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* RabidCop: He'll threaten any criminal he catches and tends to use excessive violence when subduing suspects, even having paralyzed Blue when he shot him for unknown reasons and threatening [[KickTheSonOfABitch to cut off a rapist's balls]], only relenting because he had a schedule to keep.
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* RabidCop: He'll threaten any criminal he catches and tends to use excessive violence when subduing suspects, even having paralyzed Blue when he shot him for unknown reasons and threatening [[KickTheSonOfABitch to cut off a rapist's balls]], balls, only relenting because he had a schedule to keep.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the CowboyCop. Alonzo bends and breaks the rules to get his man and will engage in vigilantism if it helps him serve justice. The result is that he's an arrogant sociopath who's just as bad as the criminals he fights, and is corrupt to boot.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the CowboyCop. Alonzo bends and breaks the rules to get his man and will engage in vigilantism if it helps him serve justice. The result is that he's an arrogant sociopath who's just as bad as (if not worse than) the criminals he fights, and is corrupt to boot.
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this not only makes Alonzo predictable, but also backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort, before actively turning against him in order to let Hoyt abscond with the money. This is also what makes Alonzo realise that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]] Pride is the ultimately reason Alonzo [[spoiler:doesn't understand why a hardened gangster like Bone would side with a milquetoast rookie officer like Hoyt, simply because he fails to recognise the distinction between fear and respect.]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this not only makes Alonzo predictable, but also backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort, before actively turning against him in order to let Hoyt abscond with the money. This is also what makes Alonzo realise that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]] Pride is the ultimately the reason Alonzo [[spoiler:doesn't understand why a hardened gangster like Bone would side with a milquetoast rookie officer like Hoyt, simply because he fails to recognise the distinction between fear and respect.]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort. This is also what makes him realises that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]] Pride is the ultimately reason Alonzo [[spoiler:doesn't understand why a hardened gangster like Bone would side with a milquetoast rookie officer like Hoyt, simply because he fails to recognise the distinction between fear and respect.]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this not only makes Alonzo predictable, but also backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort. resort, before actively turning against him in order to let Hoyt abscond with the money. This is also what makes him realises Alonzo realise that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]] Pride is the ultimately reason Alonzo [[spoiler:doesn't understand why a hardened gangster like Bone would side with a milquetoast rookie officer like Hoyt, simply because he fails to recognise the distinction between fear and respect.]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort. This is also what makes him realises that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort. This is also what makes him realises that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]])]] Pride is the ultimately reason Alonzo [[spoiler:doesn't understand why a hardened gangster like Bone would side with a milquetoast rookie officer like Hoyt, simply because he fails to recognise the distinction between fear and respect.]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort)]]
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** An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride and arrogance, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that [[spoiler:'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge.]] In Alonzo's mindset, [[spoiler:no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle,]] so why would he go anywhere else? HOWEVER, this backfires when it's revealed [[spoiler:how much he underestimates Hoyt's resourcefulness, determination and blind luck (that Hoyt was released by Smiley's gang was largely down to sheer serendipity), and *overestimates* his influence on Hoyt in their final standoff (when he fails to charm, cajole or coerce his way back into a position of leverage) OR the neighbourhood (when they refuse to oblige to his order to dispatch Hoyt on his behalf as a final resort)]]resort. This is also what makes him realises that 'the Jungle' wasn't going to protect him from the Russians.)]]
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* AxCrazy: An aggressive and sociopathic sadist and bully with a long history of mistreating others because of his power complex. In fact, it's specifically this personality trait which forms the basis of the movie's plotline, since his primary motivation throughout its course is to[[spoiler: raise enough money to pay off the russian mafia after he had murdered one of their associates roughly a week prior to the events of the film.]]
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* AxCrazy: An aggressive and sociopathic sadist and bully with a long history of mistreating others because of his power complex. In fact, it's specifically this personality trait which forms the basis of the movie's plotline, since his primary motivation throughout its course is to[[spoiler: raise enough money to pay off the russian mafia after he had murdered impulsively murders one of their associates roughly a week prior to the events of the film.]]
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* AxCrazy: An aggressive and sociopathic sadist and bully with a long history of mistreating others because of his power complex. In fact, it's specifically this personality trait which forms the basis of the movie's plotline, since his primary motivation throughout its course is to [[raise enough money to pay off the russian mafia after he had murdered one of their associates roughly a week prior to the events of the film.]]
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* AxCrazy: An aggressive and sociopathic sadist and bully with a long history of mistreating others because of his power complex. In fact, it's specifically this personality trait which forms the basis of the movie's plotline, since his primary motivation throughout its course is to [[raise to[[spoiler: raise enough money to pay off the russian mafia after he had murdered one of their associates roughly a week prior to the events of the film.]]
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**An alternative perspective to the latter point is that it's actually Pride, since it's established early on (by Alonzo himself - mostly to show how much glee he takes in its fact) that 'the Jungle' is a no-go area to most police officers, which not only establishes the level of sway he has in its neighbourhood for possessing the kind of authority he has in it as a law enforcement agent, but also hints to Hoyt later on as the first logical option a bent cop like Alonzo would use as a potential refuge. In Alonzo's mindset, no-one in the Jungle fucks with him, and anyone else who would is ''less inclined'' to fuck with him while he's in the Jungle, so why would he go anywhere else?
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* AxCrazy: A very psychotic and aggressive sadist who has treated others like crap because of how unstable he is as a person.
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* AxCrazy: A very psychotic and An aggressive and sociopathic sadist who has treated and bully with a long history of mistreating others like crap because of how unstable his power complex. In fact, it's specifically this personality trait which forms the basis of the movie's plotline, since his primary motivation throughout its course is to [[raise enough money to pay off the russian mafia after he is as had murdered one of their associates roughly a person.week prior to the events of the film.]]
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* OhCrap: First [[spoiler:when the neighborhood abandons him]], and then when he realizes [[spoiler:the Russians are about to kill him.]]
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* OhCrap: First The first time he definitely loses his composure is when he realises he no longer [[has any psychological leverage over Hoyt (he gets shot in one of his buttocks then has his badge taken away from him in his efforts to prove the contrary))]]; suffers his most animated breakdown [[spoiler:when the neighborhood abandons him]], and then finally when he realizes [[spoiler:the Russians are about to kill him.]]
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This is inaccurate. Alonzo proves to have the upper hand against the younger cop because he's more experienced and much more physically imposing than Hoyt. Jake wins by jumping ON TOP OF Alonzo's car from a single storey height, and the collision inflicts a nasty whiplash that stuns Alonzo, which is how Jake finally manages to turn the tables on him.
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* MadeOfIron: Hoyt can take a shitton of punishment, managing to [[spoiler:beat down Alonzo in a fair fight]] even after being beaten up several times and hit by a car.
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* MadeOfIron: Hoyt can take a shitton of punishment, managing to [[spoiler:beat down Alonzo in [[spoiler:stop Alonzo's escape by ''dropping himself over the windshield of his moving car from at least a fair fight]] storey-high balcony'']] - even after being beaten up several times - and hit by a car.STILL getting up to successfully conclude his standoff with Alonzo afterwards.
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* TokenGoodCop: He has a strong moral compass and is TheDeterminator, while Detective Harris, his four-man team for drug raids, and their three superiors are all far more brutal and dishonest than most of the criminals they go after.
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* TheSociopath: At the end of the day, despite all his charisma and some seemingly sympathetic qualities that's what he really is. A corrupt, ruthless and amoral man only concerned about his well being and who sees everyone around him as expendable.
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* TheSociopath: At the end of the day, despite all his charisma and some seemingly sympathetic qualities that's what he really is. A corrupt, ruthless and amoral man bully only concerned about his well being and who sees everyone around him as expendable.
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* CowboyCop: A rare villainous version. He's long become more extreme than even the gangsters he fights, but the reason he's kept around by his superiors (the three wise men) despite his personal corruption is that he catches a ''lot'' of bad guys. Alonzo himself claims he is only going after the big fish in the drug trade; he has 38 cases pending trial, 63 active investigations, 350 log cases he has yet to clear, and is supervising five other officers besides Hoyt.
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* CowboyCop: A rare villainous version. He's long since become more extreme than even the gangsters he fights, but the reason he's kept around by his superiors (the three wise men) despite his personal corruption is that he catches a ''lot'' of bad guys. Alonzo himself claims he is only going after the big fish in the drug trade; he has 38 cases pending trial, 63 active investigations, 350 log cases he has yet to clear, and is supervising five other officers besides Hoyt.
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* BeardOfEvil: He has a neat goatee and is most definitely not on the side of the angels.
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* DirtyCoward: Take away his gun and badge, and this is all he is. The minute his life is in danger, he chooses to run away or [[AintTooProudToBeg beg for his life]]. [[spoiler: Jake and the other gang members realize this, and decide that he’s [[NotWorthKilling not worth killing]].]]
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* DirtyCoward: Take away his gun and badge, and this is all he is. The minute his life is in danger, he chooses to run away or [[AintTooProudToBeg beg for his life]].life]], even subtly trying to use a child as a human shield in the climax. [[spoiler: Jake and the other gang members realize this, and decide that he’s [[NotWorthKilling not worth killing]].]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's made himself pretty valuable to his fellow cops and the gangbangers on the street through virtue of his own power and cunning, but none of them like him at all. This eventually comes back to bite him in the ass.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's made himself pretty valuable to his fellow cops and the gangbangers on the street through virtue of his own power and cunning, but none of them like him at all.all, even if they pretend otherwise for their own safety and to go along with Alonzo's persona. This eventually comes back to bite him in the ass.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: He falls head first into this trope, keeping many of the gangs he deals with in line through fear and intimidation. But he makes the crucial mistake of abusing his power too much, leading to him being hated rather than simply feared.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks of himself as a cop who practically watches over all of LA's street crime and is the only thing standing between order and chaos. In reality, he's nothing but a bully with a gun and a badge and is nothing compared to the larger criminals who really run things and [[spoiler: kill him with no more thought than they would swat a fly.]]
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* HateSink: Denzel Washington definitely deserves an Oscar for making sure his character is so despised that the audience would be beyond satisfied [[spoiler:watching him get his just desserts at the end by getting gunned down by the Russians]].
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Alonzo is the DirtyCop BigBad of the film, but he answers to these guys, all of whom are powerful attorneys or high-ranking LAPD. Alonzo has to get their OK to settle his debt to the Russians.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the CowboyCop. Alonzo bends and breaks the rules to get his man and will engage in vigilantism if it helps him serve justice. The result is that he's an arrogant sociopath whose just as bad as the criminals he fights, and is corrupt to boot.
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* TheDreaded: Deconstructed. He aims to be this to many of the gang members under his watch but his abuse of his power, cruelty, greed and volatile temper end up making him hated more than feared and are why no one is willing to stand up to him but also why no one helps him either.
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: They spare Jake after finding out he saved Smiley's cousin earlier that day and let him go.]]
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler: They were hired to kill Jake but make clear they have no personal animosity towards him and it was simply due to Alonzo. After letting him go, they even reassure him that was it was just business.]]
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler: They were hired to kill Jake but make clear they have no personal animosity towards him and it was simply due to Alonzo. After letting him go, they even reassure him that was it was just business.]]
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* AssholeVictim: While he is [[spoiler:betrayed and killed by Alonzo purely for his money]], he was still (according to Alonzo) the biggest drug dealer in LA whose wealth derived at least partly from selling to kids.
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* AffablyEvil: The three of them are welcoming towards Jake, putting him at ease and involving him in their card game even as [[spoiler:they waiting for the right moment to kill him on Alonzo's orders.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Just how evil they are isn't really known but they're part of a feared gang or cartel and were willing to [[spoiler:kill Jake, a man they'd never met before, for money.]] But when they discover [[spoiler:Smiley's cousin's wallet in Jake's pocket, they hear Jake out when he tells them about how he saved her from being raped earlier that day, and Smiley even calls her to confirm Jake's story. Then they allow Jake to leave alive, despite risking Alonzo's wrath.]]
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* CharacterTics: He rubs his two guns together as if he's sharpening knives.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alonzo might be a shady and remorseless killer, but he draws the line at rapists.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Possibly {{subverted}}. At first, it looks like he loves his mistress Sara and his son. However, it's clear there's anything but love in it. His relationship with Sara is just for sex and nothing more and he even treats her as an annoyance at the climax. During the final shootout with Jake he appears to be subtlety manipulating Sara's son to be his HumanShield.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:Alonzo might be He gets a shady moment of human compassion when he encounters two would-be rapists, even though he wouldn't have stepped in if Hoyt hadn't gone back to save the girl.
* EvilIsPetty: After he refuses to book in the crackheads/attempted rapists, he spends two minutes harassing andremorseless killer, but he draws the line at rapists.torturing one of them for calling him a "bitch" and telling him to "suck [his] dick."
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
* EvilIsPetty: After he refuses to book in the crackheads/attempted rapists, he spends two minutes harassing and
* FatalFlaw: Wrath. Despite usually been smooth and calculating, his temper often gets the better of him. [[spoiler:His killing of a courier for TheMafiya in Las Vegas is what gets him in trouble, and serves as the backbone for the movie's plot]]. One could argue, Lust as well, since Jake accurately deduces that he would be at his mistress' home, after [[spoiler:abandoning Jake to be killed by gangsters]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He's gunned down by TheMafiya as a direct result of his temper, but even before that his actions catch up with him when the gangbangers he manipulates turn on him.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He's gunned down by TheMafiya as a direct result [[spoiler:He leaves Jake to die at the hands of Smiley and his temper, cronies, but Jake manages to get out alive. Following this, Jake not only takes Alonzo's badge but the money he needs to pay off the Russians]].
** [[spoiler:It goes evenbefore that his actions catch up with him when further because Smiley and the gangbangers Alonzo enlists to kill Jake end up sparing him because the girl he manipulates turn on him.]]saved from getting raped earlier in the movie was Smiley's cousin. (Something Alonzo didn't seem interested in doing and didn't bother helping Jake to stop)]]
** [[spoiler:It goes even
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He works for the Three Wise Men, high-ranking corrupt cops who begrudgingly protect Alonzo.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He thinks he's above the law because he works for the Three Wise Men, who are corrupt cops in high-ranking corrupt cops positions. [[spoiler:It's through them that Alonzo gets permission to rob and kill his long-time drug contact. However, the alternate ending revealed that it was the Three Wise Men who begrudgingly protect Alonzo.sent Hoyt to make sure Alonzo didn't pay off the Russians]].
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: He gives this speeches out to Jake like candy.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: He gives this speeches out to Jake like candy.believes that it's wolves and sheep. An obvious third option would be "sheepdog," which police often use as a metaphor for their profession, but it's never brought up, lampshading Alonzo's idea of justice as being a bigger, badder "wolf".
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: He frequently tries to push this as his motivation, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist but the reality is]] that he's more [[ItsAllAboutMe self-serving]] than well-intentioned.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: He frequently tries to push ''Some'' of his actions can be interpreted this way. Others, not so much. He's a veteran police officer with a very high success rate on closing cases and is working a staggering number of them at any one time while supervising multiple younger officers, but his methods are generally brutal and extralegal. [[spoiler:Others, such as his motivation, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist but murder of a drug dealer friend of his so he can steal his money or putting out a hit on the reality is]] that he's more [[ItsAllAboutMe self-serving]] than well-intentioned.main character to keep him from talking, not so much]].
