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* FoolishHusbandResponsibleWife: Unlike her husband, she understands the danger that her family is in due to their connections to Loy Cannon.



* WomenAreWiser: Unlike her husband, she understands the danger that her family is in due to their connections to Loy Cannon.
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* Fartillery: One of the many lovely side effects of the food poisoning that makes Swanee violently ill.
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Karen Aldridge and Creator/KelseyAsbille

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* StupidCriminals: Their brilliant plan to help out the Smutneys involves robbing Cannon Limited, the same group to whom the Smutneys owe money. The robbery is a disaster, the only reason they survive is because Loy initially believes that they were sent by the Faddas, and Swanee accidentally pukes on the stolen money, and even after Zelmare literally launders every single bill, the stench remains, and thus when Thurman hands it over to Cannon, Cannon quickly realizes that it was stolen from him. Next thing they know, they're quickly found by Loy and forced to do his bidding.

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* StupidCriminals: StupidCrooks: Their brilliant plan to help out the Smutneys involves robbing Cannon Limited, the same group to whom the Smutneys owe money. The robbery is a disaster, the only reason they survive is because Loy initially believes that they were sent by the Faddas, and Swanee accidentally pukes on the stolen money, and even after Zelmare literally launders every single bill, the stench remains, and thus when Thurman hands it over to Cannon, Cannon quickly realizes that it was stolen from him. Next thing they know, they're quickly found by Loy and forced to do his bidding.



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* LaserGuidedKarma: The only thing Zelmare's [[StupidCriminals recurring idiotic decisions]] and penchant to die as an outlaw earns her is [[spoiler:over a dozen dead civilians and the love of her life, Swanee, gunned down right in front of her, ensuring she'll be broken and alone for the rest of her life. This actually sets her up as the LaserGuidedKarma to ''Loy Cannon'', whom she returns to murder in the finale after his order to dispose of her end up destroying her life.]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The only thing Zelmare's [[StupidCriminals recurring idiotic decisions]] and penchant to die as an outlaw earns earn her is are [[spoiler:over a dozen dead civilians and the love of her life, Swanee, gunned down right in front of her, ensuring she'll be broken and alone for the rest of her life. This actually sets her up as the LaserGuidedKarma to ''Loy Cannon'', whom she returns to murder in the finale after his order to dispose of her end up destroying her life.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The only thing Zelmare's [[StupidCriminals recurring idiotic decisions]] and penchant to die as an outlaw earns her is [[spoiler:over a dozen dead civilians and the love of her life, Swanee, gunned down right in front of her, ensuring she'll be broken and alone for the rest of her life. This actually sets her up as the LaserGuidedKarma to ''Loy Cannon'', whom she returns to murder in the finale after his order to dispose of her end up destroying her life.]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Karen Aldridge and Kelsey Asbille

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* ProperLady: She is pious, polite and refined, and tries to give those values to her daughter.
* RealMenLoveJesus: She is rather fiercely religious

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* ProperLady: She is pious, polite polite, and refined, and tries to give those values to her daughter.
* RealMenLoveJesus: She is rather fiercely religiousreligious.






* ChekhovsSkill: Her surprisingly thorough knowledge of the history of organized crime in Kansas City pays off when [[spoiler:she realizes the significance of Don Fadda's ring and uses it to make a deal with Loy Cannon.]]
* ForeignCultureFetish: She listens to French singers and speak the language perfectly.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Her surprisingly thorough knowledge of the history of organized crime in Kansas City pays off when [[spoiler:she realizes the significance of Don Fadda's ring and uses it to make a deal with Loy Cannon.]]
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* ForeignCultureFetish: She listens to French singers and speak speaks the language perfectly.






* BewareTheSillyOnes: Zelmare and Swanee are comic relief more often than not, but they not only successfully get the drop on Gaetano Fadda, but [[spoiler:they wipe out nearly the entirety of the team Deafy Wickware assembled to apprehend them, on top of a whole lot of civilians.]]

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Zelmare and Swanee are comic relief more often than not, but they not only successfully get the drop on Gaetano Fadda, but [[spoiler:they wipe out nearly the entirety of the team Deafy Wickware assembled to apprehend them, on top of a whole lot of civilians.]]civilians]].
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[[folder: Thurman Smutney]]
!!Thurman Smutney
-> '''Portrayed by''': Music/AndrewBird
A Kansas City undertaker who becomes indebted to Cannon Limited.

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* BumblingDad: Thurman fails to fully understand the dangers of dealing with a man like Loy Cannon, and comes across as hopelessly out of his depth.
* GoodIsDumb: Possibly the most moral person this season, and certainly the most gaffes-prone.
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[[folder: Dibrell Smuthney]]
!!Dibrell Smutney
-> '''Portrayed by''': Anji White
Wife to Thurman, mother to Ethelrida, and sister to Zelmare Roulette.

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* {{Pride}}: Her biggest flaw, as she admits herself.
* ProperLady: She is pious, polite and refined, and tries to give those values to her daughter.
* RealMenLoveJesus: She is rather fiercely religious
* WomenAreWiser: Unlike her husband, she understands the danger that her family is in due to their connections to Loy Cannon.
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[[folder:Ethelrida Smutney]]
!!Ethelrida Pearl Smutney
->'''Portrayed by''': E'myri Crutchfield

The daughter of a pair of undertakers, caught in the middle of the season's events due to her parents owing a significant amount of money to Loy Cannon.

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* BlackAndNerdy: She is an exceptionally well-read teenager. She also brings a notebook to Oraetta's apartment so that she can tabulate how much to charge her for cleaning.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her surprisingly thorough knowledge of the history of organized crime in Kansas City pays off when [[spoiler:she realizes the significance of Don Fadda's ring and uses it to make a deal with Loy Cannon.]]
* ForeignCultureFetish: She listens to French singers and speak the language perfectly.
* MeetCute: She and Lemuel bond rather quickly, despite Ethelrida initially being shocked to see gangsters inside her home.
* SnoopingLittleKid: A teen rather than a little kid, but her innocent snooping in Oraetta's apartment clues her in to Oraetta's crimes.
* TallPoppySyndrome: She is constantly being punished for the fact that she is smarter than her white peers at school.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Ethelrida seems to attract a spectral entity that her aunt calls Mr. Snowman.

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[[folder:Zelmare and Swanee]]
!!Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Karen Aldridge and Kelsey Asbille

A pair of half-bright bank robbers. Having recently escaped prison, they are enlisted by Zelmare's brother-in-law Thurman Smutney to acquire money to help him pay off his debts to Loy.

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* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:Zelmare reappears in the finale to murder Loy Cannon in revenge for his selling her and Swanee out. She specifically invokes Swanee's name as she stabs Loy.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Zelmare and Swanee are comic relief more often than not, but they not only successfully get the drop on Gaetano Fadda, but [[spoiler:they wipe out nearly the entirety of the team Deafy Wickware assembled to apprehend them, on top of a whole lot of civilians.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: When Zelmare hears of her sister's financial troubles, she and Swanee bust out of prison to help her.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Swanee dies after Odis shoots her in the head.]]
* CoolAunt: While Zelmare and Swanee get a chilly reception from Dibrell and Thurman when they show up unexpectedly, Ethelrida runs up and hugs Zelmare. Zelmare for her part utterly adores Ethelrida.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Swanee's father was mentally ill, and when she was taken away by the state, she was sent to schools where she claims the teachers sexually abused her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Their crimes in Kansas City are initially motivated solely by Zelmare's desire to help her beloved sister and niece.
* {{Expy}}: They are a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Gale and Evelle Snoats from ''Film/RaisingArizona'', recreating the duo's iconic prison escape scene in their SecondEpisodeIntroduction and lifting dialogue directly from that script.
* InsistentTerminology: They prefer to be called ''outlaws'', not "criminals". "Criminal" implies that they simply failed to live within society's rules, whereas they have no interest whatsoever in following society's rules.
* LoverAndBeloved: According to their rap sheets, Zelmare is a good 13 years older than Swanee, and seems to be the leader in the relationship.
* MalignedMixedMarriage:
** Swanee was supposedly the product of a marriage between a Chinese laborer and a Native American woman, and has spent most of her life being subject to racism of one kind or another.
** Zelmare and Swanee's own relationship would probably fall under this trope; in 1950, a middle-aged black woman and her young mixed-race girlfriend aren't likely to be welcome anywhere in America, even if they'd been law-abiding citizens.
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:They finally share a long on-screen kiss, just before going on their fatal rampage in the train station.]]
* OutlawCouple: They may be criminals, but they love each other.
* PrettyInMink: Zelmare holds a fur coat she stole to a woman the night of her evasion. It gets ostensibly dirtier as time passes.
* RapeAsBackstory:
** Swanee says that her teachers spent years trying to "rape the Indian" out of her.
** Zelmare claims that she hasn't been innocent "since Uncle Charlie cornered me in the shed" when she was a teenager.
* SatisfiedStreetRat: They cherish the outlaw life: a short free existence and a violent death.
* StupidCriminals: Their brilliant plan to help out the Smutneys involves robbing Cannon Limited, the same group to whom the Smutneys owe money. The robbery is a disaster, the only reason they survive is because Loy initially believes that they were sent by the Faddas, and Swanee accidentally pukes on the stolen money, and even after Zelmare literally launders every single bill, the stench remains, and thus when Thurman hands it over to Cannon, Cannon quickly realizes that it was stolen from him. Next thing they know, they're quickly found by Loy and forced to do his bidding.
** Wickware reveals that they've always been that dangerously incompetent; Zelmare was originally locked up after accidentally killing a pregnant woman in an armed robbery that netted less than ten dollars.
* SweetTooth: Swanee loves candies.

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