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* NoTrueScotsman: He has ''opinions'' about who is a true resident of New Orleans and who is a filthy gentrifier.
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* BadassGrandpa: Easily beats up a burglar who tries to steal his tools.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Pretty much everything he does. Notably, he engineers his own police beating, just to make a point.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Pretty much everything he does. Notably, he engineers his own police beating, beating with a three-day BatmanGambit, just to make a point.
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* BigFun
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* TheEeyore: Increasingly over time.
* TheEeyore: Increasingly over time.
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* TheAce: Builder, musician, seamster, troupe leader.
* BadassGrandpa: Easily beats up a burglar who tries to steal his tools.
* HonorBeforeReason: Pretty much everything he does. Notably, he engineers his own police beating, just to make a point.
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he really does love his family, his city, and his Indian gang, it's really his pride that drives most of his decisions.
* TheDeterminator
* BadassGrandpa: Easily beats up a burglar who tries to steal his tools.
* HonorBeforeReason: Pretty much everything he does. Notably, he engineers his own police beating, just to make a point.
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he really does love his family, his city, and his Indian gang, it's really his pride that drives most of his decisions.
* TheDeterminator
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* WellDoneSonGuy
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Creighton and Toni's teenage daughter.
* HistoryRepeats: After [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide]], she takes up the mantle of doing his rants on [=YouTube=].
* TookALevelInJerkass: Does this in Season 2 after [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide, since she was the last to know]], especially towards her mother. She gets better at the end of the season, though.
* HistoryRepeats: After [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide]], she takes up the mantle of doing his rants on [=YouTube=].
* TookALevelInJerkass: Does this in Season 2 after [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide, since she was the last to know]], especially towards her mother. She gets better at the end of the season, though.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jacques, her sous chef.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jacques, her sous chef. When he gets arrested because of his immigrant status, she takes leave from her new job in New York City whenever she can to help him out.
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* SupremeChef: Everyone who eats where she works loves what Janette cooks. In Season 4, when Nelson eats at Desautel's after she's left, he can immediately tell the food is nowhere near as good.
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* SupremeChef: Everyone who eats where she works loves what Janette cooks. In Season 4, when Nelson eats at Desautel's after she's left, he can immediately tell the food is nowhere near as good.
good. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Tim Feeney in the series finale to allow Janette to keep her name on her new restaurant, just so she can get the clientele he knows she deserves]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Janette.
* GreenEyedMonster: To his consternation, every project he starts out on to promote himself ends up benefiting other people he brought in, and not him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the last episode, when he becomes more straightlaced, both in his manner and in the way he dresses, everyone who knows him is freaked out. [[spoiler:It doesn't last; he's back to being a DJ at the end]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the last episode, when he becomes more straightlaced, both in his manner and in the way he dresses, everyone who knows him is freaked out. [[spoiler:It doesn't last; he's back to being a DJ at the end]].
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* TheStoner: As he tells Janette at one point (and as she repeats to him when he changes in the final episode), in his opinion, any job where he can't smoke a joint at any time isn't a job he wants.
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* {{Irony}}: While he definitely comes down to New Orleans to exploit the situation, he grows to love the real culture of the place, from the music to the food.
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* {{Irony}}: While he definitely comes down to New Orleans to exploit the situation, he grows to love the real culture of the place, from the music to the food.
food. [[spoiler:He even helps Janette by making a deal so she'll be able to put her own name on her restaurant after she quits working under Tim Feeney]].
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* TheCasanova: Though he's HappilyMarried to Desiree, that doesn't stop him from flirting with other women, and [[YourCheatingHeart even sleeping with some of them]].them. It's implied this is what led to his first marriage breaking up.
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Piano and guitar player who usually plays on the streets, at first with Annie, and then, after they split, with whomever he can. Becomes a drug addict in Season 1, but gets better in Season 2 and starts working for a Vietnamese shrimper. He also becomes attracted to Linh, the shrimper's daughter.
* AmicableExes: Becomes this way with Annie starting in Season 2.
* DescentIntoAddiction: We see this with Sonny in Season 1, especially when Annie starts to leave him behind musically and personally.
* GreenEyedMonster: Part of the reason for Sonny's DescentIntoAddiction is he can't handle the fact Annie is becoming a better musician than him.
* HappilyMarried; Becomes this way with Linh.
* AmicableExes: Becomes this way with Annie starting in Season 2.
* DescentIntoAddiction: We see this with Sonny in Season 1, especially when Annie starts to leave him behind musically and personally.
* GreenEyedMonster: Part of the reason for Sonny's DescentIntoAddiction is he can't handle the fact Annie is becoming a better musician than him.
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Starts out as a street musician, with Sonny, before growing in ability, confidence, and exposure as the series goes on.
* AmicableExes: Becomes this with Sonny starting in Season 2, and then with Davis in Season 4.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Harley, [[spoiler:until he's killed near the end of Season 2]].
* AmicableExes: Becomes this with Sonny starting in Season 2, and then with Davis in Season 4.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Harley, [[spoiler:until he's killed near the end of Season 2]].
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* CoolAunt: To Davis; she's just as colorful as he is, she loves the music he does, and she helps finance all of his business ventures even when it looks like they won't make money.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jacques, her sous chef.
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Detective in New Orleans.
* FriendOnTheForce: To Toni, though that friendship becomes strained at times when she (mistakenly) thinks he's dirty.
* TheLastDJ: Is the only detective we see in the homicide unit who is dogged and honest at his job.
* FriendOnTheForce: To Toni, though that friendship becomes strained at times when she (mistakenly) thinks he's dirty.
* TheLastDJ: Is the only detective we see in the homicide unit who is dogged and honest at his job.
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A financier who comes to New Orleans in Season 2 to make profit off of the rebuilding that goes on. However, he grows to love and appreciate the culture down there.
* AffablyEvil: "Evil" might be too strong a word, but he definitely does not have the best interests of most of the people in New Orleans at heart. However, he's friendly and polite to everyone he meets.
* AffectionateNickname: [=LaDonna=] calls him "Creator/AntonioBanderas" when she first meets him.
* TheCasanova: Gets involved with quite a few women while he's in New Orleans.
* {{Irony}}: While he definitely comes down to New Orleans to exploit the situation, he grows to love the real culture of the place, from the music to the food.
* AffablyEvil: "Evil" might be too strong a word, but he definitely does not have the best interests of most of the people in New Orleans at heart. However, he's friendly and polite to everyone he meets.
* AffectionateNickname: [=LaDonna=] calls him "Creator/AntonioBanderas" when she first meets him.
* TheCasanova: Gets involved with quite a few women while he's in New Orleans.
* {{Irony}}: While he definitely comes down to New Orleans to exploit the situation, he grows to love the real culture of the place, from the music to the food.
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Trombone player who lives from gig to gig. In season 2, he's brought in to help teach the jazz band at the local high school, and while he's reluctant to dive in too deeply with the job at first, he grows to like it and become a real mentor to the kids there.
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Trombone player who lives from gig to gig. In season 2, he's brought in to help teach the jazz band at the local junior high school, and while he's reluctant to dive in too deeply with the job at first, he grows to like it and become a real mentor to the kids there.
* BerserkButton: Do '''not''' try to get to Toni through Sofia.
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* MamaBear: She's fiercely protective of Sofia, to the point that when the police start harassing her, she sends Sofia to Florida until things die down.
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Chef who lives in New Orleans. While she had a restaurant in Season 1 that was popular, after Katrina, she couldn't afford to pay all of her expenses and had to sell it. She eventually moved to New York City to get a job, and while she was happy for a time, she missed New Orleans, and when Tim Feeney offers to partner up with her for a restaurant of her own in Season 3, she decides to take the chance, only to find out she's made a DealWithTheDevil. This causes Janette to leave and, in Season 4, start up with her own place again.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In Season 2, after Alan Richman, a well-known writer, wrote a piece insulting New Orleans, she became upset enough to throw a drink in his face while she was on the job. A season later, people in the industry are still talking about it.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In Season 2, after Alan Richman, a well-known writer, wrote a piece insulting New Orleans, she became upset enough to throw a drink in his face while she was on the job. A season later, people in the industry are still talking about it.
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Reporter working for ''[=ProPublica=]'' who comes down to New Orleans in Season 3 to investigate the deaths of people in police custody, and he works with Toni on this throughout the season.
* IntrepidReporter: Follows the story doggedly, no matter how often the police threaten or follow him.
* IntrepidReporter: Follows the story doggedly, no matter how often the police threaten or follow him.
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Trombone player who lives from gig to gig. In season 2, he's brought in to help teach the jazz band at the local high school, and while he's reluctant to dive in too deeply with the job at first, he grows to like it and become a real mentor to the kids there.
* AmicableExes: With [=LaDonna=]. Antoine admits her new husband Larry is a better father to their two boys than he ever was.
* TheCasanova: Though he's HappilyMarried to Desiree, that doesn't stop him from flirting with other women, and [[YourCheatingHeart even sleeping with some of them]]. It's implied this is what led to his first marriage breaking up.
* ItsALongStory: Why he no longer has a case for his trombone.
* RunningGag: The fact he's always short with cash whenever he takes a cab ride to a gig, and he always argues the route they take. In Season 4, when he not only doesn't argue the route, but he has enough cash to pay the fare plus a tip, the cabdriver ([[ContinuityNod whom Antoine has stiffed before]]) is stunned.
* AmicableExes: With [=LaDonna=]. Antoine admits her new husband Larry is a better father to their two boys than he ever was.
* TheCasanova: Though he's HappilyMarried to Desiree, that doesn't stop him from flirting with other women, and [[YourCheatingHeart even sleeping with some of them]]. It's implied this is what led to his first marriage breaking up.
* ItsALongStory: Why he no longer has a case for his trombone.
* RunningGag: The fact he's always short with cash whenever he takes a cab ride to a gig, and he always argues the route they take. In Season 4, when he not only doesn't argue the route, but he has enough cash to pay the fare plus a tip, the cabdriver ([[ContinuityNod whom Antoine has stiffed before]]) is stunned.
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Lawyer who works in New Orleans. She's filed lawsuits against just about everyone in the police and sheriff's department at one point or another. Despite that, she usually has a friendly demeanor. She also has represented just about every musician on the show at one point or another whenever they get in any trouble.
* TheDeterminator: Once Toni has the bit between her teeth on a case, nothing will stop her from pursuing it until she finds the truth.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffered this after [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide]], and she's also suffered this from time to time when it comes to her cases, especially in Season 4, when she runs into the police detective she targeted but escaped without being prosecuted - in her work, oftentimes, FailureIsTheOnlyOption.
* TheDeterminator: Once Toni has the bit between her teeth on a case, nothing will stop her from pursuing it until she finds the truth.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffered this after [[spoiler:Creighton's suicide]], and she's also suffered this from time to time when it comes to her cases, especially in Season 4, when she runs into the police detective she targeted but escaped without being prosecuted - in her work, oftentimes, FailureIsTheOnlyOption.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: He's utterly convinced he's a great, hip musician, when in reality he's just another DJ.
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!!'''David Chang'''
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!!'''Linh'''
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!!'''Cindy'''
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Talarico ("Tee")'''
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