History FanFic / MurderersRow

* EveryoneIsGay: This is partly attributed to SituationalSexuality (stated in Tucker's case and implied with Church) but there's a high density of gay among the main cast.

* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Locus delivers one to O'Malley after being asked to help with a revenge scheme concerning Doc.

** Sigma says his van doesn't run well because [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas 'the engine block's held together with a macramé hammock, and it's running on fifteen year old cooking oil.']] This reference was removed in the rewrite.

** Sigma says his van doesn't run well because [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas 'the engine block's held together with a macramé hammock, and it's running on fifteen year old cooking oil.']] This reference was removed in the rewrite.

* BadDreams: These affect Donut after the death of his roommate [[spoiler: and get much worse after O'Malley chops off his ear and he witnesses Walter's disembowelment.]]

* AnarchronicOrder: Not the main fic, but the flashbacks are a variant. Although an individual character will have theirs occur chronologically for them, many characters have largely varying timelines, causing events to be revisited or to happen in odd orders. For example, Caboose gets into a car accident in Flashback Two. [[spoiler:This same accident occurs in Grif's Flashback Seven, all the way in the next volume.]]

* NoMedicationForMe: O'Malley tries to ditch his medication (although he rarely succeeds) because he simply can't think clearly when on them. Strangely, the medication seems to make him crazier, possibly because Doc isn't a very good doctor.

* TapOnTheHead: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:O'Malley and Felix do this to Wash multiple times during a torture session to mess with his sense of how much time has passed. It may have given him brain damage.]]

* AwkwardKiss: [[spoiler:Church and Tucker's first kiss is noted by both of them to be weird and awkward, although they conclude that 'it could have been worse' and it doesn't stop their relationship from going ahead.]]

* [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11939559/chapters/26990139 Volume 3, 'Pound of Flesh,']] has just begun and is slated to be the final volume. It takes place ten years after Vol.2.

* TortureChamberEpisode: Chapter 151/Volume 3, Chapter Seven. [[spoiler:In which Wash is kept in the electrical room and mercilessly tortured, both physically, mentally and emotionally, by O'Malley and Locus.]]

** Samuel closing his eyes and opening them as Locus is a ComicBook/Watchmen reference.

* YouWouldn'tShootMe: Surge pulls this on a teenaged Connie in the flashbacks, correctly guessing that she's never murdered before, and gets as far as putting his hand on her gun. However, Pillman had no problems with stabbing him.

* BlindBlackGuy: [[spoiler: Tucker after Part 109.]]

** Done in Part 151. [[spoiler:Since O'Malley only has a few hours at most to torture Wash, he regularly knocks him out and then wakes him up a couple of minutes later and tells him hours or days have passed. As such, he manages to trick Wash into thinking it's been five days instead of a few hours.]]

* HandsOffParenting: Tucker's mother was continually drunk, and so didn't have much of a capacity to care for Tucker. Tucker grew up quite self-sufficient as a result.

* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:In the backstory, Junior was kidnapped as an incentive for Tucker to pay back the money he stole.]]

* MexicanStandoff: In the last flashback chapter, [[spoiler:with CT and Joannes pointing guns at Tucker, and Tucker pointing a gun at CT. It ends with Tucker shot and Joannes dead.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Occurs often. The backstories are notable for this, as they'll start with Church's part, which is often depressing and/or bloody, and end with Donut's, which is usually fluffy and cheerful. There's also part 109, where Grif and Simmons are being fairly jokey and there's humorous callbacks to early RvB episodes [[spoiler:seconds before Simmons gets gutted and murdered by the Red Zealot.]]
* TheMourningAfter: After a ten year timeskip, [[spoiler:Grif]] is still not over [[spoiler:Simmons']] death. This is attributed not to the depth of love, however, but to prison being such an unchanging place that it always feels like the same day.

* MushroomSamba: Grif, after he takes some LSD in an effort to pass the time. Amongst his hallucinations are a suddenly gelatinous floor and [[spoiler:Simmons, who'd died a decade ago.]]

* NeckSnap: Off-screen, this is how Locus kills Cunningham.

* PaedoHunt: Played with during a con in Tucker's backstory. In the con, they used the fact that Tucker looked much younger than he really was to set up a situation that made their target look like a pedophile, so they could blackmail him with the pictures.

* ParentalNeglect: Church's father at his most benevolent. Tucker's mother, although she did love her son. She was just perpetually drunk.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Established early on, as despite trying to intimidate Donut by mentioning that rape is a strong possibility, Church makes it clear that he personally finds it reprehensible. Despite the fact that most of the characters are bad in some way, the only one who ever engages in rape is O'Malley.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: York is probably the most reasonable guard, particularly in comparison to Wash, who is nightstick-happy to say the least. As of the rewrite, North also qualifies.
* RecursiveCrossdressing: [[spoiler:C.T in the backstory. She normally dresses as and pretends to be male to help her reach seem bigger by emulating her boyfriend, the 'other' C.T. Then during one con, she has to dress as a woman, alongside Tucker who still thinks she's a man at that stage.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Sarge routinely accuses Flowers of being 'some form of traitor' due to his love of the colour blue and their tendancy to pit inmates against each other in colour-coded sporting games. [[spoiler:Given that Flowers is an agent for the Director and working at the prison for those reasons, Sarge is correct.]]

** [[spoiler: Also, Caboose. Maybe. Either he shoved his mother down the stairs or she really just slipped.]]

** Donut also seems to ship Church and Tucker. Although this is more about wanting more love in the prison in general, and he stops after Church [[spoiler:reveals how he gaslighted Caboose into thinking he'd never killed.]]

** The title of part 153, 'Shout Out To Shadles,' is a ShoutOut to Creator/AchievementHunter's "Trouble in Terrorist Town" LP. In said LP, a random player named 'Shadles' ended up in the AH crew's game and annihilated them, including hanging Ray after murdering him. [[spoiler:This is also what Locus does to Brutus, the sleeveless insurrectionist, in the same chapter.]]

* TapOnTheHead: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:O'Malley and Locus do this to Wash multiple times during a torture session to mess with his sense of how much time has passed. It may have given him brain damage.]]

* TortureChamberEpisode: Chapter 151. [[spoiler:In which Wash is kept in the electrical room and mercilessly tortured, both physically, mentally and emotionally, by O'Malley and Locus.]]

* WhamEpisode: Part 109. [[spoiler:By the end of the riot, Tucker is completely blind and Red Zealot, Miller, Wyoming and ''Simmons'' are all dead.]]

* YouRemindMeOfX: Wash reminds Wyoming of himself when he was younger.

* AxCrazy: O'Malley and the Red Zealot. Caboose is also a borderline example, though it recedes after [[HeelRealization he realises it through Church]]. The Insurrectionist Leader is a literal example, as he has attacked people with tomahawks twice.

* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:The man Grif and Simmons killed wasn't quite dead when they buried him...]]

* CatchPhrase: As well as the ones from the original series, North has a habit of going "Jesus Christ on a unicycle!" Or substituting unicycle for another mode of transport.

* ChessMotifs: Simmons attempts to explain the situation with Church during episode 100 with a chess metaphor. However, he doesn't have any chess pieces on hand and ends up using playing cards instead to represent the 'pieces.'

* {{Conman}}: Tucker and Jones in the main fic. The backstory also adds C.T, Joannes and Gary.

* DeathByFallingOver: Caboose will often claim this is how his victims really died, rather than admitting to murder.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Wash hit this in his flashback chapter, following his three-month torture session, eight months in hospitals and mental institutions, followed by over a year of homelessness, becoming sick through hunger and side effects of his medication, and then going off his medication and becoming even sicker from that. He lost hope entirely because he couldn't see a way out. He was seconds away from walking in front of traffic when York found him.]]

* DisappearedDad: Neither Grif nor Tucker knew their fathers. And Donut can't remember his biological one, instead being adopted by two mothers.
* DisguisedInDrag: Tucker has disguised himself as a girl more than once in the past, for conning purposes.
* DisproportionateRetribution: O'Malley is prone to over-the-top revenge for the tiniest of slights. Particularly for reasons relating to Doc, such as Church calling Doc a 'pussyfest' and Donut (with permission) using his mouthwash.

* DrowningMySorrows: Grif attempts to drink himself into a coma after [[spoiler:Simmons' death.]]
* DumbBlonde: Caboose. Delta is an inversion, being both blond and possibly the smartest character in the fic.

* EvilRedhead: O'Malley. This is even a plot point, when at one point he convinces the Red Zealot that he's a prophet of the flag by pointing out that the flag wouldn't bestow its holy colour on someone unworthy.

** [[spoiler: Locus cuts some of the tendons on Delta's hands.]]

* GroinAttack: A very vicious, non-comedic example. [[spoiler:Grif and Simmons killed the guy who beat up Sister by cutting off his junk.]]

* AbusiveParents: There are many sets of parents who could be considered abusive. Church's father is the most clear-cut example, neglecting both his sons, often throwing beer bottles around them and being very emotionally abusive to Epsilon in particular, blaming him for the mother's death.

* AttractiveBentGender: Tucker, when he crossdressed for certain cons in the flashback chapter. He was attractive enough to attract a couple of marks, at least.

* AxCrazy: O'Malley and the Red Zealot. Caboose is also a borderline example, though it recedes after [[HeelRealization Chapter 95]]. The Insurrectionist Leader is a literal example, as he has attacked people with tomahawks twice.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8353565/1/Murderers-Row Murderer's Row]] is a Machinima/RedVsBlue [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] SlashFic, written by Violent-Medic.

This fic is set to span the twenty years between Donut's incarceration up until he achieves parole, and is mostly based around the fighting between the inmates. In particular, the fighting against O'Malley, an insane psychopath with a habit of picking 'favourites' to focus on.

There are also 'flashback' chapters interspersed with the main fic, detailing how the main six inmates wound up in prison, as well as occasionally the backstory of other important characters.

** A couple of lines during the scene when [[spoiler:the Red Zealot disembowels Walter]] are quotes from Olimar in ThereWillBeBrawl.

** Caboose mentions having a cousin who 'kept saying his name was not what his name was.' This is a reference to Wade (aka Durnt) from TheStrangerhood, a different RoosterTeeth machinima, who shares a voice actor with Caboose.

* [[spoiler: BlindBlackGuy: Tucker after Part 109.]]

* HannibalLecture: O'Malley manages to do this a lot. Wyoming also got a turn at it.

** The title of part 153, 'Shout Out To Shadles,' is a ShoutOut to [[AchievementHunter Achievement Hunter's]] 'Trouble in Terrorist Town' LP. In said LP, a random player named 'Shadles' ended up in the AH crew's game and annihilated them, including hanging Ray after murdering him. [[spoiler:This is also what Locus does to Brutus, the sleeveless insurrectionist, in the same chapter.]]

* AlcoholicParent: Tucker's mother.

* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: In Church's backstory, [[spoiler: after Wash stabs Epsilon during his escape, Gary is the one to find him. He picks up the knife and is found immediately by Delta, who shoots him on the spot. However, this was also because he'd just returned from finding proof that Gary had betrayed them. (Though this also turned out to be wrong.)]]

** Happened once between Church and Tucker, once the truth about Church's crush came out. Church did it because he figured Tucker would hate him for the crush anyway.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Minus the heterosexual part on Donut's end, he and Caboose have a definite bromance going on.

* RecursiveCrossdressing: [[spoiler:C.T, who at one point ends up dressed in a very girly fashion, while still keeping Tucker convinced that she's really a guy.]]

** Donut also seems to ship Church and Tucker. Although this is more about wanting more love in the prison in general, and he stops after Church makes him really mad.