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Roy Tillman
Sheriff Roy Tillman
"I'm a sheriff of the American Constitution. Bound by duty, blood, and tradition to enforce what is right and to prosecute what is wrong. And the law, my friends... has very little to do with it."
Played By: Jon Hamm
The sheriff of Stark County, North Dakota. He subscribes to the "Constitutional Sheriff" strain of law, believing there can be no higher law enforcement authority in his county than himself.
- Abusive Parents: He's physically and emotionally abusive to Gator and sexually abused and groomed the underage Nadine while she was under his care.
- Age-Gap Romance: Roy is in his late 40s/early 50s, and married to a woman at least 20 years younger than him. His second wife Dot and third wife Karen are much closer in age to Gator, Roy's son by his first marriage. Dot eventually reveals she was seventeen when they married and only fifteen when he "took her in." note
- As the Good Book Says...: Frequently quotes the Bible, but (especially as the season continues) the accuracy of his quotations and appropriateness to the situation deteriorate. His refusal to submit to the FBI contains a number of rapid-fire Biblical references which are so disconnected to the subject at hand that they're barely more than Word Salad.
- Bad Samaritan: He lured Nadine into living with him by presenting himself as a kind man willing to take care of a teenage runaway.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He is part of one with Lorraine Lyon for Season 5 where the two are active and separate antagonists who oppose Dot Lyon. However, Lorraine decides to no longer be a threat to Dot and help her upon learning what Roy did to Dot, leaving Roy to be the main antagonist for the remainder of the season.
- Bigot with a Badge: A violent misogynist that regards biblical law above US law and has total control of law enforcement in his county.
- Churchgoing Villain: He is a devout Christian and uses the Bible to justify his sexism and possessiveness of his wives.
- Combat Pragmatist: When Odin decides to square up and finally beat the shit out of Roy in "Bisquik", Roy cuts his throat with a hunting knife instead of fistfighting him.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To V.M. Varga, the Big Bad of Season 3. Varga was a creature of pure greed whose only concern in life was stockpiling money to keep others from having it; he worked hard to keep his identity anonymous, had thugs handle all of the wetwork, and was ultimately a Dirty Coward who threw his men to the wolves to make his escape. Sheriff Tillman is a publicly elected official with his face plastered on billboards across the county, and sees himself as a Noble Demon whose dirty deeds help maintain his voters' freedom. He has relationships outside his business, and has no compunctions about pulling the trigger himself.
- Control Freak: Roy is absolutely obsessed with dominating everyone around him, from those under his dominion as sheriff to his own family, and can't stand any perceived threat to his authority. It's part of why he's so obsessed with getting Dot back, as he can't stand the idea of her defying him and getting away with it.
- Corrupt Politician: As an elected sheriff, Roy is as much a politician as he is a law enforcement official, and he is equally corrupt in both halves of his dealings.
- Deadly Euphemism: He tells Gator to “pay [Munch] out of the rainy day fund” to order Munch’s death while talking to him.
- Dirty Cop: He very openly abuses his authority, ranging from having deputies publicly commit acts of Police Brutality to hiring criminals to kidnap his runaway ex-wife.
- Dirty Coward: He's revealed to have an escape tunnel prepared in his ranch, despite earlier boasting to the FBI that he fully intends to defend his property from them with his life. Sure enough, he immediately flees for his life when the bullets do start flying in the season finale.
- Dirty Old Man: Roy is old enough to have an adult son in Gator, but is constantly in relationships with much younger women. This includes him sexually abusing Dot from when she was 15.
- Domestic Abuse: Believes this is warranted when a woman doesn’t know her place, although he draws the line at doing it out of rage or pleasure. In his first scene, he chides an abusive boyfriend for hitting a woman for the wrong reasons before ordering one of his deputies to strangle the man. In the sixth episode, he slaps Karen for accidentally nicking him during a haircut. The end of the same episode also shows how horribly he beat Dot while they were together.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: A somewhat strange example. Although he professes sexist and racist views, he trusts Bowman (who is Black) as his top enforcer, and has a female deputy participate in the second kidnapping attempt on Dot.
- Establishing Character Moment: Subverted. He gives a lecture to an abusive boyfriend that his position as the man of the house comes with responsibilities as well as rights, and that he is wrong for hitting a good woman who knows her place, and has one of his deputies strangle the man for a while to make his point that his behaviour needs to change, while advising the woman to stay with him and make him feel respected and sexually satisfied. This suggests that his old-school patriarchal standards are massively outdated, but sincere. Subsequent events show that he is a complete hypocrite who is worse in every way than the contemptible abuser.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. His berating and threatening an abusive boyfriend for hitting his girlfriend for reasons other than "correcting" her mistakes or bad behaviour, with his words suggesting that his misogyny has limits, and he seems genuinely disgusted by the "waste of skin" the punk reveals himself to be as the abuse continues despite the girlfriend behaving like Tillman's idea of a good woman. As the season goes on, however, it becomes clear that he doesn't hold true to those standards himself, and is just a hypocrite.
- Fate Worse than Death: Roy may have survived the FBI raid on his ranch but his reward is spending the rest of his life in prison, being abused by the vast majority of his fellow inmates who are now essentially on Lorraine Lyon's payroll.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's got Jon Hamm's charisma and the demeanor of an old-fashioned country boy, which is how Dot/Nadine was taken in by him to begin with, but he's nothing more than a raging misogynist and a vile rapist.
- The Fundamentalist: He's this in spades, using obscure biblical law in the practice of regular law and believing extremely backwards things like thinking a woman shouldn't be allowed to leave her abusive husband. That he has unopposed control of the law in town and is proudly a Dirty Cop guarantees he's an extremely dangerous brand of fundamentalist.
- Hate Sink: A grotesquely evil misogynist, all-around bigot, abuser and monster. Roy is written to be perhaps the single most vile individual in all Fargo with not one admirable or likable trait, whose depravity only grows worse and worse.
- The Heavy: Roy’s this for season 5. Though part of the Big Bad Ensemble, the latter of which has far more resources and reach than him, he’s the antagonist that’s most active and drives the plot for Season 5 with his pursuit of Dot, while Lorraine is far less active in her antagonism towards Dot and even helps her out in the back half, leaving Roy the main antagonist for the remainder of the season.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Roy’s belief that women are ultimately property of their husbands and fathers is at the core of his sense of self.
- Honor Before Reason: His fatal flaw. Roy can emotionally handle being defeated by a man (as shown when he decides to pay Munch off when he demonstrates how dangerous he is), but his ego will not let him be beaten by a woman. Had he focused on his reelection he likely would have ruled his little kingdom till he died of old age, but instead he put his efforts into recapturing Dot and set off the events leading to his own downfall.
- Hypocrite:
- He justifies ignoring Federal laws by claiming "freedom" for his constituents. He doesn't extend that philosophy to women, as he's actively working to end Dot's freedom, and encourages a battered wife to stay with her abusive crank-using husband instead of getting a divorce.
- He detests husbands beating their wives for satisfaction or pleasure, rather than "correction". Except, as Dot observes, husbands only beat their wives when they feel weak and "need something small to climb on to feel big." His reasons for "correcting" his wives are exactly as petty and small as the abusive man he orders strangled. He murdered Linda, regularly beat and molested Nadine, backhands Karen out of sheer rage, and uses Dot as a punching bag after he's humiliated by Danish's stunt at the debate. Pure self-delusion is the only thing that lets Roy think he has any sort of moral high ground.
- As Lorraine Lyon points out, his campaigning on unlimited freedom while refusing to take responsibility for others is not the stance of a man, but a baby.
- Roy talks a lot about the man as the protector and leader of the family and he is insistent that this role is divine and unbreakable, which is part of how he justifies his pursuit of Dot. However, even disregarding his frequent Domestic Abuse, whenever his family gets in the way of Roy's ambitions, he is quick to abandon them. When his marriage to Linda became an impediment to his pursuit of Nadine, he has her killed, when his current wife is lying unconscious and covered in blood, he can't be bothered to check on her wellbeing for even a moment, and when Gator is mutilated and blinded by Munch, he calls him useless and leaves him alone in an outbuilding, not even bothering to remove Gator's blindfold or untie him. For all Roy's talk about protecting his family, he is the biggest threat to them around, and he's quick to abandon them if they actually need protection and guidance.
- I Am the Noun: Roy thinks he is the law, at least within his county, and not even the feds can tell him what to do.
- It's All About Me: As the season goes on, it becomes obvious that any talk Roy has of responsibility or duty is just something he thinks sounds good. Everything he does is to prop up his ego, and everyone he should care for may as well exist solely for his satisfaction. As pointed out by Lorraine Lyon, his dream of unlimited freedom with no responsibilities is the dream of a baby.
- It's Personal: Roy is normally pragmatic in his crimes, making serious efforts to avoid any evidence leading back to him or other potential bad press. When pursuing Dot/Nadine, he regularly takes risks he wouldn't normally because he views her as his property and is personally insulted by her independence.
- Knight of Cerebus: While previous seasons have had villainous characters, they were offset by comedic or fantastical elements that made them entertaining to watch. Aside from a couple moments of Black Comedy that mainly serve to highlight what a Hypocrite he is, everything about Roy, from his misogyny to his Domestic Abuse of Dot, is played completely seriously.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Loses everything, his title, his reputation, and his freedom after he's finally arrested for his crimes in the finale. Lorraine even personally visits him a year later to inform him that several of his cellmates will be tormenting him during his stay, ensuring that he feels the same pain and humiliation he inflicted on his wives.
- Never My Fault: Roy fundamentally refuses to take any blame for his actions, always shifting it onto Dot, Gator, Karen, anyone else he can think of or the world. Even his prayers show that he is externalizing his guilt. After being first on the scene of a brutal Pater Familicide, he rushes to blame the man's actions, which mirror his own more than Roy would admit, on Satan. There is also the Spiteful Spit incident below, showing he blames God for his downfall rather than himself.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's extremely misogynistic, believing women have a duty to be subservient to men they marry and that it's entirely acceptable to violently punish them for deviating from that. The little we see and hear of his other political opinions indicates he's a bigot in pretty much every other regard as well.
- When Lorraine visits him in prison at the end of the season, he has a swastika tattooed on his neck and praises the voluntary racial segregation that occurs in the prison system.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- He is very good at covering up loose ends and keeping his image clean enough to continue getting reelected which is why he has managed to stay in office as long as he has.
- In spite of being a racist, as confirmed in the finale, Roy keeps a black man as one of his top enforcers, and in spite of his misogyny he recognises Lorraine as someone beyond his reach and treats her respectfully to her face. On the flip side, details like these demonstrate that for all his talk he has very few true principles, whether good or bad.
- Psychopathic Manchild: For all his posturing, several characters correctly peg him as an immature and insecure man who takes his insecurities out on those around him. This leads him to have a temper tantrum at an election debate, storming off and punching the debate moderator after about a minute of mockery.Lorraine: You want freedom with no responsibility? Son, there's only one person on Earth who gets that deal. (...) A baby.
- Quick Draw: Roy is unfazed when the abusive punk is pointing a gun at him, and waits for him to verbally commit to pulling the trigger before shooting him dead with his own gun, which was still in his holster at this point.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Roy thinks he's the highest legal authority in Stark County, so he can do as he likes with no laws to bind him.
- Skewed Priorities: He lampshades the fact that he should have focused his attention on getting re-elected and waited until after the election was secure before going after Nadine/Dot.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Roy carries himself like a bigshot and believes he's been appointed by God to carry out His will. In reality, he's nothing but a small town sheriff on a power trip. When he pisses off a billionaire debt collector, he finds himself in way over his head, facing off against the FBI and state police when she calls in a presidential favor.
- Small-Town Tyrant: He treats Stark County as his personal fiefdom, assaulting and killing whoever he wants without fear.
- The Social Darwinist: His stridently bigoted politics include this belief. When Lorraine meets him in prison, he tells her that his incarceration fits his worldview perfectly, with "races stacked with the strong on top" — and Lorraine informs him that she's used her money to ensure that Roy will spend the rest of his life being ground to a pulp at the bottom of the hierarchy, his race irrelevant against the power of her wealth.
- Spiteful Spit: When things start going wrong for him (entirely due to his own arrogance and stupidity) he spits on the floor of the chapel and glares at the image of Christ on the Cross, after an earlier scene (when he still felt like king of his own little world) showed him addressing Jesus/God as "old friend" and speaking with apparently sincere contemplation on the nature of evil and the devil.
- Stealing from the Till: The FBI is after him because he used county funds to buy weapons and tactical gear for his department and then diverted all of it to his father-in-law's militia instead.
- Stupid Evil: Danish Graves points out he's offering Roy a great deal: Dot for Roy's election, before Roy murders him. Roy is so committed to psychopathic misogyny and his own petty tyrannies that he constantly delves into acts of self-destructive cruelties that do nothing for his well-being and hasten his downfall.
- Tattooed Crook: He's sporting a swastika on his neck after spending a year in prison.
- Underestimating Badassery: In his repeated attempts to take Dot back, he makes a point to antagonize and make an enemy out of Lorraine Lyon. Lorraine. The conversation they have in her mansion is the pin-point precise moment when his political career came to an end. After Lorraine saw the police photos of the horrific injuries Dot suffered at his hands, that was the pin-point precise moment when his life came to an end. He just didn't know it yet.
- Villainous Breakdown: Roy handles humiliation extremely poorly especially when it's a woman humiliating him. With every setback to his plans and every humiliation, he becomes more and more desperate to try and regain some feeling of power. Unlike most villainous breakdowns this generally makes him more dangerous, as his idea of regaining power generally consists of hurting someone weaker than him. Especially those close to him.Dot: They never hit you when it's going their way, you know? It's when they're weak and just pretending to be strong. When they need something small to climb on to feel big.
- Villainous Valour: Up to a point. He is completely unfazed when the abusive punk is pointing a gun at him, and waits for the idiot to signal that he's committed to pulling the trigger before shooting him dead with his own Quick Draw skills. After realising the extremely dangerous Munch has broken into his house with his wife and children inside, he singlehandedly enters to protect his family without waiting for backup or showing any fear. However, for all his talk of a heroic last stand he plans to escape the final battle and leave his followers to die. During the same battle, he also uses trickery to kill two other men who were standing their ground to him in a way that, by his own publicly espoused principles, should entitle them to his respect and a fair fight.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Roy is an elected Sheriff and relies on his position to enable his criminal dealings. He maintains a positive reputation in Stark County and is regionally known as a bastion of conservative politics, with few knowing about his many crimes. His public tantrum at a debate, humiliation by Danish's hired copycats, and publicly punching out the woman moderating the debate puts an end to the "good publicity" part.
- Wife-Basher Basher: His particular brand of misogyny causes him to object to men who harm their wives sadistically for reasons other than “correction”. He has abusive husband Josh choked half to death in front of his wife for beating her, but then orders her to take him home and take care of him, particularly sexually. When things don't improve thanks to his sage advice, he later kills Josh and places Josh's wife under his thumb, telling her she should be grateful to him.
- Wife Husbandry: With the help of Linda, his first wife, he spent two years grooming the teenage runaway Dorothy (then Nadine) to be his new wife. She was forced to marry him before she was even 18.
- Would Hurt a Child: Flashbacks show he was physically abusive to Gator as a child and that he first started sexually assaulting Dot when she was 15.
Karen Tillman
Karen Tillman
Played By: Rebecca Liddiard
Roy's current spouse.
- Age-Gap Romance: She's visibly much younger than Roy.
- Domestic Abuse: Roy has entirely broken her down into being his domestic slave through psychological and physical violence. When she nicks his ear cutting his hair, he backhands her and she offers an apology, both with zero hesitation.
- Irony: The thing that finally gets her to realize that Roy is a monster is seeing that he's just killed her father. She arrives about 30 seconds after her father had advised Roy to kill her.
- Redemption Rejection: Dot's attempt to appeal to her sense of self preservation, if nothing else, fails because she's just too deeply indoctrinated, fully believing that the abuse she receives is deserved. Seeing Roy murder her father and get ready to murder her finally gets her to realize what a horrible person Roy is.
- Unholy Matrimony: She's been so effectively brainwashed by Roy that she's almost as much of a monster as he is, telling him in episode 8 that he should just kill Dot rather than try to "save" her.
Gator Tillman
Gator Tillman
"Yeah, I'm down with 'protect,' but... I ain't in the service industry. I'm in the kicking ass and taking names business."
Played By: Joe Keery
Roy's son by his first wife, who serves under him as a sheriff's deputy.
- Accidental Murder: He pushes Irma down in a scuffle when she sees him breaking into Munch’s car. This causes her to strike her head on the sidewalk, killing her.
- Bondage Is Bad: He has a pair of handcuffs attached to his bed, which is first shown while he's gearing up to kidnap Dot.
- Butt-Monkey: He manages to screw up every assignment that Roy ever gives him.Roy: Son, you got a bad-luck problem. Somewhere out there, there's an upside down horseshoe with your name on it.
- Dirty Cop: He's as corrupt as his father, for whom he acts as glorified muscle. He has a history of stealing evidence from lockup, while a newspaper article mentions him being kicked off a task force investigating the suspicious disappearances of several people near the Tillman ranch because he sabotaged the investigation.
- Dirty Coward: Gator tries (and largely fails) to be intimidating and bullying when he thinks he has the upper hand (such as when he has the other person outnumbered, or they are currently injured and walking with a crutch), but he quickly resorts to bargaining and begging when he realises he's in trouble.
- The Dog Bites Back: After Roy essentially disowns Gator, Gator gives himself up to the FBI and flips on Roy, ensuring that he can't get away with his crimes.
- Dumb Muscle: He’s not too bright, but he's insistent he would be able to take on someone like Munch in a straight-up fight with no trickery.
- Eye Scream: In retaliation for Gator killing Irma, Munch cuts out Gator's eyes.
- Fatal Flaw: His need to impress his father by being a "winner" prompts him to escalate a number of needless confrontations to avoid acknowledging a defeat and/or give himself a minor feeling of victory that is meaningless in any practical sense. All of these draw the attention of people considerably more competent than him when they might otherwise have ignored him.
- Freudian Excuse: All of Gator's worst qualities are a direct result of being raised by Roy, who physically and psychologically abused him all through childhood. He also directly witnessed Roy's abuse toward both his mother, who eventually abandoned him (she was actually murdered by Roy), and Dot, who he looked up to like an older sister.
- Genre Savvy: He does a threatening, cryptic speech when confronted to Indira and Witt, similar to other classic Fargo villains like Malvo or Varga. This ends up being somewhat humorous, since he's neither as eloquent nor as threatening as those figures, and the heroes look more annoyed and puzzled than scared. He also clearly doesn't realise that punctuating a (wannabe) badass statement by taking a big pull from his vape doesn't project quite the same image as chomping on a cigar.Gator: Consider this bitch flummoxed.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: He has noticeably slicked-back hair.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Gator seems to be Roy's only son, and considers himself a major player in his father's criminal dealings. Roy, on the other hand, doesn't think much of Gator at all.
- Harmful to Minors: Used to witness Roy brutally abuse his mother when he was a child, which terrified him so much, he clung to Dorothy for comfort. If that wasn't bad enough, he also witnessed his father groom Dorothy as well.
- Heel–Face Turn: After being blinded by Ole Munch and told off by Roy, he decides to rat his father out to the feds. After Roy is arrested, Gator makes up with Dot who promises to visit him in prison.
- Hypocrite: He complains it's "unfair" that Munch is still out and about after killing several of Gator's partners. Apparently, "fair" would have been if Munch turned up his boots and died when Gator and his father betrayed him.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's bumbling compared to most of the characters and spends the first half of the season getting humiliated whenever he gets into a physical confrontation. When he breaks into the Lyon house to kidnap her, he is a serious physical threat and comes the closest to actually capturing Dot and Scotty out of anyone in the group.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He echos and enables a lot of his fathers misogynistic beliefs. He is also much more openly racist, with every conversation he has with Witt dripping in what he probably thinks is carefully veiled racism.
- Psychopathic Manchild: A murderous thug desperate to impress Daddy, but who can only name his most recent achievement as being a good football player... in high school.
- Redemption Earns Life: Gator is allowed to live after turning on his father, albeit blinded and in prison. He and Dot are able to reconcile and she promises to visit him in prison with his favorite cookies. Gator for his part, seems genuinely remorseful and at peace with the prospect.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Gator thinks he's far more impressive than he really is and models himself after his dad who also has an oversized ego for his position but not even having Roy's forceful personality and charisma. This is perhaps best seen in his interaction with Witt where Gator clearly thinks he's being tough and intimidating and Witt will be so frightened he won't ask any further questions. In reality, Witt is mostly confused by Gator's posturing and pays no attention to him as soon as he's gone.
- Smug Snake: Gator loves to smirk and bully people he thinks are at his mercy, but he's far from being as tough as he'd like. He's little more than a shadow of his father, having all of Roy's tyrannical sadism but with none of the genuine toughness or cleverness to pull it off.
- Stealing from the Till: Or rather, the evidence locker. Gator’s been pilfering drugs and guns that were seized from criminals and selling them on the black market.
- Stupid Evil: He's an idiot to the core, swaggering about with unearned confidence and practically advertising to everyone around that he's a corrupt lunkhead who must be stopped at all costs. Gator is needlessly aggressive with Indira and Witt in the hospital, raising their suspicion of him, and then openly steals evidence in front of Witt… despite having been caught doing the same thing before to the point of it being reported in the papers.
- Tragic Villain: Gator is ultimately a product of his abusive upbringing, with all his loathsome actions being motivated solely to win the love and approval from his father that he's never had. It's clear from his interactions with Dot that he cares for her, but can't reconcile their past together with his need to do Roy's bidding. He's eventually blinded at the hands of Munch (evoking a classical tragic figure, Oedipus) and abandoned, crying out for "Daddy" like a little boy.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Dot's puppet style flashback of her past in episode 7 shows that Gator used to be a really nice and friendly boy who was very eager to welcome a younger Dorothy into his family, coming to view her as an older sister figure. Unfortunately, a lifetime of being raised by a scumbag like Roy turned Gator into the complete jerk he is now. Dot thinks part of Gator still wants to be a good person, as evidenced by him letting her sneak away, but sadly, most of him just wants to be like his dad.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Gator is desperate to impress his father, but he's too much of a bumbling, over-confident idiot to accomplish the tasks set for him. This leads to his father being critical of him, which in turn leads to Gator trying harder and failing faster.
- Who Names Their Kid "Gator"?: Roy Tillman does! According to Dot, the Tillmans had a family tradition of naming the first born son Roy, but when Gator was born Roy thought too little of the boy to give him his name. So he called him Gator instead because he thought the infant looked like a lizard.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Gator disobeys his father's orders to let the grudge with Munch go, leading to Gator losing his eyes and once again making Munch Roy's enemy, Roy refuses to help or comfort Gator, telling him, "If there was ever a point to you, it's gone now."
Linda Tillman
Linda “Saint Linda” Tillman
Played By: Kari Matchett
Roy Tillman’s wife before Dorothy and the mother of Gator. She disappeared soon after Dot moved in with the Tillmans. Dorothy dreams about tracking her down at Camp Utopia, a haven for abused women.
- All Just a Dream: All of her interactions with Dot during episode 7 are ultimately revealed to just be a lengthy dream.
- Ambiguously Evil: Dot recognizes Linda was a victim of Roy’s abuse as much as she was, and seems to think very highly of her. However, Linda did take in a teenage Dot and bring her under the same roof as Roy while knowing exactly the kind of man her husband is.
- Ambiguous Situation: Did Linda run away like Nadine/Dorothy thinks, or did Roy kill her so he could move onto Nadine/Dorothy? The FBI suspect the latter, but then again, they also thought that Dorothy was dead. Episode 8 confirms that she was Never a Runaway; Roy indeed killed and buried her.
- Bad Samaritan: She took in Nadine/Dorothy when she discovered her living on the streets and gave her a place to stay. Nadine/Dorothy thinks Linda did this to offer her up to Roy as a new victim.
- Cult of Personality: In Dot’s dream, she runs Camp Utopia as a benevolent cult dedicated to getting women away from abusive relationships. As part of that, she has all new members take on the name Linda until they are ready to adopt a new name and leave.
- Dead All Along: It’s confirmed in the eighth episode that Roy did kill her, and Dot’s vision of her was All Just a Dream.
- Never a Runaway: Dot dreamt that she had fled from Roy to start a new life in Camp Utopia, a borderline cult for abused women. In fact, she was murdered by Roy.
- Walking Spoiler: There’s a reason most of her tropes are whited out. It's impossible to talk about her character without revealing that Camp Utopia is a dream and she was actually murdered by Roy.
Odin Little
Odin Little
Played By: Michael Copeman
The leader of the largest far right militia in the Midwest. He is the father of Karen and his son-in-law Roy funnels government-supplied weapons to the militia.
- Abusive Parents: He verbally abuses Karen occasionally. The way she shrinks from him when he is angry heavily implies that he was physically abusive to her before she married Roy. He all but makes it explicit in the finale, where he basically chastises Roy for not having disposed of her already.
- Asshole Victim: It's hard to shed a tear when he agitates Roy into slitting his throat.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Different episodes credit the character as Oden or Odin.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Far right militia leader and child abuser he may be, but he's entirely correct when he points out that Roy co-opting his militia so he can have a proud Last Stand instead of surrendering is incredibly selfish and stands against the goals of his allies.
- Meaningful Name: The mythological reference in his name is fitting for a patriarchal leader. It also reflects the adoption of the Norse pantheon among some Alt-right groups and white supremacists.
- Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: He is the leader of a massive militia group which serves as a cornerstone of Roy’s support.
Bowman
Bowman
Played By: Conrad Coates
Bowman is the foreman of the Tillman Ranch and Roy’s top lieutenant.
- Bigotry Exception: Implied. Roy's general political stance would imply a level of anti-black racism, which is confirmed at the end where he praises the voluntary segregation in prison and has a swastika tattooed on his neck, but he treats Bowman better than any of his other subordinates including his own son. Presumably, the general competence Bowman demonstrates and his presumed alignment with Roy's other political stances is sufficient to earn Roy's respect regardless of his race.
- The Dragon: He is the foreman of Roy’s ranch and serves as Roy’s top enforcer when the job is too important to be trusted to Gator.
- Killed Offscreen: As Bowman is about to shoot Dot, he's dragged offscreen. The sounds of a struggle and gunfire ensue, followed by a shot of Bowman's dead body (as well of two of his deputies) and a triumphant Munch.
