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* [[Alas Poor Scrappy]]: Not many audience members were big fans of Angela, Jimmy's wife, but even the most ardent members of the character's [[Hatedom]] were shaken by {{spoiler|her brutal death at the hands of Manny at the end of "Georgia Peaches".}}
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Jimmy's}} death is this to a certain degree. No matter how much of a villain you feel he was in the second season, one has to admit the writers did a damn good job of generating sympathy for a character who, over the course of the season {{spoiler|tried to overthrow the main character, was a huge jerk to pretty much everyone around him, proved to be an incredibly incompetent leader and got his poor innocent wife killed because he was too selfish to pay back Manny money he legitimately owed him.}}
* [[Base Breaker]]: {{spoiler|The death of Jimmy at Nucky's hand}} was extremely divisive amongst the fanbase, causing many cries of "[[Ruined FOREVER]]" within moments of it airing.
** Jimmy as a character could be considered to be this. He's either one of the most interesting and compelling characters on the show or he's poorly written and dull.
*** Those who find him interesting are divided in turn over if he is an [[Anti
** "Under God's Power She Flourishes" split the fanbase for Gillian; either you think she's a heinous, abusive bitch who ruined her son's life at least twice by exploiting him, or you feel bad for her for continuing the cycle of abuse she herself experienced. Either way, do NOT mention the incest without prepping your fallout shelter.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Richard Harrow is the most universally liked and popular character on the show by quite a wide margin. Even people who don't watch the show know who he is.
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** Gillian's first one comes in "Peg of Old" when she talks Jimmy into {{spoiler|letting the hit on Nucky stand.}}
** Manny's comes in "Georgia Peaches" when he {{spoiler|murders Jimmy's wife and her lover in cold blood.}}
** Gillian racks them up in "Under God's Power She Flourishes". {{spoiler|She doesn't give a flying fuck that Angela died, plans to tell Tommy that she abandoned him to party with her friends in Paris, tells Jimmy to kill the Commodore and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|calls Richard a simpleton]] (in the guise of throwing a police officer off the trail of Angela's murder). Just to add fuel to the fire, the flashbacks reveal that at Princeton, she had drunken sex with Jimmy, freaking him into joining the army.}}
** Nucky's probably comes in "To the Lost", wherein throughout the episode, he reveals himself as [[The Sociopath]], with his affable side appearing to a significant degree to be just a front. This culminates at the end of the episode, in which {{spoiler|on the pretext of letting Jimmy take revenge on Manny, instead coldly murders Jimmy as Manny and Eli watch. That Jimmy expected this and was thus committing [[Suicide By Cop]] doesn't really make Nucky's actions any better}}.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Lucy has improved in leaps and bounds between the first season, where she mainly whined and had a lot of sex, and the second season (especially in {{spoiler|her pregnancy storyline}}). That entire storyline rescued not only her, but {{spoiler|Van Alden, his wife}} and the plot device in general.
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** Angela. Sure, the fandom was quite [[Base Breaker|divided]] about [[The Scrappy|her]] in season 1, but only the most cruel could think that she deserved any of what she got in season 2.
** Van Alden gets a moment of this in "Under God's Power She Flourishes", when he tells the story of his strained relationship with his parents. Apparently he comes by the religious fervor genetically - his father sold their farm in anticipation of the Rapture, they lived penniless for much of Van Alden's childhood, and his father still blames him for their misfortune.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Richard. Jimmy slides into this in season two.
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