| 1 | '''Beware of spoilers! Only major spoilers and spoilers relating to the current season (6) are whited out!''' |
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| 5 | !Crowe Family & Associates |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 8 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crowes_962.jpg]] |
| 9 | [[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Dewey]], [[PsychoForHire Danny]], [[BigBad Daryl]]]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | -->'''Dewey:''' Them Florida Crowes are bad news. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -->'''Daryl:''' I know what you thinking.\ |
| 14 | '''Boyd:''' Well I wager you a crisp Ben Franklin you do not.\ |
| 15 | '''Daryl:''' You wondering 'can I trust these dusty-ass Crowe boys?'\ |
| 16 | '''Boyd:''' I owe you a hundred dollars. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | A sprawling family of criminal rednecks, with branches in Kentucky and Florida, the Crowes are a loose knit collection of smugglers, poachers, and general ne'er-do-wells, most of whom have done some time in prison. Initially represented by bumbling, would-be badass Dewey Crowe, the family's image takes a turn for the darker when Daryl Crowe Jr. and the rest of the Florida branch arrive in Kentucky, looking to make their fortunes. |
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| 20 | * AnimalMotifs: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3g4rWmtLo Crows]], which have been used to represent the family throughout the advertising campaign for Season 5. In "Over the Mountain", [[spoiler:crows symbolically flock around Wade Messer's corpse after Daryl bullies Dewey into killing him.]] |
| 21 | * BadassFamily: Daryl, Danny, Wendy, and Kendal all have their moments. |
| 22 | * BanditClan: An extended family of poachers, smugglers, and thieves with branches in backwoods Kentucky and the Florida Everglades. |
| 23 | * BigBrotherBully: Daryl and Danny. |
| 24 | * CannibalClan: Invoked when Raylan barges into the home where Wendy and Kendall are staying with the excuse that he has to make sure the original owner isn't dead or, "knowing your family, stewing in a pot." |
| 25 | * TheClan: The Crowes are a large family all of whom have been involved in criminal enterprises at one point or another, and who tend to stick together and operate as a unit. |
| 26 | * CorruptionOfAMinor: The Crowes are happy to let young Kendal tend bar at a brothel. |
| 27 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They do seem to care for each other, even if they squabble. |
| 28 | * EvilPoacher: Alligator poaching is a big part of the family business and is usually the first crime that a member of the family is asked to commit as Kendal later informs Raylan. |
| 29 | * EvilRedhead: Danny, Daryl, Wendy, and Dewey all have red or red-tinged hair. The trope was invoked by Danny's actor in an interview when he brought up the shared hair colour and noted that the season's motto was "don't mess with the gingers." |
| 30 | * {{Expy}}: They come off as a collective expy of the Bennetts, with the redneck tendencies exaggerated. |
| 31 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: They're all criminals, from Kendal and Wendy on up to Dewey's father and uncles. |
| 32 | * HandsOffParenting: The adult Crowes raise Kendal in a corrupting environment and make no effort to hide their criminal ways from him. They even involve the boy in the day-to-day operations of Audreys. |
| 33 | * LaughablyEvil: Between Dewey, Danny, and Dilly's stupidity, Kendal and Wendy's snark, and Daryl's twisted sense of humor, they're pretty amusing. |
| 34 | * TheLoad: The Crowe men become increasingly burdensome to Boyd and Duffy as Season 5 progresses. Daryl and Danny kill Johnny's henchmen during a delicate heroin smuggling operation, creating additional problems for Boyd. Later, Dewey flees with half of the drug shipment while Danny is distracted. In "Weight", Picker warns Duffy that Boyd and the Crowes are more trouble than they're worth. |
| 35 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Crowes look like a bunch of idiot hillbillies, and the fact that Dewey is the first one we meet doesn't help, but they are a dangerous bunch. |
| 36 | * {{Misogyny}}: The Crowes operate Audrey's brothel and have no qualms about exploiting women to make money. In "Raw Deal", Danny brags about a sexual encounter he and Daryl had with a Mexican woman, making it clear that they had little respect for her. In "Weight", Daryl taunts Danny by joking that Chelsea has shacked up with a mastiff and is "taking it" like a "bitch". It seems that Crowe patriarchs have a history of keeping the Crowe women browbeaten into submission. |
| 37 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: How varies, but they all trend in this direction. |
| 38 | * PsychoForHire: Danny's the most obvious example but the Crowe boys are collectively a group of ruthless criminal mercenaries in it for the violence as much as the profit. |
| 39 | * StupidCrooks: Excepting Wendy, the Crowes are uneducated, and represent the worst of backwoods Southern culture (though [[GeniusBruiser Daryl]], at least, is much [[SmarterThanYouLook smarter than he looks]]). |
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| 41 | |
| 42 | !Kentucky Crowes |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Dewey]] |
| 45 | !!Dewey Crowe |
| 46 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/be603fb9abb92f2a5df0e888e3e09acc.jpg]] |
| 47 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[ButtMonkey These are the end times for Dewey Crowe!]]"'']] |
| 48 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DamonHerriman |
| 49 | |
| 50 | -->''"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd. But... {{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}}{{Beat}} I ain't."'' |
| 51 | |
| 52 | A dim-witted Neo-Nazi and drug addict who initially appears as a henchman of Boyd, but continues to crop up throughout the series usually with a new allegiance or poorly thought-out plan. In Season 5 life finally seems to be giving him a break when he purchases "Audrey's" from Boyd, only for his cousins from Florida to roll in and take it from him. |
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| 54 | * ATaleToldByAnIdiot: Any time Dewey tries to relay what has happened in any given situation, the character he's talking to usually ends up either exasperated and asking a dozen questions to clarify what he means or staring in awe at how nonsensical his story is. Several one-off characters simply mutter a variation of "Bless your heart" (Southern for "You're an idiot") and continue on with whatever they were doing before he arrived. |
| 55 | * AddledAddict: Subverted. Dewey uses drugs recreationally, but it doesn't seem to impact his ability to function. His stupidity and incompetence is all natural. |
| 56 | * AffablyEvil: Dewey is a petty crook, racist, and a total moron, but he's still surprisingly civil and conversational for the most part. |
| 57 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Dewey was always a MinionWithAnFInEvil, and his death is extremely upsetting. He launches into a tearful, nostalgic rant about how he wishes things were still the way they were back when he was running with Crowder's Commandos. He despairs of how his life has taken so many violent turns and how weary he is of life as a petty criminal. He confesses all this to his "friend" Boyd, and it becomes clear that Dewey has no friends, no prospects, no good end in sight and he's only getting older. Then this poor, emotionally stunted and intellectually subpar human being is coldly executed by the man who he called a friend not a few minutes prior.]] |
| 58 | * AscendedExtra: He was a minor character whose popularity caused him to have an increasing number of appearances across the the show. This culminates in Season 5 when his cousins become one of the season's major threats, and he all but joins the main cast. |
| 59 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Downplayed. Dewey has an alligator tooth necklace taken from an alligator he poached, but it's used less to establish him as evil and more to depict him as a HalfWittedHillbilly. |
| 60 | * BaffledByOwnBiology: |
| 61 | ** When Raylan meets with him while Dewey is incarcerated in county jail, he has Dewey brought to him on the pretext of him having tuberculosis. Dewey actually buys that he has it for a while despite not knowing what it is and complains to Raylan about it. |
| 62 | -->'''Raylan:''' You don't even know what TB is.\ |
| 63 | '''Dewey:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Sure I do! It's a monkey disease]], like [[Film/{{Outbreak}} in that movie.]] |
| 64 | ** Dewey is convinced by an organ trafficker that she's removed one of his kidneys. It later turns out that she hadn't, but Dewey had been suckered in because he believed he had four kidneys. |
| 65 | * BavarianFireDrill: Dewey, of all people, manages to pull one off when he robs two criminals who previously ripped off an illegal drug shipment. When a clothing store does not have any ski-masks, he buys a cheap suit and a cowboy hat and tricks the criminals into thinking that he is 'Raylan Givens, US Marshal'. |
| 66 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Dewey might be an idiot, but he creates endless problems for Boyd's heroin operation throughout Season 5. He steals half of Boyd's heroin shipment, then interrupts Boyd's meeting with Daryl, in which Boyd hoped to implicate Daryl in crimes while wearing a wire. |
| 67 | * BigBadWannabe: Dewey occasionally has aspirations to being a criminal in the same vein as Boyd, but he's too dumb, unlucky and short-sighted to get anywhere far. |
| 68 | * BlatantBurglar: In one episode, Dewey plans to rob some criminals who stole a large amount of drugs from the mob. He is missing a ski mask for his disguise so he goes shopping for one. It's summer so none of the stores have any in stock and Dewey [[TooDumbToLive loudly complains about the fact to the manager]]. The manager is about to call the police about this suspicious customer when Dewey has an uncharacteristic bright idea and instead buys a cowboy hat and cheap suit [[RefugeInAudacity to commit the robbery while disguised as Raylan.]] |
| 69 | * BookEnds: Dewey's first and last appearance ends with Raylan giving him advice and Dewey responding "Man, I don't understand you." Until he reappears he Season 6, but the final Season 5 exchange was pretty much the end of Raylan and Dewey's crazy little journey together. |
| 70 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Boyd coldly executes Dewey with a shot to the head in Season 6.]] |
| 71 | * BornUnlucky: A lot of Dewey's misfortune comes down to his own incompetence, but he also has genuinely bad luck that screws him over even when he hasn't screwed up on his own. |
| 72 | * BullyingADragon: In the pilot, Dewey introduces himself to Raylan by pulling a shotgun on him to intimidate him. [[NervesOfSteel Raylan]] is unimpressed and snatches the shotgun out of Dewey's hands. |
| 73 | * TheBusCameBack: After being absent for Season 4, he returns the following season with a major role in the plot. |
| 74 | * ButtMonkey: Nothing good ever happens to Dewey. ''Ever''. If the man won the lottery, he'd somehow lose it all to Boyd. |
| 75 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Boyd shoots him in the head in "Fate's Right Hand".]] |
| 76 | * TheChewToy: Dewey goes through a lot of punishment and humiliation, but it's all PlayedForLaughs and he tends to have it coming for the most part. |
| 77 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dewey's mostly just stupid, but he's prone to having some bizarre thoughts on how the world works and is ignorant of basic facts. |
| 78 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: With frequency, due to Dewey's general idiocy. |
| 79 | * TheComicallySerious: Part of what makes Dewey so LaughablyEvil is that he maintains a serious demeanor about whatever he says and does, no matter how ridiculous or stupid. He'll [[ThirdPersonPerson speak in the third person]], say ridiculous [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]], and just generally demonstrate a lack of knowledge about basic facts with a completely straight face. |
| 80 | * ConfrontingYourImposter: He disguised himself as Raylan while robbing some of Dickie's goons of a shipment of oxycontin. He winds up putting Raylan on his tail, who very quickly figures out it was Dewey because of his signature neck tattooes. |
| 81 | * CorruptTheCutie: Dewey was never a good man, but his crimes were [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain amusing]] and [[HarmlessVillain relatively low-level]] during the first four seasons. Daryl's influence is leading him down a morally darker path. For example, Daryl pressured Dewey into killing Wade Messer. |
| 82 | * CostumeCopycat: He once impersonated Raylan by buying a hat similar to his, and stealing one of Dickie's henchmen's drug supply under the guise of a raid. |
| 83 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Downplayed. Dewey is an incompetent screw-up who barely even intimidates civilians, but he does have the occasional flash of competence. He's able to successfully rob a pair of drug dealers in "The I of the Storm", and later pummels a much more muscular man for taking his alligator tooth necklace. |
| 84 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "Thick As Mud" focuses on Dewey's escape from prison, his entanglement with an organ trafficker and his subsequent panic-fuelled crime spree. |
| 85 | * DespairEventHorizon: Dewey plunges into despair in "Shot All To Hell" after losing his brothel to the Florida Crowes and committing his first murder. The act propels him into an existential crisis, in which he no longer knows who he is. He gives his prized possessions, including his signature alligator tooth necklace, to his two favorite prostitutes. |
| 86 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: He rarely thinks his actions through, which never helps his status as a ButtMonkey. |
| 87 | * TheDitz: Dewey is dumb as they come. Perhaps his dumbest moment is believing he had four kidneys. |
| 88 | * DumbMuscle: Boyd tends to use Dewey mostly for manpower, and Dewey is a genuinely strong fighter. It's just everything else that he's bad at. |
| 89 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Dewey is as dumb as they come, but he's occasionally able to come up with a good idea. |
| 90 | ** When Boyd briefly gives up his criminal ways and starts living a mundane life, Dewey accurately points out Boyd hasn't really changed at all and his turn to the straight and narrow almost certainly isn't going to last. |
| 91 | ** He also accurately points out how manipulative Boyd tends to be, though it never stops him from being hoodwinked. |
| 92 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His very first scene has Dewey hop out of a car to tell Boyd his brother has died, only to realize he forgot to put it in park and have to go back inside to do so. It immediately establishes just how much of an idiot Dewey is. |
| 93 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of his prized possessions is a "turtle dog" carving that his grandfather gave him. He also tells an old woman that she reminds him of his grandmother. Dewey also cares deeply for Teena and Meena, two prostitutes he favours (the affection is felt back, but not returned as deeply). |
| 94 | * EvilIsPetty: He has his moments of this, most notably with his hatred of "fatties", to the point of firing an employee just for being overweight. |
| 95 | * ExtremeDoormat: Raylan, Boyd and Daryl manipulate him with ease because Dewey lacks the backbone and intelligence to stand up for himself or discern when they're trying to pull one over on him. |
| 96 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Season 5 begins with Dewey winning a $300,000 settlement from the Marshals office and using it to purchase Audrey's brothel. Within a few episodes, the Florida Crowes take over Audrey's, and Dewey is broke again. In "Kill the Messenger", he tries unsuccessfully to sell his swimming pool for much-needed cash. |
| 97 | * FriendlyEnemy: He has a somewhat amicable relationship with Raylan. The two clearly don't like each other, but Raylan pities Dewey for his [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain general ineffectuality]] and Dewey makes an effort to be cordial with him. |
| 98 | * GrewASpine: In "Starvation", Dewey pummels a john who is wearing his gator tooth necklace, then takes Daryl and Boyd's heroin away at gunpoint. |
| 99 | * HalfWittedHillbilly: He's a mix of Type 3 and 4. Dewey is a Neo-Nazi and a petty crook, as well as an uneducated moron with a stunning ignorance of basic facts and a total lack of common sense. |
| 100 | * IconicItem: His alligator tooth necklace and his "turtle dog" (a turtle-shaped wood carving). When he gives the items away to Tina and Mina in Season 5, it signifies that Dewey has passed the {{despair event horizon}}. When he reclaims his necklace from a customer at Audrey's, it indicates that Dewey has found himself again. In Season 6, Dewey finds the turtle dog among the garbage at Audrey's, which he interprets as a sign. |
| 101 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's an ex-Neo-Nazi crook, but he's just so [[TooDumbtoLive stupid]] you can't not have sympathy for the idiot. |
| 102 | * InsufferableImbecile: Downplayed. He's generally quite [[AffablyEvil friendly and agreeable]], but Dewey is still a petty crook and very stupid and incompetent. |
| 103 | * HammyVillainSeriousHero: Raylan is perpetually calm and collected, while Dewey is an idiot. A very ''loud'' idiot. |
| 104 | * HarmlessVillain: Up until Season 5. He's a criminal to be sure, but he's such an idiot that he fails at everything he tries and he's such an ExtremeDoormat that he's easy to manipulate. |
| 105 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Boyd decides he just can't trust Dewey, especially since Dewey is a witness to his impulsive murder of Johnny Crowder in Mexico. He kills him in his office before coldly telling Carl to get rid of the body.]] |
| 106 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: Dewey is prone to screwing himself over with his poorly thought out plans and his general stupidity and incompetence. He works best when following someone else's orders, and even then he sometimes screws up. |
| 107 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Starvation", he seizes a batch of heroin bricks from Daryl and Boyd at gunpoint, bragging about his murder of Wade Messer. Unbeknowst to Dewey, Boyd was wearing a wire. After getting Dewey's murder confession on tape, the Marshals quicky arrest him. |
| 108 | * HookersAndBlow: When he robs two thugs of their ill-gotten Oxycontin stash, his first stop is the local brothel where he is very generous with the pills. Later, when he wins a $300,000 settlement from the Marshal's office, he purchases Audrey's brothel and spends much of his time frolicking with prostitutes. He later refers to it as his 'dream'. Dream big, Dewey. |
| 109 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Dewey is very easily manipulated, and can be convinced of nearly anything by people he doesn't even like. Despite knowing he can't trust either Raylan or Boyd, Dewey still buys everything they say and gets easily bamboozled by the two. Even fellow moron Wade Messer is able to manipulate Dewey. |
| 110 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Dewey desperately wants a sense of friendship and camaraderie, which is why he keeps going back to Boyd, who was one of the only people who accepted him. |
| 111 | * ImpersonatingAnOfficer: He once impersonated Raylan while robbing a pair of drug dealers. Unfortunately, they quickly wind up tracking him down, and when the real Raylan tries to get them to stand down, they assume Dewey's trying to trick them again and keep firing on the two. |
| 112 | * InsufferableImbecile: Dewey is a scummy Neo-Nazi and an utter moron prone to incompetence and ignorant of basic facts. That said, he tends to be one of the more [[AffablyEvil amiable]] and earnest members of Harlan's underworld, though he's not one to be trusted. |
| 113 | * IronicEcho: Raylan told him to give up the "Nazi bullshit and go back to poaching gators" in the first episode. He (inappropriately) uses the line on some gangsters when he impersonates Raylan to rob them, and it ends up getting him caught for it. |
| 114 | * {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. Dewey is a sleazy racist, but by the standards of Harlan's underworld he's not too bad, and he generally tends to be quite AffablyEvil. |
| 115 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Dewey goes through tons of humiliation, but while he is pitiable he's still a Neo-Nazi and something of a jerk. |
| 116 | * KickTheDog: After buying Audrey's brothel from Boyd, he fires Christie for no other reason than being a "fattie". |
| 117 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Subverted. Dewey is quite AffablyEvil and a HarmlessVillain, but he's still a scumbag and a racist, just nowhere near as unpleasant as several of the other criminals Raylan encounters or even his own family. |
| 118 | * LargeHam: He's quite loud and prone to melodramatic declarations. |
| 119 | * LaughablyEvil: He's a sleazy Neo-Nazi, but Dewey's stupidity, incompetence, and his [[TheChewToy tendency to make a fool of himself]] make him immensely funny to watch. |
| 120 | * LikableVillain: One wouldn't expect a moronic, feckless Neo-Nazi to be a likable character, but Dewey's so [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless]] and earnestly naive it's hard not to like him. |
| 121 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Raylan mentions that Dewey's father was also a criminal who served time in prison, implying Dewey takes after his father. |
| 122 | * LowerClassLout: He's a lower-class hillbilly, and Dewey is certainly a lout. He's a racist, moronic Neo-Nazi who can't comprehend basic facts, yet never quite grasps how stupid he truly is. He's much more easy to get along with than his Floridian cousins, however. |
| 123 | * {{Malaproper}}: He's quite prone to mangling words. In "Starvation", he means to say "onus", but instead says "anus". |
| 124 | * ManChild: His maturity level, mannerisms, and dress are those of a teenage boy. He plays with Dickie Bennett in prison like children on a playground. Finally, Season 5 reveals that his life's dream is to own a swimming pool and frolic with loose women. In a 2015 [[http://www.tvguide.com/news/justified-postmortem-damon-herriman-interview/ interview]] with TV Guide, Damon Herriman describes Dewey as a childlike man. |
| 125 | -->'''Damon Herriman:''' There's a little boy inside of Dewey. The little boy would be playing Cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers. Dewey's kind of doing that, but it happens to be in the real world. But he's not really any more adept or capable of making his way through than a little kid would be. |
| 126 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: Dewey mentions he once played Goofy at Disneyworld before quitting because there were too many [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain black and gay visitors]]. Given that Dewey is a racist petty crook, it very much applies. |
| 127 | * MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Dewey's clearly intellectually disabled, with even "board certified imbecile" Wade Messer being able to manipulate him. |
| 128 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dewey is a scumbag in his own right without a doubt, but he's too bumbling and easy to bamboozle to pose an effective threat, and not particularly evil. |
| 129 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: He pummels a muscular john twice his size in "Starvation". |
| 130 | * NasalTrauma: Raylan breaks his nose in the pilot when he slams Dewey face-first into a steering wheel. The following episode, Raylan does the same thing to Dewey's already-broken nose when Dewey tries to hijack Raylan's car to break out of a prison transport. |
| 131 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: He joins Boyd's backwoods church not out of genuine belief in his religion, but because he thought Boyd was running a scam and wanted to be a part of it. He winds up being kicked out when Boyd catches him masturbating, which he regards as a sin. |
| 132 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Ask Wade Messer about that. Danny also learns this the hard way in "Wrong Roads". When Danny steps out of the tow truck and confronts Miller, Dewey hops in the drivers seat and runs them both over. |
| 133 | * ObviouslyEvil: Even if his Neo-Nazi tattoos didn't give it away, Dewey never does a good job at hiding his criminal intent from the law or even random strangers. One of his defining moments is trying to buy a ski mask in the middle of summer in Kentucky, and not even bothering to come up with an excuse to the store owner. |
| 134 | --> '''Dewey:''' What are you, the ski mask police? |
| 135 | * OhCrap: He's excited when a car stops to pick him up while he's hitchhiking after being kicked out of Boyd's religious commune. His mood sours when he sees [[CowboyCop Raylan]] is the one driving it. |
| 136 | --> '''Dewey:''' Aw shit. |
| 137 | * PetTheDog: When Dickie is being pummeled during a prison riot, Dewey rushes in to save him. He gets beaten up as well, but it's still nice of him. |
| 138 | * PluckyComicRelief: Due to his stupidity and HarmlessVillain status. He becomes more dangerous in season 5, but is still pretty funny. |
| 139 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It can be easy to forget how he got his start in crime, until you see the big Nazi chest tattoo. He's contemptuous of "fatties" and worked at Disney World but left due to there being too many 'negroes and homosexuals'. |
| 140 | * PrayerIsALastResort / PrayerOfMalice: In "Over the Mountain", an injured and lost Dewey is desperate to locate Wade Messer so that he can murder him. Dewey prays a ridiculous prayer to God, begging the Almighty to help him locate and murder Wade. |
| 141 | -->'''Dewey''': God, I ain't prayed in a while, I ain't fixin' to die out here in the woods like some animal, you hear me? That's bullshit. Jesus, if you help me find him, once I kill him, I swear, I'll straighten up, I'll go to church, Sunday school, whatever you want, but goddamnit, I gotta get this thing done, you understand? I ain't never asked you for shit, least you could do. |
| 142 | * PutOnABus: He does not appear in season 4. |
| 143 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: He's sent to prison midway through Season 2 and stays there for the rest of the season. |
| 144 | * RefugeInAudacity: His attempt to impersonate Raylan in order to rob some thieves of their Oxycontin. When Raylan confronts him about it, he claims that he was going to hand the drugs over to him, and that he was working on Raylan's behalf, given that Raylan had deputized him in the previous season on a completely unrelated matter. |
| 145 | * RunningGag: Getting out of cars without engaging the parking brake, being warned that "there won't be a third time" when he repeats something insulting, and being shot at by otherwise kindly old people. |
| 146 | * {{Schemer}}: When left to his own devices, Dewey is always coming up with illegal and poorly thought out {{Zany Scheme}}s to make a quick buck. |
| 147 | * SelfServingMemory: After Raylan breaks his nose, Dewey accuses him of doing it for no reason, when in reality Raylan had done it after Dewey insulted him after he and Devil tried to kill him. Raylan lampshades it. |
| 148 | * ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:When Boyd shoots Dewey in the head in "Fate's Right Hand", it takes the show in a darker direction.]] |
| 149 | * ASimplePlan: In "Over the Mountain", Dewey was supposed to take Wade Messer to a secluded location in the woods and have him dig a hole, under the pretense that Dewey hid money in the ground. After Wade dug a deep hole, Dewey was to shoot him dead and bury the body in the hole. Naturally, Dewey screws it up. Wade's tiny shovel was insufficient for the task, Dewey shot him prematurely, a struggle ensued that resulted in Dewey getting lost and injured, and Wade wandered off before dying out in the open where law enforcement found his body. |
| 150 | * SixthRanger: To his Florida cousins. |
| 151 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Dewey is prone to assuming he's a bigger deal than he actually is, and fancies himself a master criminal. Most of his plans tend to be extremely poorly thought-out and self-destructive, and he works most effectively when following someone else's orders. |
| 152 | * SmugSnake: Dewey thinks he's much more threatening and badass than he actually is. He's somewhat competent at serving as a DumbMuscle, but he's completely out of his depth when dealing with someone who isn't a civilian or another petty crook. |
| 153 | * SourSupporter: A villainous example. He knows he really shouldn't trust Boyd and that Boyd tends to treat him poorly, but Dewey genuinely likes him and always tries to team up with him. |
| 154 | * SpannerInTheWorks: To Raylan, Boyd, and Daryl at various points in Season 5. |
| 155 | * StrawLoser: Dewey is a moronic petty crook whose main purpose is to contrast with Boyd's genuine competence. |
| 156 | * StupidCrooks: Dewey is a petty crook who makes his living through robbery whenever he isn't working for somebody, and he's an absolute moron who proves utterly incompetent at his chosen profession. |
| 157 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Dewey first appeared in the pilot and was a recurring face ever since, and all but became a main cast member in season 5. He ends up getting killed by Boyd at the end of the season 6 premiere.]] |
| 158 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Boyd easily catches on to Raylan's attempt to get Dewey to turn on him, and elects to take him out just to be safe in the Season 6 premiere. Though he does let Dewey's last thoughts be of hope for the future.]] |
| 159 | * TattooedCrook: Easily recognized by his Neo-Nazi tattoos. |
| 160 | * ThirdPersonPerson: He has a tendency to do this. |
| 161 | -->'''Dewey:''' This it then, Raylan? No final words, put Dewey Crowe in his place? |
| 162 | -->'''Raylan:''' My advice? Stop talking about yourself in the third person. Makes you sound like a fool. |
| 163 | -->'''Dewey:''' Third person? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint This guy? (indicating the driver)]] |
| 164 | * [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]: He started the show as one, but while he still has the tattoos, Dewey doesn't seem to be keeping up-to-date on the Nazi scene. He was really just a pawn of Boyd when he was tricking racists into committing crimes for him by making them part of 'Crowder's Commandos'. |
| 165 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After 4 seasons of being everyone's doormat, season 5 opens with him getting a 300 Grand court settlement. Subverted when the Florida Crowes turn up and mess up his life. |
| 166 | * TooDumbToLive: And yet he still manages to for five seasons. |
| 167 | * TookALevelInBadass: It's a minor one compared to some, but as of Season 5 Dewey seems to be developing into a more threatening adversary, pushed along by Daryl and Danny. |
| 168 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 5 after Daryl forces him to kill Messer Dewey becomes a lot more willing to threaten and use force. However, he does this in a pretty empty way. |
| 169 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Creator/DamonHerriman described Dewey in [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/justified-postmortem-damon-herriman-interview/ an interview]] as being not so much evil as he is someone who took a wrong turn in life and surrounded himself with bad influences. |
| 170 | --> '''Damon Herriman:''' Dewey's such a hopeless case that the human side of me feels for him. Also, Dewey never really came across as being particularly malicious or evil. He just seems to have taken the wrong path in life just through circumstances that probably are out of his control. You never get the sense of this being a truly bad guy. It's more that he's a guy who's ended up hanging out with a certain group of people. You don't get a sense that this is a professional criminal, and he's certainly not a very good one if he is. |
| 171 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: In his first two appearances, Dewey underestimates Raylan as a threat and assumes he can take him on. Both times it turns out badly for him, and by the midway point of Season 1 he's justifiably wary of Raylan. |
| 172 | * VillainousFriendship: |
| 173 | ** With Dickie Bennett. The two became fast friends in prison, and when they briefly reunite in "Weight", their joy is palpable. |
| 174 | ** He claims to get along well with Jimmy Earl Dean, although the two are never seen on-screen together and Dewey tries to sell him out so he can get a lighter sentence. |
| 175 | ** He views Boyd as a friend, though he still acknowledges that Boyd tends to mistreat him. |
| 176 | * VillainousValor: Dewey's a moron to be sure, but he's a brave one. He's quite willing to face off against opponents with little fear and while he's an ExtremeDoormat most of the time, he shows little hesitation to throw down. |
| 177 | * WideEyedIdealist: Despite his bad luck and choice of profession, Dewey is an eternal optimist who tends to be quite naive when it comes to how the world works. |
| 178 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: He sincerely regards Boyd as a friend, but Boyd is quite prone to manipulating and abusing Dewey. Dewey is aware of this, but always comes crawling back. He's also on the giving end; he claims Jimmy Earl Dean is a friend, but still tries to sell him out to Raylan for a lighter sentence. |
| 179 | * WouldntHitAGirl: In "Weight", Tina and Mina tell Raylan that Dewey never raised a hand to the prostitutes at Audrey's. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | !Florida Crowes |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Daryl]] |
| 185 | !!Daryl Crowe Jr. |
| 186 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c5db8eebf4bed3ac6c029631d9c7c804.jpg]] |
| 187 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Matter of fact, we came up here to lay down roots.]]"'']] |
| 188 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelRapaport |
| 189 | |
| 190 | -->''"Well, this feels like one of those "time will tell" deals which, as a free man, I have plenty of. Question is: how much time you got?"'' |
| 191 | |
| 192 | Dewey's ''much'' more dangerous and competent cousin from Florida. He heads the family following the death of his father in a boating accident fourteen years ago, and arrives in Harlan after deciding Florida is tapped out. Having once been imprisoned for alligator poaching by Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, Daryl emerged from Stark Penitentiary a smarter, more sophisticated criminal who always keeps his eye on the main chance. |
| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | * ApologeticAttacker: Tries to apologize to Wendy after he hits her the first time. |
| 195 | * AvengingTheVillain: His goal after Episode 10 is to avenge Danny's death, which he blames on Raylan. |
| 196 | * BigBad: He's one of several players angling to be Season 5's. Following the shooting of Art Mullen and the loss of Boyd's heroin shipment, Daryl takes centre stage, with Raylan, Boyd, Wynn Duffy, and the Mexican cartel all looking to take him out. |
| 197 | * BigBrotherBully: He alternates between this and BigBrotherMentor. Danny, Dilly, and Kendal are all visibly terrified of him, and even Wendy is leery around him. |
| 198 | * BigBrotherMentor: Subverted. Daryl acts as the mentor to his brothers, but he's also more than willing to bully them, and eventually has Dilly killed. |
| 199 | * TheCharmer: Surprisingly, yes. Daryl can turn on the charm when he needs to, practically batting his eyes at Wynn Duffy in "Wrong Roads". |
| 200 | * TheChessmaster: Daryl may ''sound'' like a ignorant hick, but he is ''far'' more cunning than he appears. He's capable of not only playing multiple parties against one another, but also ensuring that even if they find out his deception there's nothing they can do about it. He's even capable of manipulating ''Raylan'' to do his bidding, which not even characters like the Bennett clan or Nicky Augustine were able to do. |
| 201 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Tortures Dewey's manager in order to discover that he's been skimming money for Boyd. |
| 202 | * TheCorrupter: Towards Dewey, who he tries to turn into a genuine criminal, forcing him to commit his first onscreen murder. |
| 203 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Daryl is shot in the groin and neck by Wendy when he tries to grab his recorded confession from her. He bleeds out on the floor of Audrey's, pathetically trying to stop the blood flow as Raylan stands menacingly over him, not lifting a finger to help. Even for a show with some brutal death scenes, his stands out as particularly nasty; however, given how evil and soulless he is, he deserved every last bit of it. |
| 204 | * DeadpanSnarker: Daryl is probably the snarkiest of the Crowes, along with Wendy. |
| 205 | * DomesticAbuse: A sibling example. Daryl beats Wendy to a pulp, manipulates her for his ends, and blames her for Kendal's incarceration when it was he himself who forced Kendal to make a false confession. |
| 206 | * DontSplitUsUp: In "Over the Mountain", Raylan takes Kendal into protective custody, much to Daryl's horror. |
| 207 | * TheDon: Daryl's succeeded to his father's position as patriarch of the Crowe clan, though he's unclear on what exactly he should ''do'' with his newfound power. |
| 208 | * EnemyMine: Much as he doesn't like Boyd he's willing to do mercenary work for him starting in "Kill the Messenger". |
| 209 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Toyed with. Daryl is certainly obsessive about keeping the family together, and he talks a lot about the importance of family, but given his murder of Dilly, his abuse of Dewey, and his disregard for Wendy and Kendal's feelings, how much he really cares for any of them is questionable. It's eventually confirmed that he ''does'' care, when he is deeply upset about Danny's death, and tries to apologize to Wendy during their ensuing fight. |
| 210 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Seems to enjoy beating up the Neo-Nazi. |
| 211 | * EvilerThanThou: With Boyd. |
| 212 | * EvilVersusEvil: It's hard ''not'' to cheer for Daryl when he beats the tar out of Neo-Nazi Gunner Swift. |
| 213 | * EvilMentor: He serves as both mentor and bully when manipulating Dewey. He mentors Dewey on how to properly run a business and handle a treacherous employee. |
| 214 | * EvilUncle: Towards Kendal, who he aims to make as bad as himself. |
| 215 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Preaches this, though in practice he seems to just be using his family. |
| 216 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's capable of putting on a friendly face when he needs to, but he quickly drops it once it's no longer needed. |
| 217 | * GeniusBruiser: While uneducated and uncultured, Daryl's no dunce. He's a competent criminal, capable of playing both Raylan and Boyd as needs be. He's also a big, powerfully built man, who can lay a beatdown on anybody he cares to. |
| 218 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: Daryl tends to resort to his fists as opposed to guns, and he's very effective with them, brutalizing both Gunner Swift and Mike with ease. When Mike tries to employ MMA moves against him, Daryl shrugs them off while gloating about how "Kung-Fu shit don't work on me." |
| 219 | * {{Greed}}: Money is Daryl's motivator. Unlike many previous villains he isn't driven by rage, or pride--he just wants what he wants, and will do anything in order to get it. |
| 220 | * GroinAttack: Wendy shoots him in the groin before finishing him off. |
| 221 | * TheHeavy: He doesn't move the plot as much as say, Mags Bennett or Robert Quarles did, but as of "Raw Deal" and "Whistle Past the Graveyard" most of Boyd, Duffy, and Raylan's moves are made in response to his, and he's the focus of the final three part arc. |
| 222 | * HiredGuns: Hires out himself, his brother Danny, and his cousin Dewey to Boyd. |
| 223 | * InadequateInheritor: When Daryl persists in his criminal endeavors, Wendy tells him that he doesn't measure up to their father, who knew when to walk away from failing crime schemes. |
| 224 | * ItsPersonal: With Raylan after Danny's death and Art's wounding. |
| 225 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Daryl might be bullying his way into Dewey's brothel, but he ''does'' make legitimate observations about Dewey's poor business sense. He's also bang on when he accuses Boyd of ripping Dewey off, and when he attacks Wendy's poor parenting skills and lack of involvement with the family. |
| 226 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Every single time he seems to show a softer side, it turns out to be emotional manipulation or an outright lie. |
| 227 | * KarmicDeath: Killed by his sister, who he used and abused, on behalf of his nephew who he was leaving to take the rap for his crimes. |
| 228 | * KickTheDog: When Raylan warns him about what juvenile detention will do to Kendal, Daryl says that Kendal is a "pussy" and could use the experience. |
| 229 | * LetsGetDangerous: We're given flashes of how dangerous Daryl is throughout the show, but it's not until the aftermath of Danny's death that he goes into psycho mode and ''stays'' there, demonstrating just how bad he can be. |
| 230 | * ManipulativeBastard: He has no qualms about manipulating Dewey in order to control Audrey's brothel. He later starts pulling strings to 'adjust' the deal with the Mexicans, and talks Kendal into taking the fall for his own actions. |
| 231 | * NeverMyFault: He refuses to take responsibility for undermining Boyd's drug trade, beating Wendy, or framing Kendal. |
| 232 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives one to Gunner Swift, and subsequently to Wendy and Mike. |
| 233 | * NoSell: Informs Mike that kung fu doesn't work on him. |
| 234 | * OpportunisticBastard: He's described as such by his right-hand man, Jean-Baptiste, who comments on Daryl's penchant for finding employ with someone else, and then making their business his. Daryl freely admits that he doesn't really have a plan. He first tries to take over Audrey's, then tries to make Boyd pay him the money for Audrey's, then joins up with Boyd, only to try and take control of the heroin business from him. If anything, this unpredictability, and general lack of attention to detail makes Daryl ''more'' dangerous, as nobody can really anticipate how he'll try to take advantage of the situation, only that he will. |
| 235 | * ParentalSubstitute: To his younger siblings, and especially his nephew Kendal who, if you do the math, he has raised since infancy. During his MotiveRant to Wendy in "Restitution" he reminds her that she has no idea what Kendal wants, or where he went for his tenth birthday, because it's Daryl who has been taking care of him. |
| 236 | * ThePatriarch: Of the Crowe family. |
| 237 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He claims to never trust anyone who has English as a second language, though given that he employs Jean-Baptiste, and is contemptuous of Gunner Swift and his Neo-Nazis, this may just be a line said to annoy Elvis Machado. |
| 238 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: In earlier episodes Dewey and Raylan made several references to Dewey having a cousin named ''Dale'' Crowe Jr., whom Raylan had put in Stark Penitentiary for alligator poaching. Come Season 5 we meet Daryl, who has the exact same backstory, but a different first name. This is due to the same complicated copyright issues that turned Karen Sisco into Karen Goodall. |
| 239 | * SiblingTeam: With Danny, Dilly, Kendall, and Wendy (though she's less involved in the family business than the others). |
| 240 | * SleevesAreForWimps: More than a few of his outfits have exposed his arms. |
| 241 | * SmallTownTyrant: A backwoods gator poacher with connections in a Florida law office through his sister. He's now aiming to achieve greater status in Harlan. |
| 242 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Daryl's a hick and both looks and sounds the part, with an accent and mannerisms that make Boyd or Bo Crowder come off like university professors in comparison. He also took a whole lot of courses in prison, including business management, accounting, real estate, and composition, and is capable of running an effective XanatosGambit. |
| 243 | * TheStarscream: Wants to be this to Boyd but hasn't quite managed to pull it off. |
| 244 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Sees the rest of his family in this light, and is at least half-right, given that Dilly, Danny, and Dewey have fewer brain cells between them, than Daryl has on any one side of his skull. |
| 245 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: With his family. He constantly argues with Wendy and expresses annoyance with Danny, Dewey, and Kendal. |
| 246 | * TookALevelInBadass: Raylan remembers Daryl as a not-very bright, low level gator poacher. Following his time in prison, he's gotten a lot smarter, moving into illegal sugar smuggling, drug trafficking, and prostitution. Throw in his newly murderous proclivities, and he can stand with the likes of Boyd Crowder and Wynn Duffy as threats. |
| 247 | * VerbalTic: Take a shot every time Daryl says "man". |
| 248 | * VillainousBreakdown: Daryl goes through one as the fifth season goes on, resulting in him beating Wendy and tearfully forcing Kendal to share a 'blood pact' with him. |
| 249 | * VillainousGoldTooth: He has a gold tooth and is TheChessmaster head of the Crowe crime family and an abuser who beats his sister Wendy to a pulp, manipulates her for his ends, and blames her for Kendal's incarceration when it was he himself who forced Kendal to make a false confession. |
| 250 | * VisualPun: Daryl spends Season 5 waxing poetic about holding the Crowe family together. In the season finale, Wendy shoots him in the "family jewels". |
| 251 | * XanatosGambit: His play in "A Murder of Crowes". Either Elvis kills Raylan or Raylan kills Elvis; either way Daryl gets his parole reduced and the link to his family's sugar business is covered up. |
| 252 | * WildCard: What Daryl will do in any given situation is sort of up in the air due to his opportunistic nature. He's very much like Boyd in this regard. |
| 253 | * WouldHitAGirl: Beats the tar out of Wendy, though in his defense, she started it. |
| 254 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Does it to Dilly for being a liability, and seriously considers doing the same to Dewey. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Wendy]] |
| 258 | !!Wendy Crowe |
| 259 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/05f623413c2959556012b3cdc7c90712.jpg]] |
| 260 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, I guess we all get the family we deserve, right, Daryl?"'']] |
| 261 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AliciaWitt |
| 262 | |
| 263 | -->'''Raylan:''' Look, best case scenario, you are the civilized white sheep in a flock of killers and cons. |
| 264 | -->'''Wendy:''' That's the best case? |
| 265 | |
| 266 | Daryl, Danny, and Dilly's sister, who works as a paralegal in a Miami law office, much to Daryl's annoyance. When she cares to get involved, she is very much the brains of the operation, and Daryl has a history of coercing her involvement. Like Kendal, she seems to have some doubts about the lives her brothers have chosen to lead, but is unsure how to extract herself. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * ActionGirl: Wendy can handle herself, and unlike some characters (we're looking at you, Ava) is good about not getting in over her head. |
| 269 | * AmoralAttorney: Wendy is a paralegal who is still heavily involved in the Crowe family's criminal activities. |
| 270 | * {{Antivillain}}: She's the least malicious member of the Crowe clan, and is often kept in the dark about Daryl's worse actions, meaning that her main contribution to the family business is keeping her brothers out of prison. |
| 271 | * CarFu: How she escapes from Elvis. |
| 272 | * TheConsigliere: To Daryl, a role she shares with Jean-Baptiste until Danny murders him. She offers advice and openly criticizes Daryl's questionable decisions with impunity. |
| 273 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: In exchange for wearing a wire to extract Darryl's confession, Raylan allows her to go to Florida with Kendal, scot-free. |
| 274 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about Kendall, her poor parenting skills notwithstanding. |
| 275 | * EvilGenius: She's definitely the smart one in the family, something which even Daryl acknowledges. |
| 276 | %%* EvilRedhead |
| 277 | * HandsOffParenting: She's Kendal's mother, but she doesn't seem to mind that her brothers are raising Kendal in a corrupting environment. This gets better as Season 5 progresses, however. After the fiasco with Uncle Jack, we see Wendy spending more time with Kendal and assuring him they'll leave Kentucky soon. |
| 278 | * HelloAttorney: She's a paralegal, and still has a tramp stamp. Although Raylan doesn't go too far, he definitely has an attraction to her. |
| 279 | * HonestAdvisor: To Daryl. |
| 280 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Daryl and Danny apparently did not inform her of Dilly's execution. |
| 281 | * ManipulativeBastard: Does her best to plant doubts in Allison's head about her relationship with Raylan, and subsequently tries to put the moves on Raylan as a way of screwing with him. |
| 282 | * MessyHair: She constantly looks like she just got out of bed. |
| 283 | * TheMole: In the Season 5 finale, she secretly records Daryl's confession, which she later turns over to law enforcement to exonerate Kendal. |
| 284 | * MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Does it with both Raylan and Allison, getting Kendal back from custody, and having Allison suspended from her job. |
| 285 | * [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: With Jean-Baptiste gone, Wendy is the only halfway rational member of the Crowe family left. |
| 286 | * ParentsAsPeople: She's a less than stellar mother to Kendal and is fully aware of it. |
| 287 | * PetTheDog: She encourages Daryl to take better care of Kendal, such as giving him a bed to sleep in instead of a couch. Subverted when it becomes clear that she's more concerned about keeping child protective services off their collective backs than about Kendal's well-being. In "Raw Deal" [[JerkassHasAPoint Raylan]] observes that if she really cared about Kendal, she would have taken the boy back to Florida. |
| 288 | * ParentalSubstitute: To her younger brothers, especially Kendal. It's later revealed that she's actually Kendal's mother. |
| 289 | * SexySecretary: Daryl Jr accuses her of only being a secretary. And again, the tramp stamp. |
| 290 | * ShipTease: With Raylan. |
| 291 | * SiblingTeam: With her brothers. |
| 292 | * SophisticatedAsHell: She might be the most educated member of the family, and she can speak legalese when she has to, but Wendy still talks like a Crowe, right down to the hillbilly accent and the profanity. |
| 293 | * SourSupporter: To Daryl. While she's loyal to her brother and offers much-needed legal assistance, she openly criticizes Daryl for his questionable decisions. |
| 294 | * TattooedCrook: Downplayed. Unlike her heavily tattooed brother Danny and her cousin Dewey, Wendy has only the one visible tattoo on her lower back. |
| 295 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: With her brothers, especially Daryl, with whom she argues constantly. |
| 296 | * UnkemptBeauty: Wendy is absolutely gorgeous, but has permanently messy hair, no obvious makeup, and a tramp stamp. Of course, all this could be considered as added to her allure. |
| 297 | * WhiteSheep: Invoked by Raylan when describing her, though he clearly doubts it to really be the case. Ultimately, she proves to be one of the most moral of the Crowe siblings despite being no angel, and is the only one to express a desire to improve their lot in life. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Danny]] |
| 301 | !!Daniel 'Danny' Crowe |
| 302 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crowe_daniel_1901.jpg]] |
| 303 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"You heard of the 21-foot rule?"'']] |
| 304 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AJBuckley |
| 305 | |
| 306 | Daryl's younger brother, who acts as his right-hand and bagman. Mean to the core, he makes up for his insecurities by swaggering as much as possible, a habit that frequently causes trouble for the family as a whole. He has a rocky relationship with his sister, Wendy, and regularly harasses and bullies the much younger Kendal. |
| 307 | ---- |
| 308 | * AlasPoorVillain: Danny's actual death is idiotic, and clearly meant to be funny, but the scene right before it, where he talks about how he rescued Chelsea from a puppy mill, is genuinely sad, and humanizes him in the moments leading up to his death. |
| 309 | * ApologeticAttacker: To Dilly. |
| 310 | * AxCrazy: Made clear in "Shot All to Hell" when he snaps and kills Jean-Baptiste. |
| 311 | * BeardOfEvil: A scratchy little van dyke thing. |
| 312 | * BigBrotherBully: He bullies his nephew Kendal, earning him Jean-Baptiste's ire. |
| 313 | * BoisterousWeakling: A variant. Danny can certainly back up his claims physically, but lacks the actual courage to follow through most of the time. |
| 314 | * CharacterDeath: Trips in a hole and fatally stabs himself while charging Raylan. |
| 315 | * CowardlyLion: Danny is a coward when things don't go his way, but we've seen no evidence so far that his fighting skills are anything less than as advertised. |
| 316 | * DirtyCoward: For all his bluster and boasting, Danny is a coward at heart. He's too scared to take Jean-Baptiste in a fair fight, so he kills him with a shotgun at point blank range. |
| 317 | * TheDragon: To his older brother, Daryl Jr. |
| 318 | * DumbMuscle: Danny's not quite as thick as say, Coover Bennett or his cousin Dewey, but he's still a slow-witted, impulsive psycho. |
| 319 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's deeply upset when his dog dies, having a full on breakdown. In the backstory he went KnightTemplarBigBrother on Jack Anderson after he impregnated and abandoned Wendy, and in the present day he actually seems to contemplate turning himself in when Raylan tells him that Wendy and Kendal will be released, only to refuse when he finds out the deal doesn't extend to Daryl. Danny's certainly a very bad man, but it would be hard to contend that he does not care about his family. |
| 320 | * EvilDuo: He and Dewey play this role in "Kill the Messenger", with Danny as the threatening one and Dewey as the idiot. |
| 321 | * EvilUncle: To Kendal, who is terrified of him. |
| 322 | * {{Expy}}: Immature psychopathic middle child who resents everybody else for not listening to his ridiculously stupid ideas, and snaps at the drop of a hat? He's a mix of Dickie Bennett and Coover Bennett. Except he lacks the low cunning Dickie had, and the mildly sympathetic truly childlike quality Coover had, so he's the worst of both worlds. |
| 323 | * FanDisservice: In "Over the Mountain", he meets Tim and Raylan outside Wade Messer's house while not wearing any pants. Or underwear. |
| 324 | * FluffyTamer: To his vicious pit bull, Chelsea. |
| 325 | * FluffyTheTerrible: His pet pit bull, Chelsea, who is savage with intruders but friendly as a puppy with his owner. He apparently used to own a mastiff named Mitsy who almost took Raylan's leg off in Florida. |
| 326 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Danny tries to kill Raylan using his much-boasted-about '21-foot rule', rushing at him with a knife. He falls in the hole Kendal had dug for his dead dog Chelsea, and stabs himself through the mouth. |
| 327 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: For all his bragging and bullying, Danny's pretty insecure at the core. |
| 328 | * {{Jerkass}}: Danny is immature, argumentative, randomly violent, insecure to the core, unpredictable, even somewhat racist, and a complete psychopathic bully to boot. |
| 329 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: Believe it or not, yes. Danny apparently threatened to cut off Jack Anderson's genitalia due to his treatment of Wendy. Jack is still terrified of him. |
| 330 | * {{Malaproper}}: When explaining how he avoided arrest by the Marshals, Danny tells his siblings that he and Carl told the Marshals that they were doing "consexual" sex stuff. |
| 331 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: According to Daryl he advocates this in most situations. |
| 332 | * PetTheDog: In a very literal way. Danny has a history of owning dogs, and values their lives more than humans. He also seems to enjoy Dewey's company, being the only Florida Crowe to treat him with anything approaching sincere kindness. |
| 333 | * PsychopathicManChild: He's immature, he bullies his much younger nephew Kendal, and he's reluctant to complete even simple chores, such as buying groceries. He also loves killing. |
| 334 | * PsychoForHire: Danny's ''very'' enthusiastic about the idea of killing Raylan, Messer, and anybody else who gets in his and Daryl's way. |
| 335 | * RightHandAttackDog: Chelsea the pit bull again. |
| 336 | * SiblingTeam: With Daryl, Dilly, Kendall, and Wendy. |
| 337 | * TattooedCrook: Has several prominent tattoos on his arms. |
| 338 | * TooDumbToLive: Charges Raylan with a knife in the dark. He trips and ends up stabbing himself in the jaw. |
| 339 | * VillainousRescue: By Carl, indirectly. Danny beats up Carl, kidnaps him, and ties him to a chair, but when the Marshals discover them, neither man wants to be arrested. Carl claims that they were indulging in consensual BDSM, saving Danny from a kidnapping arrest. |
| 340 | * WouldHitAGirl: Runs Allison off the road, and shows no qualms about the idea of knifing Rachel. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Dilly]] |
| 344 | !!Dillon 'Dilly' Crowe |
| 345 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crowe_dillon_5814.jpg]] |
| 346 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[BerserkButton You best not make fun of me.]]"'']] |
| 347 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JasonGrayStanford |
| 348 | |
| 349 | The third and dumbest of the Florida Crowe brothers, Dilly has a gambling problem, a speech impediment, and no common sense. He has a history of wasting the family's money, and his impulsivity eventually destroys their operations in Florida. |
| 350 | ---- |
| 351 | * BerserkButton: Making fun of his stutter is a good way to get yourself killed. |
| 352 | * CharacterDeath: Danny stabs Dilly to death on Daryl's orders, since he was too much of a loose cannon to keep around. |
| 353 | * DumbMuscle: Incredibly stupid, and of use only as a (half-assed) enforcer. |
| 354 | * FiveStagesOfGrief: Averted. After Dilly's death, no one in his family mourns for him or even seems to miss him. |
| 355 | * LethallyStupid: His stupidity and temper cost the family a lot of money and ruined their smuggling business. It cost Elvis his life and Daryl and Wendy have to cut a deal with the Marshals so that everyone involved does not end up in federal prison. |
| 356 | * TheLoad: Dilly's an imbecile, and his stupidity has repeatedly cost his family money and left them all in danger of arrest. And while you might say the same things about Danny, Dilly doesn't even bring Danny's fighting ability to the table. |
| 357 | * ManChild: He's immature and not terribly bright. |
| 358 | * TheMillstone: Singlehandedly brings down the Crowe's sugar smuggling operation. |
| 359 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He believes that Indian casinos are rigged against the white man. |
| 360 | * TheResenter: He resents the ridicule and condescension he endures from his family and criminal partners. |
| 361 | * SiblingTeam: With Daryl, Danny, Kendall, and Wendy. |
| 362 | * SpeechImpediment: He stutters. |
| 363 | * TooDumbToLive: Dilly is beyond stupid, even for a Crowe. The man makes Dewey Crowe look like Stephen Hawking, gambling away his family's criminal profits on dog-racing and a casino ''which he claims is rigged against him''. |
| 364 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed by Daryl and Danny at the end of his first appearance. |
| 365 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Daryl regretfully arranges for Danny to kill him because his irresponsible antics are endangering the family. |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder:Kendal]] |
| 369 | !!Kendal Crowe |
| 370 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5faf97991de15bcefa6fc1e25f7deb32.jpg]] |
| 371 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/JacobLofland |
| 372 | |
| 373 | -->'''Daryl:''' Kendal? Man, that boy done seen shit you and I can't imagine. |
| 374 | |
| 375 | The youngest member of the Crowe family, Kendal is a fourteen year-old boy who is visibly traumatized by his uncles' activities. Despite this, he's internalized a lot of their attitudes, displaying little respect for legality or law enforcement. |
| 376 | ---- |
| 377 | * TheBartender: He tends bar at Audrey's. |
| 378 | * BatterUp: Arms himself with a bat when Raylan and Tim come through the door. |
| 379 | * CorruptionOfAMinor: In "Good Intentions", Daryl tells Dewey that Kendal is in one of the brothel's trailers. No one bats an eyelash at the idea of a ''middle school-aged boy'' with a prostitute. In "Over the Mountain", Kendal tends the bar at Audrey's. And now he's witnessing murders. |
| 380 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has a knack for snarky comments. |
| 381 | -->'''Kendal:''' ''[On tending bar at Audrey's]'' Looking at half-naked ladies all day? Yeah, I was miserable. |
| 382 | -->'''Kendal:''' ''[After tasting vending machine cocoa]'' Jesus, is this machine hooked up to the septic? |
| 383 | * DontSplitUsUp: He's shocked when Raylan takes him into protective custody. He reluctantly goes with Raylan to avert a deadly showdown between Raylan and his uncles. |
| 384 | * DullSurprise: Kendal reacts very flatly to most things. Daryl claims it's because he's seen things the likes of which Daryl and Raylan never have. Considering the environment he grew up in, this is no surprise. |
| 385 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In "Raw Deal" he contacts his biological father while his uncles are away in Mexico, presumably to escape from Danny. He tries this again in "Weight". |
| 386 | * SiblingTeam: With Wendy, Daryl, and Danny. |
| 387 | * TeensAreMonsters: {{Averted}}. Similar to [[Characters/JustifiedBennettFamily Loretta]], Kendal might have grown up around criminals and might not bat an eye at illegality, but he still has a functional moral compass compared to the majority of the Crowes. |
| 388 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He consorts with prostitutes, tends bar at a brothel, and insults two federal marshals. He also seems pretty comfortable with Daryl and Danny's murderous proclivities. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | !Associates |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Jean-Baptiste]] |
| 394 | !!Jean Baptiste |
| 395 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jean-baptiste_7439.jpg]] |
| 396 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[BadassBoast A man that just talks is no man.]]"'']] |
| 397 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EdiGathegi |
| 398 | |
| 399 | -->''"I prefer sticks and stones. Because I like to break bones."'' |
| 400 | |
| 401 | A Haitian alligator poacher who acts as Daryl Crowe's advisor, and takes care of the bodies. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | * AffablyEvil: In addition to being the most rational member of Daryl's inner circle, he's also the most polite and well-mannered. |
| 404 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Implied. He's the calmest and most reasonable of Daryl's associates, but when Wade Messer is killed he's at the top of Raylan's list of suspects alongside [[PsychoForHire Danny]]. |
| 405 | * BlownAcrossTheRoom: Turned into "Haitian Hamburger" by a shotgun blast from Danny. |
| 406 | * CharacterDeath: A scared and humiliated Danny kills him suddenly with a shotgun. |
| 407 | * CleanUpCrew: Daryl orders Dilly and Elvis to take the body of the man they killed to the Hatian, so that he can get rid of it. |
| 408 | * TheConsigliere: To Daryl Jr., providing a counterbalance to the HotBlooded Crowe brothers. |
| 409 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death comes out of nowhere and with very little build up. |
| 410 | * EatTheEvidence: Feeds the bodies of Daryl's victims to the alligators. |
| 411 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Threatens Danny for refusing to get groceries and for bullying Kendall. |
| 412 | * EvilPoacher: Aside from disposing of Daryl's victims, he poaches alligators. |
| 413 | * MacheteMayhem: Always has a machete strapped to his hip. |
| 414 | * OnlySaneMan: He's the voice of reason in Daryl's crew, especially when compared to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution Danny]]. |
| 415 | * PetTheDog: The entire impetus for his death is him defending Kendal when Danny bullies him. |
| 416 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Despite the character having some pretty good reception from fans, Jean-Baptiste is killed early on by Danny. The reason was that Edi Gathegi wasn't enjoying his time with the show and wasn't bound to any contract, so the decision was made to make him leave earlier then intended. |
| 417 | * TheStoic: Remains very calm and even-tempered, and betrays little emotion on his face. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Elvis Machado]] |
| 421 | !!Elvis Manuel Machado |
| 422 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/machado_elvis_6751.jpg]] |
| 423 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AmauryNolasco |
| 424 | |
| 425 | A Cuban smuggler, career criminal, and close associate of Dilly's. Set up by Daryl as the fall guy in their sugar smuggling ring. |
| 426 | ---- |
| 427 | * BaldOfEvil: Beneath that shiny head is the brain of a killer. |
| 428 | * CharacterDeath: Machado is killed by Raylan and Greg Sutter when he tries to pull a gun on them. |
| 429 | * CoolShades: Often sports a pair of them. |
| 430 | * TheStoic: Doesn't change his expression much, remaining cold as ice. |
| 431 | * StupidCrooks: Right up there with Dewey and Dilly in this department. |
| 432 | * TooDumbToLive: At first, he seems like the smarter of the two when he's working with Dilly. That's just because Dilly makes everyone seem smart by comparison. Elvis tries to flee to Cuba on a ridiculous little boat he can barely start, and then advertises the fact that he's going to pull a gun on Raylan and Sutter when they already have their guns drawn. However, due to the hopelessness of the situation, this can be easily seen as suicide by cop. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Uncle Jack]] |
| 436 | !!Jack Anderson |
| 437 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anderson_jack_861.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"Let's not get bogged down in the past. Focus on the plan."'']] |
| 438 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/KyleBornheimer |
| 439 | |
| 440 | A grifter, gambler, and inveterate loser, whom Kendal considers an HonoraryUncle. |
| 441 | ---- |
| 442 | * TheCharmer: In his younger days, but Wendy isn't falling for his cheesy lines anymore. |
| 443 | * ConMan: Jack makes his living ripping people off at gambling. |
| 444 | * CoolCar: He drives a black mustang that he adores. |
| 445 | * CoolUncle: To Kendal. |
| 446 | * DirtyCoward: Jack is repeatedly called a 'pussy' by other characters, and it's hard to disagree considering he abandoned his son to save his own skin. |
| 447 | * DisappearedDad: He's really Kendal's father, and abandoned the boy when Wendy was still pregnant. He now pretends to be Kendal's uncle, but still doesn't see the boy much. |
| 448 | * HonoraryUncle: Subverted. This seems to be the case at first, but we eventually find out he's really Kendal's dad. |
| 449 | * PetTheDog: He tries to send Kendal home when he realises the man who wants to hurt him has followed him to Kentucky. Later, despite his fear of Wendy's brothers, he begs her to call one of them so that they can save Kendal from a kidnapping. |
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