History Characters / TheDarkKnightSagaTheMobAndOtherCriminals

* [[spoiler:AntiVillain: He may have done a horrible mistake that landed himself in prison, but that does not necessarily make him a bad man.]]

* {{Expy}}: Of Jefferson Skeevers.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* SympatheticMurderer: He was a desperate man looking to rob a rich couple to get a couple bucks - his hand shakes as he holds the gun, he looks pathetically terrified as he threatens them, and he clearly panicked when he pulled the trigger. He flees the scene immediately without bothering to check the bodies or kill the remaining witness. The movie makes clear that his crime wasn't due to real malice but a symptom of the city's downward spiral. Years later, he feels sorry for what happened to the Waynes - not that it matters to Bruce.
** The movie doesn't allow us to be sure whether he really feels sorry, though. According to Carmine Falcone, Chill bragged about Thomas Wayne "begging like a dog" for his life before being killed, though Falcone might have said anything then to get under Bruce's skin. That, or he knew who his cellmate was and was simply trying to make himself out to be tougher than he really was in front of Falcone, but Falcone blew him off rudely and later turned that hot air on Bruce after having Chill whacked, only in a much more deliberately malicious manner.

* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil
* BeardOfEvil
* TheCameo

** GoodScarsEvilScars
* KnifeNut
* PsychoForHire
** SerialKiller: An ImpliedTrope, since there's so many scars on his body and if you know about his comic book origin...

* AffablyEvil: Has some shades of it. He seems genuinely apologetic for what happened to Harvey and Rachel.

** [[PragmaticVillainy He mainly cares about making profit, and there's absolutely no profit in the Joker's actions.]] Plus, when he refuses to rat the Joker to Batman, it's implied that it's more out of fear of what the Joker would do.

* BeardOfEvil

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* TheMafiya
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: [[spoiler:But the Joker burns it all.]]

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim]]
* BadGuysPlayPool
* BeardOfEvil

* ScaryBlackMan: Pity the Joker's ''way'' scarier.
* SharpDressedMan

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* CorruptCorporateExecutive

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffScreen]]

* MorallyBankruptBanker

* SmugSnake: He looks so confident when he says the 'money is safe'.....

* TheCameo

* NoNameGiven

* BaldOfAwesome
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Well, he does take charge in his scene.
* [[spoiler:HeroicBystander]]

* AxCrazy

* {{Mook|s}}

* AxCrazy
* BeardOfEvil

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* PsychopathicManChild
* {{Mook|s}}

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Unleashes an amazing one on the young Bruce Wayne.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Given he was panicking and had his finger on the trigger the whole time, it's possible that the death of the Waynes came from this.

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim:How Bruce see Chill's death.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceDoorSlam:Immediately following his parole hearing, a Falcone assassin disguised as a reporter pops him off after telling him, "Falcone says hi!"]]
* [[spoiler:HeKnowsTooMuch:He shared a prison cell with Carmine Falcone, to which he would testify as part of a deal for parole. Falcone has him whacked in after public court.]]

* [[spoiler:SpannerInTheWorks:The League of Shadows caused Gotham's depression in order to get the city to collapse, creating the circumstances that led to Chill's stickup. But then Chill's murder of the Waynes caused the city to wake up for a moment, realize the hellhole it had let itself become, and was inspired enough by their deaths to pull itself out and limp along until Ra's next scheme. Plus, you know, the whole "creating Batman" thing.]]

** The movie doesn't allow us to be sure whether he really feels sorry, though. According to Carmine Falcone, Chill bragged about Thomas Wayne "begging like a dog" for his life before being killed, though Falcone might have said anything then to get under Bruce's skin.

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim]]: [[spoiler:How Bruce see Chill's death.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceDoorSlam]]: [[spoiler:Immediately following his parole hearing, a Falcone assassin disguised as a reporter pops him off after telling him, "Falcone says hi!"]]
* [[spoiler:HeKnowsTooMuch]]: [[spoiler:He shared a prison cell with Carmine Falcone, to which he would testify as part of a deal for parole. Falcone has him whacked in after public court.]]

* [[spoiler:SpannerInTheWorks]]: [[spoiler:The League of Shadows caused Gotham's depression in order to get the city to collapse, creating the circumstances that led to Chill's stickup. But then Chill's murder of the Waynes caused the city to wake up for a moment, realize the hellhole it had let itself become, and was inspired enough by their deaths to pull itself out and limp along until Ra's next scheme. Plus, you know, the whole "creating Batman" thing.]]

** The movie doesn't allow us to be sure whether he really feels sorry, though. According to Carmine Falcone, Chill bragged about Thomas Wayne "begging like a dog" for his life before being killed, though Falcone would have said anything at that point to get under Bruce's skin.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: This is the guy that start Bruce towards becoming Batman.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He's done in by the same [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker psychopath]] he had no qualms about hiring earlier.

The new head of the Italian Mafia in Gotham, and following the turf wars with his fellow mobsters, entered into an alliance with them against Batman. He's complicit in the Chechen's hiring of the Joker.

* DeadpanSnarker: "Friends? Have You met [[TheJoker this guy]]?"

* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: Presumably so after Harvey Dent shoots his car's driver, causing it to lose control and crash. And as Harvey was the only one buckled up in the back, poor Sal is dead.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he gets bothered by the extent to which Joker is willing to go to get to Batman and Dent.
** [[PragmaticVillainy He mainly cares about making profit, and there's absolutely no profit in the Joker's actions.]]

* SmugSnake: Also like Falcone before him.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out Batman on letting people die to the Joker as opposed to unmasking himself.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "The Chechen" is the only name we're given for him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He's the one most eager to hire the Joker so he can kill off Batman. Lending his mob to the Joker, however, turned out to be a bad idea.

A short-tempered mob leader in Gotham, now part of an alliance with his fellow mobsters. Unlike Maroni and the Chechen, he despises the Joker. [[spoiler: He is quickly killed by the Joker, and his remaining gang is absorbed into the clown's ranks.]]

* IGaveMyWord: "So, for dead, that's five hundred..." [[spoiler: Cue Joker popping out of the bag.]]
* [[spoiler:NothingIsScarier: His death. The Joker does ''something'' (he possibly gave him a grin like Joker's or ''worse'') to him after giving his "Why So Serious" monologue. Whatever the case, one of Gambol's henchmen ''clearly'' seen something horrible happen.]]

A large, intimidating criminal on the ferryboat. [[spoiler: When told about the Joker's social experiment, he successfully intimidates the guards into giving him the detonator, then immediately throws it in the water to prove the Joker wrong.]]

* [[spoiler: AntiVillain: He may have done a horrible mistake that landed himself in prison, but that does not necessarily make him a bad man.]]
* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: If any prisoner has the chance to be rehabilitated, he is the one.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicBystander]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Fully expected to be making one when he threw the detonator away.]]

* [[spoiler: RousseauWasRight: This convict, who shows that love, kindness and decency can come from the seemingly ugliest and darkest of places, is ''the'' strongest case against the Joker's cynical ideology of fundamental human ugliness.]]

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim: How Bruce see Chill's death.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Harvey Dent shoots his car's driver, causing it to lose control and crash.]]

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Resembles an odd AlPacino impression. Even the Joker mocks it near the end!

* IWantThemAlive: Ideally - see above.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: The Joker does ''something'' (he possibly gave him a grin like Joker's or ''worse'') to him after giving his "Why So Serious" monologue.]]

* [[spoiler: AntiVillain: He did make a horrible mistake to get him in prison, but that does not necessarily make him a bad man.]]

* AntiVillain: Borders as a Type I, as he demonstrates his own personal code of conduct when dealing with the war between Batman and the Joker.

* DirtyCoward: Noted to be a "squealer" by Joker and indeed, is not above selling out others to save his own skin. [[{{Hypocrite}} Though he appeared to be offended by the accusation.]]

* OneSceneWonder

* FakeAmericanL Tom Wilkinson is British.

* IWantThemAlive: "Five hundred grand for this clown dead. A ''million'' alive - so I can teach him some manners first."

* IGaveMyWord: Its all but outright stated that he was going to keep his promise and pay the guys who brought the seemingly dead Joker.

* IWantThemAlive: Wants SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker like this. Doesn't work out for him.

* NotListeningToMeAreYou: He doesn't seem to care when the Joker warns that Batman and Harvey Dent made things difficult for the mobs.

* AngryBlackMan: Given the few scenes that he appears deal directly with the Joker and his past actions[[note]]Specifically, the latter's robbing of 6,000,000 from the mob bank[[/note]], his being of this trope is perfectly justified.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: The Joker does ''something'' (he possibly gave him a grin like Joker's or ''worse'') to him after giving his "Why So Serious" monologue.]]

* DirtyCoward: Noted to be a "squealer" by Joker and indeed, is not above selling out others to save his own skin.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffScreen]]
* [[spoiler: KillItWithFire: SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker does this to him; while he is tied up on top of a bunch of the Gotham Mob's money.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: Apparently, the mob hired a former [[BlackHawkDown Delta operator]] to manage their bank.