History Characters / JustifiedBennettFamily

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The smart and resourceful daughter of Walt [=MacCready=], and later surrogate daughter to Mags Bennett.

The affable Bennett family matriarch whose homespun folksy wisdom belies a ruthlessly capable marijuana kingpin.

The oldest (and most competent) Bennett son, Doyle is Bennett's corrupt chief of police, and acts as his mother's enforcer.

The emotionally stunted, physically crippled and dangerously unpredictable Bennett middle child. He has an enormous grudge against Raylan, who broke his knee during a highschool baseball game and left him with a limp.

Dumb and mean, Coover is the youngest Bennett child and a drug addict. He grows most of their marijuana, and acts as the muscle for Dickie.

[[folder:Jed Berwind]]
!!Jed Berwind
->'''Played By:''' Richard Speight Jr

A longtime associate of the Bennetts, who is 'employed' by a rogue Dickie Bennett.

* BeardOfEvil: He has a very thick beard, [[spoiler:although it's shaven when he's seen in season 3.]]
* TheDragon: Reluctantly, for Dickie.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: To Dickie; he only stays 'employed' by him because he's scared.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: After [[spoiler:Dickie kills Helen with Jed present, Doyle pays him a visit to eliminate the only witness to Helen's murder. Luckily for Jed, Raylan turns up at the same time and takes him into custody, saving his life in the process.]]
* PunchClockVillain: Jed is really only trying to provide for his family and rid the Berwind name of a debt owed to the Bennetts.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:To prison.]]
** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Briefly in season 3.]]

[[folder:Walt McCready]]
!!Walter 'Walt' [=McCready=]
->'''Played By:''' Chris Mulkey

Loretta's father, still grieving the loss of his wife while dealing weed without the Bennett's permission.
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* ButtMonkey: He's repeatedly bullied and hurt over the course of his appearance.
* TheMourningAfter: Walt is still deep in mourning for the loss of his wife, to the detriment of his daughter.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears once in season 2, but has a big impact on the rest of season 2 regarding the Bennetts and Loretta.
* [[spoiler:WeHardlyKnewYe: Mags has him killed in the same episode he's introduced.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Very, very affable. She could be your kooky, cool aunt if it wasn't for everything else.

* EvilOldFolks
* FatBastard

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you have any idea of the federal shit storm we'd bring down if we killed a marshal? We're talking Black Hawk helicopter time."'']]

->''"This bullet's been twenty years coming."''

->''"I only just turned thirty."''

* LittleMissSnarker

* MoralityPet: For Mags.

* PunchClockVillain: Jed is really only trying to provide for his family, and certainly feels guilt over Dickie's actions.
* [[spoiler:PutOnABus: To prison.]]
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: Briefly in season 3.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Walt's death, which kicks off Loretta's entire arc in relation to the Bennetts, is the result of him calling the cops on Dean.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Averted. His unquestioning loyalty and common sense make him the favourite of the Bennett brothers.

* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmaHoudini: He steals from the Dixie mafia, jeopardizes his mother's big plans, [[spoiler:kills Helen and wounds Ava]]. Raylan, Arlo and Boyd all want him dead but he still somehow manages to survive.
* LaughablyEvil: For most of Season 3. Having lost access to the criminal organisation that made him threatening in the first place, while retaining all his quirks, this is pretty justifiable.

* SmugSnake
* TheStarscream: He doesn't necessarily want to take control from his mother, but he does want to be right behind her in command, and his attempts at stepping out from under her regularly jeopardise the entire family.

* WellDoneSonGuy

* TheBerserker: Descends into a foaming rage during fights, and is out of his mind during his last clash with Raylan.

* FatBastard

* {{Jerkass}}

* PsychopathicManChild: Coover's emotionally about five years old.
* TheResenter: Of Loretta

* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards his mother.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tries to murder Loretta.

* BookEnds: In the first and last episode of season 2, Mags shares a jar of her " apple pie" (i.e. moonshine) with someone, and says almost exactly the same words, revealing that while the apple pie wasn't poisoned, one of the glasses was. In the first episode. the poisoned person was Loretta's dad, in the last episode it was Mags herself.

* DrivenToSuicide: With her only halfway competent son dead, her criminal empire dismantled and her surrogate daughter longing to see her dead, Mags decides she's had enough. She drinks some of her own poisoned 'apple pie' and expires.

* {{Hypocrite}}

* LaserGuidedKarma: She dies the same way she killed Walt [=MacCready=].
* ManipulativeBastard: At first she appears to be a simple shop-owner (admittedly, one with a prosperous marijuana sideline). As the story goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that this is very much not the case.

* NeverMessWithGranny

* RetiredMonster: Invoked and averted. Mags wants to get out of the marijuana business and retire to the countryside with her grandchildren, despite having no real regrets about her many criminal actions. In the end, Coover's death and Dickie's screw-ups, combined with the renewed Givens/Bennett feud convince her that she was kidding herself, and she takes the family's reigns once again.

* SmarterThanYouLook

* BeardOfEvil

* BoomHeadshot: Tim kills him with one.

* DirtyCop

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Implied. Following Helen's murder, Arlo works out that Dickie was the culprit because "Doyle wouldn't do this."
* FauxAffablyEvil

* SmugSnake
* WellDoneSonGuy

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I want what's coming to me."'']]

->''"To be very clear, I am the victim here."''

* BigNo: When Doyle is killed in front of him.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His brothers Coover and Doyle and his mother Mags. He wants Mags' trust and approval, tries to protect Coover from his mother's wrath and from Raylan ("Don't you hurt my brother, Raylan!") and lets out a BigNo when Doyle dies.

* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Coover's fat
* HandicappedBadass: He might be a crippled, skinny idiot, but he still manages to kill Helen, shoot Ava and trap Raylan.

* KarmaHoudini: He steals from the Dixie mafia, jeopardizes his mother's big plans, kills Helen and wounds Ava. Raylan, Arlo and Boyd all want him dead but he still somehow manages to survive.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Repeatedly. Dickie's a moron, but he's also utterly vicious, and if you turn your back on him, he will bite you.

* WouldHitAGirl: Kills Helen and wounds Ava.

* DisneyVillainDeath: He's shot by Raylan and then falls into a mineshaft.

* IdiotSavant: While not terribly bright in other circumstances, Coover is very good at creating new cultivars of marijuana. After his death, Hotrod reminisces about how skilled Coover was in raising new strains with specific properties (i.e., raising or lowering levels of THC).

* TooDumbToLive / ObfuscatingStupidity: his decision to keep Loretta's father's watch seems to be an example of the first trope, but he reveals it was actually a ruse to drive a wedge between Mags and Loretta, who he was jealous of.
* UnstoppableRage: When Coover goes ballistic nothing can stop him. During his last appearance he's all but foaming at the mouth as he goes after Raylan and Loretta.

* DrivenToSuicide: With her only halfway competent son dead, her criminal empire dismantled and the one person she loved longing to see her dead, Mags decides she's had enough. She drinks some of her own poisoned 'apple pie' and expires.

* ManipulativeBastard: at first she appears to be a simple shop-owner (admittedly, one with a prosperous marijuana sideline). As the story goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that this is very much not the case.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He loves his mother, his sons, and his wife, and for all his issues with Dickie, wants payback for what Raylan did to him.

* PetTheDog: His attempt at stopping Coover from killing Loretta. He also tells a man who got too handsy with Black Pike's representative that the two of them will "have to have a talk about polite."

* HandicappedBadass: Coover spends half the show with his hand in a cast. This doesn't stop him from giving Raylan the beating of his life.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Black Pike does it to Mags, and she herself does it to Boyd Crowder, which she herself admits to.

[[folder:Dickie Bennett]]
!!Dickie Bennett
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I want what's coming to me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jeremy Davies

->''"To be very clear, I am the victim here."''

The emotionally stunted, physically crippled and dangerously unpredictable Bennett middle child. He has an enormous grudge against Raylan, who broke his knee during a highschool baseball game and left him with a limp.

* BadBoss: When his new minions decide to abandon him, Dickie waits until their backs are turned and then kills them both.
* BatterUp: Tries to beat Raylan to death with a baseball bat. This is meant to be ironic payback for Raylan breaking his knee with a bat in highschool.
* BigBadWannabe: Wants to ascend to his mother's position, but is outclassed by Raylan and Boyd both. He's still violent enough and underhanded enough to be a real problem, though.
* BigNo: When Doyle is killed in front of him.
* BrainsAndBrawn: As the mildly more intelligent of the two, he plays the brains to Coover's brawn.
* DeadpanSnarker: Constantly sarcastic and sullen.
* DirtyCoward

* EightiesHair: In season three, his hair goes from being a dishevelled mess to an outrageous mohawk.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Parodied. Looking to build his reputation after being cut off by his mother, Dickie does this as part of an attempt to intimidate Boyd. As it happens, Boyd and his henchmen were just discussing who they can target to establish themselves as being back in the criminal game. Dickie's pathetic attempts are seen by Boyd as good fortune, and he can't stop laughing when Dickie tries.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Desperately wants Mags' respect.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His brothers Coover and Doyle and his mother Mags.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He tries to stop Coover from killing Loretta. Although this was to protect Coover from Raylan and his mother more than out of concern for Loretta. He also refuses to let James Earl Dean go after Loretta in the first episode of Season 2.
* EvilCripple: Has a crippled leg thanks to Raylan.
* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Coover's fat
* HandicappedBadass: He might be a crippled, skinny idiot, but he still manages to kill Helen, shoot Ava and trap Raylan.
* TheHeavy: Tries to take this role from his mother on occasion, and she is regularly forced to act to cover his screw-ups.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmaHoudini: He steals from the Dixie mafia, jeopardizes his mother's big plans, kills Helen and wounds Ava. Raylan, Arlo and Boyd all want him dead but he still somehow manages to survive.
* LaughablyEvil: For most of Season 3. Having lost access to the criminal organisation that made him threatening in the first place, while retaining all his quirks, this is pretty justifiable.
* LeanAndMean: Almost emaciated.
* MoodSwinger: Dickie's abrupt mood changes are part of what make him so dangerous.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Repeatedly. Dickie's a moron, but he's also utterly vicious, and if you turn your back on him, he will bite you.
* PetTheDog: His attempt at stopping Coover from killing Loretta.
* PsychopathicManChild: He tends to behave like a vicious, spoiled teenager. WordOfGod is that he is mentally and emotionally 'stuck' in the moment in high school when Raylan broke his leg.
* TheResenter: Towards Raylan, Doyle, and anybody else who has got it better than he does.
* {{Revenge}}: Wants it on Raylan.

* TheStarscream: He doesn't necessarily want to take control from his mother, but he does want to be right behind her in command, and his attempts at stepping out from under her regularly jeopardise the entire family.
* TooDumbToLive: Although from time to time, he has his moments.
* TheUnfavourite: His mother favours both Doyle and Coover over him.
* VillainsWantMercy: Dickie begs and cries and whines when someone has him on the ropes.

[[folder:Doyle Bennett]]
!!Doyle Bennett
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you have any idea of the federal shit storm we'd bring down if we killed a marshal? We're talking Black Hawk helicopter time."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joseph Lyle Taylor

->''"This bullet's been twenty years coming."''

The oldest (and most competent) Bennett son, Doyle is Bennett's corrupt chief of police, and acts as his mother's enforcer.

* BeardOfEvil
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Unlike Dickie and Coover, Doyle can actually fake being a NiceGuy. It's entirely a facade, though.
* BoomHeadshot
* CorruptHick: Doyle's the one who makes sure his mother's rule over the town of Bennett is enforced.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DirtyCop

* TheDutifulSon
* TheDragon: To his mother, acting as her primary agent and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He loves his mother, his sons, and his wife, and for all his issues with Dickie, wants payback for what Raylan did to him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Following Helen's murder, Arlo works out that Dickie was the culprit because "Doyle wouldn't do this."
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HappilyMarried: Implied.
* HiddenDepths: He may be a vile snake, but he has a family and plays guitar pretty damn well.
* TheSheriff: The deeply corrupt Sheriff.

* YesMan: He's one to his mom.

* DumbMuscle

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain

* {{Badass}}
** LittleMissBadass

* MoralityPet: for Mags.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When she discovers that Mags murdered her father.
* TraumaCongaLine

* YouKilledMyFather

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* ButtMonkey
* TheDragon: For Dickie.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice
* MinionWithAnFInEvil
* PunchClockVillain
* PutOnABus: To prison.
** TheBusCameBack: Briefly in season 3.

!!Walt [=McCready=]

* ButtMonkey
* TheMourningAfter
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He dies in his first episode, but has a big impact on the rest of season 2 regarding the Bennetts and Loretta.
* WeHardlyKnewYe

[[folder:James Earl Dean]]
!!James Earl Dean

* AbusiveParent: She breaks Coover's arm, and it certainly isn't the first time she's inflicted physical abuse upon her sons.

* BewareTheNiceOnes

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She does love her sons in a twisted, conditional way. And she loves Loretta, who she sees as a daughter.

* MamaBear

* PragmaticVillainy: Mags understands that war is bad for business.

* SouthernFriedGenius

* BatterUp: Tries to beat Raylan to death with a baseball bat.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He tries to stop Coover from killing Loretta. Although this was to protect Coover from Raylan and his mother more than out of concern for Loretta.

* TheStarscream: He doesn't want to take control from his mother, but he does want to be right behind her in command, and his attempts at stepping out from under her regularly jeopardise the entire family.

The oldest (and most competent) Bennett son, Doyle is the corrupt chief of police of Bennett, and acts as his mother's enforcer.

* TheDragon: for Dickie.

* PutOnABus: to prison.

!!Sheriff Doyle Bennett

The affable Bennett family matriarch whose homespun folksy wisdom belies a ruthlessly capable drug kingpin.

* CorruptHick: A female variant, Mags dominates the Harlan and Bennett County marijuana trade, and is the uncrowned FeudalOverlord of Bennett in particular, which she rules through a combination of tradition, the people's fear of Dickie and Coover, and Doyle's position as sheriff.

* ParentalFavouritism: Favours Doyle and his sons over Dickie and Coover.
* PragmaticVillainy
* RousingSpeech

The oldest (and most competent) Bennett son, Doyle is also the corrupt chief of police of Bennett County.

* CorruptHick: Doyle's the one who makes sure his mother's rule over Bennett County is enforced.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes

* PsychopathicManChild

* UnstoppableRage
* WellDoneSonGuy

The emotionally stunted, physically crippled and dangerously unpredictable Bennett middle child. He has an enormous grudge against Raylan, who broke his knee during a highschool baseball game.

The oldest (and most competent) Bennett son, Doyle is also the corrupt sheriff of Bennett County.

* LaserGuidedKarma: She dies the same way she killed Walt MacCready.
* ManipulativeBastard: at first she appears to be a simple shopowner (admittedly, one with a prosperous marijuana sideline). As the story goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that this is very much not the case.

[[folder: Bennett Family and Associates]]

* AbusiveParent

* DrivenToSuicide: Kills herself after Doyle and Coover die.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvilMatriarch

* LaserGuidedKarma

* BadBoss

* LeanAndMean: Almost emaciated

* {{Revenge}}: Wants it on Raylan

* VillainsWantMercy

!!Doyle Bennett

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