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* HauntingTheGuilty: A variation; as he threatens to leap off the Broadway attic after Mabel confronts him regarding Ben's murder, he looks down and sees Ben in Oliver's place in ''Death Rattle Dazzle'''s opening night.
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* BerserkButton: Being called a "phony", after his experience as a child actor in ''Brazzos''. Cliff throws it back at him in response to Ben calling him a nepo baby, triggering a fight between the two that led to Ben's death.
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* TechnologicallyBlindElders: To an extent, Charles and Oliver. While they more or less understand how to use their phones, they have trouble looking things up online and texting.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the Season 3 finale, when Howard drops blatant that he'd like to take over as the lead of ''Death Rattle Dazzle'', Oliver takes the insinuations to mean that ''he'' should take to the stage.
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* IntoxicatinEnsues: Due to opening-night jitters, he takes too much of the "leading-man cocktail" prescribed to him and he ends up too loopy to go on stage for ''Death Rattle Dazzle''. What makes this worse is that there's no formal understudy who can take his place.
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* IntoxicatinEnsues: IntoxicationEnsues: Due to opening-night jitters, he takes too much of the "leading-man cocktail" prescribed to him and he ends up too loopy to go on stage for ''Death Rattle Dazzle''. What makes this worse is that there's no formal understudy who can take his place.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After decades of hard work at her career and even being willing to confess to murder to protect Dickie, Loretta ends the season having finally reconnected with her son, now her manager, with the world of acting finally opening up for her.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After decades of hard work at her career and even being willing to confess to murder to protect Dickie, Loretta ends the season having finally reconnected with her son, now her manager, with the world of acting finally opening up for her.]]
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* [[spoiler: ContrastingSequelAntagonist: He contrasts the first two seasons' killers, Jan and Poppy/Becky, on several points: he's male, the murder he commits is not premeditated (he claims it's an accident, although this is open to interpretation) and he is so far the only killer to never serve as opening narrator.]]
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* PsychopathicManchild: Cliff appears pretty nice and genial most of the time, but the combination of threatening Donna and being mocked as her "boy" [[spoiler: leads him to push Ben down the elevator shaft, killing him. That said the incident wasn't premeditated and he insists it was an accident, making him a more sympathetic killer than Jan and Poppy/Becky.]]
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* MrFanservice: Courtesy of being played by Jesse Williams. At one point he even walks into a scene with only a towel on.
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* PutOnABus: Strongly implied at the end of Season 3, when he gets an opportunity to shoot an indie film in L.A. He invites Mabel to move with him but she declines.
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him. That said the incident wasn't premeditated and he insists it was an accident, making him a more sympathetic killer than Jan and Poppy/Becky.]]
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* ObsessedWithFood: As Ben suffered from an immense amount of WeightWoe, he was both disgusted by and obsessed with food, often remarking on what he could and couldn't eat. Donna exploited this by persuading him to eat a poisoned cookie.
* PutOnABus: Season 3 ends with the strong implication that Loretta is leaving to go to L.A.
* StarMakingRole: In-universe. Her role in ''Death Rattle'' is this for her, though it may have more to do with getting Dickie as her agent.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: MeaningfulName: ''Death Rattle'' is set on an island populated by three killer babies. Ben played the detective investigating the babies. The physically intimate relationship Donna has with juvenile and immature Cliff is brushed off as being OK because Cliff is gay. This is similar to Stephanie Seymour and her tendency to be photographed in intimate poses with her sons and ended up pushing Ben down the family brushing it off as nothing scandalous because her sons are gay.elevator shaft - he fell down the ''Cliff''.
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* AdoptionAngst: Downplayed. Dickie was adopted by the Glenroys but constantly overshadowed by Ben and his life still revolves around Ben.
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* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Inverted. Dickie reveals that he suspected Loretta was his mother almost immediately.
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Donna is a very famous producer with theatrical mannerisms. She is even shown as being on the phone at the moment that she gives birth to Cliff.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Only his mother Donna is mentioned, with no clear definition of who or where his father is.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Donna vomits in {{Foreshadowing}} of her cancer diagnosis.
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* SecretlyDying: Donna is revealed to have stage 4 lung cancer in Season 3 finale.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Loretta Durkin. Both are mothers with only sons who go to extreme lengths to protect them. But Donna is an attempted murderer, while Loretta is innocent.
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* WrestlerOfBeasts: Pataki, Charles's former stunt double from ''Brazzos'', claims to have fought off an alligator using nothing but a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken Bourbon bottle]]. She's thought of as very badass, in comparison to the NonActionGuy Charles.
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* WrestlerOfBeasts: Pataki, Charles's former stunt double from ''Brazzos'', Pataki claims to have fought off an alligator using nothing but a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken Bourbon bottle]]. She's thought of as very badass, in comparison to the NonActionGuy Charles.
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this isn't alliterative due to the pronunciation being "Sinda Kanning"
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* BuryYourGays: She is shot dead at the end of Season 3 (possibly in a case of MistakenIdentity).
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* PosthumousCharacter: He dies at the beginning of Season 3 but remains a presence in most of the remaining episodes through flashbacks and imagine spots.
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* UnfortunateNames: Nobody likes Tobert's name. The entire trio notes that it's a stupid name.
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name and Mabel says that she can barely bring herself to say it out loud despite dating the man.
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* VerbalTic: Often grunts or growls to show emotion when speaking.
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* AdoptionAngst: Downplayed. Dickie was adopted by the Glenroys but constantly overshadowed by Ben and his life still revolves around Ben.
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* AssholeVictim: Subverted. As his storyline progresses, Ben's character is fleshed out more and more. His assholeness and putting people down, including his brother, stems from his own insecurities. When he is killed, people believe him to be an arrogant actor through and through and only the Trio finds out that Ben was deeper than what he let on.
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* AssholeVictim: Subverted.Zigzagged. As his storyline progresses, Ben's character is fleshed out more and more. His assholeness and putting people down, including his brother, stems from his own insecurities. When he is killed, people believe him to be an arrogant actor through and through and only the Trio finds out that Ben was deeper than what he let on.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ben has HiddenDepths, but he's still an egotistical jerk who bullied Dickie for most of their lives and viewed himself as the protagonist.
* SpoiledBrat: Even now in his forties or fifties, Ben was the beloved BabyOfTheBunch of his family, and he's just as spoiled.
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* StalkerWithACrush: She has a scrapbook filled with news articles about Ben Glenroy. Subverted when it turns out that she was not stalking Ben but keeping track of her long-lost son Dickie.
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* StalkerWithACrush: StalkerWithoutACrush: She has a scrapbook filled with news articles about Ben Glenroy. Subverted when it It turns out that she was not stalking Ben but keeping track of her long-lost son Dickie.
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* PapaWolf: Zigzagged. Upon finding out that Theo killed Zoe, he threatened Tim Kono and Mabel to keep the secret and stop him going to prison. However, he also uses this to manipulate Theo into helping him.
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* PapaWolf: Zigzagged. Upon finding out that Theo killed Zoe, he immediately threatened Tim Kono and Mabel to keep the secret and stop him going to prison. However, he also uses this to manipulate Theo into helping him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We can surmise Teddy is in prison, but it's not clarified for sure where he is in Season 3.
* AncestralName: His full name is Theodore, like his father's. This seems to have been intentional on Teddy's part, who also plays Theo a song about a father naming his son after himself.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Theo, though heavily deconstructed. She was the only one of the Hardy Boys who spoke ASL and was therefore both willing and able to communicate with him, and flirted with him a few times so that he developed a crush. However, she could be a much nastier person than Theo realized, and he was very taken aback when she laughed at his heartfelt romantic advances and then again when she started insulting him as he was trying to give her advice.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Theo, though heavily deconstructed. She was the only one of the Hardy Boys who spoke ASL and was therefore both willing and able to communicate with him, and flirted hooked up with him a few times so that he developed a crush. However, she could be a much nastier person than Theo realized, and he was very taken aback when she laughed at his heartfelt romantic advances and then again when she started insulting him as he was trying to give her advice.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: When he is hired as Oliver's assistant in Season 3, he is frequently egotistical when left in charge.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: In Season 2, Howard says that he doesn't know what Jonathan would see in him. He also gets Mabel and Tobert to follow Jonathan.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Nina Lin is not seen in Season 3.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Nina is the president of the Arconia co-op board, and enjoys bossing people around. When Lester shows reluctance to climb ''several flights of stairs'' with her package since the elevator is out, she threatens to replace him with a drone. She also punches Howard and backstabs Bunny in her effort to change the Arconia.
* LongBusTrip: Will doesn't come to see Oliver (on screen, anyway) when he's in hospital with his second heart attack or to see ''Death Rattle''.
* PutOnABus: Joy takes her home in the first episode of Season 3 and she isn't seen again for that season.
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