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* [[Kavorka Man]]
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: {{spoiler|When Eli comes crawling back to him}} in "Gimcrack & Bunkum", {{spoiler|Nucky tells him to "get on [his] knees, bend down to the ground, and kiss [his] fucking shoes, you piece of shit." They then get into a knock-down, drag-out brawl}}. It's a long time coming.
* [[Lonely
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Mayors, senators and even ''presidents'' owe him their position in some way.
* [[Mangst]]: Childhood abuse, dead wife, {{spoiler|and infant son}}.
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[[File:Pitt-as-Jimmy-Darmody_7416.jpg|frame|"I'm nothing but a murderer. I'm going to Hell."]]
Smart and resourceful, Jimmy was the product of a relationship between his teenage mother and {{spoiler|the Commodore}}. He was more or less raised by Nucky, who pressured him to pursue an education in Princeton, during which he also met his fiancée and later wife, Angela. However, he abandoned all of them to join the army during [[World War
* [[Abusive Parents]]: The more is known about his relationship with Gillian, the more that it looks like an evident case of this.
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{{quote|'''Gillian''': Did you talk to your father?
'''Jimmy''': Which one?}}
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: And not just [[World War
* [[The Dead Have Names]]
* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]}}
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* [[The Teetotaler]]: Begins the series as one, but abandons it as she is corrupted by the good life.
* [[Token Wholesome]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: She's pretty mean to her maids in the second season, although it's presented as somewhat understandable in light of her own background in service and continued feeling of uncertainty about her family's future/her place in society.
* {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]]: With Owen in Season 2}}.
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* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: He is devoted to his father and children.
* {{spoiler|[[Hazy Feel Turn]]}}
** {{spoiler|[[
** {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Revolving Door|Hazy Feel Revolving Door]]: Just ''whose'' side is he on? Pick one already}}!
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Sometimes comes across as this because of how desperate he is for respect and often out of his depth. On the other hand, he's also frequently a reprehensible brute.
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* [[Thicker Than Water]]: Nucky certainly proves so in "To the Lost".
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Eli realizes that his father, while seeming to favor him, doesn't have any respect for his intelligence. His relationship with Nucky also sours because of Nucky's lack of respect for him.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: He has {{spoiler|Halloran}} beaten up to dissuade him from testifying against him. [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|It fails, at first]], because {{spoiler|Halloran}} does testify against him, but {{spoiler|Halloran}} will be spending much more time in jail than Eli, with his connections to Nucky, will.
* [[You Never Did That for Me]]: In Season 1, he feels that Nucky gives Jimmy more slack than he ever got, and it is one more thing added onto a long list of things he resents Nucky for.
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** Overlaps with [[Ironic Name]], as in addition to his nickname, the name Albert also means white.
* [[Jive Turkey]]: ''[[Shown Their Work|1920s]]'' Jive Turkey.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: The second episode of the second season all but says this outright. He doesn't even seem to know that the book his son's given him isn't ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'', it's ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]''.
* [[Nouveau Riche]]: A major part of his character. Chalky is an uneducated, self-made man from a humble background. He has married an educated, light-skinned trophy wife from a wealthier background who gives their children classical educations. He's an outsider in his own family.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: His wife is the only person that calls him by his real name.
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[[File:Richard-Harrow_8913.jpg|frame|"How does it feel to have everything?"]]
A shy, socially stunted former [[World War
* [[Affably Evil]]: He's a sensitive and polite young man who is really likable. On the other hand, his suggested strategy for drawing out an enemy was to kill their innocent family members and associates.
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Margaret's abusive husband, an unemployed baker assistant with a gambling addiction. He is killed under orders of Nucky at the end of the pilot and used to pin the Woods Massacre on. Played by Joe Sikora.
* [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]]: In-universe. His German heritage makes him an easy scapegoat in post-[[World War
* [[Asshole Victim]]
* [[Deceased Fall Guy Gambit]]: With him as the fall guy.
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** [[Character Development|He's trying to improve on that front.]] To an extent.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red, to Jimmy's Blue.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trigger Happy]]: Al's solution to everything is generally a combination of [[Kill It with Fire|Kill It With Bullets]] and [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]].
* [[Young Future Famous People]]
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* [[The Teetotaler]]: He likes to stay sharp at the table.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: There's definite hints of this in Sason 2, when after being displeased by Luciano and Lansky, he has them serve as [[Mooks|muscle]] in [[Reassigned to Antarctica|transporting a liquor shipment]]. [[The Starscream|They begin to plan accordingly]].
'''Charlie "Lucky" Luciano'''
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