Line #188 Series/Banshee


1	%%
2	%% If the article starts with a quote, the image goes on the right.
3	%%
4	[[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c33c3648867986d62f24b30e0f9ca752.png]]
5	[[caption-width-right:304:Few people in Banshee are who they seem to be.]]
6	%%
7	%% If the article starts with a quote, the image goes on the right.
8	%%
9
10	->''"You better brace yourself. Here come the motherf*cking neighbourhood."''
11	-->-- '''Job'''
12
13
14	''Banshee'' is an action crime drama series which premiered on Creator/{{Cinemax}} on January 11, 2013. It was created as part of the network's drive to create more original content, and is known for some spectacularly violent fight scenes and a signature crime noir pulp feel.
15
16	In the series, Creator/AntonyStarr stars as a [[NoNameGiven nameless]] master thief who recently got released from prison after a 15-year sentence for stealing $10 million in diamonds. As soon as he is released, he goes looking for his lover and accomplice Anastasia (Creator/IvanaMilicevic), who was able to elude the police and get away with the diamonds.
17
18	The catch, though, is that he and Ana were both working for the Ukrainian mob, so not only did they steal the diamonds from their owners, but they also tried to steal them out from under the nose of the Ukrainian mob boss known only as "Mr. Rabbit" so they could start their new lives together. His first step is to seek out Job (Creator/HoonLee), an old accomplice and master hacker, who provided Ana with a new identity all those years ago. Job gives him an address to a place called Banshee, a small town in Pennsylvania's Amish country. There Ana has become Carrie Hopewell, a respected real estate agent, mother of two and the wife of the District Attorney.
19
20	On his way to reunite with an unsuspecting Ana/Carrie, he witnesses a botched robbery when two toughs working for the local crime kingpin Kai Proctor (Creator/UlrichThomsen) try to rob a bar owned by Sugar Bates (Creator/FrankieFaison). He is forced to intervene, resulting in the death of Lucas Hood, the soon-to-be new sheriff of Banshee. In a spectacular display of idiocy and ego, he realizes that no one in town has actually seen Hood in person so he assumes Hood's identity and becomes the sheriff of Banshee, hiding out from Mr. Rabbit, and keeping an eye on Ana, and her daughter Deva, who seems to be just old enough to line up with "Hood's" incarceration.
21
22	Banshee is not exactly a quiet town, though. Between the neo-Nazis in the trailer park, the insulated Amish community, the local Native American tribe and its extremist gang "The Red Bones", and Kai Proctor's criminal empire, "Lucas Hood" has his hands full right from the start.
23
24	And now, unfortunately, Mr. Rabbit's henchmen are now looking for him and Ana, and all hell will break loose if they find out where they are.
25
26	The series is well-known for its well-choreographed fight scenes, intense and cinematic narrative structure, and mix of emotional and complex storylines with a ''lot'' of violence, sex, and sass. It won a Creative Arts UsefulNotes/EmmyAward in 2013 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.
27
28	The promotional materials for the series included a short [[http://www.cinemax.com/img/original-series/banshee/extras/banshee-comic.pdf webcomic]] that detailed the events leading up to the ill-fated diamond heist and a series of 13 [[http://www.welcometobanshee.com/ webisodes]] that gave us a glimpse at the background of the various characters and the events that occurred during the 15 years that the protagonist was in prison.
29
30	----
31	!!This series provides examples of:
32
33	* ActionGirl: The show has an abundance of them:
34	** Anna was an accomplished thief and martial artist but once she became Carrie she spent the next 15 years preparing and training for the time when Mr. Rabbit found her. She is MadeOfIron and verges on OneManArmy levels of competence and lethality.
35	** Nola Longshadow [[spoiler:is also making merits for OneManArmy status by getting the drop on Lucas and his crew and nearly taking them all out. She also effortlessly beats up three marines who are trying to assault Rebecca, and even gives ''Burton'' a tough challenge.]]
36	** Deputy Siobhan Kelly [[spoiler: singlehandedly beats the crap out of her abusive ex-husband.]]
37	** Veronica Dawson is an FBI agent who employs a methodology pretty similar to Hood's (punching things).
38	* ActionPolitician:
39	** Gordon Hopewell, the District Attorney and later Mayor of Banshee, is a former US Marine.
40	** Alison Medding, the new District Attorney, takes up arms when she is [[spoiler: trapped in the besieged CADI]], and later blows away a mook with a shotgun.
41	** [[spoiler: As of season 4 Kai Proctor can be considered this, as in addition to running his criminal empire he is also become Mayor of Banshee after the death of Gordon Hopewell]].
42	* AllThereInTheManual: Rabbit's real name is never mentioned in the series, but various promotional material shows newspaper clippings which reveal his name as "Igor Rabitov".
43	* AngerMontage: A series staple, with at least a half-dozen in Season 3 alone.
44	* AnyoneCanDie: And many do.
45	** In " A Mixture of Madness" [[spoiler: Mayor Kendall]]
46	** In the season two finale, "Bullets and Tears"[[spoiler: the series main villain up till that point, Mr. Rabbit, who seemed to be there for the long hall, bites the bullet]].
47	** And hammered home in brutal fashion with [[spoiler: Emmett, who had just got out of Banshee with his wife and was ready to start anew, but was gunned down buy neo-nazis on his way out of town]].
48	** Also, in the same episode [[spoiler: Alex Longshadow]].
49	** [[spoiler: In 3x03, "A Fixer of Sorts", Nola Longshadow goes out like a badass]].
50	** [[spoiler: Siobhan follows her only a few episodes later.]]
51	** In the season 3 finale [[spoiler: Gordon Hopewell dies from a gunshot wound he sustained helping Hood rescue Carrie from Camp Genoa]].
52	** [[spoiler: Rebecca]] is murdered right before season 4 starts.
53	** Even [[spoiler: Hood's ugly-ass pick-up truck]] gets blown up in Season 3 finale.
54	* AssholeVictim: Several in the show.
55	** One example was Sanchez's manager, who [[spoiler: dismissed the women Sanchez raped as "skanks" who only cared about getting paid off. When he refused to give Proctor back his money, Clay Burton did something to him that (judging by the screams) was horrendous]].
56	** [[spoiler: Wicks, Lucas' old jail "buddy" fits this trope. While he did help Lucas in jail, he blatantly admitted that he was doing it as "investing" in Lucas for his own protection. Once he found out that he was sheriff, he began exploiting his kindness. After blowing Lucas' money on drugs and gambling, he threatened to expose his secrets unless he was given a job. Lucas chose to instead kill him.]]
57	** [[spoiler: Hondo - the neo-nazi who shot Emmett and his wife.]] Gets some extrajudicial justice in the opening scene of the first episode in Season 3.
58	** All the [[SemperFi US Marines]] on the Stowe's base are replaced by the [[FacelessGoons mask wearing]] mercenaries in the Season 3 finale and therefore it's fair play to shoot them for the heroes.
59	* TheAtoner:
60	** Siobhan's ex-husband. He comes back, apologetic and sober. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out he's not as sober as he claims. He tries to get back into her life after she repeatedly tells him no, then turns violent and angry when she rejects him.]]
61	** Kurt Bunker, a former Neo-Nazi turned police officer, is a textbook example.
62	* AttackOfTheTownFestival: In one episode, the town is having a festival when a biker gang comes into town. The bikers have come through the area before without serious incidents, but this time they decide to have some fun and one of them tries to rape Carrie. A sheriff's deputy kills the would-be rapist and the other bikers decide to exact revenge on the town by riding their bikes through the festival and attacking people.
63	* AttemptedRape:
64	** Anna is subjected to this by a biker gang. [[spoiler: Siobhan saves her by killing the would-be rapist. But it is implied that she might have been able to save herself even without the intervention.]]
65	** The mayor's wife almost got raped by one of the hostage takers. Fortunately, the hostage negotiations interfered with that.
66	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
67	** Lucas Hood is the sheriff and the most competent fighter in the entire department.
68	** Proctor can also be counted as one.
69	** Chayton is probably the king of this trope.
70	** Rabbit is the the one exception. While he does not have physical prowess, his ruthlessness allows him to maintain his power.
71	* BadassBystander: Deva's friend temporarily incapacitates a hardcore killer.
72	* BadassFamily: The Hopewell parents team up to give a spectacular beating to some young delinquents in Season 3. Not only is it a rare scene of them fighting together but Gordon holds his own surprisingly well against a much younger armed opponent.
73	* BadassNative: Something like a third of the cast fits this trope. [[TheBrute Chayton Littlestone]] and [[ActionGirl Nola Longshadow]] are at the top of the heap though.
74	* BeardOfSorrow: Both Deputy Brock Lotus and Gordon Hopewell grow one in Season 3. Lucas grows one for Season 4.
75	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Female characters get beaten up in fights just like the guys do.
76	* BehindTheBlack:
77	** None of the Moody Boys notice Emmet approaching with a shotgun until Hood points to him, despite standing 2 feet away and in plain sight of everyone.
78	** Same happens when Emmet pursues the robbers on foot through the field, Mrs Kendall looks in confusion as if she sees them approaching in the distance in the open field, but when the camera cuts, Randall is close enough to grab her and use her as a hostage.
79	* BerserkButton:
80	** Kai Proctor really hates it when people insult the Amish. He takes it really bad when one of the Amish being harassed is his father.
81	** Kurt Bunker rarely manages to keep his composure in presence of his former "brothers".
82	** Anyone who messes with Deva is in for some ''[[UnstoppableRage very big trouble]]'' courtesy of Hood.
83	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sanchez comes off as a charismatic guy at first. But he's soon revealed to be [[spoiler: a violent rapist who exploits his fame to get away with crime.]]
84	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Season 1 Finale. Lucas gets saved and Rabbit is stopped. But he manages to escape and may still be alive. Meanwhile, Lucas still owes Proctor a huge favor, Anna's relationship with her family is destroyed, Rebecca begins her StartOfDarkness, the mayor is killed, a federal investigator is assigned to Banshee, the corpse of the real Lucas Hood is discovered, and in the post-credits scene, real Lucas' son finds a Youtube video of fake Lucas' fight with Sanchez.]]
85	** [[spoiler: The Season 2 Finale repeats this. Lucas and Anna finally kill Rabbit, with Anna (seemingly) making amends with her family. But Rebecca has completed her descent into villainy, Emmett and his wife gets killed by Neo-Nazis, Proctor is set free (again), and Chayton is on his way back to Banshee.]]
86	* BrickJoke:
87	** When Job and Sugar first meet in season one, the former asks for a drink but Sugar replies he's out of little umbrellas. In season two, while they overhear Hood and Carrie bickering, Sugar puts one in Job's drink who promptly toss it away.
88	* BlatantLies:
89	** When Lucas first confronts Anna/Carrie she tells him that Deva is 13 years old. He clearly does not believe her and easily confirms that Deva is in fact 15.
90	** In one of the webisodes, Lucas calls Job from prison to ask about Anna. Job tells him that he has not seen Anna in years. Lucas does not believe this but can't do anything about it. For added irony, at that moment Anna is actually sitting right across from Job.
91	* BlingBlingBang: Blind crimelord from Philadelphia carries a gold Desert Eagle. The gun does not do him much good since the man, well, can't see.
92	* BloodKnight: Lucas seems to go out of his way to pick fights where he is outnumbered or outclassed. You can clearly see the joy on his face as steps up to give or receive a beating. It is implied that this is his way of dealing with all the anger and pain he accumulated during his 15 years in prison.
93	* BloodyHilarious: In 3x03, the [[spoiler:FatBastard]] getting splattered by his own 18-wheeler. Earlier in 2x06 a [[spoiler:a henchman of the aforementioned FatBastard]] [[OffWithHisHead loses his head]] in a rather hilarious fashion. Another 18-wheeler is involved.
94	* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: For Kai Proctor in the series finale. When a line of well-armed hitmen marches on his home, he calmly meets them head-on, guns blazing, but the outcome is not shown.]]
95	* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The series ends with Hood riding out of Banshee on the same motorcycle he rode in.]]
96	* BoringButPractical: Crushing the windpipe seems to be the go-to move for starting fights.
97	* BottleEpisode: 3x05 "Tribal" takes place almost exclusively in the CADI, [[spoiler: as it is under siege by Chayton and the Redbones]].
98	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Deva definitely starts off as this. But as time goes on, she becomes more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
99	* BreakTheHaughty: [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Deva]] goes through a lot of shit in the series. Her boyfriend dies in front of her, she gets taken hostage by robbers at her school, [[spoiler: her little brother gets kidnapped and she finds out about her mom's secret past.]]
100	* BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
101	** Proctor gives Sanchez's manager a satchel filled with thousands of dollars as payment for agreeing to have the championship fight in Banshee. Clay Burton later comes to "repossess" it after the fight falls through.
102	** Sugar takes a bag containing $125,000 from the [[spoiler: Camp Genoa heist]] to an friend who owns a boxing club. It later turns out it is [[spoiler: payment to support the man's family, as Sugar gave the man's father brain damage in a boxing match back in the day. Job later discovers Carlos Sr. has been dead for years, and his son has been playing Sugar, and promptly beats his ass and retrieves the bag]].
103	* BrokenPedestal:
104	** Gordon is one at the start of season three. [[spoiler: He is in the process of divorcing Carrie, living in a messy apartment away from the family home, descended into alcoholism, regularly using prostitutes and even starts flirting with his assistant DA]]. However he manages to bounce back halfway through the season.
105	** The chief of the Kinaho Reservation Police has long since given up on trying to stop the illicit activities on the reservation, and claims he is 'too old' to begin caring about bringing Chayton in.
106	* ButNotTooForeign: Fat Au, despite having an Asian sounding name and being backed by the Triads, is a large African-American man.
107	* TheButlerDidIt: Quoted verbatim, [[spoiler: When Hood tells Agent Dawson than Burton killed Rebecca.]]
108	* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the series Hood leaves Banshee for parts unknown, not making it clear if he'll come back.
109	* TheCasanova: Lucas. Has had sex with quite a few women in a short amount of time.
110	* TheCavalry: Carrie, Sugar, Job and [[spoiler: the deputies]] go to rescue Lucas after [[spoiler: he trades himself to Mr. Rabbit in exchange for Max]].
111	* CameraAbuse: When Alex Longshadow blows up Proctor's cattle, some splatter the camera and some blood drips it down slowly.
112	* CharacterDevelopment: Despite his ReallyGetsAround behavior throughout the show, Lucas in season 4 [[spoiler: turns down sex offered by Agent Dawson and breaks down crying in her arms. Seeing his two previous lovers murdered finally broke him.]]
113	* ChekhovsGun:
114	** The final scene in episode 3 showed a man uploading the fight between Sanchez and Lucas onto youtube. [[spoiler: TheStinger of the season finale showed Jason Hood (the real Lucas' son) watching said youtube video).]]
115	** Throughout the first and second seasons, various uniformed marines are seen throughout the town, and there are passing references made to 'Camp Genoa'. In season 3, Camp Genoa is revealed to be a USMC base in Banshee County,[[spoiler: with the money stored in it, and the corrupt commander in charge]] becoming main focus of the season.
116	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite being prominent in Season 1, the Moody family disappears entirely from Season 2 without a single mention.
117	* ClickHello:
118	** Emmett pulls this on the Cole brothers [[spoiler: while they're holding Lucas and Proctor at gunpoint]].
119	** [[spoiler:Job]] is on the receiving end of this in "Homecoming".
120	* {{Cliffhanger}}: The season 3 finale. [[spoiler: Job is kidnapped by the IT specialist and mercs from Camp Genoa, Hood resigns as sheriff and his future in Banshee is uncertain and Bunker is left at the whim of his younger brother, who plans to burn off his tattoos with a blowtorch]].
121	* ColdBloodedTorture: Virtually every named character gets tied to a chair and worked over during the series. [[spoiler: Job spends nearly two full years surviving this during the time-skip between Seasons 3 and 4.]]
122	* ColorWash: Befitting the bleak, gritty tone of the story, the colors are desaturated and lighting made to look more harsh. On the flip side, flashbacks to Hood's and Carrie's life under Rabbit are often shown in monochromatic tint.
123	* CombatPragmatist: After spending fifteen years in prison, Lucas does not fight fair. During his fight with Sanchez he bites his opponent to get out of a choke hold. Later he breaks the guy's finger and then snaps his wrist.
124	* ContrivedCoincidence: All over the place. The show's premise itself is based off the fact that Lucas just happened to be in the same bar that the newly appointed sheriff (that nobody in town saw face to face before since he was from outside the city, something that's never happened before in Banshee) was eating at right when robbers came in and killed him (and got killed themselves, leaving only Lucas and Sugar as eyewitnesses).
125	* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding:
126	** Subverted when Kai Proctor decides to send a message to the new tribal chief by blowing up the under-construction Indian Casino. Proctor is the kind of guy who would have made sure that construction was shut down for the day and that the construction site was empty. However, right as he is about to blow up the building we find out that [[spoiler:the mayor]] has trespassed on the site and is sitting inside the building. Even when you make sure the building is conveniently empty, you cannot be sure that someone will not just wander in attracted by the emptiness.
127	** Played straight when Proctor is kidnapped by the Philadelphia gangsters in Season 3. Job tracks their cell phone to a specific tower and then identifies the only abandoned building in range of it.
128	* CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler: Proctor begins to tailor Rebecca for a role in his criminal empire. And as of "Bullets and Tears", the process seems to be complete.]]
129	* CowboyCop: After witnessing his methods, people assume that Lucas is this type of police officer. [[JustifiedTrope Of course, the truth is that he has no training in proper police procedure whatsoever.]]
130	* CrazyJealousGuy: One way to interpret why [[spoiler: Proctor got so mad when he found out Rebecca slept with the sheriff.]] Reaches its peak when [[spoiler: Proctor has Jason killed because he slept with Rebecca.]]
131	* CriticalStaffingShortage:
132	** Despite being responsible for policing the whole county, the Banshee County Sheriff's Department only has four police officers (including the Sheriff), and a part time civilian secretary. This changes by season 4, as after the TimeSkip the number of deputies is shown to have increased considerably in the two years that [[spoiler: Proctor]] has been mayor.
133	** The Kinaho Reservation Police is even worse off. When Billy Raven leaves to join the BCSD, only two officers are left: Aimee King and Chief Karl Yazzie.
134	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: When Lucas confronts an unarmed Chayton with a shotgun, the winner was clear from the start.]]
135	* CutesyNameTown: Banshee.
136	* DarkAndTroubledPast Often coupled with MysteriousPast:
137	** Clay Burton has one. Flashbacks during "Armies of One" show him being mercilessly whipped by an unknown party, and he still bears the (numerous) scars from this experience.
138	** Lucas is implied to have had a rough life even before the prison sentence, and no less than the FBI has no freaking clue who he really is.
139	* DatingWhatDaddyHates:
140	** Averted with Anna and Lucas. Though Mr. Rabbit would not have approved of Lucas sleeping with his daughter, he loved him like a son.
141	** Rebecca's father would not have approved of her dating anyone outside the Amish community and would have disowned her if he found out that she was having sex with them. Kai Proctor, her uncle, is extremely angry when he finds out that one of the men Rebecca has slept with was the sheriff.
142	* DarkActionGirl: Deputy Nina Cruz is a badass fighter and she is Proctor's mole inside the Sheriff's Department.
143	* DeadPersonImpersonation: Coupled with ImpersonatingAnOfficer, this is the core premise of the series, with Lucas impersonating a dead sheriff. Lucas is able to pull it off because the real Lucas Hood is from a backwater town in Oregon and the only person in Banshee who knows what he looks like was the old sheriff who died recently. To maintain the ruse, Lucas has Job hack into any website or database where photos of Hood might be displayed.
144	* DeathBySecretIdentity: [[spoiler:Siobhan]] dies within minutes of learning Hood's real name.
145	* DepravedHomosexual: The Albino prisoner, to the point where he actually calls Lucas his "personal property."
146	* DetectiveMole: In the season two premiere, Lucas gets called in to investigate the robbery of an armored car from the Indian casino. [[spoiler: The same one Lucas, Carrie, Sugar and Job knocked over earlier in the episode.]]
147	* DiabolusExMachina: Colonel Stowe’s tech guy reveals that the only reason he was able to identify [[spoiler: Job and Sugar]] as part of the group that [[spoiler: stole the money from the base]] is because a freak power surge triggered an unscheduled backup in the security company's servers.
148	* DirtyCop:
149	** The mayor hires an outsider to be sheriff because all the previous local sheriffs have been paid off by Proctor. Ironically, it's implied that Proctor may have turned the real Hood before he even got to Banshee.
150	** Right after Lucas is sworn in as sheriff, he breaks into a pawn shop and steals a safe.
151	* DisproportionateRetribution: Kurt Bunkers younger brother decides that as revenge for his brother abandoning the neo-Nazi movement and becoming a cop, he will [[spoiler: burn off his tattoos with a blowtorch. Kurts whole body is covered in tattoos]].
152	* DomesticAbuse: The webisodes reveal that Deputy Siobhan Kelly was an abused wife before she TookALevelInBadass, divorced her husband and became a no-nonsense deputy.
153	* TheDragon
154	** Clay Burton is Kai Proctor's right hand man and main enforcer. Proctor seems to be grooming [[spoiler: Rebecca]] to be his representative in official settings since Burton is "limited" in these types of situations.
155	** Oleg serves as Mr. Rabbit's main enforcer.
156	** Cpt. Richard Murphy, a PMC, is Col. Stowe's right-hand man. They served together before he left the USMC.
157	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Deputy Brock is the longest-serving member of the Banshee police department and everyone assumed that he would be promoted to sheriff when the old sheriff died of cancer. When he finds out that the town council hired an outsider instead, he is not happy.
158	-->'''Brock''': You're making me look like a fool.
159	* DueToTheDead: Sugar feels that it is disrespectful to bury the real sheriff Hood in the same grave as the scum who killed him so new Hood digs him a separate grave.
160	* EliteMook: The PMC's brought in to guard Camp Genoa in its final days before decommission.
161	* EunuchsAreEvil: [[spoiler:Clay Burton]] apparently has either missing or horribly mutilated genitalia.
162	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
163	** Kai Proctor takes it ''really'' bad when the Moody brothers harass and insult Proctor's father.
164	** Calvin Bunker authentically cares about his older brother and pleads for him to return to the Brotherhood. [[spoiler: But not even love stops him from forcibly burning Kurt's tattoos off when he refuses.]]
165	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two neo-Nazi skinheads have no problem knocking out [[spoiler: Emmett's wife]], but are visibly disturbed when the third member of the group kicks her pregnant belly.
166	* EvolvingCredits: The Polaroids associated with each character in the opening title sequence frequently change over the course of a given season, with some characters having theirs changing ''every episode,'' reflecting their backstories and journeys throughout the story.
167	* EyeScream: Kai blinds [[spoiler:Fraizer some more]] by pressing a lit cigar in his eye socket.
168	* FakeIdentityBaggage: The main character is an ex-convict who witnesses the town's new Sheriff being murdered by thugs, and then assumes his identity. He finds himself under threat from the same local mob boss that sent those thugs, along with many others.
169	* {{Fanservice}}:
170	** To say that there's a lot of sex scenes in this show would be an understatement.
171	** Several episodes involve a strip club with abundant nudity.
172	** Both Anna and Rebecca have had prolonged {{Shower Scene}}s.
173	* FatBastard:
174	** Raymond Walton Brantley, the mob boss who [[spoiler: Jason Hood]] stole money from. He is so large the only way he can comfortably travel across country is in a eloquently furnished big rig.
175	** Fat Au, an arms dealer backed by the Triads and an acquaintance of Hood and Job. Though he's actually a pretty decent guy, [[BlackAndGrayMorality all things considered.]]
176	* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Hood and Brock run into one when they go to New Orleans looking for [[spoiler:Chayton Littlestone]]. He runs the underground fight circuit.
177	* FearlessFool:
178	** Lucas tends to walk right into a dangerous situation and confront dangerous, armed people face to face. One suspects that he might be a DeathSeeker.
179	** The real Lucas Hood taunts and then attacks two armed robbers. It gets him killed.
180	* FinGore:
181	** A drug dealer sells tainted Ecstasy to local teenagers which kills the son of a state senator. He is brought to a very pissed off Kai Proctor who starts the conversation by cutting the man's finger off with a steak knife. Proctor then feeds the finger to his dog.
182	** During his fight with Sanchez, Lucas has no qualms about breaking Sanchez's finger
183	** A meth cooker tries to block Lucas' hatchet swing with his bare hand in Season 4
184	* FourEyesZeroSoul:
185	** Clay Burton, Proctor's [[TheDragon assistant]] looks like a stereotypical bookkeeper but one quickly realizes that there is something very dark about the man. When he takes off his glasses, it's because he does not want to get blood on them.
186	** The leader of The Kindred motorcycle guy wears glasses and seems like a quiet intellectual guy. However, he is the most bloodthirsty of the lot and encourages one of his men to rape a woman.
187	* GeniusBruiser: Job. Aside from being one of the most accomplished hackers in the world, he is also a talented fighter, single handedly [[spoiler: taking down a church full of Rabbits goons to escape in season 2, and holding his own against highly trained PMC's in season 3]].
188	* '''{{Gorn}}'''
189	* GoryDiscretionShot: After Sanchez's manager refuses to return Kai's deposit after Hood ruins the fight, we only [[NightmareFuel hear of Clay Burton's response from outside the trailer.]]
190	* GroinAttack: After effortlessly disarming and beating three young thugs in Season 3 Carrie elctrocutes one of them in the groin with a cattle prod for good measure.
191	* GunsAkimbo: In the season two finale, [[spoiler: Lucas pulls out a second gun when dealing with Rabbit's men. Interestingly, all it really ends up doing is wasting his ammunition and serving as suppressive fire; he doesn't actually ''hit'' anything with either gun.]]
192	* HeroOfAnotherStory:
193	** Federal Agent Jim Racine.
194	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happens to [[spoiler: a group of Ukrainian gangsters. They try to use a RPG to kill the good guys but the gangster carrying the rocket is killed and squeezes the trigger while the rocket is pointed the wrong way. The explosion kills the remaining gangsters.]]
195	* HollywoodSatanism: Declan Bode is the leader of a Satanic cult that ritually murders young women by cutting out their hearts. Though it's established that Banshee has a surprisingly large Satanist population, and these guys are regarded as a whacko fringe sect that most Satanists want nothing to do with.
196	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Anna justifies marrying another man while Lucas was in jail because she was broke, pregnant, and needed a safe house for her daughter.]]
197	* IHaveNoSon: The Amish community has disowned Kai Proctor and when he tries to talk to his father, Proctor Sr refuses to acknowledge that his son is even there. [[spoiler:His father and brother don't speak to him until the 7th episode. It doesn't go well for anyone.]]
198	* IdiotBall:
199	** Oh Olek, [[spoiler: you really should have taken that stake out of Anna before you started carrying her off.]]
200	** Really Lucas and Sugar? [[spoiler: You couldn't have buried the real Lucas Hood a little deeper? Where his hand isn't poking out of the earth?]] Lampshaded by Job [[spoiler: in the Season 2 premiere, when he points out that the whole mess could have been avoided if they just dug a deeper hole.]]
201	** Anna [[spoiler: shot Rabbit at point blank range, but didn't even bother double checking if he was really dead. She then later believes his claim that he wouldn't go after her anymore. Jim Racine calls her out on both of these.]]
202	* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Coupled with DeadPersonImpersonation, this is the core premise of the series, with Lucas impersonating a dead sheriff. Lucas is able to pull it off because the real Lucas Hood is from a backwater town in Oregon and the only person in Banshee who knows what he looks like was the old sheriff who died recently. To maintain the ruse, Lucas has Job hack into any website or database where photos of Hood might be displayed.
203	* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Gordon]] of all people displays this in the third season finale. He can shoot off the fingers ''of a man holding a pistol to a person's head''.
204	* ImprovisedWeapon:
205	** Lucas kills one opponent by ''shoving a sauce bottle'' down the guy's throat.
206	** It'd be quicker to list the things Anna didn't use in her fight with Olek in the sheriff's place.
207	** Job uses his belt as a weapon when he goes head to head with [[spoiler: Cpt. Murphy]] in the season 3 finale.
208	* InjuredLimbEpisode: Lucas always wears a strap on his right hand. All this whaling on people must do a number on them bones and tendons, eh?
209	* {{Jerkass}}: Several of them in the show. Sanchez takes special note for being an arrogant, violent [[spoiler: rapist]].
210	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lucas. He's still a criminal deep down, but he will save people who are in danger at the risk of his own life and actually does act like a sheriff from time to time (albeit a rough one).
211	* JurisdictionFriction:
212	** Between the Banshee County Sheriff's Department and the Kinaho Reservation Police whenever the former enters the reservation. Somewhat justified, as [[TruthInTelevision county law enforcement has no legal jurisdiction on Native American land]].
213	** When Chayton and the Redbones ambush a military convoy leaving Camp Genoa and steal confiscated weapons, the last thing Col. Stowe wants is the local police interfering.
214	-->'''Col. Stowe:''' The moment they killed my marines and stole government property this became a matter for the military. NCIS will lead the investigation with the FBI and the BIA. Now that's a lot of fucking letters and the last thing ''you'll'' want is to get caught up in the middle of it.
215	** Between the Banshee County Sheriff's Department, Kinaho Reservation Police and the FBI when they team up to take Chayton into custody.
216	* KickTheSonOfABitch: it's doubtful anyone in the audience shared Brock's misgivings over him, Hood, and Siobhan's hunting down and executing [[spoiler: Hondo, the Neo-Nazi who had shot Emmett and his wife.]]
217	* KnifeFight: One of the encounters between Hood and Chayton begins as one.
218	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The song playing over the episode-ending montage in "The Truth About Unicorns" comes to an abrupt stop after Lucas slams his fist down on the off button of the radio in Sugar's bar.
219	* LikeASonToMe: Mr. Rabbit considered Lucas to be like the son he never had, which is probably why he did not have Lucas killed in prison.
220	* LoopholeAbuse: The sheriff position is elected but the town council knows that any local elected will be in Proctor's pocket so they use a provision in the town charter to appoint a 'ringer' from outside the community.
221	* MadeOfIron: One of the fixtures of the show, as multiple characters are able to absorb preposterous amounts of punishment and not only survive but perform feats of badassery. It's probably easier to think of this show as being about a small town of superhumans.
222	** Lucas has taken beatings that should have crippled him for life but he seems to recover extremely quickly.
223	** Carrie takes a beating that almost kills her but she leaves the hospital a few hours later and has the strength to lead TheCavalry [[spoiler: to rescue Lucas from Mr. Rabbit]].
224	** [[spoiler: Mr. Rabbit]] takes two bullets to the chest and is still able to get away through a sewer and elude a manhunt.
225	** [[spoiler:Clay Burton]] takes a tomahawk to the chest and is still able to have a knock-down drag-out fight to the death with [[spoiler:Nola Longshadow]].
226	* MafiaPrincess: Anna is the daughter of Mr. Rabbit, an Ukrainian mob boss. She herself was an accomplished thief and [[{{Safecracking}} safe cracker]] before she went on the run and became Carrie.
227	* MagicalNativeAmerican: Chayton truly believes he is one and in his [[spoiler: last scene]] speaks of himself as if he read the trope description page.
228	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Chayton]] does not let out as much as a sigh after a good portion of his torso is blown away by a shotgun blast. He manages to stand upright and maintain a serene expression on his face too.
229	* MamaBear: Anna has done some morally questionable things, but most of them were to protect her own children. And if you threaten them, God help you.
230	* MookHorrorShow: Nola's assault on the Marines in "The Thunder Man" comes off this way.
231	* MoreDakka: Mr. Rabbit's men are equipped with military-grade assault rifles and even have [[spoiler: an RPG]].
232	* MrFanservice: Lucas often has [[ShirtlessScene his shirt off]].
233	* MsFanservice: Anna and Rebecca are frequently nude.
234	* NativeAmericanCasino: The local Indian tribe operates a casino on the outskirts of town. Benjamin Longshadow, the tribe's elderly chief, wants to replace it with a modern hotel-casino and enlists Kai Proctor's help in making it happen.
235	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Rabbit gets two bullets in the chest, but the body was never found.]]
236	* NeverMyFault: Wicks constantly blamed everybody else for his problems (his sister's husband for thinking he was a negative influence to his kids, [[spoiler: the hooker for giving him bad coke, and Lucas for not helping him out enough]]). He never accepted the fact that his misfortunes were his own fault.
237	* NewOldWest: The series is basically a modern day {{Western}}, complete with an outlaw becoming a sheriff.
238	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The show takes place in the fictional Banshee County, PA. The Native American 'Kinaho Nation' is also fictitious.
239	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
240	** Kai Proctor delivers one to Cole Moody after the Moody brothers harass and assault a group of Amish which included Proctor's father. He beats Cole's face and breaks numerous teeth. He then orders Cole to collect him broken teeth and put them back in his mouth.
241	** Sanchez delivers one to [[spoiler: a waitress he is having sex with when she protests that he is too rough with her]]. Lucas does not approve of a MMA champion beating up [[spoiler: a woman]] and delivers a beatdown of his own in return.
242	** Lucas receives one of these during his time in prison at the hands of the Albino. [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge He gets even though...]]
243	** [[spoiler: Carrie and Oleg]] manage to deliver these to each other. They spent most of the episode beating on each other until they are both on the floor covered in blood and losing consciousness. It almost ends up being a MutualKill.
244	** Pretty much ''every'' fight in the show counts as this.
245	* NoNameGiven: The pilot and the promotional prequel material never mentions what the main characters real name is. He becomes "Lucas Hood" after the real Hood is killed.
246	* NoodleImplements: Whatever it is Clay had on him that he used on the fighter's manager.
247	* OneManArmy: Lucas Hood goes through large groups of foes in most of his fights.
248	** He meets another one in "Armies of One" and they have a fairly existencial talk about it.
249	* OutWithABang:
250	** [[spoiler: Jason Hood. And that's why he should've avoided Rebecca...]]
251	** [[spoiler: Rebecca]] clearly intends to pull this on [[spoiler: Alex Longshadow]] but [[spoiler: he fights back when she pulls a gun on him]], although in the end [[spoiler: she manages to kill him anyway]].
252	* PetTheDog:
253	** When Kai Proctor sees the Moody brothers harass and assault a group of Amish loading lumber on a wagon, he calls the Moodys out for their behavior and then orders them to help the Amish load the wagon.
254	** Lucas makes no secret of the fact that he dislikes Brock. However, when a recently-arrived FBI agent starts taking potshots at Brock's protection of a witness, Lucas shuts him down with a snapped sentence and a DeathGlare. Brock warms ever-so-slightly towards him afterwards.
255	** Proctor cares deeply about his mother, as is especially evident early in season 3.
256	%%** How[[spoiler: Kai]] met [[spoiler: Clay]]
257	* PoliceBrutality:
258	** Lucas really does not care about the fact that as a police officer he is not supposed to beat up handcuffed prisoners.
259	** [[spoiler: Emmett]] snaps in "Evil for Evil" and beats [[spoiler: the three skinheads who attacked his pregnant wife and killed the baby]] to a bloody pulp.
260	* ThePornomancer: Lucas sleeps with lots of hot women with very little effort, ranging from random waitresses to [[spoiler: he widow of a guy he recently killed]].
261	* PostHumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Rebecca]] is killed shortly before season 4 starts. She appears in flashbacks as the audience discovers what happened to her during the TimeSkip.
262	* PragmaticVillainy: Kai Proctor manufactures and sells $250,000 worth of Ecstacy a week. However, he makes sure that none of it is sold in Banshee or the surrounding area. Dealing drugs in his home county would attract too much attention from law enforcement.
263	-->'''Proctor''': I don't shit where I sleep.
264	* PrisonRape: [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Lucas as he refused to do any sexual favors for the Albino. Instead, he TookALevelInBadass and managed to actually kill him.]]
265	* PrivateMilitaryContractors: As Camp Genoa is in the process of shutting down, the commander replaces the remaining marines on guard duty with PMC's for the last few weeks. [[spoiler: They are much more dangerous and willing to fight against Hood and his team than enlisted soldiers would be]].
266	* ProductPlacement: In the pilot, an ad for fellow Cinemax series ''Series/StrikeBack'' appears on the side of a bus [[FreezeFrameBonus just before the bus tips over]].
267	* RageAgainstTheReflection: Happens in the 1st episode of season 4. [[spoiler: During Hood's AngerMontage, he stares to the mirror in a room of Proctor's motel for a couple of seconds, then, he smashes the mirror throwing a whisky bottle]].
268	* RankUp:
269	** Gordon Hopewell goes from being the District Attorney to the mayor of Banshee in season 2, [[spoiler: after Dan Kendall is killed in an explosion orchestrated by Proctor]].
270	** When Hood quits at the end of season 3, [[spoiler: Brock Lotus]] becomes the new sheriff.
271	** At the start of season 4, Brock reveals that former deputy Billy Raven now the chief of the Kinaho Reservation Police.
272	** After the death of [[spoiler: Gordon Hopewell]], [[spoiler: Kai Proctor]] ascends to the office of the Mayor between season 3 and 4.
273	* ReallyGetsAround: Lucas. It'd be easier to count how many hot women (aside from his daughter) on the show he ''hasn't'' slept with (yet).
274	* RefugeInAudacity:
275	** Lucas's plan to become the sheriff of Banshee relies on the fact that it will not cross people's mind that anyone could be so brazen and thus by the time anyone decides to do a background check on him, Job will have hacked the necessary databases. Even Lucas can't believe that he is getting away with it and during his swearing in ceremony he has trouble maintaining a straight face.
276	** When Lucas goes to [[spoiler: rescue a kidnapped Rebecca]] from the Indian casino, he simply walks in and beats up any guards sent to stop him. He has no jurisdiction and the guards could justifiably shoot him but he figure that if he keeps this going long enough Alex Longshadow will give in to his demand. He is also hoping that Alex is not dumb enough to kill the local sheriff while he is on Indian tribal land.
277	** Chayton needs guns for his revolution, so he simply attacks and steals them from a US Marine Corps convoy, banking on the fact that JurisdictionFriction will prevent any of the relevant agencies from tracking him down.
278	* {{Retcon}}: Of the {{Revision}} variety. The first season heavily implied that while already being a master thief, Lucas only became the MadeOfIron badass seen on the show after TakingALevelInBadass while in prison. But starting on season 3 it is revealed that [[spoiler:he was in the military and then in a covert Black Ops unit long before even meeting Job or Rabbit]].
279	* RetiredBadass: Gordon Hopewell served in the USMC before becoming a lawyer and entering public office. It explains how he is able to hold his own in a fight, and [[spoiler: comes in useful in the season 3 finale when he provides sniper support during the attack on Camp Genoa]].
280	* RevengeBeforeReason: The Moody brothers are dead set on getting revenge on Lucas. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that murdering the sheriff is an extremely bad idea and that they would never get away with it.
281	* RevolversAreJustBetter: Rebecca becomes partial to revolvers of the BFG variety as her weapon of choice in season 3.
282	* RuleOfCool: For the most part, the show runs on this. Reality check just often enough to keep things from getting too over-the-top.
283	* RuralGangsters: Banshee is a small town in largely rural Pennsylvania. [[TheChessmaster Kai Proctor]] is the local crime lord and runs most of the organized crime in the area. He was born in the local Amish community but as a young man, he broke the prohibition on violence and was kicked out. The area also has smaller criminal groups, composed of neo-Nazis and various rednecks. The local Indian tribe operates a casino and its leaders are not above resorting to criminal acts to get what they want.
284	* {{Safecracking}}: Anna is a master safe cracker.
285	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Sanchez believes that he can get away with [[spoiler: beating up and raping a woman]] because all the local bigwigs need the championship fight to take place and will cover for him. [[spoiler: Boy is he so wrong!]]
286	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
287	** Aside from violence and intimidation, Kai Proctor remains criminally active in Banshee by paying off various law enforcement and local government officials. It is the main reason the real Hood was called in, as all previous sheriff's had been on Proctors payroll.
288	** Sanchez's manager believes that whatever trouble Sanchez causes can be handled by paying off anyone that was hurt. Lucas disagrees.
289	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: And when Lucas confronts Sanchez for his crimes, Sanchez subtly challenges Lucas, believing there's no way this "PunyEarthling" could take him down. Seriously, the guy needed to be ready for a match the next day, and even if he ''knew'' he could have beaten Hood, there was a very high chance he could have gotten injured ''somehow''. Sanchez let his win stats go to his head, and then five minutes later his career was over in a flash.
290	** In Season 4, the serial killer believes that Hood and the police can't harm them because [[HollywoodSatanism Satan won't allow it]]. [[spoiler:Satan lets them down.]]
291	* SecretlyDying: Even a badass like [[spoiler: Chayton isn't immune to guns. Turns out, you can't just bounce back from untreated gunshot wounds. By the time we see him after he makes his escape, he's in pretty bad shape and needs to be nursed back to health]].
292	* SeriousBusiness: Raves in Banshee are a serious affair with a lot of illegal drugs changing hands. They are run by an organized, armed and dangerous group of crooks. When the local cops go out to break up a rave they bring a lot of firepower with them.
293	* SexEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Jason gets killed for having sex with Rebecca.]]
294	* SexySurfacingShot: In "Ways to Bury a Man", the camera centers on Rebecca as she climbs out of the swimming pool in a bikini, with the camera angle even shifting to a [[gratuitous close-up shot of her buttocks]].
295	%%* SirSwearsALot: Job.
296	* TheStinger: There's one for every episode.
297	* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Chayton starts walking it in Season 3 [[spoiler:and manages to annihilate a small marine convoy in a head on assault. Those marines were armed with automatic rifles mind you.]]
298	* StupidEvil: A ''lot'' of villains on the show have veered into the TooDumbToLive category just for the sake of being vile.
299	* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: In "Ways to Bury a Man", Rebecca has a dreamlike scene where she meditates at the bottom of a pool.
300	* TattooedCrook:
301	** Kai Proctor has a crucifix tattooed on his back.
302	** The Ukrainian gangsters have an assortment of tattoos visible on their necks and hands.
303	** Averted by Lucas who even after 15 years in prison does not seem to have any tattoos.
304	** All of Rabbits henchmen have a spider tattoo on their necks. Ana/Carrie uses this to identify them twice, once [[spoiler: with the assassin in "The Truth About Unicorns"]], and again with [[spoiler: the priests in hospital in "Homecoming".]]
305	** Deputy Kurt Bunker used to be one when he was a neo-Nazi, but is in the process of having them removed now he has left the movement.
306	* TemptingFate: This seems to be a central character trait of Lucas to the point where it seems like he is a DeathSeeker. Most people who just got out of prison and have the Ukrainian mob looking for them would not go ahead and impersonate a dead sheriff. Most people who just killed a man would not insist on hanging around the man's wake, in plain sight of the dead man's angry, drunk and armed brothers.
307	* TimeSkip: Season 4 starts two years after the events of the season 3 finale.
308	%%* TitleDrop
309	* TooDumbToLive:
310	** Two toughs try to rob Sugar Bates bar even though they know that Sugar and Kai Proctor are old friends and Proctor does not act kindly toward people who mistreat his friends and family. They then discover that one of the bar patrons is the new sheriff and decide to shoot it out. The icing on the cake is that, just as the (fake) Lucas pointed out, there'd only be a couple hundred for them to steal anyway.
311	** [[InTheBlood Seems to run in the Moody family.]] Cole Moody insults the Amish in Proctor's presence even after Proctor has just demonstrated that he does not approve of the Amish being mistreated. After Proctor gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, Cole [[spoiler: tries to kill Proctor at a party surrounded by a hundred witnesses and all the members of the police department in attendance]]. Then Cole's brothers apparently believe it's a good idea to [[spoiler: run a patrol car off the road, torture and kill the sheriff and pull all of Kai Proctor's teeth one by one before killing him. And on top of that leave the deputy alive and unbound because they have no beef with him.]] [[SarcasmMode Brilliant plan guys.]]
312	** Hanson molested the DA's daughter, dealt drugs with the son of a state senator, and breaks one of Proctor's iron rules and sells drugs in Banshee. But to make it worse, the drugs end up being a botched batch, which kills the said son of the senator. Even though he escapes the cops, he doesn't escape Proctor's dog.
313	** Lance from "Behold a Pale Rider." What started off as a simple drugstore heist turned into murder of the store clerk, attempted murder of a police officer, taking high school students as hostages, and almost raping the Mayor's wife. This is constantly lampshaded by his partner as he pointed out that Lance's bone-headed actions lead to so much unnecessary trouble. [[spoiler: Predictably, they both die by the end of the episode.]]
314	** Jason Hood. [[spoiler: Between running off with 62 grand that belonged to a bunch of bloodthirsty mobsters, coming to Banshee and confronting the man who took his father's place without knowing whether or not that man killed the real Lucas Hood and might also kill him just to keep up the ruse, not taking ample opportunities to flee Banshee even after his fake ID was cooked up, and taking up with Rebecca Bowman despite Sugar's warnings about her, he was basically begging to be killed. Kai Proctor and Clay Burton finally grant said wish in "Armies of One", garroting him in the middle of having sex with Rebecca and then invoking WithUsOrAgainstUs in regards to her actions]].
315	** Subverted on the last one, as Sugar considers killing Jason over Rebecca a new low, even for Kai.
316	* TookALevelInBadass:
317	** The webisodes reveal that before he went to prison Lucas was just a thief and the need to protect himself while in prison turned him into a ruthless CombatPragmatist.
318	** Deputy Siobhan Kelly used to be an abused wife who [[DrowningMySorrows drank too much]]. A few years before the series started, she finally had the courage to divorce her husband and applied to become a sheriff's deputy. When he shows up in season two and tries to force his way back into her life, [[spoiler: she shows off her badass creds by [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating him to a pulp]]]].
319	** Deputy Brock gains a level in "A Mixture of Madness" where he leads TheCavalry to [[spoiler: save Lucas from Mr. Rabbit]]. Things don't go according to plan but he still ends up saving the day.
320	** Brock levels up again in "A Fixer of Sorts". [[spoiler: When five heavily armed thugs from Chayton's gang decide to attack Proctor's strip club they happen to do so just as Brock is visiting it. He chokes one guy out, handcuffs him and calls in backup. When one of the thugs threatens a dancer with a knife he jumps out shouting at the four remaining to drop their weapons.]]
321	** District Attorney Alison Medding does so in "Tribal". When [[spoiler: Chayton and the Redbones begin attacking the CADI]], she immediately asks for a gun and how to shoot it, despite having no prior experience. She later saves Bunkers life by blowing away a Redbone attacker with a shotgun.
322	* TraumaCongaLine: So many characters experience this. Special mention goes to Lucas, Anna, and Deva.
323	* TrappedByGamblingDebts: A local tough owes the Indian casino a lot of money so Alex Longshadow offers to forgive the debt in exchange for the man [[spoiler: murdering Kai Proctor]].
324	* TwoferTokenMinority: Job, the CampGay Asian.
325	* TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive: In a {{flashback}} it is seen that shady black-ops people deprive [[spoiler: Antony Starr's character]] (who is a serial army discipline violator) of food and water until he confesses to killing his father.
326	* VillainousLineage: Deva’s biological father, mother and grandfather are all thieves and criminals, and as the series progresses she displays ever increasing larcenous tendencies.
327	* VillainousRescue: Lucas is saved by Kai Proctor when [[spoiler: Mr. Rabbit's men try to kill him at the police station.]]
328	* VillainsWantMercy: Hondo, the white supremacist [[spoiler: who killed Emmett and his wife, gets hunted down by Hood, Siobhan, and Brock in response. He taunts they've got nothing on him for the"alleged" murder, which was a big mistake. When Hood and his crew make it clear they don't intend to arrest him for what he did, Hondo immediately points out they're cops and therefore not allowed to shoot him. Hood points back that they're "allegedly" cops since they're currently not in uniform just before gunning the bastard down.]]
329	* UnderNewManagement: Season 4 begins with [[spoiler: Brock Lotus]] as the new sheriff and [[spoiler: Kai Proctor]] as the new mayor.
330	* WellDoneSonGuy: Kai Proctor still deeply respects his father and wants his approval. However, the Amish shun Proctor due to his criminal life and his father refuses to even acknowledge that Kai is speaking to him.
331	* WhamLine: "Dad?" from the season 2 finale.
332	* WhamShot: Job crushing the stolen diamonds that put Hood away for 15 years, showing Rabbit had set him up from the beginning.
333	* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: By season 4, Brock Lotus is the sheriff of Banshee, a position he had sought after for years. However, during an interaction with Hood once they meet again after the TimeSkip, it is revealed he isn't enjoying the job as much as he thought he would.
334	-->'''Lucas Hood:''' Sheriff Brock Lotus huh? How does that feel?\
335	'''Brock Lotus:''' "Like a haemorrhoid."
336	** Mind you, having [[spoiler: Kai Proctor, the guy he'd spent three seasons trying to bring down,]] as his boss probably has something to do with it.
337	* WhatTheHellHero:
338	%%** Lucas is on the receiving end of this a lot.
339	** [[spoiler: Anna gets on the end of this in Season 2 when her family finds out her secrets.]]
340	** Deva delivers one of these to [[spoiler: her dad when he didn't pick up his phone when his son was suffering an asthma attack.]]
341	* WholePlotReference: The episode "Tribal" is this to ''[[Film/{{Assault On Precinct 13 1976}} Assault on Precinct 13]]'': a police station endures a night long siege from a vengeful gang, with the cops and prisoners inside [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to survive through the night, even as they argue about sending the target of the gang's vengeance out to die so the rest of them will be spared.
342	* WorldOfBadass: Many characters are MadeOfIron and are very capable fighters.
343	* WouldHitAGirl:
344	** [[spoiler:Sanchez]]'s apparent charm and affability mask an extremely violent personality.
345	** [[spoiler: When Lucas' psychiatrist revealed that she was an agent for Mr. Rabbit, he gave her a rather savage beating.]]
346	** [[spoiler: Siobhan]] had an abusive ex.
347	** Sharp and his crew have no qualms about beating up [[spoiler: Emmett's wife]].
348	* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Proctor completely loses it when he learns of Lucas and Rebecca's previous flings, getting into a fist fight with Lucas and almost throwing Rebecca out of his house. He also has Jason killed simply for sleeping with her.]]
349	* YoungAndInCharge: Mayor Kendall seems to be in his twenties and too young for his position.
350	-->'''Kendall ''': I know. I look young. But, that's just because I am.
351	* YourHeadASplode:How [[spoiler: Chayton]] meets his end. A shotgun is involved.

Context Series / Banshee