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* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.
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* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death.[[spoiler:Arlo's death]]. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.
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* [[spoiler: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he finds out that the Marshals have Drew Thompson he immediately makes plans to flee Kentucky rather than wait for the inevitable YouHaveFailedMe from Nicky Augustine. However, he then reaches out to Sammy Tonin and backs him against Nicky in the coming power struggle. This allows him to return in the season finale and even gets a promotion.]]
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when [[spoiler: Augustine shoots Barkley in the head right next to him, splattering him with a little bit of blood.]] He also shows no surprise that Raylan is able to thwart Augustine and Boyd in their search for Drew Thompson. He is in fact GenreSavvy enough to prepare for their inevitable failure.
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when [[spoiler: Augustine shoots Barkley in the head right next to him, splattering him with a little bit of blood.]] He also shows no surprise that Raylan is able to thwart Augustine and Boyd in their search for Drew Thompson. He is in fact GenreSavvy enough to prepare for their inevitable failure.
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* [[spoiler: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he finds out that the Marshals have Drew Thompson he immediately makes plans to flee Kentucky rather than wait for the inevitable YouHaveFailedMe from Nicky Augustine. However, he then reaches out to Sammy Tonin and backs him against Nicky in the coming power struggle. This allows him to return in the season finale and even gets a promotion.]]
promotion.
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when[[spoiler: Augustine [[spoiler:Augustine shoots Barkley in the head right next to him, splattering him with a little bit of blood.]] He also shows no surprise that Raylan is able to thwart Augustine and Boyd in their search for Drew Thompson. He is in fact GenreSavvy enough to prepare for their inevitable failure.
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome
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* ChronicHeroSyndromeChronicHeroSyndrome: Even off-duty he handles dangerous situations.
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* FairCopFairCop: Part of how he's a ChickMagnet.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: with Raylan, moreso in season 2.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: with With Raylan, moreso in season 2.
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* TheAce: Even Raylan admits that Tim is a better shot than he is.
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* AbusiveParentsAbusiveParents: His father was verbally, emotionally and physically abusive in addition to being neglectful. Raylan still despises him.
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* TheBully: He has no qualms about browbeating and even assaulting criminals to get what he wants. [[{{ButtMonkey}} Dewey Crowe]] is an ongoing target of his bullying. This comes back to haunt him in season 5, when [[spoiler: Dewey successfully sues the Marshall's office for $300,000 because of Raylan's brutality]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: it is implied occasionally that some of the criminals he encounters see his hat and think he's some sort of crazy idiot who thinks he's an invincible gunslinger from a Western. Many have learned to their peril that, in essence, that is ''exactly'' what he is.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: it is implied occasionally that some of the criminals he encounters see his hat and think he's some sort of crazy idiot who thinks he's an invincible gunslinger from a Western. Many have learned to their peril that, in essence, that is ''exactly'' what he is.
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* TheBully: He has no qualms about browbeating and even assaulting criminals to get what he wants. [[{{ButtMonkey}} Dewey Crowe]] is an ongoing target of his bullying. This comes back to haunt him in season 5, when [[spoiler: Dewey [[spoiler:Dewey successfully sues the Marshall's office for $300,000 because of Raylan's brutality]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer:it It is implied occasionally that some of the criminals he encounters see his hat and think he's some sort of crazy idiot who thinks he's an invincible gunslinger from a Western. Many have learned to their peril that, in essence, that is ''exactly'' what he is.
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* CountryCousin: [[spoiler: Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family, was Raylan's mother's cousin. Boyd was surprised to learn that Raylan had "hills" in his lineage.]]
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* CountryCousin: [[spoiler: Mary, [[spoiler:Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family, was Raylan's mother's cousin. Boyd was surprised to learn that Raylan had "hills" in his lineage.]]
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** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him. For example, in "A Murder of Crowes", [[spoiler: Raylan's bullying of Dewey Crowe ends with Dewey successfully suing the Marshall's office for $300,000]].
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** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him. For example, in "A Murder of Crowes", [[spoiler: Raylan's [[spoiler:Raylan's bullying of Dewey Crowe ends with Dewey successfully suing the Marshall's office for $300,000]].
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* [[spoiler: DirtyBusiness]]: [[spoiler: In the season 4 finale, he arranges for Sammy Tonin to execute Nicky Augustine and gives his word to never tell about it. It is, by far, the darkest thing he's ever done.]]
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pulls out the Drew Thompson case out of his family house.
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pulls out the Drew Thompson case out of his family house.
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* [[spoiler: DirtyBusiness]]: [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:DirtyBusiness]]: [[spoiler:In the season 4 finale, he arranges for Sammy Tonin to execute Nicky Augustine and gives his word to never tell about it. It is, by far, the darkest thing he's ever done.]]
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pullsout the Drew Thompson case out of his family house.
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pulls
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* FearlessFool: He REALLY likes to get in way over his head. He gets his ass beaten twice for it when he gets into fistfights - the first time, he's drunk and against two bigger men, the second he takes on [[MightyGlacier Coover Bennett]].
** And he manages to top himself in season 3 when he pulls a gun on Limehouse at his own place. Almost immediately, a dozen of men emerge with rifles and shotguns. It's pretty much the only time in the series so far Raylan truly fears for his life.
** Has gotten quite a bit better about this in Season 4, especially the second half. And even if he doesn't succeed in keeping himself out of incredibly dangerous situations, he at least always has backup. It's a subtle but important part of his arc, since it's mainly due to his growing awareness that he'll soon be a father.
** And he manages to top himself in season 3 when he pulls a gun on Limehouse at his own place. Almost immediately, a dozen of men emerge with rifles and shotguns. It's pretty much the only time in the series so far Raylan truly fears for his life.
** Has gotten quite a bit better about this in Season 4, especially the second half. And even if he doesn't succeed in keeping himself out of incredibly dangerous situations, he at least always has backup. It's a subtle but important part of his arc, since it's mainly due to his growing awareness that he'll soon be a father.
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* FearlessFool: He REALLY likes to get in way over his head. He gets his ass beaten twice for it when he gets into fistfights - the first time, he's drunk and against two bigger men, the second he takes on [[MightyGlacier Coover Bennett]].
**Bennett]]. And he manages to top himself in season 3 when he pulls a gun on Limehouse at his own place. Almost immediately, a dozen of men emerge with rifles and shotguns. It's pretty much the only time in the series so far Raylan truly fears for his life.
** Haslife. He has gotten quite a bit better about this in Season 4, especially the second half. And even if he doesn't succeed in keeping himself out of incredibly dangerous situations, he at least always has backup. It's a subtle but important part of his arc, since it's mainly due to his growing awareness that he'll soon be a father.
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* HeroicFatigue: The entirety of season 3 is this for him. While it doesn't impact his ability as a cop that much apart from getting framed for murder due to his own audacity, it's clear he's emotionally drained by the end of it, once he realizes that his father killed an officer mistaking him for Raylan himself.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed for Gary's murder. Throwing bullets at bad guys to send a message might be a cool thing to do but it also leaves them in possession of a bullet with your fingerprints on it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed for Gary's murder. Throwing bullets at bad guys to send a message might be a cool thing to do but it also leaves them in possession of a bullet with your fingerprints on it.
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* HeroicFatigue: The entirety of season 3 is this for him. While it doesn't impact his ability as a cop that much apart from getting framed for murder due to his own audacity, it's clear he's emotionally drained by the end of it, once he realizes that his [[spoiler:his father killed an officer mistaking him for Raylan himself.
himself.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed forGary's murder.[[spoiler:Gary's murder]]. Throwing bullets at bad guys to send a message might be a cool thing to do but it also leaves them in possession of a bullet with your fingerprints on it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed for
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* IWorkAlone: Raylan dislikes working with other people. While most of the time he doesn't need any help, he's often making his job a lot harder without backup - this reaches critical mass in the season 2 finale, where he survives two separate situations only because he had Boyd and the other Marshals following him in secret.
** Grows out of it by season 4 - he finally realizes that just having Rachel, Shelby, Tim or Bob stand next to him makes responding to unforeseen events much easier.
** Grows out of it by season 4 - he finally realizes that just having Rachel, Shelby, Tim or Bob stand next to him makes responding to unforeseen events much easier.
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* IWorkAlone: Raylan dislikes working with other people. While most of the time he doesn't need any help, he's often making his job a lot harder without backup - this reaches critical mass in the season 2 finale, where he survives two separate situations only because he had Boyd and the other Marshals following him in secret.
** Growssecret. He eventually grows out of it by season 4 - he finally realizes that just having Rachel, Shelby, Tim or Bob stand next to him makes responding to unforeseen events much easier.
** Grows
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* LoopholeAbuse: Raylan is quite willing to abuse loopholes in the law to thwart the plans of criminals. This is also how he kills most of the bad guys in the show - he arranges situations where gunning a crook down is "justified". [[spoiler: Deconstructed in the season 4 finale, where Nicky Augustine purposefully doesn't give him such an opportunity - Raylan then bypasses ''law'' itself and simply has Sammy Tonin execute him as a one-time deal.]]
* NiceHat
* NiceHat
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* LoopholeAbuse: Raylan is quite willing to abuse loopholes in the law to thwart the plans of criminals. This is also how he kills most of the bad guys in the show - he arranges situations where gunning a crook down is "justified". [[spoiler: Deconstructed [[spoiler:Deconstructed in the season 4 finale, where Nicky Augustine purposefully doesn't give him such an opportunity - Raylan then bypasses ''law'' itself and simply has Sammy Tonin execute him as a one-time deal.]]
*NiceHatNiceHat: It's very much a signature for Raylan. Anyone who doesn't know his name refer to him as 'the Marshal with the hat'.
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* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler: After Augustine sends mooks after Winona, Raylan reaches out to Sammy Tonin and warns Sammy that Augustine plans to kill him. Sammy proceeds to have Augustine murdered.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was [[spoiler: 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.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was [[spoiler: 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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* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After Augustine sends mooks after Winona, Raylan reaches out to Sammy Tonin and warns Sammy that Augustine plans to kill him. Sammy proceeds to have Augustine murdered.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was[[spoiler: the [[spoiler: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.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was
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* VitriolicBestBuds: with Art, moreso in season 2. Huge, monstrous quantities with Boyd Crowder.
* [[spoiler: WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: 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: WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* VitriolicBestBuds: with With Art, moreso in season 2. Huge, monstrous quantities with Boyd Crowder.
*[[spoiler: WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: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.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Art is a complete badass who's just as capable in a shoot-out or fist-fight as any of his younger Marshals. Just don't ask him to run long distances.
** BadassGrandpa: His age is a frequent source of irritation for him, as he laments getting older and slower. Still, he hasn't lost much of his edge.
* BaldOfAwesome: Slightly grumpy, always snarky, a total badass and bald as Picard.
* BenevolentBoss: He allows quite a lot of leeway and is friends with the people under his command, although he doesn't allow their friendship to get in the way of what's right.
* DaChief: Of the US Marshal's office.
* DeadpanSnarker: See right. Art always has something witty lined up to say.
* DrinkingOnDuty: He keeps a bottle under his desk.
** BadassGrandpa: His age is a frequent source of irritation for him, as he laments getting older and slower. Still, he hasn't lost much of his edge.
* BaldOfAwesome: Slightly grumpy, always snarky, a total badass and bald as Picard.
* BenevolentBoss: He allows quite a lot of leeway and is friends with the people under his command, although he doesn't allow their friendship to get in the way of what's right.
* DaChief: Of the US Marshal's office.
* DeadpanSnarker: See right. Art always has something witty lined up to say.
* DrinkingOnDuty: He keeps a bottle under his desk.
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* ActionGirlActionGirl: Doesn't bat an eye at toting a shotgun, throwing a fist or swinging a frying pan.
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* BerserkButton: If you are a man who likes to abuse women, you better watch where she is pointing her shotgun
** Subverted in "Slaughterhouse" when she slaps around Ellen May, showing herself to be no less violent than Ellen May's former pimp, Delroy.
** Subverted in "Slaughterhouse" when she slaps around Ellen May, showing herself to be no less violent than Ellen May's former pimp, Delroy.
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**shotgun. Subverted in "Slaughterhouse" when she slaps around Ellen May, showing herself to be no less violent than Ellen May's former pimp, Delroy.
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* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: [[spoiler: When she finally corners Ellen May at Last Chance Salvation Church, Ava cannot bring herself to shoot her.]]
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: [[spoiler: When she finally corners Ellen May at Last Chance Salvation Church, Ava cannot bring herself to shoot her.]]
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BrokenBird: The abuse she suffered at Bowman's hands has hardened her considerably, and when [[spoiler:she winds up in prison on a murder charge she really breaks down.]]
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience:[[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When she finally corners Ellen May at Last Chance Salvation Church, Ava cannot bring herself to shoot her.]]
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* DirtyBusiness: She grows increasingly ruthless in her criminal activities in season 4. [[spoiler: For instance, she arranges for Colt to kill Ellen May because Ellen May has become a loose cannon who knows too much about Delroy's murder.]] However, Ava is conflicted about this decision. We later see Boyd trying to comfort Ava by rationalizing her decision.
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* DirtyBusiness: She grows increasingly ruthless in her criminal activities in season 4. [[spoiler: For [[spoiler:For instance, she arranges for Colt to kill Ellen May because Ellen May has become a loose cannon who knows too much about Delroy's murder.]] However, Ava is conflicted about this decision. We later see Boyd trying to comfort Ava by rationalizing her decision.
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* FaceHeelTurn: She was never really a Face (being more of a neutral character), but ever since definitively picking Boyd over Raylan has definitely shifted over to the villanous side of things, AffablyEvil or no
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* FaceHeelTurn: She was never really a Face (being more of a neutral character), but ever since definitively picking Boyd over Raylan she has definitely shifted over to the villanous side of things, AffablyEvil or no no.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Her attempts to cover up Delroy's murder actually result in her being arrested for it. If Ava had simply left Ellen May alone after the latter's exit from the sex trade, Ellen May would not have told Cassie and law enforcement about where to find Delroy's remains. Had Ava not made the ill-advised body swap at Paxton's funeral home, she would not have been arrested while in possession of Delroy's remains.]]
* NoSympathy: In "Hole in the Wall", she minimizes the beating she gave to Ellen May, baffled that Ellen May resents her and carries a gun as a result. When Ellen May confesses that she's melancholy, Ava attributes her sadness to drug withdrawal rather than, you know, ''working in the sex trade for an abusive madame''.
* NotSoDifferent: From Delroy.
* OutlawCouple: With Boyd. [[spoiler: Especially after he proposes to her]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Her attempts to cover up Delroy's murder actually result in her being arrested for it. If Ava had simply left Ellen May alone after the latter's exit from the sex trade, Ellen May would not have told Cassie and law enforcement about where to find Delroy's remains. Had Ava not made the ill-advised body swap at Paxton's funeral home, she would not have been arrested while in possession of Delroy's remains.]]
* NoSympathy: In "Hole in the Wall", she minimizes the beating she gave to Ellen May, baffled that Ellen May resents her and carries a gun as a result. When Ellen May confesses that she's melancholy, Ava attributes her sadness to drug withdrawal rather than, you know, ''working in the sex trade for an abusive madame''.
* NotSoDifferent: From Delroy.
* OutlawCouple: With Boyd. [[spoiler: Especially after he proposes to her]]
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* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:UnholyMatrimony: Boyd proposes to her in season 4.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When Ellen May begs to return to Audrey's brothel, Ava is hesitant to take her back because she's a loose cannon who knows too much. She arranged for Colt to shoot Ellen May, but Ellen May runs off before he can do the deed.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after she is forced to kill Delroy, its pimp at the time.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after she is forced to kill Delroy, its pimp at the time.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When Ellen May begs to return to Audrey's brothel, Ava is hesitant to take her back because she's a loose cannon who knows too much. She arranged for Colt to shoot Ellen May, but Ellen May runs off before he can do the deed.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after sheis forced to kill [[spoiler:kills Delroy, its it's pimp at the time.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after she
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* AbusiveParentsAbusiveParents: Bo was never physically abusive to Boyd and although he did lead his son into the violent family business, they seemed to have a pretty good relationship especially in comparison to Raylan and Arlo. However, Bo is still perfectly fine with ordering someone else to beat the hell out of Boyd.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crosses the mining company and the Bennetts in quick succession.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crosses [[spoiler:Double-crosses the mining company and the Bennetts in quick succession.]]
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* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.
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* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy goading [[spoiler:goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.
him.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook fromthe Augustines Augustine and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting [[spoiler:putting Ava in jail.jail]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from
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* FriendlyEnemy: He and Raylan get along relatively well when they're not at each other's throats. Raylan seems to regard him as the voice of reason in the Dixie Mafia, though perhaps only relative to Quarles' slide into desperation. Duffy, for his part, is properly wary of and seems to understand Raylan. This becomes very prominent in season 4 when Duffy goes out of his way not to do anything that might anger Raylan..
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* FriendlyEnemy: He and Raylan get along relatively well when they're not at each other's throats. Raylan seems to regard him as the voice of reason in the Dixie Mafia, though perhaps only relative to Quarles' slide into desperation. Duffy, for his part, is properly wary of and seems to understand Raylan. This becomes very prominent in season 4 when Duffy goes out of his way not to do anything that might anger Raylan.. Raylan.
** In Season 5, Raylan even goes out of his way to warn Wynn that a mob accountant was out to kill him. Granted, Raylan was (unintentionally) responsible for the mob accountant wanting to kill Wynn in the first place.
** In Season 5, Raylan even goes out of his way to warn Wynn that a mob accountant was out to kill him. Granted, Raylan was (unintentionally) responsible for the mob accountant wanting to kill Wynn in the first place.
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* PsychoForHire: For the Detroit Mob, who know him as 'crazy'.
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* PsychoForHire: For the Detroit Mob, who know him as 'crazy'. As his CharacterDevelopment kicks in, however, he mellows out a ''lot'', to the point where Raylan and Boyd consider him the voice of reason in the Dixie Mafia. This is probably due to the fact that his psychopathic ways never really got him anywhere (he only began stepping up after he mellowed), and he saw what could happen to him if he didn't get some self-control with Quarles.
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** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him.
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** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him. For example, in "A Murder of Crowes", [[spoiler: Raylan's bullying of Dewey Crowe ends with Dewey successfully suing the Marshall's office for $300,000]].
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* TheBully: He has no qualms about browbeating and even assaulting criminals to get what he wants. [[{{ButtMonkey Dewey Crowe}}]] is an ongoing target of his bullying. This comes back to haunt him in season 5, when [[spoiler: Dewey successfully sues the Marshall's office for $300,000 because of Raylan's brutality]].
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* TheBully: He has no qualms about browbeating and even assaulting criminals to get what he wants. [[{{ButtMonkey [[{{ButtMonkey}} Dewey Crowe}}]] Crowe]] is an ongoing target of his bullying. This comes back to haunt him in season 5, when [[spoiler: Dewey successfully sues the Marshall's office for $300,000 because of Raylan's brutality]].
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* EarAche: Takes a gunshot to the ear during "A Murder of Crowes". He seems more annoyed at everyone pointing it out than the actual injury.
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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Limehouse]], of all people, calls her out on her descent into crime and absolute lack of forethought.
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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Limehouse]], Limehouse, of all people, calls her out on her descent into crime and absolute lack of forethought.
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* BerserkButton: DO NOT question his love for Ava. [[spoiler: Lee Paxton found this out the hard way.]]
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* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy [[spoiler:goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. [[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. [[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.]]
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* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy [[spoiler:goading goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.]]
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit.[[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit.
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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: His criminal enterprise in seasons 3 and 4 resembles a family, with Boyd in the role of father. Given that most of his biological relatives are dead, the criminal team is the closest thing he has to a family.
** [[spoiler: Subverted in season 4. He undermines Arlo's plea deal so that he can find Drew Thompson himself, and arranges with Ava to have Colt kill Ellen May. To boot, his own cousin Johnny is plotting against him, though that's nothing new.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in season 4. He undermines Arlo's plea deal so that he can find Drew Thompson himself, and arranges with Ava to have Colt kill Ellen May. To boot, his own cousin Johnny is plotting against him, though that's nothing new.]]
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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: His criminal enterprise in seasons 3 and 4 resembles a family, with Boyd in the role of father. Given that most of his biological relatives are dead, the criminal team is the closest thing he has to a family.
** [[spoiler:family. Subverted in season 4. He undermines Arlo's plea deal so that he can find Drew Thompson himself, and arranges with Ava to have Colt kill Ellen May. To boot, his own cousin Johnny is plotting against him, though that's nothing new.]]
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* [[spoiler: LonelyAtTheTop]]: [[spoiler: LonelyAtTheTop: At the end of season 4. He strikes a cushy deal with Wynn Duffy, but Colt and Arlo are dead, Johnny betrayed him and he failed to protect Ava from getting arrested.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: From Raylan.
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* OutlawCouple: With Ava. [[spoiler: Even moreso now that he's proposed to her]]
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Stenographer]]: Mike Reardon especially thinks so.
-->'''Mike''': I know fifty men in this building that'd pay good money to sniff your gym clothes.
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A Dixie Mafia middleman known well-known for his bloodthirsty approach. He initially first appears as a loan shark, shark working for Emmitt Arnett, but gradually rises through the Dixie Mafia power structure. Intelligent and steadily increases in appearances throughout the series, rising in power.ruthless, he clashes frequently with Raylan with whom he has a grudging mutual respect.
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** Played with in season four. He recognizes the insanity of the Drew Thompson situation and when things reach their climax he ends up rebelling against Nicky Augustine by [[spoiler: fleeing Kentucky, reaching out to Sammy Tonin and backing him against Nicky in the upcoming power struggle]].
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* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn [[spoiler: offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.]]
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* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn [[spoiler: offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.]]
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->'''Played By:''' Damon Herriman
->''"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd. But... {{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}} I ain't."''
A dim-witted neo-nazi and drug addict who initially appears as a henchman of Boyd, but continues to crop up throughout the series usually with a new alleigiance or poorly thought-out plan.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The reason he got kicked out of Boyd's church.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Thick As Mud."
* BigBadWannabe
* ButtMonkey: He's reaching TheChewToy status as per season three,and its getting worse.
* FakeAmerican: It's disturbing to watch the show and than see him talk in an interview with an Australian accent.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's an ex-Neo-Nazi crook, but he's just so [[TooDumbtoLive stupid]] you can't not have sympathy for the idiot.
* HarmlessVillain
* HookersAndBlow: When he robs two thugs of their ill-gotten Oxycontin stash, his first stop is the local brothel where he is very generous with the pills.
* ManChild: He plays with Dickie Bennett in prison like children on a playground.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It can be easy to forget how he got his start in crime, until you see the big Nazi chest tattoo.
* RefugeInAudacity: His attempt to impersonate Raylan in order to rob some thieves of their Oxycontin. When Raylan confronts him about it, he claims that he was going to hand the drugs over to him, and that he was working on Raylan's behalf, given that Raylan had deputized him in the previous season on a completely unrelated matter.
* [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Whacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TattooedCrook: Easily recognized by his Neo-Nazi tattoos.
* TooDumbToLive: And yet he still manages to.
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!!Dewey Crowe
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->'''Played By:''' Damon Herriman
->''"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd. But... {{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}} I ain't."''
A dim-witted neo-nazi and drug addict who initially appears as a henchman of Boyd, but continues to crop up throughout the series usually with a new alleigiance or poorly thought-out plan.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The reason he got kicked out of Boyd's church.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Thick As Mud."
* BigBadWannabe
* ButtMonkey: He's reaching TheChewToy status as per season three,and its getting worse.
* FakeAmerican: It's disturbing to watch the show and than see him talk in an interview with an Australian accent.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's an ex-Neo-Nazi crook, but he's just so [[TooDumbtoLive stupid]] you can't not have sympathy for the idiot.
* HarmlessVillain
* HookersAndBlow: When he robs two thugs of their ill-gotten Oxycontin stash, his first stop is the local brothel where he is very generous with the pills.
* ManChild: He plays with Dickie Bennett in prison like children on a playground.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It can be easy to forget how he got his start in crime, until you see the big Nazi chest tattoo.
* RefugeInAudacity: His attempt to impersonate Raylan in order to rob some thieves of their Oxycontin. When Raylan confronts him about it, he claims that he was going to hand the drugs over to him, and that he was working on Raylan's behalf, given that Raylan had deputized him in the previous season on a completely unrelated matter.
* [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Whacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TattooedCrook: Easily recognized by his Neo-Nazi tattoos.
* TooDumbToLive: And yet he still manages to.
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* {{Badass}}: Psycho as all-get out, and pretty [[NonActionGuy non-actiony]] but still pretty awesome.
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awesome. He finally gets a bit of action in season 5.
* BigBad: Seems as though the whole series has been arranged to set him up as this,[[spoiler: which he unfortunately did not become in Season 4, but he's currently moving in the Detroit ranks.]]
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!!Daryl Crowe Jr.
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Dewey's ''much'' more dangerous and competent cousin from Florida.
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!!Daryl Crowe Jr.
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Dewey's ''much'' more dangerous and competent cousin from Florida.
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!!Dewey Crowe
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->'''Played By:''' Damon Herriman
->''"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd. But... {{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}} I ain't."''
A dim-witted neo-nazi and drug addict who initially appears as a henchman of Boyd, but continues to crop up throughout the series usually with a new alleigiance or poorly thought-out plan.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The reason he got kicked out of Boyd's church.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Thick As Mud."
* BigBadWannabe
* ButtMonkey: He's reaching TheChewToy status as per season three,and its getting worse.
* FakeAmerican: It's disturbing to watch the show and than see him talk in an interview with an Australian accent.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's an ex-Neo-Nazi crook, but he's just so [[TooDumbtoLive stupid]] you can't not have sympathy for the idiot.
* HarmlessVillain
* HookersAndBlow: When he robs two thugs of their ill-gotten Oxycontin stash, his first stop is the local brothel where he is very generous with the pills.
* ManChild: He plays with Dickie Bennett in prison like children on a playground.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It can be easy to forget how he got his start in crime, until you see the big Nazi chest tattoo.
* RefugeInAudacity: His attempt to impersonate Raylan in order to rob some thieves of their Oxycontin. When Raylan confronts him about it, he claims that he was going to hand the drugs over to him, and that he was working on Raylan's behalf, given that Raylan had deputized him in the previous season on a completely unrelated matter.
* [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Whacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TattooedCrook: Easily recognized by his Neo-Nazi tattoos.
* TooDumbToLive: And yet he still manages to.
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!!Daryl Crowe Jr.
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->'''Played By:''' Michael Rapaport
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!!Dewey Crowe
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"These are the end times for Dewey Crowe!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Damon Herriman
->''"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd. But... {{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}} I ain't."''
A dim-witted neo-nazi and drug addict who initially appears as a henchman of Boyd, but continues to crop up throughout the series usually with a new alleigiance or poorly thought-out plan.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The reason he got kicked out of Boyd's church.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Thick As Mud."
* BigBadWannabe
* ButtMonkey: He's reaching TheChewToy status as per season three,and its getting worse.
* FakeAmerican: It's disturbing to watch the show and than see him talk in an interview with an Australian accent.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's an ex-Neo-Nazi crook, but he's just so [[TooDumbtoLive stupid]] you can't not have sympathy for the idiot.
* HarmlessVillain
* HookersAndBlow: When he robs two thugs of their ill-gotten Oxycontin stash, his first stop is the local brothel where he is very generous with the pills.
* ManChild: He plays with Dickie Bennett in prison like children on a playground.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It can be easy to forget how he got his start in crime, until you see the big Nazi chest tattoo.
* RefugeInAudacity: His attempt to impersonate Raylan in order to rob some thieves of their Oxycontin. When Raylan confronts him about it, he claims that he was going to hand the drugs over to him, and that he was working on Raylan's behalf, given that Raylan had deputized him in the previous season on a completely unrelated matter.
* [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Whacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TattooedCrook: Easily recognized by his Neo-Nazi tattoos.
* TooDumbToLive: And yet he still manages to.
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!!Raylan Givens
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"He pulled first; I's justified."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Timothy Olyphant
->''"Did you wake up this morning thinking today was another opportunity to mess up some bad guy's day? I did."''
A Deputy US Marshal with an old-school style of keeping the law. After an incident in Miami, he's reassigned to his old backwoods hometown, which he thought he'd escaped forever.
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* AbusiveParents
* TheAce: Women love him, men fear him. He never loses his cool, and always dresses to the nines.
** BrokenAce: The later seasons show the negative effects, personally and professionally, of his CowboyCop lifestyle.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: it is implied occasionally that some of the criminals he encounters see his hat and think he's some sort of crazy idiot who thinks he's an invincible gunslinger from a Western. Many have learned to their peril that, in essence, that is ''exactly'' what he is.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: His sidejob from season 4 - he just wanted to get some money for Winona and his child, but it turned into a wild goose chase almost immediately. And he didn't even get to keep the money.
* CarFu: A criminal draws his gun when he sees Raylan drive up so Raylan simply drives forward and hits the guy with his car. When the guy gets up from this and still tries to shoot Raylan, Raylan reverses and hits the guy with the car again.
* ChickMagnet: Almost to the point of parody, but it's [[IncrediblyLamePun justified]] as Raylan is gorgeous, well-spoken, intelligent, and a bad boy. By season four, it's gotten to the point where Art makes fun of his effect on the fairer sex, asking him of a witness, "She in love with you yet?"
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* CountryCousin: [[spoiler: Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family, was Raylan's mother's cousin. Boyd was surprised to learn that Raylan had "hills" in his lineage.]]
* CowboyCop: This is the driving point of the series, too.
** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DentedIron: For the first half of season 3, due to getting shot in his side and not getting it treated immediately at the end of season 2. This seriously hinders his aim and quick draw, forcing him to rely more on his wits and fast-talking for a time.
* {{Determinator}}
* [[spoiler: DirtyBusiness]]: [[spoiler: In the season 4 finale, he arranges for Sammy Tonin to execute Nicky Augustine and gives his word to never tell about it. It is, by far, the darkest thing he's ever done.]]
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pulls out the Drew Thompson case out of his family house.
* DrowningMySorrows: Lots and lots. Sorrows not necessary.
* FairCop
* FearlessFool: He REALLY likes to get in way over his head. He gets his ass beaten twice for it when he gets into fistfights - the first time, he's drunk and against two bigger men, the second he takes on [[MightyGlacier Coover Bennett]].
** And he manages to top himself in season 3 when he pulls a gun on Limehouse at his own place. Almost immediately, a dozen of men emerge with rifles and shotguns. It's pretty much the only time in the series so far Raylan truly fears for his life.
** Has gotten quite a bit better about this in Season 4, especially the second half. And even if he doesn't succeed in keeping himself out of incredibly dangerous situations, he at least always has backup. It's a subtle but important part of his arc, since it's mainly due to his growing awareness that he'll soon be a father.
* GenreSavvy: One of the reasons he's so dangerous to the Harlan criminals. He's able to easily anticipate the goons' movements and if something slips by, he's quick to fix his mistakes.
* TheHero
* HeartbrokenBadass: Throughout the series. Subverted in season 4 - after it turns out that Winona can't be with him even with a baby on the way, he seems to have resigned at finding any deeper relationship.
* HeroicFatigue: The entirety of season 3 is this for him. While it doesn't impact his ability as a cop that much apart from getting framed for murder due to his own audacity, it's clear he's emotionally drained by the end of it, once he realizes that his father killed an officer mistaking him for Raylan himself.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed for Gary's murder. Throwing bullets at bad guys to send a message might be a cool thing to do but it also leaves them in possession of a bullet with your fingerprints on it.
* InTheBlood: Raylan is wondering whether he has a tendency for crime in his blood in season 2, after he finds himself jumping hoops to cover up Winona's terrible mistake of stealing money from an evidence locker - it's ultimately subverted, since he concludes that he did it out of love and not because of being similar to his father.
* IWorkAlone: Raylan dislikes working with other people. While most of the time he doesn't need any help, he's often making his job a lot harder without backup - this reaches critical mass in the season 2 finale, where he survives two separate situations only because he had Boyd and the other Marshals following him in secret.
** Grows out of it by season 4 - he finally realizes that just having Rachel, Shelby, Tim or Bob stand next to him makes responding to unforeseen events much easier.
* KnightInSourArmor: His other defining trope. He hates Harlan, he suffered nothing but hardships since returning there and his job destroys his relationships with Ava and Winona, but it's clear his talk of retiring is hollow.
* LoopholeAbuse: Raylan is quite willing to abuse loopholes in the law to thwart the plans of criminals. This is also how he kills most of the bad guys in the show - he arranges situations where gunning a crook down is "justified". [[spoiler: Deconstructed in the season 4 finale, where Nicky Augustine purposefully doesn't give him such an opportunity - Raylan then bypasses ''law'' itself and simply has Sammy Tonin execute him as a one-time deal.]]
* NiceHat
* NotSoDifferent: From Boyd.
* OnceASeason: Getting the shit kicked out of him due to completely underestimating his opponent and provoking needless fights.
* PermaStubble
* ProperlyParanoid: He survived this long by distrusting situations that seem too easy and thus being able to spot when someone is setting a trap for him.
* RefugeInAudacity: Raylan pretty much runs on this and RuleOfCool when doing his job - he'll happily run you down with his car, grab your shotgun straight from your hands when you're aiming at him or kill you at a crowded pool when you're eating dinner. A major reason for him being so feared by both large and small criminals in Harlan.
* SharpDressedMan
* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler: After Augustine sends mooks after Winona, Raylan reaches out to Sammy Tonin and warns Sammy that Augustine plans to kill him. Sammy proceeds to have Augustine murdered.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was [[spoiler: 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.]]
* TranquilFury
** NotSoStoic: He's more prone to throwing a fit in season 3, showing that the Bennett and Winona business from season 2 left a mark.
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: Subverted. When Raylan tells Art that he is not very good at testifying in court, Art dismisses it as this trope since he knows how good Raylan is in talking himself out of trouble. It turns out that Raylan really is very bad at speaking in official settings.
* {{US Marshal}}
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Art, moreso in season 2. Huge, monstrous quantities with Boyd Crowder.
* [[spoiler: WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: 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.]]
!!Art Mullen
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why do I have the office where the deputies shoot people?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nick Searcy
->''"That's my bottle. I'm not going to let you drink it all just because your daddy didn't hug you much when you were little."''
The grumpy, deadpan Chief Deputy US Marshal and Raylan's boss. He understands how Raylan operates and allows him some leeway, while still maintaining his authority.
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* AFatherToHisMen: A sarcastic, grumpy father.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BaldOfAwesome
* BenevolentBoss
* DaChief
* DeadpanSnarker: see right.
* DrinkingOnDuty
* FriendlyEnemy: To Frank Reasoner, an old bank robber he used to chase back in the day. When Reasoner tries to run, Art chases after him...with his oxygen tank, to make sure his heart doesn't give out.
* OnlySaneMan: He points out he is this in comparison to his deputies: the only black woman in town, an Iraq vet with PTSD and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Raylan Givens]].
* RealMenLoveJesus: In the first season, he was furious at Boyd for using Christianity as an excuse to commit crimes.
* {{US Marshal}}
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Raylan, moreso in season 2.
* WorthyOpponent: He's a huge fan of Drew Thompson.
!!Ava Crowder
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm a big girl, Raylan. I've been taking care of myself long before you rode into town on your white horse."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joelle Carter
->''"If I start counting down from ten, I may lose my patience at five."''
The quick-witted self-made widow of Boyd's brother Bowman. She's determined not to be pushed around, and has a romantic interest in Raylan and later, Boyd.
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* ActionGirl
* AffablyEvil: She is a criminal (being TheDragon to Boyd, as well as being a madam), but is all in all a fairly pleasant person
* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass: Just prior to the series. She enters the series just after shooting her abusive husband dead at the dinner table. She takes another level when she kills Delroy to protect Ellen May.
** BadassDamsel: When kidnapped and spirited away in a van, she grabbed the steering wheel and fought her kidnapper.
* BerserkButton: If you are a man who likes to abuse women, you better watch where she is pointing her shotgun
** Subverted in "Slaughterhouse" when she slaps around Ellen May, showing herself to be no less violent than Ellen May's former pimp, Delroy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is extremely nice and polite but if you push her to her limit, she will push back with extreme prejudice.
* BrokenBird
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: [[spoiler: When she finally corners Ellen May at Last Chance Salvation Church, Ava cannot bring herself to shoot her.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* DirtyBusiness: She grows increasingly ruthless in her criminal activities in season 4. [[spoiler: For instance, she arranges for Colt to kill Ellen May because Ellen May has become a loose cannon who knows too much about Delroy's murder.]] However, Ava is conflicted about this decision. We later see Boyd trying to comfort Ava by rationalizing her decision.
* DistressedDamsel
* TheDragon: To Boyd by Season 3.
* FaceHeelTurn: She was never really a Face (being more of a neutral character), but ever since definitively picking Boyd over Raylan has definitely shifted over to the villanous side of things, AffablyEvil or no
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ava has gone from someone who despised men who abuse women, to someone who abuses other women herself (i.e., becoming a madame, brutalizing Ellen May).
** In season 4, Ava is trying to get Ellen May off cocaine and meth. (Whether Ava is doing this out of genuine concern for Ellen May or because she wants to preserve the health and physical attractiveness of a prostitute making her money is up for speculation.) However, Ava has no problem with Boyd and Johnny making money off of the Oxycontin trade.
* MoralMyopia: Limehouse even calls her out on it.
* MsFanservice
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Her attempts to cover up Delroy's murder actually result in her being arrested for it. If Ava had simply left Ellen May alone after the latter's exit from the sex trade, Ellen May would not have told Cassie and law enforcement about where to find Delroy's remains. Had Ava not made the ill-advised body swap at Paxton's funeral home, she would not have been arrested while in possession of Delroy's remains.]]
* NoSympathy: In "Hole in the Wall", she minimizes the beating she gave to Ellen May, baffled that Ellen May resents her and carries a gun as a result. When Ellen May confesses that she's melancholy, Ava attributes her sadness to drug withdrawal rather than, you know, ''working in the sex trade for an abusive madame''.
* NotSoDifferent: From Delroy.
* OutlawCouple: With Boyd. [[spoiler: Especially after he proposes to her]]
* TeamChef: And more than willing to use her FryingPanOfDoom on a disrespectful Devil.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Went from being morally ambiguous to an outright criminal with no qualms about murder, prostitution (though she does attempt, perhaps halfheartedly, to make it tolerable for the hookers), extortion, and selling drugs.
* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: Boyd proposes to her in season 4.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Limehouse]], of all people, calls her out on her descent into crime and absolute lack of forethought.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Throughout the series, Ava demonstrated contempt for men who abuse women, killing her abusive husband Bowman and shooting Delroy after he threatened to kill Ellen May. In "Slaughterhouse," however, she showed no qualms about pushing and slapping Ellen May herself, and later tries to kill her when she views the hooker as a threat.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When Ellen May begs to return to Audrey's brothel, Ava is hesitant to take her back because she's a loose cannon who knows too much. She arranged for Colt to shoot Ellen May, but Ellen May runs off before he can do the deed.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after she is forced to kill Delroy, its pimp at the time.
!!Tim Gutterson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can't carry a tune. I don't know how to shoot a basketball and my handwriting is, uh, barely legible. But I don't miss."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jacob Pitts
->''"I love this shit...this shit gets me hard."''
A Deputy US Marshal and former Army Ranger.
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* AbusiveParents: At least his dad. He says that he hated the man and jokes that one of his biggest regrets is not killing him himself.
* AmbiguouslyGay: A source of much debate in the fandom.
* TheAlcoholic: Art privately suspects him of this.
* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheQuietOnes
* ColdSniper: What he is to his enemies.
** FriendlySniper: What he really is to his friends.
* DeadpanSnarker: A particularly glorious example of "deadpan", too.
* DrowningMySorrows: Subtly implied that he is a mild case - looks like his job shakes him enough to drink after particularly tense standoffs, but it's not enough to make it a problem.
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* TheInsomniac: "Ever since Ranger School I can't sleep past 6:30."
* OneOfUs: "Kin" reveals he enjoys reading YA fantasy novels.
-->''Raylan'': Aren't you too old for those?
-->''Tim'': I don't know. I was probably too young to be shooting Taliban.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Art privately suspects of him of having PTSD. Tim confirms this in "Ambush".
* TheStoic
* {{Troll}}: Sometimes he just likes to mess with people, especially Raylan.
* {{US Marshal}}
!!Rachel Brooks
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm ready to get dirty. Are you?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Erica Tazel
->''"How do you think it'd go over if I came into work one day wearing a cowboy hat? You think I'd get away with that?"''
A Deputy US Marshal, Rachel is coolly professional but has some initial disdain for Raylan's tactics.
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* ActionGirl
* ADayInTheLimelight: In "For Blood or Money".
* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Don't let the reserved demeanor fool you. She's a consummate lawwoman who keeps her cool and is not afraid to pull her gun.
* FairCop
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Season 4 refers to her cases and romantic upheavals, but all occur offscreen.
* TwoferTokenMinority: She has to deal with being a woman AND black in Harlan (though she doesn't spend much time there, considering the office is in Lexington, about three hours from Harlan in real life). She notes that the town people treat her with a bit of reserve.
* MistakenForRacist: A hilarious subversion - she tries to play the racial card when interrogating a black witness when in Florida with Raylan and the man instead blasts her for "serving the white man" and accusing her of being sent to appease a fellow black.
* TheStoic
* {{US Marshal}}
!!Boyd Crowder
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am the outlaw, and this is my world. And my world has a high cost of living."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Walton Goggins
->''"[[CatchPhrase Fire in the hole!]]"''
An old friend of Raylan who took a very different path, becoming a criminal like the rest of his family. Just as intelligent and charismatic as Raylan, he is constantly twisted up in the criminal life.
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* AbusiveParents
* AffablyEvil
* AntiHero: Type V
* AntiVillain: Type I
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit: Has ''significantly'' upgraded his wardrobe as the series has gone on, reflecting his growing sophistication as a person and a criminal. In the first season, he wore stained wifebeaters, and now he almost always wears at least a suit coat.
** BadassPreacher: During his born-again Christian phase.
** CulturedBadass: Played with. He quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saul Bellows and Isaac Asimov during his criminal dealings and correctly identifies a quote from Thomas Jefferson used by Quarles. He attributes his literary knowledge to all the time he spent reading books in prison.
* BatmanGambit: Pulls off quite a few of these.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Primary reason for lapsing back to his criminal ways - when he tries to lead a more pious life, it backfires spectacularly, so he returns to mining and leads a pretty empty existence, until he realizes that he can't fight his nature.
* CatchPhrase: ''Fire in the Hole!" which is usually followed up by him using his favorite weapon: a rocket launcher.
* CallingTheOldManOut
* TheCharmer: When he starts talking he can charm a crowd and it's easy to see how he gets people to follow him.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crosses the mining company and the Bennetts in quick succession.
* ChurchMilitant: Briefly ran a church dedicated to meting out "justice" to those he thought deserved it.
* CorruptHick: Boyd is angling to be that guy, but has yet to actually secure his control over Harlan County.
* CrisisOfFaith: At the end of the first season - he never recovers. In season 4, he admits to Augustine that he no longer believes in God.
* DeadpanSnarker: A conversation between Boyd and Raylan is a ''glorious'' thing to behold.
* DespairEventHorizon
* TheDeterminator
* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy [[spoiler:goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. [[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.]]
* TheDreaded: By the criminal underground. Which also allows him to run his business much more efficiently than he realistically should. In reality, he has very little muscle and he survives purely on being GenreSavvy, but no one actually knows that nor wants to check that.
* 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.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: His Neo-Nazi tattoos are a reminder of a period of his life he is not proud of. Though it's heavily implied (Raylan says this, Boyd doesn't contradict him) he never believed in it to begin with (Raylan tells him he's too smart for such aggressive idiocy), and merely used Neo-Nazism, along with his considerable charisma and natural leadership skills, as a means to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] rural Harlanites.
** Played extremely straight by Goggins in real life, in which he occasionally wears those (fake) tattoos openly, as part of his MethodActing, in order to get real reactions of disgust from the general public.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: His criminal enterprise in seasons 3 and 4 resembles a family, with Boyd in the role of father. Given that most of his biological relatives are dead, the criminal team is the closest thing he has to a family.
** [[spoiler: Subverted in season 4. He undermines Arlo's plea deal so that he can find Drew Thompson himself, and arranges with Ava to have Colt kill Ellen May. To boot, his own cousin Johnny is plotting against him, though that's nothing new.]]
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: His criminal activities are a means to give the family name a clean start.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Raylan
* HeelFaithTurn: Briefly in Season 1.
** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* InTheBlood: His reason for returning to crime. He says it almost verbatim when convincing Johnny to join him.
* IWillFightNoMoreForever: Boyd decides to give up the violent criminal life and goes to work in the coal mine. It's a TenMinuteRetirement.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. While Boyd never faces any real charges for his crimes, he also never ''really'' wins - in season 3, he barely gets off the hook and gains little in the money department. Season 4 really drives it home, with [[spoiler: Boyd becomes a wealthy partner to Wynn Duffy, but loses all of his close ones.]]
* [[spoiler: LonelyAtTheTop]]: [[spoiler: At the end of season 4. He strikes a cushy deal with Wynn Duffy, but Colt and Arlo are dead, Johnny betrayed him and he failed to protect Ava from getting arrested.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Whenever he realizes that he cannot get what he wants through direct means he finds a loophole that allows him to get to his goal through indirect means.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Compared to the general population of Harlan county, he's definitely this.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Boyd speaks of his late father Bo respectfully, even though Bo had most of his followers massacred, and Boyd beaten. Boyd also spoke kindly of the late Devil, even though he killed Devil in self-defense. He even delivered a short prayer when burying Devil, much to Arlo's annoyance.
* NobleDemon: Though he's losing more and more of this traits as the show proceeds.
* NotSoDifferent: From Raylan.
** Also, from Billy St. Cyr. He admits that he reminds him of himself from his church period.
* OhCrap: In "Moneytrap", Boyd's expression at the wealthy swingers party suggests this. Boyd realizes that he's in over his head when several wealthy crimelords order him to kill a man, or be destroyed himself. It's even more alarming when they tell Boyd that his late crimelord father recognized their power.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He likes to give people those before he actually resorts to violence. You tend to do what he wants when he starts reminiscing about your mother never locking her back door.
** In season 4 a group of corrupt businessmen give him one of these offers and expect him to do as he is told. It's a ''very bad'' mistake. Boyd turns the situation around on them and gives them an offer of his own.
* OutlawCouple: With Ava. [[spoiler: Even moreso now that he's proposed to her]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Averted. He holds no ill will against God for the massacre of his little community and admits that it was his own hubris that doomed his church.
* RefugeInAudacity: This is how Boyd established himself as a major crime boss in Harlan County without actually having the muscle to fully back it up. He makes bold moves and issues outrageous demands, and his targets are not willing to call his bluff.
* SophisticatedAsHell
* SummonBiggerFish: When he realizes that he cannot deal with the Clover Hillers on his own, he [[spoiler: asks the Detroit mob to neutralize the Hillers' political connections]]. He later explains to Ava that if he gets in trouble with [[spoiler: Theo Tonin]] there are no bigger fish to summon to solve the problem for him.
* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: He proposes to Ava in season 4. We learn that he was squirreling away money without telling Ava because he was saving up for a new house once they're married.]]
* VigilanteMan
* VillainBall: In the pilot he really has no reason to attack Raylan and the other marshals. He does it primarily to prove a point to Raylan and to show that he is not afraid of the marshals. He suffers the consequences for this but learns from his mistake and becomes very GenreSavvy.
!!Winona Hawkins
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm done trying to change who you are."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Natalie Zea
->''"Raylan, you do a good job of hiding it. And I s'pose most folks don't see it, but honestly, you're the angriest man I have ever known."''
Raylan's slightly more uptown ex-wife, Winona still harbours feelings for him despite having left Raylan for realtor Gary Hawkins.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Raylan.
* FanNickname: There are some people that call her "Whineona".
* GenreSavvy: As of Season 3, she's been much better at recognizing what to do in high stress situations. Particularly calling Raylan immediately when she finds the gun used to murder Gary.
* HotMom: Becomes pregnant with Raylan's child in Season 3.
* [[HelloAttorney Hello Court Stenographer]]
* IdiotBall
* MamaBear: When the life of her unborn baby is threatened, she demonstrates that she can be just as dangerous as Raylan.
* PutOnABus
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Went from being relatively cold to Raylan in Season 1 to cheating on her husband, stealing money locked away as evidence, and leaving Raylan in the dust despite the fact that she's carrying his baby.
* UglyGuyHotWife: When she was still with Gary.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Alternatively, with Raylan and Gary.
!!Wynn Duffy
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The police are just a janitorial service used to clean up your blood after you've been murdered."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JereBurns
->'''Quarles''': ''"You can't have the "Duffy" without the [[IncrediblyLamePun ''Win'']]."''
A Dixie Mafia middleman known for his bloodthirsty approach. He initially appears as a loan shark, and steadily increases in appearances throughout the series, rising in power.
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* AffablyEvil
* AmbiguouslyGay: His hired thug lives with him in the RV/office, though it's not clear if they're romantic partners or just roomates.
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}: Psycho as all-get out, and pretty [[NonActionGuy non-actiony]] but still pretty awesome.
* BigBad: Seems as though the whole series has been arranged to set him up as this, [[spoiler: which he unfortunately did not become in Season 4, but he's currently moving in the Detroit ranks.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: like you would not ''believe''.
* TheDragon: To Emmett Arnett. He later performed this role for Quarles after Emmett Arnett's murder.
** DragonAscendant: In season 4, he has risen in status in the Dixie Mafia following the fall of both Emmett Arnett and Quarles.
** DragonInChief: He was portrayed as much more dangerous than his boss Arnett. However, when Quarles takes over Duffy seems quite tame in comparison.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: He is ambitious enough to want to take over the Dixie Mafia operations in Kentucky from his bosses but is smart enough to realize that without Detroit's approval he will never succeed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is rather shocked by some of Quarles' more viscerally disturbing shenanigans, though he keeps his mouth shut about it. However, in "Slaughterhouse," Duffy admits to Raylan that he was behind the anonymous tip on Brady's murder.
* EvilMakeover: In season 4, he shaves off his moustache, coiffes his hair, and wears expensive business suits.
* FriendlyEnemy: He and Raylan get along relatively well when they're not at each other's throats. Raylan seems to regard him as the voice of reason in the Dixie Mafia, though perhaps only relative to Quarles' slide into desperation. Duffy, for his part, is properly wary of and seems to understand Raylan. This becomes very prominent in season 4 when Duffy goes out of his way not to do anything that might anger Raylan..
* GenreSavvy: Not quite dangerously so, but very aware of the tropes. Specifically, he scrupulously avoids all of the pitfalls that doom Quarles (much more on these in Quarles' own entry). Perhaps most tellingly, when Boyd offers to become his 'partner' in taking down Quarles, Duffy tells Boyd the full bounty on Quarles' head, rather than, and as Boyd assumes, giving him a much lower amount so as to get a larger share. In season 4 he considers Boyd and Harlan County to be too much trouble despite the potential profits and hates that the Drew Thompson situation requires him to deal with Boyd. He then goes out of his way to maintain a FriendlyEnemy relationship with Raylan because the last thing he wants is for Raylan to be personally angry at him.
* GrewASpine: For much of season three, Duffy was Quarles' reluctant henchman. Toward the end of the season, Duffy grew tired of Quarles and agreed to have him killed so as to collect Theo Tonin's bounty. He also puts his foot down about Quarles' drug use in the motorcoach office, ordering Quarles to smoke his drugs in his own vehicle.
** Played with in season four. He recognizes the insanity of the Drew Thompson situation and when things reach their climax he ends up rebelling against Nicky Augustine by [[spoiler: fleeing Kentucky, reaching out to Sammy Tonin and backing him against Nicky in the upcoming power struggle]].
* LoanShark
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays Boyd and his gang against Quarles, not succeeding only due to bad luck and Quarles having more lives than a Time Lord cat.
** Showrunner Graham Yost agrees: ''"I will say this about Wynn Duffy: He is a survivor. He will play every angle. While we’re playing Checkers, he’s playing three-dimensional Chess."''
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being cool and reserved almost all the time, has spectacularly and terrifyingly blown his top once or twice.
* OnlySaneEmployee
* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn [[spoiler: offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.]]
* PsychoForHire
* RealMenWearPink: He's a fan of women's tennis and wears a sleep mask while resting.
* [[spoiler: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he finds out that the Marshals have Drew Thompson he immediately makes plans to flee Kentucky rather than wait for the inevitable YouHaveFailedMe from Nicky Augustine. However, he then reaches out to Sammy Tonin and backs him against Nicky in the coming power struggle. This allows him to return in the season finale and even gets a promotion.]]
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when [[spoiler: Augustine shoots Barkley in the head right next to him, splattering him with a little bit of blood.]] He also shows no surprise that Raylan is able to thwart Augustine and Boyd in their search for Drew Thompson. He is in fact GenreSavvy enough to prepare for their inevitable failure.
* TheSociopath
* SoftSpokenSadist: For a ruthless Dixie Mafia man, he has a very unassuming voice. But see NotSoAboveItAll.
* TheStarscream: He hates working for Quarles but is smart enough to wait and see how things turn out before making any move against him. When [[TheDon Theo Tonin]] offered Duffy an opportunity to move up in the Dixie mafia by bringing in Quarles (plus a cash incentive), he moved decisively against Quarles, even collaborating with Boyd Crowder.
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!!Raylan Givens
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"He pulled first; I's justified."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Timothy Olyphant
->''"Did you wake up this morning thinking today was another opportunity to mess up some bad guy's day? I did."''
A Deputy US Marshal with an old-school style of keeping the law. After an incident in Miami, he's reassigned to his old backwoods hometown, which he thought he'd escaped forever.
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* AbusiveParents
* TheAce: Women love him, men fear him. He never loses his cool, and always dresses to the nines.
** BrokenAce: The later seasons show the negative effects, personally and professionally, of his CowboyCop lifestyle.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: it is implied occasionally that some of the criminals he encounters see his hat and think he's some sort of crazy idiot who thinks he's an invincible gunslinger from a Western. Many have learned to their peril that, in essence, that is ''exactly'' what he is.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: His sidejob from season 4 - he just wanted to get some money for Winona and his child, but it turned into a wild goose chase almost immediately. And he didn't even get to keep the money.
* CarFu: A criminal draws his gun when he sees Raylan drive up so Raylan simply drives forward and hits the guy with his car. When the guy gets up from this and still tries to shoot Raylan, Raylan reverses and hits the guy with the car again.
* ChickMagnet: Almost to the point of parody, but it's [[IncrediblyLamePun justified]] as Raylan is gorgeous, well-spoken, intelligent, and a bad boy. By season four, it's gotten to the point where Art makes fun of his effect on the fairer sex, asking him of a witness, "She in love with you yet?"
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* CountryCousin: [[spoiler: Mary, the matriarch of Cope's hill-folk family, was Raylan's mother's cousin. Boyd was surprised to learn that Raylan had "hills" in his lineage.]]
* CowboyCop: This is the driving point of the series, too.
** It's reconstructed and deconstructed at the same time: Raylan is an insanely effective cop, his unpredictability serves as a terrific scare tactic and his antics rarely cause much of a stir, since the Marshal's Office has a lot of pull. However, he's also very overconfident and hellbent on preserving his reputation, which can render him impotent or give the crooks a way to use his stunts against him.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DentedIron: For the first half of season 3, due to getting shot in his side and not getting it treated immediately at the end of season 2. This seriously hinders his aim and quick draw, forcing him to rely more on his wits and fast-talking for a time.
* {{Determinator}}
* [[spoiler: DirtyBusiness]]: [[spoiler: In the season 4 finale, he arranges for Sammy Tonin to execute Nicky Augustine and gives his word to never tell about it. It is, by far, the darkest thing he's ever done.]]
* Dismotivation / StoppedCaring: Mildly at the beginning of season 4. He's not even trying to hide that he's emotionally drained by the events of season 3, he remains in a relationship with Lindsey that is going nowhere and he's doing sidejobs to make some money on the side for Winona and his child, with little interest in other things. He gets over it once he pulls out the Drew Thompson case out of his family house.
* DrowningMySorrows: Lots and lots. Sorrows not necessary.
* FairCop
* FearlessFool: He REALLY likes to get in way over his head. He gets his ass beaten twice for it when he gets into fistfights - the first time, he's drunk and against two bigger men, the second he takes on [[MightyGlacier Coover Bennett]].
** And he manages to top himself in season 3 when he pulls a gun on Limehouse at his own place. Almost immediately, a dozen of men emerge with rifles and shotguns. It's pretty much the only time in the series so far Raylan truly fears for his life.
** Has gotten quite a bit better about this in Season 4, especially the second half. And even if he doesn't succeed in keeping himself out of incredibly dangerous situations, he at least always has backup. It's a subtle but important part of his arc, since it's mainly due to his growing awareness that he'll soon be a father.
* GenreSavvy: One of the reasons he's so dangerous to the Harlan criminals. He's able to easily anticipate the goons' movements and if something slips by, he's quick to fix his mistakes.
* TheHero
* HeartbrokenBadass: Throughout the series. Subverted in season 4 - after it turns out that Winona can't be with him even with a baby on the way, he seems to have resigned at finding any deeper relationship.
* HeroicFatigue: The entirety of season 3 is this for him. While it doesn't impact his ability as a cop that much apart from getting framed for murder due to his own audacity, it's clear he's emotionally drained by the end of it, once he realizes that his father killed an officer mistaking him for Raylan himself.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Narrowly averted in season 3 where his various stunts come back to bite him when he is framed for Gary's murder. Throwing bullets at bad guys to send a message might be a cool thing to do but it also leaves them in possession of a bullet with your fingerprints on it.
* InTheBlood: Raylan is wondering whether he has a tendency for crime in his blood in season 2, after he finds himself jumping hoops to cover up Winona's terrible mistake of stealing money from an evidence locker - it's ultimately subverted, since he concludes that he did it out of love and not because of being similar to his father.
* IWorkAlone: Raylan dislikes working with other people. While most of the time he doesn't need any help, he's often making his job a lot harder without backup - this reaches critical mass in the season 2 finale, where he survives two separate situations only because he had Boyd and the other Marshals following him in secret.
** Grows out of it by season 4 - he finally realizes that just having Rachel, Shelby, Tim or Bob stand next to him makes responding to unforeseen events much easier.
* KnightInSourArmor: His other defining trope. He hates Harlan, he suffered nothing but hardships since returning there and his job destroys his relationships with Ava and Winona, but it's clear his talk of retiring is hollow.
* LoopholeAbuse: Raylan is quite willing to abuse loopholes in the law to thwart the plans of criminals. This is also how he kills most of the bad guys in the show - he arranges situations where gunning a crook down is "justified". [[spoiler: Deconstructed in the season 4 finale, where Nicky Augustine purposefully doesn't give him such an opportunity - Raylan then bypasses ''law'' itself and simply has Sammy Tonin execute him as a one-time deal.]]
* NiceHat
* NotSoDifferent: From Boyd.
* OnceASeason: Getting the shit kicked out of him due to completely underestimating his opponent and provoking needless fights.
* PermaStubble
* ProperlyParanoid: He survived this long by distrusting situations that seem too easy and thus being able to spot when someone is setting a trap for him.
* RefugeInAudacity: Raylan pretty much runs on this and RuleOfCool when doing his job - he'll happily run you down with his car, grab your shotgun straight from your hands when you're aiming at him or kill you at a crowded pool when you're eating dinner. A major reason for him being so feared by both large and small criminals in Harlan.
* SharpDressedMan
* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler: After Augustine sends mooks after Winona, Raylan reaches out to Sammy Tonin and warns Sammy that Augustine plans to kill him. Sammy proceeds to have Augustine murdered.]]
* ThickerThanWater: Raylan's late mother Francis was [[spoiler: 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.]]
* TranquilFury
** NotSoStoic: He's more prone to throwing a fit in season 3, showing that the Bennett and Winona business from season 2 left a mark.
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: Subverted. When Raylan tells Art that he is not very good at testifying in court, Art dismisses it as this trope since he knows how good Raylan is in talking himself out of trouble. It turns out that Raylan really is very bad at speaking in official settings.
* {{US Marshal}}
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Art, moreso in season 2. Huge, monstrous quantities with Boyd Crowder.
* [[spoiler: WhatYouAreInTheDark]]: [[spoiler: 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.]]
!!Art Mullen
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why do I have the office where the deputies shoot people?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nick Searcy
->''"That's my bottle. I'm not going to let you drink it all just because your daddy didn't hug you much when you were little."''
The grumpy, deadpan Chief Deputy US Marshal and Raylan's boss. He understands how Raylan operates and allows him some leeway, while still maintaining his authority.
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* AFatherToHisMen: A sarcastic, grumpy father.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BaldOfAwesome
* BenevolentBoss
* DaChief
* DeadpanSnarker: see right.
* DrinkingOnDuty
* FriendlyEnemy: To Frank Reasoner, an old bank robber he used to chase back in the day. When Reasoner tries to run, Art chases after him...with his oxygen tank, to make sure his heart doesn't give out.
* OnlySaneMan: He points out he is this in comparison to his deputies: the only black woman in town, an Iraq vet with PTSD and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Raylan Givens]].
* RealMenLoveJesus: In the first season, he was furious at Boyd for using Christianity as an excuse to commit crimes.
* {{US Marshal}}
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Raylan, moreso in season 2.
* WorthyOpponent: He's a huge fan of Drew Thompson.
!!Ava Crowder
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm a big girl, Raylan. I've been taking care of myself long before you rode into town on your white horse."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joelle Carter
->''"If I start counting down from ten, I may lose my patience at five."''
The quick-witted self-made widow of Boyd's brother Bowman. She's determined not to be pushed around, and has a romantic interest in Raylan and later, Boyd.
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* ActionGirl
* AffablyEvil: She is a criminal (being TheDragon to Boyd, as well as being a madam), but is all in all a fairly pleasant person
* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass: Just prior to the series. She enters the series just after shooting her abusive husband dead at the dinner table. She takes another level when she kills Delroy to protect Ellen May.
** BadassDamsel: When kidnapped and spirited away in a van, she grabbed the steering wheel and fought her kidnapper.
* BerserkButton: If you are a man who likes to abuse women, you better watch where she is pointing her shotgun
** Subverted in "Slaughterhouse" when she slaps around Ellen May, showing herself to be no less violent than Ellen May's former pimp, Delroy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is extremely nice and polite but if you push her to her limit, she will push back with extreme prejudice.
* BrokenBird
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: [[spoiler: When she finally corners Ellen May at Last Chance Salvation Church, Ava cannot bring herself to shoot her.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* DirtyBusiness: She grows increasingly ruthless in her criminal activities in season 4. [[spoiler: For instance, she arranges for Colt to kill Ellen May because Ellen May has become a loose cannon who knows too much about Delroy's murder.]] However, Ava is conflicted about this decision. We later see Boyd trying to comfort Ava by rationalizing her decision.
* DistressedDamsel
* TheDragon: To Boyd by Season 3.
* FaceHeelTurn: She was never really a Face (being more of a neutral character), but ever since definitively picking Boyd over Raylan has definitely shifted over to the villanous side of things, AffablyEvil or no
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ava has gone from someone who despised men who abuse women, to someone who abuses other women herself (i.e., becoming a madame, brutalizing Ellen May).
** In season 4, Ava is trying to get Ellen May off cocaine and meth. (Whether Ava is doing this out of genuine concern for Ellen May or because she wants to preserve the health and physical attractiveness of a prostitute making her money is up for speculation.) However, Ava has no problem with Boyd and Johnny making money off of the Oxycontin trade.
* MoralMyopia: Limehouse even calls her out on it.
* MsFanservice
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Her attempts to cover up Delroy's murder actually result in her being arrested for it. If Ava had simply left Ellen May alone after the latter's exit from the sex trade, Ellen May would not have told Cassie and law enforcement about where to find Delroy's remains. Had Ava not made the ill-advised body swap at Paxton's funeral home, she would not have been arrested while in possession of Delroy's remains.]]
* NoSympathy: In "Hole in the Wall", she minimizes the beating she gave to Ellen May, baffled that Ellen May resents her and carries a gun as a result. When Ellen May confesses that she's melancholy, Ava attributes her sadness to drug withdrawal rather than, you know, ''working in the sex trade for an abusive madame''.
* NotSoDifferent: From Delroy.
* OutlawCouple: With Boyd. [[spoiler: Especially after he proposes to her]]
* TeamChef: And more than willing to use her FryingPanOfDoom on a disrespectful Devil.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Went from being morally ambiguous to an outright criminal with no qualms about murder, prostitution (though she does attempt, perhaps halfheartedly, to make it tolerable for the hookers), extortion, and selling drugs.
* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: Boyd proposes to her in season 4.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Limehouse]], of all people, calls her out on her descent into crime and absolute lack of forethought.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Throughout the series, Ava demonstrated contempt for men who abuse women, killing her abusive husband Bowman and shooting Delroy after he threatened to kill Ellen May. In "Slaughterhouse," however, she showed no qualms about pushing and slapping Ellen May herself, and later tries to kill her when she views the hooker as a threat.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: When Ellen May begs to return to Audrey's brothel, Ava is hesitant to take her back because she's a loose cannon who knows too much. She arranged for Colt to shoot Ellen May, but Ellen May runs off before he can do the deed.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She takes over the local brothel after she is forced to kill Delroy, its pimp at the time.
!!Tim Gutterson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can't carry a tune. I don't know how to shoot a basketball and my handwriting is, uh, barely legible. But I don't miss."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jacob Pitts
->''"I love this shit...this shit gets me hard."''
A Deputy US Marshal and former Army Ranger.
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* AbusiveParents: At least his dad. He says that he hated the man and jokes that one of his biggest regrets is not killing him himself.
* AmbiguouslyGay: A source of much debate in the fandom.
* TheAlcoholic: Art privately suspects him of this.
* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheQuietOnes
* ColdSniper: What he is to his enemies.
** FriendlySniper: What he really is to his friends.
* DeadpanSnarker: A particularly glorious example of "deadpan", too.
* DrowningMySorrows: Subtly implied that he is a mild case - looks like his job shakes him enough to drink after particularly tense standoffs, but it's not enough to make it a problem.
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* TheInsomniac: "Ever since Ranger School I can't sleep past 6:30."
* OneOfUs: "Kin" reveals he enjoys reading YA fantasy novels.
-->''Raylan'': Aren't you too old for those?
-->''Tim'': I don't know. I was probably too young to be shooting Taliban.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Art privately suspects of him of having PTSD. Tim confirms this in "Ambush".
* TheStoic
* {{Troll}}: Sometimes he just likes to mess with people, especially Raylan.
* {{US Marshal}}
!!Rachel Brooks
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm ready to get dirty. Are you?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Erica Tazel
->''"How do you think it'd go over if I came into work one day wearing a cowboy hat? You think I'd get away with that?"''
A Deputy US Marshal, Rachel is coolly professional but has some initial disdain for Raylan's tactics.
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* ActionGirl
* ADayInTheLimelight: In "For Blood or Money".
* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Don't let the reserved demeanor fool you. She's a consummate lawwoman who keeps her cool and is not afraid to pull her gun.
* FairCop
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Season 4 refers to her cases and romantic upheavals, but all occur offscreen.
* TwoferTokenMinority: She has to deal with being a woman AND black in Harlan (though she doesn't spend much time there, considering the office is in Lexington, about three hours from Harlan in real life). She notes that the town people treat her with a bit of reserve.
* MistakenForRacist: A hilarious subversion - she tries to play the racial card when interrogating a black witness when in Florida with Raylan and the man instead blasts her for "serving the white man" and accusing her of being sent to appease a fellow black.
* TheStoic
* {{US Marshal}}
!!Boyd Crowder
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am the outlaw, and this is my world. And my world has a high cost of living."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Walton Goggins
->''"[[CatchPhrase Fire in the hole!]]"''
An old friend of Raylan who took a very different path, becoming a criminal like the rest of his family. Just as intelligent and charismatic as Raylan, he is constantly twisted up in the criminal life.
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* AbusiveParents
* AffablyEvil
* AntiHero: Type V
* AntiVillain: Type I
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit: Has ''significantly'' upgraded his wardrobe as the series has gone on, reflecting his growing sophistication as a person and a criminal. In the first season, he wore stained wifebeaters, and now he almost always wears at least a suit coat.
** BadassPreacher: During his born-again Christian phase.
** CulturedBadass: Played with. He quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saul Bellows and Isaac Asimov during his criminal dealings and correctly identifies a quote from Thomas Jefferson used by Quarles. He attributes his literary knowledge to all the time he spent reading books in prison.
* BatmanGambit: Pulls off quite a few of these.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Primary reason for lapsing back to his criminal ways - when he tries to lead a more pious life, it backfires spectacularly, so he returns to mining and leads a pretty empty existence, until he realizes that he can't fight his nature.
* CatchPhrase: ''Fire in the Hole!" which is usually followed up by him using his favorite weapon: a rocket launcher.
* CallingTheOldManOut
* TheCharmer: When he starts talking he can charm a crowd and it's easy to see how he gets people to follow him.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crosses the mining company and the Bennetts in quick succession.
* ChurchMilitant: Briefly ran a church dedicated to meting out "justice" to those he thought deserved it.
* CorruptHick: Boyd is angling to be that guy, but has yet to actually secure his control over Harlan County.
* CrisisOfFaith: At the end of the first season - he never recovers. In season 4, he admits to Augustine that he no longer believes in God.
* DeadpanSnarker: A conversation between Boyd and Raylan is a ''glorious'' thing to behold.
* DespairEventHorizon
* TheDeterminator
* DirtyBusiness: Boyd is ruthless in his criminal dealings, but he still struggles with guilt over his actions. For instance, Boyd clearly did not enjoy [[spoiler:goading Billy St. Cyr into picking up the poisonous snake that killed him.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He attempts to be this in season 4 to the Clover Hillers and Detroit. [[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly - he fails to secure Drew Thompson and barely gets off the hook from the Augustines and the Clover Hillers thank him for his betrayal by putting Ava in jail.]]
* TheDreaded: By the criminal underground. Which also allows him to run his business much more efficiently than he realistically should. In reality, he has very little muscle and he survives purely on being GenreSavvy, but no one actually knows that nor wants to check that.
* 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.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: His Neo-Nazi tattoos are a reminder of a period of his life he is not proud of. Though it's heavily implied (Raylan says this, Boyd doesn't contradict him) he never believed in it to begin with (Raylan tells him he's too smart for such aggressive idiocy), and merely used Neo-Nazism, along with his considerable charisma and natural leadership skills, as a means to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] rural Harlanites.
** Played extremely straight by Goggins in real life, in which he occasionally wears those (fake) tattoos openly, as part of his MethodActing, in order to get real reactions of disgust from the general public.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: His criminal enterprise in seasons 3 and 4 resembles a family, with Boyd in the role of father. Given that most of his biological relatives are dead, the criminal team is the closest thing he has to a family.
** [[spoiler: Subverted in season 4. He undermines Arlo's plea deal so that he can find Drew Thompson himself, and arranges with Ava to have Colt kill Ellen May. To boot, his own cousin Johnny is plotting against him, though that's nothing new.]]
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: His criminal activities are a means to give the family name a clean start.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Raylan
* HeelFaithTurn: Briefly in Season 1.
** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* InTheBlood: His reason for returning to crime. He says it almost verbatim when convincing Johnny to join him.
* IWillFightNoMoreForever: Boyd decides to give up the violent criminal life and goes to work in the coal mine. It's a TenMinuteRetirement.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. While Boyd never faces any real charges for his crimes, he also never ''really'' wins - in season 3, he barely gets off the hook and gains little in the money department. Season 4 really drives it home, with [[spoiler: Boyd becomes a wealthy partner to Wynn Duffy, but loses all of his close ones.]]
* [[spoiler: LonelyAtTheTop]]: [[spoiler: At the end of season 4. He strikes a cushy deal with Wynn Duffy, but Colt and Arlo are dead, Johnny betrayed him and he failed to protect Ava from getting arrested.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Whenever he realizes that he cannot get what he wants through direct means he finds a loophole that allows him to get to his goal through indirect means.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Compared to the general population of Harlan county, he's definitely this.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Boyd speaks of his late father Bo respectfully, even though Bo had most of his followers massacred, and Boyd beaten. Boyd also spoke kindly of the late Devil, even though he killed Devil in self-defense. He even delivered a short prayer when burying Devil, much to Arlo's annoyance.
* NobleDemon: Though he's losing more and more of this traits as the show proceeds.
* NotSoDifferent: From Raylan.
** Also, from Billy St. Cyr. He admits that he reminds him of himself from his church period.
* OhCrap: In "Moneytrap", Boyd's expression at the wealthy swingers party suggests this. Boyd realizes that he's in over his head when several wealthy crimelords order him to kill a man, or be destroyed himself. It's even more alarming when they tell Boyd that his late crimelord father recognized their power.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He likes to give people those before he actually resorts to violence. You tend to do what he wants when he starts reminiscing about your mother never locking her back door.
** In season 4 a group of corrupt businessmen give him one of these offers and expect him to do as he is told. It's a ''very bad'' mistake. Boyd turns the situation around on them and gives them an offer of his own.
* OutlawCouple: With Ava. [[spoiler: Even moreso now that he's proposed to her]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Averted. He holds no ill will against God for the massacre of his little community and admits that it was his own hubris that doomed his church.
* RefugeInAudacity: This is how Boyd established himself as a major crime boss in Harlan County without actually having the muscle to fully back it up. He makes bold moves and issues outrageous demands, and his targets are not willing to call his bluff.
* SophisticatedAsHell
* SummonBiggerFish: When he realizes that he cannot deal with the Clover Hillers on his own, he [[spoiler: asks the Detroit mob to neutralize the Hillers' political connections]]. He later explains to Ava that if he gets in trouble with [[spoiler: Theo Tonin]] there are no bigger fish to summon to solve the problem for him.
* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: He proposes to Ava in season 4. We learn that he was squirreling away money without telling Ava because he was saving up for a new house once they're married.]]
* VigilanteMan
* VillainBall: In the pilot he really has no reason to attack Raylan and the other marshals. He does it primarily to prove a point to Raylan and to show that he is not afraid of the marshals. He suffers the consequences for this but learns from his mistake and becomes very GenreSavvy.
!!Winona Hawkins
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm done trying to change who you are."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Natalie Zea
->''"Raylan, you do a good job of hiding it. And I s'pose most folks don't see it, but honestly, you're the angriest man I have ever known."''
Raylan's slightly more uptown ex-wife, Winona still harbours feelings for him despite having left Raylan for realtor Gary Hawkins.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Raylan.
* FanNickname: There are some people that call her "Whineona".
* GenreSavvy: As of Season 3, she's been much better at recognizing what to do in high stress situations. Particularly calling Raylan immediately when she finds the gun used to murder Gary.
* HotMom: Becomes pregnant with Raylan's child in Season 3.
* [[HelloAttorney Hello Court Stenographer]]
* IdiotBall
* MamaBear: When the life of her unborn baby is threatened, she demonstrates that she can be just as dangerous as Raylan.
* PutOnABus
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Went from being relatively cold to Raylan in Season 1 to cheating on her husband, stealing money locked away as evidence, and leaving Raylan in the dust despite the fact that she's carrying his baby.
* UglyGuyHotWife: When she was still with Gary.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Alternatively, with Raylan and Gary.
!!Wynn Duffy
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The police are just a janitorial service used to clean up your blood after you've been murdered."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JereBurns
->'''Quarles''': ''"You can't have the "Duffy" without the [[IncrediblyLamePun ''Win'']]."''
A Dixie Mafia middleman known for his bloodthirsty approach. He initially appears as a loan shark, and steadily increases in appearances throughout the series, rising in power.
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* AffablyEvil
* AmbiguouslyGay: His hired thug lives with him in the RV/office, though it's not clear if they're romantic partners or just roomates.
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}: Psycho as all-get out, and pretty [[NonActionGuy non-actiony]] but still pretty awesome.
* BigBad: Seems as though the whole series has been arranged to set him up as this, [[spoiler: which he unfortunately did not become in Season 4, but he's currently moving in the Detroit ranks.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: like you would not ''believe''.
* TheDragon: To Emmett Arnett. He later performed this role for Quarles after Emmett Arnett's murder.
** DragonAscendant: In season 4, he has risen in status in the Dixie Mafia following the fall of both Emmett Arnett and Quarles.
** DragonInChief: He was portrayed as much more dangerous than his boss Arnett. However, when Quarles takes over Duffy seems quite tame in comparison.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: He is ambitious enough to want to take over the Dixie Mafia operations in Kentucky from his bosses but is smart enough to realize that without Detroit's approval he will never succeed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is rather shocked by some of Quarles' more viscerally disturbing shenanigans, though he keeps his mouth shut about it. However, in "Slaughterhouse," Duffy admits to Raylan that he was behind the anonymous tip on Brady's murder.
* EvilMakeover: In season 4, he shaves off his moustache, coiffes his hair, and wears expensive business suits.
* FriendlyEnemy: He and Raylan get along relatively well when they're not at each other's throats. Raylan seems to regard him as the voice of reason in the Dixie Mafia, though perhaps only relative to Quarles' slide into desperation. Duffy, for his part, is properly wary of and seems to understand Raylan. This becomes very prominent in season 4 when Duffy goes out of his way not to do anything that might anger Raylan..
* GenreSavvy: Not quite dangerously so, but very aware of the tropes. Specifically, he scrupulously avoids all of the pitfalls that doom Quarles (much more on these in Quarles' own entry). Perhaps most tellingly, when Boyd offers to become his 'partner' in taking down Quarles, Duffy tells Boyd the full bounty on Quarles' head, rather than, and as Boyd assumes, giving him a much lower amount so as to get a larger share. In season 4 he considers Boyd and Harlan County to be too much trouble despite the potential profits and hates that the Drew Thompson situation requires him to deal with Boyd. He then goes out of his way to maintain a FriendlyEnemy relationship with Raylan because the last thing he wants is for Raylan to be personally angry at him.
* GrewASpine: For much of season three, Duffy was Quarles' reluctant henchman. Toward the end of the season, Duffy grew tired of Quarles and agreed to have him killed so as to collect Theo Tonin's bounty. He also puts his foot down about Quarles' drug use in the motorcoach office, ordering Quarles to smoke his drugs in his own vehicle.
** Played with in season four. He recognizes the insanity of the Drew Thompson situation and when things reach their climax he ends up rebelling against Nicky Augustine by [[spoiler: fleeing Kentucky, reaching out to Sammy Tonin and backing him against Nicky in the upcoming power struggle]].
* LoanShark
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays Boyd and his gang against Quarles, not succeeding only due to bad luck and Quarles having more lives than a Time Lord cat.
** Showrunner Graham Yost agrees: ''"I will say this about Wynn Duffy: He is a survivor. He will play every angle. While we’re playing Checkers, he’s playing three-dimensional Chess."''
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being cool and reserved almost all the time, has spectacularly and terrifyingly blown his top once or twice.
* OnlySaneEmployee
* PetTheDog: Calling in the Brady Hughes tip might be one (unless he was just trying to get Quarles out of his hair). It's played a little straighter in season 4, when Wynn [[spoiler: offers his condolences to Raylan about Arlo's death. Raylan even thanks him and admits that he believes Wynn is being sincere.]]
* PsychoForHire
* RealMenWearPink: He's a fan of women's tennis and wears a sleep mask while resting.
* [[spoiler: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he finds out that the Marshals have Drew Thompson he immediately makes plans to flee Kentucky rather than wait for the inevitable YouHaveFailedMe from Nicky Augustine. However, he then reaches out to Sammy Tonin and backs him against Nicky in the coming power struggle. This allows him to return in the season finale and even gets a promotion.]]
* SeenItAll: He's become this by season 4, it seems, now that Quarles is gone. He doesn't even bat an eye when [[spoiler: Augustine shoots Barkley in the head right next to him, splattering him with a little bit of blood.]] He also shows no surprise that Raylan is able to thwart Augustine and Boyd in their search for Drew Thompson. He is in fact GenreSavvy enough to prepare for their inevitable failure.
* TheSociopath
* SoftSpokenSadist: For a ruthless Dixie Mafia man, he has a very unassuming voice. But see NotSoAboveItAll.
* TheStarscream: He hates working for Quarles but is smart enough to wait and see how things turn out before making any move against him. When [[TheDon Theo Tonin]] offered Duffy an opportunity to move up in the Dixie mafia by bringing in Quarles (plus a cash incentive), he moved decisively against Quarles, even collaborating with Boyd Crowder.
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