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* BadgesAndDogTags: Tim served in the Iraq War before becoming a U.S. Marshal after returning to the US.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Raylan's almost entirely the same as his literary counterpart, but his status as a war veteran is transferred to Tim.
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* DecompositeCharacter: His status as a war veteran turned U.S. Marshal is lifted directly from Raylan in the original Creator/ElmoreLeonard novels.
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* DaChief: Of the US Marshal's office. He's somewhat lax for this trope as well; while he's obviously opposed to some of Raylan's more self-destructive or violent behavior, he'll let a lot of the things his Marshals do slide. He does admit to Rachel that he privately considers Raylan a lost cause, so he doesn't really bother trying to get him under control.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Raylan, moreso in Season 2.
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* KnightInSourArmor: He's cynical and very much resigned to the fact that his underlings are all deeply erratic and traumatized people, and just the general state of life in [[WretchedHive Harlan]].
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* PluckyComicRelief: He's one of the most frequent and consistent forms of comic relief in the series, always being ready with a quip or sarcastic remark at Raylan's expense. Unusually for this trope, he's also DaChief.
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* BloodKnight: Downplayed. Raylan doesn't really enjoy fighting, but he'll often deliberately provoke fights to vent his anger and he takes a certain amount of joy in his gunslinging prowess.
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* BrutallyHonest: Raylan rarely sugarcoats what he says and is generally honest even if it comes across as harsh.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of Raylan's biggest flaws is that he'll frequently do things without thinking of the consequences. He shoots Tommy Bucks without thinking through how doing so would put him under investigation, and he further fails to realize how much trouble sleeping with Ava - a witness to his shooting of Boyd - will put him in despite Art warning him about it.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's curmudgeonly and sarcastic, but Art is a law-abiding man who always strives to do the right thing.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Season 1 leaves it ambiguous whether his turn to religion and apparent HeelFaithTurn are real or just another con to gain followers.
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* KnightInSourArmor: Raylan is very cynical, but he'll always try to do the right thing. Winona admits she divorced him because she was turned off by his pessimism and how content he is to do nothing but stew in his bitterness.
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* TheDreaded: People are terrified of Duffy because of how AxCraxy he is.
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* TheDreaded: People are terrified of Duffy because of how AxCraxy AxeCrazy he is.
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* BadassBoast: He gives a terrifying one to Arnett when he thinks he's going to scam him out of his money.
-->''"Show me the cash, Emmitt, or I will take a machete and a blowtorch and make you as small as I possibly can!"''
-->''"Show me the cash, Emmitt, or I will take a machete and a blowtorch and make you as small as I possibly can!"''
* TheDreaded: People are terrified of Duffy because of how AxCraxy he is.
* {{Expy}}: Duffy bears a lot of resemblance to Alan Raimy, the villain of the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel ''52 Pick-Up''. Both are slimy, amiable criminals prone to using generic business platitudes while threatening people. The scene where he breaks into Winona's house is lifted wholesale from the novel.
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* LoanShark: How he was introduced.introduced, working for Arnett to intimidate his clients. Since then, he's been expanding.
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* CallingParentsByTheirName: He always refers to Arlo by his name and never any term for father, mainly due to his sheer hatred of the man.
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* AdaptionRelationshipOverhaul: In Creator/ElmoreLeonard's novels, Winona cheated on Raylan with Gary prior to their divorce and by all accounts they had an AwfulWeddedLife. Here, they're very much AmicableExes and eventually get back together.
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* AdaptionRelationshipOverhaul: AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In Creator/ElmoreLeonard's novels, Winona cheated on Raylan with Gary prior to their divorce and by all accounts they had an AwfulWeddedLife. Here, they're very much AmicableExes and eventually get back together.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: A lot of Raylan's traits come directly from Arlo, particularly the darker elements of his personality. Like Arlo, Raylan has a poor temper, a propensity for violence, a love of provoking and insulting people unnecessarily, and both men rebelled against the example set by their own abusive fathers.
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* MirrorCharacter: From Boyd. Both are determined, intelligent men who know how to use their wits and have dark impulses. [[spoiler: When the hat is ruined in the finale of the show on account of a failed headshot by Boon, Raylan takes Boon's own hat as a replacement.]]
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** From Boyd. Both are determined, intelligent men who know how to use their wits and have dark impulses. [[spoiler: When the hat is ruined in the finale of the show on account of a failed headshot by Boon, Raylan takes Boon's own hat as a replacement.]]]]
** To Arlo as well. For all that Raylan justifiably hates him, both men are remarkably similar. Both of them have poor tempers, a propensity for violence, a significant mean streak, and a tendency to make enemies where they don't have to. The only real difference is that where Raylan has a genuine soft side, Arlo is a selfish monster down to the core.
** From Boyd. Both are determined, intelligent men who know how to use their wits and have dark impulses. [[spoiler: When the hat is ruined in the finale of the show on account of a failed headshot by Boon, Raylan takes Boon's own hat as a replacement.
** To Arlo as well. For all that Raylan justifiably hates him, both men are remarkably similar. Both of them have poor tempers, a propensity for violence, a significant mean streak, and a tendency to make enemies where they don't have to. The only real difference is that where Raylan has a genuine soft side, Arlo is a selfish monster down to the core.
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* QuickDraw: Raylan is quick on the draw and almost always shoots to kill. Whenever he's forced into a gunfight, he's almost always the clear winner.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: He doesn't go out of his way to do this, but Raylan is well-aware he comes off as a poser trying to live out his fantasies of being a cowboy and is content to let people make their assumptions. All this belies just how intelligent he really is, and the fact that Raylan is as close as it gets to a real-life Wild West gunslinger in the 21st Century.
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* VillainHasAPoint: He rather accurately criticizes Raylan's anger issues and violent tendencies, although eh does this primarily during his brief stint as a reformed man.
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* WhatTheHellHero: After becoming a born-again Christian, Boyd politely but firmly tells Raylan on many occasions that he's a violent man by nature and calls him out on his poor behavior. His criticisms are very accurate and echoed even by more heroic characters.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Raylan is publicly exposed as sleeping with Ava, Art berates him and refuses to banter with him because of how furious he is.
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* AntiHero: He's violent, has a a problem playing by the rules, and is something of a jerk, but you can always count on Raylan to be the first to go up against whatever BigBad is troubling Harlan County.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: In the pilot, Boyd shoots one of his henchman for being reluctant to blow up a church when witnesses could easily see his license plate, [[InsaneTrollLogic convinced it was evidence he was an undercover cop]]. Not even seconds later, Devil calls to let Boyd know he was the real deal.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: In the pilot, Boyd shoots one of his henchman Jared Hale for being reluctant to blow up a church when witnesses could easily see his license plate, [[InsaneTrollLogic convinced it was evidence he was an undercover cop]]. Not even seconds later, Devil calls to let Boyd know he was the real deal.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: In the pilot, Boyd shoots one of his henchman for being reluctant to blow up a church when witnesses could easily see his license plate, [[InsaneTrollLogic convinced it was evidence he was an undercover cop]]. Not even seconds later, Devil calls to let Boyd know he was the real deal.
--> '''Devil:''' So, how did Jared do?\\
'''Boyd:''' He... didn't work out.
--> '''Devil:''' So, how did Jared do?\\
'''Boyd:''' He... didn't work out.
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* BaldOfAuthority: Art is bald and the boss of Harlan's section of US Marshals.
* AntiHero: At first, Ava is rather mercenary and interested in her own financial gain, but isn't a particularly bad person and is simply desperate.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: She hates Raylan thanks to being annoyed that he gets away with his CowboyCop antics purely through white privilege, where she as a black woman is subject to undue amounts of pressure. The times they are partnered up results in a lot of tension from her end.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After learning Ava killed Bowman, Boyd objects to taking revenge as he knew Bowman abused her and feels he had it coming.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He starts off as a Neo-Nazi and white supremacist who believes in various racist conspiracies about various minorities. He abandons these beliefs after becoming a born-again Christian, although Raylan accuses him of never having believed in it and simply having used it to gain followers.
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* FreudianExcuse: Arlo's abuse of Raylan as a child and his willingness to manipulate him are responsible for a lot of Raylan's flaws. His anger and propensity for violence are fully adopted from his father, and his dedication to meeting out justice comes from the fact that Arlo was so powerful that no one tried to stop his abuse.
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* HatesTheirParent: Raylan despises Arlo both for having abused him and because Arlo repeatedly tries to manipulate him whenever he tries to get back in Raylan's life. The feeling's mutual, [[spoiler:to the point Arlo shoots a park ranger after mistaking him for Raylan.]]
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: It's notes multiple times that Raylan would have been a perfect fit in the Old West, but his sense of honor and ruthlessness don't gel with 21st Century law enforcement.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's introduced meeting with Tommy Bucks in a restaurant 24 hours after having told him to leave town or else he'll shoot the hitman. Raylan arrives with minutes to spare, politely chats with him, makes it clear he meant what he said, and provokes Tommy into pulling his gun so he can shoot him. It establishes Raylan as affable on the surface, but a CowboyCop willing to bend the law when it suits him and very ruthless in his own right.
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* IGaveMyWord: Raylan always keeps his word, or at least does his best to do so. If he makes a threat, he'll almost always carry it out.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Long in the Tooth", after learning Rollie Pike was inspired to become a dentist by Hermey from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964'', Raylan immediately assumes he's gay (referencing the common fan theory said character is gay).
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* SignatureHeadgear: Raylan is almost never seen without his trademark cowboy hat.
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* PoliceBrutality: Raylan's bullying of criminals often includes physically assaulting them, though generally only after they go after him first. Still, he's more than happy to injure them even when they're unarmed. In the pilot alone, he breaks Dewey Crowe's nose by cold-cocking him with a shotgun for insulting him.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In Creator/ElmoreLeonard's novels, he and Winona had an AwfulWeddedLife and Raylan despised her after they divorced, suspecting that she had cheated on him and even being glad to be rid of her. Here, they're very much AmicableExes who eventually get back together.
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* EvilFormerFriende: Although Raylan and he weren't exactly close, the two were good friends during their days working in the coal mines. In the present day, Raylan's become a lawman and Boyd a petty, violent criminal.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: [[spoiler:In Season 6, he goes rogue because he sees no other way of stopping Boyd. In the series finale, he learns that Ava fled to California, but he refrains from arresting her because doing so would ruin the life of her young son.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Raylan acts polite and friendly, but it hides a serious mean streak. Winona lampshades it as early as the first episode, telling Raylan thatAva fled to California, but although he refrains from arresting her because doing so would ruin the life does a good job of her young son.]]hiding it, he's "the angriest man [she's] ever met."
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* NiceToTheWaiter: For all Raylan's faults, he tends to treat the prisoners he escorts pretty well despite having no reason to. He won't hesitate to beat them if they try to kill him, but he also won't needlessly abuse them either.
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* BreakTheHaughty: His experience with Raylan Givens and Robert Quarles mellows him out considerably, due to Raylan not being indimidated by his antics and Quarles being far more psychotic than even he could stomach.
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* GreatDetective: Raylan may not look like it on first glance, but he has keen investigative insticts and is able to determine a larger narrative out of only a handful of clues. The only problem is that as a US Marshall, his focus is on hunting down criminals, not solving mysteries, so these skills don't get used much outside of hunting down their targets.
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