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* {{Hypocrite}}: For all her frequent bringing up slavery when she has a conflict with white people, she [[spoiler:buys Judy King as a slave from the neo-nazis in season 5, and continues to treat her as such]]. Admittedly, it's very much a KickTheSonOfABitch case, but still.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:She shoots C.O. Humps when he's on his knees with his hands in the air, softly begging for mercy. Of course, since he's an utterly {{sadist}}ic, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] AssholeVictim who terrorized the inmates for weeks, illegally brought the gun in himself, and had instigated the riot with his own vile treatment of the inmates in the first place, the scene feels oh so satisfying. Tragically deconstructed later, when his injuries ultimately lead to his death -- he'd have survived if not for Kukidio interfering with his IV line and causing him to have a stroke, but Kukudio dies herself shortly afterwards, making it appear that Humps just got medical attention too late -- and Daya has to take the fall.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Branding Piper with a swastika seems pretty harsh, but by this point Piper has become pretty unlikeable and has done horrible things. She practically snitched on Maria and her girls, causing Maria to get an extended sentence (keep in mind this means she won't get to see her daughter for an even longer time), and she ''did'' basically start a white supremacist movement in the prison and surrounded herself with them for protection. While Piper didn't mean to do those things, fact is that she is responsible for them. Piper herself acknowledges that she deserved it in a later episode.

* TheBully: Towards Healy, who he calls 'Samantha'. It's a case of KickTheSonOfABitch, though.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He bullies Healy and treats him like shit, but Healy is more morally bankrupt than Caputo. He also insists on being the person who gets to fire Pornstache and hand him over to some waiting U.S. Marshals, and later makes sure to deliver karmic justice to Figueroa in the Season 2 finale.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/TaylorSchilling

-->''"I was somebody with a life that I chose for myself and now, now it's just about getting through the day without crying. And I'm scared. I'm still scared. I'm scared that I'm not myself in here and I'm scared that I am."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/LauraPrepon

-->''"I had grand plans. Now, I can't even get past the swirling darkness in my brain long enough to land on anything."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/KateMulgrew & Creator/XeniaLeblanc

-->''"The second you're perceived as weak, you already are."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/NatashaLyonne

->'''Played By:''' Creator/TarynManning

->'''Played By:''' Creator/YaelStone

->'''Played By:''' Creator/LeaDeLaria

->'''Played By:''' Creator/UzoAduba

-->''"Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanielleBrooks

-->''"So there I am, topless, sitting in this bulldozer in like a construction site. BBQ sauce all over my titties, and I'm like, "What the fuck... again?"''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SamiraWiley

-->''"We all in here because we took a wrong turn going to church!"''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/AdrienneCMoore

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SelenisLeyva

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DaschaPolanco

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackieCruz

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElizabethRodriguez

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaPimentil

->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/MichaelHarney Michael J. Harney]] & Creator/ZacharyDoran

-->''"Lesbians can be really dangerous. It's the testosterone."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/NickSandow

-->''"You have not seen crazy until you've seen two hundred women with anger issues fighting over who's going to be the ass-end of a camel."''

* AxCrazy: Due to stalking and attempted murder, Lorna is particularly unstable and deranged in her "romantic" delusions.

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Her arc in Season 7 is either this or KarmaHoudiniWarranty. It starts Lorna finding out from Vinnie that their child died of pneumonia, which causes her to smash through her DespairEventHorizon. After that she convinces herself that their baby is still alive and that Vinnie has kidnapped him, prompting him to get a divorce. Shes continues to deny what happened, lashing out at inmates and [=CO=]s, and ultimately gets transferred to Florida.]]
* Hypocrite: She is pretty xenophobic, viewing illegal immigrants as criminals and a danger, believing that if they will enter the country illegally, they must not have any regard for the law. Nicky is quick to point out that such a view is a bit questionable coming from someone who actually has broken the law.

One of the Hispanic inmates, she is shown to be rather misinformed, if not totally dim at times, genuinely believing that black people cannot float due to their bone density. This leads to Maritza stating that her head is full of "caca" and Aleida referring to her as "Flacaca". She appears to be a goth, wearing gothic makeup and being obsessed with such bands as Music/TheSmiths and Music/DepecheMode.

* DiscoDan: Despite being born in '92, she loves The Smiths and Depache Mode. She's also pretty caught up in the early 2000s scene/emo subculture, despite that being out of fashion by the time the show is set.

* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Invoked; Morello's lipstick and hairstyle call to mind the Fifties, but (unfortunately) so do her attitudes towards other races (thanks to ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', of which she is enamored).

* CharacterDevelopment: Begins the series as a fanatical religious fundamentalist who despises gay people, transgender people, non-whites, Catholics, Buddhists, etc. In later seasons she goes on to become best friends with Big Boo (a butch lesbian), helps Nicky (a Jewish lesbian) through detox, and befriends Suzanne (a black lesbian). She also goes from a volatile woman with violent mood swings to a much more even-tempered woman who is typically friendly to her fellow inmates.

* DeepSouth: Comes from a "redneck" type of community from there

* LIsForDyslexia: [[spoiler: Finds out to have dyslexia in the final season and it's the reason why she was always struggling with academics. Sadly, this leads to her tragic death when she believes she failed her exam.]]

* OedipusComplex: Gender-flipped. She is very attracted to Piper but later, when she hallucinates about her mother, she believes that Piper ''is'' her mother. They look somewhat similar and behave similarly.

* TookALevelInKindness: In the second season, Healy works on getting more in tune with his feelings and earning back the inmates' trust, with the help of a (very patient) therapist. In the Season 2 finale, he lies to help Suzanne. In Season 4, he takes another level in his treatment of Lolly.

* FreudianExcuse: Her mother was even more selfish, short-tempered and abusive to her as Aleida is to Daya, pimping Aleida out as a pre-teen and her father was in and out of jail and not much better as a parent, forcing Aleida to fend for herself from a young age. It's really not surprising she ended up as bad as she did.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In his first meeting with the attractive Piper, he does this after she leaves the room. This becomes a bit of a RunningGag, as he does the same thing in Season 2 after another inmate leaves his office, he has to stop himself from doing so on another occasion to focus more on work, and ends up going back to his office on catching sight of Maritza in prison-issued underwear.

* KarmaHoudini: Morello is this several times over. First, the fact that she is in a minimum security prison means that she was likely convicted of mail fraud, and skated on the much more serious crime of attempted murder that she stood trial for. She also manages to avoid any repercussions for escaping prison, breaking into the home of the man she stalked and the woman she tried to kill, and stealing or destroying several of their possessions. And as of the end of season three, she has not faced any consequences for arranging to have the same stalking victim violently beaten by several men, falsely claiming that he was writing her offensive letters. She also gets to fulfill her marriage fantasy with the man she deceived into assaulting Christopher.

* BuxomIsBetter: Her bust size gets a great acclaim from the men who are interested in her.

* PlayingGertrude: She doesn't look that much older than her daughter, which makes sense, since their actresses are only two years apart. Elizabeth Rodriguez was 33 at the time the show aired, and if Aleida is her age, it's still plausible the character became pregnant as a young teen only 14 or 15. Although a flashback of the young Aleida with the newborn Daya indicated that it wasn't the case, and also one dialogue suggests that Daya is ''24'' in the third season; bringing us back to the conclusion that Aleida's youthful appearance is truly absurd. Confusing things further is that Aleida is confirmed to be thirty-eight in the final season, the same as Elizabeth Rodriguez.

* NoSocialSkills: Even when he is meaning well, he usually just can't communicate right with others, ruining his efforts. It's not helped by his own bad temper and tendency to take any slight extremely personally and hold on to grudges.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Exactly what is wrong with Lorna is never specified but it's clear she has some serious mental health issues that take the form of forming unhealthy attachments, paranoid delusions, stalking and rejecting anything which goes against her delusions and lashing out at those who rebuff her. Such behavior indicates the possibility that she has a severe case of Borderline Personality Disorder but nothing official is ever stated.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Suzanne is clearly meant to be mentally ill, but no specific disorders have been mentioned (though she does have some symptoms of schizophrenia and some impulse control disorders). This show is also one few cases where this trope is [[{{Deconstruction}} very much not]] PlayedForLaughs.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Despite being one of the most genuinely sweet people in the prison, she is pretty casually racist and only seems to interact with other white inmates. She does have very sweet moments with Suzanne (black) and Rosa (Latina), though.

* NoSocialSkills: Even when he is meaning well, he usually just can't communicate right with others, ruining his efforts.

* {{Nerd}}: Well, the closest to that as she could get given her background; she has some anime-style drawing books from the beginning, draws cute things for Bennett on her notes to him, and becomes the cartoonist for the prison newsletter. You get the feeling that if she had a more stable childhood, she'd have been a full-on anime geek with a Website/DeviantArt account.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked|Trope}}. She sees ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' as a movie about a cowboy who's king of the castle, but then an astronaut comes in and tries to take over, so the cowboy tries to murder him, but then the astronaut is taken hostage by an evil psychopath, so the cowboy has to rescue him, then they become really good friends. Rosa eventually breaks the stunned silence with, "You've got one fucked-up perspective on the world, kid."