History Characters / MafiaIII

* [[spoiler:SlashedThroat: How he ends up when Clay finally catches up to him.]]

* GenreSavvy: Instead of rolling up on Lincoln's base with a small army, which Lincoln has already proven himself more than capable of fighting his way through, Slim just quietly drives up by himself, waits in front of the door, and blasts Lincoln with a point-blank load of rocksalt when he comes out.

* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler: Slim only gets 12 years for multiple murders of both black victims and uncooperative White witnesses[[note]]given that the Feds apparently could only prove 1 murder, this isn't too unbelievable[[/note]], in part due to cooperating with the Feds and giving up evidence against influential members of the Southern Union who are part of Louisiana's political machine. 10 years after leaving prison, he's shot in the driveway of his home, and the authorities don't seem to bother to investigate his death particularly closely. It's left ambiguous whether he was killed as punishment by one of the people he ratted out, or in revenge for his crimes by someone seeking justice.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Turns on his own former associates to try to get rid of evidence implicating them, murdering several. He also becomes TheStoolPigeon against his fellow cops and the Louisiana Politcal Machine that's linked to the Southern Union.

* DirtyCop: Like the New Bordeaux Police Department, their entire membership is composed of Whites. Many of them are also either members of the Southern Union, or are associates with them. This is to so much of an extent that they will try to kill Lincoln even when he isn't doing anything, all because Lincoln is a Black man committing the crime of existing in Sinclair Parish.

A Haitian houngan who smuggled people out of his homeland to escape Papa Duvalier. He is not fond of Lincoln Clay.

* InUniverseNickname: Bobby's is "Ducks".

* CoolBoat: He owns a large steamboat, ''The Delphine'', which appears to be a tourist attraction in New Bordeaux. [[spoiler:Lincoln destroys it by bombing an abandoned coal dumper while it is out in the bayou, drawing Lou out.]]

* ElmerFuddSyndrome: Played realistically; Lou has a very strong non-rhotic Cajun accent in his radio commercials, making him say things like "F'ench Wawd" and "fwee". It's also something of an affection that he plays up for his public image as the face of New Bordeaux tourism; in private, it's shown to be more subtle.

* FedToPigs: Well, fed to [[CementShoes FISH]], but it is what Vito implies he'll do to Grecco after torturing the information he needed out of him - after knocking Grecco out, he says "even fish need to eat", and starts up a ConveyorBeltOfDoom, [[NothingIsScarier but Lincoln simply walks out before we see what happens afterwards]].

* ThickerThanWater: Averted. Vito even mentions Michael is a nephew by marriage not blood, implying Sal doesn't see him as family.

* CoolBoat: He owns a large steamboat, The Delphine, which appears to be a tourist attraction in New Bordeaux. [[spoiler:Lincoln destroys it by bombing an abandoned coal dumper while it is out in the bayou, drawing Lou out.]]

!!Sal Marcano

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: If he chooses to rule New Bordeaux, he becomes this while doing all the things Sal was doing.]] Zig-zagged during the main game as his KickTheSonOfABitch treatment of the Marcano Family, Dixie Mob and Southern Union gets him praise in the black community while alarming the white residents.

* GodzillaThreshold: Lincoln killing Lou and the state officials in Marcano's pocket forces Sal to turn to Santagelo for money and muscles, basically bringing heroin in to New Bordeaux en masse.

* RealMenCook: He operates an Italian restaurant in River Row, is seen cooking up his mother's bucatini recipe in one mission, and even offers to cook pasta for Lincoln if he is given new territory.

* FatalFlaw: Recklessness. Burke's health problems and self-loathing lead him to favor nigh-suicidally direct methods of problem-solving; his strategy for engaging Baldieri is to bunker up at his scrapyard and tell Baldieri and all his men to BringIt, to Lincoln's exasperation. [[spoiler:If he takes control of the city, his freewheeling lifestyle collapses the rule of law before he gets himself killed trying to take on a squad of Cuban assassins single-handedly]].

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Among all of Lincoln Clay's underbosses, Cassandra is the least amicable towards him, further compounded by her myopic sense of pride and a disdain for Sammy's efforts to lift up New Bordeaux's black community. If not for a mutual interest in helping Delray Hollow and putting down Marcano, he would have likely taken her out right there and then.

--> '''Merle:''' "Well, whatcha gonna do, nigger?"\\
'''Lincoln:''' "This." (''Cue one dead redneck'')

--> '''Andy:''' Either you kill me or that pissant Grecco does."\\
'''Lincoln:''' "Well since Grecco ain't here..."

** Some players have noticed parallels between him and [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Franklin Clinton]]. Like Franklin, Lincoln is an ambitious young African American and a hardened criminal who is eager to rise to the highest ranks of crime, while also forming a criminal partnership/consortium with a [[StreetSmart street-smart]] career criminal whose experiences [[OlderAndWiser have made him wiser]] (Vito Scaletta and Michael DeSanta, respectively) and with an [[AxCrazy emotionally unstable]] [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] [[AxCrazy lunatic]] [[HairTriggerTemper with a dangerous temper]] (Thomas Burke and Trevor Philips, respectively).