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!Cannon Limited

[[folder:Loy Cannon]]
!!Loy Cannon
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisRock


The founder of the Cannon Limited, Kansas City's latest mob faction. Having gotten rich through the "alternative economy" (i.e. racketeering via an unauthorized bank in the city's black community), he is attempting to take his business mainstream.

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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:After his son Satchel is claimed dead, Loy becomes visibly more somber and disheartened.]]
* BerserkButton:
** He reacts with cold rage when Dibrell confuses Zero for his own son.
** In episode 7, [[spoiler: mentioning Doctor Senator after his death becomes a sore spot for Loy, as he beats Leon with a belt for using Doctor's death as an argument for why they should kill Gaetano. He also warns Josto not to mention Doctor during a sitdown.]]
* ChurchGoingVillain: He's a deacon, actually.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a ruthless gangster, but he treats foster son Zero Fadda like an actual foster son rather than a potential spy and traitor.
* DealWithTheDevil: Is painfully aware that he traded his son in exchange for more criminal power.
* FamilyValuesVillain: Zigzagged. He's shown to take Thanksgiving seriously and shows kindness to Zero Fadda. However, as Deafy later argues, Loy can seem at times like he's more concerned with projecting an image of himself as a family man than he is with actually living up to it.
* KickTheDog: Taunts a man asking for money just to make a point to his son.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Loy's decision to first sell out Zelmare and Swanee and then have Odis kill both to tie up loose ends turns out to be the decision that costs him his life when Zelmare escapes and eventually kills Loy once the war is over and he no longer has Opal watching his back.]]
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: When his business is robbed by Zelmare and Swanee, he wastes no time finding them and forcing them to use their skills for his impending war.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As a gangster, he preys on the local population for his own interests, but doesn't go out of his way to hurt innocents, unlike Gaetano, and has some moral limit to what he's ready to do to win, unlike Josto.
* LoanShark: His bank is pretty much nothing more than a loansharking racket.
* NotSoDifferent: From Donatello Fadda, his criminal rival. Like him, he's from a vilified minority and is trying to integrate his illegal operations into mainstream society (Cannon through the bank, Fadda through politics). They're also both fairly affable men who still are ready to do terrible things to climb to the top of the Kansas City underworld.
* PapaWolf: He is fiercely protective of his kids. This even extends to his foster kid, as he instinctively steps in front of Gaetano to stop him from approaching Zero.
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:In "Lay Away", Josto convinces him that Calamita has murdered Satchel, and begs him to spare Zero from any retaliation and kill Gaetano instead. Loy decides against killing Zero, but also elects to free Gaetano - after telling him that Josto was prepared to sell him out, assuming this will ensure the Faddas go to war with each other. Unfortunately, this plan backfires because of Loy's misjudgment of Gaetano's character.]]
* TheStrategist: He's very smart when it comes to managing the mob war brewing in Kansas City. Kinda subverted, however, as the moves of his enemies rarely make logical sense.
* TallPoppySyndrome: In "Happy", Loy arranges a meeting with Happy Halloway in hopes of getting more muscle for his war with the Faddas. Happy tells him that as far as the syndicates down south are concerned, Loy's got his "head too high" - he's risen too far and too fast for their liking, and they see his war with the Faddas as a natural reaction to his "foolish" attempt to compete with white folks.
* TooCleverByHalf: His brilliant strategies assume that everyone else around him behaves rationally, which is seldom the case.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His scheme to take over the slaughterhouses is rather standard gangster tactics... But he didn't take Gaetano Fadda's wild antics into accounts, thus causing a gang war.
* VillainousFriendship: Has one with Doctor Senator.
* WideEyedIdealist: He believes that with the right sales pitch, he can get people hooked on credit.
* WouldntHurtAChild: He can't bring himself to kill his hostage Zero as retaliation for the (claimed) death of his own son.
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[[folder:Doctor Senator]]
!!Doctor Senator
->'''Portrayed by:''' Glynn Turman

Loy Cannon's right-hand man. A former member of the army's legal corps, he uses his knowledge of the law to help give the Cannon Limited the appearance of legitimacy.

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* AmoralAttorney: He's Loy's attorney, responsible for handling his financial affairs.
* BadassBoast: He tells Ebal that he was assigned to interview Hermann Goring in the run-up to the Nuremburg Trials, and managed to gather enough material for a 400-page report making the case for Goring's guilt.
* BaldOfAwesome: A bald, but full head.
* TheConsigliere: Serves this function to Loy Cannon.
* CoolOldGuy: Witty, wise and willful.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:After being shot, he lays on the ground, staring at the sky.]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: He's very courteous with Nadine, the waitress of the coffee shop where he take his lunch.
* SacrificialLion: Introduced as Loy Cannon's main problem-solver, he's the only one shown to be capable of reasoning with the Faddas. [[spoiler:He's killed by Calamita halfway through the season to demonstrate that he and Gaetano are through messing around, and that the time for talking is over.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: He tried to do his job honestly. He got only racist mockery as a reward. So he turned to organized crime.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Doctor Senator is his actual name.
* WickedCultured: Probably the most sophisticated, articulate criminal the series has ever seen.
* WorthyOpponent: He considers fellow consigliere Ebal Violante as this.
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[[folder:Omie Sparkman]]
!!Omie Sparkman
->'''Played by:''' Corey Hendrix

The organization's most recurrent hitman.

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* CareerEndingInjury: He was a promising boxer, but left the profession due to the loss of an eye.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflict this on Gaetano by punching him repeatedly while he's tied to a chair.
* DeadpanSnarker: Doesn't talk much, but most of what comes out of his mouth is sarcasm.
* TheDragon: Loy entrusts him with most of the tasks including violence.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Allowing Aldo out of his trunk forces Omie to shoot him when he tries to run to Calamita, warning Constant of the trap laid there for him.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He is shot dead by Calamita towards the end of "[=East/West=]".]]
* RedRightHand: His glassy right eye make him look quite sinister.
* WeakButSkilled: He's skinny, but knows how to fight.
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[[folder:Opal Rackley]]
!!Opal Rackley
->'''Played by:''' James Vincent Meredith

A gangster with Loy's trust.

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* BadassBaritone: His deep voice fits his physique.
* TheBigGuy: The largest of the named Cannon Limited named members, and often serving as a bodyguard to Loy.
* LoneSurvivor: [[spoiler:The only significant member of The Cannon Limited to survive the season.]]
* ReplacementGoldFish: Serves as Loy's confident [[spoiler:after Doctor Senator's death]].
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Opal has shown to have a pretty sharp mind, and wear distinctly big glasses.
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[[folder:Leon Bittle]]
!!Leon Bittle
->'''Played by:''' Jeremie Harris

An eager young recruit, currently assigned as a bodyguard to Loy's eldest son, Lemuel.

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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:He hopes to become Kansas City's new black boss by betraying the Cannons.]]
* BornUnlucky: He was hired to protect Lemuel and keep him out of trouble. Unfortunately for him, no sooner was he hired than Gaetano put out a hit on Lemuel that was only averted because Rabbi intervened, and then on his second chance, the Faddas bribed the cops to raid the club where Lemuel happened to be.
* DueToTheDead: He is horrified that the body of [[spoiler:Doctor Senator was left laying on the ground]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The only reason Loy hasn't fired or killed him yet is because his cousin happens to be Lionel "Happy" Halloway, a legendary cattle rustler back in Texas whose syndicate provides much of the Cannon Limited's muscle.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Tired of Loy's derision, he makes a deal with Josto Fadda to betray the Cannon Limited in exchange for taking over the slaughterhouses and getting a cut of the profits.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:He is strangled to death by Opal after trying and failing to kill Loy.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's only a newcomer in Cannon Limited, but he expects to be given important tasks in the organization due to being the cousin of Happy, a powerful Texan mobster.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He keeps insisting that he's smart and could be vital to the Cannon Limited if Loy would just give him a chance, but he has yet to back up his claims with any displays of brilliance.

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!!!Cannon Family

[[folder:Buel Cannon]]
!!Buel Cannon
->'''Portrayed by''': J. Nicole Brooks

Wife of Loy Cannon.

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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: She cares less about the result of the gang war as a whole than the death of the Faddas brother]].
* MamaBear: She compares herself to a mother lion while threatening Calamita with a shotgun when he comes calling at her house.
* ThickerThanWater: She invokes family relation to convince Happy Holloway to support Loy in his war.
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[[folder:Lemuel Cannon]]
!!Lemuel Cannon
->'''Portrayed by''': Matthew Elam

Loy Cannon's eldest son, an aspiring musician who wants nothing to do with his father's business.

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* TheGlassesGottaGo : He has given up on his glasses and cap by the time he works at the Smutney's house.
* MeetCute: He and Ethelrida bond rather quickly, despite Ethelrida initially being shocked to see gangsters inside her home.
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[[folder:Satchel Cannon]]
!!Satchel Cannon
->'''Portrayed by''': Rodney L. Jones III

Loy Cannon's youngest son, traded by him to the Fadda Family in exchange for their youngest son as a show of peace.

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* ABoyAndHisX: While he and Rabbi are on the run, Satchel finds a lost dog stuck in the cupboard of the room at the boarding house they're shacked up in, named Rabbit. He adopts her, much to Rabbi's disapproval as it is impractical to their survival. [[spoiler:When Rabbi is swept up by a tornado after going out to buy Satchel a treat for his birthday to make up for not allowing him to keep Rabbit, Satchel heads off on his own with only the dog for company.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:The very last scene of the season reveals Satchel grows up to become Mike Milligan.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Seems mostly unaware of the brewing tensions between his family and the Faddas, and initially fails to grasp the danger he and Rabbi are in.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Implied and downplayed; when Loy asks Satchel if the Faddas are feeding him, the boy replies "mostly peanut butter", implying that he's provided the bare minimum of the nutrition he needs.
* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:He manages to find his way home from Liberal and is reunited with his family just in time for the MobWar to end... and then a few days later, his father gets stabbed to death by Zelmare.]]
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!Fadda Family

[[folder:Donatello Fadda]]
!!Donatello Fadda
->'''Portrayed by''': Tommaso Ragno

The patriarch of the Fadda Family and kingpin of Kansas City since seizing power from the Milligan Concern.

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* TheDon: As the head of an Italian crime family, he's an archetypal example.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In contrast to his monstrous Irish rival, Owney Milligan, he seems downright nice.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: He dies in the first episode via a combination of freak accident and the medical care of [[SerialKiller Oraetta Mayflower]], triggering a power struggle between his sons and Loy Cannon.
* RasputinianDeath: As well as [[UndignifiedDeath Undignified Death]]. Digestive problems come close to provoke him to have a heart attack, then he is shot in the neck by a BB-gun, then he is carried by his men to an hospital, from which he is refused, ''and then'' he is carried to another hospital, where a psychotic nurse poisons him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as crime bosses go, he's much more reasonable than both the psychotic Oweny Milligan, whom he overthrew; or his own reckless sons, who vie for the throne after he's dead. Unlike most of his crime syndicate, he's not bigoted towards blacks - comparing their situation as second-class citizens to that of Italian-Americans. Had he lived, the peace would likely have lasted much longer.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His obituary makes no reference to his criminal activities, and he has enough influence to engage his son to an alderman's daughter.
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[[folder:Josto Fadda]]
!!Josto Fadda
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JasonSchwartzman

The new head of the Fadda Family after the death of patriarch Donatello. Hot-tempered and impulsive, he has been left to deal with the rise of the rival Cannon Limited and a challenge to his leadership from his younger brother Gaetano.

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* BoomerangBigot: He doesn't like his fellow Italians very much, constantly insists that they speak English around him, and refers to the bosses back in New York as "fucking Guineas".
* CatchPhrase: "Bang!"
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Not an episode goes by where he isn't frustrated that despite being the acting leader of the Fadda Family for all but some of the first episode, people don't show any fear of him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For all his faults, he at least understands the value of loyalty, and thus gives Rabbi some nominally-important jobs within the family (like caring for Satchel and performing reconnaissance) in order to keep him in the fold.
* FreudianExcuse: A lot of his emotional shortcomings become more understandable when we learn he was molested by Owney Milligan, the Irish mob boss to whom he was given as a hostage.
* FunctionalAddict: He has a fondness for drugs, but seems to use it only for recreative purposes.
* HairTriggerTemper: Josto is angry and erratic, which is a terrible combination of traits to have when you're the new Don.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:All of his disdain for the traditions and understandings that underpin his family's empire comes back to bite him in the ass when Ebal decides that he ''agrees'' that the traditions are untenable, stages a takeover, and has Josto executed for his supposed role in the death of the old Don.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: His greatest weakness is his complete lack of charm and social graces.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Sees the body of his own brother-in-law Antoon lying dead in the snow after a botched assassination Josto sent him on in the first place. When asked what to do with the body, Josto spits "let him rot" while barely even looking at Antoon's corpse.]]
* InadequateInheritor: Josto is neither a blundering idiot, nor a bloodthirsty monster, but his lack of charisma and his many personal issues make him ill-suited to deal with a tense situation like the deteriorating relations with Cannon Limited.
* MoodSwinger: Josto can go from relatively pleasant to horribly odious in a heartbeat. This makes his underlings often confused as to just what it is he expects from them.
* NotMeThisTime: Josto does so much underhanded stuff that when he is accussed of [[spoiler: engineering his father's death]] no one believes his protestations of innocence. It does not help that he has accidently made himself look guilty as sin.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:"The Nadir" ends with he and Gaetano finally united... only to watch as the rest of their organization is torn to shreds by Mort Kellerman.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:He was sexually abused by Oweny Milligan during his time as a foster child/hostage for the Milligan Concern.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:When Rabbi grabs Satchel and runs, Josto turns the situation to his advantage by telling Loy that Satchel was murdered by Calamita under orders from Gaetano, and thus Loy has his blessing to kill Gaetano in retaliation, figuring that if Gaetano dies, his New York allies would come after Loy instead of him. Naturally, this backfires; Loy decides to free Gaetano instead, after informing him of Josto's treachery.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He orders Antoon Dumini, one of his henchmen, to drive Loy Cannon's youngest son Satchel out into the woods and kill him in order to provoke Loy into retaliating by murdering Gaetano, who is being held hostage. He also doesn't seem concerned about the possibility that the life of his youngest brother Zero might become forfeit too.]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:He sends Calamita, whose insubordination has caused him a lot of headaches, after Rabbi, who has betrayed the family. Whichever of the two kills the other, Josto has disposed of someone he wants to be rid of.]]
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[[folder:Rabbi Milligan]]
!!Patrick "Rabbi" Milligan
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BenWhishaw

The last surviving son of the Milligan Concern, the gang that ruled Kansas City before the Faddas, and now a foster son of the Fadda Family. Having grown up in three different crime families, and having seen two of them get violently deposed, he has no stomach for another gang war, and instead concerns himself with caring for Satchell Cannon, the family's new hostage.

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* AbusiveParents: His biological father was Oweny Milligan, a cruel old bastard who used him as collateral and yet still expected him to kill people for the family.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: As soon as Satchel is in danger, he abandons his reserved attitude and goes to extreme lengths to save him.
* ChildSoldier: He lampshades the fact that he was forced to become a killer when only a child and he was never given a choice as to the path in life he wanted to take. He is determined to prevent the same from happening to Satchel Cannon. He will keep Satchel safe during the coming MobWar and afterwards Satchel will be able to choose whether he wants to be a gangster or do something else with his life.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His childhood was pretty miserable, first being a hostage and traitor to the Moskowitz Syndicate, and then being a hostage and ''defector'' to the Fadda Family.
* TheDogBitesBack: He betrayed his biological family after being sent to be a hostage to the Faddas.
* EpiphanyTherapy: After years of saying "we lives with the choices we make", he realize his situation has nothing to do with choice, and tries his best to give one to Satchel.
* EveryoneHasStandards : He's very uncomfortable at the idea of killing Loy Cannon's eldest son. Or his younger son. Or ''anyone's'' son.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When he's about to get sucked in by the tornado, he tries to resist at first, but ends up raising his arm peacefully, as if he was accepting that [[IncrediblyLamePun twister of fate]]. ]]
* FairytaleMotifs: Rabbi is associated with the character of Goldilocks, as someone who tries to find his place, but never fits in or is rejected.
* FriendToAllChildren: He's the Fadda family designated caretaker of kid, being both the one who helps Zero go to the Cannons, and taking Satchel under his wing.
* ImportantHaircut: After living with the Moskowitz family, his hairstyle looks suspiciously close to a Jewish payot.
* KnightInSourArmour: Rabbi is a cynical gangster, but he's still one of the most noble character of season 4.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He and Josto grew up in each other's families, and later in the same family, and thus he feels a responsibility to look out for Josto and his younger brother Zero.
* LikeASonToMe: To him, Satchel is partly an uncorrupted version of himself, partly the son he never had.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:After teaching Satchel the basics of survival, he dies, leaving him alone and far from home]].
* OnlySaneMan: Rabbi seems to be one of the only members of the Fadda Family with any common sense.
* ParentalSubstitute: Seems to play this role for Satchel Cannon during his stay with the Faddas.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rabbi decides to buy Satchel a cupcake for his birthday, a decision that [[spoiler:leads him into the path of Constant Calamita, Omie Sparkman, and a tornado that swallows all three of them up.]]
* {{Protectorate}}: He swears that he will keep Satchel Cannon safe no matter what happens between the Faddas and the Cannons. He advocates for peace between the gangs and when that fails he does not hesitate to go against his bosses to keep the boy unharmed.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He killed his own father in revenge for being repeatedly traded to other families.
* TroubledButCute: It's Ben Wishaw playing a traumatized yet badass gangster, it's a given.
* UndyingLoyalty: Rabbi is very insistent about his loyalty to the Faddas, probably to avoid being rejected again. He then [[SubvertedTrope ends that loyalty]] [[DoubleSubverted in favor of protecting Satchel]] once the threat of a full-on MobWar becomes unavoidable and the boy's life is in danger.
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[[folder:Gaetano Fadda]]
!!Gaetano Fadda
->'''Portrayed by''': Salvatore Esposito

The younger brother of Josto Fadda, and now a claimant for control of the Fadda Family. A brutish, old-fashioned thug, he spent years as a family enforcer in Italy, but struggles to adjust to operating in Kansas City.

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* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler: Kills at least two of his would be assassins and sends the rest running for the hills through sheer AxCrazy relentlessness]].
* AxCrazy: Easily the most unhinged member of the Faddas and possibly the entire season (barring sinister {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Oraetta). Gaetano is a bug-eyed, homicidal lunatic who carries around a can full of bloody teeth and fully espouses that "killing ''is'' business" in his line of work. His murderous tendencies are as much a danger to his own side as his enemies, as he almost sets off a mob war purely by ordering an needless hit on Loy Cannon's son out of petty pride [[spoiler:and goes all the way by murdering the Cannon's peace broker, Doctor Senator.]]
* BadBoss: Calamita has to restrain him from beating up random underlings for trivial reasons and he shrugs off accidentally shooting one of his own men dead during a tense standoff with Zelmare and Swanee.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: He claims that he and his gang helped capture and execute Benito Mussolini. He even has a tin can with a bunch of bloody teeth that he claims he pried out of Il Duce.
* TheBerserker: He's exactly as bloodthirsty as he looks in a fight. When ambushed by rival hitmen his response is to charge straight at them wildly firing two pistols at once.
* TheBigGuy: He is one of the larger members of the Fadda Family.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Gaetano cares about strength, as well as "Business, Family and Country". His perception of others is based on how they hold to these criteras in his mind.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: His worldview has been informed and shaped by his time in Italy, where he betrayed his fellow mobsters in order to get into Mussolini's good graces, then betrayed Mussolini to the Allies when it became obvious that the Fascists were going to lose the war. Now he's contemplating betraying Josto in order to take over the family, as Josto appears to be weak and inexperienced.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was only 11 when he got banished to Sardinia... just in time for the Fascists to take over the island, kill his guardian, and institute autarky on the island, which left him to nearly starve.
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:Moments after killing Odis, Gaetano accidentally trips and shoots his own brains out with his gun. This was actually foreshadowed several episodes earlier when his provocation for killing a random janitor was said janitor laughing at Gaetano slipping on ice; for all of Gaetano's rampaging brutishness, he seems to have a hard time keeping himself upright.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:After he barely survives being killed by Loy due to Josto's machinations, Gaetano comes to realize that while he is physically stronger and more powerful than Josto, Josto is clearly more devious, and thus he finally pledges his loyalty to his brother, ending the conflict between them.]]
* EvilIsPetty: From stealing a painting of his house to killing a young man for laughing at him, Gaetano is a massive prick all around.
* GunsAkimbo: [[spoiler:Charges at the Fargo Crime Syndicate mooks with a pistol in each hand in "The Nadir".]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Anything can set Gaetano off. Calamita frequently has to restrain Gaetano from taking out his anger on his own allies. At one point, he murders a young janitor and a surly clerk [[DisproportionateRetribution because the janitor laughed at him for slipping on ice, and the clerk served him bad coffee]].
* LargeHam: Is incredibly theatrical in everything he does.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: [[spoiler:He was sent away to Sardinia after being caught fooling around with the daughter of one of his dad's lieutenants... and then stabbing said lieutenant in the eye.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Gaetano is basically an eleven year old that grew up surrounded by gangster mentality and fascist rethoric. The result is a man who is violently unstable, but also weirdly playful and affectionate.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: He's spent most of his life in Italy, and even among the Faddas, he's a nasty piece of work.
* SmarterThanYouLook : When Josto chastises him for his foolish attempt at starting a war, Gaetano slyly destabilizes him with a reminder of his failure to kill Dr. Harvard for refusing treatment to their father.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Josto and Loy's plans are repeatedly foiled or made to backfire due to Gaetano's constant interferences.
* StupidEvil: In "Raddoppiarlo", he starts a gang war with the Cannon Limited when, in a fit of anger about not being allowed to retake the slaughterhouses, he orders Calamita and Rabbi to kill Lemuel Cannon, Loy's older son. Only Rabbi's quick thinking prevents anyone from getting killed, and the Cannons immediately retaliate by stealing a truck that turns out to have the bulk of the Faddas' arsenal.
* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:Villain-on-villain example - after being at each other's throats the whole season, with Gaetano vying to usurp Josto as head of the family and Josto manipulating events to see that Gaetano is killed, Gaetano eventually comes to see Josto as an equal. After being freed from his imprisonment by Loy, who informs Gaetano that Josto expected Loy to kill the former in retribution for Satchel's apparent death, Gaetano admires how underhanded that move was and admits that while he is physically strong, Josto is indeed the brains of the family. He then pledges his loyalty to Josto, but not before pummeling him unconscious as revenge, of course.]]
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[[folder: Ebal Violante]]
!!Ebal Violante
->'''Portrayed by''': Francesco Acquaroli

The consigliere to the Fadda Family. [[spoiler:Later the inaugural boss of the Kansas City Mafia.]]

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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: His opinion of American society, where the claimed values contradict its history and everyone pretends to be something they're not. He's okay with it.
* TheConsigliere: To Donatello Fadda and to Josto after him.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:After learning of Josto's apparent collusion with Oraetta, he finally has Josto deposed and takes over the Fadda family himself, creating the modern Kansas City Mafia.]]
* OnlySaneMan: An even-tempered, thoroughly competent gangster surrounded by hotheads. It's only once Josto sends him away for an episode that the relations with the Cannon Limited fully go off the rails.
* IgnoredExpert: An old mobster who knows the strings of the criminal underworld, but Josto does not listen to him much. It doesn't help that English is his second language, whereas Josto doesn't speak Italian very well.
* MouthOfSauron: Regularly meets with Doctor Senator on behalf of the Fadda family.
* PerpetualFrowner: Even his attempts at smiling look grumpy.
* WorthyOpponent: To Doctor Senator, with shades of VillainousFriendship. When he returns and finds out [[spoiler:that Constant has killed him]] he's momentarily taken aback.

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[[folder:Constant Calamita]]
!!Constant Calamita
->'''Portrayed by''': Gaetano Bruno

A sinister, soft-spoken enforcer for the Faddas and Gaetano's chief killer.

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* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler:He manage to survive the ambush Omie set for him, then subdue him.]]
* BadassBoast: "There ain't a monster on Earth tougher than an orphan in a box."
* ColdHam: He's pretty quiet in general, but has a fondness for theatrics when it comes to threatening his enemies.
* {{The Dandy}}: He is repeatedly shown taking care of his appearance and is always excessively well dressed.
* TheDragon: To Gaetano. In the divide of loyalty between Josto and Gaetano, Constant is clearly the man most loyal to Gaetano and usually the one Gaetano trusts with tasks that go under Josto's nose.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Calamita is killed by an ambiguously supernatural tornado, as he is sucked into its swirl screaming.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For all of he and Gaetano's shared psychopathy, he's seemingly put-off when the latter kills a young janitor and a bartender [[DisproportionateRetribution because the janitor laughed at him for slipping and falling on ice]], with Calamita asking him in all honesty why he felt the need to do that.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The only thing separating him from Gaetano is his seemingly-lax demeanor and his debonair charm. At heart, Calamita is a stone-cold killer.
* FreudianExcuse: His childhood was pretty horrific, as his teenage mother died while immigrating to America, and he arrived to the US as a baby in a box. Subverted, as he sees it as the reason for his fierceness rather than an excuse for his villainy.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: To reinforce his status as the archetypal old-school gangster, Calamita tends to smoke during tense situations.
* LeanAndMean: Tall, skinny and obviously seeking conflict.
* NervesOfSteel: He stands his ground when the Cannons hijack his gun shipment, and the robbers make a point of pressing the super-hot barrel of a gun to his cheek to brand him.
* PsychoForHire: Has an understated taste for blood nearly as prominent as Gaetano's. He's cheerfully willing to set off a mob war on Gaetano's behalf purely out of his shared taste for cruelty.
* RedIsViolent: He wears a bright red suit and is also a very dangerous assassin.
* RedRightHand: After his run-in with the Cannon Limited, he's left with a noticeable ring-shaped burn scar on his cheek.
* VillainousFriendship: Aside from their common liking of violence, Constant seems to be genuinely fond of Gaetano.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Antoon Dumini]]
!!Antoon Dumini
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sean Fortunato

Josto and Gaetano's brother-in-law, and an enforcer for the Faddas.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: He served in the Italian army during the war, nearly starved to death when Mussolini fell out of power, and was brought to America as a prisoner of war.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: "Camp Elegance" reveals that he has a loving wife, Naneeda, and three adoring children, and then he gets the order to take Satchel for a drive [[spoiler:and kill him, which naturally causes Rabbi to track him down and shoot him before he can go through with it.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's a loyal mafioso and triggerman, but he loves his wife Naneeda, and his three kids. [[spoiler:It's almost enough to make him reconsider killing Satchel.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: He dedicated himself to be a good American after suffering horribly during the battle of Monte-Cassino.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Rabbi shoots him from behind, killing him instantly.]]
* NiceGuy: Well, by mobster standards, anyway. It's even implied that he's too modest to ask for a promotion, despite being Josto's brother-in-law, so his wife asks Rabbi to put in a good word for him.
[[/folder]]

!Smutney Family

[[folder: Thurman Smutney]]
!!Thurman Smutney
-> '''Portrayed by''': Music/AndrewBird
A Kansas City undertaker who becomes indebted to Cannon Limited.

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* BumblingDad: Thurman fails to fully understand the dangers of dealing with a man like Loy Cannon, and comes across as hopelessly out of his depth.
* GoodIsDumb: Possibly the most moral person this season, and certainly the most gaffes-prone.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dibrell Smuthney]]
!!Dibrell Smutney
-> '''Portrayed by''': Anji White
Wife to Thurman, mother to Ethelrida, and sister to Zelmare Roulette.

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* {{Pride}}: Her biggest flaw, as she admits herself.
* ProperLady: She is pious, polite and refined, and tries to give those values to her daughter.
* RealMenLoveJesus: She is rather fiercely religious
* WomenAreWiser: Unlike her husband, she understands the danger that her family is in due to their connections to Loy Cannon.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Ethelrida Smutney]]
!!Ethelrida Pearl Smutney
->'''Portrayed by''': E'myri Crutchfield

The daughter of a pair of undertakers, caught in the middle of the season's events due to her parents owing a significant amount of money to Loy Cannon.

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* BlackAndNerdy: She is an exceptionally well-read teenager. She also brings a notebook to Oraetta's apartment so that she can tabulate how much to charge her for cleaning.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her surprisingly thorough knowledge of the history of organized crime in Kansas City pays off when [[spoiler:she realizes the significance of Don Fadda's ring and uses it to make a deal with Loy Cannon.]]
* ForeignCultureFetish: She listens to French singers and speak the language perfectly.
* MeetCute: She and Lemuel bond rather quickly, despite Ethelrida initially being shocked to see gangsters inside her home.
* SnoopingLittleKid: A teen rather than a little kid, but her innocent snooping in Oraetta's apartment clues her in to Oraetta's crimes.
* TallPoppySyndrome: She is constantly being punished for the fact that she is smarter than her white peers at school.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Ethelrida seems to attract a spectral entity that her aunt calls Mr. Snowman.

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Zelmare and Swanee]]
!!Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Karen Aldridge and Kelsey Asbille

A pair of half-bright bank robbers. Having recently escaped prison, they are enlisted by Zelmare's brother-in-law Thurman Smutney to acquire money to help him pay off his debts to Loy.

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* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:Zelmare reappears in the finale to murder Loy Cannon in revenge for his selling her and Swanee out. She specifically invokes Swanee's name as she stabs Loy.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Zelmare and Swanee are comic relief more often than not, but they not only successfully get the drop on Gaetano Fadda, but [[spoiler:they wipe out nearly the entirety of the team Deafy Wickware assembled to apprehend them, on top of a whole lot of civilians.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: When Zelmare hears of her sister's financial troubles, she and Swanee bust out of prison to help her.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Swanee dies after Odis shoots her in the head.]]
* CoolAunt: While Zelmare and Swanee get a chilly reception from Dibrell and Thurman when they show up unexpectedly, Ethelrida runs up and hugs Zelmare. Zelmare for her part utterly adores Ethelrida.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Swanee's father was mentally ill, and when she was taken away by the state, she was sent to schools where she claims the teachers sexually abused her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Their crimes in Kansas City are initially motivated solely by Zelmare's desire to help her beloved sister and niece.
* {{Expy}}: They are a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Gale and Evelle Snoats from ''Film/RaisingArizona'', recreating the duo's iconic prison escape scene in their SecondEpisodeIntroduction and lifting dialogue directly from that script.
* InsistentTerminology: They prefer to be called ''outlaws'', not "criminals". "Criminal" implies that they simply failed to live within society's rules, whereas they have no interest whatsoever in following society's rules.
* LoverAndBeloved: According to their rap sheets, Zelmare is a good 13 years older than Swanee, and seems to be the leader in the relationship.
* MalignedMixedMarriage:
** Swanee was supposedly the product of a marriage between a Chinese laborer and a Native American woman, and has spent most of her life being subject to racism of one kind or another.
** Zelmare and Swanee's own relationship would probably fall under this trope; in 1950, a middle-aged black woman and her young mixed-race girlfriend aren't likely to be welcome anywhere in America, even if they'd been law-abiding citizens.
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:They finally share a long on-screen kiss, just before going on their fatal rampage in the train station.]]
* OutlawCouple: They may be criminals, but they love each other.
* PrettyInMink: Zelmare holds a fur coat she stole to a woman the night of her evasion. It gets ostensibly dirtier as time passes.
* RapeAsBackstory:
** Swanee says that her teachers spent years trying to "rape the Indian" out of her.
** Zelmare claims that she hasn't been innocent "since Uncle Charlie cornered me in the shed" when she was a teenager.
* SatisfiedStreetRat: They cherish the outlaw life: a short free existence and a violent death.
* StupidCriminals: Their brilliant plan to help out the Smutneys involves robbing Cannon Limited, the same group to whom the Smutneys owe money. The robbery is a disaster, the only reason they survive is because Loy initially believes that they were sent by the Faddas, and Swanee accidentally pukes on the stolen money, and even after Zelmare literally launders every single bill, the stench remains, and thus when Thurman hands it over to Cannon, Cannon quickly realizes that it was stolen from him. Next thing they know, they're quickly found by Loy and forced to do his bidding.
** Wickware reveals that they've always been that dangerously incompetent; Zelmare was originally locked up after accidentally killing a pregnant woman in an armed robbery that netted less than ten dollars.
* SweetTooth: Swanee loves candies.

[[/folder]]



!Law Enforcement


[[folder:Odis Weff]]
!!Odis Weff
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JackHuston

An eccentric detective on the Faddas' payroll.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: It's heavily indicated Odis suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. Among other nervous tics Odis ritualistically does everything in fives--knocking on or locking/unlocking doors, zipping/unzipping his fly, etc.--calms himself down with a mantra/safe word (in this case, "Ten Little Indians") and he's shown to become extremely upset should anything remove him from being in control of his anxious tendencies.
* ButtMonkey: He gets bullied by every character he comes in contact with.
* ControlFreak: He explains to Deafy that being in control is the only way he can suppress his nervous ticks. He joined the police force specifically because it is a job that gives you power and control over others. However, being an honest cop can be dangerous to your health so he took money from gangsters to look the other way. This made him safer but also meant that he was now beholden to the criminal gangs and no longer in control. His actions are motivated by a desire to regain control over his life no matter what.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Loy's version: He was a minesweeper during the war, and was apparently not very good at it; Loy implies that he kept getting his men killed. One day, he had a breakdown and just lay down on the field; when the colonel passed by, Odis claimed the field was empty, and the colonel rode on... and got blown to pieces.
** Odis' version: He was a very good minesweeper due to his meticulous nature and ability to follow strict protocol. It was his men who were not as careful and kept getting killed. One day he got a letter that informed him that his fiancee has been brutally raped and murdered. He went out that day and just laid in a field for hours.
* DirtyCop: He's a cop on the Fadda Family's payroll, using his position to cover up their crimes.
* DirtyCoward: He's simply too scare of the gangsters to do the right thing. This gets exploited by both the Faddas and the Cannons.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He manages to find a semblance of peace before he dies, and after Gaetano shoots him dead he has a calm smile transfixed to his face.]]
* TheLostLenore: While he was serving in France during World War II, his fiancee was brutally raped and murdered.
* NervousWreck: Part of his condition. It doesn't take much to trigger his OCD's.
* RedemptionRejection: Deafy offers him a chance to do his job properly. [[spoiler:Under threat from Loy Cannon, he murders him instead.]]
* ShellshockedVeteran: He was a minesweeper during the war. He survived due to his strict adherence to protocol but his men were not as careful and kept getting blown up. When he heard that his fiance had been murdered, he had a breakdown. He is now a neurotic mess and suffering from numerous tics and compulsions. The constant scrutiny from Deafy doesn't do him any favors, either.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Deafy Wickware]]
!!U.S. Marshal Richard "Deafy" Wickware
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/TimothyOlyphant

A U.S. Marshal sent to Kansas City in pursuit of Zelmare and Swanee. Also a priest of the Mormon Church.

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* ActorAllusion: Not the first time Creator/TimothyOlyphant has played a colorful [[Series/{{Justified}} US Marshal.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dick Wickware is a pretty odd, overly religious, carrot-eating individual, yet still a competent policeman.
* CowboyCop: Aside from being a US Marshal wearing a cowboy hat, he can be very brutal towards criminals, if the story of his handling of Italian gangsters in Salt Lake City is true. He ends up as a deconstruction since his poor handling of the arrest of Zelmare and Swanee leads to a massacre [[spoiler: and his own death]].
* DisappointedInYou : [[spoiler: His expression in death seems to be judging Odis]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Deafy is HolierThanThou to aggravatingly self-confident levels and he's not above threatening to ruin the life of a seventeen-year-old girl for critical information, but he's still the one honest cop in the season and is in fact the one to [[spoiler:offer Odis his chance to redeem himself. This gets Deafy killed.]]
* HolierThanThou: He likes to judge the presumed moral failings of others.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He considers himself a good judge of character but he only sees the surface and uses this to bully people to do what he wants. In the end he horribly misjudges Odis Weff and [[spoiler: gets shot in the heart]].
* GoshDangItToHeck: Disapproves of swearing, and uses this instead.
* InspectorJavert: Deafy is ready to go very far to catch Zelmare and Swanee.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: While he is an honest cop, he holds to the traditional beliefs of the Latter-Days Saints, i.e. that black people and Native Americans are inferior to "Nephites" like himself. He's also not fond of Italians.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Loy Cannon in the form of an interrogation in order to get him to give up Zelmare and Swanee, completely dissecting his pretensions of loyalty and being a better breed of criminal. [[spoiler:It's possible it cost him his life, depending on what exactly Loy told Odis to do over the phone.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He got the nickname "Deafy" because he only hears what he wants to hear.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He doesn't appreciate Odis Weff's corruption.
* {{Troll}}: He seems to have a thing for pushing other people's buttons.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's often seen munching on carrot sticks, which he keeps on his person at all times.
[[/folder]]


!Other Characters


[[folder:Oraetta Mayflower]]
!!Oraetta Mayflower
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JessieBuckley

An eccentric, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] nurse. Her fetish for killing patients inadvertently sets the main events of the season in motion after she murders Donatello Fadda, the local crime boss.

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* AbusiveParents: It's heavily implied that her mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy and was intentionally making her sick throughout her childhood.
* BondageIsBad: She likes to tie up and choke her sexual partners, which is presented as an extension of her pathologically violent nature.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oraetta is a laundry list of eccentricities evident to anyone who talks to her for more than five seconds, from [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness her odd and precise manner of speaking]] to [[ThirdPersonPerson her penchant for talking in the third person]] and her strange beliefs and tangents. This is a rare example that's played for drama; Oraetta's bizarre way of thinking is anything ''but'' harmless and ends up facilitating much of the season's conflict, directly and indirectly.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To all ''three'' of the prior season's primary villains. Lorne Malvo, Hanzee Dent and V.M. Varga were all implacable, [[Literature/NoCountryForOldMen Chigurh-esque]] forces of evil with wide-ranging, nebulous schemes [[TheHeavy who drive the plots of their seasons in motion with nearly every action they do]]. Oraetta differs in a number of way; firstly, she's female, making her her predecessors' DistaffCounterpart, and she represents a quieter--if no less wicked--form of evil than them. Oraetta has no major plans besides covering up the existence of her own serial killings, is ''far'' from implacable ([[spoiler:her own undoing happens ultimately because she wasn't thorough enough in disposing of one of her victims]]) and while she is still responsible for facilitating the events of the season through the murder of Donatello Fadda, it's in more of an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom type of way, the consequences of which not rounding back to her until the last episode.
* CreepySouvenir: Collects items from her victims.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Warped as it is, Oraetta still continues to speak fondly of her equally-insane mother in the present day, affectionately referring to her as her "patron saint".
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In the finale, she realizes that she's going to be killed for murdering Don Fadda, but declines to beg for her life, instead resolving to put on some makeup. Her only request before dying is that Bulo kill Josto first so that she can watch.]]
* FreudianExcuse: A lot of Oraetta's psychosis seems rooted to her mother being a woman with Munchausen-by-proxy, who deliberately kept Oraetta "sick" and bedridden with imaginary diseases all throughout her childhood. Oraetta's comments in the present day seem to confirm she came out of the ordeal so psychologically warped she ''still'' believes her mother had nothing but good intentions for her.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She's able to get away with her crimes until [[spoiler:she tries and fails to kill Dr. Harvard. After that, everything starts to catch up with her. Her subsequent attempt to kill Ethelrida also backfires badly, drawing her into the Smutney family's weirdness. And then the Faddas get ahold of her.]]
* MinnesotaNice: She has a charming Midewestern facade that hides her racism and cruelty.
* OutsideContextProblem: The last thing either side of the MobWar expected was for the boss of the Fadda Family to be smothered in his bed by a random nurse.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** Caught red-handed attempting to kill a patient, she blatantly lies her ass off, claiming that she's being set up by incompetent doctors. She raises enough of a stink that her boss agrees to give her an extraordinarily generous severance package, including two months' wages and a letter of recommendation.
** [[spoiler:Finally at the end of her rope and staring down the barrel of the Faddas' gun side-by-side with her erstwhile sexual partner Josto, Oraetta's only request before dying is a casual "oh, can you shoot him first so I can watch?"--to which she is granted, much to her delight.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Downplayed compared to other psychos like Malvo or Varga and hidden under her cheery MinnesotaNice act, but the depth of Oraetta's fetish for murdering people becomes increasingly obvious as the season goes on. She has a closet full of trophies picked from the infirm patients she's murdered, she opts to keep murdering people even when rehired with a clean record at another, more prestigious hospital, and she [[spoiler:stops to watch Harvard choking on one of her poisoned macaroons with a long grin before going to rifle through his cabinet.]]
* SerialKiller: Oraetta has a hard-on for killing bedridden patients, describing herself as their "Angel of Mercy." Though we only see her murder Donatello, she's interrupted in the process of trying to kill another old man and her records make it clear she's been in the business for a long time.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She uses a lot of very elaborate words, ostensibly so that nobody will misunderstand her.
* TechnicallyASmile: She twists a side of mouth more than the other, giving the impression of an unsettling smirk.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Oraetta Mayflower does refer to Oraetta Mayflower in the third person sometimes.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: She's fascinated by Ethelrida's intelligence.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nurse Mayflower has almost nothing to do with the overarching Fadda[=/=]Cannon gang war, nor does she even seem aware of it for most of the season despite entertaining an affair with Josto Fadda, but none of the season's bloodshed would have occurred had a bedridden Donatello Fadda not been placed into Oraetta's "[[SerialKiller care]]".
[[/folder]]


[[folder:David Harvard]]
!!Dr. David Harvard
->'''Portrayed by''': Stephen Spencer

A chauvinistic director of a private hospital, and the current employer of Oraetta Mayflower.

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Dr. Harvard isn't a murderer or a criminal like the majority of the cast, but he's a racist, arrogant bastard who denies help to a man bleeding out the neck and his family just because they're Italian. Not many tears are shed when he chokes on one of Oraetta's poisoned macaroons. It's subverted by the next episode, where it's revealed he survived and has been a transferred to a hospital out of state for protection. It's then double-subverted when he triumphantly returns to the hospital in the season finale... and is promptly abducted and murdered by Josto afterwards.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:His passing is a slow and painful one, desperately gasping for air as Oreatta watches avidly. Subverted when it turns out he survived.]]
* DrJerk: Hospital director, but he practices medicine and is a chauvinistic prick.
* HateSink: While most of the main characters aren't exactly saints, Loy Cannon at least has some redeeming qualities in his love for his family, and Josto has some witty moments. [[spoiler:Even Oraetta, despite being a racist and a SerialKiller, has a sympathetic backstory in the form of the implication of her mother having Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, resulting in Oraetta spending much of her childhood bedridden.]] Dr. Harvard, however, has none of these. Racist and misogynistic, Harvard embodies everything wrong with America in the 1950s.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Oraetta poisons him to remove him as a threat to her employment and to steal a letter exposing her SerialKiller tendencies. He survives, much to her surprise, and has to be treated in a hospital out of state for his safety.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Unsympathetic example. He refuses a bribe from Ebal to convince him to accept Donatello Fadda in the hospital, based on pure bigotry.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Owney "Yiddles" Milligan]]
!!Yiddles Milligan
->'''Portrayed by''': Ira Amyx

The long-deceased head of the Irish criminal outfit the Milligan Concern, and Rabbi's father.
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* AbusiveParents: Yiddles used his own son Rabbi as a bartering chip, not once but twice, trading him off to his rival criminals for years on end while still expecting Rabbi to kill for the family. It's very little wonder Rabbi decided to betray his old man and ultimately [[{{Patricide}} kill him]].
* DepravedHomosexual: Yiddles' mugshot lists some of his offenses as "buggery" and "perversion," and [[spoiler:it's disturbingly indicated that he's an outright pedophile when Josto brings up that Owney "did things you shouldn't ever do to children" during his time in Yiddles' care.]]
* DyingCurse: His final words to his own son, who betrayed him in favor of the Faddas, is to pronounce a curse on him and his children. [[spoiler:This curse metaphorically passes in episode 9: Rabbi is seemingly killed by a tornado, Satchel is left alone, and a bandaged figure heavily implied to be Yiddles himself appears before Satchel not long after the fact.]]
* NotQuiteDead: Possibly. [[spoiler:In episode 9, a creepy bandaged man played by Ida Amyx in the East/West hotel appears to Satchel shortly after Rabbi's apparent death in order to tempt the young boy into coming closer to him. It's never explicitly stated that he's Yiddles, but among many other maladies [[BoomHeadshot has a thick layer of bandage around his forehead, approximate to where his son shot him]]]].
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the perishingly few onscreen child murderers in the series when he has his own young son Rabbi murder the youngest son of the Moskowitz syndicate. [[spoiler:Making him extra loathsome is the ''heavy'' implication he sexually abused a young Josto for three years during his time among the Milligans.]]
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Mr. Snowman/ [[spoiler:Theodore Roach]]]]
!!Theodore "Mr. Snowman" Roach
->'''Portrayed by''': Will Clinger


The captain of a slave ship, choked to death by Etherilda's great-great grandfather whose spirit haunts the Smutney family from generations now.
[[/folder]]

* PrettyInMink: Zelmare holds a fur coat she stole to a woman the night of her evasion. It gets obstensibly dirtier as time passes.

[[folder:Mr.Snowman/ [[spoiler:Theodore Roach]]]]

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* AndThisIsForX: [[spoiler:Zelmare reappears in the finale to murder Loy Cannon in revenge for his selling her and Swanee out. She specifically invokes Swanee's name as she stabs Loy.]]

* SatisfiedStreetRat: They cherish the outlaw life, a short free existence and a violent death.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: The very last scene of the season reveals Satchel grows up to become Mike Milligan.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: When he's about to get sucked in by the tornado, he tries to resist at first, but ends up raising his arm peacefully, as if he was accepting that [[IncrediblyLamePun twister of fate]]. ]]

* ImportantHaircut: After living with the Horrowitz, his hairstyle looks suspiciously close to a Jewish payot.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: After teaching Satchel the basics of survival, he dies, leaving him alone and far from home]].

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: The very last scene of the season implies Satchel grows up to become Mike Milligan.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Dr. Harvard isn't a murderer or a criminal like the majority of the cast, but he's a racist, arrogant bastard who denies help to a man bleeding out the neck and his family just because they're Italian. Not many tears are shed when he chokes on one of Oraetta's poisoned macaroons. It's subverted by the next episode, where it's revealed he survived and has been a transferred to a hospital out of state for protection.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: Caught red-handed attempting to kill a patient, she blatantly lies her ass off, claiming that she's being set up by incompetent doctors. She raises enough of a stink that her boss agrees to give her an extraordinarily generous severance package, including two months' wages and a letter of recommendation.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: After his son Satchel is claimed dead, Loy becomes visibly more somber and disheartened.]]

The consigliere to the Fadda Family.

* IgnoredExpert: An old mobster who knows the strings of the criminal underworld, but Josto does not listen to him much.

* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler: He manage to survive the ambush Omie set for him, then subdue him.]]

* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: Calamita is killed by an ambiguously surnatural tornado, as he is sucked into its swirl screaming.]]

* VillainousFriendship: Aside of their common liking of violence, Constant seems to be genuinely fond of Gaetano.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Warped as it is, Oraetta still continues to speak fondly of her equally-insane mother in the present day, affectionately referring to her as her "patron saint."

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She's able to get away with her crimes until [[spoiler:she tries and fails to kill Dr. Harvard. After that, everything starts to catch up with her. Her subsequent attempt to kill Ethelrida also backfires badly, drawing her into the Smutney family's weirdness.]]

* ReplacementGoldFish: Serves as Loy's confident [spoiler:after Doctor Senator's death]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Warped as it is Oraetta still continues to speak fondly of her equally-insane mother in the present day, affectionately referring to her as her "patron saint."

* DiesWideOpen: After being shot, he lays on the ground, staring at the sky.

* BadassBaritone: His deep voice fits his physique

* ReplacementGoldFish: Serves as Loy's confident after Doctor Senator's death.

* DueToTheDead: He is horrified that the body of Doctor Senator was left laying on the ground.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In contrast to his monstruous Irish rival, Owney Milligan, he seems downright nice.

* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Rabbi shoots from behind, killing him instantly.]]

* TheLostLenore: While he was serving in France during World War II, his fiance was brutally raped and murdered.

* RedemptionRejection: Deafy offers him a chance to do his job properly. Under threat from Loy Cannon, he murders him instead.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His scheme to take over the slaughter is rather standard gangster tactics... But he didn't take Gaetano Fadda's wild antics into accounts, thus causing a gang war.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nurse Mayflower has almost nothing to do with the overarching Fadda/Cannon gang war, nor does she even seem aware of it for most of the season despite entertaining an affair with Josto Fadda, but none of the season's bloodshed would have occurred had a bedridden Donatello Fadda not been placed into Oraetta's "[[SerialKiller care]]".

* MeetCute: She and Lemuel bond rather quickly, despite Ethelrida being schocked of seeing gangsters in her home at first.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: his scheme to take over the slaughter is rather standard gangster tactics... But he didn't take Gaetano Fadda's wild antics into accounts, thus causing a gang war.

* MeetCute: He and Ethelrida bond rather quickly, despite Ethelrida being shocked at seeing gangsters in her home at first.

* RasputinianDeath: As well as [[UndignifiedDeath Undignified Death]]. Digestive problems come close to provoke him to have an attack, then he is shot in the neck by a BB-gun, then he is carried by his men to an hospital, from wich he is refused, then he is carried to another hospital, where a psychotic nurse poison him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as crime bosses go, he's much more reasonable than either the psychotic Oweny Milligan, whom he overthrew; or his own reckless sons, who vie for the throne after he's dead. Unlike most of his crime syndicate, he's not bigoted towards blacks - comparing their situation as second-class citizens to that of Italian-Americans. Had he lived, the peace would likely have lasted much longer.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Gaetano cares about strength, as well as "Business, Family, Country". His perception of others is based on how they hold to these criteras in his opinion.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: His worldview has been informed by his time in Italy, where he betrayed his fellow mobsters in order to get into Mussolini's good graces, then betrayed Mussolini to the Allies when it became obvious that the Fascists were going to lose the war. Now he's contemplating betraying Josto in order to take over the family, as Josto appears to be weak and inexperienced.

* PsychopathicManchild: Gaetano is basically an eleven years old that grew up surrounded by gangster mentality and fascist rethoric. The result is violently unstable, but also weirdly playful and affectionate.

* MinnesotaNice: She has a charming Mideastern facade that hides her racism and cruelty.