Line #24 Characters/ToLiveAndDieInLA


1	!!Richard Chance
2	->'''Played by:''' Creator/WilliamPetersen
3	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liveanddieinla3.jpg]]
4	[[caption-width-right:250:''"Guess what? Uncle Sam don't give a shit about your expenses. You want bread, fuck a baker."'']]
5
6	-->''"I'm gonna bag Masters and I don't give a shit how I do it."''
7
8	%%* AntiHero: A SociopathicHero at best and an arguable VillainProtagonist at worst.
9	* BadCopIncompetentCop: Chance screws up multiple times in the film, gets multiple people killed [[spoiler: including himself, and doesn't fool Masters for a second]].
10	%%* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot]]
11	%%* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: If he can be considered as one, that is.]]
12	* CowboyCop: This trope to a T! Withholding evidence, sleeping with his informant and not informing his superiors his plans.
13	* IdiotHero: Chance never thinks about the consequences of his actions at the best of times, but taking the handcuffs off of Cody is ''astonishingly'' stupid.
14	* ItsPersonal: Wants to bring down Masters because he murdered his partner, Jimmy Hart, early on in the film.
15	* {{Jerkass}}: Chance isn't exactly nice to his co-workers (save his partner), and treats his girlfriend/informant Ruth like garbage.
16	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chance is an extremely abrasive risk-obsessed CowboyCop, but he strongly believes in friendship and partnership, and is sympathetic when Cody claims his daughter is sick in hospital. [[{{Deconstruction}} These values bring Chance nothing but misery.]]
17	* MeaningfulName: Chance is a thrill-seeker and goes to extremely risky lengths in his pursuit of Masters.
18	%%* PoliceBrutality: Prone to doing this.
19	%%* PsychopathicManchild
20	%%** His genuinely scary glee after the car chase reeks of this.
21	%%** Is prone to throwing tantrums when he doesn't get his way.
22	%%* RabidCop: A particularly rabid ''Secret Service agent''.
23	%%* RevengeBeforeReason
24	* SociopathicHero: By the mid-point Chance has been established as one, [[spoiler:engineering a robbery to get the money Masters asked]], but even before that, he casually mistreats Ruth, and he says he'd immediately get her back in jail should she ever stop being his CI.
25	* ThrillSeeker: Much of his motivation. He engages in base jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge, and gets a huge rush from the CarChase.
26	* TheUnfettered: Early on, he states: "I'm gonna bag Masters, and I don't give a shit how I do it." He spends the rest of the movie proving it.
27	%%* VillainProtagonist
28
29	!!John Vukovich
30	->'''Played by:''' John Pankow
31
32	* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: By the end of the film, Vukovich has gone from a stickler for rules and regulations to a more renegade federal agent willing to bend the rules so long as he gets results.
33	* ByTheBookCop: To a certain degree.
34	** After meeting Chance at his house following the discovery of Jimmy Hart's murder, he agrees with Chance's statement "I'm gonna bag Masters, and I don't give a shit how I do it", not knowing that it's NotHyperbole.
35	** He chastises Chance for stealing Max Waxmans little black book after the Pasadena P.D responds to Waxmans murder by Masters for attempting to rip him off, stating that the police would have let them copy it after it was booked into evidence.
36	*** He does state however that he is not a snitch in response to Chance questioning his resolve as his partner.
37	** During the chase and shakedown of two small time credit card thieves, Vukovich gives the thief he was chasing a nasty kick in the back after forcing him against a chain link fence for questioning.
38	** He vehemently objects to Chances proposal to rob fence[[spoiler: and undercover F.B.I. Agent]] Thomas Ling of his $50,000 in order to get the front money to pay for Masters counterfeit money, but eventually agrees after being bullied into it by Chance.
39	** [[spoiler:He initially picks up and slaps Masters back to the ground before drawing Chance's gun and aiming at him, but still can't bring himself to shoot Masters in cold blood. This give Masters the opportunity to grab a plank of wood and beat Vukovich to the ground with it. He then covers Vukovich in shredded paper with the intention of setting him on fire but is shot in the gut by Vukovich before Masters has a chance to, causing him to drop the lit piece of paper into the puddle of gas that Masters happened to be standing in.]]
40	%%* CowboyCop: By the end.
41	%%* HeroicBSOD
42	* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:The botched robbery and Chance's death traumatize him to the point that he ends up killing Masters, completely pushing him over the edge into becoming the same kind of rabid cowboy cop that Chance was.]]
43	* TakingUpTheMantle: By the end of the film, he's taken up after Chance so much that its implied he's going to end up sleeping with Ruth.
44
45	!!Rick Masters
46	->'''Played by:''' Creator/WillemDafoe
47
48	* AntiVillain: Keeps his word, and never breaks a contract. Woe to those who fail to do either.
49	%%* BadBoss: Tries to have Cody killed in prison.
50	* CopKiller: Murders a U.S. Secret Service agent early in the film.
51	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:An exceptionally gruesome example in that Vukovich shoots Masters in the gut with Chance's revolver, causing Masters to drop the lit piece of paper he was holding into the puddle of gas he happened to be standing in. This causes Masters to be engulfed in flames, as Vukovich empties the remaining five shots of .357 Magnum into Masters, '''yet Masters doesn't die from the gunshots and continues to scream in pain until he FINALLY falls over dead.''']]
52	* EvilVirtues: Takes extreme pride in his level of crafstmanship, and his reputation.
53	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Lives a rather refined lifestyle; he has a nice house with art everywhere (most of which can be assumed to have been done by him), wears nice clothes, appreciates modern dance and is overall sophisticated for a criminal.
54	%%* MasterForger: He even gets a long montage in which he shows how he makes his fake bills.
55	* TrueArtIsAngsty: Burns self-portraits and creates arty pornography videos interspersed with footage of him crying.%%InUniverse
56	%%* TheUnfettered
57	* WickedCultured: Is an aficianado of modern dance, produces avant-garde paintings which impress professional artists, and critiques an associate's taste in art before [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the face]].
58
59	!! Bianca Torres
60	->'''Played by:''' Debra Feuer
61
62	%%* {{Moll}}
63	%%* MsFanservice
64
65	!! Bob Grimes
66	->'''Played by:''' Creator/DeanStockwell
67
68	%%* AmoralAttorney
69	%%* [[spoiler:DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent]]
70
71	!! Ruth Lainer
72	->'''Played by:''' Darlanne Fluegel
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74	%%* TheInformant: Chance's primary contact for finding the word on the street.
75	%%* MsFanservice: Chance is currently sleeping with her.
76
77	!! Carl Cody
78	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnTurturro
79
80	!!Jim 'Jimmy' Hart
81	->'''Played by:''' Michael Greene
82
83	%%* {{Retirony}}
84
85	!!Thomas Bateman
86	->'''Played by:''' Robert Downey Sr.
87
88	%%* ByTheBookCop: Literally quotes procedure from the manual.
89	%%* JerkassHasAPoint: His contempt for Chance is not unjustified.
90	%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat: From Chance's perspective.
91	%%* PointyHairedBoss: Largely oblivious and often contemptuous of his agents.
92
93	!!Jack, Masters' bodyguard
94	->'''Played by:''' Jack Hoar
95
96	%%* TheDragon
97
98	!!Jeff Rice
99	->'''Played by:''' Steve James
100
101	%%* ScaryBlackMan: Tries to play this trope straight in an attempt to intimidate Masters. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out.]]
102
103	!! Max Waxman
104	->'''Played by:''' Christopher Allport
105
106	%%* AmoralAttorney
107	%%* BoomHeadshot
108	%%* GroinAttack: A particularly graphic example.
109
110	!! Thomas Ling [[spoiler: AKA F.B.I. Agent Raymond Fong]]
111	->'''Played by:''' Michael Chong
112
113	!! Judge Filo Cedillo
114	->'''Played by:''' Valentin de Vargas
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