History Characters / TheLeagueOfGentlemen

* ItsAllAboutMe: It's not really about minorities, its about what a great, talented and understanding person he is.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ollie tries to be right-on, but often lets his secretly bigoted views slip. He has a special hatred of lesbians because his wife left him for another woman.

* MistakenForMurder: Judith convinces him this will happen to them if [[spoiler:they tell anyone what happened to Sunny, Daddy and the other sexplorers]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After appearing in the season 2 premier she doesn't make any definitely canon appearances.

! Main Ensembles

-> Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, respectively

* CatchPhrase: "Please sit down, I have some rather upsetting news..." He tries to say it calmly, but his trembling voices leaves no doubt that he is rather upset himself.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: Uses Edawrd's "Hello hello! What’s going on? What’s all this shouting? We’ll have no trouble here!" when [[spoiler: the mob is about to burn down the local shop in the series 2 finale]].

-->'''Dr. Chinnery''': Tell me, Reverend. Do you believe a man…can be cursed? ''[Beat]''\\
'''Reverend Woodall''': Have you met Barbara?

-->'''Parishoner''': Are you the vicar here?
-->'''Reverend Woodall''': No I'm the fucking gardener! What do you think?

-->'''Reverend Woodall''': Liars and idolators! Your place is in the lake of fire and sulphur, where you will die the second death! The death that burns and tears for all eternity! ''[it's revealed she's talking to a group of primary school children, most of who are either sobbing or sitting in terrified silence]'' So, think on. ''[slams her Bible shut in front of one crying kid]'' [[NoSympathy Shut up!]]

* OpportunisticBastard: Takes advantage of [[spoiler: Tubbs and Edward taking hostages in the anniversary special as a way to drum up support for her efforts to save Royston Vasey from being merged with another town]].

-->'''Reverend Woodall''': If they want to force us into Blackbottoms, so be it. It's no skin off my fanny.
-->'''Murray Mint''': But Bernice, they've got their own mayor! We'd lose our jobs, our hospitality budget, your free parking space outside Oddbins...
-->'''Reverend Woodall''': ''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck that!]]'' Get some placards, some paint and phone Rent-A-Mob! We're not going down without a fight!

** "Hello hello! What’s going on? What’s all this shouting? We’ll have no trouble here!"

-->"WE DIDN'T BURN HIM!"
-->[[spoiler:"We didn't cut their faces off!"]]
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Tubbs has no idea how to work the “tefelome”. Doesn’t stop her figuring out Instagram though...

[[caption-width-right:350: "In this house...We don't masterbate"- Harvey Denton]]

-> Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss, respectively

* {{Back from the Dead}}: [[spoiler: Uncle Harvey]]'s soul is transferred into Benjamin during the Anniversary Special[[spoiler: , though it's undone by the end of the special.]]

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Val, though the whole family practices witchcraft [[spoiler: it becomes more prominent with her in the Anniversary Special, as she leads the way in the ritual to bring Harvey back from the dead]].

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Well, sane individuals would find their behavior troubling and therefore not their parents. The only emotion that they display is sadistic ecstasy at killing toads, seeing a tortured man as a playmate and satisfaction as they blackmail and imprison adults, [[spoiler: Ben and their parents respectively.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite the fact she was his nemesis,[[spoiler: Ross attended her funeral in the 2018 live show.]]
** [[spoiler: {{Subverted|trope}} as the same live show reveals she's still alive.]]

* BackFromTheDead: The 2018 live tour reveals that both her dementia and [[spoiler: her death]] in the Anniversary specials were faked as part of an insurance scam.
* BlatantLies: In series 1 she confesses to Ross she never went to college but while [[spoiler: working at [[BurgerFool Burger Me]]]] in series 2 she claims to have diplomas.

* CompanionCube: The pens are all she's got.[[spoiler: That is, until she marries Mickey in series 3]].

-->'''Pauline''': Just who do you think you're talking to?!
-->'''C.C. Smith''': Well according to my report, a psychotic 50-year old lesbian!
-->'''Pauline''': How dare you! I'm 48!

-->'''Pauline''': Were you gonna say dole scum?

* RageBreakingPoint: When Ross tells her to beg him in series 2 she up and [[spoiler: tries to kill him before taking him hostage until her arrest three episodes later]].

* UncertainDoom: At the end of the funeral scene in the 2018 live tour he's [[spoiler: stuffed into a coffin by Pauline, a coffin which is then sent off to an incinerator]]. However, this live show is questionably canon.

* BigNo:[[spoiler: When he finds Pauline after she's attacked by Geoff in the Anniversary Special]].

* AlliterativeName: C.C.Smith.

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: It's his special stuff that causes the nose bleeds at the heart of series 2]].
* BackForTheFinale: He makes a brief appearance [[spoiler: evacuating the other women from the wife mine before it explodes in the "LIVE Again" tour]].
* BaldOfEvil: He's the villain of [[spoiler: series 2]] and in the finale he shaves his head (except for the sideburns, of course) and flees to the Caribbean.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When he figures out what's going on in his series 3 episode ''and'' when he finds out he killed the wrong person in the 2017 series.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: The closest he comes to having an arc in the entire show is his segment of the Christmas special, wherein he recounts [[spoiler: how his great-grandfather was cursed by [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pair of monkey bollocks]]]].
* BreakTheCutie: Every animal that he accidentally kills takes its toll and he slowly breaks down throughout the series. By the time of the Christmas special, he has given up and became a total mess after he managed to learn about [[spoiler: the curse that haunts him]].

* KindlyVet: He's perhaps the nicest character in all of Royston Vasey. He is also an excellent vet in theory, but his [[spoiler: cursed]] nature leads to one appalling incident after another.

* HateSink: Without doubt the most loathsome character in the show, a depraved, abusive, sleazy, disgusting man with none of the amusing quirks of Royston Vasey's other residents. You could argue his love for his son is a redeeming feature, but even that is questionable. He also beats and disowns his son for a minor reason, In the anniversary special, he's worse. Luckily,[[spoiler: he gets stabbed to death by the son he disowned and none of the family seems to mind that much]].

* KarmicDeath: In the 2017 Anniversary Special he is [[spoiler: killed by Rich, the son he disowned back in his first episode in series ]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Gets [[spoiler: killed by his son Richie in the final episode.

* EvilHand: {{DoubleSubverted}} in his feature episode in series 3, as [[spoiler: the arm belonged to a nun and forces Lance to act ''kindly'' but it becomes more aggressive and controlling, even eventually leading to his [[HeroicSacrifice death]]]].

* HeroicSacrifice: is forced into this by [[spoiler: his new arm]] at the end of his spotlight episode.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Charlie is trapped in and elephant along with Brian, Bernice and several others in the series 3 finale]].

* ComingOutStory: Charlie's episode in series 3 becomes this due to [[spoiler: being forced to give many men, including Tony, hand jobs]].

* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Charlie is caught in two of these in his starring episode in series 3. One involves Stella and Tony, while the other is with Judee Levinson and Tony. [[spoiler: He is injured and/or humiliated by all parties by the end of the episode]].

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* KarmaHoudini: In Series 2, he and his circus fearfully flee Royston Vasey's nosebleed epidemic - but they still have the captured wives. He returns for more in Series 3, who, at the end, remain [[spoiler: trapped inside the torso of a live elephant]].
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in 2018 live show ''The League of Gentlemen Live Again'' when [[spoiler:Edward, to rescue Tubbs, allies with Hilary Briss to blow up Papa Lazarou's wife mine]].
-->'''Edward:''' I'm sorry, Mr Lazarou - [[BorrowedCatchphrase she's my wife, now]]!

* UncertainDoom: During the 2018 live tour when [[spoiler: he remains in his wife mine as it collapses due to Edward's explosives]].

* DepravedHomosexual: A perverted homosexual school teacher who [[spoiler: buries a teenager alive for refusing his advances.]]

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: "Yule Never Leave" reveal he used to be a choirmaster in the seventies [[spoiler: and before he became a vampire]].

* ForTheEvulz: See their [[EvilIsPetty Evil Is Petty]] listing above.

* KilledOffForReal:[[spoiler: Vinnie]] in the series 3 finale.
* LateToTheRealization: {{PlayedForDrama}} when [[spoiler: Reenie realizes that the newly delivered items belonged to Vinnie and that the latter has died]].

* NoInsideVoice: Almost everything they say is shouted out in a shrill tone. [[spoiler: Even when Reenie is breaking into a house with Brian to catch Papa Lazarou]].

* SkewedPriorities: They go into a panic when one of their plastic bags is blown out of a window and [[spoiler: Vinnie goes to her grave trying to get it back.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: They bicker with and call each other rude just as much as they do the customers, yet are often seen together even out of work. Best seen when [[spoiler: Reenie is devastated to find out that Vinnie is dead]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the Anniversary Special revealing that [[spoiler: the people trapped in animals by Papa Lazarou were set free, Reenie is never mentioned which leaves her fate unknown]].

* MistakenForMurder: Judith convinces him this will happen to them if [[spoiler: they tell anyone what happened to Sunny, Daddy and the other sexplorers]].
* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: Alvin's attempt at hiding the bodies of the sexplorers under the dining room tables doesn't go as planned, mainly due to the bodies still being in vacuum suits which produce farts sounds at the slightest movement.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: {{Downplayed}} as one of his "private" patients is an 8 year old with a recurring stomach ache, after losing a game of grandma's footsteps, the child is denied treatment for at least a week.

* FatBastard: While Barry isn't much of a bastard, per say, he does work as a debt collector for a ruthless loan shark [[spoiler: and proves himself to be capable of violence when pushed far enough by the end of the his sub-plot]].
* FatIdiot: Barry can best be described as this. [[spoiler: The non-canon pantomime tour reveals this is [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Stupidity]].]]

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Despite working for a cut throat loan shark like Lisgoe, Barry is a very meek, polite and cowardly man. [[spoiler: Until he gets some "retraining" in dealing with troublesome debtors from his boss.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: He successfully frames Geoff for a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: Don wears an eye patch and was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Him choosing to use Geoff in his car-bombing plot results in Geoff stealing the Legz Akimbo van and causing the car crash all the main plots revolve around.]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: After he frames Geoff he quits his job at the club he manages and is never mentioned again.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's nigh-impossible to discuss Don without [[spoiler: mentioning that he's evil ''and'' ultimately responsible for the series main plot]].

A secretive "sex scientist" whose come to The Windermiere to demonstrate his latest creation, an auto-erotic asphyxiation device known as ''The Medusa''.

* CreepyMonotone: {{Downplayed}}, but her voice can certainly come across as off, [[spoiler: especially when she incredibly calmly discusses hiding 10 dead bodies with Alvin and proves how [[GenreSavvy Genre Savvy]] she is]].

* GenreSavvy: She instantly realizes [[spoiler: that no one would believe her and Alvin if they told the authorities what really happened to the sexplorers and the they would be [[MistakenForMurder Mistaken For Murder]]]].

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Founder of the Legz Akimbo- "Put yourself in a child" travelling theatre troupe, Ollie fancies himself as a gifted writer/performer of important works tackling issues like racism ("White Chocolate"), homosexuality ("Everybody Out!"), teenage homelessness ("No Home 4 Johnny"), eczema ("Scratch Match") and disability ("Vegetable Soup"), but of course they are all badly-researched, unrealistic and laughably over-the-top. Phil and Dave, the two other members of the troupe, can't stand Ollie because of his histrionic personality, bad temper and egotism. He is also incredibly bitter, especially concerning his ex-wife.

* {{Catchphrase}}:

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Hokey-cokey, pig in a pokey!" and "Piss off!", the latter of which is only used in series 1 and always directed at Ross.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Despite only having two appearances he has two.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Was it something I said?"

* CatchPhrase:

* {{Catchphrase}}:

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Home is the hunter!"

* {{Catchphrase}}:"Go out, would you?"
* DirtyOldMan: This appears to be his motive for inviting Mrs.Beasley over but is {{Subverted}} as he only invites his patients over for party games to determine which one will receive treatment first.

* [[spoiler: {{Back from the Dead}}]]: [[spoiler: Uncle Harvey]]'s soul is transferred into Benjamin during the Anniversary Special[[spoiler: , though it's undone by the end of the special.]]

* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain]]: Despite the fact she was his nemesis,[[spoiler: Ross attended her funeral in the 2018 live show.]]
** [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} as the same live show reveals she's still alive.]]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]: The 2018 live tour reveals that both her dementia and [[spoiler: her death]] in the Anniversary specials were faked as part of an insurance scam.

* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom]]: At the end of the funeral scene in the 2018 live tour he's [[spoiler: stuffed into a coffin by Pauline, a coffin which is then sent off to an incinerator]]. However, this live show is questionably canon.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]: He makes a brief appearance [[spoiler: evacuating the other women from the wife mine before it explodes in the "LIVE Again" tour]].

* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath]]: In the 2017 Anniversary Special he is [[spoiler: killed by Rich, the son he disowned back in his first episode in series ]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Gets [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath killed]] by his son Richie]] in the final episode.

-->'''Dr. Chinnery''': Tell me, Reverend. Do you believe a man…can be cursed? ''[Beat]''
-->'''Reverend Woodall''': Have you met Barbara?

* [[spoiler: EvilHand]]: {{DoubleSubverted}} in his feature episode in series 3, as [[spoiler: the arm belonged to a nun and forces Lance to act ''kindly'' but it becomes more aggressive and controlling, even eventually leading to his [[HeroicSacrifice death]]]].

* HarmfulToMinors: Lance sees nothing wrong with selling an old woman a tricked out vibrator, right in front of said old woman's grandson, on said grandson's 8th birthday.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: is forced into this by [[spoiler: his new arm]] at the end of his spotlight episode.

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream]]: [[spoiler: Charlie is trapped in and elephant along with Brian, Bernice and several others in the series 3 finale]].

* [[spoiler: ComingOutStory]]: Charlie's episode in series 3 becomes this due to [[spoiler: being forced to give many men, including Tony, hand jobs]].

* TraumaCongaLine: The only way to describe what befalls Charlie in series 3. [[spoiler: He gets rejected and forcefully hit by Tony, insulted and stepped on by Judee, mocked by Stella who, in the same breath, reveals she's been cheating on him with Tony, told by Luigi/Carl that his order is off the menu for that night and to top it all of, he almost gets hit by the Legz Akimbo van before being taken away by Papa Lazarou and [[AndIMustScream trapped in an elephant]].Though he doesn't seem to mind the last one]].

* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom]]: During the 2018 live tour when [[spoiler: he remains in his wife mine as it collapses due to Edward's explosives]].

An effeminate teacher on an exchange trip from Duisberg who is also a predatory pederast with a fondness for school-age teenage boys. He's [[UnwantedSpouse unhappily married]] to [[TheBeard Lotte]], who is disgusted by his perversions. He's tragic and pathetic rather than stone-cold evil, and the horrible things he does seem to be motivated out of loneliness and a desire to find love. [[spoiler:He also may be a vampire.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Although he makes some indecent remarks several times, his predatory personality is massively toned down in the 2005 film, where he just wants a family of his own. He is shown to be distressed when he reads an article about the show in which he is described as repulsive and a one note character.

* CampGay: A major part of his character.

* [[spoiler: OurVampiresAreDifferent]]: Assuming Matthew's story is true, then [[spoiler: Herr Lipp is a vampire who doesn't suffer any ill affect from direct exposure to sunlight, nor does he seem to require blood to survive]].
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* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream]]: At the end of their spotlight episode in series 3 [[spoiler: Reenie is trapped in a crocodile by Papa Lazarou]].

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]:[[spoiler: Vinnie]] in the series 3 finale.

* [[spoiler: MistakenForMurder]]: Judith convinces him this will happen to them if [[spoiler: they tell anyone what happened to Sunny, Daddy and the other sexplorers]].
* [[spoiler: RevealingCoverup]]: [[spoiler: Alvin's attempt at hiding the bodies of the sexplorers under the dining room tables doesn't go as planned, mainly due to the bodies still being in vacuum suits which produce farts sounds at the slightest movement.]]

Geoff's old "friend" from the [=TAs=], now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: His plan to frame Geoff for the car-bombing goes off without a hitch.]]

* [[spoiler: GreaterScopeVillain]]: [[spoiler: Him choosing to use Geoff in his car-bombing plot results in Geoff stealing the Legz Akimbo van and causing the car crash all the main plots revolve around.]]

* [[spoiler: VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[spoiler: After he frames Geoff he quits his job at the club he manages and is never mentioned again.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's neigh-impossible to discuss Don without [[spoiler: mentioning that he's evil ''and'' ultimately responsible for the series main plot]].

A Londoner and self-proclaimed [[FagHag Fag Hag]], as well as the overbearing friend to Phil of the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "I (just) love gay guys!"

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Her whole thing is being a [[FagHag Fag Hag]] that only thinks of gay man as substitutes for gal pals and views them solely through stereotypes.

[[caption-width-right:394:"Mr Steele?... I beleive you are expecting me."]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[PlayedForLaughs Played For Laughs]]. He looks to be in his mid to late fifties but is in fact 40.[[spoiler: Immediately after revealing this information he suffers a fatal heart attack, which leads to the deaths of the other sexplorers]].

* OnlySaneMan: Definitely the only seen non-mentally ill member of the Denton family. Being an outsider to the Royston Vasey community his contrast to the whole town can be seen as both representing the audience and the rest of the world that isn't quite as...quirky.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: {{Zigzagged}} as he's the only guest at The Windermiere who doesn't die in the medusa, whovever, his last words before his fatal heart attack imply it may have been caused be him testing the device on himself.

* BareYourMidriff: She wears a tube top that exposes her belly button piercing.

* TheGamblingAddict: Charlie claims that Stella is this before we see concrete proof in series 3. This is made worse as the trope also extends to the Hull's relationship counselor.

* NighInvulnerability: They survive [[spoiler: a burning building collapsing on top of them ''and then'' spending roughly 9 months underground]] in between series 2 and 3.

* [[spoiler: MistakenForMurder]]: Judith convinces hims this will happen to them if [[spoiler: they tell anyone what happened to Sunny, Daddy and the other sexplorers]].

** "(Oh,) That Merryl!"

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream]]: [[spoiler: Charlie is trapped in and elephant along with Brain and several others in the series 3 finale]].