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** Robson in more ways [[Ass Shove|than one.]]

** Peter Schibetta. Oh boy. He starts out like this, but gets victimised so much that he ends up almost a [[Woobie]].

{{quote| "And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee. I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men. And skillful to destroy." Ezekiel 21:31}}

** Warden Glynn as [[Smug Snake]] Timmy Kirk is hauled off to Death Row.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: The O'Reilys

** James Robson [[Abusive Parents|And]] [[Rape As Backstory|how.]]

** And any point during the show really. The Hole in paticular is full of this.

** Pretty sure I saw almost every main prisoner's penis at least once. Keller and Hoyt in particular spent a lot of time in the buff and proud.

* [[Great Escape]]: Agamemnon Busmalis, three unsuccessful attempts to dig out from prison to freedom. Got out once, but got caught.

* [[Had to Come To Prison To Be A Crook]]: Tobias Beecher, imprisoned for vehicular homicide, {{spoiler|is a murderer several times over by the end of the series}}.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Keller spends an awful lot of the series spinning around in here.

* [[He Really Can Act]]: Most of the cast,most notably Chris Meloni and J.K. Simmons.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Chris Keller and Ryan O'Reily.

** [[JK Simmons (Creator)|Schillinger]] is [[Juno]]'s dad, [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Cave Johnson]] and [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|J Jonah Jameson]]

** Ryan O'Reilly is the Allstate Mayhem guy.

** Augustus (the narrator in the wheelchair) is the helicopter pilot in 28 Weeks Later, as well as the replacement operator for the Nebuchadnezzar in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded''.

** Ernie Hudson, the warden, you may remember him from [[Ghostbusters]].

* [[Ho Yay]]: Lots and lots of it.

* [[Idiot Ball]]:

* [[Kiss of Death]]: Chucky Pancamo to Peter Schibetta.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: After six years of monstrous and sadistic acts, Schillinger looks like he is about to end the series unscathed. He is even about to kill old enemy Beecher during a play. Then he realizes that Keller switched it so Beecher has the real knife. Particularly nice in that he realized he had been duped just before dying. The prison audience rejoiced.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Augustus Hill.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: During any given season, there's at least twenty recurring characters that are playing a pivotal role in at least one arc.

* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted, the use of toilets is a semi-regular occurrence. In Season 4, there is a complete shot of Chris Keller urinating into a bucket.

** Not to mention {{spoiler|how Beecher finishes his epic beat-down of Vern Schillinger at the end of season 1.}}

* [[Not Quite Forever]]: One measure of the show's gradual decline from a gritty prison drama to a prison-based soap opera is the number of times Alavarez is sent to Solitary ''permanently,'' only to be let out a couple of weeks later.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Most of the prison staff; McManus is secret pot smoker, Diane murdered an inmate in order to keep him from incriminating her in a scheme to get her to smuggle cigarettes into the prison, Sean Murphy helped cut Morales' Achilles tendons as payback for him having another guard's tendon cut, and reoccurring straight-arrow prison guard Armstrong took money to let a man destroy the Muslims' printing press equipment.

** In addition, Glynn makes no effort to hide his disdain for prisoners or his bullying of Alvarez.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Augustus Hill. Also: Sean Murphy. Of the rounded officer characters he seems to have the most common sense.

* [[The Old Convict]]: Rebadow. To a lesser extent, Busmalis as well.

* [[Prison Riot]]: "A Game of Checkers"

* [[Rape As Drama]]

* [[Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male]]: Averted. Claire Howell going after the reluctant inmates is disturbing. Not quite as disturbing as the male on male rapes, though.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LEyv1Nyfg Wilson Loewn cuts down Vern Schillinger.]

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: There is but ONE female inmate depicted in the whole series: Shirley Bellinger. She is also a very believable [[Distaff Counterpart]] to the male inmates in her amoral ways.

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] as well as [[Truth in Television]] in her case because it's a men's prison and Shirley was only there because she was on Death Row -- the women's prison didn't have the facilities or experience. (Since the USA reinstated capital punishment in 1976 only 12 women have been put to death, which is just 0.9% of executed prisoners. She's ''supposed'' to be an unusual occurrence.) The show makes up for it by including female prison guards, medical and administrative employees, and recurring family members.

* [[Shower of Angst]]: Considering the amount of traumatic experiences the prison inmates go through, it's expected.

* [[Shower Scene]]: There are a few notable beatdowns in the shower, but probably the worst is in Season 5, when Supreme Allah kicks the shit out of Augustus Hill--'''who is in a wheelchair, and NAKED'''.

* [[Talkative Loon]]: Omar White. Oh SO much, Omar.

* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Most obviously {{spoiler|Keller's death.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Subverted in the case of {{spoiler|Eli Zabitz}}. Keller wants to kill him out or revenge, Robson wants to kill him so he can't blackmail the Aryans anymore. While they argue over who can kill him, {{spoiler|Zabitz}} has a heart attack. [[Gallows Humor|Keller and Robson look at each other, shrug, and leave]].

* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Averted with characters like Shirley Bellinger and Claire Howell.