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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Downplayed, but pretty much at any major moment during the counter-culture movement of the mid-20th century, she was there... Woodstock, Altamont, the hippie movement in San Francisco, robbing banks with the Black Panthers. Ditto for having met many of the people of the same movement; with taking a bath with Jimi Hendrix and doing acid with Jerry Garcia being but two instances that have been mentioned.
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** When Violet returns in Season 6 she is self-sufficient, no longer mooching off men, or partying to the point of being self-destructive. When she says her life is better without Christy, it's hard to argue that she's wrong.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: She suffers assorted hardships throughout the series, including [[spoiler:''multiple'' relapses and a miscarriage]]. Towards the end of the last season, [[spoiler:she gets knocked up shortly after getting back together with Andy (who's ecstatic and proposes)]].


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** In the last season, it's suggested her father neglecting her after her mother's suicide is why she gets hung up on men she can't have a relationship with and why she gets very clingy towards her actual boyfriends.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: When Christy's friends ask her how bad Violet's podcast is, she has to admit "It's horrible. She tells the truth."

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When Christy's friends ask her how bad Violet's podcast is, she has to admit "It's horrible. She tells the truth.""
** After they get evicted, she questions if Christy should be sponsoring Jill since they already have more problems than they can handle. While it does help Christy in the long run, Violet was right that the odds were stacked against them.

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It was one occasion so that would qualify more as Jerkass Ball


* BitchInSheepsClothing: Only one occasion had her be like this to Christy and her whole family: [[spoiler:when she disguised herself as a murderer to scare the Plunkett family away from their cheap BigFancyHouse so that they would all move in with her]].


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* JerkassBall: Make no mistake. The woman is a wonderful, charitable woman who devoted her life to helping other addicts as atonement for her own mistakes in the past. "Chicken Nuggets and a Triple Homicide" is the only episode where she acted entirely selfishly by scaring Christy and her family out of their well-furnished house they got a great deal on because she was lonely without them.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's abrasive and intimidating, but ultimately not a bad guy. He simply wants three months of the back rent he's entitled to and is willing to accept one month's back rent as a token payment, understanding Christy hasn't paid due to Violet's pregnancy robbing her of shifts. He's even able to win over Marjorie and generously absolves Christy of the debt as a thank you for introducing him.

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