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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: She ultimately gets what she wants; her grandchildren have enough money to get out of Harlan and escape becoming criminals like the rest of the family. However, it costs Mags her reputation, Doyle and Coover, and causes her surrogate daughter Loretta to despise her. Mags ultimately chooses to end her own life rather than go on.
* NoodleIncident: Somehow, Limehouse ended up indebted to her and became her banker. It's never stated why he owes her a favor or what she did, but Limehouse is quite loyal to her even after her death.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She's never explicitly racist, but she's implied to be by her curt treatment of Rachel, the fact she displays the Confederate flag in her general store, and by Coover's own casual racism.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She's never explicitly racist, but she's implied to be by her curt treatment of Rachel, the fact she displays the Confederate flag in her general store, and by Coover's own casual racism. It's subverted in Season 3, which reveals she was friends with Limehouse and that she did something that left him and Noble's Holler indebted to her.
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* RacistGrandma: She's hinted at being one by her curt treatment of Rachel and the Confederate flag displayed outside her door, although Mags is generally too AffablyEvil to express these sentiments directly.
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* RacistGrandma: She's hinted at being one by her curt treatment of Rachel and the Confederate flag displayed outside her door, although Mags is generally too AffablyEvil to express these sentiments directly. It's subverted and lightly retconned in Season 3, which reveals she had a VillainousFriendship with Limehouse.
* VillainousFriendship: In the third season, it's revealed she had one with Limehouse, who owes her a debt somehow and promised to look after Dickie after she died.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: A non-lethal variant. Mags refuses to tolerate being crossed, even by her own children. When Coover cashes Walt's checks without her knowledge, she punishes him by breaking his hand with a hammer and threatens to cut him out of her inheritance if he crosses her again. She follows through on this punishment with Dickie after he screws up one too many times.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: A non-lethal variant. Mags refuses to tolerate being crossed, even by her own children. When Coover cashes Walt's checks without her knowledge, she punishes him by breaking his hand with a hammer and threatens to cut him out of her inheritance if he crosses her again. She follows through on this punishment with Dickie after he screws up one too many times.
* DespairEventHorizon: He crosses it when he realizes Mags only left him a fraction of her inheritance, to the point he turns himself in to Raylan without a fuss.
** He accurately calls out Ash and Lance for making constant mistakes, such as disobeying Limehouse's orders. It's telling that Dickie of all people has to play the voice of reason to them.
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* OnlySaneByComparison: Dickie is a moron by any standard and tends to throw logic to the wind, but he winds up being forced to play the voice of reason around Coover. Not that he's particularly good at doing it, but even he's nowhere near as [[TooDumbToLive suicidally dumb]] as [[DumbMuscle Coover]] is.
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* OnlySaneByComparison: OnlySaneByComparison:
** Dickie is a moron by any standard and tends to throw logic to the wind, but he winds up being forced to play the voice of reason around Coover. Not that he's particularly good at doing it, but even he's nowhere near as [[TooDumbToLive suicidally dumb]] as [[DumbMuscle Coover]]is.is.
** It's telling how shoddy Lance and Ash's operation is that Dickie has to play the voice of reason. He consistently calls them out for disobeying Limehouse, making obvious mistakes, and just generally being incompetent and overly aggressive.
** Dickie is a moron by any standard and tends to throw logic to the wind, but he winds up being forced to play the voice of reason around Coover. Not that he's particularly good at doing it, but even he's nowhere near as [[TooDumbToLive suicidally dumb]] as [[DumbMuscle Coover]]
** It's telling how shoddy Lance and Ash's operation is that Dickie has to play the voice of reason. He consistently calls them out for disobeying Limehouse, making obvious mistakes, and just generally being incompetent and overly aggressive.
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* VillainousBreakdown: After Coover dies, Mags cuts him off, and Boyd robs him, Dickie goes flying off the deep end. Unfortunately, this makes him even more dangerous, as he goes from stupid but relatively reasonable to downright AxCrazy and murderous.
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* VillainousBreakdown: VillainousBreakdown:
** After Coover dies, Mags cuts him off, and Boyd robs him, Dickie goes flying off the deep end. Unfortunately, this makes him even more dangerous, as he goes from stupid but relatively reasonable to downright AxCrazy andmurderous.murderous.
** He has another one at the end of "The Devil You Know" when he realizes Mags only left him a fraction of her money. He goes into a sobbing meltdown, hands the money back to Limehouse, and calmly lets Raylan arrest him.
** After Coover dies, Mags cuts him off, and Boyd robs him, Dickie goes flying off the deep end. Unfortunately, this makes him even more dangerous, as he goes from stupid but relatively reasonable to downright AxCrazy and
** He has another one at the end of "The Devil You Know" when he realizes Mags only left him a fraction of her money. He goes into a sobbing meltdown, hands the money back to Limehouse, and calmly lets Raylan arrest him.
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* TheFatalist: Mags was forced into the criminal life, but by the end of Season 2 she decides she can never escape from it and decides to embrace being a criminal, feeling satisfied that Doyle's family can grow up far away from Harlan and lead normal lives.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Mags just wanted to be a housewife, but was forced into the criminal life after her husband was killed, and was forced to harden herself to succeed in a WretchedHive like Harlan.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Mags just wanted to be a housewife, but was forced into the criminal life after her husband was killed, and was forced to harden herself to succeed in a WretchedHive like Harlan.
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* HiddenDepths: She's an excellent singer, and breaks out into song while Doyle plays the guitar after successfully brokering a deal with Black Pike.
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* HiddenDepths: HiddenDepths:
** She's an excellent singer, and breaks out into song while Doyle plays the guitar after successfully brokering a deal with BlackPike.Pike.
** [[WordOfGod According to]] [[https://ew.com/article/2011/04/07/justified-coover-mags-raylan-feud/ this interview]] with Graham Yost, she respects Raylan because he was TheOneWhoMadeItOut, which to her means that it's possible for her and her family to escape Harlan and its criminal underworld too.
-->'''Graham Yost:''' Mags didn't want to be a criminal matriarch. She wanted to be a housewife, and then her husband was killed by highway robbers and she was forced into this position and she's done it. She's done it well. She's ruled with an iron fist, and occasionally a hammer. But it was not her choice. So Raylan represents someone who got out and made a life for himself outside of the hollers.
** She's an excellent singer, and breaks out into song while Doyle plays the guitar after successfully brokering a deal with Black
** [[WordOfGod According to]] [[https://ew.com/article/2011/04/07/justified-coover-mags-raylan-feud/ this interview]] with Graham Yost, she respects Raylan because he was TheOneWhoMadeItOut, which to her means that it's possible for her and her family to escape Harlan and its criminal underworld too.
-->'''Graham Yost:''' Mags didn't want to be a criminal matriarch. She wanted to be a housewife, and then her husband was killed by highway robbers and she was forced into this position and she's done it. She's done it well. She's ruled with an iron fist, and occasionally a hammer. But it was not her choice. So Raylan represents someone who got out and made a life for himself outside of the hollers.
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* MotorMouth: He's quite prone to long, rambling speeches apropos of nothing.
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* IJustWantToBeBadass: He wants nothing more than to be a feared, respected and powerful criminal mastermind, but he's ultimately too dumb and cowardly to pull it off. He's certainly dangerous and has flashes of cunning, but he proves time and time again to be way too incompetent to handle any sort of power or leadership position.
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* BumblingHenchmenDuo: He and Coover are Mags's go-to enforcers and muscle, which they're actually pretty competent at. Unfortunately, Dickie has grander aspirations and Coover is always happy to assist, leading to them making increasingly big screw-ups.
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* HighHopesZeroTalent: He has grand ambitions of becoming a feared and powerful drug lord in his own right, but he lacks the brains and common sense to actually pull it off.
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* LethallyStupid: Very much so. Dickie's monumental stupidity and incompetence leads to the destruction of the Bennetts' criminal empire.
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* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: After making the deal with Black Pike, Mags decides to retire and leaves the money from the deal to Doyle. She cuts off Dickie and leaves him with only the weed business, much to his anger. Dickie still decides to establish himself as a big shot by branching out into selling other drugs, and by doing so stupidly goes out of his way to piss off Boyd's gang. They quickly rob him and take over the business for themselves, sending Dickie into a VillainousBreakdown.
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* BumblingHenchmenDuo: With Dickie. The two are Mags's go-to enforcers and intimidators, which they're quite good at, but they tend to be quite incompetent when it comes to everything else. Where Dickie screws up because he has HighHopesZeroTalent, Coover just has no impulse control or common sense.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: He's even worse about this than Dickie. Coover has no impulse control whatsoever and constantly takes needless risks without thinking of the consequences.
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* AssholeVictim: He's tortured on two separate occasions by Raylan and Boyd, but it's hard not to admit he had it coming. Especially in the latter case, since this comes mere weeks after he had shot Ava just to spite Boyd.
* BigBrotherBully: Downplayed. He teases Coover at times, but for the most part he's one of the few people Dickie treats kindly.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Desperately wants Mags' respect.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Desperately He desperately wants Mags' respect.respect and sincerely loves her.
* HotBlooded: He's not as easy to provoke as Coover, but if Dickie's ego is bruised, he will pick a fight and he'll do it viciously.
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* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He and Raylan have the most personal enmity between them. Raylan at first doesn't pay Dickie much mind, but Dickie despises Raylan for ruining his baseball career and leaving him with a permanent limp. He eventually makes the feud personal by killing Helen.
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* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: ItsPersonalWithTheDragon:
** He and Raylan have the most personal enmity between them. Raylan at first doesn't pay Dickie much mind, but Dickie despises Raylan for ruining his baseball career and leaving him with a permanent limp. He eventually makes the feud personal by killingHelen.Helen.
** Boyd respects Mags and doesn't have anything personal against her, viewing her as simply a business rival even if he's willing to go after her operation. He has a very personal hatred of Dickie on the other hand because he shot Ava, and takes great joy in tormenting him.
** He and Raylan have the most personal enmity between them. Raylan at first doesn't pay Dickie much mind, but Dickie despises Raylan for ruining his baseball career and leaving him with a permanent limp. He eventually makes the feud personal by killing
** Boyd respects Mags and doesn't have anything personal against her, viewing her as simply a business rival even if he's willing to go after her operation. He has a very personal hatred of Dickie on the other hand because he shot Ava, and takes great joy in tormenting him.
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* KarmicButtMonkey: Dickie is a massive {{Jerkass}}, making his constant misfortune quite satisfying to watch.
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* KarmicButtMonkey: Dickie is a massive {{Jerkass}}, making his constant misfortune quite satisfying to watch. It's especially true in Season 3, which he spends as a hapless pawn being bullied by much more dangerous people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Dickie is quite vicious and cruel, but his worst actions have a way of catching up with him. He's able to survive a lot of misfortune despite everything, but he makes enemies of both law enforcement and a good chunk of Harlan's criminal element.
* LeaderWannabe: Dickie desperately wants to be Mags's successor and views himself as a criminal mastermind in his own right. But while he is tenacious in his own right, he lacks the intelligence and bravery to actually take the position, and consistently screws up whenever he ends up in a leadership position.
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* TheMillstone: He causes nothing but problems for the Bennett clan with his various schemes and general poor decision making, and winds up inadvertently causing the destruction of their criminal empire because of it. And unlike [[DumbMuscle Coover]], he doesn't even have the use of being a useful enforcer.
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* TheMillstone: He causes nothing but problems for the Bennett clan with his various schemes and general poor decision making, and winds up inadvertently causing the destruction of their criminal empire because of it. And unlike [[DumbMuscle Coover]], he doesn't even have the use of being a useful enforcer.decent enforcer due to his leg injury.
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* PrisonChangesPeople: His time in prison causes him to go increasingly insane, and he becomes even more impulsive than he was prior.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Dickie is baffled when Ash tries to threaten him into giving him his inheritance, pointing out he can't do that while he's in ''prison''.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Of Season 3. She's dead, but the search for the money she's left behind drives a good deal of the plot.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: He quickly forms a VillainousFriendship with fellow {{Manchild}} and [[StupidCrooks Stupid Crook]] Dewey Crowe, since they're both around the same level of emotional maturity and intelligence: none at all.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: He's the Despicable to Mags' Sympathetic. Mags is an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic and PetTheDog moments. Dickie on the other hand is a spiteful, bullying SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] and [[StupidEvil incompetence]]. Admittedly,Dickie does have some sympathetic moments early in the second season, but [[JumpingOffOffTheSlipperySlope quickly descends into irredeemable cruelty]] midway through.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: He's the Despicable to Mags' Sympathetic. Mags is an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic and PetTheDog moments. Dickie on the other hand is a spiteful, bullying SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] and [[StupidEvil incompetence]]. Admittedly,Dickie Admittedly, Dickie does have some sympathetic moments early in the second season, but [[JumpingOffOffTheSlipperySlope [[JumpingOffOfTheSlipperySlope quickly descends into irredeemable cruelty]] midway through.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Raylan refuses to turn him over to Boyd to be killed mainly because he needs Dickie to get past Mags and Doyle's men. Later, Boyd keeps him alive despite hating his guts because Dickie is the only one who can get his inheritance from Mags.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: As mentioned below on JerkassHasAPoint, he is right for once that Coover's death really wasn't his fault and that Mags is being unfair in blaming him, However, given his long history of catastrophic screw-ups and his [[NeverMyFault refusal to take responsibility for any of them]], Mags isn't inclined to listen.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: DumbassHasAPoint:
** As mentioned below on JerkassHasAPoint, he is right for once that Coover's death really wasn't his fault and that Mags is being unfair in blaming him, However, given his long history of catastrophic screw-ups and his [[NeverMyFault refusal to take responsibility for any of them]], Mags isn't inclined tolisten.listen.
** When Ash demands Dickie give him the inheritance Mags left him and threatens to make life miserable for him otherwise, Dickie is for once bewildered at someone else's short-sightedness and points out to Ash that he can't get it because he's still in prison.
** As mentioned below on JerkassHasAPoint, he is right for once that Coover's death really wasn't his fault and that Mags is being unfair in blaming him, However, given his long history of catastrophic screw-ups and his [[NeverMyFault refusal to take responsibility for any of them]], Mags isn't inclined to
** When Ash demands Dickie give him the inheritance Mags left him and threatens to make life miserable for him otherwise, Dickie is for once bewildered at someone else's short-sightedness and points out to Ash that he can't get it because he's still in prison.
