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* LoveFatherLoveSon: A gender inverted. According to Tommy, among the women that Mosley sleeps with, two of them are his sister in law "and his mother in law".
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* LoveFatherLoveSon: A gender inverted. According to Tommy, among the women that Mosley sleeps with, two of them are his sister in law "and his mother in law ".

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* LoveFatherLoveSon: A gender inverted. According to Tommy, among the women that Mosley sleeps with, two of them are his sister in law "and his mother in law ".law".
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* LoveFatherLoveSon: A gender inverted. According to Tommy, among the women that Mosley sleeps with, two of them are his sister in law "and his mother in law ".
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Tommy in the first two seasons. [[spoiler:In season three, [[RelationshipUpgrade she officially becomes his wife]].]]
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* ShutUpHannibal: When Moseby tries to taunt Lizzie about her former profession at a fancy event, Lizzie calmly replies that as she recalls, when he slept with he was completely wasted and [[TheLoinsSleepTonight couldn't get it up]], leaving [[SmugSnake Moseby]] stunned silent. Even Tommy is impressed with her snark.

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* ShutUpHannibal: When Moseby Mosley tries to taunt Lizzie about her former profession at a fancy event, Lizzie calmly replies that as she recalls, when he slept with he was completely wasted and [[TheLoinsSleepTonight couldn't get it up]], leaving [[SmugSnake Moseby]] Mosley]] stunned silent. Even Tommy is impressed with her snark.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He hates the Shelby family for being criminals despite spending most of his screentime torturing suspects, conspiring to murder dissidents, raping women and making corrupt backroom deals with criminals.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for Tommy/May - he rather pointedly tells Tommy he should give May a tour of The Garrison and later he smuggles May into Small Heath on a boat because he can see that Tommy is going crazy cooped up in Birmingham.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for Tommy/May - he rather pointedly tells Tommy he should give May a tour of The Garrison and later he smuggles May into Small Heath on and is noticeably more polite and honest with her than others.
* ShippingTorpedo: In contrast, when setting up
a boat because he can see that dinner for Tommy is going crazy cooped up in Birmingham.and Jessie Eden, he rather pointedly tries to stop Curly from putting on music for them and lingers long enough that he almost needs prompting to leave.
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* NewOldFlame: Shockingly, he's [[spoiler:Polly's]], meeting with her in a bar to reminisce over old times.

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* PetTheDog: Alfie has a dog he apparently genuinely cares about. [[spoiler:When he reveals to Tommy he is SecretlyDying, he asks Tommy to find someone to look after his dog.]]

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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
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Alfie has a dog he apparently genuinely cares about. [[spoiler:When he reveals to Tommy he is SecretlyDying, he asks Tommy to find someone to look after his dog.]]]]
** He tells Luca Changratta that he donates money to a charity that helps blind Jewish people because of a cousin he had.
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* PoliticalIncorrectVillain: Befitting a member of the Tsarist nobility, he's an anti-Semite and constantly shittalks Alfie for being a Jew in Russian, until he realizes that Alfie can understand Russian.

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* PoliticalIncorrectVillain: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Befitting a member of the Tsarist nobility, he's an anti-Semite and constantly shittalks Alfie for being a Jew in Russian, until he realizes that Alfie can understand Russian.

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* FantasticRacism: Befitting a member of the Tsarist nobility, he's an anti-Semite and constantly shittalks Alfie for being a Jew in Russian, until he realizes that Alfie can understand Russian.


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* PoliticalIncorrectVillain: Befitting a member of the Tsarist nobility, he's an anti-Semite and constantly shittalks Alfie for being a Jew in Russian, until he realizes that Alfie can understand Russian.

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* AssholeVictim: Perhaps the single biggest example on the show next to Father Hughes being a sadistic, raping hypocrite who‘s assassinated by one of his victims.

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* AssholeVictim: Perhaps the single biggest example on the show next to Father Hughes Hughes, being a sadistic, raping hypocrite who‘s assassinated by one of his victims.


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* OfficerOHara: He comes from Ireland, though he averts most of the stereotypes associated with this trope.


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* TheSociopath: Despite claiming to be on the side of justice, it's pretty obvious that he only cares about himself.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Tommy in the first two seasons. [[spoiler:TheyDo, in season three, where she officially becomes his wife.]]

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Tommy in the first two seasons. [[spoiler:TheyDo, in [[spoiler:In season three, where [[RelationshipUpgrade she officially becomes his wife.wife]].]]
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*KarmaHoudini: Unlike the rest of her family, she makes it out of season 3 in a even better position than before, having doublecrossed them by letting Tommy steal their treasures for her.
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* EvilIsPetty[=/=]AGodAmI: After Tommy (accurately) accuses him of [[spoiler:informing to the Soviets]], Hughes extorts him into publicly apologizing by reciting the Catholic Act of Contrition with Hughes' name in place of God's.

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* EvilIsPetty[=/=]AGodAmI: After Tommy (accurately) accuses him of [[spoiler:informing to the Soviets]], Soviets]] (and making a not-so-subtle implication he knows he's a paedophile), Hughes extorts him into publicly apologizing by reciting the Catholic Act of Contrition with Hughes' name in place of God's.
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Does this at the end of season 1 when Billy Kimber draws on Tommy. Kimber manages to hit Tommy once but Danny takes Kimber's second shot at the cost of his life, allowing Tommy to plug Kimber in the head.]]

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* BigBad: Of Season 4.

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* AvengingTheVillain: His entire vendetta in Season 4 is to avenge his father, Vicente Changretta, a minor antagonist from Season 3 who [[spoiler:sent an assassin after Tommy which resulted in Grace's death]].
* BigBad: Of He's the main villain of Season 4.4.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Realizing Tommy's outmaneuvered him and his own men have betrayed him, Luca seethes for a second then makes a last attempt to kill Tommy.]]


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* EtTuBrute: He's clearly wounded when [[spoiler:Matteo turns on him along with the rest of his henchmen in the Season 4 finale]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He loves his mother and often voices the advice she gave him in how to wage his vendetta against the Peaky Blinders. [[spoiler:He lets her act as his ambassador to set terms of surrender for the Peaky Blinders, heeding her advice that letting them live with nothing would be crueler than killing them all]].


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: He shares Tommy's refusal to harm children. Luca also values the lives of the men who follow him, making sure their loved ones are notified of their passing, giving them last respects, and calling Tommy "an animal" for killing one of his men after the man was already wounded.


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* WouldNotHurtAChild: He agrees to make sure no children are harmed during his war against the Peaky Blinders and he's true to his word.

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* KarmaHoudini: Alfie ''never'' receives punishment for his actions, even when he betrays his allies at the drop of a hat and he tends to come out on top of most of his dealings. ***[[**spoiler:Even getting shot dead by Tommy didn't stick, as it's revealed in Season Five he's alive and living quite comfortably, though he is blind in one eye.]]
[[**spoiler: By the end of the series, Alfie has become the premier bootlegger in Boston, and apparently he has gotten married to a woman named Edna. All the while, the world still thinks he is dead.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Alfie ''never'' receives punishment for his actions, even when he betrays his allies at the drop of a hat and he tends to come out on top of most of his dealings. ***[[**spoiler:Even dealings.
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getting shot dead by Tommy didn't stick, as it's revealed in Season Five he's alive and living quite comfortably, though he is blind in one eye.]]
[[**spoiler: **[[spoiler: By the end of the series, Alfie has become the premier bootlegger in Boston, and apparently he has gotten married to a woman named Edna. All the while, the world still thinks he is dead.]]

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* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: By Season 5 he is pretending to be dead. He continues to do so in Season 6, even while rebuilding his power in the criminal world.]]



* KarmaHoudini: Alfie ''never'' receives punishment for his actions, even when he betrays his allies at the drop of a hat and he tends to come out on top of most of his dealings. [[spoiler:Even getting shot dead by Tommy didn't stick, as it's revealed in Season Five he's alive and living quite comfortably, though he is blind in one eye.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Alfie ''never'' receives punishment for his actions, even when he betrays his allies at the drop of a hat and he tends to come out on top of most of his dealings. [[spoiler:Even ***[[**spoiler:Even getting shot dead by Tommy didn't stick, as it's revealed in Season Five he's alive and living quite comfortably, though he is blind in one eye.]]
[[**spoiler: By the end of the series, Alfie has become the premier bootlegger in Boston, and apparently he has gotten married to a woman named Edna. All the while, the world still thinks he is dead.
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* [[spoiler: WakeUpCall: By Season 6, Alfie Solomon is just sitting around listening to opera, hoping for something to do as his "final act". Tommy tells him that his Uncle Charles is killed in Boston, and offers a trade that would give Alfie about 5 tons of pure cocaine ready to be shipped to Boston, allowing Alfie to acquire an enormous sum of money, rebuild his power, and seek revenge.]]

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* NationalWeapon: Seen using American-made weapons like a lever-action rifle [[spoiler: to dispatch the Changretta assassins at John's funeral]] as well as a Colt Single-Action Army on screen.



* WeaponOfChoice: Seen using American-made weapons like a lever-action rifle [[spoiler: to dispatch the Changretta assassins at John's funeral]] as well as a Colt Single-Action Army on screen.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: like her whole family.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: like Like her whole family.



* RichBitch

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* RichBitchRichBitch: Beautiful, but extremely haughty and classist.



* AristocratsAreEvil
* BigEater: Particularly caviar.

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* AristocratsAreEvil
AristocratsAreEvil: Is also perfectly fine with setting up the Shelbys for death.
* BigEater: Particularly caviar.Eats large helpings of caviar.
* FantasticRacism: Befitting a member of the Tsarist nobility, he's an anti-Semite and constantly shittalks Alfie for being a Jew in Russian, until he realizes that Alfie can understand Russian.
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*AssholeVictim: Perhaps the single biggest example on the show next to Father Hughes being a sadistic, raping hypocrite who‘s assassinated by one of his victims.
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* TheGhost: Becomes this after season 2, making no physical appearances despite being name-dropped multiple times and even directly impacting the plot when he helps Luca Changretta in his vendetta against Tommy.

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