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* {{TheDiscoDan}}: Soldier enjoys mocking Howard and Trudy over how the carefree idealism of the 60s is dead and buried.

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* {{TheDiscoDan}}: DiscoDan: Soldier enjoys mocking Howard and Trudy over how the carefree idealism of the 60s is dead and buried.
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* TheDiscoDan: Soldier enjoys mocking Howard and Trudy over how the carefree idealism of the 60s is dead and buried.

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* TheDiscoDan: {{TheDiscoDan}}: Soldier enjoys mocking Howard and Trudy over how the carefree idealism of the 60s is dead and buried.
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** Soldier shouting, "Hap and Leonard, [[TheWarriors, COME OUT AND PLAY!]]

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** Soldier shouting, "Hap and Leonard, [[TheWarriors, [[TheWarriors COME OUT AND PLAY!]]
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* ShoutOut:
** Soldier shouting, "Hap and Leonard, [[TheWarriors, COME OUT AND PLAY!]]
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* Fingore: [[spoiler: In "War", Trudy's hand literally nailed into the table by Soldier.]]

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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: In "War", Trudy's hand literally nailed into the table by Soldier.]]

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* AdaptationExpansion: While the first season is mostly an adaptation of ''Savage Season'', minor elements of ''Mucho Mojo'' are included.



* ChekovsGun: In the first episode, Leonard mentions how Switch, one of his dogs, will attack anyone he thinks is doing Leonard harm. Sure enough, come episode five [[spoiler: Hap and Leonard use this as a ploy to incapacitate Soldier and Angel.]]



* CruellaToAnimals: [[spoiler: One of Leonard's dogs was killed by....of course....Soldier, who went on to taunt about it to Leonard.]]

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* CruellaToAnimals: [[spoiler: One of Leonard's dogs was killed by....of course....Soldier, who went on to taunt Leonard about it to Leonard.]] it.]]
* TheDiscoDan: Soldier enjoys mocking Howard and Trudy over how the carefree idealism of the 60s is dead and buried.



* EvilBrit: When she's not being TheQuietOne, Angel is this.
* EvilIsHammy: Soldier and Angel.



* {{Flashback}}: Both to Hap and Leonard meeting in the 50s, and the breakdown of Hap and Trudy's marriage in the late 60s.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Again, Soldier.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: Soldier]] enjoys using the N-Word

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* NeckSnap: To [[spoiler: Angel]], courtesy of Leonard.
* NWordPrivileges: Hap seems to have them with Leonard.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: Soldier]] enjoys using the N-WordN-Word.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Hap refuses to be drafted, the recruitment officer tries to advise him to go to Canada or claim to be a conscientious objector, instead of going to jail.


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* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The last shot of the first season is the child skeleton that kicks off the plot of ''Mucho Mojo'']].
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* CruellaToAnimals: [[spoiler: One of Leonard's dogs was killed by....of course....Soldier, who went on to taunt about it to Leonard.]]
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* Fingore: [[spoiler: In "War", Trudy's hand literally nailed into the table by Soldier.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: Soldier]] enjoys using the N-Word

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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: When Angel is fatally wounded from the arrow Hap fired at her throat, Soldier comforts her with visions of their future living off the loot in Acapulco.]]

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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: When Angel is fatally wounded from the arrow Hap fired at her throat, Soldier comforts her with visions of their future living off the loot in Acapulco.]]]] [[SubvertedTrope SUBVERTED]]

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* ButtMonkey: Chubb, Chubb!

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* ButtMonkey: Chubb, Chubb!Chub, poor Chub!
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Chub went tranquil bananas after Soldier called Leonard the N-word until out of blue, [[BoomHeadshot Paco shot him down.]]]]



* SecretKeeper: Subverted with Chubb.

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* SecretKeeper: Subverted with Chubb.Chub.
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* ButtMonkey: Chubb, Chubb!
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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: When Angel is fatally wounded from the arrow Hap fired at her throat, Soldier comforts her with visions of their future living off the loot in Acapulco.]]
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* EveryScarHasAStory: Paco's extremely noticeable disfigured face was [[[spoiler: from an aaccidental explosion decades prior.]]

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* EveryScarHasAStory: Paco's extremely noticeable disfigured face was [[[spoiler: from an aaccidental accidental explosion decades prior.]]
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* SecretKeeper: Subverted with Chubb.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Paco sold this trope two times.
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* AxCrazy: Jesus, Soldier and Angel play this trope '''EXTREMELY''' well

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* ActorAllusion: [[TheWire Not the first time Michael K. Williams has played a main homosexual character.]]
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Set in the late 1980s in the fictional East Texas town, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pike, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.

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Set in the late 1980s in the fictional East Texas town, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pike, Pine, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[TropeCodifer Hap And Leonard, of course!]]

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[TropeCodifer [[TropeCodifier Hap And Leonard, of course!]]
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* EveryScarHasAStory: Paco's extremely noticeable disfigured face was [[[spoiler: from an aaccidental explosion decades prior.]]


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* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[TropeCodifer Hap And Leonard, of course!]]
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Set in the late 1980s in the fictional town of LaBorde in East Texas, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pike, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.

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Set in the late 1980s in the fictional town of LaBorde in East Texas, Texas town, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pike, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Hap and Trudy.
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* ActorAllusion: [[TheWire Not the first time Michael K. Williams has played a main homosexual character.]]
* TheEighties: Season 1 is 1988.
* TheVietnamWar: Leonard's a veteran. Subverted with Hap as he served prison time for refusing to be drafted.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Leonard regularly eats vanilla cookies.
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''Hap and Leonard'' is a Sundance Channel drama series based on the characters Hap and Leonard, created by novelist Joe R. Lansdale[1] and adapted by his series of novels of the same name.

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''Hap and Leonard'' is a Sundance Channel drama series based on the characters Hap and Leonard, created by novelist Joe R. Lansdale[1] Lansdale and adapted by his series of novels of the same name.
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''Hap and Leonard'' is a Sundance Channel drama series based on the characters Hap and Leonard, created by novelist Joe R. Lansdale[1] and adapted by his series of novels of the same name.

Set in the late 1980s in the fictional town of LaBorde in East Texas, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pike, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.
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