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Alrighty, just finished the movie - thank the lord I have a light homework schedule at the moment [lol]. Anyway, onto the show!

'''What is the work?'''

''Film/{{Chicago}}'' is a movie adaptation

'''Who is Matron Mama Morton?'''

Matron "Mama" Morton is a corrupt jail official who operates on one golden rule "when you're good to mama, mama's good to you".

'''Is she Magnificent?'''

Billy does kinda have the effect of overshadowing her, but Mama is just as good at what she does as he is. She's essentially turned the prison into her own self-serving smuggling operation where she can get anything for anyone in exchange for cash, with connections in the real world that would make anyone jealous (Velma notes that what Mama's offers give her is something like eight times what she made before). Plus, she's a critical part of Billy's plans in the first place thanks to her ability to move things where he needs - among other things, she gives Roxy some peroxide to die her hair lighter for the press and gives Velma the rigged diary that gets both her and Roxie off. Billy steals the stage, but for her role in the story and narrative, Mama rocks her socks off and plays a very critical role in what occurs.

'''Is she a Bitch?'''

She's a corrupt jail officer who essentially runs a smuggling operation for cash, helping Billy Flynn get off criminals she knows for a fact are guilty. Easy yes.

'''Any mitigating factors?'''

So here's the thing - those hints that she solicits sex from her prisoners in exchange for goods? It's making a mountain out of the smallest molehill I've ever seen. It largely comes down to her dialogue in her song, which is admittedly laden with double entendre, but the fact is it's Queen Latifah in a {{Stripperific}} outfit performing a sensual dance number for an InUniverse audience, of course they're gonna milk that for all it's worth. There are a few lines more overt than others - like "you put in for Mama, she'll put out for you" and "when you're stroking mama, mama's stroking you" - but these lines don't go anywhere, and at the end of the day they still mean the exact same thing if money is at the center of the metaphor. Plus, there's literally no indication of any sexual favors in the "real world", because the fact is even if they sorta sprinkle that detail in there, it's made abundantly clear that her first and only real priority is money. Now, in the stage show I suppose I could see it being more of an issue, but we also need to keep in mind the film's context - InUniverse, the number is being performed to an actual audience and she's getting right up with them to flirt with them for a lot of these lyrics, so in context she's saying the lines to a largely male audience who have no issue reciprocating what she's giving them. The stage show removes that real fourth wall so I could see that being an issue (since a stage actor can't interact with the audience in the same way Queen Latifah is doing here) but in this context, she's singing the song to a whole bunch of men who are picking up everything she's putting down, not singing to her prisoners.

If there were even a hint of her carrying over that sexual coercion implication into the real world then sure, I could see it being an issue, but aside from a few AmbiguouslyGay moments (like brushing Roxie's hair at one point and calling her pretty in an "aw, look at you trying to be so tough" way), it doesn't carry over at all. Every time we see her asked for a favor, her immediate response is a dollar amount, so yeah, I really don't think this is an issue.

'''Final verdict?'''

Personally, I give her a very happy yes - what about you?

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Intends to set the demon Trigon to Earth to destroy it

Wants to rise above the sins and take Raven as his wife

Has the protagonist fight Trigon's demons, then has him devour souls for Trigon

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Allowed the ritual to go ahead with Clara to get rid of the curse

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[[folder:Bruno Hawks]]

Okay, this is one that I'm incredibly uncertain on, but... let's take a trip to ''Series/CriminalMinds'', specifically the episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E21SecretsAndLies Secrets and Lies]]".

'''Who is Bruno Hawks? What does he do?'''

Bruno Hawks is the MoleInCharge of a CIA unit who gets investigated by the BAU. Pretending to be a noble leader, in truth he's allied with the Syrian diplomat Hassan Nadir, a man who doubles as a terrorist funder. At one point, an agent named Summers managed to convert Nadir's wife to the CIA and faked her and their children's deaths, smuggling them into America only for Summers to be ambushed in his apartment by Bruno and a smuggled-in Hassan. After Bruno and Hassan torture him, Summers swears he won't give them up, so Bruno snaps his neck and leaves. The CIA makes it look like a suicide after the fact.

However, before he died, Summers ordered a psych eval on himself, knowing that it would bring in the BAU to investigate and having been paranoid enough to pin it on one of his four bosses. The BAU splits up to investigate them, in the process discovering that two of them had an affair. Throughout this, Bruno plays up the ReasonableAuthorityFigure, encouraging the BAU to get everything they need no matter what and letting them get what they need, even playing along with Gideon's evaluation of him. However, after Olivia (one of the four) is rattled by her interrogation and moves to check Bruno's bank records, Bruno puts a virus into the computer at Spence's station, taking down the CCTV before quietly snapping Olivia's neck.

The BAU finds the body but keeps it quiet, all while Bruno keeps quiet and lets Spence and Gina continue to incriminate themselves for the murder - Gina by giving him a suspicious look like she's deflecting blame, and Spence by the fact that the virus came from his station. However, eventually the team manages to piece together the clues Summers left behind to deduce the location of Hassan's wife, only for them to realize Hassan beat them there. Morgan gets inside and diffuses the situation, only for Gina to put a gun to his head. Though Bruno claims she's the mole, Gina asks for the order to take out Hassan, and after taking out the cameras for PlausibleDeniability, he gives it.

After hearing the gunshots, Gideon reveals that they had sussed him out and asks why he would betray his country. Though he keeps up the act, it's only once Hassan is revealed to be alive (since Gina fired into the air) that he finally drops it. The team reveals that they pieced it together through two things - his reaction to his colleagues' deaths was too calm, even when he's lost many before, and Olivia was looking at his bank records when he killed her (it's why he killed her to begin with). He then tells Gideon that this is going to go much worse than he thinks - in the end, the CIA isn't going to bring him in when he knows as much as he knows. After saying he did it all for money, Gideon takes his gun and he's calmly escorted away.

The end of the episode features Gideon reading a newspaper saying that Bruno died in a car crash, leaving it ambiguous whether the CIA had him killed or faked his death to keep serving their interests. Either way, he gets the last laugh - after all, he didn't end up going to prison.

'''Is he Magnificent?'''

Bruno is good at what he does, no doubt about it. As the MoleInCharge, his hands are tied in many ways, but he does whatever he can to make the team's job harder without coming off as suspicious. All while playing the ReasonableAuthorityFigure angle, he manages to murder Olivia while CIA agents are literally right outside the door, alongside doing a very good job framing Spence for the murder via the virus implant. Ultimately, Gideon sussing him out isn't exactly disqualifying given that he's a LivingLieDetector, and ultimately the only gambit he falls for is the result of the entire BAU and two of his own agents working against him. Just to top it off, when he's outed, he doesn't come anywhere near breaking down, just pointing out that he has many dark secrets and pointing out to Gideon that this isn't going to go how he thinks. It comes off as arrogance, especially since he says he's not going to prison, but ultimately he ends up being right any way you slice it - either the CIA killed him, in which case his death is now on Gideon's conscience, or they faked his death and he's gonna continue doing what he's doing. Either way, he's right - he's not going to prison, and Gideon's profile at the beginning points out that he has no regard for his own life, so even if he is dead it's not a massive loss for him. Even at the very beginning, he's shown to be pragmatic, realizing that Summers won't talk and just executing him, knowing that the CIA will do the cover-up for him. Given how limited the actions he can take are given that he's literally surrounded by the BAU for the entire episode, I think he does ''just'' enough - I mean, he manages to secretly kill someone in the CIA headquarters - and ultimately his exit is one of the calmest in the show's history.

'''Is he a Bastard?'''

He kills two people in an alliance with an immoral tyrant of a warlord and tortures one of them first, but ultimately that's all he's got. One count of torture, two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder of an AssholeVictim, and three victims by proxy by smuggling in Hassan. It's for the purely selfish motivation of {{Greed}} - he says that Hassan's money would be great for a beach vacation - but ultimately even our other current keepers are worse than him. He's got a balance.

'''Any mitigating factors?'''

Like I said, he does get sussed out, but the BAU is amazing at what they do and getting caught is not disqualifying on its own. In particular, Gideon is a LivingLieDetector, and the gambit the BAU pulls off on him is so intricate and requires at least six different people all pulling their weight that I can't hold it against him too heavily. There's also a minor arrogance concern, but like I said, whichever one his final fate was, he was still right that he wasn't put away thanks to what he knew, so he ''does'' turn out to be right. I can't call him too arrogant when he proves his claims later on.

'''Final verdict?'''

Maybe? There's nothing outright disqualifying, he gives a pretty good showing, has a very calm exit unlike most others in the show, utilizes his CIA connection well, and ultimately gets the last laugh whatever his fate was. If nothing else, he was worth a shot. What do you think?

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Serves as MissionControl for the villains