History Characters / TheWireNewDayCoOp

* TooDumbToLive: A massive case of SmallNameBigEgo who thought to pull a gun in a meeting of gangsters and try to act as their new leader, mocking both Joe (who it's known he betrayed) and Marlo. Fittingly, no one is much surprised or upset when he gets blasted.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He respects the Sunday truce and sharply dresses down two StupidCrooks for trying to take out Omar while he's visiting his grandmother.

** In Season 4, he joins Prop Joe and quickly becomes his right hand.
** In Season 5, he is offered this role by Marlo in the Co-Op to run the Eastside after Marlo kills Joe, but Slim Charles refuses due to seeing Marlo as dangerous and untrustworthy.

->'''Played by:''' Troj Marquis Strickland.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Wee-Bey, as an AffablyEvil head muscle for the Barksdale Organization. He essentially serves the same role Wee-Bey served in Season 1 in Season 3 as the NumberTwo for both Avon and Stringer. The two have pretty different personalities though, with Bey being much more cheerful compared to Slim, and he demonstrates some worse morals since he has several KickTheDog moments, which Slim is not shown having.

* AnyoneCanDie

* {{Foil}}: To Stringer. Both are pragmatic businessmen, but while Stringer wants to be sophisticated and to rise above a life in the underworld, Joe is his own boss, is happy with being a simple druglord, is content to work and use a dingy appliance store as his headquarters and has no desire for legitimacy.

* SelectiveObliviousness: His usual shrewdness seemingly leaves him during his attempts to mentor and 'civilize' Marlo Stanfield into a more pragmatic, yet effective drug kingpin clearly shows itself to be not worth the hassle, especially as Marlo never stops showing signs of his contempt for the Co-op's practices or discussions (something that Slim Charles himself warned him was a sign of him looking to make a move), nor does his penchant for violence really diminish. Indeed, when Omar steals the drug shipment the Co-op relied on, Marlo outright threatened to deal with his nephew due to his (correct) suspicion of him being involved in a setup - yet Joe doesn't see it as a sign that Marlo is too dangerous to work with, and introduces him to his connect - the Greeks to assuade him. Marlo also intentionally aggravates the situation by ordering Butchie's death to draw Omar back to the city, and while Joe himself knows Marlo's involvement and suspects Cheese being on it as well, he never decides to take action against Marlo himself, until it's too late. The implication is that even if Joe wanted to, he couldn't hope to tangle with Marlo or even the combined forces of the Co-op for that matter. But Joe himself seemed overly invested in keeping Marlo's loyalty to him, and bringing him closer to his own line of thinking after seeing his potential.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Starts crying when Bunk and Jimmy bring up the death of his dog during interrogation. And yet, he has no problems with betraying and killing his own uncle.

* 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. Any of y'all ain't got that kind of money need to be ashamed. [...] There ain't no back in the day! There ain't no nostalgia to this shit here."

* SmallNameBigEgo: Explicitly tells Mouzone that his name rings around like Avon Barksdale's. Yeah, Cheese, ''sure'' it does.

* TooDumbToLive: A massive case of SmallNameBigEgo who thought it would be a good idea to mock [[UndyingLoyalty Slim Charles]]' boss in front of him. Fittingly, no one is much surprised or upset when he gets blasted.

* AffablyEvil: To the point where he'd qualify as a NiceGuy if he you forget who's working with. He's composed, soft spoken and took the blame for Cutty failing to shoot fruit in Season 3.
* TheBrute: Takes over from Wee-Bey as this role, head of muscle and [[CoDragons Co-Dragon]] to Stringer. He's not nearly as sadistic as most examples though.

* BoomHeadshot: "That was for Joe."

* DragonAscendant: Goes from hired gun to virtually leading the Co-Op.

* 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.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: An interesting example. Not so much in the traditional vocabulary sense, but he speaks in heavy street slang. Even more so than all the other street charactors in the show. To the point where the average middle class surburbanite viewer may need to have the Website/UrbanDictionary handy to follow his dialogue.
* 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 immediately 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.

* EvilVirtues: Pretty much all of them, but loyalty and bravery take the biscuit, which might explain why his position seems to get better and better with each season.

-> See Characters/TheWireStanfieldOrganization for further information.

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** To Cheese. They are both high-ranking lieutenants of the game, but while Slim is loyal, friendly, competent and reflective, Cheese is a polar opposite.

* DarkHorseVictory: He and "Fat Face" Rick end up running the Baltimore drug trade by the end of the series after the war between the major drug kingpins, the BPD, and Omar leaves Barksdale in prison, Marlo out of the game, and Omar, Stringer, and Prop Joe in the ground.

* DarkHorseVictory: He and Slim end up running the Baltimore drug trade by the end of the series after the war between the major drug kingpins, the BPD, and Omar leaves Barksdale in prison, Marlo out of the game, and Omar, Stringer, and Prop Joe in the ground.

* PragmaticVillainy: He rebukes Stringer when he orders him to assassinate Clay Davis. Slim does not object to murder, but he understands that hitting a State's Senator will bring down not just the entire BPD on them, but the Feds as well.

* BadassInCharge: Head of Barksdale muscle in Season 3. He and his crew are able to repel Omar from a stash house. He is the second Wire character after Wee-Bey to get the better of Omar in a confrontation.

* RefusalOfTheCall: After dissolving the Co-Op, Marlo offers Charles to be the new number two of Baltimore and control of the Eastside, but Slim has reasons to distrust him and passes on the opportunity.

** He also succeeds where [[SmugSnake Stringer]] failed with his real estate schemes, buying up cheap property all over town that's scheduled for urban redevelopment and allying himself with Nerese Campbell instead of Clay Davis.

* 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.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Calls Omar a cocksucker at one point.

* GetItOverWith: Tells Omar to skip the talking when he’s got him at gun point.

[[caption-width-right:350:"''Motherfucker who got the connect, he the one that did Joe''"]]

* NotSoDifferent: Daniels casually evokes his case as an analogy for dysfunction, which the Commissioner [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finds funny]].
-->'''Burrell:''' What makes you think they'll promote the wrong man?\\
'''Daniels:''' We do it all the time. ({{Beat}}, then Burrell bursts out laughing)

East-side drug kingpin. Has a mellow temperament. Dislikes common squabbling and turf wars (and the ensuing police attention), preferring instead to arrange alliances and cut deals between rival gangs. His group is the first to fill the vacuum left by the disruption of the Barksdale Organization in Season 2, chipping away at their territory and influence. An alliance between the two groups, the New Day Co-Op, is eventually formed. He keeps Stringer Bell powerless and under his control, but he can't contain the ascendant Marlo Stanfield, nor his mercenary-in-all-but-name, Omar Little. He is murdered by Chris Partlow as he is packing his bags to flee Baltimore.

** He also instantly recognizes 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.