History Characters / Nashville

* CastingCouch: A rare male example. He's willing to sleep with his ([[ChristmasCake attractive older female]]) manager in exchange for her patronage.

* ChristmasCake: Rayna Jaymes is the object of many male co-stars' attention (and the audience) despite being the mother of a teenaged daughter.

* MsFanservice: Her ChristmasCake status above comes with a good reason.

* TheMaidenNameDebate: She was never credited as Rayna Conrad during her marriage to Ted.

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* {{Adorkable}}

* EarnYourHappyEnding: You betcha. Her postpartum depression is just one of her travails. [[spoiler: being pimped out by Jolene to have sex with men ''as a child'' to finance her mother's addiction. As an adult she gets entangled with Jolene's counselor out to control her career and money; both she ''and'' her remorseful mother are DrivenToSuicide - Juliette is saved by Jeff Fordham - [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his life]]; [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Jolene kills herself and killing Dante and destroying the Dante/Juliette sex tape he made for blackmail purposes]]. And that's without mentioning her being the sole survivor when her private jet crashes - and lured into a cult and being held against her will in Bolivia by said cult. In the SeriesFinale, a newly pregnant Juliette is living happily on a farm outside Tennessee with Cadence, having retired from showbiz. And she's repaired her relationship with Avery.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Music/TaylorSwift (for her less than stellar singing ability), Music/LeAnnRimes and Music/MindyMcCready (particularly the latter's numerous string of celebrity romance and drug addition).

* TroubledButCute: Outside of Jason, the biggest example on the show

* {{Expy}}: Possesses elements of Music/RebaMcentire, Music/CarrieUnderwood, and Music/FaithHill.

* MamaWolf: She does ''not'' take it well when her children are messed with, resulting in Juliette receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after [[spoiler: her secret gig results in Maddie having to go to the hospital. But at least Juliette makes amends, and more importantly doesn't try to have Maddie signed to Edgehill and get fired as a result when Rayna lays the smack down... unlike Jeff Fordham.]]

* {{Expy}}: One for Music/TaylorSwift (for her less than stellar singing ability), Music/LeAnnRimes and Music/MindyMcCready (particularly the latter's numerous string of celebrity romance and drug addition).

* {{Expy}}: Is believed to be one for June Carter in her early career.

* {{Expy}}: Has some similarities to an early Johnny Cash.

* {{Expy}}: Pretty obviously based on first openly gay country singer Ty Herndon, who also married women to hide his sexuality and was arrested in a park for "indecent exposure".

* {{Expy}}:Of Cassidy Pope, both are reality stars who struggle to get their career on track.

* {{Expy}}: Of Al Gore, Sr. (Former U.S. Vice President UsefulNotes/AlGore's father).

* YourCheatingHeart: Doesn't with Scarlett. [[spoiler: It doesn't help.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: His wife cheated on him with a country music star, which is why he disapproves of Rayna's career in country music.

* YourCheatingHeart: With Peggy. Later, with ''Deacon's'' girlfriend.

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* {{Expy}}: Possesses elements of Reba Mcentire, Carrie Underwood, and Faith Hill.

* BerserkButton: As Glenn found out, going against her wishes isn't a wise move.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Still is one of the most supportive men in all of Nashville

* NoHitWonder: In universe, incredibly respected and loved in Nashville despite having little success outside of playing for Rayna [[spoiler: and later Juliette]]

* AmicableExes: When Scarlett [[spoiler: has her mental breakdown]] Avery is the one who takes care of her, and she wouldn't have had it any other way.

* Expy: Of Al Gore, Sr. (Former U.S. Vice President UsefulNotes/AlGore's father).

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A mild example. He embezzled a couple of million dollars for a project before paying it back.
** Played painfully straight in season 3: [[spoiler: Jeff showed Teddy a good time by hiring prostitutes for the evening, though Teddy wasn't aware of that until after Jeff told him. Later on, said prostitute informs Teddy that she's under investigation by the FBI and needs money to flee town. Teddy blackmails his financial officer to start a phony construction project, with $500,000 mis-appropriated to himself so he can secretly pay off the prostitute.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Looks down on Lamar for being a CorruptCorporateExecutive but took his money to get elected.

* NoHitWonder: Incredibly respected and loved in Nashville despite having little success outside of playing for Rayna [[spoiler: and later Juliette]]

* {{Expy}}: One for Taylor Swift (for her less than stellar singing ability), [=LeAnn=] Rimes and Mindy [=McCready=] (particularly the latter's numerous string of celebrity romance and drug addition).

* {{Expy}}: Pretty obviously based on first openly gay country singer Ty Herndon, who also married and was arrested in a park for "indecent exposure".

* {{Expy}}: One for Taylor Swift and [=LeAnn=] Rimes (particularly the latter's scandals).

* {{Expy}}:Of Taylor Swift, the replacement teen country idol from a northern state

* BetterAsFriends: With Gunnar, not that he had much of a choice
* BiTheWay: A subverted example, as he was capable of forcing himself to have sex with women despite not really being attracted to them. Also in his relationship with Layla, he tells her that he really does love her, just not in a romantic way.

** Played painfully straight in season 3: [[spoiler:]]Jeff showed Teddy a good time by hiring prostitutes for the evening, though Teddy wasn't aware of that until after Jeff told him. Later on, said prostitute informs Teddy that she's under investigation by the FBI and needs money to flee town. Teddy blackmails his financial officer to start a phony construction project, with $500,000 mis-appropriated to himself so he can secretly pay off the prostitute.[[/spoiler]]

** Played painfully straight in season 3: [[spoiler]]Jeff showed Teddy a good time by hiring prostitutes for the evening, though Teddy wasn't aware of that until after Jeff told him. Later on, said prostitute informs Teddy that she's under investigation by the FBI and needs money to flee town. Teddy blackmails his financial officer to start a phony construction project, with $500,000 mis-appropriated to himself so he can secretly pay off the prostitute.[[/spoiler]]

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!!Maddy Conrad

* DarkSecret: In the first season, it was a secret that Deacon is her biological father and she finds out when she discovers her DNA test in the closet.