History Characters / FargoSeriesCannonLimited

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Tired of Loy's derision, he makes a deal with Josto Fadda to betray the Cannon Limited in exchange for taking over the slaughterhouses and getting a cut of the profits.]]

->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisRock

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GlynnTurman

->'''Played by:''' Corey Hendrix

->'''Played by:''' James Vincent Meredith

->'''Played by:''' Jeremie Harris

->'''Portrayed by''': J. Nicole Brooks

->'''Portrayed by''': Matthew Elam

->'''Portrayed by''': Rodney L. Jones III

* TheStoic: He's not a terribly emotional man, and very rarely do you see anything more than his poker face. That said, once one of his {{Berserk Button}s gets pushed, [[NotSoStoid he shows to have an explosive temper even hotter than a Fadda]].

* BadassBaritone: His deep voice fits his physique.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:After his son Satchel is claimed dead, Loy becomes visibly more somber and disheartened.]]

* BaldOfAwesome: A bald, but full head.

* NotSoDifferent: From Donatello Fadda, his criminal rival. Like him, he's from a vilified minority and is trying to integrate his illegal operations into mainstream society (Cannon through the bank, Fadda through politics). They're also both fairly affable men who still are ready to do terrible things to climb to the top of the Kansas City underworld.

* LoneSurvivor: [[spoiler:The only significant member of The Cannon Limited to survive the season.]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Glynn Turman

** In episode 7, [[spoiler: mentioning Doctor Senator after his death becomes a sore spot for Loy, as he beats Leon with a belt for using Doctor's death as an argument for why they should kill Gaetano. He also warns Josto not to mention Doctor during a sitdown.]]

* BadassBoast: He tells Ebal that he was assigned to interview Hermann Goering in the run-up to the Nuremburg Trials, and managed to gather enough material for a 400-page report making the case for Goering's guilt.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The most tragic thing about Loy's character is in fact how decent he was, for the standards of a crimelord . He could not bring himself to hurt Zero after the presumed death of Satchel at the hands of Calamita, he did return Etherilda's parents their house at the end, all his choices were pragmatic and carefully thought through, and he showed a quite brilliant mind for bussiness. He in fact tried to be accountable for Zelmare and Swanee, ultimately failed, and turned them in only to take the weight of the police, lead by a racist marshall, off his back to guarantee the safety of his family. This decision cost him his life at the end.

* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:In "Lay Away", Josto convinces him that Calamita has murdered Satchel, and begs him to spare Zero from any retaliation and kill Gaetano instead. Loy decides against killing Zero, but also elects to free Gaetano - after telling him that Josto was prepared to sell him out, assuming this will ensure the Faddas go to war with each other. Unfortunately, this plan backfires because of Loy's misjudgment of Gaetano's character.]]

* TallPoppySyndrome: In "Happy", Loy arranges a meeting with Happy Halloway in hopes of getting more muscle for his war with the Faddas. Happy tells him that as far as the syndicates down south are concerned, Loy's got his "head too high" - he's risen too far and too fast for their liking, and they see his war with the Faddas as a natural reaction to his "foolish" attempt to compete with white folks.

** In the finale, he ends up with the opposite problem - [[spoiler:he tries to use Don Fadda's ring to sue for peace with the Faddas, appealing to the ring's sentimental value. Unfortunately for him, the Faddas are now ruled by Violante, who only values the ring on a pragmatic level - it legitimizes his rule - so the ring does not distract him from the fact that Loy basically has no other leverage, enabling him to demand most of the Cannon Limited's territory. Loy gets peace, but at the cost of a vastly reduced empire.]]

* BadassBoast: He tells Ebal that he was assigned to interview Hermann Goring in the run-up to the Nuremburg Trials, and managed to gather enough material for a 400-page report making the case for Goring's guilt.

* CoolOldGuy: Witty, wise and willful.

* NiceToTheWaiter: He's very courteous with Nadine, the waitress of the coffee shop where he take his lunch.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflict this on Gaetano by punching him repeatedly while he's tied to a chair.

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: She cares less about the result of the gang war as a whole than the death of the Faddas brother]].

* TheGlassesGottaGo : He has given up on his glasses and cap by the time he works at the Smutney's house.

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:He manages to find his way home from Liberal and is reunited with his family just in time for the MobWar to end... and then a few days later, his father gets stabbed to death by Zelmare.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Loy's decision to first sell out Zelmare and Swanee and then have Odis kill both to tie up loose ends turns out to be the decision that costs him his life when Zelmare escapes and eventually kills Loy once the war is over and he no longer has Opal watching his back.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As a gangster, he preys on the local population for his own interests, but doesn't go out of his way to hurt innocents, unlike Gaetano, and has some moral limit to what he's ready to do to win, unlike Josto.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The most tragic thing about Loy's character is in fact how decent he was, for the standars of a crimelord . He could not bring himself to hurt Zero after the presumed death of Satchel at the hands of Calamita, he did return Etherilda's parents their house at the end, all his choices were pragmatic and carefully tought, and he showed a quite brilliant mind for bussiness. He in fact tried to be accountable for Zelmare and Swanee, ultimately failed and turned them in only to take the weight of the police, leaded by a racist marshall, off his back and guarantee the safety of his family. This decision costed him his life at the end.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The most tragic thing about Loy's character is in fact how decent he was, for the standars of a crimelord . He could not bring himself to hurt Zero after the presumed death of Satchel at the hands of Calamita, he did return Etherilda's parents their house at the end, all his choices were pragmatic and carefully tought, and he showed a quite brilliant mind for bussiness. He in fact tried to be accountable for Zelmare and Swanee, ultimately failed and turned them in only to take the weight of the police, leaded by a racist marshall, off his back. This decision costed him his life at the end.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The most tragic thing about Loy's character is in fact how decent he was, for the standars of a crimelord . He could not bring himself to hurt Zero after the presumed death of Satchel at the hands of Calamita, he did return Etherilda's parents their house at the end, all his choices were pragmatic and carefully tought, and he showed a quite brilliant mind for bussiness. He in fact tried to be accountable of Zelmare and Swanee, ultimately failed and turned them in only to take the weight of the police, leaded by a racist marshall, off his back. This decision costed him his life at the end.