History Characters / TheGetDown

* AmbiguouslyGay

* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Fat Annie forces Shao to kill Wolf, to prove he's man enough to become one of her lieutenants.]]

* GivenNameReveal: [[spoilers: During an explosive argument with Zeke, he admits his name is Curtis.]]

!Shaolin Fantastic

!Ra-Ra Kipling

!Boo-Boo Kipling

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Unlike his brothers (whose real names are Ronald and Marcus), Boo-Boo's name is unknown.

!Dizzee Kipling, AKA Rumi 411

* InformedAttractiveness: Zeke, Jackie, Francisco, and to a lesser extent, Cadillac all talk at length about Mylene's looks. Zeke even points her out as "the beautiful one" to Shao. It's not that she's not beautiful (she is), but that she's not above and beyond her also-gorgeous friends.

* MeaningfulName: "Papa Fuerte" means "Papa Strong", and he's a powerful figure in the Bronx. See also WMG for an additional possible meaning.

!Regina and Yolanda

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sort of. When Shaolin asks for her blessing to pursue his music dreams, she gives him a hard time and tells him he'll never make it without her, but ultimately gives it.

!Cadillac

* AmbiguouslyBi: His initial interactions with Thor are heavily laden with homoerotic subtext, and he acts like he's been stood up when Thor doesn't keep their rendezvous. Then Thor invites him to a drag show and they kiss after Dizzee kisses a girl and pops a pill (probably 'ludes, which make you high and horny).

* OnlySaneMan: Usually the first to question what the group is doing, and usually right to question them.
* TheQuietOne: Only speaks when necessary.

! Mayor Ed Koch

! Herman Gunns

! Ms. Green

* {{Geek}}: For kung fu movies. Grandmaster Flash calls him Grasshopper[[note]]A reference to the 1970s TV series ''Kung Fu''[[/note]], he buys a sword cane because he was told it belonged to a rebel Shaolin monk, he named himself ''Shaolin Fantastic'', and so on. He even tries (and fails) to intimidate Zeke with fake kung fu posturing when fighting him over the Pakoussa record.

* TheAtoner: He found God in prison and fathered children with at least different women back in Puerto Rico.

* {{Geek}}: For kung fu movies. Grandmaster Flash calls him Grasshopper, he buys a sword cane because he was told it belonged to a rebel Shaolin monk, he named himself ''Shaolin Fantastic'', and so on. He even tries (and fails) to intimidate Zeke with fake kung fu posturing when fighting him over the Pakoussa record.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's an orphan. His parents died in a fire, and he was there.

* MouthyKid

* Leitmotif:

!Dizzee Kipling, AKA Rumi

* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Fat Annie forces Shao to kill Little Wolf, to prove he's man enough to become one of her lieutenants.]]

A member of Ezekiel's group of friends. He's Boo-Boo and Dizzee's brother, and frequently the group's voice of reason.

* InformedAttractiveness: Zeke, Jackie, Francisco, and to a lesser extent, Cadillac all talk at length about Mylene's looks. Zeke even points her out as "the beautiful one" to Shao.

* ScaryBlackMan: While he may not ''kill'' children [[spoiler: on purpose]],he certainly ties them up and beats them.

Mayoral candidate - and newly elected mayor - of New York. He forms an alliance with Papa Fuerte to deliver votes from the Bronx in exchange for city funds to build housing.

!Ra-Ra

!Boo-Boo

!Dizzee, AKA the street artist Rumi

* BlackAndNerdy: Loves Star Wars, talking Shao into "using the Force" to lock down his timing and suggesting the main theme for the battle.

-->''About Mylene's song'' "This song is going to set so many people free. It speaks to planets and galaxies that already know what we're learning down here: freedom is everything, and that's why this song is so important."

* AmbiguouslyBi: His initial interactions with Thor are heavily laden with homoerotic subtext, and he acts like he's been stood up when Thor doesn't keep their rendezvous. Then Thor invites him to a drag show and they kiss after Rumi kisses a girl and pops a pill (probably 'ludes, which make you high and horny).

* DaddysGirl: Not to her father, Ramon, but to her uncle, Francisco. He will go to any lengths to get Mylene what she wants, and Mylene knows that all she has to do is cry and beg her tio to help her.

* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Not to her "father", Ramon, but to her biological father, Francisco. He will go to any lengths to get Mylene what she wants, and Mylene knows that all she has to do is cry and beg her "tio" to help her.]]

* PreachersKid: The main source of drama in her life is her conflict with her father. She wants to sing, he wants her to be quiet and modest and not do anything that smacks of sin. [[spoiler: Ironically, Mylene isn't Ramon's daughter, she's Francisco's.]]

* VirginInAWhiteDress: For her chance to impress Jackie, Francisco orders a custom-made white dress for Mylene, which he specifically states should be modest to play up her "good girl" persona. The end result doesn't turn out the way he envisioned...

* OpenMindedParent: She can't go against Ramon's wishes too much, but she sends Mylene first to Francisco when Ramon gets violent, and then to get a dress for her debut when she's supposed to be confined to the salon. She fully supports her daughter's dreams of becoming a singer as well.

* SiblingTriangle: Married to Ramon, but still clearly in love with Francisco ([[spoiler: whom she has a daughter with]]).

* TheAtoner: He found God in prison and fathered children on several different women back in Puerto Rico.

* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: He's devoted to Mylene and wants the best for her, and has not only hidden his own sins, but his brother's.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Mylene is his daughter and for unknown reasons, he and Lydia have hidden that from her and Ramon.]]

* AddledAddict[=/=]FunctionalAddict: To cocaine, heroin, alcohol, and gambling. He dresses pretty nice and can function in day-to-day tasks, but his career has been dead for ages, and over the course of the series he spends thousands of dollars of other people's money on his habits.

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: A walking advertisement for how horrific that trope plays out in reality. He's a thief, an addict, and a rapist...and a rape victim.

* SpicyLatina: Regina is really open about enjoying casual sex, and is ready to fight with any man who disrespects her. And she's always wearing the tightest, most revealing clothing in the group.

Owner of Les Inferno, the hottest disco cub in Brooklyn, and an aspiring drug dealer.

* EvilMatriarch: Plays her son Cadillac and her brother Little Wolf - and her third "son" Shao - off each other constantly, and when she discovers [[spoiler: Little Wolf's betrayal, forces Shao to kill Wolf.]]
* PaidHarem: The only member of her harem is Shaolin Fantastic. In addition to sex, she also makes him dance for her.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Shaolin asks for her blessing to pursue his music dreams, she gives him a hard time, but ultimately gives it.

* TheCasanova: He's quite the ladies man. Fairly successful, too. He's wealthy and attractive, addiction and violence aside.
* DanceBattler: As we see in episode 2, he's the unchallenged disco champion of Les Inferno.

* ScaryBlackMan: While he may not ''kill'' children, he certainly ties them up and beats them, not to mention [[spoiler: the dead guy in the back of his Cadillac]].

* BlackAndNerdy: Loves Star Wars, talking Shao into using the main theme for the battle.

Ra-Ra's younger brother, he's hard to contain and very mechanically minded.

Ra-Ra's younger brother, he's hard to contain and very mechanically minded

* TheLoad: Played with. At first he stutters and stammers trying to rap his way through the lines Zeke wrote for him. But then Dizzee suggests Shaolin give him a beat he can double-time to and he flies through it like a bullet train.

Ra-Ra's younger brother, he's hard to contain and very mechanically minded.

* AmbiguouslyBi: His initial interactions with Thor are heavily laden with homoerotic subtext, and he acts like he's been stood up when Thor doesn't keep their rendezvous. Then Thor invites him to a drag show and they kiss. After Rumi kisses a girl. And pops a pill (probably ludes, which make you high and horny).

* PreachersKid: The main source of drama in her life is her conflict with her father. She wants to sing, he wants her to be quiet and modest and not do anything that smacks of sin.
* RagsToRiches: Her prime motivation is to become a famous disco star so she can get the heck out of the Bronx.

* TheAtoner: He found god in prison and fathered children on several different women back in Puerto Rico.
* BrokenPedestal: For Mylene, when she learns that he's atoning.

A drunken degenerate gambler hooked on pills and smack and coke, this erstwhile music producer is a complete fucking mess, and everyone around him is aware of it. However, he's Papa Fuerte's connection with the music industry, so he becomes Mylene's producer. Too bad he's such a schlub he is only a hindrance at every stage.

* AddledAddict[=/=]FunctionalAddict: To cocaine, heroine, alcohol, and gambling. He dresses all right, and can walk down the street, but his career has been dead for ages, and over the course of the series he spends thousands of dollars of other people's money on his habits.
* JadedWashout: He is incredibly cynical about the music industry. He should be. It made him what he is today. Also, it's as rotten as the rest of New York.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His evening with Mylene during the blackout shows that, under the jaded addict is a guy who's not ''all'' bad.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: A walking advertisement for how horrific that trope plays out in reality. He's a thief, an addict, and a rapist. And a rape victim.