The Wire: Difference between revisions

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Brother Mouzone, who enjoys reading Harper's. He even references it by saying, "What's the most dangerous thing in America? A nigger with a library card."

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Brother Mouzone, who wears a suit and bow tie at all times. Mocked, at his own peril, by Cheese.

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Scott Templeton, who wins a Pulitzer for his fabricated story while Gus is demoted.}}

** Played earlier and a lot more devastatingly at the end of {{spoiler|the second season}} when {{spoiler|The Greek and his cronies}} get away scot-free with the police still having no idea who they really are. Made worse when they resurface in the story a couple seasons later and we see that they've managed to avoid prosecution and are back in business in Baltimore.

* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Cedric Daniels and Howard Colvin.

* [[Battle Couple]]: Omar and his three boyfriends, Kimmy and Tosha.

** Kima drinks, sleeps around, and kicks in doors right along with the men of the series.

** Snoop as well. She has the "one of the guys" aspect down nearly to a tee, wearing almost exclusively baggy men's clothing (concealing her fairly feminine build seen on the one exception), being one of the top two enforcers for Marlo, and with a voice deeper than most males on the show. Her sexual orientation is only once referred to, and that fairly obliquely (where she claims that she, like Bunk, is "thinking about some pussy"), but the actress who plays her is also a [[Butch Lesbian]].

* [[But Not Too Gay]]: The fairly prominent gay character of Omar never gets a sex scene, and over three boyfriends and five seasons, only has two on-screen kisses (three if you count kissing Brandon's forehead in an early episode): he barely even touches the third boyfriend, Renaldo, even in a non-sexual way (possibly as a result of some controversy about the fairly steamy make-out scene with his previous boyfriend, Dante). Mostly, however, this is averted as Omar is one of few characters who never hides his relationships, and what we do see is still a lot more than some examples from other media.

* [[Camera Sniper]]: Happens a lot, particularly in season one. For instance, the scene where Bubbles is doing his red hat trick and Kima is on the roof photographing them.

* [[Cardboard Prison]]: It takes Bodie about three minutes to break out of juvenile hall.

* [[Career Killer]]: Brother Mouzone, on loan from New York to bust some heads in Baltimore.

** McNulty: "The fuck did I do?"

** Bunk: "Happy now, bitch?"; "Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck"

** The real Jay Landsman plays Lt. Mello, while Delaney Williams plays "Jay Landsman." Made more confusing in a scene in the fifth season where Lt. Mello, Jay Landsman, and [[Homicide: Life On the Street|Detective Munch]], based on Landsman, all appear in a bar.

** Omar is a Fan of HBO's ''[[Oz]]'' although many Actors (Herc, Carver, Rawls, Daniels, Bodie, Freamon and Cheese) on ''The Wire'' have appeared on it

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Proposition Joe is implied to be illiterate in Season One, when Avon mocks him for carrying a clipboard as a coach even though he can't read. Later episodes reveal Prop Joe to be quite intellectual. His prequel short shows that he was an excellent student who sold his test answers to fellow students.

* [[Chastity Couple]]: Omar and Renaldo are not shown so much as holding hands, in comparison to Omar's being shown as affectionate with his first two boyfriends.