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A veteran gangster and a long-time friend of Joe Cabot, he is one of the six men assembled by the latter for the jewel heist. He is good-natured and persuasive, and believes in a code of honor among criminals.

Affably Evil: He is the most polite of the robbers, tips waitresses, and has a distaste for killing innocent people, but as Mr.Orange found out the hard way, "just because he's a nice guy doesn't mean he won't kill you."
Badass
Berserk Button: "Don't you call me an asshole!"
Big Brother Mentor: To Orange.
Even Evil Has Standards: He doesn't kill civilians. And he always tips waitresses.
- In the original script, Mr. White was the one who refused to tip the waitress.
Four Philosophy Ensemble: Optimist.
Four Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
Guns Akimbo
Hair-Trigger Temper / Hot Blooded
Honor Before Reason: it may be a twisted sort of honor, but hoo boy.
Jerkass: Although less so than Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie.
Large Ham
The McCoy
Noble Demon: In some ways.
Papa Wolf: toward Mr Orange.
Pragmatic Villainy: Just because he hates killing civilians doesn't mean he won't kill cops.
Rated M for Manly: "Shit, you shoot me in a dream and you better wake up and apologize" and other general badassery. Makes his extremely unmanly, undignified sobbing at the end of the movie all the more jarring.
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Too Dumb to Live: He distrust people he had known for years while betting his life for a guy he knows for a few days.
Undying Loyalty: Turns out to be a fatal flaw for trusting Mr. Orange.
Villain Protagonist
Villainous Breakdown: Every now and then due to his Hair-Trigger Temper, but the most prominent one was when he finds out that Mr. Orange is a cop all along.

Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega (Michael Madsen)

A friend of Nice Guy Eddie's and one of the men assembled for the heist. He's an irredeemable psychopath, a fact which is hidden beneath his cheery demeanor.

Asshole Victim: How Mr. White sees him.
Alliterative Name: Vic Vega. And yes, he is Vincent Vega's brother.
Ax Crazy: Oh, so very much.
The Big Guy
Bait the Dog: When he tortures the cop on the chair.
Brutal Honesty
Cute and Psycho
Faux Affably Evil
For the Evulz: his motivation for torturing the cop, among other things.
Four Philosophy Ensemble: Apathetic.
Four Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody, except Eddie.
Gay Bravado
Happy Dance: a very dark and twisted version of the trope.
It's All About Me: It doesn't matters to him who he works for, because he doesn't like to be told that he have a boss.
Moral Sociopathy: He'll torture and murder innocent people, but, he refuses to give info to the authorities on his boss.
The Only One I Trust: both Mr Pink and Joe Cabot single him out as being most definitely not an undercover cop, albeit for different reasons (Pink because Blonde's too psycho, Joe because Blonde has previously demonstated his Undying Loyalty).
Psycho for Hire
Sacrificial Lion: while not sympathetic, he's the first major character to bite the dust, which ups the ante for the film.
Siblings in Crime: his brother, Vince Vega, is in the same business, although it would appear that the two work for different bosses.
The Sociopath: He is the most sociopathic thief in the movie.
Softspoken Sadist: He never raises his voice even where he's describing to the cop about how much he'll enjoy torturing him or killing a crowd of people in a store because the alarm went off.
The Stoic
Tranquil Fury: never raises his voice or loses his cool.
Undying Loyalty: for all his numerous faults, he is intensely loyal to the Cabot family.

Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi)

A young robber, logical yet neurotic.

Asshole Victim: Suprisingly averted.
Butt Monkey
The Complainer Is Always Wrong: The entire movie, Mr. Pink is trying to convince White to just abandon Orange to his fate so that they could make off with the diamonds on their own.
Consummate Professional: the only of the robbers who fits the bill.
Deadpan Snarker
Four Philosophy Ensemble: Cynic.
Four Temperament Ensemble: Choleric.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Not one of his friends, even his boss, likes to listen to him convincing them what to do.
Hyper Competent Sidekick: Despite the heist getting botched, Pink still managed to make it off with the diamonds and shake off the cops.
It's All About Me: Hoo boy. All he cares about is getting out of the heist alive.
Jerkass
Karma Houdini: partially subverted; he's the only major character to make it out alive, but he does get arrested at the end of the movie.
Lovable Coward
No Name Given: he's the only major character whose name we never find out.
Only Sane Man
Pragmatic Villainy
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He so badly wants to do this throughout the movie. He ends up being good on his word in the end when everyone shoots each other, and Pink decides to bail with the jewels.
Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Smart Guy
Sole Survivor: At the end of the movie.
The Spock

Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke (Tim Roth)

A rookie robber who becomes Mr White's protege.

Anti-Hero
Becoming the Mask
Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story
Died in Your Arms Tonight
Four Philosophy Ensemble: Realist.
Four Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
Geek / Hollywood Nerd: Has a Silver Surfer poster in his apartment and talks about the Fantastic Four and Baretta.
Good Is Not Nice: Even if he's a cop.
Heroic BSOD: on several occasions in the movie.
The Lancer
Made of Iron: let's just say Instant Death Bullet doesn't apply to this guy, several times over.
Mirror Monologue
The Mole / Undercover Cop Reveal
Na�ve Newcomer: the other crooks see him as young and inexperienced, which is why White takes him under his wing.
- Obfuscating Stupidity
Not So Different: From the thieves and his other fellow cops.
Pop Cultured Badass
Politically Incorrect Villain: Averted. If you listen, he is the only character who doesn't spew racist, misogynist, or homophobic dialogue, which leads to a Fridge Brilliance moment when you realize he is a cop with a African-American chief, whom he seems to respect, and is probably a nice guy in real life.
Screams Like a Little Girl: But so would you if you were shot in the gut.
Took a Level in Badass

"Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn)

Joe Cabot's son, helping the latter run the Family Business. Not actually nice.

Asshole Victim
Berserk Button: "STOP POINTING THAT GUN AT MY DAD!"
The Dragon: To his father.
Fiery Redhead
The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody, except his own father.
Hair-Trigger Temper
Ironic Nickname: he's not a Nice Guy in any sense of the word.
- Fluffy the Terrible
Jerkass
Non-Sibling Rivalry: He and his pal Mr. Blonde seem to have a little of this going on in their relationship with Joe. Subverted in that both men are genuinely loyal to one another.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Even more so than the rest of the cast.
Villainous Breakdown: When he finds out from Mr. Orange about Mr. Blonde wanting to kill all of them, and again when he gets involved in the Mexican Standoff between himself, his dad and Mr. White.

Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney)

A local gangster boss and the mastermind behind the jewel heist. Father of Nice Guy Eddie.

Mr Brown (Quentin Tarantino)

The getaway driver for the heist.

Instant Death Bullet: averted.
Mauve Shirt: gets more characterization than Mr Blue.
No Name Given
Pop Cultured Badass

Mr Blue (Eddie Bunker)

An old robber, one of the six men assembled for the heist.

Cast the Expert: Bunker is a former criminal.
Cool Old Guy
No Name Given
The Quiet One / The Stoic: is a man of few words.
Red Shirt
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: even the tagline sometimes says "five men" instead of six.

Marvin Nash (Kirk Baltz)

A police officer taken hostage by Mr Blonde.

Death by Disfigurement
Good Is Not Nice
Human Shield: Mr Blonde uses him as one during the getaway.
I Have a Family
It's All About Me: he freaks out about the loss of his ear which prompts Mr Orange's infamous "I'm fucking dying here!" scene.

Repo The Genetic Opera

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