History Characters / BoardwalkEmpireNewYorkGangsters

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_Holstein Casper Holstein]], according to Jeffrey Wright, with [[CompositeCharacter influences from other prominent]] African-American thinkers and gangsters from the era.

* TheQuietOne

* BadBoss

* BadassInANiceSuit

* WickedCultured

* ConsummateLiar
* DeadpanSnarker

* OnlyInItForTheMoney

* BumblingSidekick

* FirstNameBasis

* ManipulativeBastard

* NWordPrivileges

* PrettyInMink

* SassyBlackWoman

* YoungFutureFamousPeople

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Betraying your boss and literally stabbing him in the back and when he has his pants down would be a cowardly and reprehensible act if directed at anyone other than Gyp Rosetti.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: One of his final acts is to murder Mickey Doyle in a fit of rage when Mickey once again tries to betray his current boss to align with Charlie, doing what almost every other character and the audience has wanted to do since the start of the show.]]

* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: Gyp specifically mentions Gillian's red hair as part of his attraction to her. He also keeps flirting with the redheaded waitress at the Tabor Heights diner, and when he hires whores, they tend to be redheaded.
-->'''Gyp''': (to Tonino) Which of them waitresses do you think is cuter?
-->'''Tonino''': The little one - with the bobbed hair.
-->'''Gyp''': I'm gonna fuck the redhead.

* NonActionBigBad: While he's easily one of the most intimidating bosses in the series, he is never seen hitting or shooting someone himself. However, given his position and being TheDreaded in mob circles, it is likely that this was not always the case, as he killed many to become a powerful gang lord.

* BullyTurnedBuddy: Lucky was a bully running with a gang already, and Meyer was a poor immigrant kid living nearby. Lucky attempted to bully Meyer, only for Meyer to refuse to give in to him, despite getting a couple of beatings for it. After several such occasions, Lucky became impressed with Meyer's guts and invited him to join Lucky's gang. The two then went on to become lifelong friends and business partners.

* TotallyNotACriminalFront: Uses a real estate brokerage and development company as a cover for his illegal rackets.

* NonActionBigBad: While he's easily one of the most intimidating kingpins in the series, he is never seen hitting or shooting someone himself. However, given his position and being TheDreaded in mob circles, it is likely that this was not always the case, as he killed many to become a powerful kingpin.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is an anti-Semite, believing Jews to be passionless and untrustworthy. The fact that Luciano chooses to be business partners with Rothstein and Lansky disgusts him. [[{{Hypocrite}} And yet he's got no qualms buying heroin from the same Jewish mobsters he earlier insulted.]]

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Uses a phony real estate brokerage and development company as a cover for his illegal rackets.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Like Masseria before him, Maranzano wants Luciano to join him as an underling. But Lucky knows that he and Masseria are dead-set Mustache Petes who are unwilling to cooperate with other Italian gangs, let alone other ethnic groups like the Irish, Jews, etc.

->''"Nucky Thompson, Arnold Rothstein...Luciano and the [ [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Jews]] ] he runs with....'''I['ll] [[GottaKillThemAll kill 'em all]].'''"''

* HyperAwareness: Unlike Nucky, he notices that Harlan has something important to say, which turns out to be the key to destroy Randolph's attempt to use Van Alden as a witness. Granted, Nucky could have realized it by himself if he wasn't a {{jerkass}}, but it's notable that Harlan had been working in the house for almost a month by then and no one else had bothered to ask him either.

Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti is a particularly violent Sicilian gangster based in New York who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal in season 3. Given that he answers directly to Joe Masseria despite wielding complete authority over a sizable group of men and territory, he is implied to be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caporegime capo]] within the Morello Crime Family.

* TallDarkandHandsome: Given his physical appearance and impeccable taste in fashion, he is certainly capable of evoking this trope. [[http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/vV/esq-gyp-0912-xlg.jpg (See image)]]. However, any charm he possesses proves to be short-lived once his more unsavory qualities become apparent.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Season 5 does a TimeSkip past his 1928 death with only a brief mention of it, leaving anyone who doesn't know the history with no idea what happened]].

* CommonalityConnection: Tries to use [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]] as one with Rothstein, who sees right through the trick and lampshades it. This could also be interpreted as a way of showing the barrier between Rothstein, whose Yiddishkeit is barely noticeable, and the very Jewish Lansky. (Rothstein was born in Manhattan to a successful businessman of German Jewish origins; Lansky was born in the Russian Pale of Settlement in Grodno[[note]]Which is currently in Belarus but was historically Polish[[/note]] to a poor family).

* CommonalityConnection: Tries to use [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]] as one with Rothstein, who sees right through the trick and lampshades it. This could also be interpreted as a way of showing the barrier between Rothstein, whose Yiddishkeit is barely noticeable, and the very Jewish Lansky.

A Harlem crime boss. An immigrant from [[UsefulNotes/TrinidadAndTobago Trinidad]] and a member of UsefulNotes/MarcusGarvey's United Negro Improvement Association (even working out of Garvey's main office), he introduces himself as a philanthropist and "[[NotThatKindOfDoctor doctor of divinity]]". He is nevertheless one of the biggest heroin pushers among the Black communities of the Northeast. He has deals with Nucky and Chalky in Season 4.

A Harlem crime boss who introduces himself as a philanthropist and "[[NotThatKindOfDoctor doctor of divinity]]". He has deals with Nucky and Chalky in Season 4.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: After getting his supply from Arnold Rothstein he manipulates [[spoiler: Dunn Purnsley]] into selling heroin in Atlantic City behind his boss' back.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Rothstein is portrayed as a fairly grim, serious intellectual and introverted figure in the show; in real life, he was more of an extraverted, thrill seeking AttentionWhore.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Rothstein is portrayed as a fairly grim, serious intellectual and introvrted figure in the show; in real life, he was more of an extraverted, thrill seeking AttentionWhore.