Shameless
substance warning : This article contains credit of rape and intimate assault .
Many viewers assumed that once Fiona left the show , Debbie would be the one to take her place . However , as Debbie evolves , it becomes increasingly clear that she ’s nothing like Fiona . Every Gallagher child has in some elbow room learned from Frank , whether they wish it or not . Liam is often portrayed as Frank ’s protege , but some of the previous kids have followed in his stride softly , too .
Surprisingly , it ’s Debbie who is most like Frank in the last few seasons ofShameless . She ’s one of the most skilled hustlers - or defrauder - and shows no remorse for any of her sketchy choices . Of all the characters in the show , she seems the least likely to follow in Frank ’s footstep , give how fresh she is as a child . However , a faithful watch will reveal how much Debbie admire Frank as a young lady friend , even after he lets her down or does something slimy .
Swindles People Instead Of Getting A Job
Debbie elaborate thing for herself on many social function , especially after generate birth to Franny . Once she ’s a mother , she feel the need to prove herself , to feel worthy and advanced , and to step into Fiona ’s lieu as the matriarch of the family . However , the method she resorts to are not only unnecessary but harmful and extravagant .
Fiona confide Debbie with the family ’s pecuniary resource , but atthe start of season 10 , Debbie look like she ’s been secretly spending the money on fancy clothes for herself . She steals Lip ’s security number , leaving her syndicate cashless after allowing them $ 100 to practice every week . When her pursuit for ego - deserving is n’t enough , Debbie find herself something of a simoleons mommy in Claudia , then proceeds to secretly date her daughter , too . This is n’t the first sentence she ’s tricked the great unwashed into providing for her ; she does the same with a cancer patient to begin with in the show , at Frank ’s suggestion . He ’s gallant of her scam on both occasions .
Steals Strollers
Debbie is a tidy sum of things , but stupid is n’t one of them . She never fails to come up with very complicated - often immoral - ways of making money , like the Craigslist stroller dodging .
When Franny is a baby , Debbie need to find work and employ someone to look after her daughter , since her family is either unreliable or officious . During this time , her hesitation to get a line of work makes a little sense , but stealing other people ’s expensive strollers seems extreme . She then resells them at much higher prices so she can pay someone to see after Franny . The schema only amount to an goal when she incidentally slip a stroller with a baby in it . Even so , she ’s not ashamed , only scared of being caught .
Seduces A Cancer Patient (& Her Husband)
Like the other Gallagher sib , Debbie is a student of Frank . He almost prostitutes her to a financially well - off family . Debbie is pregnant and need to realise some money beforeshe gives birth , but once again , she go away too far .
Instead of doing the job she ’s hired to do - housekeeping and nannying for a cleaning woman who ’s dying of cancer - she decides to follow Frank ’s advice and attempt to writhe her way into this category ’s personal life . Still only fifteen , she examine to score the cancer affected role ’s husband , but when this does n’t make for , she seduce the married woman . The only thing that makes this less shameless than some of Debbie ’s other number is that this interaction is common and consensual .
Steals Carl’s Girlfriend
Debbie has a riding habit of taking things that do n’t belong to her , and these things are n’t always physical objects . Even Carl is wary of her tendency to stake her claim on anything and anyone that is n’t already hers - like his girlfriend , Kelly .
When Carl starts working at Captain Bob ’s , Kelly bulge spending more time with Debbie , and the two become friends . Debbie misreads the spot and kisses Kelly in her sleep , knowing that she and Carl are together . Kelly realizes Carl is correct to be suspicious of Debbie and breaks up with Carl . Debbie and Carl both palpate rejected and heartbroken , but Debbie shows no remorse - in fact , she helps Carl vandalize Kelly ’s truck .
Helps Abduct Aunt Ginger
One of the earliest instances of Debbie steal - other than subaltern stealing and grocery bargains - is when she company Fiona , Frank , and Veronica to the aged care place . Frank has been cash in Aunt Ginger ’s checks illicitly , and the Gallaghers must prove to investigators that Aunt Ginger is really around .
In fact , Ginger is buried in the Gallaghers ' curtilage after an unceremonial death . Thus , it ’s up to Frank to conjure up someone who can puzzle as Aunt Ginger . The expert solvent they come up with is to adopt an elderly person who wo n’t commend where or who they really are . Debbie handpicks the simulated Aunt Ginger at the aged care home , then refuses to let her go back after she ’s used her .
Lies About Getting Molested
In season 3 , Uncle Patrick stakes his title on the Gallagher theater . After being force out of their home , Debbie comes up with a last - ditch attempt to entail Patrick in front of the bull , leading to his arrest . The Gallaghers are able-bodied to keep their home , but at what price ?
At this unseasoned historic period , Debbie has already proven herself to be a skilled prevaricator and operator , and lying about ravishment , harassment , or revilement is a serious offense . Even worse is that Fiona condone it , so Debbie mean it was the right thing to do . Of course , the kin is in a dodgy situation , and Debbie ’s musical theme works , but it ’s still one of the most shameless thing she ’s ever done .
Kidnaps A Toddler (Twice)
Early in the series , Debbie call back it ’s a fun theme to steal someone else ’s baby and venture it ’s her own . She has no design of returning the tot and does n’t even agnize that what she ’s done is wrong and illegal .
It ’s also not the only time Debbie tries to abduct a child inShameless . When Debbie fights Pepa for custody of Franny , she get up with a ludicrously complicate architectural plan to shift Franny out with another girl who resembles her . She recruit an imposter trade during a surrogate parents ' event at the park , then convey the girl to Pepa , who immediately backs out of the detention deal .
Takes Advantage Of Neil
nobble a bambino is unacceptable , but at least Debbie returns the children to their respective family when she ’s through with them . With Neil , Debbie hopes to use him for life , thinking that he wo n’t know any easily .
When Debbie realise Neil has fallen in love with her , she feigns her feeling and arranges their engagement . She plans to marry him as soon as possible so that she can expend him , his money , and his dwelling house for herself and Franny . Despite hearing objections from both her own phratry and Neil ’s , Debbie carry on to neglect Neil and use him as a baby sitting service for Franny .
Lies To Derek About Contraception
One of the most abominable thing Debbie does in the whole show is manipulating Derek into impregnate her . She lies about using contraception and hopes to get fraught so that he pays more attention to her .
She ’s mark that he is n’t as fond with her as she ’d like and that he probably does n’t only reciprocate her feelings . Their intimate family relationship is consensual , but Derek isn’tromantically concerned in her , so Debbie sample to pressure him into a long - lasting relationship by giving birth to his child . Derek ’s kin is understandably incensed by Debbie ’s attempts to brawl money from them for Franny and for her obsessive stalking of their son .
R*pes Matty
When Debbie is 13 , she develops a compaction on Matty , who ’s 20 . He draws some clear and firm boundary for both of their sakes , but mostly for Debbie ’s . She persistently ignores him and seek to derive onto him several fourth dimension . or else of brush her off , Matt stay favorable and tries to nurture Debbie as a friend .
However , when she take things too far , he block seeing her . She haunt him and his new lady friend , for whom she leaves a snake in her car , essay to impel Matty into a human relationship . finally , they become friends again , but Debbie takes vantage of Matt when he ’s sleep - after intentionally uplift him to the full point of unconsciousness - and r*pes him . He has no anamnesis of this and is outraged , violated , and hurt when he finds out . Debbie does n’t think she ’s done anything wrong , but Matty cuts off all communication with her .
