History Characters / TheSopranosTheLupertazzisAndOtherCriminals

* BigBad: In Season 5 along [[BigBadEnsemble with Tony Blundetto]]. Upon learning that Tony Soprano's cousin has joined forces against him with Little Carmine, he and his brutal [[TheDragon right-hand man]], Phil Leotardo, effectively [[DisproportionateRetribution declare war on the entire Soprano Crime Family]].

* {{Badass}}

[[folder: Lupertazzi Crime Family Members]]

!! Butch "Butchie" [=DeConcini=]

!! Rusty Millio

!! Angelo Garepe

-->'''Phil''': You couldn't fuckin' retire!?

!! Robert "Billy" Leotardo

!! Joey "Peeps" Pepperelli

!! James "Jimmy" Petrille

!! Faustino "Doc" Santoro

!! Gerry Torciano

!! Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello

[[folder:Other Criminals and Antagonists]]

* {{Badass}}: An elite veteran of the Chechen War. Paulie and Chris get their asses handed to them.
-->'''Paulie:''' He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator!"

* HuskyRusskie

!! Vin Makazian

!! Barry Haydu

!! Corky Caporale

!! Lorraine Calluzzo

!! Annalisa Zucca

!! Warren Feldman

!! "Black" Jack Massarone

* HappilyMarried: Except for a minor incident, one of the best/rare examples.

-->'''Johnny Sack:'''I'm making a point, I'm talking about my wife's honor here! My honor!

* GreaterScopeVillain: In Seasons 1-3. After he and his empire are referred to merely as "New York" in the first two seasons, he finally appears in-person during Season 3. Despite being a longtime ally of the [=DiMeo=] crime family, Carmine's organization is almost universally viewed by Tony and his associates with wariness and suspicion (not least because the former regularly uses its vastly greater size and resources to coerce the New Jersey mobsters into "sharing" their profits on local business ventures). [[spoiler: After the relationship between the two families deteriorates in Season 4, the Lupertazzi crime family ultimately [[BigBad becomes the story's preeminent antagonist and remains so until the end of the series]].]]

* SharpDressedMan: Scolds Tony for using casualwear.

* HeelFaceTurn: Heel less heel turn. At some point he decides he's had enough of the Mafia powerplay and retires to a civilian life, serving as a neutral mediator in mob conflicts

-->'''Little Carmine:''' "The fundamental question is: Will I be as effective as a boss like my dad was? And I will be. Even more so - but until I am, it's gonna be hard to verify that I think I'll be more effective."

* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: Despite being the legitimate heir of Carmine Sr., a sizable faction of the Lupertazzi Family led by Johnny Sack contests his succession not least because he is glaringly lacking in his father's cunning and ruthless decisiveness.

[[caption-width-right:290:''" What's this, the fucking U.N. now?!"'' ]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: He's given a rare empathic death, dying after a long illness and surrounded by his anguished family, underscoring that a broken mobster is still a human being. In-universe even the gangsters who felt deeply betrayed by him are saddened by his passing and honor his memory]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He's a New York underboss eager to be Number One, but once he gets there everything starts to go awry.

* CoolCar: As he gets closer to becoming Boss in Season 5, he splashes out on a new Maserati (which later ends up being sold to Christopher Moltisanti after he goes to prison)

* GreaterScopeVillain: For Seasons 1-3 as the [[MouthofSauron foremost representative of the massive Lupertazzi Crime Family]].

* OddFriendship: In Stage 5 he befriends fellow inmate and custodian Warren Feldman, a former oncologist and convicted spree murderer.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Pleads guilty and reveals [[TheMasquerade the existence of the Mafia]] to lower his sentence, but dies no long after he shames himself in the eyes of the other mobsters by breaking the Omertà.]]
* TheStarscream: Puts a hit on Carmine Sr. during the [[RealEstateScam Frelinghuysen Avenue]] crisis. Inverted earlier when Carmine Sr. wants to get rid of Johnny due to his ruinous feud with Ralph. Both events are outsourced to Tony but settled down and defused before it's too late.

* VillainousFriendship: Interstate friendship With Tony.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: His relation with Tony during Johnny's rising. [[spoiler: Once all is said and done, and John dies of cancer, it is clear Tony still cared about him.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: A mix, while AssholeVictim is in play, he's executed in front of his wife and his baby grandchildren, and [[YourHeadASplode then run over by his car]], [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]]. It's [[NoEnding left unsaid]] if Tony gets a retribution for this gory method/outcome, as a death in front or your family is [[EvenEvilHasStandards a big no-no by many members of The Mafia]]]].
* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler: His final strategy in season 6]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He views Tony as TheStarscream towards his uncle Corrado, is disgusted by the unceremonious initiation rituals of the Jersey crew and its overall laxitude.

* FatalFlaw: Despite being one of the most ruthless characters in the series, he considers himself too agreeable in nature and willing to compromise for his own good. [[spoiler: In reality, it is his obsession with preserving his alpha male persona at all costs that proves to be his downfall.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Just as the back wheel of a van starts to roll onto Phil's head, we cut to a shot of his grandchildren in the backseat of the vehicle, accompanied by the SickeningCrunch of his skull.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Probably the most unpleasant and unapologetic guy of the show, unlike other mobsters he's not restrained by friendship or loyalty ties and can back his bark with his bite without being put upon by anybody. It comes with the RuthlessForeignGangsters baggage.

* KickTheDog: "Comforts" [[spoiler: Vito's widow (after murdering him)]] by telling her that it's for the best that her kids don't "have that kind of role model around."

* PragmaticVillainy: For a while, he's talked out of [[RevengeBeforeReason his vendetta]] because it's bad for business. Eventually he argues for the oppossite and evaluates there are too many middle-men.

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: [[KlingonPromotion kills the head of his family to become Don]], and in turn he's betrayed by Butch after his consigliere estimates that the war is pointless and no longer good for the business]].
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: His wife's minivan rolls over his skull post-mortem, with their infant grandchildren inside, at a gas station with a number of onlookers. The legendary Lupertazzi hitman will most likely be remembered by candid cellphone pictures of his squashed head on the internet.]]

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLrlIpoQfQg "No more of this Butchie... No more"]].

* TheConsigliere: Phil's. Surprisingly he's more confrontational and bloodthirsty than his boss. [[spoiler: At first]]

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: It's implied that Phil's unhappines about his lack of zeal in the war with Jersey is gonna cost him dearly.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The S6 mid-season finale heavily implies that Butchie will become the largest threat now that Phil seems to be relatively benign. This situation reverses itself two episodes later.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Implicitly approves the removal of Phil]] after the war with Jersey starts to drag on pointless.
-->You do what you have to do

* AffablyEvil: Hardly even counts as "evil" anymore, even as he's drawn back into the Lupertazzi syndicate he remains fairly benign, outside of conspiring to have Joey Peeps murdered.

* TheConsigliere: Johnny's

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He's a blond in Season 6A. In Season 6B he has black hair, a very confusing change that nobody notices in-story.

* BullyingADragon: See tempting fate below.

-->'''Phil Leotardo:''' Well as coincidence would have it he was last seen in New Jersey
-->'''Tony Soprano:''' So was the hindenburg, maybe you wanna look into that too?

* IncestSubtext: Brings this into play between Tony and Meadow while hitting on her. This is implied to be a huge part of what unsettled Meadow about their encounter - if he had left this out then he might have even gotten away with it.

* TheGamblingAddict: Lead to TrappedByGamblingDebts.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After his retirement, Tony sells him down the river as he is no longer useful to the mob.

A first-generation Italian heroin junkie, friend and associate of Christopher. His fluency in the Italian language means he is generally the bottom level go-between with [[RuthlessForeignGangsters friends from the other side]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: In the penultimate episode, Corky acts as a go-between with the Italian assassins in the hit on Phil. [[spoiler: After the hitmen mistakenly murder Phil's goomah's father instead, they briefly mention to Corky that she referred to the target as "Daddy" in Ukrainian. Corky, in a porn store at the time, thinks nothing of this. His mistake results in Bobby's death and Silvio's coma.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her death visually mirrors [[spoiler: Adriana's]], later that season.

-->'''Paulie: '''Ton, you give this guy a golf club, he'll probably try to fuck it.

-->'''Tony: ''' I do want... but I don't shit where I eat.

* GeniusBruiser: For both their hits they use tactics to put their targets off their guard and get their hands away from their guns

* ChekhovsGunman: His efforts to sell drugs in the Crazy Horse are seemingly just a one-episode side plot to further Jackie Jr.'s story arc. However, he reappears two seasons later, now having solid roots for his operation in Crazy Horse, and ends up killing a guy in Adriana's office. This, in turn, leads to [[spoiler: Adriana's death when she tries to cover it up.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Sure he gets his ass kicked for dealing drugs at one point but in the larger picture he is extremely lucky. First he acts as the getaway driver for [[spoiler: Jackie Jr.]] when he and some friends rob Eugene's card game. When shots ring out Matush drives off leaving his buddies behind and everyone is [[spoiler: eventually killed but him]]. Then a few seasons later he [[spoiler: murders someone in the back of Adriana's club]], the FBI targets [[spoiler: her thanks to her connection to Christopher and she is eventually killed for being an informant]], meanwhile Matush literally gets away with murder and faces no repercussions from the FBI or Christopher.

* TheWarOnTerror: Christopher considers them not to be terrorists at first but some sudden behavior may indicate otherwise. Due to post-9/11 changes of policy, the FBI take a keen interest in them and an investigation ensues.

* BigBad: During the final season. With all the resources of the Lupertazzi Crime Family at his disposal combined with a vicious streak comparable to that of Richie Aprile, he is by far the most dangerous adversary Tony encounters throughout the entire series.

* BerserkButton: Cracking any jokes about his wife's weight. He even starts a vendetta against Ralph Ciferetto because of it.

* ButtMonkey: His whole arc in season 6, when he falls from grace and suffers from a declining health.

!!Peter "Beansie" Gaeta

A former associate of Richie Aprile involved in his drug operations.

* ButtMonkey: Richie beats him and finally leaves him paraplegic.
* CarFu: Richie's method of choice consists in running over him with a car.
* PutOnABus: Moves to Miami. [[TheBusCameBack Reappears briefly]] again in seasons 4 and 6.

!! Matthew Bevilaqua

A young associate of Chris Moltisanti.

* AintTooProudToBeg
* BigBadWannabe

* BringMyBrownPants
* DudeWheresMyRespect
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sean Gismonte. The "heterosexual" part is debatable, according to Furio.
* HopeSpot: Deliberately used by Tony Soprano as a form of sadistic psychological torture before killing him.
* ItsPersonal: His shooting of Chris Moltisanti, Tony Soprano's nephew, pretty much sealed his horrible fate.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Sean Gismonte's Red.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Shot over 50 times by Tony and Big Pussy.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Sean Gismonte.
* UndignifiedDeath: Pisses himself and cries "Mommy" just before he is killed.

!! Sean Gismonte

Associate of Chris Moltisanti and best friend of Matt Bevilaqua.

* AmbiguouslyGay: If one of them is gay it's probably Sean.
* BoomHeadshot
* DudeWheresMyRespect
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "D-Girl", Livia tells A.J. about a group of teenagers who crashed their car and burned alive because they couldn't escape their seatbelts. One episode later, after committing a drive-by shooting on Christopher, Sean's seatbelt gets stuck and Chris shoots him in the head as he struggles with it.
--> '''Sean:''' [[FamousLastWords Seatbelt! Fuckin' seatbelt!]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Matthew Bevilaqua.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Matthew's Blue.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Matt.

!! Fabian "Febby" Petrulio

Former soldier in the [=DiMeo=] family who turned federal informant.

* MoodWhiplash: A quiet moment with a [[{{Bambification}} deer]] is followed by Tony appearing out of the blue and ferociously murdering him. Finally a band of birds/ducks crosses the sky.
* ProperlyParanoid: Carries a HandCannon and is smart enough to recognize he's being stalked, but misses his chance to kill Tony.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: It catches up to him with a 10 years delay.
* TheStoolPigeon: Became an informant, leading to a lot of convictions of [=DiMeo=] crime family members.
* VillainsOutShopping: Found by Tony when the mobster and Meadow are touring Maine examining colleges. The character serves to show early on, in first person, the murderous, almost casual nature of what Tony does for a living and how good he is at lying to his family.
* WitnessProtection: Eventually kicked out of the program. He later [[SecretIdentity went by the name]] of Frederick 'Fred' Peters.

!! Vin Makazian
->'''Played by:'''John Heard

A corrupt cop on Tony's payroll.

* AbusiveParents: His father.
* ButtMonkey

!! William "Petite" Clayborn and Rasheen Ray

Two small-time criminals commissioned by Junior Soprano to kill Tony in the first season.

* BoomHeadshot: Petite Clayborn's death, in slow motion.
* CarFu: Their altercation with Tony is comprised mostly of this.
* GangBangers
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Rasheen accidentally shoots Petite in the head while aiming for Tony in a moving car.
* MuggingTheMonster: Attempted to kill Tony Soprano before he had a real reputation.
* ScaryBlackMan
* ThoseTwoBadGuys
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Rasheen Ray apparently survives the shootout, and is never heard from again.

!! Jasons Gervasi and Parisi

Best friends and sons of Carlo Gervasi and Patsy Parisi, both named Jason.

* BaitTheDog: Introduced as happier counterparts to A.J. Seeing their apparently functional lives, Tony pushes A.J. to befriend them. They genuinely bond with him and things seem to take a turn for the better, but then they start roping him into their violent activities.
* BoxedCrook: Jason Gervasi gets caught dealing drugs, a charge used to box his mafioso father.
* BlackSheep: Jason Parisi appears to be this. His brother Patrick is a successful attorney dating Meadow Soprano, while Jason is a budding criminal.
* EvilMentor: To A.J.
* HeterosexualLifePartners
* LikeFatherLikeSon: They are both exactly what Tony wants to avoid with his own son.
* OneSteveLimit
* PetTheDog: They genuinely seem to care about A.J.'s mental health.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After knocking over a Somalian cyclist with a car door, Jason G calls him a nigger, then a terrorist. Notably Jason P does not partake in this racism, though he does not hesitate to join in on the beating they give the man.
* RedOniBlueOni: Gervasi is red, Parisi is blue. Definitely consistent with their respective fathers' personalities.

!! Ronald Zellman

New Jersey assemblyman in bed with the mob.

* CorruptPolitician: Tony's equal partner in a major RealEstateScam.
* FoeCooties: Played with, initially Tony appears unnafected by his dating of Irina and gives his blessing, but eventually Zellman gets viciously beaten up for having a relationship with the former comare of Tony.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: He's unable to perform in bed after Tony humiliates him in front of Irina.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity

!! Lou [=DiMaggio=] and the Atwell Avenue Boys

An old crew of brutal hitmen recommended to Tony for a whacking by Junior.

* AxCrazy
* BlindSeer: Invoked by Lou, who is blind, when he asks Chris if he's into drugs. Lou was actually just asking if the Soprano family was involved in drug running, something he is fundamentally opposed to.
* CloudCuckooLander: The youngest member of their crew is unnervingly friendly and enthusiastic. Upon meeting Christopher Moltisanti, he remarks that his name is also Chris. Seeing a picture of Johnny Sack at his birthday, he remarks that it's his birthday as well.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Beat one treacherous mobster and his wife to death with baseball bats, earning Lou's nickname "[=DiMaggio=]". They also decapitated a man with a hacksaw while he was still alive. The boys almost certainly intended to subject Johnny Sack to a similar fate.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They hate drug dealers.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The stocky one hooked up to the oxygen tank, whose only line is "quiet as a mouse pissin' on cotton", is Richard Bright, best known as [[TheGodfather Al Neri]].
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant

!! Richard "Dick" Barone

Owner of Barone sanitation, a front business for the Soprano crew.

* DueToTheDead: His funeral congregates a high number of mafiosos, despite not being a made man or a relative.
* FamilyBusiness: Inherited by his son, who is not interested in playing ball with the mob until Paulie [[{{Kneecapping}} renews the arrangement]].
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: "Waste management consultant for Barone Sanitations" is Tony's official job.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Partly based on [[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/25/nyregion/garbage-hauling-is-tied-to-mafia-in-suburbs.html Thomas Milo]], a garbage hauler cracked down by Giuliani in the 90s.
* SelfMadeMan: Garbage hauling is a legitimate and profitable business on its own.

!!Neil Mink

Tony's attorney.

* AmoralAttorney: A traditional mob lawyer.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Clues Tony in when the already savvy boss needs additional criminal advice.

!!Harold "Mel" Melvoin

Junior's attorney.

* AmoralAttorney: A traditional and very expensive mob lawyer.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Knows "his" jurisprudence and invokes all kinds of loopholes in the benefit of Junior.
* SpeechImpediment: Suffers a stroke that affects his ability to speak. Gets fired afterwards by Junior.

!!James "Murmur" Zancone

Friend, AA sponsor and criminal associate of Christopher Moltisanti.

* EmbarrassingNickname: The nickname "Murmur" comes from him having a heart murmur as a kid.
* EvilGenius: An expert at forging documents
* RememberTheNewGuy: Introduced in Season 6, at which point he is best buds with Chris. On the other hand Tony resents the excessive familiarity about the new guy and shoos him away.
* TheSponsor: Christopher's

* BiggerBad: For Seasons 1-3 as the [[MouthofSauron foremost representative of the massive Lupertazzi Crime Family]].

* ProperlyParanoid: Carries a HandCannon and is GenreSavvy enough to recognize he's being stalked, but misses his chance to kill Tony.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: His relation with Tony during Johnny's rising.

* BiggerBad: In Seasons 1-3. After he and his empire are referred to merely as "New York" in the first two seasons, he finally appears in-person during Season 3. Despite being a longtime ally of the [=DiMeo=] crime family, Carmine's organization is almost universally viewed by Tony and his associates with wariness and suspicion (not least because the former regularly uses its vastly greater size and resources to coerce the New Jersey mobsters into "sharing" their profits on local business ventures). [[spoiler: After the relationship between the two families deteriorates in Season 4, the Lupertazzi crime family ultimately [[BigBad becomes the story's preeminent antagonist and remains so until the end of the series]].]]

* TheSociopath

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: [[KlingonPromotion Attempts to kill of his family to become Don]] (who dies later of natural consequences anyway), and in turn he's betrayed by Butch after his consigliere estimates that the war is pointless and no longer good for the business]].

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: [[KlingonPromotion Attempts to kill of his family to become Don ]] (who dies later of natural consequences anyway), and in turn he's betrayed by Butch after his consigliere estimates that the war is pointless and no longer good for the business]].

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: [[KlingonPromotion Kills the head of his family to become Don]], and in turn he's betrayed by Butch after his consigliere estimates that the war is pointless and no longer good for the business]].

* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain: He's given a rare empathic death, dying after a long illness and surrounded by his anguished family, underscoring that a broken mobster is still a human being. In-universe even the gangsters who felt deeply betrayed by him are saddened by his passing and honor his memory]]

* [[spoiler:ADeathInTheLimelight]]: Stage 5.

* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: A mix, while AssholeVictim is in play, he's executed in front of his wife and his baby grandchildren, and [[YourHeadASplode then run over by his car]], [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]]. It's [[NoEnding left unsaid]] if Tony gets a retribution for this gory method/outcome, as a death in front or your family is [[EvenEvilHasStandards a big no-no by many members of The Mafia]]]].
* [[spoiler: DecapitatedArmy: His final strategy in season 6]].

* [[spoiler: GoryDiscretionShot]]: [[spoiler: Just as the back wheel of a van starts to roll onto Phil's head, we cut to a shot of his grandchildren in the backseat of the vehicle, accompanied by the SickeningCrunch of his skull.]]

* [[spoiler: SickeningCrunch]]

* [[spoiler: UndignifiedDeath]]: [[spoiler: His wife's minivan rolls over his skull post-mortem, with their infant grandchildren inside, at a gas station with a number of onlookers. The legendary Lupertazzi hitman will most likely be remembered by candid cellphone pictures of his squashed head on the internet.]]

* [[spoiler: DragonWithAnAgenda]]
* [[spoiler: MistreatmentInducedBetrayal]]: It's implied that Phil's unhappines about his lack of zeal in the war with Jersey is gonna cost him dearly.
* [[spoiler: TheStarscream]]: [[spoiler: Implicitly approves the removal of Phil]] after the war with Jersey starts to drag on pointless.

* [[spoiler: RedHerring]]: [[spoiler: The S6 mid-season finale heavily implies that Butchie will become the largest threat now that Phil seems to be relatively benign. This situation reverses itself two episodes later.]]

* DispossingOfABody: He can't be dispatched butchery-style inside Satriale's anymore because of DNA forensics, so they bury him at a construction site.

* TooDumbToLive

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He's a blonde in Season 6A. In Season 6B he has black hair, a very confusing change that nobody notices in-story.

* AesopAmnesia: Shortly after Tony makes an impassioned plea for peace to him following a near-death experience, Phil begins contemplating thoughts of retirement as well as adopting a more pacifist approach to life in general. However, his old ruthless, bloodthirsty personality resurfaces after his protége, Gerry Torcio, is murdered by "Doc" Santoro and he blames this turn of events on his own "weakness."