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!!!Dixie Mafia

[[folder:Rev. Seasons]]
!!Rev. John Wesley Seasons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DermotMulroney

The pastor of a smaller congregation competing with the Gemstones.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Seasons is the genuine man of God that the Gemstones claim to be, but come into his home with violence on your mind and he will ''not'' turn the other cheek. He'll shoot you down.
* HeroAntagonist: He's the pastor of a small church standing up to a rich, scandal-ridden, hypocritical family of televangelists.
* MeaningfulName: The preacher John Wesley was averse to what he saw as oppulence in the Church of England. Likewise, John Wesley Seasons (while not exactly an ascetic) is opposed to the Gemstones' extravagant displays of wealth in a church environment.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: John Wesley was an 18th century evangelist whose teachings originated Methodism as well as other Christian denominations. This hints that Seasons comes from a Wesleyan background of some sort, despite being a Baptist pastor himself.

!!!Dixie Mafia

[[folder:Glendon]]
!!Glendon Marsh Sr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WayneDuvall

A figure from Eli's past.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Trying to back out of a deal with him at the last minute is a good way for him to pull a gun out and start blasting.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a little goatee, which fits his image as a corrupting, Satan-like figure.
* TheCorrupter: Glendon lured a young Eli into becoming muscle for his criminal operations. [[spoiler:When the Gemstones have financial trouble, he tries to insert himself into the Gemstone empire, hoping to use it to launder his ill-gotten gains.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: He's the devil in any deal that's made. [[spoiler:He tries this with Eli, offering to solve his financial difficulties in return for getting a stranglehold on the Gemstone empire.]]
* TheDon: He's no Vito Corleone, but he ''is'' a shady criminal with his fingers in many illegal pies, and doesn't seem to answer to anyone.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Racism doesn't seem to be one of his many flaws; he smacks his son and gives him an apparently sincere rebuke when Junior heckles black protestors fighting Jim Crow, expressing sympathy for them wanting to get a "piece of the pie".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. In the season 2 finale, after [[spoiler:the one month time skip Junior, having used the money Eli found for him after proving his innocence to Eli and helping him]] we see Junior hung a photo of everybody in the 1960s, saying he didnt consider his father a good man, but he did start the place and deserves some respect for that.
* {{Expy}}: He's an expy of every single one of the pre-WWF expansion territory promoters. He does seem to share some traits with Bill Watts and Fritz Von Erich in particular, though.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Glendon is a gregarious, charismatic man who's quick with a compliment or a joke, but genial as he might appear he's still a ruthless gangster who'll turn on you the moment things don't go his way.

[[folder:Junior]]
!!Glendon Marsh Jr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricRoberts

A mysterious, avuncular figure from Eli's past who used to work in the world of professional wrestling.

!The Lissons

[[folder:In General]]
!!Lyle & Lindy Lissons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricAndre & Jessica Lowe

A televangelist couple from Texas who rope Jesse and Amber into investing in a Christian resort in Florida.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:After seemingly getting away for their crimes against the Gemstones, Martin calls the same bikers they had hired to go after the Lissons. Lindy is gunned down while Lyle freezes to death and has his corpse eaten by wolves.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:For Season 2, with virtually all the events of the season resulting from their actions.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:For all their faults, they do seem to sincerely love one another and are never seen at odds.]]
* EvilCounterPart: [[spoiler:They have all of Jesse and Amber's worst qualities cranked up, with none of the qualities that redeem them:]]
** [[spoiler:Like Jesse, Lyle has a group of dimwitted friends with whom he shares dark secrets that are ripe for blackmailing...unlike Jesse, his secrets are far worse to the point that he's willing to kill to protect them. Nor does he care for his friends beyond their utility as accomplices, ruthlessly murdering them when he thinks they're a liability.]]
** [[spoiler:Like Jesse, Lyle is a WellDoneSonGuy who wants to prove to his father he is worthy of inheriting what he built. Unlike Jesse, Lyle is willing to betray his father, stuff him in a home and permit him to be abused.]]
* FairWeatherFriend: They appear to be this to Jesse and Amber. [[spoiler:They become good friends, but when Jesse and Amber have to back out of the deal, Lyle throws a tantrum and abandons them. It later turns out that the money was secondary, and Lyle really did want to be friends with Jesse...but he considered the money proof of their friendship.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:They come across as a charismatic, likable couple...which disguises the depths of their depravity.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: They are [[spoiler: killed when the Gemstones manage to turn the teenage assassins they trained against them.]]
* MirrorCharacter: They serve as this to Jesse and Amber, being a televangelist couple of similar age, with the difference being that the Lissons aren't dependent on a patriarch like Eli, though we find out that is because they cut Papa Lisson out at the first sign of weakness.

[[folder:Lyle]]
!!Lyle Lissons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricAndre

* BigBrotherBully: Lyle tells Jesse that he cut his sister out of the family business when their father got sick and urges Jesse to get his own siblings out of his way. He says that oldest children are born to be ruthless leaders and that’s why he and Lindy are good together.
* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate is to freeze to death in the wilderness and get eaten by a pack of wolves.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For Thaniel Block, to whom he was feeding information about other televangelists to thin out the competition.]]

[[folder:Lindy]]
!!Lindy Lissons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jessica Lowe

* DeadlierThanTheMale: [[spoiler:She's shown to be a little more trigger-happy than her husband.]] Also, while Lyle was more verbally abusive towards his father, Lindy just right up slaps him.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:The Devil]]
!!Scotty / The Devil
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottMacArthur

A stuntman and the ringleader of the blackmailers targeting Jesse.

* AxCrazy: Scotty is a vicious, cruel man with a quick temper. He turns violent ''very'' quickly, views other people as puppets to be used and discarded and has a nasty streak of sadism running through the core of whohe is. Although he's generally incompetent, he manages to be very intimidating simply by virtue of his tendency toward impulsive acts of violence.
* BadBoss: Although he's supposedly allies with Gideon and girlfriend Lucy, he treats them more like subordinates. When Lucy is seemingly killed, he's upset for a few minutes before coldly trying to dump the body... except she isn't actually dead. He also attacks Gideon, and treats him pretty poorly in general, even stealing his lunch.
* BeardOfEvil: He's a bearded psychopath.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When he infiltrates Jesse's household, he shockingly manages to throw on a convincing facade of a stuntman with a wild past who's turned to Jesus and repented. Of course, Jesse isn't too bright and is riding the high of thinking he's put the blackmail episode behind him, but Scotty still does a pretty impressive job that fools everyone who isn't already wise to him.
* GutturalGrowler: This is actually a plot point. Scotty has a low, scary voice but he lowers it even further into a harsh snarl to disguise his identity when blackmailing Jesse.
* HairTriggerTemper: It's unclear if he was always this unstable, but after the blackmail scheme goes awry he becomes very short-tempered, largely to his own detriment.
* HateSink: He's one of the few characters in the series who is more loathsome and unlikeable than the Gemstones.
* {{Jerkass}}: A short-tempered, violent and rude man.
* ManipulativeBastard: Although not particularly bright, he does manages to keep Gideon under his thumb through a combination of implied violence, seemingly sincere friendship, and playing on Gideon's relationship with Jesse.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His criminal rampage consists of one failure after another, and much of it can be blamed on Scotty's own incompetence and temper. He's run over by a car, fights Gideon to a standstill the day after, winds up living in his truck before getting run off the road (injuring him further) and then has to live in a shitty tent he can't even put up correctly. He starts to turn it all around by posing as a friend of Gideon's, but Gideon's change of heart seems to put an end to all his plans when he can't bring himself to shoot his former friend. ''Then'' he turns it all around by losing his mind completely and forcing Jesse, Gideon and Eli at gunpoint into leading him to the Gemstone family vault.
* StupidCrooks: Scotty's not particularly bright, but since he's so violent, it doesn't make him any less dangerous.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Gets his brains blown out minutes after his heist.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After things go wrong during his blackmail attempt, Scotty is in a permanent state of frustrated outrage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rev. Seasons]]
!!Rev. John Wesley Seasons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DermotMulroney

The pastor of a smaller congregation competing with the Gemstones.
----
* GoodIsNotSoft: Seasons is the genuine man of God that the Gemstones claim to be, but come into his home with violence on your mind and he will ''not'' turn the other cheek. He'll shoot you down.
* HeroAntagonist: He's the pastor of a small church standing up to a rich, scandal-ridden, hypocritical family of televangelists.
* MeaningfulName: The preacher John Wesley was averse to what he saw as oppulence in the Church of England. Likewise, John Wesley Seasons (while not exactly an ascetic) is opposed to the Gemstones' extravagant displays of wealth in a church environment.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: John Wesley was an 18th century evangelist whose teachings originated Methodism as well as other Christian denominations. This hints that Seasons comes from a Wesleyan background of some sort, despite being a Baptist pastor himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Block]]
!!Thaniel Block
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JasonSchwartzman

An investigative reporter writing about the Gemstone family.
----
* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler: The Season 2 finale reveals he killed himself by firing wildly at Lyle and hitting a frying pan, causing the bullet to ricochet into his head.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's a ''dick'' who only cares about his own ambition and is willing to cross all kinds of ethical lines to get what he wants.]]
* HeroAntagonist: Thaniel might be smug and contemptuous, but he's only doing his job, and his pursuit of rich hypocrites is a noble cause. [[spoiler:Averted when it later turns out he's a deeply unethical journalist who cares more about his own career than exposing the hypocrisy of televangelists.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's just kind of an asshole who looks down on other people, as shown when he acts like a dick toward his friendly neighbor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Glendon]]
!!Glendon Marsh Sr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WayneDuvall

A figure from Eli's past.
----
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Trying to back out of a deal with him at the last minute is a good way for him to pull a gun out and start blasting.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a little goatee, which fits his image as a corrupting, Satan-like figure.
* TheCorrupter: Glendon lured a young Eli into becoming muscle for his criminal operations. [[spoiler:When the Gemstones have financial trouble, he tries to insert himself into the Gemstone empire, hoping to use it to launder his ill-gotten gains.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: He's the devil in any deal that's made. [[spoiler:He tries this with Eli, offering to solve his financial difficulties in return for getting a stranglehold on the Gemstone empire.]]
* TheDon: He's no Vito Corleone, but he ''is'' a shady criminal with his fingers in many illegal pies, and doesn't seem to answer to anyone.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Racism doesn't seem to be one of his many flaws; he smacks his son and gives him an apparently sincere rebuke when Junior heckles black protestors fighting Jim Crow, expressing sympathy for them wanting to get a "piece of the pie".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. In the season 2 finale, after [[spoiler:the one month time skip Junior, having used the money Eli found for him after proving his innocence to Eli and helping him]] we see Junior hung a photo of everybody in the 1960s, saying he didnt consider his father a good man, but he did start the place and deserves some respect for that.
* {{Expy}}: He's an expy of every single one of the pre-WWF expansion territory promoters. He does seem to share some traits with Bill Watts and Fritz Von Erich in particular, though.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Glendon is a gregarious, charismatic man who's quick with a compliment or a joke, but genial as he might appear he's still a ruthless gangster who'll turn on you the moment things don't go his way.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Junior]]
!!Glendon Marsh Jr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricRoberts

A mysterious, avuncular figure from Eli's past who used to work in the world of professional wrestling.
----

* MirrorCharacter: They serve as this to Jesse and Amber, being a televangelist couple of similar age, with the difference being that the Lissons aren't dependant on a patriarch like Eli.

* MeaningfulName: The preacher John Wesley was averse to what he saw as oppulence in the Church of England. Likewise, John Wesley Seasons (while not exactly an aesthetic) is opposed to the Gemstones' extravagant displays of wealth in a church environment.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: John Wesley was an 18th century evangelist whose teachings originated Methodism as well as other Christian denominations. This hints that Seasons comes from a Wesleyan background of some sort.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:For all their faults, they do seem to sincerely love one another and are never seen at odds... until Lyle throws Lindy out of their house to be at the mercy of the gunmen who have tracked them down, who quickly slaughter her.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:For all their faults, they do seem to sincerely love one another and are never seen at odds.]]

* EvilCounterPart: [[spoiler:They have all of Jesse and Amber's worst qualities cranked up, with none of the qualities that redeem them:
** Like Jesse, Lyle has a group of dimwitted friends with whom he shares dark secrets that are ripe for blackmailing...unlike Jesse, his secrets are far worse to the point that he's willing to kill to protect them. Nor does he care for his friends beyond their utility as accomplices, ruthlessly murdering them when he thinks they're a liability.
** Like Jesse, Lyle is a WellDoneSonGuy who wants ton prove to his father he is worthy of inheriting what he built. Unlike Jesse, Lyle is willing to betray his father, stuff him in a home and permit him to be abused.]]

* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler: The season 2 finale reveals he killed himself by firing wildly at Lyle and hitting a frying pan, causing the bullet to ricochet into his head.]]

* DeadlierThanTheMale: [[spoiler:She's shown to be a little more trigger-happy than her husband.]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:The Devil]]
!!Scotty / The Devil
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottMacArthur

A stuntman and the ringleader of the blackmailers targeting Jesse.

* AxCrazy: Scotty is a vicious, cruel man with a quick temper. He turns violent ''very'' quickly, views other people as puppets to be used and discarded and has a nasty streak of sadism running through the core of whohe is. Although he's generally incompetent, he manages to be very intimidating simply by virtue of his tendency toward impulsive acts of violence.
* BadBoss: Although he's supposedly allies with Gideon and girlfriend Lucy, he treats them more like subordinates. When Lucy is seemingly killed, he's upset for a few minutes before coldly trying to dump the body... except she isn't actually dead. He also attacks Gideon, and treats him pretty poorly in general, even stealing his lunch.
* BeardOfEvil: He's a bearded psychopath.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When he infiltrates Jesse's household, he shockingly manages to throw on a convincing facade of a stuntman with a wild past who's turned to Jesus and repented. Of course, Jesse isn't too bright and is riding the high of thinking he's put the blackmail episode behind him, but Scotty still does a pretty impressive job that fools everyone who isn't already wise to him.
* GutturalGrowler: This is actually a plot point. Scotty has a low, scary voice but he lowers it even further into a harsh snarl to disguise his identity when blackmailing Jesse.
* HairTriggerTemper: It's unclear if he was always this unstable, but after the blackmail scheme goes awry he becomes very short-tempered, largely to his own detriment.
* {{Jerkass}}: A short-tempered, violent and rude man.
* ManipulativeBastard: Although not particularly bright, he does manages to keep Gideon under his thumb through a combination of implied violence, seemingly sincere friendship, and playing on Gideon's relationship with Jesse.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His criminal rampage consists of one failure after another, and much of it can be blamed on Scotty's own incompetence and temper. He's run over by a car, fights Gideon to a standstill the day after, winds up living in his truck before getting run off the road (injuring him further) and then has to live in a shitty tent he can't even put up correctly. He starts to turn it all around by posing as a friend of Gideon's, but Gideon's change of heart seems to put an end to all his plans when he can't bring himself to shoot his former friend. ''Then'' he turns it all around by losing his mind completely and forcing Jesse, Gideon and Eli at gunpoint into leading him to the Gemstone family vault.
* StupidCrooks: Scotty's not particularly bright, but since he's so violent, it doesn't make him any less dangerous.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Gets his brains blown out minutes after his heist.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After things go wrong during his blackmail attempt, Scotty is in a permanent state of frustrated outrage.

[[folder:Rev. Seasons]]
!!Rev. John Wesley Seasons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DermotMulroney

The pastor of a smaller congregation competing with the Gemstones.
----
* GoodIsNotSoft: Seasons is the genuine man of God that the Gemstones claim to be, but come into his home with violence on your mind and he will ''not'' turn the other cheek. He'll shoot you down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: John Wesley was an 18th century evangelist whose teachings originated Methodism as well as other Christian denominations. This hints that Seasons comes from a Wesleyan background of some sort.

[[folder:The Lissons]]
!!Lyle & Lindy Lissons
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricAndre & Jessica Lowe

A televangelist couple from Texas who rope Jesse and Amber into investing in a Christian resort in Florida.
----
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:After seemingly getting away for their crimes against the Gemstones, Martin calls the same bikers they had hired to go after the Lissons. Lindy is gunned down while Lyle freezes to death and has his corpse eaten by wolves.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Lyle tells Jesse that he cut his sister out of the family business when their father got sick and urges Jesse to get his own siblings out of his way. He says that oldest children are born to be ruthless leaders and that’s why he and Liddy are good together.
* EvilCounterPart: They have all of Jesse and Ambers worst qualities cranked up and none of the qualities that redeem them. Like Jesse, Lyle a group of friends with whom he shares dark secrets that are rip for blackmailing. Except his secrets are WAY worse to the point that he’s willing to murder his accomplices to keep them from seeing light whereas Jesse is only turned on his friends on the terms that he decided to come clean and own his transgressions. Also like Jesse, Lyle is a WellDoneSonGuy who wants ton prove to his father he is worthy of inheriting what he built. Though Lyle is more willing to rip it away from his father and stuff him in a home.
* FairWeatherFriend: They appear to be this to Jesse and Amber. [[spoiler:They become good friends, but when Jesse and Amber have to back out of the deal, Lyle throws a tantrum and abandons thems.]]
* MirrorCharacter: They serve as this to Jesse and Amber, being a televangelist couple of similar age, with the difference being that the Lissons aren't dependant on a patriarch like Eli.

[[folder:Block]]
!!Thaniel Block
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JasonSchwartzman

An investigative reporter writing about the Gemstone family.

* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler: The season 2 finale reveals he killed himself by firing wildly at Lyle and hitting a frying pan, causing the bullet to ricochet into his head.]]
* HeroAntagonist: Thaniel might be smug and contemptuous, but he's only doing his job, and his pursuit of rich hypocrites is a noble cause.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's just kind of an asshole who looks down on other people, as shown when he acts like a dick toward his friendly neighbor.

[[folder:Glendon]]
!!Glendon Marsh Sr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WayneDuvall

A figure from Eli's past.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Trying to back out of a deal with him at the last minute is a good way for him to pull a gun out and start blasting.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a little goatee, which fits his image as a corrupting, Satan-like figure.
* TheCorrupter: Glendon lured a young Eli into becoming muscle for his criminal operations. [[spoiler:When the Gemstones have financial trouble, he tries to insert himself into the Gemstone empire, hoping to use it to launder his ill-gotten gains.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: He's the devil in any deal that's made. [[spoiler:He tries this with Eli, offering to solve his financial difficulties in return for getting a stranglehold on the Gemstone empire.]]
* TheDon: He's no Vito Corleone, but he ''is'' a shady criminal with his fingers in many illegal pies, and doesn't seem to answer to anyone.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Racism doesn't seem to be one of his many flaws; he smacks his son and gives him an apparently sincere rebuke when Junior heckles black protestors fighting Jim Crow, expressing sympathy for them wanting to get a "piece of the pie".
* FauxAffablyEvil: Glendon is a gregarious, charismatic man who's quick with a compliment or a joke, but genial as he might appear he's still a ruthless gangster who'll turn on you the moment things don't go his way.

[[folder:Junior]]
!!Glendon Marsh Jr.
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricRoberts

A mysterious, avuncular figure from Eli's past who used to work in the world of professional wrestling.

* InadequateInheritor: His father was a fairly powerful criminal, but the old man seemed to hold Junior in contempt.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He smacks his son and gives him an apparently sincere rebuke when Junior heckles Black protestors fighting Jim Crow.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He smacks his son and gives him an apparently-sincere rebuke when Junior heckles Black protestors fighting Jim Crow.

* TheDanza: Shares the same first name as his actor.

!!Glendon March Jr.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Scott [=MacArthur=]