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**Vito is able to deduce that [[spoiler:Emilio Barzini planned the parade hit for Mariposa to win the war and get promoted to underboss.]] It's similar to Film/TheGodfather where Vito deduces that [[spoiler:Barzini is once again TheManBehindTheMan to Tattaglia in the war against the Corleones.]]
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*HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Luca Brasi is shown as a ruthless but intelligent boss who is a threat and a competitor to the other families of New York. Following the [[spoiler:death of Kelly and the massive amount of drugs he takes afterwards in what is effectively a suicide attempt, he's left a wreck who's only truly effective as TheBrute.]]
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* CallForward: Mixed with [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bookends the bookends]] of the first film, which began with a wedding and ended with murders. Here, the novel begins with a murder (Mariposa having Jake [=LaConti=] killed) and ends with Sonny’s wedding.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Luca Brasi [[spoiler:kills his newborn son in a drug-fueled craze]], and [[spoiler:a little boy is an innocent victim of Mariposa’s attempted parade hit]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Luca Brasi [[spoiler:kills his newborn son in a drug-fueled craze]], mania]], and [[spoiler:a little boy is an innocent victim of Mariposa’s attempted parade hit]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his [[spoiler: father tried to kill his mother when he figured out she was having an affair with his teacher and was carrying his baby, and Kelly slept with Tom Hagen in an attempt to start a war between him and the Corleones.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his [[spoiler: father tried to kill his mother when he figured out she was having an affair with his teacher and was carrying his baby, and Kelly slept with Tom Hagen in an attempt to start a war between him and the Corleones.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: ** Luca Brasi [[spoiler: kills [[spoiler:kills his newborn son in a drug-fueled craze]], and [[a [[spoiler:a little boy is an innocent victim of Mariposa’s attempted parade hit]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his[[spoiler: father [[spoiler:father tried to kill his mother when he figured out she was having an affair with his teacher and was carrying his baby, and Kelly slept with Tom Hagen in an attempt to start a war between him and the Corleones.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Don Giuseppe Mariposa]]
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* ItsPersonal: What throws Vito into an understated yet pure and unmistakable rage is the assassination attempt engineered by Mariposa during a parade, which endangered his wife and children, and [[spoiler: killed an innocent boy]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: As in the original story, Emilio Barzini, here a capo under Giuseppe Mariposa instead of a Don of his own Family. Vito deduces that Barzini [[spoiler:planned the parade hit to help Mariposa win the war and get himself promoted to underboss]].
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* MistreatmentInducementBetrayal: Sonny’s gang’s refusal to defend Stevie Dwyer when he’s assaulted by Luca Brasi leads to him betraying Sonny to Vito when the gang is captured by the Corleones for hijacking Mariposa’s alcohol shipments, and later joining the Irish gang in their attempt to assassinate the Corleones.
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* MistreatmentInducementBetrayal: MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Sonny’s gang’s refusal to defend Stevie Dwyer when he’s assaulted by Luca Brasi leads to him betraying Sonny to Vito when the gang is captured by the Corleones for hijacking Mariposa’s alcohol shipments, and later joining the Irish gang in their attempt to assassinate the Corleones.
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* AbusiveParents: Kelly O'Rourke and her boyfriend, Luca Brasi, have this in common. While Kelly simply left home to get away from hers, Luca solved his problem by [[spoiler: beating his father to death.]]
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** Santino Corleone, of course, is known as "Sonny" by everyone except his father."Sonny".
** The Irish gang that wounded Vito in his backstory (explained in the novel) are given names and their own story arc.
** Kelly O'Rourke seduces Tom Hagen in the hopes that Luca Brasi will kill him, sparking a war with the Corleone Family she is confident he will win, thus enabling him to take over their territories and businesses.
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** Cork and Eileen Corcoran, Sonny’s childhood best friend and secret lover respectively.
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** Virgil Sollozzo, the DiscOneFinalBoss of the original story, and Paulie Gatto, the traitor who allowed him to almost kill Vito, are guests at Sonny’s wedding.
** The cat that Vito plays with during the first scene of the first film is smuggled by his wife to see the new compound.
* CanonForeigner: Several, including Cork and EileenCorcoran, Sonny’s Corcoran (Sonny’s childhood best friend and secret lover respectively.lover, respectively), Rosario [=LaConti=], Tits, and the O'Rourkes.
** Virgil Sollozzo, the DiscOneFinalBoss of the original story, and Paulie Gatto, the traitor who allowed him to almost kill Vito, are guests at Sonny’s wedding.
** The cat that Vito plays with during the first scene of the first film is smuggled by his wife to see the new compound.
* CanonForeigner: Several, including Cork and Eileen
* MistreatmentInducementBetrayal: Sonny’s gang’s refusal to defend Stevie Dwyer when he’s assaulted by Luca Brasi leads to him betraying Sonny to Vito when the gang is captured by the Corleones for hijacking Mariposa’s alcohol shipments, and later joining the Irish gang in their attempt to assassinate the Corleones.
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* WouldHurtAChild: ** Luca Brasi [[spoiler: kills his newborn son in a drug-fueled craze]], and [[a little boy is an innocent victim of Mariposa’s attempted parade hit]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his [[spoiler: father tried to kill his mother when he figured out she was having an affair with his teacher and was carrying his baby, and Kelly slept with Tom Hagen in an attempt to start a war between him and the Corleones.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: ** Luca Brasi [[spoiler: kills his newborn son in a drug-fueled craze]], and [[a little boy is an innocent victim of Mariposa’s attempted parade hit]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Pops up twice in Luca Brasi’s life — his [[spoiler: father tried to kill his mother when he figured out she was having an affair with his teacher and was carrying his baby, and Kelly slept with Tom Hagen in an attempt to start a war between him and the Corleones.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Mariposa]] tries to set himself up as mediator between the Families for a cut of everyone's profits. He expects Vito to object, giving him a pretext for the war against the Corleones he was already planning to launch. Instead Vito is first in line to agree, which means that when the attacks already set in motion happen, he is able to claim that he is the wounded party, giving him the political capital to depose [[spoiler:Mariposa]] and become the primary Don of New York.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Vito does his best to keep a young Michael from learning that the Corleones are a pillar of the New York Mafia (and for that matter, that the Mafia even exists), so that he can grow up clean and become a legitimate member of society. It appears to work in the short term, but it's a foregone conclusion that this state of affairs won't last.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sonny is eventually able to get overcome his guilt over killing Cork. By the end of the novel novel, he is a married man and a respected member of the Family. Sadly, we know where that life will eventually lead him.]]
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Don Mariposa and his lieutenants]] never come up in the events of ''The Godfather,'' making their eventual fate in this novel fairly clear.
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind."'']]
->''"It is my greatest wish to be thought of as a godfather, a man whose duty it is to do my friends any service, to help my friends out of any trouble- with advice, with money, with my own strength in men and influence- To everyone at this table, I say your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends."''
-->-- '''Don Vito Corleone'''
''The Family Corleone'' is a 2012 novel by Ed Falco, based on an [[UnproducedScripts unproduced screenplay]] by Mario Puzo. It is the {{prequel}} to the ''Literature/TheGodfather'' novel by Mario Puzo, though it retroactively incorporates elements of each of ''Film/TheGodfather'' films as well.
In 1933 Usefulnotes/NewYorkCity, during TheGreatDepression and at the end of Prohibition, a 17-year-old Santino "Sonny" Corleone aspires to join his father's business. Don Corleone isn’t amenable to this, hoping for his children to be able to lead legitimate lives. But tensions in the city are rising, and Sonny and the Corleones won’t be able to stay out of the coming conflict forever.
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!!''The Family Corleone'' provides examples of the following tropes:
*AffectionateNickname:
**Bobby Corcoran is known by his friends as "Cork.”
**Santino Corleone, of course, is known as "Sonny" by everyone except his father.
**The Corleones often call a young Tom Hagen by the nickname "Tommy."
*AscendedExtra: Many examples.
**Luca Brasi's backstory and how he came to be associated with the Corleones is expanded upon in more detail.
**Kelly O'Rourke, Luca's girlfriend and the mother of his child, who in the original Puzo novel was simply an unnamed woman who was described as a prostitute.
** Signora Anita Columbo, the woman who a young Vito helps not get thrown out of her apartment in ''Part II'', turns out to be the grandmother of Sonny's future wife, Sandra.
*BigBad: [[spoiler:Don Giuseppe Mariposa]]
*CanonForeigner:
**Cork and Eileen Corcoran, Sonny’s childhood best friend and girlfriend respectively.
*DoomedByCanon:
*IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Cork]] accidentally shoots [[spoiler: Don Corleone]] when he is actually aiming for his attacker. This leads to a tragic chain of events that ultimately results in [[spoiler:Sonny killing Cork.]]
*{{Retcon}}: The war between the Fives Families is changed in many aspects from how it was described in the original novel, and the lead Don against the Corleones is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed retconned from the historical figure Salvatore Maranzano]] to an original character, Giuseppe Mariposa.
*SavedByCanon:
**Obviously [[spoiler:Vito]] is not dying after he is shot.
**It is a foregone conclusion that [[spoiler:Tom]] won’t be murdered by [[spoiler:Luca Brasi]].
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind."'']]
->''"It is my greatest wish to be thought of as a godfather, a man whose duty it is to do my friends any service, to help my friends out of any trouble- with advice, with money, with my own strength in men and influence- To everyone at this table, I say your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends."''
-->-- '''Don Vito Corleone'''
''The Family Corleone'' is a 2012 novel by Ed Falco, based on an [[UnproducedScripts unproduced screenplay]] by Mario Puzo. It is the {{prequel}} to the ''Literature/TheGodfather'' novel by Mario Puzo, though it retroactively incorporates elements of each of ''Film/TheGodfather'' films as well.
In 1933 Usefulnotes/NewYorkCity, during TheGreatDepression and at the end of Prohibition, a 17-year-old Santino "Sonny" Corleone aspires to join his father's business. Don Corleone isn’t amenable to this, hoping for his children to be able to lead legitimate lives. But tensions in the city are rising, and Sonny and the Corleones won’t be able to stay out of the coming conflict forever.
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!!''The Family Corleone'' provides examples of the following tropes:
*AffectionateNickname:
**Bobby Corcoran is known by his friends as "Cork.”
**Santino Corleone, of course, is known as "Sonny" by everyone except his father.
**The Corleones often call a young Tom Hagen by the nickname "Tommy."
*AscendedExtra: Many examples.
**Luca Brasi's backstory and how he came to be associated with the Corleones is expanded upon in more detail.
**Kelly O'Rourke, Luca's girlfriend and the mother of his child, who in the original Puzo novel was simply an unnamed woman who was described as a prostitute.
** Signora Anita Columbo, the woman who a young Vito helps not get thrown out of her apartment in ''Part II'', turns out to be the grandmother of Sonny's future wife, Sandra.
*BigBad: [[spoiler:Don Giuseppe Mariposa]]
*CanonForeigner:
**Cork and Eileen Corcoran, Sonny’s childhood best friend and girlfriend respectively.
*DoomedByCanon:
*IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Cork]] accidentally shoots [[spoiler: Don Corleone]] when he is actually aiming for his attacker. This leads to a tragic chain of events that ultimately results in [[spoiler:Sonny killing Cork.]]
*{{Retcon}}: The war between the Fives Families is changed in many aspects from how it was described in the original novel, and the lead Don against the Corleones is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed retconned from the historical figure Salvatore Maranzano]] to an original character, Giuseppe Mariposa.
*SavedByCanon:
**Obviously [[spoiler:Vito]] is not dying after he is shot.
**It is a foregone conclusion that [[spoiler:Tom]] won’t be murdered by [[spoiler:Luca Brasi]].
