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A homeless heroin addict. He mentors Johnny Weeks from seasons 1-3, teaching him the skills of scheming and scrounging that are necessary to support a life on the streets. When Weeks is attacked by members of the Barksdale crew, Bubbles renews his duties as a police informant, providing critical information to Greggs and [=McNulty=]. In season 4, Bubbs takes a different homeless youngster, Sherrod, under his wing. Unfortunately for Bubbs, the season also sees him being repeatedly beaten and robbed by another drug addict. As Kima and [=McNulty=] are no longer working drugs at that point, Bubbs must settle for snitching for the considerably less reliable Herc, who twice fails to come to Bubbles's aid. Bubbles pays Herc back for his incompetence by feeding him bad information that gets Herc in some trouble with his superiors, but his plan for dealing with the robber backfires, resulting in Sherrod's death. He turns himself in and attempts suicide, but is receives an uncharacteristic bit of mercy from Jay Landsman, who decides not to charge Bubbs and instead has Bubbs put into a detox ward where he's watched carefully to make sure he won't kill himself.
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A homeless heroin addict. He mentors Johnny Weeks from seasons 1-3, teaching him the skills of scheming and scrounging that are necessary to support a life on the streets. When Weeks is attacked by members of the Barksdale crew, Bubbles renews his duties as a police informant, providing critical information to Greggs and [=McNulty=]. [=McNulty=].
In season 4, Bubbs takes a different homeless youngster, Sherrod, under his wing. Unfortunately for Bubbs, the season also sees him being repeatedly beaten and robbed by another drug addict. As Kima and [=McNulty=] are no longer working drugs at that point, Bubbs must settle for snitching for the considerably less reliable Herc, who twice fails to come to Bubbles's aid. Bubbles pays Herc back for his incompetence by feeding him bad information that gets Herc in some trouble with his superiors, but his plan for dealing with the robber backfires, resulting in Sherrod's death. He turns himself in and attempts suicide, but is receives an uncharacteristic bit of mercy from Jay Landsman, who decides not to charge Bubbs and instead has Bubbs put into a detox ward where he's watched carefully to make sure he won't kill himself.
In season 4, Bubbs takes a different homeless youngster, Sherrod, under his wing. Unfortunately for Bubbs, the season also sees him being repeatedly beaten and robbed by another drug addict. As Kima and [=McNulty=] are no longer working drugs at that point, Bubbs must settle for snitching for the considerably less reliable Herc, who twice fails to come to Bubbles's aid. Bubbles pays Herc back for his incompetence by feeding him bad information that gets Herc in some trouble with his superiors, but his plan for dealing with the robber backfires, resulting in Sherrod's death. He turns himself in and attempts suicide, but is receives an uncharacteristic bit of mercy from Jay Landsman, who decides not to charge Bubbs and instead has Bubbs put into a detox ward where he's watched carefully to make sure he won't kill himself.
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A large and intimidating homeless addict, he is encountered in the fourth season. After first encountering Bubbles, he takes to repeatedly beating and robbing Bubbles as a way to feed his drug habit. The constant repetition of this, along with the repeated failure of Bubbles to find any legal help or recourse, will eventually drive Bubbles to take drastic action which ends tragically. He is also known as "Bubbles' Tormentor", as he's credited that way.
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A large and intimidating homeless addict, he is encountered in the fourth season. After first encountering Bubbles, he takes to repeatedly beating and robbing Bubbles as a way to feed his drug habit. habit.
The constant repetition of this, along with the repeated failure of Bubbles to find any legal help or recourse, will eventually drive Bubbles to take drastic action which ends tragically. He is also known as "Bubbles' Tormentor", as he's credited that way.
The constant repetition of this, along with the repeated failure of Bubbles to find any legal help or recourse, will eventually drive Bubbles to take drastic action which ends tragically. He is also known as "Bubbles' Tormentor", as he's credited that way.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Omar. Omar robs criminals and drug dealers for a living, while the fiend robs Bubbles, a petty thief, criminal, and occasional ConMan himself. The difference lies in how powerful and sympathetic their targets are. The fiend obviously takes much more pleasure in hurting people, and is robbing a much more sympathetic character who is considerably lower down the criminal food chain who has no chance of defending himself, which makes his actions cruel and despicable instead of cool and badass.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Omar. Omar robs criminals and drug dealers for a living, while the fiend robs Bubbles, a petty thief, criminal, and occasional ConMan himself. The difference lies in how powerful and sympathetic their targets are. The fiend obviously takes much more pleasure in hurting people, and additionally is robbing a much more sympathetic character who is considerably lower down the criminal food chain who has no chance of defending himself, which makes his actions cruel and despicable instead of cool and badass.
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* AbusiveParents: Mostly of the neglectful sort. She leaves her sons to fend for themselves while she uses whatever resources come into the family to "chase her next high."
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Her and her addiction. She neglects her children to get high, then talks about how cold Michael is to her when she does the bare minimum for him, ignoring her neglect of Michael or turning a blind eye to how his stepfather abused him.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Seems to genuinely be in love with Devar and is convinced that him getting out of prison is going to be the start of better times for her and her family.
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A large and intimidating homeless addict, he is encountered in the fourth season. After first encountering Bubbles, he takes to repeatedly beating and robbing Bubbles as a way to feed his drug habit. The constant repetition of this, along with the repeated failure of Bubbles to find any legal help or recourse, will eventually drive Bubbles to take drastic action which ends tragically.
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A large and intimidating homeless addict, he is encountered in the fourth season. After first encountering Bubbles, he takes to repeatedly beating and robbing Bubbles as a way to feed his drug habit. The constant repetition of this, along with the repeated failure of Bubbles to find any legal help or recourse, will eventually drive Bubbles to take drastic action which ends tragically.
tragically. He is also known as "Bubbles' Tormentor", as he's credited that way.
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A homeless, mentally ill man abducted by [=McNulty=] and taken to a homeless shelter in Virginia.
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* LossOfIdentity: [=McNulty=] passes him off as Donald from Cleveland. The poor man tries to say otherwise, but he can't help himself due to a disability.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged for [=McNulty=], who abducts him, takes him to an unfamiliar place and deprives him of his identity and medication. On the other hand Jimmy feels bad about his scheme and is clearly torn apart when he sees the guy unable to feed himself. It's implied in the final scene of the finale that Jimmy is going to get the guy help.
* UnwittingPawn: A central piece of the "serial killer" scheme. The man has no idea what is going on.
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A homeless, mentally ill man abducted by [=McNulty=] and taken to a homeless shelter in Virginia.
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* LossOfIdentity: [=McNulty=] passes him off as Donald from Cleveland. The poor man tries to say otherwise, but he can't help himself due to a disability.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged for [=McNulty=], who abducts him, takes him to an unfamiliar place and deprives him of his identity and medication. On the other hand Jimmy feels bad about his scheme and is clearly torn apart when he sees the guy unable to feed himself. It's implied in the final scene of the finale that Jimmy is going to get the guy help.
* UnwittingPawn: A central piece of the "serial killer" scheme. The man has no idea what is going on.
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* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: She wants to be acknowledged for picking up Michael from the police station after he was brought in for questioning. Michael tells her that he's not going to thank her for acting like his mother.
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[[folder:Larry]]
A homeless, mentally ill man abducted by [=McNulty=] and taken to a homeless shelter in Virginia.
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* LossOfIdentity: [=McNulty=] passes him off as Donald from Cleveland. The poor man tries to say otherwise, but he can't help himself due to a disability.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged for [=McNulty=], who abducts him, takes him to an unfamiliar place and deprives him of his identity and medication. On the other hand Jimmy feels bad about his scheme and is clearly torn apart when he sees the guy unable to feed himself. It's implied in the final scene of the finale that Jimmy is going to get the guy help.
* UnwittingPawn: A central piece of the "serial killer" scheme. The man has no idea what is going on.
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[[folder:Business Card Homeless Man]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/PtolemySlocum
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A mentally ill homeless person that likes collecting business cards. Several characters run into him a few times while visiting homeless people throughout Season 5. When Baltimore fears a serial killer on the loose, he gets the idea to become a [[JackTheRipoff copycat]].
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* ChekhovsGunman: He appears briefly several times before he has an instrumental role in the finale.
* JackTheRipoff: He killed another homeless man for "drinking all the time" and sloppily copies the "killer's" MO, wrapping a white ribbon around his victim's wrist (instead of a red one that was found on the previous bodies). During the interrogation he says he killed "everyone one of [the other victims]". Though shortly after he also says "I've killed millions okay? And they've all killed me", which makes it very clear he does not understand to any extent what he's done.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken or seen anywhere.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Possibly. When being interrogated, he refers to [=McNulty=] and Bunk as "liar" and "black liar" respectively. Given his extreme mental illness, it's hard to tell if this comes from a place of true racial prejudice though.
* TheScapegoat: His ultimate fate. Instead of Carcetti and the entire system being forced to come clean that they were all duped by [=McNulty's=] fake serial killer scheme, Rawls decides to pin the blame for all of the killings on him. Though at the least, they don't put him in prison and send him to a mental health facility.
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A homeless, mentally ill man abducted by [=McNulty=] and taken to a homeless shelter in Virginia.
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* LossOfIdentity: [=McNulty=] passes him off as Donald from Cleveland. The poor man tries to say otherwise, but he can't help himself due to a disability.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged for [=McNulty=], who abducts him, takes him to an unfamiliar place and deprives him of his identity and medication. On the other hand Jimmy feels bad about his scheme and is clearly torn apart when he sees the guy unable to feed himself. It's implied in the final scene of the finale that Jimmy is going to get the guy help.
* UnwittingPawn: A central piece of the "serial killer" scheme. The man has no idea what is going on.
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[[folder:Business Card Homeless Man]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/PtolemySlocum
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A mentally ill homeless person that likes collecting business cards. Several characters run into him a few times while visiting homeless people throughout Season 5. When Baltimore fears a serial killer on the loose, he gets the idea to become a [[JackTheRipoff copycat]].
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* ChekhovsGunman: He appears briefly several times before he has an instrumental role in the finale.
* JackTheRipoff: He killed another homeless man for "drinking all the time" and sloppily copies the "killer's" MO, wrapping a white ribbon around his victim's wrist (instead of a red one that was found on the previous bodies). During the interrogation he says he killed "everyone one of [the other victims]". Though shortly after he also says "I've killed millions okay? And they've all killed me", which makes it very clear he does not understand to any extent what he's done.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken or seen anywhere.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Possibly. When being interrogated, he refers to [=McNulty=] and Bunk as "liar" and "black liar" respectively. Given his extreme mental illness, it's hard to tell if this comes from a place of true racial prejudice though.
* TheScapegoat: His ultimate fate. Instead of Carcetti and the entire system being forced to come clean that they were all duped by [=McNulty's=] fake serial killer scheme, Rawls decides to pin the blame for all of the killings on him. Though at the least, they don't put him in prison and send him to a mental health facility.
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* GuileHero: He manages to inform on various drug dealers for the better part of five seasons without ever being suspected of being a snitch, mostly because he's very clever in his information-gathering.
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* GuileHero: He manages to inform on various drug dealers for the better part of five seasons without ever being suspected of being a snitch, mostly because he's very clever in his information-gathering. Deconstructed because whilst he is clever enough, he is a NonActionGuy who is completely defenseless against the junkie fiend who keeps robbing him and beating him up.
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* NonActionGuy: He has no combat skills against the more aggressive drug fiends.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Omar. Omar robs criminals and drug dealers for a living, while the fiend robs Bubbles, a petty thief, criminal, and occasional ConMan himself. The difference lies in how sympathetic their targets are and how they go about it. The fiend obviously takes much more pleasure in hurting people, and is robbing a much more sympathetic character who is considerably lower down the criminal food chain, which makes his actions cruel and despicable instead of cool and badass.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Omar. Omar robs criminals and drug dealers for a living, while the fiend robs Bubbles, a petty thief, criminal, and occasional ConMan himself. The difference lies in how powerful and sympathetic their targets are and how they go about it. are. The fiend obviously takes much more pleasure in hurting people, and is robbing a much more sympathetic character who is considerably lower down the criminal food chain, chain who has no chance of defending himself, which makes his actions cruel and despicable instead of cool and badass.
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A homeless heroin addict. He mentors Johnny Weeks from seasons 1-3, teaching him the skills of scheming and scrounging that are necessary to support a life on the streets. When Weeks is attacked by members of the Barksdale crew, Bubbles renews his duties a police informant, providing critical information to Greggs and [=McNulty=]. In season 4, Bubbs takes a different homeless youngster, Sherrod, under his wing. Unfortunately for Bubbs, the season also sees him being repeatedly beaten and robbed by another drug addict. As Kima and [=McNulty=] are no longer working drugs at that point, Bubbs must settle for snitching for the considerably less reliable Herc, who twice fails to come to Bubbles's aid. Bubbles pays Herc back for his incompetence by feeding him bad information that gets Herc in some trouble with his superiors, but his plan for dealing with the robber backfires, resulting in Sherrod's death. He turns himself in and attempts suicide, but is receives an uncharacteristic bit of mercy from Jay Landsman, who decides not to charge Bubbs and instead has Bubbs put into a detox ward where he's watched carefully to make sure he won't kill himself.
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A homeless heroin addict. He mentors Johnny Weeks from seasons 1-3, teaching him the skills of scheming and scrounging that are necessary to support a life on the streets. When Weeks is attacked by members of the Barksdale crew, Bubbles renews his duties as a police informant, providing critical information to Greggs and [=McNulty=]. In season 4, Bubbs takes a different homeless youngster, Sherrod, under his wing. Unfortunately for Bubbs, the season also sees him being repeatedly beaten and robbed by another drug addict. As Kima and [=McNulty=] are no longer working drugs at that point, Bubbs must settle for snitching for the considerably less reliable Herc, who twice fails to come to Bubbles's aid. Bubbles pays Herc back for his incompetence by feeding him bad information that gets Herc in some trouble with his superiors, but his plan for dealing with the robber backfires, resulting in Sherrod's death. He turns himself in and attempts suicide, but is receives an uncharacteristic bit of mercy from Jay Landsman, who decides not to charge Bubbs and instead has Bubbs put into a detox ward where he's watched carefully to make sure he won't kill himself.
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* TemptingFate: Johnny is ''constantly'' doing this, often mocking the idea of showing any restraint in how he uses drugs, and his boasts of how he can handle large amounts of drugs because "I'm a viking!" seem to imply he thinks he's immune to dying of an overdose. Eventually he is proved wrong.
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* TemptingFate: Johnny is ''constantly'' doing this, often mocking the idea of showing any restraint in how he uses drugs, and his boasts of how he can handle large amounts of drugs because "I'm a viking!" seem to imply he thinks he's immune to dying of an overdose. Eventually he is proved proven wrong.
