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* EverythingIsBiggerInTexas: The whole aesthetic of the Lissons and their church. Their church sports a humongous Texas flag, they live on a ranch, play Texas-themed music and of course have a Texas-sized bank account.
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* PedophilePriest: Block implies he’s sitting on information about Lyle being one, and Lyle doesn’t dispute it.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a far-right militia leader whose open to things like poisoning the water supplies of cities, and is pretty AxCrazy himself; but even he thinks Marshall's fixation on counter-protesting Confederate statue protests is a stupid waste of time and resources.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a far-right militia leader whose who's open to things like poisoning the water supplies of cities, and is pretty AxCrazy himself; but even he thinks Marshall's fixation on counter-protesting Confederate statue protests is a stupid waste of time and resources.
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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOverFacelessGoons: Justified since they're a biker gang.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: They rain down bullets on the Gemstones several times without ever hitting any of them save for Eli, and even he survived without permanent damage.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They're dressed in all black and their bikes and helmets are outfitted with distinctive glowing red accents
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: They rain down bullets on the Gemstones several times without ever hitting any of them save for Eli, and even he survived without permanent damage.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They're dressed in all black and their bikes and helmets are outfitted with distinctive glowing red accents
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* GutturalGrowler: This is actually a plot point. Scotty has a low, scary voice but he lowers it even further into a harsh snarl to disguise his identity when blackmailing Jesse.
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* CombatPragmatist: Their modus operandi is basically to catch their victim off guard and unload their [[MoreDakka guns]] from a safe distance. If that doesn't work? Drive off and live to fight another day.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Stephen cheats on Kristy with Judy.]]
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* {{Foil}}: To his ex-brother-in-law Eli. Both are talented public speakers capable of wooing crowds of people to their causes. Both are also varying degrees of abusive to their kids. But Eli is a decadent, financially successful businessman and preaches a mainstream politically vague/neutral evangelicalism; while Peter is purposefully scraggly, right-wing, and embraces fringe fanaticism. Also, both are far from perfect fathers; but Eli feels immense guilt whenever he goes too far, while Peter's default mode of parenting is to psychologically terrorize his sons without remorse. Eli was also a loving and devoted husband who never had a bad thing to say about Aimee-Leigh, especially not around his kids, while Peter smears May-May to the boys relentlessly and she's ''terrified'' of him.
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* {{Foil}}: To his ex-brother-in-law Eli.
** Both are talented public speakers capable of wooing crowds of people to their causes. Both are also varying degrees ofabusive terrible to their adult kids. But However, Eli is a decadent, financially successful businessman and preaches a mainstream politically vague/neutral evangelicalism; while Peter is purposefully scraggly, right-wing, and embraces fringe fanaticism. fanaticism.
** Also, both are far from perfect fathers; but Eli feels immense guilt whenever he goes too far, while Peter's default mode of parenting is to psychologically terrorize his sons withoutremorse. remorse.
** Eli was also a loving and devoted husband who never had a bad thing to say about Aimee-Leigh, especially not around his kids, while Peter smears May-May to the boys relentlessly and she's''terrified'' afraid of him.him after his stint in prison.
** Both are talented public speakers capable of wooing crowds of people to their causes. Both are also varying degrees of
** Also, both are far from perfect fathers; but Eli feels immense guilt whenever he goes too far, while Peter's default mode of parenting is to psychologically terrorize his sons without
** Eli was also a loving and devoted husband who never had a bad thing to say about Aimee-Leigh, especially not around his kids, while Peter smears May-May to the boys relentlessly and she's
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Eli's ex-brother-in-law who leads a religious, right-wing militia called Brothers of Tomorrow's Fires after being released from prison.
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Eli's ex-brother-in-law estranged brother-in-law who leads a religious, right-wing militia called Brothers of Tomorrow's Fires after being released from prison.
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* AbusiveParent: In a cast full of mediocre fathers, Peter might be the most actively toxic. Not only does he slap Chuck and Karl around, he isolates them from their mother, physically tortures his own men to scare them, and fully turns on them the moment things go wrong. "Interlude III" shows he wasn't always this way, more meek compared to May-May's strict discipline.
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* AbusiveParent: In a cast full of mediocre fathers, Zig-zagged and played with. Peter might be the most actively toxic. Not only does he slap Chuck and treats his sons horribly as adults, belittling Karl around, he isolates them from their mother, and physically tortures torturing his own men subordinates to scare them, and fully turns on them. However, he seemed to be a fairly ordinary father to them the moment things go wrong. "Interlude III" shows he wasn't always this way, more meek compared when they were kids, if too much of a HenPeckedHusband to May-May's strict discipline. stick up for them when May-May smacked them around.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a right-wing Christian nationalist who hates liberal ideals, far-right militia leader whose open to things like poisoning the water supplies of cities, and is pretty AxCrazy himself; but even he thinks Marshall's fixation on counter-protesting Confederate statue protests is a stupid waste of time and resources.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: He could have let go of trying to specifically targeting the Gemstones and disappeared into the woodwork with a fairly loyal group of fanatics, but his single-minded desire to hurt Eli drove everyone, even Chuck, away in the end.]]
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* StrawMisogynist: Mostly directed at Judy and Kelvin, but also his own men.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: The militiamen were definitely right to call out Peter for squandering every bit of leverage they possibly had and forcing them to go on the run.
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* BadBossBadBoss: Tortures a random militia member to get his sons to confess their (alleged) betrayal. [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack Eventually the militia gets sick of him and kick him and Chuck out]].]]
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* CrazySurvivalistCrazySurvivalist: A gun-stockpiling, government hating militia leader who lives on a hidden rural compound.
* MeaningfulName: The Biblical Peter was a friend of Jesus who abandoned him and eventually reconciled with him. This mirror's Peter's relationship to both his family and the Gemstones.
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* TragicVillainTragicVillain: He invested way too much money in the Gemstones' Y2K emergency kits. When the apocalypse didn't happen, they ended up worthless and Eli offered to buy back everything he had. But Peter's wife was too proud to accept Eli's help. The family fell into poverty. Peter robbed a bank, got sent to jail, and got involved in right-wing militias.
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* EvilCounterpart: They are one for BJ and Judy.
** Judy and Stephen are both self-absorbed, sexually aggressive church musicians who participate in [[spoiler: a 'no sex' affair.]] However, Judy is wracked with guilt while Stephen is completely remorseless.
** BJ and Kristy are both the [[spoiler: wronged partner in the affair who take dramatic action in retaliation for the affair.]] Kristy seems to be a normal person, the way BJ is, however she's volatile and selfish, refusing to consider working on her marriage and instead demanding a handout from the church.
** As a couple, Judy and BJ are mostly happy despite their weirdness, whereas Kristy and Stephen seem ordinary and suburban but are toxic and miserable.
** Judy and Stephen are both self-absorbed, sexually aggressive church musicians who participate in [[spoiler: a 'no sex' affair.]] However, Judy is wracked with guilt while Stephen is completely remorseless.
** BJ and Kristy are both the [[spoiler: wronged partner in the affair who take dramatic action in retaliation for the affair.]] Kristy seems to be a normal person, the way BJ is, however she's volatile and selfish, refusing to consider working on her marriage and instead demanding a handout from the church.
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* KarmaHoudini: The last scene of season 3 reveals [[spoiler: he survived the explosion of the Smut Busters van. He also didn't seem to face any legal consequences for either truck bombing or his actions with the militia.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: The last scene of season 3 reveals [[spoiler: he survived the explosion of the Smut Busters van.van, albeit at the cost of part of his leg. He also didn't seem to face any legal consequences for either truck bombing or his actions with the militia.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: The last scene of season 3 reveals [[spoiler: he survived the explosion of the Smut Busters van. He also didn't seem to face any legal consequences for either truck bombing or his actions with the militia.]]
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The Lissons were wealthy outsiders who had no real personal grudge against the Gemstones, just a desire to get their way by whatever means necessary. Peter is part of the family, and driven purely by anger at the Gemstones.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Chuck's "death" crystallizes his desire to blow up the Gemstone church, because he's got nothing left.]]
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Peter is an impulsive man who seems to plan by the seat of his pants, which is why his plans constantly seem on the verge of falling apart.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Peter is an impulsive man who seems to plan by the seat of his pants, which is why his plans constantly seem on the verge of falling apart.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Seems remarkably adept at [[spoiler: building explosives and detonators with minimal resources.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He realizes the error of his ways andtried to save saves the family from his bomb.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He realizes the error of his ways and
* NeverMyFault: Invoked. [[spoiler: He can't take accountability for his own part in what put him in prison, but a plague of locusts manage to put it into perspective.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Vance to Jesse. They're both ambitious oldest siblings of a megachurch empire. But Jesse is openly [[PottyMouth foul-mouthed]] with a hair-trigger temper, and an inability to read a room; while Vance is collected and affable. Jesse constantly argues with his siblings, while Vance gets along with his. Vance comes across as a GoodShepherd, while Jesse is extremely selfish. [[spoiler: However, when the chips are down, Vance reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward whose affability is mostly shmoozing; while Jesse's instinct is to put his life on the line to save both his family and anybody else caught in the crossfires]].
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* {{Foil}}: Vance to Jesse. They're both ambitious oldest siblings of a megachurch empire. But Jesse is openly [[PottyMouth foul-mouthed]] foul-mouthed with a hair-trigger temper, and an inability to read a room; while Vance is collected and affable. Jesse constantly argues with his siblings, while Vance gets along with his. Vance comes across as a GoodShepherd, while Jesse is extremely selfish. [[spoiler: However, when the chips are down, Vance reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward whose affability is mostly shmoozing; schmoozing; while Jesse's instinct is to put his life on the line to save both his family and anybody else caught in the crossfires]].
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* NotSoAboveItAll: They try to pretend they're better than the Gemstones, but when the chips are down, they're the same. Vance particularly shows himself to be just as petty and mean as Jesse during their Cloak and Pistol meetings. [[Spoiler: When the locusts attack Bible Bonkers, he leaves his siblings and Dusty behind.]]
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* NotSoAboveItAll: They try to pretend they're better than the Gemstones, but when the chips are down, they're the same. Vance particularly shows himself to be just as petty and mean as Jesse during their Cloak and Pistol meetings. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: When the locusts attack Bible Bonkers, he leaves his siblings and Dusty behind.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Drives his bomb away from the church, intending to sacrifice himself to save his family after realizing his mistakes.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Drives his bomb away from the church, intending to sacrifice himself to save his family after realizing his mistakes. He ends up blowing part of his leg off but survives, and is later seen with the entire extended family wearing a prosthetic.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: His StartOfDarkness was caused by a desperate need to provide for his family. Eventually, it's his love for them that [[LoveRedeems redeems him]].]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a right-wing Christian nationalist who hates liberal ideals, and is pretty AxCrazy himself; but even he thinks Marshall's fixation on counter-protesting Confederate statue protests is a waste of time and resources.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a right-wing Christian nationalist who hates liberal ideals, and is pretty AxCrazy himself; but even he thinks Marshall's fixation on counter-protesting Confederate statue protests is a waste of time and resources.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Surprisingly becomes this after [[spoiler: the Gemstone siblings are rescued from his compound. His men turn on him, despite his desperate attempts to keep them under control, and after he thinks Chuck's died he's a blubbering mess.]]
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* RealMenLoveJesus: A violent, gun-loving all-man group obsessed with masculinity, who also sing praise songs to Jesus Christ.
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* GoodCounterpart: Basically the Gemstone siblings if they weren't (openly) [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] and treated each other kindly. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed Vance is even more self-serving than Jesse, and just as petty.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Vance to Jesse. They're both ambitious oldest siblings of a megachurch empire. But Jesse is openly [[PottyMouth foul-mouthed]] with a hair-trigger temper, and an inability to read a room; while Vance is collected and affable. Jesse constantly argues with his siblings, while Vance gets along with his. Vance comes across as a GoodShepherd, while Jesse is extremely selfish. [[spoiler: However, when the chips are down, Vance reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward whose affability is mostly shmoozing; while Jesse's instinct is to put his life on the line to save both his family and anybody else caught in the crossfires]].
* GoodCounterpart: Basically the Gemstone siblings if they weren't (openly) [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] and treated each other kindly. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed Vance is even more self-serving than Jesse, and just aspetty.]]petty]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: While fleeing from the locusts at Bible Bonkers, Vance knocks over Dusty Daniels and doesn't help him back up; but Jesse does. This leads to their church losing Daniels as a congregant to the Gemstones.]]
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* NotSoAboveItAll: They try to pretend they're better than the Gemstones, but when the chips are down, they're the same. Vance particularly shows himself to be just as petty and mean as Jesse during their Cloak and Pistol meetings. [[Spoiler: When the locusts attack Bible Bonkers, he leaves his siblings and Dusty behind.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Loses a leg in the explosion he intended to destroy the Gemstone church with.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He realizes the error of his ways and tried to save the family from his bomb.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Drives his bomb away from the church, intending to sacrifice himself to save his family after realizing his mistakes.]]
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: 5'7" Peterwas is married to 6'0" May-May.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: 5'7" Peter
* AxCrazy: Several of the members are more gung-ho for violence than others.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: They insult each other by saying others are "acting like a woman" repeatedly, and Marshall's whole thing is wanting to protest people protesting Confederate monuments.
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* DirtyCoward: Vance [[spoiler: leaves behind his siblings and kids at the first sign of danger, even knocking over Dusty on his way out.]]
* GoodCounterpart: Basically the Gemstone siblings if they weren't (openly) [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] and treated each other kindly. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed Vance is even more self-serving than Jesse, and just as petty.]]
* GoodCounterpart: Basically the Gemstone siblings if they weren't (openly) [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] and treated each other kindly. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed Vance is even more self-serving than Jesse, and just as petty.]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"God Saves. Money? Money just gets you stuff"'']]
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: "Non decor, duco." Translated, it means "no beauty, I say." Hinting at [[spoiler: Peter's ItsPersonal grudge against the Gemstones and their lavish, showy lifestyle.]]
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: "Non decor, duco." Translated, it means "no beauty, I say." Hinting at [[spoiler: Peter's ItsPersonal grudge against the Gemstones and their lavish, showy lifestyle.lifestyle rather than a firm philosophy for the group.]]
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: "Non decor, duco." Translated, it means "no beauty, I say." Hinting at [[spoiler: Peter's ItsPersonal grudge against the Gemstones and their lavish, showy lifestyle.]]
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