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-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
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-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go. go.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Tony is an avid animal lover, stemming from being traumatized by the loss of his childhood dog and shown it many times in the series.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Tony is an avid animal lover, stemming from being traumatized by the loss of his childhood dog and shown it many times in the series.
** After he heard Christopher accidentally suffocated Adrianna's dog, he was outright furious,saying to Christopher "I oughta suffocate you, you little prick!"
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* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Johnny cut the pinky finger off of Mr. Satriale while Junior held him in place]]
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* BiggerBad: For the entire series. She is implied to be the chiefly responsible for moulding Tony's psychological behaviour. Ultimately, it was her who actually destroyed his own family.
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* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords:]] An inversion. [[spoiler: Just before Ralphie dies, Tony shouts to him "she was a beautiful, innocent creature! What'd she ever do to you? You fucking killed her!"]]
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* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords:]] FamousLastWords: An inversion. [[spoiler: Just before Ralphie dies, Tony shouts to him "she was a beautiful, innocent creature! What'd she ever do to you? You fucking killed her!"]]her!"
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--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and he has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously not fully developed).
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--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and he has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously obviously not fully developed).
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--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and hhe has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously not fully developed).
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--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and hhe he has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously not fully developed).
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* {{Badass}}: LargeAndInCharge, while he rarely has to get ''physical'' he's quite [[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking capable]] and {{acrofatic}} when he does.
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* AntiVillain: Especially in the earlier seasons.
** The book "The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am" has a description of this about Tony.
--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and hhe has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously not fully developed).
* {{Badass}}: LargeAndInCharge, while he rarely has to get ''physical'' he's quite[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking [[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking capable]] and {{acrofatic}} when he does.
** The book "The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am" has a description of this about Tony.
--> Compared to the other mobsters, especially to the [[AxCrazy more maniacal ones]] (like Ralph, Richie, Paulie, Furio), Tony seems relatively less volatile and sadistic, and more judicious and prosocial. Within the bounds of the mafia code, he appears to be fairest gangster (not absolutely fair, but relatively fair) and hhe has a capacity for compassion (albeit abviously not fully developed).
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* FreudianExcuse[=/=]TragicVillain: He hates the mere concept of the excuse yet he's diagnosed with a very powerful one; Tony was literally born into the mob and his abusive parents wrote the proverbial book about how not to rise a model citizen. His mommy issues are one of his major malfunctions, he's full of [[OedipusComplex love and hate]] towards her unpleasable mother and constantly struggles with his WellDoneSonGuy nature.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
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* MommyIssues: One of his major malfunctions, he's full of [[OedipusComplex love and hate]] towards her unpleasable mother and constantly struggles with his WellDoneSonGuy nature.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
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!!Tony Soprano
->'''Played by:''' James Gandolfini
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-->''"All due respect, you got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fuckin' thing. It's too much to deal with almost. And in the end you're completely alone with it all."''
The central character of the series. Capo (and later Acting Boss) of the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family, Tony Soprano has to juggle between the mounting pressure of running a crime organization and everyday problems with his family. After suffering a panic attack and collapsing on his son's birthday, Tony has no choice but to see a psychiatrist.
* AbusiveParents: In flashbacks, both of his parents are portrayed as highly manipulative and callous [[{{Narcissist}} narcissists]] who regularly prioritized their own needs at their children's expense. Whereas Tony's father is portrayed as a corrupting influence who was alarmingly indifferent to his children's emotional well-being, his mother, Livia, is revealed to have regularly subjected Tony and his siblings to physical and emotional abuse that has left them psychologically scarred as adults.
* AffablyEvil: Zig-zagged, oscilates between this and FauxAffablyEvil, but is often cancelled by his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkness]].
* AntiHero: A Type IV-V in the first two seasons. Despite being a particularly violent and narcissistic mobster, he nonetheless demonstrates an altruistic commitment to containing the destructive excesses of more dangerous members of his crime family such as his conniving Uncle Junior and the sociopathic Richie Aprile. However, in Season 3, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil he begins to compromise what little principles he has]] by assenting to the rise of Ralph Cifaretto, a depraved mobster whose wanton cruelty completely disgusts him. Ultimately, by the end of the series, [[VillainProtagonist he possesses hardly any redeeming qualities whatsoever]].
* {{Badass}}: LargeAndInCharge, while he rarely has to get ''physical'' he's quite [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking capable]] and {{acrofatic}} when he does.
* BadBoss: He's abusive towards his underlings. Cites ImNotHereToMakeFriends and [[MachiavelliWasWrong Machiavelli was right]] sometimes.
* BeingEvilSucks: Most of the time, crime does not pay... or not enough.
* BeingGoodSucks: He often makes little effort to change his ways though as it is easier to stay as a jerk. When he does some sort of favor for Artie, a MoralityPet of sorts, Tony ends up rationalizing that NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Charmingly summed up by his motto "I don't shit where I eat".
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Two instead of one. He tries to unscrew'em, often with backfiring results as in one way or another he is one of the main problems.
* BornInTheWrongCentury
* BrokenAce: Top of the line in his profession, wealthy, charismatic, powerful, ruthless, a keen business acumen, a beautiful family and drop-dead goomahs. Underneath it all, he suffers from some serious ParentalIssues and other mental problems, which cause him to have panic attacks.
* BrokenPedestal: Many old-school mobsters and his father don't live up to his memories. He is one for Christopher.
* CainAndAbel: The close relative variety with [[spoiler: Tony B and Christopher]].
* CarpetOfVirility: A manly raw trait prominently seen in his private life.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: The hardships of being a boss is a central part of his character. In-universe he fluctuates between DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and BlessedWithSuck.
* CharacterTics: Tends to {{facepalm}}, touch his face or run his hand over his head a lot when he's agitated or unamused by something.
* ChickMagnet[=/=]KavorkaMan: Despite growing increasingly bald and fat with age, his notorious reputation as the powerful [[TheDon Don]] of a Mafia family and his charismatic personality work almost unfailingly in his favor when seducing women. He often cheats on his wife who became attracted to him for similar reasons while in high school (coupled with the fact that he was [[IWasQuiteaLooker considerably more attractive then]] as evidenced by a flashback in the episode, "In Camelot.)"
* ChildhoodFriends: With Artie Bucco.
* CigarChomper
* ConsummateLiar
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: A given for a criminal who manages to stay on the top for years:
** He's usually seen [[TheMovieBuff watching movies or docummentaries at home]] and drawing conclusions from them.
** He also carries over knowledge gathered during therapy, allowing him to make increasingly accurate psychological assessments of his friends and foes. Needless to say, this provides a tremendous advantage in Mafia power plays.
** An avid and utilitarian reader of Sun Tzu's ''TheArtOfWar''.
** Quickly realizes that Feech is showing the exact same signs of Richie Aprile regarding unhappiness and unloyalty.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments. Tends to mix sarcasm and plain bluntness.
* TheDon: A relatively rustic one, as the Jersey mob plays in a minor league compared to the families of New York.
* TheDutifulSon: The one who took care of his mother after his sisters had moved on with their lives.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Zigzagged, sometimes the therapy leads him to be somehow gentler, but most of the time it is a tool to hone his managerial (read criminal) skills.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Although the Mafia is of course restricted to ethnic Italians--and it seems the Jersey family is fairly strict with that rule--Tony is more than happy to do business with anyone who won't snitch. And although he professes to be disgusted by homosexuality, it's clear when Vito is outed that he hates the idea of giving up a big earner much, much more than he's interested in enforcing traditional Mafia norms.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: A very [[ZigzaggedTrope complex issue]]. Straight example at first, he has many reasons for contempt and as befits a depressive individual, he goes through phases of love, [[SelfMadeOrphan hate]], denial, anger, and acceptance. By the end of the series he seems willing to apply a nostalgia filter over his sociopathic mother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A major part of his character. Despite his profession, he does all that he can to prevent innocent people getting hurt in the process and was horrified at Ralph's brutal murder of the stripper he impregnated and tried to abandon. Similarly, he grows increasingly disgusted with his late father after learning of the extent to which he disregarded his family's needs and silently vows to never become like him.
* EvilIsPetty: He never forgets to take time to treat people under him terribly.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids
* {{Expy}}: Of Michael Corleone from TheGodfather. While lacking Michael's level-headedness and sophistication, Tony is nonetheless strikingly similar given that both characters feel irrevocably tied to a career in organized crime due to their heritage and struggle to balance their lifestyles as crime bosses and family men while failing miserably.
* FatBastard: Gets fatter as the series goes on, in fact.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: A very savvy one, he invokes a LoopHoleAbuse by tainting every potential attorney with a conflict of interests.
* FreudianExcuse[=/=]TragicVillain: He hates the mere concept of the excuse yet he's diagnosed with a very powerful one; Tony was literally born into the mob and his abusive parents wrote the proverbial book about how not to rise a model citizen.
* TheGamblingAddict: Gets progressively worse towards the end of the series. At one point he tries to get Carmela to use the profits off a house sale to bet on the Jets.
* GeniusBruiser: Undoubtedly a smart guy, although without much formal education. What book learning he has he only really has a vague grasp of, although that's enough to set him apart from the others. He's particularly in tune with Sun Tzu's ''TheArtOfWar''. And of course, he's a tough guy.
* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Hypocrite}}: He believes all men should be "The strong, silent type like Gary Cooper". He repeatedly proves himself to be neither, easily losing his temper.
** Throughout the series he ridicules the stereotypical psychiatric patient whining about his mother. In the series finale, Tony delivers a self-pitying monologue about his hard childhood to AJ's therapist.
** After Bobby beats him in a fight Tony berates him for "sucker-punching" him, calling it a cheap move, this despite almost every fight Tony's won in the series being started by him sucker punching the other guy
* IconicOutfit: The white bathrobe, A-shirt and slippers, which are inherited by his ''Cleaver'' expy.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: He briefly went to college, was an athlete and sometimes remarks his life could have been very different under other circumstances, as he remembers that his mother frustated the more legit dreams of his father.
* ItsAllAboutMe: At first, he's self-involved. By the end of the series, its warped to the point that he sees everyone (aside from his immediate family) as a tool for his own gratification or self-advancement and increasingly devotes all his time jealously guarding the power he spent his whole criminal career accumulating.
* {{Jerkass}}: Seemed to have improved after being [[spoiler: shot by Junior]], however he eventually sinks back into Jerkass mode by the end of the series.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely loves his family and friends and he really does make an effort to change his ways but is too long immersed in violence to do it.
*** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* JerkJock: In high school as a star athlete for the Varsity football team. Nevertheless, even as a middle-aged mobster, he frequently displays a lingering fondness for locker-room humor much to the annoyance of his wife and children.
* HasAType: Brunettes with strong personality and independence. It's explictly addressed there is a [[FreudWasRight resemblance to his mother]].
* HeroicBSOD / VillainousBSOD: His panic attacks.
* KickTheDog: A central part of his characterization. Often his non-evil actions are followed by malignant and purely spiteful actions towards someone. The [[NiceToTheWaiter Bada Bing's waiter]] is one of the frequent dogs.
* LargeAndInCharge
* LoanShark
* LonelyAtTheTop: Lacks genuine friends, the closest ones he has are Jackie Aprile Sr., Pussy Bonpensiero, as well as Artie Bucco with whom he has been friends since childhood. Jackie and Pussy die early on (the latter by Tony's own hand) and he increasingly alienates Artie as the title of "Boss" goes to his head.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: After James Gandolfini passed away, many pointed out that in real life he was nothing like the character he played. He was a very thoughtful, soft spoken and all around nice person.
* {{Mentor}}: For Christopher
* MommyIssues: One of his major malfunctions, he's full of [[OedipusComplex love and hate]] towards her unpleasable mother and constantly struggles with his WellDoneSonGuy nature.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
* {{Narcissist}}: Despite displaying redeeming qualities such as a heartfelt concern for his family's well-being along with a childlike fondness for animals, he is portrayed throughout the series as an exceedingly vain and ruthless mobster who considers himself entitled to unquestioned respect or obedience from those around him. However, unlike most narcissists, he is self-conscious of the harmful consequences his actions have on others and feels all the more unhappy because of it. Nevertheless, he is too consumed by his own selfish desires to meaningfully change his ways.
* NecessarilyEvil: He believes many of his evil actions are a lesser evil, and sometimes the show portrays him in this light--particularly considering that most alternatives for head of the Jersey crew are shown to be too violent, too cruel, too stupid, or unable to handle the pressure.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent
* NeverMyFault: Everything is always someone else's fault, be it Chris, Paulie or his mother. His refusal to take responsibility all but destroys most of his relationships by the end.
* NobleBigot: From his point of view anyway.
* PapaWolf: Tony pistol whips and curbstomps New York mobster Coco after he finds out that he made some drunken vile sexual insults towards his daughter.
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Shows more morals than his colleagues, but sometimes has to do the ''wrong'' thing because it's what is expected of a ruling mob boss.
* PetTheDog: A number of moments with his children as well as his love of animals and a genuine concern for his closed ones. Deconstructed in that this care and considerations usually are the cause of more evil deeds.
* PragmaticVillainy: A ruthless boss who knows when to avoid a given action for the sake of the business, not out of moral qualms.
* ProperlyParanoid: He knows RICO and the government are out there stalking him time and again.
* RaisedCatholic: Pays little regard to religion but has a vague adherence towards Roman Catholicism.
* ReallyGetsAround: Has plenty of mistresses and one-night stands in spite of the fact that he's [[KavorkaMan not exactly catwalk material]].
* RedemptionRejection: TookALevelInKindness after his AdventuresInComaLand, but TookALevelInJerkass hit him once more.
* SadClown: He even refers to himself in this manner, in the StepfordSmiler sense
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A given when one is a [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney rich and powerful mobster]]. He also serves as the invoked connection for other characters.
* SecretIdentity: A paper thin one, he is a "waste management consultant" for Barone Sanitation and usually goes by the name of Mr. Spears in the civilian world.
* SharpDressedMan: Zig-zagged, tends to favor casual and sportswear but suits up when the occassion calls for it.
* TheSociopath: Played with but ultimately subverted. While he displays some trademarks of sociopathy including a grandiose sense of entitlement and poor impulse control, he is nevertheless revealed to be capable of experiencing genuine remorse for his crimes as well as making sincere (albeit largely ineffectual) attempts to perform acts of kindness for those outside his immediate family. However, his self-absorbed and covetous nature is entirely consistent with [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]].
* SophisticatedAsHell
* TheStoic: What he would like to be, but to his chagrin the opposite of what he is. He points out [[ThereAreNoTherapists there are too many therapists]], disfunctions and excuses for everything.
* TantrumThrowing: T. really loves to hurl things against the wall when he is enraged.
* TragicHero: Tries to do right by his friends and family but his narcissistic tendencies put a damper on this.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Zig-zagged. Sometimes his racism is used to show what a JerkAss he is, but others it's shown that he mainly resents other races out of a genuine sense of loss for the world he once knew as the changing demographics of his city and America in general have resulted in the loss of much of the places and culture he grew up with.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Gradually.
* VaderBreath: Wild boar-like breath when he's agitated and/or violent.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the first episode he has a severe panic attack and collapses in the middle of a family barbeque, after the departure of the ducks which were the one consistently good thing in his life.
* VillainProtagonist: While having his fair share of PetTheDog moments, he effectively discards nearly all of his virtues from Seasons 3-6 in favor of becoming an individual who is just as ruthless and destructive as his adversaries.
* WickedCultured: Played with, a refined ruffian with some college background who likes to insert learned words, but often mangles them with [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]]. In another life, from another background, he could have been an intellectual; as he is, not so much.
* WouldHitAGirl
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: When someone calls him "Anthony", its a sign of something serious. Most of his underlings simply call him T. or Ton.
* YourCheatingHeart: A serial adulterer with quite a reputation. Having a [[TheMistress goomah]] is an ancient tradition in the Mafia.
!!Carmela Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Edie Falco
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Wife of Tony Soprano. Enjoys the lifestyle that Tony's money brings in but struggles with his infidelity and the dirtier aspects to his profession.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
* DistractedByTheLuxury: Her main trait, creator David Chase informally defines her character as an ascended GoldDigger because of it.
* HotForPreacher: Close, but no cigar.
* {{Housewife}}
* TheHypocrite
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Talks ocassionally about her past chances of a different life outside the Mafia, but she ultimately loves the life of luxury.
* [[MafiaPrincess Mafia Queen]]
* MamaBear: In the first episode when she thought someone was breaking into her daughter's window what does she do? She grabs the biggest machine gun and marches outside with Tony in tow. It turned out Meadow was sneaking out of the house, but the thought counted.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She likes to act superior but is most certainly not above using her mob connections for her own ends.
* PrettyInMink: Tony buys her some furs. One is a sable coat, but he asks they make love with [[NakedInMink her wearing nothing by the coat]].
* RaisedCatholic: The most religious main character in the series, which serves to underscore her hypocrisy.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Invokes the nefarious power of the Soprano surname from time to time.
* SexForServices: Her affair with AJ's principal is identified as this by the teacher.
* [[StealingFromTheTill Stealing From The Duck Feed Bin]]: Steals from Tony's cash stash after discovering the nail of one of his goomahs, which Carmela uses to send a message to his husband. Tony gets it and lets it slide, initially.
* StepfordSmiler
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With several men. Except for one time, she doesn't take the next step out of fear of being discovered by her husband.
* YourCheatingHeart: Tony goes ballistic over the ''possibility''.
!!Meadow Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Jamie-Lynn Sigler
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-->''Are you in the Mafia?''
Daughter of Tony and Carmela.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Initially, leading to several YouAreGrounded instances.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Calls Tony out on his hypocrisy and line of work time and again, Tony "calls" her back however.
* CorruptTheCutie: Starts as a principled girl who has contempt for the Mafia, she is gradually dragged into the masquerade. By the end she is engaged to the son of one of Tony's henchmen, and it is implied she will become another [[AmoralAttorney mob lawyer]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As early as the first season, she comments on how [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing cool]] Sharon Stone looks in ''{{Film/Casino}}'', a remark one can expect from [[DistractedByTheLuxury Carmela]].
* FakeNationality: Jamie Lynn-Sigler is of Cuban descent and has a noticeably darker skintone than the rest of the family. Lampshade in-universe by Carmela's mother being disappointed about her not looking as caucasian of the rest of the family.
* FreudianExcuse: She applies it to a whole collective, reasoning that the poverty and dire conditions of the Italian mezzogiorno bred crime. In-story, being born into the Mafia gradually catches up to her too.
* IAmNotMyFather: Gradually subverted.
* IvyLeague: Columbia, she's unaware this was [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections somehow invoked by her mother]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: In this case, like mother like daughter. Meadow becomes just like her mother by the end of the series.
* MafiaPrincess
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Sigler, despite playing a pretty snotty and self-absorbed teenager/20-something, is actually known to be a very kind and friendly person in real life.
* MouthyKid: Is often mouthing off in the earlier seasons, even when she's caught having a debauched party at her grandmother's empty house.
* NeverMyFault: Tony remarks that if he had a quarter everyone time she's said that, he'd be able to own a private jet on 24 hour stand by.
* NonIdleRich: Has a job as a social worker for the poor.
* NotSoAboveItAll
* SiblingYinYang: The distinguised one.
* SpoiledBrat
* WhiteSheep: Gradually subverted.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Let's be perfectly honest: Meadow's pretty good-looking, while her dad? Not so much. Lampshaded; when Janice mentions Tony's "good-looking kids", Tony jokes, "even with our genes."
* YouAreWhatYouHate: During most of the series, Meadow rebels against her father and his lifestyle. But by the end of the series, she ends up defending her father's lifestyle, chastises other mob kids for speaking frankly in front of "outsiders" and even embraces the role of crime family wife, being engaged to a Mafia family attorney.
!!Anthony "AJ" Soprano Jr.
->'''Played by:''' Robert Iler
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Son of Tony and Carmela.
* BeardOfSorrow
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Moves with his father for a while because Carmela disciplines him, but it doesn't work as Tony is not a fun pushover.
* BungledSuicide: He can't do a thing right.
* ButtMonkey Things seem to conspire against him.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Openly critical towards his mother. His confrontations with Tony are more rare, since his father is a fearsome guy.
* ConspiracyTheorist: AJ has a phase towards the end where is obsessed with the government's involvement in Iraq, among other things.
* DumbassHasAPoint: He isn't exactly wrong when he calls out Tony or Carmela for Their hypocrisy or points out social injustice and crises towards the end.
* DumbJock: He's a good football player at least.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Discussed and averted. Tony is more than aware that AJ is not mentally able to do what he does for a living. So we never ever see AJ at the Bing or Satriale's.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish one.
* FormerlyFat: Loses quite a bit of weight over the course of the show (particularly around Season 4), and grows enough that he's practically lanky compared to what he was as a child.
* FreudianExcuse: Tony really has no idea what he's doing as a father to AJ.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Starts off looking not to far off from his father, as far as weight is concerned, but sheds the pounds and grows in height enough to become a fairly attractive man.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Panic attacks and depression
* LazyBum
* NiceGuy: When he cares enough, he can be a very kind and respectful individual, such as when he is in a relationship.
* TheSlacker
* SpoiledBrat
* TheUnfavorite
* WellDoneSonGuy: Wants to live up to his father's perceived expectations but fails. A tragic example has him [[WrongGenreSavvy trying to emulate Michael Corleone's rise]] by attempting to kill Junior.
!!Corrado "Junior" Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Dominic Chianese
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Keep thinking you know everything. Some people are so far behind in a race that they actually believe they're leading."'']]
-->''"You may run North Jersey but you don't run your Uncle Junior! How many fuckin' hours did I spend playing catch with you?"''
Tony's uncle and de jure Boss of the Soprano crime family.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Junior is made de jure boss of the Di Meo family, and actually keeps the title for a few seasons despite Tony's role as de facto boss
* BadBoss: Junior starts abusing his new power as boss almost immediately, taxing Tony's friend Hesh at the suggestion of Livia.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In Season 1 with Tony's mother, Livia.
* ButtMonkey: Always suffering mishaps and embarrassments, whether getting his hand stuck down the plughole of his kitchen sink for 6 hours, to discovering his capos have been working behind his back. After season 1 he spends the whole time either going stir-crazy under house arrest or suffering illnesses, finally developing dementia.
* TheCastShowoff: The season three finale gives us a nice sample of Dominic Chianese's singing.
* DirtyOldMan: Junior is a shameless flirt and it has gotten him into trouble a few times. A nurse he regularly flirted with turned out to be an FBI plant and his downfall into senility starts when he turns around to greet an attractive reporter and hits his head on a boom mike.
* DueToTheDead: He seeks to attend the funerals of old acquaintances, but only because this frees him from his house arrest for a while.
* DeadpanSnarker
* GrumpyOldMan: A fairly obvious example. In an early episode Tony jokes about giving him his DVD player so he watch ''GrumpyOldMen''. This just annoys him further.
* HiddenDepths: Is an ''extraordinary'' singer. He literally brings a room full of mobsters to tears.
* HumiliationConga: After failing as a BigBad in Season 1, he suffers increasing emasculation, and eventual senility. It's equal parts hilarious and depressing.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* MarriedToTheJob: Never married and his one stable relation was ruined by the business and related gossip.
* NerdGlasses: Dominic Chianese has said the trademark oversized glasses '''are''' the character and he would even wear them in all the rehearsals.
* NiceHat: A staple of his wardrobe.
* NiceToTheWaiter: He's very abrasive towards Bobby, his loyal and resignated assistant.
* OffingTheOffspring: Attempted twice with Tony, the offspring of his brother but a son-figure nevertheless.
-->'''Vito: '''He [[MarvinGaye Marvin Gayed]] his own nephew
* ParentalSubstitute: In flashbacks, he is revealed to have been more of a father figure to his nephew than Tony's actual father, "Johnny Boy" Soprano, who largely neglected his family in favor of pursuing his own appetites and ambitions.
* PassedOverPromotion: He is the heir apparent of the family, but Tony steps in and up.
* PetTheDog: During the first season, he genuinely seems to love his nephew, Tony, like a son despite growing increasingly resentful of his widespread influence within the DiMeo crime family. This is evidenced by his apparent unease over ordering Tony's assassination even while firmly believing that he poses an imminent threat to his position as [[TheDon Boss]]. However, after Tony effectively strips him of all his power and influence by the beginning of Season 2, nearly all his feelings of affection towards his nephew are tainted by a deep-rooted contempt that endures throughout the remainder of the series.
* PlayingSick: Straight example to dodge criminal prosecution, and then ironically twisted as he is really going senile.
* SanitySlippage: Senile dementia. Showcased in two episodes of note; First in "Where's Johnny?" when a disoriented Junior wanders off in search of his (deceased) brother, "Johnny Boy," forcing Tony, Janice and Bobby into a day-long search that ends when he's finally returned home by the police. Then again at the end of "Members Only," when he confuses Tony's late-night presence in his home for his (also deceased) rival "Little Pussy" Malanga[[note]]the guy he had killed in the pilot, and the one Tony torched the original Vesuvio to keep Junior from killing him there.[[/note]] and shoots Tony in the stomach. Season 6 sees him ostracized by the family following this incident, dooming Junior to increasingly shabby state care and finally a LossOfIdentity.
* SirSwearsALot: Everyone in the cast (save for Livia) is a potty mouth but Junior swears more than all of them.
* TapOnTheHead: A news crew's boom mike hitting his head prompts a StaircaseTumble down some steps outside a courthouse following one of his trials. It's later theorized this incident might've triggered his onset of dementia.
* ThickerThanWater: Subverted when he backs Tony against Richie, he invokes PragmaticVillainy as he's better off with his nephew.
!!Livia Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Nancy Marchand
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I gave my life to my children on a silver platter!"'']]
-> ''"Who says everything has a purpose? The world's a jungle....In the end, you die in your own arms......It's all a big nothing. What makes you think you're so special?"''
Tony's hateful and abusive mother.
* AbusiveParents: A real piece of work who threatened to stick a fork in Tony's eye when he was 10 years old, among many other examples.
* AmbiguousDisorder: As noted by Dr. Melfi, she exhibits symptoms of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder borderline personality disorder]] given her tendency to engage in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) splitting]] as well as her proneness to extended periods of paranoia and depression over the most insignificant events. However, she also exhibits several traits of [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]] as evidenced by how she consciously uses her children's fear of her emotional volatility to dominate their lives and derives [[{{Sadist}} sadistic gratification]] from doing so.
* AnyoneCanDie:
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Junior Soprano in Season 1.
* TheCynic
* DramaQueen: She's a {{phrasecatcher}} for "Always with the drama"
* DueToTheDead: Even at her funeral she is the source of frictions. Nobody has anything genuinely good to say about her.
* EvilMatriarch
* FamilyValuesVillain: Hilariously, the only Soprano who doesn't swear.
* HairTriggerTemper
* ItsAllAboutMe
* LackOfEmpathy
* LadyMacBeth: For Junior.
* ManipulativeBitch
* MeaningfulName: Not for nothing does she share a name with a [[Series/IClaudius Roman ancestor]].
* MyBelovedSmother
* NeverMyFault: She spends all her time complaining about her kids' abandoning her and ignores the fact that she was a lousy parental figure.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Though definitely somewhat senile, she also tends to play it up as a cover for her more unforgivable deeds.
* OffingTheOffspring: Narrowly thwarted, as is the ensuing VorpalPillow from Tony.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: Nancy Marchand's death]] caused the writers to have to [[spoiler: kill off Livia]] and restructure the third season and many of David Chase's plans for future seasons considerably.
* SanitySlippage: Senile dementia.
* TheSociopath
!!Janice Soprano [[spoiler: Baccalieri]]
->'''Played by:''' Aida Turturro
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Sister of Tony Soprano who lives in Seattle at the start of the series.
* AbusiveParents: Much like Tony, she was the victim of this in the form of her spiteful mother, Livia, who relentless criticized her appearance as well as her failed string of romantic relationships.
* [[AloofOlderBrother Aloof Big Sister]]: Played with but subverted. In Season 1, Tony speaks of her this way to Dr. Melfi when describing how she left him and his younger sister to endure the brunt of their tyrannical mother's abuse in order to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle. Similarly, Tony all but admits in the same therapy session that he was perpetually anxious of [[ParentalFavoritism the possibility that she was his father's favorite child]]. In Season 2, she returns to New Jersey and quickly reopens old wounds by ingratiating herself with their mother, Livia, in order to become the prime beneficiary of the estate. However, it is later revealed that she is just as much a victim of Livia's abusive parenting as her younger brother.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: While in high school, she dated the brutal Richie Aprile whom she is later revealed to remain attracted towards despite the abusive nature of their prior relationship . While they briefly resume their relationship in Season 2, she ultimately decides to cut her ties with Richie permanently by shooting him after realizing that she will never be safe from his violent disposition. In Season 4, she attempts to replace Richie with the violently unstable mobster, Ralph Cifaretto, but quickly tires of him. By the end of the series, she seems to have shifted her attention from [[HotBlooded hot-headed]] and often AxCrazy hoodlums to more manipulable men by marrying the sweet and humble, Bobby Baccalieri.
* BlackSheep: A west-coast hippy in her backstory, later the not really-welcome-prodigal sister.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Constantly pestering and bickering with his brother, the head of the family.
* ConsummateLiar: When she has something to gain, she is second to none in feigning sentimentality and manipulating those around her with gossip and half-truths.
* CoolAunt: Her seemingly laid-back and free-spirited personality along with her liberal outlook charms even Meadow who is largely distrustful and contemptuous towards adult figures in her family. This is subverted when she reveals her narcissistic and vindictive nature by angrily calling upon Meadow and her friends to be punished for wrecking Livia's house where she plans on living.
* {{Foil}}: For Tony, despite having many of the same traits.
* FreudianExcuse: Same as Tony's, less than stellar parents and upbringing.
* GranolaGirl
* ItsAllAboutMe: Big time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: In high school, she was lusted after by many of the boys Tony knew growing up much to his chagrin.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In Season 2 when she notes Carmela's untapped potential and dependency on Tony, then in Season 4 when she tells Bobby his prolonged grief over his wife is unhealthy.
* LadyMacBeth: For Richie and Bobby.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter.
* TheLoad: Has a parasitic life that only generates problems for the actual money earners.
* ManipulativeBitch
* {{Narcissist}}: An "amorous" example given that she also exhibits traits of histrionic personality disorder (See Theodore Millon's [[http://millon.net/taxonomy/summary.htm "Personality Subtypes"]]) as evidenced by how she actively [[AttentionWhore seeks to make herself the center of attention regardless of the circumstances]] while making such events as dramatic (i.e: theatrical) as possible much to the chagrin of Tony and Carmella. However, unlike Tony, Janice also exhibits traits typically seen in [[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html "unprincipled" narcissists]] given that she [[AllTakeAndNoGive pursues a highly parasitic lifestyle with hardly any shame whatsoever]] and seems almost completely incapable of forming any ''genuine'' attachments to those around her.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Diagnosed with a condition that grants her social benefits, it's hinted and discussed that it may be a fabricated phony excuse.
* ParentalFavoritism[=/=]TheUnfavorite: She ''has envy'' of Tony for the attention her mother Livia gave to him. In turn, Tony thinks Janice was DaddysGirl.
* PutOnABus: Literally at the end of season 2, but Tony's solace is short lived as she comes back for good the next season.
* ReallyGetsAround: In her youth, she was notorious for her rampant promiscuity. Upon returning to New Jersey, she continues her promiscuous ways to a ''slightly'' lesser extent as a GoldDigger who hops from one rising mobster to another.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given a pretty severe one by Tony in "Where's Johnny?", where he calls her out on leaving him to take Livia's abuse.
* TookALevelInKindness: Apparently after she hooks up with Bobby, although Tony sees right through it.
* TheVamp: Mild example towards Bobby.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: She becomes Livia by the end of the series.
!!Christopher Moltisanti
->'''Played by:''' Michael Imperioli
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->''"That’s the guy....My uncle Tony. The guy I’m going to hell for."''
Tony's nephew/cousin and protege.
* TheAlcoholic
* AmbiguousDisorder: Christopher has some serious mental issues beyond simply being a drug addict. His symptoms are most consistent with Borderline Personality Disorder given his perpetual anxiety of being betrayed, his emotional neediness towards others [[WellDoneSonGuy (particularly towards Tony whose approval he desperately seeks)]], and his proneness to depression which he self-medicates through drug abuse. He also exhibits some distinct [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic qualities]] as evidenced by [[GlorySeeker his lust for widespread fame and recognition]], [[TheCasanova his rampant womanizing]], as well as his [[CrazyJealousGuy controlling and violently possessive behavior toward Adriana]].
* ApologizesALot: "I'm sorry T." is his catchphrase.
* TheApprentice
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Deadly deconstructed
* BadAss: If there is one thing Chris excels at, it's combat with him shown to be an excellent shot who took down an assailant with a clean headshot when already wounded.
* BookDumb: Initially DumbMuscle, he gradually matures.
* BrokenPedestal: Idolizes Tony, but their relation is full of [[RebuiltPedestal up]] and downs.
* ButtMonkey: The poor guy gets put through all kinds of shit.
* CharacterDevelopment: From ignorant and eager novice to family man, but with important detours.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One of his main quirks.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Influenced in-universe by the trope. His ambition in life is [[IJustWantToBeBadass to become a made man]]. Enjoys the life and suffers the drawbacks. Possibly the biggest deconstruction in the series.
* DeathByIrony: His large nose, often the butt of ridicule by the other guys, is ultimately the instrument of his demise, as Tony pinches it shut, causing Christopher to choke on his own blood.
* DisappearedDad: Dickie Moltisanti was apparently killed by a cop when Christopher was a child.
* TheDragon: For Tony
* TheDriver
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Even after reaching the rank of capo Paulie and the others treat him like a ButtMonkey and crack disrespectful jokes about his family. This sets up a fatal chain of events.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: More or less, they have a complex relation.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tony hears that Chris killed Adriana's dog, Tony flips out and yells "I oughta suffocate you, you little prick!!!"
* FunctionalAddict: Tries to be this, but fails miserably.
* {{Hypocrite}}
--> "Human frailty. Makes me sick."
* InsaneTrollLogic: Often resorts to this. One example: Tony is concerned that a couple of Arabs they've hired to participate in a credit card scheme might have Al-Qaeda connections. Chris reassures him this couldn't be the case because "Mohammed and his girlfriend have a dog. A springer spaniel."
** Actually, this makes sense. [[http://islam.about.com/od/islamsays/a/Dogs-In-Islam.htm Dogs can be considered impure in Islam depending on which teachings you follow.]]
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Showed a particular talent for channeling his emotions into acting, but his hyper-masculine mafia conditioning led him to abandon this.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: A more literal though accidental example. Chris manages to kill Adriana's small dog when he sits on it while high on heroin.
** Has plenty of other instances, as well, including his physical abuse of Adriana and his murder of JT Dolan.
* LoanShark
* MarriedToTheJob: A tragic literal example, when he has to choose between his fiancée and his job, he chooses the job.
* MostWritersAreWriters
* NaiveNewcomer
* {{Nepotism}}: Played with, being the nephew-cousin of the big man gives him leeway but also exposes him to the fury of his mentor.
* NumberTwo: He's groomed as the heir apparent by Tony.
* OffTheWagon
* PlotMagnet: So much of the plot revolves around Chris that a new viewer might almost believe the show is about him. [[spoiler: His best friend is shot in the eye. He is shot in the spleen. He's one of only two people show being made during the series. His heroin addiction. His girlfriend flips and is murdered. He's even eventually murdered at the hand of Tony himself.]] Also, throughout the entire series there is an overlying plot involving him wanting to get into showbiz. This even takes up a good chunk of season 6 when he produces ''Cleaver''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: interweaved with RedemptionRejection and ReformedButRejected in a literal way: He dettaches himself from the dens in order to avoid temptations, but in turn this hinders him professionally and makes the others resent and treat him with contempt, which makes him so miserable he returns to the old escapist drug habits he managed to avoid in the first place.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Paulie accuses him of exploiting this too much.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: His struggle with heroin - it gradually worsens after the trip to Italy, Chris's shooting, and the Pine Barrens incident, finally spiraling out of control just after he helps Tony dispose of Ralph. Chris goes to rehab and joins Narcotics Anonymous, then relapses after hearing a false rumor about Adriana blowing Tony. He seems to pull it together after this, until Adriana's death, at which point he suffers another relapse. He pulls it together again, only to have another relapse while visiting Hollywood. Then another one after he learns his new girlfriend Kelli is pregnant and Tony convinces him to toast to fatherhood. He recovers again with help from his sponsor Murmur, but then relapses after he hooks up with Julianna Skiff. The two of them go to another meeting and recover again. A few episodes later he has a heated feud with Paulie, and after they reconcile Chris decides to drink with Paulie, and goes overboard, relapsing again and shooting JT Dolan. Then he crashes a car while high and driving Tony, and Tony impulsively kills him. However, the use of this trope is [[TropesAreNotBad immensely tragic and poignant]], and with many recovering addicts, especially those leading a life of crime, this is sometimes TruthInTelevision.
* ShotgunWedding[=/=]LawOfInverseFertility: Adriana is sterile and can't give him a much wanted biological son. Kelli quickly gets pregnant, but ironically he doesn't really love her.
* TropaholicsAnonymous
* UglyGuyHotWife: With Adriana. Acknowledged in-universe
* UndyingLoyalty
-->My uncle Tony... the guy I'm going to hell for.
* VillainProtagonist
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Paulie Walnuts
* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards Tony, his ParentalSubstitute
* WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks he's living in a gangster movie. Which technically he is, but The Sopranos is largely a deconstruction of the tropes Chris lives by.
* YourCheatingHeart: Has affairs on the side, but are not given much importance, for the most part.
!!Anthony "Tony B" Blundetto
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SteveBuscemi
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Cousin of Tony Soprano who is released from jail in season 5.
* {{Badass}}: An accomplished hitman when he's in his element. He apparently arranged a car bombing before his imprisonment, and [[spoiler: in the second half of Season 5 he kills Joey Peeps and Billy Leotardo, and wounds [[TheDreaded Phil]] [[BigBad Leotardo]]. Tony S makes sure to blindside his cousin, and literally bring out the big guns in order to kill him in the finale.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Mild example in his bullying of Christopher during his youth, in tandem with Tony.
* ButtMonkey: Sees himself as one though most of his misfortune is his own fault.
* ChekhovsGunman: Tony B's return [[spoiler: and murders of Joey Peeps and Billy Leotardo]] would end up being the snowball that caused the avalanche of the New York - New Jersey war.
* ChronicVillainy: A combination of HardWorkHardlyWorks, BetterLivingThroughEvil and sheer greed.
* ChekhovsSkill: His medical knowledge saves the life of Christopher during his feud with Tony.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Threatened with this by Phil Leotardo after killing his brother Billy. Ultimately Tony S finds some middle ground by graphically blowing Blundetto's face off with a shotgun.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EtTuBrute: The last thing that goes through his head, other than a shotgun shell, is the realization and glimpse of his dear cousin poised to kill him.
* GeniusBruiser: Has an informed IQ of 158 and his bruiser qualifications are well remembered by Carmine Jr.'s faction
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Indirectly. Tony feels guilty and wants to overcompensate his cousin because Tony B was arrested at the beginning of his promising criminal career, while Tony, Blundetto's partner, got away that night due to an unrelated panic attack caused by Livia which made him skip the crime scene. Blundetto doesn't seem to mind Tony's better luck.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Starts as ReformedButRejected, but it's eventually subverted.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Before prison, according to Janice.
* NiceGuy: At first. This persona gradually falls apart over the course of Season 5.
* OneSteveLimit: To avoid confussion with Soprano he's called Tony B, or Tony uncle Al
* OutdatedOutfit: His ''MiamiVice'' suit.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Credited as "Man", he appears in season 6 as a doorman guiding Tony through purgatory.
* RageBreakingPoint: He feels exploited by his Korean partner/[[MeanBoss boss]] and violently snaps against him when Blundetto gets exhausted of combining his normal workday hours with setting up shop.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Lampshaded when Bobby Jr. mentions that he's never heard of Tony B.
* {{Retirony}}: Subverted. After getting out of jail, he wants to leave the Mafia and set up a massage parlor. [[spoiler: Rather than dying, he realizes he just doesn't have the patience for an honest life and throws these plans down the drain, returning to the fold. Soon afterwards he gets caught up in a minor mob war with the Lupertazzi family and Tony S is forced to kill him.]]
* TheRunaway: His daughter Kelli ran away from home.
* SelfMadeMan: Subverted, tries to start a respectable business with his Korean boss, but it goes nowhere.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: JustGotOutOfJail in season 5, but has trouble fitting in because of his past and his desire for a new life. He's looked down by the hardcore criminals and distrusted by civilians.
* TattooedCrook
* ThickerThanWater: Played straight for a while, but ultimately subverted.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Shortly after being released from prison, his reckless bid to revive his criminal career drags Tony Soprano's entire organization into a bloody civil war engulfing the whole of Carmine Lupertazzi's massive underworld empire.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Goes on the lam after his quarrel with the Leotardos.
!!John "Johnny Boy" Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Joseph Siravo
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Tony's father.
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted. Its shown as another example of how horrid a person Livia was.
* AbusiveParents: He basically made Tony what he is.
* BrokenPedestal: Increasingly becomes this as Tony learns some unpleasant facts about his father that substantially tarnish the esteem with which he once held him.
* ButtMonkey: It's mentioned that Livia basically made him one.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Perhaps the most tragic aversion ever.
* FamedInStory: A remembered gangster.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HenpeckedHusband: Tony is awed by this, a powerful mobster dominated by his wife.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Had a chance to go west and live a less criminal life, but Livia ruined it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Even more so than Tony. In addition to being very vain and impulsive, he consistently prioritized his ambitions and appetites over the well-being of his own family.
* PettheDog: Despite being a consummate {{Narcissist}} and neglectful father, he is occasionally seen displaying paternal affection towards Tony Soprano in flashbacks. This can be seen when he scolds Janice for mocking Tony and later expresses sincere (albeit unsettling) pride in his son for not fleeing in terror after watching a delinquent gambler get his finger sliced off. Additionally, according to Corrado " Junior" Soprano, he also went out of his way to provide for their mentally handicapped brother, "Eckley", up until the time of his death.
* PosthumousCharacter
* YourCheatingHeart: Had affairs on the side, like most mobsters.
!!Barbara Soprano Giglione
Sister of Tony and Janice.
* [[AloofOlderBrother Aloof Older Sister]]
* EmotionlessGirl
* HappilyMarried
* HufflepuffHouse: The most inconsequential member of the Soprano family. After season 2 she tends to only show up at funerals.
* OnlySaneMan
* TheOtherDarrin: The actress gets recast. Hardly noticeable given her sporadic appearances.
* WhiteSheep: The one Soprano with a life outside the mob.
!!Hugo "Hugh" and Mary De Angelis (née Pellegrino)
Carmela's parents.
* ButNotTooWhite: Inverted, when Meadow was born, Mary was dissapointed by the dark skin tone of her granddaughter.
* ButtMonkey: Hugh doesn't get much respect from his family and suffers a series of illnesses and injuries.
* CoolOldGuy: All things considered, Hugh is a laid back and casual chap.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Hugh's wife and daughter treat him like a lackey, only Tony shows the man some consideration.
* GoodIsNotNice: Mary is quite obnoxious, but her objection to Tony's presence at Hugh's birthday is ultimately a valid one, considering that Tony is a mobster. Carmela, however, warps it into some form of cultural persecution and gives her mom a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]]. Hugh, meanwhile, is both good and nice, but adores Tony and is unwilling to confront the evil nature of the man.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mary bosses her husband around and nags him a lot.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Oh so very much subverted at Livia's funeral.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Mary is embarrassed by Tony, whom she regards as a rustic NouveauRiche.
!! Harpo "Hal"
The estranged son of Janice
* ButtMonkey: The poor guy can finally say which would be worse: Having Janice as a parent or being abandoned by her and left to live on the streets.
* TheGhost: Never seen. Only mentioned in dialogue.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Discussed/mocked. He's not named after Harpo Marx but after the song "Harpo's Blues."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His surname is never mentioned.
* ParentalAbandonment: What Janice did to him.
* StreetUrchin: He's living on the streets, according to Janice.
!! Ercole "Eckley" Soprano
Brother of Corrado Jr. and Johnny Soprano, uncle of Anthony.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He is described only as "retarded" or "feeble-minded", since little was known about such things during his time.
* DumbMuscle: Junior says he was strong like a bull.
* TheGhost
* OneSteveLimit: Shares a name and nickname with the jailed boss of the Dimeo crime family, another off-screen character.
* PosthumousCharacter
!! Dickie Moltisanti
Christopher's late father, shot by a corrupt cop when he was little.
* AxCrazy
* BrokenPedestal: Christopher eventually reconciles the fact that his previously idolized father was little more than a violent junkie.
* FunctionalAddict
* TheGhost
* PosthumousCharacter
* ShroudedInMyth: Christopher's perception of his father is funneled entirely through Tony's rose-tinted recollection of the man.
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!!Silvio Dante
->'''Played by:''' Steve Van Zandt
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[[caption-width-right:275:''"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"'']]
-->''"I genuinely don't think there's anything to gain by keeping him around."''
Tony's most trusted advisor and right-hand man.
* TheAce
* BlueOni: To Tony's red moments, but Silvio also shows his temper ocassionally.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: He can't bear them during a brief stint at the helm.
* TheConsigliere
* TheCreon: Has reached the top levels of his ambition, and is severely stressed out by the possibility he might have to take over for Tony.
* CulturalPosturing: His Italian heritage is SeriousBusiness for him, and collides with Tony for it.
* TheDragon: To Tony.
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* HiddenDepths: In season 6 he's shown to have a lot of anxiety about taking over the family from Tony if he ever needed to and mentions in season 1 that he once saw a therapist.
* HonestAdvisor
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* PunchClockVillain
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's usually the most sensible mobster in the show.
* SelfMadeMan: He's the owner of the Bada Bing, strip club and [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Jersey Mafia headquarters]], but all in all, a serious business.
* SharpDressedMan: The sharpest of the Jersey crew.
* VillainousFriendship: With Tony. They go back a long way.
* VillainProtagonist
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!!Paulie Gualtieri
->'''Played by:''' Tony Sirico
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[[caption-width-right:288: ''"All the shit we been through, you really think I'd kill ya?"'']]
-->''"I'm here to tell you one thing. You ever go whining to the big man again about shit between you and me, we'll have a problem, my friend."''
A long-time soldier of the Soprano crew and later caporegime in the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family.
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. However, Paulie is highly impulsive and homicidal. And, just check out some of his psychotic expressions.
* BadassGrandpa: While he's unmarried and never had children, he beats the crap out of some Colombian drug dealers who could be his grandchildren, among other examples.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: There's no telling what really goes on inside Paulie's head.
* BreakoutCharacter: He is arguably the most famed character in the series.
* CloudCuckooLander
* CulturalPosturing: Laments that the "mulignan" have taken over traditional Italian things such as the capuccino, pizza, calzone, buffalo moozarella and olive oil.
* CommutingOnABus: He's incarcerated during season 4, as the actor needed some time for a back surgery.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DontExplainTheJoke[=/=]OverlyLongGag: Repeating or explaining his jokes is one of his quirks, funnier on its own.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Greed}}: A ridiculously rapacious and cheap bastard. Comically absurd like many of his shenanigans.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: After learning that his actual mother was knocked up by an unidentified sailor, Paulie realizes that in all likelihood he is not full Italian. It doesn't sit well.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Zig-Zagged. In the first half of the series, this trope is played straight with regards to his character due to the fact that most of his victims are either [[AssholeVictim criminals like himself or otherwise incredibly obnoxious and cruel]]. However, while his odd quirks continue to be a source of humor, this trope is gradually subverted as his crimes become increasingly heinous in later episodes.
* IAmNotYourFather: Nucci.
* InSeriesNickname: "Walnuts"
* {{Jerkass}}: He's petty, vindictive, self-centered, and superstitious.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold[=/=]PetTheDog: His relation with his mother. Deconstructed in that it leads to more crime in order to provide for her. A straightforward example in ''From Where To Eternity'', which shows him comforting his goomah's children after they are awakened by his night terror.
* KarmaHoudini: He has committed many murders, but he never really gets any kind of comeuppance.
* LaughablyEvil: Of course.
* {{Malaproper}}: The prince of mangled words.
* MarriedToTheJob: Literally, he doesn't have a life.
* TheMentor: For Christopher.
* TheMole: Feeds Johnny Sack with information for a while. Tony gets suspicious and contemplates killing him for it, but Paulie is wise enough to deny it.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Deconstructed, this guy is such a cheapskate that any activity organized by him may go dangerously awry.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: A servile brown-noser who shows his real "allegiance" the minute Tony gets indisposed.
-->I live but to serve you, my liege.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's a [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mama's boy]]; and he has not one iota of concern for human life.
* RaisedCatholic: A criminal with a peculiar view on the afterlife and the purgatory.
-->You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by 50. Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by 25. You add that together and that's your sentence. I figure I'm gonna have to do 6,000 years before I get accepted into heaven and 6,000 years is nothin' in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It's like a couple of days here.
* SkunkStripe: One of his signature traits.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Tries hard to emulate Tony's WickedCultured nature, but fails, hard.
* ThatCameOutWrong: In the sixth season, he calls "Beansie" Gaeta, who is in a wheelchair, a "stand-up guy" before hastily apologizing.
* TheSociopath: PlayedForLaughs in the first half of the series but then played straight in later seasons.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The job of a top enforcer is examined through Paulie, first in tandem with Pussy and later with Christopher.
* {{Turncoat}}: Tries to defect to New York, but his scheme ends in EpicFail when he discovers that Carmine Sr. doesn't even know him. Paulie was just cajoled and exploited by Johnny Sack.
* VerbalTic: His "Heh-Heh" laugh.
* VillainousFriendship: A flimsy one with Tony, Paulie was more like a {{mentor}} back in the day, and a friend of Tony's father.
* VillainProtagonist
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Christopher.
!!Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
->'''Played by:''' Vincent Pastore
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Tony's best friend and member of the Soprano crew.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being a hardened criminal, he's a benevolent mentor to the hotheaded Christopher Moltisanti whose easygoing personality belies his unwaveringly loyal to Tony Soprano. [[spoiler: This is largely subverted in Season 2 when his likable persona is revealed as a facade masking his bitterness towards Tony and his crew for whom he harbors few loyalties. Though loving father, he's a cold and [[DomesticAbuser at times even abusive husband]].]]
* AnyoneCanDie
* TheBrute
* BoxedCrook
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Tries to do this, asking that the shooters leave his face alone, but he visibly starts to panic in the moments before he is shot.
* FatBastard
* HeroicBSOD: At the end of "D Girl" at AJ's Communion party.
* HiddenDepths: Again, near the end of "D Girl".
* KickTheDog: When he can't take the pressure anymore, his wife gets the brunt of it.
** And then there's that time he crushes an Elvis impersonator's skull with a hammer. Don't ask.
* {{Mentor}}: To Chris and in a lesser way to his godson AJ.
* ManipulativeBastard: The primary reason why he's been able to stay under his fellow mobsters' radar for years while working as an FBI informant.
* MistakenIdentity: For a while Tony thinks the authorities confused Pussy and Jimmy Altieri, since the two fat crooks look alike.
* TheMole
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: A great Santa Claus during the christmas parties organized by the mob.
* PassedOverPromotion: Says so to Tony during one of [[DreamingTheTruth Sopranos's dreams.]]
* PetTheDog: He has a heart-to-heart with AJ at his communion party. Notably occurs at the end of "D Girl", the same episode as his aforementioned KickTheDog.
* SanitySlippage: Played for laughs. After being alienated from his friends and family, Pussy actually seems to think that he can join the FBI.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Paulie or Christopher in the first season.
* VillainousFriendship: With Tony and Christopher.
!!Bobby "Baccala" Baccalieri
->'''Played by:''' Steve Schirripa
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A rising member of the Soprano crew, who later on marries Janice Soprano.
* AscendedExtra
* AntiVillain: The most sympathetic and most innocent mobster in the series by a wide margin.
* AnyoneCanDie
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Honestly, Bobby was probably the nicest guy you could ever meet, and only did non-violent work for the most part. You constantly push his buttons though, and it's not pleasant, as Tony can attest.
* ButtMonkey:
** Early on, Bobby is the butt of many of Tony's jokes. Tony nearly falls over laughing at Bobby when he shows up in full hunting gear to help him rescue Christopher and Paulie.
** More so to Junior, who never stops disrespecting him and abusing him.
* TheCaretaker: For Junior.
* GentleGiant: With shades of ExtremeDoormat
* GoodParents: To his kids.
* HappilyMarried: With Karen. With Janice, not so much.
* ManChild: His toy trains.
* MookPromotion
* {{Nepotism}}: Being the brother-in-law of the boss is a great boost for his career.
* TokenGoodTeammate: At first. He gradually grows more ruthless as the series progresses.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from being one of the biggest teddy bears in the family to marrying Tony's sister and skyrocketing up to #3 in the pecking order by the end.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As he committed his first murder and ascended to Tony's inner circle in the final nine episodes, he adopted a solidly Darwinist mentality, looking out only for himself and his boss.
* TraumaCongaLine: His father and his wife die within months, and then Janice takes an interest in him, leading to a verbally abusive relationship. Then a ride breaks down with Janice and his kids on it. Then he suffers a near-death experience in which some street kids shoot him in the face, temporarily blinding him in one eye. Then he gets into a drunken brawl with Tony and beats him, causing him to fear for his life. Tony deliberately intimidates Bobby after this, then arranges for Bobby to make his first kill, which is a messy and brutal one.
* VillainsOutShopping[=/=]RealMenWearPink: Has a toy train hobby whenever he's not doing things for the family.
* YourCheatingHeart: Notably averted, other than Johnny Sack, Bobby is the only mobster on the show to not take a mistress.
!!Giacome "Jackie" Aprile, Sr.
The boss of the [=DiMeo=] family at the start of the series.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being a ruthless mob boss, he is depicted as being very friendly and diplomatic in his dealings with others even while suffering from terminal cancer. Additionally, even after being confined to the hospital, Tony and the other capos within the [=DiMeo=] crime family speak fondly of his fair and charismatic leadership.
* TheDon: Boss of the Jersey crew at the start of the series
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Wanted to keep his son away from the criminal life. Tony tries to honor this desire.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His demise leads to an early SuccessionCrisis and a MobWar.
* SiblingYinYang: Affable and easygoing, unlike Richie, his ruthless and sociopathic brother.
* VillainousFriendship: A very close friend of Tony.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies of cancer in the fourth episode.
!!Ralph Cifaretto
->'''Played by:''' Joe Pantoliano
-->''"Tomorrow I can be on time, but you'll be stupid forever."''
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[[caption-width-right:350: "Why was I born handsome instead of rich?"]]
The the Soprano crew's loose cannon, who returns from an extended stay in Florida in Season 3.
* AllThereInTheManual: Joe Pantoliano says that Ralph was sexually abused as a child. Some manner of childhood abuse was implied in "Mergers and Acquisitons", but never made explicit within the show.
* AnyoneCanDie: His status as a big earner makes him less expendable than most in-story. When his demise comes, the when and the why are completely out of the blue.
* AssholeVictim: Virtually every single person Ralphie knows mentions at one point or another that they'd kind of looking forward to the day he dies.
-->'''Albert Barese:''' This is bad, my friend. I mean, don't get me wrong. ''I wouldn't piss on this Ralph if he was on fire''. But to whack the guy over a horse? How fucked up is that? If it can happen to him, it can happen to any of us.
* AxCrazy: Possibly one of the biggest examples. He has extreme outbursts and it shows every time he kills (or attempts to kill) someone.
* BadLiar: His lies are so transparent that it's ambiguous if CryingWolf is in play.
* BaldOfEvil: Despite his ugly toupee.
* BigBad: Subverted. After the departure of Richie Aprile and Pussy Bonspenserio, a scheming, psychotic mobster played by a well-known character actor is introduced at the beginning of Season 3, and starts to butt heads with Tony. [[spoiler: Ralph and Tony bury the hatchet before the season finale, at which point it appears Ralph will be kicking around for a while. He continues acting as a series regular until about 2/3 of the way through Season 4, at which point all the resentment between the men comes bubbling up in an argument over a horse, and Tony beats him to death.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}}: Heavily into bondage and masochism. His kinks include roleplaying as a whore being pimped out by his "mommy" while she holds a vibrator in his ass, having his penis and testicles abused, and [[NoodleIncident something involving a leather mask.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his obnoxiusness, he's the biggest earner in the Soprano family.
* BrutalHonesty: Punctual. Tony gives him some credit for not being a YesMan.
* CombatPragmatist: Uses a can or Raid as a weapon during a fist fight.
* ComfortingTheWidow[=/=]RomancingTheWidow: Rosalie Aprile. He [[YourCheatingHeart cheats on her]] with Janice before long.
* DeadpanSnarker: His big mouth often gets him in trouble, so much that Johnny Sack tries to have him killed for insulting his wife.
** LiteralistSnarking: When Tony orders him [[PragmaticVillainy to put an end to his arsons]], he makes a call back to the line "no more fires" while his crew is beating the crap out of some guys, but in a less flashy way.
* DepravedBisexual: Suggested.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In Season 3. From the moment he first appears, he creates turmoil among the Soprano Crime Family's ranks by encroaching on other gangsters' territory, engaging in random bursts of violence, and [[TheCorrupter spurring Jackie Aprile Jr. to further acts of delinquency]]. However, after making him a ''capo'' in "He Is Risen", Tony brings his recalcitrant behavior to heel and he is largely neutralized as a direct threat to the well-being of Tony's business and family.
* DrugsAreBad: He blames his coke addiction for his bad behavior.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The episode with Tracee becomes his entire defining element, both for the cast and the audience.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* FanBoy: Of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. EyeScream ensues for Georgie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He is introduced in a scene in which Tony yells at him for unnecessarily setting trucks on fire. A later fire contributes to his death.
** During an argument with him on the phone Johnny Sac says "I should have let Tony cut your head off a year ago", guess what eventually happens.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Begins to show genuine remorse and something resembling human compassion...and then he is written out of the show 20 minutes later thanks to a never extinguished feud.
* HiddenDepths: Intellectually, Ralph dwarfs most of his criminal associates However, his obnoxious and unstable personality consistently work to frustrate his ascent within the underworld despite his wide range of talents.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Wanted to be an architect but the death of his mother truncated his dream as he had to [[PromotedToParent raise his numerous family]]. Additionally he regrets not being part of the big hit against Feech [=LaManna=], the breakthrough for Tony and his pals.
* {{Jerkass}}: In a show full of people with anti-social behavior he's one of the most triumphant example, which is saying something.
* ManipulativeBastard: As evidenced in his interactions with Jackie Aprile Jr. in Season 3. While Jackie has hardly any respect for him, Ralph nonetheless turns him into an unwitting pawn for his own agenda by insidiously playing on the young man's [[SmallNameBigEgo oversized ego and ambitions]].
* {{Mentor}}: For Jackie Jr.
* MommyIssues: Hinted at. Considering the show's adherence to FreudWasRight, it's hard to imagine a character like Ralph ''not'' having mommy issues.
* PassedOverPromotion: By Gigi, as Tony deems Ralph is too voluble for a captaincy.
* PosthumousCharacter: Appears in several dreams after his demise. Melfi interprets a Kafkaesque one as a confirmation of RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* PyroManiac: Arsonist, which falls in line with his freudian sexual oddities.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: To a certain degree. He starts to become a better person when his son is injured but is killed by Tony before it can really go anywhere.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He is based in Miami during the first two seasons.
* SmugSnake[=/=]SmugSmiler: Ralphie is usually too pleased with himself and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RalphCifaretto_8040.jpg smirking]] for some reason or another.
* TheSociopath
* StealingFromTheTill: Raises suspicions about him pocketing money from the esplanade project, as he seems to be living beyond his supposed means.
* TragicVillain
* UncertainDoom: In-universe, Tony uses his disappearance as an implicit MotivationalLie for his crew against Johnny Sack.
* WouldHitAGirl: He would beat her to death, [[KickTheDog in fact]].
!!Richie Aprile
->'''Played by:''' David Proval
->''"Threatenin'? I got a hard-on for you already. C'mon, gimme a reason...."''
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"What's mine is not yours to give me."'']]
A [=DiMeo=] crime family member released from prison at the start of Season 2.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AxCrazy: By far, one of the most crazy mobsters in the show.
* {{Badass}}
* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like his growing conflict with Tony will come to a head by the end of Season 2. Instead, he is abruptly taken out of the picture when his wife, Tony's sister Janice, shoots him dead after a domestic argument.
* BigBad: Of Season 2. Upon being released from prison, Richie actively undermines Tony's authority as boss of the [=DiMeo=] crime family and ultimately moves to have him killed towards the end of the story arc. [[spoiler: However, he is killed by Janice in the season's penultimate episode before his plans come to fruition. Three seasons later, Tony notes that his experience with Richie has taught him to always nip this kind of thing in the bud, leading him to arrange Feech's return to prison.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
** LiteralistSnarking: He's ordered to back off a guy, he does "and then [[CarFu puts it on drive]]".
* DudeWheresMyRespect: After doing his jail time he's content with Tony's financial treatment but then Janice meddles in and informs Richie that the amount of money he is given was only fair several decades ago.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After his release from prison one of the first things Richie does is threaten Chris Moltisanti for hitting his girlfriend Adriana, who is Richie's niece. Richie specifically tells him to wait until they're married to put his hands on her. Richie eventually [[spoiler:punches his fiancee Janice in the mouth]], which causes her to [[spoiler:lose her temper and shoot him]], he probably should have listened to his own advice.
* {{Jerkass}}: Possibly the biggest example in the series. He is extremely rude and unpleasant to anyone who interacts with him.
* KubrickStare: He is notorious for subjecting others to these to the point that Tony dubs his eyes, " Manson Lamps."
* LackOfEmpathy
* LoanShark
* TheNapoleon: Despite being more or less average in height, he is nevertheless one of the shorter members of the Soprano Crime Family (particularly when compared to the hulking Tony Soprano). However, what he lacks in size, he makes up for in sheer aggressiveness and brutality.
-->'''Junior:''' He's got tremendous moxie for a guy his size.
* OldFlame: Resumes an old relation with Janice.
* PapaWolf: While meeting with Tony after being released from prison, he angrily dresses down Christopher for abusing his niece, Adriana. However, this is [[PragmaticVillainy largely revealed to be a calculated ploy to reaffirm his credentials as an "old-school" wiseguy in order to curry Tony's favor]] when he callously admits to having no concern for what Chris does to Adriana "after he puts a ring on her finger".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the several convicts released from the can during the show.
* SiblingYinYang: Richie is covetous and bloodthirsty, while Jackie is benevolent and easygoing.
* TheSociopath: Again, possibly the biggest example in the entire series.
* TheStarscream
* WeHardlyKnewYe
!!Jackie Aprile Jr.
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[[caption-width-right:308:[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections "You know who my father was?"]]]]
Son of the late boss.
* AscendedExtra: Briefly seen before the Season 2 finale, he's later a major character in Season 3.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His efforts to make a name for himself are the driving source of conflict in the third season.
* BaitTheDog: Looks like he might be bonding with the young girl living in his safehouse, who wants to teach him chess, but he quickly gives up on this endeavor and goes outside, where he is immediately killed.
* BigBadWannabe: In Season 3. While he creates tension within the ranks of the [=DiMeo=] crime family throughout the story arc, he never musters the resources to directly threaten Tony's leadership and is unceremoniously whacked the moment he shows signs of doing so.
* BullyingADragon: Wanting to [[FollowTheLeader repeat Tony's breakthrough hit]], he robs a card game organized by the [=DiMeo=] family. It gets messy and deadly.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A notable inversion during his romance with Meadow. At first Tony is relieved with a ''paisan'' and everybody else is delighted by the prospects of a Soprano-Aprile marriage.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Gets arguably the least dramatic death of any major character in the series.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Feels entitled to respect due to his heritage, but earns and receives none. His final human interaction is a little girl laughing at him.
-->'''Tony''': Those who want respect, give respect.
* IvyLeague: Rutgers, a university considered part of the "Public Ivy". He flunks out, but keeps pretending he is attending college.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* ManChild: Of the [[SpoiledBrat spoiled rotten]] JerkAss variety.
* {{Narcissist}}: An [[TheCasanova "amorous"]] and [[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html "unprincipled"]] example. Aside from his uncle and father who were both arrogant and ruthless individuals, he shows [[LackofEmpathy hardly any respect or loyalty towards anyone other than himself]]. Ultimately, his [[JerkAss sheer obnoxiousness]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo bloated sense of entitlement]] reaches a point that Tony Soprano, his [[VillainousFriendship father's best friend and former right-hand man]], finally gets sick of him [[spoiler: and has him killed.]]
* PetTheDog: Affectively coaching A.J., who looks up to him.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: His father wanted him to have a honest life and Tony tries to keep him straight, but the [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster underworld is just too attractive]] to Jackie. Ralph gives him the final push encouraging Jackie to follow in his father's footsteps.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown briefly during a flashback in the Christmas episode.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His father's death leaves an immense chip on his shoulder.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on Meadow, gets caught red-handed and becomes an ex-boyfriend.
!!Furio Giunta
->'''Played by:''' Federico Castelluccio
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An enforcer from Italy who joins the [=DiMeo=] family in Season 2, brought in as part of a "men-for-cars" deal with the Neapolitan [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra Camorra]].[[note]]Fun fact: in Napoli, the Camorra ''are'' the waste-management business. Seriously; their handling of the city's municipal waste has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples_waste_management_issue caused serious environmental issues.]][[/note]]
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite and cultured in addition to being a violent thug.
* BewareTheQuietOnes
* TheBigGuy: The tallest and easily the fittest of Tony's crew.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter
* TheDriver
* TheDragon: For Tony
* HiddenDepths: His feelings for Carmela.
* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PunchClockVillain: He can go from laid back to vicious as the job demands.
* PutOnABus: Or rather a plane, back to Italy, when his and Carmela's feelings for each other become too strong to ignore (and before Tony finds out)
* RealMenWearPink: His "Euro-trashy" wardrobe. Also, he's officially brought in for visa purposes as a "master cheese maker" for Artie, and seems to at least be competent at it.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Pure-blooded Italian, hired straight from Napoli, and presented as fiercer than the average enforcer.
* WickedCultured
* WouldHitAGirl: In Italy, there's really no gender discrimination. Suggested to be part of why Tony brought him back to the States.
!!Vito Spatafore
->'''Played by:''' Joseph R. Gannascoli
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A rising member from the Cifaretto crew. Closet gay.
* AmbitionIsEvil: An interesting TheStarscream variation; he begins to postulate himself slowly as big boss candidate, in a particularly greedy way during a delicate moment when Tony is indisposed.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Shows signs of this a couple times.
* AscendedExtra
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tony regards him as this. His "quirk" is somehow forgivable because like Ralph before him, he's a big earner, unlike Gervasi:
-->'''Tony (to Gervasi): '''Maybe you should start sucking cock instead of watching TV Land 'cause Vito brought in three times what you do on construction! Yeah! And I didn't have this fuckin' problem!
* BuryYourGays
* CivilianVillain: Has a shot at a civilian life, but decides that crime pays better.
* DrivenToSuicide: Subverted, after going on the run once he's discovered to be gay the camera focuses on him and his gun many times but he never kills himself.
* FormerlyFat: He's imbued with new ambition and drive after a masive loss of weight.
* {{Gayngster}}: A straight deconstruction.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Finn witnesses his interest in men, and is called to "testify" later by the mobsters.
* LeatherMan: The visible reason why he's outed.
* MeetCute: Finds a handsome barman/fireman boyfriend in New England.
* MookPromotion
* SecretIdentity: Flees from Jersey and starts a new life in New England, at first [[ItsForABook posing as a writer]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Joe Gannascoli appears in season 1 as the random client of a bakery while Christopher waits in the line.
!!Eugene Pontecorvo
->'''Played by:''' Robert Funaro
An enforcer in the Cifaretto crew.
* AscendedExtra: Until he gets his own episode in series 6, his biggest scene is when he smashes a bottle on Little Paulie's face. Though for some reason Robert Funaro is often billed in the opening credits before series 6, despite having smaller roles than other characters (maybe he had a good agent)
* ADeathInTheLimelight
* DespairEventHorizon: His realization in "Member's Only" that he'll never be able to leave the mob and move with his family down to Florida.
* DrivenToSuicide
* TheMole
* MookPromotion: Shares his made man initiation with Christopher.
* OutOfFocus: Listed in the main cast of season 3 but mostly amounts to being a background character until the premiere of season 6 and then he dies.
* ResignationsNotAccepted
!!Feech [=LaManna=]
->'''Played by:''' RobertLoggia
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An old Mustache Pete released from prison in Season 5.
* AxCrazy: When he's in a bad mood, his HairTriggerTemper and violent nature are genuinely terrifying.
* BadassGrandpa: Can still deliver a nasty beat down.
* BaldOfEvil
* FauxAffablyEvil: While he comes across as charismatic and grandfatherly in his early appearances, it quickly becomes apparent that he's a violent sociopath who resents Tony's rapid ascent much like Richie Aprile before him.
* GrumpyOldMan
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''.
* {{Jerkass}}
* LackOfEmpathy: Yes, as usual in ruthless mobsters.
* LivingLegend: Famed mobster.
* TheMunchausen
* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the several convicts released from the can during the show, but he is one of the few [[TheGhost aversions]] because he's mentioned in season 3 as the man whose poker game was robbed by Tony and his pals.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Part of his backstory is that he was an original gangster who was made in Italy, before immigrating to New Jersey in the 1950s.
* TheSociopath
* TheStarscream: Tony perceives some hints about his unloyalty and gets rid of him before he can do any harm.
* TraitorShot: Gets several from Tony's point of view, in slow motion. He's the only minion who doesn't suck up to Tony's jokes.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Tony schemes his return to prison after four episodes.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Loves to go down memory lane time and again and struggles to acknowledge that Tony is not a kid anymore.
!!Carlo Gervasi
->'''Played by:''' Arthur J. Nascarella
A captain in the family as of Season 4.
* TheButcher: Invoked in the imagery when he kills Fat Dom Gamiello.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Presumably a good soldier, he gets to be a captain thanks to seniority, but his managerial skills suck:
-->'''Tony: '''Maybe you should start sucking cock instead of watching TV Land 'cause Vito brought in three times what you do on construction! Yeah! And I didn't have this fuckin' problem!
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite having relatively few lines in the entire series, it's implied that him [[spoiler: turning government witness]] may end being the thing that will eventually bury Tony. [[spoiler: If Tony's still alive, of course.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy[=/=]MetaGuy: Played with in "Chasing It"; he compares Tony's luck with an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Tony, never a big fan of sci-fi, immediately chides him for it, but when Tony goes to las Las Vegas on a [[MushroomSamba weird trip]], Carlo's comparison gets vindicated.
!!Ray Curto
A long-running captain in the family.
* ADayInTheLimelight: An important scene of the Season 5 finale takes place at his birthday dinner, but Tony quickly arrives and steals the spotlight.
* DeadpanSnarker
* KilledMidSentence: Has an aneurysm while imparting some information to the FBI.
* TheMole: The longest lasting confirmed mole of the series.
* OutOfFocus: He seems to prefer it this way.
!!Gigi Cestone
->'''Played by:''' John Fiore
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An enforcer introduced in Season 2.
* AffablyEvil
* TheChainsOfCommanding: After he is made captain, the stress of containing Ralphie adds a new toll to his health.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Bites it halfway through Season 3 in a pretty undignified way.
-->'''Tony (in the series finale)''': Gigi died takin' a shit!
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ralph constantly breaks his balls.
* MauveShirt
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After shooting Philly Parisi, Gigi must regularly interact with Philly's identical twin brother Patsy. This is another contributing factor to his mounting stress.
* UndignifiedDeath: Suffers a heart attack while constipated on the toilet of the Bada Bing, and surrounded by porn magazines, though Tony does his best to paint it in a more dignified light by comparing him to Elvis.
!!Benny Fazio
->'''Played by:''' Max Casella
A young enforcer and friend of Chris Moltisanti.
* TheAce
* TheDriver
!!Little Paulie Germani
->'''Played by:''' Carl Capotorto
Nephew of Paulie Gualtieri.
* ButtMonkey: Besides Georgie the bartender, he is one of the most abused characters on the show. He gets hit with a bottle on 2 separate occasions and eventually gets pushed out of a window.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Was actually pretty scary in a scene where he had to intimidate and beat up JT Dolan.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: In a subtle scene he cheats during a pool game against his uncle (who got distracted by a phone call) by putting a few balls in his pockets.
* SkunkStripe: Develops a little one, less prominent than his uncle's.
!!Peter "Bissell" [=LaRosa=]
A would-be soldier in Paulie's crew.
* TheApprentice: A rising hitman who makes his bones during the show and doubles as doorman.
!!Mikey Palmice
Junior's right hand man.
* ButtMonkey: For Tony, who dislikes and abuses Mikey with impunity.
* TheConsigliere: After Junior becomes boss, the FBI have him as this on their wall chart. Although he's half Junior's age and is more of a sychophant than a real advisor.
* TheDragon: Doubles as Junior's main enforcer.
* TheDriver: Initially for Junior.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Junior is getting fitted for a new suit, Mikey is with him. They have a discussion about how the young mobsters don't wear suits anymore instead opting for athletic clothes like tracksuits. Junior says "I swear these bums would get buried in sweat-suits if they could", [[spoiler: when Mikey is finally killed he's wearing jogging clothes.]]
* JoggersFindDeath: He's killed by Paulie and Chris in the middle of his outdoors routine.
* PsychoForHire: Clearly relishes his job as Junior's hitman and enforcer.
* SmugSnake
!!Jimmy Altieri
->'''Played by:''' Joe Badalucco
A captain in Season 1.
* BoxedCrook
* DueToTheDead: To drive the point home about snitching he's also punished post-mortem; a rat is stuffed into his mouth and Christopher calls in a bomb threat to his wake.
* TheMole: The first FBI informant discovered. Like all the subsequent moles in a strict sense he's an inversion, as the villain protagonist point of view reverses some concepts.
!!Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi
->'''Played by:''' Dan Grimaldi
An enforcer introduced in Season 2.
* AffablyEvil
* AlliterativeName
* AngstySurvivingTwin: He's devastated after his talkative [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins twin]] gets killed on Tony's order.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: When Vito is outed as a homosexual, Patsy is the only mobster to explicitly state he doesn't give a fuck. (As noted above, Tony gives a fuck, but it's a much smaller one than the fuck he gives about Vito being a big earner.)
* TheGenericGuy: The accountant of the organization. Appears in the background in many scenes but has very little characterization.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Intimidating Gloria Trillo.
* PassedOverPromotion: By Christopher when Paulie is sent to jail.
* TheResenter: Towards Tony over the death of his twin brother. He eventually buries the hatchet.
!!Robert "Baccala" Baccalieri, Sr.
An aging but brutal Di Meo hitman and father of Bobby Baccala.
* AffablyEvil
* BadassGrandpa
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: On the way home from a brutal murder of two goons, he succumbs to a coughing fit and crashes into a billboard, accompanied by "Sister Golden Hair" by America. One of the few deaths that averts SoundtrackDissonance - The panning shot of the aftermath of his crash to the song's guitar solo is quite cinematic.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Implied. Baccala Sr. is one of the most vicious and efficient killers in the syndicate, but his middle aged son has never killed anyone.
* GutturalGrowler
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: A pretty nasty one.
* TheLastDance: He is more than eager to carry out one final hit, despite - or possibly because of - his deteriorating health.
* LivingLegend: Not for long.
!!Walden Belfiore
->'''Played by:''' Frank John Hughes
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A Soprano hitman notable for committing the final murder of the series.
* TheAce
* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BandOfBrothers "Wild Bill" Guarnere]] is no stranger to killing
* RememberTheNewGuy
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Introduced midway through the second half of Season 6, is in the background of a few scenes, has maybe half a dozen lines, and carries out the spectacular final hit of The Sopranos.
!!Lorenzo "Larry Boy" Barese
One of the original five captains at the start of the series.
* AffablyEvil
* CommutingOnABus[=/=]DemotedToExtra: After he is sent to jail in the season 1 finale he only appears from time to time, but mantains his captaincy throughout the series.
* TheStoolPigeon: Discussed as the source behind the unburial of Tony's first murder, with the suggestion that he gave false information not to incriminate Tony and Paulie.
!!Albert "Ally Boy" Barese
Acting capo of the Barese crew
* VerbalTic: Tends to repeat whatever you just said.
!! Ercole "Eckley" [=DiMeo=]
Longtime head of the [=DiMeo=] crime family.
* ArtifactTitle: In-universe: the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family, of which the Soprano crew is a major part, still bears Ercole [=DiMeo=]'s name, even though he's been in prison for decades, and no one named "[=DiMeo=]" has any part in running the family.
* TheDon: Founder and hierarchical boss of the [=DiMeo=] family.
* TheGhost: Never seen, he's a "guest of the government" for life in Springfield, Missouri. After Junior becomes the official boss of the family, he's completely forgotten about and never even mentioned again.
* InSeriesNickName: The Old Man.
* {{Mentor}}: For the old Mustache Petes.
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!!Tony Soprano
->'''Played by:''' James Gandolfini
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Whatever happened to Gary Cooper: the strong, silent type?"'']]
-->''"All due respect, you got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fuckin' thing. It's too much to deal with almost. And in the end you're completely alone with it all."''
The central character of the series. Capo (and later Acting Boss) of the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family, Tony Soprano has to juggle between the mounting pressure of running a crime organization and everyday problems with his family. After suffering a panic attack and collapsing on his son's birthday, Tony has no choice but to see a psychiatrist.
* AbusiveParents: In flashbacks, both of his parents are portrayed as highly manipulative and callous [[{{Narcissist}} narcissists]] who regularly prioritized their own needs at their children's expense. Whereas Tony's father is portrayed as a corrupting influence who was alarmingly indifferent to his children's emotional well-being, his mother, Livia, is revealed to have regularly subjected Tony and his siblings to physical and emotional abuse that has left them psychologically scarred as adults.
* AffablyEvil: Zig-zagged, oscilates between this and FauxAffablyEvil, but is often cancelled by his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkness]].
* AntiHero: A Type IV-V in the first two seasons. Despite being a particularly violent and narcissistic mobster, he nonetheless demonstrates an altruistic commitment to containing the destructive excesses of more dangerous members of his crime family such as his conniving Uncle Junior and the sociopathic Richie Aprile. However, in Season 3, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil he begins to compromise what little principles he has]] by assenting to the rise of Ralph Cifaretto, a depraved mobster whose wanton cruelty completely disgusts him. Ultimately, by the end of the series, [[VillainProtagonist he possesses hardly any redeeming qualities whatsoever]].
* {{Badass}}: LargeAndInCharge, while he rarely has to get ''physical'' he's quite [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking capable]] and {{acrofatic}} when he does.
* BadBoss: He's abusive towards his underlings. Cites ImNotHereToMakeFriends and [[MachiavelliWasWrong Machiavelli was right]] sometimes.
* BeingEvilSucks: Most of the time, crime does not pay... or not enough.
* BeingGoodSucks: He often makes little effort to change his ways though as it is easier to stay as a jerk. When he does some sort of favor for Artie, a MoralityPet of sorts, Tony ends up rationalizing that NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Charmingly summed up by his motto "I don't shit where I eat".
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Two instead of one. He tries to unscrew'em, often with backfiring results as in one way or another he is one of the main problems.
* BornInTheWrongCentury
* BrokenAce: Top of the line in his profession, wealthy, charismatic, powerful, ruthless, a keen business acumen, a beautiful family and drop-dead goomahs. Underneath it all, he suffers from some serious ParentalIssues and other mental problems, which cause him to have panic attacks.
* BrokenPedestal: Many old-school mobsters and his father don't live up to his memories. He is one for Christopher.
* CainAndAbel: The close relative variety with [[spoiler: Tony B and Christopher]].
* CarpetOfVirility: A manly raw trait prominently seen in his private life.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: The hardships of being a boss is a central part of his character. In-universe he fluctuates between DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and BlessedWithSuck.
* CharacterTics: Tends to {{facepalm}}, touch his face or run his hand over his head a lot when he's agitated or unamused by something.
* ChickMagnet[=/=]KavorkaMan: Despite growing increasingly bald and fat with age, his notorious reputation as the powerful [[TheDon Don]] of a Mafia family and his charismatic personality work almost unfailingly in his favor when seducing women. He often cheats on his wife who became attracted to him for similar reasons while in high school (coupled with the fact that he was [[IWasQuiteaLooker considerably more attractive then]] as evidenced by a flashback in the episode, "In Camelot.)"
* ChildhoodFriends: With Artie Bucco.
* CigarChomper
* ConsummateLiar
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: A given for a criminal who manages to stay on the top for years:
** He's usually seen [[TheMovieBuff watching movies or docummentaries at home]] and drawing conclusions from them.
** He also carries over knowledge gathered during therapy, allowing him to make increasingly accurate psychological assessments of his friends and foes. Needless to say, this provides a tremendous advantage in Mafia power plays.
** An avid and utilitarian reader of Sun Tzu's ''TheArtOfWar''.
** Quickly realizes that Feech is showing the exact same signs of Richie Aprile regarding unhappiness and unloyalty.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments. Tends to mix sarcasm and plain bluntness.
* TheDon: A relatively rustic one, as the Jersey mob plays in a minor league compared to the families of New York.
* TheDutifulSon: The one who took care of his mother after his sisters had moved on with their lives.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Zigzagged, sometimes the therapy leads him to be somehow gentler, but most of the time it is a tool to hone his managerial (read criminal) skills.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Although the Mafia is of course restricted to ethnic Italians--and it seems the Jersey family is fairly strict with that rule--Tony is more than happy to do business with anyone who won't snitch. And although he professes to be disgusted by homosexuality, it's clear when Vito is outed that he hates the idea of giving up a big earner much, much more than he's interested in enforcing traditional Mafia norms.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: A very [[ZigzaggedTrope complex issue]]. Straight example at first, he has many reasons for contempt and as befits a depressive individual, he goes through phases of love, [[SelfMadeOrphan hate]], denial, anger, and acceptance. By the end of the series he seems willing to apply a nostalgia filter over his sociopathic mother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A major part of his character. Despite his profession, he does all that he can to prevent innocent people getting hurt in the process and was horrified at Ralph's brutal murder of the stripper he impregnated and tried to abandon. Similarly, he grows increasingly disgusted with his late father after learning of the extent to which he disregarded his family's needs and silently vows to never become like him.
* EvilIsPetty: He never forgets to take time to treat people under him terribly.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids
* {{Expy}}: Of Michael Corleone from TheGodfather. While lacking Michael's level-headedness and sophistication, Tony is nonetheless strikingly similar given that both characters feel irrevocably tied to a career in organized crime due to their heritage and struggle to balance their lifestyles as crime bosses and family men while failing miserably.
* FatBastard: Gets fatter as the series goes on, in fact.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: A very savvy one, he invokes a LoopHoleAbuse by tainting every potential attorney with a conflict of interests.
* FreudianExcuse[=/=]TragicVillain: He hates the mere concept of the excuse yet he's diagnosed with a very powerful one; Tony was literally born into the mob and his abusive parents wrote the proverbial book about how not to rise a model citizen.
* TheGamblingAddict: Gets progressively worse towards the end of the series. At one point he tries to get Carmela to use the profits off a house sale to bet on the Jets.
* GeniusBruiser: Undoubtedly a smart guy, although without much formal education. What book learning he has he only really has a vague grasp of, although that's enough to set him apart from the others. He's particularly in tune with Sun Tzu's ''TheArtOfWar''. And of course, he's a tough guy.
* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Hypocrite}}: He believes all men should be "The strong, silent type like Gary Cooper". He repeatedly proves himself to be neither, easily losing his temper.
** Throughout the series he ridicules the stereotypical psychiatric patient whining about his mother. In the series finale, Tony delivers a self-pitying monologue about his hard childhood to AJ's therapist.
** After Bobby beats him in a fight Tony berates him for "sucker-punching" him, calling it a cheap move, this despite almost every fight Tony's won in the series being started by him sucker punching the other guy
* IconicOutfit: The white bathrobe, A-shirt and slippers, which are inherited by his ''Cleaver'' expy.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: He briefly went to college, was an athlete and sometimes remarks his life could have been very different under other circumstances, as he remembers that his mother frustated the more legit dreams of his father.
* ItsAllAboutMe: At first, he's self-involved. By the end of the series, its warped to the point that he sees everyone (aside from his immediate family) as a tool for his own gratification or self-advancement and increasingly devotes all his time jealously guarding the power he spent his whole criminal career accumulating.
* {{Jerkass}}: Seemed to have improved after being [[spoiler: shot by Junior]], however he eventually sinks back into Jerkass mode by the end of the series.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely loves his family and friends and he really does make an effort to change his ways but is too long immersed in violence to do it.
*** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* JerkJock: In high school as a star athlete for the Varsity football team. Nevertheless, even as a middle-aged mobster, he frequently displays a lingering fondness for locker-room humor much to the annoyance of his wife and children.
* HasAType: Brunettes with strong personality and independence. It's explictly addressed there is a [[FreudWasRight resemblance to his mother]].
* HeroicBSOD / VillainousBSOD: His panic attacks.
* KickTheDog: A central part of his characterization. Often his non-evil actions are followed by malignant and purely spiteful actions towards someone. The [[NiceToTheWaiter Bada Bing's waiter]] is one of the frequent dogs.
* LargeAndInCharge
* LoanShark
* LonelyAtTheTop: Lacks genuine friends, the closest ones he has are Jackie Aprile Sr., Pussy Bonpensiero, as well as Artie Bucco with whom he has been friends since childhood. Jackie and Pussy die early on (the latter by Tony's own hand) and he increasingly alienates Artie as the title of "Boss" goes to his head.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: After James Gandolfini passed away, many pointed out that in real life he was nothing like the character he played. He was a very thoughtful, soft spoken and all around nice person.
* {{Mentor}}: For Christopher
* MommyIssues: One of his major malfunctions, he's full of [[OedipusComplex love and hate]] towards her unpleasable mother and constantly struggles with his WellDoneSonGuy nature.
-->This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
* {{Narcissist}}: Despite displaying redeeming qualities such as a heartfelt concern for his family's well-being along with a childlike fondness for animals, he is portrayed throughout the series as an exceedingly vain and ruthless mobster who considers himself entitled to unquestioned respect or obedience from those around him. However, unlike most narcissists, he is self-conscious of the harmful consequences his actions have on others and feels all the more unhappy because of it. Nevertheless, he is too consumed by his own selfish desires to meaningfully change his ways.
* NecessarilyEvil: He believes many of his evil actions are a lesser evil, and sometimes the show portrays him in this light--particularly considering that most alternatives for head of the Jersey crew are shown to be too violent, too cruel, too stupid, or unable to handle the pressure.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent
* NeverMyFault: Everything is always someone else's fault, be it Chris, Paulie or his mother. His refusal to take responsibility all but destroys most of his relationships by the end.
* NobleBigot: From his point of view anyway.
* PapaWolf: Tony pistol whips and curbstomps New York mobster Coco after he finds out that he made some drunken vile sexual insults towards his daughter.
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Shows more morals than his colleagues, but sometimes has to do the ''wrong'' thing because it's what is expected of a ruling mob boss.
* PetTheDog: A number of moments with his children as well as his love of animals and a genuine concern for his closed ones. Deconstructed in that this care and considerations usually are the cause of more evil deeds.
* PragmaticVillainy: A ruthless boss who knows when to avoid a given action for the sake of the business, not out of moral qualms.
* ProperlyParanoid: He knows RICO and the government are out there stalking him time and again.
* RaisedCatholic: Pays little regard to religion but has a vague adherence towards Roman Catholicism.
* ReallyGetsAround: Has plenty of mistresses and one-night stands in spite of the fact that he's [[KavorkaMan not exactly catwalk material]].
* RedemptionRejection: TookALevelInKindness after his AdventuresInComaLand, but TookALevelInJerkass hit him once more.
* SadClown: He even refers to himself in this manner, in the StepfordSmiler sense
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A given when one is a [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney rich and powerful mobster]]. He also serves as the invoked connection for other characters.
* SecretIdentity: A paper thin one, he is a "waste management consultant" for Barone Sanitation and usually goes by the name of Mr. Spears in the civilian world.
* SharpDressedMan: Zig-zagged, tends to favor casual and sportswear but suits up when the occassion calls for it.
* TheSociopath: Played with but ultimately subverted. While he displays some trademarks of sociopathy including a grandiose sense of entitlement and poor impulse control, he is nevertheless revealed to be capable of experiencing genuine remorse for his crimes as well as making sincere (albeit largely ineffectual) attempts to perform acts of kindness for those outside his immediate family. However, his self-absorbed and covetous nature is entirely consistent with [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]].
* SophisticatedAsHell
* TheStoic: What he would like to be, but to his chagrin the opposite of what he is. He points out [[ThereAreNoTherapists there are too many therapists]], disfunctions and excuses for everything.
* TantrumThrowing: T. really loves to hurl things against the wall when he is enraged.
* TragicHero: Tries to do right by his friends and family but his narcissistic tendencies put a damper on this.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Zig-zagged. Sometimes his racism is used to show what a JerkAss he is, but others it's shown that he mainly resents other races out of a genuine sense of loss for the world he once knew as the changing demographics of his city and America in general have resulted in the loss of much of the places and culture he grew up with.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Gradually.
* VaderBreath: Wild boar-like breath when he's agitated and/or violent.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the first episode he has a severe panic attack and collapses in the middle of a family barbeque, after the departure of the ducks which were the one consistently good thing in his life.
* VillainProtagonist: While having his fair share of PetTheDog moments, he effectively discards nearly all of his virtues from Seasons 3-6 in favor of becoming an individual who is just as ruthless and destructive as his adversaries.
* WickedCultured: Played with, a refined ruffian with some college background who likes to insert learned words, but often mangles them with [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]]. In another life, from another background, he could have been an intellectual; as he is, not so much.
* WouldHitAGirl
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: When someone calls him "Anthony", its a sign of something serious. Most of his underlings simply call him T. or Ton.
* YourCheatingHeart: A serial adulterer with quite a reputation. Having a [[TheMistress goomah]] is an ancient tradition in the Mafia.
!!Carmela Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Edie Falco
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You really don't hear me, do you? You think for me it's all about things."'']]
Wife of Tony Soprano. Enjoys the lifestyle that Tony's money brings in but struggles with his infidelity and the dirtier aspects to his profession.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
* DistractedByTheLuxury: Her main trait, creator David Chase informally defines her character as an ascended GoldDigger because of it.
* HotForPreacher: Close, but no cigar.
* {{Housewife}}
* TheHypocrite
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Talks ocassionally about her past chances of a different life outside the Mafia, but she ultimately loves the life of luxury.
* [[MafiaPrincess Mafia Queen]]
* MamaBear: In the first episode when she thought someone was breaking into her daughter's window what does she do? She grabs the biggest machine gun and marches outside with Tony in tow. It turned out Meadow was sneaking out of the house, but the thought counted.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She likes to act superior but is most certainly not above using her mob connections for her own ends.
* PrettyInMink: Tony buys her some furs. One is a sable coat, but he asks they make love with [[NakedInMink her wearing nothing by the coat]].
* RaisedCatholic: The most religious main character in the series, which serves to underscore her hypocrisy.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Invokes the nefarious power of the Soprano surname from time to time.
* SexForServices: Her affair with AJ's principal is identified as this by the teacher.
* [[StealingFromTheTill Stealing From The Duck Feed Bin]]: Steals from Tony's cash stash after discovering the nail of one of his goomahs, which Carmela uses to send a message to his husband. Tony gets it and lets it slide, initially.
* StepfordSmiler
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With several men. Except for one time, she doesn't take the next step out of fear of being discovered by her husband.
* YourCheatingHeart: Tony goes ballistic over the ''possibility''.
!!Meadow Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Jamie-Lynn Sigler
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-->''Are you in the Mafia?''
Daughter of Tony and Carmela.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Initially, leading to several YouAreGrounded instances.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Calls Tony out on his hypocrisy and line of work time and again, Tony "calls" her back however.
* CorruptTheCutie: Starts as a principled girl who has contempt for the Mafia, she is gradually dragged into the masquerade. By the end she is engaged to the son of one of Tony's henchmen, and it is implied she will become another [[AmoralAttorney mob lawyer]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As early as the first season, she comments on how [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing cool]] Sharon Stone looks in ''{{Film/Casino}}'', a remark one can expect from [[DistractedByTheLuxury Carmela]].
* FakeNationality: Jamie Lynn-Sigler is of Cuban descent and has a noticeably darker skintone than the rest of the family. Lampshade in-universe by Carmela's mother being disappointed about her not looking as caucasian of the rest of the family.
* FreudianExcuse: She applies it to a whole collective, reasoning that the poverty and dire conditions of the Italian mezzogiorno bred crime. In-story, being born into the Mafia gradually catches up to her too.
* IAmNotMyFather: Gradually subverted.
* IvyLeague: Columbia, she's unaware this was [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections somehow invoked by her mother]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: In this case, like mother like daughter. Meadow becomes just like her mother by the end of the series.
* MafiaPrincess
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Sigler, despite playing a pretty snotty and self-absorbed teenager/20-something, is actually known to be a very kind and friendly person in real life.
* MouthyKid: Is often mouthing off in the earlier seasons, even when she's caught having a debauched party at her grandmother's empty house.
* NeverMyFault: Tony remarks that if he had a quarter everyone time she's said that, he'd be able to own a private jet on 24 hour stand by.
* NonIdleRich: Has a job as a social worker for the poor.
* NotSoAboveItAll
* SiblingYinYang: The distinguised one.
* SpoiledBrat
* WhiteSheep: Gradually subverted.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Let's be perfectly honest: Meadow's pretty good-looking, while her dad? Not so much. Lampshaded; when Janice mentions Tony's "good-looking kids", Tony jokes, "even with our genes."
* YouAreWhatYouHate: During most of the series, Meadow rebels against her father and his lifestyle. But by the end of the series, she ends up defending her father's lifestyle, chastises other mob kids for speaking frankly in front of "outsiders" and even embraces the role of crime family wife, being engaged to a Mafia family attorney.
!!Anthony "AJ" Soprano Jr.
->'''Played by:''' Robert Iler
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Son of Tony and Carmela.
* BeardOfSorrow
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Moves with his father for a while because Carmela disciplines him, but it doesn't work as Tony is not a fun pushover.
* BungledSuicide: He can't do a thing right.
* ButtMonkey Things seem to conspire against him.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Openly critical towards his mother. His confrontations with Tony are more rare, since his father is a fearsome guy.
* ConspiracyTheorist: AJ has a phase towards the end where is obsessed with the government's involvement in Iraq, among other things.
* DumbassHasAPoint: He isn't exactly wrong when he calls out Tony or Carmela for Their hypocrisy or points out social injustice and crises towards the end.
* DumbJock: He's a good football player at least.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Discussed and averted. Tony is more than aware that AJ is not mentally able to do what he does for a living. So we never ever see AJ at the Bing or Satriale's.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish one.
* FormerlyFat: Loses quite a bit of weight over the course of the show (particularly around Season 4), and grows enough that he's practically lanky compared to what he was as a child.
* FreudianExcuse: Tony really has no idea what he's doing as a father to AJ.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Starts off looking not to far off from his father, as far as weight is concerned, but sheds the pounds and grows in height enough to become a fairly attractive man.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Panic attacks and depression
* LazyBum
* NiceGuy: When he cares enough, he can be a very kind and respectful individual, such as when he is in a relationship.
* TheSlacker
* SpoiledBrat
* TheUnfavorite
* WellDoneSonGuy: Wants to live up to his father's perceived expectations but fails. A tragic example has him [[WrongGenreSavvy trying to emulate Michael Corleone's rise]] by attempting to kill Junior.
!!Corrado "Junior" Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Dominic Chianese
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Keep thinking you know everything. Some people are so far behind in a race that they actually believe they're leading."'']]
-->''"You may run North Jersey but you don't run your Uncle Junior! How many fuckin' hours did I spend playing catch with you?"''
Tony's uncle and de jure Boss of the Soprano crime family.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Junior is made de jure boss of the Di Meo family, and actually keeps the title for a few seasons despite Tony's role as de facto boss
* BadBoss: Junior starts abusing his new power as boss almost immediately, taxing Tony's friend Hesh at the suggestion of Livia.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In Season 1 with Tony's mother, Livia.
* ButtMonkey: Always suffering mishaps and embarrassments, whether getting his hand stuck down the plughole of his kitchen sink for 6 hours, to discovering his capos have been working behind his back. After season 1 he spends the whole time either going stir-crazy under house arrest or suffering illnesses, finally developing dementia.
* TheCastShowoff: The season three finale gives us a nice sample of Dominic Chianese's singing.
* DirtyOldMan: Junior is a shameless flirt and it has gotten him into trouble a few times. A nurse he regularly flirted with turned out to be an FBI plant and his downfall into senility starts when he turns around to greet an attractive reporter and hits his head on a boom mike.
* DueToTheDead: He seeks to attend the funerals of old acquaintances, but only because this frees him from his house arrest for a while.
* DeadpanSnarker
* GrumpyOldMan: A fairly obvious example. In an early episode Tony jokes about giving him his DVD player so he watch ''GrumpyOldMen''. This just annoys him further.
* HiddenDepths: Is an ''extraordinary'' singer. He literally brings a room full of mobsters to tears.
* HumiliationConga: After failing as a BigBad in Season 1, he suffers increasing emasculation, and eventual senility. It's equal parts hilarious and depressing.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* MarriedToTheJob: Never married and his one stable relation was ruined by the business and related gossip.
* NerdGlasses: Dominic Chianese has said the trademark oversized glasses '''are''' the character and he would even wear them in all the rehearsals.
* NiceHat: A staple of his wardrobe.
* NiceToTheWaiter: He's very abrasive towards Bobby, his loyal and resignated assistant.
* OffingTheOffspring: Attempted twice with Tony, the offspring of his brother but a son-figure nevertheless.
-->'''Vito: '''He [[MarvinGaye Marvin Gayed]] his own nephew
* ParentalSubstitute: In flashbacks, he is revealed to have been more of a father figure to his nephew than Tony's actual father, "Johnny Boy" Soprano, who largely neglected his family in favor of pursuing his own appetites and ambitions.
* PassedOverPromotion: He is the heir apparent of the family, but Tony steps in and up.
* PetTheDog: During the first season, he genuinely seems to love his nephew, Tony, like a son despite growing increasingly resentful of his widespread influence within the DiMeo crime family. This is evidenced by his apparent unease over ordering Tony's assassination even while firmly believing that he poses an imminent threat to his position as [[TheDon Boss]]. However, after Tony effectively strips him of all his power and influence by the beginning of Season 2, nearly all his feelings of affection towards his nephew are tainted by a deep-rooted contempt that endures throughout the remainder of the series.
* PlayingSick: Straight example to dodge criminal prosecution, and then ironically twisted as he is really going senile.
* SanitySlippage: Senile dementia. Showcased in two episodes of note; First in "Where's Johnny?" when a disoriented Junior wanders off in search of his (deceased) brother, "Johnny Boy," forcing Tony, Janice and Bobby into a day-long search that ends when he's finally returned home by the police. Then again at the end of "Members Only," when he confuses Tony's late-night presence in his home for his (also deceased) rival "Little Pussy" Malanga[[note]]the guy he had killed in the pilot, and the one Tony torched the original Vesuvio to keep Junior from killing him there.[[/note]] and shoots Tony in the stomach. Season 6 sees him ostracized by the family following this incident, dooming Junior to increasingly shabby state care and finally a LossOfIdentity.
* SirSwearsALot: Everyone in the cast (save for Livia) is a potty mouth but Junior swears more than all of them.
* TapOnTheHead: A news crew's boom mike hitting his head prompts a StaircaseTumble down some steps outside a courthouse following one of his trials. It's later theorized this incident might've triggered his onset of dementia.
* ThickerThanWater: Subverted when he backs Tony against Richie, he invokes PragmaticVillainy as he's better off with his nephew.
!!Livia Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Nancy Marchand
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I gave my life to my children on a silver platter!"'']]
-> ''"Who says everything has a purpose? The world's a jungle....In the end, you die in your own arms......It's all a big nothing. What makes you think you're so special?"''
Tony's hateful and abusive mother.
* AbusiveParents: A real piece of work who threatened to stick a fork in Tony's eye when he was 10 years old, among many other examples.
* AmbiguousDisorder: As noted by Dr. Melfi, she exhibits symptoms of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder borderline personality disorder]] given her tendency to engage in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) splitting]] as well as her proneness to extended periods of paranoia and depression over the most insignificant events. However, she also exhibits several traits of [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]] as evidenced by how she consciously uses her children's fear of her emotional volatility to dominate their lives and derives [[{{Sadist}} sadistic gratification]] from doing so.
* AnyoneCanDie:
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Junior Soprano in Season 1.
* TheCynic
* DramaQueen: She's a {{phrasecatcher}} for "Always with the drama"
* DueToTheDead: Even at her funeral she is the source of frictions. Nobody has anything genuinely good to say about her.
* EvilMatriarch
* FamilyValuesVillain: Hilariously, the only Soprano who doesn't swear.
* HairTriggerTemper
* ItsAllAboutMe
* LackOfEmpathy
* LadyMacBeth: For Junior.
* ManipulativeBitch
* MeaningfulName: Not for nothing does she share a name with a [[Series/IClaudius Roman ancestor]].
* MyBelovedSmother
* NeverMyFault: She spends all her time complaining about her kids' abandoning her and ignores the fact that she was a lousy parental figure.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Though definitely somewhat senile, she also tends to play it up as a cover for her more unforgivable deeds.
* OffingTheOffspring: Narrowly thwarted, as is the ensuing VorpalPillow from Tony.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: Nancy Marchand's death]] caused the writers to have to [[spoiler: kill off Livia]] and restructure the third season and many of David Chase's plans for future seasons considerably.
* SanitySlippage: Senile dementia.
* TheSociopath
!!Janice Soprano [[spoiler: Baccalieri]]
->'''Played by:''' Aida Turturro
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Sister of Tony Soprano who lives in Seattle at the start of the series.
* AbusiveParents: Much like Tony, she was the victim of this in the form of her spiteful mother, Livia, who relentless criticized her appearance as well as her failed string of romantic relationships.
* [[AloofOlderBrother Aloof Big Sister]]: Played with but subverted. In Season 1, Tony speaks of her this way to Dr. Melfi when describing how she left him and his younger sister to endure the brunt of their tyrannical mother's abuse in order to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle. Similarly, Tony all but admits in the same therapy session that he was perpetually anxious of [[ParentalFavoritism the possibility that she was his father's favorite child]]. In Season 2, she returns to New Jersey and quickly reopens old wounds by ingratiating herself with their mother, Livia, in order to become the prime beneficiary of the estate. However, it is later revealed that she is just as much a victim of Livia's abusive parenting as her younger brother.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: While in high school, she dated the brutal Richie Aprile whom she is later revealed to remain attracted towards despite the abusive nature of their prior relationship . While they briefly resume their relationship in Season 2, she ultimately decides to cut her ties with Richie permanently by shooting him after realizing that she will never be safe from his violent disposition. In Season 4, she attempts to replace Richie with the violently unstable mobster, Ralph Cifaretto, but quickly tires of him. By the end of the series, she seems to have shifted her attention from [[HotBlooded hot-headed]] and often AxCrazy hoodlums to more manipulable men by marrying the sweet and humble, Bobby Baccalieri.
* BlackSheep: A west-coast hippy in her backstory, later the not really-welcome-prodigal sister.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Constantly pestering and bickering with his brother, the head of the family.
* ConsummateLiar: When she has something to gain, she is second to none in feigning sentimentality and manipulating those around her with gossip and half-truths.
* CoolAunt: Her seemingly laid-back and free-spirited personality along with her liberal outlook charms even Meadow who is largely distrustful and contemptuous towards adult figures in her family. This is subverted when she reveals her narcissistic and vindictive nature by angrily calling upon Meadow and her friends to be punished for wrecking Livia's house where she plans on living.
* {{Foil}}: For Tony, despite having many of the same traits.
* FreudianExcuse: Same as Tony's, less than stellar parents and upbringing.
* GranolaGirl
* ItsAllAboutMe: Big time.
* IWasQuiteALooker: In high school, she was lusted after by many of the boys Tony knew growing up much to his chagrin.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In Season 2 when she notes Carmela's untapped potential and dependency on Tony, then in Season 4 when she tells Bobby his prolonged grief over his wife is unhealthy.
* LadyMacBeth: For Richie and Bobby.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter.
* TheLoad: Has a parasitic life that only generates problems for the actual money earners.
* ManipulativeBitch
* {{Narcissist}}: An "amorous" example given that she also exhibits traits of histrionic personality disorder (See Theodore Millon's [[http://millon.net/taxonomy/summary.htm "Personality Subtypes"]]) as evidenced by how she actively [[AttentionWhore seeks to make herself the center of attention regardless of the circumstances]] while making such events as dramatic (i.e: theatrical) as possible much to the chagrin of Tony and Carmella. However, unlike Tony, Janice also exhibits traits typically seen in [[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html "unprincipled" narcissists]] given that she [[AllTakeAndNoGive pursues a highly parasitic lifestyle with hardly any shame whatsoever]] and seems almost completely incapable of forming any ''genuine'' attachments to those around her.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Diagnosed with a condition that grants her social benefits, it's hinted and discussed that it may be a fabricated phony excuse.
* ParentalFavoritism[=/=]TheUnfavorite: She ''has envy'' of Tony for the attention her mother Livia gave to him. In turn, Tony thinks Janice was DaddysGirl.
* PutOnABus: Literally at the end of season 2, but Tony's solace is short lived as she comes back for good the next season.
* ReallyGetsAround: In her youth, she was notorious for her rampant promiscuity. Upon returning to New Jersey, she continues her promiscuous ways to a ''slightly'' lesser extent as a GoldDigger who hops from one rising mobster to another.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given a pretty severe one by Tony in "Where's Johnny?", where he calls her out on leaving him to take Livia's abuse.
* TookALevelInKindness: Apparently after she hooks up with Bobby, although Tony sees right through it.
* TheVamp: Mild example towards Bobby.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: She becomes Livia by the end of the series.
!!Christopher Moltisanti
->'''Played by:''' Michael Imperioli
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[[caption-width-right:291:''"I'm sorry, T."'']]
->''"That’s the guy....My uncle Tony. The guy I’m going to hell for."''
Tony's nephew/cousin and protege.
* TheAlcoholic
* AmbiguousDisorder: Christopher has some serious mental issues beyond simply being a drug addict. His symptoms are most consistent with Borderline Personality Disorder given his perpetual anxiety of being betrayed, his emotional neediness towards others [[WellDoneSonGuy (particularly towards Tony whose approval he desperately seeks)]], and his proneness to depression which he self-medicates through drug abuse. He also exhibits some distinct [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic qualities]] as evidenced by [[GlorySeeker his lust for widespread fame and recognition]], [[TheCasanova his rampant womanizing]], as well as his [[CrazyJealousGuy controlling and violently possessive behavior toward Adriana]].
* ApologizesALot: "I'm sorry T." is his catchphrase.
* TheApprentice
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Deadly deconstructed
* BadAss: If there is one thing Chris excels at, it's combat with him shown to be an excellent shot who took down an assailant with a clean headshot when already wounded.
* BookDumb: Initially DumbMuscle, he gradually matures.
* BrokenPedestal: Idolizes Tony, but their relation is full of [[RebuiltPedestal up]] and downs.
* ButtMonkey: The poor guy gets put through all kinds of shit.
* CharacterDevelopment: From ignorant and eager novice to family man, but with important detours.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One of his main quirks.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Influenced in-universe by the trope. His ambition in life is [[IJustWantToBeBadass to become a made man]]. Enjoys the life and suffers the drawbacks. Possibly the biggest deconstruction in the series.
* DeathByIrony: His large nose, often the butt of ridicule by the other guys, is ultimately the instrument of his demise, as Tony pinches it shut, causing Christopher to choke on his own blood.
* DisappearedDad: Dickie Moltisanti was apparently killed by a cop when Christopher was a child.
* TheDragon: For Tony
* TheDriver
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Even after reaching the rank of capo Paulie and the others treat him like a ButtMonkey and crack disrespectful jokes about his family. This sets up a fatal chain of events.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: More or less, they have a complex relation.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tony hears that Chris killed Adriana's dog, Tony flips out and yells "I oughta suffocate you, you little prick!!!"
* FunctionalAddict: Tries to be this, but fails miserably.
* {{Hypocrite}}
--> "Human frailty. Makes me sick."
* InsaneTrollLogic: Often resorts to this. One example: Tony is concerned that a couple of Arabs they've hired to participate in a credit card scheme might have Al-Qaeda connections. Chris reassures him this couldn't be the case because "Mohammed and his girlfriend have a dog. A springer spaniel."
** Actually, this makes sense. [[http://islam.about.com/od/islamsays/a/Dogs-In-Islam.htm Dogs can be considered impure in Islam depending on which teachings you follow.]]
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Showed a particular talent for channeling his emotions into acting, but his hyper-masculine mafia conditioning led him to abandon this.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: A more literal though accidental example. Chris manages to kill Adriana's small dog when he sits on it while high on heroin.
** Has plenty of other instances, as well, including his physical abuse of Adriana and his murder of JT Dolan.
* LoanShark
* MarriedToTheJob: A tragic literal example, when he has to choose between his fiancée and his job, he chooses the job.
* MostWritersAreWriters
* NaiveNewcomer
* {{Nepotism}}: Played with, being the nephew-cousin of the big man gives him leeway but also exposes him to the fury of his mentor.
* NumberTwo: He's groomed as the heir apparent by Tony.
* OffTheWagon
* PlotMagnet: So much of the plot revolves around Chris that a new viewer might almost believe the show is about him. [[spoiler: His best friend is shot in the eye. He is shot in the spleen. He's one of only two people show being made during the series. His heroin addiction. His girlfriend flips and is murdered. He's even eventually murdered at the hand of Tony himself.]] Also, throughout the entire series there is an overlying plot involving him wanting to get into showbiz. This even takes up a good chunk of season 6 when he produces ''Cleaver''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: interweaved with RedemptionRejection and ReformedButRejected in a literal way: He dettaches himself from the dens in order to avoid temptations, but in turn this hinders him professionally and makes the others resent and treat him with contempt, which makes him so miserable he returns to the old escapist drug habits he managed to avoid in the first place.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Paulie accuses him of exploiting this too much.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: His struggle with heroin - it gradually worsens after the trip to Italy, Chris's shooting, and the Pine Barrens incident, finally spiraling out of control just after he helps Tony dispose of Ralph. Chris goes to rehab and joins Narcotics Anonymous, then relapses after hearing a false rumor about Adriana blowing Tony. He seems to pull it together after this, until Adriana's death, at which point he suffers another relapse. He pulls it together again, only to have another relapse while visiting Hollywood. Then another one after he learns his new girlfriend Kelli is pregnant and Tony convinces him to toast to fatherhood. He recovers again with help from his sponsor Murmur, but then relapses after he hooks up with Julianna Skiff. The two of them go to another meeting and recover again. A few episodes later he has a heated feud with Paulie, and after they reconcile Chris decides to drink with Paulie, and goes overboard, relapsing again and shooting JT Dolan. Then he crashes a car while high and driving Tony, and Tony impulsively kills him. However, the use of this trope is [[TropesAreNotBad immensely tragic and poignant]], and with many recovering addicts, especially those leading a life of crime, this is sometimes TruthInTelevision.
* ShotgunWedding[=/=]LawOfInverseFertility: Adriana is sterile and can't give him a much wanted biological son. Kelli quickly gets pregnant, but ironically he doesn't really love her.
* TropaholicsAnonymous
* UglyGuyHotWife: With Adriana. Acknowledged in-universe
* UndyingLoyalty
-->My uncle Tony... the guy I'm going to hell for.
* VillainProtagonist
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Paulie Walnuts
* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards Tony, his ParentalSubstitute
* WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks he's living in a gangster movie. Which technically he is, but The Sopranos is largely a deconstruction of the tropes Chris lives by.
* YourCheatingHeart: Has affairs on the side, but are not given much importance, for the most part.
!!Anthony "Tony B" Blundetto
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SteveBuscemi
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Cousin of Tony Soprano who is released from jail in season 5.
* {{Badass}}: An accomplished hitman when he's in his element. He apparently arranged a car bombing before his imprisonment, and [[spoiler: in the second half of Season 5 he kills Joey Peeps and Billy Leotardo, and wounds [[TheDreaded Phil]] [[BigBad Leotardo]]. Tony S makes sure to blindside his cousin, and literally bring out the big guns in order to kill him in the finale.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Mild example in his bullying of Christopher during his youth, in tandem with Tony.
* ButtMonkey: Sees himself as one though most of his misfortune is his own fault.
* ChekhovsGunman: Tony B's return [[spoiler: and murders of Joey Peeps and Billy Leotardo]] would end up being the snowball that caused the avalanche of the New York - New Jersey war.
* ChronicVillainy: A combination of HardWorkHardlyWorks, BetterLivingThroughEvil and sheer greed.
* ChekhovsSkill: His medical knowledge saves the life of Christopher during his feud with Tony.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Threatened with this by Phil Leotardo after killing his brother Billy. Ultimately Tony S finds some middle ground by graphically blowing Blundetto's face off with a shotgun.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EtTuBrute: The last thing that goes through his head, other than a shotgun shell, is the realization and glimpse of his dear cousin poised to kill him.
* GeniusBruiser: Has an informed IQ of 158 and his bruiser qualifications are well remembered by Carmine Jr.'s faction
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Indirectly. Tony feels guilty and wants to overcompensate his cousin because Tony B was arrested at the beginning of his promising criminal career, while Tony, Blundetto's partner, got away that night due to an unrelated panic attack caused by Livia which made him skip the crime scene. Blundetto doesn't seem to mind Tony's better luck.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Starts as ReformedButRejected, but it's eventually subverted.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Before prison, according to Janice.
* NiceGuy: At first. This persona gradually falls apart over the course of Season 5.
* OneSteveLimit: To avoid confussion with Soprano he's called Tony B, or Tony uncle Al
* OutdatedOutfit: His ''MiamiVice'' suit.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Credited as "Man", he appears in season 6 as a doorman guiding Tony through purgatory.
* RageBreakingPoint: He feels exploited by his Korean partner/[[MeanBoss boss]] and violently snaps against him when Blundetto gets exhausted of combining his normal workday hours with setting up shop.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Lampshaded when Bobby Jr. mentions that he's never heard of Tony B.
* {{Retirony}}: Subverted. After getting out of jail, he wants to leave the Mafia and set up a massage parlor. [[spoiler: Rather than dying, he realizes he just doesn't have the patience for an honest life and throws these plans down the drain, returning to the fold. Soon afterwards he gets caught up in a minor mob war with the Lupertazzi family and Tony S is forced to kill him.]]
* TheRunaway: His daughter Kelli ran away from home.
* SelfMadeMan: Subverted, tries to start a respectable business with his Korean boss, but it goes nowhere.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: JustGotOutOfJail in season 5, but has trouble fitting in because of his past and his desire for a new life. He's looked down by the hardcore criminals and distrusted by civilians.
* TattooedCrook
* ThickerThanWater: Played straight for a while, but ultimately subverted.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Shortly after being released from prison, his reckless bid to revive his criminal career drags Tony Soprano's entire organization into a bloody civil war engulfing the whole of Carmine Lupertazzi's massive underworld empire.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Goes on the lam after his quarrel with the Leotardos.
!!John "Johnny Boy" Soprano
->'''Played by:''' Joseph Siravo
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Tony's father.
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted. Its shown as another example of how horrid a person Livia was.
* AbusiveParents: He basically made Tony what he is.
* BrokenPedestal: Increasingly becomes this as Tony learns some unpleasant facts about his father that substantially tarnish the esteem with which he once held him.
* ButtMonkey: It's mentioned that Livia basically made him one.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Perhaps the most tragic aversion ever.
* FamedInStory: A remembered gangster.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HenpeckedHusband: Tony is awed by this, a powerful mobster dominated by his wife.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Had a chance to go west and live a less criminal life, but Livia ruined it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Even more so than Tony. In addition to being very vain and impulsive, he consistently prioritized his ambitions and appetites over the well-being of his own family.
* PettheDog: Despite being a consummate {{Narcissist}} and neglectful father, he is occasionally seen displaying paternal affection towards Tony Soprano in flashbacks. This can be seen when he scolds Janice for mocking Tony and later expresses sincere (albeit unsettling) pride in his son for not fleeing in terror after watching a delinquent gambler get his finger sliced off. Additionally, according to Corrado " Junior" Soprano, he also went out of his way to provide for their mentally handicapped brother, "Eckley", up until the time of his death.
* PosthumousCharacter
* YourCheatingHeart: Had affairs on the side, like most mobsters.
!!Barbara Soprano Giglione
Sister of Tony and Janice.
* [[AloofOlderBrother Aloof Older Sister]]
* EmotionlessGirl
* HappilyMarried
* HufflepuffHouse: The most inconsequential member of the Soprano family. After season 2 she tends to only show up at funerals.
* OnlySaneMan
* TheOtherDarrin: The actress gets recast. Hardly noticeable given her sporadic appearances.
* WhiteSheep: The one Soprano with a life outside the mob.
!!Hugo "Hugh" and Mary De Angelis (née Pellegrino)
Carmela's parents.
* ButNotTooWhite: Inverted, when Meadow was born, Mary was dissapointed by the dark skin tone of her granddaughter.
* ButtMonkey: Hugh doesn't get much respect from his family and suffers a series of illnesses and injuries.
* CoolOldGuy: All things considered, Hugh is a laid back and casual chap.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Hugh's wife and daughter treat him like a lackey, only Tony shows the man some consideration.
* GoodIsNotNice: Mary is quite obnoxious, but her objection to Tony's presence at Hugh's birthday is ultimately a valid one, considering that Tony is a mobster. Carmela, however, warps it into some form of cultural persecution and gives her mom a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]]. Hugh, meanwhile, is both good and nice, but adores Tony and is unwilling to confront the evil nature of the man.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mary bosses her husband around and nags him a lot.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Oh so very much subverted at Livia's funeral.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Mary is embarrassed by Tony, whom she regards as a rustic NouveauRiche.
!! Harpo "Hal"
The estranged son of Janice
* ButtMonkey: The poor guy can finally say which would be worse: Having Janice as a parent or being abandoned by her and left to live on the streets.
* TheGhost: Never seen. Only mentioned in dialogue.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Discussed/mocked. He's not named after Harpo Marx but after the song "Harpo's Blues."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His surname is never mentioned.
* ParentalAbandonment: What Janice did to him.
* StreetUrchin: He's living on the streets, according to Janice.
!! Ercole "Eckley" Soprano
Brother of Corrado Jr. and Johnny Soprano, uncle of Anthony.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He is described only as "retarded" or "feeble-minded", since little was known about such things during his time.
* DumbMuscle: Junior says he was strong like a bull.
* TheGhost
* OneSteveLimit: Shares a name and nickname with the jailed boss of the Dimeo crime family, another off-screen character.
* PosthumousCharacter
!! Dickie Moltisanti
Christopher's late father, shot by a corrupt cop when he was little.
* AxCrazy
* BrokenPedestal: Christopher eventually reconciles the fact that his previously idolized father was little more than a violent junkie.
* FunctionalAddict
* TheGhost
* PosthumousCharacter
* ShroudedInMyth: Christopher's perception of his father is funneled entirely through Tony's rose-tinted recollection of the man.
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!!Silvio Dante
->'''Played by:''' Steve Van Zandt
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[[caption-width-right:275:''"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"'']]
-->''"I genuinely don't think there's anything to gain by keeping him around."''
Tony's most trusted advisor and right-hand man.
* TheAce
* BlueOni: To Tony's red moments, but Silvio also shows his temper ocassionally.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: He can't bear them during a brief stint at the helm.
* TheConsigliere
* TheCreon: Has reached the top levels of his ambition, and is severely stressed out by the possibility he might have to take over for Tony.
* CulturalPosturing: His Italian heritage is SeriousBusiness for him, and collides with Tony for it.
* TheDragon: To Tony.
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* HiddenDepths: In season 6 he's shown to have a lot of anxiety about taking over the family from Tony if he ever needed to and mentions in season 1 that he once saw a therapist.
* HonestAdvisor
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* PunchClockVillain
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's usually the most sensible mobster in the show.
* SelfMadeMan: He's the owner of the Bada Bing, strip club and [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Jersey Mafia headquarters]], but all in all, a serious business.
* SharpDressedMan: The sharpest of the Jersey crew.
* VillainousFriendship: With Tony. They go back a long way.
* VillainProtagonist
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!!Paulie Gualtieri
->'''Played by:''' Tony Sirico
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[[caption-width-right:288: ''"All the shit we been through, you really think I'd kill ya?"'']]
-->''"I'm here to tell you one thing. You ever go whining to the big man again about shit between you and me, we'll have a problem, my friend."''
A long-time soldier of the Soprano crew and later caporegime in the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family.
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. However, Paulie is highly impulsive and homicidal. And, just check out some of his psychotic expressions.
* BadassGrandpa: While he's unmarried and never had children, he beats the crap out of some Colombian drug dealers who could be his grandchildren, among other examples.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: There's no telling what really goes on inside Paulie's head.
* BreakoutCharacter: He is arguably the most famed character in the series.
* CloudCuckooLander
* CulturalPosturing: Laments that the "mulignan" have taken over traditional Italian things such as the capuccino, pizza, calzone, buffalo moozarella and olive oil.
* CommutingOnABus: He's incarcerated during season 4, as the actor needed some time for a back surgery.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DontExplainTheJoke[=/=]OverlyLongGag: Repeating or explaining his jokes is one of his quirks, funnier on its own.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Greed}}: A ridiculously rapacious and cheap bastard. Comically absurd like many of his shenanigans.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: After learning that his actual mother was knocked up by an unidentified sailor, Paulie realizes that in all likelihood he is not full Italian. It doesn't sit well.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Zig-Zagged. In the first half of the series, this trope is played straight with regards to his character due to the fact that most of his victims are either [[AssholeVictim criminals like himself or otherwise incredibly obnoxious and cruel]]. However, while his odd quirks continue to be a source of humor, this trope is gradually subverted as his crimes become increasingly heinous in later episodes.
* IAmNotYourFather: Nucci.
* InSeriesNickname: "Walnuts"
* {{Jerkass}}: He's petty, vindictive, self-centered, and superstitious.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold[=/=]PetTheDog: His relation with his mother. Deconstructed in that it leads to more crime in order to provide for her. A straightforward example in ''From Where To Eternity'', which shows him comforting his goomah's children after they are awakened by his night terror.
* KarmaHoudini: He has committed many murders, but he never really gets any kind of comeuppance.
* LaughablyEvil: Of course.
* {{Malaproper}}: The prince of mangled words.
* MarriedToTheJob: Literally, he doesn't have a life.
* TheMentor: For Christopher.
* TheMole: Feeds Johnny Sack with information for a while. Tony gets suspicious and contemplates killing him for it, but Paulie is wise enough to deny it.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Deconstructed, this guy is such a cheapskate that any activity organized by him may go dangerously awry.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: A servile brown-noser who shows his real "allegiance" the minute Tony gets indisposed.
-->I live but to serve you, my liege.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's a [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mama's boy]]; and he has not one iota of concern for human life.
* RaisedCatholic: A criminal with a peculiar view on the afterlife and the purgatory.
-->You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by 50. Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by 25. You add that together and that's your sentence. I figure I'm gonna have to do 6,000 years before I get accepted into heaven and 6,000 years is nothin' in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It's like a couple of days here.
* SkunkStripe: One of his signature traits.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Tries hard to emulate Tony's WickedCultured nature, but fails, hard.
* ThatCameOutWrong: In the sixth season, he calls "Beansie" Gaeta, who is in a wheelchair, a "stand-up guy" before hastily apologizing.
* TheSociopath: PlayedForLaughs in the first half of the series but then played straight in later seasons.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The job of a top enforcer is examined through Paulie, first in tandem with Pussy and later with Christopher.
* {{Turncoat}}: Tries to defect to New York, but his scheme ends in EpicFail when he discovers that Carmine Sr. doesn't even know him. Paulie was just cajoled and exploited by Johnny Sack.
* VerbalTic: His "Heh-Heh" laugh.
* VillainousFriendship: A flimsy one with Tony, Paulie was more like a {{mentor}} back in the day, and a friend of Tony's father.
* VillainProtagonist
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Christopher.
!!Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
->'''Played by:''' Vincent Pastore
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Tony's best friend and member of the Soprano crew.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being a hardened criminal, he's a benevolent mentor to the hotheaded Christopher Moltisanti whose easygoing personality belies his unwaveringly loyal to Tony Soprano. [[spoiler: This is largely subverted in Season 2 when his likable persona is revealed as a facade masking his bitterness towards Tony and his crew for whom he harbors few loyalties. Though loving father, he's a cold and [[DomesticAbuser at times even abusive husband]].]]
* AnyoneCanDie
* TheBrute
* BoxedCrook
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Tries to do this, asking that the shooters leave his face alone, but he visibly starts to panic in the moments before he is shot.
* FatBastard
* HeroicBSOD: At the end of "D Girl" at AJ's Communion party.
* HiddenDepths: Again, near the end of "D Girl".
* KickTheDog: When he can't take the pressure anymore, his wife gets the brunt of it.
** And then there's that time he crushes an Elvis impersonator's skull with a hammer. Don't ask.
* {{Mentor}}: To Chris and in a lesser way to his godson AJ.
* ManipulativeBastard: The primary reason why he's been able to stay under his fellow mobsters' radar for years while working as an FBI informant.
* MistakenIdentity: For a while Tony thinks the authorities confused Pussy and Jimmy Altieri, since the two fat crooks look alike.
* TheMole
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: A great Santa Claus during the christmas parties organized by the mob.
* PassedOverPromotion: Says so to Tony during one of [[DreamingTheTruth Sopranos's dreams.]]
* PetTheDog: He has a heart-to-heart with AJ at his communion party. Notably occurs at the end of "D Girl", the same episode as his aforementioned KickTheDog.
* SanitySlippage: Played for laughs. After being alienated from his friends and family, Pussy actually seems to think that he can join the FBI.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Paulie or Christopher in the first season.
* VillainousFriendship: With Tony and Christopher.
!!Bobby "Baccala" Baccalieri
->'''Played by:''' Steve Schirripa
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A rising member of the Soprano crew, who later on marries Janice Soprano.
* AscendedExtra
* AntiVillain: The most sympathetic and most innocent mobster in the series by a wide margin.
* AnyoneCanDie
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Honestly, Bobby was probably the nicest guy you could ever meet, and only did non-violent work for the most part. You constantly push his buttons though, and it's not pleasant, as Tony can attest.
* ButtMonkey:
** Early on, Bobby is the butt of many of Tony's jokes. Tony nearly falls over laughing at Bobby when he shows up in full hunting gear to help him rescue Christopher and Paulie.
** More so to Junior, who never stops disrespecting him and abusing him.
* TheCaretaker: For Junior.
* GentleGiant: With shades of ExtremeDoormat
* GoodParents: To his kids.
* HappilyMarried: With Karen. With Janice, not so much.
* ManChild: His toy trains.
* MookPromotion
* {{Nepotism}}: Being the brother-in-law of the boss is a great boost for his career.
* TokenGoodTeammate: At first. He gradually grows more ruthless as the series progresses.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from being one of the biggest teddy bears in the family to marrying Tony's sister and skyrocketing up to #3 in the pecking order by the end.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As he committed his first murder and ascended to Tony's inner circle in the final nine episodes, he adopted a solidly Darwinist mentality, looking out only for himself and his boss.
* TraumaCongaLine: His father and his wife die within months, and then Janice takes an interest in him, leading to a verbally abusive relationship. Then a ride breaks down with Janice and his kids on it. Then he suffers a near-death experience in which some street kids shoot him in the face, temporarily blinding him in one eye. Then he gets into a drunken brawl with Tony and beats him, causing him to fear for his life. Tony deliberately intimidates Bobby after this, then arranges for Bobby to make his first kill, which is a messy and brutal one.
* VillainsOutShopping[=/=]RealMenWearPink: Has a toy train hobby whenever he's not doing things for the family.
* YourCheatingHeart: Notably averted, other than Johnny Sack, Bobby is the only mobster on the show to not take a mistress.
!!Giacome "Jackie" Aprile, Sr.
The boss of the [=DiMeo=] family at the start of the series.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being a ruthless mob boss, he is depicted as being very friendly and diplomatic in his dealings with others even while suffering from terminal cancer. Additionally, even after being confined to the hospital, Tony and the other capos within the [=DiMeo=] crime family speak fondly of his fair and charismatic leadership.
* TheDon: Boss of the Jersey crew at the start of the series
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Wanted to keep his son away from the criminal life. Tony tries to honor this desire.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His demise leads to an early SuccessionCrisis and a MobWar.
* SiblingYinYang: Affable and easygoing, unlike Richie, his ruthless and sociopathic brother.
* VillainousFriendship: A very close friend of Tony.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies of cancer in the fourth episode.
!!Ralph Cifaretto
->'''Played by:''' Joe Pantoliano
-->''"Tomorrow I can be on time, but you'll be stupid forever."''
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[[caption-width-right:350: "Why was I born handsome instead of rich?"]]
The the Soprano crew's loose cannon, who returns from an extended stay in Florida in Season 3.
* AllThereInTheManual: Joe Pantoliano says that Ralph was sexually abused as a child. Some manner of childhood abuse was implied in "Mergers and Acquisitons", but never made explicit within the show.
* AnyoneCanDie: His status as a big earner makes him less expendable than most in-story. When his demise comes, the when and the why are completely out of the blue.
* AssholeVictim: Virtually every single person Ralphie knows mentions at one point or another that they'd kind of looking forward to the day he dies.
-->'''Albert Barese:''' This is bad, my friend. I mean, don't get me wrong. ''I wouldn't piss on this Ralph if he was on fire''. But to whack the guy over a horse? How fucked up is that? If it can happen to him, it can happen to any of us.
* AxCrazy: Possibly one of the biggest examples. He has extreme outbursts and it shows every time he kills (or attempts to kill) someone.
* BadLiar: His lies are so transparent that it's ambiguous if CryingWolf is in play.
* BaldOfEvil: Despite his ugly toupee.
* BigBad: Subverted. After the departure of Richie Aprile and Pussy Bonspenserio, a scheming, psychotic mobster played by a well-known character actor is introduced at the beginning of Season 3, and starts to butt heads with Tony. [[spoiler: Ralph and Tony bury the hatchet before the season finale, at which point it appears Ralph will be kicking around for a while. He continues acting as a series regular until about 2/3 of the way through Season 4, at which point all the resentment between the men comes bubbling up in an argument over a horse, and Tony beats him to death.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}}: Heavily into bondage and masochism. His kinks include roleplaying as a whore being pimped out by his "mommy" while she holds a vibrator in his ass, having his penis and testicles abused, and [[NoodleIncident something involving a leather mask.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his obnoxiusness, he's the biggest earner in the Soprano family.
* BrutalHonesty: Punctual. Tony gives him some credit for not being a YesMan.
* CombatPragmatist: Uses a can or Raid as a weapon during a fist fight.
* ComfortingTheWidow[=/=]RomancingTheWidow: Rosalie Aprile. He [[YourCheatingHeart cheats on her]] with Janice before long.
* DeadpanSnarker: His big mouth often gets him in trouble, so much that Johnny Sack tries to have him killed for insulting his wife.
** LiteralistSnarking: When Tony orders him [[PragmaticVillainy to put an end to his arsons]], he makes a call back to the line "no more fires" while his crew is beating the crap out of some guys, but in a less flashy way.
* DepravedBisexual: Suggested.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In Season 3. From the moment he first appears, he creates turmoil among the Soprano Crime Family's ranks by encroaching on other gangsters' territory, engaging in random bursts of violence, and [[TheCorrupter spurring Jackie Aprile Jr. to further acts of delinquency]]. However, after making him a ''capo'' in "He Is Risen", Tony brings his recalcitrant behavior to heel and he is largely neutralized as a direct threat to the well-being of Tony's business and family.
* DrugsAreBad: He blames his coke addiction for his bad behavior.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The episode with Tracee becomes his entire defining element, both for the cast and the audience.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* FanBoy: Of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. EyeScream ensues for Georgie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He is introduced in a scene in which Tony yells at him for unnecessarily setting trucks on fire. A later fire contributes to his death.
** During an argument with him on the phone Johnny Sac says "I should have let Tony cut your head off a year ago", guess what eventually happens.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Begins to show genuine remorse and something resembling human compassion...and then he is written out of the show 20 minutes later thanks to a never extinguished feud.
* HiddenDepths: Intellectually, Ralph dwarfs most of his criminal associates However, his obnoxious and unstable personality consistently work to frustrate his ascent within the underworld despite his wide range of talents.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Wanted to be an architect but the death of his mother truncated his dream as he had to [[PromotedToParent raise his numerous family]]. Additionally he regrets not being part of the big hit against Feech [=LaManna=], the breakthrough for Tony and his pals.
* {{Jerkass}}: In a show full of people with anti-social behavior he's one of the most triumphant example, which is saying something.
* ManipulativeBastard: As evidenced in his interactions with Jackie Aprile Jr. in Season 3. While Jackie has hardly any respect for him, Ralph nonetheless turns him into an unwitting pawn for his own agenda by insidiously playing on the young man's [[SmallNameBigEgo oversized ego and ambitions]].
* {{Mentor}}: For Jackie Jr.
* MommyIssues: Hinted at. Considering the show's adherence to FreudWasRight, it's hard to imagine a character like Ralph ''not'' having mommy issues.
* PassedOverPromotion: By Gigi, as Tony deems Ralph is too voluble for a captaincy.
* PosthumousCharacter: Appears in several dreams after his demise. Melfi interprets a Kafkaesque one as a confirmation of RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* PyroManiac: Arsonist, which falls in line with his freudian sexual oddities.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: To a certain degree. He starts to become a better person when his son is injured but is killed by Tony before it can really go anywhere.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He is based in Miami during the first two seasons.
* SmugSnake[=/=]SmugSmiler: Ralphie is usually too pleased with himself and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RalphCifaretto_8040.jpg smirking]] for some reason or another.
* TheSociopath
* StealingFromTheTill: Raises suspicions about him pocketing money from the esplanade project, as he seems to be living beyond his supposed means.
* TragicVillain
* UncertainDoom: In-universe, Tony uses his disappearance as an implicit MotivationalLie for his crew against Johnny Sack.
* WouldHitAGirl: He would beat her to death, [[KickTheDog in fact]].
!!Richie Aprile
->'''Played by:''' David Proval
->''"Threatenin'? I got a hard-on for you already. C'mon, gimme a reason...."''
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"What's mine is not yours to give me."'']]
A [=DiMeo=] crime family member released from prison at the start of Season 2.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AxCrazy: By far, one of the most crazy mobsters in the show.
* {{Badass}}
* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like his growing conflict with Tony will come to a head by the end of Season 2. Instead, he is abruptly taken out of the picture when his wife, Tony's sister Janice, shoots him dead after a domestic argument.
* BigBad: Of Season 2. Upon being released from prison, Richie actively undermines Tony's authority as boss of the [=DiMeo=] crime family and ultimately moves to have him killed towards the end of the story arc. [[spoiler: However, he is killed by Janice in the season's penultimate episode before his plans come to fruition. Three seasons later, Tony notes that his experience with Richie has taught him to always nip this kind of thing in the bud, leading him to arrange Feech's return to prison.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
** LiteralistSnarking: He's ordered to back off a guy, he does "and then [[CarFu puts it on drive]]".
* DudeWheresMyRespect: After doing his jail time he's content with Tony's financial treatment but then Janice meddles in and informs Richie that the amount of money he is given was only fair several decades ago.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After his release from prison one of the first things Richie does is threaten Chris Moltisanti for hitting his girlfriend Adriana, who is Richie's niece. Richie specifically tells him to wait until they're married to put his hands on her. Richie eventually [[spoiler:punches his fiancee Janice in the mouth]], which causes her to [[spoiler:lose her temper and shoot him]], he probably should have listened to his own advice.
* {{Jerkass}}: Possibly the biggest example in the series. He is extremely rude and unpleasant to anyone who interacts with him.
* KubrickStare: He is notorious for subjecting others to these to the point that Tony dubs his eyes, " Manson Lamps."
* LackOfEmpathy
* LoanShark
* TheNapoleon: Despite being more or less average in height, he is nevertheless one of the shorter members of the Soprano Crime Family (particularly when compared to the hulking Tony Soprano). However, what he lacks in size, he makes up for in sheer aggressiveness and brutality.
-->'''Junior:''' He's got tremendous moxie for a guy his size.
* OldFlame: Resumes an old relation with Janice.
* PapaWolf: While meeting with Tony after being released from prison, he angrily dresses down Christopher for abusing his niece, Adriana. However, this is [[PragmaticVillainy largely revealed to be a calculated ploy to reaffirm his credentials as an "old-school" wiseguy in order to curry Tony's favor]] when he callously admits to having no concern for what Chris does to Adriana "after he puts a ring on her finger".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the several convicts released from the can during the show.
* SiblingYinYang: Richie is covetous and bloodthirsty, while Jackie is benevolent and easygoing.
* TheSociopath: Again, possibly the biggest example in the entire series.
* TheStarscream
* WeHardlyKnewYe
!!Jackie Aprile Jr.
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[[caption-width-right:308:[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections "You know who my father was?"]]]]
Son of the late boss.
* AscendedExtra: Briefly seen before the Season 2 finale, he's later a major character in Season 3.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His efforts to make a name for himself are the driving source of conflict in the third season.
* BaitTheDog: Looks like he might be bonding with the young girl living in his safehouse, who wants to teach him chess, but he quickly gives up on this endeavor and goes outside, where he is immediately killed.
* BigBadWannabe: In Season 3. While he creates tension within the ranks of the [=DiMeo=] crime family throughout the story arc, he never musters the resources to directly threaten Tony's leadership and is unceremoniously whacked the moment he shows signs of doing so.
* BullyingADragon: Wanting to [[FollowTheLeader repeat Tony's breakthrough hit]], he robs a card game organized by the [=DiMeo=] family. It gets messy and deadly.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A notable inversion during his romance with Meadow. At first Tony is relieved with a ''paisan'' and everybody else is delighted by the prospects of a Soprano-Aprile marriage.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Gets arguably the least dramatic death of any major character in the series.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Feels entitled to respect due to his heritage, but earns and receives none. His final human interaction is a little girl laughing at him.
-->'''Tony''': Those who want respect, give respect.
* IvyLeague: Rutgers, a university considered part of the "Public Ivy". He flunks out, but keeps pretending he is attending college.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* ManChild: Of the [[SpoiledBrat spoiled rotten]] JerkAss variety.
* {{Narcissist}}: An [[TheCasanova "amorous"]] and [[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html "unprincipled"]] example. Aside from his uncle and father who were both arrogant and ruthless individuals, he shows [[LackofEmpathy hardly any respect or loyalty towards anyone other than himself]]. Ultimately, his [[JerkAss sheer obnoxiousness]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo bloated sense of entitlement]] reaches a point that Tony Soprano, his [[VillainousFriendship father's best friend and former right-hand man]], finally gets sick of him [[spoiler: and has him killed.]]
* PetTheDog: Affectively coaching A.J., who looks up to him.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: His father wanted him to have a honest life and Tony tries to keep him straight, but the [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster underworld is just too attractive]] to Jackie. Ralph gives him the final push encouraging Jackie to follow in his father's footsteps.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown briefly during a flashback in the Christmas episode.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His father's death leaves an immense chip on his shoulder.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on Meadow, gets caught red-handed and becomes an ex-boyfriend.
!!Furio Giunta
->'''Played by:''' Federico Castelluccio
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An enforcer from Italy who joins the [=DiMeo=] family in Season 2, brought in as part of a "men-for-cars" deal with the Neapolitan [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra Camorra]].[[note]]Fun fact: in Napoli, the Camorra ''are'' the waste-management business. Seriously; their handling of the city's municipal waste has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples_waste_management_issue caused serious environmental issues.]][[/note]]
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite and cultured in addition to being a violent thug.
* BewareTheQuietOnes
* TheBigGuy: The tallest and easily the fittest of Tony's crew.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter
* TheDriver
* TheDragon: For Tony
* HiddenDepths: His feelings for Carmela.
* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PunchClockVillain: He can go from laid back to vicious as the job demands.
* PutOnABus: Or rather a plane, back to Italy, when his and Carmela's feelings for each other become too strong to ignore (and before Tony finds out)
* RealMenWearPink: His "Euro-trashy" wardrobe. Also, he's officially brought in for visa purposes as a "master cheese maker" for Artie, and seems to at least be competent at it.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Pure-blooded Italian, hired straight from Napoli, and presented as fiercer than the average enforcer.
* WickedCultured
* WouldHitAGirl: In Italy, there's really no gender discrimination. Suggested to be part of why Tony brought him back to the States.
!!Vito Spatafore
->'''Played by:''' Joseph R. Gannascoli
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A rising member from the Cifaretto crew. Closet gay.
* AmbitionIsEvil: An interesting TheStarscream variation; he begins to postulate himself slowly as big boss candidate, in a particularly greedy way during a delicate moment when Tony is indisposed.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Shows signs of this a couple times.
* AscendedExtra
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tony regards him as this. His "quirk" is somehow forgivable because like Ralph before him, he's a big earner, unlike Gervasi:
-->'''Tony (to Gervasi): '''Maybe you should start sucking cock instead of watching TV Land 'cause Vito brought in three times what you do on construction! Yeah! And I didn't have this fuckin' problem!
* BuryYourGays
* CivilianVillain: Has a shot at a civilian life, but decides that crime pays better.
* DrivenToSuicide: Subverted, after going on the run once he's discovered to be gay the camera focuses on him and his gun many times but he never kills himself.
* FormerlyFat: He's imbued with new ambition and drive after a masive loss of weight.
* {{Gayngster}}: A straight deconstruction.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Finn witnesses his interest in men, and is called to "testify" later by the mobsters.
* LeatherMan: The visible reason why he's outed.
* MeetCute: Finds a handsome barman/fireman boyfriend in New England.
* MookPromotion
* SecretIdentity: Flees from Jersey and starts a new life in New England, at first [[ItsForABook posing as a writer]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Joe Gannascoli appears in season 1 as the random client of a bakery while Christopher waits in the line.
!!Eugene Pontecorvo
->'''Played by:''' Robert Funaro
An enforcer in the Cifaretto crew.
* AscendedExtra: Until he gets his own episode in series 6, his biggest scene is when he smashes a bottle on Little Paulie's face. Though for some reason Robert Funaro is often billed in the opening credits before series 6, despite having smaller roles than other characters (maybe he had a good agent)
* ADeathInTheLimelight
* DespairEventHorizon: His realization in "Member's Only" that he'll never be able to leave the mob and move with his family down to Florida.
* DrivenToSuicide
* TheMole
* MookPromotion: Shares his made man initiation with Christopher.
* OutOfFocus: Listed in the main cast of season 3 but mostly amounts to being a background character until the premiere of season 6 and then he dies.
* ResignationsNotAccepted
!!Feech [=LaManna=]
->'''Played by:''' RobertLoggia
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An old Mustache Pete released from prison in Season 5.
* AxCrazy: When he's in a bad mood, his HairTriggerTemper and violent nature are genuinely terrifying.
* BadassGrandpa: Can still deliver a nasty beat down.
* BaldOfEvil
* FauxAffablyEvil: While he comes across as charismatic and grandfatherly in his early appearances, it quickly becomes apparent that he's a violent sociopath who resents Tony's rapid ascent much like Richie Aprile before him.
* GrumpyOldMan
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''.
* {{Jerkass}}
* LackOfEmpathy: Yes, as usual in ruthless mobsters.
* LivingLegend: Famed mobster.
* TheMunchausen
* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the several convicts released from the can during the show, but he is one of the few [[TheGhost aversions]] because he's mentioned in season 3 as the man whose poker game was robbed by Tony and his pals.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Part of his backstory is that he was an original gangster who was made in Italy, before immigrating to New Jersey in the 1950s.
* TheSociopath
* TheStarscream: Tony perceives some hints about his unloyalty and gets rid of him before he can do any harm.
* TraitorShot: Gets several from Tony's point of view, in slow motion. He's the only minion who doesn't suck up to Tony's jokes.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Tony schemes his return to prison after four episodes.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Loves to go down memory lane time and again and struggles to acknowledge that Tony is not a kid anymore.
!!Carlo Gervasi
->'''Played by:''' Arthur J. Nascarella
A captain in the family as of Season 4.
* TheButcher: Invoked in the imagery when he kills Fat Dom Gamiello.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Presumably a good soldier, he gets to be a captain thanks to seniority, but his managerial skills suck:
-->'''Tony: '''Maybe you should start sucking cock instead of watching TV Land 'cause Vito brought in three times what you do on construction! Yeah! And I didn't have this fuckin' problem!
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite having relatively few lines in the entire series, it's implied that him [[spoiler: turning government witness]] may end being the thing that will eventually bury Tony. [[spoiler: If Tony's still alive, of course.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy[=/=]MetaGuy: Played with in "Chasing It"; he compares Tony's luck with an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Tony, never a big fan of sci-fi, immediately chides him for it, but when Tony goes to las Las Vegas on a [[MushroomSamba weird trip]], Carlo's comparison gets vindicated.
!!Ray Curto
A long-running captain in the family.
* ADayInTheLimelight: An important scene of the Season 5 finale takes place at his birthday dinner, but Tony quickly arrives and steals the spotlight.
* DeadpanSnarker
* KilledMidSentence: Has an aneurysm while imparting some information to the FBI.
* TheMole: The longest lasting confirmed mole of the series.
* OutOfFocus: He seems to prefer it this way.
!!Gigi Cestone
->'''Played by:''' John Fiore
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An enforcer introduced in Season 2.
* AffablyEvil
* TheChainsOfCommanding: After he is made captain, the stress of containing Ralphie adds a new toll to his health.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Bites it halfway through Season 3 in a pretty undignified way.
-->'''Tony (in the series finale)''': Gigi died takin' a shit!
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ralph constantly breaks his balls.
* MauveShirt
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After shooting Philly Parisi, Gigi must regularly interact with Philly's identical twin brother Patsy. This is another contributing factor to his mounting stress.
* UndignifiedDeath: Suffers a heart attack while constipated on the toilet of the Bada Bing, and surrounded by porn magazines, though Tony does his best to paint it in a more dignified light by comparing him to Elvis.
!!Benny Fazio
->'''Played by:''' Max Casella
A young enforcer and friend of Chris Moltisanti.
* TheAce
* TheDriver
!!Little Paulie Germani
->'''Played by:''' Carl Capotorto
Nephew of Paulie Gualtieri.
* ButtMonkey: Besides Georgie the bartender, he is one of the most abused characters on the show. He gets hit with a bottle on 2 separate occasions and eventually gets pushed out of a window.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Was actually pretty scary in a scene where he had to intimidate and beat up JT Dolan.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: In a subtle scene he cheats during a pool game against his uncle (who got distracted by a phone call) by putting a few balls in his pockets.
* SkunkStripe: Develops a little one, less prominent than his uncle's.
!!Peter "Bissell" [=LaRosa=]
A would-be soldier in Paulie's crew.
* TheApprentice: A rising hitman who makes his bones during the show and doubles as doorman.
!!Mikey Palmice
Junior's right hand man.
* ButtMonkey: For Tony, who dislikes and abuses Mikey with impunity.
* TheConsigliere: After Junior becomes boss, the FBI have him as this on their wall chart. Although he's half Junior's age and is more of a sychophant than a real advisor.
* TheDragon: Doubles as Junior's main enforcer.
* TheDriver: Initially for Junior.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Junior is getting fitted for a new suit, Mikey is with him. They have a discussion about how the young mobsters don't wear suits anymore instead opting for athletic clothes like tracksuits. Junior says "I swear these bums would get buried in sweat-suits if they could", [[spoiler: when Mikey is finally killed he's wearing jogging clothes.]]
* JoggersFindDeath: He's killed by Paulie and Chris in the middle of his outdoors routine.
* PsychoForHire: Clearly relishes his job as Junior's hitman and enforcer.
* SmugSnake
!!Jimmy Altieri
->'''Played by:''' Joe Badalucco
A captain in Season 1.
* BoxedCrook
* DueToTheDead: To drive the point home about snitching he's also punished post-mortem; a rat is stuffed into his mouth and Christopher calls in a bomb threat to his wake.
* TheMole: The first FBI informant discovered. Like all the subsequent moles in a strict sense he's an inversion, as the villain protagonist point of view reverses some concepts.
!!Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi
->'''Played by:''' Dan Grimaldi
An enforcer introduced in Season 2.
* AffablyEvil
* AlliterativeName
* AngstySurvivingTwin: He's devastated after his talkative [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins twin]] gets killed on Tony's order.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: When Vito is outed as a homosexual, Patsy is the only mobster to explicitly state he doesn't give a fuck. (As noted above, Tony gives a fuck, but it's a much smaller one than the fuck he gives about Vito being a big earner.)
* TheGenericGuy: The accountant of the organization. Appears in the background in many scenes but has very little characterization.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Intimidating Gloria Trillo.
* PassedOverPromotion: By Christopher when Paulie is sent to jail.
* TheResenter: Towards Tony over the death of his twin brother. He eventually buries the hatchet.
!!Robert "Baccala" Baccalieri, Sr.
An aging but brutal Di Meo hitman and father of Bobby Baccala.
* AffablyEvil
* BadassGrandpa
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: On the way home from a brutal murder of two goons, he succumbs to a coughing fit and crashes into a billboard, accompanied by "Sister Golden Hair" by America. One of the few deaths that averts SoundtrackDissonance - The panning shot of the aftermath of his crash to the song's guitar solo is quite cinematic.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Implied. Baccala Sr. is one of the most vicious and efficient killers in the syndicate, but his middle aged son has never killed anyone.
* GutturalGrowler
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: A pretty nasty one.
* TheLastDance: He is more than eager to carry out one final hit, despite - or possibly because of - his deteriorating health.
* LivingLegend: Not for long.
!!Walden Belfiore
->'''Played by:''' Frank John Hughes
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A Soprano hitman notable for committing the final murder of the series.
* TheAce
* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BandOfBrothers "Wild Bill" Guarnere]] is no stranger to killing
* RememberTheNewGuy
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Introduced midway through the second half of Season 6, is in the background of a few scenes, has maybe half a dozen lines, and carries out the spectacular final hit of The Sopranos.
!!Lorenzo "Larry Boy" Barese
One of the original five captains at the start of the series.
* AffablyEvil
* CommutingOnABus[=/=]DemotedToExtra: After he is sent to jail in the season 1 finale he only appears from time to time, but mantains his captaincy throughout the series.
* TheStoolPigeon: Discussed as the source behind the unburial of Tony's first murder, with the suggestion that he gave false information not to incriminate Tony and Paulie.
!!Albert "Ally Boy" Barese
Acting capo of the Barese crew
* VerbalTic: Tends to repeat whatever you just said.
!! Ercole "Eckley" [=DiMeo=]
Longtime head of the [=DiMeo=] crime family.
* ArtifactTitle: In-universe: the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family, of which the Soprano crew is a major part, still bears Ercole [=DiMeo=]'s name, even though he's been in prison for decades, and no one named "[=DiMeo=]" has any part in running the family.
* TheDon: Founder and hierarchical boss of the [=DiMeo=] family.
* TheGhost: Never seen, he's a "guest of the government" for life in Springfield, Missouri. After Junior becomes the official boss of the family, he's completely forgotten about and never even mentioned again.
* InSeriesNickName: The Old Man.
* {{Mentor}}: For the old Mustache Petes.
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