History Characters / FargoSeriesKansasCityMafia

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:It may be a case of KickTheSonOfABitch, but his treatment of Ricky G still comes across as needlessly cruel. After Ricky is mortally wounded, Gale moves in to finish the job, but Mike halts him. Since he believes that a new king should begin his reign with an act of mercy (which he's already done by sparing the maid) and an act of cruelty so his subjects know that he is capable of both, he sadistically allows Ricky to slowly and painfully die from his injuries.]]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/AdamArkin

-->''"The sooner you realize there's only one business left in the world -- the money business, just ones and zeros -- the better off you're gonna be."''

->'''Played By:''' Benjamin Wilkinson

->'''Played By:''' Creator/BradGarrett (Season 2), Evan Mulrooney (Season 4)

-->''"The age of the local mom and pop is over, and what comes next, the era of big business, is gonna make a lot of people very rich."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/BokeemWoodbine

-->''"I'm an optimist. So when I see [[DecapitationPresentation this]]... I don't think the sky is falling. I think that, sir, is the sound of opportunity knocking."''

[[folder: The Founder]]

->'''Played By:''' Francisco Acquaroli

->'''Played By:''' Todd & Brad Mann

-->''"You make us sound like a prog rock band. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Mike Milligan and The Kitchen Brothers."''

[[folder: The Undertaker]]

->'''Played By:''' Markus Parillo

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:It's confirmed at the end of Season 4 that Satchel Cannon and Mike Milligan are one in the same. As Satchel, Mike used to be the son of the leader of an ethnic crime organization who traded him with the youngest son of the rival family as a tradition. His tutor and protector Rabbi Milligan, a paternal figure to him, is killed by a tornado, leaving Satchel to wander aimlessly through racist 50s Minnesota before finally coming home to his family. [[PyrrhicVictory I Then he sees his father die in front of him after being stabbed a few days later.]]]] Poor Mike.

* TheMafia: Zig-zagged. They are one in name, and the group was founded by Italians, but otherwise they bear relatively little resemblance to a traditional Cosa Nostra family. They have several prominent non-Italian members and don’t seem to care much about Mafia customs and tradition. Overall, they’re much closer to TheSyndicate in practice.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: It's implied but never made clear that they are KosherNostra.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:In the fifties, once Ebal took over the Fadda Family enterprise and reinvents it as the early Kansas City Mafia, Joe for all intents and purposes seemed to fill this role for Ebal. He led the execution of Josto and Oraetta for their apparent collusion against the family by killing the former patriarch Donatello Fadda, and is present alongside Ebal when he presents the terms of the new deal to Loy Cannon.]] In the seventies, however, he was merely one of several managers, and not even a middle one at that.
* EarlyBirdCameo: A variation of this; Joe appears in Fargo season 4, set nearly thirty years earlier than season 2, as an enforcer sent from New York to aid the Fadda Family in their war with the Cannon Limited. As of the penultimate episode of the season, he's not had much of an impact and is more a harbinger of things to come for organized crime in Kansas City.

[[folder: Spoiler Character]]

* TheDividual: Especially in contrast to the other henchmen duos. Wrench and Numbers were ThoseTwoBadGuys with their personalities contrasting enough for some back and forth, and Meemo and Yuri are very different characters, with Yuri receiving quite a lot of focus. Gale and Wayne are largely the same; both are identical silent enforcers who kill on demand. The only real difference between them are their appearances and [[spoiler:Gale receiving slightly more character focus on account of surviving throughout the season]].

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: So far, they have never been seen apart. [[spoiler:Now it's just one.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Greatly (likely intentionally) resembles the real-life boss of the Kansas City mob, John "Johnny Joe" Sciortino. The only discrepancy is that while Broker was in power since the 70's, Sciortino was acting boss since 1992, and was officially made the boss in 2006.

!!Mike Milligan

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:In the fifties, once Ebal took over the Fadda Family enterprise and reinvents it as the early Kansas City Mafia, Joe for all intents and purposes seemed to fill this role for Ebal. He led the execution of Josto and Oraetta for their apparent collusion against the family by killing the former patriarch Donatello Fadda, and is present alongside Ebal when he presents the terms of the new deal to Loy Cannon.]] In the seventies, however, he waa merely one of several managers, and not even a middle one at that.

** He is not racist against African-Americans, however, which is why he keeps Mike around as [[TheDragon his Dragon.]]

* AffablyEvil: Mike is a heck of a guy; highly intelligent, very witty, cheerful and well-read, always smiling, a pleasant conversationalist... and a cold-blooded killer to the very core.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:It's confirmed at the end of Season 4 that Satchel Cannon and Mike Milligan are one in the same. As Satchel, Mike used to be the son of the leader of an ethnic crime organization who traded him with the youngest son of the rival family as a tradition. His tutor and protector Rabbi Milligan, a paternal figure to him, is killed by a tornado, leaving Satchel to wander aimlessly through racist 50s Minnesota before finally coming home to his family. [[PyrrhicVictory Then he sees his father die in front of him after being stabbed a few days later.]]]]. Poor Mike.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:It may be a case of KickTheSonOfABitch, but his treatment of Ricky G still comes across as needlessly cruel. After Ricky is mortally wounded, Gale moves in to finish the job, but Mike halts him. Since he believes that a new king should begin his reign with an act of mercy (which he's already done by sparing the maid) and an act of cruelty so his subjects know he is capable of both, he sadistically allows Ricky to slowly and painfully die from his injuries.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After everything he'd done to climb to the top of the Kansas City Crime Syndicate, he finds out the reward he'd coveted so much is his own personal version of hell. Mike had lusted for a position of power, to be a modern-day king in the style of Al Capone. But as he himself said, the future cannot be stopped and he's KickedUpstairs to a tiny office and an accounting job. It's nicely ironic that he considered the Gerhardts to be 'the past' and was such a big believer in 'the future'...it's that future that dooms him to a life of mediocrity. No more tense showdowns, no shoot-outs with your enemies, no sleeping with [[FemmeFatale Femme Fatales]]...just golf and a typewriter.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Though Wayne gets killed by Hanzee, Gale lives to the end of the season murdering more and more for his boss Mike, and he's never shown getting any onscreen comeuppance for his various murders -- even Mike is shown getting an incredibly shallow reward for his action.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Is confirmed at the end of Season 4 that Satchel Cannon grew to become Mike, if that so, then Mike used to be the son of the leader of a ethnic crime organization who temporally traded him with the youngest son of the rival family as a tradition. His tutor and protector, a paternal figure to him at the moment, died sucked by a tornado. He drifted for a while a wandered trought the road, facing racism everywhere he looked, searching for his home and he finally made it... [[PyrrhicVictory only to see his father die in front of him after being stabbed in the back a few days later.]]]]. Poor Mike.