Shameless
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At the start of Showtime ’s popular comedy - dramaShameless , Debbie Gallagher was an unbelievably sweet and sound unseasoned daughter who seemed nothing like her derelict and virtuously corrupt father , Frank . However , over time , Debbie fromShamelesschanged . Even as a child , Debbie did everything she could to help support her sibling as they attempted to subsist life sentence on the South Side of Chicago , without any aroused or financial assistance from their neglectful parents . The one bizarre trait that Debbie had is that she admittedly wanted to have a child very early on in life history , and try out specifically to do that .
As the serial publication continued , the Gallagher tike , including Debbie Gallagher , inadvertently became more like the parent they swore to never emulate . The once - innocent Debbie fromShamelesswas sadly no exclusion . Debbie adopted Frank ’s manipulative natureand questionable moral codification , using others to get what she wanted . The final season did little to redeem Debbie , and she apace became one of the show ’s worst character . Debbie may have lost her position as an audience favorite , but she still has a significant phone number of viewers willing to ignore the glaring issues with her character .
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Shameless is a Black Comedy, Family Drama created by Paul Abbott and starring William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, and Justin Chatwin. The premise follows the Gallagher family and their closest friends as they deal with a not-so-helpful father, Frank Gallagher. His children each find their own path, growing into their own flawed people without much guidance or help from the family patriarch.
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Frank ’s action damage the Gallaghers beyond haunt , but there were plenty of other characters on the show who were much worse than he was .
Lies About Patrick Molesting Her
Season 3, Episode 8, “Where There’s A Will”
Patrick Gallagher only appear in two episodes ofShameless , but that ’s all it pick out to make him one of the most unlikable members of the blanket Gallagher home . However , his first show in the time of year 3 episode " Where There ’s A Will " also ended up facilitating one of the worst mo for Debbie Gallagher — when she falsely criminate him of sexual violation . While Patrick definitely forced the Gallagher phratry into a desperate situation , there ’s no exculpation for Debbie using blackmail and get up a false story of intimate assault to seek and get them out of it .
The accusation came after Patrick swindle possession of the Gallagher home out from under Fiona ’s olfactory organ . He then tries to pressure the mob into leaving the home , made all the easier when Carl attempts to poison him . Debbie ultimately saves the day by lying and saying that Patrick had tried to molest her . give that she was only 11 at the meter , this would have had serious repercussions for Patrick .
While her actions did redeem the day in the kind of perverted wayShamelessis sleep together for , Debbie ’s actions are still unforgivable . Patrick may have been many thing , but he was n’t a fry molester . It ’s not the bad thing she did throughoutShameless , and it was admittedly still much less ego - serving than some of her other terrible second , but this does n’t make it right . Debbie always had a loose family relationship with the truth , and this lie about Patrick foreshadowed what she ’d become capable of by the timeShamelessconcluded .
Takes Part In Abducting An Elderly Woman
Season 1, Episode 3, “Aunt Ginger”
Debbie was n’t always alone when committing some of the terrible things she did inShameless . give the morally ambiguous nature of the Gallagher household overall , Debbie accept part in several incredibly confutative activity that were a group endeavor . One of the worst of these came in the very first season ofShameless , when a untried Debbie jumped at the chance to link Frank and Fiona in abducting an elderly fair sex from a residential home .
Fiona and Veronica " borrow " an elderly woman with dementedness from the facility Veronica works at to sit as Aunt Ginger , the sound owner of the Gallagher home , so the family do n’t lose the firm . Debbie may not have initiated the plan , but she make hard to make the lie as believable as possible , and seems to relish the dishonesty . Still , there is a semisweet upside to Debbie ’s participation too , as she does take authentically good care of the Gallagher ’s abductee , spending a lot of time with her and becoming quite upset when she inescapably had to result .
Ruins Carl’s Relationship With Kelly
Season 9, Episode 12, “You’ll Know Bottom When You Hit It”
Many of the bad affair Debbie Gallagher did inShamelessstem from her turbulent love - life-time . While her interactions with Kelly are far from the bad affair Debbie did in this arena , they ’re still pretty inexcusable . Not only did Debbie destroy her pal ’s relationship for the sake of an unrequited compaction , but she also snog Kelly while Kelly was asleep , which is technically ravishment .
Kelly and Debbie formed a friendship duringShamelessseason 9 , while Kelly was dating Carl . Unfortunately , Debbie commence to rise a crush on Kelly . Rather than but waiting for the tactual sensation to pass out of regard for both her brother and the fact that Kelly clearly was n’t concerned , Debbie instead decides to make an advance on Kelly . The fact that she chooses to do this when Kelly is asleep is unfit enough , but the overall disloyalty to her own family Debbie shows here makes it an even bad lowpoint for her character .
Steals Lips Social Security Number
Season 10, Episode 1, “We Few, We Lucky Few, We Band Of Gallaghers!”
After Fiona leftShameless , Debbie found herself as the de - facto matriarch of the Gallagher household inShamelessseason 10 . She before long proved that she was n’t anywhere near as up to the task as her older sister , and while she made several honorable mistakes with the finance of the home , this period also deport some of the defective things Debbie did when it came to observe her own family unit . At first , it did seem like Debbie had a handle on the cash in hand , ascertain that her brothers and Dad spent responsibly by giving them each an valuation account .
Of naturally , the trick was quickly shattered when it emerged that Debbie had been spend a lot of money on herself for frivolous use . That ’s not why this is one of the worst things Debbie did , though . The reason this fussy moment stands out as one of her eccentric ’s spoiled sins is that she stole Lip ’s social security number and risked him getting into substantial financial debt — while he had a baby in the hospital , no less — to do it . The only grounds this transgression is fairly overlooked is that , by season 10 ofShameless , Debbie had already done much bad .
Nearly Loses Her Toes
Season 8, Episode 11, “A Gallagher Pedicure”
ThisShamelessmoment in season 8 is n’t so much an instance of Debbie being intentionally malicious or manipulative , but instead , is one of the bad things she did only because it showed how irresponsible she could be . It was also one of the thoroughgoing moments throughoutShameless , as it climax in Frank execute an at - household - amputation of three of Debbie ’s toe ( which had yield to necrosis ) . The import comes after Debbie injure her base in a workplace fortuity in the prior instalment . The injury caused several of Debbie ’s toes to require amputation . Since she can not pay for surgery , she engage her house to do it .
While this is relatively innocent in the rarified outline of everything Debbie did inShameless , it still stands out give how much difficulty Frank could have receive in if it was discover he ’d performed an unaccredited surgery . What ’s more , if Debbie had been a little more responsible with money / hadn’t made almost everyone she knew that had fiscal means detest her because of her actions , she may have had more choice available to correct the problem .
Stealing Baby Casey
Season 1, Episode 4, “Casey Casden”
Debbie Gallagher rise up watching her older sister Fiona raise a house full of kid . Fiona was n’t necessarily the ideal female parent pattern , but since she managed to keep a roof over the family ’s head and food on their denture , Debbie wrongly assumed that it was easy to be a teenage female parent . Debbiemade it vindicated early on that she wanted to be a mom , and in theShamelessseason 1 installment " Casey Casden,“she took her first shot at the endeavor by snatch a tiddler one day while walk around her neighborhood .
Debbie espy a toddler at a birthday party , and adjudicate to take him home . Her siblings immediately expressed their disapproval and concocted a plan to see that the child was safely returned home while avoiding the police officeholder that were look for the miss son . Debbie never got over her desire to become a mummy by any means necessary as she raise in later seasons . What ’s sorry is that Debbie shows little self-reproach for taking Casey and is even angered by the prospect that he has to go back to his steady family . It speaks to Debbie Gallagher ’s single - mindedness in getting what she want at an former historic period .
Concealing Steve’s True Identity
Season 1, Episode 9, “But at Last Came a Knock”
While trying to see if Fiona ’s novel young man was experience a underground kinship with another woman , Debbie fromShamelessdiscovered that " Steve Wilton " was actually Jimmy Lishman , the son of fantastically plentiful parent who conceive he was away at medical schooling and had no idea he was back in Chicago slip car under a different name . Jimmy pleaded with Debbie to keep his secret and even bribed her with extravagant giving , so she ’d keep her sass close . When Debbie pull in that Steve buy the household next door to them , she decides to keep his secret .
Debbie sleep with that it was wrong to hide something so significant from Fiona , but she hid the truth from her sister for weeks because she enjoyed the particular discussion and seemed to also have fun tormenting Jimmy . Debbie Gallagher does n’t admit to Fiona that Steve ’s genuine name is Jimmy until season 2 , and seems to have no trouble take Steve ’s gifts . The concealment points to two issues with Debbie fromShameless . First , she ’s willing to divulge her sister ’s trust to keep getting material things . secondly , she ’s willing to burst her baby ’s trust to keep peace in the household .
Her Ignorance About HIV
Season 11, Episode 9, “Survivors”
AsShamelesscame to a close with season 11 , Debbie struggle to allow go of her childhood menage and began acting recklessly , leading to several problematic Debbie moments inShameless . Using Sandy as a babysitter for Franny , Debbie Gallagher went out to bars and clubs , sleeping with unusual charwoman while her girl find out her daughter . Debbie fromShamelesshooked up with a jolly human race on one social function , waking up in an alleyway the next day with little to no storage of the Nox before . Sharing her experience with Ian the next Clarence Day , Debbie dramatically claim she"probably has AIDS . "
Forcing Frank Off The Wagon
Season 1, Episode 8, “It’s Time to Kill the Turtle”
to make $ 3,000 in a medical survey , Frank briefly attempted to try out graveness out for a change . He and Debbie fromShamelessbecame nigher than ever , as he started pass time with her instead of rot his day away at the town bar , and the duo bind over Frank ’s newfound love for carbohydrate as a elemental refilling for alcohol . The Gallagher tyke grew well-worn of sober Frank very quickly and could n’t believe that he would n’t return to being the bad parent they ’d come to know . The determination came when he announced his plan to thrash holes in the roof of the family household , so it could have skylight .
Even if Frank was being foolhardy , Debbie and the other Gallagher tyke should n’t have messed with his sombreness
Debbie decided Frank was better off intoxicated and decided to force him to start again . Frank ’s drunkenness is one of the biggest reason he ’s a awful fatherand an even worse human being . His alcoholism is so extreme he gets dementia by the end ofShamelessand conk alone due to COVID . Even if Frank was being foolhardy , Debbie and the other Gallagher shaver should n’t have messed with his sobriety . What ’s worse is that earlier in the same episode Lip recount that Frank was unplayful on a wager once and how sad he was when he originate drinking again . Imagine how differentlyShamelesswould’ve proceed had Frank stick sedate .
From poor advice and blaming others to bad - mouthing hoi polloi , relive Frank Gallagher ’s bad fatherly quote on the hit drama Shameless .
Her Violent Tendencies
Season 3, Episode 2, “The American Dream”
Debbie fromShamelessdoesn’t typically apportion her siblings ' violent tendencies , butwhen she gets furious she can be every bit as destructive . When Frank affront and break a school labor in which she recreated Abraham Lincoln ’s house out of Popsicle sticks , she occupy a pillowcase with bar of soap and attack her Father of the Church . However , this is n’t the last time that Debbie Gallagher chooses to solve problems with violence . After a group of girls bullied her at the local syndicate inShamelessseason 3 , episode 5 , " The Sins of My Caretakers , " Debbie once again took action , bringing sandbags and attempting to swim the daughter in retaliation .
she continues to go completely off the rail to work out her problem by fighting a stranger in a parking lot as her babe daughter watches from the side
Debbie ’s in high spirits school day experience brings more dramatic event as she sucker punches a fille who insults her inShamelessseason 5 , episode 5 , " Rite of Passage . " After knock off out in one ofShameless’most controversial storylines , she retain to go completely off the track to lick her problems by fighting a unknown in a parking luck as her infant daughter keep an eye on from the side . During her detention conflict with Derek ’s family , Debbie even tackle Peppa to serve her with small fry support paperwork inShamelessseason 10 , episode 5 , " Sparky . “Something gingersnap in Debbie fromShamelessafter Frank fall apart her schooling project , and she becomes increasingly violent as the show progresses .
Paying A Child To Impersonate Franny
Season 10, Episode 6, “Adios Gringos”
When Derek ’s family began fighting for partial custody of Franny , Debbie had to get creative to prevent them from taking her girl away from her . Debbie made some confutative parenting decisionsthroughout her time onShameless , one of which wasbribing a child to impersonate Franny . Pretending to be a possible foster parent , Debbie approached the child and her older brother who demanded defrayment in candy and toys .
The incident speaks to an almost Frank - corresponding bar in doings that is n’t becoming for Debbie Gallagher
Young Bella , notorious as a troublemaker , was then dressed like Franny and sent to Peppa for visitation . After Bella traumatize Peppa ’s own fry and destroy the house , Peppa decide she did n’t want partial detainment of " Franny " after all . The incident speak to an almost Frank - similar streak in behavior that is n’t becoming for Debbie Gallagher . To use a child as a participant in an illegal custody scheme verbalise volumes about Debbie ’s case and the length to which she ’s willing to go to get what she wants .
Neglecting Her Baby
Season 6, Episode 11, “Sleep No More”
One of the most problematic Debbie moments inShamelessiswhen she nearly kills her new-sprung after disregard advice from her older babe . After Franny is born , Debbie struggles with the reality of juggle school and a newborn sister . decline advice from Fiona , Debbie falls benumbed while eat Franny and drops her to the ground . It was a good four - foot drib , move a lot of audience members to query if Franny would endure after something like that . However , Debbie ’s neglect did n’t arrest there . As Franny stimulate honest-to-god , Debbie began pawning her off on whoever was willing to take in her , often a partner she was date at the time .
While it ’s understandable that Debbie would need assistant with childcare while she worked and went back to school , she regularly rag her siblings if they were unwilling or ineffectual to drop their own responsibility to help her . arise to resent her role as a female parent , Debbie start using her time away from Franny to political party and do drugs , follow a similar pattern to Monica . The fact that Debbie fromShamelessalmost becomes the mother she never know is quite sad , and much like Debbie herself , Franny deserved better .
From being just a shaver in the Gallagher family of grownup , Debbie has develop to become more mature with every pass season of Shameless .
Her Inappropriate Relationship With Matt
Season 5, Episode 3 “The Two Lisas”
The relationship between Matt and Debbie fromShamelessis highly tough and includes rape on her part . Matt initially freeze off Debbie in time of year 4 because she was understandably too young , but agreed to become her friend . Matt made it cleared that their relationship would always rest strictly platonic , but Debbie was too compulsive to gain as much experience as her friends to listen . She was extremely envious of anyone he came into liaison with , even putting a snake in Seema ’s automobile when she observe out they were seeing each other .
It occasionally seemed like Matt was developing feelings for Debbie , but since it would be illegal , he never acted on them . Matt ’s resistance to being with her only made Debbie want him more though , so she resorted to an fabulously frightful tactic to take their kinship to the next layer . Debbie invited Matt to a party where she spiked his drinking .
Once he was too intoxicated to withstand , Debbie forced herself on him and loses her virginity in an act of rape . Since Matt fear the legal ramifications of being with someone several eld young than him , he never account the assault and just ended their friendly relationship . Debbie never really seemed to like about what she did either , remarking on the size of his genitals later on in season 9 .
Her Manipulation Of Derek
Season 5, Episode 10 “South Side Rules”
Debbie and Derek Delgado really had a great relationship untilDebbie mess up everything up by try on to play a trick on her raw boyfriend into getting her fraught . Debbie fromShamelesswas undivided - given about having a sister , to the point of fixation . establish on her action , it ’s clean she did n’t care who would get her pregnant or what would happen afterward , as long as she got a baby . After only a few days of geological dating , Debbie contrive on spending a night with Derek and ask Fiona to take her to a clinic to get nascence control . The nurse tell her that it ’d take a few days for the pill ’s outcome to recoil in .
Debbie ’s desire to become a mother at a young historic period led to her ravishment on Derek
However , when Derek inquire if he should wear protection bare hours later , Debbie assure him they would n’t need it . Debbie was fully aware of what could materialise if Derek did n’t wear protection but hid the truth from him . Debbie ’s desire to become a mother at a young age chair to her ravishment on Derek . She also hoped that starting a category with Derek without his permit would force him to stay with her eternally . Unfortunately , Derek see out her plan and moved across the country , so he would n’t have to serve raise the child that he understandably was n’t ready for .
Her Relationship With Claudia & Julia
Season 10, Episode 9, “Oh Captain, My Captain”
One of themost shameless things Debbie ever didwas remain her human relationship with female parent and daughter , Claudia and Julia Nicolo , at the same time . Debbie Gallagher showed just how brutal and count she could be during this time of year 10 spark , and while Julia is part to charge , Debbie was the real villain in the situation . Enticed by Claudia ’s pass to take care of Debbie in exchange for her company and some minor assistant duty , Debbie readily have and was before long task with drive Claudia ’s teenage daughter around .
Julia , determined to make her mother brainsick , kiss Debbie at a pizza place and then apologizes for her actions — but Debbie kiss her back . Soon after , the pair began sleep together behind Claudia ’s back . Debbie tried juggle both relationships before the truth of necessity amount out along with the realness that Julia lied about her old age and was not yet eighteen . Claudia account Debbie to the cops , resulting in her arrest and permanent position as a sex activity offender .
She Tried To Exploit A Cancer Patient
Season 6, Episode 2, “Abortion Rules”
Another direction that Debbie Gallagher fromShamelessmirrored her Fatherhood Frank waswhen she exploited a cancer patient for shelter and income . When Debbie revealed to Fiona that she was pregnant and be after on keep the child , she told Debbie that she would have to bring up Franny alone . Fiona already had too many responsibilities to handle with and did n’t want to sum raising or yield for a newborn baby to the list . To make some money and get some much - need parenting experience , Debbie became a live - in nanny to a household in which the mother was in the summons of passing away .
Frank advised her to trick the married man into desiring her , so she could have a permanent home and a source of income once his married woman passed away . Debbie agreed to conduct her beginner ’s scheme , a determination that found her toward becoming one of the most unblushing role in good order alongside Frank . When Debbie ’s attempts to be with the married man who employed her did n’t work out , she turned her attention toward his married woman . Frank determine that the adult female used to recall she was a lesbian and suggested that Debbie try hit on her to secure lodging .
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Her Relationship With Heidi
Season 11, Episode 11, “The Fickle Lady Is Calling It Quits”
Many looker hope that by the final season ofShameless , Debbie Gallagher would ’ve cooled down . regrettably , Debbie fromShamelessproves why the show is titled that waywhen she swipe up with a woman who threatened to wipe out her and her baby . Debbie ’s sudden faulting - up with Sandy Milkovich leave to more hapless selection for herself and Franny . While walk down the street , Debbie and Franny were corralled by recently released ex - con , Heidi . Pinned against the construction to hide from the cops , Heidi holds a accelerator pedal on them both and threatens to shoot Franny if they do n’t help obliterate her .
Despite Heidi threatening the life of her daughter , Debbie takes Heidi back home and sleeps with her . After only knowing one another for a mean solar day , Debbie agrees to persist away with Heidi and even bestow Franny along for the ride . Debbie ’s fictional character discharge onShamelessends with a cliffhanger , in which she can either work up a regular life for her daughter or keep an eye on in the disorderly footstep of her mother . Heidi was an unwelcome increase toShameless , as many were hoping that Debbie would see the wrongdoing of her ways and look for a more stable future for the sake of Franny .
Her Luxury Fashion Scam
No one was happy whenFiona leftShamelessin time of year 9 , but she did pass on an inheritance sum of $ 50,000 in Debbie ’s hands to take concern of the family . course , Debbie fromShamelesswanted to take care of Debbie first . While take Franny out for a base on balls in the park one day , she mark that several other mother merely left their expensive empty strollers seat around and decide to start a business sector stealing and re - betray the strollers . Debbie ’s scams step by step begin to go against her personality , becoming less about providing for her baby and more for selfish reasons .
Debbie purchases the expensive items so as to fall apart them for a curt sentence before returning them for hard cash
get a taste for finer thing , Debbie starts buying luxury vesture and accessories with her inheritance money from Fiona . Debbie purchases the expensive items so as to wear them for a brusque time before returning them for Johnny Cash . The plan presently unravels as Debbie begins wearing the items past the detail of being returnable , tilt off the store clerks to her suspicious buying drug abuse . All in all , the action at law serves to paint a contrast between Debbie and Fiona as maternal figures . Even with all of her flaw , Fiona would never go so far as to do what Debbie did .
Charging Liam Rent
Season 9, Episode 8, “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Alibi”
Debbie fromShamelesshas done a plenty of questionable thing , butmaking her 10 - year - old comrade pay rent was certainly one of the worst . When Fiona lost her investment and apartment complex and turn to inebriant , Debbie step in as the de facto leader of the Gallagher house . Debbie reinstated the squirrel fund and demanded even rent payments from each of the Gallagher siblings , including 10 - twelvemonth - old , Liam . While the Gallagher kid grow up scamming and scraping together money to facilitate with bills , Fiona never made their donation a requirement .
However , Debbie and Fiona are markedly different caretakers , as some of the problematic Debbie moments inShamelesshave proven . As Liam struggle to receive a job and meet the payment ( because he ’s 10 years old),Debbie continues to put pressure on him to earn his place in the house . Debbie locks Liam out of the house and refuses to allow him to sleep inside until he can pay his share . Fiona , suddenly in the same boat and ineffectual to pay Debbie as well , ease her younger brother and get them back inside . trouble with Debbie inShamelesstend to cut back up whenever she ’s put in charge .
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Her Selective Love For Frank
Season 6, Episode 12, “Familia Supra Gallegorious Omnia!”
While Debbie fromShamelessand Frank have an understandably turbulent family relationship , she ’s the Gallagher kid who picked up the most of her Church Father ’s calculative nature . irrespective , Debbie ’s hot and cold sexual love for her Father-God did n’t do either of them any favors . Debbie was once Frank ’s most firm and devoted child , putting up missing person signs and pray for his good return , but years of being let down by her father hardened her unseasoned heart . When Frank ruined Fiona ’s marriage ceremony to Sean and was afterwards thrown off a bridge by the Gallaghers and their supporter , Debbie decided she want nothing to do with her father anymore .
Debbie Gallagher ultimately proves that she ’s uncoerced to have people back into her life if they ’re needed
Though Debbie often sat on the fencing between hat Frank and desire to earn his love and tending , his betrayal of Fiona pushed Debbie to outdistance herself from Frank . Debbie start having her Franny go by her halfway name of Harriette , call her " Harry " to absent any trace of Frank from his granddaughter ’s name . This is ironic , see Debbie was wriggle with showing up to Fiona ’s wedding party in the first position . However , Debbie Gallagher ultimately proves that she ’s willing to let people back into her living if they ’re needed . This cold shoulder treatment did n’t last long as Debbie later used Frank for child care and let him back into their lives .
Manipulating Neil
Season 7, Episode 6, “The Defenestration of Frank”
Poor Neil did n’t merit the discourse that Debbie fromShamelessput him through . Debbie ’s failed relationships with Matty and Derek seemingly have her to give up on find true love , so in time of year 7,she content herself with the thought of get hitched with someone she did n’t in reality care aboutif it mean she ’d have a partner who could provide for her and Franny . She was n’t appeal to Neil at all when they first conform to at Fiona ’s diner , but once she con that he had an apartment and money , Debbie immediately convey engaged to him .
Neil suffered from brain impairment which have him to say the first matter that come in to his mind . His want of a filter and bizarre appearance was off - putt to Debbie Gallagher , but she did her good to convert Neil that she loved him , so she could expend his money and live in his home . She started spend more and more meter away from him and her daughter . She get going out every nighttime to fuddle and pay heed out with friends , and bump herself play with other guy cable , all while Neil was back at rest home babysitting . gratefully , Neil falls for someone else in season 8 and breaks up with Debbie .
Judging Sandy’s Parenting Choices
Season 11, Episode 7, “Two At A Biker Bar, One In The Lake”
Debbie ’s kinship with Sandy seemed to be going fairly well until someone from Sandy ’s yesteryear showed up out of the blue , leading to more elusive Debbie moments inShameless . In the last season of the series , Sandy ’s ex , Royal , showed up at the Gallagher house needing Sandy to look after their boy , Prince , while he went to body of work . Though Sandy explained to Debbie that she had Prince when she was only 15 and never mean to be a female parent , Debbie fromShamelessignored her wishes and say Prince that she ’d work on arrest arenaceous custody anyway . Debbie ’s decision to abut into Sandy ’s past spark a combat between the couple .
Debbie impeach Sandy of desert her nestling despite both Royal and Prince explaining that they were comfortable with the arrangement . Unwilling to be reprimand by Debbie over her animation choices , Sandy pointed out that Debbie was projecting her own insecurities from Monica forget her , onto Sandy . The couple broke up and Sandy made her exit from the show . Debbie Gallagher , out of everyone , had no right to approximate anyone ’s parenting arrangements . Everything for Sandy when it came to her relationship with her ex and son was working out fine for all party call for . If Debbie had just quell in her lane thing would n’t have turn out the way they did .
Ignoring Her Daughter’s Wishes
Season 11, Episode 2, “Go Home, Gentrifier!”
Debbie fromShamelesswas obsess with ingest a sister but did n’t necessarily suppose about what would happen when that infant grow into a child and develop their own personality . When Franny became sometime enough to form her own feeling and develop her personality , Debbie refused to let go of her preconceived mind of the little young lady she ’d always dreamed of . While out with Frank , Franny mentioned that she find more like a boy than a girl , something she also tried to express to her mother . In response to this , Debbie forced Franny to don apparel and work with sister dolls instead of lightsabers , whole ignoring her girl ’s own desire .
Things came to a head when Debbie Gallagher planned Franny ’s natal day part in season 10 , and it turned out a Milkovich was a more accepting bearing than she was . While plan Franny ’s natal day company , Debbie pushed for a princess - themed party and near had a equipment failure when the wrong bounce firm was sent , leaving them with a sea robber bounce house instead of the princess castle . Franny , on the other handwriting , was thrill with the plagiarist bounce house as well as the guns gifted to her by her favorite uncle , Mickey . It was a satisfying moment as it seemed like karma had at least receive the better of Debbie in this illustration .
Using Franny To Make Money
Season 7, Episode 5, “Own Your Sh*t”
There are a short ton of problems with Debbie inShameless , but how she exploit her daughter is commonly top of the list . After dropping out of high school in time of year 7 to focus on taking maintenance of Franny and earning money , Debbie part hold Franny out to shopping heart to pray for money . Refusing to live with assist from Fiona , Debbie was determined to earn her own money and used some of Frank ’s most despicable schemes to do so . terminated with a grime - covered Franny and a composition board sign asking for supporter , Debbie pleaded with passersby claiming to be roofless .
While it seemed like Debbie Gallagher want to be a female parent , in actuality , Debbie require a modest knockoff that she could emboss around and use for her benefit .
Debbie ’s architectural plan backfire and nearly be her custody of Franny when Derek ’s sister discovered a video of Debbie fromShamelessfighting another woman while Franny cried . Though she seek to declare her independence from her mob early on on , Debbie often found herself requiring their help to get out of her messes . It was this fail putsch that fetch Debbie to Neil , raise that getting caught fighting on photographic camera while confine her girl did n’t learn her any lessons about selfishness . While it seemed like Debbie Gallagher wanted to be a mother , in actuality , Debbie desire a pocket-size clone that she could boss around and habituate for her welfare .
Her Betrayal Of Fiona
Fiona had her fault , but there ’s no question that she was the most stable maternal figure that Debbie fromShamelesshad and did everything in her power to keep her sib feed and housed . This is why it was so heartbreaking that Debbie was ultimately so ungrateful . Fiona had become colder and less forgiving of her siblings toward the end of her metre on the show , but that does n’t excuse how unappreciative Debbie was toward her . Fiona spent age prioritizing her tariff as a defender over her own felicity and financial stability , but Debbie resented Fiona ’s pattern .
Debbie and Fiona ’s kinship became strained when Fiona enounce she did n’t want Debbie to go through with her maternity . Even though Fiona always did more for Debbie asher guardian than their parents ever did , Debbie was quicker to knock her babe over Frank and Monica . She point out every human relationship boner and act of selfishness Fiona made while remaining completely ignorant of her own mistakes . Despite becoming a female parent herself , Debbie never render Fiona the credit that she necessitate as Franny ’s parent . Debbie seize that all one had to do to be a mother was to have a baby , whole brush off everything her sis had done for her .
All Shameless Main Characters Had Similar Issues
There are a great many things that Debbie did faulty inShameless . However , it ’s always worth remembering that her character does n’t subsist in a vacuity . She is a Gallagher , after all . While there are many reason to dislike Debbie , all the Gallagher family have moments where they play less than morally . What ’s more , all of Debbie ’s qualities are portion out with her sibling and parents - and in many case , other member of the Gallagher household have done worse .
Even in the realms of romantic handling , her older comrade Lip destructively ruined relationships just as stunningly and frequently as Debbie .
For instance , Debbie may be a spoilt mum , but she ’s gotnothing on her own father , Frank , when it comes to toxic parenting . It ’s not just her pa who rival Debbie when it comes to failing as a guardian , either . Fiona , much like Debbie , often allow her personal life interfere with her responsibilities to her blood brother when the mantle of Gallagher kinsperson matriarch fell on her shoulder . Debbie may not provide anything close to adequate care for Franny or be a good role model for her younger siblings , but she ’s simply copying the demeanour of those she looked up to as a baby .
Debbie is also one of the most manipulative characters inShameless , but other Gallaghers are just as uncoerced to exploit those around them . She may be implausibly insidious when it comes to scheming and ripping - off strangers , but being like this seems to be a family trait . Ian once exclaim himself " queer Jesus " and started his own cultus , which is far more Machiavellian than anything Debbie did . Even in the realms of amatory manipulation , her onetime brother Lip destructively ruined relationships just as spectacularly and frequently as Debbie .
The fact that all the characters inShamelessare so morally blemished is what makes it such an endearing show . Debbie has done many terrible things , but this perfectly fits in with the whole step of the fictional world she ’s in . If Debbie had n’t move so dubiously so often , she would be an exception rather than the rule .
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Shameless is a Black Comedy , Family Drama created by Paul Abbott and asterisk William H. Macy , Emmy Rossum , and Justin Chatwin . The premise follows the Gallagher family and their closest friends as they carry on with a not - so - helpful sire , Frank Gallagher . His kid each observe their own route , growing into their own blemished people without much steering or help from the family patriarch .
