale comes to kill him, Duffy maintains his cool and snarky demeanor while calling her out for cheating on Grady with Markham, and calmly admits to ratting Grady out due to there being NoHonorAmongThieves.]] [[spoiler: It's ultimately subverted when Mikey ends up sacrificing his own life to kill Katherine and save Duffy.]]
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: When he believes Katherine is going to kill him, Duffy remains glib and apparently unconcerned, calling her out on sleeping with Markham, and mocking her supposed love for Grady.
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* SaveTheVillain: He frequently rescues Boyd, or at least lends him aid. He also ''very'' reluctantly saves Dickie from being killed by Ash.
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* CowboyCop: He admits he used to be one in his youth, before settling down and becoming more responsible. He half-jokingly tells Nichols Raylan is his punishment for the hell he put his superiors through.
* ItsPersonal: "Cut Ties" has him lead the hunt for the killer of his best friend Bill Nichols. Art winds up acting strikingly like Raylan, to the point of beating a confession out of the killer.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Raylan is publicly exposed as sleeping with Ava, Art berates him and refuses to banter with him because of how furious he is.
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** After Raylan is publicly exposed as sleeping with Ava, Art berates him and refuses to banter with him because of how furious heis.is.
** It's a sign of how personally he's taken Bill Nichols's death in "Cut Ties" that he beats a confession out of Terry Powe.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He tortures a confession out of Terry Powe in "Cut Ties", but considering that Terry was a murderer willing to sell out numerous innocent people out of selfishness and boredom, it's difficult to feel too bad for him.
** After Raylan is publicly exposed as sleeping with Ava, Art berates him and refuses to banter with him because of how furious he
** It's a sign of how personally he's taken Bill Nichols's death in "Cut Ties" that he beats a confession out of Terry Powe.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He tortures a confession out of Terry Powe in "Cut Ties", but considering that Terry was a murderer willing to sell out numerous innocent people out of selfishness and boredom, it's difficult to feel too bad for him.
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* PoliceBruality: In "Cut Ties", he beats Terry Powe and threatens to shoot him unless he tells Art which of Nichols's witnesses he sold out.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives a vicious one to Terry Powe in "Cut Ties" for killing Art's friend Bill Nichols and selling out numerous protected witnesses.
--> '''Art:''' So, the only people you intended to hurt were your fellow protectees people in the exact same position as you, living scared every day of their lives. Except that maybe some of them were in the Witness Protection program 'cause they wanted to do the right thing and not because [[DirtyCoward they were a sniveling, murdering piece of shit like you, who just wanted to stay out of jail.]]
--> '''Art:''' So, the only people you intended to hurt were your fellow protectees people in the exact same position as you, living scared every day of their lives. Except that maybe some of them were in the Witness Protection program 'cause they wanted to do the right thing and not because [[DirtyCoward they were a sniveling, murdering piece of shit like you, who just wanted to stay out of jail.]]
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Boyd spends the first two seasons sincerely trying to reform, but no one on either side of the law believes he's really changed and he quickly finds his honest job as a coal miner brings him no satisfaction. Eventually, he snaps and decides to embrace being a criminal, deciding he should follow in his father's example.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Boyd spends the first two seasons sincerely trying to reform, but no one on either side of the law believes he's really changed and he quickly finds his honest job as a coal miner brings him no satisfaction. Eventually, he snaps and decides to embrace being a criminal, deciding he should follow in his father's example. When Ava asks him why after the fact, he explains:
-->'''Boyd:''' Because it's what I do. It's who I am, Ava. As hard as I've been trying to pretend otherwise. Everybody else seems to know that but me.
-->'''Boyd:''' Because it's what I do. It's who I am, Ava. As hard as I've been trying to pretend otherwise. Everybody else seems to know that but me.
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* BadBoss: Zig-zags between this and a BenevolentBoss. He treats his men kindly and respectfully, but he'll quickly abandon or kill them if he deems them a liability.
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* BadassBookworm: He's a bibliophile and one of the series's preeminent badasses.
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* WorthyOpponent: According to Walton Goggins, he respects Mags a great deal despite ultimately coming into conflict with her.
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* BenevolentBoss: ZigZagged. Boyd can be a quite pleasant boss to work for and treats his men well for the most part, but he's downright ruthless about [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing off liabilities]].
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* TotallyRadical: He sarcastically indulges in this in "Hatless".
--> '''Duffy:''' Come on, Emmett. Show me the benjamins the homies are always rapping about.
--> '''Duffy:''' Come on, Emmett. Show me the benjamins the homies are always rapping about.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Deep down, Raylan really does want Arlo's love and approval, but he knows his father well enough that he realizes the old bastard will never give it to him. It's hammered home when Arlo confesses to killing a "man in the hat" (a state trooper, but he didn't know that) to protect Boyd.
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* WhiteSheep: One of the only examples played straight. Raylan is a deeply flawed man, but he's the only Givens not to be a criminal or involved in illegal activity.
* TheWhyWaitCombatant: Raylan is generally this, helped by being a QuickDraw. The specific example that provides the page quote happens in Season 3, when Quarles threatens Raylan after finding out that he's not dirty and he's been looking into Quarles's past via the FBI. He tells him that he'll kill him one day, to which Raylan shoots at the ceiling and replies "Why wait?" They don't end up fighting because Lindsey the bartender pulls a gun on both of them and tells them she won't have it in her bar.
* TheWhyWaitCombatant: Raylan is generally this, helped by being a QuickDraw. The specific example that provides the page quote happens in Season 3, when Quarles threatens Raylan after finding out that he's not dirty and he's been looking into Quarles's past via the FBI. He tells him that he'll kill him one day, to which Raylan shoots at the ceiling and replies "Why wait?" They don't end up fighting because Lindsey the bartender pulls a gun on both of them and tells them she won't have it in her bar.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: A FriendlyEnemy variant with Raylan. Despite being on opposite sides of the law and having tried to kill each other, they're both fairly friendly and frequently tease each other.
* WeaponSpecialization: Boyd loves his explosives, especially rocket launchers. As far as side-arms go, he carries the Beretta 92FS he was issued in Desert Storm.
* WeaponSpecialization: Boyd loves his explosives, especially rocket launchers. As far as side-arms go, he carries the Beretta 92FS he was issued in Desert Storm.
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* TheUnfavorite: He may be Arlo's only biological son, but Arlo views Boyd as an adoptive son and much prefers him to Raylan, since he's just as intelligent as Raylan and a con man and criminal like Arlo.
* ShootTheHostageTaker: When Jess Timmons takes his captive hostage at the climax of "The Life Inside" and threatens to shoot her, Tim steps in.
-->'''Raylan:''' Jess, you ever hear about a spot snipers call the apricot? It's where the brain stem meets the spine. Hit a fella there, he ain't gonna pull no trigger. It's just, lights out.\\
'''Jess:''' Oh, what, you're telling me you're that good?\\
'''Raylan:''' Me? ''[Shakes his head, gestures to Tim, beside him.]''\\
'''Jess:''' Really? Okay, this is how this is going to go [[KilledMidSentence down]] — ''[Tim takes the shot, perfectly.]''
-->'''Raylan:''' Jess, you ever hear about a spot snipers call the apricot? It's where the brain stem meets the spine. Hit a fella there, he ain't gonna pull no trigger. It's just, lights out.\\
'''Jess:''' Oh, what, you're telling me you're that good?\\
'''Raylan:''' Me? ''[Shakes his head, gestures to Tim, beside him.]''\\
'''Jess:''' Really? Okay, this is how this is going to go [[KilledMidSentence down]] — ''[Tim takes the shot, perfectly.]''
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: After rescuing Raylan, he decides to murder Dickie and Raylan chooses not to stop him, viewing it as a fitting end for Dickie. Dickie points out Raylan needs him to get past Mags and Doyle's men, at which point he reluctantly stops Boyd, though he would have been fully willing otherwise.
* BeneathTheMask: The first two seasons follow Boyd trying to figure out who he is after a lifetime of shedding beliefs and identities. After becoming a born-again preacher and a law-abiding coal miner, Boyd realizes he's most at home being a criminal and decides to follow in his father's footsteps.
* ConMan: Part of why Arlo takes such a shine to Boyd is that he adopts and sheds identities on the fly if it gets him what he wants, and weaponizes it to gain followers.
* ConsummateLiar: Boyd lies to everyone, with the general exception of Ava and Raylan, the two people he's closest to. He'll adopt new belief systems and identities on the fly if it gets him what he wants, and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies believes in them wholeheartedly]]. For the first two seasons, Boyd doesn't really know who he is BeneathTheMask, before eventually deciding he 'is a criminal through and through, and to embrace his lineage.
* ConsummateLiar: Boyd lies to everyone, with the general exception of Ava and Raylan, the two people he's closest to. He'll adopt new belief systems and identities on the fly if it gets him what he wants, and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies believes in them wholeheartedly]]. For the first two seasons, Boyd doesn't really know who he is BeneathTheMask, before eventually deciding he 'is a criminal through and through, and to embrace his lineage.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In "Decoy", Boyd correctly anticipates the majority of Raylan's moves, [[spoiler:up to guessing that he would stage his final show-down in their old high school, due to remembering the time an astronaut flew a helicopter in to give a presentation.]]
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* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:In "Collateral", he claims to be an "outlaw" who lives life on his own terms. In reality, Boyd is a petty criminal who leads a life of crime because it's all he knows, and who works for others instead of reaching kingpin status.]]
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* SmugSnake: He starts off as one, but he grows more competent throughout Season 1 and learns to stop being so reckless. [[spoiler:In "Collateral", he claims to be an "outlaw" who lives life on his own terms. In reality, Boyd is a petty criminal who leads a life of crime because it's all he knows, and who works for others instead of reaching kingpin status.]]
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* VillainousFriendship: He and Jimmy were a Type I.
* VillainousLineage: His reason for returning to crime. He says it almost verbatim when convincing Johnny to join him.
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* VillainousFriendship: He and Jimmy were a Type I.
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* VillainousLineage: His reason for returning tocrime.crime is to follow in his father's footsteps as a powerful crime lord. He says it almost verbatim when convincing Johnny to join him.
* VillainousLineage: His reason for returning to
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Since Boyd had to be hastily written into the show, Creator/WaltonGoggins didn't appear for a few episodes in the first season until his storyline could pick up. He doesn't get his Main Title credit until the opening of season 2.
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* RousingSpeech: Boyd gives one against the sheriff in Quarles' employ during a town hall meeting and it's quite effective. People in Harlan have very long memories when it comes to their struggle against the coal mines and Boyd knows perfectly how to tap into that sentiment.
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* MistakenForAnImposter: After Dewey Crowe dresses up as Raylan to rob some criminals in "The I of the Storm", they assume Raylan's just another crook trying to pull one over on them.
--> '''Raylan:''' Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens. I'm gonna need you to stop right there, hands where I can see 'em.\\
'''Cutter:''' I ain't falling for that shit again! ''[opens fire]''
* TheMostWanted: Despite being a lawman himself, Raylan finds himself in this position in the season 3 episode "Watching the Detectives." After the criminals he's pursuing turn the tables and make it look like Raylan murdered his ex-wife's new husband, Raylan finds himself benched by the US Marshals Office of Internal Affairs, wanted by the FBI for corruption charges, being investigated by the US District Attorney for possible unjustified shootings in the line of duty, wanted for questioning about the murder by the local police, and also targeted by the very criminals he was pursuing when this whole thing kicked off. This is all while he's trying to clear his name despite orders to stay out of it.
--> '''Raylan:''' Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens. I'm gonna need you to stop right there, hands where I can see 'em.\\
'''Cutter:''' I ain't falling for that shit again! ''[opens fire]''
* TheMostWanted: Despite being a lawman himself, Raylan finds himself in this position in the season 3 episode "Watching the Detectives." After the criminals he's pursuing turn the tables and make it look like Raylan murdered his ex-wife's new husband, Raylan finds himself benched by the US Marshals Office of Internal Affairs, wanted by the FBI for corruption charges, being investigated by the US District Attorney for possible unjustified shootings in the line of duty, wanted for questioning about the murder by the local police, and also targeted by the very criminals he was pursuing when this whole thing kicked off. This is all while he's trying to clear his name despite orders to stay out of it.
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* NoAccountingForTaste: Unfortunately, Raylan follows ''right'' in his father's footsteps with dysfunctional relationships. Every single canon love interest, or sexual partner, Raylan has in the show is with a blonde woman who is a piping hot mess. It's possibly why he and Rachel never move past slowly burgeoning Unresolved Sexual Tension—being Raylan's partner means she's seen his disastrous relationships and decided to steer clear (although she has her own relationship issues, leaving her husband partway through the show). Raylan and Winona are the least toxic pairing throughout the show, but even that is wracked with problems, starting from divorce and progressing through infidelity and accidental pregnancy.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: This is played straight at the end of "Bloody Harlan" only to be then subverted in the following episode. After being shot, Raylan should be on his way to a hospital rather than walking and talking to people. However, three weeks later he is shown to be still in a lot of pain from the wound, restricted to desk duty and unable to perform his usual QuickDraw and ImprobableAimingSkills feats.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Raylan, fearing that Winona is in danger, calls her and tells her to leave the house immediately. Winona, upset that both Raylan and Gary have been lying to her and keeping her in the dark, refuses to leave unless Raylan gives her an explanation. He instead repeatedly asks her to leave, then gives up and tells her to lock the doors and wait for him to get there. When he finally arrives (fortunately in time), he quickly explains the situation; it takes less than 10 seconds and he could have easily done it over the phone to get her out of harm's way.
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* TheCharmer: Raylan is ''really'' popular with women. To the point where in Season 3, Art suggests using the bartender as a witness against Quarles for threatening Raylan until Raylan tells him the bartender's a woman and Art immediately groans because he knows Raylan has slept with her.
* AvengingTheVillain: Subverted in the pilot. He admits he has no interest in avenging Bowman after Ava shot him, viewing it as a KarmicDeath since Bowman abused her.
* CharacterDevelopment: He goes through a lot of changes over the first two seasons alone, from a reckless Neo-Nazi to a backwoods preacher and vigilante, to a listless miner retired from the criminal life, and finally a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] bent on following in his father's footsteps.
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* TheChessmaster: Boyd becomes this after the events of season one. He stops being reckless and starts to carefully consider his actions and the resources at his disposal. Being one of the few criminals in the area with working brain cells kind of helps, but he can give a master of deceit like Mags Bennett a run for her money. If he feels that he cannot win, he changes the game to one where he has the advantage
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crosses the mining company and the Bennetts in quick succession. Then, does the same thing with the Clover Hillers. The only people he won't double cross is Ava and Raylan
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* DueToTheDead: After Boyd kills Devil in self-defense, he insists on giving Devil's body a decent burial. He even says a prayer after Devil has been buried, much to Arlo's annoyance.
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* DueToTheDead: After Boyd kills Devil in self-defense, he insists on giving Devil's body a decent burial. He even says a prayer after Devil has been buried, much to Arlo's annoyance. He also speaks of his father in quite fond terms after he dies, despite acknowledging Bo's many faults.
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* EvilCounterpart: Boyd Crowder to Raylan Givens; both born in a coal mining town to criminal families, Raylan manages to leave and become a law man while Boyd fully succumbs to the criminal lifestyle. However, the "evil" part is less clear as Raylan is an AntiHero and Boyd is an AntiVillain, rather than a traditional hero/villain dichotomy.
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* GreatDetective: Raylan may not look like it on first glance, but he has keen investigative insticts and is able to determine a larger narrative out of only a handful of clues. The only problem is that as a US Marshall, his focus is on hunting down criminals, not solving mysteries, so these skills don't get used much outside of hunting down their targets.
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* GreatDetective: Raylan may not look like it on first glance, but he has keen investigative insticts instincts and is able to determine a larger narrative out of only a handful of clues. The only problem is that as a US Marshall, his focus is on hunting down criminals, not solving mysteries, so these skills don't get used much outside of hunting down their targets.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Subverted. The fact that Arlo bought a pre-made tombstone for him and put it next to his mother's grave is played for BlackComedy, but once Arlo himself shows up his abuse of Raylan is played completely seriously.
* PulledFromYourDayOff: While taking the day off to go house hunting with Winona, he gets a call about a problem in Harlan County. Raylan is the only one who can properly resolve it so he apologizes to Winnona and leaves. Winnona seems to be fine with this but it is actually the final confirmation for her that Raylan has not changed and will not prioritize her and their child over his job. Soon after she breaks off the relationship and leaves.
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* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was the cousin of Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family. This tenuous family tie saves his life in "Kin", when Mary acknowledges their blood bond.
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* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was the cousin of Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family. This tenuous family tie saves his life in "Kin", when Mary acknowledges their blood bond. Subverted with Arlo, however. Raylan despises Arlo but in the first season, he still helps Arlo out of a bad situation. We are led to believe that the two of them will enact this trope, helping each other because they are family. However, Arlo then sells out Raylan to cartel hitmen and Raylan decides that he will never do his father any favors again and instead commits himself to sending Arlo to jail. The relationship never recovers from that
* TookALevelInBadass: In the pilot, he starts off as a SmugSnake with a firm grasp on the VillainBall. After being shot by Raylan, he quickly develops into a much more cunning and intelligent opponent.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He finds himself in such a situation in the season 4 finale, when Winona's life is threatened by Nicky Augustine, who is in conflict with Sammy Tonin, the new head of the Detroit mob. He can either kill him and lose everything he has or just leave it be, allowing things to settle themselves. Ultimately, he [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] and arranges for Sammy to execute Augustine personally, so he can secure his family's safety immediately at the cost of being complicit in a murder. [[spoiler:In "Collateral", during a shootout with Boyd, Raylan admitted that he was indifferent to what his daughter would think of him for going rogue. Initially, he was unconcerned after Boyd shot Constable Bob, but eventually chose to help Bob instead of kill Boyd. In the Season Finale, he's presented with the ultimate choice of whether or not to kill Boyd, as Boyd goads him into it. He chooses to arrest the man.]]
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** In "Reckoning", after arresting Dickie, Raylan knocks out Doyle and drags him into the woods to execute him to avenge Helen's death. He's about to go through with it, but realizes it would go against what Helen wanted for him and can't bring himself to do it.
** He finds himself in such a situation in the season 4 finale, when Winona's life is threatened by Nicky Augustine, who is in conflict with Sammy Tonin, the new head of the Detroit mob. He can either kill him and lose everything he has or just leave it be, allowing things to settle themselves. Ultimately, he [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] and arranges for Sammy to execute Augustine personally, so he can secure his family's safety immediately at the cost of being complicit in a murder.
** [[spoiler:In "Collateral", during a shootout with Boyd, Raylan admitted that he was indifferent to what his daughter would think of him for going rogue. Initially, he was unconcerned after Boyd shot Constable Bob, but eventually chose to help Bob instead of kill Boyd. In the Season Finale, he's presented with the ultimate choice of whether or not to kill Boyd, as Boyd goads him into it. He chooses to arrest the man.]]
** In "Reckoning", after arresting Dickie, Raylan knocks out Doyle and drags him into the woods to execute him to avenge Helen's death. He's about to go through with it, but realizes it would go against what Helen wanted for him and can't bring himself to do it.
** He finds himself in such a situation in the season 4 finale, when Winona's life is threatened by Nicky Augustine, who is in conflict with Sammy Tonin, the new head of the Detroit mob. He can either kill him and lose everything he has or just leave it be, allowing things to settle themselves. Ultimately, he [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] and arranges for Sammy to execute Augustine personally, so he can secure his family's safety immediately at the cost of being complicit in a murder.
** [[spoiler:In "Collateral", during a shootout with Boyd, Raylan admitted that he was indifferent to what his daughter would think of him for going rogue. Initially, he was unconcerned after Boyd shot Constable Bob, but eventually chose to help Bob instead of kill Boyd. In the Season Finale, he's presented with the ultimate choice of whether or not to kill Boyd, as Boyd goads him into it. He chooses to arrest the man.]]
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* HeelRealization: After Dickie kills Helen, Raylan handcuffs him and drags him out to the woods to execute him. As he prepares to kill him, Raylan recounts how Helen had given him enough money to leave Harlan so he could become a better man than Arlo. He realizes halfway through the sentence that murdering Dickie would ultimately spit in the face of her memory and what she tried to do.
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** Raylan tends to show some deference to Arlo despite their strained at best relationship, and is at times quite tender to him. It's a sign of how furious he is after Helen's death and at how Arlo tried to blame him for it when he was responsible when he decks him for it, and has to be stopped by Tom.
** Throughout the series, Raylan follows the spirit of the law and only kills in self-defense. It's a sign of just how hard he's taken Helen's death and just how much he's crossed the DespairEvenHorizon when he tries to kill a hand-cuffed Dickie in cold blood to avenge her death.
** Raylan tends to show some deference to Arlo despite their strained at best relationship, and is at times quite tender to him. It's a sign of how furious he is after Helen's death and at how Arlo tried to blame him for it when he was responsible when he decks him for it, and has to be stopped by Tom.
** Throughout the series, Raylan follows the spirit of the law and only kills in self-defense. It's a sign of just how hard he's taken Helen's death and just how much he's crossed the DespairEvenHorizon when he tries to kill a hand-cuffed Dickie in cold blood to avenge her death.
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-->'''Raylan:''' This is us, Dickie. This is who we've always been.
-->'''Raylan:''' This is us, Dickie. This is who we've always been.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Creator/WaltonGoggins described him as ascribing to this in [[https://collider.com/walton-goggins-interview-justified/ an interview]]. Boyd ''does'' have a moral code, it's just very different from that of a normal person's.
--> '''Walton Goggins:''' His moral compass does not always point north by a larger society’s standard, but there is a moral code there, and it is shifting.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[WordOfGod Graham Yost]] describes him as such in [[https://www.thewrap.com/justified-creator-graham-yost-talks-season-3-killing-mags-bennett-and-going-moon-tom-han/ an interview]]. Boyd adopts belief systems and moral codes and drops them with astonishing frequency, but he believes in them all the way.
--> '''Graham Yost:''' His codes shift, but whatever it is he decides to believe in, he believes in 100 percent. When he became a born again preacher in the first season, man, he believed that. Then in the second season, even his dissolution, he believed in that. Then his rise to crime again, he believed in that. So there is that passionate intensity that comes with him.
--> '''Graham Yost:''' His codes shift, but whatever it is he decides to believe in, he believes in 100 percent. When he became a born again preacher in the first season, man, he believed that. Then in the second season, even his dissolution, he believed in that. Then his rise to crime again, he believed in that. So there is that passionate intensity that comes with him.
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* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: In the pilot, he murders Jared on the suspicion that he's a mole for law enforcement a minute before Devil calls to inform him he wasn't.
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* OpposedMentors: After her father's "disappearance" in Season 2, Raylan and Mags both take an interest in Loretta's future, with Raylan attempting to extract her from the criminal underworld, while Mags leads her further into it. Loretta eventually sides with Raylan once his cold war with the Bennetts turns hot, but as future seasons show, Mags is the one whose influence has ultimately lasted, even if she ultimately still has a soft spot for Raylan.
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* KillingInSelfDefense: He kills numerous people over the course of the series, but only in self-defense. And that isn't to say he won't provoke them into drawing their guns, as the pilot shows when he does so to Tommy Bucks. Raylan even admits he's not sure what he would have done had Tommy not drawn his gun on him.
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* ImStandingRightHere: n "For Blood or Money", Art is talking to Raylan and describes Rachel as the best marshal under his command:
-->'''Raylan:''' You do know I'm sitting right here?\\
''[Art eyes Raylan up and down]''\\
'''Art:''' [[{{Troll}} I do.]]
-->'''Raylan:''' You do know I'm sitting right here?\\
''[Art eyes Raylan up and down]''\\
'''Art:''' [[{{Troll}} I do.]]
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: As Raylan and Winn Duffy are talking about Duffy's new boss:
-->'''Raylan:''' He's got the ice-cold, remorseless, bottle-blond, shit-bag killer doing scut work.\\
'''Duffy:''' Deputy, are you accusing me of being a fake blond?
-->'''Raylan:''' He's got the ice-cold, remorseless, bottle-blond, shit-bag killer doing scut work.\\
'''Duffy:''' Deputy, are you accusing me of being a fake blond?
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* IAmSpartacus: He jokingly does this in "Bulletville" when Gio's gunmen announce they've come to kill Raylan only.
''Raylan:''' I'm Raylan Givens!\\
'''Boyd:''' No, ''I'm'' Raylan Givens!\\
'''Raylan:''' Are you tryin' to be funny?\\
'''Boyd:''' Little bit.
''Raylan:''' I'm Raylan Givens!\\
'''Boyd:''' No, ''I'm'' Raylan Givens!\\
'''Raylan:''' Are you tryin' to be funny?\\
'''Boyd:''' Little bit.
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* HumblePie: In the pilot, Boyd Crowder is an arrogant criminal who firmly grabs the VillainBall and decides to shoot it out with a group of US Marshals including his old friend Raylan Givens. His gang is easily captured by the marshals and Boyd himself barely survives getting shot by Raylan. This experience causes him to have a HeelFaithTurn, give up his criminal ways, and start his own church. However, his arrogance causes him to go against Bo who teaches Boyd a lesson by murdering all members of Boyd's church.
