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Wife of Otto Gerhardt and matriarch of the Gerhardt family. She becomes head of the family business when Otto suffers a debilitating stroke.
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!!Floyd Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Jean Smart
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Wife of Otto Gerhardt and matriarch of the Gerhardt family. She becomes head of the family business when Otto suffers a debilitating stroke.
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* ThePatriarch: Of the Gerhardt clan. Deconstructed in that without him the family quickly begins falling apart as the more ambitious members seek to take advantage of the power vacuum.
* EnfantTerrible: A flashback shows him aiding his father in a gangland hit when he's about 11, stabbing a mob boss through the back of the skull.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He is the wisest of the three sons: smarter than Rye, more stable and patient than Dodd. As a result he's the one who is most loyal to their mother, who has a similar temperament.
* HandicappedBadass: Despite a useless hand, he can quickly reload one-handed, is a fine shot, and packs a decent punch.
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->'''Played By:''' Mike Bradecich
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A down-on-his-luck typewriter salesmen who get in over his head when he makes a deal with Rye Gerheardt to convince a Judge to unfreeze his bank accounts so he can buy a new model of typewriters.
*AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:He once again over-reaches when he tells Dodd he could cut a deal with him and Mike Milligan for Rye because he has "capital". Predictably, it doesn't work (in fairness he was out of his mind with fear at that point]]
*BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:How Dodd ultimately kills him, mainly because Skip was the main witness to Rye's crimes.]]
*EveryoneHasStandards: As unscrupulous as he may be even he is freaked out when he hears that Rye [[spoiler:killed the Judge and two other peope.]]
*Expy: To Jerry Lundegaard. Skip is also an overly ambitious and cowardly businessman who overestimates his importance in the grand scheme of things, and gets in over his head when he turns to criminals to try to expand his capital. The main difference is that Skip is not quite as ruthless as Jerry.
*TheFool: Somehow Skip manages to evade death at the hands of Mike Milligan or capture by the police out of sheer mercy/luck. [[spoiler: His luck runs out, however, when Dodd buries him alive.]]
*TheGamblingAddict: Why he's in debt in the fist place.
*GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Downplayed but he's freaked out enough about the [[spoiler:Waffle house shootings]] that he nearly confesses to the police what happened, but chickens out at the last second.
*SmallRoleBigImpact: Had Skip not asked Rye to cut a deal with and/or intimidate the Judge things would have worked out very differently.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:[[spoiler:Dodd kills him after he extracts any potential useful information from him.]]
[[folder:Skip Spring]]
A down-on-his-luck typewriter salesmen who get in over his head when he makes a deal with Rye Gerheardt to convince a Judge to unfreeze his bank accounts so he can buy a new model of typewriters.
*AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:He once again over-reaches when he tells Dodd he could cut a deal with him and Mike Milligan for Rye because he has "capital". Predictably, it doesn't work (in fairness he was out of his mind with fear at that point]]
*BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:How Dodd ultimately kills him, mainly because Skip was the main witness to Rye's crimes.]]
*EveryoneHasStandards: As unscrupulous as he may be even he is freaked out when he hears that Rye [[spoiler:killed the Judge and two other peope.]]
*Expy: To Jerry Lundegaard. Skip is also an overly ambitious and cowardly businessman who overestimates his importance in the grand scheme of things, and gets in over his head when he turns to criminals to try to expand his capital. The main difference is that Skip is not quite as ruthless as Jerry.
*TheFool: Somehow Skip manages to evade death at the hands of Mike Milligan or capture by the police out of sheer mercy/luck. [[spoiler: His luck runs out, however, when Dodd buries him alive.]]
*TheGamblingAddict: Why he's in debt in the fist place.
*GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Downplayed but he's freaked out enough about the [[spoiler:Waffle house shootings]] that he nearly confesses to the police what happened, but chickens out at the last second.
*SmallRoleBigImpact: Had Skip not asked Rye to cut a deal with and/or intimidate the Judge things would have worked out very differently.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:[[spoiler:Dodd kills him after he extracts any potential useful information from him.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Although we don't see much of his marriage in it's prime, by all accounts it seems to have been a happy one.
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* AbusiveParents: He smacks his daughter Simone around when she displeases or disobeys him.
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* HeirClubForMen: As shown below in PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, Dodd is under the impression that ''only'' males are qualified to and are the only ones who can inherit the commanding of a business. Which makes it only more ironic that he only has daughters.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: To Dodd. She smokes marijuana, wears revealing outfits and has sex whenever she can.
* DaddysLittleVillain: She very much wants to be involved in the family business, but her father wont hear of it.
* InTheBlood: She possesses her family's criminal instincts. The first time she goes into the field she takes to it like a fish to water.
* MafiaPrincess: She's well aware of the nature of the family business and wants to join, but her father refuses.
* DaddysLittleVillain: She very much wants to be involved in the family business, but her father wont hear of it.
* InTheBlood: She possesses her family's criminal instincts. The first time she goes into the field she takes to it like a fish to water.
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!!Simone Gerhardt
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Dodd's oldest daughter.
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!!Simone Gerhardt
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Dodd's oldest daughter.
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* AxCrazy: He threatens to kill his younger brother if he doesn't pay him. Not to say insulting a corpse of a tortured man for just dying on him. His facial expressions don't make him any favors.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: He makes good arguments about why Floyd should be the one who directs the company.
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* EvilOverlord: He is TheLeader of the Gerhardt criminal industry and has major control over several factions of it.
* SelfMadeMan: He built everything he has from scratch. Of course, only time will tell if his offspring respect all the work he has done.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: He eventually plans to kill his mother to obtain the company. As for his father, it's hard to imagine Dodd being the kind of person willing to put up with his necessities.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: To his mother, Floyd.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler: Since he can't inherit Otto's empire by ''right'', he's planning on taking it by force, including ''[[DeadlyEuphemism disposing]]'' of his mother.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: To his mother, Floyd.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler: Since he can't inherit Otto's empire by ''right'', he's planning on taking it by force, including ''[[DeadlyEuphemism disposing]]'' of his mother.]]
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->'''Played By:''' Kieran Culkin
The youngest of the Gerhardt clan, who views himself as a big shot, but in reality he's just a small dog who barks big.
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->'''Played By:''' Kieran Culkin
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!!Bear Gerhardt
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* BadassBaritone: Bear has a deep, gravelly voice.
* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
* SilentBob: Whenever he speaks, he makes sure it's for some important reason.
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!!Rye Gerhardt
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->'''Played By:''' Kieran Culkin
The youngest of the Gerhardt clan, who views himself as a big shot, but in reality he's just a small dog who barks big.
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* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
* SilentBob: Whenever he speaks, he makes sure it's for some important reason.
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!!Rye Gerhardt
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The youngest of the Gerhardt clan, who views himself as a big shot, but in reality he's just a small dog who barks big.
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->'''Played By:''' Angus Sampson
The Gerhardts' middle son, an intimidatingly large man who, although inarticulate, is the most decent of his clan.
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* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
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->'''Played By:''' Angus Sampson
The Gerhardts' middle son, an intimidatingly large man who, although inarticulate, is the most decent of his clan.
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* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
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!!Otto Gerhardt
->'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Hogan
A first generation immigrant from Germany who took over his father’s small trucking business and, through a mix of brutality and sheer will, turned it into a criminal empire that spans the upper Midwest. But he recently had a stroke and is now confined to a wheelchair, his every need taken care of by Indian servants. Gerhardt has lost the ability to speak or feed himself or use the bathroom by himself. But he’s too mean to die.
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* BaldOfEvil: His hair is starting to recede.
* CareerEndingInjury: His stroke and subsequent deterioration ends up taking him out of the game.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: He suffers a stoke in the first episode that leaves incapable of taking care of himself.
* EvilCripple: He ends up bound to a wheelchair after his stroke, but he's still the head of a criminal organization.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Well, not happy, but he has been training his sons to be competent at the game and his wife is clearly his NumberTwo.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Otto inherited his father's trucking company at a young age. By the time of the series, he has turned it into a profitable business with connection to other criminal empires.
* OverlordJr: He inherited the business from his father. [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] since his father ran the company in a honest way, it was only when Otto took over that it started to get into dirty business.
* ThePatriarch: Of the Gerhardt clan.
* SuccessionCrisis: His stroke will probably cause one, since he hadn't named a heir and Floyd and Dodd will be battling for the position.
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!!Dodd Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffreyDonovan
Floyd Gerhardt's eldest son. An impatient hothead with a cruel streak to match his ambitions, Dodd can't wait for both his parents to die so he can take over and expand their business from kingdom to empire.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: He wants to take control of his father's company and he may be willing to do some drastic things to achieve it.
* TheApprentice: Groomed to be the guy who takes his father's place in the company. Or so it seems.
* BigBrotherBully: To Rye, who he gets into a headlock and threatens to kill.
* CigarChomper: He's a cigar fan.
* HotBlooded: In his first appearance, he handles Rye a verbal beatdown for not paying what he owes him and does so in a pretty temperamental way. He also doesn't want to wait until it's time for him to take over. He wants to do it ''now''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Short-tempered, rude, psychotic, Dodd.
* NameOfCain: In a strange way, his name does hold some significance to his actions and role in the family's hierarchy.
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!!Rye Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Kieran Culkin
The youngest of the Gerhardt clan, who views himself as a big shot, but in reality he's just a small dog who barks big.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To his older brother Dodd, a BigBrotherBully who doesn't have time for Rye's ridiculous ambitions.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Like Lester Nygaard, his final scene isn't as much of a downer as you'd think, given his instigation of the Waffle Hut shootout.]]
* ButtMonkey: He doesn't catch a break in his first [[spoiler: and last]] appearance. [[spoiler: He's humiliated and pressured by his brothers to pay his dues, his attempt at branching ends up involving him into coercion for the overturn of a judge's veredict, which not only fails but drives him to the point of further humiliation and causes three murders by his own hands. Afterwards, he ends up getting run over by a truck which leaves confused and bloody and makes him attack a butcher by instinct, which causes his death. Life hasn't smiled for Rye.]]
* CantTakeCriticism: [[spoiler: Don't call him a nobody or an insect. It won't end good for you.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: [[spoiler: He ends up shooting the judge he tried to persuade in front of two attendants of a restaurant. One of them, a black man, tries to attack and subdue him, only to get shot as well. The last one, a woman, tries to run, but at this point, Rye just wants to make sure [[LeaveNoWitnesses nothing connects him to this slaughter.]]]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: The majority of the first episode is ADayInTheLimelight for him, to the point where he looks to be the protagonist in a similar vein to Lester Nygaard. He is killed at the end of the episode, though.]]
* DeerInTheHeadlights: [[spoiler: He gets run over by a truck driven by Peggy Blomquist. For further humiliation, he stays there unconscious in the windshield until she arrives home.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Implied. He twitches and fidgets constantly, so it's possible he might be consuming.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He never gets any. Then, again, he's not that much to look at.
* {{Expy}}: Rye ends up one to Carl Showalter. Both are twitchy wannabe criminals that end up way in over their heads. Like Showalter, the situation escalates from his own incompetence, [[spoiler:and Rye ends up murdering three people]]. Even his murder of [[spoiler:the Judge]] ends up similar to Showalter's murder of Wade. Both try and intimidate an unflappable Authority figure who angers them off into shooting them, and both Rye and Carl end up with nasty wounds because their victim wasn't quite dead. Heck Culkin's even made up to look like Buscemi.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: He really has some ingenious ideas that could really work. The problem is that he constantly ''overreaches'' and butchers up the execution of these.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He ''desperately'' wants to be a big shot because he is tired of being always pushed around.
* InTheBack: A non-fatal version. [[spoiler: The judge, still not dead, attacks Rye with a knife and stabs him in the back.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: Whether he likes it or not, his death and actions may have kickstarted the beginning of the end for his family's criminal empire.]]
* MutilationConga: Gassed, stabbed, run over....He really goes through it all.
* MuggingTheMonster: [[spoiler: He attacks Ed, a butcher and quite strong on his own, directly. To be fair, he had already snapped at this point.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Rye may seem like a stuttering weeny and he is, but he's also got a gun and he's dumb enough to use it. In the first episode of Season 2, his pathetic attempts to intimidate the judge in the diner ends with [[spoiler:him killing her, the cook, and then chasing the waitress and shooting her dead]].
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: After all the shit he has gone through the episode, the judge's mocking and spraying of him proves to be the final straw that pushes him to kill her.]]
* TheResenter: Over his bad luck and how well his brothers seem to be.
* SanitySlippage: The more and more the episode goes on, the more unhinged Rye's attitude becomes.
* SiblingRivalry: Judging by their only scene together, one can only picture the many, many times Rye has been pushed around and mocked by his brothers.
* ASimplePlan: In order to get access to a typewriter business, he has to convince a judge to turn over a conviction. He thinks it will be a piece of cake. [[spoiler: Nop, sorry.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: If you have read so far, it should be obvious.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: He appears for just one episode, but his actions will be felt by all of the characters and loom over the rest of the season.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: He's the most problematic of the brothers and he's the youngest. Bonus points for being a ButtMonkey.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:He doesn't survive the first episode of Season 2, and considering his actions, it's a miracle he survived infancy.]]
* YoungestChildWins: He would ''really'' wish so. Alas, it's not meant to be.
* WalkingSpoiler: His action set up the storylines for the show ''and'' also reveal some major turns in the story.
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[[folder:Bear]]
!!Bear Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Angus Sampson
The Gerhardts' middle son, an intimidatingly large man who, although inarticulate, is the most decent of his clan.
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* BadassBaritone: Bear has a deep, gravelly voice.
* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
* SilentBob: Whenever he speaks, he makes sure it's for some important reason.
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[[folder:Charlie]]
!!Charlie Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Allan Dobrescu
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dent]]
!!Ohanzee Dent
->'''Played By:''' Zahn [=McClarnon=]
* TheDragon: To Dodd.
* TheQuietOne: Dent doesn't speak until spoken to.
[[/folder]]
!Gerhardt Family & Associates
[[folder:Otto]]
!!Otto Gerhardt
->'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Hogan
A first generation immigrant from Germany who took over his father’s small trucking business and, through a mix of brutality and sheer will, turned it into a criminal empire that spans the upper Midwest. But he recently had a stroke and is now confined to a wheelchair, his every need taken care of by Indian servants. Gerhardt has lost the ability to speak or feed himself or use the bathroom by himself. But he’s too mean to die.
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%%* BadassBoast
* BaldOfEvil: His hair is starting to recede.
* CareerEndingInjury: His stroke and subsequent deterioration ends up taking him out of the game.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: He suffers a stoke in the first episode that leaves incapable of taking care of himself.
* EvilCripple: He ends up bound to a wheelchair after his stroke, but he's still the head of a criminal organization.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Well, not happy, but he has been training his sons to be competent at the game and his wife is clearly his NumberTwo.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Otto inherited his father's trucking company at a young age. By the time of the series, he has turned it into a profitable business with connection to other criminal empires.
* OverlordJr: He inherited the business from his father. [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] since his father ran the company in a honest way, it was only when Otto took over that it started to get into dirty business.
* ThePatriarch: Of the Gerhardt clan.
* SuccessionCrisis: His stroke will probably cause one, since he hadn't named a heir and Floyd and Dodd will be battling for the position.
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[[folder:Dodd]]
!!Dodd Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffreyDonovan
Floyd Gerhardt's eldest son. An impatient hothead with a cruel streak to match his ambitions, Dodd can't wait for both his parents to die so he can take over and expand their business from kingdom to empire.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: He wants to take control of his father's company and he may be willing to do some drastic things to achieve it.
* TheApprentice: Groomed to be the guy who takes his father's place in the company. Or so it seems.
* BigBrotherBully: To Rye, who he gets into a headlock and threatens to kill.
* CigarChomper: He's a cigar fan.
* HotBlooded: In his first appearance, he handles Rye a verbal beatdown for not paying what he owes him and does so in a pretty temperamental way. He also doesn't want to wait until it's time for him to take over. He wants to do it ''now''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Short-tempered, rude, psychotic, Dodd.
* NameOfCain: In a strange way, his name does hold some significance to his actions and role in the family's hierarchy.
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[[folder:Rye]]
!!Rye Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Kieran Culkin
The youngest of the Gerhardt clan, who views himself as a big shot, but in reality he's just a small dog who barks big.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To his older brother Dodd, a BigBrotherBully who doesn't have time for Rye's ridiculous ambitions.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Like Lester Nygaard, his final scene isn't as much of a downer as you'd think, given his instigation of the Waffle Hut shootout.]]
* ButtMonkey: He doesn't catch a break in his first [[spoiler: and last]] appearance. [[spoiler: He's humiliated and pressured by his brothers to pay his dues, his attempt at branching ends up involving him into coercion for the overturn of a judge's veredict, which not only fails but drives him to the point of further humiliation and causes three murders by his own hands. Afterwards, he ends up getting run over by a truck which leaves confused and bloody and makes him attack a butcher by instinct, which causes his death. Life hasn't smiled for Rye.]]
* CantTakeCriticism: [[spoiler: Don't call him a nobody or an insect. It won't end good for you.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: [[spoiler: He ends up shooting the judge he tried to persuade in front of two attendants of a restaurant. One of them, a black man, tries to attack and subdue him, only to get shot as well. The last one, a woman, tries to run, but at this point, Rye just wants to make sure [[LeaveNoWitnesses nothing connects him to this slaughter.]]]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: The majority of the first episode is ADayInTheLimelight for him, to the point where he looks to be the protagonist in a similar vein to Lester Nygaard. He is killed at the end of the episode, though.]]
* DeerInTheHeadlights: [[spoiler: He gets run over by a truck driven by Peggy Blomquist. For further humiliation, he stays there unconscious in the windshield until she arrives home.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Implied. He twitches and fidgets constantly, so it's possible he might be consuming.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He never gets any. Then, again, he's not that much to look at.
* {{Expy}}: Rye ends up one to Carl Showalter. Both are twitchy wannabe criminals that end up way in over their heads. Like Showalter, the situation escalates from his own incompetence, [[spoiler:and Rye ends up murdering three people]]. Even his murder of [[spoiler:the Judge]] ends up similar to Showalter's murder of Wade. Both try and intimidate an unflappable Authority figure who angers them off into shooting them, and both Rye and Carl end up with nasty wounds because their victim wasn't quite dead. Heck Culkin's even made up to look like Buscemi.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: He really has some ingenious ideas that could really work. The problem is that he constantly ''overreaches'' and butchers up the execution of these.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He ''desperately'' wants to be a big shot because he is tired of being always pushed around.
* InTheBack: A non-fatal version. [[spoiler: The judge, still not dead, attacks Rye with a knife and stabs him in the back.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: Whether he likes it or not, his death and actions may have kickstarted the beginning of the end for his family's criminal empire.]]
* MutilationConga: Gassed, stabbed, run over....He really goes through it all.
* MuggingTheMonster: [[spoiler: He attacks Ed, a butcher and quite strong on his own, directly. To be fair, he had already snapped at this point.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Rye may seem like a stuttering weeny and he is, but he's also got a gun and he's dumb enough to use it. In the first episode of Season 2, his pathetic attempts to intimidate the judge in the diner ends with [[spoiler:him killing her, the cook, and then chasing the waitress and shooting her dead]].
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: After all the shit he has gone through the episode, the judge's mocking and spraying of him proves to be the final straw that pushes him to kill her.]]
* TheResenter: Over his bad luck and how well his brothers seem to be.
* SanitySlippage: The more and more the episode goes on, the more unhinged Rye's attitude becomes.
* SiblingRivalry: Judging by their only scene together, one can only picture the many, many times Rye has been pushed around and mocked by his brothers.
* ASimplePlan: In order to get access to a typewriter business, he has to convince a judge to turn over a conviction. He thinks it will be a piece of cake. [[spoiler: Nop, sorry.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: If you have read so far, it should be obvious.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: He appears for just one episode, but his actions will be felt by all of the characters and loom over the rest of the season.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: He's the most problematic of the brothers and he's the youngest. Bonus points for being a ButtMonkey.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:He doesn't survive the first episode of Season 2, and considering his actions, it's a miracle he survived infancy.]]
* YoungestChildWins: He would ''really'' wish so. Alas, it's not meant to be.
* WalkingSpoiler: His action set up the storylines for the show ''and'' also reveal some major turns in the story.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bear]]
!!Bear Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Angus Sampson
The Gerhardts' middle son, an intimidatingly large man who, although inarticulate, is the most decent of his clan.
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* BadassBaritone: Bear has a deep, gravelly voice.
* GentleGiant: He's as big and tall as one can imagine, but has no problem being a decent person, at least by Gerhardt standards.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: {{Implied}}. He's the middle child and the family pays less attention to him than to Dodd or even Rye.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks.
* SilentBob: Whenever he speaks, he makes sure it's for some important reason.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Charlie]]
!!Charlie Gerhardt
->'''Played By:''' Allan Dobrescu
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dent]]
!!Ohanzee Dent
->'''Played By:''' Zahn [=McClarnon=]
* TheDragon: To Dodd.
* TheQuietOne: Dent doesn't speak until spoken to.
[[/folder]]
