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!!Historical

[[folder: Chicago Gangsters]]

!'''[[AlCapone Alphonse "Al" Capone]]'''

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[[caption-width-right:306:"We've been on the road for 18 hours. I need a bath, some chow... then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies. Huh?"]]
Introduced as a low-ranking thug, he will soon [[FromNobodyToNightmare become a notorious crime boss]]. He develops an odd friendship with Jimmy and is Torrio's right-hand man. Played by Stephen Graham.

* BerserkButton: Mocking or hurting his deaf son. Sometimes ("Blue Bell Boy") a "surrogate" of his son will do too.
-->''(while [[spoiler:kicking O'Banion's mook to death]])'' You like to pick on people who can't defend themselves?!
* BigDamnHeroes: At the end of Season 3's penultimate episode, "Two Imposters", after Nucky has [[spoiler:lost control of Atlantic City to Rosetti and spent the entire episode on the run]], Eli returns from Chicago with Capone and his gang pledged as backup.
-->'''Al''': We've been on the road for 18 hours. I need a bath, some chow... then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies. Huh?
* BloodKnight
* BrooklynRage
* BullyHunter: Slips into this in "Blue Bell Boy".
* CigarChomper
* DawsonCasting: Capone is supposed to be 21 in the pilot, Graham is in his 30's.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Al never thinks too far ahead, and as we see time and again, it comes back to haunt him.
* TheDragon: To Torrio, though history tells us he's likely a DragonWithAnAgenda.
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: When a journalist writes a chronicle of his crimes, Al is incensed that the guy 1) portrayed him as a mere underling of Torrio and 2) [[SeriousBusiness misspelled his name]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A loving father, husband, and son, but do ''not'' cross Al.
* FakeAmerican: Stephen Graham is English.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Luciano. He can't seem to resist winding "Sal" up.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The major gimmick of his portrayal. His introductory scene features him as a lowly driver having a friendly chat with Jimmy, where we only learn at the end that he's the most famous gangster in history.
* GratuitousItalian: Speaks it fluently, being from an old-country family.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Before appearing on Boardwalk Empire, Stephen Graham was famous for playing the violent, but sympathetic, skinhead Combo in ThisIsEngland.
** He's also Shan, the NumberTwo to Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio in ''GangsOfNewYork''.
** And Baby Face Nelson in ''PublicEnemies''. Yep, he has a history of Mafia-related roles.
** [[{{Snatch}} He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer.]]
* HistoricalPersonPunchline: His introduction during the Pilot.
* HotBlooded
* TheHyena
* KickTheDog: He speaks very ill of Angela after she dies and casually abandons Jimmy in the season 2 finale. Even Mickey Doyle, who was pretty much responsible for Ange's death, is a bit disturbed by it.
* LeeroyJenkins
* MoralityPet: His deaf son is one for him.
* TheNapoleon: Because of Graham's cast, the character has shades of this. The real Al Capone was a big guy.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** He unleashes two in the first season, first on a clueless reporter who wanted his help on incriminating Torrio in Big Jim's murder, and then on a poor Greek bartender who wouldn't pay protection rackets to Torrio because he was already paying to a different mobster.
** In the third season he actually kills the target - a thug of O'Banion who had attacked one of his collectors, Jake Guzik.
* PetTheDog: There's a scene in Season 3 where he tries to teach his son to fight back against a bully. His son, scared, starts crying, and Al hugs him and comforts him. It's a major CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and {{Tearjerker}}, even more so when he later plays the guitar and sings to his son by putting Al Jr's hands on his vocal chords.
* PhonyVeteran: Although he stops such claims after being called on it by Jimmy.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's like a big kid who loves practical jokes. A pretty violent kid, but a kid.
** [[CharacterDevelopment He's trying to improve on that front.]] To an extent.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red, to Jimmy's and Torrio's Blue.
* SpitefulSpit: Does one before Chalky in "Margate Sands".
* TookALevelInBadass: This and his CharacterDevelopment is signaled by his trading a newsboy cap for a stylish fedora.
* TriggerHappy: Al's solution to everything is generally a combination of [[KillItWithFire Kill It With Bullets]] and WhyDontYouJustShootHim.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople

!'''Giovanni "Johnny" Torrio'''

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[[caption-width-right:258:"Let's say the whole thing was an unfortunate series of misunderstandings."]]
The current Italian crime boss of Chicago, he was the NumberTwo to Big Jim Colosimo before he made the error of not getting into the illegal alcohol business and was [[DeadlyEuphemism forcibly retired]]. Torrio is, however, far from being ruthless and always tries to use diplomacy first when dealing with other gangsters. Played by Greg Antonacci.

* AffablyEvil: Easily the nicest mafioso seen in the series.
* BenevolentBoss: For a mob boss, he's pretty nice to his employees. He treats the girls at the bordello well, and takes Al under his wing.
* DawsonCasting: Either this or PlayingHamlet since his age is left vague, but the real Torrio was only 38 in 1920.
* DragonAscendant: Is one to Colosimo, and Al also will become his.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He wanted to get in the alcohol business. Big Jim didn't. So now there is no more Big Jim.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Tells it often to Capone in the first season.
--> What's this "Johnny" shit?
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Torrio was Neapolitan and his criminal gang was run like a Camorra as opposed to a Sicilian Mafia. He makes no distinction between Italians and Irish in his gang, and at some point invites Al to respect the Jews and learn from them.
* EvilMentor: To Al.
* GratuitousItalian: Occasional, although some dubs exaggerate it.
** After returning from the mother country, basically all of Torrio's dialogue is related to Italy in some way.
* KickTheDog: His hasty dismissal of Pearl. Admittedly it was a business decision.
--> '''Jimmy:''' I can cover for her.
--> '''Torrio:''' A hundred dollars a day?
--> '''Jimmy:''' [[MoodWhiplash She makes that much!?]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: As shocking as it is, he does suggest this to Nucky. When Nucky asks Torrio and Rothstein what he should do about Jimmy, Torrio immediately snaps "kill the prick". Doubly surprising because Torrio likes Jimmy too.
* NonActionGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He accepts Jimmy's advice while conducting the war against Sheridan when he could easily blame losses on him and Al.
* RetiredBadass: After returning from Italy with a new perspective on life, Johnny Torrio decides to quit while he's ahead and largely withdraws from his criminal enterprise, unofficially handing over the reins to Al Capone, who seems to be thinking about redundancy in the reaction shots.
* ShutUpHannibal: In "The Pony" a furious O'Banion sets a meeting with Torrio to demand that he punish Al for killing one of O'Banion's men. Before he can say anything, Torrio just tells him that life is short, that he doesn't give a shit about the incident, and that if O'banion has a problem with Al he should discuss it with Al.
* TheSyndicate: Torrio's group operated as a large scale illegal business in control of vice rackets throughout Chicago. Torrio organized various rackets into an illegal monopoly which was supported by political influence, union tampering, bribery, and violence.
* TeamSwitzerland: Frequently.
** In season one, he spent most of his time mediating between New York (Rothstein and Luciano), Philadelphia (the D'Alessios), and Atlantic City (Nucky).
** In season two, he stayed out of things entirely until Nucky asked for his advice. Even then, Torrio does not act directly, just advises Nucky. The Young Turks also seem regard him as less of a threat than Nucky or Rothstein - probably due to Capone's protectiveness.
** In season three, after a holiday in Naples, he decides to appreciate life and take things slowly, largely avoids the gangster business, makes it known that O'Banion needs to go through Al, and turns [[spoiler: Nucky's request for help]] down flat.
* VisionaryVillain

!'''Giacomo "Big Jim" Colosimo'''

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[[caption-width-right:279:"You should all come to my restaurant. If you like to eat, you eat. If you don't like to eat... uh-hu-hu."]]
The leader of a criminal vice ring in Chicago till he retired in early 1920 [[RunningJoke on account of a bullet to his head]]. Played by Frank Crudele.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Due to his limited understanding of English.
* VillainousGlutton: Big Jim is more concerned with the food and music being played during the Atlantic City meeting.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains
* DontExplainTheJoke: Because he'll never get it.
* FailedASpotCheck: His death.
* FunnyForeigner
* GratuitousItalian
* IdiotBall: You should have invested in the alcohol business, Jim.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: Delivered by Frankie Yale.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Nearly all of the events and violence of the series occur because Colosimo is killed.
* PrettyInMink: A rare male example.
* RunningJoke: His 'retirement', to the young gangsters.
* SacrificialLamb: He's set up to be a pretty big deal... and then he gets killed during the ''pilot''.

!'''Charles Dean "Deanie" O'Banion'''

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[[caption-width-right:252:"You've been a bad boy, Alphonse."]]
Introduced in season three as a new rival for Capone, O'Banion's Irish gang runs Chicago's North Side. He's recently started edging into Jake Guzik and Capone's territory, though. Played by Arron Shiver.

* BullyingADragon: Encroaching on Torrio's territory is a bad idea to begin with, but then O'Banion also starts [[BerserkButton making fun of Al Capone's deaf son]].
* DeadpanSnarker
* GenreSavvy: Dean figures that Al showing up at his flower shop late at night is probably a prelude to a hit, and [[IndyPloy Indy Ploys]] his way out.
* HotBlooded
* IndyPloy: He is in his flower shop about to be killed by Capone when a salesman walks in. Thinking on his feet, he makes Capone think that the salesman is O'Banion's bodyguard and has a gun in his travel case. [[spoiler: Capone backs off.]]
* TheIrishMob
* {{Jerkass}}: Makes a deaf joke about Al's son.
* TheRival: For Capone, in RealLife too.
* VillainsOutShopping: O'Banion is a ''florist''. This is not a cover for bootlegging and other criminal enterprises. He really owns and works at a flower shop and can be found there tidying up bouquets.

!'''Jake Guzik'''

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[[caption-width-right:209:"As long as it's not Kugel, the wife is off my back."]]
A Chicago pimp, brewer and bribe collector for Johnny Torrio with some serious metabolism problems. Played by Joe Caniano.

* BigEater
* ButtMonkey
* FakeNationality: Polish Jew character, Italian-American actor.
* GentleGiant
* MinionWithAnFInEvil
* MoralityPet: Hurting him gets Al's blood up, as his misfortunes mirror the bullying of Al's son.
* NiceGuy
* NonActionGuy
* ThePigPen: Hygiene problem.

!'''Henry Earl J. "Hymie Weiss" Wojciechowski'''

An associate of Dean O'Banion. Played by Will Janowitz.

* TheDragon: To O'Banion.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople

!'''Ralph Capone'''

One of Al Capone's older brothers. Played by Domenick Lombardozzi.

* TheBrute: To Al.
* CoDragons: With Frank, to Al.

!'''Frank Capone'''

Another of Al Capone's brothers. Played by Morgan Spector.

!!Tropes:

* BigBrotherBully: A playful version.
* CoDragons: With Ralph, to Al.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvilGenius: The most perceptive and level headed of the Capone brothers.
* HyperAwareness: He realizes that Van Alden has a bruished hand, evidence that he is also an enforcer for O'Banion, and keeps a close eye on him while crashing the Pelaum campaign.

[[folder:New York City Gangsters]]

!'''Arnold "A.R." Rothstein'''

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[[caption-width-right:297:"Reputation takes a lifetime to build and only seconds to destroy."]]
A high-level Jewish gangster with his fingers in every pie in New York. He rigged the 1919 World Series and is being investigated for it, but is a much more level-headed crime boss than any of the others. Played by Michael Stuhlbarg.

* AllMenArePerverts: A notable aversion, nearly the ''sole'' male character in the show who is never seen as even interested in a woman, let alone sleeping around, keeping mistresses, or behaving like a sexist pig, as the majority of the other men on the show do. While Nucky claims Rothstein's "dead below the waist", Rothstein does not claim himself to be faithful, only discreet.
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BadBoss: He is overall nice, but sometimes he shows his true colors.
* BadGuysPlayPool: A consummate player who likes to use billiard metaphors
* BiggerBad: In Season 1, he backs the D'Alessio Brothers' bid to seize control over Atlantic City from Nucky Thompson.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: For Lucky Luciano]]
* CardSharp: In the odd case that his natural ability is not enough.
* CavalryRefusal: He is unwilling to go to war with Joe Masseria (even after he okays Gyp's murder attempt against him) and refuses Nucky's appeal for help in "The Milkmaid's Lot". He later works a deal with Masseria in "Margate Sands" [[spoiler: but Nucky, who has not forgiven Rothstein for his earlier refusal, uses it to set him up for trouble with both Masseria and law enforcement.]]
* CrazyPrepared: He even makes his {{Mooks}} sign life insurance policies with himself as the beneficiary.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a rather cute interaction with his wife in season 2, in which she advises him about an upset stomach. Right after that, he's basically shown "putting on" the ruthless persona he displays at all other times.
* EvilLawyerJoke: Makes one when Fallon compliments him for his ability to lie before court.
* EvilMentor: To Luciano and Lansky.
* FatalFlaw: His greed.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's always polite and well-spoken and particularly witty, but is utterly ruthless.
* FixingTheGame: The whole 1919 World Series. The subsequent legal problems force him to seek the help of Nucky.
* ForTheEvulz: Once caused a man to choke to death simply for fun.
* GreedyJew: He's called this a number of times by his antagonists.
* HappilyMarried: He and his wife Carolyn have a very sweet relationship, from what we've seen.
* HeyItsThatGuy: We've mentioned that Michael Stulbarg is [[Film/ASeriousMan Larry Gopnik]], right? Talk about PlayingAgainstType.
* HistoricalInJoke:
** There are chips from the Brook casino on his desk in "To the Lost", which was the real Rothstein's most infamous business venture.
** In the pilot, Lolly Steinman believes that Rothstein is a cheater and claims that if he was any other person he'd been dragged out of the casino and shot in an alley. Three guesses how the real Rothstein died.
* KickTheDog: He mentions that he once forced a man to choke to death for his own amusement, adding, "what do you think I'll do to you, if you don't tell me who hired you to kill "Big Jim" Colosimo?"
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative]] / MagnificentBastard
* NothingPersonal: Has a mild dislike for Jersey/Nucky and calls him out on his cavalier behavior, but still wishes him good luck when he's refusing to help him, after pointing out [[IWarnedYou he saw everything coming]] and that Nucky is just a convenience of geography and supply.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Rothstein is not-so-cool when talking to you on the phone? No wonder Mickey Doyle shat his pants.
** His veneer slips when he and Nucky discuss how to handle Gyp Rosetti.
--->'''Rothstein''':"Do you think I entered into this relationship because I value your companionship? You are a convenience of geography and supply. You promised a quantity and a price. You have ''failed to deliver''. And now owing to your inability to handle your affairs in ''New Jersey,'' a state I have little interest in or affection for, you expect me to start a war IN NEW YORK? '''WHERE THINGS ACTUALLY MATTER!?'''"
* OutGambitted: By Nucky in "Margate Sands". [[spoiler: After Rothstein gets word from Mickey Doyle that Nucky is in control of the Overholt distillery on behalf of USST Mellon, the biggest distillery in the country, he demands a whopping 99% of its benefits in exchange for convincing Masseria to withdraw his support from Rosetti. Masseria's support is bought by having Luciano arrested by crooked cops while dealing heroin in partnership with Masseria and confiscating his heroin, then offering Masseria a partnership as the only way to recover his investment. However, Doyle was actually acting on Nucky's behalf, and as soon as he closes the deal with Rothstein, Nucky rats out Rothstein to Mellon, who orders Rothstein's arrest.]]
* ThePlan: In Season 3, Rothstein refuses to finance Luciano and Lansky's latest heroin shipment; rather than waiting out like Rothstein wants, they go to Masseria and offer him the same deal along with information about Nucky's planned movement against him. [[spoiler: Rothstein has Luciano arrested by crooked cops, and his heroin (which is actually Masseria's) confiscated. Rothstein then has the heroin shipped to his office, and offers Masseria to cut him as a partner in dealing ''his own heroin'' as the only way to recover his investment, while destroying Luciano and Lansky's reputation as partners in his eyes. In exchange, Masseria must agree to withdraw his support of Gyp Rosetti, which Nucky has bought by giving him a 99% share of the biggest distillery in the country. So in a single movement Rothstein punishes his minions for going their own way, makes money if Masseria refuses, and makes ''more'' money if Masseria accepts the deal, which he does.]] The only fault in his plan is that he didn't anticipate that [[BatmanGambit Nucky was also planning on Rothstein doing this]], and Nucky pulls his own strings to have [[spoiler: Rothstein [[CallItKarma arrested]] in punishment for not supporting him [[BestServedCold earlier]] in his MobWar.]]
* PragmaticVillainy:
** When it's in his interest, he is very willing to call off taking revenge and work with his enemies. Demonstrated with Nucky in season one and Masseria in season two.
** He refuses to aid Nucky in a bloody war against Masseria, but only because he has little to gain from it.
** When Luciano and Lansky propose him new criminal ventures -heroin trade-, the [[DrugsAreBad badness of drugs]] is not even an issue; he refuses to back them because the timing is awful for business, as there's a MobWar brewing in New Jersey.
* ProfessionalGambler: And he wins loads of money that way [[MagnificentBastard because he is that damn good.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Not a nice guy at all, but he is fairly protective of his associates and is willing to listen to and reward good advice.
** Even Nucky turns to him for advice when things in Atlantic City turn bad. Rothstein could have held a grudge and said nothing but instead he gives him solid advice on how to approach the situation. Nucky is visibly impressed.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Nucky in "You'd Be Surprised", over his handling of Gyp Rosetti and his frivolous relationship with [[spoiler: Billie]].

* SoftspokenSadist
* StepfordSmiler / SlasherSmile: The more he smiles, the more one should worry they're in trouble.
* TheStoic: That smile is just there to conceal anything resembling a real emotion. He even lampshades his nature during a fallout with Nucky, retorting that emotions are not a habit of his.
* StraightEdgeEvil: Doesn't swear, drink, or womanize.
* TheTeetotaler: He likes to stay sharp at the table.
* YouHaveFailedMe: There's definite hints of this in season 2, when after being displeased by Luciano and Lansky, he has them serve as [[{{Mooks}} muscle]] in [[ReassignedToAntarctica transporting a liquor shipment]]. [[TheStarscream They begin to plan accordingly]]. It's finally done, [[DownplayedTrope non-lethally]] in "Margate Sands". [[spoiler: The police that have arrested Lucky actually work for Rothstein, who steals Masseria's heroin back. When Lucky lashes out, saying he'd trusted Rothstein, Rothstein replies that for all of his effort in turning Lucky into something better than a hotheaded thug, Lucky's failed him.]]

!'''Salvatore "Sal" "Charlie" "Lucky" Luciano'''

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[[caption-width-right:275:"I'll fucking bury this in your fucking head!"]]
Rothstein's [[TheDragon number two]], an angry, hot-blooded young man prone to violent outbursts. Really doesn't like Jimmy, especially when his plan to sleep with Jimmy's wife goes sideways and Lucky ends up having an affair with Jimmy's ''mother'' instead. Played by Vincent Piazza.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He starts this aspect of his business during the series:
** Spends most of season two trying to get Jimmy and Capone to sell heroin. He succeeds in bringing Rothstein into the heroin trade in "To the Lost".
** Backfires on him in "Two Imposters"; Charlie attempts to cut a deal for five pounds of heroin to a friend of a friend. Turns out the guy is actually NYPD, and Charlie finds himself in handcuffs.
* TheBrute
* ButtMonkey
* CallForward:
** A number of Luciano's scenes with Joe Masseria foreshadow Luciano's eventual killing of Masseria for making attempts on his Jewish allies (Lansky and Siegel, particularly).
** Luciano is also the one in "The Milkmaid's Lot" to ask Nucky how a four-city alliance of gangsters would work, foreshadowing the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City_Conference Atlantic City Conference]].
* ClusterFBomb
* TheDragon: To Arnold Rothstein in Seasons 1-3 and Joe Masseria as of Season 4.
* {{Foil}}: To Jimmy. NumberTwo to a powerful man, hot-tempered, and involved with Gillian. Unfortunately, they're also both holding a grudge over the Gillian thing.
* FriendlyEnemy: He and Jimmy team up at the end of "Age of Reason", due to Lansky's [[WeCanRuleTogether suggestion]]. He has aspects of this with Capone, too.
* GenreSavvy: He constantly checks his back and who's walking around during his meetings with Masseria. Even when the meeting is brokered by [[EvilMentor Rothstein]] himself. YouHaveFailedMe is not a trope Lucky is unfamiliar with.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HotBlooded
* IHaveManyNames: To the point that Jimmy (in S2) and Masseria (S3) lampshade it.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: A cop tells this to Luciano in "Margate Sands", regarding Luciano himself:
-->''Pricks like you, they come and go. No one remembers them. The only thing that remains is the law.''
* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike his more polite (and intelligent) boss.
* LikesOlderWomen: Doesn't actually mean to be this, as he initially slept with Gillian thinking she was Jimmy's ''wife'', not his mother. Although that doesn't stop him from continuing to sleep with her.
* MaleFrontalNudity: In "Family Limitation".
* MistakenIdentity: Mistakes Darmody's AbsurdlyYouthfulMother for Jimmy's wife and starts a romance with her. This spiteful plan turns out to be an EpicFail when he learns of the real kinship.
* [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch My Ethnicity Doth Protest Too Much]]: Lucky is a Sicilian gangster working in a Jewish mob, something very unusual. This is why Masseria, the head of the Sicilian mafia, insists on trying to bring him back to his "people".
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Very few people get to call him "Charlie" (Rothstein, Lansky, Gillian); everyone else uses "Lucky" or "Mr. Luciano". Even fewer people (Capone among them) call him by his birth name - Salvatore. Not that he particularly enjoys it:
--->'''Luciano''': What are you, my priest? Back off.
* RageAgainstTheMentor: [[spoiler: When he discovers Rothstein's double-cross]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He attempts one on [[spoiler:''Rothstein'', of all people,]] in the Season 3 finale. [[HotBlooded It needs more work]].
-->You fucking set me up. Who the fuck do you think you are? I worked for that! I busted my ASS for that! It was MY idea, MY deal. You did not lift a finger. Sit on your desk, making phone calls! I'm out there in the fucking world!
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Lanksy (and Rothstein's) blue.
* SirSwearsALot: Nucky, himself no stranger to profanity, calls him on it.
* TheStarscream: Turning against Rothstein is really more Lansky's idea, but Lucky doesn't really protest too much and begins to embrace the idea.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Not so much in season one, but in season 2, he and Lansky become this.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His pursue of a heroin deal with Masseria ends resulting in [[spoiler:Owen Sleater]]'s death.
** And ultimately of a lot of Masseria's men too.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to Joe Masseria. Forgive us for doubting Masseria's sincerity.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He's constantly needling Lansky:
-->'''Jimmy''': A lot has changed in a year.
-->'''Luciano''': Sure, Meyer's started to shave.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Hits this with Rothstein in season three's "Margate Sands", when [[spoiler: it's revealed his arrest was set up by Rothstein as punishment for going through with the heroin deal when Rothstein told him not to. Rothstein reveals his sadness that Charlie has apparently learned nothing from him in all the years he's been mentoring him.]]
* YoungFutureFamousPeople

!'''Meyer Lansky'''

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[[caption-width-right:282:"Nobody wants to be in school forever."]]
Rothstein's other main enforcer, he instead relies upon his intelligence and guile (as opposed to brute force) to get ahead in the world of bootlegging. He's also got his own protege in Benny Siegel. Played by Anatol Yusef.

* AffablyEvil: Lansky is excruciatingly polite to almost everyone.
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Wants very much to dispel this assumption, thinking that if he and Luciano carry around fake watches to sell, they'll look bad.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Rothstein.
* TheCassandra: Warns Luciano in "Two Imposters" that no matter how badly they need the money from a heroin deal to pay back Joe Masseria, cutting a deal with an unknown party is a bad plan. Luciano goes anyway and is arrested for drug trafficking.
* CommonalityConnection: Tries to use [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]] as one with Rothstein, who sees right through the trick and lampshades it.
* DawsonCasting: There is no way [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992195/ this guy]] is 18.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Yes, he got it, thank you.
* TheDragon: To Arnold Rothstein in Season 4.
* EvilGenius
* EvilMentor: Despite his young age, he already has one disciple, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel "Benny" Siegel]].
* FacePalm: His reaction to Lucien D'Alessio taunting Jimmy in "The Emerald City" can only be described as this, even though his hands were tied.
* FakeGuestStar: Yusef is still billed as a guest star in the third season, despite being as prominent to the main plot and having as much screentime as Piazza (who is main credited).
* FakeNationality: Anatol Yusef is English of Turkish descent.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: It's odd to think that a man whose introduction consisted of Chalky taunting him for his age will be one of the most powerful men in the United States in only a few years.
* HistoricalPersonPunchline: Introduced this way in "Home".
* JewishAndNerdy: In as much as a ruthless gangster can qualify as this.
* NonActionGuy: Although "The Age of Reason" shows that he also knows how to use a gun, brains were the thing that got him out of trouble again.
* OnlySaneMan: He spends much of his time with Luciano and Benny as their voice of reason.
* PragmaticVillainy: Takes after his boss in this regard, believing that one shouldn't "let the past get in the way of the future." Even in "Margate Sands", when [[spoiler: Rothstein reveals he's behind Luciano's arrest and has all their dope]], Meyer admits he understands why [[spoiler:Rothstein]] did it and stops Luciano's wrath because it will get them killed.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Luciano's and Siegel's red.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* SmokingIsCool: Just about everyone smokes, but it's Lansky who's frequently smirking and getting the better of someone while puffing on a cigarette. Probably as foreshadowing to his death by lung cancer.
* StepfordSmiler: Almost as much as his mentor, Rothstein. Though Lansky's are less evil and more "can't we all just cooperate and make money?"
* StiffUpperLip: Displays this as a kind of RefugeInAudacity when dealing with other gangsters.
* TheStarscream: Believes he and Luciano - with the help of Jimmy and his associates - can overthrow the old guard of Rothstein and Nucky.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: He and Luciano are sliding into this in season 2.
* TookALevelInBadass: We knew from season two that Meyer could use a gun, but "Bone for Tuna" has him shooting two of Masseria's goons in cold blood to save Benny's life.
* TranquilFury: Especially compared to the HotBlooded Luciano.
-->"Fifty pounds. One hundred. ''Thousand''. [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] dollars."
* VerbalTic: Says "yes" when he is trying to defuse a situation.
-->Gentlemen, I'm running a business here! Yes?!\\
Charlie, if you don't shut up, we are both dead, yes?!
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Luciano.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Well, he is supposed to be a teenager in the first two seasons.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople

!'''Benjamin "Benny" Siegel'''

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[[caption-width-right:256:"So, should I tell [Rothstein] to go fuck a duck?"]]
A teenaged hoodlum, working as a gofer for Lansky and Luciano. He's a bit strange, but watch out when he starts shooting people. Played by Michael Zegen.

!!Tropes:
* TheArtfulDodger: He debuts as a 15-year old, yet hangs around gambling dens and gangsters.
* AxCrazy
* BerserkButton: As "Bone for Tuna" demonstrates, do not attempt to bully him.
* ClusterFBomb
* DeadpanSnarker
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The kid making chicken noises? He's going to become one of the most feared mafia hitmen in history.
* HistoricalInJoke: Luciano calls him a "crazy" little kid, but he's not quite "bugsy" yet.
* HotBlooded: Imagine what he'd do if Lansky wasn't there to rein him in.
* PluckyComicRelief: The kid is witty, from his nonchalant inquiry of what Lansky and Luciano want him to do about Rothstein ("oh, so I should tell him to go fuck a duck?") to his mother-henning Lansky when told to go out and pick up some halvah ("that stuff'll rot your teeth"). His sense of humor is lost on Jimmy, however.
* RedOniBlueOni: Again, Red to Lansky's Blue.
* TeensAreMonsters
* TookALevelInBadass: "You'd Be Surprised" shows us a glimpse of the infamous hitman Benny will become - aggressive, bloodthirsty, and audacious. Though he's still got work to do - [[spoiler: he doesn't get his target, Gyp Rosetti]].
* TriggerHappy
* [[WouldHitAGirl Would Shoot A Girl]]: When [[spoiler:Rosetti]] uses the woman he's with as a HumanShield, Benny shoots her without hesitation.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople

!'''Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria'''

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[[caption-width-right:245:"On my streets: [[ThereAreNoCoincidences no coincidence]]."]]
The quintessential Old World mobster, Masseria is the ruthless, greedy Sicilian don that controls NYC's South Side. He is constantly harassing Lucky to join him, since he can't just fathom the idea of a Sicilian working with anyone but Sicilians. Played by Ivo Nandi.

!!Tropes:

* AppealToVanity: Gyp gets a second chance from Joe "the Boss" when he promises to make him Joe "the King".
* BilingualDialogue: English/Sicilian.
* BiggerBad: In Season 3, he backs Gyp Rosetti in his war against Nucky Thompson.
** NonActionBigBad: While he's easily the scariest mafioso in the series he never hits or shoots someone himself.
* DeadpanSnarker: Though he's usually blunt, he enjoys himself in his condescension towards Gyp Rosetti.
* TheDon
* TheDreaded: Every other NYC gangster would prefer not to have problems with him. [[AxCrazy Except Benny.]]
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue
* EyeAmWatchingYou: He says this to Lucky at the end of their season 2 meeting - in Sicilian, so neither Rothstein nor apparently Lansky could understand it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all of his harping on Lucky for going into business with Jews, and all his racial slurs thrown toward Rothstein in particular, he doesn't seem to have a problem [[spoiler: cutting a deal with Rothstein for Luciano and Lansky's heroin, to pay off their debt to him]]. Of course, he's getting a hundred thousand dollars worth of heroin out of the deal.

* LargeAndInCharge
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Gyp Rosetti.
* NotSoDifferent / WeCanRuleTogether: His constant overtures to Lucky, who knows it's all hogwash and that Masseria would have him only as a pawn.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: During what was planned as a DeadlyBath, Joe and his men somehow turn the tables on [[spoiler: seasoned hitman [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted Owen Sleater]]]] with a spectacular if gruesome outcome, offscreen.
* 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.
* PragmaticVillainy: Initially refuses to back Rosetti's war plans beacuse there's nothing to gain from a new war, but this changes when Gyp convinces him the Italians will be encroached sooner or later if no action is taken.
** However, when it becomes apparent that Rosetti is becoming harder and harder to control, Masseria is willing to pull his support for him, for a large sum of cash, of course.
** He's also willing to forgive Nucky for slaughtering his men, for, you guessed it, a very large sum of cash. After all, he has nothing to gain trying to continue a war the now deceased Rosetti started.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Gangster Race Guy]]
* ShownTheirWork: Masseria speaks Sicilian, a dialect that is barely intelligible to speakers of Standard Italian.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Not really, but Lucky grew up in a neighborhood controlled by Masseria and he knew him as a child. Masseria also likes to remind "Salvatore" of [[UsedToBeASweetKid what a sweet kid he used to be]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: To Rosetti halfway through Season 3. Unlike most examples, Gyp manages to talk Joe into giving him a second chance. [[spoiler: Which he quickly squanders.]]

!'''Frankie Yale'''

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[[caption-width-right:197:"You're singing a different tune from last time I come."]]

A Calabrian gangster established in Brooklyn and old friend of Torrio and Capone. Played by Joseph Riccobene.

!!Tropes:

* AffablyEvil: Always polite and compromising. If he didn't kill people for a living he'd be the NiceGuy.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Rothstein makes him one in order to make Yale tell him who ordered the death of Colosimo.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Visiting a friend".
* ProfessionalKiller: Hired by Torrio in the pilot to murder his boss, Big Jim Colosimo.

[[folder:Other Bootleggers and Associates]]

!'''George Remus'''

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[[caption-width-right:282:"[[ThirdPersonPerson Remus]] owns the distilleries and the pharmacies they are allowed to sell to. Even better, Remus owns the trucks that hijack his own liquor."]]

[[ThirdPersonPerson George Remus]] is a prominent Cincinnati lawyer and major supplier of "legal" alcohol, as Remus exploits a loophole in the Volstead Act that permits its trade for medicinal purposes. Remus is played by Glenn Fleshler.

!!Tropes:
* AmoralAttorney
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Invoked when Nucky reminds Remus that it was he who put Remus and Daugherty in contact, even though both are based on Ohio.
* {{Doublespeak}}: Remus is a master of it.
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Remus sells alcohol for medicinal purposes only. Now, if somebody "steals" that alcohol while en route, it's not Remus's concern - after all, that somebody is either Remus himself, or someone that has paid Remus beforehand.
* LoopholeAbuse
* PunchclockVillain: Remus enters bootlegging with the express purpose of making a pile of money and makes plenty of deals with mobsters, but Remus is neither violent nor apparently capable of hurting someone himself. [[ForegoneConclusion For the time being.]]
* RulesLawyer: Remus has studied all the Prohibition laws and is a master in exploiting the loopholes.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Remus has powerful political connections and is thus unafraid of prosecution.
* StraightEdgeEvil: In Remus' own words, "Remus shuns gambling". While Remus isn't above enjoying the company of remunerated ladies, Remus is rarely seen drinking, if ever. The historical Remus was a teetotaler despite owing his empire to breaking the Volstead Act.
* SmallNameBigEgo: While Remus is deservedly influential, Remus is incredibly smug and his ThirdPersonPerson shtick makes Remus rather insufferable. As a result, Remus' verbal tics get increasingly mocked by everyone who deals with George Remus (generally behind Remus' back, although at least once to Remus' face).
-->'''Remus:''' Remus finds you petty and resentful
-->'''Nucky:''' Well, Remus can go fuck himself!

-->'''Remus:''' A landlord? Now Remus has heard everything.
-->'''Rothstein:''' You can tell Remus that it happens to be true.
* ThirdPersonPerson: In case you didn't notice, [[OverlyLongGag Remus]] has a habit of referring to himself in the third person, constantly.
* VerbalTic

!'''William "Bill" Fallon'''

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[[caption-width-right:252:"$80 per hour. Which also will buy you my uncanny ability to make friends with judges."]]
Arnold Rothstein's silver-tongued lawyer, tasked with keeping him out of being prosecuted for rigging the 1919 World Series. He returns in Season 2 to take Nucky's defense in his election-rigging case. Played by David Aaron Baker.

!!Tropes:
* AmoralAttorney
* DeadpanSnarker
* 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.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Fallon has all the judges in New York in his pocket, and has a self-described "talent at winning over juries".



!'''Waxey Gordon'''

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[[caption-width-right:179:"I don't go looking for a fight."]]

The crime boss of Philadelphia and an ally of Arnold Rothstein. Played by Nick Sandow.

!!Tropes:

* TheDon
* TeamSwitzerland: In Season 2, he deals with no problem with both Nucky (who is endorsed by his ally, Rothstein) and Jimmy.
** CavalryRefusal: In Season 3 he refuses to come to Nucky's side in his war against Gyp Rosetti, claiming that he has no beef with either him or his boss, Joe Masseria. This despite the long distance between his base and Joe's, making retaliation unlikely.
* IOwnThisTown: Once he clears Philadelphia of the competition in Season 2. By Season 3 he also has the local prohis in his pocket.
* TheRival: To Manny Horvitz.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lampshaded by Jimmy, who asks him if "Waxey" is a nickname or a diminutive. Waxey declines to respond.[[labelnote:In real life...]]The whole name was fake. His birth name was Irving Wexler.[[/labelnote]]

!'''William "Bill" [=McCoy=]'''

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[[caption-width-right:203:"See that scotch that keeps you warm at night? Don't you forget who put it there".]]

A veteran seaman that gives up fishing to become liquor smuggler, shipping it down from Canada and delivering it at night. He is Nucky's main supplier and a trusted ally. Played by Pearce Bunting.

!!Tropes:
* BerserkButton: He is incensed when the Commodore tries to recruit him to work against Nucky because he considers it akin to a mutiny.
* ChekhovsSkill: Cutting coconuts with a machete [[spoiler: is not that different from hacking someone's head with the same.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: "Acres of Diamonds", after Nucky turns down a deal he set up.
* FatherNeptune
* JustGotOutOfJail: His historical arrest and jail time in late 1923 (after which he retired to Florida) happen offscreen and are referenced in "Acres of Diamonds".
* TheMole: In Season 3, Nucky tasks him to become Gyp Rosetti's supplier so he can report everything about Gyp's importing operation back to Nucky.
* NobleBigot: Nope, he is not fond of Italians. Or the Irish. Or Jesus Christ.
* SirSwearsALot: He is a sailor after all.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nucky.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His scoffing at the idea of rogue waves (which were considered an UrbanLegend in the 1920s) seals Tonino's cousin's fate.

[[/folder]]



!!Fictional

[[folder:Munya "Manny" Horvitz]]

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[[caption-width-right:248:"We got a deal. But just so we're clear, my icebox is filled with pieces of fellas who tried to fuck me over."]]
A part time kosher butcher, part time capo of Philadelphia's Jewish quarter who has a personal feud with local gangster Waxey Gordon. He becomes Jimmy's partner in crime after Mickey Doyle introduces them to each other in season 2. Played by William Forsythe.

!!Tropes:
* AllThereInTheManual: According to William Forsythe, he suffers from migraines and dementia.
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: In the season 3 premiere. Making it the fourth consecutive episode ending with a major character death. The first of this series of deaths was Angela, by Munya's own hand.]]
* BadassGrandpa
* BaitTheDog: He initially comes across as a likable AlterKocker who loves jokes and is an "old school" man of honor, and then he begins to talk about stuffing the pieces of the guys that cross him in his fridge...
* BloodKnight
* TheButcher: Both literally and figuratively.
* {{Determinator}}: In "Battle of the Century" he grabs his attacker ''through a crystal window'' during an assassination attempt, overpowers him and sinks a meat cleaver on his head, all after taking a bullet to the shoulder!
* DisproportionateRetribution: Do ''not'' betray him. EVER.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: While far from anticlimactic, he got a significantly abrupt and shocking death in the Season 3 premiere.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's pretty deferential to his wife, as we see in "Resolution", and is shown to be very gentle with her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a ''kosher'' butcher... he won't kill an already-injured man in the same freezer as his meats. Injuring that man himself and then telling a non-believer to kill him is fair game, though.
** Also [[ShownTheirWork in line with Kashrut standards]], when he sees the Commodore's hunting trophies he shows immense disapproval of killing animals purely for sport/status.
* {{Expy}}: His gangster-butcher persona is reminiscent of Bill Cutting in ''GangsOfNewYork''.
* [[spoiler: FacialHorror: Courtesy of Richard Harrow and a load of buckshot. The resulting hole in his face is comparable to Richard's own.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GreedyJew: Subverted: While he quite reasonably wants Jimmy to pay him what Jimmy owes him at first--and it is worth knowing that Jimmy has the money, [[ForTheEvulz he just doesn't want to pay him back]]--Jimmy's increasingly insulting and finally homicidal responses pushes Manny to the point where, as he tells Angela, it's beyond money.
* HolierThanThou: "What? We all have to live by (some) rules..."
* HotBlooded
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Subverted when, after an attempt on his life okayed by Jimmy, he shows up at Jimmy's house to murder him and instead finds Angela and her lesbian lover... and kills the both of them; the lover right after coming out of the bathroom - thinking it was Jimmy - and in Angela's case after she pleaded IHaveAFamily which places this firmly into KickTheDog territory.
* [[spoiler:MoeGreeneSpecial: Richard Harrow shoots him in the eye with a shotgun from close range.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Played seriously. Jimmy tries to restrain him at one point, telling him that "You can't kill everyone."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Possibly inspired by Max "Boo Hoo" Hoff, the "King of the Bootleggers" in Philadelphia during the early 20th century.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PetTheDog: He has a genuinely sweet relationship with his wife. [[spoiler:And seconds after we see this, he's killed.]]
* TheRival: To Waxey Gordon.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In an evil version of this, after an attempt is made on his life, he considers no amount of blood money sufficient to stop him from taking revenge.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk
* WouldHitAGirl: He murders Angela (and accidentally, her lover Louise), in cold blood. However, he seems somewhat shaken up about it afterwards.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: You better believe it, boychik.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He is forced to leave Philadelphia at the end of the second season, since it has been swallowed hole by Gordon, and seek refuge to Nucky in Atlantic City. [[spoiler: It doesn't serve him much in the end.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: While he dislikes killing for sport he is even more offended when someone claims the kill of another man. He believes that the only way for Jimmy to really take over Atlantic City is for Jimmy to personally kill Nucky. He also seems impressed by the fact that Nucky personally killed Jimmy rather than having Owen or Eli do it.
** Ironically, [[spoiler: Mickey Doyle ends up trying to take the credit for Munya's death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti]]

->"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair.''"
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[[caption-width-right:304:"[[NothingPersonal Nothing's personal]]? What the fuck is life if it's not personal?!"]]

A violently unstable Sicilian gangster based in Manhattan who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal in season 3. Played by Bobby Cannavale.

!!Tropes:
* AxCrazy
* BadassInANiceSuit: Takes some time to groom his own suits. During Easter he's interrupted while doing it and he just wears a wifebeater in the dinner with the family, in which he's mocked for being a SharpDressedMan in love with his suits. [[spoiler: Meaningfully, he's in disarray and shown wearing an A-shirt when he dies]].
* BadBoss: He's at [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]] and TheJoker levels of willingness to brutally murder subordinates at the slightest provocation.
* BattleTrophy: After he [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs assaults Nucky's HQ at the Ritz]], he plunders and keeps Thompson's desk as a war trophy.
* BerserkButton: While any number of things could set him off, he especially hates condescension.
* BigBad: Of Season 3, and way [[BlackAndGrayMorality more clear-cut]] than any of Nucky's previous nemeses. Joe Masseria is the BiggerBad.
* BlatantLies: Why, he's old D. L. Collinsworth and this is his gas station. They are out of gas. Seriously. That stuff pouring out of the gas pump? Nothing of importance.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In "A Man, A Plan..." he feels the need to tell the world that he is the proud son of a brick-layer and that he has contempt for fishermen. He is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} that]] [[AxCrazy kind]] [[{{Jerkass}} of guy]].
* [[spoiler:BodyguardBetrayal]]: In "Margate Sands", [[spoiler:he is stabbed to death by his second, Tonino, while his other two remaining men watch without interferring.]]
* BondageIsBad: He enjoys [[spoiler: erotic asphyxiation.]]
* [[spoiler: BookEnds: He's contemplating the Atlantic Ocean in his first and last appearances.]]
* BulletproofHumanShield: [[spoiler: He uses the poor waitress he was having sex with as cover in "You'd Be Surprised".]]
* BullyingADragon: His ReasonYouSuckSpeech to the assorted gangsters is already bad, but directing a large and offensive portion of it to [[MagnificentBastard Arnold]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Rothstein]] does not seem particularly germane to Gyp's continued existence. A.R. downplays it when Gyp half-apologizes much later, but in any case, Rothstein puts a hit on him just after said apology.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gyp is a shrewd tactician... and a violent, unstable psychopath. His superior, Joe Masseria, puts up with Gyp's "quirks" because of his loyalty and skill, but it doesn't take long before he threatens Gyp with a [[YouHaveFailedMe permanent form of retirement]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He has a tendency to show up in public settings with an off-putting accessory (dog, colonial general's hat, etc.)
* ComplimentBackfire: Nucky wishes him "good luck" in Italian, in deference towards Rosetti and his mother tongue. Gyp takes the note as a poorly written and condescending gesture and goes ballistic over it.
* CruelMercy[=/=]BaitTheDog: In "A Man, A Plan...". During one of his {{Disproportionate Retribution}}s, Gyp buries alive Franco, the cousin of his second Tonino, in the beach leaving only his head out so he'll have a long, painful agony before dying of exposure or drowning with the tide. Tonino begs Gyp for mercy, leading Gyp to [[HopeSpot pick back the shovel]]... and crush Franco's skull until well after he dies. Gyp then tells Tonino that ''he owes him'' for sparing Franco ''the wait''. [[spoiler: Eventually, [[TheDogBitesBack Tonino gets even]] in the season finale]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Hoo boy. Some guy implies offhandedly that you're ignorant of car terminology? Better bash his head in with a tire iron. Another guy wishes you good luck when you're feeling pissy? Better light him on fire. A priest tells you to quiet down in a church? Better beat up and rob that church. A local gangster is causing trouble for your booze trade? Blow up the restaurant he likes to eat at. Someone happens to know a little more about waves? Better bury him neck deep in the sand to drown and then bash his head in with a shovel.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Rosetti answers to Joe Masseria, but is largely autonomous. His operation in New Jersey is entirely his idea - and he [[YouHaveFailedMe gets nearly killed by his own boss]] for it.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first scene of season three, he beats a Good Samaritan to death for an offhand comment he takes as an insult.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Of all Boardwalk's characters, he probably has one of the deepest and most menacing voices heard so far in the entire series.
* {{Expy}}: Of Tommy [=DeVito=] in ''GoodFellas'' due to his deep-rooted insecurity and hair-trigger temper which pose an everpresent danger to friends and foes alike. He also shares qualities with Ralph Cifaretto from ''The Sopranos'' in that both are sexual deviants and both possess talents for resourcefulness and thinking quickly on their feet that are often undermined by their unstable personalities.
* {{Foil}}: Nucky Thompson is a businessman who doesn't take things personally. Gyp... well, read his tropes.
* GratuitousItalian
* HairTriggerTemper: Nucky describes him as being able to find an insult in a bouquet of roses.
* HandsomeLech: A relentless flirt; if he isn't macking on some lady or other, give him five minutes.
* HenpeckedHusband: As we see in "Sunday Best", Mrs. Rosetti takes ''zero'' crap from him.
* HiddenDepths: Gyp is not entirely made of rage, he established himself as a successful businessman in [[RememberTheNewGuy the gap between seasons 2 and 3]]. "Spaghetti and Coffee" shows that he is smarter than he first appeared, and that he actually likes to test people by feigning ignorance rather than truly being uneducated. His acumen is made evident when he quickly exploits Tabor Heights' [[ChokepointGeography strategic relevance]] and is able to talk his way out of permanent retirement with "Joe the King".
* HotGuyUglyWife
* [[spoiler: InTheBack: He's stabbed in the back by his own right-hand man.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe
* {{Jerkass}}: Rivals Mickey Doyle in terms of how many people he's pissed off and wants him dead.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Exemplified in "Bone For Tuna" and "Sunday Best".
* KickTheDog: A dog-kicker extraordinaire. Since he perceives anything as an affront, the punts are covered under DisproportionateRetribution. A unique verbal example has him gloating Nucky over the phone after causing [[spoiler: the death of Billie]].
* [[spoiler: [[KilledMidSentence Killed Mid-Song]]: And it's "Barney Google with the Goo Goo Googly Eyes," of all things. Oh, the indignity.]]
* LargeHam: In all likelihood, Bobby Cannavale is still finding bits of scenery between his teeth.
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma: Stabbed in the back by the very men he had terrorised for an entire season]]
* MaleFrontalNudity: In "You'd Be Surprised". Considering he's [[spoiler: just been in a gunfight and is covered in blood]], there's a bit of FanDisservice.
* MadBomber: He blows up a restaurant full of people in an attempt to kill Nucky and Rothstein.
* ManipulativeBastard: Throughout his appearances in the series, Gyp has proven himself startlingly adept at exploiting other characters' egos and [[ObfuscatingStupidity unflattering presumptions about his intelligence]] to his advantage. When faced with the prospect of being whacked by Joe Masseria's men due to his past failures, Gyp makes a succcessful appeal to Masseria's vanity which not only earns him an extended lease on life but the kingpin's full backing in an all-out war against Nucky Thompson. Similarly, he deceives Gillian Darmody, [[ManipulativeBastard a woman who is no slouch at deceit and manipulation herself]], into believing that she can use him as a puppet so he can pump her for information to use in his conquest of Atlantic City.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Gyp, of all people, buys off Tabor Heights at 200$ per citizen instead of merely relying on intimidation (although [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the implication]] is also there). He even enjoys himself with a friendly NewEraSpeech about ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPPxhYxF8k the importance of reading!]]''. And then he cancels Bible Camp...
* NiceHat: Masseria calls him a "general", so Gyp steals a Revolutionary War general's tricorn hat to wear.
* TheNicknamer: Dubs Gillian "Red" and "Strawberry". Luciano gets called "[[ForgottenTrope short pants]]".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Besides [=DeVito=] (and therefore his RealLife inspiration, Tommy [=DeSimone=]), Rosetti is reminiscent of other uncultured, violent Italian gangsters with a HairTriggerTemper like Albert Anastasia.
* NothingPersonal: Nucky tries to point this out, but for this guy everything is personal.
-->Everyone's a person, though, right? ''(later)'' Nothing's personal? What the fuck is life if [[ItsPersonal it's not personal]]?
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to use the non-white/wasp angle with Chalky, who doesn't fall for it.
-->'''Gyp:''' We got a lot in common, huh? We both got left out in the sun too long. Maybe you a little longer, huh?
-->'''Chalky:''' You just ain't done cooking yet, friend.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: See HiddenDepths.
* ParentalNeglect: He is not even sure of what his daughters' ages are.
* PetTheDog: He keeps the dog of a man he killed and seems to actually like the animal. He bluntly gives the dog to Margaret but later recovers it and shows concern for the pet.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Goes on a lengthy and racist tear after Nucky makes it clear he only does business with Rothstein, insulting Nucky and Owen for being Irish and calling Rothstein an anti-Semitic slur. Somewhat diluted by his HatesEveryoneEqually charming personality.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Gyp likes to refer to Italians as conquerors and has showed contempt for the Irish, Jews and Italians who work for non-Italians.
* RaisedCatholic: Bows to the Almighty, but not even the Lord is safe from [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the wrath of good ol' Gyp]]. A priest pays the mundane price for the rant.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: After he finds out that Nucky will not sell him any more liquor, he tells all the assembled gangsters exactly what he thinks of them.
** In "Margate Sands", he subjects Gillian to this when he drops his act as a lovestruck DumbMuscle and calls her out on being a self-loathing wreck who can only sustain herself by living in a state of constant self-deception,
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Foreign Gangster]]: New York-based gangster born and raised in Sperlinga, Sicily.
* TheSociopath: After just a few scenes, he is set as the most disturbing, deranged and [[FauxAffablyEvil bipolar]] sociopath of the series, which is saying something.
* StartMyOwn: His [[spoiler:takeover of Tabor Heights]] was meant to simply force Nucky into selling him liquor directly rather than have Rothstein acting as a middle man. However, he soon realizes that he can start his own smuggling operation and supplant Nucky as Rothstein's main supplier.
* [[spoiler: UndignifiedDeath: Goes down in a beach, backstabbed while taking a piss, yelling "Barney Google" after losing it. For additional figurative injury, the killer -who has plenty of reasons to kill Gyp- apologizes and all but states NothingPersonal, a motif hated by Gyp]].
* VillainousBreakdown:
** While praying in ''"Sunday Best"''. It culminates with him [[RefugeInAudacity punching a priest in the face, then robbing the church.]]
** In "Margate Sands", [[spoiler:after Masseria abandons him and Richard kills most of his remaining men, Rosetti does a horrible impression of Nucky, rambles about how he is going to go west and start over again and sings until Tonino stabs him.]]
--> Relax, it's a party. I'm making a big decision. From now on, I'm only selling hooch every other Thursday! Because I have important friends. I'm an important person. I have important garters, holding up my very important socks! Do you have any idea who the fuck I am? Do you? Do you! ... I'm Barney Google! With the googoogoogly eyes! And I never, ever, take anything PERSONAL!
* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: He 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.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Masseria tells him this in "Sunday Best". Gyp is given [[SubvertedTrope a second chance]] when he is able to talk his way out by making a point about encroachment and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution promising a pile of corpses]] to Joe "the King". Played with further; [[spoiler: Gyp only buys some time, he doesn't deliver on his promise and Joe finally sells him down the river]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tonino Sandrelli]]

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[[caption-width-right:288:"You know, I'm just asking."]]

Gyp's right-hand man and polar opposite. Much put upon. Played by Chris Caldovino.

!!Tropes:

* AllThereInTheManual: His last name is not stated onscreen.
* AffablyEvil: All things considered, a pretty decent and reasonable guy. Especially compared to his boss.
* [[spoiler: AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After surviving Richard Harrow's rampage on Rosetti's men at the brothel due to hiding in a closet, he is discovered later by Nucky and Eli, and allowed to live and leave town (permanently, or else Nucky will kill him himself) on the condition he murder his boss.]]
* ApologizesALot: A life serving psycho Gyp Rosetti has reduced him to this. Hell, he apologizes even as [[spoiler:he stabs him in the back despite the fact that Gyp had given him multiple reasons to do so at that point]].
* [[spoiler: BodyguardBetrayal: He stabs Gyp in the back while he's taking a leak and singing loudly, then stabs him in the gut for good measure.]]
* BumblingSidekick
* ButtMonkey
* TheConsigliere
* [[spoiler: TheDogBitesBack]] : [[spoiler: But takes no pleasure in killing Gyp,]] and only does it out of necessity.
* TheDragon: Only in a TheConsigliere quality, since Gyp is single-handedly more badass than Tonino.[[spoiler: Possibly DragonAscendant following his murder of Gyp.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* FirstNameBasis
* {{Foil}}: To Gyp.
* TheGenericGuy
* GenreSavvy: Knows better than anyone how to talk to Gyp.
* HonestAdvisor: Tactfully tells Gyp how weakening was his mischief on Tabor Heights in regard to his New York operations.
* NothingPersonal: Implied when he says "I'm sorry, I gotta" while [[spoiler: he's killing Gyp, a very ironic touch]].
* NumberTwo: To Gyp.
* PunchClockVillain
* TheQuietOne
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Gyp's red.
* [[spoiler: TheStarscream]]: In ''Margate Sands''. [[spoiler: He is ''[[ExtremeDoormat forced]]'' to become one.]]
* TheStoic: Pretty much a job requirement.
** NotSoStoic: He visibly tears up while watching Gyp split his cousin's head with a shovel. [[spoiler: He also eventually stops putting up with Gyp's constant bullshit.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Valentin Narcisse]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Only kings understand each other."]]

Harlem crime boss who introduces himself as a philantropist and "[[NotThatKindOfDoctor doctor of divinity]]". He has deals with Nucky and Chalky in Season 4. Played by Jeffrey Wright.

!!Tropes:

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: After getting his supply from Arnold Rothstein he manipulates [[spoiler: Dunn Purnsley]] into selling heroin in Atlantic City behind his boss' back.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He stops every act on The Onyx Club until Nucky and Chalky agree to make concessions [[spoiler: for the death of his booking agent at the hands of Dunn Purnsley]].
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He's fond of quoting the Bible.
* BadBoss
* BeardOfEvil
* BoomerangBigot: He shows contempt for interracial sex and blacks who work with white people. Yet he himself is very pale skinend and works with white people on a regular basis.
* ButNotTooBlack: Like many other rich African-Americans seen in the series. He also shows contempt for the darker skinned Chalky White.
* CreepyMonotone: The tone of his voice, thoughtfully measured and calculating, can come off as quite unsettling at times.
* EvilCounterpart: To Chalky White, of whom he also counts as a {{foil}}.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Don't get fooled by his polite manners. He's bad.
* HolierThanThou
* InsistentTerminology: '''Doctor''' Narcisse.
* MalcolmXerox: He sees himself as a "Lybian" nationalist and considers racial mixing as degrading.
* ManipulativeBastard
* 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.
* NonActionGuy
* NotThatKindOfDoctor
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PunnyName: Well, he seems to love himself.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* SoftSpokenSadist: He's soft-spoken and polite, but he [[spoiler:has a woman brutally murdered in cold blood.]]
* VisionaryVillain / WellIntentionedExtremist: He is a member of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League UNIA-ACL]] and wants to improve African-American society at heart. [[BlackAndGrayMorality In every other show he'd be the hero.]]
* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon:
** Chalky initially thinks he is from Jamaica, but he is from Trinidad.
** The character was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen almost]] named "[[UpToEleven Calypso Pete]]".
* WickedCultured
* YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Alma Pastor was likely going to die no matter what she said.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The D'Alessio Brothers]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Leo D'Alessio''': the eldest of the siblings as well as the gang's leader.]]

->'''Ignatius''': ''"Our father loves our mother very much."''

A violent gang [[SiblingsInCrime formed by six out of nine brothers]] from Philadelphia (not counting sisters). They are brought to Atlantic City as associates of Mickey Doyle's bootlegging business and lead to confict with Nucky after Doyle is arrested and Nucky gives his business to Chalky.

!!Tropes:
* BigBad: Leo, the eldest brother who by extension serves as the BigBad of season 1 due to his efforts to seize control of Atlantic City with the backing of [[BiggerBad Arnold Rothstein, the most powerful crime lord in New York City at the dawn of the 20s]]. Played by Max Casella.
* BoomHeadShot: Lucien, Sixtus and Pius die this way.
* TheBrute: Teo, the third brother, [[MundaneUtility who also cuts their hair]]. Played by Al Linea.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: After killing them in the first season finale, Nucky pins the Woods Massacre and by extension Hans Schroeder's death on them.
* TheDragon: Ignatius, the second brother. Played by Edoardo Ballerini.
* TheDriver: Apparently Pius, despite [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior being 14 at most]].
* EnfantTerrible: Pius, the sixth brother. The fact he has a police file as big as any of his big brothers leaves little doubt about it. Played by Nicholas Martino.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Matteo attempts to do this, but finds it hard to remain dignified while Chalky White is strangling him.
* FamilyThemeNaming: They are all named after Popes.
* FiveBadBand: Six, actually. But who really cared to differentiate between Lucien and Sixtus?
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on the Lanzetta Brothers, bootleggers that operated in Philadelphia in the 1920s.
* TheQuietOne: Sixtus, the fifth brother, who [[TheVoiceless has no lines whatsoever]]. Played by Eric Schneider.
* RedRightHand: Lucien has some kind of birthmark on his face, Nucky describes it as resembling a shit-stain.
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Out-of-State Gangsters]]
* SiblingsInCrime
* SlashedThroat: The way Leo is killed in the first season finale.
* TooDumbToLive: Lucien, the fourth brother, taunts Jimmy when he has him tied up and gets shot for the trouble. Arguable ButtMonkey of the team. Played by Louis Vanaria.
* WhiteSheep: There is apparently one adult brother in Philly, Adrian, that did not pursue a criminal career, and instead became a dentist.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charlie Sheridan]]

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[[caption-width-right:261:"You New York fellahs make me laugh. You come here from Brooklyn or whereevr the fuck and act like you own the town."]]
An Irish gangster who comes into conflict with Jimmy Darmody and Al Capone in Chicago. Played by Frank Shattuck.

!!Tropes
* ArcVillain
* BoomHeadshot: His death.
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* FailedASpotCheck: Got him killed, along with his entire crew. Shoulda paid more attention to the coat girl.
* GenreSavvy:
-->'''Torrio''': After that stunt you pulled, you still don't trust me?
-->'''Sheridan''': No, I don't.
* ILied: He agrees to Al's terms, only to order an attack on the Four Deuces.
* TheIrishMob
* KickTheDog: Ultimately, his only significant action was ordering Pearl's mutilation.
* NoIndoorVoice
* NouveauRiche
-->'''Sheridan:''' Classy, huh? I remember they used to have a sign out front that said "No Dogs or Irishmen". Now I could buy the whole fuckin' joint.
-->'''Torrio:''' You're an inspiration to us all.
* OutGambitted: By Jimmy, leading to his death.
* PreMortemOneLiner: ''"I think you would agree Greek Town belongs to us now."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Liam]]

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[[caption-width-right:228:"Jesus... You are like a fuckin' angel!"]]
One of Charlie Sheridan's goons, responsible for Pearl's mutilation. Played by Sean Weil.

!!Tropes:
* DirtyCoward: Notably absent from Jimmy's meeting with Sheridan after Pearl's disfigurement (though this may have been a tactical move on Sheridan's part). Also a chickenhawk.
* TheDragon: To Sheridan.
* FirstNameBasis
* HopeSpot: For a few seconds it looked like Jimmy might actually spare him.
* JerkAss
* KarmicDeath: Killed by a suicidal disfigured man after disfiguring a woman and driving her to sucicide.
* KickTheDog: Carving up the resident HookerWithAHeartOfGold didn't do much for audience sympathy towards Liam.
* MistakenForGay: A given when you visit a brothel and ask for two men in a row...
* PunchClockVillain: He and Sheridan both argue that he qualifies, and we don't see enough characterization to know for sure, but he seemed to take some sadistic pleasure in cutting open Pearl's face.

[[/folder]]

!'''William "Bill" Fallon'''

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[[caption-width-right:252:"$80 per hour. Which also will buy you my uncanny ability to make friends with judges."]]
Arnold Rothstein's silver-tongued lawyer, tasked with keeping him out of being prosecuted for rigging the 1919 World Series. He returns in Season 2 to take Nucky's defense in his election-rigging case. Played by David Aaron Baker.

[[Characters/BoardwalkEmpire Return to Boardwalk Empire Characters]]

[[folder:Other bootleggers, crime lords and associates]]

!'''Waxey Gordon'''

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[[caption-width-right:179:"I don't go looking for a fight."]]

The crime boss of Philadelphia and an ally of Arnold Rothstein. Played by Nick Sandow.

* TheDon
* TeamSwitzerland: In Season 2, he deals with no problem with both Nucky (who is endorsed by his ally, Rothstein) and Jimmy.
** CavalryRefusal: In Season 3 he refuses to come to Nucky's side in his war against Gyp Rosetti, claiming that he has no beef with either him or his boss, Joe Masseria. This despite the long distance between his base and Joe's, making retaliation unlikely.
* IOwnThisTown: Once he clears Philadelphia of the competition in Season 2. By Season 3 he also has the local prohis in his pocket.
* TheRival: To Manny Horvitz.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lampshaded by Jimmy, who asks him if "Waxey" is a nickname or a diminutive. Waxey declines to respond.[[labelnote:In real life...]]The whole name was fake. His birth name was Irving Wexler.[[/labelnote]]

!'''William "Bill" [=McCoy=]'''

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[[caption-width-right:203:"See that scotch that keeps you warm at night? Don't you forget who put it there".]]

A veteran seaman that gives up fishing to become liquor smuggler, shipping it down from Canada and delivering it at night. He is Nucky's main supplier and a trusted ally. Played by Pearce Bunting.

[[/folder]]

!!Fictional

[[folder:Munya "Manny" Horvitz]]

[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manny-horvitz_5955.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:"We got a deal. But just so we're clear, my icebox is filled with pieces of fellas who tried to fuck me over."]]
A part time kosher butcher, part time capo of Philadelphia's Jewish quarter who has a personal feud with local gangster Waxey Gordon. He becomes Jimmy's partner in crime after Mickey Doyle introduces them to each other in season 2. Played by William Forsythe.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to William Forsythe, he suffers from migraines and dementia.
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: In the season 3 premiere. Making it the fourth consecutive episode ending with a major character death. The first of this series of deaths was Angela, by Munya's own hand.]]
* BadassGrandpa
* BaitTheDog: He initially comes across as a likable AlterKocker who loves jokes and is an "old school" man of honor, and then he begins to talk about stuffing the pieces of the guys that cross him in his fridge...
* BloodKnight
* TheButcher: Both literally and figuratively.
* {{Determinator}}: In "Battle of the Century" he grabs his attacker ''through a crystal window'' during an assassination attempt, overpowers him and sinks a meat cleaver on his head, all after taking a bullet to the shoulder!
* DisproportionateRetribution: Do ''not'' betray him. EVER.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: While far from anticlimactic, he got a significantly abrupt and shocking death in the Season 3 premiere.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's pretty deferential to his wife, as we see in "Resolution", and is shown to be very gentle with her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a ''kosher'' butcher... he won't kill an already-injured man in the same freezer as his meats. Injuring that man himself and then telling a non-believer to kill him is fair game, though.
** Also [[ShownTheirWork in line with Kashrut standards]], when he sees the Commodore's hunting trophies he shows immense disapproval of killing animals purely for sport/status.
* {{Expy}}: His gangster-butcher persona is reminiscent of Bill Cutting in ''GangsOfNewYork''.
* [[spoiler: FacialHorror: Courtesy of Richard Harrow and a load of buckshot. The resulting hole in his face is comparable to Richard's own.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GreedyJew: Subverted: While he quite reasonably wants Jimmy to pay him what Jimmy owes him at first--and it is worth knowing that Jimmy has the money, [[ForTheEvulz he just doesn't want to pay him back]]--Jimmy's increasingly insulting and finally homicidal responses pushes Manny to the point where, as he tells Angela, it's beyond money.
* HolierThanThou: "What? We all have to live by (some) rules..."
* HotBlooded
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Subverted when, after an attempt on his life okayed by Jimmy, he shows up at Jimmy's house to murder him and instead finds Angela and her lesbian lover... and kills the both of them; the lover right after coming out of the bathroom - thinking it was Jimmy - and in Angela's case after she pleaded IHaveAFamily which places this firmly into KickTheDog territory.
* [[spoiler:MoeGreeneSpecial: Richard Harrow shoots him in the eye with a shotgun from close range.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Played seriously. Jimmy tries to restrain him at one point, telling him that "You can't kill everyone."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Possibly inspired by Max "Boo Hoo" Hoff, the "King of the Bootleggers" in Philadelphia during the early 20th century.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PetTheDog: He has a genuinely sweet relationship with his wife. [[spoiler:And seconds after we see this, he's killed.]]
* TheRival: To Waxey Gordon.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In an evil version of this, after an attempt is made on his life, he considers no amount of blood money sufficient to stop him from taking revenge.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk
* WouldHitAGirl: He murders Angela (and accidentally, her lover Louise), in cold blood. However, he seems somewhat shaken up about it afterwards.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: You better believe it, boychik.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He is forced to leave Philadelphia at the end of the second season, since it has been swallowed hole by Gordon, and seek refuge to Nucky in Atlantic City. [[spoiler: It doesn't serve him much in the end.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: While he dislikes killing for sport he is even more offended when someone claims the kill of another man. He believes that the only way for Jimmy to really take over Atlantic City is for Jimmy to personally kill Nucky. He also seems impressed by the fact that Nucky personally killed Jimmy rather than having Owen or Eli do it.
** Ironically, [[spoiler: Mickey Doyle ends up trying to take the credit for Munya's death.]]

[[folder:Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti]]

->"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair.''"
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[[caption-width-right:304:"[[NothingPersonal Nothing's personal]]? What the fuck is life if it's not personal?!"]]

A violently unstable Sicilian gangster based in Manhattan who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal in season 3. Played by Bobby Cannavale.

[[folder:Munya "Manny" Horvitz]]

[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manny-horvitz_5955.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:"We got a deal. But just so we're clear, my icebox is filled with pieces of fellas who tried to fuck me over."]]
A part time kosher butcher, part time capo of Philadelphia's Jewish quarter who has a personal feud with local gangster Waxey Gordon. He becomes Jimmy's partner in crime after Mickey Doyle introduces them to each other in season 2. Played by William Forsythe.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to William Forsythe, he suffers from migraines and dementia.
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: In the season 3 premiere. Making it the fourth consecutive episode ending with a major character death. The first of this series of deaths was Angela, by Munya's own hand.]]
* BadassGrandpa
* BaitTheDog: He initially comes across as a likable AlterKocker who loves jokes and is an "old school" man of honor, and then he begins to talk about stuffing the pieces of the guys that cross him in his fridge...

* TheButcher: Both literally and figuratively.
* {{Determinator}}: In "Battle of the Century" he grabs his attacker ''through a crystal window'' during an assassination attempt, overpowers him and sinks a meat cleaver on his head, all after taking a bullet to the shoulder!
* DisproportionateRetribution: Do ''not'' betray him. EVER.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: While far from anticlimactic, he got a significantly abrupt and shocking death in the Season 3 premiere.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's pretty deferential to his wife, as we see in "Resolution", and is shown to be very gentle with her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a ''kosher'' butcher... he won't kill an already-injured man in the same freezer as his meats. Injuring that man himself and then telling a non-believer to kill him is fair game, though.
** Also [[ShownTheirWork in line with Kashrut standards]], when he sees the Commodore's hunting trophies he shows immense disapproval of killing animals purely for sport/status.
* {{Expy}}: His gangster-butcher persona is reminiscent of Bill Cutting in ''GangsOfNewYork''.
* [[spoiler: FacialHorror: Courtesy of Richard Harrow and a load of buckshot. The resulting hole in his face is comparable to Richard's own.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GreedyJew: Subverted: While he quite reasonably wants Jimmy to pay him what Jimmy owes him at first--and it is worth knowing that Jimmy has the money, [[ForTheEvulz he just doesn't want to pay him back]]--Jimmy's increasingly insulting and finally homicidal responses pushes Manny to the point where, as he tells Angela, it's beyond money.
* HolierThanThou: "What? We all have to live by (some) rules..."

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Subverted when, after an attempt on his life okayed by Jimmy, he shows up at Jimmy's house to murder him and instead finds Angela and her lesbian lover... and kills the both of them; the lover right after coming out of the bathroom - thinking it was Jimmy - and in Angela's case after she pleaded IHaveAFamily which places this firmly into KickTheDog territory.
* [[spoiler:MoeGreeneSpecial: Richard Harrow shoots him in the eye with a shotgun from close range.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Played seriously. Jimmy tries to restrain him at one point, telling him that "You can't kill everyone."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Possibly inspired by Max "Boo Hoo" Hoff, the "King of the Bootleggers" in Philadelphia during the early 20th century.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PetTheDog: He has a genuinely sweet relationship with his wife. [[spoiler:And seconds after we see this, he's killed.]]
* TheRival: To Waxey Gordon.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In an evil version of this, after an attempt is made on his life, he considers no amount of blood money sufficient to stop him from taking revenge.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk
* WouldHitAGirl: He murders Angela (and accidentally, her lover Louise), in cold blood. However, he seems somewhat shaken up about it afterwards.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: You better believe it, boychik.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He is forced to leave Philadelphia at the end of the second season, since it has been swallowed hole by Gordon, and seek refuge to Nucky in Atlantic City. [[spoiler: It doesn't serve him much in the end.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: While he dislikes killing for sport he is even more offended when someone claims the kill of another man. He believes that the only way for Jimmy to really take over Atlantic City is for Jimmy to personally kill Nucky. He also seems impressed by the fact that Nucky personally killed Jimmy rather than having Owen or Eli do it.
** Ironically, [[spoiler: Mickey Doyle ends up trying to take the credit for Munya's death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti]]

->"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair.''"
[[quoteright:304:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20120921-bobby-306x-1348248508_1776.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:304:"[[NothingPersonal Nothing's personal]]? What the fuck is life if it's not personal?!"]]

A violently unstable Sicilian gangster based in Manhattan who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal in season 3. Played by Bobby Cannavale.

* AxCrazy
* BadassInANiceSuit: Takes some time to groom his own suits. During Easter he's interrupted while doing it and he just wears a wifebeater in the dinner with the family, in which he's mocked for being a SharpDressedMan in love with his suits. [[spoiler: Meaningfully, he's in disarray and shown wearing an A-shirt when he dies]].
* BadBoss: He's at [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]] and TheJoker levels of willingness to brutally murder subordinates at the slightest provocation.
* BattleTrophy: After he [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs assaults Nucky's HQ at the Ritz]], he plunders and keeps Thompson's desk as a war trophy.
* BerserkButton: While any number of things could set him off, he especially hates condescension.
* BigBad: Of Season 3, and way [[BlackAndGrayMorality more clear-cut]] than any of Nucky's previous nemeses. Joe Masseria is the BiggerBad.
* BlatantLies: Why, he's old D. L. Collinsworth and this is his gas station. They are out of gas. Seriously. That stuff pouring out of the gas pump? Nothing of importance.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In "A Man, A Plan..." he feels the need to tell the world that he is the proud son of a brick-layer and that he has contempt for fishermen. He is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} that]] [[AxCrazy kind]] [[{{Jerkass}} of guy]].
* [[spoiler:BodyguardBetrayal]]: In "Margate Sands", [[spoiler:he is stabbed to death by his second, Tonino, while his other two remaining men watch without interferring.]]
* BondageIsBad: He enjoys [[spoiler: erotic asphyxiation.]]
* [[spoiler: BookEnds: He's contemplating the Atlantic Ocean in his first and last appearances.]]
* BulletproofHumanShield: [[spoiler: He uses the poor waitress he was having sex with as cover in "You'd Be Surprised".]]
* BullyingADragon: His ReasonYouSuckSpeech to the assorted gangsters is already bad, but directing a large and offensive portion of it to [[MagnificentBastard Arnold]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Rothstein]] does not seem particularly germane to Gyp's continued existence. A.R. downplays it when Gyp half-apologizes much later, but in any case, Rothstein puts a hit on him just after said apology.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gyp is a shrewd tactician... and a violent, unstable psychopath. His superior, Joe Masseria, puts up with Gyp's "quirks" because of his loyalty and skill, but it doesn't take long before he threatens Gyp with a [[YouHaveFailedMe permanent form of retirement]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He has a tendency to show up in public settings with an off-putting accessory (dog, colonial general's hat, etc.)
* ComplimentBackfire: Nucky wishes him "good luck" in Italian, in deference towards Rosetti and his mother tongue. Gyp takes the note as a poorly written and condescending gesture and goes ballistic over it.
* CruelMercy[=/=]BaitTheDog: In "A Man, A Plan...". During one of his {{Disproportionate Retribution}}s, Gyp buries alive Franco, the cousin of his second Tonino, in the beach leaving only his head out so he'll have a long, painful agony before dying of exposure or drowning with the tide. Tonino begs Gyp for mercy, leading Gyp to [[HopeSpot pick back the shovel]]... and crush Franco's skull until well after he dies. Gyp then tells Tonino that ''he owes him'' for sparing Franco ''the wait''. [[spoiler: Eventually, [[TheDogBitesBack Tonino gets even]] in the season finale]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Hoo boy. Some guy implies offhandedly that you're ignorant of car terminology? Better bash his head in with a tire iron. Another guy wishes you good luck when you're feeling pissy? Better light him on fire. A priest tells you to quiet down in a church? Better beat up and rob that church. A local gangster is causing trouble for your booze trade? Blow up the restaurant he likes to eat at. Someone happens to know a little more about waves? Better bury him neck deep in the sand to drown and then bash his head in with a shovel.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Rosetti answers to Joe Masseria, but is largely autonomous. His operation in New Jersey is entirely his idea - and he [[YouHaveFailedMe gets nearly killed by his own boss]] for it.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first scene of season three, he beats a Good Samaritan to death for an offhand comment he takes as an insult.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Of all Boardwalk's characters, he probably has one of the deepest and most menacing voices heard so far in the entire series.
* {{Expy}}: Of Tommy [=DeVito=] in ''GoodFellas'' due to his deep-rooted insecurity and hair-trigger temper which pose an everpresent danger to friends and foes alike. He also shares qualities with Ralph Cifaretto from ''The Sopranos'' in that both are sexual deviants and both possess talents for resourcefulness and thinking quickly on their feet that are often undermined by their unstable personalities.
* {{Foil}}: Nucky Thompson is a businessman who doesn't take things personally. Gyp... well, read his tropes.

* HairTriggerTemper: Nucky describes him as being able to find an insult in a bouquet of roses.
* HandsomeLech: A relentless flirt; if he isn't macking on some lady or other, give him five minutes.
* HenpeckedHusband: As we see in "Sunday Best", Mrs. Rosetti takes ''zero'' crap from him.
* HiddenDepths: Gyp is not entirely made of rage, he established himself as a successful businessman in [[RememberTheNewGuy the gap between seasons 2 and 3]]. "Spaghetti and Coffee" shows that he is smarter than he first appeared, and that he actually likes to test people by feigning ignorance rather than truly being uneducated. His acumen is made evident when he quickly exploits Tabor Heights' [[ChokepointGeography strategic relevance]] and is able to talk his way out of permanent retirement with "Joe the King".
* HotGuyUglyWife
* [[spoiler: InTheBack: He's stabbed in the back by his own right-hand man.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe
* {{Jerkass}}: Rivals Mickey Doyle in terms of how many people he's pissed off and wants him dead.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Exemplified in "Bone For Tuna" and "Sunday Best".
* KickTheDog: A dog-kicker extraordinaire. Since he perceives anything as an affront, the punts are covered under DisproportionateRetribution. A unique verbal example has him gloating Nucky over the phone after causing [[spoiler: the death of Billie]].
* [[spoiler: [[KilledMidSentence Killed Mid-Song]]: And it's "Barney Google with the Goo Goo Googly Eyes," of all things. Oh, the indignity.]]
* LargeHam: In all likelihood, Bobby Cannavale is still finding bits of scenery between his teeth.
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma: Stabbed in the back by the very men he had terrorised for an entire season]]
* MaleFrontalNudity: In "You'd Be Surprised". Considering he's [[spoiler: just been in a gunfight and is covered in blood]], there's a bit of FanDisservice.
* MadBomber: He blows up a restaurant full of people in an attempt to kill Nucky and Rothstein.
* ManipulativeBastard: Throughout his appearances in the series, Gyp has proven himself startlingly adept at exploiting other characters' egos and [[ObfuscatingStupidity unflattering presumptions about his intelligence]] to his advantage. When faced with the prospect of being whacked by Joe Masseria's men due to his past failures, Gyp makes a succcessful appeal to Masseria's vanity which not only earns him an extended lease on life but the kingpin's full backing in an all-out war against Nucky Thompson. Similarly, he deceives Gillian Darmody, [[ManipulativeBastard a woman who is no slouch at deceit and manipulation herself]], into believing that she can use him as a puppet so he can pump her for information to use in his conquest of Atlantic City.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Gyp, of all people, buys off Tabor Heights at 200$ per citizen instead of merely relying on intimidation (although [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the implication]] is also there). He even enjoys himself with a friendly NewEraSpeech about ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPPxhYxF8k the importance of reading!]]''. And then he cancels Bible Camp...
* NiceHat: Masseria calls him a "general", so Gyp steals a Revolutionary War general's tricorn hat to wear.
* TheNicknamer: Dubs Gillian "Red" and "Strawberry". Luciano gets called "[[ForgottenTrope short pants]]".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Besides [=DeVito=] (and therefore his RealLife inspiration, Tommy [=DeSimone=]), Rosetti is reminiscent of other uncultured, violent Italian gangsters with a HairTriggerTemper like Albert Anastasia.
* NothingPersonal: Nucky tries to point this out, but for this guy everything is personal.
-->Everyone's a person, though, right? ''(later)'' Nothing's personal? What the fuck is life if [[ItsPersonal it's not personal]]?
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to use the non-white/wasp angle with Chalky, who doesn't fall for it.
-->'''Gyp:''' We got a lot in common, huh? We both got left out in the sun too long. Maybe you a little longer, huh?
-->'''Chalky:''' You just ain't done cooking yet, friend.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: See HiddenDepths.
* ParentalNeglect: He is not even sure of what his daughters' ages are.
* PetTheDog: He keeps the dog of a man he killed and seems to actually like the animal. He bluntly gives the dog to Margaret but later recovers it and shows concern for the pet.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Goes on a lengthy and racist tear after Nucky makes it clear he only does business with Rothstein, insulting Nucky and Owen for being Irish and calling Rothstein an anti-Semitic slur. Somewhat diluted by his HatesEveryoneEqually charming personality.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Gyp likes to refer to Italians as conquerors and has showed contempt for the Irish, Jews and Italians who work for non-Italians.
* RaisedCatholic: Bows to the Almighty, but not even the Lord is safe from [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the wrath of good ol' Gyp]]. A priest pays the mundane price for the rant.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: After he finds out that Nucky will not sell him any more liquor, he tells all the assembled gangsters exactly what he thinks of them.
** In "Margate Sands", he subjects Gillian to this when he drops his act as a lovestruck DumbMuscle and calls her out on being a self-loathing wreck who can only sustain herself by living in a state of constant self-deception,
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Foreign Gangster]]: New York-based gangster born and raised in Sperlinga, Sicily.
* TheSociopath: After just a few scenes, he is set as the most disturbing, deranged and [[FauxAffablyEvil bipolar]] sociopath of the series, which is saying something.
* StartMyOwn: His [[spoiler:takeover of Tabor Heights]] was meant to simply force Nucky into selling him liquor directly rather than have Rothstein acting as a middle man. However, he soon realizes that he can start his own smuggling operation and supplant Nucky as Rothstein's main supplier.
* [[spoiler: UndignifiedDeath: Goes down in a beach, backstabbed while taking a piss, yelling "Barney Google" after losing it. For additional figurative injury, the killer -who has plenty of reasons to kill Gyp- apologizes and all but states NothingPersonal, a motif hated by Gyp]].
* VillainousBreakdown:
** While praying in ''"Sunday Best"''. It culminates with him [[RefugeInAudacity punching a priest in the face, then robbing the church.]]
** In "Margate Sands", [[spoiler:after Masseria abandons him and Richard kills most of his remaining men, Rosetti does a horrible impression of Nucky, rambles about how he is going to go west and start over again and sings until Tonino stabs him.]]
--> Relax, it's a party. I'm making a big decision. From now on, I'm only selling hooch every other Thursday! Because I have important friends. I'm an important person. I have important garters, holding up my very important socks! Do you have any idea who the fuck I am? Do you? Do you! ... I'm Barney Google! With the googoogoogly eyes! And I never, ever, take anything PERSONAL!
* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: He 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.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Masseria tells him this in "Sunday Best". Gyp is given [[SubvertedTrope a second chance]] when he is able to talk his way out by making a point about encroachment and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution promising a pile of corpses]] to Joe "the King". Played with further; [[spoiler: Gyp only buys some time, he doesn't deliver on his promise and Joe finally sells him down the river]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tonino Sandrelli]]

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[[caption-width-right:288:"You know, I'm just asking."]]

Gyp's right-hand man and polar opposite. Much put upon. Played by Chris Caldovino.

* AllThereInTheManual: His last name is not stated onscreen.
* AffablyEvil: All things considered, a pretty decent and reasonable guy. Especially compared to his boss.
* [[spoiler: AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After surviving Richard Harrow's rampage on Rosetti's men at the brothel due to hiding in a closet, he is discovered later by Nucky and Eli, and allowed to live and leave town (permanently, or else Nucky will kill him himself) on the condition he murder his boss.]]
* ApologizesALot: A life serving psycho Gyp Rosetti has reduced him to this. Hell, he apologizes even as [[spoiler:he stabs him in the back despite the fact that Gyp had given him multiple reasons to do so at that point]].
* [[spoiler: BodyguardBetrayal: He stabs Gyp in the back while he's taking a leak and singing loudly, then stabs him in the gut for good measure.]]
* BumblingSidekick

* TheConsigliere
* [[spoiler: TheDogBitesBack]] : [[spoiler: But takes no pleasure in killing Gyp,]] and only does it out of necessity.
* TheDragon: Only in a TheConsigliere quality, since Gyp is single-handedly more badass than Tonino.[[spoiler: Possibly DragonAscendant following his murder of Gyp.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* FirstNameBasis
* {{Foil}}: To Gyp.
* TheGenericGuy
* GenreSavvy: Knows better than anyone how to talk to Gyp.
* HonestAdvisor: Tactfully tells Gyp how weakening was his mischief on Tabor Heights in regard to his New York operations.
* NothingPersonal: Implied when he says "I'm sorry, I gotta" while [[spoiler: he's killing Gyp, a very ironic touch]].
* NumberTwo: To Gyp.
* PunchClockVillain
* TheQuietOne
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Gyp's red.
* [[spoiler: TheStarscream]]: In ''Margate Sands''. [[spoiler: He is ''[[ExtremeDoormat forced]]'' to become one.]]
* TheStoic: Pretty much a job requirement.
** NotSoStoic: He visibly tears up while watching Gyp split his cousin's head with a shovel. [[spoiler: He also eventually stops putting up with Gyp's constant bullshit.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Valentin Narcisse]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Only kings understand each other."]]

Harlem crime boss who introduces himself as a philantropist and "[[NotThatKindOfDoctor doctor of divinity]]". He has deals with Nucky and Chalky in Season 4. Played by Jeffrey Wright.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: After getting his supply from Arnold Rothstein he manipulates [[spoiler: Dunn Purnsley]] into selling heroin in Atlantic City behind his boss' back.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He stops every act on The Onyx Club until Nucky and Chalky agree to make concessions [[spoiler: for the death of his booking agent at the hands of Dunn Purnsley]].
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He's fond of quoting the Bible.
* BadBoss
* BeardOfEvil
* BoomerangBigot: He shows contempt for interracial sex and blacks who work with white people. Yet he himself is very pale skinend and works with white people on a regular basis.
* ButNotTooBlack: Like many other rich African-Americans seen in the series. He also shows contempt for the darker skinned Chalky White.
* CreepyMonotone: The tone of his voice, thoughtfully measured and calculating, can come off as quite unsettling at times.
* EvilCounterpart: To Chalky White, of whom he also counts as a {{foil}}.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Don't get fooled by his polite manners. He's bad.
* HolierThanThou
* InsistentTerminology: '''Doctor''' Narcisse.
* MalcolmXerox: He sees himself as a "Lybian" nationalist and considers racial mixing as degrading.
* ManipulativeBastard
* 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.
* NonActionGuy
* NotThatKindOfDoctor
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PunnyName: Well, he seems to love himself.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* SoftSpokenSadist: He's soft-spoken and polite, but he [[spoiler:has a woman brutally murdered in cold blood.]]
* VisionaryVillain / WellIntentionedExtremist: He is a member of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League UNIA-ACL]] and wants to improve African-American society at heart. [[BlackAndGrayMorality In every other show he'd be the hero.]]
* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon:
** Chalky initially thinks he is from Jamaica, but he is from Trinidad.
** The character was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen almost]] named "[[UpToEleven Calypso Pete]]".
* WickedCultured
* YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Alma Pastor was likely going to die no matter what she said.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The D'Alessio Brothers]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Leo D'Alessio''': the eldest of the siblings as well as the gang's leader.]]

->'''Ignatius''': ''"Our father loves our mother very much."''

A violent gang [[SiblingsInCrime formed by six out of nine brothers]] from Philadelphia (not counting sisters). They are brought to Atlantic City as associates of Mickey Doyle's bootlegging business and lead to confict with Nucky after Doyle is arrested and Nucky gives his business to Chalky.

* BigBad: Leo, the eldest brother who by extension serves as the BigBad of season 1 due to his efforts to seize control of Atlantic City with the backing of [[BiggerBad Arnold Rothstein, the most powerful crime lord in New York City at the dawn of the 20s]]. Played by Max Casella.
* BoomHeadShot: Lucien, Sixtus and Pius die this way.
* TheBrute: Teo, the third brother, [[MundaneUtility who also cuts their hair]]. Played by Al Linea.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: After killing them in the first season finale, Nucky pins the Woods Massacre and by extension Hans Schroeder's death on them.
* TheDragon: Ignatius, the second brother. Played by Edoardo Ballerini.
* TheDriver: Apparently Pius, despite [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior being 14 at most]].
* EnfantTerrible: Pius, the sixth brother. The fact he has a police file as big as any of his big brothers leaves little doubt about it. Played by Nicholas Martino.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Matteo attempts to do this, but finds it hard to remain dignified while Chalky White is strangling him.
* FamilyThemeNaming: They are all named after Popes.
* FiveBadBand: Six, actually. But who really cared to differentiate between Lucien and Sixtus?
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on the Lanzetta Brothers, bootleggers that operated in Philadelphia in the 1920s.
* TheQuietOne: Sixtus, the fifth brother, who [[TheVoiceless has no lines whatsoever]]. Played by Eric Schneider.
* RedRightHand: Lucien has some kind of birthmark on his face, Nucky describes it as resembling a shit-stain.
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Out-of-State Gangsters]]
* SiblingsInCrime
* SlashedThroat: The way Leo is killed in the first season finale.
* TooDumbToLive: Lucien, the fourth brother, taunts Jimmy when he has him tied up and gets shot for the trouble. Arguable ButtMonkey of the team. Played by Louis Vanaria.
* WhiteSheep: There is apparently one adult brother in Philly, Adrian, that did not pursue a criminal career, and instead became a dentist.

[[folder:Charlie Sheridan]]

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[[caption-width-right:261:"You New York fellahs make me laugh. You come here from Brooklyn or whereevr the fuck and act like you own the town."]]
An Irish gangster who comes into conflict with Jimmy Darmody and Al Capone in Chicago. Played by Frank Shattuck.

!!Tropes
* ArcVillain
* BoomHeadshot: His death.
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* FailedASpotCheck: Got him killed, along with his entire crew. Shoulda paid more attention to the coat girl.
* GenreSavvy:
-->'''Torrio''': After that stunt you pulled, you still don't trust me?
-->'''Sheridan''': No, I don't.
* ILied: He agrees to Al's terms, only to order an attack on the Four Deuces.
* TheIrishMob
* KickTheDog: Ultimately, his only significant action was ordering Pearl's mutilation.
* NoIndoorVoice
* NouveauRiche
-->'''Sheridan:''' Classy, huh? I remember they used to have a sign out front that said "No Dogs or Irishmen". Now I could buy the whole fuckin' joint.
-->'''Torrio:''' You're an inspiration to us all.
* OutGambitted: By Jimmy, leading to his death.
* PreMortemOneLiner: ''"I think you would agree Greek Town belongs to us now."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Liam]]

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[[caption-width-right:228:"Jesus... You are like a fuckin' angel!"]]
One of Charlie Sheridan's goons, responsible for Pearl's mutilation. Played by Sean Weil.

* DirtyCoward: Notably absent from Jimmy's meeting with Sheridan after Pearl's disfigurement (though this may have been a tactical move on Sheridan's part). Also a chickenhawk.
* TheDragon: To Sheridan.
* FirstNameBasis
* HopeSpot: For a few seconds it looked like Jimmy might actually spare him.

* KarmicDeath: Killed by a suicidal disfigured man after disfiguring a woman and driving her to sucicide.
* KickTheDog: Carving up the resident HookerWithAHeartOfGold didn't do much for audience sympathy towards Liam.
* MistakenForGay: A given when you visit a brothel and ask for two men in a row...
* PunchClockVillain: He and Sheridan both argue that he qualifies, and we don't see enough characterization to know for sure, but he seemed to take some sadistic pleasure in cutting open Pearl's face.

"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair.''"

"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair. You know why?....You’re a worthless piece of shit.''"

"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop
… and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair. You
know why?....You’re a worthless piece of shit.''"

"''I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop… and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair. You know why?....You’re a worthless piece of shit.''"

A Manhattan based Sicilian gangster who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal in season 3. Played by Bobby Cannavale.

* VisionaryVillain / WellIntentionedExtremist: He is a member of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League UNIA-ACL]] and wants to improve African-American society at heart. [[BlackAndGrayMorality In every other show he'd be the hero!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"What shall we do, Mr Thompson? What, shall we do?"]]

* CreepyMonotone: His voice, measured and calculating, can come off as quite unsettling at times.

* {{Expy}}: Of Tommy [=DeVito=] in ''GoodFellas'' due to his deep-rooted insecurity and hair-trigger temper which pose an everpresent danger to friends and foes alike. He also shares qualities with Ralph Cifaretto in ''The Sopranos'' in that both are sexual deviants and both possess talents for resourcefulness and thinking quickly on their feet that are often undermined by their unstable personalities.

* {{Expy}}: Of Tommy [=DeVito=] in ''GoodFellas'' due to his deep-rooted insecurity and hair-trigger temper which pose an everpresent danger to friends and foes alike. He also shares qualities with Ralph Cifaretto in "The Sopranos" in that both are sexual deviants and both possess talents for resourcefulness and thinking quickly on their feet that are often undermined by their unstable personalities.
, in addition to being nearly as violent and unstable as Tommy Devito,

* {{Expy}}: Of Tommy [=DeVito=] in ''GoodFellas''.

* BigBad: Of Season 3, and way [[BlackAndGrayMorality more clear-cut]] than any of Nucky's previous nemesis. Joe Masseria is the BiggerBad.

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[[caption-width-right:306:"[[NothingPersonal Nothing's personal]]? What the fuck is life if it's not personal?!"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[NothingPersonal Nothing's personal]]? What the fuck is life if it's not personal?!"]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Throughout his appearances in the series, Gyp has proven himself startlingly adept at exploiting other characters' egos and [[ObfuscatingStupidity unflattering presumptions about his intelligence]] to his advantage. When faced with the prospect of being whacked by Joe Masseria's men due to his past failures, Gyp makes a succcessful appeal to Masseria's vanity which not only earns him an extended lease on life but the kingpin's full backing in an all-out war against Nucky Thompson. Similarly, he deceives Gillian Darmody, a woman who is [[ManipulativeBastard no slouch at deceit herself]], into believing that she can use him as a puppet so he can pump her for information that can be used to facilitate his conquest over Atlantic City.

* ManipulativeBastard: Throughout his appearances in the series, Gyp has proven himself startlingly adept at exploiting other characters' ego as well as their [[ObfuscatingStupidity unflattering presumptions regarding his intelligence]] to his advantage. When faced with the prospect of being whacked by Joe Masseria's men due to his past failures, Gyp makes a succcessful appeal to Masseria's vanity which not only earns him an extended lease on life but the Manhattan kingpin's full backing in an all-out war against Nucky Thompson. Similarly, he deceives Gillian Darmody, a woman who is [[ManipulativeBastard no slouch at manipulating others herself]], into believing that she can rely on him as a puppet in order to pump her for information that can be used in his conquest of Atlantic City.

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: Alma Pastor was likely going to die no matter what she said.]]

!'''The D'Alessio Brothers'''

!'''Charlie Sheridan'''

!'''Liam'''

[[/folder]]