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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Since Dickie is [[NeverMyFault pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions]], he'll always position himself as the victim in any given situation, even when he's clearly at fault. It gets to the point that when Raylan tries to kill him for murdering Helen, Dickie tries to claim that it was ''Helen's fault'' and that he killed her in self-defense.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Since Dickie is [[NeverMyFault pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions]], he'll always position himself as the victim in any given situation, even when he's clearly at fault. It gets to the point that when Raylan tries to kill him for murdering Helen, Dickie tries to claim that it was ''Helen's fault'' and that he killed her in self-defense. Graham Yost even acknowledged during an interview that Dickie has a bad case of this.
--> '''Graham Yost:''' Dickie sees himself as a victim. He always sees himself as a victim. And sees himself as smart. And he’s neither. He’s not that smart, and he’s not really a victim. He’s made a choice in his life, and Raylan calls him on it. And Dickie is a cockroach. He just will not go away.
--> '''Graham Yost:''' Dickie sees himself as a victim. He always sees himself as a victim. And sees himself as smart. And he’s neither. He’s not that smart, and he’s not really a victim. He’s made a choice in his life, and Raylan calls him on it. And Dickie is a cockroach. He just will not go away.
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* VillainousLineage: Mags seems to have genuine concern over this for her sons. She realizes Coover and Dickie are both irresponsible, irredeemable criminals, and Doyle is a corrupt cop, but she says she has hope to build a legitimate future for Doyle's children and, later, for Loretta.
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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Dickie has a massive ego but tends to react poorly when it's bruised, with it often resulting in him lashing out, either through tantrums or by murdering the offender or someone close to them.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Dickie's mother Mags is a brilliant [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and quite AffablyEvil, and [[PragmaticVillainy avoids needless violence out of pragmatism.]] Dickie is a moronic {{Jerkass}} who is too big for his britches and constantly picks needless fights out of a misguided need to prove himself.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Where Mags and Doyle try to look respectable, Dickie makes no effort to hide what he is. His unkempt appearance, skeevy personality, and quiet, sinister manner of speaking makes it quite obvious he's bad news.
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* NothingPersonal: Mags admits she doesn't really care about the Bennett and Givens feud, and likes Raylan well enough. Even after things become personal, when she's defeated she admits to Raylan she regrets it and she makes amends with him by shaking hands.
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* ItsPersonal: He doesn't seem to have much enmity against Raylan at first and hides his resentment of him fairly well, but it comes out in full force once he kills Coover.
* EvilCounterpart:
** To Boyd, or rather Evil''er'' Counterpart. Boyd is a criminal, but he has a [[NobleDemon sense of morality]] and he's [[AffablyEvil sincerely charming and romantic]]. Like Boyd, Dickie is heir to a criminal empire and wants to follow in his parent's footsteps, but unlike Boyd, Dickie lacks any sort of scruples or intelligence to back up his ambition.
** He's also one to Raylan in a fashion. Both of them haven't really grown up from their teenage years and are emotionally stunted, but Raylan is mature enough to admit to his mistakes and [[BullyHunter hates bullies]] due to his abusive childhood. Dickie on the other hand ''was'' a bully in high school and hasn't grown out of that mentality, and [[NeverMyFault never takes responsibility for his actions]].
** To Boyd, or rather Evil''er'' Counterpart. Boyd is a criminal, but he has a [[NobleDemon sense of morality]] and he's [[AffablyEvil sincerely charming and romantic]]. Like Boyd, Dickie is heir to a criminal empire and wants to follow in his parent's footsteps, but unlike Boyd, Dickie lacks any sort of scruples or intelligence to back up his ambition.
** He's also one to Raylan in a fashion. Both of them haven't really grown up from their teenage years and are emotionally stunted, but Raylan is mature enough to admit to his mistakes and [[BullyHunter hates bullies]] due to his abusive childhood. Dickie on the other hand ''was'' a bully in high school and hasn't grown out of that mentality, and [[NeverMyFault never takes responsibility for his actions]].
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He and Raylan have the most personal enmity between them. Raylan at first doesn't pay Dickie much mind, but Dickie despises Raylan for ruining his baseball career and leaving him with a permanent limp. He eventually makes the feud personal by killing Helen.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: He murders Helen to spite Raylan and Arlo. He later shoots Ava to spite Boyd instead, something that results in him nearly killing Dickie.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Subverted. She initially wants to seek vengeance on Raylan for killing Coover, but Helen convinces her not to and Mags admits it was Coover's own fault he was killed, and that he had forced Raylan's hand. Unfortunately, Dickie's actions wind up reigniting the feud between her and Raylan anyway.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Subverted. She initially wants to seek vengeance on Raylan for killing Coover, but Helen convinces her not to and Mags admits it was Coover's own fault he was killed, and that he had forced Raylan's hand. Unfortunately, Dickie's actions wind up reigniting the feud between her and Raylan anyway.anyway, and she sides with Dickie to protect him.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Dickie is clearly TheUnfavorite and Mags's relationship with him is strained at best. However, after briefly letting him get sent to jail, she has him released and comforts him, reassuring him that she'll protect him.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Dickie is clearly TheUnfavorite and Mags's relationship with him is strained at best. However, after briefly letting him get sent to jail, she has him released and comforts him, reassuring him that she'll protect him.
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* ArchEnemy: He utterly despises Raylan and has a deeply personal enmity for him. Raylan is mostly apathetic to him, but Dickie manages to make their feud mutual by murdering Helen.
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** He utterly despises Raylan and has a deeply personal enmity for him. Raylan is mostly apathetic to him, but Dickie manages to make their feud mutual by murderingHelen.Helen.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dickie genuinely believes himself to be a badass criminal mastermind in the same league as Boyd and Mags despite his incompetence and stupidity. Raylan lampshades it, pointing out to Dickie that his biggest problem is that he thinks he's tough when he's really just stupid.
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Downplayed. Dickie really is a moron, but he also has flashes of brilliance on occasion. He's able to come up with a genuinely good plan to frame Jed for Helen's murder and to have Doyle kill him and frame it as "resisting arrest", which would have gone off without a hitch had Raylan not shown up.
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* ADickInName: He's named Dickie and is a sadistic, petty {{Jerkass}}.
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* FearlessFool: Dickie is a DirtyCoward to be sure, but he's also convinced he's some kind of badass and goes out of his way to piss off much more dangerous and intelligent people because he thinks he can handle it. Of course, when he has to deal with the consequences he'll cry and run to his mother.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Dickie is soft-spoken, and his voice rarely rises above mumbling and whispering. He's also a dangerous - albeit [[StupidEvil stupid]] - criminal.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Dickie's incompetence and odd mannerisms make him quite funny, but he's still a threat and will lash out violently in horrific ways.
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* DisappearedDad: He was killed when the Bennett boys were young, leaving Mags to raise them and lead their criminal business at the same time.
* DisappearedDad: He was killed when the Bennett boys were young, leaving Mags to raise them and lead their criminal business at the same time.
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* HumbleGoal: Part of what makes Mags a surprisingly sympathetic figure despite all her evil is that all her power, wealth, and influence is only a means to an end so that she can provide for her family and retire in peace.
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* BlamingTheVictim: When Raylan tries to execute him for murdering Helen, Dickie insists he shot her in self-defense and that she forced his hand. Raylan doesn't buy his BlatantLies and only stops because he realized [[HeelRealization it's not what Helen would have wanted]].
* BlatantLies: When Raylan holds him at gunpoint for killing Helen, Dickie insists that he shot her in self-defense. In the previous episode, the audience had clearly seen that Dickie shot her in cold blood when she wasn't a threat, and he admits he did it to prove he and the Bennetts were still a threat.
* BlatantLies: When Raylan holds him at gunpoint for killing Helen, Dickie insists that he shot her in self-defense. In the previous episode, the audience had clearly seen that Dickie shot her in cold blood when she wasn't a threat, and he admits he did it to prove he and the Bennetts were still a threat.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Since Dickie is [[NeverMyFault pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions]], he'll always position himself as the victim in any given situation, even when he's clearly at fault. It gets to the point that when Raylan tries to kill him for murdering Helen, Dickie tries to claim that it was ''Helen's fault'' and that he killed her in self-defense.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Unlike Dickie or Coover, Doyle only really commits crimes when it's necessary or ordered. He lacks their needless sadism and is horrified when Dickie murders Helen out of needless spite.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: He's the Despicable to Mags' Sympathetic. Mags is an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic and PetTheDog moments. Dickie on the other hand is a spiteful, bullying SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] and [[StupidEvil incompetence]]. Admittedly,Dickie does have some sympathetic moments early in the second season, but [[JumpingOffIntoSlipperySlope quickly descends into irredeemable cruelty]] midway through.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: He's the Despicable to Mags' Sympathetic. Mags is an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic and PetTheDog moments. Dickie on the other hand is a spiteful, bullying SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] and [[StupidEvil incompetence]]. Admittedly,Dickie does have some sympathetic moments early in the second season, but [[JumpingOffIntoSlipperySlope [[JumpingOffOffTheSlipperySlope quickly descends into irredeemable cruelty]] midway through.
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* WildCard: Dickie is an idiot, but it actually makes him a threat because he's so unpredictable. He's extremely impulsive and operates on the fly, meaning he can be an indiscriminate killer just as often as a comically incompetent moron.
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* AxCrazy: He's stable enough at first, just stupid and sadistic, but he goes flying off the rails once Coover dies and begins resorting to murder whenever he's upset. It culminates in him trying to murder Raylan by trying to beat him to death with a baseball bat.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: He murders Baz and Logan in cold blood because they tried to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bail out on his revenge crusade against Boyd]], and later murders Helen out of pure spite for the Givens family.
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* VillainousBreakdown: After Coover dies, Mags cuts him off, and Boyd robs him, Dickie goes flying off the deep end. Unfortunately, this makes him even more dangerous, as he goes from stupid but relatively reasonable to downright AxCrazy and murderous.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Dickie is desperate to prove himself a badass gangster who should be feared and respected by everyone, but his stupidity and recklessness result in his attempts to accomplish this screwing him over time and time again. Every time Dickie tries to do this, he makes his life increasingly worse, but never quite catches on to this.
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* {{Slimeball}}: Dickie is a greasy, sleazy prick who considers himself a criminal mastermind despite lacking the skill and intelligence to back it up. He does play at being FauxAffablyEvil, but he's so slimy that it's a transparent mask for how horrible he really is.
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* UngratefulBastard: After Dickie murders Helen, Raylan nearly murders him but decides to show mercy. Dickie repays this by trying to beat Raylan to death with a baseball bat for even trying it. When Boyd frees Raylan and prepares to murder Dickie, Raylan is perfectly willing to let him do it until Dickie points out Raylan needs him.
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* MortonsFork: Mags is left with this choice towards the end of Season 2. She can either let Dickie go to prison or have Arlo ruin the Black Pike deal, which would ruin her plan to secure a safe financial future for her family. She ultimately [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] by waiting until the deal is closed and forcing Jed to take the fall for Dickie so he'll be released.
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* ThePeterPrinciple: He is a legitimately good enforcer who excels at intimidating people, but whenever he's placed any higher on the chain of command he crashes and burns. When Mags leaves him with control of the weed business, he manages to screw it up extremely quickly and causes a massive clusterfuck that leads to the destruction of their entire operation.
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* CommutingOnABus: After being PutOnAPrisonBus, he still makes occasional appearances throughout the series.
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* MoreDespicableMinion: He's firmly a henchman for Mags (albeit a disobedient one) until he's left the SoleSurvivor of the Bennett clan, and much more loathsome than she is. Where Mags is AffablyEvil and respectful even towards her enemies, Dickie is a smug, weaselly sadist who takes joy in tormenting the weak and folds like a coward when someone confronts him on his bullshit.
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* PutOnABus: To prison, from which he occasionally comes back.
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* BeingEvilSucks: [[EvilFeelsGood He believes the opposite]], but his sadism and ambition ultimately leads to the destruction of his family and leads to him getting sent to prison.
* BerserkButton: He gets enraged whenever he feels he's not given the proper respect. As he starts to go off the deep end, this starts to result in people dying.
* ColdHam: Dickie is soft-spoken and often speaks barely above a whisper, but his every word is filled with dramatic intensity.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Deconstructed. Dickie ''loves'' being a gangster and the power and respect that come with it, but he's too stupid and arrogant to ultimately earn it. Not only that, but his efforts to become a serious threat just ruin his life and make things worse for him and everyone in his vicinity.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Deconstructed. Dickie ''loves'' being a gangster and the power and respect that come with it, but he's too stupid and arrogant to ultimately earn it. Not only that, but his efforts to become a serious threat just ruin his life and make things worse for him and everyone in his vicinity.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Dickie resents that no one gives him the respect he feels he's owed as a member of the Bennetts and a dangerous gangster. This of course stems from the fact that Dickie is an incompetent fool who's only really a threat because he has his family backing him up, but Dickie is totally oblivious to this and expects power and respect to be handed to him without doing anything to earn it.
* EvilFeelsGood: Dickie loves being a gangster and constantly indulges in his sadism. It's another way he contrasts with his mother Mags, who views their profession as simply unfortunate but [[IDidWhatIHadToDo necessary]] work.
* FatalFlaw: Dickie has numerous flaws, but the absolute biggest is his recklessness. Dickie never thinks his actions through and acts on whatever pops into his head the second he thinks of it. It makes him a very dangerous opponent because he'll kill without considering the consequences, but it also leads to him pissing off very dangerous people and ruining every good thing he has.
* {{Nepotism}}: Downplayed. He has a somewhat high-ranking role in the hierarchy of the Bennetts, but Mags recognizes his incompetence and mostly relegates him and Coover to grunt work. Dickie resents this, and craves more power so he can be a feared gangster like his mother, while lacking the steel and wit that earned her her reputation.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The only time Dickie does something genuinely altruistic is when he tries to stop Coover from killing Lorett, and it turns out quite poorly for Hi,. As a result, Coover strangles him into unconsciousness, and Raylan wakes him up to torture Loretta's location out of him. And after the fact, Mags blames him for Coover's death and cuts him off from the family, with the exception of their weed business.
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* BatterUp: Tries to beat Raylan to death with a baseball bat. This is meant to be ironic payback for Raylan breaking his knee with a bat in highschool, leaving him with his trademark limp.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He spends all of Season 2 wanting Raylan to take him seriously as a threat and reciprocate their rivalry. He succeeds by killing Helen, which results in Raylan nearly murdering him in cold blood before realizing Helen wouldn't want that of him.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He spends all of Season 2 wanting Raylan to take him seriously as a threat and reciprocate their rivalry. He succeeds by killing Helen, which results in Raylan nearly murdering him in cold blood before realizing Helen wouldn't want that of him.
* EvilIsPetty: Dickie is a high school bully all grown up, and thus is as prone to acts of petty and mundane cruelty as he is monstrous evil, and he often combines the two. It's most prominent with his murder of Helen; it's not necessary at all, but he does it just to spite Raylan and Arlo at the same time because they humiliated him on separate occasions.
* EvilGloating: When he has Raylan tied up and at his mercy in "Bloody Harlan", he gleefully gloats about it while beating him senseless with a baseball bat. Fortunately, Boyd arrives and [[VillainousRescue frees Raylan]], and [[DirtyCoward Dickie immediately starts begging for mercy.]]
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Raylan nearly murders Dickie for killing Helen, but ultimately decides it wouldn't be what Helen wanted and chooses to spare him. Dickie returns the favor by capturing Raylan the following episode and trying to beat him to death with a baseball bat. Tellingly, when Raylan next has him at his mercy he's not nearly so forgiving and nearly lets Boyd kill him.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Raylan nearly murders Dickie for killing Helen, but ultimately decides it wouldn't be what Helen wanted and chooses to spare him. Dickie returns the favor by capturing Raylan the following episode and trying to beat him to death with a baseball bat. Tellingly, when Raylan next has him at his mercy he's not nearly so forgiving and nearly lets Boyd kill him.
* HalfWittedHillbilly: Like the rest of the Bennetts, Dickie is quite firmly a hillbilly, but he lacks the intelligence of Mag and Doyle. While he's nowhere near as dumb as Coover, Dickie is still a moron by any regard and quite prone to fucking up catastrophically. Unfortunately, he's also quite ambitious way beyond his limited capabilities, causing quite a bit of trouble for his family.
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* HateSink: Dickie is there to make his mother look more likeable by comparison. He's smug, whiny, stupid, has a large yet unwarranted ego, and is a petty sadist.
* TheMillstone: He causes nothing but problems for the Bennett clan with his various schemes and general poor decision making, and winds up inadvertently causing the destruction of their criminal empire because of it. And unlike [[DumbMuscle Coover]], he doesn't even have the use of being a useful enforcer.
* MoreDespicableMinion: He's firmly a henchman for Mags (albeit a disobedient one) until he's left the SoleSurvivor of the Bennett clan, and much more loathsome than she is. Where Mags is AffablyEvil and respectful even towards her enemies, Dickie is a smug, weaselly sadist who takes joy in tormenting the weak and folds like a coward when someone confronts him on his bullshit.
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* TooDumbToLive: Dickie is very stupid and prone to BullyingTheDragon with no regard for his own safety, and just generally take suicidal risks for very little gain. Although from time to time, he has his moments.moments of genuine intelligence.
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* EvilMentor: To her sons Doyle, Dickie, Coover, as well as her surrogate daughter Loretta. She schools them in the ways of the criminal underworld and in simple business, hoping that one of them will take after her. Dickie and Coover prove to stupid to be viable successors, and Doyle is only really an effective henchman, but Loretta proves a worthy successor to Mags.
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* EvilMentor: To her sons Doyle, Dickie, Coover, Co0ver, as well as her surrogate daughter Loretta. She schools them in the ways of the criminal underworld and in simple business, hoping that one of them will take after her. Dickie and Coover prove to stupid to be viable successors, and Doyle is only really an effective henchman, but Loretta proves a worthy successor to Mags.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Shortly before her death, Mags helps Raylan talk Loretta out of killing her so she won't grow up to become bitter and ruthless like the two of them. It isn't out of cowardice, but out of a sincere desire for Loretta to have a better life. Mags proves this by committing suicide shortly after, but not before telling Raylan the feud between their families was pointless and [[GracefulLoser shaking his hand]].
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* TheCorrupter: She intends for Loretta to inherit her criminal empire, although it's implied she intends to retire and start a legitimate business for Loretta to helm instead. Although Mags's murder of Loretta's father forms a massive rift between them, Mags' influence still hangs over Loretta and causes her to become increasingly like her.
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* TheCorrupter: She intends for For Loretta, albeit unintentionally. Mags genuinely wants to provide Loretta with a life far away from Harlan's criminal underworld and the poverty and pain so common in the county. But by getting her involved in the family's drug dealing, teaching her the tricks of the trade. and killing her father, Mags ultimately causes Loretta to inherit her criminal empire, although it's implied she intends to retire and start a legitimate business for Loretta to helm instead. Although Mags's murder of Loretta's father forms a massive rift between them, Mags' influence still hangs over Loretta and causes her to become increasingly just like her.
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Played with. Mags involved all her sons in the criminal life, but her ultimate goal is to make enough money for her family to live a financially secure life legitimately, and to leave behind their criminal ways. Unfortunately, Dickie is so enamored with being a criminal that he ruins these plans.
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Played with. Mags involved all her sons in the criminal life, but her ultimate goal is to make enough money for her family children and grandchildren to live a financially secure life legitimately, and to leave behind their criminal ways. Unfortunately, Dickie is so enamored with being a criminal that he ruins these plans.plans, and Mags decides her dreams of retirement were always a pipe dream.
* FreudianExcuse: In a moment of vulnerability, Mags admits all she wanted was to be a housewife, but after her husband Pervis was killed she was forced to take control of the family marijuana business. This caused her to become increasingly ruthless because that was what was necessary to survive in Harlan's underworld, which in turn caused her abuse of her children.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Mags acknowledges she's done bad things and hates being a criminal, but she views all her crimes as being necessary in service of giving her family a better future far away from Harlan's criminal underworld. Even when she confesses to Loretta that she killed her father, she refuses to apologize for it and continues to insist it was necessary to give Loretta a better life.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: She eventually betrays Loretta, who she once cared for very deeply.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: ZigZagged. She eventually never betrays Loretta, who Loretta and never stops loving her like a mother, but she once cared hurts her deeply by killing her father and refuses to apologize for very deeply. it, regarding it as having been [[IDidWhatIHadToDo necessary]] to give Loretta a better life.
* MafiaPrincess: She started off as one, being Pervis's wife and more concerned with raising their children than their weed business. After Pervis was murdered, she was forced to take up the business and became [[TheQueenpin a crime boss herself]].
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: Mags regrets the poor job she's done raising her boys, and sees taking Loretta in as a chance to raise a proper successor to herself.
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: Mags regrets the poor job she's done raising her boys, and sees taking Loretta in as a chance to raise a proper successor to herself. child who can live a safe and law-abiding life.
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* StartOfDarkness: Mags was initially just a housewife content to leave the weed business to her husband and simply raise her children, but Pervis's death forced her to take control. This led to her being considerably hardened, and resulted in her becoming the ruthless AntiVillain she is today.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After getting Dickie out of jail and making Jed take the fall for Helen's murder, Mags admits the circumstances it led to made her decide her dreams of retirement were a pipe dream. She feels it's too late for her to escape the criminal life, and she's content that her grandchildren have enough money to live safe, law-abiding lives.
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* TroubledAbuser: She was abusive to all her sons, but Mags recognizes she was a terrible parent and attributes it to the fact she needed to harden them so they could survive Harlan's criminal underworld. She regards taking Loretta in as a second chance to be a parent, and raise a child in stable conditions so they can turn out better than her sons.
* TheUnapologetic: While Mags certainly regrets some of her actions, she feels they were all necessary and refuses to apologize. Even when she confesses to Loretta that she killed her father, she refuses to apologize and while she clearly feels guilty for causing Loretta pain, right up until the end she insists Loretta would have been better off under her care.
* TheUnapologetic: While Mags certainly regrets some of her actions, she feels they were all necessary and refuses to apologize. Even when she confesses to Loretta that she killed her father, she refuses to apologize and while she clearly feels guilty for causing Loretta pain, right up until the end she insists Loretta would have been better off under her care.
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* WorthyOpponent: She regards Boyd as such, sincerely respecting him and admitting she underestimated him, while also acknowledging him as too much of a threat to her operation to let him live.
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* AntagonistInMourning: Despite the Givens and Bennetts being FeudingFamilies, Mags sincerely respected Hern. She's genuinely upset when Dickie murders her and is furious when he confirms he's guilty, even slapping him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Implied. Following Helen's murder, Arlo works out that Dickie was the culprit because "Doyle wouldn't do this." This could also mean that Doyle is smart enough not to be involved, but given his general lack of [[KickTheDog dog kicking]] the possibility that he has standards can't be ignored.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Implied. Following Helen's murder, Arlo works out that Dickie was the culprit because "Doyle wouldn't do this." This could also mean that Doyle is smart enough not to be involved, but given his general lack of [[KickTheDog dog kicking]] the possibility that he has standards can't be ignored. Doyle is also visibly disgusted when Dickie admits to being guilty, and can't even bring himself to speak to him afterwards.
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* BeingEvilSucks: She admits to Raylan she hates being a criminal and what it's turned her into, and that she really just wanted to be a housewife. She's as ruthless as she is to make sure her family doesn't have to take the same path she did, no matter the cost.
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!!Pervis Bennett
The long-dead patriarch of the Bennett family.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long-dead by the time of the series.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's long-dead by the time of the series and barely factors into the narrative, but his death forced Mags to take over their criminal enterprise and helped transform her into the woman she is today.
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!!Pervis Bennett
The long-dead patriarch of the Bennett family.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long-dead by the time of the series.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's long-dead by the time of the series and barely factors into the narrative, but his death forced Mags to take over their criminal enterprise and helped transform her into the woman she is today.
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* AlmightyMom: ''Everyone'' is terrified of Mags, though it's mixed with a certain amount of respect; she's AffablyEvil enough to be a beloved member of the community, but no one's foolish enough to cross her and incur her wrath. She's also the only one who can bring her idiotic and violent sons Dickie and Coover in line, and her wrath is the one thing that scares them off from their various moronic schemes.
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Played with. Mags involved all her sons in the criminal life, but her ultimate goal is to make enough money for her family to live a financially secure life legitimately, and to leave behind their criminal ways. Unfortunately, Dickie is so enamored with being a criminal that he ruins these plans.
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* BrainyBrunette: She's a brunette and one of the biggest [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] in the entire series.
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* GeekPhysiques: She's an overweight woman and a crafty, intelligent [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who effortlessly manipulates everyone and stays on top throughout most of Season 2.
* GeniusSweetTooth: She's TheChessmaster, able to run rings around her opponents mentally and outwits almost everyone. She also has a fondness for apple pie, and home brews her own moonshine that's flavored just like apple pie.
* GeniusSweetTooth: She's TheChessmaster, able to run rings around her opponents mentally and outwits almost everyone. She also has a fondness for apple pie, and home brews her own moonshine that's flavored just like apple pie.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: He's the Despicable to Mags' Sympathetic. Mags is an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic and PetTheDog moments. Dickie on the other hand is a spiteful, bullying SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] and [[StupidEvil incompetence]]. Admittedly,Dickie does have some sympathetic moments early in the second season, but [[JumpingOffIntoSlipperySlope quickly descends into irredeemable cruelty]] midway through.
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* TragicVillain: Coover has shades of this. He's mostly a brutish, [[PsychopathicManchild childish]] psycho, but Mags' abuse and her poor job raising him is what led to him growing up to be as much of a wreck as he is, and he comes off as far more unstable than Dickie to the point he likely has some kind of untreated disorder.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Mags is the Sympathetic, being an AffablyEvil AntiVillain with numerous sympathetic moments. Her son Dickie is the Despicable, being a StupidEvil SmugSnake who constantly wrecks the lives of the people around him out of spitefulness and incompetence.
