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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer from the first 2 episodes, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government and who appears in "I Defy Thee to Forget" and "A Morning Song", takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
** CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, [[{{Greed}} solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct]].

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** Season 2: CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, [[{{Greed}} solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct]].
** "Surviving Death" & "Husbands and Fathers":
Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer from the first 2 episodes, murderer, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** "I Defy Thee to Forget" & "A Morning Song": The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government and who appears in "I Defy Thee to Forget" and "A Morning Song", government, takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
** CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, [[{{Greed}} solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct]].
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* {{Squick}}: The show revels in it. The first episode of season two begins with [[spoiler: a deer being shot and gutted, then Eva getting her back ''sliced open,'' then getting it graphically sewn shut by Freeman...]] ''all in the first '''six minutes.''' ''
* WhatAnIdiot
** [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" cranked {{up to eleven}}. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
** Elizabeth [[spoiler:mistakenly believed the above idiot Kennedy when he said they would only target unpopulated docks and other areas, not hotels filled with people.]]

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* {{Squick}}: The show revels in it. The first episode of season two begins with [[spoiler: a deer being shot and gutted, then Eva getting her back ''sliced open,'' then getting it graphically sewn shut by Freeman...]] ''all in the first '''six minutes.''' ''
* WhatAnIdiot
** [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" cranked {{up to eleven}}. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
** Elizabeth [[spoiler:mistakenly believed the above idiot Kennedy when he said they would only target unpopulated docks and other areas, not hotels filled with people.]]
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** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government and who appears in
"I Defy Thee to Forget" and "A Morning Song", takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.

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** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government and who appears in
in "I Defy Thee to Forget" and "A Morning Song", takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.

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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her as well. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government, takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.

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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer, murderer from the first 2 episodes, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her as well.to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government, government and who appears in
"I Defy Thee to Forget" and "A Morning Song",
takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.

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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to.as well. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.

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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer. He kills a 10 year old girl in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that is seen to disgust even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating. A ruthless gangster who despises centralized government, Keating takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them physically and psychologically while having fun the entire while. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
** CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct.

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** Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer. He murderer, [[WouldHurtAChild kills a 10 year old girl 10-year-old girl]] in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that is seen to disgust disgusts even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating. A Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government, Keating takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them physically [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and psychologically [[MindRape psychologically]] while having fun the entire while.time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her her]] whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
** CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, [[{{Greed}} solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct.aqueduct]].

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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie" Haverford who [[spoiler: kills, ''then'' rapes a 10 year old girl.]]
** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating. Supposedly genial, educated counterfeiting expert who [[spoiler: spends the next episode proving just why these rough thugs obey him: He's a soulless monster who at one point ''makes an Irish hostage sing his own funeral dirge before cutting his throat. For no reason at all.'']]

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* CompleteMonster: ''Copper'' pulls no punches in showing the gritty, brutal days of Civil War era New York and this is reflected in some of the city's most vile residents.
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Winfred "Winnie" Haverford who [[spoiler: kills, ''then'' rapes Haverford, a pedophile and murderer. He kills a 10 year old girl.]]
girl in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that is seen to disgust even the hardened AntiHero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
** The FauxAffablyEvil counterfeiter Philomen Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating. Supposedly genial, educated counterfeiting expert A ruthless gangster who [[spoiler: spends despises centralized government, Keating takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them physically and psychologically while having fun the next episode proving just why these rough thugs obey him: He's a soulless monster who entire while. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they ''really'' are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point ''makes an Irish hostage has a captive tenor sing his own a funeral dirge before cutting slitting his throat. For no reason at all.'']]throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
** CorruptPolitician and CorruptCorporateExecutive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Cultivating a veneer of respectability]], Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct.
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** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating. Supposedly genial, educated counterfeiting expert who [[spoiler: spends the next episode proving just why these rough thugs obey him: He's a soulless monster who at one point ''makes an Irish hostage sing his own funeral dirge before cutting his throat. For no reason at all.''

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** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating. Supposedly genial, educated counterfeiting expert who [[spoiler: spends the next episode proving just why these rough thugs obey him: He's a soulless monster who at one point ''makes an Irish hostage sing his own funeral dirge before cutting his throat. For no reason at all.'''']]
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** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating.

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** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating. Supposedly genial, educated counterfeiting expert who [[spoiler: spends the next episode proving just why these rough thugs obey him: He's a soulless monster who at one point ''makes an Irish hostage sing his own funeral dirge before cutting his throat. For no reason at all.''
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** Keating. Jesus Christ...Keating.
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* {{Squick}}: The show revels in it. The first episode of season two begins with [[spoiler: a deer being shot and gutted, then Eva getting her back ''sliced open,'' then getting it graphically sewn shut by Freeman...]] ''all in the first '''six minutes.''' ''

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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie" Haverford who [[spoiler: murders, ''then'' rapes a ten year old girl.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie" Haverford who [[spoiler: murders, kills, ''then'' rapes a ten 10 year old girl.]]



** [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has basically lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" [[UpToEleven cranked up to eleven]]. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
** Elizabeth [[spoiler:mistakenly believed the above idiot Kennedy when he said they would only target unpopulated docks and other areas, not hotels filled with people.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Annie

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** [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has basically lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" [[UpToEleven cranked up {{up to eleven]].eleven}}. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
** Elizabeth [[spoiler:mistakenly believed the above idiot Kennedy when he said they would only target unpopulated docks and other areas, not hotels filled with people.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Annie
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Robert Morehouse



* StupidEvil: Haverford who, through bribery of the corrupt police force plus manipulation of his social status had gotten away with [[spoiler: murdering Kate, Annie's twin sister. But he couldn't let go of going after Annie as well which let Corcoran and Annie lure him to his death]]

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* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has basically lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" [[UpToEleven cranked up to eleven]]. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]

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* WhatAnIdiot: WhatAnIdiot
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[[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has basically lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" [[UpToEleven cranked up to eleven]]. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
** Elizabeth [[spoiler:mistakenly believed the above idiot Kennedy when he said they would only target unpopulated docks and other areas, not hotels filled with people.
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* TheScrappy: Annie can be a little grating at times with her ungratefulness and manipulative ways.
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* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: While Kennedy's plot to burn New York City ''may'' have had some military value to the Confederacy around, say, the First Battle of Bull Run..by the time he plans to launch it, the South has basically lost the war. Even if he ''does'' succeed, the likely Union response will not be surrender, but the "March to the Sea" [[UpToEleven cranked up to eleven]]. Furthermore, Robert Morehouse is more than rich enough to buy an exemption..but he went and fought for the Union anyhow. To a competent plotter, that right there should cast some doubt on his "Rebel sympathies".]]
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* StupidEvil: Haverford who, through bribery of the corrupt police force plus manipulation of his social status had gotten away with [[spoiler: murdering Kate, Annie's twin sister. But he couldn't let go of going after Annie as well which let Corcoran and Annie lure him to his death]]
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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie haverford who [[spoiler: murders, ''then'' rapes a ten year old girl.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie haverford "Winnie" Haverford who [[spoiler: murders, ''then'' rapes a ten year old girl.]]
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Robert Morehouse
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* CompleteMonster: Winfred "Winnie haverford who [[spoiler: murders, ''then'' rapes a ten year old girl.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Annie

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