History Characters / TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia

* AmazonianBeauty: She is an attractive woman and as expected of someone who regularly does intense physical battles and is a Valkyrie to boot, she is ripped.

A mercenary in the employ of Monoc Industries who is hired by Marcone as a security consultant. Gard is exceptionally skilled with ancient medieval weaponry and armor, often seen with a broadsword or large axe and a big steel shield. Which only fits, as she is one of the {{Valkyries}}.

* EvilVirtues: He is a dillegent, intelligent, loyal man who will take a bullet for Marcone and put them in his enemies. Marcone trusts him enough to permit him to give Gard permission to talk about Marcone's secrets if the need arises. He is also working ernestly on his thesis in Philosophy.

* GeniusBruiser: While Harry generally assumes that he's DumbMuscle (and he plays the part). However, he actually has a degree in philosophy and is working on his thesis, and Marcone inwardly observes in ''Even Hand'' that if he objected to a plan of Marcone's it would probably take the form of a quote. In ''Small Favor'', he helps decipher Nick's plans and is the first, after Harry, to point out that the Denarians are out of coins and will need to trade for more or sacrifice one of their number. The other people in the room are Knights who have faced Nicodemus and the Denarians before and a centuries old Valkyrie.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dresden assumes he's just DumbMuscle because he speaks rarely and usually in monosyllables, but he does have a cultured mind beneath the facade. He is the second person, after Harry, in ''Small Favor'' to realize Nick is lacking Coins to turn either Marcone or Ivy. And the others in the room are Murphy, Michael, Sanya, and Sigrun.

* TheDragon: Marcone explicitly refers to Hendricks as his second, and while the more supernaturally empowered and dangerous Gard serves as Marcone's security consultant, Hendricks is his primary bodyguard and enforcer.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Hendricks never does this himself, rather, everyone else does this to him. To the casual viewer, he looks like a big, dumb thug in a cheap suit. While he ''is'' a big thug, he is anything but stupid, and extremely competent. Marcone is well aware of this, which is the whole reason Hendricks is his right-hand man in the first place.

* TheBrute: He is strong, tough, and fearless, serving as Marcone's personal bodyguard. Unlike most brutes, he ''does'' have a very sharp mind underneath, but he only shows this in private moments or when things are dire. Otherwise, he is content to appear to be DumbMuscle.

* AnAxeToGrind: One of her usual weapons is a heavy battleaxe.

* WeaponOfChoice: Hendricks rarely goes into battle without toting some kind of heavy machinegun or shotgun. Harry comments that riot guns look like toys in his hands. In "Even Hand" he wields a simple and "crude-looking" broadsword.

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Remained completely focused on the task at hand in the Raith Deeps, when Hendricks and even Harry became momentarily distracted. A moment of weakness occurs when he's relatively safe. He managed to see through [[HornyDevils Lara's]] charade at their first encounter, immediately realizing she was using her father as a pawn. In ''Cold Days'', Thomas tells Harry that Marcone has become the second man to turn Lara down in a century (Harry being the first).

* KnifeNut: He always seems to have several lying around.

* SuperMobBoss: A BadassNormal crime lord who deals with major powers in the supernatural community and manages to get himself made a freestanding lord in the Unseelie Accords. [[spoiler:[[EmpoweredBadassNormal And then he picks up a certain denarius...]]]]

* TheStarscream: While its unknown how much was just the opportunity when Marcone vanishes in ''Small Favor'' and how much was premeditated, he still jumps to usurp control when Marcone and Hendricks are out of the picture.
* TooDumbToLive: He really did not think through his strategy for usurping Marcone's mob.

* UndyingLoyalty: He took the blame for one of Marcone's crimes, which Marcone couldn't get rid of with his connections, and went to jail for it in Marcone's place just before retiring from crime. Understandably, Marcone is quite greatful of it.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Tripp's big plan to pay off his debts is to seize Maya's teaching school and sell its franchises. Dresden points out that nobody wants the franchises except for the people running them, and those people couldn't possibly afford to buy their franchises back for the kind of prices Tripp would need to demand to pay off his debt, but Tripp doesn't understand.
* BoxedCrook: Most of Tripp's actions stem from his need to pay off a huge debt he owes to gangsters in St. Louis.

* TooDumbToFool: He's such an idiot that Harry can't threaten him, because he doesn't believe Harry's magic is real even when Harry is casting spells in front of him. He thinks all of Harry's spells are just his own hallucinations.

* FriendInTheBlackMarket: He was part of a smuggling ring that specialized in stealing valuable antiques and selling them to private collectors on the black market. He found the long lost [[MacGuffin Word of Kemmler]] and came to Marcone for a seller, and got arranged a deal with Grevane.

* HeManWomenHater: Is a complete jerk to women. Not only does he try to ruin Maya in order to pay off his debt, but he's demeaning to the prostitutes that he sleeps with too.

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!!Modena
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[[caption-width-right:205:Just another mafia bagman.]]

A thug who collects protection money for Marcone. Appears in the comic miniseries ''Wild Card''.

* KilledOffForReal: By [[spoiler: Puck]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Makes anti-stripper comments as he collects his protection money.

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!!Hamilton Luther

One of Marcone's soldiers who retired and went straight. After he beats a White Court vampire to death for trying to assault a little girl, the White Court tries to have him jailed. Marcone arranges for Harry Dresden to learn about the case and save Luther.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Harry speculates that the girls she manages are collectively acting as one for her, as they are all about the age her daughter would be. He then immediately stops that line of thought, because her job is the [[Miss Kitty Madam]] of a high class brothel and he does ''not'' want to understand how that dynamic is supposed to work.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted as their another Bonnie,[[spoiler:Harry's spirit daughter also called "The Parasite"]].

-->'''Harry:''' Marcone was criminal scum, but I’ll give the rat his due -— [[NervesOfSteel he’s got balls that drag the ground when he walks]].

* ShesGotLegs: Enough to make Murphy [[FoeYay stare]] and be envious.

* ShesGotLegs: Enough to make Murphy [[FoeYay stare]] and be jealous.

* AntiVillain: He's more often help than hindrance to Harry; while his empire of crime is vast and increasing, he maintains order and reduces violence. We ultimately learn from his StartOfDarkness in ''White Night'' that the motivation that drives him is to prevent {{Innocent Bystander}}s from harm, and he is desperate to heal a young girl in a coma from a bullet meant for him. In ''Small Favor'', he refuses to be freed first until the Archive is rescued, and during the subsequent escape, shelters her and makes sure she is the first person on the rescue helicopter.

* UnreliableNarrator: Not himself, as we never get a story from his POV, but is a ''victim'' of it from Harry's end. Reading the novels Hendricks appears in would leave you only with Harry's own impression of him as hyper-violent DumbMuscle (if relatively competent and dangerous Dumb Muscle) and not much beyond that. ''Even Hand'', told from Marcone's point of view, shows that in private (in other words, when Harry Dresden isn't anywhere around) Hendricks is actually a thoughtful GeniusBruiser who quotes literature, is actively working on his thesis in philosophy, and would far rather solve his problems ''without'' violence if able. While Harry ''does'' learn more about Hendricks and grows to respect him in later books, it's clear that even by the time of [[spoiler:Hendrick's death]] he never really understood what the man is really like.

* UnreliableNarrator: Not himself, as we never get a story from his POV, but is a ''victim'' of it from Harry's end. Reading the novels Hendricks appears in would leave you only with Harry's own impression of him as hyper-violent DumbMuscle (if relatively competent and dangerous Dumb Muscle) and not much beyond that. ''Even Hand'', told from Marcone's point of view, shows that in private (in other words, when Harry Dresden isn't anywhere around) Hendricks is actually a thoughtful GeniusBruiser who quotes literature, is actively working on his thesis in philosophy, and would far rather solve his problems ''without'' violence if able. While Harry ''does'' learn more about Hendricks and grows to respect him in later books, it's clear that even by the time of [spoiler:Hendrick's death]] he never really understood what the man is really like.

* WarriorPoet: In "Even Hand", it's revealed Hendricks has a habit of quoting classic literature at Marcone whenever he disagrees with Marcone's decisions.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry and Harry's Household]]

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Once a Marine, now a Mafia don.

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[[caption-width-right:205:Marcone, dressed for business . . .]]

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[[caption-width-right:205:"He might disapprove of killing, but he did it thoroughly."]]

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[[caption-width-right:205:The ax is ''not'' just for show.]]