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** [[spoiler: Darren's death in series 3.]]
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* 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, 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.]]
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* 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, only armed with a pistol. Darren doesn't take a scratch and manages a BoomHeadshot on [[spoiler: Lizzie's brother.brother]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma This comes back to bite him in the ass.]]
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** Darren [[WouldHitAGirl Would Shoot A Girl]] so as to leave no witnesses to a murder.
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** Darren [[WouldHitAGirl Would Shoot A Girl]] so as to leave no witnesses to a murder.murder.
* YouKilledMyFather: A rare example where the protagonists are responsible. Darren kills Git at the start of series 3, with Dano looking for revenge.
**[[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]].
* YouKilledMyFather: A rare example where the protagonists are responsible. Darren kills Git at the start of series 3, with Dano looking for revenge.
**[[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]].
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* BoomHeadshot: Darren is rather fond of dishing these out on hits. [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath It's also how he ends up dying]].]]
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* 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.]]
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* 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, 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.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Double subverted with Darren at the end of series 3. Elmo comes after him on orders from Nidge, but only manages to wound him before his gun jams. Darren grabs his gun to go after Nidge, only to be shot in the back of the head twice by Lizzie.]]
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** Nidge seems to be going through one in series 3 from the stress of dealing with Git's [[RapeAsDrama rape of Siobhan]], Darren and Tommy's subsequent killing of Git and the gang's disposal of the body, his own NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Tommy, the guards and the IRA onto them for Git's disappearance and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking going bald]].
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** Nidge seems to be going through one in series 3 from the stress of dealing with Git's [[RapeAsDrama rape of Siobhan]], Darren and Tommy's subsequent killing of Git and the gang's disposal of the body, his own NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Tommy, the guards and the IRA onto them for Git's disappearance disappearance, Darren's killing of an innocent witness and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking going bald]].
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** Nidge seems to be going through one in series 3 from the stress of dealing with Git's [[RapeAsDrama rape of Siobhan]], Darren and Tommy's subsequent killing of Git and the gang's disposal of the body, his own NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Tommy, the guards and the IRA onto them for Git's disappearance and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking going bald]].
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* 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.
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* AnyoneCanDieAnyoneCanDie: For a show three seasons long with only six episodes per series, there's a high body count.
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* TerroristsWithoutACause: Presumably, the dissident Republicans in series 3, since they're based in Dublin and not the north.
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* WouldHitAGirl: John Boy and Stumpy.Stumpy.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: At best. At worst it's EvilVersusEvil.
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** LaughablyEvil: He also gets some of the funniest lines.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Series 3.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Git rapes Siobhan, causing Tommy to beat him to a pulp. [[spoiler: Darren [[MercyKill finishes him off]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser with a beer keg]].]]
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* ShootingGallery: On Nidge's stag do, the gang go to one of these and fire off pretty much every weapon on the CoolGuns page.
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* WouldHitAGirl: John Boy and Stumpy.
* WouldHitAGirl: John Boy and Stumpy.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Stumpy. Darren could technically be this, despite being [[DesignatedHero technically]] being TheHero.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Stumpy. Darren could technically be this, despite being [[DesignedHero technically]] being TheHero.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: John Boy is [[TheWire Tommy Carcetti]].
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* GeniusBonus: Every character in the show shows a preference for the Glock, except in the opening scene, when Bobby gets shot by a masked man with a Beretta. It's only later in the series, we see [[spoiler: Hughie]] carry one a scene or two before he's revealed as Bobby's killer.
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* {{Fanservice}}: There's a bit of it around, most notably Darren and Rosie's sex scene.
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Love/Hate is an Irish drama series broadcast on RTE. It centres on a criminal gang in Dublin and their various dealings.
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!!Love/Hate provides examples of:
* 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.
* AxCrazy: Hughie. Justified in that he's a heavy cocaine user.
* BingeMontage: Nidge's stag do in Prague.
* CliffHanger: The first series finale.
* ColdOpening
* CoolCar: JP's dad has one in the garage. Hughie keeps asking to be allowed to drive it.
* DesignatedHero: Darren. Over the course of the series, despite saying that he wants to get out of crime, performs more and more criminal acts, even [[spoiler: he kills John Boy and it's no longer necessary.]] Rosie even finally notices this and leaves him for good at the end of the second series.
* DownerEnding: 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.
* EightiesHair: Fran.
* HookersAndBlow: The party favours when John Boy throws a bash tend to be this.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: When Hughie shows his gun off to Patsy, he removes the magazine, but neglects to remove the round from the chamber [[TooDumbToLive when he points it to his own head and pulls the trigger]].
* LockAndLoad: The opening scene consists of Nidge learning how to field strip a Glock 17.
* StalkerWithACrush: Luke to Mary.
* TheStarscream / [[spoiler: DragonAscendant]]: [[spoiler: Nidge]].
* VillainousBreakdown: John Boy's takes most of series 2.
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!!Love/Hate provides examples of:
* 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.
* AxCrazy: Hughie. Justified in that he's a heavy cocaine user.
* BingeMontage: Nidge's stag do in Prague.
* CliffHanger: The first series finale.
* ColdOpening
* CoolCar: JP's dad has one in the garage. Hughie keeps asking to be allowed to drive it.
* DesignatedHero: Darren. Over the course of the series, despite saying that he wants to get out of crime, performs more and more criminal acts, even [[spoiler: he kills John Boy and it's no longer necessary.]] Rosie even finally notices this and leaves him for good at the end of the second series.
* DownerEnding: 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.
* EightiesHair: Fran.
* HookersAndBlow: The party favours when John Boy throws a bash tend to be this.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: When Hughie shows his gun off to Patsy, he removes the magazine, but neglects to remove the round from the chamber [[TooDumbToLive when he points it to his own head and pulls the trigger]].
* LockAndLoad: The opening scene consists of Nidge learning how to field strip a Glock 17.
* StalkerWithACrush: Luke to Mary.
* TheStarscream / [[spoiler: DragonAscendant]]: [[spoiler: Nidge]].
* VillainousBreakdown: John Boy's takes most of series 2.
