History Series / Vicious

* AccidentalPervert: Subverted by Violet, who feigns innocence whenever she's called out.
-->'''Ash''': Your hand is really high on my thigh...

** Violet sexually humiliating or assaulting Ash becomes a RunningGag.

* SlapStick: Although there are elements of this in several episodes, 2.3 has several scenes where Ash is harmed in a variety of ways while trying to talk to Jess, by Jess.
** Penelope and the wedding cake in 2.6.

** Ash also subverts the trope, as it only takes a reminder of his mother to give him a bad mood.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Violet. Eventually subverted, as she and her victim become friends and he starts tolerating her presence, somewhat.

** Freddie and Stuart enjoy [[{{DomesticAbuse}} insulting and degrading]] each other. Freddie is especially sadistic regarding this.

** [[spoiler:Stuart's mother carking it just before her son's wed and Ash and friends trying to hide it until after the ceremony.]]
** Inverted in 2.6, when Violet's abusive husband Jasper is PlayedForDrama. It returns to comedy when [[spoiler: Jasper is PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Ash to defend Violet's honor, and the [[{{Slapstick}} cake is destroyed]].]]

** Inverted in 2.6, when Violet's abusive husband Jasper is PlayedStraight. It returns to comedy when [[spoiler: Jasper is PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Ash to defend Violets honor, and the [[{{Slapstick}} cake is destroyed]].]]

** It is implied that Ash suffered [[{{AbusiveParents}} parental neglect/abuse]]. His trauma is often exposed set to LaughTrack, such as when he offhandedly remarked he wakes up screaming, and asks why he wasn't good enough for his mother during a SanitySlippage moment.

* AccidentalAthlete: In 2.1, Stuart and Violet keep insisting that Ash, who is pretending to be a gymnast, show off. As it turns out, Ash is quite good at backflips.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: This happens several times with Freddie and Stuart both, who both enjoy being recognized as better than the other at something.
** Inverted in 1.3, as Freddie becomes Ash's mentor, but becomes jealous when Ash lands his first role in a small movie.
** In 2.3, Freddie inverts the trope while Stuart plays it straight.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Parodied in 2.1, when Ash brings Jess to meet [[{{FamilyOfChoice}} "the most important people"]] in his life, only to be drawn into playing the part of Violet's stepson to impress Violet's sister. As part of the con, Violet pulls him into an awkward kiss, and makes up embarrassing infantilizing anecdotes about him. Then, she and Stuart egg him into performing a backflip -- a feat they were [[{{AccidentalAthlete}} unaware he could perform]].
** Averted when it's revealed to Jess what was going on, she's delighted rather than put-off, much to Ash's relief.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter:

** Also inverted by Freddie and Stuart, who often undercut what the other did rather than highlight when they did it better.

** Freddie and Stuart enjoy [[{{DomesticAbuse}} insulting and degrading]] each other.
** It is implied that Ash suffered [[{{AbusiveParents}} parental neglect/abuse]], and this is used to explain some of his more odd reactions. In one case, set to a LaughTrack, he even asks why he wasn't good enough for his mother.

* StepfordSmiler: It's been hinted at that underneath Ash's cheerfulness there is a '''lot''' of emotional issues. He's mentioned offhand how he frequently wakes up screaming, and became so hysterical and self-loathing after messing up Christmas dinner that Violet had to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap him]] to calm him down. Considering how he says ''both'' of his parents were in prison (his father did 10 years for armed robbery after robbing a Domino's Pizza, and his mother went after running over her boyfriend.)
** Not to mention how easy it was to convince him that he was "a monster" just after getting cast in a film, and how he stops while describing his last Christmas with his family and how drunk his mother was to say with great anguish "Why wasn't I enough for you, Mum?" before immediately regaining his composure.

** Violet tricks Ash into getting drunk, resulting in a BedmateReveal. Violet spends the next episode taunting Ash about it, only to invert the trope by revealing she was lying and nothing happened between them. His horrified reactions and trauma are PlayedForLaughs.

* The Couch

** Violet tricks Ash into getting drunk, and they wake up naked in bed together. Violet later vaguely references sex acts that he might have performed until inverting the trope by revealing she was lying and nothing happened between them. His horrified reactions and trauma are PlayedForLaughs.

* AccidentalAthlete: Invoked in 2.1 when Stuart and Violet keep insisting that Ash, who is pretending to be a gymnast, show off. As it turns out, Ash is quite good at backflips.

** Violet tricks Ash into getting drunk, and they wake up naked in bed together. Violet later vaguely references sex acts that he might have performed until subverting the trope by revealing she was lying and nothing happened between them. His horrified reactions and trauma are PlayedForLaughs.

** Violet sexually humiliating or preying upon Ash becomes a RunningGag. Only Ash appears disturbed, despite the fact that most of what she does counts as sexual assault, and she often does it in front of witnesses.

** Inverted in 2.6, when Violet's abuse at the hands of her husband Jasper is PlayedStraight; the trope returns when [[spoiler: Jasper is PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Ash to defend Violets honor, and the [[{{Slapstick}} cake is destroyed]].]]

** Much of Violet's actions towards Ash count as sexual assault, including forcing him to kiss her, and fondling his torso and thigh.

** Subverted in 2.6, when Violet's abusive husband Jasper is PlayedStraight; re-invoked when [[spoiler: Jasper is PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Ash and the [[{{Slapstick}} cake is destroyed]].]]

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Parodied in 2.1, when Ash brings Jess to meet [[{{FamilyOfChoice}} "the most important people"]] in his life, only to be drawn into playing along with the con they were pulling on Violets sister. While pretending to be Violet's stepson, she pulls him into an awkward kiss, and makes up embarrassing infantilizing anecdotes about him. Then, she and Stuart egg him into performing a backflip -- a feat they were [[{{AccidentalAthlete}} unaware he could perform]].

** DirtyOldWoman: Violet takes this UpToEleven, and is downright sleazy towards Ash.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Subverted and played straight in 2.1, when Ash brings Jess to meet [[{{FamilyOfChoice}} "the most important people"]] in his life, only to be drawn into playing along with the con they were pulling on Violets sister. While pretending to be Violet's stepson, she pulls him into an awkward kiss, and makes up embarrassing infantilizing anecdotes about him. Then, she and Stuart egg him into performing a backflip -- a feat they were [[{{AccidentalAthlete}} unaware he could perform]].

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: This happens several times with Freddie, who seems to thrive on being recognized as better than everyone else. He almost always winds up humbled by events of the episode.