Line #60 Characters/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre


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3	[[folder:Fred C. Dobbs]]
4	!! Fred C. Dobbs
5	->'''Played by:''' [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Humphrey Bogart]]
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7	* AlasPoorVillain: Though it's more pitiful than anything.
8	* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Naturally tries this once Gold Hat and his surviving bandits catch up to him. Doesn't work.]]
9	* BigBadEnsemble: With "Gold Hat."
10	* DeathByMaterialism: Is killed after trying to murder Curtin and get away with all the gold.
11	* FaceHeelTurn: Dobbs goes from a down on his luck guy trying to make a living to a desperate murderer over the course of the film.
12	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's nothing, but trouble for the other two guys, despite their best intentions. And it only gets worse as the pile of gold grows.
13	* GoldFever: One of the most prominent example in whole cinema. It's not the gold that drives him mad, but the ever-increasing paranoia he will be robbed from it, making him do worse and worse things
14	* HypocriticalHumor: Chides a Mexican boy for begging when he's out panhandling.
15	* {{Jerkass}}: Even before the GoldFever gets better of him, he's shown of having a mean streak.
16	* KarmicDeath: Ultimately ends up dying because of the gold - not due to his partners turning on him, but because he abandoned them and tried to make it on his own.
17	* LackOfEmpathy: Any decency he appears to show later in the film is just him being sarcastic or fastidious.
18	* LaserGuidedKarma: Left Curtin to uncertain death, only to be killed himself for his shoes and mules.
19	* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Fred '''C.''' Dobbs.
20	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Mean.
21	* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Starts as the protagonist and is played by Bogart, who got first billing. As the story unfolds, his greed and ever-increasing paranoia turn him to be dangerous to just be around.
22	* SanitySlippage: Dobbs gets increasingly more unhinged and paranoid as the movie goes on.
23	* ThirdPersonPerson: Starts talking like this as his paranoia sets in.
24	* TokenEvilTeammate: At first neither he nor Curtin are any better than each other. But over time he starts getting more greedy and selfish, while Curtin reveals humility and shows a bit more of a conscience.
25	* UngratefulBastard: Regardless of how much the other two stick their necks out for him, he will always slip back into his cynical, greedy mindset.
26	* VillainProtagonist: His ultimate predictment, even if at the start of the story he's just an average Joe down to his luck, like the other two.
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29	[[folder:Bob Curtin]]
30	!! Bob Curtin
31	->'''Played by:''' Tim Holt
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33	* AntiHero: Makes some questionable decisions, such as considering leaving Dobbs to be buried alive in a collapsed mine shaft, and deciding to kill Cody despite knowing so little about him, but he always gains a conscience about both afterwards; he saves Dobbs in the former situation, and regrets letting Cody die in the latter.
34	* EarnYourHappyEnding: More or less. He goes through a lot during the film, finally escaping from a crazed Dobbs with his life. Though all the gold is lost in the process, he can still move on with his life.
35	* {{Foil}}: Becomes this to Dobbs.
36	* GoldFever: Though not nearly as bad as Dobbs.
37	* HiddenDepths: While Howard is an old, jaded prospector that SeenItAll and Dobbs is just plain asshole, Curtin shows the most remorse and consciousness.
38	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Inbetween. Not much better than Dobbs at first, but grows to have more of a consciense later on.
39	* ThouShaltNotKill: In case of Cody, he's talked into it, but we never know what he would do if the bandits didn't show up. Later, when he has every reason to just shoot Dobbs, he let him live - the courtesy isn't replied in kind, though.
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42	[[folder:Howard]]
43	!! Howard
44	->'''Played by:''' [[Creator/WalterHuston Walter Huston]]
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46	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Seems to take on novice prospectors more as a challenge to see if they can resist GoldFever than anything.
47	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's just an old guy with a big, fast mouth, ain't he? Until he is in the field and shows up all his skills and experience.
48	* MotorMouth: All the characters talk a mile a minute, but he's the fastest talker of them all.
49	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice. He seems to be fascinated with challenging people's morality, yet he's by far the most charitable of the three.
50	* OnlySaneMan: Proves himself to be this.
51	* SeenItAll: He spend his life prospecting. For him Dobbs is just another greedy jerk and unlike Curtin, he just rolls with his unhinged behaviour. His dialogues imply he saw it countless times prior and even was in that spot himself, too.
52	* StrongerThanTheyLook: Dobbs and Curtin take him for an old man they'd have to carry on their backs, but when they're trekking through the mountains he's more durable and energetic than the two combined.
53	* TokenGoodTeammate: Considering who his companions are, it's not that hard to be one.
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56	[[folder:Cody]]
57	!! James Cody
58	->'''Played by:''' Bruce Bennett
59	* AdaptationNameChange: Robert W. Lacuad in the book, James Cody in the film.
60	* CuttingTheKnot: The bandits kill him when the men defend their position, meaning nobody has to actually murder him in cold blood.
61	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Tries to join the group, but the mistrust him and decide on killing him.
62	* TagalongKid: They ''really'' don't want them there
63	* TakeAThirdOption: He suggests this to the trio, thinking he will talk them into letting him join and just earn his share. Turns out they decided MurderIsTheBestSolution.
64	* WhenYouComingHomeDad: The letter they find on him is his wife writing down concern of their kid.
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67	[[folder:Gold Hat]]
68	!! Gold Hat
69	->'''Played by:''' Alfonso Bedoya
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71	* BadLiar: Can't pass himself off as a mountain policeman if he tried, even if he didn't need to show anybody "any stinking badges".
72	* {{Bandito}}: Leader of a whole bunch of them.
73	* FaceDeathWithDignity: But he won't face his death by a firing squad without his hat.
74	* FatBastard: Portly and malevolent.
75	* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts friendly and personable until you don't give him what he wants.
76	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Is caught, arrested and executed after stealing donkeys after a young police informant finds the donkeys' distinctive brand on them.
77	* LaughablyEvil: Alfonso Bedoya gives him sort of a sense of humor.
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80	[[folder:Pat [=McCormick=]]]

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