History Characters / TheWireNewDayCoOp

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tries to dress it as IFightForTheStrongestSide; [[KilledMid-Sentence when it was his uncle, he was with his uncle, and when it was Marlo, he was with him.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tries to dress it as IFightForTheStrongestSide; when it was his uncle, he was with his uncle, and when it was Marlo, he was with him.

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! The New Day Co-Op

* TooDumbToLive: Despite the above mentioned tropes, throwing the remainder of the cigar you were smoking at the body of your just murdered criminal associate may not have been the smartest of moves.

-->"Uh, point of order and shit."

* BadassInCharge: He and his crew are able to repel Omar from a stash house. The second Wire character after Wee-Bey to get the better of Omar in a confrontation.

** Ultimately he is this to Stringer Bell. Stringer constantly overestimates himself, stabs other people in the back and overall has an unrealistic view of the game. Slim is realistic about what he is (and is not) capable of, remains loyal to his superiors and is completely aware of what the game is about.

* NotAfraidToDie: When Omar gets the drop on him, all he says is "Do what you feel".

* PetTheDog: Business and numbers aside, there's plenty of humanity below his PragmaticVillainy, and Joe's decency is demonstrated often, right up to his final scene, wherein he tells Cheese (who is under suspicion but unbeknown to the viewer and to Joe has just betrayed his uncle) to be extra careful because Omar is out there hunting. Another example is his genuine sadness and funeral arrangements for Butchie, regarded highly by Joe as an old-school peer. Joe is also very sympathetic to the Barksdales for their loss during D'Angelo's funeral (even half-apologizing for talking shop with Stringer when it ends).

** He also instantly recognises that allowing Marlo to meet with the Greeks, whose pure Afghan heroine is the source of Prop Joe's market power, is an enormous risk.

* BadassInCharge: He and his crew are able to repell Omar from a stash house. The second Wire character after Wee-Bey to get the better of Omar in a confrontation.

* Ultimately he is this to Stringer Bell. Stringer constantly overestimates himself, stabs other people in the back and overal has an unrealistic view of the game. Slim is realistic about what he is (and is not) capable of, remains loyal to his superiors and is completely aware of what the game is about.
* HonestAdvisor: Questions Avon's decision to take on Marlo and Omar at the same time and voices his objetion to Stringer regarding the Clay Davis task.

* NobleDemon

* EvilVirtues: Pretty much all of them, which might explain why his position seems to get better and better witch each season.

* DirtyCoward: Sells out his Uncle. Nuff said.
EvilCounterpart: Like D'Angelo, Cheese was also a drug lord's nephew. While Dee had a conscience that made him loathe "the game", Cheese was a selfish and ambitious traitor who was willing to backstab anyone if it meant he would climb the ranks.

* EvilCounterpart: Like D'Angelo, Cheese was also a drug lord's nephew. While Dee had a conscience that made him loathe "the game", Cheese was a selfish and ambitious traitor who was willing to backstab anyone if it meant he would climb the ranks.

* HonorAmongThieves: His outrage is more than palpable when he confronts two of his subordinates for violating the traditional Sunday Truce when they try to kill Omar. Later on when Omar ambushes him, Slim mentions he would have helped Omar if Prop. Joe were involved in Butchie's fate. Omar implicitly acknowledges and spares him.

* LargeAndInCharge: Very tall and high-ranked member in Avon's and Joe's organizations, to the point of being [[InSeriesNickName referred to as]] "tall man". A straighter example in the finale.
* TheMentor: Sympathizes with Bodie and tries to ease his transition into Marlo's new era, for Bodie's own good. Bodie brushes Slim off.

* TheReliableOne: Highly competent, adaptative and loyal. Slim is a man who owns up to mistakes, listens to the authority figures that employ him but also brings his own voice. He's confident, offers sound advice when necessary, does not buckle under pressure, is a pillar of strength to others, has integrity, learns from events and stays loyal to his bosses.

* StreetSmart: Knows his place in the game and is way more intelligent than the average muscle, sometimes on par with the smartest druglords. He finds valid holes in Stringer's market strategy, points out killing a Senator is a whole new game and inmediately recognizes "Marlo's up to some shit" and warns Prop Joe about it. Charles is imminently aware that younger, fringe dealers will see Stringer and Joe's peaceful approach as a mark of weakness. When Avon admits that their cause to start a war with Marlo is unfounded, Charles answers that the justification is beside the point at that stage. In the end Charles doesn't step up to claim sole representation to the Greeks and teams with Fat Face Rick as co-representative.

* MissingDad: Cheese was apparently Randy's dad.

* InternalReformist: Co-founder and chairman of the "[[ThievesGuild New Day Co-Op]]".

* LargeAndInCharge: He just does managerial tasks but he is probably the heaviest player of the game.
* {{Mentor}}: He schools the unsophisticated Marlo in the ways of "the game". It backfires, leading to YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and MentorOccupationalHazard.

* NonActionBigBad: Joe knows as well as anyone that 1) the police are much more interested in violence and bodies than they are in the drug trade without that, and 2) that he doesn't have the muscle to rule the drug trade by force, the way that West Baltimore players like Avon and Marlo aspire to. He solves these two problems by keeping violence in check to keep the police at bay, (see his speech to Stringer about how police can't handle boredom) and developing a cooperative system in the form of the New Day Co-op that allows him to be one of the most powerful drug kingpins in Baltimore without needing violence to do so.

* BloodyHilarious: His last scene is something to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWuJ3eD6Qc behold]]. Twitching and everything

* EvilCounterpart: Like D'Angelo, Cheese was also a drug lord's nephew. While Dee had a conscience, Cheese was a heartless traitor.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Before moronically revealing his treachery, he takes his gun out, makes a good case against nostalgia and shames the other druglords for lacking enough cash despite dealing in a captive market. "We're selling coke and dope in B-more [...] There's no back in the day shit."

* LaughablyEvil: Has plenty of funny moments and remarks, he's usually more amusing than dangerous.

* OpportunisticBastard: Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff is defined by his ambition and his utter lack of loyalty to anyone. Cheese starts out as an enforcer and lieutenant of his uncle, the notorious drug kingpin "Proposition Joe." When Marlo Stanfield begins his rise to power, Cheese promptly aligns with him for a bigger slice of the pie and betrays his uncle to his death. When Marlo is no longer in the picture, Cheese tries to seize control of the loose alliance of Drug Dealers, basically admitting his shifting loyalties and opportunism in front of them.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Explicitly tells Mouzone that his name rings around like Avon Barksdale's.

* DragonAscendant: Goes from hired gun to leading the Co-Op.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* {{Foil}}:

** Physically to Proposition Joe. They are often referred to as "tall-man" and "fat-man"

* SurroundedByIdiots: Much like Stringer, he feels this way thanks to less than competent members of the gang like Sapper and Gerard.

* BatmanGambit: To try and persuade Marlo of the security benefits of the Co-Op, he gets Omar to rob the poker game Marlo attends to show Marlo how he needs the extra security. This backfires by setting in motion a chain of events leading to Joe's downfall and death.
* BriefAccentImitation: He uses ''three different accents'' during the course of one phone call to the [=BPD=] while trying to gather information on Herc. Good accents too; Robert Chew is clearly excellent at this stuff.

* InternalReformist: Co-founder and chairman of the "[[ThievesGuild New Day Co-op]]".

Another of Prop Joe's nephews, and a horrifically incompetent dealer. He speaks so openly about drugs on the phone that the Major Crimes squad tries to engineer him getting a promotion in the hopes that his LooseLips would give them a way to bring down Joe's organization. Unfortunately, Joe was far too cunning for that one.

* RankUp: Lester comes up with the idea of busting his superior so that Drac would be promoted and give them a way to crack the organization.

'''Lester:''' Talkingest motherfucker I ever heard on a wiretap. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5BG-81hsH8 Listen]]
* StupidCrooks

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[[folder:Kintel Williamson]]

Northwest drug dealer targeted by the MCU because he's one of the most violent, high-profile targets remaining on the streets after Stringer Bell's low-profile strategy gets the Barksdale organization off the hook... until [=McNulty=] goes behind Daniels' back and gets the Unit to re-focus on B&B.
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* ArcVillain: Serves as a brief FillerVillain while [=McNulty=] attempts to find a way to steer the investigation towards Stringer Bell again.
* CallBack: Prop Joe offhandedly mentions the Major Crimes Unit getting to him as well as dogging Stringer when he first tells Marlo about them.
* TheGhost: He's mentioned several times, but doesn't appear onscreen.

[[folder:Ricardo "Fat-Face Rick" Hendrix]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"''Motherfucker who got the connect, he the one that did Joe''"]]
->'''Played by:''' Troj Marquis Strickland.

-->''Shit, nigga, we was good when your uncle had it. You had to go ahead and put up with Marlo...''

Drug lord from Veronica Avenue, on the East Side of Baltimore. Founding member of the New Day Co-Op, he becomes a co-representative in the finale.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Off-screen. Omar mentions that when he robbed Rick, Rick fell down on his knees and wept like a little baby. On-screen, Rick takes a more dignified stand later when he's confronted by Omar and Cheese.
* CigarChomper: Usually seen smoking a cigar.
* LargeAndInCharge: An independent boss at first and finally co-leader of the co-op. Very bulky, he looks like the Shaquille O'Neal of drug dealers.
* RealEstateScam: Makes the local news when it's exposed that the city council is going to relocate him to redevelop the land where his club stands. He's being offered more than what his club is worth and a better council owned property elsewhere, so he will net a million dollars for moving. Not by coincidence, Rick has a history of campaign donations.
* SmarterThanYouLook: He's no fool, he knows the nature of The Game inside and out and isn't fooled at all by the attempts of Marlo and Cheese to blame Omar for the deaths of Prop Joe and Hungry Man.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Not very comfortable with parliamentary procedure, but still tries to abide by it.
-->"Uh, point of order and shit."

[[folder:Nathaniel "Hungry Man" Manns]]
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->'''Played by:''' Duane Chandler Rawlings

->''Marlo, man, you're a little out of order here.''

Older East Side drug kingpin and charter member of the New Day Co-Op.

* BringMyBrownPants: After Chris and Snoop abduct him in order to deliver him to Cheese.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His criticism of Marlo and brushes with Cheese over territory leads to Cheese's treachery, the demise of Joe and eventually to the dethroning of Marlo himself.

[[folder:Kintel Williamson]]

Northwest drug dealer targeted by the MCU because he's one of the most violent, high-profile targets remaining on the streets after Stringer Bell's low-profile strategy gets the Barksdale organization off the hook... until [=McNulty=] goes behind Daniels' back and gets the Unit to re-focus on B&B.