History Sandbox / ScarfaceTonyMontana

->''"[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy.' So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!]]"''

A former Cuban soldier and prisoner who was exiled to Miami by UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and eventually becomes ingrained into the criminal underworld. He rise to the top, but then his life crumbles around him.

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* CardCarryingVillain: Look no further than his "So say goodnight to the bad guy!" Speech. Although arguably {{Averted}} to some extent. As he isn't necessarily going around gloating about being evil and committing his crimes left and right, nor does he commit crimes ForTheEvulz. Rather, he simply acknowledges his flaws and mistakes, all the while accepting that he is ultimately not that fantastic of a person, while simultaneously [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech condemning the people in the restaurant as hypocrites who would all rather point their fingers at Tony like he is the bad guy rather than accepting their own mishaps like he does.]]

--> "'Tony:"' "Go ahead! I take your fucking bullets! You think you kill me with bullets? I take your fucking bullets! Go ahead!"

** His obsessive, overzealous protectiveness of his sister, combat with his aforementioned brashness, leads him to be disowned by his mother, kill his best friend Manny, which devastates Gina enough to the point where she attempts to murder him, then she gets killed by Sosa's hitmen, which may have contributed to Tony's death as well.
** How can one possibly forget about his unstable addiction to cocaine. This factor certainly didn't make the above mentioned problems any better (save for in the climax where it may have dulled his pain sensors, but that was already after he had already lost everything by that point, not in spite of).

* FriendToAllChildren: He certainly has shades of this despite how it's been said that his drug-dealing operation could have eventually impacted childrens' lives if he had stayed in control. Tony is fairly pleasant to the two kids he that talks to while Manny tries to pick up a chick at the pool. He says that he'd really like to have kids with Elvira (which never happens, which is partly what starts the [[spoiler:very public fight that finally drives Elvira away]]), and of course, he will not kill children.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's a former Cuban Army soldier who gradually becomes a fearsome Miami cocaine kingpin, and quickly becomes known for being quite fearless and ruthless towards his rivals. His military training could easily explain his deadly skills with firearms, such as an assault rifle and grenade launcher that he uses to kill dozens of enemy gangsters with in the final battle.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He rages at his sister for partying at the same nightclub he does, and at Elvira for abusing drugs despite snorting mountains of cocaine himself, and previously not doing anything to stop her.

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* MadeOfIron: At the end of the movie, thanks in no small part due to him being seriously coked-up. He snorted so much cocaine that it most likely dulled the pain receptors in his body to the point where he took hundreds of bullets and yet was still standing. That said, he sure as hell felt a shotgun blast to the back.

** [[spoiler:Furthermore, while Sosa and The Skull ultimately kill Tony and his remaining allies and loved ones, and on the surface, seem to [[KarmaHoudini get away clean with their crimes]], it is heavily implied that they might still go to prison for them, since Tony failed to kill journalist, thus allowing him to reveal Sosa to the world.]]

* VillainousIncest: Possibly. Tony can't have his sister and consequently doesn't want anyone else to have her either. This idea is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by her [[spoiler:right before she's gunned down.]] Though to be fair, this is ultimately just speculation, it also equally possible that he views Gina as his MoralityPet (a role which she clearly doesn't like) and is overprotective of her as a result.

* {{Yandere}}: In the latter part of the movie, he becomes more and more violently and [[VillainousIncest questionably]] possessive over his sister, culminating in him [[spoiler:killing Manny when he finds out that he's been pursuing a relationship with her.]]
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->''"What you looking at? You're all a bunch fuckin' assholes. You know why? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy'."''

A former Cuban soldier and prisoner who was exiled to Miami by UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and eventually becomes ingrained into the criminal underworld. He rises his way to the top, but then his life crumbles around him.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He has far more moral standards and likable characteristics than his original counterpart Tony Camonte. For one thing, it's pretty hard to imagine Camonte [[spoiler:even having any second thoughts about something killing children and putting any sense of morality before self-interest in the same that way Montana does. Even their [[LastStand last stands]] are quite a bit different from each other. In the original film, Camonte fights and goes down fighting against the police, whereas Montana fights off but ultimately loses to a rival druglord's death squad. Furthermore, Montana's incestuous feelings toward his sister are far more ambiguous here, while Camonte leaves little to nothing the viewer's imaginations.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Ouch! Villainous downfalls don't really get much more tragic than Tony Montana's. He gets shot in the back [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen after gaining and then losing everything and all the while descending to madness while trying everything that he to stay in power.]] Shortly before that, he picks up the phone on his office desk for a moment, and then sets it back down. There's nobody left for him to call for help: His best friend Manny and dearly beloved sister Gina are both dead (The former by his own hand, and the latter wanted to kill him moments before as revenge), his former friend Frank has been dead for quite some time (again, because Tony had previously had him killed), [[BigBad Sosa is now his enemy who wants to have him killed]] for his prior failure to kill the journalist, his mother Georgina has [[IHaveNoSon verbally disowned him]], and his wife Elvira has left him for good. At the end, Tony has absolutely nobody left to call for help, and for that matter, nothing left to live for.]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: One of his primary motivations, for the majority of the movie, and are [[spoiler:what ultimately lead to his downfall]]. Although [[Downplayed]] earlier on in the film, since at that point, while he is certainly ambitious, he still wants to help improve the lives of his family and and his friends for the better. It's only "after" he fulfills said ambitions, and becomes a powerful drug kingpin, that this trope is in full effect. This is when [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen Tony's life slowly but sure begins to crumble around him]] and loses sight of this original goal. It's bad that it gets [[spoiler:to the point where he either alienates, kills, or makes enemies with all of his potential allies, friends, or relatives, and it eventually leads to his own downfall at the hands of one of said former allies.]]
* AnimalMotifs: [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] watched the original film he and noted that in it, Tony Camonte (Creator/PaulMuni) came off as "a big ape" type, and so he tried to emulate that to the best that he possibly could in his performance as Tony Montana in the remake. Alejandro Sosa [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this even when he calls him a "fucking little monkey".
* AntiHero: He starts out as this at the beginning of the film, coming over to America with his friends in order to start a new life for the better, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes while also trying his absolute best to help provide for his estranged family in anyway that possibly he can]]. But as the movie goes on, [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain he becomes progressively worse to the point where he becomes a full fledged]] VillainProtagonist [[spoiler:who kills in best friend in an impulsive fit of rage, attempts to kill an innocent journalist to avoid having to go to prison for three to five years, ([[EvenEvilHasStandards though in all fairness, he does call off the attempted hit]] [[NeverHurtanInnocent when he sees that the journalist has a]] [[WouldntHitAGirl wife and]] [[WouldntHurtAChild two children]] with him) and becomes overly protective of his sister Gina to the point that eventually results in her death at the hands of a rival cartel. And [[TheHeroDies Tony himself dies at the end]] after losing everything. [[BolivianArmyEnding But hey, he goes out in a blaze of glory after taking plenty of bad guys with him, so there's that at least.]]]]

* BigBrotherBully: Over the course of the film, he becomes extremely controlling and possessive of Gina, starting to yell at her harshly.[[spoiler:When he finds out that his best friend Manny is in love with her, he is lost in a quiet rage and kills him without so much as any second thoughts, and then has his henchmen bring the now devastated wreck Gina over to his mansion.]]

--> "'Tony:"' "You think you kill me with bullets? I take you f-cking' bullets! Go Ahead!"

* ExactWords: He [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this upon [[DiscOneFinalBoss Frank Lopez]] during the middle of the film. After surviving Frank's attempt to have Tony killed inside of the Babylon Club, Tony confronts Frank in his office, while the latter [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] [[AintTooProudToBeg begs Tony not to kill him]], and promises to give Tony everything if he doesn't. And indeed, Tony follows up on Frank's offer, [[TheStarscream he takes all of Frank's belongings]] [[TheUsurper and his position]], and then also takes Elvira as his girlfriend, and then also takes some of Frank's henchmen (namely Ernie) to serve under his wing, and then he technically honors his word, he doesn't kill Frank. [[spoiler:Manny does! At Tony's behest, as a proxy for him, [[FaceDeathWithDespair and Frank still dies, pathetically at that.]]]]

** Stealing Frank's girlfriend Elvira right out from under his nose, and then later on starting her addiction to cocaine. Later blowing up at her for this

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Admittedly, most of his killed victims weren't very good people.[[spoiler:The only one who didn't deserve to die was his dear friend Manny Ribera, [[MySisterIsOffLimits who's only crime was being truly in love with Tony's sister, Gina]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother which Tony would not allow any off.]] Though in all fairness, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Tony did genuinely regret doing instantly afterwards.]]]] [[AssholeVictim The likes of these guys on the other hand, did though and as a result are much more clear-cut examples of this trope]]:
** Emilio Rebenga, a [[DirtyCommunists military man who]] [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] countless people under UsefulNotes/FidelCastro's regime, and also killed Frank Lopez's brother, which is how Tony, Manny, Omar, and Lopez are able to meet each other in the first place. He is also the [[StarterVillain first person Tony kills in the movie.]]

* WouldntHitAGirl: He would only go after men who challenge him. [[SubvertedTrope Bar the one time]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother he slaps Gina]] for sneaking into the men's bathroom at the [[MySisterIsOffLimits Babylon Club to make out with a guy that she just met.]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: The indirect reason why Sosa puts a hit on him (the main being that he failed to kill the journalist). When ordered to activate a bomb on a reporter's car to stop him from testifying about Sosa's criminal activities, he refuses to do it because the reporter's wife and children are also in there and he even kills one of Sosa's hitmen for trying to activate the bomb anyway. The reporter lives to testify, as such, Sosa's pissed off, and then it all goes downhill from there.

A former Cuban soldier and prisoner who was exiled to Miami by UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and eventually becomes ingrained into the criminal underworld. He rise to the top, but then his life crumbles around him.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He has far more moral standards and likable characteristics than his original counterpart Tony Camonte. For one thing, it's pretty hard to imagine Camonte even having any second thoughts about something killing children and putting any sense of morality before self-interest in the same that way Montana does. Even their [[LastStand last stands]] are quite a bit different from each other. In the original film, Camonte fights and goes down fighting against the police, whereas Montana fights off but ultimately loses to a rival druglord's death squad. Furthermore, Montana's incestuous feelings toward his sister are far more ambiguous here, while Camonte leaves little to nothing the viewer's imaginations.

* ExactWords: He [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this upon [[DiscOneFinalBoss Frank Lopez]] during the middle of the film. After surviving Frank's attempt to have Tony killed inside of the Babylon Club, Tony confronts Frank in his office, while the latter [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] [[AintTooProudToBeg begs Tony not to kill him]], and promises to give Tony everything if he doesn't. And indeed, Tony follows up on Frank's offer, [[TheStarscream he takes all of Frank's belongings]] [[TheUsurper and his position]], and then also takes Elvira as his girlfriend, and then also takes some of Frank's henchmen (namely Ernie) to serve under his wing, and then he technically honors his word, he doesn't kill Frank. [[spoiler:Manny does! At Tony's behest, as a proxy for him, [[FaceDeathWithDespair and Frank still dies, pathetically at that.]]

A former Cuban soldier and prisoner who was exiled to Miami by UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and eventually becomes ingrained into the criminal underworld. He rise to the top, but then his life crumbles around him