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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Freddie tells Tommy in the pilot "maybe you should put a bullet in Danny Whizzbang's head, like they do with mad horses. Maybe you'll have to put a bullet in mine someday." As of the third episode, Tommy's two for two with bullets, [[spoiler: faking Danny's death, but shooting him in the head nonetheless, and having to put down the white horse he bought from the Lees]].
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* DoWrongRight: Little Finn picks up a hammer to use during the Cheltenham raid. John takes it away from him... and gives him a ''cleaver''.
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* {{Fingore}}: Campbell breaks most of Arthur's fingers in the pilot.
* GunStruggle: Happens multiple times in episode 3; first with Grace and the IRA sympathizer in the alley behind the Black Swan, second with Grace and Billy Kimber.
* HeroicBSOD: Grace, who gets drunk and then sick with guilt after she [[spoiler: kills the IRA member outside the Black Swan.]] An interesting case because she appears not to care when [[spoiler: speaking to Campbell later, even implying it was standard operating procedure when they were in Belfast]].
* HeroicBSOD: Grace, who gets drunk and then sick with guilt after she [[spoiler: kills the IRA member outside the Black Swan.]] An interesting case because she appears not to care when [[spoiler: speaking to Campbell later, even implying it was standard operating procedure when they were in Belfast]].
* HoneyTrap: What [[spoiler: Grace]] is assigned to be for Tommy.
* InsistentTerminology: Campbell has to keep reminding Moss that he employs "operatives", not "spies".
* InsistentTerminology: Campbell has to keep reminding Moss that he employs "operatives", not "spies".
* LadyInRed: Grace, at Cheltenham.
* NearRapeExperience: Happens to poor Grace when Tommy auctions her off to Billy Kimber as part of their VillainTeamUp, originally thinking Kimber's harmless and she'll be able to knee him in the nuts and get away. Kimber's much more dangerous than Tommy thinks, and after a [[PetTheDog last minute attack of conscience]], Tommy gets her away from Kimber before either a rape or another shooting happens.
* NewEraSpeech: Campbell gets a rather spectacular one in the pilot, given to the Birmingham police when he brings in a load of new cops from Ireland to swell the ranks and bring about order.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both Shelby parents are deceased by the time the series starts. It's implied John's old enough to remember their father, but Ada isn't, which puts his death around fifteen years ago, but we don't know anything about what happened to either of them.
** PromotionToParent: Polly seems to have raised most, if not all of the Shelby children. In addition, Tommy acts as the father of the house, the stern disciplinarian to Polly's more compassionate mother figure.
** PromotionToParent: Polly seems to have raised most, if not all of the Shelby children. In addition, Tommy acts as the father of the house, the stern disciplinarian to Polly's more compassionate mother figure.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Played straight by Tommy, Freddie, and most of the boys who served in WorldWarOne. Taken to its TearJerker, PTSD conclusion by Danny, who keeps flashing back to France and [[spoiler: accidentally kills a man during a blackout]].
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* RousingSpeech:
** Arthur, of all people, turns out to be really good at these, with John as his NumberTwo. They whip the Peaky Blinders up to go and attack the Lees at Cheltenham as part of Tommy's plan to impress Billy Kimber.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Played straight by Tommy, Freddie, Arthur, and most of the boys who served in WorldWarOne. Taken to its TearJerker, PTSD conclusion by Danny, who keeps flashing back to France and [[spoiler: accidentally kills a man during a blackout]].
** Arthur, of all people, turns out to be really good at these, with John as his NumberTwo. They whip the Peaky Blinders up to go and attack the Lees at Cheltenham as part of Tommy's plan to impress Billy Kimber.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Played straight by Tommy, Freddie, Arthur, and most of the boys who served in WorldWarOne. Taken to its TearJerker, PTSD conclusion by Danny, who keeps flashing back to France and [[spoiler: accidentally kills a man during a blackout]].
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* TheSociopath: Tommy's beginning to tick off most of the hallmarks of it, especially the ever-increasing lack of empathy. Freddie even implies that Tommy [[EvilCannotComprehendGood can't remember what love feels like]], he's so obsessed with business (as he believes that [[spoiler: Freddie impregnated Ada to further his own social standing with the Peaky Blinders and protect himself from anti-communist persecution, despite actually loving Ada]]). We haven't seen any evidence of poor impulse control - actually, Tommy's the most contained and in-control of the Shelby brothers, in contrast to [[HotBlooded John]] and [[ButtMonkey Arthur]].
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* TookALevelInBadass;
** After spending two episodes mostly as the ButtMonkey of the family, Arthur takes a rather large level in 1x03 when he leads the raid on the Lees, and cuts part of one of the Lees' ears off as a threat.
** After spending two episodes mostly as the ButtMonkey of the family, Arthur takes a rather large level in 1x03 when he leads the raid on the Lees, and cuts part of one of the Lees' ears off as a threat.
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* VillainTeamUp: Tommy pulls this on two separate occasions. First he cuts a deal with Campbell - he and the Peaky Blinders will find the guns from the BSA robbery, quell the unionizing and run Freddie Thorne out of Birmingham, if Campbell turns a blind eye to Tommy's gambling operations. Second, he proposes, much more politely than he did to Campbell, to Billy Kimber that he and the Peaky Blinders be allowed to fix races and run security on Kimber's behalf.
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* WomenAreWiser: Both Polly and Ada urge Freddie to see sense and leave England before Tommy comes after him.
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* ARealManIsAKiller: Pretty much every character has disparaged Campbell for not serving in WorldWarOne, making him very defensive about it. The reason the Shelby brothers are so highly regarded is because all three eldest brothers are decorated war veterans.
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* BadassFamily: The Shelbys.
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* ColdBloodedTorture:
** Campbell puts Arthur through this in the pilot.
** Arthur slices off a bit of a gangster's ear to send a message to the Lee family.
** Campbell puts Arthur through this in the pilot.
** Arthur slices off a bit of a gangster's ear to send a message to the Lee family.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Runs in the Shelby family - Polly, Ada, and Tommy are the ones who employ it the most, for varying reasons.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Polly's clearly not afraid to use corporal punishment on the boys. She tells John that her boot's harder than any excuse he has for his childish behavior, and Tommy says the only reason she ''doesn't'' hit him with the fireplace poker is because she knows he's right about [[spoiler: Freddie and Ada]].
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Polly's clearly not afraid to use corporal punishment on the boys. She tells John that her boot's harder than any excuse he has for his childish behavior, and Tommy says the only reason she ''doesn't'' hit him with the fireplace poker is because she knows he's right about [[spoiler: Freddie and Ada]].
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* EmotionalBruiser: The Shelby brothers, as opposed to the [[TheStoic stoic]] Inspector Campbell.
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** In 1x03, he even goes on the raid against the Lees at Cheltenham, with Arthur taking away the hammer he was going to use and [[RefugeInAudacity giving him a giant cleaver]].
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** In 1x03, he even goes on the raid against the Lees at Cheltenham, with Arthur John taking away the hammer he was going to use and [[RefugeInAudacity giving him a giant cleaver]].
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** In 1x03, he even goes on the raid against the Lees at Cheltenham, with Arthur taking away the hammer he was going to use and [[RefugeInAudacity giving him a giant cleaver]].
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* CloudCuckoolander: The random Jamaican street preacher.preacher [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment only seen in the pilot]].
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Lees call the Shelby brothers' mother a "diddy-quid whore". [[CurbStompBattle This is a bad idea.]]
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Lees call the Shelby brothers' mother a "diddy-quid whore"."[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didicoy didicoy whore]]". [[CurbStompBattle This is a bad idea.]]
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** Billy Kimber was also a real person who effectively controlled a large number of British racecourses until the early 1930s.
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** Billy Kimber was also a real person who effectively controlled a large number of British racecourses until the early 1930s. At the height of his power the historical Kimber was able to exert influence as far north as Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast.
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* [[LikeASonToMe Like A Daughter To Me]]: Grace, for [[spoiler: Campbell]]. Her actual father was killed fighting the IRA in Belfast.
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** Also, the [[spoiler: Shelby family]]. One of their grandfathers was supposedly a king, and Billy Kimber calls [[spoiler: Tommy]] a gypsy bastard.
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** Also, the [[spoiler: Shelby family]]. One of their grandfathers was supposedly a king, and Billy Kimber calls [[spoiler: Tommy]] a gypsy bastard."pikey", a slur meaning "gypsy".
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* NoIndoorVoice: Billy Kimber, a lot of the time.
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* PetTheDog: Tommy hushing the spooked horse. Grace sees how gently he treats the horse, and it improves her opinion of him.
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** The opera that Campbell meets [[spoiler:Grace]] at is ''Tosca''.
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** Campbell again in 1.02: ''"We will take them before last night's beer turns to piss and wakes the devils up. We will leave no stone unturned. Every gun, every bullet, brought to me for inspection. Now, take your positions!"''
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Ten year old Finn Shelby, so far. The rest of the family, especially Polly and Tommy, seem to be very protective of him and do not allow him to be around either the bookmaking or the family meetings.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Ten Averted, ten year old Finn Shelby, so far. The rest of the family, especially Polly and Tommy, seem to be very protective of him and do not allow him to be around either the bookmaking or Shelby is just as involved in the family meetings.business as his older brothers. He helps in the betting shop, runs errands for his brothers, helps round up portraits for the bonfire, drinks, and smokes cigarettes.
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** Lilac/Purple: Aunt Polly's wardrobe, the art gallery where Campbell and [[spoiler: Grace]] meet.
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's union hall.
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's union hall.
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** Lilac/Purple: Aunt Polly's wardrobe, the art gallery where Campbell and [[spoiler: Grace]] meet, the tea room where Campbell and Tommy meet.
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's unionhall.hall, the white horse.
* CoolHorse: Tommy tends to acquire them. First Monaghan Boy, the black horse that he performs the powder trick on in the pilot. Then a gorgeous white horse he wins in a bet from the Lee family, but [[ShootTheDog it ends badly]].
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's union
* CoolHorse: Tommy tends to acquire them. First Monaghan Boy, the black horse that he performs the powder trick on in the pilot. Then a gorgeous white horse he wins in a bet from the Lee family, but [[ShootTheDog it ends badly]].
* CurbStompBattle: Tommy picks a fight with the Lee boys, but what sets all three Shelby brothers off is their mother being called a whore. They beat the holy hell out of the Lees, utilizing the razors sewn into their caps, but hey, at least they get great backing music while they do it (The Raconteurs' "Blue Veins")!
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Lees call the Shelby brothers' mother a "diddy-quid whore". [[CurbStompBattle This is a bad idea.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Played with. [[spoiler: Ada wants to keep her child because she loves Freddie, not because she thinks abortion is wrong. Polly tells her to get the abortion, because it's more shameful to live as a "whore", with a "bastard child", and that when Polly's older, she'll thank her. Ada decides to go through with it, but at the train station, they meet a returning Freddie, who proposes to Ada and declares they're staying in Birmingham.]]
** In addition, it's revealed that [[spoiler: when Polly was sixteen, she made the mistake of keeping her child too long, too frightened to tell anyone. Eventually she performed an abortion on herself, nearly dying in the process, and likely resulting in her being unable to ever have any more children.]]
* GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: What Campbell sends [[spoiler: Grace]] to do to Tommy. [[LikeASonToMe He's not happy about it]].
** In addition, it's revealed that [[spoiler: when Polly was sixteen, she made the mistake of keeping her child too long, too frightened to tell anyone. Eventually she performed an abortion on herself, nearly dying in the process, and likely resulting in her being unable to ever have any more children.]]
* GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: What Campbell sends [[spoiler: Grace]] to do to Tommy. [[LikeASonToMe He's not happy about it]].
* InterruptedIntimacy: Ada and [[spoiler: Freddie]] are having sex when Campbell's men start rousting the Bolsheviks from Garrison Court.
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* LondonGangster: Billy Kimble.
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* LondonGangster: Billy Kimble.Kimber.
* MandatoryMotherhood: [[spoiler: Ada really, really shouldn't be sleeping with Freddie Thorne]], nor should she become pregnant from this liaison. Naturally, she does.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Employed in different ways in regards to Ada and Grace. When it comes to Ada sleeping around, her brothers don't quite mind, so long as she [[MandatoryMotherhood doesn't get pregnant]] and word doesn't get around. But if she were to get pregnant and the man didn't marry her, they'd [[{{Understatement}} go ballistic]]. Grace, in contrast, is seen as innocent and virginal by just about everyone in her life, but she's the one who experiences less squeamishness when [[spoiler: Campbell asks her to employ feminine wiles to seduce information out of Tommy]].
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Subverted, Polly isn't a true Shelby (related to their mother, not their father), but unquestionably ran the business for five years during WorldWarOne, and continues to rule the family in private matters.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Campbell's emotionally-charged, long-awaited first meeting with Tommy? Takes place in a ''tea house''.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler: Ada's]] five weeks late. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Seven, if you count weekends.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: The entire cast is prone to this - except Campbell, who doesn't swear at all - but one of the best comes from Ada, yelling at the projector operator at the cinema Tommy's just emptied out to scream at her in, "oi! I'm a Shelby too, you know! Turn my fucking movie back on!"
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Campbell's emotionally-charged, long-awaited first meeting with Tommy? Takes place in a ''tea house''.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler: Ada's]] five weeks late. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Seven, if you count weekends.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: The entire cast is prone to this - except Campbell, who doesn't swear at all - but one of the best comes from Ada, yelling at the projector operator at the cinema Tommy's just emptied out to scream at her in, "oi! I'm a Shelby too, you know! Turn my fucking movie back on!"
* {{Roma}}: The Lee family.
** Also, the [[spoiler: Shelby family]]. One of their grandfathers was supposedly a king, and Billy Kimber calls [[spoiler: Tommy]] a gypsy bastard.
** Also, the [[spoiler: Shelby family]]. One of their grandfathers was supposedly a king, and Billy Kimber calls [[spoiler: Tommy]] a gypsy bastard.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Shoot the horse, really, which is what Tommy has to do to the white horse he won off the Lees. It's implied they sold it to him knowing it had a rotted hoof and would be lame soon anyway.]]
* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler: Ada]]
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* WretchedHive: Especially in the scene where Campbell first gets into Birmingham.
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* WretchedHive: Especially in the scene where Campbell first gets into Birmingham.Birmingham.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Arthur and John think it's been too long since Tommy's had a woman.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Arthur and John think it's been too long since Tommy's had a woman.
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* AsYouKnow: Does Tommy really need reminding that a lot of the pubs in the area pay them protection money?
* BadDreams: Tommy's opium-fuelled flashbacks to the war, usually triggering a CatapultNightmare.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler: Tommy]] is an opium addict, which may or may not have an affect on his decisions.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler: Tommy]] is an opium addict, which may or may not have an affect effect on his decisions.
* {{Expy}}: Tommy is essentially an OopNorth version of Graham Greene's [[Literature/BrightonRock Pinkie Brown]]: they'e both handsome-but-{{asexual}}, precocious young bosses of insignificant razor gangs with a dangerous ambition to usurp the race-fixing rackets of much more powerful gangsters. Tommy is less of an unfeeling sociopath, however, and Grace is a {{deconstruction}} of Pinkie's fawning {{ingenue}} admirer Rose, as she's really just acting the part to get information out of him.
* LondonGangster: Billy Kimble.
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* TheTroubles: Where CI Campbell made a name for himself. Originally from Northern Ireland, Campbell became an agent working against the IRA. Also the reason [[spoiler: Grace became an agent - the IRA killed her copper father]].
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* TheTroubles: Where CI Campbell made a name for himself. Originally from Northern Ireland, Campbell became an agent working against the IRA. Also the reason [[spoiler: Grace became an agent - the IRA killed her copper father]]. Tommy is threatening to [[spoiler:kick it all back off again by having the gun shipment sent to Belfast if he's killed.]]
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* ShoutOut:
** In the scene where Tommy [[spoiler: fakes Danny's death]], he quotes the Christina Rossetti poem "In the Bleak Midwinter".
** In the scene where Tommy [[spoiler: fakes Danny's death]], he quotes the Christina Rossetti poem "In the Bleak Midwinter".
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Ten year old Finn Shelby, so far. The rest of the family, especially Polly and Tommy, seem to be very protective of him and do not allow him to be around either the bookmaking or the family meetings.
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''Peaky Blinders'' is a BBC series set in 1920's Birmingham, centering around the post-WWI tension between the street gangs and the police force. It's meant to evoke some of the more well-known American gangster sagas like ''TheGodfather'' and ''BoardwalkEmpire'' with its focus on the Shelby family, who run the Peaky Blinders gang. It stars Cillian Murphy as new kingpin Tommy Shelby, Sam Neill as CI Campbell, sent to Birmingham to clean house, and Helen [=McCrory=] as Shelby matriarch Aunt Polly.
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''Peaky Blinders'' is a six-part BBC series set in 1920's Birmingham, centering around the post-WWI tension between the street gangs and the police force. It's meant to evoke some of the more well-known American gangster sagas like ''TheGodfather'' and ''BoardwalkEmpire'' with its focus on the Shelby family, who run the Peaky Blinders gang. It stars Cillian Murphy as new kingpin Tommy Shelby, Sam Neill as CI Campbell, sent to Birmingham to clean house, and Helen [=McCrory=] as Shelby matriarch Aunt Polly.
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* MafiaPrincess: Ada. Lampshaded by Freddie.
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* WretchedHive: Especially in the scene where Campbell first gets into Birmingham.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler: Tommy]] is an opium addict, which may or may not have an affect on his decisions.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Played straight by Tommy, Freddie, and most of the boys who served in WorldWarOne. Taken to its TearJerker, PTSD conclusion by Danny, who keeps flashing back to France and [[spoiler: accidentally kills a man during a blackout]].
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Campbell certainly isn't above getting his hands dirty, as he brutally beats Arthur Shelby mostly as a message to the rest of the Peaky Blinders not to underestimate him.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Winston Churchill, in his Secretary of State days, is the one behind Campbell's investigation into the BAS robbery and the Peaky Blinders.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Winston Churchill, in his Secretary of State days, is the one behind Campbell's investigation into the BAS BSA robbery and the Peaky Blinders.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: The BAS robbery. Tommy didn't actually ''mean'' to steal the weapons the British government was shipping to Libya; he was trying to steal motorcycles from the same warehouse, and kept the guns when he found out what he'd actually stolen.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: The BAS BSA robbery. Tommy didn't actually ''mean'' to steal the weapons the British government was shipping to Libya; he was trying to steal motorcycles from the same warehouse, and kept the guns when he found out what he'd actually stolen.
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler: Danny, who actually believes Tommy's going to shoot him. He's sent off to London to be Tommy's eyes and ears instead.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Campbell to the new Birmingham police recruits.
** Aunt Polly to Tommy, when she finds out about the guns.
** Campbell to the new Birmingham police recruits.
** Aunt Polly to Tommy, when she finds out about the guns.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: The BAS robbery. Tommy didn't actually ''mean'' to steal the weapons the British government was shipping to Libya; he was trying to steal motorcycles from the same warehouse, and kept the guns when he found out what he'd actually stolen.
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* FakeIrish: Annabelle Wallis plays the trope straight; she's from England. Sam Neill is a subversion; he was born in Northern Ireland and his character is from Northern Ireland, but he's more frequently billed from where he grew up in New Zealand.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The expectation in the opening scene of the pilot is that Tommy Shelby wants the Chinese girl as a prostitute. He actually wants her to use her eye-catching red dust to tell his prize horse's fortune and drum up bets for the horse's next race.
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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
** The expectation in the opening scene of the pilot is that Tommy Shelby wants the Chinese girl as a prostitute. He actually wants her to use her eye-catching red dust to tell his prize horse's fortune and drum up bets for the horse's nextrace.race.
** Tommy makes the Italian mob-types believe he [[spoiler: shot Danny for killing the Italian shop owner]]. He actually [[spoiler: faked Danny's death and is sending him as a mole into London]].
** The expectation in the opening scene of the pilot is that Tommy Shelby wants the Chinese girl as a prostitute. He actually wants her to use her eye-catching red dust to tell his prize horse's fortune and drum up bets for the horse's next
** Tommy makes the Italian mob-types believe he [[spoiler: shot Danny for killing the Italian shop owner]]. He actually [[spoiler: faked Danny's death and is sending him as a mole into London]].
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Tommy Shelby and Freddie Thorne.
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* ApronMatron: Aunt Polly. Not even Arthur mouths off to her.
* BaitAndSwitch: The expectation in the opening scene of the pilot is that Tommy Shelby wants the Chinese girl as a prostitute. He actually wants her to use her eye-catching red dust to tell his prize horse's fortune and drum up bets for the horse's next race.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Campbell has this. Unfortunately, the world of Birmingham gangs runs more on . . .
** GreyAndGreyMorality
* TheChanteuse: Grace is the "Irish pub singer" subset. It's this talent which gets her the job at the Garrison Tavern and brings her to Tommy's attention.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Campbell has this. Unfortunately, the world of Birmingham gangs runs more on . . .
** GreyAndGreyMorality
* TheChanteuse: Grace is the "Irish pub singer" subset. It's this talent which gets her the job at the Garrison Tavern and brings her to Tommy's attention.
* CloudCuckoolander: The random Jamaican street preacher.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The show is mostly a grey-brown urban landscape with one dominant color in each scene. It remains to be seen what they might mean.
** Red: the dust the fortuneteller uses, the interior of Churchill's train
** Green: Grace's traveling suit, the interior of the Shelby home.
** Lilac/Purple: Aunt Polly's wardrobe, the art gallery where Campbell and [[spoiler: Grace]] meet.
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's union hall.
* TheConsigliere: Aunt Polly.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: And looks pretty cool, too.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The show is mostly a grey-brown urban landscape with one dominant color in each scene. It remains to be seen what they might mean.
** Red: the dust the fortuneteller uses, the interior of Churchill's train
** Green: Grace's traveling suit, the interior of the Shelby home.
** Lilac/Purple: Aunt Polly's wardrobe, the art gallery where Campbell and [[spoiler: Grace]] meet.
** White: the smoke of Campbell's train, the dossiers Campbell looks through, the snow Grace walks through, Ada's dresses and furs, Freddie's union hall.
* TheConsigliere: Aunt Polly.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: And looks pretty cool, too.
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Arthur, who thinks he runs the Peaky Blinders.
** TheDragon & TheEvilGenius: Aunt Polly and Tommy share these roles, both of them smarter and more concerned with the long-term welfare of the family. They may both end up as DragonAscendants.
** TheBrute: John, who is hotheaded and likes to issue threats.
** TheDarkChick: Ada
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Campbell "interrogating" a member of the Shelby family should horrify the audience. Fortunately, it's Arthur, whose unpleasant demeanor really makes it hard to sympathize with him.
* KnightTemplar: CI Campbell.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Grace]], who's really an undercover operative for Campbell.
** BigBad: Arthur, who thinks he runs the Peaky Blinders.
** TheDragon & TheEvilGenius: Aunt Polly and Tommy share these roles, both of them smarter and more concerned with the long-term welfare of the family. They may both end up as DragonAscendants.
** TheBrute: John, who is hotheaded and likes to issue threats.
** TheDarkChick: Ada
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Campbell "interrogating" a member of the Shelby family should horrify the audience. Fortunately, it's Arthur, whose unpleasant demeanor really makes it hard to sympathize with him.
* KnightTemplar: CI Campbell.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Grace]], who's really an undercover operative for Campbell.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Subverted. It's Birmingham and 1919, so everything is gritty and post-war.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: Subverted. It's Birmingham and 1919, so everything is gritty and post-war.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted. Aunt Polly Grey and Ada Shelby both contribute to family business and meetings.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted. Aunt Polly Grey and Ada Shelby both contribute to family business and meetings.
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* TheTroubles: Where CI Campbell made a name for himself. Originally from Northern Ireland, Campbell became an agent working against the IRA. Also the reason [[spoiler: Grace became an agent - the IRA killed her copper father]].
* WomanInWhite: Ada
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* BadassBoast:
** The page quote, from young up-and-comer John Shelby.
** Campbell gets a lengthy one, in the form of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the police.
* BadGuyBar: The Garrison Tavern, unofficial headquarters for the Peaky Blinders.
* ClickHello: Do ''not'' leave guns lying around Aunt Polly's home. She returns it to John like this, pistol-whipping him to emphasize how stupid an action it was.
* DatingCatwoman: Ada Shelby is seeing [[spoiler: Freddie Thorne, resident Bolshevik unionizer]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Tommy Shelby, dressed in all black, riding a black horse down the middle of the deserted Chinatown street. He's theatrical, in charge, and decidedly ''not'' a white-hat type.
** Campbell reading the dossiers of the suspected leaders of the Peaky Blinders, establishing his doggedness, preparation, and thorough understanding of the gangsters he's been sent to root out.
** Grace walking alone in the snow down the main street, ethereal music in the background. She's mysterious, and her green dress clues us into her Irish heritage.
* EvilMatriarch: Aunt Polly seems to be the most level-headed of the Shelby clan, but she's still running a street gang.
* MyLocal: The Garrison Tavern.
* SoundtrackDissonance: While occasional bits of period music are used, the majority of the soundtrack is modern blues-rock. From the credits track of Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" to The White Stripes' cover of "St. James Infirmary", this is ''not'' your granddaddy's soundtrack.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Subverted. It's Birmingham and 1919, so everything is gritty and post-war.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted. Aunt Polly Grey and Ada Shelby both contribute to family business and meetings.
** The page quote, from young up-and-comer John Shelby.
** Campbell gets a lengthy one, in the form of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the police.
* BadGuyBar: The Garrison Tavern, unofficial headquarters for the Peaky Blinders.
* ClickHello: Do ''not'' leave guns lying around Aunt Polly's home. She returns it to John like this, pistol-whipping him to emphasize how stupid an action it was.
* DatingCatwoman: Ada Shelby is seeing [[spoiler: Freddie Thorne, resident Bolshevik unionizer]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Tommy Shelby, dressed in all black, riding a black horse down the middle of the deserted Chinatown street. He's theatrical, in charge, and decidedly ''not'' a white-hat type.
** Campbell reading the dossiers of the suspected leaders of the Peaky Blinders, establishing his doggedness, preparation, and thorough understanding of the gangsters he's been sent to root out.
** Grace walking alone in the snow down the main street, ethereal music in the background. She's mysterious, and her green dress clues us into her Irish heritage.
* EvilMatriarch: Aunt Polly seems to be the most level-headed of the Shelby clan, but she's still running a street gang.
* MyLocal: The Garrison Tavern.
* SoundtrackDissonance: While occasional bits of period music are used, the majority of the soundtrack is modern blues-rock. From the credits track of Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" to The White Stripes' cover of "St. James Infirmary", this is ''not'' your granddaddy's soundtrack.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Subverted. It's Birmingham and 1919, so everything is gritty and post-war.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted. Aunt Polly Grey and Ada Shelby both contribute to family business and meetings.
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->''"We're Peaky Blinders. We're not scared of coppers. If they come for us, we'll cut them a smile each."''
--> -- John Shelby
''Peaky Blinders'' is a BBC series set in 1920's Birmingham, centering around the post-WWI tension between the street gangs and the police force. It's meant to evoke some of the more well-known American gangster sagas like ''TheGodfather'' and ''BoardwalkEmpire'' with its focus on the Shelby family, who run the Peaky Blinders gang. It stars Cillian Murphy as new kingpin Tommy Shelby, Sam Neill as CI Campbell, sent to Birmingham to clean house, and Helen [=McCrory=] as Shelby matriarch Aunt Polly.
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!!''Peaky Blinders'' provides examples of the following tropes:
--> -- John Shelby
''Peaky Blinders'' is a BBC series set in 1920's Birmingham, centering around the post-WWI tension between the street gangs and the police force. It's meant to evoke some of the more well-known American gangster sagas like ''TheGodfather'' and ''BoardwalkEmpire'' with its focus on the Shelby family, who run the Peaky Blinders gang. It stars Cillian Murphy as new kingpin Tommy Shelby, Sam Neill as CI Campbell, sent to Birmingham to clean house, and Helen [=McCrory=] as Shelby matriarch Aunt Polly.
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!!''Peaky Blinders'' provides examples of the following tropes:
