History Monster / MiamiVice

* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].

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-->--'''Dr. Leo Krebs''' on '''Hans Kozak''', "Victims of Circumstance"

* "Golden Triangle": [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].

* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hanz Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].

* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]]. Tracking down his old associates in a one-million dollar robbery, [[SpreeKiller Cruz]] terrorizes everyone he comes across, [[CopKiller gunning down cops]], threatening to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death, and twice [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury.

* "The Maze" (rewrite needed): [[AxCrazy Elio Escobar]] is the worst member of his drug-dealing family, with [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his brothers disgusted by his utter psychosis]]. A murderer, thief, drug trafficker, and vandal, Escobar murders a detective and [[HostageSituation has people taken hostage in a hotel]], including a baby, with intent to murder them later. When he sees a girl he likes, Escobar tries to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape her]]. When his brother Georges sees this, he tries to reason with and stop Elio, Elio simply [[SiblingMurder murders his brother]] in response to this.

[[Series/MiamiVice In Miami]] through the years. [[CowboyCop James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs]] faced many criminals of various types. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.

James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs faced many criminals of different kinds in [[Series/MiamiVice Miami]] through the years. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.

James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs faced many criminals of different kinds in Miami through the years. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.

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* "Baby Blues": [[AmoralAttorney Howard Famiglia]] is a wealthy, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] adoption lawyer who secretly runs a [[HumanTraffickers baby trafficking]] operation. Having Colombian babies stolen from their mothers and shipped to Miami, Howard illegally sells the babies to hundreds of adoptive families. [[LackOfEmpathy Uncaring]] if some of the babies die on the way to America. When his operation looks to be exposed by Crockett and Tubbs, Howard has his criminal associates killed, even attempting to kill one of the Colombian mothers himself to tie up loose ends.