History Characters / ShamelessUSGallaghers

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CameronMonaghan (Seasons 1-9x06, Seasons 10-11)

[[folder: Frances Gallagher]]
-> Seasons 6-11

[[folder: Freddie Gallagher]]
-> Seasons 10-11

[[folder: In General]]

[[folder: Frank Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/WilliamHMacy
-> Seasons 1-11

[[caption-width-right:350: "The best gift you can give is neglect. Neglect fosters self-reliance."]]

[[folder: Fiona Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/EmmyRossum
-> Seasons 1-9

[[caption-width-right:350: "The minute you kids start following Frank's example is the minute I put a gun in my mouth."]]

[[folder: Philip 'Lip' Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JeremyAllenWhite
-> Seasons 1-11

[[caption-width-right:350: "I believe the answer to that question, like the answer to most questions, is '''fuck you.'''"]]

[[folder: Ian Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/CameronMonaghan
-> Seasons 1-9x06, Season 10-present

[[caption-width-right:350: "You can’t fix me. Because I’m not broken. I don’t need to be fixed, okay? I’m me!"]]

[[folder: Debbie Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/EmmaKenney
-> Seasons 1-11

[[folder: Carl Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/EthanCutkosky
-> Seasons 1-11

[[caption-width-right:350: "A shrink at school says I'm one of God's mistakes."]]

[[folder: Liam Gallagher]]
-> '''Portrayed by''': Brenden and Brandon Sims; Creator/BrennanKaneJohnson & Creator/BlakeAlexanderJohnson; Creator/ChristianIsaiah
-> Seasons 1-11

[[folder: Monica Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChloeWebb
-> Seasons 1-2, 5, 7

[[folder: Peggy Gallagher]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/LouiseFletcher
-> Season 2

[[folder: Samantha "Sammi" Slott]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/EmilyBergl
-> Seasons 4-5

[[caption-width-right:350: "Fatherhood comes with responsibilities that go far beyond shooting sperm into a V hole. And I have decided it's time to teach your grandfather those responsibilities, because, clearly, he never learned them. He's like an untrained dog who keeps shitting all over the house, so we have three options-- run the dog over, send the dog back to the pound to be gassed, or train the dog. And I am choosing to train this dog."]]

[[folder: Chuckie Slott]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/KellenMichael
-> Seasons 4-6

[[caption-width-right:350: "Are you my Dad?"]]

[[folder: Queenie Slott]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SherilynFenn
-> Season 6

* [[spoiler: FinalSpeech]]: In the form of a voiceover, also BookEnds with the opening voice over in the series Pilot.

-> Debbie: I don't think you're supposed to give valium to babies.
-> Frank: [[CrossesTheLineTwice You turned out fine]].

* ManicPixieDreamGirl : A very, very dark version of the MPDG. Frank claims she introduced him to coke and other drugs, and it's implied that he may have gone to college if his addictions hadn't caught up to him. They fight more than they have sex, and they have sex most of the time. She is also bipolar, prone to sleeping in crackhouses and storage lockers, and Lip says she can find her way in and press "The one nerve that no one else can." She's played to perfection by Creator/ChloeWebb, but dealing with her in real life, even in the small doses we see in the show, would be exhausting.

* TookALevelInKindness: Starts developing a conscience in Season 6 after realizing he wasn't cut out for a life of crime.

* ThreeAmigos: With Ian and Mandy.

* ThreeAmigos: With Lip and Mandy.

[[spoiler:Debbie's]] baby daughter, [[spoiler:who was born in the third-to-last episode of Season 6.]]

The second-youngest Gallagher, Carl is a bully and delinquent with sociopathic tendencies and very little [[BookDumb book-smarts]]. As he gets older, he becomes heavily involved in a drug-dealing gang, which he initially proves very successful at. [[spoiler: After things go badly, he manages to escape the gang, and he is now trying to stay on the straight and narrow.]]

The youngest of the Gallagher girls. Debbie is awkward and dorky but also level-headed and (generally) mature for her age. In the Season 5 finale, she [[spoiler: becomes pregnant, and gives birth to a daughter named Frances near the end of Season 6.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[AcceptableTargets As with many cases of this trope on the show....]] it's mostly played for laughs when Debbie [[spoiler:loses her virginity to an older boy she likes by raping him while he is passed-out drunk and she is underage. When she confides in Fiona and Lip about it later, both are more bemused by the story than anything, although some of Debbie's bitchy friends do seem genuinely outraged by what happened (albeit probably because they were looking for a reason to mock Debbie, more than anything else.)]]

** In season 5, he cheats on Mickey, though this is {{Justified}} as he is in a manic state.

* NoBisexuals: Seems to be a believer in this; he assumes Jimmy's dad is gay and doesn't seem convinced when he claims that he's more AnythingThatMoves, and also maintains that Mickey's gay and that he only sleeps with women so he can lie to himself.[[note]]He's actually right about the latter. Even with a hooker wife (who genuinely wants to make their marriage real) and several other hookers at his disposal, Mickey is seemingly uninterested in women at this point.[[/note]] Season 7 has him breaking up with Caleb over him being bisexual.[[note]]Though in Ian’s defense, Caleb had cheated on him.[[/note]] He also doesn't believe in any level of sexual fluidity, as seen when Debbie (formerly boy crazy) starts identifying as a lesbian, he flatly tells her that she isn't gay, despite her spending the last few seasons of the show exclusively dating and being in relationships with women.

* TheSociopath: An unrepentant {{narcissist}}ic JerkAss with a [[ItsAllAboutMe huge sense of]] [[EntitledBastard entitlement]], [[NeverMyFault natural avoidance of personal responsibility for his actions]] and a semi-complete LackOfEmpathy.

* NoBisexuals: Seems to be a believer in this; he assumes Jimmy's dad is gay and doesn't seem convinced when he claims that he's more AnythingThatMoves, and also maintains that Mickey's gay and that he only sleeps with women so he can lie to himself.[[note]]He's actually right about the latter. Even with a hooker wife (who genuinely wants to make their marriage real) and several other hookers at his disposal, Mickey is seemingly uninterested in women at this point.[[/note]] Season 7 has him breaking up with Caleb over him being bisexual.[[note]]Though in Ian’s defense, Caleb had cheated on him.[[/note]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Frank explains to him what "masturbate" means in Season 4.

* CharacterDerailment: Oh god, Debbie used to be sweet girl who is smart, kind, trying to support her family and tries to get love and attention for Frank for the last three seasons, but until in Season four she TookALevelInJerkass when she hits puberty and starts hanging out with Holly and Ellie. Then she starts obessesing about boys and tricks Derek by having sex with her and GOT pregnant, and it only gets worse in the later seasons.

* HatesBeingAlone: Each of the Gallagher children copes with their parental neglect in different ways, and this is how it manifests in Debbie. As a child she clings on to loving Frank and Monica even as she starts to realise how awful they are, and she goes to extreme lengths to attach herself to boyfriends Matty and Derek by raping one and becoming purposefully pregnant to the other. In the final season, she is the one most opposed to Lip selling the house and everybody going their separate ways because she can't bear the family not being together, and when she ''does'' start looking for somewhere she and her daughter Franny can live, she doesn't even consider Franny's request to have her own room, deciding that her five-year-old daughter [[MyBelovedSmother needs to live in the same room as her]].

* PetTheDog: In season 4, despite the fact that she TookALevelInJerkass, she still does Sheila the favour of watering her plants and treats her better than the the other characters.

* PetTheDog: In season 4, despite the fact that she TookALevelInJerkass, she still does Sheila the favour of watering her plants and treats her better than the the other chacters.

* EthicalSlut: Sees no shame in being sexually promiscuous in her personal life. Assuming she is a prostitute or that she's alright with cat-calling or harassment is a non-family BerserkButton for her, however. She broke down in tears after having to wear a [[BareYourMidriff stomach baring]] cheerleader outfit for a sleazy sports bar with handsy patrons, and this is a woman who is comfortable with her dad giving her partners condoms.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The opening sequence features Ian jerking off with a magazine in the bathroom before being abruptly interrupted by Kev who came in to look for something.
* AgeGapRomance: Both Kash and Ned are considerably older than him.

* NiceGirl: She was this in the three first seasons, until season 4 [[TookALevelInJerkass she becomes meaner]] but, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold it doesn't mean she's heartless.]]

* EntitledBastard: Despite treating his children like absolute shit, he expects them to allow him to live in their house and gets angry with them when they reasonably voice their contempt for him:

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: In Season 5, his mother tattoos a swastika onto his forehead to help him survive an impending stint in juvie. He winds up being taken in by the resident Neo-Nazi gang there and by Season 6, he appears to fully (if [[ObliviouslyEvil obliviously]]) follow their doctrine, and even does a presentation at school about ''Literature/MeinKampf'' in which he describes Hitler as a [[CriticalResearchFailure "great American hero."]]