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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Casual racism towards African Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish for starters. Catholic and evangelical Protestant characters are not shy about declaring that members of the opposing faith will be damned to eternal Hellfire for practicing the wrong religion. When Mormons are introduced in Season 3, a significant portion of the cast considers them to be AlwaysChaoticEvil.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Casual racism towards African Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish for starters. The Swede, who is actually a Norwegian, is a Nordicist. Catholic and evangelical Protestant characters are not shy about declaring that members of the opposing faith will be damned to eternal Hellfire for practicing the wrong religion. When Mormons are introduced in Season 3, a significant portion of the cast considers them to be AlwaysChaoticEvil.
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* FirstPersonDyingPerspective: When Ruth Cole is hanged for murder, the last shot of the episode is seen through her eyes as she looks through the cloth of the death mask. The camera suddenly drops as the trapdoor is released, then everything goes dark.
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* HiredByTheOppressor: [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Having to work with people they hate]] is a very common theme as Union Pacific and Central Pacific ruthlessly exploit cheap labor in extremely dangerous work conditions as they angle to fleece the US Government for every penny possible.
** '''The Freedmen Workers'''- Recently freed slaves who are paid half the rate of a white worker live in a segregated part of the camp, and are not allowed to patronize the saloon, the picture show tent, or the brothel. The first episode centers around Cullen Bohannon, former slaveholder who fought for the Confederate Army and has never worked on the railroad, being assigned as their "walking boss", a position very similar to a plantation overseer.
** '''The Comfort Women'''- While it is accepted that men have needs, the brothel whores are treated with clear and obvious disdain for stooping so low as to meet those needs, particularly for money. It is not a crime to beat a brothel whore, to interact with her so roughly that she needs medical attention afterwards, and when a whore is killed, the leaders of the town aren't particularly interested in investigating. When the town receives word that an attack from the native tribes is imminent, the brothel whores aren't even allowed on the train that evacuates the women and children. But when it's time to move to the next town, the brothel women are expected to come along.
** The Central Pacific railroad employs immigrants straight from China. The Chinese are treated much like the Union Pacific's Freedmen, but perhaps even worse, as there is a language barrier between them and their white bosses. The Chinese workers are paid less, consistently sent to do jobs that are seen as "too dangerous" to risk sending a white worker, and white men are not punished for assaulting or intentionally killing a Chinese worker.
** Cullen Bohannon, the series' protagonist, experiences this to a lesser extent. He is a former slave owner and Confederate soldier who works for two rail companies over the course of the series, each owned and largely staffed by Northerners who are not shy about rubbing in the fact that the South lost or that they think less of him for having fought for the Confederacy. [[DudeWheresMyRespect Several times he has to fight to prove that, despite being a "Gray back Johnny Reb", he is still the best man for the job]].
** '''The Freedmen Workers'''- Recently freed slaves who are paid half the rate of a white worker live in a segregated part of the camp, and are not allowed to patronize the saloon, the picture show tent, or the brothel. The first episode centers around Cullen Bohannon, former slaveholder who fought for the Confederate Army and has never worked on the railroad, being assigned as their "walking boss", a position very similar to a plantation overseer.
** '''The Comfort Women'''- While it is accepted that men have needs, the brothel whores are treated with clear and obvious disdain for stooping so low as to meet those needs, particularly for money. It is not a crime to beat a brothel whore, to interact with her so roughly that she needs medical attention afterwards, and when a whore is killed, the leaders of the town aren't particularly interested in investigating. When the town receives word that an attack from the native tribes is imminent, the brothel whores aren't even allowed on the train that evacuates the women and children. But when it's time to move to the next town, the brothel women are expected to come along.
** The Central Pacific railroad employs immigrants straight from China. The Chinese are treated much like the Union Pacific's Freedmen, but perhaps even worse, as there is a language barrier between them and their white bosses. The Chinese workers are paid less, consistently sent to do jobs that are seen as "too dangerous" to risk sending a white worker, and white men are not punished for assaulting or intentionally killing a Chinese worker.
** Cullen Bohannon, the series' protagonist, experiences this to a lesser extent. He is a former slave owner and Confederate soldier who works for two rail companies over the course of the series, each owned and largely staffed by Northerners who are not shy about rubbing in the fact that the South lost or that they think less of him for having fought for the Confederacy. [[DudeWheresMyRespect Several times he has to fight to prove that, despite being a "Gray back Johnny Reb", he is still the best man for the job]].
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* CoolGuns: The [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hell_On_Wheels#Griswold_.26_Gunnison Griswold]] and The Swede's [[ICallItVera Beauty]].
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''Hell on Wheels'' is a live-action television series that premiered on Creator/{{AMC}} on November 6th, 2011.
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''Hell on Wheels'' is a live-action television series that premiered on Creator/{{AMC}} on November 6th, 2011.
2011 as a SundayEveningDramaSeries.
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* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Joseph.]] In his final appearance, he helps Bohannon track a Sioux war party. Once they've found him he simply says, "You'll never see me again." He wasn't lying. No further explanation is ever given.
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* PutOnABus: PutOnABus:
** [[spoiler: Joseph.]] In his final appearance, he helps Bohannon track a Sioux war party. Once they've found him he simply says, "You'll never see me again." He wasn't lying. No further explanation is evergiven.given.
** Hannah Durant comes into camp at the end of Season 2 and quickly establishes herself at the new AlphaBitch, but she's gone at the start of season 3, never to return.
** [[spoiler: Joseph.]] In his final appearance, he helps Bohannon track a Sioux war party. Once they've found him he simply says, "You'll never see me again." He wasn't lying. No further explanation is ever
** Hannah Durant comes into camp at the end of Season 2 and quickly establishes herself at the new AlphaBitch, but she's gone at the start of season 3, never to return.
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* By the end of the series, the only characters left from the first season's main ensemble are [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]].
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** Especially in the second season where [[spoiler: Reverend Cole and Lily Bell are both killed, and Toole kills himself after earlier miraculously surviving a gunshot to the face in Season 1]]. And as of the fourth season, 5 characters whose actors have names in the opening credits are dead, and [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, The Swede, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]] are the only cast members left from the first season.
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** Especially in the second season where [[spoiler: Reverend Cole and Lily Bell are both killed, and Toole kills himself after earlier miraculously surviving a gunshot to the face in Season 1]]. And as of the fourth season, 5 characters whose actors have names in the opening credits are dead, and [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, The Swede, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]] are the only cast members left from the first season.
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* BerserkButton: Thor Gunderson is widely known as 'The Swede', despite being Norwegian. Occasionally, he will explain this. The line is delivered with an increasing mixture of anger and desperation as the series goes on. The joke appears again well after [[spoiler: his apparent death]], with Bishop Joseph Dutson, [[spoiler: actually Gunderson posing as a Mormon Bishop]], declaring angrily to Bohannon that "[[spoiler: The late]] Thor Gunderson was Norwegian!"
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* BerserkButton: Thor Gunderson is widely known as 'The Swede', despite being Norwegian. Occasionally, he will explain this. The line is delivered with an increasing mixture of anger and desperation as the series goes on. The joke appears again well after [[spoiler: his apparent death]], with Bishop Joseph Dutson, [[spoiler: actually Gunderson posing as a Mormon Bishop]], declaring angrily to Bohannon that "[[spoiler: The late]] Thor Gunderson was Norwegian!"Norwegian!". He even [[spoiler:used his last words upon being executed]] to reinforce this, exclaiming "I am Thor Gunderson... FROM NORWAY!".
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* KarmicDeath: Given that he strangles [[spoiler:Lily Bell]] to death and attempts to have [[spoiler:Elam]] hanged, it is very fitting that [[spoiler:The Swede]] is eventually executed by strangulation via hanging.
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** At the end of the first episode Durant says, "Blood will be spilled, lives will be lost, men will be ruined...in Hell on Wheels." In his final monologue he says, "Blood has been spilled, lives have been lost, men have been ruined..."
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* HellholePrison: The Swede did time in Andersonville Prison [[TruthInTelevision which was brutal]]. Episode 5.8, "Two Soldiers" tells the harrowing story of his incarceration.
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** Hannah Durant comes in at the end of Season 2 and upsets the balance of Hell on Wheels, stomping on several characters, especially Lily. Between Seasons 2 and 3, she leaves Doc with only a line of dialogue covering this before it's never mentioned again.
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** Hannah Durant (Played by Creator/VirginiaMadsen no less) comes in at the end of Season 2 and upsets the balance of Hell on Wheels, stomping on several characters, especially Lily. Between Seasons 2 and 3, she leaves Doc with only a line of dialogue covering this before it's never mentioned again.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory:
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
** Bohannon is a former Southern slave owner/Confederate soldier-who only fought as a matter of honor, who [[SlaveLiberation freed his slaves]] before the Civil War, and whose wife was [[CollateralAngst raped and murdered by Union soldiers.]] All the Union men are portrayed as corrupt, incompetent, racist, or outright psychotic. All of which fit into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_School Dunning School narrative of American history.]] However, other former Confederate soldiers (Bohannon's former comrades) appear in season 2. They're racist assholes who rob trains and kill anyone in their way, with the exception of [[TokenGoodTeammate the Doc]], who just doesn't seem to know what else to do now that the war's ended. Bohannon also mentions he actually ''was'' racist before, but [[ICanChangeMyBeloved he changed after his wife convinced him]] of the evils of slavery.
*** He later admits to Elam that he did not, in fact, free his slaves. He likely lied because he realizes now that slavery is terrible, as one slave died trying to defend his son, and because he was talking to Elam when he said this, meaning he was talking to a former slave. At the time, he needed Elam's help, so lying about freeing his slaves would've been the smart thing to do.
** Elam is shown dancing with and outright arguing with a white woman - in public. He was almost lynched for sleeping with her, but everyone is suddenly okay with it after he returned from his escape.
*** At that point, Elam had become Durant's right-hand man, and as such, feared. There's also the fact [[TheDreaded Bohannon]] was seen as his friend. Virtually ''everyone'' in the railroad fears Bohannon-it'd make sense they'd leave his "friend" alone. Nonetheless, this is a time period where black ''politicians'' and ''sheriffs'' were murdered or threatened with violence by white mobs. This is justified in that Elam is told more than a few times that his gun won't always be there, and his power as Durant's henchman is limited. He also faces scrutiny and a loss of respect for being saved by Cullen during a gunfight, as he was pinned down. Even though he was simply taking cover, he appeared weak.
** While not portrayed universally "savage" as was common at the time, the native tribes are often brutal (though usually to defend their land against encroachment), with the Cheyenne enslaving both white and native women (TruthInTelevision-they were an especially warlike culture, with many cruel practices). On the other hand, the US Cavalry is not portrayed positively either, with one officer being a bloodthirsty man who attacks unarmed native civilians.
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
** Bohannon is a former Southern slave owner/Confederate soldier-who only fought as a matter of honor, who [[SlaveLiberation freed his slaves]] before the Civil War, and whose wife was [[CollateralAngst raped and murdered by Union soldiers.]] All the Union men are portrayed as corrupt, incompetent, racist, or outright psychotic. All of which fit into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_School Dunning School narrative of American history.]] However, other former Confederate soldiers (Bohannon's former comrades) appear in season 2. They're racist assholes who rob trains and kill anyone in their way, with the exception of [[TokenGoodTeammate the Doc]], who just doesn't seem to know what else to do now that the war's ended. Bohannon also mentions he actually ''was'' racist before, but [[ICanChangeMyBeloved he changed after his wife convinced him]] of the evils of slavery.
*** He later admits to Elam that he did not, in fact, free his slaves. He likely lied because he realizes now that slavery is terrible, as one slave died trying to defend his son, and because he was talking to Elam when he said this, meaning he was talking to a former slave. At the time, he needed Elam's help, so lying about freeing his slaves would've been the smart thing to do.
** Elam is shown dancing with and outright arguing with a white woman - in public. He was almost lynched for sleeping with her, but everyone is suddenly okay with it after he returned from his escape.
*** At that point, Elam had become Durant's right-hand man, and as such, feared. There's also the fact [[TheDreaded Bohannon]] was seen as his friend. Virtually ''everyone'' in the railroad fears Bohannon-it'd make sense they'd leave his "friend" alone. Nonetheless, this is a time period where black ''politicians'' and ''sheriffs'' were murdered or threatened with violence by white mobs. This is justified in that Elam is told more than a few times that his gun won't always be there, and his power as Durant's henchman is limited. He also faces scrutiny and a loss of respect for being saved by Cullen during a gunfight, as he was pinned down. Even though he was simply taking cover, he appeared weak.
** While not portrayed universally "savage" as was common at the time, the native tribes are often brutal (though usually to defend their land against encroachment), with the Cheyenne enslaving both white and native women (TruthInTelevision-they were an especially warlike culture, with many cruel practices). On the other hand, the US Cavalry is not portrayed positively either, with one officer being a bloodthirsty man who attacks unarmed native civilians.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory:
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
**PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Bohannon is a former Southern slave owner/Confederate soldier-who only fought as a matter of honor, who [[SlaveLiberation freed his slaves]] before the Civil War, and whose after his northern wife was convinced him of the evils of slavery and then she ended up [[CollateralAngst raped and murdered by Union soldiers.]] All However the Union men are portrayed as corrupt, incompetent, racist, or outright psychotic. All of which fit into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_School Dunning School narrative of American history.]] However, other former Confederate soldiers (Bohannon's former comrades) appear in season 2. They're racist assholes who rob trains and kill anyone in their way, with the exception of [[TokenGoodTeammate the Doc]], who just doesn't seem to know what else to do now that the war's ended. show [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] this, when Bohannon also mentions he actually ''was'' racist before, but [[ICanChangeMyBeloved he changed after his wife convinced him]] of the evils of slavery.
*** He later admitsconfessed to Elam that he did not, in fact, free his slaves. He likely lied because he realizes now that slavery is terrible, as one slave died trying to defend his son, and because he was talking to Elam when he said this, meaning he was talking to a former slave. At the time, he needed Elam's help, so lying about freeing his slaves would've been the smart thing to do.
** Elam is shown dancing with and outright arguing with a white woman - in public. He was almost lynched for sleeping with her, but everyone is suddenly okay with it after he returned from his escape.
*** At that point, Elam had become Durant's right-hand man, and as such, feared. There's also the fact [[TheDreaded Bohannon]] was seen as his friend. Virtually ''everyone'' in the railroad fears Bohannon-it'd make sense they'd leave his "friend" alone. Nonetheless, this is a time period where black ''politicians'' and ''sheriffs'' were murdered or threatened with violence by white mobs. This is justified in that Elam is told more than a few times that his gun won't always be there, and his power as Durant's henchman is limited. He also faces scrutiny and a loss of respect for being saved by Cullen during a gunfight, as he was pinned down. Even though he was simply taking cover, he appeared weak.
** While not portrayed universally "savage" as was common at the time, the native tribes are often brutal (though usually to defend their land against encroachment), with the Cheyenne enslaving both white and native women (TruthInTelevision-they were an especially warlike culture, with many cruel practices). On the other hand, the US Cavalry is not portrayed positively either, with one officer being a bloodthirsty man who attacks unarmed native civilians.slaves.
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
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** Elam is shown dancing with and outright arguing with a white woman - in public. He was almost lynched for sleeping with her, but everyone is suddenly okay with it after he returned from his escape.
*** At that point, Elam had become Durant's right-hand man, and as such, feared. There's also the fact [[TheDreaded Bohannon]] was seen as his friend. Virtually ''everyone'' in the railroad fears Bohannon-it'd make sense they'd leave his "friend" alone. Nonetheless, this is a time period where black ''politicians'' and ''sheriffs'' were murdered or threatened with violence by white mobs. This is justified in that Elam is told more than a few times that his gun won't always be there, and his power as Durant's henchman is limited. He also faces scrutiny and a loss of respect for being saved by Cullen during a gunfight, as he was pinned down. Even though he was simply taking cover, he appeared weak.
** While not portrayed universally "savage" as was common at the time, the native tribes are often brutal (though usually to defend their land against encroachment), with the Cheyenne enslaving both white and native women (TruthInTelevision-they were an especially warlike culture, with many cruel practices). On the other hand, the US Cavalry is not portrayed positively either, with one officer being a bloodthirsty man who attacks unarmed native civilians.
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* AbortedArc: Cullen's quest for revenge against the Union soldiers who murdered his family, the main arc in Season 1, is eventually forgotten. {{Justified|Trope}} as he had lots of distractions by then.
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** Cullen's quest for revenge against the Union soldiers who murdered his family, the main arc in Season 1, is eventually forgotten. {{Justified|Trope}} as he had lots of distractions by then.
** Cullen's quest for revenge against the Union soldiers who murdered his family, the main arc in Season 1, is eventually forgotten. {{Justified|Trope}} as he had lots of distractions by then.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Especially in the second season where [[spoiler: Reverend Cole and Lily Bell are both killed, and Toole kills himself after earlier miraculously surviving a gunshot to the face in Season 1]]. And as of the fourth season, 5 characters whose actors have names in the opening credits are dead, and [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, The Swede, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]] are the only cast members left from the first season.
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* AnyoneCanDie: AnyoneCanDie:
** Especially in the second season where [[spoiler: Reverend Cole and Lily Bell are both killed, and Toole kills himself after earlier miraculously surviving a gunshot to the face in Season 1]]. And as of the fourth season, 5 characters whose actors have names in the opening credits are dead, and [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, The Swede, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]] are the only cast members left from the first season.
** Especially in the second season where [[spoiler: Reverend Cole and Lily Bell are both killed, and Toole kills himself after earlier miraculously surviving a gunshot to the face in Season 1]]. And as of the fourth season, 5 characters whose actors have names in the opening credits are dead, and [[spoiler: Bohannon, Durant, The Swede, Mickey, Psalms, and Eva]] are the only cast members left from the first season.
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* BilingualBonus: During a physical altercation with Cullen in season one, The Swede yells "Faen!", which is Norwegian for "Fuck!" Not only was this an uncensored shout, but it also served as foreshadowing that The "Swede" was not from Sweden.
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* BilingualBonus: BilingualBonus:
** During a physical altercation with Cullen in season one, The Swede yells "Faen!", which is Norwegian for "Fuck!" Not only was this an uncensored shout, but it also served as foreshadowing that The "Swede" was not from Sweden.
** During a physical altercation with Cullen in season one, The Swede yells "Faen!", which is Norwegian for "Fuck!" Not only was this an uncensored shout, but it also served as foreshadowing that The "Swede" was not from Sweden.
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* CosmicDeadline: The fifth season suffered from this, with Bohannon's rapid switch from Union Pacific to Central Pacific, the sudden end of the Naomi plot, and the heavily compressed plot involving Mei and Chang. It's been suggested that there was meant to be a sixth season that was eventually cancelled due to declining ratings.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The second season ends with a massive wave of misery: Durant is on the run from the law, Mrs. Bell is graphically killed, Bohannon crosses the DespairEventHorizon and stays catatonic, Sean ruins what was left of his relationship with Ruth, Mr. Toole is DrivenToSuicide after a miserable existence. To put it into perspective, Fergurson is the best off of the bunch and his home was destroyed in the same episode. The last shot we get is Bohannon, walking alone.]]
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* DownerEnding: DownerEnding:
** [[spoiler: The second season ends with a massive wave of misery: Durant is on the run from the law, Mrs. Bell is graphically killed, Bohannon crosses the DespairEventHorizon and stays catatonic, Sean ruins what was left of his relationship with Ruth, Mr. Toole is DrivenToSuicide after a miserable existence. To put it into perspective, Fergurson is the best off of the bunch and his home was destroyed in the same episode. The last shot we get is Bohannon, walking alone.]]
** [[spoiler: The second season ends with a massive wave of misery: Durant is on the run from the law, Mrs. Bell is graphically killed, Bohannon crosses the DespairEventHorizon and stays catatonic, Sean ruins what was left of his relationship with Ruth, Mr. Toole is DrivenToSuicide after a miserable existence. To put it into perspective, Fergurson is the best off of the bunch and his home was destroyed in the same episode. The last shot we get is Bohannon, walking alone.]]
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* TheDragon: The Swede to Durant.
* DrivenToSuicide: Mr. Toole.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first episode, Durant says: "Blood will be spilled, lives will be lost, men will be ruined...in Hell on Wheels." The second season then shows [[spoiler: all three happening in fast sequence: Massive bloodshed against the Sioux, the death of two major characters (Reverend Cole and Mrs. Bell), Bohannon's DespairEventHorizon and the destruction of Durant's career]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the first episode, Durant says: "Blood will be spilled, lives will be lost, men will be ruined...in Hell on Wheels." The second season then shows [[spoiler: all three happening in fast sequence: Massive bloodshed against the Sioux, the death of two major characters (Reverend Cole and Mrs. Bell), Bohannon's DespairEventHorizon and the destruction of Durant's career]].
** In the first episode, Durant says: "Blood will be spilled, lives will be lost, men will be ruined...in Hell on Wheels." The second season then shows [[spoiler: all three happening in fast sequence: Massive bloodshed against the Sioux, the death of two major characters (Reverend Cole and Mrs. Bell), Bohannon's DespairEventHorizon and the destruction of Durant's career]].
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* FreudianExcuse: Toole and his Irish followers are racist assholes to prove that they're not bottom of the barrel anymore. TruthInTelevision, as it was a primary reason different oppressed ethnic groups were always at each other's throats, [[http://obrag.org/?p=34626 especially the Irish.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: FreudianExcuse:
** Toole and his Irish followers are racist assholes to prove that they're not bottom of the barrel anymore. TruthInTelevision, as it was a primary reason different oppressed ethnic groups were always at each other's throats, [[http://obrag.org/?p=34626 especially the Irish.]]
** Toole and his Irish followers are racist assholes to prove that they're not bottom of the barrel anymore. TruthInTelevision, as it was a primary reason different oppressed ethnic groups were always at each other's throats, [[http://obrag.org/?p=34626 especially the Irish.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The show usually isn't shy about showing blood, gore and death, however it makes two notable exceptions.
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** The show usually isn't shy about showing blood, gore and death, however it makes two notable exceptions.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Toole in "Timshel". After being shot in the face, he claims an angel came down and flicked the bullet from his wound. He's noticeably less of an asshole after this.
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** Toole in "Timshel". After being shot in the face, he claims an angel came down and flicked the bullet from his wound. He's noticeably less of an asshole after this.
** Toole in "Timshel". After being shot in the face, he claims an angel came down and flicked the bullet from his wound. He's noticeably less of an asshole after this.
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** Whatever happened in Boston to the [=McGinnes=] brothers.
** Whatever happened in Boston to the [=McGinnes=] brothers.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: PoliticallyCorrectHistory:
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
** Averted for the most part. The series doesn't head into simplistic depictions, neither whitewashing nor demonizing history. The Wild West is depicted as a much more complicated, diverse, and morally grey place than how it is usually portrayed. What appears as "political correctness" at first sight is consciously {{justified|Trope}} given the context.
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* RagsToRiches: Durant's backstory.
** Elam is bent on achieving this for himself.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The inhabitants include our ex-Confederate protagonist, several ex-Union soldiers (including a very tall and thin [[strike: Swedish]] Norwegian lawman), a crew of Irishmen, a crew of freed slaves, an ex-Jayhawker revivalist preacher, a Cheyenne who has converted to Christianity, a white woman raised by natives working as a whore, a female English surveyor, a Yankee CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his French-speaking black manservant.
** Elam is bent on achieving this for himself.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The inhabitants include our ex-Confederate protagonist, several ex-Union soldiers (including a very tall and thin [[strike: Swedish]] Norwegian lawman), a crew of Irishmen, a crew of freed slaves, an ex-Jayhawker revivalist preacher, a Cheyenne who has converted to Christianity, a white woman raised by natives working as a whore, a female English surveyor, a Yankee CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his French-speaking black manservant.
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%%** Durant's backstory.
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** The inhabitants include our ex-Confederate protagonist, several ex-Union soldiers (including a very tall and thin [[strike: Swedish]] Norwegian lawman), a crew of Irishmen, a crew of freed slaves, an ex-Jayhawker revivalist preacher, a Cheyenne who has converted to Christianity, a white woman raised by natives working as a whore, a female English surveyor, a Yankee CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his French-speaking black manservant.
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* DeterminedWidow: Lily Bell again. She is the perfect embodiment of this trope.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Thor Gunderson, AKA "The Swede."
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* CorruptHick: The Swede, despite being a northerner and an Immigrant, fits this trope to a T. When he's not out being the HangingJudge, he's shaking down businesses and bribing officials to look the other way while he robs his employer.
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** The Swede, of the CorruptHick variety. He only uses his authority to lean on the local businesses or to step in when the Important People get wronged. Otherwise, he lets the town rot. Also something of a HangingJudge, as he has the power to order people hanged.
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** The Swede, of the CorruptHick SmallTownTyrant variety. He only uses his authority to lean on the local businesses or to step in when the Important People get wronged. Otherwise, he lets the town rot. Also something of a HangingJudge, as he has the power to order people hanged.
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* SmallTownTyrant: The Swede, when he's not out being the HangingJudge, he's shaking down businesses and bribing officials to look the other way while he robs his employer.
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* CoolHat: Bohannon wears one of these. As from the last couple of episodes of the first season, Elam has one too.
