History Series / MrInbetween

* HairTriggerTemper: Deconstructed. Ray is generally a pretty relaxed and easygoing guy but has a habit on running into people [[AssholeVictim who are general pieces of shit]] who [[MuggingTheMonster decide to antagonize him]]. He tries to approach things civilly but when the tension rises he has no qualms about getting violent, without further context it seems like he snaps for no reason. [[spoiler: This catches up to him when Allys' brother was being obnoxious and Ray throws him through a glass door. Ally later reveals she was physically abused by her last boyfriend, while [[WifeBeaterBeater Ray promises he would never harm her]] she can't [[NotSoDifferentRemark separate the similarities between them]]]].

* LivingADoubleLife: Ray always tells people he works in "security" when they ask about his job, and most of the show he is technically a security guard and bouncer for Freddy. But this hides Ray's actual life dealing with all manner of criminal activities, even performing hit jobs, and his more mundane suburban life provides a significant contrast to unusual things he has to deal with. Unusually, though, is that there is little overlap between those two worlds. There are very few moments that threaten to expose this part of his life to his family.

* AffluentAscetic: Ray actually makes a very decent living in his criminal endeavours, easily earning thousands of dollars for every small job he undertakes, and ''hundreds'' of thousands for murders in particular. Despite this, he lives quite simply in a very ordinary suburban home, has a very plain and average dress style, and doesn't indulge in any bad habits like some of the more monied-up associates he has, such as Freddy. The only real sign shown that he has money at all is that he drives a BMW.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray does a lot of bad things, but he prefers dealing with people who are obviously bad guys themselves. Whenever his job intersects with innocent people [[BerserkButton he is not happy about things]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Gary may be a total doofus most of the time, but when it comes to having Ray's back, the guy ''delivers''. The most notable example of this is when [[spoiler:Maddy]] is kidnapped by child sex traffickers. While Ray's rampaging through the city on a fruitless search for answers, Gary not only succeeds in finding out who took [[spoiler:her]], he manages to track the traffickers down, get into their home under the pretense of doing a drug buy, takes them all hostage, rescues [[spoiler:Maddy]], locks the traffickers in their own dungeon, and lets Ray know exactly where to find them. Even better, he manages to do all this over the course of ''one afternoon.''

* LovableSexManiac: Gary is into fetish porn, specifically piss porn, and is also turned on by feet, despite being married to the gorgeous Tatiana. Season 3 sees him go into business shooting homemade porn for couples, partly as a.moneymaking venture, but also implied to partly be so he can watch the couples go at it.

* SliceOfLife: Much of the show leans on the contrast between Rays' normal life and the violent world he is a part of. He will swing between hit jobs and taking his daughter to a birthday party and interacting with the other parents.

* AbusiveParents: Rays' father was physically abusive to him and his brother, and they want nothing to do with him in the present day. His father does end up at his doorstep, suffering from some sort of mental illness and after a few weeks Ray finds a home for him to stay. They find some reconciliation when his father confesses that [[ShellShockedSenior something broke inside from his time in Vietnam]], lamenting that he wished Ray knew him before the war.

* ItsPersonal: ''God help you'' if it ever comes to this with Ray. [[spoiler:The child traffickers and the con man who ripped off Old Bob]] found this out the hard way.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gary sets up his own porn company, offering his services to make private sex tapes for couples looking to spice up their love life. He hopes that his business will revolve around (presumably attractive) heterosexual couples, and is blind-sided after arriving at the home of his first clients, who turn out to be a gay couple instead. To his credit, after a moment of processing the situation, Gary just gets on with it and does the job he's being paid for.

* FireForgedFriends: Ray and Dave first meet when Dave is hired to [[spoiler:kidnap Ray and deliver him to Davros to be killed. After the two end up inadvertently teaming up to take Davros and his crew out]], they end up becoming sort-of mates, with Ray hiring Dave's services more than once in later episodes, and the two making a surprisingly effective team. [[spoiler:When Ray is sent to jail for assaulting a guy who cut him off, Dave even tracks the guy down and threatens him into dropping the charges on Ray's behalf.]]

* StealthHiBye: Ray is ''very'' fond of doing this. Most of the time, he's not even being very stealthy, merely taking advantage of someone being distracted and not expecting him to be there, resulting in them not realising his presence until he decides to speak.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Ally gives one to Ray as she breaks up with him]]

* LovableSexManiac: Gary is into fetish porn, specifically piss porn, and is also turned on by feet. This despite the fact that he's married to the gorgeous Tatiana.