History Series / LoveHate

%% * DrivenToSuicide: Linda, after [[spoiler: Nidge]] pipe bombs her house. [[VillainousBreakdown Fran doesn't take it well]].

%% * ActionGirl: Lizzie, as a member of the IRA.

* ShootingGallery: On Nidge's stag do, the gang go to one of these and fire off pretty much every weapon on the CoolGuns page.

%% * GoldTooth: Subverted with Fran.
%% --> '''Fran''': Had you going. What do you think I want to look like? A bleedin' rapper?! Bleedin' fuckin' [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]]?!

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Darren takes out Stumpy in the second series, though it's on the orders of John Boy, who suspects that Stumpy is a rat. [[spoiler: Comes back to bite Darren in the ass, as Rosie leaves him at the end of the second series.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Luke has some kind of condition. He lives in squalor and he has a tendency towards [[StalkerWithACrush hanging around outside people's houses]]. [[spoiler: Darren and Nidge kill him when his stalking of Mary has become too much.]]

* BastardBoyfriend:
** Stumpy is a DomesticAbuser who beats Rosie so badly that she loses the baby she'd been carrying because he suspects that she's cheating on him with Darren.
** Darren could count too. While he treats Rosie well, he does MurderTheHypotenuse (albeit under orders from John Boy).

%% * DomesticAbuse: John Boy and Stumpy.

%% ** Series 5 cranks it UpToEleven with someone dying nearly every episode. [[spoiler: Including Nidge.]]

** Darren could count too. While he treats Rosie well, he does MurderTheHypoteneuse (albeit under orders from John Boy).

%% * BingeMontage: Nidge's stag do in Prague.

%% * BoomHeadshot: Darren is rather fond of dishing these out on hits. [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath It's also how he ends up dying]].]]

%% * TheCameo: Keith Duffy as a gym trainer.

%% * DepravedDentist: Andrew is down on his luck and essentially attempts to fleece his customers by recommending they need expensive crowns when not really necessary. He ends up working for Nidge, as he's looking to make a massive profit by smuggling in class A drugs with painkillers.

* ExcrementStatement: Fran pisses on the grave of Noelie Hughes' mother, in order to insult Noelie.
%% ** Nidge to a slab of milk cartons ''outside a garda station'' [[ForTheEvulz just to piss the gardai off]] when they have nothing on him on a drug smuggling operation.

%% * GoodGunsBadGuns: Inverted with pistols: The Glock 17 and Beretta 92 are mostly seen in the hands of criminals, while the SIG-Sauer [=P226=] is [[ShownTheirWork correctly]] depicted as a police weapon. Played straight with {{Sawed Off Shotgun}}s and [=AKs=] though, the latter of which is only shown to be in possession of the [[WesternTerrorists IRA]] and the former is mostly used for KneeCapping.

%% * BastardBoyfriend:
%% ** Stumpy.
%% ** Darren.

* InfantImmortality: While children are fairly safe ([[AnyoneCanDie so far]]), [[spoiler: [[TeensAreMonsters Wayne]] winds up getting blown away by his one time friend.]] Patrick's ten year old son gets shot but is alive for now.

* BiggerBad: Terence "Big Balls" May, an expatriate gangster living in Spain, has an interest in keeping Nidge alive so they can work together smuggling drugs into Ireland. He sends Pauley over to keep an eye on him and gets him a new bodyguard after Nidge's own GiantMook gets hacked up with a machete. Nidge is obviously worried every time he goes over to see him, as he feels that Terence might see Nidge as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness expendable]].

** [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Darren's brother is killed in the first episode of the first series, with Darren spending the first series trying to find out who did it. Darren himself ends up shooting [[spoiler: Lizzie's]] brother in self defence, [[spoiler: for which Lizzie later kills him]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Nidge and Tommy have a habit of leaving their wives/girlfriends at home while they go out and bang hookers. Tommy, especially, as he's got Debbie on the side as a regular thing.
** The women get in on the act as well with Linda cheating on Fran with Nidge in series 2, Siobhan getting involved with Pauley in series 5, as well as Nadine cheating on Ado with Scotty.

* MrSeahorse: Discussed and defied. Ado has been using other people's urine samples to cheat drug tests. When caught for time, Nadine gives him hers to help him. So, it's a shock to Ado when the doctor tells him that he's pregnant. [[SeenItAll The doctor, knowing full well what he's done]] [[DeadpanSnarker simply snarks at him for it.]]

'''''Love/Hate''''' is an Irish drama series broadcast on Creator/{{RTE}}. It centres on a criminal gang in {{UsefulNotes/Dublin}} and their various dealings.

* ActionGirl: Lizzie, as a member of the IRA.
** DarkActionGirl
* AffablyEvil: Nidge. You see him interacting with his family quite a lot and he deeply cares about them. But, man oh man, does he ever have a nasty streak.
** LaughablyEvil: He also gets some of the funniest lines.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Luke. While widely recognised as TheWoobie and living in squalour, he has a tendency towards [[StalkerWithACrush hanging around outside people's houses]]. [[spoiler: Darren and Nidge kill him when his stalking of Mary has become too much.]]
* AmoralAttorney: John Boy keeps ones in his employ. Dave continues to work for Nidge when he takes over.
* AnyoneCanDie: For a show five seasons long with only six episodes per series ([[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness four in series one]]), there's a high body count. Also, ''nobody'' is safe. [[spoiler: Of the four main characters who appear in the page image, as of series 5, two are dead, one is in a coma and the other was last seen with a pool cue up his arse.]]

** Not to mention the [[MemeticMutation infamous cat killing]] in series 4.

* AssShove: One of the fifth season's [[spoiler: closing shots is the brutal aftermath of Fran's shower assault involving a pool cue.]]
* AxCrazy: Hughie. Justified in that he's a heavy cocaine user.
* TheBadGuyWins: Series one ends with Darren being left for dead by Stumpy, series two has [[spoiler: Nidge take over the gang after having John Boy killed]], series three ends with [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Darren's death]]]] and series four ends with Nidge [[KarmaHoudini getting off on the robbery charge]], yet getting himself arrested intentionally by literally pissing off the gardai. Then again, since there are very few virtuous characters on this show, it's to be expected.
* BastardBoyfriend: Stumpy. Darren could also be this, despite being [[DesignatedHero technically]] being TheHero.

* BestServedCold: Nidge advises Noelie to invoke this trope with Fran, because a prior attempt on Fran's life in prison [[EyeScream ended very badly]].

* BingeMontage: Nidge's stag do in Prague.

* BookEnds: Series 1 begins with Bobby being killed in the middle of a phone call with Darren. [[spoiler: Series 3 ends with Darren being killed mid phone call with Nidge.]]

* BoomHeadshot: Darren is rather fond of dishing these out on hits. [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath It's also how he ends up dying]].]]

** Nidge's young son, Warren, is prone to this also.
* BrokenBird: Debbie.

* ButtMonkey: Aido.
* TheCameo: Keith Duffy as a gym trainer.

* CoolCar: JP's dad has one in the garage. Hughie keeps asking to be allowed to drive it.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: Darren when he is killed.]]
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Utterly defied. The criminal life is not shown to be a good one despite the large amounts of cash flying around. Anyone who holds the mantle of [[BigBad head of the gang]] winds up looking over their own shoulder constantly with their paranoia eventually costing them their lives. Anyone else seems to wind up dead, seriously injured or in prison.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Series 2 and 3 have escalated this trope.
** The whole show is this for Irish television in general.
** Series 5 cranks it UpToEleven with someone dying nearly every episode. [[spoiler: Including Nidge.]]
* DeadBabyComedy:
** Episode 2.6 *BLAM**BLAM*, "Yep, he's dead."
** Episode 3.1 Nidge's reaction to Darren killing Git.
** A very bleak example that was more a joke made by every single person who watched the episode. Episode 3.1 ran a voiceover on the credits saying "if you've been affected by any of the issues presented in this episode, please call this number...". They were probably talking about the rape scene, but it quickly became a minor meme to say "If you've been affected by being beaten to death with a beer keg, please call this number".
** Not to mention that poor cat.

* DepravedDentist: Andrew is down on his luck and essentially attempts to fleece his customers by recommending they need expensive crowns when not really necessary. He ends up working for Nidge, as he's looking to make a massive profit by smuggling in class A drugs with painkillers.
* DomesticAbuse: John Boy and Stumpy.

** The end of series 2. Rosie leaves Darren because of what he's become. Also, Debbie, [[spoiler: without John Boy]] to fund her heroin habit resorts to prostitution.

* DrivenToSuicide: Linda, after [[spoiler: Nidge]] pipe bombs her house. [[VillainousBreakdown Fran doesn't take it well]].

* EightiesHair: Fran.
** Trish's hair gets bigger each series.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A major tenet of the series.

** Nidge does this to a slab of milk cartons ''outside a garda station'' [[ForTheEvulz just to piss the gardai off]] when they have nothing on him on a drug smuggling operation.

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Considering that the main male characters are all thugs, drug dealers, criminals and terrorists and that the majority of female characters are their wives, girlfriends and daughters, this goes without saying. [[spoiler: Of course, Lizzie is a subversion.]]
* GainaxEnding: Nidge's antics in the cell at the end of series 4.
* GoldTooth: Subverted with Fran.
--> '''Fran''': Had you going. What do you think I want to look like? A bleedin' rapper?! Bleedin' fuckin' [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]]?!
* GoodGunsBadGuns: Inverted with pistols: The Glock 17 and Beretta 92 are mostly seen in the hands of criminals, while the SIG-Sauer [=P226=] is [[ShownTheirWork correctly]] depicted as a police weapon. Played straight with {{Sawed Off Shotgun}}s and [=AKs=] though, the latter of which is only shown to be in possession of the [[WesternTerrorists IRA]] and the former is mostly used for KneeCapping.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: At best. At worst it's EvilVersusEvil.

* HeroAntagonist: Mick Moynihan and the task force he forms.

* HollywoodHealing: Averted. Series 2 establishes Darren to still have scarring from his gunshot wound at the end of series 1. Aido gets knee-capped at the start of series 3 and spends the rest of the series in a cast. He even notes that he has applied for a disabled parking permit for his car.

* HookersAndBlow: The party favours when John Boy throws a bash tend to be this.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Nobody in Dublin, barring Darren, Stumpy [[spoiler: or possibly Lizzie]], can shoot straight. Of particular note is when the IRA kidnap Nidge, armed with Kalashnikovs and are fought off by Darren, [[ImprobableAimingSkills only armed with a pistol]]. Darren doesn't take a scratch and manages a BoomHeadshot on [[spoiler: Lizzie's brother]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma This comes back to bite him in the ass.]]
** Deconstructed when recovering junkie Packie is sent to kill Patrick Ward. His heart not really in it, it gives him a shaky hand. His first shot his Patrick in the chest, but his BulletProofVest saves him. When he shrugs this off, Packie begins to flee, firing wildly in Patrick's direction, hoping to score another hit, having been told to DoubleTap [[BoomHeadshot in the head]]. Patrick charges him and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, but a stray shot hits his son in the head.

* StalkerWithACrush: Luke to Mary.
* TheStarscream / [[spoiler: DragonAscendant]]: [[spoiler: Nidge]].
* StartOfDarkness: Rosie leaving Darren.
* TeensAreMonsters: The lowest level {{Mook}}s are teenagers and sometimes younger.

* NeverLiveItDown: people act as if "Coola boola!" is Fran's catchphrase — he only ever says it once (season 3, episode 1). Similarly, Tommy only asked for a "fizzy orange" once (season 4, episode 1).

* DomesticAbuser: John Boy and Stumpy.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: On two occasions, songs by Music/NickiMinaj are played in the background. Both of those occasions occur in a brothel. Make of that what you will.

* CliffHanger: The first series finale.
* ColdOpening

* GenreSavvy: Lizzie. [[spoiler: Having seen first hand that everyone who goes after Darren has a tendency to [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy miss wide of the mark]], she gets up really close before shooting Darren twice in the back of the head.]]

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: On two occasions, songs by NickiMinaj are played in the background. Both of those occasions occur in a brothel. Make of that what you will.

Series 5 follows on [[ImmediateSequel soon after series 4]] with Nidge taking on a loan from an Irish expat mobster living in Spain and a falling out with a gang of IrishTravellers. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding Most of the cast either wind up dead, incapacitated or incarcerated by the end]].]]

* IrishTravellers: Nidge's attempt to kill Patrick incurs the wrath of a group of these and they make an attempt on his life.

* ShoutOut: Nidge and Trish's wedding entrance is one to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0 dance entrance]] complete with ''[[ChrisBrown Forever]]'' as the music.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: When Nidge's home is invaded in series 4, he carries one as a defensive weapon. Downplayed in that he's hiding the whole time, as it'd be pretty useless against Lizzie's MP5.

* YourCheatingHeart: Nidge and Tommy have a habit of leaving their wives/girfriends at home while they go out and bang hookers. Tommy, especially, as he's got Debbie on the side as a regular thing.

* PantsPositiveSafety

* FanDisservice: The final scene with Fran has him lying naked in a pool of his own blood, gagged and with a [[AssShove pool cue sticking out of his ass]].

A sixth series has been confirmed for 2016.

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Janet]]. The last time [[spoiler: she's]] seen alive is when four {{Mook}}s knock on the door. Judging by the fact that one of them is seen carrying a battery powered grinder and that [[spoiler: Janet]]'s body is shown with multiple bruises and slashed knees, it was likely a death that wouldn't have been out of place in a ''Film/{{Saw}}'' movie.