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* BullyTurnedBuddy: He and Oskar take a special dislike towards Greg––until Greg wins them over by revealing he's the one who is sent to fire people at Waystar. [[spoiler:It's ambiguous on whether it lasts after the acquisition, as Matsson openly calls Greg "Judas" due to him tipping off the Roy's about Shiv not becoming CEO.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Matsson is very clearly inspired by 21st century entrepreneur billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who are marked for their focus on tech and eccentricities.

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* BigBad: The show is more focused on Logan as the BigBad who poisons his life, the lives of his family and the world as a whole, but Sandy provides the most openly antagonistic external voice: an unambiguous enemy seeking a hostile takeover. It takes until the middle of Season 3 to get resolved.

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* BigBad: The show is more focused on Logan as the BigBad who poisons his life, the lives of his family and the world as a whole, but Sandy provides the most openly antagonistic external voice: an unambiguous enemy seeking a hostile takeover.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:He does his utmost to ensure that any deal with Waystar will serve largely to humiliate Logan, who's hardly undeserving of eating some humble pie.]]

* TheRival: To Logan Roy, with whom Sandy has a long-standing and bitter business rivalry.

* AmbiguousSituation: The exact nature of his illness is unclear; syphilis is the rumor, but Waystar Royco execs are pretty sure it's a rumor ''they'' cooked up.
* ArchEnemy: To Logan; their exact history is unknown, but they're bitter business rivals and Sandy is explicitly described as the Pepsi to Waystar Royco's Coca-Cola.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Sandy is the one puppeting Stewy. [[spoiler:However his health declines severely to the point where he isn't as in-control as he once was.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He managed to plant himself within Waystar Royco and eventually instigate an attempt at a hostile takeover, all without Logan having no idea until the moment Kendall hands him the bear hug.

* PragmaticPansexuality: His scenes with Kendall are full of business/fucking subtext (Kendall telling Roman in “Lifeboats” that Sandy tried to fingerbang him, and Logan asking if Kendall opened his legs on the first date), but on both sides it’s a lot to do with taking daddy’s number one boy away from him, as well as Kendall being slutty and Sandy being a DirtyOldMan.

* {{Foil}}: A thorough foil to the Roys, another wealthy family who owns a big media group. But unlike the conservative, toxic, new-money Roys, the Pierces are a matriarch-led family of liberal {{Bourgeois Bohemian}}s, seem like they're genuinely on good terms with each other, and old money (Logan calls them "blue-blooded fucks" and the FamilyBusiness has been mentioned to be theirs for 150 years).

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She makes a big deal of her moral superiority, but the best she can really say is that she isn't nearly as bad as Logan Roy...which isn't saying much at all.

* BullyTurnedBuddy: He and Oskar take a special dislike towards Greg––until Greg wins them over by revealing he's the one who is sent to fire people at Waystar.

* PsychopathicManchild: He's extremely immature and childish, preferring to play games on his phone and enjoying things like pissing on it, but also arrogant and cutthroat enough to spearhead a hostile takeover of Waystar Royco with the express intention of brutally slashing it down and rebuilding what's left in his own image, and explicitly tells Tom that he wants him to be a yes-man CEO who'll take all the heat.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Ebba tells the Roys [[spoiler: that she and the other GoJo execs essentially built Lukas's reputation as a self-made genius]], which fostered his ego and rise to power, now leaving her trapped working for a megalomaniacal manchild.

* {{Manchild}}: Bordering on a PsychopathicManchild, except maybe not ''quite'' that obviously evil (yet). He's extremely immature and childish, preferring to play games on his phone and enjoying things like pissing on his own phone.

* TheBadGuysWins: [[spoiler: The main antagonist of the final season and about as close as the series gets to a one-dimensional bad guy aside from Mencken; Matsson gets everything he wants: he buys out the company, sees the Roy brothers humiliated, keeps Shiv in his orbit, and has Tom as his puppet CEO. He’s ready to begin breaking down Waystar into pieces. He sees no comeuppance for his faulty subscriber numbers, sexual harassment of Ebba, or bad business ploys]].

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuysWins]]: [[spoiler: The main antagonist of the final season and about as close as the series gets to a one-dimensional bad guy aside from Mencken; Matsson gets everything he wants: he buys out the company, sees the Roy brothers humiliated, keeps Shiv in his orbit, and has Tom as his puppet CEO. He’s ready to begin breaking down Waystar into pieces. He sees no comeuppance for his faulty subscriber numbers, sexual harassment of Ebba, or bad business ploys]].

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuysWins]]: [[spoiler: Matsson gets everything he wants: he buys out the company, sees the Roy brothers humiliated, keeps Shiv in his orbit, and has Tom as his puppet CEO. He’s ready to begin breaking down Waystar into pieces. He sees no comeuppance for his faulty subscriber numbers, sexual harassment of Ebba, or bad business ploys]].

* HateSink: In a show full of {{Jerkass}}es, Matsson stands out as one of few characters who are never shown as sympathetic, redeeming or [[EvenEvilHasStandards having standards]] in any way, shape or form, not even when he [[JerkassHasAPoint has a point]].

The defacto head of the Pierce family and majority owner of PMG.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Some humour is drawn from the fact that she brands the bidding dispute of Logan and his children for the acquisition of PGN as "disgusting", while actively encouraging it.

-> '''Kendall''': "That's kinda homophobic, man."

** Makes a particularly tasteless holocaust joke in regards to Kendall's Living+ presentation.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Matsson is very clearly inspired by eccentric 21st century entrepreneur billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Tells Shiv he’s been sending his ex liters of his frozen blood as a ‘joke.’

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* NoSocialSkills: Matsson seems incapable of even the bare minimum of polite interaction with other people and either seems unable to understand how rude he is or just doesn't care.

* SelfMadeMan: Created his own streaming app and coded it himself, and specifically notes he doesn't like the idea of another man/mentor figure leaning over his shoulder, insisting on independence and self-reliance.

* StalkerWithACrush: Tells Shiv his head of comms Ebba used to be his girlfriend, but he’s been harassing her since then. Of course, it could all be a mind game with Matsson.

* {{Jerkass}}: A blunt and pretentious prick who's a bit too comfortable shitting on others (such as plainly asking Roman when his father will die), complaining to Kendall's face that his party is boring, complaining he just wants to get laid while playing on his phone and not socializing, and seems overall totally self-interested. He thinks very highly of his creation and is noted by Kerry as "thinking he's a genius" and he treats most conversations as though he's having his time wasted.
** Taken {{UpToEleven}} in Season 4, where he [[spoiler: repeatedly belittles Kendall, is smug throughout his interactions with the American executives, shows no concern for Logan’s death and doesn’t relent in rushing through the deal, and even uses Logan’s death as an insult against Ken and Roman during negotiations.]]

* StalkerWithaCrush: Tells Shiv his head of comms Ebba used to be his girlfriend, but he’s been harassing her since then. Of course, it could all be a mind game with Matsson.