History Characters / TrueBloodMainHumansAndWitches

* TookALevelInJerkass: Big time in seasons 4 and 5. Let's just say that there are plenty of guys out there who go through bad break-ups, most of them don't join Hate Groups or express a desire to see their ex-girlfriends dead the way Hoyt does. They also don't sit there while they ex-girlfriend is tied up while proceeding to [[SlutShaming slut shame them]] and trying to justify why it's okay to kill them.

* ManChild: Deconstructed and ultimately played straight. Hoyt grew up under a mother who was bigoted in every sense of the word (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc) and smothered him well into adulthood in an attempt to keep him in her life after her husband committed suicide. The result is that Hoyt is emotionally stunted. While he's physically a 28 year old, he's mentally a kid because of the way Maxine's treated him for most of his life, which has impacted how he's able to relate to the world. While he's initially nice and means well, this mentality is ultimately a handicap for Hoyt because it makes it hard for him to process hard truths and disappointments in life without reacting in an extremely childish manner (like when Hoyt finds out what really happened to his dad, or when Jessica ends their relationship). When that happens, a nastier side to his character comes out that's a lot like a little kid throwing a temper-tantrum. Except in this case, it's a grown-ass adult who's doing it. The result is he falls into a NeverMyFault mentality where it's easier to blame others for things that go wrong in the same way his mother does. This is ultimately taken to the extreme at the end of season 5 when instead of choosing to learn anything from his recent experiences, Hoyt opts to glamour all his memories out of his head. And while it's unpleasant to watch, it does make sense Hoyt would behave like this considering how he was raised. It's also implied that part of the reason Jessica lost interest in their relationship by season 4 is because she felt like she became a ReplacementGoldfish for Hoyt's mom in that he expects her to do the stuff his mom used to do for him, and Jessica was having none of that.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Oh boy! Let's just say that there are plenty of guys out there who go through bad break-ups. Most of them don't join Hate Groups or express a desire to see their ex-girlfriends dead. They also don't sit there while they ex-girlfriend is tied up while proceeding to [[SlutShaming slut shame them]] and trying to justify why it's okay to kill them. [[spoiler: Even if he did let her go eventually,]] that's still a pretty vile thing to do to someone.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Like Sookie, he has faerie ancestry, although it's not as strong in him. It does explain his ability to attract women with little effort.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Jason spends an entire year taking care of the werepanther tribe after promising Crystal he would do so. He had multiple opportunities to walk away from them (especially since he didn't know if he would ever see Crystal again), and he chose to stay and take responsibility for them regardless. How is he rewarded? [[spoiler: He gets captured by Felton, chained to a bed, repeatedly bitten by Crystal and Felton to turn him into a werepanther against his will, and then is gang-raped by all the women in Hotshot (including Crystal) in order to get them pregant with werepanther children. When Jason finally does escape and confronts Crystal for the last time, [[ThisIsUnforgivable he makes it VERY CLEAR that he's done with Crystal and her tribe and is never coming back.]]]]

* SanitySlippage: As of the season 5 finale, he is hallucinating the ghosts of his parents which are rapidly goading him into becoming harsher and more racist against vampires, including Jessica, who he clearly had feelings for before the appearence of the "ghosts". Whether or not this is due to the bump on the head, the faerie Elder's energy blast, or something else entirely is currently unknown.

* PetTheDog: Throughout season 1, Andy constantly projected his issues on Jason and looked for any excuse to try and put Jason in prison because he hated him and believed Jason was responsible for Rene's killings. When Andy is finally given an opportunity to lock Jason away for good at the end of season 2 after [[spoiler: Jason shoots Eggs in the head out of a mistaken belief that he was going to kill Andy]], Andy chooses to cover for Jason. This is likely due to them becoming FireForgedFriends during the Maryann crisis and realizing that Jason's intentions were about protecting him.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Jason spends an entire year taking care of the werepanther tribe after promising Crystal he would do so. How is he rewarded? [[spoiler: He gets captured by Felton, chained to a bed, repeatedly bitten by Crystal and Felton to turn him into a werepanther against his will, and then is gang-raped by all the women in Hotshot (including Crystal) in order to get them pregant with werepanther children. When Jason finally does escape and confronts Crystal for the last time, [[ThisIsUnforgivable he makes it VERY CLEAR that he's done with Crystal and her tribe and is never coming back.]]]]

%%* MyBelovedSmother: Well, Grandsmother.

%%* OnlySaneMan: In the whole freaking town!
%%* PapaWolf

** In season six, she finally admits to Warlow (and herself) that she's a 'danger whore' when it comes to men, right before they drink each other's blood and have sex.

** Sookie doesn't like people talking trash about her to her brother. Just… ''[[GroinAttack don't.]]''
* BettyAndVeronica: Sookie is the Archie for Bill's Betty and Eric's Veronica.

* BreakTheCutie: It's easy to forget Sookie started out as a cheerful, open minded virgin who lived happily with her grandmother and her cat.

* DumbBlonde: Averted. Sookie is not particularly dumb but she did come off as this way in the beginning.

* TheFairFolk: Taken to a strange level, Sookie is [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Fae]] and thus only has half their powers. In a sense she also has their mood-swings, connection to nature, and the fae-realms.

'''Sookie''': "[[LetsSplitUpGang First of all, I've seen enough horror movies to know you don't split up when you're in a big, scary asylum and there's a crazed killer on the loose.]] Second, I think it's fair to say my [[HalfHumanHybrid microwave fingers]] and the sun are about the only things around here that seem to have any effect on [[BigBad Russell]]. So the way I see it, it's *me* protecting *you* from *him*, instead of the other way around. Third, I got a headache, I gotta pee something fierce, so I'd just as soon get this over with."

* MayflyDecemberRomance: With both Eric and Bill. Bill is over a century older than Sookie and Eric is 900+ years older than Sookie. And with Warlow, who is canonically the oldest vampire on the show, having been turned in ''3500 BC.''

* OfficialCouple: With Bill until season three finale.
** Then with Alcide at the end of Season 6 after he comes back to his senses.
* OffingTheOffspring: Halfway through season six, she discovers that her parents were going to ''kill her'' on the night they were murdered by Warlow. The reason they did this was so he wouldn't turn her into a vampire once she came of age, but ''still''...
* ParentalAbandonment: Both of Sookie's parents died when she was younger.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite the issues they sometimes have, and the way they start off in season 1, it's pretty clear that Sookie and Jason care deeply for each other, and that Jason loves his sister. He has risked his life for her on several occasions, worked fiercely to protect her, and is overjoyed when Sookie returns from faerieland after missing her for a year.
* BadassNormal: Niall points out that he has not inherited any special fae powers, and the royal fae bloodline skipped him. That being said, he's very athletic, very good with a gun, and is probably one of the few humans on the show to kill many vampires (all of whom were either AssholeVictims or were trying to kill him).

* BrainlessBeauty: Jason is build a regular Adonis, and his main traits is that he is kind of dimwitted and easy to manipulate.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Sookie and Jason develop this relationship over time. Jason comes to her aid against the Fellowship of the Sun in season 2, and they later team up in season 4 to rescue Tara from Moon Goddess Emporium. They also act as one another's support when things get tough, [[spoiler: such as Sookie comforting Jason when he was worried about turning into a werepanther in season 4, or Jason comforting Sookie over the revelation in season 5 that Warlow is after her.]]
* BloodKnight: After getting zapped by fairy magic, he becomes noticably enraged and is eager to kill the vampires at the Authority, especially after hearing that they bombed the True Blood factories and want to enslave humans. Although he does stop short of killing Eric, Nora, Tara, Jessica, and Pam.

* ClearMyName: MistakenForMurderer in season one.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Jason may be a fool at times, but whenever people he cares about are in danger, he'll stop at nothing to protect them, and you get to see a deadlier side to his character. It also helps that Jason's really good at shooting a gun like a pro (or improvising when the situation calls for it), and that many people underestimate Jason because they don't actually see him as a threat.

* FantasticRacism: ZigZagged. After getting mistakenly zapped by fairy power, he shows noticeable hatred towards vampires killing several of the Authority guards out of anger (and because they were trying to kill him). That being said, he does stop short of killing his vampire allies, and he eventually snaps out of it and recognizes that his behavior wasn't okay (as seen when he's talking to Sookie about it in season 6). This eventually disappears during season 6 when he comes to rescue Jessica from the Vampire Concentration Camps, and is disgusted by what the humans are doing to the vampires there.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Jason is the foolish sibling to Sookie's responsible sibling. This gets played with occasionally: There are several instances when Sookie gets herself into dangerous situations and it's Jason who has to come and save her.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like Sookie, he has faerie ancestry, although it's not as strong in him. It does explain his ability to attract women with very little effort.

** And another one in season six, this time with [[spoiler: Ben/Warlow. Jason's prior experiences with vampire blood lead him and Niall to the realization that Ben is not only Warlow, but a faerie-vampire hybrid.]]
** The producers seem to love making this a running gag as it happens yet again in the second episode of season 7 in which he dreams that he tracks down Eric which leads to rather a lot of kissing, caressing and shirtlessness.

* IronWoobie: Jason really gets put through a lot of shit when you think about it: He loses his grandmother and girlfriend to a serial killer that he once considered a friend and gets blamed for it despite not having done it. He's indoctrinated into a cult, and almost gets killed because of it. He's led to believe his sister is dead for almost a year before she returns. He takes care of a werepanther tribe for a year, and he is repaid for it by getting gang-raped by Crystal and the other women of Hotshot. In the aftermath, he's left blaming himself for what happened to him, and gets no comfort or sympathy for it (Hoyt even makes an insenstive comparison between Jason's gang-rape and his girlfriend problems with Jessica). Then, we find out later that only was Jason raped by a teacher when he was a teenager, but [[spoiler: his parents were killed by a vampire who wants Sookie all to himself.]] All through this, Jason is forced to suck it up and push through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Jason has his instances when he isn't always nice, he demonstrate repeatedly that he cares for other people and wants to improve as a person. He works to protect Sookie, and even becomes supportive of her relationships with Bill, Eric, and Alcide as time goes on. He does risk his life on several occassions to protect the people he loves. And at one point, he even looks after a whole werepanther tribe at the request of Crystal when he could have easily walked away at any point. He's also able to apologize when he messes up, which is more than can be said for other characters on this show who act like [[JerkAss Jerkasses]] and barely acknowledge how awful their behavior was.
* KnightInSourArmor: Starts to fall into this as things constantly go wrong for him. He comes to believe he deserves to have bad things happen to him, and develops a more cynical attitue as a result. He's also reluctant to get involved with anything doing with vampires or the supernatural, but he will get involved if he needs to and steps up to protect others regardless of his feelings, with some examples including [[spoiler: taking care of Crystal's werepanther tribe for a year when she disappeared, or working with Sookie, Lafayette, and Jesus to rescue Tara in season 4, or working to protect Sookie from Warlow.]] And these are only a few examples.
* LadykillerInLove: Spends a lot of time [[ReallyGetsAround really getting around]], but also spends a lot of time as this in committed relationships that are doomed with bad luck or [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter bad judging of character]]. [[spoiler: In the last couple of episodes, he meets Brigette and [[EarnYourHappyEnding in the show's distant finale ends up marrying and fathering three children with her]] in a case of LastGirlWins]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Steve Newlin makes him forget they ever had their brief meeting in the first episode of season five.

* MuggleBornOfMages: His sex appeal is pretty much the only thing he inherited from his faerie ancestors, while Sookie and pretty much all other Stackhouses had faerie powers. He's later outright told that the faerie genes skipped him.

* RunningGag: The third season had one where he claimed to be a cop, only to be forced to admit he wasn't one ''yet''
* SanitySlippage: As of the Season 5 finale, he is hallucinating the ghosts of his parents which are rapidly goading him into becoming harsher and more racist against vampires, including Jessica, who he clearly had feelings for before the appearence of the "ghosts". Whether or not this is due to the bump on the head, the faerie Elder's energy blast, or something else entirely is currently unknown.
* ShirtlessScene: Has plenty of these. Nobody is complaining.

* TookALevelInBadass: After being trained by the Fellowship of the Sun and becoming a cop. He's able to put his training to good use on several occasions, like [[spoiler: shooting Franklin dead when he's about to rape and kill Tara, staking Felton from a tree, and taking on the Authority vampires when they try to kill him.]]
* UnknownRival: Luke. Not that Jason wasn't really aware with it he just didn't play along.
** Jason develops this with [[spoiler: Warlow]] in seasons 5 and 6 when he finds out that [[spoiler: Warlow killed his parents.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for Laughs in the season 2 finale. Jason invokes this trope to Andy when the latter is upset about not getting recognition for helping to take down Maryann, and Jason tells him that they both know they tried to save the town and that's more important than getting fame.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You are a man in this family, but I am the oldest person here and this is my house. You better respect me boy."'']]

Jason and Sookie's paternal grandmother. She raised Jason and Sookie following their parents' deaths. Sookie keeps living with her after becoming an adult and later inherits Gran's house. She is portrayed as a very kind-hearted, motherly figure, with even Tara Thornton's mother crediting her for raising Tara when she couldn't.

* ButtMonkey: In Season 2 and 4 especially. Both times he's struggling with addiction (variously with alcohol and V).

* TheCassandra: in Season 2, mostly because what he's trying to convince his fellow police officers of sounds ridiculous, and partially because he's almost continually drunk throughout the season.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may be a blustery fool, but he can be pretty awesome when he has to be.
* CynicalMentor: To Jason. He really doesn't want to take Jason under his wing, but he sees the advantage to having a young, really athletic guy to run down all the crazies showing up in Bon Temps lately. That and he just [[PetTheDog feels bad for him.]]

A waitress at Merlotte's. A four-time divorcee, she is a single mother of two. While she has a good heart, she is often apt to resort to bigotry (directed at vampires) and openly disapproves of Sookie's relationship with Bill. Arlene often makes remarks that have distinctly racist undertones though this often appears to be unintentional.

* CharacterDevelopment: Goes through the most out of any character, from an ignorant bigoted waitress to a thoughtful, more open-minded restaurant owner. Lampshaded in the second to last episode as she comments on Sookie's surprise that she's started a relationship with a vampire, Keith ("you don't have to tell me how strange it sounds".)

* FatalAttractor: Her last Love interest was a SerialKiller and we don't know about her ex-husbands but they must be exes for a reason.
* FetusTerrible: She believed this while pregnant with René's baby, thinking René's evil is [[VillainousLineage inherited]].

An Iraq war veteran who works as one of the cooks at Merlotte's and he's a cousin of Detective Andy Bellefleur. He shows clear signs of post-traumatic stress disorder but despite his unusual behavior, is a gentle soul. He is one of the few who are kind to Bill and he finds him to be a kindred soul as Bill is a veteran like him.

* DrivenToSuicide: He asks another marine buddy to kill him in a way he won't see coming.

* InstantDeathBullet: After he paid another marine to kill him in a way he wouldn't see coming.

* NiceGuy: Even with his dark past, he is still the most consistently good member of the cast - he never puts his own feelings first, always protects others, feels obligated to stay with Arlene, happily raises a baby whose father was a psychotic SerialKiller.

* ProperlyParanoid: He often has a vague suspicion that something is wrong when something really is wrong, only to be falsely reassured that everything is ok by someone who knows for a fact that there's a problem but wishes conceal said problem.

A waitress at Merlotte's introduced in the third season. She is very friendly and a single mother of two, and is also a devoted Wiccan.

* BigDamnHeroes: When Marnie [[spoiler: comes back and possesses Lafayette with the intention of killing Eric and Bill,]] she saves them by using Wiccan magic to [[spoiler: create a shield to protect them against Marnie, and helps summon the spirits of the dead to take Marnie back to their plane.]]

* AdultFear: When his faerie daughters first go missing. Turns up to eleven when Jason brings up the fact that faeries are like 'catnip' to vampires. Becomes awfully realized as he storms into Bill's mansion and finds three of his daughters dead and one barely alive.

* HomoeroticDream: Allegedly with Eric. It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't [[FoeYay hate/fear Eric]].

[[folder:Gov. Burrell]]
!!Governor Truman Burrell
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's time for humans to bite back!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ArlissHoward

A 'good ol' boy' politician with a bigoted vendetta against vampires. Governor Burrell is a politically savvy and perhaps overly ambitious man who tends to let his personal aspirations overshadow his humanity. Like virtually all right-wing conservative politicians, he sees vampires are monsters and does not see them as people despite knowing that they were once human.

%%* BaldOfEvil
* AmbitionIsEvil: According to his character description, although we don't see much of it. Burrell never seems to seek more power, he just wants to eliminate vampires.
* BigBadDuumvirate: From the humans' side in Season 6 with Sarah Newlin.
** DiscOneFinalBoss: He's murdered by Bill halfway through his season.
* CharacterDeath: Bill tears his head off.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DefiantToTheEnd
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. He initally loves his daughter Willa, but that does not stop him from committing her to the Vampire Concentration Camps once Eric turns her.
* FantasticRacism: He's very much against vampires.
%%* KarmicDeath
* KnightTemplar: He's willing to die for his cause.
* NightmareFetishist: Gets excited at the prospect of Eric and Pam killing each other, and when Eric and Pam kill a camp guard instead he gets even more excited.
* OffWithHisHead: He tells Bill that 'remove the head, two more will grow in it's place'. Bill removes the head.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His reason for the "government bailout" for the True Blood company. Ultimately averted, as his true goal is to spread True Blood laced with Hepatitis V.
%%* PapaWolf
* RousingSpeech: As seen in the promotional videos.
* SouthernGentleman: Part of his political image, but it isn't only that. He's a 'good ol' boy'.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Delivered by Bill midway through season 6.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His methods may be extreme, but his loyalty appears to be to the people of Louisiana. It should be noted that all other vampires on the show (with one or two exceptions) have been depicted as ruthless at best.

[[folder:Rev. Daniels]]
!!Rev. Daniels
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/GreggDaniel

The pastor of one of the churches in Bon Temps, and a respected member of the community. In Season 3, he begins a romantic relationship with a seemingly reformed Lettie Mae, and by Season 4, the two are married. He and Lettie Mae are sought out by Arlene and Terry in Season 4 to rid their home of the evil spirits that they believe are targeting their baby, Mikey. In Season 6, he performs the service at Terry's funeral at Arlene's request. Reverend Daniels is also a leading supporter of Sam's decision to pair up humans with vampires in an attempt to ensure mutual protection and security.
!!!Tropes
* AscendedExtra: He was fairly minor, existing mostly in relation to Lettie Mae, but for the final season he's a regular character and gets a lot more personality.
* CrisisOfFaith: Daniels admits that after losing his daughter and subsequently his wife, he lost faith in God, humanity, his marriage and himself.
* LargeHam: During some of his sermons. Privately, he's more reserved.
* RousingSpeech: He has a talent for these.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, Sookie and Jason have a strained relationship, thanks in part to Jason being a {{Jerkass}} and barely being supportive of his sister. It gets bad enough that she ends up refusing to speak to him again at one point. In the show, while their relationship starts out bad in season 1, it does improve in the later seasons, and Jason is genuinely more supportive and more loving towards his sister.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, Sookie and Jason have a strained relationship, thanks in part to Jason being a {{Jerkass}} and barely being supportive of his sister. It gets bad enough that she ends up refusing to speak to him again at one point. In the show, while their relationship starts out bad in season 1, it does improve in the later seasons, and Jason is genuinely more supportive and more loving towards his sister.

%%* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Tara.

* FantasticRacism: Zig-zagged. After getting mistakenly zapped by fairy power, he shows noticeable hatred towards vampires killing several of the Authority guards out of anger (and because they were trying to kill him). That being said, he does stop short of killing his vampire allies, and he eventually snaps out of it and recognizes that his behavior wasn't okay (as seen when he's talking to Sookie about it in season 6). This eventually disappears during season 6 when he comes to rescue Jessica from the Vampire Concentration Camps, and is disgusted by what the humans are doing to the vampires there.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely loves his daughter and was mortified when she became a vampire. He still loved her very much.

* Hypocrite: She criticizes Jason for his promiscuous lifestyle even though she engages in the exact same behavior as he does.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: But not to the point where he could actually kill Jessica.
%%* LoveMartyr

* NiceGuy: He really is nice.
** Until he TookALevelInJerkass after Jessica and Jason hooked up. It's hard to blame him: he lost his first true love and his best friend in one fell swoop of betrayal.

* BuryYourGays: He's murdered in the fourth season finale.

%%* NiceGuy

* StraightGay: You wouldn't know he's gay unless he's making out with Lafayette.

* TheAce: He's not really one, but to The Fellowship of the Sun he definitely is.
** Considering how good he is with a gun, he definitely qualifies for this.

** In season 2 when Steve tries to have Jason killed (due to mistaking him as a spy for the vampires), Jason makes a run for it. However, when Sarah Newlin later informs him that they have Sookie prisoner at the church, Jason immediately goes back for her at the risk of getting killed. It really is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome!

* TheDitz: Alternates between this and BrainlessBeauty. He can be an airhead at times, says a lot of dopey things, and occasionally makes bad decisions. Though it should be noted he can have the occasional flashes on brilliant insight every now and again, and he genuinely means well.

* ManChild: Deconstructed and ultimately played straight. Hoyt grew up under a mother who was bigoted in every sense of the word (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc) and smothered him well into adulthood in an attempt to keep him in her life after her husband committed suicide. The result is that Hoyt is emotionally stunted. While he's physically a 28 year old, he's mentally a kid because of the way Maxine's treated him for most of his life, which has impacted how he's able to process the world. While he is initially nice and means well, this mentality is ultimately a handicap for Hoyt because it makes it hard for him to process hard truths and disappointments in life without reacting in an extremely childish manner (like when Hoyt finds out the truth about his dad, or when Jessica ends their relationship). When that happens, a nastier side to his character comes out that's a lot like a little kid throwing a temper-tantrum (except in this case, it's a grown-ass adult who's doing it), and he falls into a NeverMyFault mentality where it's easier to blame others for things that go wrong in the same way his mother does. This is ultimately taken to the extreme at the end of season 5 when instead of choosing to learn anything from his recent experiences, Hoyt opts to glamour all his memories out of his head. And while it's unpleasant to watch, it does make sense Hoyt would behave like this considering how he was raised. It's also implied that part of the reason Jessica lost interest in their relationship by season 4 is because she felt like she became a ReplacementGoldfish for Hoyt's mom in that he expects her to do the stuff his mom used to do for him, and Jessica was having none of that.

** In season 2 when Steve tries to have Jason killed (due to mistaking him as a spy for the vampires), Jason makes a run for it. However, when Sarah Newlin later informs him that they have Sookie prisoner at the church, Jason immediately goes back for her at the risk of getting killed. It really is a CrowningMomentofAwesome!

* ManChild: Deconstructed and ultimately played straight. Hoyt grew up under a mother who was bigoted in every sense of the word (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc) and smothered him well into adulthood in an attempt to keep him in her life after her husband committed suicide. The result is that Hoyt is emotionally stunted. While he's physically a 28 year old, he's mentally a kid because of the way Maxine's treated him for most of his life, which has impacted how he's able to process the world. While he is initially nice and means well, this mentality is ultimately a handicap for Hoyt because it makes it hard for him to process hard truths and disappointments in life without reacting in an extremely childish manner (like when Hoyt finds out the truth about his dad, or when Jessica ends their relationship). When that happens, a nastier side to his character comes out that's a lot like a kid throwing a temper-tantrum (except it's a grown-ass adult whose doing it), and he falls into a NeverMyFault mentality where it's easier to blame others for things that go wrong (much like how his mother does). This is ultimately taken to the extreme at the end of season 5 when Hoyt, instead of choosing to learn anything from his recent experiences, opts to glamour all of his memories out of his head. And while it's unpleasant to watch, it does make sense Hoyt would behave like this considering how he was raised. It's also implied that part of the reason Jessica loses interest in their relationship in season 4 is because she feels like she became a ReplacementGoldfish for Hoyt's mom in that he expects her to do the stuff his mom used to do for him, and Jessica was having none of that.