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* HatedByAll: Given how how's he a SerialRapist and a [[TheBully sadistic bully,]] most of the prison population seem to despise him for his depravity. Hell, he even makes [[BigBad Samuel Norton]] likeable in comparison. It's telling that after Hadley beats him to within an inch of his life and permanently cripples him, the prison population don't feel sorry for him and are glad to see him transferred out of Shawshank.
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** It's also implied that he hates [[SerialRapist Bogs]] and is seen grinning when the latter, who has just been crippled by the guards, gets sent to a hospital for the rest of his life.
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* DisappearedDad: At the time of his murder he has a baby daughter.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Cornering an unarmed prisoner fresh out of solitary in his own cell and beating him so bad he ends up permanently paralyzed would be a monstrous thing to do... if Hadley hadn't done it to [[SerialRapist Bogs]].
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Cornering an unarmed prisoner fresh out of solitary in his own cell and beating him so bad he ends up permanently paralyzed would be a monstrous thing to do... if Hadley hadn't done it to [[SerialRapist Bogs]].
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* BigFishInABiggerOcean: A deeply tragic example. He is an [[TheOldConvict Old Convict]] who has been in prison for fifty years. As the prison librarian and for a long time the only one who has gone to college, as well as for being a NiceGuy in general, he is very respected by the rest of the inmates. When he is paroled, he is given a menial job at a convenience store and gets no respect from anyone. It leads to him killing himself, unable to adjust to the modern world. Even before his parole, Red understands his situation:
-->'''Red''': In here he's an important man, an educated man. Out there he's nothin'. A used-up con with arthritis in both hands. Probably couldn't get a library card if he tried.
-->'''Red''': In here he's an important man, an educated man. Out there he's nothin'. A used-up con with arthritis in both hands. Probably couldn't get a library card if he tried.
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** It's also implied that he hates [SerialRapist Bogs] [[SerialRapist Bogs]] and is seen grinning when the latter, who has just been crippled by the guards, gets sent to a hospital for the rest of his life.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He pushes new inmates to break down crying to win a bet, but he also doesn't want to see them hurt by Hadley, quietly hoping for the one he pushes to stop before it happens and being shocked at Hadley's brutality. He's also devastated the next day when he learns the inmate died.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
** He pushes new inmates to break down crying to win a bet, but he also doesn't want to see them hurt by Hadley, quietly hoping for the one he pushes to stop before it happens and being shocked at Hadley's brutality. He's also devastated the next day when he learns the inmatedied.died.
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** He pushes new inmates to break down crying to win a bet, but he also doesn't want to see them hurt by Hadley, quietly hoping for the one he pushes to stop before it happens and being shocked at Hadley's brutality. He's also devastated the next day when he learns the inmate
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* VillainBall: Once Andy established solid ties with the guards and the warden, you'd think Bogs would move onto another target, even if only so that that there's no chance of any reprisals coming from the prison officials, who have a vested interest in Andy being alive and well, and who have also fully established that they have no compunctions about arranging "accidents" for inmates or giving prisoners life altering (or life ending) beatings. Instead when Andy talks back to him Bogs beats Andy to a bloody pulp and it never seems to cross his mind that he might face greater consequences than a little time in solitary for it. Then he was taken back to his cell and came face to face with Captain Hadley.
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* VillainBall: Once Andy established solid ties with the guards and the warden, you'd think Bogs would move onto another target, even if only so that that there's no chance of any reprisals coming from the prison officials, who have a vested interest in Andy being alive and well, and who have also fully established that they have no compunctions about arranging "accidents" for inmates or giving prisoners life altering (or life ending) beatings. Instead when Andy talks back to him Bogs beats Andy to a bloody pulp and it never seems to cross his mind that he might face greater consequences than a little time in solitary for it. Then he was gets taken back to his cell and came comes face to face with Captain Hadley.
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* NoPlaceForMeThere: An interesting variation, as he's been in prison for so long he doesn't feel like he has a place in the world anymore, and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide he commits suicide in despair.]]
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* {{Manchild}}: Brooks has a childlike demeanor, to the point where it's shocking that he was convicted for murdering his wife and daughter. This takes a much darker turn once he's out in the real world and he has no idea how to operate in it, even in his suicide note he sounds like a confused kid who doesn't know what to do with himself.
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* TheSociopath: He rapes and brutalizes people without a shred of remorse, where even [[EvenEvilHasStandards Hadley is disgusted by him.]]
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-->'''Tommy Williams:''' He was just so fucking high-strung! Like a pistol with a sawed-off firing pin. I knew a guy who had a Smith and Wesson Police Special with a sawed-off firing pin. It wasn't no good for nothing, except maybe for something to jaw about. The pull on that gun was so light that it would fire if this guy, Johnny Callahan, his name was, if he turned his record-player on full volume and put it on top of one of the speakers. That's how El Elmo Blatch was. I can't explain it any better. I just never doubted that he had greased some people.
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* TheSociopath: He murders people without a shred of remorse or empathy, and even laughs when an innocent man is sent to prison in his place.
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* TheSociopath: A low-functioning example. He hasn't a lick of empathy for practically anyone, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes maybe except for his wife and kids]], brutalizes people for even the smallest matters, and is generally a remorseless prick.
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* NervesOfSteel: As quiet and unassuming as Andy is, that doesn't make him a coward. He offers Hadley help with his tax issues and ''even after nearly being thrown off the roof'' he still doesn't back down, he calms a raging Brooks down like a patient father dealing with an upset child, and fights off Bogs and the Sisters, even convincing Boggs to not rape him by claiming he'll bite his dick off if he forces him to give him oral sex.
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* HateSink: '''THE''' most depraved and destestable character in the entire film, being a [[TheBully sadistic bully,]] a SerialRapist, and a DirtyCoward with absolutely zero redeeming qualities. He makes even [[BigBad Samuel Norton]] likeable in comparison. When he's beaten and left permanently crippled by the guards, you'll think it's the ''least'' he deserved.
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* HateSink: '''THE''' most depraved and destestable detestable character in the entire film, being a [[TheBully sadistic bully,]] a SerialRapist, and a DirtyCoward with absolutely zero redeeming qualities. He makes even [[BigBad Samuel Norton]] likeable in comparison. When he's beaten and left permanently crippled by the guards, you'll think it's the ''least'' he deserved.
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* ArchEnemy: Before Norton Bogs he's this to Andy given that he tormented and abused him for long time.
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* ArchEnemy: Before To Andy, as he perennially abused and tortured him throughout the first half of the film. After Bogs' well-deserved beatdown and permanent crippling, Norton Bogs he's this to Andy given that he tormented and abused him for long time. takes his place as Andy's archenemy.
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* EntitledBastard: Inherits $35,000 (which in today’s money and back then was-is $447,245.59) and all he can do is complain about the taxes he'll have to pay on it. In the novella, Red says he's the only man he's ever known who had the nerve to bitch about inheriting thousands of dollars.
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* EntitledBastard: Inherits $35,000 (which (equivalent to roughly $453,550 in today’s money and back then was-is $447,245.59) 2024) and all he can do is complain about the taxes he'll have to pay on it. In the novella, Red says he's the only man he's ever known who had the nerve to bitch about inheriting thousands of dollars.
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* NotUsedToFreedom: Why he attempts to "kill" Heywood, why he initially plans to rob stores and why he ultimately hangs himself: after 50 years in prisons, he cannot anymore function outside.
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* DirtyCoward: He is willing to murder someone, and deliberately keep someone else in prison for a crime he didn't commit, in order to protect himself from being arrested for money laundering. [[spoiler:And again in the end, where he commits suicide because he's afraid of being imprisoned.]]
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* DirtyCoward: He is willing to murder someone, and deliberately keep someone else in prison for a crime he didn't commit, in order to protect himself from being arrested for money laundering. [[spoiler:And again in [[spoiler:In the end, where he commits suicide because he's afraid of being imprisoned.]]he'd rather shoot himself than spend a single day as an inmate in Shawshank]].
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Red quickly become the best of friends, to the point that Red follows him to Mexico.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: He ends up good enough friends with Andy that he was the only outside party to know of the money laundering, Randal Stevens, can immediately guess correctly what the postcard meant from Andy, and follows him to Mexico.
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* BludgeonedToDeath: Subverted. Red is worried that Andy will use his rock hammer to fight another inmate, but Andy doesn't use it on anything besides his rocks and wall.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Compared to the other characters, Andy only uses strong profanity on two occasions. The first is when he calls Boggs Diamond "an ignorant fuck" to show how much contempt and hatred he has for the scummy, bullying rapist. The second time is when he tells Tommy why he is in prison because "the lawyer fucked me. Everyone in here is innocent. Don't you know that?" This is hilarious call back to when Andy first came to Shawshank.
* PrecisionFStrike: The Warden does not swear as much as the other characters, but when he does it is for effect. Examples include "your ass belongs to me" in his welcome speech to the new inmates, "Don't talk about money in here, you sorry son of a bitch" when Andy brings up the money laundering scheme and a particularly jarring example when he threatens to throw Andy to the mercy of the prison rapists "You'll think you've been fucked by a train."
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* TantrumThrowing: At the end, during his VillainousBreakdown, he throws a tantrum about a conspiracy and starts throwing Andy's chess pieces around.
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