History Characters / BoardwalkEmpireSchroederRohanFamily

* RagsToRiches: ZigzaggedTrope.

* AbusiveParents: Hans.

* DarkAndTroubledPast

* OverlyLongName

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving

* TheUnfavorite

* AfraidOfNeedles

* ChildrenAreInnocent

* MafiaPrincess

* RagsToRiches: ZigzaggedTrope.

* FieryRedhead

* BlackSheep: Was one when she left home, although her younger sisters (too young to remember the reasons anyway) consider her their CoolBigSis. Her older brother Eamoinn is still wary of her.

* [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted A Fool and Her New Money Are Soon Parted]]: Margaret spends vast ammounts of Nucky's money on dresses, jewellery and donations to charity and the Church, but she makes no use of it or his connections to pursue a career or start a business that could give her some independence. She has not even learned to drive as she nears her second year of marriage, despite considering it months before Nucky proposed to her. The season three finale finds her sleeping with her children in a low class apartment in Brooklyn, in even worse conditions than before she met Nucky, after she decides to break up with him.

* MortonsFork: Out-of-universe; while she was with Nucky, fans hated her for acting morally superior to him despite living on his ill-gotten money, a la [[Series/TheSopranos Carmela Soprano]]; now that she's left him, they're annoyed that she's shown back up because she doesn't have anything to do with his arc.

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: [[invoked]] His German heritage makes him an easy scapegoat in post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarI America.
-->'''Nucky:''' A hun, you believe that? But is it really all that surprising, the level of brutality?

** DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff
* TheGamblingAddict

* ArmorPiercingSlap

* NamesTheSame: Averted. "Beth" stands for Bethany, not Elizabeth, whose Irish form is Aylesh.

* DeterminedWidow

->'''Played By:''' Shannon Garland

->'''Played By:''' Nadia Alexander

* IllGirl: She is paralyzed with polio in Season 2 and forced to walk on crutches.

* [[AlcoholicParent Alcoholic Father]]: His habit worsened the family's situation back in Ireland, and probably led to his early death.

* [[CheatingWithTheMilkman Cheating With The Bodyguard]]

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: "You've a good heart, Nuala."

* MoralityPet: Nucky also loves and cares for them.

** KnifeNut: Teddy keeps a letter-opener under his pillow to fend off "the Gypsy".
** {{Pyromaniac}}: He develops a fascination with fire after he sees Nucky burning his childhood home.

* AbsenteeActor: In the first five episodes of Season 4, as Kelly [=MacDonald=] needed time off to give birth and recover.

* RaisedCatholic

* HeroicBSOD: In "A Man, A Plan..." when she sees Owen's [[StuffedIntoTheFridge dead body in a box]].

* CoolBigSis: To her sisters, especially the youngest, Ayllesh.

* SoapboxSadie: Margaret is a less hamfisted example than usual: she usually fights against injustices she has genuinely suffered herself. In Season 1 she campaigns for female suffrage, she being an immigrant from a country (Ireland) where women can vote to one (America) where they can't; she supports Prohibition because her abusive husband gets even more violent when he drinks, rather than because she thinks that alcohol is intrinsically immoral (and she drinks herself with moderation); and in Season 3 her main struggle is to open a clinic that teaches women to take better care of themselves during pregnancy, she having already suffered two miscarriages before 30 herself. The one time she considered fighting for a hopeless cause (bringing Nucky's criminal empire down, which is the basis of her own wealth and status to boot) was one time that she was stressed and not thinking rationally because of her daughter being sick and she blaming herself for it.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Possibly on the way to become this. Teddy is after all just a kid, but nobody ever bothers to sit down and explain him why the things he does are bad.

* DemotedToExtra: Eamoinn was likely slated to return in Season 4 when Season 2 was written, but Margaret's drastically reduced screentime (in part because of Kelly Macdonald's RealLife pregnancy) meant that any part he had was scrapped. His ''feet'' are still visible in one scene, obviously from an extra, showing the cramped conditions Margaret and her children sleep in after they leave Nucky to live with the Rohans.

* {{Foil}}: To Eamoinn. She welcomes Margaret back and helds nothing against her, and has no problem with Margaret spending her money as she likes, regardless of how she obtained it.

->'''Played By:''' Emma Kenney

* [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted A Fool And Her New Money Are Soon Parted]]: Margaret spends vast ammounts of Nucky's money on dresses, jewellery and donations to charity and the Church, but she makes no use of it or his connections to pursue a career or start a business that could give her some independence. She has not even learned to drive as she nears her second year of marriage, despite considering it months before Nucky proposed to her. The season three finale finds her sleeping with her children in a low class apartment in Brooklyn, in even worse conditions than before she met Nucky, after she decides to break up with him.

->'''Played By:''' Joe Sikora

[[caption-width-right:283:''"I did what I thought was right and wound up here. How did that happen?"'']]

[[caption-width-right:240:''"[[ItsAllAboutMe You did what you wanted, Peg.]] You always have. Nothing you bring and nothing you buy will change that."]]''

* BlackSheep: Was one when she left home, although her younger sisters (too young to remember the reasons anyway) consider her their CoolBigSis. Her older brother Eaimonn is still wary of her.