We study Verdier quotients of diverse homotopy categories of a full additive subcategory E of an abelian category. In particular, we consider the categories K x,y (E) for x ∈ {∞, +, −, b}, and y ∈ {∅, b, +, −, ∞} the homotopy categories of left, right, unbounded complexes with homology being 0, bounded, left or right bounded, or unbounded. Inclusion of these categories give a partially ordered set, and we study localisation sequences or recollement diagrams between the Verdier quotients, and prove that many pairs of quotient categories identify.