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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Served a year in prison for statutory rape. The experience was deeply humiliating and traumatizing.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though he's as much a wanted war criminal like Strobe, he is capable of some regret-- and finds Strobe completely loathsome.
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* MrExposition: He's the one who sets up the premise of an eye transplant, including its short-lived nature (at most 12 hours of sight before rejection kicks in).
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* RabbleRouserRabbleRouser: Mixed with TheBarnum, as he makes good money giving his speeches.
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-->Sheriff: ''(to the mayor)'' Them niggers are gonna march right on through the summer, and it don't make no difference whether you mow 'em down with machine guns or give 'em free beer on the corner-- they're gonna march. ... You can turn this town into a fuckin' battlefield and fill up the hospitals and then wake up one mornin' to find a thousand federal marshals sittin' here in your office, tellin' you how to run your railroad.
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-->'''Blake:''' I believe you're a dangerous, menacing man whose mission in life is to stir up trouble. Bad trouble, Mr. Connacher. Irreparable trouble. And I look for the day when your breed becomes extinct. I don't know what the social strata will look like. I don't know whether there'll be segregated schools or mixed swimming holes or white barbecues. But at least there'll be no more King Connachers. And that'll put us as close to millennium as we'll ever get.
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-->'''Blake:''' I believe you're a dangerous, menacing man whose mission in life is to stir up trouble. Bad trouble, Mr. Connacher. Irreparable trouble. And I look for the day when your breed becomes extinct. I don't know what the social strata will look like. I don't know whether there'll be segregated schools or mixed swimming holes or black and white barbecues. But at least there'll be no more King Connachers. And that'll put us as close to millennium as we'll ever get.
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* ItsAllAboutMe
* NeverMyFault
* NeverMyFault
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* PolitlcallyIncorrectVillain: Surprise, he's racist too, believing that non-whites like Charlie are more along the lines of valuable animals.
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* PolitlcallyIncorrectVillain: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Surprise, he's racist too, believing that non-whites like Charlie are more along the lines of valuable animals.
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* BreakTheHaughty: And does he ever earn it.
* ConspicuousConsumption: He drives a flashy Cadillac and wears a monogrammed Rolex.
* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: He's not actually that fat nor that sweaty, but he does favor white seersucker suits and the biggest steaks he can afford.
* ConspicuousConsumption: He drives a flashy Cadillac and wears a monogrammed Rolex.
* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: He's not actually that fat nor that sweaty, but he does favor white seersucker suits and the biggest steaks he can afford.
A black minister who leads the protest march in Chaseville, and becomes the victim of Connacher's mob incitement.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When given the opportunity for a truly grim revenge [[spoiler: by turning white when Connacher is turned black, and therefore having power over him]], he takes it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When given the opportunity for a truly grim revenge [[spoiler: by turning white when Connacher is turned black, and therefore having power over him]], he takes it.
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-->'''The Minister:''' You killed a baby, and in a funny way... you killed God. All my life I've been preachin' about God. All my life. But tonight, Mr. Connacher, you burned down the temple. You kicked Moses off the mountain and Christ off the cross. You killed God. You burned Him up. You roasted Him to death. And you made me stop believin'. Don't it make sense, Mr. Connacher? If there was a God... if there was some Almighty Bein' lookin' down at us, do you s'pose He's allow an innocent li'l chile to die in the flames, screamin' like she had to do? You s'pose God would allow that? ... Or, Mr. Connacher, do you s'pose He'd let a man like you walk around the earth puttin' out your poison like a patent medicine. Why, God wouldn't permit anything like this. Not the God I been preachin' about. Not the God I believe in.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The town sheriff has no idea why the blacks are bothering to march or why they'd want to vote (wasn't it enough that they weren't slaves any more?)-- but he's deeply repulsed by Connacher, if only because Connacher's reputation for inciting major violence precedes him. He resigns when the mayor invites Connacher to speak.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After seeing the death of the minister's daughter.
-->Sheriff: I'm planning on getting so Goddamned all-fired drunk that I won't remember my own name-- let alone what I just seen.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The sheriff lets the marchers through (to the rage of the hick mayor) because he realizes that shutting down a nonviolent protest hard would inevitably lead to violent protests:
-->Sheriff: ''(to the mayor)'' Them niggers are gonna march right on through the summer, and it don't make no difference whether you mow 'em down with machine guns or give 'em free beer on the corner-- they're gonna march. ... You can turn this town into a fuckin' battlefield and fill up the hospitals and then wake up one mornin' to find a thousand federal marshals sittin' here in your office, tellin' you how to run your railroad.
* NoNameGiven: though Blake calls him "Jim."
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A local newspaper editor.
* TheCassandra: Though even he wouldn't anticipate Connacher's fate.
-->'''Blake:''' ''(to the sheriff)'': If you should see a Mr. Connacher in there, Jim-- a Mr. King Connacher-- you might give him the word [about the death of the minister's daughter]. And you might give mention to him that he's doomed now. He's got perdition written all over him. Every ounce of blood he's caused to spill... every fire he's lighted... every death he's been an accessory to-- that's all being added up someplace. It's all being added up. And that list is getting to be quite a tab. He's running himself up one helluva bill.
* FlatCharacter: Serves a similar purpose to Frau Gruber in "The Escape Route".
* SouthernGentleman
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Blake:''' I believe you're a dangerous, menacing man whose mission in life is to stir up trouble. Bad trouble, Mr. Connacher. Irreparable trouble. And I look for the day when your breed becomes extinct. I don't know what the social strata will look like. I don't know whether there'll be segregated schools or mixed swimming holes or white barbecues. But at least there'll be no more King Connachers. And that'll put us as close to millennium as we'll ever get.
* TheCassandra: Though even he wouldn't anticipate Connacher's fate.
-->'''Blake:''' ''(to the sheriff)'': If you should see a Mr. Connacher in there, Jim-- a Mr. King Connacher-- you might give him the word [about the death of the minister's daughter]. And you might give mention to him that he's doomed now. He's got perdition written all over him. Every ounce of blood he's caused to spill... every fire he's lighted... every death he's been an accessory to-- that's all being added up someplace. It's all being added up. And that list is getting to be quite a tab. He's running himself up one helluva bill.
* FlatCharacter: Serves a similar purpose to Frau Gruber in "The Escape Route".
* SouthernGentleman
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Blake:''' I believe you're a dangerous, menacing man whose mission in life is to stir up trouble. Bad trouble, Mr. Connacher. Irreparable trouble. And I look for the day when your breed becomes extinct. I don't know what the social strata will look like. I don't know whether there'll be segregated schools or mixed swimming holes or white barbecues. But at least there'll be no more King Connachers. And that'll put us as close to millennium as we'll ever get.
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-->He wondered vaguely if they gave a course at a good private school in how human beings could cut out the hearts of other human beings and then bury their conscience on the eighteenth hole of a country club green or in the wake of an expensive yacht-- or over the fantail of the ''Queen Elizabeth'' on a holiday trip to England... or in the deep dark dungeons of a man's soul where he administered the final rites to his conscience and lowered it down into the guilty ground and hoped and prayed there was no eternal hell where a man had to pay for this kind of funeral service.
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* TheSociopath: Oh ''Christ''. The guy drives out to where the black minister's house was burned down, talks with the minister, and even after hearing that one of the minister's children was burned alive, tries to ''crack a joke'' to cheer the guy up-- and is ''offended'' when he doesn't laugh!
* ItsAllAboutMe
* NeverMyFault
* TheSociopath: Oh ''Christ''. The guy drives out to where the black minister's house was burned down, talks with the minister, and even after hearing that one of the minister's children was burned alive, tries to ''crack a joke'' to cheer the guy up-- and is ''offended'' when he doesn't laugh!
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* IdleRich
* KnowledgeBroker: She has lots of time on her hands to gather information. But only for her [[{{Blackmail}} own use.]]
* RichBitch
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* TheUnfettered: She ''will'' have the eyesight that was denied her.
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A wreck of an ex-boxer off the reservation, with nothing to lose-- but his eyes.
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]
* CannotTalkToWomen / ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: See below.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: And he's too brain-damaged to even be able to regret what could have been.
* ManChild: PlayedForDrama, as the repeated head trauma over his career has addled him severely.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Served a year in prison for statutory rape. The experience was deeply humiliating and traumatizing.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Petrozella milks this for all it's worth.
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]
* CannotTalkToWomen / ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: See below.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: And he's too brain-damaged to even be able to regret what could have been.
* ManChild: PlayedForDrama, as the repeated head trauma over his career has addled him severely.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Served a year in prison for statutory rape. The experience was deeply humiliating and traumatizing.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Petrozella milks this for all it's worth.
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Indian Charlie's scuzzy manager. His outstanding debts are weighing heavily upon him, and there's something-- or someone-- he can sell.
* DirtyOldMan
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* ItsAllAboutMe
* ManipulativeBastard
* PolitlcallyIncorrectVillain: Surprise, he's racist too, believing that non-whites like Charlie are more along the lines of valuable animals.
* DirtyOldMan
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* ItsAllAboutMe
* ManipulativeBastard
* PolitlcallyIncorrectVillain: Surprise, he's racist too, believing that non-whites like Charlie are more along the lines of valuable animals.
Miss Menlo's personal physician.
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Miss Menlo's lawyer.
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* TheAtoner: Downplayed. He tells Strobe that [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech unlike him, he knows that in the end what he did was wrong,]] wrong, though he's not ready to hand himself over to the Israelis just yet. [[spoiler: He also married a Jewish woman after the war, perhaps out of guilt-- but the two did ultimately have a loving relationship.]]
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-->'''Gruber:''' ... if they take me, and if they string me up someplace in a hot Palestinian sun, I am sufficiently human to regret having my life end. But ''this'' difference between us, Herr Strobe... Herr Gruppenfuehrer. I will die knowing they are right and I have been wrong. Just that one single variation of view. ''That I can tell right from wrong.'' And how different that is from you, Herr Strobe, and your breed. Even now, even while you're being hunted down, you still do not know why. You do not perceive that you are wrong and they are right. And it is this kind of ignorance, Herr Strobe, that lost you the war. It is this kind of ignorance that will eventually take your life.
-->'''Gruber:''' ... if they take me, and if they string me up someplace in a hot Palestinian sun, I am sufficiently human to regret having my life end. But ''this'' difference between us, Herr Strobe... Herr Gruppenfuehrer. I will die knowing they are right and I have been wrong. Just that one single variation of view. ''That I can tell right from wrong.'' And how different that is from you, Herr Strobe, and your breed. Even now, even while you're being hunted down, you still do not know why. You do not perceive that you are wrong and they are right. And it is this kind of ignorance, Herr Strobe, that lost you the war. It is this kind of ignorance that will eventually take your life.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Leveled at Strobe by Gruber's wife [[spoiler: now widow]] when he pleads for understanding and claims he is "not an animal":
-->'''Frau Gruber:''' What you are, Herr Strobe, is quite another thing from an animal. You are a pervert. You are a butcher of six million people. But you are no human being, either. A human being could not fill so many graves and think of it as an offense that might be apologized for.
-->'''Frau Gruber:''' What you are, Herr Strobe, is quite another thing from an animal. You are a pervert. You are a butcher of six million people. But you are no human being, either. A human being could not fill so many graves and think of it as an offense that might be apologized for.
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Parker was involved in insider stock trading and would be disbarred at least if anyone found out.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Parker was involved in insider stock trading and would be disbarred at least if anyone found out.]]
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* NoNameGivenNoNameGiven: Subverted, like Zamorski, [[spoiler: when his death makes the news. His name is Karl.]]
!!Zamorski
Lanser's torture victim, a man physically and [[spoiler:seemingly]] mentally broken.
* CoveredWithScars: Oh good lord.
* EyeScream: In the camps, Lanser put out one of Zamorski's eyes with a lit cigarette-- [[ForTheEvulz because he was bored.]]
* NoNameGiven: Subverted when the news report of his [[spoiler:murder by Strobe]] airs on television and we find out his first name (Vladisau).
* ObfuscatingInsanity: When we first see Zamorski, he is apparently mute and looks around with a vacant air.
* [[spoiler: TheDogBitesBack]]
Lanser's torture victim, a man physically and [[spoiler:seemingly]] mentally broken.
* CoveredWithScars: Oh good lord.
* EyeScream: In the camps, Lanser put out one of Zamorski's eyes with a lit cigarette-- [[ForTheEvulz because he was bored.]]
* NoNameGiven: Subverted when the news report of his [[spoiler:murder by Strobe]] airs on television and we find out his first name (Vladisau).
* ObfuscatingInsanity: When we first see Zamorski, he is apparently mute and looks around with a vacant air.
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!!Frau Gruber
* FlatCharacter: She's mostly there for TheReveal about Gruber and to give a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* [[spoiler: LoveMartyr]]: [[spoiler: Well, what would ''you'' call a Jewish woman who fell in love with and married a fugitive ex-Nazi?]]
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Another Nazi fugitive, who runs a bar that Strobe frequents. Amazingly, he took one of his victims with him when he escaped Germany.
* TheBartender
* TheDitz: Strobe thinks so, anyway, and he certainly doesn't come off as the sharpest knife in the drawer.
* ItGetsEasier: A disturbing example. In his background story it's noted that he could barely keep from screaming when he saw his first concentration camp torture, but as he wanted to please his superiors and rise in the ranks he learned to put squeamishness aside.
* NoNameGiven
* ProfessionalButtKisser
* SelectiveObliviousness: He figures he can't be an important enough fugitive for the Mossad to come after. [[spoiler: He also doesn't believe that Zamorski would be capable of killing him.]]
* [[spoiler: SlashedThroat]]
* StepfordSmiler
* TortureTechnician: And Zamorski was his practice subject.
!!Gruber
A third Nazi fugitive. Though he apparently didn't work in the camps as Strobe and Lanser did, he's no less culpable and he knows it.
* TheAtoner: Downplayed. He tells Strobe that [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech unlike him, he knows that in the end what he did was wrong,]] though he's not ready to hand himself over to the Israelis just yet. [[spoiler: He also married a Jewish woman after the war, perhaps out of guilt-- but the two did ultimately have a loving relationship.]]
* [[spoiler BetterToDieThanBeKilled]]: [[spoiler: Though he spoke of escape plans, he decides to hang himself rather than put off the inevitable capture, trial, and execution.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though he's considered a wanted war criminal like Strobe, he is capable of some regret-- and finds Strobe completely loathsome.
* NaziNobleman: Played with. He was a patriotic German, and served, but became increasingly disgusted with the Nazi movement and disturbed by his part in it.
* NoNameGiven
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* InVinoVeritas: Unsurprisingly, he's a mean and surly drunk.
* {{Sadist}}: At one point, when desperate for female companionship, he finds himself thinking about how he liked to physically abuse the women he spent time with. It's implied he may have been like this long before he had an excuse in the Nazi party.
* TheUnapologetic: though it starts to degenerate into NeverMyFault as he gets more desperate.
* VillainousBreakdown: A slow and gradual one.
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