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Kick The Son Of A Bitch has been disambiguated from the character folder of Outlaws (John Dillinger). The Danza belongs to a Trivia tab.


* KickTheSonOfABitch: Beats the snot out of an obnoxious customer harassing Billie where she works.



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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Beats the snot out of an obnoxious customer harassing Billie where she works.




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* HeroAntagonist
* PetTheDog: He [[PunchCatch personally]] puts a stop to Billie Frechette's interrogation, giving the FBI agent assaulting her [[DeathGlare a baleful look]]. He also personally travels to the prison where she's being held to tell her Dillinger's last words.
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!!John Dillinger

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-> Played By: Creator/BillyCrudup


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!! Charles Winstead
-> Played By: Creator/StephenLang

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->Played By: JohnnyDepp

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Hardly surprising, seeing as he's played by Johnny Depp

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Hardly surprising, seeing as he's played by Johnny Depp
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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Hardly surprising, seeing as he's played by Johnny Depp.
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Sympathetic Criminal was merged into Justified Criminal. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed.


* SympatheticCriminal
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->Played By: ChristianBale

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* PoliceBrutality: Is implied to know about the methods his newly created FBI is using

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* BadassLongcoat: And how.

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* BadassLongcoat: And how. They're good for concealing Thompson submachine guns.



* TrojanPrisoner: Pulls this off at the very beginning of the movie.

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* TrojanPrisoner: Pulls this off at the very beginning of the movie.We open with this.




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* PoliceBrutality: While he himself does not participate, he is well aware of how several members of his squad got their information -but he draws the line at slapping around a woman.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Arguably passed this when he allowed the torture of Tommy Caroll


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* PoliceBrutality: While he himself does not participate, he is well aware of how several members of his squad got their information -but - but he draws the line at slapping around a woman.
**The case in question, Billie Frechette, might be because Purvis knows that she is an innocent person who probably knows little of what Dillinger was up to. In real life, his secretary also was appalled at the way Billie Frechette's interrogation went.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Arguably passed this when he allowed the torture of Tommy Caroll

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* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:Dillinger's eventual death]]

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* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:Dillinger's eventual death]]death at the end.]]



* We'llSeeAboutThat: Dillinger says this to Purvis after being taunted that he'll never leave his jail cell until being removed for his execution in the electric chair. Though Purvis and Dillinger never actually spoke to each other, Dillinger did have multiple in-prison encounters with his original pursuer - Indiana State Police detective Matt Leach, who was somewhat more competent than the FBI in pursuing Dillinger.

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* We'llSeeAboutThat: WellSeeAboutThat: Dillinger says this to Purvis after being taunted that he'll never leave his jail cell until being removed for his execution in the electric chair. Though Purvis and Dillinger never actually spoke to each other, Dillinger did have multiple in-prison encounters with his original pursuer - Indiana State Police detective Matt Leach, who was somewhat more competent than the FBI in pursuing Dillinger.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Does this quite memorably near the end of the movie; he even asks for the score on a baseball game that is going on!


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* PoliceBrutality: While he himself does not participate, he is well aware of how several members of his squad got their information -but he draws the line at slapping around a woman.


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!! J. Edgar Hoover
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I thought you understood what I'm building. A modern force of professional young men of the best sort. "'']]
* HeroAntagonist
* PoliceBrutality: Is implied to know about the methods his newly created FBI is using
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* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably passed this when he allowed the torture of Tommy Caroll

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\n* IdiotBall: Tends to take it and run with it when it concerns Dillinger
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!! Melvin Purvis
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm afraid our type cannot get the job done."'']]

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*HeWhoFightsMonsters: His entire arc. You can clearly see in Bale's performance each time he compromises his values for the sake of getting the job done, and how much it weighs on him. [[spoiler: Even Dillinger comments on this]]

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ManlyTears: When he watches the woman he loves being arrested and put into handcuffs because of her association with him.
* SympatheticCriminal
* TheDanza
* TrojanPrisoner: Pulls this off at the very beginning of the movie.
* VillainProtagonist: Subverted in that even the public considered him more of an AntiHero than a villain.
* We'llSeeAboutThat: Dillinger says this to Purvis after being taunted that he'll never leave his jail cell until being removed for his execution in the electric chair. Though Purvis and Dillinger never actually spoke to each other, Dillinger did have multiple in-prison encounters with his original pursuer - Indiana State Police detective Matt Leach, who was somewhat more competent than the FBI in pursuing Dillinger.
* YouMustBeCold: Dillinger does this twice: once to a hostage bank teller and once to Billie. Both times, he hands these girls coats. All of it is Truth in Television as this was considered one of Dillinger's more renowned trademarks.

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!!John Dillinger

[[caption-width-right:300:''" I was raised on a farm in Moooresville, Indiana. My mama died when I was three, my daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn't know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey, and you... what else you need to know?"'']]
->Played By: JohnnyDepp

*AdaptationalAttractiveness: Hardly surprising, seeing as he's played by Johnny Depp

*AffablyEvil: Dillinger is handsome, charming, and won't hesitate to smash your face against a hard surface if you stand between him and something he wants, like Billie Frechette.

*AllGirlsWantBadBoys

*BadassLongcoat: And how.

*ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:Dillinger's eventual death]]

*TheDanza

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