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* [[Grammar Nazi]]
* [[Honorary Uncle]]: To Margaret's children.
* [[Jerk
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The show's plot could be summed as "watch Nucky Thompson weasel out of the problems he's getting into".
* [[Kavorka Man]]
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Lonely At the Top]]: While he has wealth and prestige and is known for his charm, he manages to alienate Jimmy and his brother Eli, and has no friends except for Margaret.
* [[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}}.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Nice to
** He also gets more and more jerkish to Harlan after he begins working directly for him. This pretty much confirms that Nucky has a problem dealing with people on a regular basis, and that after a while he begins to take them for granted and stops being polite altogether - [[Fridge Brilliance|thus his problems with Eli, Jimmy and even Margaret]].
* [[Only Known
* [[Parental Substitute]]: First to Jimmy and later to Margaret's children.
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: {{spoiler|In "Two Boats and a Lifeguard", when he asks Teddy to call him "Dad", and in "Georgia Peaches", when Teddy casually does.}}
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* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Mother]]: Oh, boy.
* [[Affably Evil]]: He's an intellectual who is a good friend and tries to be a good father and husband, but he's also a cold-blooded killer.
* [[Badass in
* [[Berserk Button]]: People lying about military service/expressing "chickenhawk" attitudes seems to be this for him.
** Never make lewd comments about Jimmy's mom. Don't assault her, either. In fact, just be very polite to her in his presence.
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Don't hit him. ''You'll regret it''.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Face Death
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Nucky and Angela remind him constantly that he has brains to be something better than a gangster, but he won't listen.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: In "The Age of Reason".
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* [[It's Personal]]: {{spoiler|Pearl's death}}, which makes him decide to take down Sheridan's entire gang and kill the mook that personally targeted her.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] / [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: As soon as {{spoiler|the Commodore is paralyzed and Jimmy takes the reins}}, he gets a ''lot'' more vicious and assholish.
* [[Kick the Son of
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Mommy Issues]]: Probably the understatement of the century.
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* [[Start of Darkness]]: The second season episode "Under God's Power She Flourishes" flashes back to his time at Princeton {{spoiler|culminating in an incestuous experience with his mother}}, which lead him to join the army.
* [[The Strategist]]: To Torrio in Season 1. He tries to be one for Nucky, but Nucky's actually a better planner than Jimmy is.
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Hits this ''three times'' in "Under God's Power She Flourishes". First, he hits it in flashback, {{spoiler|he was thrown out of Princeton, slept with his mother, and joined the army}}, then hits it after being informed of {{spoiler|Angela's death}} in the present day, then again {{spoiler|after attacking his mother and killing his father}}.
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* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Unlike Nucky, he is pretty racist and frequently uses ethnic slurs, and by his commentary in one scene where he advises Nucky on how to deal with Margaret, it's implied that he beats his wife.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Tells Jimmy to [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|simply shoot]] {{spoiler|[[Cain and Abel|Nucky]],}} to [[Even Evil Has Standards|Jimmy and Harrow's horror]].
* [[Ten
* [[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.
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* [[Promoted to Opening Credits]]: In Season 2.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: When she has something on, it's usually furry.
* [[Rape
* [[Really Gets Around]]
* [[Single Mom Stripper]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]: He's a gangster in order to help his community and is very protective of his employees. He's also revealed in season two to be a loving husband and father, and given the era, it's clear that his upper class life wouldn't be reachable within the law.
* [[Badass in
* [[Berserk Button]]: Looks like a [[Bad Boss]] at first, but touch any of his workers, I dare you!
* [[Breakout Character]]: When you compare his role in the pilot to his role in late season one and season two, you can tell his plot relevance has increased exponentially.
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* [[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]]".
* [[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
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: His carpenter father was killed by white supremacists, and now he uses his father's tools ''on them''.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:
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* [[Guttural Growler]]
* [[Handicapped Badass]]
* [[Hitman
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[It Gets Easier]]
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* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: To the point where he's so desensitized to violence that he has no qualms about becoming a contract killer.
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Throw It In]]: Jack Huston came up with Harrow's guttural voice himself, using [[Marlon Brando]]'s cotton-in-the-mouth trick from ''[[
* [[Two-Faced]]: Literally, and metaphorically.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To Jimmy.
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* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Is shown to have some pretty racist attitudes towards Jews, and refers to Nucky's black supporters as "darkies". Plus, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|he considers Chinese food "filth" without even tasting it]].
* [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]]
* [[Stalker
* [[Surrounded
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]
* [[The Un-Smile]]: Done when he tries to "seduce" Margaret.
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* [[Grumpy Old Man]]
* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]
* {{spoiler|[[Impaled
* [[Jerkass]]: In the first season, he's unpleasant to pretty much everyone, and is one of the most bigoted characters in the show. It does seem that this had something to do with his illness, since when he's recovered in the second season, while not a better person, he's rather avuncular.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: By Jimmy, no less.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Ironically, some of the people he wins to his side are convinced by his claim that {{spoiler|Nucky}} is a [[Manipulative Bastard]].
* [[Nice to
** Strangely, {{spoiler|his will leaves most of his estate to the maid. He did not even change the will after he found out that she tried to poison him and she fled}}.
* [[Perfect Poison]]: {{spoiler|Averted. His food, clothes and even toothpaste are poisoned with cyanide for almost a year and while his health worsens considerably he still survives.}}
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: By far the most frequent source of nudity in the series. It's harder to find an episode where she doesn't show something.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Has a giant fox-fur coat.
* [[Put
* [[Really Gets Around]]
* [[Riches to Rags]]
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** Doubles as {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays]].}}
* [[The Quiet One]]: On account of her rather depressing situation.
* [[Wide
* [[Woman in White]]: Fittingly enough, she wears a white dress throughout "Under God's Power She Flourishes", {{spoiler|after she dies in "Georgia Peaches". Her last appearance is a flashback.}}
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** And then Lucky and Lansky use the life insurance policy he signed for Rothstein during the D'Alessios incident to cheat him into giving away his part of their shared business in Season 2. [[Call It Karma]], indeed.
** Not that the life insurance has stopped him - in "To the Lost", he turns around and sets up a meet between Nucky and Manny Horvitz, which facilitates {{spoiler|Jimmy's murder}}.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: While he often seems [[Too Dumb to Live]], he's smarter than he looks and continues to live and succeed due to his amazing talent for backstabbing his associates at the right time.
* {{spoiler|[[The Stool Pigeon]]: "A Dangerous Maid" reveals he has become one for Van Alden.}}
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* [[Holier Than Thou]]: "What? We all have to live by (some) rules..."
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Played seriously. Jimmy tries to restrain him at one point, telling him that "You can't kill everyone."
* [[Only Known
* [[The Rival]]: To Waxey Gordon.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: In an evil version of this, after an attempt is made on his life, he considers no amount of blood money sufficient to stop him from taking revenge.
* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]
* [[Yiddish
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: While he dislikes killing for sport he is even more offended when someone claims the kill of another man. He believes that the only way for Jimmy to really take over Atlantic City is for Jimmy to personally kill Nucky. He sems impressed by the fact that {{spoiler|Nucky personally killed Jimmy rather than having Owen or Eli do it.}}
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* [[Dirty Cop]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Informed Judaism]]: He is completely secular and at first his heritage seems to bear no relevance to the plot other than making him a [[Yiddish
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: His first name isn't even revealed until {{spoiler|after his death.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mauve Shirt]]}}
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* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Uses this before {{spoiler|killing said witness.}}
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: After {{spoiler|killing a witness under orders of Nucky}}, he hits himself in the head with a rock to make it look like he was attacked.
* [[Yiddish
'''Hans Schroeder'''
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* [[Break the Cutie]]
* {{spoiler|[[Death
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Facial Horror]]}}
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** [[Fan Disservice]]: {{spoiler|The scene where she, high on opium, tries to go back to work while sporting a huge scar across her face.}}
* [[Functional Addict]]: She is addicted to opium.
* [[Hooker
* [[The Mistress]]: To Jimmy.
* {{spoiler|[[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: He lives alone in what was once the family home, in the middle of nowhere.
* {{spoiler|[[Real Life Writes the Plot]]/ [[The Character Died
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Or as he puts it: "Ah, what do I give a shit?"
* [[Shown Their Work]]: "Ethan"'s popularity as a baby name was nonexistent from the 1880s-about 1970 and spiked in the '80s to a peak around 2000. Therefore it just doesn't conjure up an old man in [[The New Tens|viewers' minds]], however it might've in [[The Roaring Twenties]].
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* [[Grande Dame]]
* [[Gratuitous French]]
* [[Hoist
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: She makes Margaret call her ''Madame'' Jeunet. Nucky is amused when he founds out because to him she is just "Isabelle".
* [[Old Maid]]: She is "a woman alone".
* [[This Is My Name
'''Annabelle'''
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* [[Brooklyn Rage]]
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Capone is supposed to be 21 in the pilot, Graham is in his 30's.
* [[The Dragon]]: To Torrio, though history tells us he's likely a [[Dragon
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: A loving father, husband, and son, but do ''not'' cross Al.
* [[Fake American]]: Stephen Graham is English.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red, to Jimmy's Blue.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: This and his [[Character Development]] is signaled by his trading a newsboy cap for a stylish fedora.
* [[Trigger Happy]]: Al's solution to everything is generally a combination of [[Kill It
* [[Young Future Famous People]]
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* [[The Don]]
* [[Dragon Ascendant]]: Is one to Colosimo, and Al also will become his.
* [[Dragon
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: He makes no distinction between Italians and Irish in his gang, and at some point invites Al to respect the Jews and learn from them.
* [[Evil Mentor]]: To Al.
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A high-level Jewish gangster with his fingers in every pie in New York. He rigged the 1919 World Series and is being investigated for it, but is a much more level-headed crime boss than any of the others. Played by Michael Stulhbarg.
* [[Badass in
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]
* [[Card Sharp]]: In the odd case that his natural ability is not enough.
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* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: In "Family Limitation", so far the only male character to have shown as much.
* [[May-December Romance]]: With Gillian Darmody.
* [[Only Known
** Even fewer people (Capone among them) call him by his birth name - Salvatore. Not that he particularly enjoys it:
{{quote| '''Luciano''': What are you, my priest? Back off.}}
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: He could apparently side, backstab and come back to Nucky multiple times in the same week. [[wikipedia:Frank Hague|History]] tells us that he was already doing that years before the timeframe of the show.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: He only appears in the second season to introduce Jack Dempsey to Nucky.
* [[Only in It For
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Arguably gets such a moment when he tells Nucky that Senator Edge is backstabbing Nucky, even though said backstabbing benefited Hague.
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: He is a corrupt whoremonger that does not believe in female suffrage and defends women battering.
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* [[May-December Romance]]: She fell in love with Harding when she was 16, well before he started his political career.
* [[The Mistress]]
* [[Stalker
* [[Unrequited Love]]
* [[Wide
'''Harry Daugherty'''
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* [[Expy]]: Fallon himself isn't an expy, but he is the basis for [[Chicago|Billy Flynn]] and indeed, the entire silver-tongued, amoral lawyer archetype.
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Unlike Nucky, he notices that Harlan has something important to say, which turns out to be the key to destroy Randolph's attempt to use Van Alden as a witness. Granted, Nucky could have realized it by himself if he wasn't a [[Jerkass]], but it's notable that Harlan had been working in the house for almost a month by then and no one else had bothered to ask him either.
* [[Only in It For
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Fallon has all the judges in New York in his pocket, and has a self-described "talent at winning over juries".
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