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* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Mags is a fat old woman in no shape to do any fighting, and she relies on her sons and other underlings to carry out intimidation and fighting. Mags's strength lies instead with her [[TheChessmaster cunning mind]] and [[ManipulativeBastard her ability to manipulate people and situations to her advantage]].
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* HalfWittedHillbilly: Carol Johnson and Black Pike as a whole assume Mags is this. Unfortunately for them, Mags is quite intelligent and more than able to outwit them with ease.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: She comes to view Loretta as a surrogate daughter and wants her to become her successor, or to at least take control of the family fortune. Ultimately, she succeeds despite her death and numerous other setbacks, as Loretta essentially becomes the next Mags.
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* WiseOldFolkFacade: Downplayed. Mags is a friendly, witty, and grandmotherly old woman who is quite affable with everyone, and takes a special interest in mentoring Loretta and serving as a ParentalSubstitute for her. [[AffablyEvil It's not an act]], but Mags is also a ruthless drug lord willing to do anything to provide for her family, and she murdered Loretta's father due to her belief she could do a better job of taking care of the young girl.
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* VillainCred: Even Arlo and Boyd are quick to advise Raylan not to mess with Mags when he starts poking around and investigating their affairs.
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* TheMobBossIsScarier: No one will testify against anyone who even works for Mags, both because she's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity a beloved member of the community]] and because people know she'll kill them if they summon law enforcement from outside Bennett. When Walt does so, Mags kills him without hesitation.
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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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* SexyVillainsChasteHeroes: Inverted. The heroic Raylan is a handsome, well-groomed ChickMagnet, while Mags is a plain, overweight grandmother.
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* FatSweatySoutherner: A rare female variant, although she's much less of a caricature than this trope usually is. She is an [[FatBastard overweight]] SmallTownTyrant, but Mags is [[AffablyEvil sincerely charming and down-to-earth]], and her weight is simply just accepted as part of her character. She just happens to be a ruthless drug kingpin at the same time.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: She debuted in the second season and died at the end of it, but is revered as one of the series's best villains and the role won her actress an Emmy.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: He's only introduced in the second season, but became one of the series's most recurring villains.
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* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: He was a JerkJock who bullied other kids during high school, and Raylan recalls that he tried to beat him up during a baseball game, which led to Raylan retaliating by breaking his knee with a baseball bat. In the present day, Dickie hasn't changed at all and remains an immature, cowardly bully.
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* DotingParents: To Loretta and Loretta only, even though Loretta isn't officially adopted into the Bennett family. Coover grows jealous and sabotages their relationship, though Mags never stops caring about Loretta.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Subverted. She initially wants to seek vengeance on Raylan for killing Coover, but Helen convinces her not to and Mags admits it was Coover's own fault he was killed, and that he had forced Raylan's hand. Unfortunately, Dickie's actions wind up reigniting the feud between her and Raylan anyway.
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* AuthoritySoundsDeep: She has a deep voice and is the undisputed leader of the Bennett clan. Also doubles as EvilSoundsDeep.
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* MisplacedRetribution: She places the lion's share of the blame for Coover's death on Dickie and cuts him off, who for once wasn't really at fault. As she points out, he's screwed up numerous times before in ways that put their family in jeopardy, so it was more the culmination of his failures rather than punishment for that specific act.
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* NoSympathy: After cutting Dickie off and leaving him only the marijuana business for telling Raylan where Coover had chased Loretta, leading to Coover's death, Dickie complains Raylan got the information out via torture. Mags is entirely unsympathetic and tells him he should've taken it.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Season 1's BigBad was Bo Crowder, who reveled in being a criminal and was more than willing to go after his own family if it got him what he wanted, as well as being somewhat misogynistic. Mags is a woman who is fiercely loyal to her family and wants to quit the criminal life. Where Bo wanted to make a deal with outside forces to increase his own influence in the underworld and flood Harlan with drugs, Mags is opposed to getting involved with the gangs from outside Harlan and is [[EvenEvilHasStandards morally opposed]] to dealing anything harder than marijuana.
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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She's fine with Black Pike polluting the region and destroying Harlan County's environment so long as her family has enough money to live comfortably.
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* EvilerThanThou: Carol Johnson comes to Harlan under the belief she can easily deal with Mags, and that she isn't much of a threat. Mags very quickly [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] her and forces her to make a deal on Mags's terms.
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* VillainTeamUp: With Boyd in the middle of Season 2. Their alliance falls apart when Dickie stupidly tries to intimidate Boyd after Mags cuts him off so he can establish himself as a force to be reckoned with, and Boyd retaliates by robbing him.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Mags is a grandmotherly, humble shopkeeper who is in reality the head of the largest marijuana-dealing operation in Harlan County and the one who really controls the town of Bennett.
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* ComfortingTheDying: A twisted example where she does this to someone ''she'' killed. After poisoning Walt, she reassures him that she'll take care of Loretta, that he can forget all his worries and pain, and that he'll reunite with his late wife.
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* ComfortingTheDying: ComfortTheDying: A twisted example where she does this to someone ''she'' killed. After poisoning Walt, she reassures him that she'll take care of Loretta, that he can forget all his worries and pain, and that he'll reunite with his late wife.
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* {{Egopolis}}: Their town, Bennett, is named after them and was founded by their ancestors.
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: To the unaware, Mags seems like a humble shop owner, but in reality she controls Harlan County's weed trade and is the real power in control of Bennett despite any indications to the contrary.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mags is the only one of the Bennetts with her head on straight. Doyle is competent but fairly prone to gaffes, and Dickie and Coover are utter morons, but Mags is a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] of the highest order and far more pragmatic.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mags is the only one of the Bennetts with her head on straight. Doyle is competent but fairly prone to gaffes, and Dickie and Coover are utter morons, but Mags is a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] of the highest order and far more pragmatic. She takes a shine to Loretta because she sees that she shares Mags's cunning and common sense.
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* NotMeThisTime: When assassins try to murder Raylan and Winona shortly after he killed Coover, Raylan suspects Mags was responsible. However, as she tells him, she's decided to keep the peace and wasn't responsible for it. In reality, it was the Dixie Mafia who were hired by Gary, who was jealous that Winona had gone back to Raylan after enough of his bad investments and stupidity.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mags is generally quite friendly and calm, and rarely engages in violence directly. It makes it more shocking when she break Coover's hand and screams at him and Dickie, as it shows just how much she refuses to be crossed, even by her own children.
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* PetTheDog: She's quite prone to moments of surprising kindness, especially in her relationship with Loretta. It makes her a deeply and surprisingly likable character, making her acts of [[KickTheDog genuinely horrific cruelty]] all the more shocking, especially since she often continues to behave just as kindly. For example, after poisoning Walt, she spends the entire time reassuring and comforting him as he painfully dies.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Downplayed. Raylan is generally polite if his company returns it in kind regardless of what side of the law they're on, but he can be quite rude when in a bad mood or if he's insulted. Mags is almost always sweet, pleasant, and grandmotherly, but she's downright vicious when she's crossed.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Downplayed. Raylan is generally polite if his company returns it in kind regardless of what side of the law they're on, but he can be quite rude when in a bad mood or if he's insulted. Mags is almost always sweet, pleasant, and grandmotherly, but she's downright vicious when she's crossed.
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* CategoryTraitor: She's viewed as a traitor to the community after selling her ancestral land to Black Pike. As Black Pike is a coal mining company with a history of exploiting the region and leaving devastating pollution behind, and since Mags had been a strong opponent against them, her siding with them destroys her reputation and makes her into a BrokenPedestal to most of the town.
* PyrrhicVillainy: Mags is an extremely competent [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and she succeeds in getting rich off of her deal with Black Pike, but ultimately all her scheming results in the death of her two favorite sons, her becoming a local pariah, and the destruction of her relationship with Loretta. Not to mention that Dickie's actions result in the police trying to arrest her. Ultimately, it causes her to commit suicide rather than face what her life has become.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: ZigZagged. It's an OpenSecret that Mags sells weed, but law enforcement tends to dismiss it as harmless and leaves her alone, and she's beloved by the citizens of Harlan by masquerading as a community activist despite her drug dealing.
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* BrokenPedestal: Loretta adores Mags and sees her as a ParentalSubstitute right up until she finds out Mags killed her father, which destroys her trust in her and permanently shatters their relationship.
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** Despite being on opposite sides of the law and frequently clashing with her sons, Raylan gets along quite well with Mags and respects her, and the two are [[FriendlyEnemy on friendly terms]]. After learning she killed Loretta's father so she could take him in, he becomes much colder to her and is clearly angered he was suckered in by her charm.
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** Despite being on opposite sides of the law and frequently clashing with her sons, Raylan gets along quite well with Mags and respects her, and the two are [[FriendlyEnemy on friendly terms]]. After learning she killed Loretta's father so she could take him in, he becomes much colder to her and is clearly angered he was suckered in by her charm.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Apple pie, particularly her home brewed apple pie flavored whiskey.
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* ComfortingTheDying: A twisted example where she does this to someone ''she'' killed. After poisoning Walt, she reassures him that she'll take care of Loretta, that he can forget all his worries and pain, and that he'll reunite with his late wife.
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** Her brutal punishment of Coover by breaking his hand almost certainly counts as this. While Coover is something of an AssholeVictim, it's hard not to feel sorry for him since Mags is ''[[AbusiveParents his mother]]'' and he spends the entire time pleading and apologizing to her like a small child.
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* TheAtoner: Subverted. She just wants to retire and extricate her family from the dangerous criminal underworld, but Mags feels no remorse about her misdeeds up to the very end.
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'''Mags:''' I know you are, Coover. That's why it hurts so much to do this.
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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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* NeverMyFault: Like Dickie, he blames his actions and screw-ups on anyone but himself.
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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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* MuggingTheMonster: Coover's EstablishingCharacterMoment is to threaten Raylan and Rachel for no logical reason when they're simply trying to ask questions much to their disbelief, even while Dickie tries to get him to stop. Coover continues to threaten and assault Raylan with little reason throughout the second season, which Raylan tolerates right up until Coover tries to do it while trying to kill Loretta, at which point he shoots him.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He's the Responsible Sibling to Dickie and Coover's Foolish. Doyle holds down a legitimate job despite his corruption and is a reliable [[TheDragon Dragon]] to Mags, while Dickie and Coover are morons who constantly screw up and self-sabotage. Doyle is generally the one to clean up their messes, and tries to protect them from Mags' wrath as best he can.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Doyle's Responsible. Dickie is a foolish SmugSnake who constantly embarks on ambitious but poorly thought out plans to earn himself respect and power that cause more trouble than anything else. Doyle on the other hand is a reliable henchman and holds down a respectable job as the chief of police, and is usually the one to bail Dickie out of trouble.
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* EvilIsPetty: Coover is quite petty, especially with how he bullies Loretta, a teenage girl several decades his junior. Even before he tries to set her up so he can murder her, he torments her in petty ways such as making a mess in the Bennett shop for her to clean up or forcing her to carry a beer keg that's clearly to heavy for her.
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* SmugSnake: He's not overly ambitious like Dickie or as self-satisfied as Doyle, but Coover is the most suicidally arrogant of the Bennett brothers, to the point of threatening Raylan and Rachel with a gun for no logical reason because he wants to throw his weight around. Coover is a legitimate threat thanks to his [[TheBrute sheer size and fighting prowess]], but he's too stupid to be relied on for anything other than grunt work and his rare schemes turn out very badly for him.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He's generally sincerely AffablyEvil, but he shifts into this around Raylan after he kills Coover in self-defense.
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* VillainousValor: Coover is many things, but a coward he is not. Where Dickie is a DirtyCoward and Doyle hides behind his men, Coover is more than willing to throw down with his enemies should they incur his wrath. It's deconstructed, as Coover's bravery stems from his inability to understand consequences and the fact that he's TheBerserker, making him take increasing risks until he gets himself killed by trying to murder Raylan while he's training a gun on Coover.
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* BrokenPedestal: Loretta adores Mags and sees her as a ParentalSubstitute right up until she finds out Mags killed her father, which destroys her trust in her and permanently shatters their relationship.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Coover and Dickie sincerely love her and desperately want to earn her affection, especially the former. It's subverted in Doyle's case, as he seems reliable but ultimately is willing to let her die so he can get her money. Loretta also loves and admires her before she learns that Mags had Walt killed.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Mags regrets the poor job she's done raising her boys, and sees taking Loretta in as a chance to raise a proper successor to herself.
* AffablyEvil: In contrast to his brothers and much like Mags, he's sincerely polite and civil with everyone. He shifts into FauxAffablyEvil around Raylan once he kills Coover, offering up threats in the same polite tone of voice.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: In the second season finale, he's perfectly willing to let Mags die since he'll be inheriting her fortune anyway.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Doyle can maintain a thin veneer of civility most times, but when push comes to shove he’s just can be just as ruthless a criminal as the rest of his family.
* FriendlyEnemy: He's quite friendly to Raylan, although he eventually stops playing nice when he kills Coover and seemingly sides with Black Pike.
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* FriendlyEnemy: He's quite friendly toRaylan, Raylan at first, although he eventually stops playing nice when he kills Coover and seemingly sides with Black Pike.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He's a frequent smoker of blunts, which is used to add to Coover's loutish and vice-ridden personality.
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* AddledAddict: Downplayed. Coover is a stoner and sometimes snorts cocaine, in keeping with his status as an irresponsible lout. However, Coover is a liability mainly because of his natural stupidity and childishness rather than his drug use.
* AndThereWasMuchIndifference: Downplayed. Doyle and Dickie sincerely mourn him, but Mags is mostly concerned with losing Loretta as a result of Coover's actions.
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* AndThereWasMuchIndifference: Downplayed. Doyle and Dickie sincerely mourn him, but Mags is mostly concerned with losing Loretta as a result ofCoover's actions.regular intake of cocaine and weed doesn't exactly help his intelligence any, and helps lead to his idea to reveal to Loretta the Bennetts killed her father rout of spite, which would have gone very poorly for him even if Raylan didn't shoot him.
* AMFMCharacterization: He's a fan of heavy metal and black metal, wearing t-shirts of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accept_(band) Accept]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_(band) Immortal]], and keeping a poster of Immortal.
* TheAlcoholic: He's frequently seen drinking beer and is implied to be an alcoholic.
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* ArchEnemy: He despises Loretta for being Mags' favorite and goes out of his way to torment her. He's the one to destroy her bond with Mags, and he even tries to murder her in his final appearance before being shot dead by Raylan.
