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* PetTheDog: When Dickie is being pummeled during a prison riot, Dewey rushes in to save him. He gets beaten up as well, but it's still nice of him.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: He once impersonated Raylan while robbing a pair of drug dealers. Unfortunately, they quickly wind up tracking him down, and when the real Raylan tries to get them to stand down, they assume Dewey's trying to trick them again and keep firing on the two.
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* BlatantBurglar: In one episode, Dewey plans to rob some criminals who stole a large amount of drugs from the mob. He is missing a ski mask for his disguise so he goes shopping for one. It's summer so none of the stores have any in stock and Dewey [[TooDumbToLive loudly complains about the fact to the manager]]. The manager is about to call the police about this suspicious customer when Dewey has an uncharacteristic bright idea and instead buys a cowboy hat and cheap suit [[RefugeInAudacity to commit the robbery while disguised as Raylan.]]
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* VillainousValor: Dewey's a moron to be sure, but he's a brave one. He's quite willing to face off against opponents with little fear and while he's an ExtremeDoormat most of the time, he shows little hesitation to throw down.
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* KindheartedSimpleton: Subverted. Dewey is quite AffablyEvil and a HarmlessVillain, but he's still a scumbag and a racist, just nowhere near as unpleasant as several of the other criminals Raylan encounters or even his own family.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Despite his bad luck and choice of profession, Dewey is an eternal optimist who tends to be quite naive when it comes to how the world works.
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* NasalTrauma: Raylan breaks his nose in the pilot when he slams Dewey face-first into a steering wheel. The following episode, Raylan does the same thing to Dewey's already-broken nose when Dewey tries to hijack Raylan's car to break out of a prison transport.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimal: Downplayed. Dewey has an alligator tooth necklace taken from an alligator he poached, but it's used less to establish him as evil and more to depict him as a HalfWittedHillbilly.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimal: BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Downplayed. Dewey has an alligator tooth necklace taken from an alligator he poached, but it's used less to establish him as evil and more to depict him as a HalfWittedHillbilly.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimal: Downplayed. Dewey has an alligator tooth necklace taken from an alligator he poached, but it's used less to establish him as evil and more to depict him as a HalfWittedHillbilly.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: He rarely thinks his actions through, which never helps his status as a ButtMonkey.
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* InsufferableImbecile: Downplayed. He's generally quite [[AffablyEvil friendly and agreeable]], but Dewey is still a petty crook and very stupid and incompetent.
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* {{Schemer}}: When left to his own devices, Dewey is always coming up with illegal and poorly thought out {{Zany Scheme}}s to make a quick buck.
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* HalfWittedHillbilly: He's a mix of Type 3 and 4. Dewey is a Neo-Nazi and a petty crook, as well as an uneducated moron with a stunning ignorance of basic facts and a total lack of common sense.
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* TheComicallySerious: Part of what makes Dewey so LaughablyEvil is that he maintains a serious demeanor about whatever he says and does, no matter how ridiculous or stupid. He'll [[ThirdPersonPerson speak in the third person]], say ridiculous [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]], and just generally demonstrate a lack of knowledge about basic facts with a completely straight face.
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* {{Malaproper}}: In "Starvation", he means to say "onus", but instead says "anus".
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Creator/DamonHerriman described Dewey in [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/justified-postmortem-damon-herriman-interview/ an interview]] as being not so much evil as he is someone who took a wrong turn in life and surrounded himself with bad influences.
--> '''Damon Herriman:''' Dewey's such a hopeless case that the human side of me feels for him. Also, Dewey never really came across as being particularly malicious or evil. He just seems to have taken the wrong path in life just through circumstances that probably are out of his control. You never get the sense of this being a truly bad guy. It's more that he's a guy who's ended up hanging out with a certain group of people. You don't get a sense that this is a professional criminal, and he's certainly not a very good one if he is.
--> '''Damon Herriman:''' Dewey's such a hopeless case that the human side of me feels for him. Also, Dewey never really came across as being particularly malicious or evil. He just seems to have taken the wrong path in life just through circumstances that probably are out of his control. You never get the sense of this being a truly bad guy. It's more that he's a guy who's ended up hanging out with a certain group of people. You don't get a sense that this is a professional criminal, and he's certainly not a very good one if he is.
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* EvilIsPetty: He has his moments of this, most notably with his hatred of "fatties", to the point of firing an employee just for being overweight.
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* LargeHam: He's quite loud and dramatic.
* LikableVillain: One wouldn't expect a moronic, feckless Neo-Nazi to be a likable character, but Dewey's so [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless]] and earnest it's hard not to like him.
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* LargeHam: He's quite loud and dramatic.
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* LaughablyEvil: He's a sleazy Neo-Nazi, but Dewey's stupidity, incompetence, and his [[TheChewToy tendency to make a fool of himself]] make him immensely funny to watch.
* LikableVillain: One wouldn't expect a moronic, feckless Neo-Nazi to be a likable character, but Dewey's so [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless]] andearnest earnestly naive it's hard not to like him.
* LaughablyEvil: He's a sleazy Neo-Nazi, but Dewey's stupidity, incompetence, and his [[TheChewToy tendency to make a fool of himself]] make him immensely funny to watch.
* LikableVillain: One wouldn't expect a moronic, feckless Neo-Nazi to be a likable character, but Dewey's so [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless]] and
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* TheBusCameBack: After being absent for Season 4, he returns the following season with a major role in the plot.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Dewey desperately wants a sense of friendship and camaraderie, which is why he keeps going back to Boyd, who was one of the only people who accepted him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. Dewey is a sleazy racist, but by the standards of Harlan's underworld he's not too bad, and he generally tends to be quite AffablyEvil.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Raylan mentions that Dewey's father was also a criminal who served time in prison, implying Dewey takes after his father.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dewey is a scumbag in his own right without a doubt, but he's too bumbling and easy to bamboozle to pose an effective threat.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dewey is a scumbag in his own right without a doubt, but he's too bumbling and easy to bamboozle to pose an effective threat.threat, and not particularly evil.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: He sincerely regards Boyd as a friend, but Boyd is quite prone to manipulating and abusing Dewey. Dewey is aware of this, but always comes crawling back.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: He sincerely regards Boyd as a friend, but Boyd is quite prone to manipulating and abusing Dewey. Dewey is aware of this, but always comes crawling back. He's also on the giving end; he claims Jimmy Earl Dean is a friend, but still tries to sell him out to Raylan for a lighter sentence.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He sincerely regards Boyd as a friend, but Boyd is quite prone to manipulating and abusing Dewey. Dewey is aware of this, but always comes crawling back. He's also on the giving end; he claims Jimmy Earl Dean is a friend, but still tries to sell him out to Raylan for a lighter sentence.
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* AddledAddict: Subverted. Dewey uses drugs recreationally, but it doesn't seem to impact his ability to function. His stupidity and incompetence is all natural.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Dewey, of all people, manages to pull one off when he robs two criminals who previously ripped off an illegal drug shipment. When a clothing store does not have any ski-masks, he buys a cheap suit and a cowboy hat and tricks the criminals into thinking that he is 'Raylan Givens, US Marshal'.
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* BullyingADragon: In the pilot, Dewey introduces himself to Raylan by pulling a shotgun on him to intimidate him. [[NervesOfSteel Raylan]] is unimpressed and snatches the shotgun out of Dewey's hands.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Downplayed. Dewey is an incompetent screw-up who barely even intimidates civilians, but he does have the occasional flash of competence. He's able to successfully rob a pair of drug dealers in "The I of the Storm", and later pummels a much more muscular man for taking his alligator tooth necklace.
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* HammyVillainSeriousHero: Raylan is perpetually calm and collected, while Dewey is an idiot. A very ''loud'' idiot.
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* BornUnlucky: A lot of Dewey's misfortune comes down to his own incompetence, but he also has genuinely bad luck that screws him over even when he hasn't screwed up on his own.
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* FriendlyEnemy: He has a somewhat amicable relationship with Raylan. The two clearly don't like each other, but Raylan pities Dewey for his [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain general ineffectuality]] and Dewey makes an effort to be cordial with him.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Even if his Neo-Nazi tattoos didn't give it away, Dewey never does a good job at hiding his criminal intent from the law or even random strangers. One of his defining moments is trying to buy a ski mask in the middle of summer in Kentucky, and not even bothering to come up with an excuse to the store owner.
--> '''Dewey:''' What are you, the ski mask police?
* OhCrap: He's excited when a car stops to pick him up while he's hitchhiking after being kicked out of Boyd's religious commune. His mood sours when he sees [[CowboyCop Raylan]] is the one driving it.
--> '''Dewey:''' Aw shit.
--> '''Dewey:''' What are you, the ski mask police?
* OhCrap: He's excited when a car stops to pick him up while he's hitchhiking after being kicked out of Boyd's religious commune. His mood sours when he sees [[CowboyCop Raylan]] is the one driving it.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: In his first two appearances, Dewey underestimates Raylan as a threat and assumes he can take him on. Both times it turns out badly for him, and by the midway point of Season 1 he's justifiably wary of Raylan.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Dewey is very easily manipulated, and can be convinced of nearly anything by people he doesn't even like. Despite knowing he can't trust either Raylan or Boyd, Dewey still buys everything they say and gets easily bamboozled by the two. Even fellow moron Wade Messer is able to manipulate Dewey.
* InsufferableImbecile: Dewey is a scummy Neo-Nazi and an utter moron prone to incompetence and ignorant of basic facts. That said, he tends to be one of the more [[AffablyEvil amiable]] and earnest members of Harlan's underworld, though he's not one to be trusted.
* InsufferableImbecile: Dewey is a scummy Neo-Nazi and an utter moron prone to incompetence and ignorant of basic facts. That said, he tends to be one of the more [[AffablyEvil amiable]] and earnest members of Harlan's underworld, though he's not one to be trusted.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: He joins Boyd's backwoods church not out of genuine belief in his religion, but because he thought Boyd was running a scam and wanted to be a part of it. He winds up being kicked out when Boyd catches him masturbating, which he regards as a sin.
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* SourSupporter: A villainous example. He knows he really shouldn't trust Boyd and that Boyd tends to treat him poorly, but Dewey genuinely likes him and always tries to team up with him.
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* StrawLoser: Dewey is a moronic petty crook whose main purpose is to contrast with Boyd's genuine competence.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: He sincerely regards Boyd as a friend, but Boyd is quite prone to manipulating and abusing Dewey. Dewey is aware of this, but always comes crawling back.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dewey is a scumbag in his own right without a doubt, but he's too bumbling and easy to bamboozle to pose an effective threat.
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* SelfServingMemory: After Raylan breaks his nose, Dewey accuses him of doing it for no reason, when in reality Raylan had done it after Dewey insulted him after he and Devil tried to kill him. Raylan lampshades it.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Dewey is prone to screwing himself over with his poorly thought out plans and his general stupidity and incompetence. He works best when following someone else's orders, and even then he sometimes screws up.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Dewey is prone to assuming he's a bigger deal than he actually is, and fancies himself a master criminal. Most of his plans tend to be extremely poorly thought-out and self-destructive, and he works most effectively when following someone else's orders.
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* BaffledByOwnBiology:
** When Raylan meets with him while Dewey is incarcerated in county jail, he has Dewey brought to him on the pretext of him having tuberculosis. Dewey actually buys that he has it for a while despite not knowing what it is and complains to Raylan about it.
-->'''Raylan:''' You don't even know what TB is.\\
'''Dewey:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Sure I do! It's a monkey disease]], like [[Film/{{Outbreak}} in that movie.]]
** Dewey is convinced by an organ trafficker that she's removed one of his kidneys. It later turns out that she hadn't, but Dewey had been suckered in because he believed he had four kidneys.
** When Raylan meets with him while Dewey is incarcerated in county jail, he has Dewey brought to him on the pretext of him having tuberculosis. Dewey actually buys that he has it for a while despite not knowing what it is and complains to Raylan about it.
-->'''Raylan:''' You don't even know what TB is.\\
'''Dewey:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Sure I do! It's a monkey disease]], like [[Film/{{Outbreak}} in that movie.]]
** Dewey is convinced by an organ trafficker that she's removed one of his kidneys. It later turns out that she hadn't, but Dewey had been suckered in because he believed he had four kidneys.
* DumbMuscle: Boyd tends to use Dewey mostly for manpower, and Dewey is a genuinely strong fighter. It's just everything else that he's bad at.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His very first scene has Dewey hop out of a car to tell Boyd his brother has died, only to realize he forgot to put it in park and have to go back inside to do so. It immediately establishes just how much of an idiot Dewey is.
* LowerClassLout: He's a lower-class hillbilly, and Dewey is certainly a lout. He's a racist, moronic Neo-Nazi who can't comprehend basic facts, yet never quite grasps how stupid he truly is. He's much more easy to get along with than his Floridian cousins, however.
* SmugSnake: Dewey thinks he's much more threatening and badass than he actually is. He's somewhat competent at serving as a DumbMuscle, but he's completely out of his depth when dealing with someone who isn't a civilian or another petty crook.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dewey's mostly just stupid, but he's prone to having some bizarre thoughts on how the world works and is ignorant of basic facts.
* LikableVillain: One wouldn't expect a moronic, feckless Neo-Nazi to be a likable character, but Dewey's so [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless]] and earnest it's hard not to like him.
* StupidCrooks: Dewey is a petty crook who makes his living through robbery whenever he isn't working for somebody, and he's an absolute moron.
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* VillainousFriendship: With Dickie Bennett. The two became fast friends in prison, and when they briefly reunite in "Weight", their joy is palpable.
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** With Dickie Bennett. The two became fast friends in prison, and when they briefly reunite in "Weight", their joy ispalpable.palpable.
** He claims to get along well with Jimmy Earl Dean, although the two are never seen on-screen together and Dewey tries to sell him out so he can get a lighter sentence.
** With Dickie Bennett. The two became fast friends in prison, and when they briefly reunite in "Weight", their joy is
** He claims to get along well with Jimmy Earl Dean, although the two are never seen on-screen together and Dewey tries to sell him out so he can get a lighter sentence.
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